TWO PQl.T.ATiS PCR HALF-YEAIiLY" IX ADVANCE. AND FARMERS1 AND filEGHANlGS1 REGISTER. sxr not ?r& wrTynr ri ms, ft J WILL Bi CJAi!2D. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY JONATHAN ROW, SOMERSET, SOMERSET COUNTY, PA. Iew Series. TUESDAY, NOVSIflBSR 10, 1846; Vol. 4.-rio. 52, The maid w ith her little hand To-day is made a bride, A wreath of snowy roses Around her brow is tied. There are roses on her path. And on her cheeks are more, And her tiny foot is pressing Red leaves that strew the shore. Our bark is full of flowers, But we have left a place For the maiden and the bridegroom; They take but little space. Her boddice is all decked With gold and pearls so rare, And silver pins are shining Amidst the glossy hair. The happy hours flee fast Of youth's delicious spring, It leaves the tender nightingale But little time to sing. There are clouds that come so quickly Over summer's tranquil sky; You must take the blissful moments, Nor give them time to fly. Our bark has waited long. The blue waves beat Use strand, Let us sing the bridal carol Tor the maid with the little hand. Foreign Corrcspandcnct of the V. Cuzdtc Down Patrick, I)ow. Cocntv, Ireland, Sept. 2J, 184G. ITrcck of I he Great E5iiloii Xo Lives l.o-iU Friend Chandler: I am, greatly to mv surprise, called to address you again from Ireland. The recent good pha ges of die Great Britain, with other con federations, induced me to procure a berth in h?r for the 22d September. I did ii, I confess, with some misgivings which the representations of .intelligent persons fi nally removed. Reaching Liverpool 0:1 the 21st, and seeing this huge nio:i-.ter of the ueep for the rim time. I fell no par ticular apprehension but that she would move in safety over the Atlantic. I siill think from the vast strength she exhibited 011 the beach, and the rapidity of her course to the scene of her misfortune, ih.it rROPEKLV managed, she was one of the safest vessels that ever crossed the sea, and most eligible for speed. This had began to be a general impression, so that in leaving the docks of Liverpool, we enrolled one hundred and eighty-four passengers, the largest number ever en rolled in a steam vessel to cross the ocean. The ship's crew and all its attaches amounted to one hundred and thirty more, making in all, more than three hundred human "beings. At least one hundred of the passengers were females, including fifty little OrERA girls, singers, &c, dan suec, with tlmr mistresses and five fe male attendants. Some of these little girls, drar?ed from their parents and country to England, for a snow were un willin; to embark, and one or two were actually dragged screaming on board by the female monsters who were to make gain by their soirees in New York, I said, as I saw them from 8 to 12 years of ajre hurried on board, "it is an abomina tion" of cruelty and so I say still. Two of these little ones were actually left on the wharf as they came too late to em bark. Among our passengers were the Rev. Dr. Cox of New York, Rev. Messrs. Whceloek and Church of the Baptist de nomination, Rev. Mr. Osgood, a Baptist Missionary returning sick with his wife and children, from a long service in Bur mah; Rev. Mr. Reed of Connecticut, and two or three other clergymen. Mr. King, Minister to London, was also with us on our return home. o'clock. By this time I had learned, and music in a human voice outside our ves learned it with some misgivings, that our ' sel. It showed the possibility of safety, captain had taken the "northern channel" and inspired general confidence, or North about Ireland. I knew this I The pilot boat rot alon- the leeward channel was the most critical, ami both 1 side, and a man came on board. From from the rapidity of our movements, 12 ; him the captain first learned that his vos- j miles an hour, and the peculiarity of the sel was grounded near St. John's Point, ! night, that some risk was being run. j Dundrum Bay, 30 miles S. E. of Belfast, ! There was no moon, and the sky had be- thirty miles from her proper course. ' come overcast and heavy, some rain had j We had come between huge rocks, where : began to fall and the wind had risen to a I the passage of such a ship seemed im steady wholesale breeze right over our possible, and struck within a cable's stern. It was a gloomy, tut up to the j length of a projecting ledge of rocks pro hour of our disaster, not what I should ! trading from the shore, the only sand call a tempestuous night, and for the Equi- beach in a neighborhood often miles noxial storm, was not by any means un- j each way, and the only place where death to most of the passengers and crew would have not been inevitable! At the rate of , more than twelve miles an hour, in pro- : found darkness, and under an equinoctial '. gale, we had coursed among rocks that no mariner would adventure by daylight and a gentle breeze. We had escaped man's rashness which had led us into peril, to be rescued by the overruling providence of God. Had we struck the rock two miles from shore, or had we struck four i hundred yards higher or lower, we should ; have gone to the bottom. God guided I our vessel to a gentle beach, and we were saved, and for this I trust we are truly grateful. The final ebbing of the tide left the ship bolt upright, embedded i i the sand, with the water so shallow that it could be waded to the shore. Boats were sent out, and the ladies all taken ashore by se ven o'clock, and the ffentlemen by half past eight. We had to wade a little dis tance as the boats could not be drawn to the dry beach and tiie ladies were carried on the backs of men. Then came our trunks, so that by five o'clock P. M. near iy everything belonging to the passengers was ashore. The Irish peasantry at first behaved well, but when thev began to come in crowds to get money, they became ex horbitant, and even charged fifteen shil lings in some cases for a single cart load of baggage for half a mile, from the ship to the depot, near the shore. Some things were lost from pilfering, but not much. I rode with my luizgae six miles from our shipwreck to the village, the nearest Post town, in an Irish cart with out springs, seated on the top of my lug gage, while my Irish friend led his horse, and for this I paid $1 50. There were ten of us, and the price was not extrava gant. I have received here from eeciesi as.tical friends, genuine Irish hospitality, but two of my friends occupying one bed, were charged 2,75. Poor human common, except lor its mildness. We had passed the Isle of Man, as it was pointed out by the stearsman. I retired to rest at 0 o'clock and had fallen into a sweet sleep, when I was suddenly awakened by an unusual grating astern followed by a tremendous crash, which I knew had destroyed the action 0 of the propeller. This blow was re ceived in passing between two rocks, called the "Cow and Calf," not far from the shore. It unshipped our rudder and the propeller was so hurt by it and broken, that it could no longer revolve. In a mo ment more we felt ourselves on he bot tom again, grinding and cracking, until the immense vessel of 3,500 tons burthen was suddenly struck with a shock which it seemed would crush any human fabric. As she struck, the sea broke over her, tearing off our boats, and driving the wa ter through every accessible place. At the first touch of the rock I rose and at tempted in profound darkness to dress, and in a short time succeeded sufficiently to go out of my state room in the cabin, where I found a mass collected, with hor ror in every countenance. A succession of shock after shock roused all, and screams beran to issue from the Ladies rooms. The wind now rose to a tempest. It was deep darkness without. The rain bcran to pour down in torrents. There was one brijht long continued gleam of lightning which showed before and around us the white breakers, and on each side large and appalling rocks. The lightning was followed by loud thunder, which heard at such a 'ime was most fearful. The Captain sent up rockets from the deck, and fired heavy signal guns, all o( which tended to deepen the common a larm. Sometimes we had a few moments of comparative quiet, and then came shock after shock, as the waves dashed against and lifted us to fall heavily on the "round. At each of these shocks which occur red at frequent intervals, it seemed as if our last hour had come, and the only par tition between us and the waves about to be annihilated. Our ignorance and the ignorance of the captain, as to where we were am! what we were to meet next, and our entire inability to stay on deck, to make any provisions for safety, deepened the horror of our situation. For 7 hours we remained in this condition and you may well imagine they were long, fearful hours, that will be remembered while life last. We waited, O how impatiently for the day, and vet feared that day would dawn only to show that escape was au impossibility. The Captain at an early period came into the cabin, and told the collected pas sengers that fie was certain that the ship was on a sand bank and not on the rocks, and that he thought all would be saved by boats in the morning. But as he had run his vessel ashore so mysteriously, and confessed he did not know where we were, and was moreover endeavoring to inspire quiet by giving assurance of safe ty the passengers had but little confi dence in his words, while the howling wind was sweeping over the deck, and the waves thrashing the vessel with a power that made the whole mass quiver, j as if every part was breaking asunder. On the whole the passengers behaved well. When it was thought that death was certain and one and all alwint in Up j hurried to Eternity, I deemed it my duty, while I felt of course, the awful solemni- Of Philadelphia!, were Mr. Ralson ! ty of ray own situation, to say a few and five ladies under his care; Mr. and j words publicly to attempt to benefit any Mrs. Lardner; Mr. Fallon and two ladies; j that might be unprepared to die. The Mr. Samuel Ashmead and some others ; Rev. Dr. Cox followed with an exhorta besides your correspondent. We were tion and prayer. One Clergyman read a delighted with -our company and our- 1 Psalm, and another still gave a word of selves: we had some of us been long encouragement. I believe there never from home and our taste for travel ex- j was a more sincerely praying circle, or a hausted longed for home, and were pleas- j time and place, when and where man ed with the prospect of being soon there, j more earnestly sought strength from God. We cast o(l from Liverpool in presence The scene was sublime. It was the of thousands whom the renown of our ! hoar ot human passivity and weakness, vessel had collected to see her move in her for till morning nothing could be done as element. The skies were bright above the Captain confessed. What could live and the wind south east, fresh but not ( in the mad waves of such a tempest, amid strong as it had been from the same quar- ; such breakers as thundered against the ter for a week. . With this wind and the , vessel. "We cried unto the Lord and he imnrovement of the propeller, we made , heard us and delivered us out of distress." nature! How ready to make cain from the mifortunes of others. The Irish gen try and police dtd their duty nobly. The Great Britain, I think, will ne ver be got off. She went on at a high tide, a:vJ a hard wind, and a full steam, and is far up plum upright on the beach; a most beautiful but sad spectacle, as she is all in sight but about five feet of her bottom. She cost $G30,000, and was in sured for $370,000. We all pity our Captain and regard him as a mined man. How he made a mis take of 30 miles in a fair sail with a good wind, of 120 miles from Liverpool, per haps he can explain, but I fear not, I shall be glad to see him justified by any facts, for he is amiable, noble minded and scientific, but I fear not careful, and which would make me afraid to trust my life with him. There may have been a mag netic disturbance from the great quantity of Iron in the ship, to change the com pass there may have been confusion of the lights which with a little self-confi-deuce could account for our misfortune, but I fear the world will say that the lives of 320 human beings have been put in eminent jeopardy and a vast amount of property sacrificed to the mad ambition of Cap't. II. to make a quick passage and his want of care as a navigator. But I write the day after our mifortune and mnst wait for more facts. Yours truly, THOMAS BRAINARD. From the Vicksburg Whig. POLITICAL PORTRAITS. Clay. He speaks! and viewless chains Upon a Senate rest; He ceases? look upon tha names That gem a nation's breast. TTebster. The eahn unsounded deep Is emblem of his mind; But roused, its heavy billows sweep, In grandeur unconfm'd. Callaoun. A loom of curious make May weave a we!) of thought, And he who rends the shining warp, May in the woof be caught. J. Q. Adams. Statesman and poet too ! Philosopher in turn; Link with the past! aviation soon Shall sorrow o'er his urn. Crittenden. Now with a giant's might He heaves the pondrous thought Now pours the storm of eloquence With scathing lightning fraught! Berrien. With temper calm and mild, And words of softcn'd tone, He overturns his neighbor's cause And justifies hs own. Cnrwio. The polish'd shaft of wit Is quivering in the light; 'Tis sped! upon its shining track, And havoc marks his flight. jr. X. riaySsn. The lightning's glare may turn The nefdie from the pole; Who ever saw him swerve. Or bow to low control. Elrnlon. Judgment and tact cornbin'd, A mine of knowledge vast; A walking book-case on its shelves The archives cf the past. Can5. With neat and rounded phrase He tricks the -hnpeless thought. Like hopes of power, it charms to-day, To morrow it is nought. Alien. Ye god.-s ! defend my cars ! Bas-dniiTo around me throng! Through r-inptv galleries leap and roll The notes of "Chinese Gong!" ROUTE FROM MONTEREY TO MEXICO. FROM THE ANNAPOLIS RETCBLICAX. The expectations of men are often the so gloriously begun. Buffalo Commer cial. The thunder has been heard in Old Pennsylvania and in Ohio, and we ex- ofispnng of their own wishes. W hen j ptct New York to keep it crashing and that is the case expectation is invariably ; jarring into the cars of Jas. K, Polk and extravagant, and almost sure to encoun- j his administration and supporters, an ter disappointment. In forming our j nouncing to them that the days of Locolb judgment of the feasibility, for instance, j co misrule arc numbered. of an achievement, our wishes tor its ac- comoiishment should nave no control 1 1 - 1 - J over our reason; fuCts and circumstances, 1 as they exist, constitute the basis of our j decision. We have been induced to drop these hints, ami insert the subjoined ex hibit of the route to the city of Mexico, by the almost unbounded expectation to which the glorious deeds of our gallant army have given rise, trusting that over sanguine minds may be brought, by the information contained in the exhibit, to a calm consideration of tiie true state of things, and see and understand that too MCCH IS EXPECTED FROM TIIE ARMY. It has been stated by the official organ of the Government, since the alTair of Monterey, that the United States troops in Mexico amounted to about 20,000. To controvert or deny this statement, though we believe the number overrated, is no part of our purpose; but we will take the liberty of asking. Who knows how many of that number have been placed hori le ct tubal by disease and casualty, and what are the positions of those able to perform duty?. Every body is aware that various places have been converted into military posts, and many men necessarily subtracted from that number to defend those posts. By these causes the force operating offensive ly under the immediate command of Gen. Taylor has been reduced to some 0,000 men; yet, with these facts staring them as it were in the face, and an extremely difficult road (sprinkled with strongly built and populous towns) to pass over, many people expect this chivalrous little force to penetrate nearly eiht hundred miles further into the country, and plant the standard of the Union on the battle ments of the city of Mexico ! We repeat TOO MCCZI IS EXPECTED FROM TIIE ARMY. To expect impossibilities from it will en sure the sacrifice of it. From San .Intonia dt Bexar (Texas) to .1exict?. Miles. Population. To Laredo, (on the Rio most rapid progress. The ship moved Towards the morning the wind shifted, smon the huge waves almost as quietly ! and after blowing for a time violently 2? the steamers on our Delaware in a , from the Northwest, lulled. There was calm. Not a person was sea sick or ; a gradual subsidence of the crowd into a seemed likeiv to be, and we thought we silent but anxious awaiting their destiny, had at last solved the great problem, how . and some even slept. When a large the Atlantic could be crossed with home ' wave thundered against the vessel, there cmnforis. Th" immense length. 320 feet I was a sigh deep and almost universal, as of our vcs-el, w'nh a corresponding w idth, j each regarded it as indicative of a final id the clearness of her deck and tnc ureasmg 01 tne vessel. tpaoimv the failac We ne?s cf her cabin, divested us ol As the day uawn?J, and the tide rece- y that we were shut up at sea. cec, ana tne wina leu, a mot boat came sorted at 4 o'clock and dined at 4 - to us, and you can imagine that there was Terrible JIassacrc. The. Van Buren (Ark.) Intelligencer of the 3d inst. publishes a letter from Fort Washita, stating that Col. A. M. U pshaw the Chickasaw Agent, recently sent two friendly Delaware Indians to the Witche taw village, to ascertain if some horses, that had been stolen, were not in posses sion of tiie tribe. When they arrived at the villaga, which is about 150 miles from Fort Washita, they found the corn crowing, the skins and every thing be longing to the tribe in their usual places, but nothing that had life in it was visible; the Delawares, thinking it strange, re paired to the mud fort of the Witchetaws, which had been destroyed, and around w hich the dead bodies of the Witchetaws were found having been killed by ar rows. The ground showed where one party had drawn off their dead, and the Delawares saw at one that the Witchetaws ! had been attacked by an over number of wild Indians, and nearly the whole tribe murdered. It was supposed that they had been attacked by the Camauchcs or Pawnee Mahas. A fop is like a cinnamon tree the bark is worth more than the body. rcarfal Ravages of the Cholera t7i India. The ravages of the cholera at Kurachee has been most disastrous. Between the 14th and 22d of June, about 8000 human beings were cut off, including 850 Euro peans, of whom 815 were fighting men. Besides this, 505 Seers, and it is believod about 7000 native camp follower?, and inhabitants of the town have died. The disease commenced its destructive course on Sunday the 14th, when the weather was unusually stagnant and oppressive. The Bombay Times says : " Before midnight nine of the eighty- sixth were at rest; and men began to be borne into the hospital in such numbers that it was difficult to make arrangements for their reception. It was a fearful night. With morning came the tidings that the pestilence was overspreading the town, and fifty had in 2t hours fallen victims. Tiie Eighty-sixth were the earliest, and continued to be severest suf ferers. They and her Majesty's Sixtieth had. for six months, been in tents close to each other; the day alter the disease ap- j pearcd, they were marched out for change of air, and encamped by tiie sea shore near Clifton. - The Rifles were next at tacked; then the Fusiliers; the Artillery and Native Infantry began to suffer after this. For five fearful days did the de stroyer lay his hand most heavily upon them; and in this time more than a thou sand men were carried to their graves ! The pestilence now began to abate it had done its worst, and seemed to with draw; within less than a fortnight 900 Europeans, including 815 lighting men were ca rried away, GOO Native soldies and 7000 of the camp followers and inhabi tants of the town, had been hurried into eternity. The conduct of the Governor, (Sir Charles Napier,) is stated to have been beyond all praise; anxiety for the conferring an alacrity on limbs that the hand of time might have stiffened. Only two officers had died. So sudden was death with some, that they were seized, cramp coliepsed, ucad.almcst as fast as we have written the words. Previous health &strength were no guarantees;men attend ing the burial of their comrades were at tacked, boanc to the hospital and buried themselves the next morning. Pits were dug in the church vard morning and evening, sewn up in in their beddings, colUnless, they were laid side by side.one ! service read over all. Public works were ! suspended during the 15th and ICth. Medicine seemed powerless; nothing that medical science could guggest look ef- t feet they were, in fact, dealing with corpses. It was not until the third day that medicine assumed any sway; since Grande) Saltillo Anguanueva Lo Kncarnacion Yaea Buenaventura St. Salvador El Salado Liana Blanca Lomo Prieto La Punta Yanegas Mines of Catorce 200 225 13 SO 12 12 9 12 12 15 12 20 12 Guadalupe. (a hacienda) 33 C h area s,( town v mines) 36 18 12 21 30 43 30 CO 33 15 27 30 30 El Venado Iledionda Bocas San Luis Potosi, (city) Joaal, (vi'lage) San Felipe, (town) Gunnaxuato, (city) Irapuato, City Salamanca, town Zelaya, town Queretaro, city San Juan del Rio Arroyo Sarco, (hocienda) 26 Tula, (town) 25 Huchuetoca, (village) 30 Mexico, (city L capital) 33 1,500 12,000 small, do do do do (lo do do do do do do 5,000 small do do 50,000 small, do 70,000 21,000 15,000 10,000 40,000 small, do small, do 150,000 T5IK COXQ5.T.ST or 35EXICO. CorrespaDUVnns of the New York Eiprau. Wasiuxqtox, October. 22, 181G. The Administration entertain the most ambitious designs ia regard to the con quest of Mexico, and what was hinted at last summer in the councils of the Execu tive is fast becoming a matured plan.boih for the prosecution of the war and the terms, if peace shall be made. The Ad ministration, in making a peace with Mex ico, will not be content with the surren der of the Kio Grande a3 a boundary of the United States, nor, as I hear, will they be content with claiming the whole of New Mexico and all upper California, vast as these possessions axe. Tha de sign is to claim the ichh ttrritory north cf Tampico in the Guff of Mexico, and north of the totdhcrnmtit point of l'p' per California. Mexico was told, or will be told by the Executive, when next terms of peace shall be proposed to her, that she must pay the entire expenses of the Mexican war, and all tii3 claims that can be raised and scraped rainst her. This it is known in advance she cannot do in money, and the Government of tha United States will therefore graciously condescend to take pay in Mexican lands. The more the war costs, says our Gov crnment, the more lands wc shall have, and the more the claims of our citizen to, the greater also will be the demand against the Mexican Government. The Secretary of State and the Secre tary of the Treaury have had assurances that claims can be presnted against Mexi co to the amount of a; Itat fiftsbn mil lions of dollars! And the Administra tion promise to pay all the claimants by the seizure cf Mexican lands, and the present war is becoming popular wiih claimants, and has b?en made so from the first under this promise. The war, indeed, is only justified by the neglect of Mexico to pay the awards of her own Commissioners against their Government and in order to make 33 much of this justi fication as possible the Administration ara anxious to increase the amount of clair.13 and claimants. Their numbers the Ad ministration may he easily assured, will be legion, and the amount millions and young men will grow gray before they see the end of the consequences of the war with Mexico. The threats, indeed against Mexico have been most frequent here, since Santa Anna fplayed the Ad ministration falsely in regard to what ha could and would do if admitted back onco more to his own errantry. It is worth while to study the desigr.9 of the Administration in regard to the conquests it contemplates. The follow ing territory has been seized upon by Commodore Sloat, Colonel Fremont, anJ Colonel Kearney : Upper California, with an area of 27G.3C0 miles. New Mexico 214,800 do do 1,141 Taken from a work entitled "Mexico and Texas in 1842," the copyright of which is secured to Charles J. Folsom, of New York. Frogr-ess ofliic Good Cause. Never before have the Whigs been cheered with more auspicious indications. From every quarter come the deep heavy tones of popular condemnation of Locofo coism, its men and measures. North Carolina has gloriously vindicated by a majority of thousands her steady adhe rence to sound Whig principles. Ken tucky has more than maintained her ru nout renown. In Indiana, the people have entrusted to tiie Whig the substan tial pocr of the State. New Hamp shire, once the very bulwark of Loco Fo coism, has seen and renounced the politi cal error of her ways. Maine has glori ously followed her example thus, as in days of the Revolution, enabling New England to present an unbroken W big front. Maryland too, emulous nf her former fame, has broken her bonds, and a decisive victory has crowned the e''1,r of her Whigs. Last year the locos h.-a. n nnnnlm maioritV of more 2,000. At the election jo 591,100 Reduce this to square acres and yen add as many millions to the amount of acres of Mexican territory as that over which the stars and stripes now float, and to which claim has been laid. of tide MUD HEN. A few days since the inhabitants Cape Island, during a very high doiig the coast and sounds near the Cane were visited by thousands of mud hcnJ which were driven from their liidir.ij places in the marsh to the high ground-r. These birds, which are when fat, as they always are at thi3 season of the vear most delicious eating, have no wings with which to make their escape from pursa ers, have to trust alone to their legs. Swarming in the field, gardens and roads, until every place as far as the eye could reach appeared fairly alive with, them, the inhabitant-. Mien, women and boys, turned out with sticks, brooms, brush handles, fce. and making a vigorous onslaught, in the course of a couple cf hours, killed or captured ever a thouscrd. Onof the Delaware pilots, we understand with a single stick, killetl 270. Such a god-send ot Lux-anc th Caps Islanders, who came very nr nr bt r.z was bed away bv the late "ale. have not had for a long time. The storm in York on Tuesday then sssru, a , .,,c nS.'nined the o'her greater iiiaii'riiv t way, with a large majority m bom :cu- sus" of the Legislature. From Georgia the news thus far, is equally auspicious; , . t .U- T rnm Kr.iT fVinnt'pr in ami to-uav, mc . ... it has done so, I should say two thirds of i Ohio and Pennsylvania. ! the cases have been been saved. Nork ! will yon not folio Whigs of New w up tht work ' New wa very v:o;em, :ir.i; can.-ru inncii eenrr- nl da.mne to vessels wharvc, &c. The ca wall on lbs Battery was broken up f.,r nearly on? hundved yard.s The n i'nish?d steeples of two churches were t hi vrn down. In the T)ebitrars Bav tb 'nrm a'so considerable damage. At Newcastle th? wharves were rwept a way. At Fort Mifflin inn pier vrm tcrrd over onjts side. The rve !;? c:vtf Crawford went oshore nenr Wilmington Creek.- Five new huildinrs ImLngtoa, N. J wer? djrcrnihpJ ! wici. did