Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1847 — Page 2

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WCIJJfcLY k'ditiox. r.TCK!4L VIGIUKCF. IS Til It FKICC OT LIBtKTT. lDll.ArOI,IS, Jl I.Y 2 18-17. .f77i thi I'ltprr are jmh'ixhrd the Laws, Treaties, ant other puh'ic Arts of the United. Stales, by authority of the (Internment. Our Trrin. Thefo'low ing will hereafter be the permanent terms ot the Weekly Indiana Slate Sentinel : ft7Paymcnts to be made always in advance. One copy, one year. A2.00 Three conies, one year. 5.00 Five copies, one year, 8.00 Ten copies, one year, 15.00 Twenty copies, one year, -0.00 Sciiil-lYcokly. (Published three times a week during the session.) One cjy, $1.00 J Three copies, $10.00 One copy during the session, 1.00 Three or more copies, each 15 Public Merlins. Several of the Democratic candidates, who Im been nominated by regular convention, will endeavor to meet their fellow-citizen at follows, and they would be especially gratified tu nee aa many, of all parlies, aa can make it convenient to attend. In Pike, Thursday, 22d, at Augusta. Friday, 23d, at AlcCurdy's mill. In Wayne, Saturday, 2Jlh, at Miller's mill. Mondiy, Slith, at Bridgeport. In Decatur, Tuesday , 27th, at EJ. Hollarhide's. W.dnediy,28th, at Y. E. R. Wilson's. In Perry, on Thursday, !)ih, at Marrs School House. The meetings, except where otherwise specified, will generally be about 1 o'clock, P. M. It is expected that oue or more of the Whig candidate will also attend. We are requested to state that J. L. Ketcham, E-q. withdraws his name as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney. The Ilcltirucd Vol tin leers. A public dinner and other services in honor of the returned volunteer was given in Franklin county on the 13th ir.st. John M. Johnson, Esq., delivered an address, which was responded to by Col. McCarty. G. B. Tingley and others also made short addresses. The Democrat says "At the dinner table, where things were done up right, good humor seemed to be the order of the day. The drinking of toasts, the roaring of cannon and the music by the band, all plainly told that it was a day of rejoicing." A similar celebration was had in Sullivan county on the 10th, an account of which we have in the Vincenns Gazette. It is estimated that not less than 5000 persons were present 2000 ladies. The lion. John W. Davis was the orator of the day. A j at riot tc ode, composed for the occasion, was sung by its author. Judge John S. Davis. Responses were made to the oration and ode, by Capt. Rriggs and Lt. Col. Hadden. The Gazette concludes its account by baying The reception given by the people of Sullivan, was one worthy of the brave soldiers who had gone forth to do battle under the Stars and Stripes, and those who spilt their life's blood in the service of the country, and were not permitted to receive the kindly welcome of kindred and friends at home, were held in dear remembrance, and the big tear rolled down many a check as allusions were made to the gallant dead. Rraver soldiers than the Sullivan county Guards never gathered under the folds of the American Flag. A letter dated Columbus, la., June 12th, 6ays "The volunteers have all returned, and are "right side up" eery man. .Next Saturday we have a meeting to make arrangements for a Dinner for the w hole iJd regt. Indiana volunteers, to be given by the Haw-patch farmers." Iu Shelby county a festival in honor of the volunteers of that county will take place on Friday, July 23d. At various other places public festirals have been or are to be given for the same purpose. Everywhere indeed, in this and in other States, something has been done to demonstrate the feelings of the people towards those brave men who enrolled themselves as common soldiers, and encountered peril and death in a hundred shapes for trie defence and glory of the country. Everywhere, we mean, except at Indianamrfis. Here, Coric in ism appears to be the predominant sentiment among tie " leaders," though it may not be confessed ; and of course those who think the

volunteers nearly allied to " robbers and murderer,," i in hi3 PWef t0 3iscouraSe lLe enlistment of voluncannot be expected to regard them as worthy of any ! lccrs ,ast 3 car aml wh"' for his ""Patriotic conduct

demonstration of respect either public or private. fXrWe publish the resolutions adopted at the late River and Harbor Convention at Chicago, and also some letters on the sul ject in view. Those of Beutoh 1 1 and Silas Wriffht will be read with attention. They I projxwe to take practical and prudent and hmest ground. If their advice shall be followed, all proper improvements can and will bo made. But while tho i whi"s demand more than what can be clearly shown t to be reasonable and right, or while they continue to eacriliro the great interests involved lor me sake oi making party capital, nothing can or ought to be done. fj3Thc Pennsylvania n says "A gentleman, long a resident of the city of Mexico, iu which country Iiis opportunities for observation have been numerous, assured us in a recent conversation that we had with him, that the influence most potent in the encouragement of the Mexicans during the present war, was the course of the federal newspapers and federal leaders iu this country. Their anti-war opinions were repeatedly and exultingly copied into the Mexican papers. This fact did not astoiiish us, mortifying as it was to hear it in o authentic a shape." Foreign Freights. The New York Tribune of the 12t!i instai.t says : In freights there is a large activity, and we are told by ati extensive ship broker that more engage ments have been made during the week than ever before in the same length of time. fj-Reccnt accounts from Tampico state that news had been received there that Captain Cassius M. Clay, Majors Borland, Gaines, and all other American prisoners, have been released at the city of Mexico, and ordered to Tampico. They were escorted by a large body of men, supposed to be about nine hnndrcd strong. That w hen within one hundred and fifty miles of Tampico, they wero met by Gen. Urrea, who detained Iheni as prisoners. Urrea had ordered out all the men he could raise in the neighborhood, for the purpose of forming a force sufUcieiit to attack Tampico. At Evansville, during the celebration of the national anniversary, a German, was killed by the pren:atore discharge of the cannon. fjFive companies of the lih regiment of Indiana volunterrs said from New Orleans for Üie Urazos, on the 7th iiift. The remainder of the regiment were to sail on the S;h and Oil. Unfortunate. A ne.tr steam flouring mill belonging to Ezr: a W. S.uiTH, anenterprising citizen of Terre Haute, was recently destroyed by fire. Loss about 810,001). CrA note from Eunuer Lawhead, E.-. was too J v.c for this paper. iz'.x 'J!. Wheat at Indianapolis iii:!!, 40 cvt.tss

Gex. Taylor's Wmuism. Wc copied reenJya paragraph from the Louisville Journal, based upon Gen. Taylor's letter to the editor of the Cincinnati Signal, in which the editor of the Journal stated that "Within the last three days we have seen a letter from Gen. Taylor, in which he twice declares, unequivocally a i)d iu go many words that he is " A WHIG." This statement has been generally regarded as a falsehood, or the pretended letter a forgery, for the reason, we suppose, that the editor of the Louisville Journal being mch a notorious liar, is eusiiected of falsehood even when occasionally telling a truth. The editor of the Journal in reference to these suspicions, afier a customary display of blackguardi-m, repeats his former statement in the following terms :

The letter of Gen. Taylor, to which we referred. was addressed to the Hon. V. J. Graves of this city, by whom it was shown to us on the 27th of June till.. and by whom we were authorized to make the ue of it that we did make. In regard to that letter we now reiterate our statement. Gen. Taylor twice declares in it that lie is "A WHIG" he declares this directly and unequivocally. At the same time, as wc remarked before, he disclaims all partizan bitterness and avows his anxiety to see his beloved country delivered from the disastrous consequences of violent partyism. In one paragraph he says, that, "although him' self "a Whk;," yet, if he had the power to make a President of the United Slates, and if he knew tcho, in the high njji-e of President, icotihl administer the or niment in the greatest purity and do most toirard restoring it In what it was in 1'ie curlier days of the Republic, he would mule that man President, no matter to trhat party he might nominally belong." This Graves is the man who was the principal actor in the Cilley murder, which occurred under the direction of Mr. Clay, at Washington, a few years ago lie is a virulent whig, and we have no doubt, if Taylor did write to him, as we suppose he did, that the sentiments conveyed were such as those described by the Journal, for whose information perhaps, the letter was written. The way to settle the matter positively, would be to publish the letter, together with the statement of some decent person, of ordinary reputation for veracity, that it is genuine. If it was honestly written, let its possessors give the whole of it to the "public eye Thieving and Treason. The Cincinnati Enquirer of a latj date has the following interesting information relative to one of the patriotic whig officers of the regular army : Just Like Them. It appears from some intercepted despatches, that the Assistant Quartermaster Hunt, at New Orleans, has been writing letters to Vera Cruz, complaining of the Administration not furnishing them with requisite means ! The Mexican papers are in a state of glorification on the subject, judging from the statements of this whig office-holder that our army would soon have to be Withdrawn, for want of funds. We have heard of this Major Hunt before, from those who have been in New Orleans. The St. Charles of that city is familiar, we should judge, with his diatribes against the administration and the war. Such men are not to be trusted; they will make as much expense as possible their relatives being the greatest gainers and then abuse the administration for not furnishing means. We have too many such men in the Quartermaster's Rureau. They ought to be routed. This Major Hunt, we believe, has been removed. We hope his place w ill be filled with the right sort of a man one who feels an interest in the success of the war, and who will act with proper vigilance, energy and economy. The same paper of a day later contains the an nouncement by the N. O. Times, a whig paper, of the transfer of Lt. Col. Hunt to Washington, and testifying to his tjfi ier.t and acceptable discharge of duty. The Enquirer adds: " We understand that Col. Hunt has been-called to Washington to give information touching his ac counts, and answer for certain extravagant appropri ations of Ihe public money. There are charges made in circles, if not to official ears, of a most serious character, and we trust they will be rigidly investigated. The opinion hereabouts is, that Major Tomp kins should be called to pass the same ordeal. 07" Mr. M'Gaughey, a Whig Representative in Congress for the seventh district, says the Evansville Journal, voted against increasing th soldiers pay to ten dollars a month, and the Whig party in his district has evinced their appreciation of his course by quietly laying him on the shelf by nominating another man. All very good. Eut how much better did I they do by nominating R. W. Thompson, who did all ! was then denounced as a Tory by Col. T. H. RIakr, jone of the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal, anJ an wavering Whig ! Don't they at the same time 6 Cale Smith in the 4th district who voted just ns M'Gaughey did, not only not to pay the Vola 1 11 -11,. ' - .a UIUce ien üuuars tt n,üm1 UI alHSl VWS lcrn any thing at all! Corwinism is a little more popular in the eastern than in the western part of the State, and that explains the different attitude assumed by l,lC " n,Ss- llerc 10 t,ic centre, they p!ay on both strings, praise Corwin, but hurrah for Taylor. In the mud. George D. Prentice, Esq., got Itmself into a scrape at the " Ludlow Farm," on Sunday, in jumping from the steamer Mountaineer to the shore. The mud received him, waist deep, and such punching and ploughing to get him out, hasn't of;en been seen in these unitcmical diggins. Cincinnati Commercial. Prentice was in his " native clement," at that time, without a doubt. It is surprising that they could get him out, even by " punching and ploughing" ever so hard. 0$-Ve have laughed heartily over a humbug letter in the Journal, purporting to have been written at Noblesville, but really concocted by a poor tool of the Junto here. Its gross absurdity is made manifest by the following letter dated Noulesville, July 13, 1847. The prospects of Judge Wick in this county are very flattering : he will lose none of his old supporters. His position in relation to the war, bank, taritr and other questions, which are now before the country, are so candidly and fairly stated, that no one cao be mistaken in them, or in his course if elected ; and for this his enemies are compelled to give him credit. In this the Judge differ with his opponent, Mr. McCarty, (who attended all of the Judge's appointments in this county last week.) Mr. McCarty finds a great deal of fault with the Judge's course iu Con gress, and has but littlq else to talk about. Take the Judge out of his speech, and there was but little left in it. The war, so far as anything by him shown to the contrary, was all right ; and the President doin" every thing that was honorable to tho nation in thy prosecution of it. lie is non-committal as to how this war should be prosecuted. There is a great effort making to get the abortionists to role for Mr. McCarty, but I think the abolitionists have talked so much about dnigh faces, that they will not let the whigs make dough faces of them and wheedle them into the support of their candidate, and thereby give their support to the whig party who have nominated a slave-holder for President, yet pretend to be Hi7mot Proviso men. Yours, &.c. Imtortant, if true. Just as our paper was going to press, we were informed by a gentleman in whom we have every confidence, that a report from a respectabb source, reached this city from the city of Mexico, last night, that a dysentery of a very malignant character had broken out among our troops at Pueblit, and that it is believed the Mexican venders cf milk, pulque, liquors, etc., poisoned those articles with a certain poisonous vegetable, which grows in tho nrighlKirhcjod. We bolieve ti e rumor entitled to credit, and hope Gc:i. Scott will hear of it in time to prevent nn extension of tt.e diaw. Ileal plot. Mila-f

Letter from an Irishman. Messrs. Chatmaxs &. Spann: Gents. In your piper of the 10th inst., furnished me by a friend, I find the following : "Judging from the boasts of Mr. McCarty" whig friends, we are compelled to admit to our friends abroad, that in Marion county, a good many foreigners, and laboring democrats, now or heretofore iu the em

ployment of Mr. McCarty, or or Lis statellites, will be kept so close as to hear no word of warning, and be eo cajoled and flattered by those w ho formerly derided them, as to be induced to cast their votes for the whig candidate for Congress." With all due deference to your opinion and the " boasts of Mr. McCarty's friends," 1 beg leave to m s- a . i a d;uer trotn your conclusion, can it dc mat any foreigner would vote for a whig! Can it be that my own countrymen are so lost to every feeling of patri otism and duty as to vote for any man belonging to the w hig party thus endorsing the slanders of that ! part7 upon themselves ! It cannot be. I cannot believe that they have forgotten the foul aspersions that have been flung at them from the highest to the lowest member of that party ; from the oxidating high priest to the merest subaltern who does the dirty work of whiggery. What ! an Irishman vote for a man whose political creed comports with that of the party who, in 1841, not only burned their churches and demolished the Catholic convents in Philadelphia, but after these outrages upon the rights of liberty and conscience, leagued themselves together as a band of political desperadoes, under the " holy alliance" cognomen of "Native Americans," and sought to ex clude, and still seek to exclude from the right of suffrajre altogether, the "d d Irish and Dutch" Will my countrymen vote for any member of thi party a party that have invariably advocated the extension of the naturalization laws to twenty-one years a purty that have always been the sworn enemy of foreigners a party that have always been the advocates of tyranny a party that uttered and published such libels upon them as the following from the Louisville Journal, one of the leading whig papers in the Union, a few days after the election in 1314. We admit that they (the whig) have many and powerful reasons to bo disgusted with the intlueuce of foreigners in our elections. They have seen one of the grca'est men of the age, at a crisis when his services at the head of affairs were peculiarly important, defeated by hosts of brutal and igxokant FOREIGNERS, LED ON, OR DRIVEN LIKE SO MANY CATTLE, by a handful of the basest native demagogues." I might go on and give other quotations from the w hig press, but I forbear. Irishmen, I solemnly ask you, will you, by voting for any man of that party, endorse the slanders of whiggery upon yourselves and your countrymen ! No ! You dare not. The spirits of the departed dead would speak in thunder tones from the grave and cry out, " foFbear, forbear !" Rut let mc ask you who has always been the friend of the foreigner! Who receives him, an exile from his " native land," with open arms and a brotherly welcome 1 Who asks that he shall be entitled to the right of suffrage and citizenship w ithout the penance and probation of twenty-one years? Who but the Democratic party I Who, when this same W higand Native American party have by brute physical force, attempted to exclude the foreigner from the privilege of casting his vote as an adopted American freeman, has boldly stepped forward, and shoulder to shoulder with him, insisted upon his right to cast his vote at the ballot box 1 Who but the democratic party? Then lives there a foreigner " with soul so dead," who can sr far forget the indignities and damning insults of this same whig party, as to cast his vote for any man in whose veins runs a solitary drop of such proscriptive blood ! That like the savage who roams the wild woods, untutored and uneducated. treachery and ingratitude form a part of his character! God forbid! His heart is more noble than this. Those who have defended his rights those who gave him a welcome to the land of the happy and free those who encourage him to become a political deni zen of American rights those whose hearts and sympathies are with the unfortunate Irishman, exiled by unhappy fate from the land of his nativity shall ever receive the warm and heartfelt support of every true Irishman. AN IRISHMAN. ANDERSONTOWN, July lGth, 1347. Mr. McCarty addressed the citizens of this place on Wednesday last, much to the amusement of the auditory, but of no political avail to himself, his oratory being of that character, which like the commedian, affords amusement for the present moment, to be for gotten the next. His effort was intended as denunciatory, I suppose, as a discussion of principles formed no part of his harangue. He did not present ick to the public as being a very bad man, but as a vio lent partizan, committing error through want of dis cretion, &.c. He tried, as is usual, to court the favor of abolitionism, by arousing the prejudice of the north against southern influence, and by opposing the further acquisition of territory without the application of the humbug Wiltnot proviso. He tried to create a distinction between the Executive and the people, and a servile adlierance und obedience to executive dictation on Wick's part, &.c. On the subject of the war he was nothing, though he declined donouncing its justice. He regarded it, however, ns a great national calamity, that would create a debt which must be paid at the expense of direct taxation. In regard to its prosecution he said nothing : as to its termination, he would use his influence to bring about a speedy though honorable adjustment at the earliest practicable moment. On the subject of a national bank he seemed lo have no constitutional scruples: he was in favor of a bank if the people were, and against it if they were. The present tariff he thought would do at least lie was willing to try it awhile. His left boicer, T. Walpole is with him, and both together I think will have a very happy effect in disgusting even whiggery with its own advocates. I think 1 can safely say that Wick has nothing to fear in this county. He will get his former if not an increased majority. R. T. COLUMBUS, lGth July, 1347. I think we will give you a good account of old Bartholomew in August. Brown will do her duty. I have heard but little of Johnson or Shelby. I trust they will go right, and give their usual majorities. The whigs will of course make every exertion for McCarty, but "they can't come it." A est of U'lii- Lies Smoked. The Indiana Journal ot the 2i instant, is out with another batch ot lies against Judge Wick, and his course ou the S'ewnrl resolution. The Journal says, On the 2Utk day of May, 1817, Mr. Stewart moved a suspension of the rules lor the purpose or introducing a resolution to raise the pay of the volunteers, likewise to grant them ICO acres of laud ; which is a barefaced lie, there being no such motion made at that time, Congress having adjourned two months prior to the above named date. In tho second place, the motion was not made in llie year 1847, but in Jb4o, which adds another he to the brow ot the pettijogginir lawyer of the Journal. Again, the Journal lor its prool, refers us to the Congressional Oloba of aiay 22d, 1 17, page 645, its editors knowing at the same lime there is no such number in existence bearing that date, and by so saying, tells an infamous lie, which makes the third. In the fourth instance, it makes out there is 645 pages in the Congressional Globe of this year, when in fact there is only 57G, which gives another lie to their infamous sheet, which makes the fourth. In the fifth place, it charges Judge Wick with voting against the resolution offered br Mr.. Stewart on that day, when at the same time it acknowledges that the motion was only made for a suspension of the rules, that the resolution might b in troduced, which adds a fifth lie to the brow of the hen pecked editor of the Journal. Admit for a moment the Journal to be correct (which 1 do not) in its statement in regard to the date it says, the resolution was introduced, and what does it prove. It proves lirst, Judge Wick at home attending to his domestic affairs like an honest man should. In the second place, it proves him to be nine hundred miles from Washington City at the time the Journal says the motion was made. And thirdly, it proves him not a member of Congress at that time. The facts of the case are theso: on the SOth day of May, 184(5, Mr. Stewart moved a suspension of the rules, for tue purpose oi introuucing a resolution raising me pij ui the volunteers, which did not carry. The rules were not Suspended, the resolution not introduced, and Judge Wick did not vote for or against a suspension of the rules, and this adds a sixth lie to the list the pious editor of the Journal has to carry. I would just say in conclusion to the editors of that filthy sheet the Indiana Journal that the day is fast approaching, when the voters in the fifth congressional district in this State, will riso up in indignation, and condemn those who slander and villify the character of an hosest max. You will perceive, fellowcitizens, that in an editorial article of twenty lines, they have told six barefaced tits, and yet hold thnt they are christian men. iah ! CRISPLN. A lion lamer, named Isaac JVicbol, belonging to Bittr'i travelling mena rie, died a fe r days ago at Leeds. Maine, fr,m n-t..t-..i

I Canal Meciiii? in Wayne Towuslilp. ! Pursuant to previous notice, a meeting was held at Jame Griswold's on Saturday, the 17th inst. " Chas. j.1. Rhoads was called to the chair, and Ed Jin Jones appointed secretary. The objects of the meeting bavj ing been discussed, on motion, a committee of five was

appointed to prepare resolutions expressive of the opinions of the meeting. Whereupon the following persons were appointed said committee, viz: Wm. Railsback, J J. Griswold, C. S. Rhoads, Jonathan Foultz, Edwin Jones. Which committee subsequently reported the following resolutions: Rtsolrtd, That the citizens of Marion county, not les than twenty thousanJ in number, and at lensl an equal number from the surrounding counties, are greatly damaged at we conceive, by the neglect and tirdiness of the repairs on said canal, causing perhaps not less than fifty thousand of us to pay almost double the amount we hould pay for our breadstuff, had the ordinary diligence been used to prosecute the repairs on taid canal. At experience and facta are convincing and stubborn things, and especially so when they bear onorousljr upon our pockets : and m liereas, all experience in this community, under ordinary circumstances is, to th effect that when wheat is forty-five cents per bushel, which is now the current price ofthat article, flour is and should be about one dollar and fifty cents per hundred pounds; but the fact is, 6our is now two dollars and 23 cents per hundred pounds, one third higher price than it should be, affording the crafty miller enormous profits, which he grinds out of the hard working yeomanry and all classes of this community agninst tbeir will ; therefore, Resolved, That we look upon this state of affairs as a most seiious injury to this community, and not tamely to be borne with, or submitted to. The fict i, that the present contractor for the main repairs on Central Canal is the owner of one of the only three available flouring mills in our county, and that so long as he continues tu keep back the repairs on snid canal, he reaps a benefit of not les than twenty dollars per day over and above wha. would be a fair profit with llie ordinary competition. This shoulj wake up every farmer, every mechanic, every head of a familyiand every man, woman und child hi this community. They should see that tho present contractor for repairing the canal, by receiving such enormous profits for his flour, is actually paid a premium of not less than twenty dollars per day for retarding the repairs on said canal, and that the longer he can keep back said repairs, the greater will be his profits, and all to the damage of this coininnoity ; therefore, Resoftcd, That this meeting does see the iniquity practiced upon us by our State ofiicers and the engineer, who let the woiU lo the present contractors, knowing at the time that those who received the most important contracts were inefficient, and would not complete their jobs by the designated time, viz: the 1st of August ; and as to enforcing that provision contained in the notice of letting, of twenty dollars damages for each and every day the work should remain unfinished alter 6aid date, wan, in the opinion of this meeting, a scare-crow, intended to deter enterprising and responsible men from bidding at as low a price as they would have done, had not this contmsnncy entered into their calculations. Resulted, That it is the opinion of this meeting that the necessary repairs on Central Canal in the vicinity of Indianapolis, have already been delayed beyond the time they should and xcould have been completed by a fair and disinterested contractor, and that it is the imperative duty of the engineer and those in authority, forthwith to an nul the contracts, and to relet the said repairs to prompt individuals, who will efficiently prosecute the sa.no to completion. And it is further resolved, that we, the people, irrespective of party politics, will not vote for or support at the coming elortion, any candidate for the (leneral As sembly of Indian i, who will not pledge himself to use all honorable means to procure a better stale of things in re gard to that part of Central Canal connected with the milling interests of this county, and use Ins beet endeavors to ensure the proper kind oi engineers and superintendents fjr said canal. The resolutions having been read were unanimous ly adopted by the meeting ; aud, ou motion of Hiram Rhoads, it was Jlrsohcd, That the proceedings of the meeting be published in the State Sentinel and State Journal. C. S. RHOADS, Chairman. Edwin Jones, Secretary. Hancock Colntv, July 0, 1317. Friend Editors, You will please let the old Sen tinel apprize the literary world that Mr. Dcfrees has been recently delivered of a very able editorial a comment on Dr. J. W. Hcrvey and his April commu nication for the Sentinel. We do not know whether this man of the quill is in the habit of feasting his brethren on such delicacies from the storehouse of intellect or not : if so the growth of mind will cer tainly create tho necessity of a different physical structure ; hence our prophecy in relation to the transformation of Coons into Donkeys is not bo rough a prediction after all. It is only since we have had access to the editor's exhaustless magazine of thought that we have been introduced into the world of fancy, and our dull capacity forced beyond the limits of ordinary compre hension. It is therefore not strange that we should be introduced to a new race of beings not discovered in the woods of Hancock, as the gentleman presumes not by the aid of physical optics : it was purely a mental operation borne on the wings of his prolific imagination, we were carried to where this race of beings luxuriate in boundless exuberance, and as the gentleman gives us the honor of the discovery, we reciprocate the favor by acknowledging him the best specimen to which we can now refer. We will now notice some of the gentleman's charges, although wc always thought it cruel to lampoon insects with a giiose quill. He first asserts that Mr. Hervey was a Whig until 1341. This is an infamous falsehood. We charge it ujion him, and demand the proof. If he gives none, he has none to give. The public will then recognize him in a proper light. Mr. Hervey never voted but one Whig ticket in his life, and that was the first vote that he ever gave, and is now seven years since. The gentleman then diverts himself with the word coward. We charged that upon no man ; but the gentleman is so afraid that it means him, that he commences an immediate attack upon us no doubt wrathy on account of being introduced into notice in terms so denunciatory. Mr. Defrecs reminds us oT a hvpochondrical old lady of our acquaintance who imagined herself laboring under the influence of hydrophobia, and was snapping at every thing that she saw ; but the old lady committed no very serious injuries, not having any teeth ; wc, therefore, fear nothing very destructive from Granny Defrees. We should like to know something of the editor's informant; but we have recently learned, by the merest accident, that a young man of Greenfield, who would like to p;o to the Lf?2ilature, with Ion" shirtsleeves, and who has experienced the trausfiguration, was seen bearing off the trophy of his Hancock enterprise; and how many sets of marble are missing, and how many ginger cakes have been devoured is not yet known ; and as we soon expect an interview with this gentleman of the lon-eared family we will add no more. J. W. HEUVEY. The Beauties of Monopoly. A mercantile company at Viena, Sina &. Co., have been ordered, by judgment of Court, to pay l.HOO.OOU florins, or$!K)t),"100, to the Allmans, another mercantile house at Perth, as their share of the profits for one year, on the tobacco contract with the Austrian government. This government, like that of France and several others, undertakes, for revenue, to manufacture all the tobacco used by its subjects ; and it "farms out" the manufacture, or in other words, grants, for a specific sum, lo one or more persons, the sole privilege of such manufacture. In the year referred to iu this lawsuit, thiscontract was given, by the government, to Sina&. Co., who admitted, as partners, the Messrs. Allmans. The tax on manufactured tobacco is very high. But as "every body smokes in Germany," according to Tünch, the consumption is enormous in spite of the high price. And as the price depends on the monopolist, or governmental contractor, he paying a specific 6uiii for the priv ilege, and depending on the consumption for his reimbursement and profit, the price is always tlio highest that consumers arc alle or willing to pay. What beautiful illustration is this of monopoly under European monarchies ! In ono year, it enables two mercantile firms to divide $1,800,000, taken from all the pockets in the country. Who can wonder at any of these misgoverned countries for being a land of nabobs and paupers, princes and slaves? We do not object to a high tax on tobacco, regarding it as a very filthy and poisonous "luxury." But we think that these governments would exhibit much more wisdom by imposing a tax on the raw material, whether imported or produced at home, and leaving to their subjects free competition in its manufacture. Btt despotisms are always suicidal. Pa. Ledger. Arkival of Gold Coin. Within a few days there arrived iri this city nearly one million and a half of dollars, t o thirds of which was on Government account, the reminder for ono of our city banks. Ve learn that oilri'r lartre sums are ou the way to this

News from Mexico. We are indebted to the editors of tLe New Albany Democrat for a copy of the N. O. Ticayune, from which we extract the following items of news from Mexico tu June 29th, and from Tuebla to the 30ih. Gen. cott had not then been able to leave Puebla. He

was awaiting the reinforcements under Gen. Cadwalader and Gen. 1'illow, who had not then arrived. Some of the papers mention that Gen. Cad walader arrived at Tue- I bl. on the 30ih. Letters from Mr. Kendall ol that date make no mention of it, though he was constantly ei; pec ted. He was at Terote about the ?Jih, awaiting Gen. ntiow.j i I The news from the citv of Mexico is verv indefinite. Gen. Scott is said to have communicated to the Government thdt Mr. Trist was with him and authorized to negotiate for a peace. Santa Anna had been in vain endeavoring lo procure a quorum of Congress lo la Gen. j Scott s communication before it. Mr. Kendall's' letters rather encourage the proopects of an early peace; but we have had access to letters from a very responsible source in the city of Mexico which take a very different j view of the subject. The writer thinks Gen. Scott will j have lo march into Mexico lo secure a peace. The censorship of the press existing in Mexico pre-' vents us from knowing what measures to defend the city ! will be taken. Santa Anna was lo leave the capital on the 301 h ult., intending to pass three days in the country for Ihe benefit of his health. It is said that every avenue of entrance into the city is fortified, but the writer in i Alexico, upon whom we very much rely, thinks the American army will easily overcome alt such obstacles thai the defence of their fortifications will only embarrass the Mexicans. We are unable to throw much light upon the movements of Gen. Cadwalader and Gen. Pillow. The latter is said to have been compelled to contest the road with the guerilla parties, till he was beyond Cerro Gordo. Cuerrillcros took advantage of every defile to resist his progress. His loss is snid lo have been severe. A Mexican named Ilerredia has been detected by his countrymen on his way fnnu the capil&l to PuebU with drawings of the different fortifiralioas around the capital. He was tried and condemned as a spy and a traitor, and was condemned lo be shot on the 2It ult. The fellow made his escape the morning of the V4st. The Mexicans are using every inducement to make our men deert, and with some success, but those who have deserted find little comfort from their new friends. The Star tells of two dragoons who ran off from us, but had not gone three leagues before some Mexicans came across them, took their horses and stripped them of everything but their shirts. A German and a Mexican have been tried by a court martial for tampering with our soldiers and persuading them to desert. The Mexican was acquitted the German f'-utid guilty and condemned to be shot. Being recommended to mercy his sentence was remitted. The result of Com. Perry's second expedition against Tobasco, was entirely successful. The forts which defend the town yielded to the guns of the fleet, before the land expedition could gel into action. The enemy stood but one discharge of artillery. Lieut. May, it is said, had his arm broken and one other officer was wounded. It is said that none of our men were killed and only a few wounded. A sufficient force was lefl behind to hold the town, and the commodore returned to the station off Anton Lizardo on the 2Utli ult. On the 'JUth, a party of Americans, not connected with the army, but who went out lo purchase mules, were at tacked by the Mexican lancers, near Puebla. All the Ameiieaus in this affair were wounded, and one named John Kinney is supposed to have been killed. Another named Walbndze has written a letter buk to Puebla from Atlixco. 11c had been ordered to Mexico. The rest of the party, not named, are supposed to be prisoners also, although there was a report thai all had been shot. Later from the Plains. The St. Louis papers of the 10th inst., brinir us further accounts of disturbances on the Tlains, received by 6tcamboat fiom Weston. The intelligence fur nished to the Union was, that an express arrived at I'ort Leavenworth on the oth, dispatched by Col. Love, who left St. Louis "some mouths seine," in command of an esort with 300,000 in "old, for the troops at Santa Fe. At the time the exoress started. Colonel Love was beset by a large number ofCamanche Indians with whom he had several engagements for four or five days previous. Sergeant Bishop, the second in command, and four others were slain and four woundet'. Ti e 'oss on the part of the Indians was suj p iscd to be upwards of a dozen. These encounters took place some distance this side of the Arkansas river. None of their mules or subsistence had been lost. The Union says, in addition: "This express also brings word that several other Govermcnt trains had boon attacked by large parties of Camanches. The opinion prevails that these Indians are led on by a class of outlawed wretches from the States, who are aware of the value of the prize they would obtain by murdering Love and his train. Mr. Smith, the wagon master, who went out with the first train of wagons this Spring, anl who had established a temporary fort on the Arkansas, was attacked by the Indians and driven from his fort, and the last that was heard of him he was bravely fighting his way toward Santa Fe. Ho had taken four horses or mules. Two of his men had been killed. It is thought entirely unsafe for any thing less than a strong military force to attempt crossing the Plains at the present time. illr. Polk's Departure from IV. England. We were much gratified by the impromptu fare which the- President received on his departure Irora Boston, for it showed how he was regarded by the people. Anticipating nothing of the kind, the carriages containing Mr. Folk and suite were driven rapidly up to the Providence depot here, but as soon as it was rumored that he was there, a crowd instantly gathered and rent the air with their cheers. Governor Morton, who was of the party, was also recognized and cheered with great heartiness. The same enthusiasm was maifestcd at different points of his rapid progress thence to i- all Kiver. At Taunton an amusing incident occurred. An honest Irishman, after shaking hands with the President, remarked with much satisfaction : " Faith ! this is the first time 1 ever shook hands with a king." "I am no king, my friend," replied Mr. Polk smiling, "I nm only the people's servant." "Three cheers for you, then!" exclaimed the Irishman, and he gave evidence of sound lungs in the huzza that followed. The arrival and departure of the President at and from Fall River was rendered gratifying to him by the very cordial manner in which the people "Welcomed the coming, Fped the parting guest" When he passed the line he was n.ost heartily cheered by tho assembled populace. As s-jon as Governor Morton was recognized he was likewise greeted with the same token of respect and good feeling. The President was much exhausted by fitigue from rapid and long travel when he went on board of the Bay Siate, but a good night's rest on the sound refreshed him much and partially restored his strength. .Mr. Polk cannot but look back on his visit to Nen England with feelings of high gratification ; for nowhere during his tour, has he been received with more cordiality and respect. liostonTimes. The Lion's Share. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives the finale of the case of Mr. Sib bald, who for fifteen years has been a suitor of the Government for damages alleged to hive been sustained by bim, in Florida, in consequence of certain acts of Government. Three special acts had been passed in his favor by Congress, but none of a very definite kind. The last act required the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and liquidate his demauds. The legal counsel engaged by Mr. Sib bald to attend to bis case before the Treasury Department, were Dasiel Webster, Geo. M. Dallas, J. McPhehrox UcHniKX and David Russell. To insure these gentlemco their fee, Mr. Si b bald gave a power of attorney to one of them Kcssell to draw $21.000 from the amount awarded him, with the understanding that the four lawyers named should each receive $6,000. The sum of 2G,000 was awarded in the claimant by the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Russell with his power of attorney drew of this sum $2 1.000. The other $2,000 was dra-vn under another power of attorney. How much the claimant is left indebted by the transaction, has not yet been ascertained. One of the principal points of the case is, that Messrs. Webster aud Berries complain, that not a cent of the JC.OuO due them has been paid. Cin. Enquirer. Annexation bt Conquest Constitutional. In the Supreme Court of the United States (Carter vs. the American Insurance Co. 1 Pet. f42) Chief Justice Marshall, in treating of the acquisition of Florida, used the following language: "The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the power of making war and of making treaties; consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty. I Chief Justice M. says further that the right to terri tory acquired by conquest may be secured, on the establishment of peace "either on the terms stipulated in the treaty of cession, or on such a its new mas-

From the Cin. Enquirer. Mobility and Slraitnos. A passenger who was on the Star Spangled Jin ner, at the time of her late disaster, l.as furnished the Ohio Statesman with a thrilling accaj'it of the awful scene. What exhibitions of character do such scene exhibit! If a man is a man, it i then seen through his acts. And if a man has the spirit of a cur in him, instead of the soul of God, diplays it on such an occasion. The writer aff rds the fallowing illustration of it in his highly interesting communication. How the noble conduct of the citizens of Baton Rouge in relation to the poor Germans ; and the noble conduct of those Indiana Volunteers, in risking their own lives to save the lives of others, contrasts with the contemptibly mean conduct of the officers of the Missouri steamer. He says : Th cabin, after flatting down the stream some six or seven miles, was met by the steam ferry-boat of Baton Rouge and towed ashore. All that remained on the hurricane deck wa consequently saved. Afer all that was saved was ashore, the steamboat Missouri came down and took us on board lo Baton Rouge, and I am sorry to ha it to say, the officers disgraced themselves by charging oue dollar each for our lranportalion ibis ten r twelvemiles, when rainy of us hid lost all, and bad to borrow from cur fallow passengers lo pay iL This I think one of the most disgraceful acts on a small scale that ever has been perpetrated ou the Mississippi river, when it is taken into consideration thai nearly all the cabin passengers on board were volunteers on their return home from Mexico. But Ihe melancholy part of thi heart-sickening story is yet to be told. These German deck passengers lost every article of property they possessed in the world. And I am sorry to add that about 30 of their number were Lurried into eternity, without any one having the power to save them. Who, then, will attempt to draw the picture of distress exhibited by these poor, heart-broken people, thousands of miles from their native land, every ceut's worth of eailbly property they possessed lost, about one-frixth of their number drowned, and they cast ashore in the wood on the banks of the M ississippi, among a strange people ho could scarcely understand one word of their laruage? The imagination must point out their distress, I will not attempt it. The c'lizens of Baton Rouge deserve the highest praise that can be bestowed, for their conduct on that occasion. We all arrived at their beautifdl town before night. A subscription was immediately opened far the relief of the German sufferers, and in a very short time near 200 were raised for their immediate relief. A committee was also appointed to procure employment for such of them as chose 10 stay at that place. Suc!i conduct is sure of its reward, and stands out in bold relief againt the wretch w ho would, under auch circumstances, charge $1 fjr taking a poor fellow ten or twelve miles down the river to where he could procure a shelter f ir the night. Three or four young meu belonging t thelnJiana volunteert, deeerve the greater credit ( r their gallant ami generous conduct during the whole time. They strippe J 011 all their clothing, and regardless of every danger that surrounded them, threw themselves into thewa'r, and rescued numbers who otherwise must have perished. I aro sorry to say that I dont know their names they should be published such men should always be known.

Regiments hve j'it been accented from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouii, but tbe Jncrc taiy of War, while accepting I hem has refused to accent a soiitaty company fiom Kentucky ! Four leimeots have gune fiom Ohio, four fiom Indiaii. ix fiom Illinois, five oi til fiom Misouii, and only thiee fiom Kentucky, and yet permission has bteu n fused, and is still refuted to this State to furnish another man ! Is Kentucky, in this war, to be doomed by the administration to exile, like oi l Rough and Ready, her gloiiou son ? LuuinviUe Journal, 6lh inst. What turned already ! ! It was only the other day the Journal told us that the volunteers had been enticed into the war by false pretences. Here the editor wants some more to be entici'd. We hoj)c the whigswill appoint a committee to take care of the editor of the Journal. If they would just let his taper edit itself awhile, it would be much to its credit. Rut perhaps it has learned the habit of turning eo fast from the editor that it may need some regulating. Louisville Democrat. Treason consists in citizens conspiring against their own country to bring injury upon her, in introducing; foreign spies into her bosom, and giving aid and comfort to traitors; and in this the federalists have always acted a conspicuous part. Who but the federalists, during the last war, introduced into the New Esgland States the notorious Rritish spy, John Henry! The, federalists gave Iii m their countenance aided, abetted, and comforted him. He held counsel with them, and denominated them the " British party in the United States," in one of his letters to bis own government. They have always been the British party in this country, and have ever advocated Rritish interests, just as they now do the cause of Mexico. Trice of Flour. We are indebted to a friend for the following averages of prices of flour in this city from the yar lo inclusive. It is an interesting and we believe a reliable statement. The averages have been taken on the prices during the season of canal navigation. V. Avg- Price. Highest Price. Lowest Price. Diff. of Price. 124 1S-J5 lSJ(i 1,7 IS,".) 1S,0 1SU l-tt'-J 1S34 1835 1S3G 137 133S 119 1840 1S41 1342 1343 1341 1845 134Ö 50 8 2. 21 1 25 1 12 3 IK) 2 50 37 1 xi 50 37 50 1 19 3 00 3 50 2 00 2 75 83 1 87 2 37 83 75 2 G3 4 77 4 (U 4 7J ö 73 r m r rj r (io fi UJ 5 55 5 01 G 31 b 19 Ü Gl 8 09 G 09 4 7 5 13 5 75 7 50 7 00 5 L'5 G 25 I 03 3 83 4 4 4 I 5 i 5 4 5 7 H 7 G 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 03 50 50 3 19 75 :h Nl 75 00 50 00 Ml 75 h8 13 50 13 25 75 G 5 5 (i 75 31 91 10 OO 12 00 0 00 8 75 5 03 G 75 0 50 5 38 4 88 e 83 G 00 4 94 61 30 93 53 00 90 5 5 4 4 Highest average price x9,Gl was in 1837 ; lowest average price :$4,53 was in 131 1. Highest price ?:12 was in 1537; lowest price $3,75 was in lslli. Albany Argus. Col. Rhxton's Letteu. In a few words for we are crowded very much with matter Colonel Ronton, in his letter to the Chicago Convention, takes the ground that the whole Constitutionality of the question of river and harbor improvements rcbts in tho discrimination i f Congress between objects of national and those of local interest. There can be no doubt as to the national importance of our great western rivers ; and, to particularize one further object, there can be no constitutional difference between the harbor of St. Louis and that of New York. A bill for appropriations towards strictly national objects, cannot be killed by vetoes, and Col. R. seems to intimate that a bill free from objections on the local score, would not have been defeated ' by the action of the President At any rate, the ground taken by Col. B. is clear, square, and thoroughly western, or, more correctly, thoroughly national and statesman-like in its character. St. Louis Rjvcille. A Soldier Returned. Mr. I.-uac Tece retuncd from the "wars" and paid us a visit on last Saturday. Mr.P. states that the speech of Tom Corwin was published in the Spanish language and widely circulated in the province of Mexico. The Mexican nation are sanguine in the belief that the " Fence party" make np quite a large majority of the American nation, and therefore it is, that they'l-iok to that party for success, with great confidence. They receive "aid and comfort" from the anti-American party here, sufficient, as they suppose, to justify a protracted war with the U. States. They are expecting moro efUcient "aid and comfort" from the peace party, as soon as the rncrt. ing of the American Congress shall take p lace, Relieving, as they do, that two-thirds of the next Congress wil be composed of the peace party. In this they will be sadly disapp ointed. If tho anti-American course pursued by this peace party is not giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy, we cannot conceive what would be. If giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy be not treason, we know not what would constitute treason. Wittern Dominion Urbana, O., July 14. A Washington letter, m the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, aays that the Secretary of the Navy has decided that the contract for ihe line of mail vessels from Panama to Oregon, shall be made for sea steamers of not less than one thousand tons. ' The contract for conveying the mail to Chagres has already been entered inlo with Col. Sloo. He is to employ sea steamers ol not less than a thousand tons. Col. Üloo is one of the bidders for the Panama and Oregon rute. The prepisal will bo decided upon in ffvy djys.

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