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Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

Our thanks are due to Commodore Sloat and
Lieut.. w. G.. Pease for the following narrative
of disasters at Key West and the vicinity du-
ring the hurricane on the 18th inst. The des
truction effected by this calamitous visitation
is almost unprecedented. Key West has been
completely devastated, while a vast amount of
shipping has been wrecked and destroyed. All
the warehouses on the island were either blown
down or unroofed, and Of the six hundred houses
but six have escaped the effect of the tempest.
The current ran through the town at the rate of
SIR miles an hour, and was tive feet in DEPTH
The Lighthouses at Key West and San Kew are
all washed away, and not vestige is left to
mark the spot where they stood. Among the
shipping the havoc was frightful. The Bar
racks were but slightly injured, the chimneys
being blown off the roofs.
The U. S. Brig Perry, Lieut.. Blake com
handing, having on board Commodore Sloaf,
went ashore near Sombrero shoal, inside the
reef, with both masts gone, anchor, guns, &c.,
thrown overheard. She lay in ten feet water.
and might be got off All hands saved.
The revenue cutter Morris went ashore about
three miles from Key West, in two and half
feet water, with the loss of both masts, anchor,
chains, guns, boats, bulwarks, &c. She lay
one mile from the channel, and is probably a
total loss. No lives lost.
The pilot boat Lafayette was sunk, and all
on board lost; two ladies picked up by the cut
tel Norris The Spanish schooner Vila NJ
ero, for Neuvitas, ashore; vessel and tweE
lives lost, including woman and child; one
man being saved by the US. brig Perry. The
schooner Sarah Churchmam rode out the gale
on Bahama Banks, in company with ship .4deiine,
with fifty passengers on board, bound for New
Orleans.
Most oftbe vessels enpaped in wrecknu were
lost or sustained great injury. Only one wreck
er was left to continue business. The Eliza
Catharine was high and dry in garden at Key
hundred feet above high water mark Four or
FIVE vessels in the vicinity of Key West were
bottom I'D, and one upon the reef was known
to have been lost, with all hands. About 90
vessels were ashore on the reef, their cargoes
being of no value.
The Government will lose by the loss of the
brig Perry, revenue cutter Morris, two light
houses, Notifications, custom-house, and hos
pital not far from 100000. Many vessels will
doubtless get ashore from the fact of Sand Key
lighthouse being gone.
Dead bodies were occasionally being dug out
from under the ruins, and no one can tell how
many there are remaining. As far as has been
accertained fifty persons have lost their lives,
and it is singular that SO few are dead or injur-
cd, when we remember that the air was full of
boards, timber, slate, sc. and buildings falling
in every direction. Stone itself could not with
stand the gale, and every thing seemed to be
going to destruction Many persons escaped
in boats and held on to trees, expecting everv
moment to be washed away. The scene was
awful beyond all power of description.-.E o.
Bee.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

REFORM ON THE RARoAD.-Under the admin
istration of the "Boston Company" the pay of
ordinary labors is reduced to $l8 per month;
that of chief repairers $25. The laborers s'fnd
themselves" and work Sundays and nights
without allowance for extra timei The former
get fraction over fifty-six, and the latter over
eighty four cents per day! We believe this re-
duction is confined to laborers: the officials re-
ceiving much larger salaries than under the
State. This looks certainly like an unpropi-
tious commencement for the interests of the
State, but it is no more than we expected. The
great aim Of capitalists in this country is to build
up by wealth that which cannot exist by birth
or law, an aristocracy. To secure this they are
willing, while they grind labor to the dust, to
throw wealth into the laps of those whose du-
ties do not require them to soil their hands
The bounty of the principals secures the ale
glance of the subalterns, and this secures the
greatest amount of sweat from the brows of Ia
borers, for the smallest pittance. The whole
system is comprised in these words: owners,
overseers, slaves. We wait quietly for the
day when the people shall demand the Central
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

CosT OF THE WAR IN HUMAN LIFE.-A Wash
ington Correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot,
quotes the following from Volunteer in Mat
amoras:
s.From actual calculation, more than one thou
sc sand men have died on the Banks of the Rio
"Del Norte, to say nothing of the immense
s'numbers that have been discharged and sent
{" home in a lingering condition, many of whom
90 undoubtedly will never recover. The Alaba-
"ma regiment alone has lost one hundred men,
" which is one in ten and all this too, in about
"three weeks. | think these unfortunate men,
" should be held in as patriotic and kind remem-
"brance by their countrymen at home, as if
:" they had fallen in battle which would on ma
"ny accounts have been far preferable. =
/" Most of our Regiments are cut down from
" three to five hundred when all started with
I. more than nine hundred"
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

= C. Our Ann Arbor neighbors are boasting
of the number of their publications, there being
no less than eight different papers issued from
their presses. Their complexion is as follows
Wing one, Young Democracy one, Old ditto
one, Abolition one, Native American one, Phre-
biological one Universalist one, Social Reform
one. Very well, but will they all.be sustained
AS several of them depend on their distant cir
cuation, and the influence of particular organ
izations we think they may be sustained. So
gentlemen go ahead and make the issue of the
Ann Arbor Press equal in quality and quantity.
WlsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY.-For
Consumption of the Lungs, Affection of the
Liver, Asthma, Bronchitis, pains or weakness
of the Breast or Lungs, SC. This excellent
remedy, though but recently discovered, bids
fair to become one of the most popular medi-
cines before the public. Indeed, we have found
it in sertain constitutions, far superior to any
thing else; and it has cured, strange as it may
appear, In some obstinate cases, where it was
supposed consumption was firmly seated. Let
none despair till they have tried the almost mir
aculous virtues of this wonderful compound.
See advertisement.
For sale in Ypsilanti; by E. SAMSON.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

IowA.-In another column will be found some
better, giving the result in the State Legisla-
ture Senators and 20 Representatives certain.
with strong probability of 2 more Senators.
and additional Representatives. The Cover
nor elect, Mr.. Mcknight, is awhig. Mr.. He
drick, whig candidate for Congress is most pro-
badly elected.
The Legislature is already safe on joint bal
lot so that we are certain of wing United
States Senators. All Hail Iowa! The first
State to commence her career in the whig ranks
may she beunore fortunate than her sisters who
to the guidance of a sham Democracy.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

THE ELECTION IN NEW YoRK.-The returns
from the State of New-York are matter of
surprise to almost, if not quite every person in
either party. True a few rather sanguinely no
ped success than expected it; but such hopes,
when expressed, were universally received with
smile of incredulity. Yet there was nothing
in the conduct of Silas Wright as Governor of
New-York, that could give him any claim on
the suffrage of the citizens of that great State.
At his accession to power he found the Erie
canal, that great Artery Of the State IN the
process of enlargement; an operation which
hal been found necessary to meet the growing
wants of the country, and prevent the trade of
the mighty West from diverging into other chan
nels. True the State was thereby becoming
involved in debt; but had the original erection
not involved her, and had not the canal not on
ly paid that debt but supported numerous lateral
canals built, in some cases for the convenience
of sections of the country which but for that had
never engaged such advantages!
Yet Silas Wright, welded to his exploded
anti-canal opinions discarded all the teaching
of experience, stopped the work. left the money
already expended dead loss, and entered a
course directly calculated, if not designed, to
sacrifice the interests pf the State for the bene
fit of the eastern Rail Road Companies, and the
Welland Canal. Two short years has sufficed
to disclose the pernicious effects of his policy,
and he is sent into retirement by the most sig
nifcant vote, which We remember in that
State.
The truth is Slas Wright is not "per Sc" a
great man. He has been elevated to fancied
greatness by forcing process which his party
constantly employ, and the moment he is looked
upon with an unprejudiced eye he shrinks to
comparative littleness. None but such men
fall SO suddenly.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

Why HAVE WE NOT CARRIED THE STATE?-
Is it that Michigan is not affected by what af-
fects her sister States! Is it that the fragrant
violations of the Constitution, in the Annexa-
ton of Texas by the simple resolution of Con-
gress, and of Santa Fe, by the Proclamation of
a Military General; and of California by that
of Commodore; does not endanger the liber-
ties of Michigan as much as Pennsylvania
and New York! Is it that the money forced by
government from its legitimate purpose, to
maintain most needless and disgraceful war,
is net wanted to transact the business and pur-
chase the products of this Peninsula as much
as of any neighboring State? Is it that we
alone are determined to support dictatoral adj
ministration while all others spurn the degra-
dation! We believe not. We cannot allow
ourselves to think SO. We believe that we are
abundantly able to carry the State if we but will
it. There is an abundance of Wing force scat
tered individually throughout the State if it
could be concentrated and organized. Let us
be but united in one body, that touch at the
centre will thrill the extremties, land, vice versa,
and we shall not be again defeated. Let us
have the means of full and free intercourse, and
let the people fully understand the principles for
which we contend, and we may rest assured
that victory will continually rest on our ban
ners.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11
Arrival Of the BRITANNIA:
RISE IN FLOUR

The Captain of the fast sailing Propeller
Princeton, which came in yesterday affernoon.in-
forms us that the arrival of the steamer Brittania
was announced in Buffalo by Telegraph, a few
minutes before he left.
He was unable 10 obtain any news, except
that there had been another great rise in flour.
1t went up in Buffalo some SO cents or dollar
OH the barrel.
The Princeton left on Saturday evening"
.4duertiser.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

MrspEMEANoRs.-Peti larcenies have been
very frequent of late, among other cases bach
elor friend of ours, laments the loss of four or
FIVE valuable years and several "golden oppor-
tunities," supposed to have been carried away
by noted character called "Procrastination,"
generally rcputcd to bcthe thief OF time"
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11
WAsrED.-A buckle from Orion's belt "a

WASrED.-A buckle from Orion's belt "a
specimen of fur from the nap of the ''seyen sleep
ers,~-presumed to excel in durability;-the
pennies placed onthe eyes ofthe 'sburied ages;"
"a pebble from the ''shores of oblivion" The
stump of the candle with which Diogenes found
an honest man; provided he did not fail in the
search; 1.-THE bill; of the raven which croaked
the approach of Duncan;-an imitation of a
witticism which possesses the point and appli-
cation of the original.
NEW YoRK.-Reported returns from all but
nine counties gives Young the overwhelming
majority of 1904 votes. Mr.. Wrighfs major
ity in IA was 6454. The nine counties yet to
be heard from gave Mr.. Polk majority of BAIT.
Allowing Mr.. Wright the same majority now,
Mr.. Young will still distance him IL, 567; but
the great probability is that they will not do so
wells we may therefore farely assume Young's
majority to be $4,000. Of the members of
Congress the Wings re-elect their s old ones
and gain it is supposed, Is or IA new ones,
making 81 or az in "a, the whole number ofthe
New York delegation. The State Legislature
is still in Doubt.
The New Constitution run greatly behind in
the city, and no notice is taken of the vote on
it in the returns we have seen from the Coun-
try. We are fearful it is rejected.
0F"Have you any Sand bores herer' No
sir, We have snuf boxes, will you take one?'
'You don't keep drugs here do your No
sir, not when we can get rid Of them; this old
fashioned print has become drug in the mar
ket and we'll sell it at less than cost. Will you
take it!'
I he above is specimen of what may be
heard every day. If our traders should happen
to be lacking in a needed article they are sure
to have the "next thing to it,
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

Railroad on terms consistent with Justice and
Republican equality.
Since the above was in type the company
have been induced by the universal dissatisfac-
ton of the hands engaged on the road to grant
somewhat easier terms, though what they are
we are not precisely informed.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

o. We are indebted to the Hon. VIM.
Woodbridge for several valuable Congressional
Documents.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11
Democratic Pyramid.
TEXAS, (proba5ly,)
MICHIGAN,
NSAS.

g The following is the official result of
the Election in the County on the Senatorial
ticket, from each town except Lyndon and Shar-
on, whose returns had not arrived when our in
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

Qua ELECTEoN.-As yesterday was the day
appointed bylaw for the General Canvass of
the State we refrain from encumbering our col
umns with reported majorities. The general
result is encouraging, and the only regret felt
is that sufficient effort was not made to snatch
the victory from the wavering hand of fortune.
Senators and 16 Representatives are known
to be elected and the chances are favorable for
more. We shall present good front in the
Legislature, and we doubt not that one more
year will complete, for us victory as endear-
ing as 1t win have been hardly won. ''Once
more to the breach dear friends"
GFOur readers will please motive the adver-
tisement of Messrs Movius & Thielsen in an
other column. Their assortment of hardware,
especially iron, is more extensive than has ever
heretofore been brought into this place.
CosT OF THE WAR.-The intelligent Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot,
discourses as follows, relative to the cost of Mr..
Folks Mexican war;
at is time for the farmers, and mechanics,
and all Others to look at the cost of this war with
Mexlco-at its cost in hard cash, to say nothing
of the thousand lives lost by sickness. and the
thousand lost in battle, in consequence of it,
Congress, at its late session, appropriated fifty
one millions of dollars. The money is all ex-
pended, and the expenses of the war are not
half paid. Close the war now-but it looks as
if it had only just begun-and the sum of one
hundred and fifty millions Of dollars would not
more than cover all its expenses, according to
those who are best in calculating these mat
tiers.
Just think of it-one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars, under Mr.. Folks administration,
when,i i'm other hands, Peace and California might
have been obtained, as all believe, for less sum
than ten millions!
One hundred end fifty millions Of silrer dol
lars! Why the sum ,coutd Toad one thousand four
hundred SIR horse ioagons, and the train OF
teams, drawing this amount of cash, expended
by an economical Democratic administration"
in its war with Mexico, would be more than
t,venty one miles long!
10. ~
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11

But this favoriteism not only takes money
from the people to bestow on individuals, but it
invests those individuals with extraordinary
powers, rights and privileges equivalent to enor-
nous wealth, to the exclusion of all others, thus
creating in the strictest sense of the term,
monopoly. 1t requires no ready capital, in the
possession of the privileged persons, to place
themselves in the enjoyment of these powers
when once granted. Take the mere untouched
route Of the Central Railroad for example: Sup
pose the capital needed to create the work be
$4,000, 900; and the importance of the route be
So great as to render it probable that, it will
yield revenue equal to the legal rate of inter-
est on $8,000,000. The Legislation which
would grant any body the exclusive privilege of
building this work, would make that body
worth @3,O00,0oO the moment the Governors
signature was put to the act. Is such Legis-
ation consistent with Republicanisma Will
the act of Legislature of this year, utterly re-
pugnant to liberty and equality be permitted to
remain in force ten years hcncel Should the
progress oeri.icalism be as gr at as for t. years
past! The day is approaching when such de-
gree of penetration will pervade the masses,
that partiality and monopoly will be detected
in its most sublimated forms; in vain then, will
be all appeals to the plighted faith of States,
and the sacred character OF past Legislation
The people will see that instead of having con-
sented to what they find existing, they were
mislead and deceived; case which surely can
not impose obligation.
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-11-11
A Citizen of South Carolina.

GERMANY.-Emigration, in consequence of
increasing misery, is augmenting in a truly
frightful proportion. A motion of member of
the Chamber of Representatives of Mannheim,
f"r the purpose of calling the attention of the
during the first quarter of the present year the
number ofemigrants rose to $4,000; 5000 more
than during the whole of last year. This is a.
ve.hundreth part of the population of all Ger
many.
More have been ruined by their servants than
by their masters.
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the following editorial the most striking passages Of
which We italieze;
"LsrrsR or Ma Borfs.-This gendeman's high
reputation as man Of talents, and the commanding
Interest Of The subject will naturally seeute Ter his
letter this morning earnest and emphatic attention.
Much as we admired has abilities before, II has
greatly exalted our estimate Of the cleaTness ana
powerful yig0f of his understanding. We do moi
hesitate 10 express the opinion, 10 which We feel
Confident the Tranquil judgnisnt Of Tie county, WI
concur with US, that he has brought light out cfdaTk'
ness and that The nsgolaiors hsgsxl,ss ,ciH adaasi
that he has supplied links in the chain Of arguments
which they had o,nihsdio furnish. Senators Archer
and Mangum, we think, 'siH perceive that they vsrs
Too preeiptafs
''Ths is no party but great and momentous
national quesiisnj and do respectfully hope that
all party prsjudles win be laid aside for The moment,
and that all men of all pariies will consent 10 read
this letter in candid frame Of mind
"We call the attention of the sohig press to II.
The country required such paper 10 strip the subject
qt'nysiffaiion and to bring II within the grasp OF
plain citize1s"
To us, the above seems like first, rate Specimen
of genuine sarcasm. Unless we are much mistaken,
the Wing, in railroad discussion with the ex-
member of Congress, undertook TO rebuke his
"impsiuosiiy." Now, Il speaks Of the impartial
views Of the same gentleman-so well calculated to
convince the tranquil judgment Of the country"
With one more remark, we conclude these de-
suory reflections. II this is ''no party question:
why does the Wing specially call the attention OF
the whs press TO IN
"The country required stich a paper and such
comments, TO demonstrate the fallaey Of Solomon's
language, "there is nothing new under the sun"
We doubt whether the light, now for the fret time
shed upon this subject, though the minds of Clay,
Webster, and Adams had been brought TO bear upon
It, will appear to the nation as brilliant as the Wing
proclams IT.
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BARREN MOVEMENTS IN OREGos.--The following
paragraph is from the Sangamo (Ill.) Journal, pub.
lished at Springfield, of the 18th instant;
sour letters from Oregon state that the clerks
Of the English establishments at Fort Hall and Fort
Boise--two positions the point where tho roads
TO California and Oregon separate after passing over
the Rocky observation-disclosures the American en-.
igrants reach these establishments represent u them
that the road to Oregon is impassabe; that II is be-
set with Indians; that the country is niserabiy poor
but that California is everything that man can DE-
sre in climate in roads, in fertility, in health &C.
These clerks are employed to perform this business
by the Hudson Bay Company. That company are
apprehensve that the crowding emigrants will soon
pass over to the north Of the Columbe, and viii be
in such force as not to be controlled by the com.
pany. Their representations in regard to the roads,
&c. in Oregon are known TO be untrue; but they
succeeded in inducing some fifty wagons and their
occupants TO go TO California; for which the clerks
were undoubtedly well poid We want a fort and
troops near these British establishments in the noun
tains." A 47F
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BIZ Il, Green, Auctioaeer.

T Aw BOOKS, LAW BOOKS, LAW BOOKS
II at auetion.--On Monday evening, January 5lh
1885, shall sell, without reserve, at the sales room
OF w, M. Morrison, second door from A stree
west and Pennsylvania avenue, large and yaluabl,
law library, belonging 10 the estate Of dcceaseC
member OF the bar, among which will be found:
Vesey jr,'s Reports, lately published, 20 volumes
Summers edition
Phillips on Evidence, volumes, last edition
peterss Digest, q volumes
Peterss Condensed Reports, volumes
Durnford n East's Reports, volumes folio
Pere Williams's Reports, volumes folio
Viner's Abrdgment, 20 volumes octave
Stephenb Nisi Prius, q volumes octave.
Kents Commentary, 4volumes octave
Sale to commence at o'clock, P. N, ..
A. GREEN,
Jan. l-3tTSM Auetioneer.
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Corner Of Pennsylvania Avenue and Third 81,

Corner Of Pennsyipania .apenue aud Third Street.
Washington, d. c.. gs
TIME subscriber having opened the house recent
Il ly erected within one square of the railroad de-
pot, is prepared TO receive his friends and the public
generally. The house is admirably calculated for
the convenience of guests the furniture suited to the
rooms, and the proprietor, determined to offer a
comfortable home 10 those who may favor him with
their company, respectfully solicits share of public
patronage. gn
WILLIAM GADSBY. i
WASHINGTON, D, G, Sept, ls45.
p. S.-W. G. takes this opportunity OF remind
ing his friends and the public generally that GAPS
mrs New HorEL is two squares nearer the Capitol
than his former house. and that he is entirely dis
connected with any other house or person.
WAspMeroN, d. O., Oct, 1545
Board 81 so per day; $40 per week.
Charleston Mercury and New Orleans Picayune
will insert the above one month, inner form, and
send their newspapers TO the subscriber.
Dec 31--eoif2m r.. 81.