The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-18
Correspondence Of the National WING.


Mr. Enron: The result Of the recent election in
the Fourth Congressional district Of this State has
doubtless reached you by telegraph and in the abb
sence Of anything of interest in the political world
to-day, send you collection of odds and ends as
heterogeneous us the "picked up dinner OF New
England housewife"
case of some interest was opened yesterday In
the United States Circuit Court before Judge Woop-
BURY. The parties are S. p Child, ct al rs. the
Mutual Insurance Co., of New Bedford, in the sum
of $4,000, being the amount of insurance on the
baraue JANE, which is supposed TO have foundered
at sea, not having been heard Of since l645. The
terms Of adjustment OF the loss Ind been agreed upon
and accepted by the parties but previous to the pay
ment OF the insurance, the defendants learned that
the JANE, which sent ont as whaler, had In the
slack season for whales joined another vessel in an
expedition for sea elephants, and afterward returned
to her legitimate business. The payment Of the in
slrance is now resisted by the office, on the ground
of deviation from the whaling voyage, set forth in
the policy, and that such deviation having been made
the policy did not re-attach the vessels resumng
the regular purposes Of her voyage. Il Is commended
that whaling and the pursuit OF elephants are dis
tinct pursuits one being followed in the water and
the other on land. The case is one Of importance,
In view Of the precedent ii will establish. The counsel
defence, R. CHoArE a. T. d. ELLIOTT, Of New Bed
ford.
Owing to tho recent judicial decision, the author-
ties of this State have ceased to demand "head
money !" from immigrants upward OF four hundred
alien passengers arrived free at this port last week.
and the question is yet to be decided whether or not
TIL, whole amount Of head money" which has
been paid under protest. since the decision Of the
United States Supreme Court shall be refunded
A letter was received yesterday from New ork,
by MOSES GRANT, Esq, Of this city, relative TO the
making for The reception OF FATHER
MATHEW in this country II Is expected That he
will land at Staten Island and remain over night and
on the next morning special committee OF the
corporation and several hun dred other persons, WI
60 down in first class steamer and escort him up
to Castle Garden, where he will be met by the mayor
and large company of ladies' and gentlemen thence
he will proceed to the Park, and 10 his lodgings a
splendid temperance festival will take place at the
Broadway Tabernacle the following evening. The
Rev. Father will remain in New York about five
days, and then come on to Boston to be here on the
18th of July and over one Sabbath to preach in the
Catholic Cathedral. The arrangements for his re-
eeption here are not yet fully m,tured but they have
been commenced on scale which promises that
Boston will not be behind any other place in testify
ing her admiration and respect for tins
1t is expected that during his stay
in Boston he will take lodgings at the Marlboro
Hotel an invitation having been OK tended to himby
the proprietor some months since.
The celebrated watch, which was brought from
G lifornia by Lieutenant l'EAE, is NOW in this city
and Is decidedly curiosity. 1t is OF large size,
with heavy chased rims and the old fashioned
double castings. The chain is moro curious than the
watch, and is composed Of small gold links, upon
which are soldered at short distances apart number
Of crude Jumps Of the nunc article in its rough
state and at the end is app ended in place Of SEAL
huge lump resembling in shape miniature CONT
mont of South America. THE cost Of the watch and
chain In California was S751 and the owner has re-
peatedy refused $1,000 for them, supposing them to
DO pure gold, but the application Of chemical tests
show that large part Of the cases are merely wash
ed and tina, the value Of the pure gold in the chain
and watch is about s2Oo--m.king tho price paid by
the purchaser far above the a,tual worth.
"Kalooah, or jouncyings to the Djebel Kumri"
recently published by PUTNAM Of New York, Is
really most enter raining book. II purports to be
the adventures of young American in various parts
Of the world and is full of incident and excitement
The writer In his introduction speaking of his ORR
gin and ancestry, (the latter Nantucket whalemen)
remarks that life of adventure his "by birth
right and verify no one who reads his book will
fail Of the conviction that he has received the full
quota of his inheritance, for from very boyhood, the
feature In his character seems to be his
admirable faculty OF plungfng from one break-neck
scrape into another. The book is written in bold
and spirited atyle, interspersed with many stroke
Of dry hu,nor and touch Of mrth-pnovoking quaint
ness, and although some Of the descriptions remind
one little of tho Baron with the hard name, is,
generally speaking, natural and easy, and will prove,
Il not specific, at least decided palliative in any
common attack Of low spirits. a.
Yesterday the friends Of the turf assembled in
large numbers to witness the race which was adver-
tised to come of between the horses Lady Suffolk,
Mac, and Grey Eagle. The ground was covered with
people long before the appointed time, and much
anxiety was manifested 10 see the contest between
the Sc splendid animals. The result was as follows:
First heat won by Mac, In M Mt 8.
Ss,cond Lady Suffolk, M - T.
Jhr +" Mac, M y, =
Fonsth !" Mac M 80 =
NJ, ron larpd the winner. GREY