Sack of Mexico.
II
Frans Oa 9.:0. Delta, Oet. 9. ' •
Bc. bardment of Pue!pla—Benunelation , of
e presidency by Gen. Santa• shims—Re
o
/lt in Papantta.
he following intelligence which, if cor
n+ , is very. important, we extract from El
Ar o Iris, of the 26th ult., published at Vera
,Cr z. It will be seen that the "Napoleon of
th South" has again renounced the presiden
cy: Whether this second abdication is like
i• • previous one, a, mere pretence, yet re-
Outing tp be seen; at present, everything is
Pbseure.
Letters from Jalapa and Orizaba, received
lyesterday in this city (says El Arco Iris,)
give the most positive Information Abu' the
city of Mexico has been the theatre of the
most horrible and lamentable scenes. - 4'
.
he moment that Gen. Santa Anna aban -
!clothed the capital, the ' disorders commenced,
an
1
as soon as the populace considered them
sel es free from the beiyonets which , might
ha_ e controlled them, the leperos commenced
to ack the city, and committed every Men
ne of excess , pillaging and robbing, the
tw en natives and foreigners.
ho see, without making any distinction be
t is said that, during the pillage, an Amer
'lie ican division attempted to penetrate into
;th city, but becameinvolved in a dreadful
"03 flict with the people, and was repulsed, one
pa
i f
t-to the sentry stations and citadel, while
an Cher succeeded in getting possession of
th convent of Sin Francisco, where it made
f r
Its i ll secure against the multitude, having,
ab ndoned two pieces of artillery.
o these horrors, in order that nothing
mi ht be wanting to con plete the picture of
i r
de tb and destruction pjeuared fur the capital
by the shadow of resistance of the army of
th republic, succeeded the bombardment of
th city by the American army, which -was
in possession of the citadel and oilier fortified
pa nts in the suburbs. We regret that we
a unable' to giVe to our readers more detail
e information, as everything leads us to he
ti ve that the -losses and misfortunes which
- lb unhappy inhabitants of the city of Alexi
c
1
have sulfertdbas been immense, induced
a well by a soulless mob, as by the bombs of
the enemy.
:Letters from Puebla also inform us that
General Rea entered Puebla, and thtt that
ci y suffered a horrible bombardment by the
A ericans from the fiirtilied heights; that
G n. Herrera marched toward Qieretaro with
the remainder of the army which left Mexico,
ad that Santa Anna, with 2,000 cavalry. was
it Tlaxcala, With the intention of.proceeding to
ti l
able, to unite his forces with those of Gen.
*a t and cut off the communication of the
a 'm il e: icianni
manifesto
y i4 4 a w n i e t d h
b t h y e u s e e n a e c r o a a i st -
Saute ,
Anna
/
While writing those lines, we have receiv
e
theil6ih, in the city of Guadeloupe de Hi
d Igo. in it he renounces the presidency of
e republio, and apints in his place the
1 j
resident of the Suprilne Court of Justice,
`Senor Pena y Pena, who, with two colleagues
shall he the depository of the supreme power
until Congress, shall meet and make an elec.-
tr— He also promises anew to combat, even'
1 the last drop of blood, for the liberty of the
nation: To-morrow we will publish this new
• _d important burst of patriotism and deeds
f. n. • - .
la Papua'la there occurred n popular coal
°Oen, in which the citizens Meza, Nunez,
I nd others, were killed. We will give here
after more information concerning this.
[ln explanation of the bombardment abofe
lluded to, we find the following statement
in the correspondence of La Putrid; of this
Itty:j , , • .
On tha 11th, 12th, and 13th of Sept., Gen.
Cott attacked the city of Mexico with but
t!tpetsucceil, 'having.been repulsed - several
1
ones with serious loss. On the 14th;, he
ucceeded in obtaining possession of Chapill;
epee awlm
the: alma end; iterreastit t t in
ombardment of the city from th ties
' itadel, and San Cosme. In theavening San
di Anna evacuated the city—publishing a
11nanifesto, in which he says thag to avoid the
destruction of Mexico, he retires to the city
of Guadaloupe,from which place he would con
con his future operations. As ;soon as the
exican troops had withdrawn from the city,
the leperos began a horrible 'sank. Two of
the slcaldes begged of the American general
that 'he would come and protect the property
and occupy the city. The general sent a col- I
man, with,two pieces of artillery, upon which
the population, rushed, capturing the pieces,
and. routing the column, the remains of which
Sought a refuge in the convent :of Sau Fran
cisco. In consequence of : thiS, Gen. Scott
bombarded the city until the e'venitig ••of the
1,1
15th, when he entered as fa i r as thd palace.—
The loss caused by the tickl.exceeds three
millions of dollars. •
, - The same correspondent sets down the
I force of Gen. •Itea at PuOta at 6,000 men,
and represents the Americans as confined to
the entrenched camp on the heights of Fron
tare. . . ,
I FROSI TEXAS.
The steamship Galveiton, Haviland, from
Galveston' the 29th ult., arrived last evening
(says the N. 0. Delta,) We find the follow
ing items of news'in the Galveston Gazette
'of Monday:
ins C. Show, comptroller of Texas, re
turned to Texas by the Galveston, from
Washington city, where he lots been on busi
'ness of the Statev. He has at length sue.-
- needed in obtaining from the United Sillies
government the indemnities stipulated to ho
- paid previous to annexation—though not the
f lisaminints. He obtained but t 82,500 on.ac
:ciiiinf of the Snively expedition, and 827,000
"IStk'iteeitiunt of the custom-house affair with
Lcel enter Bourland on our e mern frontier.—
,
Shanr also succeeded in Collecting 815,-
`: 000 due:for supplies furnished the army.
.•••• - Major Coffin, of the paymaster's depart
'mpnt, arrived by the Galveston, with $50,000
tor the payment of the Texas troops.
Capt. Henry E. McCulloch has been au
thorized to raise a company 'fiir-the protection
of the Texas frontier. He is now in the ser
, vice, and not being able to yiibit the settle
• merits, in order to raise the Lnien necessary,
will rendezvous at his present quarters,(Llano
Station,) sixty miles above Austin, on the
Colorado river, on the 20th dt ) ,of October
• next, and on the 21st will pro dto organize
_his new company. 111 is'required that voltin
mere come well mounted on servicable horses
not under four nor over ten years old, armed
with a good handy rifle, double-barrelled shot
gun, or rigor, with one or store braces of pis
tols. •
We understand that the sugar planters in
Brazoria county are well prepared for the bu
sy season, which is approaching. New mills,
manufactured and put up by I. St. J. Goodlos,
of Cincinnati, are now ready for business on
a number of plantations. "•: • '
The Boston Whig and New England Pu
ritan both abominate the war, and yet they
cannot agree; for, white the Whig charac
terisesas "ridiculous cant and humbugn i the
Puritan's distress about the soldiers kneeling
to the boat in Mexico, the Puritan, on, the
other hand, sneers at the Whig for represen
ting it as i"a terrible thing that our armies
have violated religious sanettiaries in Mexi
co." Forms of worship are no more to the
Whig than the desecrations of Mexic6n
churches are to the PUritan. The Puritan
declares that it means to keep up its cant and
humbug, and the Whig will of course perse
vere in its horror at imaginary desecrations of
chinches. Meanwhile civilization and repub
licanism will advancein their benign missien,
As elevation of *Acme:co.—Boston Post.
Father Mathew intends visiting this coun
try next spring. In a private letter, he says,
"Neat Spring, God permitting, I shall pro
ceed to your glorious Republic, to give ex
pression in person to the gratitude that swells
in my tinsoin.
A ,lIIEXICAN WHIG!
- i .
Wo learn by th7t .".. Htio Statesman, that
Captain Sanderson, of Columbus, bats written
a letter home from St. Angel, near the city
of Mexico, in which . there is therSollowing
pasioge:
' "It is said they (the Mexicans) had twenty
thousj troops in this battle; so says Har
rison /inney, from Columbus,?who' I found
fighting with the enemy_he having deserted
from Puebla, and now a prisoner, and will bet
shot. This is the opinion of most of the
officers."
The Statesman informs us that "Kinney
was a tailor by trade in Columbus," and adds,
"it is a melancholy record to make of his end.
He was a very decided Whig, and we cannot
see what, tempted him to this great crime of
deserting his country, except the etrect prn»
duced by the Whig papers and Such speeches
as those of Corwin. He has a child in this
city, his wife being dead. We did not atip'-
pose our city would have such a reproach to
bear-from one of her volunteers." 1 ,
..The speech of Senator Corwin was largely
circulated by the Mexican press, and if it did
not make - Kinneye. treitor, it must have en
couraged him con§ideraldv after he had taken
the disgraceful step. Mr. Webstei's, late
harangue in Massachusetts will, without
dinibt, also be republished in all the Mexican
papers, bet it 'comes .ton late, we think, se
riously to impede the success of our arms;
and the ultimate con fluent 'of an honorable
peace. Massachusetts herself has , got to en
dorse or reject this speech in a few weeks,
and we were not without hope that people
will be found as true, as devoted, and as un
flinchint* in Once of the country, now, as
they wele in he days of Lex'ngton and Bunk
er Hill; for all the assertion of her Federal
i
presses and Federal orators o the contrary.
Pennsylvania
,s.
,Lvrictitsu.—A gentlema , who formerly
lived at Nauvoo, 111., came tocthis city a few
days/ since on business. On Tuesday he
met with a person he had ormerly known in
Nauvoo, and was by him invited to go over
to Illinois and spend the night. He con
sented, &nil went over a short distance from
the river and remained all night. On the fol
lowing evening he was a rain met by hia
supposed friend, and earne. tly Solicited to re
new his visit. After some hesitation he con-
seated, and again crossed- he river awl went
to the house he had staid a the' night before.
Shortly after supper he wa y - invited by two
men, with whom he had no' previous ac
quaintance, to take a waile r The night being
tine, atj apprehending no langer,Plie consen
ted. The three pursued their way to the
woods, when, as if by ac ident, Any ,were
met by eight other men, who immediately
seized our Naintoo friend, stripped and inflict
ed on his bare back a severe whipping. He
was then.sitffered to depar;t, and the follow
ing.morning made the best of his way to this
city. No reasons ware assigned by the
lynchers for this strange onduct nor did the
person who received the whipping demand
any, being glad to get off vith no further in
•
jury than resulted from sore back. He
thinks, however, that the erson who invited
him to go to Illinois,was he instigator of the
outrage—to gratify probe tly, some old and
unknown grudge.-=-St. ouis New Era.
LET JUSTICI; Doy .—The Columbus
Enquirer of 'the sth inst. says:—The deser
tion of a number of men urn the American
Army, and their capture,. nd execution near
the city of Mexico, have iven rise to many
remarks calculated to reflect on the patriot
ism of certain adopted citizens of this coun
try. It has been thought, and we confess
that this was the impression left on our mind,
that the battalion alluded to were mostly froth
the Emerald Isle. - The New York Police
Register contains the names and places of
nativity of that infamous set of scamps, from
liCktlta i 6 r. 1.1,014 a large nor
follows:—Americans 64 'lrishmen 24; Ger
i mans 14; Scotch 4; and Ono each from Eng
land, Novia Scotia, Pranceand jPoland • We
published this aeount tha / t unjust reproach may
he taken from the shoulders of those who do
nut merit the censure. Let all bear their
part.
ROBBItRY AND Muni ea.=—We learn from
the Eastern Express, t at Mr. Edward Mat
thews, (brother of the editor of the Yankee
Blade, in Boston,) Was I ;ruely murdered in the
town of Waterville, M., on Thufsday night
last. Mr. Matthews had been up to the city,
and had in his possess'iF some $2;000 iihieh
he had drawn from the iconic Bank that day,
which funds were taken away from him, and
lid was found dead, ith' his head terribly
smashed and distigur d. No clue has yet
been obtained to the c astardiy murderers.—
Mr. Matthews was ab, tit 22 br 23 years old.
Namms.---The Spani
setts, is called a "nina
a "shilling," Marylon
Carolina, "seven-pen:
"bit," the half real, in
pence a half-penny,
pence," in Maryland,
pa, k "picayune."
61p 1 ,..,... ,
T e'State of Arlo.
to come and take land,
feited for taxes, and
quired of them. Th
settlements, will ma
preme court has deci
forfeited tracts comp
lands in the State.
Tug INDIANS Or [IR WEST.- The Inde-;
pendence ( Missouri)
,Expositor states that'ev-,
ery thing indicates t e approach of a long and'
.bitter struggle with' the .predatory tribes in
habiting the itiiinense country between that
frontier and the Pa ific. Two caoses con
spire to render thi - Jnevitable. First, the
great numerical foree Of the Indians, and the
rapid diminltion of the buffalo, upon which
they exclusively su4i9t, Second, the unwise
incredulity. of our Government, in its slow arid
reluctant recognition of the approaching dan
ger and the levity exhibited by the President
and Cabinet in their treatment of existing dif
faculties. , .
TRAM( it t AreLas.— r One hundred barrels
of magnificient pippin apples, from the, Pat
ham farm, Ulster county, N. Y., are now be
ing shipped from Boston fur •China• This is
the first shipment of this excellent Ouit to
that distant part Of the-globe. -, The trade with
China in apples may yet be eclual tp that with
England.
The Superior Court for Fairfield) county has
granted a divorce to Mira. Phebe Ball, the la
dy so shamefully iinpoeed upon by one Cal
vin S. Ball, on the grOund that he shad at
tempted tp poison her,, 7 W,idowe ehould keep
a better hlokout for such fellott , e.—Need
ven .Register.
SUSPECTED POlSONlNG.—f i rocia Bragg
man, a druggist in Sandusky City has been
arrested on charge of Murder, by administer
ing poison to Conrad Alder, his partner in
business. Brugginan and Alder were for
eigners. and ha d recently removed to Sandus
ky. Alder died suddenly and under cirtum
stances which excited suspicion. Poison was
found 'in the stomach: '
Noannotri Rim—Gen Verplanck, the
Ctimmissioner te negotitate a treaty with the
Chippewsa in slieaking of the wild Rice which
grows abtindatqly in blinnesota, says it is
better than the I Southern Rice. The berries
are larger' and, its flavor is far better;
for when bdile and allowed to coo! •it forms
a consistent to se like good wheat bread, snd
more mutritio s. Any quantity of it grows
on all the lake in this Northern country.—
The outlets a d hays are
,filled with it. It
ripens in the °nth" Of; Angus?, "Ind is tha'
!main reliance f the Indians during the win.
;ter months fur their sustenance. . .
It gives us great pleasure to favor the op
ponenti of the present tariff with all the in
formation which we possess tending to show
its ruinous ellets.upon the business of the
country! For instance, the following facts
and figures ciannut fail to be interistiug to
them:
The comparative supplies of coal sent to
market in 1840 and 1817, hive been:
•is4a.
Tout.
By Reading ruilroed,
to Sept. 21, 812,898 To Sept ,23, 1180,533
Lehigh mull, to
Sept. 22,
Schuylkill canal,
0111 , 111 1 OF
0. Lacknweliac4nal.
Bupt, 13, 21:03,03 " 18, t 287,810
Thus has tho cos) business increased. twen
ty-five per cent., so far, in this year Of ruin
and distress.
aPpears from a statement in :detail, pub
lished in the Philadelphia commercial List pf
'September 18th, that the following is the ag
gregate receipt of tolls. or! the Pennsylvania
railroads and canals during the years 1846
and 1847, commencing November 30th pre
ceding each year, and ending Sept• Ist:
It only falls a little short of fi lly per cent
The Boston manufacturers and capitalists
seem to have suffered in like manner. We
find in the Boston Shipping List Of Sept. 4th
thelfollowing statement of the "domestic cot
ton goods trade" for three months, ending
31st:
4, the export of domestic cotton goads to
foreign ports the past, month ending August
31s t' has been as follows:
To Canton
Cape of Good hope
Illooteviduo null Buenos Ayes
111 ItaliZo
Cuba
Nora Scotia
It seems from the statement above, that
the poor manufacturers of Lowell, who Were
to be ruined by the tariff of 1846, have in
creased their exports of mannfactnred goods
nearly fiftiper cent. in three months. ' Nay,
more; they have sent them to China, Cape of
Good Hope, South America, Cuba, and Nova
Scotia—in eterY quarter of the world except
Europe, competing with British rivals in their
favorite market of China, end even in the
British colonies of Nova Scotia and trie'Cape
of Good Hope. How stupid not to know how
they are ruined!
But, alas! the Boston banks, owned by the
manufacturers and merchants of that city, a e
suffering in tike manner, as will appear from
the following statement of their semi-annual
dividends for the Just four yea;s, which we
copy from the financial article of the Boston.
Post of October, .sth:
1818 18,15;1,(x) 51.1,1410 1 603.1114
rz lei, VA,OO 6: 1,00 E 0, 0 58,0J0
Did not Abbott Lawrence, in one of his
very *found and -statesmanlike letters to
William C. Rives, predict' that in a short
ish real, in'Massachu
pence," in New York,
d a," "levy," in South
e t i ' and Louisiana
. a
1 Massachusetts, "four
' in New York, "six-:,
"tip," ant in Louisia•
I
Issas invit n emigrant*
a which have been forh .
o payment will be re,-
auditor, {upon proof' df
'ea deed, 'which the 81.
led will be 'valid. The
l in some of the fine
I -
TARIFF- OF 1846=--,BIORE
Front the Pitils,lelphie Commercial List, Oct. 2,
351,031 21, 473,353
1460,691
Incteas3 1a,1817
Aggrivate for 1617
Do 46 1840
Ingl'ease in. I F 47
Total
Previous loVo mouths
Total for throe month* 30 519
~, Santo pera..,l last oar, (under tariffof'i2 6,3)4
' Increase
April. Amount. 0 itolivr,_ A invinnt.
I •lopiini. Uwulendl. Unoit I. Dividend,
844 v7,1811,01(1 s44 , „:3kost 4,1, , 10) $l6OllOO
1145 17.00.0110 5511.271 17, AVM() '51(1,1151
time after the tariirof 18.16 went into opera
tion, the manufacturers would be all ruined.
"and not a sp.ecie:paying doing business wil I
[Would) be found in the United Buttese II e
did even so predict. But, how facts stulify
and confound such deluded.theorists, who, if
they are honelt men, seem to have no ration
theitteentton.or the principles which control
by which they make theircnormeus - tortunesz
Such' charlatanry in political economy as Mr.
Lawrence has been guilty of in his letters to
Mr. Rives ' is scattered to the winds, and ut
terly exploded by the simple truth as devel
oped by the actual operation of the present
tariff.
07""1%iiss Snubbs," said the widow Smash
pipes, yesterday morning, coming into the
house with an apron full of potatoes, "this
is the Exquimaux storm—Green, the grocer,
down to the corner, where I've bin to git these
partaters, tells me so; and he says farther
more, that,the sun is jest about crossing the
line; I wisht it warn't cloudy—l should like
to see whbther it crosses it astraddle or hops
clear over .—Pennsylvanian.
Prarr - ry Gooo.—lt is stated o man in Il
linois, named Wilson Corey, while cetting
down a large oak, a flash of lightning—came
down the tree, made a hole in the earth five
feet deep, and buried him in it up to his neck,
so fast as to makeit impossible for him to'
get out. lie was rescued by his ftiends next
morning. It is added, as strange. that 100
panthers had been in the tree which Mr. I C.
was cutting down, but gave no ‘,iiitimatioM of
their, presence, which was discovered wily by
their being found' dealt in the upper bra nches
where they had been cobeeated, and ,were
killed by the lightning.
„ • -----
ins noon IN rspirisyLvartiA.—The York
(Pa.) Gazettevf Tuesday last says:'
we are sorry to learn that, many of our far
mers residing on the several branches of the
Coclortre, suffered sevet'e loses—some of them
having hundreds of bushels of corn, which
had just been cut off and shocked in the field,
is",vel>t otFby the flood—some in addition, losing
• the entire lines of their fencespn the creek.—
The Codorus navigation is •said - to be very
Much injured, most of its ',vta having been
entirely ruined. Mr. John Drillinger is said
.to have sustained serious injury in the loss of
lumber timber tr,e. This has been the heavi
est flood on the Oedema for twenty.five years.
A slip, from the office o b f the Lewistown
) (Pa.) Gazette, says:
The greatest flood of water that has swept
the valley of the Juniata since the yearlBlo,
visited its inhabitants on Friday and Saturday
last, marking its entire course with a scene
of sickening desolation. It is stated by the
old watermen alid others to have been from
thirty to thirtyzone feet above law water mark!
The damage in Lewistown iA stated by the
Gazette to be very heavy. There is not one
bridge left standing on the Juniata. The
public works hate suffered severely. In the
Narrows there are several large breaks,rand
accounts from above as high atiliolidaysburg,
represent the railroad as washed away in raa,
ny places, and numerous breaks in the canal.
Snooroo OFF rue Wincs.—Some person
or pdrsons engaged in very serious sport on
Friday last.--The Telegraph wires were shot
off some three miles west of Rochester on the
afternoon above named, and about 600 feet of
wire carried to parts unknown. Tha messen
ger who was sent from the Telegraph office
in this city to repair the damage, finding that
he had not sufficient lengh of wire to supply
the place taken away, left the roll he had
with him and returned for more. While ab-
Sent this roll was, stolenl k , The Telegraph
Company have ofrpred e reward of $lOO for
the detention of any persOw l eommitting such
offences. Shooting of 'Wires is a dangerous
business.
LEADS'ED WOOD SAWYER.—We have in
this city a German about 30 years of age, who
was aficated in one of the German universi
ties. Ho is an excellent Latinist, a good
Greek, and Hebrew scholar, and speaks and
writes French, Spanish, German and English,
and is an excellent mathematician. With ail
these accomplishments, he , is compelled ' , for
want•of bettegemployment, toeaw wood for a
living.—Deer4t Jour.
, ,
Kisses and 'apples are very iimiler—they
gishould never be taeled without pairing."
THE OBSERVER
E IL 1 E, IP A .
dotardnr fiforttbow, October 23, 1547.
(trThos. H. Etym.: is a, duly ituttiorizeti
agent to pioeure autiseri4ra fur WS paper.
GREAT DEMKRATIC MEETING.
A, Mass Meeting oit•the, Democrats of Erie
County wit' be held at the Court House, on
Monday evening of November. Court, at 7 o'-
clocd P. BI.; to talk t abotit the glorious result
of the recent election hi the State;,to express
their sentiments in regard to the war, and dis
cuss matters of general importance to the
party. Tiler? will •be several able speakeis
presentlon the occasion. Turn out; the eve
nings are long and the subjects to be discuss
ed'
interesting.,
By order of the Dein. Central Committ e e.
Oct. 113, 1847. •
1R47
Tool
t. 158,814
1 686 569
1,4:.0.6a l
CM
(17'' We seo that our' Town Council are
laying down a aubstantial stone walk across
the Pubic Square, on the east side of State
Street. The town would have saved money
by having dono it kind since. Better late
than never,-hoWever.
$1,211,373 09
847,24.11 53
$354,171 5/
(Some scamp, not having the fear of
law or gospel before his. eves, has stole the
Editor of the Itoe:hester Advertiser's hat.—
?ur cotemporary ought - to feel thankful that it
was not his wig.:
0:r Shades of gin cocktails and whiskey
puttees, listen! The Pittsburgh Telegraph
proposes the Hon. Andrew Stewart, of key
cue', as Speaker of the new Whig House of
Representatives.
emd taut
2,056
G 3
143
There were many amusing incidents trans
spired during the past election campaign, but.
none that so completely exemplified the old
adage, "there's many a slip between the cup
and the lip," a's the following. A Whig law
yer, who shall be nameless, called - a Demo
cratic member of the bar "aside, on the day#4f
election, and after a little preliminary conver
sation, said that now that it was certain Irvin
Would be elected Governor, he had concluded
to be an applicant for Prosecuting Attorney
for this county; and solicited our Democratic
friend's assistance: What reply was made,
this deponent sayeth met, but we expect that
by this time our applicant for office under the
was;to-be administratioii of James-Irvin, ,will
'agree with us !lint "there is Many a •slip be
tween the cup and the lip`'--especially, if it
is a fact, as we have heard it intimated, that
he left the Democratic party in 1838 kinder
the expectation of being appointed to the same
office by Jos. Ititner, ho like his successor
now, was then repudiated by the Democracy.
, "2326
B 193
OM
• i7The Democrats of the Keystone think
it. both a "pleasure and a duty to do good,"
and hence , have decided that that "romantic
town situated far in the interior of this -State"
khall not be deprived of its "benevolent citi
en," so "distinguished for moral woth and
political stendieg." They could not harden
their hearts . to deprive that "large circle of
acquaintances", of the benefits of.his "ciiri
table" and "benevolent" acts, and hence voted
for his competitor, Francis It. Shunk. We
of this atm reptcc—inavitiie to dd.
"The Foot-Pilots of that 'Ruin.'
DO , not fail to read the article in another
column, from the Washington Union, in re
gard to that "ruin" predicted by whigery, and
showing the manner it has effected the coun
try. By it the reader will see from reliable
data, how one of Pennsylvania's great inter
ests, the coal trade, has been "ruined." This
brach of trade, according to Fedsral prophets,
Was to suffer most by the bill of '46. Foreign
competition would destroy the trade; and the
mines that were then resounding with the noise
of busy workmen, Would become a desert
waste whore solitudO would hold undisrutna
sway. The result his proved, howeverithat
this very branch of trade has increased twen
ty-five per cent. in quantity, while prices have
been maintained. lt also exhibits the increase
of trade tipOn our public works, as also the ev
ident prosperity in all branches of manufac
tures anti business.
N'., we shall not show, as ' we could easily
__ _ ______ • -
ftisity of this apology for Mexico, but
1 i __ __ •.-vg purchase&
Since writing the B,brive, the following has
come under our notice, which we beg leave do ,
to append, and to call the reader's attention: wf dl' a Witness from 'the Comniercial'a
A PLAN or "atinv."—The plan of the com- ow i s and let him brand this Mexican
pony which is organized for the purpose of sy ,iser with ehtiene—..and that witness
applying the water of the' Connecticut river,
at Hadley Falls , in Massachusetts, is almost no, less a personage thin the Hon.
DAs '
The Chicopee shat
~..0 VE:bsii;
inlVteil:ulEoltleofGroamzehtitsesopfeethellie
untuirallbled in magnitude.
Telegraph publishes some of its features, It ' cal
, i e .S.tate Convention of Massachti
is intended to plovide water-power for 56 1 , setts,'
large cotton-mills, 68 by 260 feet, six stories 14th in -1 1 1 ..
6, whet! was the battle o' Sa
1
high, carrying from 18,000 to 27,000 spindles i 1l • 'I
"Fro ; i ! , 1 [• L
each, according to the fineness of the fabric
manufactured—about eleven hundred thousand J m ac_ic_t s ° , , : 3, Mi..z.zro had no authority one.
s was . an independent govern
at least—together with a power for machine- --I "" ela int upon her territory. In
shops and other purposes. The primary ca. 1841.-°_,-,3.,
nal, extending in a southwestern direction , is men__‘ 9_7l' . ALLY, so PRACTICALLY , so Tin
to be 30 feet deep, 140 feet wide at its head, c„°,,,cir'.fl i ,
~ own and other governments.
Mexico
and 0 feet at its terminus. The water is to . 1 m round of complaint in the an
be conducted back by a parallel canal to near "-r a il ° ° - -1' 8."
.the head of the first, where it will be.dischar- Mr, Ve' '
aye from 18S6 to 1843,
ged into another, which is to extend circui- "111exice ha ' - , .
Lonely about a mile and ahalf. These - differ-
an ,
1 , thority over Texas, no just
eut canals are to furnish the 56 mills and a cla im ritory,"- and yet the Corn
proportionate number ofimaChine-shops with mercial iit o -,
pander to the taste o
the power requisite to their operation. - The partiza retid -, ,
make out a Case 4 fits ga
foundations of several large mills are to be the Ex cutiv: . ' . .
laid this full.—N. Y. Evening Post. prow discredit upon the
.
war, by / maid')
.ear unjust on our part—
O The Gazette pleads ,"not guilty" to the to "giVe aid ai ,
ie.& to the enemy—is
charge of misrepresenting'Judge Thompson, engaged at thi ,
in asserting that he called the whigs "tories" ico ha claims in arguing that ]lies..
1 - ,erns, and 'that we had
in his speech the night before election. It no right to nun
~. - this . - , ,
, , & country - wit hout
however refuses to make the amende honora- . her cement.
Wonder that the
We, and equivocates as'follows.people have ris • .
' . l
,•.
their might in the
• "Respectable-gentlemen whe were pres- Keystene and re.
~, ese men? Verily,
ent say we indicated the general import no t I «
of Judge Thompson'e remarks correctly.. It
then becomes a queition of veracity bet Ween
them and the Observer."' -
. Our complaint of misrepresentation ,was c hi
not in
-regard to the Gazette's version lof "the hell
general invert °Midge Thompson's remarks," fol
but,merely in reference to the charge of call- Jr
'ing the whigs stories," and we therefore ast 7 of
Bert that if the "reapdctable gentlemen'" al- r
luded to by the Gazette are to be understood
as affirming that he did make use °touch lan
guage, they rare—mistaken!
isThe World IsGovorOed too Mods."
nThare is Many a 311 p," dco
- 07" The New Orleans Delta says there is
a letter in that city from Gen. Taylor, in
which he expresses opposition to the Wilmot
Proviso.—Gazette.
Wonder if that fact had anything to do with
the sudden somerset,of your neighbor acmes
.the Street, on the Proviso.questionl
(IWe regret to see that E. 8.-Eshelman,
seq. has w ithdrawn from the Meadville Re
-Whitifs 'successor be is not
stald.
MEL WEBSTEit'S • ONSFAIINOY.
We intended to hay. devoted some little
space in to-day's paper in reviewing and show
ing up some of the inconsistencies of Mr.
Webster's recent tspeech before the Whig
State,Convention' of Massachusetts, but we
hove concluded to merely place the two fa;
lowing extracts before our readers and let them
speak for themselves. — We pass over his de
clarqiens that the war is unjust-and unneces
sary, that annexation the cause of it,
that Mexico had no claim upon Texas, and
therefore had no cause to complain of us fur
annexing that Stat,the inconsistency of Which
is so plainly manifest that the most obtuse in
tellect must ?bserve it, and come to that part
where he declares' his course in regard to rq
ting for future onp [ plies. We (Rote from the
speech, as Published in the Gazette, of the 14th.
"Suppose that we have no peace, the ar
mistice broken, the war in renewed progress,
and Congress assembles. What is to be
donel ' Unless that President shall make out a
case. show Congrkss that no purpose of ac
quisition, no purpose not directly connected
with the Welfare of this Union, is the object
and end of this c ar , we ought to go against
any more supine to carry it on. It is the
duty of Representatives, if they believe a war
is waged for improper purposes, to-put an end
to it. •
Let ha now to
same Daniel Wet,
last, in Philadelp
right, wirs - publisl i
later, and see wl
rn to s speech made by this
onsilie 2d of Deceinher
hia, which if we recdllect
l ed in the Gazette two woks
at he there said upon the
subject
gentlemeno 6 minr is urn
e in the tielcltnd our rai ies
Our duly Us ood citizens Is
"Nevertheles,
,u —our armies a
ate on the sea.
plain. WE
ERNMENT AIS
ORABLE MA
WAR TO AS
The people dem
made to effect:th
while our soldie f
sailors on the Bel
country, erery
cor and support
mission of their s
obedience to tl
gaged in a fore'
honor to their cs
:T MAINTAIN THE'GOV
-61) AID IT IN AN HON
' NER TO BRING THE
lEEDY TERMINATION.
ad that every efr '
ort shall be
a end. But while war lasts,
re are on the land and our
'a to uphold the flag of our
L eans must be adopted to sue-
Ithein, They bear the corn-
1 government—their duty is
eir superiors—they are en
n service—they have dune
,untry."
Now, pain fa)!
to on of three
last e t'ort of the
either imbibed t ,
oihis hithei to ti
ory is fast be9i
time and bennm;
of age : —and tit,/
s it is, we are irresistably led
conclusions in regard to this
"great expounder." He had
Po much wine—not enough—
rifht intellect and vivid mem
mine. palsied by, the hand'of
I.ed by the sete and yellow leaf
i re we'll leave,him!
lonions Whigery.
Censor, of October nth, in
le Wilmot Proviso, says:,
The Fredoni
an artic a on t
I .
"T e Wslrrt
grand ragyin_
more territory,
neatly inscribe
It Proviso, then. must form the
point of the Whigs, and ,"No
unless it be free," be promi
d upon their banner." -
That is pret
contra, hear ti
one day subsea
emphatiq any how—lntt per
Erie Commercial, of the 20th,
nem.
"That move
longed exclusl
ling of their o
are anxious tf
please. - The
though oppose,
by conquest—
the curse of s
not adopt the?
taut to occomp r _._
Reader, ean,you" guess, or are you not
ne 'Yankee. the cause which has
of the Cernmlrcial, for it well known that that
Plper was rabid. on the "Wilmot Proviso" a
short time since? The Pennsylvania election
has just resul ted in the comPlete prostration
of that humbug, as well as all others "of the
same sort" w ) ith which whigery hoped to gun
the peop le —hence the change!
rent (the Wilmot Proviso) be
vely to the Locofocos—a bant-
Wn begetting—which now they,
0 destroy. Let them,/if they
I•Whiga will not fattier it; al
•d to the extension of territory
•or to the extension at all, with
E IftVery, yet we believe they will
east off principles of Loeofoco
lish their wishes."
~ t lll 7arping upon my Daughter."
The vhig i cress has become so accustomed
to arguethe Nlexican side of the present con
troversylwitthat country, that they inuo/un
tarily' Tsu e that position whenever they
broach tae 6bject, even though they, by so
doing, place themselvei in an antagonistic po
sition to sorte of titer? accredited statesmen.
, )r it‘stance the last Commercial, in an ar
t 'Jo an "th r e designs of the government,"
a unding with misrepresentations and false
s ements, lssumes that Mexico had a claim
Texas (before annexation, and says "the
'of Mexico should 11'14 been r :hr sl."
.11)
)1 Ci
me(
spit
oppi
11Tel
ted
of
plc
Gtr
Bug
OOTOEWEL
"Ft. melancholy days Moro coma.
The V adifral. Or the lear, , 7,
e t
Of %whey wood• an l 11 kke wood.,
An I m-alolas brown sod asre.—Bryant.
We knbw not why R. wa that Bryant, one
of the most gifted of Ameficati poets, should
have designated. in the above that portion of
the year of which October is the emblematical
representative, as the "saddest," or its days
as "melancholy." It may be that to him they
are—not so perhaps because in themselves
they possess any more , linelancholy" features,
or a "sadder" aspect than any ) other, but be
cause, perchance, of the loss of some dear
friend—the departure from earth to the regions
of eternity of some loved companion or asso
ciate, who in the spring time of usefulness,
and in the midst of hope and happiness, had
received , the summons and
,obeyed the mat
date, !'dust thou art and Unto dust.thou shalt
return." It maybe thatlinme fair and tender
blossom ? the petals of whose intellect and the
beauty of whose form, had just began to un
fold beneath the warm and genial -rays of ed
ucation 'and 'age, and in whose future destiny
the poet had taken a deep interest, had been
called to a world where time and seasons are
not,'mid the "wailingiwinds and naked woods"
of brown October. Under circumstances like
these, we can readily imagine, that the autum
nal winds, as they munifur, 'and moan, and
sigh,, through the fast debaying and drooping
l eaves, plainly br athingithe dirge of the - de
parting year, w ifld bring to mind:thoughts
;sad and
, melanch V. But to ps thci ifrnelan.
choly days" of 0 tob r are onics. we l +me.
We love their so tap mellow light, and ad
\ mire the . variegat dti is of the decaying fol
iage. We deligl t to contemplate 'the signs
of plenty which are invariably to be seen
among the ..tillers of the soil in this blessed
and beautiful land at this season of the Year.—
And. although the "medows" may be "bretvn ;
~
and sere," we knowthey have just been made
,'to yield a portion towards driving fro - M the
dours,of the poor as well Os the rich the gaunt
fi gore of famine ;and want. The husband
man gathers - his crops, and blesseii God' that,
they are a lt hi s —d o tithes does he have to pay
an established clergy, nor taxes to a hereditary
aristocracy. But he blessed and worship's
God as he pleases, : and his rulers are but his
own servants, whose acts he can fly can
vass, and whose services tie can dispen e with
at pleasuie. Therseis mu l ch to learn from the
"brown" and melancholy days" of October,
"the saddest of the year," of which poets nev
er "dreamed of in their philosophy." '
"October," says a writer on the subject, "in ,
1 the calendar of Remulus s, was the eighth.—;''
ttominitian, a Roman Emperor; a cruel and
vindictive wretch, was born on the twentieth
!day of this month., and was desirous that it
should take its nante front him: but the Sen
ate decreed 'that alf l inscrtptions should be t 0...
tally razed;' that 4,$ name should be struck
out of the registers - of fame, and his memory I
abolished forever.] This wicked Emperor '
was. assassinated in the - 45th year of his age.
His death pot a period to the family of the
Vespasious, and he svas the last of the twelve
Caesars. Wißoonat, Or wine month, was the
name siren to o.eteler by the Saxons. Al
though the Efficient Sxons made no Wine, yet
they had it at this season from the adjoining i
countries. 'Tills mnnth 'was sometimes called
frioterialleth."-
The overwneimine
completely lunner% ed both our neighbors of the
Commercial and Chronicle—so Much so that
they can't even set down or subtract the sim
plest amount of figur4 correct. For instance,
him ofthe Chronicle says, "this eon* in
1844 gave M a rkle3sol votes, and hunk 2585
—whole number of whlg rria2
ig th,,,jority
1294." 'Now WI !pt correct,
the whole number 6086, whig
majnity pl 6. Ti tion FayB in
1844 Shunk receii r this coun
ty, whereas he hal a falling off
of 379 " If we cA titis a fall
ing °Mot 479. V a defetit be
fore have such a , dikin the Fed
eralists—like Daniel Webster, when he quit
Tyler's cabinet, they don't know where to go
or what to do. Poor fellows! : :
Balan9e of Trado.
The Journal of Commerce explains in the
(allowing few words a fallacy, in- regard, to
trade, which obtains even yet in the discus
sions of some of the economists, on the neces
sity of exports and imports balancing each
other. The Boston merchant h ke shipped
in the last three months, 13,38 sof ice,
costing nothing. e hooks r Custom
Ileuse, when ihe' ;weeds of this ice are'
breught back, I will show go much balance
against the ciuntr We export, a cargo
nhi
I 1
co i
cost nothing, and import n payment a.
•
cargo of values, For doing such t ings, and
for generally [fringing back more than it car-,
ried away, trade, was accused and, convicted
of impoverishing nations. Qne mould think 1 ,
that any body' could have seen through such
a delusion; yet our highly respectable race
did not see through it until some fifteen years
ago. .
(r?'Ohio has gone for the whigS as usual,
that party having secured a majority in both,
branches of the legislature. We regret this
only:because it will bring another Toro Cor
win into the United States Senate in the place
of "Bill Allen "
WWI') neglected to State last week that
at the recent election, Messrs. E. Babbitt, B.
B. Vincent and .1. C. Maishall, were eleCted
Trustees of the Erie Academy, and Simeon
Hunt and Hitgh Hamilton; were elected Trus
tees of Waterford Academy.
05Mn the language of a contemporary, al
tered to suit our purpose, we would say, our
complinien s to the Observer!---as we
_are
pretty sou dly ttrrashed we hope it will say
nu more about it!—Grqelle. -
On otui 'condition 'we will grant your
request, vip. That in future you will your
self, and In the-ineantime use y9ur intlu
ence to persuade yptir friends, not to be gide so
dictatorial and oqrbearing towards' hose who
you are bound t.9 - = believe horthstly differ with
you in regariVto certain great ineasy,res of
national arid State policy. Do you agree?
ex
for
are
ma
the
ich
Ave
/ith
the
'lle-
cr. Hon. Henry A. Wise, lato Minister
to Brazil, has arrived at Washington, and has
had an audience with the President and Sec
retary of State. He is represented to be in
fine health and spirits.
•
illl•
this
ore
'he psearnanion prisoners were re.
cently Nov Orleans. They num
bered in all ninety-two men, and Uncle - Sam
gave the Nrys"•nearly $17,000 for their eer:
vices.
0:7It is well' emarked by the N. Y. Tn.
!mine, that the_etegant Native party in thi,
State.4one us the service at the late electi atv
which usually devolves upon the Birney °
litionists. Its influence was thrown-in faun
of Shunk. Strange sight!—N'stives a n d f or.
signers acting together. But the truth is o ar
oPPonets rnanage.l to secure the supportsftb4
fag ends of all 'parties, a n d this accounts 4,
their extraordinary success. -
The above paragraph We find in the k g
Gazette. Its objects, for it has two, 14 .,
plainly to be seen. 'By such false n11'411(114
it seeks to excuse the defeat of its party J D t s t
State, and to mislead our adopted chiles, is
regard to th4redilections of the
it - however, will not, cannot succeed. Tb e
disgraceful coalition of the whigs arid native,
in 1844 in Philadelphia city and minty , till
stares them in the face, and cannot be . en d,.
cated from the minds of the people, it.side,
the same game was attempted, this yreiiY,
it did not succeed to the extent anticipated, u
the following from the Pennsylvanian detion.
atrates. "The returns of votts aufar as
known;Aow that in The city rivl t
FEDERALISTS voted for the NATIVE CITT A, ND
Cousry orrits,'and that in return for this,
my. lIUNDIZED NassvEs voted for the. Fenn &
Goma:sou; in the Northern Liberties, thu
three hundred ;retires voted for the Federal
Governor, and in return, two hundred ram
alias toted for the Notice City and Cos
Officers. In Kensington, the Federil votelat
given for the corporation Commissioners, in
stead of the City and County offices, and tbre t
hundred and fifty Federalists voted for the
Natives for three hundred Native votes fa t
the Federal Governor. In Spring Girdea,u
in Kensington, the contract, of 'the greater
leader* of the Native party, was put aside by
the lesser leader's inithatDistrict, and the Na
tive corporation Commissioners substitatet
for the Native City and Courtly offices, 104
FIVE HUNDRED NATIVE 4+4aTes were given t s
the Federal candidate for Governor, for three
hundred and fifty Federal votes given toll,
Native Commissioners."'
Goo* to the wiass Again.
Our young friend and Correspondent, i/sen
ANDEnso;s, of Memphis, Tenn., funuerlyot
this city, : we are gratified to learn has teeth.
ed an appointment under the Ten Regimen
bill, of Second Lieutenant of Dragoons, as
been ordered to join his regiment, the 3d, u. i
ladled te'Ciera Taylor's ',column, When the
call for volunteers was Mole in May of lut
year, he was carrying on: bu i siness near Mtn
phis, but like hundreds of others he idutadoa-
ed it and joined the Tennessee cavalry us
private. He was with the command of Gen.
, Patter'son in the long and toilsome march nki
ori Tampion, and participatei in the bombori:l
!Tient of Vera esitz, in all .of which he so
in i aintained the reputation of a good soldie;-,„
that the officers of his regiment joined in os
commending him to the President for the ap
pointment he has received. We 'hare a -
doubt, if fottunelavors him with a chanCe,6!-,
will distinguish hiMself. At any rate rt:
shall always be proud) to claim him as ,"ont - f
of.the b'hoys" from old Erie.
- Scowl `
at Last.
The Gazette says: "In future Giibernato.
nal and Presidential contests, we shall rely
but little upon the acknowledged personal pop
rularity of our candidate:" That's a setisiElk-,
resolution, and shows you begin to appreciate
the inotivo..f th• aoznocracy, who al ways TOit
av• y . tnciptes aird'
:fleas "' e° " 4 not forma.
The Zaino Markot
It is supposed that about thirty=sevean
thirty-eight millions bushels of grain wati
sent from the United States from the Ist Se?:
tember, 1 , 846, to tile early pait of last,monti.
This was worth, it a4ir average, abolitfer.
ty-five millions of dottier". And stiyposelin
was still in the country l , and the tariff ore'
sti-Thin existence, what would the whig boa
market be good for, and what farmer woui
get his dollar a bushel for wheat.
Cl)'
'arker Pillsbury, an abolitionist of th
Garrison seh'ool, calls the United States Gt.:-
ernme`nt "a communion of organized pirate,
for whose utter extermination every civilized
nation on the globe should feel bound total
bor." •
Negro Star:age. I F.!
Connecticut gives about one-fiftii of bet'
vote in favor of, and four -fifths against, ne- I * ,- .
gro'suffrafte. Why don't the whigs come to
the rescue? Their philanthruphy don't ap
pear to be Of'a very practical kind'
.. o:rr
'he defeat of John P. Kennedy, inTlx
Baltimore district, has caused im little mom•
ing and lamentation among whit newspapers
- and politicians. And no wonder—next to Mr.
Corwin, he; was the beauideal of a true,wlisi
—for Henry Clay first, for Henry Clay tuff
for high protection, a national bani 4 and 4 9'
Posed to the war with Mexico,his fall sira,lih
the going out of the sun of wbigty. i tit
event of his election a strong :11Ort,,vratY
have been made to place him in'he speaker',
chair, but the obstinate . demoqacy' loved tbti:
'Country better they did John P Kock
or Mexico, and defeated hill.
• .
The' Lilo t republishes tetterlics
the N. 0. Courier from Gen.(.lirooki, in ih'ch
he vindicates himself from the charie.ef to.
ing detained seien thoustincrAroops hewed
Baton Rouge and Memphis.; 'The adjutot
general endorses this defence, arid speaks is
the highest terms of Gen: BroOkes efficiency.
~`
The Boiston PostAhinkis thus perfect hare*
ny existe between far. Webater's eulogist' ,
and the people—the former say the Presiden
cy wonld confer .no -additioniil honor upon _
him—the. Jailer think - ho woutd.confer poio.
ditional honor urlon thei Presidency. '*t..
I .7
agree with the lattir.
•
It is surprising i to see 'l - 16' 'hai.progress ham. -:
bugs make in thisltand - offintilliivenca r add is
this age ofkn44l.7cge - . - z--Fr'"e'cfoirtn Craiir•
Just so=but P ,nnsylvania has liven ow
of the “humhtigs"Jof the age a check . —whir
P'
ery—which we t list will have a 80uislet - I
. •
fect,on the same i , n New York:: '- , kri .
\. 07' The Uttlori says the President has dr
eaded to call mit two dore'regiments imalidi•
ately, one front Tennessee and one from Mich'
Igan.
e&4'T
'he Mormon prophet, Strang, has OP
dered all hielollowers to Pearer Islaad, l3
Lake 'Michigan. He hai bought up that in
containing forty square wiles, and'expects°
gather the Mormons there this fall. •
U7' The tOtal Liabilities °fell the hoists
that have recently failed in England areoja
to be one hundred end serenteen
a half of dollars!