rrom the Rio Gin& ( From CI • ( ,) any. -I,i g The U. S. u. '1,'1.,11-o.ut schooner, Maria Thomas, Capt. Knox, urro,thlyesterdej• from the mouth of the Rin Grande, '.t' (nee she tailed on the 27th inst. She brought no let ters or' papers. The'propeller Ashlao I ,:tlso arrived-,'Yester 'thy, having sailed bore 't.h4 - FanitY. She 41rought a mail. Where was nothin:* now at the Brazos. and but very little sickness orally ki nI. , We have - a letter front a favorite corres:Jon.lent. which. annex, from Mier. shoot I premise that. the' letter %VWw lv rifle a behro it was known that the idea ()I an advance 'e `General l'aylor's‘column had been atiaoilimed. We give the letter, nevertheless, for the news it contains and the spirit it evinces. . . Matt, Aug. 6, 1813. Gentlemen:-=Yestettlay a party of gentle men prrived.here froth, Monterey, and bring the intelligence that on the 40th of last month ,the express mail with an escort going from hero to Monterey, was fired on by a guerrilla party beyond the; Fa firigit llos, and a lieutenant in command of the escort .teas killed, (lieut. of Capt. Reed's Company of Texas Rangers) bat the mail escaped. On the next day two waggoa's r earti forty eight mules (the mules loaded with invrelTA dize) were attacked two .miles' - this side of , Papagallos. The mules and one wagon cap tured; one man and the driver of one of the • wagons, killed. The wagon that was taken, Ism told, contained the"kit", of "a couple of French gentlenien" who were going up to tae the bust of General Taylor. All the material was captured and they only escaped With their lives. • ' &few days after, I ant told, the' following -was to be seen on the door of a house in China: "BAH Idadellers." •'The proprietors were recently on a. Dist and busted up a whale group near Papagoilos. This placed them in - posse ion of a. fr . e.sh stock add latest lashions frinn Pari=.' All or ders thankfully received, promptly attended to, neatly executed and cash taken fur work dune at this office. "The unfinished 'mouth and noise of Goner td Taylor compose part of GJr preset'', stock. "had and Liberty. "CON ALES CAR:IN:IIIAL & CO." These are rnerr •. thieves, are they not?— lloweve'r, there is one thing I know: If they have got the mout t and nns of Gen. Thylor, there is no Mexic• n eah e‘er make a finish of him. They can }Pep hat they have got, but he has got his •ye on some of - fire'm from the way' he turns I is head !towards San Lui Potosi. Q The prospect here • bright ens as August clanks on apace,. The outer day 1 saw the old general look over in the direction of San Luis, and then he 'cast ill6,eyea otr-the Star Spangled Banner floating near hint. I thought this was Ominous; and directly after wards an order was issued to the quarter mas ter to hurry up the anionition from Cantor. go. I came right down here, and am now scrubbing up my old gun: tul'if I get it clean by the Ist of next month, I think I wit t cross the mountains.. Men and officers arc imdrosing rapidly un der their discipline in camp. There tire many on tlie sick report, but. I titylerstand it is not considered that their disease are from the effects of. this climate. General Lane has again male his- appear. ance among ua, and looks "realy 1:!r action." HP, I think, will report at onco, in person, to Gen. Taylor. From 'Mexico, RICHMOND, Sept. 6-6 P. M. The mail has arrived here from the South bringing a N.. Q. Picayune extra. The schooner Mississippi has arrived bring. ittrf dates from Vera Cruz up to the 2ist ult. A correspondent of the, Picayune, writes tibia news has been received at Vera Critz, brought by a gentleman from Ayotn, Who came by way of Orizaba, that the ranm . and of Gen. Scott's army had reached Ayut., which is twenty miles from the Capital, on the 13th, up to which date nit a single gun ha I been fired. The reinforcements fur Maj. I,llle, under Capt. Wens, consisting, of, Capt. Wells and railcs' companies or infantry,' and Major Childs' lancers, returned to Vera Cruz on the 17th, haring proceeded to the National Bridge, Where an express overtoolt Maj. Lal ly. Information was subsequently received at Vera Cruz, that he had gone - on safely be yond Jalapa: The command under Wells were compelled to tight their way. to the'iNational Bridge, and made au attempt to pass it, but fund the heights occupied by the Guerril lax, vhoopen -ed a heavy fire, killing nearLy all the moles and horses, an 1 forcing / the whole party to re tire, leaving all the WagiMs except on.; with the officers' baggage and knapsacks. • 'the loss of the Americans Was. five or six frilled, an i two or three wounded, and several who died afterwards from fatigue. A detachment of 12 :lrligoong, acclmpanied; by Surgeon Cooper, was nre'viou4y dispatch-(i ed by Capt. Wens for the Bridge, but were! prevented from'reporting to mai. and have nut .bean heard of since. It is suppose.l that the whole party has fallen into the hands of the Mexicans. Maj. Lally is reported to ,haVe had n Aar!) shirtnish with the Guerrilla' nt Cerro Gordo, and expected to have another 'at 'La Perin Heights. The letier states that there is no doubt of the Hafety of the train. It was rumored in Vera-Cruz, that Scott haJ met the enemy, and been repulsed after a sharp engagement, with a loss on our site of eight hundred! The Mexican.; loss it is reported, is unimportant.' The Picayunstenr respondent says he lias confidence in the 'truth of the statement that Scbott had reached Ayuta without any loss. • It was generally bettered at. Vera Cruz 4 that the city of Mexico was in our nossession on the 201.hult..•althongt: no po:thive infor mation to that etreet hall been received. Th 3 Jalapa BuPlitt ha= a-lvice-1 from Pito hls to the 10th, doting that the lnE,t disision of our army had left that•eity. It was 4306 strong. _ Maw CALL Foa Taones.—The War de partment has just calleJ for the . new regi ments, exclucive of the regiment (rpm Ohio, which is already reported, to be raised, an I is now in progress of being Muinteted into the public service, and within a few days be en route for Vera Critz. The tie,regiinc.lits now called fur are to be drawn' from the following s states: Two regirfilmts - from Kentucky, two from Tennessee, and one from fa liana.— These five •regimentg ore expected to be rap idly' raised. and promptly placed in the public Service. OfTels have aiready been made, which induced the Evecd tire to designate these States, and to make the necessary ar rangements forinnbodying these troops with out delay. The administptioLs have deter mined to do their ditty, whether for peace or for war. They have offered the olive branch. As it may be declined, they hail(' deemed it . 'their duty to prepare for a vigorous prosecu tion of the war, utpl to fill up the ranks of the army to the proper standard, as they have been - venially thinned by diseases (tad death. Lot the enemy bo °Attired that• they have to deal with an administration which will nut shrink froai the most energetic execution of its duties. 'the hest Joterest of the Mexicans is peace— their most fatal danger is in this war.— Washiaglatt 1 t Ink. Aug, 28. ,Vre should fib t , know the political pre detections of those ouisleas troops at Tam- Lpica, lobo told powder and ball to the 'hiexiz coos, ; We do sot helioe the are ""Mexican i whign."..-Sprfftriad /rep Tberecalf be no doubt at any rate that they' were earrYiet 'Mai(' sSigiistjoOsur 0 i 4 dings , Corwie. Rol Atiefs i i Who:, does the Repub lies!) egtt those gergifq4eo77•Nai.t.y :I':17'1, 111, - EWER PROM HON. - JAMES 1136- CIIANAN. re,,m the Petti,PYlvenien . . AVecare indebted torts friend 4* - n cotry , of the following letter, sent by the Ijpt. .Tames Buchanan, in reply tp,,an the p art - 0 1 the democratic:citizens of Writs coun ty, to the Harvest Home. which took place near R e ading on Sritiirday i<tsL ;leis a-vro duct Loa that speaks for itself. Written on,a most intering subject; it will' command at tention by the clearness and power with which that subject is diecuesed—a subject, let n add, which has assumed a most serious, if not momentus, aspect: ASIIINGTON, Aug. 26, 1817. Gs; memex.--4 have beenlionored by , the receipt of your kind invitation to unite the Democracy of Old Berke in their Harvest Home celebration; - to be held at Reading' on Saturday, 28th inst. • I sholld "esteem it both a pleasure and a privilege to be present' on that interesting occasion; it is, therefore, with regret I have to inform you, that my pUbile durie,s during the present %leek will render this impossible. I rejoice to observe that the Ilierious, de mocracy of "Old Berke are buckling on their armor, and preparing for the approaching contest. It is long since any state election has involved such important consequences fur the deinusracy of the Union, as the ap proachibg election for Governor of Pentis,yl - Oa its result may probably depend the aecondency of the democracy of thelUn ion for years to come. Hence our democrat ie brethren of other:states are witnessing the contest with intense anxiety. The field is a fair , one; our candidate well tried, able; and honest; and he has been regularly nominated by the party. Should he be defeated, the at tern?t svilrbe vain te explain the decision oV the ballot-boxes, in any other manner time, by admitting that the whip h ave the' majority. Our caudidate for Canal COmmiseioner also, above all reproach, both per - sonallY and politically, and is eminently qualified fur the duties of that important office.. It, undersucli circumstances, the democratic KeeStone should give way, there is great danger; that the rirch may tumble into pieces. In this contest, emphatically, he that is not fir lisle against us. Ido not apprehend defeat,' un our wily foe should first lull us into secu rity by making no extraordinary public ef forts; end then at the eleventh - hour, trii - etly steal a march on us, as they , have dime in some other states. Our vigilance ought to be , constantly on - the alert, until the moment of victory. The, -st' - f slaukr.. he qeestion of slautbry, in im., of its an- I cient aspects, line been recently revived and , threatens to convulse the country. _ ,The D,Anocratic party of the Union ,aught to , pre pare themselves iri time for the approaching ' storm. Their best security, in the hoUr of danger, is to cling t o their time-honored principlei. A sac regard for the Federal constitution, and foie the reserved rights \ill the States, is the inunovable basis on which the parq can alone safely rest. This has sated us from the inroads or abolition.— Nokhern D.Mtocrats are not expected to ap prove-slavery in-the abstract: hitt they owe it to theinselres, as they value' the Union, and all the political blessings which bounti fully flow frwn i't to abide by the compro mises of the constitution, and leave the gees lion, 'where that instrument has left it to the State, wherein slavery exists our fathers have made this agreement w . hit their I , hrethren• of the South; a t nd it is not fur the descendants of either parfy, , in the present generation, to cancel this solemn compact. The abelition ists, by their efforts to annul it, have arrested the natural progress of emancipation, I and done great injury, to the' laves themselves. After Louisiana was acquired from France by Mr. Jefferson, and when the,state of Mis souri, whiCh constituted,a part of it, was about to be admitted,intanhe Union, the Mis sburi question arose, and in its progress ,threatened the, dissolution of the Unioe. Thia was settled by the men of the last gen eration, as other important and dange ous qeestiOns have been settled, in a spirit of- u ,11 tual concession. Under the Missouri corn *romise, slavery _was "forever prohibited" north of the parallel of 36 deg. 30 min.; slid south of this parallel the question uas left to be`decided by the people. Congress, in, the adinission of Texas, following in the foot steps f their predecessors, adopted the some rule; and, in my opinion, the harmony of 'the stateS, and even the security of the enion it self, require that theLline of the Missouri compromise should be,extended to any new territnry which we may acquire from Mexico. 1 should entertain the •same opinion, even if it Were certuin that this wo.ald beconle a serious practical question; hot that it never can be thus considered. must be evident tri all who have attentively examined the subject. Neither the soil, the climate, nor the pro= auctions of, that port ion of the Californias 1 south'or36 deg. 30 min., nor indeed of 6ny 1 portion of it, North ortittuth, is adapted to slave labor; and, beside,svery facility would -be there afforded to the slave to escape from tiis master. Such property would be utterly {morally in any part of California. It is i piorally impossible, therefore, that a majority of the c migrants to that portion of the territo ry south of _:35 deg. 30 rain., , which will itiielly,eom - posed of our fellow-citizens from f ri e Eastern, Middle, and Western States, will , ever re-establish slavery within its limits.— I In regard tO. New Mexico, east of the Rio ',Grande, the question lias been a lready_settled h . y; the admission of Texas into the Union., 'Should we ticquire territory beyond the -00 Grande, an: East of the Reeky Moon -tam c. , s, i i it sti ll more improoab,e - that a major ity of the people of that_ region would con- Alm to re-establish slavery. They are, them saves, in a large proportion, a• colored popu lation•, and among them, the negro does not socially belong tp a degraded race. The question Is, therefore, not one orprac tlcal importance. Its agitation, however hon estly intended, can produce, no effect but to alienate the people of different portions of the Union from each other; to excite sectionaddi- visions and jealousies and to distract and pos- 1 sibly de,fioy the democratic payry, on the as- c@itiency of whose prineittsf•atid measures) depends, as I firmly believe, , the success of our grand experiment of selF-government. "Such have been my individual opinions, , openly and freely expressed, ever since the commencement of the present unfortunate agitation; and Ar all the places in the world, I prefer to put them on record before the in corruptible democracy of Old Berks. I there-. fore beg leave to offer you the following sen timent: • The Missouri Compromise:—lts adoption in 1820 saved the Union from - threatened con vulsion. It; extension in 1848 t 4 any new territory which we may acquire, l Will secure the like happy resnit. . 'ours, very resneafully. • NIES BUCIIA NAN.^. Clwar'es Kessler, PAN. Presi . deat,eihd Geo. F. Spayd and Jacob Liveugood; Estill., Sec. retancs, Sax., 84c.; LigUT, COL F i nmorcr, on his arrival at Fort Leavenworth, was placed tinder arrest by gen. Kearney/and ordered'to Washington. We have as yet seen nothing from California which throws light on the cause of his arrest, or in what particular he disobeyed orders.— The Reveille has seen California papers, and t e says the Star of the sth June contains long article in reference. to the exiitin tween Gen. Kearney and Col:Fremont. bile it admits. hat the course of the,latter hail ren dered him very unpopular in California, it leans to the conclusion'that peculiar circum stances attendant were of a kind which ren dered his 'course unavoidable. We however, have no information as to the precise nature of his unpopular acts. ' • . "Good morning, Ben, what's the_ neyisr First rste dews? Just heard from home... the old man has klekedlat last. He only left me a qv) twenty thousand,- Otani cll. ' THE OBSERVER. =SI M 1 Sugliprankr::Dloini6firt - 1/4tiniember 11,'1857, ',Exec Mo:l2lNATittioNl3l4-1 • $. „- • Eon Go VEIINCIA, t \ .R. SHUNK': von CANAL COMMIST.ONEtt, MORRIS AONCISTREI.II H. 17.1.1.150rl is it duty authorized agent to procure Pubier ' iber;3 for,this paper: . (l' We ask attention to the able and pat= riotic letter of the Hon. James Buchanan, to be found in another column. -The views ad vapsed by the Secretary :will meet a response from the. Democracy hi all sections of the country. He takes a national and not a sec tional view of the slave question, ar►d of course must and heti met the denunciations of 'the hot=headed and factious of all parties. We rather expect, however; he will survive all such onslaughts. 077 At the Whig meeting on Saturday evening last, to appoint delegates to the comi ty convention, the Commercial editor and his clique got most essentially and tetotally used up., When the vote was announced, the whole squad could htive been stuffed into a pint bottle, they looked and felt so small—and the wa'y they mizzled from the Court ifouse, and cut dirt for home, has'ut been beat lately in these diggins. Wonderful Dlsco►ory. The Chronicle ha's made u disovery-1 which idniost throws Professor Morse in the atm& 'lt says it uniformly finis, in )oohing beer the resolt)tions adopted at Demockatie county meetings, that they sustain "Mr. Polk in all that he has done and is doing." IVhat a queer man you are, Samivel. A Good Provision The Illinois convention has adopted a pro vision in the Constitution "prohibiting the Legislature from 'authorizing extra compen sation, to my public officer, agent, servant or contract or, after the service Jan, have been rendereJ, yr the contract entered line." A judicious provi- ion, but which will be su re to challenge the hatied of feeders on extra legis lation, anJ to excite their perpetual murmurs against the "impracticability" of the new Constitution. rine rrosA Teas We were in luck this week—especially in the Tea,lirie. Two samples of Tea from the Canton Tea Company were laid upon our ta ble fditorial, and' frrim there speedily trans ferred to our tea-table. There appears to be two establishments in town claiming the agen cy for these teas, T. \V. Moore, No. li-Perry Block, and Willituris & Wright, earner of State street and the Public Square. B?th of them have the teas on hanlan I bOth, we poubt not, would be very happy to supply all c i rclet's for the same. Tea drinkers will thid at er establishment a.su • for article put up in pounds, halves and quarters. A Good Law. The Democratic legislature of New liafnp shire has passed a law to preyent the owners of factories from exacting more than ten hopp labor each day from persons in their employ. We think this is perfectly right. Tho Way it is 1 ono The following from the Sauduskey Mirror, shows the malts opernndi adopted by the Ohio Bankers, "under their General Banking law, to manufacture a specie basis for their •paner. The Mirror well says .it beats Wild, Cat banking, and allows them six: "The corruption and underhanded manage ment of the board of control and some leading bankers in Ohio, from nil we cart learn by what leaks out, were never beftire equalled, not even in the palmiest days of Wild Cat Thinking. We predict a magnificent explo sion onv of these days when the People will be sitindled to the tune of millions. As a spe cimen of the real capital empinyed in creating these new banks, we learn that the sianie spe cie was used for the organization of three dif ferent bunks, in as munv dTerent places with-. in the past two weeks." ' Farmer's and mechanics of Pennsylvania— honest men of all professions and callings.:— the approaching contest will &dile whether a system like that shadowed forth in the above, shall be fatencd upon the common lwealth, or .not. The friends of Gen. Irvin openly proclaim their determination to enact a General Banking law, should they be so for tunate as to elect him, and obtain q. majority in both branches of the Legislature. The' Democracy on the contrary are pledged both by their past opposition and the well known and oft repeated views of their candidate, to war against every system of banking which does not make the stockholder individually liable, in all his properly, for the notes'and other liabilities of the batik. Choose ye, then between them! -An Indian Humbug The science of (=thuggery we thought entirely confined to the white race, but it ap pears -we were mistaken. The Cherokee Ad vacate says, a young girl of the Creek mart recently fell into a tronce, and lies since been prupheoying to the tribe. She says that - while in this inanimate state she held communion with invi.ible spirits, who learned her a song which asings with great beauty and bffect. She'llas predicted one or two deaths which have come to I pass, and told from her own feelings of a murder, at the vary time it was committed nt a distance of several miles from her home. She Was also purchased bor burial clothes, foretold at what time her death would take place, and certain signs which would 'then be seen, and from which the world could judge of the sincerity of her protestations and the truth of her revelations. A Crumb cf Comfort. The Cbionicle has found a crumb of com fort in the return of Paredes to Mexico, and the "declaration loy the British g4erinnent that it would continuo to recognize l the pres ent Mexican authorities or government if, af ter withdrawing from the city of Mexico, they should 'wander forty years in the wilderness." /int] yet, this Is an old and accredited organ of that party. which claims that it is not op pesed to the war, but to the "villainous'and bungling authors of it," meaning the admin istration. Ott,. humbuggery, thy name is le gion. G Tho' Frclois in 'Censor 'cam to It4cl the week kreatlir eritprged anit r iinpipved . iii appegrAnce;,--its lei:106116m / ho wever;, ie . 41; bh los ever, ' . , WPM PEOPREOY vs. DEMOORATIO REALITY. But one month remains beforo.the people of Pennsylvatlitt will :be again called upon to ehouStfiian 4 r eectitive to fill the chair of State. Our,hpponetstis have predicated the contest oft Natiol (skies , and not local•—(laveiree)airn ed tot world that the ,defeat or success of ia e Pranei t s It. - Shenk 'will be indicative O( - the feelings of the people in regard to the great I L aud motueutous measures which have charac, , terized and tendered immortal the'present:ad !ministration of the tuitional government— 'more particularly, the Tariff and the, War. I Now, while we do not cpnceed That the com 7 litig Contest will entirely decide these• (Pies [flours so far as Pennsylvania is concerned, we lare.willfrig . to admit it will have an important !bearing on .thern. Let us, then, in. view of I ' thiS, for one monient examine whig proPhe ;cies and contrast them with Democratic Mal 'hies, in regard to one.-...ive means the Tariff. ' It is atnaxim of that Book•tif books?, that a , tree should be judged by its fruits. Let thetar liffs' - of 'V' and '46 be judged by this rule,and we I - ''' , are content to abide , the issue. But 'in order ' to do sdelearly and understandingly, we must go back to the speechetsand prophecies of the i iwhigs beforelthe,bill of '46 become a law, and !see whether ill° reality has not falsified every 'such prediction, and proved that the bill of l''4o instead of being ;It blessing was new , illyat curse to the great and growing ag ri4ltural interests of the country. ; During the canvass„f 1844 ; the Hon. John M. Clay `on, . while on a' political pilgrimage in this State, made use of the follu4ing language, in speech at Lancaster: . - "Should the struggle for national indepen ence, which -is-now realm , " throughout the ength and breadth ' of the land, be decided against , tie by the vote of Pennsylvania; she will come out of the contest, with lierlgor-I genus Vaimer trailing id - - the dust, herself leeding at every 'pore. Thelshouts el' party wail will be. speedily stteceeded by the ivail of her ruined plowmen and her beggared mechanics. -The fire's of her forges and the l oand of the axe and the hammer in her work hops will dli away amidst the acclamations f her fetal vtetory; and, there may,be many mong the th!isands before trie,'who with sor , row-stricken„if not broken hearts, may live t w o Mourn theie4s of that o ii.mat. which pub fie liberty-tvolild cease to beta blessing." This high-a;A D nrolit and vividly drawn pie- W 1 , t l ure was to he the r -I. eeolt of the bill.of '46.- 1 lifas it been realized in one single particular? 1 hs Pernnsylvarq"bleeding at every pore”? and' lies the "shouts 6 f party triumph" been "suc ceeded by`the wail of her ruined , plowmen and• lice:gated mechanics"? Have "the tires of her f rges and the hound of the axe and hammer i her .workshops died away"? And where' a e the "sorrow stricken" and broken heart e ,i' produced by the tariff of '46? 'Answer u ,'ye "John M. ' Cleytone," small andlgreat ye false prophets, and small beer, political I - hucksters!: Have these things come to pass? I'The North American, Philadelphia, in id ly!, 1846, in imitation of Clayton in '44, ad dressed the, people of Pennsyhania his follows; 1 "Behold ;our handiwork! You affected to favor the taritr---a policy i -IrWber.. either anti nust Et c or bear nu life- . YHi whose hills and valleys rung with the sttngs of protected labor, nod whose vast hoped of affluence and prosperity'knew (co existence, bet in the tariff—your hand it is that has: stricken it down. You have ruined yourself et tithe country to 'win a sugared word from a arty that spurns you. Now take the des i 01, !ion that you h ve wooed; see your mines deserted, your foge fires extinguished, your shuttles stilled, y ur labor without hope, your capital without p - fit. ' Pay your State debt, if you can, in draf ti upon TUE 1 4 ,MITY-.-Or sink into bankruptcy, ishonor and tnieery, and be the scoff of the w r h, as aSt to that sold a i glOriona birthright for a wretched mess of po litical pottage." {Freemen of theKeystone—.Democrats of Pennsylvania—yoir who have stood by ~your principles in gocitiens well as in evil report,' what say you to the-shave? Has not a Dem ociattic reality proved it a lie! Are ycliir ,mies deserted? your shuttles stilledtyour labor without hope? :your capital without l' I ' profitl On the contrary, were tines eaerlsef toi 'Within the memory of the "oldest-inhabi -010! And as to the &lite debt, although sklafts on the party" are Ili, a premium, have yo i not good whig authority for saying that thclre is no necessity for :resorting to that Source? Do you not see it daily and weekly in he whig pipers that yhur State revenue t, ha been increased so mu l ch over last year on your rail roads and canals, that the State Tr asurer has Iteen enabled to promptly meet 01 interest on itour State debtoind cancel a large amount borrowed to meet the 'deficit 'while the bill of '.42 wadi» eNistence. Sure ly,. surely, although you might have had a hundred "PowerS" in your Canal Board such increase could not have occurred if theirtb,ove pro l phecy had been realized. No, no, the gloomy fotebodings of whig presses and speak . ere l -aavo not been realized—the eye of , the , 11- itii i rer locks in vain .over the . length and breffilth of our vast country and rests not 4- oo one-spot where the most subtle sophistry cisfind evidence tb.iustain it. On the con tra. y, war has failed to shake the credit of the nat i on, suataineci as it is by the increased re ceipts fretn our custom houses. Thb country ha been prosperoue in every ramification.— Even here, 'in Pennsylvania, Manufactories and villages are sprint ing pp at every turn. Tins could ndt be, an would not be, -Sinless the iron business was ttill' profitable. Itlen dotut embark their capital in business ufilesi the have some guarantee that it will return the a good per tentage. That the Iron but sinus in Pennsylvania ,is doing thisaye, more, enriching those engaged in it, we think, nccene Can doubt. ' 1 . But, say the whigs, all this is the result of did t famine in Ireldnd—if it hadn't been for that our predictions would have been realized. 0, moat sapient whige,didyou ever take into e4sideration the tact, that the scarcity in gtOinse Could only increase the price,of bread stuffs.' I Admit that the famine in Ireland has had an effect to enhance the price of grain, which, by thi bv, we never dei fi ed, the.; . . . prosperity melt other breaches, of agriculture anproductive itidustry still stands Unaccount / ed " I Has the famine itt Ireland increased the; price of Tobacco, of cotton, of Iron, and abode all, of, la bor! We tisiefOsuch articles would be rather hard even for do Irishman W I a pease his appetite upon. But now t a t , the wants Of lieland are supplied,.. and t i year's crop harvested; proving more ahun-, d l at , then ever, what is the reason , the great agricultural ! 'staples of the• contstry,, wheati clirP r oats, cotton,and tobacco,have not gone b Ctotheir prices ; under the taritref !ogr th i, y' certainly should have done so, at least wh at and Corn, if the famine in Ireland was thp only rause of their enhanced value. Proin . , ... . ore usorTthe r hie of these coal itn,..etisr;tliar et;:tinthe'29th of tbfe:yea 0/343'44--'45=4'48-- •-• . fincithe following retfillt. ; :From uricgstte existence of 6E440110f e of wheat...ranged from 65 ti3loo 351055 §O.; ofits'2s to 27 cis.; • m 01 20 and 7' 00; according to :1 80 end 10 00; cotton 61 toI4l, • a-ne day in 2Vgust, 1847, alter n Ireland had ceased to have any an over abundant harvest just we find the following quotations: 1 1 0 to 1 20; corn 70 cts.: oats 50 II to /2 oie.; tobaico 11/1 75 a a table moditie Aug last in antif.47, wi ' 4 11444 4 4 cetti,i; C 4? tobseco quality, cti. Tt lily fi!mi 1 enact, Vat here() wheat $ cts.; co $l4 25. anew° are done. These quota `he character that sophistry can- One w 1 lions ore tem. They prove inconteetahly 8 our great agricultural ataplMs, , oats, cotton, and tobacco, are instead of being "ruined" they It a more healthy 'condition. And tilar, the manufacturing interests i ry are not a whit behind them.-':- 14 is that "ruin"? where that wail plowmen and beggarMl mechanics? not reac that no f, wheat, am= were never t l in Ards paro the err IZEMME =EI ;on. Panorson'a Command. it of the departure• of Gen. Pat h seat of war r ,the Union rays he i harge of the military 'force of cn ruined in Louisiana, Texas; Illinois, and the troops which Isltinioro under Col. Hughes.- 1 Sledel keep open the betsfen Vera Crui "Deist of .Col. Hughes' lies of t mounted 'volur In spe terson ro is to, tak mounted Georgia n a nd sailed (rum I 'nese troOp line of exit and Perot are iota; tinunicatio T4eY fivecomps L)uisiana, _ it , A f Texas ra f them as 4x!--,.at 14 regiment, five a teqrs trot) rqe eicl i i'gers i i 3en. Ti , ast ft‘J frq r m Geu6 re;,;-iment such part for the so has op fined the line of After Gun P i utterson )11, he ev 'II join Gen. Scott. communktiti id Practice. Cul. ljaskl ie stump in Tennessee, said if electet t l ld go for gleaning offthe blood-houndsi" :i. e. vithdravving the army to the east bank l i ' of the Rio Grande. It ap pears now that this a ntirnent waa not new Ito him—he acted Upon i at the battle of Cerro Gordo. • J. R. and G• A. PilloW have pro cured certifiC tes and statements from a con siderable nu ber of fncers and Privates at that battle, establish ng the correctness ‘of Geo. P llow'a assertion that Col: Haskell. re treated n advance of ilis!egiment, without his cap on; all Who hav made any statements agile° that he appear cl disconcolted and con fu4d. Some think he was mtich alarmed. 1 (Precept 111, on tt he" wot - • Patriotic i Polincian& 'net perfectlY pa riotic arid disinterested ticians some of tne whig aspirants for the sidency atle. Pol , instance, Gen: Taylor area drtermin lion not to be a, condi unless called uPon. by a spontaneous I •ement of I the peons, irrespective,Qf party • that he can go into the Presidential chair , ammeled.l Mr, Clay, too, not to he 'mit e by Old "Rough and Ready" in such hum' , gery hes cinmenckd tuningthiti instrument ,he same key. The Louisville Journal, spe , king by "authority," says; l "4nmediately aft r he taw that the last presidential election had resulted so dieastrousln ta the country, resolved that he would not again be 14audi date.for‘the Presidency unless he .Was called. upon to be one by the. voice of the !Ainerican people, teithout distinction Of parlti."- As for the late ,presidential :election, he cared noth ing about it, sa far es he weskit:waif concerat• ed: but for the sake of the people and the ., country ---" his' ; dearly beloved . country"—be deprecated and deplored it. "In course he did." lie did not care any thing abridt being President himself, but, for the the sake of the honor iii,llglory and happiness of the people, he woad like, to hate been elected. 'course We would!" Disinterested patriot and statesman! Who shall refuse to offer thee the hoinage of a grateful heart? No good and Joys) whig, we .. are sure—nnlesa it be comes exredieni to throw you overboard, like a useless' piece of lumber, and ptit in nomina tion a "tnilitary chieftain." 'lt is true that for thin) , years and upwards you have stood ready to I fill the place of President, for ,the sake of y )ur "bleeding country.," thirty years have you held out to. that "bleeding country'' an enoraftnis ballot-box, and to this day that tame "bleeding country" has refused to de- Tosite a majority of its suffrages in the "Clay poor box " Indeed, and in trutbr how very ungrateq, not to say unkind, these "bleeding cotintrieel'• Sometimes are! 'But Mr. Clay is willing t 4 serve his "bleeding country", yet, provided all pariies will step forward and vote fur him. leiGnitness, untwist you don't say Th/ proposition he now holds out moa sirakely-like a diapeeition to steal Gen. Taylor's 41under. poi Pr dec, ,dat nn do bu 07' Th:el Gazette -ls aoaxing for Native rotes. Itliaysithey' have no "distinctive or ganiiatio in any of our counties, except LancatteOhiladelphia, and, perhaps, Alle gheny," itirid tells them i they "never can make muclii head way, and, therefore, had better disbaid at once, and go back to their original eieniente." Meaning, of course, tlie whig part . o-44t Would not advise. them this, if it thong t they were Democrats, certainty. By the by, how long is it since this same pa per tried o make it appear that this na tive party , were all democrat, or the off spring ofitOe bemocratic party? Consisten cy is cerfa)nly a jewel. The TruelOolors, The Cooneaut (0:) Reporter unfurls the , is There'.--No acquisition of tem o extension of Slavery—no far ther pros iution of this infamous mar.' We respect a man when he avows his hon est,sentitueuts, like the editor of the. Reporter we know of no language too strong to coodemnil i the hypocrisy of some of the Repor ter's partlicotemporarieei who profess frisend ship for tyeir country but are daily engaged in :effort4o throw impedimenta in way of the proseiutiWof the present, just/and necessary war. t . (Cr T , e citizens of Vickslinrg have erect ed ittiele - IA ,marble monument over the iv , • • malns of # . Wigan, formerl e di to rir of the Sksbui l , ontinel, who was shot down in-the streets 13y 4 political opponent. ' ' (r' T!1 New York City Council Imo i 3 voted to IN ear mourning and set flap 4C kW mist 'in inspect , to the Memory of Silos , . Wrighl. l ! , I . i I ~ • RougkNotes by -the , . Corrospourlcno of rho Eril(Obsolpf, Ncw 4 tiezvi- 1847. according to my half•mode prorolitt;,l l l set down to drop you a, fiw “ItoughNotealv the Way." journ y thus fir, /nl l 11 .1 4'n an extremely pleasant ne—in faCt it ould not well be otherwise rum the diversified and beautiful ,country through whiCh passed, and the many queer pel)ple tions one always sees and hears wh ing. For instance, the hack dii , ,iver us down to the boat at your city; esil • • f she bant a band-boar Na vitern porter could ail( 'such a queS a quote to me. It may be but, a pri culier lo 'this age, but I Weida Jr some one skilled in antiquities to fix periudin the world's history When veled without band boxes. The good steamer Ohio bore,us to Sandi key city without tiny thjiigdccturieg' vorthy note, if I may except an error Ilia i to aboi 4 o'clock in the niornini;oectision d by t$ noisy importunities of the runerk,. t Clet, land. In my half-dreaming state, fatict them a pack of prairie wolves in hpt chase ter their prey,: and I'm not sure, not that I wide awake, thin there:is not some lying re a mblance—they are both certainly' re?.t nui. e nets. On arriving at Sandugkey , l they a all sides, and the uninitiated would have supposed himself, in pie midst of bevy of the mostanxious friends. I favorably inipresSail with SaiuluSkey. tains some very fine dwellings , sul public building, and 'altogeher Wt; a business a l sp l ectl Monday trilDo ng was ushered ii whistling or iliepconto live; the claft waggons and omnibuses. At ; 7 i o'r were seated in - the-cars, baggage,ehe t pocket, whizzing along, en route for d nati, a distance of about 240 miles.' miles-of this route is traveled stag ea; this :lies between Bellfontain and: I imp. The upper part of the l lrente through a iery fine Wheat en till try. 1 mills and flourishing villages are E,cat along. :Among the latter I noticed t i of Tiffin, in Seneca county, asAPlace importance. * ....-, I love th rood old . fash Id, Ipanies of' hom e e Illinois,' tl 'rler I Ha l yes,'Or yrtor can spire e companies.\— _ tie gi ..o, .a.hioned'lstage all the improVcments 'of the 'lines io t trary; you jumble about, dig reur, elb to each other's sides, tramp ' onli toe bonnets, and soon become acquainted l then t 'ere's na;chence for that seMsl;,' 4 read, / . eed, ilnitt go 'where you, Will; I; steamer, or rail road, seems to he oh, every body, but is in realit' but an exc i l their icy -hearted politer'ess. "Dr,ivol object upon ‘'t•liich a community Of l ititi felt, from the fact that fur the time, 1,1 is sitehter of our topes, both present a ture. I think we had uron the bo l t t pink of the turf. Ile bragged - 4mi his sylvania raising, and upon his team, b ing out largely upon his capacity to be thing on the track; and we bragged upw fur truly Abraham wae"one - of the tilde drivers. , . • - I f Our course lay through_a Very,fine c lad three or four smart little villa pritigfield is a beautiful town of better .1 t ree thousand inhabitants. 'Twas oonlight when the coach rolled in, a Telegraph posts,, scattered along the a appeared like-the 'ghosts of thef l mourn that age which is fast passing away. ligence flashes I from this point to Colu Dayton and Cincinnati. Def Ore day the morning . we again Vaulted into the sac , the "Iron Horse," whOsellaminginostri chaffing snort, gave evidence of hia sea delay. At length the gins are hjosen gives`a start, his triumPheitrairtini3kes fort to follow—Lanother, another, ; and notber, and then with a whistle that e and re-echoes, : away i he dashes. , "Cha down," is the language the ' Poef l has his mouth, butihe Scorns the bit--onw goes like a thunder-holicareening on its c "He stoped not for break, he staid I storm." Father Job may talk as hti, like 4a bout his wars tead, but I say the "old ha I beat. The Slimi valley through 'which Of this part of the'route passes, is Iperlia s rich a bodz of land as the "buckeyes' I boast, and ißis season is fairly' . groanin t der' produce of all kinds. %...-v ). j It would be good for yOur lake people's yes tlu see the fields of. curb which w - f 3 Passed oi this route ; I don't think, they can brag on thei wheat, but: when you mention cord, th4y'r "thrr." Ten o'clock brou ht us within sight , 1 , of the city smoke, and soon spire, cioni4 r oo;, and steeple, of the "9,ueen'' . alias "Pork elty'y were glistening( back the morning sun. El ery body knows ICiticinnattis a , great busines ,place; 'but it nittY not he gencrallizlinOwii that it is second only to Pittsburg, in. the r 'es 1. and south, for founderies and malitne.sh in As-we passed by some of theseystahlishrn re on our wry to the boat, wheei/- ''"lane, at t hammer, sent up a song in '' Jteir rr master, who ever and anqn td scol i di as he drove them on their id. I I A steamboat ride' on the lever iateresting to, the travel_ ~l i vary scenery, the passing' panorama ,of , villag farms, rural sceneo, and every description floating craft, keep the tourist on the consta, lookout. 1 C 7 . Earlron Wednesday nirning We oscine i our "individual" eyes, gave twit' or three ri. 1 telligent yaws, and found we were lying nt the Louisville levee, whete we had arrived about three o'clock in the moring.i DickenS found nothing in this city to interest his lord J, , ly mind, but the operatiOns of a pig gatheritig straw I for his bed; but we saw not only r;u4 merous porkers, but a busy bustling city, fast improving and teeming with' every Iluxury of life A' short ride of four miles brought 1123 to this point, where a , hearty welcortio, - frti i ini our friends Made us feel perfectly "„fresh.',!h• New Albany has always had the reputatiUn of a smart little place, but in the gneral to 4 proveinents of tile times, it it perhaps ahead of any place I rave seen on . theruute, 14 1 - ing now. a city•o some six thousand , inhail tants, and spreatline itself out In, new good iinprovementS. It has a ' market hotl 4 about three times as large as yours; whic every morning forms a buoy Scene of buy r and setters. There is one excellent fem I Semioary and Actidem . y established here: so eight glen fine chorees, and thei way p liesqhool rooms loom u ice ,caution 'to 1 ititi-common oho) advocates: This le pit • haps one of the gteateot points in the teat) - J • - I Et west. for -steamboat are on the stocks no• rapidly . preparing 6 . contractors! ,have hands sufficient t season. They are whip ytien coinpl paiOn'lr and buildi th irty; awn niers c reverberate 'with t adz and hammer. met crowds of 'pr . 4 - hear die stirring banciihat was add to the mellow bou fact resting upon the present. r my route nd ques lemavel- that took ed a lady how a 'tion, was mice Re a t invite pen al l at dies tra- The-e . ditOr smart for this meri t low in the song, w and scratched hot' I jumped back and s In an arr of ne,l its autho has neiti backwards and for "Wilmot proviso,' others in the last , 'e of ut 1 server," 4Demogr &c., Rte. What extremely bar - trio awfully frightened; ylvania has the ri! the constit . n9on, amend it aceordin be inclined to think would Say — EO, " ad his 9wu persor, erty ,suffer therebk. the editor of I tht Commerciur the peophohave ILA 'the righlt to alte• arn4id.their constitution to suit tlw so that it does not conflict with Olaf United United States. - If he does not, why assertion of ours q iuted; deniitninatel strous . . - _lt is ilotiling but a plain propi• t—an th• ivtts It col, 1 start IKE ZIE ring' .ock k in o Clue! Phi of self-Vvernmel pliti Cal power, is ,as bu'v' insteadOf ISprir !out Bred c in f iflg but a pt;uniplt as often as tiwv• t atnewiment wring ii ani;rl.l - In ter. be opl.o.ed t) It a MI tthe } t 110 hi the , . now do. Not for Hla! tell> hot,' • I the Presi , lent ut:'a his 'rdati% v. en, Cp . t_llly I®i bag appointed Lie celitly cha'rii• to E 123 rianed f,,r tJ e imr. mg nil I 'e y e Pen and Fen t him •m td egin k Uy abv ice GeV. Belk, cf Oi eub,istmice to the v out—Coh Irving's practice has been their quotrkof illf:1 • cleai,,natq in the, , refm, J toMiake any portit ion of 14e '9 , their endezvons.l the trtivethent of the the telegraph, titr meut was inft,t,rital War _Thpartment the emergency -17 1719 tirn es. I r 11/. 1 hriff , I u t ree Tile federal skip I I careening for its 6 its crew deserting theirSeet men haiie cour.:,e and conduct leaders upon the" war do longer. Of thosci out from among the 1 - DR. GEORGE H. ty, who has hereta log Whigs of that the late Meeting of t he came out manful and true Speech in IVAa: lie renoun party that refuses t a - time of war, and into the - ranks of his but .a sting le instau and thousands (‘uf tt who kill pursue 'the may not mice it put .4-I,l,uzza fr-Shunk :an We uuderal• graphic' stuck has l b this city to inure • the line has been Btl street to a room irr tl the office will be kep 41?" The GUieitT, J may yet be their ea is no mistake abou; 1 pelled to support lun lore, Scotts and Mc il S 0 siliti your eyes, y! ty r an fprepare you your leaders are pre,' I No The Boston Post should- receive the w 1 - Went, the ingonious wanld declare that It 4. ‘var;and, if be shoul would prove beyond popula . Several of tli the tle th of T. W. a New Bedford pape 1 1 ele a iveeit or two'ag that time, presumin of his severe, illness now contradieled it. A, S ap att 'Tho Corwin every side, bir." 11; forbear'givin4 them in his recent spec. speakin'g, of the war, "tu conclusion, whatever ,circumsnt placed, whe,ther;it perous, and_-whethe governinent be goo( times be ready to gi institutions', and we taiir-the safety of tr-The Gazette l Presidency hant o f letter, fur - fear, like ,c building. Sit w; three are 'v it , tOr the fall trade; tot_been able to. Supply the deca l ,. budding a ala t i ne led, togeth e ,, 10 , g of some tivet:t; G. nuttily ; v. iil tr, E k e .:; e sound of.thr,' In an evens, ~,: tty girls, wh o rains of 'an amateur rig additiorial eatt42l ; - with this v ery ur. rpernory we sins: your El f truly, of the Cciannerci a l „ tan—he's eq ua l t o t 4„ 0 iimped into a brit:: hisgyes" out, 'and ratehei then in t ip rly - a coloran t , , x k l i t t her heel nor tai;, • wards, alternately fr 'dour representativ e ongressr "the, Er, is National Convey 'he fellow would het say,i no appeare because,-we said 'it ,glit to establfsh Slu t - I the people 81 . 4 t Lrly." One would's:, phe was afraid "the tea iu ''' ithtt "111(111St ro'.-," IS I• tilidt,i by ILe cir elm!..!&::13!3 srpeq,N,y,,f 17 'lli, IItIZ,C e int,ti3t) )tti•iiy ;eh as e l ;,,the aaptC luard•to tenet do it, ‘I nce the N %%tr.. 2:1 rate Neau , t the,r,bredt' er,l that i t he'll her, W. H. inia, wthch co' e, of 11 in de:J.-Scutt, . MEM A LI has',rufused,to Vunteer t s reeent 4 )l iegimmt; 4 the State3*_ to 'the place,,of ten, 1 0. The Govern contract for the mpanieA Cin4 this would have ref (room but for th 4 tigh 'thief' the gc 4 the ilifficulty; an nmeiiately p'rovid,E 'Rats Leav i Sinking Ship," nyenusylvania is alreti; at plung, and already v. itin swarms. Many c beco►ne disgusted at to i P their old associates Et 1 -- . -- and will act with they Citio have recently "coot ,foill party" ewe may nac' 1 1. OISER of Bedford comp ' Ili been one Cif the' letd• I ~ ec:ttun of the- State. A t ',.he Democracy of Bedfspl, I y and del i vered- la 'hie favor of Say,M, 4sriTal ed all contiectioa with i stand by tbe C.muiry a tis speech carries tern , former friends. This ;$ e. There are huntlree. he same sort" in the lani same Course though they tlicly known. So we V? and our Country. .tid that Sufficient ;tel. , en taken, or will be. I station. At any 'ralt. .ked out Amyl) Fil , er.c. r Iteed Is of opiniof that pt!' One. We think "Art —the party will be rm• in spitelof all the Tv , eans in the country.-- raid: and file of the ipit stomach for the !dote aring for you. .snbt oftl t f Thomas enitria 'big nomination for P,res• Advocates. of that party / was in favor of 'the happen to_ l be elected,, avil that the paper;lTaT-e announced err, on the authority of . I . We not ced the erti-i , and did riot credit it at it arose front thei fact Eastern kpapers have 1 wigs. is catch t n "each and Heiry tlay could not' odig oder the fifth rib" Philadelphia. Ia he reniarkid: I ...would oaf; that under cos the country may be tlourishink orunpses • the administration of its, or bad,' we sho u ld at all ye in. _support tq c ,its iu will orever main; rOubl . - i , . 1.. lta. ~ thinks ca .iustes f or r . ght..to,tvi to too meni MT. Cls.' . . E n .S.-1 , 1, iheir , , Igan. tarde,i aid over. d t! ed
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