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Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

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Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

Henry w. KRrNo, Esq, Of Howard county
has been elected by the Legislature director
of the branch bank at Fayette, in the place o
John D. Locke, Esq, resigned. Mr.. K. is
Wing, but very competent man, and we be
lieve his election will be acceptable 10 all per
sons transac,ng business with the bank. We
presume the Times will now preach sermon
from its favor;te text-"To the victors belong thu
spoils. Metropolitan.
Brother Boon wishes to convey the ide;
that the Legislature has for once departed
from ancien, usuages and given TO Whis
a portion of the Democratic spoils. Now
we should like to know what profit is at
tached to Bank Directorl We are not a
all surprised that the Legislature has Sc
lected a whig-as it is an Office for which
no remuneration is given for services rem
dered; in a word, it is responsible anc
thankless Office, and the Legislature i,
electing Mr.. Kring, has not in the leas
departed from the Loco Foco doctrine
ITO the victors belong the spoils," for ha,
there been any profit attached TO it, Mr.. X
would never have been elected
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

0PTHE LADy's Book for the current
month has been received-and a splendid
number it is! being well filled with reada.
BILE articles, and embellshed with two beau.
tiful Mezzotints--one of them Nationa
Pic,ure-the other, the first Mezzotnt fash
ion plate ever executed in this country
also, the portrait of Mrs. Elet, one o.
Americas favorite wri,ers--Model Gotta
ges, Knitting, &c. This Book contains ;
greater number of pages of reading mat
ter and more illustrations, than any simia
work.
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

We have received "Memorial to Con-
gress, in relation to railroad from Han
nibal to St. Joseph, and the improvement
of the navigation of the Usage and Grand
rivers" recently introduced into the Senate
by Mr.. ROLLINS, of Boone. The Memo
rial sets forth the Importance of the above
improvements, both National and State in
a clear and forcible light, and asks Con-
gress to donate alternate sections of land
to assist in carrying them out. The sub
ject of Internal Improvements has been
too long neglected by our State, and we
are glad to see the public mind is beginning
to be agitated in reference thereto. We
shall publish the Memorial as soon as the
crowded state of our columns will admit.
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

Messrs. Benson & EEN:-Regardng the
Railroad mania, think it not Inappropriate,
with view Of opening the case, to assure all
those inclined to the belief, that a rail road from
St. Joseph, or any other point upon the north
side OF the Missouri river. to Hannibal, or any
other point upon the west side OF the Mississippi
river, above St. Louis, would be adapted to the
speedy and uninterrupted transportation Of goods,
wares and merchandise, &C., to and from the
south and east, that they are utterly and unequiv.
ocaly out of the channel.
During the months OF September, October,
November, December January and February,
all New Orleans and Ohio river boats, bound up,
above the burden of 800 to 400 tons, (actual
measurement are compelled, either on account
OF low water or ice, to discharge their cargoes,
or larger part OF them, (when under six hun.
bred tons) at the mouth Of the Ohio, upon boats
(either flying light or with little freight reach
St. Louis. Occasionally, these boats need re-
pair or re.ftting and in these cases, when the
Ohio is low or icebound, so that such boats
cannot work up to Paducha or Smihland (to
repair, reft or dock, as the case may be) they
discharge all their cargoes and return to New
Orleans
Again, when these circumstances occur, freight,
destined for the upper Mississippi and Missouri
rivers must be twice re.shipped, thus greatly
enhancing the expense of freight and insurance
&c., setting aside the consideration OF damage
(undef 10 per cent? which may accrue to many
kinds Of produce and merchandise so transported
Another consideration. and none the less i'm
porant, is the fact, (aohich erery riser ma,
knoaos) that, during large portion of the pas
twenty five winters, the river above St. Louis
and between that city and the mouth OF thu
+ Missouri, has been so completely blocked tina
, nothing in the shape OF boat, could shove oil
| from St. Louis or Hannibal, with any reasonable
) expectation Of reaching either port, from tn
; other. And it is equally as we'll known to al
: such men fused to the river, either boatmen O
E often ,travelers) that the Mississippi is al,oay
open to The mouth of the Ohio, and that the pric
e Of freight engaged to be delivered atS;. Loui
or Hannibal, during the months first named, ha
always been nearly double that on freight to b.
. delivered at the mouth OF the Ohio.
! In view then Of these considerations, il Ger
|. tainly must be manifest, 10 every rejecting man
:, who is aware OF these iacts--lhat the only lin
Of rail road proper to be taken into consideration
" by the proposed meeting, son the first Monde
v in April nezt," must extend on the south sid
} OF the Missouri river, from ST. Joseph. or som
h other upper point, to "Ohio," opposite the mout
d of The Ohio river on the Dest bank of,the Mi.
a sisSiPpt rtper. 5000 ftr..f-s DART
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13
ID. MEAD, l4l Nassau ST.,
New York CITY, N. Y.

If the editor of the democrat" had con.
suited his Prophet or even his neighbors,
before he penned that chaste article about
our Jefferson correspondent, he might have
learned that the "ex,member Of the Leg
islature," was at home, ard not at the Su-
preme Court, when that article was writ
ten-as its date shows. "How this world
is given to"-mistakeS. H. .rt a'f %
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

nPLrEur. GENERAL.-We shall next
publish Col. Benton's speech. in defence OF
the administration, on the subject of the
amendment Of a Lieutenont General, &c
command the armies now in Mexico.
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

PoLK.ing SPEED.-The READING (Pa.)
papers of December 9Th were duly received
here on the 9Th inst--pnly two months
out .......l
Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

Newton, Wing, has been elected to Con-
gress, from Arkansas, and on the 29th ult.,
arrived at Louisville on his way to Wash
ington.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
LATEST FROM THE RIVER OF PLATE.

Accounts from Montevideo to the 9th July con-
firm the reports which we have previously received
respecting the failure of the English and French
Ministers to effect with General RosAs settlement
of the difficulties in the River Plate. 1t appears
that all other points having been arranged the
gotation stuck on the river question. The Minis
tiers OF France and England recognised the sove-
reignty of the Argentine Confederation over the
River Parana, and that Of the Oriental Republic
over the Uruguay, il re-established by inter-
national right. Governor RosAs did not admit this
restriction, but required that the perpetual sove-
reignty of the two Republics over these rivers
should be acknowledged; and for this the Plenipo-
tentiarles had no authority.
The Plenipotentiaries afterwards made an effort
to continue the armistice for six months, the re-
suits OF which are thus stated on the authority of
the Journal OF Commerce of Rio Janeiro:
"Lord HowDES, his arrival at Monevideo from Buenos
Ayres Immediately proposed to the Oriental Government and
to Gen orbc continuance of the amistce for six months,
the French Minister also taking part in the negotiation but
with reluctance. The Oriental Government Immediately
ceped the proposition, while Gen. Obe required two dayto
reply AT the expiration of this period the secretaries of the
Ministers visited the camp Of the besege but Onbe wanted
two days When this second period had EXPIRED the
secretaries again visited the encampmen but again dis
appointed, the besegng General asking further delay.
'Twce the secretaries of the medatng legations had
paired the headquarters of Gen. Obe in vain The French
Minister thought he ought not to send his secretary third
me but Lord Howden, forbearing than his colleague
again sent his agent and this time he returned with denitye
reply. Gen. Onbe accepted the armistce condition that
the blockade of all the Argentine and Oriental ports should be
raised and the besegers be obliged sell the town fifteen
hundred head of cattle per month. These conditions not
being accepted either by the Oriental Government or the
French Minister the negotiation broken off.
In this state of things there thousand conectures
at Montevdeo to the Interior of the intervening
Minister'S when the evening of the 5th was positively
Known that Lord HowDEN had just given orders to the com
mande Of the English naval forces suspend on his part
the blockade of the Argentine and Oriental ports but that
the French Minister the contrary, dissenting from his COL
league will direct Admiral Predour renew the blockade ef
fcienty. 1t seems evident, therefore, that England with
draws from the question of the River Plate and that France
takes the affair into her hands"
The blockade was still enforced by the French
on the 10th July, and it reported that the Eng
lish and French Ministers were about to depart for
Rio de Janero, there to await further Instructions
from their Governments.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
NORTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS.

FROM THE WILMINGTON CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY.
RETURN o OFFIcERs.-Captains William j. Price and
George williamson Jr, and Lieut. Tatum all of the North
Carolina Volunteer Regiment, arrived here Thursday last
from General Tayors camp, having left there the Goth
July. They have come in on the recruiting service
We learn from Capt. Price that when he left it Gen
Tayors design towards San Luis Poos some time
between the s and 18th Sepember but at the Brasos Capt
P. met with officer bearing dispatches for the General
which, ii suspected would change his plans although
their exact purport could not Of course be known.
We had a conversation yesterday with Mr.. ]. b. Melvin
of Bladen county, of the North Carolina volunteers be-
longing Company |, Captain Kirkpatrick, who was dis
charged on account Of sickness Mr.. Melvin left Salo on
the 9TH August, and Monterey the 10th. He informed
that the time he left about hundred and fifty of the
regiment had died, and about the number were then
sick Three and four had died each day for the week prev
Gus to his leaving AT the parade the last Saturday
July only about $50 appeared fit for duty, exclusive Of
forty five or fifty guard From twenty-five thirty
discharged at the time Mr.. Melvin was and for the
cause Lieut. Beatty, accompany has resigned and
is coming home.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
ARMY MEDICAL BOARD.

A Board of Army Surgeons for the examination
of applicants for appointment TO the Medical Staff
of the Regular Army will convene in the city of
New York on the eth of October ensuing, and
will probably continue in session for three or four
weeks.
Applications must be addressed to the Secretary
of War; must state the age and residence Of the APP
plicant, and must be accompanied by respectable
testimonials (mere references are not sufficiently of
his possessing the moral and physical qualifications
requisite for filling credtably the responsible sta
ton, and for performing ably the arduous and active
duties of an Officer of the Medical Staff
SURGEON GESERAIs OFFICE, SEPT. 10, ls47
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
THE PRESENT ASPECT OF NEW ORLEANS

The funereal aspect of New Orleans, in the pre-
sence of the fearful epidemic now raging in that
city, is thus graphically described in the Bulletin
BUSINESS New ORLEANs.-The usual inactivity of this
of the year is of always increased by the
of the yellow fever but for ourselves have never
experienced equal dunes and deseron Of the city to that
which exists at present.
We yesterday particularly struck the appearance of
of our thoroughares, when, looking up the
river for distance of three squares dray nor wheel
carriage of any kind visible, and but solitary individual
where in ordinary times have the activity of business
and the throng of population.
With but few exceptions, streets during the week pre-
sent the quiet appearance of the Sabbath.
The levee is deserted by ships steamboats, and animal life
and the MONDAY pours down its burning rays upon life
less tranquility. All vsers and business strangers whose
and occupations would allow them to do So have left
the city and large portion of citizens have followed
their example, either in the annual crowds that visit the North
the neghborng watering places which latter all
flowing leaving the city almost desert. As business in
the way of sales, purchases negotiations collections it
literally suspended Nothng is doing, and nobody to do
it with Even the municipal authorities scarcely make
sufficient collections TO meet the ordinary current public ex
penses.
stranger visiting New Orleans now and in December
next would find difficult to realize it the city,
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
VOLUNTEERING.

The military spirit to be active in KEN
Only short time has elapsed since the requison
the Governor of that State for regiments of
unteers received by that officer and yet hear Of five
companies having been reported to him for acceptance
Thursday last from Fayette county, two from Frank
lin and one from Owen. Six seven companies in
course of organization in Louisville.
On the other hand observe that Governor BRowS, of
Mississippi has found it necessary to issue proclamation to
the people of that State informing them that the 23d Ill
timo the appointed Tor completing the five companies to
form battalion of volunteer ra-men time ago called
for by the President Of the United States only company
had been reported and urging the different military divisions
Of the furnish their respective quotas speedily
possible delaying beyond the 25h Of the present month.
The Governor thinks that the delay furnishing these troops
from his State is attributable idea the part of the
pie that to a single battalion light matter that no
effort was necessary. He hopes that active excrtions will
now be made TO fulfil the requstion.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
ARRIVAL OF A SANDMAN CORVETTE.

The Sandman corvette 4ur0ra, commanded by
the Marquis HIpoLTTo SPINoLA, arrived at New Y ork
on Tuesday, from Genoa. She is school-ship of
500 tons, carrying guns, lis men, % naval scho-
lars, who rank as midshipmen, and officers The
object OF the voyage IS quite interesting:
cat Genoa there is Naval School, or Marine College,
which said be the best regulated in the world There
twenty young men in it who distinguished either
for the nobility OF their family the military service their fathers
have rendered the State, for their talents The Ma
College stands commanding position in the city o.
Genoa, overlooking the and the enchanting bay, and
every facility provided the Government the education
of the scholars They educated for the and the
world. ulgged man-owar stands in the courtyard of
the college, where the young Sigorint make their first
essays seamanshp without being subjected to the nconve
nence of salt water for the ship stands hundred feet
above the After the annual examination year the
scholars 10 FIVE months for the double purpose of
learning practical seamanshp and navigation and visit for
eign countries"
These particulars gathered from letter writ
ten by G. EDWARDS LESTER, late U. s. Consul at
Genoa who adds
Every year the Marine College is transferred the sea
for Of five MONTHS in which there immense advan-
tages These young men in short jackets already
plished gentlemen and sailors They have many
tries and they speak several languages Last year, under
the able commander the Marquis Spnola they made
voyage to England and sailed around the British islands, visit
ing all the naval ports arsena and magazines of that great
naval Power The previous year they visited Greece Tu
key the Black Sea- and the shores and cities of the Meter
These voyages made too, in the beautiful
of the year, and in the spring time Of life when the
most permanent and the most powerful impressions
excited and when the mind and the character yield
with grace and fexiblity to every passing object.
There is something peculiarly interesting in the departure
Of these young Italians from the place Of Co.
umbus for the distant land that discovered In
their veins flow the blood that coursed through
the heart of that immortal heo they have been born under
the shadows Of the bold mountains and in youth looked
off the blue sea- and each has the last night dream
ed Of that far-o land the Deep with its hearts and
bright eyes, They have right expect cheerful and fra
ternal welcome; can doubt they viii receive it. Their
absence limited to five months and they will stay but short
time among citizens. Many of our officers particularly Of
Commojores Morgan, Norris and Smiths hees will long
member the warm hearty and open, cheerful homes of &C.
The hosptabe and princey entertainments of the Gov
of Genoa the magnificent wines of the casino the city,
the elegant soees of the Marquis de Negro the enchanting
strains Of Carlo Fece, will always recall bright days the
memories of gallant officers who had the good fortune
sail under those well known commanders"
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11
FROM BALTIMORE and THE NORTH.


BALTIMORE, OEPTEmBER I'D Il. M.
The failure of the house in New York of Prime Ward &
Co has created excitement here to-day, though far
as can learn, their liabilities here few, and in no case
VIII De seriously felt by either bankers merchants of
Baltimore.
The news from Mexico shadowing the hope of peace and
ne success OF our gladly received Flags have
been hying from various public buildings daring the day
consequence of the favorable intelligence
me hour market remains dull and without change Sales
to-day Of about 800 barrels Howard street at S. 25 and 300
barrels City Mills at s5.l2i-mostly held at s5.25 The
inspections OF the week amount l3 oar barrelsrather
falling off.
Wheat IS dull, with sales of red at slOO 81 o. and
white do. Sl.05 Sl.Os strictly prime white do slI5.
About $4,000 bushels wheat have been sold during the
week It is now rather the decline. Sales Of white and
yellow corn at 50 a 60 oats IS 80 rye TO-
There no change to notice in provisions Beef cattle
s262 per 100 lbs gross average and hogs $3.50 81;
whskey &c! "a 7!.
There Is special change notice in tobacco except that
wrappery had slightly declined. The receipts of Ohio are
mostly common. The inspections Of the week amount TO
2,o5l hhds., viz l,476 Maryland 573 Ohio, and vir-
gnia Prices range follows Maryland So to for inferior
and commons 50 7.50 for good common; SIS for good;
50 20 for fine and better qualities Ohio 50. %
50 good common S2.75 3 reds 81 10 fine wrap
perry red SIS 20; spangled 81 10; yellow 50 IS.
Timothy hay $50 per wool 26 TO 40 cents for washed
common and fine.
Government securities frmer to-day but no sales
waiting to ascertain the effect Of the news from Mexico
Sales Of $1,000 Maryland IS, IS; $4,000 City 6's I0l
$500 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bonds 81 United States
6s closed lo44 bid LOG asked Treasury 6s 1903 bid Io5
asked.
The Telegraph between Baltimore and Philadelphia be-
dsaranged by the storm yesterday aenoon and has
not been working since. therefore without my usual
dispatches.
The important fromMexico and the of war; sent
here by telegraph yesterday from the South, unfortunately
further than Baltimore until taken by the re-
gua mail and probably reached Philadelphia this morning
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-09-11

A gentleman whohas just arrived in this city from
the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, informs us
that himself and number of other gentlemen were
IN Mr.. CLAWS room few minutes after he had
heard of the death of the lamented Governor
Wright. Mr.. Clay was deeply affected, and paid
touchingly beautiful impromptu tribute to the
honored dead, by alludng to his generous nature,
incorporating integrity, accomplished powers in
debate, and his eminent public services. Though
politically opposed these distinguished statesmen,
in their frequent and unrvaled discussions of great
national questions in the Senate of the United
States, ever maintained towards each other the
highest respect and the warmest feelings of attach
ment. Honorable alike to the living and the dead
is the incident here related, and we have pleasure
in giving it to our readers