THE NORTH AND SOUTH STANDING TOGETHER. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. TO THE EDITORS. THADDEUS 8TEVENS. » 1848. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. I ROM TIE SAVANNAH ¦EPl'BLICAIT. F ROM THE SOBfOlR HERALD. From Cist's Cincinnati Advertiser and Nilea's Soots Gibww, Gibson Co., (Tew.) Not. 9, To the Editors of the National Intelligencer: The Northern Vote..Zachary Taylor is The following is a statement which we have cor¬ Register we gather some interesting statistics of the Gbbtleme* Believing that you lake some interest in the Gentlemen : Perceiving in the Baltimore Sun, New York. number of electoral votes cast for each aflairs of the Government of this Unite and interested in and other of recent date, cer¬ MR. GIDDINGS IN REPLY TO MR. SMITH. President elect of the United States. He was nomi- rected up to the present time of the United States President. feel Journal of Commerce, paper*, nated and has been run on broad national grounds, vessfels belonging to the different squadrons. The Originally two persons were voted for.the highest the welfare of your fellow-citixens, I venture to sddresu you tain statements relative to Mr. Stevens, which, if not cor¬ *We have received by mail from the Hon. Joshua having for his platform the constitution, his object extends the whole length of the in vote being thereby made President, and the next upon a subject in which I with hundreds of others am much rected, are calculated to mislead the Public mind in regard to Ame¬ coast of the United States the Pacific Vice President. But the which concerned ; a on which I have hitherto failed to re¬ the viowa and of this R. Giddings, of Ohio, a copy of a long letter, which the greatest good of the greatest number of the ; squadron highest difficulty subject purposes distinguished gentleman upon and his the moderate from Horn to the mouth ot the Columbia sprang from the equal vote of Jefferson and Burr ceive satisfactory information, after application to every source a of national interest and I request per¬ has in some of the Ohio papers, rican people, constituency Cape question importance, already appeared and conservative men of the country. He is in¬ river; the Mediterranean squadron throughout the effected a change in the Constitution. | from which I could expect to derive it. That subject is the mission, in sheer justice to him, once for all, to set the matter on the of the Address of the Hon. Truman* the " Land" act of of 1847. d subject debted to no particular section or locality for his Mediterranean sea; the squadron along In 1789. Ten States were entitled to 73 votes. George Bounty Congress February 11, right before the country through the columns of the National to the in this some act aa Smith Public, published paper success, having been supported with the same zeal east coast of South America ; the African squadron Washington received 79, which were all the votes cast, a» I have read the published in the country journals, Intelligencer. From the Washington Union, PenneyItanian, ¦weeks ago. To so much of the address of the lat¬ and unanimity in the North, the East, the South, along the west coast of Africa and the adjacent some of the States were not represented in full. John Adams and have failed to understand its provisions plainly. The New York Evening Post, and other " Democratic " presses- vote islands and the East India extends I have seen must have been made or the ter as arraigned Mr. Giddinus's conduct in the and the West. Nor has he received the entire ; squadron along was cho«en Vice President. copies loosely up, justice to Mr. Stevens is scarcely to be expected. Naver in the above-named divisions. In the eastern coast of Asia and Africa. act itse:f must have been very written. The ob¬ was man more than he his House as the Representative of his constituents we of either section In 1792. Fifteen Stales were entitled to 135 votes, ofwhich cardeasly maligned by political opponents, the for he and The home consist* of the frigate Raritan, now votes cast. scurity (to me) is in the concluding words of that part (I and the work of detraction will doubtless he very the reply of that gentleman, South, example, gets Maryland Squadron George Washington received 132, all the John diligently pursued willingly publish loses ; North Carolina and loses South the tlag-ship ; sloops of war Albany, Germantown, and Sa¬ Adams Vice President. have no copy before me) relative to the rule of heirship, in those as fond of as familiar with it; but froot as As for the residue of his letter, we Virginia again by seemingly subjoined. Carolina ; Georgia and loses Alabama ; Florida ratoga ; war steamers Mississippi, Iris, and NV atei witch. In 1796. Sixteen States were entitled to 138 votes, of which which it is stated that the bounty shall fall, "first, to the the professedly neutral press more fairness is to be looked for ; do not that can accrue to perceive any advantage andloses Mississippi; Louisiana andloses Texas; The consists of the ship-of-the-line John Adams received 71, and Thomas Jefferson was chosen wife; second, the children ; third, the father; fourth, the in the present instance, it is trusted, not in vain. Mr. Gidbinos or to the Public, by allowing to be Tennessee and loses Arkansas Kentucky and Ohio, the flag ship; ship-of the-line razeed Independence, Vice President. mother, icc." of any deceased volunteer. The " et cetera" Mr. Stevens is charged with being "an abolitionist." The same is true at the East and St. W to me to include collateral heirs < and I find this repeated in our columns, now that the election and loses Missouri. frigate Congress, sloops-of-war Mary's, arren, Dale, In 1800. Sixteen States were entitled to 188 votes, of appeared This is simply not the fact. The same charge was made with the free and the and was the of other I afterwards saw a its excitements are over, the arguments for or the North. Reckoning Delaware Preble, and store-ships Lexington, Southampton, yhich Thomas Jetlerson and Aaron Burr received each 73. opinion many persons. against him while he was a candidate for election to Congress. he out of the sixteen Northern and Fredonia. The we has been condemned of and Instructions issued from the Pension the several candidates for the or States, gets eight sloop Warren, learn, No choice by the people. The House of Representative*, copy Regulations In the course of that canvass, the editor of the Lancaster In¬ against Presidency, Eastern States. It therefore, that (ten. as and is as a in Monte¬ in which it is declared "no brother " " criminations and recriminations of their appears, unseaworthy, employed »tore-ship after baiUting six days, on the thirty-sixth ballot elected Department, eipressly telligencer, a leading Democratic journal of Pennsylvania, the respec¬ been sections of or . Taylor has supported by all the rey bay. Thomas Jefferson President and Aaron Burr Vice President. sister can claim the bounty under the act went so far as to say "Mr. Stevens is the sworn foe of the tive Let be Indebted to no local influence of the Lni- But what was on a ' supporters. by-gones by-gones. country. particular The Mediterranean Squadron consists frigate In 1804. Seventeen States were entitled to 176 votes, of my surprise seeing in late number of South.an abolitionist; willing^iot only to exclude for his success, but efficient support from ted States, the ; the war steamer Princeton, schr. the Washington Lilian (I forget the a lengthy course ' from what is to Mr. Smith. deriving flag-ship which Thomas Jefferson received 162. George Clinton ^ ice date) newly-acquired territory, but, infinitely worse*. Extractfrom Mr. Giddings'3 reply all parts of the Union, and obtaining a majority of Taney, and store-ship Supply. President. of instructions to persons interested in the bounty, in which . interfere with its existence where the constitution has alrea- " You agnail me in a manner unusual among gentle¬ the electoralvotes both North and South Mason the do not I it is asserted . quite of The consists of frigate Brandywine, In 18U8. Seventeen States and 176 votes. J^mes Madison (I mistake, think) plainly brothers and dy planted it." No sooner bad this article appeared io men the stations which we fill. You say that you and Dixon s line,heis as the President of-war war steamer sisters of deceased soldiers can and receive the occupying emphatically the flag-ship ; sloop St. Louis, AlU'g.ia- received 122 votes, and was chosen President; George C.in- may bounty print than it was authoritatively contradicted in the Union and have caubfd the Journal of the House of Representatives to be the A ation as he was the candidate the Peo- land or of of ny, brig Perry, and stoie-ship Relief. ton Vice President. George Clinton had received electoral scrip. Tribune, a Lancaster Whig paper, whose editor distinctly and searched in order to determine the number of times during the He received electoral votes in the of the I have of and other and " ple. sixty-six The African Sifuadron consists frigate Jamestown, votes at every election since the organization of the Govern¬ inquired lawyers knowing ones, emphatically stated that Mr. Stevens was not an abolitioc.- late session which I failed to answer to my name on the call bouth, and in the Northern States, to are . ninety-seven the flag-ship ; sloops-of-war Decatur, Portsmouth, and \ ork- ment. have been unable learn the truth. Men's opinions ist; not the sworn foe of the South ; did not wish to inter- of the and nays. This is, I believe, ho first time that a in both divisions. and store- variant. I would have written to the « yeas being majority town ; brigs Boxer, Porpoise, and Bain'oridge, In 1812. Eighteen States and 218 votes. James Madison widely Commissioner fere with slavery where the constitution had already plant- ever a member of Congress acknowledged himself to have But the of this article was to express our of but could not an ' object ship Erie. received 128 as and 131 as Vice Pensions, expect early reply. ed it." such a work. For the of the to of the course which the North has President, Elbridge Gerry entered upon dignity body approbation pur¬ The consists of the sloop-ot-war President. My object in addressing you is simply that all who are in¬ More recently it has been repeatedly asserted that " Mr. which we I it be the last. You little know sued in this election. Our friends in that section ' belong hope may Plymouth, the flag-ship, and brig Dolphin. In 1816. NineUan States and 221 votes, of which James terested like myself may, through the medium of the press, Stevens is pledged to introduce a hill on the first day of the of to whom these are ad¬ have conducted themselves and we congratu- ' the character the people imputations nobly, In the Baltic and North Sea frigate St. Lawience. Monroe received 183. D. D. Tompkina Vice President. have a plain and positive explanation of the law on this par¬ thirty-first Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Co- Can to have been constituted late the whole and the friends ' dressed- you imagine yourself country, especially it is cxpected that the United States frigate Savannah will 1820. 232 votes. ticular point. Surely some one must know whether Con¬ lumbia." In to this statement, the > of union and the with In Twenty-four States and James Mon¬ regard also, Whig pa¬ my overseer Has it come to this, that you consider your¬ harmony, upon magnanimity out as for the East India intended to include collateral heirs or not. If it referred to the ma¬ go flag-ship squadron. roe received 231. D. D. Tompkins Vice Piesident. gress so, per positively contradicts it, and pointedly adds that self clothed with over the which have acted. in " supervisory powers Representative they Being largely At the Navy Yard near Norfolk the following works are 1804 to 1820 the candidates had oeen no¬ should be widely known ; if not, the knowledge of the fact Mr. Stevens goes to as the of the of our in the Convention, had it From successful Congress representative of seventy thousand of the sovereign people gallant jority Philadelphia they in t The of the first-class steamer Pocahon¬ will save trouble. it is ' progreas building minated by a caucus of the Democratic party in Congress. much But surely doing great injustice people of this district, unembarrassed by promises or pledges ' to sit in on in their to nominate whomsoever they . State Have they, sir, requested you judgment power tas, the hull of which is far advanced towards com¬ to exclude as and other brotherj of de¬ of and to a ' to the nomi¬ already Since that time(1820) all parties have nominated in National such, myself many any kind, perfectly free take such ataud in refer- habits of their Had you referred ; yet not submitted . the Congressional agent pleased they only pletion, and, when finished, will present one of the most ad¬ ceased volunteers have sustained immense looses by the death ence to slavery in the District of and all the other or I nation of a Southern man and a slaveholder, Conventions. Columbia, to my official acts, to my votes, to my political opinions, large of naval architecture ever beheld; the our am ' but assisted in it. And when the nomina¬ mirable specimens In 1824. Twenty-four States and 261 votes. Andrew of volunteer brothers. I very poor, and hare lost by leading questions of the day, as his own judgment may ap- should have felt no to My and partly A an- . disposition reply. opinions lengthening and thorough repairing of the sloop-of-war received 93 for and John Adams 84 my brother's death nearly a thousand dollars ; and I think and the interests of the whole seem to not and tion had been made, entered upon the canvass Jackson President, Q. prove, country may public acis have altogether escaped public scrutiny, they dalia ; the and of the steame: the Government in sheer to make some ' with a cheerfulness and determination of all complete overhauling repairing as the Whig candidate. John C.Calhoun, V ice President, ought, justice, pro¬ require." are the subjects of examination. But to them worthy Raritan as the they proper their Mississippi, and the fitting out of the frigate had 138 votes. vision, or at least extend that already made to those who Mr. Stevens, it is gathered frcmhis own speeches and re¬ take no while to charge me with commendation, and have crowned patriotic # you exception, you attempt flag-ship of the home squadron, (Com. J. Wilkinson.) This 1828. States and 261 votes. Jackson received suffer most. corded declarations, stands all the of the con¬ me to labors the old of Louisiana ninety- In Same by compromises inattention to my public duties. Permit say, sir, that by giving planter vessel is for with the of a seven electoral votes. In all this we see an evi¬ latter ready duty exception poop-deck, 178, a majority over Adams of 95 electoral votes. Calhoun in the stitution, but is opposed to the further extension of the area there are members of that body whom my constituents would for the accommodation of the The foregoing letter having appeared Daily dence of attachment to the Union, a desire to re¬ which is rapidly progressing Vice President. of slavery. He believes, with Washington and Jeffebsob, be willing to excuse if they never appeared in their seats on National of Tuesday last the following store and in the councils of the na¬ commodore. In 1832. Twenty-five States and 298 votes. Jackson re¬ Intelligencer and the first Congress that sat under the constitution, that the ai:y occasion. peace harmony there are about hundred and to it was received from the Commissioner of and a to the the whole coun¬ The New York Sun says, four ceived a of 170 over Martin ^ an Buren reply Federal Government has power lo on this it "I think cannot be that I have long regarded tion, devotion country, 219, majority Clay. legislate subject you ignorant and but the which cannot but fifty men at work in the navy yard at Brooklyn, and conside¬ Vice President. Pensions: the Territories, and that the principles of the ordinance of the so common in House of Representatives, of try, nothing country, Peicsiojc OmcE, November 28, 1848. practice, (he be productive of the most beneficial results. The rable activity prevails in every department. In 1836. Twenty-six States and 294 votes. M.Van Buren 1787 ought to be extended over all the Territories recently frequently calling the yeas and nays as an unnecessary waste The United States Savannah is now for sea, Gehtlikz* In your paper of this morning I notice a Cnion must be And the North, in her frigate ready received 170, a majority of 97 over Wm. H. Harmec. R. acquired. of and to that When they are call¬ preserved! communication from one of in " time, disreputable body. of Gen. Taylor, and the South, but the officers and crew are not yet appointed. It is reported M. Johnson Vice President. your correspondent? Cibson, If this be treason, make the most of it!" He holds these ed on and an the "calls of the House," and for generous support a adjournments in her Mr. Fillmore, that Commandei Buchanan, an able officer, will be selected Tennessee, which requires reply. The writer sayi: "I doctrines in common with all eminent the free equally zealous support of In 1940. Twenty-six States and 294 votes, of which Gen. ' Whigs of suspending the rules, I usually pay no attention to them, but for but this is as she is entitled to a full would have written to the Commissioner of Pensions but have each given a solemn to the nation and her; unlikely, Harrison received 234, a majority of 174 over \ an Buren. States , no more and no less. time in other business. We are told that in the pledge not an It is that th; occupy my to the world that it shall be done ! captain. John Vice President. .jcould expect early reply." proper pub¬ This communication is written 19 serve no ulterior purpose, of the were seldom called more than Tyler % lic know that letters are it . into should answered this early days republic they We the country, therefore, and the The United States frigate Cumberland has been hauled In 1844. States and 275 votes, of which Jas. promptly but simply to save from further perversion and set forth accu¬ or times in a session. Yeu were called congratulate Twenty-six answers six eight say they friends of rational and everv the dock, and is now being dismantled. The store-ship Elec- office. Our to correspondents are brief, but explicit; the views and in reference to the the late session. liberty republicanism K. Polk received 170, a majority over Mr. Clay of 64. G. rately purposes, grave ques¬ three hundred and times during tra to be at auction on the 6th of December. The , and all who desire information from us re»t asiurd that thirty-eight where, upon these auspicious indications. We is sold M. Dallas Vice President. may tion -under consideration, of a distinguished and patriotic . Each call about twenty minutes. One hundred and Fredonia is in her with all need not wait an unreasonable time for information to occupies have much to make us rejoice. From a small and store-ship taking cargo possible IWCRHSE Of VOTES. they Whig, whose best efforts have for a long series of years beeo twelve hours were thus Our would enable them to to or occupied. daily sittings feeble colony, we have rapidly grown into gigantic alacrity, and is expected to sail during next week for Cali¬ The vote since 1829 for President has prepare papers in support of claims knd consistently and efficiently directed to the establishment and less than four hours, Sabbaths, more popular In the examination of claims some ii una- average and, including nianhood; and now that we have reached that point fornia. been as follows : pensions. delay maintenance of Whig principles. To him as much as any one was wasted in this useless > than month's time ceremony. in civilization and advancement when we are pre¬ All the vessels of the coast survey, under Lieutenants Years. ^ voidable, for reasons which have already been made tnown other man is due the credit of the recent tri¬ were glorious political of those calls vet - . the medium of But, supposing twenty really proper, pared to enjoy fully the blessings of a free consti¬ Bache, Porter, and Patterson, have been laid up for the win¬ 1,162,418 through the press. umph achieved in Pennsylvania. Long before his nomina¬ at least one-ninth of the whole session must have been 183.i 1,290,498 part tution and equal laws, shall we dash our bright ter at Gum block, and the sloop-of-war ^ mcennes has been The 9th section of the act of the 11 th February, 1847, tion tor Congress he took the field for Tatlob and Fillmcbe, wasted. And that I did not waste time 1836".'.'.'.!!'.!!!..'. 1,501,298 you complain my prospects to the earth ? We answer emphatically, hauled up on the launching slip for thorough repairs. 1840 allowing bounty land or scrip, at the option of the clamant, in which he, with Gov. Johnston and other kindred spirits, with the others. To this I have refused " 2,402,658 j discourage practice, .Sa^' ^ n*°n now and foreverfor un¬ The workmen on the dry-dock have taken advantage of the 1844! 2,702,549 does not aliow land to collateral relatives of the deceased sol¬ continued his labors until after the seventh of November. To to answer to name in all cases such as I deemed of, a \ ! as will be an my except der the Union we are what we are. Esto perpetua late line weather and are pushing it rapidly forward. The dier, discovered by examination of tha. law. vindicate him at home were a work of supererogation. His some But these on to discou¬ ' importance. attempts my ^art United States war steamer San Jacinto is now only waiting But the first section of the act of May 27, 1848, explaiatory nomination for Congress.hailed at the time by the whole what I have an evil have endeavored PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. rage long regarded you WHIG CELEBRATION AT MOBILE. for her machinery. Materials are being prepared for erecting of the act of February ! I, 1847, extends the provisions of the Whig press of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and otter to torture into evidence that I was absent from seat. I my a number of new workshops and storehouses. It is reported An article in the last number of the London Quarterly Re¬ act of 1847 to brothers and sisters, in ease the soldier left nei¬ States.was ratified by his noble constituency, the veteran was often told that would make such an The .Mobile had a evtf-disposed persons Whigs o( (Ala.) magnificent that Com. Chas. Morris is to take charge of the Boston navy view contains an interesting recapitulation of recent discove¬ ther widow, child, father, nor mother. " Old Guard" of Lancaster county, by the unprecedented to me to constituents. I celebration on the of the 20th instant, in honor attempt misrepresent my uniformly night yard, and relieve Com. Foxhall A. Parker. ries bearing upon the science ^oT~physical geography, togethei The reflations to which your correspondent alludes, which of thousand one hundred.a fair index to his that a too to be of the election of Taylor and Fillmore. It is thus majority four answered I represented eonstituency intelligent with curious and facts from thes«. declare that no brother or sister can claim land under " many wonderful deduced bounty present throughout the State. Abroad, where he affected acts of such a character. described in the a Democratic popularity by Register," paper: METEOROLOGICAL. discoveries, relative to the history of the earth, and to the va¬ the act, were published before the amendatory act of Mav, is less intimately knGwn, it becomes necessary to correct mis¬ " You that are on hand for Jubilee came off in fine on say you always (except speaal Whig style Monday night. rious forms of organic existence of which at different periodi 1848, passed. representations caacerning him. to your vote. It is not my business to All4."Ih?that burning tar barrel* brilliant illuminations, soanne At the last session of an reasons) prepared give rocketa and could contri¬ Congress appropriation it has been the habitation. We speak of these discoveries as The statement in the Washington T'r.ion to which the A PENNSYLVANIA!*. call you to account on that But it looks sus¬ .Chinese crackers, Bengola lights of two thousand dollars was made for meteorolo¬ subject. always bute to the of the occasion, was put in requisition. recent; for the most important of them, on which is founded writer refers was correct in all respects as to heirship. to see a man himself the of his own splendor to be made under the direction picious making trumpeter h°ur tbe Pnncipal street* were filled with a dense gical observations, the »ence of fossil remains, dates no further back than the I am, very respectfully, your obedient sen ant, ARMY ORDERS. merits. I have not the Journal of the House of °Uf dear not of the of the the Representa¬ u8u,"y atmosphere Secretary Navy. By following time of who declared the silence of the-* i L. EDWARDS. »K m \ o Ouvier, speechlesi ,J. tives before roe, nor can I get it short of Washington, but I nnfiJ °- P,tt,bur*- thi uncom- Circular it will be seen what arrangements have oracle# to be of truth, events far antecedent Mi'ssrt Gjms A Siiroj. Genial ^ab De»abtk».t, we made0D,C,ty'our determined to see a* much eloquent revealing , will hazard the opinion that you were absent during the late f^Me been made with to the to the date of human existence.a secret never fathomed «i«Ohdfbs,?r Adjutant General s Office. ot the show as was to the regard subject: by I was. were «visible naked eye.' The proces- the wisest men of the and the > Nor. 7, 184#. session a far greater number of days than You besides the WasaiirtiTO!*, November 1, 1848. East, which scope of Greciai; NOTE, BY THE EDITORS. Washington, including, Rough and uid Roman was r.ot broad to 1. Brigadier General D. E. Twiggs, General by frequently gone, as was said, to raise funda to promote the Zl Tl keryil,rgf'a number of on several The of the Smithsonian at then iast learning enough comprehend Major Ready Club, Urge persons horaeback, Regent* InstituUon, In their times, as in ours, the tablets of stone on which are J Had we supposed that our correspondent, in sta- Brevet, is assigned to the command of the Oth De¬ election of General Taylor. And you were also in attendance «nd w*?°ns and an innumerable resolved to establish an extended of meteoro¬ Military "gre,t meeting, sy.tem vnttaa the historv of the living forms that successively tenant- his reason for his to in¬ He to St. to mu utude of of the arts and trodea were " ting addressing request us, partment. will, without delay, repair Louis and at the Philadelphia Convention. But in thia attempt stig-1 drays. Many repre- observations, with reference to American ad the earth before the sixth ot the Creation, were 0 W!th ,he emblems and of their logical particularly day" dug tended to intimate more than that the ex¬ enter upon his duties accordingly. matize me, and to hold yourself up as a pattern of official in¬ implements as far as surface of this conti¬ from the earth and from the mine and the any thing The butchers had a car decorated like a stall storms, embracing possible the quarried exposed by 2. Colonel W. have You were not occupation. torrent. But to them the record was obscure ; and U) the cessive of the Commissionerof Pensions J. Wobth, Major Genert! by Brevet, is dustry, you provuked scrutiny. only with of meat, which no doubt the nent. In order that the meteorological observations ordered by phi¬ occupation many superior specimens of our was reserved the which imagination assigned to the command of the 4th and 9th Military absent yourself on political errands, but you were instrumen¬ next found sale market. A s Congress at their last session not interfere with this en¬ losophy day power the of his able to Depart¬ morning ready in blacksmith may has ascribed to the of discouraged expectation being ments, to his brevet of tal in others to leave for the same a poet, discerning according Brigadier General. He wiil getting Congress purpose. shop, with glowing furnace and its occupants at work hara- but with the of the " to individual letters terprise, co-operate it, Secretary Navy tongues in trees, give early replies asking expla¬ report by letter to Major General Tatloii, commanding the It you, throtigh the National Intllligencer, will deny that you, has directed Professor Espt to his labors to those of the Books in the sermons in 'l The of join running brooks, stones, nations of statutory enactments, we should have at Western Division, and also in to that General as Chairman of the Whig Executive Committee, paid the ex- di,dPI" Eaust and of the Institution. And good in every thing." report person rFranklinranklin hauh f a in striking off an Secretary least entered a caveat in his favor. There is no on his route to No. 8. \ of other members of who were absent from printing press busily engaged is the most of all the Department penses Congress ode for the occasion, which was distributed through the crowd. As a preliminary step, it is important to ascertain the num¬ Physical geography comprehensive 3 The 8th their scats for to the amount of five times branches ol science, for it embraces all matter, in all its fjrms officer in the Government, we are persuaded, who regiment of infantry will immediately repair to political purposes ut the most picturesque and beautiful object presented was a ber and locality of the persons who will aseift in thi« enter- " the of I to show >f existence, organized or inorganic. Earth, air, and ocear, more and devotes himself to Texas, via New Orleans, where the commanding officer wii' number days that I was, will endeavor your miniature steamboat, brilliantly painted and decorated, with its prise, and what available instrument!* are now in the coantry. with of animal and life these assiduously faithfully not # bUt every ihing vegetable tenanting teceive further instructions from Major General Tatlob. error by making out an account current for you, showing how motion',Dmej ^ ^me.- For this those who are to in ihese ob¬ come wilhin the and constitute the science the of his proper duties than the Com¬ purpose di»po*ed Join great domains, scope discharge 4. The 3d of to in to each member who :h::l°zcoMtant tn,l(K Msny of the other crafts and " regiment infantry is assigned duty De¬ many days' expenses you paid stumped ' servations are to their of The reviewer defines it to be the his¬ missioner of Pensions. alUfiM* 12?"bad similar"|m but we cannot under- respectfully requested signify willing¬ physical geography." No. 9. now it for General the session. Yet seem to callings representations, ofthe earth in its whole material its partment The four companies at New Orleans Taylor during you I" "ay of illuminated ness to do ao by a line addressed to the Navy Department, tory organization.of figure ,hem.alL transpa¬ " and other conditions a? a of the barracks, will repair to Jefferson barracks, and there receive regard my absence at Buffalo and Massachusetts as a derilec- there.T was an " on planetary body; compoei- rencies,reiciil quite extensive array. A large number with the word Meteorology written the envelope. non. and elevation of the continents and islands THE FIELD OF BUENA VISTA. the further orders of tion of It is true that I went to Massachusetts, and of houses in the were illuminated. The Court- structure, Major General Tatlob. The six com¬ duty. city brilliantly Though it would be of great importance that each observer which its solid t of the extent, was absent seven or It is also true that in 1946 comprise superficies depth, EBOH THE JfEW ORLEANS BULLETIN" Or BOV. 21. panies of the regiment now in Texas will, as soon as the ne¬ eight days.' "»«""*.>»»« should be provded with a perfect set of compared instrument*, ;idal, and other movements of the oceans and forming its was ;i'" ,of painting representing General W e of the cele¬ cessary reconnoisaance can be made in the direction of Zl I went to Maine at your request, and absent twice as it u believed that much valuable relative to the covering 5 of the nvers and lakes which give circulation recently had exhibited to us the original Tatlo. ZJa «Yiu rLn,p,'eri1°n th'ir ,0 House. yet information liquid be en as I was in the same doc¬ to water and over its solid of the brated .etter from Gen. Tailor to Sabta Anna, written on Paso, put route for that post. long Massachusetts, promulgating The process! >n the town, through velocity, the duration, and the extent of *torm* may be ob¬ through parts; atmosphere i c,rcumn«v'&a'ed passing which it, aud ministers so largely to all natural the field of Buena to the summons of Sasta 5. Companies B and D 2d artillery, under orders for De¬ trines. \ ou then approved of my absence, and paid my ex¬ «tl ,treeU- Every went off in ! tained even without instruments, from a mere record of the envelopes phe¬ Vista, in reply peaceful nomena ; ot the great elements of light, heat, and No. will be en route for Jeffer¬ penses. If the doctrines I promulgated were right in 1846, and orderly manner.IL Shouts for 'Old Zack' rent STJir the force of physical Ajtha to surrender with his army. partment 9, immediately put face of the *ky, direction and the wind, and the electricity, in as far as they atfcct the conditions of matter on son they could not be in 1848. like its Divine A. :n'dp ** mght musical with This document is in the form of a note, being on a folded barracks, there to receive the further instructions of M^jo- wrong Truth, M: and the beginning and ending of rain and snow, provided the obser¬ the globe ; and, finally, of the innumerable lorms ot organic General Author, is immutable. If doctrines were correct in tTSVJS!7 '^mouthed canndn' existence diffused the whole of this vast creation. half sheet of letter paper. It is in written by Major Tatlob. By order. my Maine, 61leded ^wMkthe welkin mthTits reverberations." vations are of sufficient extent and duration. Blank forma, throughout pencil, so wide a field the labors of minds of Gen. The L. THOMAS, Assistant General they could not have been erroneous in Massachusetts. But I free of will be *ent to those who are to To explore many and (now Colonel) Bliss, and signed by Tatlob. Adj. expense, disposed join many are ; and numerous societies have think I shall be safe in that the in hands requisite been is very and is in the regular open hand of Most Awijl and St. perfectly saying speeches OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. in the observation ; and, a* aoon as the amount of funds for the sole of writing legible, Mcbdbb Robbebt..The Joseph favor of General in the House of made organized with object prosecuting separate branches Col. Bliss, and with the marked signature of General Taylor Representatives, this purpose is sufficient, full set* of instruments will be fur¬ of natural knowledge which to the mass of mankind strongly Gazette of the 10th instant anoounces the startling intelligence for appear Tatlob. There is either in the note or the the purpose of promoting his election, occupied the whole nished to careful observer* in important localities. utterly insignificant; acd individuals devote their lives to re¬ nothing signa¬ that just as that paper was going to press they had received House more than f was absent both at Massachusetts and searches whose seem so trivial as almost to ture that indicates haste ; but, on the contrary, judging from information that in the days middle Very respectfully, your ooedient seivants, objects provoke Major Singes, Paymaster United at Buffalo. Thia would show a loss to the nation of tut TSSJS, derision. But to'the exact knowledge obtained by such mi¬ the general appearance of it, we should say that both the wri¬ Stite* army, had a few days previous teen murdered and JOSEPH HENRY, laborious the science " hundred and times greater than that occasion¬ 1 <*¦*. Z nute and investigations of physical geo¬ ter and the signer of it were as cataj as a summer's morn¬ robbed in Saline county, Missouri. Wife and twenty-eight l Secretary Smithsonian Institution. graphy owes its and, however much we may Major Singer's ed my absence. one-half of the mem¬ completeness, when it was her Sister were in with are by Again, nearly Whig JAMES P. smile st the "zeal of M. Robinesu in up one thou¬ ing'' prepared. cohipany him, both of whom like¬ of E8PY, gathering As Col. Bliss was at the time we saw this bers Congress attended the Convention at Philadelphia *lTT^*Ctm5 "P°n ,he iid« cracked them, and the Meteorologist under the direction of the Sec'y of Navy. sand species of the genus musca in the single department of in the ci'y note, wise said to have shared the same fate. The Major had in which nominated General Taylor. They were absent about l^ph,°ck Thfl of 'he the Yonne," the indefatigable spider-collector will be men- we took occasion to inquire of him the circumstances under his possession one hundred and stxty thousand dollars, witt» wt*UnWr\,0Whle' In connexion with the it be t..e same of time that I was at and the IX^Ie80' P^med with one engine, aided above-Circular, may itoned with honor in the annais of science as the "illustrious which it was written. He told us that he wrote it on the which he was to the length Buffalo; nearly hv fh^'Ji "ft that six sets top proceeding upper part of this State to pey b.lf d.., ..J the Hermann mentioned of meteorological instru¬ on a . on same of the Democratic members were in attend¬ alaehMte|iei.r , , . of his foraging cap, his knee, sitting bank of the three months' extra to those volunteers that were proportion "ft""£ "«t. o'clock P. M. o» ments, barometers, thermometers, One of the most discoveries of modern research, placed ptv en¬ ance at the Baltimore Convention which nominated General ¦ including Ac., interesting earth. Gen. Tatlob dictating the tenor of it, and that the titled to it. STs2b«ving made the run in about sixteen days. were sent from the Smithsonian Institution yester- la the fact demonstrated by Lyell, Darwin, and others, of the Cass. This will show an additional loss of nearly one hun¬ ft h. t0 new Side lexers. The alow and continuous upheaving or depression of large tracts ot latter did not sign it, ss reported, on horseback, but thst he The Gazette says that no clue thus far had been discovered rrrhM the day, to be forwarded to the coast of Oregon and dred times greater than that occasioned by my absence. For lova^VOUnd abandoned, and Hermann's land in different perts of the world, resulting from the progress was standing by the side of his horse, (Old Whitey,) and as to who perpetrated the foul deed, other than a supposition J*""" ' "*">0. chartered fo, the California, for the purpose of establishing a series of Between the latitude of the those members you have no word of reproof. You were one Sf" subterranean changes. North laid the paper on the saddle, ar.d signeJ it there with the seme that the soldiers who had acted as his escort were the mur¬ m (£rWZJ' m,,'i,by delivered to the postmaster of meteorological observations on the western side and of a line drawn through Southern Sweden from the of them. I went to Massachusetts and to Buffalo at the re¬ nf .k Cape, pencil with which he (Col. Bliss) wrote it. derers of the Rocky mountains. It i« believed that, from Baltic to the Kattegat, the land is gradually nsing at the aver¬ and advice of and friends. I The this document from Mexico was but a quest by many worthy patriotic Hainb,,r* rn,,»l ¦*.*«'. The observations in this in connexion with age rate of about four feet in a century * while below that gentleman.who brought Major Siwgfr roamed short time since, and this vent for fc i k* locality, came the steamer from Vera Cruz with Mr. Clit- in strict accordance with the long-established usage pre¬ passengers B°r from Southamp- those to be made in the eastern and middle of southern limit there is a sbw subsidence and gradual approti- passenger in sudden termination of his own as well as his wife's and her rr/r"/Londofl ,«oT"Bremen fheirthe steamers. part vailing both in the 8enate and in the House. I did so be¬ tonjia by English the United States, interesting meteorological facts mation of the aurfaca of the land toward* the level of the ad- pobc, our Minister. He obtained it in the city of Mexico, sister's existence, in the bloom of life and in the midst of health, that I could do more for and for mankind -Three «rrt-class steamers jaeent seas. From this and similar phenomena occurring and'mtend* to have it elegantly framed for preservstion, as he will cast a over a lieving my country ran be obtained relative to distur¬ coral formations of deep gloom large circle of bereaved relaUvee than I could to remain at A nuinbei of am!^K.rffhWTJ". 0,1 within twelve atmospherical elsewhere, in 8outh America, >nd the the values it and friend*. Washington. great ho,I rTifCh&okee ® of the by against H. Wilson. Mr. M. pub¬ to have occurred after the of long intervals in the same (General U. S. A. Commanding. They farming very great quantity. ) TheHtTjohn'sT'ouner lished in Vera whilst our was lapse Msjor a e of Maryland, against Daniel Kaufman, of Cumberland ,2t0".St- CJJ. thC "benr< office that the whole Ctui, army in possession of that district of Before the formation of the tertiary "To Senor D. A*to. Lopez de 8asta Akxa, By singular coincidence, the Brunswick also was to take and Col. W. Governor of a called the country. county, for aiding the escape and harboring thirteen slaves, ?Pe f Tml*ndN mar- city, it, paper Genius strata of the earth's surface, our northern hemisphere enjoyed "Commanding in chief, Encar.tada." out 1 detachment of seventy-six Icanan Communists, who wera claimed as .r' orphan asylum, of Certain articles were which caused the of the plaintiffs. krt hoo- ?J yor " office'ind"'engine-house, and every thing else Liberty. published a trophical climate, and possessed the corresponding form* of parading the streeta of Havre in their at property u Col. W. to airest Mr. M. and send out procession, patriarch number of witnesses were the heldk Ij the will be sold on an him of the country, animal and life. But a of the the ', produced by plain- by city, Saturdav next to satisfv vegetable general upheaving Astronomical Ixtellioekcb..Among appropria¬ their head. The simultsneous presence of two so different counsel, who proved that the slaves were on the execution out of the on the ground that the article* were libellous and tended to land the which now it wears, and brought Supreme Court by' c^rtain rred gradually produced aspect tions made during its last session was one for a sects in the same of the 24th of to of jssued excite disaffection, Ac. Judge Buchanan, of New Orleans, with a a in the by Congress ship has raised some difficulty. evening October, 1H47, the bam Kauf¬ th" Pr0perty h,d Wr> mortgaged for about change of climate brought about change forms for the of the Sun According man, and, after remaining there of the were taken after hearing the ca»e, decided in favor of Col. Wil*on, thus of organic life. These discoveries illustrate the series of observations determining parallax to the rules of their order, as it is known, the not part night, K,0?)