The Burlington Hawk-Eye from Burlington, Iowa • 1

VOL. X. -atBUB OSITTIOalSSraB la Paklliherf every Thursday, iorncr of illaiu Jefferson Streets, By EDWARDS BROAD "WELL. IDWAlDI. JAMES M.

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$100 each additional insertion, 60 one month, 00 three months, TOO one year, 18 00 Itrotasional Cards, (under 6 lines) per annum 3 GENERAL 6 Ill BO case will tire price of subscription to paper be induded in the above charges. Medicines, half column, one year one column, 00 Merchants advertising by the year will be entitled to half a column for 9 00 Ait extra charge will be made for all over Wf column. SO 00 60 00 gfPurlington is the seat of justice for Des Moines contains about 4000 inhabitants. It is iritwtea on the west bank tf the Mississippi, about fgp miles above St Louis. Silas A.

Hudson, TIN, Copper and Sheet Iron Manufacturer, Trimmer of Stoves, JcTlerson door above J. G.Foote's Iron Cilia IIII, WHOLESALe. fc RETAIL DEALER in Drugs, Metncincs, Paints, Dyc-stutl's, Putty, Win. 'dew Glass, etc. etc jejj'erson Sh eet, Burlington.

Jollll G. Footo, DEALER in Iron, Steel, Tin Plates, Nails, Stoves and Jewett's Patent Ploughs Jtferton ttreet, Burlington, Iowa. 1. 0. LAWMAN GEO.

C. LAUMATF .1. i. Jfc FORWARDINGand Prilgll Cook, JEFFERSON STREET, between Main and Third. WHOLESAAE and Retail Dealers in Iron, Stoves, Castings, Hollow-Ware, etc.

of Tin, Copper and Sheet IroaWare. Daniel Klaiilierg, SHOP pairs same cheap. on Main street, between Washington and Columbia, Burlington, Iowa. W. F.

Cool us li, WHOLESALE and Retail Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Boots aad Shoes, Hats and Caps, Glass, Nails, ctc. etc. Jcjfcrson street, Burlington, Iowa. EALEKS in staple and Fancy Dry-Goods, Gro- South side Jefferson street, Burlington, Iowa. S.

Kimball Faerof ORWARDING and Commission an.l Jetfr.on sts, Burlington, Iowa DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Capj. etc. II iinsSHoii ft Itmokliii 'k. HAVE AGENT and Commission Merchant, Jefferson, between Main and Water streets, Burlington, Iowa. DEALER IN staple Dry Goods, Groceries, LItem, Boots, shoes, etc.

etc. Dr John F. Henry, TENDERSBurlington B. T. iVitl, Ftir ORWARDING and Commission Burlington, Iowa.

DEAI.ER Dry-Goods, Groceries, Queensware, Hardware, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, etc. etc. L. FARSONS. JOSHUA COFF.

C. B. FARSORS. A FFront ORWARDING AMD COMMISSION MERCHANTS, and J'ferton BORUSOTON IOWA. DEALERS IN Dry-Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Boots and Shoes, Drugs and Medicines, Dye-StuH's, Paints, Oils, etc.

etc. J. Pc co. Fter )RWARDING and Commission Burlington Iowa. Liberal advances made on consignments to forward, or sell in this market at auction or othervise, or to sell in St Louis New Orleans or the Atlantic Cities.

je J. F. DEALim IK BOOKS AND every description at the of Barret House. WMedicinet, BurliugtonjIowa-So-yif .1. F.

Taltant, HOLESALE AND RETAIL Dealer in Putty, Window Jeflei son Street, Iowa. M.9.COX. WIU. GARRETT. JOKL KIKSHBAUM WCAX, A BARRETT HOLES ALE and Retail Dealers in Dry-Goods Groceries, Seady Made Clothing, etc.

Corner of Main Jeflerson Streets, Burlifiytcn, lotca. Jjockard WHOLESALE and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Groceries, Ready Itfcde CloUiintr, ctc. Corner Main and Jefliersea streets, li CRLINQTOK, loWA. Wesley and Retail in Dry-Goods, Groceries, (Queensware, Boots, Jeft'erson street, Burliligton. iaST Dr J7 ttanicr, 'Office on Main Iowa ft- CjADDLEn AND HAUNF.ss MAKER, Jefferson street, BVRLIMGTOH, IOWA.

Sturgfs iV Son, BALERS in Hats, Caps and Furs, can side Main two doors from Jellcrson Swan Ilocrstier ted A Third in Produce and asso.ted tSerclian dise, Corner of Jefferton and IOWA. R. S. OOT, SHOE IT LEATHER MERCHANT, Main street, two doors north of Jeft'erson, Iowa. A.

Carpeialer, IEWELLER and nesr the Corner of Jetfcrson Street, BniLisarow, IOWA. Jones, and Commission Merchant, next C. Peasley fc Water street, in Msapied by the Telegraph OMse. F. Ssv 11m Weo.

Blickhahn, Main Streot, Palmer's, Burlington, Iowa. Darlington, lows. From the St Looii Era. I would that Spring would come agate And with her April showers, Wake from their long.and dreamy sleep A thousand buds and Oh! how I'd laugh in exstacy, To see them quick unfold, 'Mid sunny beams, and sparkling dew, Their leaves of pink and gold. I would that Spring would come again, That I might once more hear, The murmuring of some gentle brook Fall gently on the ear.

But iee has bound their music And checked their rapid flow Oh! joyotu Spring, come forth again, Thou'lt loose their chains I know I would that Spring would come That I might list the strains Of birds, whose every thrilling note Holds my young heart in chains That I might see them flutter on, Amid I heir world Of green, Like winged gems they seetn to No brighter gems I ween. I would that Spring would come again, All is so bleak, so I cannot bear to hear such sounds, As fill the blast's sad moan. I would that Spring would come again) With her breezes soft and low, And lift from oil' earth's chilly breast This covering of snow. I would that Spring would come again, Tho' many say that Death" Will lurk within her thousand buds. And float upon her breath, Thit may be so then, if I die, 'Twili soothe my heaving breast, To think Spring's early fiowets Will blostom where 1 FEBRUARY 26th, 1819.

DORA. allusion to the Cholera. MERCHANTS, and Commission torner Front Jeft'erson streets, Burlington, lowi. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, ctc. JOHN rnvoil.

I.YMAN COOK. 1 associated in the practice of Medicine. nr Office on the corner of Washington and Third streets. Burlington, May 22 '48 W. II.

A Sad Narrative. Lesson TO You so following narrative from the New Orleans Delta, is a gcod lesson for the 1 Now that people are getting sobered, it may have lome weight with the young men about town. The Delta says it is literally true Happening in Recorder Baldwin's court a lew days ego, just as his honor was getting through his usual list of vagrants, peace-breake)rs, and petty larceners, our notice was attracted b.y the piteous entreaty of an elderly individual, who stood in the dock, and earnestly begged hishon1 the "old man would never trouble him again. "And who are you, pray inquired his honor, with his customary phlegm. Judging bv the looks of the prisoner, it was not an impertinent inquiry.

His appearance was quite that of an "old sinner." His face, though not devoid of intelligence 1 and a certain expression of gentility, was bloated and seasoned with all the marks of a long course of dissipation aud destitui tion. His eye did not, altogether, lack the lustre that betokened the spirit of a man, and he still possessed the ease of manner, I tinged with maudlinism, and the bearing of a broken down gentleman. An old seedy blue cloth coat, covered a shirtless pair of black pants that had seen belter days, i sc.ncely protected his nether limbs from the peltings of the storm, i "Who am honey?" responded this forlorn inn'Jvidual "don't you know the old man, or are you ashamed to recognize him in his present 1 his professional services totheciti- tens of and its vicinity. in the Basement of his new building oa Corner of ith ttreet and the Public square. Residence on the sime building.

deors riAafim Turner, BOOT AND SHOE MAITBFACStreet, few doort North Of Jef- A. D. (Ireen, A AT LAW, Bur- tHBce on ttreet. Atmall: LAW, BurHftrm, OBceaihii residence onPvilietqvere plight I've been a greater man in my day than your honor ever will be in yours. I was the islature of North Carolina when Nat MaI con was a member of it, I have been President of the Senate of that old State and I reckon if I had ever tried I could have been Governor or Congressman.

I used to drive my carriage, had my race horses, and never went to Court without my man Bob riding behind me with a gold I band around his hat." "And what has brought you down so i low inquired his honor. I "Politics, sir. Some people say it was I whisky but whisky was only one of the effects, not the cause of my When I entered upon the estate my father I left me, which was quite a snug properly, i I was a moral and industrious young man RnrgC hut unfortunately, I had a long suit that ANUFACTURERS of Tfn, Copper and sheet CARR JC(J n)e Iron ware, Wholesale and Retail, Main street, i i doors above Jefferson, east side, Burlington. met some jolly fellows, who invited me Also, dealers in stoves of all descriptions-d-y i drink with them, and there too I got to talking politics and hearing speeches, and finally the boys persuaded me I had a gift lowest prices for speaking, and made me mount the frequently to court and there I stump. And when I once got on the political track, you couldn't any more stop me, than you could stop a locomotive with your big toe.

I became very I that cost me all my fortune I became a I provincial that cost me all my morality and good habits and, finally, from a great politician I became a now I am here, a houseless vagrant, in the clock with the very vilest of this great wicked city." "It is all true alas! too true," remarked a lawyer in court. "I knew Col. when he still occupied a high position in North Carolina he was one of the most prominent men of his time." "You can go," remarked the Recorder and the old man hobbled out of the dock and went off, not knowing, as he said, whither to direct iiis tottering melancholy example of the dangers which beset the path of those who abandon the peaceful pursuits of private, to engage in the corrupting scenes of political life. PROFITS OF PLANK ten miles of the Milan and Monroevilie Plank Road yielded, for the month of December last, $317,20 net over the cost of collection and repairs. The cost of construction of the 10 miles was $16,650 the net receipts for December were at the rate of 23 per cent per annum.

Mr Hamilton, President of the Milan and Richland Company, certifies that, on the completed portion, 5 miles, the amount of toll collected for six months ending on the first day of January, 1849, as appears from the collectors' books, was $1,086, enough after deducting expenses of collecting to make a dividend on the entire cost of ten miles of road, say $15,000, of 7-100 allowing that the read when compleied ten miles will earn in the same proportion for a year, it will be equal to 23 per on the entire cosL The stage plying between this place and Bloomington, capsized last week in a small stream of water. Its contents, four gentlemen, were spilled out very G(tt. Foreign Correspondence of the Mo Republican LETTER XI. NEAR Feb. We had a comedy in one act played at Paris by the eceentic ministry that now directs the destiny of France.

The piece came off on the 29lh of January, to the sound of drums and by the light of gleaming bayonets. To understand wherefore this exhibition was given to the French people and to the world, it must be borne in mind that the ministry has, from the very day of its formation, teen in open war with the National Assembly. It has declared the adjournment of the Assembly necessary but the truth is, that the organic laws of the Republic are not yet passed that the constitution, which is little but a collection of general principles, leaves the internal organization of France much as it was under Louis Philippe. Unless, therefore, the Assembly wishes to abandon the Republic to monarchists of all colors, it should not dissolve. The question of dissolution Was brought forward in the Assembly by the friends of the ministry, and it was known for about two weeks beforehand that the discussion, and probably the vote, would take place on the 29th.

The means employed to influence the Assembly, are curious, and extremely instructive as to the manner of doing things in France. Duringthese two weeks, the theatres favorable to the ministry produced the most satirical pieces against the Assembly the shop windows of the picture sellers abounded with caricatures of its members and the ministerial newspapers exhausted all theirarguments and all their powers of coaxing and threatening. At the suggestion of the ministry, and through the agency of the hundred thousand functionaries of the government, petitions for the dissolution of the Assembly were poured in from all parts of France. A copy of one of these famous circulars of the Minister of the Interior, was procur ed in some way by a member of the Assembly. This circular says "The first necessity of the country is the dissolution of the Assembly.

The country ought to protest against an arbitrary dictation which becomes from day to day more intolerable Let petitions flow in from all points of France to claim the prompt realization of the national wish expressed by the vote of the 10th December The circular then speaks of the Assembly as "our adversaries who are the adversaries of order," and says "let the Assembly know that its work is accomplished." The ministry had previously withdrawn all the projects oi laws it had presented this lell the Assembly with comparatively nothing to do. Mr Ba rrot and his d'lTJeagnes lost no opportunity to insult the Assembly, repeating in everyone of their speeches that it Was lime for the Assembly to dissolve. The ministry presented a project of law to shut up instantly every club and political reunion, knowing that the Assembly could not adopt it without violating the spirit and letter of the constitution. All the prefects and chief officers through the country, who were known 1o be Republicans, were removed from office. But as a little disorder of some sort in Paris was absolutely necessary, in order to serve as a pretext for a coup de main against the Assembly, the ministry provided for this also in several ways First, by opening the course of lectures by Monsiur Shermieur, who had been hooted down and almost mobbed by the students under Louis Philippe, and who was certain to be mobbed by them at his opening lecture.

This gentleman is for having sold himself to Louis Philippe. Secondly, by dissolving half the battalions of the Mobile gtiarc', and arresting under circumstances of great brutality, four of its principal officers. Thirrt'y, by threats to dismiss at cnce all the troops of the Republican Guard. These violent and unexpected measures exasperated, of course, these troops, who had been so much honored by the preceding administrations. Orders were sent several days before the29tli, to at different garrisons near Paris, to supply their troops with ammunition, atid have them ready to start at a moment's notice for Paris.

Several divisions of troops were ordered to move on Paris did arrive the 29th. For several days before the 29lh, the ministry labored in every way to widen the breach between it and the Assetnbly. On the morning of the 29th, the most singularly pertinent articles appeared in the government party papers. "La Pressc," for instance, gave an article full of advice for the people, advice which applied in all its parts to the situation that the ministry was about to make for Paris the Constitutional. invited the National Asscmhlv to choose a pacific dissolution rather than a forcibleone and the Jovrnaldes a prudent article with these remarkable words, "These days of 18lli Brumaire, are neither accordingto our principles or The Gazette dc France, a royalist paper, Said, on the same morning, "Perhaps today, even hereditary principle will bring back the heir." Not only at Paris, but in the departments, the government papers published these remarkable articles on the if Journal says We can atfim with knowledge that the ministry is decided to do its duty.

All France will follow after it in the combat which it will be nccessary to offer to the eternal enemies of order," The Journal de Moine et "Good citizens are not discouraged by this. Every one thinks (hat he sees in this movement, the index of a change ardently desired, and hopes that the great act looked for will be accomplished without a blow struck. Let France, legally assembled in her conventions, pronounce at last on the form of government which suits the best. If the resolution taken by the President atid by his ministry, appears extravagant, if a coup d'etat is taxed as criminal by the Republicans, we can always answer them that it belongs to the nation to qualify that "sovereign act." BURLINGTON. IOWA.

MARCH 22. 1849. After having thus ably prepared the way for a violent act against the Assembly, on Monday morning, the 29th, at eight the rappel was beaten through all Paris all the troops of the garrison, and even the troops called from the neighboring cities, were drawn up ii: battle array at all the principal points. The important squares were bristling with cannon, and the chambers about the National Assembly building, the court-yard and environs, were full of soldiers. The troops had already been stationed several hours around the Assembly Chamber before its Presidenl was of reason, or SSiK the pretcnce.

In answer to a note of President Marrast, General Changarnier very briefly stated that the government had thought proper to take precautions against an insurrection. Now, an express law provides that the President of the Assembly shall have the direction of all the troops destined to its defence. The act of the. government was in direct violation of this law. The intentions bf the ministry are perfectly evident from this fact alone.

It refused, during the whole day, to relinquish the command of the troops to the President Marrast. It was under the shadow of the bayonets of a hundred thousand troops that the Assembly went to discuss the question of its own dissolution. At the sound of the drum the papulation of Paris issued into the streets. Every man asked his the going does the government want the answer always don't know." Everybody that has seen Paris in its days of trouble, and who knows the electric sym- pathy that bind, together all the part's of: ''f. this Jreat body, knows that when a Paris- i ian hears the rnyyd, and does not know why it is beaten, that it is beaten for noth ing.

And good proof that there was nothing the matter is, that, Although the rappel was beaten from eight o'clock in the morning until three o'clonk in the afternoon, tliere were not not more than ten thousand of the National Guard that took arms. The population of Paris bthaved admirably. They were perfectly orderly, and paid no attention to the provocations of the enemies of the Assembly. Some companies of the National Guard disbanded themselves and went home, because their officers insisted on circulating a pe- The ministry waniwi no better pretext I'ojr dispersing the at the point of the bayonet. Fortujmu for the cause of i liberty and order, the Guard did no such I thing.

But, unfortunately for the histori- The ministry has been much perplexed to find a plausible reason for its great display of forces. It contents itself with a few ambiguous phrases against the clubs, and say that they feared the clubs would operate on the minds of the discharged Mobile Guard. Now, unfortunately this story of the ministry, the Red Repub licans have never been more peaceably inclined than at present, their policy being to support tiie Assembly. cal reputation of the Assembly, it gave the giant seas, and the apparent agony of way to the violent pressure to which it was subjected, an gate a majority of eleven in favor of the ministry. This vote is not however, final, and the Assembly may yet retrace its steps.

As soon as the vote was given, the troops always had "more grape" for the Buena began to before eight o'clock Vista war of elements by which we were at night, Paris was as- gay as if nothing i surrounded. During the severity of the had happened to disturb its tranquillity. g'de, there was one of the wildest seas we lor To close my letter and to finish my summit it had been borne, then rising with sketch of this very moral ministry that grace and beauty threw the foaming waprctends to represent what it calls the par- i ters from her deck, as the sea-diver rising of honest men, I must tell you of one fib, to give it no harsher name, and one equivocation perpetrated by its magnitude, was by the Canada's iron wings Mr Perree abandoned the ministerial party on the 3d and took that occaion to charge tiie Minister of the Interior, with having sent into the Departments the circular, part of which h. been quoted in this le.tter. MrFaucher flatly denied the charge.

Upon Mr Perree produced a copy of the circular, fral.ked by the minister himself. Mr Faucher shimmered out a confused asset tion that he had never I nuity of man has cv er invented. read the contents. So much for the fib. Now lor the equivocation.

Mr Perree read from a provincial paper, a most virulent attack on the Assembly, published on the 29th. Mr Faucher replied thatthe honor of the Assembly was vindicated, for that paper had been seized. The Asseinbly was contented with this explanation until it learned that the seizure referred to was made under General Cavaignac, and that the minister's assertion was a miscrable quibble. McD. REMARKABLE OF RECOVERY FROM man, (says the Boston Traveler) who has for the last forty years been confined as a raving maniac in the poor house, at New ton, has been suddenly restored to reason.

He has been regarded as incurable, and for a great period of 'die time during his confinement he has been so violent as to render it necessary to chain him. lie appears like one awakened from a long sleep, and remembering distinctly events which occurred previous to the loss of his reason, but nothing that has transpired during the long years of his confinement. A man by the name of Stratton was arrested at Cairo, a few days since, upon a charge of passing counterfeit money. In his carpet bag was found $400 bogus half dollars, supposed to be of St Louis manufacture and about his person was found a large amount of counterfeit notes on the banks of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. In default of bail he was committed for trial.

HARD Savannah, a chant commencing busness has to deposit with the authorities ofthe city the sum of $900. Should he failin his tnerchaBdizing. he forfeits From the Metienger and Gl.aner. A ON SEE1KG IT AGAIN AFTER AN ABSENCE Or SEVERAL Roll on, ye restless billows of the sea I Aye, dash your waves against this rockboun shore I Thus have ye rolled from all And must roll on till Time shall be no more! Great type are ye of Life's unceasing flight: What millions tempt thy foaming, restless main Thou swallow's! up their castles in thy fnight, They sink never seen again! No mark is left upon thy hungry wave, Of man's presuming strength no pathway shows The weeping mourner to a wat'ry Thy tide sweeps storm unheeding blows! Thus, greedy Time with unrelenting power, Mows down the countless nations of the Some pass with struggles some in peaceful hour, And leave no trace, save in their children's birth 1 upon thy shore I To hear the music of thy dashing wave 1 To feel as once I felt in days of yore 1 To kiss the beach thy briny waters lave! Roll on ye restless billows I Once again I feel my boyhood's careless mood return Youth's vague ambition, boundless as thy main Youth's proud desires, that still untiring burn. Alas The world has chill'd th' aspiring flameHas taught the vanity of man's The idle sound, the emptiness of And robbed me of that hope, I deemed mine own! But in this let me now forget, That heartless world its selfishness and paint Dash on, ye waves! Ye have the power yet To give back youth and hope and happiness! IMTORTANT case been instituted in the United Slates Court in Galveston, of great int erest and public importance.

A citizen of Louisiana has sued a citizen of the county of Santa Fe, as a citzen of the State of Texas. Defendent has pleaded, in abatement of the suit, that Santa Fe forms no part of the State of up to the late treaty of peace between the United States and Mexico, Santa Fe was a part of the Republic of Mexico, and that by said treaty it was ceded to the United States, and now constitutes a part of its territory, and is therefore out Vka tition for the dissolution of the scription of the voyage furnished to the It was, doubtless, the expectation of the government that the National Guard would take arms, en masse, and, deceived by the i full sample of a tempestuous winter pas reports diligently circulated by the secret sage across the Atlantic. From the 13th police and government agents about a ter- the day the Canada left Liverpool, ribie sedition, on (he point of drenching there was almost a constant succession of the streets of blood, would cry out, "Down with National Assembly llas and for reason that since the revolution of Texas, and the act of 1836, defining its joint resolutions of annexation, and the proceedings, in execution thereof, and the late treaty of peace, fixing the limits beyond the boundary of Texas, that the government of the Uidted States and the world are estopped from denying the right of Texas to the county of Santa Fe. Tims is this great question presented to national tribunals for decision. Winter oil the Atlantic.

recent passage of the steamer Canada from Liverpool to New York, if any opinion is to be formed from a graphicde- N. V. Journal of Commerce by Silas E. Burroughs, gave her passengers a storms until the 20th, when the wind blew a perfect hurricane from the West. The writer adds some of the severest stjnaWsit appearcdlhat our steamer would be overcome.

The howling of the wind, the Indignant arms of the heels beating down sounds which our struggling engines made, created intense interest. The engines were brought to six revolutions and the Canada to about two and a half miles per hour, but nobly she kept her course, and have ever witnessed that came with giant strides from the west. Its crest was a breaking sea, its base a mighty mountain, bearing down directly upon our steamer, who showed no disposition to coquette, no hesitation to grapple with this rtonster of the deep. As we approached we settled into the deepest vortex of the Ocean, the engines increased their revolutions, and the Canada passed under the furious breakers separating it from its parent on whose from the depths below and the mountain "which had just approached us with such beaten down, and converted into a subdu ed snowy track astern of the conquering steamer. But the collision was a fearful one, the jib-boom was thrown in upon deck, the larboard bowsprit shroud was carried away, and the bowsprit broken in the knightheads, but tiie Canada remained tight, strong and staunch, and her engines as perfect perpetual motions, as the ingc- Sieamboat EtplMlon and of Life.

Mr Granville Young, who was an eyewitness to the melancholy casualty, has politely furnished us wiili the news of the explosion of the steamboat Ifbods man, last Btyoa Sara our dispatch published above. The accident occurrecf as the boat was pushing out from tlie shore, about four o'clock. The IVoodstnan was bound for Red river. She collapsed both ofthe flues of the larboard boiler, killing and scalding several persons tJur informant states that three were killed outright, and that several were missing, amongst the latter one of the engineers of the boat. Twentyfive others were dreadfully scalded, some of whom tnust die from their four or five of them certainly.

The scene is described as most heartrending. Husbands and parents and children, brothers and sisters, and other relations, were crying piteously, and calling to one another in the most agonizing shrieks. In many instances, when these unfortunate victims were brought together, so scalded and mutilated wefe they it was impossible to recognise each other. The steamboat Hecta, Capt. Peter Delmare, was rounded to, and offers were tendered to take the sufferers and their friends back to New Orleans but, as it was deemed more practicable to nurse the wounded on shore than on the boat, this humane offer was declined.

The citizens of Bayou Sara, we learn, deserve the highest commendation for the attentions they gave to alleviate the pains of the suffering and Y. Picayune, 3d inst. The liabilities of the Duke of estates and effects were recently sold, amounted to not lest million and a half of pounds sterling. From tiie Knox (111.,) Intalligincer. LETTER FROM OREGON.

The following letter from a citizen of this place on his way to Oregon will be read with interest, especially by those who expect to travel to that country by land. "All is not gold that glitters." PACIFIC SFRIHO, Oregon Territory, Booth Pais, of the Rocky Mountains, July dtb, 1548. DEAR I have an tunity of sending a letter by some to Bent's Fort Arkansas, from whence I am informed it can be sent to the States, I improve it. I wrote last from the leaving of North Platte, 120 miles back, on the 24th of June. I lost another ox there to be poisoned by some vegetable.

I have two yokes and the cows left. I have hired my books hauled, and loaned a cow and ox which I work together, and thus make up four yokes, and get along tolerably well. I have lighted some by throwing away one trunk, plates, tumblers, planes, We were detained at the ferry on Platte 15 days (which has We have had pretty good griss since we struck the beautiful Sweet Water, 100 miles back, and our eattle and horses are on the mend. Cattle six or seven years old stand the trip better than the younger ones. A man wants cattle here that are fit for the tongue or in the lead.

Light trifling, wiggling steers and cows are not the thing. This notion of patching up a team with one good stiff yoke and the balance cows and young oxen, is a perfect foolery. Many such 'get but it is best to get along right, and as sure as possible on this trip. Cattle should all be good travellers and have black hoofs, as such are much the hardest and less liable to wear out. Five six or seven yoke to a wagon would not be too many for 4 such yoke and a yoke strong cows to a light wagon, boarded as it ought to be, would do tolerably well, if a man could do no better.

The mountains, ten miles to our right, are white with snow. We got snow near our camp yesterday. We expect to take the 'South it being at present less dangerous and better supplied with grass than the old one, but some 300 miles farther. We have yet 1200 miles to travel in order to reach the south end ofthe Willamette valley, which will take us to the first of October if we are prospered. We are all well, and in line spirits, and casting one longing lingeiing look behind, I have but a moment to scribble and must clcre.

During our troubles on Platte, I think it was the darkest time I ever saw. Many stout hearts quailed, and faces blanched that seldom turn pnle. I trusted alone in Almighty God, and he brought deliverance. We have bill a final adieu to the buffalo country and our cattle are gentle again. We are now traveling in a company of 26 wagons.

Large companies cannot be tolerated. Adieu, W. S. ADAMS. THE Van Ostrand, referee in this affair, publishes a card giving his decision that the result was in favor of Mr Frink, the stakeholder, publishes another, to the effect that he had handed over the main stake, $10,000, to Hycr.

Sullivan also advises bis friends, in another, that under the decision ofthe referee, they must pay their though heinSists that bythe rules of thering he should have been declared the victor. JiErial 1,500 persons assembled at the Tabernacle, in New York, on Wednesday night of last week, to be enlightened on the sfihjeet of serial navigation. A Small model of the proposed serial steamer wai exhibited, and put in motion. It rose gracefully and beautifully, and was propelled some thirty ffeet by means of a chronometer spring acting upon two fans. It obeyed the ruddef in every instance, although the machinery was very imperfect.

The inventor proposes to make a trip to California in Jour. Government in San Francisco Star of the 23d December, contains full reports of two pjrfiUminary organize a provisional government. 1 thrown us much behind) partly by high wind and partly by our caltle running away. They took fright in the night and run like buffalo, leaving the guard far behind. They continued this for several I nights, sometimes running off among the hills for miles, and doingtheinsfclves mucl injury.

We were compelled to herd them five or six miles from camp in order to get grass. The night after we crossed Platte, we guarded them by our wagons intending to start in the yoked up and chained together. I yoked mine, chained them to wagons and trees, and tied legs together and kept them safe. The cattle frighted in the night and ran terribly. Some came unyoked but still ran.

It seems almost impossible for a smart horse to head them. They scatter in all directions. We had almost 400 head, (50 wagons at that time.) We followed the trails and found droves of from 10 to 100 head, from 15 to 40 miles from camp. All this distance they travelled over a desert without grass or They were of course much cut We rode our horses nearly down in hunting. Our horses were reduced to mere skeletons from want of grass.

Some men never found all their cattle. Many people for want of teams are leaving wagons, jjlow's, feather beds, stoves, kettles, harrow teeth, chains, boxes, The road is lined with such articles for 100 miles back together with dead cattle. Our cattle have become so weak from the want of grass and hard labor, that 10 hundred is a good load for four yoke of cattle on good roads. Emigrants are scattering their projections and also such fool appendages to the four winds, sawing off their 12 foot boxes to and coupling up shorter. People in the states know so much mere about "fixing" for the trip than those who have been through, that they do 'fix' with a vengeance.

Sonle are still lucky enough to keep all their cattle and are still hauling their One had belter a thousand fold start with "NOTHING BUT PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING" than run the risk wearing out their teams in hauling such stuff as they can do without. NO. 44. mm The and the Saw Early one spring morning, when the sun had scarcely melted the hoar frost from the brown face of the wrinkled earth an old axe happened to fall in with a saw. There was 'cutting air' abroad, that threatened the newly iharen chin with chaps 'Ah! my old blade! said the goes it with you 1 came purposely1 t6 see how you 'I really feel much obliged to said the Saw, 'but am sorry to say that nay tcetA are very bad.

My master has sent for the doctor, who, 'twixt you and me and the post, is no better than 'an old I was in the workshop last night where, 'Where, no doubt, you saw a great facetiously interrupted the Axe. The Saw showed his teeth in a sort of grin betwixt melancholy and mirth, and resumed, 'Why, I may say with some truth, ana I consider it no more than a duty I owe Mr Carpenter, to do as much as I can, in spite of my teeth, for he is point of 'And d6 yoft never grow rusty itkecf the Axe. 'Not with over replied tho Saw, indeed, I have always found that constant employment best preserves our which, after all, is only are quite a 'Not exactly so for I sometimes do grow exceedingly hot and lose my 'And what says your 'Why he generally desists awhile and 1 soon grow cool again, and then I cut away like a razor through a piece of mottled soapr 'You are a happy said the Axe differently am I situated! My master is a chopping boy, with a thick block, which is tantamount to saying he is a fat fool. He is very sharp with me sometimes and when he finds I am inclined to b6 blunt, h6 grinds me moat cried the Saw 'it's the way of the world my friend for I have invariably remarked, that the rich always grind the poor for the sake of the exclaimed the Axe. 'You sec I've not lived in the wor this time without getting a notch or two, said the 'Nor I replied the Axe 'although, in obtaining the said notches, I I have not only lost my courage but a portion of my metal, 'Well, I never saw exclaimed ay friend 'how you talk I am sure your teeth, do not give you any trouble, at any 'I ax your pardon, old remonstrated the Axe 'for, although I do not complain of my teeth exactly, my chops give me a pretty considerable deal of I a The Saw grinned approval of the Axe's wit.

exclaimed the Axe. 'Here comes Mr Carpenter so don't show your teeth till you can believe that is the maxim of a relation of 'Not a said the other 'though they are the words of a wise old Scientific American, SACRAMENTO Courrier des Etats lTnis states, that lately a letter from "Maj William Tell Poussin, Envoy Extraordinary to the United States," passed about among the members of the Assembly in the Chamber, in which the Envoy says: "There is without doubt some gold on the shores of the Sacramento, but ft requires a good deal of silver to come at is, the cost of getting it will be more or not much less than the value of the gold when obtained. We shall be pleased if many who are going to California with golden hopes'tfnd golden dreams do not realize the truth of this remark, before they realize the fortunes they go to seek. Whoever will consider what numbers are on their way to the El Dorado, or that soon will be, must be convinced that an immense amount of disappointment in reserve for somebody respects the precious metal. But those who will be content to find a healthy and fertile country, and are willing to go to work to improve their fortunes after the good, old-fashioned, slow-and-sure toe-' thod, will do well, wc The Lidy of the President.

For the honor of old Calvert county, in be it known, that she produced the only person to whom Gen. Taj lor ever has surrendered. Mrs Taylor comes not only from Calvert county, but from, it is btlicyed, the very estate on which Mrsr Adatris'ialher, if not she herself, was born the shores of that river, the Patuxent, which Igators have said was tho boldest and most beautiful they had etef entered. Mrs Taylor's father was Captain Walter Smith, an independent and highly respectable farmer. She is the sister cf the late Major Richard Smith, of the Marine Corps, well remembered in ashingtdW and New York especially, for his gallant soldierly appearance and bearing, and his fine social qualities.

It was in Kentucky that the then a very young man, saw her. and "surrendered." AN EXTRAORDINARY fury of iiiqucst in a recent case at only fully acquitted the owner of a mill, and his employers, where the death of a man had taken place, but also attached to their verdict, "Nor is any blame attached to the machinery." ARCHITECTURAL ORN Boy den and Joy, of Worcester, employed carved capitals, mculdings, and other ornamental work, beautiful castings of potter's clay. These cah' be made of all colors and every pattern, and for outside work are as durable as stone, while in pbint of economy the ing be sixty or severity per rent. A COMPOSITOR IN A young raalf engaged as compositor in the Cincinnati'' Chronicle office, has just received a letter from Gen. Sam.

Houstofi, informing him that the estate left by his father, whodie.d in some years since, is worth ovfcr $50,000, and tendering his aid to enable him to recover possession property,.