Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1847 — Page 2

3rmaw State gcntincl. CTCft.tAL TIOILAHCC It THE FKICK OF LIIEKTT. INDIANAPOLIS, DECimDEIl 30, 1847.

Our Terms. The following will hereafter be the permanent terms of the WeeVy Indiana State Sentinel: 07 Payments to be made always in advance. One copy, one year, $2.00 Three copies, one year, 5.00 Five copies, one year, 8.00 Ten copies, one year, 15.00 Twenty copies, one year, 20.00 Semi-Weekly. (Published three times a week during the session.) One copy, 4.00 Three copies, $10.00 One copy during the session, 1-00 OSee first page Semi-Weekly. To Correspondent. J. W. J., Hendricks county. Thank tot your Avon. tbm as noa as possible. Will Insert (KrOur thanks are due to Senator Brigiit ind IIannegax, and Representatives Wicx, Hellet, Fettit, Tibbatts and others, for valuable favors. Also, to Dr. Jas. A. Houston and A. E. Drapier, for their kindnesses. Premium Deer. Chable Meikeill informs us that on New Year's morning, he will offer at his stalls in the eastern market, the Premium Bet of the season; and he says he knows that no finer beef was ever butchered in this city. That his judgment may not be questioned, he invites our citizens to give it a tri.l. Parties' Fair. The Ladies of Roberts Chapel Sewing Society will continue their Fair this evening, at the Court House. The Weather. For the last ten days, we have had what would here be termed "Yankee winter." From the 20th it has been exceeding cold, with a fine snow covering the ground, and the merry sleigh bells are now quite fashionable. During several sights in succession, the thermometer indicated from 4 to 14 degrees below zero ; and during the days, nearly the Fame range above. This, Monday, is clear and pleasant, after anoiher light , snow, and much moderated as to cold. The streams in this section are low, notwithstanding the awful flood in the Ohio. Sickness. Notwithstanding the hue and cry raised by the State Legislature, our city has never been in the enjoyment of better health than at present. The single case of small-pox is yielding to treatment, and no danger is apprehended by our citizens. Every thing goes on as usual, when the "wisdom" is not here, and all hands are as happy as larks, aud getting fat on it. P. S. Since the above was written, we learn that Mr. Kennedy is perhaps not quite so well, and by some, still considered not out of danger. CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX. The first and second numbers of these excellent publications have reached us; and we are gratified to notice that the arrangement of the U. S. Senate has rather add ed to, than detracted from their usefulness. We shall be happy to exhibit them to any disposed to subscribe, and no politician or business man should be ithout them. We take this occasion to ask the publishers to forward us duplicales of the 1st nos. (G. &. A.) as ours were so nearly drowned as to be unfit for binding. Indianapolis, Dec. 25, 1347. Eds. of Sentinel: In your paper of this morn ing i am reported as having voted m the negative upon Mr. Dunham's motion to strike out so much of the adjourning resolution a allowed mileage. I did so vote upon my name being called, but before the vote was announced, by the consent of the House. changed my vote, for reason then given, and voted for striking out, and my vote was so announced by ine ciers. i'leose insert tins. I am, &c, E. S. TERRY. ÖirWe copied from the official journal of the House, and a re-examination assures us that we copied correctly in this case. If Mr. Terry's vote was recorded wrongfully by the officers of the House that, certainly, is not our fault. It is possible that owing to the "excitement and consternation," the votes were all recorded tnpsy turty, who knows Does the clerk of the House ! . (rln oar paragraph about a hotel at Madison, we addressed ourselves to the "capitalists," and not the people or Madison, as the Banner seems to infer. The Banner came much nearer to "denunciation of the whole city" of Madison than we did. The Banner says "the inuendo that Madison has received more aid than her equitable share from the State, comes with a very bad grace from Indianapolis What have we received here but one end of the railroad ! Indi aaapolis has not only got the other end, but she has been built up, and her people enriched almost exclusively by money begged and sqneezed out of the State Treasury. Shame on your impudence, Mr. Sentinel." Shame upon yourself, sir : Our folks may have begged and squeezed," but have they stolen 1 That's the question. Mexican Bounty Land Wakrasts. The Commiesioner of the Land Office reports to Congress that bounty land warrants, which are still being issued to the soldiers and volunteers of the Mexican war, will soon appear in large quantities in the land States; and being available for location upon the public land f ubject to sale at private entry in all the Slates and Territories of the Union, may be expected to take the place of money to a very great extent. 7,317 Mexican bounty land warrants, for 100 acres each, have been issued, and 1,120 for 40 acres in all 1,215,810 acres, of which only 3,520 acres have been located. A land warrant is worth only $123 at Washington, but as good as $200 in specie to the western buyer. They are not good for pre-emption rights payments. Frettt Good. One John Davidson, in Illinois, ran way with the wife of a corn speculator. The spec ulator heard of the fugitives at Natchez; and, fearing that Davidton would run short of money, he sent him a $50 note in a letter, and told him if he did not clear out down east with the woman, be would gouge out both his eyes and thrash him within an inch of his life. It is supposed that the happy pair "sloped," as they have not been since beard of by their Illinois friends. OWhen the editor of the Blad ison Banner has the courage (as he no doubt lias the disposition) to follow the example of Riley the deserter, we will promise to meet him "at Fhillipp;," or somewhere else, and endeavor to give him what he deserves. Gisard College. Judge Joel Jones, of Philadel phia, President of the District Court, has been elected President of the Girard College by the Directors of that Institution. Judge Jones u spoken of in the most flattering terms by the press, and the action of the Directora meets wiüi eulogium. Ero. Hall, of the Pharos, is assured that we mail ed him copies of the President's message at the samp time they were sent in other directions north, and that by the same mails.

Correspondence of the Indiana Statt Sentinel. Washington, Dec. 20, 1S17. I have not troubled your columns for two or three weeks past, because 1 apprehended that the Presidents' messages, Governor's messages. Secretary's reports, and such like documents, would be far more interesting and acceptable to your readers, titan any thing that my humble pen might give birth to. I have not, in fact, yet apprised you of the fact that, an illustrious and venerable institution called Congress has, in con

formity with the federal constitution, assembled in a magnificent building, built, of course, with no one' money in this city, for the purpose of protecting the liberties of the people, securing the "general welfare," and receiving at the f and of their government's trea sury, eight dollars for every twenty miles travel, from their respective places of abode to the metropolis. My only apology for this neglect is, that the idea sug gested itself t me that, you might, by chance, hear of it through some other channel. Nothing of interest, you will observe by the pub lished proceedings, has occurred in the Sonate, except that some two very abstract resolutions have becu introduced by Mr. Calhoun: the mere reading of which, seems to give no satisfactory indication of the gentle man position upon the question to which they are ex clusively devoted; unless, indeed, they are to be con strued strictly, as meaning nothing but what they say; in which view, it seems to me they are entirely uncalled for. I have never yet heard any one, of the general intelligence and experience in public affairs that Mr. C. possesses, express a wish for the .".lex -can government to persevere in their blind, bigoted, and dishonest course, until 6he forced us to take and keep her entire territory, in order to obtain that indemnity for the past and security for the future, the attainment of which has compelled us to repel her bloody invasion of our soil. I am of the opinion that no such party exists in this country, or if it does, I have never heard of or read, the speeches or essays of its statesmen or editors: and, if no such party exists, where is the necessity of an expression, on the part of the U. S. Senate, of such sentiments as makeup the South Carolina Senator's resolutions! We may I say, in order to reach indemnity and security, be forced, not by our own lust or desire for conquest, but by the injustice and bad faith of Mexico, to take the whole oralarge portion of her territory, of which, under different circumstances we would rather refue than accept. Where then is the wisdom of our taking a position that might bar us from doing what we clearly see an exigency might force us in self defence to do! But it h 6aid by many here that Mr. Calhoun and his followers are going over to the whigs; especially upon the war questions and issues; that they have given in their adhesion to Mr. Clay's Lexington speech and resolutions; that they iu fact, were participants in the getting up ofthat meeting. I might perhaps, if I had this from a reliable source, give some credit to it; for there is nothing in the step that would be inconsistent with Culhounism; but I have observed so much, and read so much of the man, that I find no reliance can be placed in the assurances that may come from his most intimate friend-; that the only way to find what his course will be, is to wait until he speaks for himself; and, when he docs so, I shall not be at all astonished to see him with the administration, nor a whit m re so, to see him against; even if to be so, he must coalesce with the abolitionistof the north they who, according to his own words, are actually trying to steal his negroes. In the House of Representatives, you will have observed, the subject of interest and debate has been internal improvements introduced by a resolution of the Whigs, creating an additional standing committee on "Commerce between the States," and continued by the receipt of a special message from the President, of considerable length and sound loic, giving his reasons for not approving and returning to Congress at its last session, a bill entitled "an act to continue certain public work in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes;" which, when stripped of its false face, proved to be the "River and Harbor" bill that he had vetoed at the previous cnow:1in

I have read this message carefully and attentively, ! .ilroad and Steamboat Company, for the transport - . fi, i;fiff ,;,kku ...;. tatiou of the great ncrrthern and southern mail be-

ouu a bauuutf avs luv nig v. .uv, nnuiiuiu J .l-1J from its doctrines doctrines broadly laid down, and unanimously adopted by the National Democratic Convention of 1814 a convention whose preamble and resolutions constituted a platform that came up, as I thought, to the very perfection of American Democracy. Some few, but few indeed, of the Wettern Democratic members, feel an apprehension that it may arrest the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi and its various tributaries, and our lake harb.irs. Mr. Pettit, I am told, is the only one from our State who drifts in with this apprehension. I cannot see, for my part, any just ground fr such a fear. Tho owners of sail vessels and steam boats will, without as it were feeling it, cheerfully pay a srmll "tonage duty" to a comaion fund, which, in the aggregate, will amount to a much larger sum annuallv than thev have ever received from the rreneral government lor toe continuation ot tnese improve nntinuation of these improvements, and which will be expended, not for feeding, pampering, and enriching the disbursing officers whose hands it passes through, not for obstructing but improving the rivers and harbors for which their money was paid : and, furthermore, if this class of men have not degenerated largely in their characteristic feeling of manly independence since 1838, when I quit an eight years' brotherhood with them, it will be a source of professional pride to them that they ore no longer begging money from those who have no interest in it, for the purpose of making their improvements, but are doing It with their own. G. W. K. The Legislature. The action of this body, in it panic, has brought upon it the universal jeering of the press at home and abroad. At times, we think they are a little harsh; but " what every body says must be true." We had a New Year's Address on hand, and progressed so fir as to f rbid the expectation of another. An Old Friend, however, who found his musical and poetic talent not yet destroyed by the snows of many winters, and who " likes a bit of fun" occasionally, is re-nerved at the farce, and kindly hands us in one, where, among other subjects, he lights on" the Legislature as follows : Our Legislator, blcingi on their lives, Forsook their home, their bervh, their babet, their wives. And hither came, taid'men, ind wondrous wise, T' enact such laws as YVidom might devise. In grave debate they met came to the chalk, And they did talk, " ye gods, bow they did lalk " ! Alihough no message from bead quirlen came. Still they ccold talk, to them 't was all the same. Where are they now ? Let Echo answer, Where ? The vacant State Home shows that they 'ie bot there. Nought find we in our Legislative balls But empty benches, frigid stove, bare walls. No mote the voire of eloquence is beard Ringing with lofty (trains the vaulted roofs No mora the euiioua lit'ning crowd is cheerM With, of our Seoate's wisdom, doubtless proofs But ill ii filcDf lileot as the gtave i Wbitber have fled our good, our wise, our brave? Alas, that Nature, when she made as men, - Did oot for health tome good provision make ! We should not mi-s our Lrgislatois then. Their p tec ions lives would not have been at stake. But lo. one case of small-pox was io town. Complaint most dangerous ! Some men might catch it. Infections rage through cities up and down, Aod eVn our Legislature could not watch it. They talk'd a day or two the subject o'er, And finally teiolv'd to leave the place. Till danger of infection 's rast, no more We'll of legislator tee the face. But ere they go these very prudent men Must pass an act their mileage to secure T would never do to go and come agen. Unlets their whole expenses weie made sure. O, may their stars protect lhee men Ff.m small-nox and from great Evils which, till they c-m gi", May threaten our lv'd State! Learned Investigation. Professor Agasscz, the great naturalist, in proving his grand position, that man was not only the last creation, up to the present time, but was intended to be tbe last, among other arguments uses the following : "The class of reptiles begins to raise its head ; in the class of birds the head rises still higher; but in Man a position is assumed to which there is no stipenor." If the learned Trofeasor has among his selections the bird called Fenguin, he will perceive that it carrics its head as erect as a pike-staff. A'. 1'. Glihe. Q$-The celebrated Chancellor Kent died recently at New York, at an advanced age.

J "S. K." on the adjournment, in our next.

Congress. Washington, Dec. 20. Senate. Mr. Dix presented a memorial from the officers of the army at Puebla, headed by Generals Scott, Worth and other, praying for the establishing of a retired list of the army; and provision for wid

ows and orphans; and he accompanied the memoria! with appropriate remarks. Mr. Hannegan presented Resolutions lor the estab lishment of a Territorial Government in Oregon. Mr. IM iles presented petitions from citizens of N. II. and Connecticut, in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. Mr. Calhoun's Resolution came up iu order; when he moved to postpone them till tlie first Tuesday of January. Mr. Allen wished to know whether air. Calhoun intended to go against the acquisition of all territory. Mr. Calhouu repl.cd that it was not his intention to involve any other question than that contained in his revolution. The question f the conquest of Mexico, is the real one before the country, and that he should discuss. A debate ensued upon the motion to postpone. It was adopted. Mr. Holmes, of S. C. offered a resolution in the House to call on the Slates to return their portions of the old surplus revenue, of thirty millions, before making any more loans. Washington Citv, Dec. 22. In the Senate, a bill relative to the appellant jurisdiction of the Supreme Court was read the third time and passed. Mr. Cass reported a bill to raise additional troops. In the House a resolution authorizing a committee on printing was adopted Mr. Vinton's resolutions were under discussion when the House adjourned. Washington City, Dec. 23. Senate. The President sent i.i a message transmit ting the report of the Secretary of the Navy, relative to the dry docks, which were ordered to be printed Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, offered a resolution asking information in relation to the number of troops in active service, and the number killed and diseharg ed since the commencement of tRe Mexican War. Mr. Allen announced the death of General Hamer, in a short and appropriate speech, whereupon thecus tomary resolutions were adopted, aud the Senate ad lourned until Monday. llmse. Mr. behenck s resolutions were under dis cussion when the death of Gen. Hamer was announ ced by Mr. Morris in a brief eulogy, whereupon the House adopted the customary resolutions aud adjourn ed until Monday. The ITIails and Che Kai I roads. A friend at Washington writes us as follows: The accompanying bill, reported by "Head him or die" Botts, is a sample uf the legislation which we may expect from the glorious Whig majority in the House of Representatives. Here has ben "old Cave" fighting corporation monopolies and in all in stances lieretotorc has been succesli;l in bringing them to carry the mail on reasonable terms, by firmly resisting their exactions, and causing the mail to be transported by other means. No sooner, however is there a Whig majority in the House, than all his plans of economy are to be thrown overboard, and lhy come boldly to their old friends, asking him (old Cave) to be forced by law to come to their own terms. The poor Locofoco members are called upon to know by guess or intuition that "olJ Cave" is wrong, and that the railroad and steamboat corporations are right. They must vote it blind, and so declare against the judgment of the man placed at the head of the popt office department to guard the public treasury. We shall sec whether the Whig majority will go it blind. This is only the beginning. ARIST1DES. The joint resolution above referred to, provides as follows : "That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized and directed to renew his engagements with the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and I'otomac great tween the city tf Washington and the city of Richniond, at the prices heretofore paid and now offered by said company : and that the said Postmaster General be authorized to allow to the contractors, under the recent arrangement, such an equivalent as, in his judgment, shall be fair and equitable for the discon . tinuance of the routes dispensed with." J A more extravagant proposition could hardly be made. Wc shall see if the Whigs d ire to pass it. Washington, Dec. 18, 1847. (Saturday night.) Edittrs of the Indiana Slate Sentinel : Dear Chats We have had some few clear frosty nijjhts, and some pretty fair moon-shine, but clouds of gloom have rested on every day of this month in the recion of the Capitol ; or, as Mr. thy has it, "the weather is un settled and uncertain." And so it is yet yet with all the speculating here on the subject of the war. These honorable genilemen have spoken all democrats as the reports will acquaint you before you see this. We have Mr. Dickinson from the north, in favor of the annexation of territory, on the basis of the admin istration policy; and we have Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Holmes from tbe south, opposed to it. But these lat ter, while they eeem to act on the platform of Old I alo Alto, are really looking as earnestly to the tri I umph and extension of our institutions aud laws over as inucn "contiguous territory as any body else, Railroads, and printing and preaching are to do tbe work or conquest for tiiem ; and I don t know but out of their propositions there may be developed the 'right at last, ibe Wiltnut Proviso democrats wil easily come into their lead, and the whigs won't ob ject, if they can first manage the game so as to "seem 1 to appear" themselves to have been the originators of ! mi IT 1 1 c ITiifica Ar PanracAntftMiroa Iikwa 1onn n c oiAn I prprr unrL-inrr v of tlm wool; n tA tn-Anv rinnt nil for their government the rules of the last session, with a few modifications, such as the privilege of members to speak either from their places, or from gome point near the Speaker's chair; and a prohibition, that the Speaker shall not entertain a motion to suspend the rules, except Juring the last ten days of the session, and on Mondays of each week throughout. The hour rule (the 33d) is retained. The original report of the select committee on rules determined against the hour rule, and threw it out altogether ; but they had leave subsequently so to tmend their report as to insert the rule with a modification, making it an hour and a half rule. But after debate, the words "and a half" were stricken out, and the original rule was adopted. Messrs. Henley, Rockhill and Wick, of your State, appeared in favor of the rule, tfnd Caleb Smith opposed it with sundry speakers, chiefly whi?, from Otiio, Pennsylvania and V ermont. In this debate, I perceive that Judge Wick has been 4 incorrectly reported in the Union of this night. A few sentences, evidently derived from some frail re- . porter's memory, makes the Judge to oppose the adop tion of the hour rule; whereas he spoke distinctly and for some time in facor of it ; urging its adoption from the consideration, that without its restraint, those "capable of making the best imaginable kind of speeches," being best known to the Speaker, would hramcdiately attain to a sort of monoply of the floor. He supported the rule, and advised the new members to go for it,' if t'.iey ever desired or intended to make a speech there and extending his retnorks, he showed the good effect of the rule iu its operation, not only to the advantage of members collectively, but to the advantage of their constituents at large insisting that "the people generally read the speech of their immediate representative with more favor, respect and satisfaction, than the speech of a much greater man, whom they know nothing about." D. : Responses Great meetings in favor of the war have been recently held at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Columbus. The resolution! were uncommonly able and pointed, asserting the war to be just; that it was begun by Mexico; that it should be vigorously prosecuted, and that no offers of peace should come from this country. The Prnnxykanian asks whether Mr. Clay expected such responses. He has probably contributed to raise the storm will he subdue the whirlwind I Qr"A citizen of Cincinnati is now erecting a olciidif! edifice in tint city, the marble of the entire front of which he shipped from Italy, at a cost of $2OO,0OO. 07"The experiments at the United States arsenal condemn the us of gun cotton as a substitute for gun powder, for fire arms.

Floyd Co u it I jr. At a meeting of Democrats of Floyd county, held

at the court house in New Albaoy, on the 11th inl., Thomas Tiers was called to the chair, John Coletnan and G. H. Nield appointed Vice Presidents, and D. Tiller and H. H. Royse, Secretaries. J. B. Norman, Esq., from a committe appointed for the purpose, reported a series of resolutions which were adopted. Not having room for the whole, we select the following as the mist immediately inter esting. Resolved, That in concluding a treaty of peace, it will be the duty of our government to demand from Mexico a cession of territory, as an indemnity for the expenses of the war forced upon us by the act of Mexico, and in payment of just claims which our citizens have long had against that country. That, whilst we are utterly opposed to the extension of the institution of slavery over any territory now free, we are willing to leave to the present a no future inhabit ants of such territory the decision of this question, btlieving that, while the great end ot obtaining and preserving free territory will be accomplished, the unnecessary agitation of this delicate quustiou will be thus avoided. R;so!red, That we are entirely opposed to the poli cy of withdrawing our army from Mexico, until a treaty uf peace shall be concluded and ratified; that such a course would subject us to the just scorn and derision of the world would be an abandonment of i all the fruits of victory, and an acknowledgment that , we are incapable of finishing a contest which has, been tht.s far so gloriously prosecuted. Resolved, lhat that portion of the President s mes- j sage which urges the propriety of extending the ju-i risdiclion ot the United States, by means of aternto-; rial government, over the provinces of New Mexico and the Californias, meets our most cordial approbation; and that in our opinion such a measure, on the part of Congress, will have the effect, moro than any other, of bringing Mexico to terms. Rcsnhed, That the officers and soldiers, regulars and volunteers, who have achieved the numerous brilliant triumphs on the battle-fields of Mexico, are entitled to the lasting gratitude and admiration fi TI..I !!.--.. T. ' urcii coiinnj men. iiiai our unit yiiiiaiu neu. ijBlie, I as well for his bravery displayed in the battles of L'uena Vista, Huamantla, Allixco, and elswhere, as for his unceasing and successful efforts to wipe out and put to rest the foul calumny officially and otherwipe put forth against the gallant second regiment of Indiauians, deserves the thanks of all who place a just estimate upon the fame of our citizen soldiers, and their sacrifices to their country. Resulted, That we approve of the method of nominating candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency by a national convention, and in no event can we yield our support to any man who does not, fully and unequivocally, pledge himself to the well known principles of the Democratic party. In our opinion the Fourth of July and the city of Cincinnati would be the most appropriate time and place for holding such convention. On motion, the meeting proceeded to appoint dele-' gates to attend the Democratic Slate Convention which is to assemble at Indianapolis on the 8th of January. The following persons were appointed: JSfw Aluany Township. Willitt Bullitt. Patrick Levden, T. B. Walker, E. L. Tavlor, Aug. Bradley, D. W. Mil!er, Win. Hardin, J. B. Winstandlcy, P. M. Kent, II. II. Royse, A. S. Rager, Jas. M. Morris- j son, Wm. L.. Sanderson, A. P. Willard, D. Tiller. J B. Norman, Thomas Gwinn, Green II. Nield, Wm. Shindler, John Coudre, Wm. W. Tuley, Daniel Hip pie, William Uell, Alexander McCartney, Chas. Scholl, Nicolas bpickert, and John I. Monsch. Green tille Township. John G. Girdner. Goo. Collins, Washington Collins, Jolni D. Daniel, T. Akers, Chas. Frederick, Elijahllarman, AlbertGregg, J. W. Clarck, Wm. Engleman, James Enjjle.nan, William Ferguson, A. C. Lamb, Francis Collius, E. Phillipps, C. Bradford, and William Williams. Georgetown luicnship. James Burger, James P. Tyler, W. Hickman, Wm. L. Tyler, Daniel Yena. wine, John Lidicu, Isaac Richards, George Yenawine, James Waltz, Jr., Dr. Catlin, Dennis Hickman. Thomas T. Perkins, and St. Clair B. Fisher. Franklin Township. Luther B. Ulland, I. W. Gunn, Jacob Lafollett, J. M. Farnesly, Gilbert Budd, James Tablr r, John B. Hancock, Jacob Bence, J. Sny der, Daniel farnesly, Stephen Uole, 1'otete Bryant, and Wm. T. Sampson. Lafayette Township. John Coleman, Thomas Piers, John Jones, Peter Vcrnia, B. McNamara, D. Gresham, John J. Green. David Edwards. P. Ouincsv. John McBarron, Eugene O. Daily, O. Byrne, John Scott,! Clement ierrcll, Samuel McCutcheon, Richard Chew, J. Stumler, and Stephen Banny. The Cut of Mexico. What a strange idea one forms of the city of Mexico before seeing it taking ! opinions from the books and correspondence of tour- i ists and, withal, how erroneous. We had pictured i a low, dirty, sickly town, half covered with water j and entirely inundated with mud and other et ceteras , in unison. What was our surprise cn first entering i the Grand Plaza, perhaps the most magnificent in the ! world! There stood the grand cathedral, a moiiu- j ment of art a mine of wealth. There, too, was the palace, indescribable in Its grandeur and extent the red-white-and-green flag of the republic still floating upon it ! There were the Halls of Justice, her palace of the Governor, the long portals where fabrics of every nation are bartered for the products of the country, including its yellow and bright "castins." And there were groves of trees, and murmuring fountains, sparkling in the bright sun like brilliants ! Such temples, such palaces, such portals, s ich almedas, such fountains! God of heaven! what an Eden is this I and how little is it appreciated by the thousands who daily behold and enjoy its beauties ! Governed by good men and inhabited by an educated peopie, ii wouia De me garuen oi me eartn. liul as it is what climoto is more lovely 1 where, as here, do the flowers alway s bloom so brightly ! the birds ever sing so sweetly. Mexico! there are none among your wayward children who can appreciate the gifts that God has lavished upoa them. Health, wealth, and every enjoyment that man can covet are their inheritance; yet they are uot happy. The iron foot of military tyranny has pcourged the land in its length and breadth. Attila boasted that the grass never grew upon the ground trodden by his war horse. Santa Anna can repeat the boast, and no one will eay no. His very name is blight upon his native land. But Mexico begins to hope for better times. Gleamings of peace and discnthralment are already breaking the darkness of her eastern horizon, and daily growing brighter. God speed them. North Americant published in the City of Mexico. A Wat to Spoil a Child Above all mistakes is that of supposing that the better nature of the child is to be drawn out and raised into strength which we should Jis'.re to see in the man, by making him pass through a cold and cheerless youth. The very contrary is the case. A system of petty restraints, of privations, of severe looks and incassant chidings, only results in depraving- the feelings and perverting the reason of a young; person. He is, under such circumstances, entirely out of harmony with nature. He is like a flower, which requires light and warm:h, placed in a cellar where it can never acquire its proper proportions, color or vigor. It is quite impossible that a child so treated can ever attain to the proper characteristics of a well constituted man or woman. The doctrine, -"bight or weong.oc country,'' sanctioned by high autrokitv. An old gentlemkn in Iowa undertook to lecture a volunteer on the character of the war with Mexico. Like our neighbor, he called it a war against God. The volunteer remind ed lum that our arms had always been successful ; that God certainly did not fight for Mexico: The old man was rather at fault ; but at length he stammered out, "Well, it does seem that Providence aids our country, right or urong. "Lou. Dem. . "Dear me, how flucdly he does talk !" said Mrs.Partington recently at a temperance lecture. "I am always rejoiced when he mounts tho nostril, for his eloquence warms me in every nerve and cartridge of i i i; j.,'. t i. Ill jr uuuj tci i cubc iiKii buuiuu l iro iiiuic niiirvi.u than his blessed tonpue is ;" and she wiped her spectacles with her cotton bandinna, and never took her eyes from the speaker during the whole hour he a on the stand. Boston Post. There was quite a large fire at Mayagnez, Torto Rico, on th 14th of November. The sufferings and terror of the people, there, were increased by the occurrence of an earthquake at the same time. Tho damage amounted to over $9,000.

latjcu fko.ii nirjtico. Highly Important Intelligence. The schooner Portia arrived at New Orleans on the 13ih, and the rteamship Virginia on the 14vh, bringing Vera Cruz dates to the Öth instant, aud from the capital to the 26th ultimo. There is no confirmation of the report that Santa Anna was moving upon Queretaro with a force of ltf,000 men. It is now said that although he has gone to that place, he has not over ISO followers. General Anaya was elected President of Mexico on the 11th ultimo. The choice was made on the second ballot. His inaugural address is published in the

Picayune, but we do not find in it any satisfactory clue to his policy, though he is said to favor peace.

The goveriuneut, he says, looks to Congress to mark jeauseu, biso, u ue exv-cuiea me two Mexican omcers, out its policy, and to the States for theirco-operation, ia'cia and Alcalde, who were taken commanding while his own coure will be to unite all efforts in the guerrillas, without having bcn exchanged or reone grand object of saving the independence of the I leased from their parole. The people buried them

Republic. In forming his cabinet, he continued Mara y Viilamil in the War Impart inei.it, and made Pena y fena Secretary of State. Many members of the Congress, displeased with the election of the new President, resigned I heir seats, and retired from Queretaro. There wis, however, sufficient left to form a quorum. One of the first acts of the new administration was to despatch ft commission, consisting of Senors Can to, Atristain and Cuevas, and General Rincon, to the capital, to negotiate with Mr. Inst, the terms ot an honorable peace. Tli order of recall had however reached our commissioner, and as no power existed to treat with the commission, it returned to Queretaro having been referred by Gen. Scott, to the govcrnment at Washington. Senator Otero brought forward his proposition to deprive the LxocuUxe of the power to alienate any part of the territory of the Republic, by a treaty of peace; which the Congress rejected bv a vote of more than two to one. This was considered as a fav orable omen. A proposition was adopted, requiring the govern ment to communicate to Congress the state of the negotiations with the United States, upon the termination of Santa Anna's administration. The Congress, however, refused to order the papers connected with .1 . tlll.lli. Senor Pordijron, in secret session, accused Moray Viilamil, the Secretary or War, with high treason. Party violence and the regard of the Secretary fr the United State are assigned as the causes of this accusation. It is hinted that the Secretary was born at Pensacola. A letter from the capital, under date of the 24th ultimo, contains the following paragraphs : The Governors of the States are still in session at Queretaro, and have proposed two questions to the government, to which they demand clear and peremptory replies : 1st. In what character they have been called together, and will the government submit to their decision. 2d. Will the government make known, with clearness and frankness, the programme of its policy with egard to peace or war. A correspondent of 1 Monitor says that it was understood the Government had answered these questions, by stating that they had been called together solely for the purpose of throwing light upon the subject, tliat the general government Mould be able in some manner to surrender its powers, and that it was more inclined to open or continue negotiations of peace than to prosecute the war. The British charge d'aflairs bad arrived at Queretaro and had taken up his temporary residence in that citv There is no news as yet as to the dissolution of Congress in consequence of the withdrawal of the Puros, but it appears to be universally believed here that there is not a quorum left, and it is said that President Anava has written to General Rincon and several other influential persons, requesting them to repair to Queretaro and confer with him as to what steps he should take in the present crisis. Trouble in the Army. Private advices from the capital state lhat Gen. Scott Las ordered the arrest of Generals Worthand Pillow, and Lieut. Col. Duncan; all of whom are charged with having written letters reflecting upon the commander-in-chief. The Delta publishes a letter from Vera Cruz, dated on the 4th instant, from which we extrart the leIlow mg, touching this matter: General Scott has arrested Pillow and Worth The circumstances which led to this step are believed to be these : Two letters, emanating from the Amen can camp, published in the United States, have been read by Gen. Scott. In an order published to the ar my he prematurely decides who writes them, and most bunglingly impeached the honor, patriotism and ser vices of those two Generals, who are eulogised in those letters. One of the Generals (Pillow) denies, in a card published in Mexico, the authorship of the letter attributed to his pen by Gen. Scott. The other General (Worth) prefers charges against Scott, and Scott arrests him for contempt. Gen. Pillow was arrested because he appealed from an opinion of Scott, requesting the latter to transmit the appeal to the Secretary of War. Scott refused in a hasty manner ; whereupon, the former remarked, "I will do it, sir." "Then, I arrest you, sir," was Scott's reply. So matters stand at last dates. The army is excited, acd if we may judge from what we hear at this distance, more than a moiety of it sympathizes with the Generals sought to be disgraced. It is said that on a visit to the theatre by Gen. Tillow, an audience of over 3000 being present, he received three hearty cheers ; immediately after which the audience gave thiee more for Gen. Worth. This looks as though these Generals were not disgraced in the eyes of the army that same glorious army that has earned for itself the name of "invincible." A Dowx Train. An order from Gen. Scott is published, dated the 24ih, directing the departure of a train from the capital to vera truz, on me 3tn The 1st regiment of artillery constitutes a portion of the escort; and is lo remain at Vera Crux, sending up the 1st infantry in its stead. The following portion of the order indicates what officers and men are to be discharged, and return home with tne train. "No oflicer can be permitted to leave any part of the army, except on application to general headquarters, through the usual channels, beginning with a medical officer's certificate setting forth distinctly that the applicant is not likely, for the reason given, to be fit for duty in the next three months. All wounded and sick officers, not likely to be fit for duty in the next three months, but w ho are able to travel, and desire to return home, will, upon the pro per medical certificates, receive orders accordingly. On arriving at New Orleans, or other port of the United Statt, the officers returning under this order will report, by letter, to the Adjutant General's Office, at Washington, for ('f able) the recruiting service. Sergeants and other enlisted men who have become subjects for honorable discharge by wounds or otherwise, and who are able to travel, will receive their r discharges and be allowed to accompany the first train to Vera Cruz, and tnence receive a iree passage io the United States. Under circumstances as above, officers and men. at Puebla and the posts below, will receive like orders from the respective commarders of departments ; but only in the clearest cases, and each commander will make a special report to show the grounds for the exercise of the authority specially delrgatcd for this occasion only." Subsistence of the Army. Gen. Scott has also issued an order, in pursuance of those recently received from his government, for the subsistence of the American army. It provides that no uncoined bullion, bar or ingots, either of gold or silver, shall be chipped from any port in Mexico, until the further orders of the irovernment at home shall be made known on the subject, so as to give time for said government to fix the rate of export duty on sucn bunion, ana perhaps a smaller duty on gold and silver coins. All rents for houses or quarters, occupied by officers or trops of the army, are to cease with present contracts, and absolutely at the end of one month, after the receipt of the order; and in future, necessary quarters both for officers and troops, where the public buildings are insufficient, will first be demanded, as required, of the civil authorities of the several places occupied by tho troops, so as to equalize the inconvenience imposed upon the inhabitants, and diminish the same as much as possible. If the authorities fail ti put tha troops promptly in possession of ruch quarters, then the commanding officer, in every such case, following out the same principle of giving the least distress practicable to the unoffending inhabitants, will cause the necessary building- to be occupied, oi. f. m tt A ,tl,np tiMvttcr!ia liir t!ii ar : ouuaiairiicc, iui ogu, uuu nv, - j toy, will be paid for as heretofur. The. orders

were communicated to the municipal authorities of the capital. Movements of troops. The large train under Gen. Butler, had nearly all left Vera Cruz. It numbers about WQJ men. and will increase Gen. Scott' effective force to 30,000. The train under Gen. Marshall, consisting of one of the Tennessee regiments, a battalion of infantry, volunteers and regulars, and th Georgia battalion of mounted men, numbering 170 rank and file, was on the eve of its departure from Vera Cruz. The train under Gen. Patterson Uft Jalapa on the 25th ultimo. He left six hundred men to garrison the place. Before his departure he hunr two Ameri-

:can teamsters for the -nurder of a Mexican boy. He . - with great pomp and ceremony. Dattlks with the UcerriLlas. On the 8th ultimo. Gen. Lane followed and attacked, near Puebla, with a force of infantry, and the cavalry commanded by Col. Roberts, a party f Uuerrilla who had captured a mer chant train. Seventeen of the latter were killed, in a charge made by the cavalry, and 13 officers taken prison er. Ainsi i me property waa recovered. A party of Louinia n volunteers were surprised near San Juan, by a party of guerilla; two ot tlie-n killed, and two severely wounded. A mounted force waa sent out after Iba depredators. A detachment ot mounted men, guarding some provisions, fell in with a guerrilla party near the same place; killed two, and took ten prisoners A small force, under Lieut. Crittenden and Denman, surprised a party of guerrillas near Vera Cruz, on the 5th inst., and killed twelvt of their number. Their haunt was perfectly broken up. Miscellaheocs Items. At laut accounts, Gen. Filisola waa at Uuervtaro with a force ol 2,000 men. Bustamente waa at Guanajuato, with an army of 9,000. A pronuiiciamento having been made by the military at Queretaro in favor of Santa Anna, he engaged sixty men, and paid them in advance, to accompany him from Tehuacan to that city; but they pockcied the pay and deserted him. He then ordered the commander of tha forces in the State I Vera Cruz, Gen. Marin, to send him an escort, which the latter reluctantly did, but immediately sent his resignation to the government. Santa An na wa to leave l ehuacan on the 22J fur Queretaro. He still claims the right f command. He avows hostility to the Mexican government, and a determination to oppose any negotiations tor peace while American forces occupy anv portion of the Mexican territory. mo peopie oi urizaoa nna ooraova were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Americans, who were ri ported to be on their march from Jalapa to those places, to freelhem from the yoke of guerrilla bandittis, who threat en their property and thoir lives. A private letter from Vera Cruz, dated the 7th instant. states that six American soldiers arrived that day from Cordova, where they had been confined as prisoners. They had been captured on the road to Mexico from diflerent trains. 1 hey were released by Gen. Marin, who was on his way t Vera Cruz to establish himself in business. He has abandoned the Mexican army and is desirous of earning an honest livelihood, it is said. 1 he Arco Iris says that I adre Jsrauta is about to return to operate in the neighborhood of Vera Cruz, and that his band has been reinforced with three hundred men from the interior, who are at the expense of the Marquis da Jamal. Gen. Scott had intimated to the editor of the Mexican paperat tho capital, (El Judio Errante,) lhat if he continued the publication of articles calculated to create disturbances, he would stop the publication of Ins paper and cause the printing materials to be sold for the benefit of the poor. I adre Martin (the second Jarauta) waa made prisoner. while sleeping in one of the garitas of Mexico. The Indiana have made an incursion into the State of San Luis Potosi, and approached very near ihe capital. A detachment of American soldiers quartered at Medellin, started on the night of the 4th inst. to join a ball in the village. As they approached the place, thev were fired upon by a black guerrilla. They returned the fire, killing six, and wounding ten, of whom one afterwards died. A detachment of 14 men had arrived atVeia Cruz from Puebla. They brought qo news. They were not molested on the road, and report all things quiet on the route. From the Illo Grande. Mala moras dates are to the 4 lb. instant. A lot of merchandize had been captured by some robbers on tbe road to Monterey, notwithstanding the conductor bore a pais from Canales. Gen. Wool has issued an order that any American paying duties to Canales, or any other robber chief, will be dealt with as a traitor; and any Mexican or foreigner, so doing, will have his goods confiscated. Goods were said to be quite plenty in the interior, and prices low. We have conversed freely, says the Picayune, with a distinguished officer who has for a long time been on the line of Ihe Rio Grande, and has just returned. He tells us thai there were rumors that the Mexicans designed to take advantage of Gen. Taylor's absence, to make a descent upon Saltillo and the line of the Rio Grande. Ha had been assured by an intelligent man that Filiaola waa in command ol a large force at tan Luis o or 1 0,000 men, while Minon had two thousand cavalry near at hand operating with him. The rumored purpose of the Mexicans was tor Minon to come out by the Linares pass to China, while, with Ihe main body of his troops, Filisola should fall upon Saltillo. Our informant says that, in the departure of Gen. Taylor, the Mexicans feel as if our hole army had withdrawn, such was the terror of his name among them. Inclined as they are to strike a blow in his absence, he still thinks they have no such army in the field as the above named; and even if it be so, it will be impossible to surprise Gen. Wool, who is ever on the alert. lie has no doubt that any attack on General Wool would prove disastrous to the Mexicans. From the N. O. Delta of the 14. La I or from Yucatan. The Free Amerxean of the 7ih inst., has the following late accounts from Cain peachy: Late from Campe achy. Oy the arrival yesterday of the Yucatan sehr, llafaele, we have received intelligence from that section of the Mexican territory, up to the 29ih ultimo. A battle had been fought on the IClh of November, between Col. Zetina'a revolutionary forces, 1,800 strong, and Uozado's, 1.C00 strong; in which the latter gained a complete victory, aud took four pieces of artillery from the former. Zetina made the attack on the city of Valadolid, and the action lasted three hcurs. Helo?l?0 men killed, among whom were three officers. He and his defeated troops retired in disorder, and look the road to Espita and Tizimin. The Governor of Yucatan (Mendez) was, on the 29th, on his way to Maxcanu, in company with Oarbachano, (the person whom the insurgents wanted for their Governor,) to check the revolution of the Indians against the whites. This revolution having taken a more alarming aspect since the pronunciamento of Zetina, as the whites are fighting among themselves. These Indians, numbering upwards of 5,000, under the command of a renowned chief by the name of Pratt, made an attack on ihe 27th ult.,on the town of Tijsoco, whose inhabitants, united with those of the neighborhood, made a stand against the Indians, and fired upon them during 26 hours; after which time, hating no. ammunition, they were compelled to retreat, with their women and children, and took a position on the road to Texas. The population of Tijosuco amounts to about 6,000, and that town was entirely left in ihe possession of the Indians. Since this successful affair for the Indians, eight towns have united to them, raising their number, it is said, to 15,000 men. It is said lhat they draw their arms and ammunition from the town of Walice. The inhabitants ol Tecaz, Merida, etc., wore much alarmed, and fears were entertained f r the security of those towns, which were destitute of troops, and all necersary means of sustaining a war. The inhabitants of the country were awaiting with great anxiety the arrival of Com. Perry, and Ihry looked upon him aa sola protector of their lives and property. Commerce in Cainpeachy waa paralyzed, and Ihe cultivators have all abandoned their farms. The city was, however, tranquil, though it had been obliged by the gov-ernm-ht lo furnish men to attack Zetina. A company of foreign merchants had been raised to maintain order. Hereditary Suicide. Dr. Gall relates the cae of a Mr. Gaulier, owner of several warehouses in Paris, and ho left to his seven children a property of two millions of francs. They all resided in Paris and its environs, where they lived upon their property, which some of them had considerably increased by fortunate speculation. Not one of them was visited by any material disaster, and all enjoyed perfect he&hh. They were all high'y esteemed by their friends and neighbors; yet all of them labored u -der an inclination to commit suicide, to which they yielded in the course of thirty or forty years some hanged, some drowned, and others shot themselves. The last but one, invited on a Sunday, party of sixteen persons to dine with him. Wlicn dinner waa served, ihe host was sodden, ly missing, ond having been searched for everywhere in vain, was dicovered hanging in a barn. The hut of the seven, w ho was the owner of a house in Ilia Rue de Richelieu, having raised it by twoatoricp, conceived that the expense had ruinrd him; three time he attempted to destroy himself but was prevented; however, he at last Bucceedttr in blowing out bis brains, and his fortune was said to amount to 3(.U,(X'0 (nuc.Miücpger on Mind and MalUr.

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