= Dr. Drake's Letters on Cholera. zu . tr ri 13 E Et - From Me, Cincinnati Doily Enquirit. To the people of Cincianuti:-=The Publication of the Board of Health, and the weekly report, of the Trustees,of the Hospital. in yesterday's Daily 'Ga zette, hating shown that the Cholera has at length begun to prevail among uses an epidemic, I propose to say a few words nit certain points in Which .1111 have a deep interest. In the first place, then, tct no one trove the city, because the epidemic has conic. In whatever un known manner that disorder travels from country to country, it is not, pa small-pox, a catching disease; it' it were, (ming . out of the city would be a preser vative. As in 1832, the cases which have now oc curred, are in various retired parts of the city, and largely among women and children, and who had been in nu degree exposed to boats, railroad stations, ur hotels,, where they c.,uld have caught any dis• ease. 18 fact, the cause has h ave through the city. anti already been received into the bodies of its in habitants—old and young—rich and poor: and they. who escape to the country are as likely—more like ly,—to be ill than if they remained at home. The true and safest course is for families`and friends to draw closer together than common, and watch over and assist each other. In the second place, it ought to ' b e known that, eiMlemic'eholera has no premonitory symptoms.— Wheolthe sentinel on the walls of a fortified city fires his gun, it is a premonition that the enemy is close at hand—,vhee there is a Circle round the moon, it is a premonitory sign of a storm; but cholera at tacks without tiny premuniton. Wo are accustomed to apply the word Cholera to a summer disease of our own climate, which getter- • ally begins with vomiting, or that symptom and di arrleva combined; and hive therefore fallen into the fatal error of regardieg the first sago pf Epidemic Cholera, ns a fore-runner of the disease. Every elm, woman, and child, ought to know that, _ from the moment when Use diarrliwa sets iii, the Cholera tie positively present as when it has advanced to r touting, or coldness and collapse. When one i Moats sends urnike, the roof is positively on tire a m when tie flews light ep the city. The man who should stand still - when he saw the smoke, say ing it was only a premonitory sign that his house might he on tire 'lifer a while, would be regarded as insane; yet hi. nbsurility would be no greater titan that ago: t ideal who doe.; not regard himself tis laboring under the Choler:a, from the moment the diarrhea begins. la the third place, it may be declared as a fact, that the disease may generally he stopped, if met in that pally stage; at till events, if it cannot then be put an end to, it cannot afterwards. It will ran its course,'and the patient may or inav not recover, tic cording to his censt within . But let no one beihne that this first mild stage, can be Successfully treated if the patient cmitinues on his - feet. Ills life de pends on his lying by,—no medicine can succeed if he should not. They may chriek it fir the mo ment, and delude him into a fatal security, but 'can go no farther. In the fourth place, all persons who have worn flannel during the winks, should luep it Off Willi Utc Epidemic ham passed akvay. They may put ion cooler cloth;ng, but should not throw off what they have worn next the surlime of thy; DANIEL DRAKE, M. D. Cincinnati, May 10, 1819. Edll=l3B/12: I briefly pointe,Tout yesterday, in the public prints, that no one shoulj bate the city, fur the purpose of esenping the cholera—that is not a di-ease which has premonitery i eym,itollis, but that it is present from'the beginning of the diarrlann, which is its first mnev;—thatearly treatment and rest are indis pensable to its care: and that warm clothing should nut be laid aside till the Epidernic.s,hall have passed an a V. The last opinion relates to the prevention of the cholera: but all constitutions are not liable to it, any more than ell are liable to ague and fever, influenza, or any other form 'of di‘4 , ase. But although we kno v of nothing that williprevent the disease, we kno • of many things which can and do bring it on, ate the. poison has been taken into the system.— They are ext Wog ea. - :sre, clad ought to he_ carefully avoided. The disease wdl, however, assail some constitutions, notwithstanding all exciting causes may be avoided. 1 Of the exciting causes one has just been men tioned—the premature laying aside of flannel and other warm clothing:. In addition to this, (and be . longing to the same head,) getting, wet ill a shower —rending long on damp places—sitting in a strong current of air—sitting indite open air at night— and sleeping it ith but little bed covering—should all be carefully avoided. }very sitting and lodg ing room ought to have n tire in it for a part of m. ery day, especially for a few hOurs before occupy log qt. Thus, the siiiii, office, family sitting roonf,- church -and school-him-:e should have tires - kindled ,'jig them early in the morning, and kept up fur two or three hours;—but this is still more necessary in lodging rooms, li hiFh should be warmed by brisk fires, kindled in the early part of the evening, and allowed to burn down b.yftrie bedtime. A second class or Acitiug causes is connected with diet. Loading the stomach with any kind of food, especially at night, may bring on the disease; and omi:ting to eat at the usual tune, may do the 1 same thing. Much reduction-du the quantity of food (the indiublual still being in health) :4 not pro per. In fact, a nor, riPzin tr diet;is best: but it should he plain and digest:dile. Meet, or boiled eggs, 6 1,,,,dd be eaten every (lay. Boiled hum, corned beef, corn ed Muttony writ,•ca ,,, mr.l 1.,.....c ~,1”.11, ... - ..4 1 lery are the b - .:st. Out the whole salted meats ore more 'proper that ft esh; Pork end fresh Fish shotiLl he avoided. Of salt fish. -mackerel and saimoon are too hard:but cud-fish pith potatoes is proper. Old cheese is safe, and nisca;oni, prepared with cheese 'may be eaten. lint bread should be avoided; stole bread, or crackers, should be used. Of culinary vegetables, mealy potatoes, well boil ed, hominy and rice, toe nut only the best, but all . Mho S had better be omitted. Pies, tarts. and all ki n d s , of poetry ore improver, except, perhaps, well - baked, and highly spied gingerbread. Those who drink malt liquors at their meals, should limit them selves to fiesbly brewed strong beer, well hopped. An I, brandy and whiskey, they cannot prevent Cholera. They ulio are in the habit of using ei ther, should net lay it aside; hut They ereou/d avail, all extras. 'Those oho have not such a habit, should by no tneam, begin nary. the use of bran dy in the treatment of the disease, must not be con int:ll,Al With its use as a preventative. The irritation of the stomach and bowels produced by the first impress of alcoholic drinks, may even contribute to bring en the disenze; nsol sour u hies are still more likely Wbrillg OH the effect. DANIEL DRAKE, XL D. 1 - L,y 11, liur9:nm:.k.q. 3. When the Gliolent prevailed here in 1832, some persons fell victims to it, who not L &irvitilll' refrain ed to rtes} thing that wus said to he an exciting cause; and thus, inanv were led to believe that tt seas a matter of indilfirence o holier they observed ony rules or not. lint this was a t cry bad conclu sion. Such case,, call be explained away. r•oY e'v-ease is epidemic, there are pre-dkpose them to it, that they will be attark.-d. and, perhaps des-. tro)rd, let them live nq they [toy. . k;CCOnd. Olw reason with many- persons, w h y t h e agnmst exciting 'causes was so rigidly oh served at that time, was their ierear of the disen-e. Now, that terror was, and ever will be, one orihe greatest of nil exciting' causeA; and hence while the eulti:cts of it Wen., as they supposed, scropubmsly avoiding the whole, they weru unconsciously cher ishing one of the most IllisithieVOUS. This terror sometimes ma lc the dirceder scent to be catching. Thies, at the period when the proculiar remote raise was every where present, and act inn* on the 1-yst'entS of the people hut not with sullicient force 11l prisloce the disease, a traveler would be taken Clown with it among strangers, and, the next day, tir even in 4 few (more , . some one who had been near lihn, would be seized with tho complaint, having, bs was supposed ) calliett ji, yibett, - i n fact i .it had been excited by _fear in those wll3 w ere already pre-die -1,04 to it • Through the a•hn;o of that ephlernie, the emotion knrtics:; %cry timing and :wirleV , spread; for the dieruce i‘a.; new, and aas regarfled as a dreadful 1 have au'ilottlit that this em't>tiori ireat mnrtality. The proselit epidemic rias in.riied much Ie„ terror, both in EnrolPft anJ =ri the-United States, and-has been much cannot doubt that diminisho p mortality should bedificribed, iktiart, abatement in the dread e spread thrall Omit all the cotintijea. The,danger now itri:that this atiateme - many-persona indifferent to what the and to what they rittght not todop . rir in serving health, birregulatintrand appetites, nr suspending their busines of people do nothing until they are they are not alarmA, they dot what the disease;—if they are so alarwid dentiv, and wisely, their terror then i it. To act discreetly, without heinr it is the true wisdom. There are causes which prcsdisposi as well,as causes-which excite it. I one—an infirm or .disordered atote a) Every person who labors under chri should consider himselt more likely I than if such were not his conditionl thlit'a large proportion of those who Mexico, especially on the southrn I' l heat was great, will be liable to lb should not only, more curef•itly that all exciting causes, but should rotor at an earlier hour oithe attack, for greater, DANIEL. D TERRIBLE DISASTER AND G OF LIFE. From the New York papers we g of a moo melancholy uccurence, wl on the Hodson liver, between West burg: About 10 o'clock P. M., the way up the river, w ith about lour I on hoard n us run into by the edition of 180 tons under the tolldwing cir Tue wind was blowing fresh an• under rapid way, when danger um first apparent. The pilot of the la► called out to the schooner to teation w.►s nail to him. 'Fits Ste& time backed, and was - tinder a kligh reported, when thesehouner istrock ward gattg‘‘ay. she was nut brot achloner's bow entered the steamer' The'passeugers on the Empire it , confut , iou that ensued wits awful, a doubt;e-a the cause of (kith and tv other circumstances might have be Greirt numbers were seen to jinn ut the time of and sabseq•rent to 04 was hriped that by far the gretiter p were picked up by the boats which assistance from the shore. tier can posed to cmtain (Mad bodies, drat I reached at half-past one o'clock yes The steamer Rip Van Winkle lance astern of the Em tire, and in a aloug:ide, rind the passengers win on the prominale deck, were transf the sinking bout taken m tow and flats, where she was still tying, pa ter, at 7 o'clock yesterday mormm, There is reason to fear, says the a him !red lives have bean Moat. Winkle only took 70 or 80. We W. Hubbard, the pilot oldie Roger arrit, from. Newburg this morr t in, only tiftecit or twenty were rescue Assuming that one hundred were t I rest wino ,did not escape by s what'll! ished. . The boat was a gender of a mil, when rhe.bank, and none hut expe , have saved theins,..lves, tinle,s they the heats; nut those thus 'rescued - Immediately after the uiarm wa number threw themselves madly lady, who had e% identlyi just lett out, crying tar 501110 one to .ate h to leap on to th 3 schooner but na. tlcinan who prevented.her from fa ter, which would have ',centred if so long a leap. lie tried I to calm success. tilie rushed from him w •seen by 6i n again. The screaming' Of the victim frightful distinctness on the t, real of Newburg, and .Arread t i errr. tillage. Several boats put out a. of, th 3 sufferers, but none arrived I had sunk to the hurricane deck ii she la as found by Mr. iliibbard tc Scearerly Ike minutes etapsed b sion and the siakimr. Lund cries were Madelmmedia open the upper deck to relieve the die's cabin, whJse screams were he was finally aimed, and one rental , under it in her berth was taken fr Attracted by cries under another p men in tile a hole as :mottos p+cssit• were successful, the object of the appeared. TWo bodies where brought ash. Roger Williams left, in the ferry not recognized. , 'The chill of Mrs. Lifayette'Si fs sail to hate perisli.si, and her distracted. • • A cony lay of tw:?1,1.-c•persaci., .up a permairtnt residence in Illin to procee..l on their journey, lea, nionher hebiuJ them—four broil ire have not learned. P L \XX. ILI►D U. kJ-11 has made tot improvement in the c roads ‘‘ hich ppearS to he wort lit It is arranged so that the wheels the limier, which renders it ml teeing while the horse tract i4cro track will 13a worn sooner than tl can he renewed without. dtstri'm By far, the greatest a frantag most immetistely c incur's thost up such road=, is, that it save.lot, regUred to make tirmi.— r , Demo Y. TID: GOLD COMING—ARRIVA .hip Sophia %%rather hasarriie from Valparaiso, with dates to She brings sigh ty thou.sand gold, among which is $40,000 I 11. Spring late of the ship lli sold at San Francisco, one boX York,,and live boxes for Baltina The Sophia Walker Failed in U. S. Suture Ship Lettingion.lo the U. S. Ship Independance fro' The Ileinsirenj .was to sail f Tvs. tlaVlic Bark D. Webster, '26 d 4 California. was, spoken Marc tonal', king. 3 t West. Sol The Lexi igti it will b ref (loth rs on board, c 00ortrna/ of Co:lv:wive May-7. Sourit-Witsr M lit r.ta Y MOVI of thetitill U. S. Inlittnry, inn.s IM N1011(161 1 last, au his way to Ilanger pt the Topographical river on Moinla'y'last, en route t. II urger has ,been ordered _tAjo' the too r of reconnoissance (mon Franci;,:c. , . Dr. Peyton, recet to (;en. Arbuckle, for services as of the California, emigrants Gni returner to our city front Fort on his way to, WaAiington. gioeers left Forth :4'11)411 prcrinn Peyton.—Little flock lArk) THI3 Wlt3l: MRN :NUT ♦Li. D of one guiles man, bound to C blanket and slept one night on next mornitig he concluded no - Another timk a yoke of oxet sir; tni!eg through the mud. H tiara 'day , 4s work. The next' d back'agami anti that evening emigrants' jist. A youngcman got about fort) from home ten'days. He beg for the first time,.and hie - ealco that if he was to travel at that. the gohl.might Int taken upher , 'ammo.. He concluded to r, house. rnE was fatal.- ` ,I g :velence [least, tp an itlemtc theti set of India;. t r 7 inay tenlei _,ought to ; dri, Illittinatter:pre .4rning thew the majority ightened.' If will brill; on as to act pro i• apt to excite scared into it, • e The rennsyiranian has some capital suggestions and remarks on the proposed change in our State Constitu tion to elect Judges by the people, which we heartily on.; dorse, and a cheerfully adopt. it says 'the resolution pa4sed by th last legislature, has sointr -*recta in 1t which enclitic Legit( aturocan remedy. I, to the disease, will mention the boweli.— mic diarrlmin, o attnekvd Hence it is erved long in [ ne, where 'the disease, and others, acrid th medical aid iteir danger is Firstly. T e election fur Judges is Proposed to be held on the Second Tnesdtiy - of 'October. whettalliht; pofiticnl officers aro to' be' chosen. ThaiZuld diminish the chances of an unlmpasioned and careful 'selection, such as the people would make if called on at ally other time, whew there is no excitement on otlier:eithjects. New York adopted the wiser-plan of holding the judicial elec tions in June, apart from all others. Secondly. There is no provision for changing tho districts as they stand ut present. Some of . diem aro too small. Every unprejudiced man can see that changti for the better might be made, and the number of the President judges . muCh diminished.' The Legislature ought to be required, before the amendment goes into operation, 'to district the State eqtially and fairly—giving to each Jnige a just amount of labor, and requiring all to earn their salaries. Thirdly. The terms are too' long. if responsihil ity to public opinion is the object aimed at, the terms of the President Judges ought to shortened. A responsibility which is postponed foi ten years, is only a little better than none. This applies with still .more force to the Judges of the Supreme Court { But thomatter to which we would call special atten tion, is tho crying demand for other refortners If this 'proposition is submitted alone to the people, no other change in the constitution can be made for five yearS af terwards. awl the probabilities of ever accomplishing certain important modifications of our finatmental law, vanish almost entirely. We are clearly, therefore, in, favor of Futnnitting an ARE; M. D. EAT LOSS ther the details .ich took place acid New- Einpire on her undred puson4 r Noah Biwa unastances: the sehboner eollisiou wits pire, Mr. Lee lull; but Du ta ilor at the same stern way, it is her near the for lilt up until the ittl; in bed, the ni was of itielf tuck tha,t. under n avoided: amendment along, midi the judicial reform, which aholklf, or at le tst restr iii, the carriytions of spacial krislation. We need not enlarge on this subject, EV- - 1 ery one knows that our Assembly, instead of [mmHg wholesome general laws for the whole body of the people, ate engaged almost the whole of Their time in. possin; - special and private laws.' Tho - tnost of 'these laws are Mint - ions to tho community—many of the It:al :ince aro useles=, and scarcely our re at positive benefit. Yet we pay enormout sum; out of the Treasury every yer fur snub tras'il and the worst of it is. that it corrupts the leg sl 'Ave department, and taints it with a disease which nothinz but a: radical removal of tho cause call cure. All the gond that can result from special legisla tion, may be ohtained by conferring the powers now ex ereis'ed by the General Asset i nbly upon the people them selves, or on so:no local tribunal to he by them chosen. Let the roads be attended to by County Commissioners and Grand Juries—election thstr:cts by the people of the townsbils end winds—estates and escheats by the Or phans' Cont - ti-z- - envoves s . changing of names, and the. etablishmcnt of municipal corporations, by the Courts of Contmen Pleas. We have not room nor CI:to to cm- body one views on the Whole of this snhjevt. We call on our brethern of the Democratic pros to speak their sentiments. ) into the river collisiun, but it onion of the:.e ca we to their ins are still sup ad nut vet been erdav uhernuon. - •as a short fits few minutes wai had as, , etubled rred aboard, nn I cArrie.l to the tially out of tra- Pos . :, that over The Itip Viii nre Insslsrell, by %Villiams, which up to 7 A. M., by ►he bn:tts.— nte nil the g must h t ve per- from the siltore t swimmers could reccired aid Ir nn re iiicluied to our If we could ahol:sh nil special legisl Alt', we world save normally some flirty' or forty thous tad dollars to tho pu'a lic treasury, and millions to individual% who, by the present system are daily swindled mai of their earnings. IVe should put down the system of '•boring,'•' which has so long disgraced Harrisburg; and it would Only botie eessary to havo ono session oltilie Legislature in two years, to last thirty days, instead of a limo months' :Ses sion ovely year., given h great mu the water.— her berth, ru,be,l er, and wss about seizol by a gen ling into lthe 11- • he had sittempteil her, but without 'Hilly, and was not . . We sincerely believe that there never has been a time witmi the Domocracv had so fair an opportunity of etri tan;';n bald and etreetivo blow nt all the cotuptions• agnitist which wu havo struggled fur So mnuv year+. . . Our erred mey be thus bully stated: A iiniulAny CIioSEN lIIMEDIATELV BY THE PEOPLE, AN O THE ABOLI TION or, MI HEAVY RESTRAINTS UPON, ALL'SPECIAL LLOIS LATION. was herd with the hill in the r thr•nughuut the I nue to 010 relief roh ibly until she which eenilitien ten he arrived.— tweet. the Collis- THE Gaz%Tr}: AND THE NEW ',YORK Mon.—The Editor of the Gazette is desirous of getting up a centre -- ; verity with us in regard to the late unfortunate riot and, blood-shed in New-York. For this purpose he makes a violent attach upon the rennsylraftian and Albany Atlas, and winds up with interrogating us in regard to it. This attatk, so far es the Pounylranian is concerned„we know to he uncalled fur and ungenerous; nnd ite /AMC mei!ts withell, utterly throid qf truth; all which, boa evtir, is perfectly characteristic (tithe source front which:it ema nates. Some men's minds aro so perfectly addled with ely for axes to.cut ccupantsuf the !a rt rending. A hole e, who was sitting otn it unharmed. Iry of the deck, the k, hot befnre they r labors bud Ms- !we josl before the eat, but thoy were. political prejudice, that if their minister should tell the. that Democrats and NVhigs would all ho equal in a future I - state, they would call him a heretic and a liar. Of this class is the Editor of the Gazette. With him, every bod l y that don't worship itt his political sanctuary, is a mobocrat, an agrarian, whose constant aim is to "ap-. pea! to the worst passions of the rabble." No mat un less! wraped up in-prejudices like this, could cooly set do: n and endeavor to slander his opponents us this Editor has iu the article under consideration. Tito whole -I nrityle is uncalled for, and will certainly not told any th:ug to its author's repute.,...., - • -,. --....4,.._hi5. own party. Cannot political papers like the PeilizSvlciitti an anci A:lir, !discuss the question n hether the authorities wer i o right in firing upon a mob, and killing twenty or thirty persons, most of whom were innocent of any breach of Bic peace, without such disenssion being twisted by ignorant bigots into matter of political comment. But his Ed for wants our opinion—he would like to got up a discussion in which he can display a great deal of that owl-like wisdom for which Ito is so eminently distill gushed, mixed up with the p WC se . Ile shall have it. al cant of the phari- C believe that the resort to firi , -arms on the part of the authorities of Ne - w Yotk, was totally uncalled for. In the first place the Theatre should ha lv e bleu shut up. Neither to gratify this English ac tor' or his friends who invited the mob to take a knock l down'ut the Opera Bons° that eyenini, should the May orlh tvo allowed to ha opened. There me 4,000 police olicersi n the city, which, in all conscience, was certainly etrugh to Oat up, without either salt or gunpowder, all the rioters there were on the ground. The mayor should htive had them concentrated around the Opera house, instead of the military. In this opinion we ate austained liji the Coroner's jury, Who, in, their verdict say: "We heliere, that if a larger number of the police had been or ellrel oat, the ncreSSity of a resort lee (i.e fise of the milita ry airght hare been aroided." In this view,ltoo, we are sustained In the highest Whig authority in the state—no less a personage than Judge Cosuan, the able Editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. Tili it gen6tnan pats tae following clincher upon our co temporaries ebullition of low prejudicetihd misreprsenta. tibu. This extract covers the whole rot td—it not onlj v udicates the Penneykon fan, but i places The confine o the Mayor of New York in its proper light. Read it t A r. Ga_ tuo, Sod if you bade anji more questions to ask: ith, of this eq_ other, to be, nearly n their way to take will be oblioe.l in,g four of their era. Tito named ; 11 nitlitter , )11 st rim! lon 111 plunk v of consideration. nm lengthwii3 of c't easier for the i l'ae horse le wheel trac't, and ling the 1 tura.' , and that tshich who ,n re getting !e -fourth the I u tidier rut, Ballston tips, OF sBo,ooo.—The tit 1).440n to•day lamb 11.1. Mors in California fl. Hight by Copt. J. I ntress, which was o ILrland t New re. • I compnri'y with the ' New York, Hill! left ....moo, just arrived. r G'J:iiiirnia in .s from New York. 1-15. h, itt ltd.- 13 Icolloctc.l, lout 250 to Ni.v York.] ;Nt:ts r+.—Col. Aides NI up on -the Cashier Port Smith. Lieut. .1111 S, 11:14ed tip the California. Lieut. ) n Admit. Simpson on Fort Smith to San tly ordered to 'report • surg,emt to the escort ' the engineer corps, Smith on Friday last, rhe ' escort and en its to thwart.% til of Dr. 9 envie ra I. t tie have them. A f,w (acts, 'and pregnant ones Cannot be denied. ho Theatre might, in full accordance with law. hare on closed. 'Flint, would have, prevented the riot. The thorittes of New Yortf if determined to enter into an Ctici; quarrel, Might, have simPlied a pOlice force sulfa. lent to engorge the streets thatOncotupassee the theatre. h o result, bloody and terrible a.. it was; oriel hose b een rertal by any can is a.insrity, of ncrec and sagacity, to ircct such a force calnilpand intrepidly' to the exigen ies of the occasion. Those who tired, those who ordered the firing are all, common law, rind we aro not advised, that there has irell any change in the law, in this respect responsible . - efore the Courts. Tho only issue is us to the the necoesity of firing. The views of the Pennsetranian upon this , subject—FOß T DOES NOT BELONG To POLITICS—ARE OUND. Tho.verdict of-the jury proves. so far as it •an prove anything. that the tragedy flight hare been. by .cactlat arcane, Thii concession cotter:tyke ybas a. 'ltthere ware peaceful means of aveflitiCciyit laughtift. nothing hut the vont and most wicked Imptd es of Red Republicituisrdeould justify the use.ef the wea r one that made the gutters of Parie turbulent with blood. .An YET.—We heard lifornia, who took his an open 'march. The , to go. , and traveled ahout 1.3 found it was a pretfy Lty he gee hawed them took his name elf the miles, nfter tieing out In to count .the cost nation led hint to see '"'rate nil the time, all, Foie he got to the Sac rum to his, father's Y.O.I3SERVEHI EEK E P 'II7RDAY AY 26, f? i B4 cosswtfurloNAL Roush Notes itt Itoxigor-No. 3. Correseornieof the Erie Observer. :. lIACIENDA ' AII ,I•OCAR PAR/4;: Jan. 17, 113/9 , Leaving Saltine:this reitipasses over a cold and shrub- Ices region, uncultivrittuteXcept at the:foot,of theloen- tains; the valley closes ftl'gratluallyo4l at length lei* minates i r e the pass of -Buona Vista:' Circuit - tali:tees have mudo every foot of the, ground interesting. '")1. lit: tie out frcim the city, a tpot 'was pointed out, where the Mier prisoners (Texans) Were halted to be shot, but the 'women . interceded, aid the Commanding.o(Ticer relented, and the escort marched, on with them. On the left of this is a pass iu the mountain, where the enemy's cavalry i i ittoininfita desce nt min_ the city and our rear 1 1 during the light at the pass, btt , were repulsed by the gallantry-of a small battery ad a few infantry,- A-little ftirther on two slight mentimentS surmounted by crosses, mark the spot where two Mexican officers fell iti a battle during the "federation", tittles. A little farther di- reedy before, us is the ranch front which the Americans named the pass Buena Vista, Here the train was parked during the battle; to this point the enemy's cavalry.' and the Kentucky and Alkalises horsemen were charged, and charged in return, their order broken, alternately chas ing and being chased, shouting, defying, cursing—poll melt they mix in the ineleo—down go rider, and horse; the gallant Yell is no more; riderless horses, wild with fright, rush here and them over the ,field ---gaily rlatice t he renamed lancers through the fight—out sings Min - yon's bugles, and the dark moss scamper from the field. This was on the morning of the 23d—half the houses are yet in ruins, but the people have repaired them to some extent, and now fields of grain spring from the blood stained field. This,, ranch is six miles from Saltine. The piss proper lies three mileir 'tit advance of it. At this point the valley closes in to the width of, four miles, the road running nearly in the centre. On the right a system of ravines, as much es thirty feet deep with perpendicular hanks, extend at ono point up to the road. and render tire ground perfecili impassible from the road up to the foot el' the right !find Lange of the mountains. On the left a "step," spine hundred feet high, sots in closing from the road to_the mountains on the left. At the junction of rho "step" mid mountain the ground is somewhat broken. On the top of it (the step) there is it level, called the plateau, comprising some . ten acres in extent; then steep hilts with corresponding hellpws, cut in fissin es, Bow froM the platau towards the much and load, and break bey mid, to the south ' ard, like the billows of the receeding Xea. I forgot to mention that the road runs nearly north and south. At thd fool of the first kill, leering directly from the road, lust where 1 have told you the ravine 4 come to a point, we formed our line .of defenco to commence. Thus l wo have the valle}• naturally stmt up except this narrow track whi . ch winds around between the gullies' and these -steep rocky dhills. We will halo pl tee /Washington's artillery in the wagon read, and the' dilapidated breast work.; litiug to the nigat where the infantry stood. I By hard ".•serabling" one 'Way climb on foot the hill joining flu last described winks, along thd ridge of which 1 there ago mule tireast- works extending to the platoon. 1 Place the infantry brhind the... 6, draw up the light artil lacy on the plateau—extend the infantry front these into! the broken ground at fin) Tout of tho mountain, and you 1 have some jilca awn- Imo of defence, when on the eve of I February 22, 1817, ilia picket guard and scouts were forced hack to our lines, and tito tlinkels commenced the •overe-t contested battle of Hatt war. We rode up a ridge that run northward, a ittde less steep than the rest, and upon which a wagon track showed this to hero been the mato ' - - -finery for the field. 11 found no vesta; scout sonic half dozen dead horses; ui the Alert grass of much p.040r. That night _Jut six Milo; further up the valley, on a stream called the ..I:iiimutado," which flows townids the iiass and is the beginning of the sys tem of "Apar) us" or deep fissures on the right. I think it decidedly the coldest regionll have seen in Mexico; the wind rucks through these mountain gOrges.with a terri ble lush; add to this the absence of bush or tree on the which new opened, to break the current, which, notwithstanding blankets and overcoats, strikes to the very hone. I'm told our troops suffered much from this cause while encamped in the vicinity: in the morning as we were about to start a strange sail was discuvert &coming up from the pass and bearing direct ly in the "winds eye." When the !Fii anger was yet "hull down" we could see every rag of buckskin flutter ing in the shunt, and as the. craft upon the her rizon, a multi was seen and a pair of heels making most indefatigable exertions, whilst a whip in one hand was applied with ‘unceasing energy to force the vessel for ward. As the loafer came within hu:ling distance he very modestly dunned us for pay for the pasturing of our an imals on the common! The old European doctrines of "right of common" "right of way" &c and other fuodel institutions, of which wo know so little, are hero, many of them, in full _force. From this point three general routes branch out for the interior. To rho ;iouthard through a pass hi the mountains by "Edcurnation . ! runs the an I}ouis Potosi road; southwest through another pass is Zaeato-. cai track, and bearing up ndarly westward through ,ft broken valley we made our way for this point. The first water we came to was St. Jana de raca Ma, or to use the vernacular. St. ..lewn's cow creek." Hero was a ...such called the "children," as wo arrived we found the female peahen of the Com munity penetw in,g their devotions. A large rough tveatlier-beateniro,s stood Lc the roadside, before which there was some thinly tidely dressed females kneading about fifty yards in front. They remained its ono position butt very short time whien - -they moved forward some ten yards and buckled down again, thus repeating the movement until they an iced at the foot of the cress, when after some tra shines. the retreat was cummenced, thd party with their faces to the cross, and repeating the movements as described in the advance. We were to much of n her etic to understand the meaning of allj this but presume it was in honor of some fair Saintess. A few miles fur ther on we came upono an assemblage of people in holliday tame, su nding a cart which bore a case enclosing another of wax Saints. The cattle, cart and all, were in a perfect flitter of ,flags and ribbons. We enquired of a young blade who seemed to be chief fugle ,man, the distance to the next water, and wore somewhat confused, when sawing his - horse until he reared, then firing his pistol he told us tfor God" "for God," Sir."= Either our Spanish. was x cry bad or the fellow was quite absorbed in his treiotions. Water is found conven ient distances, add in spots there—is good soil, but we found the people living on the route exceedingly poor.— At our ranch of son i c ten fatuities wo could buy nothing but a few tertillies. Mr. F., however, more desperate then the rest dtscovercd an almost fleshless sheep shank in one of the houses which: ho proposed to buy, but was told that it was to mike soup for a sick man and we voted it a satisfactory excuse.—(2ontinued. Ci i rr. 11. WI - Wm—This popular oflicor, late of the tcamer Madison, we ore pleased to learn has been put in couttuand of the Steamer CHAMPION. The Chem pionruns between Citrtago. MilwaukOe, and Now Buffa lo on lake Michigan, the ter:lnoue of the Central Rail road. This route is unquestionablyithO cheapest as well as quickest front Buffalo to Chicago or Milwaukee, tho Limo occupied being only forty •hours, and the Lao Only six dollars.. Tho prOprietors of the Champion are certainly fortunate in this selection. The captain was deser vedly popular while on this lake, and wcihave no doubt will create hosts of friends in his notii-Situation. Dn.' DRAKE'S LETTERS ON EPIDTbIIO Cnor.Erts.—ln another part of to-day's paper will be found throo letters from Dr. Drake. of Cincinnati, on , Epidemic Cholera. As this disease is spreading raPidly l over the e.ountry, visiting almoit every town of any size, we have deemed their publlcAiiii at this 'time peculia i rly appropriate. U 7 The itivitation of Our, friend. Goon. Bow.mon. of the Bedford Gazate. is tin:p approciSted. but counot,,be accepted—cause wily: We hese throe W h ig cotempore ries to punch up with n sharp stiek 7 , debts to pay, and babiei to tend! Are we excused? , , Preside WAsitimoTox. l April 30. ISM -. 7 0 who iolulhit tho great nitiropolio, of tho Union havo oppoitanitioi of hearing anti knowing th'ugg in the political world which do not away reach you less fav- ore t Ll pooplo of tke provinces. We know that forces ore here played which, in the "InaTifieent distances" of this great republic , look vQrily . 1i o gravo and legitimato drama. We know that the most grotesque masks are hero put on, whose extravagant griinaces aro softened down in the distance to the smooth tot i d pleasing outlines of genuine respectably-looking countebtatices.- We know. too, that politicians here have real tangible corporeal ox istences, while, to tho wondering natives in the Interior or on the frontiers, their form and semblance are merely imaginary., And such happens to bo the' "state of the ease," as the lawyers would say, with our present Vence• able and illustrious chief magistrate. You are, 1 Have no doubt, aware that they have two emperors in Japan—ono to take carp of civil, and the other religious affairs - . Tho first is culled the Ziagoon and the other the Mekailor.. The first is a most potent monarch. Ho hoe a real tangible existence, and 60 has the latter. ad far as flesh and blood •are concerned. bui lit, is of DO ncrotint, being confined' to his religions clois ltir, and lupied with ceremonies and conversation of women/ Now, sfrmething like this Japan idea Tap have in real exklence in these glorious nod enlightened United States at the present limo, under the figure and form of *.the President." Alt tough your name is Greent, I hope yeti are not so green anti verant as to suppose, that the Gen. Taylor who makes inaugural addresses, receives foreign mitiilters, delegations from soveilign states, municipali 7 . tins and trades corporations, to whose salutations he I re plies in well-worded and appropriate speeches, is the real Gen. Taylor who was 'elected by it.people President of the,United Stat'es. If you do entertain any such absurd di y, why. I must set von dots i among the grecticst of all green chaps away down in Yankeedom. I can a,sure you that the real 'Gen'. Taylor, who's corporeal substance does actually occupy the white house, is a very ilitrerent personage ft quit the Gun. Tailor who figures in the news papers us the President of the United States. Thu Gcn. Taylor who lives in the n bite ho tee is a real tangible body—that is, a body possessing till the properties of matter, riz—form, weight, inertia, color, &c.. whale the Gen. Taylor who agures atpresident in the newspapers. is a nieiC ideal fictitious being. 'Tie form is of no nioro ,riceennt, so far as the presidency is concerned, than time llukador of Japan. 'rho laiter—tlie ideal inan, is t eal president—lho Zingtion of tho Republic of the Uu.- lActl State. 4 of ..s.utelica. The Pfesitiont of the nee; pent)ntr examplc. Gan. Taylor, the Preside'itt cle.n, on his.way to this city, made many wi•II conceived and ap propriate speeches, in reply to speeches made to him.— SVhermet, the 2:eot General Ta)lor made none, or if he cave: oil to make a' speech, it w•is a very diti;nviit one • from that which the ideal izener4l made, and w. hich ap peared in the-n;iwt.papers as the speech actually made. 'ration to visit the people of Georgetown, they honestly i summed i th iit he was Gen. Tay lor, _the elect. Ile tout ,w , i aceor... , ay, W.,1 addre,.ed very -alipiapr.atel by the. I I „ maym of that city, and 'ingot have s anonered out some thing iu reply, The•idesd general, i oWevt r, uis Made to speak in the newspaper., and le,: he spoke ill a \ Cry different stale from that of the twit halm tide generak• So I mulct stand it was on the teception of the 1 - mewl ministers and other persons , formally lintroduced to the real general at the white house; the ideal general aiway. appearing as the spokesman in the newspapers. It ecently the magistracy of dui c;ty stein immilluced to the real genera! by :llaor- Seaton,' Who made up' ap propriate address on the occasion. And - the teal general made a reply, as :I understand, pretty inneh in these word.—'•l tam gl id to see the magistry or Wa-hington— pleasant day to-day. I think we chap have sown good weather." But the ideal general, the ligttro of speech that porsonities the president in the newspap'crs, would nut 11116 the address to go out in this fraud, and accor dingly it was fixed tip iW a very decent garb and sent forth through the press—another at 'air althgether than the real Speech of the real general. Otto example more. A con/millet front Viig,inia rattle here the other day to present a swor I to the real gener al whom the peop,le 'elected president. The NAlifil/ id Intelligences, that curious antediluvian fossil, witich stauds forth ac the impersonation of this:tuptdity of gen uine "conservative" whiggery, forinally announced that on Monday last the presentation Would take place. But the general was not ready. Col. 81i..51 ad not got the reply to the address ready, and the gene al had 110 t COM filitted it to memory. Two days elapsed, and the cere mony came MI. The chairman 'Made a handsome speech FO far as language and endttner wore co teemed, and the general made a reply. This lAvas ia rr.al affair. - The good old man held the speech prepared IA- Bliss (or-same body else) in his hand, and tried to real hem it; bufnot buing so familiar with the Ithinitvriting),., - his own, he made a bad piece of work of it. But le continued to stammer through - it. And the ideal • g floral concluded to accoptelmis speech, nod let it go forth to the people as the speech of the president; but ho, the ideal general. had the bungling manner in which the real general toad the speed. expininenl in this Wl4O in ttc newspapers— "nom Talloi• read his reply, and was Cuf f -and ,„„,,a 1 „ . tmlil he Came to the paragraph wherch ho was obliged to allude to the compliments paid to himself. What he said was not only appropriate, but said with deep emo tion that sometimes checked his utterance." See “los," correspondent of the Baltimore Snn, April 2:ith. With this explanation the ideal general allowed the speech to go forth no that of the President. 11!(p and goats nipping g-tve to it tile character THE REAL AND THE IDEAL From Me Boston Po4t. al Taylor, as he is—and Preside - id-Taylor, as de { ',Abed by the Whig netesiaperst • I • Tito real Gon. Taylor was,invitetl boforo his inauga The truth is—and it is-well to tell the truth to the American people—Gen.,Taylor is uttefly incompetent , for the place ho now occupies.. Ito is very far inferior in point of capacity even to GonTharrison, superannua led and - incompetent as he was. And every candid and impartial man, who sees and hears !pm speak or con ,Forse, goes away from him kith that 111011. if ing c,ouvie- tion deeply impressed upon his midd i , I It is this incapacity of General Taylor for the duties of the residency, In which is to be found the vile cause of the shameful and shocking violation of his solemn Pledge% Of which ho has been guilty since he came into the pres idency. lie is but a baby in the handy of the wily and unscrupulous men by whom ho 14 surrounded. If he would-be honest and redeem his solemnly pledged work , ho cannot. Ile cannot do a thing, or move an inch as president, without their aid. Ile is completely at their mercy, and they use him without Leruplo and without re morse. This mortifying fact is becoming daily more au more apparent, and soon the whole country wi l ll awake.: to a realizing of its painful truth. To the real patriots of the country, to the truo lovers of democratid institutions, the fact that a man has been elected to the great ollice of president, with scarcely one qualification to hofit him for its high and solemn duties, ,is not only !mortifying, but it is alarming. It disgraces our country and belies the capacity of the people for self )government. But It is pleasing enough to the monar chist and aristocrat. They care not who is the locum tenons of the throne, or the presidency. They aro will ing, nay, would prefer, that it should be a weak woman, or an imbocileman; a queen Victoria, or a General Tay lor. In either case the monarchical theory of an irrespon- slide king and a responsible ministry is exemplified. I designed to draw ti parallel by contrasts betiVeen the first and the second Washinglons, , as illustrated in the powers of Gen. Washington 'and Gen. Taylar, but my limits forbid. - kIIFAINON. 11Y not radical Democratic paper, the IVl4shing tom Exarnlner, comes to us considerably enlarged, and very much improved in oppearance. While its propri etors have presented' a bran now suit of clothes to their paper. we see that one of tho Editors, Mr.. Hopkins. has formed a co•partnership for life, and entcred the list ma trimonial. May success crown all his efforts, personally and ,politically. Ne , ws of the Week. By Telegraph to the 06.i,rrer en , / the flejNo and PiUa • bar h papers. Ntwriurto, May 19'-5 P. M. , TFo more hOdies have been Liken from the wreck of the EtrM i ro this afternoon, a num and a woman, suppo sed to be Scotch. They were futimi near the Captain's ) room, be ow the tlec4m. AV &-imitirox, ;thy 19. lion. 1). Duncan, of 0:11U, died in this ciiv last even ing. 33 - : The New Orleans papers of the .11t1), state, that Drytids, White, Wilton, and fierce streeta are all overflowed, and the water grachidlly risinz. The crow vasse below Algiers is rapidly rifling and there is no ant prospect of stopping, it. Er The 0111641 vole for Col. Route, lately elected Covernor of Arltstisa.s, is 3,941 Wilson, whig Dr. Cuthidge, the murderer of Matthews, committed suicide in connuence of having been ' dotected in &plot with a prisoner who was,ubout be liberated; to kill Flint, his former student. 'lsie plot was as follows: Flint war to be lured to a certain plact, wffero he was to be killed in such a inaUncr as would lead to the impression that ho had committed suicide. A bottle was to be placed near him, containing poison, and a letter confessing him self to he ihe !mil-doted of Mathews. The Warden found in the prison the letter with tho detail, of the plot, and at once shut Cooledge up. Short. lv after, Cooledge was found on the floor of the cell, ek. pining. Ile expected that if the plot proved sticcessful, he n mild he ltherattil. tlc had proulisel to pay his ac complice $lOOO. During. the - fit Itsut-g, endinz noon to day, th r aro wera twenty-three cases attil.seven deaths. The excitement in reg ad - to this di4eike is ing anus, and business men .tio returning to their ta:gularifittrsuits. The Chol era k disappes..'n front Louisville and the toWns along the liver. Tile principal tleAllts at pre , a3nt, are on boats are waiving from b.low. r i:irowded with citliglai)ts. Nk...‘“ittato, Mity 511-11 A. M Two more bodes hay& been taken front the wreck of the Ellipiro this inurnin4, but they have not been identi fied. The coma is jury are new sitting at Fishkill and have been sine, 6 o'clo..:k this morng, holding an inquest on the 9•bodies. 1:%1 3.lay P. M The New Chl..•an , 4 viper., of the 12th t• Cll.': that lhu ,zredt etc% still unchanged. The water tt 39 Hot\ ;ti2: out, and thou.:ln:ls ul acres of land tvcre 'over- EMB TIIC Cry V1"13 was witlett:ttg and the water way grad ually riq:ntr. 'l'i, Pie t) 'I:IC CTIVII tilt, the worst rtppre- Iten , .on , and thinks the itto , t ,etteus- calamities may be 'Thou-and: of work m en have been employed to close the ereva.—o• and hale heel' unable to make any t.ncee , ,ful headway. The eater in the F wtt nips and In the Second Monte:pa grade dlc ri.iag Tlie people or•• min ing out and atm dwellings. Soinu aie taking r,...,efugo 11 stories of their hoiews, using Is.`', , to ge l The noith the 11 , •w ran Car of 0,- '' ! N.:ad nittaieiri;! 11.,rioi; to Iva% r aboves. cool:arra the k !len road tr Is t•nitoterled, and the to the street .t a new basin wai chouse near) of theL„in. Abut :1011 howies were surrounded by !water at the la-t lcconnts. Seine worktin.in eniplox ed at the cretiasse II were le with Cholera. G-f•D4tes front 111. to the 19th Arird, m l cntion Iho ar t ival of the I; it;t-d ,t,. , Stor-siiip Lexington, at that putt, with 6 I irr, antow:t of gold dust. She was to sail for N, Vu,k on the 2 Itln, from the city of St. Do- anat , ,ro, NV e kart) on Op. thero had been direct hlttlt; ~ .tt between the I)otninicans rind the II t\ ti in 4, in n c't the I ttnr had been/beaten. The I hyttatt: xv - Cre wn'tin ni,les of the cue. A de,perato I) tub- en..tt?,l 'w,:tn.lt a. I,irce ntnnher w , re killed on both id... No pi i-t.tter. were spared. The, 11o,)tiana in their retreat It Ave burnt nand u-large amount of propert CriCINXAII, ' May 31. u:ng, a filo I broke out in a Jltin street, near the cor flames coilld ba y subdued, is giouud; 'Cep rendeiel houseless, but uch value, while the losii in • II Sr. L els, May :21. I The .- whole number 'of buildings tro)ed 4IS; steamboat.; 3. The loss (.stimated at n-ers6,poo,tioo. :ci a o entire blocks and six parts of bloekk teem desOoy ed,' iu nhieh were seven printing'oilices; The loss of human life has not been raseertain'ed,•all though we know of three persons burnt in the steamer White Cloud, and four bodies have beenitaken from the ruins. Many are supposed to have been i burried beneath the walls of the various largo stores. - Ve>terday..(Snrla) 'nor• Milt .( of ft awe bhifitng , , o: 1:ordt;on lwe, :19u bviore th • tort hon,es were burnt to tl By th:q fire 2.) ftwaics u: the bnilding4 were nut of tri effect Wai not cons;dl. r.tble. The insurance companies are solvent a'nd will payful ly with the exception of the St. Louis and the Citizoiis% which will pay 70 per cent. Two-thirds of our wholesale dry gopds dealers: aro Mimed out, and one half of our retailers, commission, moilace and groam) stores shared the same fate.• The books and papers of the sufferers have U' en pretty &n -$"'"IlY bavva..' The Brokers saved every kiting and have n again resumed lliMin ,s. . , _1 NEwrk•tio, May §l. 1 Five more bodies I i ve been recovere this afternoon 11out.the wreek.of the Empire 7 —three of vhich are iden - 1 titled at the remains of Ladd brothers, front Stouington, i Ct., four of whom Were missing. The other two bodies are unknOn, tnittipposed to be emigrants.. No efforts haye yet been inn to raise the Empire! The opinion prevails that the boat is so much injured as not to be' worth repairing, and that her machicaerk will he taken out and thn.wreck left to the mercy of the elements. NEW ORLEANS, May 17. Slajor Genotal IVorth, of the United gtates Army, is no more. Intelligence of hi death has been received in this city. Ile expired at Antonio do Bexar, Texas.— lie diet( on the ith The Cholera prevails to an ulartning exient. Over lOUileaths have occurred at San Afflonio. Nt.o• Yonn, May 2:2-7 P. The bo,ird of Health Report sa)s: Four new cases 'of Choler and one dr.rth have occurred since yesterday. BOSTON May .92. The ,Qinitcy Stone Bank was robbed this morning of $5006 in 13aiik hills. Wien , breakfast the Cushier went !o the Bank and ili,tribitted the money into the , drawcrit and left. On returning, - n short timo e afterwarde, ho found .o no ime had (-Meted the Bank by removing a pano of glass and carried otT tlio money. The bills were all of the Quincy Bank.' Nl WIII:aGif. May 2. No more bodice found to-day. They are Rout prepar ing to raibo the Empire. The inquest at lishkill is 60 I= At B r id ge ,,,,/, en die Fall River railroad last night, the train ashen wider full headway struck a chaise con taining two brothers named Henri and Ethan Leach, tali. One was dreadfully cat to pieces and died /10,itly. The other with both legs broken lingered till / o'clock ashen he died. The Royal mail steamer Hibernia sailed this morn ing. Site takes out 10 passengers including W. C. Ma creadv and Sir Allan l'lPZiab. She Caries nu ttpecie.- 11vr cargo list js valued at $16,000. WASH nt 61 ON, Mayif4-9 P. M. Private accounts _received_ tmrday confirms the intelli gence of the death of Gan., Worth, by Ch - olera. at San Antonio de-taint. Inconsequence of this funeral solemnities of Icons A. Duncan, th'e Cabinet was not insession,to-dAy. ' No officieltlespitehes, from California, aru in posses sion of tho Gl:ccult - tient, later than the receipts by the papors. Orders hav:o tieell Issued to get read• eoveral largo vca- BUiTON, May 19 CVN.CP:NATI, Mly 19 ndoiiing, their lie 74 and :la ta and in.— •rt'nwed, and lay were pie l. of ter coVering to the head llckslox, May .C.'3