Evansville Weekly Journal, Volume 14, Number 18, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 22 June 1848 — Page 2

EVANSVILLE JOURNAL. PRIHTED AND PUBLISHED BY WM, H. CHANDLER & CO.

JFOi? PRESIDENT: GEN. ZACHARY TAYl-OR, Of Louisiana, '.FOff FC PRESIDENT : MILLARD FILLMORE, Of New York. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, NATHAN ROWLEY, WHIG ELECTORAL TICKET. SENATORIAL ELECTORS. JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jefferson. GODLOVE S. ORTH, of Tippecanoe, BICTBICT ELECTORS, 1st Disl.-Jons Pitches, pf Posey. . 2d Jons S. Davis, of Floyd. 3J " 4 th " 5th " 6th " 7th " 8th " 9th " 10th Milton Gregg, of Dearborn, David P. Hollgway, of Wayne. Thomas D. Walpole, of Hancock Lovell JI- Rousseau, of Greene. Edward W. McGuaghet, of Park. James r. Suit, ot Clinton, Daniel D. Pratt, of Cass. David Kilgoee, ofDelaware, CITY OF EVANSVILLE: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21 Where is the Gun.? We learn that Gen Zachary Tatlor, " Old Bough and Ready," is expected in Louisville this week. He wil pass our city and we tbinkit would be serving him just right to salute him with a few rounds, The faithful old soldier and patriot deserves: all the attention that can be paid to him by the people he is one of them. On the Look Out. The Marshall of Louisville was in our city on yesterday hunting up p scamp who had committed a forgery in that place for six thousand dollars and made offwth the spoils. The Marshal traced the chap to our city but here the scent grew cold and the chass was given up. Affairs in Tuspan. We learn from the New Orleans papers that at the latest dates the town of Tuspan was menaced by the Indians, who had risen in insurrection, and had accumulated a force of nearly eight thousand men near the place. The greatest consternation prevailed, and the population was continually under arms. At Tamiagua the Indians killed several whites, and were about to execute others, but a company of horse went to their rescue. The war steamer Vixen, lying near Tuspan, sent a company of marines and some ammunition to aid in the defence of the town. One of our armed schooners was moored at the bridge, ready to open a fire upon the Indians as Boon as they appeared. Preparing for Returning. The N. 0. Mercury of the 12th says: "On Saturday the Quartermaster engaged the ships Saba tis, Rockall, Timoleon, Edgar, and Mary Pleasants; the bark Florida and the bug Othello. Several other brigs and schooners were taken, but we are unable to obtain names, The rate paid for the above named vessels is, from all we can learn, S10 to SI 1 per ton, wjth the exception of the Timoleon, which gets $12; the ships furnishing wood, water, &c. There were sev eral other vessels partially engaged, and our gallant troops will soon be removed from the ecene of their triumphs. Eager for the Fray. Gen. Scott relates a fact in regard to our troops, when on their ynarchtothe capital, which speaks volumes for the spirit which animated them. When the order was issued for detailing all who were able to march upon the capital, it was found that they numbered nearly 9,000 men, and the rest were left in the hospitals, and in garrison, At Ayotla, a week afterwards, the army num bered9,800 men over eight hundred invalids &ad escaped from the hospitals and garrison BtPuebla, determined to die on the march, or be in at the taking of the capital. K2T"Ia Randolph and the adjoining counties of North Carolina, there 13 a great excitement inconsequence of large quantities of gold being found. There is but little doubt but the de jjositesof gold in our Southern States, are ex tensive, but whether these deposites will add to the wealth of the country, i3more doubtful In searching for gold, more labor may be ex pended in the bowels of the earth, than would raise from iis surface produce of more value than the gold. CQrA Presidential War and a Locofoco Tariff. The cost of the Mexican war, money, is generally estimated at not less than $100,000,000. And a writer in Hunt's Mer chant s Magazine, estimates that the balance of trade against the United Slates, al the close of the present financial year, will not fall short of 10,000,000. Verily it is high time there were new mep and a new policy, in the National Adminisstra lion. '. CCflt is said that Gen.'Taylor has declared liia intention to retire from the army as soon as the present war is over. He has been long in the army, and discharged his duty with fidelity and distinction, and the people will take caretoelevate him to the first office la their give. . - ' Santa Ansa's Toast. Just before bidding H final adieu to the "scenes of his glory," Santa Anna is reported to have made the . following sentiment: 'Jamt9 K. PollcThe exiles fnend.'

Movements in New York. The' N. Y. Evening Post says: "A gentleman, just from some of the most populous counties io the interior of this State, informs us that the feeling among the democrats in relation to the Baltimore nomination is the same as that of a revolution." The N. Y. Western Argus heads an article on the subject of the Convention thus: "The

National Convention New York Insulted Southern influence again triumphant. The people Jidignavt" Among other most point ed and emphatic remarks the 'Argus'' says: Aside from the unheard of outrages perpetra ted on our delegation, the action of the convention has not, nor can have, udo anv rules of propriety, any binding force whatever, un less it be upon those States that ha ye pledged themselves nolens volens, to support the nominations, and those only." The JefiVrson Democrat thus boldly holds forth: "The suspense is over. The Baltimore Convention has met, deliberated if that can be called deliberation where there conclusion was preformed and all questions decided by an ar bitrary majority soiefy in reference to thjscon ciusion and again dissolved itself. The re suit of this meeting is the exhibition of a vir tual determination on the part of the delegates of the once democratic party, to aid in the indefinite expansion of slavery in the new territories that have been or are to be acquired by the United States, The action of this convention we repudiate; the candidate presented by it, so long as volition remains with us, shall never receive our suffrage. We repudiate the action oi tne convention. "We refuse to give our suffrages to Lewis Cass, tne candidate selected by this convention, pecause, it iew lork had been allowed its just representation, the convention, under its rules, could not have selected him as its can dulate. "Because, so far from being the choice of the people at the north, with a single exception no man is so odious to them; but he has been made a candidate against their wishes, bv the corruption, and the purchase and sale of intriguing pol;ticians who would secure their unholy ends by the nomination of a tool, as similated to themselves." Oh, Moses! High Treason! "Flat Burgla ry!" Corruption! Purchase! Sale! Ihtrigue! Unholy Ends! Lewis Cass a TOOL, like the men who nominated him! And all this is said by Democrats, not Whigs! Alas, what a wjeked world! What a wicked world!" The Ogdensburgh Republican thus indig pantly speaks: "The stupendous scheme of fraud concocted to disfranchise New York Iras been consummated. It is idle to plead that both delegations were admitted. The convention well knew that the legal representatives of New York would never consent to sit with the spurious, illegal delegates, and that to do so, would acknowledge in them an equal claim to seats. Thus, we say, the great scheme, which was got pp irom tlie beginning, tor that purpose, has been consummated in the disfranchisement of New York.. She has had no part or lot in the nomination of Gen, Cass, neither will she support him. The rights of New York have been ruthlessly crushed and her democracy insulted. tvery democrat in the state of New York, whose representative voice was stifled in that body, will leel that insult and indignantly re pel it." A great meeting in Troy, N. Y., has reaf firmed the doctrine of the Wilmot Proviso and declared that the action of the Baltimore Conention has no binding authority upon the New York Democracy, With an extract from the Mohawk Courier we close, simply remarking that between New York and South Carolina, the supporters of the Baltimore ticket must realize how true is that declaration of Sacred Wit, "Ye cannot serve two masters." Says the Courier: "Who shall save the republic? Our trust is not in rresutents, out in tiod and trie Peo ple. "As for these nominations of the Baltimore convention, we do not hesitate to say, that if the candidates were ot our first choice, we hould feel under no party obligations to sup port them, after the glaring outrage commit ted by the convention against our noble Com monwealth. I liese vain boasteis can do with out New York! Our voice is let them let them. The battle-fields of Saratoga, Pittsburgh, Chippewa and Oriskapy, have proved that INew lork can take care ot herself. Ratification Meeting in Louisville. The Louisville Courier, of Monday, contains the proceedings of one of the largest meetings ever held in that city, which met to ratify the nom inations of the People's Convention. The fo1; owing resolutions were offered and adopted by acclamation : 1. Resolved, That we do most cordially ap prove and ratify the nomination of Gen. Z. Taylor for President, and Millard Fillmore for Vice President of the U. S., by the convention held at Philadelphia, on the 7th June, and we pledge to tneir support and to tneir election every effort on our part which may be con sistent with honor and the duty of men who ove their countrj. 2. Resolved, That as in 18-13, Louisville in the vote which she cast for the lamented aud venerated Harrison, won the proud appellation of the Banner City of the Banner State, so now the friends of Gen. laylor, untuning his victims to the breeze, inscribed with the immortal words: "Gen. TaylorNever Surrenders," are resolved to vindicate anew ner ngniiut claim to that proud distingtion. 3. ISesolved that we assure tne mends ot Gen, Taylor and Miliard Fillmore throughout the Union, that Kentucky never surrenders, and that her sons will rally to their support with the same noble and victorious spirit that hurried them to the camp ground of the hero of Palo Alto, Monterey and Buena Vista. 4. Resolved, That we cherish for our illustrious fellow-citizen, the Sage of Ashland, feel ings of the most sincere regard, and sentiments of the most exhaulted admiration that tho' he has not attained to the highest office in the nation, he occupies the first place in the gal axy other patriot statesmen. Our children, and our .children's children, will do justice to his memory, and his life will constitute the highest I ae in his countrv 8 history. 5. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting ne published in the Louisville Cour ier, Journal, and Rough and Ready. After the adoption of the resolutions, elo quent speeches were made by Hon. J. M. Helm, Hon. Sherrod Williams, Mr. Pitts of Va., and Chas. M. Thruston, Esq,, which were received by the immense assemblage with the greatest degree ot enthusiasm. CjfA Barnburner organ is about to be established at Detroit. It will unite-with the New York Barnburners in their opposition to tLe Baltimore nominees. So Gen. Cass will encounter Locofoco opposition in liisown State, and from a Locofoco organ -in his owp town, " 4 :

Reception of the News or his Nomination

by Gen. Taylor Happy Coincidence. The beautiful steamer Gen. Taylor, bound from Louisville for New Orleans, happened to be laying at the Memphis landing when the news of the nomination of Gen. Taylor was received at that place by the Magnetic telegraph. The Gen., Taylor continued on her trip immediately, and was the first to communicate the 7ieus of his nomination to the gallant old man from whom she received her name. He was at his plantation a short distance above Natchez, at the time, and the news reached him between 12 and 1 o'clock P. M. on Tuesday week. When the Orlint St. John passed there, about 3 o'clock the same day, the old General was sitting in the piazaof his residence, looking as calm as a "summer morning," and very much like a man wheis fated to be the next President of the United States, Boats up report that after he had received the news at Memphis, our old friend Capt. Israel Moorehead, of the Gen. Taylor, was in all his glory. He hoisted all the flags he could raise, and he was steaming it down the river," as it were for dear life, he cheered every boat he met, announced the good news and let off his big guii. Superiority of American Tailors. A cor respondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer writing from London says: "Nowhere in the whole world are garments, so. elegantly made, apd so admirably fitted as in the United States. An English or French tailor must try on your coat two or three times in the manu fact tire, and he finally sends it home, such a 'fit' as chance pleases; while an American tail or, having taken your measure, seldom gives you any further trouble, (until he presents his bill) and sends your coat home, fitting as if you had beep melted, and 'run into jl' whjle hot," We have been often astonished at the imaginary superiority awarded by the American people to European workmen. Our successful competition with the world in the various arts and .sciences, proves most conclusively that we have no occasion to send abroad for any thing, and we hope that both ladies and gentleman will discard the idea that European workmen are superior to our own, in any art or science to which the attention of our citizens have been turned. English Horses. By a late census of England, the number of horses in England has been found to have diminished from 1,000,000 to 200,000 within the last two years, the railroads have dispensed with the use of 800,000 horses, and these animals, as well as oxen are now scarcely used for transportation, and thus the grain and food of the 800,000 formerly consumed have been dispensed with, and the land used for the growth of hay and grass is de voted to the growth of grain alone for the supply of bread. Robbing an Editor, Some graceless scamp entered the dwelling of the editor of the Craw ford County Whig after the family had retired to bed, and stole the editor's only hat and coat, and then rifled his pantaloon pockets of his knife, pencil, pocket-book and purse. For tunately there was no money in either purse or hook. Coincidence. The Philadelphia Sun, men tions as a coincidence, that Gen. Washington, the first President of this Republic, received his nomination in the city of Philadelphia, and so did Gen. Zachary Taylor. No other candidate for the Presidency received his nomina tion in that city. Small Favors. The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells the Herald that it is welcome to make all it can out of Cass's Chicago Convention letter, whereupon, the Herald says, it is thank ful for small favors, and that up to the present time it has never been able to make over four lines out of it. Anotheb Presidential Candidate. The N. Y. Tribune says : "We have a report that the Hon. Mar.tin Van Buren has consented to accept a nomination for President al the hands of the Free Soil Democracy. If he does he will probably poll a large vote in several of Free states. Another Presidential- Candidate. The The Industrial Congress, which met in Philadelphia last week, has placed another Presidential candidate in the field, by nominating GerritSmilh, of New York, for President, and Wm. S. Wait, of Illinois, for Vice President. 07-The Detroit Free Press says that acorn pany of gentleman, from Pittsburgh, has gone on to Lake Superior, to examine into the "pros pects of the iron business in that region. The scecimens that have been sent east, from their superior quality have excited the wonder of dealers. Its extraordinarily fine grain has caused an opinion that it will prove equal to any in the world for cutlery and fine work. It much resembles the Damascus. CQA Miss Hall shot harself with a ptstol this morning about 5 o'clock, near the market. We could not learn the cause. CCpThe intelligence of the ratification of the treaty has reached New York, and the tidings of peace were received in every city between New Orleans and there, with expression of thankfulness and pleasure. A Slight Difference- The statement put forth by a N. Y. paper that twenty millions of dollars had been brought to N. Y. by a body of German immigrants should have read-two hundred thousand dollars. fX3We find the following pithy paragraph in the Buffalo Republican, the organ of the Barn-burners: "Keep it before the people, that Lewis Cass is opposed to the harbor improvements, and is in favor of theextension of Slavery; that he was for and against the annexation of Texas; that he was the apologist and the re viler of the French Republicans; that he intrigued to defeat the nomination of Martin Van Buren" in 1844; and that he is not entitled to the support of the New York Democracy."

LAMENT OF A LOCOFOCO. IUs fit that our readers should know in what

light the War and Conquest Party among us regard the most happy event of the conclusion of a Peace between the United States and Mexico. To supply this information, we copy the following from that print on the Atlantic border which has been most zealous in ad vocating the Conquest and Annexation of the entire Territory and People of Mexico by the U Slates. We know, by the wailings of this journal, that all is as it should be, and that our government is saved from a consumation which would have been not only disastrous, but most disreputable and dishonorables to our country, - From the N. Y Sun of June 5, 1843, The last and most larcical act ot the war drama js ended. The patched-up Trist Treaty concocted in defiance of the instructions of the Executive, and in every way odious to the interests, honor, and integrity of the American people, has been ratified. Mexico end Mackintosh have won a complete triumph; shut us from a passage to the Isthmus of Tehuaptepec; robbed us of the prospective sovereignty of the Pacific; and, for God only knows how long, delayed the glory of what will yet be accom-plished-the complete supremacy of Anglo Saxon liberty, enterprise, art, and industry on the North American continent. The United States may now beat the "rappel" of retreat; recall her victorious armies amid the hootings of the Mexican rabble; abandon the posts, cap itals, and fortresses where her banner has wav ed so gloriously, give up the blood-bought tro phies of the battle-field; forsake the bleaching bones of her thousands of immolated soldiers; and, pocketing the contumely of the world charge herself with the old debt and claims against Mexico, and the hundred millions expense of the war, and prepare to pay the fifteen millions more squandered for a dishonorable peace! Never mind the shame, the dishonor! Down with the American flag, from San Juan to Cha pultepec, and send home those heroes whose lives have been periled for an ignominious prize. Send them home, that they may be dis patched to the sand wastes and chaparrals of New Mexico, Santa Fe.Sonora, and Upper Cal ifornia, to bivouac among alligators, mosqui toes, and Indians, the latter of whom we are bound by this infamous treaty to keep from depredating upon Mexico. The treaty is latified! Let the people chew it as a sweet morsel of taxation and war for perhaps generations to come ; for into this wil derness, civilization shrinks from penetrating with her enterprise, industry, inventions, and arts, while there is a decent spot of earth left. Our Senators can now gloat securely over their territorial conquest. They have freed Mf xico from the trouble of protecting nearly a million square miles of swamps; desert, and rock-land which, in the face of all their boasts of fertility and wealth, have in three hundred years accu mulated less thap 300,000 white inhabitants and those of a very questionable charac ler. The treaty is ratified! Mark the glorious boundary won by thisjietc indemnity, Trace it up to the centre of the Rio del Norte to the Gila, and from thence west from the mouth of the Colorado to the Pacific. What an area! New Mexico, Santa Fe, part of Sonora,andall Upper California ours,induding natural wealth and products worthy of Patagonia and the African deserts, and savages sufficient to breed Semiuole and Creek wars to employ the whole of our grand army for half a century! But we bear no shouts of rejoicing from the American people. Why is this? Ah, the gold, the silver, the cochineal, the pearls, the rich fancy and dye woods, the glorious gardens of tropical fruits, and the inestimable passage from the Gulf to the Pacific, holding the key to the treasures of India, and commercial supremacy on the globe, all lie south of that odious new boundary. All that was worth having Mexico has saved, and we have taken her territorial scum Heaven grant it may not give us na tional scurvy at a cost of not less than two hundred millions of dollars and thousands of priceless lives. For the purposes and interests of the present we have gained nothing buta prospect of bloody Indian wars and expensive territorial settle ments; and be it remembered this Treaty provides that the present white inhabitants of our new wilderness have the privilege and are to be protected in the enjoyment of the rights of Mexican citizens, if they do not choose to come under the laws and institutions of the United States. Magnificent treaty! TFhen England or France opens a passage to the Pacific via Panama or Tehuantepec, as one or the other will soon do, let the United States console herselt that she got the bay of San Francisco by her Trist treaty! If she finds that she cannot accept of Yucatan because Mexico reclaims it and we are bound by treaty to keep peace with Mexico let her think of the bay of San Francisco! This in fact is her magnum bonum of the treaty. Forever be such a treaty condemned a treaty which lakes nothing but insult, and expense, and gives everything valuable. The American people will yet repudiate it by pushing their boundary to where God designed it Panama on the south and the Gulfs and Oceans 011 the east and west. Echo. The Memphis Eagle says there is a remarkable echo in Arkansas opposito thai city. On the night of the reception of tho nom ination of Cass in thut place, homo fellow shouted with uKhinine luuj;, "Cum, is llw nominee!" Echo, on the otlior hide, iniirmdiately repeated it, end to the inuumse merriment of a large number of by-slanders, un follows-'nas, is the nominee" The lotos thi-umdvrs shook their sides with their laughter, and waned to think that Echo was"more than half tight.'' New York Politics.- The Herald publishes a list of 53 journal in the State of New York, which support the nominations of Cass and Butler, and another list of 39 barn-burner journals, which denounced them. The State of New York appears to be well supplied with political papers, as besides these i)7, heretofore all the advocates of the democratic party,, we presume the whigs have equally as many. -

From the Louisville Journal. .. . The Reception of thjs Nomination.

Of course it is not possible for us, limited as our space is, to copy ths remarks of all or even ot a tenia part ot tne wnig newspa pers upon the nomination of Taylor and Filmore. All the Whig papers, as far as we are informed, not only approve the nomination but give it a hearty support, and everywhere the Whigs are holding ratification meetings, and, amid shouts and illuminations and the firing ot cannon, pledging themselves :n (he warmest spirit of enthusiasm to place old Rough and Ready in the Presidential chaire annex brief extracts from a few i in Dor. tant organs of public sentiment : From the New York Courier and Enquirer. We place in our columns, to-day the hon ored name of Zachary Taylor, f i the candidate of the Whig1 party in ihe nation; and from this day the banner of the Whigs is in his hands. We go into the contest with him as our leader nud will come out of it, as he has always come out of hattie victorious, 1 here be no defeat of Za chary Taylor. 1 he action ol the national convention will be hailed with joy throughout the Union the precursor of a greater joy in his actual election, and we enter upon the contest with the inward conviction that November nexi will decide in favor of Zachary Taylor, and tho 4th of March 18 19, will see him inaug erated as the Whig President of the Uuited States, 1 ne reception ot tne nomination in this city was of the most gratifying and enthusi astic character. The news spread like wild fire, and the pleased countenances of every Whig the cheerful alacrity with which they discussed the dawning and prosperous hopes of the party, showed that here as else where the national convention has lightly interpreted the wishes of the Whigs of the Union. From the New York Journal of Commerce neutral. Gex Tavl'ik Nominated. We congrat ulate our readers and the country on the auspicious result. Oen. laylor is the Whig candidate lor the Presidency. 1 his nomi nation, added to the many independent no niinations of the. same gentleman in different parts of the country, apd the general favor of the people in his behalf, almost without distinction of party, secures his election beyond any reasonable doubt. WnhGen. Taylor for President, and peace with all the world, the country will be safe and prosper ous," From the Baltimore American. To the Whigs of Maryland and of (he U States generally, and to many Democrats who desire to see a constitutional Presi dent atthohead of public affairs, the intelli gence of this event will give the most live ly satisfaction. The character of Gen. Taylor remarkable alike lor simplicity and for elevation, exhih its qunliiies thai lay hold at once upon the admiration which delights in bold and bril liant achievements, and upon the judgemen requires substantial elements to give assured convictions of worth and to impart conn dence. Within some two years or more this character, so massive in its nature and 80 imposing in its greatness, lias become known clearly to the American people. Modest unassuming his name has never been mixed up wiih quarrels nor coupled with expres sions of discontent, he never courted notice, nor sought to advance pretensions of his own for promotion or' special distinction; he always had his work to do, and he always did From the Baltimore Sun, neutral.J The nomination of Gen. Taylor is in conformity with that' general demonstration of popular favor with which his successful exploits in ihe service of his country were recived, and which, though it may have abat ed somewhat of its universality, in consequence of parly influences, yet lias never lost any of its fervor in the bosom of multitudes who seem to have linked themselves to his name and fortunes in the political field, with as much zeal and enthusiasm as they honored his distinguished military genius aud achievements. Gen. Taylor is not the sol dier of fortune; his popularity is not the accident of circumstances. He won it by faithful service by indomitable tesolu ion and invincible courage. The military services of General Taylor were the basis of his original popularity, and ihe meat s by which he made his way to a must exalted place in the hearts of his countrymen. Allied with these, he early manifested to their apprehension sound practical principles in all the relations and obligations of life; a strong and original mind; a clear perception of elemetary truih, in its common application to iho circumstances and charac ier of events; and a general capacity adapted to any and eveiy occasion. From the Cincinnati Chronicle. On Thursday at Fifth s'.reet market, will he the Whig ratification meeting. The name of the old Hero of Buena Vista, the soldier of forty years, and the man rough and ready for all eveuis, shoulJ rouse the r.eal and stimulate the energies of his friends. The people will be there to ratify Ihe nomination, which responds to ihoir sentiments. We are told that Governor Morehead and the noble Crittenden will be there to express the sentiments of the Wnig people of Kentucky. Such names remind us of the goodold days of IS 10, when we had such good and such merry times. From the Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. Theie whs 11 good degree ol spontaneous combustion in the ratification by the citizens of Columbus last evening. Without any prnconccrt, the meeting wus magnificent nd tho entliiHiasrn seemed unbounded. L,very one fcpiiioiI to be operating on his own lumk; tho principal houses in the city wnro illuminated; bonfires were built nl tho intpronciioii oftrreis; rockets rind fire-bnlN uliincod through iho sir; iniisic lent its aninntiiitf 1 harm, and the cannon lent their iliuii'ler litiirn in npnnk tho tidings where the lightning Ins no voice. Our entire population, tur n women, find children seemed out, nnl in tho I '"ft of humor with themselves j nini with each other. From the I'.altimore Fotriot Tho Wh'J? national convention in Philadelphia livo accomplished their impmtant ttisk. Tliey have nominated Gen. Taylor, mid in doing so have given us more than h candidate; they have secured for the coiin-i try in his person nn honest aud a patriolic Prcsident. ' ; From the Frankfort Commonwealth. T-day we iin'uit our banner to 1 he breeze bearing in its fluttering folds the names' of our national leaders. The Philadelphia convention, meeting on a .spbtsacied to the

cause of freedom, has done its patriotic work j

and united the hearts and hopes of millions of freemen in the coming contest for the Presidency. And now, lellow-Whigs ot llentucRy,you have bu t two things to do : Forget all that is unpleasant to the past, if anything unpleas ant has been, and go forth to battle for your cause. Your leader is the great Taylor and remember he "nevet surrenders." If. the enemy crowd you, give him 'a little more grape;1' if he stops fighting and asks you what you want, tell hun you want "peace. II he seem lo lie down on the battle-field at night-fall, do you lie down loo, and be prepared to "feel him in 'he morning." If you use in the morning aud hndhitngone, then bury his dead and heal his wounded; send his prisoners home and tell all they have nothng to fear, for the kind-hearted Von Zachary is at the head of jour army. From the Cincinnati Gazette. Since the nomination of Gen. Taylor and Mr, Fillmore has been known, we have been watching our W hig exchanges to see in what spirit it is received. We have not re ceived one which is not ready to give the nomination a hearty and energetic support. A dispatch published yesterday from Cleveland iuforms us that the people are right there, and we doubt not the press is with them. ''The union cf the VVhigs for the sake of the Union" seems to be everywhere the motto of the party, and if we may judge from indications already to be seen, the flood of popular sentiment which carried Gen. Harrison into office in 1810, is to have its equal in a like flood of 1S4S. i TAKEN IN AND DONE FOR! A CASJJ OF EXTREME DNCON;CIENCEABESES3. BV JACONBRIDGE. Not many years ago, if our informant's memory serve iiiui correctly, down it the mighty wooded valley of the Ohio, a straggler, one of the floating population, who go about when and where the current of public opinion, or the tide of necessity may propel them, made his debut, one bright frosty morning, in a certain pleasantly situated village, near stone Creek, by the Ohio's beau teous waters. Did space or pith of our subject permit, we might go on to say, our hero was a mightv sorry looking man, with. many other poetical and romantic figurations about him, whereby to point a moral or adorn a tale. Upon the whole, his looks, perhaps, might not have created any particular attention, though his manner did, in a lew hours after his arrival ut the above defined village; that is somebody's horse was missing, and when daylight revealed this startling vision to the owner ol" the quadruped, there was considerable sensation about said owner's vicinity. A speedy pursuit aided by the right scent, soon put ihe owner of ihe beast and his followers in possession of the missing horse and the aloresaid disciple of Jack Sheppard upon him; All handj now wheeled u bout and made a break lor the village, to have the hoise-thief properly se cured, taken in and done lor according to law. Now it so fell out that the Justice, or Magistrate, kept a store, as is very common in the country, and half of his store was occupied by a very jolly old tiader in hardware and anch like matters: and upon bringing in the horse-thief, being very early in the morning, the magistrate was not about yet, though the hard-dealer was and so, locking up all the doors, the owner of the hor?e and fiis fiiend.", told the hard-ware man to keep a look-out for the horse man, while they lost 110 time lo hunt up the magistrate. Ihe old store-keeper was very hard of hearing, so that, 111 thebiisile of bringing 111 the horseman aud the suddenness of departure of all tho rest, he scarcely got hold of the idea ol what was going on. Turning about and see ing the thief etanding by himself, alone, the old man asked liin what he was standing there tor. "Oil! tliey say I've stole, a Iioss!'' said ;he thief. "Eh? Siole a horse, did you say? Who stole a horse?" 'Why me. Cut I did'nt sir." "It's none of my business," said the old fellow; "did'ut steal my horse none of my business!" "Well, what the thunder do you keep me here for, then?" bawled the horse-man. "I keep you here?1' replied the old fellow who now began to feel unpleasantly situated, locked up with a desperado, who might take the tesponsibil ty of shying a ten pound weight at his head, as a prologue to his escape, aud which escape the store-keeper wished to take place as soon as possible, without the occurrence of sucb weighty preludes, especially as he, the stoie keeper, had no possible interest in detaining the thief at least under such circumstaaccs. "I'd like to sec your 'thority for kcepin' me here any how P continued ihe horse-man, edging up lo the weight. "I keepiug you here? I ain't keeping you here. Who says 1 am keeping you here?" said the old man, trying to convey a hint. 'Well, I'm dirti'd if I stay, anyhow, ole fellar!" "Who wants you to stay, eh! I care nothing about your slaying, said the storekeep er, who indeed wished the fellow safe 011 the gallows, or 011! of his presence, soon as the thief could take ihe hint to clear. "Oil! you don't don't you? Well then, ole fellar, I'm obliged lo you, any how; I'm oil but I wolf l forget you'. "' And out of the window he bounced and made good his retreat to the river, which he crossed, and put his pursuers too far in the rear ever to trouble him again. One summer's eve, some three years after 1 he above circumstance', a very gentlemanly dressed person dropped in:o the store where tho afoiesaid matiers transpired. The same old gentleman in specs, was behind the desk alone. The stranger addressed'the old gentleman, by passing the usual number of-un-incaning words we are wont to use upon hail ing a fellow creature, and added a request to him. "Certainly, sir," responded the old gentleman. "We are nlotie no one is likely to overhear or disturb us sir, here; any thing you have to say will be stridly confidential. "Well then, sir, I have called upon you to pay a de' t.' "Dobl?" chimed in the old gent, hastily seizing his account book, and dipping his goose quill; "what's the name?" "That matters not," said the stranger. "You do doi know me; but you miy recollect, some three years ago, that a poor devil' was arrested near this jowu for horsestealing; ho was brought in here-, until lh mag

istrate could be found, the thief was left in

your custody, and you geuerously allowed mm to escape " "Ah! yes, I remember something o1 the1 sort ,said the gentlemanj "but I had nothing.: to do with it j I was not the fellow's keeper!" . . . "That was all well enough, we understand that," continued the stranger, "you gave me) the hint and I cleared." , . , . . "You! are you the M. '. . . . . "I'm the man. You saved me, sir,' front punishment and disgrace; I've seen the errors of my ways, repented since, and prospered in the honest and honorable pursuits of life. I owe it ell all to you sir." "Oli,' say no more about it; I'm glad if have done yotrsuch a service, indeed, sir, I, I " The old genf, in the extacies of his overflowing heart, at the great and unintentional blessings he had conferred upon ths now repentanlant thief, found his' utterance choken and his hands and heart fluttering with pleasant emotions. The stranger proceeded-r "I honor your feelings, sir; your disinterested generosity has made an impression on my heart that time can never efface, and my prayer shall ever, be, that I have it in my power to make more ample demons t rat ion of my feelings than I now have means to express and " ' Not at all, not all," said the old genf, whese eyes now grew nioist as bis tongue, and he could have hugged the remorsestricken evil-doer as a very apostle. "Don't name it, sir, said he; "I'm more than paid by knowing the good I've done." "My intention by this visit." said the stranger, very sacredly, "is to return my heartfelt thanks, and insist ori your accept' ing, either upon your own, or some Christian? charitable account, this bill one hundred dollars--" "But, my dearir, '' interrupted the old gent, as the stranger brought forth a handsome wallet, and drew out a bank bill where on the C's wore plainly visible, from among a lot wherein there seemed "a few more left of the same sort." "Nay, I insist upon it, sir; take it, and devote it to what purpose you will, fori know it will be well bestowed. Keep it, and my blessings ever be with you." - The wallet was "did up," and pocketed by the stranger, and as he concluded his pious exhortation, he strode to the door, when the good old man called him back, begged, as an especial favor, under asservations of inviolable confidence, Ihe arranger's name, &.c, and added he should be indeed most happy to seivc him if in his power to do so. The stranger, a fier a slight hesitation gave his addiess, with the explicit understanding of confidence, invited ther old gent, to call and see him, when the oppor t unity offered, and as a particular favor requested the old gent. 10 accommodate him with some small bills for a C. "As I know by expeiience, it .is dangerous to be seen in possession of large bills, travelling, so, as I've use for change, you'll oblige ine if convenient," said the stranger, "by breaking this $100 "Certainly, sir, if I can," replied the old gent, who afier a geueml ransack of his drawers, pocket, ccc, cracked the C, and the stranger withdrew, uf er a nervous twitch of the old gent's list, and proceeded oi his way rejoicing; leaving his preserver tomourn over two counterfeit $100 bills! And buother fact is thus recorded, that all is not gold that glitters. Yankee Blade. An LxDErKNnEXT PuBLisnEit.-We are iit receipt of a paper dated Santa Cruz de Rosales, Mexico, by Mr. P. G. Ferguson, containing the report of the capluie of that place by Gen. Price (which has a Iready been published.) It is certainly a queer-looking sheet ahou t Ihe size of a cabbage leaf, aud looks as if it fiad been set up from a mass of "pi," and even al that, he was only able to get up three pages. B it let Ihe editor tell his own story: Daily Crescent. . "When the American troops entered ibis place among other properly that fell into their hands was a printing press and types. The implements of the Great Ait were in a very bad condition, having been 'knocked, into pi' by a cannon ball that entered fiorn the top of the building, playing- the devil with the types and the stands. We found the office in this condition, and after considerable labor succeeded in anauging it in a tolerable manner. The types are very much worn, and the press is the oldest we have ever seen. With such materials our readers cannot be surprised at the appearance of our sheet and if they don't like it, they need not subscribe we are as independent as a fiog on ice and don't cate a copper for public opinion. For our own amusement we issue this paper, and not being troubled with those kind customers called patfons, we can pursue the even tenor of our way aud snap our fingers at the vvoild and all its ucst oi grumblers." ' A Good Joke. "How much do you ask for that melon?" said acute dapper looking chap to a sturdy darkey who was mounted upon a cart, before one of the principal hotels in Philadelphia, a day or two since. 'For dis big'un, why, massa, I teckons he'j worf tree levies, I dots.' . , 'Is it ripe?' 'O yes massa, lie ripe shu, I dun p!ug um drougb if you say so.' - With that, the datkey out with his old Jack and commenced cutting, when the melon gave a long, deep, piercing 'oh!1 'Gosh a mighly ! wals dat?' exclaimed cuff, sJopping his knife. 'What do you stop foi?' asked the gentleman. ; Bress God! tot him holler, I did.' 'Come, cut away and see if its tipe." He gave another poke with his knife, and 1I113 time the melon shrieked out, 'oh, murder! you kill me!' ' Before the last word was out, the melon went tumbling to the ground 011 one side of the cart, and the darkey on die other, bellowing, 'O, de Lord! O de Lord ob Hebengl' : ; . Picking himself up, ball, scrambled half run a few paces from the cart; on turning to behold rhe fragments of the melon, continued, 'W'hew, dis nigger neber stands dat. Clare to God he heller murdei!' While Wy man, 'the celebraied ventriloquist, walked away amid the shouts and Toms oi the by slanders. - .," . -. ; The number of the military who fell in the Berlin revoltition,Tdid not exceed twentyl Report said two thousand! ";