« f tuc watchman tion per year two dollars payable in liit if not paid in advance two dollars f l ' i )' e _ ts will be charged a . its inserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts subsequent insertion court orders ch.rged v 3 i-_er than these rates a liberal deduc c l 0se who advertise by the year 0 l ° l he editors must be post paid to 1 *' __^____ from the raleigh register ,,„•-■■ ford county and gov fl 111 manly this head the " mountain banner a ' er pi i ute cj in rutherfordton makes an t*^lj a nd unjust assault upon governor b • ou hi 5 appointment of commission and survey the western turnpike i a l m salisbury lo the georgia line af ¥" j„ii.lt silent so far as we know for cl 12 months as to the governor s course | businessi he comes out now and charges iib b-ving acted " unfairly with bav j ond knowingly violated his duty j i j having located ihe road himself — '*! declaring thai we ihe people of rulher | "® should not secure any benefit from an act j ij ai c nslaturc passed for our bttufu in j cilice chargiug lhat governor mauly cor j * and with premeditated design made the , intraents ior the express purpose of injur : f people ol the couuly of rutherford and ' r tbe commissioners were the corrupt and ufa t tools and instruments in his hands for perpetration of the outrage ; and winding i jib lhe characteristic remai k : we take in saying we do not know a man tl county who will vote for him in the ni ol bis re-nomination to office ate ate these are grave charges mr editor to be lorih by he press against pulie functiona ,- acti under oath and il is lhe business very honest man in lhe stale to investigate jjmand satisfy himselt wheiher they be true ifidse ow let us see what acts the law requires t governor to do in this business what he done and whether he is obnoxious to this ; iy accusation to a proper understanding of lhe subject il iiecessary to refer briefly to other acts ofthe of the last session in a liberal jit of slate pride both political parties uni in setting on foot several schemes of inter li improvement among other acts one was passed to con cruel a rail road connecting wilmington with yhsbury aud ihence io chailulle tilling up e link of the great northern and southern vel mother to construct a plank road on fayetteville to salisbury another to struct a turnpike road from salisbury lo jiegeor-'ia line lu all these schemes the jute took a large pecuniary interest in the slit named she took an interest of two-thirds ; i-ihe second three-fifths and the last this l__6lern turnpike was to be made wholly oui oilhe public lunds and to be exclusively a jute road for the purpose of surveying and locating si turnpike road the governor was requir by the third section of the act to appoint a hiuetent and experienced engineer and three aimissioners who are required by said aci lake an oath before one oflhe judges faith vy to discharge said duty to the greatest advan wfor the state soon alter the adjournment of the assembly liegevernor proceeded lo the discharge of the july which had been assigned lo him the nines of thirteen gentlemen residing at differ btpoints in the west were by iheir respect it friends recommended as commissioners — i of them honorable intelligent men and en fatly competent the dilli.-ulty and en-bar tasment in making a selection among such bt will be leadily appreciated in any al live only three could be gratified while it were ceruinly to be disappointed two c.i-f consideialions were adopted in making i selection first to take one from each end of the contemplated road and one from the entre 60 that the different sections mighl be represented secondly to apportion this crumb ofpatronage between members of both the po ileal parlies accordingly a h shuford of catawba geo w hayes of cherokee and joseph j eram at that time and now a citizen of ruth erford county were appointed some unavoid m-delay arose iu procuring the services of a competent engineer when maj s m fox a gentlemad well qualified and highly recom mended was appointed and here gov m's 8c in the location of the road terminated under his oath of office he appointed such men is he thought would do their duty faithfully — to them he left it under the oath which the aw.aj enjoined upon ihem io do that duly lo die greatest anvantage for the siale to e engineer upon whose reconnoissance and professional opinion chiefly rested the respon sitiility of lhe location ibe governor gave no i-tiructions as to lhe route he should lake ex ttpt to express the wish should it be found practicable that the road might run through ta several courthouse towns of lhe counties l-rouirh which it passed for ihe greater con aience and accommodation of the people liv r g on and about it in ihe month of july last the locating party ttrttmenced operations and having consideied •• cuims ol ibe two mountain passes viz : lhe hickory nut gap and the swannanoa gap kruu-jh one of which lhe road musi necessa ry go decided in favor of lhe latter and loca wlhe road through morganton and noi through i mierfordton it is for this act thafthe gov [ f or is held responsible and has been made arget for lhe fiery indignation ot the moun in banner now we think a fairer rule ould be " to let every tub stand upon its own lorn — to judge of a public officer by his acts l d not by the acts ot others it is quite suffi e l tor a man to be held accountable lor his iv n errors and imperfections but as gov m has been identified wiih this j-u'stion of location let us examine whether the ■••(■' ion of the engineer and commissioners . in be sustained — whether the toad ought lo j ti through morganton and not throuj-h ruth ■ r i ordton to secure the greatest advantage * r lhe slate v state road is to be made h is to be made by ihe state's agents h is to be made out ofthe state's money " is to be a toll paying road to the state , h is t 0 | je l oca ted to lhe greatest advantage mhe slate -^'- it is to begin at salisbury and run west f , f0u u the stale across the blue ridge to lhe oflhe state of georgia 4 a av , reader cast your eye for a moment on j •[; - mu [» of the state where is salisbury | ere she stands in lhe centre of the state . . lo her northern and southern boundary go c r '"- s pom virginia on the north and go miles south carolina on the south :— selected the carolina watchman bruner & james ) v " keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors ) rulers l new series °* '""■<_",. *■„'.._.:"*"•" | volume vi-nl-mbei ... salisbury n c thursday may 2 1850 terminus of this wesiern turnpike — as the ter mins of the fayeiteville and western plank road — and as lhe distinguished point in the great central rail road how are you to get from salisbury to the georgia line ? why j there are hut two ways to be considered one i by beanies ford rutherfordton hickory nut gap lo asheville and so on the oiher by { statesville morganton swantianoa gap to ( asheville and so on compare these n.nies j if you lake the first named l.y beanies ford and rutherfoidlon you locale the road in the neighborhood ofthe kail road authorized to be built from salisbury lo charlotte secondly by that route you are getting near er and nearer as you progress to the southern boundary oflhe stale when you are at beat tie's fold you are within 25 miles of the south j . carolina line while lhe virginia line on i ; the north it is aboui 75 miles when you , reach rutherfordton you are only about 20 miles from the south carolina line thirdly by this route you may accommo date two or three north carolina counties and the people and market towns of south caroli na while all the counties norlh of that route catawba alexander davie surry iredell wilkes ashe watauga caldwell burke mc dowell and yancy would be shut out from il in whole or iu part fourthly by taking lhat route through the j hickory nut gap il would go where the stale i had heretofore spenl large sums of money for i the accommodation of that section while she i had done nothing so far as we know for the other section fifthly by taking that route and going by beanie's ford you adopt a route which the legislature it seems expressly repudiated and refused lo adopt for iu the language of the banner " an effort made by mr connor the senator from lincoln to fix beanie's ford as one oflhe points was rejected now cast your eye again on the map and look al the other or the middle route which the engineer and commissioners have adopted — ; beginning al salisbury and passing near siates , ville through morganton asheville waynes ville franklin and you maintain in a very sin gular manner lhat same central position with j res-pect lo lhe noil hern and southern bounda ries of lhe slate — there being about an equal ; amount ot territory on both sides of lhe route — and thus afford to the people both north and south equal advantages again the legislature in 1846 chartered the caldwell and ashe turnpike look one half the stock for lhe slate and eslablised tolls in which lhe state is interested one half — that road is now in progress of const ruction and will connect with this turnpike in lhe county of caldwell and while that road will afford an outlet to ihose landlocked mountain ! bound counties of caldwell ashe wilkes wa | lauga and yancy a most fertile and interesting ! section of country now entirely distitute ot marketing and travelling facilities will by its | connexion with ihis turnpike pour inio our ; state a laige and valuable trade from the moun i tain counties of virginia and tennessee which ; reaching salisbury can be continued in their | own wagons on lhe plank road to fayelleville ; j or by taking the centrall rail road be con veyed to wilmington — thus fostering our own market towns : entrenching our people by : giving ihem facilities of trade and commerce : and building up the means the wealih the character of our own siaie and enabling us to ihrow off our commercial vassalage to vir ginia and south carolina now without running the parallel further between these iwo routes ; we would ask any j unprejudiced man which of them was to be preferred in order to secure lhe greatest ad i vantage for the slate ?" — for mark you that is the queslion shall this central route betaken by morgan i ton and so on thus dividing the state by the road ; equalizing the advantages lo the counties on both sides rutherford included : — opening a high way lo market to those norlh western counties of ours beyond the blue ridge which have no market ; connecting with and aiding another stale work lhe caldwell and ashe turnpike ; bringing into our stale the travel and produce of other slates and thus adding freight and profit lo the turnpike roads and lhe plank road and the central rail road ; in all of which the slate is so largely interested or shall the southern line be taken ? run the road within iwenty miles of south carolina : cut off the middle and northern counties of our own slate from ils benefits : leave the caldwell and ashe turnpike in the woods without an out let : run it along the line of lhe railroad from salisbury to charlotte and bring lhe state's works in collision : and finally lake it by beat tie's ford where lhe legislature refused to petmil it to go how could the engineer and commissioners hesitate which of the two to choose .' what would lhe twelve north west counties have said to ihem had ihey been deprived by the adoption of the southern line of their anti cipated benefits .' what would the fifty coun ties east of salisbury — aye what would the whole stale have said had ihey disregarding the obvious undeniable and incomparable ad vantages of this middle route located this road where this large public fond was lobe expend ed not for the greatest benefit lo the greatest number ol the people of this slate but forthe benefit of the few and the people of south carolina ? depend upon it they could have held up their heads before lhe artillery of wes tern denuncialion in our humble conception therefore the engineer and commissioners have acted wisely and prudently and for the best interest of lhe state in this mailer and lhat ihey will be sustained by the people in all seclions and by all parlies in this view of the subject where is the foundation and juslice of this onslaught upon governor manly how has he acted un fairly and knowingly violated his duty 1 in ihe appointment of commissioners " all that we desired says the banner was that our voice should be heaid our claims considered ; and if lhe road had been located at morganton after an examination of the various routes as was intended by the logi.luturpj we should not have said a word we would have cheerfully submitted well what was done ? the governor ap pointed col joseph j erwin then and now a citizen of rutherford one of the commission er giving rutherford a voice in the board — moreover we are informed lhat lhe engineer i-j-tj fox did make a recon nuisance of that way before he commenced locating ; and as to the other commissioners messrs hayes and shuford we apprehend that having travelled both these routes over the blue ridge for the last twenty five years in sunshine and in rain they were just as competent to decide upon their relative merits as ihey would have been had they made another " examination it was certainly the duty of lhe engineer and ! commissioners to have made an examination ■ ol that way or in some proper and satisfactory manner have made themselves acquainted with j ils claims but if they did not why should governor manly be blamed ? he had no pow er to coerce nor punish them but the governor is charged with having en tertained a preference for the morganton or ( middle route and to have appointed the com missioners expressly to that end and that thus " he located the road himself now it is un i deniably true as we are informed that the go vernor in view of lhe various schemes of in ternal improvement projected by the legisla ture in connexion with this q-.eslion and from ! his general knowledge of lhe topography of the state did entertain the belief lhat this turn i pike ought to lake the morganton or middle route ; lhat in his judgment such route would accommodate lhe larger number of our people j and would be best for the interest ofthe whole state ; that he expressed this opinion without reserve to all who desired to know his opinion ; and that in the selection of commissioners he preferred those of course who were not corn milled against lhat way but who concurred with him iu these views but the allegation that he controlled the engineer and commis sioners that he required pledges from them and had lhe road located where he pleased is to say the least of it puerile and idle what a gratuitous aspersion is here made upon the character independence and integrity of the engineer and commissioners what unwar rantable insult ? why suppose that forgelling the respect due to himself and these honorable gentlemen the governor had said to them that he meant to have this road go through morgan ton or the middle route that he had appointed them for this special purpose and that ihey must execute his high behest : whal would have been their reply ? i reckon they would have told him in very unmistakable language lhal lhe law under which ihey were appointed required them to take an oath " to discharge iheir duly to the best advantage for the slate ;" that they should steer by that chart and not by the wishes or opinions of the governor or any body else that is what they would have thought and felt he appointed his men i says the banner and they have fulfilled their orders these honorable gentlemen are too well known and respected to be thus denounc ed with impunity as " the men of any body without doubt ihey acted fairly and conscien i tiously indeed so clearly does il appear lhat ! the middle route for this road was the proper ! one that we entertain lhe firm conviction lhat | if ibis appointment of commissioners had been i conferred upon any three of lhe intelligent ■ honest and patriotic citizens of rutherford a ! lone however they might have desired to favor their own county and bring the road into their i neighborhood and all men might very honest ly desire lo have the road run by their doors ! yet having taken a solemn oath to lay off this : road not for the benefit of rutherford county j but to lhe greatest advantage for the state we ; say that we do not believe that any three re ! spectable citizens of rutherford county could be found who under such an obligation would not have felt themselves constrained to give ; their verdict in favor of the middle route no ! matter what might have been their private wish ; es and predilections the banner further says he gov m de dared " that we should not secure any benefit ; from an act of the legislature passed for our benefit now il is news lo us that this act was passed fbr the benefit of any particular county it is a general law for the benefit of the whole slate but if the writer means any thing more than a figure of speech by the lan gua-*e imputed to the governor and means to allege that he used those words or any like them conveying the same sentiment we are authorized to say lhat the writer is mistaken or has been misinformed that gov m never did make any such silly declaration in lhe name of common sense we would ask what motive under heaven could gov m have to think speak or do any think that would injure any man woman or child high or low i wiihin ihe limits of the county of rutherford ? , he has never received any injury from ber which he might desire to revenge he has personal and highly cherished friends in lhal : count living too on that very beattie's ford and hickory-nut gap road whom it would af lord him sincere and unaffected delight to ac commodate and to serve during the last can vass for governor he was treated with hospi tality and kindness by her people at the elec tion he was sustained there by the votes of his party for which he feels duly grateful where then can be tbe foundation and motive of any human being to induce her people to believe that gov m is hostile to the county of ruther ford and bas maliciously sacrificed her inter ests ? we are authorised by gov manly to disavow explicitly ail and every such imputed feeling and motive ; to deny the allegation and charge ; and to appeal from these unjust asper sions of the mountain banner set forth it is to be hoped net from malice but from misap prehension lo the people of rutherford them selves ; and lo declare on his behalf that from his knowledge of the character of lhat people he does not believe thai there are ten men in the county of ruiherford who can be persuaded by the writer in the mountain banner lo enter tain the opinion that he has in this mailer wil fully violated his duty and maliciously and pre meditatedly done ihem an injury messrs editors when a charge of corrup tion or malfeasance is made against a public officer the people his constituents and each one of them have a right lo know the facts and ought to inquire into the them and set ihem right ; aud this is our apology for this long aiticle fair play spirit of the evening press the evening post correspondent writes ! from the capitol despondingly enough as fol lows : all things considered we are getting along here deplorably enough congress is fast abol ishing il self hy the mingled factionism and im becility which mark ils proceedings it bas been nearly five months in session and has done nothing and is likely to do noihing for some months to come there is a very seri ous apprehension that the first of july will find us here without any provision having been made for carrying on the government for the next fiscal year the " commercial does not like tbe indis criminate and incessant emigration oflhe best part of our americon population lo california and having their places filled wiih foreigners the washington correspondent of the same paper says : " dissolutions and reconstruction oflhe cab inet are only postponed to a more convenient season and when the change shall occur i con sider it highly probable that massrs vinton of ohio king of georgia and hon t m t mckennan a very able and distinguished mem . ber ofthe congress of 1842 will be invited to form a part ofthe president's council " mr webster's health continues very in firm it is said lo be his intention to retire to marshfield for a season — n y express the " aim slavery standard of this cily publishes prominently at the head of edi torial columns w ? m lloyd garrison's anounce ment of the fourth-coming annual meeting of the american anti-slavery society at tbe broadway tabernacle 7lh may of which the following is an extract : — " a contest of near twenly years has proved that the only hopeful issue with slavery is the demand for tbe immediate and unconditional emancipation of every slave and that such a consummation can never be attained so long as we maintain a political union with slave holders it is well that disorganizes thus boldly avow their insane purpose — v y express union and compromise triumph-position of mr benton 6pc a correspondent of the baltimore sun writing from washington under date of april 17 says ; the friends of union and compromise have triumphed in the senate it has been a hard struggle : but it may now be presumed that we have passed the crisis safely and as soon as mr benton mr hale and others will permit a bill embra cing california and the territorial gov ernments will pass the senate they will pass too under the recom mendation of a committee of thirteen members selected from different quarters of the country and of different parties and any man who may oppose the views of that committee will be put down as a disunionist there are but two parties to this question — the party in favor of union by force and the party in favor of union by compromise the report ofthe committee will carry great weight with it in the house for many southern members would refuse to vote for california except in combination with bills establishing territorial govern ments mr benton scouts the appointment ofa committee for the obvious reason that the opinion of thirteen men will be stronger before the country than that of one man it will place the free soilers and mr ben ton on disadvantageous ground the crawford investigation committee are moving in a quiet and searching man ner diligently enquiring into the history of the claim and the circumstances at tending its passage through the house of representatives the secretary ofthe treasury bas sent a clerk of his department to california to inquire into the condition of the revenue there the sub-treasury c flare up at tammany hall the hunkers and barnburners had an other flare up at tammany hall on mon day night when an election was held for sachems the correspondent of the phil adelphia inquirer says the poll was opened in the usual way and the result announced eight hunk ers and six barnburners were elected and there were three ties no sooner was ihe vote announced than an attempt was made to get rid ofthe ties and according to all accounts the scene which followed would bave made even a horse laugh the hunkers and barnbunners had a regular set to in which they managed to pummel each other to their hearts content while they were engaged in this clasic recreation elijah f purdy one of the sachems snatched the documents and pa pers rushed out of tammany hall made tracks in the quickest style to some place as yet undiscovered one man's nose was put out of joint by coming in contact with an oil lamp which one of his amiable opponents had shied at him another attempt at election will be made in a few days the boston courier has a strong article sustaining the course of mr webster wbicb concludes as follows : when all else that mr webster has said and acted in cabinet in senaie or in fo rum shall have been forgotten ; when all other triumphs of his eloquence his power and skill have perished from the records of literature and no fragment shall remain of them to attest the nature of his genius he will be remembered by and for his great calm and unimpassion ed action through this trying and perilous crisis how et*£.v it would have been for him to have deepened and played upon the prejudices of the hour ; to have de molished the arguments of southern soph sists.and to have added new iutensity.force and pertinacity to northern opinions he has chosen another part insteau of in flaming our passions he counsels our rea son he risks our displeasure and disap pointment that he may save us from the evils of distracted counsels and clashing interests let us at leasr listen to him with that candor and attention due to one who has taken such an attitude and who comes with such accumulated claims up on our sober reflection gov ujhnzy — and family called at the irving house new york monday evening last to take tea with mad'lle appollonia jagello the modern joan of arc prior to their departure for iowa as soon as it became known that the governor was in the house the ladies residing at that hotel raised over three hundred dollars which they presented to him as he was leaving it was done so delicately that the venera ble hungarian and family were deeply and gratefully effected gov u has is sued a card to his friends in new york expressive of his hearty thanks forthe no ble sympathy and hospitality be has re ceived in lhat city in conclusion he says three months since i came from the west of europe to the east of america and now 1 depart again for the far west ofthis country whereon the free and tee ming enterance into the great american agricultural family is granted to every one who has courage and strengih to work to these shores i was driven by tyra ny ; to the fields ofthe west of this coun try i am now borne by the desire of win ning from mother earth what is so neces sary to the american republican a free and independent existence impudence the hon mr kaufman of texas the other day attempted to introduce into the house of representatives the following resolution : — that the president be requested lo inform this house wheiher any of ibe officers of the government have been instructed by him or the secretary of war to prejudice the claims of teias to santa fe by inducing the people of that place and vicinity td form a state govern ment the claims of texas to sanla fe in deed ! where texas never came within gunshot save but to be made prisoners of war and subsequently to be marched in chains thence to the capital of mexico read kendall's santa fe expedition the real honest boundary of texas on the west is the nueces not even the rio grande hear gen shields on this sub ject :— texas has no right claim or title to any portion of new mexico either on this side oi the other sirle oflhe rio grande she never conquered il never occupied it never reduced it lo possession and never exercised any au thority over it she has no more tiile to san ta fe lhan she has to san francisco — not a particle that country and the whole coun'ry was under lhe law jurisdiction and authority of mexico when it was wrested from that country by the arms of the united stales i care nothing about maps i lake facts and these are the facls i venture to say further that in my opinion texas never conquered ail the country to the lower rio grande there is a portion of coahuila south of new mexico on the texas side of ihe rio grande which i scarcely think texas ever conquered at all events i can say that when i was wander ing a long the rio grande at one lime during the mexican war i found mexican towns in the slate oi coahuila on the texas sidr of the riv er living quietlu under alexican law and mexi can authority ; and if they had ever been con quered by texas it was wholly without iheir knowledge for they were living in the most happy ignorance of such conquest canadian annexation an important debate occurred in the new brunswick colonial parliament on the 5th inst on the state of the province in the course ol which mr end drew a glowing picture of the desolation and ru in of the country which he attributed to the colonial policy of the mother country and openly advocated annexation to the united states as a remedy he treats the gagging dispatch of the colonial minister as a hoax the st john morn ing news expresses the opinion that a ma jority of annexationists will be returned to the n^-xt parliament and says a mas ter spirit is required to embody the scat tered opinions oflhe people and to give thr-m substance in the shape of a well de fined principal lhat can start upon some broad question dr f j hill of brunswick and calvin graves of caswell have been appointed by the goveror and council as members ofthe board of internal improvement we copy the following paragraph from the georgetown true republican of yes terday morning : picked up — we are informed upon pretty reliable authority that mr timo j tby coward who resides at godfrey's fer 1 ry on the pee dee while engaged in i fishing some few days since heard the cry i ot a child and on looking in the direction j whence the noise came he discovered an | object floating rapidly down the current ; ofthe river he immediately went in pur j suit of the object overtook and raised it into his canoe when it proved to be a | wooden box containing a live infant ap parently some three or four days old the box seemed to have been made with great care well fini>hed and water proof and was well lined inside with flannel ; and the little eqwarian — if we may so speak — very handsomely dressed in its " best bib and tucker " fortunately for the poor babe and e quallv fortunate for the peace of mind of the diabolical wretch who placed the in fant in so perilous a condition it has tall en into the hands of a humane and gene rous man who sels up a claim of salvage covering nothing short of the vessel and cargo entire mr coward would not ex change the litlle moses — a name we take liberty to suggest — for all other babies afloat remarkable story of an albntros — the = subjoined anecdote of an albatros is taken , from a recent number of the montreal transcript the writer roaches for its fidelity to truth persons who have seen ; that most restless of birds and are famil iar with its strength and habits says the louisville journal will have less diliieul ty in believing the story than ihose who have not seen it it is an admirable sto ry and is very well told : the following most extraordinary cir i cumstance furnished in a letter from an i officer of the 83j regiment now in india ij to a friend in montreal whilst the di ll vision of the 3 regiment to which the i writer belonged was on its way to i india beinj at the time a short distance i eastward of the cape one of the men was i severely flogged for some slight offence i maddened at the punishment ihe poor f.*l i low was no sr>oner released than in the i sight of all his comrades and the ship's i crew he sprang overboard there was i a bij:h sea running at the lime and as the i man swept on astern all bope ol saving i him seemed to vanish relief however i came fiom a quarier when no one ever i dreamt of looking r it before during i the delay incident on lowering a boat and i whilst lhe crowd on deck \\ ■ re watching i the form ol the soldier struggling with the i boiling waves and growingevery moment i less distinct a large albatros such as are i always found in those latitudes coining i like magic with an almost imperceptible i motion approached and made a swoop at i the man who in the agonies of the death i struggle seized it and held it lirnily in his i grasp and by ibis means kept afloat until ij assistance was rendered from tbe vessel i incredible as this story may seem lhe ij name and position of the writer of the let i ter , who was an eye-witness of the scene i place its authenticity beyond a doubt i but for the assistance thus afforded the i writer adds nn power on earth could bave i saved the soldier as in consequence ol i the high sea running a long time elapsed i before the boat could have been manned i and got down — all this time the man clin i ging to the bird whose batterings and i struggles to escape bore him up who i after this should despair ? a raging sea i — a drowning man — an albatros ; what i eye will dare to call this chance .' is it i not rather a lesson intended to stimulate i faith and hope and teach us to never de i spair since in the darkest moment when i the waves dash and the winds roar and a i gulf seems closeing over our head time m may be an alba tins near i resemblance bet ween the black whale and i the sea st rjn nt i this resemblance as described a short i time since bv our beaufort correspondents i is thus confirmed by the rev walter i colton chaplain of tbe frigate congress i in his work just published entitled " ihck i antl port y*c the ship was last from i rio janerio running for cape horn and i was within two or three bundled miles of i that stormy promontory on tbe coast of i patagonia when the author says : — i a large number of black whales are i plunging about our ship tbey have a i long heavy motion and move over a swell i like a lubberly dutch merchantman i how the lazy rascals get their food is un h accountable 1 should suppose every i thing would drift out of their way they i move in indian file and their uneven backs i rippling above the water so closely re i semhle the bumps oftbe sea sir pent that i i began to suspect we had jot into the i neighborhood ol nahant or that the com i mauders of our fishing smacks had lost i forever their great marine fiction h death of a bridegroom — a man named i wilson connected wiih the coast survey i office in washington was married on i wednesday evening 171 inst to a miss h little niece to a lady oflhe same name h residing on c street washington the h bridegroom retired to bed at 1 1 o'clock the i night of his marriage and was found dead i next morning by the side of bis bride who i attempf.-d to awaken him about 7 o'clock i the suddenness of the death of the l.ride h trroom created quite a sensation in the i citv — a pest mortem examination of the i body developed the fact that he died of i dtliri um tremens h a wise measure — the legislature of \ ir i ginia has appropriated annually to aid i in lhe removal of such tiee blacks in that siaie i as may be willing to go lo liberia the sum to i each individual not to exceed 25 the act i also imposes an annual lax of 81 on each male i iree negro as an additional fund for lhe same i purpose fay observer