Americans Welcome in Mexico.
It is now asserted by letter writers from Monterey, that many of the wealthy families in Mexico are desirous that the Americans should retain possession of the country, and establish a permanent government, which would rout the bands of many robbers that infest the different neighborhoods, plundering the inhabitants at every opportunity. Some of the largest and wealthiest families have sent word to General Taylor that they will furnish him with flour, corn or beef, regardless of the threats of the Mexican commandant.
Mr. Glidden, in a recent lecture in Philadelphia, exhibited to his audience two earthen jars, one of which had been dug up from an ancient mound in our western country, and the other taken from an ancient tomb in Egypt. They were precisely of the same pattern.—We are confirmed in the long entertained opinion that America was first settled by the crews of some Roman or other fleet from the Mediterranean, which had been providentially driven on the Western coast of this continent.
We have seen at 117 Fulton St. a new invention called "Drummond's Candle Maker," which consists of a brass or tin candlestick with a reservoir of capacity to hold half a pound of tallow and a quantity of wicking, and so constructed that a new candle can be moulded and drawn up as fast as it is consumed at the top; thus constituting a sort of endless candle.
A gentleman evidently from Mexico, has been for a few days at Washington, but much secluded; but having been seen conversing with Secretaries Walker and Buchanan, it is conjectured, and even reported by the letter writers, that he is on a mission from Northern Mexico, to make important negotiations with our Government, independent of that of Mexico:—cession on one part, and protection on the other.
The Yarmouth Register says that an estate worth £52,000,000 sterling, which had been for years litigated in the High Court of Chancery in England, has recently been adjudged to the heirs of four brothers by the name of Chase, three of whom came to this country some two hundred years ago. One of them—William,—settled in Yarmouth, Mass. and it said that most of his descendants reside within a few miles of that town. William's share is computed at $65,000,000.
A countryman with an enormous pair of feet, and boots to match, appeared in the bar-room of a village tavern and inquired for a boot-jack. The bar-keeper assured him there was no boot-jack in the house large enough to accommodate him, and advised him to walk back to the fork of the roads and pull them off there.
The hero of Monterey, was a merchant's clerk in Hudson, on the North River, 35 years ago. He entered the army as a private, at the opening of the war of 1812, distinguished himself at Lundy's Lane, where he was wounded, and at the suggestion of Gen. Scott promoted.
On the 22d ult., Mr. Lehmann ascended in a balloon from Algiers, opposite New Orleans. The ascent was quite handsome, but a stiff North-Easter carried him out of sight and we have not heard of him since.