Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-03-31
SMITHS NEW COMMON SCHOOL GEoGRAPHY.

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| Teachers and Trustees Of Public Schools would
do well to examine this most useful publication.
Messrs. WALLACE & WARD have it for sale, and
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animation of Parents, Teachers and the Friends
OF Education generally.
| CALIFoRNIA.--lt would seem that the late Con-
gress was singuarIv neglectfui of our newly ac-
qulred territory, California, which now stands in
the greatest need of a territorial government,
law and order seem 10 depend entirely upon the
will of The people represented by Judge Lynch.
We care not for the favorable statements reaching
US from that country, there have been already
received at Washington official accounts of anar-
chy and awlessness, prevailing 10 an alarming
extent and even should organized companies
ceed in producing order amidst all this chaos, it is
beneath the dignity of our institutions that thou
sands upon thousands of our citizens should be left
without the aid of the general government and
without the power of creating legislature of
their own. Too much is conceded to the patriot
Ism OF the people, though, doubt not, they will
never lack in its display, and that in a few short
years California will be knocking at the door of
Congress for admission into that Union, which
now much neglects it.
The California Ferer at The North-The Phila.
delpha Enquirer Of late date says There is
another lulI in the gold fever. Expeditions con.
tnue to depar. from various sections of the Union
but their number is small, compa ratvely speak
ing, and the excitement is bv no means SO high as
il was few weeks since. The first rush is over,
and those who depart now, do so more from re-
Election than BY impulse. The disposition is to
await further advices. Should the next news be
highly favorable, excitement will be pro-
duced, and thousands will rush forward under its
influence. We last week chronicled the departure
of several vessels from this port, and it will be
seen by our advertising columns, lha, several
others up for the land of promise. The
chances indeed are full of temptation, and the
terms are greatly reduced. AT least 20 600 per-
sons have departed from the Atlantic ports, while
the expeditions from the West during the present
spring, will embrace 10000 or 10000 more.
The Newark Advertiser gives an extract of
letter from California. which mentions painful
rumor, that Messrs. Newman and Pomeroy. cler-
gymen of the Methodist and Baptist churches, had
been murdered in the gold region. The letter is
of the latest date, and comes from highly ,e-
spectacle source. 1t refers TO the statement Incl
dentay, as if it were well understood fact, but
gives no particulars.
The CoMANcHEs.-We have understood, from
good authority, that this large and somewhat for
mldable tribe of savages have lately held coun-
cll respecting the intended emigration across the
praries, at which it was determined TO seek friend.
" intercourse and trade with the " whites" Mr.
GREGG, in his Commerce of the Praires gives the
Comanches more favorable representation than
was generally supposed could be consistent with
truth; ba: hope, this spring, to be confirmed
in our opinions, based upon Mr.. Gregg's state
ment, and ere long deputaon of this tribe
on their way to the sea, of government, passing
through our towns and cities, and viewing with
astonished eyes our large and busting population.
| an Extra Session.-We SEQ by the Northern
prints that an extra session of Congress is anci-
pated by the knowing ones. OF its necessity
| Gen. Taylor and the cabinet will be the Judges
CoLrs REvoLvERs.-By late law of Congress
the Secretary of War is directed to purchase
Colts Revolvers to the amount of S5O,OOO to be
supplied to California emigrants at cost.
| Fifty DesertiOns in one nigH.--The St. Louis
Rereiue of the 10Th inst says, that there has been
fifty deserons from Jefferson Barracks, on the
same evening and supposes for California, of
course.
Just Compliment.-One of the very last acs of
President Polk to con fer upon the son Of the
ever-lamented SKUNK. the appointment of Cadet at
West Point, out of the number allotted to him.
He accompanied this appointment by the express
sion of his high regard for the deceased patriot.
and the hope that the youth might not fail TO fol-
low the example Of the father.
LoUISIANA.-The atest accounts from the lower
Mississippi, report the river being still high,
and that many crevasses have occurred, particu-
Iarly iii the vicinity of Baton Rouge. In the Red