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rourtli of July Celebration at lor
tn?c by the Quitman Guards.
The company met at their usual parade
ground, iu Jefferson, at 9 A. M., -when an elec
tion was bell for Lieut Colonel, after -which
the company proceeded to the grove in the rear
of Samuel J. Renshaw's Hotel, (Portage,) when
the meeting ves organized Captain R. S.
Alexander in the Chair, assisted by Lieut. Wm.
0. Barbour as Vice President, and Sergeant R.
T. Diuilop and John W. Wolf as Secretaries.
The Declaration of Independence was read by
Lieut Jas. J. Dunlop, followed by three cheers
j:nd the discharge of musketry. The audience
was then addressed by A. C. Mullin, Esq., in
the following eloquent and patriotic manner:
Fkiesds axd Fellow-Citizens: We have
tact for the purpose of celebrating a day which
marks one of the greatest epochs that has ever
occurred in American history a day that will
be kept alive in the bosoms, and be coinnicnio
rated, by unborn millions yet to come. Yes, the
Fourth of July will be treasured in the hearts
jf generations yet in the womb of futurity, as
a sacred remembrance of by-gone days when
our forefathers, inspired by a desire for liberty,
nnd worn out by arbitrary and unjust taxation,
inflicted by a tyrannical monarchy, determined
t.j throw off the galling yoke, and to rend
asunder the 6hackles which bound her to it.
They had long been held in thraldom, and now,
being wrought to exasperation by repeated in
sults and oppression, they determined, come
what may, to arrogate to themselves the right
i self-government the right of legislating and
-jf making their own laws. England, although
their mother country, had now" become to them
an abomination a despised and hated oppres
sor, r.nd, can it be wondered at, that their affec
tions were alienated from her, and that obedi
ence to her will was disannulled abrogated.
She called them her children, but could children
have any affection for such an unnatural mother?
So; and a withdrawal from her jurisdiction was !
the only safe alternative which thev had left.
But, was it safe fur them to withdraw and
assert their independence they, who were but
a handful to the mighty legions which could be
mustered against them to compel them to return
t their allegiance? No! but still they did it
Death or Liberty" was their watchword
ehuins nnd slavery had no terrors for them be
yond what they had already endured, and the
glorious declaration of independence was signed.
Ves, fellow-citizens, the 4th of July, 1776,
was the day on which loyalty to kings, and ac
quiesenee to the will of princes met a common
grave the day on which allegiance to England
and obeisance to her will was humbled into an
jlj'ivion from which the voices of millions of
American freemen declare they shall never
arise.
Is there a heart in all this assembly is there
& heart to be found throughout the entire length
and breadth of this glorious confederacy, which
ia not inspired with the eame feeling which
then burned within the hearts of our ancestors?
In looking around us, and surveying the glory,
she majesty, and the efficiency of our institu
tions, does it not send a thrill of pleasure
through the soul when we reflect that the first
step toward our present prosperity, was the aet
of our forefathers ir scttins their names to a
Hi of paper.
I say, in looking at these, need we ask our
selves the question
"Is there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"Death or liberty!"
No! there is not an American heart whose
pulsations do not accord with this feeling, and
fhose vibrations do not echo forth this senti
ment. Shall we, the children of such noble sires,
be offspring of such illustrious progenitors,
endorse aoy other sentiment? Forbid it, mighty
Ileaven! Let kingdoms and crowns crumble
into dust let principalities and powers sink
into nothingness let monarchical and despoti
cal governments be prostrated let earthquakes
reni let nations and empires and thrones and
uimnions dc convulsed and dashed into atoms,
but still let our adherence to this glorious sen
timent be preserved.
Cat, if there is in this, our beloved land
"the Inml tf !. f rt t,A t.siYin f V.
I ,rave" a single heart recreant enough to
j SWerVe frfiTn ita flu? ?c vnlAf ?ta nfltriniivm
I 'et its TOSSOSSnr hnfr fnmemtipp tht TiiimPH nf
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Jefferson, Franklin, Rush, Harrison, and the
other brave spirits who "pledged their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honors' for the
cause of liberty the liberty which we now
have, and enjoy. I Bay lct hlm but remember
these names, and his soul will at once be on fire
-dormant love of country m be aroused, and
I , rnotism, if patriotism he have will burst
mi urn with a pure and holy flame,
I . lct him revert to the battles of Bunker
I iu, of Torktown, or of Saratoga lct him, in
I lmaSmaUon, sec the struggles of those engaged
1 'D thcse sanguinary and bloody conflicts lct
a lm turn their brave leaders lct him ponder
Pn the names of Washington, of Montgom
TJ, of Warren, and other brave men who have
e'l a lustre upon American arms by their
""Clitj prowess in the hour of danger. I tay
let him turn to all these, let him behold them j
bleeding, dying, and then let him re fleet that it
is for their country's weal, their country's
honor, that they thus bled and died.
If euch a view in retrospect does not enkindle
a latent patriotic spirit in his breast, he is un
worthy the name of an American. Like Arnold,
he treads the path of Judas he is an abortion
to his country, and should be driven from it,
that its hallowed soil might not be poluted with
his contaminating presence.
But turn we to the day we are celebrating
the glorious 4th of July, 1851, counterpart of
the 4th of July, 177C, and compare that day
with the present. What a contrast ! Then our
country was a sceuc of confusion. Tumult and
disorder prevailed in every quarter, whilst
nought was heard save the murmurs and curses
of a king-ridden and abused people. Long and
load were the anathemas and invectives poured
out against the oppressor. The spirit of enter
prise was crushed, ardor was dampened, and
business pursuits of all kinds were suspended.
The people were discouraged and disheartened,
and no energy remained to them but the energy
of despair, and this was the emergency in
which they vowed themselves to be free, or to
die in the attempt of achieving their freedom.
With the result, you are all acquainted. Long
and bloody wars followed, and our then infant
colonies lost many valuable lives in the acqui
sition of independence. But that just God,
who presides over the destinies of nations, was
on the side of our gallant little army, and at
last crowned their struggles with success. The
little band were triumphantly victorious, and
the oppressors were driven from their soil.
Oh! niethinks I sec the bird of Jove the
eagle with his broad and sweeping wing the
emblem of Juerty on that auspicious day
when the American victory was proclaimed,
soaring aloft through the regions of Epacc, and
with screams of rejoicing, conveying the happy
intelligence to the inhabitants of the tipper detp.
And, methinks, I see the angels smile, as they
must have smiled, when they beheld and heard
the announcement that "America is free!
America is free !"
But, let us again turn to this day. How
great tUo. chanK- We arc now the most happy
and prosperous nation on earth. There is
scarce anything to hinder the advance of im
provement. The dark head of tyranny, resting
upon the shoulder of regal power, no longer
shows its hideous visage in our midst, and our
progress is, as it ever has bece, since the fetters
which bound us were cast off, still upward and
onward.
Oh, favored happy land ! How many years
have rolled away and buried themselves in the
lap of non-entity since thy noble sons gained
for thee the higest place amonst the nations of
the earth! Ever since, thou hast been blest
with peace, happiness, and prosperity, save a
few broils thou hast had with insolent invaders
of thy rights.
Such, fellow-citizens, has been the past his
tory of our beloved country. But, we are now
threatened with a calamity which, should it
overtake U3, will be rife with disastrous conse
quences. A dark cloud has recently arisen in
the horizon of our political sky, which threatens
to mar the harmony of our peaceable relations
with each other. I allude to disunion that
dark and damning scheme gotten up by South
ern demagogues for the purpose of severing the
Union of the States.
Oh! would not the angels of "high Heaven"
weep at such an event! What! tear asunder
our glorious Union ? That blood-bought Union ?
It cannot be. By all that is 6acred by the
revered names of our forefathers it cannot be.
Shall our beloved country shall we of the
same brotherhood, linked together by the near
est and dearest tics of sympathy, be separated?
Shall the manceuverings and intriguings of de
signing factionists succeed? Shall t concord I
which has ever existed iunongst u3 now be dis
turbed by the dark forms of discord and dis
ruption ? Shall our hitherto quiet and peaceful
country now be made to resound with the thun
ders of civil warfare shall freemen shed free
men's blood shall brethern tako up arms
against brethern shall animosity and hate
rankle in the hearts of one portion of the
Union against the other to such an extent as to
lead them to deadly warfare? No! it cannot be.
Our free institutions will be perpetuated. Our
friendly intercoure . will be preserved. The
threatened disunion is a mock. The North and
South, like two contentious brothers, will again
be reconciled to each other. As the annual re
turn of this day takes place, so many grateful
recollections, so many bright reminiscences of
the past will recur to the minds of both, that
all rancor and hostility will bo forgotten. Jang
ling and quarrelling will eventually cease, and
a lasting an'l abiding peace and good feeling
ensue.
One by one, the several States which at first,
partially, advocated disunion, have fallen into
tho grand circle, and now cry out in tones of
thunder for the Union. "The Union and notlung
but the Union" "United wo stand, divided we
fall!" la South Carolina, where the fir6t idea
originated where this monster, disunion, was
' bred and born" we hear ita name mentioned
JULY
only, except with the hiss of contempt. But
sho finds no one to back her in this dark con
spiracy. Like the lone star, "she stands alone."
This great hobby, disunion, is a mere phantasm
an illusion gotten up by traitors welcomed
by fanatics and the gibbet is too honorable for
the fiend, in human form, who first promulgated
an idea, so absurd, to Congress.
But let us once niorc revert to the celebra
tion of this day.
Most of periods in the history of our country,
which have been set apart for public gratula
tion, clearly and conclusively prove that there
suits of celebrations of eventful periods of time
are productive of much good, and arc in every
way compatible with the genius of a republican
government. When we hear recounted the ex
ploits of the great men of our country the
wisdom which inspired the signers of the Decla
ration the virtues of Washington, and the in
trepidity of his Generals, docs it not beget a pa
triotic feeling within our bosoms, and create a
most ridiculous and impotent opinion of the op
pressors who once stood in hostile array against
us. And there are periods in the historv nf al
most every nation, when the people, ground
down to slavery by the lawless hand of oppres
sion, will no longer submit to such base out
rage, but rise in their might and power and
trample tyranny in the dust. Behold that of
France which having deluged her plains in tor
rents of blood, now points, as a model, to the
American Government.
We have met, fellow citizens, when our nation
is at peace with the whole world. We live in a
free laud we are a free people and, while wc
celebrate the birth day of our independence, it
j keeps alive in our bosoms a love of country,
ana creates a general impulse in the rising
generation to emulate the achievements which
form the subjects of commemoration.
But, fellow-citizens, where is the pleasing
countenance of one who mingled with us, on a
similar occasion, but a year ago? He, who
then stood at the head of the "Quitman Guards,"
is now no more, forever, die, who left the
home of his childhood to serve his country in a
fore.'gn land he, who, while a boy, left rela
tions, anu inenus, and all that tenia v
life comfortable, ifl march with his comrades to
the gory plains of Mexico, has, by the blighting
hand of death been taken from our midst. Aye,
he withstood the glittering bayonet and the
murderous cannon-ball, but, that foul-destroyer,
consumption, which, like a worm, gnaws at the
heart-strings, implanted itself in his system,
and, after our hero had covered himself with
imperishable honours, he came home, but, to
die.
Yes, the brave, the good Ott is gone! He no
longer hears the shattering blast of the brass
throated trumpet, nor the neigh of the war
horse. The crash of arms, the shrieks of the
wounded, and groans of the dying may mingle
into chorus, grotesque and horrible, but they
disturb not the repose of the soldier as he sleeps
beneath yon grassy turf.
Ah! he is gone, and we trust to a better land.
And while wc mourn his loss, we may, in truth,
speak of him as a hero a patriot a soldier
a MAN.
But, fellow-citizens, I have done. Perhaps,
I have already wearied your patience. For the
kind attention manifested, and the smiles of the
ladies, who have been pleased to honor us with
their presence, most sincerely do I return my
thanks. And for the safety of our great repub
lic the preservation of our Union, and the per
petuity of our independence, let our devotions
be true to our God and true to our Country.
ALEX. C. MULLIN.
At the close of which three hearty cheers and
discharge of musketry. The procession was
then formed (tho national color floating at the
head of the company, and the State color head
ing the column of ludies, which was among the
most interring sights of the occasion,) and
marched to the Exchange, kept by Maj. G. Mar
lett, and partook of a sumptuous dinner pre
pared by him and his excellent lady, after
which the following toasts were read:
Regular toasts dispensed with, the volunteer
toasts were read.
By Sergt. F..A. Keech Our Constitution:
Framed for the Union, it insures our welfare
For a period of sixty years it has served the
dear people, and he who violates it is a dis
unionist, a traitor to his home, and a traitor to
his country.
By H. C. Ficke Union vs. Disunion: Born
to be free, we are fools to die slaves.
By Lieut. J os. J. Dunlap Our Independence:
Bought with blood, it will not be sold for
nothing.
By H. Single To our Glorious old Common
wealth: May you always be ready to furnish
arms to your patriotic sons.
By Lieut. W. C. Barbour The United States
of America: ner name will never change, until
the minds of her sons change.
By Sergt. R. T. Dunlap "A hasty plate of
Soup:"' A very necessary article to the success
of a campaign.
By Corporal Holder To the Capt. of the Q.
G.'s: May he always be foremost in an engage
ment, as to-day, and discharge his duty as well.
By Cnpt. Alexander To A. C. Mullin, Orator
U. 1851.
of the day: May hia eloquence continue to teem
forth the same sentiment of Union until Disu
nionists shall Le unknown in this model Re
public. !By Jas. D. Hamilton To the late Capt Wm.
M, OtU Quitman Guards, let his name be asso
ciated with past remembrances that are near
and dear to your minds.
y John O'DonneU To the Q. G.'s: Lct us as
brothers together, our motto forever, be "never
surrender,"
By Thomas J. Parrish To the Orator of the
day: nis address on the subject of our National
Independence has conferred a favor upon his
hearers that will long be remembered with
feelings of pleasure.
By B. L. Trice To our Host and Hostess:
The sumptuous dinner of which we have just
partaken was a rich treat after eight hours
fast. May they live long and have the health
and happiness to serve up many of the "same
sort."
By P. Hummer To the Fair Sex of Portace:
May thej ever be ready and willing to grace
any Fourth of July Celebration with their
presence, and to cast the light of their counte
nances upon the soldier under arms.
By Sergeant Keech Quitman Guards: Re
member your first Capt., Wm. M. Ott, who
fought the battles of your country. May you
never forget him.
By Sergt. Fell To the Cambria Brigade:
They have always been ready for a place in the
ranks of the soldier. May they ever so remain.
By mine host, Maj. Gideon Marlett To the
Q. G.'s: They have behaved themselves like
men and soldiers this day. They have my best
wishes.
By Lieut. Hawe Pennsylvania: The Key
stone of the Union, may it ever support the
arch of the confederacy.
By Corporal Single To our Host and Host
ess: May they ever be prepared to prepare a
feast "as was prepared" this day. They have
a Soldier's best wishes.
By A. S. Robertson To the Fair Sex: Eng
land may threaten to cover our harbors with
munitions of war and ships without number.
France may pour in her legions, but the onlv
victvi uic uuo American will submit to is
Woman.
Resolved, That Capt. R. S. Alexander, Lieut.
Wm. C. Barbour and Sergt. R. T. Dunlap be
and are hereby appointed to request the Speaker
to furnish them with a copy of his address to
publish with the proceedings.
Mr. Webster.
The announcement of Mr. Webster leaving
the Cabinet, published a few days ago, turns
out, like many other Washington City rumors
have, untrue. The Baltimore Sun of Monday,
the 14th inst., says:
The most reliable intelligence with regard
to Mr. Webster 6eems to be that he leaves
Washington to-morrow for Annapolis, and will
leave there on Wednesday for New York, by
sea, in the steamer Golden Gate, (one of Aspin
wall's steamers, which visits there while making
a trial trip.) He will, it is said, be absent from
Washington full sixty days, perhaps more. His
health imperatively demands the relaxation.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, of Satur
day, in noticing the announcement of his resig
nation, says:
We are now authorized our authority being
in fact the honorable Secretary himself to
give an emphatic contradiction to the story, in
which there is not a word of truth.
The announcement of Mr. Webster's intention
to visit Europe is also unfounded.
Mr. H. C. Pratt, the artist, who, with
his son, is attached to the Mexican boundary
commission, writes to his wife in this city, from
San Antonia, Texas, that
"Farming is different thing here from what
I It is iu the North; here you can buy a thousand
acres of land, which is in beautiful gras3 smooth
as a floor, get two yoke of oxen for forty to six
ty dollars a yoke, and a plough; begin to plough
in November, plant 100 acres of corn in Febru
ary; get all the work done in April, and in Sep
tember harvest it, and get a dollar a bu'-hel for
it; the amount will be five thousand dollars at
least; this will pay for the land and all other
expenses for the first year. The finest land in
the world, without stump or stone in it, can be
bought here anywhere, for from fifty cents to
one dollar per acre; and corn is a dollar to a
dollar and a quarter per bushel. Cattle, for
which you never need cut a pound of hay, can
be bought for three to five dollars a piece. No
one .need work at all during the hot months;
the country is very healthy if you avoid the low
lands. You can come from New York to Gal
veston for thirty dollars by vessel, and, after
you land, can take a wagon and oxen, or mules
and go where you please. There is a road ang
uhere you wish to go; you can traverse tho coun
try in almost any direction, with wagons, with
out any road, just as well as you could drive
the 6amc team across Boston Commoa, and
that, when the grass is high, ia a fain illustra
tion of the country between Victoria and San
Antonio." .
And that is tho soil which our sagacious and
far-seeing whigs wanted to keep out of the
Union wanted to drive into an entangling alli
ance wtth Great Britain.
Bathing in the Dead Sea.
The Dublin University Magazine givc3 the fol
lowing from a traveller who visited and bathed
in the Dead Sea.
Heated and fatigued, we prepared for a gene
ral bathe as a private party; for the pilgrims
determined to reserve their energies for the sa
cred Jordan, the .Like of Sodom being held by
them in horror and abomination. The bad odor
in which the lake was held, did not, however,
deter us, and having called a halt, we plunged
like young ducks into the liquid element Paulo
chuckling like an old hen on the banks. we
plunged. Disastrous was the plunge, readily
enough head after head popped up from the
execrable waters hair matted, eyes smarting,
and tongues burning from the intense sulphur
ous bitter saltness of the detestable liquid in
which we were immersed; water it was not; nor
bitumen, nor salt, nor surphur, but a dis
gusting compound of all four.
A hogshead of it would serve as an emetic for
all Asia Minor, and leave some gallons to spare
against the next epidemic; you could neither
sink nor swim in it. Talk of a fly ia molasses;
or a wasp in a barrel of tar I can find no par
rallel for a bathe in the Dead Sea. But the
sufferings of my companions were a trifle to
what I felt, cut and maimed in consequence of
my superior horsemanship, I jumped into the
water as raw as beef stake, as if I were flayed
alive. However, let me be just to this abomi
nable mixture; if I smarted for it my wounds
were effectually cauterized, completely skinned
over the cure was perfect to a miracle. We
dressed with the comfortable sensation of men
who had been well coated with mutton suet, stiff,
greasy and extremely out of sorts, with a tingling
creeping feeling over the skin; and remounting,
turned our steps to the fords of the Jordan.
A City of Priests.
A correspondent cf the Newark Advertiser,
writing from Turin, says:
"On approaching the environs, one is ready
to inquire if it is a city of priests so many
long black robes are seen trailing in the dust,
and so many three-cornered hata hobbing in
a:.
it. mu uui sur
prise the reader, when he learns that in the lit
tle kingdom of Sardinia there are over sixty
thousand priests, including the monks. Many
of these are attached to institutions fpr the edu
cation of indigent youth, and receive salaries
from the government; others are professors in
the various colleges, and the remainder are re
quired for the daily masses of the churches, of
which there are a hundred and ten in Turin
alone, besides several monasteries. We do not
know the number of monks attached to these;
but they are numerous, and patrol the streets
at all hours with their uncovered, shaved heads,
bare feet, coarse brown robes, fastened at the
waist by the rough cord used as their scourge of
penitence, and the cross and rosary dangling at
the side. Long processions of nuns, too, in
their cloister costumes, and sisters of charity,
headed by the lady euperior carrying the cros?,
may be encountered almost any day by the
stranger entering Turin, seme one of these va
rious religious orders being always out on duty
burying the dead, or performing some other
sacred rite; so that it is not difficult to realize
at once one's proximity to Roman Catholic do
minions.
A Race Around Cape Horn.
The r-linnpr built shins Challenge and Tele-
tr 4
graph, leff New York on Saturday morning, on
a sailing match around Cape Horn, lue ISew
York Mirror says :
They will sail at sunrise; ana cnoicc parties
of sporting mariners will breakfast on board,
and accompany them in a steamer some dis
tance out, provided any steamer can keep pace
with them. The freight bills of the Challenge
amount to G0,O00; and the Captain is to have
a bonus of 10,000 if he puts her into San
Francisco in ninety days! The Challenge cost
$120,000; the Telegraph about $70,000. They
are both perfect beauties. '
Tlie Celestials In tlie Docli.
The Chinese have become so numerous in San
Francisco that the cognizance of misdemeanors
and peccadillos, in which they figure as plain
tiffs and defendants, is now an interesting item
of police business in that city. One morning,
Sung Took appears before the magistrate with a
complaint that an outsid9 barbarian had ruth
lessly cut off his tail. He exhibited his mutila
fod oneu in evidence; but his honor appeared to
be of opinion that at common law the value of
a Chinaman's tail was not ascertauaaoie, ana
the accused was discharged. ,
On another occasion, Acum, a fair Chinese
damsel, with olive complexion, small feet, and
most unexceptionable turncd-up-at-the-corner
eyes, complained against a Malay, the boat
swain of the ship in which she came over, char
ging him with having, while on the passage,
stored her state room, blown out her light,
n.l rabbed hex of S150 in cash, principally in
the current coin of the Chinese realm, and a
gold ring. The case excited considerable in
terest, as Acum is young and rrctty, and a
large number of Celestial beaux were present
to hear the case. Acum's case was pending at
our last advices.
VOLUME 7. KUMEER 41
Bloomer Tlie rourtli.
In regard to some private celebrations at Bos
ton, the Transcript sa3-s:
"A party came off at the office of the Olive
Branch, and there were present between forty
and fifty persons, ladies and gentlemeu. The
ladies were all dressed in the Bloomer costume,
except - the srives of the editor, Ex-Governor
Dunlap, of Maine, Rev. S. Lovell, and one other
The dresses of the ladies were all made of ele
gant dlk or satin, and to suit the taste of tie
wearers."
General Scott
Says that for thirty odd years he has scarcely
read any thing on tLe subject of slavery. TLe
following ia his confession in a letter written by
him in 1843:
"In boyhood, at William and Mary's College,
and in common with most, if not all my com
panions, I became deeply impressed with the
views given by Mr. Jefferson, in Lis "Notes on
Virginia," and by Judge Tucker, in the Appen
dix to his edition of Blackstone's Commentaries,
in favor of a gradual emancipation of slaves.
That Appendix I have not seen in thirty odd
years, and in the same period have read scarce
ly anything on the subject; but my early im
pressions are frosh and unchanged."
Terrible Storm.
Late intelligence from Texas, gives thv- fol
lowing: A terrible storm had prevailed along the
coast for several days, in which the steanishii a
Mexico, Courtlani and Wm. Penn, lying in
Matagorda Bay, had been driven on shore. ,
The Steamer Maria Burt, which left Galveston
en the 24th, encountered a severe gale, and
was totally lost. Many houses in Texas had
been blown down, the young cotton crop was
partially destroyed. As far as can be ascer
tained no lives have been lost.
27 The Indiana Sentinel, in roply to a
whig who had taken an economical fit, gives
the following striking exploit in the way of
retrenchment about the only one the Whigs
ever attempted i tVio oIo-t1 sa ' """"i -
"At the extra session of 1341, the Wiws, or
ganized a committee on retrenchment. This
committee visited the custom houses in Phila
delphia and New York, cat fine dinners and
drank good wine at the expense of Uncle Sam,
and, after a Ion? sitting, they made a report,
reducing the pay of the orphan boys who acted
as pages about the capitol, reducing their num
ber, and limiting the amount cf stationary, say
ing nothing about their own pay or mileage ;
and finally requiring Jemmy Mahcr, the public
gardener, instead of feeding the grass he cut
from the public grounds to his cow, to advertise
and sell it at public auction. This, Jemmy, aa
aa honest man, faithfully carried out, and the
result was that the advertisement cost the gov
ernment four dollars, and the hay sold for three
dollars and forty cents. So much fur whig
economy and whig retrenchment."
IHagrniuccnt Idea.
The San Francisco Courier, ia speaking cf
the necessity and feasibility of a steamship
communication between that port and China,
remarks that such a line would complete the
chain of steam communication around the
world, except a small break in crossing the
Isthmus of Suez, connecting Asia with Africa.
The paper then says :
"This link completed, the traveller, leaving
New York, can proceed to Chagres by steam,
thence to San Francisco, t3 Macao via the
Sandwich Islands, Guam and Manilla thence
to Suei via Singapore, Penang, Ceylon, auJ
Adin thence to Cairo and Alexandria, t?
Southampton via Malta and Gibraltar, and
from thence by steam aain to New York. The
only break in steam navigation will be in cros
sing the Isthmus of Suez. Thus Le would be
able to circumnavigate the woil l visiting many
points of interest, making the trip iur 140 days.
The commercial advantage;TwLich must flow to
the United State3 from this and kindred sour
ces are too great for enumeratiou here, and too
well known to require it."
Ill ue Rose.
The horticulturists of Paris (says a corres
pondent of the New York Express) have suc
ceeded by artificial crossings in obtaining a
natural rose of a blue color, which is the fouith'
color obtained by artificial means that and the
yellow or tea rose,tha black or purple rose, and
the striped rose being all inventions, and the
result of skilful scientific gardening.
"Billy, my boy, cau't you eat a Utile
more?"
"Weil, I don't know but t could, mother, if I
slood up."
Earthquake is St. Lous. The St. Loui
Republican says that a shock of an earthquake,
was felt in that city on the 2d inst., t
ten o'clock, A. M. There were three dis
tinct shocks, the whole occurring in about
one minute.
Short dresses, if adopted by the ladies.
will have one good effeel at any rate. It will
oblige them to mend their stockings.