Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-05-09

NEWS, POLITICS, sc.

STEAM NAvIeATIoN.-Two large
Steam Ships have recently arrived at
New York from London within the
last few days. The first that arrived,
the Sirius, performed the trip in nine-
teen days; the second, the Great
Western, in fifteen days. The New
| York correspondent of the National
Intelhgencer, thus speaks of them in
letter dated April "a:
The Steam Ship performance is all
the talk Of the city. Thousands and
thousands rushed to the Battery yes
terday afternoon, as soon as the long
low black volume of smoke from the
Great Western was photographed as off
tho Hook, for the smoke was seen
long before the hull. The Forts dis.
charged their artillery as she swept
into the harbor and the crowds on
shore, wrapt in astonishment, reminded
me ofIrving's description of the amaze
ment Of the natives when the little
c,ravels Of Palos, with Christopher
Columbus on board, first hove in sight
Of Hispaniola. The Great Western
is indeed, monster, being by far the
largest steamboat ever in our waters,
and our boats dwindle into insignfi-
canoe beside her. The mob yesterday
evening were ravenous to get on board
Of her.
The little British middies had hard
work to keep off the boys, and John
Bull got some hearty curses from some
Of them because John would not permit
Brother Jonathan's youngsters to roam
at large about the monster. Indeed,
50 much excitement was created at
last, that a considerable political capt.
tai might have been made out OF the
affair, if the Administration newspaper
press here had the faculty the Globe
has in making monsters for 1t would
have been Globe logic to reason-thls
is a BiddIe monster that the Barlngs
have sent out, &c. and, therefore, DEM
ocrats were in danger, &c. &c. John
Bulls boys were under admirable dis.
cpline, and they took all the hard
words Jonathan's boys gave them,
without a reply. If any i'll feeling
could thus be created, it will all be
a'oned for by the hearty and generous
enthusiasm with which the whole city,
as city, and the Corporation, as its
organ, are about to welcome, to-day,
inform, the great event of the begin.
hlng of a Packet Atlantic Ocean steam
navigation. The experiment is an
experiment. no longer. Here are the
SHIPS, with dates even from CONSTANT
aople but little more than month old,
from Madrid not month, from Paris
out nineteen days, and from Bristol
out fifteen and half. Their log. books
SHOW gales, storm, sleet and hail, and
man now has even another triumph
over the elements Of air and water
Detroit even, the past winter, was far.
her oil, time being the measurement,
han Paris or London, 3 900 miles over
sea; and for the first time now, the
British flag on British boat has met
the American flag on an American
boat in the waters Of the Hudson,
where Robert Fulton, New Yorker,
llrst impaired life to this new agency Of
man.
Stocks have fallen to-day. They
were run up too fast yesterday. Uni
lea States Bank is ll6; Delaware and
Hudson 70; specie ! per cent. premi-
UNI; Treasury notes ! per cent. dis
count.
Mexican papers to the Goth ult. have
Oeen received. The ulimdtum an
Aounced by the French Minister was