Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-02-09

fy all tastes. The President keeps open house
one evening every other week, and all are nv-
ted. There is music, dancing, and, very prop
erly, no expensive entertainment. There are
smaller parties often, and in turn the Execu-
tive invites all of the Judges, Senators, and Re-
personalities to dine with him. All, however,
do not go. and the excuses for non attendance
relieve the Executive of one-half of his invita-
tons.
Ex-President Adams and family receive then
friends every Saturday evening. Large num-
bers 60 without invitation, and are most agre-
ably entertained nteiectualy, and without
trouble and expense. The expensive suppers,
which are usually the attraction of great par
ties, are dispensed with, much to the gratifica-
ton of those who would avoid that terrible next
day, incident TO nights dissipation.
met Mr.. Clay at party given TO the judi
ges, Senators, and Representatives, but main
ly to himself, last evening. He was the charm
of the social circle, as he always is, and with
seventy years, won the hearts OF all the young
and beautiful, when half his present years
were upon him.
Among the guests wasBrig. Gen. Kearney
with whom you will see Col. Benton again lin
his defence of Col. Fremont) labors to provoke
| a quarrel The Senator from Missouri, who
often forgets himself as man, and his position
officer, one of the bravest and best in the Army,
was guilty, not only of an untruth, but that he
had deliberately sworn to such.
Mdshipman Rogers was also among the
guests, and gave me an interesting account of
his adventures. He spoke of the Mexican wo-
men in that spirit Of kindness due to their gen.
erosity. They were as mothers and sisters to
him in his greatest adversely. If the Mexcan
men are devils. the women have the kindness
of angels, and learn the highest of christian pre-
cepts. "to love their enemies" While admin
isteriug all these personal kindnesses to the
distressed, they bear an Incorporating hos
tility to us as nation, and ever will, so long
as We occupy their soil.
An agent of the Yucatapese is in the city, |
learn, ready to sell and aunex Yucatan to the
United States for an equivalent. His govern
ment has hardly authorised him to do this
Wash. Cor. Pitts. Gdz.
Whaling Ertraordinary-Gr excitement
was created at the Sandwich Islands, says the
Boston Journal, by the report that several wha-
lers had been captured on the coast of Calafor-
MIA by privateers. The report was brought by
Capt. Fisher of the California, who spoke on
the line, the America, Nash of Stonington.-
The latter reported that he put into Margarita
Bay, Lower California, few weeks before, to
whale. Upon nearing the place, he found
whales in abundance, and saw over a projecting
point of land, the masts of eight whaeships. but
no smoke from boiling and no boats in chase Of
the whales i'll sight. Soon after, two schoon-
ers stood out from shore, with sweeps towards
him. Alarmed at their appearance, be called
in his boats, which were in pursuit of whales
and stood off. The denoument of this story is
thus stated in the Polynesian, of April Sd.
BY late arrivals, it would seem that the cap
tured slavers in Margarita Bay, Lower Califor.
!, MIA, were actually hard at work in the mines
though altogether on their own hook. The
crews of the ships Hbernia and Brookline, both
of New London, having discovered ashore vein
of something that glittered like gold, they for
sock the harpoon, took to the pickaxe, and toll
away most manfully in pursuit of the wealth
: which their maginatIons depicted as lying each
moment but few shovels full deep in the
earth. After it they dug, some fifty men with
all the tools they could raise; hill one hun
dred feet Deep was soon demolished, 700 tons
of earth were removed, and about $500 expeD
ded. Mining stock rose faster than the South
Sea, Mississippi, or Eastern land shares $4,000
we hear was offered for one sailors chance -
Jack tugged harder in carrying off armsful o
the glittering rock than he had ever strained
an oar after two hundred and fifty barrel whale
All the spare room in the ships was soon FLIED
solid gold. There 1t lay in shining heaps, a:
in gents cave. Each man had but to helE
himself to fortune which would put Croesus
u to the blush. The Brookline brought some
thirty barrels of the ore here, and very gener
ously gave 1t away, some knowing one having
had the audacity to dispell the golden dream BY
y declaring the whole to be heap of that yer,
common and valueless mineral, iron pyrites, O
: sulphuret of iron. However, they are not tn,
first sailors whose imaginations have been cap
tivated by its glitter. Soon after the discovery
: of Hudson's Bay, several ships returned to Eng
land from that quarter laden with the same min
eral, which had been mistaken for gold ore.
D Four-score and Ten.-Ded, at the residenc,
of his son, Mr.. David Hlderbrand, near thi
place, on the Goth inst, Mr.. John Hilderbrant
one OF the oldest men IN the Nation. Mr.. Hill
/. derbrand wss native Of Pennsylvania, of Ger
man extraction, and was born on the 18th o
Feb. l775, and was consequently aged 90 year:
10 months, and days. He came among The
Cherokees east of the Mississippi more than 81
years ago, among whom he intermarred. HI
retained remarkable degree of activity up tt
> within short time of his death. He has lief
more than one hundred lineal descendants,
majority of whom are now residing among the
Cherokees .-Cherokee .4drocate
, War.-The Newark Daily Advertiser of yes
| terday says ga snail company of battered
= soldiers passed through with the railroad train
, yesterday. on their way home f. ON the battle
fields of Mexico, having had quite enough Of
gore and glory. One of them, modest sensi-
ble-looking man, mentioned that he was the on
S ly survivor of twentyone men who left Water
: bury Comm about year ago-a sad messen-
ger to twenty heart-strcken families
More Romanee.-The Charleston Patriot
mentions circumstance which is related in a
etter from Key West that may be cIassed a.
= mOnG the romantic. A short time since a yes.