The New York herald., 1845-08-14
VIEWS AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE
MONSTER STEAMER.


The Weekly Herald Of next Saturday will contai
among other interesting NATTER full description
the steam ship Great Britain, with several beautfu
engravlngs Of the monster under sail and steam.-
These illustrations give an excellent idea OF ht
splendor and magnitude of this great ocean steamer
Our Relations with MexIco-The Prospect n
little stormy.
The prospect of a breese with Mexico really be-
comes encouraging. All the Washington Cores
pondents of the various newspapers throughout the
country have been communicating variety OF ru-
mors and intelligence relative to the movements OF
the United States troops. The military forces sta
TONED at Baltimore, Washington, and Fort Hamil-
ton. have been ordered TO follow Colonel Kearney's
command and every preparation appears to be
made bv our government for maintaining the claims
OF Texas, in the adjustment of her boundary line.
A great deal of speculation is thus afoat and all
sorts of alarming surmlses are INDUCED in by the
timld and weak.
Il appears that the Secretary of War, Mr.. Marcy,
has Just written to the Hon. B. T Archer, now in
this city, for the purpose of obtaining accurate geo.
graphical information relative the best disposition
of the troops. We have learned that the troops
have gone one hundred and fifty miles in the wrong
direction. MIR. Archer will be able to supply every
information, and his aovice-as our intelligent
readers will readily believe, after the opportunity
afforded them of Judging in his letters published in
this journa-must, indeed, be of value in this emer
gency.
Mexico is determined to contend for the Nueces
as the boundary line. They will not, we have eve
ry to believe, consent to give up the left bank
of the Rio Grande. 1t will be recolected
with what pertinacity the Mexican government In
sisted on the NHeces the boundary, when the
Texans were negotiating for recognition of their
independence. The probability is now, of course,
that Mexico will take the ground, and endeav-
or, on that claim, to attract the sympathy of En-
ropean powers. After all, however, we think the
main difficulty which our troops will be called on to
encounter, will be the Indians Very probably we
will have another Seminole war; requiring expen-
dlture OF twenty or thirty millions This, we need
hardly say, would be glorious thing for Texas =
Florida was miserable, poor, beggarly territory,
ready TO beg, or stea to get into tn Union, before
the war. Alter the war against the Indians had dis
trlbuted some thirty or forty millions within her bor
ders, it became ssucy, and now one of the most
independent States III the contederacy-alks of null
LITIGATION, and IN the very fret days oits adolescence,
gets too big for its breeches Many, we doubt not,
will try get up in Texas to procure this ex-
pendiure.
The duty OF the United States In this matter, is
clear. We must insist upon the Texan claims to
the Rio Grande as the boundary. And 1t is TO be
borne in mind that the troops stationed In
Texas composed of very different materials from
the armies of the revolution. II Mexico dares
to carry out her silly threats, warlike
feeling will be at once excited, which will
never be extingHshed until she is made to bite the
dust. A result similar TO that which followed the
massacre at the Alamo, but on grander and more
overwhelming scale, will follow the first blow
struck by Mexico. That massacre was followed by
the battle Of San Jacinto. And no doubt any ac-
tually hostile movement on the part Of Mexico, will
awaken a terrible feeling of vindicuveness and re-
venge, in the Southern and Western States which
will crush Mexico at and for ever. The wal
would be carried to the very gates of Mexico, and
our conquering eagles be planted on her walls.
The present effect of all these movements al
Washington in relation to Mexico, begins TO be
seen in the undisguised alarm of timid capitalists
But this ought not to be. There is no danger TO be
apprehended from England and France. We pos
sess power over both, that compels them, In the
present circumstances OF the commercial world, to
be on their good behaviour They are held In tire.
mendously influential bonds to keep the peace. In
the article of cotton alone, to say nothing OF our
other commercial commodities, we possess check
on Great Britain which she cannot overcome and
which will regulate her conduct not only on this
Texas affair, but on the Oregon question itself ITh.
commerce OF the United States, by judcious appli-
cation Of the principles OF Jefferson, with respect
the commercial intercourse Of the two countries
could create revolution in the very heart of Eng
land, which, in less than six months would over
turn its government and introduce an entirely new
order OF things in that empire. Let the factories
England be stopped-let all their operatives, to th
amount of millions, smartlng for years under th
sense of deep and iniquitous wrong, and then wha
would become of their fifty or sixty thousand mer
cenary soldiers?
There is no danger Of any difficulty with Englan
or France, growing out of this Mexican question:
But Mexico is, we think, rapidly proceeding to ano
ther and better era in her history.
The MAGNETIC TELEeRApH-We understand
that the magnetic telegraph between this city an,
Philadelphia, will be ready for action in about sixt
days before the opening of the next session of Con
gress. The line selected for the erection of posts
on which to suspend the wires, crosses the Hudso
river to Jersey City and then runs by the Morr
canal for certain distance when it takes the rou,
OF the Sommerville railroad, and from thence to tn
Delaware river, which it crosses at New Hope. an
thence the other side directly to Philadelphia
The other portion of the route in other parts of III
country is in considerable state of forwardness
but it is possible, we have intimated that the lin
between New York and Washington can be con
pleted before the meeting Of Congress, and that tt
Presidents Message may be telegraphed to this Gil
simultaneously with its being read at the Capitol
STRANGERS IN THE ClrY.--A number of dstir
guished strangers and politicians Of all description
are now in this city, in such numbers as lead to tn
belief that some important events In finance an