Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-03-15

Laying uead ana cold before him,
And his bursting heart within him
Uttered such cry of anguish
That the forest nloaaed and shuddsysd
Ihat tie pery stars fn heaven
Shook and trem6led soith his angni,h."
$500. Col. B. +. Treadwell, of South Carolina
has given $1,000 towards sending Southern
smigrants to Kansas.
...... The fine old ship William Fame, which
nearly hundred years ago bore Gen. Wolfe
to the conquest of Quebec, is now lying in the
dry docks at Newport, England, to undergo a
few slight repairs.
...... Capt. H. G. Wright, Engineer Corps,
U. s. Army, has been ordered from the com
mand of Fort Jefferson to Washington. Capt
Woodbury. has relieved him of the works at
Tortugas, and has already entered upon the
duties of his station.
$3.50. Punch says that the reason why Ed.
tors are so apt to have their manners spoiled,
is because they receive such vast numbers of
evil communications.
...-. The Dublin Medical Press, referring to
the Parliamentary committee to investigate the
authorizations of food and medicine, says !:
"One manufacturer produces twenty-one tons
of rhubarb per annum. 1t is inferior to the
Turkey rhubarb, as fetching 4d. per pound,
while Turkey is lis. cd. Cod-liver oil is i'm
mensely adulterated only five per cent. of
genuine cod-liver oil will answer all the chemi-
cal tests. Mustard has thirty per cent. of lime
or chalk as adulteration. Chloroform under
goes decomposition, but it is not much adulte
rated quinine is very much adulterated with
starch and mama.
...... There are now in California 1888 miles
of canals, valued at $6,34l,700 showing an
increase Of 1929 miles, valued at $4,047, 700,
during the last year. In addition to which liz
canals and bitches have been commenced, and
will probably be completed within the next
year. Amongst them is the Sierra Nevada
Mountain canal, an immense work, ten feet at
the bottom, fourteen feet at the top, and de-
signed, with branches, to extend over about
l6O miles There are SO quartz mills in ope
ration, crushing $4,000 tons per annum, and
realizing $4,Os2,loo.
AN UoLY BLuNDER OF a FOREIGN JOURNAL.
The Independence Beige of the 2lst ult, re-
ceived by the Africa, contains an ugly blunder
with reference to Mr.. Speaker Banks. 1t says
1.-THE new Speaker Of the House is black
of Massachusetts, who belongs, as his color
sufficiently indicates, to the extreme party of
4 Aboitionism. This, then, is victory gained
by the North over the South. Upon the whole
| the journals declare themselves satisfied with
the choice. Mr.. Banks is man of firm and
upright mind, endowed with great political
sagascity, and, as his antecedents all attest with
a calm wisdom"
When we consider the multiplicity of parties
in this country, and their various subdivisions,
it is not to be wondered at that our foreign con-
temporary has fallen into such blunder as to
call Mr. Banks black man.
| MILITARY AFFAIRS IN New MExIco-Col
Fauntleroy, Col. Miles, Lieut.. COL Chandler,
Major Norris, Major Van Horn, sprague, Major
Gordon, Dr. Byrne, Lieut.. jackson, and Major
Shepherd, arrived at Santa Fe on the 10th, to
form a Court Marshal for the trial of Major
Blake, LIST Dragons.
The Legislature of New Mexico, before its
adjournment, passed resolutions complimentary
to Colonel Fauntleroy, of the First dragons,
for his efficient conduct as commander of the
troops employed against the Utah Jicarilla
Apache Indians. On the 23d, Colonel Faunt-
leroy, accompanied by Lieutenant and ABIDE
Camp Craig, and Lieut.. johnson, United States
Dragons, visited the two houses OF the Legis.
lature while in session, and was received in a
very handsome manner.
DEPRNcEs oP NEW YoRK-The New York
Journal Of Commerce informs us that The ma
tional government has been for many months
past engaged in strengthening the Notifications
Of the harbor of New York, by substituting
guns Of very long range and large calbre for
those previously in tAe. These new guns are
Manufactured at West Point, and distributed
to the various military works in the neighbor
hood Of New York rs fast us they are ready
As regards the materiel OF war, the Journal
says that there is always large amount of it
accumulated in the repositories near that city,
and another paper says that at present the store
is unusually great. The existing works have
been much strengthened, and are kept in high
state Of efficiency, and additional defences are
proposed to be constructed.
Hol For NIcARAcJA.-We perceive by the
Washington telegraphic dispatches OF the New
York papers, that John P. Heiss, esq. formerly
the partner OF Major Richie in the Union, and
ex-propretor Of this paper will leave in the
next steamer bound from New York to San
Juan de Nicaragua, carrying dispatches from
our Government to the American Minister 1--WE
presume stationed at Grenada. We had learned
previously, by private letter, the intention of
Mr.. Heiss and his family to settle in the young
and rising nationality which the genius Of
Rvas and Walker has so suddenly elevated to
prominent rank amongst the Governments of
the present day.
We congratulate the statesmen Of Nicaragua