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Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1851.

By a Letter fromia gentleman of Washington,
now in London, under date Of July 10, il appears
that the United States are only second to France
in the space allotted to them in the exhibition
The writer adds: t" trust that harmony and good
: feeling will ensure full occupancy of the space
9 allowed to us, and that the best machinery and
products will be illustrated; if SO, we shall have
nothing to be ashamed Of"
As three or four exhibitions are to come off in
different parts of this country during the ensuing
autumn, it is hoped that the societies having charge
of those exhibitions will aid in securing from among
the objects brought to their notice the forwarding
of such as will well and truly illustrate the best ma
chinery and products of the country.
The Circular of the Central Commission estab-
lished in this city will doubtless be in the hands of
the committees charged with the local exhibitions,
and will apprixe them Of the steps necessary to be
taken in relation thereto, in order to secure the ad-
mission Of articles to the exhibition in London.
We are requested to state that communications
relative to the forwarding of objects to the Indus
trial Exhibition may be addressed to the Secretary
of the Central Committee on the Industrial Exhi-
bition, under care of J. C. G. KENNEDY, Esq,
Superintendent of the Census.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN VIRGINIA.

FROM THs PETERSBURG ISTELLIGEscER OF JULY 81.
We copied in yesterdays paper Mr.. FoorK's scahing
philippe against Judge BEVERLY TUCKER With Mr.
Foote'S quarrel with Judge Tucker have nothing to do
and against Judge Tucker, personally, have nothing
say. But his in the Convention Nashville is open
public criticism and do not hesitate say that ninety
Of every hundred Of the citizens of Virginia utterly
repudiate the sentiments which he avoed and condemn the
temper he displayed in his speech n that body Disuion
per does not occupy inch Of Virginia SOIL and we
doubt Virginia audience Of respectable numbers could
induced listen to such speech Judge Tucker favored
the Nashville Convention with Such doctrines may suit
the region Of Banwe Court House, in South Carolina but
here in the Old Dominion, they are utterly secuted
Judge Tucker, If mistaken, is the Professor Of
constitutional well common law in William and Mary
College, and we should suppose that his lectures the first
named subject not precisely the kind which should
indoctnate the youth Of Virginia Far better would il be
that colleges should be closed than that the rising
ration Of Virginia should take degrees in notification or dis.
union, and through Of study acquire
wheewth to convince their felowczens that dissolution
Of the Union would be beneficial the Southern States
We have always believed that these lectures at our colleges
on constitutional law were something than humbug
for they give to the Professor the opportunity influence inn
properly the minds OF his Glass; and send them the
Uord u1M dogmns and crotces thich may stick TO them
for lifetime. No professor, care not how honestly he
may try to avoid IL help nfusng into his lectures bis
party predictions and by his influence and authority his
students, to make them either Wings Democrats Dunion
lists Consoaonis he may be Of the one the other
way Of thinking boy has enough to do at college with
other studies, and it is time enough after he has mastered
them Tor him TO set to work acquire the science Of Govern
ment hen he has left college, he study the consu-
ton OF his country, watch the working of principles and
measures read the speeches Of who qualified to
plain the operation of institutions and make up intel
lgent opinion for himself The idea Of s,ung youths
head with abstract notions taken from Adam Smith, Say,
Ricardo, &C., writer's who ignorant Of country
and its peculiar institutions they Of the existence Of
the gold mines in California, strikes both ridiculous and
pernicious.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

CaoLERA AT Tx WEsT.-At Cincinnati, on Friday. the
Board of Health reported A deaths2l Of which were from
cholera. DIR. Shotwe, eminent physician of that city,
died the night before.
At ST. Louis the day, the cemeteries reported for
twenty -four hours 35 deaths, IL being from cholera
At Louisville the report Of the whole number Of n,ermens
for the twenty hours ending the Gath instant was So
of which As were cholera, other diseases S.
The epidemic has appeared in Washington Indiana and
has caused several deahs The has been deserted by
all save two three families.
The NASHVILLE Bannar Of the l7h instant saws "The
choera has so far abated that things begin
lively about town more"
The cholera has broken out in violent form at North Mad
Six funerals took place there on the 18th and FIVE on
the 10Th instant.
The Evansville Journal says that the cholera is raging vio
eny Petersburg, Indiana and had made sad havoc among
the aborers the canal in that Some twenty
deaths occurred omhe disease Ever sve during the week
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

A QUEsTIoN.-The Washington Union, referring
to the report that an American squadron had gone
to Lisbon for the purpose of bombarding the town,
to enforce payment of American claims, propounds,
among number Of other questions, this, which it
asks only for information
I'D. Does it not partake of the character OF
/" war or, at least, may it not lead to war? find
I" can the President exercise such power by has
" oUn authority2"
One would think that if any body could answer
the question whether the President of the United
States can exercise power by his own authority
which may lead to war, it would be the organ of
the Administration which ordered the celebrated
march to the Rio Grande.
Richmond Republican.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

CHOLERA THE PLAISs.-The ST. Louis Republican OF
the 18th instant has letters from the Plains which give sad
accounts of the ravages Of cholera among the California
grants. II is believed that least hundred and fifty
deaths occurred during the first two weeks of June. Wagon
trains passed in which almost every individual pros
,raed by disease already dead As illustration Of the
havoc made by the fell destroyer, instance is ced where
encampment Of two tents passed. standing, th
other 'sruck," bu, lying the ground. Near by
barrel Of crackers several blankets eight pairs Of boots
hats coats, Shirts &c. and little further off FIVE graves
One hundred and fifty graves counted by person
who travelling from Fort Kearny to the westward.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
M EXICO

The political horizon of MEXICO seems enwrapt
in clouds. Hope of its future grandeur is fast de-
serting the hearts of the people, The dismissal of
Senor GUT1ERREs from his post of Minister of FL
nance meets with hearty disapprobaton. He had
been replaced for the present by Senior LAcUNzA,
Minister of Foreign Relations. Gutierres made
some astounding developments regarding the state
of the treasury He is said to have been dismissed
because he was too honest to become the tool of
ambitious men. The Trait d. Union remarks:
The treasury is only empty but there are no avail
able by which be filed Cat least legally fed
The state of the country arises from the evils which have
crep and become part and portion of its sysem of gov
ernnent They must all be changed any good
result to Mexico"
The SgIo loh Csth Century has long article enti-
tied "Appoachipg Calames," which gives dark outline
Of the state of aft irs. Itsays
War and the plague have been portion within the
past few years. and approaching two evils even more
DREADFUL nne and civil l,car multitude Of causes be-
yond CONTROL occasoned the TIE plague was sent
by God and by him will be withdrawn in hi, own good
time but famine and civil will soon be upon US Tbey are
the results Of the evils Of systems and the bad
of the affairs of the country. They may be averted
and every noble heart should be 10 the contest Let
the President be capable Of sustaining the coming ,r-
ais, and our native land may yet shine bgh, jewel among
the nations Of the earth
We have received the prospectus Of new journal called
La Reforna, which will appear in Guadaaara II proposes
using all It's influence against Socialism and Communism.
We do not envy them the task In Csmpeacby among other
new papers one bearing the Of TIE 7umpet Of
the Last Day Of Judgment :" (What name Of woful
sound , Journals have sprung up like mushrooms Thew
will live until after the election for President in the autumn.
and then wiher like the tender plants Of ripe summer Every
candidate has new Journal which he has called into exist
ence There this time thirteen candidates for the Pro
sdency ARtsTA seems, however, to be in the ascendency
Don Luis DE Ia Rosa absent and the young IrrRBrpE
deemed unavailable at this particular crisis
Mobile Adrertiser.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
REMEDY FOR THE CHOLERA.

The following letter. giving the experience of respectable
shipmascr of the effects Of simple remedy in Of
cholera has been furnished the New York Evening Post
for publication.
The method that resorted by Dr. DIcxsoN Of London
and the school Of practitioners which he belongs. He main
ans that the cholera produced by the spasm palsy of the
eighth pair of nervesthat tosay, the which
muncate between the bran stomach and the lungs and
POUNDS this doctrine remarkable experiments Of the
anatomist Dupuyten, who showed that by the simple
preston Of this pair Of nerves. asphyxa produced which
can be continued till proves MORTAL and that during this
aphyxa the blood becomes Of black coal color and that
is attended with violent efforts vomit The practice
founded this view Of the of cholera the admins
traion Iof emetics. Mustard and common SALT in warm
water, sometimes given sometimes emetc, the
Italian practice sometimes ipacac. sometimes bloodwarm
This practice and the for it, have been set
forth in various published papers of Dr. Turner to whom this
letter is addressed
New YoRK, JULr 20, 1850.
To DR.. TURNER: Dear Sr-h compliance with your e.
guest respectfully reply that in January last in the packet
ship Isaac Wright, under my command sailed from Liver
pool with two hundred and five passengers. Within forty
eight hours after sailing of the cholera appeared
board which treated for time, according to the book,
with such bad that within ten days. had thrown
overheard twenty Of the passengers dead with the cho
then recoleceda method Of treatment suggested to me
by my friend and predecessor Captain Alexander A. Marsha
viz to give table spoonful of salt and tea spoonful Of
red pepper in half pint Of hot tried it with such
that did lose another patient during the passage
SINCE
was seized violently myself with the cholera, had cramps
and on, and this medicine carried me through.
The medicine very promptly emetc, say in one
minutes. It brings up very offensive matter, which
sticks like glue gven among others, to old woman
Of eighty -four years of age. who deck hough weak
Of course) the very next day.
have known il to successfully used board their ships
by at least dozen shpmasters besides myself Its is
quite general in Liverpool where even some of the regular
doctors find it to their advantage to resort to it.
Provided with this simple recipe longer consider the
cholera an unmanageable disease. G. L. PEABODY,
Master of packets ship Isaac Wright.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
PRACTICAL REMARKS.

As predicted by "A Retired Merchant who
appears to understand thoroughly the Tariff. in
yeur columns, our precious metals have been ex.
ported in no small quantities and, as foreign ex.
changes continue above par, and may advance, il is
quite clear to the mind of the writer that. before
Congress shall have time to mature any measures
to check imports, we must lose large amount of
coin, which every practical merchant knows is so
well calculated to cause financial difficulties and
occasional revulsions It is true the country looks
prosperous and portion of it is really so, but we
know that commercial storms have come upon us
suddenly and ragged with dreadful, desolating yio
lence vide 1897. By the late arrivals from Eng
land we have seen it stated in print that some of
our merchants land they are now there from all the
| large towns OF the Union, and in no small num-
bers) have expressed the opinion that we must, ere
long, have an unhealthy and improbable state of
business. In this we fully concur; and, without
knowing the reasons given by our merchants whilst
" comparing notes" with foreigners, we will give
ours in few words. Conditioned as we are, with
no National Bank to initiate or contract at its plea
sure the circulation of bank paper but the currency
being now left to regulate itse-the best regulated
after alive see nothing whatever to prevent this
country from becoming permanently prosperous
but excessive imports. From the fact that foreign
exchanges above par value. and coin leaving the
country, there can be no question but that our i'm
ports exceed our exports; and if they do at the
rate of thirty or forty millions per annum as some
say they now doing, the time is not far distant
when the muterngs of another storm will be heard,
unless we be compelled to effect another loan from
foreigners. But as this matter of the balance of
trade, and its effects, are SO plain, we did not take
up pen to discuss it, but simply to make request
OF the new Secretary of the Treasury. 1t is,
that he will monthy (f possible,) certainly quar-
terly, cause to be published statement of the re-
spective amounts of imports and exports Here
tofore such a statement has appeared but once a
year, lin the regular report Of the Treasury Depart
ment.) We think quarterly returns from the col
lectors most important, that all should know whe-
ther we are to expect sunshine or storm. When
the exports exceed the imports all's well.
JULI 20, 1850. COMMERCE.
NOTE BIZ THE EDIToRs.-Our correspondent in making
his call on the Secretary Of the Treasury for monthly pub
cations Of commercial statistics, suppose that the
annual statements prepared the Treasury published
at the discretion of the Secretary the Treasury They
made according to the direction of of Congress and
presume that no less authority would authorize their month
y publications. If such publication would be practicable for
beneficial eect-which is doubtful since such pubIca
ton could well be made within shorter time than three months
after the expiration of each month
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

In commenting upon the proclamation Of Gov
ernor BELL, Of Texas, calling special session of the
Legislature Of that State for the 18th of August, the
Houston Telegraph says that the question of boun-
Diary betwixt that individual State and the Federal
Government representing all the States Of the
Union, is one Of those political questions which can
only be decided by the sword. 1t tsays further
elf President Taylor Congress should persist in refusing
TO acknowledge the claim Of Texas there but alerna
tive left The compact Of annexation becomes void. This
compact was nerer ratified by the constitutional majority in
the Senate consequently not in the nature Of treaty, and
cannot agreeaby to the provisions of the constitution be
subject TO the jurisdiction Of the Supreme Court.
has the fught decide upon the extent Of her
limits. The General Government controlled by the cons.
tuton cannot define the limits Of State after it has been
admitted into the Union In this instance it is poweress.
The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction What power, then,
is 10 interfere, Texas asserts her claim, and enfoces her
jurisdiction with the aid of the military power"
Ieras appears to be not whit behind one or
two other Southern States, if the Houston Tele-
graph is to be relied upon authority.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
FROM MEXICO.

The royal mail steamer Iay arrived in Mobile
bay on the 10th instant, in three and half davs
from Vera Cruz.
The cholera prevailing throughout of the Mexican
States At San Luis Potos the deaths amounted almost to
230O and many othe mining districts almost depopula-
ted AT the capital the disease continued with great fatality. In
Vera Cruz the less numerous but extremely fatal
In the city of Mexico" says the Trait d. Uaon '' from
the 25th at which date ceased daily report to the
I'd July the total number of has been 1000 deaths
234 II will hence be perceived that have had 2s6 cases
of cholera each day. and of that number l76 have died. We
had hoped that the plague disappearing, but within
days past has recommended its work Of DEATH and
horrible than ever. We advise all Persons be particularly
cautious From the first appearance Of the cholera until the
I'd of July, there have been and 6400 deaths
Whatever may be said to the contrary,
friends of the truth of our report"
Private letters say the sickness has disappeared from Guana
juato, also from Queretao. is raging upon the Mex
ican Gulf Jalapa, Ozaba, and Vera Cruz have just enter
ed the fierce ordeal of suffering and death.
fghtfa assassination occurred Pueblo recently The
victim the Hon. Don CAMILLo BARRos. The servants
were all absent at early mass when his valet entered
bis chamber and struck his unfortunate master al least twenty
Tour blows with knife He died long the last wound
given The valet then gathered up all the valuabes in the
chamber and fed He concealed himself in Of the large
inns OF the cy awaiting the approach of night that he might
effect his escape The Judge Of the district upon receiving
Information of the hod MURDER had all the gates Of the city
Closed and inn searched until the vile assassin dis
covered, his hands yet red with the blood of his master
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
yALuABLE COLLECTION OF FOREIGN Seeds.

VALUABLE COLLECTION OF FOREIGN SEEDS
Of foreign Contributions of seeds to the Patent
Office the Commissioner is indebted to Com. D.
GEIsINGER, United States Navy, for valuable col
lection just brought home by him, from Batavia.
They are accompanied with volume descriptive
of plants cultivated in the Government gardens Of
Java.
A large portion of the seeds is from the Botani-
cal gardens at Buytenzong, the residence of the
Governor General of Dutch India. They were
presented to Com. Geisinger by Capt. LIST, aid
de-camp to the Governor General, and President
of the Horticultural Society at Batavia.
Com. Geisinger has brought also for the Patent
Office, package Of another description. Van
Braam, and more recent travellers, having often
referred to, without sufficiently describing, method
in universal use in China, of rendering cracked
cast-iron vessels perfectly sound by of fused
iron, the Commissioner took advantage of an
offer made by the Hon. ]. BALEsTIER, United
States Agent to Southeastern Asia, to furnish
any information on the arts, &c. of the East. Mr..
B. has sent by Com. G. vessel repaired in his
presence, with specimens of the materials and i'm
plements employed, &c., an account of which will
appear in the next report from the Patent Office.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

The Philadelphia Bulletin has the following
notice Of the gifted lady who me, an untmely death
last week by the wreck Of the brig Elizabeth, on
the shore of Fire Island:
The Countess Of known Ful-
le-was the daughter Of Hon. TIsoTHr FULLER, lawyer Of
Boston, bs. nearly all bis life resident Of Cambridge and
Representative of the Mddesex Discn Congress from s7
to 1926 She was the first born Of six children, and early dis
played great talents which her father, with more regard for
her mental than her bodily heab stimulated by ncessant
study. The early death OF this parent left Margaret TO de-
pend herself for livelihood. Accordingly, she applied
herself to teaching vocationrst in Boston, then in
Providence, and afterwards in Boston again. In ls44 she
abandoned teaching and assumed the critical department OF the
Tribune, where her articles attracted much attention The
following she visited Europe, correspondent OF the
same PAPER and continued reside abroad where she had
married, until few weeks prior her death. She was the
author OF two noticeable works" Summer on the Lakes,
and Woman in the Nineteenth Century = besides numer-
Gus shorter articles the best of which collected by Put
man, IN 1886, under the title Of Papers Literature and
Art
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03
THE CUBAN PRISONERS.
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA rESSsrLyAsIAl

PHILADELPHIA PESSsILyASIAr.
The final release of the prisoners, citizens this
country, arrested by the Spanish authorities OF
Cuba for participation in the invasion OF that Island
under Gen. LOPEZ, is fully confirmed. Commander
McKEEvER, Of the frigate Congress, has contributed
much to the restoration OF these misguided men to
their country and friends, and deserves the highest
credit for his exertions. friend and correspond
ent, attached to the gallant frgate, gives the
following interesting account of these capves,
restored to liberty, in letter just received from
him, dated at Havana on the llth OF July:
"Commodore McKEEyER has just received communica-
ton from the Captain to say that the Cuban prison.
arrested Of alleged participation in the inva
sion Of Lopez, will this day be delivered to him. They
forty-two in number Just had finished the foregoing
sentence summoned deck to receive these Conoy
prisoners. Some have been sent on board.
"They real Sir John Fastaf's own. They were mus
tered the quarterdeck Such odds and ends of humanity
have rarely grouped together All doubt Of their being
part and parcel Of the original expedition fitted out against
Cuba is at end They boldly avow it. Ihave conversed
with one among the Intelligent Of them, and they had
confessed as much their cap,or they have to the
preservation of their lives should be regarded act
humanity.
What is this upon the adventurous dare devil
character Of the American What blessings do these
surrender for the promise of shadow and at the risk OF
a halter Could you but them now, as do, walking
about our deck such gotesque, may say picturesque
party You would suppose them to be any thing but Amer
icans They rather from Andausa province
Of old Spain. And these the whose act of folly
causing Great Britain and France increase their naval
strength in these waters and English statesmen to ume and
fret in Parliament Truly, great nation.
"Commodore McKEEyER has had parting interview with
the Captain General to-day There ten remaining
prisoners his hands, the officers and OF the two ves
sells which captured They be released at once,
and suppose put board their vessels. The prisoners,
list of whom herewith send you who board to-day
hoop bas of
to Baracoa in few days. am writing you in detached
hours as events hansrie around We sail with
rows dawn and shall sweep through the Florida passage
into the broad Atlantic way to Brazil
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

We have repeatedly expressed the opinion that
there is not single disunionist in Maryland, and
we firmly believe it for we have not seen heard
Of one man who favors dissolution of the Union,
under any condition of things. We are satisfied
that such is the attachment Of the people of this
State to the Union that it would be unsafe for any
man to address to public assemblage such a
speech that recently delivered to the people of
Charleston by Mr.. Rhett He would be hissed
from the stand as traitor, and the finger of
would be pointed at him as an enemy to his
country.-BaItinaore Clipper.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-08-03

lie Placer California; Times Of June 18th furnishes in
formation OF the safe arrival Of one Of the overland parties
which lef Missouri the last Spring It consisted of abou,
forty persons who went BY the Carson route and reached
Weaversille on the sth Of June. The Times says
This party left Independence about the frs, Of Aprl.
and came with pack mules After they had been on their
journey about ten days they passed six hundred
which had started the journey before them In CROSSING
the mountains this company oen found the snow from eep
TO thy feet deep but close packed that the mules
feet only made slight impression on it, The company ar
rived all in good health, and appears they choose III,
best season to perform their journey"