The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-10
Route to California.

The route from Memphis to California is
said to have lately received a great accession
Of strength. from the facts stated in a recent
letter from Col. D. s. Milec of the 9rd Infant
ny to the Postmaster at Fort Smith, Arkansas,
and which has been published in the Herald
of that place. The facts are thus referred TO
by the editor introducing the letter:
Bellows a letter from Col. Miles Of the srd
Infantry, U. S. A., now stationed in New Mex
leo, to Capt. Rogers, of ribs place, making
known that a new pass has been discovered
from Albuquerque, rs miles from Santa Fe.
New Mexico, to San Francisco, California, q
journey of25 days for loaded wagons. It will
be reeolleeted that the emigrants from this
place in lS49 passed through Albuquerque. on
their journey to California. Had the new
pass then been known, the trip from this place
would have been made in two months.
"The information in regard to the discovery
of this new route, which no doubt is the one
known as Walkers Pass, settles the question
about the route for the Pacific Railroad-di-
rect fromFort Smith, via Albuquerque, to San
Francisco, California. The route BY Ell Paso.
through the Mexican Provinces, is now out of
the question. The road can now be built
within the limits of the United States. The
question is certainly settled.
According to the report of captain Marcy,
made in lS49, the road to Santa Fe is as good
as any road in the known world, the distance
being $50 miles from Fort Smith to Santa Fe
Albuquerque is about the same distance-fol-
lowing the Santa Fe road to the first settle
ment in New Mexico, where the roads fork
the left goes to Albuquerque. We look for.
ward with great anxiety to the report of Cap
tain Marcy-which is now being printed
which gives an interesting account Of the expe-
dltion to the head waters of Red river under
the Captain, during last summer, and which
will make known the character of a country
hitherto unknown to the civilized world. This
region lies Immediately between Fort Smith
and Albuquerque, and is a beautiful country,
according to the description given us by Cap
tain Marcy, susceptible of sustaining a large
population, and Astounding in mineral wealth."
Es-The Savannah Republican, Of the 25th
inst, notices the murder of a negro man in
that city, a day or two before, by a white man
named Wilson, who, enraged by some dispute
about the work the former was doing for him,
hit the negro on his head with a pistol and
then shot him. The Republican rightly adds +:
The crime here described will undergo a
rigid legal investigation before the courts.-
We need not therefore, speak of the horror
n establishment with which its announce
ment was received by the whole community.
nor say that such offences are very rare. both
in this city and throughout the South. In
deed, though we have spent all our life in this
State, a similar crime never occurred before
within our observation. OF the homicides
committed in the Southern States, we NAV
safely say that nine-tenths Of them are perpe-
trated by whites upon whites. 1t is very rare
ly that a white man kills a slave, and where
he does, he is almost sure to be a desperate
character. The penalty for murder in this
State is the same whether the crime be perpe-
trated on . white or a colored person.
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ANEcDorE OF GRATrAN.-Meagher. in his
lecture at Boston, told som excellent anec-
dotes about Grattan. According TO Mr.. M.
Grattan was indebted for his eloquence to long
nights of study and perseverance. He prac,
hced in barns, fields and meadows, and fire.
quently with no listener but a surprised pork
er, or a lost axe helve. Passing BY a ~eallows
one night he commenced an address To the
ehains. and with so much naturalness and pa
thos That a person passing by exclaimed,
How the d--l did you get down. Il is
unnecessary to add that the manner with
which Meagher told the joke, brought the
house down hike a thousand Of bricks.