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Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-12

n B. The propreors Of the several papers throughout the
United States respectfully requested give an insertion
10 this circular in their several papers, which may possibly be
interesting to many Of their subscribers.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-12

Seek Mexico for her ochedes azalias carscallas and
thousand others equally beautiful abound Do wish the
fragrant combined with grace and beauty Mexico furnishes
hem-solands, pumeras, caracsas, bgnonar, and many
others, which unknown botany. Every year has its
beauties; every month new flower; every day flower
peculiar to tsef blow only night and others only
at certain hours Of the day. The eye becomes coyed with
the beauties of the floral wd and senses by
their fragrance
As various her flowers and as beautiful as the
mag nation may conceive them be, they fall short Of
the beautiful pumage and varesations Of the feahered
tribe They living, flying, locomotive flowers with
notes far sweeer than Davds harp Here again. every night
day, and hour brings forth its appropriate warbler or chat
erer II would be impossible enumerae all the feahered
tribe will therefore, con6ne myself to few which have
been induced leave the deep gades and become the
panions OF man. Among them is the curacao or phis,n,
bird about the sze OF common turkey the male Is black
aud yellow with an ornamental the female chocolate
with crest The next is the cojoeo or ufied turkey its
color Is purple, with white spots legs and bill red The
next the little noisy checheacs about the size chicken,
game bird, and crosses well with the domestic fowl lin
ported these brides they stoed winters we'll
and believe would be useful, and great addition 10 our
poultry yard The muscoyy is here both wild and tame
and the largest All other fowls Of the poultry
yard abundant and cheap
Probably part Of the world can boast Of 10 ne climate
Mexico, or that porton embraced between Tsmpico and
point Deesdo along the Gulf Mexico Neither the cold bleak
winds Of winter nor The scorchns beat and suy airs Of summer
experenccd The climate m eternal spring vssging
Dso GUNNER nothing IN vegetable life appears die leaf
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-26
The Gold Region of New. Granada.

The Panama Star of March 25 gives an ac-
count of the adventures Of party of Americans,
VINO lett Panama some time since for the purpose
OF visiting and making an examination CT the
gold mines near Bucnavcntura Owing TO a
want of experience, and the difficulties to be
overcome in pursuing their inquiries in Il strange
country, full Of suspicious and jealous people.
and also in consequence Of the illness of some Of
the party, uniting them for duty, the enterprise
was abandoned and they returned home. Suffi-
cient was learned by them, however, while at
Buenaventura, TO satisfy the most incredulous
that there is plenty of gold in the country. guam
titles of which they saw in the possession of the
natives and Indians.
Buenavcntura is about 300 miles down the
coast; the British steamer stops there within 300
yards OF the shore. 1t has beautiful bay and
line harbor. Cali is some distance in the inte-
rlor. 1t is a city containing from $4,000 to
10000 inhabitants, and is located in country
which for beauty of scenery, fertility of soil. and
heathfulncss of climate, has hardly an equal in
the worlds wide range.
While at Bucnavcntura, letter:was addressed
by Col. Phelan, who was one of the exploring
party, TO F. W. Byrne, Esq, a gentleman resil-
ing at Cali, asking for information respecting the
mines in that neighborhood. Mr.. Byrnes an
swer is as follows, dated 18th February last:
''The information which You have received
with regard 10 valuable mines of gold in this part
OF New Granada is correct. From what | have
seen in my researches, | am of opinion that
throughout the whole of the Cordillera, which
runs through this splendid valley OF Cauca, the
mineral riches are as great as in California
The specimens which l have taken from my
mines are equal TO those which brought with
me on my return from San Francisco. The
quality ofthe gold is the same, and the depostcs
are found in the primitive mountains, at their
base, and all the rivers which descend from hose
mountains in the aluvial lands. In the noun
tans the gold is found in the granite and quartz
rocks; but the highest induccmcnt to miners is
the facility with which gold washing may be
carried on in the alluvial soil, where rivers and
streams are found in every direction, and can be
conducted to anv point at will.
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"lIOre SiIenCc.o

Every one who has visited the seat of the State
government at any time within the last ten years
during session, knows Jenny Owen the Irish
door-keeper of the House. Jenny was once
taken in, in manner and form to wit:
The Governor had given a party on the night
previous to the occasion whereof we are going
to speak, and 'Otard' and champagne had been
most literally imbibed. The orgies had lasted
until the wee 'sma' hours and the next day near
~ every body was on the stool of repentance;
the house was particularly thin and drowsy.-
Not soul was in the lobby. The speaker nod
ded III his seat, Jenny sat vine somnoque grav-
lbnS, bold upright but unconscious, in his box;
While prosy old member was mauling away
monotonously on some obnoxious item in the
lax Bill. With this exception all was as quiet
as the 'house of DEATH
Alack Clitheral who was then Assistant
Clerk, seeing Jemmy's situation and envying his
comfort; left his desk and going up to his victim
plnched him savagely, Kissing fercely in his ear
at the same time. Jenny don't You hear the
speakers hammer! there's a ID of a row in
the lobby!'
Jenny bounced from his seat as if il had been
red hot, and without waiting to open his eyes
roared, absolutely roared-sGntlemen, We must
RALLY keep MORE silence in the lobby, II YOU
PLAzEP
Flesh and blood couldn't stand it. The prosy
member sank upon his seat and the speaker
laughed outright. AS for Jenny in an instant
he discovered how he had been sold, and started
In hot pursuit of Alack. No man ever knew
how the matter was compromised when Jenny
caught up; few lave been bold enough to en-.
cure, and those few have received remarkable
lille satisfaction. -ChG'nbers .4ia. Tribune.
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An hour passed, and waited impatiently for
the carriage. Once or twice | saw Peter pass
the window with the slush bucket in his han nd,
and began to wonder what took him to the
kitchen 80 often. AT length | hailed him, to
know if the vehicle was not almost ready.
.AychH said Peter, swoull We have me spoil a
purity piece Of worki Its little them naygurs
know about grasng any thing, the haythcnsl'
'But you are so long, Peter, had better come
out and see about il myself
s'Faix! an there's no need. Yer honor shall
have in no time
sWell, make haste, then, for I'm in hurry
II might have been fifteen minutes after this
| that Peter knocked at the door.
'Will | put the horse in, sir7'
Certainly, fyou can. Isthe carriage ready 2
'Och, sure, but it's beauty! Would yel
honor come and look at it2'
DRAW it out and will be there directly.
Peter went off, and was in the act of iiingins
open the doors of the carriage house as l ap
preached.
There sirn said he, pointing to the carriage
In evident admiration. 'Did yer honor liver SET
the like ofthat?
'Why what on earth have You done to it?'
'Grased it, sure, illgantly Bedad, but i
takes the shine, any howr
never felt so angry in my life; and yet, The
whole affair combined with Peters conscious
Importance, as 1.-The prided himsclfin having don,
a good thing, was so ludicrous that soon be
| came undetermined whether to laugh or storm.
There stood my new carriage, creased all ove
with slush, or what is commonly called in thu
country, soap fat; not only the leather curtains
but the top, the body, the running gears, ant
even the shafts and swinglc-trcc; literally ont
shining mass of unsavory grassland there
stood Peter, with his eyes travelling from mint
to his work, with look ofthe most intense sat
isfaction. THE AXLEs WERE LEFT UNTOUCHED
Peter Mulrooney never CREASED for me ate
that day. But he is the hero of another LITTLE
story, which may perhaps give you in my next
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WHOLE No SOB
On the subject of "The Trade Rsroluton,"

On the subject of "1he Trade Revolution"
the New York Tribune (infer aiia,) says:
"All men do not see what is passing directly
under their eyes, in truth, the faculty Of doing
90 is far from universal
"Commercc tends irresistibly to concentrate
in fewer and fewer hands, impelled by an unex-
pressed instinct that economy and reliability are
thereby attained. The fact that trade tends to
concentration must be plain TO every observer.
''When the Dry Goods business Of cur City.
shall have become twice what it now is, We
doubt that there will be even as many firms en-
gagged and living by il as now. The per centage
of profit must gradually diminish, though the ac-
ereeate of profit realized by the leading houses
may be even greater than at present.
Last, not least, among the influences which
are conspiring 10 revolutionize the CT urse Of
Trade, is the rast expansion Of .Adrertisng. The
thing itself is by no means novcl--mtn in bust
ness Arrays did advertise, even before ncwsra-
pers existed.
"The facility Of displaying an invention.
stock Of goods, new route Of travel, before the
more active and enterprising of fifteen millions
ofpeople, by simple announcement, is a nov
city, the offspring ofporer-prcsses, rail roafs SC.
"These, too, are aiding TO produce and hasten
the inevitable concentration of Trade on the
basis of small profits, large sales and cash pay
ments. And so by one means and another, OBJ
served or unregarded, the Trade Rerolution
moves steadily on.''
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-26

GREAT UNION MEETING AT MoB1LE.-
On the 18th inst. there was gathering
of the Union men of Mobile, which Is
represented to have been the largest and
most enthusiastic convention of the peo.
pie ever held in that city.
The resolutions go strong for the Tn.
ion, and even repudiate dissolution as
last resort. They declare that no griev.
ance could warrant such a rupture.
The last resolution sets forth that it is
the deliberate opinion of the meeting,
that on the faithful execution Of the Flu.
gitive Slave Law depends the preserva.
ton of our much-loved confederacy.
They resolved to support no man for the
Presidency who was not for the Union,
first, last, and all the time.
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TERRIBLE EARTHqUAKE-.4 7'oun destroyed
Loss Of 600 Lires!--Accoun,s from Malta an
nounce Il succession of earthquakes which have
been felt at Maori, town of Natolio, in Asiatc
Turkey, rs at Samson, a seaport in the Black
Sea, within the same province, and at the Island
of Rhodes, attended at the first mentioned place
and its immediate vicinity with great destruction
of human life and property.
The first shock was felt on the 2Sth of Febru-
airy, between and 81 p. M, when at Rhodes,
the upper part of the castle, which is at the en-
trance of the town, fell with an awful crash,
overwhelming the officers ofthe Austrian LlOyd's
Steam Navigation Company, whilst the Tower,
which commands the entrance ofthe harbor, and
other parts of Notifications, sustained great in
jury, as did likewise many dwellns-houses
Slightcr shocks succeeded almost daily, up to the
18th of March. At Maori. on the main land,
and its immediate neighborhood, the consequent
ces have been most disastrous and heart-rending.
The whole of the houses, dwellings, and stores
lately erected in the town, have been levelled TO
the ground, assures have been formed in the
very streets, from which biumous vapors eXude
continually, almost suflocating the inhabitants;
many springs have dried up, whilst in arid local
tiles new ones have gushed ont, changing the
whole feature of the earth's surface.
The town Of Levissy, which contained 1900
houses, has not one left standing, and no less
than 600 human beings are reckoned to be under
the ruins, which number would have been aw-
fully augmented had the shock been after night
fall, when the inhabitants retire 10 their homes
after the labors of the day. The village Of
Chioge has nearly Jared the same fate; the upper
rart of huge mountain having fallen into and
blocked up, the snail port of Ekengik, and over
whelming all the dwellings round about its base.
Another village, more inland, has been buried
from the fall, in opposite direction, oftwo hills,
between which it was situated.
AT Samson smart shock was felt on the 25th
Of February, but ii caused no damage. Our
readers will remember that the famous COLOSSUS
Of Rhodes was thrown down by an earthquake
23i years before Christ. Letters from Trebizond,
another city of Asiu'ic Turkey (the ancient
Trapesus) down TO the 9Th of March, mention
two smart shocks of earthquake there.
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For The Cecil Whig.
SPRING FLOWERS,

Have YOU been out in the woods du-
ring The past two weeks, Mr.. Editor I
But | need scarcely ask goa that question,
for you love nature too well, not to wan
der forth and drink in enjoyment from
her beauties, which are unfolding day
after day.
The lovely, bright-eyed flowers are
springing up in all their matchless beau
ty, away in the woodland haunts, and
whisper tales of glorious "summer time"
Byron calls the stars the poetry of heav-
en-, and may we not say Eye aorers, ye
are the poetry ofearth,' for more speak
ing language we could not have.
The delicate blue forget-me-not, that
now is looking up to you with its starry
eyes, seems to say Glove me-" and the
sweet little violets, speak to US of mod
esty and lowly beauty; and our trailing
arbutus." earliest of all cur blossoms
seems to me to be fit emblem of deyo.
ted, never-dying ''love," clinging to the
earth with trusting confidence, and
though dead leaves often cover it and
hide its beauties from us, yet still il
blooms on regardless Of display, and il
we will brush from it those slight wells,
its beauty and fragrance will enchant u.s.
Those who cannot enjoy walk in
the early spring-iimc certainly lose an
exquisite pleasure; it is to me almost per-
feet happiness to ramble forth and gath
erspring's first offerings; it appears like
greeting old friends from whom we have
been separated for gloomy months, and
now we feel we can love them even bet.
ter than before. And how many mem.
cries does ramble call up, in our minds;
thoughts Of other days, when we were
careless, happy children, just beginning
to enjoy life and Its pleasures, thinking
not, caring not, for the future, unless tc
gid it with bright hopes and buoyant
fancies, and each year has found us wiser
and more sad; we have felt lfe's stern
realities, and yet, though our light-heart.
ed gayety has flown never to return,
do not think we are less happy, for oul
capacities for enjoyment are still en-.
larging, SO that we may drink in deeper
draughts Of happiness, even fits sweet
ness has touch Of bitter. xxx
Cecil Co., Ma
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AFFLlcTioNs.-The deeper we sink in
the earth, more and brighter stars do we
discover. Affections have these ten
denotes. The more real sorrow that fills
our bosom the deeper our afilictions-so
lighter appear the designs of Prov dence.
Stars cannot be discovered in the sun-
shine. When prosperity attends us,
how apt are we to forget the hand that
guides and sustains! IT'S sorrow that
makes US discover the bl, ssings of Hea-
ven and the value of religion.
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SATURDAY MORNING APRIL &c 1851

GSTThe following beautiful stanZas are from
the German. How many of us live day after
day, till days turn into months, and months into
years, in hope of some tanced good. and when AT
last our goal is reached and that for which we
have pincd is attained, find sour hope and Joys
shaded" our anticipations turned to ashes on
our lips:
Beside the stream that gently flows,
AT morning dawn l saw rose
In modest beauty blushing:
More fair than all on earth beside,
1t bent above the crystaitide,
And listened TO its gushing.
Beside the stream that gently flows,
AT eventide saw the rose
But all the leaves were faded:
Such Is thy fate, oh man AN hour
Thou liv'st in hope, but like the flower,
Thy hope and joys are shaded.
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days since, en- route to his gold mines in
Mariposa county.
I fear it will not be my luck to eat my
next Christmas dinner in Elkton.
Though that is some distance ahead; far
theI than we are in the habit of looking
in this tast country.
r. +. MAY.
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God loveth a cheerful giver, and
Christ reproved the Pharisees for disfg.
uring their faces with sad countenance.
Fools! who to persuade men that angels
lodged in their hearts, hung out devil
for sign in their faces.
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SWAPPING WooD.-WooD which prov.
es troublesome by swapping on the fire,
may be rendered harmless by turning
the stick with the heart inward, when
all the swapping will be toward the back
of the fire,
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PRoGREss.-The papers are Dragging
of an invention by which leather can be
tanned in ten minutes. We have seen
the human hide, however, tanned in ten
minutes. We have seen the human
hibe, however, tanned in five. Our
schoolmaster used to do it casionally
in two.
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SPORT TURNED 10 1t
is not always prudent for ladies to don
male attire, as the annexed, from the
Washington Republic, will show:
A few nightsago a young lady dressed
herself in mans clothes, for the purpose
Of having little innocent fun by fright
ening the two white female servants in
the house. One ofthcm had retired to
rest, and was in doze when the young
lady, thus disguised, entered the cham
Der and disturbed the occupant, whose
screams startled the other servant, who,
being down stairs, fastened up. The
young (wo).ma rushed to the door to
keep her out; but superior strength pre-
vailed, and ingress was effected. This
servant seized the supposed male, and
after severe contest, threw heavy can
dlcstick at the head of her antagonist
which did not, however, strike as in
tended; and she then ran, and did not
stop until she reached the basement.
Here she tainted and remained insen-
sble for nearly half an hour. The
whole household were now alarmed
there was much "noise and confusion;''
and, to remove all fear, the young lady
readily revealed herself, perceving that
her conduct was near leading to very
serious consequences.
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Like bell that's rung for fire; like a
careless auction crier, like, ofttntimes,
graceless liar; misunderstanding tattlers
60; stopping you with quaking fear, whis-
pering as you lend an ear-"Mercy on
us, did you hear! Betsy Bean has got
beau,"
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why Hans, you have the most fem
mime cast of countenance have ever
SEEM
oh, yaw,' was the reply. 'fknow
de reason for dat; mine moder was vo.
man.
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One Of the Texas Papers says there
is no water in the vicinity of Austin near
er than two miles, and the people are
obliged to swim their horses across the
river to get it!
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Took HIS ADvlcE.-A chaplain was
once preaching to class of collegians
about the formation of habits. Gentle
men; said he, Close your ears against
bad discourses. The scholars immedi.
ately clapped their hands to their ears.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-26

FCourting is an irregular active
transItive verb, Indicative mood, resent
tense, singular number, and agrees with
it agrees with all the girls in TOWN.
don't itr'
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Sublime.

They tell me that Pm handsome yet,
And all the ladies say
s'Do look at him-the dear old man
Grows younger every day!''
And when each friend asks-"At your age,
How came you free from ills9
! always answer-In my youth
PAID MY PRINTERS BILLS!
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The greatest pleasure of life is love;
the greatest treasure, contentment; the
greatest possession, health; the greatest
ease, sleep; and the best medicine, true
friend.
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knowledge cannot be acquired with
out pains and application. 1t is trou-
blesome, and like deep digging for pure
waters; but when you once come to the
spring, they rise up and meet you.
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The keeper of the Galley West Saloon
committed suicide on Wednesday night
last by shooting himself with a six-bar.
relied sausage. No insurance.
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merry bachelor says that wives who
are good needle women are like the
enemy spoken of in the parable; they
sew tares while the husband men sleep.
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'Nimrod can you tell me who was the
first mani
adam somebody. His father was no.
dody, and he never had no mother on ac-
count OF the scarcity of women and the
pressure Of the times.
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The following toast was drank at the
annual meeting of the Bullocksmythy
Agriculture Society. 'Spades-Alwavs
trumps when properly handl2d.'
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Sir Walter Scott says that a professed
wit is, of all earthly companions, the
most intolerable. He is like school
boy with his pocket stuffed full of crack
ers.
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DESTRUCTION OF THE EGYPTIAN PyR-
AMIDs AND TEMpLEs.-A correspondent
of the London AthanRum says that the
Northern Pyramid of Dashour is now in
progress of being converted into stone
quarry, in order to build some new pal
ace or villa in the neighborhood; the
tombs of Sakkara are used for the same
purpose; the mounds of Abydus are ran
sacked for building materials; the Tenn
pie of Erment is going for the same
purpose; and two temples have, within
the last six years, been knocked down,
and the materials removed from near
Sheikh Fadi, entirely without the
knowledge of travellers, toe whom, in
deed, they have remained utterly I'M
known until now that they no longer
exist.
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DEATH OF JUDGE MOORE.

|, is our melancholy duty, TO day, to
announce the death of the Hon. Aug.
Moore, late one o! The Judges of The Su.
perior Courts Of Law and Equity in this
State. The suddenness with which this
calamity burs, upon us, the many noble
virtues Of The deceased. the high position
which he occupied in This community,
and the grea, and exalted respect in which
he was held by his fellow citizens. all con-
tribute 10 render more poignant the affiic.
lion which we have sustained in This sud-
den and disastrous deprivation. On last
Friday we left him in The enjovmens Of
perIrci heahh, and engaged in The trial Of
an intricate and perplexlng sui. in The Sn-
perior C.ou.t Of Berthe County. On Inc
following evening he returned To his home,
complaining Of very. Sigh, pneasness. o"'
cheerful. and participating With gayely "
the sand paslimes ofihe domestic CIT
Gle. A. uine oelsck on. ,Sunlsy lpotb.