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course adheres to the lines of the drawing,
because they are oily, but to the wet stone
,t does not stick. The paper is now laid
on, and with the stone passed through the
press ; the result being a beautiful and ex
act copy of whatever is drawn. .
The stone employed for lithograpy is ofl
a peculiar kind of lime and clay nature, re-1
sembling in appearance a smooth yellow]
hone, yet possessing the quality of absorb-]
ing water. It is found chiefly in Bava
ria, though there are quarries of it in Eng
land. The Bavarian stones, however, are
those most universally employed, and their
importation is a considerable object in com
merce. They are worth in NewYotk from
5 to 10 cents per pound.
EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT.
WM 0. RICHARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES, Assistant Editor.
“charleston, S. C.:
Saturday Morning,...April 27,1K50.
FIVIIKVI, IIONOIKK TO < \ 1,1101 X.
The emblems of mourning in which our
journal is arrayed, are but a faint shadow of the
gloom which overspreads this city upon the day
consecrated to the obsequies of Carolina’s great,
departed Senator ! A sad and solemn pageant
lias but now passed before us—the procession
ilia; follows the mortal part of the illusiriuus
dead to its bier of silent but majestic stale,
where the living may gaze sorrowfully, for the
last time, upon the coffin of one whom in life
they honoured and loved, as in death they mourn
and revere!
li\attempting to lay before our readers a brief
account of the obsequies, we are embarrassed
by lhe necessity of preparing it as they take
place, and with a very hasty and imperfect im-l
[iression of their whole effect. Even while wel
write, the sounds of solemn music vise and fall!
in melancholy cadences upon the ear, and the!
suppressed murmurs of a vast concourse of peo-|
pie seem but the audible pulsations of the city's!
stricken heart.
At an early hour this (Thursday) morning.l
the streets were tilled with throngs of citizens!
and strangers. The public buildings and a very!
large proportion of the stores and private dwel-l
lings were hung with the emblems of sorrow.!
All business was suspended, and the measured!
tolling and chanting of the bells presaged sadly!
the events of the day. g
The sky seemed to reflect the gloom of the!
city, for it was veiled in light clouds, which!
gratefully subdued the temperature of the at-l
mosphere, and harmonized well with the spirit!
ol the occasion. ?•
The body of Mr. Calhoun was brought to the
city by the steamer Nina, and arrived at Smith's]
wharf at 11 o’clock, under the escort of the
Senate Committee, the Special Committee oil
twenty-five, and a portion of the General Com
mitiee of Arrangements. At half-past eleven,
the firing of minute guns proclaimed the landing
of the body upon its native soil, ft was there
received by a detachment of three Military
Companies, and under their escort conveyed
upon a splendid hearse, to the Citadel, where
it was surrendered by Mr. Mason, of the Sen
ate, to His Excellency the Governor, who, in
turn, delivered it to the Mayor of die city. Our
time and space forbid us to speak particularly of
the ceremonies and addresses, which occupied
about half an hour. The Grand Procession
was organized by Chief Marshal Magrath, and
at one o’clock it began to move. The follow
ing is the
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Marshal.
Cavalry.
Music.
Detachment of U. 8. Troops from Fort Moultrie. I
Troops of the 4th Brigade.
Marshal.
Sub Committee of Ten. f
Mayor and Aldermen of the City.
The Reverend the Clergy of all Denominations.
Bpecial Guard of Honour.
PALL BKARKRS.
BODY OF >IK. ( VLHOI \.
I
pall bkakern.
special Guard of Honour.
Family of Deceased.
Committee of seven Senators.
Committee of 25.
Committee frorit Pendleton.
’ oni, mttee of Forty, ami such other Committees as ni4y
have arrived in attendance on the bodv.
Marshal.
... „ Music.
Ills Excellency the Governor ami Suite.
Meat, (.overnor. President of Senate, ami Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Foreign Consuls.
lv !*mW Military Officers of the United States.
‘'i! and Military Officers of the State of South Carolina.
’lembers of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers.
• nmvingt Mficersaml Members of the Palmetto Regiment
■■airman and Commissioners of Cross Roads of Charleston
4 , Neck,
oinnuttees &nd Delegates from other portions of the State
and of other States.
Marshal.
Music.
The Fire Department.
Marshal.
p c . „ Music.
rolesßor*and Students of the Colleges of the State ami
•r i City.
♦•achera and Scholars of High School, and of private
Academies and Schools.
Teachers and Scholars of Free Schools.
Instructors and Children of the Orphan House.
Marshal.
Music.
St. Andrew’s Society.
Si. Heorge’s Society.
South Carolina Society.
Charleston Library Society.
The Fellowship Society.
Herman Friendly Society.
The Cincinnati.
The ’7fi Association.
St. Patrick's Benevolent Society.
New Fugland Society.
Charleston Port Society .
Apprentices’ Library Society.
Hibernian Society.
Medical Society.
Hebrew Orphan Society.
Mechanic's Society.
Charleston Marine Society.
Typographical Society.
i bar lest on Cham her of < ’ommerce.
Hebrew Benevolent Society. ’
French Benevolent Society.
South Carolina Mechanic’s Association.
Methodist Benevolent Society.
Bible Society.
Fourth of July Association.
The Irish Mutual Benevolent Society.
Marshal.
Music.
Onier of Ancient Free Masons.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
I >rder of the Sons of Temperance.
Independent Order of Rechabiies.
Marshal.
Music.
Captains of Vessels.
Seamen now in port.
Marshal.
* idzens of this State and the adjoining States.
Marshal.
Citizens on Horseback.
The procession moved in the following order!
from the Citadel Square : Down Boundary to!
King, down King to Hasell, through Hasell lo|
■Meeting-street, down Meeting-street to South
|Bay Battery, along the Buttery to East Bay
[street, up East Bay street to Broad-street, up
[Broad-street to the City Hall.
] The buildings upon the whole line of march
ere hung with appropriate emblems, and at
lintervals banners were suspended across the
Jstreet, inscribed with simple but eloquent words
|°f s<,rrnw - The chief style of drapery was ini
[festoons ot black, intertwined with white, or
fastened with white rosettes. The columns of
the Charleston Hotel were wound with black
scarfs, and the entrance to Meeting-street hung
with heavy black curtains, looped with white
satin cords and tassels. Other buildings were
appropriately shrouded, and the gentle wav
ing in the breeze of the clouds of black dra
pery, shed an almost oppressive sense of gloom
upon the heart. To the sound of sweet but
melancholy music, the long cortege swept on,
while the plumes of the hearse trembled over
their noble but unconscious burden.
ft was 3 o’clock when the Procession com
pleted its progress and arrived before the City
Hall. At the entrance of its two flights of
steps, Funeral Arches were formed by Palmetto
trees, around the trunks of which were twined
scarfs of crape, and with whose green and fan
like leaves the dark emblems of woe were inter
mingled.
The body was conveyed into the Hall—which
had been most elaborately and tastefully de
corated—and placed upon a magnificent bier,
where it lies in state under the charge of an hon
orary guard ot two hundred citizens. To-mor
row it will be consigned, with religious rites, to
a vault in the cemetery of St. Phillips’ Church—
there to await the will of the next Legislature.
A deep solemnity has pervaded the mighty
multitude that has thus done honour to the
memory ot one of the purest patriots and no
blest men that ever lived. It was not an empty
pageantry of assumed grief—it was not a hollow
(omi of ceremony—but a deep tribute from the
hearts of the living to the virtues of the dead !
It was an occasion to justify the most indiffer
ent in exclaiming:
“ I have that within which passeth show*;
These, hut the trappings and the suit of woe. ”
Thus has Carolina received the body of her
son. The outward demonstration ofher mighty
griet has been commenced, and amid succes
sive and accumulative honours, will the ashes of
the patriot he hereafter consigned to their kin
dred dust. |
“ Close np his eyes—and draw tile curtain close.
And let us all to meditation.”
The Past and the Future.
■ At this point of our progress, it is proper
■ for us to look both into the Past and into
■the Future. Though the former cannot be
■recalled or the latter foretold, yet may the
■ retrospect and the anticipation he profitable.
I Two years have now elapsed since this
■Journal was commenced, amid conflicting
■hopes and fears. In the deliberate opinion
■of many judicious friends, our enterprize
■was marked with the unmistakeable signs
lot failure. They could not believe its sue
■cess possible, much less probable. All the
■ past was eloquent with warning. The
■ wrecks of many well-planned adventures
■ were still strewn upon its shores, and the
■mournful requiem which commemorated
■their ill-fate, still burdened the air. Few
■there were who encouraged us to our task,
■and even those with a timidity that be-
Itrayed the infection of the common fear,
lit was, therefore, in despite of public opin
ion that the Gazette was commenced. The
circumstances of its origin were not greatly
calculated to inspire public confidence in
its perpetuity. A strong heart and a wil
ling hand are not the surest guaranties of
success; and yet these were all the securi
ties we had to otter to the public. That the
public accepted them, to a very generous
extent, is cause for our grateful acknowl
edgment. We are proud to look back and
claim for our Journal that its pages have
redeemed its promises. Many times have
we gone to our daily toils with a heavy sky
above us, and a heavier heart within; but
the clouds have certainly lifted and our
■ heart has certainly grown light again. Is
loot this the common history of human en-
Ideavour 1 It is, and it will be to the end.
■When we consider how seldom success at
tends the enterprise of man, and especially
lin those efforts which appeal to the less
[palpable wants of our nature, we may well
[suffer a feeling of apprehension to over-
Iclottd our most hopeful mood. So has it
Ibeen with us for two years past, and we
■ have learned in that period to hope less
[extravagantly, and to labour still more ar
jdently than before. Thus of the past.
Os the future, we have so little to say,
that it may be compressed into a sentence
or two. The resoluteness of our purpose
not to falter in the race we have com
menced, will be more evident in the great
improvements which our new volume will
present, than we can possibly make it by
mere words. We have promised that it
should equal any kindred Journal in the
land in typographical beauty, and we are
content to let our readers compose the jury
and find the verdict. Os its literary merits,
it becomes us only to say that our pride
and ambition would be sadly wounded if
they were not to increase pari passu with]
the extrinsic value of the paper. What-J
ever diligent, patient and untiring endea-1
vour can do to make the Gazette worthy of I
the name it bears, is already pledged for the I
task. Thus for the future. J
There remains to be said one word to
the people of the South. The publishers
of our Journal have resolved to stop the
months of those who have excused their
indifference to the success of Southern Li
terary periodicals, by the poor excuse that
they are always so much inferior and dearer
than kindred works at the North. Hence
forward, this charge cannot be brought, in
honesty, against the Gazelte. Will the
cavillers yield the point and prove their
love of home and section bv aiding us?
We doubt. It is to a larger patriotism than
theirs that we must appeal for prompt and
generous co-operation, and for effort to
multiply thennmberof our patrons. Will
they not help to gild the edges of the cloud
of uncertainty which must inevitably over
shadow our Future?
i!©iaiE)© ! > wusaw ©aiiifia
Letter from California.
Wcgive below a brief extract from a
communication just received from the Gold
Land. We hope, hereafter, to give our
readers frequent letters from the same
source. Our correspondent is a close ob
server, and a cool, dispassionate general
izer, and his statements may be depended
upon as strictly correct. We trust our
friend will excuse the liberty we take with
a private Jetter. *
San Francisco, Feb. 28, 1850.
Dear J . 1 am j n California at
last, safe and sound. We arrived here on the
25th, and found things a little different from
what we had expected. The lumber with
which our ship is freighted is not likely to
find a very ready market at any price. 1
am sorry for this; but though it comes a
little hard now, a few months hence it will
be all the same. When we first came, we
heard nothing but discouraging words. We
hear much now of the same sort, but also
much of a different kind! Our ship will
bring us nothing worth naming; she is too
large. Could we get her uji to Sacramento
City, we could do well in all respects.—
Lumber is low—wages low—and it is not
easy to get work just now, though one
can get five and ten dollars a day quick
enough! But this, you will understand,is
not considered much! A hundred dollars
a month is not looked at with any degree
of satisfaction; it is called low wages.—
Things at wholesale are very reasonable,
hut at retail horribly high; so that you can
get but little for what you have to sell, but
have to pay enormously for what you wish
to buy. This is the consequence of high
rent and high wages. All this you know
already. There is money here in any
quantity. Yon cannot go into a shop or
tent without seeing gold in large lots.
Gods! what an amount of it! It is as
plenty as mud in Ohio, but not quite so
“sticky in its attachments.” It does not
hang on so long; and you would think so
if you could go into one of the gambling]
houses and see it pass by hundreds from]
hand to hand. They shower it down on|
their tables just as though it did not cost]
anything. I saw one man gain four oil
five hundred dollars in less than twenty]
minutes. But this is nothing—they make]
and loose it by thousands! r
You would be pleased to see how wel
look getting our letters. There are two!
lines formed, one whose first initial letters.!
range from A to K, the other from K to Z.J
You have to take your place and wait yout I
time, which is often from two to five hours!!
before you can get a chance to ask foil
a letter, which you may or may not get.!
[They are very slow and careless. If youl
Itakeout a letter belonging to somebody eise|
and pay for it, you cannot get your money]
back. - *
I think the prospect is good. lam well
satisfied. I shall do as well, I think, as I
expected. It is going to be hard for some,
hut for me,-not very. I have been through
too much already, when the mind and body
both were put upon the rack, to fear any
thing California can present, especially if
she gives me $lO a day! 1 am, you know,
one of the hopeful ones, and cannot be
discouraged any way you fix it.
Thousands are daily leaving for the
mines, but it seems quite early enough.
The streams are yet high, and here it is
quite cold ; still the hills are green with
their spring dress, and they are covered
with cattle. This looks mildly beautiful,
and is refreshing to one who has for fivel
months been riding over the salt waves ot
the Atlantic and Pacificseas. O, ’tissweetly]
calm here! How different from the inces
sant motion of the ocean—not a moment
still—its great heart throbing eternally.
J. McC.
our 3300 k Cable.
Diary of a Physician in California ; by James
L. Payson, M. 1). New York: D. Appleton
& Cos.
We add another work to our California
Library. It claims to be the record of
actual experience in journeyings by land
voyages by water, with observations on the
climate, soil and resources of the country.
It is a modest, unpretending book, contains
a gooil deal of pleasant reading, and adds
something to our stock of information in
regard to El Dorado of the West.
The Fathers of New England; an Oration
delivered before the New England Society ofj
New York, December, 1819; by Horace Bush-1
nail. j
This is a well written and eloquent tri-|
bate to the Fathers of New England, ft]
gives them credit for their virtues and thej
greatness of their mission, while it is not[
blind to their errors and failings. S
He tort of the Regents of the Lunatic Asylum to!
the Legislature of Mouth Carolina, November,!
1849. Columbia, 8. C. 1850.
This Report gives a very 7 favorable ac
count of the condition and prospects of this
truly philanthropic and valuable institu
tion. During the year ending November
sth, 1849, 49 patients were received, 23
cured, 21 removed, 11 have died, and there
now remain 108.
PIIRE.NOLOGV AND THE SCRIPTURES ; by Johnl
Pierpout. New York : Fowlers & Wells. I
This is a Lecture delivered before thel
American Phrenological Society in Newl
Vork, and aims to reconcile the Science of
Phrenology with the teachings of the Bi
ble, or rather to show that there exists per
fect harmony between the two. It bears
the stamp of its author’s vigorous intellect,
and will be read with pleasure by those
interested in the subject of Phrenology.
Princihi.es of the Human Mind, deduced from
Physical Laws, with a Lecture on Fllectro-Bi
ology; by Alfred Snee, F\ It. S. New York:
Fowlers & Wells.
Electro-Biology literally means, the rela
tions of Electricity to the vital functions,
and the object of this little book seems to
be to prove that man is simply a voltaic!
battery!! |
Navai, Gi nnery ; a Concise Treatise on its
1 henry and Practice ; t>y William N. Jeffers,
Jr.; one volume, Bvo. New York: I). Apple
ton & Cos. !
It will not be saying too much for Mr.
Jeffers’ treatise to pronounce it the most
comprehensive and complete of its kind
ever embraced in the same compass. It
contains the Theory and Practice of Gun
nery, based upon the celebrated system of
Thiroux, the text of which has been made
thcjiucleus of researches throughout the
whole range of authorities in the science of
Gunnery. The author proposes to follow
this volume with twoothers, should it meet
with sufficient favour.
Night and Morning, a Novel, by Sir E. 4.. Bul
wer Eytton. New York: Harper & Brothers.
This is a cheap edition of one of Bul
wer's best works, too well known to most
ot our readers to require us to say anything
in its favour.
Shakspeark’s Dramatic Works. The Boston
Illustrated edition, No 14. Boston: Phillips,
Sampson & Cos.
This superb edition progresses with great
regulatity and equal beauty. The present
number contains The Winter’s Tale, and
is embellished with a most charming por
trait of Perdita. When it is remembered
that the purchaser of this edition obtains a
complete Play, splendidly illustrated, for
twenty-five cents, certainly no persuasion
will be required to induce all to procure it.
Syllabus of a complete Course of Lectures on
Chemistry, inclsding its application to the
! Arts, Agriculture and Mining. By Professor 1
E. Solly. Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird.
Anew edition of this work, thoroughly
revised by the author, will be quite an ac
ceptable contribution to the Literature of
the Physical Sciences. It has peculiar ex
cellencies, readily appreciated by the Chem
ist and by the diligent student in that ever
expanding Science.
our oossip Column.
|A\ Eastern Provebb.
i “Tell me who thy companions are, and
I will tell thee what thou art.” This beau
tiful oriental proverb finds its counterpart
in our less poetical adage, “A man is
known by the company he keeps.” TheJ
following beautiful lines—by whom writ-1
ten we do not know—seem to have been|
intended as an illustration of this proverb :|
THE CLOD AND THE FLOWERS.
An eastern sage, wandering through myrtle bow-|
i era I
One sunny day, r
Pick’d up amongst the perfumed flowers, -
A lump of clay. ’
He ask and, “ What flower art thou I what canstl
thou be, §
With scent so rare 1 f
full of perfume thou seem’st to me, |
As flowerets fair.” it
[lt said, “ No scented flower am I,
| With perfume fraught;
[But being witli roses living by.
Their scent I’ve caught.”
Epigrams.
Dr. Johnson defines an epigram as “a
short poem terminating in a point.” The
word is derived from the Greek and prima
rily signified to inscribe or write upon.
Here are two or three, which, if they are
not new, are good.
This is an anonymous one, addressed to
a bombastic braggart, and will apply to
others of the same class:
|“ How kind has nature unto Boastful been,
I Who gave him dreadful looks and dauntless mien;
[Gave tongue to swagger, eyes to strike dismay,
lAnd kinder still, gave legs, to run away.”
Here is another, addressed to a similar
subject. It is brief and pithy:
“ No wonder ho is vain of coat and ring,
Vain us himself, he may of anything.”
One whose self-esteem supplies his lack
of sense and renders the esteem of others
superfluous, is thus sarcastically hit oil':
“lie puffs himself. Forbear to chide,
An insect vile and mean, ■
Must, well lie knows, be magnified, ?
Before it can be seen.” ?
iXctl) illcuco.
By the arrival at St. Lout's, of a gentle
man from New Mexico, dates have been
received from Los Vegas to the 6th of
March.
Father depredations in that country still
continue. The Americans are living in
constant dread and fear, ami the savages
are daily becoming more daring. j
The writer says, a runner sent by a par
ity of buffalo hunters, arrived at Los Vegas,
a few days before he left. The hunters
had encountered abody of Apache Indians,
and an engagement ensued between them.l
Two of the hunters were killed and three
or four badly wounded. The Indians car
ried off'all their animals, and at the time of]
the runner's departure nearly all the arn-|
munition of the hunters was exhausted. |
The commander at this place was called
Ito order out a company of military to pro
ject the hunters, and render them necessary
■assistance.
The Apaches, satisfied with their booty,
■ had retreated.
I A few days since three Mexicans were
[killed by the Indians at Vernal Springs on
■ the road from Los Vegas to Santa Fe.
• Great complaints are made that sufficient
■ precaution is not observed by Colonel
Monroe in granting licenses to traders—
many having been in the habit of selling
arms and ammunition to the hostile Indians.
Notices to Correspondents.
“Solitude,” “To Lucinda,” “Pulaski,”!
“ I’m Sad To-Day,” “Spring,” and “To the!
Young,” are respectfully declined.
N. T. P. Your article on the Bible isl
not written with sufficient care. We havel
no time to rewrite communications. Try!
again.
J. L. B. Be patient.
Lacy. Your story has been received. I
Several articles are under consideration.!
General intelligence.
| J. M. Barrett. The Spartan denies most
[positively that the health ol tins individu
al was injured by imprisonment, as is fabe
|ly alleged, and asserts that “as he stalked
[forth from the comfortable lodgings with
[which he had been furnished, he looked
[much better every way, when he came out
[of prison than when he went in.” It also
[declares the opinion that the rumorof Bar
[rett's death is unfounded, and that it has
[been propagated for the purpose of evading
[the payment of the bond for one thousand
dollars given for his appearance.
The Tennessee River. There*are now
nine steamboats plying on the Tennessee
River above the Muscle Shoals, and it is
expected that the number will be increased
to sixteen or eighteen.
A Monument to the Texan Heroes. The
bones of the decimated Meir prisoners, of
the heroes who tell at Goliad, Alamo, Sa
lado, and on the thrice gloriousfield of San
Jacinto, are to he gathered into a common
tomb on the banks of the Colorado, where
a lofty monument is to he erected above
them.
El Dtario, of Havana, states that the
owners of the Spanish steamship Gauclal
quiver, which runs on the Cuban coast,
have contracted for the construction, in the
■United States, of another larger vessel to
|i un in connection with the G. The Gau-
Idalquiver is the private property of young
|< iueen Isabel, of Spain and she derives a
■ handsome income therefrom ; so profitable
■that it appears she has concluded to build
■another. The Gaudalquiver is an iron
■steamer, built to the order ofQueen Isabel,
■in England.
The Falls of St. Anthony. Within the
last ten months, quite a town has grown
up at the Falls, consisting of 100 houses
and 600 inhabitants, with extensive saw
mills and a lathe machine—several good
schools, and an agricultural society : and
they are now erecting a large hotel, and
constructing a steamboat to ply above the
{Falls, both of which will soon be completed.
Mount 1 esuvius. The most splendid
{eruption witnessed for many years, occur
red on the 12th ultimo"! The. lava has al
ready destroyed the beautiful seat of Etta
jano. Many lives have been lost. The
inhabitants have fled to places of safety. I
Cotton grown in Spain. ’The editor of|
a Barcelonia paper says he has had an op-|
portunity of seeing some samples of cotton I
which was cultivated on the banks of the|
Gaudalquiver,the superior quality of which]
can compete with the best that is imported]
from the American continent. He recoin-l
mends that the cultivation of this most use
ful plant he extended to every part of the
peninsular of Spain, the soil and tempera
ture of which he says, are calculated to
give rich results. The editor flatters him
self that an intelligent speech lately made
by Don Felix Rivas before the agricultural
society at Madrid, may produce the effect
of extending the cultivation of cotton.
I The steamer Wilson G. Hunt, Capt.
[Small, hence from California, put intoßer
linuda on the 11th lilt., in a most deplora-
Ible condition, Raking, foremast gone and
Iher upper works nearly torn to pieces,
I having narrowly escaped foumiering at
I sea, during a violent gale of wind, on the
|7th ult.
Eleven Camels were imported into
[Baltimore last week from the Canai)
[lslands. They are intended for the Far
| West, to test whether they can be raised
[and acclimated.
Counterfeit half eagles are in cir-
Iculalion in various parts of the country.—
A large number have made their appear
ance in Richmond, Ya. The Editor of the
Richmond Timex was shown a $5 gold
piece purporting to be of the emission of
1843, so admirably executed as to mislead
even the most wary. It was defective in
weight, however,
tey"’ The Louisiana Statesman says that
an insect so small as to require microsco
pic eyes to detect, is destroying the orange
trees in that vicinity, and on the sea coast.
I Suspicious Circumstance. We are in-
Idebted, says the Mercury of the 23d inst.,
Ito Capt. Mygat, of the smack Majestic, for
[the following:
| Capt. Mygat sailed from Tybee on Sat-
Inrday morning; about 11 a. m. made a
[schooner off St. Helena Light Boat, with a
[British flag at half mast; run down for her,
[and found her to be deep, painted black
[with painted ports, black mastheads, and
[topmasts very long ; had on her stern Ade
laide, of Baltimore. Her officers and crew
|as far as could be seen, consisted of one
[white man and six negroes, the latter all
[on the quarter deck. The former hailed in
| had English,and wished to know if they were
[near Cape Hattcras. On being informed of
[their position, they stood in for the land a
short time, and then put about and follow
ed the smack nearly to Stono, when they
hauled off Southeast. They worked the
vessel badly, and did not appear to know
the coast, or understand navigation.
Ittsy"Lieut. Col. John McLellan, of the
Topographical Corps of Engineers, has re
ceived orders to take charge of the expe
dition for running the Mexican Boundary
Line. The party will consist of forty ci
vilians with two mounted companies of
soldiers. They will leave on the 15th of
.May next for El Paso, where the survey
commences. ’■
| Handsome Present. Prior to his. depar
ture for the West. Gov. Ujhazy and family
called upon Mile. Jagello, at the Irving
House. Before he left, the guests of Mr.
Howard made up a purse of $325, and preJ
it to him as a parting token of their regard.
— N. Y. Tribune.
A company of New York Model
Artists attempted to give one of their inde
cent exhibitions at Baltimore, lately, but
they were set upon by the police, arrested
and sent to jail.
Loss of the ship Champlain. We find the
following in the Savannah papers :
Consulate of the United States,
Havana, April 10, 1850.
Sir: The ship Champlain, of Philadel
phia, 624 tons, R. R. Decan, Master, on
her passage from New York to New Or
leans, sprang a leak near the Isaacs, on the
3d instant. It is supposed that she struck
a wreck, as there were seven fathoms on
each side, and in a short time went down.
The master and crew represent that there
was no opportunity of even saving their
clothes. The crew arrived in this port yes
terday, on board the bark Crusoe.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Robert B. Campbell.
To the Collector of the Port of Savannah.
Severe Hail Storm. The Western Texan
says : “We were visited on the evening of
Tuesday the 27th inst., by one of the se
verest hail storms that has visited this sec
tion of country for years past. About sun
set, the sky was suddenly overcast with
clouds, and in half an hour the hailstones,
as large as hen’s eggs, were pouring down
with a rush. The storm lasted about half
an hour.”
Lute Snow. The Richmond Enquirer ol
■Thursday says: “It snowed for several
hours yesterday, 17th instant. On Sunday
iast we examined several fruit trees, and
found that there was much fruit still un
touched by the cold—we cannot say what
will be the effect of the cold weather since.”
The Cane Crop. The Franklin La. Ban
ner of the 21st inst. says :
“ We notice in many places in the par
ish that cane is in fine condition. The
planters have succeeded generally in get
ting a much better stand than they expect
ed last winter when the seed was being in
jured by the worm. The injury done to
the seed has not been extensive enough to
do serious injury to the coming crop.wl.ich
has been an agreeable disappointment to
the planters.”
Windfall. An American lieutenant ir.
the navy, well known in New York, has
lately, by the death of an aunt of his in
England, become the heir of property worth
£15,000.
A Patriot gone. Israel Hunt, Esq., who
shared in the terrible conflict on Bunker’s
Hill, and in other stirring events of the Rev
olution, died at his residence in Nashua,
N. H., on the 2d inst., at the ripe old age
of ninety-six years and six months. He
was buried with military honors.
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, The present series of the Gazette is com
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The third volume of the Southern
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Prepared for Richards’ Weekly Gazette.
Amir. 21st.—Abelard died. 1142.
“ Love is your master, for he masters you :
And he that is yoked by a fool
Should not, methinka, be chronicled for wise.”
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i., .Scene 1.
April 22d. —Peace of Aix la Chapelle.
1848.
“This peace is nothing but to rust iron, increase
tailors, and breed ballad makers.”
Coriolam s, Act iv., Scene 5.
April 23d. —Shakspeare died in Eng
land, and Cervantes in Spain. 1816.
“O, insupportable! Ob. heavy hour!
Methinks it should now be a huge eclipse
Os sun and moon, and that the affrighted glube|
.Should yawn at alteration.”
Othello, Act v., Scene 2. [
April 24th.—Torquato Tasso died.]
1595. \
“ His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life]
Began to crack ” ‘
! King Lear, Act v., Scene 3.
April 25th. —Cromwell born. 1599.
“I shall desire to see what this child does.”
Henry VIII., Act v., Scene 4
Apßii.26th. —Daniel De Foe died. 1731.
“ A fellow of most excellent fancy.”
Hamlet, Act v., Sceno 1.
April 27th.—Sir William Jones, the
Orientalist, died. 1794.
“Is this the man! Is ’t you, sir, that know
things V’
| Anthony ani> Cleopatra, Act i., Scene 2.
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