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HISTORICAL.
TEXAS. As the present movements in Texas attract ennt cerablc attention, and as its history is not genjsv Jtn.iwn; neither can it he found in the librar;cs of the country, we think a few of our columns ciu;cl not he devoted to a hotter pnrpnse, than in li.- f.-,Hrvinnr nrinf viow nf if frnm tli
pen, of P. H. Campbell, lately published in the Loaisville Journal; It formerly constituted a pari ofthe provjncc"of I.ouisana, and belonged to the crown ct'Spain. The kins; of Spain, about the year ISOi ceded it to Napolean Donaparle, then
ermcrer of the trench, upon w hich our mi
tn.trtal Jctlcrson, then President ofthe um (eJ States, protested to the French Govern
pent niainst uie acquisition, ami opened a npoiiaaon at Pari-, by which the U. States
became the owners of the whole country of
Loiiiana bv purchase, in the same stale and lotlu same extent that it had been held by the Spanish Government. About the year 1SII) a revolution broke out in the then Spsnidi .Mexican ami South American colonies, which they, the natives, as your glorious
ancestors had done before them, carried on with various success, to a glorious termina
tion, a recognition of their independence by car sovernnv-Mit, and all the enlightened gov
ernments of Lurope. During their struggle for independence, they had their Lafayette, Ko?ciuko, De Kalk, and Pulaski, who quitted the endearing scenes of domestic life and
Heir to the succor of the struggling liberty in
Mexico, in the persons of a Long, a Gains, a
Bean, and nnnv others, with their followers,
who fought side by side with the native Mexicans against the Golchipins. and their sav
age and cannibal allies, the liockers, or Lv ronkiwavs, Camanches, and the other tribes
who then infested that section oflhe country;
na on the termination of the war with the mother country, or cessation of hostilities, many of the North Americans, who had served in
their armies were given liberal donations of
land, and invited to incorporate themselves i:h the new government.
About the vear 1818 or I'd, during the
presidency of Mr. Monroe, John Q. Adams, Secretary of State, for some one, or probably
n put all of the following reasons, viz: to ap
pease the Spanish Government for Gen.
Jicks Vs having taken possession of the Flo-
:Jas, his ignorance of existing treaties, the
yogiaphy of the country, or design to stop
-eiarthcr extension of the Southern Slates,
properlv and injurious! v to his own country,
"fjJtiited. and entered into a treaty slipu-
Jtion wuh Don Onis, the then accredited
nister at Washington from the court of
hdrid, bv which he asrreed. on the rarl of
'government, to accept ofand establish, as r western boundary, the Sabine river,
reby ceding to Spain a treaty right to 1 ex-
and forfeiting or giving away a country ;h ten 1'loridas. He did not slop here
give them seven millions of the people's
'fv in addition, and only got in return a
intuition to the Pine hills of the Florida?.
food lands of those two provinces having
viouslv been covered bv Spanish grants.
Voout this time, Moses Austin, the father
c present cmpiesario or governor ol one
the Texan colonies, proceeded to the city
Mexico, and there, with the provisional or
;Wic government of the Mexican Ilepub-
contractcd for the present colon v of Aus-
M he, soon after dying and a counter 'u'ion liming taken place, his contract
held to be forfeited about the year 1SC0, Ntenhen V. Anc'iti ent on in nrrson to'
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every thing was ordered by the priesthood, and enforced by the military in Mexico. Under the imperial reign of 'llurbide. it was revolutionary and despotic, and he met his fate. After the adoption of the constitution, the liberal and enlightened part of the Mexican people, thought their troubles at an end. and with that view, they elected to their first! office, the presidency of the republic, a dis-! i i . ...... t
unguisiieu statesman and philanthropist, in the person of Padrassa. and at the same time elected the splcnded and towering genius. Buslimcnto. their vice-president, w iio no sooner saw that he had the confidence of his
countrymen for the second office within their gift, than he fixed his heart upon the first, and by the intrigues of himself, the priesthood, and traitors to liberty and their country, he expelled the good and virtuous Padrassa, from the presidential chair, and bis country. Padrassa sought an asylum in our beloved
. i country, where he remained, making obser
vations on our government, manners, cus
toms, and habits, until his ronslitutional term
of time as president had nearly expired.
Immediately on Padrassa's expulsion from
the presidential chair of Mexico, llustimento began a system of military and despotic rule.
winch was revolting lo humanity. He appointed the accomplished general and towering tyrant, Tyian, as a military commander
and governor of the States bordering on Texas,
including Texas. He established a cordon of
military posts round the entire province of
I exas, and supplied them with troops, ord
nance, arms,and munitions of war, and for their support, they plundered the colonists, until the patience oflhe latter was exhausted and whcnsime of them complained, they were immediately arrested and loaded with irons; at this time, or a little antecedently, viz: on the 3rd day of January, at Vera Cruz, general Gomex De Santa Anna, up to that time a distinguished general, and an enlightened republican patriot, declared against the Bustimento administration, took the field in person, and marched against the hrant general Tyran, whom he met and overpowered; and
pursuing his triumphs to the city of Mexico,
he overthrew Bustimcnto, recalled Padrassa, and put him on the chair a few weeks prior to the expiration of his term. As soon as the
Texians heard of Santa Anna's having taken the field, in the defence of the constitution and laws, against Uustimento's usurpation and tvranv, they lv one impulse, declared in fa-
vorofhis plan, and for the reinstatements of
the constitution and civil government ot the
country. All quitted the occupations ot civil life, embodied ashy magic and with their rifles and inferior numbers, reduced and cap
tured three strongly fortified posts, releasee their brelheren who were in manacles, restored them to their immediate friends, sent the Mexican captured troops out of Texas, and returned to their several homes and domestic
occupation. Upon hearing of these events, Tyran, the despotic gene ral, gave up in despair at the city of Mctimoris, threw himself upon his own sword and expired giving, one would think a sufticenl lesson toSt. Anna, or any other ambitious tyrant. In April. the Texians believing that their numbers and wealth, gavethem.as itevidently did, the right under their Federal Constitution to a separate and Independent State government, from that of Cahuila. elected members who held a conventional St. Fillippo De Austin, the capital of the colony of Austin, when and where they drew up, and adopteil a most rxcellent constitution for J
the anticipated State of 'I eras; perfectly in accor
dance with the federal or national one, except that
they said not one word about religion or slavery in it and selected J?. F. Austin, their emprcsario or
colonial governor, to go on with it to .Mexico, the scat of government of the nation, and where their
national congress was in session, for the purpose of
obtairg its ratification and the admission of the State of Texas into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. No sooner was the ob-
L,u ts 0T Purchase from France, that it was improperly surrendered to Spain bv a treaty stipulation ol John U. Adams, as I have before explained: that
our government is helivcd recently to have made
se o us oust endeavors to purchase it again from the Mexican government; that our negotiator has
utm prevented from doing so hv the jealousy and
suspicions ofthe Dictator, Santa Anna, elicited hv
me interference of the British emmissarics in that
country, their capitalists who have loaned that gov
timuti.i large sums of money, their merchants who
wish to monopolize their trade, and the priesthood all combined; that the North American population in all 1 exas is now about sixty thousand; that the
wiioie population of the Mexican States is about ten
millions, not one in fifty of whom can rondnr writu
mat nine tenuis of them are bond slaves to the
priesthood, or their great men; and that Santa Anna
lias upwards of one thousand himself in servitude
Important EtcEj-is.
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.
this body was organized on Monday the'
tb
Dec, agreeably to the Governor's Proclamation for
a called session. In the House Gen. Skmpi.k took
his seat as Speaker. The customary committees were appointed to wait upon the Governor, and in-
torm turn ot their organization, rc. On Tuesday fl.... 1 1 .... . V- , ...
vj. a. a uiussajre was receiveu. it is more
than usually brief, the Governor confining himself
to three or four important points of domostice poli
cy, me suoject ol the apportionment of Represen
tation, is tirsl noticed. After informing the Assem
blv that an unsuccessful effort had been made to ob
tain a loan of money for the construction of the II
linois and Michigan Canal, and setting forth the great value of the lands already appropriated for thispurpose, the Governor recommends the passage
oi an act authorizing the loan, "on a pledge of the
faith of the state," of such sum of money as may he
deemed necessary lor the purpose. He earnstly
urges the adoption of efficient measures for the
speedy accomplishment of the object. TJ I E NO-MIN AT ION.
Ilarrisburgh December 2-S. Since the nomination of William llenrv Harrison and FraneisGran-
ger has been sent forth from this place, information returns upon us from every section of the State, of its cordial reception by the People. There is no
disguise in the matter. No ticket ever received a
warmer or fuller support; none was ever elected hv
a larger majority than this will be in the "Key
stone State." None was ever feared with such trembling by its competitors as thie is by the Van
Uurenites. I he States of this Union will he moved
by the vigorous impulse given to it in this, and carry it onward into triumph; the triumph of the CON
STITUTION and the SUPREMACY OF THE LAWS. Stale Democrat.
Cincinnati Dec. 30. A Frenchman, by the name of L' Due who had a dying establishment on Walnut street, absconded night before last, as we are told, under the following melancholy auspices, A lady arrived in this city, sometime during Monday, and asseverated, that she had a legal and irresistible claim upon the person and effects of the said .Monsieur IDue, and that he had left her sometime previously in the eastern country. She, having got (wind of him, seentec1 him out,to his tlomicil in Cincinnati. Unfortunately for her success, it appears that her liege had formed a matrimonial a'liance with a spinster here, sometime ago, and who a couple of months
since had been consigned to her grave. Our Frenhman made shift to repair his loss as soon as practicable, and before another Moon had waned, had actually secured in hands hvmenial, a damsel
who had just began to count her teens. They got along tolerably well together for the month prior to the arrival alluded to, as havingtranspired on 31011-
day last, which circumstance threw tiiem into a nonplus. On Monday night, L'Duc, in company with his newmade spouse, abandoned the city; anil in the morning, those interested in the affair, were ignorant of the direction which the fugitives had taken; and the wife, who had travelled thither in order to reclaim her husband, was once more the victim of his runaway propensities. It is said that L'Duc has quite as many wives as a good Turk is allowed to appreciate viz: four. Now here is a
chance for gentlemen of the police, and we very
sometime since was advertised by the Directors as
having absconded with a large amount of the funds
ot that mstitut.on. was arrested near JJaltimore hv
two of the city officers, on the 21st inst. He was committed to prison, afterexamination to await the
requisition of the authorities of Louisiana. "When
taken before the JIagistrate" says the Patriot, 'we
learn that IJabcock at once admitted himself to be the absconding Cashier of the Clinton Bank, and
acKnowledged having mace wav with or abstracted
.iiMuii. uir.inni miliars oi iis nines. ji tins sum, from seven to eight thousand dollars, we learn, were found upon him when apprehended. Whether
the remainder has been squandered oris, any part of it, likely to be available to the institution, we do not learn." Jf'hig. A little boy who had been sent to" tbe post office after letters, on his return, with the greatest earnestness imaginable, said toJ.is father, who by tbe way was a land speculator, "Daddy, they've riz on letters "tother day I got one for ten cents, and now they ask nine pence." . A letter from New-Orleans, received Wednesday, mentions that Robert Potter, (formerly a Representative in Congress from North Carolina,) was killed at Texas, in a skirmish about the fif
teenth of November.
M E LA NCIIOLY HOMICIDE, Isaac M'Giire, a hatter, was shot through the
left breast yesterday evening, just befoie dark, on
the S. u . corner of I bird and Walnut streets, with a pistol, by CHARLES i GEDNEY, one
ofthe City Watchmen,
v e understand that Gednev, in the course ofhis
official duty, some time ago, had occasion to arrest
McGuire, for which the latter declared vengeance
gainst him, and threatened to flog him at sight.
Meeting at the time and place above mentioned.
31 (uire made an assault with hishtts upon Gednev
when the latter nulled a pistol from his pocket am:
shot him as before stated. 31'Guire instantly ran
across the street to the opposite corner, where he
fell, exclaiming "I'm a dead man." 3FGuire wa
a man of much mere physical power than Gednev
lie was still living at i o clock last night, but was
expected to die helore morning.
As we suppose the case will undergo a judicial
investigation, welorbear further comment.
Cincinnati Whig Dec. 22, Deckmher 2.
Isaac McGvire, who was shot bv Gkdkey, a
few days ago, died of his wound on Friday night
ast and what is very remarkable, the ball which
entered the left breast, penetrated the lower part of
the heart, was found, on examination after death
odged in the groin, of his right thigh, having fallen
to t hat position through the cavity of one of the in
tier vessels. tin. Whig.
"Bear ofthe largest size," which he succeeded in "mauling" to death with his rists, after a splendid contest of five minutes. Next morning, accompanied by two of his neighbors, he repaired to the battle field, w hen Jo! he had killed a line Yearling calf. 1.71. Whig. A Rowland for an Oliver. A 3Ir. J. G. 3Iartix, of Davidson county, Tennessee, at a recent dinner given in that ttate to 31r. Grundy, gave the following toast: "Whig and lianner .Yashville; Patronized and pampered by the friends of Andrew Jackson "they heard the lion in his den, reckless of truth; throw lieain the very teeth of Ins family, and thia under the garb of friendship. I'erfidia vlusquam vcrnicia." " In reply to this vrry courteous notice, the proprietors of the Whig and Hamier, publish the following article. We deem it, under the circumstances, sufficiently Caustic to cut quite through the epidermis of their sercn years Patron! "MllXO .VOS IMI'INE LACKSSIT." "BLACK LIST. JAMES G. 3IARTIN, of Davidson Corxrv. To subscription to the National Banner and Whig, from 1st of January, to .'list Decem
ber, l!?25. Seven vears at $6 $42 00
Mr. 3Iahtin, will please call and settle his ac
count.
W. IIASEL HUNT ic Co."
THE NEW YORK FIRE IMPOSITION.
We have been kindly favored with the perusal
of letters from respectable Houses in N. York to a
gentleman in this city, which state, that one bun
dred dollars per load were offered to cartmen, du
ring the conflagration, to carry goods from the
reach of the dames, but that the unconscionable
fellows demanded more.
One of the letters states further, that $l")00were
offered to aCartman to remove the goods in a sin
gle store, hut the offer was rejected.
Another letter states, that the Insurance Otn
cers w ill generally be able to pav the whole amount
of their losses, but that there will be little or noth
ing left for the stockholders. Cin. Whig.
ject of his visit to the seat of the general govern4 . a .1 I. U n tlmrt lid II'l rtt-doi--
c - ot .Mexico and renewed the contract ,i i,;i, r.w pvm.ip.1 .it,.i
then late father, in his own name, it J his person incarcerated in a loathsome calaboose in
5 been left to him bv his father's will.lthe city of Mexico, for nearly two years, without turned and commenced the settlement j their being able to establish a solitary charge acolony, under as great privations, hard- Sst him of a criminal or .lis oval nature to Ins
, i , . i government, ne ins lauci i u-h h-h.,imu, imiu i : ana dangers, as ever anv people cn-n , i.e.: n,i u,.,.,t i.;e
. . . C ' I I f!ira I II W I I IIU llf.UI Ul ll la ll'IMHici.-", mn, m vu -,. i if
crtU lil the sotlh-meilt ol a llCW COUIllrV.1 lo ...ciln iUm w-lth l,i nnliilitonoil ami
much hone that thev may succeed in arresting tl
gentleman of colors, and handing him over to the
authorities of the land lor condign punishment. Whh
A bill has passed the House of Representative
of 3Iassachusetts striking out the whole list of "cj-
emvts'' fiom military duty. Judges, Doctors, Min
istersand all, must now "shoulder hoot," and walk
up to the chalk."
.Ml the prisoners in the Baltimore jail for the
last summer s riot, have escaped.
fficotru. She has no head and cannot think, no
heart and cannot feel! " hen she moves, it is in wr.ith: when she naiises. it is amid ruin! Her
oravers are curses; her god is a demon; her com
mnnion is death; her vengeance is eternity; her
iW.iloiriip is w ritten in the blood of saints; and ll
.... .. - - - ...Ultimo, n c o t . I I i i in in i , . ..... .... t. ..v. ...... itli; III,- l& , f ill III 111 nil. v. . i , ...... . . S to subsist almost entirely for several virtuous counsel, mid periling his valuable life and 1 5,l0 stops a moment in her infernal flight, it is upon
Pontile wil,l came; and, at the same splendid rortune for Ins adopte.i country wmist 'efendeJ themselves against thccontinu-LSn.nta.Ann?' w,,om 'V'.r1 c?tMs
t-.,,., i , t . r .1 r i i neipen to cievaif to tne nr.-i. oiuri.- iii iuvii i;in, miand depredations of the powerful nii ',ful of the favor, and blind to the fate of all tv-
- -00. wao inhabited the country, but
'Vns 1 Sll I'lrti- .i rrrtm. nil fhi'r
adcs, and were fast advancing in civilin wealth, and refinotr.enf, the Mexican
! Having formed National and Stale gov-
n:?, precisely on the model of our own.
a kindred rock, to whet her vulture fangs upon
L-cener ranine. ami replume her wings for a more
sanguinary dissolution..
'lf l'iVnl!.iiij .f ll . rr.-lirr!il.
I I ""(iiv'iij' V'l IIIU SUliM I fc I.' I lllij.ii'i' 1 il. ll in- . . i- .i . ...
.s to religion, me coiimiuiF'Mides ln;lt t,c Rom:,n catholic rclibe the religion of the Mexican
"t,tat their ccngress shall protect it bv
;;,J?tand human laws, and by right and
ones sha prohibit the exercise ot Other." Tl. l ' . i .... ,
i niii part in relation to siaveiy . "that slavery or involuntary servi
rcs,
5 shall
ot exist after ISoO." Pv the
i 7 institution the province of Texas
to the of Cahnila. for all state
until it shall be able to exist as a J'e and independent state; at which
'" "'habitants are authorized to call a
nt.
ronstif il-
Al .i . ...... ....
3,xican government and States r-'ican i forn have ever re- : t prrf. rtlv dead letter for all prac-
iit 11 might
Van Buren has given orders to all his presses to
attack Harrison as a military chieftain to speaK
boldly ofthe evils of electing military men to civ-
il offices. He s!vs that care has been taken not
to allow General Jackson to see any of those pa
pers.
An eccentric wag used to say that it was not wicked to lie, swear, cheat, or steal, and that he
f-nnl.t nrnve it from tcrinture. I bus it was not
wicked to lie in bed; to sw ear to the truth; to cheat the devil; or to steal from bad company.
The Georgia Telegraph, published at 3Iacon,
contains the following: " I he lexas lever has treated us worse than the cholera. Our office is
completely swept! Journeymen and apprentices,
men and bovs, devils and angels, are all gone to
Pcxas! If our readers get an empty sheet, or no
sheet at all, don't blame us.
n. ' I,a,,tsaro authorized to t "narid form a State govern wr , the National and State ro
a wc
never Have
rants, has declared himself sole Dictator of the
.Verican Nation, and issued his Kuict, that all the North Americans who have settled in Texas since 1S-0, shall immediately, at the point of the bayonet, be expelled from the country, and their estates
confiscated to his use, and has ordered one of his T; ra n-like generals, Cce, at the head of a mercenary and brutal soldiery to carry his unrighteous, tyrannical edict and order into ctfect. Cos, as early astbe 1st of October, was on their borders; and
should he not have deceived the Texans, with respect to his numbers, he and his whole command are now at this time prisoners of war to the Texans;
but should he have represented his members as greatly inferior to w hat they really were, then he may have drawn the ardent Texans into an ambuscade and captured them, in which event the lovely Canaan of America will be made a desolation, the remainder of our friends in that country slaughter
ed, or driven out, and their wives and daughters violated bv a brutal soldiery.
'" Totho?e w ho are not aeqmited with thegeograI 11 M.rtir f ntnnr n ro m
better no doubt.) I would saV, that it is a tract of ! mll jn durance for semeolfence against the peace ,! bout a month ago all the proceedings in the case of One year ago and he was not mentroi ed a canthe finest countr-on the continet of North America, 1 a,,d dignity of the Wolverine commonwealth, but acer.am culprit were arrested by the exercise of didate The first meeting ,n bis lavo. w held at
A Philadelphia Editor predicts, that "the Wellies and Muhlics w ill soon be as loving as turtlec." Snapping Turtles w e presume he means. Lou. Jour.
RAIL ROAD REPORT.
From a hasty glance at Col. Stansbury's Rail Road Report we glean the following interesting
particulars:
The 3ladison, Indianapolis, and Lafayette Road
is 1-10 miles long; its total cost a?l,300, 797 83
average cost per mile $11,410 42.
The Evansville and Yincennes road is 01 miles,
and a few chains long, its total cost 5-'17,ll 77 average cost per mile JH.'t-O 77. The Yincennes and Terre Haute road is 75 miles and a fraction in length; total cost 4G!,.1'J.'3 05 average cost per mile j,0O! fM. The La wrenccburgh and Indianapolis road is 04 miles long; total cot l,00;:!,sr)5 dollars 15 cents average cost per mile 11,317 00. The Columbus and Jelfersonville road is 73 miles and a fraction in length; its total cost 721 ,394 dol
lars Ml cents average cost per mile 9,861 dollars 05 cents.
The New Albany and Crawfordsville turnpike is
15S miles lonar: its total cost 0C,581 doll trsP4
cents average cost, per mile 4,300 dollars 51 cents The Yincennes and New Albany road gradu
ation is 104 miles and a fraction in length; its total cost 150,097 dollars 23 cents average cost per
mile 4,300 dollars o4 cents. From the above summary it will be perceived, that the aggregate number of miles of the above w orks is 05; and the total cost of completion, according to the sw orn estimates of the Engineers on the dilierent routes, is 5,53,031 dollars 77 cants. The Engineers arc gentlemen of experience and integrity, and the whole exhibits the important
fact, that no state in the Union is better adapted to
Rail Roads than Indiana. Indiana Democrat.
Pop Emmons, of Washington, fired a pistol at his
landlord, .Major Harrison, w ho hail taken possession
of his premises illegally: but the bail passed through a pnnc of glass. A 31r. 3Iallingley, brother in-law to Harrison, fired nt Pop Emmons, and missed him.
Emmons then popped out of the house with only
his cloak as a covering, and ran across the Penn
sylvania Avenue Mallingley alter him. He took
refuge in an opposite house, dressed himself, and returned to his premises, where 31allingley caught ami threw him over th j fence. The police bound over all the parties, and refused to take oath of Pop Emmons on the ground that he denies the existence of a God. -V. 1". Star. Cold Weather. It was so cold in Bangor on Wednesday evening last, that we froze one of our ears while crossing the street. The thermometer stood at 2i degrees below Don Pedro, as the darkey said. Hangar, .Ve. Die. 22. I'an Iiuren on the decline. A supporter of Yan Buren in Indiana, writes to his friend in Washington City, as follows: 'It is unnecessary to attempt to build hopes where there is no foundation for them; candor is as necessary in politics, as truth is in religion, and my duty to my party , and the respect I bear for my friends, requires mo to 6ay, that Harri. son will take Indiana, in despite of us, and it is an idle attempt to oppose the current of popular feeling. Our party has nothing to hope for here, and the best thing w;e can do, is to look to those States which are already safe, and, if possible, keep them
so.' O'i. (Jaz.
The Slave, who some time since attempted to
take the life of his mistress, Mrs. Thornton, of
Washington city, has been tried and found guilty.
The punishment is death.
Domestic. For the following home items, we
are indebted to the 'Journal and Luminary' of this city. Mr. E. Whipple the enterprising manufac
turer of stoves, in Cincinnati, has 100 men in his employ, not one of w hom is known to use strong
drink. 3Ir. s. establishment is based on prin
ciples of total abstinence. Fourteen hundred of
the most respectable cinzens of Cincinnati, have
signed a memorial to the city council against me increase of grog-shops. All the wards have not
yet been visited. 3Ir. II , the keeper of one of
our respectable public houses, was so impressed
with the horrid evils of intemperance in the case of
Cowan, that he banished the poison from his bar.
He has shown true patriotism. Fifteen new stu
dents, nearly all of whom are graduates of some
college, have entered Lane Theological Seminary the present session. The Trustees of Woodward
High School, Ln this citv, will apply to tue legisla
ture the present session for a college charter.
C i?i. .vtrror. Irish ofthe sixteenth century. In 1500 a coun
tryman and contemporary gives the following ac
count ofthe Irish ofhis time. He describes; them as warlike, patient of fatigue and hunger, but pre-
fering indolence and liberty to every thing else;
gnorant, credulous, and superstitious in the high
est degree; remarkably fond of music, feasting.
and merriment. He particularly notices a class of men very numerous at. that time, who travelled over the country at night for the purpose of committing robberies, whose depredatious were attended with cruelty, and whose occupation was not considered dishonorable. Whenever they set out on an expedition, they prayed to God that they might be successful in obtaing plunder, and w hen obtained, they considered it as a gift from him.
Yanpalia, Illinois, Dec. 14th, 1S35.
Expcgino. Dear Sir: The Senate and House
Representatives of Illinois have just pissed reso
lutions for expunging the condemned resolution of
the I nited States Senate. Lrpungc is the word.
In the Senate the vote was 15 to 10; and in the
House it was 30 to 10. Globe.
Gen. Di ff Greex, lias announced his return to
the editorial chair of the Telegraph, and he assures
is readers "that he is not the man to abandon his
duty at such a crisis; and that no labor or expense,
consistent with a due regard to receipts, shall be
! spared to render the Telegraph worthy of the pub- ! lie patronage.
Legislative Bi.i ndkr. Owing to a casus omissus in the criminal laws of 3Iississippi, the crim
inal is allowed to challenge an indefinite number of
The Corporation of New York has. with a public spirit highly creditable, passed a resolution to issue bonds to the amount of SIX MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, with a view of loaning them to the Insurance Companies of that city.
Gov 3Iason of Michigan, undertook to pflrdon a Jurors, and thus prevent The action ofthe law. A-j people's candidate, than GEN. HARRISON.
Among the many interesting incidents that occurred during the great fire, says the New York 3Iercantile Advertiser the following should be re
corded: A wealthy merchant who occupied a store in Front street, seeing the danger to which his pro
perty was exposed, made many fruitless attempts to hire cartmen to remove his goods but they were all engaged. At last he met a cart, and said to the owner "I will give you five hundred dollars for your horse and cart." "Sir, it is yours." With this means the merchant removed the principal part of his goods, amounting to upwards of $S0,O0O, which haif an hour later, would have been consumed by the flames. TEXAS VOLUNTEERS. We understand that fifty-two Volunteers from this Citv, New port and Covington, will depart from
the Steam Boat landing at 10 o'clock this morning,
under the command of Captain Sidney Sherman,
for the Texian Army. Only thirty of these noDie fellows are provided with uniforms, but we understand that uniforms for the remainder of them, can be made on their passage down the river, provided the liberality of our citizens furnishes them with the materials. We hope therefore that those who fell disnosed to make donations, will do so, before
the boat (the Augusta,) pushes off. 3Ir. Chapman liberally gave them a benefit last night at the. Theatre. This will enable them to purchase many necessary equipments. Success to their chivalrous entcrprize. Cin. Whig.' THE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE.
No candidate was aever morc emphatically the
equal in extent to six States like Kentucky, has a ; it would not do. His 'open sesame!' wrought no : s right to challenge. io sooner was no noerateu sufficiency of arable land to sustain population of; deliverance. Secretary Horner does that business j t''n hf was seized by the populance and severely ten millions or people-that it contains the best i as yet. flogged, tarred and feathered, and rode on a rail. cotton and sugar land vet discovered ontbecontirent that it extend from S decrees north latitude' A im.ain Arhistki..- W learn from the Balti-j As 3Ir. , of Jackson county, Indiana, was ... r i I n.,,-;., ,,.. 71 If" rashier ot fli rptiirnmiT frnm n no i n-li hn ri ii or iTTYKT-shO!) a few eve-i
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more than ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY meetings of tha people have nominated him, some of which have been attended by thousands. The officeholders have opposed hkn, but the people have rallied around the standard .'of Harrison and De-
under the Spanish govcrnmen t ! siiverVihaV it once clearly' belonged" the'Umted 1 Branch Bank i f N. Orleans, at Clinton, La., who ; nii.gs since, he was most furiously attacked by a mocracy. Pa. Intelligencer.