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81'. LOl<l8.
I'he following description of the terrible suite of
att'uirs in tliia city is from the correa|?ondenee of
the Boston Womenpi.'
* * " Calamities are all around us. Death
is every where. Cholera is dealing its blows to 1
the right und left, and thousands of our people have
been hurried to their graves. A well man now
may be an hour hence a corpse. The sextons, the
undertakers, and even the horses of the city, ure
urn rn r.i 11 wilt. ll... . I r-Mrrl I l l 11 u/r.rL- r.f P
and furniture-wagons have to supply the places of '
heurses, which, though numerous, are insufficient I
to curry out the colfins, though piled one upon j
another.
Many dead bodies lie without a friend in execute
the riles of interment until a public officer or a sister
of charily comes to put them in the ground.
Some persons, to save expenses which they are not
able to bear, bury their friends in the woods or on
the sand-bars of the river. Many is the house
lately full of inhabitants that now has scarcely one
left to tell the story of the departed Husband und
wife will take their tea together at evening, and
before next morning one or both is ready for the
grave.
Some of the sextons, overtasked, bury the dead
at half the usual depth. The city government have
abdicated their powers before an indignant populace,
and the duties of the board of health are devolved
upon a committee of citizens. The public
school-houses are turned into hospitals, and the
chief business of the living is to take care of the
sick and dying, and to bury thedeud. Many members
of the city government and probably not less
than 10,000 of the citizens have fled. The stillness
of the Sabbath reigns, while death iB doing its
work. The newspapers do not, it is said, report
half the cases, because all the forms of law are paralyzed,
and officers do not discharge their duties.
A. dulness, nervousness, and lack of energy are
manifested by every one. The atmosphere is hot
and humid. Plies swarm in myriads. Vegetation
grows with the rankest luxuriance, and animal life
sinks proportionably.
We have been honitur for manv davs that the.
disease would soon begin to abate, but it only increases.
It is believed that not less than 1,400 die
per week, or about 200 per day! The names of
the dead are not given. Many of your acquaintances
doubtless I might name, but the deaths are
too numerous to particularize. 1 believe we have
had but one deuih upon our plantation, and that
one was Peter Albrecht, one of the stoutest of us
all. Three of our negroes have had the incipient
symptoms, but, with the advantage of knowing the
fact promptly, I have succeeded in curing every
case for wnich I have administered. The country
is full of bilious disorders and derangement of
stomach and bowels, and I have not escaped. With
the children we have to be very watchful, and
check the first symptoms of a diarrhoea. I have
felt as if the messenger of death might knock at
any moment at our door. To fly would be merely
to expose ourselves to death under more distressing
circumstances. As it is, we make our home
our castle. Here we can best meet the enemy of our
health and contend with him. By prudence, the
use of disinfectants, and our remote situation, we
hope to escape.
The proportionate number of deaths to the population
is about equal to a daily mortality of six
hundred in New York.
From Key West.
An arrival at Charleston brings intelligence to
the Evening News that the brig Speculator's cargo,
minus salvage and expenses, has been shipped on
board the brig Moselle, for Tampico, on a charter
of f1,500. A part of the cargo, assigned to the
wreckers as salvage, was sold at auction on the
6th and 7th instant, to the extent of six or eight
thousand dollars. The merchandise, consisting
generally of linens, sold for less than the invoice
price; and, paying a duty of twenty per cent, here,
a heavy loss is sustained by the salvors, who received
them at the invoice price.
On the 25th instant, the steamer Water Witch,
Lieutenant Commanding Totlen, being ashore on
the Florida reef, was got off by the assistance of
wreckers. Two citizens were called noon to deter
mine on the reward to be paid to them. They
came to no conclusion, however, and the wreckers
are now applying tp the Navy Department. The
steamer was uninjured, but was lightened of her
shot, guns, about six tons of pig ballast, a quantity
of coal, chains, &.c., before she came off. She
sailed immediately on the prosecution of her cruise.
The naif and piquant diary of Mary Powell
(Mrs. Millon) is very extensively copied throughout
the country, though few persons seem aware
that it is a work of imagination, not of fact. It is
of the same class with the Shakspeare novels, the
diary of Lady Willoughby, drc., and will compare
advantageously with any of them.
TEXA8.
, Jui.T 16. 1H49.
Te Iht Editors of tkt Hr public :
In the Lnion of yesterday there is an editorial
and a letter signed " Justice," upon the subject of
the frontier defence of Texas, in both of which the
Administration is censured for not giving the necessary
protection to that frontier, and a speech of
Governor Wood, of Texns, is quoted, in which he
is stated to have declared before the people of Texas
that he " had made frequent representations to the
War Department and remonstrated, but without
success."
That the frontier of Texas has suffered greatly
from Indinn depredations, more even than had been
represented, and that there has been great and culpable
neglect, I know to be true, but where does
the fault lie? Beings Texan, I most likely know
more about this matter than either the editors of
the I'num or Mr. " Justice," and I feel disposed to
do "justice," and to place the fault at the right
door.
I nave neen permuted to examine me letters ot
Governor Wood to the War Department. There
are bu< three: one dated January 28, 1848; the next
June 10, 1848, and the laat September 2, 1848.
Theae are the only communications received at the
War Department from Governor Wood. Not one
line has been received from him since the preaent
Administration came into office, and in those received
he makes no suggestion as to what is needed
to be done for the protection of the frontier. They
were all wiitten before depredations became serious
upon the frontier, and were not calculated to direct
the attention of the Government to such measures
as are necessary for the preservation of peace upon
hat frontier, until very recently the War and Indian
Detriments were left in entire ignorance of
the tnie state of Indian relations in Texas
That the Governor is conscious that he ought to
have communicated more fully with the general government
upon this subject, and that he feels that the
people of the frontier had a right to expect that
he would do so, is certain, or he would not have
strained a point to make them believe that he had
done an.
I know the private views of the Governor upon
this subject, and have before stated that I believed
he would give his co operation to any measures
that the Government mignt adopt for the peace of
that frontier; and I am still satisfied that he will do
**n. Why he has not heretofore adopted a more
ilcrtaive course in relation to the Indiana upon our
frontier, and why he has made no effort to remove
thr rauars which have brouirht about lha atate of
thing* which now, and hare foranme lima exiated
upon that frontier, I leave for him to explain to the
sanafaction of the frontier aettlera
Since correct information haa be?n furniahed to
the Indian bureau, every thing haa been done,and I
am aaaured will rontinue to be done, that ia within
the power of that department, to aecure peace to
our auffering frontier; and if the Adminiatration
haa not acted ao promptly aa could have been deaired
by thoae who are Buffering the conaequencea
of the delay, the Governor of Texaa ia moat to
blame. A TEXAN.
Kx-<Aorernor McDowell, of Va., waa some lime
ago nominated for Speaker of the Houae of Repreaentalivea.
Since hia brother-in-law, Col. Benton,
haa been inculcating Free-Soiham, auapicion
I haa fallen upon the Governor, and he ia called
upon by the Locofoco preaa to define hi* poaition
In the "Tenth Legion" there are aigna favorable to
Ronton, and the Valley hig at.ya: "Even among
the unWrified Democracy of Botetourt, aome of
I the very beat men of the parly have lately declared
their preference for Benton for President ugamsi the
world."
Citcrarp Notices.
The War SytUm of the CoimtwrmtaUh <J JValium. j
By C. Sumnkk, Boston Ticknor and Co. 1849.
The late John Foster wrote an esouy on the aver- ;
sion of men of taste to evangelical religion He
might have found an appropriate theme for his
vigorous pen in the aversion of men of taste to philanthropic
discourses. They are usually very poor
things, full of extravagant overstatements, tawdry
rhetoric, and commonplace twaddle, about as savory
as veal sandwiches without salt, and about us nutritious
as stale ginger-beer. Mr. Sumner's dis
course is 01 a very untereni stamp. It is the production
of a lawyer and a scholar, written from a
full mind, as well as a large heart, well-reasoned,
and well-expressed. He distinctly udmits the right
of self-defence toexiBt in individuals, and in nations,
and, us a consequence, the right of nations to seek
by force of arms redress from intolerable wrongs,
and to throw off the yoke of a galling political
bondage. Waiving the discussion of these abstract
nteuiphysical questions, he proceeds to speak of the
institution of war as an established arbiter of justice
in the commonwealth of nations. This is recognised
by the law of nations. Rut viewed in this
light war becomes at once a crime. It differs in no
respect, in principle from the practice of duelling,
which all moralists condemn; or from the triul by
battle of the feudal ages, which the advancing wisdom
of the world has long since uliolished. As individuals,
towns, counties, and (in our country)
sovereign States submit their controversies to the
peaceful arbitration of legal tribunals, why should
not all christian nations do the same? In illustration
of these views, the enormous cost of the war
system is forcibly set forth and presented inasirik
ing light by comparison with the good which
might be done, were the wealth thus wasted expended
for pacific objects. He objects to the principle
of preparing for war in the time of peace, us
having a tendency to bring about the very result
meant to be guarded against, by making it the interest
of a large number of persons to commence
and maintain u state of war.
Mr. Sumner then proceeds to consider the various
means by which the war system may be overthrown,
and the unity of the great human family be
brought about. This part of the address will be
read with peculiar interest by all reflecting men,
from the valuable historical information which it
contains. Passing in rapid review the efforts on
the part of nations to establish a political union,
such as the Amphyctionic council, the Hansealic
league, the Helvetic union, and the influence of the
Christian church in promoting the cause of peace,
he pauses to pay a tribute to the memory of those
beneficent philosophers who have dedicated their
powers to this great end. He speaks of Nicole, of
Penn, of the Abb6 Saint Pierre, (not to be confounded
with the author of Paul and Virginia,) of
Leibnitz, of Rousseau, and of Bentham ; and in our
own country, the honored names of Worcester,
Channing, and Ladd. He alludes to the peace convention
at Brussels, to that about to meet in Paris,
to measures on behalf of peace brought before
Congress, the National Assembly in France, and
the English Parliament, as hopeful facts in the history
of the peace movement. The concluding
pages are devoted to a statement of the practicability
of the aims of the friends of peace, in desiring the
establishment of a high court of judicature for the
adjustment of national disputes, to a glowing picture
of the consequences of such a consummation,
and to an eloquent exhortation to the friends of
peace to persevere in their efforts to enlighten public
sentiment.
This meagre outline of Mr. Sumner's discourse
resembles it only as a map resembles a landscape.
The reader must add to it taste, learning, eloquence,
and logic, and color the whole with the warm hues
of a generous and world-embracing philanthropy.
Mr. Sumner's naturally fertile mind has been enriched
by the deposits of a wide and deep stream of
cultivation. His style is rich, ornate, and glowing,
readily flowering into figures and diverging into
graceful allusions. Perhaps he would gain somewhat
in the rhetorical effort of his style by using
the pruning-knife a little more freely, and keeping
under its tropical luxuriance. The half would
sometimes be more than the whole.
There are many who will nol suhscrilie to Mr.
Sumner's conclusions. Some will think them visionary,
and some premature. Some will imagine
that they presuppose an exemption from violent
impulses, such as humanity can never hope to attain
to. Some will see various practical difficulties.
But even from his opponents, Mr. Sumner claims
a fair hearing, not only by the scholarship, learning,
and taste with which he has embellished a
subject not often so commended, but because his
discourse is a logical and well-constructed argument,
and not a succession of declamatory assertions. It
is not enough to dissent from the conclusions of
such a writer. He has a right to demand that his
reasonings should also be answered.
The History of Julius Casar, by Jacob Abbot.
Harper A Brothers, New York. This is another
of those very pleasant books for children
which the Harpers have published in such beautiful
style. The book is for sale by Taylor and
Maury.
The Woodman, by James Harper A Brother*
We. have alto received a novel, with the
above title, by thu popular author, from Mcaara.
Taylor and Maury.
Typee: Prep at Polynririan IJft, during a four
month*' residence in a Valley of the Marque tor the
reriied edition, with a irtjuel By HeaMAN Mr.iviLi-a.
New York: Harper A Brothers.
We should as soon think of reviewing Rohtnton
Ciuioe at thia late day as Typee. This edition rejects
some irrelevant passages, exhibits some modifications
of style, and furnishes the sequel of Toby
as a substitute for the original appendix. The popularity
of this book rests upon elements that must
give, it long life.
RreuBLicATiov or the British Reviews.?We
have received from Mr. Leonard Scott, of New
York, the Edinburgh Review for April, the North
British Review for May, and the Westminster Review
for April, 1849. The well-known character
of the** publication* render* it u*ele** for us to
dwell on iheir praise. For the present, we merely
call attention to the advertisement of Mr. Scott in
another column, and advise our readers who wish
to lake these valuable work* to sulmcribe at once,
aa a new volume of each Review is about to commence.
We shall refer more fully to their contents
in a few days. Taylor and Maury are the amenta.
Hon. Archibald Williams, a learneil Inwyer and
prominent actor In the constitutional convention,
has given his opinion that Gov. French has the j
power, and that it is his duty, under the circumstances,
to appoint a U .8. Senator for Illinois in
plkce of Gen Hhielda; and that the expense of an
extra session of the General Assembly is entirely
useless. The Illinois journals consider this evi- j
denee conclusive, und urge Governor F. to lake action.
90ft THE REPUBLIC.
The Disgusting Coalition?Central Cats?Trickery
in Embryo? Who u to be deceived 1 and what will
be the consequence 1?A quere to the "Sole Organ,"
and a word to the wise in season.
The alliance of the southern portion of the Locofoco
party (more particularly represented through
the columns of the Union) with the Free-soilers and
Abolitionists?the present very equivocal position
of General Cass towards the Locofoco Legislature
of Michigan that returned him to the Senate, (which
unanimously instructed him to vote for and Hupporl
the Wilmot proviso, Ac.,) and towards his whole
party, are subjects ot important consideration, and
have become fruitful of many angry disputulions
among Locofoco gentlemen and others, in Washington
and elsewhere.
vjcuciai > um was mauc uie icuuer anu ctnei representative
of the Locofoco party, ill virtue of his
nomination by it to the Prestuency; and the Union,
(mice it so ably ussisted him in hie efforts to obtain
the office, has seen fit to declare itself the " sole
organ" of Loeofocoiam! Therefore, between the Michigan
Democracy, General Cass, and the Union,
there ought to exist, it would seem, u perfect agreement.
But if not so, will the Union denounce either
the Michigan Democracy or General Cans? It will
dare to do neither-, and simply because the combination
of so many discordunt elements in one body
has " the promise of good things to come" to the
queerly constituted, easily deluded, and very fanciful
minds of the Union. The hope of regaining
the spoils of office, the loss of which has caused the
Union and its likewise venal contemporaries so many
bitter lamentations, and so much rank hale to their
opponents, is the sole impetus they huve in their
present " labor of love."
Now, the organ of General Cass and the Michigan
Democracy is aware that he has been instructed
by the Democracy of his State to vote for. and bud
port the doctrines of, the Wilmot proviso; but the
" sole organ" may not be aware that before those
resolutions of instruction were passed a second lime
by the Michigan Legislature, General Cass purposed
voting against the Wilmot proviso. We
will therefore give the facts in the case, which
must leave the Union and General Cass 110 longer
the 11 non-intervention" plea of escape they have
so ingeniously resorted to whenever they have been
driven to the wall upon this Wilmot proviso ques
liUIl*
As before slated, the Legislature of Michigan,
almost solely Locofoco, previous to its having returned
General Cuss to the Senate, unanimously
passed u set of resolutions declaring it to be the
duty, and enjoining it upon their representatives
in Congress to carry out the spirit of them, and
particularly to vote tor and advocate the Wilmot
proviso. Having afterwards elected General Cass
to the Senate, they expected him to observe the
decrees that had previously been put forth by them;
but though he knew this, he did not design doing
so, and on the way to Washington to take his seat
in the Senate so expressed himself, declared the
Wilmot proviso a humbug, asserted it as his inten1
tion to vote against it, and to shield himself from the
charge of duplicity upon this plea, which is of very
questionable morality; that " as the resolutions of
iestruction (alluded to above) were pussed before ho
was elected to the Senate, he wus not bound by
them. These facts having reached the ears of the
Legidlulure, the same resolutions were again culled
up, and again unanimously passed and sent to General
Cass as his instructions, thus leaving him no
opportunity of evading the responsibility of the
question. It must not be forgotten that in this
whole Legislature, composed of 92 members, there
were but 19 Whigs: 4 to 22 in the Senate, and 15
?a ci #l- u TU _/ /-<* ' ^
lu ji in me imusc. i iie cause 01 urenerai oass s
refusal to take his seat in the Senate for the remainder
of the session of the last Congress: The Wilmot
proviso was under discussion ! That was all.
We defy the Union or Gen. Cass to question the
truth of any of the above statements, and it now
remains to be seen whether Gen. Cass will resign
his seat in the Senate rather than vote for the Wilmot
proviso, and thus preserve his consistency,
ana save ftimselt from a position that would prove
as humiliating as that of Mr. Dallas when he voted
for the tariff of '46, after declaring: that that of '4'2
would be safe in the hands of Mr. Polk, or whether
he will vote according to instructions. But if he
should do the former, he would betray his State at
the very moment she would expect him to act; and
if he dues the latter, he will do violence to his own
judgment, or go in opposition to his professed principles.
Will the Union tell us what, in its opinion. Gen.
Cass ought to do under such circumstances ? what
it is probable he will do ? and what would be its
position towards him if he should vote for the
Wilmot proviso? It is vsry important that the
people should know; for since a coalition has taken
place between the northern and southern "Democracy,"
it must needs be that whatever one portion
of this completely mongrel party may do, the
other portion will be bound to acquiesce in, or their
alliance amounts to but little. The Abolition and
Free-Soil portions being the strongest, can and will
hereafter, of course, dictate the action of the slaveholding
portion of it?save to the Calhoun men.
The Union has thrown its southern friends into
the affectionate embraces of political abolitionism,
and there is no getting over it. Itand its party
have gone iLnrn to the Abolitionists and Free-Soilers.
Not so with the Whigs. When persons from
these classes of politicians vote the Whig ticket,
they do it from a conviction that the Whi^ part^ has
i.u^v. uiui yi mtijiiro m i>arry uui uian innrs.
Retiming, an we do, to go over to them on sectional
grounds, when they act with ua they do so on national
issues. In proof of what we have said, we
would refer to the action of the Whig State Convention
of Wisconsin, sitting at the same time in
the same town with a Fret-Soil Convention, in rejecting
every overture of union made to them by
the latter. But the "Old Hunkers" of the L<?cofoco
party, the Free-Soil and Abolition parties, have
become all one at the North, and the Union is the
organ of the coalition between these and the southern
Democracy!
Let honest and patriotic men, North, South, and
every where, beware of the frauds these nondescript
Locofoco leaders, the Union, and oil such
venal prints, would practise upon them
0B8ERVKR.
For the Republic.
COMMKMCKMKVT DAV.
This is "Commencement Day" of Columbian
College, and it will be welcomed as s season of rich
intellectual enjoyment. It is pleasant occasionally
to turn from the turmoils of party strife to these
scenes of generous literary rivalry; and the spirit is
refreshed by mingling with the crowd who gather
to witness the farewell exercises of these younger
sons of America as they bid adieu to their Ahnu
Mater to take their stand among the men of the
Republic. The brightening ptoapects of this inati1
Infirm nrv? r rltmmnrl Knf tKnu>.iU
creasing * (for till Commencement Day shall be as
familiar to the people of Washington, and ita arrival
a* anxiously looked for, a* Fourth of July or
merry Christmas.
An attractive feature of the day will be the annual
address before the Alumni Association, to be
delivered by the Rev. Baron Stow, of Boston?a
writer and an orator of reputation?one of the earliest
graduates of Columbian College, and formcily
a resident of this city..
The expenditures of the State of Connecticut
for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1H49, were
1149,242. The regular receipts into the treasury
were |I29,242, and there was borrowed from the
school fund f 13,000 The school fund amounts to
$406,000, and there is due to it from the State treasury
$46,000.
Applications will tie made to the next Legislature
of Pennsylvania for charters for eight new
nanus, witn an aggregate capital of f'-i ;>5U,UUU, and
for the m.hartrr of eleven existing l>ank* whose
united capital amounts to $4 187,.*>00
A medical man, writing from Paris, during the
late visitation of cholera, says thai nothing checked
the disease but ihe appearance of a violent storm,
with much thunder and lightning. At the two last
meetings of the Academy of Medicine, nearly all
the memlwra, with M. Velpeau, the President,
agreed that the cholera was contagious, under certain
circumstances. The English physicians do
not coincide in this opinion.
The Redactor, of Havana, of the 17th ultimo,
has been received. Its topics are strange. The
arrival of a hineae physician who has established
himself in that city ; the dinrorery of perpetual motion
by Don Dltriann Sabale* ; the resumption of
dramatic and musical entertainments; thr dryness
of the season, so thai the almendares scarcely
contained water enough to supply the city ; bull
fights, religious processions, Ac., are fully treated
of, but there is not one word of interest to foreigners,
THE REPUBLIC.
paper* say, engross much attention in that city, and
the defendant* have sumntnned un immenae number
of witnesses for the tri%, which will take place
in November. Both partes are sanguine of succeaa,
and it ib conceded Lhut thia long-disputed
claim will at length be decided.
Cholkka.?We understand that the remedy recently
introduced into thd Military Hospital of
Montreal, and recommended and practised bv an
army surgeon of much experience in the British
army, who has published a work on the subject,
has been eminently successful in the 19th regiment,
composing u [>art of thut garrison. Previous to its
having been made use of, a number of fatal cases of
cholera had occurred; but since the remedy in
question hus been administered, every patient has
recovered. The recipe is laudanum and ether,
made intensely hot with the addition of a solution
of red pepper. Twenty drops of this to be taken
every five minutes on a lump of sugar.
Thesteumship Empire Citjr sails to-day front New
York to Chagres direct. Passengers probably will
arrive at Panama in good season for the U S. mail
steamer of August. Among the passengers is H.
0. Qaylord, esq., bearer of despatches to San Francisco,
California.
We ure gratified to hear that the violence of the
epidemic has greatly abated at Shirley, on James
river, Va. On Saturday evening, the proprietor,
Mr. Curler, had lost 30, and not 38 negroes, as was
reported, and all that were then sick were considered
convalescent.
It has been proposed in the Richmond Whig,
that the ladies of Virginia shall waar some bodge
of mourning, as a token of respect for the late Mrs.
Madison.
The New York Tribune, of Monday, contains
the following paragraph:
" The Ohio Statesman has something more to say
oKsii.t r',,1 Inl.n ? W..IL..<o ....on .,.,,1 t l.'<i
name of the gentleman who gave us the information
about him. Very well; we have sought and
obtained further light from the gentleman who gave
us our originnl information on thts subject. He
has favored us with a written statement; and, if
the Statesman will publish that saint verbatim, a certified
copy shall be sent it immediately. There is no
name concealed. Shall we send on?
"We do not choose to say more at present, except
simply to explain that the impropriety alleged
against Col. W. is said to have taken place at Chagres,
and not at New Orleans, us we mistakenly
stated. The delay complained of was also at Chagres."
The last num!>er of Hunt's Magazine contains
an elaborate article on a railroad to the Pacific,
from the pen of Ex-Senator Niles. He tdvocates
the building of a road. It is his opinion that it is
of no consequence to the people at large at what
particular points the road shall begin and terminate;
he avowing himself, however, to be in favor of the
route proposed by Mr. Whitney.
The American Medical Education Society of
Boston, established for the education of females
for professional duties, but more particularly to
instruct them in the obstetric art, promises is be one
of the most useful educational establishments in the
country. Twenty intelligent women ha\e recently
been instructed in the institution, and are now
getting into successful practice.
We learn that W. G. Coffin, Whig, who proposed
running for Congress against E. W. McGaughey,
has thought better of it, and hns withdrawn.
C. C. Nave, the political opinions of whom
are equivocal, is now Mr. McGaughev's only opponent
A slip received nt Pottsville, Pa., on the 16th instant,
from the office of the Tamaqua Legion, says:
" It is our painful duty to announce an awful conflagration
and great loss of property which occurred
in our sister town, Mauch Chunk, on Sunday.
All me nusme.es portion or inat flourishing Oorough
ia laid in ruins. The loss is ea'imitted at flSO.OOO.
At least thirty-one houses have been reduced to
ashes.
LOC A I- M ATTERS.
TaMpr.aAwcr. Hall.?We are glad to perceive
that this commodious building on E street, lietween
9th and lOlh which wn? Nil ncvcr?lir ininn-il hv fir.
some time post, is being rapidly rebuilt, under the
direction of the Firemen's Insurance Comfwny of
this city, in which office it was insured to a sufficient
amount to repair the damages The front of
the building is to be extended to the street, which
will improve it errally in appearance. We suppose
the repairs will tie entirely completed by the
lime that Father Mnihew Arrives in this city,
which is exfiecied to be aliout the 1st of Septenber
Ths AqornccT. ? l.nud complaints arc madi by
those living near the Aqueduct, across the Poumac,
near Georgetown, at its condition at the present
time, being entirely destitute of water from some
cause or other, and sending forth a noxious and
pestilential effluvia sufficient to breed disease of the
very worst kind. Rumors are nlready current
that three cases of cholera have occurred in the vicinity,
and Ma disagreeable exhalations may spread
throughout the District. We earnestly csll upon
those having the matter in charge to take prompt
measures to remedy the evil complained of.
OoMMr.wrtMtvT ?The annual commencement
of the Columbian College will take place thia mominjt
at 11 o'clock, ai the E itreet Raptiat Church.
Oration this E?*ning.?An orauon will lie delivered
thia evening before the Alumni Aaaorjation
of Colombian College b^ the Rev. Baron Slow, of
Roaton, in the E atreet Rnptiat Church, at eight
o'clock. The public are inviied.
Aw Interesting Fact.?There were prcacnt in
St. John'a Church, at the funeral of Mra Madiann
on Monday afternoon, Mr Mnrria, an aged ami
hiehly-eatcemed citizen of Philadelphia, who waa
a witneaa of the deceaaed lady'a firat marriage to
Dr. Todd, of Pennaylvania. and ngain of her marriage
to Mr. Madiaon ; and nlao Mra. R. Bland Lee
and Mrs. N. B Van Zandt, of this city, who were
the bridemaids al her second wadding.
O'Neal's " Anti-Cholera Rei.t."?Wf werr
abnwn yesterday, by the ageni, Mr Morse, one
of those moat useful articles, lately invented for the
prevention of cholera. It m moat highly recom- 1
mended by numeroiia physician* ; and if ita bener
ficial qualities are half aa great a* they a're certified
to l?e, no one should he without one at the present
time They will he offered for sale in some of our
stores in a day or two, as soon aa the agent completes
his arrangements
Anniversary Celebration ?The Knoainian
Society of Columbian College formed at the I'aiem '
Office laal evening, and. accompanied by the Ma- (
rine Rand, marched in procession to the E street ,
Baptist church, to celebrate ita twenty-seventh anniversary
The church was filled by a most rrapectable
auditory of ladies and gentlemen. The
oration of the Rev Mr. Reynold* was a chaste and
finished production, occupying about one hour in
lis delivery, and gave great satisfaction lo the members
of the society and all present.
M1NKSOTA?No. 3.
The topography and general geography of Minesola
cannot De well understood without giving full
prominence to the character, course, and origin of
the Mississippi.
Geologically considered, the Mississippi river
originates in the erratic block-groupe or drift stratum
of the north, in longitude MP west of Washington,
and north latitude 47? 13' 35 \ agreeably to
Mr. Nicollet. This stratum develops itself in a
prominent range of sand-hills, once perhaps naked
ocean dunes, which throw out copious springs of
the purest water on all sides. These infant sources
of the " taitier or rivers" first gather themselves together
m a handsome lake, called Itasca, or La
Bicht, of some seven miles in length, whose shores
are surrounded with deciduous trees?pines heing
in sight on the neighboring ridges, and having a
beautiful island near its centre, rich with the foliage
of the elm, wild cherry, soft maple, and other
northern species. From this lake the Mississippi
sets out on his wonderful course of more than 3,000
miles to the gulf, by an outlet sixteen feet wide,
with a depth of fourteen inches?muking a body of
pure crystal water, gliding rapidly over its sandy
and pebbly bed, in which the traveller, as lie shoots
along in his canoe, cun see the broken white and
pearly valves of the unio and other fresh-water
shells of the lake scattered in its lied.
Thus much topographically. This great northern
drift stratum, which constitutes the height of
land, rests on a broad range of the crystalline or
primary rocks, which cross the continent between
latitudes about 47 to 50?, linking together the
mminfxirt iri-niinu nf fhx Tjthrniinr hnd HiiiIniiii'm
bay coasts with the Rocky mountains. To these
broad ranges and mountain outbreaks us they are
develo|>ed, west of James's bay and north of Lake
Superior, Bouchelte, the geographer of Canada, has
applied the name of Cabotian mountains, in allusion
to the true discoverer of North America.
Agreeably to this theory, the St. Louis river,
which fulls into the head of Lake Superior, presenting
a series of magnificent views and cataracts,
passes transversely through the Cabotian chain,
while the Rainy lakes and the Lake of the Woods
lie north of it. This range of transverse rocks,
which, with all its diluvial and drift covering, does
not rise over 1,600 feel above the ocean, may be said,
by its rocky roots, to continue west from the Itasca
highlands, and to divide the waters of the Upper
Missouri from those of the Saskatchiwine and
Assinaboin valleys of Red river and Lake Winnirec.
The natural line of elevations denotes this,
t is, in fine, the transverse fVasserschied, or watcr-shed
between the Hudson's bay and the St.
Lawrence waters and those of the Gulf of Mexico.
It is impossible to visit this remote summit, to
which the French apply the term Hauteur des Tents,
and examine its oceanic dunes, gravel beds, sund
plains, and other characteristic features, without
supposing the present condition of its surface to
be the result of ocean currents, however produced,
which, ui a very ancient perioa 01 ine giooe 8 nistory,
poured their waters over these heights, surcharged
with the ruins of broken strata and disrupted
formations which once spread over the area
north of them. We observe, amidst the heavy beds
of comminuted sandstones and slates, and of primary
rocks from remoter positions, very widespread
evidences of trap and greenstones, granwackes and
amygdaloids, which tell of the prostration of volcanic
formations, with all their peculiar imbedded
minerals and veinstones. Of these latter, the harder
varieties of the quartz family, with zoned agates, and
less abundantly chalcedonies and carnefians, are
found both in the dry drift, at the highest elevations,
and about the shores of lakes and streams.
These masses have been carried, by fluviatile action,
down the Mississippi valley, to great distances,
suffering more and more from the force ol
attrition. They are often picked up, very well
f?h a ras*tor I7aH a n flu> ah nroa r\f T alro Pnnin I Kara
traced them as low as St. Louis and Herculaneum.
It is a peculiar feature of the Itasca aummit, and
its various steppes, that it has a sub-soil or deposit
of an aluminous or impervious character resting
below the various sand plains, loams, and loose
carbonaceous and sphagnous beds. This appears
to be the true cause of the retention, at those
heights, of a vast body of water in the shape of
lakes, which are of every imaginable size, from half
| a mile to thirty miles in length. It will not be too
much perhaps, to say, that fifty thousand of these
lakes exist within our borders, north of latitude 44?.
These lakes in the drift stratum, so remarkable for
their number, consist of transparent, most often
very pure water, the temperature of which is generally
8? to 10? below tnat of the atmosphere.
(Vide Nar. Jour. Pub. Ex. of 182U, p. 168, Ac.)
They are supposed, in several districts, to have a
subterraneous communication with each other
whereby their purity and liveliness is preserved
without visible outlets. The water that susiaim
such a system of lakes and rivers is, manifestly, th<
result of the condensed vapors of the ocean which
have been wafted from warmer latitudes, and condensed
on these broad eminences.
The lakes of the sub-mountain region of Minesots*
may all be considered as falling under two
classes, those with clean sandy shores, and a con|
siderable depth, and those whose margins consist ol
j a sphagnous character, and abound in the zizama
( psiusiris, or who rice, ana are com|>arauveiy anailow.
The former yield various apeciea of fiah.
! The latter serve not only as a store-house of grain
i for the natives, who gather it in August and SepI
tember, but they invite myriads of water-fowl into
I the reemn, and thus prove a double resourcV to
| them It is constantly affirmed, that fish are taken
! in lakes which have no visible outlet. Some of the
! larger open lakes connected with the Mississippi
j yield even the white fish, which is so celebrated in
, the upper laket?while in no case have fiah of this
*l* ciesevcr been found in the Mississippi itself.
ALGON.
Athkn*?not Athens in Georgia, but Athens in
Greece?now boasts of twenty-two journals, a
greater number in proportion to its population than
: any other city in the world. Of these, sixteen are
political, one legal, one medical, and two literary.
In consequence of the alleged manner of treating
the cholera patients at the hospitals, a series of
rims occurred in (Quebec on Friday, in which several
of the hospitals were destroyed. The usual
lzm 01 juiy row* nan aiaooccurred hi nucnec ana
Si. Catharine's.
The BvTTt.tor Czorma, which wns reported na
a moat tremendoua victory, resulting in the loaa of
23,000 Auatriana killed, was ao magnified hy the
inventive genius of a banking-house of Vienna,
and was designed to help a grand speculation in
stocks?principally at Berlif, hut extending to
some other cities. The inventors have been named
hs Ahrens dr Co. of V ienna.
Baltimore, July 17, 1849.
The cholera continues to develope itself among
the inmates of the alms-house, but the last cases are
of a milder type, and yield more readily to treat!
ment. So far the total number of cases have
amounted to 41, and the deaths to 17. I understand
that Drs. Baxley and Buckler, the able physicians
who have medical .charge of the insutution,
are pursuing a most vigorous course of treatment;
and considering the condition and character
nf the pauenla. the result thus far speaks well for
their efforts. In one instance, I am informed,
fryrfinia, a virulent poison and a powerful operator
upon the nervous system, has bten exhibited with
advantage, and that too in doses which on ordinary
occasions would be apt to produce a fatal result Na
cases hare yet aoncared in the city.
The murder of Mr. Jno. D. Buck is still a matter
of mystery, not the slightest clue having as yet
been found an to who was the perpetrator of the
act. A reward will lie doubtless speedily offered
for the detection of the monster
JAMKN OTIS SAHUKNT.
Attorney at Isw,
POCRTIttNTH STREET, OPPOSITE WILLARD'K HOTEL,
U^II,L attend to the prosecution of Claims be
fore the Board of Mexican Commissioners,
Claim* againot the United Stale*, and to the transaction
ofbusiness with the various Departments.
June 2S?iftf
JOHlfBTOlf'S Consinerctal thurt of the
World, lamdon, I'M*! on Mereator'sprojcction
?containing' the position of every place of commercial
importance, showing the principal currents of
the ocean, with their direction ami rate of progress,
A< _, Ac. A single copy, fully mounted, just itnported
and for sale by
TAYLOR A MACRY,
June 2H Booksellers, hear 9th street.
NOTICE, our patron* are hereby notified that
their respective accounts will be rendered on or
Iwfore the first of July , at which time, it is earnestly
hoped that punctuality in settlement will be observed,
thereby obviating the necessity of a more
direct appeal.
P H. HOOK A CO
June 2b?3wif (Union)
BY TELEGRAPH.
REPORTED FOR THE REPUBLIC
Cholera at Buffalo.
BurrtLO, July 17.
Twenty-one cases of cholera, and 8 deaths, for
the twenty-four hours ending at noon to-day.
Arrlvul of the Princeton.
Boston, Jolt 17.
The U. S. steamer Princeton, Captain Engle
commanding, arrived here to-day from Gibraltar.
She left Naples on the 7th of June for Toulon. At
Marseilles she took aboard the body of General
Fen wick. On her route home she spoke the U. S.
frigate Constitution, sloon-of-wur Jamestown, reve
nue schooner Taney, and the steamer Alleghany;
the two latter bound home. All well. Captain
Engle was at Rome eleven days, and saw the fighting.
He says the Romans acted with great bravery,
and will not submit to the temporal rule of
the Pope. The Grand Duke was to re-enter Tuscany
on the 20th of June. Marshal Radetzky
visited Leghorn, and was well received.
Boston, July 17?p. m.
The jury in the celebrated Phillips' will case
have rendered a verdict, in which they sustuin the
will in every particular.
Cholera in New York.
New York, July 17.
The Board of Health reports 103 new cases of
cholera and 51 deaths for the last 24 hours.
Cotton firm, and sales of 3,000 bales were made.
r lour unu grain uncnangeu since lasi report.
Cholera In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, July 17
The Board of Health reports 73 riew cases of j
cholera and 31 deaths for the last twenty-four
hours.
Baltimore, July 17?9 p. m.
Thomas Davis, a workman belonging to the Copper
Works, was arrested to-day, charged with the
murder of J. D. Buck. Six coses ami 2 deaths of
cholera at the alms-house to-day. None in the city.
The Alleghany city Fire.
Pittsburg, July 17.
The fire in Alleghany city yesterday continued
four hours, and destroyed upwards of thirty buildings,
most of which were frame. The loss is estimated
at $4(1,00(1.
Cholera In the West.
Cincinnati, July 16.
The interments yesterday by cholera were 87,
of other diseases 67. To-day the cholera interments
are only 60, by other diseases 44.
St. Louis, July 16The
total interments for the forty-eight hours
endine at noon yesterday were 255, of which number
149 were by cholera. The weather is now
cool and pleasant.
Al St. Louis the deaths from cholera for the
week ending on Sunday, 716 ; other diseases 227.
Deaths by cholera on Mondav 61.
At Pittsburg, 12 cases, 3 deaths, by cholera today
j and at Cincinnati 61 deaths. Weather pleasant.
The Cholera?Riots In Upper Canada.
Montreal, July 17.
The cholera has returned, and is raging fearfully.
Since Saturday the deaths have amounted to 45, an
increase which is attributed to the sudden change i
in the weather,, since the storm on Friday. The
thermometer fell from 90 to 60. The Board of
Health have become alarmed, and afraid to publish
correct reports of the progress of the disease. The
cholera is spreading among the soldiers, but Lord
Elgin has refused to allow them to leave town, al
though requested to do so by the physicians.
At (Quebec the disease is worse than at Montreal.
The deaths are 12 to 15 per day. The merchants
refrain from attending to business, and persons of
the first respectability have died.
Serious and fatal riots have occurred of late in
Upper Canada between the Catholics and Orangemen.
At St. Catherine's six men were killed, and
at Hamden on the 12th, during a fight, nine were
; killed.
The verdict of the jury upon the Catholics killed
' here on Saturday was murder.
Baltimore Market,
i Baltimore, July 17.
At uuction to-day the cargo of brig Druia :
185 hhds. Porto Rico Sugar - $4 70 a 5 50
Also, 341 hhds. New Orleans Sugar - 4 50 a 4 70
i . U3bbls. New Orleans Molasses 20 a 20$
39 ?' " Syrup - 27J
17 tierces Porto Rico Syrup - 22
The Flour market is without animation, owing
to the fact that the slock of fresh flour is too small
to operate with. The only sale we could hear of
was one of 200 bbls. Howaid street, at |4 75.
I There is some demand for fresh, but not much for
| old flour.
The Grain market is very barely supplied, and we
I heard of but one or two small lots red Wheat,
urhirh hrmicrht 1(M) m lllir mid a niirr^l nrim#? !
while 106c.
Small sales yellow Corn at 60c., and wlule at 57c.
Oats 26 a 30c
Nothing in Whisky It is held at 23 a 23Jc.
Bttf Caltle.?The offerings yesterday were large,
reaching to 700 head, of which number only 297
were sold at |2 75 a $3 75, equal to $5 50 a 25,
averaging J3 50 gross weight. '26H were sent to
Philadelphia, and the rest left over unsold.
?The supply continues small, and th? sales i
were ut $4 50 a $5.
Provisions?There is some movement in Provisions,
and we have sales of several hundred barrels
Mess Pork at ft 1 25, and some Prime at $9 25.
Sales, also, of Prune Beef at >9 87$, and No.
1 at f 12. There is some inquiry for Bacon, especially
for hams, and large sales are making at 8$c.
up to lU$e., as in quality ; sides 6$c.,and shoulders
5$c. a 5tc., with fair sales. Very little doing in
Lard, and no change in prices.
I.irr OF PATKSTS
I sailed from the t'nlted (Hates Patent Oflltt
for the week ending July 17, 1*4?.
D. L. Ewing, Spruce Hill, Pa.?Improvement
in Wheat-cleaning Machines. Patented July 17,
1849.
A. Hotchkiss, Sharon, Connecticut.?Improvement
in Ox Yoke Fastenings. Patented July 17,
1&49.
L B Fisher, Kreeport, Illinois.?Improvement in
Cutting, Crushing, and Grinding Vegetables. Patented
July 17, 1^49.
A T. Linikin, Roxbury, Mass.?Improvement
in Lounge and Chair combined. Patented July
17, 1849.
A. Chapman, Fairfax, Vermont.?Method of
increasing the effective length and cleansing Boiler
Flues. Patented July 17, 1849.'
T. Thatcher, Wilkstisrre, Pa.?Improvement in
Pump Valves and their arrangement. Patented
July 17, 1H49.
A. Struub, Milton, Penn.?Improvement in
Winnowing Machines. Patented July 17,1849.
A. Buel and T. Brown, Lowville, N. Y.?Improvement
in Smut Machines. Patented July 17,
.1849.
W Avery, Salisbury, N. Y.?Improvement in
Vegetable Cutters. Patented July 17, 1849.
S. Hill and W B. Cline, Philadelphia, Pa ?
Design for Stoves.?Patented July 17, 1849.
rpilK < Kt.KHR \ TKII t?l \ M O \ I > < KMKV I .
I fur joining broken glass, china, kr. A small
lot of the genuine for sale at
TAYLOR k MAURY'S
July 10 Bookstore, near 9th street.
nUHTUVTlARY.
Orru a Psnitbivtiarv, D. C.
W Ashington, July 9, |S49.
UT ANTED to purchase, for the ivte of this prison, i
one ton of the very best broom corn. Persons
having such an article to dispose of are request- I
ed to send me a fair sample of the same, with the I
lowest cash price for it per ton. '
THOS KITNAM, Hardm. )
July 9 tJuly25 (Intel. It Union.)
NKW HOOK <|||.? ..I The Natural '
History of Enthusiasm" -"LOYOLA AND
JESUITISM"?For sale at
TAYLOR k MAURY'S .
July 9 Bookstore, mm 9th ?t. (
Ujyi.ITtHt MUBtIM WITH I\I>IA
IvJ. Kuhhrr Pontons." description of, b7
Geo. W. f'ullum. V. S. Engineers. For sale by
TAYLOR k MAURY, I
July 9 Booksellers, near 9th st.
ParaUhrd Apartments for Rent?In a small i
r private family, without board, situated in the |
rear of the Patent Office,on Eighth street, the third c
door from the corner of G, west side. 1
July 11?tf I.
UK1T18H PERIODICAL UTSKATUHB.
KCPVaUCATiON OP
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW,
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, and
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
The wide-spread fame of these splendid Periodicals
renders it needless to say tnucn in their praise.
As literary organ*, they stand tar in advance of
any works of a similar stamp now published;
while the political complexion of each is marked
by a dignity, candor, and forbearance, not often
found in works of a party character.
They embrace the views of the three great parties
in England ? Tory, Whig, and Radical.?
" Blackwood" and the "London Quarterly" are
Tory; the "Edinburgh Review," Whig; and the
" Westminster Review," Radical. The " North
British Review" is more of a religious character?
having- been originally edited by Dr. Chalmers,
and now, since his death, being conducted by
his son-in-law, Dr. Hanua, associated with Sir
David Brewster. IU literary character is of the
highest order. The " Westminster," though reprinted
under that title only, is published in England
under the title of the " Foreign Quarterly
and Westminster," it being, in fact, a union of
the two Reviews formerly published and reprinted
under separate titles. It has, therefore, the advantagc,
by this combination, of uniting in one work
the best features of both us heretofore issued.
The above Periodicals are reprinted in New York,
immediately on their arrival by the British steamers,
in a beautiful clear type, on fine white paper,
and are faithful copies of the originals?Blackwood's
Magazine being an exact fac-timiU of the
Edinburgh edition.
TERMS, (per annum.)
For any one of the four Reviews - - - $3 00
For any two do do - 6 00
For any three do do - - - 7 00
For all four of the Reviews - - - 8 00
For Blackwood's Magazine - - 3 00
For Blackwood and three Reviews - - 9 00
For Blackwood and the four Reviews - 10 00
Payments to be made in all cases in advance.
CLUBBING.
Four copies of any or all of the above works will
be sent to one address on payment of the regular
subscription for three?the fourth copy being gratis.
EARLY COPIES.
Our late arrangement with the British publishers
of Blackwood's Magazine secures to us early
sheets of that work, by which we are enabled to
place the entire number in the. hands of subscribers
nefore aixy portion of it can be reprinted in any of
trie American journal*, for tin* annotner ad van
tages secured to our subscribers, we pay so large
a consideration that we may be compelled to raise
the price of the Magazine.
Something may therefore be gained by subscribing
early.
%* Remittances and communications should be
always addressed, post-paid or franked, to the publishers.
LEONARD SCOTT & CO.,
79 Fulton Street, New York,
July 18 En trace in Gold St.
O'NEAL'S ANTI-CHOLERA BELT?A preventive
of cholera, and cure of all cases of Ordinary
diarrhcea and deranged bowels. They are recommended
by physicians generally in Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and New York. It has also been exhibited
to ? number of physicians in this city, who
also highly approve of it.
For sale only at M. Delany's drug store, corner
of 4j Htreet and Pennsylvania avenue. July 18
PHILIP BARTON KEY will attend to any
business he may be entrusted with before either
of the Courts of this District; and will also attend
to the prosecution of Claims before Congress and
the Departments. Office on C street.
June 17?tf
THE NEW UNA.?The Lady Alice, or the New
Una, a novel, this day received for sale at
v TAYLOR & MAURY'S
June 17 Bookstore, near 9th st.
1%/|"R. A. de VAUDRI COURT begs leave to
IYjL inform his friends and the public that, having
permanently located in Washington, he intends to
devote his attention to the tuition of the French,
Italian, and Spanish languages, and also of the
Piana Forte and Drawing in all its branches. References
of the very highest respectability will be
given by applying at his residence, (12th street,
between D and C, next door to Mr. Gibson's Academy,)
or at Davis' Music Store, and Mrs. Anderson's
Stationery Store.
July 17?eocflm
COMNENCEMENT?The AnnualCommencement
fur the G raduation of the Senior Clam
of Columbian College will be held on Wednesday
next, in the E street Baptist church. Orations, as
usual, will be delivered by the young- gentlemen
of the graduating class. Exercises to commence
at 11 o'clock, a. m. The public are respectfully
invited to attend.
College Hill, D. C. July 16?3t
Jrnki' new Comprehensive Commentary
on the Bible, containing the text of the authorized
version, with marginal references; Malj
thew Henry's Commentary; the practical obeervaI
tions of Rev. Thomas Scott, with extensive notes
j from Scott, Doddridge, Gill, Adam Clark, Lowth,
and many other writers on the Scriptures; with
numerous useful tables and engravings of Scripturo
scenes, illustrative of the manners, customs, antiquities,
&c., of the ancients.
A sinrle codv for sale bv
TXYLOR it MAURY,
July 16 Publishers, near 9th street.
James' sew sovel, the woodman,'
Times or Richaru III, Abbot's Julius Cjmab. *
For salr at TAYLOR it MAURY'S,
Near 9th street.
July 16
Memoirs d-oi trk-tomhr chateau
hrianti.
Confidences.? Raphael, pages de la vinglieme
an nee?Lam&rtine.
Constitution? RepubliqueFrangaise, 1848,in French
and English. For sale at
TAYLOR & MAURY'S
July 13 Rookitorr, near 9th it.
HORATIO N. UILBGRT'S
Hoarding house, two doors west of ?* Gads
hy's Hotel," Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton. July 13?eo3t
MORRIS 1,. HALLOWELL A CO.
No. 143 Msirket Street, Philadelphia,
ARE now receiving and offer for sale a handsome
assortment of new Silk and Fancy Goods for
fall trade, which have been purchased by one of
their firm
for cash in europe,
and with especial reference to the wants of western
and southern buyers.
July l'J?dfiwifSm
nHRNt ll VIMTINO CARDS. TAYLOR A
MAURY. Booksellers, near <Hh street, have
received a lot of these delicate and finely finished
Cards. They can be used with the pencil, or printed
by the plate, as preferred. Those wishing- cards
printed can get thein without delay by leaving their
plates at Taylor k. Maury's. July 12
k IOT1CK.- The steamer COL
JWl?LUMBIA, Captain James Har
P?r> Wl" ',,*ve Commerce street
wharf, in Baltimore, on Saturday,
March 3d, at four o'clock in the afternoon, for
Washington, Alexandria and Georg*town; and rel
iirninir. will leave Wushinirton st h o'clock
Alexandria at 7 o'clock in morning of the following
Wednesday. Thereafter, ahe will leave
Baltimore on every succeeding Saturday afternoon,
and Washington and Alexandria on every succeed
ing Wednesday morning, at the hour* before mentioned,
during the season.
For passage and freight. apply to the Captain on
board, or to the srveral agents: C. Wortninjrton,
Kaltimore; Mr. Riley, Washington; Messrs. Pickrcll,
Georgetown; and Messrs. Wheat, Alexandria.
JAMES HARPER. Captain.
A report having been cxtenaively circulated that
the steamer Columbia had been condemned by the
Inspector of Steamboat Hull* for the port of Washington,
tha annexed certificate* are publiahed in
refutation thereofHaving
been called upon by you to examine the
hull of the steamer Columbia, whilst on the railway
in Baltimore, on the '23d ultimo, and having per
formed that duty. I feel no hesitancy in saying that
the hull of that f*?at ia in good condition, and trustworthy
for the carriage (>f freight and pasaengem
X < ii imiim (jim i- iuu naiumort'. The injury done
to the aternpost having now been repaired, I contider
her toV- an good aa many steamboat* of five
pears of age.
I ain, air, very respectfully, your obedient -?ervant,
WILLIAM F.ASBY,
Inspector of Ntoamboata.
Wabhinoton. Frknuirtf 17, 1849.
To William Gunton, Faq., President of the W ash
ngton, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet
>)inpany.
H * LTiwoat, FHniory 90, 1849.
We, the undersigned, shipwrights of Raltimore,
lave had the steamer Columbia upon our railway,
md, at the request of the owners and agent, have
xamined her throughout and made all neee??ary
epairs. We n?w, without hesitation, pronounce
?er to he in very good order lor the transportation
>f freight and passengers between Baltimore and
Washington. FLAN NIG AN k IKIMHLL.
June 13?Jtawbat