July 17, 1852 (4 pages)

~ NEVADA JOURNAL. —— VOL. II.—NO. 13 NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1852. THEJOURNAL PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT. SARGENT, EDITOR. A. A. Oftce on Broad street, opposite the Placer ane TERMS. Por one your, in advance Six months Three months $ we 2es WEDNESDAY. JULY 14, 1852. aaa UT INCIDENTS OF PASSAGE. No. I. As tho stoamer Oregon, on which we were to take passage, did not leave for va Panama is peculiarly distinguished \for its filthy smells. No care is taken lin cleanliness, and the extreme heat . makes the rottennesa ‘‘smell to heaven.” The hotels are generally miserable pla~ in the city tolerably descent is Booth’s “Western.” Right glad were the passengers who had secured their baggage to get on the Oregon, and listen to the niusic of the windlass, as the ancbor was drawn up. Three days on tho Iath;mus were timo enough. The Oregon, commanded by Captain Watkins on the passage alluded to, is one of the neatest and pleasantest boats on the Pacific, Every thing on bosrd of her proceeds like, c!lock-work—the comfort of the passengers, both steerage and cabin, is sedulous'y attended to: two days after our arrival at Panama, we had full opportunity to examine all cbjects of interest connected with the city. The time wa peculiarly auspicious, 28 on Corpus Christi Day the services of the Catholic mass were performed in the cathedral, the black military were in motion, and the peculiar demonstrations of such a people as the Panamenos in honor of the day, were in full operation. Panama is situated on a peuinsular. Javed on three sides by the sea, which flows in to its very walls. Properly defended it would be a place of considerable strength; but its military defense is merely in form, and more essential to preserve the submission of the people, than for operation agninst attacking powers. The city itselfis far superior in the character of its buildings and ruins to any other on the Spanish coas of America, as far south as Lima. number of colleges and cathedrals in} ruins is truly astonishing. The luxuri-. ant vegetation of the tropics gains a; foothold within the very walls of desert. ed mansions, the roofs of which lay at} its roots, in crumbling fragments. The present race inhabiting the city are far inferior in skill and energy to those who} planned and built Panama. The streets ure all paved—the buildings are two and three stories high, and within the walls are seen none of the miserable nas} tive cane huts that make up Gurapnn Under the renovating} and Cruces. touch of American business, many of the old adobes are being smoothed up and whitewashed, and if the Isthmus route retains its travel a few years longer, Panama will be entirely rejuvenated. To this end the bes»tted, ignorant popufation will never contribute—they will be put aside as obstacles in the path o! progress. On the saints’ day we have mentioned we visited the cathedral where bigh mass was being said, and listened awhile to the chanting of the priests, and the music of a rattling organ accompanyment. The impression upon the natives seeme! to be sufficiently solemn and appropriate, and no other form of religion, perhaps, would make them so docile and obedient to their temporal and spiritual masters. Catholicism speaks to their senses when their intellects are uninformed. New Granada, under a virtual despotism, apes the title of republic, and vaunting placards adorn the streets, “No hry esclavos en Nueva Granada.” appreciation of the holy goddess of Liberty as South Sea Islanders. At every street corner on this Saint's day were fixed statues and pictures of Christ and the Virgin, with other saints of both sexes, some of which with altered name, we thought. we recognized as the occupants of print shop windows in New York, figuring as ‘Julia’ or ‘Sarah’ etc. But they were undoubtedly sym bolical, and not intended as likenesses. At sunset a procession emerged from the cathedral, at the head of which walked the padre elevating the host; then followed little girls as angels with wings, priests, @ noisy band, black military, citizens and ladies. On_ every hand, down in the dust, knelt the crowd. with uncovered heads and downcast eyes. Notwithstanding the gold was so evidently all tinsel, the scarlet faded the show mean and paltry, not deeper in humility could the Italian bow when the gorge.us procession of the Holy Father meets his awed gaze. The “living presence!” How powerful the thought where undoubted. The shades of difference in mortal splendor disappear in the overpowering idea of Almighty presence! ty The . *#turday morning. 10th instant, bring. But the people have as gee she is eminently preferable as a fine steamer, and for the gentlemanly bearing of her officers. Our passage from Panama to San Francisco was accomplished in seventeen days, the most of one of which was spent at Acapulco. The weather during the whole trip was most delightful, and time passed quickly till we reached the golden gates. A short stay at San Fran-. cisco, a trip by the noble river boat, . New World, and a ride in Haworth’s excellent line of stages, and we were in Nevada once more, Per Gregory's Express. ARRIVAL of the TENNES ‘EE, . TEN DAY’? LATER NEWS. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. The fine steamship Tennessee arrived at San Francisco at seven o'clock on! ing the mails and 456 passengers. She left Panama on the 24th ult. At Acapalco she took on board 104 destitute passengers, from the ship Russell and brigs Amplytade and Isabella Hamosa. Tis act of kindness deserves the highest praise. The Golinda, a vessel engaged in a contraband trade, had landeda rich eargo of Chinese goods, nbout 150 miles north of Acapulco, which was seized, but the vessel escaped. We are indebted to Gregory's Express for a file of papers containing the earliest news, and to Adams & Co. fora highly valuable supply. The principal item of interest is the . result of the Democratic Convention at . Baltimore-~the fierce sectional jealous. . ies that pervaded it—the throwing over . board of every man who had distinguished himself in the service of the country or party, and the nomination of Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, and W. R. King of Alabama. We hive not room to give the full proceedings of the convention, but the (ollowing extracts from a long, minute detail in the N. Y. Herald, will give’an idea of the exvessive disorder that characterized the proceedings. The delegates should have taken lessons in deces, and the only one that we know of) . such bills that subsequently were ap~ voney and order in a council of savages. “Virginia, though Judge Barbour, . again cast the fifteen votes of that state . for Buchanan . Mr. MeMullon des‘red to state one or two facts, A voice ~There is nothing before the convention Mr. McM.,--I want to know whether lyou will still stifle the vote of Virginia . ‘The convention refused to hear him. The Kentucky delegation retired for consultation, and when they returned cast their tweive votes for Butler. (Appliuse.) DELEWARE IN DIFFICULTY—DELEGATE HELD DOWN BY THE SKIRTS OF HIS CoAT. The convention proceeded to the twenty-second ballot, and when Delaware wis called, two votes were announced for Cass and one for Butler. Mr. Worrell arose and _ protested against the vote. It was given contra. ry to the wish of the majority of the delegates of that state. He said he had been pulled down. by the skirts of his coat, and told to sit down—that he had no votehere. (Laughter.) He understood that the vote of e state is! to be cast-in acccrdance with the wishes of the majority{of the delegates. The President remarked that is the rale. 4 Mr. Worrell =Therefore, I assert, the majority gave their vote for Cags. (A pluuse.) lt was the voice of the litt diamond state —the voiee of men who<e. tion said, & The convention again proceeded to vote on the twenty-third ballot, and when Maryland was called, the announcement was made—Cass 5, Buchanin 3. This was followed by hissing in the galleries, and calls to order, intermingled with slight applause. _Muny yoices—Clear the galleries.— Silence up there. Stop those geese. Mr. McRae said, in # loud voice. that such usage from the citizens of Baltimore would prevent the holding of the Democratic convention there again. _ There was the utmost possible confusion. The President lustily called to order, and banged with his gavel. Many voices demanded that gentlemen standing should sit down. Mr. Mckne said there had been hissing in the galleries, and that was what he alluded to. * * * * The voting went on, when suddenly the convention was startled by the cry of “ FIGHT —FIGHT —FIGHT.” Messrs Wi!cox and Sims, in the neighborhood of the Mississippi delegation, were engaged in a personal collision, but the crowd around them was so dense, we could not get up to the scene to report the full particulars, The persons in the galleries stretched forth to see the combat. Of course there was a general excitement, and cries of ‘ sit down,” “down in front,” “order, order,” accompanied by prolonged hissing.” Awid such a witches’ sabbath, Mr. Pierce was declared unanimously nom. inated. He received the nomination on . the forty-ninth ballot. 116 votes on the first ballot, and was . undoubtedly the choice of a plurality of . the convention. Uptothe 19th ballot . Cass kept the lead. when Buchanan took it, and held it'till the 30th, when . Cass received . county, and finally elected Governor. Chepultepec, but as he fainted away His eocial worth and personal populari-. and had to be carried off the field in less ty, laid the foundation of his son’s fortuhes. Franklin Pierce is a man of fair personal character, moderate abilities, and the bitterest partizun feelings. He evidently considers that this country was created on purpose to be ruled by the party styling itself ‘Demucratic,’ and never harbored a suspicion that that party ever was or could be in error. If asked what was the occasion of Adam’s fall, he would instinctively answer, “Federalism.” He never had one proressive idea, but is in all things a mo~ el Hunker. General Pierce was repeatedly chosen to the New Hampshire. Leyislature, (House) of which he. was. finally made Speaker. He was first elected to Congress in 1833, (March) took his seat the following December, and scrved through two terms, when he was chosen into the Senate, where he served from 1837 to 1842, when he resigned. He won no position in either House, and was not qualified to win any. He is essentially an ordinary man in every thing but partizanship, but his Locofocoism is of a vindictiveand malignant type, peculiar to ew Hampshire. The New York Courier and Enquirer asks: What will the Democratic rank and file say to this nomination? Will they ratify this glaring outrage upon the principles which they profess to sustain —this open violation of the will of the eople? We think not. The sole object of a National Convention to nomi. nate a candidate for the support of either . party, is to ascertain the wishes of the people, and to place in nomination one who will be most acceptable to a majority of the party. And in arriving at this result it not unfrequently occurs that one who is not ‘first favorite,’ as they say on the turf, with the majority, Marcy passed him and distanced all . may yet be very decidedly the ‘second competitors for three ballots ; then Cass suddenly rose to 123, and his prospects brightened. It is snid the rally for Cass commencing at the 31st ballot was only intended to kill Douglas, at whose rising pro:pects Old Fogeyism was badly frightened. It was not till the 35th ballot that Pierce received a vote, nor till the last that a reasonable conjecture could louk toward his nomination. favorite,’ with ail, or nearly all. But this is not the ease in the instance before us. Mr: Pierce was not thought of, and is not kvown to ‘any portion of the purty whose candidate he has become. His name was not even heard in Convention, until the thirty-fourth ballot; and then he is putin nomination, not because the people, or any portion of them desire his nomination, but simply because their representatives are nbout to break up in a row; and to avoid this catastrophe and to wreak a petty COMMENTS ON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMI. . vengeance upon each other, a gentleman NATION, The comments of the various journals upon the Democratic nominations are varying and interesting. Our space will not permit us to quote many, but we give below a few of the most important . and striking. The Republic says General Pierce is an old Hunker of the strictest sect, having distinguished himself in the House of Representatives by his hostility . to River an! Harbor [mprovements— that he continually voted aginst all proved by Gen. Jackson, including one for the Delaware Breakwater, and also the Cumberland road bill. In the Senate, he nlao voted azainet all Harbor and River bills—against a grant of land to an Indiana railroad that offered to carry the mails free for twenty years asa recompense. His greatest speech in the Senate was against the relief to the is nominated whose name had not been even whispered before, and was not even . brought forward by hisown State! This . is not ozly ridiculous, but in our opinion . it is an outrage upon the wishes and the . will of the people. The New Haven Palladium thus announces the nomination : The Locofoco Nationul Convention have settled upon Gen. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, as their candidate for the Presidency. He, it will be remembered, is the gentleman who, seeing a boy weeping, enquired the cause, and learned that he had no money with which to buy candy; whereupon he put his hand in his pocket. drew forth a cent, and purchased for the boy a roll of candy! This circumstance gave lim some reputation in New Hampshire, and ma have given him the prominence in Baltimore, which led to his nomination. Bat little clse is known of him, except widow of General Harrisop. The Inteiligencer considers him a third rate man, but says his experience has been such as to qualify him to administer the affairs ot the government, should the people call him to that trust, reapectably, and in a national spirit. The Baltimore Patriot says: The Convention has consumated: its . work by nominating Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, as the Democratic ¢candidate for President. We may safely imagine that we hear a thousnnd voices asking ‘Who is. Franklin Pierce ?” The question is easily answered, but who will be satisfied with the answer ? Mr. Pierce belongs to. New Hampshire, and has been in’ Congress—but what he has said, what he has done, how, in any way, he has distinguished himself. that he should be selected as a roper man to make President of the Binived States, no one can explain—except it be to admit that party did it! So we go; the great men of the party —those who have done the State some service--those who havea name that is known, all these ore set aside, and Mr. Franklin Pierce overshadows them all! How true isall that Shakspeare tells us. He had this act of the Convention in mind when he wrote: Some men are born great some achieve greatness, And prev have greatness thrust upon them. Mr. Pierce belongs to the latter echool —grentnoss is thrust upon him. He is, . 18 one of his supporters in the Conven“blank leaf, upon which any ancestets sprinkled the fields of the rev. . thing can bo written.” olution with their blood. Outside influ. en. Cries of ‘' Order, order.” Another Delaware’ delegate wanted to speak. i that. quarter, and much Jaughter, it being said that he was prevented from rising by the holding of his coat tail. * * « * here was some confusion in . sated for The New Yok Tribune furnishes the ence has. sunk Cass as low ashe has fall-. ine following sketch of the new oandidate: General ,Franklin Pierce, just.nomiPresident Ray Hee is the son of Benjamin Pierce, an unlearned but honest, kind hearted man, who serv: ed his conntry in the Tovolation, wag that he was in the Mexican war, onder General Scott, who appears to have . frightened the Loco Convention out of the.r senses ! Tho Rochester Democrat says: than five minutes after the firing commenced, we cannot perceive that it is pessible for him to obtain any advantages from his warlike exploits. Another objection to Mr. Pierce will be found in his being a citizen of New en oh —8 State that makes it a penal offence fora Roman Catholic to hold any office of “tiust or profit” whatever. Whether our adopted citizens will be inclined to honor a State which has thus dishonored them, is.one of those puzzling questions which Time and next November can alone answer. Mr. upon as a Free Soil triumph—an old Hunker defeat--an old fogy annihilation. Mr. Pierce is the only caadidate who refused to answer the cvlebrated circular got up by Bobb Scott, consequently his opinion with regard to the “ finality of the compromise,” is no more known, than the source of the Niie. The Convention ‘“ went it blind,” and are quite as ignorant of Mr. Pierce's principles as they are of Mr. Pierce's domestic affuirs. Great country this. Well, it is. , The Providence Journal says : The confusion in the Convention, which was very greal throughout, increased immensely on the last day. Rowdies and fighting men from New York crowded the galleries. Capt. Rynders, at one time, interrupted the proceedings, and claimed to be heard in behalf of the Sixth Ward of New York. Fortyeight ballots were held with no botter prospect of success, and amidst increasing tumult and disorder, it was proposed to break up and abandon the nomination. Mr. Delancy, of Wisconsin, moved that the Convention adjourn sine die, and leave each State to vote for its own candidate. Unable to agree upun any of the prominent candidates, wenaried, disappointed, and disgusted, every section angry with each other, the friends of all the candidates, who. originally stood any thance, hatiny all the other candidates, any of them uniting to crush any other, but none of them joining in support—the resolve was taken to abandon the leading men, and to concentrate upon one of the minor class, Franklin Pierce was selected, and received nearly the unanimous vote on the 49th ballot. Gen. Pierce isa Hunker, and between the schools of Old Fogeyism and Young America, belongs to the former. The “boys” have been badly beaten. Young America is great on Wagelbe, but Old Fogeyism beats it in management. The hope of the party is in the recollection of the Polk nomination, and becauso one man of moderate abilities, and with little pretension to the office, was elected over a man of transcendent intellectual power, and with the highest claims upon the titude of his countrymen, the opinion has gained among them, that il is only necessary to suc: cess, that a. man should be nominated who is not fit for the offiee. This, we apprehend, will be found a mistake. The Polk game is not one that will bear repeating. After the nomination of Pierce, the confusion broke into great violence. The galleries were a scene of the wildest tumult, and two of the Mississippi delegation got into a fight on their own account, and exchanged blows, which the other members were too much occupied with their own disputes to interrupt. The biil for a mint in California was under consideration dn the House, but met with opposition from the New York delegation; on the ground that it should Mr. Pierce is a man of very moderate . Nt take precedence of that fur New abilities, He has figured considerably . York. Such influences defeated the in New Hampshire politics, and some . pj}! at the last session. years since was elected to the United States Senate. During the Mexican war, Mr. Polk appointed him General, and assigned him the command of a New England regiment. Our recollection is Thomas /. Meagher, the Irish Patriot, who recently escaped from exile in Australia has arrived in New York, not very distinct in regard to his ex-. where he was received with becom, ploits, and we suspect his political friends will require several days to discover any thing in his military career . ily in very remarkable. Whatever claims may now be made in his behalf, the public had regarded him as a. mere ing honors. He is now with his) famPhiladelphia. No business was done in Congress during the session of the Democratic amateur General—the appointment hay. National Convention. ing been conferred upon him for his partisanship, and nothing else. The Knickerbocker contains some spicy comments on tho nomination. We have only room for a few extracts. Our Whig friends may as well know it now ag hereafter, that it isa strong nomination. It is true that Mr. Pierce 48 not a distinguished man, although he has beon in public fife for the last twenDiscovery of a Silver Mine in Southern Llinois.—The Benton Standard says, we are credibly informed that.a rich mine of silver ore haseen lately discovered by Dr. Smith, in the vicinity of Gallatin, Saline county. . The discovery was made by the tor in explorifig a vein of lead, when he discovered what’ he took to be silver ore, ty years. He was elected United States . and in order to be certain, sent to St. Senator by the Legislature of New) Louis for a mineralogist, who, in anaHampshire in 1837, and served a term . lyzing the ore, extracted fifteen per of six years. He left no monument of . cont of iron and lead: atness behind him on the Congressional Journals, no enduring marks of statesmanship, and we are not sure that this is not in his case an element of strength. He isa lawyer, and has enEUROPEAN NEWS. The accounts from, Paris are principally occupied with speculations upjoyed a respectable position at the bar . on the coalition formed against Louis his own ‘State for many years. was one of the nine maupaies Generals appointed by President Polk during the Meziean war, and had command of the New Englaed, New York nnd South Carolina regiments. Mr. Pierce, aa our . readldrs are aivare, was one of the Genofor many yoate Sheriff of Hillsborough . nis who participated ih the battle of! it appears ‘that the northern . He . Napoleon by the northern powers during the visit of the Zmperor of Russia to Vienna and Berlin. _ Accordin to notes which have been drawn ut and the substance of which have been communicated to the London Times; iw Pierce's nomination is looked. aS aE Sis 0 Eh — 20S et rad RE © iin EP SB Mt Re AES ER ORE Sa ES aR EIEN RE CS TES TE A OE EF se Bis EBB aOR ES Re RE =. i RG é ne Fy fe WHOLE NO. il would riot object to Louis Napoleor coming an elective emperor of Fx but that any attempt to be founc perpetuate an imperial dynasty o part of the President, would be r¢ ted by Russia, Austria, and Pru In the event of Louis Wapoleoncoming elective Himperor, hé ‘we be called upon to respect existing tise,and to give assurance that #’ will keep within the precinct territ al limits, and'to explain the natd political doctrines of the governm The threo powers profess, in th notes, only to look upon Louis poleon as a temporary and provis; al power, and recognize the He Bourbon as the sole aud tegitin dynasty of France. The determi tion of the absolutist: emperors /t) expressed, have caused great: and chagrin to Bonapartist patty. Mr. J. P. Cobbett, son of. the: well known William Cobbett, h sued an address offering himself a candidate to represent Oldham in British Parliament a seat forwé! filled by his father. meee . Thearming of the fortifica Paris was going on with a great ¢ of activity. } Tt is stated in the Brussels pap that the health of the ex-Queen of . French has been mach shaken by . recent trials, and that she has éxpfe ed a wish to see all her family bled around her. Crystal Palaces for industrial ex bitions are to be built in France Silesia. The Spanish expedition from celona to the Balcaric Islands, reached Port Mahon, after havi countered a dangerous storm, _ w: threatened’ to be fatal t6 the wh squadron. On the 3d inst. six of public journals. were acized ‘at } by order of the Political, Chief. The scanty news we have fri Hungary says that the government making all possibie efforts to este lish the new organization; but work gocs on very slowly, partly fir uarrels among the men.in aw amine and bad government, pover! and military occupation of the coum try, are making things in Hungary a: most as bad as they can be. 6 The Russian government has authoy ized the importation of 6000 chests ¢ tea by the Russian Américan Compa ny, from Shanghae ‘into Cronstadi paying no higher duty than that re ceived by way of Kiatha, the objec being to pass the advantages of a mar! atime correspondence with Chita ‘it preference to the caravan crossing the ‘Tartar frontier. Accounts from Athens 'state that secret republican society, .with Famif cations extending to Constantinople; had been discovered there. tly) The Elizabethtown (N. J.) correspondent of tho Tribune, of May 224 says:-“Ata meeting of the Whigs of the; old borough of Elizabeth, held this ev ning, in accordance with the call of County Committee,seven delegates were! elected to reprisent the township at th State Convention, to be beld®at. Tren ton on the 2d of June, for the selection of Delegates to the National Conven. tion. . ‘The meeting was entirely harmes. nious, and resulted in the selection. of . seven warm friends of the Old Hero who is destined by the suffrages of tho: people to fill the bighest office of Prosident of the United States. Elizabethtown was long the residence . of Gen. Scott, and the expression of feel. ing of his old friends and neighbors is: x . sample of the general feeling through. out the State;which only néeds'the nom: . inasion of the + oe Here to call ovt am enthusiastic and victorious response, ' the polls next November.”» Mh The Stockton Journal; in. reeommend> . Mariposa coupty, has the following.eea. sible remarks :— ch eis There are men of intellect and stan. _ ding, whose nomination will ensiire i ae cess to the party, and whose election will be an honor to the. county. and’ of, service to the State,who, if they receive * the wnsulicited selection, will itto” ". enter. the canvass with 9 desire te be») elected—not. for the ephemeral Magee i of th® position—but that they may. 4 fect some change in the ruinous syetem® . of legislation which bas heretofore’ marke, ed and defaced the records.of the —prostrating credit, creating’ distrost, and’ spreading abroad the ‘perms ofo4.7 . vile and mischievous pe tional sani fea! ty. Such men will overawe this 'p . cal demagogues, who, with their private . . { ra) t i ow and special quieke me Pr} doctored the State into goridit et depletion ‘and Bankruptey’ total see knownto any previous recérd G€ pplitis cat treatment. :

~ NEVADA JOURNAL. —— VOL. II.—NO. 13 NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1852. THEJOURNAL PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT. SARGENT, EDITOR. A. A. Oftce on Broad street, opposite the Placer ane TERMS. Por one your, in advance Six months Three months $ we 2es WEDNESDAY. JULY 14, 1852. aaa UT INCIDENTS OF PASSAGE. No. I. As tho stoamer Oregon, on which we were to take passage, did not leave for va Panama is peculiarly distinguished \for its filthy smells. No care is taken lin cleanliness, and the extreme heat . makes the rottennesa ‘‘smell to heaven.” The hotels are generally miserable pla~ in the city tolerably descent is Booth’s “Western.” Right glad were the passengers who had secured their baggage to get on the Oregon, and listen to the niusic of the windlass, as the ancbor was drawn up. Three days on tho Iath;mus were timo enough. The Oregon, commanded by Captain Watkins on the passage alluded to, is one of the neatest and pleasantest boats on the Pacific, Every thing on bosrd of her proceeds like, c!lock-work—the comfort of the passengers, both steerage and cabin, is sedulous'y attended to: two days after our arrival at Panama, we had full opportunity to examine all cbjects of interest connected with the city. The time wa peculiarly auspicious, 28 on Corpus Christi Day the services of the Catholic mass were performed in the cathedral, the black military were in motion, and the peculiar demonstrations of such a people as the Panamenos in honor of the day, were in full operation. Panama is situated on a peuinsular. Javed on three sides by the sea, which flows in to its very walls. Properly defended it would be a place of considerable strength; but its military defense is merely in form, and more essential to preserve the submission of the people, than for operation agninst attacking powers. The city itselfis far superior in the character of its buildings and ruins to any other on the Spanish coas of America, as far south as Lima. number of colleges and cathedrals in} ruins is truly astonishing. The luxuri-. ant vegetation of the tropics gains a; foothold within the very walls of desert. ed mansions, the roofs of which lay at} its roots, in crumbling fragments. The present race inhabiting the city are far inferior in skill and energy to those who} planned and built Panama. The streets ure all paved—the buildings are two and three stories high, and within the walls are seen none of the miserable nas} tive cane huts that make up Gurapnn Under the renovating} and Cruces. touch of American business, many of the old adobes are being smoothed up and whitewashed, and if the Isthmus route retains its travel a few years longer, Panama will be entirely rejuvenated. To this end the bes»tted, ignorant popufation will never contribute—they will be put aside as obstacles in the path o! progress. On the saints’ day we have mentioned we visited the cathedral where bigh mass was being said, and listened awhile to the chanting of the priests, and the music of a rattling organ accompanyment. The impression upon the natives seeme! to be sufficiently solemn and appropriate, and no other form of religion, perhaps, would make them so docile and obedient to their temporal and spiritual masters. Catholicism speaks to their senses when their intellects are uninformed. New Granada, under a virtual despotism, apes the title of republic, and vaunting placards adorn the streets, “No hry esclavos en Nueva Granada.” appreciation of the holy goddess of Liberty as South Sea Islanders. At every street corner on this Saint's day were fixed statues and pictures of Christ and the Virgin, with other saints of both sexes, some of which with altered name, we thought. we recognized as the occupants of print shop windows in New York, figuring as ‘Julia’ or ‘Sarah’ etc. But they were undoubtedly sym bolical, and not intended as likenesses. At sunset a procession emerged from the cathedral, at the head of which walked the padre elevating the host; then followed little girls as angels with wings, priests, @ noisy band, black military, citizens and ladies. On_ every hand, down in the dust, knelt the crowd. with uncovered heads and downcast eyes. Notwithstanding the gold was so evidently all tinsel, the scarlet faded the show mean and paltry, not deeper in humility could the Italian bow when the gorge.us procession of the Holy Father meets his awed gaze. The “living presence!” How powerful the thought where undoubted. The shades of difference in mortal splendor disappear in the overpowering idea of Almighty presence! ty The . *#turday morning. 10th instant, bring. But the people have as gee she is eminently preferable as a fine steamer, and for the gentlemanly bearing of her officers. Our passage from Panama to San Francisco was accomplished in seventeen days, the most of one of which was spent at Acapulco. The weather during the whole trip was most delightful, and time passed quickly till we reached the golden gates. A short stay at San Fran-. cisco, a trip by the noble river boat, . New World, and a ride in Haworth’s excellent line of stages, and we were in Nevada once more, Per Gregory's Express. ARRIVAL of the TENNES ‘EE, . TEN DAY’? LATER NEWS. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. The fine steamship Tennessee arrived at San Francisco at seven o'clock on! ing the mails and 456 passengers. She left Panama on the 24th ult. At Acapalco she took on board 104 destitute passengers, from the ship Russell and brigs Amplytade and Isabella Hamosa. Tis act of kindness deserves the highest praise. The Golinda, a vessel engaged in a contraband trade, had landeda rich eargo of Chinese goods, nbout 150 miles north of Acapulco, which was seized, but the vessel escaped. We are indebted to Gregory's Express for a file of papers containing the earliest news, and to Adams & Co. fora highly valuable supply. The principal item of interest is the . result of the Democratic Convention at . Baltimore-~the fierce sectional jealous. . ies that pervaded it—the throwing over . board of every man who had distinguished himself in the service of the country or party, and the nomination of Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, and W. R. King of Alabama. We hive not room to give the full proceedings of the convention, but the (ollowing extracts from a long, minute detail in the N. Y. Herald, will give’an idea of the exvessive disorder that characterized the proceedings. The delegates should have taken lessons in deces, and the only one that we know of) . such bills that subsequently were ap~ voney and order in a council of savages. “Virginia, though Judge Barbour, . again cast the fifteen votes of that state . for Buchanan . Mr. MeMullon des‘red to state one or two facts, A voice ~There is nothing before the convention Mr. McM.,--I want to know whether lyou will still stifle the vote of Virginia . ‘The convention refused to hear him. The Kentucky delegation retired for consultation, and when they returned cast their tweive votes for Butler. (Appliuse.) DELEWARE IN DIFFICULTY—DELEGATE HELD DOWN BY THE SKIRTS OF HIS CoAT. The convention proceeded to the twenty-second ballot, and when Delaware wis called, two votes were announced for Cass and one for Butler. Mr. Worrell arose and _ protested against the vote. It was given contra. ry to the wish of the majority of the delegates of that state. He said he had been pulled down. by the skirts of his coat, and told to sit down—that he had no votehere. (Laughter.) He understood that the vote of e state is! to be cast-in acccrdance with the wishes of the majority{of the delegates. The President remarked that is the rale. 4 Mr. Worrell =Therefore, I assert, the majority gave their vote for Cags. (A pluuse.) lt was the voice of the litt diamond state —the voiee of men who<e. tion said, & The convention again proceeded to vote on the twenty-third ballot, and when Maryland was called, the announcement was made—Cass 5, Buchanin 3. This was followed by hissing in the galleries, and calls to order, intermingled with slight applause. _Muny yoices—Clear the galleries.— Silence up there. Stop those geese. Mr. McRae said, in # loud voice. that such usage from the citizens of Baltimore would prevent the holding of the Democratic convention there again. _ There was the utmost possible confusion. The President lustily called to order, and banged with his gavel. Many voices demanded that gentlemen standing should sit down. Mr. Mckne said there had been hissing in the galleries, and that was what he alluded to. * * * * The voting went on, when suddenly the convention was startled by the cry of “ FIGHT —FIGHT —FIGHT.” Messrs Wi!cox and Sims, in the neighborhood of the Mississippi delegation, were engaged in a personal collision, but the crowd around them was so dense, we could not get up to the scene to report the full particulars, The persons in the galleries stretched forth to see the combat. Of course there was a general excitement, and cries of ‘ sit down,” “down in front,” “order, order,” accompanied by prolonged hissing.” Awid such a witches’ sabbath, Mr. Pierce was declared unanimously nom. inated. He received the nomination on . the forty-ninth ballot. 116 votes on the first ballot, and was . undoubtedly the choice of a plurality of . the convention. Uptothe 19th ballot . Cass kept the lead. when Buchanan took it, and held it'till the 30th, when . Cass received . county, and finally elected Governor. Chepultepec, but as he fainted away His eocial worth and personal populari-. and had to be carried off the field in less ty, laid the foundation of his son’s fortuhes. Franklin Pierce is a man of fair personal character, moderate abilities, and the bitterest partizun feelings. He evidently considers that this country was created on purpose to be ruled by the party styling itself ‘Demucratic,’ and never harbored a suspicion that that party ever was or could be in error. If asked what was the occasion of Adam’s fall, he would instinctively answer, “Federalism.” He never had one proressive idea, but is in all things a mo~ el Hunker. General Pierce was repeatedly chosen to the New Hampshire. Leyislature, (House) of which he. was. finally made Speaker. He was first elected to Congress in 1833, (March) took his seat the following December, and scrved through two terms, when he was chosen into the Senate, where he served from 1837 to 1842, when he resigned. He won no position in either House, and was not qualified to win any. He is essentially an ordinary man in every thing but partizanship, but his Locofocoism is of a vindictiveand malignant type, peculiar to ew Hampshire. The New York Courier and Enquirer asks: What will the Democratic rank and file say to this nomination? Will they ratify this glaring outrage upon the principles which they profess to sustain —this open violation of the will of the eople? We think not. The sole object of a National Convention to nomi. nate a candidate for the support of either . party, is to ascertain the wishes of the people, and to place in nomination one who will be most acceptable to a majority of the party. And in arriving at this result it not unfrequently occurs that one who is not ‘first favorite,’ as they say on the turf, with the majority, Marcy passed him and distanced all . may yet be very decidedly the ‘second competitors for three ballots ; then Cass suddenly rose to 123, and his prospects brightened. It is snid the rally for Cass commencing at the 31st ballot was only intended to kill Douglas, at whose rising pro:pects Old Fogeyism was badly frightened. It was not till the 35th ballot that Pierce received a vote, nor till the last that a reasonable conjecture could louk toward his nomination. favorite,’ with ail, or nearly all. But this is not the ease in the instance before us. Mr: Pierce was not thought of, and is not kvown to ‘any portion of the purty whose candidate he has become. His name was not even heard in Convention, until the thirty-fourth ballot; and then he is putin nomination, not because the people, or any portion of them desire his nomination, but simply because their representatives are nbout to break up in a row; and to avoid this catastrophe and to wreak a petty COMMENTS ON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMI. . vengeance upon each other, a gentleman NATION, The comments of the various journals upon the Democratic nominations are varying and interesting. Our space will not permit us to quote many, but we give below a few of the most important . and striking. The Republic says General Pierce is an old Hunker of the strictest sect, having distinguished himself in the House of Representatives by his hostility . to River an! Harbor [mprovements— that he continually voted aginst all proved by Gen. Jackson, including one for the Delaware Breakwater, and also the Cumberland road bill. In the Senate, he nlao voted azainet all Harbor and River bills—against a grant of land to an Indiana railroad that offered to carry the mails free for twenty years asa recompense. His greatest speech in the Senate was against the relief to the is nominated whose name had not been even whispered before, and was not even . brought forward by hisown State! This . is not ozly ridiculous, but in our opinion . it is an outrage upon the wishes and the . will of the people. The New Haven Palladium thus announces the nomination : The Locofoco Nationul Convention have settled upon Gen. Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, as their candidate

for the Presidency. He, it will be remembered, is the gentleman who, seeing a boy weeping, enquired the cause, and learned that he had no money with which to buy candy; whereupon he put his hand in his pocket. drew forth a cent, and purchased for the boy a roll of candy! This circumstance gave lim some reputation in New Hampshire, and ma have given him the prominence in Baltimore, which led to his nomination. Bat little clse is known of him, except widow of General Harrisop. The Inteiligencer considers him a third rate man, but says his experience has been such as to qualify him to administer the affairs ot the government, should the people call him to that trust, reapectably, and in a national spirit. The Baltimore Patriot says: The Convention has consumated: its . work by nominating Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, as the Democratic ¢candidate for President. We may safely imagine that we hear a thousnnd voices asking ‘Who is. Franklin Pierce ?” The question is easily answered, but who will be satisfied with the answer ? Mr. Pierce belongs to. New Hampshire, and has been in’ Congress—but what he has said, what he has done, how, in any way, he has distinguished himself. that he should be selected as a roper man to make President of the Binived States, no one can explain—except it be to admit that party did it! So we go; the great men of the party —those who have done the State some service--those who havea name that is known, all these ore set aside, and Mr. Franklin Pierce overshadows them all! How true isall that Shakspeare tells us. He had this act of the Convention in mind when he wrote: Some men are born great some achieve greatness, And prev have greatness thrust upon them. Mr. Pierce belongs to the latter echool —grentnoss is thrust upon him. He is, . 18 one of his supporters in the Conven“blank leaf, upon which any ancestets sprinkled the fields of the rev. . thing can bo written.” olution with their blood. Outside influ. en. Cries of ‘' Order, order.” Another Delaware’ delegate wanted to speak. i that. quarter, and much Jaughter, it being said that he was prevented from rising by the holding of his coat tail. * * « * here was some confusion in . sated for The New Yok Tribune furnishes the ence has. sunk Cass as low ashe has fall-. ine following sketch of the new oandidate: General ,Franklin Pierce, just.nomiPresident Ray Hee is the son of Benjamin Pierce, an unlearned but honest, kind hearted man, who serv: ed his conntry in the Tovolation, wag that he was in the Mexican war, onder General Scott, who appears to have . frightened the Loco Convention out of the.r senses ! Tho Rochester Democrat says: than five minutes after the firing commenced, we cannot perceive that it is pessible for him to obtain any advantages from his warlike exploits. Another objection to Mr. Pierce will be found in his being a citizen of New en oh —8 State that makes it a penal offence fora Roman Catholic to hold any office of “tiust or profit” whatever. Whether our adopted citizens will be inclined to honor a State which has thus dishonored them, is.one of those puzzling questions which Time and next November can alone answer. Mr. upon as a Free Soil triumph—an old Hunker defeat--an old fogy annihilation. Mr. Pierce is the only caadidate who refused to answer the cvlebrated circular got up by Bobb Scott, consequently his opinion with regard to the “ finality of the compromise,” is no more known, than the source of the Niie. The Convention ‘“ went it blind,” and are quite as ignorant of Mr. Pierce's principles as they are of Mr. Pierce's domestic affuirs. Great country this. Well, it is. , The Providence Journal says : The confusion in the Convention, which was very greal throughout, increased immensely on the last day. Rowdies and fighting men from New York crowded the galleries. Capt. Rynders, at one time, interrupted the proceedings, and claimed to be heard in behalf of the Sixth Ward of New York. Fortyeight ballots were held with no botter prospect of success, and amidst increasing tumult and disorder, it was proposed to break up and abandon the nomination. Mr. Delancy, of Wisconsin, moved that the Convention adjourn sine die, and leave each State to vote for its own candidate. Unable to agree upun any of the prominent candidates, wenaried, disappointed, and disgusted, every section angry with each other, the friends of all the candidates, who. originally stood any thance, hatiny all the other candidates, any of them uniting to crush any other, but none of them joining in support—the resolve was taken to abandon the leading men, and to concentrate upon one of the minor class, Franklin Pierce was selected, and received nearly the unanimous vote on the 49th ballot. Gen. Pierce isa Hunker, and between the schools of Old Fogeyism and Young America, belongs to the former. The “boys” have been badly beaten. Young America is great on Wagelbe, but Old Fogeyism beats it in management. The hope of the party is in the recollection of the Polk nomination, and becauso one man of moderate abilities, and with little pretension to the office, was elected over a man of transcendent intellectual power, and with the highest claims upon the titude of his countrymen, the opinion has gained among them, that il is only necessary to suc: cess, that a. man should be nominated who is not fit for the offiee. This, we apprehend, will be found a mistake. The Polk game is not one that will bear repeating. After the nomination of Pierce, the confusion broke into great violence. The galleries were a scene of the wildest tumult, and two of the Mississippi delegation got into a fight on their own account, and exchanged blows, which the other members were too much occupied with their own disputes to interrupt. The biil for a mint in California was under consideration dn the House, but met with opposition from the New York delegation; on the ground that it should Mr. Pierce is a man of very moderate . Nt take precedence of that fur New abilities, He has figured considerably . York. Such influences defeated the in New Hampshire politics, and some . pj}! at the last session. years since was elected to the United States Senate. During the Mexican war, Mr. Polk appointed him General, and assigned him the command of a New England regiment. Our recollection is Thomas /. Meagher, the Irish Patriot, who recently escaped from exile in Australia has arrived in New York, not very distinct in regard to his ex-. where he was received with becom, ploits, and we suspect his political friends will require several days to discover any thing in his military career . ily in very remarkable. Whatever claims may now be made in his behalf, the public had regarded him as a. mere ing honors. He is now with his) famPhiladelphia. No business was done in Congress during the session of the Democratic amateur General—the appointment hay. National Convention. ing been conferred upon him for his partisanship, and nothing else. The Knickerbocker contains some spicy comments on tho nomination. We have only room for a few extracts. Our Whig friends may as well know it now ag hereafter, that it isa strong nomination. It is true that Mr. Pierce 48 not a distinguished man, although he has beon in public fife for the last twenDiscovery of a Silver Mine in Southern Llinois.—The Benton Standard says, we are credibly informed that.a rich mine of silver ore haseen lately discovered by Dr. Smith, in the vicinity of Gallatin, Saline county. . The discovery was made by the tor in explorifig a vein of lead, when he discovered what’ he took to be silver ore, ty years. He was elected United States . and in order to be certain, sent to St. Senator by the Legislature of New) Louis for a mineralogist, who, in anaHampshire in 1837, and served a term . lyzing the ore, extracted fifteen per of six years. He left no monument of . cont of iron and lead: atness behind him on the Congressional Journals, no enduring marks of statesmanship, and we are not sure that this is not in his case an element of strength. He isa lawyer, and has enEUROPEAN NEWS. The accounts from, Paris are principally occupied with speculations upjoyed a respectable position at the bar . on the coalition formed against Louis his own ‘State for many years. was one of the nine maupaies Generals appointed by President Polk during the Meziean war, and had command of the New Englaed, New York nnd South Carolina regiments. Mr. Pierce, aa our . readldrs are aivare, was one of the Genofor many yoate Sheriff of Hillsborough . nis who participated ih the battle of! it appears ‘that the northern . He . Napoleon by the northern powers during the visit of the Zmperor of Russia to Vienna and Berlin. _ Accordin to notes which have been drawn ut and the substance of which have been communicated to the London Times; iw Pierce's nomination is looked. aS aE Sis 0 Eh — 20S et rad RE © iin EP SB Mt Re AES ER ORE Sa ES aR EIEN RE CS TES TE A OE EF se Bis EBB aOR ES Re RE =. i RG é ne Fy fe WHOLE NO. il would riot object to Louis Napoleor coming an elective emperor of Fx but that any attempt to be founc perpetuate an imperial dynasty o part of the President, would be r¢ ted by Russia, Austria, and Pru In the event of Louis Wapoleoncoming elective Himperor, hé ‘we be called upon to respect existing tise,and to give assurance that #’ will keep within the precinct territ al limits, and'to explain the natd political doctrines of the governm The threo powers profess, in th notes, only to look upon Louis poleon as a temporary and provis; al power, and recognize the He Bourbon as the sole aud tegitin dynasty of France.. The determi tion of the absolutist: emperors /t) expressed, have caused great: and chagrin to Bonapartist patty. Mr. J. P. Cobbett, son of. the: well known William Cobbett, h sued an address offering himself a candidate to represent Oldham in British Parliament a seat forwé! filled by his father. meee . Thearming of the fortifica Paris was going on with a great ¢ of activity. } Tt is stated in the Brussels pap that the health of the ex-Queen of . French has been mach shaken by . recent trials, and that she has éxpfe ed a wish to see all her family bled around her. Crystal Palaces for industrial ex bitions are to be built in France Silesia. The Spanish expedition from celona to the Balcaric Islands, reached Port Mahon, after havi countered a dangerous storm, _ w: threatened’ to be fatal t6 the wh squadron. On the 3d inst. six of public journals. were acized ‘at } by order of the Political, Chief. The scanty news we have fri Hungary says that the government making all possibie efforts to este lish the new organization; but work gocs on very slowly, partly fir uarrels among the men.in aw amine and bad government, pover! and military occupation of the coum try, are making things in Hungary a: most as bad as they can be. 6 The Russian government has authoy ized the importation of 6000 chests ¢ tea by the Russian Américan Compa ny, from Shanghae ‘into Cronstadi paying no higher duty than that re ceived by way of Kiatha, the objec being to pass the advantages of a mar! atime correspondence with Chita ‘it preference to the caravan crossing the ‘Tartar frontier. Accounts from Athens 'state that secret republican society, .with Famif cations extending to Constantinople; had been discovered there. tly) The Elizabethtown (N. J.) correspondent of tho Tribune, of May 224 says:-“Ata meeting of the Whigs of the; old borough of Elizabeth, held this ev ning, in accordance with the call of County Committee,seven delegates were! elected to reprisent the township at th State Convention, to be beld®at. Tren ton on the 2d of June, for the selection of Delegates to the National Conven. tion. . ‘The meeting was entirely harmes. nious, and resulted in the selection. of . seven warm friends of the Old Hero who is destined by the suffrages of tho: people to fill the bighest office of Prosident of the United States. Elizabethtown was long the residence . of Gen. Scott, and the expression of feel. ing of his old friends and neighbors is: x . sample of the general feeling through. out the State;which only néeds'the nom: . inasion of the + oe Here to call ovt am enthusiastic and victorious response, ' the polls next November.”» Mh The Stockton Journal; in. reeommend> . Mariposa coupty, has the following.eea. sible remarks :— ch eis There are men of intellect and stan. _ ding, whose nomination will ensiire i ae cess to the party, and whose election will be an honor to the. county. and’ of, service to the State,who, if they receive * the wnsulicited selection, will itto” ". enter. the canvass with 9 desire te be») elected—not. for the ephemeral Magee i of th® position—but that they may. 4 fect some change in the ruinous syetem® . of legislation which bas heretofore’ marke, ed and defaced the records.of the —prostrating credit, creating’ distrost, and’ spreading abroad the ‘perms ofo4.7 . vile and mischievous pe tional sani fea! ty. Such men will overawe this 'p . cal demagogues, who, with their private . . { ra) t i ow and special quieke me Pr} doctored the State into goridit et depletion ‘and Bankruptey’ total see knownto any previous recérd G€ pplitis cat treatment. :