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SENTINEL.
VOL. II.
PLAQÜEMINE, PARISH OF IBERVILLE, AUGUST 15,1849.
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advance.
•'A Change of Men."
It is stated by the Republic, as a well
ascertained fact, that even at this day,
w !ien thehand of justice has attempted to
equalize the distribution of public offices,
the Looofoco employés of the administra
tion outsu-mber the whigs in the propor
tion of ten to oae.
This is a revelation that will strike the
■public with astonishment. The Locofoco
organ at Washington has been uttering
euch fearful yelle at every dismissal which
the Government has been constrained to
make, that the uninitiated might well ima
gine Gen. Taylor to be the incarnation
<of ruthless political hatred. The Union
teems with editorials aud communications
of which proscription is the sole theme.—
Its usual cognomen for the Secretary of
the Home Department is 'Butcher Ew
ing,' while it appends to the title of the
Postmaster Generat the sobriquet of "The
Headsman." Its evident object is to
create the impression that every political
opponent of the administration is ejected
from office, and that Gen. Taylor has
proved himself more intensely proscriptive
than Jackson, Polk or any other Locofoco
president of merciful memorj.
If the Union by this policy, seeks to de
ter the administration from bestowing a
fair share of the public patronage on its
friends, that journal seems certainly to
have attained its purpose; since it is ob
vious from the statements of the Republic
* that the "change of men" promised by
Gen. Taylor, has been very imperfectly
accomplished, when nine-tenths of the
places within the gift of the Government
are held and enjoyed by the most perni
cious foes to Gen. Taylor and to those
principles upon which his election was
triumphantly carried.
The removals that have been made de
monstrate but too clearly the necessity for
further action. It is a singular fact that
nearly every prominent Locofoco office
holder who has been evicted by the Gov
ernment, has assailed the President and
his cabinet with viruleuce, venom and
personal rancor. These gentry appear
dearly to have imagined, not merely that
they were fully entitled to retain their pla
ces under a Whig administration, but that
as the avowed and inveterate enemies of
the Government, the active and unprinci
pled inventors and propagators of all the
viie and filthy slanders with which the
Cass & Butler organs reeked during the
late canvass; as the receipients of the
bounty of a Government which they re
garded with suspicion and openly derided
and abused, they were yet to be held
harmless and allowed to fatten on their
emoluments, even while mocking and re
tiling the generosity that spared them.—
This has been established by their subse
quent conduct. Such foul-mouthed ri
baldry, such mere wantonness of malevo
lent abuse as has been poured forth against
the administration by its rejected hire
lings, may challenge comparison with the
host beastly vulgarities that are sent forth
from the nightly orgies of Five Points.
We have, once or twice, furnished
specimens of this disgusting and depraved
vocabulary, but cannot consent further to
prilute our columns by their publication,
the reader may sup full of obscenity and
blackguardism, if he thinks proper to con
sult the pages of the Washington Union,
«id particularly the communications
to
in
which, under the signatures of "Heroic
Age," "Montgomery," and the like, im
part the requisite spice of ribaldry to its
otherwise flat and feeble lucrubations.—
The revolting task will convince every
friend of decency, as well as every sup
porter of Gen. Taylor, that the "change
of men," heralded last summer as one of
the expected fruits of a new Administra
tion, is not yet half consummated.— Bee.
From the Bee.
California.
The steamship Falcon arrived on
Saturday morning at an early hour, from
Chagres, bringing $170,000 in gold dust.
By this arrival we have received our files
of California papers to the 2d July.—
They contain a good deal of interesting
inteiligence, most of which, however, has
been anticipated by the Sunday papers.
The people of California are moving
actively in the matter of forming a territo
rial government. A proclamation has
been issued by Brig. Gen. Riley, calling
upon the people to elect members of a
convention for this purpose. The con
vention is to assemble on the 1st August,
to provide for the administration of the
existing laws, and to draft a constitution
to be submitted to the people for their
ratification, and subsequently to Congress.
A conflict of opinion seems, however, to
exist, for we find the Legislative Assembly
of the District of San Francisco consider
California to be without any law, civil or
military, and therefore recommend that a
convention should be held on the third
Monday in August, at Pueblo de San Jose,
for the purpose of establishing e govern
ment for the territory: At San Fran
cisco a meeting of the citizens was con
vened ont the 12th June; at which résolu
tions were adopted recommending to the
people to elect delegates to a convention
to form a State constitution. Gen. Riley's
viewsseems generally to prevail.
We learn from several of the passengers
of the Falcon, that the rumors derived
from Mexican sources, of seditious move
ments in California, of the scarcity of gold
of fatal collisions among the miners—the
last are wholly unfounded. In respect to
the mining operations, the following from
the Alta California of the 2d ult., fur
nishes the latest information:
"Our latest dates are to the 24th ult.,
from the Sacramento mines, and from the
San Joaquin country we have a few items
of intelligence under date of June 25. An
inordinate dearth of news and failure of
correspondence forces us to compile from
various accounts our summary of to-day.
Throughout the mines the rivers are
steadily falling. The chief impediments
to successful labor during the past three
months has been high water. Washings
were abandoned for the dry deposits dur
ing the flood, but its slow, sure abatement
will now cause mining to resume its
wonted vigor, while it will give impetus
to trade, and animation to business gene
rally.—There are vague stories of very
heavy work having been accomplished at
the dry diggings of the Middle Fork,
American river, but from the best authen
ticated accounts in our possesion we have
not been able to gather information of
this nature, although it is generally con
ceded, we believe, that at these mines the
more industrious of the numbers there
employed are handsomely rewarded. We
have a letter from a young man who left
this office in March last. We extract:
'1 have been employed on the Middle
Fork: My success in mining has been of
the most ordinary kind; but 1 have 'made
every day count from $16 to $50.
'The waters are yet high, but I think
they are gradually on the fall. I shall
start in a few days for the diggings again,
to find a place where I can make my pile
in a few days. I know such places axe
its
of
a
in existence, and 1 think I can find one of
them at least."
Our correspondent writes from Sacra
mento City, he is very sanguine of "good
luck," and will enjoy such if industry and
energy can accomplish the wished for
result. An offset to the above is a state -
ment of a gentleman recently arrived in
the country. With a small party he
visited the placer in May last, and return
ed a few days since, heartily tired of gold
washing. He informs us that his nett
profits by the adventure would not exceed
$30! This we thought pretty well for one
unaccustomed to labor, and disinclined to
learn. From various sources we learn
that hot weather has in earnest resumed
its enervating work. Climate sickness is
reported to have prostrated a few indi
viduals of the mining fraternity. Parties
preparing for the mines should look well
to the preservation of health, by strict
attention to proper regimen, and by guard
ing against unnecessary delay in the val
ley, and exposure in every form. A
death occured at Sacramento City on
Monday, 28th ult., from fever, occasioned
by imprudently remaining in the heat of
a scorching sun, and in an exposed posi
tion. Mr. Reed, the name of the de
ceased, was a surveyor by profession, and
well known to many of our citizens. We
have no intelligence of moment from
Feather or Juba rivers, if we except as
surance that excessive hot weather also
prevails there; the thermometer ranging at
65 deg. in the shade.
The San Joaquin, and its tributary
streams, are overrun with hungry gold
seekers, and reports of an encouraging
nature are current respecting the produc
tiveness of the mines. While many there
are who diligently labor and realize but
inconsiderable amounts, there nre more,
who by untiring zeal and well directed
exertions are amply securing each a share
of the golden harvest. The emigration
from Sonora this season, consisting of
thst class of men to which the placer is
scarcely a novelty, and number of friend
ly Indians of the Yakee tribe, expert wash
ers all, will probably amount to about
8000 souls. They are well armed, and
the appearance of such a vagaboad army
of intruders on American soil, has very
naturally excited American jealousies and
not a little bitter feeling. Their move
ments are closely watched,. and their
neighborly encroachment viewed with
some suspicion. About eighty miles dis
tant from Stockton, situated a few leagues
fram the Stanislaus river, is a settlement
styled in that region, the Sonoranian
Camp. Here are congregated not less
than 2,500 of this people.
The various deposits and washings of
the San Joaquin section of the placer are
generally known by traders and miners
thereabouts as camps, and of these the
richest is said to be Sullivan's camp, lo
cated about one mile from the body of
Sonarians above mentioned. The ave
rage per diem of those engaged there du
ring the past month, we are informed,
was $25, and in many instances the espe
cial favorities of Dame Fortune have ex
tracted between two and three hundred
dollars per day with ease, from the dry
desposites. A gentleman; to whom we
are indebted for much of the above infor
mation exhibited to us a specimen of
amalgamated gold and platina, found
near the Stanislaus river. A curious
combination of two precious metals, and
of value we opine as a rare discovery.
From the very imperfect data in our
possession, and from which we
ed to the limit our judgment
to vouch as safe and coQSfgas lucrative
ranted in asi
acAd Jiuutii»'
fully
the
an employment where energetically enga«
ged in, as when the Sierra Nevada slopes
were first scoured by adveturous AmerN
cans, in quest of the shining treasure.
The California papers contain some in
telligence from Oregon. The census of
that territory shows the population to be
8903 souls.—An election for a Delegate
of Congress had been held, and the Hon.
S. R. Thurston was chosen by a major
ity of seventy over all competitors. The
territory has been divided into three judi
cial districts. Elections had taken place
for members of a Territorial Legislative
Council, but no time of meeting was nam
ed."
Indian difficulties had been rife in the re
gion about Nisqually, and one American
had been killed, but every tiling is now
quiet, Governor Lane having visited that
quarter. Capt. Hill, with the company
of artillery under his command, would
repair to Nisqually immediately upon the
arrival of the Fredonia, storeship, with
army supplies, then daily expected.
Lieut. Hawkins of the U. S. army, is
preparing to leave about the 1st of July
for Fort Hall, with supplies to meet the
regiment to arrive overland.
We take the following from the Califor
nia papers:
Burning of Ship Pniladelphia in the
Harbor of San Francisco. —The extraor
dinary spectacle of a burning vessel was
witnessed in our harbor on Sunday morn
ing last, and a fine large ship entirely con
sumad by fire. Particulars of this dis
astrous event have been furnished us bv
Capt. Samuel Weare, owner and master
of the unfortunate Philadelphia. He
states that about 5 o'clock, p* m , the alarm
of fire was given by the crew on board,
and very soon the entire forward part of
the ship was wrapped in flames. The
joint efforts of the crews of several vessels
in the harbor, who were promptly on the
spot to render assistance, proved of no
avail, the fire communicating aft, and
spreading with such very great rapidity
as but barely to give time to secure the
personal effects of Capt. W. and lady,
which, with the ship's boats, were all that
was saved from the devastating element.
The fire originated in the forecastle, a
crew of ten men having been employed
in getting the ship ready for sea. Burning
to the water's edge, her cables were or
dered to be cut, and the wreck drifted off
with the tide. The Philadelphia was 543
tons register, hailed from New York, and
was under charter by Messrs Howland &
Aspinwall, ofthat city. She was insured
for $15,000, and was to have sailed on
the 1st of July for Manilla, via Sandwich
Islands.
Uufortunate and fatal occurrence.—
One of the disbanded volunteeis of the
1st New York regiment was shot in this
place on the eveningof the 21st instant,
and died about twenty-four hours after
receiving the wound. His name was
Benj. B. Beatty, a private, aud attached
to company H. He had entered the tent
of a Chilean shopkeeper, accofrrpanied by
an acquaintance, and from some misun
derstanding, a quarrel commenced be
tween them and the foreigner, who be
came frightened and produced a pistol.—
It was instantly wrested from him by
Beatty's companion, between whom and
the shopkeeper a scuffle ensued, during
which Beatty retired towards the entrance
of the tent, and was in the act of passing
out when a pistol was discharged. It is
not known by whom the weapon was
used. The ball was received by Beatty
in the right side, and which, traversing
the abdomen, was shortly afterwards ex
tracted from the 'eft side, a few inches
above the hip. He was about thirtyyears
of age, and a native of Albany, N. Y.,
where his parents and other relatives now
reside.
A Novel Trick .—Since
has been prevalent in the s w j JO
of plans and devices hs ^onsequent/y
practice to obtain brfof purchasing.—
are too laz£ have been informed of,
. . _ , Two men travel toge
vjsit different grog shops, alter
. becoming the victim of cholera.—
1-irstone pretend to be suffering dread
fully from cramps, <fcc., and is led into
the bar room by the other, and the sym
the
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pathy of the bar-keeper appealed to,
pleading poverty as the excuse for not
buying it. Under such circumstances, he
of course succeeds, and the man gets a
drink. At the next place, the other is the
victim; and thus they go from grog shop to
grog shop until they become intoxicated.
They chanced, to go to the same grog shop
twice, however, lately when the trick was
discovered.— N. Y. Mirror.
To Prevent Milk Souring During
Thunder Storms. —We have heard great
complaints from dairy women, about
their milk getting sour during a thunder
storm, although perfectly sweet a short
time previous. The following plans,
suggested by a correspondent, will prevent
this in a great degree. All the pan3 con
taining the milk, ought to be placed upon
non-conductors of electricity; such as
blocks of baked wood, pieces of glass, or
wood that has been well painted and
varnished. The following articles are
most easily provided:—Beeswax, feathers,
and woolen cloth are also non-conductors,
but inconvenient to be used. All these
articles will insulate the pans, and prevent
the electric fluid from entering, which is
the cause of acidity; or is, in fact, the
principle of acidity itself. If glass basins
were substituted for tin pans, the plan
would be better still, and there would then
be no necessity for the practice suggested
above. The glass would preserve the
milk much longer sweet than pans, and
the acid would have no effect upon it.—
We are not aware of any acid that has the
least impression on glass, except the
fluoric acid. All iron vessels, or vessels
compounded of iron, as tin fans, attract
the heat very readily, and, of course, sour
the milk; and such is the affinity of iron
fcr an acid, that we doubt much if it is
ever washed out entirely. Iron vessels,
we are confident, are the veiy worst that
could be used for the purpose; they are
even inferior to wood.— Am. Agriculturist.
The Past Brought Back. —By an ar
gument based upon known facts in na
tural philosophy, in relation to the trans*
mission of lisht, it has been established
in a work entitled "The Earth and Stars,"
recently published in London, and ex
citing great attention there, that "accord
ing to physical science, a peison dying
on this earth might, by the Creator, be
immediately placed in a new body, on a
distant world, in such a manner that he
might see with his own eyes the whole of
death, be reembodied on a planet at such
a distance that the light is seventy years
in passing to it from our earth, and it is
evident that the first jay which reaches it
there, left, the earth «venty years before;
That is in its new body, it may see in its
own birth, youth, manhood and age, in
its former body; review any scene in its
past career; be present at the commission
of past sins; see the youthful and innocent
face become dark with bad pasions, the
clear eye dulled with polluting sins. At
any period of our existence we may be
made to behold again the commission of
any past sin. A thousand years hence
we have only to be placed on a star so
distant that its light is a thousand years
in coming to us, and the sin committed
a thousand years ago is again present!
again visible! The past, also, may not
only be recalled, but it may be kept be
fore our eyes. If a ray of light travels at
a certain rate, as we know it does—that
is, about 200,000 miles in a sec<^ to
have only to move at the,^>efore an y
keep any transajt^Mffay be in this way
length of tUwrt's own evif.deed, and his
Upon it, as a past,recalled and
permanent."
tt/^Mrs. Swisshelm calls the drunkard,
"the common material ou$ of which all
I crimina,s are manufactured; and the man
who habitually converts himself into sö$
wax, ready for old Satan to run frttö any
mould that suits his purpose."
*fc4d)e
Ö?" Albums may be said to be the dip
nets wherewith young girls catch flattery.