Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-08-16

we ud'o Pi'hteu tHe ioIuWine nUeS seNct'
al times before but no matter; il viii harm
no one to read item d dozen tiCes. Mr..
Campbcl's epigram on the American flag -
United States your banner wears
Two cmblcmS "ne Of fame
Alas! TIE other taat il wears,
Reminds us your shame
The white mans liberty, in types,
stands bazoned by your stars;
But what's the meaning of your stripes
They mean your ncgros' scars
And this is Mr.. Lunt's retort:--
England whence came each glowing hue
That iints yon flag OF metof' light
The streaming red, the deeper blue,
Crossed with the moon-be peally
white 7
The bL'od and bruises-blue and ssd--
Let Asia's groaning millions sPcaS;
The aohite-it tells the color h'd
From starving Erin's palliI check.
IMPoRTANT.-Thet telegraph announces from
Montreal on The 7,h, that the baby son of Lord
Egin was formally christened the day previ-
Gus. The people breathe ffeer
OFThe Hon. John NJ. Bolts, of Virginia,
is in New York, or his way 10 Newport, 10
pass The summer.
Dfprm OF THE OCEAN Professor Bache,
OF the U. s. Coast Survey took thefmom-
etrical sounding of Cape lIatteras last year,
which indicated a depth Of l0,sOO feet; leav-
ing behind it all previous aScertaned DEPTHS
in this quarter. Capt. c. II. Davis, US. N.
found a depth by the lead of I 800 feet $50
miles south Of Nantucket. Capt. Ross found
l6 900 feet west Of the Cape of Good Hope
and he has sounded with the plumber 1870
feet, without ouching bottom west Of ST. He
enc. This last measurement is equal to the
heights of Dhavalgeri, the highest mountain
on the Globe.
| WHAT Is Faction When d part,
abandons public and general ends, and de-
votes itself only to the personal interests of ii.
members and leaders, it is called a faction ,ant
its policy is said to be factiou. Boiling
broke
4 Ii the above definition be correct, what il
much of the presen! opposition to President
/ Taylor's Admin stration but factious Is
not the burthen OF their grievances, that the,
have been comp, He'd TO share the official pat
ronage Of the country with their fellow citi
izens of al parties, instead of holding mo
nopoly Of 1t, as they had been accustomed Il
to for some 2o years or more Is it no, tn
sun and substance Of their hostility, tha, the
are miserable because the SPOTS are n
longer in their possession . Warrington Re
public.
\ G3 We have received by the Caliiorni
Mail full file Of the Alta California to Jul,
I'd the paper of that date appears in an en-
arged and improved form, with new type fin
paper, etc.
The AMERICAN BOARD or FoREIos Mis-
soNs.-The receipts into the treasury durn
he last month, were $2s, 1926, and daring ih
previous eleven months $26I,4 AT; making a
aggregate of $2s9, 700. 1t is believed that III
debt of the, Board will be abou. S3O, 200 a
the end Of tie current financial year.
Il BbRiED TREASURE. are informed b
Favor" Of the Eas,port Express, that tn
company formed in this city for the purpose @
raising the relics Of the British brig ,Plumpe
are likely to be successful. They have bee
at work but short time, and have already OF
tained quite an amount of specie, togethe
with sundry other valuable articles. 1t wi
be recolIec,ed that the Pumper was lost nea
Point Lepreaux, during the last war viii
Great Britain, and contained specie to tn
amount of Sl75 600, for the purpose of payin
off soldiers. Mr Favor says, he had tn
pleasure of seeing one large bag Of the dollar
on his way up.-Bcc.
\ One wrong step in Tire beginning Of an i'm
por,ant concern, like wrong figure in tn
early par, of sum IN arithmetic, may lea
/ throughout into error