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Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will b,, c *Ainued until nidered out and charged accordingly. 'Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to POETRY. THE DEAD WIFE. If I had thought thou could'st have died, . I might not weep for thee But I forgot when by thy side, That thou coulttst mortal be. Itnever through my mind had passed; -f That time would e'er be o'er, -And I on thee shouldst look my last And thou shouldst smile no more. And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smtile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain : But when I speak, thou dost not say What thou ne'er left ansaid And now I feel as well I may, Dear Mary, thou art dead. If thou wouldst stay'e'en a thou art, AJI cold and all serene- . ^* IstaImight press thy silent heart, Andwhere thy smiles have been. Whilegereu thy cold bleak corpse I have, Thou seemest still-iy own; But , here I ly thee'in -thy grave--M. ::..A't-.. m n aon " I do not think where'er thou art, Thou hast forgotten me; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart In thinking too of thee. Yet there was round thee such a dadn Of light ne'er seen before, As 'fanty never Could have drawn, And never can restore. WooLFE. MIISOELLANEOU. A i EMALE CRLUSOFJ. Off the coast of Alta Californii, about two degrees distant, bearing near ly west from Point San Pedro, which is in the latitude of 33 43 N., and longitude 118 14.W., will be fonnd a smail island, called by the St. Nicholas. This islar.d was formerly inhabited by an inofTen sive, indolent race of Indians, who sub sisted almost entirely upon fish, which the;' caught from the rocks, and mus cles, which they found in the sands of the beach; Tney were a listless. quiet race of beings, whoseldom had com,nu nication with other of the human family, and who had but few wants and fewer cares. About the year eighteen. hunri-ed and eighteen or twenty, the Russians, from~ their settlements at the Northt, landed on this island a party of Kodiac Indians, for the purpose of hunting the sea otter, which at that peaina, abounded in those wvaters. This party remained on the island for more tirmn two years, and were the means of sowing the seeds of disease and contention amongst its un suspecting and unasophirticated inhabi tants. Some. ten or twelve years after the departure of the Kodiacs, this tribe had become diminished to about twenty or thirty individuals, when the Governor of the department of California sent over a small vessel and removed them to the main. In the last boat whbich was embarking with the last of this people, (some six or eight perhaps in number,) to convey them to the vessel, which was to carry them from the home of their nativity forever, was one of the tribe, small in statute, not far advanced in years, and his dusky mate, then, in the bloom of life. The order had been given to shove from the shore ; the oars had dipped in the wave ; the boat was rising on the .fo~tming surf, then breaking on the beach with awful roar, when with the impulse of the moment as it were, this, young and blooming bride of the red man, the * imprint oqf whose foostep had been the last left on the sands of her is1and home waved an adietu tu her chosen mate, plunged into the abyss, "st ove through the surge," and, in anothe~r moment, stood alone on the shoures of her native land. .She turned, to give the last ltn gering look to her departing helpmate ; and then gathering round her form the hewming manen wet by the nenn ao in an instant disappeared forever from the sight of her astoriished-and sorrowing companions. The vessel weighed anchor, spread her canvass ; and in forty eight hours, this remnant of the inhabitants of San Nicholas were landed on Point - San Pedro, houseless and forlorn.. From that period to the present-if she be not dead, or has not left within the past eighteen months-has resided alone, on the Isle of San Nicholas, this female Crusoe, the monarch of all she surveys. She'preferred to part even with her chosen mate, and sever every human tie that could be binding, rather than leave the home of her birth-that loriely little Isle, that had been to her a world; which. she cared not to exchange for the abode of civilized with all its promised luxuries. Since our 'Crusoe becaime the sole imonarch of the Isle, San Nicholas has been visited perhaps ten or twelve dife rent times, by different individuals; but thete she has -continued to be- found, with none to dispute her right-alone solitary and forsaken. fler dress, or covering, is coniposed of the skins of. small birds, which she kills with stones, and sews them together with a needie Of bone and the light sinews or the halt seal; sometimes found dead amongst the rocks. Her only food is a shell fish, of'the niusiles species, with now and then a still smaller fish. She never remains. long in one spot; but is constantly wandering around the shores of.the Island; sleepihg, which she seldom does, in small caves and CTrevi ces in the rock. Daring the few last years, it has been very difficult to ohtain any comninica tion with her.-At the approach of the whits iman she flees, as from an evil spirit : and the only way to detain her is by running:her down, as you would the wildi.goat of the mountain, or, ti the young fawn of the plains. . - Those who have seen her aithe latest period report that site appears to .have lost all .lnowledga of language tharshe 'ifikonif'aiv1iinise,"altogeth:e-In human ; and when taken and detained agiinst her will, becomes frightened and restless; that the moment she is-lib erated she darts off, and endeavors to secret herstli in the wild" grass, or amongst the iocks which hang over the never ceasing surf. Ev.ry endeavor has been made, and inducement offered, by different indivi duals, to prevail upon her to leave the island, but invain.-The only home she appears to desire, is-her own little isle. Her last hope, ifshe has any, is to finish her journey alone. She has no wish now to hear again the sweet music of speech. Its sounds are no longer music to her ear-and,as for civilized man,his tameness is shocking even to her dor mant senses. To all appearance, she is strong, healthy, and content to be alone. What can reconcile her to her lot,who can con jecture ? Humanity may hope that contentnment iay continue to be hers, to the last hour ; for she ia destined to lie dntin and. die alone, on the cold shore of her isolated home, with oo one to administer to her last wants, and none to cover her cold body, when the spirit shall have left the clay. r IBut the story of our' Crusoe's chosen mate, the, companion of her early life, has yet to be told. -He saw her for the last time, as we have stated, when 'she stood alone on the .shores of her ble ; when the bolit. ith himself. und his vompanions was dashing throgh the wild surf, and bioke in uninterrupted suc cession against the rocks which encircled the resting place of his fathers,anid which he was then leaving forever. When the renant of the family from San Nicholas, our hero was landed at Pedro and there left, with the others who had accompanied him, to find a house in the land of strangeis. San Pedro, it may be known, is a bleak, barren, bluff point, running out into the blue waters of the Pacific, on which no verdure is to be seen, and hut. one solitary abode of man, rismng amid the desolation which surrounds it. The Pueblo de los Angelos is situated ten leagues distant, with one farm house between the one on the point and those of the town. The mission of San Ga briel lies yet father on, some three or four leagues, where in that timer might be found, perhaps three or four hundred converted Indians. But our hero as lie may be called, never left the beach on which he was first landed. Alone and friendless, there be remained, ain isolated being. till life ceased to animate his frame. True it is that several times he was induced to venture as far as the Pueblo, and even the mission of San Gabriel ; but he al n~ays', as soon as at liberty, returned and rtesumed his old station on the beach, or neak, or fixed himself on the rocks which hung around the point. And there lie might alway be seen,.a -solita; ry outcast, as it were, and more con;. stantly when the sun was going down; u ith his eyes gazing on that celestial erb as it sunk into the western horizon, a drection which 'ie.well knew pointe.d to the Ist but never orgotten home of hii nativity, With difficulty he sustained the wa-rps of nature by fishing about the rocks gather iiig muscles, and sotmetimes, re, ceiving a scanty pittance of corn from the house on the point, or a fet. pence from a passing stranger. He studiously avoided, as far.-as pos. sible, all intercourse with his fellow men, and ought to live and die in solitude ; and 'so did he' continue to live a life which manilestly appeared a burthen to hint, till one morning as the. sun. rose, not two years past, his oody was found on the beach a stilfened 'corpse,stretched out, and bleaching as it.wer', in the white foam of the surf, which was thrown about his lifeless'emains as the mighty wave broke on the shore. It is presumed his death was acciden tal-that whilst searching for shell fish in the night, amongst the cliffs, he-must have fallen from an eminence, and stbus ter minated his solitary existence. Corresponadence of the N. 0. Bee. Head Quarters U. S. Army of Invasion, Victoria, Mexico, Jan. 5, 1847. Gentlemen :-i wrote you a hasty note from Monterey, on the evening of the 22d1 ult., andjuitended to have vrit ten again the next day, as an express camtein that evening from .Saltillo;,but the hu-ry of-preparation .for. the .march down heteprevented.ne,.and [- put it ofd .vithtite: view of sending it from Mohti' Morales, at wivlich-piace unfortu nately, Gent. Taylor sent of his express before I got in. Gen. Taylor a ail his officers feelk irg trfect confid4 ce in the, ability of Gen:. Butler to maintain, his- position at Salillo against any-- force, and judging Sbati4he l ~ I lra1pntey u kei.lifa e intlja~t quarter, the ii ge was sounded early on the morning of the 23d, to take up the line of march again for this place, and between 7 and 8 o'clock the columns were in nation, all being assured that nothing but the defeat of our fources would again cause them to retrace their steps. The rest, on Monday Ind Tuesday, was of great ad vantage bioth to men and horses, but the effect. dfilie forced march from Morales was quite apparent. Col. fHdrney, of the dirageons, did not stat t with us. lie was ordered on the morning of the march to proceed to Sal tillo, and take command of all the moun ted men, includingd.agoons and Arkan sas and Kentucky cavalry. After a twelve days march over a lovely and picturesque cuuntry, and to the right of the Sierrp Madre mountains and within a few miles of then, we reached Victoria yesterday, losing a large number of mules and horses on the road, from disease and over work. At Mount Morales, are overtook the supply train of Capt. Sibeleig, and a train of wagons just from Camargo, with provisions. From this place Col. May with a topogesphical engineer and two conmpanlies p.1 dragoons, left tus on the road, and proceeded along the foot of the mountains to ascertain if there. were any passes we svere not advised of. A pass was found between Linares and Morales, and with great difficulty the c,;mmand got through it by leadinig their horses as it isiteported so narrow, that but a single horse 'could~ make any head way. -Some of those who were with the expedition i-epresent the scenery as being the most magnificent that was ever beheld.' On one side of the pass there is said to-be a perpendicular ascent of 600) or 700 feet, with the rock jutting out a foot or more all the way up, arnd the opposite side of it runs up to the same height, though with a gradual slope. The scenery all around looked wild in thie extieniost sense of the term, and to use the language of one of the dragoons, some of the peaks of the mountain looked so high, that the Mex. ican eagle has not the courage to build its . nest there. After examining the pass and the natuye of the country be yond it, the commsind began to retrace their steps, and the main body by pur suing the same course they did at first,got safely back on this side of the-modntains. The rear guard however was not so fortunate, and none but the Lieutenant and Sergeant got through. What mis, fortune befel them, and how it happened had best .be given-publicity to, over the signature of Capt. May, as he has prom ised to hand it to me. before closing my. letter. He has placed the. Lieutenant under arrest, and isyvery much mortified at the loss of his men. At Linares, we found out the gov enent of Mexico hadRA ,30 n fund's it was demanded from the to l eneral Taylor. That func. otati d that the money had bee. '1adi~ by a government officer, but le W4- =oldered to produce, and fie comp . aying $1000 himself, and mueffige merchants of the town out of the ref ie. We had paid very near :$1000.4 e people for forage, mules and -horn and little et ceteras, most of whicu lB esume came back in the $3800. very night of the march, im, nedietely pposite our encampment, a fire was - ted in the mountains, and I have no al ,bt at all but they were inten ded asisig i ls to show our whereabouts on the road. Victorisi, altogether a very ;pretty place, and arger than any town I have seeti excel Monterey. . General Quit man's 'innd have been here since .the 29ttrId were the first Americans to enter.tltown. The Baltimore bat talion -wi in the advance and their flag,. wh as christened in Monterey, now waY rum a two.story house in the plaza. e Mexican cavalry were moving re General Quitman for two days bef he got in. They were at the hac a of Sanlen Gracia in the mornn d pur troops were there in the eyed It was the same way at the.Cabal rd rancho. There were about two hund&ed here in all, and some of then leff e town on the evening of the 28th, and- e remainder the next morn tog, but they (vere seen on the ,oun, tains by i5;men, after they had encamp ed, and '1l the'- little "tackies" were saddled upito pursue them, but night came on, ' d it was of no avail. They knew very well tha: there was no caval ry alongs nd: hence their. daring in showing t mselves. The rear of Gen. Twiggs' division had not gpt out of town yesterday on .oute to the river, before the advanced guard of Ge. Patzerson had entered the plaza.. .I(<heftrtweity miles this side of' Matamoras6-n the 24th, and. must have marched -er',near as fast'as. la did to the place was occupied ly our. troops, and desired i6:plant.thm frst American standard in Victoria. His command consists of the Tennessee cavalry, the 3d and 4th Illinois infantry, two' com paRies of artillery, and one of sappers and miners. The division was accom panied by a supply train, which with the company wagons made near 300. The simultaneous ariival of the tw6 divisions made cquite a shoe, and every thing around wore a martial appearance. The people of the town, less reserved or less timid than usual, came into the streets, and to their windows, in great numbers, and looked as though they thought the thing was up with Mexico, as our columns marched through the square. Neither division knew the whereabouts of the other and their arri val at the same time was not anticipated. To feed all the horses and men that ate now here, it will require untiring ex ertions on the part of the Quarter-Mas, ters and their assistants. The greatest difficulty till be in providing for.:the horses, although up to this time we have had no difficulty in obtaining forage from the enemy, for which we now pay them' one price-60 cts. for cor-n, and at a proportionate rate for fodder. This is the price' .we paid on the route from Monterey, andl thus far we have contin ued it here. But the demand, will soon swallow up what is in the vicinity, and then we will have to look- for -it- from sonie of the depots on the Gulf.-Should we remiaiin here for any considerable length of time, it would be advisable to land supplies at Soto Ia Marina, a port at the mouth of the river ofthbe samne name, 635 or'70 . nules froni this place. But it is not probable that we shall re main here, for the Mexicans will not come tonus, and if we are not going after thenm just now, convenience as well as economy demands that we should be nearer the sea board. 'Gen. Scott has signailed to Gen. Tay lor his intention of taking..:command of this wing of the army, and I think he will move it fo'Tampico, when: lie gets ready, and from there, the only promi nent place presented in "my mind's eye" is Vera Cruz. It has been talked of very much by Gen. Taylor lately, and. some of his ofiicers.say he dreams of it. I believe I told you before 'that he said, to the General Government, that if they would sand him 6000 troops to Tampi co, he u'ould march 1o that place with 4000 of those now in .the field, and would after adding them togrether move on to and attack the city of Vera Cruz. If our troops do not go there, where wtill they go beyond-the Sienne Madrel? The movement down-here argues forei, bly enough to me that a march to San Luis Potosi, by. the way of Saltillo has been abandonleil; nd we have recently learned that it is almost, if not quite im possible to approach that place ,with .wagons and artillery from this quarter. In fact, here San Luis Potosi is not talked 6f at alt, and every person is of the opinion that the contemplated expe dition to that place has been entirely abandoned. - We -have .been advised here that 'the -Mexicans, -in fortifying Vera Cruz, have dug a .large number of ditches in the town, and the one at the outer edge is represented as being 15 feet deep, with the ,same;width.: II understand Gen. Taylor's idea of attack ing the town, and I have heard a. number of officers speak of it, it is to be done entirely by storm, taking with hidi the means of crossing the ditches. As he is willing to stake the laurels he won in May and September last on the result, I have confidence enough in the man to wish him to undertake it, alone or as the right Or left bower with Gen. Scott. Gen. Scotts arrival in this city does not give, by any manner of means the general satisfaction, not. iha: the man is unpopular with the army,. but.-that a de sire prevails to see the man who com menced the war and who so fortunately carried it on thus far, make a finish of it. I should have been pleased to have seen him at the head of affairs. at the start, for I believe lie would have had the army -better appointed than it-was, but since it has succeeded so admirably with all the inconvenierces attendant, I am willing now to trust it to the end under the same guidance. in the first place, Gen. Scott would have demanded and received more men before leaving the Rio Grande, well provisioned and equiped in every particular.. He would have niade the government furnish such things as were necessary, nor' would be have moved until he had received thein. Gen. Taylor, on the other hand, know ing that his troops could not be whipped and not wishing to get st.loggereads with the powers at Washington, pre ferred the use of leaden - to the :paper bullets, moved on when the time arrived, to do the best he. could.. Gen. Scott would have been les, obedient -to the dictum ofkitmuvbtilii4' antihatory system pointed out by President Polk, and would have taken the responsibility of discriminating. Having the means he would hare, followed up his victories, and -following them up, would -have caused the enemy to cry quarter -Jong ere this. 1 would not for the world be understood as saying or hinting anything prejudicial to Get. Taylor by the com parison,.for he has not only whipped the oneny wherevei he found them, but has attempted to do a far more diflicult task -that of carrying out the views of -the Administration,. and I only think Gen. Scott-would have done better because I believe he would have acted as his own ideas of policy dictated. - January, 6th, 1847. As I failed to obtain from Capt. May the acco'int of his adventure he had signified his intention of farnishing me, I am forced to the necessity of giving it as I heard it from the officers and his men. After lie had retraced his steps through the pass with the main body and proceeded several hundred yards, .he heard a rumbling sound behind him as if large stones were being rolled down the mountain. He immediately went back in tha direction, and shortly met the Lieut. and Sergeant of the rear guard of wvhom he demanded "where-is your rear guard ?" the Lieutenant answered that they - were near, but on turning'to look for them none but the Sergeant was to be found. The whole command then proceeded towards the pass again, and camre up to it- without finding anything of the men, but they found a large num ber of loose stones, that they saiy had been hurled down from the perpendicus lar side of the mountains, and traces of blood in several- places. - They then went through the pass, and travelled several. mniles, but could not discover any traces of the. men, although they heard that a. party of Americans had gone through a little village, but it wa% not said whether as prisoners or not. A. few shots were fired from their carbines at persons on the mountains, but they did not reach. Capt. May seems.un decided whether these men have been carried off or not. Two mails will leavehere to-morrow, and Heaven knows when another will start. One will go by the way of Mon terey, and the other to Tampfico. The latter will be only an ex-press mail, if I can get my letters in I will. I feel very certain to day that Vera Cru? is the. aimn of the comtisandi ng general, and 1 should not be surprised if we wer e on the.march to Tampico in a few~ days. In'counting-up the.numnber of -horses to-day, for which forage is required, the number was 3528, and it takes to. feed them daily 882 bushels of corn besides fodder, and this of itself will be of greatinducenment to get nearer shipping, as we will soon cat- out every thing in this vicinity.. From the Savannah Repubican. THE COTTON CATERPILLAR We cannot too earnestly recommend to all those engaged in the culture of cotton, the letter of the Hon. Thos. Spalding, which we pubtish this morn. ing. It contains strong internal evidence that he has lilt upon the only true meth. od of arresting the scourge which has so often in these latter years years blighted the hopes: of :onr planters. If this in sect still lingers ia put the cotton fields, ready-to awake when spring advances, and commence the - work of another season's ravages, it is all important for planters to know it, that they may on their:part put in; operation a regular system of destructdion.. kizs of little use to plant the seed, if the :-attacks of the caterpillar ate-to be renewed each yeat;. If a night of the -most intense cold- sucl as we had two or three weeks since. does not destroy those .insects, it is toe clear that -intense heat must do the work. ... Correspondenee of the Say. Republican, APELo ISLAND, Jan. 22, 1847. Gentlemen :-Some letters have ap pearedlin the newspapers respecting the caterpillar sulviving the winter, either in the butterfly or' in the cocoon, o chrysalis' state. The sole- objection I can havete such letters is, that they may lull the plaster into repose, and prevent him from using all the vigilance he would use in destroying the caterpil' lar by firet either in itsegg, in its chrysal or in its butterfly condition. " _ While in Savanna I recently, my back, managers- found in 'hecgrass, along the roads and around the fields, many but, terflies of the caterpillar species.--My, daughter's ! driver found suspended to, the grass, in his - fields, several of the cocoons or chrysailgs quite alive, wliidj he- brought to the house, not knowing I .-. was away. . - These are facts I give, because wish every planter from here to Texas to born up- and clear around'his.. fields, as far as his convenience will. permit:v .That" it -skeld beeii doiibtd or a. moment that-the caterpillar might 'tsur-'.. vive the winter, is only wonderful wheq' all- analogy would have confirmed the, fact., . . - The silkoworm lays its eggs in May,' these eggs are preserved on paper or cloth until January, and then to prevent too early hatching,placed in an icelhouse -no cold injures them. The cut-worm so destructive to our Indian corn crops from Maine of Texas does its work of ruin from April to June according to latitude. When-its work, of mischief is over, it too becomes a chrysal; busies itself in the -earth not more than in inch deep. Many of them, come out as flies, but many of them remain the year round. in this condition,. to be exposed by the plough or hoe in the winter or spring, waiting to the search of birds-that we often owe the preservation of our Indian corn crop. - After fifty-three years of cotton cul ture, and after more losses than any. other planter in the United States has sustained iy. caterpihlar,:I- believe the' last hope of staying the plague, must be; found in fire. First clearing up and' burning around our field-fires lighted!' up in every field, as far as possible, of every dark night, as soon as the cater pillar niake their appearance in- anayr part of the country, however distant; for, they come truly life a thief'in the night,. antd they fly like the: candle moth, (wrhich they greatly resemble,) to the light. A single moth destroyed in the' spring by fire, may stay the -destruction ot millions before the month of August or September. Respectfully, Youir very ob'tserv't., TH U~S SPA LDIN G. Hints in- Ladies.-Theo art of selec. ting colors,.which suit the complexion~ and gen~eral style-'f the wearer, is not generally known-among the ladies. The following hints may be~ useful to thtem. "For. fair haired or dark- haired Ia. dies, thoso colors wvhich prodbe- the" greatest contrast are- best. -Thus-.foi fair hair, sky blue is ver y beooming. . Yellow and orange tinted by red -are becoming to ladies with black hair, and violet and bluish green harmonise with. the -hlackness of - hair. Rose: color should never b6 put in actual contrast with a - rosy --complexion, because -th'r - latter loses by the coinparison; it shoeo1d be seperated u ith white lace, -blonde, or. if a cap-or bonnet, by locks or':hair.' Pale green is exceedingly--benddiiing to pale complexions; it makes them .ap pear rosy, but is- unfavorable, to ruddy faces, for it makes them too red. Violet' should never be used- for fair- complex ions, except -of a very -deep tint, for' contrast. A- violet dress .will make W fair complexion look green, ad yel-. low one, orange, tvlhich iigd' for all' complexions. -Dead at: such as cahco, is good-for fairecompl'eions, but