The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1854, Page 3

V . Bal- ANTERESTING FROM SOUTH AMERICA, sat hee oe erate, os iaateg ts sane | nea, Uraquay and Brasil precious cberacter of the moancais.” We | CHILE. [From El Mercurio, September 14. x has been the plaza, by tie Prefect. nt event calculated greatly to interest reanere | _ 14t0.—The information we have reveived of the oveign parts. government, Cong-ets has been ogued by the President. Ite on sessions nipated with tie month of August, and hence : — were necessary for tae consideration ngrees during the last two weeks has ben fly (ge upon affairs of a private nature. one of a public character has been dis ed and parsed im the Chamber of Deputies aad ned to the ‘The bill originating with ‘overnment for reducing the duty on silks, wing been amended in the House of Depu- by the addition of ready made clothing, car- es and furniture, and #9 voted, was og in The Depu- ‘We pass over, for want of space, much that is interesting ; but as it is enly inciden‘ical, we omit everything up to the 25th of March, at which date the whole party started on baisasdown the Amazon. March 25th —To-day his been the most eveatfal one of wy life. It commenced raining last oo i and do rmeng begs ont this mornin, a. eve! being ready, our me#, Comp wo rafts, loge, with mesa No. 4 lashed on behind, started. We had two natives with us. We }» When we encountered Sepate without these amendmeata. thereupon did not insist upon them, and thus pal as canetiomed in its ee Ps Reveral important measures are pending Senate and in the Deputies. wv my con ood estimates for the coming bas been d, but the account of expen for 1853 has not yet appeared. The annual orts have been presented by the ministers. We ‘round and round, immersing ua up to the neck. | With difficalty we 1d them off one another, losing some of vur provi in consequence. The river became smoother for about two miles, when we en- | countered ano:her rapid, worse than that we had | just passed. The rafts piled one upon another so fof Ju thore of oe the Navy, < Saad aed ‘that the two Indians were washed overboard; | eb eg gg ve ihe suuteiie ofthe aan and with h great difficalty were saved. Nearly all | ay yy, admin- | the plantains, O'Connor's blankets and pistol, and on, nor its zeal for the public iatereats. ‘ue new registrations will take place in Novem- next, and the elections of Congr:asmen and city cers will cccur in March of the coming year. hat the results of the elections will be cannot be ly foreseen. There is, however, no tear for blic tranquillity. Whatever dissatisfaction may felt with the present administration, it is not in me it will be manifested. besides politics and the*measures of government may mention the appearan x of the report of the gineer of the railroad, explaining the reasons cen Valparaiso and Quitota, paating by te alley en and Quilota, passing e gee 4 instead of Concon, formerly. According to the report, there will ba ving of five hundred thousand dollars, and twe 8’ time. The industrial interests of the country are in a perous Condition generally. Great preparations are being made in Valparaiso pd other cities for tao celebration of the national val on the 18th of September. PERU. The eld summary of Peruvian events is ken from the Lima papers. Tke Heraldo again makes excuses for tho pro- ted revolution in the South, which it attributes the nature of the country. Since the date of cur last advices no engagement taken place between the goverument troops nd General Castilla. he former are stationed be- €en Chon; and Chupaca, and the latter be- een Izcuchaca and Morga, where, according to he same authority, they suffer from tne climate nd scarcity of sup li O. the 28th, come desert- 8 from the revolutionary army joined tue gova:n- hevt forces. Caetilla’s arm: said only to num: r 2,700 men, and Gere! San Romaa had not een able to join him with bis division, which only umbers 860. Ceatilla is said to have applied to zn for assistance. In Lima everythiog remains quiet, but at Arica, in the 9th, an atta k was made on the town by Dr. vala, with 250 or 300 men, who succeeded, after a jard fight, in defeating the small force of 75 aoldiexs ft to guard the town, but on the 19th Gen. Guardia 2 ok the city, and wade 150 of the revolutionists isovers. Our private letters from this city ay that every- hing was in the greatest confasion. all business fuspended. All the ports,’ with the exception of Iquique, were were veshed overboard, togeiner with all var pow, were 5 our pots, which we have to cook with. I saved Pil yr though up to the neck, by holding fast td a rope. One of the balsas waa nearly perpendicular, and at every surge crashed uvon the main baisas. Finding it ieapossibie to get along witn the rafts lashed toge- ther, I jum: on the amallest, and bad it cutaway. There was but ope man on bvard, W. 8. Tice. C} had not gone far when we were sucked by a terrific eddy, up to our necks, and our s'eering oar was ed overboard. The balsas now becam:? unman- ageabdle, and we could only float at tue marcy of she waves. Several times we were driven by tue eddies among the bushes, and ooly saved ourselves from being knocked overboard by falling prostrate upon the loge. Even then our bodies were badly scratch- ed by the bushes, and ore large limb striking me in the side, nearly knocked my breath away. Notwith- standing all our efforts we could not make tha shore. Otr situation appeared horrible—exvo-ed to float for hundreds of leagues without succor,and toccown all we saw wy tess land on shore, unable to render us any assistance. Imagine our feelings—they cau- not be descrived. Our only chance was for the oue behind to overtake us. We passsi several dan- gerous rapids, but we escaped with an occasional immersion. After proceeding six or eight leagues, mesees No. 2 and 6 hove sight behind, who secing our coudition, by rowing and paddliag over: ‘wok os, and threw us a line. This was a provi- dentia: deliverance, and we thanked God for it; for we had rothing to make a fire with and only jerked beef to eat. Nor do the other rafis fare much bet: ter—Lane of mess six, and Sidoey Clark of mess three, being washed overboard; but, fortunately, tacy were enabled t> get oa board agaia; neatly every- thing in the shape of provisions, however, was lost, Stopping at a submerged island, we made fas: to trees, and concluded to remaia all night. In a short time the balance of the rafts suczeeded in joining us. Towards evening a canoe was observed cross- watch through the night. To crown all, it rained all the evening. A more disheartened set I never saw; and I for one, bitterly regretted the voyage. 2¢th.It rained all night, and all this day it has poured. We contrived to mike a fire ia our wash: pan and cooked a little chocolate. About seven o’clock we all started agsia. The river isa great deal wider to-day and the mountains lower, and we get along betier, baving fewer aud less formidable ing the river, and fearing a surprise, all hands kept | orce of the Presidenc: 000 hold the pee provinces, 1,500 are inthe Bouth, 2,500 in aud about Lima, and 1,000 in the orthern provinces. It must be remembered that these sceounts are n fromthe government paper, and should be veived with caution. URUGUAY. In this republic quiet continues to reign. A re- fcrm in the custom honse, an arrangement of public nds, a8 well asthe internal debt, seem all to be pgagizg tne attention of the Oriental legislators. (he Chamber of Representatives had voted the funeral honors, appropriate to his rank, to the late General Alvear, ex Minister at Washington. BRAZIL. Our dates from Brazil are to the 13th ult. The papers are quite destitute of all intelligence’of inte. The following is OUE KIO DE JANIERO CORRESPONDENCE. Rio, Sept. 13, 1854. American Steamer Fired into by a British Man of War—The Coffee Market, &c. i; The American schooner-rigged steamer Bay City, Capt. James H. Wardle, which arrived here from (Pernambuco bound for San Francisco, was fired into by her British Majesty’s corvette Bonita, com- fmanded by Capt. Wilk, on the 29th of August be- tween 1 and 5 0’. lock P. M. Captain Wardle has given me the following state- ‘ment. He was signalled to lay to, which he imme- diately did. The Englishman, from his position, did not see this, and fired four blank shots and four balls. The first two balla fell short, the third fell forward, and the fourth passed between the main and mizen masts, over the heads of the men, and rapids to pass. Stopped for the night, landing in a the hands of the government party. Toe whole | swam, fade a fire, exam'sed piscols, provisioas, cousiats of 10,000, of whom clothing, &e., and found them et eo 4 and spoiling, 27th.—Left early to day, and after floatiog about _& league, came to where the river was about haif a river was | very narrow, and we pitched intoa perfec’ cauldron | mile wide. Jnst before reaching it, the of a whirlpool. Round avd round we circied, and finally came out on the right hand side of the river, losing rothing from my raft; but No.4 ran upon a tree, and turned bottom upwards. The men jumped on No. 2, which was near at the time. Attempted to land in a small cove, bat missing it we came into the bushes and tress, and one projecting far out into the water, the balsas came in contact with it, sweeping Mr. Feigleatock overboard. He, however, caught on a limb, bat we were swept away, leav- ing him behind, up to his neck in the current, and unable to swim. toiled hard. and after flosting about halfa mile, caught hold of the bushes and Janded. We cent two Indiaus back to look for Mr. F., but after au hour one ofthiem returned and stated that it was impossibie to get him off. Andarson and Don Bs ico then went to his aesistance, taking with them ropes and au axe. They fousd him, aud with the aid of the Indian, succeeded in getting a rope around him and pulled him ashore. Pursuing our voyage, we at length landed for the aight. 29th.—To- day has been a melancholy o2e for u3.— Leaving before sunrise, we floated along quietly for two leagues, when we encountered a territic whirl- pool, with rocks on every side. Round aud ronad we were whirled, sinking sometimes bo'b the bal- sas ; but at last we energed, all hands safe. Nos. 3 and 6 had passed 15 miautes. before us, and they sunk so deep that Wm. T. Dennison, of Albany, New York, was thrown into tse whirlpool and lost forever. Poor fellow! kinder and more noble hearted fellow I have never seon. 81st.— At iast we are at the ppiat of our dostina- tion—at last at Sontiago de Borjs, the iand of my dreams by night, and thoughts by day ; the land to gain which, I have travelted thousands of miles, and Our Minnesota Correspondence, + Sr. Pavt, Mommsora Taanrrony, Bept. 27, 1854. The Climate and Atmosphere—The Soil—Tour Through the Country—Eureka City—St. Peter's, Se. He You undoubtedly see a great many letters written at this point, giving glowing descriptions of the place and country through the Territory. Al though there is considerable gas in mos: of thee letters, yet, 00 far as my knowledge extends, this is a peculiarly happy country—hot as fire in the summer, and cold as ice can make it in the winter. Without change, as below in Illinois, Indiana, &<., it is provably as healthy a country as there is in the vast possessions of Uncle Samuel. The afr is pure and bracing, and the invalid may remain in the night air without those enervating effects ex- perienced farther south. Cuba has long been the Ei Dorado for the sick, but she is fast losing chy racter, and the attention of invalids is turning to other points. Lake Superior has been recommended and is daily gaising ground. The atmosphere on the lake, I am told by persons acquainted with that region, differs acarcely any from that at St. Paol. I am acquainted with individuals who came here some few years ago w'th broken bealth, who have regain ed it, attributing it entirely to the atmosphere. I have never been in a State where I found as floe air as this here. But I started out to tell you something of the Min negota river country; from the fact of travelling mest of the time in a caaoe, I cannot give you more than a bird’s eye description. Tne Minnesota or St. Peter's river has all along, (a% least by t»ose living in St. Paul and vicinity,) been considered the best portion of the territory for farming purposes. Tho Cannon river, however, is gnining ground daily, and the Minnesota must yield the palm to her. The Minnesota, however, haz a fine couatry on her banks, runniog far back into the interior. She heads in the western portion of the Territory, bnd- ing within forty or fifty miles of the north liae of Jowa, having @ northeastern direction, and empties into the Mississippi river six mites above here, at Fort Soelling.- If a person wants to see the country he thould either walk over i: or ride on horse; then he can be prepared to give a correct account f it. . In company with four others, I left St. Psul on the 6th inst., on foot, and errived at Fort Ridgely, after several Stoppings, with one companion, oa the 14th. We found the number of soldiers to be about one wandred and fifty, nearly ali on extra duty for building the fort. “The fort, which is to be, is beautifully situated, three hundred miles by water from St. Paul, on a high point of land rua- ning off a short distance to the river on deep ravine. The reserve for the fort is I understand some ten wiles square, containing some of the choicest land. Toe fort buildings are going avead rapidly, and some of tham will undoubtedly be cone, which will take some years to flaish. Tae buildings for the soldiers are being buiit of stone, aud the general design, so farasI could learn, is similar to that of Fort Saelliag. Failing to bay a cance as we expected, we started off the next morning, after going through a dreadful bight, lying under a wet canvass and fighting rats, which were disposed to carry away our hair; we came to Mr. Le Flamborge’s place, four miles be. low, an Indian trader from Montreal, who has years. We did not find him at homs, ba’ after staying at his house two days be arrived from Traverse de Sioux, forty five miies selow,on tne river. We found him to be a gentleman in every respect. We seems to enjoy himself in hia way of life. He | Purchaeed a canoe of bim, and on the 17th started on the route to St. Paul. I had forgotten to say anything of the up trip, from the tact of croasiag the great prairie, which fies between Henderson, a int Joseph R. Brown is building up, and toe Fort. The count:y, however, from St. Paul up to Hender- son, is not tue choicest, en account of the great ex: tent of prairie, which I should think far too great for the timber which skirts it, Occasionally we found a fine piace of country, but as a general thing, there is too much pralrio. The couutry around Henderson is a one. At this point the government teams cross the river, en route for the Fort. The distance to the Fort from this poiat, js forty-five aniles by Jaud, and about two hundred by_waiter. We expected, on leaving Le Flamborae’s for S'. Paul, to stop at Cottonwood, some thirty miles be- | low; but the current being bad, and being drenched wit rain, and withont provisions, and nu where 'o get ary, we were obliged to stop, as we supp 1324, several miles from that point,to camp for tha nizht. | The country, 8» far as we could judge this firat day, was rojliog prairio on the north sid+ aad timber oa the south side, with hardly any variation. Vegeta tion tolerably good, and better as we went oa. ‘Well, our cawp is made, -onsisting cf a fez brush, bent together at the top, with wet recds for beda. A huge fire made, we divide a poor, emaciated pigeou, which, with a few poor thora apvles, was all we had since breakfast, and tura ia for sleep, Sioux Indians od prairie wolves breaking the mo- notony of the night. We started quite carly in the morning, and turning a bend near the carp, ceacried Cottonwood, which was one log house, nearly surrounded with Sioux wig- wams. Here we eat as hearty a breakfast, perhaps, | 88 ever two mortals did before. We felt graieful to our Indian friend, wrom we left rovsting a hea hawk for his and family’s breakfast, we having been in the Territory, he informed us, come twenty | | deceased, from the ore side, and skirted on the other by a! be) eady for the winter; but there isa great dept to | | dbis memorial, in honor of s patriot, = roltier, a | de ignation of thet region of the north. five miles from St. Paul by land, we arrived in thie pess'pg For: apd Mendota at the pF of two rivers, considerably out about knees, westing somewhere to wash, aud patinted with our ae down the Minnesota. Yous, Wasurapo. metalliferous, and of the substratum as being, toa great extent, silver, either if tolid metal or ores. I would not be understood as representing the Wom -n Literavure. “4 QUENCHY,” BY MI58 WETHERBLL—“ THE LOFTY AND THE LOWLY,” BY MISS M’INTOSH—" THB LAMPLIGHTER,” BY MISS CUMMING—‘' FERN Silver. TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD. I have-s;oken of Mexican soil as being highly | for afew critical remarks, not BM Isaac D. Baraard. The 19th of Delaber the ‘anniversary of the sur- | Who'e of Mexico as being thus enriched, but cnly | have gained rea povularity of atso bocuune they render of Cornwallis xt Yorktown, was approori- | that uncommonly ‘arge portions of it, far exceeding —- «di pte. “i = ately chosen by the soldiers of Westchester, Pa., | that of any other country known to us, is thus “me Page ah pesgesion perusal and the ad, towns and counties, for reinter- 4 and underlaid with this metal. I proceed to | {i alga si ine jane aed ay a Mire Lee ring the of Mi Isaac D. Barnard, a sol- | Myrtle, # of the war of 1812. Major Barnard died in | examine this o little, and test it by undisputed | Heatz,” or ies Kilen Louise Chandier,’” or, last- fou and was interred in the Friends’ burial | authority. ly, “‘ Mra. Harsiet B. Stowe.” Pray, excuse as, ground in Westchester, from whence his remains were to the new cometery lately opened, and where a neat and sppeepria’e monument to his memory has been raised by the citizens of Chester | and Delaware counties. The ceremonies were wit- | althouch mining in Mexico bad hitherto been con. fined to a comparatively narrow circle, yet, since the conquest, the immenee mass of silver which ladies, we cannot attend to all at once; per! ia time to come, you too, may hear from Pee the meanwhile, sbould we offend in the Stoning 2 marks, we shajl console ourselves with the that our’s is not the first persimmon pole which hag Humboldt, about fifty years ago, testified that her: 00st. seed ® number of jitizens, of Philadel | haq ven raised, and which was dug from afew | "S00. tee" duve of witsneraft, euch utterly income argh ss nary a tn eo a — | central spote, im which the capital and activity of rahenaible fal ly bas never raged, among et Never, missioued Secon: 1 yment, maddest moments, vr Mather’ " mean ye ite te his, ie Bt perelnians Nas, eet ea | appear eo much like a foul, as does the American of At 8} o’clo:k, Is ad ae mH ois +» amounted to the enormous sum of one billton seven a resent day, in his crazy worship of ‘ Female iemmechites where ‘it wireline 10 bundred and sixty-seven millions nine nundred and | ‘Aatbors.” Let a@ publication of the Eee Srey o'clock. | fifty two thousand dollars, and yet, eays Ward, in | stamp, make its api earance, sanctioned - The military were received by the Union Troop, | his standard work on Mexico and its minos, in | Dature of s woman’shand, ens Creee ae Fae a OC Chae creeepentent | 1527, "If we examine the spots wo shall find that | Pact deel*more amity thaa the only Divan never Fey Oot ee ee one eer y Ch aoe | the three centuries of constant productiveness have fiten we have ever bad. Be the subject what it Repaicet i a"Goh A ayes: Se uno. cha rail ie | gach aed ape © 4 P while by far the largest portion of the great i flattest Boon taken fom the Piende boric ground, ang Tmalnounexplored.” Te names ome dozen of those | ine. denominate mpl, the mow extee put in a handsome walnut coffin, covere with black mines, and adds, of others—“ That after being | Vagant nonsense dubbed “sprig! tliness,” the vilest el worked, some sixiy, and some eighty years, they | Sentiment called a “knowledge of haman nature,” oth, At 12 o'clock the military again formed in the | continued to be equally productive, and were finally and the most utter vulgarity yclept “sterling wit.’ wing order, hi! the length, the breadth, the height, the ein ee Caten Ribs, suspended, only because the drainage power in some je bumbug ° Where may our sated senses be ie Capt. Grant; City Fencibles, ae Brown; Inde- | proved inadequate to discharge the water, and in | ned by ise presence? a pes meee _ ote Breoeland ; Naiioual Guarda, Capt. ‘gre; | Ome by the incurslone of Indians.” His conclo- | Sleeves” of moruing float” unintercepted by Wehingtom “Blues, Capt, Beariee; Pipeuixcitig | sion ie, thot “there is so little reason to question | the folds of its baoner? Tell as, ye stars Guarde, Capt. Conway; chester; Independent Artillery; Brig. Gen. Smali | and other officers of the Second «2d Third Brigades, and Union Troop. The hearse bearing the corpse as then placed in the rear, with the Usion Trop as i 8 of honor, and a long train of citizens on foot and in carriages followed, under tre direction of the Marshal, Captain Apple. Toe cor‘ege reach ed the cemetry at 14 o’closk, and its entrance into that place of the dead, and its movement to the tomb, one of the most solemn and impressive sights ir witnessed. Upon the arrival of the bier containing the remains at the place of burial,a ayer was made by Rev. Mr. Karener, of the Metno- See church, which wes followed by an eloquent a4- dress from Dr, William Darlington, of Westchester, in which he reviewed the career of the distinguished De when, forty years ago, he covered himseif with honor by his gallant conduct | in the service of bis country in Canaia, dowa ta the | time of his death in 1934, shortiy after efforts had | been made to secure his nomination for Governor of | tate. After the address, the National Guards fired the usual salate over the remsins, and tne whole cor: | tege returned to Westchester, where the military were dismissed. Gen. Thomas Trimble, of Ciester | City, Ger. Smail, Co). Coaroy, and Major Eggleton, of Philadelphia, were the pail bearers. | The monument bas a square base, with sides, each | two feet square. It is of white marble, anion the | shaft is executed a wreath, containing the name | “Barnard.” On the front is the inscription— Major Jesse D. Barnard: Born March 22, 1791, Died | February 18, 1884. On the left side— Major of the Fourth infantry, in the War of 1812 Dis- | tiogulshed for gallantry at Lyons Czeek, Canada, Ostober | 19, 1814, On the oe Senator of Pennsylvania, 1820, Secretary of the Com- monwealth, 1826. tenator of the United states, 1827, On the rear— | statenman, was erected by hisfellow et'izans, Osteder 19, 4, Greenland- Ante-Coiumbian Discoveries. TO#ME EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, Tam nota little sarprised at tha ignorance manifested 4 regard to the origin of the name “ Greenland,’”’ os the ‘The why and wherefore of the matteris just this:— ‘The ‘and was discovered incr sbout the year 962, by Norwegians from Iceland, and was called Greeuland, * Decause tt was remarkab'y verdant, as comparod with the da: k lava strewa barcens of Iceland, and be:sus9 a | good nsme would probably ihduce peopls to settle there, So the next Scandinivian discoveries of importance were | assignificartly named, as ‘' Markland,” a wooly coun try, (from Mérk, a thicket of trees,) and -¥. 1d? a fouthern New England,) bacanse of th> abundance o | wild grapes or vines there, ani which are still a inarked feature of the woods of Rhode Ish nd | ‘Thete, end other equally approp:isie names, w-re given by @ people who det-sted man wership, and who neve | would have (hought of extiiog tesiaud “Sad tod’s Land,’ | cr Greenland + Kire*’s Lan,” asoar motera i torians,”? +1 ) Straiva,”? *Boorhis eure? a h wdaucd folic | By the way, why de it t tae amportans, discoveries | of the Northmen are a9 }: reeogaized §9 long aftar | the very las: eorious attempt to deny thoir outisntio!ty? Why co so c&iled learned xen igoore even thy nam that mirk the footsteps of the pioneers of that seundt. navian rsee whose 0004, su>-equeatly infuseliato Great | Britain, hea given to the present mis called ing o-Saxon race thst chiva'rous daring, that inhereot lowe pal indepencence, whieh have 2 ali the eerth? Suppost Columbus did spend the sinter | | of 1977 io iceland, (woe his own confession fo his letter: ) | where the re'ation of the talos of the di.covary aad loog | fettlemest «f Greeal 4 ths sudsequent atveatares of Eric, Thos flun, G Bi others in Vin'ant (aow | Bhode Island and 5: ets) were the common oe- eupaticn of the people during tueir long wintor evenings, | and weeoven written down in their sagas; supo0-¢ ations! Gaards, of West- | the producing powers of the country, that were i recessary to adopt one of two extreme supposition there would rather be cause to fesra depreciation of the value of cur present circulating medium, from 4 the probability of two great an increase in the usaa average increase, than to apprehend any great fall ing off in its amount.” Englend’s charge d’aBsirs in Mexioo during the years 1825, 1826, and part of 1827, and was required by official command to endeavor to ascertain the ex act amount of silver raised and exported, &o. He telis us that “in the execution ot thsse orders was obliged to examine the question of mining, (in as favas Mexico was concerned,) to the greatest | poesible extent.” ‘The result of his examinations, | Cover to cover, and we which he passed, he gave to tho world in | paratively narrow circle,” embracing the country for there would we make our dwelling pia'e, ‘and consign to the mercy of oblivion’s waters the recollection of the annals of humbug and of female authors. But our zeal satuer blinds our politeness; we have kept these fair laidies too long, anticipa- ting the verdict of critical majesty. “ Queechy,” Miss Wethereli’s ban‘ling, stands first upon our list. Whatever may be our opinion of her ability, we must yield to the authoress the credit of no evil intent. However little good there may be, there is certainly nothing bad, contuised im her book. Some people may say, then, that she de- serves no blame; thia isa great mistake. Something more is required of en author than the more ab- fence of ill; there mast be presence of good. Aman moy make bis meals cf saw dust; it will not poison bim, but he will die for lack of sustenance, We have ploughed through ‘Queecby,” from od it all—saw dust. e meet with an interminable array of fiat, common-place incidents, which bear no interest tworoval | in themselves, nor moral in their tendencies. Octavo voiurues of some 700 or 800 pages each, embel- | A little girl attracts the notice of a young man—he liehed with plates, particu'arly illuetrative of the min- ‘oes out and thrashee hickory nuts off the trees for ing processes. . I have no knowledge that the correct- | ber; she says and does such things as precocious ness cf his statements, or any part of them, has ever | litte gisls generally say and do—if our memory be been questioned. Tae work is considered every. | Dot treacherous, she cries over a misused dog, which where as a production of great value and inali | cruel youth bad beaten—she has her-little ups things wholly reliable. | and downs in lite, with her uncle’stamily, ond when 1 nave thought best thus to introduce this wit- | misfortune overtakes them, she performs crodigies But who is this Mr. Ward? I answer he wa: he cluding the incidents of his travels, 2 description ofthe country, and ite population, &e., through eee, 65 T shall Pal oneae to use his testimony | ot hings by Fay Of exaitanee.- ane ae tty fi and : m hout ¢ Trades, rary to the oldsaw, 001 RO ren en) Eeabas aeons (adaGan | all, too ; fiaally, true to poetis justice, ahe fares her friend, the hickory nut thrasber, and “ all | ON merry a8 @ marriage bell.” Well, and what's the | objection to all this? Chere is, in fact, so little point to the bock that it is tilting in the dark to found an marks. Humboldt was limited in his report to “a com near the capital. But the immense riches in silver in Northern Mexico were at that very time lying in disturbed . Indeed, 7 objection. We chject to the insipidity, the staleness, "Capital will es annie ed oh ant rat dk the utter vacuity of thought sie soxtinnenty which tent in the less accessible districts of the North, to | mark ita every page. We are all tne time seeking for eome substance of which this mass of folly is the shadow. When we are through we have read of a very nice little girl, ani come very nive youn; man, but we canno} nane an original idea whi hus been gleaned from this trackless wildernesa of noneense. le thin, which,” he proe¢da, “as I have already stated, I am induced to attach the highest importance.” But this northern region has been penetrated, and the results have shown that for quantity and quality there is no part of Mexico hitherto explored | on the surface as beneath it, and in greater pu ity | that exceeds it; indeed, it is an ascertained fact that the mires as you proxeed north, even to our own border, (the Rio Grande,) abound ia purer metal Shan has heen found in either the central or southern districts. It is to this No:thern Mexico to which Mr. Ward | attaches “the greatest importance,” that I seek to | turn the attention of our people. | In earlior times, Mexico, the capital, was | the central attraction, and it wasia this “narrow | circle” that surrounds it, that the mines referred to by Humboldt were opened and worked. It was na- tural that the mining operations should be there— indeed necessary—because there were the means of subsistence, and there the mint, and there the great mart of exchavges. Che :emoten@® from all these of Northern Mexico interposed a sufficient barcier of itself to any mining cperations there; bat when to these was ruperadded the immsnese cost of trans- por ing the metal for registry and coinage, at th copital, the question of mining for silver ia th: north Was not even entertained. And yet it was | known then, as it has been demonstrated sincs, thatio the north lay the masses o’ silver, as well than it was ‘ound apy where elxe. To the p evious chapter I suid, in sabstanse, that such is the abucdaxce of silver as to render, tu som instance, mining intolligence and skillof any sor: unnecesza -y, for that the most ignorant of men and the pcorest stumble upon itas they traverse tue country, and seeiog the shiniog metal, have gone to work, singly snd in pairs, smassing immense and overgrown fortunes; and now for the proof, We cannot say that a si bas been learned, or a sicglé principle illustrated, which migh; not Pave been better learned or more clearly exemplified in the most superficial observa- tion of every day life. With this opinion of the work, we would coriially commend ft for (what Mise Wetherell probably istends it) the perasal of children. It will give them a taete for reading, and present views of practical life, which, though all around it,a child would never notice. But, that | grown men and women shou!d be flying into ecata- cies, and comparing a peurile story to our best standard works, is, we do contend, utter and un- pardonable humbuggery. Next comes “ The Lotsy and Lewly,” by Miss Me- Intosh. The lady frantJy acknowledges that the book was never commenced with the same purpose with which it was ende’. Originally iotenie1 as an every-day tale of ‘Fait':!ul aud Faithless Love,” the materials were recast, and moulded into the shape of an answer to‘ Uncle Tom’s C wbin;” and a precious poor answer at that. Bu-h a combination of faultiess and faulty m-n, and of perfect and im- perfect. women, surely never existed elsewhere than in the hotbed of @ wovan'’s imagination. Asan advocate of the institutios of slavery, i; is Hable to certain objections, the main one of which ie, t never touches the subject. J is very sentimental, very fuli of extravagan e, very ceatitute of any common scxse, and,s8a matter cf course, very siliy, and very muo’ calcalated to tara the heads of boarding s hool—we beg ten thonsaud pardons—femaile col- lege girls. Zuniga, rays our anthor, on his arrival at Citorce, was merely a muleteer. who visited the mouatains | with tupplies from the newly dis overed distri t— meat and every other necessary being then paid for | almost a pese deplata (by their weight in silver). Encouraged by the exam»les cf sudden riches which | he caw around him, he sold his mules, and parchased | fhe Lamplighter” is s book of far beter quali- 9 an either of the above, bat still by no means lecerves the enormons cizculation it has attaiced— sixty five thousand copies in three months, we be- lieve. It bas an undue allowance of miik and water in its composition, ard we occasionally get wofully worried with puerile babb'e ; bat there i's stratum of souad tense at the bottom, which makea us think the suthoress capable of better things. We fell into the water. The commander of the Bonita | €Dcountered many perils. At last we are here. devoured all the pork that was cooked, which was | or I"Ficesscrer did cail iu pursuunce of shorer oortainn | with their p occecs, (about two thonsand doliars,) then:boarded the Bay City, and, afier examining ber papers, was satisfied that she was an American. Iam informed that angry words passed bet veen the two captaine. A protest has been msde against her asenty's governtent, and forwardgd to Washing- The coffee market, from the Ist to the 11th and 12th of this month, has been active. Daring that ‘time 45,000 bags have teen sold. 4,000 , of quality for the United States, brought 4/j150 a 4\|300. Freights to New Orleans have just been taken at 1124¢.; to other parts of the States, 80c.a ae f CENTRAL AMERICA. We have received our files of papers from Sin Jore, Costa Rica, to the 30th ult., but they are desti- tute of news, and give no later intelligence from other Central A: States. EXPEDITION TO THE AMAZON. [From the Panama Star.] Mr. J. A. Talbot, who organized and headed the first party of Americans that visited the tributaries of the Amezon in search for gold, has kindly placed bis journal at cur disposal, from whivh’we extract such portions as we think will be most interesting ‘to our readers. We should be glad to publish tha jeurna) entire, but Mr, Talbot designs leaving on the next steamer, and, of course, takes his note book with him. Mr. T. and twenty-one others left Callao on the 16h of January last, for Huanchaco, where they obtained mules, aappliae, Se, and commensed their arrey. Pasting through Chacopas, Cascas, and mtemeza, they arrived at Caxamarca on the 2d of February. At this point they halted a few days, bom were regarded the inhabitsnts as travelling lostiee. Cexamarca is only @ few hours’ ride from Maranon. We copy from the journal: — Feb. 6th.—This day has been an eventful one to pang mab We obtained mules for Balsas,a town on the other side of the river. Ascending a moun: ‘tain for two hours, and arriving on its summit, sud- denly there burst upen our view the Maranon—its infant stream presaging the mizhty torrent which, after traversing the entire width of a continent, min, its vast volume with the Atlantic. One simultaneous shout burst from the company. .We felt like the crew of Columbus on discovering land: = * portion, at least, of ae troubies were nagol an silence we pursued cur journey, each ia- duiging in reflections on the provable Vjostiny of that moghty river, and the vast commercial impor- tance it was ere long destined to assume. Doscend- ing the monntain, our way led through a besuti- ful valley, well watered and fertile, and thence winéing down the mountain, to within a half Smile of the river. Mr. Feiglestock, our inter- reter, and myscif, went forward to the river. ere. we found, to our surorise, the soldiers on _ the opposite side prepared to dispute our passage, being protected by a tone wall; their red caps peer- ing above the breastwork, and their musketa pro truding through the chinks, gave it an air at once lu- dicrous and jing. They waved us to go away ; but upon cur presen’ our papers, and waving a white handkerchief, one of them swam over tous on “@ log, and took our papers over to the Governor— shortly after they sent across two balsas, with an T, who demanded as a condition of our passing the river, that we should deliver up our arms. Finding it impossible to help ourselves, we relact- aptly gave up Hates Hort and ten guns, firet dix: 1 138 shots. They stated it was but a precaution against surprise ; and about a dozen of ‘Us passed over with our arms, and eaw them deposit- ed ina honse, anda guard placed over them. Be- fore night we all safely crossed the river with our yuggage. The town contained about twenty-five houses and the river is guarded by some fifty sol- ete eee artillery, the position is almost im- preg) , ‘ith—This morning Mr. McKayance avd myself atarted on @ prospecting tour. We dag a small hole in a ravine, but found nothing ; we then tried @ pan of dirt ‘rom the Amazon, gud to our sarprise found four or five specks of gold, but very fins. *. * * * * * * 7 * 13th. Hire we are at Isst at Chaca: Jeft Maldelina at eight o ican Yolock A. M., aud at onze We arrived at the mouth of the river this morvinz, entered it, and holding on by the bashes, toiled slowly up the stream, when we left the borders of Peru and croased over into Ecuador. The Rio Borja at its mouth is a beautiful stream, not so muddy as the Maranon, qniet, and about a quarter of a mile wide. After laoding, a party went on aa exploring expedition, and soon found the remains of the ola town—some posts driven into the ground, and a large number of pots scattered abou; ; bat trees bad grown up amongst the ruins, and thero were no cigns ot haman jife. The only thiag we found fit to eat was some lemons. April let to 28th.—Tois time was passed in build- ing & fort, ad prospecting for goli without success. Becoming satisfied that no gold was to be found on the Rio Borja, and already saffering from sickoess and sca:city of ions, the whole party left Santiage on their , and arrived at Barac‘as on the lst day of May. On tneir way down they en- countered the de Mansaricha—the most dan- gerous rapics of Amazon—through which they were hurried with great ve ocity, but fortauately without loss of life. Mr. Talbott taus deacrioes tha passage:— 28tr.—Earty this morning we left our landing, ard immediately were plunged into the boiling waves. Whenever we would get intoa whirlpool, we would let the balsa tarn round and round, until it weuld come out. We had determined oa the rafts to get into an eddy before coming to the second Pongo, and then prospect below, to fee whether there was any more danger. Two of the balses eafely effected a landing, but oars mnizeed it, ing rapids. I was atthe stern of the ba’sa, with the eerie oar in hand, immersed t> tne neck. ira ot es to our hate ae: the pressed ® Darrow chaauel, not a hundred yards wide, with solid walls oa ea. side Throngh this we darted with tho moment { da ee ot te jog dosed a danger of being dasned seer Waeeanhead hs ats Parte ie . The log *f the waters was almost phim oy and the angry, foumiog ‘Waves, as they dashed over us, seemed impatioa to claim us as victims. But we passed through all in safety, Vom o4 attempted the and wasat once drawn into the foam- | | Swan Lake, ia seven miles off, where gooi claims: the first white men who had ever | perilous descent. The Pongo is, about five miles long, and nothing I am sure bus a | bales made of light could ever live through is. Soon we got intoa low country, were ths river wicened, und numerous islands made their sppear- ance. The scenery was beautiful, and birds of rare species and beauiifal pinmage, togetoer with tur- keys, phearants, macawa, wigeons, parrots, and thousande of smalier bifts, with occasionally wild hogs and monkeys, gave it an air of civilization. After fioating until near night, we camped oaa small island, and were soon visited by millions of morquitos, 29th— Started aay today, passing through the finest Fim fod country in the world, bordering on a river will some day be ploughed by steamers, The rvier is quiet ne aa halt tile in —The scenery geta more and more b»antiful, the country higher and more picturesque. Cowarda evening we saw a canoe ahead, tower by Indians. Discovering us they commenced mating offas fast prego tee front eg a 10 ths Indi = 01 ppe ey had abundances o: wil \aeamtpe Plantatus, for which we gave a pair of 80 ) wita which they were much delighted. ‘They told us that the wild Indiang had deatroyed pod ‘erae: tae a as eet town, @ ill | ; tay only three houses 0a the route, i yer ys and deap, and in some places is one width. A Mixistertit, StR'Ke—On the 8th inst., at Usbana, Unto, the dell of the Presbyterien Chuech rang | the recond time—the congregati va sat waiting and wa: ing botno minister came. After the lapse of frien half en hear, s noto was handed to one of the oiders, who arose and read it to the congregation. It was from onl! not preach for them any sidup ihero’s a clergymaa ay more wore till of the right plik. than a sboemsser, mend souls without boing | taken these this seasoa. er low and upinviting, as is the I | slong the river; no current, and. the ri not asmall mess eithe’. The land around Cotton- wood creek or river, is high and rolliag, and will econ .be taken for agricultural purposes. Leavin, our Indian friends, we found a better current an geod high banks, covered with a flae vegetation, ia- creesing as we went on, till we landed in the famous city of Eurcka, about 4 o’clock P. M. Eureka city is composed of the matarials which go to make a small sized house, a little higner grade than cabin, and the skeleton work of a woud be saw mill. Alas! poor Eureka has been sorely troubled with ¢ivers quarrels about her title, ao she lies idle and lifeless. The town site is a beantifal ore; the banks are high and solid, and the view around is a fine one. Fine cliims can be made on both sides of the river; some of them adjolatag the | town plat as good ones, perhaps, as there are in the Territory. Staying at Wureka city over night, we struck Mankato the next day about noon. Mankato is situated oa the south bank, in a low, saakea spt, and has a very dismil appearance. We should sap. pose there would be very little of the town left after a | ae freshtt. There are, I suppose, some twelve or fifteen houses in all; among them qaite a respectable public house, wich is soon to be opened. The country around and up the Biue Earth river, I should jadge by the vegetation near the river, waa very |, thor it updoubted!y has bad too mach gas. Its pr axial, to Iowa, which is forty or fifty miles, has g'ven it an ideal character, which time may de:troy. At this point we met a company of government surveyors; they will econ have finished surveying all the Jand slong the settled portion of the Minneso:a river; | most of it will probably be put in market before eighteen montis. We now yo norihesst ull we ar- rive at St. Pant; as we go al:ng the vezetation will gradually change from a@ rich corn sil toa good woeat soil; we find the banks getting low and the river fli of snags,(as to them,we have had them all the way above o#), the water shallow, although ¢ 12 river is up, till we arrive some taree or four m‘les sbove St Peters, where we find a respectabls chan- nel. St. Peters is eral sitmated on a high dank of fist prairie, running back a>out three qu ‘3 of a mile, then rolling, dotted here aad there with skirts of timber. Marah Saakah, or can be made, The company who own this town are butting up a steam mill, and have men up th» river getting out logs. 8t. Peters hag a good many friends, and the influense which Governo: Gorman, |, &., who are members of this comoaay, will exert, may build up a rival town to Traverso de Sioux, which is just around a bend three miies bo low. Traverse cv Sioux is on the same elevation as 8t. Peters and the country aronsd the same. It is noted as the Sioux, crossing, as is the French name. It bas been for over twenty years a missionary 3‘a- tion for the Sioux Indians, of whom there aro several encsmpments around the place. A ride of some three bours, and we are at Ssur, a beautifally situated town, of twelve or fifteen bonuses, §Tce country ground is good, and claims can be made from four to five miles back atid around it, A Jarge number of claims have been — We ap Cone pd en- "gy among roprietors and property holders, Le eur Toust Deeme & point of comme importance. Immediately opposite Le Seur it is expected a col- ony of Germans will sett'e; they are expected soon. In ovr canoe , We errive at Henderson, our starting point for the fort; here we leave the canoe, and sta with a friend a short distance off, and on are again on our road to St, Paul; banka featare all ver falling. Four o’clock P. M. we came on to the rapids, which 6 80 grievous a sore to the le absve. There e tvo ropids. We found the Blak Hawk, the 2: | a small steamboat, on the first, and the So- cond Iufantry, destined for the fort, lying alosg the rocks ou shore, waiting for the boat to get over. The second rapid is a little dis- tance below. Neither of them are very fierse, yet a great obstacle to trade on the river. Toey are | about forty six miles, by the river, from St. Pani. We stopped for the night in Chaska, a towa of » any | three houses paid for it? ing Bbakopee, a neat, enterprising town, tyeaty- | Hes thus learned—errteinties + nown long bet ore by the | | geographer Adam, of Brewes, wh» heard them | st the court of tvajn Ethrithson, Kiaz of Denmark, and neghew of Cancte of England, 1047 to 1076 ; euppose Columbus did persist | io goirg en ageinat*he threats of a rebeliioas craw. bo | cause he was thas certain; suppose that, finally disco- | vering land, and fading it torrid insteed of tenpsrate, | paime and banenas ingiend of grapes and cranberries, swarthy fall sized men, very Lko Malays. instead of tl neerly white dwarf E-quimsux, (Siraelling-)—suppore, with these remarkabie variations from the Northuen’s story, adie} to an undue length of the voyage, he did g> baex to Spsin under the belief that he bad diseovere! eM hoy nothiog of having (as he thought) s pact the lard he went in search of, 80 as still on some othey voyage to reap the glory cf that discovery; aup- ee ali these things are true, must we be £0 very ten- Fer cf the Catholic, reputation’ of Christ opher Colam>as a3 to ignore facts altogetLer—to persist ia teaching out children that he waa the original discoversr of halt the world, when, in fact, he had been ante-da’ed five han dred4yeers by the very mon Who nov rale the land, and pract cally deny bis claim by naming the entire regon after an adventurer wh> came years subseqaent to his | great achievement. | I would not on “ account do injusties to the memory of Columbus; but it is high time tiat trath took the place of error, and that learne! men weze reliovei from such exhibitions of igoorance a4 t¥e et; mo! of the bane Greenland” hes drawn forth, whea that country was for four hundrod head ® flourishing c Jo:y, enn | a cathedral, a dozen churches, several monasteries, au 8 succession of seventeen bishops, regular! appointsd— | was by come unknown cause depopulated, sabvsequently re explored, and the coagt found to be strewn wits marke of seith. ment, foun ms of houses, ranic stoaes &3. It is high time that the 014 notion of looking to Groees, | Eome snd Southern Europe for the soures of ali diss0- | | very, a lishmen will be 98 nvted for a fimilisr acqueintanas wich the ethoography and bistery of their /entonic anosstry sie farnus wei ca ani speakers have been for the it bh whieh they have kicked ont of doors their oa mother tonges, in order to shice iy the # 00d-hand pro: rerty of Demosthenes and Livy. ‘ruld youry, New York, Oct. 26, 1854 AS S4aNUINAVIUN, *Seelandic, Grann: dish, Grin; Ger- man, Grin; Dutch G; City Intelligence. BALLOON ASCENTION..—Oa Fridvy afternoon Wonstea Bvgene Goddard made bis third vilioon ascension ia | America, from the Hippodreme, ‘The ceremoniss were abcut the ssme as tho ascension of the sams arronein: | Inet week. At three o'clock the balioom was allowed to ' | ' | i { ruepended a while at this heicht, hauled down | gain to the ground, At four o’tlook it took wings for the upper regkee, be upwer'!s » party of four gen: tlemen: It took a northwesterly direction, and when last Pp ieee over tne North river, about as high up 01 mané of Captain M MeLsughlia, went on their aannal excursion on eg vet. 26, to David Poliosk’s ground?, Hoboken. This company mustered, file, fifty eight members, and was accompanied by Kidd's Band. The following prizes were won by the shots Rin Patrick John Ros 8th, J. yd; ith, P. Daffy; 12th, W. Roberts; 18th, Tim’ Holland; 14th, 'J J, Mur: 7; 15th, &. Cowin; With, @, Brown; 17th, W. Farzcl; 8th, M. Loran; 19th, Joha Powers; 20th, James Dam mareil; 2ist, F Reagen; 224. L Martins 23d, M. Me- y and @ warehouse, and next day, pass- | flour Langtlin; 24th, Joha Comin; 25th, W. Black. Tae New York Canats axp Prove Trave— | Canal navigation continues but @ faw weeks longer—six at the outside—yet the recsipts of flour and wheat continue light, though ini ‘on the previous month, As ocmpared with last year, during the sesson of cans! ns. vigation, the receipts of flour ate over one million var: reis rhort, aud the falling off in wheat is equal to 600,000 | oe ternal caverns, and the shafts, fron and no which were dug and sent up such immense © | have conforred such boundless wealtl owners. There they lie wasting, (and only some two weeks and a little over distant watting for the power, the skill, the barrols of flour As an offast, however, to this, the re- ehow an increase over last year, of over of burhols, and al navigation, tha: loogta of time, thas far, this fell. Ifeithsr or both of. these articles are in the two mines, from which he afterwards derived | 87¢ of the opinion, by the wey, that the manver in such enormous wealth. Tuese mines were new, | which the young womau lost her eyes is rather | were rich at the ve Il as of all literature, shoul d: Joded ani | Were found living in a hovel, close to their source of I'evatthe day wilscon come when smericag, acting | Wealthy barehended | aud | bucelegged, | with upwards of forty thousand pounds sterli; er, Aywvan Excursion oF te Warremau, Guar —Ths | Minitg impiemects, &. Water and mephitic air were members of this old standing company, under the com- the old Spaniards no matter how thic! rank and metal at the bottom, nor lars were sent up annually to could not work against death in the form of pron the other b; 1] | boron other by a no Jess certain ity: | fa Sng tthe effects of bad air. Their mode of ber of men in two divisions, say # hundred or fift in each, one division bri backs in skins by day, an to thi | by the above two, and sometimes b: Thave no means of kaowing; but such whose bottoms have never distarbed since the m'ghty yielis from the time of without a shaft, or any other reqnisi’e, but the ores | forved and unratural, and ‘hat the inordinate re- morse of her jover for wat was purely accidental is strained. As regards the interest of the plot, wa consider it disjommted. ‘he characters are all well enough in their way, but they don’t fit one another exactly. Tse anthor seems to have been in some- what of a quandary kow “to dispose of this afore- mentioned blind young woman, and appears to have married her in order to get her out of the way. But, with all this, it is » very fair second rate story. Last, but not Jeast, comes “Miss Fauny Fern.” We are in a good deal of trejidation woile penning this, for the lady has the reputation of being . nacious'y inclined, and we would etfally sciiet the ‘‘ Messrs. Editors,” to probibit the northern cir- culation of this number of the GU. M, lest ft ehould meet her eye, and we snffer an attack, “ vt et armis.” However, bere goes :—When the arti- cles over this fictitious signature firs} appeared, ru- mor ascribed them to a masculine hand. For the honor of our sex, we felt ashamed ; but, for the me- mory of our gracdmother, we were glad to know that no woman ever 89 far forgot herself as to write och stuff, The reflection was a vain one; Miss Willis in the fair tree from which these dainty “Leaves” flatter. Oh! rare combination—oh! un- exampled prodigy—he'e is the slang of ths news- boy, without bis wit—the valgarity of the horse- jockey without his nang aud the malice of a chambermaid, without her 4 to ex- cuce it She ig one cf the “ strong-mind- ed;” she has cast down the gauntle:, iu the face of the bearded world, ard dared any man among themto take ii up. Ste is the grea’ Quix- otic champion of womau’e righta. Sae is, in snort, a beld, forwar4, masculine womin. Her book is an icéex of herselt; aboucding in vulgarisms, chara:- terized by Billingsgate, seasoned with personal bit- ternesa, and pointed by falsehood, it will stand, while it does stand, 4 momorable monument o' female foliy and American gallibility. We most em: ba‘ ieally except this from the before mentioned ciass of books, wbich d> neithee harm nor good. It has cot one receewing quality. The manner is bad the matter ie bad, the sentiments are such as would call a blush to Lucy Stone’s cheek, and the style exch os would disgiare a bostler, Good day, Miles. Fanny—webave been revere; more 89, pranably, then we should have been had we began your ever perusing thir. As it is, go on snd prosper; our opinion will not hurt you, since “humbug” ia the watchword of the age, and female authors bear ita surface. Rescatadores, ore | urchasers,) who flocked to Catorce, from the neigh- o1ing districts, bought his ores, paying for them in dollars, and in this way he was enabied to go on with Los works. His wealth, saya our author, be- | Come almost boundless. Most of those men, says Ward, who made fortunes at Catorcs, were men like Zaniga, of little eduction and no resources. Parodi Don Pedro Medelia, ssys our author, and twenty others, were all barbaros (barbarians.) One of these, Medetiz, upon one occasion, spent $26,000 upon an entertainment given in honor of his god child, at Saltillo, whilst others thoaght nothing of losing two aud three thousand do! on a cock fight. Buen Suceso was discovered, says our author, by an Indian, who swam across the river after a flood. On arriving at tre other side he found tie crest of a lode, laid bare by the force of the water. The greater pet of this crest was pure silver, and spaikled in the sun. The Indian extracted consid- erable wealih from his mine, but on arri: at the depth of thiee varras tho abundance of Water forced him to absndonit, and no attempt has been since made to resume the working. ‘ In the spring of 1826 were discovered Morelles and Jesus sfarie. The first of these was discovered by two Indians (brothers) by the name of Arduso, to one of whom a little maize, for tortillas, had been refused upon credit the night before. In two months they extrac’ed from these mines two hundred and seventy thoueand dollars. In December, 1526, they (two hundred thousand doliars,) lockéd up ia their Lut. I possess, continues our author, two large apecimens of the ores. hoy aré almoat pure silver. Tre only pleasure afforded by these two Iadians, by their great riches, ecemed ‘to cousist ia ihrowiag away potions of their richest ores to be scrambled fer by their companioss, the workmen. It were quite easy to fill chapters with these proofs of the extraordinary abundance of silver, bu: the limita of a newspaper will not admit of it. Enough, however, hus been said to sustain me in my position, tuat Mexican soil is woaderfally me- tailiferous; and tlat, to a great extent, its very substratum is silver, in either the solid metul or ched to ropes, and after | oes, In my next I will show some of the resulta of work done by capital under the direction of intelli- ence and skill,and enlightened labor, and where ¢ appliances are all adjusted—in engines of pow- , in @ well orgavized hacienda, and in all the the two principal torces that compell oy A ompelled mines— and deep lay the w many miilions of dol- the surface, They suffo- id by water. extinction of and drowniag on the “one han ing their mines was by dividing a certain num. nging the water upon their the other by night. As urifyicg the mines, and ridding them of bad air, eir science. was beyond their How many mines,deserted by these old Spaniards, other causes, here are many been sounded or og even to the day of thair aban- ‘ater and rubbish have filled the in- elds a8 to on their New York,) engines the country, with whext at @ and working energies of our people, to give out in en SI80G, ond western ta eaberte thon enees | umdigtiniahed wacetinice toe Eickiy, walsones aunt find their way to tide water.—Albany Argus, Oct. 25, —' Hie slumbering below. CANUS, More Axnesrs of Attzazn Rattzoap Darre DATORS IN Maseacuverr>s —Yesterdey_® man named Frank Jervab, who for the ‘ast six months Sad been em~ Joyed as brakeraan upon the night freight train CY *2® lorceater Kailroad, was arrested by Vonstable Cook, who afterwards in company with | epaty Sheriff Nichols, of Chsrlestown, proceeced to North Reading, and discovered et the house of Mr. Ira MoCornell, in that town, s quan- ity of trunks oontairing coats, pants, vests, eating, gloves, fur tippets, Ko , which had at various thaee hong vlundered from the freight trains of that road After- wards four other brasemen of the road, named Aaror @. Rowell, Charles W. A Jack¢on, James MeKien, and John Stevens were arrested on eusricion of being concerned in the matter, and committed to await farther devel ments. It is supposed that a number of brakemen trike road have united together ts rob the ears in this way, and though the amount obtained by them is not very large, considering the immenre ‘ity of merchandise which sai woes Mang ‘the road, in fortunate that a sop Las been put to their / aaa earl; moment —Boston Traveller, Oct. 24, ree Tickerre Taroven.—At oman seems to be taxed to the wales to reegest means by bi pe ty: lives id og me beaypteicteoune 5 even ie a ven- own at ma. 10 Lee perhaps bene | we find in the Boston aramerigt It is the n old rea captain, end contemplates s sufficient number of life boats to ascomm date the pas‘engers and erew; each boat to be provide? with » compass, and to be ber: officer of vessel he is also Hite boats, no that, in cass of where he belongs. — Eastern (