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Vol. XLVIII
PUBLISHED BY GALES & SEATON.
THRICE A WEEK.
SIX DOLLARS A TEAR-PAYABLE IK ADVANCE.
WASHINGTON: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1847.
No. 7006.
FROM THE AFRICAN REPUBLIC.
We have the Africa’s Luminary for July, August,
and September. The latest paper has much to
LATE FROM ENGLAND.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1847.
LATEST REPORT FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
From the cause to which we have more than
once had occasion to allude—the studied conceal-
ment or mystification of public affairs by the recog-
nised organs of the Government
The steamer Acadia, from Liverpool on the 4th
instant, arrived at Boston on Saturday evening,
say ot the festivities and ceremonies attendant upon j The Telegraph reports her commercial news, as
the “Declaration of Independence,” which was 'follows:
celebrated on the 24th of August with firing of j Liverpool, Nov. 4, 1847—12 M.
cannon, waving of flags, speeches, and a “ sumptu- : Fork. Best Western Canal Flour 29s to 29s 6d per bar-
ous supper,” at Monrovia. j reL Richmond and Alexandria 28s to 29s. Philadelphia
oi i r .1 . c t •, , i and Baltimore 28s to 29s. New Orleans and Ohio 26s to
Slave dealing on the coast of Liberia was be- TT ., , „ .. * ’ T
. . 27s. United States and Canadian sour 21s to 23s. U. S.
coming an unprofitable and dangerous business. A
mon .hi„g f„t „s ,o zz |
uuofficiu, chanuels, the first hi,Us of things of high j S’&tmZS | f *» * " P-
importance which are in the course of transaction, | of their own, and made ruinous attacks and inroads
or are meditated, by the Executive Department of I uPon the towns of their former owners
Red
Indian
There had been much sickness among the mis-
sionaries at the near stations, but no recent deaths.
our Government.
Ol that character is the information in the follow- „
• 1 1-, , , . iyT ,, , ! All the sick were recovering slowly. There had
mg let ei, which reached us m a New I ort paper j bee„ n0 recent ailviees fr0,“ the d[stant stalions.
yesterday, it may or may not be true, as the source | The missionaries were in health when last heard
of the writer’s information may or may not be re-1 from.—Commercial Advertiser.
liable. From our guess at the author of the letter, j The barque Elvira arrived at Boston on Friday,
however, it would not have been written had not from Zanzibar via St. Helena, having left the latter
the writer himself placed confidence in the truth of Place 011 tlie 2(* October
its contents :
FHOM THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.
“ Washington, November 18, 1847.
“ There is some reason to believe, according to
‘ what I hear to-day, that a Treaty is about to be
‘ made, or has been made, with somebody in Mexi-
‘ co, which our Commissioner, Mr. Trist, recog-
‘ wises as a Government; or rather I should say that
‘ the Administration cherish the belief that they will
‘ receive a treaty of peace with Mexico before or
6 soon after the commencement of the session of
‘ Congress.
“ The Treaty now talked of will probably em-
‘ brace the States of New Leon, Coahuila, and a
4 part of Chihuahua in our limits, and the pecuniary
‘ compensation to Mexico will be increased.
“ Perhaps the Administration on this occasion, as
4 well as heretofore, reckon without their host. But
4 R is very likely that, Santa Anna having been de-
‘ posed and denounced, the present Provisional Gov-
‘ ernment might be induced again to negotiate, and
‘ perhaps to enter into a treaty.
“Whether it will be an actual or mere
‘ peace remains to be seen.”
paper
Mr. CLAY’S LEXINGTON SPEECH.
A correspondent of the Louisville Journal, writing
from Lexington, Nov. 13th, says :
“ speech of Mr. Clay was great, not in
‘ flowing rhetorical figures of speech, but because of
‘ the great mass of truths which it presented. It
‘ was gi'eat because it was argumentative, and car-
‘ rietl conviction to every mind. It delineated most
‘ powerfully all the evils of the Mexican war, and
‘ the reckless waste of money and blood, filling the
‘ Cnd with mourners and impoverishing the Trea-
‘ sury of the country to a frightful extent, without
‘ even a shadow of hope of any thing in the shape
‘ of reimbursement. The eloquent" speaker said
4 ^ia*- war was bad enough when the national honor
4 called for it, and it was waged in accordance with
‘ the constitutional voice of the people; but this
‘ war, said he, is a blot upon the glory of the nation
‘ which time can never efface. And when the old
4 patriot spoke of his country’s honor being tar-
4 nished in the eyes of the nations of the earth, his
4 language was that of deep and burning indigna-
4 tion. He awarded unparalleled glory to the Arae-
4 rican arms in every battle fought in Mexico, yet,
4 as you will see from his resolutions, he urged the
4 immediate adoption of the only feasible means of
4 terminating the war. Plis resolutions were unani-
4 mously adopted by the vast multitude present, in-
‘ eluding hundreds of ladies, whose lovely counte-
4 nances signified their assent. It is worthy of re-
4 mark, that, when the ayes and noes were taken,
4 there were but three noes—two of them given by
4 rabid Locofocos, and the other by an idiot.”
MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
A letter dated at Jackson (Mississippi) on the 9th
instant sums up the result of the late election in the
State of Mississippi as follows :
“Tompkins is elected by about 600 majority; Shahkf.y’
by upwards of 2,000. McClung is badly beaten, and we
believe that .Thompson has beaten Josselyn. Brown no op-
position. Stamps has been defeated for Secretary of State
by Patterson, independent. I have travelled much over
the eastern and northeastern sections of the State this fall, and
found every man, Whig and Democrat, pledged to go for
Davis for Senator. He will be elected.”
A Long Siege.—In the “ Flag of Freedom” of
the 20th October (published at Puebla, in Mexico)
is a proclamation of Colonel Childs to the troops
under his command, congratulating them upon the
happy termination of the siege, which had continued
twenty-eight days. The gallantry and good con-
duct of the whole force is commended, and the fol-
lowing officers and others are particularized :
Lieut. Col. Black, Major Gwynne, and Capt. Morehead,
commandants of San Jose, Loreto, and Guadalupe ; Surgeon
Mills, Chief of the Medical Department, and his assistants ;
Capt. Rowe, Capt. Webster, A. Q. M., Capt. Arria and his
spy company; Lieut. Naelder, A. A. A. Gen. ; Mr. Win-
gierski, and Mr. O’Kelly.
The Wooster Bank, in the State of Ohio, is sup-
posed to have suspended specie payments. The
banks in Cincinnati have refused to receive its
notes.
Major John P. Gaines at Home.—The Cincin-
nati Atlas of last Wednesday says : “ This gallant
4 officer came up on the mail boat on Monday night,
‘ and landed at a point convenient to his residence,
‘ in Boone county, Kentucky. He is enjoying a
‘ reunion with his near friends, but a more public
‘ welcome yet awaits him.”
The editor of the Washington “ Union ” says
that “ the Democrats are in favor of the diffusion of
republican principles throughout the world.” We
wonder if they expect to diffuse republican princi-
ples throughout the world by reducing to subjuga-
tion the only great republic beside our own upon
the face of the whole earth !—Louisville Journal.
The following is a list of the vessels condemned at Saint
Helena for being engaged in the slave trade within the last
two months, viz : Brazilian brig Voadora, a prize to H. M.
steamer Devastation ; Brazilian brigantine Esperto, a prize to
H. M. brig Rapid ; Brazilian brig Braziliense, a prize to H.
M. sloop Chappler ; Brazilian brigantine Adelaide, a prize to
H. M. brig Waterwitch; Brazilian brig Faisia, a prize to H.
M. sloop Ferret; Brazilian brigantine Nero, a prize to H. M.
steamer Styx.
Dates from Cape Town are to September 15. There was
no news of importance at the Cape. The difficulties with
the Kaffirs still continued, and the Eastern colonists were
agitating the subject of a legislative separation from the West-
ern, in order the more effectually to provide by legislative en-
actments for the protection of the frontier —Boston Journal.
Santa Anna has fought steadily and earnestly, if
not successfully, ever since his return to Mexico,
and, as it will be seen by his Manifesto, even when
stripped of power, falls “ with his face to the foe,”
denouncing those who think or talk of peace, and
exhorting his countrymen to contend to the last
against our arms. The question, therefore, recurs
with more force than ever, why was he ever permit-
ted to return to lead on and animate his nation,
or what reason had the Administration for suppos-
ing that he would favor their designs against his
own country ? The mystery has never been clear-
ed up. And it seems that no charge of insincerity
or treachery has ever been brought against Santa
Anna, which would have been the case had he made
any pledges or given any grounds for supposing
that he would have favored peace. On the con-
trary, Santa Anna has always openly and boldly
asserted that he came to lead the war, and that he
has fulfilled his mission. That there are matters
connected with this business kept concealed we
have never doubted ; for we cannot believe that the
Administration committed so egregious a blunder as
to permit Santa Anna’s return merely in the hope, or
for a chance, of his turning traitor ! This would
have been gambling with high state matters in
earnest, and would well entitle those concerned to
the condemnation if not execration of every Ameri-
can.-—Alexandria Gazette.
The Northern Railroad.—The section of the
Northern Railroad between Grafton and Lebanon
(N. H.) was opened with festive ceremonials on
Wednesday. Among those who made speeches on
the occasion were Hon. Daniel Webster, Air.
Quincy, Mayor of Boston, ex-Governor Paine, of
Vermont, and ex-Governors Hill and Colby, of
New Hampshire.
The completion of the road from Lebanon village
to the White River, including the construction of a
truss bridge some 600 feet long over the Connecti-
cut, will be effected in season for the opening of
the Vermont Central road to Nortb.field, and per-
haps Montpelier, by the 4th of July next.
Among the natural obstacles overcome in the con-
struction of the road thus far is the Merrimac river,
which in one instance has been forced out of its
natural channel, and made to turn aside for the ac-
commodation of the railroad.
Yale College.—This veteran institution still main-
tains its ascendency. By the annual catalogue just
published it appears that there are 522 students con-
nected with the institution in its various depart-
ments, viz :
Theological students.......... ................... 44
Law students.................................... 43
Medical students................................ 45
Scholars of the House.....................■........
Students in Philosophy and the Arts................. 11
Seniors..................................... §9
Juniors.....................................193
Sophomores..............................." , 92
Freshmen................................... 95
Undergraduates............................ — 379
Total....................................... 522
The number of Professors, including President Woolsey, is
23 ; tutors and other instructors, 11 : total 34.
Of all branches of trade, that of corn alone shows the
slightest symptoms of animation. Before the day of the de-
parture of the last steamer and for two days subsequently, the
Liverpool market was more than usually dull and declining,
owing to the pressure of heavy home arrivals with a limited
demand ; but a slight improvement in the money market on
the 26th imparted a better feeling, which was greatly stimu-
lated by the advices received per Hibernia. Since then prices
have steadily advanced to our present quotations, at which
they continue firm. The demand for Indian corn and meal
for Ireland has been remarkably brisk.
Cotton.—Upland and Mobile ordinary to middling 3|ff to
4^d per lb ; fair to good fair 5§d to 5jd : good to fine 6d to
6^d ; New Orleans ordinary to middling 4d to 4Jd ; fair to
good fair 5^d to 6d ; good to fine 6^d to 7^d ; Alabama and
Tennessee ordinary to middling 4d to 4 -jd ; bowed Georgia
ordinary to middling 4d to 4§d ; fair to good fair 5| d to 5^d;
good to fine 5^d to Sd ; Sea Island ordinary to good fine 9d
to Is 6d ; stained ordinary to good fine 4^d to 8Jd.
The market has greatly fluctuated since our last advices,
with a decided downward tendency, and does not indicate the
slightest disposition to ascend. This position of the trade
has been caused by the favorable accounts received by the
Hibernia of the coming crops, but in a greater degree by the
curtailment of consumption, in consequence of the closing of
additional mills and of working short time, from the embar-
rassing condition of manufactures.
The stock of American cotton now on hand amounts to
about 308,000 bales, being a decrease of 80,000 from last
year’s supply.
A later despatch informs us that in Switzerland
affairs are approaching inevi;able hostilities; the
Spanish Minister to France, Signor Salamanca, is
charged with issuing sixteen millions reals of frau-
dulent bonds ; Italian affairs are still unadjusted;
the Austrian Emperor proposes aggressions ; the
steamer Hibernia arrived out safely, but the French
steamer Union encountered a gale and burst her
boilers ; no lives were lost.
The money market continued in a state of terri-
ble depression; no Governmental relief; the manu-
facturing districts are greatly distressed ; more mills
stopping, and thousands of operatives unemployed ;
failures increasing ; from the 23d ultimo to the 3d
instant nearly fifty firms have failed, most of them
at London, Liverpool, and Manchester; among
them are twenty-five merchants, six bankers, eight
manufacturers, and the North and South Wales
and Shrewsbury and Dayton Banks.
Cotton has declined fully one penny per pound.
Breadstuff's have advanced about two shillings per
barrel.
THE TRUE POLICY OF THE COUNTRY.
Now that England is crippled in her resources,
our great staple, Cotton, declined materially, and
yet looking down, the consumption fallen thirty per
cent, below that of 1846, and the prospect very gloomy
indeed, surely every man of practical knowledge must
be convinced that the time is come, or nearly come,
when the home market must be our chief reliance
for the sale of the raw material, if the Planters de-
sire remunerating prices. Within nine years, all
know, the growth of cotton in this country has
greatly increased : all supposed the consumption of
England would increase with every succeeding
year. But, to our astonishment, the consumption of
England this year is not more than it was nine
years ago !
Under such a state of things, it is demonstrable
that it is the interest of the Planters to protect and
cherish Domestic manufactures, and by conse-
quence be not only independent of European com-
mercial and financial revulsions, but certain also of
getting for their Cotton remunerating prices at home.
If, instead of consuming some four or five hun-
dred thousand bales of cotton in this country, we
had twice the number of mills, and consumed a
million of jyles, do not the Planters see that prices
of cotton would be higher ? It is as palpable as
daylight that this would be the case, even in the
face of the present large crop. During the last
shipping season cotton was too high, and the plant-
ers were benefited at the expense of the shippers.
Prices have fallen at least four cents per pound ;
but it is perfectly clear that, if we had mills enough
in the United States to consume one million of
bales, the decline in price would not have been
more than two cents per pound. Estimating the
crop at twenty-three hundred thousand bales at four
hundred pounds (average) each, this saving to the
planters of two cents per pound would be about
eighteen millions of dollars. But let us see what
the manufacturing of a million of bales, would do
for this country. At ten cents per pound, (instead
of about eight cents,) the planters would pocket
forty millions of dollars, (less the charges from
their plantations to and at the seaboard,) and the
labor and capital of our own people would be be-
nefited to an equal if not a greater extent.
In view of all these important facts, it is indeed
passing strange that the people of the country are
not unanimous for protecting and fostering domestic
manufactures until cotton mills spring up in almost
every county in the Union.
It has been lately stated (and we have no doubt
it is true) that every bale of cotton consumed in
England contributes twice the amount of its cost to
the labor and capital of that country—that is to say,
if England purchased from the people of this coun-
try one million of bales per annum of cotton for
forty millions of dollars, this business alone con-
tributes to the labor and capital of England eighty
millions of dollars. Instead of frittering away our
means and resources by sending large armies abroad
to conquer miserable countries, we might much
better occupy our time and capital in laying the
foundation of a solid and lasting prosperity.
November 16. A SOUTHERNER.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
OHIO RIVER.
The Cincinnati Gazette has thrown together the
following very interesting facts respecting this river
and its tributaries :
“The Ohio, including the Allf.ghant, which may be re-
garded as the same river under another name, is twelve hun-
dred miles long. At Cincinnati, which is about equidistant
from Pittsburg to its confluence with the Mississippi, it is 534
yards wide, which may be assumed as its average width. Its
annual range here, from low to high water, is about 50 feet ;
its extreme range on record 64 feet, (at the time of the flood
in 1832.) It generally reaches its lowest stages in August,
September, and October ; and its greatest rises in December,
March, May, and June. Its current when low does not ex-
ceed two miles an hour, when at a mean height three miles,
and when higher and rising four to five miles. Its immediate
valley has an average width of one mile. It has the follow-
ing tributaries : the Monongahela, Alleghany, Beaver, Kana-
wha, Muskingum, Hocking, Scioto, Great Sandy, Great and
Little Miami, Licking, Kentucky, Wabash, Salt, Cumber-
land, and Tennessee, which drain a region of upwards of
130,000,000 acres—an area three times larger than all New
England, and as large as all the Atlantic States north of the
Potomac.”
The Naval Court of Inquiry.—This Court, which
convened at the Gosport Navy Yard on Tuesday last, has for
the objects of its inquiry the causes of the detention of the
Water- Witch, and of the fire on board the Raritan—upon
the former of which they are still engaged. The Court is
composed of the following officers : Com. Morris, President;
Commodores Ridselt and Morgan, Members, andLieut. A.
Sinclair, Judge Advocate.
On the morning of the 30th ultimo, Lieut. James R. Scott,
of the 7th infantry, was found dead in his state-room on board
the steamer James L. Day, on her last voyage from New Or-
leans to Vera Cruz. He is supposed to have died of apoplexy.
Immigration at Canada.—The number of passengers
from Europe arrived at Quebec and Montreal for the season of
1847, thus far, was 98,106, of whom 684 were cabin pas-
sengers. This shows an increase of 65,353 on the season
of 1846.
Number died during the passage.................. 5,293
Do. admitted into quarantine hospital, 8,563, of
whom died.......................... 3,452
Do. died in the marine and immigrant hospital,
Quebec, to October 9................. 1,041
Do. died in the immigrant hospital, Montreal, and
in that city, to November 1............ 3,579
The recess of the Military Court Martial has 1 FROM SOUTH AMERICA,
left us room to publish the following article, which i In giving some late intelligence from Havana the New Or-
Will, we dare say, be of much interest for many leans Picayune mentions the arrival there on the 5th instant,
readers. from Kingston, of Gen. D. P. A. Herran, ex-President of
THE GREAT FREMONT RIDE._THE CALIFOR- ^evv Grenada and Minister to our Government from that Re-
NIAN HORSE. public, with his wife, a daughter of President Mosquera, and
Ride of Lieut. Col. Fremont, his friend Don Jesus !\ tbree sons, and Dr. Pinzon, Secretary of Legation.
{pronounced Haisoos') Pico, and his servant Jacob Dodson, \ Fhe island of Tabago was visited by a hurricane the night
'v\ ‘U 06 ^ eS Monterey and back, in March, 1847. ; of the 11th of October, by which a vast number of homes
if extlaor<linary ride ot eight hundred miles in eight j were destroyed and a third of its sugar crop.
a^s, including all stoppages and near two days’ detention— \ ----—-■ ■■ --
a whole day and night at Monterey, and nearly two halfdays j FROM THE RIVER OF PLATE,
at San Luis Obispo having been brought into evidence be- I The New York Commercial Advertiser has a file of the
fore the Army Court Martial now in session in this city, and , 44 Buenos Ayres Packet ” extending from the 7th of August
great desire being expressed by some friends to know how the j to the Hth of September.
ride was made, I herewith send you the particulars, that you j Nothing of great importance has occurred since the date of
may publish them if you please in the National Intelligencer i the last previous advices.
as an incident connected with the times and affairs under re- j M that date there was talk of a sincere attempt by the na-
view in the trial, of which you give so full a report. The j tive authorities and citizens of Montevideo to effect an ar-
ch cumstances were first got from Jacob, afterwards revised i rangement with General Oribe, to which end it was proposed
by Col. Fremont, and I draw them up from this joint state- j that a deputation should visit his camp. The foreign resi-
murt. I he publication will show, beside the horsemanship j dents or auxiliaries took alarm at this, and by positive intimi-
of the riders, the power of the Californian horse, especially as j dation of the native authorities succeeded in preventing the
one ot the horses was subjected, in the course of the ride, to j deputation from leaving the city.
an extraordinary trial in order to exhibit the capacity of his | The 11th of September was the 714th day of the blockade,
rat.e. Of course this statement will make no allusion to the 1 now kept up, and that in a very loose way, only by the
objects of the journey, but be confined strictly io an account ! French men-of-war.
ot its performance. j Commodore Herbert, commander of the British squadron,
It was at daybreak on the morning of the 22d of March ! appears to be on very good terms with Gen. Oribe.
that the party sat out from la Ciudad de los Angeles (the city j The Packet represents the new Brazilian Cabinet as actua-
of the Angels) in the southern part of Upper California, to ted by very different feelings toward Buenos Ayres from those
Total deaths........................... 145,365
Mexicans Already Voting !—If we have annexed no
part of Mexico to the United States, yet it seems, by a state-
ment in the Matamoros Flag, that we have annexed some of
her citizens. An election took place in Texas a few days
since for State officers ; and the Flag tells us that at the pre-
cinct opposite Matamoros, G. T. Wood had 139 out of 153
votes for Governor ; that Young received the whole number
for Lieutenant Governor; and that 147 were given to Gen.
Lamar as Representative—most of the voters, the Flag says,
being Mexicans !—Clipper.
The Phantom Balloon.—Mr. Gale, the reronaut, wit-
nessed a phenomenon during his ascent from Rosherville, which
is said to be unprecedented in the annals of balloons. Having
become becalmed and perfectly stationary for a full quarter of
an hour, he was preparing to descend, when he suddenly be-
held a perfect “counterfeit presentment” of the machine de-
picted on the clouds to the southward. This appearance con-
tinued for about four minutes, when the balloon descended to
a lower region, and the image gradually faded away.
[Boston Whig.
A Large Family.—Mr- Goodman, a citizen of Gibson
county, Tennessee, has petitioned the Legislature of that State
for permission to sell groceries and liquors without taking out
a license, on the ground that he is the father of twenty-two
children, all living !
Potatoes in Vermont.—A private letter, dated Royal-
ton, Vermont, November 9th, states that the potato crop i •
that vicinity is good, and that it is less affected by the rot than
it has been for some years past.
Remarkable Surgical Operation.—The Ohio States-
man informs us that Dr. Thompson, assisted by other sur-
geons, removed a tumor from the abdomen of a Mrs. Lille,
of Licking county, weighing 29^ lbs., including the whole
of the liver, which had undergone degeneration, and had be-
come filled with hydratids. Forty-eight hours after the pa-
tient continued to improve in condition.
North Carolina Regiment.—Our readers are aware
^ "p ~ ~ T ; ; I that there have been difficulties in this regiment, from differ- j A Manifest Destiny Man.—When Lieut. Emoiit stop-
k iok .. re\ en rii e. gives us great pleasure to state 1 ences between Col. Paine and his officers. The course pur- Ped at Panama, on his return to the United States last spring,
that Messrs. Blackstock, Bell, & Co. have made trial of the sued by CoL Paine wa3 approved and firmly sustained by he encountered an American at that place half-seas over, with
Smoke Preventive Apparatus, in their cotton factory in Alle- Gen. Wool, and two officers of the regiment were summa- T T an interestinS conversation,
ghany city. The experiment has proved completely success- , .. f . \ Why don tyou return to your country ? said Lt. Emory.
. ... completely success rfiy and “ dishonorably discharged from it. S nee then “ Return to my country Never1”
ful, and will save m this one factory twenty-five bushels of u f ,,, ^ t'uuiury* .never.
. , w. .. .. ,. * f nve Dusneis 01 . we have high authority for saying the regiment has im-i “Why?”
coa a 1 ay. n e io c nnnr v s 0 leneig horing factories pr0ved in discipline, and is in a state of efficiency to do honor 44 Recause I am a manifest destiny man, and my country
were vomiting forth clouds of black smoke that darkened the t0 the State and country, should opportunity offer for testing wiU be al°ng here lonS before 1 died’-Balt. Patriot.
atmosphere of one o t le ine»t Indian Summer days we have steadiness and prowess. In the Fayetteville Observer we see Mnnp “Pirv » p f ,
seen, the Smoke Preventive m the cotton factory we have •, , * 1 m ( r *v, r l 1 m t- , . , MoRE Revelations. —At Buffalo, a few days since,
named consumed all the particles of smoke that dropped almost J, . ^ t^W W ^7^ 1 t 1CCrS’ 77 ^ u™ Co)oredf mea were arrested, after a desperate resistance,
1 n has been on to Washington and there restored to his rank, , by a posse of police officers, charged with forcibly breaking
New York, November 18, 1847.
I have been standing for more than an hour and a half on
pier No. 4, North river, to see the United States Mail Steam-
er Washington sail on her third outward voyage across the
Atlantic. Twelve o’clock was the hour fixed for sailing, but
there are always so many last things to do on such occasions
she did not leave the pier till nearly two. This noble ship
still strongly attracts public interest. She has by no means
yet become an old story. The pier was perfectly thronged
with spectators for two hours before her sailing, and thousands
waited all that time apparently without any other business or
object than simply to see her start. She looked finely, in a
new coat of paint, and her beautiful model contrasted strong-
ly with the French steamer New York, lying directly oppo-
site on the other side of the pier, and undergoing some slight
repairs.
The Washington carries out about fifty passengers, and a
considerable amount of specie ; according to some statements
about half a million of dollars. She also has a new com-
mander, Capt. Johnson, Capt. Hewitt having resigned. The
“Hermann,” the second steamer for this Bremen line, it is
said, will be ready for her first trip by the first of January,
perhaps earlier. The keel for the third steamer of the line,
which is to consist of four, will be laid on Saturday next.
She is to be called the “ Humboldt,” in honor of the distin-
guished Baron Humboldt, and is intended to be some six
hundred tons larger than the Washington.
A powerful and well-appointed and perfectly constructed
ocean steamer is a magnificent triumph of science and art in
the hands of man ; and to see such a vessel reined up at the
pier, restless and panting with fiery breath from iron lungs,
chafing her hawser as if impatient to be off and battling with
the mighty elements, is an interesting and exciting scene.
“ The war-horse, whose neck is clothed with thunder,” is said
to be both a beautiful and a sublime object; but I think the
ocean steamer has decidedly more grandeur and hardly less
grace.
Turning the attention from the gallant ship herself to the
crowd of people around, glimpses of tragic and comic inte-
rest are curiously intermingled. At the forward gangway,
passengers are pressing in with their baggage ; visiters and
friends are crowding in and out to bid them good-by ; ladies
are retiring with watery eyes and flushed cheeks, betokening
a painful parting, and business men are rushing on board with
their letters containing the latest price-current and their latest
orders, and a panting clerk comes up after the mail is closed
and the ship is just ready to move, and inquires for the cap-
tain, for he has two letters which must go. Blank is the face
of that clerk, when he is told by an officer standing at the
gang-way that it is too late, the mail is closed, and the let-
ters cannot be received on board. He looks troubled; per-
haps his employer has lost the chance of a large speculation.
All this time the comedy is going on forward of the wheel
house and upon the forward deck. There a knot of jack tars
are as idle and as merry as lords, hallooing and singing, and
bidding ten thousand good-byes to their comrades on the pier.
I say, Jim, I would not leave this ere steamer and go aboard
another ship, if any body would give me twenty-five dollars
this minute.” “ That’s right, Jack, go in her and learn the
fashions. ”
Yes, that’s jest what I’m going for, jest for the novelty
of it; 1 want to see what sort of things these steamers is.”
“Hello, John, give my love to Morgiana, and take care of
yourself, old boy.”
Here a basket of apples was pressed from a vender in the
crowd by the tars on the pier to hand to the tars on deck, but
in the operation it slipped, and basket and all went into the
dock. Another basket was pressed, and Jack, suspending i rate 125 miles a day.
proceed in the shortest time to Monterey, of the Pacific ocean,
distant full four hundred miles. The way is over a moun-
tainous country, much of it uninhabited, with no other road
than a trace, and many defiles to pass, particularly the mara-
time defile of cl Rincon or Punto Gordo, fifteen miles in ex-
tent, made by the jutting of a precipitous mountain into the
sea, and which can only be passed when the tide is out and
the sea calm, and even then in many places through the
waves The towns of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo,
and occasional ranchos, are the principal inhabited places on
the route. Each of the party had three horses, nine in all,
to take their turns under the saddle. The six loose horses
ran ahead, without bridle or halter, and required some atten-
tion to keep to the track. When wanted for a change, say
at distances of twenty miles, they were caught by the lasso,
thrown either by Don Jesus or the servant Jacob, who, though
born and raised in Washington, in his long expeditions with Col.
Fremont, had become as expert as a Mexican with the lasso, as
sure as a mountaineer with the rifle, equal to either on horse
or foot, and always a lad of courage and fidelity. None of
the horses were shod, that being a practice unknown to the
Californians. The most usual gait was a sweeping gallop.
I he first day they ran one hundred and twenty five miles,
passing the fean Fernando mountain, the defile of the Rincon,
several other mountains, and slept at the hospitable rancho of
Don 1 omas Robberis, beyond the town of Santa Barbara.
The only fatigue complained of in this day’s ride was in
Jacob’s right aim, made tired by throwing the lasso and
using it as a whip to keep the loose horses to the track.
-The next day they made another one hundred and twenty-
five miles, passing the formidable mountain of Santa Barbara,
and counting upon it the skeletons of some fifty horses, part
of near double that number which perished in the crossing of
that terrible mountain by the California battalion on Christ-
mas day, 1846, amidst a raging tempest, and a deluge of
rain and cold more killing than that of the Sierra Nevada—
the day of severest suffering, say Fremont and his men, that
they have ever passed. At sunset the party stopped to sup
with the friendly Capt. Dana, and at nine at night San Luis
Obispo was reached, the home of Don Jesus, and where an af-
fecting reception awaited Lieut. Col. Fremont, in conse-
quence of an incident which occurred there, that history wTill
one day record; and he was detained till eleven o’clock in
the morning receiving the visits of the inhabitants, (mothers
and children included,) taking a breakfast of honor, and
waiting for a relief of fresh horses to be brought in from the
surrounding country. Here the nine horses from los Angeles
were left and eight others taken in their place, and a Spanish
boy added to the party to assist in managing the loose horses.
Proceeding at the usual gait till 8 at night, and having made
some seventy miles, Don Jesus, who had spent the night before
with his family and friends, and probably with but little sleep,
became fatigued, and proposed a halt for a few hours. It was
in the valley of the Salinas, (Salt river, called Buena- Ventu-
ra in the old maps,) and the haunt of marauding Indians.
For safety daring their repose, the party turned off the trace,
issued through a Canada into a thick wood, and laid down,
the horses being put to grass at a short distance, with the
Spanish boy in the sadole to watch. Sleep, when commenc-
ed, was too sweet to be easily given up, and it was halfway
between midnight and day when the sleepers were aroused by
an estampedo among the horses and the calls of the boy. The
cause of the alarm was soon found, not Indians, but white
bears—this valley being their great resort, and the place where
Col. F. and thirty-five of his men encountered some hundred
of them the summer before, killing thirteen upon the ground.
The character of these bears is well known, and the bravest
hunters do not like to meet them without the advantage of
numbers. On discovering the enemy, Col. F. felt for his pis-
tols, but Don Jesus desired him to lie still, saying that “peo-
ple could scare bears and immediately hallooed at them in
Spanish, and they went olf. Sleep went off also; and the
recovery of the horses frightened by the bears, building a rous-
ing fire, making a breakfast from the hospitable supplies of
t>an Luis Obispo, occupied the party till daybreak ; when the
journey was resumed. Eighty miles and the afternoon brought
the party to Monterey.
1 he next day, in the afternoon, the party set out on their
return, and the two horses rode by Col. F. from San Luis
Obispo, being a present to him from Don Jesus, he (Don Je-
sus) desired to make an experiment of what one of them could
do. They were brothers, one a grass younger than the other,
both of the same color, (cinnamon,) and hence called el ca-
nalo or los cahalos, (the cinnamon, or the cinnamons.) The
elder was taken for the trial; and the journey commenced up-
on him at leaving Monterey, the afternoon well advanced.
Thirty miies under the saddle done that evening, and the par-
ty stopped for the night. In the morning the elder cahalo
was again under the saddle for Col. F., and for ninety miles
he carried him without a change and without apparent fatigue.
It was still thirty miles to San Luis Obispo, where the night
was to be passed, and Don Jesus insisted that cahalo could
easily do it, and so said the horse by his looks and action.
But Col. F. would not put him to the trial, and, shifting the
saddle to the younger brother, the elder was turned loose to
run the remaining thirty miles without a rider. He did so, im-
mediately taking the lead and keeping it all the way, and enter-
ing San Luis in a sweeping gallop, nostrils distended, snuff-
ing the air, and neighing with exultation at his return to his
native pastures, his younger brother all the while running at
the head of the horses under the saddle, bearing on his bit,
and he.d in by his rider. 7 he whole eight horses made their
one hundred and twenty miles each that day, (aftei thirty the
evening before,^ the elder cinnamon making ninety of his un-
der the saddle that day, besides thirty under the saddle the
evening before ; nor was there the least doubt that he would
have done the whole distance in the same time if he had con-
tinued under the saddle.
After a hospitable detention of another half day at San Luis
Obispo, the party sat out for Los Angeles on the same nine
horses which they had rode from that place, and made the ride
back in about the same time they had made it up, namely at
of its predecessor, its dispositions being extremely friendly.
Counterfeit Eagles.—A Frenchman, giving as his name
Casimer Antonious, was arrested in Dayton, Ohio, on the
eleventh instant, charged with passing a number of coun-
terfeit gold eagles, and committed to the county jail. The
counterfeit is said to have been executed with much skill, and
the pieces are so heavily coated with gold that aqua fortis has
produced no effect upon them. They are so well coined as to
deceive the best judges.
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LYON & PRINCE.
rTlHE undersigned will practice law in partnership in the
i several Courts of the counties of Marengo, Sumter, and
Greene, and in the Supreme Court of the State. Office at De«
mopolis, Alabama. F. S. LYON,
aug 7—ly_ O. H. PRINCE.
R. CHRISTIE’S MEDICAL GALVANISM.—
Seize upon Truth wher’er ’tis found,
Among your friends, among your foes ;
On Christian or on heathen ground,
The flower’s divine wher’er it grows.
In the mysterious powers of Galvanism we have to wrestle
solely with facts, and, in their application to medical science,
facts the most astonishing are exhibited. Diseases which have
been considered beyond the reach of medicine, and have bat-
fled the best directed efforts of physicians, are found to yield
quite readily to the astonishing efficacy of this wondrous agen-
cy. An efficient and convenient mode of application has long
been desired, though but lately attained, and this has been done
by the beautiful invention of Dr. CHRISTIE’S GALVANIC
RINGS, BELTS, BRACELETS, and other appliances which
are adapted for peculiar diseases to any part of the system
with the most perfect safety and certainty of success. By
these means the most severe and protracted cases ot Rheumat-
ism, Headache, Dyspepsia, Spinal Complaints, Fits, Cramps,
Neuralgia, and all Nervous Diseases, are readily arrested in
their course, and very often perfectly cured.
The following is copied from a leading editorial article, dated
Nov. 13, 1846, in the New Era, Portsmouth, Va., A. F. Cun-
ning, Esq. Editor :
“We feel it a duty we owe to the public, to those who are
suffering under the severe affliction of Rheumatism, TicDolo-
reaux, Gout, &e., to bear this unsought testimony to the supe-
rior beneficial effects ol the Galvanic and Magnetic Curatives,
lately introduced into this country by the discoverer, Dr. A. H.
Christie, an English physician of high reputation.
“Mrs. Cunningham has been suffering severely from both
chronic and inflammatory rheumatism for many years, and has
found but little relief from the many applications recommend-
ed by physicians, and the patent nostrums which have been ad-
vertised as certain and sovereign cures. Last week the attack
of rheumatism was so severe, that the agony was almost too
much to bear, and the bones of the right foot and wrist were
sensibly projected from their natural position by the pain,
when we determined to try the virtue of the Galvanic articles
and Magnetic Fluid, although Mrs. C. and myself had no
faith in their virtues. The fact, however, has forced itself
upon our minds that they possess astonishing power. From
the first fifteen hours of their application, a sensible diminu-
tion of pain commenced, first leaving the wrist free, and
finally, by a strict observance of the directions, the foot and
whole body were entirely relieved from pain and swelling in
six days from the commencement of their use. We make this
statement, as stated above, without the knowledge of Dr.
Christie, or his agents, as a matter of information to the
public.”
05“PAUTION.—The great celebrity and success of Dr.
Christie’s Galvanic and Magnetic Curatives has caused them
to be counterfeited by unprincipled persons. To protect the
public against deception, there is but ONE AUTHORIZED
AGENT appointed in each town or city, from whom alone the
genuine articles can be procured. Only agent in Washington,
U. C. M. H. STEVENS,
nov 22—3tif No. 1, Brown’s Hotel.
rpHE AMERICAN ALMANAC FOR 1HT8, a KepaJ
JL sitory of Useful Knowledge for the year ; one volume,
Boston ; 369 closely printed pages—being the nineteenth
volume ot the series, giving, in addition to the ordinary mat-
ter ot an Almanac, full and varied information concerimig the
affairs of the General and State Governments, and digesting a
mass ot documents relative to the government, history, finan-
ces, legislation public institutions, and internal improvements
of the United States.
Among much other useful and interesting matter which
cannot be mentioned in an advertisement, will be found arti-
cles upon the Observatory at Washington, the great telescope
of Cambridge ; Pringre’s predicted Comet of 1848 ; Meteoro-
logical Information and Tables from various parts of the Unit-
ed States, showing the flowering seasons, and days and depths
of snow for a series of years past; Tables ol latitudes and
longitudes, by Major Graham, U. S. Army; the laws of the
several States concerning imprisonment for debt ; the Fatent
Office and the laws concerning Patents ; History of the Elec-
tric Telegraph ; the Government Departments at Washington,
corrected to the latest dates; the Revenues of the Post Office
under the new postage law; the Railroads of the United States;
the Debts, Property, and general financial condition of all
the States, corrected with great care ; Members elect to the
30th Congress, and their residence ; Members of the 5th Re-
formed Parliament; Abstract of the laws, resolutions, and
treaties passed at the last session of Congress ; a brief outline
of the history and the present constitution of each State ; lists
of Public Officers iu all branches of the Government, Foreign
Ministers and Consuls to and from the United States ; Army-
list, Navy list, and Marine Corps ; Public Lands, Debt of the
United States, United States Revenues for fifty-seven years ;
United States Expenditures for fifty-seven years, Imports, Ex-
ports, &c. for fifty-seven years, Tonnage, Navigation, Com-
merce, Commercial Marine, Banks, Emigration, Tea and
Coffee for twenty-six years, Tariffs, &e. Price $1. Postage
to any part of the United States 14 cents,
nov 22— F. TAYLOR, Bookseller, Washington.
GRAND SCHEME FOR NOVEMBER.
himself down the vessel’s side,’received it upon the toe of his H„°n thl! ,nd! the gras.s onLthe road was the food for the
het wiUing‘to pay^ and oftelTto^ ’ eTX^°an/Ihfr/ofv^aSe6 £‘°Swere’
So Jack put his hand in his pocket, pulled out some change,
and threw it on shore for the owner of the apples. Whether
some pilferer seized some of the change or not, I could not
like rain from other points around us The clan adonted K °n t0 Washington and there rest0Ted to hia rank, a I»«e of police officers, charged with forcibly breaking tell; but immediately Jack fell to pelting somebody in the
.hi I <•» l*Wf f «*>» <*»*« - accepting tmo.he. ‘‘"i?.*'”? ?<«-»> of appear. ,ha. .he croml app,es, liu . ,hem haJ agji,ll)Ce„
that of Mr. Williams, of England. It costs but a trifle, and
will save, as we said, in this one establishment, twenty-five
bushels of coal a day—enough to save the expense twenty
times in one season.—Pittsburg Gazette.
commission.—Picayune.
1 three are laboring under some kind of fanatico-religious delu- sent on <qlore
sion, one of them professing to have revelations and inspira-
The steamship New Orleans left New Orleans on the 3d dons from on high ; and their assault upon the house was the 1 ^ut tbere comes the last cry, “ All ashore, all aboard
instant, for Yera Ciuz, with $200,000 for the service of the result of a revelation he professed to have received, that the she moves oft; the gun is fired ; and away she goes down
Quartermaster’s Department at that place, 1 dwelling was his own. j the bay,
drink, that their master uses, by whom they are petted and ca
ressed and rarely sold. Bread, fruits, sugar, coffee, and even
wine, (like the Persian horse,) they take from the hand of their
Capital Prize $50,000—5 prizes of $10,000 each
10 prizes of $5,000 each.
78 numbers—13 drawn ballots.
SUSQUEHANNA CANAL LOTTERY, Class No. 52,
To be drawn in Baltimore, November 24, 1847.
SPLENDID SCHEME.
1 Grand Prize of............$50,000 is $50,000
1 prize of....................$10,000~)
1 do......................10,000
1 do...... ........10,000 )• are $50,000
1 do...........V..........10,000
1 do......................10,000 J
1 do......................5,000'
1 do......................5,000
1 do......................5,000
1 do......................5,000
; ^ *so.°°o
1 do......................5,000
1 do......................5,000
1 do......................5,000
1 do......................5,000j
10 do..........................1,500
10 do..........................1,250
25 do..........................1,000
25 do.......................... 600
200 do.......................... 500
master, and obey with like docility his slightest intimation. T°tal "T^r^fj^e^f97,6-9^0^ 3f NoJ$500’
fTeSS'-P'inp lh.m into ac.ion , .be C.«mtt,tf ^ck.trJ « uS, $ J, 00
£ £ S5S. £ ‘US
nim forward. 1 hey leap on any thing—man, beast, or wea- Do do 26 Eighths do 27 50
pon, on which their master directs them. But this description, so For tickets, shares, or packages, in the above grand scheme
fai as conduct and behavior are concerned, of course only ap- address L>. PaINF. & CO., Managers,
plies to the trained and domesticated horse, J, I n0Y 2—3tawd&o3w Baltimore, Md.
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