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Correspondence of the Hill. Pat. Washinctox, Feb. 9. IS17. The know-ledge of ihe fact that Mr. CaJhown would address tlie Senate tort aj-ror the subject of the war, and define hi posh ton, caused a rush to the Senate Chamber,, lobbies and galleries, which reminded one or the great old limes when Calhoun and Clay and Webster and Prestmi and Fotsyth used to do intellectual battle m the same Chamber ! Mr. Calhoun fully met the anticipations of all those who pressed forw ard so ea gerly to hear him Ha spoke at once of the great importance of the position nowoccupied by our roillllrv. n.I

ji '"jtp.iion ail phips, aou jnr.aii'ircw jooonon, subject ought to receive the graven and in the handsomest manner, tendered to ninal 1 1 - tl . 1 .I. .

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- - v v'mi.i'ici ntt'ii. He admitted the war was commenced I Wch Mr,A- haJ occ,,)ied for some 'cars hv n, k, .) . , . j in the House. I 9-JrntIh for the establishment j Mr. Al1am, roplied lo lhe acl nfCourteot the Y.o Grande asonr Western houn- jsy in appropriate terms. dary.andto compel Mexico to pny the i Mr. Hunt then closed his speech. indemnity 'fine herto by American citizens. : The discussion WM continued by MessIt should not he - c rs J"kin Hudson, Brockenbrongh, Mcobtain poss 1 L '"T '"! ; iddin-, Seaman, Harper, and

. . "" "c "i ana , Keep it. Dot we should mark out a boun-1 dary line and hold the territory on this side or it, a, security until a peace on ! honorable terms should be 'consented to ! u " ! oy Mexico.

i r' n:. i 1 ai?r hum t vruui , w linn I hese views of Mr. Calhoun are much j he says mutt be raised lo meet expenses like those laid down by General TavJor war lSiC" m08Sa5e w9 referred n his letter to Genera! Gaines, ahout'the f "PPtPt,liiUe committee-. publication of which so much has been WAsniNcxo, Feb. 14, 1817. (aid. f i After a long debate, yesterdav,the Senilr. Calhoun maintained that thi, could ate adopted the resolution, offered by Mr. IT TT'Ta ,he ,mitory hH',, o"',, YuW-1,1 "p01 ,he edi,or of Mr- r,k's endd 81 a all cost in comparison official organ from a priviledged seat on ith the expense or increasing our arms! the floorer ihatbodj! The vote stood ana marchings to the city of Mexico. 27 to 21, Messrs. Calhoun, Duller, Yulee, Inch latter enterprise, ir successful,1 and Westcotl, of the dominant party.votwowlJ u.ttmately prove no mre benefi-! ing with the Whtgs for the expulsion, rial Ions than the former one, less hazar-1 In the course or his peeeh,which was a onus and rar less expensive! I very long one. estcott, proclaimed that He suggested the line that w e might 1 were the people to know of the amount rnn, np the Rtrt Grande to a named ex-; or fraud and corruption practiced here tent, and then rffto the Pacific, and w Inch ' at the seat or Government, by the execuappens to be, I believe, the identical line ( live and Legislative Departments, that aid down by Mr. Denton, as the proper cheated, insulted and bomboozled people

- . ivu, which ne delivered in the Senate some time ao ! ir these two distinguished antipodes in

eerrain matters, will unite in support f. Congress, whigs and locofocos.hecls oer this plan of "masterly inactivity w hich I head in to the Potomac! they both have hit upon, there is no know- j Mr. Westcotl is an eccentric genius, and ing but that the war maybe speedily speaks off figuratively some limes! He inhroughuo a close! 5 dnlgM jn the a,ituJe ordebatri . He th.s as it may. Mr. Calhoun made a j rules or the Senate secure to him. Ihl Wh ""'I T" h-? 1 A, ror the wane in Mr. Polk's populariVh T, ;eC"n,ry,aSrJOUl,,no,Ni,J'' hM U'al if rctioary's .1 hearttly subscribe t,. claims wpre 0 ,,p n p Mr. Cas, has the floor for to-morrow.-; pie, Tor their "sweet voices." he could not He i,w w si m,ke an able speech. get the vote or a single district in the U The speeches in the House, on the , States! In this there is far more truth three million bill, and the Wilmot Proviso. than fancj 7ZKln 'CTCthle ,0"d8y- Jre"r?; I T,'e V,,e f ,he Scn " "pulsion Cobb, Drodhead, Dixon, and Rathbnn. J resolution was a blow aimed less, I imagwere the speakers. Mr. Cobb w as for ine, at the editor of the "Union" than the b!ll and dead out against the proviso, j at the President of the United States Mr.Brodhead was for carrying on the j who w presumed to countenance the as-

.or peace, oui not lor conquest. Mr. , Dixon was opposed to the bill, and elo quent in his opposition to the war. Mr. Kathbnn came down thundering-upon the . ..,,, . 1 devoted head or his venerable colleague, Mr. Strong, for his speech of yesterday, sgatnsl the Wilmot Proviso! He hurled anathemas for the whole North, against each and every one who would dare misrepresent his eonsiituents by voting against the Wilmot proviso, which, vou know, goes against the extension of sla-' -eT-

, , ,--... ....3 nguit-u in me aeAnother committee or conference on J bate, and who own" to be fond of writing the armyjnll had been aPPointed-and it si-filar anonymous attacks upon his betis given out that a compromise will bej'ers, furnished the communication cornagreed upon which will pass both Houses ! plained of. f,r tho'I7mnn'i i

- and thus give the appointment or the 33v .....Cr3io air. jamcs K. Polk a bit or; palronage which he has probably hanker-t-u ior very much, u nbont the passage or the bill,he has ample authority to call oul ten more regiments.or volunteers; but then, in that case, he cotild'nt appoint the 350 officer. There's lhe nib! And so he must have regulars ! Well, let him have them and let him appoint his 330 partizans. The time will soon come round, when Mr. Polk will leave the White House, and a good Whig will take his rlace. Then we will have better men at t , r . . . m rt the helm or the sh,P or State, and. more; ' v Mr. Newton the New member from Arkansas, ts a remarkably fine looking man. and a sterling Whig ! Just think of it ! A bright ray of Whig light from the far south-west-from Arkansas! Oh it rs Elorious! Mr. Vewlon is possessed of fine talents, and has a very pleasant courteous address. He is an honor to his POM O.MAC. Proceedings in Congress. Washington, Saturday,Feb. 13 1347. Senatc-The order of the dav. be-1 :,,.. . , , , j tt.g the unfinished busines of vestcrday ! . . " ' I the reolmions offered by Mr. Yulee to , .. ,. . J ; expel the ed.tor and reporter, of the Uu,en,,he debate ... commenced by Mr. Westcotl on the same, and continued by i nr.. ... ,m l Messrs. Mason and llannecrnn C.r it,... ! cused, and by Messrs. Wcstcott, J. M.l e

Clayton, Pearce, Vuleee, Calhoun and JooiSluf the.C Pi S other, against themj at the termination of left a surplu, in the Treasury of $6 000 which the expulsion resolution, so far as i 000! This was a Whi measure' ' ' the editor-not the rerorter-was con- He asked to have a tree judged bv erned,was.dop,ed-yea,271n.ys21.- its fruit,. And what had the "democratthe editor was expelled j ic ' tree, now in po er,produced? It had fhelMdlous expressiouof theU.,in ' ..roJuced the Tari.? oflSlS' And wliat

upon which the action of the U. S. Senate was predicated, was to the effect thai

the country was called upon "to lake no tice that there were in the Senate men who were Mexicans at heart and traitors to the United States.' llmseof Itcitrestntatircs. The House went into Committee of the Whole, and took up the three million bill. j Mr- teanorn J ones j spoke, and in tlie course of his speech gave a full account of the old Levjtical tax, circumciMon, and a great many other things. Mr. Washington Hunt follow ed, and In the course of his speech, stopped, on the entrance of Mr- John Quincy Adams into the House! Tln vpnpmKle p-President was oreptei on all sides, and Mr.Andrew Johnson, Mr. Adams, in a neat address, the seal Thompson. The President sent in a message to both Houses of Congres to day asking! f"r powpr trt aPrf'"t General officers Tor j ?he T ' bf ,ee,,J- J ing a tax on tea and coffee, and other ar- . ' .11 would rise in thrir majesty and power and would tumble Mr. James K. Polk and his Cnhinet !finic!r in,t Knih tr,. 1 sauli upon the Senate bv h!s ow n ted official editor! The editor himseir is no more to the Senate than any body else, uouy eise of course. The blow ... a ..1.. . ua milieu lUIISIl er game. It U reportedihat the obnoxious communication which received so much endowment and commendation Trom the official editor, emanated from a high quarter, else it would not have been so bepraised! It is also asserted by some that a LocoI fot-O Sen.ilnr irU c .1 :.. . , - ....... -i m, a 1 ,n ; " Mieve; not because that Senator says he noes not know wha wrote the article but because it does not appear to me to j be in hi style aH ether! I learn that both the President and the official editor are much excited and mortified at ihe vote or the Senate in this mattet! In the Hons- yesterday, a heaP"0r Te-eches were delivered to empty benches, on the three million bill. I took no note or any of ibem except that of Mr. Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania. He is t "t-ai man. ana when he has any thing ,o say, he say, it right !"rlgMoughtand gives the facts and nj nres to bear out his declarations j The points 1 noted down related to the , contrast which he drew between practi cal Locofoco and practical Whi doctrine j as illustrated by acts. The annua! expenditures of Mr Ad am. Administration were 13 000 000 j In the lour years, Mr. A. paid $43 000 j 000 of ihe Public Debt This was the practical workoU Whig Administration! Look on the picture and now on this! The annual expenditures of Mr. Van n.., . imi:.. . ' ' v" - """""iMtaiiiin were?iJSiiAH.ii00. vnr i.i.i t Ant instead or ravine off anv Pnhlir n -i . i , - , 7 his expenditures in rur ye ars exccedeJ lhe uoIe ofy CX ernm, S3, firfr(, . ,,ere waj democratic" purity and ru,,,J "u economy Tor yon! Tk T..:ilr ..-ion . .

did this Tariff do? It reduced the duty one hair.frnm the Tariflof 1842 on what? On brandy and other distilled r-piriu! The duly on the.e luxuries under the Tariff t.r IS42, was $2,013,000! fly the reduction, ihe revenue i reduced 952,ooor And how does Me: Polk propose to make tip the deficiency? Why, Mr.

Slew-art answered, he has this day sent a ; message to Congress asking for a tax to! be laid on tea and coffee! Why did he not c mtnend the duty to be doubled on . brandy and distilled spirils? Th.e points Mr.Stewart enforced with great zeal and ability, much to the uneasiness or Mr. CobS. of (teorgia, who had a good many questions to ask of him! A resolution w a adopted to put an end to the deb tte to monow at 2 o'clock. S the House w ill be full. The Wilmol Pioviso, ir attached, kills the bill. Will it be attached? That is the question? The scene presented by the entrance of the venerable John Quincy Adams, into the Hull or the House, yesterday, while ihe debate w as going cm, was highly interesting. Mr. Andrew Johnson who was oerupjing that old miliar desk, as sisted in conducting jt former distinguished occupant lo ii. nnd in handsome erm invited hi-n to resume it. and concratulated him upon his return to that Hall w here he had for so many years been a constant and attentive member of that body. Mr. Adams made a neat and proper reply but spoke in a low tone or voice. The members present, or all parties. then crowded round "the old man eloquent" to lender their rongratolatinns, some or them with tears in their eyes Among those, to his credit and honor be it tecorded, was Mr. Sawyer, or Ohio, who although a hard man in appearance and rough in debate, gave signs to-day that he carried a warm heart in his bosom. It always gives me pleasure to record gems or this kind w herever I find them, on the sterile waste .r human nature -A member said to me, after witnessing this ecene-"We;i, I will never again cheerish the idea that Mr. Sawyer is not a man or genuine good reelings!" POTOMAC W'AsttiNGrox, Feb. 15, 18i7. In Senate Mr. Webster submitti d a aerie, of resolutions. He said it was not his purpose to interfere, by tny propofition of hi, own with the bill now before the Sena, commonly called the three million bill, either by way or amendment to that bill or otherwise; but he wished, at the proper time, to have an opportunity of addressing the Senate in regard to the existing war, and to say something in favor of the two resolutions he now presented to the Senate. He asked that the resolutions should be read. They were accordingly read by the Secretary, a, follow: liesolred, That the war now existing with Mexico ought not to be prosecuted for the acquisition of territory to form new States to be added to the Union. Kf-xolred, Thai it ought to be signified to the Government or Mexico that the Government or the United Stales Joes not desire to dismember the Republic of Mexico, and is ready to treat with the Government of that Republic for peace, for a liberal adjustment or boundaries, and for just indemnities due by either Government to the citizens or the other. Mr. Sevier expressed the hope that the honorable Senator would call up his resolutions for consideration within the present week. Mr. Webster. Certainly. The resolutions were ordered to be ptinted. Mr.Evans introduced a hill to authorise lhe regents or the Smithsonian Institute to purchase Tro n the Corporation of Washington the City Hl nd the square on which it stands, which wa. read twice and referred to the Judiciary committee. On motion of Mr. Fairfield, the bill authorising the construction of four war steamer,, wa, taken up. The subject wa, debated by Messrs. Fairfield, Davis, Nile, and Calhoun, and then the bill wa, read a third time and passed. The Three Million Dill wa, now taken up. Mr. Bagby i-poke at length in its support, after which, Mr. Cadger obtained the floor, and then, On motion the Senate went into Executive session, and some time after, adjourn ed. House of licpresenlalices. The yea and nay, were called for and taken this morning on the question of go ing into committee on the three million hill. When in committee the floor belonged to Mr. Pendleton, who had it when the committee roe and the House adjourned on Saturday night last. The debate wa, to stop at 12 o'clock, and therefore the longer the delay in going into committee, the less time would be allotted to Mr. Pendleton, who improved the few minute, finally allotted to him in giving the House a severe lecture for it, conduct towards him, who had made but one speech during the last and present sessions. A question was raised as to wheih?; ii would be in order to attach lo the tl ee million bill the Wilmot provuo. r he

Chair decided it tvouid be. An appeal was taken, from this decision, and the Chaiiman a Mitiuine d by a vote of 116 to 83. Mr. Douglass now off.-icd the Missouri compromise as an amendment, in lieu of ihe Wilmol proviso. For this 82 voted, to lot) against it. So it was voted down. The Wilmol proviso was then adopted

by a vote of 110 to 89. Mr. Stewart proposed an amendment, that the money should not be paid over until the treaty should he ratified by the United Slates, as well as Mexico. This was voted down, 89 voting for, and 90 against it. Mr. Winthrop moved a similar amendment, which wa, also voted dow n; 8G for and 90 against it. Mr. Dromgoole now offered a proviso, to which Mr. Ashmun offered the Wilmo proviso as an amendment, which w a, adopted, by ! a vote of 103 to 77. On motion the Committee now rose and reported the bill a, amended, Ihe Wilmot proviso, which is a, follows, being the only amendment: "Provided, further, That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any territory on the continent of America which hall hereafter be acquired by or annexed to the United State, by virtue of this appropriation, or in any other manner whatever, except for crimes whereof the parly shall have been duly convicted: Provided, alvoys, That any person escaping into such territory from whom labor or service is law fully claimed in any one tr the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed out of said territory to the person claiming hi. or her labor or service." The vot was then taken in the House, on thi, proviso, and it was adopted as follows: Yea, 115, Nays 10tt. Mr. TIBDATTS now moved to lay lhe bill on the table, which motion wa, not carried. Yea, 90; nay. 122. The bt!l was next put upon it, final pas sage and the yea, and nays stood 115 to 105. So the bill passed. Mr. BROCKENBROUGH rosed to a urmueugea question ana ottered a serious of resolutions, specifying language used in the Senate on Saturday by Senator Wescott against both Houses of Congress and the Executive, and asking for a Se lect Committee of one member from each Stale to examine into the charge, so far as the House of Representative, were concerned, and report thereon. The SPEAKER decided the solutions could not be entertained as a priv ileged questions. Mr. BROCKENBROUGH took an ap peal from this decision, and spoke for some minute, on the subject against the charges of his Senator. Mr. DOUGLASS called for the previous question, and the Speaker's decis ion wa, sustained. Mr. DOUGLASS.from the Select Com mittee, to whom wa, referred the resolu Hon respecting the expulsion of the re porter, of the Union, reported that iuas mucn as ine committee would not have time to hear all the witnesses that would have to be called in, during the existence of the session, no further consideration should be given to the subject. The report was adopted. The House then took tip the bill to admit Wisconsin into the Union, and, in committee of the whole, considered the same. flir.SAWEK ,poke.t some length, not on the bill but against appropriating three milliion, of money to purchase peace with Mexico, when we ought to ngni the war out. After he had conclti ded, the committee rose and the Honse adjourned. Col Cusnings Regiment The Massachusetts Regiment, all but two companies, was finally embarked at Boston, Thursday, the 11th. Col. Cushing received his "ring" from the ladies of Newburyport, diverting the remainder of their gift to the purchase of a pair of boots for each or ihe volunteer,. But notw ithslanding thi, some of them proved highly ungrateful and insubordinate one whole company leaving the vessel on which they had embarked, and returning to the oarracks Mnkmg.not for higher wage,, nui ior advance payment. The Colonel succeeded in quieting them, after they had for some time been surrounded by an armed guard with ball cartridge,, when they returned to the vessel. Individual case, of desertion then commenced, and one poor fellow whose "sober second thought" induced him to think home and friends so much better than Mexico, war and disease, a, to be worth making a struggle for, received a severe cntlass wound on the head from an orderly. Finally the vessel hd to be hauled into the stream and anchored to prevent deser,,u""- iney were to sail in week. about Musachuselh U. S. Senator. -The m."",'ure aiass.cnusett, vow : session) ha, re-elected John Davi, ,he Mirch e"lle 'X ,er frm ",e ilh of 5 'S." bLrd th" lie sun. of -iwv,wvj nnu inai engagement by ihe steamer of March 4th

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BROOKVjLL E, INDIA N A . FRIDAY. FEB. 26. 1847. JO'R .collect the Turnpike meeting to-morrow aftetnonnat the Court House. Strike bile there is a chance. Jt?No news from the army since t ur last. The Coxgrrssionai. proceedings will be found interesting. The $3,000,000 bill ha passed the House with the anti-slavery clause. Old Tom Richie has been expelled from the Reporters seat in the Senate. This i, the commencement of fun. 0Alithe Millers are putting En gines in their mills at Lawrenceburgh. They will be in operation in a few days. "Thi Casket" published by Green the Reformed Gambler, is dead. Joim Yaryan of Union Co. ha, pub lished a circular to hi, constituents. This i, right. The Canal. It i, said that Whitcomb has finally concluded he cannot let our canal company have any portion of the loan granted by the last Legislature. The company itself appears very inefficient. Some of the citizen, of Brookville proposed six week, since, to prepare the canal from this place to Metamora, and olhera from thence to Laurel, and wait until the water rent, and tolls on that part would pay them, and by this time the water might have been in this part of the canal. But the company would not let them go to work on any such condi- j lions, and the consequence is, two months have elapsed since the flood, and nothing ha. been done. Why do they not do something, or resign, and lei other and more efficient men take their places, so that the work can be pushed forward. It is said a few men are buying up the stock of the company for a small consideration, and then they will make awful appeals to the public to make charitable donations to repair the canal. The present capital stwtk of the company is $400,000. It is said speculators are now buying this stock at 10 cents on the dollar. At this rate $40,000 will purchase a canal that cost in construction 1,600,000. And had the canal not met with its present damage the nett proceeds of this year would have been $40,000. Are the present director, playing into the hands of these stockjobbers 7 ir not, why do they not allow the citizens along the line to finish the canal, and pledge to them the water renls and tolls. Or do they want the public, who have no slock in the canal, to finish it, and allow the stock-holder all the profits. But let the airangement be as it will, Jet ns have some activity. Private individuals, who lost in the same flood, have either repaired, or are progressing rapidly. The Miami canal is repaired, and the present week we saw the boats running on it. Our company cannot surely say it is for want of funds, because individuals have been ready to do the work, and wait until the means they have at command, would pay them. Our sympathy was deeply enlisted for the company, but we cannot tolerate their "masterly inactivity." And our interests are all suffering. The canal could have been repaired in three months; and if the directors had gone at it. the Fnmm.r.i men all along the line would have advan ced the tolls which they would have paid for one year. By spirit and energy they might have elicited the best feelings or the people, and with their interests com manded their purses. But our commer cial men now make no calculation, or re Her by the canal. P . S. Since the above was written we are informed that Mr. Moore has made a contract with John Roberts to repair the canal from this place to Metamora. The Company furnish no money. It is done by private subscription here and the bonds of the company. Why do they not let all the canal on the same terms ? Probably after a few weeks more of hesitation they will contract a few miles more. y-j-e can "Hold our horses" for the present about the St. Louis and Cincinnatirailroad. The bill to omnt th. oi way tnrough Illinois was defeated bv the influence of the city of Alton against it. As that town was not made the termi nus, all the force it could command was thrown against the bill. The Cincinnati Enquirer observes: This is one of those insane exhibitions jeaiousy ana selfishness one of those dog-in-the-manger demonstrations which no man possessed of common sense can regard without disapprobation We still hope that this hasty and ineon. siderate judgement may be reversed by "mi legislature. The Republican contains the proceedings of a public meeting at Greenville, which had sent a strong delegation to the Capital to enforce the just claims of the midland counties for this work. D3"A letter from an American at Camargo says that there are more deaths among the Mexicans thsn among our people, for like our Indians, nature is their only physician. Thi, i, a high compliment to science.

The Dreadful Condition of Ireland may be judged of by cases reported in a single Dublin papei: the Freeman's Journal or ihe I6ih nil. Skibbereen a reporter staying half an hour in the town counted ten funeral processions. One family was found dying of disease and want, unable logo out for food or medicine. In another cabin, nine persons lay

stretched on the ground, si ffering rrom fever produced by want or food; here a woman had given binh to a child, lyinr, upon some straw. Six persons lay around her, suffering from aggravaied symptoms or fever bronght on by starvation. In another cabin a w hole funily was ill w ith fever, having lost two of its number within two days, and the unfeeling landlord had unhinged the door, took of their blankets

ana left them to die without fhelter, clo- 'employment who rise in the mornir thing or food. In thirty two house, at j w ilh !he certainty or not beia-g able to proleast two of each family were ill with fe- I Vltje for themselves or their families wich

er or aropsy; m some case, nine in fernily were down, unable to move, and ap parently anxious for death to relieve them from their suflWings. A man, his wife and children were confined with the fever and among the dying children was found the decaying corpse of a little boy who ' had died some time previously. In this ! case a piece of coarse packing stuff was the only covering- over the Jiving and the winding sheet of the dead. In e.other house a poor woman having lost two of her chiJdren by fever, was found lying at the side or her third and last child. She tired to go to ihe town for some relief for her dying infant, and while doing .o.dropped do wn in the street, was earned home and died in twenty four hours. John Maloney and Michael Donovan.of the town of Beenean, were foand m iheir hovel, having been dead some time. They died of famine. There was nothing in the house to keep the vermin off the bodies. Fourcorpes lay in that town as they had died, without preparation of and kind. Another case is reported, of a boy who lay six days and nights beside a dead body, without being able to procure assistance for its removal, and when the last farthing candle went out; the rats commenced to eat the decomposing body. The employment furnished by government scarcely saves the laborers from famine. By day the hungry wretches steal turnips from the fields and knaw them in their flight. At night fall they prowl through the pasturp lands and slaughter sheep and oxen to stay their hunger. A private letter gives an account of the flight to England of an Irish landlord with all his moveable property. These are only a few or the lhouand iaes reponea in tfte Irish papers. We could fill our columns for days with these del ails from various parts or Ireland and the highlands of Scotland. Ireland. The accounts from nearly every part of Ireland differ but little in describing the real situation of the npnfle. We select a few as a specimen of the whole: The Cork Examiner sums up the state of things in the neighborhood of Skibbereen "In the pariah of Kiliaoe, 14 died on Sunday: 3 of those were burried in coffins, II were buried without other coveting than the rags they wore when alive. One gentleman, a good and charitable man, speaking of this case; says: "The distress as so appallmg, that we must throw away all feeling, of delicacy;' and another says: "I would rather give 1, to a staiving man than 4,. Gd. for coffin.' 140 died in Skibbereen workhouse in one month; 8 have died in one day. And Mr. M'carthy Downing states, that they came into the house merely and solely for the purpose of getting a coffin ' "The Rev. Mr. Clancy visits a farro.and there, in one house, 'he administered the last rights of religion to six persons.' On a subsequent occasion, be 'prepared for death a father and a daughter lying in the same bed.' "The Rev. Canlfield sees '13 numbers or one family lying down in fever ' The Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick retire, to rest at 3 o'clock in the morning, and rises after a couple of hour, heavy sleep. '.n "me Wilh his coaJjtors. Donovan solemnly assures a public meeting, that the people are 'dropping in dozens about them. 'Mr. Marmion says that work on the public road is even more destructive than fever; for the unfed wretches have not energy enouh to keep their blood in circulatlon.and they drop down from the united effects of cold and hunger never to rise again." A Romen Catholic clergyman, (Rev. Mr. Begley,) at a recent meeting in Bantry, said-When I call to my recollection the scenes that I have witnessed within the last six weeks-when I have seen those who were hale nrl iimn. struck down by famine disease.the young . w vavig and old hurrying on to eternity, and that induced and brought on, I will say.by the unfortunate misgovernment of this coun try, by the want of paternal sympathy for the people, by not timely interfering and rescuing a generous, a noble, and a devoted people when I see all those sacrificed when I see that we are placed in the position, that even the 'men employed upon the roads, a, that labor is. cannot sustain themselves by their-daily hire, aven for one day when I remem ber all this, I cannot but be deeply affected.Hear, hear.) I know I have record of the facts, and I could give you the name, of the individ uals I know men to be working tw o entire days upon the public road, without ever tasting a morsel ol food (great sencatation) I know many of their families obliged to go to bed for two successive j

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'"ioiy cay, since Tim McCarthy, on the Sirand, ,nd ,iis' family for foriy-eight hours had mt ten a morsel ..r food, but, as ihey said themselves, they drank ihe cold, water; and when some char.labie hand reached some assistance, two of the cliij. dren Tainted on tasting food. ProceJt mg on their favorite priirciplce, of poiit. jjcal economy, they have giren the pie some trifilintr fill nl . ... . i PC9"inn; oui, graeious mercy what does that avail, when I tHI you that the people employed on the roads are in absnlnie- starvation w her I loir onw.i C i; tmiiiui, iroiu ineir scanty earr.mT uerive one substantial meal in twentv. four hours? And when this U ure- case regarding them, what mtut be the condition of the thousands that receive n.. ja morsel of food who goto bed wiih heavy hearts, anticipating but a rernrence of the same piivations for the next day who are ready and willing to labor, but no employ men t for them? (Hear.) Immigration of I, ish Paupers. -The number or persons, in the most uiter destitution, arming from Ireland in Liverpool Glasgow, and other ports, still continues. It is clear, ho ever, lhat thi, evil cannot be allowed to proceed without the most ruinous consequences. If it is, the 13 . 000 Irrsh paupers, now in thU town .--.n soon increa-e to 20,000 or even 30 000 and the parish rates of Liverpool will soon rise from 2s to 5$, or even Gj in the po u nd.--Li rcrpooZ Journal. Important Announcement. Mexican Privateering at Sea. The New York Commercial Advertiaer has received the following important notification, ft-oni its London correspondent of the Daily Commercial List. It U dated Loxdon, Jan. 19, 1847. Three privateers fiom the port of London on the 9th of January. 1847. They are British ships but have ben renamed according to Spanish regulations, and they carry letters pf marque. The name, are as follows: Brim, lie Cnill, Capt. Moo.lr, SI4 ton., SO men. Srbailian di-1 Nano. Smi.h, isi " 30 MKalLn, " I.ah, 133 20 These three vessels cleared oul at the poit or London for Manilla, but are really for privateering on the broad Atlantic. IMiiUxealer Canal Thi, avenue of business which was increasing in impotence every day before the iate storms, we are glud to learn, is likely to be fully repaired, its whole length, so as to be in use again this summer. A meeting of the stockholder, was held at ConnersiIle, last Monday, and A. B. Cunwell of thai place chossn director in place of Gtifiin Taylor, resigned. It was voted lo adopt the most energetic measures along the whole line to put ii in order immediately, and those who cannot subscribe cash, will give their labor and provisions. The company also expect to raiw cash on their Bonds for a moderate amount; the Bonds to be redeemable in tolls and water rents, during the ensuing two years. A large number of hands are already al work, at the upper end of the Canal, near Cambridge, both in repairing the late damage and in getting out timber for aqueducts, &.c. It is thought the repairs on the Cincinnati branch can be effected for ten or twelve thousand dollars. Cincinnati Gaz. tty'The Madison fla.) Banner of the 17th mentions that a religious revival,, which commenced in the First Presbyterian Church there some weeks ago, was gradually spreading over the entire city. Protracted meetings were I cing held in the Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist Churches, and large numbers of persons were connecting themselves with theste several denominations. Rev. Henry W. Beecher, of Indianapolis, was present aiding the pastor of the second Presbyterian Church. The Civil War in Massac, III. The Springfield correspondent of the Alton Telegraph, writes on the 2d as follows: A communication was laid before the House today, from the governor, inclosing the proceedings of a meeting held in Massac county. These proceedings stato that the Regulators are still pursuinglheir works of cruelty and villainly in lhat flic ted country. The are beating, torturing, and abusing, in every possible way, men, women, and childrwi; turning them out of doors in the nighttime, and destroying their habitations. The proceedings go on to say that they have lost all confidence in the Legislature, w ho are consuming the time of the people with making Bnncombspeeeches,and they call upon the Governor to come to their aid oft his own responsibility. They threaten, unless something is done for their relief, to take the laws into their own hands. I v onder they have not so long since. I, it not a burning shame upon the Slate and the intefligence M the age, that such a state of thing, should exist tn a fjvilized community? Female Varrioh3. Rev. Mr. Duncan an English Missionary in Africa, recently. made an exploring tour from Cape Coast, to Whydah, thepee nearly north through, the Dahomey country. Amon the stranse things which he saw, "was a review or six thousand female troops, well armed and accoutred."

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