Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-05

The Galveston Register of. the 18th instant has
The following items:

The Galveston Register of. the 18th instant has
the following items:
EXHIBITION TO THE GILA.-A company Of nearly one
hundred men from Alabama their way 10 the ella
TO explore the gold REGION and probably to establish settle
ent IN ihe neighborhood Of old copper mines above
Dona Ana They passed through arson ia Cass coun-
w on the 2oln uimo The Herald says: They were all
wen EQUIPPED with guns, of cannon and wagons
provisions &C. they belong to stock company All the
stock Is held IN Montgomery, Aabama by vey wealthy and
enteprlsing men, who II the ojec all succassul in
tehu senuins Two or three hundred negro there"
Two companies Of the 5h infantry, under the command of
Breve Bug Gen. Belknap, the march from Port
Gibson, by The surveyed by Capt Msrcy 10 tho
station the Eight other companies are son 10 he
stationed in that section, and Gordon Of ss will be es,.
ished in dec' line from Fort Smith to d ma Ana When
this line established the old stations the Trinity Brasos
Colorado, and The Intermediate rivers will probably be sban
doned, and the frontier will be pushed upwards this new
military line. The settlements extending rapidly around
Forts Worth and Gates that they already almost
We understand that the road opened song the line
veyed by Capt Marcy has become weh by the
companies emgrants that passed along that
it itresembles the turnpikes Of the Western states.
We learn from Mr.. George Barnard, who snivsd few
days since from Waco Village, that large party Of Canaan
chez numbering about six hundred visited Fon Gates about
the 10th ultmo. They all appeared Be quite friendly and
expressed great anxiety to be gocd with the whites
They deny that their warriors have participated in the out
RACES committed on the Western frontier Mr. Barnard states
that the buffalo have become henorhern praes
that the Camanches actually suffering for food and unless
some provision made by Government support them they
must either s'arve or steal horses cattle feed upon
The following interesting items are from Paris
letter OF June IL, written blythe regular correspon-
dent Of the New York Journal of Commerce
In the scientific report Of the Pays, (Mr. Lamar,us's
Journa) find the following parsgraph:
"At the moment celebrating the transformation of
flax into cotton it s announced, not less auhsntcay that
cotton transformed into fax The edar the journal of
Rouen that be has stuff made Of cotton
y which has all the appearance and external qualities of
linen cloth young manufacturer of Mouns devoted to it
many years Of sacrifices and labor The resp requires no
extraordinary process to workmanship The tissue be-
the rmer it is washed. II may be aHorIed at the
price Of calico Of the same width
The eminent scientific musician Florentino, who writes
from London to the Constitutional, mentions the great
number of musical instruments in the Exhibition
'There is not, " be says "a Of the world which
has not sent its piano, von mandolne bass One may
shudder at the idea Of the horrible detonaion all the nstr
ments were sounded at time The Americans dis
nguhed if not by the excellence least BY the colossal
1men.ons Of their instruments England shots smallest
Of the panos-the 7omPoue Many Of the English shapes
and ornaments are exceedingly grotesque- The French
pianos bear away the palm. Erard is paed Sax has
provided eghyfve instruments (wind) Of them in
vented perfected by himself The remarkable in size
Sarorn bourbon three yards high and Of not less than
ory eight feet of tube"
vste at the Crystal Palace, Friday last celebrates
he superiority Of the French organs. He says:
'The Paris organ played in the afternoon with great
variety Of effect shrhl the trumpet soft as the
flute other times numbering out with great power and
grandeur To show its versatility and capacity, 10 tried
music sacred and proane mournfu and mhfu paintve
and powerful Auld lang syne, Suomi Ia troba "a
waltz or psalm une-a seemed alike suited to this nstu
ment."
The Bulletin Of the Geographical Society of Paris just
distributed opens with appeal to the Governments Of Eu
rope and Ameca for the adoption of Common First Meri-
dian. The author, M. Sediot is high authority in geogra
phcal science He would imaginary line in the
midst Of the designate by Systematic term
acceptable to ALL and bring thus Europe and the New
World into community Of and interests apart all
national preudces preenson The appeal followed by
letter of NJ Jomard on the subject, and another from
the traveller Antony DAbbade who prefers Mount Blanc
Jerusalem against which the Christians Of America can
have objection. Among the contents Of the Bulletin
may indicate notice Of Lieut. Com. MacArthurs report
9Th December 1885, to Professor Bache, which has been
translated entire for the HydQgraphica Anna periodical
work. NJ Squers Observations the Of the proposed
canal the Ishmus Of Nicaragua also translated