Evansville Journal, Volume 11, Number 37, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 4 September 1845 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

If otOmat'i weal, but that of Rome. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1845. (Kj-The public will find in to-days paper a Circular from the "Protection Insurance Company of JIartford, Conn., addressed to the Agent in this place, John Mitchel, Esq. We believe this is a very safe institution, so arranging its risks as not to expose heavy amounts to the possibility of destruction by a single fire; and the promptness wilh which all claims are met will be an inducement to Western merchants and traders to give this office a preference. See the advertisement of W. & C. Fel' lows in to-day's paper. Also, the advertisement of T. &E.Slevin of Louisville. There is very little of interest floating through the newspapers," in fact we never knew them so bare as at present. This fact, together with the heat of the weather and r,np nr f woollier reasons we could sive, will account for the barrenness of our columns this week. Flocb in New York. The New York Ex I press says that the s?Jes of flour in the city last week, for the English market, were full 20,000 barrels, establishing an advance of from IS to 25 cents per barrel. The sales of provisions were also large, and at an ira provement. Odd Fellows' Celebration The members of Si rangers Rest Lodge of Hen derson, Ky., turned out in full strength on Friday last for the purpose of consecrating their new Hall. They were assisted by - number of the order from this and o.her places. After the usual ceremouies on such vwwuiwut w w WK IT l o IUIIU iir ;i if ii w wprp rrpr n rirnpuCQinn n?ae fj-irm-cd and the order proceeded to the Court House, to hear an address from the Rev. Mr. Allen. We were not present Juring the entire delivery of the address, but we heard it highly spoken of by those who were mure lonunate man ourseir. j ue dinner, to ' which the citizens of other places were invited, was an elegant affar, and did grea t credit bersof the-order in Henderson. Ahoaether the meeting was a pleasant one, and will not be forgotten soon by those who were present - - : Odd Fellowship in ENGLAxn.-The weekly contributions of the Odd Fellows are two or three pence from each member. Some idea of the magnitude of the association in that country may be formed from the fact that the amount of money in the treasury of the order does not fall short of seventeen millions dollars, and the annual distribution in relief to the members and other charities in $!,- 500,000. The number of members is about 200,000. The sums expended for charita ble purposes, may be estimated as arTordintr means of subsistence for fifteen thousand fam ines wbose maintenance lias been cut off by sickness or other afflictions. 0ZT Ihe inducements held out by the advocates for war to the young and patriotic bloods of the United States Jo enlist in crusade against Mexico, are very flatterinHy and enticingly set forth, and cannot fail to have the desired effect upon those, who paving nothing under heaven to lose, either in character or purse, are ever ready join any expedition that promises theleast change , from their present mode of life. For the especial benefit of the class above spoken of we mention the fact that, according to the report of an expert geologist, Von Gerold, diamonds have been discovered in the Mexican ' mountain range of Sierra Madre, in - the direction of Acapuleo, to the south west of the city of Mexico. These mountains are principally in possession of wild tribes, a circumstance, says an contemporary, which accelerates the intrusion of North Ameri cans, and hastens the taking possession of them by strangers. Such are the arguments used to arouse the passions of the people of this country agaiDst a neighboring republic. Those who doubt their success know nothin" o at all of the unprincipled character of the ignorant and unlettered portion, which is, at the same time a large portion, of the people of the south and south wesL The majority of Robert Dale Owen is lr 030, So much for the theological works of our neighbor of the Journal. Louistille Democrat. So the election of Mr. Owen is to be regarded as a triumph of his anf i-christiaa prinr.ioles. Well, people know best whatthev mean themselves when they vote for a man. U. S. Gazette. Read the above, ye who failed in your duty. Your opponents may well call it a triumph of anti-christian principles, when we remember we were told previous to the election that uatil christians practiced what they preached, infidelity would reign iu tb; district.

KrWe learn from the New Orleans Pic

ayune, that Uenerat uaines, commauumg the Southern military division of the U. b., has made a demand on the Governor of Louisiana for one thousand men or more for the national service, and that the Governor promptly made a requisition on Gen. Lewis, commanding the first division of Louisiana militia, for the required force, viz: two regiments of volunteers, of ten companies each, one of them to consist of musketeers, and one ot riflemen, and two companies of ar tillery with eight field pieces. The requi sition was immediately responded to and the whole of the artillery force pf New Orleans volunteered their services and have been ac cepted. We "notice in the New Orleans pa pers calls for meetings of the officers of tne Washington Regiment and Louisiana Volunteers, two well drilled and finely uniformed regimen's; in a word, says the Picayune, the question is not who will be suffered to re main at home, but who will be permitted to eo. This aemana oi uen. uaiues is saiu mi. , i r. - ; j 9 to be consequent upon authentic informa lion which has reached him of' the advance of 10,000 Mexican troops to a poiut within eight days' march of Gen. Taylor's quarters, The Picayune intimates that 10,000 troops could be raised in Louisiana at a moments notice. In fact we know Louisiana, Missis sippi, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Ar kansas, are' ripe for a fight of the kind, aurl will press their troops upon the Government so strongly as to leave the more northern States but slight opportunity for display. Being nerest the scene of action the preference will of course be given the southern volun teers. FROM YUCATAN. The schr. Argus, Capt. Suares, arrived at New Orleans on the 8th inst., 10 days from Liguna. She ,re ports that on the 5th inst. a Mexiian brig of war two days from Vera Cruz, arrived at Campeachy with the proclamation of Garcia Condo,the Mexican Secretary of War, setting forth the intention of the Mexican gov ernment to declare war against the United States, and calling npo'i the government of Yucatan to furnish their quota of troops t o j---sistthe GeneralGovernraent. The authorities after deliberating for four hours upon the demand of theSecretary,relurned an answer'thal in case of an invasion of their own territory by the United States, that they would raise a sufficient force to repel the invaders, but that they could not assist in furnishing troops to Mexico, in a war against the United States." . ; LATER FROM MEXICO. Letters received at New Orleans from Malamor3s under date of the 10th inst. says Oa the 23 of July, the Government sub mitted to Congress a declaration of war against the United States the said declaration to be made when there is news of the arrival of American troops in Texas. But the Covernment recommends to Congress to act on a bill authorizing a loan of fifteen millions of dolars previous to acting on the war bill. It appears that the loan is completely negotiated at least so the official paper gives us to understand. By a despatch from the Mexican Consul at N. Orleans, the general commanding this poiut has been informed of the shipment of troops and artillery at N. Orleans, destined for Corpus Christi and Bexar. These troops amount to 2000 men. With regard to the movements of the troops here, we know positively that all the points along the line of the river will soon be covered Arista h is about 3000 menjGen. Taredes is coming to Montevey with about four or five thousand Geu. Gaona is coming also with 3000 and Gen B jstamente goes to New Mexico. Thus far, however, notwithstand ing'.these preparations, I believe that hostili ties are not so imminent as might at first be -I i. rni . . uiougm. i nere is no uenerai-m-chiel ap pointed yet -no contracts for the necessary suplies of a campaign, or a serious incursion into 1 exas. Some persons generally well informed, think that the Govrument needs money greatly and is disposed to hold up the prospect of a war, to get the loan approved. The hope that foreign intervention will soon put an end to the difficulties between the two countries seems to be a the bottom of the ideas of litis government, which on the other hand if we may credit letters recently received the capital, appears to be threatened with a new revolution. By the next mail we shall probably have the debates of Congress on the loan bill and 'the war, and will then be better able to sec into the future. Yours respectfully, JUST SENTIMENTS WELL EX PRESSED. A little more than a year ago, the Albany Argus, an Administration paper, in some remarks upon toe subject ' of a war wilh Mexico, and the belligerent tone of a portion of the political press and certain demagogues of the day, said : "It would be well for such politicians to re member that war is not, as popul ar as in form er times. People begin to reflect and com pare its results before they plunge into its miseries. It is perceived that ware under taken for the extension of dominion exah the leaders and managers, while they crush and impoverish the masses. "Trappings of the war-horse and the glit ter of armed legions tickle the fancy and please the eye, but the people see that they place a Jacjen weight upon the hand ol honest labor. It is for this reason, that true statesmen regard war undertaken for such selfish purposes as one of the greatest kvili that CAN AFFLICT a coustbv."

Q-The New York Courier states, on what i it deems to be reliable authority, that the, steamer Acadia, which left Boston on the 10th July, took out extensive orders, (and other conveyances will no doubt take out similar orders,) to England to purchase and ship to Texas foreign merchandize, to arrive and enter there at the existing rate of duties

and there awaft the action of Congress on annexation; when that act is thus completed all these goods being ipso facto, entered merchandize as much so as if in New York, Charleston, New Oileans, or any other Amer ican port, and can be transported coastwise or interior to any of our other States. We simply state the fact--leaving the remedy to those whose duty it 13 to see that existing laws are faithfully executed. If no preven tive be adopted, then the fair dealer is injur ed and the revenue is defraudedthe whole nation in fiict is made to suffer for the bene fit of a few, who are more shrewd than hon est. The following paragraph respecting Amer ican Ministers at the Court of St. James, is fiom the last of N. P. Willis's letters from London, now in the course of publication in the New York Mirror: "It is more a matter of rejoicing to Amer icans abroad, than Congress supposes, when Foreign Ministers are the kind ot men, in manners and mental culture, to do credit to the country. Mr. McLean's appointment as minister to England is a worthy succession to that of Mr. Everett two more admirable rep resentatives are little likely to appear a. the English court for auy nation. . 1 was dining a day or two since with a former member ot the Queen's Cabinet, and in ihe London pa pers of that mornuigMr. Mc. Lean's appinut rnent had been announced. . Our host spoke of Mr. McLean and afterwards of Mr. Ev erett, with a whole hearted tribute to theii qualities as men and d'p'omatists, that would have gratified the friends of these gentlemen not a little; and, indeed, wherever I go, Mr. Everett is lauded without measure. lie has been in London in a trying time for a representative. Our national credit- lumped without distinction of Stales in one sweeoing dishonor has been like a visible cloud about him wherever he has appealed, and he has been waited on, of course, by commiKees on questions he could not answer wi.hout pain and mortification; fw 1, U.ro.ig'i nil this, he iTssiert'lIly r set. :;i the ' respoct of those round him, and now stands personally higher (so 1 was assured by one who spoke with authority) than nny diplomatic representative : now at the English court. At another pTty ( heard a very tine description given of the ei" , feet of his sigular eloquence upon one of these committees. They had felt, in delivering what they had to say, that they had placed him, as the respondent in position of overwhelming embarrassment. His reply was waited tor wilh a sympathy for him as a raan. - From every one of these gentlemen however, he "drew tears," (so the descr'ber states) and they left h's house enchanted with ihe man, if not more content with what he had to offer on the part of his country. Sure ly the difference between such a representative and others who are capable of being sent .-thread, is worth the country's looking at and influencing." Collection of Debts in Texas. The Texians have no notion of being caught nap ping. Acorrerpondcnt of the Cincinnati Her ald gives an amusing account of these debt payers: We compile the following from the Texas National Register of the 10th mlt: Mr. Armstrong, on the 2Gtli June, asked leave to introduce a bill barring certain chums, debts, judgements, &c, which he said, he would read and explain how it was connected with the subject of annexation. The object of the bill was to prevent the collection of claims against the inhabitants of Texas ly citizens of the United States. Air. Armstrong said there were many worthy citizens in many of the counties who would be relieved by a bill of this nature." "Worthy?" "Relieved!" no doubt. "There were a great number of persons in this republic, he had no doubt in the world, who wouM oppose the measure of annexation, unless they thought their rights and interests would be garded and protected by the action of Congress Mr. Smith, of Fannin, was opposed to ihe Dili, lie said lt .n, . ,i , ...:.u Iii ... mands against those who have emigrated to this ro.mirv from nw nfiho s,.,,ov, vu measure of annexion. h miA ua i carried bv a narcel of r,P.,,nlA h,Q into the country very lately; and now they wanted to get rid of paying their hones: debts r ' "Why, sir," continued Mr. Smith, '.'as 1 came from home on my way here, I passed through a people who were about to hang me; not three out of five of whom had been in the countiy long enough to take the oath of allegiance ; and these , people wanted to control my vote!" This is Texas moral suasion, we suppose. Vote to exonorate us from our just, debts or we'll hang you! Mr. Smith is a credit to the family. He talks like an honest man and a man of sense. Mr. A. replied: "Many have came to this country under adverse and very embarrassing circumstances." .True as the book. You one of the "many?" Eh, Mr. Armstrong, "The very idea of being again harras3ed is enough to tebkifv them, and drive them into opposition to the great measure of annexation." There was a good deal further debate on the bill, and it wag somewhat amended, but finally carried by a vote of 22 to 17. So the honest Texians are pretty effectually protected against their creditors in the Stales. The River, has been slowly rising for a few days past and is in a condition for boats of iiirdiumsize to ru i.

Notice to Would-be Heroes. We sup

pose that the following notice from the Wash ington Union willl be a sore disappointment to tens of, thousands aspirants for' military glory: For the information of numerous gallant citizens who will wish to avail themselves of a rupture with Mexico, we deem it proper to state, that we have learned trom the waroepartment, that the preseul military establish ment can in no event be increased without TnE previous legislation of Congress ;md ot course, there will be no such appointments to be made until first authotized by law. The militia only can be called out in aid of the regular army, as now by riw established There are now attached to the army super numerary graduates ot the military academy hi tor the most active and important ser vice. We are happy to notice the siinis of patriotism and chivalry which have been ex cited throughout the Republic by the first whisper of impending war. Ihe gallant officers of our army and navy, eager for disinciiou in an honest cause, are literally innndjiing the departments with their praise worthy applicaoons for active service; w'hile the people present an almost undivided front Against the mctvacing attitude assumed by Mexico. . Whole companies of cizens, we understand, have volunteered their aid in any efforts which the Government may as sic;'.! tiiem iu the event of hostilities; and, should a general call be made by the na;on for volunteers, who can doubt the alacrity with which it would be answered by mult tudes of fearless spiiiis from" every section of ihe country and especially lrom the great valley of the West? BigamV. The New York True Sun says A female, named Jane Ann Hamer, alias Cornelius, alias Watts has been arretted and fully committed on the charge of bigamy, she having peen married on the 24 of December, 1842, by T. J. Wright, a Presbyterian cler gyman of color, to a colored man named Henry Cornelius, and on the 18th December, 1S13, agi-in being married, by the Rev. Mr. Chase, to George Watts a white man; and, to mend the matter, the first husband acknowedged that he was aware of his wife's second marriage, and that he lived in the family as waiter, &c, without saying a word respecting it. Mammoth Remains. A letter dated at N-wbuigo, in Oiange county, New York, states that the remains ofan immense masto don have recently deen discovered and ex humed about six milus west of that place. "This (says the lettei) is the fourth skele ton ol the mammoth that has been discover ed in ?ki3 county; but while all the, others have heed imperfect, many of the bones never havin" been discovered, this one is entire. every bone having Jeen found, even to the small bones of the feet and tail, and in a com plete state ol preservation -the enamel on the teeth being as perfect as if lrjthc mouth of a living animal. An idea of the size of the monster may be formed when I state the skull alone weighs seven hundred pounds.The tusks are over niae feet long. Across the hip bones he measures about seven feet. The posit inn'of the animal at death was clearly discernible. lie had evidently became mired, and had settled down on his haunches with his forelegs spread out, and in this posture he was found." The. next Congress. We copy the. following from National Intelligencer of Saturday the 23d. . - - i The House of Representatives has all been elected with the exception of six members from Maryland and four from Mississippiand four vacancies,one each from Florij da, Massachusetts, Maine and New llamp- ' shire. There are also two vacancies from death one in New Jersey and one Louisiana. we give a statement oi me pontic ai character ot the House so far as elected, and a comparison in thejsarne point of view with" the former Congress Wuigs seventy-hve Democrats one hundred and twenty-seven Natives six: showing a Whig gain of 5, and a Democratic loss of 12. Of the members who voted for Mr. McKay's bill for the alteration of the Tariff at the last session of Congress, and were candidates for "reelection, ! 13 have been superseded, of whom 12 have ; leen succeeded by Wh,gs& Natives. Of those "ho voted aga.nst it, and were candidates i re-election, 10 are superseded, of whom 1 nne have been succeeded by Whigs and ,i Natives. It now appears that two birds have been killed by the same stone, as we learn by the following paragraph in the Maysville Eagle, of the 20th ull. "Axotiier Effect. We learned verbally, on yesterday morning, tiiat lire excitement manifested in Lexing.on, and throughout Fajette and the adjoining counties, had also similarly compelled the suspension ol the 'Christian lutelligencer,' a methodist paper published in Georgetown, Scott county. The editor of the Intelligencer, though Accused of abolitionism, pertinaciously disavowed such sentiments. . He was, however, strong in his condemnation of the men and the measures, the purposes and action of the late Louisville convention. His paper has thus been involved in a common fate with its avowed anti-siavery cotemporary at Lexington. The total unmberof letters delivered in the United Kingdom in the year 1844, was two hundred and forty-two millions, which is an increase of nearly twenty-two millions on the previous year. The number before the reduction of the rale was seventy-five million"?.

More Troops. The 'steamers Domain

and Plymouth passed this place on Sunday ast having "on board four companies of the 5th regiment of infantry, Col. Brooks com manding, destined for Texas. Canal Letting. We clip the following from the Covington "People's Friend:" The Letting of division No. 5 of the Wa bash and Eiie Canal, in this place on last Monday, resulted in the contract from Covnglon to rerrysville being taken by M. uookins and II. Barnes of the latter place and from Perrysville to Coal Creek by II. Ilerineling. . 1 - Shocking Fate. The following is an extract of a letter from an officer of the U. Stales sloop of war Falmouth, at Pensacola "About two weeks since, one of our crew, an old man, who was at the time.unwell.fell overboard during the night tune unobserved by any one he was not missed until the morning. About a week afterwards a shark was caught on board the Saratoga, and on opening (horrible to relate) the head of the old man was found it was sent on board of our ship and recognised. His name was James Griffin, quarter master, and he had a family somewere in the United Stales, 1 ihink it would be well to publish it foi their information. QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE. We find in the New Hampshire Patriot, the following paragraph: "We have in a former number alluded to the fact, that a majority of llie clerkships at Wasliingion are iu the possession of bitter Federalists and foes to ihe administration. We hope to see this mailer set right. We shuuld be glad to know what claims any Fe deraiist hns to an office under tiiis adminis tration." Here is one of those sudden and naadvis ed outbreaks, whicli sometimes disclose the state of feelings, and the i.hiiiute deieimi ;Mion ot a party. "VYuat claims lias any iederolist to au .office undei this admmis tration?" Now th's is the very spirit of Ja cobiui?m the ultraism of that impudence whic'i has always a wender at the existence of vivi ue, where vice has worked itself into a maioii.v. What right has a Federalist to an office under this admiii'siuuion? The right of having well and faithfully discharged the du Pe3 ot tiiatoiiice; liie iignl ol being of the countiy for whicn that office was instituted fs it pirty Jtloae that gives rlht to office? Then the Federalist has a rigoltoit by biog of the party of Washington, the fatherof the nation. Perhaps it is the irefsury Depart meot! luen he has a party light, as hem of the party of Hamilton, the founder and or derer of that department; the mmi who, wit ;i ui'iid that has never since been equalled so arranged that department, that in all th mutations of pjily, no Secieia'y has ever been able to Ciiange its p'aos for the better BnV perhaps, the rutnot menns--what right bus a Federalist lo ofiice uderan anti mleral antipnisiiatioiif II so, 'uen tne worst form of Jacoi''iTca! ' piracy is avowed Office, without regnid io qual;fliv"ion, is the rewiMil of scoundrelism of auv kind, that w!ll insure the dec. ion of a man who has it thus at h's bestowal. Public good, nationn convenience, common hone?iy, have noihin to do with qnaiincaiMwi. uut won lue man who has" fh"v 'id fiiihfnllv discharged its. du ei: ou! wi h Ii'tii, i( he is a Federali and thrust info his plr.ee a Jacobin, as a reward for the fraud of Plaquemines, or the violence of the- Empire Ciub. Never ask for character, bubi;s,or pursuits it isenoug'i that the possessor of the nUke is a Federalist. We do not know that we have ever before heard Jacobism so openly avowed. It has been a custom to ease off the outrage, by talking ol routine iiioffice, of refcninglo some special cppabilities in tne newly sppo'nted; but success in various quarters beifets bolcloes?, and preven's can ion, and the New Hampshire Patriot comes out with the di?"raceful doctrines that no imn should hold a clerkship who is a Federalist. It is not difficult to see that nothing more is wanted, than the general prevalence of this senti ment, to produce entire anarchy, or to establish a fixed cliiss of ptnple who are to live on the public crib, in virtue ol their political principles, the only viilue that can be imputed to these principles. JJ. S. Gazette. ' REMORSELESS PROSCRIPTION. If the moral sense of the people were not blunted by habit and party zeal, it seems to us that there would be a general burst of in dignation againsllhe heartlessness wilh which mutations in office are decreed ai.d carried into effect as the result of every election in "which power changes hands. The rights and even duty of an admistration to place important offices in the charge of those who will co-oporafe in its policy and measures, with the zeal of parlizans as well as the faithfulness ofduty, we have never denied; but this cannot justify the sweeping destitution of all office holders, no matter how unimportant, and that with the most reckless disregard of the personal distress that-may be caused. There are numberless instances where men have grown old in the enjoyment of petty offices, or have been appointed to them at advanced period of life; where the emoluments have supplied a modest yet sufficient resource agiinst actual want, ami the cessation ot those emoluments must be followed by great anxiety and difficulty too probably by actual suffering. Snrely thre could be no danger to an arb ministration dealing tenderly with cases like these; the safety of Democratic institutions and the Democracy itself cannot be so endangered by allowing here and the an aged man, perhaps with an aged wife dependant on him, to remain for the little space he has to live in the occupancy of some village post office, for the duties of which Le is capable and the slender income of which gives him bread for his hunger and fuel to comfort his enfeeb'ed limbs in winter. We cannot believe that there is any valid excuse, not to say any overbearing necessity, for turning these time-worn citizens out of the humble yet sufficient harbor of refuge which has been pro-

ided for . the evening of their days by tha

considerate benificence of a proceeding ad- , ministration, though the men of that administration, had been placed in office by the votes of citizens who do not call themselves the Democracy." A case has came to our knowledge, com munication of which to the public ought, we nnk, to raise a blush on the cheeks of the men -by whose action it was caused. A ven erable gentlemen who, who m his better days of strength and capacity to serve his count ry, has done good service in many posts of egislative duty who has been a member or Congress Senator in the legislature ot this state, a trustee of Union College, a Regent of the University and whose father and fa ther-in-law were active and prominent men in the war of the Revolution this gentleman was appointed in 1811 to a minor post office - in this State, the income of which just ena bled him to live in moderate comfort, and to the duties of which he has given all his time and attention. He has -been all his life . a Whig and he is a Whig still but since his appointment he has conformed punctiliously to the spirit of President Tyler's famous cit-k cular, and ceased taking any active pari in eections, although he , has always voted as a Whig. . ' . ' We would be glad notlo believe ; that for this he bad been ejected from the office ;but ejected he has been, and there . is no other assigned or imaginable cause. " There is no whisper even so far as we learn, of incom petency, or neglect, or of undue zeal and ac tivity as a politician; simply for not voting with the democratic party be is displaced and reducedjjn the evening life, with failing energies, and a spirit on which the chills of bge have cast their deadening shadow, to look about for the means of gaining bread wherewith to supply the wants of himself &. his time-wota partner, who in maidenhood bore a name at the sound of which every American heart should swell with patriotic gratiude. The daughter of a man who held back neither his wealth nor his toil nor his blood in the cause of the struggling colonics may not close the evening of life in the en joyment of a trifling income supplied by a pretty office under the Government of the great republic, because her husband has voted a Whig ticket, and because the Presideut f that republic thinks his interests may be promoted by transferring the few hundred per annum to a politician of another creed! It is mournful pitiable but it is so. N. 1. Com. Advertiser. A MELANCHOLY SHOW OF IGNO- " RANCE.'V;tv '..;'.". It is not less melancholy to our readers than to ourselves, says - the Richmond Whig that vie should so frequently dwell upon the lamentable fact of the great ignorance in order the people, not only of Virginia but ol the whole'couniry may become more enlightened. We mean the masses. " ' .' ' We have always heard that Virginia has within her bounds a large number of ; white citizens, over the age of twenty years, who know not what it is to enjoy the blessings of an enlightened mind, or the effects of education. But we have never the remotest idea that the mother of States possessed so much more ignorance than others, when the number of inhabitants were taken into consideration. It seems, however, by a table published, which was taken from the late census, that a picture of Virginia's ignorance is there drawn, calculated at . once to crimson, th cheek of every intelligent reader. , - Our State is here held in contrast with all the other States, and then is proved to behind not one ot them in ignorance! But there isa brighter era drawing and we must hope on. hope ever.' The following table, showing the averagenumber of white persons, over twenty years of age, who cannot read or write, possesses interest for the friends of education Massachusetts, 4,418 S. Carolina, 20.615 Maine, 3,241 742 1,014 Georgia, 30,717 22,502 N. Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Alabama, -Mississippi, Louisiana, 52r 2,27S 44,452 6,350 33,740 4S3 11,817 5S.788 ' 50,002 VermoDt, ' New York, N. Jersey, Pennsylvania Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N. Carolina, Tennessee, 55,631 Kentucky, ' 40,0 IS 35,394 Indiana," Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Micbigan 38,100 27,502 10,457 G,5G7 The Russians .again wuifted by thet Circassians. Accounts from the Caucasus, by the steamer Cambria, bring the important intelligence, that the Circassians'- hjve taken from the Russians, after some' hard fighting and great bloodshed, the , Castle of Scotcba, on the coast of Abascia. Sherkh Sbamil had arrived at the head of the River Kouban with 30,000 men, and had called upon the inhabitants to furnish one man per house, which would make a very large force. WoronzotFs troops have been beaten by the

Daghistaulees, and three or tour ships loads of wounded have been sent to Crimea. t? Many of the Poles in the Russian army had deserted to Shamil; so that Woronzoff beings t in want of men, ordered a carbovanz- each . j? (worth 3s. 6d. sterling) to raise reinforcements at Akheska, without being able to get ff many. " He further sent a number of -Mussulman ; nlemas (doctors of law) from Crimsea, with . their mufti, to Shamil, to try If they could ; l open negotiations to treat for terms of peace, i of course merely to set the Circassians to P sleep. Shamil, aware of the treachery, Lad I. three of them put to death. The Russian 3

army was suttering dreadfully from a scarcity of provisions, and the soldiers will have lo wail for the new crop, before they will have a sufficiency of food. The crops in Circassia, though very scanty last year, are good this season. Iu consequence of a long succession of re verses experienced by the Russians,t he Emperor is said to have "adjourned definitive pacification of the Caucases.'' .We trust such will prove .to be the fact. Already,J.he war has continued several years, and hosts of brave Russians have perished, without being able to make any permanent impression upon the still braver mountaineers, who are fighting for their altars and their hearths, under the almost ideutical Declaration of Rights which formed thebasisof the "American Revolution. '

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