The Wabash Courier, Volume 11, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 May 1843 — Page 2

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v.nopsisol tbe labois and result! swing Expedition recency f^tora SoU'.bem regions, wjntte'1owfes, than has

GovernmeiHof the Umurf Stttes,»» ever before been P"bi,fb^t' & s«*W inlie mind seems tobe* p«SSto pre- *, formed upon the of this |»per as oar fall

the

return of the

mg to

jjave prevailed a

disappointment at its

''n results Nothing sufficiently grand and astofl-

-ll unnearB to have been accomplished \t the perfect satisfaction of the PubHcmn\n^ *1«od tbe enterprise is, therefore, "o1™fr^ vn nuently characterized as idle and useless. ^Ve know not whether to attribute this feeliog chiefly to otter ignorance of what arethe proper objects of such an ex^tioa, or to a lack of information as to what has be complished by that which tots Jg,

wt^fft^l,hareth]5!

least accurately informed on both these points. From the nature of the case, scien-

portance of whatever crrors may committed. When the full °L'!if Expedition, hovrerei, »h«U

h"«

J**."

pnblic—and it now, we the S,0*.

ot rapid prewratioa—we Ihink not OTly scientific men throughout the world wilt find reason to applaud its labors, but people will be amply and fully satisfied with what has been accomplished. The few qualified judges who are now familiar with its results are clearly of opinion that it will worthily rank with those great Expeditions in which England and France have so long been rivals, and which have conferred as much honor upon their arts as their arms liftye received from their proudest exploits.

The synopsis of the the cruise prepared by Lieut. Wilkes states that the

Tesac]*

left the

Capes of the Chesapeake, August 19, 1&*>. and sailed for Rio Janeiro, Whence, on the 6th of January, 1839, they sailed for theinor of Patagonia, and thence to Nassau Bay Terra del Fuego. The Peacock, Porpoise, and two schooners, thence made cruises towards the pole but as the season was far advanced, they did not quite reach the highest latitude attained by Cook. The Vincennes remained at TSassua Bay to carry on surveys and magnetic observations. In May the vessels were again in together at Valparaiso, and in July they left the Sooth American coast, and after surveying fourteen or fifteen of the Paumotu Islands, and all the Navigator's Group, on the 28th of November they reached Sydney, in New South Wales. On their second Antartic cruise land was first discovered in longitude 1 60 deg. E. and latitude 66 deg. 30 min. S. The Vinccnnes and Porpoise pursued the bamer ot ice to the westward as far as 97 deg. E. longitude, seeing the land at intervals for fifteen huudr$d miles. Thoy could not land,however, though many specimens of

r^s

wpre collect-

ed and bsought home. On the 24th of^Apri tho vessels were again together at Tongatabu. Thence thev proceeded to the Feejfees, where nearlv four months were occupied in surveys and scientific observations. They next visited the Samlwhich Islands'—tire Vinccnnes spending tho winter at the groupe. Ihe Peacock and Flying Fish were cruising in the Equatorial regions of thy Pacific, visiting and making charts of the various groups of islands cattered throughout those seas. In the pring of 1811, the Vinccnnes and Porpoise were on the coast of Oregon, where the former was wrecked. They made several 'anil expeditions into the interior ot from five hundred to a thousand miles each, and one of eisht hundred miles to San Francisco in California. The vessels left California in Novembcr, 1841, and after

touching

at the Sand-

which Islands, and visiting Manilla, Singapore, and ihe Cape of Good Hope, leached New York in June, 1842—having been absent three years and ten

months,

and having sailed

nearly ninety thousand miles. During this time they surveyed about two hundred and eighty different islands, besides eight hundred miles in Oregou and one thousand fire hundred miles along the icy barrier or the Antartic Continent. Through tho diligent examination of the islands, reefs, harbors, shoals, &c. the Expedition is prepared to furnish a for more complete map of the Pacific Opean than has ever before been published. Tho Feejcc group of Islands is, next to Oregon tho most important of the^ unexplored regions visited by the Expedition. Tito group is a perfect labyrinth of reefs anroeky islands—aboofone hundred and fifty number, of which the largest contains four thousand square miles, and is constantly 'isitod by Yankee vessels in search of tortise shell and sandal-wood. Tho islands aro found to bo fenile, and abound in good harbors. The Navigator's islands are still morc^ beautiful, through less extensive, and contains a great amoutof fertile land. Some few unknown island were discovered and of some of them the natives believe the whites to be children of the sun, and stood in great awe of them, offering all their goods, and asking, when t,.o ships departed, if they were going back to the Sun.

Complete collections of implements and arms used by the pcoplo of all places visited were made, and are preserved, as furnishing, with the descriptions, a full and interesting, account of their manners, modes of life, religious habits,6cc. The arrangement of these specimens in the patent office at Washington has not yet been completed. In the Feed jce Islands the inhabitants were found to be cannibals and several of the natives came on board tho Peacock with half eaten bones in their hands, and still eating the human flesh on deck as unconciously as though it were a matter of the most ordinary occurrence.--— vThta was so often and generally observed that juo doubt can remain that they entertain an actual relish for human flesh. The portlolios of the artists of the Expediton are said to be extremely rich in scenes of every kind, and accurate representations of whatever can shed any light on the appearance, costoms, habits, scenery, &c. of the places which they visited. The number of sketches of natuval ., scwery is above five hundred. The migrationa, physical and moral characteristics and languages of the various tribes, were closely investigated. Materials have been obtained for a comparative grammar and dictionary of the moat important dialects of the Polynesian

Wand*, ana it is believed that the original Mat of vhe population,in the Navigatorlslands, !»as been determined. Grammatical analyses sj of the d»\«cu ofNevr Holland have been ob-

Uined, whidt diaptove the prevalent belief t^t that vasUaUmd lnhabiied by totally distinct mb« and grounds are afforded for tbebeltef J** the mfiaWtMta of New Hoi-

sfteaiittg languages wnteti notu comntoo origin. A great mas* of minute information in regard to customs* traditions, aad Unman of the Feejee Wanda has been collect, ed, inclnding a grammar aad dictionary x! abont S.000 words.

Tbe KingMniH Ialaeds ass an httetesting

Cp,

«ow first anmdL TW lie is the item Pacific, dimly under the equator lit sixteen in number, and jpve in all not.

mon ihaa oee hundred aad fifty square mile*. Tbeyaflbidoo stra« bot eo«l, «pb. p«l» but »t% and only thirty wcim ofpknu. $»Hiwy f0|«Utio«i of »bov» mty

Ikooauid. and not inferfm to «W"«U« to any'of the islands of the Pacific. sailors were found upon them, one *ho™ had been detained as a captive five years and through them much ralaable information concerning tbe islands was collided, and the probable origin of tbe natives

fact that one family of languages has found |xte»ding from Behrinrs Straits

borne distance south of the Gambia RNfe. At Singapore the Expedition obtained from an American missionary a collection of valuable Malay and Bngis manuscripts, relating to the history, mythology, laws and customs of the East India islands—believed to be the most valuable collection in existence since t'iie destruction of that of Sir Stamford Baf-

It 1# likely to be of service not less to the historian tten the philologist. Of birds, about a thousand speci^, &na twice that number of specimens, have oeen collected.

About

two-thirds of these brrc

been arranged in the National Gallery. Many

the birds of Oceania were found to have a limited range. Abont fifty new species were obtained.

The field for mammalia was found very limited. None of the Pacific islands, except New Zealand, contain any native mammalia except bats. The following is the list as nesrly as can at present be ascerlained: Fishes Reptiles Crustacea Insect* 8hells Zoophytes Corals

new species do do

829 160 900

Madeira and Cape Jo Verds Rio Janeiro Patagonia and Terra del Fu^go Valparaiso Peru Paumotu Islands and Tahiti Sanaosa,or Navigator's Australia New Zealand Tongatabu nml Feejecs Sandwich Islands, oboat Oregon, about California, about Sooloo 8ca Manilla Singapore Cspe of Good Hope At sea

Of -the 600 new

Cope de Vews 60 Braxil 980 .RioNegroPatagonial 50 Terra del Faego 200 Chili 442

Per* 820 Tahiti 288 ''Samoa, Na». Isl. 458

New Sooth Wales 787 New Zealand 398 Auckland Islands 50 Tongatubu 236 Ffjee Islands 786

850 40 600 600 250 200 100

do k»r da do da

do do do do do

1^00 2,000 300 450

The following catalogue isgi bracing the number of species or fishes collected at countries visited £. ... 'f.45" Fiahes. Reptiles.

jue

iven as emtiles and

species of rep the various islands and

104 14 82 66 87 64 30 25 131 100 60 20 18 32 21 SU4

7 *.

18vf

f«w mn Km "0

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species of Cru^tacica o-

bout 200 are Oceanic species, of many Jof which cveir the geners and families are unknown. In some seas so numerous are the minute crustacea that the ocean for many miles is colored red Each animal is not over a twelfth of an inch in length, ami yet they are sufficiently numerous to furnish food for the whale, whopo mouth is fitted with a fibus net-work of wh^Jebpne, which strains them from the water cjected by the spoutboles. All these crustacea are transparent, and nearly all the processes of life, even to the motion of a muscle, are open to the view. Many very interesting and important observations have thus been made. Coral islands and coral reefs, some of whichexcceda thousand square miles in extent, teceived particular attention, and the beauty and variety of corals collcctcd surpasses every thing of the kind before exhibited in this country. The formation of the islands, the growth of the animal, the filling up of harbors, and the raising of reefs, were all closely examined, and colored drawings were abundantly made. The following is the number of zoological drawings made during the cruise in tho- different departments of science: 75 specics. 260 do ,'i 500 do 350 do

epartments o.

Reptiles F^h Mollusca (shells and animals) Zoophytes Corals i't^ **.' Crustacea "The variety and beauty mals in the coral seas of th the reviewer, "are beyond description, lake the birds \nour forests, fish of brilliant colors sport among the coral groves, and various mollusca cover tile bottom with living flowers. A new world of being is here opened loan inhabitant of our cold climate and many of these productions are so unlike the ordinary forms of life that it is difficult, without seeing them, to believe in their existence. Those that have looked over the beautiful colored drawings by tlie artist of the Expedition: are aware that this description falls far short of the truth.'' Ten thousand species of plants and upwards of fifty thousand specimens constitute tho herbarium of the Expedition the following catalogue gives the number of "speciescollcctcd at the several places visited: Madeira 300 Coral Islands 39

140 do 150 do

of marine aniPacific," says Like

*3 rr 646

Besides dried specimens, 204 living plants were brought home the kinds of seed obtained amount to 1,156. Specimens of dif-' ferent woods have been preserved, and there are colored drawings of 180 species of plants, beautifully executed. Particular attention was also paid to the geographical distribution of plants and animals.

In a geological point of view, tne explorations of tbe expedition have been highly interesting. The facts observed strongly confirm Darwin's theory of the formation of coraline and basalict islands though they lead to very different conclusions respecting the areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific. Numerous facts bearing on tbis sub-^ ject were collected. The basaltic islands ate of various ag£s, reaching probably as far back as the middle of the secondary era. Tbe older islands exhibt profound gorges and sharp and lofty peaks, scarcely surpassed in any pert of the-world. On one of the ridges in the Society group, about 6,000 feet above tbe se«, the sumit is so sharp that a man may sit astride of it and look dowfi a precipice of a thousand feet on cither side. The Sandwich Islands contain basaltic locks of all ages, besides coral rocks and elevated reefs. There is evidence that the island of Oahu is the shattered remnant of two lofty volcanic mountains. A precipice upwards of twenty miles long and from one to three thousand 'feet high, is apparently a section of one of these volcanic mountains or domes, along which it is rent in two, when the greater put was tumbled off and submerged in the ocean. Tbe island is fringed with a coral reef twenty-five feet out of water. New

Holland afforded a large collection of coal plants the coal is bituminous, and tbe beds we extensive. Abofit 108 specimens of fassOaoellsand corals werfe collected: about WO "peciea of faaafls, including vertebr* of wai remains of fooT species of •tfrJTtf*., "fe" Astoria. Tbe An££211??*1 and in

fteig^t of

obt*inwi

16,000

*t a

feet. Tbe collection* con-

toun a«ite» of spcumena from the all rcgiocn

The ulkk, of which (he above la a wouat-

i&w- liSHi

rv, concludes as follows: The facts enumerated, although wit here ami there one from thfnw which had been collected, are sufficient to evince that# the nation which has done honor to itself in fending out an exploring expedition so liberally organized, will have no reason to be disappointed at the J2urop«an nations already appreciate1t, iSd sp«*kf| higher been heard #tbis«^of accruing to tione, from the lsrg^ntmiber of «preys made, djlcovered and 'laid dovin, unknown Ifftow ex*

andfcoonujpfinwMl«

^Aicdipid from d»-pcrm^eot4fo^fif 00 Which intercourse with the Pacific islands nns bWfl plttrtd by the settlement of longmtaodln# difficulties and the ratification of treaties, and the impression pto* jjneed by an armed finw, more than repay euMttdU tuies. The expedition has pcrfbrroM^thedatleaof sn ordinary tqusdron in the iHiclfte, and ha* ae* eomplixhed in this way many fold more In that j&cenn lhan anf ftusdrse that left %nd ft the espSflMa of k^ng tcswls fli lotiiimi* won sr« cnnerllvil on this scow, the sum which HS» matnsfer thacxtraordlnary dutlesprihPffled wRt but small,

But. whlre we wndef to ihdift whsn Ishors obtaineif the rwfilui ef the vxneilltion their full do«of coalij, we cannot £*r$et that there era others, and one tit portieular, whose ten I and uiitlr* !n^ exertions in planning and urging forward to its completion this enterprise, deserve more than a passing acknowledgement. Mr. J. N. Hit*Katun was left tohind, yet, though unrewarded his efforts by the pleasure of accompanying the expedition and adding to its lauroU, his distlu^nished merita will not be forgotten or disregarded by his country iften.'!

fUB OABllflit.

The iSfailoimi Intelligenccr of this morn* ingsoys v, "Wo learn that Daniol Webster yoftterday resigned tbe pffic.e of Secretary of State and tl»at Hugh S. Legure, Attor* ney General of the, United Statos, u» «p* pointed lo be Actiug Secretary of Slam for the present. "Cnlob Cushing, of MnssachusetU, Is appointed Minister and Comtnis&ioner lo China, in tho -placeWf JBdward Everett, who declines the appointment."

lfiw, rr

rtk

•m

ffjsUiinll

letter from Washington, nftei1slatfhg these appointments, snys: "Mr Gushing reachod Washington on Sunday, was appointed on Monday, and the same evening drew his dm ft on the Treasury for his outfit* Di Martin has been reappointed to the office of Oliief Clerk in tlie Stute Department, Dri M. held tbiVofficn when •Mr. Webster 'beenme Secretary of State, nnd on bein^ removed, Rck-d as one of, the editor* gf thejGlobe, in the eoiurmns of ». wiich, paper ho thereafter abused 'Mr

Webster-withoiuLstitit.'Mr.- Welister now resigns tho Secretaryship, arid, as may be presuou'd, to give, him evidence of the estimation in Which, ho isr held by bis col* Jeagucs and 'hOvPresident, them 5n who had daily abused him in thg grossest man-1 ner, is restored to the office from which Mr.."Webster had removed him! Taking this as a sign, how long -will it ho before Mr. Webster is himself attacked in tho columns of the 'fyler papors?

Sandwich Islands R83 Oregon 1,218 California 619 Manilla 381 Singapore -60 Mandanao 101 Sooloo Islands-_ 58 Mangsi Island '"4 80 Cane of Good Hope 300 St. Helena 80

Mr. C.ush*

ler, the older, g.jps to Virginia in a few days, and v» ill return in about a, weoi\»| Me wiii trien be prepared to make liiacon*' templated 'electioneering tqur to Boston, ostensibly to take part in the Bitnl{6r" tlill celebration of tho 17th of June.* fie is to bo accompanied by Messrs. Upshur, Porter and Wicklifle. Sir. Webster short*\ ly returns to* Massachusetts. He held on as long os he could without changing his,

ppiitics na (i VVbig. TIk. Ucq F«o»£!&£

dencies of tho administration became too strong for him, and lie therefore reiucfr tantly, und after reat personal effort cut loose from theofhee, .1 do not doubt that" he now 'breathes freer.' What will bo his future course, is perhaps as uncertain to himself as j* entirely unknown to tbo pub\\c."~Ba}Lrat^\

Clarks then dropped the n$?d a oil almost helpless father,and fied to theirowe house, where they remained till the next morn* iog, without again, going near Mr. Thorn* w. They iiwt. have a good st ason for so doing, but what that reason is it ia difficult to discover—unlessit was fear. And could not three athletic, stent men eecme ooet and there were other neighbors near by that could have been summoned to their aid-

Th* next nMrniag the Otrk* weat Nt, audi fosiid Mr. TImaws acd his wife both qoitedemd. Mr*. Thomas lad b«« hornbly est with an axe, MKi th* head «f Mr. YIkmm hut been baafaM to ajdty. TVyfosad Eooch in ponesKop at baxuc-

carel«* and Mseeiaoeranl if had fcaftiMHn! Th*T»o«»K»sdmka*kmghi»«lown, anrf then Mevrtag him. ..

Mr. Tho*Mtr,.*bwtMrea!Vu *«e,lMsmfc wu wm xavnftr. Satui

mdi a MiainilT eaH» lhap»!

kSM

FOREIGN NEWS? ,,

tlrrivnl

of Steamti*

The new steamship Hiborhia arrived at Boston w» Thur^ay»*rning, oi five o'eloek. She accomplished Vwhich has bawn rather a roe*hUne«jn 14

ifm #one| *ark«tii Lo^t Miky ahandint^aod i*l«%af trade fifei rhl%. Tfiare waa alitile

not very Important. nqu«. TNeata witnoat dSani

.—Jing h« npiwthy tliwawyal Fwdpe.gertrttlr.

Scotland, the wheat ia

laokln# retnarliably well, with every prospect of on

The accouchment of the Queen had not yet taken

P'Parliament

adjonnied for tlio Eaater holiday a, to

rsijr^AS'i-Tb. atrial maehinoarp. itw stated, now tn the coarao a^Mfflsptlie^tiardcna,

A «»apisfl»io»i brldjte, *»rpnwinn an that Uaa fteen •pen, la lo ewwirueted at

v»*n,«»

tone**. drnnken ef lnioxic«»i'»n at the tiaie. .• .L-

Amumtet «he novfltiea of thed«y may bo noijc«l be •npftly deporturo of Mr. n'ronnei Boldest

matoe

•••N

'rto&r if6E$F MtinnEn bV PArt-! .,..ENTS* ... *Mr. Thomas Thomas and his wife-, of Woodford county, residing about twenty miles from this place, were murdered by their son Enoch Thomas, on Monday night, 17th April.,, Tho recital of tho ..particulars is sufficient to chill tho blood in our veirs. Enoch has been for Itmg time deranged. His fRlher hod built a house, for the purpose, of keeping him confuted, few tods from his own dwelling. .On Monday night,.his father hearing a noiso in the buiWing where Enoch was confined, went out to discover its origin, lie was followed by his wife. Before he

Imd arrived n't tho building where Enoch had been confined he met. him* .Enoch having escaped from.his confinement, and had the leg of a bepch in bis hand» With this lie immediately struck his father nnd felled hiin to the earth, and then sprang upon his mother ond knocked her down nlso, and commenced beating them. In the mean time, a younger brother of the maniac,. having discovered what was going on, topWown his gun and snapped it three times at Enoch, whilo he was dealing death blowe upon his prostrate parents. Before the gun could be fired off, Euodi sprang toward his brother, wrested tho gun Irom his hands, commenced boating him with it, and finally knocked him down, and then commenced cltoking bim. Itr tbe struggle John, the .younger broti*bf£ brokte away from the enraged maniac, ^)d ran to H« T. Clark's, a noigbbor liviu^r ftjidot 300 yards off. Mr. Clark aod his 'two sons immediately repaired to tlie-see tie tff slaughter .'J S. -t 5 -A They found Mr. Thomas, tlie father, lying on the ground. He was then able to converse, nr.d partially assist himself. They took him op to carry him into the hoUse, and were met at tho door by Enoch with an nx£ in his hand* The three

l£*A*crrible^explasion

Tmwsi was se*!

Wdf M^^,WIRantM»t»4lHlftM)lH1lltoh« tied, bat be is riprani to recover. How •tewtly ealtoior a

•tai* «aar)c%asi»Ut,«r £%aria (Iff) Mrfist*.

tlieir escape.

The UuiwpsWre. Independent.states that a trench Catholic priest«of twenty-five years'sinpoing, tecently left Frnuce with a Protectant count/y woman, ami was married t,q tor ot St. HcUers. Jereey, on Friday morn, iug sen'night, with iln consent of the tody friends, he, un his p5irt ahjuring his j-cligion.

Ireland appends to bo in a state of feverish excitement on account ol the continued, and in some eases successful, resistance of the poor rotes In county ilie resistance was so formidable, tlipt the lOtli Hussars at Clonhael wera ordered out, and in proceedina to Water/ord were hissed at, and in otto instants ill

pelted witli sionea.,

wheat has been released

A larao qunnlity offpreisrn fwe ofoiity at Dublin, for tlfPpnrposo of being nmfitifactared into flour and biscuits for, the use of the emigrant vessels now taking in paracfigera for North A.

The trouWcsin the Kirk of Scotland still continue. Tho Lords of the Council and Session adhered »7 tho decision of the Lord Ordinary, which set aside the senhe a A

UB i,,Uil Ui

ingt It is said, lias selected Mr. Tvf licence of dpposuion pronounced lor," Jr. as his private sicc rotary.^'"Mr.r jblvupon the seven orethren ol E .i »i^- ..*»•••

Siabogi^.

The trial ol Mary Hunter for the murder .of her husband, and its extraordinary result, have excited con-

1 The trial ol iVIary Hunter for

From

JHNftci iiirt*

10 DATS LATER FROM ENGLM^)

aetivrfy in tha

iin KniidH

that eity.aeraaa the Dnnwlw. It wttl ho 1,470 Engtwu foci in fenath, with ouly one p»er in th« Aa appalHnc shipwreck,%ith ffr»«nt loweflile. took plffwatLAe^ bar, near-Whithfj a ahort two in whieh not only alt the peraona on hoardpertab'

go"

'or

tJtihed Statea. oeeompnnied hy Mr.Thomna orgnniic an atimtion there for the more epeeuy repent of tbt union ofeKo^and awl Ireland.

Diamrbanrrti htivo takw? Hfje® Pn.rfs

«»utrngca

The trial took days, stered

siderablo gurprise amon« all parties. The trial place before Sir James Parke, ond occupied two •J This woman was cliarged with havina adminis arsenic to her husband, and thereby wilfully and premcditatedly causing his death.. She Was acquitted by the jury, act ina iwdcr the directions ol the Judge.

Ensign Mcl^ughlen of the 42d British Reg-mem, stationed at Malts?, had been tried before a civil pourt and sentenced to. six months 'imprisonment for insulting the Host during Catholic procession.

Tha Norther* Star recommends "that the ChartiSts

throughout tha length and breadth of the land should

and that tocli of them

Another extensive failure had

occurwl

,ho

0' Ir®*

lnnd.fspeciallf in the nei^hborhop(f ^Monnghnn, w.jh view to obtain a reduction rent. The lower class of tlie prop!.©, having Assembled, thenwlvrs in ntimbem comtniiterf nufnsrrfna

thcatewnnts of tneotl-

cslmes W^ingf in gdfieral the object of their fnri-

®^Io wS'Ste«pcr«ce in Ireland, instead ofMyIna nway,M bad rrceivwl a new impetus by eeveral eminent Catliolicclersvmen publicly

devotm*

to the aesittance of Father Ma the*. We have aceonnts of tlia shocks of the qunkea over nfnrly the whole of the 5®np"f" rope. ia.Africa,and in Asia Minor, .lji

themselves

s,in.

iia^l, the ahecks were qoiio acvere. The Ca'bolicehnpel (U Killovin, near Clones, Trt land was'dcatroyed by fire reocjjt'j' it is he the work of incendiaries. The damage is estimated

Jtf'2 000 "Seternl of the most extensive landlords in Ireland had reduced their rente 20 percent of course n™en to tlie satisfaction of tenants. Earl, de Grpy has, hnw -V* er, given practical evidence of his high Tory principles hy raisiac his rents in the sntno proportion,

Gjrat excUerricnt /ias been created near Koscommon by an attempt to abduct and cqrry on the daflfenter ot a wealthy ccntlemnn. The poor girl was compelled to walk several wile* almost in a

state

of nudity but the

police.made so hot a pursuit thnf the vBlaftis abandoned their charge in onier to

in the West

nil bill disfounting circles in fjoadon-rUiat ol (jious rate partner in. the celebrated house of llayward & Giblis^ The liah'tlitics are statcd at £200,000.

A young .man name«l John Ellis hat been remanued at Rochester for using threats against the Queen and Sir Robert Peel, in a puhlie barroom

Spain is'spoken.of a? comparatively tranquil, though thereare still untamed spirits in the province of Catalonia. The people of Barcelona appear to have given up revolution as a bad job, which costs a great deal more than it is worth,

The British papers notice the loss of the Sol way, one of the West India steamships. The Sol way stewner entails upon the London offices a loss of JB30.000, and upon those of Wosrow XT10, 000 Lloyd's have escaped wirh a trifling cost, most of the insurance officers being her underwriters. The cost of the ship was £60.000, so that the unfortunate company to which she belonged will be minus XZO,*

00The«^amship

Columbia, Capl. Jtidkins, which left

Boston April 2, arrived at Liverpool on the, 13th,. ala pa a of 1 3 a The Great Western steam-ship, which was prevented fioin sailing on the 15th of April, actording to her appointment, in consequence of a slight antnage sustained in her last outward irip. was carried found to Milford. where'the. damage was repaired in three days. She had returned to Liverpool, and was to nil for New York on the 29th.

M.Guuewre*, the late political chier at Barcelona, has just been appointed to the

very

adminisirator general of posts atHsvanna. The Duke of Sussex has

lucrative post ot

been

damgertuslv til from

an attack of erysipelas, and daily bulletins or his health were issued at the latest dates he was improvmg. The "Tontonnais" of the 6th inst. states that the Emperor of Morocco had given satisfaction to the Uaited States for the insult offered to their Consul, by the Governor of Tangier. The latter had been superseded in his post, and the flag of the Umon having been hoisted on the Consular house, was aaluted by the tat-

6f powder mills at Waltbem

Abbe^, tttok place on the 16ih, by whieh tho works were destroyed, and several lives were lost. At the Lincoln assizes, John Nicolson. Postmaster ot Alford, was convicted of stealing bank notes from lette»,and sentenced to transportation for lite.

LONDON MONEY MARKET, April 18. Public securities have declined considerably this rooming when we take the tale ateadwess of pneannWMCofat. TbeConsol Market exhibited weakness before the ciosny«terday. and ihts mormn? the price for money has been as low ss 96 3 8. Tberehas »nc« been a re-action, and the quotation is now 961-?, the S for money and account. There is no other pound for this change lhan some insignificant sales lor the ateount done in a market where, in cons^qucn^ of'he 1 holvdar*. there is a thin attendance of the jobbers aad specula tors—a trick which we hove often seen stccewfarmer wmilar occasions.. Exchequer^biBs vemain nnnlmred at 67 to 69 pm-, and no change cdsay kind has oocurred in the commercial distant market. ..

LIVERPOOL CORK MARKET, Apr3 18.-The

and a moderate dewaofl lor wneai nrr cwnMimptios, we have to report ihe ,fa}j prwaa Tue*Jaf maintaineiJ for thai Grain *«*r*!I?. whilst in sonw inasanceaiar the Mediterranean qoahuea a fittle fnrtfier advance waliawf. Fine Pe wfc Odww h«joldat ft. 3d ^o€a«d.,commoftat5a 9d to 6»3d P^ /O'hs ^The 'dealer* have bought to a limited extent of Flour 4135s to 38k per sack Irish 26s to 39*

per bbl.

for

United

Siatea and Canadian. Three or four .parcels of lnsh jR^atins Oais have laand bajrai ai 2i 2d t# 3i W per 4$lhs. and a ww thoos»»d loada of T1&0"® Into ihe haodaof the trade at SOs 2s 6d per load.— No cbmnRe as respeeta Barley owr bfje we^or alterntion io make with regard todaly-paid Bea wand Peaa, a boot 500 qn»of Egyp'JlB^"0* in, ged hands at 13s 3d per W At w-«»TV T^rkei webwl a woderaie aiteodaw* ®f dealws. aat.ewjng "lo the doll reports from Mark lane, ttasr jporcha* Wheat were to a very limned amoont, and in aoim jKtanees rather lower rates WbtSb a^ptHI-especttllv for d&e tnfemr q«aht)«sof ba^ {rrain. Floor w»»«lmm wwwwhat Wff terms. No change «cc^fTfd in iia value of Oatstir OatrtleaU

PisriKt\:ftgMmtr.Sbr Wa.—Mr.

Witltam Wheeler HaW»eU% TfasadoAelt shdl.i were tried on Thursday laat, a short di*taoe« betow Phitadetphia, and were entirely aoecesafal- Their deatrrctive power is said to be so tremeodooa Unit they will tesr ship ai *ar aorf detiroy hrr eanr with Ihe rapidity of lightning. A «tfat eaocomae oi

Nevmrk Of. J.) Stntind.

PROGRESS OF DISORDER* ft is not cortainly from nuy desire to spread a knowledge of tbe misfortunes or tho shanoOj of our country, nor, indoed, for tho purpose of ministering ton dopr(Vved appGtile|lbft^ we, sft|men refer to thfr 'ui^CTOp^rattttw ft® tnaibs, and e^geciayy j^o the retn^rkablo d^j* oftfprs whij|K tire a]tf^o^t daily halted in ity of^eutt, bui smiply^tolceepiBcir advised of tb| progress Vf the ^Ips'

rs the i|^st ^M^et|tdnimunities ot ChrislendomT AmfrftTs foTtbe sake .of the imr»orlant practical lessons, that free, sovereign, and self-suflkient as we may feel ourselves to be, society is nevertheless very far from having attained ihe stale of perfection in which the bonds of authority can be safely relaxed.

rea-

In truth, the prevaiTTng'"sympathy with crime justly punished wither than with tbe la w-iw)jus|ly violated, is itself a fearfuUndication of a |oo$e morality, which calls loudly for a more vigilant police. There are certain restraining forces which never so convincingly annpunco their own importance to the peace ®nd stability of society, as when they are slackened or suspended. Arid novor has this lesson been made more palpable than bv tho mischiefs which we h?tvoexperi* aneed in this country, for few yeanrpa?1' from the gradual weakening of those habits of subordination, dependence, nnd Tcverence for authority, which, haying tV.cir foundation in the actual constitution of humnn nature, from tho basis of all law and without which society con not exist.

TJio boldness which tire spirit of Inwtessness lias acquired from impunity witbin a few years, is tn fact among tho most important lessons of tha times. And it is quite time wo should begin to feel, that unless it be speedily restrained by the invariable, unfuilinland vigorous execution of law, enforced bylTie mornl seose of the country it must inevitably lead 10 the total disorganization of society.— Indeed every man is aircudy permitted» by common courtesy, to be his own avenger, and even the Representatives of tho peoplo talk as fii-oiilliary of pulling noses, horse-whipping, and blowing each others brains out, as though it were children's pla When our halls of legislature set such examples, we must look for prize lights, ittobs. nssasination, and mu^ ders in the streets. ^Nor can we wonder that tbo courts, overawed, if not infected, with a corrupt public sentiment, should fail to ad* minister justice nnd execute the lajvs.

Tl^it.iheso are np unreal or fancied pvils, the every day's report of wrong arid Outrage with whidhihd papers are filled, too sutfely attest,!*'' Two cases have occurred, in which momljers of legislative bodies have been shot down dead while in tho hall of session, and the personal rencontres with less fatal consequences have been almost numberless* And ih no caso 1ms the offender been expelled or jiunislte'd 1 while the. apatliy of the publio mimi on tho subject shows a degneracy and qn obtuSeness of feeling that could only result jrom a long continued courso of downward progression.

compliments *oi,inieswot.d

Tho Sunbury American, a Loco Foco paper in Pennsy lvania, thus notices the porsovortng eQbrts or his personal adherents to crowd Mr. Vanjiuren upon 'tho Party' as its candidate for next president:

MR, VAN Burnt?* AND TWR' Thefow friends thnt Mr. Van Buren has still loft aro straining every nerve to effect his nomination. We say the few friends, because

belieVe that Mr. Van Buren has a smaller number of sypportors among tho people than any candidate that has yet been brought before them, and trust the time will long be before a few interested partisan leaders will be enabled to thurst him upon the people as their candidate. Mr Van Barea professes, wo believe, to bo a Democrat. Yet his conduct in his efforts to keep himself constnntly in offico is at variance with all the principlcsof democracy, and shows him to be an aristocrat of

the first water* Besides having long been in office in his native States, ho has held the offices of President and Vice President eight years and Itadjie not been one of the mos? unpopular men in tho tfnioi, he could have been easily elected for four years more. After having been most'shamefully distanced, with all the patronage of the Genera! Government at his heels, wo think it insulting to tile people to offec htm again as a candid&to for the high station to which tb.efy once reluctantly elevated him, and which nothing but bwowft want pf popularity compelled to yield to his victorious rival—a victory which should teach the democracy wot to force upon them a man Ibr whom they had but little affection, if not want of confidence. When the present Constitution Was formed, a few nltra, hightoned Federalists were anxious to have engrafted upon that admirable instrument, a number of offices with a life tenure—a measuro which was repudiated by every Democrat. There are but few, indeed, that would dare, at this day, to advocate such a measure, yet wo find Mr. Van Buren and bis friends endeavoring to effect in practice, what every

ftha

peoplo aasem-

htcd to witoesa the eaperifoenta. and aev«al naval o®(.aanCram tha Na*F Ya*l ware presant. who ad the cxpcrimeeUitsvary way aaieftwteey-

Democrnt refused to effect in practice, what every Democrat refused to sanction by law. These are, we believe, opinions of more than nine-tenths of the Democracy of the Union, ami that these opinions were once tbe views entertained by Mr. Van Buren himself, we ^ant no stronger evidence .than his own declarations in bis letter to Gov. ReynoldsofMissourt, declining the nomination offered him by the Legislature of thai State, in the following words: "No one cr.n expect, or should desire, to be always in office uoder a Government and Institutions like ours and I have enjoyed that privilege long enough to satisfy my utmost ftmbitioorM -v -y' -An aged lady in Boston, Mara., who has been from ber youth a devoted admirer of "Harry of the West," on reading Miller's production ofthe general smash in

Dear Doct. I

1843,

claimed, "I know it—I always said some darned thing or other would happen to prevent Clay's election/'- .it

navigable canal in the State of Ohio. The Cincinnati and White Water Canal, which runs from Cincinnati into the state of Indiana, Is nearly completed, and will shortly bo navigable about 80 miles, and is not included in a 1

Awnsaa Sm or rn Wosts^f Exonwr Some modern aetroooraer hap said that. in tbe coaraa of time, thy good firm planet of oars win be destroyed by eoaitng in contact with the ass- The editor of

Bouoa P«*t esks, "How do they know hat the san may be destroyed by comiotf in caa taot with tbaaarthf Who ewn« ro «e op

.Ohio Canals.—-There

are now

Man

the fight Let tw have

fair p*ey nta «td Sot may wish be had*nt eatistad after all. Adam* farm is at* to

ba crowded ssi

sight sh assy aa aoow si»|waa ^t !•.

JLETTB& JPJROX OIK. WASaiRGTONr At ^Meeting of the New York ^Historical?. Society o&-Turad9y i«Mt».the original copy or tbe foHowiog lttter from Geo. Washington^ «wti« presented'nm} read^ k-^was remarked ort^ .i&a thp let-i-ter was' particularly interesting as being at most the Only letter of a playful character^ foiiad among Washington^ paper*, and as% showing the siinplk:ity of hi* chardcter, fhe inconveniences ofthe times when it wa« written^ and the great economy, of his style of living' when Comma oder-in-Cbieif of the'America nt: Armies: "West

Point,

Aug. 18th,

*79.

have asked ._Mrs Cochratn

and Mrs. Livingston todine jvith me to morrow, but oughtT not to apprise theifl of their fare As I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned, will.

It is needless to nronise that my table is large enough "to hold the ludies-*-of this they had occular proof yesterday. To say how it is usually covered is rather more Ossential,. and this shall be tbe purport of my letter*

Sinej oar arrival at this happy spot, we have had a hamv(sometimes a shoulder) of bacon to grace the head of the table—a pbee of roast beef adorna the foot, and a small

of greonser beans [almost imperoeptible] decorates the centre. When tlie cook has a mind cut lo a figure, (and this presume be wilt attempt to do to-morrow,) we have iwobeefstako pyes, or dishes of crabs in addition, one on each side the centre dish, dividing the space and reducing the distance between dish and" dish to about six feet, which without thorn would be near twelve aps!»rt. Of late he had the surprising luck to discover that apples. wilt make pyes, and its a question if, amidst the violent of his efforts, jprp. do not get one, of apples instfad pf havipg both of beef.

dish

If the ladies can put up with such enter-^ lainment, and wiU submit to pnrtoke of it on«

plates, once tin but now iron, (not become so by the labor of scouring) I shall be happy to see them.. 1 am Dr. Doct. Yr» most obed. serv't.

(superscribed) Dr.

GO. WASHINGTON

Cochran,

.A.

New Windsor.

Erom Ihe BaUimort /tmmcflKTilE V\n BUllEN TACTICS. The supjKJsitbn of the New York Courier, is not without probability that Mr Van Barcn has placed all hopes of succes for the .Presidency, in carrying tho"election to tho House of Representatives the Courier declares that all his measures for a year past, have beoiw* taken with a view to produce this result.

Any one who look&st the meagro majority by whidh Mr. Van Buren was elected in 1836, and at the iir.menso majority by which'1 ho wasdefoated ih 1840, who regards the disastrous results of hi* administration and tho signal condemnation visited upon his mens- •*,« era of policy mi one who considers tho*# personal unpopularity of tho mrin, his doubtful double doaiing character, and tbe utter impossibility' of connecting any enthusiasm with his name—must bo convinced, as Mr. Van Burep himself probibly is tint ho cannot ever receive the vote of a nvijority ofthe people for anbthar presidential lerm. Thero is then, wo repeat, some probability in tho Courier's notion that MK Van Bureti's plan is to carry the election to tlie House of Representatives. It is known that in various Con-, gaessional districts at recent elections the corftest between the Van Buren and the Calhoun divisions for tho nomination have been active nnd violent—-but if particulnr# beoxamined it may perhaps bo found that in almost overy case tho Van Buren section has prevailed. In one of tho Virginia districts Gen. Dromgoolc, a Van Buren man, received tlie nomination over Mr. Goode, the late m«jmber,a Calhounite, a fuw woeks sincdr Tiie Cour-' ier thus concludes on the subject

This beyond all doubt, is his prtf&n?g^mi nnd the vote in such a contingency, of every man elected to the next Congress, is as well known to Mr. Van Buren, nnd his clique as any fact that has already occurred and what is more, measures have been taken to prevent the possibility of a change of their votes.— Our friends therefore, must be prepared to see dissentions in the ranks of our opponents and prepared too, to see the Van Buren men oppose their being settled^? We say in all sincerity, that there exists no doubt but Mr., Van Buren would much ruther have ail the^ candidates of the Loco Loco party in the field than to havo them unite upon himself, tlo knows thorefore that the Whigs enn beat him and he knows therefore that his ohly chance of election is through the House oft,: Representatives. To get there, Mr. Calhoun mujt tako the South from Mr. Clay, Mr. Cass and Col. Johnson, the WeM, ond Mr. Buchanan Penmylvania I This is his scheme for reaching the Presidential chair and it only remains to be seen how far all his compote itors will play into his hands.

mm wmtitwm:'

The Editor of the Boston Cultivator re«t-T' marks "Was disposition and will maniFren

fosted among tbe French farmers, whenr

France

with an exhausted treasury, and »n 'v mpoverished peasantry, called the public attention lo the cultivation, and manufacture of silk No Henry the 4th and the great Sullyi like profound Statesmen, acted on tho principle, tnat man is not only capable but nalurallp inclined to improve his condition# They saw France then, like the United States now, susceptible of being made a great silk-' {growing nation, and all that was wanting was an adequate motive or cause to create or develepe a strong disposition and will among the people" to engage in tho silk culture. No sooner had Henry determined on that great stroke of state policy (which lies at the very foundation of tbe national wealth of Franee) and offered his splendid bounties on silk culture, so far as not only to make it a remunerative* out a profitable business, than there was a will and disposition among farmers to go ahead with the silk business, and on, and on it went, till tbeirown wants were supplied, an exhausted treasury replenished, the poor

farmers

841 m»W»

I".

well clad and fed, and France itself

secure, in an income of *25,000,000 from silk exports atone.** S Upon this it has been remarked by the Rev. Mr. Barbour, of Massachusetts: "But we have decided advantages over France for tbe prosecution of this business. Our climatfr is altogether superior to theirs. The French are compelled to feed in inclosed buildings entirely, with the temperature rmilated by artificial means- Here nothing of the kind is necessary. There the general average of loss by disease among the worms is from 25 to 02 per cent. Here it is not 5 per cent.

In six years that I have fed, I doubt whether I have lost from this eause more than 8 or 4