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ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud.
Time.
There is a silent river,
The rolling river Time,
In summer's rosy blushes,
In hoary winter's rime
It floweth, flowelh, floweth,
In whatsoever clime.
And well trimm'd barks are sailing
Upomits silent tide ;
With golden riches laden,
The little vessels glide ;
And Faith, and Love and Action
And Hope are side by side.
And oh, a host of others
Compose the little fleet,
IVow soon the waves are heaving,
Now wide the waters beat ;
Gray mists steal o'er the waters,
The mournful mists of Fate.
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The polar-star grows dimmer;
The scatter'd vessel's driven;
All wide in -disappointment
Unto the waves are given,
And Faith alone remaineth
To bear the soul to Heaven.
D.
A lady in Boston, the other day, in passing
xlown Beacon-street, caught her light dress by
a nail in a plank, and it was almost completely
torn 'off, revealing the fact that her bustle was
'made of a piece of a coffee bag, as it had on it
the words 'prime old Java.'
A mechanic in the North has invented a ma
;htne for seminaries, which, by means of steam,
-iM 1,01 on warmslhe room, bui fogs all the boys,
on a graduated scale,' according to their offen
ces.
Texas Salt. The Houston Telegraph says
that the section of country lying West of the
Nueces, bordering on the sea coast, is inter
sected by numerous shallow inlets and bays,
into which ihe salt water of the Gulf flows dur
ing Winter, but in Summer, owing to intense
olar evaporation, they become dry, and are
; il covered with ? crust of salt thre e or four inches
"hick, equal in every respect to the Turk' Isl-
and, which is the best for pr.eserving-met-and
fiah. The dry climate of Western Texas
'v ntin seldom falling in the Summer months
makes the process of cbrystalization exceed-
?f ingly rapid, and millions of bushels may be pro-
if cured for the mere trouble'of collecting it.
The tate Battles.
A letter to the Providence Journal from an
officer engaged in the late Battles on the Rio
Grande gives a very vivid account of thoso bat
tles, embodying some incidents not before made
known. We quote the opening and close as
follows :
Camp, May 10, 181G.
" My brain is still in a whirl from the excite
ment of the last forty-eight hours, but I must
try and give you some details of as complete a
victory as ever Iris been won by American valor.
We marched from Point Isabel on the 7lh, ve
ry little more than two thousand strong, and
with a train of 230 wagons to guard, carrying
up supplies to our fort opposite to Matamoras.
About 1 p. jr., on the 8th instant, we found the
Mexican army in our front, a long line of cav
alry and infantry, about a mile'distant from us.
We at once formed in square to protect our
hue ,rain. un,il il C0l,,d be 01 inl Park J aa
5000 as ths was done, findjnthat ihe enemy
would not advance to attack"'him, our General
their batteries, and placed them in a new posi
tion. While this had been going on in front,
party of S00 lancers attempted to turn our left
flank, and cut off our train, but they found the
oih infantry in the way, charged them and were
sent to the right-about with twenty or thirty
empty saddles. The firing now ceased entire
ly for about an hour; our Regiment (4th infant
ry) was then ordered forward, again to support
the artillery in a new position which they had
taken; as we rose the crest of a small ridge, the
whole battery of rhe enemv was fired at the
head of our column. I thought for the moment
that my company (the leading one) was all cut j
down. Capt. Page, who being in command of!
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uiu uinaiuu was men un me nui ui uic uue.t
was struck down with such force, as to carry
with him three men next behind him; his whole
lower jaw was shot away, and the ghastly hid-
eousness of his visage as he reared up in con'
vulsive agony from the grass as we passed him, '
will not soon vanish from my recollection. An-;
other man about the centre of my companv had
hi hpad knnrURil nff thp. Sftroentit on mv riaht i
had his musket driven from his hand by a ball ,hey had done and were doi"S u"der the fos
which passed between me and the men before j leri"S protection of the tariff of '42 ; when they
me.
We were then ordered to retire out of i
range from the battery. The cannonading last-
jed until sunset, and for the last hour our batte
ries made fearful havock in their ranks.
We encamped for the night on their position;
in the morning advanced again, supposing them
still in front of us, but soon found that they had
made a rapid retreat; leaving the ground strewn
with their dead, and with abandoned ammuni
tion. Where one of their batteries had been
stationed, fifty-seven dead bodies were counted
In one group, and not so much wounded as torn
to pieces by grape and round shot, head and
limbs gone, bowels torn out. No imagination
can conceive the horrible efiect of such a fire,
directed with the precision and coolness with
which our batteries were served. As we were
advancing in line on the Sih, and expecting
every instant the order to charge, for we then
did iiot know that the enemy had gone we
came up to a wounded Mexican, laying in the
long grass, and invisible until we wore close to
him; he raised himself as well as he could,
i held up his hands and begged for mercy. We
halted, the officers nearest came up to him, he
made signs for food and water, and in an in
stant twenty men rushed from our ranks to of
fer canteens havresacks they gave him more
than he could eat in a week.
Capt. May charged with his squadron of Dra
goons right through, and over their battery, and
through the heaviest cross fire from their in
fantry stationed at the trench and behind the
pond. He drove them from their pieces, and
took General La Vega, who commanded the
Artillery, a prisoner.
Bui ihey rallied in forco and drove the al-
lant Captain back. During this time our artil
lery was pouring in grape upon them from the
crest of the ridge; our infantry, as soon as they
could run uj), dashed in upon the guns and cap
tured every piece, five out of the oight having
the load in them. After those were taken the
rest was a mere rout.
They fled in every direction, abandoning eve
ry thing. We took their whole camp just as
it stood ; 150,000 rounds of musket cartridges,
a good supply of cannon cartridges, four or five
hundred mules with all their equipments for
packing, all the baggage of the officers, &c. Sic.
Never was there a more complete victory, and
Gon. Taylor says "he owes it solely to the in
dividual gallantry of his officers ar.d men."
There was, as you perceive, no chance foi
manoeuvering it was naru ngntir.g, anu go
ahead. Some of the guns were taken and re
taken two or three times. Gen. Arista had two
horses killed under him, and our old hero, Gen
Taylor, was constantly in the thickest fire.
Once, when remonstrated with for stopping at
a point where the grape shot and bullets were
flying like hail, he said, 11 Well they do come
pretty thick; let us go on a little farther ahead,
and they will all go over tj."
The Fair The Tariff.
The exhibition, at Washington, of articles of
American manufacture, is passing off well, and
promises to be productive of real benefit. It is
a little galling to some of the Free Trade mem
bers of Congress, who are forced to endure the
evidence, that with a proper Tariff, America
can be independent of foreign Manufacturers,
and that our own manufacturers can supply the
country with better and cheaper articles. On
the 26th ult. allusion was made, in the House,
to the exhibition, in not very friendly terms,
which drew out Mr. Stewart of this State. Ol
iver Old School says : 11 Mr. Stewart poured
a broad side of hot shot into Mr. Payne. He
told him that the exhibition of American fab
rics was ridiculed because the fabrics were
American and not British. That had ihev been
Bntish fabri" ,he' wou,d have bee ex,olled
b-v ,he free ,raders 10 ,1,e skie3' That a Bril"
ish aSent cou,d como here and occupy one of
the Committee rooms in the Canitnl. to exhibit
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British manufactures, and it was all right ; mem
bers rushed into the room to see how much
cheaper and better British goods were than
Amorn TUm ,u
iiiiiui iviuiit a ij n iiii i iiiii.iiiR iiirrirr mi :
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" WdS "S1"' 11 waa an argument in lavor oi
lhe reduc,In of the tariff; but when American
manufacturers, whose fabrics had been misrep-
resented, undertook to show the world what
presented meir manuiactures Here to snow that
they were not only better than the British man
ufactures, but cheaper, why it was all a hum
bug! These men cannot bear to see Ameri
cans going ahead their patriotism, is more
comprehensive, and looks to British interests
they would rather see all our goods imported
and ourselves dependent upon foreigners for
necessaries and comforts of life. Mr. S. said
he was at the Fair this morning, that eye sore
of the free trade men, and saw came seven or
eight hundred children, the scholars of the free
schools of this city. These were American,
but he supposed the free traders would much
prefer to import our children also. A great
laugh."
Bad Northern Custom. It is becominn a
common thing at ihe north to publish not only
the amount every citizen is worth, but the a
mount every one pays as taxes. This inquisi
torial system encourages the invidious distinc
tion of wealth, and is founded upon the same
principle we notice among our slaves, who,
when they wish lobe very severe on eachi
other, say, 'Go 'long, you half price nigger! you
wouldn't fotch fifty dollars, and I'm wuth a
thousand.' N. O. Tropic.
'My young friond,' said a minister to a man
at camp meeting, 'do you ever think of a future
state V Mt
No, I never meddje with state affairs,7 thyiknian is regarded as her greatest ornament, so is
my brother John is a poltticianer.'
'Do you ever think of dying?'
No, but I guess our Sally did when she got
the measles, for she turned all sorts 'o colors.
'Whose boy are you?' '
'When any body axes you that, toll 'Qfn you
don't know.'
Front the Savannah Republican.
MATAMORAS.
An Interesting Sketch
As some of our citizens have, in prospect a
visit to this city and the surrounding country,
we have taken some trouble to gather a few
particulars in regard to il, which will be of in
terest to them as well as to the general reader.
Our-jnformant is a gentleman of intelligence,
whdresided.in the place for four years, from
1834 to 1838, am! who, from his connection
with the public press, had ample means of ac
quiring information, as well as strong induce
ments to familiarize himself with men, manners
and places.
Oiir informant recognizes the general correct
ness of t he maps which have recently been pub
lished. The positions of the city, of the Amer
ican Army, &c, are all correctly represented.
i ne uiuii upon wnicn Uen. Taylor's (Jamp is
located, is some ten or twenty feet higher than
the ground on which the city is built. The t celebration. Their food consists mainly of tht
current of the river al this point is exceedingly . lortla or com cake, baked in ashes, ami heel,
sluggish, and its course so tortuous between wi,n which they use large quantities of thili
Matamoras and the Gulf, that it has been found . c1"radu, or Mexican red pepper. They al.-s.i
impossible to ascend it wiih sailing vessels, i use extensively for food a species of small red
When our informant was there, goods were not , buan ca,'ed frijola. Their horses anu small,
landed at Point Isabel, but at the mouth of the ' wea,J'y a"d badly subsisted frequently so. fee
Rio Grande, and thence were carried to Alula-' l)J as 10 aI1 prostrate under their baggage and
moras in carts drawn by oxen. He is under jr'der wm'e ne 13 ux ,,ie acl of "untin.
the impression that the Custom House at Point ' ules.arfl velT abundant at Matamoras and of
Isabel, has been recently established perhaps . a T''y superior lo any raised upon the contt
since the loss of the steamboat which was eu-in.enL Tliey are used ,n ,ne carriages nf tb
gaged in the trade during his residence at Mat- "ch and arB a,,nosl ! only locomotives in
amoras. Barrita, the place spoken of as the ! MeX,c0- A s5nS!e mde carr-v lhree
destination of an expedition by boats, on the Jrei P"nds of baggage with ease, an almost
river, he says is not a village, but only a few '"credible distance por day. Good horses and
indifferent houses at the ferry, which is half rni,,cs 10 tho COUI1,ry can be purchased at from
way between the Gulf and the city. 15 ' 20 dul'ars.
The plan of Matamoras is very similar to j 0ur informant speaks of the climate of Mat
that of Savannah. Tho streets are not wide, , amma3 mosl favorably. He thinks it is quitu
but run at right angles, and there are several a.s ,ieany as Savannah, if not more so. Du
public squares, which give an airy appearance , nnS h,s t"r years residence there, yellow fe
to the place. The houses of Matamoras are ver wa unknown, and even chills and fevers
built of clay and twiggs, there being in 1838 exceedingly rare. In the interior, m the dtreT
not more than twenty or thirty brick buildings Uon.of Monterrey, or even Durango, the coun
in the place. These latter are mostly in ,he j ry is said to be hig-h, dry and healthy. Du-.
vicinity of the squares, and have .been erected i ranS 15 an 0,d Spanish town, of from forty-fivh -by
foreigners. The ground -in the rear or the ; 10 s,x,' jhousand inhabitants and would well
city is subject to inundalion'during the wet sea-', Pay " Uncle Sam 'roops for a visit, and be-
son, to the depth of several feet, and lhe subsi-i ?,des. be a most agreeable summer retreat-not
dence of the waters leaves the Lake marked ,nfe,or l 'J18 Vh,,e Sulphur or Saratoga. Up
upon the maps. It is of considerable depth ! " lhf h?le lnen,we think that volunteers may
and extent, and its waters are used by ihe d'spel neir apprehensions m regard to the tin
washerwomen of the place, who congregate ; "eathfulness of the country on the Rio Grand,,
there in considerable numbers, to ply their vo- 'hey may meet with a few bloody minded .
cation. It is also the general resort of the cil mrosqu'le, an occasiona gnrapala, or a wild
izens, male and female, who repair thither in Mexican the chapparals, but in their march
great numbers, for the purpose of bathing du. ' lr the "Halls of the Montezumas' they trill
ring the spring and summer months. This is , 80,0n 8,n!.a "h. dr3'- nd healthful region,
a peculiarity with the Mexicans, and strange wherfe subsistence will be easy, and opportune
as it may seem to some, these common ablu ,,es for h8hline not nfrequent.
1 tions of ,1,e sexes, are not regarded as in the I
I slightest degree improper or indelicate. The!
1 only difference between that countty and this
.
j that ,he beaux and bees make ,heir Ioa8
! ure excursions, in and under the water, instead
of in sail hoats and steamers ; and the one is re
garded and spoken ol with tne same delicacy
of language anorpurity of purpose, as the other.
What a tyrant is custom 1
The population of Matamoras, our informant
thinks, was in IS34 about seven thousand.
Prior to that time a considerable trade in drjr
goods had been carried on with tho interior
r. e , .,
towns, Durango, Montcrev, &c, and with the!
Indians. In this business, several Americans
had amassed considerable fortunes. Since
1834, the trade of the olace has fallen off, and ,
the norinlation diminishid. It is now mainlv.says the New Haven, Conn. Herald, numbott
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sustained by the income from the sale of cattle,
hides, talloW. muleS. WOol. Specie. &C &C.
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ciely very distinct. J he best class, the de -
scendants of the old Spaniards, i very limited
and exclusive. They are tolerably well edu-,
cated the men being generally in the public
offices or the army, and the females engaged in
light and pleasurable pursuits and amusements,
such as dancing waltzing, playing the guitar,
&c. &c. They are but limite'dly educated, and
many of them cannot write their own language,
though they speak it with fluency and elegance.
They are fond of dress, are generally tastefully
arrayed, and are graceful and easy in their
manners. Though chairs are common in thoir
parlors, our informant says that it is not uncom
mon in the best circles, to see the beautiful
dark eyed eignora seated upon the carpet and
surrounded by a bevy ol dark-haiied, mua
tacheod admirers.
Tho women of the lower classes are more
homely, though scarcely los3 attractive in t licit
appearance. The domestics are in a state of
more abject slavery, infinitely, than our Dtgroes.
They are flagellated unmercifully, i;nd as the
ultimatum of disgrace are sometimes compelled
to submit to have their hair -shorn close lo the
head. As the flowing hair oC lhe Mexican wo-
Jmc privation of it coiKidered as the
greatest
indignity and punisbment.
In regard to iho Mexican soldiers, our in
formant says, they are men of small staturo, of
light, muscular frame, exceedingly homely in
their appearance poor oldicra, but bold and
foarlcsi ridejs, They are not constant m their
attachmentsfight for pay, and will follow ihe
leadwr who feeds and pays them best. Thrv
have displayed some courage in iriir local
lights, particularly when knives ami sn'lctto-.
were Used, but have a great aversion to fire
arms, especially in close quarters. Actmir m
largo bodies, they are easily confuted ve in
iheir common military displays, and consequent
ly would suffer greatly from a sudden and vi.
orous attack in a general engagement. Owm
to the unsettled condition of the country, ami
the low pay of the army, they are reluctant tn
enter the service. On this account the schema
and devices of (heir officers to cheer and en
courage them are sometimes ridiculous enough.
Tho preparations for celebrating a victory ur
often made in anticipation, and sometimes, as
was the case in the late conflict with the Amer
cans, fall with the prisoners and munition of
war into the hands of ihe enemv. affimJin.r
I lnem al : olice a victory and the facilities for in.
j ,
Infernal War Engine. A New Yorkef V
. has invented an iron ball, a nine pounder, com
posed of sections like tho division of an orange
with a shoulder at the top and bottom of
each, around which is clasped an iron ring suf-
ficient to hold all the parts together and give it''
tho force and therefore the range of a solid
; round shot and yot so brittle that on striking
'a hard substance it would break and leave tho
' hatchet shaped wedges that make up the ball
, . i- ,- ..j . , r01 ne
! to scatter in all directions, ociid out a few ot
them to Gen. Taylor.
A Queer Boarder. A lady of thin city
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among the members of her family a mousv
,btin t,;. nr.noron.B auarir Atr wti.n tlCn
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dinner bel rings, trots gently down stairs and
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I nt0 'he dining room, where he takes his sta
tion, and feeds on the crumbs dropped from lhe
table, without any symptoms of fear. "When,
the company rise from their meal, h'.s mjuse
ship is off also, and hopping up ?',nirs. is seen
no more until the following day. He is a re
spectable, grave looking ofa feViow, and appa.
rently enjoys tho best ofhealth, as he seldom
misses a meal.
Going to Boston-. " Mitber t M'ither !
what have yo'J d.one," said a little "shaver" with,
protruding oyes to a l,grceny" who had just fin
ished tying his horse to a spruce pole, as. ho
thP'ught in the street of a village near Bunion.
' Done," said the fellow, "what d'ye mean ? I
hain't done nothing as I knows on." " Why
yeth you have, thir, youo jeth hitched your
hoth to the Magnetic Telegraph, and he'll be
in Bothton in leth than two minits, if youidon't
look out."
Tho man untied his horse with ncrvouanx-
iety, jumped on his back and rode hastily down
the street ,
A Doudt Unresolved. It appears to; bo a
matter of question among some of the South
ern oditors whether 'Job's lurkey was allien
or a gobbler.
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