The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-04-21

York. which. WILL beyond doubt, be of great
service TO emigrants, not only in furnishing them
with the best means OF conveyance, but in procuring
employment on their arrival in the United States.
Knowing the standing of the house Of Pomeroy Il
Co., we cannot too strongly CONNIE nd their arrange
ments to public attention. ihner' Ameicdn Necs
Litter
The strange and even formidable lnsurrection in
South Wales, called Rebecca and her dauohters,
is treated rather contempluousy by the London
press but the Welsh papers regularly report the pro.
gress OF the affair.
II seems that the disturbances have grown so for
midaole that the government have deemed it ne
cessary to increase still further the military force
Three threatening notices have been received at
Narberth workhouse, TO the effect that unless the
paTpers have better food given TO them. Rebecca
days since, and attacked the Princes gate Re-
becca, the commander, who has now two officers
celed " NeP' and "Susan,' would seem to emulate
the late Captain Rock of the sister island for, be-
mentioned. one has just been received in this town,
breathing destruction TO all turnpike on the
parochial road and one by Water street, on the
old Newcastle EmyVR road, is doomed to destruc
ton. What Is most remarkable in this Insurrection
airy movements tort IS an insurrectionary movement,
though at present perhaps not very formidable lis that
neitherthe CIVIL nor the military, nor the yeomanry
have been able to apprehsnd single offender.
Thirty veteran pensioners went down from Carmar-
then to st. Clears on Tuesday last, and troop of
ancers are daily expected on the spot. Judging,
however, from the past abortive ATTEMPTS to sup
press the lawless movements, people are not very
sanguine in their expectations OF a restoration of
the supremac OF the law. Indeed, the Captain Rock
like proceedings IN Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen-
shire, seem, from all we can learn, to assume daily
a more threatening complexion. A correspondent
states that at first the war directed against the
oil gates only, but that the warehouses; are to
be levelled also, and that Rebecca is Of much
lDfiuence-sOme say country magistrate. AnO-
ther correspondent informs us that the individual
who personates Rebecca is frequently replaced by
another, and is not the same on the night of each
outrage. Ii Is not the least remarkable circumstance
IN this extraordinary movement, that when the
troops appear in one part of the country, Rebecca
invariably appears in another, perhaps fourteen
fifteen miles distant.
JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS
Lendon paper, In an article, showing the practical
blliy OF ship canal across the lshumus OF Panama,
at cost OF a million and half sterling, proceeds to
ask the question-Woud it pay? which it thus ans
wers Ten per cent interest on million and half
wonld mount to fl5O 600 per apnum. Add to this
t25 ,OOO tor annua expenses the cana -El75 600.
The saving to the merchants and ship owners Ut
Europe and America trading to the west coast of
America, to Australasia, Oceania, and Eastern Asia,
be gained on the voyage; diminishing to that extent
the wages OF mariners, the expense Of PROVISIONS the
interest on capital. The tear and of the ships
would be less; the expense of insurance would be
diminished All these advantages would be cheaply
purchased by canal dues of los per ton AT this rate
the passage of $4,000 tons of shipping along the
canal annually would yield the sum of fl75000.
RAILWAYS From the annual report of the Board
five months of 1910 there were % accidents, from
which there were % deaths, and upwards of l3l
eases of personal injury, while during the whole of
1871 there were ~ accidents, occasonine "a deaths,
and Il cases OF injury, land in 1912 only 10 accidents
with deaths, and IA cases of personal injury, and
this has been of above 600 900 persons carried
and of those killed only has occurred to pas
sengers riding in train and observing the common
depree of - The total number Df mas
gers carried on 30 railways tor one wear. ending July
1872 was Is 453 504 that is 1926, $50 first class,
1911 965 second class; 1881, so, third class,
and z, z, O57 OF class not distinguished.
DEATH OF DR. SouTHEY.-We regret to announce
The death of Robert Southey, on Tuesday, March
2D, al his residence in Keswick For this event his
friends must have been long prepared For the last
three years he had been In state OF mental dark
ness, and twelvemOnth ago he was not able to
recognise those who had been his companions from
his youth. Scarcely could his wife console herself
with the poor hope that he recognised even her.
Excess of mental labor in every department of lite
rature-poetry, history, biography, criticism, and
philosophy, continued from year TO year, without
cessatlon-bowed his strong spirit at last, and OBJ
scured the genius which had so long cast glory on
the literature OF the age. In early lite, when his
powerful and brilliant imagination was pumng its
wing Tor the d lring flights that il afterwards took,
he formed the most exalted notions OF the perecta
bllity of man, INDUCED in the most generous aspra-
tons for the welfare aid improvement of the hui
man race, and seriously thought, with other kindred
spirits, of founding colony in the back woods OF
America, where guilt and sorrow should be
ness should reign for ever better knowledge Of
the world soon dissipated these UtOpian reveries.
AS poet, with an exuberance of imagination sell
dom equalled, and mastery of versifcation never
surpassed-and as prose writer, at once elegant
and forcble-liis name will endure as long as the
language in which he wrote. The "wild and won.
drous tale" of " Thalaba,' and the almost equally
wondrous course of kehama' are the poetical
pieces on which his fame will principally rest. As
a prose writer he perfect model of stye-easy
but not feeble-sately but not cumbrous-and learn
ed but not pedantlc Besides innumerabe articles
in the Quarterly Reriep, TO which he was princi-
pal contributor we believe, for nearly thirty years,
his chief prose works are Life of Nelson, ""The
Book of the Church." &c A History Of the Peninsu-
Essays on the Progress and Prospects of Society"
"A History of Brazil, }" "Llves of the British Admit
rails" &c. He also wrote biographies of Kirk
White and Chatterton, and edited their works, be-
and minor English poets. He was appointed poet
laureate in 1872. He was twice marred-fiTst in
very early life, and again but few years before the
mournful overlooking OF his Intellect, to Miss
had been long and favorably known to the public,
and who in the last sad blank years of his lite
watched over him with the tenderest soicitude
and did all that the most devoted affection could do
to tighten the heavy load Of his existence.
DIR. Southey gentlemen in The best sense OF
the word. His house at the Lakes was ever open
to all who presented themselves with suitable intro
duction and there few persons Of any distinction
who passed through that picturesque region who
have not psrtaken of his hospitality
INSANITY Within the last twenty years the cases
OF the above dreadful malady have more than
irpled. The total number of lunatics and idiots in
England is as follows :-Lunatcs 6S06; idiots,
5,Sli together, IL SAT but, allowing tor defective
returns the number may be taken at 4OOC-an
average Of one to every thousand of the population
In Wales, lunatc. 1873 idiots 1853 total, 500 and
adding for parishes that have made returns, they
may be set down at a thousa nd proportion of one
to eight hundred Scotland has 653 insane per-
sons or one to about seven hundred. In Ireland
the number of lunatics and idiots exceeds 8 600 In
thousand male patients, insanity has been sup
posed by eminent authority to be traceabe rhe
following causes relatively drunkenness, 10;
consequences of disease, 100; epilepsy, rs; ambl-
ton, 10; excessive labor, 10; born idiots II mis-
fortunes, 60; old age, So; chagrn, 81; love, ~ sc-