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.■MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN Id. COOPER.
W . T. THOMPSON, EDITOR
TERMS!
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All New Advertisements appear in both papers.
OAVASJWAfflfo
Wednesday morning, March SO, 1800.
LARGEST CIRCULATION!
jar The Daily Moknino Nxtva bn* now a u*g
CITE circulation than either of the other daily
papers, and consequently is the best advertising
medium. We state this tact in justice to onrsclvet
and for the benetit of the advertising public.
Eg* Bee first page for our rates of advertising.
Ijr Advertisements should be handed in at an
eojly hour, to Insure their appearance in the paper ol
the neat morning.
tar See first page.
CP* Single copies of the D AU.tr Moaning News
may be had at J. M. Cooper’* Book store, at J. B
CusatnaE's Book store, Congress^t., and at the of!
•«co of publication, UV Baj -st. jy Price two cents.
C5 r We regret loat we were unuble to ob
tain ths toasts of tho Irish union Society Insi
night in time for publication.
MuTtRY.—The bark Europti, Onpt. Brown.
which dropt down the river nn 8und»y lest
destined to the East Indies, hits been detainee
below by the mutiny of ber crew. We undet-
staad that the men were shipped in this oit-
and received their advance, but when the ves
•el was ready to proceed to sea, refused tn per
form theirduly. Yesterday warrants were is
sued for their arrest, and officers ser.t down to
bring it e offenders up for trial.
It ia to be hoped that the matter will be tho
roughly looked into, and if the case is such as
it ha* been represented to us, that justice be
meeted out to the | arties in fault, by a r t
enforcement of the law. The repo ation of
our city and tho commercial interests of our
port, demand that the jaw should interpose to
prevent the recurrence of these difficulties and
to protect the rights of parties concerned. Our
river has’heretofore been fhe scene of high-
banded and disgraceful proceedings which
have brought reproach upon our authorities
from abroad, and the only wny to prevent a re-
clarence ot these outrages is to hold tho offen
ders to a strict accountability.
—
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Bt. Patrick's Day
The following correspondences, and toasts
drank at the Festival of the Hibernian Society,
held%t the City Hotel, in honor of 3t. Patrick's
Day, on Monday evening, were furnished us for
publication by the Committee of Arrangements:
Savannah, March 19, 1850.
Dear Sir: In behalf of the Hibernian Society
we have the honor of asking from you a copy
oftheveryeloquent Oration, delivered by you
on the 18-h inst., before the Irish Associations
of Savannah. Hoping you will comply with
grati-
seen
preju-
The Opera To-Night.— Benefit of Mist
Rosa Jacques.—Those who would enjoy a rich
musical treat should not fail to visit the Athe-
neum to-night,to hear the charming cantatrice
Miss Rosa Jacques, in the delightful operatic
drama of the Child of the Regiment. As
Marie, on Monday night, she elicited raptures
of applause by her finished execution of the
exquisite music with which the piece abounds.
Miss Rosa is justly a favorite with the musical
public wherever she has been, and we sincerely
hope that her benefit to-night may be worthy of
hertuients and character as an accomplished
artiite and lady.
Purser Price.—The Richmond Whig srvs
the statem nt that Purser Price lost $250,000
of government money by the burning of the
steamer Orline St. John, is incorrect. He lost
only the vouchers of his expenditures.
Mr. Webster in Boston.—A project is
on foot for a meeting of citizens in Fauui.l Hall,
* to |i§sj)ond to the sentiments expressed in tho
late speech of Mr. Webster.
Melanchoi.lt Suicide.—Acting Sergeant
James Montgomery, of the Mariners, shot him „
self through the heud on Thursday with a mus
ket,nt the Mari lcBairacks,Brooklyn, N. Y. He
served with the Army under Gon. Scott,in Mex
ico, andlhe severe campaign, and privations to
which he was exposed debilitated him exceeding
ly,and affectodhis mind. The act was committed
in the storeroom. He had made u pillow of
his watch coal—took a loaded musket and tied
the trigger to liis foot—placed the musket to
his chin, and deliberately blow out his brains.
S3T Gen. Cu»s delivered a lecture on Tues
day evening of last week in the Egyptian Saloon,
Baltimore, before the Order of Odd Fellows.
The halt was crowded to excess, and the large
audience delighted w the lecture.
cr The Farewell Address of Andrew Jack,
son, to the people of the United States, was
read in the Legislature of Pennsylvania, on the
15th inst.
\3T The Cungross of San Salvador, Central
America, commenced its session Jun. 25. With
this republi", a previously with Nicaragua and
Honduras, Mr. Squier has arranged the term,
of a treat .which must before this huve been
received in Wash! gti n. The President of the
House of Deputies, in reply to tho address of
tho President of the Ropublic, announcing the
fact, said :
“Since^lSM, tho people of San Salvador, full
of the must lively enthusiasm, huve aspired not
only for the friendship of that great and power-
ful Republic, but still mote, to behold its sacred
rights secured under tho influence of that por
tentous constellation.”
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our request and thus add to the debt o
lode we already ftwe you.
We remain,
Your obt. Serv'ts,
P. R. Shiels, ■)
Hcnrt Harfer, I Committee of
John E. Ward, >
John M. Miller. Arrangements.
Edward E. Hopkins, J
To Osborne A. Lochrain, Esq.
Savannah, March 19, 1850.
Gentlemen :—In reply to your very com
plimentary communication of this morning, al
low me to express my thanks for tho request
you make, and say that my Address, delivered
before your Societies, on yesterday, is at your
disposal, lor publication.
With my warmest wishes for the prosperity
of your Societies, and my respects to you, Gen
tlemen, personally,
I remain yours, &c.
OSBORNE A. LOCHRAIN.
To Messrs. P. K. Shiels, Hknf.t Harper,
John E. Ward, John M. MiLLKN,aml Ed
ward E. Hopkins, Committee of Arrange
ments.
Hibernian Societt, }
Charleston, March 16,1850 J
My Dear Sir: l have just framed with regert
that the Committee appointed at our lost meet
ing to represent us under the very polite invi
tation of your Committee, at the anniversary
celebration of vour Society, are unable to go to
Savannah, but I beg to assure you on the part
of the Society, thut our hearts are with you if
our representatives are not; but whether ab
sent or present, you and all of you, collectively
and individually, have the best wishes of us
all for your health, happiness, prosperity and
success, both as a Society and as citizens ; and
if we have unexpectedly lost the opportunity of
snying this much to you personally, or by our
organs, on this occasion, we hope that pleasure
muy still be tn store for us on some other occa
sion. In the meantime; allow me tn offer you
a sentiment which can never fail to find a ready
response in every heart that has a drop of Irish
blood circulating in it :—
“Ireland.—Land of our forefathers!—bright
gem of the ocean .'—though sad be her fate and
though dimmed be her prospects, may she yet
rise like the meteor from the darkness.
Great, glorious, and free;
First flower of the earth, first gem of the
sea.”
Very truly yours,
H. W. CONNER, President.
Celebration of tbe Hibernian Society-
REGULAR TOASTS.
1st. The day we Celebrate.—Not with os
tentatious pride or vain superstition, but with
the true devotion of thq heart.—Tune, St. Pat-
rick’s Day.
2d. Old Ireland the Land of our Fathers.—
Once the seat of the Muses, the Canaan of the
West; but now, nias, the footstool of tyrants,
the seat of penury, anarchy and misrule.—Let
Erin remember thee
3d. The United States of America.—Our
adopted country — the foe of Monarchy, the
nurso of liberty, the practical school of freemen,
and the asylum of the distressed.—Hail Co
lumbia
ligious Liberty—Not tbe liberty that is
thro* the narrow and darkened vision of j. „
dice and sectarianism, but thut liberty which
the men of 76 were willing to die for.
By L« J. Guilmariin.—May we at our next
anniversary, meet to rejoice that Ireland has
achieved the repeal of the Union.
By F. Shiels, Standard Bearer.—The Day
we Celebrate—St. Patrick’s Dny.
By Osborne A. Lochrain—G. B. Camming
—The purest embodiment of Southern Princi
ples—As bmg as liberty hits a home—truth an
advocate, or humanity a friend, his name shall
not be forgotten. Long mny the stone iie uiu
shaped in tbe quarry, destined to bear th oepi-
taph commemorative of his virtues.
By Col. Hunter—The Union—Procured in
one hemisphere by fraud and corruption—may
it be repealed. Compacted in the other by
compromise and concession—may it be pre
served.
By Rev. J. F. O’Neill—May the general un
ion of Irish hearts, of Irish hands and Irish sen
timent, which so happily greeted me this day.
be as perpetual as a divine Providence will, 1
trust, render the confederated union of our
States.
By Capt. Haigravc—The Ladies of Savan
nah—Tbe single married, and tbe married hap
py-
By Lieut. Gilmer, U. 8. Army,--The Irish
People—A people who may be deceived by an
over confidence in others—but who have never
been known to deceive u confiding friend.
By 8. P. Griffin, of the Navy—Ireland—The
cradle in which hns been nursed men promi
nent in the nnnals of our country as wise legis
lators and intrepid seamen.
By P. K. Shiels, of tho Committee of Ar
rangements—The Irish Union Society of Sa-
vnnnah—May its acts fully accord Vith the
name, and no Repeal of this amicable Union
be ever sought for or projected.
By John M. Millen—The banished Patriots
of 1848—May God spare their lives, and so
bless the land of their nqtivity, that their re
turn will be greeted wiih the siionts of liberty.
Bv Cob T. U. Camnk—The Memory of Rob
ert Emmet—The star of his greatness shines
out from the midst of the past, untarnished in
its brilliurcy by the darkness of tyranny.
By D. O'fiyrne—Father Mathew, the great
Apostle of Temperance—May the fruits of his
labor yield in Hlitiiidonce.
By John Cass—The Charitable Societies of
Savannah—Based on the pure principles of
humanity, ever seeking to alleviate the dfr-
tresses of tho unfortunate, and relieve the
wants of tho poor.
By O. O’Rourke - —May the oppressed of all
nations find a home in tho land where waves
th Altars and stripes.
By P. Ryan—-The People—The only source
of legitimate power, past, present, and forevei;
sovereign and independent.
By David Bell—Our Sister SoeietyofCharles-
ton—A Scion from the Ttee of Liberty, and an
Emerald among the Jewels of Soiuh Caro lina
The Advantages of Advertising.—The
Baltimore Sun has an article.on this subject,
which the editor illustrates by citing a case in
which a gentleman who had lost a pocket book
containing $800 recovered it by means of an
advertisement in the Sun. The book had been
lost nearly two weeks, but twenty-four hours
after the advertisement appeared in the Sun
the money was brought to the counting-room
of that paper, where the finder received the re
ward of $100, offered for its recovery. The
secret of the matter is thi«: The Baltimore
Sun is a cheap neutral and independent jour-
nal, having far tho largest circulation in the city,
and being ably acd industriously conducted, is
read by all parties and oil classes of tlip people.
Every body that reads can afford to take the Sun,
and as the Sun contains all the news and no par
tisan politics, every body rends it. so that if. a
Naval.—The U. S. ship Erie, Capt. Porter,
bound to the Mediterranean, dropped below at
New York on Wednesday.
The United 8tates ship Raritan, Com. Paigo.
(one of the Home Soundroa) arrived, at Bnrbo-
does on the 29th of January, and sailed for
- .Martinique on the 12th of February.
Con fiction at Paterson,N. J.—Thetrial o f
John Johnston for the murder of Judge Van Win
klc was concluded in the Passaic Oyer and Ter
miuer on the 12th inat., the jury having re.
turned a verdict of guilty in about 20 minutes
after the case was committed to them by Judge
Ogden. Tbe evidence was very conclusive.
Ur sWtMo reesiVw hi* sentence on Saturday.
man wishes to communicate a fact connected
4th. 1 he Memory of Washington.—Ade.sli with his business interest to the entire popula-
Fidcles.
5th. The Governor of the State of Geor
gia.—Washington’s March.
6th. The Army and Navy of the Untied
Slates.—Our safeguards on land and sea, their
prowess is only equalled by their kindness and
humanity to their conquered foes Yankee
Doodle.
7th. The Irish Patriots of'i8—Who were
crushed by tho strong hand of tyranny, and con
demned us felons, for daring to declare the
highest and holiest principles which God hns
implanted in th" breast of man.—Exifr of Erin.
8th. The Hungarian Refugees.—We invite
thcmtotRke protection under tho American
eagle, which looks down from his elovuted eyrie
with proud contempt on tyrant monarchsand
their fawning parasites.—Go whore Glorv waits
thoe.
9th. The Bards of Erin and America'.—Lei
their harps be strung nnmv to arouse the dor
mant spirit of ’98, and with symphonv recall
and cheer the pensive and retiring genius of
liberty.—The Harp that once thro’.
10. Fatker Mathew.—The inflexible and un
compromising friend of temperance, and moral
reformation.—See tho Conquering Hero.
11th. The Constitution of the United States
of America.—Founded in wisdom and cement
ed by the blood of our fathers, shall be defend
ed by us* against the usurpation of canting hy
pocrites and venal politicians.—Star Spangled
Banner.
12th The Freedom of the Press.—Withoot
fear and without shame, may it proclaim the
doctrine of civil and religious liberty ; without
which man would be a slave und religion a sol
emn mockery—Gnrryoun.
13th. Woman.—
“A lovely being, nobly plann’d,
To warn, to comfort and command;
Anti yet u spirit, still and bright,
With something of an angel’s light.”—
[An Irishman’s Heart for the Ladies.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By G. B. Gumming, President.—The Orator
of the Day—If poetic fancy, puriiy of diction,
graceful declamation, be eloquence, he iia9 won
the distinction of the eloquent orator.
By R. H. Griffin. Vice President of the Soci
ety —0"r Sister Society in Charleston—God
Mfss her and ad her tnetnhe - *.
lion of Baltimore at once, he has only to pur.
an advertisement in the Sun, where it is ascer
tain to be seen by every reading man, woman,
and child, as if it were a ‘‘black spot” on the
Sun in the Heavens.
Tho object of an advertiser is not to have
the exclusive privilege of reading his own ad-'
vertisement, nor to confine its circulation to his
own particular party. However decided
politician he may be. he is very willing that his
fellow-citizens of the opposite side and of ull
classes shull he informed by bis advertise
ment. What medium then so well suited to
give quick nnd general circulation to the ad
vertisements of business men, as a cheap reada
ble independent newspaper, that is within the
reach of all, nnd is read by most of the people
composing the community in which it is pub
lished 7 We think that those most interested
will agree with us in answering that there is
none.
While on this subject of ndvertiseing, we mny
as well remark that while we bold our columns
open for the admission of all proper advertise
ments, we are determined to admit none in our
columns that are not fit to have currency in the
family circle. We know, and we are proud oflho
fact, that the News is extensively read by the
ladies and in the family, and we tuke this occa
sion to assure our lady patrons thBt nothing
shall ever appear in its reading or advertising
columns that muy justly he considered offen
sive to a correct sense of propriety.
We huve boon induced to allude .to this subject
by the receipt of several advertisements from a
Philadelphia Houso, the publication of which
in tho News we have declined, for the reason
that we conceive such matter out of place in
the columns of a respectable newspaper.
Mrs. Howard.—This lady who some
months since killed the paramour of her hus
band, Capt Howard, at Cincinnati, hus been
appointed guardian of her children, who by tho
death of their father has been left some $40,000
worth of property. Capt. Howard was, we be
lieve, after the unfortunate affair at. Cincinnati,
killed in an affray at 8t. Louis.—Mrs. Howard
has recovered entirely her reason, and made
Mr. Forrest.—Publio opinion in N. York,
says the Times, of that city, is setting very
strongly against Mr. Forrest since the publi
cation of the calm, eloquent* nnd earnest re
plication of his wifo to tho infamous charges
he litu at tho last hour brought against her.
The (act that Mr. Forrest, after the aeparu-
tion, brought his wife to New-York and piuccd
her under the protection of his own cherished
and pcrsunul friends, nt the same time pro
nouncing ber stainless and blameless in every
thing relating to her honoi—weighs heavily,
Heavily against Mr. Forrest. It is not con
ceivable tlmt he should have repudiated his
wife for a minor cause, und subsequently dis
covered that she had been unfuithful. Such in
cidents do not occur any where out of the
drama. Nor dues any one believe that Mr.
Forrest would have presumed to place his wife
under the core of such men as Parke Godwin
and William C. Bryant, and in intimate com
munion with their wives and families, had lie
possessed irri fraguble proofs of her being a
dishonored woman. < No—it is too evidently
an idle tale, basely manufactured for base pur
poses. If Mi. Forrest no longer loves his wife,
it ia certainly enough that ho should cast her
off—drive her forth from her home uud the
protection he had sworn to vouchsafe through
life to her, und compel her to seek a home
among strangers. He surely might have spared
her good name—henceforth her only posses
sion on earth—und not sought to crush and
overwhelm her beneath a world of disgrace,
that hemight be tree. Public opinion sooner
or later avenges such outrages us these.
We still think our solution of this afloir the
correct one. Mr. Forrest, first spoiled by a
too indulgent public, then chagrined and mor
tified to the quick by what was perhaps the too
fastidious judgment of a transatlantic public,
became soured aguinst the world; and nursing
his morbid discontent, allowed it to pray upon
his mind until it unsettled his reason. If we
discard this belief, wo are driven to attribute
to him such baseness and malignity of lienrt ns
nothing short of the strongest proof should be
uilowed to fix upon the character of a man.
Imigration from Tennessee.—The Chat-
anooga Advertiser of the 13th inst says:—On
visiting the River yesterday morning, we found
three or four Emigrant Boats at our landing,
having on board in the nagregate, about 200
Emigrants, principally from Hancock county
in this State, and b *und to Missouri and Iowa.
ESP The New York Times says the house in
which poor Charlotte Temple died is still stand
ing at tho corner of Pell st. and Bowery, where
the stages stop, and tho house from which she
was turned nwuy by the infernal La Rue stands
in Pearl st., just below Franklin Square. It is
called the Walton House, nnd is built in old-
fashioned style, with little carved images over
the door.
13P In Troy N. Y.thore are thirteen flouring
milis now in operation employing 52 run of
stones. During the year ending 1st inst those
mills consumed 1,278,204 bushels of wheat
from which was produced 282,404 bids of flour,
valued at $1,411,020. The whole amount of
capitaLinvested in the mills is $450,000.
[3^ A Washington letter writer says:—“At
no former period hns this city been more re
sorted to than during the present season, by
persons of leisure, fashion, and wealth. They
bring with them their fnmilies, and in some in
stances, private equipages. Jt is n matter of
certainty that the facilities of travel, and the
gradual accumulation of wealth in the country
will render Washington the winter resort of
thousands of wealthy and intelligent persons
from all parts of the country.
Before long it will become tho fnshiort for
persons of leisure to reside hero during o part
of tho year, and to live in a hospitable nnd ole
gant* manner, in their own private mansions.
Formerly, and perhaps even now, to a consid
erable extent, the men of wealth and leisure
wore of the whig or nt least conservative
school of politics. For this reason, they were
for twenty years, perhaps, indifferent to Wash
ington official society, if not averse to it. But
I have been told by those most likely to know
the facts, that had Mr. Clay been elected Presi
dent in 1844, some twenty families in one
Northern city would have immediately eslab
lished winter residences here.”
How unfortunate ! Mr. Clay should have
been elected, if fur no other purpose thun the
improvement of Washington Society.
•The Plot to Murder Kossuth.-ZaI "
from London to the Philadelphia North I
ricun, gives the following account of th e r
to mui der Kossuth and his companions • ^
“I liuvo before alluded to a diabolical nl
the Austrian government to murder the
guislted Kossuth. Cotint Stuvtner, it j 8 "''I 6 '
planned the awful conspiracy against the
Kossuth, and against several other n !•
prisoners. Thfeplot was communicated !' Cal
poor Hungarian by a Frenchman, who 1 ° 11
the former some money for the expenses
journey to Schttmla. The Hungarian vZ
companied by fifteen persons, nnd he
structed to liberate certain refugees whe" i
arrived at Schuntla ; but lie was detained "
Constantinople by his passport. He v ' * l
thd family of Hungarians and spoke of hira d
tended plans. The doughter .if the masts
the bouse warned the Hungarian nut to 01
ceed to Schumla, because her lover, u C ^
and his companions were engaged to mu r "| , “’
him and other Hungarians. The whole
•piracy w“s Rt once disclosed to ti e MiniT"
of Foreign Affairs. It was an infernal nl ’
und worthy of tho associates of Haynau' f,
pears that Kossuth und his friends we.e (0 T
warned that they would,he poisoned; the hi rp |
assassins of Austria (the Croats)—assisted
too, by a sincere mid innocent Hungarian—
to represent to Kossuth that they would lib.'
ate him and his friends, and after they had e-
caped from Schumla, they intended to f o || 0 ^'
litem and murder every man on the road! For
tunately. the whole plot was disclosed in tij'
to stive many valuable lives. The Porte imm*
dintely inquired into the affair, and arrested lj
Croats, who were hired by Austria to accum-
plhh the horrid job. It is said thut the French
man who loaned the Hungarian money Wa . „
aware of the plot.’’
A Carnival Incident at RoME.-The
young
personal application to the court to bo appoin-
... I t'‘d the guardian. She intends taking up ber
John J. Kelly., Treasuror-C-ivt] and Re* 1 residence wiib Iter relatives in Ctna'a.
Express Mail at the South.—Wo learn
from the New Orleans Bulletin, of the 4ili inst,
that through the exertions of Senator Soule,
who is on the post-office committee in the Sen
ate, nnd Mr. Conrad, representative from New
Orleans, there is every prospect of having the
matter of tho great southern mtiii expressed
over the present couch routes, from the term:
nos of Georgia raiiroud nt Griffin to the termi
nus of the Montgomery railroad in Alabama
and also between Montgomery nnd Mobile,by all
ofwliich the present tinto between New Orleans
and New York will be shortened 48 hours. Ex
change slips for the public press will bo trans
mitted by the express.
Murders in St. Louis.—Eleven persons
are now confined in tho jail of St. Louis
awaiting their trial for murder. Tho latest
murder there is that of Charles McGalaghrr, a
coffee-house keeper, killed on the 28th ult., in
a drunken quarrel with a man named Michael
Graham.
Important Mail Decision.—The Post
master General has just decided that the differ
ent Departments of the Government are pr^
hibited from sending letters nnd newspaper
to officers and ieumen in the Navy, nnd U. 8
officers in foreign countries, except those on
official business from the Departments.
It hus been the custom, for many years, for
the friends of those persons to forward private
letters to them through the Departments, Di
stend of through tho regular mail, nnd thus
defraud the department of thousands of dollars
annually of its legitimate claims. We afro
learn that there are* some thousands of letters
now in Washington which will not be sent, as
heretofore, through the department-..
Prince Musignana, son of the Prince of Canino
nnd grand son of Joseph Bonaparte, visited
this country a few years ago.. To those w {, 0
temember him the folio wirg account of a nan.
ling and almost tragical incident in Rome, ns
the 10th of February, will prove interesting. A I
Roman journal says : j
“Yesterday, ut about a quarter to five to.
wiH'ds the end of the Corso, which was vert
brilliunt, a magnificent nosegay of white Corn
elias. concealing u grenade of glass, wnsthinnu
into the carriage of the Prince of Musignani*
son of the Prince ol Canino, while nppo,iu>
Palace Bernini. The Prince took it, and writ
uboul to present it to his sister, who was beside
him in the carriage, but who was fortunately
engaged in throwing flowers to the persons th-.t
occupied the balcony of the Palace llcrnini.
Tho Prince, therefore, waited till she had donr,
eating his hapd with the nosegay tin his thigh!
when suddenly the grenade hurst. The Prince
was severely wounded in his right hand, be
tween the thumb and forefinger, nnd still mom
so in his thigh, in.whicli fragments of glass bad
penetrated so deep, that, the artery was near
being lacerated. His sister was slightly wound
ed in her leg and side, and fell into it swuon.
Immediately after the explosion the Prince
alighted, and with the assistance i f the bystand
ers, t&rried his sister into the Palace Bernini,
where the head sergeant of the French army,
who happened to bo on the spot, 'immediately
gave them the necessa y assistance.’.’
Washington Monument — The Maryland
Bloch.—One Legfrlat i re, before udjournmtmt,
provided for a dock of nimble firm Maryland,
tor tho Washington Monument, now in the
course of erection ut Washington City, and di
rected that, in nd iili-n to the coai-of-aiinsnf
the State, the following inscription be placed
upon the block :
Maryland—the memorial of her regard
for the Father of his Country; and of her
“cordial habitual, and immovable attachment,
to the Anterican Union.”
Is it not time that Georgia should take game
tops towards getting in readiness, her con
tribution to tliis great national work. Thrre
is sorely no lack of* patriotism among our peo
ple nor of superior marble in our mountuius.
Shorter Route to California.—A cor
respondent of the New York Herald, writing
from Leon do Nicaragua, under date of tbe
11th ult-, says:
“I met Mr. White, agent of the canal com
pany, in Granada, a few days ago. Ho hat
examined the route for immediate transit, and
finds hut 12 miles oflund travel. The passage
can he made from seu to sea in 36 hours and
it is said one week of time w ill be saved to the
steamers—two duys on the Atlantic and four on
the Pacific. If sjj—and there is no doubt ol
the fact—the route to California will be short
ened not less than, eight days.”
“Tts the Mecca of the States."-h
person who accumpanied Gen. Taylor, in his
late visit to Richmond, gives the following dr.
scription of the scene as the steamboat pasted
Mount Vernon:
We were now passing Mount Vernon. T! ,e
President approached the guards of the boat,
and gazed ut it vo;y attentively. Some one
remarked, “For fifty years no hunt or ship l |Sl '
passed this spot, where lie the remains of tbe
illustrious dead, without paying the solemn
compliment of tolling their hell while passing-
No such honor was ever paid to the memory o-
uny of the great dead.”
“Tis the Mecca of the States.” solemnly
added tho President, .without, for a moment
moving his eyes from the spot.
Naval —Art officer on the Pacific station statu,
in a private letter, thut “thealoop of war Frehie.
w ill probably he condemned nnd laid up ot S«“
Francisco, and that the store ship Fredonia*'“‘
he sent home. Desertions from United Stan*
vessels are numerous. The frigate Savanna!'
has only 150 remaining; the sloop of »» r
Preble, 10; the Fredunin, none; sloop of * 3 ’
Warren, four mariner, nnd from the sloop o'
war Fnlmnuth, some 8 or 10 huve deserted-
A letter from Malta of Feb. 13th, give* lhe
following as the position of the vessels comp 0 * -
ing tliP U - S. squadron in the Mediterranean’
at the latest rla'es ^
Frigate Imfrpe deuce, Commodore C- '
Morgan, at Naples; St- Lawrence. Ctipt- I’-'J' 1
•ing, at Mahon; steam frigate Mississippi. W'
tain Long, nt Spezia; Cumberland, Lap IB "
Latimer, ut Messinn.
nr a letter front V lennu, of the ^
stunt, states that Stephen Georgy, the brut ^
of the traitor, Arthur Georgy, has been ^
ed to outer tbe Austrian service as a P rl,a ‘
soldier.
ITT The population of New Orleans is E;-i
mated 130,000. Ia 1840 it was 100,053