111 La Luter'from Mock°. II .21rance turtard tie eapital—rscape,of fur Gaines and .11idshipmaa /Itokers. The steamship i GatvCston has arrived it New Orleans, with nilvices from INehla. to the 6th of Aligtiq, on# weeklaterthau before received. General Scott wits still at: Puebla ont.lie:lo. h 2 army Wam to take up the, line Of march on thenext day for the City of Mex ico. General 'Pwi'ow's Division was to leave on tlid 7th, GenerarQuitman on the Bth, Gen. Werth on the 1 3 th Mid General • Pillow's on the liltl. •• ' Cot. Cli'l Is remains in entnenand at Puebla. General Pierce arrived at Puebla on the tali; lostluot a single man on the march,_not withitandint a n other severe:battle with the Guerrillri;s. The most agreeahle.news by this arrival is thie'scape of Major Gaines and Passed Mid shipman Rogers friim the city of Mexico, and their safe arrival of General Scott's head tparters.s • The letters mention an affitir between Capt ittit of the Rifles and the carnmander of a Gttrrilla party, in which the latter was en _ lir ly routed. Mr. Kendall also writes of the death of of the second Dragoons, and Dr. lininmer of the South Carolina Regiment. The train which left Vera Gruzon theeve -1 ning of the oth, has beeri attacked - about 24 miles from Vera Cruz. Indeed the attacks Tor,iimenced Shortly after leaving that city. 'he escort of the train was under command of Major Lally, of the Ninth infantry, Col. \Vilson being down sA ith the 'yellow fever.. SECOND - DESPATCH. - lin steamer Galveston, from Vera Cruz, 111-,;( tonehed at Tampico on the 14th, and at limit's on the 15th. , By her we have dates e front all these points. The train, which left Vera.Critz on the 6th w ith severely handled. Capt. 'Fairchild, and 4;llPt. Besancon's companies had a fight with th. - Iguerrillii patieS, and a serious affair at the National Bridge. The Sun .of Anahuac, of the 12th, says the 1 draliroons report an action 8 miles from the' Narional Bridge, and that Capt. Bald - win and Curnminga were wounded. 25 Mexicans and 8 American's were killed. • The Americans being reinforced, a hard figlit was expected at the bridge. . The 10th Infantry, under Maj. Lally, had a 604 with tho guerrillas, near Santa Fe.— They were conducting the baggage wagons, or gain,, and little or no harm was done. - Caen. Scott left Puebla on the 7th of 'Aug., i and expected to tight a severe battle between I Pliable and the city of Mexico. ' T im coimpunications being interrupted, and the special express froM,Puebla having been ciq off; we have no ad% ices direct from Gen. I 'SOtt's army. The statement of his advance, Comes in an'aothentio and reliable form. Tho'Sun of Anahuac of the 11th pays the SeCretary of the Spanish. Legation arrived at. Vera - Cruz and resigned. Also gives rumors that a messenger guarded by two hundred Mexican cavalry arrived at Peubla with des patches to Gen. Scott from the capital. Gen. Pierce will retnaiii; in command atl Puebla. although, one statement has it that 'C d. Childs is assigned to that duty. Letters in thetlelta, from Vera Cruz:, to the 12th of Atig,st, says, letters to inferchants . there - positively announce that Gen. Scott would move from Puebla on the 7th. The PiCayinie correspondents say lie was to march on the Bth. Nu particulars are given, but the statement was not believed. .' Midshipman Rogers any Major, Gaines re- , rort,,Aliat Santa Anna was marching with i fifteen thousand men to meet Geri. Scott. 'i A night attack on Tampico wriatxprlcted. The yellow fever was spreading at Tampil I _ co_dint..._at. Vrn.. Pv....- :, --.-.... .1..,. Cinftrnn•ra \ Tht able and lucid letters of 4 'Prenlice, l. , 'the commercial correspondent of the Wash!, in,gton Union, published weekly in that jourv; nal, furnish• the most eencluaive evidence of the extroardinary pro.* ity of the United states at the present day If .we only had space so as to ciapy then letters into the col umns of the Citizen believe they would be proluCtive of the most happy results.— Those of our readers who are engaged in ag rjcultlral pnretilts would, by the perusal of these letters, gain a dear insight info the sal titary effects produced by the different meas ures Id Mr. Polk's ai.miniatration on the com mercial intercourse between the United States and other nations, and the extent to -which their interests are promoted by this in t.: (eased trade. We make the-following. extrack from his letter of the 6th inst., in regard to the'export •of agricultural product's from the port of New Yurk, for the last three months preced ing the Ist of August inst.—Frederick (Md.) • Citizen' . "Both the import and export trade of the city have inercased 50 per cent., and the in ternal trade in a greater ratio. As an index of which, we may compare the quantitieseand value of flour and wheat and corn that arrived.' `at tidewater on thn Hudson to the Ist 'Aug. reducing the wheat to flour: I . - 1846. v 1847. - ,_........_,.........„„_., , ~....—..................., jinataitv. %%slur. 0.1141114 WOO. ):tonight I 191 .1 XI 5081.038 %M1.:3 i 5 13,696.07.1 Cora bale eOO,Oll 410,11J0 MAN) 3,0117,269 Total v..ine $5,1:111,7.4 1117,703A10 s • oiler° is an increase of $12,500,000 in three months on two articles of form,produce com ing down the canal alone. Two' yeas of • business like the present will, on free-trade principles, increase the actual capital of the country. equal to the whole amount employed in manufactures. There can be no large ex- Toils iiitliptit'correspondi imports, and vice than." i ' NEW ROUTS TO THE Paciric.,--A writer in a late number of t ;the "Union" states that a new and safer and more expeditious write for the transportation of stored to the waters of the PacifiC, thin any now used r can be available by way of the Rio Grande. Steamboats now ascend with ease that river to Lariada, 700 miles above the Gulf of Mexico, as has been proved in years past, and during the last year by a steamboat expedition ,sent up this river by General Patterson; and at 100 miles high er up, where General Wool creased, near the town of Presidia deltio Grande, the depth of water v(tas E 4 feet; and this depth continues all the way up to the city of Albuquerque, within a day or two's travel of Santa Fe; and. Irani this neighborhood, it has bemfascertain ei that the distance overland to the navigabli, waters of the Gulf of CaliOnia, (the Ri. Colorado) is but 200 miles, which would brin usto tha waters of the Pa cilicto th ( e-gents of Guayama, Monterey, San Pra cisee,Astbrid. Thus, through.the medium of this coute,jittle land travel will be necessary, not exceeding 400 miles, (by leaving the river lower down) and through a well.settled region, wheie pro vieionej coal, 6tc., are plenty, i and no' danger from the attack of Indians. The writer says: "In connection with this ronte, a very im portant improvement in transmitting-govern ment (Iv:patches may be introduced—viz: the magnetictelegraph- l -by which we could con vey and receive intelligence from our Pacific possessions in ' tw o 9 wt*lteheach day - This is no visionary sch e me; forbefore • two years elapse, the telegraph will be completed to New Orleans; from thence it I would be con veyed by steamboatdown the Gulf oil Mexico and up the Rio Grande to a suitable point on the same, where a line of telegraph, •of about QD mites, would reach the waters •of the Gulf of California, frord whence it would be trausreitted by•stearnboat to tbe different ports on the coast: Coneblering much this country has suffered - leo misrule for the last fifty years, under thei4uirinu4 Vetimeratie adminlstions, (as we ire- told by the Fedoralistsy it - I(!_truly wonderful how it hasgonouu eindp!osped as It went. ;,. • - - - - ANOTHER SHOWER-BATH FOR THE 'MEXICAN WHIGS. Cain. Thomas F. Marshall's, or Tour ar shall's, late tynr speecl wire's perfect datnpe •• DI - Olean V hita- of that ilk. Prentice, the editor of the:l46uis vine Journal, vs present at its conimeitce rnent; but ince - mine:illy sloped, as soon nthe ofater began to get wartned in. his subject. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says: le l'om let down upon Corwin, &c., with a tremendous force. He denounced the war as infamous, and true' toward their countrymen who are contending against a dastardly foe and destructive climate.. Ile would carry the war,to the lust point of resistance, and pro claim is peace, and be Would enforce it by hanging every one u ho rebelled againSt it.— Tho .ifemicans,; he said, - were a miserable de graded-race, down trodden by a band of ras cally ,grandees and thieving officers, who were for war, because by that they onlylcould live. IGorernment, he said, they aver had; the country was ruined by factions—military factions-.—Who kept the people in the worst sort - of bondage. Capt. .Marshal!' applauded the plan of-the campaign, as one of the most Splendid and up to the time General Scott en tered Mexico, was being prosecuted on a scale of grandeur unequalled in the history, of the world. Taylor Advancing through the pass es of the Sitirra Madre--.Wool through Chi huahua—Kearney through Santa Fe and California—and ull,converging to a common centre—and intented to strike directly to the, heart of Mexico. Wu then spoke of. Scott's plau, which deprived Taylor of hearty all his farce . , and left them to tight the greatest. ar my that Mexico could bring into the field with 0n1y . 4,500 volunteers—and the splendid result of that g reat battle. He said he had heard, since h is return, that it had been the policy of the Administration from motives of fear and jealously of Taylor's growing popu larity, to sacrifice him - and his brave little ar my! 'He seemed to understand the object •of those who had so indUstriously circulated this liml slander of the opposition, a:ld t remarked, that if the government - or rival chi - 4 could be suffered to act from such a motive he would invoke the wrath and ,power of the Almighty 'to scatter and consume them with - the. red lightnings of Heaven! Capt. Marshall in the words of the Enquirer's irespondent, went farther than he'that went faf4st, in sustaining his country andtthe ad nunTstration in the prosecution of this_ war. I , as not a war of Mr. Polk's—it was a war ortlre country, by its vote in electing .Mr. Polk—that was the tnain issue between the two great political purties at the last election; and when, by the act of Mexico, hostilities had actually commenced, the. country; by a singuiar unanimity of the Legislature, passed a vote to raise 30,000 men to proseepte it with vigor. How, then, could this be Mr. Polk's war? 'Capt. Marshall was for taking the whole of Mexico, and holding/all we took.— Could England object to it"? No! Every inch of Territory held by England, beyond its own island, was held by the right of conquest —and that, by the laws of nations, - Was the bco. of titles. He would hold all." A PILL FOR FEDERALISM. . Cul. Henry S.‘Lane, of Indiana, a talented Federal, who has recently returned home from Mexico, delivered an eloquent and patri otic speech at Crawfordsville, a few days ago, to a very large concourse of citizens.-- In the course of his remarks he alluded to the speech of - Senator Corwin, of Ohio, upon the Mexican war, in the following language: "it is the emanation of a master mind, but the eloquent language in which i't is elotheci cannot conceal its detiniing treasdh!" 10 speaking -of the men who reluied.to vdte sup plies to the warworn soldier, he said "disgrace two' inWaYaVefir - -'—""-- I ' - ' -- "-- , :: C6l. Lane also 'declared that on the reeep 4101110f Mr. Corwin's speech in Mexico, the Ohib troops not 'only burnt the speech butt al-. so te author in effigy. 1 'e can easily imagine tie feelings -of the bra 'e men who, while pert ing their lives in the r country's poisonous hit *ht nt hine. it has ever been thus. 'ln eve - war in which . WO have been engaged, the leaders of the Fed eral party have uniformly deuounced.the war, and those engaged in it; they have invaria bly placed pur o!.vn country in the wrong, and our national foe in the right. Can true patriots. support a party which support suph men? , • An army correspondent writing from Buena Vista . on this subject says— , “As you will doubtless suppose. much ex citement prevailed among the volunteers and especially those from Ohio, when the unpa triotic and anti-American speech of Senator CorlOn was read—and they gave utterance . to their feelings of contempt for the roan, and indignation at his Mexican sentiments, by groans andthisseslfrom every soldier present while, the devouring flames were consuming. Iris itnage. b 1 Tfie - same correspondent, after speaking of the,biave men tom let their homes, their , Fa Fillies and, friends, an ! d voluntarily took up- A on thentselves the trials and hardships of a soldier's life to de end their country's rights, to avenge her wr ngs, thus proceeds: ' , ‘‘.ucli men lose! their philosophy, w hen they . read the jeers and insults of a erowarilly mis ireant—the falsehoods and . calumnies of a traitorous scoundrel, like Tim Corwin. who w ou ld see his coluntry -disgraced before he would shoulder a musket in its defence. Let me say to you, siti that, if wo had him here abort this time, the Ohio Regiments would ask no better spoti than to avenge the , re proach end insults aimetil at - them by this men,' than hanging hinil on Ne first tree, in lieu of his effigy! litany' a better man has' shared a similar fate." ANOTHER SHOITHR BATH TO WHIGGPALT. The Wayne County Democrat contains the toasts drank at the public dinner in Wooster given to. col. Curtis i and the volunteers of the third Ohio regime l n. Colonel Curtis's speech roust have been a bitter pill to his Whig friends. He sustained the war—sustained its 'proseCution—chargod its commencement on Mexico--denied that this is a war ,to extend slavery, but said Slavery would, from natural causes, be eircumVented by it—that the mass of the Mexicana were in little better condition thanqhe slaves of the south, if as good. He dee iea that we con id make pence by withdraw '. iv our army; it must be done by teaching the enemy to respect our rights. : Opposition here, among our people,. to a vigorow,i prose cution of the war. would only lead the 741exi cans to suppose that they could obtain peace - o - n - better terms-, &c. FROM VAR Pt./ans.—Several volunteers re turned to the city on Saturday last; they bring a number of letters, but nothing of interest in tiddition to what we have already publitdied. From thu reports brought in by this party, it is probably that Kit Carson, who was go'- ing out with despatches to California, had lost all his horses and mules. Our informant met him near the 'Pawnee Rock, and aftM.wards heard frein a party who said they had passed him the day following, that his mutes and horses hatl.all been stolen the night preyious. From Cersoreu.weli-kdown knowledge of the woods and •fiuniliarity with the Indian ;char acter, we are-disposed to doubt the correct ness of the report. Yet so adroit and daring have been-the attacks of - these Indians, that we shall not be surprised, if it ttirt4 put to be trtie.—••St. Louis Rep., 161/I.' _ While the cars were passing froinßuffalo_ to Attlee, op elecent, trip, one of the mow. gore, an hongst,German emigrant, gave birth to a bouncingloy. !ore wondef, wo believe no extra chai•ge was made for the additional passenger, which we record sinnething ex traordinary. I Thn mother, took the youngster in her arms on her arrival of the cart et Buf falo and walked with tete raPh speed to the steamboat. . • P • ffillifiliPMMlllan a l ' - :?No PICTION.T.Not a in- e y - long time rig, ;itme of the inost eloquent di , tiles of Great Btit, 410 : occupying one of the ost important pet 4its of the kingdan, beta eso much affected_ b, the, use cif - wine, repeat 'd,/,f; that lie wee' summoned to Otte MI a 'tint of himseif: .:11e could: not bear, he said, to stand for trial fit such a chargeibefore Men whose only 'int periority over litin - consisted in the possession of hard heads, which could endure potions that overthrew him. He accordingly left his high position, and, under an assumed name, / ,itf took passage in the steerage; 'a ship bound to America. At one of our rincipal interior towns he took lodging at in,iibseuro hotel, where, for a while, he bore ,up under all the pressure npon hint and lived without execs ! stverindulgence. ' But .at _length he returned to bie glass more recklessly that ever, get in-' to a broil with low fellOws, for which he vas arrested,tind 'with others - cotnrielled to labor in prison. There,•of course,'he was temper ate, but the deeydegrallation of his condition prevented him from disclosing his real name. o i At length, ,a V Situr, looking at him, thought he discovered tr its not Coinmon In the prison, and, hating pr ' need liberty from the keeper,. addressed. the p isoner, saying, "Bir, - I judge from your beari g that you have seen better circumstances t an these which you are in at present." "Yes4l have," replied the prisoner, shedding tears. 'By persevering kindness the visiter was able at length to obtain the real name of the fallen man, and the story of hie degradation.' He repaired to a clergyman of the place, with the' secret. 'I he clergyman had a parialniner from the church pf which the prisoner said he had been the minister.— He wan iiivited,to the prison. • It -was so; there was his elo4u6nt pastor working among felons! By application to the proper author ities the prisoner was released from conline ment, and, under the care of kind friends, it is hoped that his'great tbients may be employed in higlosefulnessagriin.—X. V. Jour. Con. THR THINO CALLIII) Qum:4.-oer Canada neighbors talk about.the "things called Pres idents." A young girl by reason of an ar rangement Made some two hundred years ago, is placed at the head of a great empire, when only 18 years old. She is the daughter of a "State pauper," whose lack of brain was pro verbial, the grand daughter of a wan who be came a hopeless idiot, and the niece of a prof ligate debauchee and heartless husband, whose character it is almost indecent to mention.— She is possessed of rather inferior talents, both natural and acquired, .is not at all re markable for the beauty or dignitk of her per- Sou, and her voice in an-ordinary family would not be regarded safe in some discussion upon the purchase of - new, lace or the fit of a gown. Her tower is somewhat akin to . yinegar in its nature, and her husband whom she elevated from a pauper German principality to her bed and throne, is the laugh of Continental Eu rope. " She is infect a female puppet, whom ministers' manage as suits their notions, and to whom Colonists 'and traveling Showmen 'are proud and boastful of a introduction.— She is the thing called Queen.—Roth. Ere. GOZ. MAKINO A BAD BEGIPMNG.—..The St. Louis Reville has some discouraging news from the 'California Emigrants, in a letter written by one of the number above the junction' of the 'North and South Forks of the Platte. The •company numbered seventy-six wagons on the 18th of May, and on the 16th of June,• by din eention among them, the number travelling together was reduced to sixteen wagons.— They had divied &Tinto small parties, each selecting a leader among themselves. On the 17th, Capt. ‘Viggine, who had started as leader, of the main party, resigned his corn [nand and left theta. , They were quarrelling as usual, with the prospect of this last six teen dividing before another day had passed. Those that quit the main tarty linve found some difficulte in uniti" ""' divisions. Getv. CASs AT DART3IOUTII The oration before the Literary Societies, by the lion. Lewis Cusp, Of ; Michigan, wasevery way worthof,tlie distinguished orator. His theme, "T e glory of our country and the best means of preserving it," was well suited to the man and the occasion. He referred to the free institutions; out educated masses; our universal diffusion of knowledge, and our improved means of rapid commutication.— • These, and a variety of other topies to which .he needed while contrasting our condition with that of other countries and other ages, embraced the, true elements _of our national glory. These were what had carried us for ward in our proud career, until we aro already occupying the stepping-stone that looks off to the Celestial Empire. long as our coun trymee cherish them, so long will that glory continue, cherish them and they will carry us forward and make the coming millions of this country hap y, ns we are happy; cherish them and the star of American liberty will never ;set: -The strong current of nervous thought ,which ran through hie production, was illus trated throughout bythe choice gems of a wide historical research, adorned by the most beau tiful poetical and classical allusions.—Nor Hampshire urges: • - CASE OF TUE CHESAPEAKE.—The Cincin nati- Enquirer says ,that Ashbel Barney, E. G. Merrick, 11. Higgins, and others, who were indicted as the owners of the steamboat Ches apeake, for "neglecting to provide the vessel with life boats, kc, as required by the act of Congress, pleaded nottc contendere, before the U. S. Court, and submitted the case to its con sent, whereupon the Court fined them three hutulred dollars, and the costs of prosecution. TUE WRONG MAU HUNG.—A young printer named Boyingtot, who, served his time in the race of the New Eleven Palladittrewas hung a few years since in Alubania, upon a charge of buying nmrdered a companion with whom he wus traveling. He protested his inno cence to the last, bet without avail. Recept ly the landlord in whose house the murder was committed confessed the crime on his death bed: Boyington, was a young man of fine tal ents. an d prepossessing appearance, whose guilt was deemed conclusive =only from the fact Oct lie was the last person seen with the murdered man. . DON'T SOSPECT TOO QuicK. 7 —The Phila delphia papers give an account of a most bru tal chastisement inflicted by &pious and re fined lady of that city -upon a little colored girl, Whom she suspected of -stealing money from her. After.whipping the girl herself, having her Ituaband do the same, - and,letting a young man frighten her witty a rope and threats of hanging, the lady found the money all safely _pinned in sAress, just where she had placed it heyielf, and then forgottett it. A 111Exicarc.—The Boston Times. states That during the progress of the funeral cere monies at Worcester, on Saturday last, in. honor of the la nented Lincoln, all the stores generally were closed in the streets through which the procession passed. , There was'one prominent exception,: however; it adds; that of a man by the name of Eaton, who exhibit-` ' ed a placard in front.cf his stomas the . cop. tege neared his place, upon which were in scribed the words "No homage to murderers." k. H .________..L.... ~ .• .• , • WnaTßetn:4-The Boston Atlas says fif teen hundred_ houses will be built in the, new manufacturing town of Lawrenee the pres ent seasen: Jut think cif them building ten' houses every dalit - a town only one year old! What .91 tinge people those Yankees y are—to.be inve s ting their substance in build-, ing,matinfadturing towns;" when the "Wise men" of the pithy cloitning 4 %11 the intailil gence of calm y", have proclaimed that the manufacturing business has been ruined by the ,! 4 )3ritialt la foco Tarifi;." - , : • .. -One reason, sys a country paper which Ui• duces us to au port the ten' holtr bill` itr, _that the factory girlamill then have time to garter . their moCitings : la the Mort* *. instead of ha,v l iitg - So -IrequntrY• tit 'draw: thete tip in' • thil , . Wefts; - • - • • -•-- - --..- Letter from Gen. Taylor.:.; ?,-,' '- F" 'n th e "tblartiOlty, Cretin.) detTersoniaa. ~ -tielow• we'pnblishilie letter of Gen. Tay i(o4 reply ,to the letter of the committee op-. peinted by the DemoCratic Convention in this Pl*4','on the; th (triune last. It trill be seen ttta%the committee`. make reference to the res olutions of the committee es embodying the printiples upon'whieh they 'wish to know his opinon, and it out)! be important to a clear un dere ending of • the correspondence :to ',learn i a t ilut those reselitlions were we; regret that we cohnot spard:the_space to republish them. We . [will,. however in as brief a - urer as , pis ble explain their purport.' !p '+ - -- - • ' T ie first regulation expressessa settled hos tili!.- to a, National Batik, and exiiresses a be- • lief hat such an institution is r i o t only uncon stitutional but highly inexpedient, The sec , - mid 'refers. to the same subject. - The third resolution declares in favor of the Independent Ticasury and the separation of Banit and 'State. • " • ; The fourth declares against antra' for pro tection; the fifth "against the distribution ,of the irruceeds of tilet, of the peblic lands, .and the vixth against the - policy of internal im provements by the General GOVernmeni. T l lte seventh expresses the belief in•thi*right of• t em'', as ad independent 'sovereignty to annex itself to the United States and the obli-, sation impoied upon us afterthe act of tin= tiextition piatect•her territory. Then comes a preamble which alludes to the movement which had been , made by the whig party - in favor of Gen: Taylor, and takes the I ground without qualification that the dernicratic party: cannot Ruppert any man whop •plrincipkes are not • well defined and which ore not wholly and entirely democratic. • Then follows the reso o lution instructing the officers of the cemmitteb to address a letter to. Gen. Taylor touching his opinions upon , the Several matters referred to in the resolu tions. Another resolution fully endorses the course of the present administration, and con gratitlates the peoplo'upon the. prosperity of the country under democratic rule. • • This is the substance of the resolutions which were forwarded by the committee to Gen, Taylor, and to which Ms attention was called. He declines any expression of his vieWs, and gives us . distinctly to understand the he does nut intend to make any declare tionlof principle Whatever. • He says that he must go into office - "anti amelled and un pledged" so that he can bci the President of the people and not of a party.' What the Whigs will say to this remains to be seen.— The; position of the democratic party here is no matter Of doubt. They declare without reservation in the resolution that•they cannot and 'will not support a "man - whose political principles they 'do not kOow. We predict thnt!this letter will exercise a very important influence upon the. whigs in this State, kis welt as in other parts of the Union, and that the honest and patriotic of that party will I take the ground occuiriedhy the democracy, of Montgomery county upou this. subjeet.l The following is the letter: ' 1 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OT OCCUPATIONS - Camp near Monterey, Mexico, Jelly 20, 1847, Dzsa Stat--I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your esteemed letter of the 16th inst., which lutanist renclvline, accoin periled by certain resolutions entered , into, by a Democratic meeting of my fellow-citizens at•Clarksville, Tenn., on the 7th ofJuite last, in relation to certain important matters and principles connected with the management of our I national affairs, desiring: to know my views and opinions in regard to the same, na they might have art important bearing on .their COLTER ) should my' name he, before the coun try as a candidate for the Presidency at the coining 'election; which I must beg leave to ',WAIN doing, for •eveti if dis p osed to•do so ir I I , J spat tut , mut- runty% y anurint UM 6 to levtite to• the investigation Of those sub jects 'which their importance seem to require, to enable me to reply to them in a wav that would be aatisfeetoryle,pfself, much Less So to your honorable erimln7tee. I must there fore say in this instance what I have Stated to others on like occasions, which ist that I. am no Pelitician, near forty years of my life have been passed in military service of the Repub lic, i . nost of which in the field, the camp, on it,, our western frontier or intim" udian territory, and I may say with great pr priety, fort e m ai part constantly,on duty, the seat two in Mexico, or milts immediate orders during which time I hay not pass4d me night under the roof of a,hou e; you may therefore very readily suppose u tder such ci cumstances, I have had butlittl time t 4 dev to to the con sideration or inre Ligation of i portant polit ical matters, ',or to 'their disou sion, nor have attempted to do en, or befell mi ed up with po litical men or matters in any way; not even having voted forione of our ch of magistrates or any one else since I have - ern stationed or serving for the most part,b , yontilbq limits of the States., , , I can .ti n y in all , sincerity I ace no aspira tions for the Presidency, and 1 .1 am a can didate or to be ocie, it must ifis recollected I am or will be made so by oth.rs, and by no agency of mine in the matter; rider this state of titings should a majority of he good people of our country think proper t elevate me to the:first office in their gift, or I may say the first in the world, I will feel sound to servo thein, and WU do so honest l and faithfully to the best omy abilities sari fitly-in conform ity to the pr igloos of the constitution, as 1 ,, near as possible in the way it was acted-upon and construed by our first Pre.idents, two of whom at least participated i ' creating and putting into operation that glorious instru ment. But many important hanger in our affairs, at hunie and abroad ma take place be tween this and thestime for ho ding the elec tion for filling said office, yo uch so,' as to make it desirable for thq gen rel good, that some individual other than m self should be selected as a candidate" for th t station, and could he be elected, I will not ay ;hat I would yield my pretensions !M to tha distinguished I position, fer - I e not the va ity to believe V have any, butol would not only acquiesce with pleasure in such an arrangem nt, but would rejoice that the ßepublic had ne citizen more worthy and better quali fi ed th n 1 am, and, no doubtlhoro are thousands, to' dioharge the arduous and important duties plibrtainiog to that high office. Be this us i Indy, should I ever occupy the White tlous it must, be by the spontaneous move of the p ople, and by no act of mine, fin t at I could en et. on the du ties appertaioin to the Chic Magistrate of the country untr, mmeledand - , unpledged lt ite be yond what I havepreviously stated as regards the Constitution-, sci that 1 coo d and would be the President of the nation an. not of a party. . For thikinterest you and of or kind friends of the and conuitittethose yo and they rep -4 resent take in y continued .access against they enemy whi e this war co' tinues, which I sincerely hope - Will soon be brought 'to an hoito.rable•close as well as I •itr fur the too flattering mann r you have .eett‘ - pieated to ormect my name with the d itinguished of-' lice ;in question,l find especial!, for the hand shine and complimentary ter .sin which they haVe been communicated, ar. duty apprecia. ted,antl for which 1 beg leave to tender to yon and through' you to .the gentle nen of the colo n:lke% collectively and indiv dually, my most cofdial thanks for the same. , With consider ations of higheakrespect tin. esteem, I re. main gentlemen,' , ' - . Your I nbi'tiod dove . , ' - • r. • Maj. Gen To Dr. C. L. WILCOX at committee. Tits CANAL AND TIM LA slanlitude" the canal has bgen the lelter.what Alwaste of • thitivant ate UPiteil ata.te l l when; will prosperity fetal. !tried but r tit Vddloill THE 0 IMET FR4 FR 51 0 It 4._EL1A40,1 is a_d . uly authori agent to procure subscribers foi this paper. Smits -Waiewr, one of the brightest eta a in the American galaxy of statesmen, is no more! He died at his residence, in Canton, St. Lawrence county, Ni. Y. on die 27th, ult.. of apoplexy. He %IFas heirs on tlie 24th of May, 1795, being at his.:denth, -fifty-two yenta of age. - ' Suddenly has he 'been - called from among the treat. men' of the nation, yet his na:ne and fame will live in the memories of the • people while all that is noble andgood shall be revered. His body-is a heap of clay —a mouldering clod= -but the work of. his towering intellect—the impress of his mighty mind on the policy of the country, on the des tinies of ,his adopted. State, will survive him for ages. Uniting ione person the pulp ~, dtatestitan, the far se ing and Bound philoso pher and scliilar, and the practical farmer, he exercised at i Muerte. in the political and so cial circles clf the coaiitry, which at time has I • drawn the ekes of thawhole nation upon him. But no w . hi, is gone=llearth to earth, - dust 'to dust ." 1 ' ; What shadows We.are, and what shadows we, pursue." • - '• - • There is a screw loose somewhe i , otle Inland has eleCted THIfEO3 . TON, , Demociat,to Congress. Chapman can now crow! When we ask of the Gazette advice how to' conduct the'Observer, it. will be time enough for that paper to offer it—not before. M. G. Lescure, Esq.,,re of he'ed itors or the Democratic Union, died at Harris burg on Saturday, last. ' : I , And Still Another. ' . In another column will be found another letter from Gen. Taylor. These epistles have become iso freqUent of kite, that, unless we find in ere futu 01 re one 400 ' xtraorclinary or striking sentiment, - we ,ttial not copy' any morei i 14Ietiy : 'of the whip apers have4irctt.l nounced i the one we gavelPst.l eek aet!f 4 b ni ling,l', "discreditable," Si l o'. hat tbey will. call hil l , remains to, be see' . ¶'o ' out mind it I I t , . is far beki kid kit predeiesacir a ttlitertitry /,com position, whi a it doer not even posiess the merit of aim le frankness, which in 'some measure char cterized t that production; The ;, General, fougl't himselr up, for which we were willing to giv him c Clit—he has now wrote himself l down, for wlii h we are equally wil' ing to give lqm credi t 1 A Vary Modi The junior of the t young man, there's n _ three perfect heads Daniel ` i iVetister's, - He er, putting his hand modesty forbade him tf eatly tolls us how he then says ive "would' gain, we don't no hot et heaping full prob patfern 41tei. him! how! ! o:7'Wo have recel of the "daiMl,'''lt mo ed at Alban', devotel This is t i tle last of t cloaca the connection er, he ha ingdisposec. Bryan, of HildscM, NI after be published. fat the a disdraci der, and correspoi work. Q :7' (rim present appearances ,our whig friends t • 11;have pretty warm work in their 1 1 county toiention, on the 10th. There are already five 'lames announced as ,candidates for Asse i bly, all anxious, if not capable, to t i serve th icoutity in the Halls of Legislation. ' p A sixth 'rer. 3 4 Balls Esq ., (We mus'nt say "our . 1 friend:: ioy i more,) it ie'said will be brought , forWard,lind we think will be nomidated, al though t iere is strenuous efforts, both foul and fair,ylow' making to lay him on the shelf. The sainq clique defeated liiim for State Trias urer lastildwinter, and•will dol'so now if they can. "ire shall see ;what we shall see," and ,that pretty soon too-}-although for our part its a fight we don't care which whips. (Cr ~ e learn that the steamers Nile and i 3 Wiscon , ': came in collision, on Lake ifuron, 40 miles hove Fort Gratiot, on Monday night •last. h boats sustained serious injury, and it Is with great di ffi culty they were prevents from sinking. They however sue. ceeded 4, reaching Palmer, on the St. Clair river, where they were repaired. 07' *-Governoi Sewarid, of New York, ..c Won't golthe "Rough and Ready" movement of his brfither whigs, no how they can 4s it. The whi s offthaca, as we learn by the Chron cile, und nook to form a 9Rough and Ready club" a ew, days ago, but failed to do any thing f o i hei than make a very ludicrous epee tiicie forilthe benefit of th e boys of the village. : ix-Goveror Seward was in town on busi iiss, an l being,invEtedto lia present, and de -1 er an Lddress, gave art absolute refusal. • • A asauttful raiz. Abe tifall pair of worthies are the federal udida .8 Governor and Canal Commis ner, in and Patton Th en first voted rte possage.of the Bankrupt law, then vu -4d agaiist its repeal, and the ocher took the i • 1, pagfit that,law, .to.the tune of : twenty.two .housani, dollars! Par nobile fratruns. Sera% AYLOR, U. S. Army. d others of the OrAi new steamer called to 'Baltimore' haaintur her appearance upon the lakes... Ske - w as' iiiltand is owned at Monroe , Mich., hetweep which place and Bahl? she is' des tined to n, : : Capt. 0. A. Strong commands her. ' _ 1, 8,,-;:.obLiidiat • Ithis .sea•on I anti Atteirst" for ' njc. Wilton, 0, I oil. de arly tie.l tryl lintnrirtkl - vul whet; of Ohio, ter cob' eir, dee • 40,er 4, 4541 OR o '- 'ERNOR 'S. a. SHUNK a FOR CANAL comml9Bl92inft, RIS LONGSTRETI ' SILAS WRIGHT IS DEAD ! Hurrah for Rhode -Island. •at Young azette is it very modest doubt.. He reminds us •3... ...tit thoro troro &tat in the United States— nry Clay's, and the oth upon his own cianium, i • menti.m. - -He veiy Mod conducts his paper, and consult good taste" and many "liturels,'t_a bask bly, if we would take (Well, that's cool, any _ . ved thb August number artily magazine publish -4o Odd Fellowship... e volume, and With it of the'present publish-1 of it to Mr. Clark W. ITY., where it wilt here he "Gavel' has been iserable rickety concern, ?e publisher and the Or- I change 'will produce . a ~ • ior, the better in the st year a ro t alike to tl e trust the. 1 ding ehaugi litlntooratti of the *oath district .wiercOniinsted lecithin D. Morris', -did PliftCreen, e►afif' Vas wizatoT FRorso. , e. NATIONL OcirENTis ... . .. On this subject. the Bolton Post Conto Is ` s ome very appropriaterent - irks, which co It'4 - 2 ,7 tide so entirely with our '9%im views, that ilia , , cannot refrain front condensing them, (they 'being, in i their preantforin,entireitteto long for our columns,) for the benefit of our read- o Muoh'." WM The Post assumes as a settled point that a National Convention will he called to nbnii nate candidates for President-and Vice PrCs dent, aMi remarks'that the nly point to he considered . is in what manna it shall be ion- dered harmonious--embracin the whole coun try. Shall we . line a new test, which is as much iv‘ iiig as democratic, and defines no line between the two great parties, or shall . we abide by the well defined positions and the set-• tied landmarks of democracy? We agree with the Post in repudiating this new.test— this &clique of the Wilmot Proviso—which a few, and we,rejoice to sal-but a few, of our Democratic cotemptimries appear so anxious to mix up with its deliberations. It is but a short time since this'question Was first broach ed, yet .were we to'believe half we-,read, and Ivhut our eyes to the history_ of the pasi,'We quid be irresistably led to the conclusion that pposition to the farther additin of slave states ivas an old and cardinal princi pl e of the Demo cratic policy. But when we'sk how and at what time it became snlits advo atm, are #ureb. We cannot find it in the corn remises of the f constitution—not in the,cree s of Jefferson, Madison ? or Jackson; not in the resolutions or any democratic national - convention, nor in any division betweep the Democratic and fed eral parties, - from the days of John Adams and the black ceekade until nevi. It was no test. of democracy when Missouri was admitted.: It was no test when TeXas was annexed to the Union ..r has it been applied to the! ad mis: r of any state into full fellowship With the old thirteen, Then. it can i be nol t settled principle of 'the democratic party,' aria ought not to enter into the deliberations of a nation al convention.' It is merely a question or ex pediency, or rather we should say, a sectional question, which if persisted in will Produce heartburnings and jealousies between the north and south, and result in no good to the Union. The Democratic party—iind when we l isay the democratic pa ty, e mean not of one s/ct;ion, state or. town, b the Union—will be slow I to incorporate a dogma of this 'character in its creed. They will not; become abolitionists for the purpose of securing abelitimi votes,L neither will they { inctirporate nativism; for the purpose!of sew rig n five Stipport: Democ racy will leave ll a ch commingling of ele ments merits te federaliam. • With' that Party Soch a mow) would a Cri ce.no , principle the bout l rary, it , our he perfecty c on sis tent' 1 with its past history. ilia our party Can 'roi ly exist so long as its principles and meastires 'embrace the whole Union. This has been the distinguishing rule of democracy, and. ;the giand secret of its success. The federal,.inir ty have se cret sobsisted on sectional divis ions, side ilssues Mid third parties. ';heyi ar trying it again noW,(taid especially, will the labor for it if they get the control of ,a mlijor ity of the states in; the next congress. The Wilmot provil l t' l il ono' of these sectional tests, and why' should the democrats adopt it? It is a side issue, rind why - should westep a s ide to engraft the new shoot on the old democratt ic stock? It Is an abstract proposition, hav ing no practical application, and leading to no result but Sectional division and disunion, and why should the demcre t rats take up a half whig and whole abolition measure and waste their strength upon it,,by: beating the air in metaphysical disquisitioni, and the balancing of posibilities and probabilities in future le gislation': -- . ... There is also behind all this a great funda mental principal of government, which is the Corner stone of democracy—the right or • the people to establish, frame aalter their own 4!i forni of government. In ach of the states this :isan absolute right. ow can.congres interfere with it? Pennsylvania has theri i ght to establish slavery by her constitution, if the" people say so, and amend it accordingly. 'Do we- want an abstract proposition that slavery shall never be established in the free' states? Would that limit or circumscribe a state right. at all? Clearly not. Can the same proposi tion applied to new states be any more bind ing? If congress were to admit a state on the condition that its constitution should ex clude slavery, the next convention of the peo ple in that state could change the constitution and introduce that:element. .4 is Of what possible avail, then, could it be to agitate the Wilmot proviso in a national con ventikni The whigs would rejoice to see us divide on that abkraet 'issue. • They know that the union of the democracy is the success of democracy, in every presidential election. They are trying to carry the north one Way and the south another, on this same issue of anti-slavery in - the states, just as they tried to carry bank and anti-bank, high tariffs'and free trade. The result has alwayxbeen the discomfiture of the federal party, solely be , cause it has 'been a sectional and never a na tional part). The old federalists tried' it in ‘ the Hartford convention in 1814, here polit ical abolitionism first originate . d in that fa mous proposition to deptitruthe st'uth of slave enumeration in national representation. All that has followed since in the like vein and all that is now proposed are but incidents of that main proposition, which bad its origin id the jealousy Of the federal party of the. north agaigst the democratic party of the south. It failed they, •when there were but about half the states that now comprise the Union /. Can the deinocratic party succeed now in 'What the federalists failed in then) Should we - not rather take warning from this example in our history, and leave this vexed querition_where the constitution found and left ii; with the states themselves, in, their independent sov ereignty-I W 4 answer, yes! -Li, (rrThree great inventions of the year 18- 46; smelting copper by electricity, gm...cotton and amptitation of limbs, and otheKiiirgical operations, without pain, under • the influence of a certain rm.—Exchange paper. • To them may be added—rhiltinglidesicana of American citizens,; by reading Corwin's speeches.-Detroit rota Press. • We can add anothde.i.making ea Wilmot ports° Whig c,andidatit out of 4 man that don't know whether, he is for or sgainat a nations! bank, forpr- against a high protective tariff,. and won't; hare time to examine Ind decide the matter, until be hestlielped whip 'Mexico' In Ws - .'ullPituril was: betiveip trio te#►yb. 4_ F ~'. NIL Shower Tha Fireftinia`Censtir, a ter spending r e .,- , •.1 tle labor, Ink and brajns, ml oce.Upy lo; eral colunins, tilt prove Gen. Taylor a A h'. j Henry Cl!ay Whig, a Coiwin whii 4 , a (; rt ::, I ,GiddinislB,4co.'whig, i short, ali fo rts ,: 1 whiz ha;s ; been comp etely thrown o n ' beam's eby the old h ro's letter to D r , ' 4 , bated loney, of .ouisiana, pit . ' it: our 1at,...,:: Eil The editer shivers on shakes:;wo r4 t , tz ' Col. Donii)han lifter sii mitting to Ta n) c,„:' , win's shoWer . bath. Ju .-lieli• hia teeth -6- , ' ter: . 1 • I I ' I. ' • 1 "Another le s ßer from on. Tayr,r, s , Tere ! ence to his, nelmination s a candidate taco;c • Presidencl, will be feu din another 61 4 ,.„1 ; If gconin .„ it - ..zi.1 discr itible to Uri. i t ', written bunglingly, and exhibits, v.. - coat % a want of sense, imam hls it indicates ss treme sensiitiveness ,:in erningthe opinicri it others. lie bad writte enough' before !t ai l to satisfy., any ore dis sed to quesilot bi z we tibou4 supper e, and if he haef oug is 4. , 1 1 sow into film, now ids fair to write hit , self out o f . reputation fo discretion." • i 0, ho! How he runs. "Steplerock,” or sir= man with the cork leg, cant hold a ewa s 4 him. His coat'Ul' oats _behind like t s i streamer of a seventy-f ur in a gale of time w_Nle his legiarould'nt ake better time w e ,..t. a whole tribe of Caman hes close on hie 11 , !t' l . We'll bet our "pile" on him against the ars r , - total' long race and a slier: turn. But serit:z ly. I "If gentiine, it is discreditable to hie Don't lay the-ilattering unction to yotir m, that its.ript "gelnbine,",for you'll be disap o i r , ed. Flint the letter is "genuine" 'there e t be no doubt. We havebefore uS yet lined e l , 'Oven more "bungling," than the one' in qt n, Lion. 'lt is in reply t a set of resolutit.:. adopted by I iiimilti l o meeting at Clark , villa, enn., and t ray st - iitted to him thronr a corn itteb appointediforthat purpose. i is date" lifo ' re , ,. July tlOth, and c:::. found .i _tithe cOlurno. But stop, We te the Censor man !l t going it" to the tunetune i ; out of the way, 01' Dan Tucker," mint, madelauch excellent time that he's entire out ot hearing. So well let hie:: go tortb present. . : ' , i ITtte Way to Prose Wring an;Fipctionerifig cen visa, the W I 1 13.; , solemnly declare they are not opposed 14 ti. war; but wlie4 theylhave secured'the ballots, they Vold up the box tritimphantil,' pror,e that the war is unpopular. _ 1ar;77,1 qze l tte is in a very, bad • deed, for fear iliht there will bel a furthers dit ion of territtry to the Union.' It is wit tolt wondered at, however, as its party have at cpssively opPused the acquisition of Flail: Louisiarrai - aild Texas. !"What Next? Pens Made( of irory are now 'coming -int! use. They - are shaved down, to nn transparent, thinness, and perfectly auscept ble of being ribbed, mended, bt.c,, with all tir facility of an: ordinary quill. They are c• French manufacture. . • Gertant.C=4. We learn that the calulation .1 that_ Georgia will produce this rear the 127 ; gett corn crop ever grown wititimits lar,,::. ' —.llb. Argt4.. The same I,ll — Michig,an. The Peninsub itate produces more wheat, more corn. mon pper, more Democrats, more of everythq ' good and relit:able, than any State of hers , : in this Union . ~..--Deiroit Free Press. Except th - 3:, Keystvne—she beats yon ill , Democrats, iiinn, coal, and roltinteere.—f= 1, very necesehotarticles in "Pblk'e war fortl4 extension of slavery," as federalism is plate: to term it. t (reThe Gazette can't go the last letter r . Gen. Tay'- can't se "how he a higty is der existi that c. your pipe rcial. 0:71' A 'animate. was launcl said to be "tans bin then, and feet as ter. .. i ; . 07 Mr. tt. A. Brown °ea testimony against the car is widely ircuTated 4 Ili opposiion jo4rnals, ai the evidence of "tUdle• tinguished leader o t i the democratic party 4-7 These whiga have suOt ,pro found respect fat Mr. Brownsotes opinions that they may, noli be requested tei ;adopt his views in regard II l, tho late diffliulty in Rhode Island. . Brow Von spoke and wrote in favoita - Mr.Dor - with more ability than he writes against ta.l war. (t,l - 'lowa City, capitol of lomia, with a po o r, ulation of only one thousand, has Seven chutri es, six of.brick and one of Stone. A chorea going as well as a church building plaCe that. 0711 r. Clay must'feel proud of the resu:: of the electi6 \ n in his own state. kentuck in spite of state pride, and all the taikhty In. fluence of state patronage and longieetablish ed custom, has declared that the administ}n• Lion isimaking progress there 4 the dem'Ff• mats have gained a Member of congr!ss, tai the whole Green rivet] country is now rep* rented by democrats.' (There remains at the POst Otßice De partment at Washington, a diamond ring, ued et one hundred dollars, returned, in a 404 letter. 07'A nem emir ion of coun erfeit quarte eaglets is "about?' ?Their date is !84, arta their execution so goOd that th y' have net been received in banks.. There is said to be a large quantity of them in cirenlatiort: .. - , (:7*The following paragra__ ____.7ph relativeto tie 2, coal trade,we clipfrom the Meadiille Reprib.. : . lican. The rise in the price of that commkd- ity here cannot have escaped the attention of , 1 the people, Neither can they blue forgouta the predictions in regard to it one yetTag,e: ;- i re ants COAL' TIRLDIL....OII th eve of dot .' adoption of the Teta of '46, a at• out cry was raised, its this State, in beh fof the Coal " Trade. Long and labored articierkwere writ- *, ten, with a Ilesign of 'proving that this Coo i of Pennsylvania", main interests) particular ; hraneh of triide wouldlsuffer a , liost total de-7 istruction, in consequence,, as i s alleged, of - the protection afforded to it by e new Tarilf . being entirely insufficient to justify men to en- gage in ft. How have the predictions with reference to this branch of tradsibeen verife Has the trade been destroyed? l' Na. kids been much improved throtighout the wbels couary. Not only has the demand for Cod ,:. incißsed, but prices have.iulvSlced. Ulna - increased considerably in price since lastoS ihthis place. This time last tear Coal I " bete at $2,50 per ton;—now it -is selling .1 1 $3,00 per ton. -Thirdoes not look as t h e -, this branch of trade bas been destroyed. Does it? .We Wonder whithei this increase in* mend and price% also.oWing td the famir 4 C Ireland, VI, Shield , like - kisbv." [ :: iss. 1 =MI =I
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