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BY GEORGE W. JIARLOW,
'A in water face anucaelh to face, fo Hi? In art cf man tn man."
EDITOR PROPRIETOR
VOLUME r.
MiOSVMUSKO, TZX I'ISS SUi I Jf.VJ If, IS JO.
TERMS.
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urday morning, at Two Dollars per annum,
invariably in advance.
Advertisement will he inserted at the
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or less, tirst insertion, fifty cents; and lor
each subsequent insertion, twenty-five
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dollars, payable in advance.
Any person who wil- procure us five
subscribers, and forward the amount ($10)
snail be entitled to a sixth copy gratis.
Letters on business with the ollice, to
ensure attention, must be p st paid or free.
Money may be sent by mail at our risk,
if a receipt is first takjen from the post
master. 4
Job work must be paid for on delivery.
Geography of DIcxico--5louie to
the City.
Tlie N. Y. Sim contains the follow
ing description of Mexico, from Ma ta
mo tos to the IIall of the Moniezumas,
which cannot but prove intrresliiig at
the present time :
The U. S. Army is posted on the
left bank of the Uio Grande, opposite
Malmnoros, at n disuii e of 90 miles
from the coast by the circuitous channel
of the river, but only 30 or 40 miles by
the route to Point Isabel, a harbor on
the coast of Texas about 10 miles north
of the Uio Grande. From Matamoros
to the city of Mexico there is a good
road, with 5 or 10 military posts along
the route. 'J
An American army of 50,000 men.
crossing thu Uio Grande at Matamoros,
couhl readily march through the coun
try to the city of Mexico. Yucatan, on
the south, is already in arms against the
military desp .is governing' at ihe. capi
Colt and the people of Vvrn Ctm ud
other Stairs of Centr I Mexico.are clam
orous fur th recall of Santa Anna (who
is now in Cuba) and the retoratin of
the Republic. The. facilities 1 r inter
course wiii. our army, and with the
Mexican people, are favorable to the
rapid execution of military operations.
Fiom Galves on to Point Isabel is 320
miles hv water. New Orleans to I'oi ,t
Label, 80v mil"s. New Orleans to Ve
ra Cruz, 1500 miles. Yuca'an to the
city of Mexico. 900 miles. The pnpu
Ittion of the city of Mexico is about '
180,000. II gh mountains rise in the
distance on all sides' of the city, but the
location, although tinder the I ropic ol
Cancer, is remarkable for its salubrity,
and in summer the extreme heal is less
severe than in New Yoik or Philadel
phia. The city is approached by excellent
roads which branch out in every direc
tion, and on which are transported silver
ores and bullions from a bunded of the
richest mines in the world. The mag
nificence of the principal edifices
some b ing furnished with gold and sil
ver ornaments valued nt many mi 'lion,
an'' containing rich treasuirs hid away
by the avaricious has excit- d the admi
ration of all travellers. Yet, with all
her riches, Mexico is poor. Tier peo
ple are kept in ignorance by the tyran--ny
of a few, and their wraith is carried
off toother lauds to swell the gains of
trade and commerce which they are not
permitted to enjoy. The poor Mexican
crawl listlessly over neglected silver
mines, lost in the contemplation of his
own abject condition. The iron haivJ
of despotism is upon him! .
Singular discovery cn Chatham Is
tand.. late English paper says, that
a letter received at Lloyd' dated al
Guatamala, December 3, 1845, men
tions the discovery, by the Captain of
the Black Cat, of London, at the Gal
lipagos Islands, of a number of water
cask's and some spars, which had b rn
carried inland, belonging, apparently, to
a vessrl of 180 or 200 tons. A heap
of cinders was also found, where a fire
had been burning, in which valuable
sextants, compasses, etc., had hern de
stroyed, along with a quantity of gold
buttons to the weight of two ounces,
which the captain brought away. . Sev
eral casks of stores, hard-ware, etc.,
were found buried near the spot. No
accurate conjecture can be formed as to
the ship, or as to the cause of her do-truction.
Tampico de Xumauliim.
We have heard, within the last few
days, some discussion as to the position,
strength, kc, of this; Mexican staport.
In the event of an invasion, the posses
sion of Tauipic will be an object of
paramount important as a depot for
stores for the invading army. As we
deem all information concerning tln
place will be highly interesting, we re
publish the following from the New Or
leans Bulletin:
Tampico do Tamatilina? is situated
on a Peninsula or neck 'of laud about
four hundred yards wide, formed b
the river Panueo on one side, ami the
Liguna del Carpintero orf the oilier.
It is about six miles from the sea. At
the mouih ol this river, there is an insig
nificant ftirtilif atioti of three or four old
guns, in. ire likely to injure those who
discharge them, than those against whom
ihey are direct tl. The har at the mouth
of the river admits of vessels drawing
from seven to nine feel water according
to the winds and seasons of the year.
Tampico is susceptible of being made
a very strong military position at a very
moderate expense, by simply rutting n
ditch and ruining a breast work across
ihe neck of land above and below the
lown.and strengthening the breast work
by bastions at either extremity of the
line, at the riv-r and at the hike. On
the'souiheastern side, or nearest the sea,
the ImuI is low, and across the neel; n
canal has been cut which unites the liv
er with the lake. This canal could rea
dily be made to form the basis of the
forliliilions on that side. On the tip
per side or entrance from Aliamira, ihe
land is high and offers some remarkably
line sites fur defence of lhat approach,
the only, approach that could be used by
an enemy not having command of the
river.
Tampicfl is not absolutely command
ed by any height n- ar enough to throw
an affective point blank shot', though
from the hills below the town on the op
posing skit: of ilie river, shots i ml-Uv h
can be thrown into the south-eastern
part of the town. Immediately oppo
site the town, an extensive sall-mar-h
and lake prevent any approach of an
enemy's loice.
In its present slate of defence, Tam
pico could make little or no resistance
again-t a force of two thousand men,
whilst the same dumber as a garrison
couhl when the defensive works above
mentioned were completed by hav
ing the lonimand of the river, hold
it against any force that could be brought
against it.
Tampico, as a trading station, would
be of considerable consequence to the
ewnmeri p of the United States, By
the introduction of goods Tee of duty,
pi n-es would thru rate so low lhat the
Mexicans would be induced to buy and
lay in supplies fr the interhtf, leaving
llu tn lo evade the peculiar regulations
which accompany the goods and oppose
obstacles to their fiee transit.
In a military point of view, the occu
pation of Tampico would be more im
portant. Although the direct road to
Mexico is nearly impracticable, being
for ihe greater part a series of d files
and rugged mnumains, over which load
ed mule- with difficulty make their way,
the road to San Luis Potosi, though dif
ficult, is not impracticable. Wagons
and urtillery can be driven to the foot of
the Chamal mountain, alu-ut eight or ten
days march from Tampico. Here they
can be taken to pieces and in course of a
single day be transported to the other side
in the valley of Santa Barbara. From
thence, the only and most important ob
struction is the Sierra Madre, to croft
which mountains a greater effort must be
made and more time consumed; but,
ihr passes nni p secured, labor, industry
and perseverance will do the rest. It
is to be remarked that, at this point, all
danger and all difficulty arising from the
climate wholly ceases. The valley of
Santa Barbara lurnUhrs an abundant
supply of Imban corn and rattle. .Once
over ihe Sierra Madre, you are in the
table land (the tierra, lomplatfa,) with
abundant supplies of rortl and cattle,
and a carriage road to San Luis and to
Mexico. May our brave volunteers
soon be treading that road. II.
'Is that the lune ihe old row died
of?" asked an Englishman, nettled at
the industry with which a New Eng
land r whistled Yankee Doodle. "No,
beef," replied Jonathan, "that are's the
tune Old -tfutfdied of!"
Proposed Stcaui 'Armaria fur the
;ih'trit2cko.
A M'heuie lor conducting a certain
number of armed sieaiu vetn-els, to be
ailed the -Valley S i-ain Fleet," in
lending to issue hoiti t he Mississippi,
and onerate, in the Gulf of Mexico, of
fensively, anil dulViisiveh , has, it i
said, been bvlore ihe 'Government for
some lime. In regnrj to the details
of this proposition ln.' New... Oilcans
Commercial 'J'imcs iijalkCs die following
sta emeut: -- ,
It appears that itdas been proposed
to constiuel a doztii .iron steamers, j N . O. Conner:" We have seen a letter
of stji-h magnitude, ilial ihcy vvj!l each j from this gall int officer to his brother,
present a battery on one lerli lo u.Mijin Una city, dated Point Isabel, Mav 13.
the words of the projector more It was received last Sunday' hv ttiu-'ci.
formidable than, the I'cHKyu)UU shipj
of the line." These vessels u ill. have
a draft of water niiiicieuily'sniall to
admit of ihe.r crossing iliu h;r of. ihe
Mississippi, and pass in and inn eight '.officer iud 10 privates killed, and 13
Southern harbors with equal facility. I wounded VJ8 horses kilhd and 10
Their rapacity will be 3, 'Jill) tos e ch.j wounded that nearly one-third of his
be ng .100 Ions greater than thek,(7T i men. and almost half of his horses were
Jirituiiy at present the laril pieain- put liurs ducouibut. The Captair. him
ship in the world. They cannot t be ! self was not tou bed, which fortunate
sunk by shot; are capalle of carrying j circumstance was owing to his being
provisions and water, far six mouth fori about ten yards in advance of his juad
a crew of TOO mm, smd in case of of- i'ron in the charge.' , '
fensive operations being decided on, J TheHjaptain was born at the city of
are susceptible of rece vieg each 10,. I Washington, where his father, Dr. May.
000 l oops on hoard. Such a Heel, j w ho died a few months ajo, was highly
with the powerful armament designed i respceted by his fellow citizen. s ol all
for it, would command the Gulf against clashes: he left six or seven sous; all fine
lh'' combined navies of the world; and i looking men, not one of them under six
and would throw,, if necessary, 1 20,000 1 1 rl in height. The Captain, who has so
men on any no int Cuba, or tlur mlffi highly diniigui.-heil himself in die hee
rent foreign Islands skirt the highway j operations on ihe Uio Grande, some
of communication between ur Atlantic years ago, when quite a yuth, attrac
sisters of the ilepuhhr, and make -ihe j ted the notice of Gen. Jackson by his
Gulf as much our property as if it vveie line horsr manship, and the old chief
a lake within our own t'eriitory'. 'Ihe appointed bint a cornet in one of the
'Valley Fleet' would font) an invulnera- regiments of dragoons, then organiz
ble 'line of baithf' I r its uclei). e, across inc. The General was n good judge
the Straight of Florida, hud command j of men, and in the instance of )oung
the rear lo their pl.e'e )f constiuciion j May, his presentiment has been fully
an'1 supplies, to wit: the Valley if the j verified." Tr0),ic.
Mississippi, The phmis a maeiiirt-i
rrrnt uric, -nr-nr'tir lfiii- yronvrr j-sWV t - . in utMigis '
although many, no doubt, will hastily! ()ne f tie most imcrcsiing accounts of
lake it as ihe dreamy 1 wandering- ol aj
heated imagination :iii army of 120,-
000 men, home oy a Heel ol iweue
iron vessels yet has St been fo far pro
ved feasible, that there! is now a model
of a vessel, of this precise description,
at Pittsburg, which dares the scrutiny
of the most intelligent, the most enquir
ing, ihe most rptieal."
Fate ' of the Apostles. St. Mat
thew, ihu Apo.-ile and Evangciift. is
supposed lo have suffered martyrdom,
or to have been slain with a swoid al a
city in E hiopui. St. M.nk was drag
ged through the Miceis of Alexatidi ia.
in Egypt, until lie expired. Si. Luke
was hanged upon an olive tree in Greece.
St. John was put into" a caiddron of boil
ing oil and escaped death; he after ward
died a natural death at Ephesus. St.
Peter was crucified at Home, his head
downwaids, at his own request, think
ing himself unvvorihy to die in the same
posture and mariner as his blessed mas
ter. St. James the Great was beheaded
at Jerusalem. St. James die Less was
thrown from a pinnacle, or tower wing
of the temple, and then beaten to death
with a fuller's club St. Phillip was
hanged up against a pillar at llterapoiis.
a city of Phrygu. S:. U n tholoiuKW was
flayed alive by romm.ind of a barbarous
king. St. Andre w was bound to a cross,
whence he preached to (he people until
he expired. S". Thomas wa inn
through the body with a lance at Corn
mandel, i i the East lndias. St. Jnd
was shot to death with arro ws. St. Si
mon Zelotes was -crucified in Persia.
St. M iilhias was first stoned and then
beheaded. St. Barnabas of die (Jen
tiles, was stoned to dea'h by the Jews
at Salooica. St. Paul 'was b headed at
Home by Nero. '
Interesting to Steamboat Men.
Mr. Wilder, of Detroit, has invented and
patented anew Steamboat Telegraph.
Instead of the present method of several
bells, the captain above "telegraphs' to
the Engineer below by moving an. indi
cator over the dial plate, upon which
five points are marked 'slop, fast,
ahead, slow, back.' A movement cor
responding to lhat indicated at the cap
tain s position is instantly rommuntca-
ted on a similar plate to the Engineer
below, and an alarm stroke of a small
bell sounds ns the indicator readied lhat
point.
Captain 3Iay.
This gahant oili.-er has immoitalized
himself. A friend who has watched his
equestrian movement at the ramp, do-
senbes hiui as a most singular being '
lib a beard extending to Ins breast,
and h.iir lo his hip bone, which, as he
cuts through the wind 'on his charter,
streams out in all directions, he presents
a inosi imposing appearance. His gait
on foot is aw !i ward, and lhat of his
horse (an immense one) is the rack of
the Canadian' pony. We are glad to
quote the annexed paragraph from the
Ifarncy. The Captain tells his brother
that the squadron, at the head of w hich
be charged the enemy's battery, con
tained S'i men; and of these he lost one
,ie naUjral history of the liedgehog, is
lhat gi en in 1831, by Mr. Lenz, and
w hich is confirmed by Prof. lJu kl and; (
lhat is that ihe most violent poisons have
no effect upon it a fact which renders
it of peculiar value in the foresu where
it appeals to destroy a great number of
noxious reptiles. Mr. Lenz said he had
mice in his house a female hedgehog,
w hi h he had kept in a large box, and
which soon became very fuuiliar. He
often put in the box some adders, which
she atta ked with great avidity, seizing
hem by the body, die head and the tail,
and did not appear alarmed or embarras
sed when they coiled themselves around
her body. Neither herself, nor the
vonngshe was suckling, seemed to suf
fer from the bites of the venom. us rep
tiles. Pallet nsures us lhat the hedgehog
an eat about one hundred caniharides,
without experiencing any ef the effects
which id ,t insect produces on men,
dogs or rats. A Germ ui physician
who made ihe hedgehog a peculiar ob
ject of studv, gave it a strong dose of
prus-ie acid, id' arsenic, of opium, and
of corrosive sublimate, none of which
did it harm. The hedgehog, in its
natural state, only feeds on pears, ap
ples, and oilier f.uits, when it ran get
uoih'iig it likes better. Its ordinary
food consists of worms, slugs, snails
a tl adders.
A NAME TO LIVE. How few who live
will be remembered after death! Not
one in a thousand will be mentioned
thirty years after he sleeus in the grave.
Not'one i'i ten thousand in filly years,
aid not one in a million in a century.
Of the 800.000,000 who now live on the
eardi, a dozen pages will be sufficient
to record the names of those who will
he remembered a few centuries hence.
Thi is an affecting truth, and yet what
multitudes are striving to make them
selves notorious for the sake of an carih
ly immortality.
One of our exchanges says, it is a
popular delusion to believe lhat powder
mi a lady's face has the same effect as
on the pan of a musket assists her to
go off.
An old gentleman, hist spring, planted
his onions close to his poppies, and the
consequence was, ho says, that they
grew so sleepy that ho could never get
them out ot their bed,
From the N. O. Keformer.
To I'i inters I ho lfai ! Tol
mitci'i's!! 'It is said lhat about ihitfy printers
have enrolled themselves for Texas.
This wiil leave a good opening for prin
ters from other places. Primer's' wa
ges are belter in New Orleans than any
u her pait of the world."
The above paragraph is from the Jef
fcrsuiiiaii of yesterday morning. It is
copied veibanni. The last seiuerec is
very obscure, but the meaning of the
other portion is sufficiently Hear. And
the undersigned' on behalf of ihe regu
lar printers of New Orleans, take this
method of informing their fellow-crafts-"
-n, a distance, lhat ihe above para
praph conveys an inccorrect impression,
whether intentional or not, we leave
others lo judge, contenting ourselves by '
merely stating that this establishment is
not now, nor never has been, recognised
by the regular printers of this city.
We conceive we should do great wrong
did we allow the above statement to go
the rounds of the country uncontiadic
ted, theieby being the means cf indu
cing a great many printers to leave
places w here they are comfortably situ
ated, and come to this city in ihe fu tu
ny? r months, with no prospect of gel
ling employment, but a fair prospect of
falling victims to the , epidemic. We
should consider such conduct cruel in
the extreme.
We would inform the printers through
out the United States, that notwithsland- !
ing a largo number of our fellow crafts
men have promptly responded 10 the call
of ihtircountry, ihdshouldered the rmus
kets to defend her soil, there is still left
a sufficient dumber to do the work du
ring the summer months. Some of the
papers may, perhaps, be a little embar
rassi d for a short tune, hut it will only
be temporarily, for the business season
is now pretty, well over, and the work
on the papers is daily falling off. ' He
sides, those printers who have joined
six months, and such of them as may
be fortunate enough to survive the cam
paign, will return here just in lime for
the next business season; and certainly
every feeling of patriotism und gratitude
will dictate to those who may have the
bestowal of employment, that . they
should eive the preference to ihe brave
defenders of the country.
For these reasons, we conceive it our
duty to advise printers not to come here
this summer to seek employment, for if
they do they will certainly be bitterly
disappointed.
Whether or not the Jeffersonian con
cern may want printers, v.e cannot say,
for, as wo have before slated, it is not
recognized by the regular printers of the
city; but we know lhat ajl the regular
establishments can get through the sum
mer without any additional journeymen.
JAMES RISK.
President N. O. T. A.
Llew. Zuelin, Secretary.
Editors throughout the country, by
inserting the above, will do no one ;he
(lightest injuiy, and confer a favor on
the brave printers who have joined the
army to light their country's battle,
Rabies in Church. Babies are fine
things in their places.. We like them
at home in lh? nursery the only prop
er place for that class of juveniles com
ing under die denomination of babies.
Hut in church babies are nuisances.
Now crowing, now crying, constantly
keeping up some noise or other, ihey
distract the attention of the audience and
disturb the nerves of the speaker. Gin
gerbread will sometimes keep them qui
et, but not often. Babies never sleep
in church not they. They are as
wide awake as weasels, nut by no means
as still. Some fond mothers take their ba
bies to church for the purpose of showing
them. This is a bad policy. Nobody, ex
cept the doating parents, ever sees any
beauty in babies at church. We never
saw a baby yet, however smart at home,
that did credit to itself in a public assem
bly. It would be sure to do something i
to make every body hah? it before the
meeting was half over. Mothers, there
fore, who wish to preserve ihe charac
ters of their babies, for being well be
haved and quiet babies, should never
take them to church, or into a stage
coach.
Time. -Time is what we want most,
but what we use worst, for which wo
must all account, when time is no more.
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