Indiana American, Volume 14, Number 36, Brookville, Franklin County, 4 September 1846 — Page 1

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Our Country Our Country's Interests and our Country's Friends. C. F. CLAUKSOX. I?I?CKVILLE, ANIL LIN COUXTV, INDIANA, F 12,1 DAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1S4G. VOL.XIV. NO. 3G,

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A Skinned Eoosier. We have "cMom read any thing half so riches Ihe following. The public will remember that Indiana, hoists of a memLei cf Congress named Wick, from Chapman's district and of his politics, whose personal and political history is rich in alt that mikes a man notorious. A few years ago the said Congressman was a whig, but in the ups and downs of politics, so common in our day, he found hmelf on the other side of the fence, zvA on his road to M ashington. Like all new converts, Mr. W. turns out to be one of the most servile imps of Mr. Polk, and "goes every thing blind," against Tariff, Harbor and River bill&c, &c, Some of the democratic members of Conaress from Pennsylvania,

ISew ork and Ohio, expressed scrupies about the K.odification of the Tariff bill lately passed, and this fact coming to the ear cf brigadier Wick, he wrote Chapman of the Sentinel, that he intended to whip them into the traces, and "five them a sound pummeling." This threat he carried into execution, and he acted as whipper-in to the South on the Tariff debate. Dut he "caught tartar," and found that there were blows to receive as well a3 to girt in such a business. This "pummeliic?" is a two handed game, as the " Brigadier" found out to his cost, and if his eyes are not badly bunged in the contest, the hide around them must be as thick as that of a rhinoceros. Mr. Rathburn of New York, a good Van Duren democrat, took up the cudgels for the tariff Loco Focos (as Wick called them) and proceeded to pour hot shot into the mortal carctsc of the Hcosier Congressman in the manner following below. We have never read any thing more savage in any language or any tongue; known or unknown. How brave would-be Brigadier General, could stand such imputations, passes all our comprehensions of the rules that govern chivalrous military gentlemen. But let all rea l f.ir themselves. Mr. Rathburn proceeds in the following strain, to wit: "I will now turn my attention, for a few minutes, to a subject which I cannot contemplate without feelings of loathing and disgust. I allude to the gentleman, (I beg pardon of the House for the misapplication of the term,) I mean the member front Indian, who said in his speech that his people at home called him Billy Wick. He ought to be a gentleman, and out of respect to the people who sent him here, I hope the committee will overlook my inadvertance. This man, whose head is swelled with pride and vanity, and whose intellect is obscured by egotism, impudence, assurance, and folly, wrote home to Indiana that he intended to whip in the democrats from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. This letter has been published in the papers of that State, and reached this city shortly before that great feat was destined to be consumated. He has proclaimed the same thing here, as I am informed. He is going to whip in these three States. Ohio with her two millions, Pennsylvania with her two and a half millions, and New York with her three millions of peoplethree States that nothing on God's earth can whip are to be whipped by this braggart! Who is he, and what is he, that he dares thus to proclaim his folly and ignorance? A reptile that crawls upon the ground, and licks the dust from the heels of the masters whom he serves, and who disuses him. and will spurn him and spit upon him, when he has performed their dirty work. He says ho was "a Whiz himself once, but now he is bettor imformed," How did he obtain that information? I understand he run as a Whig candidate for Congress three times, and was each time defeated. That "informed" him that the Whigs cculd not send him to Congress and he turned Democrat, and i6 now here. ! He found the right side to obtain the office, and this he calls being ''better informed." His constituents, he says, 'would spurn him if they should see him sociable and familiar with the Whigs 'of this House." His constituents knows their man and his tnterests. They have little confidence in his political integrity. This whipper-in has tried his hand at his new avocation. In what manner did he perform his task? The House will pardon me, if, in indeavoring to characterize Jiis language and manner, I am compelled to descend to the use of ianguago untuned to this place, and the dignity of this body. I will not repeat here the vulgar and obscene language which he used. He disgraced the members of this House, his constituents, and if it were possible which I doubt, himself. His language was that of a low grog-shop, pot-house trawler. It was heard not only by the members of the House, but by the ladies and gentlemen in the galleries. He does not know his true avocation; in my country he would be elected as whipper, not of men, but of a certain annimal which 1 shall not name. Sir, a man may forget his own dignity and self respect, but a man who can forget what is due to the place and the occassion who can forget the character and honor of his constituents, which are both in some degree confided to his keeping, must have a vulgar and depraved mind. But, Sir, the manner of this man was as contemptible and clownish as his language was low and vulgar. He played the buffoon admirably and naturally, for the amusement of the spectators, like a clown in the circus. In alluding to Ohio, he says, "they won't support the tatiff because they cant get a paymaster in th army, and a thov.vnd dollars clerkship." He knows very well that the ground taken by Mr. Brinkcruoof against the bill was that it would not produce sufficient revenue, and because it proposed to tax tea and coffee. He knows that this was the position of all the Democrats of Ohio. The imputation is as base as it is unjust to the Democrats of Ohio. Sir. I hall leave Ohio to her own defence; she iiecm nu kih m mine. lie tens us tan ne tallaun the Ptesident and wanted to bt

made a brigadier general. Yes, sir, he renlly wanted to be a live brigadier. The!

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- - j , , , v. f was a member of Congress. Think you,fr Congress, recently 'down east' sir. that was the true reason? Have you j ,er citizens', yoa'ro .veil awar V

heard him talk of keeping his "red eye on 1 99 inA Ills itiraitfl In "tall hi .ftrliAr. , . ,, n .. . , , .

ne goes nomer lie rresiueni looKeu i . ,., , . . t . . 6 . , , .... . , come, and the tother night 1 had no can into the red eye, and examined that stolid jDLE.' countenance, and he saw that ii was not)

th risht material to make into a eenerai. I Who but this vain egotist would ever hare! thought him fit for a general to command 0 troops in active service? If he had applied to the President to be made a corporal, the answer must have been the same. A general! That man to be converted into a general! Why, sir, he is not as fit to make a general of as . Will not some gentleman help me out with the compar ison? Mr. Chapman, I am at fault. I give itt;p. I cannot think of nothing that I! will venture to mention here. He saili he was a plain spoken man; that children and fools spoke the truth." Mr. Chap man he is no chili. Children are not 9ent here. Age is the only constitutional qualifications requireJ here. I repeat he is no child, whatever else he may be. Now, sir, I have done with the subject; and if in replying, I have said anything not warranted by the strict rules of propriety, it is chargeable to the insolence and impudence of the member from Indiana. I have done with him." Amuiia? Sseno inRsal Life. All have heard of wakinr up the wrong passenger, but here is a case of calling upon the wronr relation, and it losses none of Its rorcance .row. uKn; ,y, u, a-,,u u, , . u..: ...-tl inaiin v 1 rnpr hp ri ,1 iriKi 111 1 irirnt lit' ine the only fiction. In one of our fashlonable .treeta-in fhe v.cin.ty of tha tty, richly attired rjoms of the Lpper 1 ? ive , Hundred but a few days since a jrentle man met three persons a woman ot forty five or so a son of eighteen and a daujrh tr rprlina a vear voun?er. who. from

- - . i - . -f - i i - their dress, rustic looks and speech, show- powerful appeal to the Democratic side of ed at once, they were from a bck settle- the Senate, and alluded to one Senator as ment, stran(jes to tha city its customs, ; a distinguithed candidate for the Pnsidennd peopie. Each had a load of good cy, whereupon Mr. Allen, taking the al!things products of the land, and the care-Uion to himselt, tured round, and in au atful industry of the abundant farm hoas j jtitude of Roman firmness, indicated that oocupants of the thrifty west, 6uch as piiul-j he wab not to bj moved by any such aptry, butter, eggs new laid, and fresh v:g-; peals.

etables. I hey were "hunting up an eiaer member of the familv a son who had been educated for a physician, who had rem ,ved i to our city and "set up" for himself, lie, 1 1 had married, too. and much had the anx ions family heard of the splendor of the : younr physician's house, and the beauty I and urbanity of his city wife.

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paying their first viiit to th-?in. Theycurt-j A Toast of the TdletX. Kind. At the sied to the ?ent!em in, and inquired if hj lite celebration of the kh of July, in the could direct them to Dr. Smith's house. jparish of Caddo; Louisiana, the following O yes, paid th9 gentleman, "he lives toast wis given. It maybe called the royonder, pointing to a epiendid mansion 1 manoo of the confectionary shop, but a few steps distant. J hroi:ij,i Heaven's bat gift to man The party I st no tim in entering the his Pandora, or casket of jewels- hia confront parlor, which was, at tlu m mivtu un- fection iry shop, or ati ?k of rock candy occupied, and seating themselves 'on nice his otto of roses, or sugar coated pill her chiirs. It was the very place and all ! ()resenci bis best company hr voice his the 'nice things' of winch ihey bad SWeetest music her smiles hia brightest heard in the country, were there. How ! moments her kiss the guardian of his in-

beatiful they looked to them can on-inocence her arms the pale or his safety ly be realized by the person who can re-j ,er jjp9 lia most faithful counsellors her member a firet visit to a city from a home-j bosom the softest pill w of his cares eted in the untutored country. j (iirls. d'ye hear that! "His otto of ros in little uneasiness did they await the ei" ();, Mooes! approach of the Doctor, or his wife, eref" ' long, the lady of the house, wholly uncoa-j Co)ioai'o;i for Old Bachelors. The sciousof her visiters, entered the tidy apart-1 Times recommends poor, deserted, singlement whore they were sitting, which was !blessedand singularly unblessed old bachthe signal for a mother's salutation. elors to read the following and hope on. Dropping hor gifts at her feet, the string j Uli, every hair 0f their heads has streammaternal arms ot the yearning mother in ,x n'ionnnintment."

an instant clafpod the toilet decked - . i nec of the somewhat astonished lady. O how glad I am to see ye, my dear darter exclaimed the joy spoken old lady, then iiiviri2 her a kiss followed by second ( embrace, she gave way to 'stand out of the road mother, and let me come,' said by the girl, who had awaited an opportunity; ar.' who as near as sho could remember, followed the mode of salutation she had j-ibt wit . nessed. Then stepped up the, eon, who. taking her by the hand would have smoth ered h;r lioa with kisses! uut this too much! An explosion of temper and an explana tion followed, the well meaning counfty nuiin) 1 r tlior rrfat ninrl i fir.i I inn .

found out that they had wakened up the i9 made up of the initial letters of all pood wrong relation, and that that was not the .men, 'He Hope In God. Clermont Eahouse, and that the wife of another Dr.'gle.

Sinilh! The exit to the street of the poultry , butter, eggs, fcc, with their owners was but the work of a moment! The astonished Mrs. Smith, who. but a moment before bad found a mother, brother Ate. quite unexpectedly was left alone to acquire an eq-uhbrum from the temporary excitemont ujliilo lipr nnnnrpri wpnilpit llioir way to another street for the dwelling of anothcr Dr. Smith. fm f he MmtHTntrat Flng fthc (M tf. T)eiarlut e of (Jen. Taylor. Yesterday morning early, "01I Uough and Heady" left Matamoras for Camargo in the 6teamboat Whitevilte, accompanied, we believe, by about one half of the Texan regiment of infantry and a few regulars. There was no announcement of his depirture, no firing of guns, nothing to indicate that so conspicuous a personage as the commander of the American forces was about to leave a place he had taken, to assume the individual direction of his forces at another point. He left whilst half the city was wrapt in slumber, and ere the sluggard Lad quilted hia couch, was many miles upon his journey. This characteristic of the brave old vet eran, for he had rather lace the enomy, doiihl in n.imhPra. than hear t! hnnmiair of th e cannon and the shouts of men paying homas to bis well-deserved fame. If we understand Geo. Taylor rightly, he is a man who would travel twenty milea out of the way rather than encounter a host 01 friends and admirers who had assembled to honor him by a public demonstration. Gen, Taylor, sinca the occupation of this city by the Americans, has created many warm md ardent frienJs.and his departure will be much regretted we do not mean in an official capacity, for. as we slid before. Col, Clarke will doubtless do all that Taylor wonld htvo done but he has endeared himself to ih-j people by hia many acts of kindncsa, and firet impressions are nard 10 e erased or superceded. 1-1 m.- 4 o arms: to arms ' bride said to the bridegroom. U7 iiiv

A Hasty Plate of Soup." .

IVr-" Ffillpr rit izpna. said r candidate Fel-i .. i ve no eJication. I never went to school in my life " .. . I but three times, and that was to mht j ischool. I wo mrhts the taachr did nt l'CT" Jss. t w.ul Lweuly ' ' '''?r,y-five c."ts!!! r"1'.'1 Je1 nXpvt Tup Next Tuesday." As soon as that! You can't have it. I have told you often that when you was in want of so la r ere a sum of money you must ffive me at least four weekj notice." "Jacob kiel Rachel! An.l he lifted up his voice and wept." Scripturei; II Rachel was a pretty girl, and Kept her face clean, we can't see that Jacob had much to cry about. Qrlt tnr Tal- The Great Western Distillery, between Waterloo and heneca Falls, N. Y., which has no doubt burned up a great many people, got burned up it- i eelf on the niht of the 5lh inst. Luwell Cour. fj-An aristocratic exquisite ess in Witsrtrt.vn, Mi33., enquired of her aunt, "Shall we hive the eiuu sirvants to wait on us in heavan, that we have hera.1 I should so like to have Polly to help me dress in the morning." foice of Industry. OjrUharles J. Ingersolll, and Ficklin, of Illinois, were th only Northern men who voted nay en the proposition to exclude slavery from California. Too True a Remaric. The violator of the Sabbath is but too often the violator! I II f Qf U(Q Co(nniandmenl8. He who breaks one law will scarcely hesitate ffA kn U n n A t h n P 1 lr i t It ( I1C1II-0V l7 K f K . extortion, ends it by - .rv. n(1 e iai. O J t J J ' A Good Joke. A good anecdote is told at the exoense of a Senator. In the course of hi a recent soaech. Mr. Webster mide n Hiinely ffife You can't gn 'along in n "?ror'" wuu ' T be7""?'n rtk htm snJ mrtof n ti fl h world with a homely wife. Sha'll spin;! ng in the glass, and ; turn and twist, and brush and fix, till she j ...:iU l . "'"y3 , ... v . v V V " , ' "".' " "b"k - fi ii mi ii i ii i . i in i, i t. No one is so accursed by fate, No one so wholly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. Respond, as if with unseen wings, An nngpl. ""cpt its quivering string?; And whispers in it sonar, Where hast thou staid so long?' Jl3It appears to be a matter of quesI i ah i m nmsttiv t r m r rC t a Intl f Vl I" fl ff! I tor, whether 'Job s turkey was a hen or a gobbler. Portage Sentinel. UThe Term IVhig.The word Whig tPreltj Good Heligion.'U I had my religion to choose,' says Sam Slick, 'and warn't able for to judge for myself. I'll tell you what Pd do; I'd jist ask mysell j who leads the best lives? tC'Tifty-fovr forty or Fight. The P say that Senators Benton and Hanjnegan had an altercation, while in secret session. The "injunction of secrecy "not yet having been removed, we can't vouch for the rumor. Jl3To mankind, God has given a great library, published in one common language, that library is His works. To ev ery man, He has published a proper book;! it is himself. trTGen. Gaines. The result of the examination into the conduct of Gen. Gaines is favorable, it is said, to the old veteran, and a Court Martial will not be ordered. iC-Couldiit gel no Further. The following is one verse of a battle song, which r '1 . rr ... a soutnern poet perpetraieu laiety . 1 . 1 He! 5U overcome, nowever, uy t.ic cu.t, that he could get no further: The volunteers to the wars have gone On the Rio you will find them; An oil-skin cap their heads upon, And no co at tails behind them. Land of GR.sn Fi Nxi.r.. Congress closed it session yesterday: "The evil thit men do lives after them a. iiw i ' ' ".4 a;j n mi inte rred witn tnetr nones.' r 1 .U i icilh Southern Prin ciples." A y tnkee fiom Vermont was pursued an i caught near Erie, Pi., last wek, having with !iiu two negroes, stolen from Ytrini a.

I CrWe see that the "Western Repuhlican" is now the "official paper of the cily

of Lawrencebursrh." "Get up, husband said a lady to her M'ge ioru, me oiner morning, uay.ism is 1: 1 1 . 1 1 ; tr t:i breaking. 'Let it break said he, 'it don't owe me anything.' C5""You ou ght to have a pension," said a wag to an unfortunate who was in the of liUiag a diop too rr. ' Ho"iit iitUiicd r c d e 3 -Why vou foil at the battle of Brandy Wine. JCi'My dear wife!" as the husband exclaimed when he saw the milliner's bill. "My noble fjord," as the wife responded the same evening when the husbind tumIbled into the door drunk as a coon. I3A woman, 70 years of age, residing at Kushkenonjr, W. T., lately presented her husband wilh three children, two boys and a girl. She had not had a child for twenty years previous. 07Mr. Allison, in his history of Kurope in speaking of the United States, names New England as one of the Slates of the Union, and, that it joins the Slates of Massachusetts and Connecticut! tCAfrs. Pike. Among the relief act? of Congress, passed, we notice one for Mrs. Pike, the widow of the gallant old soldier. We rejoice with her. XZplIard Names. Married on Thursday eveuins July 2J, by A. Fulkerson,Hsq Mr. John Christopher Guntlefinger lo Miss Kunigunty Dinkle, all of Chicago, III. 07"'Tis sail that ex-Senator Haywood is about to prosecute some of those editors who have charged him with being bribed to resign his seat. They deserve it. llA- Dutchman, speaking of the avaricious propensities of one of his fellow workmen, said "lie ish so mean dat in de wedder wot ish so cold as it never vos. he never vears drawer nor oonder&hirls, but goes barefooted in his boots!" $JrRpiv. Mr. Jacobs, of Clermont, N. II. while preaching a sermon, took occasion to denounce the celebrating of the 4th of July, and his reasons are all-powerful ''Because by such means, so barbarous, foolish and degrading, ve mortify, irritate and disgust the people of England!"' Sailor's Chart. The folio ving lines are supposed to have been written by aaailoron the blank leaf ot his Bible While down the ttretiu of life I sxil, Christ bo my ship, and grace my gate, Hope be my anchor, white I ride. This book my compatt o'er the tide. A Literary Curiosity. The following is a true copy of the euperscr-ption of a letter passed through the Post 0;fi.-e: "to my deor ant Sally She Cawger, F.lino:ze I had a short ager spell tur day." A Gemc3. They have a genius in Yale college, New Haven. He ha put forth a variety of problems and knotty question, which will, we venture to predict, set mad half the figure-heads in the land. For ihe edification of our reader, we copy three or four of the toughest of them. "In a largo household neither father or mother knew anything. Hjw was it with the family? Is a man ever j-jslifiable in either case, and if so, tchich? If a hard knot be tied irwa cat's tail, which way, how lonj, and with what success will she run afier it? Also who tied the knot? Suppose a canal boat heads west-northwest for the horse's tail, and has the wind abeam, with a flaw coming u p in the south: would the captain, according to the maritime law, be justified in taking a rpef in the s;..tva pipe without asking the cook I vjan t: crc b-2 a nils w.v.rui an exception! Yes: the nasal organ is indispensable tn a comely human countenance Mow beautiful is the face of nature! yet we look in vain for a nose!" Q7 A letter received at Matamoras has the following direction: "To Johmv M i , army of occupation, Texas, (Jiner.il Taylo", this is from Johnny's wilfe, Johnny volunteered for his oountry don't forget him. Sorr. We find th following receipt for making a "good healthy soup" in an exchange paper; "Take three h ickets full of water, four onions, two cabbage leaves, and a small marrow bone, and put them in a large kettle over the smkc. When the mes b ils, stir it with a tallow candle and add one pi.it of fine salt." OT-A party of ladies visiting the Philadelphia navy-yard, were much oiseoncerted by the appesrence of a quantify of Tiakcd white oak knees. The commandant ordered some old 6ails to be thrown over them. Ivtssino. The abominable practice o' ladies kissing each other, is a piece of wanton and unprovoked cruelty; a ehpr wate of Heaven's good gifts; a mere frittering aw.iy of what was designed for better pur poses. It is absolutely wicked, and nine-! ty-nine cases, out of every hundred, it la done for no other purpose than to annoy and make wreched the poor things who stand with their hats in their hands, and dire not open their watering mouths for fear of slob, bcring their bosoms. Natural capabilities of weoroks The following goes to confirm an opinion to which our phrenological observations have brought us, that the colored man has more natural talent than is generally ascribed to him; and which culture would soon develop .Fnwter'n Phre Jour. ' Tha manumission of a slave hia lately taken place in Alabama, a is stated, h id earned for his mitt, John G,vin Esq., a property of fumo seventy fiva or eighty thousini d"Har, and for whose purchase a sum of $ 15.0JD had heun otr.fred and refused. The man was celebrated for his ingenuity as a mechanic and hid been engaged in the construction of many valuable briJges in the vicinity of Russell county, Alabama. Tbi lejiiUture of the State have now parsed a bill for his emancipation at the desire of ha mister, who freed him from rejarC hi faith.alnejs rtty. aqd inreg.

Tho Elarcb. on Monterey. We have already commented on the proposed march to Monterey, in a military point of view. We are not, by any means, alone in these views. We hold, not merely that the expedition is a useless one, but that the preparations for it are wroag from beg-inninj to end. In the Courier and Enquirer is a lelter from New Orleans, of August 1, which doubtless gives the view of those there, on the subject. We make an extract from it that our readers may see some of ihe defects of these preparations. First the reader will mark, that there has been a dead loss of nearly three millions of dollars in the Louisiana volunteers'.! There never was any sense in ordering them there. It was plain enough they would be too late for the battle. We care not where the blame rests whether in Generals, Secretaries, or Presidents. It is enough to know that three millions of dollars have been lot, by a single blunder. We call the reader's attention also to the sort of provisions which have been got through at Camargo. Of the Louisiana volunteers: "It is estimated that each of these vol-

unteers, including pay, bounty and equipments, hire of tcmboais uod trnnpris, to and back, provisions, tents, camp equipage, transportation and general supplies there, will (including officers,) cost the government an average of $400; being a tatal loss of from 2 to 3 000,000 of dollars 111 one lump, without the least countervaling advantage or service, and all owing to the miserable counsels at Washington. I do not, however, know that these proceedings are wors, or likely to be attended wilh more unfortunate results, than our leading measures connected with the progress of the campaijn; all of which appears to be marked wilh titter ignorance and imbecility. Gen. Taylor, thus far, has not been furnished with many and extensive requisites, to anable him to advance, as he has been instructed to do his means of transportation are perfectly insignificant in proportion to its wants, and the Government appears to have totally neglected even to furnish him with the proper kind of provisions, which I know was specially urged on their attention, in order to lessen as much as possible the quantity of transportation, and the inconvenience of the army for instance, it was strenuously urged to supply ihe army lor the march, with clean bacon that is smoked bacon with all the bones removed, and which is always biou;ht to this town in large quantities, and to have it packed in light but sufficiently safe boxes of 150 pounds each; two of which, one on each side of a pack saddle, is the ordinary load of a packed mule, which wilt helicon')' mode of conveying provisions. After ieavins Monterey, and even in some places before they get there, and also to send all the supplies of bread ready made in the shape of biscuitinstead of which they have sent pork in barrels, of which G to 8000 barrels have been collected at Camargo; and flour, also in barrels." ,lThe same means ol transportation that would convey 'JO days' rations of clean bacon in boxes, would carry only about GO of pork in barrels, as the absence of bone would more than compensate for the weight of the box, leaving the bairels, salt. &.c, of the pork as all extra weight, to say nothing of the great inconvenience ( f carrying a barrel of 300 lbs weight, on the back of the aniiim-il (it being a full load) to the facility of two boxes, each f 150 pounds, conveyed so securely by placing one on each siJe. "The Quartermaster has begun the shipment of some mules and horses from her.ee, but as yet in but limited numbers. The expense of sending them is very great forage goes wilh tlieiri." The writer 1ms the audacity to speak in these course terms of the illustrious Generals who Mr. Polk has sent to revel in the halls of the M ontezumas: "Some of Mr. Polk's new Major and Brigadier Generals of Volunteers, are now here; and it is distressing to see w(int kind of persons have been selected to lead our armies, and to uphold the honor of our arms, and who seem to have no one sinqualification for their station, and have been selected solely for their politics. Gen. Butler, of Kentucky, I am disposed to think, is a good appointment; and has military knowlenge and experience others appear to be younamen taken from the legal profusion, and who, from manner and talk. I should say, were third-rate country court lawyers, flippant, conceited and profoundly ignorant; not one of whom "ever sent a squadron in the field, or ihe division of a battle knows more than a spinster." Where is Gen. Pillow? Where is the scientific IIamer? Who is this writer, that dares aay they are "third-rate lawyers, flippant and conceited?" This i not court language, and the writer has n it been indoctrinated in the philosophy of Washington. Cin. Chronicle. Additional llemi of Mexicm News. From the New York Courier of yesterday morning, we take the following items of Mexican news, in addition to those received yesterday afternoon by Telegraph, and published in a preceding column. The Vera Cruz papers which we have received do not contain much news, but the "Faro" of Havam have full files to the

31st July, mikes cop.ous extract, and we ,4 yesterday afternoon, through the Magtranslate such as we deem of interest. net)C Telegraph, from our Philadelphia

gtrutriaiiy . vp.i unsatisfactory, the country being threat-1 ened with the horrors of civil w:r. K! In-i dicador of ihe 31st says that a large num-J her of the populace had given in their adherence ti the plan of tJuadalavara, with some additions. General Luidero and Perez were at the ho i 1 of p-ouuncia nento. The portrait of Gen Snita Anna w h carried through the principal -treets with the gicatcst CiiiUusiaiui, auJ toe garrison

of St. Juan d'Ulloahad given in their adheranre to the pronunciamento. El Diaro the official paper of the Government speaks in grandiloquent terms of the abundant resources of Mexico of the patriotism of her citizens of her ability by recources alone to her internal resources to miintainthe war, even th ugh it should continue for five years; and adds, that the military chest has received large additions by subjeription and otherwise; that provisions had been made for the sustainaiice of the men, and ii was calculated that the force of ten thousand men would soon assemble at San Louis. On the ldh, a brigade of troops under the command' of Gen. Conde, left the city of Mexico for Matamoras. On the 22d, two brigades, consisting of 1200 men, with 7 pieces of artillery, 500 Jhorses and 40 0 mules, ieft Mexico oc San Louij Potosi, (Camargo. ; The insurgents of Gtiadalaxara had surprised and cut to pieces the troops of Gen. Arevalo, who was among the killed. Gen Bravo was to take formal possession of the Presidency on the 28lh, and on Sunday the 3Qih Parades was to leave for the seat of war. On the 20th, a pronunci-

J amento was issued in the city of Coatepec, ! (u Jalapa) but the Republican declares its inability to state its objects or Us pretensions. Several of the mercantile houses had protested before the Supreme Court of Justice against the act of Iturbide wilh respect to the national debt, alluding to his disposition nl the custom duties. Col. Antonio .Martinez had got up a counter revolution in Tepic, in favor of restoring affairs to their former state and recognize the Supreme Government. On the 10th of July an action took place near the city of Mexico, between the troops of Pitzozin and Torres, and those of the Government, in which the former were entirely routed, wilh the loss of eleven killed and wounded. Don Antonia Soaza, first Judge of Acapulco, has Jbeen condemned to be deprived of office for being engaged insmugling tobacco. The garrison of Tampico has been reinforced by a battalion of troops. YNesee no mention whatever of Santa Anna or his personal movements, except that he left for Vera Cruz on the 8th, in company with Generals Almonte and Rejoin; nor do we finJ any mention of the vomito said to be raging in the Cas'le at Vera C ruz; and the only notice of the Castle is, that a newly invented Telegraph had been placed on it. It has been proposed to the government of Zacatecas, to submit a plan for a new eleclion to Congress, to give vigor to the national defence, to preserve the integriy of the 11 iiion Ss Cmuiuahua, July 7. Our enemies on the Kast are the four tribes of Caraanches, with their allies, the Cahiguas and others; on the North, the Apachas, subdivided into nine tribes, more numerous in population than the Camanches. On the same side, also, are the Anglo-Americans, rocked in the cradle of the Indians whom he abhors nurtured with the blood and sweat of the negro whom he despises. Mex!c Inly 2S An express has just arrived, announcing that the United Slates troops to the number of 8000 men, having left Camargo 011 their way to Monterey. Jalapa, July 21 A pronunciamento was made on the20ih in the town of Coatepec. We are ignorant of its object. Vera Cruz, July 25 The two pieces of eannon which left here yesterday in the direction of Jalapa, returned to-dy. We do not yet know the true cause of the movement. Vera Cvcz. July 2;) With deep regret we learn that the decree has been renewed imposing two reaU per airobe upon tobacco. It is reported (hat some towns in the neighborhood of J.ilapa, have proclaimed the Federal system with arms in their hands; which we regret, on the account of the disorders, which ensue when force and nut reason presides over the public destinies. Mexico, July 28 It is said that in or der to counteract the pronunciamento at Coatepec, in the deparlinent of Vera Cruz they h ive left this city ihe Oajaca battallion, the active squadron of Jalapa, and a picket of the squadron of Orizava, and that one hundred auxili iries under Col. Zr?iiodie, have gone to post themselves at Pued ie Nacoinal. Last night the Secietaries of Departments withdrew, and to day at I o'clock, P. M. Gen. Bravo took possession of the Presidency. Mexico, July 21 When was ever the nation in more deplorable circumstances than the present? "Her territory dismembered 'says the Assemble of Zacatecas) by the excision of Yucatan, and perhaps of both the Clifornas; the vast territory of Texas unsurped, and that of Tamaulipas and N uva Lmu occupied by foreign troops; the Departments of Mexico, Jalisco, Suialoi, an 1 S,n ira, distracted by intestine discord; those of New Mexico, Chihuahua, Curango, Coahuiia and Zacatecas, afllicied by ihe touiahawk of the ferociou s savage, and the nation distressed by the painful uncertainty of the future; its treasure exhausted, its politics confused, and all the tiondiiif public morals relaxed." This is a true picture of our condition. Important From Cleric o. ? 'I'h f fiillnwinir infiirmilimi rKnil resnoiide ii I . Halt A moriran. - - - -- ---- - Trantimltrti for the Jmrrirnn. i I'UILADCLPlilA, Aug. 21, 4. P. M. The ship Adelaide arrived at New York lat evening from Havana, with advices from, that pi ace to ihe 9th mat. The mailsteamer had arrived at Havana from Vera Cruz., bringing tidmga of a revolution in th it city in fiv-ir of Santa Anna, adopting th. pldu of IoajUara t with addition, In couv-queiire of mis movement Gen.

Santa Anna left immediately, in the Mcamer Arabia, chartered for that purpose. He was accompanied by General Almonte and Senor Rejon. The city of Mexico haa also declared In favor of Santa Anna. Large subscriptions weremakiosby individuals to carry on the war. Gen Parades was to have left on the 23th uit., to head the Army, and General Bravo waslo be President ad interim. The garrison at St. Juan d'UIloi par. ticipated in the revolution. One brigade

of troops had left the city of Mexico for m m . matamoras, and two others we re on the way to Camargo. Parades had issued a decree, authori zing the Secretary of War to erant lettera of marque against the commerce of the m . united states. On the 8th of July, in the tiluht. Com modore Conner's ship, the Potomac, got aground at Ureen Isle. Dy heaving the guns overboard, she got offand proceeded to Pensacola to be repaired. Tf.ere was no sickness in the Ameri can fleet. The Tmxton and Perry were olT Ha vana, but had no communication with the shore, as the yellow fever was prevailing on tne island. Letters from the Army. We find the following letter irorn Major Lane, in the Crawfordsville People' Pres. It will be seen that our volunteers have en countered penis bv "fb.nd and field." It i dated at Brazos, July 24th. "It length 1 am in Moxicn, six miles1 south of Point Isabel. On the 18th imt., I left Balize, in command of Captains Wilson and Powers' companies on board the barque Kazan. We encountered storms and head windj for three davs and nights, and suffered all the horrors nl sea-sickness. On the morning of the 22 J inst. about 4 o'clock, our ship, in the midst of a violent storm, ran upon a bank, one mile from shore. The Captain proclaimed, that very man on board would tro to the bottom in Urn minutes; and so we all thought. I never saw more firmness than was displayed bv the"1 boys. Thoir conductSwas above'alt praise; but 1 must not neglect t name as n act of justice to them, ('apt Powers, Liejt. May, Lieut. Wood, I.ieuf Hank, Harney, and (Joss. Their conduct was noble, indeed, but perhaps I should mention none, where all distinguished themselves. Although a violent surf wna running, we afely reached the shore in the long boat, which made several trips for that purpose. We lost some of our provisions and camp equipage. Our boys are all well, althniuh the mcaalca prevail in the camp. Tell thir fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, and wivesso. The two companies are yet twelve miles from this place, encamped on the shore where they were wrecked. They will come down to this p!af in a few days. Wo have in camp ab-jut f,000 troops, and shall start up the country for Ges Taj-lorV camp in ten days. The Island on which we were wrecked is called Padre'n laland. HENRY S. LANE. The Gate of Death. A thousand entes open to let the dying" out of life. When the door opn, each one must pass over that mysterious thresh hold and descend to the dark valley. Sometimes the gate opens very turldenly before the face of an individual, and without a moments warning he is pushed through the gate by an invisible hand against which he can make no resistance, lie must go, and go alone, unless the presence of (Jod It with him to enlighten his putb through that lone valev. To the prayerless rain, the worldling, the gay, the thought)". and atl who forget God, the "lden opening f death's gate occasions a fearful surprise. The christian views it in a diftrent Jiffht; and thoonrti it is dark, he will fear no evil, if God be with him. Ho David ie't. He thought the valley of death dark an 1 filled with shadows. Bunyan's Pi'jrim found it a stream of watpr which he was ob'iged t ford, and Christiana passed over Jordou before she came to the celestial city. Elijah went through it in a chariot of fire, and Enoch of light. Home havo gone down in loathsome dungeons to reek its portal, others mounted on scaffolds to find the rate, and more have laid themselves down quelly on their beds until the angel guide came and gently led them on their way. And little does it ma'trr what way we walk 'therein,, or how soon we enter upon the path, so that we finish the journey in safety. The road is not a Jong one at tht farthest, and tbo' it be ever so dark, or shadowy, or lonely, or cold, if the Savior of sinners be there, I will fear no evil. Thy rod and thy atari" they comfort me." Live, live for God. And toil a world to save; Live, live for God, Nor heed the coming grave; The time, the place, the way. He knows them all. Do well tby work to-day, And wait bis call SiLEwcie on tub Pkairik.. One o( the most striking things is the silence of the prairies. It is absolutely awful. At night, when the moon has gone down. and tho stars all out, to stand in the center of one of these mammoth plains, and mark the deep unbroken silencw that.surruuuda you. is ouhlimely impressive. I never witnessed an etFicl like it. Not a solitary sound ean be beard --no insect, no bird, no beast, im Lu-nau voice or step but all is one space of grand and fearful silence, such a spot, far from the haunts of congregated moltitud&s, becomes to the good man like the glorious Bethel wheretLe journeying patriarcUslent. The Slave Trade. The Liberal Herald, of the lih of June, says: The slave trade about here is breathingits lofct g'p. The Bittinb cruder hae so closely infeated these dens of blood and death that the slavers find it impusaib.'s to send off their victim. The siavers at tha Galenas have given up their slaves to the natives, and soma of thfm, we have teen informed, are watting with impatience an opportunity to quit tho coat. Those at New C6to. making a virtue of necessity, have embarkwd in the palm -o.l trade. Success to this branch of their business. Jl3nemember always yur end, and that lost time never returns.