nn 1 TWO DOLLARS PER AXNUM. HALF-YEARLY IS ADVANCE. 5 AMD FAREOS' AWD MECHANICS' REGISTER. cir not paid wrrnix the tear; i ?2 50 WILL BE CHARGED. m fTl U WIU LZJ PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY J O NAT H A N R O W , SOMERSET, SOMERSET COUNTY, PA. New Series. TUBSDAIT, B2A1? 12, 1846, Vol. 4.-No. 25. Co tfjc f irot 23irDo of tfjc Spring. Ye come, ve come, bright wnrhlinrr thiri"-- J ' o o i And joy is in your song; Ye bear upon your dewy wings The Spring's first breath along. Ye herald in the happy morn, That is the birth of flowers; Ye tell that Winters chills have gone. Its snows and icy towers. Ye hide the earth in its carpet weave, In Nature's matchless loom; The wrap for many a grassy leaf, The wool from floweret's loom. . Ye bid die naked branches dress, In all their proud array, And all things don their loveliness, To welcome back the day. Ye bid the icy fetters fall From many a prisoned rill; Aud onward joyful at your call, They gambol down the hill. All nature wakes from sleep, the cloud Shades not the sun's bright ray; No more the storm-winds howling loud, Disturb the zephyr's lay. Pass on, pass on to other land, Ye birds of merry note; Sing there of Spring, ye starry band, From everv tuneful throat. And gladden every heart that hears Your message from above: Pass on, and dry up winter's tears, Sweet harbingers of love. 29th Congress ls4 Session. Correspondence of the Civilian. Washington-, April 29th, 184G. Thus far we have had an exciting week, and one which, in many respects, will be long remembered in our public history. On Monday the Locofoco majority in the House of Representatives, departed from their regular business, and suspended the rules, to allow Charles J. Ingersoll to make a renewed attack uoon Mr. Web ster. It was not pretended that any cause had been given, for this proceeding; . but the opportunity to hear a great man ca lumniated, was a sufficient reason widi Locofoeos, why the interests ol the coun try should be kicked under the table, as they have been treated, by the same par ty during this whole session. Ingersoll, of course, and as customary, abandoned all his former charges, and presented a new series, omitting however the most important accusations in his former as saults. When he had concluded, Air. Ashman of Mass. replied and shewed how, on all occasions, one set of calumn ies had been deserted as fast as they were met and denounced. He referred to in fiduous means, which had been employ ed, to induce Mr. Tyler to join in this crusade againct Mr. Webster, but Mr. Tyler had publicly declared, every dol lar, of the Secret Service Fcnd was expended by his direction and approved. Ingersoll inquired if it was mennt to be imputed hk had sent agents to Mr. Tyler! to which Mr. Ashman an swered, "yes, sir." Ingersoll then rose with great violence and excitement, appa rently under the influence of liquor, and shouted at the top of his lungs, "it is a falsehood it is a lie it is ths lie of a coward' and other like blackguardism. This is the manner in which the pub lic business has suffered during a session of ice month, and the mode by which the character of Congress has been de preciated. The Chairman of the Com- ' mittce on Foreign Affairs one whose age should have cooled the vindictiveness of his passions and whose experience, should have instructed in some principle of decency, hurling at honorable and res pectabir men, such epithets, as "liar and coward!' Truly, these spectacles sicken ons at the future prospect of the country, if this corrupt and cheating system of miscalled '-democracy" is longer to pre vail. There is not a day in the week, upon which you do cot find, three or four Locofoeos sleeping ofl the effects of last night's debauch" on the side benches others again, are hardly able to hold themselves up, while vomiting forth coarse and ribald denunciation. Some are open and avowed infidels, respecting neither the laws of God or man and one of them, Chipman of Michigan, rejoices in two "wives. Will not the people remedy such crying evils, or is the Press afraid to speak out the trnth by letting them know to what an extent they exist? I could name more than three who have been suffering under manl pott this session and who have been brought to the verge of the grave. Still they are bad ?.s ever. I dislike to touch these points, lv.t they involve national reputation and these ruffian like assaults of Ingersoll, lower us in moral scale, and in the csti panoa of the world at large. After the discussion on Monday, on mo- tion of Mr. Schenck, it was resolved, that der my observation. Gen. Thompson, -.inclinations. a committee be appointed, to inquire into . beside his natural discrimination, ability, 1 T come back, however, to the "start the means through which Mr. Ingersoll and learning, Jiad. facilities of inform'a- ing-point.". Beginning upon its regular obtained the alleged information, which tion, and opportunities of intercourse, business so late, it 'would be difficult to was amended bv Mr. Petit, so as to ap- ; not enjoyed by those who have written 5a7 wnen tnis Session, which has so long point a second committee to inquire into on Mexico. "What he says, is well said, detained the Members of Congress from the truth of the charges, with a view -to 3 impeachment, both of which were adopt ed. The first consists of Mr. Schenck, Mr. Dobbin, Mr. Mcllvainc and Mr. Rockwell the other of Mr. Petit, Mr. Vinton, Mr. J. Davis, Mr. D. P. King and Mr. Wilmot. Thecomraitte headed by Mr Schenck, met this morning and adjourned over to Tuesday next. That upon the impeach ment will be called together on Monday. Under present circumstances, I do not feel it proper to speak of the probable re sult. Although it would have been more ! becomeing to have omitted the name of Mr. Wilmot, from such a tribunal, be cause he is the confidential and most in timate friend of Mr. Ingersoll, still there is no strong case of exception in the -construction of the committees. The Spea ker has eudeavered to speak impartially, and his intensions deserve to be respect ed, for his duties throughout, have been discharged with fairness and candor. Mr. Mason the Attorney Ceneral, who examined all the papers that were trans mitted to the President on the snbject, who was himself actingSecretary of Stale, after Mr. Webster left the department, stated on Monday, night, he -felt humilia ted and disgusted at the grossness and falsehood of the imputations against Mr. Webster. It was within his knowledge, in the adjustment of Secret Service mo ney, that Mr. Webster had paid the ap parent balance in the accounts, amoun ting to $2,290, so as to bring them to a close and sometime afterwards, had actu ally returned to him $1,000 of the sum, vouchers to that extent, having been dis covered. An announcement was made in the "Union" yesterday, that the discussion of the Tariff, would begin about the first of May. There is no prospect whatever of any such occasion. Besides tiie party decided in caucus a fortnight ago, all the appropriation bills should be disposed of, before the Tariff was taken up. The evil day will probably be put ofl two weeks longer. A movement has at length been made, to dispose of the Smithsonian bequest or rather so much of it, has has not disap peared in Arkansas and Illinois bonds. The plan adopted in the House, in lieu of that proposed by Robert 1). Owen, origi nated with Mr. Hough and contemplates the erection of a proper building the col lection of specimens in the arts and sci ences, a chemical labaratory-periodieal lectures and the gradual formation of a li brary by an outlay of $5,000 per annnra. It possesses noneef the Fourier features, so tenaciously insisted upon by Mr. O wen and is less objectionable, in many respects. I hope and believe, it will pass the Senate. Some of the intermeddling prints are circulating a story, that Mr. Clay has written a letter declining under any cir cumstances to be a candidate for the Presidency in 1848, and expressing a decided preference for the nomination of General Scott. There is not one syl lable of trcth in the statement. Mr. Clay has written no such letter, nor any other bearing npon the topic involved. It is well understood, bv Mr. Clay's best friends; that his name will never again, with his consent, be submitted to the A merican people, for any office or favor, and it is equally known, he has not indi cated, and will not name a favorite, a mong the candidates of the Whiz party. He very properly believes, that duty de- J volvesupon another tribunal, the deliber attons, of which, should not be influen ceJ by any other considerations than the public good, and success of Whig prin ciples. If our opponents are making these movements to commit us to Gen. Scott, at this early day, they will be de ceived and if his friends, have without reflection, thought proper' to jcodardize his chances for a nomination, by bring ing him into the field at this improper time, ! upon their heads must rest the responsi bility. The Whig party has higher ob ligations to fulfil, than to canvass the ex pediency of candiditesnow, and it would be vastly more profitable, that we put our shoulders tothe wheel to rid the country of Locofoco misrule, before thinking of matters, which the events of the next two years may change entirely. Every Whig should be free to take the best candi date when the day of trial comes, and none should be so wedded to one man or another, that he cannot be abandoned, without reluctance for the common cause. The Hon. Waddy Thompson has a most interesting book in press, compri sing his "Recollections in Mexico," which will appear within a few weeks. It is to be published by Wiley k Putman, in New York and London, and from the high reputation end talents of this dis tinguished author, will doubtless take a conspicuous place among the standard works of the times. I have been rM rmit ted to glance over some of the proof sheets, and cansider it . superior to any book upon the subjeet, that has fallen un- 1 ;yyH ix'-r! m tronenrmnr ir I I ic inpulantD history, reflections, and descriptions are all harmoniously blended, so as to gratify the reader, while it advantageously in structs him. YINDEX. TIIE SESSION OF COX ESS has run on thus far without our having found the least inducement, or excuse, in the joint action of the two Houses, to re view their acts, or speculate upon the progress which they were likely to make in public business during the remainder of the time before them. At length, how ever, at the close of the Fifth 5lonth of the Session, we have arrived, not at a stopping-place, but at a starting point, at which the ordinary and usual business of tne sessioe may be said to be about to begin. ! mat point was not reached, ana can hardly be said to have been in sight, un- lne hill on that subject there are too til tiic rcnt wliiniljlinbloclv of the Ore many and too important interests at stake gon question had been removed out of the to be crushed or stifled by an v such ap way of Congress, as it has been by the pljance. The Members who represent passing of the Joint Resolution on that those interests on the floor must and will subject. That Resolution, it gives us be heard. In the Senate, beside, there is pleasure to understand from the govern- ' no sucn instumentof coercion as the Prc ment paper, will receive the signature of . vious Question. In that body debate will the President as soon as the forms of leg- , have its course, and every form of amend islation will allow it to be placed before ; inent ill assert its right, before a final him: so that the measures which it pro-TOtecan be taken on the Tariff bill, should poses of cessation of joint occupation and j tne bill depending in the House of Rep mtermediate amicable adjustment of ; reSentatives ever reneh the Senate. So boundary between the United States and lnat we consider ourselves within bounds Great Britain may be regarded as the settled policy of the United States, and of course lor the present no longer matter for debate or controversy at the Capitol. Nor do we expect the subject to be kept alive, during the remainder of this ses sion, still further to distract and divert the attention of Congress from the proper duties of legislation, in sny other form in which it may be presented. We take it for granted that, after the recorded ap probation of the policy of peace by more than three-fotu ihs of both Houses of Con gress, wc shall hear no more of adopting in anticipation measures which only the termination of the joint occupation of the Oregon territory can afford any sufficient reason lor, and which could, in the mean time, if sanctioned by Congress, do noth ing effective but what might be also mis chievous. We sincerely congratulate Congref s on being relieved from this obstacle , to their progress in such legislation as the gener al interest and the various wanLs and grievances of the different classes of in dustry and the differcut regions of our country invite and require, We only re peat whot wc have said before, when, re joicing as we do in this result, we know that we express a sentiment which will find a response iu the bosom of the great mass cf the people of this country, of every degree. ISor is there, as the government paper is pleased to imagine, any. inconsistency in our having, as it says, "ever since the appearance of the Message, condemned the policy of the Executive as a policy of war." and now declaring the late decis ion by Congress to be "a vote highly au spicious to the preservation of peace." The "Union" mistakes, in the first place, our position in regard to the Message. Wc never for a moment hare supposed, since our first deliberate perusal of the Annual Message of the President, (the "message" to which that paper refers,) that the policy of the President was a policy of War. We said, on the con trarv, and maintained it against the go ernment paper itself, that the President intended Peace; which wc inferred from the terms of the Mesage, and from the utter absence from that . paper of any recommendation of preparation, either financial or military, for impending war. We did not believe, and we do not yet believe, the measures recommended by the President in his Message, literally followed out, would have tended to bring on a war, if they had not rendered it "in evitable." Most decidedly, therefore, were we opposed ta the giving a naked "notice," which, though not in itself cause of war, nor even of offence, would have become so by the measures with which it was proposed to accompany it, and which in ail probability would have accompanied it, had a majority of both Houses been found ready to take that desperate hazard. But, happily, most happily, things took a different turn. The Joint Resolution (thanks to the Senate) a voids the hazard, and, whilst it seeks an early termination of the controversy, seeks it in the spirit of conciliation, and with the expression of full confidence in an amiable settlement of the difficulty. All honor for this to the wisdom and en larged patriotism of the Senate! .Nor let us withhold from the House of Rep resentatives the honer due for having at last yielded with a good grace that assent to the Senate s modification, which mere is every reason to believe it opposed from the first only for form's sake, and was at any time willing to have given -had the indulge their their homes and their affairs, may be ex pected to close. Judging from the ex perience of many years, we should say that it is quite possible that the dog-days I will find them still at their posts. We j found this probability upon the supposi I tion that there is a serious intention on the part of the Administration party in Con gress to persevere in the purpose of a re vision and reduction of the Tariff, and in other measures of a kindred character, in tended to effect a radical change in the Domestic policy' cf the country. The Previous Question is , we know, in the House of Representatives, a powerful en gine in the hands of an assured and dis ciplined majority. It has already been made effective in the suppression of de bate upon the Subtreasury bill, (one of the measures referred to,) just as it was K;Y vr a. rt.it tht Prciniu n,i- six years aro. tion will fail of its usual stringency when it comes in contact with the Tariff. In in allotting two entire months to the Tar iff question alone. The annual appropriation bills alo will probably consume a great deal of time. Five months of the session are gone, and a bill to pay arrears of expenses incur red for varions objects during the last twelve months has not vet 'got through the two Houses, though the Hiuss of Representatives is consequently without funds to pay its own contingent expenses. Acting in such a dilatory and immethoJi cal manner, how many weeks, nay months will it not require to pas3 through the House of Representatives ih2 rcqui?i e appropriations for the Civil and Diplomat ic expenditures, and for the Army, the Navy, and other objects (as the auction eer says) too tedious to enumerate ? However, it is some satisfaction to know that Congress can now begin to work, and that the members have every possible motive to get through with their task as early as they can. Na. Intel. STEWART'S SPEECH. On our first page will be found this able defence of American labor. We commend it to the attention of our read ers. It is condensed, brief and to the point. It shonld be read by every man, woman and child in the country. Espe- -cially should every farmer make himself thoroughly acquainted with its arguments. With such an acquaintance, the scheme of Sir Robert Peel and Sir Robert Walk er, cannot be consumated without a strug gle such as the country has not witnessed for years. The industry and interests of America can never shrink back into colo nial vassalage. - The party that repeals the Tariff will be itself repealed. Up on such an issue, American against Brit ish policy, the conspirators against Amer ican Independence will be left solitary and alone. There are features in the policy of the Polk administration its unquestionable claim to ail Oregon, while it offered to take a part, its fury for war without an ef fort of preparation, its clamor against England, while secretly selling off the Tariff that will not bear the ordeal of discussion. The people always jealous of sinis ter intrigue -will cling the more to the Tariff when they , know that it is torn from them to be laid at the footstool of British ambition. The hollow, partial, and deceptive character of their fettered free-trade cannot be concealed from the American people. In 1845, of the thirty nine millions received in Liverpool from the United States, but little more than two and a half were of agricultural products other than cotton-trad tobacco. Does En gland propose tD let our tobacco enter her ports free of duty, or indeed anything else which the absolute wants of her star ving inhabitants do not demand! Our ag riculturists will soon realize the fact that they cannot compete successfully with the vicinage of Great Britain in the mar ket for bread stuffs the Baltic and Medi terranean will probably undersell and ex clude us, and if they do not, will so com pete with us aa to leave a trade less valu able than that which we have possessed through the ports of Canada. Should the Tariff be repealed, - and the present pro ject annihilates protection, the results must produce in the public mind a reac tion which no administration, no party can sustain. The instruments of British orders in council may dig the grave of the Tariff; but let them take heed they do not fall into it. Register Examiner. members felt at liberty to ddcer- FROM LAKESUPERIOH. We have hesitated, for two or three days, about giving the following. The tales that are told of the richness of the mineral regions of Xake Superior so far surpass all that was at first anticipated, that it is not surprising they should be received with some grains of allowance, and so long as those tales were unverified by actual results, we declined giving them. But now that the mines have been scientifically worked, and the results more than fulfil all that the most sanguine imagined, we do not feel justified in with holding from our readers well-authenticated statements of facts. There now can scarcely be a doubt that the mines of Lake Superior are among the richest of the world, and their working will add immensely to the wealth and resources of the country. The business to indi vidnals is hazardous, and may b losing, if prosecuted without due care and knowl edge; but if such are exercised, it must richly repay enterprise: From the DuCalo Commercial Advertiser. Detroit, March 1G, 1810, I herewith enclose to you copies ol some letters just received from Lake Su perior, the one from Dr. Kinney, Sur geon, U. S. A., the other from a a Fur Trader, in the employ of Gen. Pheps, of this city. He is, as you see, an unletter ed man, and he gives facts just as he sees them with his own eyes. It is import ant that public attention should be direct ed to statements of facts from authentic sources. These letters, although seem ingly extravagant, are corroborated by numerous other letters to our citizens. I will thank you to publish them with such comments as you please. I vouch for the authenticity of the letters, "the re spectability of the writers, and that they have no earthly interest in either one of the companies referred to. Rest assured that six months will show that Lake Su perior is the richest mining conuntry in the world, Extract of a letter from Dr. Kinney, Sur- goon U.S. A. to his brother, Benjamin Kinney at Detroit, dated Copper Harbor, Ecbruary 5. 1840. "I am confident that the excitement will not abate soon. As soon as the peo ple begin to come up they will see for themselves they will see what they never saw before, that is, p ire copper and silver in bodies from one ounce to five and eight tons ! "A few d.tys since a solid mass of pure copper was taken out of the earth weigh ing about 9 tons. " Near the sanie place they are taking out another mass nearly as large. This belongs to tho Copper Falls Mining Com pany. I have seen ihem in two or three instances blast out chunks of pure silver weighing from 30 to 40 pounds, at the Pittsburg works." j Extract from a letter from Abner Sher-' man, a person engaged in buying furs to Gen. Phelps, his employer, of De troit, dated Lake Superior, Feb. 10, 1816. "Now for Copper and Silver, Gog and Magog The old world or new has nev er known any thing to compare with what actually has an existence in the mines of Lake Superior neither should I dare write what 1 have actually seen did I not suppose that hundreds of oth ers would write, corroborating what I shall state. First, to begin with Jen ning's works, owned by the Pittsburg and Isle Royal Company, exceeds any thing that was ever dreamed of by the mo st sanguine. In the first place, it is rich in copper, yet it is decidedly a silver vera running over a mountain, of some 2000 or 300 J feet high, I can form no estima tion of the quantity already got out. "I have just returned from Copper Harbor, by way of Eagle River, at which place this rich vein is. The silver is not like that found last summer by the Boston Company, but runs in continued streaks and in chunks in some instances as big as a walnut, and even larger, of pure silver, and in many places in the silver holds it together alter the rock is from tne liitfuio vnmerciu broken and shivered to .pieces. At one ; ters of the Chariton. They were travel blast, while I was there, they calculated f ling very slow, and their ctock was much they threw out ten thousand dollars worth ' reduced' for want of food. The trustees of silver. They have also rot two coo- per and silver rucks, weighing from 12 to 18 hundred, and some of them are rich in silver, having silver sticking out in mas ses and spangles, all through the copper. They are labelled Gog and Magog, and stood by the door for lagog. Dr. Pet tit was offered eighteen hundred dollars. " Now for the mammoth copper rock, found in Copper Falls River by the Cop per Falls Company, about five miles from Eagle River, towards Copper Har bor. They were sinking a shaft about 11 feet square and 15 from the surface, when the vein running through the centre of the shaft was found to contain a mass or sheet of fine copper, of which they form no description, as they have found neither end nor yet the bottom. I went down into the shaft to see it, and fonnd it j cleared on one of 13 feet, on the other 4 feet, atone end about 13 inches thick. and at the other say 5 to 7 inches, and I think a little thicker at the bottom than at the top. It is estimated, by those best acquaited with estimating irregular chunks of copper, to weigh about eight times zs much as the copper rock carried Irom Ontonagon some years since. At every place where they are at work this winter they exceed their most sanguine expecta tions. I have a chunk taken out of Jtn- mng s works about the size of a hen's egg, in which are chunks and streaks as big as the end of my little finger, and 1 have no doubt there is in the chunk two or three ounces of silver. "The North American Company's lo cation begins within about twenty rodi from where they are taking this silvtr, and without any doubt runs three miles through their locations, and their agent, Mr. Bacon from Pontiae, is in high spirits. What I saw I can hardly be lieve, and what I have written 1 can hard ly " ask you to believe, and yet it is true to the letter. " My prejudices until my recent tour to Copper Harbor, were agninst the copper mania, and I still think 'there may ko some doubt whether it will improve in depth but there must be acres whera ' there is so much native silver and cop per. " (Signed) Aener Sherman. CT"The "Register," printed at West Chester, in replying to some remarks of the "Republican" ot that place, adminis ters to that paper and the party it sup ports, the following merited rebuke:- "As tothe Bank of the United States, of which it speaks, it may be well to remem ber that the bank, in 1916, was chartered by Democratic votes, and that had it not been fordemocraticvotcs inl836,'halBank( as a State Bank, would never have gone into existence; and as to the -favorable legislation' for tha' bank, it may be well to remember also, that whatever was done was cflected through a locofoco Governor, and that a locofoco agent had to flee the State, for his alleged corruption in the matter. It is a matter of history, that wherever corruption was to be effec ted, in legislation or otherwise, a lacofoco was the agent who offered the bribe, and a locofaco was the recipient, from the days of "favorable legislation" concerning1 the United Slates Bank to the days of "favorable reports" for the Locofoco Le high County Bank of the present year. So notoriously corrupt has that party be come, that if it were not for the Whig principles that are occasionally infused into government proceedings, our whole political fabric would fill to the ground, because of the rottenness of the locofoco props which the people have been delu ded to erect for its support." Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. Frederick City, Md., April. 18th 1816. A tremendous fire has been raging on the top of the Catoctin mountain, about 6 miles distant from here in a northwest course, the devouring element covering a surface of 500 acres, it is supposed, and so dense was the smoke, and of such volume, (the wind being favorable V drive it over the city) that to all appear ances, save that of the blaze coursing its way on the top of the mountain, where, apparently a numbes of persons seemed to be moving toward it for the purpose to snbdue the flames, engaged about the fire. A terrible gust was hanging over US. The Sugar Loaf mountain, distant a bout 12 miles, and the Catoctin mountain, in a more southern direction than tho firp ne:ir Frederick, are also ob fire: how ! originating I did not learn. TIIE MORMONS. We learn from the Nauvoo Eagle that all the Mormon publications have been discontinued. The archives and trap pings of the church hive been removed, and are now on the way to California. The church (says the Eagle) has ceased to exist, the "Twelve" have gone, and with them the acting spirit of Mormon ism. Camp of Israel is ths name which, j the advance company of Mormons have assumed. The latest accounts from them stal3 that they had crossed the head wa- of the temple offer to lease it to any re ligious society or literary institution. A" weal thy gentleman from the South, a bach elor, far advanced in life, has gone to Nauvoo, to purchase the'temple, if it car be bought for a reasonable price, and con vert it Into an Asylum for des:itut3 wid ows and females, and to purchase lands and town lots, and endow it out of the re sults of them. Biekncll. A railroad traveller was recently killed at Marshall, Mich, while looking from a window in th3 car. His head came to, contact with a post. Il said there are G23.0'j your? la dies at th is mement rcrehing fhfir eiia c-tion in French ecnvrn:. 11