American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-11-05

ooh! my wife, my witc!n and the ladies were
entertaining us with chorus of lamentations
and flood of tears; when, in the midst of the
confusion, and noise, and clamor, one of the
passengers, heavy, ted-faced Dutchman, came
into the cabin, crying at the top of his voice,
'Where's my umbrella! where's my UMBRELLA!
| can't go without mi umbrella!!."
Cincinnati, the Queen of the West, is now
in sight, and | am deceived, or she stands ex-
actly in the same identical spot as when | last
saw her some eight years ago. She has grown
somewhat larger and stouteI, but she is now, as
she was then, lovely and beautiful TO behold
With my best wishes,
ONE OF THE RINGGoLD COMMITTEE.
The DUEL BETWEEN PEYToN AND MAR
SHALL. The Washington correspondent of the
U, S. Gazette gives the following as the origin
of the duel, which was to have come off, at the
last accounts, between Col Baylie Peyton and
Brigadier Gen. Thomas Marshall:
| 1t appears that an entertainment was given,
or partaken of at Monterey, few days after
the siege, in honor Of the victory of the army,
and that Messs. Marshall and Peyton were pre-
sent.
1t also appears that General Marshall en-
braced the occasion to manifest his hostile feel
ings towards the COMMANDMENT Chief, by de-
nouncing the terms of captulation granted TO
Ampudia, and uttering some other harsh re-
marks. Col. Peyton felt incensed at these ami
madvelsions, and called upon Gen. Marshall
to know if he had understood him to make
some declarations, which he named. General
! Marshall replied in the affirmative, whereupon
Col. Peyton struck him, and called upon him
to select his friend, if he desired to resent the
insult,
A challenge followed, and the duel was to
take place on the 18th instant at Camargo. 1t
is stated that when the wounded Col. McClung
heard of the affair, he seat word TO Gen. M ar
shall, who is his cousin, that if, after getting
through with Peyton, he would wait until he
could get upon his legs himself another oppor-
nifty should be afforded him to atone for his a.
buse of General Taylor!
! NvAL-Si Sickness a Pensacola. We copy
the following naval intelligence from the New
Orleans Picayune:
By our private correspondence, we learn that
the U. S. frIgate Potomac, Capt. Aulick, went
to sea from Pensacola the afternoon of Friday,
the esd inst The Princeton towed her out
She had her full complement of men, and stores
for four months. Her destination is supposed
to be Tampico.
The U. S. sloop Of war Falmouth, Com'r,
jarvis, was to sail from Pensacola for Boston
on Sunday, the 25th inst. Size had taken on
board from the hospital five officers and about
thirty men, all on the sick list. There We're
still left in the hospital six or.seven officers and
about one hundred men sick.
The sloop of war John Adams and the
steamer Princeton were busy taking in their
stores at last accounts, and will soon be off for
) their station.
The fever which has prevailed at the Pensa
cola Yard, we are sorry TO say, has not subsd-
ed; new cases were occurring nearly every
hour. The utmost activity has prevailed at
this Yard since the commencement of the war.
) RUMoR FROM THE SOUTH. We find the fol-
ing exciting rumor in the Richmond Wing OF
yesterday, but as the New Orleans papers re-
: ceived last night make no mention of it we set
it down as entirely unfounded:
A rumor was prevalent in the city yesterday,
said TO have been brought by the morning cars
from the South, but in regard to which the last
New Orleans papers are silent, that the Ame-
+ rican and Mexican Armies, under Generals
Taylor and Santa Anna, were within thirty
miles of each other, and that an engagement
between them was daily expected. 1t is fur
ther added, that Genl Taylor received rein
forcement since the battle of Monterey, Of
1000 men If this rumor be true, we may ex-
pect, in q day or two, TO hear of another bloody,
perhaps decisive battle
CALIFORNIA RYE. They have been growing
in Georgia, plot of California rye, from seed
sent from that country, said to Surpass any
grain of that kind ever planted. One.eightf
of an acre in Tallefero county produced thirty
six bushels. The heads are immensely large
+ and so heavy that it is necessary to SOW the
seeds very thick. When the growth is thin
the stalks are Protracted by the weight of the
ears. When sown thick, they support each
other.
THE STEAMSHIP GREAT BRITAIN The con.
signee of the Great Britain, Mr.. Irwin, pub.
J fishes in the New York Advertiser card in
defence of Capt Hoskins, from the charge o
intemperanee made against him in the N. Y.
Observer. He says, after an intimate acquant-
ance with him of eight years, he never knew a
man more manifestly superior to the vicious
propensity referred to, or of whom il aIht be
more safely asserted that the charge in ques.
ton is utterly and in all its parts untrue.