Wabash Express, Volume 11, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 October 1852 — Page 1

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DAVID 8, DAKALDSOH, Proprietor,

WHOLE NO. 564.

Prom tb« National Intelligencer.

WINFIBLD SCOTT.

HIS LIFE AS A COMMAHDBB.

THE MEXICAN WAR—SCOTT PLACED IN COMMAND. We come now to that great and brilTiant series of millitary operations the daring, and it may well be styled romantic, expedition against the city of Mexico, which, by its bold conception and admirable execution, must place the name of WI.VKIKLD SOOTT among the first in modern warfare for consummate soldiership. The facts, however, are so recent, so fresh in the memory of many in all parts of our country who shared in them, thai we shall have less need io relate them with any minuteness.

In the very outset of the war, the brave Gen. Taylor and hi® gallant army had won a succession of victories, which, while they gave great reputation to our arms, placed us in possession of the Mexican territories, OR that side, an far as Tampico on the coast, and Sallillo in the interior. Stockton and Fremont had seized upon Upper California, with little resistance Kearny upon New Mexico with less and Wool and Doniphan were marching unopposed over wide and worthless regions. But these acquisitions (the gold oi California being yet undiscovered) promised us nothing but a terrible expense of troops to maintain them, as long as the war lasted and as they had always been burdensome to Mexico, their loss was little likely to make her wish for peace. In short, our Government began to perceive that the war threatened to become a long and a ruinous one for that it could only be finished by striking at the central seat of the Mexican power and this there seemed no hope of reaching with any of our armies. It was in this state of things that General Scott undertook to show them that there were resources in the art of war by which a great leader could penetrate to the very capital of our adversary, and from "the Halls of Montezuma" dictate a peace.— At first they looked on 1m whole idea as a mere dream but it was not long before Scott made them see that it couul he realized. They then adopted it and entrusted its execution to him: for they well knew that nobody else was capable of it. Hut, warned by the triumphs of Gen. Taylor, which had raised them up a rival for the Presidency, they determined, in employing Scott, to guurd against any addition to his already dangerous renown, by setting over him a Democratic LieutenantGeneral. This purpose, however, they took care to conceal until he was gone upon the expedition and, happily. Congress refused to adopt the idea of the lieutenantgeneralship. The latter, then, proceeded to the scene of operations pissing by way of the Rio Grande and Itimpico to the isle of Lubos where his troops were to be collected and leaving his ordnance and other materials of war to follow him to Vera Cruz. There, by the 0th of March. 1047, his whole fleet of transports arrived, and took station at Anton Lixardo, twelve miles south of the city. On the 7th. the General, accompanied by his chief officer* and those of our squadron* examined the shore in the little steamer Petri la, and fixod on a point about three miles south of the citv for the. landing. HE LANDS NEAR VERA CRUZ

LAVS SIEGE TO IT, TAKES IT. There have been few enterprises, for many centuries, like that of our great captain none so daring, except that of Cortex. That of Lepanto, and that of the invinciblo Armada were failures Bonaparte's against Egypt was far more nu luerous, aud at last defeated. The Franch have been the teachers of war to the mod «rn world but their expedition against Al giers in 183 ), while much larger, and of far longer preparation, Was every wav exceeded by Scott's, He surpassed his teachers. They, under much more favorable circumstances, threw ashore.in aday, but 9.000 men he, 12,000. They lost, by accidents in the ojieration, near forty men he, not one. Nothing was ever bet ter managed. It was, indeed, so well done as to prevent all opposition by the enemy. He obtained the first great point —a foot hold for conquer—without strik ing a blow. Th« second—the capture of Vera Crux and its great castle—was ac complUhed wiUi equal ability, almost without Toss, in a surprisingly short time and yet, with scarcely half the means of attack which the Government was to have sent him, he landed his troops on the 9th, invested the city at all points by the 12th: on the l8tb. though delayed for five days by a storm which rendered impossible tlie

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ter. His forward movement was in three divisions: the foremost that of General Twiggs Patterson's followed on the 10th Worth'8 on the 12th. Of an opposing force of the enemy they had only vague accounts. On the 9th. Scott had learned that President Santa Anna was at Jalapa, with 6,000 men but until he came in front of him at Cerro Cordo did not suppose his army above 4,000 strong.

But on the 14th, when he arrived at the little village of Rio del Plan, where lay Twiggs's division ready to attack and certain to have been defeated, he soon ascertained that the Mexican forces were before him, 15,000 strong,in what seemed an almost impregnable pass, the natural advantages of which, increased by many artificial defences, appeared to defy all direct attack, while a direct attack was thought the only one possible. So judged Santa

Anna, no unskilful foe, and rested secure. But Scott soon undeceived him. Waiting for his rearmost division (that under Gen. Worth) to come up, he meantime looked into all the possibilities of his adversary's position, and found that a way (though narrow and rough) could be opened through the rocks and lulls on the enemy's left, and that by this he might send a force into Santa Anna's rear, and at once carry his positions and cut off his retreat. Accordingly, Worth having joined him at midnight on the lGth, Scott made on the 17th all his dispositions for the morrow's attack, and issued that remarkable general order in which lie may be said to have exactly described in advance the next day's battle. Already Twiggs's division (including Smith's brigade and supported by Shields':*) had been pushed forward by the new path, and seized the Telegraph hill, in order to batter from it the enemy's chief position, the crest of Cerro Gordo. To mount our batteries on the Telegraph and another across the river on the enemy's right for raking their lower range of batteries (17 pieces) heavy guns were that night, with prodigious labor, dragged and lifted up by hand. Well, at dawn on the 18th, the movements begin. Twiggs advances upon the hill of Cerro Gordo Shields is thrown sill further forward, to take possession of the road beyond the pass, in the enemy,s rear Pillow's division attacks the lower range of batteries, rather with the view of alarming than of taking them while Worth's division is held in reserve, with the dragoons and light artillery. On all sides the fight was fierce and long: but as nothing could resist the American ardor, all the enemy's positions are stormed nnd carried: 3,000 of the enemy, including five generals, are cut ofl' and surrender the rest of their army is either killed or broken up and pursued 43 line pieces of bronze cannon, 5,000 stand ol arms, all their military stores, 7 standards, and Santa Anna's military chest fell into our power and while our total loss, in the two days of fighting, was but 431, in killed and wounded, the adverse force was annihilated, an indefinite number was destroyed, and the way to Mexico's capital left open for really, in Scott's own words, "She had no longer an army."

CAPTURE OF JALAPA, PEROTE, AND PUEBLA. The admirable battle of Cerro Gordo filled not only the American but the European world with astonishment, and gave a noundless idea of not only the valor of Our troops but the military genius of their leader. It might well do so, for the victory was scarcely as brilliant as it was decisive. Puebla fell at once the strongly fortified pass of La Iloya was abandoned the powerful castle of Perotc, one of the bulwarks of Mexico,surrendered, with all its cannon and stores and the great town of Puebla, of which the wild and fertile valley was the destined granary and garden of temporary repose for our men, lay at our mercy. Of this last point, possession was taken on the 16th of May. From it, with scarcely an intervening place of resistance, was within reach of the grand final scene of Scott's operations^—the great and beautiful vale of Mexicg, its lakes, fortresses, castles, entrenched camps, and Convents those dangerous causeways, of whose difficulties Cortes got such a taste of old and, lastly, the splendid old city itself. But Scott could not at once proceed to the attack his effective force, cut doWa by battle, disease, desertion, the dismissal of volunteers whose term of service was running out, and the garrisons of necessity left behind, was now shrunk to less than five thousand. It would have been madness not to wait for reinforcements, as it would have been folly to ca»ry forward to the desperate fights which he knew lay before him either unwilling volunteers, or. without a previous training, the fiesh recruits that were to come up.— Besides, like Gen. Taylor, he had served his county too well." Him he had been sent to eclipse but he had eclipsed him too much, and turned upon himself the rt^r jealousy.

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Cruz, brought forward all his garrisons, and turned his army, as he said, into a "self-sustaining machine." On the 7th August he sent forward his first division for the Mexican vale. The others followed on the 8th, 9th, and 10th. From that day to the 13th tbey all entered the plain. TURNS LAKE CHALCO: VICTORY

AFTER VICTORY: TAKES THE GREAT CITY. The direct approach tc the capital by the national road offered the greatest difficulties, natural and artifici^ ^f any.— Quitting it, therefore, outside ran^e of these more formidable defeit wMiich would have cost the lives of to. ^ny of his brave and beloved soldiers, he retraced his steps from El Penon, (near to which he advanced,) repassed Ayotla, and from Buena Vista made his way, through many difficulties, around Lakes Chalco and Xochomilco, to San Augustin, on the more assailable but still very strong southern side of the city. This unexpected maoeuvre and march began on the 15th and was accomplished by the 18th of August. It avoided the main preparations of the enemy struck at his weakest point brought our army within nine instead of fifteen miles of the city, and gave us a better, field of action. Here, at once, Scott began, with a total force of less than 11,000 men, to let loose, in a series of admirably caculated battles and maoeuvres, the whole art of war, in assailing and beating, amidst all their advantages of fortified positions, an enemy of about thrice his numbers. First of all came the strongly defended village of San Antonio, approachable only by a long causeway.— It Scott turned on the 19th. by cutting a way through a field of lava, (a peilregal) fell on the fortified camp of Valencia in its rear, and in the battle of Contruras, on the 20th, cut to pieces his 7,000 men and made 2,000 prisoners, in sight of Santa Anna's force of 12,000. Upon this, the position of San Antonio fell at ouce and was evacuated, making the second point carried that niorniiitf. In the afternoon the three several baltles of Churubusco—those of the Tele du ponl, (bridge-head.) of the Cas-tle-Convent of San Pablo, and of the plain of Churubusco, agaiust Santa Anna in person— were fought and won, with a destruction of near one-naif of the entire Mexican army and of aft their outer range of defences. Nothing was left them but the Castie of Chapultepec, the Molino del Key, and the fortified city-gates, to protect the capital. Their loss in nieu was thus far at least 12.000 ours, rather more than 1,000. The city could probably, in the terror and confusion of such dreadful defeats, have been taken by storm that night. So thought Scott but the Government had placed with him a commissioner, and duty not less than humanity (the twoeverhis great leading-stars) commanded that ho should listen to overtures. These came the next morning, and he consented to an armistice, for Mr. Trist to try the virtue of negotiation. It failed, however, on the 6th. On the 7th, Scott put an end to the armistice, and prepared for further fight. He was now at Tacubuya, within two-and-a-half miles of the gates of Mexico his advance on the causeway to which was commanded and raked by the batteries of the strong castle of Chapultcpec. These, therefore, were first to have their mouths stopped and, as lying before and connected with it, the Molino del Rey and Casa Mata (strong works, in which were now drawn up the remainder of the Mexican army) were to be taken. They were accordingly attacked on the 8th by Worth's division, and carried, after the bloodiest conflict of the whole war, and much loss on our side, but a greatly heavier on the enemy's. This was followed on the 13tl», after much inancuuvring aud rcconnoitering, by the cannonading and capture of Chapultepec, which may be said to have been the finishing blow of the war. On the morrow, the Mexican Government aud President Santa Anna, with about 2,000 men, the miserable wreck of the army of near 33,000 with which he had legun the defence of the great valley, took to Alight by one gate, while Scott entered by the other aud the famous "Halls of Moutezuma" were won 1 An explojt of military genius in the commander, and of valor in his soldiers, such as History can scarcely parallel, was accomplished. The rest is easily told. We wish only it could all be told without a blush for those who theif jroverned our country. Mexico could resist no further: a peace was speedilv made, it may be said, on our own terms. While H*e Commissioners were negotiating this peace, he whose arms had conquered it became for the time, of necessity, not merely the military master, but the civil ruler of all that be had subdued. In this capacity he presently showed himself as fit to govern a country as to lead an army.—

HiTvictorio»is troops, by him disciplined all along not less to humanity than to valor, were made, even in the midst of a {treat and rich city, to respect the property and the persons of the inhabitants. Their religious opinions, (though not Gen. Scott's, for he was piously bred up as an Episcopalian and has been such through life,) were respected, as was right, and no further. They were treated like brothers. Their laws were, of course, abrogated but-Scott gave them, what they had never seen before, justice, order, security—benefits so new to thera, that, before he left them, they offered hint the supreme authority if lie would remain among them. But he loved better to be even an injured citizen of hi* own country than the sovereign of another and. and taring d^frn bis authority, at the command of fiis Government, arrested, broken in health, and, as far as those at Washington could inflict dishoWbif, disgraced, he repaired home, to be put on trial, in order thai, if possible, something might be found in his conduct to destroy his popularity and rob him of the admiration anil affection of the people. We need not add that the attempt failed, nor that old Lewistown *nd Chippewa and Kiaosra—he of Vera Cras, and Cerro Gordo, and oontrem, and Churnbusco, and Chapoltepec, who had beaten all the enemies that ever came before him, was not to be laid low at home and os great tercarrrjng forward oar national standard to so many wonderful triumphs. (ftirfiitrf

''ML ih -4-.fe.ttw4 It won't do* when riding in Jr stage conch, to talk of another man whom yon have sot personally seen, as being an "all fired scoundrel ,'r until yoa are absolutely sore thai he is not sitting before yoa.

It won't do when snow-drifts are pfied op moostahi high, sad sleighs are eteraally upsetting, to ride out with a beautiful, lively. Fascinating gui. and not expect to get "smashed** with her. =—=—=vVt

It won't do for man, when a horse kicks bin, to kick back al th« bors^ io rettLTD.

It won't do to crack jokes on old mi&is the presence ol aaraarrMd ladies who have passed the age.of forty.

THE TSSTQIOST

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TERBE-HAUTE, -INDIANA, OCTOBER 13,1852/

General Seott and the Treasury. Mr. MERRIWETHEB, the short-term Senator from KENTUCKY, and his coadjutors of the DEMOCRATIC press, hare arraigned Gen. SCOTT for having received a certain allowance from the Government in aid of his expenses during a trip to Europe in 1816, when he was charged with important public negociations.

On looking into this matter, we find, aa we find in all directions when we examine General SOOTT'S character and transactions, new testimony to his deserts. Had it not been for the attack of these DEMOCRATIC worthies on General SCOTT, it is probable that the following letter from JAMES MONROE would not have fallen uuder our eye.

Let those who say that Gen. SCOTT has rendered no "civil services," read the document, and circulate it among their neighbors

James Manroe to Mojwr General Scott.

WASHINGTON.June 13, 1816'.

DEAR SIR:—It is decided to settle your claim on the Government on the principle established by the Department of War, before your departure for Europe, in such manner that you may sustain no loss by depreciation of paper or unfavorable exchange. As soon as you designate a person to act for you, the account will be settled.

Your communications while abroad were very interesting. The opportunities which you had of deriving information from military men of high rank, especially in the Prussian army, of the views of the several powers, at a crisis the most important and extraordinary that has occurred in modern times, were peculiarly favorable and it gives me pleasure to state that the ZEAL AND JUDGMENT with which you improved them for the ADVANTAGE OF YOUR COUNTRV, GAVE GREAT SATISFACTION.

I am, with great respect and esteem, very sincerely yours. (Signed) JAMES MONROE.

Major General SCOTT. =====

The California School Mistress. A year or two ago a party of about one hundred and twenty persons started from St. Louis over the plains for California.— Among the number were several Methodist ministers accompanied by their wives and children. There was also a young lady who had been teaching school for some time before, and she felt that she could be of some use in planting education among the children of the gold diggers: so she paid her two hundred dollars, the price charged for the journey in a covered wagon, with every comfort provided for her on the way. Her brother, before she started, offered her fifteen hundred dollars to set up a milliner shop there, but she stuck to her love of teaching, and refusing that sum, applied her own hard earnings, all she had, to carry out her purpose. Upon arriving at Sacramento, she commenced teaching a school at one hundred dollars a month, and made fifty dollars more a month besides by giving lessons to families. This was eighteen hundred dollars a year. She saved a thousand of it, most, of which she sent home to her father, and at the end of the year she married a respectable merchant from Boston, then doing business in California, worth about thirty thousand dollars. Now here is a woman <as is> a strong minded woman, and we will venture that she never thought of a Bloomer costume in her life, nor went about complaining of the wrongs of woman, or any thing of the sort. We wish her God speed and that she may be the matron and educator of a host of

little Californians.—CIN. COM. =====

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A SNAKE STORT—BUT TRUE.—One of our most respectable citizens, residing withift the corporate limits of the city, has related to us that two years ago a small green snake was discovered on his grape arbor by some member of the family. It was not disturbed or molested in any way. Little Snaky seemed to understand and appreciate this exemption from the curse pronounced against the serpent tribe, and has ever since continued its habitation in the arbor. During this time it has grown to qnite a respectable length, and become domesticated, and recognises at once any member of the family allows itself to be carressed and in gathering grapes has not nnfrequently to be pushed out of the way. But let a stranger approach it, and at once it manifests displeasure, and will allow no familiarity. "This is every word true.— Savannah JTetes.

Foreigners not Allowed to Vote. In 1838 the Locofocos of Concord, New Hampshire, apprehending some danger at the ensuing municipal election, thought to some votes by gfantingthe elective chise to foreign-born inhabitants, whether naturalized or not Of the twen tv-three who voted, seventeen voted the Whig ticket. This inflamed the Democracy to such a pitch that they passed an act which declared. "That

alien shall be

entitled to vote at anv town meeting. "Approved, July 4.1838.

ISAAC HILL"

So thait in New Hampshire-—the genuine Democratic New Hampshire, foreigners are treated worse than negroes,awho ate allowed to vote and hoid djiae.

oy AX Opfoxwrr.—The

Hew York Herald is among the most strennoas opponents of Gen. Soott'* elec» tkn to the Presidency but fht editor does justice to the General's public and private reputation. He says: "For tbe evirate reputation, of Genend Scott, as wait ac for bis military character, we have always had the highest regard and veneration. Be is a Wo—the jink of Ion and. as a geotfemaa without stain or blemish." This is the acknowledgment of

me in the ranks of Democracy, supporting the principles nnd .measures, that were professed and acted upon in the administration of a Jefferson, a Madison, and a Jackson, and such men as will carry their principles and measures into effect."

The position Mr. Picrce has ever occupied, in Congress or any other public station, in reference to questions vital to Western prosperity, has been antagonisticnl to those which were advocated and dearly cherished by those eminent statesman whose election to the Presidency I most heartily and cordially advocated. They taught, and I have always believed, that the Constitution vests in Congress the power to open and repair harbors and remove obstructions from navigable rivers and that it was expedient that Congress should exercise such powor whenever such improvements are necessary for the common defense—for the protection and facility of commerce with foreign nations or among the States—said improvements being national and general in their character. I understand Mr. Pierce to superadd to the above doctrine, a proviso to the effect, that the waters on which these improvements are proposed to be made shall be salt and that they shall be moved by tides. He has, in effect, declared that the depth of waters to be improved, nor their capacity for trade among the Stales, forms no criterion for a just demand upon federal protection. Mis political history as collected from his action in Congress, no less than from his letter to the Committee of the Convention, accepting his nomination to the Presidency in the terms set forth in the platform, furnish evidence of his hostility to all the prominent measures which tend to Western prosperity, of which internal improvements and domestic industry are the most important.

My "sympathies''' have always been with honest men. and with genuine, oldfashioned Democracy. I am not a progressive Loco-Foco. and the Editor of The Reporter ought to know the difference that I believe exists between the doctrines of Democracy and those of Loco-Focoism, for sometime since I repeated to him, in substance, the following: "The advocates of true Democracy always act with pore and upright motives, and in the selection of men and the adoption of measures, they strive for such as are calculated to enhance the welfare of the whole country and the great mass of the people. Honesty, faithfulness, and unswerving integrity, as well as enlarged capacity, hare ever been considered as essentials upon the part of their officers, and no true Democrat should ever knowingly support such as do not possess these qualifications. On the contrary. Loco Fo coism selects such men and «uch measures as will insure

two fishes."

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GOV. LUCAS FOB SCOTT.. forms are considered as unfit to be the re* Hon. IIOBERT LCCAS, formerly Demo- jcipients of public flavors. eratic Goreroor of Ohio, and afterward Trusting that my petition and[ views •. may be fully understood, and with the of Iowa, where he now resides, has dewarmfiSt

clared for SOOTT and GRAHAM. In his friends of Western improvements, and for suitable protection and encouragement to American Industry,

letter announcing this fact, he says: I supported Thomas Jefferson for the Presidency. I supported Mr. Madison two terms, Mr. Monroe twice, and was one of the electors in Ohio that voted for Monroe at the time of his second election. In 18S4 I was placed at the head of the Jackson electoral ticket in Ohio 1828 was Splendid Eruption of Etna. chosen an elector in that State, and gave 8 P. M., of the 20th of August, a my vote as such, for Gen. Andrew Jack-1 party of English, with three guides, three son. muleteers, and a servant, together with

I was President of the Democratic Na- eleven mules, left Nicolina, with an intional Convention at Baltimore in 1833, tention of ascending Mount etna, and t*which nominated Gen. Jackson for re-elec- king shelter at the Casa Inglese. At tion. and that recommended Martin Van eleven o'clock the party, in excellent spirBuren as a candidate for Yice President. its, reached the Bosco, where they put on on the same ticket I supported Mr. Van their light clothing. Buren for the Presidency in '36 and '40.! Passing the Bosco about two miles, the I voted for Gen. Cass in 1848. and should huge crater below Etna, called the Colossi, freely vote for him again were he a candi- 'glared awfully, and shortly threw up large date. These are so many proofs of my bodies of fire and smoke. Immediately title of Democrat. This title has been Etna vomited forth its fire and ashes, and well earned, and my right to it shall never as the winds set towards the Casa Inglese, be impaired. But I cannot support Frank- it was not prudent to seek its friendly lin Pierce, by word or deed for the impor- shelter, as in all probability it would be tant office of President, consistent with destroyed their course was, therefore, principles, which I have ever, as a Demo- changed, the Colossi being noi^ the point crat entertained, nor with the voluntary to which it was directed. »,i

pledges that I made to the Democratic The weather, which had been very cold Convention of Ohio, which nominated me] was increasing in its comfortless intensity, in 134, as a candidate for re-election to (and when our travelers had got above the the office of Governor of that flourishing height of the Casa Inglese, a narrow deState these pledges being as follows: file, of which sand and a small lava were

My motto has ever been, principles, component parts, they were overtaken measures and men that will carry principles .by

ane/ measures into effect-and you mav rest! seven mules and their riders were assured, that whatever may be my station

or situation in life, you will always find the same more tern lie, it was afterwards found they were blown to the very edge of the crater. For the gentlemen to descend in search of their companions was the result of a moment's decision.

As a Western man, therefore, and as an original Jackson Democrat, as a friend to Internal lmpruvements,and to the protection and encouragement of American industry. I cannot and I will not support such a man as Franklin Pierce for the Presidency. And, as there is now but two prominent candidates before the American people—namely, Gen. Winfield Scott and Franklin Pierce—one of whom will necessarily be elected the next President, I shall most cheerfully and freely give my vote and influence to Gen. Scott. I believe him by far the best Democrat of the two, and one whom every friend to the West particularly, and to Internal Improvements, and to the protection and promotion of American industry, onght. to prefer, and to cordially support.

wishes for the success of the

I remain truly, Your obedient servant, ROBERT LUCAS. To S. M. BALLARD. Iowa City, Iowa.

At this time the scene was indesenbably grand—heaven and earth presented one magnificent glare of light —Etna above vomiting its sulphuric flames, the Colossi below belching forth its dense masses of smoke, lurid from the furnace below, the huge mountain pouring out from its interior prolonged moanings, without the hurricane roaring in all its mighty and awful majesty. Crawling on their knees and hands, unable to face the violence of the hurricane, the gentlemen sought the ladies, who were not discovered and collected together till after a search of 30 minutes. They were then placed under columns of lava, their light clothing literally blown off their backs, and a pyramid of living beings was formed around them for their safety and protection.

As by magic the scene suddenly changed. An earthquake shook the land. Up jumped the guides, bawling their unmusical avanti! avanti! (go on, go!) mules broke from their keepers, and were abandoned to their fate, tne hurricane increased in strength the scene around was too magnificent for contemplation, loo diversified for description—in ten minutes the little party had fallen from sheer exhaustion on the pointed lava. To face the wind-charged sand and small stones was beyond power. In this manner two hours passed away, and most anxiously did they look for the approach of dawn.

Within the crater, which some of the party had courageously examined, forty small furnaces were burningawfully these as they reached Catania, seemed to amalgamate, one vast issue appeared to carry destruction to some villages and pasture lands, which, as reported, have been seriously injured.

Often has the indomitable courage of the softer sex, when tested, been proved to be greater than that of man. Nothing on this occasion could equal their more than heroism.

ADVERTISING.—Barnum,

who bought his

Museum in New York, ten or twelve years ago, when he was not worth a dollar, and who is now a ••millionaire." thus sets forth the way to make money:

Advertise your business. Do not hide your light under a bushel. Whatever your occupation or calling may be, if it needs support from the public, advertise it thoroughly and efficiently, in some shape or other, that will arrest public attention. I freely confess that what success I have bad in life may fairly be attributed more to the public press than to nearly all other causes combined. There may possibly be occupations that do not require advertising, but I cannot conceive well what they are. Men in business will sometimes tell you that they have tried advertising, and that it did not pay. This is only when advertising is done sparingly and grudgingly. Hofmepathic doses of advertising will not

advocates pay. perhaps—it is tike a half portion of to the lead-1 physic making the patient sick, hut e6ect

ers the seven principles referred to by John leg nothing. Administer liberally, and C. Calhoun, to-wit: "The five loaves sad the cure will be

sure and permanent.

To-day, to-morrow, the end of the

TCHJBT»

The tried and faithfiri Democrats they discard unless they will, at the dictation of King Caucus, make party spirit and hand. And why should we fisar U? W« party discipline, the ne pLe ultra of

thousands,

then-

princtptes, standing ready at the word ofa* times, from the great cathedral above party comipcnd to advocate any and emery {us, we can hear the organ and the chantto secure the spoils sf office, not ing cfeo^n we «ee the light stream through IheedW the daiaaof Itnesaof tried and:the ope# door, whes some friendgoeaup 1 faithful public servant*. Tbey substitute befbtfe us and shall we fear to mount the tot conSZtoc*. 1»«! narrow uaircue of A. g»... t!at iaad eatahlishad oaagesof their country, 1st out of this uncertain twilight to the and all wfowill not sustain these ptat- serene mansions of hie eternal.—Movoatah.

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walk here, aa it were in the crypts of iiia

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On setting forth on" their retufn the sharp points of the lava presented no obstacle—courageously did they undertake a six mile walk, regardless of all inconveniences, and reached the Bosco at 7 A. M., when after an abstinence of 16 hours, a hasty dgeuner was a welcome event.— After spending a few minutes in this employment they continued their journey by mule8,and reached Nicolini by 10, whence they started for Catania, which tbey reached at 1 30 P. M.

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We Harry up Too Past.

In the antiquated country-house where our infancy budded into boyhood there were two clocks one a quiet, sedate, and highly-respected timepiece that graced the mantel of the family sitting-room the other, in the kitchen, was a regular bully among clocks, made in Connecticut, of course. It ticked out the seconds as if it supposed itself the pulse of all creation, and was under bonds to keep every body in the vicinity awake. At every jerk—for the pendulum rather jerked than swung it distinctly articulated hurry-up. hurry-up, hurry-up, and when it struck the hours the sleeping babe invariably turned in its cradle and cried. Years enough have

with their alternations of heat nnd

rosts, to try the temper of these fellow-la-borers, and determine which worked to the best advantage. The sober and sedate onci is yet as reliable as ever, promising to continue its gently-whispered monitions to the thoughtful of another generation. And the little kitchen bully hurries up with all his ancient vigor, when once he is got underway but he is somewhat rheumatic in the joints, his marrow is getting cold, and his hands are clumsy. He is trusty enough to poach eggs by, but if the johnnycake were to stand in the spider till his hour is up, it might possibly be burnt to a cinder, for the little Yankee's oleum laeti• tice is thick and adhesive.

Verily, as it is with the machine, so it is with its manufacturer. He too is likely, by incessant labor, to wear himself out before his time. We hare said it before, and we repeat as our conviction, that the Yankee labors too much to labor to advantage, nnd makes too hard work of his resting. He cannot, with all this sail set, hold on his course forever. Squalls will carry away his topsails, sever his riggingf aud snap his spars, if they do not over1 set him. The nocturnal vigilance or hur1 rying dreams that succeed an extraordina^ ry excitement, the moments of lost consciousness which wait upon his little ailments, are the premonitory gusts. They give warning of terrible storms at hand of raging delirium, apoplectic strokes, and confirmed insanity.—N". Y. Times,

IlAtffcTKD HoCSEtK CINCINNATI. --The Cincinnati Gazette tells a story of a haunted house on Fifth street in the heart of the city, which will be read with interest by lovers of the marvelous. Noises like the report of a pistol nre said to have been heard repeatedly both at night and in the open day: a girl who was sleeping in an apartment where the "pistol shots" occurred, asserts that she distinctly saw red flashes of lightning, and at the moment of sounds a tall dark figure twice bent over her pillow. Mrs. Bushncll, the clairvoyant professes to have had a conversation with the restless spirit, and learned it was the spirit of a man whose last will had been destroyed for the purpose of defrauding an orphan girl nnd when reparation i« made he will cease to trouble the house. Such iff the gossip of the neighborhood.

Fuas and Feather*,

It is astonishing how geuerally the Loco papers have dropped this nickname for a ^reat and venerated hero! We met with tt this morning iti the Trenton True American, for the first time we believe in several weeks. That spirited organ of Con£ Stockton says: "He has never done anything vjithoutpaij\ For his valuable services, he has received from the public treasury about $300,000 —without ever having incurred any personal risk since the war of 1812."

Tut, tut, tutl That Gen. Scott should have acted so badly! To draw pay and not incur personal risk, while Gen. Pierce? of course worked for nothing, and found himself —we will not say where!-~it is too bad!

And yet that True American is a clever journal in its lucid intervals!-— Washington Telegraph

A mother was weeping over the beautiful clay of her only child Its little spirit had but justgone where the cherubs dwell. A friend who sought to sympathize with her bereavement, and to solace the moment of her bitterness, gently besought hzt to seek the aid of philosophy in mitigation of her grief. The eyes so full of tears were turned upon the speaker, and in tones so tremulous, so touching, so mournful, the afflicted one replied, "There is no philosophy for a mother's heart." Was ever sorrow more eloquent than this?—» Buffalo Express. ft

remember, I remember, When 1 went a hookio' peaches— 'How a dog come out and caught ma

By the surplus of my—pantaloons—* 'How I hung on to the bushes— How the dog hung fast to me Till my cgriog brought a man who

cry

Flog

ged me "offul-le.'

Will is tbe root, knowledge tbe stem and leaves, and feeling the flowers. There is not a richer salt region on the face of the earth than the one in Minnes* ota.

It is curious with what moral fortitude imeo can bear with the misfortunes ofothers.~v

Wholesome sentiment is rain, which makes the field of daily life fresb and odorjous.

Tickling, says Voltaire, is the hermaph jrodite of feeling-—neither pain nor pie asiure.

Nothing elevates .us so m$cb as the 1 presence of a spirit similar, yet snpenour to our own.

From the same bud the bee suclti honey and the spider poison.: I Tbe English language is spoken by seventy-five millions of people.

Tbe sen should shine on festivals, bat

the moon is the light for ruins. Good company and good conversation fare like the very sinews of virtue.