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'1 . 1 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. The Chronicle is published every Sat urday morning, at Two Dollars per annum, invariably in advance. Advertisement will he inserted at the following rates, to wit: For every six ines or less, tirst insertion, fifty cents; and lor each subsequent insertion, twenty-five cents, payable in advance, or upon first in sertion. Standing advertisements, every six lines or less, will be inserted as follows: Three months $3 00 Six months 5 00 One year ' 8 00 Advertisements not marked with the number of instrtions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Announcing candidate!! for office, five 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. v V- "11' i ... it is r . i ' ,vf . ; 'i v : 1 -