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TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1847,
Vol, 5.-No. 33.
TIic I-and of Ihc Free.
BY WSI. II. m'cALLA.
Ob ! Lan J of the brave an J the free,
Thy jys from bright' Heaven were given;
Thy bonds of pure friendship and love,
fty the hand of the great God were riven.
Tby Patriots ! men of high souls,
And minds full of wisdom and truth, .
Were sent from above, thy first hopes to control,
And guiJe the weak hand of thy youth.
Oh ! Land of the Tree ! if a mortal on earth
Fure joy can hope to aecure,
T is a home in the land, where Liberty dwells,
Alike for the rich nn the poor.
' T i where the bright stars and the stripes
Proudly float 'nealh the blue rummer's sky,
While. the eagle ot liberty, unfettered and free,
Forever shall circle on high.
"Then, Land of the Free, may prosperity last;
May no factions thy Union sever;
Cut thy Glory and Fame, untarnished remain,
Like Tailor's great name shall, forever!
'And at home or abroad, may thy warriors' names
fchine brightest of any, on land or at sea;
Till thy name strikes a terror to each foeinan's
heart,
And Liberty's watchword, be "Li5D of tuk
' Fiiee!" '
Declaration of Independence,
In Congress, July 4, 177G.
The Tnatiinious Declaration of
the Thirteen Lulled Mates ot
. America.
When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands winch have
connected them with another, and to as
sume, among the powers of the earth, the
seperate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the sepa
. ration.
Wc hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal, that they
'are endowed by their Creator with cer
tain unalienable rights ; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuits of hap
piness. That to secure these rights, gov
ernments are instituted among men. de-rivin"-
their just powers from the consent
of the governed; that whenever any
form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right of the people
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a
new government, laying its foundation
on such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall
"seem most likely to effect their safety
nnd happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate, that governments long established
should not be changed for - light and
transient causes ; and accordingly all ex
perience hath - shown, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer while evils are
-sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invari
ably the same object, evinces a desigirto
reduce tl era under absolute despotism, it
is their right, it i their duty to throw off
such government, and to provide new
guards fur their future security. Such
h is been the patient sufferance of these
colonies; and such is now the necessity
Which constrains them to alter their for
mer systems of government. The history
tf the present king of Great Britaiu is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpa
tions, all having in direct object the estab
lishment of an absolute tyranny over these
etatcs. To prove this, let facts be sub
rnitted to a candid world.
lie has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary lor the
public good.
lie has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of Immediate and pressing impor
tance, unless suspended in their opera
lion, till his assent should be obtained ;
and when so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them. lie has re
fused to pass other laws for the accommo
dation of large districts of people, unless
those people would relinquish the right
of representation in the legislature a
right inestimable to ll em, and formidable
to tyrants only.
lie has called together legislative bodies
rt places" unusual, uncomfortable,' and
distant from the repository of their public
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his measures.
lie has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, -for opposing, with manly
firmness, his invasions on the rights of the
people.'" ' : -" ' S
lie has refused for a long time after
fuch dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected ; whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned
to the people at large, for their exercise,
the str.te remaining, in the meantime, ex
posed to all the dangers oT invasion from
without, and convulsion within.
He has endeavored to prevent the pop
ulation of these states ; for that purpose
obstructing the hwe'of naturalization of
foreigners ; refusmgto pass others to en
courage their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new appropriations of
lands."
I Id has obstructed the administration
of juitice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his
will alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their
salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new of
fices, and sent hither swarms of officers,
to harass our people, and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among us, in times of
peace, standing armies, without the con
sent of cur legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent of, and superior to, the civil
power.
He has combined with others to sub
ject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our con
stitution, and. unacknowledged by our
laws ; giving his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us :
For protecting them, by a mock trialj
from punishment for any murders which
they should commit on the inhabitants of
these suites : .
For cutting off our trade with all parts
of the world :
For imposing taxes on us without our
consent :
For depriving us, in many cases, of the
benefits of trial by jury :
For transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences :
For abolishing the free system of Eng
lish laws in a neighbouring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary govern
ment, and enlarging its boundaries, so as
to render it at once an example and fit in
strument for introducing the same absolute
rule into these colonies :
For taking away our charters, abolish
ing our most valuable laws, and altering,
fundamentally, the forms of our govern
ments :
For suspending our own legislatures,
and declaring: themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in alljcases what
soever. He has abdicted government here, by
declaring us out of his protection, and
waging war against lis.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged
our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed
the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large
armies of foreign mercinaries to complete
the works f death, desolation and tyran
ny, already begun with circumstances of
cruelty and perfidy, scarcely parallelled
in the most barbarous ages, and totally
unworthy the head of a civilized uation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear
arms against their country, to become the
executioners of their friends and brethren,
or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merci
less Indian savages, whose known rule of
warfare is an undistinguished destruction
of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we
have petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms : our repeated ' petitions
have been answered only by repeated in
jury. A prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a
tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free
people. , , ...
Nor have wc been wanting in attentions
to our British brethren. "We have warned
them, from time to time, of attempts by
their legislature to extend an unwarrant
able jurisdiction over us. We have re
minded them of the circumstances of eur
emigration and settlement here. We have
appealed to their native justice and mag
nanimity, and we have conjured them by
the ties "of our common kindred to disa
vow these usurpations, which would in
evitably interrupt our connexions and cor
respondence. They too have been deaf
to the voice of justice and consanguinity.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the ne
cessity which denounces our separation,
and hold them, as we hold the t rest of
mankind-enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of
the United States of America, in general
congress assembled, appealing to the Su
preme Judge of the world, for the recti
tude of our intentions, do, in the name
and by the authority ef the good people
p these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare, that these united colonics are,
and of right ought to be, .free and indc-
penden .states ; that they are. absoiveu
from all allegiance to the British crown,
and that all political connexion between
them and the state of. Great Britain is,
and ought to be, totally dissolved ;. and
that, as" free and independent states, they
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish com
merce, and to do all other acts and things
which independent states may of right do.
And for the support of; this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence,' wc mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honour.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
An Illustration by way of Definition.
"Pray what is nonsense V asked a
wight who talked little, else.'. . ."Non
sense," replied his friend, "why sir its
nonsense to bolt a door with a boiled car
rot."
THE STREAM OF, LIFE.
Oh, silvery streamlet of the fields,
That flow est full and free!
For thee the rains of spring return,
: The summer dews for thee;
And when thy latest blossoms die , ....
Iu autum's chilly showers,
The winter fountains gush for thee,
Till May brings back the flowers.-
Oh, Stream of Life ! the violet springs
But once beside thy bed;
But one brief summer on thy path,
The dews of Heaven are shed;
Thy parent fountains shrink away,
And close their crystal veins,
A nd where thy glittering current flowed,
The dust alone remains. .
LETTER FROM THE SEAT
OF
WAR.
We have reason, independently of its
public importance, to suppose that the
following Letter is from a source to be
entitled to entire confidence ;
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIA GA
ZETTE. Jalapa, (Mexico,) May 19, 1847.
To tell you of the siege and capture of
Vera Cruz, or the battle of Cerro Gordo,
would be repeating a thrice-told tale.
You, no doubt, have felt proud, as an A
merican, of the increased glory to . our
arms by the brilliant results of that day,
when less than 1,200 men carried a forti
fied and almost inaccessible height of
1,000 feet, defended by 3,000 men and
six or eight pieces of cannon. The im
mediate actors on that memorable day
who survived the bloody conflict were as
much astonished to find themselves safely
masters of the height as those of you in
the United States were that we reached
there at all. As you know the story, I
will spare you the garrulousnese of an old
soldier.
You are aware that the army followed
the dispersed and flying enemy until we
reached this lovely spot,' and were right
glad to halt at the base, as it w ere, of the
Orizaba, view.hs snow-capped peak, and
partake of all the luxuries that are com
mon and abundant in tropical cities.
Here, amidst hills and valleys teeming
with every luxury in the form of fruits or
vegetables produced either north or south,
a portion of the army have reposed for
the last month, and another portion, with
out halting, passed on to Perote, where
an officer in waiting politely handed over
the keys of the well known castle and
prison, with an invoice of munitions,
bowed, and followed the footsteps of his
twice-whipped Excellency, who had ta
ken a less frequented road than the Grand
National ; which, by the by, is one' of the
most costly, endaring national highways
that any country can boast of bridges
sixty and seventy years old are as firm
and as strong as if finished but yesterday
a monument of Spanish grandeur that
will be admired and talked of when Spain
is blotted from the map of nations, and
her name, as it were, forgot'.er.
In the full tide of victory, and the coun
try in dismay at the terrible overthrow of
all their hopes at Cerro Gordo, the army
came to a dead halt for the want of ' the
mattf rial of war ! men and means oi
transportation for our subsistence. Here
3,500 volunteers were sent back, as their
term of service expired in little over a
month.
Jabipa was to be garrisoned Perote,
Puebla, and Mexico taken with about
eight or nine thousand men one of these
cities numbering more than one hundred
thousand inhabitants! Trains had to go
and return frequently ere the remnant of
our noble little army could advance.
This was a work of time ; a partial sup
ply for this place and Perote, and to ac
company the advancing forces, at last ar
rived. Ere this was accomplished the
advance took up the line of march for Pu
ebla, not over ihree thousand men. Here
the Mexican Napoleon, with his re-collected
troops, and by forcing into service
those who had been paroled under a
pledge of their officers not again to bear
arms until exchanged, made a feint at a
stand; and when four men had been
killed left the city, retreating on Mexico,
and our handful of men took possession
of one of the most splendid and beautiful
towns in the country, containing seventy
thousand inhabitants. ,
Thus things stand at present, and the
future to my vision is gloomy in the ex
treme. We are here cut off by the vomi
to from our base ol operations; and alter
a month the army in the field must de
pend upon the country " lor subsistance,
and that army destined to fight at another
Cerro Gordo, with its numbers reduced
nearly one half by the return of voiun-
teers and me garrison leu in me rear.
; Santa Anna, on retreating from Pueb
la, it is said, will take up a position at a
place called Rio Frio, where another bat
tle will undoubtedly be fought ; and if
successful, there ia 'still another at a place
within two leagues ot the city. This is
asking a great deal of six or seven thou
Band men. They can doit, but the blest
blood of America must run . in torrents
The cry now is, "Victory or Death !M
. We are dreadfully and most unfortunately-
crippled, Bt a moment when we
want all our strength Thus it was. latt
( summer, and ever will be when a for
eign war is carried on denending in any
J degree upon short-term volunteers, whose
term is sure to expire just when they are
most needed. Gen. Scott appealed to
them to re-enter the service, but in vain.
A volunteer for a second term would be
looked upon as a wonder, and by his com
rades as a fool. , A year in camp rubs oil
all the extra patriotism that first got them
into' the scrape. The fruits of our vic
tories are in a good degree lost by not be
ing able to push on ; the people . have re
covered from their panic, and will not
give up their, capital without making ano
ther effoit, and the least reverse to our
arms will bring npon us the whole na
tion, who, so long as victory declares in
our favor, prefer to remain quiet at home.
There is not the least prospect in : the
world of peace Mt. Trist is here, and,
as I . understand, with full powers to treat.
I fear that there is not the best under
standing in the world between him and
Gen. Scott. . This is another "of those
sort ol accidents that we, who have been
here near two years, feel may possibly
keep us here a year longer not that
either gentleman feels disposed to pro
long the war. I only mean to say that
the co-operation cannot be as cordial or as
confidential as it would he were their
personal and official relations that of
friends. Gen. Scott would have been a
most fortunate choice for the President,
and from his position could have taken
advantage of points and circumstances
I hat might occur, which being handed o
ver to another person would lose their
value. I; have had conversations with
persons who have listened for hours to
Gen. Scott's views in regard to the po
litical relations between the two countries
aitd no one can listen to him without be
ing deeply sensible that he. has studied
the subject as a statesman, and would
have done honor to the President, the
country, ; and himself, had he been en
trusted with the negotiation. He has had
an opportunity of conversing freely with
in the last month with the most influen
tial Mexican Generals a most favorable
opportunity for a negotiator to have spo
ken of what he desired to do, and what
our country was willing to do. I doubt
not that, so far as he was entrusted with
the President's" views, he improved- the
opportunity ; but the important and vital
document was wanting he had no au
thority or power to speak as an ambassa
dor. May 23.-Gen. Scott, with the second
division of the army, left this morning for
Puebla, where Gen. Worth now is. On
the arrival of Gen. S. the army will un
doubtedly move on to Mexico, a distance
of ninety-one miles.
The Minister, Mr. Trist, like wise goes
on as far as Puebla. We have not yet
heard of the results of the election for
President. I hope to, before this letter
closes. The people appear desirous that
Herrera should come into power, but the
military have generally their own way.
Col. Cimlds remains at this place as
the commander of the troops and governor
of the cfty and district, with about 1,500
men and 800 sick. As there tire no forti
fications at this place, a strong garrison
has to be left. I think he has force e
nough to give a good account of himself
and all the Mexicans that may come'against
him. His duties thus: far have been very
arduous in organizing the civil and mili
tary government ot the city, and as he
keeps both reins in his own hands he has
enough to do. But I flatter myself, when
he returns home, that he can run for a
judgeship where they are elected by the
people with a tolerable hope ol success.
As to providing ways and means, and
raising a revenue by taxation, he turns
his back upon no man. He thought he
could not be far out of the way when he
imposed a heavy tax on liquor. He soon
had an anti-temperance memorial of sever
al pages from venders and manufacturers
of brandy. Having heard and read a
great deal about temperance in. the Uni
ted States he was able to combat their ar
gument, and if he did not convince them
he raised the money.
I shall be able to give you now, from
time to time, the earliest information
from the army, as the expresses to Vera
Cruz will be through this . place.
FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS.
From the St. Louis New Extra, June 1.
The steamer Archer arrived last eve
ning from Council Bluffs, to which point
she had been to carry out 100 Mormons,
and between 60 and 70 tons of their
household furniture, farming utensils, &c,
and a small amount of goods sent up by
a merchant of this city. From the offi
cers of the A. we learn that there are still
at and in the vicinity of the Bluffs several
thousand Mormons, the larger proportion
in a .most wretched condition, living in
huts covered with turf and brush, and in
holes dug in the sides of the river bank,
scarcely affording the protection and con
venience of an Indian wigwam. They
are represented to be in a most filthy and
nearly half started condition, forAvhich
their only relief is emigration.
A large number started for Oregon
this spring, and it is the intention of the
majority, of those behind to follow- so
coon as they can do wwhh a
certainty
of ever reaching their place of destination,
but a large portion are so entirely desti
tute that it is deemed unsafe for them to
undertake the journey this summer, and
it is more than probabie that succor will
have to come from some other quarter
than their own industry, before they will
be able to remove from where they are at
present. Many and in fact the greater
portion, are making some preparations
toward raising a crop, but the yield, it is
thought, will seftrcely keep them alive
until another spring.
They have been much annoyed of late
by Indians, and most of their valuable
stock, such as cows, oxen, and horses,
have been stolen. Their encampment is
stretched along the banks of the Missouri
for six or eight miles, entirely unprotected
and unguarded; but notwithstanding, they
are constantly receiving reinforcements
from nearly every quarter of the United
States and Great Britain. The persons
carried up by' the Archer were new prose
lytes on their way to the "New Jerusa
lem," which is to be built up in Oregon.
The A. left the Bluffs on the 21th ult.;
the water was then falling, with three and
a half feet of water in the channel to
Weston. The steamer Martha was met
at Council Point with the American Fur
Company's men on board.
No rains in the vicinity of the Bluffs,
and a Mr. Richards, who came down
from the mountains and got on board the
Archer at St. Joseph, reports no rise in
the streams and tributaries, and no rain in
the country above. From Weston to
Jefferson city the officers of the A. re
port four and a half feet of water, thence
to the mouth between six and seven feet
iu the channel.
DOUBLE DISTILLED TREA
CHERY. Public attention has of late been con
siderably directed to the Philadelphia
Ledger, in consequence of the fact that
the writer who holds an office in the De
partment of State, is understood to enjoy,
in an eminent degree, the confidence of
Mr. Secretary Buchanan, and has often
foreshadowed the intentions of the Ad
ministration, or disclosed its views of po
licy. In a late number of the Ledger the
following forms part of this writer's re
gular coirespondence :
"Victory round on every side and not
a drop of comfort. Peace is apparently
as far off as ever. We shall, for want of
power to treat with, be obliged to keep
possession of a goodly portion of the
conquered territory, and to fortify and hold
all the strong places in our hands.
With the defeat of Santa Anna, my
hope of peace is considerably diminished,
for however strongly the opposition press
may have railed against what it was plea
sed to call "the passport granted to that
chief," certain it is that our best
HOPES OF PEACE RESTED ON HIM, and that
nothing but the impossibility of sustain
ing himself in Mexico, has thus far baf
fled his efforts to make the Congress a
gree to the proposition of our govern
ment to send commissioners.
"The tone of his warlike despatches
was from the commencement forced upon
him by the circumstances in which he was
placed, and perfectly undei stood here by
the President and his cabinet. Santa
Anna's only hope of success consisted in
first satisfying the national vanity of his
countrymen, or availing himself of some
lucky accident, to turn for a moment, the
fortunes of war, and to improve that mo
ment for concluding a peace. He came
. T
VERY NEAR SUCH A CHANCE AT DUENA
Vista, but the battle of Cerro Gordo has
put an end to his prospects, and with
them, to our calculation of peace from
that quarter."
This statement of a trusted and confi
dential friend of the Administration, trans
lated into plain English mcan3, that Pre
sident Polk, on principles that would ren
der a man infamous if practised in ordi
nary life, and in violation of every rule
of honorable warfare, admitted Santa An
na into Mexico in order that by an enor
mous treason he might betray that coun
try, and thereby give this country a suc
cess it could not win by open honorable
war. To further aid Santa Anna in his
treason, Mr. Polk asked and obtained the
use of three millions of dollars for the
purpose of purchasing the venal and cor
rupt. Was there ever a plan conceived
so reeking with baseness, so dishonoring
to a great, just and powerful nation as we
claim to be ? But infamous as it is, the
worst is not yet told. To secure the suc
cess of his conspiracy beyond hazard, the
sacrifice of Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista
was deliberately p lanned. The regulars
and nearly and nearly all the artillery
were detached from Gen. Taylor's com
mand, and there only surrounded only by
volunteers, the flower and best blood of
the west, he was dooraed'to destruction,
that Mr. Polk by this double treachery
might bring to a close this war of his bc-
ginning. 'BurrAio Com. .
From the Pennsylvania Intelligencer.
Ccn. James Irvln and Ms Oppo
nents. The candidate of the Whig parly pos
sesses a private and public character so
pure and unobjectionable in every partic
ular, that the Locofoco presses are at a
loss what to say against him. Occasion
ally, however in their anxiety to mako
some show of opposition, the pensioned
scribblers of the most unscrupulous Lo
cofoco Journals, indulge in a strain of
bitter denunciation. We find an article
of that kind in the last "Union," and as
the most effectual way to meet and offjet
that kind of opposition is to flght them
with their own weapons, we have para
dized the article, altering it in word very
little but materially in poiutand direction.
We do this for the purpose of exhibiting
10 the friends of Mr. Shunk the force of
their own language, applied to him with
quite as muchjpropriety, as applied in tho
original to Gen. Irvin.
PARODY OF AN ARTICLE IN THE LAST 'UNION.
The Federalists.
The Federalists in Pennsylvania seem
to be pretty much at a stand and scarce
ly know which way to turn. There aro
some serious differences in 'heir own
ranks, and their treasonable opposition to
the Mexican war meets with very littlo
favor from the people. The fact is tha
Federalists did make a mistake in nomi
nating so weak a candidate as Shunk.
They have not been able to write a single
paragraph jout of any incident in his life,
or identify him with any 'great political
reform, or to describe anything rtmark
able that he said or did. Althengh a pub
lic man, his life is a blank, and we do not
think the people will interrupt the void
by placing so incompetent a man in. the
executive chair It would be better to e
lect the original John Haney, or the
astrologer Hague, or beau Hickman, be
cause each of these eminent individuals
has made a figure in the world.
The friends of one term are very much
annoyed at such a dead weight being
fastened on the party as a candidate for
their suffrages, and many of them are al
ready beginning to kick out of the traces.
11 is mortifying to have such a man thrust
npon them, and, discouraging because de
feat is inevitable. Eldred Voold have
rallied the strength of the party and been
a more formidable opponcat. There
would have been some honor ia beating
him, but in discomfiting the present can
didate we will only have to walk over the
course.
The great body of the party who
should probably have supported Shunk,
begin to feel sensibly the hopalessness of
their situation, and will not labor actively
in behalt of an unworthy candidate, to
wards whom tbe cold shoulders of the
leaders of the Federal parly are turned.
Now is there anything that Shunk has
done calculated to awaken the sympathies
of the people. He is a RICH OFFICE
HOLDER of thirty-five years standing,
and wholly imbued with anti-Democratic
feelings and sentiments. The disaffection
in his own party will not be supplied by
an addition of the popular vote.
Thus weak in his own party, among
his friends, what chance does he itand in
running against OLD IRONSJDES,
leading on the invincible Demoeraey of
the Keystone State! His party is warm
ly attached to him, and the peple of the
State know that he is their friend, and he
has shown himself to be the advocate of
the true interests of the Commonwealth.
He has carried out the principles of our
faith and complied with the wishes of his
constituents, and in tne contest wnicn w
now going on between this republic and
Mexico, Gen. JAMES 1RV1N has al
ways been found on the right side, lend
ing his energies in aid of the country.
He has with him his own party and the
people of the State without respect to par
ty. TSusincss of the Canal.
One of our numerous transporters in
formed us to-day that they had regularly
shipped from 640 to 650 tons eastward
per week since the canal opened, i hat
their shipments last week were CO I tons,
and that they had more in the depot at
the end than at the beginning of the week.
Freight for Flour $2 00 per bbl. Bacen
$1 per 100 lbs., but higher freights are
offered for lots out of lum.
The gorge of Flour at Buffalo, we
learn 13 even greater, and that the whole
season with a "fifty mile line ef bests,'
would be insufficient to pass it through.
Pittsburgh American.
BEAVER AND SANDY CANAL.
We learn from a gentleman on the
route of this improvement, that there are
now six boats running regularly from the
mouth of Little Beaver to New Lisbon"
26 miles. That each boat makes three
trips per week, the principal freight down
being Flour, each boat carrying 300 bbls.
making the landing on the Ohio a place
of no inconsiderable business, where it is
all re-shipped for this city. This gives
upwards of 5000 bbls. per week, and
serves to give us intelligence of one of the
sources from whence flows that rush of
flour into the depots of this city. Piltx
burgh American. - -'