Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-07-28
Our new Minister to Spain.

| Our new Minister to Spain.
! Mr. Dodge, United States Minister at Madrit
was presented to the Queen of Spain on Sunday
the 18th of June. Mr.. Dodge, on presentin
his credentials, spoke as follows:
"MADAM At the moment of presenting tn
letters of credence which accredit me in tn
quality of Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe
Plenipotentiary of the United States to you
Majesty, fulfil the orders of the President o
the Republic in expressing to you the senti
ments Of friendship and high esteem he enter
tains for your royal person. The most SINGER
desire of the President and of the American
people is to see cemented and consolidated tn
ancient and amicable relations which for 8,
many years have existed between the Govern
ment of your Majesty and that of the United
States. For my part, so long as shall fill thu
Office with which / am honored, as much BY
duty as from personal inclination, shall neglec
nothing which may contribute to do away will
every cause of difficulty between the United
States and Spain; and I will labor with ASST
duty and constancy towards the development
Of the interests and prosperity of the two ma
tons. Allow me, madam, to express, in con
clusion, the sincere wishes I entertain for the
happiness and welfare of your royal person and
of your family"
To this address the Queen replied as follows
"MoNsIEUR LIE MINSTREL have heard
with much pleasure the expressions of friend.
ship you have addressed to me in the name Of
the President of the United States, in present
ing the letters which accredit you to me as
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary of the Confederation; and am happy to
be able to assure you, that you may make i,
known to the President, that the sentiments
which animate me for his person are not less
friendly.
81 desire as earnestly as the noble American
people to behold drawn closer the old and good
relation which happily exist between Spain and
the United States; and I doubt not that for
your part you will contribute to that result,
equally advantageous for the two nations, by
seconding the desires of which my Government
has given proof to put aside all motives of diff
Guilty with the Government of the United States.
give you thanks for the wishes you form for
my welfare and that of my family, and you may
rest assured that you will find at my Court
the welcome which is due to your highly dis
tinguished personal qualities"
Mr.. Dodge was accompanied in his official
visits by the Secretary of the Legation, Mr..
Perry, who acts until the arrival Of his sue
cessor.
Lord Howden, the British Minister at Madrid,
gave dinner to Mr.. Dodge on the 2lst ultimo.
A WONDERFUL FEAT.-A strange and most
remarkable performance took place in this city
this morning. A man employed in the livery
stables of G. w. Walbridge took pair of
horses to the river to wash. The recent rains
had swollen the Genesee to flood, and the
water rushes through the city, along its chan
mel, contracted by stone walls, to the Great
Falls with the speed of a race horse. There is
a place open to Water street, on the east side
the hostlers resort for washing horses. 1t was
here that Mr.. Waioridge's man went with a
pair of horses, riding one and leading another.
He rode into the water as far as it was prudent
to 90, when the horse he was leading got beyond
its depth, and drew the man off the other horse.
All were drifting rapidly towards the dam just
above the Great Falls. The man pulled on the
halters to hold the animals, but in vain and
just before they came to the dam he released
them, and springing to the wall he saved him
self from death. The horses plunged over the
dam, and were swiftly borne over the great
precipice into the vortex below. The perpen-
dicular descent is ninety-six feet, and the river
below is broad, swift. and deep while such
freshet prevails as at present Those who saw
the horses 90 over we're hardly inclined to look
below the Falls, as all supposed they would
never be seen again. So, however, it did not
turn out. short time after the accident
occurred one of the horses was discovered feed
ing on the fats on the east side of the river.
He was seen by some persons below the Falls
to swim ashore, and, without even stopping to
shake the water from his name, he commenced
eating grass upon the sloping banks. Mr.. Wal
bridge sent man and brought him up to the
stables. followed by hundreds Of people, all
eager to get a sight at the adventurer, which
had, as the boys said, "distanced Sam Patch"
The animal appeared to be entirely unframed,
and no scratch was found upon it and when
we saw him half an hour after the adventure
he was eating oats, quite unconcerned. We
regret to add that the other horse was lost.
Rochester Union.
TRAGEDY IN MIssrssIrp1.-Mr. Clark s.
Brown, the principal Of an academy, was lately
at Pontotoc, Mississippi. A few days
previous to the murder he punished, for some
lad named Carey Wray, about
twelve years of age. John, an elder brother Of
the lad, who attended the same school, was
expelled for having at the time,
it is alleged, twice threatened Professor Brown
if he whipped his brother again. Three days
after the occurrence another brother, aged 49,
years, who was studying medicine in an Office