Indiana American, Volume 15, Number 46, Brookville, Franklin County, 12 November 1847 — Page 1

- !'( :-i:vi : j j OUR COWNTHT OUR COUNTBlf's ISTlRBMB VR COUNTRY'S FRIEftBS. BY C. F. CLAKKSOX. BKOOKVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER t, 1841. VOL,. XY. G. 4(i. .

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THE TIMES,

From e Cincinnati Jlt'-ft The Boundary of Texas The Territory of Louisana, ceded to the United Siates by France in 1S03. had been previously ceiled to France by Spain. The western boundary of Texas, w hich wa then a part of Louisana, never was di finitely determined between Spain and France. lit acquiring what we did from Fiance, by the treaty of 1S03, we took the territory of course subject to such determination of the question of the western boundary ef Texas, as niieht be made ith Spain. We acquired from France only the title she derived from Spain; and we In I to look to Spiiu for a satisfactory adjustment. At that time Spain owned Florida, which our government desired to possess; and accordingly w e acquired it by the treaty of 1S19. By this treaty of 1919. M as one of the considerations for which we : r - - 1. :-1. ' acquired Florida, we made to Spain a perfect title to the whole of Texas, westward from the river Sabine, which now divides the present State of Louisiana from Texa, and which, by thai treaty, was constituted the boundary between the United States and the then Spanish possessions called Mexico. On establishing her independence, which she did soon after, freeing herself from all allegiance to Spain, Mexico acquired all the benejusof the title to Texas, with which by the treaty of IS 19. we had invested Spain. So fir. then, as we are now concerned, it! matters not where the western boundary , of T xas lay, prior to the treaty of 1S19; ; though, as before stated, that nevet was a! question determined, either between Spain i and France, or between the United Strips! and those powers, severally or collectiveI ' ' t -. i, j . . - r . i . j . . 1'iexuo iai a pri if ii nun uiiuispuieu right to divide her territories as she pleas-1 ed, fixing their boundaiies wherever it! might suit her views of convenience or p;ilic: She established, bv law the western boundary of Texas in the Nue- j res, a river running parallel with the R;o Grande, but over one hundred miles r ward, or this side of the latter river. i And. as before said. it is no matter what may bt said to bare ban the vrestern bcun- j diny oj Texas, before the Utoted Slates ceded it to ?pa'.n. tins cfss.un was made during the administration of Mr. Monroe, John Quincy Ad ms, then Secretary of Stale, opposing the ression, ai;d John C.Calhoun, Secretary of War. urging it. Even if the w estern boundary o( Texas extended to the Rio Grande, hefore thai i ession, as it is said Madison, Jefferson. Monroe, J. Q. Adams-, Clay and others, believed il did, but of which, however neither they nor any one else have exhibited conclusive proof still Mexico wo repeat, had a dear and undeniable right to curtail, as she had to extend, the boundaries of any of her provinces. With such questions as the interna! boun daries of the provinces or departments of Mexico, pr any other power, not infringing our own boundaries, the United S. had no more tight to interfere, than thai of Mexico bad w it It cur Pjustr.ient of the boundaries vi Oregon. Ion n or Wisconsin. New Mexico, p:iiifulaily.wss settled on both su'es of the Rio Grande, by the Spaniards, before the discovery i.f . Lot:Uana; and Mr. Benton hut declared a historical truth when be said in a sprech in the Senate of the United States, "The teal Texas which we acquired t y the treaty of 1803. and thins away by the treaty of, 1819, never approached the Rio Grande except near its mouth! while the whole upper part was settled by the Spuniaids; and great part of it in the year I6S1 just one hundred years before La Sillefiisl saw Texas! a',1 this upper part wasthen formed into provinces, on both side of the river, and has remained under Spanish or Mexican authority ever since. These former provinces o! the Mexican vieeroyahy, now departments of the Mexican republic, lying on both sides of the Rio Grande from its head to its month, we now propose to incorporate, so far as they lieou the left bank of the river, into our Union.' ' Itisaa indisputable fact that the Mex ican provinces. New M:xico, Chihuahua. Coahuila. and' Tamanplipasv tpreid on j both sides of the Rio . Grande, just as Luisiana extends on both sides of the M is- j e'ssippi; anJ our govtnm?nt and every oilier havin commercial relations with Mexico, acknowledged those boundaries by a thousand acts. So strong was Mr. Benton's belief that the eastern or left bank of the Rio Grande belonged justly to Mexico, end so un compromUingly was he opposed to the annexation of that unquestionable Mexican territory to the Uoited States, that he submitted the following resolution to the Senate: "liexolced, That the incorporation of the left bmk of the Rio del Norte into the American Union, by virtue of a treaty with Texas, comprehending, as the said incorporation w ould do.a part of the Mexican department of New Mexico, Chihuahua, CoahuiU, and Tamaulipas, would be an act nfdirtct aggression t .We.n'eo; for all the consequences of which the United States would stand responsible." And after enumerating the towns and villages with their Spanish-Mexican popu lation." situated In th four departments above mentioned, on the east side of the; Rio Grande, be added. 'These-in addition to the oi l Texas; ll.o i.r r... ., ' JZ.r""m. CHau?-u,"e ,0Wnv -the. k7 Ml!: ,:ftsl! Kepublic of Mexico. fv, th.nnd v.ties

long and some hundreds br0firf-all this''rnf,t extinguished." our Pr...i,.,i I.. .,,i .,irh. 1" " I Mr. Silas Wrieht look no part in

--. - . o. v ,, , t,3 .m ..a iimuit;r fill- 1 iire. and presents to us and declar-s it is ours till the Senate rejects ii! He calls it' Texas'.aud ihe lulling off lie rails re-an-! nexatinn! llomhnli rait, ii x.w t; co, Chihuahua, Coauulia, and N'tieva

Santander, (now Tamaulipas.) and the I l I! : I u i.r .i-- - .

nTuuru worm w.oy quamy tuis re annex- speecn "to vote against the ratification alion by the application of some odius and of the treaty for the annexation. I beterrific epithet." j Jieve that the treaty, from the boundaries And agaiu: that mnst be implied from it, embraced ' The treaty in all that relates to the a country to which Texas had no claim boundary of ihi Rio Grande, is an uct of over w hich she had never asr-srtrd jurisunparaJled outrage on Mexico." diciion,S w hich she had noright to cede."

In considering our right to annex I exas, he scouted all ideas of extending her boundary to the Rt Grande. He knew no Texas beyond the Nueces; and when he spoke of Texas, lie d id not refer to that country called Texas by the annexation party-extending to the Rio Grande, but only of that. "Texas a constituted at the time of the treaty of IS 19, and not as constituted by the Republic of Texas, comprehending the capital and forty towns and villages of New Mexico? now and always as fully under the dominion of the Republic of exico, as Quebec and all the towns and villages cf Canada are under the dominion of Great Britian! It is cf this Texas the old Spanish Texas of which I always speak. And in this annexation, Mr. Benton added: "I adhere to this discrimination between the Texas, and now propose to see which i f the two e are asked by the President of She United States to incorporate into the American Union." He then read the first article of the proposed treaty of annexation; and after some fuither remarks to show that the Texas f: rpsed to be annexed was that described in the act of the Texan Congress, claiming to the Rio Grande, he proceeded to taj: From all th'.s it results that the treaU Y f Fj i m f na l rw iililc li in Arlpn.lfol IMIt t( , . . . j Texas proper, also incorporates into our fl'iiion the left bank of the Rio Grande in its whole extent trom its neaa spring, car the South Pass in the Rocky Moun tains, in its mouth in the Guifof Mexico, fi urdrniees south of New Orleans, in latitude 20. It is a 'giand and solitaty nYcr,' almost without affluents or tributa l ries. Its source is in the region of eter nal snow; its outlet in the clime of eternal flowers. Its direct course is 1 200 miles its actral run about 2.000. This immense river, second on our continent to ihe Mississippi only, and but little in-f.-ri r to it in length, i proposed to be added in the w hole extent of its left bank; to the American Union! and that by virtue of a treaty for the re-annexation of Tex as V And in the same connexion, he ?aid: ' I took occasion to discriminate between the old province of Texas, and the newRepublic ef Texas, and to show that the latter includes vhat teas never any part of: Texas, but a part of the present department and former province of New Mexico and parts of other departments of the Mexican Republic." In accordance with these view of the respective tights of Mexico and TexRs to the teiritory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, Mr. Kenton afterwards pret ared and offered a bill, requiring the PiCsider.t to negi tiate with Mexico for h boundary in the deseits which lie imme diately west rf the Nueces. And he eot i nly believed that Texas had no actual right beyond the Nueces; but he believed that the j'esrtts beyond that river, between ii and the Rio Grande, furnished the I est 1 1 undaiy between the two nations. And we had also Mt. Benton's authority fur s?yir g that Gen. Jackson's opin ion, m refiaid to it. e uuunuary, in roin the military and political aspects of the question, coincided with his own, that it should be established at the Nueces, for. tified by the deserts between that river and the Rio Grande. Gen. Jackson had recommended this desett boundary in W29. and Mr. Benton refeiing to the recommendation, said: ' That pioposition of Gen. Jackson did not go the length of this treaty f the treaty of annexation, upon which he was speaking) by two thousand miles. It stopped at the mountains w hich lie at the head of the Red river and the Arkansas, and which divided the nnrient Louisiana from New Mexico.and the desert pranies which lie to the west of the Nueces. His pro position included no part of New Mexico,! Chihuahua. Coahtilia. or Tamaulipas It

extended to no part of the rirer or even of I American Provinces adjoining to the VnitheraUcu of the Hi del Xorte. Not a ted States Santa Fe is the capttalofNew

trim o f tbp water of that river not an inch of its valley did he propose to disrupt from its old possessor and lo incorporate Into our Union." Mr. C. J. Ingersoll. Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations.lhe same whom President Polk lately nominated lo the Senate as our Ministei to France, in his speech, on the 3d January, 1845, on the anneiation of Tejas, expressed himrlf on ihi nuestion of boundary, in the following distinct language: "The stupendous deserts between the Nueces and the Bravo Rivers are the nat-( oral boundaries between the Anglo Ssjton and M.uniianian races. There end the valley of the West. There Mexico be begins. Thence, beyond the Bravo, begin the Moorish people and their Indian associates, to whom Mexieo proper ly belotvos; who should not c ros lhat vast desert if they could, as on otor side ire, too. ought to slop there, Becace interminable COntt C.S Ml.iT ESSi. K mon uu. j, eitber on our going oiA or theii coming north of lhat giaanj lie. boundary. While peace is cherished. at poooary will be sacred. t;:t vrif crime up cdNdt'EST RAQKS Xot will I;:.:.: ;v'.T.,Crt aide moles.orn..x wUhcho and whenever they d "r lner race mual be conquered, the , .t-i l, debate in the Senate on the treaty, but tie 0,ed wllh Mr Ren,on "g81"91 ' n lu return to New York he made a speech ai Weteftown in which he staled his rea ' for his vote, as follows.

I felt it my duty" he remarked in that .

"It arrears to me then" hp nnr.tin.to.i ''if Meaico should tell us, "we don't know you, we have no treaty to make with you." and we were left to take possession by force, we mutt take the country as Tearas had ceded it to us, and in doing that w e must do injustice to Mexico, and take a large portion of New Mexico, the people of which have never been under the jurisdiction of Texas. This to me was an insurmountable barrier I could not place the country in that position." Mr. Calhoun, w ho, as Secretary of State, negotiated the treaty for the annexation of Texas, was sorely pi essed by the conclusive demonstrations of Mt. Denton that the territory beyond the Nueces, which the Te.rians claimed, was tndismitablv the property of Mexico, inhabited by Mexican people alone, who recognize the Mexican authority, atttempled to repel the charges of Mr. Denton that he intended by this treaty to setae the left bank of the Rio Grande. And in defence of himself and the treaty he referred to his dispatches both to Mr. Shannon and Mr, Green, who were the agents of our government, at that time, in Mexico, to show that, we never meant lo claim the territory embraced in the act of the Congress of Texas, but that, on the contrary, we were very desirous to open a friendly negotiation w ith Mexico for the purchase of such a boundary as would be most convenient. To signify this purpose to the Mexican Government, Mr. Calhoun wrote to Mr. Green on the 19ih of April, 184 4, as follows: You are enjoined by the President, to assure the Mexican Government, that it is his desire to settle all questions between the two countries which may grow out of this treaty, or any othei csnse, on the most liberal and satisfacsory terms, in CLIDIKG THAT OF BOUNDARY." The treaty of the annexation of Texas was rejected, not merely upon the grounds of its impolicy in other respects, but upon these: 1 That Texas p roper the Texas that revolted against Mexico and secured her independence, did not extend to the Rio Grande. 2 That the treaty w as supposed to give color lo a claim to extend Texas to the Rio Grande. j 3 That the government having no ground to assert a claim lo the Rio Grande, desired to open negotiations w ith Mexico for the purchase of a boundary.! The treaty failit.r of ratification by the1 Senate, the annexation was subsequently effected by joint Resolution of Congress. But if the left bank of the Rio Grande did not rightfully belong to Texas, we could no mote acquire a title to it by Joint Resolution of the two Houses, than by treaty ratified by the Senate. The conditions on which our government consented to the annexation of Texas, were expressed in the following terms. Resolved, "That Congress doih consent that the territory properly included vithin, and richlfidly belonging to the liepublic of Texas, may be created into a new Sta'e," &c ; and '"that the foregoing consent is given un the following conditions" to w it: ' Said State shall be formed, subject to the adjustment by this Government of all dispositions of boundary that may arise vith vther Governments," &c. Thus Congress carefully provided against taking any territory not righfully belonging to Texas. Every body understood that the reservation lo the United States of the right to adjust all questions of boundary arising w ith other govern ment", referred to the invalid title of Texas to the left bank of the Rio Grande. There was no other question of boundary whatever, in dispute; and what conclusively proves, beyond all cavil, that such was the understanding of Congress, an act n passsi'd about a month afterwaids, al'otring a drawback upon Joreign merchandize expovttd in the original packocestoCHUIUAHUA AND SANTA FE IN MEXICO," and the Priltsh Xorth Mexico, situated on the east side of the Rio Grande, within Ihe boundary asserted by Texas. The object of the bill was to it-fund duties to merchants, which had been collected on goods in our ports, provided they were carried in the orig inal packages to Santa Fe, Ac. So lhat ihis act of Congress, now ihe supreme law of the land, recognized Santa Fe as a Mexican city as distinctly as Chihuahua, and as distinctly as Montreal and Quebec as British pities; and it as em phatically repelled the claim of Texas to the left bank of ihe Rio Grande, where, rs before staled, Santa Fe stands We have thus collected the authority of Benton, Jackson, Wright, Ingersoll, Calhoun, and the Democraiing Congress that annexed Texas, lo prove that the east side of the Rio Grande belonged to Mexico; against a hich there is not a shadow of title or claim on behalf of Texas, except the act of her Congress, of December, 1836, making a merely declaratory assertion of title on paper to the Rio ; Grande as her boundary. For any valid- ; ily of title which such a declaration wculd establish, lhat government might as well h..eel up . cUim to all the territory of Mexico tn t.e Pacific, and of the Uni ted States 10 the Atlantic. . If titles might be asserted so easily, land would become pven cheaper than the "Vote-yourseU-a-farnt'' theory would have have it. But the common eense of mankind haa incorporated into the taw of Nations, a nrinrinls. whirti anttlpa the? ones! on I conclusively with all reasoning minds.-

It is tie principle that a Revolutionary Government (such as was Texas) can rightfully claim no territory but that

which it acquires and holds by the sword, or by treaty with the parent government. It was intended by our Revolutionary Fathers to join Canada in the benefits of the seperation from Great Britain; but, although our armies under Montgomery and Arnold overran the province, we came out of the war not Holding it. and accord ingly it remained to England without question. It is not pretended that Texas ever held this territory on the left bank of the Rio Grande. On the contrary, every attempt to seize it was signally repelled. Tw o armed expenditions from Texas, one directed against Santa Fe and the alher against Mier, made such attempts; but every man in both was either killed or ruptured. No other attempts were ever made; and, indeed, we believe one, if not both these attempts was rerepudiated by Pesidei.t Houston of Texas, who denounced the actors as outlaws. Texas never held an inch west of the Nueces, so far as we can learn, except: in the little Burl of Cor bus Christ i. where Gen. Taylor's army w as encamped in the years 1845-6. Every where else beyond that stream, was held and occupied by Mexico. The very best footing, possible, on which the question can be placed for our government, is the assumption that the jurisdiction of the territory was a dispu ted question. That it was Indeed so, is' proved by the fact that, notwithstanding the positive assertions of Mr. Denton and his Democratic coadjutors that belonged .v, i.4rJltw, 1 .cMurm rum tiaimcu it. So he had claimed the "whole of Oregon," ir 1a t) ; .1 1 n..ii. 1 : 1 : . 1 . Upon an asserted title "clear and Unqtiestionable." But Mexico also claimed the territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces, and Mr. Ingersoll, asserted the justice of their claim to it it; and the Locoloco Congress lhat annexed Tex-

as, both in the eel of annexation and the,s !r er." act allowing a drawback Upon goods to) nre than JlnticipattJ.-U is stated that the afSanta Fe, Virtually assumed the Same jfir of Prime, Ward Jt Co., so far as their American ground. creditors are concerned, will turn out eren worse Pending the consideration bv Te.msilh"wli'iP,,tl1- The whole liabiiities are esnma-

of the question whether she would accept Ihe terms of annexation proposed by our Congress, Mr. Allen the Secretary of State of Texas, in a letterdated June 26, 1845, urged upon Mr. Donelson, our then Minister resident in Texas, who had

authority from the Ptesldeilt Of the U. fatter sort every where is. constant"-we w'unt say States to give directions 10 Gen. Taylori"encors"i-" respeclillghis mililary occupation of Tex- There it but one war to wear properly aheantif.il as, "the propriety and necessity Of the dres, and that ia-f. argctthat Aovr it n.-

immediate march of the troops, and that they proceed at once to occupy positions on the JRio Grande." Mr. Donelson eave no countenance to this proposition, and apprised Mr. Allen what instructions he had been hitherto directed lo communicate. to Gen. Taylor. Amongst these instructions are the following: "The occupation of the country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, you are aware, is a disputed question. Texas holds Corpus Chrtsti, Mexico holds the Rrnzos de St. Jago, near the mouth of the Rio Grande. Yon can safely hold possession of Corpus Christi, and all other points up the Nueces, and if Mexico attempts lo dislodge you, drive her beyond the Rio Gtande.' But there is another principle of the Law of Nations, applicable to the esse, which forbids either claimant to enter upon the disputed territory with in aimed force, and denounces such entry as an art of war. In our disputes with Great Britain, respecting the boundary of Maine, which remained unadjusted from 1S38 to 1841, and respecting the boundary of Oregon which remained undecided from 1803 or at any rate, from 1819, to 1815, we observed this principle of the Law of Nations, and kept our army off the disputed Texas territory, we could not wait one short year. President Polk or dered Gen. Taylor to occupy it with his armyifinri. by that uct, in defiance of the f.rrtr 0 Anfions and contrary to all sound policy for ourselves and all rvsard for the feelings oj Mexico, exasperated as she tfu bi the loss of Texas proper. PR RSIDENT POLK MADE WAR UPON MEXICO As the question of the justice Of tbe War . . . j - . , . must, in a great uegree, 11 not wno'v, turn on tne justice of the respective claims of Mexico and the United States to the territory between the II 10 Grande and the U. States, we bave thus gone into this elaborate exposition of the title. We bave stated what we conscientiously believe to be tbe truth: and we shall always endeavor to obey Ihe behests ol truth and right and justice, no matter at what hazard of personal obloquy or of national loss. We do not wish our government to gain any id vantages, territorial or otherwise, at the expense of truth or justice. It will be borne in mind, that we have planted ourselves on high democratic authority . throughout, for every leading question of our title lo tbe disputed territory. We are aware that the partisans of tbe administration, who have no arguments to give in answer, win cry out ",yerican Whig! Traitor) Tory.'" &c; but they must fasten their unjust epithets on Messrs. Ltenton, Whrigbt, Ingersoll, Calboun, and the Locofoco Annexation Congress, before tbey can reach us. A Thought fr Every Day We see not ip this life tbe end of butnan actions. I heir influence never dies. In every circle it reaches beyond the grave. Oeath removes us from 1 hi a to an eternal world. Every morning when we go forth, we lay the moulding band on our destiny, and every evening when we have done, we have Idt a deathless i repression upon our character. We touch not a wire but vibrates in eternitynot a voice but reports at tbe throne of Cod. Let youth especially, think of these things, and let every one remember, that in Ibis world, where character is tu its loamauon state, it is a aeriooa thing to tbiak, to apeak to, act.

ITEMS.

BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT, Oh, it there U one law above the mt Written in Witdom if there i a word That I would trace at with a pen of fire Upon the untullied urn per of a child If there i anything- that keeps the mind Open to anrel Yiiitt, and repel The niiniitrjr of ill 'fir Airman (eve.' God hai mad nothing worthy of eon tempt. The imatleit pebble in the well of truth Has iu peculiar meanings, and will atand When man' bnt monuments wear fast awajr. The lav of heaven is Ine an 4 thoar Its name Has been usurped by passion and profsn'd To iu unholy uses through all time, Still, the eternal principle is purr; And in these dVe p affections that sVl Omnipotent within us, can we see The lavish measure in which lore is gts' And in the yearning tenderness of a child, For CTery bird that sings a bo re its head; And every creature feeding on the hills. And eery tree and flower, and running brook. We see how every thing was nrade So Jot e. And how they crc-f in a world like this, Tinit .nt-lV'.na L... ft. - I Find anything t soitu pnur, Caur'SN. It C know that the Bhi Tl.o it sne Puol,c "" low tnat tne BluT ..ears to be growg into general favor, islocofrf tn ,eJ of of the most poisonous substances in ?iire thaii. Ftuitic Arid the ink heine; a aolution ol the oir ment called Prussian, Blue, which is a compound of j prussiate of potash and iron. This ink, therefore,! must oe a very dangerous article in the hand, of children, as well as grown people, who are in the habit of putting their pen in their mouth in order to cleanse it. It is said one drop of this acid, in its pure and uncombined state, when put even upon the nose of a rat is sufficient to cause its immediate death. The above advice we hope will be appreciated, as it is sound and. correct. Sri. American. J of. We hadn't the 'slightest idea of the fact, but it appears there are wags elsewhere as well as here in the Mercnry office. A member of the Leeislature at Albany (Blnss we believe his name is) is the adventurer in our path. Another legislator ,Pu"!d In the midst ofa long and remarkably windy speech, to take a drink of water. "I rise," said bhiss, "to a point of order." Every body stared, wondering what the point of order was. "What is it?" said the speaker. "I think, air, it is out of order fort srinrf-mill to I ted at 700,000 dollars. A Wall street bank luset 200,000 dollars. The Cincinnati Gaxette announces that there are upwards of two hundred lawyers in that city, w ith a constant and encouraging increase! Good lawyers, says the Gazette, always live long. Bad lawyers, we know, live long enough, and the increase of the Mark ye that, ladies. Which i the fastest runner, James K. Polk or Gen . Worth? Answer Folk; becaase Worth could not rafrA Santa Anna, but Polk patted him. To work half your life in amassing a fortune, and then be obliged to spend tbe remainder or yaur days in watching the fortune, just for your victuals and clothes, may be called a hard ease. "Mother, what ia a hush f" "A hush, child? I dou't know what makes i on ask that question?' "Cause, the other day I a-ked Susan what made her bark stick out so, and she said 'hu-li.' " Infucnct oj Faith an the Intellect and theJJJectiant. --Sever yet did there exist a full faith In the Dirina Word, (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world,; which did not expand the intellect while it purified the heart which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simphfi cd those of the desires and passions. Co Icridgr. The Taltett IVr.--Married in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, on the morning of the 11th int., by J. I Morion, Esq., (being 8 feet 3 inches,) Silas G. Weeks, Eq., of Warren county, III., (heights fi-et 4 inches,) to Mrs. Mary Hobb, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, (heieht 6 feet 1 inch,) making and eight inches. a total in height of six yards The Lrvt ft the rng. "The tore of bors and girls is an ohjict upon which gray hrardid mm vent much spleen and scorn; but depeud upon it, reader, where it exists in reality, it is the sweetest thing that ever life knuws; it is the violet of our short year of existence. The rose is beautiful, richer in hues, full of perfume and brightness, as she flaunts her gay bosom in the ardent sun of June; but gire me the violet, the dear early eiolrt, lhat scents with her odorous breath the air of unconfirmed spring; the soft, the timid violet, retreating from the gaze with her blue eye east down; the Rrst sweet eaild oflhe sweetest season, the tenderesl, the gentlest af all the flowers ef the field, the emblem of earnest and innocent affection. No, there Is nothing tike It! In all aftrr years we may lay our hand upon what joy are will pure and innocent it must he, to bear the comparison for a moment but I say, we may lar our hand unon uhat ! joy we will in after etittenr. w .hail ..-. rtnrf (any thing on the earth like the first flower oflhe ' . ineart. o. r. it. Mmn, .1 Tett nf Great nets. The hittury of (he world, affords abundant enilence 1CW fifl 'no necessary connection between arrets tttjn& a great soul. Without nairj Hlnes ofSftf ilusl, trtpolcan-"le petit nrpfl, ef redeff " -f instance, that a great man neA stor, tJ & .,,. But thnsv... be no instance an record ofa man of small dimensions in the head being of much talent. I hare some statistics on this subiert. ob tained from a hat merchant of my acquaintance, which bear upon the point. My only regret is that the details arc not more copious. The measurement of Napoleon s head, in hatter s phrase, was 71 inches. The Tallowing are those of some of our American statesmen and warriors: Gen. Washington, Oen. Scott, Gen. Taylor, Gen. Jackson, Henry Clay, 7 full. rt " T 7 n " rj 7 Kartin Van Buren, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, John quiney Adams, Pretent ftr JToya'ta. The Jefferson City (Mt). Metropolitan speaks of seeing, last week, a hag bo, labellrd-i'Her Majesty, queen Victoria cure T her Lard High Stewart.St.James Palace, Loadon." Its interiot hast apartments which were filled with venison hams, buffalo tongues, pickles, Jellies, c., the whole presented by Peter MeLain, native oflhe Emerald Isle, to her Majesty aforesaid Just as was anticipated the Union's great blow tne more vigorous prosecution or the war, is to end in mereamoke. In his last paper, Father Mitch, ie astounds the native at the east energy of this im mortal administration by proclaiming its intention to call out fw bboiw whole Rgiswental . Ood gra cious! Mexico will now b knocked hi to a evekfd nan ind. Jour. An immense Taylor meeting was hs Id in KaafcvilW pa Saturday sight. Col. Ba U Tsjroa ao-lressid

the assemblage in an ek event anannee, urging Gen. Tay lor't claims for the Presidency, and a preamble and reso lutiont to that effect offered by Judge ti. K. Tu rner, were unanimorsly adopted.

Te Sutyugmtiin mj all Mri ic:-The probabilities are increasing ery fast, and becoming daily more ,u iiirpuuiic nuiio, last tne only alternative presented to the United States, from the obstinate resistance of Mexico, alike to the force of our arms and our overtures of peace, is the military suhjnrstion of the country, and the absorption of the natronal existence of the Mexican by our own Bait. San. yew nt-eatn. A Doctor Colton is lecturing in Cincinnati, and showing by experiment, that he can propel a railroad engine and ear, by electricity plied to the track altne! A a. the tar mores, the sparks of electricity are seen to fly from the electrified track to the engine. Tills is one of the most astounding inventions of the age. A CrTitK Shot. John V. Wrigbt says that we print "a D d huty paper Persons sre apt to speak of thin (js that run- iu their heads. Logaatport Tel. Ohio WiMB-'The day is not distant says ,vir. uongwortt). "when ;lio banks of the Ohio will rival tbe Rhine in the quality and quantity of tho w inc. Our german emigrants are ihe people who will accomplish it.' what .Nest! A man in Cincinnati has lately discovered a plan by which he OV ,ie Can enj person from that tilace to iNew lork, let bim transact bninps sml get back ngain in less than two hours aud a half. He can by the same discovery transmit four hundred tons of merchandise from Cincinnati to New York, at a cost not exceeding the usual rate, and all in ten hours The plan is to stretch four wires, two for a platform for a vehicle to run over, and ,two ovcrLeaJ to steady the lightning vehicle, and then propel by electricity. If this can be done, railroads will be at least one age behind the times! Only think of travelling with the speed of lightning instead of the old fashioned n,l ridiculously slow way of railroads. Ef antville Journal. Early Risehs When a London cockney , who had always risen at mid day. Lad been induced, on a water party, to 6ce a sunrise, he exclaimed, when the sun was above the horizon and people were turning away, 'Is that kill I thought it went like a rochetf up Woman the coe of ojr heart the. apple of our eye the siui'e of heaven upon us the spirit of our life the incarnation of divinity! We love her, how ie love herl' and he who does not Jove her, is a God-forsaken wretch! Popi lation op Paris Paris contains al tbe present time, l.U.VJ.M) inhabitants. The population is thus divided, boys, 315,. 191; married men 2 1 1 ,J35, widowt rs 17.IH7. In all. 54:1,490 men. V riniarried women 240.251: ms'ried women, 212,400, widows, 57,741. Total of women, 5I(t,401. Massachcsettb. ln HiHI the whole personal property of the folate of -Massachusetts was estimated at $44.021.:i47. In I?0U it had increased 10 $;7,94'J,rtMV lu ISMOit was $:i5,556.422.and in 140 wat, $4iti 50 to each resident of the State, the iiumber of inhabitants being more than 7iilMNJ0. anJ in l'?47 it will amount to about i7e.4ttO.tiOO. W1110 Natioxl Cosvestiov We concur fully in tho spirit of sugrstions of the following paragraph from the Worcester Aegis The Now York Tribune inl'mates that the W'liig National Convention will he held, in all probability, m the month of May, 1?43. e trust in tbe event of no such calamity. There are obvious reasons of policy which render it dcairahle for once to await democratic action. If only for the novelty of the thing, it would be .ell to take our time. Heretofore, we have nominated our candidites some two or three months before it was at all necessary. The consequence has invariably been, that there were ten lies l contradict, where, otherwise, there would have been but one. BT OCR PFVIt. 1 A mod rose in its blooming prime Is be 1 it it n I to me; But my sweet girl at any tiraa Is b. aulifuler-rr. Hon. Alexander 11 Everett. The Cam1 brio has hrolltrM the Oftam-hnly jntelll' gence of the decease of Mr. r.verpit, our minister to (ibina, who, it will be recollected, was quite indisposed when he left our shores He as a brother of the llonCdward Everett, and a man of extensive erudition and marked abilities. 12c com menced Lis dipiomalio care.-r, we In-hove, as Secretary of Legation to St.' Petersburgh, at the time John Quinry Adams was Minister: and when .Mr. . became President, he made Mr. Everett Minister to .Spain. Mr. Everett w one of our brst writers in prose and poetry, and bis contributions to our National literature will be a laaUug memorial to his ubililies. .New H'vrld. GoVFRimrfsT --Which is the most perfect popular government! That,' said Bios, 'where tbe laws have no superior.' 'That, said Tbales, 'where the inhabitants are neiller ti o ricb nor too poor.' 'Tbat.' said Anacharsis. the Scythian, . here virtue ia honored and vice detested.' 'Thai.' tid Pittapus, 'where dinit is are al ays conferred upon the virtuous and never upon the base.' 'That, said Lleobolus, 'where the citizens fear blame more than punishment.' 'That, 'said Chilo. 'where the laws are more regarded than the orators.' Hul that, said Solon, 'where an injury dona to tbe meanest subject is an insult upon tbe constitution.' Apoihtgm ff the Ancients. Ctrrctptitdrnre efthe Jtnrnal afVtmmrier. V A6UI.NCT0K. Oct. 25. The Government tends frequent messages to Oen. Scntt. A messenger left this morning with despatches for him. I learn, from various sources, that the Administration has given such orders to General Scott, as will prevent him from again offering or accepting an armistice. or inviting fie Mexican Government to make peace. The day ha gone by, low, for offering any pecuniary inducements to lhs Mstii-an rnlnri ur f iiinDtrllsillOII lor tsUlilory. Most Drcpr.oaASt.R Wp sre it stated that the nurtibtir of em'grmts to Onada wboifcave died, in three months, on nhiji-

board, or after tLey were landad, is seven tboueand one Luuflred and forty. A vessel recently arrived at Grosse Ulnud from Londonderry, fcad. w ben ebe started. 66

pSbeencers, eiebleen r.f uiI.a... a;,a , .1 p.ssaje, and 120 were landed siclV C7 A grandson of Wesley, tbe great . founder of Methodism, has been appointed by Uueeo V K-oris, cue of let chaplaina in ordinary. All the railroads throcchoul the Kingdom of Prussia, which will then have been completed, are lo be opened simultan-?.-eouslyonthe I3;h inst., that bein" lbs' birthday of the King. " ; Tbe steamer Magnolia lately ariored tu " New Orleans, with 3 031 bales of cotton on board. The receipts for the four first days of October were 13,15ft bales, against4, G54 during the same period lasi year. A Patent has been taken out for dijpefisinng with sowing irrvfic manufacture of shirts, collars, and linen articles. Tha pieces are fastened together by indissoluble glue! A great public meeting was held at Nashville on the &th of October, vi citizens from all parts of the state, for the purpose of taking means;Cor promoting , the election of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency. An ingenious mechanic in one of thesouthern cities has made a small sleam engine lo r ck his child's-cradle! The length of Ihe engine and boiler is sixteen inchess and a half. There was coined at ihe U. S. Branch Mint at New Orleans during the moult, of September, about 1.700. 000, prlnci-. pally in gold. About six millions of dwllars have been coined during the present yeat! Lova op AppROBtt ion .--n Irish orator speaking of an opponent's .vc of praiso, described him as so vain in that respect, that he would be content to f;rva up tho ghost, if it were but to rise up ai.d read tho stone cutler's purf on his grave.' Rough and Ready .Meeting. meeting of the friends ol General Zichary Tnylor for the Presidency in to appoint Uclegito to tho finite Convention, &c , was held in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the ltnh inst. A little more grape, Capi. Hrsgg.' Father .Mallheto intends visiting tin's country next spring. In a privats Inter lie says 'Next taring. God permitting, I shall proceed to your glorious Republic, logive expression jn persou to tho gratitude that swells my Uosum.' Old '.nek 'The American Patriot is the title of a new paper which has jutr been started in Norwich, Gorci., and which lakes ground in favor ol General Taylor for 1L0 iie xi Prutiidcucy. 1 (ptaint nM preacher disco-using frorn, tbe words. Thou worm Jucab, amoni? otlier portentious discoveries, deduces thu j doctrine of a limited aitonement, it being j true, he says that a worm always horcs a holj of exa;t dimonstons of his own body , neither more nor less. Heboid this identity between nature an 4 icveiatioo'-iiftj. If 'tn .Uahn. A A of on vtirthy of Huston. Yankee Dot'dle sat s The New York shop keepers hire faf-honaMy drrssod ymmg ladies to cali in and walk out of their stores once in tell or fi.ieen minutes during the day, to attract customer by sympathy. Mrs Ctawf.iid s.tid she wrote one line in her Kthleen .M.ivoureeo' for Hie express purpose of confounding . the cork ney warblers, who sing ii thus, "The orn of the unter is eird on Die 1I1'.' but. Moore had laid the same trap 111 the 'Woodpecker.' 'A ml thai is uuibie iiiiUt ope for it ere.' A Capital Snake Story The following amuing siory we fr id in one of our exchanges. It is lo Baud tu be lust even if it were not altogether true: The anaconda, belonging to Weich & Co'i menagerie, while they wore exhib-. iling iu Columbus, Ohio, was suddenly taken ill it was supposed lo be ait attack of ilia 'd)pfptia.' induced by slothful habits, and the occasional swailowing of a lull sizea raou wnoie. jjr. li . n regular physician ho was 6tH)itig utility Neil House, as Called in. lie prescribed a doie or two of Calomel, etc.. which relieved it considerably, but did not effect a complete cure. Welch, who was preparing to move about thai lime, promised Ihe Dr. thai in rise the varmint died, he would send it to him, in pari payment for the trouhle he had taken. A week or so after this il died, sure enough, and having been nicely coiled up in a barrel of whisky, il was f rwnr!ed to the Dr. who, not having ti ne to alien ! to it, just then, had it deposited in the bark room oflhe hotel, which was used as a gleeping room by sundry sage-dnvers. Some of these, hainc notd a whisky stamp on the barrel, took ihe liberty of inserting a spieot in the aide next the wall where it was not likely tube teen, and for a week or so thse who were in lb secret, had a jolly time of il u l.enever il was their turn lo stay over night al the hotel. The' time having arrived for Ihe dorlor lo return home, he went inlo in overhaul his snakeship, and was murh surprised to find him entirely "out of liqnoi" and in an advanced state of decomposition.- IIe said nMhinj. hut had him buried as quiet a possible. Tf nesi mori'ine. in his way home, sealed mi Ihe stage bin lx-side? ihe driver, lie, in the course of conversation, related lb 'snrkemsiatire,' ul.rn ihe driver was im. mediately taken with most violent retchiocs, and seenvd lo gs into a fit of convulaiooi; in firl. il required all the doctor's strength lo keep him from piichino off ihe bin. After feverl iiiiticeeul attempts lo penk, hi finally maua'ed lo articulate. -D -li our it'lVriml Miake! I . thought the iiqtioi had a thundering siiaiigt- tlator.