Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1847 — Page 2

3fnüiatm State gciuincl. CrdHAL Tt5ll."CI" I THE rICf. lF IIEVIITT.

IM)IVilMM.I, AI (.I M 11, IS 1-5. Our T mis. TheCMowinj: will hereafter be the jermancnl terms of Ilm HVJ''y In liana State Senlinr': Q3ruyinvn's to le made always in advarce. One copy, one year, $'2.00 Three copies, mie year, ..(HI Five copie, one year, y 00 Ta copies, on? year. 15.00 Twenty copies, one year,-- "JO.OO (Publishes! three times a week during the session.) One copy, 1.00 J Three copies, Si 0.00 One copy during the session, l.oo Three or more copies, each 75 Iloimtjr Than -Is for Volunteers. The undersigned has received tbe form and pt-cilir instruction from Wah:ntoa City, for procuring the Lund Warrants or r-crip fat Volnntrer en'itti J to ihe Mine : and having printed fo-m, be is eaaMed t attc-n I to Ihe seme oil short notice, anil at a low fei?. (JEOUGE A. CHAPMAN PenUnei 0lf.ee. Indiaxa Ellchov. Wjtii all our best efforts, we nre unable to obtain the full t flieial vote of this State this week. We hive enough, however, to warrar.t t;s in paying that tbe Congressmen stand as Plated in our last, viz : G democrats and 4 whigs. The Sta'e Senate i a tie ; anj in the House, it will probat y stand 49 democrats and 51 whigs. Whether some of the county Clerks ever inter d sending in the ollici:tl returns, remains to l:r seer. We will not again publish the unfinished list; but when full and complete, we will do so. Coming. By an advertisement, it will be seen thai Welch &. Delavan's (treat yntimia! Citrus will be at Indianapolis on the 31st of August. This is one of the companies which has been rore illy making stu b a stir in Ohio by its splendid exhibitions. Tiiey attract thousands wherever they go. Levi North, the celebrated horseman, is among the company. The Cincinnati Enquirer says that Dela van's tr.ck horse, Tammany,' taught and performed by Levi North, can accomplish more than any other horse in the United States. Iowa Election. Messrs. Thompson and LeilL-r, good and true Democrats, have been elected to Congress from Iowa, by large and ban Isoinc majorities, and the Legislature is thoroughly democratic. This is a most glori us triumph over Hank and Mexican uhiggery, and especially Jonathan ?JcCurty-im. This result also secures two Democratic U.S. Senators. Tennessee. It is probable that the whig?, by extraordinary exertions, and the absence of a large number of Democratic Volunteers, have carried this Sute. This can harm none but herself, although she lu-s i U. S. Scnatjr to elect. Jarnagiii, whose term is out. is a Mexican whig. IixiNors. There is one member of Conjro-s to elcci in this Stater, we believe, in the place of Jud-e IK uglass, elected to the U. S. Senate. The rest are only local. On this sulject the State Register of the lCth inst. justly remarks : The Uece.xt Election. So fat as heard from, the democrats huve been unusually successful. Wherever Oie party line were drawn so ns to procure a lest nie, wh find tliul there ha been no material change cilice the election of French and Well. In the north, where tbe whig' have pretended to be (-.lining rnpidly, ihn democrats have made an old fashioned sweep. We do not find in the returns any evidence of change. On the contrary, the result shows that the uorthein democracy are invincible w believer they come up to the work with an undivided front. Let them adhere to tbe admirnble contention system, which has riontt so much lr them ever mice the organization of parties among them, and they will have nothing to fear from whig or abolitionists. Harmony, concession, concert of action and unity of purpose ran only be secured by conventions. Let them be adhered to a the sheet anchor of our safety. It is to be admitted that the system is not perfeel ; but it is unquestionably the best mode of selecting rnndidates that has vet been devised, and it would be unvtisa to throw it away, ns many desire to do, before a ba'.ler one fchull have been introduced. Wisconsin. Ahout nxt spring we may expect to hear from th;s glorious Western Star. Site also, will j furnish her two Senators, and her Representatives in ' t Connresg. The Mexican whins, so desirous of throw ing the election of President into the House of Representatives, may possibly inis a figure yet. J. Q. Adams. From an account of a recent visit to Ex-1'rcsidcnt Adams, which is given in a whig paper, the Ashtabula (0.) Siutinel of Aug. '2d, we extract the following : " Mr. Adams thinks that our government will patch tip a jeace with Mexico at no distant day. He is alv of opinion that Gen. Scott will form a Government there and then pretend to treat i;h it, and to form a pt-ace i. that way. 1 think his confidence in the peretuity of our Government is much shaken. He regards us as tending toward a " military despotism." The attempt to make Gen. Taylor Prcsidi tit upon the popularity which he has gained in a few titttles, he regards as o:n:nous of the downfall of our institutions. He apprehends that we shall follow in the f.iotsteps of those R . 'publics that have gone before I lis. I hinted to him the great satisfaction which the i people of the United States, (includin-r all parties,) . ill r i i i- I would derive from a perusal ol Ins v,ews it he were able to address his constituents at this period of polUlcnl coi. fusion and profligacy, lie said he should be ' greatly pleased, standing as he now does upon the j verge of life, to speak a lew parting words to those whose interests he had so long maintained; but declared himself physically disqualified." The Taylor whigs will laugh heartily at these old fashioned notions of Mr. Adams. They once professed to think as he does, and had the greatest horror of " military chieftains," even after they had changed a military for civil life. But those ideas have become obsolete" with them: they admired the administra tion of Gen. Jackson so well that they are determined to have " military despotisms" all tiie time ! Poor Mr. Adams is too old to " progress" as rapidly as his high "principled''' party has done! Major Semans has been appointed collector of tolls at Lafaye'te. That accounts for the miik in the cocoanut. lad. Journal. Wonder if any tody can account for the superabundance of sap in the cocoaiiut" of bro. Uffrces or of the seed in the gockd f his una Friday! Should lke to know. Tip. J,ui mil. Sharp-ahuoting among whig fi tends! licht,: genllemea : if you u ill joke one another, don't twit about farf. I Judge Embree, wl ig, is elected to Congress in the 1st District, by a majority i f about iiCO over Robert Dale Ow en. This ie a triumph worth talking about. Tip. Journal. Why is it "worth talking: about" in your opinion! We'll venture to say that yoo will find more to disapprove of in Mr. ., as a member of Congress, than you ever found in Mr. Owen. Mark it. 0"The Louisvillu Journal of Aug. 5 h digs Gen. Taylor thus Independent Candidates. We think that a man's rutin iirr as what is called an "indepeuJuit candidate" for o'ike ought by th.s tim to be patty well understood to be labor in vain. ßThe returns of the Indian election, as given hv th illLrLmtntk fm.l"t'r h-itr honii vt.rv orn o um . . , . i i I indeed. It it statements as to elections tlscwheiej are similarly incorrect, it muit be very poor authority in ucli matters. Gold, to the arn.M.iit of ssJ,(1tJ,(H;t, wa coined at tie United States .Mint in New Orleans, during the last fiver.ty days of July.

The Indian l Volunteers. We Lave copied from the Washington Union, nt the earl. est practicable mornpiit, some documents, including tl.o o"icial rejmrt of Col. Lane, relative to the rtiid it t of tl.e lud, aniens at Buetia Vltta. The papers w,l! explain thcmsclw ; but nevertheless, the following remarks tiMiii them, which appear in the Lawrencelurh Begi-ter, f the 1 Ith instant, are so appropriate, tiiat we make room for them, only adding, f.r ourselves, ;hat the course of (Icneral Taylor, in tins business, from beginning to end, has seemed to be characterized by a fpirit any tiling but cred. table to him, ei;her as a soldier or an honorable man. We are glad to Bee lhat some others, ns well as ourselves, are not afraid to say so : 'I lie 3.1 Keiiiieut Gen. Taylor's Kepi'it. We desire to call the etiention of the public to Col. Lane's report, which, we publish on our first p ig to-day, und we invite every Iiidiauian to compare it and the documents attending it with the official report made from Ihe bittle field of Uuena Vista. It is admitteif that the operations of the three regiments, the 2d and 3d Indiana ami Mississippi, after tbry foroi-d the junction, weie im-pi.-rlaut to the success of our nrm on that glorious field. Of that force SEVEN IIUNDKED were Imlianians and two hundred were Mississippians. Col. Lane's report shows that bis regiment exchanged twenty round villi the enemy stationed in the gorge of the mountain, that in ibis fiht the .Mississippians were not engaged thit the in.portant charge of Lancers was on bis two right companies thrown buk. wiih tbe 21 Indiana and '.he Mississippi on the left Hint the formation was made by Col. Lane that the charge was sustained and repulsed by In-li.ini.in-that the order to retain liie fire was made by Col. Lane, and that lie give tbe order to fire that the Mississippi regiment was so far on the lefl that they could not and did not fire until the enemy was repulsed and the whole force advanced. Uv reference to the statement of the officers of the 3d regiment and Gen. Lane's, it will be seen that ihe force pursuing tiie Illinois lrops to lire rear of Washington's baiterv, received two rounds from ihe 3d regiment befi.re the Mississippi regiment reached the seat of aciitin ; and it is a fact that should be known to alt, that alter tbe junction alluded to was mad, the Mississippi regiment did not lose a single man. Theie were seven hundred ludiariinus engaged mid two hundred .Mississippians tbe lndidiiians lost all the men that ere lost the charge of the hocers was made upon them and repulsed by them the formation was mnde by an Indiana Colonel every order was given by Col. Lane the 3d regiment reached the scene of action v hen the enemy was pursuing the Illinois troops ami exchanged Iwo rounds with them before the Mississippi regiment r ime up. While the Mississippi tegiinent was w ithdrawn from the scene of action on the afternoon and night of ihe 23d, lb.: 3d Indiana regiment in company with three companies of the I Ilmois hoops occupied the advanced position upon the field, exposed , cold and lumber, and threatened everv moment with a night attack from the enemy. With these facts standing out in bol l relief each of which can be established hy hundreds and hundreds of living witnesses the other regiments whose ranks were broken who retreated in disorder have tbe reputation of acting gallantly, while the 3d Indiana, whose rinks were never broken, who never gave an inch of ground to tbe enemy, who never engaged the enemy without repulsing them, lias the reputation of acting CREDIT HLT, only. Why ibis distinction? Is It necessary, to sustain southern chivalry, M wreath her brow wiih laurels won by Indiana roiirase and steadiness? Cannot a son-in-law of

den. Tuvlor be in i Je a Urigadier without damning a State and falsifying history ? Jefferson Davis, of the Älississippi region nt, who received all ihe glory, and was recommended by Gen. Taylor to the consiJera.tiun of the government,' was bis son-in-law. lheie is something mysterious ns to the publication of Col. Lane's report. It will be seen that at Huena Vista, as early ns M.iv, Col. Lane's report was enclosed to the Secretary of W nr. At tl.o same time it was enclosed to Cen. Taylor t Walnut Springs, Monterey. At th it place, on his return home, Col. Lane addressed a note to Gen. Tay lor, asking if bis report had teen received nl Head Quarters. (Jen. Tabr, through bis Adjutant, Gen. ISiiss, answered and said that it was received and would I, .vu. v.1 ...I . i ll.A .Lin-irlltibllt I rmiil i u t u I tf I I tWO im TVlllirl Iii IMO leinnn in iniiiii on' if t "" C'T'- "''K'! ii'"" "ii"'i ! neither of w inch reached the department. How did this happen ? The commiinicition w:is open. Letters, hundreds of them, written at the same time, reached the Stntes. but from some cause or other, the documents, containing a portion of the history of one of the most remnrkahle buttles upon record, in which the reputation of a State was involved, are consigned to eternal oblivion. From the Washington Union. liattle of ILituiit Vil:i Third In.liana ISeKimciit. W A-iur-GTort , August 3, 1347. Sia, Cnclo' d is a copy of Col. James II. Lane's (c unmanding 3d Regiment of Indiana volunteers) report of the gallant conduct of his regunent in the battle nf Buena Vista.mide in i)ldi. rice t an outer of Biigadier General Joseph Line, dated Hueni Visia, 15th of May, 1847, wiih a letter from bi iga. tier General Lane, addressed to the Secretaty of War, dated May 16, 1S17, assigning the reasons for the or.Iei.aud of its nut hiving been reqiiied and submitted at an earlier d iv. Also a letter arcnmnaiiied with a rertificate of Geneial L ine, signed by all ihe c-mmission'd nfficer v lUe rf-;m' ! h.L 1S" "f rch ..... . I i i n.A I I . .... I ....... I I I . . i . . f,. OfOK nl A I .. I "Tit I IV .il.J'il Urillldl 1 IUI VII lilC .UU1VI ..I.J, IS47, and by him foi warded lo the War Department, as was ui.dcroood and believed by all concerned. These copies I have just received fiom Col. Lane, for the genuineness of which I vouch, :md pledge the houo of the gallant 3d tegiment and the St ite. These papers, it seems, have not b?en received at the department, ttiertfore must have bt-en mislaid or lost on lb way ; and inasmuch as ihe reputation of the legiment. and the bouor ani character of the Slate tequire their publication, I have respectfully to request that your honor w rll give leave to have them published in the Union. This request is ma le in be'ialf of a galhnt and biave regiment of Vohinieers and the Stale of Indians, which ihey so lion iiably lepie-cnted on tbe 22i and 23d of February upon the lit M of I'ueua Vi-ta ; and 1 wUh that this note may ar company the publication. Wi h gieat con-i h-.atn n and respect, I am your fiiend and obedient sei Vant, AMOS LAXK. To the llou. W. L. Makct, Secretary of War. Wis DrPARTJt est, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, August 4, 1317. Sik, The report of Col. J. II. Line, 3d Indima regiment of volunteers, daied Buena uta, May lo, IS47, addiessed 'o Biigadier Geneial Joseph Lane, which is said to hive been j ftM warded diuct by him i the Secielaiy of War, under r her daleU May lb, ha, not b.e.i received al the A'lj ttant Geierars Olnce. Having perused Ihe copv of CljJ Lan C Drl .ubllllted , V0M by .he Ihm. Amos Lane, under royer of his note of the 3d instant, who vouches for its authenticity. I see no objection (o iu publication iu the " m, as .eques ed by .Mr. Lane. 1 have the honor to be, sir, with great respect, ynnr obe dient sei van t, K. JOXKS, Adjutant General. To tl.e lion. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War. Bug a dc llEADquvarcas, Ruena Vista, May 16, 1S17. Sia, Km lose J)ou will bud the teport uf Colonel J. II. L ine, commander of ihe 31 i eminent of the Indiana bi iade ; Ihe iea-oii of its being sent at this late day is, that Colonel Lane had not been called upou for a tepoit until quite tecently. Tbe many false rumors in relation lo the Indiana brigade make it necessary that a full and fair statement uf facts should 'je forwaided, th it the department may be able to judge as to the good conduct of those troops; and is his regiment was detached from my command a part of Ihe lime during the battle of the 22d aud 231 of rtbiuary last. In transmitting this report of the pait which the 3d legiment took in lb it battle, it atTtids me the greatest pleauie to bear witDcss to the bravery and efficieucy of Colonel Lane, and tj the biaveiy and good conduct uf his officers and meu. No iegime.it or corps on that field exhibited moie coolness and rouiage than did that body of meu; aud none did mre to gain ihe gieat battle of Bueua Vial a. Respectfully, your obedient servant, JOSEPH LANE, Brigadier General. Hon. W. L. Marct, Secretary of War. May 15, IS47. Col- Läse, Please transmit lo btinade lieadquoters full ai d dei-ilcd u pon f the gallant run tuet of the 3d legiment of Indiana voluuttus at Ihe memorable banle of Duci. a Vbta. JOsEPH LANE, Brig. Gen. Bits Vista, 15, May, 1S47. Sia, In corn- lying w ith your wider of this date, requiting me lo tians t.it lo biigade headquarter a full and detailed i r port of the action cf the 3d regiment of ludiana voluoteeia duiing the Lal le of Bueua Vista I h ive the honor to teport t that on Ibe m rning of the 221 of r'tbruary, about 9 o'clock, a. m., the aia.m was beateu iu camp, and the ten's of my regiment weie immediately struck, t tie camp and ganisou equipage and baggage all packed in the regimental t.ai.i.and the regiment foi med in o dor of battlf. As soon as a careful inspection had ascertained lhat 'he aims nf ihe legiment weie in complete oider, and that every man was supplied with at least foily rounds uf ainm.iniii,.n, my irgimoi.t, ia cot j incii jo with the 2d regiment of Indiana Volunteers, was muched in the diiect on of the enemy about a mile, and placed in position upon the side of a bioad ravine, about thiee bundled yards in rear, and a li'tle l,i Ihe left of Washington' bafeiy, in Ihe road. While iu this position, the rifle companies of my regiment (Captains Sluss's and Uunn-) were de;ached under the command of Major Gorman, and oidertd tj the extreme left of our line. About 1 o'clock, p. m.,my regi-neot was ordered to take position immediately io tear of Washington's batteiy, and overlooking the batteiy and the roid by which the enemy mut dva',c to auack Ihe right of our line. In this pus.. . . .. ... ' . . I 1 VI III. J .J 1 the eight of the Ha. W lule in I his position, four companies of my regimenl Ci mpany K, under Captain Ta.'gait; com. pany F, under Caplaiu Boardman j eo npany II, under Capt. louocr; and company C, under Lieut. Province weie actively cmphyed duiing the afternoon in foitifjing the pass in t ie load ; men and officers wo.ki"g the spade and

pirk-axe, without repaid to rank. On the moining of the 23J, about 8 o'clock, and almost invjhancou.-ly with the cammrnreuicnt of the battle ou tbe plateau, a heavy fuce of the enemy's ca:tiy od infantry weie dicovtied advancing up the rote, with th apparent design of ttoiminf the battery at the pa-. When wittiin about twelve hiolrrd yaid, the bvitery opened it tie upon the n with destructive ttfVct, and their column kioke in confusion. For a moment a clouj cf Ju-l hid them from view ; tui immedutely af erwaids they emerged from it aiiu in oidcr, and resumed the advance. The aiiillery now played upon them with gret rapidity and accuricy, nJ, al er wavering for a moment, the whole column brke tJ their riz't.u the bed of the ravine, and J ined the fuires which hd just engaged the 2d Indiana irgiment on Ihe left. iShoitly afterwaid a heavy cro.s fire of nillery fium a mortar battery in our fr uit, and a bato ry i-f 18 and 21 pounders near tbe btse of the miuntuia oa our left, was opened upon my regiment, killing several hoise in our tear, but d.ong no exrcution in our rank. Tr.is fite was maintained as long as we continued to occupy lint position. The men were oolned to lie down, to avoid i's effect, which must otherwise have been very destructive, as round eh 't passed repeatedly along the rntiie length f our line. Ab ut 9 h o'clock, a, m , the legiment was ordeted to ihe

left of oui pillion, toj ia the Mississippi liürmrn and Ihe 2J Indiana regiment, for the purpose of defeating or ca;tu iug a lare bjJy of the ene-ny's caraliy and infvitiy that had become involved in a g r;e of the mountain on our left. So soon as tikis junction was foimed,our whole f 'ice,coniiing of the eight battalion companies of my regiment, ab mt 0Q stiong, the 2J Indiana tennciit an 1 Mississippi ulemen, each about 200 tlong and two pieces of aitiltery wilder command of Captain Shernuu, advanced to the attack. So oon as we anived within mu-ketry range, the eneuy epi ned a severe fi e upon us, which was immediately retu. ned and kept up until an older to reae filing aniveJ fiom Gen. Ta) I ir, in e nequ?nce, as I afteiwaid" understood, of a white flag having beeu sent ia by the enemy The enemy, bjwever, continuing their fire, we lesamod Ollis aNo, and maintained it until we bd fired twenty round of ammuniii n. Peiceiviug at I his line Out the enemy were oiganiz ng on our front and light a heavy charge of cavaliy, anil iheir bitieiy, which bad an enfilading hie upon us, commencing to io execution in our tanks I matched my regiment by the light flink, under a heavy hie of mu-ketty and artillery, to what 1 conceived to be a m ne advantageous position, about four bundled yaids to the light. My ieimcnt was hcie placed in position to receive Ihe cavliy, with its lift resting upon the break of a steep lavine, which, by protecting thai flank, rcmlcitd the formation of a squjie unnecessaiy. Matching into this position by the right tlmk, had necesaiily thrown our rear lank next lo the enemy; and we picpned to receive them, fired by the icar rank. This disposition placed my left companies upou tie extiemc light of the line. Upon the left fcf our line, i I.js Corned, was posted the 2d Indiana legiment, and Upon their left the Mississippi nfl incn and artillery. As soon as the enem' cavalry, barked by Uige masses of infantiy, came in view.it was pe.ccived that they designed charging ns on successive sijuadiens, and that the head of their column was dnecled obliquely u;on the liht of our line. I immediately diitcted Captains Gitison and Conover to throw their compai its sufficiently ba k fr. in I lie one io pre-ciii uieir noni uiretiiy to me cnarge wrncn was . . . ,f , 0 ... tm.n.l.ifvlf ili.nu. thud tFitrit.r I hnA t irn f fi ta . .1 irni. I while the rest of the line had an oblique fne upon tbe ap pioaching column. The enemy came down upon us at an eay gall p. and in admirable oider, and weie permitted lo appioicli wiUiiu ab .ut thiity picesof the front of the two companies liius thrown back before a gun was fi cd. Our hie was i he o delueied, and the enemy's column immediately broke and fled in the utmost confusion, and weie closc'y puisued by our hol- f nee. The enemy's os in meu and horse- in this charge was very seveie. Their infaotry had, in the meai.trnc, succeeded in crossing tbe large ravine which separated tlum fiom their main force, and thus seemed th ir safety. Our force consisting, as bef.ee stated, of the Mississippi, 2d lodiana, and my legiment, now foimu g ihe exiieme lefl of our eiitr.c line continued steadily to advance fiom point lo point U;on the tcliiir.g luhtw ing of the enemy, regaining the gmund which had been lo-t duiIheeaily pot of the dir. ai d cX;o-ei to a sustained at.d weli-diieited fi e Loin the enemy's heavy gon. Between two and ttuee o'clock in the afieinoon our atlcnlion was aiuacieu oy a eavy raii-H' ny uie near um venue , ... , ' '. , of oui positi n; and a few m itneiits a teiwaids an officer I .u . . I .k . . . .1 . I appeared ... the distance, beckonmg us t, that part o ' lit.t llor fnir ui loimi (!i iti-lv mil in mo ion at a biKlf . - .ii. - t I. . i. .. G i,Jn. and, after moving nrai half a mile, and crosing two' deep anil bio id ravines, we sudler.iy c one in lai foice of the enemy Ii tty puiuiug three or r i..... l..ur nun ..: . t . died of our tioops, who weie retreating towaid . t tii- I . . . ,, ..,. ,., i ,,, nolo,,,.. Mtk" .3 i"n,j, tiie unioiiun tie Cliaige iu which v-o.oueis .icrvee aiiu naiuiu . . ,: ri... r.n. .i,.. ..... ......... 11 U L.ieuieuaill oiouei v.a ien , mi n u 'iic irnt .i comuu need,. hey became separated Torn Ihe .est of the t.oops engaged iV, it; and while the 2d Kentucky regiment ' . , " ". . , ret. eated down a ravine in fiont of Washington's batteiy, their line -f retreat was doected to its rear. H..d the la.e lfo.ee of the enemy which, was puisuing them fat .enst tweuty-fne bundled strong) bten peimilted to lolljw its success, and come down U;.on the rear of the battery at the same moment that it w is hotly engaged in ditving back the ma-ses of Ihe enemy who were pursui g Ihe .J Kentucky ; leiine.ii in its fiont, it is difficult to peiceive ho v it could have escaped capture. Shoitly after this engagement, my ; regiment was separated fiom the other two witn whom it: lii.l hn.n arrin.r in tl Ihiee nrev.ous encasements, and. moving 'o the right, joined a po.tion of Colonel llaidiu's legiment, then lying in the heaJ of a ravine leading diiectly ; to Washington' battery. The enemy were in foice in our, front, an I Iheir movements indicated that an aitempt would shoitly be made to drive us from our positi m. Their ffuts weie, however, confined to several attempts t carry off a disabled caisson belonging: to our artilleiy, which bad been h.in4..nji.t in rnn.fniipnr. ft! tiie loss Ol noise.. I nps attempts we successfully repulsed with considerable loss to the enemy. Daikness found us in this position, an 1 we there remained dui ing the night, with our line of sentinels within one hundied and fifty yards of the enemy's liue, iu the most aJvanced position on the field. A detailed list of the killed and wounded having been herctofoie furnished, it is unnecessary to repeat it heie It may, however, be proper U say, lhat a considerable number of men belonging to other corps win killed and wounded in the ranks of my regiment during the d iy ; and a large number of men and otEceis of the regiment were slig itly wounded by spent and glancing balls, whose names we e not reported in the official list of killed aud wounded. Ia conclusion, I take pleisure in saying lhat, throughout Ihe day, the nu-n and cffieeiJ under my command behaved with the most unfaltering stea üness; that iheir lanks were never br keu, under the most galling fire; and that they exhibited, upon the most tiying occasions, that patient aod rlcady discipline, and cool dioegaid of danger, that has been tnought lo be ch irac'ei.stie of veterans only. j I cannot permit this opportunity to pass without testifying my watmest appiotatiou of the manner iu which the suigical department of my regiment, under the control of D.s. ' Arthur and Dunn, was conducted during the day. The wounded who weie carried to ibe rear were promptly and efficiently cared for, and both surgeons weie piompt to fly to any pait of the field duiing the hottest of tbe fiie, whenever Iheir services were requiied. i The title companies deiacbeJ from my regiment on the '. 22d did not airiiu rei tin it during the 2 2d and 23d ; an 1 for ! a detail of Ibeir acti -lis I must refer you to Iheiepjitof Maj ir Gorman, under whose command they scived. Ail of which is respectfully submitted. J. II. LANE, Col. Corad'g 3d luJuua Regiment To Brig. Gen. Läse. Camp Bcexa Vista, May 19, 1S47. We, the und rsigned, Ca.itaius and Lieuteuauts of the 3d legiment of Indiiua volunteers, state that, at the time the Mississippi ana m ana a iuu.a.ia re.M.neu.s we.e o.ueiea tJ the sup;Mrt of th e Illiumj aud Kentucky vo unleers, who fo.e Ihe charge of the enemy, in which were tetreating be Colonels lindiii and MrK. e and Lieut. Col. ( lay weie killed on Ihe plateau, the 3d Indiana regiment was the tost regiment that arrived on the ground, and gave the enemy two CVchaiges of musketry before any other reginent arrived; that (be 3d Indiana regiment was on the left of the line, neatest ibe enemy, about one hundied yards distaut ; and here the 3d Indiana regiment lost more meu thau duiing the lest of the day, und heie fel! the last man who r as killed at Buena Vista " Captain Tagvi t, of company E, of the 31 legiment of Indiana voluateeis. The 3d regiment was tbe only regiment that lost a nun ia that engagement. T. WAKE GIUsUN, Captain comd g company I V. CONOV Ell, If. VM. FORD, SCOT f CART F.R,

f WaM ngtou's batety, in tbe loaJ. We l n neJu'rlr lv J , , ,. . t r , . . , . , ... i i an assiimD'ioii 1 May I not now ast bum, is not Uou s opened our lire u;ou the enemy's flo.k ; and, alter brisk i a" " ' , , . .k ,....r hn ...i..- . . . .v i i . , ii- linage as much violated rn killing the inuroerei w no muiengngement, in which we sulTeied consideiably, succeeded in ! ' -f r . l . r !aI ,c :n i-.ni.. dirviugthem back t. the mouiitain. I h.ve ..ce Ica.oea that the triM.ps horn we thus fo.lunately relieved weie a ." Jt,,er. lh Seote"ce f the UW ? 1 ,hlDk

" " B. 44 " I). 1st Lieut. " e! 2J 2J " II. 2d " " B. 21 II. 21 ' " G. 2d M - F. 2d M " 1st " " G. 2d " " I). in comd'g E. 21 Lieut. " I. 2d " B. 2d M " G. 1st - 11.

Isaac s. boakdman," P. C. PARKER, WM. WISE, J. KT NaT, J. D. P. A. M. CHENEY, CUAS. A. SHANK", JOHN HARRINGTON, G. W. HARRINGTON, N. GILMAN, II. HULL, SMITH DUMONT, I). L. FONTS, J. M. LORD, A. HOUGH, S. McKINZlE, D. fKOVlNCE, 1st Lieut. :owd'g company C ia the battle. From the time that Ihe 3d regiment of Indiana volunteers were ordeied into,-the right and j lined with the Mississiipi ar.d that portion of tbe 2d who had rallied to the number of 200 or upwards, I was all tbe time 'with them, and can tay that I know that, at the time they moved off to the suppott of the 1st and 2d Illinois aud 2d Kentucky regiment, who so nobly attacked tl.e enemy and weie driven back by over, whelming numbers, the thiee legirrents moved suldenly up Ihe bank of a deep ravine, and that, owing to tbe shipe of tiie ground, the 31 Indiana got up the hill in advance of all othtis and opened the fne. Tbe 2d Indiana came up next, and the Mississippi last. During tbe whole time that the 31 wis engaged, Col. Lane proved himself a brave aud efficient officer, and bis ol&cets and men acted with great coolness aud bravery. JOSEPH LANE, Bii. Gea. Disease amoxu the Catile. The cows and horses of tiie neighborhood of Fennsville, Salem county, New Jersey, have been attacked with something like tiie cholera. We notice an enumeration of some li0 cuws, as well a3 several liurics, having died in one week.

Capital Punishment. S." No. VIII. To the Editors of the Slate Sentinel : Gextlime-s: I will djw examine that put of tbe N'jachic coJe beating on ihe sutject uuder discuMioa. It pi ov ides as lollows : Aid surety your bloxi of your licet will I require At the k ind of every bea-t will I require it ; And at the hand mm will I require it ; At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life qf min. il'hofoever hedt mart's Hood ly man shall his blood be shed. Aud then gives the leason if all as follow: Fur in the image of God made he man.

Or, io täte the reason iu other word i Mao, being created in the likeness of God, iu his image on earth to the j mBauiurrtsine.eoi.rioioo.) i. n.s lei.uw u. . . - beast of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fi-b of the it-.... a . . . r 1 . .. fcx. tKaa, sea, and iu him God is r fleeted lo the whole mundane woiIJ t theiefoie, whoever Uy him" sheds bis blood" mats and destroys the image of God, and contemns and otfers inlini'y to bis Maj styin hi icflected image, and is guilty of lebellion aod lieasou against the greal God f the Uuivere. Tbe leaw thin if the "death peualty's " bein affixed muider is, because muider i an act of treison against tht Cod irAo mide and rules all thingi. Is not the rea-ou sufficient lo warrant the infliction if the penalty? For tf the w .rd imply, sp-iken by ang'll was steadfast, and erery liansgirssion and disobedience received a just tecoin(u.e of u wi. J," how much ir.jie shall he be biought io condign psuishmcnt who makes war against the God of the Universe, and pours out and deploys the life of his likeness on eai til, ;nl brother to o:ie who i "the express imae of his person. " If for disobedience of his law, G.d can lightfully send the disobedieut M away into everliiing puni-hineul," taa he no', fur tieasou againt his pers o aua gjenmeut, lightfully cut off the trai'or fiom this earth pluck him ou: fiom his moral vineyardremove bim from the earth with his evil example U otners ia like case offending an. make this feaiful letiibntion. this display of his VEXGH'CK. a teiror ti evil doers' Cannot be who makesbis,nin...e.s fliineof ti.e " rigbtfully make : mau tre iiisliumtut by which the tiaitor is puur-bed .' When lhat instiumeiii has the swoid rd.iCcd in his hinds and be co.nriiauded to smi'e, Irall be iiul smite . And if he do smite, is U ML KD Hit either " legal," illegal, or "judicial." Let lhoe who aie so suiclurged with "sickly sentimenlalism," tins moibrd sympathy ,' and " mock philanthropy," answer these qots ions. Dutsays J. V. B God's image is as much violated in killing the muideier by tiie sentence of the law, as in the original deatii of the murdered." This shows an extremely muddy state of the olJ dieamei's idevs Naroleon, emperor of Fiance, makes DaVoust, Launes, &c. Marhals of the empire, aud makes them " the image " of bis impeiial power iu ihtir icspeciive spheies. War against them is a icsistance of, and liea-ou against, bim, tj which he affixes " the death penally " (as my uppouents so well like to call it.) and sas, Whoso sheddeih tbe Marshal's blool by the Maish.il shall his blood be shed; for iu the image of the empclor made he them. Marshal Augeieau makes war upon and shed- tbe blo d of Maishal Lnne ; aud iu obedienence tj the aboxe edict Mar.hal Soult slays Augeieau. Augereau : .. j : . . . c . i. - ... I aud edict ot the empe . . , ,. ... ..,... ,,a c.,.,!t in oil. and in detiauce of them, slew Launes; ana oouii in -v f direct .b:dieice to he command and idictof the emperoi slew Augeieau; and yet, accoiding to J. U. B , Soult vi.ilaied the image of ihe enneior as much as Augeieau did! This simple staiemeut of his portion is sullicieut to show its ab-uidiiv. And vet this is ihe loiic that " annihilates 1 1 hi. impious pretext thit cpi al puuishmcut is sanctioned and lequiieJ by the Divine Law !" I But iu the next piecedingscnteuce.befjie the above qu i'ajtion.J. W. B say-, V hoso th. ddeih ihe bl-od f m m fjr 1 meat, be it man or teat, shall have A own blood shed ; for I in ihe image cf God," iic. And iu another place he says, I" Lay no. your baud on man to stay him for food: be he ! beast or man who does this, i must die, foi man is mide in God's ini.ige." Ay indeed!! Well then. J. W. B. is Tor I the " deaih penalty." Ay, and fur the beast too as well as j the man, af er havrt g u-ed up a haif column in hoii.g i lhat our view is lidiruious Lecaue it would IXCLUDK the beat rnuidei as well as the nun muider. It seems men, that he is for ca; ial punishment a well as I, and Ihe only difference between him and m is. thai he v.iil riol have the , . , , . i.,.t rr.inrli.,.r "death iM'iialtv inflicted on the niiD or beajt tiiuiaeier , .- 7 ' ""-':u " unless he murders for meat, whether be eats the meat or not Xrwarda while I am for having it inflicted whether -the ","",u- "'o' "- - intent t. cat " the murdered exisi at the ti ne the murder is com niiieu. or noi. ne nukts u.-o murdered man a pait of the dttimlion of murdei, and I do . . ... . . ,...;. r ...a... i. a rot ; ana lo eel mal aoi-oun io 1:1c ueuuoiuu ! muiui-t II" "''?" "'' '' ??.' i , , " - . . . . , l- ;,,.;,,, he sets dowu in his m.nd that some dieam id his imagiua.u:.,. f.r ,..,.,mn tn ,'"'.1 and then sets about ""J.Vml " ! ' 5 "f1 u .set,,, ,h."nJ,hlf, " " k,0 i in vest i'r te and fiiid out what is so, and what is not so: '""'esi iie u u . And bow easily can clear head- d men ; ike ou are, when j , " " b amme Zwo their necks as " conclusive on the point discus-ed." Fiom Ihe reason of the law of capital punr-hment in the Noachic code, I diaw another argument to prove th it lhat law is still iu force. For tn the image of Gcd mide he man, was no truer ihe day the law was given than it is now. The teas hi uf the law exists in as much force now as it did then. Is not tbe law then, as truly in existence now as it was meu . Very respectfully yours, &c. S. vLetltT'll ClIKlI. Messrs. Editors dents.: The public have CXpressed their opinion of the manner in which this wur- jiai, teii conducted 6ince the letting, in a tone , ,, KM.d it Imd Pvpn e J . . reached the apparently sealed ears of the people's humble servants and their superlatively energetic satellites. This, it appears, has not been the case ; for on an examination of the work a few d iys ano. it was almost imoossible to observe any change to have taken place for the last two weeks, at least on the Fall creek aqueduct ; and should you asK tne contractor of this work the cause of his not employing1 more men, he will answer that they cannot be had; but he will neglect to tell you that he discharged a number of his hands on account of their refusing to lab-ir for the nojr pittance of sixty cents a day : and that had jje col,t-IUJed to eive seventy-five, which was all they demanded, he could litve as many as would be re quired. The present engineer admits that the work is not progressing as it should and could, did the contractors use proper exertions. He, knowing and admitting this, refuses to exercise that authority, for the benefit of tiiis community, with which he is clothed. He possesses the power to declare any job abandoned that is not properly conducted ; and why some notoriously bad managed sections have not been so declared is a mystery to many; some pretend to know and assert that he is aware that the moment the work is completed his pay ceases ; for the 6ake of common honesty I will not believe this ; there must be 6omc other causes, and when our Legislature meets, would it not be well to have matters investigated ! As to the best of mv knowledge, in no instance have the terms on which any to.itnxt was let been j COtnp!ied with: the retlilt is, the Siatc, and more , n:1 r. ,,.,., rv ..5H ,;.,;,.;.., counties have suf- . , ' , "J TlY nw-rp -red severely. A LAX lAlJih. Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. V ASHlNUTON, August Ü, 1317. Mr. J. Q. Adams, in one of his speeches on the Annexation of Texas, said that it would be seized upou by England, as a pretext for annexing Cuba to her dominion. The course of events seems to indicate lhat there will arie a strong influence in Great Britain iu favor of such a measure. The time may not yet htrve arrived in which it may be deemed expedient, but, as Lyird I'almeralori intimated, the tune may arrive when the Untisli Government will, in this manner, indemnify British subjects for their losses iu Spanish loans, and, at the same time, perhaps, seek redress from tiie United States on the same account. F.r Great Britain to take possession of Cuba, would, no doubt, produce a war with the United States, without bringing in the other question of the indebtedness of some of our individual States. The Government of the United States took occasion, some time ago, to notify that of Great Rritaiu that the ac-quif-itiou of Cuba by her, would not be willingly permitted by the United States. Tiie slaveholders of Cuba have also, in anticipation of the possible transfer of the island to Great Britain, signified to our Government a wish to bring the island under the protection of the United States. The annexation ( of Texas, while it increases the power of the slave-holding interest in the U. States, also increases the necessity of protecting that inter est from the near approach of the Lrituli policy, power, and example. The great and increasing love of territorial acquisition and military renown, so manifest in the United States, will seek gratification before long, and upon the earliest pretext, in a war with England. The Mexican war is a preparatory measure to great events. Man ron fWr.osi via Chagres.- -The Secretary of the Navy, it is said, has contracted with Major1 Arnold Harris to convey the U. S. Mail, from Cha gres to Astoria, in Oregon, in steam vessels of one 1 thousand tons each. This is the continuation of the route, contracted for by Messrs. Sloo ct Co., from N.f Vork to N. Orleans, Havana and Chagres. Major Harris has left Washington for New Vork, to coin ; ple'e his arruiigcmctiis.

. k,. ia m,L. 1n n,lrn,.',nn in thp SciitltUrtS founded Otl

IV ho Is Right! An evidence of the perplexity and desperation of Federalism is furnished in the contradictory sentiments that are promulgated by its ditlV-reiit organ", rome contending that as a pirty it is in favor of the war, while others deny this assertion. We give below two extracts, both from federal papers, which our readers can compare, and would call their special attention to the language of the Xcuia Tirc!Ciht, a paper whose tone and spirit on this subject lias been mude the subject of particular approval by a Whig meeting, as may be seen by reference to a resolution ou this subject in another column.

(Jj'We have heard of im (TT It is utler'u absurd lellCe 80 intense and pro r c j md nonsensical to sau that fou .d as ti approach ul the masses f the If'tig par' , limitv, but shamelessoess vity are in favor of th proseth't description is rarely tt cution of this vor if is a bibiied. The impudence of .libel vpon the intelligence . r. . r I" ...... . t. ,7 !;. ping the H'higs, as a party, say so. The people are opwith opposing the war vtlh posed to the war either for Mexico, may be thus charac -territory or for the mere sport terized,andju t'y too. After tliroat cutting, and tfiey all the men and means iha '-tri' not sustain men whose have been raised for the war'eff rt are exerted to carry it from Whigs when it i n. It will be in vain for known that Taylor, an i Scott Whig leader or any other and Wool, and Worth, and kindof leaders to oil rusu-ar three-forihs of the officer a-candidates ' and eiped us lot mong the volunteers whoj-upport them : we will da no have Diost distinguished them-suih thing no matter whetliselves in the batlies in Mexico, er you call them Whig"vrt are W htgs. it riqutret a de men men. or Loco ruo "war: Let those, therefore, gree of hardihood rartly tvit tir mi. fit In rhnrrrr tit 117.1 (f 'ihfl lo aun-rss in O llitli'S i,h reultinff the gnn than they lo-e their A.- . ... . , - .. C'ifricrii in yf f Iri tl i ilg C .iruun J ouu hjiwij ilhii i'asiavar, merely btcuute. hua'.ic ciple, and truth and justice, nere aim mere raises a eia-j'ooK io n iu mor on the sulj 'ct. Buffalo Torchlight. Express. lime. Xenia Important Fiscal Arrangement. Tii fjlbvving is from the New York Courier of August G:h. There is a rum r in tue street to-d ly tliat the Secretary of t!iu Treasury has succeeded in in iking a contract with the house of Rothschild for the supply of coin to the armies and Commissariat in Mexico, of ail the money they shall require against the draf.s by the proper ollicers on the Treasury at Washington. We were not able to ascertain the accuracy of th rumor much less the terms on which, if at all the arrangement has been made but as it seems to be probable, and would certainly be advantageous to both parties, we think it right to give it a hearing. Jjy such an arrangement, European creditors of Mexico, whom the Rothschilds may be supposed to represent, would receive their property in specie in Mexico, and avoid all the danger of conduct, aud other dangers incident ti the present deranged state of Mexico Uke bilis on the United States Treasury at Washington, which at maturity could be converted into good bills of Exchange on England. Oa our side, by such an arrangement, till transportation of specie from tire United "Slates to Mexico would he avoided, the shock to our bunks inc.dent to large expenditures of coin would be avoided and not the least risk of transporting it from the sea-coast to the armies. Upon the whole, therefore, ns tlif-re is manifest advantage to both parties in sucli an arrangement, we deem it altogether probable that it has been made. Hard tt I'leavf. It is very unfortunate for the whigs, as a party. selection of a Presidential candidate. At one tune a name is pnpo.ed, and it is proclaimed throughout the country that this man will be the whig candidate for the next President. His certain election is then asserted in the whig press. The next we know, his name is dropped, and a silence peculiar to this party is observed. We were first told lhat Mr. Clay would certainly be elected in Id 13. Then the name of Mr. .McLean, of Ohio, was put forth he was a new man we were told, he certainly would be elected. Afterwards Clayton was taken up and suddenly passed over that all the whigs might unite upon Corwin, "the el.Hjuent Corwin" as he was called, of Oiiio. When the impression was cre ited that this was the man ; that the whigs had now found their candidate, he is of a sudden dropped, und the experiment is commenced with Gen Taylor. All former considerations are tobe laid asidt?, the whigs have found a man to whom they can attach themselves, and w ho has about him some traits that are in favor with the people. He, as we were told, would surely be the whig candidate in 1943, and as such would most certainly be elected. A great excitement was now to be raised, and "Harrison times and triumphs" were to be witnessed over again. But of a sudden all becomes calm and serene. No agitation nor movement takes place. What occasi ins this ! Is General Taylor to be served by the whigs as they have treated Clay, Webster, Scott, McLane, Clayton, Corwin and others. It seems that such is to be his fate at their hands. .V. Y. Tost. A "Scelime" Whig. The following is copied from the Kennebeck Journal, a leading Whig paper in Maine, and edited by Mr. Severance, formerly a memhpr nf Ciinrrrr9 "Glorious Victories. We cannot say thai we feel ;.,,.;. ... A;;t;..n in iir, in victories I LL... I mit LI... , a. UI'.'"0Ul"l . . ' - ' - - - ' rrninpÄ n.-erthp tf'rövn. TllPV II TP ficht in T ill dö h "iw ... .-..-..-. J -0--.0 --" - fence of their country. What are we to gain by victories, if we win them! He must be a very thoughtless or a very heartless man, who delights to hear that our troops have killed three or four thousand Mexicans, at whatever loss to themselves. On the contrary, wc should look upon it with sorrow and shame, feeling much as we should to hear that a favorite son had succeeded in murdering a tratJkr on the highway, stripping him of his watch and purse. The morality of the two acts nre about on a par." Overreaching Avvkice The he. Roy (N. Y.) Gazette, has an article on " Breadstuff's in the country yet," and says: "A farmer in this country, who has eleven hundred bushels of wheat for sale, refused 1 73 delivered al his barn. Two dollars was his lowest mark. He has it on hind yet, and probably ofien revolves in his mind the difference between $1.8, and 1,100 oral most $1,JT5. Tour man ! Wonder how much he g ivc to the Irish !" The Rochester American 1ms a similar paragraph, as follows: "There is now very little Genesee Wheat in the country, except w hat is in the hands of large farmers, who have two or three crops on hand, which they expected to sell f r jsM 00 a bushel. Some set the mark as high as s;2 50. We know of several instances, where $1 75 was refused for lots of 2 or 3,UC0 bushels." Tbe Iluntsville (Texas) Banner gives an interesting description of a bituminous lake that lies between Beaumont and liberty. This lake is within one hundred yards of the margin of a dry and elevated prairie, of some miles in extent, and covers an area of about five acres, and has a depth varying from one to three feet. It constantly gives up from the bottom, in more than a hundred places, small quantities of bitumen or asphalt, which are deposited un the surface in tiie shape of bubbles, at intervals of every fifteen or twenty seconds. This bitumen may be gathered in large quantities from the surface of the lake, and differs in nothing that we could perceive, either in smell, touch, or appearance, from common pitch. The mineral pitch that rises to the surface of the lake is similar to that described by travellers as occurring on the Dead Sea in Palestine. Civilization. After remarking that the National Club a-serts that, of the citizens of London 1250,000 persons "never euter the walls of a religious edifice," and that "all our large towns are in a similar state," &.C., the Dublin Nation of the 3d iiistaut adds: 'But all these horrors fade before the new atrocities revealed by the London Times on Saturday last, in which we find some remarks upon the 'undeniable increase of infanticide how innocent childreu are ! daily -stranzled, drowned, burnt, poisoneu, siarveu. and decapitated, by wholesale;'' how 'the murder of children has ceased to be murder in England,' and other fearful statements of a like character. This is horrible." Taylor appears to have as much as he can cleverly do, to nnswer electioneering letters fruta the uflicc-scckcrs who arc besieging him.

'row the Cin Enquirer. The lire: I uestioii. The Nc'w Vtrk Triiuut of the 4:!i jtist. Las an article with tl.e above caption, on the pe.,t;on in which the whig party will be placed in the next Congress, in reference to the Mexican war. The whigs, to gain the ascendency in the coining Congress, Jiave practiced 8J much dissimulation, misrepresentation, and fraud, that, now they base succeeded, they seem to quail before the rcxnsibility tt.at will rest upon them. "The extreme probability," say the Tribune, that

in the next House of Lepreentatives the whigs predominate, heightens the responsibility of our will predominate, heightens the responsibility of our rvjttin as a tarty, and renders more obvious the necesSity of earnest, seasonable, and tlioroogli reflection as to our duty. With regard to the existing war. It ia time that the people should i-pc-ak out on tins subject, throuifh their com tntiotis. their incetinirs. their iourx - . j i . i- t . . . i . ir .i nirs. 1 cs, dear fHMiple, Uo ppeak out, and tell the wings what they fhnl! do, now that they are to have the power; aud do not keep them in suspense either ; for you are told that it is time " for you to do so, and they want, besides, to have some earnest, feasor.ab'e, and thorough reflection on the subject something it Las not yet received at their hands. At the result of every election, adverse to the democratic party, the Tribune would exclaim, "Oil the unoopuor i,us war: aim now 11 talis lipon tue poopie to leu us party wnai to uo witn tins imjpviar war! calling ujun Hercules to help them out oi tbe nure in which they have placed themselves. Afier making thi cull ujoti the people, the Tribune next turns its attention to its whig brethren in Congress, and exhibits great tribulation Irst they may be caught in Lnif cn traps. It refreshes their memories with a piece of history, as a warnin? for the future. jt refors, With great indignation, to tl.e combination uc Executive iniquity, Congressional intrigue, and seeming peri! to our gallant army," that wrenched out of a majority of vv hig members, a forced concurrence in the audacious falsehood that 'war exists by tiie act of Mexico." These democrats must be an ingenious, wicked, devilish set of fellows to so overreach the whig members of Congress, as to wrench' from them a solemn. " mendacious lie," knowing it ! to be a lie pronounced under their oaths too and to be recorded forever on the journals of Congress. It is a little singular the Tribune does not also call on the people to tell the whigs whether a law shall not be enacted by the next Congres, by which all these coercing democrats shall be hanged, ns a warning to all others to be more tender and merciful to the whigs iu the fu ure. Hu," the Tribune continues, "the trap set for the whigs in ISM, is by no means the sole contrivance of its authors of like character." Ah ! indeed, what is the next trap tiie democrats have been baiting for these innocent, simple-minded whigs! Don't, reader, shrink back in horror, at its hideous teeth, that are to lacerate, while depriving of the liberty of action; for this trap is nothing more nor less than the simple question, "whit do you propose to do" now that you have the power! TLere it is, in all its naked deformity. Throughout the southern and western States," siys this journal, "this dilemma is presented to the wh.g candidates for Congress : 'The country is now involved in war: no matter about it origin, what do you propose to io' And this same question will press with redoubled force upon the whigs in Congress." You may well say, Mr. 7Vibwtey that this question will press with redoubled force upon the whigs in Congress; and no wonder you are calling upon the people to tell these whig i against you styling this a democratic trap to catch t whigs in. You digged a pit for your neighbors to i fall into; you fell into it yourselves; and the demo- ' crats are only asking you, "how are you going to j j-et out !" You have got yourselves into the difficulty i by your miserable deceptions to get into power; now you are iu power, you think it a terrible matter to be asked, uhut do you propose In dot The height of the agony of the Tribune is piled yet higher. The whir members may be induced to j aid the adminisiraiii.il "to lather their own crimes i upon the nation, hi order that the nation may empow- : er them to persist in their mad career, and thus enable ; them to hold on to their offices ;" and, in the language of the Washington correspondent of the .Y. Y. Comj mercia!, "sujj'tr the Administration to run riol with litis trar for tiro years more, and plunge the country into d'bt and danger, now scarcely to be onceiced o, and merely for the sähe of retaining power and spoils i themselves." That the w higs may be induced, by the i machinations of the democrats, and without the fear j of those diinterestcd whig partiz&ns who want the I "spoils of otfice," before their eyes, to act as above i stated, neither the Tribune nor the writer from the I Commercial will positively deny; but they simply say, that "the next session must answer," and "this ; remains to be seen." Now, it would really be most provoking that a whig Congress, so hard to be got, ' should so far forget party views, as to vote with the : democrats in sustaining the honor and interests of the j country; thereby losing to the whigs the "spoils of joifice." Though the imagination of the Tribur.e I runs a good deal on spoils, office, and power, yet it ! trusts that the whigs will do ri' and eschew wrong, i if they do lose the two next Presidential elections : though it seems to be very much concerned, Jest the ! democrats may seduce tlim from what it conceives I should be their duty. We advise Mr. Greelt to take things easy, at present, for the drty of trial to his party has not yet come. If it pass that day in safety, it will accomplish what it has always failt-d ia hitherto, when placed in a difficult position. Iron Carriage Wheels. A carriage wheel entirely of iron, and constructed upon purely scientific principles, is now being exhibited at Mrs. Mulfoid Hotel, iu Salem. It was patented by Ira Holmes, of New York State, and is called the " Dooble-Dislied Metallic Carriage Wheel." There is a double row of i slim iron spokes with counter-sunk heads, diverging ' alternately from the outer and inner rim of the hob to the fi'lloe, where they are also counter-sonk and j effectually fastened the spokes thus draw ing both ways, and throwing as much of the weight of Ihe ; carriage upon the upper as the lower part of the wheel. 1 The principle is that of an nrch. Shonld the iron J felloe break, w hich is scarcely possible, the wheel K. under ordinary circumstances could not' be made to i fall to pieces. The burthen which a very slight w heel thus constructed is capable of bearing is immense, if we may credit the calculations of Trofcssor Comslock. It has an exceedingly light and graceful appearance, is not liable to get out of order, and we are informed can be purchased at about half the cost of the ordinary wooden wheel. Sa'cm, West Jersey, Standard Tiie commissioners of the State of Ne.v Vork fir revising the legal practice in its courts, have entered upon the work. Tiie N. V. Pott says they will reject every useless formula ainl construct a sm ple and intelligible svs'.em, which will facilitate business, save labor, and attain the ends of justice. A Ihorough refjrin iu the judiciary system is more needed than any in other department of Government. It isfolly to pretend that human w isdom was exhausted in constructing the antiquated, cumbersome, and verbose forms still adhertd to; and if men of enlightened minds are chostn fcr the work there is no good reason to doubt that ihey can make salutary improvements in the whole system. The northern whig papers are already boasting that a whig majority in the "Text Congress will close the war, alid withdraw our army this 6tde the Rio Grande. These men are outraged when they are ca.led Mexican whirrs, but how much more could Mexico get, if she had a majority of her own Almontes, Ampisdias, or Santa Annas, in the congress thai is thus to do for her what her whole armies and resources have beert directed to accomplish ! May be this whig congress, after withdraw ing our armips, will take a step further in consistency, and beg Mexico's pardon and pay her soma fifty millions indemnity tl-r the unj-istifi-ibltf injuries we have inflicted upon her. Tiie Washington Union confirms the report of Hie seizure of the American whale ships by Brazil, but expresses the opinion that our new Minister to that country will be able to setile all difficulties. Of coursr. all desire to avoid hostilities with Brazil or any other poiver, but as that is the only monarchical government on this continent, we have full and ample reparation demanded from it, and the demand eteruly enforced. Short Importation. A thousand laborers are wanted at this moment en ti.e New York and New Haven railroad, nt 61k cents a day ; showing a short importation nf labor in coupario:i with the immens dcuiaiii. S. Y. J'i:r. f Comnei cc.