Evansville Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 20 February 1845 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

Not Caesar's weal, but that f Rome.'

THURSDAY, : : FEBRUARY 20, 1845.

NOTICE .W. K. Ham is our authorized agent for collecting moneys due this office, and for receipting for new subscriptions. He will visit the neighboring counties in a few day3 and we hope all those indebted to us will make it their business to settle with bim.

THE TWENTY-SECOND.,

Saturday next, being the Anniversary of

the birth of Washington, C. Eakeb. Esq., will deliver an Address before the Evausville Lyceum, appropriate to the occasion1. We are requested by the proper officers to say that for the remainder of the series of lec

tures the public are invited to attend free of

any charge, whatever; but we must add that it speaks but little for the taste of our town,

Jbatlhe small sum necessary to defray expenses should be au obstacle in the way of obtaining audiences. .The gentlemen who formed the Institute did so with the hope of giving it a permauent and stable character, and of making it t he unclcus for other liter- . ary and educational efforts hereafter but we regret to say that they have received so little encouragement in the way of audiences, that ilis doubtful whether the enterprisewid not fail altogether. If they are willing to undergo the labor of preparing lectures, the public should at least havo taste and public ppirit enough to hear there. "

It will be seen from the notice of the Ly

ceum in our paper, that Win. Newton, Esq., will be"in a series of Lectures at the next meeting, on Phrenology and Mesmerism. From the well known attainments both. Scientific and Literary, of the Lecturer, we have no doubt the course will be very able and f.he examinations and experiments, particularly instructive and entertaining to the Public .,"',.'.

' To Merchants and otuers. We desire to call attention to the advertisement of Messrs. W, &, CV Feixowes, &, Co., it) todays Journal. The very liberal patronage they have heretofore bestowed upon the Press throughout the West, we are glad to know, has paid them back an hundred . fold. Their stock at present offered is said to be un- . usually large, and will be offered without reserve. ' : . -" - , i:

Cr Newspaper Agency. -To .Mr. V. B. PALMER, Agent for Newspaper Subscription and Advertising, we are under obliga-

He is

lions for favors heretofore received

pur auiuorizea Agent in Lastem Cities, and auy business intended for us by raercLants and others in the East, will receive his strict attention. Having a yery general 'circula

tion throughout the South-western portion of

Indiana, Southern portion of Kentucky, Illinois, &.c, wo ffer inducement to advertisers second to no establishment in this region cf country.. Mr. Palmer's offices are: "'Tso. 16 State Street, Boston. S. E. Corner of Baltimore j&nd Calvert Afreet, Baltimore.

Coal Office, No.-160 Nassau Street," Xeic

York, " . ,

. Real Estate and Coal Office, No. 59, Pine

Street, Philadelphia. "

TEXAS IN THE SENATE. We rind the following in the National Intelligencer. MA movement took place in the Senate yes terday on the subject of "Annexation,1' not not Jess important iu itself than it was for the indication of sentiment which it drew from several Senators in regard to the joint resolution of the House of Representatives, and the light which was thereby shed on the probable fate of that measuo. , ,. "The bill heretofore introduced by Mr. Benton touching the annexation of Texas was, at his request, taken up pro forma, to enable him to ofler a substitute for that bill.

The substitute itself will be found in the proceedings of the Senate under the proper head. - The introduction at this substitute the honorable mover prefaced with some re

marks, in which be enumerated various ob

jections to the joint resolution oi the House

of Representatives, and stated clearly, and

we may say forcibly, the reasons why he

could not concur in that proposition.- Mr

Rives also, in the course of a short debate

which arose on a motion to refer the substitute to . the Committee on Foreign Affairs, very - clearly indicated his opinion that the measure of annexation was one which could

only be effected by the treaty-making pow er. . , . - v ' - V

r After airiel debate, Mr. Benton's bill

was laid on the table to wait the general discu

sion cf the subject, which is expected to

come up next week.

: "The Globe is out decidedly in favor of

Mr. Benton's ! proposition, and regards it as

"not only a proposition of conciliating to al

parties favorable to the admission of Texas

into the Union in the two countries, but a

proposition tending to harmonize their pos teiity forpver, by removing, at the threshold

every ground of discontent."

Mr. Benton's proposition now is to appoint

Commissioners to negotiate with the Texas

Government for the settlement of the terms upon which the annexation shall take place, winch terms, when agreed upon, shall be submitted in the form of a Treaty to be rati, fied by the Senate, or in the form of Articles to be Isid before Congress. " r

- This says the correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, will probably be the last effort to put the matter into a form to make it ac

ceplablo to all classes of annexationist. Mr. Benton' sagacity is not at fault in one particular; he sees that the Joint Resolutions of the House are not the entertainment the Texasites were invited to, and he also feels that while it is carcely probable they will pass the Senate, it is still less likely triat Texas

will accede to their terms. The ..bill uxtroU

AUGUST ELECTION. That tie im portance of the "election to take place next Angust throughout the State, mny fnot be overlooked by the Whig party, we ojain allude to,it- It may seem rather early o some of our friends to stir the matter just row, but we can tell thera there is nothing lite commencing the business in time. We lave evry thing to gain by an early and effio'ent organization of our forces, and the want jf such organization may lose everything. e shall

say more upon this subject next wek; the

following from the Wabash Courier, vill an

swer our purpose this week. The Courbrsaysj

"Are our Whig friends aware of theimpor-

tance of the next election? Memlers of

Congress to be chosen; of. which it is great

ly desirable that good Whigs should be elec

ted from every practicable Districts The

erection of numbers of both branches 'of our

Legislature also assumes a very inTKrtant

aspect the coming season. Bv ths next

Legislature the fctate is to be appotfioned

into Senatorial and Representative Districls.

Should the Locofocos have a major'ty, no

one can calculate the gerrymandering thai may take place in the apportionment. The

only way to secure equitable and fiurdetrict-

mgis to hold a Whig majority in boh Houses And besides this, it is indispensable if possi

ble, to have Whig majorities in both Ilouses

in order to secure the election of i good

Whig, to tne united btates benate.

Another Row in Congress. Durmg the SUFFERING IN ENGLAND. j

discussion in the House of Representatives It is next to impossible for the people ot

at Washington on the ICth insU of the Bill! this country, to form any opinion of the suf-

malcingthe annual appropriations for the fering condition of the immense masses of

support of the Indian Department, a very ua- the hopeless poor in England. Ve learn

pleasant affair took place between Messrs. from an English paper that a public meeting

Black, of Geo., and Giddings, of Ohio. It of the Inhabitants of Leeds, was held a few

commenced in a very warm and angry per- weeks before the sailing of the last steamer,

sonal altercation, and was near ending.' in to investigate the condition of the unemploy

blows. Mr. G. in opposing oue of. the a-led poor and a report carefully drawn up

mendments to the IndianBill, took occasion from detailed accounts, was read to the

to denounce Slavery, as healwavs does when meeting. The extent of destitution, as -re-

he has a chance, which led Mr. Black, in presented in this report, is indeed. fnghtiul

replying to him, to make some severe per- It appears that there are twenty thousand

sonal reflections upon him. Mr. G. rejoin- individuals in Leeus wIk are living on 114

ed, and among other things noticed some- pence a week each about twenty cents!

thing Mr. Black had said about knocking The report said f ' . - persons down. Mr. G. was understood to The most harrowing descriptionswerc giv

ridicule the idea that any body should be a- en by some of the visitors of the scenes they fraid of Mr. E. 's knocking - them down, had witnessed 'The cases of distress,' says

. t, , . . Dr. omues (editor or ine jueeus nines,; -oi

Hereupon xur. i. wno was sianomg. extreme distress, that had come under his him became very much exeitedand exclaim- noljce that morning, hdd harrowed up his

ed he would knock him down and made a verv soul. (Hear, hear.V There was one

. . . -. '. . .

mnvpmpnt a ihmio-h lie wfire about to rush case which he would particularly mention.

He had noted down the name, anu ne was

'Painting Office Destroyed. OurEas

tern papers by Wednesday's Mail briag accounts ol a very destructive fire" which broke out in the New York Tribune Office on the

night of the 7th inst., '. Every ; effort was made by the fire companies to "master the

ramns element, but to no purpose, and in

the course of a couple of hours after the first notice of the blaze, the Tribune newspaper concern, the periodical depot of Mr. W. H. Graham, :he bookseller and stationers1 es

tablishment of Jansen &. Bell, the liquor store occupied by Mr. Kenuedy,. and the

German establishment of the Deutsche Schr.cllpostdL German journal published in that city for the last three years, with a large stock of books, &.C., were totally consumed

with all they contained. Mr. Graham lost not only Ins stock, but $400 in cash and his gold watch, and narrowly escaped with bis life by leaping out of an elevated window upon the deep snow beneath. ' " The Gcrmaus, who had a ball in Tammany Hall, which adjoined the burned buildings in tho rear, were alarmed in the midst

ot ineir reveirv, wnen ail was common "mer

ry as a marriage bell," and we understand

that the rear of old Tammany got a severe

scorching. Some insurance is effected up

on these buildings, but nothing like the ac-

at Mr- G with the view of striking him with

tlio fxno ia lifihl in hia hand. rrvfiral nnr-

sons were between them, one of whom, Mr.

Ilammett, seized M. Blackandlead himout1

side of the raling, in the rear of the Speaker's

stand. In the meantime there was consider

able confusion on all sides, but after a few

sure, if any doubts existed, individuals might

satisfy themselves as to; the correctness o

the statements. At the end of Brooke street

there was a small cellar dwelling, nine feet

by twelve into which they were introduced

by the enumerator,

The dwelling was so considerably beneath

the street that only half ot the window wa

moments, Mr. Giddings resumed his remarks above it. It was a damp, disagreeable, ill

NATURALIZATION, LAWS. The following js an abstract of a bill re-

orted to the Houso of Represent ative at

Washington, by Dr. Saunders, Chairman of

he Committee on the Judiciary;

First. The person naturalized is to make nown his intention before the Supreme.

Superior, District or Circuit Court- of the State or Territory where he is two years before his admission to the privileges of citizenship, that it was. his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the United Statesl

An alien, two years after he shall have

made a declaration of intention to become a citizen, and shall have resided five years

wmnii iuc liiuiis anu jtii isuicnon oi uie united States preceding his application, shall be

a citizen of tne Unued States upon taking am.

oath to support the Constitution of the Uni

ted States. - - "

The persons claiming the privileges of citi

zens are to swear that they are the bona fide

persons naturalized. -

ihe resident is to be one vear in - the

State or territory before voting, but, tbisls to." be one of the five years. . .

Aliens in a minority may have their time

counted as in a majority, if they arrive at 21years before asking to vote. - ' .

Everv Court ol Record having common

law jurisdiction is to be regarded as proper

for naturalization." ' - -

. The expense of naturalization Is to be

three dollars. - ' " : " - f v"

Six months' imprisonment or a Cue is lt

be the price ( fraudulent swearing. The

District Attorney is authorized to prosecute

persons for fraudulent voting! . . . v ;

and the confusion subsided. When he fin

ished Mr. Black made a very few inaudible

remarks, when the whole disturbance en

ded.' -

lighted, ill-aired den. Hear, hear. . In

that apartment . they found "three families

consisting of sixteen individuals, nme who

slept in it everv night. Sensation. There

were lour adults, and twelve children, bix

individuals constituting one family, slept up

on a litter of straw, huddled together not bk

human beings, not even like animals, for tliei

Hunt's . Merchant's Magazine indulges situation was nothing to be compared to the

; t1 fnllnwinwlmlil Bimin nf monlipcv. In comfort ot our dogs and Horses in our siauies

- o r l J y m i t .ir r l

1 1 near, near.i oilier lour or nve siepi on

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oca oi suaviiigs, anu inc reinaiiiiug nve sjcpi

OUR COUNTRY.

regard to the progress of our glorious co

try. To see what the editor predicts, would

bescarcely less wonderful than it is to reflect on what our country is now, compared with

what it was 20 years ago:

"There is but little doubt that the United

S. are destined ultimately to command all the

tiade in the India and Cnina seas. Tae

stipplv of cotton in the United States, includ

ing Texas, is tar beyond what the wants of

The Public Lands. The Billtograduate

and reduce the price of the public lands, was

laid upon the table of the House of Repre

sentatives, on the 5th inst., by a vote of 103 to 95 Many of the'; demagogues in the

House have, as usual, made this bill the ex

cuse for speeches to please the people, and to acquire popularity, without feeiing . at

heart one particle of the concern they pro

fess for the interests of the poor man,

JO,

duccd by lnm to-day, evidently took the whigs

by surprise, for, with'.- the exception of one

feature, it has at least the merit of constitutional form. The appointment of Commissioners to settle terms "io be submitted 'in

the form of a Treaty" is, as he said, the

mode of procedure which has always been adopted when foreign nations are concerned;

but his alternatire "or in Articles Jaid be

fore Congress" is the ' very thing ngainst which the Committee on Foreign Relations have inst reported. If the Constitution is

not to be laid aside as obsolete, or of no force when it stands in the way of popular willor

caprice, then must Texas , be annexed by

Treaty alone and he annexation even. by

Treaty of foreign territory is of doubtful right.

It hal been properly said that, that the Sen

ate may originate money bills with just as

much propriety as the House, may legislate upon Texas. ' .

The question on referring Mr. Benton's bill to the Committee on Foreign Ralations was negatived by one vote. ,

We are extremely anxious to know wheth

er the persons who left this place for Evans

villa expecting to meet the President elect

there, had their wishes gratified? Do tel us, somebody.- Yincennes Gazette.

They did not." . The gentleman from Duck

River was in a mesmeric Bleep during the whole trip from Nashville to Louisville, and bis loving friend from Vincennes bad no opportunity of boring Mm' before reaching ihe. falls. They were after him, though, Viko a thousand of brick. .

fc5The rail road to China, by the way of

the Sandwich Islands, is to cost 25,000,000, Mr. Owen, it is said at Washington, is positive the work will be done, and has oflered his services which insures its completionto the projector.' Our canal might cost $1,003,000, but that is f small potatoes"' compared to the other work.

on another miserable bed: iu the apartmeut

When they entered, the poor mother wa

weeping, her infant was.ou her knee in the

last stage of a fatal disease, dying withou

any medical assistance. fSensation.l The

family were entirely destitute, no means o

subsistence, no weekly earnings, no parish

relief. Hear hear. 1 hat was one instance

We fear Leeds may stand for,a sample o

nearly every town in the manufacturing d

of Europe require. The wants of China are, L ; , . Winter is rapidly advancing

nowever, bucu as .win ausoiu uiurisi a limn-

ess quantity. Ihe cotton goods manufac

tured in the United States already supersede

on

population without employment, and withou

property, what they " bad having been

parted with in order to supply the

j

A Valcale Collection. The largest ...

collection of gigantic animal remains ever discovered in - the United States is. now In

the central glass cases at the Patent Office

n Washington. They are the property of

T. U. Bryan of Missouri, who in the summer of 1S13, at great expense, and . with incredi

ble perseverance and labor, had them sought for and disinterred from an alluvial deposits in Benton county in that State in consoquence of indications of their presence, accidentally observed by a farmer iii digging a well " "' ""' ' " The National Intelligencer suggests that they must have remained thus inhumed cea-. luries upon centuries,' if not thousands of years; for it is not a conjecture by anyineans loo extravagant to say that they are altogether ante-delus&n in their characteristics.

Ineqcalitv of the Postage System. A writer in the National Intelligencer states that hS observed, a short time since, in a book-store in Nev York, a "package of pamphlets,, weighing sixty-six pounds, addressed to a bookseller in Illinois, who being al50 a postmaster, his merchandize went postage free. " This addition to 'a mail in midwinter, to be sent a thousand miles, is a fair illustration of the present operation of the postage law. ; ' ' ; , ; - 7-Nq news from our Canal Bill since our laBt. Nothing from Hon. R. D. Owen, the last heard of bim, he had undertaken the job ol building a rail road from some where jn the United States to China, and was busy rem oddlmg his Oregon speech to suit that project. The mails will be full of them in a few days, so look out, ye faithful. - .

DISTRICT CONVENTION. We received the following communication

through the Post Ofiicc a few days since, and

lay it before our readers. The Democracy seem to be in earnest about this matter: -Evansville, Feb. 14,1845.

Sir: I have the infiuite pleasure to inform

you that the Democracy throughout Vanderburgh, so far sis I know, cordially and fully approve of the pu rposed Democratic Convention to be field at Boonvilie, Warrick Co., on Saturday he 19th of April next, for the purpose of nominating a suitable candidate, an honest individual who is a true' Democrat, and who would be acceptible to the majority of tht! Democratic party will' represent the best interest of the whole people, without making so many of them Texas and Oregon speeches, for CoDgress in this District and effect a more thorough and efficient organization in the Democratic Party. - . - -DEMOS. '

-ir.oii.iiuy udu TTOr insurance, ant

the Deutsche Schncllpost very little. Jan

sen &, Bell's loss is over $10,000. Greely & McEirath at least as much. The "origin

of the fire Is attributed to the ne"lifjence of

a boy who, in kindling a fire in one of the

rooms of the Tribune establishment, made

use of a newspaper to promote the draught

which not only took fire, but took wing to

some other apartment, and set fire to a mass of papers, and ai the partition walls in the in-.

terior were composed of wood, the progress

of the Games .waa rapid iu the extreme. Not

a brick remains upon another, at the moment

we write, so thoroughly did the work of destruction go on. We are happy fo state that no lives have been lost, although several persons slept in the building where the fire broke out. - it , There is an insurance of $2,000 on the Tribune Buildings, and $3,000 on the Tribune printing materials. - Ondit3 in Washington. That Chancellor Walworth of New York, and Judge King of Philadelphia, nominated to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court will not be confirmed

by the Senate. That Mr. King, our Minister to France, is about to return to take a scat in Mr. Polk's Cabinet. That Senator

Buchanan of Pennsylvania, will certainly be offered the Department ot State, aud Mr.

Calhoun a Foreign Mission, this Mr. C. will decline, but his friends will prevail upon him

to again lake a seat in the Senate, which, af

tcrsome demurs, like King Richard, he will mot graciously accept. A Flare Up. Tho Washington correspondent ot the Philadelphia Ledger says:

those of all other countries in those markets, mogt pressin2 wants It was . stated

and American lead has entirely supplanted , 00 by Dr. Smiles, that' 'the small Sro

ingiisn. ine jigiisu vjoveriimeiu nope, cers were faiir ng and becoming bankn ipts i

by commanuing me exclusive route to onina large nurBbers. Many, were not able to pay over Egypt, by the way of the Nile and the theiriebts. This,'a2ain. acted on middle

Isthmus ol buez, (to ehect which, a negotia- c!as3 men ;n a higher condition of life; and lion is now pending between .that power he coul(J s(ate what most of ,hem .perlapg and the Pacha,) to obtain news several weeks knew lhat a iarg0 nurnbcr of the firSt class earlier than it can be had in the U. Slates; lm(es:nen have recently become bankrupts.' au auvauLcige M(A-wmpT?eIier merchant's ' , it- i t -r

ykinnnci jj.ipui, uie ijivuipouj mercury 01 the SOth ult., says: ' ' . "The winter is riot yet commenced, yet the general distress throughout tne country has arrived at such a point, that nothing but a wholesale famine can carry it further. From Paisley .the accounts are frightful so

control of the markets. The diplomacy may

succeed temporarily iu this, but ths march of events will ultimately give the U. States the mastery. He population is pushing, with

a vigorous, rapid and unceasing march, along

a line, 1,00 m:les in exfent, westward, to

wards the snore of the Pacific.

The occupation of (lie vast territory known frightful lhat even Sir Robert Peel, .although

as the Oregon,' is already going forward, and he still adheres to liis non-intervention as a twenty years will not have elapsed, before a Minister, declares his readiness to forward a powerful State will have sprung up on the private subscription for its amelioration as an shores of the Pacific. The great tract of the individual. In the Potteries, famine stalks

4 Oregon is drained by the Columbia river and ""road; thousands are starving; and Those

the San Irancisco, which debouch upon wno -would cruelty attempt to delude ' Hie the ocean at a point six days, by steam, dis- sufferers into the belief lhat machinery is the

ant irom tne sanciwincii islands a group

A very unpleasant difficulty occurred al Mrs. Wilkins' closing party last night, to which I should make no allusion, were it

Canal Letting. The Tippecanoe Journal says: We understand that the. Jobs below us on the Canal, which were taken from the contractors and worked by the Stale last season, are to be re-let, at Tcrre-IIaulc, on the 17lh inst., (last Monday ) . -

not for the co'imon notoriety attached to the circumstances and the sort'of semi-public position occupied by the persons concerned. It appears that John Tyler, Jr., second son of the President, offered some indignity to Lieut. Avery, of the Navy, whereupon the latter, without regard to those present, or to the station which' he represented, knocked him down upon the spot. It is reported that a meeting is to be arranged .forthwithj unless some effectual interposition is made, U. S. Theaschy. The Secretary of the Treasury anuounces that the receipts of the Treasury in the quarter ending on Dec. 31 last, were ' ...

From customs, about From lands Miscellaneous

the independence of which is guaranteed; whose population is 100,000, mostly Ameri

can; the surface, 3,000 square miles; of a soil the most fruitful, and a climate unsur

passed in salubrity. 1 hese islands are situated in the middle of the Pacific, on the great highway from Oregon to China. ' The great whale fishery of these regions is concucted mostly by Americans, numbering 200 vessels, whose annual productious are about $5,000,000. The fleet, in the surpmer months, cruise between the islands and the coast of Japan for sperm whale and carry on a trade in futs, &.c. which are now sold in China and the proceeds in tea sent

home to the United States. Thenvhole of

this vast trade, aud that of China, via the Sandwich Islands, will be commanded by

the State of Oregon. Those persons are now living who will see a railroad connecting New York wi th Pacific and steam communication from Oregon to China. For the fast three centures, the civilized world has been rolling westward; and Americans of the present age will complete the circle, "and

open western steam route with the east. A Mormon Confession. Mr. Bringham Young one of the leading men at Nauvoo, published some time since an epistle to the elders abroad, of which the following is' ah extract: - 07" "Elders who go abroad and borrow horses or money and run away with it, will be Jcut off Irom the church without ceremony; and they need not look for that lenity which they have had heretofore . ' ;. ..

$1,100.3GO 600,000 45,000

, . . $1,745,300 The expenditures during the same period were $1,057,593- 31,

cause of their distress, may read in the gen

eral destitution there, the refutation of their foolish falsehood.: In the Totteries, tlierels no other machine worked but the potters wheel mentioned in Scripture. Iu the metropolis we have a Specimen of the general destitution in the fact that-even printers, usually the most prosperous of the classes who live by labor, are appealing to private benevole; ce, with the appalling fact that twelve hundred compositors and pressmen are .unemployed, and many of them with large families, are actually in a starving state." The following is aA extract from "a letter giving an account of the distress among the Working classes, prevailing at Stockport- " "All the other trades arc equally suffering. Such is the extreme staivniion point to which

they are reduced, that their wives are to be seen begging from door to door, or gathering the disgusting offils that are to be met with in the streets. Meat and water are a luxury which few pan boast of, and as for fire,'whole houses are without a spirk. Last week upwards of two hundred fresh men tinned out for wages; and there is every -reason to fear that, ere long, that number will be frightfully increased. The constant cry of . men is, 'Are we to die of starvation, or see our children fall before our faces from hunger, while plenty abounds in the land?1 , Thesiiuafioy of the female beggars all description naked, shivering with cold, and faint from hunger, they are parading the streets, and im ploring with tears and supplications, assist ance for themselves and their famishing children."

(7- A letter from Red river to the editor of the Washington (Texas) National Register, says that not less than 1,000 wagons have crossed Red River into Texas within six weeks.

QZT An enumeration of the white male inhabitants over 21 years of age, in Indiana, is to be taken by the several county Assessors by the 1st of June. -. -, ; -

OCT Alexander Dumas, one of the most celebrated literary characters of France, is a full mulatto, bis father being a complete negro, from one of the West India Islands.

He was nevertheless a General of the Artil

lery, and his son is deemed second only, in literature, to Victor Hugo. - : - .

EDUCATION: Every body should have his head, his heart and his hand educated: let this truth never be forgotlenv ... - 2 -v By the proper education of his head, he will be taught what is good and what is evil what is wise and what is foolish what 13 right and what is wrong; and by the proper education of the hand, to add to the comforts, and to assit those who are around him. " ' -

" The highest objects of a good education

are to reverence and obey God, and to love and serve mankind. Everything that helps in attaining these objects, is of a great value and every thing that hinders us is comparatively worthless.. When wisdom reigns in the bead, and love in the heart, the hand is ever ready to do good; peace smiles around, and sin and sorrow are almost unknown. " '. " - -

MEXICO. ; Confirmation of the capture of Santa Anna. The schr. Water Witch, which sailed from Tampico on the 2Gth olt.-, arrived fist evening with papers up to the 22d tilt, from Vera v Cruz. .The Minister of Exterior Relations announced to Congress on tiie I7ih January," the capture of Santa Anna. ' ' (Official Note.) - ' Head Qnartcrs oi Constiictioiial Militia at Ji - ? Half past 9 o'clock. $ Ilis Excellency f Don. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna has just been brought in by" lour ofour men, ami is now in our power. I am in too much haste (6 write the pariiculam before to-morrow. . ' . JALAPA, lGih'jan.lS45. ' t 5 o'clock; A. AI. rF-DIJO LeiU, - V . . ' To his Excellency the Minister of Exterior , Relations: ' '"' ' "' " ' The Minister further -informs ihe-Govern

ment that Santa Anna would be conducied to the fortress of Perote to wait the decision of Government. , ' It appears that Santa Anna committed the most outrageous .-barbarities on the inhabitants of Puebla, killing, pillaging and burning ' until he was met by the Constitutional army, which detested him. IPs army, before lie committed depredations amounting to 12,000 men, being disgusted of his conduct, abandoned their ranks and joined the Constitutional troops. ' ' - , ". ' " The conflict, however, was not without bloodshed and several hundreds were reported as killed on both sides. ; - , . - When Santa Anna was taken he had scarcely a friend to accompany him. Gen; Ampudia, governor .of Tobasco, waa superseded by Martiuez and ordered to Vera Cruz. ' lie - exhonorates himself of having done any thing illegal or resisting the popular will, aud throws all the blame on Santa Anna's ordeiss ' " - Government had ordered all the properties of Simla" Anna to be seized aud confiscated. v - '" : - -- - ''. " The general belief was that Santa Anna would be condemned by the government and ' executed. ' " " - V - Public tranquility was re-established in Mexico and public festivals had been ordered throughout the Republic to celebrate the glorious event of the dowufall of the ivrant Santa Anna.. '. - v , : " Government has Issued orders for the disbandonment of the army, and invited the absent to return and resume !ihcir occupations. 1" .C-I'Y-; The papers were filled with eulogiumson the bravery and patriotism of the militia, and recommended government " to erect moun-ments-and distribute rewards to those who distinguished themselves in the field and grant pensions to the bereaved. " . :

Sensible .Repboof, A certain minirter not long since paid a visit to a female of his acquaintance, who was newjy married, and who waa at the time attired a la F.lssler. After. the usual compliments he familiarly aaid "1 hope you have a good husband, madam." r ? -. .--. "Yea, air," she reptied"and a good man, too I think." : .; - v ,. . . , ."I don't know what to say about his goodneae," added the minister, "for my Bible leaches me that a good man should clothe hit wife, but ha lets yoj go half naked!" -

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