Evansville Weekly Journal, Volume 14, Number 11, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 4 May 1848 — Page 2

r r E JOi'K.NAL'. -.1 1 1 ij PiMXTEC AND prFLIPHF.D V V.:M. II. CHANDLER & CO. AT PRESIDED WHXt-; ORAL TICKET. SENATORIAL ELF.CT0I5S. JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jefferson. fiODLOVS S. ORTH, of Tippecanoe. DICTEICT ELECTORS. 1st Dist.-Junx Pitch ek, of Posev. 2,1 " John S. Davis, of Floyd. - 3,1 " " Milton Gregg, of Dearborn.4th " David P. Hollow ay, of Wayne. 5th " Thomas D. Walpole, of Hancock. 6th " Lovell II. Rotjseau, of Greene. 7th " Edward V. McGcaghev, of Park. Slh " James F. Suit, of Clinton. 9th ' Daniel D. Pratt, of Cas. 10th David Kilgoue, ofDelawaTe,CITY OF EVASSV1LLE! MOXDA Y . MOEXIXG, MA Y 1 . Gen. Taylor and the Locofocos. Thelofoco party are in great tribulation and distress for the want of an available candidate for the Presidency. Aspirants there are, and enough of them, who would sacrifice their ease and comfort by taking upon themselves the arduous duties of dispensing to the faithful the thou sands of easy seats and fat salaries in the gift of the Chief -Magistrate; but then availability stands in the ay of all of them. Neither Cass, nor Buchanan, nor Woodbury, nor Polk, nor any that have up to this time been spoken of in connection with that station, can unite the party and present a solid front to the country; and as the time draws near for the nomination of candidates, the anxiety of our oppo nents increases. That the persons named above, will all be dropped and a new man put foiward every one who has watched the political chessboard must be satisfied. Cut we were hot exactly prepared to have our opponents steal our thunder to run into the ring and seize the cudgels we had prapared todemoli-h them with and turn them against us: Yet, if we may be lieve our contemporary of the Pittsburgh Iron City, such is to be the game that is to be played. We learn from that paper that a letter has been received by a responsible and staunch democrat of that county from a distinguished democratic leader in Washington City, v.ho writes that there is a movement on - foot to make Gen. Taylor the democratic candidate for th Presidency, provided Mr. Clay is taken un bv the Whin National Convention. The writersays that they have sufficient testimony to prove to the democrats that he, Gen. Taylor, is identified with thern, and that if he were elected to-morrow, his administration would be-conducted on real Democratic principles. In proof of this fact, the letter says that Gen. Taylor has in reply to some questions asked him by Democrats, said that "he would accept the nomination if they offer it to him. and that iie is in favor of the present tariff; in favor of the war, in favor of prosecuting it until it is Lyuurably closed, in favor of acquiring all the Territory that cau be obtained that he, and not the President is responsible for the march of the troops to the Rio Grande that the war is just and honorable, and that he is opposed to the Wilmot Proviso, and a National Bank." All this sounds funny enough after reading the letter of Gen. Taylor to his relation, in another column, in which he announces himself a true Whig, and in favor of whig principles and whig measure going asor as any whig in the country desires him to go. and satisfying evry whig in the Union when they shall read it, that he will carry out the measures of the party for the good of the country, and closing his httei by declaring ihat'uny reports or jr.tblica-l tio?is, -written or verbal, from, any source, differing in any essential particular from what is there wri'len, are unauthorized and untrue." We are almost sorry to be under the neces. sity of knocking this last pin from under the locofoco party and letting thenulown to squabble among themselves cs to availability, and all that. But it must be clone. Old Rough and Ready can no more fraternize with the locofoco party than he could surrender to Santa Anna, and it would be cruel to let the poor fellows de- . ceive themselves for a moment. 'But if it will in the least assuage the grief of our. opponents, at the loss of a candidate so certain to succeed, .we can assure them upon the word of Old Zack himself, that the government will be adminis- . tered by him upon purely democratic principles pure democratic tvhig principles. Xn We neglected to notice on yesterday, that Brig. Gen. Lase left this place on Saturday on the steamer Andrew Jackson, to resume the command of bis brigade in Mexico. There will be scampering among the guerilleris when hey learn that "Marion" is in the saddle again. Military. Capt. Hardee, of the U. S. Dragoons, left Savanah on the ISih, for Baltimore; where he is ordered on the recruiting service. The health of the gallant Captain is said to be. somewha t impaired by his long exposure. Gen. Twiggs passed through Charleston on the ISth on-his way to Washington. Col. Garland has arrived in St. Louis to take command of that military diatrict, to which he was lately assigned. It instated by the Washington correspondent cf thi Charleston Courier, that two hundred .' officers who have served with distinction in the Mexican war, have been noumuted to the -Senate for f revet appointment. Among them ere Gen. Shields, who is nominated as brevet iilajor.gen&rtil and Cols. Harney and Riley, as brevet Brigadier Generals. . CCsHYe are indebted to Messrs. Taylor & Harvey an J other frien Is for late Louisville, Cincinnati and New Orleans papers. -: f '3-""The Clerk of th-? Atlantis will please accept our thanks for late papers left for this ofThe Duke of Wellington is said to nave receivei.in salaries upwards of nine millions of Julian, and- now receives about $',009 yearly.

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Highly import-' letter from G,.rrfJAL TAYLOR. vo-riM the New Orleans Picayune of the pjT-rr'uIt., the following highly interesting and important letter from General Taylos, in ivhich he frankly avows his opinions in relation to the several great matters connected win th--Presidency, and th- course he will pursue i! elected to that station. "We do not know whert we have enjoyed more pleasure than we have in laying this letter before our readers this morning. The Picayune in introducing it to

the public says: '-The numerous misrepresen-J tations of Gen. Taylor's opinions upon questions.of public policy, which have been put in circulation by persons who assumed to speak from authority, have induced him to address a letter to Capt. Allison, his brother-in-law, in which he takes occasion to speak more atlargf of political topics than he has hitherto done.' This letter has been handed us for publication, and it defines, dnce for all, the General's position in regard to the Presidency, and the issues which lie at the base of party organization. It will be seen that Gen. Taylor reiterates, what has so often before been declared, that litis a whig, but not an ultra one. Ife rejects, in the sternest terms, the idea of a President of the United States being the. mere instrument of party. He will not consent to take office as a propagandist. He is for taking th constitution asaguide rather than the creeds of conventions or the dicta of political clubs. He ifor leaving to Congress the things which .belong to the legislative department, and confining the Executive to the matters entrusted to him by the constitution. He refuses to change his attitude towards the Presidency in any particular leaving it to those who obtained his consent to be a candidate for that office to do in the premises what shall seem to them best. JVe regard this document as not only inter esting to Gen. Taylor s friends, but important to the public at large, as embodying sound political truths. The most moment uuus topic embraced in it is the relative posii ions and duiiesof the legislative & executive departments. It must be conceded that the increasing deference paid by Congress to the will of the Executive has been regarded bv manv of our wisest ; statesmen with alarm, and the implied obligation ot the President to carry out the views of a nominating convention has at times seriously interfered with his independence and impaired his ability to do good. It was never coutemjlated by the framers of the . constitution that a President should be trjmmelled by pledges or bound down to a party manifesto which is generally drawn up with reference to accidental states of public feeling or topics of transient excitement; much less did it enter the mind of our revolutionary patriots that Congress should in any wise be. subservient to the Executive or controlled by the opinions of his Cabinet. In so far as the National. Legislature is warped by the influence or the persuasion of power, does Congress fall from the dig nified position assigned it by the constitu tion. But we shall not detain the reader with com ment upon a paper which will attract universal attention. Baton Rouge, April 22, 1S43. ' Dear Sir: My opinions have recently been so often misconceived and misrepresented that I deem it due to myself, if not to my friends to make a brie! exposition ot them upon the topics to which you have called my utu-niion. I have consented to the use of my name as a candidate fur the Presidency. 1 l ave, lrankly avowed my own distrust ot my fitness for thai high station; but having, "at the solicitation of many of my countrymen, taken my position as a candidate, 1 do not ieel at liberty to surrendirthat position until my friends manifest a wish that 1 should retire Lorn it. I will then must gladly do so. I have no private purposes to accomplish, no party projects lo buiid up, no enemies to punish noUdng to serve but my country. . m 1 have been very often addressed by letter, and my opmions huve ben asked upon almost every question that might occur to the writers as affecting the interests of thir country or their party. I have not always responded' to these inquiries for various reasons. I confess, whilst I have great carJinai principles which will regulate my political lile, 1 am not suiiiciently familiar with all the minute details of political legislation to give solemn pledg'-s to exert my iniiuence, if 1 were President, to carry out this or defeat that measure. 1 have no concealment. 1 hold no opinion which 1 would not readily proclaim to my assembled countrymen; but crude impressions upon matters of policy, which muy be right to-day, and vt rong to-morrow, are, perhaps, not the best test of fitness for ofdee. One who c&nnot lie trusted without pledges cannot be confided in merely on account of them. - 1 will proceed, however, now to respond to your inquiries. - -Firsi. 1 reiterate what I have often said I am a whig, but not an ultra whig. . If elected I would not be the mere President of a party. 1 would endeavor to act independent of partydomination. 1 should feel bound to administer the Government untrammelled by party schemes. Sfcono'.-The veto power.-The power given by the constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto, is a high conservative pewer ; but in rny opinion should never bz exercised except in cases of clear violation of the cons'. i- j tution, or manifest haste and want of consideration by Congress. Indeed, 1 have thought that, for" many years past the known opinions' and wishes of th. Executive have exercised undue and injurious influence upen the legislative department of the Government; and for ihisouu-ie I have thought our system was in danger of undergoing a great, change from its true theory. The personal opinions of the individual -who may happen to occvpy the Executive c'lair, ought not to control the action of Congress vpo'i questions of. domestic pulicv; nor ought his objections to be interposed where questions of constitutional jioirir has been scttledby the various departments of Govtrnmtni and acquiesced in by the people. Third. L'pon the subject of the tend, th-1 currency, the improvement of our great highays, rivers, lakes and harbors, the will ol the people, as espresed through their Re presenta tives in Congress, ought to ba respected and carried out by the Exerutive. Fourth. The Mexican war. I sincerely rejoice at the prospect oi peace. My life has been devoted to arms, yet 1 look upon war at all times an I under all circumstances asa great national calamity, to be avoided if compati ble with national honor. The principles of our li'tve rnrnt-nt as weil asitslru- policy ars opposed to the subjugation or other nations: and the dismemberment of other countries bv onquest. In tho language of the great Washington, "Why f-hould we'quitonr own to stand on foreign ground." In the Mexican war our national honor lias been vindicated, amply

vindicated, and in dictating terms of pi-ace we j mrtv w,-il afford to b- f.riearing and even , magnanimous to our fallen foe. These are my opinions upon the subject re- j h-rrcd to by you; and any reports or publira-

tions, written or verbal, irom any source, tu-f-r ng in any essential porticular from what is here written .are unauthorised and untrue. I do not know that I shall again write upon the subject' of " national politics, 1 shall engage in no schemes, no combinations, no intrigaes. If the American people have not confidence, in me, they ought not to give me their suffrages. - If they do not, you know me well enough to believe me when I declare I -hall be content. I am too old a soldief to murmur against such high "authontv. Z. TAYLOR. ' To Capt. J. S. Allison. -. t Risiit. We notice in the Congressional proceedings of the 27lh ult., that Mr. Birch, Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the House, reported a bill for the repeal of the law givingthe President discretionaiy power at the. termination of the War, to retain "the old or new Generals. . .' Mr.-Houston of Alabama opposed the bill in a few remarks. . . - Messrs. Holmes, Stanton, -Burt and Botts fallowed in succession in support of the. bill. Mr. McKay offered an amendment which was negatived. Mr. McLean then moved to lay the bill on the table, on which motion . the question was taken by ytas and nays, and decided in the negative. On motion the House adjourned. The Canal. The Covington paper of . the 22d ult. says: "It- is with pleasure ve announce that canal navigation north is opened. The level from Lafayette to Attica has a full supply of water; and the level from Attica to Covington has over three feet, which is rapid ly increasing. "One canal boat has already left this port for Toledo, and two or three others are loading. Taylor Strength is Convention. The Dayton (Ohio) Transcript, gives the following estimate of tha probable vote for . Gen. Taylor in -the Whig National convention. We think, hqweveflMhat he i3 wrong with regard to New York and Pennsylvania, and perhaps one or two other States. In New York, the chances are, that Gen. Taylor will not get seven, votes, while in Pennsylvania he. will get more than five. . Alabama 9 South Carolina G j Nonh Carolina 6 Virginia Mississippi Louisiana Kentucky 11 Maryland Tennessee 13 Deleware Ohio New YorkPennsylvania Illinois Missouri Arkansas Florida Texas Iowa Georgia 9 7 3 3 4 4 10 Michigan Indiana 165 1 1'3 is necessary to a choice. The editor of a country newspaper, sad ly in want of cash, thus' reasons with ftis delinquent subscribers : "We don't want money so desperately bad, but our subscribers do. And no doubt thev owe you. And if ypu'll pay us, we'll pay thern, and they'H pay you." Good logic, certainly, and he deserves to be paid up to the utmost farthing. This is pretty much our ease, and if our delinquents will take the hint and satisfy us that they perfectly understand it, we will agree to say no more about the matter. Sixth Congressional District, N. Y The probability is, from the action of Congress, that a new election will beheld in this district. At the recent Charter election it gave 230 Whig majority for Mayer, and SSG for Alderman, and is composed cf the 11 lb, 12th, 15th, lGik, 17th, and 18th Wards of the. city of N Yorli. - " Novel Shipment. -The Cincinnati Enqui rer tells of a shipment of forty nests of coffins five iii a nest just made, from that city "on the steamer Belle of the West, bound for New Orleans." Theownergoes with them, and ihinks the demand will be so cood that he will make a fine "spec." , Despotic Rule. The levy of recruits, in Poland, is made during the night, and, in order more surely to take all persons that are destined .o recruit the armies of Russia, the houses are surrounded,and married and single ara torn from their homes to serve for twenty years. The Duke and Duchess de Montpenster were last heard of at Berlin, on their way to Spain, on the invitation of the Queen. ' Accident" and Death. On Saturday last a little girl in the upper part of the c'Uy set fire to her clothes while playing round a pile of shavings that were burning in the street, and was so badly injured that she died. The Cuartests of England. What are thr.r? As the. term Chartesls often appears in the 'papers, it is well to have this and similar political terms properly defined at thistime. ' 'I lie Peoples Charter, (from which the party derives its name,) was drawn up about ten years ago hy borne of the most prominent leaders of the Radical or Democratic party; ii was in the form of a petition, or rather a demand, and after rect i v-ng nearly three millions of signatures, it was presented to-Pariiument, where it was rejected; receiving only '46. votes out olGdS. - It embraces the following principles: dst. U,(iverjal Suffrage. By which all Englishmen of 21 years and upwards, of sane mind, and whose characters are unstained by crime, ate to be considered as voters. 2nd. Vole b ticket. Bailot Secret voting by 3rd. Xo .Property Qualification. Bv which persons having no property may be elected to serve in the House of Commons. . 4th. Annual Parliaments. The members to be elected every year. 5th. Payment of JShmbers. Members to be paid for their services while in Parliament. , ,. ' . , . . 6th. Equal Representation. Districts to be represented according to the population.

' TUESDAY MOBXIXG, MAY 2. Yucatan. Tje condition of Yucatan is truly depiorablei OTerrun as she is by savages, who are laying wast her fields, burning her cities and murdering her inhabitants. Every account we receive from that quarter represent the situation of the people in a starving condition and flying brfore the enraged Indians, who spare neither age nor sex. The Commissioner at Washington from that country has addressed the following appeal to our Government for aid: ' , Commission of Yucatan in Washington, ) April 18, 18-iS. S So the Secretary of State oj the United States: Sir: Notwithstanding 1 have not had the honor to receive any answer to the very urgent

notes which 1 directed to the Department of Slate on the 7ih March last, and on the 3d of the present month, new and still more urgent order from my government obliges me again to address the Government of the United States even at the- risk of being considered importunate, and subjecting myself to the charge of endeavoring to withdraw the attention ot the Department from other more urgent and impor taut objects. Yet the actual situation of Yucatan is so overwhelming, so horrible and so desperate, that I cannot do otherwise. Within the next two months the white race of Yucatan must disappear from the country, unless the protection of these United States should ba extended over that" too unfortunate people. 1 n?ed not waste time in drawing the pitiable and alarming picture which that country presents, accordiug to the last advices 1 have received, dated the 27 ih of March, because it woultl be of an odious and bloody character. In the sacred name of the living God, the affrighted people of Yucatan, appeal to the humanity of their happy and more fortunate neighbors, the people of the United States, to save them from utter extermination. Yucatan only wantsarms, ammunition, and a few troops together with a small quantity of money. I invoke this aid by all the sacred ties which unite, the family of men. I request that the demand may be brought to the knowledge of the representative bodies-of the nation, and, above all other tilings; I ask that you will have the goodness-to give me a -decisive answer, by which the. future conduct of the people of Yucatan may be guided. ' " There aie moments, sir, in which any delay signifies death and extermination! ' 1 have the honor to renew, &c, &c. JUSTO SIERRA. It will be seen from the above that Senor Sierra had addresse,d.two notes to Mr. Buchanan previous to this one and had received no reply. We agree with the North American that humanity would have dictated some reply expressive of the sympathy of the government, if not of its wish to yield the aid solicited. But whatever the cause of his previous silence, neither the Secretary of State, nor, we think, any Amrrican can read this last appeal without deepemotion. "In the sacred name of the living God," the wretched people of Yu catan appeal to us,' the happy and powerful people of the United States, "to save them from utter extermination," at the hands of In dian foes, who with firp and massacre, and violation, and every horror of rage and cruelty known to barbarous men, sweep away life and civilization before them: they ask this of us, who of all people i;i the world, are under the greatest obligation to aid them, because we we have deprived them of the assistanceof their countrymen, the Mexicans, and through the occupation of the custom-house of Lacuna of the means of helping themselves. We trust, if the Government will do noihingin this matter, that Congress will, and that immediately. Let it be remembered that what is asked and needed is not an intervention be tween two parties in an ordinary civil war, or a war between one class, even, rising in insurrectionagaiust another class. It isa massa cre, not a war; the victor savages who give no quarter who torture to death their prisoners and whose chief victims are women and children. . TerrbIIavte and Richmond Havlroad.Weleurn from the Wabash Courier thai the Directors of the Terre Haute and Richmond railroad Company, recently elected,-, uet in Greencasile on Wednesday the 19th inst., and organized by the election of Chaucy B.ose President of the Company, and adopted an ord:nance authorizing the President to employ a competent engineer to survey and permanently locate the road from Terre Haute to Greencasile. It is, however, expressly declared in the resolution or ordinances adopted, authorizing the location of that portion of the road, that the mere location thereof shall not be construed or understood to be a determination on the part of the Directors to commence and prosecute the work on that portion of the road An ordinance was also passed for the collection of the stock already subscribed, in the following manniier: 8100 on each share is required to ne paid on or before the first of July next, and $4,00 on each share every sixty days thereafter, until one-half of the stock is paid. This ordinance does not how ever effect the stockholders of Hendricks county in any manner w hatever their stock not being collectable until the' permanent location of the road at Danville, , Books for the subscription of slock will be immediately opened in all the counties in the Slate through which the raad passes. ' CO"The Locofoco Convention of Floyd county which "met on 'the 22d uk.; passed a resolution glorifying Polk, for the vigorous and successful prosecution of the War With Mexi cothat the thanks ol the nation are due the aforesaid Toik; mid the .conduct of General Taylor merits the condemnation of every Iudianian. In reply to this, the New Albany Bulletin says: Since thep-re and vndefilcd Democracy of little Floyd have discovered to the nation, the extraordinary patriotism and personal tfforts of President Polk in the war wi th Mexico, we fancy the name of Gen. Polk will be handed down to posterity by future historians as the gallant and illustrious hero of the Mexican War ! ! ! French Anecdote. A colony of wet nurses have given in their adhesion to the new republic, aua the delegates ask the privilege of nursing all the young citizens born the 24th of February, at half price. This manifestation, which was evidently bosom felt, was warmly received.

From the Rio Grande. The schooner H. S. Scrautonas arrived at New Orh ans from Brazos. Every thing was quiet in that quarter. There is. but little news upon the Rio Grande of much interest, the stirring scenes which have been enacted u port-that line having given place to the. utter and insufferable dullness of a line of garrisons where a robbery or murder is looked upon as a great event. The prospect of peace, too, renders the life of the soldier upon the Sierra Madre line irksome in the extreme, and he sighs for the ' time when

the peaceful "recall"' shall be blown through the valleys of the Sierra, and in the silent watches of the night thinks of home and its comforts. He feels that the bed of a soldier is not particularly downy especially in a prickly pear country, and that his path is strewn with any thing but roses, though a few sparce sprigs of bright laurel occasionally are found in a dangerous and ruinous path to fame. . But to such items of news as there are. The Monterey Gazette states that a report is in circulation in that city that several American merchants have been murdered near Mazapil, but is unable to trace it to any authentic source. The same paper states that the 16th Infantry, who have been garrisoning the . city, have been ordered out to the Walnut Springs. Appropriate honors were paid to the memory of John Quincy Adams at Monterey by the 16th Infantry, on the 22d ult. A cannon was fired every half hour during the day from the citadel, and thirteen in the morning and twenty nine at sun-set. Gen. Wool has ordered all the dogs in the city of Monterey to be killed. There will be many a tear shed among the black eyed senoritasat the destruction of their pets. This pronunciamenlo against the canine legions by the commanding officer may well be called a general masacre..The Gazette learns from its agent at Saltillo, who had just arrived from Paris, that three-Virginia volunteers had been murdered there a short time previous. The perpetrators had been arrested. The news of the ratification of the treaty bv our Congress was received by Gen. Wool at Monterey on the 29th inst. The Matamoros papers do not contain a word of interest. Passed Out. The Washington . Union announces with "some satisfaction," as a "fixed fact," that "Santa Anna had embarked for Jamaica,' The Union thinks now, "that the Whigs can no longer made any capital out of the'pass which admitted him into Mexico." In this the Union is mistaken. Mr. Polk is as justly responsible for the folly of admitting Santa Anna into Mexico, now that he is out. of the country, as he ever was, and he will be held to answer for all the consequences which fullowed that act. Counterfeit Gold. The Natches Courier mentions a counterfeit Victoria sovereign, dated 1842, which somebody seems to have passed upon him there. The Courier says, "it is, with the exception of being a very little thicker, (which cannot be discovered by the eye,) a perfect imitation of the genuine there being uo defect in the die by which it can be detect ed: It rings well but weighs only 114J grains being 8 grains lighter than the British sovereign. It is doubtless composed of the same metal as the recent counterfeits of the American half and quarter eagles, but even better executed. People should be very careful Iiqw they receive Victoria sovereigns of that date." ' Taxation in England. Previous to thelate revolution in France; the English Government had announced their determination to raise the income fax to five per cent. Br this tax, every man who earns 200 yearly, would have to pay $10 and he who was worth 1000 would be compelled to pay 850, for the support of mon archy, in. addition to his share of all other lo cal burdens such as poor rates, road and prison taxes, &c, and in addition to the general tax levied upon necessaries of life, even upon the soap he uses. . This additional income tax, was regarded indispensable, to meet the deficiencies of revenue and the increase of expenditure. . But the free movement in France, alarmed the British ministers, and they promptly gave notice of abandoning the idea of imposing the additional tax. The national expenditure for this year, according to ' official estimates, exceeds S272,930,000.' Her National revenues diminishingafraid to levy taxes, to meet the deficiency how is the Government to be supported? England,' although externally strong, is internally weak, and those who understand her real condition, in connection with the agitations and revolutions around her, regard her present condition as decidedly critical. The political convulsions throughout Continental Europe, must necessarially shake the very foundations of the British Government. ; i : The joint committee 'on colleges in the Massachusetts Legislature nave reported in favor of allowing the school fund, now limited to 81,000,000, to accumulate" to 61. 500.000,' and to divide the surplus interest, 83.000, among Cambridge, Amherst, and .William's Colleges. The school fund is derived from the sale of pub lie lands in Maine. C3Thc grand Jury of Daviess count were discharged on Wednesday of last week without finding a single indictment. Must be a clever set of people up that way. - ; - . The. good people . of Marietta are taking measures for commemorating in that town the anniversary of the first settlement m Ohio, on the 7th inst. (XT?""Tom," . said a'drunkard to his friend, "whrre shall 1 find the poor house? I should like to see it." "My dear friend, continue in your present course a short time longer, and yon will not need to ask the question,"' was the pointed reply.

ITS AN EASi THING. Jls an easy thing',' says the saiior to the caipeinei, "to h ive nothing" to do b. it just rut lii.'t pi me of yours, along a hoard all day.11 : Let ihe sailor tiy it, and as easy na it looks, "he'll soon find out that he has not got the nack tonvtke it so veiy easy. "It's an oasy triing," says the carpenter to the sailor, "to sil still on boatd of that vessel and let the wind blow you along." Let the fanner Irj it. and he.'il find night-watches, nicks at the helm, taking in and making sail.

not so very easy, to say nothing of gales ol -les ol wind, lee snores, stowing cargo. Ineaking oul, aud worst of all shoveiint! wheat in a hold, or slagei ing over a decK load of frozen hogs in a squall at night, wnh all their legs sicking up just where they wei noi expected, and cunng shins and breech esjusi wheie jou. don't ii! e it prelly much; tied that is about every wheie. - It is so with a lniost eveiy thing. No man leeis the dilliculiies of another's occup iiioi until he Hies it. Lawyer and docior, judge iiidjiiry, fanner and sailor, all seem have easy work to their neighbors, until the said neighbors try on ihe job, aud theu they giv ii op. But theie is one kind of work that peoph don. t give up as not easy on1 the first trial, "It's an easy thing," says Mr. Most-every-body, "lo edit a paper, just to s.l down and write a linle now and then when you ieel in dined; and when you doii'i,' why just to cm troin ihe newspapers a little here and a lit. tie there to fill up, and theu it's so pleasant, loo, to have nothing to do but just .to tumble over so many papers that you get for nothing aud tlm every one else h?s 1 to pay lor." To say nothing of the assumption in the latter pari of the sentence, thai every-bod) has to pay lor iheir papers, which is - unloii u utile ly rather wide ot the inaik; the ca.-j part of the business is yet to be discovered by those who have lairly tried the operation. "On, but," sys Mr. Every-body-clse, "I hate tried il fairly. I used to write a great deal lor the "liailioad of Republican ami Cataract of Freedom," published al B dlows Falls, WiinJuu coiiuiy. I used lo .wiiie u column or so almost every week, and point out lots of gtmd things to extract more, indeed, than Hie editor ever got in. 1 know a I about it." Indeed? Bui did you ever try it alone? Did you ever edit a piper for lliree or four moulds, select aud reject, wiite and refuse, measuie what you could put iu think what you could uol reject, do Hangs thai you know would be unpleasant to many of your sub scribers, but idat you believed ought to be done, and refuse to do what ihey wanted and you thought ought not to be done. No-in-deed.' There is nuny a man who thinks he knows just how a paper ought to be ediied. could give jusl t lie advice wanted, hut wdio would in one little week, ayere his pen's nib was oid, find out that there were troub le s in Hie editorial me tiiat lie had never dreampt of. It is not the mere writing that makes ihe trouble, even with the wiiten portion, but it is ihe necessity to write jusl al the exact time when your writing in wanted, ro write on certain subjects that you lerhnps don'i wish to touch just then, to write on some you dou'i care about a I all. In selecihing, loo, you are not io please your own laste merely though your owu laste must be used even when you arese eciing those things that you carp not for, but thai are liked by oiheis. Self must be but little consulted iu your p iper. You don'i make a paper for your own reading or to your own tasie, (hough by your own taste you must he guided in what is tor others, and you must, too, do l.eitei than ihey could or they will even undervalue your labors then. Ant when those difficulties are over-corne, you are not al the end. There are hundreds ofadvisers who want you to do hundreds of things to ;ratify their angry passions, i hat if they are done, will injine your pper, and ensure the contempt of the advisers. h is not an easy thing to edit a paper, but il is an easy thing, and one ol the easiest in ihe world to abuse a paper lell bow ont-laeou.-ly wrong ii is, decry Win every wy, and still ensier (osay where ill's wrong when' you are determined it must always be wrong 1 except when it agrees willi you. ' ' A Strko of Croton thrown on Moonshi.vjj. YeslercJay morning, about 3 o'clock one of the Insurance Watch while on duty in Coeniies Slip, discovered . one of the lrge warehouses on the dock, app:irontly on fiie the (l imes, to all appearance, being jusi bursting from the windows. He immediately gave the alarm, and a number of his comrades runninglo ihe rescue, a hose carl was run out, the hose attached 10 a hvdrtmt, ihe floor stove in, aud a full stream let up. ,11 the upper stories. - "After playing away for some time, with no sign of fiie inside the building, a passage was effected through the roof, and ihe hose pipe turned dwu ihe scuttle of the adjoin ing store. The utmost activity was manifested, the idea of extinguishing an extensive conflagration before the firemen could arrive, stimulated 1 lie operators lo exiraoid"nary exertions; and although no light could be seen inside, yet each individual could plainly distinguish a strong smell of smoki:! After del ng'ng the - premises, a search was instituted, which resulted in the remarkable discovery that the iire was nothing more nor less ll an the 'eflectioti of ihe moonbeams lrom :he quiet water in the Slip, upon he windoim (if the warehouse. , . Tho Insurance Which very demurely c il ed up their hose, and vamosed. N. liori Globe. SCrYVe are authorized to announce JOHN SPIKER aa a candidate for a seat in the Lower ' House of the next Legislature, at the ensuing election. jc5"V'e are authorized to announce WILLIAM WHITTLESEY as a candidate for a seat in the next Legislature. - - mar25 Ci l l LGII IilAKUl 'ACTOltir. -3lnin street, Evansrilie, Indiana. THE subscri'oer respectfully inlornfs the Public that lie is carrying on the Plough Manufacturing business, in Evansville, on Alain Street, near the Canal, where he keeps constantly on hand, a tuperior article of Sloop, Dimond and improved Litnond. with a cast mould board. He will warrant these idouijhs to be as good as any to be lound in this city, and request ihoie wishing to possess a good article to give him a call before purchasing elsewhere. IKrCall and examine for yourselves. ap26 ' J M. PARVIN F. I. FAGAS, 1 eeo iipi for line work. Work of every description done with the utmost neatness aad despatch. On Main street. oppofito the Bank. op21dly.

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.which sailed from Liverpool on the 15th inst., arrived hereto-day. The great chartist meeting which was held on the 10th iost , passed off quietly. Jt was attended by 200,000 persons. A petition was drawn up and presented to Parliament by a deputation appointed for that purpose. . . , . , . Ireland is quiet, ihe government having overawed the revolution for the present. Arms are, however, still being manufactured in large qcantitics.'and the peasants are constantly engaged in praticing at shooting. -..:' rri- T l i - i i ne iit-pea i papers are aiso very violent, u oonnell had an interview with Lord John Russell, at which he asked that large concessions be. made to Ireland. Lord John Russell refused to grant them and stated the intention of his government. : Denmark has commenced war against Sleswick and Hobtein. two Duchies belonging to her, each of which contains some 400,000 soafs. They have revolted against the king and demanded to be recognized as independent states. A bloody battle, has been foup ht at Flensburgh in which the Danes were victorious. The loss was very heavy on both Bides. Prussian troops have been ordered to advance to the support of Ilolstein, and should the king of Denmark retaliate by stopping offsupplies his territories will be invaded. l- The Austians have been defeated at every point by the Lonibardians. '.-'.in: The Poles have organised committees throughout the Duchy, who have called the people to arms. They have sharpened theirscythes, havedriven away the Russian soldiers, cut off the mail, torn dowa the imperial eagle, and seized what treasures they could lay their hands on. ' An insurrection had broken out at Hesse Cassel. On the 10th inst., there was a frightful riot at Cologne.. - . - There have been serious disturbances at St. Petersburg. Russia has promised neutrality provided her possessions are not attacked. ! . Turkey has acknowledged France a cpublic. The Archduke Stephen has been declared King of Hungary. " Holland and Belgium, r.nd the cities of Berlin, Palermo, Madrid, Rome, and Milan were tranquil at the last dates. It is reported that Louis Fhillippc has arrived in America. Manufactures In England are very dull. At London, consols were S2JSS3I; three per cents 8U31I. . ., There was abetter feeling in the corn market Flour has advanced la f sack aud Gd !? bbl. Meal is 11 12s P 196 ft. ' ' Provisions are firm. " :i Sales of cotton for the week were 25,350 bales. Orleans 2-;s5?d, extremes, we presume; J.Iobile 4i Oi l id. . .: :;' Washikgto.v, April 25, 11 p. m. "The Vice President called the Seante to order at the usual hour. . , The Vice President laid before the Senate a communication in regard to land office permits issued uuder tha Florida armed occupation act. A bill for nnvilKT t.fl the Stntfi nf Atnhnmn inli-nct t J o - - .-. - on advances of moneys made by her to the general government was considered and laid over. Mr. Johnson of Maryland submitted a resolution askiug. the President to infjrm the Senate whether there were miy officers in the service whose names tion. Laid over. Mr. Cass moved to take up the California claims bill, which, motion wasagreed to. " Mr. Mason's amendment, alter discussion was re-, jected and the bill then passed. - ." The Senate then went into executivesession,during whicU Nugent; the reporter for the N. Y. Herald, was ordered to be discharged from custody. The House wa3 enjaged altogether in ths. consideration of private bills. ? ' PiTTSnur.Gir, April 29, 91 r. at. lucre are 4 icet iu luetics water iu the channel. Puii.ADEi.fHiA, April 29, 9ir. ir. ; The New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore markets are all stagnant in consequence of the receipt of the foreign news. I urn thereore unable to send you reliable quotations. . , C03IMEKCIAL. Pittsburgh, April 27, r. m. There is 33 int:hc3 water in the channel and fallCincinnati, April 28, f. m. Flour The Hour market is stagnant. Grai The market of grain remains as Ia6t quoted. Groceries Sales of 300 brigs RioCoiTeeat 7f3c; sak-3 of fairSugar at 44Jc. On.-Linseed Oil sold at5253c. : ' -Cheese Cheese sold at 77ic. .- -. Bctteh Butter sold at lltic. Provisions In provisions thtre is nothing doing. "Whisky Whisky sold at 15ic. !" ' ' New York, April 23, 12 ji Flocr The market for Flour is rather inactive, eastern demand being smaller, the business 13 moderate, and in favor of the buyer; sales of Rye Flour at S3 503 G2J, and Corn Meal at $2 37i. Grain The market for Whe it has a downward tendency, but Corn is steady; sales of Ohio red Wheat at 1 3GS1 33 and prime red do at 1 45; prime yellow Corn at 52c." - ..-'...I.Provisions Sales of mess Pork at $10, and prime atS 37L Mess Beef at S7 7j. The sales of provisions are only lor the supply of the regular trade demand; Lard Cicj and city rendered 7c. . New ORLEAt;s, April 2". Tobacco We only hear of the eale 14 hhds. Kcfus ed at 3i and 4 at 21c. . , Sugar The market has been quiet and the 6ales are confined to 200 hhds. at previous rates, say Fair 3IS3SC- - - - Molasses Sales confined to small parcles at 18 19o. for Prime and Choice. ; . j . - ' . . ; . Flock Sales 1300 bbls. Illinois and 1100 bbla. Ohio at 4; 300 Illinois at $4 CG; 230 at $4 15; 158 at 4 20; and 00 bbls. choice Ohio at $4 25. Corn 15,000 sacks have been sold, including the following lots: 4900 Mixed at 26; 1160 at 23; G00O White and Yellow at 30; 1000 White at 30; 400 mixed at 27, and 1000 Green at 25c. j ' : Pork 400 bbls. Prime mess sold ot $8, and 43 bbls. Clear mess at &S 75, Small sales of mess at 8 12i. Bi lk Pork 9o",00 lbs. Hog-round fold at 2ic. Bacon 5 tierces Sugar-cured Hams sold at 9c; end 13 tierces Canvassed at 4c. " . -" ' Lard Sales 100 bbls. ot 3Jc; 25 at 4c; 63 at 4Jc; 25 at 4?c, lfil and 145 kegs No. 1 at 5c, and 200 kegs Prime at 5?c. ' ' .. ' Whisht Small salec are making at. 16ic. ; NAILS, IROX AND CASTINGS. I f n KEGS assorted Boston and Pittsburg Nails , and a general aborted stock of Iron and Castinjs, in store and lor sola by 'Ut . jan25. '43 , , BE.MENT & VT.ELE. CL.OTIIS AND CASSOIERES. v FRENCH, English and American blue,, black, drab, olive and f leet mixed Cloths and Caseimers, al wholesale and retail low, by - E. & W. LEWIS, ap 13 Cornor Main and Water Streets.