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WISCONSIN, MONDAY, JULY5-Aiuve gone But as told hisife. Sho secret of ck tcRio.she was cheered oiors the o her farseated to»(? tb L)v-votild hidheard atich wore uOpen', ce from said the e h j n sj*s, forcing;tod, and ■cry mo-to theaclc.Ireland; |r saving,Iidj%wV into thes. You onorableCl US BOOhat lime,hat stick1 broken \ s rolledExploration of Iho Amazon.—About a year since, the U, S. Government deputed Lieut. Hkrxden, of the D. S. Navy, to rrraiceon exploration of the Amazon. Lieut Ft. hu3 returned, after descending the Amazon forover 3,000 miles from its head waters# which rise in the mountains of Peru. The N. Y. Ti nes gives the fallowing- brief but interesting* notice of 1 this famous exploration, which will soonbo laid before Congress, in all its details:L/itut, H. left jLhna, on the Pacific coast, with a small parly of exploration, in the month of May of ],m year. At Tuomat a small city of Peru, situated between the east and west ranges of the Andes, Mr. tL divided his party, and directed his com] anion, -Lardner Gibbon, with a guide and servant, to proceed to Cuzco, and, penetrating eastward from that city, endeavor to* striKe the head-waters of the “Purus/* which is supposed to be navigable to that pennt. Failing in tins, he was to turn south, and,passing* through La Paz and Coca I3amba, inBos livia, einbmk upon Momore, which is a tributary of the great river Madeira,and descending that river, join Mr. H. in Bar-ro do Rio Negro. Mr. H. himself turned norto, and passing through tho great mining district, of Cerro, Pasco, and crossing the second range o{ the Andes, between that p ace and Huanaco.embaTk-ed upon the hoad-voters of lire Huollaga the first great southern tributary of the Amazon, Descending A ora tho mouth of this river ha entered tho Ucuvali, the second gieM tributary,arid ascended some three hundred miles to the missionary settlement of Sarayacu.lospond-sepaiatehe rmig-you will •ruse for i half of i person rime —ghing— and we live my[-leaven,Mr. Herndon crossed ilio Gordillera at the puss of Aniarar)'ra, which, is by ba Tcmeli Ic rn mis u re me u t, 1G ,2 ] 0 fe c t above tho Jowl of the sea. He thoti navigated in conccsa distance of about four thousand miles, and arrived in Para on the Ilth of April of this year. L*eut. H dptcrilies his voyage as highly interesting and speaks with ornhushism ol the surpassing fertility and valualle natural productions of the countries lie passed through; he found a fine and salubrious Himuie, and describes the riv. or as liftvigatvie hr a draught of twelve feet, for at least three thousand miles.A Tribute to' Fran the OpposWe cop'y the. foUtfvti nominee for the Pr©5i Boston Transcript; a w Webster atamp. We just and merited tribot standard beafor from thHe was born at Hills her 23, 1804. He \vi promise# ond at an ear sent him abroad for ed he might have been p eldest son then m the especially solicitors t junior brother should opporluities for cuhur years he attended neigl Hancock And Frances 1851, at the sumi-ceiur of this latter institution mirablc impromptu spe portion of his youth pa? ticularly do we rcmem tribute to that excellent he boarded—the mothe Woodbury—describing beautiful influence she boyhood.He completed biS/p.ri Jege at Exeter A'cade? Bow do in college in 182( year and graduated ir 1824. Hieclassin cullegnot exceeding twenty. E. Stowe was its inr scholar. His intimate f though not chigsuw.ies v and Dr. Luther V. Bel town boys by birth, of 1822 and 1823, and Win. irlale. Jonathan t Hawthorne, and Alfred lion. Jeremiah Maso young physician* who Win, whose siste* is jio wife son of President A man of rare capacity pursuing hts legal slU'1830, at the age cf twe-n ly Hon. John P. Hale, senior in college, and fi.end nil their politic 1345. His most attach own class have since de A. Little, of Belfast, w!
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