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The Cs»ba Expedi tion.
Further particulars in lUgarJ to the Engagement.—
The Islan d in a State o
f Blockade.
ISTrcw York , M*y 29 , 1 P. M.—Tin' Courier &
Enquirer of th is mornin g publishes i; letter tram its
U.iviiii.i cnrr^pondi 'iil which stales 1nut even the .
cG'iv irts whn.:n 'l,ope;s liberat ed reluscd loj 'iin him ,
mi d t!ii! (U'|):i:-| iin' ol the. iisvade is was listened 1>\
obsupviim i l)u countr y pe.ip le arriv ing "'''' hostile
demonstra-tjons against them.
The Gov.Tiin,;..,! have declared tho Island in a
•liite of bioi-kade , but it is belie ved tli.it the mer-
chant vessels engaged in lawfu l trade wnl be exposed
to verv little inconvenienc e.
The sienmer Georgia wiU'd for Chiigres qn the
21st inst with 600 passengers, none, being allowed
to land at Havana. The steamer Falcon soiled on
the 22d for New Qrlenns.
At Cardenas a oornpuny of lancers who charged
on the troops of Lopez were all killed.
All the' foreigners at llavana, except the Ameri-
cana, offered their , services .(gainst the invadeis.
T'«« Go*»rnor of Cardenas who was captured by
Lope? had returned to Cardenas.
Lopez had possession of Cardenas sixteen horns
When the troops arrived from Matanzas iho fight-
ing commenced . The invaders lost thirty killed and
¦
woimdeij, and the Spaniards from 90 to 150. The
invaders continued liglripg and retreat ing till the\
reached tlie steamer Cieole , when they sailed ,close-
ly pursued by the Spanish steameu Pizarro.
Lieut. Jones, of Alabama , was one of the wound-
ed, lie received a ball throug h his ri ght side, lit1
is at Jvey West.
Anothe r letter states that the invaders were at-
tacke d when wilhin six \aids of the Governor 's
hou?e, by a shower of bullets from the tops ot the
houses, piazzas, &c,wh ich wounded Colonels Wheat
and O'FLira , and a number of men , none mortall y.
The invaders 'returne d the fire , and the battle lasted
!)ea r mi hour , when a while flag was shown from the
Govern or's house. S >on after ,t he citizens renewed
the fir in", when the invaders set the house on fire,
eausin" the Governor to surrender , with his staff,
|00 in a|l , who were placed in the barracks. One
hundre d ttnd fift y prisoners were released from the
jai l.
The Invaders remained in quiet possession of pos-
session of the city till evening, except Lopez and
staff, and Capt. Logan , or Kentuck y, with 25 men .
who went .(board the Creole, At this juncture ,200
lancers and cavalrv mounted and renewed the fi^ht ,
which lasted nearl y one hour , killing and wounding
J2 of the Invaders., in cludin g Capt. Logan , who died
on board the Creole. The Spaniards lost all except
J2. The Invaders retreated and sailed.
Capt. Smiih w.is sli ghtl y wounded. Quartermas-
ter Seixas, of Miss: , has since died. Maj. Hawkins
of I^enHicky , '* seriousl y wounded. Oneol Lopez's
staff is missing, and another wounded .
A despatch from Charleston , dated 25th , commu
nk'afes the folloujn g particular * :
' Tl)e steamer Creole had a narrow escape from the
Spanish steamer Pizarrn in her run to Key West.—
Jt was the intention of Lopez to have blown her up
rather than to submit to capture. The invaders lost
two men killed and twelve wounded. Among the
latter were Gen. Gonzales aud Col, OTIara. Ca pt.
L/>gan, one of the wounded , died next day.' The
Creole remained at Key We:-t, The Spanish steam-
er remained there one day, and thi-n sailed for Ha-
vana ,
A Spanish account of the afif.tir nt Cardenas , pub-
li shed at Havana, states the number of tho invaders
at 400, and adds :—The loss on both sides ha6 been
considerable , and the pirates carry with them abun-
dant proofs of Spanish valor , and of the di gnity with
which Cuba is determined to respond to the infa-
mous traitors and freebooters who have dared to in-
pult its loyalty.
Official information was received at Washington
on Mond ay, of tire release of Gen. Lopez at Savan-
nah on Saturday evening, under a writ of habeas
corpus, and of his departure for the South. Orders
have heen transmitted to the. U- S. District Attor-
neys at Mobile and New Orleans to put in force
against him the law of 1818.
Mork of the Cuban affaih.—Th* Journal of
Commerce has the following under date ot Wash-
ington , May 30. The Spanish Minister has ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction at the refusal of the. Uni-
ted Stales auth orities at Key West to (le)iver up the
money which the pirates had taken. The Spanish.
gQtnmander of the Pizarro demanded the surrender
(to him of the Creole , and the money. Jlesaid then *
was on hoard $6,0,000,robbed fVomthe Royal Treas-
ury of Spain. The reply was, "We ha ve no forces,
and the invaders will not -
80ns were wounded. About half the number ol'per-
sons scalded will die . We have not yet been able
to ascertain the mimes of ihe killed. Nine bodies
have heen recovered and buried. A number were
either blown or jump ed overboard , porno of whose
bodies will pi (ibabl y never be recovered. Every
possiblu assistance has been rendered to the suffer-
ers.
The cause of the lamentable catastrop he is not
known. The boat and machinery were all new ,and
the outers experienced men. Amonj; the killed on
board was M r. Plnmer of Red River , who was a
cabin passenge.r
, but on deck at the time of the ac-
cident ; also lost a negro servant. Mr. MeLaug hlin
of New Orleans lost his wife by drowning. She hail
$500 about her person. The whole number lost
will pro.ba.bly reach 36.-
LOSS OF ANOTqKIf \\ IIALEBIIIP AND DEATH OF
THE CAPTAIN .— A letter received here yesterday,
from Mrs. Brayton , wife of Capt , John Hrayion , lafe
of shi p Isabella, of this port . (Sated at Talcahuano,
March 2, reports the tota l lossof Ihe Isabella , on t he
ni^ht of Jan. 31st., on the south end of the island of
Chiloe. She went ashore in a thick fo.", an d was
abando ned the next day. On the evening after the
shi p went ashore , while preparati ons were making
to abandon the wreck, C,>pt. Braytnn . after placing
his wife in one of the boats , we nt below to save some
small articles , and soon after he was found dead at
the foot oi the cabin stairs ; his death it is supposed
having been caused by over excitement. The crew
arrived ot St. Carlos , Feb 9. M rs. Brayton would
return home in Ihe shi p Columbia , of Nantuc ket ,
then at Talcahuano.—[New Bedford Mereun ,28th ,
Tar.Freshet on*tfik Kennebkc.—A t the last
accounts from the l£ennebnc, ihe water was rap idl y
•ubs'
iding. The. freshet was the. greatest which has
bean experienced in that vicinity since 1832. In
addition to the.damage previousl y reported ,we learn
that the steamer Huntress was left upon her wharf
by the receding water , and would be. «ot off with
great difficulty, if at all. Nearl y .ill the iee houses
on the river have been swept away. The Kenne-
bec and Portland railroad was damaged , but not to
Biiy serious extent. The county raids bet worn
Brunswick and I'reeport were badly damaged. The
princi pal damage by the freshet is'
probably the loss
of logs and lumber. A Gardiner correspondent of
the At las says it is intimated , hy those best calcula-
ted to judge , that near, three hundred thousand logs
have gone down the river. To brin g them hack ,
jf non« are lost, will cost upwards of one hun dred
thousand dollars ; besides this , a large, quantity of
eawsd lumber has been carried away, and the least
estimate of this Joss is fifteen thousand dollars ,
Boston Journal.
Married , In Southampton , Mns«.,on the I5th inst.,
Josiah Ponr^roy.of Wgstfield, to Mrs, Phebe C. Han*
nutn , of Southampton- In the above marriage , a
singular relationshi p takes place. The bridegroom
becomes H brother to n niece of his, anil that niecy 1
becomes sister (p an uncle ; the bride becomes (aunt
to ope of her pwn brothers.and n sister to thnt brolh-
pr'» mother-in-law. The bride is aunt to a father
flflU his elijl fjre fl.
Provid ence Conference
The Providence Conference of the M. E. Church
embrace s, as its terri tory, "All that part of Con-
necticut iying East of the Connecticu t-River ; the
whole of the Slate of Rhode Island ; and ali that
part of Mas sachusetts , 1\ ing South and East of a
line dra wn from the Northeast corner of R!,(!de
Island to the mouth of Neponset River." Ii is di-
vided inlo three District s—the Sandwich , Prov i-
dence and New London ; which are placed under
the care of three Elders—calle d Presiding Elders.
These Districts are again subdivided into stations ,
and are 127 in number. To supp ly these stations
with the preached gospel there are 114 travellin g
ministers and 88 local ministers. There are also
nineteen on the sick and worn out list—makin " 221
hi all. It lias besides a membershi p of 14.022 , tin
increase for the last year of G83. It has also 10,729
childn n in 136 Sabbath Schools. The Missionary
collection amounted to S3,843 89, beside which
there has been raised for the poor, sick preachers,
widows and orp hans of preachers $1,239 64. The
Book Concern gave £G00 of its profits to the same
purpose , and the Chartered Fund $65—makin " in
all $1 ,904 64. Its educational interest s have also
kept pace with the times. The Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Middletown , Conn., has received from the
Providence Conference an accession to its funds
durin g the. last six years of SI 0,000. It has a flour-
ishing Academy at East Greenwich , R. I., with an
efficient Board of Instruction , and facilities for all
the purposes of education unsurpassed. It has also a
share in , and a joint supervision"over, the Biblical
Institute at Concord , N. II. It is onl y ten years
since this Conference was divided off from the New
Eng land , and the daug hter bids fair to outstri p the
mother. .The above facts we copy from the Annual
minutes ju .
-t published.
Tiif. Inixuencr of Distance most, and
Pkoximity to, an Insane Hospital, on its
USE BY ANY People.—A 1'ite. number of the Bos-
ton Medical and Surg ical Journal publishes a paper
on this important subject , which was recently read
before the "American Statistical Association ," by
Edward Jarvis , M. 1
) , of Dorchesser, Mass., in
which there is given , with statistical accuracy much
information in regard to the benefit whii h different
communities in a Slate derive from a public Lunalic
Hospital , open alike to each.
The leading proposition of Dr. Jarvis, that such
an Hospital is, and must be, to a certain extent , a
local institution , he does not jump at , but proves by
many facts, which he has collated from the Reports
of some dozen Hospitals for the Insane , in different
sections of the Union , from the time of their estab-
lishment to the present. He has evidentl y, given
the subject much attention and his conclusions are
Fir.it—That the practical benefits of a Lunatic
Asylum .ire very unequall y diffused over any terri-
tory, and this inequality increases with the extent
of that territory, the near districts enjoy ing the hos-
pital advantages very much , and the distant dis-
tricts comparativel y litlfe .
Second—That facility and difficult)', cheapness
and axpensiveness of travel , also affect tins inequal-
it y, more patients being sent from those districts
that are connected with the hospital by means of
easy and ehea]) communication , than from those
which are not so favored. t
Th is inequality Dr. Jarvis suggests,mi ght be rem-
edied by the establishment of two or more Hospitals
in different sections of a State , on great lines of
travel , and where communication was easy and
cheap to various and distant quarters. Hosp itals
thus located , he .infers, would bo resorted to for aid ,
by a much larger portion of the inhabitants of a
State , than they are now, where there is.but one
Hospital to receive the patients ofa large territory ;
for experience has proved throug h a course of ma-
ny years, that the sections nearest a Hosp ital have
sent a Urge disproportionate number , compared
with remote sections. These statements are shown
to be particularl y ap plicable to the Counties of our
own State;—Worcester County in which is located
the State. Hospital, sending 1 patient in every 116
of its inhabitants; while Barnstab lfi , one of the
most remote counties , sends but 1 in every 382 in-
habitants. Counties contiguous to Worcester , viz.,
Hampshire , Hamp den , Franklin , Middlesex and
Norfolk , with an aggregate popu lation of 250,820—
(census of 1840)—have sent from 1832 to 1849, a
period of 17 years, 1180 patients , or I in every 217
inhabitants. The extreme remote. Counties of
Na ntuckot , Berkshire and Barnstable , with an ag-
gregate population of 82,305, have sent in Ihe same
period , but 216 patients , or 1 in every 381 inhabi-
tants. Barnstable County, with a population of
32,548 has sent to tho State Hospital since its estab-
lishment to 1849, 85 patients , or 1 in every 382 of
its people.
These facts show conclusivel y that counties like
our own , remote and not easil y accessible to the
State institution for the insane , have hitherto avail-
ed themselves of its 'blessed advantages but little
comparativel y, and a similar result will continue
most piobabl y, while similar obstacles exist to dis-
courage and deter tho friends of the insane from
placing them there , as at present. And hence it
seems necessary as Dr. Jarvis suggests , that a larg-
er number of institutions for them should be provid-
ed , and located in different parts of the State.—
Three others at least, would not be too many to ac-
commodate the yearly increasing number of the in-
sane. ,
A moro general and equal provision for the re-
covery or proper care and custod y of the insane
might be effected perhaps by the establishment of
institutions for them in each county, at the charge
and expense of each county, aided by annua l ap-
propriat ions from the State. And althoug h there
are objections to this plan , it is preferable to the
one which has been proposed of enlarg ing the'
Worcester Hospital , or buildin g another at that
place. It is preferable also to crowding the wards
of that Hospital to excess as is now often done , in
consequence of the increasing numbers of its pa-
tients.
The.present neressity for providing further ac-
commodations for the insane , has doubtless elicited
the.investi gations contained in the communication
above refered to, and it should also command the at-
tention of all citizens who are interested in the wel-
fare and restoration to health and soundness of rea-
son of a lar-e and most unfortuna te class of our
fellow beings. '
®The Yarmouth Register , renews its attacks
upon Mr. Webster, by publishing last week over two
columns of the "crushing " criticisms of an "Old
Whi g.'' If Mr. Collector Bacon , and his Anti Sla-
very Deputies, are not the "leading ichigs " of the,
County, who a re ? Certain it is, that they have in-
fluence enoug h to prevent their publication in the
Register , if they desired to do so,—but it was plain
enoug h to be seen some lime since, that the Register
(M r. Bacon 's especial organ ,) t
oiis determined to
eruvh Mr. Webster.
Our neighbor of the Regist er is sadl y disappoint-
ed because , as he sins, "no one has attempted to ,Jis-
'p rove the correctness of the Jigwes taken from a report
'
of the Secretary of the Treasury ? and paraded in
t he Re.'i.-tcr last week under the above head !—
1 Poor iellow !
! We gave » synopsis of the Reg ister 's wonderfu l
' discovery , an d its comments thereon , la.-t week. To
j show that ours was a fait hful synopsis we will now
!copy the Register's own summing up of "the facts
! of the case" and what they "abundantl y prove ;"'—
Jso the Register says. Here it is :
"1st. That the expenses of the whole District dur-
in" Mr. Phinney 's term , exceeded by some 83,200
pe^ annum the ordinary expenses of- the District ;
|or , in any (') other words , that they were more
j than double what they had been under his prede-
cessor.
2,1. That two officers—an additional Inspector
and a Bargeman — with salaries amounting to $550,
I were appointed , for which there was no necessity—
' officers which did not previousl y and do not, now
exist.
3d. That the business community did not know
of the existence of such Inspector. "
Now , all this does not conflict , in the least , with
what we so fa ithfull y state d last week , as t he whole
gum and substance of the astounding developements
which had so shocked "the community at large" (or
as t he Register now has it 'the business community'
)
round about the Barnstable Bank—whom the Reg-
ister , on all great occasions , lugs in as its endorsers
and its peculiar constituents ! And now the Regis-
ter is in tr ibulation ,because "no one has attempted
to disprove " the Secretary 's Report—and because
"the Barnst able Patriot has alluded to the subject ,"
but "not to deny" it!
Neighbor , we sincerel y sympathize with you.—
We knew you were burning your fingers. We were
satisfied that "the Colt'' would kick you !
"Deny it!'' Did .you think we were a fool ?—
"Attempt to disprove it !" Could you imag ine that
we should so stultif y ourself ? Wh y, we reall y feel
that we may take credit to ourself , for having, by
proper represent ation , to the proper Department ,
obtained such an increase of ihe pay of the govern-
ment officers in this collection district , as would
somewhat approximate to that of the neighboring :
districts , for like service.
The Register says—"We think no one will attempt
to deny that the expenses of the office , under the
late Collector , "were extravagantl y large." We think
you are greatl y mistaken , nei ghbor. We doubt
whether a decent man , with a thiinble-full of brains ,
and a soul as large , in proportion , can be found to
agree with you. There is no District in New Eng-
land , certainl y, with so large an extent of sea coast ,
and so many accessible harbors and roadsteads , as
this same District of Barnstable—and no one in the
United States with so many outports , with Deputy
Collectors at them authorized to enter and clear
vessels and issue papers. And here we may add ,
that there never has been any other District , the of-
ficers of which have been , heretofore, so meanly
paid for the duties required of them ! It was the
late Collector 's p leasure , to endeavor to procure for
those officers a more equitable compensation—and it
is his pride , that he was able to succeed.
Now , neighbor Register, you may make the most
of this ;—and if you can accumulate any capital for
youiself , by proclaiming in your columns—or if Mr.
Collector Bacon and his Deputy can acquire any
credit by boasting about street—that he has made
"a reductio n of ONE half " of these salaries—you ,
and he , are indeed welcome to if all.
As to an "additional Inspector "—for which the
Register says "there zp as no necessity"—ihe late Col-
lector found that Mr. Collector Bacon , in hhformer
reign , under the "Ti p and Ty'1 administration , in
pursuance of his patriotic parsimony then , had re-
quested and obtained the discontinuance of the of-
fice of an Inspector located at Harwich ; but after-
wards finding-there was "necessity" for one, asked
and obtained the restoration— not at Harwich again ,
but at Chatham, where he alread y had a Deputy
and Inspector—and where, indeed , it would seem
there was "no necessity !
" So that Mr. Collector
Bacon , under his first term , had (and doubtless
thoug ht there was "necessity" for) as many Inspec-
tors as the late Collector—whether they were as
well located , or whether their services were worth
as much, we leave the Register and "the business
community" to decide.
And again , besides this additional Inspectorshi p
which the next (still more parsimonious) Collector
who succeeded Mr. Bacon, let drop ; and which the
late Collector obtained the restoration of—and after
this restoration—besides this , we say, Mr. Whig
Congressman Guinnkll labored with Mr. Dk-
mocuatj c Skckktauy Walker , in a letter ad-
dressed to him Feb. 17th , 1849, for still anoth-
er Additional officer in this Distiiet !—and
Mr. Walker referring the matter to the late Col-
lector— he did not hesitate to second Mr. Grinnell' s
efforts ; but replied to the Secretary that he "con-
curred fully in the op inion that the appoin tment of an-
other such o
fficer was necessary"—adding, also, tha t
he "did not see how the recent instructions relative to
the rigid inspection and report ing of all fishing vessels
could possibly be comp lied with unless the number of
Inspectors in the District ivas considerabl y augmented!"
Now will our fault-findin g neighbor of the Regis-
ter be so kind as to take all that into his special
nursing, ton , and make the most of that also ? And
wdl he , further , be so obli ging as to inquire whether
Mr. Grinnell has not renewed his efforts with Mr .
Secretary Meredith ; and whether Mr. Collector
Bacon—the present economical Collector—did not
also second those efforts ? Dive deeper into this
matter , nei ghbor—see if you do not find your
"leading Whigs ' recommending additional appo int-
ments in this District as necessary—both under the
late and the present Collector ! Call to your aid ,
again , the small law officer of the Custom House
here, and poke furth er into this "Mare's Nest !
"—
but take care and not let "the Colt" kick Aunty
Orinnell too.
Teas and Coffee.— Al l, wishing the best arti-
cles, at satisfactory prices , are referred to the adver-
tisement of t h e New England Tea Com
p any, in this
paper. They give their whole attention to this bus-
iness,—have a large assortment of the freshest import-
ations ,--and constan tl y replenished ,—have had long
experience ^ and will always sell to the satisfaction
of customers , for they want them to come again and
again.
^
Great Inducements are offered to the Coun-
try trade , to select their Prints at the New England
Warehouse ,Nos. 18 & 2J Pearl street , Boston. Tlie
stock is the largest ever exhib ited by any house in
the United States , and purchaser s have the privi-
lege of selecting by the p iece from over five hundred
samp le cases. New sly les dail y received from the
Amenean manufacturers ,,,,, ! by everv steamer from
Eng land. Seej ulvertisement in another column.
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a weed , ly ing near the building. He
was taken home, and the bone set by Dr. Allen , and
it is now thoug ht to bo doing well.
H^*There is a regular "Kilkenny " fight being
carried on now , between those,hitheilo lovinji Whi g
journals , the Boston Atlas and the Boston Courier.
Sloo-boy !
Still "Not Wantkd !
"—Twent y-one shares
of the C. C. Branch Rail Road stock were advertis-
ed and offered at auction in Boston , last week , by
Ste phen Brown & Son—and not a bid could be ob-
tained for them.
i^g No choice of a member of Congress was made
in District No. 4, at, the last trial. Mr. Palfrey re-
ceive d the hi ghest number of votes , and , came short
about 500 of an election.
What did he say , Amos ?—The examination
of Charles W. Linnell , of Il yannis , charged will ,
setting fire to the woods in that vicinit y, occup ied a
part of two days last, week , and was before Amos
Otis , Esq., of Yarmouth . Amos got puzzled , and
adjourned the Court until yesterday, that he might
have an opportunity to go to New Bedford and con-
sult with the District Attorney 1 The array of
council , at this Court , w,is lamentabl y small !
fi^TThe Assessors have just comp leted the census
for the town of Barnstable , and the whole number
of inhabitants is found to be 4805. The census of
Barnstable in 1840, was 4297. Increase in ten
years, 507.
Ig^A meeting of the Stockholders of the Cape
Cod Branch Rail Road , will be held on the 19th
inst., as will be seen by advertisement , for the choice
of Directors for the ensuing vear.
^"Several mackerel fishermen have arrived at
West Harwich , within a few days, with full fares of
fWi. We learn that between two and three hun-
dred barrels were taken by some of them.
l^"Hon. George W. Julian , Member of Congress
from Indiana , has our thanks for valuable Con-
gressional Documents.
Messrs. Jkwktt & Prkscott, advertise in our
columns their New Stock of Rich Goods. These
gentlemen do business at No. 2 Milk Street , Boston ,
and no firm in that city has a wider or more envia-
ble reputation as extensive dealers in Shawls and
Silk Goods. It would be a little surprising if any
of our readers should visit Boston in pursuit of the
above. Goods ,without consultin g the varieties offered
by Messrs. J. & P., at Wholesale and Retail.
"Do YOU TAKE."—Our nei ghbor of the Regis-
ter quotes "Horace Wa lpole ," to prove that "Ji n ad-
versary who misquotes ion , cannot refute your rea-
soning."— Ai.d then to illustrate the tru th of Sir
Horace 's remark , the. Reg ister man "misquotes" us ;
making us say that "the Register concern had tak-
en the mare 's nest home to nurse ,"—when it was on-
ly "the colt" that we thus disposed of.
^"A telegrap hic despatch to 'the Boston Evening
Gazette , states that the.celebrated Methodist preach-
er, John N. Maffit , died at Mobile on the 31st ult.
®"The Anniversary Meetings last week in Bos-
ton , drew together a much smaller numbe r , than is
usual on such occasions. Many of the. mee
'
tiin's
were interesting and instruc tive , but the cold wet
and gloomy weather prevented many from attendi ng
them. •"
ejho.Bm.ton Traveller states , that within the
past three , days nearl y fift y coup le, have app lied at
the Registrars office for permits to get married ;
among them one young girl scarcely fiftee n years of
^Yesterday was Artillery Election day, in Bos-
ton. J n the afternoon the Governor took his Chair
on the Common , according to immemorial usage.
Boip and Daring.Bank Robbery .—The most
exten si ye bank robbery that has taken place in the
United States for a number of years , occurred on
Saturday niuht last. The vault of the Dorchester
and Milton Bank.at Dorchester Conner , was entered
and abmit thirty-f ive thousand dollars , in b a n k bills
and specie , a bstracted.
A reward of 2,000 is offered for the apprehension
of the robbers.
Phenomenon !—A hen belong ing to Mr. Nath'l
Holmes in this village , was set upon thirteen ei'o-s
sometime last month ,mid a few days since she hatch ed
f ifteen chickens ! None other than a Cape Cod hen
could have done this.
[Correspondence of the Barnstable ratri^/**
Washington , Ma V Si 10
I fi nd in ihe last Patriot , a most as"
ioiu,'
,|: •
vrlop ei ncnt broug ht to li g ht I y some \ery j '".K '!<>,
ous person , tl ut the late Collector of Bai n stll
'i , 'H.
|iended too much of Uncle Sam 's money m . f *.
Cod. It appears that some SHOO has I, *!• fsiit l,f' n Of,
Wh at then ? 1 don 't beli eve, that the public \2. '"-! ,
a re better paid than they are in Boston , or \>'r
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York , or elsewhere , and wh y should they Ilo . .¦"'»
well paid ? 1 have no doubt that they are ns r''
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ful as any officers in the country, and that tf,,!
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ernment received a full equivalent for their se ?°T-
It is poor polic y for any Mass.^chu setts man to
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i nvidious distinctions between the <'xpendi lijr '"'*
the past and present Collectors of Barnstahlp
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the comparison is made to promote the eonfiri .
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of certain officers, it will not have much efl't. ?"
that diiection , whil e it will tend to degrade , j . ''"
public mi nd , i ts authors. Awav wilhsuel, e
> ¦ " " Petti
jogging. ' "•
Both Houses intended to adjourn over for „ ,
da ys, to enable the workmen to take up the earn
and clear the decks for a summer campai gn.
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yesterda y, the death of Mr. Elniore , the new g- "'
ator from South Carolina , was announced , wp
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made it necessary for the Senate, to meet tot),,,."'''
attend the funeral. The obsequies have been j j°
performed , and the Senate has adjourned -over
next week. l(l
Yon will perceive by the Union of today, that 1W
Bmke has retired from that establish ment. As j,,-
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Editor with Mr . Ritchie , he has done effic ient
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vice in the Democratic cause. Mr. Burke I*'
long been one of the ablest lenders and counsp n "S
in the Democratic party. As a member of Coiio r°'S
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from New Hampshire , he was true to his State '. ]
true to Ihe Union. He is possessed of liberal l^l- \
ments and comprehensive views, and his miird "
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stored with accurate knowled ge and informati on
all subjects. As Commissioner of the Patent Offi 0
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for four years , be devoted himself to the best imp *
ests of the country at large. Whether in Coim,f
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or in the Editorial chair , he was always to bo foul '?
in the ri ght pl ace , and advocating correct pi-j. ,-
pies. He is, in short , a true patriot , and a statesm a
of enlarged views , and the country has yet niuH
reserved in store for him. He retires linni »n> r
duons post , with tho best wishes and confidence of
the Democratic party, North and South , East nnj
West.
I do not find any news today of moment. T|lo
bill for the establishment ofa Branch Mint has pas.
sed t he Senate , after a long discussion.
The Compromise Bill is still in progress, wild in.
creased prospect that it will finall y pass both house*
Leading statesmen are coming out in its favor, in
letters which are in course of publicatio n iiHlm
Washington papers. It gains strength , in itg rlf0 .
gress, as a measure of just compromise , suited toillio
times. Neither the North nor the South have imy
thing to uive up, but abstractions , and I thin k tlmt
these will all finall y yield to reason and common
sense. If so, happ il y will it be for the whole coti n
try. ' x
It is announced here that Mr. Judd , and two of
the Princes of "His Hawj inn Majesty, " are in Wash-
ington , and an attempt is making, to make "lions"
of them. As well mi ght it be said , that two Princes
of the Blood Royal , ol His Majesty, the King of the
Choctaws , are here. These young men are doubt-
less vpry worth y lads.bnt » ho is-"His Ilawy inn Miijrs-
ty ?" A very worth y Indian Chief , and His Excel-
lency, Mr. Judd , "En voy Extraordinar y, " is dmilit-
Icss a very worth y M issionary, and accredited to tlie
natives of the South Sea Islands. All our whalemen
understand this matter very well. Don't von ?
Cato.
Thr Gold Advknturic.—Many of the account!
from California are allurin g and seductive ,and prob-
abl y true ; yet we often see the other side of the
picture , as presented , we suppose , by the less fortu-
nate exp lorers. An Illinois paper states that Charles
II. Ra ndall , of Gallatin , after spending a year in
California , writes home as follows :
" If a friend should ask my advice about o'oming
out here, I should simp ly say to him , if he wished lo
part with all the comforts of lite , and run Irs clinnce
for an uncertaint y , to come. It is a nice thin " for
you , in your snug homes, enjoying all Ihe benefits of
good liviii 'i and society, to look favorably unon l"u!e
at this electric outburst ; Mr. Clay paused iixirt sat
down , and the Senate adjourned."
A Grkat Temperance Dkmonstratiok '
an-
nounced in Boston on the 11th of June next , under
the auspices of the Sons of Temperance. The occa*
sion is the assembling of the National Division , wf
its seventh Annual Session , and the celebration i»
designed to show the strength and character of tin*
important branch of the teetotal host. Invitat ion *
have been extended to all the Grand Divisions of
t he order to be present , and it is estimated that not
less tha n 15 or 20,000 members will appear in tlie
procession—not only from the States, but the British
Provinces.
It is thought a larger number of able temperance
advocates will be present than ever before. Among
those expected are Senator Houston , Gov. Brig?e>
Hon. Horace Greeley.Gen . Samuel F. Carv. topp"1"
er with Messrs. Gnug h , Hawkins . Bm«|»ay,'Kel!o|!?>
and many other speakers , who will address the rW*^
titude from different stands.
A Good Speculation.—The letters recei^''
from California by the last mail, are full of l»n>en'""
tions over the ruinousl y low prices of nearl y all k'"
of merchandise in that country ; but we know ofon",
sale , of which the owner of the articles disp W'"°,
will hardl y feel disposed to comp lain. One Iiuii '' 1'
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boxes of candles , weighin g 3,500 pounds .shi pp'
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a merchant in New Bedfoi d and consi gned to a ^^y,
tucket man now in Californi a , were sold in Sit" ^
ego, on the 2d of A pril , for two dollars per p""1
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cash ,— seven thousand dollars for the lot. I'
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thing sent to California could be sold ns well as '"?* »
candles were , shi ppers of merchandise would "" ,
t hem , doubtless , be perfectl y satisfied. —[Nantucke
Inquirer.
Moke Financiering.—A ne w batch of ^°T
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L
ies has just broken out in State street , but the li°'
ers of the paper are inclined to keep the matte r pal'
ticularl y quiet , in hopes that the utterer , who I'.1!
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left for California , will sometime, return with a .P' *t
and pay up—thus rendering themselves par^cef
a
criminis. The aggregate amount , is believed 10 D
ff
not far from $14 ,500,thoug l, t here is a dispute iin""'»
the holders of the paper , chiefl y brokers , «bo»t «'
other batch which is supposed to be gBnuitie. 1
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s-eems to be,.some difficult y in deciding which i^? (
nine and which is not , thoug h so far as that goes '"-
is just about as good as the oilier. —[Boston M'"1'
Valuable Ca ugo.—The shi p John C'""',.,.,,.
was cl eare d yesterday for Liverpool , hy M 1'
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Geo. A. H-.p lev & Co. Her carg o consist"' ;- ,
1 254 bales Kea Islands , and lOOf bales of U|"' |;{
Cotton , an d 271 tierces of Rice, is eslimt'!''
SI 73,000, and is the most valuable cleared th's BV
son.— [Charleston Courier pf 21st.
t h¥Tatri_ot.
T2»« TT'ai-iS".
The Register gets off a groan about the Tariff.—
It entirel y despaiis of any alteration of it by t he
present Congress ! You didn 't get ai l you went af-
ter , in your hurra h game for electio n of Old Zach
then ! We thoug ht \ou wouldn 't.
But the Register mourns because there is a sus-
pension of business with some of the cotton factories;
and some of the Pennsylvania iron furnaces ;—the
low tariff" pe imitti ng foreign cottons and forei gn
iron to be imported and sold lower than tho«e'fac-
tories and furnaces can make them ! "The labor of
the country will be left to take care of Itself ,"
cues the Register ! That is all the labor of the
country needs. Let the labor of the country buy
where it can buy cheapest, and then it will "take
care of itself. " Will the shi p builders and owners
of C.ipis Cod , and the '- laborers'' which itsgreat nav-
igating interests emp loy, be any belter taken care of
if a hi gh tai iff shall put up the prices of all the iron
and lotion and other manufactures which they use
and consume—prohibi tin g at the same time that
meal interest from engag ing in the business of im-
porting from foreign countries ? What are the few
laborers emp loyed by the cotton factories and the
iron furnaces of Pennsy lvania , compared to the
great mass of agricultural , and navi gating, and other
laborers of the country, who consume the great bulk
of our own and the imported cottons and iron , and
whom Ihe hi gh tariff taxes to support the cotton fac-
tories and iron furnaces ?
Again the Register grieves that the "Locofoco
Tariff of J 846" permits rail road iron to be broug ht
in from Eng land and sold at a rate which drives
our manufacturers out of the' market ." Well , and
do the. rail ro>\ils pay such larg e dividends, that they
could afford to be,-taxed enoug h hi gher on their rail
iron , by a Tariff, to prohibit our shi]> s from f reight-
ing it here , and thus keep a few furnace s going ?—
There are t«o sides to this Tariff question , nei gh-
bor.
The Patriot of this week more than intimates that
"Mr. Collector Bacon and his And Slavery Deputies ,"
are among the "leading Whi gs'' who desired the re-
publication in oi^v columns of the essays of "An Old
Whi g" on Mr. Webster 's late speech , for the pur-
pose, as the editor alleges , of injurin g M r. Webster.
We merel y allude to the subject at this time in ni>
der lo state that we have had no communication with
Mr. Bacon on this or any other subject for the last
six months , and lliat neither he or any of his Depu-
ties had any agency whatever in procuring the re-
publicatio n of the articles alluded to.—[Register.
We give "Mr. Collector Bacon and his Anti Sla-
very Deputies" the. benefit of the ahove correction ,
with great pleasure. But while we do so, we can-
not omit to notice the remarkable announcement of
the editor of the Register , that he has had "no com-
municatio n with Mr. Bacon on any subj ect/octhe
last six months !"
What does all that mean ? Is Mr. Bacon no lon-
ger considered one of the "leading Whigs ?" lias he
gone entirel y over to the Abolitionists, along
with his subordinate officers , Marchani , Loring, and
so forth ?
But if the editor of the Register has had "no com-
munication with Mr. Bacon,on any subjectfm the,last
six months ," where, and how , did he get the partic-
ulars which he published last week about "Ihe rale of
compensation" which Mr. Bacon is noiv pay ing his
officers ? He made a great disp lay of figures ,to show
what Mr. Bacon now pays the several persons in of-
fice under him ; comparing it with what the late
Collector paid ; in order to show the enormous saving
Mr. Collector Bacon was making for the United
States out o
f the wages of his subordinates in this
District ! Where , and how, did the Register get at
those particulars—and yet have "no communication
uith Mr. Bacon , on any subject , for the last six
months ? It took the Register nearl y a whole year
after the removal of "the late Collector ," to find out
what he had paid hiss officers—but he gives t he "pres-
ent compensatio n," under Mr. Collector Bacon , be-
fore his f irst year expires !—and without having "any
communication with him on any subject for the last
six months !
" How is tliis ?
Oh , we see ! Doubtless it is throug h the small
fry of the Custom House here ,that Ihe. Register grts
at all these particulars—from the two-penny petti^
fogning Deputy of Mr. Collector Bacon {whom he
hires at half the price of a decent man) who knows
no better—has no clearer conception of his duty or
the propriety belong ing to his station—than to fur-
nish I he Reg ister with the little petty ite ms of "com-
pensation "' his employer, the Collector, is payinq.
And no doubt it, was by this same consequential law-
nff icer of the Custom House , that the Register was
"informed that the appointment of the. additional in-
spector is not authorized by law!" Whether it were
him , or not , we heard of his retailing the same slang
about street , before the Register gave to the world the
late ASTOUNDIN G DEVKI.OPKMENTS !
It would be quite as creditable to "Mr. Collector
Bacon " to emp loy officers who know enoug h to pay
attention to their own bu iness, and that which they
are em ployed by the government to perform even
if the government has to pay them a little more sal-
ary for it— ,md not such fellows us retail their scan-
da l about streets , and carry little petty official infor-
mation to a newspaper—with whose editor the Col-
lector ,himself ,has "no communication on any subject.''
©"Wo trust Ihe Ladies of this village who lire in-
terested in the objects of the contemp lated Ladies'
Fair, ofrwhkh we have previousl y given notice , will
be very full y represented at Ihe preliminary Meet-
ing to be -holdm at Mrs. Rachaet Whitma n 's next
Thu rsday Fuelling. The attendance of gentlemen
is also expected , particularl y rich bachelors , for it is
more than prohable that certain deposites will be
found very convenient and needfu l upon which lo
draw in prosecuting the necessary preparations for
the Fair, th« objects of which are to procure funds
for making some improvements upon the Unitarian
Church , and to enjoy a happy reunion of resident
Cape-Coders with those who are sojourning abroad.
As (he objects are excellent ,so let the zeal and good
will be corresponding in carry ing them out.
liSTI-i it true , that a disting uished gentleman , who
is now a Bank Cashi er and a Rail Road Director ,
is about lo retire from both those offices to take the
Treasuryshi p of , and become princi pal f inancier
for, the "Great Marsh Dy ke and Water Power
Company ?" we heard so.
I®"We would advise our friends who are in want
of choice Carpetinjrs , t0 C!,n upon Messrs, Wm. P.
Temiy, & Co., over the Maine Rail Road Depot.—
They sell at small profits, and are deserving a liber-
al patronage , They have the credit of being the
most honorable dealers in Boston. Read tlictr ad-
vertisement in another column.
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Tuesday, June 4, 1850,