Southern miscellany. (Madison, Ga.) 1842-1849, May 14, 1842, Image 2
From the Pittsburg Advocate:
* an hour in a powder mill.
The Pittsburg Powder Mills are situated
on the North bank of the Monongahela,
about two and a half miles from the city.
For the purpose ot lessening the disasters
attending explosion, the building cover a
large extent of ground, and each of the ma
ny processes to which the material is subject
before it is turned in the form with which
tho world is but too familiar, is performed
in a seperate building. These buildings are
of stone, and are connected together by a
railway.
But to begin at the beginning. Good
gunpowder, such as Mr. Watson makes, re
quires good charcoal; young and sound
wood is required, the water maple being
the most desirable. Os these Mr. Watson
has large plantations, which yield what wood
he requires, besides furnishing a considera
ble number of young trees to the citizens
for ornamental purposes. There are also
on the premises plantations of sycamore for
hoop poles, which yield about 5,000 per
year per quarter of an acre. From the
plantations we went to the steam engine.
And here a dread of fire, which habit ha3
made a second nature to the powder-maker,
has suggested a number of engenious con
trivances to prevent its coming in contact
with the “ villainous saltpetre.”
The smoke from the fires and the boilers
is conveyed under ground some three hun
dred feet, and then by a chimney 60 feet
high it is carried off, at a supposed safe dis
tance. Indirectly the opposite direction
the steam is carried a consider able distance
under ground to the engine, which is distant
from the place where the last processes —
which by its aid the powder undergoes some
700 feet. The engine has six boilers at
tached to it, each 30 inches in diameter, and
22 feet 8 inches long, and consumes about
45 bushels of coal per day.
The wood is converted into charcoal by
being burned in large cast iron retorts, and
the gas that is evolved is conveyed by pipes
into the fire under the retort by which one
third of the fuel which would otherwise be
necessary is saved. The pyroligneous acid
which the wood contains, and which this
process evolves, it is the purpose of Mr.
Watson to distil into vinegar, as soon as his
arrangements for that purpose can be ef
fected.
We followed the charcoal into the “ com
pounding house.” Here after having been
crushed between rollers, it is placed in a
large hollow cast iron globe, in which are a
considerable number of small brass balls;
these globes are made to revolve rapidly,
which speedily reduces it to an inpalpable
powder. It is then put with the other in
gredients, in the proportion of 15 of char
coal, 10 of sulphur, and 75 of nitre, into a
“ mixing barrel,” which is made to revolve
36 times per minute.
From the mixing barrel it is taken to the
“ mill-house,” where 4 large rollers of cast
iron, weighing 250 lbs. each, of the shape of
mill-stones, placed on end chase each other
round a cast iron circle weighing 70,000 lbs.
Under these rollers it is crushed for about
five hours, and then it is taken to the “press
room.” In the press-room it is put in layers
between cloths and boards alternately, and
subjected to the immense pressure of a hy
draulic press. This is done to condense the
powder into a solid substance. The cakes
or slabs are then taken to another building
end passed through a pair of coarsely groov
ed rollers, which break it into small lumps.
This is the first process of “ graining.”
These lumps are then placed on shelves
in a toom heated by steam for the purpose
of being partially dried, when they are again
passed through various rollers, until the de
sired “ grain” is obtained. From the rol
lers the gunpowder, as it may now he term
ed, passes through a hopper in a revolving
wire cylinder, the different degrees of fine
ness in the length of which, screen into as ma
ny kinds of powder; the finest, which is
mere dust, is taken back to be re-worked.
The remainder is placed in barrels, about
250 lbs. in each, which are made rapidly to
revolve for the purpose of “ glazing” it.
But one operation now remains, and that is
the final drying, which is effected in the
manner which we have before described.
Tt is then taken to the packing-house, and
from
proof bogding at a long distance from the
rest of the works.
Fable. —A grave and solemn owl, one
day meeting a merry, laughing l>ob-lincoln,
took him veTy severely to task for his levi
ty-
‘You are letting yourself down in the
6cale of being—you may perhaps catch the
ear of the trilling and vulgar, but the wise
and thinking are disgusted with you. I nev
er laugh or speak lightly, and am looked up
to, in consequence, as the philosopher of
birds.’
At that instant the owl was shot from his
Eerch by a farmer, whose hen roost had
een for along time subject to the nightly
depredations of the philosophers.
‘There,’ quoth the farmer, ‘you have
caught it at last, you goggle eyed, screech
ing, good for nothing, thieveing rascal.’
‘Tink, tink, link,’ said Bob, in great a
larm.
‘Ab, you there, my happy, merry, little
friend, 1 would not hurt a feather on your
back. I love thy sweet notes —they teach
roe with iny lot to be happy and content.’
Government.— ln the old world, govern
ment is viewed as something sacred—some
thing that the citizen must live for, be taxed
for, fight for, and, if need be, die for. It is
something that dispenses titles, instead of
justice—armorial bearings, instead of pro
tecting rights—pensions and privileges in
stead of securing to nil the fruit of their
own earnings. It is something that rules.
Here, government is an agency. It is
part and parcel of the people. It has no
paternal office to take core of subjects ; it
is itself the child which tho people are to
watch with ceaseless vigilance. It is but an
agency of the citizen. It is bound to pro
tect every one in person and property. It
confers uo rights—but only preserves what
already exists. Those who, for the time
being, exercise its powers, should never
grant privileges, or injure one man for tho
whole, unless absolutely necessary for the
public good, and then make ample repara
tion. It is something that is ruled.
ADVERTISING.
It is not for the purpose of advertising
our own trade that we now and then touch
upon a subject which by this time should be
fully understood by all who are striving in
mercantile pursuits, but because it is a mat
ter so vitally important among all classes,
that it forms proper material for comment
at almost any period. There are numbers
still, good and shrewd business people though
they be, who are not fully awako of the im
mense influence of advertising upon trade.
In fact, as commercial operations are now
organized, a man is considered simple, in
capable and unworthy of business, who
neglects the all-commanding lever, the force
of which alone is sufficient to produce an
activity where otherwise stagnation would
be almost inevitable.
In our walks through town we cannot
refrain from the obseivation that many ex
cellent and worthy men, struggling honor
ably for the maintenance of their families,
either through a blindfold economy, ordefect
in their commercial organization, absolutely
neglect this great engine of success in trade.
Now, such persons must not be guilty of
the littleness of misconstruing us. We are
frankly alluding to a subject that every shop
keeper, high or low, big or little should have
constantly under his near contemplation,
We have business enough.
We speak of advertising because it is a
point of most prominent importance to eve
rybody, and by awakening the attention of
everyone who has been heretofore negli
gent, we so fur achieve our constant aim of
being useful as well as agreeable to our rea
ders. Hyper-susceptible persons are also
quite common, who shrink from advertising,
because they see some bold faced people of
hollow pretentions (but with shrewdness to
perceive and appreciate the real road of
trade) using the same means. Why, such
delicate susceptibilities might as well dis
claim doing business in the same street, or
in the same town, with a charlatan in trade.
A newspaper may aptly enough be liked to
a public thoroughfare, and the card of the
man of business is the sign upon his door.
If an empty enterprising fellow comes into
the same neighborhood, snapping up busi
ness by dashing exteriors, it but proves still
further the indispensable utility of the ad
vertising system.
If one man obtains more business than a
far worthier individual, simply through the
means of newspapers and handbills, is it
not quite apparent that the best may obtain
his proper attitude in public estimation by
the same means ? We live in busy, practical
times, and the crowd is too much occupied
to go hunting after worth that is too modest
to show itself. A man that ’wants to buy
any thing takes up a newspaper, and the
merchant who is the most prominent there
is the one who will be sought for. An old
business friend and fiat ron of ours told us
yesterday that in his safe and successful ca
reer of nineteen years in New Orleans, he
has always been in the habit of marking a
corresponding increase of trade with the
annual swell of his piintmg expenses, and
his saying so instigated us to these remarks.
— Picayune.
INTEMPERANCE—ITS MISERIES.
Tlie following grupiiiu delineation of the
miseries and baleful effects of this but too
prevalent vice, is taken from it memorial of
citizens of Portage County, Ohio, to the
Legislature, ou the'subject, and is well worthy
tho cnlm and dispassionate reflection of every
votary of Bacchus, liowtvir seldom he may
enter the portals of his temples.
And yet its march of ruin is onward still.
It reaches abroad to others—invades the
family and social circles, and spreads wee
and sorrow all around. It cuts down youth
in its vigor—manhood in its strength, and age
in its weakness. It breaks the fathei’s heart
—bereaves the dealing mother—extinguishes
natural affection —erases conjugal lore—and
blots out filial attachment: blights parental
hope—and brings down mourning age in sor
row to the grave. It produces weakness, not
strength; sickness, not health; death, not life.
It makes wives widows—children orphans—
fathers fiends—and all of them paupers and
beggars. It hails fevers—feeds rheumatisms
—nurses gout —welcomes epidemic—invites
cholera—imparts pestilence, and embraces
consumptions. It covers the land with idle
ness, poverty, disease and crime. It fills
your jails—supplies your alms houses—and
demands asylums. It engenders controver
sies—fosters quarrels—and cherishes riots.
It contemns law—spurns order—and loves
mobs. It crowds your penitentiaries—and
furnishes the victims for your scaffolds, it
is the life-blood of a gambler—the aliment
of a counterfeiter—the prop of the highway
man, and the support of the midnight incen
diary.
It countenances .the liar—respects the
thief—and esteems the blasphemer. It
violates obligation—reverences fraud—and
honors infamy. It defames benevolence—
hates love—scorns virtue—and slanders in
nocence. It incites the father to butcher his
offspring—helps the husband to massacre
his wife—and aids the child to grind his par
ridical axe. It burns tip man—consumes
woman—detests life—curses God and des
pises Heaven.
ft suborns witnesses—nurses perjury—
defiles the jury box—and stains the judicial
ermine. It bribes votes, disqualifies voters
corrupts elections—pollutes our institutions
—and endangers our government. It de
grades the citizen—debases the legislator—
dishonors tho statesman—and disarms the
patriot, ft brings shame, not honor; terror,
not safely ; despair, not hope; misery, not
happiness. And now, ns with the malevo
lence of a fiend, it calmly survives its fright
ful desolations, ano insatiate with havoc, it
poisons felicity—kills peace—ruins morals—
blights confidence—slays reputation--and
wipes out national honor, then curst's the
world and laughs at its ruin.”
(£/’* The earliest specimen’ of Greek
printing is Lactantius, printed in Italy in
1465. Hebrew was printed in 1477. Ara
bic and Chaldaic, not until 1616. Samari
tan, Syriac and Coptic, not until 1636.
ft?* The Boston Times establishment is
offered for sale. Price SIB,OOO
REPUBLICAN BLUES.
This spirited and time-honpred corps has
recently been presented with® Standard by
the ladies of Savannah. Tie “Blues,” if
we mistake not, was formed fluring the war
of ISI4, and has ever since maintained an
enviable position among the esprit du corps
of the State. We do not recollect all the
names of the several gentlemen who have
commanded the “Blues” since its organiza
tion : in fact, with the exception of the Hon.
Alfred Cuthbert, Hon. John C. Nicoll, Ro
bert W. Pooler, Esq., and John W. Ander
son, Esq., we do not now remember how
many different gentlemen have shared that
honor. The last named gentleman holds the
“Commission,” and the entire confidence
and esteem of the corps* at present —and
he is justly entitled to it.
We regret that our limits will not permit
of our giving a full description of the Stan
dard, as furnished by the Savannah Repub
lican, of the 2Sth ultimo. That paper sayst
“We had heard much of this beautiful
banner, but it eclipses all that we had ever
conceived of it, and is without any doubt,
beyond all comparison, the most purless and
superb thing of its kind in the United States,
and certainly one of the most magnificent
ever seen any where, when the chaste ele
gance of design, the costliness of the mate
rials, and the inimitable skill displayed in
the workmanship are considered. We were
occupied an hour in studying its details, for
they cannot be comprehended and appreci
ated by a cursory glance.
“The standard is a most truthful imitation
of the design which was furnished by the
chaste pencil of Gen. Charles R. Floyd.
Some idea of its richness and gorgeousness
may be formed when, we inform our readers
that the whole fabric is composed of cloth
of gold and silver, and with letters of gold
ami silver bullion, and an embroidery
wrought in chenille and flos silk of mazarine
blue.”
The “ presentation,” which took place on
the 2d instant, was an occasion of deep and
exciting interest. The number of specta
tors was immense, and the day remarkably
fine. The Standard was presented, in be
half of the ladies, by Judge Nicoll, in a
beautiful and feeling speech. Ensign Bar
tow received the flag, and replied for the
Blues. We consider the Ensign’s reply the
handsomest thing of the kind we have ever
read. We give it entire, as published in
the Georgian, together with the closing
charge of the Judge :
Ensign- —The Spartan mother deliver
ing his shield to her son departing from the
army, nobly gave him the mandate, “ with it
or upon it.” Iti committing this standard
to your hands, I charge you in the name of
its loved donors, that whenever you return
from the battle-field you be “ with it or
within it.”
Ensign Bartow on receiving the Stan
dard, replied as follows :
Sir —lt becomes my proud duty, in be
half of this band of citizen soldiers, to re
ceive this gorgeous banner, the patriotic of
fering of these noble ladies, of whom you
are the honored representttive. You have
offered this gift in the holy names of moth
er, wife and sister. We receive this hal
lowed token of affection with the heart’s
fondest and most devoted homage. We
shall turn it in the day3 of peace to relume
.the embers of fading patriotism, and, in the
hour of danger and of battle, we shall catch
inspired courage from its folds, bearing the
blessing and the prayers of those who are
linked to our souls by the strongest and
purest ties which bind man to life.
The cunning work of the fairy finger has
traced upon this silken sheet the images of
glory which surround the cloud-riding eagle
of our young Republic; and there, too, we
behold the emblazoned escutcheon of the
land of our birth, wreathed by that native
noblest flower which scents the breeze, un
sullied, in the pride of its virgin beauty, like
the pure maiden of our sunny home. We
are thus reminded that our Confederated
Union calls upon us to guard the laurels
which deck the brow of Freedom, and that
our State commits to our vigilance her al
tars and her fire-sides* and the sweet chari
ties and sympathies of home. We receive
the double instruction—we will remember
“the double charge.
Proud eagle of my country! when thy
warscream shall be borne upon the tempest
blast, waking the echoes, from crag to crag,
of Freedom’s battle call, this banner, which
thy dauntless spirit guards, shall float tri
umphantly, in danger and in victory, by the
side of that star-blazing standard thou art
wont to herqld on to glory. And, for our
own glorious State, how can we ever falter
in our devotion to her, and to her honor ?
Sir! these emblems shall brighten the
burning Jove we bear her, as often as we
gaze upon their glowing forms. Her im
pregnable arch, resting on eternal truths,
shall he guarded by the Republican soldier,
as imaged in this radiant mirror, with the
stern daring of the warrior and the tender
devotion of the lover. The love of country!
what is it but the vibrating chord of human
sympathy, which breathes in solemn tones
from the past, gives out glad harmonies
from tho present, and steals along the future
in the dying cadence of ethereal hope ? A
country without its memories, is but a spot
of earth where breathes no soul. You have
reminded us of whom we are—you have re
called to life tiro hoars of our past—--you
have re-animated yonder battle field with
the noble champions of our Freedom whose
blood our soil has drunk—‘you have pointed
us to yonder redoubt where Jasper stormed
death in his battlements, and planted, in
triumph, the banner of his country. Here,
amidst these glowing associations in sight of
the very scenes where Freedom was cradled
amidst the carnage of her defenders, on this
holy ground, with, perchance, the bright
spirits of these noble sires hovering near
us, surrounded by the best and loveliest of
our laud mingling the enchantments of the
present with the solemn vision of the past,
it is right that the fair daughters of Georgia
should animate the love and devotion of her
sons. For my brothers and compatriots,
and with them, I here solemnly swear that
this banner shall be as stainless from disho
nor as the virgin heart of her wlioste showy
fingers have traced the lines of beauty along
its azure folds. I swear that it shall never
be flung to the breeze of battle save at the
call of Country or of Freedom ; arid when
unfurled in that holy cause, never shall it
seek the repose of peace until the pollution
of the foe shall be washed from our soil.
I swear that, while a single heart pulsates
beneath this unsullied uniform, this banner
sh all never want an arm to bear it in the
front of the battle ; and sweet shall be the
death on whose dark pathway shall beam,
from this bright flag, the light of love and
the halloVved blessings of vVoman.
“ And if ever the flame on our altars shall pale,
Let thy folds but be seen, and the soldier shall start
To re-kind!e the fire as he sees on the gale
tlnfaded and pet rlcss—the flag of his heart.”
Sir, hear to those noble ladies whose ho
nored messenger you are, the tribute of de
votion from an hundred hearts. In the hal
cyon days of peace we will strive to deserve
the priceless smiles and bright approving
glances now beaming upon us from the ra
diant eyes of beauty. When crimson-eyed
war shall throw his lurid glare upon our
land, We will go forth under this their ban
ner, and if needs be we will die sweetly,
remembering her whose smiles shall bright
en the last look of life.
Blues! receive this banner into your
ranks—protect it if need be with yourlives!
shed in its defence the last drop of your
heart’s best blood! You have heard the
solemn vow I have made in your behalf. I
have made it in the sincerity and earnestness
of a brother—are we not brothers 1 and is
there a man among you whose heart does
not leap to his lips in response to the pledge
I have uttered in your name 1
The fairy forms who traced upon this
standard the emanations of their own efful
gent beauty, shall one day brighten into
more celestial shapes. This gorgeous ban
ner shall fade and wither beneath the touch
of time’s effacing fingers, but let the Blues
transmit from sire to son the proud tribute
of this day, kindling at the rememberance
in all times the virtues of the citizen and
the death-braving valor of the soldier.
Corporal! Toydu the special guardian
of this our proudest trophy, I commit iti
Should you be the bearer of it when our
country shall command it to be unfurled in
her service, let it beam star-like on the path
to glory. Onward be your cry ! He who
finds death beneath this banner, than his,
the dead has no more gorgeous winding
sheet—wealth has no prouder graves
Antiquity of Auctions. —Most of the usages
of life, social, commercial, and martial may
be tracted to the remotest antiquity. Wlio
would suppose that a sale by auction, and the
m 2 flag which marks the place of vendue,
could, by the widest stretch of fancy, be as
simulated with the Roman General, wield
ing his baton or truncheon, the symbol in all
ages of military command. And yet they
are the same, as far as their functions, witli
regard to sales, are concerned. The sys
tem of sale by Auction originated with the
Romans, who sold their spoils in war under
a spear fixed in front of the General’s tent.
The spear was decorated with a crimson
flag, indicating the tent of the supreme com
mander.
Childhood is like a mirror, catching and
reflecting images from all around it. Re
member that an impious or profane thought,
muttered by a parent’s lips, may operate
upon the young heart like a ceaseless spray
of water thrown upon the polished steel,
staining it with rust which no after scouring
can efface.
RHODE ISLAND.
The real Legislature of this State was in
session up to the 6th instant—quietly in the
discharge of its duties. Appointments for
the civil commissions of the state, have been
made, and such military appointments as
were necessary.
A preamble and resolutions, making a re
quisition upon the President of the United
States for his interposition to suppress the
insurrection, were adopted.
Mr. George Niles, a member of the Don-
Legislature, has resigned his seat —wishing
to do no more in the treasonable line just at
present,
On Thursday, Dutec J. Pearce was ar
rested on a warrant issued by Chief Justice
Durfee, on a charge of treason against the
state. He was held to bail with two sure
ties in the sum SSOOO each. Sanford Bell
and Nichols Hazard were his bondsmen.
The same men were bail to the same amount
in the case of Daniel Brown.
A warrant was issued on the same day
against Joseph Joslin, the General Trea
surer under the pretended constitution. He
had not been arrested when the boat left.
It was supposed that the others would be
arrested in Newport in the course of yester
day.
A warrant was issued on the same day
against Thomas W. Dorr, on a complaint
of treason against the State. A warrant
was also issued against Jeremiah Shelton,
of Gloucester. Neither had been arrested
when the Journal of yesterday went to press.
The Chronicle of last evening announces
the arrest of Barrington Anthony, Mr.
Door’s Sheriff under the pretended consti
tution. A sketch of the examination before
Justice Bowen is given. He was ordered
to be committed ; hut was admitted to bail
in sureties of four thousand dollars. On
his release be was escorted to his home by a
corps of Dorr’s sans culloltes.
Dorr himself had not been arrested when
the mail closed yesterday ; but it was sup
posed he would be in the course of the af
ternoon. It was bruited that he had deter
mined not to give bail, but to victimise him
self by going to prison. He will then doubt
less feel the great privilege that “every
man’s house is his castle.”
All was quiet. The veteran Colonel Blod
gett is in charge of the state arsenal, with a
small force. The revolutionists will not
make an assault there while Colonel Blod
gett commands.
Yet the insurgents continue to grow most
lustily. Their organ, the Express, of yes
terday, says of the President of the United
States —
It is not in his province to become an
umpire between the contending parties; but
should he transcend his constitutional pow
ers, and send an armed force into our bor
ders to force them to yield their rights at the
point of the bayonet, they would find, among
the people of a sovereign state resolved to
Stand by their rights, “ every plain, a Mara
thop, and every defile, a Thermopylae.
Think of that, now, and “ quake, quail,”
as Fessenden says in “ Terrible Tractora
lion.”
From the New Orleans Picayune of the 6ih.
LATEST FROM TEXAS.
The steamship New York, arrived from
Galveston last evening. We have letters
by her, from our correspondents in Houston
and Galveston, and papers to and of the 3d
instant.
Galveston, May 2, 1842.
Messrs. Editors —Commodore Moore ar
rived here, with the ship of war, Abstin,
and schooners San Antonio and San Bernard.
They left Campeachy on Thursday, the 28th
ultimo, and the brig Wharton will follow
them here in a day or two. The Govern
ment of Yucatan have suspended, for a time,
the monthly stipend to our navy, for want
of funds, the last payment was partly
raised by a contribution of the Civil
officers of the Government, from their sala
ries. Commodore Moore has given that
government the highest satisfaction by the
services of the Navy. They have now two
brigs and two schooners of their own, un
der Com. Sarazan, out on a cruize off the
Mexican coast.
The Congress of Yucatan was convened
on the 17th ultimo, and granted extraordi
nary powers to the President, on the 19th,
in case of invasion.
The people of Yucatan are determined
to continue the war against Mexico at every
hazard.
Mr. Lubbock, one of the Santa Fe pri
soners, who escaped from Mexico, arrived
in the San Antonio.
Santa Aha has embodied 35,000 troops,
destined for Texas and Yucatan, and pur
chased two merchant vessels at Vqra Cruz,
for transports.
The contract of the Mexican Govern
ment for building two iron war steamers, in
England, which failed for want of funds,
has been renewed, and they are to be com
pleted immediately.
The church has given Santa Ana all pro
perty held by them in mort main, amounting,
as is estimated, to $15,000,000, to be ap
plied to the prosecution of the war against
Texas. He has also made a forced loan of
30,000 doubloonsfrom the priests of Puebla.
General Houston and his cabinet are at
Houston. The archives of the government
are in Austin, and there, the citizens of that
place say, they shall stay.
The President has proclaimed that per
sons acting in the United States as the agents
of certain “ committees of vigilance and
safety,” and receiving contributions and aids
to assist in forwarding and sustaining, with
suitable implements, emigrants to Texas,
and who represent the preparations in the
republic of a warlike character, as the work
‘of such committees, and not originating
with the Executive, and who offer commis
sions to gentlemen about to emigrate, as
they say by the authority of Gen. A. Syd
ney Johnston, whom they represent as in
command of the army of Texas—are acting
without the semblance of authority from
him.
The President desires that all means
hencefonh contributed for the cause of Tex
as be placed in the hands of the govern
ment agents, and reported to the principal
Texian agent at New Orleans, and a dupli
cate report to the Secretary of War, at
Houston.
There are now 1000 men Rt Corpus
Christi, and 300 men at Victoria, all under
arms and anxious to give battle to the ene
my.
Volunteer companies are still wending
their way to the west,
By many, it is thought that the tvar move
ments of General Houston are too tardy ;
yet, from all appearances, he is firmly bent
on carying into execution his designs of in
vading Mexico.
CC?“Mr. Robert S. Allen of TroupCounty,
his nephew, (a lad,) and three negroes were
drowned in the Chattahoochee, near Ha
thon’s ferry on the 23d ultimo, by the up
setting of a canoe in which they were at
tempting to cross the river.
(Cf* Judge Andrews, at Lincoln Superior
Court, last week, in the case of the State vs.
Harrisoh White, decided that the law of
1837, against carrying concealed weapons,
is unconstitutional, and therefore void. The
prisoner was accordingly discharged.
(ty 5 * The great match-race between Bos
ton and Fashion, for 20,000 aside, “came off”
on the Union (N. Y.) Course, on Tuesday
last. We shall probably hear the result to
morrow.
Opr* Adam Waldie, proprietor of “Wal
dies Circulating Library,” and the oldest
publisher in Pennsylvania, died in Philadel
phia, on the Bth ultimo, in the 50th year of
his age.
tt/** The Banks’ of the city of Baltimore,
and State of Maryland, entered upon a gen
eral resumption of all their liabilities, on the
2d instant.
* (£/“’ In North Carolina twelve thousand
persons have subscribed to the pledge of
total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors.
Small Pox is spreading and prov
ing fatal in New Orleans.
The London Correspondent of the
New York Journal of Commerce says :
“The confirmation of the late disastrous
affair in India has thrown a gloom over the
metropolis, which I assure you it is impossi
ble to describe. The only outlet of feeling
appears in the revenge, gloated by all, that
the massacre of 10,000 British troops must
be avenged by giving a hecatomb to each.”
LATEST FROM ENGLAND. [
Arrival of the Caledonia.
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPF.
Thb Caledonia arrived at Boston on Thurs-’
day, after a passage of 15J days. The news
is not very important, but nevertheless pos
sessgs interest.
Theembcrkations of troops for India, was
rppidly progressing.
The Columbia had not arrived at Liver
pool, but was spoken by the Caledonia tha
day she started, abreast of the Skerries, at a.
bout 10 in the evening.
The Overland Mail from India was hourly
expected, ns the arrangements to reduce the
time between Suez and Bombay from eigh
teen to twelve days, were reported at the last
arrival to be nearly completed.
We notice the discovery of a serious cm.
bezzlement of the funds of the Steaming
Company, nnd the subsequent suicide, by poi.
son, of one or two individuals concerned in
the embezzlement.
Madrid papers of the Gth, mention that
Mr. Zermun, who was regarded as an agent
of Prince Mattcrnich, had received notice tol
quit the Spanish capital.
The Leipsic journals mention the arrival
in that city, from Russia, of a German wh<f
has attained the great age of 119 years.
One of Lord Ellenborougli’s first acts, as’
Governor General of India, has been to or
der the restoration of Bella to the Madras
sepoys.
Twenty six houses in the village of Trow*
ley-Bottom, in Herefordshire, were recently
destroyed by fire. They were inhabited by
strawplatters for the Dunstable trade.
Orders had been issued at the British Royal
Foundry for the casting of 2000 cannons of
various calibre, intended chiefly for the larger
vessels of war.
The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered
20 pqsverful fire engines to be constructed
for use in the national dockyards. Nine of
those engines have been completed and sent
to Woolwich to be proved.
The Gazette de Guernsey announces tho
arrival of Major General Napier, who has
succeeded Sir James Douglass as Lieutenant
Governor of the island.
One of the largest manufacturing houses
in the kingdom—that of Joseph Beal & Cos.,
of Mountermellick, Ireland, has.lately fail
ed, throwing about 1,080 persons out of em
ployment.
Another iarge East India house has failed,
that of Forman & Hadow, at London, along
established concern. An almost unwonted
depression appears to hang over the East In
dia trade.
The Renfrewshire Bank has stopped pay
ment. The liabilities are stated to be £200,-
000, and the assets, chiefly mortgages on
ships, at £IOO,OOO. It is not expected, tak
ing all circumstances into the account, that
the bank will pay 3s. on the pound.
The total augmentations of the army for
foreign service u ill amount to at least 15,000
men. Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D’-
Urban goes to India as Commander-in-Chics.
The Leipsic Gazette,of the 4th instant, un
der date Constantinople, states, that the Brit
ish Government had solicited permission from
Mehemet Ali to march a body of troops thro’
Egypt to the Isthmus of Suez for the purpose
of facilitating their arrival in India. The Pa
sha is said to have replied that he could not
grant the request without the consent of his
master the Sultan.
We hear on all hands of reductions in the
wages of manufacturing workmen. Yester
day, we believe, the hand-loom weavers in tho
employ of Messrs. Filden Brothers, of Tod-,
morden, had an abatement made of about 20
per cent on their previous earnings.
The Iron Steamboat Company had made
preparations for prosecuting their business on
a most extensive scale, at the chain pier, Chel
sea. Contracts were already out for upwards
of fifty new boats.
Another embezzlement has been detected
of the funds of the Manchester and Bolton
Railway by a confidential cletk. This is tho
second time that this company has suffered
in a similar way.
The preliminaries had been concluded for
a matrimonial alliance between the Duke of
Bordeaux and the second daughter of the Em
peror Nicholas of Prussia.
The distresses in the manufacturing dis
tricts of Great Britain still continued, altho’
the demand for labor was, on the whole, some
what better than it had been,partially reliev
ed by further contributions from the distres
sed operatives, Paisley were in the receipt of
donations sufficient to save them from actual
starvation. Still the amount of suffering was
very great, and much greater, probably, than
even the British public supposed it could be/
under the circumstances.
The troubles in Ireland, arising principally
from the scarcity of provisions, the want of
employment and disaffection with the govern
ment, were every day assuming a rtiore alarm
ing aspect. Murders, robberies, and other
outrages upon the laws, were of frequent oc
currence—all showing a laxity of moral res
traint, and a desperate determination not to
obey the behests of tory rule. The complaint!
was, that the government, amidst all its pro
posed measures, did not contemplate doing
nnytliing for Ireland, or to lighten the bur
dens which weighed down its energies.
A large number of houses in the neighbor
hood of Doonbeg, county Clare, Ireland, were’
recently carried away by a flood, and several’
men lost their lives in attempting to save some
cattle.
The assertion recently made by Sir Robert
Peel in Parliament, that the temperance re-',
formation had not diminished the quantity of
ardent spirits imported into Ireland, is stout
ly contradicted by the Irish whig papers, and
is considered by them as intended to keep*
up the old prejudices against the Irish people*
LATEST FROM AFGHANISTAN.
Extract from a letter from Cawnpore, de
ted 16th February : “ We have just received
letters from the Commander-in-Chief’s camp,
giving Candahar news up to the 12th ultimo.
An action had taken place between our troops
and the Affghans, in which we were victors,
killing 153, and wounding 200 of the enemy.
Our loss was only three officers wounded
slightly, two privates killed, and 20 wounded.
Letters from Gen. Sale have been received
up the 80tli ultimb, at which date the troops
were in high spirits, having captured 175 bul
locks—a great wind-fall for them. But tho
most important piece of news (our letter con-
, (hot Shah Soojab, who Ims cost us