-.:&,‘;,..,¥..3,,
-'1
. supposel may take it for granted,that,in the
‘ Northward. England wou’d then naurally
tianytimes clasped her in his arms and
kised her. . —
' Soon after Antonio’s departure, Father‘
Silvestro also left the church, and walked!
some time back and forth along the colon-
ade, which surrounds a pretty _little gar-,
den within the quadrangle of his convent. l
Now and then he wouldstep out into the‘.
garden, stop before some rich nnd'fl'fi'.
grant flowering shrub, and carefully tie upl
aifalling bougli, or trim off here and there,
a withered branch from an orange tree.-_
At last he shot himself up in his cell, and;
did not appear again until evening, when,
he was seen to issue from the convent gafea
in his becoming black and white Dom_m-,
ican robes, with the large ot'ersli_atl0\V"‘_i‘:’§,
hat upon his sliaven head and direct ll_15
gzteps towards the neighboring Collegioi
omario. _
ism. wi:ss'ri3n's LATE SPEECH. ,
Tlie following extracts from Mr. W8l)Sl€1".5i
Speech before the Whigs of Boston, in Fanueilg
Hall, on Friday precedding the election, will be 5
read with much interest by those who have not
before perused them.
I suppose it is the sentiment of every
sensible and just man, that the preserva-
tion of the peace of the country on honor-
able terms, and under circumstances fa-
vorable to the great interests of the coun-
try is an object in itselfhighly desirable. I
judgment ofthis assembly,the public peace
oftwo great commercial countries, WllIt'l‘t
hold together a daily intercourse exceed-
ing that between any other two countries
in the world, shall not be lightly disturbed.
I appears that this (Oregon) is a sub-
ject for negociation, for discussion, for
amicable settlement ; and so it has been
regarded by both governments for the
whole length of time. lt was because the
two governments could not agree as to
the pioper division of the territory, or up-
on any other satisfactory arrangement,
that in 1818 they determined on joint oc-
cupation until they could come to some
understanding about it. And with the
same spirit, this government at three dif-
ferent times, in I8l8 in 1821-, in 1826, has
proposed to the British Government, a
straight line of division, the parallel of 49
degrees, all north of which should be as-
signed to England, and all south belong to
America.
What the British Minister said in the
House of Commons—-—in its sum and sub-
stance—was that England had rights in
regard to this question that must be and
would be respected. I adopt the same
language on our side, and say that we also
have rights that ought to he, must be, and
will be respected.
VVhere is Oregon? On the shores of
the Pacific, three thousand miles from us
and twice as far from England. Who is
to settle it"! Americans mainly; some
settlers undoubtedly from Englaiid; but
all flnglo ./]mer2'.--ans ,- all men’ educated
in nations of indepent governmentand all
self dependent. And now let me ask if
there be any sensible man in the United
States who will say for a moment, that
when fifty or a hundred thousand persons
of this description shall find themselves
on the shores oftlie Pacific Ocean, that
they will long consent to be under the
the rules either ofthe American Congress
or British Parliament. They will raise a
standard for themselves, and they ought
to do it. I look forward to the period
when they will do this as not so far dis-
tant, but that many now present, and those
not among the youngest of us, will see a
great Pacific republican nation. I believe
that it is in the course of Providence and
ofliuman destiny that a great State is to
arise, of English and American ‘descent,
whose power will be established over the
country on the ‘shores of the Pacific; and
all those rights of natural and political lib-
erty, all those great principles that both
nations have inherited from their fathers,
will be transmitted through us to them, so
that there will exist at-the mouth of the
Columbia, or more probably farther South,
at great Pacific Republic, a nation where
our children may go for a residence, sep.
crating themselves from this government,
and forming an integral part ofa new gov-
ernment, half way between England and
China; in the most healthful, fertile, and
desirable portion of the globe, and quite
too far remote from Europe a_nd from this
side of the American Continent to be un-
der the governmental influences of either
country. _
But, gentlemen, in this point of view is
‘this a subject upon which it is‘ proper by
popular appeal, or by loud representation
ofpatriotism, or by a sort of stormy de-
fiance of the power ofa great nation on
our side,—is it proper on the other side
by cries about the maratime ascendancy
of England, the great wealth, the dignity,
the. power, the martial prowess of Eng-
land-—is it a question on which by out-
cries of this sort on either side of the
oeean, these two great communities are to
be embroiled and plagued in all their com-
mercial and friendly relations-—or to be
compelled to run into the horrors olwar'!
No,_gent_lemen! the spirit of the age is
against it.
I have said I will not undertake to ex
press an opinion as the manner in which
the question. may be settled. I will say,
however, what appears to be natural. It is-
welliknown. that the 49th degree of North
latitude is the boundary line, between the
yllestern part of this country, and the Brit-
ish provinces, as far as the foot of the Sto-
ny Mountains. It seems to be natural
enough if the two governments contem-
plated at change,that,they should agree to an
extension of this same line \«Vest'wa.rd ;
that the two should ieep abreast, side by
side, with the same line of division, till
they reach the Pacific Ocean-. It is well
known that about where the Columbia
crosses the 49th parallel,it makes f,_a turn
and fljows nearly Southward. Very well.
Suppose it made as suddlen.a- sweep to the
say, this river, which has been making
Westward, sweeps to the Northward ;—
the North, we ‘will léavcfit ’and.go_"foni'l
straight tothe Pacific Ocean on this pill“
allel of ‘49 degrees. " For the same reason,
it is not unnatural for the U. States to say,
since it provesthatthe river makes a cir-
lcuit to the s0uth,—-instead of following
that circuit, we will go straight upon the
the 49th parallel till we meet the 5110” 0f
the Pacihc Ocean. _ . . _
This very prop0Slt|0l'! has been made
to the British government three succes-
sive times. It was made in ’IS in ’2-Ii and
726,-—again and again, to follow up the
49th parallel, westward from the Lake of
the Woods, not only to the foot of the
Rocky Mountains, but over the Moun-
tains and omvard to the Ocean.
I am not about to say whether this is a
proper division of the territory or not. —
But I do say, that as it has been so often
repeated in this manner 25, and ‘.20, and 1.8
years ago,,is an admission that there is
something to negociate about, and treat
about for either side ;——that it is not a
question free from difiiculty on either
side.
Now, gentlemen, who is the man at the
head of either government, who will take
iipon iiimsclf the responsibility of.bring-
ing on a war between two nations like Gt.
liritain and America, upon a question of
this Lind, until he is prepared to show
that anything and everything that he could
do, has been done to avoid such a terrible
ultimate result. If a British minister un-
der whose administration a war should en-
sue, on the question, cannot stand up in
Parliament and show that it is not his fault,
cannot show that he has done everything
which an honest and sensiblejman can do
to avert the conflict, I undertake to say
that no power or popularity can uphold
his shaking position for an hour. And in
the same sense and spirit I say, that if in
this country, any party shall, before we
are aware of it, plunge us into a war upon
this question, it must expect to meet a
a very severe iriterrogatory trom the
American peoplc—must expect to prepare
itself to show that it has done all it could,
without any bias from the pride ofsiiccess
or the love of war——-«ill that it could do,
to keep the nation safe from so great at ca
laniity, with the preservation of its rights
and its honor.
Gentlemen, it appears to me that any
man, Prime Minister ofEngland or Pres-
ident oftlie United States, who should un-
necessarily light up the flames of war up-
on such a subject, (flames let me add that
will burn over the whole globe} may well
consider the genius of his country ad-
dressing to him the words which 9,-the or-
ator of Rome supposed the genius of his
country would address to him if he did
not quell the Cataline conspiracy,——“./in
cum bello vaslubitur ltalia, vemalzunter urlics
tecta urde/mm ,- lum te non eazis-tzmas invi-
(1 its 1'ncr=/211-io cnn_fl:.-graturum.”
No, gentlemen ! the man who shall, in-
cautiously, or led on by false ambition, or
party pride, kindle those fires of war over
the globe on this question must look out
for it,—must expect to he himself con-
sumcd in it burning conilagration of gen-
eral reproach.
Tliere will be a public indignation be-
fore which no popularity, public or private,
can stand-it will melt. down every man-
ument of the dead, it will destroy all re-
spect for the living, it will burn up every
vestige of respect for individual worth, if
unnecessarily, if recklessly, ifambitiously
it has plunged the subjects and citizens of
two civilized Christian nations of the world
into war ;—-a war which shall cause the loss
millions of wealth—sliall turn cities to
srnoke,—sliall cost thousands and him-
drcd of thousand lives,—and those smok-
ing cities, and that destruction of proper-
over the whole globe, in every latitude
and longitude, siirrounding the ball on
which we live. _
Now gcntlemen,I do not propose that
on this subject we take any alarm. I pro-
pose that we keep ourselves cool and
calm. In some of the Southern cities
there is now some agitation for fear of
war. I regret this much. I hardly say I
regret the feeling—the feeling is natural.
Butlregret thecause. It is a common
mistake of men not in the most elevated
position, that they think they can play the
small patriot safely, in a small style.—---
There are those who think that they can
talk of a war with England and any other
nation, and get credit for their patriotism
and lofty love of country, but keep the
game in their own hands. That may not
happen. At any rate that is not the way
nor the course whichjust and lofty and
respectable men feel on the great qtiestion
of peace or war. '
This constant speculation, this suppo-
sition that war may come, is half as bad
as war itself. It confounds and confuses
men in regard to their own business plans.
What we want is settled peace, and the
conviction that peace will remain until
there is some just and sensible cause for
war.
On this subject I have only further to
say that while it is our duty not to take
or spread alarm, to believe and trust that
the Government, that the country will act
soberly and wisely and justly, it is a less
difii'.culttliin-g=-than- some people imagine.
to begin aidis.-pute, whose result no man
can control‘. Let the Government only be
sure that it is right and ask for nothing
that is wrong, freely and magnanimously,
and without any particular array of patri-
otic declaration.
I‘: will be admitted to be a general. prin-
ciple of morals, that every man who fore-
sees an evil and can prevent it, and does
not choose-to prevent it, is himselfrespon-
sible for that evil. There could not have
been a man in the United States who did
not see that in withholding his vote from
-the Whig candidate, be aided directly the
election of the Lot-.ofeco~ candidates for
President and Vice—President, and that the
choice of these Locofoeo-candidates must
as. Was it notproclaimedi from every ‘
hill-top’! It was told to Mr. Birney and _
his followers again and again: “If the
instead of making with it a great head to
»Whig candidate is chosen, Texas is out
ty and that sacrifice of life shall be found]
and you know it; if‘ he is‘ "not" chosen,
Texas is in, and you I.-now it.”
But they said, “We do not vote for Mr.
Polk.”
Very well. Butyou had the . means of
preventing the annexation of Tex_as; you
knew your own power. By joining ll10S€
as anxious as you are, or as you pl‘0fe_SS
to be, to prevent it, you could prevent it-
If you did not join them it would ‘take
place. You did not join them, and it did
take place. _
Gentlemen, this is a subject on which I
have deep feeling—-—very_ deep feeling:—-
__ nil I think it must stand on the pages of
'lii‘sjt‘ory as the recorded judgment of man
that those among us who asserted
theriiselves to be in a peculiar and marked
degree, friends to universal liberty, have
by their own deliberate act fastcried the
ehains of slavery__0n a great portion of the
black race over afivast extent of this con:i-
ncnt. It-.is to-me the most mournful and
the most awful reflection.
I know that thousands, of gentlemen
who took such a course, say that they
meant well. I am not to scrutinize their
motives, they must answer for those else-
where, but I beseech them, now, not to
fall into another such mistade. It is
thought,——it is an idea, I do not say how
well founded,——tliat there may be yet a
hope for resistance to the consummation
of the annexationjof Texas. [Enthusias-
tic applause.] I can only say for one, that
if it should fall to my lot to haven vote on
such a question, andl vote for the admis-
sion into this Union of any State with a
Constitution which proliil;-its even the
Legislature from ever setting ' the bond-
man free, I shall never show my head a-
gain, depend upon it, in Faneuil Hall.-
[Tremendous cheering]
But, gentlemen, suppose it to be so ;
suppose the case, that in the ensuing ses-
sion of Congress, your members fairly and
freely protest against the consummation
of this annexation; why how are we to
stand in Massaehutettsl How are we to
stand in Massachusetts’! Are we to
have the gentleman who is nominated by
the locofocos, the governor of the State,
and to fight the‘ battle under his auspices 7.
I would beseech brethren to come back
upon that old platform—broad euougli to
sustain us all—-on which we set out to
gether as VVhigs; on which, as Whigs, we
achieved something for the good of the
country; on which, and not otherwise,
letting by-gones be by-gones, rallying un-
der the great name which our ancestors
bore—confideri-t that as Whigs, we can ac-
complish good for the Constitution and
the Country which no other name among
us is ableito acc0mplish,here or hereafter.
Gentlemen, let us lay aside every other
call of ordinary duty until we have done
our utmost to establish otir principles in
the election of our candidates. Iain here
necessarily engagcd,in profess-i-onal aflairs.
the town in which I: reside is so far dis-
tant that I must devote two days ‘to go
thither and vote there. But I should go
if it cost ten days. ,[Cliec.rs.] but us all
do our duty, unfalteringly, laboriqitsly, so-
berly. And when after Monday“the ques-
tion is asked, which certainly will.be ask-
ed,beginning at Rhode Island—and spread-
ing as far as Georgia, and westward to
Wisconsin, “How stands Old Massachu-
setts 'l” let you and me be able to hold up
our heads and say “Look at her and see
how she stands l”
The Business rfa C'hrz'r.ti'rm Nation du-
ring One fumrlred and Twenty seven years.
——Great Britain (says an exchange paper)
has spent 65 years in war,and G2 in peace,
She borrowed in seven wars, which occu-
,pied the 65 years, £83 l,O00,000. In
the same time she raised by taxes,£l,l89,
'000,0_00. thus forming a total expenditure
of $z4,98‘.Z,1‘20,000, in our currency. This
enormous sum extorted from the taut-
strained sinews 0' labor, would have con-
structed a railroad round the globc,allow-
ing $25,000 per mile. To raise another such
sum would require a tax of $10 on every
human being on the globe! The interest
of this sum for one montb,_at 5 per cent,
exceeds the whole amoiirit’contributed by
the whole christian worldrfor preaching
the gospel to the heathen for the last 1000
years.
Disastrous Fire in New York.-——Last
Tuesday night about 6 o’clock a fire broke
out in the large four store store No. 27
Cedar st, occupied as follows: above by
Ellis &. King, manufacturers of parasols
and umbrcllas—R. T. Wilde, straw goods
—Mi‘. Scott, linens, hosiery, ore. and J.
Dittenhoeffcr, dry goods. The fire com-
menced in the upper part of the building,
and while the firemen were engaged there
in their noble efforts to arrest the progress
of the flames, an explosion took place,
from the igniting of some varnish, alco-
hol, &c., which threw the bricks and slate
in every direction, and seriously injured
several of the firemen.
Jlfagiia C/mrta.—-'I‘he library of the State
Department at Washington contains “a
fric simile of the original magna cltarla, as
it appeared in the_ tower perhaps a genera
tion ago. The seals are awfully mutilated,
and it is written in a character so utterly
obsolete, that I was unable (says a corres-
pondent of the Evening Post,) to deter-
mine whether the language was Monkish
Latin, Norman, French or Scandinavian.
It may be a m-i'x»ture of all‘ three.
.«7notlterJlIovement in Mason County.-
Four hundred and fifty six citizens'ofMa-
son county, of both political parties, be-
lieving that the real opinions and‘ interests
of the great body of the people of that
county were not faitlifully expressed by the
action ‘of the late meeting upon the pro-
ceedings-'at Lexington in suppressing the
“True American,” have published in the
.Ma’ysville Eagle,-a call upon all their fel-
_low‘ci'tizens of Mason: to assemble svmass
‘meeting at Washirigtomthe county town,
inevitably result in the annexation of'I‘ex:- ,,._.,,,,,he mu, of the. mesa“, momh_
Louisville" .l'our..
Hon. John M. Bert-ien, of’ Georgia, has
resigned his seat in the U. S. Senate.
__
CARTER, THE LION-TAMER.
The Kentucky Yankee has got to be
quite a lion hiinselfamong the".lohn Bulls.
He ‘recently owned the fastest horse in
England, the famous “Onedia Chief.” He
has just purchased the largest horse in
England. He has named him “General
Washington.” He is twenty hands high,
and loous as large as an elephant. He is
a black gelding, beautifully dappler-l—lii_s
mane is nc-arly four feet long; his tail
sweeps the ground ; he is perfectly form.
ed, and is regarded as one of the finest
specimens of the horse ever seen in Great
Britain. He is only six years old; he
will be exliibitcd shortly in London, and
then brought to the United States.
Ifailroadfrom C/iarIe.to7i to Tr:ras.—Tlie
City Council of Natchez have called a
meeting of the citizens of that place for
the purpose of inviting an examination iii-
to the expediency of extending the great
line of Atlantic railroad commencing at
Charleston, S. C., and ending at Mont-
gomery, Al:t., so as to strike the Mississip-
pi at Natc'hez—-“The immense trade and
travel, says the Free Trader, which will
soon be setting touards Texas, will make
a project of this kind not only feasible, but
perfectly practicable, ofgreat convenience
to the public, and profitable to the stock-
holders.” __
l'I"e gallirr t.'iein 7'7).-—During the last nine
mo-ntlis no less than 69,163 foreigners ar-
rived at New York from di-flferi-nt ports of
the Old. World. This is about ‘.30’ per ct.
more than the amount of emigration for
the same length of time last year. Nearly
8("DI'7l£_l/ tlioiisuml pilgrims and strangers
from foreign lands landed at a single port
DOINGS AMONG THE. MOBMONS.
The complaints among the people re-
siding in the neighborhood of Nauvoo are
becoming every day more and more vehe-
ment. Tbe whole country is in a state of
constantly increasing excitement, which
nothing but the immediate removal of the
Mormons will serve to allay. A meeting
was held in Schuyler Co., at Ruslivllle ON
the 27th ult. to take intoconsideration the
Hancock disturbances, at which resolu-
tions were passed severely reprobaiing the
conduct of some of the anti-Mormons as
regards barn burning, 85¢. but neverthe-
less stating their conviction that those
acts had their origin in a feeling ofdespe-
ration in llit?-Se persons, “based upon the
as~urance. that their houses, their lands
and their property must be abandoned,
and their families give place to intruders
and out laws." In another resolution it
was proposed to raise 500 ‘men to coop-
erate with forces from other Counties.-—
ln it they say, they “deem Moririonisiri an
evil Wliicli should now be removed, peace-
ably if it cari—forcib’.y if it must!’ It
is feared that an open encounter must
shortly ensue. 'l he \Varsaw Signal has
the following article, \\IllClI echoes the
popular opinion :
" ll"t'!1 they Go ’.?—--The Lee County (Iowa)
Democrat says it is fully convinced that
the proposition made by the Mormons to
.leiivc, is all it r'u.se-—-tliat they have as yet
lfiirnislietl no evidence of their design to
‘go, except by words. They :ire still, it
says, at work on the Temple, and are mak-
ing no efforts to dispose of their property.”
The JlIormons.—Resist-':tice was offered
in Naiivoo to the arrest,by it proper ofiicer,
ofthe Union in the brief space of nine
months! Wliat an army of human beings!
Adding to this number that of those who
have entered the country from other
points, and the grand total reaches
upwards of 100,000 arrivals in nine rnontbs
—about 11,000 per month! or near 134-,
000 per annum.
flnothcr Gale.-—The Albany papers con-
tain reports ofa tremendous gale which
sprang up on Wednesday night, the 9th,
from the North and West, and was still
raging at latest accounts. It was accom-
panied on the river by alternate gusts of
snow and min, which seriously incomrno-
ded the steaimboais on their passage to-
ward that city. Many vessels, it is sup-
posed, are driven ashore, and a number of
accidents are stated to have occurred. In
Albany and its suburbs, chimnies were
blown.down, trees torn tip by the roots,
and sheds and fences prostrated. Three
new walls close by the Penitentiary were
blown- down, which were built at an ex-
pense of some $600. In Patroon st.the ga-
ble eiid of a row of buildings were scat-
tered on the pavement.
The walls of the Penitentiary were 20
inches thick, bound with iron, and about
23 feet high.
G/leap I’o.s-rage:-Tlie Washington Cor-
respondent ofthe Jour. of Coinmerce ‘feels
vey well assured’~that the Postmaster Gen-
erial will not Oppusc the New Postage law
in the forthcoming Report, but thinks he
will recommend the temporary adoption
of the 5 L0 and 15 cent rates, and advise
a return to the single letter postage.
Slamm, oftlic New York Globe, allu.
ding to the recent Loco Foco meeting in
New York city, says that Jasmes K. Polk
was sustained by it ‘without qualification.’
As he was elected withotrt any q=ualifi'ca-
tion for the office, we suppose it isproper
he should be ‘sustained without qualifica-
tion’ while in it.-—Lo:zr’sv:'l/e J. ur-nal.
Steam Boat flcctde7it.——The steamer
Globe on her passage from Hartford to
New York, by way of New Haven, broke‘
her shaft close to the crank, on the niglit of
the 10th, at about 10 o’c’lk, when abreast
New Haven L‘ght.
Mr. Rowley, of.Connect'ieut',. with whose
robbery on board the steamboat the pub-
lic are familiar, is now corilided in a Lu-
natic Asylum at Worcester. The rob-
bery, caused him to be arrested on his go-
ing to that City and thrown into prison.
This, together with the loss of lii‘smoney,
so preyed upon li.m that his reason gave
way beneath the attack. Truly his fate
has been a hard one.
We learn the steamer Oregon is going
upon the Dry Dock for the purpose of hav-
ing her hull strengthened, by the addition
-of more timber, braces, &c. with the view
of placing her permanently upon the
Sound.
The fine ship Shakspeare made_',ber last
trip from New Yori. to New Orleans in
the exceedingly short space ofeiglit days,
the quickest on record.
Pure Copper.—-—A mass of pure nati~ve
copper, from a mine in Missouri, has ar-
rived at the door of the Mineralogical
Cabinet of Yale College. It weighs about
2000 pounds, and as yet its quality cannot
be seen, being still in the case It was
procuredgby Prof. E. Shepard.——PaIl.
A Mr. Martin has recently recovered
$1750 damages against the Troy & Sar-
atoga Railroad Company for an injury to
his person in being crushed between the
cars, by which he was made a cripple for
life. The Company offered Mr. Martin
$2500, soon after he had sustained the in-
jury, which he would not accept.
Mr. Campbell of'Monroe, Va. was rob-
bed a few days ago‘. The robbersentered
his bed room—while- one held him in his
bed, the others abstracted from a drawer
$609 in gold and silver, and $3,200 in
bank notes, together with a bundle of bonds
amounting to $80,000.
Thirty six horses, raised on Mr. Clay’s
farm at Ashland, were in New Haven a
few days since to be shipped to the West
Indies.
The population of the city of New York,
according to the Census just taken, is
311‘, l02'—bt-ing an increase of 58,902 in
the last five years.
, an occupant for two weeks past‘.
The Jail in Danbury has- been I without .
,of a man named Redding, indicted as an
laccomplice in the murder of Col.’ Daven-
§p0l'l. This man was rescued, and is now
secured in Nauvoo——the ofiicers were ston-
;ed, and otherwise injured. \Ve learn
from the Quincy Whig, and other sources,
that the Mormons in Nuuvoo have actually
defied the power of the State, and declar-
ed that no more arrests shall be made in
Nauvoo.
The Warsaw Signal says three houses
have been burned. It is filled with angry
notices of the Mormons. We hear, in-
deed, that the excitement is breaking out
afresh, and that it will be harder than ever
to quell it without blood shed. The St.
Louis Era adds:
Jairnes Arlington Bennett is said to be
trying to act the Lion at Nauvoo at the
present time. He will be roughly handled
if he falls into the hands of the anti-Mor-
mons. - ,_
Extraordinary Change of f'ort1me.—-A
correspondent of the Boston Courier, wri-
ting from Buffalo, says an individual of
that city, who, in the great expansion of
business in 1836, stood next to Ratlibun,
the second in the list of licroes, who trav-
elled through the country in state, and
who spent hundred of dollars at the hotels
of an evening. and then cursed the land-
lords for not charging higher, who pur-
chased the Ainericun Hotel, for I know
not how much. and expended $40,000 in
furnishing it-—-who was approached with
awe, and looked up to with reverence;
who is said to have given in a schedule in
bankruptcy of some eleven millioiis—-is
now engaged in the humble but honest
employment of driving a horse cart, and
peddling sand about the streets of Buffalo.
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Dc-lazun Sim’!/i— a Tyler man in oflice
et !—'I‘he \V!l':lllflglOfl correspondent of
the Ohio Statesman closes a letter with
the following good one for a guffaw:
One of the best things-to laugh about in
the present dull times is the following :—
ocratic and then in Tyler editor in Ohio,
as you doubtless recollect, was appointed,
about a year ago, by Mr. Tyler, as a sort
of commercial agent to visit some of the
South American Republics, the Piaclic
Ocean, one. at: $8 per day, and voyage
and travelling expenses paid. “Dilu-
'.S"fO7l,” as he is familiarly called, lrnous a
thing or two! He departed on his mis-
sion—and still keeps on, but. government
don’t know and can’t find out at
point. Mr. Bucliaiinn wishes to recall
him, but for the life of him, he says he
cannot ascertain at what quarter of the
globe the agent is pursuing his researches l»
“Delusz°ori” avoids sending home repoi ts ;»
and it is supposed that near the close of
the present termol? the administration be
per diem allowances for Uncle Sam-to foot.
l hat “Delusion” is a smart chup—veryl
He goes altogether ahead of the Jo/in
Smiths, and is the keenest Tyler man ex-
t.:m=t~-—except Wise’-
Professor Espy has received from the
British Government a valuable ofvlicial
publication containing meteorological ob-
servations made at various places, being
the iirst instance of this work having been
presented to a private individual in this
country.
Six /iumlrerl Letters S eizcd.-—-The Boston
six hundred letters were seized on board
the steamship Hibernia, by the mail officer,
for a violation of the British post office
regulations. They were from Halifax.
Appointment by I/ie }'re.s-idenl.-—James
Clarke as Governor of the Territory of
Iowa, in the place of John Cliambers, re-
moved.
There has been a general sweep of of-
ficers from Baltimore Custom House.-
The outs and ins are both loco-focos.
The expenses in the Baltimore Custom
House, have increased $12,254 per annum
since 1840, and in that time the com-
-rnerce has decreased.
Ex-President Lamar, of Texas, having
settled. in Brooklyn, has been named al-
ready for Mayor 1’ He has purchased the
splendid White House in Atlantic street,
(Rapelye-"’s) for $18,500.-
'I?he~Chamber of Commerce have pass-
ed resoliitions in favor of the establish-
ment ofan Astronomical Observatory in
Delazoii Smit_l_t, Esq., forin_crlya lxem-'
tvhati
will come home with a very pretty bill of;
Post says, that it was reported that some _
NORWALK GAZETTE.
Ilfcdnacsday, Nov. 19, I845.
ACCIDENT to rat»: CATALINE.-00 Wednes-
day last as the steamer Cataline was off Marinar-
oncck, on her way to New York, a serious acci-
dent befell her, which made sad havoc with the
Engine and some portion of the wood work that
surrounded it. While the passengers, (ourself
amongihe nurnber,) were at dinner, all were
startled by what app:-aired the striking of the
boat upon a ledge of rocks. For an instant there
wasa coiisiderahle pricking up of cars, and an
anxious look towards the forward part of the
cabin. The hesitation however was but for an,
insiani,for as ilic thuiiiping and cracking cou-
llliuetl,af._,*t'n(’lal rush was made for _tlie deck,
where a scene of I.‘.0flS!€l'llaIIt_)[I’I'Il'ld confusion oc-
curred. such as is only to he witnessed on occa-
sions ofsteamhoai accident s. Some were en-
deavoring to gain the ext rt-me parts of the boat,
that in case there was ii blow up, they should
be as far out of liarrn’s way as possihle. Others
were availing themselves of plt1r.ltS and boards,
viding themselves \\.l'lll stools upon which to
trust themselves to the in-aclicrtus wave. One
chap wenoiiced, Will’) rather mort-discretion and
good seiisethzin the rest,» threw himselfinto the
pilot boat, which tvas floating along side, and
isitlijack knife in liasrl. Sl0O(l ready should iiap-
pcar necessary, to cut the line,- deeming we sup-
pose, that the timely command-ufsucli a craft at
such a time, was rathier niorc desirable, than
seeking a hirtb from the option of others. The
accident was ofsuch a nature, that few in the
after part ofilie boat could beconie ac'q'uainted
with the realsituatibn ofiliecase. It was how-
ever, soon ascertained that the trouble was with
the machinery. Thejsiw to the cross l'ia‘r,. into
wl-iich the piston is placed, had- mi-ted, and‘ the
whole oftlic upright moving portion of the en-
gine, came lumbering down upon the hu‘rrica~n'e
deck, fall‘ing nearly upon the pilot house‘, imme-
diately in front. Could the machinery have’
been stopped at once much oftlie wreck would
have been prevented, but the momentum it had
acquired, prevented this, and of course, every
movement after the "machinery had-been thrown‘
we believe, were bent and somewhat b'roken»,t3he'
piston was bent into ilie form of an elbow,- and-
the cap of the cylinder was wrenched tff a"s'ifit'
had been pipe clay. The wood work suffered I’
a little, but this was ofrninor importance.
Some of the New York papers, we believe,
have censured the Engineer, who was said to
have been at dinner at the time of the accident.
This we think is unjust, for any one may see;.t'll'e'
accidentwas such an one, as the presence ofthat
oflicer could not have prevented. He was on-
ihe spot‘ as soon as the first notice was given,
and the valves for the escape of the steam, were
raised, and every precaution taken to guard it'-
gainst further disaster. '
Fortunately not the slightest injury occurred
its any one, and but very little detention resulted‘
tfroni the mishap. The Hero, Capt. Richardl
,Pcck, of New Haven, was but afew miles astem
:and on running up a signal,»at once bore down-"
ifor us, and towed us as-farasHari Island, where
gthe Lataliiie was anchored, and her passcngert
proceeded in the Hero. I.
No blame can he atiacl'ied’,wiili any degree of
jreason, to the oflicers ofthe boat, as the occur-
:rence was beyond foresight and prevention,
land all that could be done uiiifcr the circumstatv
ices, wasdone with promptness-.
The Edwin Lewis takes the place of the Cat‘-'
ialine.
l Anotlier coruniuuication has been handed in-
:froni “\Vi;,” which in a very sum mary mode,-
Etakes the hide olf of our “fihunkcy” neighbor,
‘and tacks it up to élry aéfter Chapinan’s manner‘
.of“skiniiing skunks.” According to our notion,
l o I n - o I -
- the evercise oi ccmmiseration is more becoming:
ftlie ohject,tlian any 0illt‘l' course that could he
‘adopted. Say, as u‘nclc 'I‘ub_v said, “go poor deif-
ll,” etc.
, I.os'r ML-ii..—'l'lie in:iil- hug di.-patched from the‘
{Allniiiy Post Ofliee for the city of New York on-
: \'lr’e'li’iie_srlii'_{ ni_\___'lit last. iii the steamer Ktiickerlmtk-
lcr, had not heeii received whcii- the papers of Moi)-'
day went to pre.<s~.- The boat reaclie.-di N. Y. attf
‘o'clock in the morning. The mail is supposed to
have been taken in the IIIIPIVEII hetwcen the landing
‘oftbc boat‘ ant} the arrival-' of the post ufiice porter.
It is thought possible, limrever, that it may have
gone south hy mistake. The mail W:lS(lv\*zllll1!’l'!l€
one. It contaiiied driifts i-iicloseil oy the Coiiiiner.
, cial Batik of Albany, to the aniuuiit of $10,000. and
$20000 by the State Biiiilt-—-iii all about $I'20.ll00.-
These were. drni-.-ii payable to order, and a forged
eI)tl0l‘.‘ClHt:nl. will be necessary before they can be
made available to the robbers.
* THE “L‘Lf?ISllTY" PARTY.
The Annual Convention--oftlie “Liberty Par-
ty" for the nominaiion of caiididates for state
officers was held in Hartford last \Vednesday.-—-
Gen. Iuttle of 'l'orringford, was temporarily
called to the chair, and the convention was per-
manently organized by the appointment of.lolin:
Hooker, Esq. ofFarmington, as president, and‘
D. G. Platt, as secretary. _
The follou ing. tclret was then nominated-:. »
For Goveruor—FiuiNcis .Gi1.Lr:'r1'i; ; '
Lie-ut. Governor—Li:vr YALE, of Meriden ;'
Secreiary—-Viivc£N'r Hiivciri.£v, of Plainfielrl ;I
For Treasurer—Gi;oiics READ. of Say brook ;.
L‘omptroller—Liawis Uzi as, In. of Stratford.
NEIV YORK EI.EC'I‘IO‘-N.
~ The N. Y. Morning News has ‘full: returns from
the city as follows:
elected by a large plurality. The lowest loco focov
(Jonatliaii D; Stevenson) has 3.967 over iliehigh-
the three parties is about
\Vliig. 11.500. Loco‘. 16.500. Native,.9',000. L0,.
co, over Whig, 5,000. Whig and Native over Loco.
3,500. '
Massacnussrrs E1;sc'rrou.—-This Election-
took place on Monday 10th. No election-ofGov--
ernorb-. the people was effected but both branch»
es of the Legislature being decidedly \Vhig,.the*
present Governor, Hon. Geo. N. Briggs will be‘
elected. The returns, as yet not quite‘ com-..
ple‘t‘¢72 give for Governor, ‘ '
_ his Loco-, N--Am. Abolition-..
Briggs.. Davis. _ Shaw. Sewall‘.
47 .931 33,838 6.944 6,9602
All the senators thus far elected: are Whig. There
are certainly 9. and-possibly 12 Whig senators" elec.- —
144 Whigs. 43 Locos, and 3Native Arnericano;.cer-
..i-aha
New York City.
tainly elected.
while others again, (and not a few) were pro. .
out of place, made sad work. The shackle bars‘ ,
The entire Loco Fbeo ticket is,
est Whig (Hamilton Fish.) The average vote of"
ted. To the House of Representatives,-,_tliera_are I
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