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"TEXAS. "Observations, historical, geographical, and descriptive, in a series of letters, written during a visit to Austin's Colony, with a view to a permanent settlement, in the autumn of 1831: By Mary Austin Holley." Mrs. Holley sailed from New-Orleans in October, 1831, and in less than three days after leaving the leve e , made land at the mouth of the river Brazos, or as the full Spanish name is, "El Brazos de Dios." This river has a peculiar feature in one of its branches, that of a salt water river running from the interior towards the sea. The westernmost branch of the Brazos has its source in a vast plain charged with mineral salt. When the rains are copious, an extensive, shallow, temporary lake is formed, which discharges itself into the Brazos by the salt branch, and while the freshet continues, renders the whole river brackish. We cannot but think there is a typographical error in the book, describing the Brazos as only fifty yards wide, upon an average, from its mouth up to Bolivar. This seems to us an extraordinary narrowness for a river represented variously from 600 to 750 miles in length. Five hundred yards is, perhaps, meant. Brazoria was reached notwithstanding a temporary delay at the mouth of me river,, occasionea Dy me oar on the sixth day after leaving New-Orleans. Brazoria wf-j founded about three years since, and contains uAy families, and from two to three hundred inhabitants. It has a very good boardinghouse, and a hotel is about to be erected. Constant employment is given to carpenters in erecting buildings, and every house is occupied, and many still camp out.' The town consists of two parallel streets, along the banks of the river, and is represented as increasing with great rapidity. "Brazoria has already some families of education and refinement. In one of my visiting excursions I called on Mrs. , who was, I found, from my native State, (Connecticut,) a circumstance sufficient to place us, at once, on the most sociable footing. The family had not been here long, and their cabin was not yet built. They occupied a temporary shed among tne treees, or camp as they call it here, not impervious to the light, though there was no window. The single apartment contained three or four beds as white as enow. Books, glass, china, and other furniture in polite usage, were arranged in perfect neatness about the room, as best suited the present exigence. From Brazoria to Bolivar, Mrs. Holley ascended the river in a small boat. From this place her letters are dated. It is at the head of tide water on the Brazos, and is an entirely new settlement, consisting of a single residence. At that place she pursued her inquiries relative to the general face of the country, its rivers, harbors, soil, productions, &c. the results of which are contained in the volume before us. We can only afford a few extracts: "Texas is divided into three distinct tracts or regions, whose characteristics are, in many respects, entirely different. They are, the level, the undulating, and the mountaineous or hilly. "The whole coast from the Sabine river to the Neuces, is rather low and very level, but entirely free from marsh; so much so, that in most places a loaded wagon may be driven to the beach without obstruction. I here is a belt of prairie along its whole coast, about eight or ten miles wide. This prairie is destitute of timber, except narrow skirts, on the margin of rivers and creeks. "That part of the level region which lies between the Sabine and Jacinto rivers, extends back about seventy miles from the coast, in a north and north westerly direction. This tract is, in general, heavily timbered with pine, oak, ash, cedar, cypress, and other forest trees. The Sabine, Natches, and Trini ty rivers, are all navigable entirely through this section, and the latter for a considerable distance above it. The Natches affords good navigation to the junction of the Angelina, twenty-five miles south east ot Nacogdoches. "The live oak region is from the Bav of Mata gorda to the west end of Galveston Bay, and extends on the banks of the Brazos towards the interior about seventy miles. There is a live oak tree in lunvui - uviu jo a lite van ucc ill Bolivar, sixteen feet in circumference, and keeps this size more than thirty feet from the ground: it then spreads out its enormous branches. Larger trees than this, however, are not , mammon. T.n ;vr thoro ;a t,;v, nineteen feet in circumference, What would such a tree be worth in the dock yards of the United States or of England! "About fifteen miles east of the Brnron. thp i;v oak region ends. Thence tn the Snh; cedar, Spanish oak, post and read oak, and black oak, asb, and mulberry, with other common timber, are the growth on the water courses." CJ " " -w A & & "The whole of this undulating region, f above the level region on the Brazos) is most beautifullv watered, and abounds in bold rivulets and springs of purewaier. i nese rivulets have all more or less of oowom ianas adjacent to them, and are lined with uie louy iorest trees ot the rich alluvium. I he undulations, in manv places, rise into emi-

nences of considerable elevation, but always with a ers of the Enquirer to give the names of these offigentle ascent and with lengthened intervals. Ab- cers, under each administration.

rupt elevations or elms seldom occur, nor is the surface so uneven or broken, as to be iustlv designated hilly. From" the summit of these elevations the view 1C OviAtlAlttA a J mi 1 5 1 aicuojvc ttuu imposing, ine landscape is ricn ami epenam, and the eye delights to roam over the smoothe, verdant, extended slopes. The round tops of the eminences are here crowned with tufts of

ceaars, or groves ot oaks and pecans; there present- ties of State, T. Pickering, John Marshall; Treasing an unbroken surface of frrass. The nale preen nn. O. Wolrntt. S. Dexter: War. J. McHenrv. S.

of the prairie sprinkled with flowers of every hue, xMims a pieasing contrast with the dark foliage of the Jeuare ana otner iotty torest trees; while the nvulets Which Wind their sementlne rnnrse nt the fnnt X W U U W M.W .WWW ah "I!auiauon8 agreeably diversity the scene, All combined under a clear blue sky, presents a picture not Only delightful to the eve hnt nrTinntmertr the imagination, which, with the pencil of fancy, u t , Vne under view Wltn rural cottages, with the flocks of the herdsman, and all the various lnaications oi numan activity and domestic happi ness. 'Successful experiments have been made in vanous places on these undulating lands, of wheat, rye, oats and flax, and the result satisfactorilv establishes the fact, that these articles may be cultivated upon them to any extent. All the fruits and agricultural productions of the level region arrive at perfection here, except sugar and Sea Island Cotton. It is considered to be fully equal to the level region for

xiM-iug oiacK caiue ana nogs, aim jar superior 10 it is. Thompson, S. L. Southard; Post Master Uenertor rearing horses and sheep. Lime stone and build- als, R. J. Meigs, J. McLean; Attorneys General

u6 wu vi variouB sorts may oe uutamcu iu auuu

dance in this tract, neither of which has yet been discovered in the level country. Indigenous grapes

of several varieties, grow in great profusion, and extensive natural vineyards await the hand of the vine dresser." "Hence, there is some grounds for reasonable complaint against the living in Texas. But it is not the fault of the country. It is an evil, which persons suitably disposed, who would open farms, gardens, and poultry yards, in the vicinity of the settlements, could very soon remedy, while they would not themselves be the persons least benefited. In no country, with the usual attention to the arts of life, could more luxuries for the table be furnished. At present, vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, and chickens, sell very high in Brazoria, though they are yielded in every season of the year, in a profusion unexampled in any part of the world. The new comer has but to plant his seeds in the ground, and collect a first supply of live stock to begin with. They need but little or no care afterwards, and the increase is astonishing. He brands his cattle and hogs, and lets them run: they require no attention, but to see they do not stray too far from home, and become wild. A field once planted in pumpkins, seldom needs planting again. The scattered seed sow themselves, and the plants are cultivated with the corn. These pumpkins, as large often as a man can lift, have a sweet flavor, and very palatable. A field of them is a curiosity, they are in such numbers and 60 large. Sweet potatoes, also, are cultivated with almost equal ease, and yield, at times, five hundred bushels to the acre. Some of these potatoes weighjfrom four to seven pounds. Yet they sell, at Brazoria, at the enormous price ot seventyfive cents a bushel. Corn is obtained in the prairie cane-brakes, the first year, when there is no time to prepare the land with the plough, by merely making a hole for the seed with a hoe. The trees at this moment (17th December,) are loaded with rich clusters of grapes, not very large, but of a delicious flavor." The climate may be described to be, in general terms, a perpetual summer. But it must not be supposed that there are no cold days in Texas, nor exceptions here, as elsewhere, to the general course of things. The last winter (1830) was so severe in Louisiana, as well as in lexas, that all the young orange trees were killed, and the old injured. Even much of the cane was destroyed. But this is a rare occurrence. In 1831, of which I have personal ex perience, the northers, as they are technically called, were frequent from the middle of November until Christmas. They seldom lasted long, not more than a day or two, and were invariably succeeded by warm rams, or bright sunshine. lhe greatest cold produced but white frost, considered at the north as the harbinger of mild weather; except once, when there was hail and sleet, and the ground had a slight covering of snow, the only instance except one, Col. Austin informed me, since his residence in the country. The foliage did not leave the trees, nor even the rose bushes, and the grass was verdant. Yet, with summer feelings and summer dresses, and apartments not very tight, these winds were sufficently uncomfortable. I regret not having a better thermometer than my own feelings, to give you the precise degree of cold. These cold days, however, while they last, make so small a proportion of the year, as to be hardly remembered when they are past." "With regard to the state of society here, as is natural to expect, there are manv incongruities. It will take some time for people gathered from the north, and from the south, from the east, and from the west, to assimilate, and adapt themselves to new situations. The people are universally kind and hospitable, which are redeeming qualities. Every body's house is open, and table spread, to accommo date the traveller. There are no poor people here, and none rich; that is, none who have much money. The poor and the rich, to use the correllatives, where distinction there is none, get the same quantity of land on arrival; and if they do not continue equal, it is for want of good management on the one part, f j . , , t n or superior industry and sagacity on the other. All a hapPY hecause busy; and none meddle with the affairs of their neighbors, because they have enough t0 do to take care of their own. They are bound together by a common interest, by sameness of purPose an? hopes .A far.as 1 couu ,lea they hav? no envyings, no jealousies no bickerings through politics or fanaticism. There is neither masonry llKJl wun. imngucs. I Mf V CABINET CHANGES. Those who object to so many changes in General .Tarksons Cahinet. have not adverted tn the histnrv of the government. The government under the Constitution has been inoDeration not vet 45 vears. during which there have been in office 12 different Secretaries of State; 12 of the Treasury; 14 of War; 9 of the Navy: 8 Tost Master Generals, and 12 Attorney Generals. Itmavbe interesting to some of our vouns" read Under Gen. Washington 8 years Secretaries of State. Thos. Jefferson. Ed. Randoloh. T. Pickering; Treasury Alex. Hamilton, O. Wolcott; War. TY TT m W 1 T T-X-r T" C m ti. rvnox, r. ncKenng, J. iucnenry; jrosi iuasier Generals, S. Osgood, T. Pickering, J. Habersham; Attorneys General. E. Randolph, W. Bradford. Ch. Lee. Under John Adams4 years SecretaDexter, R. Griswold; Jfavy, B. Stoddert; Post JSIaster General, J. Habersham, G. Granger; Attorney General, C. Lee. 1 1Tnr?tr Thnmoa .ToflfVrcrTi ft vo(ir Seretarv I AtU . V WU W rvwwww J of State, James Madison; Treasury, S. Dexter, A. Gallatin; War, H.Dearborn; JVary, B. Stoddert; Tnt .Mnefcr flo-nornl T TTnhprslinm. Q. Oraner: Attorneys General, L.Lincoln, J. Brackenridge, C. A. Rodney. Under James Madison 8 years Secretaries of Slate, Rob. Smith, Jas. Monroe; Treasury, A Gallatin, Geo. W. Campbell, A. J. Dallas; War, W. Eustis, Jno. Armstrong, Jas. Monroe, v. i. Crawford; Aavy, P. Hamilton, W.Jones, B. W. nmwninshield: P JiTniir fimmls. G. Granger. R. J. Meigs; Attorneys General, C. A. Rodney, W. Pinckney, R. Rush. Under James Monroe ft vears Secretary of Stale. J. Q. Adams: 7Vmu.-. W. IT. Crawford: War, J. C. Calhoun; JVavy, B. W. Crowninshield, - iiv. Kush,-Y. Wirt.

Under John Q. Adams 4 years Secretary of

State, H. Clay; Treasury, R. Rush; War, James Barbour, B. P. Porter; JVary, S. Southard; Post Master General, J. McLean; Attorney General, William Wirt. - Under General Jackson Secretary of State M. Van Buren, Edward Livingston, Lewis 3IcLean; Treasury, Samuel D. Ingham, Lewis McLean, R. B.Taney; War, J. H. Eaton, Lewis Cass; Aav?, J.Branch, L. Woodbury; Post Master General, W. T.Barry; Attorneys General, J.M. Berrien, R. B. Taney. The prive moties for these various removals, changes or transfers, are unknown to the public; and is more than probable that history will never be able to unfold them impartially. It was towards the close of the first administration, as might have been expected, that parties first sprung up among us. They were, however, founded upon different views of the nature of the government and the interpretation of the Constitution. Monocrats were still numerous, and too many doubted the capacity of the people for self-government. And we ought not to be surprised that under the beloved Washington, so many changes took place in his Cabinet. A young people had just taken a station among the nations of the earth, under a system wholly new in the annals of mankind. Differences of opinion were natural; though as Mr Jefferson said, they were not, necessarily, differences of princple, so far as concerned the liberty and happiness of the people. But parties soon became distinctly marked, and rallied under unequivocal standards. A limited or loose construction of the powers of the government was the touchstone. One party was in favor of a splendid national government, with general powers to provide for "the common defence and general welfare;" the other insisted that the Constitution was only a charter of limited and specified powers, and that all others, not enumerated, or absolutely necessary to carry into effect the specified powers, were reserved to the btates. On this field of opinion were party battles waged, and appointments to high offices chiefly made for many years. Yet in the cabinets of the victorious chieftains, organized upon party principles, we find frequent changes fewer, however, during Mr Jefferson's than that of any other of the early admin istrations. 1 he distracting questions of the present day did not exist; or, if some of them did, they were not mixed up with personal politics and local feelings to the same extent. If the billows of party strife lashed the sides, or broke in angry form on the brow of the vessel of State, the helmsman always knew what point of the compass to expect them. Consistency was then a virtue. The man who was a latitudinarian yesterday could not be tolerated to-day, as a strict limitarian and States Right man. Nor were there so many desperate aspirants to the first honors of the nation. Those who were, affected, if they did not feel, a reverence for the good sense of the people, and dared not resort to the manoeuvring and coalitions of the present day. It is not my intention to investigate the means by which so great a change has been brought about. It is sufficient for my present purpose, that it has occurred, and brought with it sore evils upon the country. Professions of principles are not less ardent now than formerly. But when they militate against local interests, the objects of some miserable cabal or the aspirations of some favorite demagogue, they are charged with juggling adroitness, and as readily justified. Personal politics is all that it thought of and the same principle, by boldness of pretentions and assertion, is made equally well to serve the purpose of every faction. We have Clay men, Calhoun men, Webster men, Van Buren men, Leigh men, all following their respective leaders implicitly. We have Bank, and Anti-Bank men, Tariff, and Anti-Tariff men, Nullifiers and Unionists, Internal Improvement, and Anti-Internal Improvement men, &c.&c, most of them violent and uncompromising. There is no telling when or how junctions of these disciplined corps is to take place, nor upon whom or what citadel they may direct their combined assault and it is equally difficult to tell how long the unity of their efforts is to last. Some special object accomplished, and they at once fall back into ther first, if not into new positions. If appointments are to be rejected if a foreign minister is to be disgraced by his rejection and recall if the harmony of the Cabinet is to be broken up by intrigue or the administration is to be embarrassed in some other way, the plan is no sooner devised, than willing, tho' rival clans sound the bugle, and rush forth to action. Ihisisno fancy picture of the state of parties in our country. One of the great evils resulting rom it is, that it has destroyed the consistency of too many ot our politicians, and along with it their love ot the Constitution. It has done even more, it has destroyed our confidence in one another. Before this state of things existed, there was more harmony in our councils, more peace and af fection at our firesides. We have seen that in those better days, changes were often made in the Cabin ets of our Presidents. It did not then suit the pur poses of faction to blazon forth the reasons of those changes, to misrepresent them, and enlist the feel mgs or passions of the people. Parties did not then feel themselves justified in resorting to such expedients for they knew that the people would ap prove it. When Gen. Jackson s first Cabinet was broken up, we remember the chuckling of the oppo sition. Men, who had been but the other day de nounced by them as wholly unworthy of, as well as unfit for, their stations, transformed into beings of a higher order, and the indignation of the nation in voked in their behalf. They were even stimulated by promises of countenance and support to make personal appeals to the people, and to court a paper war with the President, lhese things were not wont to be so. The explosion of the late Cabinet was eagerly out aid it have that enect at the polls And wil not the present clamor about Mr. Duane prove equal ly abortive and die away. COLBERT. Baltimore, Oct. 5. Grand Balloon Ascension. Mr. Durant's 2d ascension in his Balloon, from Federal Hill, took place yesterday in the most imposing and beautifu style. Fears were entertained in the morning, thai the wind was too high for the reronant, adventur ous as he is, to undertake the feat, but in the after noon it moderated, and, at the hour appointed, was no more than a gentle breeze. The amphitheatre was filled at an early hour, not densely, but with a very large number oi the most respectable citizens ot both sexes. The ladies appeared determined to patronize Mr. Durant in earnest, this time. It is difficult to estimate with accuracy the number pre

sent, but, upon the supposition that the enclosure would contain six thousand, there must have been more than four thousand within. The hill without was covered with a countless multitude, and the wharves and piers on both sides of the basin, as well as all the eminences in the neighborhood, were crowded. Precisely at half past 4 or if there was any variation, a minute or two before Mr. Durant, taking his place in the car with that coolness and firmness which always astonisli the spectators of his daring excursions, rose slowly, in the most splendid style, amid the shouts of the admiring multitude. He scattered in the garden copies of appropriate verses, and, ascending gradually, let down at a short distance a live rabbit attached to a parachute which descended safely a few hundred yards east of the starting place, and was brought back to the garden in a few minutes. The direction which he took was due east and he continued in sight of the hill for about thirty minutes. He then appeared to descend and was hid by the line of trees bounding the eastern horizon, but we learn that he re-ascended soon after, and was seen for about 20 minutes longer, sailing away towards the eastern shore. He informed us a short time before he ascended, that, from the direction of the wind, he would go to that

shore of the Bay, and we imagine, from his rising again, and continuing up while he gradually vanished in the distance, that he was then carrying his purpose into execution, u hen last seen, by our calculation, he must have been over tho Bay, which he would have avoided, had he not designed to attempt crossing. He was aided on this occasion, as before, in his preparations, by a number of scientific gentlemen of our city, who entered into his arrangements with the liveliest interest. The weather was all that could be desired mild and clear and not the slightest accident occurred to mar the universal pleasure. American. Mr. Durant returned to Baltimore about 3 o'clock at night, and gave a relation of the particulars in he next day's paper, from which we make the folowing extracts: My destined port being Chestertown, between which and your city is that extensive Bay, induced me to hurry the preparation lest that great Ball of fire, (which some ot the Savans, I think, have er roneously termed the centre of our solar system,) should deprive meot his cheering rays on the road, and accordingly at 4h. 23, by my time, I severed the last cord, which unmoored the Balloon, and never in finer style, or with more buoyant spirits lad I left my native earth. Here your city, with its dome, it9 spires, and an imated beings, sinking away beneath me, presented a sight the most noble, or majestic if you please, that man is capable of conceiving. At oh. fain. I hove too on the farm of Benjamin orter, when he and Dr. Mace came to the car; I shook hands with them, and for such a short acquaintance I found them very sociable. They gave me a glass of water, and politely offered me somehing stronger, with tea, and to make my stay agreeable, if I would consent to stay with them. They informed me the next neighbor was Mr. J. B. Bnscoe,jand that I was ten miles from Baltimore. I declined all their kind offers, except the water, gave them my address and evening papers, bid thein good bye, tripped the anchor and started, after a deay of two minutes, for Chestertown. At 5h. 27, 1 passed over and conversed with Mr. Benjamin F. Hart, whom I found to be one of Job's comforters. He informed me I was sixteen miles From Baltimore, thirty miles from Chestertown, and fourteen miles from the Eastern Shore. Though I doubted his knowledge of distances still the interview was pleasing. I sent him down copies of the address and evening papers, on which I wrote Vr. Durant s compliments bid him good bye, and en tered over the Chesapeake Bay. Here I saw sever al row boats along the shore, at distances of 2 and 4 miles making for me. Though the wind was light, I soon left them in the distance. A steamboat, which I had been watching someime, had now rounded the point, and with her course directed towards me, was evidently gaining on the distance. I found the wind was lighter near the surface of the water, and kept low, to afford her an opportunity of coming up, as I wished to speak to her, and request the captain to report me at Phila delphia and Aew lork. It was not, however, un til I was within one mile of the Eastern Shore that I gave up the idea of supping at Chestertown. I was almost becalmed, night approaching, and the shore I was nearing almost covered with forest trees, which would render it difficult for me to save my Balloon. The steamboat was now so near that I could see the passengers waving their hats, and directly I saw the small boat let into the water, manned by i three men, and put oft". This was the most favorable circumstance I could wish for a safe descent. I immediately lowered one anchor with 200 feet of cord, then lowered the Balloon so that the anchor with a few feet of cord went into the water. I remained suspended in the air 151 feet, when the boat came up, and to my great pleasure, my old friend Capt. Pearce caught the anchor at oh 15. He towed me to the steamboat Independence, where I lowered the other anchor to the passengers, who hauled me down on the upper deck, where I was rendered every assistance to fold my Balloon, which is not injured in the least degree. I am now in comfortable quarters with mine host at the City Hotel, where I arrived at 3 o'clock this morning, enjoying my usual good health. C. F. DURANT. Baltimore, Oct. 15, 1833. A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. To the Citizens of the Counties in the Creek Ration. The Secretary of War, by direction of the President of the United States, has instructed the .Marshal of the Southern District of Alabama, to remove all white persons from the territory ceded by the Creek Indians, by the Treaty of March, 1832, which territory is composed of the counties of Benton, TalaBega, Randolph, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Russell, Mocon and Barbour. These counties have been established and organized by the General Assembly, in conformity with the views and policy of the Federal Government, and in pursuance of the Constitution of this State. The order, if executed, will result in a destruction of property belonging to the inhabitants of these counties, to an almost incalculable amount, and inflict upon them other great and irreparable injuries, not less calamitous than those which would mark the invasion of a public enemy. Dy virtue ot this Treaty, the government of the - 1 United States have assumed the right of removing

by an armed force, not only all persons who have

settled upon the public Unds, but those also, who in the opinion of it agents, have committed treapasscg upon the improvements of tho Indians, which are their private property, thereby undertaking, Without any lawtui authority, and in violation of our common constitution, to regulate matters which belong exclusively to the laws and tribunals of this State. 1 ho order for the removal of tho settlers, must lie. ccssarily bo attended with the expulsion of our civil officers, the suppression of our courts, and, in fact, the destruction of the State Government throughout these counties. The right of jurisdiction being admitted, the right to use the means that are indispensable to its exercise, attaches as a necessary consequence; and yet a military force is displayed upon our borders, to render inoperative all the measures which have been adopted by the State Government for the extension and enforcement of is laws. The course which the General Government hai adopted, and is now pursuing, is a palpable and indefensible invasion of the acknowledged rights of this State, and in its tendency, utterly subversive of our free and happy form of government. There are now thirty thousand of our people, alarmed at the horrors of starvation on one 6ide, and of military execution on the other. In this hour of their afilictions, I recommend and exhort them to look with abiding and undoubting confidence to the majesty of tho law. It will cover them over with a shield, impenetrable to the sword and byaonet. In order, therefore, that "the laws may be faith fully executed," and by virtue of the iover and authority in me vested, I hereby require all civil officers in the counties aforesaid, to be attentive to the complaints of the people, upon whom any crime or crimes may be committed, or upon whom or whose property there may exist well founded apprehensions, that crimes are intended to be committed, by issuing all such warrants and other process as may be necessary to bring offenders to jutf.ee, particularly such as are guilty of murder, false imprisonment, house burning, robbery, forcible entries, and all euch like heinous olfences. And all good citizens are required, when duly and legally called upon, to aid and assist in the execution of all such process as may be issued by tho competent authorities, and according to tho laws of the land. And furthermore, it is enjoined upon tho citizens in the counties aforesaid, to yield a ready obedience to any precepts or process that may issue from the courts of the United States or of this State; and especially to abstain from all acts of unlawful violecnc towards the Indians, who being ignorant of our laws, and of their rights, should be taught to look up to their more intelligent neighbors for information and protection. Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at Tuscaloosa, this 7th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1833, and the fth year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN GAYLE. By the Governor, James I. Thornton, Sec. of Stala From the Erie Obgcrrer. STEAM-BOAT DISASTER. Loss of the George Washington. -'Tint splendid new boat, which has excited tho admiration of all who ha vo seen her, is now a total wreck. The particulars of tho disaster we Itavo received from the office of tho revenue cutter, Frio, which visited tho wreck a few days since. Shu left Detroit on Monday the 30th ult. for BuiTalo. On Tuesday a heavy gale commenced from tho south, and gradually shifted to tho southwest. Tho operation of tho sea disconnected the steam-pipes from the cylinders, which rendered tho engino useless. The boat then becamo unmanageable, not having adequate sail, and drifted sideways beforo the wind. Whilo in this situation, the swells being very heavy, she broke abaft the wheel-houses, and commenced leaking. The pumps wcro put in requisition, but could not prevent the increase of water in the hold. This was on Tuesday night, and the darkness was such as to prevent any calculation where they were On Wednesday morning it was discovered that they were near Long Point on tho Canada shore. Tho water then being threo feet deep in tho cabin it was determined as tho only chanco of saving lifo or any thing, to run ashore. At ten o'clock sho struck upon the sand beach, with her bows in about six feet of water. Tho passengers and crew, in all about eighty persons, with one exception, wcro then taken ashore with the small boats, in safety. One of the passengers, a Mr. Millard from Seneca county, N. Y. contrary to the advice of all, attempted to swim ashore, and was drowned. When tho cutter left the boat, her main deck was covered with water, and she was gradually sinking in the sand. A few of the light articles, such as beds and bedding, and tho drapery had been secured and taken ashore. Of what remains, tho cylinders and boilers aro probably all that can bo saved The Gcorgo Washington was the largest vessel on lake Erie, measuring about 000 tons; and was fitted up in style, it is said surpassing any other steam boat in the United States. She ws owned by the Huron Steam-boat company, and cost about 70,000. This was her third trip. In Portsmouth, N. II. a few days sinco wo wcro shown a box of fine looking Spanish Cigars, (which we were told smoked very well, and would pass all but connoiscurs for first rate,) manufactured in Connecticut, with not a particle of tobacco of any kind ;n their composition, except that used in tho coloring. Tho outsides were mado of tho leaves of rnrn1n1ki. nnd thn insidea were composed of bean leaves and pea pods! This is the most li less nnd inatifiablo imnosition WO have been r nrmmado 4 acquainted with for a long time. Lastcrn Argus. Pain in the Ear.Th most effectual remedy yet discovered for tW disorder has been a small clove of garlic, steeped for a few minutes in warm salad oil, and put it into tho ear, rolled up in muslin or thin linen. In some timo tho garlic is reduced to a pulp, and having accomplished its object should be replaced with cotton to prevent tho patient taking cold.