The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-15

eonYelsed, and declaration made that .ha return. ot General Bolivar to the Presidency should be a ssae qa.a non to the re-incorporatIon of the South with the restofC Colombia. Flores, however, has a different game to r play.
 The Department oiMagdaieBa,f feapi- tai Carthagena. would certainly have separated but for tisc presence ;ad H. fluence of General Bolivar, who was anxious to avoid this additional scandal to Colombia. Magdalena is the most important, and has always been themost faithful department i'll New Grenada; buff 1t has now preserved its allegl- anee to the government of kogeta5 Ii IS because 1t is also the government oi Co- lombla. Any attempt to separate or divide the Republic, would be the sig nal for this department to separate from Bogota.
 1t is positively known that the Peru yians have not felinfsished the the alnbi= tious project of annexing the South of Colombia to their Republic, and that they are now actually augmenting their military force, to profit by intestine dis. orders in the former. They have d. so sent agents to reyoiutionize Panama in their favor.
 
 Cotton Sail Due s.--lt is question of great importance to this country whe- ther cotton duck can be used for sails as adyantageously as hemp. In August last, Mr. David, M. C. of Soth Care lima, addressed a letter to the secretary of the navy, stating number ei facts on the subject, and requesting him to cause .an experiment to be made forathe pur- pose ofeontcsting the comparative cost, strength. durability, Ne. of the two ma terials. The experiment has been tried on the United States sloop of war Pea cock. The particular results have not been made known to the public, but we reeolleet that after her first voyage, having put into Pensacola, one of her officers in aletteF toa friendin the North spoke of the sailsin terms of high com mendation.
 Cotton sails have been used in this country to a small extent ever since 1872, and possibly at an earlier period. Those who have used them, so far as our information extends, uniformly speak well of them. Among others who might be named, is Mir. Mtkim of Baltimore. ssin the year 1893, he says, tl built the fast sailing schooner Yeliott, burthen about IS0 tons, and this vessels sails were entirely made of cotton, both light and heavy sails, her reputation for fast sailing IS not exceed ed, if eqnalled by any vessel of her class. Sine has made two voyages round Cape Horn, with cotton duck, and two to smyrna; none but cotton duck has been used during those voyages, and SO fully satisfied an l with Cotten duck, that shall never permit any other to be used on board my vessel, as l am fully convinced that it is far superior to al other duck without deception. In the first place, the cost is rather under the best Holland duck-second, it will outlas any other duck, as it never mil dews-third, vessel with suit of cot ton duck sails, will sail nearly mile per hour faster than with sails of any other description.
 We have ourselves had grain of experience son this subject. Our news schooner Journal of Commerce, was dressed with Cotton sails in September, 1898, which have been out in all wealth CTS, night and day, to the present time, and will do considerable service yet. They are found to hold wind better than hemp, and of course are better fitted for rapid sailing. On account of this property, which is a very important one, they are getting much into use for pilot boats, and other swift sailing boats.-N. r