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EDITOR'S DEPARTMENT.
I WmTcTRICHARDS, EDITOR.
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■ Saturday Morning, Way 26, is 19.
CENTRALI A.
[ This name has been given to the vast ba
■sin watered by the Colorado, and lying be
itween the Salt Lake, on the North, and the
■Gila River, on the South. This country
■ias never been fully explored, either by
the Spaniards or the Americans. It embra
ces a territory nearly ns large a5 the origin -
‘Jil thirteen States. It has been represented
9ks consisting of vast sandy deserts, but the
iioagre accounts we have of it arc too con
tradictory to be relied on. That it is en
tirely barren and unproductive, is not at all
probable.
jg This region is alluded to by Major Emo
ry and other explorers, but only in a casual
Mi l unsatisfactory manner. Without giv
ing any credit to the thousand undone mar
velous stories, told by hunters and trappers,
of the mineral riches of this country, we
still have strong reasons to believe that this 1
is. after all, the El Dorado of the Spanish
■onquerors of Mexico. The author of “ The
Grid Mines of the Gila” bus given us a
chain of evidence bearing upon this point,
■thick seems nearly conclusive. Among
other testimony cited, is that of a lady, who
Bcsided, for a long time, both in Texas and !
In Mexico, and who made good use of the I
Opportunities she enjoyed of investigating
Bliis curious subject. She says :
■ “Leaving super titions and traditions out oftlio
Bccount, these facts remain di tinet and uud lii-
Bblo :
I “There is im extensive country in the lap of
this continent, and now pertaining to our story,
which his hitherto b ifil <1 every attempt at ex
ploration.
I “Toe Gila at the south, the Fait Lake on the
north, a id the Sierra Nevad i at the west are it-
Bul .vorks ; an 1 nil the rep irts from either of these
Broximntc boundaries, ns well as tho ; e of the
Kibes o i th” ea-t towards the Rio Bravo del
■orte, concur as to the existence of a fine coun
try, with large edifices, an agricultural popula
tion, ranch gold, and a system of rigorous cxclu
ijon of strangers, together with a sufficient oa-
Ineity of self-pr itcction to m lintain them. The
Havaho and Apache Indians, who romi between
T’ vas and the eastern margin of this’ mysterious
i;d anconqttered region,’ say that on a tributaiy
es the Gila—whither they have o'len uialeforays,
■;o:igh generally with discouraging results—the
|i cks are seamed with veins of pure gold, and that
fh’ sands on another tributary, the Prieto, are
yellow with its shining grains; and tli s story
1.-i- beoa so far corroborated within ttie last two
ye irs that I'nited States officers, whose military
dut'es carried them nearly to the range of the
ly 1 !Cs are planning and direc ting expeditions to
•kok the golden treasure. * *
Official notices of the value of these mines, !
and of the ira; orslbility of working th m on zc-
OO’ nt of the ferocious opposition of the Indians,
ar to be found in the archives of Mexico and
Cn latceas. In the missionary records of the ;
JT incise li order of monks in the formercity, the i
absolute failure es the numerous efforts to pro e-
in tills direction, 4 or even to be admitted to
Wn'er the country,’ was attributed to the fear of
■he natives of being en laved anil set to labor in
■li” gold mires, as had happened to ill natives
Os ihe other provinces of the kingdom of Monte- ,
■win.”
■ So certain were the'earlier Spanish set- |
Hers of Mexico, of the existence of gold
inines on the Gila, that numerous parties
•cere dispatched to search for them; hut
nlie persevering hostility of the Indians ren- •
ered every attempt to explore their coun-
Iry unavailing.
I The climate of this great central plateau j
■mist, from its situation, be temperate and I
■omial. Granting that it contains no trea
gnurcs of gold and precious stones, it is still
m most interesting region. The inhabitants .
Spire believed to be considerably advanced in
■civilization, to live in good, substantial
and to cultivate the soil. All ac
■munts represent them as worshippers of
■lire, and as an exceedingly warlike race.
■The Nabijos and Moqui tribes are supposed ;
■te reside in this unexplored and uncon- j
land. They are said to be a light- j
and blue-eyed race, with complex- j
of the most delicate fairness, and to
in woollen clothes of their own munu
I An expedition, planned by Mr. Charles j
■W. Webber, author of “ The Gold Mines ofj
■the Gila,” is advertised to take its depar- I
from Corpus about the first of June, !
the exploration of this terra incognita,
Wand the darkness which now shrouds it will
■
■doubtless, in a measure at least, be speedily i
■pliapeUed. Nothing can long resist the tide
rtof Anglo-Saxon civilization, which is now
onward toward the shores of thePa
rific. *.
EPITAPHS.
I Os all the Curiosities of Literature, the
■ most curious, perhaps, arc those found a-
Hmong Epitaphs and Monumental Inscrip-
Htions. A man would hardly go to the grave-
Wyard to find food for mirth, yet so mingled
■ are the incongruous and the ludicrous, with
Hthe pathetic and the solemn, that one is
■■quite as often moved to laughter as to tears,
■ by its monuments and memorials.
Let ns look at a few of these sepulchral
■ vagaries. The first that we copy is from a
in .Brighton, England :
“Here I lays,
Killed bye chaise.”
■ The following was proposed for Francis
■ Grose, a celebrated Antiquary and Humor
■ st, of the eighteenth century :
“ Here lies Francis Grose :
On Thursday, May 12, 1791,
Death put an end to
His views and jnospcctsT
■ John Johnson, Provost of Dundee, was
I much beloved by his townsmen. To show
I their reverence for his memory, they offered
I ” reward for the best poetical inscription
for his tomb stone. Two only were offered.
The first ran thus:
“ Here lies John Johnson, Prevost of Dundee;
Here lies him, here lies In. ’
This was thought unsurpassable, but
when the Town Clerk opened and read the
second, the prize was unanimously awarded
to that. It was as follows :
‘‘ Here lies John’ Johnson, Prevost of Dundee ;
UaUdujittf Hallelujee!”
Here is an Epitaph on a Grocer, whose
name was Garrard :
“ Garret some call’d him,
but that was too bye;
llii name is Garrard,
w ho now hero doth lye ;
We. pe not for him,
since he is gone before
To lieaven, where Grocers
there are many more ’’
The following is from a burial-ground in
Providence, R. I.:
“ Her soul grow so fast within,
It burst the outward shell of sin,
And so was hatched a cherubim.”
In St. Mary’s church-yard, Whittlesea,
in the Isle of Ely, England, says a writer in
the American Cabinet,• is the following
strange and ridiculous inscription :
Here lie tho bodies of
Elizabeth Addison,
Her son,
And old Roger to come.”
A traveller adds: “I visited AVhittlesea,
nearly twenty years after this stone was set
up, and old Roger was still living!”
Here is another. It is quaint, but pithy.
It is found on the tomb-stone of tlic Earl of
Devon, who died A. D. 1419 :
“ Oli! oh ! who lies here 1
’Tis I, the Earl of Devonshire,
With Kate, my wile, to lir e full dero;
We lyved together fyfty-five yore:
That wee spent, we had ;
That wee gave, wee have ;
That weu left, wee 10-te. ”
We will close this chapter with the fol
lowing beautiful Epitaph on an Infant:
“ Rest soft thy dust:—wait the Almighty's will:
Ri-e lvv h (lie just :—and be an Angel still.”
THE PRIZE ARTICLES.
We complete, in this number, the publica
tion of tlic prize articles, and we feel assu
red that our readers will pronounce them to
be of a high order of inerij. Already has
the press rendered a flattering verdict; aud
so highly gratified are we with the results
of our first prize offers, that we have re
solved speedily to institute another series.
As all the subscribers, received since the
beginning of Volume 11, request the back
numbers, we take this occasion to say that
we are prepared to furnish two or three
hundred additional subscribers with them.
We are also printing, in book form, a band
some edition of the prize articles, which
will be ready in June. Price, 25 cents.’
(Dav ©ossip (Column.
Dramatic Decitations.
The monotony of our village life was
agreeably relieved for two or three eve
niugs recently, by u visit from Mr. and Mrs.
Conner, who gave a series of Recitations at
tlic Town Hall. Mrs. Conner—formerly
Miss Charlotte Barnes—is well known, both
as an authoress and actress—and a volume
of her plays is about passing to a second
edition. Mr. Conner is a fine elocutionist,
and many of liis recitations are exceedingly
effective. He excels also in light comedy,
and is admirably sustained by Mrs. Conner.
Several fine scenes from Sheridan Knowles
and some spirited Vaudevilles, afforded the
audience much amusement. Portions of
Macbeth and other plays of the great mas
ter, were given by Mr. and Mrs. Conner,
with much spirit and judgment. Such oc
casional glimpses’ of the art-world as those
afforded to our citizens by these artists, are
pleasant and refreshing.
The Difference.
The first number of our new series, ad
dressed to a subscriber in a neighboring
village, was returned to us with the follow
ing “marginal reading “ Oh, pshaw ! too
light!” A few months ago, we received
from the same individual a half-witty, half
stupid article, which was proffered for pub
lication in the Gazette, and accompanied
with a letter couched in the most ccrnpli
mentary language conceivable. Tiie “ “t-ti
cle” went into the “ Balaam box,” and since
that, the author's opinion of our Journal
has been slightly modified, it seems !
“A change c.irne o'er the spirit of Ms dream,”
and what before was “ excellent and just the
thing,” became —alas! alas!—“too light!”
<* Don't send it, do.”
Among other returned papers, (for we
are not without our share of these favors!)
we received one endorsed as above, and feel
somewhat at a loss how to interpret it. It
comes, moreover, from one who has been
spoken of for Governor of Georgia, and is in
! his own hand-writing. It is a very common
1 thing for uneducated persons in the South
! to say, “ Do, don't go, now“ Do, don’t
! do that“l’ve done done it:” and similar
1 phrases ; but, “ Don’t send it, do !” is deci
dedly more unique and equivocal than these.
What do you mean,Col. ? Do, or don’t ?
Unavailable Capital.
Our stories of the late Doctor Maxcey are
pronounced “ capital” by the ‘newspapers.
We think it very likely they are, but it is to
others and not to us—for they have been
the rounds of the press from Maim to Lou
isiana, and not a bit of credit could we get
for them. One of them, christened “ A
College Lark,” appears in the Aurora Bo
realis, credited True Sun.” It is not
true, son ! The turkey-scrape was copied
into the Boston Daily Bee, apparently as
an editorial, and we have since met with it,
a score of times, credited to the Bee ; so
that we have been reminded of the song we
learned in infancy:
“ How doth the Tittle busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening Bower.”
We suggest, however, anew reading of
tins familiar stanza:
llow doth the little Boston Bee
Approve his neighbors’ wit.
And, gathering honey where he may,
Forget to credit it!
id in lit® ©Haiis a
£ljc Religious tDorliJ.
The Georgia Baptist Convention.—
The session of this body was protracted un
til nearly noon of Tuesday, when it ad
journed to meet, next year, at Marietta.
We have not space to chronicle the proceed
ings of the Convention, which varied little
from the usual routine of Committee Re
i ports. The attendance was respectable,
and the appearance of the delegates indica
tive of much intelligence. The Education
Sermon, delivered on Sunday morning, by
Mr. Brautly, will, we understand, be pub
lished. The Convention adopted u report,
recommending the sale of the Christian In
dex, at present its property and its organ.
It would thrive under judicious private
management, from all the reports, we are
led to believe that Education and Missiona
ry feeling are on the advance among the
Baptists of Georgia.
The Convention passed resolutions of
thanks to the Geo. R. R. Cos., and to the
citizens of Athens, for courteous accommo
dations, which we should publish but for
want of space.
©itr (Contemporaries.
Godey’3 Lady’s Book.
The June number is full of beauty and in
terest. Four steel plates, a host of fine
wood-cuts, a fashion-plate and music, in the
way of embellishment, and a great variety
of attractive articles. Mrs. Neal concludes
her admirable sketches, “ The Gossips of
Rivertown, or Lessons of Charitythan
which more natural pictures of life, in all
the alternations of light and shade, have
seldom been drawn. These papers have
run through a volume, and are richly worth
its subscription price. “ The Editor’s Co
py” is a very clever hit at the practice of
borrowing, so common in some communities.
Godey’s Magazine is too handsome and too
cheap, to make borrowing it at all justifia
ble.
The Westminster Review, American Reprint.
New York: Leonard Scott & Cos.
This able work, for the present quarter,
contains several striking papers—among
which we notice, particularly, “ The French
Revolution of 1848,” and “ The English
Spelling Reform.” In the former, which is
a defence of the French Republican Govern
ment, the writer recommends the election
of the French President by the representa
tives of the people, and utters the following
thoughtful and suggestive language :
“ The example of (he United States is a strong
argument for this opinio::. If the President were
elected hv Congress, he would generally be the
leader, and acknowledged the ablest man of bis
lariy; elected by the people, he is how always
either an unknown mediocrity, or a man whoso
reputation h is been acquired in some other field
than that of politics.”
The author of the essay on the “ Spelling
Reform” is somewhat of a Phonetique, and
looks forward to the day, (what a far
stretcliing vision he must have, if he gets a
glimpse of it!) when the fU letic JV qz will
bb as familiarly read by the masses as the
London Times, or the JVew York Sun.
The English language is quite enough of a
“ mystery” at present, without being made
more so by the outlandish types of Phonog
raphy, ( /■Qnogrn/e.)
The London Lancet.
The May number of this splendid medical
work has been reprinted with great prompt
ness, and comes to us full of valuable es
says, reviews and reports. It is repub
lished by Stringer & Townsend, N. V.,
at $5 a year.
£l)e ©lb ID or lb.
England. The arrival of the Canada
places us in possession of Liverpool dates to
the 4th, inclusive. She made a ten days’
passage —a fact which reminds us of the
wonderful change effected by steam in our
intercourse with Europe. Time and space
seem almost annihilated. An advance in
the price of Cotton has taken place. We
note few other alterations in the features of
tlie British markets, and little of interest
either in her civil or political affairs. The
Clergy Relief Bill, giving non-conformist
ministers equal privileges with tho e of the
National Church, will, we hope, prevail in
Parliament. The repeal of the Navigation
Laws appears provable—and, if accomplish
ed, tlie dependant measures before the Par-
I liament, the bill for emancipating the Jews
j and the Rate in Aid bill, will also prevail,
i France. The rupture between Presi
; dent Louis Napoleon and his cousin, M. Na
j polcon Bonaparte, is the chief topic of in
l tercst. The latter denounces the President
in no measured terms, and parties were rap
| idly forming in anticipation of the approach
i ing Elections. These Elections, which were
1 to take place on the 13th inet., may have re
sulted in re-action of the most violent kind;
and we should not be surprised if the days
! of the French Republic were ajready num
i bered. Socialism and its sister forms, which
are but flimsy disguises for the vilest lufi
delity, are tlie obstacles to the national ele.
vatiou of France.
Germany. The mediation of England
affords indications of peace between Germa
ny and Prussia.
Austria. The intervention of Russia a
gainst the Hungarians is announced with
out much excitement, though the force fur
nished to Austria is stated at 150,000. The
Hungarian arms are every where victorious,
and the greatest consternation prevails at
Vienna.
India. The Punjaub War is finished—
for the present!
Italy. The arrival of the F ronch troops
at Civita Vecchia, excited a great sensation
at Rome. Their subsequent entry into the
imperial city, and tlie flight of the Republi
can Government are reported 1 The Tuscan
troops had entered Leghorn.
The spirit of Revolution is everywhere
dominant!
Cos Correspondents.
A. L. T.—We omitted to thank you for
your acceptable favors.
A. P. G. —Your poem will appear.
W. D. C. —We are compelled to let your
letter lie over until next week.
Bayard. —We have put your verses into
the hands of the printer.
Ixez. —Welcome—thrice welcome ! IVe
thought you had forgotten us.
©ar Book (CubU.
[Publishers a: dAuthovs who desire have their to
Books noticed in this Gazette, are requested to
send copies to the Edito through Stringer &
Towfiscud, New-York, or Cony St Hart, Phil
The Sea Lions, or The Lost Sealers. By J.
Fcnnimoro Cooper, author of “ The Spy,”
&c. In 2 vols. New York: Stinger St
Townsend. 1849.
We have read Mr. Cooper's “ new novel”
with a well sustained interest, and arc dis
posed to rank it among the very best of his
excellent Sea Talcs. It opens a field of ad
venture fresh and exciting, aud treats of a
subject hitherto scaled to the lovers of ro
mance. It is not our intention to present
an analysis of the book, as its low price aud
convenient form will conduce to its general
perusal. We shall confine our remarks,
therefore, to the general character of the
work, premising simply that it is a narra
tive of the adventures of two scaling crews, i
each connected with a schooner called the (
“ Sea Lion,” and the two vessels nearly
identical in their size and outfit —one fitted ]
out at Oyster Pond, on Long Island, and j
the other at Martha's Vineyard. The ob
ject of the Oyster Pond expedition was to
pursue the scaling buginess on an island in
the Antarctic Seas, and also to discover a
treasure said to be buried by pirates on one
of the West India Keys. The owner was a
sanctimonious, but money-loving “ Deacon
Pratt,” who had managed to worm out from :
an old mariner named Dagget, put ashore
at Oyster Pond, the secrets of the wonder
ful sealing island, and the buried treasure j
on the Key.
Hints and rumors of these discoveries had
reached Martha's Vineyard, where the Dag
gets were numerous ; and some of them,
hearing of the Oyster Pond Expedition, fit
ted out a similar one, which, by a series of
strange coincidences, shared the fortunes
of the former, and lienee the name of tlie
book, “ Tli.’ Sea Lions.”
The interest of the story consists in the
narrative of the separate and united adven
tures of the two crews upon the Islands in
the Antarctic, tlie precise locality of which
is concealed by the novelist. The graphic
powers of Mr. Cooper are displayed to.the
finest advantage in the process of seal
catching, and taking the sea-elephant, and
more especially in involving the vessels in
extreme peril among the icebergs and ice
floes of those stormy Southern Seas, and
then devising means for their escape
By what mishaps, it needs not to say, but
so it was, that the two crews were compelled
to winter upon the rocky island, where they
had been “sealing;” and, were we not al
ready familiar witli tlie winter horrors of
such extreme latitudes, through the narra
tives of early and modern navigators, we
should condemn Mr. Cooper's book as a tis
sue of the wildest improbabilities. Terri
ble, indeed, are the pictures he draws of the
perils and fatal issue of that winter amid
tlic Antarctic ice—fatal to nearly every in
dividual of the crew of the Sea Lion of the
Vineyard.
Mr. Cooper's descriptions of the icebergs
are among the finest in the book. Want of
space prevents us from copying at any
length, but we cannot forbear quoting tlie
following inler passage..
“Not a voice was hoard in either vessel;
scarcely a breath was drawn ! A heavy, groan
ing bu :d, had been instantly succeeded by such
a plunge into the water, a* might be imagined
to succeed the f ,11 of a fr agment from am.l her
planet. Then all the bergs n-ar by began to
rock as if agitated by an earthquake. This part
of the pieturo was both grand and frightful.
Many of those masses rose above the sea more
than two hundred feet perpendicularly, and
showed wall-like surfaces of half a league in
length. At the point where the schooners hn p
pened to be just at that moment, the ice-islands
were not so large, but quite as high, and cause- I
quently wore more easily agitated. While the
whole panorama was bowing and rocking, pinna- j
cles, arches, wails and all, seeming about to tot- .
ter from their bases, llierc came a wave sweeping
down the passage (hat lifted them high in the
air, some fifty-fe t at least, and bore lliein along
like pieces of cork, fully a hundred yards. Oth
er waves succeeded, though of less height and
force; when, gradually, the water regained its
former and mire natural movement, ;uid sub
sided,”
The hero of the story, Captain Gardner,
of the Sea Lion of Oyster Pond, is as noble
a character as Cooper has ever delineated ;
and Mary Pratt, the niece of the money
loving deacon, is a heroine, of whom any
author might be proud.
These two are one in affection, but reli
gious principle separates them, in this wise :
Captain Gardner is sceptically inclined; and
particularly does he deny the divinity of
Christ, which, to Mary's pure and orthodox
mind, seems a heresy—little short of hea
thenish. In the long and perilous winter
at Sealer's Land, the mind of Captain Gard
ner was deeply impressed with the power
and Providence of God, and his scepticism
was at first shaken, then subdued, nnd with
it passed away liis disbelief in the doctrine
of Christ's divinity. A vein of theology,
nnd, indeed, of practical Christianity, thus
runs through tl.® whole book, and cannot
fail to heighten its interest to the orthodox
reader.
Mr. Cooper is fond of mixing up the prac- j
ticnl with the ideal, and we discover in his
fictions frequent direct and pointed blows
at errors and defects in the social, political, j
moral and religious organizations, which
prevail among the American people. Iu
this way, many valuable lessons may be
conveyed in a form more palatable, perhaps,
than in that of strictly polemical essays —
and this we humbly conceive to be one of
tlie legitimate and noble uses of the novel.
Wemight convict Mr. Cooper of occasion
al negligence of style, if such were our pur
pose.* He frequently speaks of the last
instead of tlie latter of two subjects, and, in
more than one case, disposes his adverbs
with too little regard to elegance. These,
however venial, are faults which Mr. Coop
er ought not, as one of the first among
American authors, to sanction by use.
In conclusion, may he live long to enjoy
the laurels his works have justly won for
him.
Les Confidences. Confidential Disclosures, or
Memoirs of my Youth. Ry A. De Lamartine.
Translated from the French by Engeno Plunk
ett. New York: rf*Appleton & Cos.
We have read these Memoirs with much
interest, but with an ever present feeling
of regret that the author should have felt
compelled to publish the work. Even hia
I prefatory letter, which, perhaps, ought to
] be satisfactory, as an excuse for its publica
; lion, fails to remove entirely this regretful
feeling.
We are better pleased with the work be
fore us than with Raphael. It possesses
more freshness and naturalness. It is a
bona fide Life History, yet Lamartine has
thrown around it all the charm of a poeti
cal fiction. It abounds in passages of un
surpassed beauty. We have marked sever
al of them for future insertion, in another
part of our paper. *.
A Maw Made of Money. By Douglas Jer
rold. Philadelphia: Carey & Hurt.
This, judging from the perusal ol a few
of the opening chapters, is one of the best
of Douglas Jerrold’s inimitable stori s.—
The character of Mr. Jericho, the man made
of money, who is the hero of the story, is ‘
most graphically sketched. Tho illustra
tions, of which are four or five, are
capital. Wo hazard nothing in recommend
iug the work to our readers. *.
(Shneral Intelligent?.
Death of Major Gen. Worth. —The
JC£u> Orleans Picayune of Tuesday says :
“ With inexpressible pain we are called upon
to announce the death of Major Gen. Worth.
The news, so sudden and appalling, reached
town last night by the Portland. General
W. died on the 7th inst., in Texas, of chole
ra.
Great Fire at St. Louis.— A terrible
fire at St. Louis has nearly devastated that
flourishing city. It broke out on Friday,
the 18th instant, and, before it was extin
guished, consumed twenty steamboats, with
their cargoes, besides barges, and laid in
ruins all that portion of the city extending
along the Levee for nearly a mile. The
principal business houses, banks and offices,
are destroyed, and the lose is estimated at
five millions of dollars. In addition to this
dreadful calamity, the cholera is making
terrible ravages among the crowds of emi
grants, and also among the citizens.
Things at N. Orleans. —Several cro
vasses in the Banks of the Mississippi have
occurred, inundating large portions of the
city, and creating great alarm, as the efforts
to stop them have been fruitless. The chol
era is also increasing in the city
Cholera in New York. —The appear
ance of cholera in New York is reported in
the Baltimore Sun. Several deaths had oc
curred. •
Cooledge, the Murderer. —This noto
rious individual committed suicide in the
Penitentiary at Augusta, Maine, by taking
prussic acid.
Sinking of the Empire.— On Thursday,
the 17th inst., at 8 P. M., this magnificent
steamboat was run into by a schooner, op
posite Newburgh, and received so much
damage, that she began immediately to sink,
and had settled to her promenade deck before
her passengers were rescued by the Rip Van
Winkle and the Hudson She sunk so rap
idly, that a number of passengers were sub
merged in her cabins, from which it was
with difficulty that anv made their pjaiar*
: It is stated that twenty bodies have been
recovered from the wreck, and there are
doubtless many more to be found in the cab
ins, when the boat is raised.
Later ikom Chacbes.— The steamer
Crescent City, from Chagres, April 30, ar
rived Saturday morning. Nothing had been
heard of the steamer California, expected at
Panama, when the Crescent City left Cha
gres. There were 2500 Californians at Pa
nama, 1300 of whom were provided witli
conveyance to San Francisco, and other ves- j
sels were daily arriving. The first officer
of the Crescent City was killed by a cannon,
when leaving Chagres. The Crescent City
reports that dates from San Francisco, re
ceived on the Isthmus, were only to the 13th ;
January. There had been no arrivals at j
Panama from Valparaiso, or Callao, since !
the last report. The rainy season had not
commenced. The Cresoent City brings £25,- j
000 in specie from Havana.
Father Matthew. — This groat apostle
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Hast Marble Dead. —This celebrated
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The New York Riot. —The fullest and
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j THE SHAKSPEARE CALENDAR.
Trepared for Richards’ Weekly Gazette.
May 20th—The Spaniards fruitlessly
besieged Gibralter. 1727
“You may as well go about to tarn the sun to
iee by fanning In his face with ape i cock’s feath
er.”
[King Henry V, Act iv, Scene 1.
May 21st—Hippocrates, “ the father of
medicine,” died B. C. 36L
j “By medicine, life may be prolonged; yet Death
Will scire the Doctor, too.”
{ Cymbeline, Act v, Se ‘i.e 5
May 22d—The Battle of Prague, 1757.
The imminent death of t wenty thousand men,
That, for a tanta-y and triek of fame,
, Go to theij graves like bods.”
[Hamlet, Aet ir, Scene 3.
May 23d-—Captain Ross sailed in the
steamer Victory, to continue his search af
ter the North-West Passage, 1823.
“ The stirring passage of the day.”
[Comedy of Errors, Act iii, Scene 1.
May 24th—Victoria was born, 1819.
“ She had all the royal makings of a Queen!”
[Henry VIII, Act iv, Scene I.
May 25th —King John surrendered his
crown to the Pope’s Legate, 1213.
“ Thus have I yielded up into your hand
The eirclo of my glory-”
[King John, Act v, Scene 1.
May 2tith—Prince Loam Napoleon Bona
parte escaped from the fortress of Ham,
, 1846.
“ Therefore, to horse;
And let us not he da : nty of Icure-tiking,
But shift away.*’
[9l-a'beth, Act ii, Scene 3.
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