The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1842, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. DAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1842. ie ani oneneli THE MERMAID. wens nEC aL aa icine NEW YORK, SU Pil drown more sailors than the mermaid shall.” Shaksprare. * Did sense persualo Ulysses not to hear Mr, Webster's Reply to Bocancgra. Daraniuent or Strate, Wasitinaron, July 8, 1842 i toleration, therefore, as she calls it, and which she now so warmly denounces, Mexico, in that hour of emergency, (lto the full extent of her : arded ‘Te: much as Mexico, and that tr 1 States have re; eveignty " : J * 4 combraced the benefits eagerly ‘The Mermaid’s songs, which so h.s men did please, = — : Sin hh of last month, a communication was with citizens of a Government at war w power. May we not ask, then, how she can reconcile her That they were all perstaded through the ~ = ri . ree iyed at this Dopartment {rom Mr, de Bocanegra, Sec. uinot, on that account, be regarded as an i , aints with her own practice, as well as how 1'o-quit the ship, and leap into the seas?” ~ a retary of State and Foreign Relations of the Government | course by whic © and succor are given to uts for so long aud. unbroken a silence upon a Davies. of , having uu forwarded through the agency of | con rel The whole current of Mr, de Bocanegra’s re on which her remon now so loud ? « ‘Thou cememberest, Mr. Velusques de Leon, at New York, who informed ‘the | ne direction if the indepe chose to regard Mexico only iv the light of a re- Sinee once | set upon a promontory, Department by & lester accom ig thotof Mr. de Bo | wen acknow Mt has b vovinee for near twenty years after she had vd a Mermaid on a Dolphin’s back amieqra, that he had been appointed ¢ y jit was ack Iged in 123 a er own independence, Does Mexico now admit Heh dulcet and harmoyious breath, Mexican Republic to this ¢ onstrance and protest of Mexico; and ‘most of the | that, for all that period, notwithstanding her practical ‘That the rude sea grew civil at hersong.” not yet pi d his crote a > Bocanegra com. | emancipation from Spanish power, tt was unlawful for the Shakspeare- pr is ald) | blak sa t " ‘out rs He speaks | sub jects and citizens of other Governments to carry on - ‘doabi Me § of Texas as ati ral part of the territory | with her the ordinary business of commeree, or to accept Be eke igh gooyare vcr fe Y with copy of the commaycalion froin Me. Vela | cfthe Me Cannot but understand | her tempting oilers to emigrants? Certainly seh is ot loular f vind ol answer elasques | that ates do not so regard it. The realcom: | her opinion, here seems testimony gnough to establish it.—Chambers. ‘om this Department, you will regeive herewith, | neither mer nplaint against the r Might it not be asked, then, even if the United States ly and long ayo acknow ledged the indepem show lon they should be expected to wait t that complaint, | forthe accomplishment of the object now existing only in 1 not quite just to contine it to the United States, to the | purpose and iatention of the resuly of that territory F ri snd Belgium, unless the | by Mexico t How long, let it be arked in the judy Our readers will recollect that a few weeks sinc ve published a letter from a correspondent in Mont- komery, Alabama, giving a description of a wier- maid, whieh he had seen there in possession of English gentleman, who had brought it from the receipt ot this des note iy M h, you will vain whieh you will say Texion independ " the United States has re. | It may be hoaght rather bite to re by Mr, de Bocane , une of the 12th May, and transmitted to the Depart meut of Stave at Washington through the agency ef Mr. iately gnition ot < having irst to ack nowledy * ‘ Velasquesde Leon, al New York, who informs’ the ¢ © of Mexico t fave tobe blamed or setting | herself, is the fact of actual independ Fejyee Islands. A young artist at the south has had ment of the United States ih ithe has been appoint ecognition of that of Texas. Butit | avail against an avowed purpose offuture recouquest peep at this strange animal, and has sent us a per- A Roput though he h Bocanegra’s specification of hi Mr. de Bocanegra inf , that it war actually int and remonstrai ions and ocourre proceedings more hos- , is mainly confin- | existed between the two countr i States could not have taken fect drawing of it, from which we have had the a8 are the na tile on the part of the L sees, with regret, above engraving execuied for the gratification of ed to such trans the alop place than have taken place, nor the insurgents of Texas 2 | ral consequene ations existing between ; ken p ve ins ) z yuite unusngt ia « Texas and th States ging T ed more cilectual co-operation than they have ob. our readers, ‘The artist assures us that the drawing Riots | the government of the { : dhe lis perfectly correct, with the exception of the hair, hich he has taken the liberty to make a little longer than the original would warrant. ‘The Mermaid has long been considered by many 3 a fabulous animal; but some naturalists have de- ows and encourages lawful trade and | ‘This opinion, however hazardous to the discernment n the two conntries. If articles contra- | and just estimate of things of those who avow it, is yet ab- und mingled with this cor stract and theoretical, and so for harmles re belligerent The efficiency of American hostility to Mexico hae ransit of sne! . | never been (ried; the Government has no desire to try it. ght ents, and belongs | It would not disturb the peace for the sake of showing how tothe capt to t that moment in it functions, and ready t, any communica: ico and 1 « of the President of the | right to int t is not improper | This is the common grot with the Go: Mexico in the same estent as to other nations. But Mr. | erronvonsly Mr, Bocanegra has reasoned; while, on the vlare re ni evi Pea Hay being ani Bocanegra is quite well aware that it is not the practice | other hand, it trusts that a just hope may be entertained lared that there is too much evidence of the ex iro at afl times to cultivate them - | of nations to unileitake to prohibit their own subjects, by | that Mexico will not inconsiderately. and needlessly has- . istence of these animals to warrant them in pro- cable relat ith Mexico, it has not 1to maintain | previous laws, from traticing in articles contraband of w ten into an experiment by which the truth or fallacy of Inouncing the mermaid to be a mere creature of neve that G ment ofthe highest rank known | Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in his sentiments may be brought to an actual ascertain- usa 0, or along tim had no repre: | underthe liabilit ative near the Governmentof the United States. nations, or by Hut the mannerof the communication from Mr.de Bo. | that citizens of the canecea, however novela is less impor- | commerce by wh tant t van its cont surprise the | Deen # nmeutof t vt penalties preseribed by the law of | ment cuicular treaties. If it betrue, therefore, | Mr. de Bocanegra declares, in conclusion, that his go- nited States have been engaged in a | vernment finds itself under the necessity of protesting ¢0- h ‘Texas, an enemy of Mexico, has | lemnly ogainst the aggressions which the citizens of the J with arms and munitions of war, the gover United States a: ment of the United States, nevertheless, was not bound to | and of declaring in @ positive faney. We discover in the ourang outang the connecting link between the human and animal race. ‘The fly- ing squirrel or bat is the link between birds and » reiterating mpon the Mexican territory ; anner, that it will consider i x ‘ Peron h i prevent it, could not prevent it without a manifest de us a violation of the treaty of amity the toleration of that auadrupeds, the platipus, has the body of a seal und : \ siden: | ture from'the principles of neutrality, and ts in no way |CoNrse of conduct, which he alleges, inlets ou the Mexi- the webbed feet and bill of the duck; the flying fish fexiean Republic bly re auswe t ‘The treaty of the sth | ¢ ) is a Republic the injuries and inconveniences of war. between the two conntries might have bean lament. | of April, 185), by the United States ‘The President ex Nngly regrets both the sentiment and since the year 1835, When the revolution of | self shows most clearly, how little foundation there is for | the mannerof thisdeclaration. But it can admit but of Not not Mew any evidences | the complaint of trading with Texas, if Texas isto be re- | one answer. The Mexican Government appears to require connects the bird and scaly inhabitant of the deep, jand why may we not suppose that there isalsoa con- necting link between firh and the haman specics ? x so oy sacri. | garded asa public em The of Mexico. The sixteenth pat h could not be 1, in whatever languay panies z : ‘of peace, in order e world might U shall likewise be lawful for the whatever tone req The Government of Had not fossil remains of the great Mastedon nh and amazement, two nations which citizens, respectively, to sail with their vessels and cd States is ago nt of law. been discovered, few would be found at the pre~ seblish the policy and interests of to trate with the same | The Chief Executi rate, as well ax functionaries continent, diviled and ravaged by the evils nd havens of «of both or either party, without nor distur whatsoever, not only di: bet place belongin belonging to an enemy, whether diction of the same government or uu) security from the place who Pposit rectly tre sent day who would believe that sneh an animal had ever existed. We have seen many sea captains and sailors, whose honesty could not be questioned, who would take their bible oath that they hi seen among the rocks of barren islands, animals with a body and head resembling a woman, and “partment, is restrained and guided by the d the law of the lind, Neither the Consti- Jaw of the land, nor pr known in athe interdict 1 the United States and Texas; orto empt to prevent, individuals from leaving es for ‘Texas, or any other foreign coun- implies that sueh ha towar's Mexico th out time, 1 nouttial pla¢ Vench ar enemy to another pl » United States utterly denies and | they be under the jur nt of ay sacrifices mate by ane “ ‘he Vsti been th preves the U try. ‘ates those commodities which if such individuals enter into the service of Texas, or the lower extremity bearing the scales, tins. and contraband of war, but neither that y other fo ent of the United tailofa fish. Doubtless there are twenty such men i neither nation any duty of pr tates no lon, the shield of its protec: thacitthe Wh by previous regulation, comm romenta, the Such commerce is left to. its or hem, be regarded, | ing to the law of nations. Mis only, tt onstrate that 1 that ich has in any complaint. Let ymoteration and forbearan = that if the things against which » Jwon sustained by citizens of the | he wrong, they have their in the clel by individual Mexicans, but | orig y acknowledgment of 1 tion, ‘They must rtand ov fall in their newly-ossumed character, and according to the fortunes which may be- tide it. But the Government of the United States cannot bo called upon to prevent their emigration; ond it must be added, that the Constitution, public treaties, and the laws, oblige the President to regard Texas ax ‘on inde- pendant State, and its territory as no part of the territory of Mexico. Every provision of law, every principel of nstich arti+ now in this port, When the animal of which the above is a picture, shall arrive here, we hope our citizens and the pro- fessors of natural history especially, will have an 7 opportunity of testing this question in such a manner e< cemonstrates be nal wrong of exian as to put the subject forever hereafter to rest. We | in veneration and dread by the Indians, who ima- thrown out, by which the creature was of the Government; for which pendence. Butthat acknowledgment is not likely to be | neutral obligation, will be eedulously enforced in relation learn that the gentleman who owns this animal is | Sie that the killing it would be attended with the d to keep a short distance from onr boat, and are, ind ont : to Mexico, tis in relation to, other Powers, and to the same pi ‘i al IS 1 most calamitous consequences. It is from. this cir- Lus the opportunity of observing it with at il acknowledged as an be no doubt at all that for the last sixyearsthe | extent and with the same integrity of purpose. All this about eA Be AS a Oe to the British none of these animals have been | te nd, fo our astonishment, that itwas u sought only by in articles nl of war between the United | belongs to KG commas mal ower: st duty ofthe Go- Lyceum of Natural History. Maik Cael anaantusatiersor exummedhuset a dies odin ihe Wanidalen \ nclemmity asked Wit and Mexico, gt than between the | vernient, ond it will all be fulfi But the continuance i . + best "1 Se : ’ beriitpadd he sea was calm, | such as th est just ely demanded, A It is. proba at the | of amity with Mexico cannot be purchased at any higher With ie to the real or fabulous existence of | tn They have been generally observed in a | and ina degree tran, t, every part ot th f ° , 7 ; in ented 3 ‘ . hs: § Seng <8 ahs Ph catinn gag: gre partol desire not to disturb the p 1 harmony ofthe two Why has not ‘Texas a right to complain | rate. this animal, we find thatin the year 1187, as Laray | sitting postire in the water, none of the lower | animal became in visible.."Che head, |. connt let it of the United States to For no reason, certainly, but because the perm If the peace of thetwo countries is to be disturbed, the informs peenoh a monster was fished up on the | extremity being discovered ‘until they are dis- | from the crown to th forms rather a ton’ content with the lowest meas*re of remuneration. wie, or the actual trading by the citizens of a Go- | responsibility willdevolve on Mexico. She must be’ an- inet ve and esp by the .govemar, Loe six | turbed ; when, by plunging, the, tail appears, and | oval, and the f to resemble that of the |) Mexico hervelf must admit that, ina ransactions, in articles contraband of war, is nota breach of for consequences. ‘The United States, let it be nths. pore so near a conformity with man, 7 Unite agitates the water to a oonsiderable distance. | seal, though, at the same time, uf is far incre ageee- | the conduct of th States tows has been sig- | neutrality. ated, desire peace. It would be with infinite that nothing seemed wanting to it but speech. One } round. They have been always seen employed in | able, possessing nliar sofiness, whi+ » renders | Bélized, not by the infliction of i ve Feet souk okt atic naka xe at Beary Bap a apes poner peg ath ome, lrg” tory day ittook the opportunity of making its escape. ir hai ie bg ». Whole teb-ok i is ween scaateneat itso! tation of af hend how those personsof whom he e shave been | with any of the new governments on this continent, But slate rn eibiha arab se paca ena of ‘ape, ESE we Peto ses a stroking = ir face a ae the wh ie 4 of features v ry dutereat ig, ye The Government of the United abtobe evade sha paniiheneet hoon: {against them by the | their government is regulated, limited, fall of the spirit of 7 : reasts with their hands, or something reseimbling | upper and back part of (ie head appeared vo be fur | just in ite son jaws of the United Stater + List he cous hot appear to have | liberty, but surrounded, nevertheless, with just restraints ; and th: fore part nething like dowa between ink color, : iS tg year 1490 alter. a huge tempest, which | hands. In this posture, and thus employed, they | nished with sometising like hy broke: down the dikes in Holland, and made way | have been frequently taken for Indian women bath- | of the body with s lor the sea into the meadows, &e., some girls of the | ing. Mr. Van Baltenburgh's account was much | a ry light fawn and a very its governm iciples or provisions of those it of any de are preseri Which is imperative and binding it acquits rors of war 0 hevsel! clear idew of the pr ‘he duties of neutral y the law of nati and greatly and fery: utly as it desires peace with @ States, and espec: y with its more immediate neighbors, pt no fear of adifferont state of things can allowed to ign to spread the over thé two countri 1 it town of Edam, in West Friesland, going in a boat | corroborated by that of seme gentlemen settled in| which at. a distance had 1 appearance. of | to avow her own motives for her pacific po upon al Governments; and nations not unfeequently es- | interrupt its course of equal and exact justice to all na- to milk their cows, perceived a mermaid embatrass- Mahaycony and Abary. Captain Stedman, in his | flesh, and may have given rise to the i ve any other motives than those of expedienc tablish municipal regulations for the better government | tions, nor te jostle it out of fhe constitutional orbit in ed in the mud, with 5) ; provided however, thet snch avowalof i which it revolves © ¢ very little water. They took it } Narrative of the Expedition against the Revolted | that’ the body of the” m into their boat, and brought it with them to Edam. | Negroes of Surinam, from 1772 to 1777, (vol. ii. p. | ly, like that of {the human being his er It fedlike one of them, but could never be brought ] 176.) maintains, t iat the animal called a mermaid, | ture has twoarms, each of which: terminates into to offer at speech. Some time afterwards it was } is relly and truly a viviparous fish, the lemale of | ahand with four fingers, connected to each other brought to Herlem, where ft lived for some years, } which is {urnished with breasts ; that the appear- | by means of a very thin’ elastic membrane. The though still showing an inclination to the water. f n of their subjects or the United in order to inty a strict and impartial neu- pending war betwee . And where- jolation of neutral duties, as they exist by the law ns, or any breach of its own laws, has been brought id is, extern carry with it no imputation or reflection \ Lam, faith and honor of th lution in, ging ont of it it iain relat ir, your obedient servant, DANIEL WEBSTER. To Wavpy Tuonrsox, Esq. ke. vents connected with ceanegra’s prinei pal hat his compl Mn. Wensten to Mx. Tuomrson. 4 ance of hair is a deception proceeding from a fin | animal used its arms w reat agility, and its mo- , Matters itself that t to the notice of the Government, attention has always be Derantment or State, =) . Another creature of the same species was caught | running down the back, of a curious construction ; | tions in general were very giaceful. From the has not promoted the in- | paid to it Wasiixoron, July 15, 1842. § in the Baltic, in 1531, and sent to Sigismond, king } that the hands are fle: hy fins, &e. But it isto be | waist it gradually taperec as 10 forma tail, whieh usnrpation of its territo: Atan early period of the Texian r strict orders Sir :—Afier writing to ) ou on the Sth instant, I received ot Poland, with whom it lived three days, aad was | observed, that he drew his information from old ne- | had the a ance of bein red with strona | OF supplied the rebels with vessels, ammunition, and mo- | were given by the President of the United States to alloffi- | through the same channel as the former, Mr. de Bocane- seen by all the court. Another very young one was groes ‘andl Indians, whose remarks we may »po! broud polished seales, whic! 4 ionally reflected | 2¢¥: L{Mr. de Bocanegra intenas this as a frank atmission | cers on the south and southwestern frontier to take care | gra’s second letter, and at the same time your despatch of taken’ neat Rocca da Cintra, as Feluded by-Demien PWerp tot very ‘aeoutate: emectilly, @a they were: : nd, | of the honest and cautious neutrality of the Government of | that those laws should be observed » and the attention of } the sth June, and your private letter ofthe 31st. ‘This last of the sun in avery beantiful manner: ck and upper part of the neck dowa.to s, the body also appeared covered with i f the ra es. The king of Portugal and the grand master | while looking at the animal, under the influence of | from the of the order of St. James, are said to have hada suit | dread. ‘The reader may compare this with Lord | the loir at law to determine which party these monsters be- | Monboddo’s curious relations, and believe as mueh | short round broad feathers, of the color of the down longedto. ‘ as he chooses of it: as what I have said comes | on the fore part of the body. ‘The whole length of In the year 1560, near the island oF pater, on the | from very respectable authority, I thought it merit- | the animal,from the crown of the head to the ex- western coast of Ceylon, some fishermen brought | ing attention.” ; tremity of ‘the tail, was supposed to be about five up at one draught of a net, seven mermen and mer- | At Sandside, in the parish of Reay, in the county | feet, or five feet and a halt. In about ten minntes maids; of which several Jesuits, and among the } of Caithness, there was seen, on the 12th of Janu- | from the time we approached, the animal gave two reat, F, Hen. Henriques and Dimas Bosquer, p 2 a7 1809, an animal supposed to. be the merinaid. | or three plunges, in quick succession, as it it were cians to the viceroy of Goa, were witnesses. The | The head and the chest being all that was visible, | at play. After this, it gave a sudden spring, and physician, who examined them with a great deal of | exactly resembled those of a full grown young wo- | swam away from us very rapidly, and in afew se- care, and made dissection thereof, asserts, that all | man. The breasts were perfectly formed; the arms i the parts, both external and internal, were found | Jonger than in the human body, and the eyes some- perteetly comformable to those of men. what smaller. When the waves dashed the hair, We have also another account of a merman seen J which was ofasea-green shade, over the face, the near the great. rock called the Diamond, on the | hands were immediately employed to replace it. Mereposia, June 13 coast of Martinico. The persons who saw it gave | Theskin was of a pink color. Though observed by |, -.,., linois—P3 e ; a precise description of it before a notary. They | several persons within the distance of twenty yards, | P@igretion (0 Minois—Produce—Railroad— Mr. affirmed that they saw it wipe its hand over its face, | for about an hour and a half, it discovered io symp- Van Buren, Sc. and even heard it blow its nose. tomsof alarm. it was seen by four or five indivi- | Mr. James G. Benxerr:— In Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway, } duals, of unquestionable veracity, at the same time. Ta Sine also, we have accounts of mermaids ; but not more | Something of the same kind was observed in. the peas « ‘ remarkable, or any way better attested than the | same neighborhood, about seven or cight years | Tlere ! amin this famous and important city, far above. ‘ “i before, by a gentleman then residing near the | more famed abroad than at home. The Sackers More moder instances are the féllowing #-Tn | spat. . {have been most industriously engaged for the past 1613 a mermaid wastaken in the harbor of Cher- A young man, named John M’lsaac, of Corphine, ‘ ne | large ‘ 7 bourg, after a violent storm, and was earried by the | in Kintyre, in Scotland, made oath on examination, | ‘W > Ye#ts 10 the production of large quantities of mayor of that place as a present to the French | at Campeltown, before the sheriff-substitute of Kin. | produce of every kind and description. The im- siteryands shown publicly ithe streets of Paria,” | Qcionte’ Sentosa titel cea ae She ea cent | mete aimount shipped trom this state in-the Tas a v 8 pt n th ts ol A ‘tober, on a black rock on the sea coast, | vp, roing ¢ ” i e In the year 1758, a mermaid wasexhibited at the | an animal, of ‘the particulars of which he gives a | oar and yet going out, if worth a fair price in the fair of St. Germaine’sin France. Itwas about two } long and curious detail, answering a de cription | Southern or nothern markets, would bring us entirely long. bai hp cat Ll Ae ee 8 commonly given to the mermaid, He states, that | out of debt, (at least the trading community.) Call water in which it was kept, with great agility and | the upper half of it was white, and of the shape of a | | r fine soi : ay w 2 - s ’ 2 and see our fine soil, and if you do not say we seeming delight. It was fed with bread and small | human body; the other halt, towards the tal, ofa y Ag tink fish. Its position, when at rest, was always erect. | brindled or reddish-gray color, apparently covered OF obit: Bian ates ICR tees It was a female, with ugly negro features. The | with scales; but the extremity of the tail itself was | ductions in the course of afew short 8, We give skin bt atiee the ears bg A 2 and the back | of agreenish-red shining color; that the head was | it up. The present predicament of our State prevents parts and tail were covered with seales. M. Gan- | covered with long hair; at times it would put back : Gie-emiaratida, which would ter, a celebrated French artist, made an exact | the hair on both sides ‘of his head; it would also | '" * Sfeet measure the emigration, which would drawing of it. , Re pread its tail like a fan; and, while so extended, | have otherwise setiled amongst us, but we go it 4 Ae aes ela welsh waa exhibited in Lat, the tail continued in tremulous motion, and when | streng in the way of produce. According to our lon in 1775, was said to have been taken in the gulf | drawn together again, it remained motionless, and | present population, we want about lralf a million of nd good citizens to make the United States in the contest by as, he does that Government j Mexico and Tex- | the Government of the United States had not been called icc, and no more than | toany specific violation of them the manifestation on justice ; but if the language be intended to intimate an | the part of Mexico ofan intention to renew hostilites with ‘opposite and a reproachful meaniug, that meaning is only | Texas, and all officers of the Government remain charged the more offensive for being insinuated rather than dis- | with the strict and faithful execution of these laws. Ona tinctly avowed. Mr. de Bocanegra would seem to repre- | recent occasion complaint was made by the representatives sent, that from 1836 to the present time, citizens of the | of Texas that an armament was fitted out in the United United States, if not their Government, have been aiding | States for the service of Mexico against Texas. rebels in Texas in arms against the lawful autuority of | ‘Two vesseis of war, it was alleged, built or purchased Mexico. This isnot a little extraordinary. Mexico may | in the United States for the use of the Goyernment of Mex- have chosen to consider, and may still choose to consider, | ico, and_ well understood as intended to be employed Texas ax having been at all times since 1836, and as still ast Texas, were equipped and ready to sail from the continuing, a rebellions province ; but the world has been era of New York. ‘Tha case was carefally enquired obliged to take a very diferent view of the matter. From | into, official examination was made, and legal counsel in- the time of the battle of San Jacinto, in April, 1836, to the | voked. It appeared to be a case of great doubt, but Mex- present moment, Texas has exhibited the same external | ico was allowed the benefit of that doubt, and the vessels signs ef national independence as Mexico herself, and with | lef the United States with the whole or a part of their ar- quite as much stability of Government. Practicasly free | ment actually on board. ‘The same administration of even- and independent, acknowledged as a political sovereignty handed ju the same impartial execution of the laws by the principal Powers of the world, no hostile foot find- | towards all partics, will continue to be observed. i within her territory for six or seven years, and | If forces have been raised in the United States, or ves. Mexico herself refraining for all that period from any | sels fitted out in their ports for Texian service contrary to further attempt to re-establish her own authority over that | law, no instance of which has as yet come to the know- territory, it cannot but be surprising to find Mr. de Boc- | ledge of the government, prompt attention will be paid to anegra complaining that for that whole period citizens of | the first case, and to all cases which may be made known the United States, or i s Government, have been favoring | to it. As to advances, loans, or donations of mor rebels of Texas, and supplying them with vessels, am- | goals, made by in nals to the government of Tex: munition, and mone 3 if the war for the redaction of | or its citizens, Mr. de Bocanegra hardly needs to be in- the province of Texas had been constantly prosecuted hy | formed thut there is nothing mulawful in this, so long as Mexico, and her success prevented by these influences | Texasis at pesee with the United States, and that these are from abroad. things which no government undertakes to restra ‘The general facts appertaining to the settlement of | Other citizens are equally at liberty, should they be #0 in- Texas, and the revolution in its government, cannot but | clined, to show their good will towards Mexico by the be well known to Mr. de Bocanegra. By the treaty of the | same means. Stillless can the government of the Uni 22/1 February, 1819, between the United States and Spain, | ted States be called upon io interfere with tha opinions ut the Sabine was adeptedgas the line of boundary between | tered in the pubiio assemblages of a free people, accustom thetwo pewers, Up to that period no inconsiderable colo- | ed tothe independent expression of their sentiments, re- nization had been effected in Texas ; but the territory be. | sulting inno violation of the lawsof their country, or of tween the Sabine and the Rio Grande being confirmed to | its duties as a noutral State. Towards the United States, in by the tres applications were made to that pow: Mexico and Texas stand in the same relation, as indepen- for grants of land, and such grants, or permission of set- | dent States at war, Of the character of that war man. tlement, were in fact made by the Spanish authorities in | kind will form their own opinions, and in the United favor of citizens of the Unked Stace roposing to emi- | States at least the utterance of those opinions cannot be eto Texas, in numerous families, ‘belore the Declara. rr sed. y tence by Mexico. And these early grants ‘he second partof M. de Bocanegra’s complaint is thus is well known, by successive acts of | 5! No sooner docs the Mexican government, in n Government after its ‘separation from Spain. | exercise of its rights, which it cannot and does not desire nuary, 1823, a national colonization law was passed, | to renounce, prepare means to recover a possession usurp- holding out strong inducements to all prrsons who shouli | ed from it, than the whole population of the U. States, es- incline to undertake the settlement of uncultivated lands ; | pecially in the southern States, is in commotion; and, in and although the Mexican law prohibited for atime citi: | the most public manner, a large portion of them is direct: letter of Mr. de Bocanegra was written, as you will see, before it was possible for him to expect an answer to hi first, which answer is now forwarded, and shows the groundless nature of the complaints of Mexico. The let- ter itself is highly exceptionable and offensive. It imputes violations of honor and good fuith to the Gov- ernment of the United States not only in the most unjust, but in the moat indecorous manner You have not spoken of it in terms too strong in your circular to the members of the diplomatic cor On the receipt of this, you will write a note to Mr. de Bocanegra, in which you will «ay :—That the Secretary of State of the United States, on the 9th of July, received his letter of the 3lst of May ; that the President of the United States considers the languege and tone of that lat- ter derogatory to the character of the United States, and highly offensive, as it imputes to their Government a di- reet breach of faith ; and that he directs that no other an- swer be given to it than the declaration that the conduct of the Government of the United States, in regard to the war between Mexico and Texas, having been alwa: i mporfial regard to ite neutral obligations, will not be changed or altered in any respect or in any degree. If forthia the Government of Mexico shall see fit to change the relations at present ex- isting between the two countries, the responsibility re- mains with herself, 1am, sir, your obedient servant, DANIEL WEBSTER. ‘To Wavvy Tnompson, Esq. mag? Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, Mexico. conds we lost sight of it. Meredosta, Hlinots, (Correspondence of the Herald.] Cuonat Hymx.—A fine charistic trait of the Gerinens was manifested this morning. Just at sunrise a flect of canal boats arrived, loaded with several hundreds of Ger- ‘ants. As they got into the city, near the pack- t boat landing, the Who Mruck up one of their national apthems—the voices of hoary age, vigorous mawhood,and tender infancy a with those of women in the glori- ous harmony. Theeflect in the calm stillness of a dewy morning, the spires and domes of a silent city just touched with the golden beams of a July sun, was almost sul Buff. Journ. can beat any State w Fine f¥ 8. C.—We learn that the extensive grist mills owned by F. L.J. Pride, on Fishing Creek, in York dis- trict, 8. C., were destroyed by fire on the night of the 24th wt. | The loss is stated to be at least $16,000. of Stanchio, in the Archipelago, or Agean Sea, by | appeared to the deponent to be abont twelve or 4 ‘ Neh amerchantman, trading to Natolia, in August, 1774. | fourteen inches broad; that the hairwas long and | Your industrious Yorker: It was, therefore, an Asiastic mermaid. The de- | light bro hat the auimal was between four and | 8t¢Kers of them. ‘There is lots of the richest and | zens of foreign countries from settling as colonists in ter- | ed upon ‘Texas. | Tue Stace Case.—The case of Peck and wife ve, Neal, scription is as follows:—Its face is like that of a | five feet lon: it had ahead, hair, arms and | 0st fertile soil yet unsettled, and now offered at | ritories immediately adjoining such foreign countries, y: ‘And how docs Mr. de Bocanegra suppose that the go- | for an injury sustained by overturning the defendant's you temale—its eyes a fine light blue—its nose body, downto the middle like a hamaa being; that | tree dollars per acre, (in State Bank paper,) now | even this restriction was afterwards repealed or suspended. | vernment of the United States can prevent, or is bound to | stage coach, while racing into Marietta last summer, was oak handsome—its mouth small—its lips thin, } the arms were. short in proportion to tl body, | t 40 to 0 cents. “Travelling in the west is reduced | So that, in fact, Mexico from the commencement of her | undertake to prevent, the people from thu going to Tex. | brought to aclose yesterday. The jury returned a’ ver- political existence held outthe most liberal inducements | as? is emigration; the same emigration, though to emigrants into her territories, with full knowledge that | not under (}e same cireumstances, which Mexico invited these inducements were likely to act, and expecting they | to Texas | revolution, ‘These persons, #0 far ax would act, with the greatest effect upon the citizens of | is known ernment of the United States, repair the United States; especially of the Southern States, | to Texas, tizens of the United States, but as ceas- whose agricultural pursuits naturally rendered the rich | ing to be» as changing at the same time lands of Texas so well suited to their accustomed occu. | their all Atheirdomieil. Shou y return ef pations, objects of desire to them. ‘The carly colonists of red into the service of a for e is another defendant, .— Cin. dict for the plaintiff for $5000 damages.” T! case by a son of the plaintiff against the for a severe injury resulting from the efunati Ge j i and the edges of them round like that of the codfish | which appeared to be about the thickness of that ofa | (one quarter of the old prices ‘ —ite teeth are small, regular and white—its ehin | young ld, aud tapering g-udually to the point of the |. The Northern Cross Railroad trom this point to wellshaped, and its neck fall. Its ears are like | tail; that when stroking. its hiead;as ghove men. | Springfield is finished, (and the only one completed those of the ecl, but placed like thoseof the human J tioned, the fingers were kept clove togetier, so that |! the many commenced in the _ The ¢ species, and behind themare the gills forrespiration, | he eannot say whether they were webbed or not ; | TUR, three times per week through to Springfield which appear like curls. Some are said to have | that he saw it forneartwo hours, the rockon which | leded both ways with freight and passengers, and hair upon their head ; but this has only rolls instead | it lay being dry; that after the sea had so-far retired | 29 doubt will do he amount of produce yet On Tuesday last, a young man ightecn years of age, residing ear Tapley’s Brook, 8, left his father’s house in abou J : ih Di the morning, with of hair, which, at a ‘distance, might be taken for ]| ag to leave the ri jel five fect | (#0 out is very large. Last season there was up- | the United States, introduced by Moses ant Stephen Aus ing to be citizens of the United, States, His dog, , kc. for the purpose of shooting, About shorteusls. Bat its chief ornament ix a beautiful] aboye the water, ¥ Sith de dh ay oe five fe lw £ 200,000 bushelsot wheat shipped down this | tin under these inducements and invitation ¢ persons thorities of the Unitel States government to deter. | MH M0. Bums ies, Mand oppoaned Wea Stake of of most respectable character, and their undertaking was | inine how f re hardships, oce: ned, in uo | the country, and what penalties tl have incurred. small degree, by the successive changes in the Gor fevernment of the United States does not maintai ment of Mexico. ‘They nevertheless persevered and ac- | never has maintained, the doctrine of the perpetuity of they have violated the municipal la membrane or fin rising from the temples, and gradu- | a minute afer he observed the animal above water, | ™¥¢r for the northera market. ‘This season, Ilmois, ally diminishing till st ends pyramidically, forming a | and then he saw every feature of its lace, having all | ¥i!l produ »wards of four millions of bushels of fore-top like a lady's hend-dress. It has no fin on | the appearance of ahaman being, with very hollow | Wheat alom cotn, barley, oats, rye, pota- the back, but abone like that of the hninan species. | eyes. The cheeks were of the same color with the | fe Xe “eval of whieh crops never looked fir complished a settlement. And, under the euconragements | natural alleg' And surely Mexico maintains no its breasts are tairand full; the arms and handsare | rest of the face; the neck med slrort: and it ant isa good market for our surplus, and | and al ents thus held out by Mexico, other emigrants | such doctrine ; because actually existing government well proportioned, but without nails on the fingers ; | was constantly with both hands stroking and wash- rT State will ask no favors. followed, and many thousand colonists from the United } like that of the United 8 is fownded in the principle the belly is round and swelling, but there is no navel. ing. ite breast, which was. halt jqutuereed.. iD the not aware of the importance of our wi and elsewhere had settled in Texas within ten | that men may throw off the obligation of that allegiance From the waist downward, the body is in all re- | water; he, therefore, eannot say whether its bosom | fivalled city, or we would Inve seen it mentione rs from the the date of Mexican independ Hav. | to which they ave born. extraordinary agitation, making many motions which were afterward understood to be mvitations to follow him, but which at the time occasioned some npprechenelone (hat about to suffer attack of the hydrophobia. Finding that no attention was pi ¢ wishes, left the house, and was not seen aflerward for. hours, when he ogain entered am tempts to induce the family to follow him. ‘A person then in the house, but who was not there at attended with very se’ " fi . pul | : Tea C- @ reaso i © Bove e « " ¢ United States, from its origin 01 speets like the codfish ; ; , 5 re oem | in your celebrated and popular Herald; [ean scare % some reason to complain, a8 they thought, of the gov The government of the United y gin. | gue dow's previous visit, observing his strange conduet, ’ . s des 4 ‘ Me bet 'y stationed in Texas, they sought ubjects of fi of by applymg to the supreme government forthe separa. | hither and make their home in the country, and, renoun- tion of ‘Texas from Coahuila and fora local government,} cing their former allegiance, and complying with certain u for Texas itself, Not having succeeded in this object, in“] stated requisitions, to take upon themselves the character sidential election. 1 understand Mr. V. B. has by the process of time, in the progress of events, they saw fit | of citizens of this government. Mexico herself has laws invited to the eapital of the State. to attempt an entire separation from Mexico, to set up a} granting equal facililies to the naturaliz * We ate 120 milesabove St. Louis, high and dry, | government of their own, and to establish a pulitical sove- | ors. lots of sand musquetoes, &c. to cing for us bache- | reignty. War ensued, and the battle of San Jacinto, On the other hand, the United States have not passed lors. No doubt youhave heard of the Illinois river | ught onthe 2st of April, 1836, achieved their indepen. | any Inw restraining theirown citizens, native or natural- being celebrated forslowness, it is as handsowe in oy . Ps rr ee ve us ine oe nd and , pati from searing te poaniey and forming political bs P fort om LIS a8 te a areh following, the independence of Texas war formal. | tions elsewhere. Nor do other Governments, in mode its scenery, as it is slow in jis course, but not so | ty acknowledg Soy the poverauient of the United Stat times, attempt ony such thing. It is true that there ar very slow when up. ‘There is now twelve boats in | * In the events leading to the actual result of these hosti: | Governments which assert the principle of perpetual alle the trade, arriving and departing daily with freight | ities, the United States had no agency and took no part. et, oven in cases where this is not rather a mat- sengers. ‘The boats feel the pressure of the | [ts Government had, from the first, abstained from giving for of titers, than practice, the duties of this supposed very sensibly, there being so very many of | aidor succor to either party. It knew its neutral obliga- | continuing allegi: ft to be demanded of the subject them. The travelling is considerable, sill not like | tions, aul fairly endeavored to fulfil them all. It acknow- | himse'f, when within the reach of the power of his former former days Atmong the number we see many a | ledged the independence of Texas only when that inde- | (overs inent, and as exigencies may anita, and are. not felightful fair one—those dear and beautiful of cane afoaty es Bee naeD: 1k | 200 | ee ee elm s ignviam Coal Je aaa Gelig’ ig Rag ek eo ite is partic 5 - nt ation—the solace of unhappy man—it cause a aliens bees teres en el lem + of the emigration of individuals ign States as may choose to come éd be cluded that there was cutlicient his madness” to constitute him a safe companior cordingly followed him oat to ree what would come of it. At first, in his eagerness, the in out of sight of the followed him, but being vccalled by a whistle, ke imevif afterward only a short distance in advance. The man followed “through breke and through briar,” Dut was rather daunted when the dog plunged into the re- cosses of aswamp. Determined to see it out, however, he went in after him, and there ditcovered the young man lying upon the ground insensible, and with his face dread fully shattered by the discharge of his gan. He was taken home immediately, the dog following in triumph, and although, a8 we Jearn, still insensible yesterday morning, was not considered in a hopeless condition.— Salem Gazelle ian is expected here on his way to Chicago, day or two. He has had a very pleasant and ag bletime in the west; but he can't shine in the pr swim erect on the sea. F . continued above water fora few minutes, and then In the year aoe mermaid, as it was called, was | disappeared. He was informed that some boys ina shown at No. 7, New Broad Court, Bow street, Co- neighbor ty farm saw a cimilar creature in the sea. yent Garden ; and said to have been taken in the | close to the shore, on the same day. ‘The minister North seas by Captain Fortier. This nymph of the | of Campbeltown, and the chamberlain of Mull, at- sea, a woman from the head down to the lower part | test his examination, and declare they know no of the waist, and a fish from thenee downwards, was | reason why his veracity should be questioned. three feet long, having ears, gills, breasts, fins, shoul- | Mr. Toupin, of Exmouth, published the following ders, ol te s, fingers, and a contiguous scale | account of his having seen a mermaid, inthe local copenne, the x4 part. - eal a London newspapers: “ The day, (Angust Uth, next publ spite of credit in which we finda | 181 ) being very fine, I joined a party of ladies and notice Lopes Me tl atthe Dt. Chisholm’s | gentlemen in_a sailing -xenrsion. When we bad ec a ern Pie mo me West Indi: gotabout a mile to the south-cast of Exmouth-Bar, e i . ae = at » speaks of it as follows: | our attention was suddenly arrested by a very sia probably hazard the implication of credulity by | gular noise, by no means unpleasant to the ear, but the following note :—In the year 1797, happening to | of whiel it is impessible to give a correct idea by be at Governor Van Battenburg’s plantation, in Ber- | mere description. It was. net, however, unaptly bier, the conversation turned on @ singolar animal | compared by one of our ladies to be the wild melo- ‘Two Preve rns. This: Woman —A mother--she ch sister—che consults and counvels shes and corrects fn eweetheart— rom | | ral of the most com Powers of Europe. Upon t hjee * “ which had been repeatedly seen in Berbice river, | dies of the “olan harp, Combined with w nojse st. | Hearts to beat to. conve with them, and behold | "(Chas been sometimes stated, as it for the purpose of | neutral to belligerent States, in regard to which Mr. de Fg sala ear [ceva ieee sone et = and some smaller rivers, such, particularly, a9 May- | milar to that made by a Mream of water falling | (eit cuaruting frees —bright ey ‘And thi sweetsmiles. | giving more reason to the complaints of Mexico, that, of | Bocanegra appears so indignant, we must be allowed to bs et Mexico with effi. | bring Mexico into her own presence, to compare her with B siency and success in 1896, a large portion consisted of | herserf, and respectfully invite her to judge the matter by rw eee So volunteers then fresh from the United States. But this is | her own principles and her own conduct. In her great Kvrrcre or Liant —On the th inst. a small hoy | agreat error, It is well ascu ained that of those whe pee mu iy sate ips tn we Map hho wenincen a n i vy. ligt e street ox! tr e Texi a i 7 an Jacinto, ot oper | . ome to mous mermaid, hitherto considered as a mere crea- | were'at # lossto secount for this, at such a distance bala g ih hist rete Cans hire by tek tas fares fourths a Teast eure vlonaels 1A¥ ited into Texas by’ | her from any part of the world ? And did not multitudes tore of the imagination, It is called by the Indians | from the shore, andno other boat near. We hailed, | dhosk. Tae Hogersiowa Herald of Freedom states that | (he grants and the colonization laws of Mexica, and called | flock to her new raisod standard of liberty from the United mene mamma, or mother of the waters. The de- | but received noreply, und we made towards this | onihe evening of the 8th, the wife of Mr. Jonathan | to the field by the exigencies of the time in 1896, from their | States, from England, Ireland, France, and Italy, many of scription given of it by the Governor isas follows; | creature 23 sdon'ua possible: when, to the arent | @cosh, residing on the Conococheagne creek, near the | farms and other objects of private pursult. whom distingnished themselves in her service, both by —The upper portion resembles the human figure, | astonishinent of us all, it elided our mit ne 7 nike bridge, in that county, was killed by lightning. Mr. de Bocanegra’s complaint is twofold: firet, that | sea and land? She does not appear to have supposed that the head smaller” in Proportion, sometimes bare, | plunging under water.’ In a few minuter it. rose | Om the appearance of a heavy clond, she and asmall boy, | citizens of the United States have applied thy rebels in | the Governments of these persons, this coming to unite haygeny and Abary on the, same coast, Se mam ntly on the leave: 4 eo medi’ * circumstances relative to this animal, were detaile ve rved. mantis about ra eemer watts by Mr. Van Battenburgh, as removed much of the | from i 7 i i dlsinclination to belief Tfelt. ‘This animal isthe fa | some human beers tho ni imagined it to, be May heaven bless them, Yours, ¢ military force which acted a, Woman—A mother, she scolds and bog uw on she telleof and pinches us; « wile~she frowns, pouts, |frete and tormente ne; without her, what would there be to trouble ws? HATS! HATS! HATS !! 4 &.CO'S Orie Price Hat Stare, wholesale and BRGPN CTS, Cae tree ate ot Noreen, hoe * rn oility and ernnomy a combined to adem fashion, beat * i s, vessels, and re | their fate with hers, were, hy allowing the emigration , but oftener covered with @ copious quantity of long | again, nearly in the same » d her son, went to the spring for water, which was some with ammunition, arms, vessels, moné n ners, were, by allowing migration, oes, ave, the ploamne. now tooffer 1 addision black hair. The shoulders are ond, and shee beeane.| we had got onlay ntly peat for abe hy that time | (once from the house, and on their return, being overtaken | crnuits—have publicly raised forces in their cit even pending a civil war, furnishing jnst cause of offence tunproved short nonped Hat, a new style, the uit vert, whieh so closely resembles thet of all fare the most costly and’ beanciful, that the d verecived. Price three dell buiee cash system, whieh » boatmen | f¥y'the y inte ri led fish which | f? he had in. his locker. ‘This seemed to cinenecine. | [mm animal, though it soon Fr which was | ted ont vessels in their parts, loaded them with munitions | to Spain, F.von in her military operations against Texas, "and marched to commit hostilities against a friend | Mexico employed many forcign emigrants ; and it may be under the eye and with the knowledge of the | thought remarkable that in those very operati not horitjes. In all this Mr. de Bocaneg ts | long before the battle of San Jocinta, & native » large t ad the unfortunate woe | of wai on was also knocked | ly nal , took shelter tn ely struck by Lightnin fnam killed instantly, Her lit overcdirony its fears, for | own and considerably stuns large and well formed. The. lower portion resem- | to throw into the water a piece of by bles the tail portion of a fish, is of immense dimen- sion, the tail forked, and not unlike that of the dol- now is not earity ), aithere to the one ch a very superior ” P and_on his recovery | public ar fi AT Hine for the piece eliareede. In theve Hats to the phin,, as it is usually represented, | The color of the | we presently observed it to lay hold of the fish, | found bis mother wrapped in aflame of fire, communivat | to forget that w he United St With | the United States held high command in her service, 981 | pebtic the proyrietors think. they fave reached te witematym, skin is either black or tawney. The animal is held J which it ate with apparent relish. Several ether | ed of course by the electric full Mexico they ave also at peace with T both | pgrformed feats of no mean significance in Texas. Of that | of beauty, durability, cheapness and comfort nd du