AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
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CARLISLE:
THURSDAY, JULY 4. 1830.
ovn man.
“Now our flag is flung to the wild wind Irce,
Let it float o’er our ‘father land,”
And the guard of its spotless fame shall be,
Columbia’s chosen band!"
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1840,-
MARTIN VAN BUREN,
' AND AN '
INDEPENDENT TREASURY
An Tnde/iendert: Treasury , —whose officers re
sponsible- to - the people, instead, of privileged
corporations, shall guard the people’s money.—
Democracy-asks in vain, what claim have the
banks to use this public treasure ns their own,—
again to convert it into.ah engine ot ruinous ex
pansions and Contractions ofvhe currency, and,6l
new political panics and'pressures, to enforce
submission to the Money Power.— lloti, James
Buchanan’s I’oast.
This day—consecrated by all that is dear
, and.ineStimahleio man-'-wo raise, in a for
mal manner, our flag to the mast-head—'de
termined to keep it waving aloft until, the
.victorious legions of democracy shall again
“conquer under the favorable lead of the emi
nent statesman who now presides over the
Republic- In making our selection of the
Chieftan,-under whose banner we. range
ourselves for the next Presidential election,
we but respond to the.battle-cry which .re
sounds from Maine to Georgia and from the
Atlantic to thejLakcs. 'Mr. Van Buren de
serves well of his country, for the talent,
the clear-sightedness, the firmness, and the
. justice, of his administration. Called upon
at a’ critical ’ period, when fainter hearts
'trembled and feebler intellects were con-
founded, to take charge of the helm, he
shrunk not for an instant from the steady
assertion of the principles with which he set
out; he yielded neither to the ,menaces of
foes nor to the counsels of timid friends—
but "rode upon the whirlwind and directed
the storm,” until the tempest was fully'ov
erblown. He. now reaps the reward of his
constancy, in the approbation of the people
whom he has served.so well and sofaithful
ly—and will be re-elected by an overwhelm
ing majority. In the great battle which is
to be fought in 1840, Pennsylvania, which
might with perfect propriety be styled the
Tenth Legion of American Democracy, will
be found foremost in the contest, and, with -
out disparagement to any of our'sister coun
ties, we would say that Old Mother Cum
berland will be seen, where she always’has
been, with her face to the foe, in the thick
'est of the fight.
With the name of Martin Van Buren we
insert the sentiment of our distinguished Se
nator, which forms the .watchword of all true
hearted republicans. Let our battle cry be
Martin Van Buren and an - Independent
Treasury, against Clay, Harrison, or Web-
ster with their great National Bank, the idol
of fedefalis'm'.'~Under thfe ampln folds gft:his"
■ republican banner we shall march on “con
quering and to conquer,” until not a. vestige
■ of Antimasonic Federal Abolition Bank
Whiggery shall remain to tell thejnournful
tale of its expiring struggle. . 1
ronrthof July.
This day ushers in the anniversary of our
Independence—the glorious birth-day of our
nation’s fre'edonu- How pleasing the reflec
tion that, notwithstanding the storms and
tempests the ship of State has had to encoun
ter in her perilous voyage of sixty-three
years duration, still she is moving majesti
cally onward, and every returning anniver
sary but exhibits the noble vessel, with her
gigantic proportions, an a more pleasing, yet
more enviable light to the despot-ridden na
tions of the earth. From the moment when
the immortal 'Fifty-Six’ proclaimed the then
feeblecoloniesa sovereign and independent
• nation, and pledged their "lives, their for
—tuDeß. and their-Bacred lionor” ..to carry, out
that declaration into practical operation, up
to the'present time our progress has been
onward in wealth, in numbers, in intclli-
gence—in every thing,that constitute'a great
’ powerful nation-. -From thirteen -weak.
colonies, with a population
of scarcelj'Wxiec^nullions—we have increas
ed to a mighty etu-plfeof twenty-six gover
■>: . population of
.*npre than sixtcen miUions ’ot-OjW hapnieht,
.and inbst intelligent people upon-tte?Cyife of
the earth. Nor has our onward course be>n
only as it respects our numerical increase:
"We have also increased with rapid, strides
•Itf intelligence and a general ‘improvemeni
of fho couhtry, untllwehave hctually be
come the wonder arid admiration of , the
whqle world. Such has been our history,
and such, unden the guardian care of that
Providence who has, watched over us ever
since our infancy, will continue to be our
onward course in prosperity if we are only
true to ourselves, and if we contjnue to
rightly appreciate the .innumerable .blessings
we enjoy.. - •
The question of man’s capacity for self
government; is no longer a problem of diffi
cult solution: it has been solved, and solved
satisfactorily, too, in our own history. The
despots of the old world have trembled at
the abundant success of the experiment, and
their thrones have tottered to their bases at
the mighty triumph of mind: Their destiny
is Axed, and, although they may for a little
whilo longer’forge the chains of tyrariny for
their subjects, the shackles which now op
press the mind and body of man, will fall
off, and a regenerated world will ere long
proclaim an eternal hostility to every species
of tyranny over suffering humanity.’ Man
will then step forth in all his native dignity,
and assert that equality with his fellow,
which the God of the universe designed
for him: he,will then feel that he is no long
er a slave or an uriderling to some petty ty
rant, but that he is moving in the same sphere
with his fellow-man. Such will be the ulti
mate effect of the labors of the patriots of
’re upon the whole human family. Reader!
are you not proud - of the name of American?
it is a title more to be desired than “I am
a Roman citizen” was to the ancients—and
it is already a passport to favor and hospi- 1
tality in every civilized country, on the face
of the globe.
.. then, the liberties you enjoy.—
Reverence the’ meiniines. of those patriots
who procured these blessings for you—and
on this glad day offer up your heart-felt
thanks to of Liberty who has
-presided-over-our destinies, and who, let us
fondly trust, will -continue her protecting
care until the great arch-angel shall swear
that “time shall be no more.”
[CT’Wc understand there is, a poor mis
erable creature, sometimes ‘yclept dot tor' but
more generally T y, who would not be
believed on his oath, much less on his word,
by any one acquainted with his character
for veracity, very busy in circulating a re
pm i that the scurrilous hand-bills in refer
ence to the College, pasted up through town
on Saturday night, were printed in the “Vol
unteer Office.” We should deem it unne
cessary to notice this despicable menial,
vferc it not that such' a report might gain
credence abroad where he is not known—
we, therefore, once for all, positively deny
having had any hapd or agency in the mat:
ter —or that they were printed in or about
the Volunteer office. ’ The fact is the first
we heard or saw of any of them was on Sun
day morning about 10 o’clock, when our at
tention was called to one pasted on the
Court House. We therefore “nail tim fulsc
hood to the counter,”, and pronounce the au
thor of the base LIAR and an in
famous SCOUNDREL.
The Jews. —An able article on the sub
ject of the fulfilment of the prophecies rela
tive to this interesting people, will be found
on our first page. As every thing connect
ed with the restoration of the descendants
of Abraham to the land'of their forefathers,
from which they have been in a great mea
sure excluded for nearly eighteen hundred
years, possesses more than ordinary interest
at the present time, when it is believed by
-inan'v that their restoration is near at hand.
we need scarcely invite the attention of our
readers to-the article in question. All will
doubtless read it with avidity, and all ■will
be more or less profited with the perusal.'
’ Next week\vq shall endeavor to lay be
fore our readers,’the very nbje and satisfac
tory report of the Committee appointed to
investigate the conduct of the late Board of
Canal Commissioners—read in the House of
Representatives' on the 15th ult. We will'
barely rcmark in advance that it clcarly sus
tains the present board so far asrelqtes to
their conduct, and fully. substantiates the
charges of frauds-and villainies-.preferred a
gainst Uitner’s Canal Commissioners, .
The Senate. —The closing scene of this
body,' says the'- Ke^tdhV; >
previous, history. Its last act was to pass a
resolution censuring, Gov. Porter, for his
dignified and manly, reply to its impertinent
demands relative to the Gettysburg railroad.
-Mrrßrown-madea"very“happy-and-imprcs
sive speech on the occasion, and Judge My
ers immediately gave notice that he should
move to expunge tlie‘ resolution, by drawing
black lines around it,, next session. It was
adopted by a minority vote of fifteen . It
will be regarded hereafter, asuthe last effort
of-expirifiginalignity and faction. Demo
cracy will wipe the foul stain from the re
cords of.the Senate as it did in the case of
the venerated Jackson. -
..^TV/s.— The whole!amount of tolls col
leoiej, on the public works, fthm the, open
ing of. the<»pn n g navigation.up to the XDth
of June, was«4r€,6i3 being an increase
Over the same penodhf U»tyear otS37,BST 63,
I^# t itttt v*
J 1 tremendous Petition. —The: petition with
which ."the “Chartists” or Republicans of*
England lately marched to London, is said
to liave been signed by one million two hun
dred and forty thousand persons, apd was
nearly three miles in length! There is un
questionably a spirit at work among the ope
ratives of England, which will ere long crush
the overbearing aristocracy that has for ages
trampled upon the-rights and rioted upon
the industry of the laboring community of
Great Britain.
From England. —The latest arrivals from
England represent matters and things in by
no means a favorable condition. There ap
pears to be considerable pressure in the mo
ney. market, which the papers attribute to
speculators in cotton, etc. There is con
siderable excitement growing out of the
movements of the Chartists. They' held
their National Convention at Birmingham
op the 18th of May. The Albion says they
paraded the streets about 6000 strong. The
mottos on the principal banners were, "Let
the oppressed be free”—“Tyranny shrinks
before the majestic eye of an united people”
• —“England- will and shall be free.” Such
was the alarm of the trades-people, as the
Chartists passed through the centre of " the
town, that most of the shop windows were
closed, and some of the more timid inhabi
tants left the .town.
Extraordinary Hail , —lt is stated in the
Alton (Illinois) Telegraph, that on the 25th
of May the village of New Greenfield was
visited by a hall storm of the most appalling'
.character. The size of the hail stones which
fell on the occasion were so large that six of
them.. .weighed, no, Jess.,tlmn. seven; pottnds
three ounces, one’Vneasunug seventeen inches
in circumference! An immense amount of
damage was done by the hail,, j . •
On the 14th ult. a terrible' hail storm pass
ed over parts of Prince George and Sussex
counties, Va. The crops were cut to pieces,
and pigs find poultry innumerable were kill
ed. It is stated that the hail lay from five
to six inches dcep"6n the grou rid) twerity
four hours after the storm!
Federal Honesty for once! —Mr. Pearson,
whose constituents were deeply interested
in the passage of the improvement bill which
some of his federal co-adjutors labored hard
to kill, remarked on the last day of the ses
sion, that if the majority persisted in their
suicidal course of policy to the best interests
of the State, he would resign his seat in the
Senate and recommend his constituents to
elect a his place—because he
would not sacrifice his constituents to sup
port any politicaKparty. The following arc
the yeas find nays on its final passage:
Yeas —Messrs. Brooke, Brown, Caldwell,
Carpenter, Case, Coplan, Frailey (Sch.)
Fillcrton , Hays, Parsons, Pearson, Kings
bury, M'Conkcy, Miller, (Adams,) Miller,
(city,) Myers and S'lerrell. —l7.
T^ays— Messrs Bell, Ewing, Frailey, (city)
Killingcr, Maclay, Michler, Paul, Purvi
ance, Strohin, Williams and Penrose!!!—
,12. -
The federalists who voted for the bill are
in italic.
Federal Sophistry. —The democratic citi
zens of York; Pa. in their letter to the Pre
sident, complimented him on his course in
reference, particularly to our border difficul
ties, and to the custody of the public money.
In reply, Mr. Van Burcn took occasion to
allude to the latter question, and while a
vowing a belief that his often avowed opin
ion on that point, is advancing, in popular
favor, —; —
“It is now undergoing the safest of all
political testsj the impartial scrutiny of an
intelligent and patriotic people, who are at
the sometime the principal party in inter
est, and the judge in the last resort. As
they decide so will it, and so should it be.”
7his iiinocent, and underlie circumstan
ces, alifiost unavoidable reference to a mat
ter of grave consideration, says the Pennsyl
vanian, is furibilsly assailed .by some of the
federal presses, and by the Baltimore Patri
ot in particular, as "an attempt to coerce the
public mind in favor of the. Sub-Treasury
scheme.” It appears, however, that all the
papers on that side of the question, are not
disposed to join in this species of silliness.
The North American, for instance,.say s very i
justly:- . • . i
“But what coercion has he employed?—
Is it not perfectly proper for the President
to recommend a measure more than once,
which he deems important, and wishes to
urge upon the careful consideration of the
■
Jiail Load Jiccidentl —Two young ladies
were run over and killed lay the cars, near
the Depot at Harrisburg, on yesterday, mor
ning. In attempting to jump off whilst the
train was yet in motion; they fel 1 , and were
crushed by the; wheels! They-.-were'from
Lancaster and intended going on to Cham
bersbupg. We have not learned their namesr
■ The Judges. —The bill raising the salaries
of the judges; has become a-law. : The sal
aries of the judges of the county of Philadel
phia are raised s6oo—those of Allegheny
ssoo—ali the otherrdistricts s4oo—and thei
salaries of-the associate judges $6O per year.
-.JI ■ J '
Improvement Bill. —Tlic friends of Penn
sylvania and her prosperity, says the Har
risburg Reporter, will be gratified to learn
that an Improvement Bill passed both bran
ches of the Legislature on Tuesday last,
[2sth ult.j containing the following items
To avoid inclined plane at Colum
bia, . - r- ,
Reservoirs at Allegheny mountain,
New locomotives.
Repairs altogether,
with authority to borrow money
to meet accidents.
To pay certain debts, &c.
To pay damages.
New work not connected with ex
tensions; 30,000
Sheuango line, ?„ . . . . 300,000
Conncaufline, 5 rie tension, 250,000
To the two lines North Branch di
vision,
400.000
Wiaconisco Canal, 150,000
New surveys—Harrisburg to Pitts’g 30,000
The Governor is authorized to borrow the
sum of $2,540,000, to be vested in the im
provement fund.
■ ICT'The State Capitol Gazette of the 25th
ult. thus discourses of the doings of the late
Legislature: . ,
THE LEGIST,ATtTHE OF 1838-’39.
This day closes one of the most eventful
periods, not Only in the Legislature of Penn
sylvania, but in the history of the country.
It has already been incorporated into the
history of the Times, and will ever be re
garded as one of dark spots in the political
ahnals of this Republic.
The. people of Pennsylvania have cause to
rejoice that the stupendous attempt upon
their institutions and interests terminated as
it did; and although the true history of that
attempt is but'thc record of the desperation
of-a few wicked and designing men, it is
marked with as signal an. evidence of the
invincibility of that potent Democracy
which arrested~the tornado of Error, and.
check-mated the destroyer in the midst of
his villanics. When the’passionTind preju
dice of party shall _have grown still—when,
the present actors on the theatre of life shall
have been gathered to their fathers—when'
thousand-tongued misrepresentation shall be
dumb in its grave—when the slander, and
calumny, and falsehood of departed conspi
rators have all subsided-then, and then only.
Will the true coloring be given to to doings
of the Legislature which closes to-day It
will then be regarded and cherished as a
monument of the power of Principle—as a
bright memento of the devotiofi to truth,
that distinguishes the Democracy of Penn
sylvania. .
To those who most effectually stood the
brunt of the battle—the gallant Fifty-six—
the members of the House of Representa
tives—what praise is not due! They leave
to-day the scene of their patriotism and pa
tient endurance of Wrong;—but they go,
with the blessings of thousands of their
fellow-citizens upon their memory.
It would-be vain to repeat what is already
so well and so widely known. It would be
superfluous to detail the events of a period
which is already a part of the common
knowledge. AVe refer, at this most appro
priate time, to the session of the Legislature
now closing, merely to impress the impor
tance of the events which have grown out pf
it, upon the popular mind.
From the Keystone.
After the reading of Mr. Barclay’s report
on the Buckshot war, in the senate on Mon
day night, Mr. Brown moved that an artist
be employed to embellish the work with pic
tures—the frontispiece to be a likeness of
the author of the report. Hr. EwingTeplied
that he should be pleased to have this done;
that it would exhibit the senator from Phila
delphia county in his true light, that he had
disgraced the senate on the 4th by his con
duct. Mr.’Brown replied that it was true he
had disgraced the sedate. He had been
Jurccd-.bv.-the. conduct of that body to occu
py the position he did. Hehad been refused
a seat upon that floor, although elected by a
large majority of the votes of his district.—
The course pursued by the senate in refu
sing Tum his scat dn that day, and his now
occupying that’seat, had proved to the world,
that he had disgraced the senate, by show
ing .that .hc claimedjiis rig/i(3 and that they
were refused him. He had ofterciT proof of
his right to a seat on that floor to the: speak
er, and it was refused: aye it was refused
by-youi (speaker) sir. .-
;The pictures would be a profitable invest
ment—we should make money by prihting
the-report with them well executed, and in
stead aot the printing costing us any thing,
we should make sufficient to pay for all the
ion. First, we would
two pistdlsloaded or
Inch, as he'is represen
aed, looking fierce, and
Next we would have the
t (fis the senator front
\rked) “Brown, Brown;
and then a back scene
ig from the windows,’
ying .. their Nations. ..Ah, Mr.
Speaker, the book would sell well. Depend
upon .it it would bring in money, with a few
additional pictures. -And then the plot is
susceptible of being made into, a tragedy,
farce, melo drama, and comedy,- and from
comedy back to farce. and from farce to
tragedy! Authors would be seen running
here and there after the Work.,, Besides it
could be turned into.poetry and divided into
five acts for tragedy.'-Jt:would bring crow
ded houses, and have a run, unless it should
meet with the attention- from the audience
the report has met .with from those gentle
men who fell asleep during its reading 1 1
During the remarks of Mr. Brown, which
wie cannot give in full, tire Speaker seemed
to.Be laboring undpr the effect of passion and
ill- suppressed wrath. Upon Mr. -B’s. saying
that the eyes of the Sptaker were turned
upon the dial, of. clock, and that it
reminded him'of the lateness,of the hour,
the Speaker growled “no personal allusion,
sir,” evidently vexed to the core. The good
humor with which Mr. Brown scarified the
report and whig senators, pleased the audi
ence and kept them on the broad grin, and
and at the same time administered the se
verest of flagellations to his enemies.—-
When he alluded to the scene of jumping
out of the windows,'the Speaker looked for
all the world like a wild animal desirous,
yet fearful, of spring upon its prey. The
audience and most of the senators indulged
in a suppressed laugh, at the description and
embarrassment of Mr. Speaker.
The motion to have the pictures inserted
in the report was cut off by the • previous
question. , '
$39,000
70.000
100,000
400,000
145,000
75,000
WHAT WOULD THEY DO P—While
the Federalists are begging the people to
turn the Democrats out, and put them in, it
is fair that the question should be asked—
What would the Federalists do if they had
a President and a majority of both Houses
of Congress? Wo must,judge men by their
acts, and judging the Whigs accordingly,
the following answers result: '
Ist. They would- incorporate a National
Bank, and make a money. King, with pow
er to tyranize oyer the people and bring
them into subjection to his will. This has
been the darling project of the Federalists
from the.days of Hamilton down—and once
ensconced in- office, .it would be the first
curse they would inflict upon, the country.
2d. They would abridge the right of suf
frage, and limit the exercise of the elective
franchise to the wealthy.. By this means
they might retain power to oppress the
poor for the benefit of the rich, and to
do this has ever been their aim.
81,989,000
3d. They would confide the keeping of
the public money to their monster Bank,
making its vaults the Treasury, of the Uni
ted States, giving it power to stop the wheels
of Government, and to use the money of (he
people, as a means to strengthen the tyrant
who. oppressed them.. ■:
4th. They would enact Crittenden’s gag
bill, making it penal for the agents of the
government to.express their opinions in re
lation to the choice of public officers ; thus
making' slaves of the very officers who were
selected for their honesty rind intelligence
to do the public business of the people !
AVhen the officers of a country are debas
ed, then are the people debased also, and
therefore let us not give our, enemies pow
er to put_(hcir debasing law into operation.
sth. They would abolish slavery in the
District of Columbia, and entertain petitions
praying for the extinction of slavery in the
States. If .they ever gain power, it will be
by the aid of the Abolitionists, and their
■measures will be such as are acceptable to
the fanatics to whom they' will owe their
power.
,6th. They would, by a course of arbitra
ry and unscrupulous legislation on the sub
ject of slavery, drive the representatives of
the slave holding States from their scats in
Congress, and thus produce a, dissolution of
the Union. . .
7th. They would repeal our naturaliza
tion laws, and compel the foreigner to re
main in this country twenty one years bgfore
he could be a freeman.
Here are seven plagues, as terrible as
those of Egypt, which will be sent upon the
country, when it bows to federal rule. That
they would do all these things, their writ
ings, their speeches, and their well known
contempt for free government, leave no room
to doubt. Will the people trust such a par
ty—or rather will not every lover of liberty
unite to render their'banishment from pow
er perpetual -f—They will._. It is impossi
ble 1 that free and intelligent citizens, devo
ted to their'country,, and jealous of their
rights, should become the advocates of men
who would Tob them of their rights. Rich
in the enjoyment of the'privileges secured
to them by the Constitution, and knowing,
as they do, the benefits of laws devised for
their protectioirand Administered by honest
and-faithful-public--ser-xants,THey..iiave.ey_-
ery motive for guarding against the insidu
ous wiles of the political adven
turers who plot the destruction of their lib
erties.—St. Louis Jlrgus.
LATE FROM MEXICO.
Advices from Vera Cruz to the Sd, were
at New Orleans on the 11th inst.
ThebccountswereTeceivcdviaGalvestonj
having been brought to .that place by the
brig Kmpressario. , ■
Col. Bee, the Texiah. Envoy;, left Vera’
Cruz on the 29th ult. It is stated in the
New Orleans Bee, that notwithstanding he
was not allowed to proceed to the city of
Mexico, he still thinks that a reconciliation
between Texas and Mexico will be speedily
effected. Col. Bee was treated with distin
guished courtesy by general Victoria, com
mandant of Vera. Cruz. •
■Padre.Muldoon, whu had accompanied
Col. Bee to Vera Crtz, waa seized immedi
ately upon landing and thrust into a dungeon.
This act of atro'cious violence was doubtless
an ebullition oi Mexican rage, because, the
Padre had been appointed Texas,
aj_a-grateful testimonial of in
tefpbsition in behalf of that'republic during
.the hostilities with Mexico.. “Santa Anna,”
says the Galveston Gazette, "is watched
with too much jealously,to allow him to be,
of service to Texas, wore he so disposed.”
The Federal prisoners taken under Mekia
arc many of them employcd in working the
streets of-Vera .Cruz, afld are said to be
treated with great cruelty.
There is not, it is stated, a single vessel
of the Mexican navy-left.; " «
-The rumor of another invasion of Texas
is not.suppqrted.Jby any of the circumstances
now existing in Mexico. ,
The government .paper states that the
number oi the Federalists killed and wound-,
od-at the overthrow of Mexia is 600. •
. - Gen. Lamps, with I,TOO Federalists is.still
in the vicinity of Mpnclova, and now seems,
to be.regarded by the government party, as
their most formidable enemy. He is a-brave
and skilful officer, and very'much estima
ted by his party.
The papers' represent that the government
is much straitened in its pecuniary resour
ces by the late difficulties, and it is proposed
to dismiss all supernumerary officers,curtail
the pay of the balance, stop all pensions, in
crease the trees, and raise forced loans.
Unless these things be done, the government
paper. seems to say “the Mexican nation
cannot longer, exist.”
There is no news of the arrival of the
Constitution at Vera Cruz.
, The N. Oi Bulletin publishes the following
extract of a private letter from Vera Cruz:—
“A private letter from Mexico, under
date of May 25th, informs'us that the Rev.
Dr. Muldoon, Apostolic Vicar of Texas,
reached that city on the 13th of May,, and
next morning called to pay his respects to the
President ad interim, who would not see
him, under pretext of business. That night
at 12 he was conductecLto prison,
where he remains without any hope of ac
quiring bis liberty at present. ,
"The Mexican Government is organizing
an army of 60,000 men, with which to re
cover the sovereignty of their lost Province
of Texas, and appear determined to make a
desperate effort’to effect it;”
From the Chicago Democrat.’
KEOKUCK KILLED BY YOUNG
BLACK HAWK. .
Ftom several of the Pottawatomie Indians
now in this city, who recently passed through
the Sac country, we learn the following par
ticulars. During the absence of a nephew
of young Black Hawk, Keokuck' got his wife
drunk and passed the night with her. Being
thus detected, it fell to Black Hawk, as the
nearest relative to avenge his nephew’s in
jury; which he look the earliest occasion to
do and slabbed Keokuck at the entrance of
his nephew’s wigwam. Keokuck, it will be
remembered, was always the-friend of the
whites ' and opposed the celebrated Black
Hawk or Sac war, and was promoted chief
through the U. States Government.
He Was about-fifty years of age, and, at
the time of his death, was this side of the
Des Moines river, about 125 miles (four
days journey the Indians have it) west, of
the Mississippi. Young Black Hawk is now
chief of the Sacs, and, at the last news, was
at the head of 2000 .warriors marching for
the Sioux country. He has Lost none of his
inveterate hostility to the whites; but the
terror with whiclfMiis late travel thro’ the
U.-States with his father and the Prophet
inspired him, may keep him frpm any overt
demonstrations of it, although he sneers at
the peaceable dispositions of Keokuck, and
swears he will convince other nations of the
invincibility of his warriors. He sent to
the Sioux that he had murdered the woman
chief and was coming upon them with war
riors more numerous than the trees of the
forest. To whom the Sioux replied he
would b 6 met by warriors as numberless as
the leaves upon those trees.
Young Black Hawk is about thirty years
of age, and altogether the most handsome
Indian in his tribe. In passing to'the Spoils
country he crosses the Pottawatomie lands,
which will be neutral ground so long as nei
ther party infringes upon the rights and reg
ulations of the Pottawatomics.
the above was in type, we have
seen a later account which states that Keo
kuck is not dead—but was severely wound
ed . —Editors Volunteer.
Port Gibson, Crops, fyc. —An intelligent
gentleman, long resident of this city, who
has just returned from a tour in Mississippi,
and who was present at the late conflagra
tion at Port Gibson, says it was the hand-;;
somcst town he ever saw of its size, that of:
the*buildings many were large and elegant* 1
and that there was by far more style andd
egance of living, in, proportion to number,
than in.any other town in the State. The
gentleman relates the following singu.lar fact
which he was knowing - to. The lire took
dace on FridayTitTSlst of May, tluringlli<r
week the court had been in session and “six
murderers had been tried and acquitted by
the juries The lady of the judge, a wo
man of great piety and moral worth, express--
ed her astonishment at those acquittals, and
declared “she was afraid to look out when
the clouds began to gather, apprehensive the
town’ wouldbe'desiroyed! ,, '~’TUerv/OTds
had not a minute escaped her lips when the
alarm of fire was cried, and in a few hours
the town, was" a heap of ruins! Our infor
mant adds that he never saw such crops be
fore,, as ; were to be met with every where
down south.—Cotton, Corn, Wheat, every
thing promised a most abundant harvest.—
Cincinnati Post. ,
Four persons were accidentally" killed or
drowned last week at Mauch Chunk; and
35 kegs of powder exploded inarail road
car, without injuring the driver, although it
killed a mule, wounded two or three others,
and carried the fore wheels of the car and
other fragments' ■
The ‘‘.Courier” aL
Arner’s powder mil.,
which hilled a brother o, e prppneiu., -
a man named Snyder—the men having been
blown abont 150 yards from the 1 mill.—-
This is truly a catalogue of casualties.
> Potfaville Emporium.
Melancholy .tfrciWent.—-Patrickßovle. in
passing the - track of theTLong Island'Rail
road, in one of the streets of Brooklyn, on
Sunday last,, theiocomotive suddenly came
upon him, and in attempting to step back be
stumbled and fell,'leaving bis'feet and .legs
extended upon and oyer the track'. • The car
passed over the unfortunate man, ahd crush.-
cd.both his legs in a most shocking manner.
Amputation was resorted to,'as soon as sur
fical aid could be procured,but.in ivain.*rr
[e died on Mondaymorniug.—.Baft. Sun, .