Vol XXXV -Whole I\o- 1845. Rates of Advertising. One square, 18 lines, 2 squares, 6 mos. $5.00 1 time 50 " 1 year 8.00 " 2 times 75 column, 3 mos. 6.00 3 " 1.00 " 6 " 10.00 " 1 mo. 1.25 " l year 15.00 " 3 " 2.50 1 column, 3 mos. 10.00 " 6 " 4.00 " 6 " 15.00 " 1 year 6.00 " 1 year 25.00 2 squares, 3 times 2.00 Notices before mar " 3 mos. 3.50 riages, &c. sl2. Communications recommending persons for office, must be paid in advance at the rate of 25 cents per square. CftoCce isjrtuacts- From the .Vet c York Tribune. LOVE ALL. Y C. D. STEW ART. Love all .' There is no living thing Which God has not created ; Love all! There is no living thing Which God has ever hated ; His love sustains the meanest life, Whate'er does live or perish— And man may not disdain to love What God has loved to cherish. Love all! For hate begetteth hate, And love through love inereaseth ; Love all! For hate shall faint and fall j While love like God ne'er ceaseth : Love is the law, the life supreme. The goal where all are tending ; The hate shall die, the strife shall cease, But love is never ending. The Better Choice* BY REV. I)R. CUMMING, LONDON. Never forget that if you set out to gain the world, it is but a chance, a peradven ture if you succeed. Nay. for one that succeeds, who does not know that nine fail ? But if you set out to seek the world, and let the world absorb your heart, and con centrate upon that world the best, your holiest affections, the certainty is that while you may lose the world you will lose your soul. Yet man, when he thu9 loses God and feels miserable, goes and joins him self to anything and everything that will promise to remove his misery and restore his lost happiness. The prodigal joined himself to a citizen of the strange coun try; so does the natural man join himself to trade, devoting to it every energy, or to pleasure, or ambition, or political duties, or he joins himself to gayety. to brilliant circles, shining fetes, great parties if per adventure amid this world's splendor, that he may extinguish every beam of light that leans to solemn inquiry. He joins himself to the strange citizen of a strange country. When a man loses God he does not cease to have a God. The prodigal had no sooner heft his father, than his grow ing sense of separation made him join himself to the citizen of a strange country. Man no sooner leaves God, than betakes something else in his room. There is no such animal as an atheist; evtin the brutes are not so; for in their ministry, and their instincts, they indicate a recognition of a superior to themselves. There are plenty of atheists—men opposed to the true God —but there is no such thing as a man with out a God ; if they leave the true God, they ! take the strange god in His stead. Man's ! soul was made to be a temple, and when it is not the lemple of the living God, it becomes the temple of an idol. Man's heart was made to be an altar, and Incense will rise from it either to Jehovah or to Jupiter; whosoever it be that absorbs all v <ur thoughts, whosoever il be that draws forth your first morning and last evening reflections; whatever it be, to gain which you bend every energy, mould every in fluence, subordinate everything you have you may call it trade, or pleasure or poli tics, or law, or physic, that is your God, i that is the cistern out of which you are drink. ng, that is the being for whom you E ra risking the safety of your souls, the happiness of a world to come. Are we living in cr without the living God ? are we still drinking at some strange cistern, and joined to some citizen of this world ? If any are so, and thus hoping for happi ness as the prize, they ought to know, that they are not the first persons thai have made the experiment, hut the repeaters merely of an experiment that has been made* ten thousand times, and ten thou sand times failed. I will give you the re sult of tiie experiment as tried by one who had the greatest power of his Bge; great skill, great resources and the fullest oppor tunities for the experiment, that ever mor tfd had, and under the most favorable cir cumstances. lie thus describes the pro 'l sought mine heart to give myself. unto wine,'-that was one of his experiments ; ~~'l sought to lay hold of folly'—halls, j flays, <Sip.—'that I might see what was gooc for (lie sons of men, that they should j do under heaven all thedaya of their life.'— j 'I made me great works'—when I had j nothing to do but to pull down the old walls ar "! build new ones—'l huilded my houses' *-I thought that the cause of my disquiet ; W; is IIIP smallness or the inconvenience of ' e rooms, the smokiness of the chimr.ie*, j ' 6 want of color here, and gilding there; ! ' I thought, if I built a large and spa- j r 'iH house I should bo happy; forgetting, Jl' il is riot the house that makes the in- j 'ibiiant happy, but the inhabits nt that *'-akev the house delightful; ar.d that chang- j J W 'be bed of a sick man is not to heal his j M "-e; what we want is not change of | L: ' -nnitauces around us, but a change of | jp&ssrmais AS?® iPOTmaaasa® CH&K&KB s®"srgssy®jKE a snsEFnasj heart within us—'l planted me vineyards,' in order to get the choicest wines, wines of the richest fragrance;—l made me gar dens and orchards, and I planied trees of all kinds of fruits; 'I made me pools of water, that there might be abundance of fish sup plied to mv table, and of the choicest kinds. 'I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also 1 had great possessions of great and small Cattle, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. 1 gath ered me also silver and gold, and the pe culiar treasure of Kings, and of the provin ces,' diamonds.gemsand all precious things, and in order still more to increase my hap piness,—•! got me men singers and woman singers,'—the very choicest imports from abroad; taking care that they shall have special pay and patronage in order to be the first of their profession;—'and the de lights of the sons of men, as musical in struments, and that of all sorts; So I Was great and increased above all that were in Jerusalem before me; also my wisdom' intellecutual wisdom—'remained with me. I was a botanist, a mineralogist, an astron omer; I studied the harmonies and rela tionships of all things, and in short, to crown the experiment, there was not an element that might contribute to my hap piness, wanting: 'I withheld not my heart from any joy; 1 did not stop because God's commandment said, Thou shalt not do it; 1 Hung aside fear,in order that I might make the experiment fully and freely; 'and m\ heart rejoiced in all mv labors; this was my portion of all my labor. 1 resolved to look on all this magnificent pile of splen dor and glory, as elements of happiness: 'and looked on all the works that my hands had wrought; and behold,' —was I a happy man ?—1 needed nothing to make me more so—'behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit.' Now, can we have better opportunities than Solomon bad, or is the experiment more likely to succeed in the nineteenth century than so many hundred years be fore the birth of Christ ? Others also have tried it. Lord Chesterfield, celebrated for his courtesy, both in precept and practice, and for his acquaintance with all the ele gancies of a courtly and all the accomplish ments of a social life, said, ! am now at the age of sixty yeaas, I have been as wicked as Solomon;' —it is a great deal to admit that; hut he adds in conclusion. '1 am wise enough to test the truth of reflection— that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.' A great poet has given a similar testimo ny; a poet who had rank, brilliant genius, wealth, everything, in short, that man could have, which this world could supply, and the last lines he wrote were: *' My days are in the yellow leaf, The flower, the fruit of life is gone; The worm, the canker, and tiicgrirf Are mine alone." Whatever men, in their shortsighted philosophy, may say to the contrary, Sor row is one of the chief purifiers of the hu man heart. All the other emotions draw us closer to the objects of this world.— Love, joy, envy, revenge, by turns, sway the heart of man, and bind him with gold en cords of affection or with iron hands of malice to the objects by which he is sur rounded. Grief alone weans him from this life, and with a finger raised toward another higher and better, shews that when the delights of earth are faded, the joys of heaven will bloom with unfading beauty in the 'fields of light' above. STARTTNG IN THE YYORLD. Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives spar ingly all his life for the purpose of leaving enough for to give his children a start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his rela tives, is like tying bladders under the arm of one who cannot swim; ten chances to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim and he will hever need the bladders. Give your child a sound education, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subservient to laws which govern man, and you have given what will he of moie value than tho wealth of the Indies. Y'ou have given him a start which no misfortune can deprive him of. The earlier you teach him to depend upon his own resources the betler. How STRONG MINDS ARE MADE WEAK. —in the Police Court, on Saturday, H man was charged with being a common drunkard. The same man was once pub lisher and editor of a leading political pa per in this city. He has sat at the private hoards of Webster and Clay, and sipped their wine. At the inauguration of Harri son, he might have been seen standing in the East front of the Capitol at Washington, with the strongest men of the nation. He mingled in fashionable life, drank deep of its pleasures, and fell a victim to them.— Reduced in circumstances he wandered from his home, leaving his family to look out for themselves. Becoming destitute, and frequently frantic with delirium tre mens, he has at last been arraigned on n charge of being a common drunkard, to which he plead guilty. Boston Chrono- Drive thy business or it will drive thee. SATCRDAY, AKHBI 18, 18411. J&CsceUaurous. i A Peep into Futurity. nv HVGAG. "All aboard!" shouted the conductor, and with a whistle and a jerk we were again on our way, and soon the trees and ! meadows, brooks and hijls, seemed whiz ing by, and the dust and cinders flew thick and fast. But amid the roaring and jolting of the cars, sleep, like a minister ing angel, came to my relief. Gradually the noise was hushed, and the speed at . which I rode inspired dreams of a lofty i character. 1 was in a wide rotunda, from which led two halls on either side. Many tall Co rinthian columns rose about me, hewn trom the whitest marble, and their gilded j capitals were lighted from a stained glass ; dome. The CBtlings were adorned by ; carved works, images and paintings, and in short, the master pieces of the Grecian sculptors, and of modern artists, seemed to adorn and decorate the walls and niches. But scarcely had I begun to gaze upon the beauties of the pile of splendor, when a roar like that of many oceans hurst upon my ear, and I concluded 1 was in the temple of the gods at Mount Olvmpus, until a mass of polished steel, and brass, and silver, rushed into one of the long halls, and passed out at the extremity of ■ the other, followed by a train of what 1 j called some thirty pagan temples, all glit i teiing with carved wood and iron, gilded eagles, pinnacles, and spires. No sooner than the train had stopped, out stepped a Yankee (I knew him by his voice,) and shouted • Hartford,' at the windows of each ,of the cais. A throng of gen's, ladies and children poured from the opening ! doors and stood within the rotunda. Be ing very anxious to view the interior of the cars or temples, and to see the motive power, 1 entered one, and had hardly re covered from the shock which tho daz zling magnificence reflected, when the | train, which had been set in motion again, stopped in a rotunda of the same size and splendor with the first, and the Yankee captain cried * Springfield.' 1 staggered to a sent in utter unconsciousness, and as I I endeavored to locate myself on what ap peared to be a picture of New York city, 1 sank to my waist in a delicious air sofa, which again restored my senses. The towns and cities, lakes and mountains, once more shot in confusion by, as the conductor hurriedly tapped me on the shoulder and whispered 4 ticket.' • Where are you hound ?' said I. ' Boston. Be there in twenty minutes. Fare Irom Springfield, one dime—from New York, three dimes.' I handed hirn a shilling. ' Behind the times,' said he ; ' no such coin in circulation.' I had the good luck to carrv a gold dol lar as a pocket piece, which I drew out, and paid my fare. • Where ami, cap tain,' said I involuntarily. Ho smiled, and rushed from the car, which had entered the third rotunda, and shouted ' \Y orcester.' ' Mister, where am I ?' said I to the nearest man. He eyed me with evident surprise a moment, though It 19 eyes sparkled as he asked— ' Been asleep V ' Yes, sir. (Jot to New Haven yet? or is this ' ' Tell me the year !' said he. ' It's 1849, of course ! —are you crazy!' I replied. He tapped me on the shoulder, and said— ' You've slept a hundred years —it's 1919! Several have slept over. This is the air-line railroad from New Y'ork to j Boston—air line ; that is, there are no curves, and but three corners, which we ; turn in an instant, by machinery. All ! sorts of now improvements, now a days, i Why, man ! it'll tuko you nil the rest of your life-time to look at all the patented, ! labor-saving machinery in New England, j We do everything but sleep and eat bv ! sorno new-fangled invention or other ! We--' 'Good! It must he so. Yankee na- j tion !—what cannot Yankees and steam accomplish ?' said I. 'Steam! Nonsense, man—it's nut of date on railroads. This is Fuzgum's eler- ; tro magnetic patent, eight day, twelve foot driver, 800 horse power battery, silver ; plated, self propeller—cost $25,000 —this thing which draws us now ! This road i cost some twenty millions, and lias pa id for its.df twice, and has not been com- | pleted three years. They use the patent suspension bridge, Vulcan rail, which is laid on a solid wall of stone, four feet deep, j The rails are some seven feet apart. We go at the rsie of five miles and three quar ters per minute, and—why, sir ! you are behind the tunes, indeed. What'll you give me to show you the leviathaii 1 (not elephant) ' three weeks ?' j ' Anything in my possession. I'm a great hand for new tilings. I'll see the leviathan, and ride! Hurrah! luir—' ' Stop ! here's Boston. Keep close to me, and we'll get a seat in the first elevat ed omnibus, for the Ocean Hotel—best I house in the city. Come, we do things so quick we seldom carry baggage.' I made fast to his coat tail, and my Yankee guide rushed through crowds, and , temples, and galleries, till we found our selves at last in the flying, elevated, elec tric-something omnibus, which was an ! open car some twenty fet long, on a railroad, elevated about thirty feet above the street. A double track was laid all the way, and we met several cars or om nibuses, rushing down, propelled by little electric engines. Below, the street was thronged with trucks, goods, merchants, and carriers. On either side b.-oad side- I wa'ks were filled with people, and above, the houses rose from eight to ten stories, all constructed from iron, gilded and paint ; ed in the most costlv and beautiful manner. At last, when we had come about ten miies in five minutes, as fast up hill as down, we arrived at what I should have supposed to be Solomon's temple, restored; but no, it was the (Lean Hotel. Of our entry into this place, the furniture, the . carving, the gilding, the painting, we will ; not speak. A tier visiting a fashionable tailor's shop, I sat down with my guide, in my room, to take a rest preparatory to seeing the elephant— no ! the leviathan, and to make the tour of the State. ' What has happened, Mr. Jonathan, since 1849?' said 1 to ihe Yankee, who was gazing at the sea of roofs. He nearly | fainted at the question, and said he merely j could mention a few of the principal I changes and inventions, 4 General Jaylor,' said he, 'was presi dent in 1849, wasn't he? yes, he was, and we've had any quantity since. Wo're a republic now, and the United States extend from the Arctic Ocean to Terra del Fuego, and comprises, in Bhort, all America. England's a republic, and a Y'ankee is their president. There was but one kingdom in the world six days ago, hut the transatlantic telegraph was then out of order. We haven't heard for most a week from t'other side, and here ! see that flying car up there, see it ! it's going to San Francisco, the largest city in Amer ica, or United States, ail the same. Thetc, it's out of sight; hut the Great Aerial Electric Navigation Company are building a car that will beat that—it's manufacturing in that machine shop von der,' said he as lie pointed to a building fourteen stories and a half high. • There's generally,' continued he, 'uni versal peace on earth, and the last dis patches from the moon said that the revo lution had been brought to n close, and that bloodshed had ceased to stain that puradise, and while we speak of it, there's ! a fellow from the moon, who came down on a flying car yesterday, hut their air is ! so different from ours he can't stay long i and he pointed to a most perfect little man; about three feci high- ' But we'll go up to the moon by the next car and stroll about a day or two, and look—there I had recourse to the camphor bottle) —and look about town. Y'es, we will—hem, there's some angels there—some girls, and thev think everything of us Yankees. Hurrah! there's the California, the last steamer from Liverpool. She started day before yesterday. She's made of iron, gutta ppr cha, and durus. Durus is a mental re- j ; cently discovered in Greenland, and small quantities are found in Patagonia—a tnetal which won't bend, break, or receive anv impression, except when the greatest de gree df heat possible to he obtained is | applied to it. She ran through nn lee- j berg on her trip, hut did not stop, and j you can't break her to pieces or sink her, no, you can't. She's six hundred feet long, and twenty five broad ; is covered with gutta percha, made transparent all 1 over, and runs under water half the time, in n storm. There's the evening train of flying cars for New Orleans—pretty good I load ; '.he electric train carries more liio\ this weather. More competition on this j route ihr.n any other in America, except the New York and Rio Janeiro evening lines ; they run for four dimes. See that building there ! At one end they drive in j a flock of sheep, and this door is a mutton ; market, and the other is a ready made clothing store. Them's a printing office in this building, and there's a machine in j it which will make a spelling hook out of a shir! in seven minutes; hut they'll have j to give it up, as there's one in the very ! next house which will make a spelling | hook from cotton hatting in six minutes ! j Fact, sir!' I applied camphor to my temples and ; nose. ' I tell you the truth ; hut the crack : invention of the day is gumbuggum gas. ! Goes ahead of chloroform, altogether. I Why, last night my brother in New Or leans was smashed to a pulp by the falling of a stone weighing twelve tons, but we j immediately applied the extract of cold ! water, and gumbuggum, and when I left at two o'clock, lie was comfortably well. We don't die at all now, if we can manage | to get hold of extract of water and gum- j buggtlm gas before heat leaves the hotly. ! If nil warmth has left the body, life has left it; but if not, life is perfectly safe. Now tea is ready ; come let us get ten, and then we'll have a ride.' At thoughts of supper 1 awoke, and we | had just got to New Haven. What sloVfr, good for nothing cars and steamboats we have ; —can't go hut a mile in a minute ! We are behind the times. A Lecture on the Elephant. Ladies and gentlemen ! Allow m p , this evening, to introduce an animal called the Elephant. He is the greatest of all tread mill animals that helps to keep the globe in motion.— Among the Anglo Saxons, he is known only hy'the name of elephant ; but with all barbarous and half civilized nations he is unanimously dubbed the bulliphant. He is about the size of a two , year old omnibus, and in color approaches as near to a black as he possibly can with out absolute infringement. To look at him not too severely one naturaliy supposes him to be a small mountain of India rub ber, or huge composition of glue and mo lasses. The Elephant is one of the natives of the East Indies, but he has been met with in various parts of Mexico, and is frequent ly seen in the great city of New Y'ork. It has been asserted upon both righteous and profane authority, that he is indigenous to the diggin9 of California—however, the assertion, as yet, goes a begging for con firmation. It is my private opinion, ' though, that the animal exhibits himself ; to travellers in all parts of the world, only } they entertain a monstrous reluctance to confessing the fact. He carries his trunk with him wherever he goes, but never keeps anything in it, not even a change of shirts. When cousin Ichahod first saw him at a show, he ex claimed with mute astonishment : ' Then that's the rale Menagerer—the indentical critter hisself! I swow wouid'nt two of 'em make a teem to draw stun with ? j Golly, aint he ascrouger?' Ichahod went home and related what he had seen. ' I seen,' said he, 'the genuine Menagerer, the darndest biggest lump of flesh that ever stirred. He had tew tails, tew ; one be hind and the other before. He put one cf his tails in my coat pocket, and hauled out j the ginger bread every hooter. What j d'ye think he done with it? Why he i stuck it in his own pocket, and began to fumble for more —dam him !' What is that which if a man has, he would not wish to lose? If he has not he would not wish to have? And which, when he has gained, he has it no longer? D'ye give it up ? (A lawsuit.) An Irishman, at a recent religious meet ing in Cincinnati, got up and began to ad dress as follows: My friends, the profli gacy of the times i 9 such, that little chil dren who can neither walk nor talk, may he seen tunning about the streets cursing their Maker! EMMA.—' Clorinda, dear, you are going in mourning for your aunt's death V CLO.—' Oh, no, Emma, nor shall we close our shutters.' EMMA. —'Indeed—how is that? Y r ou did both for your uncle.' CLO.—' Very true ; hut then, aunt has nothing to leave us, and you knew uncle left us §20,000.' TOUCHING THE SYMPATHIES.—'Arrah, f'at, and why did you marry me ? Just tell me that—for it's mesclf that's had to maintain ye ever since Father O'Fanegan ' sent me to yer house.' 'Swate Jewel,' replied Pat, not relish- ! ing the charge, 'and it's meself that hopes to live to see the day thatye'rea widow weep- ; ing over the could sod that covers me, then by St. Patrick, I'll see how you get along without me, honey dear. A blacksmith in the State of New York was summoned as a witness in court, be tween two ol his workmen. The Judge, after hearing the testimony, asked him why he did not advise them to settle, as the cost had already amounted to three times the disputed sum, via : seventy five cents. Ho replied, 'I to-f-o ld the foTools to se-e-e-ttle ; for the co-o-onstable would ! take their coats, the lawyers their shir- ' iris, and if they got into your honor's court, vou'd sk-sk skin 'em ?' A very interesting fight is now going on j between the Washington Union and Phil j adelphia Ledger. The Union calls the I Ledger a guerilla sheet, and the Ledger ! intimates that the editors of the Union are blackguards and dishonorable men. YVe think both are right in their opinions. PUBLIC OFFICES. The New York Express is not satisfied with the 8,000 federal offices which Gen. Taylor has bestowed upon the Whigs, in the face of his solemn pledges, but threat ens to seize upon 117,000 more—being what it estimates to he about one-half of the Federal offices in the Union.— Wash. Union. Not quite so blond thirsty, savs the Ex press in reply. Our principles are these : The federal offices on the -Ith of March last were about all in locofoco hands. YVe estimate the number to be 250,000 Locos removed (see the Union) 8,000 j Locns left 242,000 YVtiins entitled to one-half, vii: 125,000 Whigs put in office, only 8,000 D IP the YV' higs rl"\v J 17,000 If Gen. Taylor did n>>t do justice to the 117,000 yet proscribed YY'higs, he would i indeed belte all his 'solemn pledges.' New Series— Vol. 3—l\o. *3- i FROM CALIFORNIA. The steamer Falcon arrived at New Or leans from Chatrres on the 4th instant. ISlie brought $160,085 in specie and gold dust, fifty-three passengers, ami a large i mail. She made the passage from here to Chug-res in seven days, and remained there a week, during which time it rained inces j sandy. The Isthmus is generally healthy, I though at Chagres there was much sick ness. In an American population at that town of thirty-five, thirty were ill or just recovering from fever. The disease is of malignant intermittent character. The steamship Oregon left San Francis jco on the 2d of July and arrived at Panama on the 21st of lite same month.— On the 4th ult. at half past 12 o'clock A. M. she struck three times on a rock at Port Conception. The shock was very, ; great, and the vessel so much injured that she leaked during the whole passage. At the last accounts she was at Tobago Island repairing damages, and will not be ready | to resume her trips before the 20th inst. j She brought down about seventy passen gers, most of whom took passage on the Falcon for New Orleans and New Yoik. Capt. Crowningshield, 13. S. A., died of apoplexy on the passage, on board the Oregon. At Panama there were about five hun dred Americans awaiting transportation. One half of them were to leave on the 28th ult. on the barque Tasso to sail on the Ist inst., and the barque Ella Francis : to depart soon. From a gentleman who came a passen ger on the Falcon, and who is direct from I San Francisco, we learn the following in ! teresting particulars: The stories of Gen. Smith having to go | on board a vessel of war, in consequence j of a trouble with the residents, is all false. Gen. Smith wa9 well, universally respecf jed and very popular. He had moved his headquarters from San Francisco to Sono ra, which 19 about seventy miles from the former place. The health of San Francis ! co was good, and ihe inhabitants of the town much more orderly and quiet than could be anticipated. The gamblinghous e9 are all closed on Sundays, and the work I of all kinds suspended, although labor is worth $lO to sls per day. i Theie were four churches already built, j and another was expected soon to arrive ihere. There were about two thousand cloth tents about the town. The Ameri cans residing in the city were mostly highly respectable. Occasionally there | wa9 some slight difficulty between the Americans and the Malays. The market wa9 overstocked with goods—dry goods ; and clothing selling for leSs than in the | States. Houses and lumber were very high, and sold readily. A house that in ! the States cost S4OO, end was forty by twenty feet, would sell for 52500, and would cost S7OO to put it up. There ! were fifty or sixty cargoes of goods; re j maining unsold at San Francisco. Gold was plenty; large quantities of it were coming in every day. It was selling for sls per ounce cash, or sl6 in goods.— The quantity of gold was considered in exhaustible. There were no troops in San Francisco, and none were needed. It is announced that JOHN B. iVuLtER, of Ohio, has been superceded as commis sioner to run the Boundary June with Mex ico, by the appointment of the late Col. JOHN C. FREMONT to take charge of the Commission. Subsequent to Mr. Weller's appointment, an appropriation of $50,000 was made by Congress for the operation of the fiscal year, in adjusting this Bounda ry Line between the United Slates and Mexico, and Mr. Weller, it seems, drew upon the Department for more than $60,- 000 of ibis amount before he reached Pan ama, and had actually received more than $20,000. 1113 last drafts for ten or elev en thousand dollars were respectfully de clined by the Department, on ihe ground that no satisfactory account had been re ceived of the previous expenditure, and the Department did not choose to exhaust all the resources provided forthe year, before discovering some practical pplica fion of the means to the object contempla ted by the law; PLEASURES or A CALIFORNIA TRIP.—A correspondent of the JV. 1". writ ing from Chihuahua, under date of the 4 th May says : Since I started we have been near starving three times —once for pro. visions, and twice for water. Once wo were live days wilhout water nr.d once three ; we were six days without anything to eat except a few snakes and hawks which we found on the road and shot. Moreover, we have had two hard fights with the In dians—had two of our men killed and eight wopnded. My bed is made nightly on ihe ground ; that is, I sleep on one blan ket and c iver with another. I live on dried beef and venison, with coffee and bread of my own making. I work hard, drive mules, kill and butcher deer, physic the company, fight the Indians, and trade with the Mexicans for corn, fiour and beef. * * * My spirits are low and my hopes are flagging. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a <?rt at f hip.
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