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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES GARDN ER, JR.
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[From the N. O. Picayune, Dec. J.]
LATEST FROM THE ARMY.
Monclova and Chihuahua Taken.—
Expedition against Victoria—March
of the American Forces upon Sal
tillo.
The steamship McKim, J. B. Peck,
master, anived last evening from die
Brazos, which place she left on the 24th
inst. The McKim brought the mail and
a large number of passengers. Amongst
ttie lajter are Majors McLean and Gra
ham, bearers of despatches from Gen.
Taylor, and Capt. G. T. M. Davis, bear,
er of despatches from Gen. Wool. On
the 19di inst. it blew a gale off the Bar
zos. The schooner William Bryan and
barque Robert Morris were caught in it.
The former stove her bulwarks and lost
her deck load of mules and small boats.
The Robert Morris also threw overboard
a part of her deck load of mules. Sever
a) schooners dragged their anchors off
the bar and put to sea; they had not re
turned when lire McKim left. The
schooner John Wainwright, of New York,
was lost with all her cargo in the Bra
«os. The McKim experienced very
heavy weather on her return voyage and
lost overboard Chas. Muller, of Baltimore
of the Texas Rangers, and —Churchill,
oneofCapl. May’s U. S. Dragoons. It
blowing a gale at the same lime, and it
being dark and rainy, no assistance what
ever could be given them—they both
perished.
On the 21st inst. seven companies of
artillery, in all 674 men, were despatched
from the Biazos with a good supply ot
ordnance and ordnance stores, in the
Kteatbers Neptune and Sea, to Tampico.
•'These troops,” says our correspondent, |
"are intended to relieve the navy which |
took and still holds possession of that
place. This will give those gallant fel
lows an opportunity, which they much ;
desire, to go further and conquer more
They have not yet halftold their tale.”— |
The entire force sent over to Tampico 1
was under Col. Gates of the artillery, |
who, we presume, will take command of
that port.
\Ve have been furnished with the fol
lowing narrative of the proceedings of !
Gen. Wool. Our last advices informed
ns that Gen. Taylor had sent a message to j
Gen. Wool requesting him to despatch a i
portion of the forces under him to Mon
clova, and that before the message reach
ed the General, he had determined to
7 i
march upon that point with his whole com
mand.
“Capt. G. T. M. Davis (aid to Gen.
Shields) reports that Gen. Wool took
peaceable possession of Monclova on the I
HOth October. The Governor and a nurn
her of the principal citizens formed an es
corl and met Gen. Wool about four miles
from the city and welcomed him as a
friend. Oneofthe best houses in the place
was offered to him for hi* head quarters
which offer was accepted. Gen Wool’s ;
army, numbering 26(10 men, was in ex- ;
cellent health and spirits. The country
through which it passed is described as
abounding in wheat, corn, beef, mutton,
and every necessary means of suhsis.
thrice* which could he had at reasonable
prices. Capt. Davis reports that corn is
raised in quantities and of a quality sur
passing any thing he had before seen, and
that the climate is delightful and the
country generally very beautiful, fertile
cii.d watered with numerous streams. —
Gen. Wool marched Horn the Presidio
del Rio Grande to Monclova. a distance of
two hundred and four miles, in eleven
marching days. He took along with him
forty day s provisions for his columns, ;
and another train with an equal amount,
was a few days in Ids rear. Theve were
the last supplies lie expected to receive
from Port Lavacca, as he designed open
ing communications with Gen. Taylor
for receiving future supplies.”
News was received at Monclova on
tlie 2d inst., that Col. Doniphan, of the
Missouri volunteers, who had been de- .
fached by Gen. Kearny, at Santa Fe, for
the duty, had taken the city of Chihuahua
with 700 men. He entered the place
without impediment—the town having
surrendering without a gun being fired,
as we always said would be the case.
Col. Riley, of tlie 3d Infantry, lias been
ordered to march with the whole ot his
regiment upon Victoria de Tamaulipas.
He had left upon that service when our
informant left Carnargo.
Upon the arrival of despatches from
the United Slates Government ordering
an end to Ite put to the armistice, Gen.
Taylor despatched Ma jor Graham to Sal
tillo to confer with the Mexican camp and
inform them that each party was at liber
ly to act as it might think fit. Not an o(fi.
cer nor a sob i r was to he seen at Sal
tillo. Maj. Graham had an interview
with the Governor and in termed him that
the armistice was at an end, and request
ed him to despatch the intelligence to the
Mexican Commander-in-chief at San Luis
Potosi. The G overnor desired Major
Graham to proceed to San Luis and do
liver lii« message; but that officer’s in- !
st ructions being peremptory he returned
to Monterey. When Maj. Graham left
Monterey on the I6tli inst., Gen. Worth
was under orders to move against Saltil- |
) » lie "as to have left the next day.—
Gen Taylor intended to accompany him
wiih* the 2d Regiment Dragoons, but
! Would return again to Monterey, leaving
Gen. Worth there. No resistance was
anticipated from the enemy.
Our letters continue to speak of Santa
Anna’s preparations at San Luis Potosi.
I It was reported that he had collected 30,-
I 000 men; but this Was considered by
| many an exaggeration. Gen. Worth’s
! division yel occupied the city of Monterey,
but was about leaving for Saltillo. Gen.
t “
Twigg’s and Butler’* Commands were
in camp outside the town. We insert a
letter from one of our correspondents,
which contains valuable information:
Camargo, Nv. 7, 1846.
Gentlemen —Military enthusiasm ran high
yesterday morning, in consequence of a ru
mor that the President had authorized a
movement from the army here towards Tam
pico, but ’ere nightfall the fire had dampen
ed down in consequence of our learning that
some of our people had “come down in ships”
and performed that important operations. I
think there is no danger of a collapse, as we
can yet work off steam to advantage on the
expected march of Gen. Taylor on Saltillo;
the President having vetoed the armistice
and given Gen, T. authority to go ahead,
it is supposed we will without delay march
on Saltillo.
A rumor (which I do not vouch for, but
which is not only possible but probable) says
that another revolution has broken out in
Mexico. The Santa Anna parly declared
him Dictator—on/f-Santa Anna (headed by
Valencia) demurred, turned their arms
against the Dictator, and drove him and his
party from San Luis Potosi; and that I fie
Dictator was falling back in the direction of
the city of Mexico. This was a very natu
ral route for him to take, were he driven
from his lines at San Luis, considering the
position of affairs in this section.
The people here are talking strong of Ter
ritorial Government, and I think they are j
more serious about it since Gen. Kearny’s ;
proclamation has been known among them. !
I cannot see the (east objection to the course )
Gen K. has pursued, and the good sense of j
the American people will sustain him.— |
Closet politicians know nothing of these i
people. Confidence and sympathy are thrown I
away upon them. Not an Indian chief who '
roams at large through his boundless plains |
and hills—without example to guide him, j
without laws to make him honest—that is
not more sincere, in whom more confidence i
can he placed, than in Santa Anna, Ampu- !
dia or Mejia. And our Government will see,
from the material she has got to work upon, |
that she must-change her conciliatory policy i
for one more rigid, more conciliatory. Things i
have changed since we came here, or else at j
th it time were hut little understood. The
people are not ready to fly into the arms of i
our Government at ttie fire of ihe first gnn, but 1
the reverse. The military aspirants are pre- j
vented by their people from making a peace j
with the United States. I do not believe
there is a single pulsation of their hearts,
unless from interest or fear, which is with us;
nor can any man whose views or opinions i
are favorable tn ns, raise to power or retain i
it long without a revolution. Why, then, \
sprinkle “pearls before swine.”
The steamer Major Brown, which went up j
the Rio Grande on an exploring expedition, ;
has arrived at Loredo. from which Lieut. I
Tiiden, 2d Infantry, in charge of the expe- :
dition, makes report. He reports favorably 1
generally of the depth of water for boats i
drawing four or five feet; but the channel, I
in many places, crooked, in others filled with j
limestone rocks which “slick right straight
up,” (easily removed.) and frequent rapids
—all of which the Brown passed over and
arrived safe at Loredo. Yours, &c., F.
The McKim left at Brazos the U. S. brig ;
Somers and schooner Arispe, loading for
Tampico. They would soon leave with one
of her company of regulars, provisions and
munitions of war. Off Brazos Santiago dis
rharging, were the ships John Holland and
Atlantic, bark Robert Morris,brigs Architect, ;
Union and Millandon, and schooners Wil
liam Bryan and Elizabeth. The iron steam- >
er De Russet had also arrived.
The following passengers came in the
McKim ;
Majs. McLean and Graham, bearers of
despatches from Gen Taylor; Capt. G. T. M.
Davis, bearer of despatches from Gen. Wool; j
Maj. Carnes, U. S. A.; Col. McCook, U. IS,
A.; Col. Cazenan, U. S. A.; Capt, J, M. j
Scott, U. S. A.; Capfs. Hughes, Mason, !
Kell, Lillard, Tod, Porter, Kemp, of schoon- |
er J. Wainwright, J. McMann, Rodgers, ;
Breath, of steamboat Rainsville, Davis, Bell,
Bell, and Templeton, Lieuts. Cable, R. G. j
Mitchell, and VV. H. Niles; H. G. Hearth,
A. J. Hedrick, F. C. Humphreys. Hamilton,
VV. H. Saunders, P A. Jones, Chas. Uhde, |
Kennedy, Sherman, O’Reilly, O. Verger, J.
Dale, and 150 discharged and sick volun
teers.
The Matamoros Flag, announces that
on the 11th inst. the Tennessee cavalry,
numbering near 900 men and horses, un
der command of Col. Thomas, marched
through the streets of Matamoros from
their encampment on the river to a new
encampment four or five miles south of
that place on the San Fernando road.—
Capt. Hay nes’s company had been tem
porarily detached from the regiment and
placed in quarters on the upper plaza of
the town.
The Flag informs us that Gen. Taylor
has been compelled to throw into prison a
priest detected in preaching desertion to
the American troops. The Flag has lit
lie mercy on him.
We take from the “Flag” the following
account of a smuggling fraud attempted
rn t ie Rio Grande.
“We are gratified to learn that from
information given in our last, an extensive
fraud on the revenue of our Government
has been detected. It has been ascertained
that the freight landed from the steamer
Enterprise was consigned to Mr. Uhde,
the Prussian Consul at this place, and
was brought fiom Havana in the Star, an
American schooner, which obtained a
permit from the collector at the Brazos to
land i lie goods on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande free of duty. A portion of the
goods were accordingly sent up here, and
the steamer had returned for the bal
ance, when it was discovered that there
was an irregularity in the transaction.
Lieut. Chase, the quartermaster at this
place, with his usual promptness and in
dependence. succeeded In ferreting out
‘ the matter and all the goods that have
I been found arc strictly guarded and under
t seal until the arrival of Mr. G. S. Cook,
s the collector at Rrazos. when a more
I thorough investigation will he made. The
i | cargo is valued at $200,000.”
LATEST FROM GEN. KEARNY.
f By the way of iSt. Louis vve have later
? Intelligence from Santa Fe and Gen.
f Kearny’s expedition to California. Capt.
, Fitzpatrick arrived at St. Louis on the
> 1 15th inst., with important despatches
[ from the Pacific. He furnished the fol
, j lowing infomation to the St. Louis Union.
We have slightly abbreviated his report,
a portion of the intelligence from the
i j Pacific having been anticipated:
When Gen. Kearny was about 175
: milessoutbof Santa Fe,on the RioGrande.
j near the place whence he would take a
| Western direction for California, he met
a company of' sixteen persons, who had
been sent forward hv Com. Stockton with
despatches for the Government, al-o for
Gen. K. From them it was learned that
the American flag was flying over every
town in Upper and Lower California.
The Mexican Governor and forces had
been driven out, arid were pursued as far
as the brad of the Gulf ofCalifornia. They
succeeded in escaj mg across the Colo
rado.
The route to California which Gen.
K. lias selected is very difficult. The
distance to the nearest California settle
ment is 650 miles. There is great scar
city of water and forage on the road. The
company that brought in the despatches,
was on the road thiity-orte days. It look
with it fiftv mules, in good condition for
the trip, hut all save eighteen had hern
i lost, from scarcity of w ater and grass. In i
! consequence ol the information brought 1
I to Gen. Kearny, he ordered hack to Santa
1 Fe all of the dragoons except one hundred, I
j and availing himself of the services of ihe ;
I company that had just traversed the route, j
| he gave to Capt. Fi'zpafrick the Gov |
j eminent despatches, with directions to
: proceed to Washington without delay,
i Capts. Turner, Johnson and Moore, i
Lieuts. Hammand and Love, Lieut. Emo- |
: ry, of the Topographical Corps. Maj. j
; Swords, Quartermaster, and Dr. Griffin, i
Surgeon, accompany Gen. K. toCaliforn- |
ia.
Capt. Fitzpatrick slopped at Santa Fe !
only one day. The troops there were in
I good health. Although some apprehen.
I sions had been fell about provisions, Capt
i F. says there will he an ample supply, as
i lie met provision trains along the entire
| route. All of the volunteers, except the
detachments under Maj. Gilpin, near
I Taos, and that under Lieut. Col. Jackson,
we rental ioned at Sarna Fe. There is a
general look of discipline, and confusion
| has prevailed ever since (lon. K. left,
i Lieut.C »1. Jackson had met the Navajoes '
' and Apaches, but they refused to make
| a treaty. Me sent back to Santa Fe for
sufficient reinforcements to enable him to
make a vigorous campaign against those,
hostile tribes. No news had been re- !
drived from Chihuahua. Col. Doniphan .
j was to proceed to that place to join Gen. J
Wool. Col. Price was to leave Santa Fe |
on the 171 hos October for California.
He would lake with him only 150 men.
and select a different route from that
taken by Gen. Kearney. Capt Hudson
had been ordered to disband the California
Rangers, and resume the command of his
former company. Tim Mormons were
j to leave Santa Fe on the 17th, under com
; maud of Col. Cooke, and would follow i
Gen. K. by the southern route. There
were more troops at Santa Fe than were |
needed, and some difficulty was experi- I
enced in disposing of them for the w inter, i
On his wav in, Capt. Fitzpatrick met
Col. Thompson, on the C rnarone, 300 j
miles from Santa Fe. He had recovered
I most of Ids horses, and would proceed on
! his route without delay. His horses had j
• not been stolen, as previously reported, j
! hut lost in a stampede. The gras* along
the Santa Fe trace had been enti'ely con- |
1 sumed; hut there had been an immense ;
j loss ofcattieon the route.
The new government had hardly com
| rncnced operations when Capt. F. left, on |
the 14th. The inhabitants were said to |
he distant and reserved, evincing less
! friendship than was anticipated.
A man with an amazing pair of feet
s appeared in the bar room of an ambitions
village inn, late one evening the ownerof
! n 7 ' ~
which inquired anxiously for the hoot
black. The bell rang nervously, and. ;
in a moment a keen Yankee illustrator of
; ‘Day and Martin’s best’ popped into the |
room.’ “Bring me a jack!’ exclaimed
the man of great ‘understanding.’ The j
waiter involuntary started forward, hut
chancing to catch a glimpse of the hoots,
he stopped short, and after another and
closer examination said, with equal twang ;
and emphasis: ’ I say yeou, you aint a
goin to leave this wor d in a hurry; you've
got 100 good a hold onto the ground, j
Want a boot jack, eh? Why, bless your
soul, there aint a boot jack on airth big |
I enuff for them boots! 1, don’t h’lieve that j
a jack-ass could get them off.’—My stars! j
man! cried our man of the big feel, what’ll
I do? I can’t gel my boots off without a
jack?’ ‘I tell yon what I should do,’ re
plied Boots,’‘if they was mine; I should
j walk back to the fork of the road, and pull
! em there! Thai would fetch 'em 1 gnese!’
—[Knickerbocker.
; Ben. McCulloch.— The Galveston News
| of the I7ih Nov. after mentioning the ar
rival of Capt. Ben. McCulloch in that
j city, pays him the following compliment,
i every word of it, says the Picayune, to
our certain knowledge, being strictly
j merited. The News says;
“Os th is officer it may perhaps he said,
i with more truth than of any other, that
he has actually grnirn vp amidst the fron
tier troubles of the West, until Indian and
: ' Mexican fighting has constituted the chief
• 1 business of his life. A bare enumeration
j of the various expeditions in which he
has either been a leader or bore a part,
i would present him in a conspicuous light
I in the history of Texas. His faithful
services are 100 prominent in the various
I vicissitudes of the West to he soon for
gotten, and the citizens of Galveston will
; welcome him as our country’s benefactor.
In the future prosecution of this war,
i General Taylor will find his experience,
his knowledge of tlie country, and bis
prudence as a commander, of the greatest
I service to him, if not indispensable.”
[From the Baltimore Bun, Nov. 33. J
LOSS OF THE STEAMER ATLANTIC.
FORTY LIVES LOST.
A brief account of this accident on the
Sound, on Thursday evening last, was
| received in this city, on Saturday after
noon, but through some accident of the
telegraphic account, the names of the
saved were understood to be those of the
lost. Mr. Marsh, of Haverhill, Mass.,
has furnished the following account of the
catastrophe :
The passengers left Boston at half past
five o’clock on Wednesday afternoon.—
They proceeded over the Worcester and
Norwich roads, and reached Allyn’s
j Point at half past eleven on that night,—
There they went on board the Adamic.
She left for New York between 12 and 1
o’clock on Thursday morning.
There were between seventy and eigh
ty persons on board in all, including pas
sengers. officers, crew and servants.
The Atlantic got well under wav, and
was running along finely, when the steam
I chest exploded, and almost at the same
I moment the wind shifted from Ihe north
; we*t, and blew almost a perfect hurri
j cane. j
The steamer was thrown into the midst ;
of darkness and confusion, and the air I
j resounded with the cries of the scalded, j
; It was a frightful scene to behold. Capt. ;
; Dnstan instantly called all hands to the j
j fore deck, and ordered them to heave over
| ihe anchors, but it was found almost im- i
I possible for a man to stand on deck, in
| consequence of the violence of tlie gale, ;
the sea continually making a hreachover
her bows. Owing to this, it took nearly
an hour to get out the three anchors.
The steamer worked heavily* plung
ing her hows at every lurch, and draging
her anchors. Between the time of ah
choring and daylight, it is thought that
she dragged about 11 miles.
The fires were all put out at daylight
on Thursday, and from that time to the
period of going ashore, the passengers
and crew suffered from I lie intense cold.
The only means of keeping warm was to
wrap themselves in blankets, and walk
briskly around the steamer.
All, at this lime, began to look to their
own personal safety. All pul on the life
preservers that the ship was so plentiful y
supplied with, and prepared themselves
for anv emergency. 'The doors, shut- i
ters, settee*. &c., were detached and cut i
away, for rafts to drift ashore upon, when- j
ever she should si rike.
The gale increasing in vio’ence. Capt. 1
Dnstan, who preserved his self possession
throughout the perilous tirnp, ordered I
about forty tons of coal to he thrown
overboard, in order to lighten the vessel.
About noon on Thursday, the smoke- \
pipes, which were large ami heavy, were
ordered to he thrown overboard. This I
was done, the captain assisting, and the |
steamer was eased for a short time.— |
There was less offered to the force of the I
wind.
The steamer continued to drift, how.
ever, and everything looked terrible and
7 • O
hopeles-:
The danger increased so rapidly that
between two and three o’clock Captain
Dnstan ordered the decks to be cleared of
all merchandise, of every thing that was
in the wav. Cases of hoots, shoes, bar- j
rt ls of flour, stoves, &c. &c., including
one package said to con ain $7,000 worth
of plate, were thrown overboard. There
were six to eight thousand dollars’ worth
of lace on hoard, belonging to one of the |
passengers, who had previously said he 1
would give the whole to any one who |
w-ould put him safely ashore. This lace 1
was afterwards seen strewn along the
beach.
All these efforts, however, to save the j
steamei, were unavailing. No person
worked harder than Captain Dnstan, and
his passenger* and crew. After these
I repeated and united efforts had failed, all
I hopes of safety were over, and all fell de
-1 sirous and anxious that the steamer should
1 strike the beach. It was a frightful sight,
but the feelings of those on board had
! been wrought to such a pitch, that re-ac
tion came over them, and they were re
signed to their fate.
About midnight she parted one of her
I cables, there being four out, one attached
i to thirty hundred weight of furwace bars,
I and the others to anchors. After this the
i gale continued to increase and blew a
I perfect hurricane.
She was driven still nearer the shore,
but passed a point that all expected she
; would strike upon. She then drifted about
eleven miles more, making in all twenty,
two miles, which occupied about forty
eight hours, of terrible uncertainty and
sulfering. She then struck, stern first, on
1 a ledge of rocks on Fisher’s Island. A
t r!*
: tremendous sea threw her up to the very
lop of the ledge. This was the crisis in
| the disaster. In five minutes after she
struck she was in pieces.
In these five minutes at least one-half
1 of those on board the Atlantic were taken
i from time into eternity. Ihe screams,
■ the crash, the roar of the sea, were dread
-1 ful.
There were six females, four children
| and two infants among the passengers. —
All the females were drowned or crushed
| to death. Only one of the children was
saved, and he was the only one of the
I family of which he was a member. His
i I father, mother, married sister, and ?
, j younger sister, and two young brothers
j were on board. The poor little orphar
thus saved, and thus thrown alone upon
; the world, is only twelve years of age.—
The two infants were drowned, frozen, oi
crushed to death.
, ; All this occurred at half-past four o’-
clock on Friday morning.
When the Atlantic struck, Mr. Marsh
was sining in the gangway; his fiist im
pression was that a heavy sea had struck
the steamer. In a moment after, how.
ever, the sea stove in the side of the ves
sel at his hack, and swept him along and
j dashed him against the sound side of the
steamer. Befo:e he could recover, an
other tremendous sea threw him against
j the upper side of the vessel. Thence he
was thrown in amongst the tilings on deck
and considerably bruised.
After he was thrown up the third time,
he succeeded in catching hold of the skv
light frame, and there remained fora few
moments, anti the only person near him
i to he seen or heard, was the small hov
who was saved. He was on the top of the
ledge among the wreck. .Mr. Marsh here
j discovered that he was made fast hv an
iron hook, on a bar of iron, which had he
come entangled in one of his life preserv
ers; after great exertions he made out to
throw one of the strap* over his head,
which drew the other still tighter. He
then thought that all was over with him;
hut he succeeded in drawing that off. He
' then found that the other pair of preserv
! ers, which he had on, were entangled
I with those he had thrown offi To extri
cate him*elf from this difficulty, he lav
! down, and drew all oil’ over his fee*, and
. threw them away.
During this time tlie sea was breaking
* up the steamer, and dashing the piece* of
wreck about, at one time, against Mr.
Mar.- h, and at another crushing either a
( poor passenger or an unfortunate sailor to
I death.
After Mr. Marsh, had thrown away
( his life preservers he saw a gleam of light,
j from the upper side of the vessel. The
Atlantic was then lying on her beam
ends, and her decks covered with ice.—
By some means he made his e*cape
through the side of the vessel through
which (hi* gleam of light came. Before
he reached that point, however, he saw a
human being standing near the aperture.
After reaching to within six feet of ihe
outside, he called to the person whom he
saw, and who proved to he the little hoy,
to pass him a piece of boa rd, or something
else, to enable him to gel over tho ice.—
The boy thought that Mr. M. told him to
leave the place. This induced the hoy
to leave, and Mr. Marsh crept out over
what he supposed to lie a dead body, it j
was too dark to tell with certainty.— 1
Then he took hold of a part of the wieck I
on the side of the ladies’ .*aloon, and
walked on the edge of the vessel. On |
i looking up, he saw the mast, with several
| pieces of timber or spars attached swing
iug to and fro.
Al this moment Mr. Marsh was washed
hack in o >he sea. Then lie found it ne
cessary to swim as rapidly as his bruised
limbs would permit him through the swell
of the sea, ice and broken parts of the
vessel, loavoti the falling mast, and es
caped by a few feet only. He made for
the shore as quickly as possible, which he
finally reached in safety, afier being
driven hack several limes.
After Mr. Marsh turned toward the I
shore lie heard someone cry “Oh ! what
shall I do? I shan't get ashore!” Mr.
M. encouraged him lo strike out through
the surf, and he had the pleasure, in the
midst of In’s pain, to see the little fellow
land on the beach.
As Mr. M. was thrown up for the last
time he caught hold of a small sharp rock
and held on ii!l the sea left him. Then
he crept, on his hand* and knees from the
beach over rock* till he reached a large
rock, which sheltered him from the wind.
It was very dark and intensely cold at
| this time.
j Shordv afier this, Mr. M. heard a man
j speak, and inquire “who is there?” Mr.
i M. made an exertion to speak, and pro
bably made some sort of a noise, lor the
i man told him “to hold on to his dress,” to
, be led lo his fiQiise. Finding himself very
weak and cold, he could not walk wiih
i out falling. Just then two other men
came up and conveyed Mr. Marsh to the
house. This was about five o'clock in
the morning, and from that time lo about
8 o’clock Mr. M. was insensible.
THE LATE STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
We find in the N. Y. Herald of Sunday
some father particulars respecting the late
melancoly accident to the bteamer Atlantic,
in Long Island Sound.
The total number of bodies recovered, at
the last accounts from the wreck, was
twenty-nine. It is sincerely hoped that
these embrace all that perished.
The Atlantic was a new Doat, and cost
about $140,000. She was insured in New
York lor $55,000, though half the amount,
being a fire policy, will not be recovered,
j A Mr. Partridge find in his company a
Miss Jordan. All his exertions to save tier
were fruitless, in the last of which lie nearly
lost his own life. He escaped to the shore
by swimming, having first divested himself
of Ins clothes, with the exception of his shirt
and pantaloons. The body of Miss Jordan
was recovered, and has been conveyed lo
Boston under the care of Mr. Partridge.
The Boston Advertiser gives a list of many
who bought tickets in Boston for passage to N.
York. It savs :—So far as we can learn,
only 36 passengers (36 first class and 10 se
! cond class) bought tickets in Boston for the
; passage to New York by the Atlantic, on
Wednesday afternoon, and their names ate
! given below, viz ;
Messrs. Cassady, Collamore, Hirsh, Arm
i strong, Booth, Symines, and Captain Hanna,
j bought tickets of Adams & Co., in Sialc-st.
Mr. Kimball (firm of Spofford, Tileston &
Co., New York), Mr. Baldwin (Cincinnati,
Ohio,) Mr. Houghton, Mr. Solar, lady and
1 child (names unknown.) bought tickets o*
I Mr. Brooks, in Elm-street.
a ! Two Messrs. Aiwood, [Messrs. Baldwin,
Hasler, Maynard. (fiddings, Jinrhank, Par
n fridge and lady, Weston, Orr, Leveret, Bur
■' beck. Van Wert (of Birmingham. England.)
n Cunningham, and Capt. Cuiium, with the
following deck passengers;—Messrs. Wilson,
r Peterson, Walton and family of six (En
i gli-h), Madden, bought tickets at the railroad
- i station.
hater. — The New York correspondent of
j the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette,writing under
| date of Sunday afternoon, says that the uuin
! her of bodies found was thirty-five.
The Dr. HaAstin mentioned as one of those
* : lost, is C. A. Hasslm, Surgeon, U. S. Navy.
• j He had just returned from the Gulf, and was
1 on his way to Brunswick, New Jersey.
» Information reached New York on Sun
day afternoon that Lieut. Allan H. Mor on,
I } of the 4th infantry. U. S Army, is among
: tho'e that perished.
Messrs. Adam-’ Conductor placed their
valise containing a large amount of money
I in a barrel, which washed ashore about 5
miles from the scene of the disaster.
i Among the passengers lost by the late
catastrophe to the steamer Atlantic in Long
Island Sound was the Kev. Dr. Armstrong.
The N. Y T . Commercial says—
I The Christian public, especially that por
tion of it connected with the Am. Board ot
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, will be
deeply grieved to learn that she Rev. Dr.
Armstrong, one of the Secretaries of that
Board, was among the lost of the Atlantic.
He performed his ast serv ice for the benefit
r>f his fellow men on Thursday, wdiile the
Atlantic lay at anchor. He conducted the
; thanksgiving exercises, and delivered an ap
j propriate address, recapitulating the reasons
' which ought to fill the besoms of the pas
-1 sengers with lhai ksgiving, and among the
| rest, no doubt the supposed fact that they
had been saved from the dangers vvliico
| «
threatened them while the noble boat was
i drifting and brought to a sale anchorage.
i AUGUSTA. tfEU..
Friday morning, December 4, i»4b.
JJ"VVe have received the 12th and con
cluding No. of the .Southern Cultivator, for
1846. The following is Ihe conclusion <f
an address to the patrons of that valuable
| agricultural paper:
“Having said thus much of what we de
j sire you should, and we think those of you
who value the work, ought, to do, let us now*
say vviiat we have done and are doing to make
the work worthy ot the support of your
selves, your friends and neighbors. We
have already ordered new type, and tfi*
January number will appear in an entire
new dress, and vve hope greaiiy improved in
I appearance. We have made and are making
arrangements for its embellishment with ele
gant engravings, in all the departments of
husbandry. To do ail these tiling requires a
large expenditure of money, which we have
made, relying upon the liberality and justice
of »he Planters of the Southern Stales lo*
j sustain us. How fully our confidence in
1 their liberality and justice will be justified,
remains for them to make know n.
This, then, is the appropna'e time for ac
( tion on your part —and if the effort be made
i with that zeal and energy which you are
wont to bestow on any enterprise in which
j yon feel an interest, your success will be as
I certain as it will be triumphant.
hi conclusion, permit us to repent nur de
sire that every subscriber to tfie present vo
lume will immediately forward his subscrip
tion for the next volume, and use some ex
ertion to induce his friends and neighbors to
unite with him.”
CHRIST HEALING THE SICK.
This is the last day and night ot the ex
hibition of this magnificent Painting in Au
gusta, The following notice from the pen
of a Baltimore cotemporary will be read
; with interest:
“We have seen ibis painting several times,
and every visit has heightened its beauties.
It is not inferior in coloring, anatomy or
| light and shade to any work we ever saw.
. The graceful, easy, majestic and anatonu
i caliy correct drawing, is beautifully adapted
I to the easy and Bowing style of the draperies,
j not frittered away into numerous and ui»-
! meaning folds as is the case in many works
; of art. The pyrarnidical dislnbuiton-of the
groups is judiciously preserved, presenting
lHe whole mass of figures finely harmonious
and adding very much lo the aerial perspec
tive. The features ami expressions as vve.l
as the drawing, are true to nature. It needs
j no interpreter to tell Judas Iscariot. Tue
! dark, deep villainy that prompts him to tue
betrayal, glances from his assassin-like eye.
The .-ell-satisfied confidence and genero>hy
of Peter, the impetuous, is like file itself.
His bravery and devoted love instinctively
points him out to the spectator, and his burn
; i ig indignation aroused by ihe saiauie look
ot the Chief Priests and Scribes, exhibits the
man himself. The pensive and thoughtful
countenance of John, with his lovely ami
moral attributes, are finely developed. Jol n
was a man of warm impulse with steady pui
pose and habit. The truthfulness, imparti
ality, and directness of Matthew and ih j un
willing scepticism of Thomas are well re
presented. The deep concern, malignant
hate, fierce purpose, immoveable self-posses
sion and towering pride ot the High Priest
! cannot be excelled. The very persouifica
: tion of the arch fiend stands before us, and
’ we see flashing - (ruin his eyes, living hate ami
stern obstinacy, 'i he group of winch he is
the head is a master work. The sick pre
! sent i bjects of living reality, each one de
veloping their particular disease. The ema
ciated su k man by whose side stoops ih©
I wife worn down with fatigue. The mother
; with her palid infant pressed fondly to her
bosom. The father with a father’s anxuly
de| icted ou his countenance, with his skele
ton framed maniac writhing imo all the con
tortions of feature and form of which the
mold ran have any conception, —she haggard
blind mm and awkward boy. The beauti
ful blind girl, with just enough tinge left
upon her cheek to tell with what freshness it
i once bloonnd. The obliterated and pallid
hue of grief penciled upon the old looking
face of the rickety boy, and the truly loath-
I gome disease of the palsied lady, anxiously
1 endeavoring to look at Christ, irreeistably
I tell the spectator of their many pains and
j suffering. The ills of Ife which flesh is
heir 10, are as distinctly shown as it the ob
jects were real. The numerous attendants
i of the sick each deserves a separate notice,
but vve have already exceeded our limits, vet
we cannot dismiss the subject without re
ferring visitors to the vwgnuffi opus ot the
pencil. ’J’lie portrayal of t Urist, which pre
scuts a trace of the in ouhs to the mem («n*