The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1849-03-30
Mail Items.

Chicago, H., has been visited BY terrible
flood, BY which property to the amount OF
100000 has been destroyed.
Ii is said that immense deposits of coal have
recently been undiscovered at the Straits OF Ma
gellan Should this prove true, it will be OF
immense. advantage to the steam navigation
which will speedily seek fiat route from the At
lantie to the Pacific.
Great damage has recently occurred IN the
neighborhood of Montgomery, Ala, BY yio-
lent hurricane Fences and trees were swept
away like straws, and many buildings were de-
stroyed.
Shad have been caught in the Alabama river
this season, as high upas the Wetumpka falls
Gen. Scott has arrived in Washington, and
paid his respects to the President, on the 18th
inst. He is said to be looking uncommonly
well, and ready for another campaign, should
circumstances require it.
The editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel says
he cannot boast of the size of Wisconsin ba-
bies, but that they are an uncommon Sure crop.
John Van Buren and Millard Fillmore We're
recently travelling together on the railroad.
The cars started rather suddenly from the de-
pot, causing Mr. Fillmore. who was standing
up at the time, to lose his balance and fall
back-whereupon Prince John caught him BY
the arm, and exclaimed, "Ah! Mr.. F., must
give you my support, after all.
The New York Literary Gazette gives from
Hamlet motto for emigrants to California:
"A pick-axe and spade-a spade;
Aye, and winding sheet
1t is estimated that the damage done to Ia
dies dresses, by the crowd at the Inauguration
ball in Washington, amounted TO $4,000.
The inventors and builders of the "4Erial
Locomotive" announce that it will positively
leave New York for California on the 18th
April Many persons in New York believe
that this scheme for navigating the air will sue
ceed, and that the trip will be made in three
days, with a number Of passengers!
The Mexican Vice Consul at New York, pub
fishes card in the papers Of the city, con
tradcting the rumors Of Mexican hostility t
American emigrants passing through their ter
rtory. He says that, on the contrary, they ar,
anxious to encourage it.
A Ladies' Benevolent Society, "Down East,
are said to be engaged in the laudable under
taking of providing Indian rubber over-coat
for whales, to protect them during rainy wea
ther
, A letter from Fort Smith, to the Washingto
Union, states that 10000 emigrants are expec
ted to start from that point to California.
The st. Louis Republican Of the 18th inst
states that from fifteen hundred to two thou
sand emigrants for California, had arrived i
that city within the past ten days.
Gun Cotton was used by the Bombay C
lumn of the British forces in bonbardin
Moultan 1t is said to have been tearfully effe,
tive.
A New Yorker has applied for patent fc
an invention by which mail and all expires
> matter can be transmitted at the rate of on
thousand miles an hour. A tube is formed
a given size and length, and BY means of a
air pump, a carriage is propelled of cylindr
cal form-the air operating on a piston hea
or driver, which is to be attached in the rear
: a train Of cars.
r A lady leaving New York day or two ag
: just as they were raising the plank of the stcan
boat, cried out to her husband, "Goodnes
+ George, must go back to the Astor House
!, I've left my teeth in the washbowl."
CorToN FAcToRY.-The entire stock (53C
: 000) in new cotton manufacturing establis
!, ment, proposed to be erected near McNIin
: vile, Tennessee, has been subscribed for
The Legislature of Maine have fixed IL
: maximum value of mans life at $4,000 n
! more than that amount can be collected fro
i any railroad in the State, BY the relatives Of
individual killed.
A Harry MAS.-The editor of the Pitt
burg Chronicle says; "Talk about enjoyme
: Of wealth! it never can be enjoyed-m abu
: dance is heap of misery. A man who ow
d house, 4 small farm, a small wife, a big do
a COW, two or three fat pigs, and dozen
: children, ought to be satisfied. If he isn't
: never can be-"
10 FIRST LovE.-The conversation at Holla
e. House turned upon first love-Tom Moo
j. compared it to potato, ''because itshoots fro
: the eyes" @Or rather, exclaimed Byron, Il
re- cause it becomes less BY pairing"