Indiana American, Volume 15, Number 27, Brookville, Franklin County, 2 July 1847 — Page 1

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o OCR C0CHTRT OCR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS AND OCR COUNTRY'S fRIEHDS. BY C. F. CLAItKSOX BROOKVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1847. VOL. XV NO. 37.

COMMUNICATIONS Ftrthe Indiana American. From the Log Book or a Midshipman,

Xo 10. Miscellaneous. t hate already prolonged these numbers beyond my original design, and perhaps beyond the patience of your readers. In aiming at brevity I have omitted many things which, sr properly told, would be exceedingly interesting, while I have confined myself to such things as 1 deemed or the most general interest. In this, ray closing number, t must be indulged in a few general remarks on the countries described, without aiming at order or method. And first, in reference to the climate. Perhaps ho countries In the world enjoy a better climate, though about the same latitude as this, the winters are less severe and irregular, and the cummers are not so sultry. The differ ence is partly owing to the proximity to the sea. ext,the toil. This is in ma ny places barren, and quite unproductive It is with difficulty that the traveller can imagine that these regions were once the centre of artt and commerce, and power. But notwithstanding there are such marks of sterility, there are yet many, vety many districts, which must retain original fertility, and the doubt often arises, whether or not, an industrious, and free people might hot again clothe the fields with grain, whiten the sea wiih canvass, and inHise life into all the death and desolation prevailing in that once happy region. I can sar but little of the products. fcuch rrmts as grow spontaneously, are (quite abundant, but nearly all that comes of cultivation is wanting. Either the Turks are too lifeless to work, or they want that incentive to labor, so essential to prosperity, a protection of the products cf industry. The farmer mat indeed possess (or live on) fertile land, and sow and reap bountifully, but he has no assurance that a requisition from the Sultan will nol take the last loaf ftom his hungry children. Under such a government evm the Mississippi Galley would soon be no better thin this eastern world. Your readers remember that from the Mediterranean emanated the arts and sciences; upon its coasts the four great religions of the woild were first promulgated. The Jews here received their oracles. On the islands and mountains of this region, all the fabulous divinities of Heathenism originated. Here the Savior began his work, and here Mohammed triumphed, fort teason, over all that had preceded. But none of these remain, ex cept tinder such modifications that the fathers in each would disown the religion of their children. The Jewt preserve a tew of their rites, but they have no temple, no priesthood, no sacrifices. Christianity is thorn rf its beauty and glory. No self denying minister proclaim the unsearchable riches of pardon to tinners, and immortallity through the blood of the cross. None of the concomitants of pure gospel, which ere teen and enjoyed In our country, follow the teachings of the few who yet name the name of Christ. Mohammedanism itself is modified. The name of the Prophet is indeed not forgotten, but the forms of tervice partake some of all the other religions, and even the Turks are so far departing from the original teachings of their fathers that they are making efforts to estaolish schools and introduce systems of law and etiity. The tword, the spirit which gate power and efficiency to the teachings of the Prophet and his successors is now abandoned as an instrument of propogating or defending the faith. While this is true of the three living religions, paganism may triumph in being immortalited, by being adopted in part by all. The philosophies of heathenism are perpetrated in the vague teachings of Jew, Christian, and Turk; and the senseless forms of the pacn priesthood are in vogue in all their ceremonies. One thing is painfully true, A few centuries ago the population of Turkey was about four times what it is at present, though in Turkey proper, there is no great change in the fertility of the soil or the facilities of trade. The date of this decline begins with the introduction of Mohammedanism in the country. One is accustomed in the United States to seeing Urge tracts of uncultivated ground, but no ruins apeak a country in decline. Not so in Turkey; there are tad marks of decay. Rich lands are remaining watte and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers; goodly cities lie desolate and splendid palaces are in rrins. So true is a Turkish proverb, "Where the Sultan't horse hss trod, there grows no grass." Such have been the revolutions in this eouuiry, and such is the weakness of the Turkish government, that her own subjects are the only truly oppresse J people. Strangers, or more properly Franks, are subject to the laws of the country to which they belong, and thus they enjoy immunities far above the native Turks. There is included in this term, all the subjcus oi uuterem unnstian nations wmo are drawn to this country for the trade of the country, and this population it rapidly increasing, and even now outnumbers the Turkish, so that the Turks are compelled to relai their despotism over them, though they are not sufficiently united to wrest the power from the Sultan. But that day it certainly coming when these christians will assert their rights, ai.d set on the throne a power more in accordance; with their own feelings than the one now ruling. Those fertile field, those beautiluiteas and the navigable Danube cannot, jng continue at now. Thetpiritof independence awakened by the American, Revolution ia wrnrk in a it a wt iV. throne itself, and very toon Turkev Sv -

ii Ejypt, and sll the countries govetnedj mouttache looking for all the world like I of the heart, the cool bravery, eitraor-lroded around the vent hole, and dangerdepots, win r:s in the majetty of a greatb-ar -skin with a gash in it for the 'dinary prudence, and strong ' practical,1 us in any hands. The men were in the

their might and trill be redeemed. Inv provements will be made. Now there is not in all those countries a road good

enougn for an ox cart, except where it would require labor to make a bad one. I cannot catch the spirit of prophecy, yet t cannot withhold my conviction that in less than a half century the great highway from Europe to the East Indias will be along the old track where now are onlv the ruins of Petra, and other cities whose names and histories are almost lost. In stead of the caravan of camels w hirh trrwt the tocky ways in the days that the pas sage around the cape of Good Hope was unknown; and which gave business to those forsaken cities in the interior between the Mediterranean and Red seas, the horse whose sinews are iron and whose food is fire will draw his train of cart at the rate or forty miles an hour and thus shorten the journey to the east at least two months, f will not fix the precise date of this Improvement, nor tell who will do it, but it must be done, if Capt. Polk has to "annex" Arabia Petra to accomplish it. However there are strong reasons for believing that both England and France contemplate the undertaking, t may draw again From my log book: For the present farewell. A MIDSHITMAN On Furlough. GENERAL TAYLOR. A New Orleans paper stales, that there is a strong probability that Gen. Taylor will return to the United States on leave of absence for a momh. We respectfully suggest that the President delay his visit to New York, till he can be accompanied by the old General, and that they should enter the city at the same time but at different points. There would be such a glorious opportunity for the illustration of the philosophical principle of the at traction of bodies! We will Imagine Mr. President Polk landing at the Battery, with furious salvos of artillery, with loud beating ol vexed drums, and "the vile squeakinff of the wry-necked fife" ttoops deploying, col ors flying, and countless thousands exercising potent lungs. In the midst of all this tumultuous display, In the intensest excitement of the occasion, let a whisper pervade the crowd that a respectable p'ain old man, with still a somewhat military air, on a "white hrsc, was slowly riding down the upper end of Broadway! In a moment the whole crowd, infancy, manhood, totter ing age, will have disappeared, like the phantasmagoria of a vision! The scene then changes, and we tee tne maddened crowd rushing as compact and resistless as waves of the lashed Ocean up the narrow avenue of Broad way, The house tops are covered, the the windows are filled, and belfries of churches, however remote, dense with anxious multitudes. The caree of that "white horse," which no enemy could resist on the battle-field, is tiopded by the impervious mass of thronging friends. Some seite the bridle, some the stirrups, some clasp the very knes of theold man! It issilence all! Not a solitary shout heard.' Allare oo much excited to articulate even a trJlt--per! This is 'tis true, but fancy's sketch-but let the opporlunitv present itself, snd see how reality will o'erde the cold imagination of the tcene! A'. V. 7Vt'6. More 7Ye,wo! The Catholic Telegraph, for lately denouncing the locofoco policy of robbing the Mexican churches to sUDDort Mr. Polk's war. la set upon by the Union's echo or the Louisville Democrat in quite a ferocious style. We cive the folio win ir extract: "As to the articles quoted from Catholic papers.they are sheer Mexican Whiiaerv. and not Catholicism. It's the precise tone of the Whig press. The intimation as to a 'eefer' thrown out, is a fine specimen of that 'charity which thinketh no evil;' our readers will all understand." Out upon the treason and toryism!" Speaking of the above, the last number of the Telegraph remarks; It seems that for the expression of our opinions, we Catholics must expect to be denounced! Because we refuse to submit to the abuse of the Otto newspaper, because we flung back the reproaches so mercilessly heaped upon our heads, we are lobe held up as traitors, sympathysing with Mexico 11 Little did we think, once on a time, when with head and heart we wished all success to the Democracy, because we thought wrsaw in Its couneils the greatest safeguard of liberty, that some editors would be the first to make dangerous an expeiiement is ssion of persona! indepen - ejrraph will learn thai there is Una a "npraonal indnndenTY' tr.ion locofoco editors. It is their busf Stjo Cjbmil to every usutpation of thaViutif vnd applaud them into the barmin. US J more weeks had elapsed betbt) thr Jiving proposition had been omritllyr;selaimed, in the lace or the

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. ... . found nearly every locofoco press in the land huzzaimng for the measure. As ahort as the time was, they began to far ther the bantling right lovingly in various ; quarters, Ling Beards and Volunteers. Since the expiration of the term of service of the

storm or indignation wnicn it raised a tword has been mae oy suo.cripthroughout the country, we would have! lion from the citizens of Newberg, (N. Y.)

twelve months' volunteers, we have hadlOUGtl at the Whig eondidate for Gover-

an oppoitunity of seeing tome of them on the ir return home. From the appear anceof most of those we have teen, we

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entrance of"ration8,"pasted over the face --could have any effect in achieving a victory, we think our men must have the idvantage or theMexicana. It will be of no use, whatever, for the Mexicans, to contend against our bristled volunteers, when their countenances are lit up with the glare of battle, for we felt no little alarm as an American, when in the presence of these calm and unruffled volunteers. What then must be the impression of Mexicans, upon meeting face to face a host of our hairy men, with fire in their eyes, and the deadly rifle or unerring musket in their arms! No wonder the copper colered enemy should "vacate the premises'1 in a shortness of lime that is not worth mentioning.as though he had unexpectedly come in eontact with an avalanche of buffaloes, and knew full well what would be the consequences of his temerity of attempting to resist them. The ooAs of one company of such men as we have seen from the Army, would

oe sumcient to terrify a herd or tigers; but when a few regiments are pressing American triggers, and led by "Zachary" and Scott, the mystery is explsined, of our success at Buena Viata and Cprro Gordo. Judge Wick is'outon an electioneering tour, or, In hit own elegant and classical language, "stirring up the monkeys with a long pole." The Judge will have his labor ror his pains, as it is pretty well understood that "Old Sick" will get him at last. tnd. Jour.

TV..-.. M ...oi .una "piicu m mat (Jintc.iur i the Subscribing of ttOCk tO this toad. On . l ; , .,. , i tne I4lh inst., and that 223 6harCS Were ' taken the first dav makinir Slfi 000 0(10! : The writer adds: "This amount will be greatly Increased before the thirty days are out." tnd. Journal. Important to Volunteers. A Washington city paper says: We have been furnished with a copy of the following letter for publication, for the benefit of the volunteers, to whom it is interesting to the last degree: 'Pemsio Orrics, May 24, 1847. Sir In answer to your letter of the 22J inst., t luve to inform you that no soldier discharged before the expiration of the term of enlistment, on his own application and tor his special benefit, is entitled to land if script under thefjih section of the act of the 11th of February, 1847. The Secretary of War concurs In opinion with the undersigned on this point. Respectfully your obedient servant." J. L. EDWARDS. To Gen. It. Jones, Adjt.Gen, U.S. Army. Xew York Judicial Election, An election for Judges and other Judicial officers, under the new Constitution of New York, look place on the 7th instant. Three tick ets were run, Whig, Locofoco and Anti-Rent. ''In some portions of the Stale," says the New York correspondent of the Union, ''party lines appear to have been completely broken down.strong democratic counties in the neighborhood of popular Whig candidates giving them heavy majorities, and 60 on,' Notwith standing this fact, the Locofocos, who have succeeded in obtaining a majority of the officers elected, claim the election as a Locofoco triumph. National politics had but little to do with the election, and the poll was very meagre. We would ask these gentlemen who ate shouting "Vic,rtrv" rt lustily, what has changed New York inc ll fNi hen the Locorocos were so shamefully beaten? That elec lion tur " national grounds, and nothing has since occurred to induce the people to reverse the decision they then mide. Lebanon Star. Congressional. Ex -Gov. Morehead, of Ky., has received the nomination for Con gress in the Lexinetoii district, by the Whig Convention which assembled at the city of that name on Tuesday the 13th instant. From the political complexion of that district there can be little doubt that this nomination is equivalent to his election, His opponents are, Marshall, of Jessamine, county, Democrat, and 5. J. R. 2Va5ue, of fVanWm, Native. Povtrs.U has been for some time well understood that a statue, large as life, of John C. Calhoun, was in the hands of our fellow-citizen, Hiram Powers. The mod el is now nearly completeted, and Mr. P. anticipates that the statue will be read in the course of the current l rear. The Greek Slave is about to be despatched to the United States. Eighteenth of June. 1812. Thirty-five years ago this day, the Congress of the United States declared war against Great Britain. All the prominent actors in that scene are no moie. .i . . . , . to be presented to CoL Belknap, who is native of that place. It is a magnificent - 1 article. Maryland Cbncenfion. The Maryland Whiff Gubernatorial Convention, which assembled at Cambridge on the 10th inst., nominated WILLIAM F. GOLDSBOR I nor. On the second day of the - 1 Convention, the following resolution was "oassed unanimously, and with loud ae I r..fu Pk.t tV V:l. iNlalliielnat eanaeitv. the noble and Mneroutoualit'tei

a c, , c ..r; uno mmmunu Miaiirvaa. p,, M he intente interoVt manife.ted in regard A letter from Greencastle informs us,'''h'ceinrorcmenuorthatdiviiongfouririuy, the ll..ll.Uw. .. , ' I Vn.onwr:

good sense which have uniformly dilinguished Major Genera! Zachary Taylor, as a citizen and a soldier, "give the world assurance of a man" in whom the highest trust under our Constitution maybe reposed with entire confidence. Cin. Gaz. TAYLOR'S REINFORCEMENTS. The Enquirer ef Teterday tntkrt a plautihle lttement by which it pretenda to ttiow that when Grit. Teylor reeeivel the troop attigned to him he mill hire 11.000! Thi ii 1,000 more thin the Union pretended he would hare. In oppotition to (hit, rt give a (tatement on the unit tubject, written from the ground, to the New York Courier and Enquirer, dated. Cin. Jrlat. Famarr. Vs IS, 1MT. tnted of having 10,000 men when the reinforcemenu deigned Tor him arrive, a represented in the Vnion, hi actual force then will fall thort of 6,400 men, to drjend and protect nur line of operations from Bra.o Itland to Saltillo tome 800 mile! In

order that there may be no doubt about thil matter, 1 win go into detail to prove it trot a. The twelve month men being about to be diicharged, there will remain wih Gen. Taylor and under hit command, the following trnnpt: (300 Volunteer, SOO mointed Truant, and ten companies of Regular nnhaig the whole nu mber about 3200 men. There hare rrn allotted to him four of the new regiment, and a few ofthete troopt are daily expected to arnre at Matimorat. Admitting that theoe regiment are full, andArrr.it would then only make the force on thi line about 0400 men; and yon can taiiir tnat 30 per cent of the new arrival will be tick and unavailable. Deduct from the 04OO troopt the number required to garriton the Brato, Point Itahrl. Matamnrot, Camargo, Cevalvo, Monterey and Saltillo, and it will not leave Gen. Taylor an avrilable force of 2000 men to make a forward movement. The above it a true Mate of affSim here, and care fully made ont and all here think it it the design of Government to arrest the old General in Ma gloriout career, and thin, by keeping him inactive during the iimmer, tan from him hit popularity with the people. Let it bedittinctly Mated, that when the whole number of troopt detigncd for Oen. Taylor get on here, after garritnning the pot, and allowing from 0 to to per cent tick and unavailable, he will not have tooo to make a forward movement. Oat. T ATLOtt. The adminittration it I till Blaring its utual game with thit worthy old hero. The Wathington I'nion putt the bett face upon Mr. Polk' conct nowible, by attempting to deceive the country at to hit dealing with Gen. Tarlor. For inttance. in "Gen. TavlorM army embracet, or course, more tnanGen. Soon eorp, and the number of twelve montht men in tervice it greater, but the reinforcement! which will be tent to him will take pl?cV time, and hi. corp. will scarcely fall ; abort of 10.000 troont." The Matamorat t lag or tne Jf1. copying the above, takra the liberty to contradict it. That paper Gen. Tavlor'a whole flirce, after the troopt atsignrd him thall have arrived, and the twelve montht volunteer! departed, will contitt of only ciirht regiment!, with tome ttraggling companies of regular infantry, dragoon, Jtc, ike. The Fag further tayt, "hit actual force, then, will fall thort of aeven thousand men, and pmhablr not exceed ix thoutand effective troopt. And with thit force he it epctrd to march to San Luit, and garriton all the foru on thit aide of the nionnttmt." We have thee two contradictory Malementt with the people. The I'nion it the month-piece of Mr. Polk livet and Tattent upon hit patronage, and defend him at any lacrifice. The Flag, in the immediate virinity of Gen. Taylor' ramp, knowa the feeling of the' army, at well at itt numerical ttrength, to a man, and it moved by no other feeling than what a enie of (iittiee toward Gen. Tavlor would create. In rerard to the force under Oen. Scott, the I'nion it guilty of the tame deception. We clip the fallowing paragraph from a letter in the St. Louit Republi. can, dated, Jalapa, May 10th, wriMen by one of Gen. Scott t command. e c.immend it to the perntal or thoe who are deiront of becoming mot fully acquainted with the merfur aiemarfi of the bellow blower of the adminittration, in inflating it acta into something energetic and ttuprndout: We an', and are to be, in the centre of the principal nonulation of Mexicon among that portion who claim be the deeent f the Spanish Donathat portion bote complexion i, it any tiling, lairer man our awn: and it remain to oe een now many win hew at much energy a Santa Anna, who, whipped at Poena Vita, mnvet tuddenly eight hundred milbt to the capitnl, ouellt a civil war there, and forthwith it at Ceiro Gordo with twelve thoiitand men, and forty Odd piece of cannon. Whipped at Cerro Gordo, he wa for a time thoncht to be Intt. when lo, and be hold! he it at the head of another army often thoiitand men, covering the capitol of the country. Thi fVirrr, if the war it not ended, mutt be greatly increated, for the citie, round about, are large and numerous with population of from thirty to a hundred and fifty, and two hundred thouand inhabitant!, large portion of whom have been for yeara, more or le, engaged in war. Our little army, at utual, according to the wirdom of the Government, itjuit the tiae to invite attack. The Washington i'nion tiys we are t have an army of twenty thoutind men. We tha'.l not have ten thoiitand at the outtide, and thi ttatement of the Union it one of thnte political fkltehood to common, intended to convey the idea that the Adminittration i wonderfully energetic." Ind. Jturncl. Crrcur net of fAf Fiffffturr Caxette. Genet al Taylor on his march to San Au la Potosu Brazos, June 4th. Gen. Taylor has left Monterey for San Luis Polosi, and is expected to reach Victoria, as our Philadelphia correspocdent erroneously calls it,) by the middle of JulyThe route taken by Gen. Taylor from Monterey to San Luis Potosi has been judiciously selected. He avoids the descent over which Santa Anna travelled, and though the road is longer, it is every way comfortable. Onue at San Luis he will receive supplies from Tampico, and on hit way there by way of Solo La MarmotEds. Gazelle. ttr Counterfeiti one dollar bills on the State Dank of Indiana, says the Commercial, are in circulation. They are pretty well executed, and may iiceive the uncautions. They are somewhat paler than the genuine, and the paper is of a stiller texture. Airful Calamity. A paper published at Charleston, LI, gives publicity to an accident of a heart rending character which occured in the vicinity of Oakaw, near that place, on Sunday the 30ih ult. On the afternoon of that day, Mr. Chandler, his wife, his son William's wife and child, his own ton and daughter, and a Mrs. Moseley, were going to preaching in a two horse wsgon. Before they reached their destination, a storm came upon them with all the fury of terrific violence. There was but one tree from which any danger was to be apprehended, and Mr. Chandler,(who was drmngjnad his attention directed to it. He scarcely taw it falling; but it fell, and with its fall crush ed those on the back seat, Mrs. Mosely, Mrs. Chandler and child. Mrs. Mosely, and the child were instantly killed, and Mrs. Chandler turvived one half hour. Mrs. Mosetey's skull was fractuted com pletelv across, while the injuritt of Mrs. Chandler and child were principally upon the I'unbs and body. The others escaped without injury, as it was the body of the tree which fell on the wagon. Terrible Accident'. A most terrible ao cidenthappended in Covington yesterday during the salute in honor of the return ed volunteers. One man, Robert Fi wat instantly killed, and a Mr. Lemarie danaerous'y, probably mortally wounded, by the permature discharge or one of the iuni-an old iron sixpiunder, much cor

act of ramming the gun when the explosion took place, and were blown tome ten feet from the muzzle down the river bank. Fisk't bowels wtre lorn out, and one of his arms shattered from wrist to shoulder. His last breath was with the explosion! Lemaire, Fisk's assistant, was horribly mangled. His right arm was torn off near the shoulder, and hung only to the flesh, when he was taken up. The right side of his face and head were badly

burned. The person at the vent hole, was also severely hurt, his thumb being torn off, and his fingerstshallered. ' Lemarie is a citizen of Covington, where he has a wife, sister, &c, Fisk had not been long in the place, Cin. Com. Another Dreadful Aceident. As the steamer Alhambra was coming in-yes terday, with a portion of the Kentucky troop, two men were most horribly mangled by the premature explosion of the cannon on the bank of the river, in Covington. The city was yet in mourningits flags all at half-mast for the poor fellow who was killed the previous day, by a similar accident. The men injured were volunteers'and had returned but the day before escaped the death-storm of Duena Vista, in the midst of which they stood--to meet the soldier's worst fate at home'amongst relatives and friends. The hands that had but an hour before returned the warm welcome pressure of the dear ones from whom they had been so long separated, torn from the body, and the shout of joy changed to the wail of grief. The names of the two men are Jesse Daon and William Gracy. They were in the act of ramming home the catridge, when 'the explosion took place, knocking them senseless under the cannon's mouth, and scattering the shivered bones and flesh of their hands about. The ram-rod was blown into the river. Doan's right hand and wrist were Slivered, and the arm amputated below the elbow by a surgeon. Gracy lost both his arms. While undergoing the surgical operation about half an hour after the accident, his shrieks were heart-rending.--The person having charge of the vent was burnt in the face and hands, but not otherwise injured. His mother was near at the lime of the explosion, and ran immediately to his assistance with loud shrieks, which she continued even after assured, by the son's own lips, of his sal ety. This accident, most certainly the result of inexperience, if not carelessness, has added gloom to gloom, and caused our sister city to wear the aspect of mourning. The gun which exploded yesierday wsu a U. S. six-pounder, in goood order new pattern nat the one which caused the dreadful accident of the previous day. We hope that our friends in Covington will not again permit these guns to be fired by other than experienced cannoneers. There are plenty in whose hands the guns will be perfectly safe. Cin. Com. SANTA ANNA'S RESIGNATION. Benj. Thomas sergeant major of the 1st Infantry, died on Sunday, the 30th ult., in Vera Cruz, and was buried on Monday morning with military honors. The sergeant was a valuable officer, says the Eagle, and his demise was regre tted by all who knew him. It has been ascertained that only one man was killed with Col. Sowers. The imprudence of the Colonel in venturing ahead of his parly cost these two lives. A naval expedition against Tobasco, under the commodore in person was talk. ed of at Vera Cruz as about to start at once. The following vessels were mentioned as likely to compose it the frigate Raritan, sloop of-war John Adams, ship Germantown, the 32tna, (now at Frontera,) the Spitfire, (do,) ihe Scorpion, and the gun boats Bonita and Mahonese. 8hould the slop-of-war Albany arrire in time she would probably join in the expedition. We will not detain the reader longer from the letter oj Santa Anna. Mexico, May 29, 1817 Your Excellency. Since my return to the Republic I have had but one grand and sacred object in view, which hassoley occupied my mind for which object the nation recalled me; it was the defencp, the integrity, the independence of my country. My e ff-irts were unlimited, and worked incessantly for this object. On ray arrival I found nothing neither ar my nor resources. I succeeded in my exertions finally, and procured both. I gave the nation 14 understand that I was taking charge of its government, in a manifesto published on the 22i inst., in which I related the successes which have attended our arms up lo my arrival in this capital, and also the motives which moved my return, and the benefits that might result from it. I arrived at the head of only pari of an army, in the great est destitution and disgrace, in order to reinforce this garrison, and entered with the full power to obtain every thing that was necessary for its defence, bo succejful have I been that I can now wjih pride aay, that the city of Mexico is provided wiih means of defence to resist all the etTjrts to subdue it which the enemy can now command. I have alwavt refused supreme power e Um.I.m except in cases of emergency, whereby the interests of the nation mictit be en dsngered. At present circumstances require from me a sacrifice of all I possess, which sacrifice is even attended with danger and a gloomy prospect, besides disgrace attached to iti this is no less than the consecration of myself, by marching forward and setting at defiance the calumny and perfidy of my enemies, tnd with deeds or valor revenging myself against them for their venomous impu tations. This I am ready and willing to perform if in any way the result thereof can benefit my beloved country. I ;n

fearful however, that auch will not be the result; and I have come to the conclusion that by holding the seat of the chief magistracy I will be fomenting impediments against the attainment of my most ardent desires. The enemies of my country have emissaries in every part of the- Republic whose artifices mislead and create distrust and calumny lo such an extent that it is impossible to convince the Mexicans other than that I am an insuperable barrier to my country's welfare, and particularly that my love of power will ever bo a curse to its tranquillity. Il is easy to perceive why they spread sifch reports to my detriment men who are afraid to defend the country wish for peace, and are fearful that they will not enjoy it as long as I am at the head of the Government. They are well aware that my determination has been to put down the different parties which have endeavored to destroy one another, end which, even now, have entiraly forgotten the common danger, in order to be benefited by such division, hoping that a change may place them :n power, and free them from their responsibility to the nation. The foreign enemy's policy is

to foment such a division; in order to obtain it, they have selected me as ihe most probable person by the ruin of whom it may be obtained. I am consequently a target for the shafts of all parties. There fore my position is full of danger; but I do not fear it. The difficulty lies in preventing me from doing what I could to save the Republic. The intrigues of a revolution are well known. On that account the enemy are now advancing towards Puebla and Mexico, as they have been given to understanl that a revolution would take place in her capital. With one act alone I can stop such a revolution, which I consider is the most important service I can render the Republic that act is my present resignation as President pro tem. of the Republic, with which my nation has honored me. lam fully persuaded that this resignation will save the country. I respectfully request the Sovereign Congress lo accept immediately my resignation, and to declare its session, in order to appoint a person well qualified to discharge the above responsible office. I have discharged my duty towards my country as far as in power. I have dedicated my life to it my fortune and that of my family, as well as my o n reputation my blood has been spilt and my limbs lost in its defence; and now with pride I forever resign my public career, without fear of disgrace, and conscious that my services have been faithful and patriotic. In any part of Ihe world where lot may place me, 1 can raise my head with pride, and with satisfaction carry a name that has never been stained with shame but. on the contrary, they will see me a faithful and pitriotic Mexican, who in all his actions has striven fr the honor of being instrumental iq elevating his nation to prosperity and honor. Your Excellency will report the same to the Sovereign Congress, in order that it may accept of my resignation, for which I will remain yours respectfully, wiih the highest consideration. God and Liberty. ANTONIO LOrEZ DC SANTA ANNA. To their Excellencies the Secretaries of the Sovcieign Congress. Sirknrti in fV Jrmy.-A Telt-graphic detpateh in the Pittthurgh ttaxrtie of the 17th int., ayt thai c.gAf hundrrtt of our troopt were tick and unit for tervice at Jalapa. At Vera Cm, rihirrn hundred men were tick, and fjfy died an the frtt tfJune. 'Ihr prrvailtns: dieaet were the Vumito, Sma'l Pon. Diarrhoea, l ever, lyeniery. &r We are indt'lited to ihe tame paper for tome ttatit. tie reconlt d at era Cm. "Iiow ng the mortality in 141, at 1017 more than fifty- per cent, in the numbet of deatlit over the number of baptims and commoting ane tixth of the entire population. About an equal proportion died with the vomito. In 142, the deatht from thtt plague alone imoantcd to twm t houtand' It wa a year in which a great number of raw tnop were tent there from the interior to be embarked for Yucatan. Thee are melancholy fart, and thow what may reasonably he expected from congregating our troop there at thi traton of the year. Ind. Jour. Xew Counterfeits Beware Some new counter foil bills have lately arpeared nt Cincinnati, and will, doubtless, soon make iheir appearance here. One purport to be a bill of $100, of iln State Bank of Ohio, and well executed; but as that Bank has issued no bills of larger denomination than Fifties, a description of the Hundred Dollar bills i unnecessary. The oiher counterfeit i for Five Dollars, on the Lafayette Bink of Cincinnati, and is one of the mot dsngerous kind. The impression appear rather lighter, and the lines less distinct and well defined than in the genuine, but not enough so to cause suspicion. They may be told, however, by the follow'ng: The bottom line or the note is double in Ihe middle ur.Jer the engraver's name, and close together at the ends while in the genuine bill il is a singl line all the way. The counterfeit is one'.enth of an inch shorter than ihe genuine A Singular Case of Amalgamation. A Worcester paper states that Jane Robinson, who, on Thursday pleaded guilty lo an indictment for larceny in the Commom Pleas, in that town.is a young white woman, a litile past the age of '-tweet aixteen," with fine auburn hair,fas!iunably dressed, slender form, delicate complex mn.raiiirr, i U b u uitiut. ) nn.j in 1.0 ' . . - . .,;, mitm nt m . ..t i i-t.: ..I t till " 1 . .w apru-e young iv.mopian, ani me tery blackest one we ever saw. The contrat between the two, ihe wife being very white and the husband extremely blark, was most smeular indeed. The parties . . i i Ethiopian, an! were rom Upton, where me nnsoanu supports his fair dulcinea by making baskets. Some voune Chinese, recently brought to Massachusetts for their education, were ; surprised to find so tew i tion their,-7.;.'- A vnti in igiis ni poptiifirnri.