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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THRONES AT A DISCOUNT.
While here* among us Republicans, men are
going mad for the sovereignty, and each Richard, as
fast as he slays the semblance of a rival, finds ten
other “ Richmonds in the field,” the lust ol dia-
dems seems growing far less eager among the Eu-
ropean Royalties. What eclipse, ominous to Kings,
is, as Milton says,
“ With fear of change
Perplexing monarch?,”
we are not sufficiently gazers into the Heaven of
power to tell; but perhaps the astronomers of our
court, or the comet-catchers of our observatory, or,
lastly, the political almanac-makers of the “ Union,”
can explain to its the phenomena mentioned in the
following paragraph of a Liverpool paper :
“ Crowns Goins a Begging.—Throughout the history
of Europe there never existed similar examples of so many
sovereigns threatening to resign their thrones as at the present
moment. No fewer than three or four potentates are declared
to entertain serious intentions of abdicating their power and
authority. The autocrat of Russia stands highest in political
importance. He is said to be suffering great mental anxiety
from some unexplained cause ; and, having provided the
means of supporting himself liberally during life by liberal in-
vestments in the English and French funds, under color of a
great financial operation, he intends, it is said, to retire to
Italy, and there pass the remainder of his days. The King
of Wurtemberg, the father-in-law ol the Prince of Orange,
has repaired to the Hague, solely for the purpose of dissuad-
ing the Prince of Orange from the decided resolution which
he has taken to renounce the crown of Holland. The King
of the Belgians seems to be equaliy afflicted. He has return-
ed to the palace Laecken at Brussels, from Paris, in such a
mentally debilitated state that he is unequal to the cares of
government, and all parties seem at a loss to conceive what
will be the upshot. Turning to Spain, the last accounts from
Madrid state that tile Queen has expressed to her Ministers
her resolute intention to abdicate the throne, and it was re-
ported that a special council was summoned to deliberate upon
the subject.— Wilmer df Smith.”
In addition to the foregoing, our readers may re-
collect that we lately mentioned in our chronicle of
Italian affairs the reported intention of the Ex-Em-
press Maria Louisa to resign-her pocket princi-
pality of Parma, and (as our members of Congress
or of City Councils say when they can no longer
be re-elected) “ retire to the shades of private life.”
King Otho, of Greece, has also been said more
than once to be sick with a surfeit of the sceptre ;
and even the “ Citizen King,” Louis Philippe, has
been several time.s suspected of intended abdi-
cation.
The particular case of Maria Louisa has, how-
ever, certain poetical illustrations, of which it may
not be unamusing to our readers to be reminded.
They are found in Byron’s rather angry “ Ode to
Napoleon,” written at the time of his first abdica-
tion : and in the “ Age of Bronze,” produced when
the Ex-Empress and ex-wife attended the Congress
of Verona, and was seen in public giving her arm
to him who had overthrown her lord, the Duke of
Wellington. In the following verses the poet
seems to have thought it quite possible that the
princess, for whom the great warrior had divorced
the loving Josephine, would display, though vulgar,
the virtue of a little conjugal fidelity :
And she, proud Austria’s mournful flower,
Thy still imperial bride,
How bears her breast the torturing hour ?
Still clings she to thy side ?
Must she too bend ? Must she too share
Thy late repentance, long despair,
Thou throneless homicide ?
If still she loves thee, hoard that gem,
’Tis worth thy vanished diadem !
This expectation was, however, not entirely re-
alized. It is needles.s to say that this consort con-
sented, with admirable equanimity, to become a
dowager before her husband’s death, and to accept
the mimic sovereignty of Parma as the price of a
double divorce—separation from her son and repu-
diation a mensa et thoro of the very memory of
her mighty husband; who, by a fortunate error,
seems, from his conversations, to have cherished,
to the last moment of his captivity and life, the per-
suasion of her sympathy and affection. At St. He-
lena he spoke often with fondness of her. “ I
have,” he said, “possessed, during my life, two
‘ wom^n, of very different characters ; the one (Jo-
‘ sephine) was all art and grace: the other (Maria
‘ Louisa) all innocence and simple nature.” Again,
when suffering all the humiliating rigors practised
on him by Sir Hudson Lowe—unworthy severities,
at which all Europe rang with indignation, and
which are now well known to have reached,all the
while, the indifferent ears of his ex-consort—he said
to the faithful friends who shared his captivity, “ Be
‘ assured that, if the Empress makes no strong ef-
‘ fort to lighten what I suffer, it is because she is
‘ beset by spies, who hinder her from knowing what
‘ is done to me; for Maria Louisa is virtue itself.”
Meantime were occurring scenes and facts which
gave rise, on the part of the great poet already
cited—himself not very fortunate in the domestic
relations, and perhaps making an unavowed parallel
between the great conqueror’s case and his own—
to a second commentary in verse, as follows, near
the close of his “Age of Bronze.” (He is speaking
of the Congress of Verona, which was attended by
the Duchess—one can hardly imagine for what ob-
ject, unless merely to merit such poetic indignation.
Her “ martiaL,chamberlain” of the “not hundred
eyes ” is the Count Neipperg, a somewhat ob-
scure one-eyed General, whom she first saw a few
days after her Emperor’s abdication, and with
whom she consoled herself, as her chamberlain and
husband. He died in 1828, at the age of 57.)
Enough of this ! a sight more mournful woos
The averted eye of the reluctant muse.
The imperial daughter, the imperial bride,
The imperial victim—sacrifice to pride ;
The mother of the hero’s hope, the boy,
Thfr young Astyanax of Modem Troy ;
The still pale shadow of the loftiest queen
That earth has yet to see, or e’er hath seen ;
She flits amidst the phantoms of the hour,
The theme of pity, and the wreck of power.
Oh, cruel mockery ! Could not Austria spare
A daughter ? What did France’s w*dow there ?
Her fitter place was by St. Helen’s wave,
Her only throne is in Napoleon’s grave.
But no—she still must hold a petty reign,
Flank’d by her formidable chamberlain ;
The martial Argus, whose not hundred eyes
Must watch her through these paltry pageantries.
What though she share no more, and shared in vain,
A sway surpassing that of Charlemagne,
Which swept from Moscow to the Southern Seas ;
Yet still she rules the pastoral realm of cheese,
Where Parma views the traveller resort,
To note the trappings of her mimic court.
But she appears ! Verona sees her shorn »
Of all her beams—while nations gaze and mourn—
Ere yet her husband’s ashes have had time
To chill in their inhospitable clime ;
(If e’er those awful ashes can grow cold ;
But no—their embers soon will burst the mould ;)
She comes! the Andromache, (but not Racine’s,
Nor Homer’s)—Lo ! on Pyrrhus’ arm she leans !
Yes ! the right arm, yet red from Waterloo,
Which cut hef lord’s half-shattered sceptre through,
Is offer d and accepted ! Could a slave a
Do more ? or less ? and he in his new grave !
Her eye, her cheek, betray no inward strife,
And the ex-empress grows as ex a wife !
So much for human ties in royal breasts !
Why spare men s feelings, when their own are jests !
Forest Wool.—Dr. Stremme, Professor of Architecture
in the Imperial University of Dorpat, Russia, has invented
recently a method of drawing from the leaves of the pine a
cotton-like substance, to which he has given the name of
“ forest wool,” which is extremely well fitted for the fabrica-
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per. The cloth made of the forest wool retains, it is true, an
odor of rosin, but, as this odor drives off troublesome insects,
the cloth may be used with advantage in bedding, such as
mattress covers, blankets, &c., especially for barracks, hospi-
tals, and other establishments, where a great many persons are
crowded together.
THE FOUNDER or the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.
At the recent meeting of the Association of Geolo-
gists in Boston, Professor Henry gave the following
account of James Smithson, to whose liberality we
are indebted for the institution that bears his name :
“ Smithson was born in England in the year 1768. He
was educated at the University of Oxford ; was a man of amia-
ble disposition, and devoted to science. He was the best
chemist in Oxford, and after his graduation became the rival
of Wollaston in minute analysis, and possessed most extraor-
dinary skill in manipulation. The following anecdote to the
point was related on the authority of the late President of the
Royal Society : On one occasion he observed a tear trickling
down the face of a lady ; he caught it on a piece of glass, lost
one-half, analyzed the other half, and discovered a microsco-
pic salt.
“ He resided most of the time abroad, and was the author
of upwards of twenty original memoirs on various subjects of
science. He appears to have been proud of his scientific at-
tainments, and on one occasion wrote thus : * The best blood
of England flows in my veins. On my father’s side I am a
Northumberland ; on my mother’s I am related to kings. But
his is of no consequence. My name shall live in the memory
of mankind when the titles of the Northumberlands and Per-
cy s are forgotten.’ Professor Henry said he could find no
evidence that he had written this in view of the establishment
of an institution.
“Smithson died at Genoa in the year 1829, leaving his
property to his nephew, the son of his brother, with a clause
in his will leaving it in trust of the United States, for found-
ing an institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge
among men, in case the nephew died without issue. He did
so die, and the money, about $500,000, came into possession
of our Government.”
Professor Henry then explained his own connexion with
the Smithsonian Institution, which was entirely unsolicited on.
his part. He mentioned the several plans which had been
suggested for the organization of the Institution, as well as
that which has been finally adopted as a compromise. Ac-
cording to this—
To Increase Knowledge.—It is proposed, first, to stimulate
men of talent, in every part of the country and of the world
WASHINGTON.
« Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparable.”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1847.
to make original researches by offering suitable rewards ;
and, second, to appropriate annually a portion of the income
for particular researches, under the direction ef suitable
persons.
To Diffuse Knowledge.—It is proposed, first, to publish a
series of periodicatl reports on the progress of all branches of
knowledge ; and, second, to publish occasionally separate trea-
tises on the subjects of general interest.
No memoir on subjects of physical science to be accepted
for publication which does not form a positive'addition to hu-
man knowledge, and all unverified speculations to be rejected.
Each memoir presented to the Institution to be submitted
for examination to a commission of persons of reputation for
learning in the branch to which the article pertains, and to be
accepted for publication only in case the report of this com-
mission is favorable.
The reports on the progress of knowledge, to be furnished
by collaborators, consisting of men eminent in the different
branches of knowledge. These reports to consist of three
classes—physical, moral, and political, literature and the
fine arts.
One-half of the income of the Institution is to be devoted to
carrying out this plan ; the other half to the increase and dif-
fusion of knowledge by means of collections of books and ob-
jects of nature and art.
The building, which is slowly in progress, is to be erected,
in considerable part, out of the interest which will accrue up-
on the interest which has accumulated upon the original sum
since it has been in the keeping of the United States.
gOr THE FATAPSCO FEMALE INSTITUTE,
near Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps Prin-
cipal, will be in session for the Winter after the 3d of Novem-
ber. oct 2—2awt3dDec
DOCTOR CHRISTIE’S GALVANISM.
rTUilS wonderful but mysterious agent is now astonishing
I philosophers by its vast influence in the operations ol
nature, and its extended connexion with physical science ; and
that cause, which, not a century ago, excited in Galvani, the
Italian professor, an almost infantile amusement, when sur-
prised he hovered over the pewter plate, in which, by its ac-
tion, some frogs’ legs were twitching and convulsed, is now
clearly ascertained to be the origin of nervous influence, and
the great power whereby we are enabled to continue our ter-
restrial existence ; whose local and partial abduction produces
the withered and useless limb, and total absence exhibits the in-
animate dust, whose proper presence denotes strength and
health, and whose deficient action is the sure criterion of
weakness and disease.
Galvanism is supposed to be identical with electricity and
magnetism, and these wondrous agents have long been known
to possess great efficacy in the cure of some very painful and
tedious diseases. These benefits, however, have been greatly
lessened by a want of means for their proper application.
This has been entirely and successfully remedied by Doctor
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All applications requesting further information or regarding
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THE PROSPECT BEFORE US.
Even since the emission of our paper of yester-
day we have confirmation of the determination of
the Executive—having done nothing within the last
eight months but place the country in a more diffi-
cult pass in regard to the Mexican War than it stood
in when Congress last adjourned—not to wait the
five short weeks which intervene before Congress
will again be in session, but to take such measures
as in its high and mighty wisdom and power it
deems expedient for the permanent occupation
of Mexico ! Truly did the organ of the Govern-
ment (the Official Gazette) predict, twelve months
before the President brought on the war, not only
the war itself, but the “ second Conquest of Mexico.”
Already we are so deeply in for it, that all the at-
tention of our National Government at this moment
is absorbed, instead of in the proper affairs and in-
terests of this People, in providing for the final
conquest and government of a great Nation, be-
tween whom and the United States, when it pleas-
ed our President to go to war with it, there existed,
unrepealed and still unbroken, a Treaty, the funda-
mental article of whicli was that “ there shall be a
firm, inviolable, and universal Peace, and a true
and sincere friendship, between the United States
of America and the United Mexican States, in all
the extent of their possessions,” &c.
The objects for which this Government was
established have no relation to such a slate of things
as this conquest and proposed permanent occupa-
tion of Mexico. The Constitution of the United
States confers no such powers upon Congress, much
less upon the Executive, as those which the Presi-
dent has exercised ever since Congress last adjourn-
ed, and was indeed preparing to exercise whilst
Congress was yet in session.
* * * * But, not to transcend our present pur-
pose, let us introduce to our readers the evidence
which we now have of the present designs of the
Executive. They, will be found in the following
extracts, the first of which is of precisely equal
authority with the Correspondence of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, which we have frequently had occa-
sion to speak of, and the second of which is from
a source always much to be relied upon :
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BALTIMORE SUN.
“ Washington, October 26, 1847.
“ Sufficient intimations have been thrown out in
< regard to the orders recently sent to Gen. Scott
4 to convince me that he has been directed—1st. to
4 trouble himself no longer about truces, armistices,
4 negotiations, or protocols ; 2d. to leave undisturb-
4 ed the shadow of a Government now at Quere-
4 taro ; 3d. to prepare for permanent occupa-
4 tion and for tranquillizing the country ; 4th. to
4 disarm the whole population of the cities and
4 country on the road from Yera Cruz to Mexico,
4 and break up and destroy their ann.s ; and, 5th,
4 to levy contributions upon the principal cities and
4 States.”
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.
“ Washington, October 25.
44 The Government sends frequent messages to
4 Gen. Scott. A messenger [Mr. Tasistro] left
4 this morning with despatches for him. 1 learn,
4 from various sources, that the Administration has
4 given such orders to Gen. Scott as will prevent
4 him from again offering or accepting an armis-
4 tice, or inviting the Mexican Government to make
4 peace. The day has gone by, too, for offering
4 any pecuniary inducements to the Mexican rulers,
4 or compensation for territory.”
Just at the moment of meeting with these con-
sentaneous indications from Headquarters of our
Government, we received also the New Orleans
“Delta” of the 19th of this month, containing a
Letter from its correspondent at the Headquarters
of our Army in the City of Mexico, under date of
September 17th. The 44 Delta ”—itself always un-
der the delusion which, more fatal to the public
welfare than its annual pestilence to individual
health, seems to pervade almost the entire popula-
tion of New Orleans, that it will be not only poli-
tic but honorable in the United States to occupy
the whole of Mexico, and eventually seize and pos-
sess as much of it as the most rapacious “ annexa-
tionist” wants—testifies to the intelligence of its
correspondent, and to his opportunities of acquir-
ing such correct information as entitles his opinions
to great weight. The views of one thus vouched
for, as disclosed in the following extracts, appear
to us to be at this moment of the greatest conse-
quence, and we lose no time therefore in laying
them before our readers, and entreating their earn-
est attention to them :
Extracts from the Correspondent of the 11 Delta f
writing from the City of Mexico, under date of
September 17 th.
“The attitude of affairs by which we are surrounded leave
us but one of two alternatives, to wit : military occupation
and government of the country, or to fall back upon the base
of our operations, take up our boundary line, and hold the
harbors of the country until Mexico, tired off her oppressed
condition, sues for peace to relieve her from the chains which
bind her upon the Gulf and the Pacific •; annexation of the
States of Mexico, Puebla, VeraCruz, San Luis, Guanajuato,
Guadalajara, or any other of those populous States included
ki the line drawn from VeraCruz to the Pacific, being totally
out of the question, and one of the greatest fallacies ever pro-
pagated. If we did annex them, the North never would con-
sent to the existence of slavery in any of them, and to allow
them all the rights and immunities which we as free citizens en-
joy, would bring about a state of affairs which would endanger
the existence of our own free institutions, and so disturb the
equilibrium of the movements of our Government as to make
us rue the day we ever put foot upon the soil of Mexico. The
people are totally and wholly unprepared, by habits, education,
and nature, for exercising those high and important duties re-
quired by civilization and a free and liberal Government.”
“The system of church government at present exercised
here would have to be admitted and continued, or we would
have to encounter a foe more formidable in its resources, more
powerful in its combats, than all the bristling bayonets, glitter-
ing swords, and death-dealing artillery over which we have
already triumphed. A war of religion is one of those wars
which is never ended until one or the other of the parties is
exterminated, or so enfeebled as to be unable to offer resist-
ance ; and in a country so thickly populated as this it would
inevitably be the result. Therefore, in view of things as they
actually exist, I take it for granted that annexation.of this
section of this country is totally impracticable ; and those
who have been its advocates in the United States—myself, to
some extent, a'mong others'—are ignorant of the difficulties our
Government would have to encounter, and the endless trouble
and exasperation it would lead to.
“ Military occuputioh and government of all the country
we have conquered, to my mind, offers no fewer objections
than annexation. According to the opinions of the persons
in this army whose views, by their acknowledged ability, are
entitled to the most weight, it would take an army of at least
one hundred thousand men to occupy and garrison the differ-
ent States and military posts. How long would it take us to
get this force equipped and in the field ? The President last
winter called for ten additional regiments, (ten thousand men,)
and, although it was during the short session of Congress, a
portion of the troops have not yet arrived, and those which
have come did not arrive at the seat of operations until the
month of August. They were enlisted for the war, under the
excitement of active operations and a spirited campaign. Now
that the excitement of the campaign has ended, that the next
session of Congress is a long one, how long will it take us to
throw into this country one hundred thousand troops, when
they know that their life is to be the dull monotony of the
garrison ? But admitting, for the sake of argument, that they
could he sent here by the expiration of one year, is a standing
army of one hundred thousand men in consonance with the
spirit of our republican and free institutions ? Would it move
with the same simplicity and regularity our old army has }
Would the military profession retain its present ability, its
scientific attainments, its dignity, and its high character, by
being so suddenly enlarged to one hundred thousand ? I think
I may safely answer, no! Again : how would this large
army have to be supported ? Will the people of the United
States consent to supply a revenue for its support? Will they
consent to any further and permanent enlargement of the pub-
lic expenditures for the sake of holding a territory from
which they would derive very little, benefit for years to come P
If we may judge of the aversion of the people of the United
States to high taxation, high duties, unproductive expendi-
tures of the public treasure, I think I may be safe in conclud-
ing that they never will consent to the support of a standing
army sufficient to garrison and occupy that portion we have
already, and what of necessity we would have to conquer.”
“ Let us examine the other alternative, and see if our in-
terests do not require that we should fall back upon the base
ol our operations, and, if nothing more, await the dispositions
of the American Coirgress.
“We are here, and for the present isolated from the Go-
vernment and the rest of the army. From the time the army
set foot on the ’Rio Grande we have had nothing but a suc-
cession of brilliant victories—we have penetrated the very
heart of Mexico with four different columns, and from each
point there has been a triumphal march—the stars and stripes
have never as yet suffered a defeat.”
“ The valor and superiority of our own arms have been
established beyond question or doubt—Mexico has been hum-
bled and degraded in the eyes of the world, while our own
brilliant achievements stand up prominently as a precedent in
the annals of the world, to be admired and boasted of when
the actors themselves shall lie mouldering in the dust. Na-
tional and personal ambition has been satisfied^ The nation
will be proud of the trophies and those who won them. But
with our successes we have arrived at the end of our rope
the capital has fallen, and there is nothing to offer us any fur-
ther resistance. The President, Gen. Santa Anna, has ab-
dicated the Presidency, and the commander of the army left,
with a small body guard, for parts unknown, and is now in
fact a flying fugitive—the army of 32,000, which they had
when we arrived before the city, does not now number over
3,000, without means of support, and deserting eyery day.
Gan our army do any thing more—could it be expected to
have done any thing more ? Now there is no new enter-
prise which offers itself, and there is no Government with
which we can arrange our difficulties. Therefore, I would
ask, if we had not better pack up our ivagons as soon as the
sick arc able to be moved; and fall back upon the base of our
operations, and await the action of our Government ? Then
our wounded and sick men could be better provided for, and
our army better and cheaper supplied - and placed in good
quarters—the volunteers sent home—the regulars drilled, and
the regiments filled up and prepared to occupy the boundary
we may determine. This course of policy, in my opinion,
considering the existing circumstances, is preferable on more
accounts than one. It leaves the Government at home in a
position to carry out its views with facility and without delay.
It would leave the artfty in a position as convenient in point
of transportation, to the occupation of our boundary, as
though it were in barrack in the United States.”
SENTIMENT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The following was among the resolutions unan-
imously adopted at the "Whig State Convention
lately held in New Hampshire :
Resolved, That, deeply impressed with a sense of the emi-
nent services rendered by DANIEL WEBSTER to his coun-
try,. both in the halls of Congress and in the Departmeut of
State, and remembering with feelings of gratified pride that
New Hampshire, which gave him birth, also gave him the
first opportunity of acquiring that distinction which has made
him the admiration of one hemisphere and the glory of the
other ; above all, calling to mind, as it is meet and inevitable,
in the present portentous condition of national affairs, we
should and must, that of all our public men, as he is the
greatest, so he was the first to protest against and oppose the
fuither extension of slavery—an opposition commenced and in-
sisted upon as early as 1837, and continued unabated until
the present lime, as expressed in his own emphatic words :
“I never would and never should, and I say now I never will
and never shall vote for any further annexation to this country
with slave representation we, therefore, Whigs of New
Hampshire, in Convention assembled, earnestly and unani-
mously propose him to the respectful consideration of the
Whig National Convention as a candidate for the highest elec-
tive office in this country and the world.
The long list of the killed and wounded in the
recent engagements before the city of Mexico
brings palpably almost before the country the hor-
rors of war. How great has been the sacrifice of
life, how lamentable the outpouring of precious
blood, how excruciating the agonies of the wounded!
This is paying dearly indeed for our glorious victo-
ries, and for the renown of our arms. And yet
Gen. Scott has been careful of the lives of his
soldiers. He has not wantonly sacrificed them for
bootless triumph. He has had no battle which was
not necessary for the attainment of his object, and
he never fought for the mere sake of obtaining fame
as a commander. Hard, close fighting has been im-
posed upon him by the circumstances in which he
has been placed, and the loss he has sustained was
unavoidable.—Alexandria Gazette.
FROM BALTIMORE AND THE NORTH.
Federalists, Federalism, &c.—The 44 Tusca-
loosa Observer,” one of the best-conducted Demo
cratic papers of Alabama, has the following remarks
on the habit of the Washington Union and all who
take their cue from it, continually calling out Fed-
eralists, Federalism, &c.:
“ Perhaps we are wrong, but we don’t think it indica'ive
of the best taste in the Washington Union to persist in apply-
ing the term 4 Federal’ to the party politically opposed to us.
Our great respect for the central organ has induced us to look
quite attentively for a Federalist this long time ; but we have
been unable to find one, at least in these ‘diggings,’ up to
the present writing ; and we are assured by some of the 4 old-
est inhabitants’ that the genuine Federal party expired so long
ago that they themselves forgot it before we were born. Per-
haps they deceived us, or perhaps we are wrong ; but, at any
rate, ‘them’s our sentiments.’ ”
■ Baltimore, October 27—5 P. M.
After a pause of some days in the flour market, holders
have given way, and sales have been made at a considerable
decline. There were sales yesterday afternoon of 3,000 bar-
reIs-City Mills flour at $6.12, a decline of 374c. per barrel on
the sales of last week. Sales also this morning of some 500
barrels more at the same price. ' Holders, however, are ask<
ing, in most instances, $6.18^ to $6.25. A decline has also
taken place in Howard street brands, which is selling at
$6.12 a $6 25. Rye flour $5 ; corn meal $3.62—nominal.
The decline in Howard street flour is fully 25c. per barrel.
The receipts of grain continue light, but prices are declin-
ing. Sales to-day of good to prime Yed wheat at 123 a 128
cents ; white do. 128 a 130. White corn is selling at 64 a
65, and yellow 65 a 67, and dull. Oats 35 a 40 ; rye 82 a 85.
Stocks are dull. Sales of $500 Baltimore 6’s at 89f ;
United States 6’s 102^ bid Treasury notes 101 bid ; Mary-
land 6’s 851 bid.
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.
New York, October 27—8 P. M.
The Herkimer Convention has adopted resolutions repu-
diating the proceedings at the Syracuse Convention, and re-
affirming the Wilmot proviso. Mr. Wilmot himself was
present and addressed the meeting at length.
The cotton market remains dull and prices are drooping.
Flour is still firm, with a good inquiry for home demand and
the Eastern markets. Sales of Genesee brands at $6.56 and
Southern do. $6.62 a $6.68 ; corn meal $3.25.
Good qualities of wheat are in active request. Sales of
Genesee at 142, and of red 136 ; mixed 138.
Corn is steady and in demand at the East. Sales of mixed
at 73 a 74 cents, and white do. 76 cents; oats 46 a 48 cents;
rye 94 cents. Whiskey is firm at 324 cents per gallon.
There is less movement in provisions, especially the article
of pork. Sugars and molasses heavy—-price $4.50 per 100
pounds.
The sales of stocks have been moderate, and prices a little
lower.
Philadelphia, October 27—5 P. M.
Stocks quiet—prices maintained. Flour is dull. There
are sellers but no buyers at $6 75. Rye flour $5.25. A sale
of Southern red wheat at 135 cents. Yellow corn 76 a 77
cents, with sales, and the market drooping.
LOCAL MATTERS.
FROM THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY.
The Cherokee Advocate of the 7th instant contains the
inaugural message of the principal chief, John Ross,.delivered
in person and viva voce at the opening of the annual session
of the National Council on the 4th.
Previous to the delivery of the address Elijah Hicks was
chosen President of the National Committee and Dennis W.
Bushyhead Clerk; Archibald Campbell Speaker of the
Council, and D. M. Foreman Clerk. In joint meeting Da-
vid Vann was elected Treasurer of the nation.
The address of Mr. Ross occupies a little more than a co-
lumn of the Advocate, and gives a favorable representation of
the nation’s prospects and condition. We extract the essen-
tial passages :
“ Although there have been many individual outrages and
murders perpetrated in the land since the last annual session,
yet, on the whole, the condition of the people, individually
and collectively, is prosperous ; and while there is cause to
mourn over the evils that have occurred from the reckless con-
duct of the drunkard, the corrupt, and the vicious, I am hap-
py to say that the country has enjoyed many blessings from
Divine favor, for which we are all indebted and should mani-
fest our sincere gratitude. For it is evident that the health of
the people has comparatively been good ; that the industry of
the husbandman has been amply rewarded with bountiful
crops; that the efforts of the temperance societies have been
encouraged, and their numbers greatly increased ; -and that
by the preaching of the gospel many converts have been add-
ed to the various churches established among us. * *
“The district school system, under competent teachers, has
succeeded as well as can be expected ; and, as far as I am in-
formed, the operations of these schools the current year have
been more flourishing than hitherto, but not having as yet re-
ceived the superintendent’s report, I am unprepared to make
any further suggestions on the subject at present; but the re-
port shall be laid before you so soon as it is received. The
buildings authorized by the act of November 26th, 1846, to
be erected for the two seminaries designed for the education of
the youths of the country in the higher branches have been
contracted for, and the work is now going on. * *
“As to the special commissioners who were appointed to
adjudicate Cherokee claims arising under the treaty of 1835-6,
it is known that this board had organized to sit in Washing-
ton ; and although the President had once promised the dele-
gation to instruct these commissioners to come out for the pur-
pose of transacting their business in this station, yet, for rea-
sons never explained, it has not been done. The great delay
on the part of the United States tq settle promptly, justly,
and equitably the claims of the Cherokees, both individually
and nationally, has been a source of great injury and disap-
pointment to ail; and it is our unceasing duty to press this
matter most earnestly upon the early attention of the United
States Government until it shall have been taken up, consi-
dered, and settled definitively. Happily for the country, peace
and harmony prevail within our own borders, as well as with
those of every nation known to us ; and it will he our sacred
duty to endeavor to cultivate and preserve this good under-
standing permanently.”
The Mobile papers announce the death of the Hon. Henry
Goldthwaite, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of
the State of Alabama, who died at his residence in Mobile on
Monday week, after a short illness, of yellow fever.
TREMENDOUS STORM AT THE WEST.
Cincinnati, October 26—P. M.
We have been visited by a tremendous storm, which has
caused the destruction of an immense amount of property.
It has rained almost continuously for three days, overflowing
the country for miles around.
Along the Little Miami, which is higher than it has been
known for years, the damage done is beyond parallel. In a
number of instances barns have been swept away, and thou-
sands of bushels of grain destroyed. The fences for fifty
miles along the river have shared in the general destruction,,
and there is no telling at the present lime the extent of the
damage done. The bottom lands have been overflowed, and
the Little Miami, for miles, now forms a broad lake.
The Ohio river at this place is several feet above high-water
mark, and is still rising at’ the rate of one foot and a half per
hour. Several gardens along the river in front of the city are
already coveied with water.
The small tributary streams are swollen to overflowing, and
in their mad career spreading destruction around. It is next
to impossible to form any estimate of the amount of damage
done. It is unquestionably the most severe freshet we have
ever had here.
Jonathan D. Morris (Dem.) has been elected a
member of Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Gen. Hamer, of Ohio. Mr. Mor-
ris had no opposition, except the Liberty candidate.
There has been published within a few days an
extract of a letter from Mr. Horsley Palmer, of
London, stating that an event would transpire there
in a very short time that would startle the world.
The New York Journal of Commerce has the fol-
lowing article respecting this statement:
A letter from a gentleman of very high character in London
has made a great deal of talk, and a great deal of misrepre-
sentation, and some-alarm. The letter is represented as say-
ing that an event would probably soon occur in England,
which would shake the commercial world. The language of
the letter is : “ We are in the midst of commercial difficul-
‘ ties which I have not seen equalled since 1825. As we
‘ have nothing now to use but coin, it would not be strange if
‘ during the week some tremendous crash should occur which
‘ would shake all commercial credit throughout the country.”
Another letter from a gentleman high in banking affairs says
“ a commercial failure is about to occur that will astonish the
world.” What this grpat catastrophe is no one knows, but
of course the Bank of England is the first thing to he scruti-
nized. They say that the Bank had more to pay in ten days
as interest on the Government debt than its whole amount of
coin, and that it had done the very extraordinary thing of re-
fusing to discount this interest ten days before it was payable.
It is also said that the Bank had some special intercourse with
the Government.
The present charter of the Bank is termed by some intelli-
gent men “ the cast iron policy.” It has no elasticity. It
cannot issue biils, though they might save the nation. Sup-
pose the Bank of England should suspend payment again—
a supposition as monstrous as the same supposition about
our United States Bank fifteen years ago—but suppose it
should. We do not see how it would affect us except that as
bills would be -then paid in irredeemable paper,, the rate of
exchange would he very essentially reduced.
A Remarkable Experiment.—A recent work
of science gives the following novel experiment,
which settles questions of some importance in
philosophy :
“ Two hundred pounds weight of earth were dried in an
oven, and afterwards put into an earthen vessel. The earth
was then moistened with rain water, and a willow tree,
weighing 5 pounds, was planted therein. During the space
of 5 years the earth was carefully watered with rain water, or
pure water ; the willow grew and flourished ; and, to pre-
vent the earth being mixed with fresh earth, or dust blown on
it by the winds, it was covered with a metal plate perforated
with a great number of small holes, suitable for the free ad-
mission of air only. After growing in the air for 5 years, the
tree was removed, and found to weigh 169 pounds and about
3 ounces ; the leaves which fell from the tree every autumn
were not included in this weight. The earth was then re-
moved from the vessel, again dried in the oven, and after-
wards weighed ; it was discovered to have lost only about 2
ounces of its original weight; thus 160 pounds of woody
fibre bark or roots were certainly produced ; but from®what
source ? The air lus been discovered to be the source of the
solid element at least. This statement may at first appear in-
credible, but on slight reflection its truth is proved, because
the atmosphere contains carbonic acid, and is a compound of
714 parts, by weight of oxygen, and 388 parts, by weight of
carbon.”
We observe that Major Graham, of the Corps of Topo-
graphical Engineers, has been recently elected a member of
the Historical Society of Maine, as he had previously been of
the Historical Societies of Massachusetts and New York.
O CHOOL BOOKS, of every description, for sale by R.
FARNHAM, corner of 11th street and Penn, avenue.
CIRCULAR
To the Graduates of the United States Military Academy.
In order to afford opportunity to collect information for the
Triennial Register of Graduates of the United States Mili'ary
Academy, soon to be published, those graduates not in the
regular army are requested to communicate their respective
addresses as early as practicable to the Adjutant of the Mili-
tary Academy at West Point, N. Y.
A copy of the Register, when completed, will be forwarded
to each graduate whose address is obtained.
J. L. K. REEVES, Adjt. M. A.
DEATHS.
In this city, on Tuesday night, Mr. LEWIS STACOM,
aged about 35 years, late a member of Captain Bronaugh’s
company of Maryland and District of Columbia volunteers,
leaving a wife and only child.
His friends are invited to attend his funeral from the resi-
dence of his sister (Mrs. Francis) this evening at 4 o’clock.
On the 18th instant, at Pascagoula, Louisiana, near New
Orleans, of yellow fever, THEODORICK B. SKINNER,
a native of Baltimore, but for many years a resident of Louis-
iana.
This most estimable young gentleman was a son of John
S. Skinner, Esq., and all who knew him will sympathize
most sincerely in the deep distress which his death must in-
flict on his bereaved parents.
[REPORTED FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.]
Circuit Court.—Joseph Edmund Law vs. Thomas
Law’s executor and others. The argument in this important
chancery case, which has been maintained for the space of
three days by Messrs. Coxe, Lawrence, May, Carlisle,
and Bradley, was closed on Tuesday, and has involved some
of the nicest and most abstruse doctrines of law. The argu-
ment was for the purpose of settling the principles upon
which the Auditor (to whom the case will be submitted)
should state an account. Upon the Auditor’s report the case
may probably come up for argument again ; and, whatever
may be the final decision in the Circuit Court, will probably
be carried to the Supreme Court.
The Court was occupied during the latter part of Tuesday
in hearing the argument of counsel (Messrs. Garlise and Brad-
ley bejng on opposite sides) in a case of some importance un-
der the lien law.
We understand that the jury trials will not commence un-
til next Monday.
Handsome Military Parade.—We had ihe pleasure of
witnessing on Monday last a parade of about one hundred
new recruits, lately enlisted in the Marine Corps, who in a
very brief space of time have been made to assume a very
soldier-like appearance, under the masterly training of Ser-
geant Major Pulizzi and other non-commissioned officers at- 4
tached to our garrison. The company was commanded by
Lieutenant Taylor ; it was preceded by the Marine Band, in
full strength and full uniform. The weather being remark-
ably fine, there was a general turn-out along Pennsylvania
avenue to witness the parade and listen to the inspiring
music of the Marine Band.
The Ladies’ Fair at Odu Fellows’ Hall, for the ben-
efit of Saint Paul’s English Lutheran Church, has been pret-
ty well attended during the last week, but not more so than
might be expected by those who have already seen and ex-
amined the beauties of the exhibition. The embroidered arti-
clesTnanufactured by the ladies of the congregation ; the splen-
did confectionaries, cake, ice-creams, jellies, and other sweet-
meats, prepared by Mrs. Kinchy and other disinterested
artistesthe numerous fancy arid useful articles so profusely
and handsomely arranged on the stalls and tables of the Sa-
loon, all combine to present a beautiful and interesting spec-
tacle. We hope that there will be a full attendance on each
successive night of the exhibition ; that the members of differ-
ent denominations will step forward to aid their Lutheran
brethren ; and that the result will be such as to satisfy and
gratify all the parties concerned.
THIS EVENING.
This evening the Entertainment, projected and superin-
tended by the Ladies, for the benefit of the suffering Mor-
mons, will come off at Carusi’s Saloon. It can scarcely be
necessary to say more than" invite the public attention to it.
The Ladies are resolved to make the entertainment pleasant
to all who patronize them, and offer a rich treat in a hand-
some Tea Party, Music by the Marine Band, and Singing by
those popular vocalists, the Euterpeans.
RELIEF TO THE SUFFERING MORMONS.
THE Ladies who have undertaken to patronize and manage
the charity designed to save a multitude of men, women,
and children from starving with hunger and cold in the wilder-
ness, to which they have been driven by lawless violence, are
well satisfied, after careful inquiry, that there is nothing in the
character or condition of these wretched outcasts to throw any
shadow of doubt over their title to partake of the commisera-
tion and charitable felief which every humane and christiau
soul holds a debt to the suffering portion of the human family.
Nothing is found in the impostures and superstitions imputed
to these people as a sect, under the vilified name of Mormons,
to shake their title to the common offices of humanity, even
if their claims upon the active benevolence and charity of their
tellow-creatures were not rendered absolute by the actual pre-
sence of want and misery in the direst extremes. The patro-
nesses and managers of this charity have commissioned their
secretary to prepare a more particular statement of the consi-
derations actuating them on this occasion ; and, in the mean
time, to give public notice of the plan devised by them for giv-
ing practical effect to the charity. *
First. They have appointed several places of deposite for
such contributions, either of money or articles of clothing, &cc.,
as it may be convenient for different individuals to supply,
namely :
Mrs. Latimer, near President’s square ; Mrs. Dr. Laurie,
Pennsylvania avenue; Mrs. Martin Johnson, E street, near
10th ; Mrs. Hall, H street, near 6th; Mrs. Read, C street;
Mrs. Sprigg, Capitol Hill.
Second. A tea party at Carusi’s Ball room on Thursday
evening, the 28th instant. Tickets lor which, at 50 cents, may
be had at any of the above named places, and at Fischer’s, Tay-
lor’s, and Morrison’s bookstores, and at Mr. Carusi’s.
gOT Persons wishing to make contributions to the Tea Party
are requested to send them to Carusi’s Saloon.
gO“The Marine Band will be in attendance on the evening
of the Tea Party. oct 27—2t
CONCERT AT CARUSI’S SALOON.
The managers of this charity are gratified to have it in their
power to say that, in addition to the Marine Band, whose ser-
vices have beeii gratuitously given, the EUTERPEANS,
whose Concerts, under the management of Mr. Crosby, have
given so much pleasure and drawn such crowded houses, hav-
ing prepared themselves, with much labor and study, for a
new and interesting series of Concerts, have generously post-
poned their own performances and volunteered their services
on this occasion, hoping thereby to increase the attractions for
the evening, and thus contribute,to enlarge the contributions.
oct 28—It
a LADY, who has had much experience in Teaching,
J\ wishes to obtain a situation as teacher in a family, or will
take charge of a small school. The terms will be moderate,
and she will engage to teach the English branches, also music
and the rudiments of the French language. If required the
most satisfactory references can be given. Communications,
post paid, addressed to A. R., Hagerstown, Maryland, will
receive immediate attention. oct 21—if2m
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shorten life, as affections of the skin, spine, stomach, bowels,
kidneys, liver, scrofula, piles, gravel, and female complaints.
Its rules—easy, practical, and pure—form a guide to perfect
health and long life. 28 engravings, 324 pages. 50 cents.
Postage 94 cents. By Samuel Sheldon Fitch, A.M., M.D.,
at 707 Broadway, New York.
Any person remitting fifty cents, free, will receive one copy
by mail, to any part. The trade supplied. ‘an 18—wlye
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/'CONTINUATION SALE.—The sale at the residence
\j of the late Mr. Fox will be resumed this morning, at 10
o’clock. All the Chamber Furniture is yet to be sold, with
many other valuable articles, Saddles, Silk Damask Cur-
tains, 8cc.
oct 28—U R. VV, DYER, Auctioneer.
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