Farmers' Gazette, 1845-01-28

that lie longed for, the signal for " close battle j flew from his masthead. The delay thus caused ; to the Zealous, gave the Foloy the lead, who , "rfrflf,11 ft?)^ancTibreti1 by'*tlie sfc'rfe? along"siSe*the second sliip, thus leaving to Flood the first. The latter exclaimed to n;y informant?"Thank God, ' he lias generously left to his old friend, still to i lead the van." Slowly and majestically, as the evening fell, the remainder of the fleet came on, beneath a cloud of sail, receiving the fire of the castle and the batteries in portentous silence, only broken by the crash of spars, and the boatswain's whistle as each ship foiled her sails, calmly as a ; scauird might fold i swings, and glided tranquilly ' onward till she found her destined foe. Then her anchor dropped astern, and her fire opened with | a vehemence that showed with what difficulty it had been repressed The leading ships passed between the enemy and the shore; but when tlit? v .ii >. up. he led along the seaward sidi --titw. dov .-gun the Frenchman's line, and p!a.:..?g m a fictile of fire. The sun went .''own just as NHson anchored ; and his rearward ships were only guided through the darkness and the dangers of that formidable bay, by the enemy's fire flashing fierce welcome as each arrived, anil hovered along the lino, coolly scruti' izing win re he could draw most of that fire on himself. The Belicrophon. with gallant recklessness, fastened on the gigantic Orient, and was soon crushed and scorched into a wreck by the terrible artillery of batteries more than double the number of her own. But before she drifted helplessly to leeward, she had done ) her work?the French admiral's ship was on fire, ' and through the roar of battle, a whisper went that for a moment paralyzed every eager heart and hand. During thedreaa pause that followed the fight was suspended?the very wounded ceased to gman?yet the burning ship continued to fire broadsides from her flaming decks?her gallant crew alone unawed by their approaching /ate, and and shouting their own brave requiem. At lengtli, Jtitli -t?e_?QUC?Otraled rgar of a thousand battles, the expfoslon came; ami the column ol^fiamc j that shot upward into the very sky, for a moment

not to srin r; to improve, not Co tround r n r.vi v.y, sot'tei-carol.! most of the shops. Shawls containing much j ' work arc made in separate pieces, in different ^ ' jhope, and it may be observed that it rarely hap- j ' pens that the pieces when completed correspond 1 ' in size. Main shawls are woven with a heavy j < wooden shuttle ; the figured ones arc worked with < wooden needles, there being a separate nccnlc for the thread of each color, and no shuttle is required. The wages of the head woikmen are from j about nine pence to a shilling per fay; that of | the common workmen from two pence to sixpence. TliCJiumber of shawls made annually, in Cashmere, is estimated at eighty thousand. The tr^de, however, was formerly much more extensive. The exquisite wool from which these ehawls are woven is procured from a sheep or goat which abounds in the interior of the Iliminalcyau mountains, and which another writer of India f ** 3?; * **' "" k-~ ? vnrycold region in Thibet, where he skated, and where the ice formed on his whiskers, notwith standing targe fires were kept up in the tent all night. "They were feeding (he says) in large flocks on the dry herbage that covers these naked, looking hills. This is the most beautiful species among the whole tribe of goats ; more so than the Angola kinds. Their colors arc various ; black, white, of a faint bluish tinge, and of a shade something lighter than fawn. They have straight horns, and are of a lower stature than the lowest sheep in England." Morsb*s Telegraph ?Prof. Morse has tran3mittcd to Congress a very interesting report on I ex'ension of his Telegraph throughout the JJnion j ;s tc etnbrr;cc B. s'on, Now York, Washing. j ton, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Or j leans. Motile. Savannah, Charleston and Rich- j moml. The expense would be -S'161 a mile, I that :s about for the whole system.? j Me calculates that the income would be at least ! Sfi-'O.'lOi) per annnuin, to trie government, and that the system will support itself. In transmitting intelligence, the groat advantage of the rn ign<;ti<- telegraph over steamboats or locomotives, or in fact of any kind of telegraph ever before used, is that "it is at all times availa -

uina, ar.u ny ins supper; m a ufuu u: jujuw. "You may lis attacked?persecuted." u PerseqArtions ! let ll.em come. They wiiyp-j crease my power." "But if the sword quit the sheath ? If the axe menace your heads?" " Oil, then, I have but to P3y one word, and on the following day I shall have under my banner an army of five hundred thousand men, nay, a . million if necessary." " IIow would you arm your troops ?" " Nothing easier! They would take the cnc? my's muskets and cannon from him. The enemy himself would pass over to their colours with their arms and baggage. I should still conquer without fighting." i O'Connell spoke with persuasive eloquence. This old man, who is said to be near his 75th year, retains in his features and thoughts all the energy of a inure vigorous age. "You are a poet?" he resumed. Here are some lines I composed yesterday, before the meeting of Tara." He read me the following stanzas : Oh Erin 1 shull it e'er be rnfne To wreak thy wrongs in battle line, To raise my victor head, and see Thy hills, thy dales, thy people free ? That gleam of bliss is all I crave Between my labours and my grave. Daniel O'Connell, M. P. for the County of Cork. Tara Hall, County Meath, 14lh of August, 1843: the Repeal Year. " I should much like to have those lines," said I to the orator poet. " I will give you them in my own handwriting," he replied, with a smile. And he copied them for me immediately, heading them with these words : " Written for the Viscomte d'Arlincourl." i Jf * It lias been affirmed in writing, that O'Cq^ ncll's head, next to that of NapoWin Jsthcbr^* From the Winyah Observer. Naval Stores?Timber, &c. &c.?Forseve. cral weeks past we have been receiving letters making inquiry as to the quantity and quality of timber that can be disposed of in this market with certainty. The same inquiry has been made as to tar and turpentine, the quantity that can be sold, the size-of barrels?also as to Staves, suitable for shipping. In reply to the first inquiry as to timber. The logs should be square and a9 large and Jung as they

ran be procured. None should be shorter than 20 feet, and from that length to 50 feet. If the | timber is ranging, that is, if it be hewed to square I as tiie tree lessens in size from the 6tump, it will ! be measured in the centre of the stick, and be calculated at what it will square. The best timber and that which commands the highest price, is of the same size the entire length of the stick. This is used generally for shipping, or for sawing. There is but one saw mill going up in this place, and the demand here is nothing to compare with the supply which the Country can supply by the various tributary streams. The company arc making engagements freely at 5 cents per cubic foot of 141 inches?$5 per 100?but we arc of opinion that this price cannot continue except for the best logs. The Wacramaw mills purchase freely at these rates?and the demand here will always be good for shipping of the belter descrip. lion. Turpentine barrels should weigh 323 lbs. and a stave 29 inches long and a head 19 to 20 inches will give this weight. Tar barrel staves should be 27 inches long and a head 19 to 20 inches. Red Oak H.'Sd. States should be 42 inches long?3 quarters of en inch thick and 4 inches wide?such arc now worth $3 to S9 per M. and ( ichite oak a fourth mo.e?and if dressed from ! $14 to $29 per M. Tar barrelsshoulJ hold 02 gallons and turpentine 33 gallons. F. II. Elmore?The probabilities that our distinguished fellow-citizen, F. II Elmore, will be called to preside over the Treasury Department, gain fresh strength from rnmor. The President elect i3 certainly indebted tn Mr. Elmore for an onwavcring attachment and consistent support.? When Mr. Polk was speaker of the House of Re- j prcscnlalivcs of the United States, Mr. E. sus. ; taincd him under the most trying circumstances, j ?risking his own nooularitv in his behalf. It I

not said whether he did this with the intention of there lamenting his victim; nor is his cruelty to. wards her explained ; all we know is that a new love took possession of him, and that Stella was its object. Swift held marriage in abhorrence; hut os Stella, far from sharing his ideas on this point, resisted his guilt)' passion, he found himself obliged, in order to attain the happiness he coveted, to conduct her to the altar; the only condition he imposed was that their union should remain a secret. Stella took up her abode at Celbridge: but, as ihe passed only for Swift's mistress, and was consequently stigmatized by public opinion, her life was far from happy. One night, it is sa'd, Vinrssa appeared to her in the very chamber where she had received Swift's fatal adieu. hat the object of her visit was, is not known. From tiat time, a change came over Stella's lovely featurei; a gloomy despair took possession of her, her brov grew pale, her checks hollow ; her grace, her spitits, her youth, all vanished by degrees. 41 \V/iat is the matter with you ?" Swift asked her anxiously. 44 I ihall die soon," she answcrcJ, in a trernb. ling vnce, 44 if you do not openly declare our mar. V riagc. Swift left her without a reply. The disease made rapid progress. Stella felt cvitli j?y that the close of her sufferings was at land. Returning after a short absence, Swift ound'ber on her knees in her chamber; 6hc resembled a spectre. 44 Oh 1" cried he, seized with alarm, 411 will ivow the marriage!" 44 It is too late," answered Stella, with a melancholy smile. Sh* expired on the following day. Ileavcn avenged the two victims. Swift had milti hospital for lunatics in Dublin ; he himself vent mad, and was confined there. IIis name s not the less immortal: the man has disappeared

ble. at c/orv hour of the day or night, irrespective of weather.'' Of lale there have been some improvements iTU the telegraph itscK, which commend it to still higher favor. Now its power is so far increased as to transmit thirty signs; and even thirty-five have been transmitted. Instead of the wires, the wa* tcr is now made the conductor in crossing rivers or bays, with one condition that the wires which dip into the river or bay, must be as far apart as three times the width of the river. The rates of Postage that Prfessor Morse pro. per for every additional 100 miles?so as to transmit an order from New York to New Orleans, for cotton, &c.?acknowledging the receipt of a previous letter?the postage to be paiiito the tel rgraph would be ,$'3 80. The information can be transmitted in three minutes, whi h by the (naif takes three weeks to accomplish. Prof. Morse | thinks that the merchants would find it cheapest j to pay liberally fcr 6uch lightning-like rapidity. The saving of time in extended mercantile trans- , actions has become a special desideratum. From Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. There is but little doubt that the United States are destined ultimately to command all the trade in the Indian and China seas. The supply of cotton in the United States, including Texas, is far beyond what the wants of Europe require.? The wants of China are, however, such as will absorb almost a limitless quantity. The cotton goods manufactured in the United States already Kuncrcede those of all other countries in thnuo I

Bprung vjj on the shcresof the Pacific. The great tract of the Oregon is drained by the Columbia . river and the San Francisco, which debouch upon the ocean at a point six days, by steam, distant ( from the Sandwich Islands?a group the indc pendencc of which is guarantied ; whose populalion is 100,000, mostly American; the surface, ). 3,000 square miles; of a soil the most fruitful, , and a climate unsurpassed in salubrity. These j slands arc situated in the middle of the Pacific, j m the great highway from Oregon to China. The ;rcnt whale fishery of these regions is conducted nostly by Americans, numbering 200 vessels, c vhose annual product is about .33,000,030. This s loet, m the summer month?, cruise between the ti sUn^s and the cast of Japan, for sperm whale, .:!<! '-arrv on a trade ii: furs, &c., which arc v . w f Id ir; ('!. . t, an llm proceeds, in tea, sent t; tome to ti:e United .States. The wholeofthisj v 'ast trade, an ! that of China, via ti:c Shndwich s? slands, will be commanded by the State of Oregon, si Chose persona arc now living who will sec a rail u oad connecting New York with the Pacific, and ir steam communication from Oregon to China, ti 'or the last 4hree centuries, the civilized world a as been rolling westward ; and Americans of the b resent age will"complete the circle, and open a v testern steam route with the east. Sf A Practical Joke.?Tiicrc is in existence 'i{ jmcwhero in France, a certain Chateau de ' , which ;3 us full of traps, secret doors, I 01

"r **- Un her and her brood. Cluck, cluck, sr.id the hen, Don't ask me again. Chirr a.whirr! Chirr-a-whirr! We will make a great stir I Let us find out his name, And all cry for shame ! I would not rob a bird, Said little Mary Green ; I think I never heard Of any thing so mean. y 'Tis very cruel, too, Said little Alice Ncal; I wonder if he knew How 6ad the bird would feci ? A little boy hung down his head, And went and hid behind the bed ; For he stole that pretty nest. From poor little yellow breast; And he felt so full of shame, lie did'nt like to tell his name. From the Dublin University Magazine. THE BATTLE OF THE NILE. 'Tis an old story now, that battle of the Nile ; but as the traveller passes by these silent and deserted shores, that have twice seen England's, flag "triumphant over wave and war," he lives again in the stirring days, when the 6ccncry be- i fore him was the arena where Franco and Eng- j land contended for the Empire of the West, Let us rest from blazing sun and weary travel, in Ike cool shadow of this palm tree. Our camels arc ( kneeling round us, and our Arabs light their little ; fires in silence. They remember well the scenes we are recalling, though many a Briton has forgotten them ; and the names of Nelson and of Abercrombie are already sounding fuint through the long vista of departed times. Wc overlook J the soeno of both their battles, and envy not the Spartan his Thermopylae, or the Athenian his [