Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1847 — Page 2

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The undersigned hits rercivej the form sn-1 specific instructions from Washington City, for procuring the Land Warrants or Scrip far Volunteer entitled to the same; and having printed forms, hs I enaUed to attend to the same on short fioMte, and at a low fi-o. GEORGE A. CHAPMAN, Sentinel Otfiee. , Appointments. Several of tin Demotraiic candidates, who hate been humiliated by regular convention, will endeavor to nx-et their f-llow-citizi-ns as pillows, am! they would be espe- - rially gratified tu see as many, l all parlies, aa can make it convenicn t to attendT 1 lu Perry Township, on Saturday, July lOtli, at Bailey's b'eliool House. On Monday, tlie 13ili, at Marrs's S-hool House. In Franklin, on Tuesday, I3il, at Daniel Moore's. . Wednesday, IGlh, at Bethel. In Warren, Thursday, lölh, at Cumberland. Friday, IGlh, at A. Kiser's. Id Latcrenec, Saturday, 17th, at David llns'i. Monday, 13th, at Wm. Diclierson's. Tuesday, 20th, at ihe School House near Johnson's mill. In Washington, Wednesday, 21st, at AllisonviMe, at 11 o'clock, and at Croat! Hippie at 4 o'clock. In Pike, Thursday, 221, at Augusta. Friday, 23d, at MrCurdy'a milli. In Wayne, Saturday, 21th, at Miller's mill. Monday, 2Gth, at Bridgeport. In Decatur, Tuesday, 27th, at Ed. Dollarhide'a. Wednesday, 2ith, at Y. E. II. Wilson's. Between that and election day, at Indianapolis, of which due notice will be given. y ' As many of the candidates as"can, will endeavor to fill the abore appointments, rain or shine; and they respectfully ask their w hig competitors to meet them aa above. 07-On Saturday last, Judge Wick, according to ,-prcviou5 appointment, addressed a larjre number of the people at the Eastern market house. He spoke upwards of three hours, and with extraordinary spirit and vigor. Owing a large debt to the Whig leaders for their unceasing and unfair personal warfare against him during the last two years, he seemed to feel like discharging it in full, and we presume, those of them w ho were present, including the editor of the Journal, think that he did so. lie lashed them with unbounded severity ; and exposed in detail the unjust charges which had been brought against him. We should have felt tempted to give our readers a sketch of the Judge's speech, but as Saturday and Monday were both holidays, and asour friends absolutely forced us to share in the general fun, we had not time to make the attempt. Mr. McCarty spoke about half an hour in reply to Judge Wick, and appointed to deliver the remainder on Monday, which he fulfilled. We only heard his remarks of Saturday. They were entirely devoted to Judge Wick iersnualUj, on the subject of his course iu Congress. Some of the j-osilions of Mr. McCarty were certainly ludicrous enough. We could hardly realize the fact that the speaker was the came sober;. staid and respectable citizen whom we have been ac customed to regard with 60 much esteem and friendly feeling. Verily, a Whig nomination fjr Congress has worked a strange metamorphosis ! Mr. McCarty had not a wordjtQ gay about Whig principles or Whig disposed to treat the Democracy with much liberality and consideration ; but wo could not help doubting if lie would be equally generous nd forbearing, was he not well satisfied of the fact of a democratic majority in the district. We even doubted whether Mr. Mccarty's whig friend would have given him the honor of a nomination, and imposed on him the disagreeable tank of electioneering iu the manner now thought by them to be expedient, were that majority whig in stead of Democratic. In the latter case, Col. A. W Morris, Acting Auditor of State, instead of holding and a rranging Mr. McCarty's papers, would be much more likely to be on the block himself. C-TliC remains of Capt. T. B. Kinder will reach this City on Saturday next, accompained by Capt. Spicley's company from Taoli. The funeral ceremo nics will take place at 10 o'clock, A. M., on Monday next. A programme of the ceremonies will be given in due umc. 07-Thaf new and splendid hat which has made 60 much talk of late, and which is so much admired by the ladies, was obtained from the store of Wels.ians & Cb. They had an excellent assortment, and they are going off fast. Besides, they keep on hand an excellent assortment of Dry Goods 'and Groceries, and deal liberally. Our friends would do well to give them a ca.ll, one door west of the Tost Office. Adjutant Reynolds of Indiana. This gentleman deserves and has received the highest commendati( for the prompt and satisfactory manner in which he Las discharged his duty in organizing the regiment All has passed off" without a murmur, and a finer regiment has never left for the field. JnuiniUe Dein Gen. K. has been ill from chills. and fever, at Jeffersoaville, but is recovering. 1 W. and E. Canal. The Trustees have appointed the following among other officers : Jesse L. Williams, chief engineer; Win. J. Ball, assistant engineer; Stearns Fisher and Chancy Carter, superintendents of 100 miles of finished canal ; John W. Wright, clerk of land office at Logansport ; S. F. Sawyer, clerk of land office at Washington, Daviess county. " "Tvlajor Scmans, editor of the Lafayette Free Tress, has been appointed collector at Lafayette, as we said lie would bo last winter. yöT-The enterprising and industrious publishers of the New Albany Democrat have commenced a triweekly edition of that paper. We hope the citizens of that flourishing town will sustain the publishers by a liberal patronage ; for we are sure it will be merited. (jr-The New Albany Democrat of July 3, says, that Gen. Lane having received a re-appointment, will leave home iu a few days for the seat of war. We iearn that Gen. L. will join the division of thtj army nudur Major General Scott. fjrThe editors of the New Albany Democrat have our Hunks for Ne Orleans papers to the 2Gth ult. They contain 1,0 news froai Mexico later than those cf the 2-xli. . ' fjTwo or three persons wer injured by the premature discharge of a cannon, while engaged lu firing a eil'j'.e t tho returned volunte at New AI7 bany. .. . - ' Plow n f.d. On S;i;.diy Morning 1 1 t. Ooir n y, a "J . s''v "nteeti years, was drovncl in White Ki V'T, Mil; hii-i

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We-are in the receipt of items 'iruiu.Tlio se counties tu this distrtct, which when compared ducc the follow i nz result-: ' Jiliy lh1st. The hypocritical how linga and wailings of Iho? Tun,-, .nil iii nrrran lirrp'nn Hif kubiert, of tlifl , , , ' . rru' pay or the volunteers, have all been in vain. Ifce opposition to the war rru.de by the whig members, of the Ia.t Conorresa.Tind bv the whi? nref3 tlirouihout Ihe Union, unmasks this pretenc?. The democratic portion . 0 , j cio l of the volunteers aresatifefied with the course of our hte Hepresen alive in reference to their pay, and dissatisfied with the course of those who denounce the war m which they have been engaged as unjust or unnecessary. 2d. The Journal's eulogies upon Dtniel O'Conncll and Mcintosh have been penned aud published in vain. Love's labor's lost." 3J. Our candidate will receive the democratic vote of the district, except a few of those who can be in fluenced by & discontented aspirant, or by the most potent of whig political elements wealth. Our opponents boast that out of those democrats who are uuder pecuuiary obligations to the whig can didate, or, are in the employment of wealthy whigs, their candidate will receive several hundred votes. Can this be true ! Will democrats eufTer their votes to Jjo thus controlled ! 4th. Whigs take much exception to the strong party cast of Judge Wiek's public addresses, and the whig candidate talks as mihilv as' a sucking ' dove. This jowever does not tike. The people remember that in IS 10 a democrat could hardly walk the streets of Indianapolis without being insulted, and that in IS 14 a democratic procession in those streets was sung at and yelled at by the Junto, and its adherents from the porch of whi headq artcrs, and they wonder why Mr. .McCarty does not go it as strong now as in for mer times. 5th. Now and then an honest war whig will vote or our candidate. We see nothing to be done except to call our friends throughout the district to a united effort to brin? all our voters to the polls, and to eay to our Shelby friends that our caudidate was fairly selected, over the first choice of some of them, end to ask them whether they can answer to the democracy of the district, the State, and nation for any defalcation on their part. What says the Volunteer to this 1 Speak, friend Thachcr. In Judge Wick's speech on the increase of the pay the army, in the course of an earnest remonstrance with a majority of tho House, concerning the manner in which the House had failed to sustain the war measures recommended by the Executive, may be found the following sentence: At the rrcitf nt juncture the Democratic party are in full posesiuii of evciy bianch of the government, and is theieiure if sponsible. And when, because you will do neither one thinr nor another, power drops from j our imbecile hand, and your opp meni come into power, what will become of you, ye timid politicians, who shiver on the bi ink " of a cup of tea, "and fear to bunch" a democratic commander of your armies, ready on the stocks r inur district will be come whig, and y on will be superseded. If you have not the moral rouraje to do the right thin from lore of couutry. at least do tt tn cefence of your desks here and the eight dollars per day. Parties aie contiolled by principle, and on a question of principle a fait y man must be uncompromising. but upon all questions if mere expediency, parties not only may but must compromise, or do nothing. 11 lesult that the democratic party in this Mouse must meet on some common tound. Ilis'ory justifies the conclu sion that in reference tj mere measures involving no radical principle, parties have almost universally found il easier to unite upon the baii of Executive iccornnicndatiun, thin upon any other gmund. That part of the sentence which is in italics, when construed by the rest of the sentence, ond ejiecir.lly when taken in connection with other portions of the speech is evidently a taunt, indicating to those to whom the speech was addressed that their dereliction of duty was induced by the selfish fear of losing their eCats in Congress, and that as they seemed to have abandoned noble and patriotic motives, and were in tent only upon runconibising, the best way to clTcct even that mean object would be to do right. We will leave it to the faculty of any college if this be not the true sense 01 me sentence, inuetu tins sense ia so appaicnt that none but a noodle could understand it otherwise. The whig candidate for congress, in his addresses to the people, represents this taunt as being sober ad vice to members of Congress to pursue a certain course with a view to a re-election. Mr. McCarty has been assured by Judge Wkk, in private conversation, of the true menning of the sen tence, and in fart his professed misunderstanding o its meaning never could have been anything better than an affectation; for Mr. McCarty ia no noodle Ho only undervalues the common senso of his audi ence, and treats them so as to clearly indicate that he thinks them to be noodles. It is a specimen of low cunning not very credilable. Cunning is the intellect of brutes not of men. We had intended to 6ay but little of Mr. McCarty, and that respectfully, in accordance with Jude Wick's desire. But Mr. McCarty's course justifies this comment, and we may, by Judge Wick's sanc tion, add " a few more of the same sort." Candidates for Congress should not resort to low acta. CO"Thc Louisville Journal thinks that Gen. Taylor is attempting to "play 'possum." It publishes his Taylur letter, in which he says "In no case can permit mysif Id le Hie candidate of any jarly, or yit'.d viysflf to parly schemes," ond comments thus "This letter 13 from the Cincinnati Signal. The Louisville Democrat, i:i republishing it, says: "It will be seen that utnerai Jnylor will not permit him self to be used by the whig party." Gen. Taylor, in the phrase to which the Democrat refers, 'means no - thing more than that he will not enter into the Presidential canvass as a partizan that he will not be the candidate of a mere party, but the candidate, if one at all, of all such of tho people of the United States as may think proper to honor him with their suffrages. Still ho does not deny, nor will he deny, that in"his opinions and feelings he is a whig. Within the last three days we have seen a letter from Gen. Taylor, in which he twice declares, unequivocally and in so many words, that he is "A WHIG." Candidates roa Conubess. In Indiana the race stands thus: Democrats. 1st District, Roll. Dale Owen Elisha Embrce. John S. Davis. P. A. Hacklcman. Caleb B. Smith. Nicholas McCarty, G. G. Dunn. R. W. Thompson. David Brier. Daniel D. Pratt. W. D. Ewiujr. 2d Thos. J. Henley. 3d 4th 5th Cth 7th blh 9th 10th John L. Robinson. Charles II. Teat. Wm. W. Wick. George W. Carr. r Jos. A. Wright. John Pettit. Chos. W. Cathcart. William Rockhill Ia the 3d district James II. Cravcus is the ." peace party" candidate. 03-Tl.e "National Whig," tho Tajlor paper published at Washington city, is 60 mad and dumbfounded at Gen. Taylor's letter to tho editor of the Cincinnati Signal, that it pwcars the letter is a forgery, and attempts to prove its position by the other ' leUef' w,,ich we PIishc-d at the same time. No doubt. both arc genuine, much as the whigs may dis like them. 07" Three "mortal columns" appear in the lust Wabash Express, all about "Messrs. Thompson and Wiight," written no doubt by Dick himself. How ina:iy will hive p.-itience to wade through it? - ArrKOFKHTE. ft eastern paper has .odoj'Ud as its fuott'. Come a id tuke ru'j I

vflrtrlull vs. Cicjirral Laue. We cüpyt&i Veply of Colonel Marshall of Ky. to General Lane'a sujp!emctitary report rclatie to the j battle of Duena Vista, because the subject id one of interest to the people of this State, together with thi intrndiiftnrv rnrnnrl' iif tl.p T.nnisvillff Journal. r I , e .i t t i . . 1 In a hasty reading of the whole, only two strong , points seem to be presented by Marshall to justify his aniraadversions. The first is that he ii sustained by the report of Major Gorman, und, as the Louisville - - 1 Journal intimates, by his later verbal testimony. Msjar Gorman may Buppose himself to bo right in the statements he makes; we have no doubt he docs. But he may bo mistaken nevertheless. We have seen that other official reports from officers engaged, or in command, were grossly erroneous, including the reports of Taylor and Wool. We have conversed with Colonel Deake and other Indiana oflicers just returned, who fully sustain and confirm the facts stated by Gen. Lane in his supplementary report; and until we receive other testimony than that presented by Col. Marshall, we shall consider General Lane essentially correct. He took every means that could well be taken by any man to get at the truth of the whole matter, and is not to be discredited upon light grounds. The next, or perhaps the most important point made by Col. Marshall, is the imputation of indis cretion and recklessness alleged to have been manifested by General Lane, in assailing and advancing G.COU men with only 400. Under ordinary circumstances there mijjht be some propriety and reason in such an imputation, but not under those which existed at Bucna Yista. At least Ihe imputation should not be confined to (Jen. Lane alone. If it was rash and reckless for him to obey the orders which were given to him by his superiors in the field, it was not less rash and indiscreet for those superiors ta give those orders. If Lane was rash and reckless, Wool and Taylor were equally or more 60. This conclusion i3 irresistible. It required just such J:sjicrale fighting as was given by Gen. Lane to gain the battle of Bucna Vista ; or rather to avoid being overwhelmed by the Mexican force. The result of the battle, such as it was, could have been attained in na other way. This every man must be sensible of, let him think what he will about correlative matters. No thing else could have saved our whole army from utter destruction. It looks well, therefore, at this time of day, to charge the very men who actually saved the fortunes of the day by their brave self-devotion, with recklessness, rashness, and imprudence ; and to blame the IndianUns for 710 duing what they were at first stigmatized as cowards for retreating. Rcbtslic Co ITItwfcaii ITIiigjrcry. We find tho following card iu the Franklin Examincr, June 3. 1 lie author ot it is tno gentleman who was the whig representative of Johnson county in the last legislature. We imagine that he is not the only one who has become disgusted by the unpatriotic course of the Whig leaders during the past year, and which is every day growing more outrageous and un pardonable: TO THE CITIZENS OF JOHNSON COUNTY. The deep and abiding gratitude 1 feel for the many expressions of your confidence, and the continued disposition of many to confer further favors, in connexion with wido spread reports as to my political opinions, and justice to myself, impels me to make a frank,-public avowal of the sentiments 1 have ex pressed, and really entertain. It is well known many persons of both political parties, were desirous not lonir since, if not now, that I should be a candidate for re-election to the Slate Legislature, and being questioned upon the subject, I stated, that if a candidate, I would pledge myself to vo'c for a Democrat to the united States' Senate, and in good faith if elected, redeem my pledge. Iho reaspns given, consider ing tno state 01 parties in tins county, are so very natural I need not repeat them. I understand my Whig friends were not pleased, and after Fjrne consultation, determined to question me further before encouraging metobca candidate. In reply to which, I expressed ignoran-'C as to Whig policy, and asked whether a United States' Bank, a highly protective Tariff, and a distribution, under present circumstances, wore desirable and cherished measures. In answer to which, I am constrained to say, I was told what in fact I more than half suspected, that "Whig policy was opposition to Democratic policy. Sornethmi was said on the subject of the war; unon which I re minded my friends of the discordant views and disin cenuous course of some portion of our party. The next day I found myself reported far and wide asliav ing turned Democrat. Now I have noaficction for names ; and never was so far an ultra partizan as to be wholly blind to truth and reason ; nor will I, when inquired at by those who have a right to know, (for any considuration) suppress my opinions. Otherwise, I fancy I might have been a candidate this summer, with fair prospects 0 success. As it is, to avoid the charge of venality, I decline becoming a candidate, desiring my good friends of both political parties to accept my heart-felt thanks for their kind intentions. I am happy in the conviction that my Whig friends with whom for years I have stood 6houlder to shoulder, have not been in. fluenced by unkind .feelings; nor will I take leave 0 the Whig party as if we arc to take different roads, since all who are not for a high protective Tariff, for a United States' Lank and distribution and more in love with Mexicans than our own good people in number not a few are yet by my side. June 7, 1S17. G. HICKS. Whig SrstrATiiv. What a sympathising set are the Whig politicians ! How amazing their affection for every thing anti-democratic ! In 1812, they sympathised with the British and Indians who were murdering our countrymen on the northwestern frontier; and recognized as "unbecoming in a moral and religious people," the public demonstrations of joy et victories by our countrymen. In 1317 they sympathise with the Mexicans who are ! inhumaul' murJerinif our brave volunteers whenever they get an opportunity ; and pronounce the war with Mexico aa a "uod abhorred war. In Boston, they sympathised with the Romari Catholics by burning down an elegant building occupied by females, and devoted to female education. In Philadelphia, they sympathised with the Catholics by destroying their churches. . In Pittsburgh, they endeavored to array tho whole Protestant population of Pennsylvania against Governor Shunk, because he walked in a procession of his Roman Catholic fellow citizens 011 a public occasion. Pittsburgh I'ost. 07-The Lebanon Courier, a whig organ of Ohio, thus replies to a brother whig : "A Perfect Looseness." The Harrisburg Intelligencer says, "everybody goes it with 'a perfect looseness' for old Zack." We are freo to admit that there is 'a perfect looseness," perhaps, we might add a perfect recklessness of principle, in the courre of the Intelligencer on the subject; but we believe the Charleston Mercury, and other papers of that stripe, arc no in the habit of pursuing such a course on any question involving Free Trade and Slavery. We beg leave, therefore, to doubt the Intelligencer's assertion, that "every body goes it with 'a perfect looseness' for old Zack." fJr-The Banks, which pretended to date their ruin from the operation of the specie clause of the independent treasury law, are declaring larger dividends than in any previous years. The dividends cf nine New York banks in IS 15 were il 2.j, in IS 10 S 35, in 1317 &3 50. Those of twenty-four Boston banks in IS 15 were $3 25, in 1S1G $uJ 31, in 1817 $3 40, showing a regular increase of profits. The French government requires all foreigners who pass through France to embark at Havre; 1st. To have a passport signed by a French Ambassador; 2d. To pay the prico of their passage and the amount necessary for their provisions into the hands of the captain of the vessel ; 3d. To exhibit to the commis-saryl-of police the sum of 300 francs for cadi adult, and 430 frsncs for each child under 18. The Belgian 'overnment only requires evidence of the possession if 2uU franc fjr each adult i uud 100 for each child.

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07 We publish l!ie ful.jw.ng communication by particular request. We know nothing i f Üie true merits of the matter iii controversy. Bhitille, Jutj 3, 1817. Mxssns. EniToRi.-ou have doubtless observed, in some communities, Yoi individual known tj the sp-

pel'aUon of muchicf ke who fjmcnt disturbances F . . (0 to excite sec tlont jealousy and strife. These uersons are cenfra'if 3etitute of extensive hierary capacity, or non.a notiL scni.mems. P""" . -- x . .

tise by Ijweiinz others in pulilic esiimation. Some of j , .,, . . ... . them Lve a vein of low buLr in their composition and J . antl Annl re ln P'W. H tignaoften nAke fools f tlumselv J in endeavoring to exhibit ! e presume was withdrawn, for it is intimated

other, in this lizht. A ceriaui abolitionist, or rentesde whig, through the columns of the Advertiser baa unJertaken to create a division in the whi; ranks, by his tffirts at sarcasm, because the people of Beilvilie and its vicinity, in a public assembly, stood up for their rights in oppo sition to the inhabitants of Danville, wbo, it svems cad met to secure the passage of the Rail Road through their town We censured them not. They woulJ have been recreant to the noble race of mar. bad ,hey not attended to their interests by striving to promote the prosperity of their village. Why then blame our community for pursuing the dic tates of a similar impuUel We concene the route by Btllville the mere direct for the Kail-way. And if bribe ry would take it to Danville, which idea we utterly deprecate, we can outbid her. But this is not the only source of irritation to the aristocratic conclave that has for some time secured to themselves the offices of honor and profit in the gift of the sovereign people,-to the exclusion of those residing in other sections. And should its members not act with more circumspection in this respect, we will appeal to this high tribunal, aginst a course so tepugnant to our republican institutions. The principal cause of umt rage o the junto originated in an attempt, this summer, to assert our right to at least one of the county offices not because we expect to continue the claim in defiance of the prerogative of other portions of the county. Having adhered to our views with some tenacity, though we ultimately yielded, to pre serve harmony in the Far,J we have, in consequence, been the subj ct of a most base attempt at lampoon. And our ire being somewhat cxiite.I, we warn the conductors of the Whig Orgn at Danville and the friends of the great principles we advocate, wbo have fanned the flime of discord, to pour nil upon the troubled waters. For, an attempt is being made to start an indtpendent candidate to represent us in tho next Legislature. The writer of this communication his been requested to sub mit his name to the peop'o with the promise of a respectable support from tho whigs and democrats of the county; but declines a course that would sever the tanks of ihe party. The Free and independent voters of ihe South, however, resolved to insist on their right la considera tion and maintain it at aU hazards. Not only have thrir claims been disregarded but insult has been added to injury. A certain individual, no doubt under tho icSacnce of those who would still rule over the people of Hendricks with imperious sway, wishing, like the renowned John D. Hopkins, to see his beautiful lucu brations in print, has attempted to cast a stigma upon our town and its inhabitants Had he been gifted with the genius of a Sanitton his vengeance might have proved as destructive as the fire brands on the tails of his foxes. B ut, in its (fft-cts, we are rather led to regard it as a tin kettle lied to a dog's tail. For, having doubtless despiircd of acquiring an honorable notoriety, he sought, like Erostratus who fired the Temple of Diaua, to damn himself to everlasting fame. But, alas! he has even failed in acquiring an accursed celebiity beyond the precincts of the county. His name will never be coupled with that of Cervantes, Junius, or Byron. Up, John, try it again ; do not be disiouragrd at the failure of a first attempt, though liulo misses laugh at your puerile attempt at ridicule. There is but one slop from the iublime to the ridiculous and in your "Ion? necked fife" "rascally drum" and "angle in a dog's tail ' you have unfortunately taken it. Il is thought by some that this Don Quixote, who has seized his grey goose quill with such transcendent cour age, is much belter lilted to frm a decoction cf wormwood and rue, or wie'd a squirt, than to expound the laws of language, or -wade through the obstruse pages of meta physical lore. He seems to measure the capacity, inde pendence and energy of a community by its numbers Hence, according to bis logical deductions, the inhabitants of a viil igc must not take a step in, civil, or political malleu, until they have ascertained the way in which the car rent IIjws in more populous towns Bah, John ! Cut down all the young oaks levt they become stalely trees, standing erect amid the whirl winds and the storm. Yet, this unfledged eaglet, in his attempt to soar to tV.e height of literary excellence, has not only set Murrav Blair, and Campbell at defiance, but even common sense. For, ho docs not unito in opinion with the idea that de scriptum should be accurate terms appropriate and figures clear representatives of their ol'jects. His perceptive pow er must indeed be acute to discover a "long neck in Gfe. His pur ly of style far excels that of the learned critics who would condemn the application of ''rascally to a drum, and who would prefer the term semicircle to that of ''angle, in a dog's tail." ff ''fliiftlrt In ft 1rtfa fail We hinted that this ospirant after literary honors had been sit to work by those who would take the Rail Koad through tad-po!e swamp, frog hollow and the high hills of Danvillo to the capitol. forming what would indeed be equal to an angle of forty five degrees in a dog s tail - lie is certainly not remarkable for the extensive scope of bis mental powers but must have a soul like Shak t car s soldiers, "no bipger than a pins heaJ," or he never could have been satisfied with the discovery that II a-l-e should be spelled it-a-i-l John, it was certainly beneath the dignity of a person of your ambition to write an elaborate essay en a fact manifest 10 every school boy that has advanced to ba ker. Belter seize on one of the more sublime topics of the day to acquire immortality. Dip your pen in the beams of ihe morning, and wilh a soul fired by the wrongs inflicted on a part of the great human family proclaim the principles that should animate its members in their intercourse with each other. John, you have cast a stigma upon the memory of your cousin Jo. who, it is siiJ, burried a lot of old type and dug them up at Ihe voice of inspiration to print the Golden Book of Mtrmon. For, you have sought notoriety by an attempt to bespatter the people of Beilvilie with the scum of the putrid pool in which you are croaking. Some of whom are as far above you in moral courage and intellect ual might as in local situation. John, analyze "Well, as I was going to say." You cannot, nor can all the learned authors from Mailtaire,who wrote in 1712 to Wells, tho last writer on the principles of the science . of language. Beware, sir. You may be more fully unmasked exhibited in all your moral and in tcllcctual deformity, before a virtuous an J indignant pub he by TOM CURRYCOMB. Thi has no reference to the respectable community which the writer lives but the intellectual element which he acts. ' Father Rf.y. We learn that the return of the Rev. Mr. McElroy confirms the sad news of the death of tho llov. Mr. Rey. The Catholic Telegraph informs us that his attendant was one of the Montgomery Guards, a young man named William Burke, well known to many of our citizens, lie was oue of the workmen of the catlicdral of Cincinnati, from its commencement to its completion, and enjoyed a character against which not a reproach could be uttered. The banditti lay in ambush, and fired, killing Mr. Burke first. They hesitated to fire at the priest, but the leader. of the robbers stated that n witness of the crin.e should survive, and thus procured the diath of the Rev. Mr. Rey, who fell covered with wounds. When the population of Marin heard of this atrocious deed, they went out en masse to arrest the murderers, but all tint they could do was to bear the bodies to the place of sepulture, where they were interred with every manifestation of respect. Philadelphia Spirit of the Times. Cumorjs Discovery. In digging yesterday among the foundation of Grace Church, at the corner of Broadway and Rector "street, which has recently been pulled down, a coffin, apparently of silver, wa9 discovered, about two feet and a half in length, containing the body of a female child, with an inscription bearing date 17G7. The coflin had a glass over the face, and a little further down on the coffin, a looking glaKS set in metal. . Near the fool of the coffin was an aperture closed by u glass stopper, which being opened it appeared that the coffin was filled with spirits of turpentiue, in which the body was preserved, so that the features, though somewhat collapsed, were seen through the glass. The whole was enclosed in a strong 'deal outer coffin. iV. Y. Eve. Post.

Great Men's Recreations. Mr. Webster, while in Charleston, like Mr.. Clay in New Orleans, felt a laudable ambition to klay something. Mr. Clay wished to kill a Mexican, but Mr. Webster in the dearth of torn-cods, expressed a desire to kill an alligator. IIo fired, but the hide cf the animal was harder than any cider ever drank in the campaign of 110, and the ball boutidtd from the animal's back like parched curn from a hut stove-plate. Mr. Webster intends ucxt to try on a eoft-fcL-l'c J alligator." . ' : -

Iaic ft c:a 21cxico. The f.illo'X'iug im K.rtunt and 'interesting iutclK-gcry-e we copy from New .rlcaus Picayune of the Uö:h: The steamship raJai(.;io, Ci.pt. Smith, arrived last evening from Vera Cruz, haviu eailed thence on the 13;h iit. Ly this arrival ws Lave received papers from th city of Mexico of ihe 6ih, 7th, 8lh and Oil? of June. Gnr previous liles come oa)vvu to the 29; h of May.

I The intermediate dates w e have nof yet received, and !Preawie they Lave btu-n forwarded by some sailing mai a uujoruy 01 vongre-si was an.Muus u om-ri n "is auinuuairauon, in consequence 01 uns loenng, in Congress has entirely changed its policy and thrown itself into the arms of the puro? It is represented that opinions were never more divided in the capital than at present. No party seems to have decided upon what course to take. An express from Tuebla, by the route of Cordova, had arrived at Vera Cruz, announcing that Gen. Scott commenced his march upon tho city of Mexico on the lüth inst. We hear not a word more in regard to the over tures for peace said to have been made to Gen. Scott. That he marched on the 10th we have no doubt. About one thousand troops left Vera Cruz on the rth ult., under the command of Maj. Gen. Pillow, to join the army of Gen. Scott. We find in the llepuhhcano of the 7th ult., a long despatch from the Secretary of War to Gen. Scott, dated the 30;h of April. It informs him that by the end of June the President supposes Gen. Scott will iavc twenty, and (Jen. Taylor ten thousand men under tlicic respective commands. It aks for the views of Gen. Scott on various questions suggested, and pives .im directions how to operate with disaffected Mexi can Slates. Gen. Scott appears to preserve perfect discipline among his troops at Tuebla. The Mexicans admit this indirectly, though letters are published complain ing of our excesses in general terms. The proposition which Mr. Trist is authorized to make, are said bv the Mexicans to be, that each Re public shall name three commissioners to discuss the claims of the United States, and that if Mexico will not consent to this, then the war is to be prosecuted. Gen. Almonte was still in prison, nor are we able to learn any thing more definite as to the nature ot his offence, his trial not having yet come on. Ihe fctate ot Chihuahua voted unanimously tor uen Santa Anna for President. The votes were opened on the loth. From Tampico we learn little news by this arrival The only thing which gives animation to the town ap cars to be the false alarms which frcqucutly occur. From Vera Cruz. The Delta has advices from Vera Cruz to the 16th and Tampico to the 17th At Tampico they were in daily expectation of an attack Iiom the Mexicans, who weie lepoited to be loOO strong in the vicinity of the city. On the niht of tae 12th instant demonstration was made by the Mexicans in Tampico to rise. Ihe American authorities, however, had timely iu formation of the contemplated movement, and to suppress it. if attempted, caned nut the troops, who lay on their aims all uihl There was then no dorn. mstra tum of tevolt made On the loth.inst. a party of Mexican lancers attacked the outpost of Tampico and drove the sentinels into the city On the 16th a party of tancberos attacked the pilot station and were giceted by a discharge from half a dozen muskets, when they retreated. The most unpoitant pait of the intelligence is the flatter ing prospect of peace. Information bad been received at Vera Ciuz before the Djv left, that Gcneials Scott and Woith, with the main body of the army, had advanced as far as Kio Frio, without opposition, and were met at that place by a deputation from the Capital, with propositions for peace. The exact tenor of the propoi:ions weie not known ; they were, however, of such a natuie that General Scott refused to accept them, and was determined to push ou his forces to the Capital. From the deep anxiety felt by the new government, if the teim government can be applied to auy party or power in Mexico, to stay the inarch of our forces on the Capital, it was thought that further concessions would be made to Gen. Scott before be took up his line of march fiom Kio Frio. There was a rumor at Vera Cruz on the morning of the ICth 111st., that a small party of Americans had been attack ed by about 100 Mexicans, and nearly all cat to pieces. 'The same evening, the authoutics of the city were on the look out for two Mexican officers, who commanded at the attack on the train at the National Bridge. The Eagle says that one of our soldiers found concealed in the Castle of San Juan de Ullua, a lare bag cf money, which hus been banded over to the Commandant. By the way, this gectlcman, Col. Wilson, in the columns of the Eagle, denies the statement of Lieut. Colonel Mata, late a prisoner of war, in this city, that he " hid confined General La vega, and In captive brotherofucers, in the guaid-house in the Castle of San Juan de Ullua." Thi ," adds Colonel Wilson, " I am obliged to say, is wholly untruo." From the Washington Union, June 23. Despatches from the Army. Despatches were received on Saturday night by the War Officer from General Scott's camp. Several of the soldiers were sick in the hospitals of Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Perote, and Puebla; but wilh the reinforcements that were en roule from Vera Cruz, he would probably have troops sufficient by the 22d to march to the capital, perhaps without an)' serious oposition. lie had ordered all our troops to evacuate Jain pa, in order lo strengthen his active army. The last accounts by the steamer James L. Day are from Vera Cruz to the evening of the loth instant, which state that General Scott had advanced to Rio Frio, w here a despatch is said to have met him with a proposition for peace. If this last report be true, it is probable that he will remain at Rio Frio, and not forthwith march to tho capital, but, according to the intimation in his own despatches, wait till about the 22d, both to give himself the opportunity of receiving reinforcements, and to allow the Mexicans more time to negotiate with the better grace. Among tho papers that were received on Saturday from General Scott, i3 tho following interesting letter from Gen. Worth, which we lay before our readers: Headquarters, Puebla, May 15, 1847. Sir: I have the honor to report, for information of the gnnoral-in-chief, that the forces under my command, including the brigade of Mnjor General Quitman, took military possession of this city at 10 o clock to-dav. Halting yesterday at Amosoquo, to await the junction of General d'utman, (hr which purpose 1 had shortened the marches ot the leading brigades the two previous days,) I found my position suddenly menaced, at eight o'clock, A. M., by a large body of cavalry. This force approached somewhat stealthily by a road on our right unknown to u. A rapid examination, as it unmasked itself, exhibited,.as was supnosed. some 2,000. but, from accurate information obtained here, 3,000 cavalry of the line, unsuppoiteu either by intantry or artillery, and moving a mile on our right and toward tho renr, led. to the conclusion that it was a ruse to attract attention in that ouarter, while the real attack was to be looked for on the high road in front, or a movement on General Quitman, who might have been supposed the usual day's march in the rear. It was presently reported that a heavy column was actually approaching on the main road. Thus it became necessary, while directing a portion of the force against the visible enemy, to guard our large train, reserve ammunition, etc., packed in the square, against the invisible. The 2d artillery, with a section of Duncan's battery under the brigade commander, Col. Garland, the Glh infantry under Major Bonneville, with Stcptoe's. battery, was promptly moved, and so directed as to take the enemy in flank. Tlie head ol his column having now reached a point opposite the centre of the town, and distant about half a mile, the batteries soon opened a rapid and effbetive fire. After some twenty-five rounds, the entire column broke w ithout attempting a charge or firing a shot, and hastily tied up the fides of the convenient hills. Only one company of infantry (of the Glh) was enabled, from distance, to deliver its fire. The broken column was seen to reunite and resume its march in ihe direction of General Quitman's approach. The 2d artillery and 8th infantry, wilh two sections o( the. light batteries, was put (nils track, when the enemy again swerved to the loft, and disappeared in the hills. Two miles distant Gen. Quitman was met by the last-named detachment. He Iih1 already discovered the enemy, of whose proximity the firing had admonished him, and nrnmmlv tnken his order of battle. ! 'I'll a discomfited enemy reached Puebla late at night, and evacuated the place at four in the morning. We took some prisoners, and found a few dead. The enemy acknowledge a loss of 81) killed and wounded. General Santa Anna conducted the enterprise. Enclosed, marked A, is a copy of a communication addressed, on the 12th, to the civil authorities of Puebla. Again, marked C, on the 14th, with reply to the latter, marked D: also copy of circular, dated Oth, addressed to commanders of corps, to regulate their conduct in c erhört contingencies on the inarch. It is understood the force hicli retired from this city the df y before yesterday, and to-day, is to take post at Pu

ch te ilc I Tcrirnuluca, distant iy leagues on the road to tho j capital, where) it is propt d to fortify. Our reception j wad rcfppctfullv and celdiy courteous, Lut without the i .1; , .

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clighliil cordi ility. cd me a ni:iiriit to s-t'I' V nut r nbuli'Jance, less of beef, and perhaps a hbtral quantity cfj small rations. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ' V. J. WORTH t- ' Bievet Major General Commanding. Capt. Scott, A. A. A. G., headquarters! jhe army, Jalapa. The papers referred to by General Worth were cot communicated with lus uespatcti.j We have very Utile doubt that General Nrott is tj this time in the capital, unless some definitive propositions for peace have been made by the Mexican roverumtnt. An Admonition to the Anli-IVarifc. William C. Tobey, or " John of York," as he th lights to sign himself, the clever but quaint correspondent of the Philadelphia North American, at present with Gen. Scott's army, oddrecs the following apt admonition to the anti-war folks in this country, whoso pertinacious opposition to the war serves but to protract it. Mr. Tobcy speaks through an anti-adminis tration journal, and with a knowleJgt; derived from actual observation, of the evil effects of which the course pursue.! by those whom Le reproves is the cauie. Asti-Wa Folks ! There arc now in Mexico many th. ir sands of vour fellow-citizens who, at lK.e call of their an your government, left homes, kiudicd, and all that was comfortable and productive of happint-K on earth, In sustain the decrees cf that government and the honor of the nation. Whether the war is wrong or light, this is not the time lo discus it. If wiong, it must be brought to aa honoiable termination, and, lo do this, all should be united. The people we war against need nut y.'ur encourajement to lie in wait for your brothers ana minder ir.em with the lasso ana machette. They need not your pious cuts s upoo our heads to incite them lo halted of everythin American. We should have your ail and support ; vre need your ccooraeerr.eut to tutain ui iu the tiiaU aud haiuShips we eucouuter in this uiifiieiidly cliinate. Our love of country ai d our patiiotic impuhei made us fly to the rescue of our flag at tue lnt can. and we can bear all the buidens war itnpo-cs without mut ilans; but we caunot brook your cold r.eers at our suffer ings, and your hypocii'.ical prayers for our defeat. Thousands now here will never see home nor kindred aain ths hailgtorm f battle und the ui.he ilttiy climate wiil thin our ranks more than eveu you may desiie, though your veins swell fall of toiy blood. Eveu hould it be clear that the Picident was wrong in the course he has pursued towards the Mexicans, is it lair, is it patiiotic in you as Ameiicans to embarrass him, and aid our enemy to destroy us ? We, here, know nopaity; we know no faction; no political cou-iuViitioi.s influence us; and why should they intlucnce you at such a time? We care nothing for Mr. Polk as a man, and if he does wrong we shall not be behind any in avowing it when the proper time comes. But we can sec other work to di just now, and it is a pity that you aie no better employed. If you will take pait with the enemy, cume beie and do it like men show that you have as much coinage as tiea; hery in your heaits, and that you aie not afraid to do that you wished done by our foes. If you want to fl g Mr. Polk, go ahead, but do not cut out thioais ia doing it, for there are a pietty snug party of us here who may have a quaircl to settle with him and his administration when this war is ended. That will be when Mexico is tho oohly whipped; and, as it will not take us long lo do that, ber fiicnds in Ihe United States will find the few that are left of us leady and wilting to do them the same favor on our return home. De!-iiw you to understand that the Ameiiean volunteers have generally minds to appreciate your elTuts, and excellent memolies, I shall not waste paper by saying anythiug further to you while in Mexico. I expect ihal Ihe foregoing parajraph is so much lost time and paper, but I feel at pieent ve:y much like taking a giand lound through the Mas'&chiiscU L'gi-btuie, and wallopping the entire grocery, fiumlhe s;eaker to the spittoon cleaners. The sentiment so buu;;!iiig!y put together heie aie but the ccbo of what is fell and p. ken by every man in the army. Direct Taxation. About the time cf the par-sage of the present free trade tariff, the soothsayers and we men of the federal party, predicted not only the ruin t f the country as the consequence, but swore that the object of tho democratic party was to induce the necessity cf a direct taxation upon thejjeople for the support of tho government. It would eoeni that the mark of Cain is upon these men. No prediction which they havo made that is not falsified 110 promise have they given which has been fulfilled. The treasury of thfiU. S. in full the revenue under the present tariff will exceed this year thirty million of dollars. Thus bytime and facts the lie is given to all the ns-ertions, charges and pred.ctions of the leaders of the federal party. Luin, black and blue, was to overspread the land the "God like Daniel" threatened the repeal of the odious tariff, which in its effects was to scour";o the land and ruin the manufacturers. Yet in spite of threats iu spite of ruin in spite of the free trade tariff more Capital is invested in manufactures at this day in the United States than at any former period. Abbot Lawrence, h" howled loudly fjr himself 'and others, engaged in manufacturing who called so pitcously for help, and predicted their owfr ruin if the present, tariff went into operation, is building a new and magnificent city, which will eclipso Lowell. What wise men these whigs arc and what dupes those who follow them. In vain c look for f ictorics going to ruin as they predicted. No here do we see the hands employed in them wandering about without work and asking for bread. On the contrary, the country was never more ptospcrous, ai.d that titidor pure and undefilcd democratic rule. If tho sub-treasury ar.d free trct'e in Full blast, in less than one year produces such results, what may we not an- . ticipatc if this salutary policy is followed upl -' (37It is because such articles as tLe following occasionally appear in the Philadelphia Ledger, that tho Whig editors hate it so rancorotialy, end swear it is a "locofoco" paper : The Social Constitution. One of the newspapers contains two paragraphs in juxtaposition 'one stating that twenty-two millions of dollnrs are owned in Boston by thirteen men, the other that, among a body of German immigrants, utck passengers m board of a steamboat from New Orleans up the Mississippi, elevtn births occurred between that city and the mouth of the Ohio. So! This is the diviion of property in rinViVJ society ! While thirteen tuen ore immensely rich, another bedy of men are too poor to find shelter for their wives and infants, under circumstances the most trying to humanity! But these joor Germans, we shall be told, were robbed by monarchy ar.d aristocracy at home, and have nought a better condition in our "republican" land. All this is true : end at the same time, a dozen of men in a single cTtyn4JJiref ublican lund, have acquired enormous fortunes tlr the "aristocracy" of monopoly. How many years will elapse before the poor of this "republican" land will be obliged to emigrate to the interior wilds of. Asia, to escape the same kind iff land monopoly which now drives the German peasantry abroad ! The principal purchasers of the public lands are the thirteen men in the cities who own the twenty-two tu iL ions ; and though they now pi rchase to hold fur higher prices, and thus rob the cultivators, they will soon adopt the European custom of purchasing lo hold for leafin?, for cullivation by tenantry. Does Europe afford us no warning ? Can we profit in nothing by tfcll.riti . f ' But the history of these thirteen men is instructive. We do not assail individuals, and therefore congratulate them 0:1 their prosperity, the result of Industry integrity, good sense, and other commendable qualities, applied to lawful business. But considering them as abstractions, ond not as individuals, we have a word to say about a principle or two involved in their cases. Seven cf thctn, the reputed owners of nine millions, made their forlunrs' from the labor cf" "operatives," receiving two or three or four dollars weekly. And thus while the creators of all the wealth just got a decent living, the employers of the creators, who receive the lien's share of the thing created, become "immensely rich." And how were thry able to transfer this "division of the spoil" from Old England to jYetc ! By that thing called protection, which taxed the shirts and sheets and coats end vests of every farmer and mechanic, to furnish nine millions to seven men. Some of these thirteen men have made great fortunes from foreign trade. Who built their fhips ! Who daily risked Lfe and prematurely wore out: 1 m rI T health in navigating them ! If a ehip-tarpenter receive two dollars daily, and work during iifty yea rs his pay amounts to $31,200 ! If a sailor receives Sl2 monthly, and sail for forty years, longer than t! e averarre, he receives So?0'.l ! And the employer of shipwrights ond seamen, in a business of forty cr Cft"

ty years, gathers two millions!: lruly tUse ore subjects for political economists a id legislature. ( Try it. A writer in.thc Medical üacttc sayt that the habitual cramps at -night niay be cure d of prevented by so arranging the bed or mattrass th:itMie feet f , the patient shall bo twelve inches hii.tr tl.au tho head. j The experimenter has only got to cl.oo.-' Let we, u a cramp and uu npopjf xy. ' ; - , . r ' I

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