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JITxrhe number of insertions to be mark. ed oii all Advertise: tdr arged accordingly. 7rOne Dollar per square for a single insertion. Quarterly and Monthly Adver tigmmnents will :be charged the same as a gle nsertion, and semi-monthly the same as new ones. All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, ant Communications recommending Candi-latos for public offices or trust-or plliaf1g I!lxhibitions, will be charged as Advertisements. 117Rev. FittuuetcaIt Rtsnt, is a travelling Agont for this paper, and is authorized to receive subscriptions and receipt for tne same. From the Vicksburg Whig. "Prolific Pomegranate" Cotton. Mn. EDITOn:-*'or the last two years I have heard a good deal about Gen. G. D Mditchell's Prolific Pomegranate Cotton. but thinking it was all it humbug, I would, not go to see it until a short time ago, when, to my utter-astonishment, I found his whole Crop infinitely superior to any thing I ever saw before in the way of cot. ion. Iris plantation is very much worn, having been in cultivation, he nforms me, for sixteen years. It was high, broken, iiakridpe lnnd when first cultivated, and is now full of washes and gullies. Yet I saw on it heavy stalks of new cotton perfectly loaded with squares and holls, many limbs having from fifteen to thirty on them. I have been planting cotton for many years, and have seen all the best varieties of the country-such as the Ilogan, prout, mul talhnlu.s, bananna, the "hundred seel," &c., hit Gen. Mi ill's pomegranate is very syuperior hem all in'its fruitful yield. rvee encouragement and pa tri f ton planters of the sum eon at n emprovement of hie cotton. Ii any body he superiority of his cotton over all hers in the country, let hin visit Cen. Mitchell and examine his c op forl rlself as I have done, and he, *111 be 4iteed of the. fact. I would ad. fvis" all 'iy brothet planters ro call and ee for themselves. and if you visit the e'"neral I will guaranty you :a genuine, un aflected anid true Mississippi hospitality. A P'L-ArEn OF tAltEx Cu. The above, from the pen of an 'l plant. er, iore than confirms our last year's opim. inn in regardto the fruitfulness of the '.pro. lific poinegranate," and is fully corroborated in that respect by what we saw a few days since in Gen. Mitchell's fields. We saw this truly proli/ic species of plant growing on poor and rich land, and though it was literally covered with wallel masses of bolls in ho:h situations, it showed to better advantage where the soil was bare-many little stalks, only' a few inches in height. growing by the hard beaten pathway in what seemmed but little else than mere sand, displaying from fifteen to fifty splendid and perfect hulls. In rich lands some limbs of the plant exhibited upwards of forty tine hulls, growintg in clusters, and presenting an exceedingly beimtiful and rich appear. ance. Ve have not specifically compared lie "pomegranate" with anything else in the cotton line, except. the Mexican, and cannot tell how far "'A 'lanter" is just in giving it so decided a superiority over every oilier variety. WVe can say, however, that hts opinion agrees entirely with that of a dlis tinguisbed gentleman who is thiought to be oneo of the best-if not the very best-cotton growers in the South. Our opinion goes tno fairther th:mn the Mexic~an variety, which we believe is throwmi eti rely in the shade by the pometirainate, the latter pi oducing sot much more cot totn to the .stalk andl to the acre. that lie w~ho sees it growing otice and plants Mexicatn atgaitn must lie set down as infatuaitedl. We desire, to enter ito nione of the varm controversies of ptlanters concernincr cotton seed. If any otie donhits our opinion let him visit the pomnegranate, and he shall have free use of our columns to express the result of his examiniationt. WYe are perfectly willing to examtine any other v'a. riety, if opiportunity be aiffordedt us, and to express our opinion of it as fully as we did last year concerning the "Proific Poume. graniato." At presemnt we cati only say that our high praiise of this latter, hereto fitre puibliskedl, is hereby fully reiterated; and we th lkno unprejudiced man can see it grewitng wvithiout adrmitting us to be just in saying that it is evetn granid and bewil doring in its fruit fulness. [IanoV'r sUIT ALL.-A t the Ameri. c.i C ~i~ of frtuit growers. in 1848, a frtiti .ittee or nine persons pre. pared arsemfect list of fruits worthy or general cultivation. Although many jiupdred sorts of the pear have born~e fruit in this contitry, all perhnps pro. nceunced "cercellent" by the two nursery men w ho tIold them, yet there were only two that thme frtuit committee could unan iimonaly& agree upon to recommend, nanmehy, the Seckel anid Hartlett. [)EEP SoIL. ANn DEEPt RooT.-A. .. Dow'ning says.- "I hove seen the roots of st ri wherries extentjtfirefect dlown into 1 - soil; and. those plhmta bore a crop f frna live limes, and twice as hand-l to nd gonod, a the commoen product of ihet' i utty one foot detp." Lntt FOR THE CURcULIO.-M]uch at. tention has been excited the present year by a new remedy for the cntreulio it was first tried by Lawrence Young. of Lottisville, Icy., and has been repeat ed by others. It consists simply in cov ering the young fruit, as early as dun. ger is apprehended, with a coating of of thin lime wash, conslderably more diluted than the mixture usually em ployed in whitewashing. It proves quite effectual; bout it must be repeated after every shower, and even after & vy dews, which wash otr the im. -i. r this reason, it has roved, in the past wet season, mrbo ioirus thn, catching the insects on sheets. A dry season would he more favorable for the remedy with lime. It is applied by means of a large syringe. Ilonv --We have received from A rza Gilmore, of Wayne, Maine a sample of honey, of superior quality made the present season in his apiary. He has adopted a plan of keep. ing bees, which in many respects is novel. His bee-house and his speci. mens of honey, each received the first premium at our late State Fair. IlIe supports his bees, chiefly, by an artificini compound prepared by himself. This renders the keeping of bees prneticable in all situations. The compound is not expensive, ani the honey made from it is pronounced, by all who have seen it, of the very best quality, and in small boxes and jars readily sells in Boston and other cities at twerty.five cents a pound. Mr. G. states that he has tnken this season, from nine hives placed in his house last winter, twenly.three hundred pounds of hon ey.--Culticalor. flow TO GROW MELO's.--A corres. pondent of the Horticulturist savs:--l had the pleasure of eating some very fine musk-nielons at Cottage Ln wn, the scat of Thomas W. Ludlow, Esq., and lie kindly gave me the following account of his method of treating then, which is so much less expensive and more sim ple than the usual manner of protecting the young plants with hand glasses, which require a small fortune devoted ' isr.'vttrntmIww-I ttidkI __.- y usef.il to some of your readers: After the young plants have been "started" in a frame, they are set out in the melon patch, and each one is en rlose(t by four common bricks, laid flat un the broadside: and the space at the top is covered over with a pane of orli. nary window glass. This enclosure renaiins until the plant reaches the glass, when the bricks are turned up on one side, and the glass replaced. 1y tIn time they have grown up to this "roof," they are strong enough to do without protection nd the seasoun so far advan ced that frost is not fea rel. 'T'le frut it, resulting from this treatment, was tin. cominmonily flue and large, and the vines very healthy and strong. The seeds may be sown at once in the melon bed, if more convenient, and enclosed with the brick and glass. STIR Tin Soit..-The greatest Borti. culturist, almost, of the present day, says, "If I had -a call' to preach a ser mon on gardening, I should take this for my text; Stir the soil." ItsinitANC or PAsT r- isrr .--I oance called on a neighbLor, says Old lu-. phirey, who was watering an old stumlp ot a gerianitnmi, whichi seemied to ime to give ye. ry little plromiise of either green leaf or tilower. "Neighbor,'' uaid I, "your labo will he lost.'' 'Perhaps so," sa id she,"lbut I can hard. ly part with my old tree for all that. cannot help calling to miy mtind whiat it has beet,, anid how often it has neude may wmi dow look che'erfiil with its fresh., green leaves, and its fime scarlet flowers.'' Tlhis reply' compi;letely silenced me, fo~r I thouighit in my heart that muy ne iglhbor was right and I wa wrong. It is a good signa to remnemrber past advantages. I called on a friend whon was giving a mouithiful of oats in a sieve to an old horse grazing in his paddock. "You~ may corn your horse,'' said I, "as' namch as yout wvill, butt it is not at all likely that he wall ever be able to work again.'" "TIrue.'' replied lhe. "b~ut I have iio wish to firget the work lie haas donue for mie. Maiiy a weary day lha. lie tbeenamy coim panioni, carry'ing mue safely on his back or drawing me in may gig: aund whliile ol hn ger lives I hope never tot grudge himt a mouthful of grass or corn." "Right,'' thaought I, "and the feeling is a creditabale one, tint it is not always, inor oftenl that a poor baruito falls into sucha good hands. I shall th link the better of you for your hiumianity." I called on a relative whlo was waited on by a very old servant, who mnade sail blunderal; iindeed, the old mnanl was ahnio'st blind, and very feebtle. "Old P'ete'r,s day is over," said I; "sad bluders lie maakes, and sad blunders lie will m~ake, for his daiy is gone by." "I know it," replied my relative; "buit if his day is gone by, minie is not, anda while I live Peter shall have a home uinder the roof of thae master ho has so faithfully servedl. ile has been a good servant t'o mue, and to my father before tne, and right little do I expect from him nowv in the way of service. P'eter, I say, has served mei(, and it is now any turn to serve Peter." I honoredl my kinid-hecarted relative for hia remembrance of service.', and for his attentIion on old sant.n 8o that, to speak the truth, I got good from miy neigh bor, my friend, and my relative. Christain reader! are there none round about us whose ittirnaties we ought to bear with; whom we are neglecting, and treating with less kindness tItan we our selves, if in their situation, should expect! Are there none .hose past services we are forgetting or undervaluing, who have a just claim on our respect and thankfulnes 1 Ist us take this matter to heart, and give an honest reply. From the N. Y. Merchants' Day Book, Oct. 15. New York Merchants and the South their reldtion to each other, and their dua to the 'nion, We can scarcely t a eup a ut ern paper in which there is nrot an appeal made to Southern people to come out boldly and pledge themselves not to pur. chase anything manufactured or impor ted by Northern people. The follow. ing from the Richmomd -Republican is a pretty fair specimen of the manner in which these appeais are made, and from what we see and hear we have no lobnht 'iut they are having an eft,-ct upon tIhe' Southern people. It certninly does seem to us that if any peopl. were eve, justified in adopting the non.interconurse remedy for an evil, the people of the slaveholdingf States are justified in tak. ing the course threatened. TuE Tautx lixxxov.-W would re. spectfully siggest to our Southern friends whether it would not he well to mark those States in which the fugitive slave law is suiccessfuly resisted and re. solve not to make purchases of any kind from those States. There seems a strong disposition in portions of Mois. sachusetts to resist the law. Let the South observe the resut, and if this dis position is ecrried out so far as to pre. vent Southern men by violence or fraud from receiving their property, let the South resolve never hereafter to buy a dollar's worth of the productions of Massachusetts. It appears that in the treat rnanufacturing town of Lowell, lass. a largo meeting his been held, at which it was resolved to call back three fugitive slaves who had fled from that city to Canada, with a pledge that Iley should le protCetnl from g-te by, the cit ins oT Lowell. Let the South then mark Lowell. Let associations be formed in the Southern States, and re. solutions passed not to purchase any ar. ticle of any Northern State or city in which the low respecting fugitive slaves is siecessfully resisted. The merchants of this city treat these threats of the South with perfect indill erenrce, it not contempt. TheyV seem to look upon them as silly outhursts of passion; the mere troth and foam of bad feeling, which will soon pass away as a suit nne'r cloud, leaving the atmosphere, of trale clearer and brighter. Ins'end of looking the danger in the faee and at. terptitlg to avert it, they laugh at it. They see the Whig party divided uipo alilion, nutd a large tiajority of the counatry pol iticianis, as well as man ay in the eity, pursuing ia deadly Iostile course towarals to the South, yet they ca re not. They do no: even encourage, hv their countenance, the ellb rts of the few who are stretnuously resisting this tile of hostility to Southern institutions. The New York Tribunc, a ratid aboli. lion paper. is taken cied suppotrted'l by a large number of wholesale mreltis. who trade' almost exclusively with the Saiuthi; aniid the s.aime moay be said ofthe Courie n l- iiire'r. Ale'sc rs. Hoiwen, cad AeNoeoe who heave bhao wseatthy by' tradilng wiith Souccthternc ieer chanctsc, eiploy thie largest mulnbiar aof cl'e'rks. ail boaist of' duineg thce larcg," jobingit bus.'inless (if don thi'easv; whoa bucilt ocne ofl the moist mat~gnifice't stoats. two splemctlidl ciuntry seats--a lt fromc the p roficts ofsh circeII bihr-atre IbothI c ihorugh mlintister's, andc hia veestotbbcshed~a ,mi ablh 11on ntespapccer. We' say niothinIg~ aegainst thi~em; ttey are worthy ande re. spei(~ctable meni in the (citcnnounty ; bult suchi icre' their pirincuiples, tad tlhey doc noi t p re'tendc to cdeny tir eve Vc't ontL thtemu. We only speak of lathe ft of' thir bincg A\ bailionists andI scppiraairt thiat cauccse. lThe Sceuth swalloew al tht, iad tcimet to f' eiawl stren'cgt the a rcn 'wich stoclie's thitl. alessrs. Ch~liteteden aind iltiss ic hvi gro~uwn richc ina lhe same way, supt trIIhe( same11 'cau se', tad feed hv lhiir slcvie hit. lbir pirofiits th e sae mnlisters, chuch les, andc niewSsippers'. Alessrs. IIl"i ry, Smcithi iad Towns'etid take lteI' Tiiun acid Coiuirier acnd l'cqcuirer, anid oclveri tisa' inc them~it-paincig thtemi ini slacve hit hbir p ro its. Theya'~ neve r gav5e i t L'' to a papjer whIi ib suppelorts thle SocithI, since t hey were ini ihisme's. Thec sitn ti('m ltv hei sa id ocf Pe'rkcns ocad War iren, Iliop. kilts umi Al len, ail a douz'n otha'rs 'whocse tiamells we shac it yile oasion 5( toi give hierc'cft'r; we titlst tnow Icurnt to thce cliif cook andtc baittlei washer of a'I Simneont Draper, jlr, esq. 'We wotld like to he spared the cmen lion oif thtis micuini int conniiectioni with the m~ ecntile communcity ; butt the positioun hce hits assiumedu ase bottle holer to Wim. II. Sewardre tmakes it necessary to hol him up to vie w a little lontger. The worbd is tuliciently acquitedO with his pipe. laying operaitionis, so that we cart tll'ordl to Ict that pass! 1t has becen supposed that New York wansthel,, . place for rogues and kruaves to retai "respecta .lile character in thewot'ld,,. ,when a man's character gets so hct h an't live in New York, ho can't lit -vwhere. Th'e country boasts of' .ftp:erior morals; but we have a :are that will forever put a quietjy II future utcempts to prove that rre, qan. he so great political knn,. to :ebar thema fromi the gondoopy ;the coun try. New York me nue taken up the New TO condemned racalty' o . an-l Bill Seward' went In shoes. We - ost anyt hing in this city, ilow about as much knaver ace. el. ways excepting S >+ra t th Dra per and Glenitlhworth s; We eotuI I not swnllov. Such ha 4fi rascality - such open, unhlushit jjiIry---nas was commuitted nril rec nt;teti within the knowledge of' if muc nptignted by Wiln. If. Seward, wcerf tt4,tnitch for New York city. New ork State, we are ashamed to say, swr oew it. But to Sirn's mere: tip elations: Ilie is, as is well known, drygoodstauc tioncer, and sells a mardi quantity of goods that go directly tr'tho Southeru market. In fact were It rit for the South he could not live f the Southern trade should be cut o Sirieon's re. sources and means for arryinf on his Abolition schemes woa I avery much curtailed. Five per e t ofthe money a Southern merchant o >datnter j vs for a carpet goes Into Sim' pocket. Five per cent of the money paii for na ilk <Hess, or a sha wl; five pr *its.. . cloth which is in the coator ntalon; five per cent. of the crant oney,, the 1 gloves, and the rit.bons Jil trim th.e bonnets. II' these articlk u'. 'iought of nn A bolition iobler or rea-'r, r, !t 3 per cent. more goes'2 Abltijon cause. It i sdivi44d ed it4 'two per cent. to the Tribur,e, tri r. cent to tihe Courier, three to an: IgIQIrelg. ions paper, three t thi anti the rest to build counts' , y ex ThIs Is tue whysila the North South turn the giiiistotcn to grind 1u r own noses. Don't be startled Mr. Southern Press, thec~Unl.u-a. i half (lone. llefore we are through with this sub ject we will show you how you are de. ceived by your own merchants, who in times of great A bolition excitoment, when the Southern people live refused to buy goods that are bought of A boli. tioniiss. ha v their hills made out in thi name of the clerk', aami show them us e.v ilence that; the good(ls were not pur. chased o' ohnoxious New Yorkers. We have seen u .rent eal of deception and trickery in our day, and have come to the coninl sion that it is as well to Show it up nows. S Ti Ts \io (Osn.'s it n; 's -0h Stcorie. often ha vI- a vaney for, itle fatlication to pare'-dent a:time's. "The' foiowaa1'iii' antled t we in' with lat', in ani ~x ch~adan paper : Ilow is it, J,!t. that vou briung the wng aont. h1 t.ie' ill su h a c ndata ?' 'I brlke' it driving over a sinmp.' Ibltk in the wtoans, half.) mile or so.' 'hit why did yoia rimt aline.st the --tump? C(un~t~'t yo(u tir how ito dbi.." -,tight ?' 'i d!idt drive .traight, sir. unit. tiat w.i. the v'ry rowa- 'l I live over it. h'I', -t ma1*p was. dire'ctly in th- miidudh- ct the ra eac.' '1i'!y, th--'. dlid youn net re rctuti ?' 'i'e:aea'e, s.ir, the -. stumpl h:ad nu righ inl t'.- naidL of ti~e ratod, al I hild a rjisht mi it. h 'l''-i lola i , 4 ..it. olUkr l it t vol were ito iiili-h as 1 n I ;o atchn b- tat V it wast- thea', ad that it w.e. grager t~ yoiumr wylein. '\\'hy, ti.ber, cdo voi ahinkd timit I atn nlt. wa ,"al' lii~n t ~ yht bup mya r. :ht, ! Not I; I cam d -trinedi~ ito stick nyj to thim, coaline whiat will.' i' a in l, wbr .-na you ony get ai gre:aer wiunga by -U ding ?i!. -I ,balt itad nyj fo- theait all ha ztI. har -:aii-r yu ac m i: 6ienhih your oewa n w.-a. In the colitical w ritdtu-r' ic at very lariLr no~ I n..!y. sto1 pilneedtscIsbrectly ini the iteddh- oft ih-- m11bli4 oaf the hig!: rosad avs'r wich ourI il grnat lege'~islti'v.eai tagns o, pla... Wi\haat is. woraa-', too,, '.ome)4 ot sour it fe-citizenis helpjed t inrh ta 1t.ion or rather ito dig away~i thei earthl which'l hadta pr1evion11'v iihin it. T'ie.-- Very sneat ptcian I4-, lt.~ no i t in dhriving tireetly sover this siaumpj tafheansa ii is ini the' nileh of the radu it baeng their undonhailedt right to lu-sa thtie iltionl oft thei highway'~i. l.ittle enrt' they' weiather thet wviaonis brcakent ar ntha ini the pa1-ae -t--haey inisi-t onl thir righat ntl all hiaz.ari'. Woul~ hi it .soa: ho p:roper' for rivinag thec stumpl~ its ptresen-t poilltin.he. hie'e they paut ini prnetirea~ their thire'ats w.hio heflpaed thleml I' putm at ther', tianeing it au goreat imp 1ro veamnta to lie haighway. wilia not at-cisi ini its remoavs I There is oneC thing ce'rtain; the peo dae whoc OWln thic'lesC tat travel over ti s radi, witt take very goodi c'ar'' that tier rish cdriver., in futun.'ireuish thir men tragons.' .aiche:' ('ourier. C2ourar sv 11r w ~.'c' Mr:XI:s. - Mnr.. Frnancii- ID. Gage', in a letter toj the Ohio Stato .Journal, gives her sex thie following fair hits: "Two years ago I made a innen. "y to New England, accompanied by my wsband, nod also by my fatherdn-aw,,an I )IdI man of four scoro years. I have often seen that good old tnan offer his seat to somO tale woman of less thnn half his agqi and cen her accept it as if it Weh'd it rn h ant even a notice of his troy right of years that entitlod hi Oer - nress and uttention. Once, an her lady of queenly grace and be ny 4 from her seat as he entetW7Y 5111) voice that was mnusleal in it a Father, take this arm chani. to meet her in her angel -ny Surht has ever been our Idn o -hc is Topympna wit) qt in kLEVETr NEU 1. A The morning of September , broke rigrhtly, and at. the earliest dawn the full tower of the American battery was again lirected upon the Cattle of Chapultepec. l'he batteries on the Nino Peridido road, ikewise opened, and continued a lively tire Ipon the lines at San Antonio. The Mex cans replied promptly from both places, and or some hours the cannondade on both ides was as quick and rapid, as it had been it any time on the previous day. The greater strength being directed ginst Chapulte >ec, (eneral Bravo was -nrvinced that that point would soon be ssaulted, and wrote to Gen. Alcorta, the 4ecretary of War, demanding the rein. orceennt which had been tirotmised him. l'he note was received, and submitted to Santa Anna, who was at that time at the mutse of AtiTro; butthe gave no immediate ittention to the requisition. Some time lat er Bravo sent orders to General Rangel to muarch his troops into the castle, for, from he state of America- I eparations, lie he li'el that the a-emu; tiig columns were - i.'rnl" Bet (enerals Rangel uail Peria y lsirra;an w stationed at lie batteries On the T.t1 e. ya road, and at lie barrica,!r. on that -. :he north of Chia i;epe. Ilotlh ret 'io*d to move to the cas !e w '1, t. !he orders of Santa Anna; heret: e, the direct defence against the American assault from the west was to be made by the garlison of the castle and its immediate outworks, and the troops in the intrenclunents oi the0 west of the grove. The preparatious of the American conm mander were rapidly progressing. The AteQ1ingu.parties from the western divi .raults were to be ,nadean Sdeers admiemsE - - for wa,-d. Quitlan,x!however. had a storm. ing party from his own division, to which he gave ladders and other implements for assault. At his advance from the hacien. tin, Condesa brought him immediately un der the fire of the enemy's batteries on the Tacubava riad, and lay along that road and th level ground on its west and north, lie held his troops in hand about the hacienda, until the designated niment for the as. sault. The corps if Pillow's division having more complicated ground and a greater variety of duties, were in the mean time variously d ispose '. The uirst object to be overcome, in the advance from the. west, being the in. trenchiments on the verge of the grove, where musketry tire could sweep the open ground het ween them, and Molno del Rey, to turn heni. For this put poase, a battalion of vet;guers was psis:ed at the southern extremity of the buibbhngs. in positions for advancing upon the ralan covering the cut, mil the southern wall of the inclosure, w hichi taegin' I:iken, the grove could be pen. etrated, :un the inrenichitent attacked in reverse. In rear of this battalion was pos:. ed the sterl:ning party from Worth's divi. ston, which was to support the assault on t he radan, t tieces ary, or if not, to follow the movement, and take the advance, after the tot of the rock was ,rained, for the inieediate assault upon the cas Ice. T'o favor the moitvemient upn the re dl, t wo pli'ces5 of Mlagrndler's light hatte-. ry jli'. open di t:.e v C icily ofI Mloir.o del 16-yv, and Is rced the Alhexicani Iroops ini the posutao, to keel) close, uder lie shelter eof thi!!r parapets. Thle iiuni~lami hiowit zers openied tire up 'it liei ~:mr iznehmet s ithirough th e narrow ateway e peni lg froe:ei Alohn el Re~y io thle inc losure. Cls it t ho gate, the first. bii ttal.oix el vot-geu rs was bel in reatdi nles-, ter thle udircct aidvacnce. Th'iis corps i s toe iiive across lie openi ground aet a rn , c ross lie mi renllchments. and enter the terrove, wrhere it was to joine with the troop~s u: I he se'cnd httaltioii. Tho whlole were thieii to beat thiroigh th le foot ot the~ hiilI, clearnIg thle way~ to t hat point, where the rig .nient wais to form as a supiportinig torce. fi' hininth awl tlitt h regimrenlts wero to foillow andl sustain the assault, arid were driiwii til in a court-yardl near tile volti guier.. Thle ba;ttahlons of the eleventh aind four teenuth regiiments, aiid two pieces oif Alagru der's beat teries, all uniter Co'~onel Thlois dtide, wvere posted it the nort hwestern an. clie of li h0 diel Rey, for the dte.btle pur pose oft witcinng Alvarez--who had agcaint adivaniced trome thle directiton of the haci endas Meorales to withiiin observintg distance, t hrough beyonid six poundi range,-and thle positon of P'ena y lIarragarn on the niorth-i irneiadl hiv thei aqueduct. Except unidrr a coniti;gencye, tile cosrps was to hold its po sitn unt1iil the) castto tell; hut in case re. infolrcemieants were toi be seenl entering the castle, it was to engage them at all hlazardts. ll order that thie victory miighit riot he leit toe ainy unicertaity, while these dispo 51n10ns were being imade, Pillowy senit a re quiest in General Scot t that WVorthi's d ivi sifO, whtht as to support his iassault should be postedl nearer the scene of as sault than TIacutbaya. Geni. Scott so order. eel it; but Woerth was alreadly ini moitimon for the purpose. Bletere he arrived at Mo. linoe del Rey, the tie for preparation had expiredl, and Quiitmnan hlad soul word to Pillow that h~e was readly for the assault. Pillow hlad not quite linished his prepara tions, and1( duringithe few muintutes which in 3cott's stafroffie rF Po d,,. ar No 3 pour. Dr, hi<aa" gra'e The or er fo t rove. iro cei et tifl of fire eer. -e -tt e IIa batteries hti .u ig tt c4 bed a~t pnce, and .the atttak ,Ammenced. i bieutenant-colondl 'Johnsttoe led Ahe ortigeurs rapidly down from Molino be l ley to the level ground about- the redan vhich he was to aasault, keeping clo-e un for the south it'i yal- ,f0 the inclosure, to rotect hs isen from. the artillery fire of he castle. The uStorners inder .a (ptain A"Kenzie, second nrtillery,'followcd elose fter. .Whets the-advanro of the vMtiguers aome Within posket range of the redan, he rMexitean iifsntrybe'hisd its pirapet, rose Intl cc xnenced a lively fire. John tohe imins iaely ordered hit companies n deploy ao reply advaiseing, which they iwiti so mnuch efTect, that the enemy vero driven from the work beforts he rear nost comnpany was in line. The wh ole hat. alioit-rushing through two ditcheis across he pat, ind over the parapet, entrered the -edan, aid through the cut into the "rove, pining with the main force which haI' ad ranced. hrough the gateway of Motino I)el 'h heMexican batteries on the west of he castle had obtained the range of the ;ateway during the morning, and kept up i heavy fire of shells fos half an hour be fore the advance. The effect was but to annoy the troops in position, and to render them somewhat ref-tless, for they were protectel from the ap;inters by the walls of the buildings. Under the circ-imstances, Cadwalader, who was the senior officer in mediity at the point, was anrxous to commence the assault, and sent to advise Pillow of the existing stain of thing'. The mountain howitzers. meanwhIc wetin serv ed through the gateway, under the fire from the castle an- from tla entrench ments; for, notwithstanding the distance. the enemy kept up heavy disc h-rges of musketry. They had somewh:st shaken his lino along the point of the grove, when, as the heavy guns ce-sed firin2, Psulov ar rived, and ordered Colonel Andrews to at! vance the first batt:lion of Voltigours. The corps, issuing through the gateways, de ployed forward at a run, and w,th a shout, which told the deterination for victory. rushed striglht at the estrenehments. The Mexicans delivered a scattering fire, aind gave way, for Johanstone's soldiers were at that mcoment breaking into, the grove through the redan. Bt h hattalions of vol cttat .e4? ttie treces. a, -1.' Thelz wo< s in the direction of t-cas . See:ng the first point gained, Pllow or dered the howitzer battery. and the ninth and fifteenth regiments to move forward in support. These troopss. passed the gateway. and deployed in the field,and Pillow mount ed and took the advance. Meanwhdle, the atrcston of the garrison in the western portions of the castle was given to the assault in this direct ion. The guns in the priest cap, and on the flnks were depressed. andsaent heavy dst ha,-ges of grape over the heads of thie retreating Mextrans. The four pounder in the round bastion at the angle of the roadway kept up a rak:ng tire on the road by the southern wall, which was sustained by a contmnued stream of musketry fris the astrench ments in its front. The American advance was continued though slowly. under a heavy fire, as wel as that of the retreatimg Mexican inrslntry. It was difficult, for the ground was wet .,nd boy'gy, and the moral and physical elct of the Mexican slant, tearig as it did through the foliage, was such as in some cases to render the ten: averse to leave the shelter of the trees. I'slow placed himseli in the frot1, and by h anll-second ed emyorts., a continted miovemnt't was Cs. tablished,, although the nature of tihe uround cau.sed the corps to be thrown into sute disarray. Advancing in this manner, the troopsjss drove back the esiny, an. re.achel the short openi space at thae tots of* she hdsl. There thecy were haalteds to allowu thes storm: ers to take uhec friont, and to lormt ,a sutpport lhit M'Kenzie, hauving Isis party ini closeo formateon, had lieen aidle to keep up with thie advance over thec biaggy groasmd. lie hsad not arrived at te baise of the hu11 be fore thae etnemsy rallied in the redan half way tap then archvity, and opened fire thence, as well as fromh the roundJ bastion: and the isntresnaehmea ini its fronit. Th'le gallinig fire rendered immeiadiate umov'emsent necessa.ry, a:ad 1l!low, who ha.l just, previ. cnshy beens woundhed, ordered she assault. Th'le msounitain howitzers snt a e w can. isters, andI thec volt:geaar regims~mt threw a volley up the hdll from the barseauth of thle redan:. Thliat regnus~ent sim't uately 64l loawed, led by Lieut. Cuoonel .lhdnstone, and Majior CaldhwellI. At thce .s ase timre, Captaisn llooper, who was on thin left, re peated the order, and brought ny; the near. est bodhy oif inifantry, for the vuihicenirs were without bayonets. Captain Chatse, of thec tifteenath inafantry, ledI his comupay up to the redan: friom the n'rtha. Thela Amicaa piressedl tsu rapidIly, that the ensesmy imade adhort resiistansce, andi fell bac k tio the smain work. TIhse voltigeurs, nine rand sifteenih. followed close atter, passed the r'.hsan, asnd gainied the crest ot then hill. A Mexicans eniginieer otlicer watS, aut thae ia m,:i the act of tirinig the sauisson os thie tunes, but the tire os the Amearican aidvanoce di-ahlhed him.s The sance ssosas were immised:itnely cut, andu thatt ehiunenct of dang:er wa d'n~i e stroyed. - ~ atl o As the Anmericans rose over the crest, the Mextccan artiery ini the priet-asep opented henity with camister, aitd she troops osn the azots:as andiu at the wisdowsa commsencedl n rapid rolling dis< harge of smussketrv, amtl tmany of the astsailaints fell killed or'wousi. dled. Of the formser was Colotnel Ransom, of ste nith who idied grallanstly at the hlad of his regimenout. As slhe troops were at that timie without ldors wvithi which to scalea-the wvallIs, fturther immsesdiate advane wias Impracticable. They - therefore kept in: the rocks and openmed fire uiponm thte Mex ican artillery mesn, wht were naot smore a han fifty yards distant, too tUgtii c Idy .e ~let Vath hetA tryni t1tpceiW #ti tf -- tale . .- et f I lfAie - e dirooted upon the main work wasapod apparent from thu cessation.oe the, arterfldr firer although the infantry, foan roib And windows, kept up a stream of nIkIetlif upon .the asspihints, . These, hwe " r kept close behit d the Pocks Ut the kei t awaiting the arrival of the stormIng 'parly and the ladders, and in. the ile uigtat g , their weapons with deadly eedet' ' the garri'iri who presented them it n sight and within range. Meantime Captain M'Kenzio arrived et the base of the hill, and,. finding that the other troops had'preceeded him-in the a. cent,,in obedience to Pillow's orders he led his party rapidly up. It climbed over tho . rcks and made its way. tothe advancehnt the troops arnnnhd the crest ware so cidwtlr p'istedI that it was dificult for the storiners ~ to get througnsh. Tie lnddor, wera-.tiot et IIp, for the mant of tho parrying party had thrown them down in ibe grove, and, fortb . most part engaged in the combat. SrsoLAu PIROPERTIES OF TIHE C 6r LAK. Cn PLA-WHY IT DISAPPEARS ALL AT oNcE.-Persons who have lived at Pl-ttsburgh and other places- - nr.Lake Chanmpiim, say thawa singular fddt isgb. served there on the breaking u iir the !o - in tihe Spring, ubually 'ln tito niotit" of May. It is that the ice sill d1sypbaret once. On riving in the iorning, "fffti.: pie. the lake is entirely clefr'ofifI" al. though the previous evening itas seen completely bridged over. Thi: bt: wis' - stated by l'rofesrnr Olmsteadf t!_ :" cent sittinmI of the: SientiflVC ieton in New Hiven, and the lehrned Profte ascribes it to the .abasorytion" of water,8y the ice, unt;! its specifie gravity e s that ot the water, when-it sinks tai he1 bbt" ton. Although ice, on :accoqnt, of its. crystalino structa.,- is lighter than *atW, yet the solid matter itself is heivierotWAn water, so that when tho-interstideo ifili ed with ti fluid. the mas has' a". c gr:.vity exceeding that of the latte- I G, sponge, when fully A:turated % ith iter will sink n it; and if ice, in a po'roul at*; he placed in water, it will also sink. i The reason why this property . dp$euli ar to the ice of Lake Qhagnpi the same .foe not ocduri: .n whirIi freteoe iovp ,thp, w ;t Inprt of t citarplain, the ot the lake until the sun hit nla very far northward, and the jr 6:9I country hm's become quite warrt. B - ternate treeaing and thatwing, the ic$ conies granulated, and very porous, a conseaqurently very absorbent of water. When this process has reached a- certain point -that is, tho monent when the spe. cific gravity n the ice, thus sxikei with water, exceed,, that of the medium itself the whnle sinks, and disaj.pears at once. A most sugular phenomenon truly. .-.i PtrNtG A a Dar.--. T. .. , Smith, the editor o' the oitotla1 8urgrical Journal, who is nose on"k vpt o 4 Europe, gives an initeresting, deacuiptip, in his editorial correspondence frt o l land, of the manner in which the Lae. or laarlem in being drained by steam en gines, and its waters-sent to the sea. ".4,x miles fromAmsterdani iui'th tiii. land lake of fItarlem, 21 milea long ty i-l in width, which, three hundred yearago, was found to be perceptibly increasing by shunting it. waters Iurtner and, furAher, anid covering up the land, threatening the first conumnercial port of the reah,:l itti do struction by flowing in unon its -aiik. riots scheimns at that remote epochi were decised by able cotinsellors to stayth I threatening danger. Three ~tchi engiui. eers, of acknowledged ability, pinyosed' -draining off'the water, first raising it by wind smills. They are entitled to retnom brance, from havmng suggested' .the ~plan atdopteid in 1849 for avertmng a i impend' mng calamity. Seven years since, delny bein'gnn longct safe, a c-inal was dug around the w'hole care cumference, of the lake, averaging 20QQtep in widlth by ten derep. Threeunonster en. ginues are houaed on the sidne of the lite, some si' or eight miles apart, each gtngn eight tmonstrous pumps. ,Althte pterone are ratised at once, at every revolotion, of. the machinery raising 15, gallons of water, wh'ch is ct~ptiedl into thle capitli jteh~ it is hastened oni by a foturthenginptlfs' W than it wuuild otherwvise move tothe:2uia -der Zec, anud thus it reaches the Oerg fiteenm matiles distanrt. In April, thie pumnpsi Wed. ed by threeu of thte mnightient 4teatognided perhaps over constructed, wgroe ag,:ir tion, and up to this date,. Jly tiihava lowered the contensts of the lake sev'dufeet. By next April it is antici pated thatit bu tomn will he fa irly eosed, and al;te All this is executed at thy exye$ Q4' ernfitit." A FortIIIDABt.K MitsnE~4[ a an apothecary at. Lorieny1aUin~~ vented a bullet which aheii ity~ .a governrnent commisstiOnW ada obut on strikmng thte object tagalimt twhi t- ,. dirented. oxpohidedh vith e drasati~itodo as that ot tihe gun from which h:*akfled~ and promhawo' a moet destviit't bursts instantly on strikin I 4 which opp-sues vesistaqce earth, wooid, or etong. - i. Aijn of the trial, the re taik~h, mnission) addressing the inayen' lhm your namie onght to be atiis# the mint.:sof thfe e d 1 after your .'Mont'oswilt, tile to -think 0 tthki grange assertituit rm ed with fotur pecesa of d sink ashpioddds la twent inIt~ the o%* ,