Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836 Page: 2 of 16
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NILES’ REGISTER—AUG. 6, 1836—MISCELLANEOUS.
self is going to pay a visit to his mother. Yesterday he
gave a farewell dinner to the diplomatic corps. It is
supposed he will be absent four months, during which
time count Armansperg will have extraordinary powers
entrusted to him. Antonio Miaulis and Catsakos Mau-
romichalis, two of the king’s aids, accompany him.
Gen. Church has established his head quarters at Thebes,
having been appointed commander-in-chief of the army.
His phalanx is a beautiful corps, and is very popular.”
CARTHAGENA. The brig Marcellino, at New York,
from Carthagena, whence she sailed on the 6th ult. re-
ports to the editor of the Courier that nothing of interest
had occurred in New Grenada. The country continued
tranquil, and every thing indicated its permanence. Con-
gress was to adjourn on the last of June, but the greater
part of the legislative proceedings were unknown in Car-
thagena.
The object which bad occupied the public mind was
the choice of electors for the coming presidential elec-
tion, to take place in April of the ensuing year. Greater
interest had been manifested on this occasion, than was
ever known before, and in the provinces of Cartha-
gena and Mompoz, where the parties are nearly divided,
the excitement was very great, but had happily, peacea-
bly subsided. There are a great number of candidates
for the presidency, but the most popular are Marques,
the present vice president, and general Obando, the ad-
ministration candidate, one of which will certainly be
elected.
COLOMBIA. This republic, now divided into three,
viz: Venezuela, New Grenada and Equador, has been,
i. e. its several parts have been, endeavoring for some
years past, to arrange the matter of the old national debt,
most of which is due to citizens of Great Britain and
the U. States. The efforts at an adjustment have how-
ever failed, thus far, and a correspondent of the Wash-
ington Globe, who writes from Bogota, expresses his
opinion that the matter will not soon be arranged, (and
of course all unsettled claims will remain in statu quo),
unless some friendly nation interferes as mediator be-
tween the parties. He adds—“I do not know any go-
vernment that would be more likely to succeed or more
acceptable than that of the United States; and I hope that
its mediation may be tendered.
[NV. Y. Jour. of Com.
Trade OF NEW ORLEANS. The exports from New
Orleans during the three months ending the 30th June
last were as follows:
To coast wise ports, $5,544,379
To foreign ports in American vessels, 7,597,543
To do. in foreign vessels 3,561,511
Total amount of dollars 16,703,433
The exports of foreign manufactures not
yet made up supposed to be 2,296,567
Total amount of exports for the second
quarter of 1836 19,000,000
Lumber trade OF BANGOR, MAINE. A correspon-
dent of the Springfield Journal, at Bangor, says, that
the town of Orono, 12 miles from Bangor up the Pe-
nobscot, is one of the most thriving places in the eastern
country. It contained in 1830 but 1,072 inhabitants. By
a census just completed, it now numbers 5,634. It de-
rives its importance from the lumber manufacture, which
is perhaps not equalled in extent in an equal space in
the world. There are now in operation night and day,
within a few miles of Bangor, principally within the
limits of Orono, more than 200 mill saws for boards,
and a proportionate number for laths, shingles and clap-
boards, manufacturing considerably more than 1,500,000
feet of lumber daily. This is cutting up lumber on a
scale, which no one, who has never bees “down east,”
can have an adequate conception of.
Manufactories at the south. We find this para-
graph in the Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer of the 4th
ultimo:
Jl new cotton factory. We have the pleasure of stat-
ing that a cotton factory, with 500 spindles, has been
erected in this town, by Charles P. Mallett, esq. and is
now in full operation. The first work upon this estab-
lishment was commenced about eight months ago, and
the rapidity with which it has been completed, not less
than the practical character of the owner, leaves no doubt
of its complete success. The machinery is all new, of
the latest improvement, and highest finish. The build-
ing is calculated for 1,000 spindles, and it is the intention
of the proprietor to procure the additional 500 as soon
as possible.
We hope that this is only the first of many such estab-
lishments here; and when we take into consideration the
immense water power in this neighborhood, the cheap-
ness of labor and of living, the convenience of a market
both for the raw material and for the yarn; and, not
least, the fact that all such establishments are in a highly
flourishing state throughout the country, we cannot but
hope that our citizens will not much longer remain in-
different to this important subject.
Discovery of North America. It is announced
abroad that the Royal society of Northern Antiquaries,
at Copenhagen, are about publishing by subscription a
work which is to throw new light upon the discovery of
America; it will be entitled ‘‘Antiquitates Americana;,”
or a collection of the accounts extant in Icelandic and
other Scandinavian manuscripts relative to voyages of
discovery to North America, made by the Scandinavians
in the 10th and following centuries. It is declared that it
will comprise testimony, the most authentic and irrefra-
gable, that North America was actually discovered by the
northmen towards the close of the 10th century, visited by
them repeatedly during the 11th and 12th, (some of them
even making settlements as colonists), re-discovered to-
wards the close of the 13th, and again repeatedly resort-
ed to in the course of the 14th. It is said, moreover,
that what serves in no small degree to enhance the value
of these documents is the great apparent probability,
amounting, indeed, almost to certainty, that it was a
knowledge of these facts that prompted the ever-memo-
rable expedition of Columbus himself! We give this
report as it reaches us in a Paris paper, and look eagerly
for further information. [National Gazette.
Battle of Bunker Hill. The following anecdote
of general Pomeroy, of Northampton, Massachusetts, is
from the address delivered at Charlestown, on the 17th
of June, by Alexander H. Everett:
“The veteran Pomeroy, to whom I have already par-
ticularly adverted, and who at this time held no commis-
sion in the line, when he heard the pealing artillery, felt
it as a summons to action, and could not resist the incli-
nation to repair to the field. He accordingly requested
general Ward to lend him a horse, and taking his mus-
ket, set off at full speed for Charlestown. On reaching
the neck and finding it enfiladed by a hot and heavy fire
of round, bar and chain shot from the British batteries,
be began to be alarmed, not fellow citizens! as you might
well suppose, for his own safety, but for that of general
Ward’s horse! Horses, fellow citizens! as I have al-
ready remarked, were at this time almost as rare and
precious as the noble animals that rode them. Toohon-
est to expose his borrowed horse to the ‘pelting of this
pitiless storm,’ and to dream for a moment of shrinking
from it himself, the conquerer of baron Dieskau dis-
mounted, and delivering gen. Ward’s horse to a sentry,
shouldered his musket and marched very coolly on foot
across the neck. On reaching the hill he took his place
at the rail fence. His person was known to the soldiers,
and the name of Pomeroy rang with enthusiastic shouts
along the line.”
Death of an old interpreter. We notice with re-
gret, in the Canandaigua Repository, the death at that
place of Jasper Parish, esq. 69. His life is full of
romantic incidents. An emigrant with his parents from
Connecticut to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, he was cap-
tured in 1778, at the age of 11, by a party of Delawares,
a few days after the massacre at Wyoming, and remain-
ed a prisoner among the Six Tribes for seven years, ac-
quiring their language perfectly, and also their manner
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Niles, Hezekiah, 1777-1839. Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836, periodical, August 6, 1836; Baltimore, Maryland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694177/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .