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MARCH 9
lilE AKNALS OP 1849.
Chapter I.
January 1. Tlio first day of 1849. Hamilton Fisn msiaucu
J Govenio0o'th(JStntooflNev;ydrk. John BJb'loyd installed
Governor ot Virginia. Tlio Congress oUha Republic ot Mexi
cocoiiyened. Tlio Popo protested a'gainstjthd convocation df tho
'Assembly o( tlio" Roman Republic.
""2. Battle between the forces of tlio Carlist chief Broges nnd
IhTforccs of tho Queen of Spain. JPcsth and Oren surrendered
t&the Atistrians. The royal ordinance of Prussia issued for tho
organisation of tho courts for trials by Jury and against tho court
"of .appeal to Cologne. Tho Hungarians defeated at Pancsoina
Ijyho.Austrians. Tho Spanish Chambers opened by tho Queen
i 3? ''Mooltan surrendered to tho English.
Tho Austrians defeated at Kashan by tho Hungarians.
5. Tho Austrian Diet protested .against tho first declaration of
tho Jaws as contrary to tho faith and constitution of tho Empire.
Tho postal treaty between tho United States and Great Britain
confirmed by tho American Congress. Windischgratz entered
Pesth without opposition. Kossuth retreated to Debreczin.
l6. Tho cholera appeared at JBiiltimoro Proposition to tho
Spanish Ambassador lor tho restoration of the Pope to Rome.
rl 7. iBattlo between Cabrera and the royal troops iaCatalonia.
!' S. Threatened donosition of the Shah of Persia. Proclama
tion of tho Pope threatening excommunication to all who aided
IU mo eipcuon ui me uw vsauuiuiy ut xvuiuu.
9. Threatened dissolution of tho Freuch Assembly.
10. Ratt o between the Indians and troops at Vallacloiicl tMo
latter remilsed. Guatemala in a staio of confusion and anarc!
U. Outbreak at Pernambuco. Tho Elector of Hessd doclhr-
cd in favor of placing at the head of tho German Confederation
one of tho hereditary family which was responded favorably to
by tho people. k i
. 13. Battle between tho Sikhs and British. the former defeated
with great loss.
15. Tho Austrian forces concentrated at Placentia. M d'Us.
sell' formerly Page to King Louis XV of France cheated a Ba-
ron by Napoleon died aged 102 years. -'
Ug. Dalian seized bv the British forces. Writ of error in the
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cose pt U'JJrien McManus U'Mcagper ana u'uononpe insu
Rcb'els '48 decided against them by the Court of Queen's Bench.
19. Tho steamshin "California" pioneer of the Pacific line
ueitinrpfjtho American volunteers from tho Yucatan war.
. f'TJio'ar'niistic'O betwnnn ftnstrin'nhil'Snrdihia brokenTho
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first daily newspa-
arrived at Panama. Tho German Chambers opened at Frankfort.
' 20. Revolution at Jalisco Mexico. Tho Southern Address
adopted by tho Southern members of Cqngress Gen. Lewis Cass
elected to the United States Senate from Michigan.
2i. Battle between the Hungarians under Gen. Bern and tho
Austrians under Field Marshall Puehner.
22. . Desperata battlo between tho insurgents andt the troops of
IfQrna'mbuco--the latter defeated with 200 killed 300 wooded
rind 400 taken prisoners. Battle between tho Sikhs and British
-the latter victorious. Moollan.and Moolrnj attacked.
tfi23. Tho fortress of Mooltan surrendered unconditionally to
tho. British forces under Lord Gough.
24. Threatened invasion oi Capo Haytien by Solouqnci J.
JCClayton Senator from Delaware resigned his seat in tho Unit-
ed States Senate m
25. The election of Gen. Zachary Taylor to the Presidency
officially announced in the United States Congress. General
Taylor resigned tho command of tho Wesiorn iDi vision of tho
United States Army.
vj20. JJalize Honduras blockaded by the British.
29. Battle between tho Mexicans and Indians at Sierra the
former victorious after heavy losses on bpth sides. .Threatened
revolt in Paris. Tho French Assombly dissolved.
(J3L Commodore Geo. C. De Koy formerly ofi the Argentine
" Navy and commander of tlio United States' frigate Macedonian
on her mission of mercy to Ireland died in New York.
February 1. Henry Clay elected to the United States Seti-
" . Ojtoifrorn Kentucky. The English Parliament pponed inLondon
by flic Queen m person. Tho Piedmontese Chambers opened at
4. The Address of jhe Southern members of Congress upon
tho slavery question issued.
5. Rome declared a Republic. i
G. Hermannstadt bombarded by the forces under tGeh. Bern.
?Presidsnt Polk issued his messago in reply to ihe Senate's call fqr
the Mexican protocol
7 Tho Grand Duke of Tuscany fled tp Elba
- 8. i Tuscany declared independent and a Provisional Minis-
.iryfappointed. i i
'$r Tlio Gr.and.Duko of Tuscany fled from Florence. The
'. Republic of Romo proclaimed. r i
10. Tho Popo of Rome deposed.
I'l. Charles Gavon Duffy editor of the Dublin Irish Nation
"hrought up in thq Court of Queen's Bench on charge of Jelotiy
Nft publishing articles against English tyranny in Ireland ; no
VGrchct found. v . .
. .;j.l2. - Tho lino of telegraph from Now York tp St. Johns New
f Brunswick completed qnu put in operation.
" .14. Tho British Navigation Bill introduced into Parliament1.
'f j 17. The Theatre Royal nt Glasgow on fire nudseventyfivc
persons crushed to death.
' 19. Riot in tho Canadian Parliament House at Montreal.
-20. Threatened rupture botwqpn Austria and Prussia.
(2l Battlo between tho forces under Lord Gough and those of
Shere Sfingh tho former victorious with a loss of 1)U0 men.
'42. Corner stona ot io new gustomhouso at New Orleans laid.
23 Tho American flag outraged at Maracaibo
Sk Bill introduced into tho British Parliiunont irrantins- to
tho. Jews setts therein. Great flood in tho Mississippi river.
"y27. Lord Elgin requested by Parliament members to resign
tho Lieutenant-Governorship of Canada.
' 28. Wreck of the ship Floridian op thaEnglish coast and two
hundred lives lost. The British corn law expired.
IJlAitcn 1. BattlobotveQn tho U. States dragoons and ApAcha
4. Indians near Taostho latter defeated with eight killed.
' 2. Tho bill granting a territorial government to California re-
jected by tho United Sfates Senate. Threatened revolution in
Badejv The bill providing for the coining of gold dollars and
dojtble englps passed the United States Congress
4. Tho Thirtioth Congress of tho United States adjourned
Utoflfa Tho bill creating the Homo Department signed by Presu
ident Polk. Funds collected m Ireland fot Popa.Pius JX.
fc'&gafiipen. Zacjiary Taylor inaugurated president ofJho-United
4SSBVMcQliMo tho-Uuited States Sptuaoftisetmessioh.iA
nesseo. The cholera appeared at St. Louis. Promulgation oM
new constitution by the King of tho Two Sicilies. '
8. The cholera appeared In New York.
- -10. Annexation of Canada to tho United States openly spoken
of in tio Canadian Parliament. " '
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remaining.forces of Shere SmVl
1 6. Tho cholera again appeared iu Now York city.
17. Kinir Willinm II. nf Mnllnrul. HJnrL Celehrniinn of St.
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Patrick's Day by ull Irishmen throughout the world
i9. David C. Cfaypoole publisher of the fi
per in tnc uniteu Btotes died.
20. Battlo between Charles Albert and Marshal Radetsky
hoavy losses on both sides the latter defeated. i
'23. Another battle between the same forces Charles Albert
and his army totally routed. The special session of the United
States Senate adjourned sine die.
24. ' Charles Albert abdicated in favor of his son the Duke of
Savoy. Threatened rebellion in Canada.
29. Tho Punjaub formally annexed to the British Crown.
30. Tho citv of Brescia bombarded entered and sacked by
i'qeral Haynau.
The Importance of Cuba.
The acquisition of Cuba includes such nn imnerial list of ad
vantages and would add such strength to our position with ro-
gard to foreign nations that no statesman of any party whose
name is worth recording has failed to declaie the impossibility
of 'permitting this incomparable Queeh of islands to pass from
her present hard taskmasters fo any other control than our own.
If at an earlier day before a steam marine existed to bridge the
strait that parts her from our mainland or to enable a foe to cast
with the precision of science its hostile legions upon our long
lipeof doast towns while her lofty embattled shores walled in
our inland sea and forbid entrance or departure to the commerce
of the Gulf she was so important as the key thereto how much
hiore so is she since we have doubled our seaboard on the Gulf
and increased thirty fold the commerce she watches from her
hundred havens? If bur wigest Presidents thought it proper to
declare it a political necessity that Cuba the guardian of the
Mexican sea should never bo held by any power but the Union
whenever she escaped from the tyrannical grasp ol Spain and if
they uniformly insisted upon this policy as a vital interest to be
cared for when wo had but little commerce on tho Gulf how
must we estimate its importance sinc6 wo have added Texas
with its five hundred mues of Bay and Coast and California
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wuu us ricn mines mai cannot do reacneu Dy any quiCK or prac-
ticable route without passing along the highway she watches?
' By a singular and to a republican a most inexplicable policy
thld Islahd has been twice prevented of its independence by the
strenuous of pur Presidents. Mr. Adams opposed a plan ot libe-
ration in 1826 with so much energy and determination that
tho Yipe and well conceived project was dropped per force j and
iit 1849 General Taylor gave such effiacious aid and advice to
Spain as frustrated a strong organization for the deliverance pf
Ciiba. ' Russia did not lend her arms and her officers to Austria
with a more fatal effect oh the dawning liberties of Hungary
than the American cabinet of '49 lent their influence counsels
and officers to stifle those of Cuba. tYet nothing could be more
timely nothing more beneficial to tho interests and durable peace
of this confederacy than the freedom of Cuba if that freedom
were to be promptly followed bv annexation. "We absolutely re
quire some weight at the South to maintain tho healthy ' balance
of the Union sc-mcthing to calm the distrust of the enfeebled
South and prpvent the over-strong North from becoming dicta-
torial and nciessive. There must be equally to insure har-
mony and eontidence. We have now fifteen Slave to fifteen
Free Soil States and if there was no sectional agitation to make
it a point of honor not to abandon their slave-holdinsr sisters in
the hour of tu'al five more Delaware Maryland Yirginia Keii-
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tucky and Missouri would pass ovqr to the non-slave-holding
power. This would make twenty Free Soil to ten Slave States
and even without the addition of new States which from their
natural characteristics must bo non-slave-holding they would
count two to one. This dangerous preponderance cou(d not fajl
to tie auuseu and tneaoutn would be compelled to secession and
perhaps a bloody war of defence. The actual requirement of
tho crisis is to maintain the equipoise of the Union by the addi-
tion of States like Cuba which would be closely allied to the
North by commercial interchjpnge and to the South by social
sympathies. ' ' l
. ' Baync's Great Panorama
Is now on exhibition in New York. It draws crowded houses
all the time. A moro imposing and entertaining exhibition if
ever has been presented to the public. Mr. Bayne is coining
money at a rapid rate by his wonderful Panorama.
ft represents Boston and its harbor filled with vessels steamers
and other craft. It exhibits a British mail steamer all lighted up
through her many port holes or windows on her passage in the
night to Halifax 'from Boston. It exhibits tho town of Halifax
as natural as life andithe steamer leaving for Liverpool. It gives
a storm at sea' Tho audience hears the wind howl; the rain
pour the thunder roll sees tho lightning flashing andeefo the
cold chill creeping over it which Ihe storm produces. After a
while tho stoim "abates the lights of Holyhead are discovered
the steamer and' all on boaTd are safe I The audience " breathes
freen and deeper."
.Next the steamer is seeif passing up the river Morsey to Liver-
pool and that renowned city and its curiosities and great works
are presented to tho full view of the beholder.
Next the audience is transported to London where that world
of a city and all its wonders its towers its Westminister Hall
its St. tPuuls its fiver Thames its massive bridges and its won-
deffuUunnol under the Thames tire brought life-like before the
enraptured lonkef-dn. ' I
From London the audience is taken up the river Rhine where
its beauties its castles and their histories are all given on the
canvas and. by thb mouth of the (delineator.
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"jdr' The report of the German Emigration Society of New
York estimates tl)o number pf German immigrants during the
month of December last at 1395 j m thesamo month of 1848;
the number- was 1GQ5. The Greatest nunibor of Gorman im.
migrams grjived in AS47 viz : 70735. The total for 1848 was
52fylH jfpr.1849! "19.740. Tho number of emigrants expected
t0ttWWP'Aiy;URltw comiff months is inconsiderable judging
An.uifttleauinibflrof vessels .which-hadi !ei'tEuroho un to.iliA'
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The Carolina Resolutions and Mr. Kenton.
Some persons have been led to suppose from the publication
in Washington of a so-called " interesting qorrespondence" be-
tween Governor Seabrook and Senator Benton that the former
had gone out of his waiy to tlTrust the Soutti Caiolnm Resolu-
tions upon tli notice as a sort of challenge or taunt. Nothing
could be farther from the truth. Thcsaresolutions as is known
were not legislative but adopted in a caucus of the members of
both Houses and of course did not come before the Governor
officially. But his Excellency to signify his full sympathy .with
them caused copies to be printed and sent them to every Sena-
tor and Representative in Congress from tho slave-holding States.
They were matter of public interest to those to whom they were
transmitted and.sent because they wero so.
Mr. Benton alone replied to them as was natural. His situa-
tion is peculiar. Ilejias been used to occupy a certain portion
of the "public domain" with the pomp and imperial self suf-
ficiency of a sovereign. He has had room to swing and swell
and fulminate. But they have taken away his bolts his trap-
pings his Jiunting grounds and tho wind from his sails. Ho
sneaks about the Senate as it wero hen-pecked ; his grandilo-
qence depressed to a whine his stilts lost and his. wrath turned
to wailing. It could not be otherwise but that a man like Mr.
Benton so deprived of his element and shorn of his dimensions
in the Senate should seize with avidity every occasion to stretch
himself and to repeat the old notes where there was no risk of
reply. Even Napoleon was allowed to grumble about the leaks
in the root of his house at St. Helena. Such consideration to
fallen greatness is reasonable.
Sometimes we think that part of Mr. Benton's low spirits may
spring from shamo of his position that he a Southern man
should have leagued himself with such a foul conspiracy against
the honor and safely of his section. Sometimes we suspect that
he did not dream what a dance tjioso Free Soilers would leud
him when he joined hands with them ; and that flow ho knows
the fearful seciets of that tiaitorous camp he is desirous to shrink
away and to hide himself; and in these moods of mind we feel
a touch of sympathy for him and involuntarily offer to him that
gentle chiding which Burns addressed to the Devil :
O wid jo ink' a thought un' men !
Yo oiblins might T dinnnkon
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I'm wuo to think ujio' nn ilcn
Kv'n for join snko '
However we must admit that there is but faint hope that either
of these personages will take a favorable view of any hints for
their amendment. Mercury.
Alphabets and Languages
The English alphabet contains 26 letters ; the French contains
25 ; the Hebrew Chaldee Syriac and Samaritan 52 each ; the
Arabic 28; the Persian 31 ; the Turkish 32; the Georgian
3G ; the Coptic 42 ; the Muscovite 43 ; the Greek 24 ; the" La-
tin. 22 ; the Sclavonic. 25 ; the Dutch 25 j the Spanish 27 ;
the Italian 20; the Ethiopian and Tartarian each 202 ; the In-
dian of Bengal 21 ; the Burmese 10; the Chinese have pro-
perly speaking no alphabet except we call their whole language
by that name their letters are words or lather hieroglyphics
amounting to 80000.
The 20 letters of the English alphabet may be transposed
620448401733239430360000 times. All the inhabitants of
the globe on a rough calculation could not in a thousnnh mil-
lions of years write out all the transpositions of the 24 letters;
even supposing that each person wrote forty pages daily each of
which pages contained no less than forty transpositions of tho
letteis.
There aie 3664 known languages now used in the world. Of
these 937 arc Asiatic 587 Euiopean 276 African and 1624
American dialects.
3 A letter from Washington written by one of the corres-
pondents of the Baltimore Sun mentions several circumstances
which afford ground for hope that the territorial agitation will be
quieted forever without producing the effects which have been
threatened.
First : Mr. Foote's bill was referred to the Committee on Ter-
ritories of which Mr. Douglass of Illinois is chairman and this
committers regarded as more likely to bring about an amicable
termination of the controversy than tee Judiciary committee to
which some were anxious to refer it.
Secondly: IheWilmot Proviso in the words of the Sun's
oc-ouuiy. j.uu vvumoi rroviso m the words of the Sun's
correspondent is now a dead cock that can do no more fMuino-
Ihirdly: It is said that Several northern Senators aredefo-
mined to disobey instructions (says the correspondent) should
this couisc s of theirs be required to anest the avalanche. More-
over it is believed that the action of these high-minded patriotic
men will oe sustained at home and that their resignation should
they feel bound to submit the matter to their constituents will
be followed by their being re-elected to their vacant seats in the
feenate. Louisiana Courier.
7ALl0i York city is $24000000 of
ff'0? r?SV'0U0' of Now Oceans $17500000. of Phila-
SSnnnrW f CInrleston 69000000 'of Providence
88000000 of Baltimore $7000000. of Nashville ftfi noo i nn
Of Hartfbld S4.000.000. of l.nniw lli nn n ffi'H"'00.0'
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cmnati Lexington Kentucky TUnhiln iw m!. f"' Ym
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u.. Muaimgiuii aim roitiand nave each more than $1000000.
m . . German Newspapers in Europe
ropT 1558 ote .S? TSpGrS PWh in Eu-
rope is looH. UI these 632 are in Prussia; 74 in Austria- 183
m Saxony; 67 in Wu.temberg; 55 in Baden ; 32 in Hanover-
7 in Switzerland ; 4.4 in the duchies of Saxony ; 34 in Hesse'
Darmstadt ; 42 m Mecklenbiirg ; 18 in BremenVl7 in Frank-"
fort; 6 in France; J in Great Britain ; and tho rest sea Uered
over the principalities of Germany. The numbers and I inSoT
tance of these journals are continually inCreas inland L 7in-
fliier.ee is powerfully felt in Europe since they agre gene a ly 0i
he side of popular rights. The German presl of this country
is also powerful. We are not acquainted with the mimbw c5
oliXndrT m lhe Uileds!abutthe;em;tbeatTeast
Gen. Morns' toast at the Printers' Festival New York :
Ihe. Arnencan Bion-J What God has Coined toother let
no man put asunder -a union 5f Tnkes-a union ofSs-
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