TERMS OF THE " AMEIIICAX."
H. B. if A88ER,
JOSEPH EI8BLY.
) PoeUaXaBS ABB
I PnerntBTOa.
jr. tt. MjtaasH, e. 1
Mi in Centre 4ey, in the rear ef tt. Mat-
THE" AMSRIOAN" UiblKl every Satur
day t TWO DOLLARS per annum la be
paid Waif yearly in advance. No piper discontin
ued till ah arrearages ere paid.
No subscription received for a lees period than
it wotbs. All communications or letters on
business relating o the office, to insure attention,
taoet be POST PAID.
XT. H. THOMPSON,
Fashionable
BOOT AND S1IOK MAKER,
Mark Stbst, Sonaoat,
THANKFUL for past favors, bege leave to in
form hie friends and the public generally, thai
he haa Jort returned from the city with new end
feshionshle laels, and full sssnrtmrnt of Light
colored, Bronte, Black Kid, and all other kinds
of Morocco for Uentlemen, Ladies and Children's
Wear j and he ssaures all woo may ivor mm wnn
their cuetom. thai thev may rely noon having their
woik done in the irnai aulwtantial and fashionable .
. a . , nil 1
- - - . i
J. -I.. I . 4..n m..m.9i maati nfl.tav riilnl tar1l
aelect-d by himmlf. which ha will a.11 lower than ,
III alio Ufl" iuii ei ' v, .. j
ever offmi in thia blace, vix t
Meo'a hoe. aa low as
Eura 8toul B.ot, "
Good Lace Boo-a for Women, '
Women's Hlipa,
ChilJren'a Show.
3 00 '
no !
SO ;
25 !
Sole Leather, Morocco, Sic, foi U low,
August 83d, 1846. aplStf
Boot & Shoe
ESTABLISHMENT.
DANIEL 'nRUCKEMILLER,
At hit Old Estublishment, in Market Street,
Snnbury,
(OPPOSITB THE BKD I.ION HOTEL,)
RETURNS hia thank for pnat favora, and re
apectfullv inform hia fiienda and the public
generally, tnat he eonnnuea io manuiaciure io oi-
der. in the neatest and lateat atvle.
CHEAP HOOTS AXH SHOES,
warranted of the beat roat n-l, and made by the j
djoiI exuili'nced workmen. He nlao keeps on
hand a general ansortnieut of fushionablc Bonta bit
grntlrman, together with a laree atnrk of fashion,
able gentb men'a, boys', la.lif s' and cbildteit'a 8h net,
all of which have bei-n mnilo under hia own imme
diate inclion, and are of the bent material and
workm.mnhip, which he will aell low for cituh.
In addition lo the above, he has jimt rrcrivrd
from Philadelphia lame and extensive supply of
Uooia, Shoes, itc. of all description, which he also
cflcta for ra.h, cheaier than ever before off red in
this place. He reapectfully invite hia old onto
mera, aud oilier, lo call and cxainine for ihcin
e Ives.
- Repairing done with neatneea and deapatch.
friunhury, Auuvt 1 6th, 1846.
PIANO S.
THE SUBSCRIBER haa been appointed agent,
for the aide nf t'ONRAD MEVEK'8 CEI
EU RATED PREMIUM ROSE WOOD PI
ANOS, at this place. The Piano have a plain.
Riaiwive and beautiful exterior fini.h. and, for depth
and aweetne of lone, and eleg ince of workman
ship, are nut euriaard by any in the United iSlatr.
The following i a rernminendatinn from Cabl
l)i its, a eclcbrited performer, and himself a man
ufactuier j '
A CARD.
IliTina bad the pleaure ol trying the excel
lint Piano Porlea manfactured by Mr. Meyrr, and
exhibited at the hut exhibition or the Fr.nklin In
atitule, I feel it due to ibetrue merit of the maker
to declare that these inMruineiit are quite renal'
and in some renpects even i-uprrioi, to all the Pi
ano Foik-h, I aaw at the capital of Eotope, and
during a sojourn of two year at Pari.
The- Piano will be sold at the manufacturer's
lowest Philadelphia prices, if not eumething lower.
Peraona are requented to call and examine foi
themaelve, t the residence of the iubcribf r.
Suuhury, May 17.1845. H. B. M AWWER.
Counterfeiters'
DEATHBLOW,
The puUic will pleaea ohere lhat no Brandietb
Pill are genuine, unles the box haa three la
hela opon it. (the top, the side and the bottom)
each containing a f.c-aimili signature of my hand
writing, thua B. BaaaiiasTN, M. D- Theae la.
he!-ate engraved on steel, beautifully designed,
and done at an eiitenae of over f 3,000. Therefore
It will be seen thai the only thing necemry to pro
core the medicine in ita purity, is to obeerve these
labels.
. Remember the top, the side, and the bottom.
The following reapeciive persons are dulv sotbri
aad, and hold
OESTHTOATB8 OF AOBXTCT
For the aale of Brandrrth'i Vegetable L'nirertal
J'i.
Northumberland eountvs Milton -Mackey eV
Chambeilin. fnnbury H. B. Manser. M'Ewens
ville Ireland 4. Meixell. Northumberland Wm.
Torayth. Georgetown J. dr. J. Walls.
' Union County l New Berlin Bogar & Win
ter. ' 8alinegroe George Gundrum. ' ' Middle,
burg Issae Smith. Beavt-rtown David Hubler.
Adamburg Wm. J.May. Mifflinabotg Menacb
tc Ray. Hartleton Daniel Long. Freeburg
G. A F. C. Mover. Lewiaborg Walla tt Green.
Columbia county l Danville E. B. Reynold
it Co. Berwick -Shuman St Rittenbouse. Cat
Uwisaa C, G. Btobt. Bloornaburg John R.
Moyer. Jeiaey Town Ivi Biael. Washington
Robt. McCay. Limestone Balb- iz MeNieh.
Obaerve lhat each Aient has sn Kngrsvrd Cer
tificate of Agencvi coaiaining a representation of'
Or BRANDRETH'S Manufactory at King Hing,
and upon which will also be seen exact eopir of
the new label now used upon the Brandretk Pitt
Bore.
Philadelphia, office No. , Nb tbatreec
r B. BRANDKETH.M.D.
June 24th
" UttfJricJ. Weaver
BOPB mAXSB aV 8 HIP CCANSLXS.
So. 13 Forth Water Street, Philadelphia
PAH ronstsntly on hahd, general assort.
manl of Cordage, Seine Twinee, eVe., ii
Ropes, Fishing Ropea, White Ropes, Manil
La ilopea. Tow Line for Csnal Beats. Alee, a
complete assortment of Seine Twines, aVc such as
Hemp 8had and Herring Twine, Best Patent GUI
Mat rajwevCotlM Bhed and Hairing Twine. 6kee
Threads, dtc dec Also, Bed Cords, Plough Lines,
Halters, Tracee, Cotton and Linen Carpet Chains,
Ac, ail at wbfci Je wall dispose, of an rMaabla
' Pmlsdelphie, November 9, 1 Ml..ty. V
T5TfcE"STl Bi- qesUty 8egM Huas
If 11 Molasses, only I3 ceuU r quarlj aiao.a
uperi ne article of ysllow Molae. fur bakngton
ft rt eenspan:osrt-.fei'sa1esthaBteveef''
Je e IS, l4. HE.NRY MAttLR. ,
. ,
Absolute acquiescence In the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of Republic, from which
By Maner Jt Elnely,
LATK PROM TAMPICO AND MEXICO.
A Ctaipiay rKentnekv Cavalry Cut orY
Despatchra Ceptarril.
By in arrival at N. Orleans, Tempico dates
to the 8th, Brszne, to the flth, Mstnmoras to the
5th, Camargo and Vera Crux to the 2d Feb.,
and City of Mexico lo the 2Dih Jan., have been
received. , : ; i .
A detachment of eighty of the Kentucky and
Arkansas cavalry were cut off thirty mile be-
yond Saltillo by General Minon,
l nT iwinf-u
......
nu uuiiiwi inu were rurpripeu miu iaarii uii
r r
'0"c without res etsnce. Major Borland, 1
I v 1M- ni1 M"J"r ",ncs "re ,monk' ;
:1 taT'"! . a . srj . ... . 1
'he pri9ner8' The c"P,ureof L'8U, Ri,chie '
nd ten dragoon, with despatches frem G.n. j
Scott to Gin. Tayior, is confirmed. j
rlnO arnnimt mmum llinw irpra itt'iA t,nltlntt '
-ww.. ... " j " .... j " w ..... . H. j
Monterey and Victoria, and that all were killed (
The despatches are said to have contained the
whole plan or operations. (
Another account states lhat the ten drsgcons ;
had reached Victoria in safety, but that there ,,c' a,u ,M ,,nor 01 ,ne ,Ma't i""" ,ner WM
wie no doubt of the death of Lieut Ritchie, i " P'nnicle to the temple of Fame," they mint
He was lassoed and drsgged -cross a corn field i lhink n8t en,y of ,he ''". f "e labor and
at full speed. j the cost of ascending But "to consummate thia
An officer ol the Ohio Regiment supposed to j -"""taking all the nrt refWr. of Phila
be Lieut. Miller had been murdered near Chi-1 Pi'Ubrf ' Xo b,"r,fi,"y 'Ppr0
chironi,and awfully mutilated by Mexicans. . - Then in reference to the trsde of the Lakes, he
oeiuiscott was to emoarR louneniateiy, .nia :
destination supposed to be the Mand of Lubne, '
about .) miles Irom era Crux, I he attack on i
vera Crux it was suppoved, would take place !
about the li-t of March. J
Col. Harney had been sentenced to be rrpri- !
mended, but General Scott had remitted the j
sentence, and ordered h m to regime duty. The j
news in regard to the volunteers wrecked on
board the ship Ondiaka was less favorblethan
was anticipated. The detachment tent to their
assistance is said to have been made prisoners,
with all the volunteers.' Cnpt. Magruder's
forces had started tor the wreck, and the whole
brigade, it was said, were to follow. The main
body of the volunteers wrecked had certainly
not resched Tampico, and at the latent accounts
from them they were engsged io a conflict with
a body of Mexicans tar superior in numbers
and equipments.
The ships Statesmen, Prentice and Catha
rine were off the Bir at Tampico, on the 0th
filled with troop. The Mississippi volunteers
on board the Statesman were suffering terribly
by sickness, and dyinjr daily in great numbers.
The New York regiment on board the Catha
rine were in jrood health.
There were about 7000 troops at Tsmpico,
composed of repular and volunteers. Lieut.
Gibson, of the Second Artillery, died on the Bth
inet- ol tever.
The rumored assassination of Santa Anna
turns out to be unfounded, so also hia active op
position to the confiscation of the church proper
ty, though the law appears to be a dead letter.
The laHt accounts ttate that he had left for Tu
la at the head of the main body of the Mexican
force..
Gen. La Vepa had been appointed to the
command of Vera Crux. ' The Congress of the
Stale of Vera Crux had c.lled on the people to
resist, at all hsstrds, the invasion of the Amer
icana. The Congress of Sen l.M)ie had pa seed a de
cree authorizing the Governor to negotiate
loan in forty-eight hours, forced or voluntary.
Some further accounts of the captnre of Chi
huahua have been received. The Mexicans ad
mit over one hundred killed. Another account
mentions that an action had taken place in the
immediate vicinity of F.I Paw del Norte, in
which our troops were entirely successful.
This Mexicie report states that the Ameri
cana were in the possession of El Psseo with
six hundred cavalry and four l.undn d infantry,
on the 27th. The lose on each side not stated.
The Yera Cruz Indicador, of the 31t, asys
that Gen Telegia mediates attack on Tampico,
and yet the Mexican troops were all in de
plorable aituatioo.
The same ps per contains a communication
from Santa Anna, declaring that although he
has entirely renounced the Presidency, he will
oppose, with all h strength, any attempt te
eisturb tiro peaceable slate uf things in any
State ol the Republic. .
Sixovun FCT. When Gn. Jackson . on
the Plains of Chilmctte put to rout lb whole
British army, ih 1815, he did it with less loss
I ban hse been teffered by the yd Miseiasippf re
gment of Volunteers recently on the seme
ground from sickness. f ' - ' ' '
Th Coar already incorred by the pttblie
works in Ireland, which have been undertaken
forthe perpDse of giving employment lo the
poor, ameeoted to 2.000,000, Lord Johfi Rus
sell eakt, and that the monthly expenditures tin
til Aeguat next, if the Government measuree
were'pereevered n', would' be from 300,000
to iflfjO.OOfJ, and the.' whole cost not leu than
8.000,000. , ,
:,, A wicked old bachelor once said, that no tnat
tr wkeoj you married, yen would find ot after.
weida that voii had married eifcrsnt petM.
and shamokin JoUftNALf -
Sunburr, Northumberland Co.
. Correspondence of the M inera' Journal. "
Banbury an Erie Rallraan.
' PnriAB , Feb 22, 184T.
- Ma. Bannak Dear Sir: In the last number
el the Rail Road Journal, a lecture "by John A.
Rolling. C. fc.M ia given to its readert; but aa It
ia "the Central Route" from the noae to the chin,
I propose to notice the points that bear npen the
Sunbury and F.rie, and ahow how admirably he
W,iftli ... ,. r .1
fiiiiciii m.u 1 1 win tiiej uuaiitn y mi vt
vi! engineering to he done on the work it it but
ri ht ,h ,t f xen, 0,,iti b9 ...et in di.
monda." In the preliminary remarks, however.
e repudiates the Idea of terminating at Pittabnrg
of "goinc to Cincinnati," or "of going to Clave-
land," "the latter would be a treat mistake"
but tA It. ramiu ; MBBHitHJ. it JAa.:.M I
.w. ui..H.ur itvi in Udlgil, I
he triumphantly and emphatically proclaims its
termination in St. Louia. This to the councils
i our ry woo are "in for the money" must be
"C,J --, - in. mrm rrrn-
think a direct road to Erie would be the moat
advantageous at leaat it would be preferable to
a connection at Cleveland from Pittsburg.: ' At
the town ef Erie, however, we "would encounter
the opposition of the New York and Erie Rail-
road," and after many arguments to prove that
New York would "run away with the trade," be
ke a "few mile" from the one side and adds
them to the distance on the otber, to enable bim
toeatabliab the position. , But the surveys aa
published in the seveial reports ahow the diitaece
as follows : .
From New York to Piermont 22 mile
thence to Dunkirk 1.11 thence to Erie
43 making the entire di.t.nce to Erie SIS
From Philadelphia to Erie via Pottaville
and Sunbury, the entire di.taoce, 423
ct ' I A ' it, I
....... , w. ,
are from 15 to 20
aummtis, anq mai ine mazi
mum grade going east is 68 feet to the mile go
ing weat 67 and from a table published in the
same report, it appears that an engine of 20 tona
weight will carry upon a grade of 20 feet rite to
the mile, 185 tons. As this is the grade of the
Sunbury and Erie, with the exception of that
portion near the town of Erie, called Lebeeuf
summit, we may fix this as the maximum of our
route on a grade 45 feat to the mile 107 Ions
would be the maxium of the engine en a grade
68 ft to the mile the maximum would be 79 tons
Thus to show the comparative value of the
grades, a twenty ten engine would esrry on the
Snnbury and Erie 185 tons.
Central to Pittahnrg . 107 "
New York and Erie 74 "
Leaving a difference in favor nf the Sunbury and
Erie over the central route of 78 tons and over
the New York and Erie of 1 1 1 tons. Then if we
follow the data for the wear, the tear and the
otber expenses of the motive power, we find 20
cents per mile ia the estimate which on 518
mile would be equal to $105.60 for the distance
on the New York and Erie, and $84,60 on the
Sunbury and F.rie quite enough we should think
to overcome "the superior commercial advan
tsgesof the city of New York
But why is it that the rule has but ene way of
working? If our advantages at Erie are to be
cut ofT by those "auperior attraction," will not
the action extend to the Central and St. Louis 1
Will the trade which is ihipped at either of the
ports on the Ohio or the Misaiaaippi for either of
the porta en the Lake, will it stop at the "Can
Iral" for the pleasure of being drsgged oVer the
mountains by two locomotives, instead 6f on?
Will it leave the "grand," and the most direct
route from Philadelphia to Iowa city for similar
advantages? Or will the New York and Erie
with the advantage of distance and tonnage in our
favor, "be able to transport at so low a rate as
to command the trade of the Lakes
But Mr. Rabling says "we are apt to mistaks
effect for causes," and in esrrying oot the prin
riple be is mistaken in the appropriation of the
trade of the Lakes. By tookiag et bis map he
will discover tbat the direct route for the trade
of the weal will be from Erie to Cleveland from
Cleveland to Sandu.ky thence to Toledo te
Mii bigsii city to Chicsge and to" Iowa city.-
These roada are chartered and most of them com -
meuced, and will be completed by the lime we
reach Frie with our Sunbury route. If be lakes
...........
the map published by the Central eoneern, he
will ae that tbe connection with "the Ohio"
through Ohio, are not "at right angles, bat srs
exactly diverging to the i tie on the Lakes.
W will also be- able te discover that "ths as
une$ which strike at the main loot oflbetrade'
Ikreegb Indiana and ' Illinois are in the same di
rection and will eventeally poor in tbif Iree-
sutes to the SUftaoa a Ears.
X'wmt Ut wm caughte lew day ine
in tbe store nf U P. Jlupttt, this place, where
it Is "ho betrt alive in a cage. . II ia entirely.
white and appears about two third frown.
W have often heard ef white mice, t if
mbtake net white rat is rare tbltig BlobM
(ffWAWMf)'Veieef. '
there is no appeal but W force, A itl principle and
Pa. Saturday, March 0, 184T.
i- - 1 . .i.i ..-i..U. Il'll
(From the Liverpool Standard, Feb. 2.
The Faaila in Karop,-Thii Daalltullnn
in ireiana ana Holland
' " ' BcOTLANBy ,
I jit night Dr. Msckay delivered an add reus
in Great George at. Chapel, delollirijr the . dia-
treaa in which the Highlands and Mande of I
Scotland are at prment plunged. He mid that
of 400,1X10 sou Is inhabiting the Highlands, about
60000 are at Ihle moment totally ilentiiu'e of
daily lood, and are suppiled by clmrity ; and lhat
number will, in a abort lime, be. doubled. B-
fore next anmrner arrives the Highlands and
Islands of Scotland will contain 300,(100 totally
dependent upon charity. The failure of Ihepota
tocrophea been universal throiifli the Ilijh
lands sod the whole of Scotland ; and the popu
l.tSnM nf Ik. fTl,, M.nrla .-J t-1 I ... . -. -M ..
i.iivu ui i,,w itLliu, I1U trmuiis If IUI B II J
dependent upin that crop. From 120 districts
accounts had been received, Muting lhat po'to
formed seven eights of the food of the people,
Tnjs calamity has fallen upnn s population who
are totally destitute of mnnt y to buy other food,
and who have no resource in their extremity.
The population of iho Highhnda was divided
into two ciaaees of cottere, payinp no rent to
the proprietor of roil, but boing permitted to build
huts, and plant thoir lir.le patchraol potatoes,
which furnish them with means nf humble ex
istence throughout the year, and of crofters, or
small tenants, paying rents of from 0--. to 12
to the landlords, but raisins' little more limn is
sufficient to meet those rente and Their wants.
Thisclnss live almost exclusively upon potaios
The Ion had come suddenly and unforeseen.
Ireland.
It is stated that there sre nftO.Gt'O lamilies
over and above the ordinary laborers and far
mers now destitute in Ireland, requiring at I
calculation of X20 per family 7 000 000 f..r
their yearly maintenance.
Description is futile to convey any notion of
:M Irelsno, hut some nlea may be
the suffering in Ireland, but some idea may be
nau mmi tnoivtouat racis. nr. u-mnvan, tne
had from individual facts.' Dr. Donovan, the
pttyueien to me CKiooereen M.epeneery. in the
connty ot t.orfc, gives these dntsils, which we
ryfrart Tmm m ir tiitifiiiti, nf nth.p. m ih. rV,.L
' wv..
nomnffA importer
On Monday morning last, a woman called si
my house at a very early hour, and, forcing
herself into the hall, requested that I would
visit her daughter, then in confinement. In an
swer lo my interrogatory aa to whether her la
bor waa bsd, she said 'no,' 'but she is sufloca
ted by the smell ol a dead man lhat was in the
hnuae with her.' When I visited this misera
ble and suffering creature, I found her lying on
the ground, without a paiiicloof straw to pro
tect her from the dampness of a filthy earthen
floor, or a single article of covering to screen
her from the bitter cold to which in this com
fortless cabin she waa exposed. Immediately
opposite lo her, near the hearth, where the fire
had burned out, ley the body of her father in
law in the rags in which he died, and in the
attitude in which he breathed his last Putre
faction had at the time made rapid advances
fiom the nature of the dtsesae of which he
died, viz: the dysentery thai is now ravaging the
country.
A man of the name of IK aly died in the pa
riah of Drimuleague about a fortnight ago ; his
wife and two children remained in the house
until the putrescent exhalations from tho body
drove them from their companionship with the
dead : in a dsy or two a'ter eome persona in
packing the man's cabin had their attention
drawn by a loud snarling, aud on entering found
the gnawed end mangled skeleton ot llealy con
tended tor by a eel or hungry dogs and piga,
that were completing their horrid banquet on
his putrid rents ins I
A woman in the townland of Lether, belong.
tng lo Alexander uiimhcoii, tvq, and on
which there is more poverty then any farm of
its extent in the west riding, crawled to my
door; she was at the tune laboring under ma
lignsnt fever, wae emaciated to- the utmost de
gree, and appesred aa if the grave at lhat mo
ment vomited ber forth, . I handed her some
relief anddirecled her U leave the door, as I
dreaded inleclion tor my family. M i!ou l want
Ibis,' said she point mg io the shtlling w Inch 1
'b'1' ' My hoy buried ;
I he ie dead these eleven days; he died in two
day after h e fstlier 5 I got ll.u siekneaa myself
I niy two fhildten are dying ; no person will go
to give them or me a drink of Cold water, and I
j0t up U the fever Jo'day sud put the coroMj
. ..-'---'r.-- ...
in a ditch, and I cime to you, to gel it put in the
grave, that the doge iaay oi eel tt.S 1 '
. Tub DRriaxNcv or Ghajn ih Grrat Bui.
tain To the tdiier the London Timet
Sir 1 I tend herewith en estimate ot the lien
. .1 .
cieury or grsin and other erops in Die L'nllra
Kingdom tor the year ending Sept. 1, 134?. ,
The e.iimuie ie founded chiefly upon the
statistical facta furniabed bv Mr. fahniirko.a,
J in bis speech of Tuesday eyeaiug tbe lftihioat.
J The result re trtling and eonfirm the view
I you hse recently exeMseed mi relation lo the
j dangers which tnenaee the commercial and mo.
IMWj tnierevt ol ureal ifrKaln -'
f- If Ike etlmt seeirlUHy erroneous,
' will p ey fvr a tie fcertcr mfcrmtd cor'res-
1 i?. )
Immediate parent of defe4iemmtM. ,
Vol. V-No. 34-Wliol !fo, 836
l. ...j..i.ig.ijj-..a'
pondent of the Times to paint out the errors)
il eubnteni tally correct, the sooner the full ex
tent of the evil iemtde public the better Fore
armed is (ores nned.' J.A.'D;-
Eltmalt tf DrMimry rT Grain, Una nlher
Crops reduced to Vrain, in the United
A mxdomjor Ifte year tnamg aepitmoer ,
p est. m . I
I'M. .Ouerfer.
1 Ordinary annus Ideftciency. . 2,000.000
I) nf potatoes in Ireland, value
12000 000. to be applied by
grain, (a food of double cost Of
potatoea.) value 21 .000,000, re
presenting, at 50. per quarter, 9,800,000
3. 1ws of oats in Ireland, stated by
Mr. lisboucherw to be one third
the crop, or 5,227,000
Lo-s of potatoea in F.nplahd and
Scotland, say one tenth only the
Ioks in Ireland, nr 1,000,000
Loss ol oats in Scotland and Hng-
Innd, 1,000,006
6. Iiossof burlry in the United King
dom. - 1,000,000
7. Ex'rs seed for incrnasetl cultivation
ofgrain, 300,000
8. Extra consumption of railway la
borers, 300,000
20,607.000
Di'dnct economies made by fl&rva-
tion and non-feeding of pigf, 4 276,000
Total deficiency, 16,000.000
Money valuw of the deficiency, at 3 per
quarter 481)00,000. .
IUmakrablr PaoriiKcv or CodbxVt at-
SFKCTINO IRELAND AMI Tilt r AU.VRC Of THX
.
Potato. "feumington. My Dear S;r; Last
evening I met, at dinner, a Roman Catholic
priest, s Doctor Smith, from Connemara eoun-
tJt Gaway, who relsted the following conver
Mtjon he d wi h that extraordinary man,
Cobbett, in 182a While speaking ol Ireland,
Cobbett said that the dirty weed, alluding to
I . , . . n l . . i . k h.tJ
lnB poiaio, isnuiu ow tnm cuth oj iriwiw,
How sol' replied Dr. Smith. 'What must the
people do without it? They live upon it. They
have had it in cultivation one hundred and
eighty yeara ' Cobbett ertswered 'They must
go back to the same food they were accustomed
to live upon previously to the general cultiva-
tion of the dirty weed; and that is, lo grain, as
wheal, oats, rye, Ac, 1 ou have four millions
of souls m Ireland, and eight millions of acres
of uncultivated ground. This ground must be
drained and brought into cultivation, and you
must again grow wheat, nats, rye, die. Tbe
potato will not last more than twenty years,
when it will work itself out, and then you will
see to what a state Ireland will be reduced.
You mutt return to grain crops; and Ireland,
instead ol being the moat degraded, will become
one of the finest countries in the world. , You
may live to see my words piove true, but I ne -
ver shall.'
"Doctor Smith made a note of the above in
1826, and the same opinion and prophecy eon-
cerning the potato occur in one of Cobbett'e
books tMioge Economy, or Cottmgt Com.
fortt. I forget which." London Economist,
Dec 19 1546.
CoDtJEtt on Fooo Cobbett, whose predie-
lions ss lo the miserable state lo which Ireland
would b- reduced when the notato crooa failed:
now b-ing resl fe-d. ree made the following
'
comparison td ibe advantages of bread and poti -
toee ss food. After eivmg particular directions
for making bread, he says : '
'And what is thwe Worthy of the name of
plague or trouble in all Ihia . ' Here hi no dirt;
I n filth, no rnbbish, no litter, no slop.
And
pray what can be pteasanter lo behold? Talk
indeed of your pantomime and gaudy shows.
your processions and installations and corona
tions? Give me, for a beeutifnl sight, neat
and emert woman, livating her oven sod setting
in her bread and if the bustle do make the
sign of labor glisten 011 her brow, where 1 the
man that Would not k.sa that off. ratber than
lick the plssier frmn the cheek of ducbeeal
And what i the result! Why good wholesome
food aiifTicietit fof k ronsiderable family for
I wei-k prepared in three or four hour. To get
this quantity of fond fit In be eaten, in the shape
nf pot lues, how many fires,, what washing,
. ...
I what a boiling, what a peeling) what a slop.
I plmgi and wla! a rrlesaing ,' , The collage ev
I eflasiingly in a litter ; the womap'enandeever
I Isntingly wet and dirty, the children grraaai eb
- lo their ejres with duit liied tin by the. potst
. I . . . . ,. 11 1 .t
starch, and ragged as cone, no poor aunrivi
time all being devoted to the everla.tihg boiling
of the potrCan any enait ! woo knnwa ay
I thine of tha laburar'a iiladeoV thij AodwilL
then, ay body, except tbeUJ ehuffl bfeeche
baud of Ite Hwrterly BevMWi wo u
their le been iwig "a gtnn 10 garret
I who have seldom seen the sun and never: the
'Idew, eeeent m prim rwtrr eny oooy except
it theae loed say that the people ought loWtaugM
tb e Of pole aeuftl?tft)r egaot
- -' - .WJ.' !-- .1 . ' IT
' miEs or ADrnnrt a.
I severe J inaartiM. M 6S
t da 1 4.. . . .... Tli
l do a ' " u v t oo
Evay eobaequenttaaBTtta,- . ' . M
Tearlr Aitartfaaeaanla i miiJ... eaft llf
cotumn,t8 hreqttara, two snaares, M
Half-yearly! one mImm, $lt
an commo.aia , inres e.Varea, f , tWoeqaarM,
l on i)uarv, vu. . ' '
AdVertiaementa VK without direei'iMta aa Ia tka
length of time thev kra to he puhHahed, will be
contmtoed nnui ordered et, and toaVgwl aeoord
CT-BUtoan nnes or leas make a square.
aw ii ii i "I ' mm I i . , , , Hwwe
" re Ikvtruetr arLlawt.KltahU.
We find In the New Orleans Tira", an ke
towtit ef the neener et tb death el Lieut.
Ritchie '
On General ficotts atrital st the'mou'h of
the Riotirande, ktii arautninir tlie chief com-
roin(j ,e forthwhh eent deti-tch to 8-iltil
addreKd In General TavW. tV r -..wn.n,!.
fn? officer tWtev When tfce be a ret t etched
that cityt General Butler, the officer in com
mand, opened the despatches, the result of
which wae the immediate departure tif Gen.
Worth arid hia division lot the kic Grande.
The despatches were then re-sealed and sent
off in charge of Lieutenant Ritchie, 6th infantry
to Gen. Taylor, thett on bis retrograde move
ment to Monterey from Vicloris. Ten men,
belonging to Kearney's company, ' of the 5th,
accompanied LiouK Ritchie as sn escort. They
arrived at Monterey In safety, stopped there
a night, and proceded on their route to meet
Gvn. Taylor the next day. Towards riuk
Ritchie reached the Villa Grarrde, distant iwen-
ty-three miles from Monterey. Meeting, ji6t
after his trrivtl, with an Englishman CFbibtiehed
in business there, he availed himself of his ser
vices to procure refreshments for himself sn i
Command. As the two were crossing the n'aza
uf Villa Grant!?, in furtherance of that object, a
Mexican on horseback come whisking by them
when suddenly be threw a lssse over Ritchie,
put spur to hisaaimai.and succeeded in drag,
glng hrm beyond the town, to a fiuall crtek in
the Vicinity. Here he murdered him, and after
mutilating Lie body in a horrid manner, made
oft wiih the despatches. These ore said to bo
of great consequence, Containing a sketch of
the plan of the forth-coming campaign, with
other important particular. It seems at il tho
movements of ft itchie and his party were nN
rowly watched by the enemy, for during the
night they passed at Monterey the arms of Bvo
of his men were stolen from them, necessitating
dernarid on the 'quartermaster for a fresh sop.
ply. Lieut. RilChTe, We understand, is a ne
phew of the venerable editor of the Washing
totiDnloa Cowrrt'e PaoHHEcx of the extinction r.ftha
p. itilr0ngly combatted by Gideon B. Smith,
of Baltimore.in etoroaiunication to the Patriot,
who says there ia not a single instance on re
j corj 0f any vegetable having been extirpated.
or iworked itself out.' The idea is unphiloeopii-
ji nngCientinc, almost doubting the favor or
venovolence of Him who baa promised 'seed
time and harvest.' Instead ol the potatoMhe
I -dirty weed having been ot even becoming a
l curse to Irelatid, it has been one ' ; greatest
I blesainffs that waa ever Conferred upon that ot
anv other neoole.
I The potato rot, so destructive last year in Eu
j i
I tope, is nothing mote than the disease that haa
I alwavs affected tho botato in a email wat. Mr.
1 kth exam toed it after it became epidemic,
I and (ouho It to be caused by a fhntui, and he
eve it ks hie opinion that it would spread oVer
the whole world were potatoes Were cultiva
J i tht t would last from five to seven yean,
end then dlseppekr. He says next year will be
the climax )o fcurope; me Disease win pervaoe
I generally. If not universally, do far as the po
tato is concerned, there will be a great scares
7 r num"a Dd America win oe orawa
.. . aft I 1 . ..... 1.
upon neaviiy lor supplies oi an atnoso. ureaa
I .a . m ' il lJ 1
lfl- behooves our farmc-re to prrpare for
1..-.. x . e .i v. Ia .:ti ..u
I inte ataie or inings, ror u win ci;inc.
1 What he says of the wheat crop seems likes.
stslettient due to some theory of his rathef then
j to feet. Farmers will hardly oh deterred rai
sine? wheat as lon aa its price is uj tb ihe pre
-Dt Wr, and a prospect ot anoill'er abort crop
in Esrase next season from '.he high price of
seedtha. ' it ere ii what he says, however:
Tlntj wheat crop must also be looked to. 1
sin Mot $ dealer in wheat, nor interested in it
other than an eater of bread. But the tcab
will he foond to affect the crop of 184? to such
an extent that a great scarcity of aTOod flour
I will prevail. The scab is al an epidemic at
time. It will epresd bver tne wltole of this
country in i&4V48; will ppear in Europe
thie year end in ahd spread over tha
a I whole efibal twinueut. it will lo'Jurw tne u-
slial CoOree of all vegeUble epidetnicp, froroj
west to keej that is it commence ift Ameri
ca and will reach the eastern world. Nearly
all, if not aii, animal epidemic commence in the.
east end progress weetwardly, a io the case cf
ihe eMera. ' When the scab (hail have run ire
course, then the wheat crop will be relieved of
ft banefbl efieet-ilMT will be the climax im
America. Io 1848 there will be some of it
ffjor of leee; in 1 949 it wilt disappekr; on
year later ia all these date will be Ui time bf
it progress in Europe, Rot let no bne despair.
The potato and wheat and Corn, and kit other
kiod of hetnsn and animsl food will be prescr.
red, end continue their abundant lupptiee or
human food. It ha been said lhat we must
never despair df the Kepubiio' I y Ibat w
must never eVptrr of tntrcifol and benifieem
Peovidenef, ' . . t