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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-08

FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE "A fire broke out about
six O'Clock on Saturday morning, IN row of
tour small houses situated Bank street. below Eden,
occupied by Germsn and co'ored families The hrs
CON m.nced in a house occupied by colored family
who pic king oakum and was caused by candle
accidentally coming cons ct with this inhammable
nsterisi This, together with tue house sdjotDipg
occupied by q German family, entirely consumed
the Inmates saving of their furniture Two sman
dwellings adjoining the end, also caught,
aud greatly dsmaged the occupants colored per-
sone-oucceeded however in saving their furniture A
brick house acj ning the in Uhioh the IRE origin
at d. ~hat ured soon after the IRE was ca
tnguished, the remains of German woman, about 90
years Of age, named Margaret Grool, who lived In Q
of of the houses, we've discovered among the
ruins of tho dwelling, burnea in the most shocking mar
ncr When the IRE first broke out she was rescued
from the building 10 safety but having lett behind her
some SEQ money she retai ned In yatn atseuptto
rave H. and being sudocstsd ~ The smoks vas nnssle
~ss widov-EaIs,mers chprs-, Fee. y
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Of mounted rifles down there except his The gaantry
of Capt Ruff and his company ia several tho most
important battles In this country has been severely test
ed, and always highly distinguished themselves If the
Mexicsns didas informed, cut him up' you may
rest assured they had dear bar gain of It. No
the service all their better than this company
Yesterday the Police Guard discovered about wagon
load o: muskets concealed in a Convent In this city.
MIR Trst does not home with the train going down
tomorrow The gallant Capt Walker of 9Th infantry
severely FL Molina del Reywi be sent down
He goes In littcr-stl being too weak to travel other
VERA CRur, Jan. 10 ~ Mounted troops
needed here at present II there sufficient force
they would this be their way to take possession
Of Orisaba. When It will leave it will be accompanied
BY naval battery commanded BY lieutenant of the
10th lust, with portion Of tho Louisiana mounted vol
unteers, as escort for the mail and Major Stewart
peymsst'r to the city Of Me1ico Information was re-
c.ived here Monday morning last, that guerr
las lowering about the neighborhood of Santa Fe
In the afternoon Captain Taylor Of T~iygs Rifles was
ordered to proceed with his command that place Ar
ter accommodating the premises he returned yesterday
morning. bringing with him eight greasersr but as
they have not been identified as guerrilss they were
discharged. Captain Hathaway, ID Artillery who was
oourtmsrtiaed few days ego, was acquitted OF the
ohargss preferred against him-those OF drunkenness
ant Gordon, Of whom made mention In former note
Is fast recovering from the effects of wounds received
implicitly Inferred that he will rssve Count Of csr.
tsn reeponsib les aching to daughter The Count
arrived here with the last regular tr,iu from the city
He is waiting the arrival OF the English steamer TO pro-
coed In her wi his family to Spain Lieutenant Iver
Of the Georgia Infantry down from Perote, by
days train lie reports the troops stationed here
suffering very much from fevers. There is neither
amusement excitement here, aud the spare moment
poor ID has he melancholy walks the streets looking
occasionally at the Senoritas they pass gracefully
smoking their ctyaritos.
VERA Cruz, Jan 20 The north wind, which threat
ened uSwth its violence for three days past has fallen
without doing any damage to the shipping In this port
An express arrived here, from the oty Of Mexico
the 10th. An expedition to leave that city ss
undsrstand for Toluos could not ascertain who
conUAnd shis expedition assured that 0sncraIs
WqsSh A11 Pulov sAd Col puneaa we're still under
ID We 1e0 i1ee IAsy we're seeosSsd ~ company of
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Political Intelligence.

TVS TAYLOR MEETING Ar CfSciNNATL-Tbb &c t
meeting came OF on the I'd inst and Is sad to have
the largest WHICH has taken place there since oio
Great enthusiasm prevailed and resolutions Hpressng
decided prefer for Gen. Taylor for the next ptcs
dency, were passed
ADJovRyaESr or TINE IewA LseuLArvRI "A tsle-
gyaphc despatch rom S. Louis Fob. oth ststee that
tue lewa Legislature had adjourned as DE, wishcut
elssting Cnits1 States Senators.
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The evening was celebrated by equsiiy splendid
and magnificent entertainment to the ladies.
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of the following deceased officers :Brevet Lieut.. Col
J. 8 Mcintosh, 9TH u In; Captain s. Mckenzie, ID
Art Csps. NJ +. Merrill and whippls 9th In Csptsn
n Smith LIST In Capt NJ. Burke and T.. 4 Ca
prom, ist Art Captain 8 b. Thornton, I'd Drsgoons
Captain j. W. Anderson, I'd In Captain Charles Han
son, 7th In Brevet Captain George w. Ayres Sd Art ;
LIST Lieuts b. Daniels and William Armstrong I'd Art
LIST Lieuts p tombstone and Joseph + Irons, LIST Art
LIST Lieut.. D. Bacon eth In; lst Lieut. j. q Burbsnk
liam T. Burwell 5th In I'd Lieut. J. +. Fairy I'd Art
I'd Lieut. Hoffman, LIST Art I'd Lieuts JosephP Smith,
and Erastus B. Strong, 9Th In I Crosby, U. 5.
The brig Sias Moran sailed yesterday for Vera Cruz,
with stores twelve for the Quartermas
ter's department, and ninety five mules-N o. Pica-
yyne, Jan 10.
The Rutland Herald ssys--"Out Of 80 members of the
Vermont company last summer for the Mexican
war-forty. -four have already died and out Of this
having fallen Victims to tho diseases incident to the
r.
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Movements OF Army Officers Mt Home.
The citizens of Albany were, on Monday, making
great preparations to receive Gen. uitman who TO
arrive there in the afternoon. Military companies aud
civic societies. and procession of citizens to meet
him, and escort him to his lodgings
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FOR THE BRAZos.

From the ~ o. Pcsyune Jan so
The U Steamship Fanny, will sail for the Bra EOS
this morning. shs takes the following named pas.
sengers james Campbell bearer OF dispatches; Major
Early Virginia Regiment; DR.. II Stenneke; Capt. VIM
Archer, Virgins Re gimept in command Of detsch
ment Of recruits for the 3rd dragoons; Sergt Major
Brown; Mrs De- Treavit and two children; Mrs Powers
Messrs Field, James Delby, Taylor, A u McConlin,
Geo Randolph, Charles {. Churchill, James Knowles,
Julian Magill and Paine
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important and credtable change visible in the order
and peace of the city.
Gen. Cad alader has arrived at Touca The follow.
Ing letter from friend will give you account Of the
march, and their arrival at their place of destination
ToLUcA, January, l94s Il promised to tell you what
kind Of country We traversed in reaching this place
waited so other opportunity of writing, and now hear
that the dragons leave for Mexico In few moments
which gives me little time. After quitting Tacubsya
road began to sscend the country continuing ste
re and volcanic like that around Conreras Towards
sunset We reached hacienda, or inn, and encsmped
the night closing upon bitterly cold The infantry
encamped mostly around the br of hill adjacent and
few pleasant dreams, ween did the cold wind permit
to them Early on the 7th started again. the earth
white with FROST and cces hanging from the rock the
road, possible harder and more finished than yester
Gay, and ascending always. Arriving at the highest
point Oh the mountain ridge, number of crosses
together, and were told that they des-
oonhct that came on here thirty years ago
attacked in position by the latter and gained the day
ono cross fastened into he solid rock the grave Of
the Mexican General At this point opened upon one
OF the nosst views ever saw-the valley OF Touca -
with villages and hsciendas and Just enough wstersd to
give variety while far away the snowy summt of
Nevada de Toluca, with It's wide crater Thought TO
myself had Tom Moore seen this he had certainly writ.
The road now descended regularly, and we came upon
Lerma, small dirty village, every house allied with
children, ga ling women, ana eurmounted bv a vbite
flag the only clean hing about tho premises aud that
eating to Lerma, however we passed sma brdged
stream the passage of which wes defended by sandIat
fort and the hills adjacent also crowned By works
ALI made while we lay at Puebla and abandoned ON
the fall Of the capital 1t Is said that the fort the
.i s,.s S.ss =:
isi :::s sss 3 s:ss 1s o:ssss AZ ssssiss u sSs
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ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
The following let OF passengers In the u 8. steam.
ship Edith from Vera Cruz
Lieut.. A, " Way, Georgia Bat Lieut.. Iyersoni 10.
sPh !ohns asehsrssd soldier Robert smith AID Cap
Ths Edith brought evss forty ssh and discharged SOL
Asss-tve Of When died - Ne yoseAgsand The belies
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hail from Vermont, lest should fall "by the
hands of Justice" and vacate the policy.
1t is recorded in Joe Miller, page Sc, that q
Hibernian bricklayer, laid wager with one
of his countrymen, that the latter could not
put him in hod, and carry him up ladder,
to the top of four story house. A shilling
was the amount of the bet, and the task was
successfully accomplished. "Pve won We"
said the carrier, d" give me the shilling" Faith
and so you have" answered his load, "but
Pat, when you reached the third story, your
foot slipped, and then 1 had great hopes We
would fall"
The time has nearly arrived for the expira-
ton Of the risk on my life, and suppose that
the New York company will pocket all the
passing through the county of B, got a
fever, and then Gas my Hibernian friend said, }
IhGd great hopes o.. firing hemi-0riOn Mag
dzine.
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The DEAD SEA EXPEDITION The
Boston Transcript states on the authority
# private letters, that the Expedition to
explore the Dead Sea, sent out by Govern
5:eat uadcT command of Lieut.. Lynch, has
been successful, The party completed
taa.r operations, and returned on the 18th
e May 10 Jerusalem, where they were re-
faFded with great honor by the people as
having achieved wonder. During the
researches they sounded the sea to the
ieNih Of go fathoms, and found the bot>
'on in all lis parts encrrsted with crys-
'lizad silt. Ducks were seen skimming
along the surface Of the sea, and partridges
abouaded on the shore. This, and the
fact that though the party remained in
camp near the sea for two months without
suffering sickness, prove current stories TO
be fabulous
Lieuts. Lynch and Dale intend making
tour to the Holy Land previous to their
return home and the account of their
exploration and adventures cannot fail to
be highly interesting.
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GREATEST AsCERTAINED DEPTH OF THE
OCEAN On the I'd of June, when in lat
iiude Is 3 south, ana longitude go 4
vest, being nearly calm and the water
quite smooth, Says Sir James c. Ross, }
Te tried for, but did not obtain, sound
iegs with $500 fathoms of line, or p, 600
.eot, very nearly five miles and a quar-
Ter. This is the greatest depth Of the o.
cean that has as yet been satisfactorily as
certained but we have reason to be,
lieve that there are many parts of it where
II is still deeper. Its determination is a
deslderatum in terrestrial physics of great
interest and importance--VOyGge to the
Southern Seas.
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NOTHING TO SERVE But MY
COUNTRY

This glorious sentiment, uttered By Gener-
al Taylor in his Allison letter, is beginning to
be appreciated as It would have been in the
early days of the Republic. So rapid has
been the downward course Of political morals,
that what was deemed sound and patriotic in
1910, is now by portion ofthe community
secuted at and repudiated. The very doc
trines which gentlemen like Charles. Allen
and Henry Wilson, and those who labor with
them, held up in 1910 as sound, patriotic and
Wing, are now OF none effect. One Of the
strongest objections which those nen urge a.
gainst General Taylor, is his determination to
be the President OF the whole people and not
the President Of party. Taking the declar-
alton in its true sense in which Wings have
always used it, we to the fullest extent en-
dorse it, and 50 do those most worthy Of the
confidence Of the Wing party. Who would
not n thousand times rather have the honest
old soldier President Of the United States;
" who has nothing to serve but his country
than one who has nothing TO serve but his
party? The Salem Register has capital ar
ticle upon this subject, and we avail ourselves
of the research Of its respectable editor, by
ENGRAVING part of his labors upon this sub
feet into our columns
The Delegate to the National Convention
from the eighth district, Mr.. Wilson, had some
thing to say in his boiling speech about John
Quincy Adams, and gave the Convention to
understand that he was from the f" Old Adj
ans district" He also had mach to saw a.
gainst General Taylor, because he would not
be party President. This in fact is the uni
versal talk Of the boilers, that they cannot sup
port General Taylor because he is not Wing.
As General Taylor says he is a Wing, and
Mr.. Crittenden and many others who Eavc-
known MIN for years, say that until politicians
took the matter in hand, no one erer dog5feT
General Taylor icing Wbig, they mus, mean.
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JUSTUS COBB, PUBLISHER,
MYSTERIOUS MUSIC OF OCEAN.

NYS FERROUS MUSIC OF OCEAN.
And the people of this place say, that, at
certain seasons, beautiful sounds are heard
from the ocean."-MAvER's VOYAGES.
Lonely and wild it rose,
That strain ofsolemn music from the sea,
As though the bright air trenbled to disclose
An ocean mystery.
Again low sweet tone,
Painting in murmurs on the listening day,
Just babe the excited thought its presence own,
Then died away.
Oace more the gush of sound,
Struggling and swelling from the heaying
plain,
Thrilled a rich peal triunphantly around,
And fed again.
o boundless deep! we know
Thou hast strange wonders in thy gloom con-
cealed,
Gems, flashing gems, from whose unearthly
glow
Sunlight is sealed.
And an eternal spring
Showers her rich colors with unsparing hand,
Where coral trees their graceful branches
fling
Ger golden sand
But tell, o restless main
Who are the dwellers in thy world beneath,
That thus the vatery realms cannot contain
The JOY they breathe ?
Emblem of glorious might!
Are thy wild children like myself arrayed,
Strong in immortal and unchecked delight,
v hich cannot fade
Or to mankind allied,
To;rng With vo and PASSIONS fiery sting,
Like their own home, where storms or peace
preside,
A. the winds bring
Alas Tor human thought
IIov does 1t fee existence, worn aud old,
To vim companionship with beings wrought
Of finer mould
lis vain-the reckless waves
Joia with loud reycl the dim ages flown,
Bat Keep each secret Of their hidden caves
Dark and unknown.
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St. Johnsbury, June "a, 1913.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
TUESDAY. AFTERNOON SESSION.

TUESDAY. AFTERNOON SESSION.
1. Organization and Preliminary Business.
,. An Address. Education,-what is it?
By Rev. ADDISON BRowN, Braitleboro'.
3. Discussion. Studies proper for Common
Schools; their proper order, and the best
method of teaching them.
EVENING SESSION.
4. An Address. Relations of the State to
Education.
By Rev. j. T. PECK, Principal of Troy Conf
Academy.
). Discussion. Is sufficient attention paid to
Manners and Morals in our Schools
WEDNESDAY. MORNING SESSION.
6. An Address. Physical Education.
By Hon. W. r. RANNEY, Townsend.
7. Discussion. School Houses their loca-
ton, ventilation, &c. with reference to health,
convenience and improvement, and their In
huence on the moral and social feelings and
habits ofscholars.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
s. An Address. Education a public and
Common Interest rather than Private and
Personal one.
By Gov EATON, Enosburgh.
9. Discussion. Defects in the quali6ca-
lions of Teachers. What are the best and
most available means for securing competent
number of well qualified Teachers to meet the
exigencies of the State.
EVENING SESSION.
10. An Address. Government of Schools.
By w. A. BURNHAM, Manchester.
II. Discussion. What are the prominent
defects in our Schools and School System, and
what the chief obstacles to the greatest success
of our system? How shall they be removed +?
THURSDAY. MORNING SESSION.
10. Discussion on the use of Text Books in
giving instruction and the Text Books in use.
The best method of securing the attention of
scholars. and of waking up their own powers
of thought.
IS. An Address. The claims of our COM
mon schools.
By S. HOWARD, Esq. Thetford.
II. Discussion To what extent should Re-
ligious Instruction be impaired in our schools?
AFTERNOON SESSION.
10. An Address.
Bv President WHEELER, ofthe University of
Vermont.
16. Discussion. Duties of Superintendent
and Committees of Parents, and all good cit
liens, at the present time in relation to our
Schools.
II. Resolutions. and Miscellaneous Business.
Ifa horlav corns make one inch. how m any
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The Girard College is almost failure at
last. The architect has come out in regu-
larreport against the works of his own genius,
and declares that the reverberation ofthe re
citation rooms is so deafening, that they will
be useless for the purposes of their construc-
ton. The remedy proposed is to line the
Gothic arches with false plain ceilings.
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CIRCULAR.

The undersigned, interested in common with
many others in the recent efforts of our State
to improve its system of Common Schools, and
regarding the educational interests of the
State, as Of primary importance, in whatever
pertains TO our individual happiness and So
cial improvement, and believing that, as such
they deserve a more generous appreciation
and more liberal support both from individ
uals and the State, than they have hitherto OBJ
tanned, and believing also, that a convention
of the friends of education from all parts Of the
State, for the purpose of interchanging opin-
ions exhibiting the results of observation and
experience, and discussing the means and
modes of education in general, would tend TO
awaken more general interest in the subject,
and give to our present means of education
greater efficiency than they now possess; would
propose to the friends and patrons of educa-
ton throughout the State, STATE Educational
Convention, to be holden at Chelsea, COM
mencing Tuesday, 22d of August next, at one
o'clock, p. NJ, and continuing two or three
days, as the business Of the convention may re-
quire.
Arrangements have been made by provis-
ional committee for a series of Addresses on
the occasion, and list of topics for discussion
is proposed below. The time and place ofthe
convention it is hoped, will prove acceptable
to most, if not to ALL and still more 1t is hoped,
that generous response will be given to this
call, by general attendance of Superintend-
ents and Teachers of Schools, with the friends
and patrons of education of every calling
throughout the State. And it is hoped too,
that there will be ready contribution ofeach
ones ability, so far as may be necessary, to
make the convention not only a source Of in
terest and profit to those who attend, but a
means of permanent good in the promotion of
objects intimately connected with the prosper
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Rev. Sidney Smith, in speaking of the pro-
sy nature of most sermons, remarked: d" They
are written as if sin was to be taken out of
man. like Eve out of Adam, by putting him to
sleep"
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ta5 Dobbs. on being asked If he had ever
seen the bridge of signs" replied, Yes, Pve
heen travelling on it ever since / was mar
red"
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If barley corns make one inch, how any
toe corns will make one foot?-Er.
This may be solved by plain proportional
statement, thus AS 8 barley corns are to
one inch, so is toe ditto to acher.-LoreH
Gazette.
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JOSEPH H. BARRETT, EDITOR.
TERMS OF VOLUME XIII

Village subscribers, SOU
Mail subscribers, within the State, Si'2o
if not paid within the year, SI'Io
Nail subscribers out of the State, SUI
individuals and Companies who take at the Office,
$3.50. or LIS if not paid within the year:
Those who take of Postriders, $500
If not paid at the end of the year, S2,25
No papers discontinued until arrearages are
paid, except at the option of the proprietor. No
contract with, or payment made TO Carriers cash,
keeping or otherwise, allowed, except assented TO
II the proprietor.
81 Communications must be addressed to the
editor, Posi- PAID.
-OO0O-0-O-O1~0oOOOO%
JUSTUS COBB, PUBLISHER,
By WHOM ALL KINDS OF BOOK AND JOB PRINT
ING WILL BE EXECUTED on
SHORT NOTICE.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-11-17
Educate YourseE- knowledge is its cx.

Educate YourseH.- knowledge is its cx-
rceeding reward. 1t is the gift Of colleges
particularly. 1t is what the mind produces
Sir whenever it acts. Great schools are chief
MY appliances for the lazy, TO Furnish subs,i-
la'tu,es for knowledge by which they make
Posheir way in the world. A youth who has
IT,. noble thirst for science is not so much ben
Lifted by "liberal educ alton" as he is apt tn
Imagine he will be, before trying Il. If
= your parents are rich and have nothing bet
v ter to do with their money, let them board
k yon at Cambridge or Yale for four years
IS But If they are poor laboring people, stay
with them and labor too. But don't the less
+. strive for a liberal education. BE liberal in
Il supplyin yourself books, and time. Jour
o ncy on loot, anl study nature and men,
Ask queStians every body, about every
q thing.
= Thus doing, you will probably acquire
{? more satisfactory and useful knowledge,
= and what is more, sounder character and fir
o mer hcalth--you will he more OF q man than
= ifyou distress your parents TO have knowi-
: edge put into yonr mouth with a pap SPOON.
i ltis thus that the greatest aud best men are
n made in every county, Boston Chrome
:, tpe.
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A fdnkcc'S C0lcuidiion,-''Wcll, it's Gu
rous how we du Git over the ground. Why
the trees all look as if they were dancin' a
JIG TO double quick time. | kin recollcct
ten or twelve years ago, that il started
from Bosting OH n Wednesday, cud cit in
Filedelphy on the next Saturday: making
just three days. Now kin git from Bos.
ting to Filadelphy in one day; and I've
been calculatin' that ifthc power of steam
increases Tor the next ten years as il has
been doin' for the last ten years. I'd be in
Filadclphy jiSt t,co days, before I started
from Bosiing."
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.-----ss'-----,. CABINET FURNITURE
tes..s..,.ss...sS v WARE ROOMS

g st-------siS PETER RUSSELL would return
thanks TO his tn"nis and the citizens of Ottawa and
vicinity ior the very liberal encouragement already
received and woudrespccifu INFORM them that be-
isnow manufacturing, 0udrrguIarly receNnguddl-
tons to his stock of parnr and plain furniture all Of
which he warrants made Of seasoned materials ard
with good workmanship and will sell TOR cash At
II Louis and Chicago prices. lie invites the Hucn-
ton Of the pubic TO his present stock Of high-post
and French hradstcod-, dressing and plain bureaus,
Grccian and fancy, cane and wood seat chairs cane
and wood seat rockers. chdren's do; dining and
hrenkasttablrs, wnorobe., worklabIrs, stands, set
tees, looking gases, etc. ctr. An kinds of work
done 20 order l1sllitr 81, Sept "a 1913
L nI-s-LI I.