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' -fg W, NUTTER, EBITQR,
tm presiding
ft'MEB BUCHANAN
«P PENNSYLVANIA: .
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Fo* CANAI- Cei|«?gstoNEß,
l«s.r»/iFU PAINTED,
OF WESTMORELAND COUNT!.
Demoeratle Electoral Ticket
Senatorial Deleoates.
WILLIAM BIGLER, of Clearfield.
DAVID D. WAGENER, of Northampton.
Representative Electors.
Dist. jDist.
1. Henry L. Benner, 13. John C. Kino,
2. Horn R. Kneass, 14. John Weidmah,
3. Isaac Siiunk, 15. Robert J. Fisher,
, 4. A. L. Roumfort, 16i Frederick Smith,
5. Jacob S. Yost, 17. John Creswell,
6. Robert E. Wrio&t, 18. Charles A. Black,
7. Wa. W. Downing, 19. %o. W. Bowm an,
8. Henry Hackman, 20. John R. Shannon,
9. Peter Kline, 21. Geo.P. Hamilton,
10.. B. S. Schoonover, 22. William H. Davis,
11. Wm. Swetland, 23. Timothy Ives,
12. Jonah Brewster, 24. Jas. G. Campbell.
Lancaster, April 25, 1848.
’ID""VVe are under obligations to Hon. John
STRomr, Member of Congrees irom this district, for
a copy of Lieut. Howison’s report on Oregon.
James Buchanan.
In having the honor of being the first to hoist
this truly great man's name, in this State—the
State which is proud of him as its “-favorite"—
we done so, says the Potter Pioneer , conducted by
C. B. Cotter, Esq., under the fullest conviction
that the position of our country, and the signs of
the times, point unmistakingly to him as the choice
of the people for the next Presidency. Indeed, it
requires no uncommon keen eye, or unusual saga
city or penetration to observe this; and as there
must be a first move in all things of the kind, we
“ took the first responsibility”—and how glorious
isithe result! A glance at the political horizon of
our country must satisfy, all that the time isoppor
tune?—is ripe— for Pennsylvania to press her claim.
The jwsition of the government at the close of the
present incumbent s administration, to carry out
the salutary measures, to maintain the honor and
tecure the interests of our government and its citi
zens, plainly calls for James as his suc
cessor— experience in the highest
blanches of public .service, His perfect familiarity
with the affairs of the government, its interests ami
positions abroad, his'-inteHigence, stability, firmness
and peculiar fitness for the time and the station, all
—all—all conspire to render him the very nmn
whom the country needsfor its next chief executive;
and well do other States know this, fact. Well,
then, did the State Convention do its in declar
ing so favorably for the man it did; and well will
its members be repaid in seeing their nominee
triumphantly elected. Cheers for Pennsylvania’s
Favorite! Nine times nine lor the next President
of the United States.
“ Evil be to him, who evil thinks/*
The suspicions of the editor ot the West Chester
Republican, that the course of the State Central
Committee in postponing the exaction of the f re
quired pledges from the Electors, “ until alter Ithe
meeting of the National Convention,’’ was governed
by improper motives, are altogether so attenuated
and far-fetched, as to seem in our sight scarcely to
justiiy an attempt at serious refutation.. Why.
bless us. good cotemporary, reasons the very opposite
ol those which you impute to them, governed the
Committee in the adoption of this resolution. It
was the pledges might be nuule so posi
tive and emphatic, that no possibility ol mistake
could exist in regard to them. Between the time
of holding the Baltimoie Convention and the day
of the Presidential Election, a peiiQd intervenes of
about half n yci r . ami it wag argue*! that this (in
a' c e-tce \flui led sufficient filttfr Id fW&Vd
Jhu |iit!rigt?tj tinil that assurance would be made
doubly sure by committing the Electors to the
candidates mr Pireldeut itiiij Vice I'resideui, by
iiiif/ifi tiller the nominations This course
adopted ttmninumshj. No one present smiflejl
■mi in the tiiniftsplirp', end it demanded soiite such
bmy million magnifying rmimiseapfl tU Hspub
liian's to discoju it,
Far tfifi editorial of am friend
the Republican we entertain a innst prulbund
respect, and me ghij to hail him—brothei. but
T we must be allowed the remark, that it in his
judicial sphere he convicts upon this soit of -cir
cumstantial evidence,” we pray perpetual deliver
auce from hia authority.
"Young Mens’ Democratic Asso-
elation.
At a meeting, of the Democratic Young Men,
held pursuant to adjournment, at the Friendship
Hose-House, on Wednesday evening, April 12th,
IS-18. for/ the purpose of organizing the Young
Mens’ Democratic. Association of the city of Lan
caster, the committee appointed to draft a Con
stitution. made report, which was adopted. The
meeting then proceeded to the election of officers
for the permanent Organization of the Association,
wnp-the following were duly elected -.—President,
JOffN W, JACKSON ; 17ce Presidents, Jonas D.
Beckman, \\ m. B. \\ ilet; Corresponding Secretary,
George F. Me*. set; Recording Secretary, James Wiley:
Treasurer , Zuriel Sivope.
On motion, a committee of three were appointed
to procure a suitable room for holding the meetings
of the association.
, On motion, adjourned to luwet on Wednesday
evening. April 10.
Buchanan In Alabama.
The Alabama State Gazette, published at Mont
gomery, Contains an able communication, signed
*Gileg”‘in favor of Mr. Buchanan's nomination for
t)ie Presidency. The editor says:
“ It cannot be denied that the reasoning of
" Giles” is plausible—that he'indeed has made out
a very strong case ; and if there is any error in hia
statistics, or any defect in his arguments, we should
like to see it pointed out. Until this be done, and
with the present ‘Mights” before us, we pronounce
our choice to be BI'CHANAN and KING agaiiwt the
world.’
Re-nomination of Col. Piollet.
The President has re-nominated Col. Victor E.
Piollet to the Senate, for the place of Paymaster
in the Army. It is sincerely to be hoped that the
Senate may act upon this nomination in the spirit
of justice and impartiality which it deserves.
From, the Pennsylvanian of Monday.
The President and Mr. Buchanan.— That in
dustrious calumniator, who furnishes daily a column
of concentrated malice for the Norik American in
the shape of a letter from Washington, stated, in a
paragraph scandalously coarse, a few days ago,
that there was a misunderstanding, of coolness be
tween the President and the Secretary of State a
story which we perceive has been duplicated in
various quarters, and amplified even by the impar
tial correspondent of the N. 0. Picayune alias “Ob
server*' of the Ledger. We now state, upon the
best authority, that it is a fabrication, manufactured
out of the whole cloth—a sheer, naked, aud un*
blushing fabrication. The President and Mr. Buch
ana# never were on more cordial terms than at
present, nor has the whole cabinet been more unb
.ted til (my previous’period or the present- admin la*
trulioii, .
Q 7 On Monday, on motion of Henry
Itap, Mr. Pahihi. G, Baker wai admitted to the
practice ef the Law, ae an Attorney, in *he MvtntJ
eeurtfl of this e&uut;, 1 .
HiOl« la Wiublugtou till.
We ere pained ta ehraniele, ifi eiuittief ualimm,
llie prevalence ef miieli saeial dikaider in ille Me 1
wpalis @f (he Nalien=the plaee, wliielt ef fill
ethere Simula lie mesl eenseeratea la Law, and
Peace, and Order: Far same pWleatiaai, abridged
impraper by the papulae#, the effiee ef the Mhimsl
Sf a, an ahalitian newspaper, has been assailed,
pelted with stone., and threatened with demalitinn!
Papular mubreahs ef this description have re
cently become of too frequent repetition, not to pnt
the safety and permanency of our social institm
tionß in imminent jeopardy, They never .fail to
reflect infinite disgrace upon the city in w’nidh they
transpire, and have a direct tendency to bring into
disrepute the very forms and spirit of the institu
tions, of which we, as Americans, are so prone to
boast.
Of all human despotisms, that of the mob is
most calamitous and deplorable. Its decrees, like
those of Draco, are forever recorded in characters
of blood, and fall with indiscriminate vengeance
upon the innocent and guilty. “Whatever the
wrongs that serve to lash the elements iijto a sea
of raging turbulence—and they are mostly imagi
nary—the Wrongg inflicted by the lawless acts of
the mob are always infinitely greater. Mob law,
then, has not a solitary trait to lessen its hideous
nesp. Its order is frightful disorder. Anarchy and
madness march with triumphant tread in its train.
Its juitirc is a blind' and unsparing sacrifice of all
that comes within its reach, without even the mock
forms, far less the humane spirit, of a constitutional
trial. It wreaks its benightened vengeance not only
upon persons—not alone upon the flesh and bones
of guiltless men, women, and children—but it even
seeks in inanimate nature objects upon which to
spend , its fury—and, amid summary displays of
semi-barbarism, levels to the earth Churches, Print,
ing Offices, and private dwellings! What single
fact can be more painfully illustrative of the worse
than heathenish blindness of an incensed j>opulace r t
What have the brick and mortar done to merit
such a fate f
“A mobocracy,” in the language once employed
by the eloquent Fisher A-nes. “is usurped by the.
worst men, in the most corrupt times—in-a period
of violence, by the most violent. It is a Briareus,
with a thousand hands, each bearing a dagger—a
Cerberus, gasping with ten thousand throats, each
parched, and thirsting for blood. A mob govern
ment, like a West India hurricane, strews the fruit
ful earth with promiscuous ruins, and turns the sky
yellow with pestilence. Men inhale a vapour like the
sirocco, and die in the open air for want of respi
ration. kis an earthquake that loosens the foun
dations ot society, burying in au hour the accumu
lated wealth and wisdom of ages. They, who,
alter the calamity, would re-construct the edifice of
public liberty, would ..scarcely he able to find the
mode), perhaps not even the ruins.”
Mobites, however, are notorious for their coward
ice, despite their acts of cruelty and desperation.,
A distinguished American, writing from London, in
1819, relates the following incident, in .confirma
tion of our remark : “ In that year, a mob of thous
ands had gathered together in Smithfield market.
The universal distress was extreme—the public
mind was. exasperated—deaths by starvation Were
said not to be rare—ruin, by stagnation of business,
was general—and some were brooding over the
dark project of assassination of the ministers, which
was not long afterward matured by Thistlewood
and his associates, some of whom, on that day, bar
augued this excited, desperate, starving assemblage.
Considering this state of leeling (the writer con
tinues.) prevailing in the multitude—their lowering
faces—their deep, indignant exclamations—their
physical force concentrated, probably that of 30 or
40,000 able-bodied men—no one could have deemed
it possible'that any small number of troops >hould
attempt to interrupt them, without being immolntttl
on the spot. A trumpet U heard to shund! An
uncertain, but a harsh and clamorous blast! It
was to be suppo>eil. that the surrounding stalls in
the market should hate furnished the unarmed
multitude at least with that weapon, with which
Virginia sacrificed his daughter to thp liberty of
Rome. Sepctators expected that the flying pave
metu Would begin to darken the air. Another blast
is beard I A cry of the ‘Aowe guards' ran through
•the assembled multitude, The ofators bn thepUt*
form were struck initf*=Bnfl the whole of that
mighty host el denigrate men ineominemly took
T 0 TfffciH Hfcsfcsl They had run through die Old
Bailey, and reached Ludgate Hill, helhre thfiydis=
covered that they had been put to flight by a single
mischievous ton! ol jv.weV, wPlmd emneUimnphing
down the opposite street on horse-back, blowing a '
slat i*- loarluuau's horn ~ !l
Monroe County,
| An enthusiastic meeting of the-Democracy of
Monroe county vvu a held at Stroudsburg, on the
evening c.f Monday, the JOth instant, at which
James Turpeiimng, Esq., presided, and which was
ably and eloquently addressed by M. M. Dimmick,
and S. S. Dreher, Esquires. Among the series of
excellent resolutions adopted on the occasion are
the following: . ’
Resolved, That we heartily respond to the nomi
nation of JAMES BUCHANAN bv the recent State*
Convention, for the Presidency. His upright, firm
and unwavering advocacy of Democratic measures
for the last twenty years, in which he has displayed ,
the greatest intellectual qualities,and most'devoted
uprightness of purpose, and sterling patriotism, has ;
endeared him to the hearts of the Democracy of i
Pennsylvania, as well as the whole Union, and so •
identified' him with the well being of our beloved i
country that we “can read his history in the nation’s j
eye.” ' j
Resolved, That in our opinion every consideration
of justice, expediency, and feopriety, should urge
the Democratic National Convention to make him
our aiamlard-bearer in the coming campaign. That
we infinitely prefer him to any other candidate, and
we look forward with pride and confidence to the
flattering promise of the acknowledgment of his
claims and the claims of Pennsylvania by the De
mocracy of the Union.
Resolved, That with him as our candidate we
will go into the coming contest with renewed vigor
and redoubled energy, —but while a deep feeling of
disappointment and regret will he felt in case he
shouldnot .be nominated, we will still use every
hfruorable exertion to promote the success of the
nominee of the Democratic National Convention,
and while with JAMES BUCHANAN we would
expect that the Electoral vote of Pennsylvania
would be carried by an old-fashioned JACKSON
majority, we confidently anticipate -that the Demo
cratic nominee, whoever he may be, will be enabled
to defeat with ease any man that the- whigs may
nominate in this State, as well as in the Union.
The French Revolution.
Great curiosity has been expressed to hear xvhat
a writer of so much celebrity as the historian
Alison, would say of the revolution. Accordingly,
Blackivood has been published in advance, contain
ing a paper from that eminent politician, which
has been read with interest. Belonging to the high
tory party, it was expected that ML Alison would
be strong in his denunciations of the result of that
great movement. Neverthless, lie is far from ap
prehending that anarchy which many predict on
this side of the Atlantic. He speaks of the subject
as follows:
“ The melancholy progress of the first Revolu
tion has naturally made numbers of persons, not
intimately acquainted with its events, apprehensive
of the immediate return of the Reign of .Terror
and the restoration of the guillotine into its terrible
and irresistible sovereignty in France. Without
disputing that there is much danger in the present
excited and disjointed state of the population of
that country, there are several reasous which in
duce us to believe that such an bvent is not very
probable, at least iu the first imtanct t and that it
is from a different quarter that the reil danger that
now threatens Krauce is,.in the outset at leaßt,to be
apprehended.”
Tub Mail Lettinos.— The postmaster has just
completed the letting to contract the entire mail
service throughout New Jeffrey, Pennsylvania, Del
aware, Maryland, and Ohio, The contracts have
been taken at such a reduction In the prices as In
give,* swing of mete than #lOO,OOO perfcnmmi.
Besides this saving in the rest of the transportation
for the Metitm, important improvements have been
made j and In Okie considerable additional railroad
terWee will be brought into operation,
AflaiM lU VUfUtHH.
The Efota publishes despateltes fram earn, Fit
Rfi tvliiuh' pieseitt e distressing aeeuunt ui the
present eouditien ef Vutafsßi The greater psriiqn
ef the letter ef Cam, F:, liatt'ever. it taken up with
a statement sf tfansaetinns in Yucatan with wiiieh
etiF leaflets ate already familiar: The fuilewinp
eatraets from the gnmnindore's letter, and the ap=
pHpation of the Ywatanew Government (hr aid:
wbieh we publish below, will repay a perusal.
..... PaXfSAPHT, -March 13, 15-»8,
l have it direct from the French Can.
sul here, that the Government of Yucatan baa mnre
than twice within a few years bask applied to
France for permission to hoist the French flag, and
to become a French colony 5 but their proffers have
as often been declined.
The French Consul expresses the opinion, that
England may, in view of obtaining an increase of
territory in the Bay of Honduras, and possession
of the harbors of Ascension and Espiritu Santo, on
the coast of Yucatan, be induced to furnish aid, in
troops and munitions, from the settlement of Belize;
and a person is now in the city, professing to be an
agent sent expressly from Jamaica, to enter into
some arrangemenf with the Yucatan Government.
This information is given for what it is worth ; in
my own mind, it has little weight.
Gov. Mendez has declared to me, that, failing to
obtain aid from the United States, he should apply
to other powers; and, as a last resort, the people
of Yucatan would offer up the sovereignty of the
State to whatever power would consent to’ take it
under protection.
I sail this day on my return to Vera Cruz, via
Laguna and the Tabasco. The-bomb brig Vesuvius,
Lieutenant Commandant M.,Mason, will be left at
anchor oft* this city, to look after American inter
ests, and to render whatever aid she can in the pro
tection of the lives and property of the citizens. I
propose to. employ another small vessel of the
squadron on the same fluty, and hope to be able to
add a third.
With great respect, I have the honor to be, your
dbedient servant, M. C. PERRY,
Commanding Home Squadron.
Hon. J. Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy.
From the Washington Union , April 15,
FreucU Demonstration.
The houses of all the Secretaries were illumina
ted on the occasion of the French celebration.
Many private houses in different parts of the city
were also beautifully illuminated, as was Governor
McDowell's, a member of Congress from Virginia,
who temporarily resides in Georgetown.
The quarters of Col. S. C. Stambacoh, -on the
avenue, opposite Willard's Hotel, were brilliantly
illuminated. In the centre window was a large
transparency, representing the coat-of-arms of Penn
sylvania. It contained the following inscription:
PENNSYLVANIA,
THE OLD RKT-BTOXE STATE:
She goes it with a RUSH. 1
In favor of the French -Republic.
A flag-staff appeared from under the wings of
the American eagle, with the flag of our country
and the tri-color of France.
Among other colors which were exhibited on
the platform where the orators sat, was the stand
of colors which was presented by Monsieur Adet,
the French minister, on the 9th of January, 1790,
to Gen. Washington, which drew from him the
eloquent address which we lately published. They
were presented in the name of the National Con
vention to the Congress of the United States.
Texas and tlte United States.
The Legislature of Texas .lias passed a series of
resolutions, which have been approved, declaring
that the State has never parted with jurisdiction
over any ol her territory, that Santa Ft is an inte
gral part .of the State of Texas, that the attempt
to establish a separate government in Santa Fe, is
a violation of the rights of Texas. The following
resolutions ’accompany the preamble:
.Sec. 1. Be it res.ojved by the Legislature of the
State of Texas, That our Senators be instructed
and our Representatives requested to lav this sub
ject before the proper authorities of the" United
States, and to use their utmost endeavors to have
such measures.taken by the Government of the
United Slates as will secure Texas from any en
croachment upon her rights by the people of Santa
Fe.
Sec. 2d. Be it further resolved, That our Sena
tors he further.instructed to oppose anv treaty with
Mexico which may proude for lessening the’bomi
daries of Texas, as established by an act to define
the boundaries of the State of’Tuxns, approved
December 19, 1830.
sSen. 3d. He it further resolved, That the Gover
nor of the State is hereby authorized am! required
to issue his pruetainatinn to the people ofSatila Fe
to urgmiize their eouutv under the laws of the
Stalej and that lie also requests the President of
the united States to issue orders to the military
officers stationed in Manta Fe, to aid the officers of
Texas in organising the county of Nanta Fe and the
eleventh judicial district of the Niale 0! Teias.ahd
ift enlhrring the laws uf the Htate, if it should he
necessary to cull u|mu the officers of the Foiled
Ntafrs to put dmvu ony icsißianue hi the Inns iff
T#4a«,
Texas in 1 ends (o tnainioin htq oluiin /■) the Rin
OrMidv, and oil the way »»/>•
Another Fire In I'ittNliuiu.
I'ITTSMI'HO, Aplil, ai.
I The Jiubli.i mind has become so exgi’cd from
j the recent manitestations of an incendiary spirit
| among us, that the greatest poniternation was man
ifested last night whet, a fire broke out. in Virgin
Alley, running out of Wood street, between Fifth
and Sixth streets. The location is a central one,
and occupied by a large number of frame houses,
stables, &c.. of no great value, hut composed of the
most inflammable materials. Some ten or twelve
of these buildings were burned before the tire was
checked. There is no doubt the disaster was caused
by incendiaries.
Utin from Captain E. C. Williams, of the '■Cameroi
Guar,lC' to Mr. Mam Delict. of this ,-ily, dated
Sax Anoel, Mexico. March fi, 18-18.
I encloM.* yon the certificates of enlistment of
William Glatz, James Shaw, ant! George Win
nower, ulm) their accounts up to their deaths. Will
you have the kindness to hand them to their
friends, which will enable them to recover their
pay and bounty lands. The Hon. Simon Cameron
will obtain them, on application, with very little
difficulty.
Aou wilt plea.->c say to the families of the de
ceased, that during their illness all the care and
attention possible was extended to them. No
pains were spared to make their: situations com
fortable, for which much credit is due to Lieut.
Hambright. as also their messmates from the city
01 Lancaster. Their frieiids at home cannot la
ment their death more sincerely than do their*
companions in arms in Mexico.
Democratic Taiomi in St. Louis. The
complete success of our friends in the municipal
election of the -Ith is a cheering event, aud we
copy the Democratic. Flag's comments :
“We have the pleasure to announce to the peo
ple of this State and to the Union, that the Demo
craey of St. Louis have gained a glorious triumph
over all the combined elements of whiggery nativ
ism and Taylorism. They have struck the first
blow at this unholy alliance, and have put an end
to the pretensions of General Taylor. Where now
is the popularity of this chieftain, that was to carry
him triumphantly into the Presidential chair ? The
Democracy of St. Louis have set a glorious exam
ple to their brethren throughout the Union They
have shown that they will not surrender their prin
ciples, and cannot be carried away-by the clamors
and outcries of an unprincipled combination of ‘no
party men.’ We call upon the Democracy of the
Union to follow the example of their brethren of
St. Louis. Wc have struck the first blow, and we
have gained a glorious victory: let the Democrats
elsewhere follow our example, and whiggery and
Taylorism will be annihilated. The average ma
jority for the Democratic ticket is five hundred and
fifty —the largest ever thrown in this city for our
ticket. Who will now’doubt that St. Louis is Dem
ocratic ! Look out for a majority for King and
Price in St. Louis in August next."
Mm Buchanan s Letter on tue War.—Cupt.
Lewis Carr, of the nth Regiment, now quarter
ed at Lerma, forty miles from the city of Mexico,
in Cauwaladbii'b Division, says of the letter of
the Hon, James Bccuaivah, to the great war meet
ing held in Philadelphia in January last:
" 1 never felt more proud of Mr. Buchanan thau
after reading that letter, there is but one opinion
here in regard to it tmd its author, and that l« one
of plane and adiAlntiou. Let him only remain 1
true to the view* ro beautifttUy foreshadowed in
“ tl hl *
will be a rich one United, 11
Betueecauc llaruieugri
The iuipertanie af the earning Presidential elee=
tioii|ieijuiresaf the Ueniaeratie jiaFty the mast runn
jilete hirtuetiYi ta seeure the eeptry against the
sneeeHaf its.eppanents, Tite jßeslfin flat gives
the fellewing sennd advieeW i
» Sitreme opinion. inn«t ha ahandaned: There
,mnst heMmprannee and wrifiee an the part af all,
.The pnhlie welfare demands it: The late af times
•great measures whmh have been established tinder
rresment fMa, nn less than tmr snppesß in vw nod
<mr glory in peace, j a involved in this contest, If
we fad it will be a verdict against the flemccrotir
tyttm, and it will be putted dawn. We shall go
backward a generation in our national policy,t—
National interests will be sacrificed, the
cause will be betrayed. If we .triumph, our pro
gress towards national.greatness will continue un
interrupted. One after one, in the wilds of Cali
fornia and Oregon, taking the names of their own
peaceful rivers, the younger Co^nmonweahhB , will
rise to join our mighty Union, each with'ffts wealth
of loyal hearts, and its kindred interests of art and
trade; and each by sure and' natural influences,
lengthening and strengthening
“ the elastic chain
That binds in everlasting peace
State after State—a mighty train.”
Bill tor the Protection or Married Women.
The following is a bil) which; has passed the N.
• Senate, for the projection of the property of
married women:— 4/
Sec. 1. The real and persona! property of any
female who may herealter marry, and which she
shall own nt the time of marriage, and the rents,
issues, and profits thereof, shall not be subject to
Uie disposal of her husband, nor be liable for his
debts, and shall continue her sole and separate
property.
Sec. 2. The real and personal property, and the
rents, issues, and profits thereof, of any female now
married, shall not be subject to the disposal of her
husband, but shall be her sole and' separate prop
erty, as if she were a single female, except so far
as the same may be liable for the debts of her hus
band heretofore contracted..
Sec. 3. It shall be lawful for auy married female
by gift, grant, devise or bequest, from
any person other than her husband, and hold to her
sole and separate use, as if she were a single fe
male, real and personal property, and the rents,
issues, and profits thereof, and the same shall not
be subject to the disposal of her husband,; nor be
liable for his debts. *
Sec. 4. All contracts made between persons in
contemplation of marriage, shall'remain in full
lorce after such marriage shall take place.
The Pkoi*le of t hance.— The Boston Jltlas con
tains a letter from an intelligent Ameridun abroad,
to one of our distinguished Statesmen, in which
we find the following important paragraph. It
gives a lar different statement of the French people
from that contained in other letters and papers
which have been sent from Europe:
I have this morning seen an intelligent friend
just from Paris, who says that the spirit of the peo
ple is moderate, reasonable, and as firmly opposed
to anarchy as to the return of the Bourbons. He
denounces the strictures of the Times newspaper,
as false in regard to the sinister influence of the
French clubs. He listened with delight, he says,
to many harangues of workmen, that would have
done honor to the most enlightened Legislative
- He considers the London Sun and Daily
Aeu'i as the best for correct information and rea
sonable views of the Revolution in progress.
Washington, April 19, 94 P. M.
Great Excitement—Meeting in front of the Patent
Office—The National Era Office Threatened.
The city has been in a ipost unparalelled state of
excitement since dark. At about 8 o’clock not
less than three thousand persons had assembled in
front ol the National Era office, an abolition paper,
which has been published here for more than a
year past.
Through the efforts of a number ol our most
popular citizens, the assemblage was prevailed on
to.inove to the front of the Patent Office, where
they are now beihg addressed by Messrs. Lenox,
Radcliffe, and others.
In case of their refusal to move off their mate
rials within a given time, the committee is instruc
ted to cause them to be taken out of the District
themselves.
The committee has just been appointed, and the
meeting is still in progress. The excitement is
unabated.
Washington, April 2U.
It is believed that the summary process resolved
upon last evening for the removal of the National
Era office, has been abatnhmed, us but few persons
have been collected in its vicinity to-day, and all
appears quiet,
The proprietors have published a card declaring
their entire disconnection with the transactions re.
cently developed, ami their dvtntmhmthm in do or
any limbing until fully investigated:
l-'wn nrn »iill enfertsM «l *n ||, p
iillii',’ by tin' rubble ln=nieli(.
117*-The Prophecy of Napulwiii relative to the
politic!)! destiny of Kuropehas often been ■ reiermt
to of late. The fallowing is the entire passage,
extracted iroin J.ee Casas. The language was
Used in ]631 :
“hi less than filly years from the present tiim
the whole European system .will be changed. The
French will cast the Bourbons and their debts off
as my Arabian steed would any stranger who
would dare to mount him. Then, if my son be in
existence, he will be seated oil the throne amid the
acclamations of the people; if he be not, Prince
will go back to a Republic, for no other hand twill
dare to seize a sceptre which it cannot wield. (The
Orleans branch, though amiable, are too muchjlike
other Bourbons, and will share the same fal|e it
they do not chose to live as simple citizens aider
whatever changes take place. France once more
a Republic, other countries will follow her exam
ple : Germans, Prussians, Poles, Italians, Danes,
Swedes, and Russians, will all join in the crusade
for liberty." ' j :
Militia J daimvos.— A letter, from the Bri
gade Inspector of the Ist Brigade, Ist Division,
states that he is informed by Auditor General i>ur
viance that the bill abolishing militia trainings! af
ter passing the Senate, was lost iu the House, i’he
Brigade Inspector adds the following comments':—
“From the experience I have had for some years
past, I um perfectly satisfied of the utter folly and
absurdity of these ‘militia trainings,'and am equal
ly well satisfied ithat nine-tenths'of the whole com
munity are decidedly averse to them. They ought
to be ' abolished, and could he, i£ the public papers
would take the matter in hand during the session
of our legislature, and I sincerely hope they will
; do so during the next session.” '
Takixo his Time run it.— At one of our city
hotels, a bill of fare was handed to a respectable
looking old gentleman from the country, as.he was
taking his seat at the dinner table. He deliberately
put on his spectacles, and glancing his eyes over
its contents, folded it up and put it in his pocket,
at the same time apologetically remarked to the
waiter, that he hadp't time to read it then, but would
look over it after dinner.
ID' The Trenton Slate Gazette, the leading Fed
eral paper in New Jersey, on the appearance of
Mr. Clay's letter, took down the name of General
Taylor, and put that of Henry Clay in its place.'
The editor says he considers Mr. Clays letter equi
valent to a nomination.
> B-'” Th e -f O. Evening Mercury states that the
Hon. Mr. Sevier publicly declared, in ai reply to
inquiries by citizens ol New Orleans as to the ne
gotiations with Mexico, that “he would - write no
long letters, nor endure prolonged negotiations, and
if he could not secure a peace speedily, he would at
once resume a hostile position:’
Nohth Cauolixa. —The North Carolina Demo
cratic State Convention met on the 12th iinst., and
nominated David S. Reid for Governor, i IVstuox
N. Edwahds and Rodent SrttAXot were appoint
ed delegates at Urge, t 0 attend the Baltimore Con
vention (.Asiumas) W, Vixadu and Tuovii 8,
Asue/alternativei,
tIT“ Wiilny IHiip, who wait tried at Poughlteep.
«le,(N, Vi) for the murder of Mm, Ilutwll, hai
been found guilty of murder, and aenteneedito he
banged on the Sfljli of May neat. The plea of 1
hereditary Imanlty waa lit up, but net iiiitalned.
Taii NifiusAti perceive
that several ef ih« itemeeratie jaumals tliffitf as
ty the ef lading the Nataal eauveimun—
The iiishuieth names tiiei?th
ef May, aetl ethers theJ4tli.'
The iteried desipated hy the Pemeeratie £m-.
pesiena! £mm } was the ftmnh Monday ef May:
That that menth: ;
Ksmawabi Esq., ha* hew eho&w
the Delegate from Baltimore Pity to the Democratic
National Convention. Mr. K. is a native of Adams
county in this State, and was the delegate in the
last Convention who claimed the honor of having
first nominated James K. Polk.
D3r The Postmaster General has succeeded this
year in letting the mail routes of the middle states
at one hundred thousand dollar* less than j the last
year. This is a saving of- one out of seven hun
dred thousand dollars, or equal to above 1 per cent.
Several railroad companies, that have stood out,
have come in on the terms proposed by Mr. Cave
Johnson, and the department will go on perfectly
smooth in a short time.
Langford. the murderer, who was to be ex
ecuted on Friday last, at Towanda, has been res
pited by Governor Shiuik for “some months.” The
reason given is that the jail is unfinished, and it is
impossible’ to comply with the law requiring exe
cutions to take place in private. *
Swonn to Gkn. Scott.— The sword to be pre
sented to Gen. Scott by the state of Louisiana has
been finished by Hyde £c Goodrich, of New Orleans.
It is said to be very richly and beautifully orna
mented. and bears the follov
“ Presented by the people of the state of Louis
ana to Gen. Winfield Scott, for his gallantry and
generalship exhibited at the siege of* Vera Cruz, in
the battles of Cero Gorda, Contreras, Churubusco,
Molino del Rey, Chepultepec, aud his final entry
into the City of Mexico;”
A Good Hit.— The seamstresses of Baltimore,
(Md.,) who have suffered in common with that
class of deserving operatives, from the pitiful
wages to which they have been compelled to sub
mit, passed the. following resolution at a recent
meeting in that city:
Resolved , That modern Charity carries a high
head, and is far-sighted—keenly perceptive of mis
ery afar off; but unable to discern near home..
A little like the patriotism of modern Whiggery,
which goes off' to Mexico to sympathise with a
hostile people, and refuses its support to its own
A Difficult Case.— The Quakers in Virginia,
seem to be placed in a peculiar relation to the laws
ol Virginia. The Yearly Meeting at Baltimore,
to which they belong, has charged all its members
to. educate the free colored people. The laws of
Virginia forbid it; and the Friends have addressed
a memorial to the General Assembly of the State
of Virginia, asking liberty to pursue the advice ol
their 1 early Meeting. If liberty is not given, we
do not know what course the friends will take.
LD~ During the discussion in the U. S. Senate
on the Mission to Rome, one of the Senators, not
very active in debate, amused himself by perpe
trating.the following epigrammatic effusion:
Pope's Essay on Man"
Was a wonderful plan,
With which but few writers can cope;
But here, I’m afraid,
It is thrown in the shade,
By the essays of man on the Pope."
DU - * It is said that in the midst of the rush of
the people into the palace of the Tnileries, when
they were all so much excited, that on entering
the saloon of the Queen, they found a piano, and
that they forced a young man to sit down and play
lor them, and they all went to dancing the polka.
ID* '‘l say, Pat,’’ said a Yankee to an Irishman,
who was digging in his garden, “ are you digging
out a hole in that onion bed ’I"
“No,'’says Pat, “ I am digging out the earth
and leuving the hole."
DJ* The Ormati Revolutionary Committee or
New York) have purchased a thousand stand of
arms to be used by emigrant volunteers who have
been enrolled in battalions, and will shenly leave
this emmtry for the theatre of war in their native
land,
As Oi,n Mi*#,=Jnhn Mann, upward* ol one
hundred years old, died in the Germantown aim*)'
house, a few days ago.
Great Mobtautt.— letter from Mexico,
written in February, says that the Third Regiment
of Kentucky Volunteers has lost one hundred men
by disease, thirty or forty have been discharged,
and one hundred and eight were on the sick list.
ID* -Mr. Pageot, late French Minister at Wash
ington, it is said will settle in Tennessee instead
of returning to France.
DT* The profits on the line of Telegraph, be
tween Baltimore and New York, are said to exceed
$lOOO per month, or about 3(J percent.per annum
on the investment.
CD" Whittaker, Buck & Co., have recently erect
ed Iron Works at Bridgeton, West Jersey, which
will furnish employment to hundreds of hands.
ID* Judge Patton. of Pittsburg, has decided
that when a mart becomes an habitual drunkard
after receiving an apprentice, it is sufficient cause
for the apprentice to claim a discharge from his
indenture.
lowa Democratic.—Thomas H. Benton, Jr.,
(Democrat.) has been elected State Superintendent
over his Federal competitor. This was an excit
ing contest, and a victory was confidently expected
by the opposition.
Conscientious Office Holder. —The Pike
county (III.) Free Press states that a Justice of
that county voted against the new Constitution on
the ground that he had taken an oath to support
the old one!
Baltimore, April lU.— The City Whig Con
vention which assembled here to select Delegates
to the State Convention, was fully attended. Res
olutions were passed affirming Hexrt Clat as the
first choice of the Whigs of Baltimore.
Fate of Kings.— The history of the late Kings
of Franee shows a remarkable succession of mis
fortunes :
Louis XVI. guillotined. Louis XVII. died of
want. Louis XVIII. twice exiled. Napoleon exiled.
JJis son died in a foreign land. Charles X. deth
roned. Henry V. proscribed. Louis Philippe put
to flight. The count of Paris rejected. 1
Vice Presidency of the United States. The
Journal -of] Commerce says it is understood that
Gov. Seward will refuse to allow’ his name to be
used in connection with the proposed nomination
by the Whigs for the Vice Presidency, and that
his determination in that regard will shortly be
published over his own signature in the Albany
Evening Journal.
Peteh T. Hoxeh, Esq., of Boston, went out in
the steamer Washington as a bearer'of despatches
to Paris, and carries the joint resolutions of Con
gress sympathising with the people of France.
lost TIME.
1 threw a bauble to the sea,
A billow caught it hastily :
Another billow quickly came
Sueeessfully the priie to claim : -
From wafttj to wave, unchecked It passed,
'l ill loised upon the strand at last,
Thus glide unto the unknown shore,
rheii golden moments we deplore:
These moments which, net thrown away,
Might win fer ui eternal day,
_ ’ FeifJhitHMligmef,
foramen gehwli a&d
bdueatloii. [
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ttiFftland RemlPdSfdjgjgnj I
This question would not have ts me* if
? had nut heard it asserted that religimia instnietien
U eontF&fy to the fate and to the PflwWHfwt of out
State; Now, if there is any law prnhihmhg such
ifinmetion, the people ought to know it, | n many
plapes they are employing teachers who pad the
Scriptures and offer prayer in the schools.; If the
laws of the commomvealth/or&id.religiousknstruc
tion in common schools, these Christian teachers,
and the honest parents who employ them, have
been violating the laws.
As one of the people, I may say, we wish for
light on tliis subject. If wc have transgressed a
law, we have sinned through ignorance , and need
instruction ourselves. If there is such a law, we
wish to know all about it. Let us see it-j—let us
readit. You will certainly, Mr. Editor, be kind
enough to print it, if any one will furnish you a
copy. Then we unlearned folks, fathers and mo
thers, too, can read for ourselves, and learn what
it requires. We hope it is so plain a law jthat we
common people can understand it; for uje don’t
like those laws that are so obscure that we are
obliged to call in the aid of two or three lawyers
to explain their meaning—or so ambiguous jthat the
lawyers themselves cannot agree as to their inter
pretation. Such laws remind us of those enacted
by the tyrant m olden time, who hung them! so high
in the air that the people could not see,, to read
them, and then put to death all whom he adjudged
guilty of their violation.-
We elect our legislators—we pay them for legis
lation. Have we not a right, then, to knbw what
sort of laws they have made for us, respecting our
selves and our children?
’ing inscription:
We intend to be peaceable and orderly citizens,
and to obey those that rule over us. The jirecepts
of the religion which we, in our simplicity believe,
teach this. We wish our children to learn tlje same'.
Who will forbid them to learn these precepts iu the
common schools? Does the law forbid them?
Then let us know more about it. We do hot be
lieve that there is any law to come between us and
our children,and prevent us from instructing them,
by the help of the teacher, in the common schools.
But if there be such, we would look at it, and ob
serve its features. We would inquire : who made
it ? Christians or unbelievers ? When did they make
it ? Is k a new thing ? Or has it lain long “buried,
a dead letter, among the old statutes, becau?e there
has been heretofore no use for it?
Above all, the inquiry arises: why do we need
such, a law? Is it not safe to leave such jmatters
with the parents and the teachers? If we 1 are al
lowed to think, for ourselves, (as.we claim a Tight to
do,) we must, many of us, consider it intolerant
and oppressive, to shut out our for so
large a portion of their study hours, from -all the
light of religious instruction. A CITIZEN.
Mr. Editor: —The notice you have taken of my
last communication, renders a brief reply necessary.
You remark “ the editor takes the liberty to de
clare his dissent from the opinions and views ad
vanced by Sigma.” Perhaps a slight examination
of the subject will discover, that the supposed di
versity of sentiment that exists between us, is but
trifling.
In common with those who have advocated addi
tional religious instruction in the public schools,
you have drawn the inference, that those who'have
objected to this measure are opposed to the “ es
sential and undisputed truths of Christianity.;” and
are consequently unfriendly to religion, or, in other
words, the concealed advocates of infidelity.
Against this charge I utter a disclaimer. The larger
portion of those who have pursued a conservative
course on this subject, and who have considered it
better to leave the present religious teaching un
touched, free from sectarian blight, hay* made no
attempt, nor has a desire existed on tlftm part, to
disturb the harmony hitherto existing inShe schools,
and the discussion that has been ongemJbred on
this subject, is solely owing to the attempt to intro
duce prayers and confessions of faith. Inlaccor
dance with the rules of the schools, they have en
deavored to inculcate the great truths of the Gospel
by impressing upon the pupils, “to venerate mid
hallow the name of God,” “ abhorrence rtf idle
ness ami profanity*” of l * teaching them to love
each other, M ami “fo do unto others as they would
wish In be done by, 1 ’ Those great ami Ihmlmnem
lal truths have always been avowed* and can it fbr
a moment he supposed that any virtuous member
of society would he opposed to the inculcation of
them upon the rising generation t Dm cannot those
principles he ineulnated through the medium of the
Ultde ) is it neeesNgry to resort to sectarian ibriu
of creeds and prayers to effect this purpose /
It is tfiip, the advocates m'this partieulaF ilqm
of insiFuefion contend it is not sectarian, Inn eer?
tftinly they must ho of that character, otherwise
they would receive the sanction of Christiana of all
denominations,
You remark that you " yield to no one in depro
oating ami opposing the* inculcation of sectarian.-
iam. n Then there does not exist a shade of dil
terence between us, and so far as the public may
be concerned, I have no doubt the sentiment will
be re-echoed. They are sensitive, and justly so,
upon this subject, and I have been pleased tp learn
that the directors of tins city have met the first at
tempt and placed their veto on the same.
In a country like ours, boasting of free institu
tions and it 3 disenthralment from the old dynasties
of Kurope, it is painful to hear a voice raised, or a
measure pursued, having the slightest tendency to
fetter conscience. The * object of our common
schools in their instruction should be, to teacli the
truths of Christianity in a form which all Christians
can recognize—but to beware of forcing or; com
pelling any portion of the community to be taught
sectarian forms of belief, to which they may have
an invincible repugnance. SIGMA.
Col. Victor E. Piollet.— We were pained to
see - in the Times of Wednesday, a harsh attack
upon this gentleman, well known as an influential
citizen of Bradford county, and as one of the most •
intelligent and intrepid Democrats in this StateJ
The allegations o r the Times have been so often \
made in the Federal papers, and so often refuted, j
that we cannot refrain from the expression Qf our
amazement, that our cotemporary should deem a ,
repetition of them necessary to defeat the re-nomi
nation of Col. Piolett, to die position of Paymas- j
ter in the arpiy. Of his rejection by the .Senate, |
when nominated by the President to the same :place! I
we are not now disposed to speak. Effected in his j
absence, and at a time when his friends did not !
expect it, the causes that operated against him, in '
the minds of Senators, were left to do their mis- '
chief uncorrected; and he fell a victim to misrep- '
resentations and enmities of the most extraordinary •
character. Our respected friends of the Tinies will !
not, we trust, deny to Col. Piollet the opportunity
of vindicating his good name before'the Senate and I
the country, especially when it is well known that !
there are Senators who voted against him under
gross misapprehension of the facts. >
The part Col. Pjollet took in the McCook af
fair, bitterly and industriously as it was misrepre
sented, was warmly sanctioned by the Democrats
of Bradlord county, who re-elected him to the
Legislature by a triumphant majority, in the midst
of the clamors of the opposition. To this day. we
believe him to be a great favorite with the sterling
Democracy of that county. No man has warmer
friends, or more sterling qualities, than Colonel
Piollet. — Pennsylvanian.
The Texan Navt and its Brave Officers.—
that the Legislature of the State of
Texas, concurring with the suggestions, of Gov.
Wood, in his special message of the 18th of Janu
ary last, passed by a nearly unanimous vote, on
the 20th of the same month, a joint resolution in
structing their Senators and requesting theiri Rep
resentatives “to use tHeir influence to procure the
passage of r law by the Congress of the United
States, incorporating the officers of the late Navy
of Texas into the Navy of the United States, in
the rank which they severally held in the late
Navy of Texas.” This Ret of justice to those
brave men has long been delayed by Congress, and
it is now demanded as a part of the obligation
entered into between Texas and the United States
in the articles of annexation—as well because* of
the high character, personal and professional, of the
officers of the Texan Navy, as for “ the zeal, fidelity
patriotism, and valor, with which they sustained
the cause of their country.”
We are glad to perceive, in this connection, the
signal vindication of the gallant Commodore
Moore, of the Texan Navy, by the Legislature of
his State, against the aspersions which declared
him to be to his Government. By the
report of the proceedings of the Legislature of
lex**, and its proper committees, it appeanCthot ..
the State of Texas acknowledges itself to be in*
dented to that gallant officer, In the mm of gll,> i
(104 cents, and alio provides forth® payment 1
of all aebti Incurred by mm while a Port Captain 1
of the Texan Navy, acting In the service or the I
Republic. "Time at last mekei all thing <
ftnniy/vam'an. ,
A mil la ftmat Ssiita Aim at Antim—ffu Air
mm,iff mil Jimum of aw. tj§am=&ma
Ami==lt(f Ammmrn ami Manure
Mm nf hj Mia eu the Fmih liwifofwii la
Hfii, Suite Wnife
The t Yw (him* Mia the 18th, lies wmi?
eerreependenee fTßin Vern Phi?,end the pspital,
from whhdt rye timke the following egtreete:
on n • » Cw *> April 3, ISIS.
Hi 6 Propeller Massachusetts arrived yesterday
morning from your cityTbringing dgtes of tffe 27th
ult., and Nathan Clifford, (Attorney General) Min
ister Plenipotentiary from the United States Gov
ernment to Mexico. Mr. C. leaves this evening,
accompanied by Major Stewart, Paymaster, and
escorted to the city of Mexico by a company of
the Louisiana Mounted Volunteers, under Captain
Fairchild. Information was received here on Sat
urday, the Ist inst., that Geri.' Santa Anna h*ail ar
rived that day, with his lady and daughter, at his
hacienda at Antigua, 20 miles from here, escorted'
by (of the Light Artillery, Dis
trict ot Columbia and Maryland. Regiment,) with
.i 0 men, and Santa Anna's Lancers, numbering
100. At ten o clock yesterday, your humble ser
umt, with three others, proceeded to pay our re
spects, &c. After riding at a fast pace for two
hours, we arrived at the river Antigua, at which
place we entered a narrow path and continued our
pace through the chapparrel until we arrived at a
small village,; and wore informed the one opposite
was Antigua.. Wc then swam our horses over the
river, and rode to the only brick house in the place,
and lound, on our entrance, the Senora Santa Anna
smoking a cigarito. We were introduced by Capt.
Tilghman. Senora Santa Anna was very plainly
and simply dressed in figured muslin, with very'
short sleeves. She wore no ornaments of any kind,
except a very small watch and a costly chain. She
is very handsome, of alight complexion, and-evi
dently not more than twenty years of age. The
General, being at the time in bed, could not be dis
turbed. So we had to remain until 4 o’clock, the
hour appointed for his appearance.
As we had to wait an hour, we enjoyed the inte
rim by walking through the village. Not a house
but was filled with guerillas, and all armed with
swords, shaped like a carving knife. On our re*
turn the Genural was up aud dressed; he received
us with much courtesy, and said he received more
kindness and attention from the Americans in ad
versity, than from his own countrymen.- He was
dressed in a brown linen frock coat, white pants,
vest, and neck-cloth, and a pair of polished boots
—the one on the cork leg was a tight fit. Captain
Tilghman read the article in the Delta,) which 1
carried along) of the revolution in Paris, which
was immediately translated by a Lieutenant pres
ent. The General merely shook his head, and
made no comments. He is very anxious to leave
the country, and inquired if we had observed a brig
at the mouth of the river, which is to lake him to
Jamaica. Being answered in the negative, he pre-.
senteil his gold snuff-box. We helped ourselves,
shook hands with him and his lady, at the same
time presented her a boquet, wishing them a pleas
ant passage. & c., we mounted Jo return home.
Capt. Tilghman had. written to Col. Watson,
asking advice'relative to the manner in which he
should act towards the. large force of guerillas at
Capt. T. has received a note from Maj.
La Motte, A. A. A. G., treating the matter in a
very light and indifferent manner.
Vxiu. Cnus, April 3, 18-18.
Eds. Delta —Gen. Santa Anna arrived yesterday
at Antigua, escorted by some Mexican Lancers and
Capt. Tilghman's Company of Maryland Volun
teers. A great number of persons left the city to
see him, and were very well received. He has
chartered the brig Pepita, and will probably leave
to-morrow for Jamaica.
For the Intelligencer
Eds. Delta —l have little to communicate since
my letter of the 2Sth. “Mustang” and his corps
of reporters will no doubt keep you fully posted up
to the latest moments with the interesting proceed
ings of the Court of Inquiry.
The elections come off in this city in a few days,
when, according to the terms of the armistice, the
army will have to march out. This provision of
the armistice is not the most popular’one, either
with the Americans or Mexicans. Some of the
Mexicans, particularly the wealthy portion of them,
who have most to fear from the unbridled licen
tiousness of the mob, dread an outbreak of the
Lepros, when the army shall have been withdrawn.
It is impossible at this moment to tell when the
Court of Inquiry will adjourn sine die. The Presi
dent of that body stated a few days ago that it
would adjourn to the United States, when all the
witnesses now in Mexico should have been exam
ined. The Commauder-irnChief, Maj. Clen. Butler,
who was in the Court at the time the President
nmde the übove declaration, stated, informally,” that
he would serul down ah escort to Vera Giue in five "
or si* days Rom that time. Mould such bn sent,
it is more thmi probable that Gen, Knott attd Don
Nicholas Trial, (these individuals having recently
buried the the fmnuhawli) will accompany ii,
Atth-un,
Tub li'bbi.inh i* llip Dtlla t
eniTM|ißiiili>m, willing IVnin iln> r|iy nl Mbklmi, nn
lh« -jSth, says;
I h fl pwm government i* certainty acting with
more energy and determination than has ever been
known in the country since the conquest by tile
Spaniards. Every revolutionary spirit that has
thus far, either by his own designs,'or the prompt
ings of others, stood tip, exciting rebellion against
the powers that be, has been taken by the collar
and placed in sale keeping.
All the official newspapers coming from the
interior for the past week, manifest a decided de
termination to support the present government, and
all agree that the only salvation of Mexico depends
upon an immediate peace. Some of them are
dashing the revolutionists m good round terms, and
contending that their only object in producing new
dissensions is either lor personal aggrandizement,
or for the object of selling the country to a foreign
power.
The Star of the 2Sth of March contains the fol
lowing items of news from the city of Mexico:
The city was full of rumors yesterday about the
arrival of an extraordinary express. After a long
time we caught the thread of it, and by steadily
and gently unravelling the hank, learned that
something (our informant thought relative to the
treaty of peace) had arrived, and was despatched
by Mora y Villamil, as soon as a change of horses
could be expected, to Queretaro.
We are disposed to doubt that any thii g what
ever, relative to the treaty, has been received from
Washington in this city later than March, the Gth.
It may possibly be that a steamer came in on the
evening of the .2,‘ld, and a messenger despatched
that night, but we must have more substantial proof
than the fact of Mora's sending off suddenly the
express which comes from below, ere-we believe it.
Merited Retribution.— On Thursday last,
the 3Uth ult. a train of Mexican merchandize was
attacked and plundered by an armed band of Mex
ican robbers nehr the Paso del Bobo. Intelligence
of this fact was shortly after received by that vigil
ant and energetic gentlemen, John W. Smith, Inter
preter. and communicated by him to Gov. Hughes,
who with his usual promptitude, ordered out a
detachment of Col. Hays’ Rangers in pursuit of the
robbers. The detachment, which was commanded
by Capt. Daggett, followed on the trail of the vii
lains unerringly, under the direction of Chrisman,
the Mexican guide, and came up with them as they
were entering the village Of Despoblade. Only one
of the banditti escaped. Of the fourteen scoundrels
who had plundered, the train, thirteen were made
prisoners and shot, with the warm concurrence of
the Alcalde and the well-disposed inhabitants of
the town. We learn that Chrisman, the guide,
made the first capture. Part of the plundered
property was recovered. Indeed, the whole affair
was admirably planned and as admirably executed.
Another case of Htdropoiibta — Stroudsburg.
Pa } April 20.—A young lad about nine or ten years
of age,yarned William Stamer, residing with Geo.
V. Bush, in Lower Smithfield township,,Monroe
county, died on Tuesday night last, of hydrophobia.
On the 7th of March he was attacked by a dog
belonging to a neighbor, and mutilated in the most
horrible manner. He was bit at, seventeen places
on his left arm, and the flesh tom from the left
side of his face. The dog, known to be a cross
one, was killed soon after, without any one suppos
ing him to be mad. On Sunday last, the boy be
gan to show symptoms of disease, and on Monday
Drs. J. V. Mattison and M. G. Grattan!were profes
sionally called upon. They soon discovered that
his disease was hydrophobia. He first gave signs
of it by frequently emitting a sound resembling the
barking or howling of a dog,—and his left arm
became bluck. When water was offered to him
it threw him into convulsions. He became at
limes, perfectly frantic, would roll upon the fldor
.pring from one {tide of the room to knottier,-and
then egaln would partially recover his Jensen '
Mnally, as he became disposed to bite evefythlmi
wear him, It wait deemed ntceoiary to narllnllv ra,?
line him, He discharged ,E,S
Urge amount or saliva, which run flromihl"AratS
to »continual stream, This fatal and unfcrtunsta''
ocemrenee should serve to put the publlo en thelr
(turd against the eantne raei,—flftnre* dhrnorraf,
! I'i‘eiH Mexico,
[Correspondence of the Delta.]
City of Mexico, March 30, 10 P. M.
TUc Treaty.