The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1854, Page 2

Nn __________ nnn a THE SUMMER RETREATS. CAPE MAY. Care May, Aug. 11, 1854. Grand Ball at the Mount Vernon—The Belles and Beaux—Closin of the Season, §c. The long heralded ball at the Mount Veruon House took place last night, and was traly a very brilliant affair. I suppose there must have been two thousand persons present—all elegantly dressed. The great saloon of the hotel fairly flashed with beauty. The walls were decorated with red, white and blue bunt- ing, punctuated—if I may use the word—at each alcove and window by national flags and evergreens. From the northern extremity down to the centre of the hall, the avenues out- side of the alcoves were partly covered by neat tri-colored hangings, forming a supper room, spacious, elegant, and secluded from the floor where the dancing was going on. The decora- tions were all made by a Philadelphia uphol- sterer, under the supervision of Messrs. John | Thornley, James S. Wallace, and T. B. Peter- son, selected by a committee of the managers for the purpose. The supper was furnished by Mr. Peleter, formerly of the Crystal Palace, in your city, but now established in an elegant establishment at Philadelphia, The o:- naments of the table were the handsomest ever seen at Cape May, and the whole supper ras one of marked pre-eminence. Peleter has eotwined never-dying laurels abou’ his brow. | His art'stic efforts in this single essay deserve | immortalizing by no less a gourmet than Bril- | dat Savarin himself. He will be the “ spasin” among Philade}phia fashionables next winter. | But tothe ball. Dancing commenced at half past nine o'clock, under the management of the following gentlemen, who were distinguished by white and blue badges:- Judge Robinson, James S, Wallace, Augustus H. Raigael, Jasper Harding John Thornley, T. B. Peterson, A. Mc- Makin, Samuel Bronscn, Thomas Hartley, Jsmes H. Devine, William W. Harding, G. W. Eldridge, J. Hart, Michael Dallett, A. H. Lud- Jam, L. Harwood, Jr.. A. Hopkins, A. J. Drexel, George W. Sloat, J. Derbyshire, W. D. Jones, Thomas §. Ellis, J. H. Brown, J. M. Pendleton, ¥. G. Saxton, W. B. Miller, E. G. Cattell, and | | | | | | | | | vass. and part of the day in sailing, rowing, and fishing ; | and I mast say I was delighted to see with what manly strength and skill the ladies the oars. men, and I for one certainly think ita very must close. the Gregory House, which is the largest here. | There are also the Baldwin and Thompson houses, well filled with the fashionable ; and 1 Mahopac Lake may be reached by the Har- Jem Railroad in about five hours, by the way of Croton Falls. You take the stage at Croton Falls, and ride some five miles over one of the most picturesque and beautiful farm countries it has ever been my pleasure to see ont of NewYork city. Hill and vall-y. plain and mountain, spread out before you in its most lovely attire, and all un- der the highest state of ‘cultivation. After feasting my eyes for one full hour. in a country stage coach, admiring the beauties of nature, and soaring from nature up to nature’s God, the driver announced our arrival at the lake; | week, was everything that could be desired. and we were set down about seven o’clock in the evening at the door of what is called the Gregory House—the name of the very (almost say) gentlemanly landlord. " ) The house we found lacked many improve- mente, yet isstill very comfortable, considering the short tyme the proprietor has had since pur- chasing the same to make the necessary im- provements. We found his table spread with no stint of the good things of this world, anda host of the cleverest colored waiters I have ever seen this side of Niagara, The dining- | room extends almost over the lake, and is so cool and comfortable it is really a luxury to enjoy the mountain air from the lake, to 89 nothing of the judiciously selected and well cooked eatables with which his table abounds. From the dining room we wended our way into the large parlor, where we found an excel- lent band of music, and one of the gayest assem- blages of beauty—and could almost fancy we were being transported to some spirit land. The pleasures of the dance had the ascendanoy, and we could only gaze and admire. A more particular description of this part of the amusements I will send you in my next, as also some initials. The great beauty of this place—as also its healthtulness—is the pure lake of water spread | before you. encircles three small islands, thickly timbered, which add much to the beauty of the scene. | On its bosom rest some twenty or thirty beauti- ful boats, both for rowing and sailing with can- The boats mostly belong to the visitors, here they enjoy themselves for the most lied Indeed, I think they far excelled the healthy, innocent amusement for a lady. But I There are some three hundred at several others. am told are well kept houses. The music was furnished by Bedi’s celebrated Philadelphia band, increased for the occasion very decidedly. Of course they performed de- Jightfully. I noticed prominent on the floor Mr. R. Morris, | the editor of the Pennsylvania Enquirer, a3 | also his wife, son, and daughter’ (the two latter | commanded unusual attention;) Mr. Harding,the | publisher of the Inquirer, was also promiaent, giving life to all about him, by his pleasant sallies of wit. Chancellor Johns, of Dela- ware, and Judge Robinson, of New Jersey, were likewise present, imparting decided digni- | ty to the occasion. So were Dr. Samuel Jack- | son, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Mathews, British | Consul at that port, the former accompanied by | his intellectual and elegant lady, the latter by | his graceful and agreeable dau, Mon | Among the belles of the ballroom were the Misses B. and W., from cottages at the Capes; the Misses M., Miss Sally T., Miss J. McM., of Philadelphia, and many others I cannot men- tion, The Misses P., of Burlington, N. J., left | the Mount Vernon a day or two before the ball; | the brilliant occasion hence lost the charm of | their presence. Miss V. P., by the way, Superior person in all respects. While at the | Mount Vernon, she won many a heart by her | various accomplishments, Her performances | on the piano are as fine as I ever heard from an amateur. The sister, it should be added, is alan | a great favorite, gowhere she may. She sings like a ni, roe ive Misa é, Cincinnati, daughter of a cele- | brated painter, and her fair cousin, Miss V., | also left before the ball, and the company lost | the pleasure which their presence would have i . The Misses B., of Burlington, als> departed a day or two before the oc causing great regret; also, liitle Miss Philadelphia. As we have before hinted, all went, nevertheless, as “ Merry as a marriage bell.” Dancing was o'clock in the morn! Supper was served at midnight, and was par- | ( taken of with high relish. The dishes were all 4 commended, and the entire arrangement elicit- ed the most unequivocal approbation. Final- ly, the whole affair was an honor to the pro- prietor of the Mount Vernon and all concerned. it will long be remembercd; indeed, thus far it is the only truly genteel and entirely proper thing of tae kind which has ever taken lace at the Gape. | The season will continue here until the first of September. The Mount Vernon has still , about four hundred guests, the United States, Cotambia and Mansion are also handsomely patronized. Mr. Woolman intends next season to have accommodations for at lea#t one thousaad guests at his house. He sends every- away pleased, and this must call back to anew and increased army of patrons in t ib. I shall leave to-day, and this letter hence is to the boat comin; d be' Size witr be mad required to pay in an entrance fee of dotlars. ept up until two or three ) 90 Ing. It is the intention of Mr. Gregory to enlarge and improve his house before another season; and I have no doubt, with bis taste and skill, he will make it one of the most fashionable | places of resort out of New York. . AS NEW LONDON. Pequot Hovss, L New Lonpon, Aug. 12, 1854. § “1 Regatta to Come Off—The Season—The | Pequot House and its Associations. Asa matter of interest to some of your nu- merous readers, permit me to announce a regatta which has been decided to come offon Thursday, the 17th instant, in the vicinity of the Pequot House, at the mouth of this harbor. of one hundred and fifty dollars has been made up by a few of the guests of the Pequot, and A purse he order of arrangements will be as follows: A prize of one hundred dollars will be given in first. A prize of fifty dollars to the boat coming in is a | Second in the race. The name, length in feet and inches, and sig- nal of each boat designing to enter, must be if et with the Regatta Committee on or fore Wednesday, August 16. A proper allowance of time for difference of 0. Every boat contending for the purses win ve two The same to be free to all open boats. The mouth of this harbor and the contiguous waters of Long Island Sound, and the race, wford rare facilities to the lovers of boat reeing, and [ shall be surprised if a large num- ber of boats are not seen here on the day fixed for "hi ratta. u is becomiag delightful. The large uests at ihe Pequot House renders ons peculiarly agreeable. Mather, endent, is in truth a favorite with ull who come here, Improwrre. THE VIRGINIA SPRINGS. {From the Richmond Enquirer.] Capon, the great resort, where one can sleep un. der a blanket when the heat is unbearable in the valley, counts, we learn, four hundred and fifty visiters. Jordan’s is fast filling up, and now acco n- modates in fine style about one hundred and fifty. Baaieeione wil Senet yo highly salutary water, numbers about eighty guests. From a private letter dated at the Rockbridge Alum Spricgs, on the 3d instant, we learn that four hun- died and fifty visiters were at that resort, and seven hundred and fifty at the Waite Sulphur. castle JWhig states the number at the Sweet Springs at near two hundred. its balls and fine scenery, aud The Vin- ARRIVALS AT Ex President Jobn Tyler, V! Mr Carhart, lady, ebild M.C Smith, servant, Brooklyn fy and daughter, Jersey City. FROM NEW YORK. a B. Walsh. HOB. Henry the last which you will receive from my poor | A.A. P T. Thatcher and lady, pea. During the season I have spoken of things 1. Pitsin, v ‘natcher, as they have impressed me, plainly andhonest- {1 —- %, e Scwe wlasle ly. If I have offended any one, it has been | (4. yatta, S.J. P, Cronthite, dove with no malicious motive. Let me here). A, Mitebell Miss Bail, thank Messrs. Woolman, Hopkins, and Harwood, pec a anil sister, a W. Nopes, of the Mount Vernon, the United States, and jj.0 Pre", anglady, Heh ee” the Columbia for their constant and unceasing M-Cons and lady, “ W.Gt DN o courtesies. To the two former I am iy ied indebted. Your agent, Canning, has also been very polite. I cannot close my series of letters without remembering particu larly all of these geatlemen. Cape May must grew more and more popular every succeeding year. The Mount Vernon is | y the inauguration of a new order of things. The istand oniy wants a few more new and conve- nient houses to take the lead of all places of the kind. T confeas, indeed, I wrote you thus -— that my first impressions of the place were anything bat agreeable. It grew upon me the loager L remained. Tre bathing ground is, ad me add, before concluding, that mvny ments are already on the tapis here, it of the new hotel and its surround- nalized the u mntia ge over the inlet dividing Cape Iland teom the Lighthoase grocuds, by Mr. Mark Devine, of Philadelphia, thos eenderieg a drive round to the st lauding by the beach nearly alway Mr. Devine—a noble fellow by the by templates the erection of a refreshment near this Deidge, the water of the establis tu be fornished by an artesian well, which is now being bored near the spot by Mr. Bolles, Sec Geus them 1 be si y moug favery sv LAKE MAHOPAC, Lake Manorac, Aagust 10, Ist. Tiistovical Aspirations—Route to the Lake— The Hotela—A Bal’ and Beauty -Contem- plated Improvements Feeliog somewhat migratory, and wishing to fobale @ little mountain air, and get rid_of your great over-stock issuing, stock jobbing city of Gotham, I determined to make a trip to thia modern fashionable summer resort. Well. here I am, safely caged, as | hope, until another migratory fit seizes me. Lake Mabopac! Where or in whet archives is its history written? The above is, no doult. the Jadian aame. But its history ? Tne red may ha long since ceased to ply his little bark canoe on tis smooth, aarnWed surf the white man has + offe4 and Led on all; and no sacred t marks their ta resting place. Their the april lund; and the poor, pr 1 tas uourped his place. Al Hiow puny the present , al red man! Mr. J. Miteheli hud lady HWE Wi the United out ofthe city, J. M the tia k. and the | Freceh, Coit ant nurse Craft, Mrs. W. Petra and dangh'rs, Misses Wright, W. Ronalis, W. Phelps, lady and three ser M. Macdo children oan 3 emAD, Miss BR it ear Herpers Ferry, Va, dis “One cf the most spiritcd and interesting lclections ever beld in cur town ¢ sme off y for Alderman a in the triamphal sue ng ticket. An oppos aa supported by ac nd Protestants, but wae V this little disregard of for the people chiefly for their supportyupon the ece've as armorers io the pay of tes government. Por years past, it has been 4 common thing to see men dirned out of employment for refusing to vote as required; bat We are glad to see that this petty despotism is abou! to tetier uncer the blows of the stalwart workmen, Missovs TION. —The Intelligencer states that the returns indicate that ihe whigs have elected the catire delegation to Congress from that State, with perhaps ore exception. mage ToyNavo rw Onio— Nannow Escape ov « Rate The storm of last eveniog was a he track of the Cleveland and Pitts ead, between Becford and Macedonia, were blown down fences scattered as though they had been str, Toe pans rotrd achiy struck 4 tr pawed on with no other damag away of tbe concateber. ‘i f tH. F ymour, waited at Hud to the track, and then rao vrela warned itte stop, In seventesn trees had been of thea beiag re . t the Crevelaad quater befomr It is come nine miles around, and | | the bosom of the earth, and broke his leg. | eyes, damaged habiliments, and “ shocking bad | ; once by the choice of the Legislature, in | was seriously | prevented if there had been an efficient corps of Our Boston Correspondence. Boston, August 12th, 1854. The First “ Training”—How Things Went —in Executive Military Reprimand—Se- ri ua Iliness of Ex-Governor Morton—His Distinguished Career—Whig State Con- vention—Mr. Wilde's Appo'ntment—City Expenses— New Hampshire Educational Statistics. The “ training” of the First Divison of Mas- sachuretts Volunteer Militia, at Quincy, this The weather was cool, but not cold, and dry. The ground selected was excellent; the head- quarters of the commander being either on or hard by the very spot on which Morton erected the May-pole of Merry Monat, in the very old times, to the great wrath of the Pilgrims. The companies were numerous and full, their disci- pline was admirable, and there were no cases of sickness of any consequence. His Excellency | the Governor made a very favorable impression | when he visited the field om the third day, There were a great number of spectators, but there was less of crime committed than on most similar occasions. Not that I mean to assert that the virtues had it all to themselves. Far from it. There was rum to be had in many | places, and consequently there wasa great deal | of fighting and rowdyism. There were Bumerous gambling booths, in which the old stale tricks were played off on the new crop of greenhorns, with the usu- al success, There were many ladies of very uncssy virtue present, attended by gentlemen of no virtue at all; therefore there was a fuir amount of unfair fighting. One gen- tlemon from the rural districts, who was capti- vated by the charms of a lady, got into a fight, and was tossed in a blanket, and though he did not go quite as high as the moon, he fell on to There was a great business done in the manu- facture of fractured heads, bloody noses, black hats.” A great deal of this might have been Boston policemen present; but the dashing men from town care nothing for country constables, | whom they laugh at. The city onght not to send poison into the country without sending the antidote with it. Governor Washburn has publicly reprimand- ed the two Irish companies of Boston that con- | | verted Long Island into a sort of Donnybrook | Fair, on the occasion of the visit of the Mont- gomery Guards of your city. He might have broken them, if he had seen fit to do so, but preferred the milder course. Some attribute his conduct to his sympathy with the Irish Ca-_ tholics, whose votes he is supposed to be ang- ling for; but half way conduct is as little likely to make a man popular with the Irish, who Tike boldness, as with any other portion of the public. i T hear that ex-Governor Morton is fatally in- disposed, and that he may die at any moment. His complaint is dropsy, a malady from which a man at three-score and ten has but small chance of recovery. Mr. Morton has so long filled a prominent place in our public life that it seems as if an old familiar acquaintance were about to be taken from us, now that the hand of disease is laid heavily upon him. He has been | a fortunate man, taking life as it goes, and has filled few but prominent offices. He was a mem- ber of Congress more than thirty years ago, and at atime when that budy couumided wear + amount of public respect than is now awarded | to it. He has been Governor and Lieutenant- Governor of Massachusetts, three times occupy- ing the executive chair; once by succession, as | it were, he being Liewtenant-Governor at the time that Governor Eustis died; once by popular election, being chosen hy one ma- jority, in 1839, over Governor Everett ; and 1812. For many years he was one of the Justices of our Supreme Court, and had a high reputation es a jurist, though it damaged by Mr. Henshaw’'s very able, learned and elaborate criticisms on sonie of his decisions ; and he left the bench | with great regret, on taking the gubernatorial chair, in 1840, He felt that the cushion of the court was more comfortable than the best politi- cal place that he had any chance of geting. In 1845 he wished for the place in the United States Supreme Court that Mr. Woodbury ob- tained, and on some accounts it is to be regret- ted that he did not get it. He was made Col- lector of Boston that year, an office that brought him into some ufipleasant positions, as he had neither the vigor of Mr. Henshaw nor the suavi and gentlemanly feeling of Mr. Peaslee, and al- lowed himself to be troubled about matters that should not have discompozed him in the least. The demecracy formally excommmunicated him at their State convention of 1848, after which event he acted with the free scilers. The last place that he held was that of delegate to the Constitutional convention, in which body he showed great talent and exercised much influ- ence. Dissatistied with some of the provi- , sions of the new constitution, and personally hostile to Gen. Wilson, who would assuredly have been made Governor if that instra- ment had been adopted. He went over to the whigs, and was the ablest of the prominent free soilers—Adums, Palfrey. and others—who joined the whigs and Lunkers and Catholics in their warfare against the coalitidn. Perhaps not the least singular fact in his political his- tory is, that his public career should have clos- | ed in the service of that pariy against which he had contended for nearly half a century, and at whose expense he had won all his ‘political honors. this respect, and ona small scafe, he imitated the conduct of Mr. Van Buren, who, to gratify his personal malice, efiected the de- feat, in 1848, of the very party that had made him President of the United States. Mr. Mor- ton will be missed, and he will leave few men of equal talents behind him. The Whig State Conventio Music Hall, ¢ Faneuil. 4 certain quarters to drop Gov. put up Mr. Serator Rockwell ill meet m venient than th a free soiler | for the office of Lieut. Governor, which | would render necessary the droppiag of | Mr. Pluskett, too, the twenty hours’ labor | won, This Httle “anossel of fresh salt | would hardly catch the free soilers, even Tf i were placed upon their tails; but | there are those in the whig party who do not wish f ra jnnetion with the free soilers, and whe would not give a lnwp of rock for them ail They believe that nothing can pre- vent their party ircsidential e! sharivg the offices with other pe man power, as they look at matt their defeat, and heaven, as everybody know is always on the side of the whigs. Mr. HL. J, Wilde, who has been appointed Na- val Storekeeper at Charlestown, is the same wen- tleman whom T told you had the best look for ace, some months ago, He is a near con- nection of General Cushing. The appoint. a very popular one, and deservedly #0. m trinmphing at the next | ion, and they have no idea of No bu- Seme of the whig papers are growling about the heaviness of the city tax hich that the it municipal gs rously opposed by the vig . Mayor Smith las had the of him, and is now as Himpsy | lar ona fat man with the thermo- | degree: at the starch f scholars, 87 nomber four and fourteen years, io; number of per> | l years who cannet read r of scboollhonuses baile | ber of incorpor sted acade- at raiccd for public | t paid for taition ia schools, $22,494 30; aver | | Munroe, T. M. Dal: | Joseph Gonld, ar | has already exceeded that masses, and so place the means of limited knowledge in the reach of It is said, I know not how correctly, that - a new theatre will hardly be opened on the evening of the 4th of September, the time ori- ginally set for that interesting event. Tnose who recollect how long the National was in opening, are disposed to be doubtful in this in- stance. ALGoma. Affairs In Canada. fr HE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE PARLIAMENT JUST ELRCTSD. ‘From the Toronto Colonist, August 8.) We give below a classification of members which, we believe, may be relied upon. As the clergy re- serves must be settled in some way or other at an early period of the coming session, and as the ccn- gerval have made it an open question, we to that party such members elect as we know, by their gute sedents and political predilictions, be- long to Mr. McKerlie, the member for Brant, has ever been a conservative. Apart {rom the cler, reserves, there is not a man in the House who w be more certain to rally round Mr. McDonald of Kingston; and in any d vision which may test the strength of parties, he will be found in the conser- vative ranke. We know something of divisions in Parliament, and we also know something of Mr. McKerlie. When the excitement and iaterest of a party division occurs, we know well where he will be found. be onc may be said of Mr. Ran- kin, the member for Easex. All his sympathies are with the conservatives. Of the other names mentioned in the following list, there can be no question as to the course they A take. Mr. Bowes being elected for the ity of Toronto, nd partly through the ivetrumentality of Mr. Gowan and thé Orage, oe not peppers a Fergod lowever mut e may feel disposed 52. There then stand:— CONSERVATIVES RETURNED IN UPPER CANADA. 1 Kingston... -Hon, John A. McDonald, " Hamilton... Sir A. N. McNab, 3 Peterborough . John Langton, 4 Simcce South. W. B. Robinson, 65 Huron and Bru Hon. Wm. Cayley, Edmund Murney, 14 West Elgin. 15 Toronto... 561% ey 17 Carlton..... ‘ 18 South Lanark.. 19 North Wellington. The above list beep Pram we have reason to know, the entire ministeri ald Mathieapn, Dr. Southwick, Witham Niles, Henry , J.C. Aikens, Joseph Hi 1, Dr. Fraser, who have been as- sumed to-belovg to the independent reform opposi- | tion, the ministerialists. They were all supported, we know, by the Ministry. Donald Mathieson, who in classed as independent, offered, we are informed, to resign his pretensions in Nort Oxford in favor of a petty ministerial hack in Toronto. Dr. Southwick ewphatically denied all connection with Mr. George Brown, and received the stroug support ot every inisitsialist in his riding. The remaining above mentioned, may show at times some small symptoms of oppcsition; but for all ministerial support they they can be relied upon. We now come to what may be called— THE RELIABLE REFORM OPPOSITION. 1 Glengarry ............John 8. McDonatd. 2 South Wellivgton......A.J. Fer; n. 3 West Brant... Herbert Biggar. 4 Lincoln. . Wm. H. Merritt. 5 Stormont. Mr. Mattice. 6 West Mid -John Scatcherd. 7 Lambton... . . George Brown. 8 Cornwall............. Dr. M ‘Donald. 2 Haldimand............Wm. L. McKenzie. 10 North Wentworth. ....Robert Spence. 11 South Wentworth.....§. B. Freeman. 12 South Waterloo... Robert Ferrie. The above list comprises much of the respectabi- lity, and most of talent, of the reform party elected to the House. There are some peculiarities, too, in the nature of their individual as well as col- lective opposition to the ministry. John Sandfield Mel jd opposes them, because, in the combina- tions which made the present Mr. Justice Richards Attorney General, he was slighted and thrown over- board. Aside from this, he despises Messrs. Rolph and Cameron, and holds to the political lief that a minister cannot remain over a ceatain time in power, and that Mr. Hincks : : period, He is bis eo open to aby arrangement for a new government in which he may form a greece He takes with him Mr. Mattice an their seats to him. Mr. Brown’s opposition is well known, and Mr. Ferguson goes with him. Mr. Spence, who is spoken of as a mawof taleat, hates Dr. Rolph, and will oppose and break up amy minis- try of which he forms a part. He penceety friendly to Mr. Hincks, bu: having been elect agaiuet the vindictive and malevolent ——— of lv. Rolph and his friends, he wiil take earliest | Opportunity of punishing that wily and unprinci; | | politician. "yr Fteemas isa laeyer of inating aes prospects in Hamilton. He will oppose the frees because he thinks they cannot long hold a respectable position in public estimation: and he knows that when fall they will fall irretriev- ably. There is no political rad ay pe inthe shay o'“ Bunkum” can save Malcolm Cameron now. As | for Dr. Rolph, he would be pitiable if he were not | contemptible. Mr. Hincks, we venture an opicion, will be utterly repudiated in less than two years; aed people will oviy wonder why he was tolerated so long. Sach men as Mr. Free- ‘errie, and Mr. Scatcherd know this well, pposition will be tempered accordingly. honestly despises the present miaistry iy and gross corruptions; and Mr. McKen- nie aa them vigorously, if he does not find tumeelf sleepy or in want of fresh air when critical yotes have to be given. Thus, then, in our jndgment—and we know some- | thing of the members elect—stands the presont H use. This, atail events, may be relied upon—that | the twenty six we have given the conservatives are quite as likely, if not more so, to remain steadfast to that party, as the twent: “ix we have given the ministry are to support them in ail cases. It is clear, therefore, from this state of matters, and as far as L pper Canada is concerned, that the fate of the ministi y is in the bands of their own reform o; position. yhether that opposition wi'l rei united, whether they may not be brought over, or whether the conservative party may not, after cight years comparatively fruitless opposition to corruot, characterlcss, and dishonorable politicians, be pre- pared to throw up the whole affair in disgust, we shall have something to say upon again. CHOLERA IN Boston Iv 1849 awn 1851-——From the records of death by choleca, the following statixtios are obtained:—- 1849, 1854, 8 29 In June. July... trees 100 August to 10th, inclusive. . 42 Totals i a In 19 the first death occurred June 34—in it dune oth. In 1849 the disease reached its ‘imum August 2th, when there were 22 deaths. m ‘Thos far this ecason was , Augast Oth. For the last four days, 9th to ith of August, only four deaths by cholera are | known. It is postive that the disease may again inereaso and become epidemic; but the above fats ailord strong reason to hope that it will soon pans away.—Bostom Transcript, Ang. 12. ~ force in the new House. Don- | purposes of | at Mr. McDonald, who owe | the greatest number in one day | th Ohiliaa Cor ‘Varranatso, June 25, 1854. Trip between Valparaiso and Taleahwana—The Prownee of Concepcion—The Chilian Coast—The Port of e., He. ‘A glance af a chart of the Pacific South Americas coast would satorally give a stranger an impression thata the great commercial city of Chili to Concepcion, the capital of the agricul tural portion of the country, was an affair of a very sim- ple nature. He would be wonderfully mistaken. On the third day of every month a steamer leaves this port for Talcahuans and Chiloe, occupying generally two days in making the former place; and with the exception of transient sailing vessels n0 other facilities are offered to travellers by water. ‘The route by land is an affair of some eight days. The province of Concepcion is the most beautifal Part of Ohili. The climate is temperate, the mer- cury rarery rising above seventy-five or falling be- low forty five. Wheat grows here in perfection, and with little labor. Wine of an inferior quality is made in large quantities, and sold all along the coast. This province passeeses the only coal mines of consequence in the country, and furnishes the northern towns with timber and lumber. It pro- duces apples and peaches, and exporte large quanti- ties of vegetables te the various regions of the north. In the first six months of 1853 it exported 468 tons of wool, valued at $75,000. In fact, this is a country that in the hands of an intelligent and in- dustrions population could be made’ to teem with wealth and inhabitants. No other portion of Chili offers such advantages im navigable rivers, a rich soil, and abundant supplies of timber of an excel- lent quality. The society of Concepcion is without doubt the most moral and respectable in Chili. The people are simple in their habits, hospitable, and generous. There is very little business activity in the place; but this may be accounted for by the present isolat- ed position ofthe town. The government is about to construct a railroad between Concepcion and the port, Talcahuana, a distance of seven miles; and this, with weekly steamers to the commercial em- porium, will make a notable change in’ the fortunes of the capital of southern Chili. The river Bisbio waters a large and exceedingly rich country. whose products are now brought down in scows, or the native balsa, or raft. These are polled up the stream, and float down with the cur- | rent. When the wind is favorable, they hoist a large squaresail; and at times a dozen of these sails may be'seen dotting a reach of the broad and shallow stream. The breadth of the river at Con- cepcion in winter, is fully a mile and half, and in summer dwindles down to about half that width. As the passage here leads to the coal mines of Coro- | nel and Lota, it is proposed to construct a bridge at this point; but as this would interfere with the fa- ture navigation of the river by steam, I question if the government will give its consent. In the mean time there is a miserable ferry, furnished with three clumsy boats. This ferry was rented the other day by the government, for eighteen months, for the sum of $3,130. The same ferry was rented in 1845 for $160 per annum. The Bay of Coronel, near thirty miles south of Talcahuana, has assumed an important position on the commercial map of Chili, from the existence of the Valuable coal mines on itsshores. These mines were first discovered in 1952, and in the firat six months of 1853 there wete exported seven hundred and fifty-six tons. In 1854, from 1st January to 21st May, twenty-nine vessels loaded at the Coronel mines, 9,951 tons, and about twenty loaded a¢ the Lota mines about 6.000 tons. The latter mines are much emaller than the former, but are worked by | wealthy capitalists, who also purchase large quan- tities of coal from the Coronel mines, to enable | them to fulfil contracts with steamers, &c. This | brauch of Chilian trade will soon assume a gigan- | tic figure in the progressive commerce of this coun- ‘ny. | Talcahuana, the port of Concepcion, is situated at the southern corner of the bay of the same | name, which is about nine miles in diameter, aud | eheltered by the island of Quiriquina in the en- | trance. On the shores surrounding the bay are several small towns, one of which, Penco, was: in former days the principal place in Southern Chili. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1750, and the capital was removed to the Biobto, where La Con- cepcion stands. This town was also partially de- etroyed in 1835, and the ruins of the large govern- ment buildings and churches are not yet cleared The place has been rebuilt in a very regu- d substantial manner, the streets broad, and ight angles with each otber. * It is on the shores of the bay of Talcushana that sre situated the principal ffouring mills of the country. In the ity of the bay there are thir- teen mills, with the aggregate gre of tarni out 4,140 quintals daily. On the Biobio there ‘are Se ih Se comaetenet 680 daily, and one large mill at Colcura, on bay of Coronel, which can turn out 400 quintals in the twenty fours. Among all these there is but one mill driven by steam. Talcahuana is the great resort of the whalers ; as many as thirty being sometimes in the port togeth- er. government has placed bonded warehous: at this point, (and they have been tardy enougl about it, too,) and the whalers are allowed to store their oil without charges. . The port of Talcahuana is the outlet for the prin- pal agricultural peer of Chili; asthe province Concepcion is cultural, 20 Valparaiso is th commercial and Copiapo the mining seetion of the country. Yet an American will scarcely believe that between Valparaiso, the great commercial em- rium, and Concepcion, the centre of the landed interests, one containing 90,000 and the other 15,- 000 inhabitants, the means of communication are | limited to one uncomfortable steamer, plying once a month, and taxing the people $34 50, for dis- | tance of 150 miles or thereabouts; and coal to be had all along the coast at five orsix dollars per ton. The communication between these two most important ge ia so wretched, so expensive and so annoy- ing, controlled by a company with ideas belonging _ to the seventeeth century, that few but those who areforced by unavoidable circumstances dream of passing between these two towns; and yet the boat is crowded every trip, such is the pressure of a ri- commerce. There is at this moment ample for a weekly ine of boats between Valpa- raiso and Concepeion, and handsome profits made with charges two thirds less than those of the Eng- lish company, and this without the bonus of $30,000 they get from the government for doing the ple | the favor of giving them a “scanty means of com- | munication at exorbitant profits. It is gratifying, however, to know that the government is becoming a litue wiser, and is awakening to a sense of its true interests. The steamer I have alluded to belongs to the English Steam Navigation Company of the Pacific, a company which is mainly indebted to the enter- prise of a Mr. Wheelwright, an American, for its esiablishment. Whatever good it may have done in the early stage of its existence, there is no doubt that, for some ge past, this company has been an incubus upen the rising growth and poe wey A of the country. It is conducted by people residing in Eng- iacd, #ho are ignorant and careless of the interests of the people Lere. It has a monopoly of the mails, and a bonus besides. Its charges are exorbitant, withcut the slightest effort to prove itself grateful for the great patronage it receives. In fact, the contrary is notoriously the case, for the government and the ‘ople are treated with like con- tempt Bs it. By the wealth and influence of the members of this company: they have ,here- tofofe been enabled to frighten away foreign competition, and stifle any feeble attempt to establish a national line, Tae people of the count: are generally ignorant of the uses of steam, an afraid to venture into any unfamiliar path of busi- nese ; and the English are cunning and crafty enough to do all in their power to keep the community thus ignorant and blind to their own interests—interests which must, of course, conflict disadvantageously with their own. The unfortunate character of the Chilian people aids conduct. ia character is an exceeding slowness in the road of improvement, an attachment to an- cient ond now useless customs, a total repugnance to locking to the future to refund with profit a pres- ent expenditure, a natural indolence which incapaci- tates them from taking advantage of the great re- hg of the country, avd a confirmed impression at, 1m aD, latter is. seeking to swindle him—the last, of coarse, proceeding from a conscious ignorance, and the con- | Viction of a superior intelligence in the stranger. In corroboration of the latter clanse, 1 will men- tion a notorious fect. In all J yen of Cnili are that i dn, the “absolaiely potbing, al 1e) 2 . heir iathera received nothing ond fram which the away. a fow cores of land, taps for a potato 5 pick be te willing to pay s fair and moderate lands, belnging to some large. landed pro, and which by frugality and industry he might ex. pect be yiald bien By) 1g, he is astounded by being. manéed a price for a small farm, ua. productive to the owner, that would chase ab state im Eingland.. Ye is. unclean to remomstrate. tule orleeecit.” ‘No hay remedio and ited by the mem- ts Ot poems and political economists. But it nd We should define ideas d to the chariot of im- traces, and are wildly over the chariot sic in the mire. because inexperience and ignorance Had North Aiiericans immi; to this coun- try, and inspired the people with confidence, the: ir inde ble energy and activi! etre them in this interested mode of | hf T t speak of other foreigners, for we do not Cer teers caoa th at is confined im contin stay provement ; to foster the ignorance aud imex- perience of the people ; to nip in the bud any ape- culative scteme, by denouncing it as visior and im pple: moep fie — of ae country at just such a low at they may with ease govern a control pe The abs! fen owners of the flour irterest, they have not in one single instance iatro- duced into the coustry a piece of machinery for the im ment of sgriculture. In in ef pow- interest with the government, they have never used thatdnterest for the advancement of arts or the freedom of commerce, or the amelioration of the mechanical and laboring clasces. Controlling for many years the steam navigation of the coast, the es ties es arava ne at ven rsa it are a8 pre- carious and expensive as were ten years ago, while the pot ors is cohelGeratily daterlorates, Harsh but true is the verdict to be recorded against them: they have allied themselves with the rance of the people to form a rampart against civili- gation and progreas. - The huge monopoly of the Steam lofty dea Company has ceased, and the Pacific coast is to The Chilian = ise of all nations. of a coment. that has always shown itself sympathizing with the interests of the country. are anxiously looking to the Americans for , telegraphs, Improvemenfs in Fiorida. (Fr m the Jacksonville News, August 5.) We are glad to learn that the long cherished ject of a the — an ve summation, the ‘energetic direction of the company Me may and chartered for that week Hon. D. sae President Col. Meyers, and proceeded cability of crossing Nassau river, end narrows that separates Amelia Isla: main land. er @ careful examination, both pcints were found to be perfectly practicable. It will be recollected that the line of this road was some time since run by Captain Smith, frem Cedar Keys, on the Gulf, to Yellow Bluff, on Amelia Island, two miles below Fernandini, where the east- ern depotis to be located. Onr readers will find im this paper an article descriptive of Cedar Keys, which we have extracted from the Savannah News; and for the information of such as may be ignorant of the situation of the eastern Ne fhe we will give a brief description of it. ‘The town of Fernandina is situated on the north end of Amelia Island, upon an elevated plateau, with the Atlantic rolling on one hand, and the waters ef pi beautiful bay, completely land-locked, on the er, The town is laid out at angles, and its broad old and dilapidated, but from their size and original finish xt palmier days. Extensive earthern ramparts mark the where the flag of Spain used to float over a fort that guarded a popu- lous and thriving town, andthe entrance of one of tle finest harbors on the Atlantic coast. While under that flag the people of the town have counted two hundred square rigged vessels in the harbor at one time. It seen many vicissitudes, having, during the South American struggle for oy dence, been Cea: ,& squadron of Colum! privateers, and held by them as a depot, until broken. = by the American A Serge ee of their uccaneering rope raring be of: ried some of the legen buil alarge q t propert, . Again it was taken b: the sot Hen! patriots Who ware to revolutionize Florida, with the consent of the Ame: ent sub rosa. At length, with the cession of the territory to the United States, it came under the quiet ‘protection of our fisg. It isa lovely spot, and, under the vi: influence of ateam, wili probably again be anim: with commercial life. The entiance of the harbor is where the waters of the St. Marys seek an outlet to the ocean, between the southern point cf Cumberland and the northern one Oa RE ie eee pein 8 aoe aud safe one, admitting ships of large size. By the Depot fm ate can run alongside the back an cargo. This line of road is almost on a direct air line from New York to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and offers inducements in the saving of time and m: that must secure to it an immense share of the (; travel—it brings New Orleans several days nearer New York than by steamer round the a It offers inducements bode) tm. sugar and cotton from the Gulf porte of Gal mn, New Or leans, Mobile, Apalachicola, St. Marks, &c., in the way of time, safety, and even expense, that must oes ge way a large portion of that endless stream that ei typ ceo our American Mediterra- nean, throng the perilous channel between the Ba- hamas and Florida. And more than all for the in- terest of Florida, it opens to the enterprise of her citizens tracts of sugar, cotton, and lumber lands, w! must have oth»rwise continued al- most valueless, It will also bring Tallabassee, the present Mes gy of the State, witoin a few hours of +d Cm ic sea-board and the interior of Bast rida. A branch, which the company proposes to bulld, of but nine miles, will connect Ja ksonville with the main trunk, and thereby secure an forward- in, inva on - ‘e have hundred vessels ery this port annually for lumber, and mostly in - last. With shipments for New Orleans sad other Gulf ports, to be landed at our wharves, the vessels could et all times come well freighted, at rates that mi present lomberman bh pay on his manufac Jn return, be received by freights, instead fous th and New ¥« that the HI i offered transaction with a foreigner, the | nia. of that approvristion, aasist the com; completion of che road. At no Wungs looke, ro favorable, and we hail tee 1 Lh ‘Of affairs as it deed for!