V - raofint) gtepovte - r• Towanda, Wednesday; in1y:22,4846.; FUR CANAL COMNiissiONER: WILLIAM B. FOSTER Hr. OF BRADFORD - ; - ; Heeling of the - Standing Committee. The gentlemen composing the Bomnaratic COW Committee for Bradford county, are requested to ho Present at Ira H. Stephen.. on Saturday. July 25, 816, at 2 o'clock. P. M., for the purpo.e of appointihg Umninittees of Vigilance, and in preparation for the rooting September ,Coneentinn. The following are the names of the Committee. E. O'MEARA GOODRICH, PETER C, WARD. EDSON ASPEN WALL. FREDERICK ORWAIi. CHARLES STOCKWELL, JOHN BALDWIN, JOHN WATKINS. The liFhlk Press • Soon after Mr. Wilmot's election, The New York Tribune, the grand focus of Abolitionism, Whiggery, Fourierism, the watercure, and other humbugs of the present day, gave currency to the report that he was a •• Frec.tratle man," and the thousand other papers. which spealt. only when it speaks, caught up the cry, and join ed full chorus. Since which time, this assertion, though most emphatically denied, has been most assidu ously promulgated, and the little organs aforesaid, have been perseveringly engaged in libelling and defaming Air. Wi !mut. And now, for his independence in voting to carry oyt the princip:es so long maintained—so openly avowed, and so well understood by the people of his district— Mr. W. has aiready,been most severely and ,enjuatly, and in some instance, brutally assailed by the Whig press, who are ever ready to " bend the supplant binges of the knee" to the money power. As a specimen of refined language—from "all the decency" party, we quote a sentence prom the Harrisburg Telegraph "We rijoice in being able to record the votes of all the Imo foto members in Congress from this state, ex cepting Wilmot, of Bradford county. against the repeal -of the tariff of 1842. This recreant son who basely be trayed. her interests, and voted with the free traders, should be banished from het territory. His infamous treachery should be.revenged by disowning and turning him upon the south for support" L - r:f There is no occasion Mr. Telegraph, to send Mr. South fur support. His constituents at the North can give him SUITICICST SUPPORT to return him to Congress again over any ultra prolectioniat that can be scared up. Oar Relations with Mexico. We are embarked in a war with the Mexican nation. A call has been made upon the patriotic citizens of the United Slates by the Commanding General, and the Government, for aid, and more than twenty thousand volunteers have joined in the response to that call. It will be difficult for Mexico to bring into the field any considerable force to oppose the army which will soon be organised upon die frontier of Missouri, Arkaneasand Texas, and ready to act on the ollenbive, if necessary. The bravest of the troopsof Mexico, and the most valiant of her Generals were at the Rio Grande--and the events of those memorable days prove that Mexican valor and skill in war, can never withstand the bravery and patriot ic love of liberty which animate the breasts of freemen, and impel them in defence of the rights and liberties of their country. IVhils we rejoice in the jtistice of our cause, and the brilliant success of oar arms—we are pained to know that there are those among us—American citizens— elaiming to be friends of their couniry, who denounce this war as unjust and aggressive. Have we no cause for war! Texas by her own act has been annexed to the United States; and by this union, and by this act, two powers recognised as independent by the great fami ly of nations, have combined into one nation. Texas relinquished her power as a nation, and by her own choice chose to take rank as a state, under the Parental guardianship of the Constitution of the United Stets.— Are not the United States then, bound by every considera don to defivad every inch of the territory of Texas ! Mexico having lost control of Texas, thr eatens . her with invasion, and enrols troops for this avowe d purpose—and sends to England to raise Binds to prosecute the war.— By the lawi of nation; This of itself would be cause for war: ;.:Again, she rejects the Minister of this goversubent, and; idler he hid waited several months upon her har dens, closes all negotiations. Is there not sufficient cause in aR thii for war I But, it is urged by the friends of Mexico —e nemies of America, that our army passed the boundary of Texas, and finis invaded Mexico; that when our• army proceeded west of the Neuces rive it entered upon Mexican territory, and consequently be came invaders. It is easy for one, disposed to take aides with the enemy, and oppose his own country, to find a pretext for his troika; by making allegations which can not be sustained by fact. ' • Any man who reads, and whodoes not hate his coun try, and as a consequence, look upon her acts with a jaundiced eye, may find abundance of authority of the highest character, establishing the Rio Grande as the boundary between Mexico and Texas. We have recently had our attention called to this sub ject by an article in the Westchester Republican, in re ply to a card from the Hon. Mr. M'llvaine, who repre sents that district in Congress; in which the Hon. gen tleman denounces the present war as unjust and anne crssary. We have no doubt that the small beer politi cians who are denouncing our country at the corners of the :greets, take their cue from such Hon. Whig Mem bers of Congress; and that, if the secret of their denun ciations was fully exposed, there might be seen at the bottom a deep laid scheme concerted by the Whig lead ers to excite sympathy for the poor injured Mexicans, and create prejudice against the National Administration. id the bopeof elevating to the Presidential chair a genuine whig—a friend of Mexico—a foe to the best interests of America; and who, if be had the pride; would dismem ber Texas and restore her to Mexico. • Oui friend Strickland, of the Republicim, like a true pitriet,, met the Hon. Representative, as every patriot would meet a traitor; and after having Bogged him pretty severely, exhibits him to the public with all his deformities upon him as follows: "But the honorable gentleman seems to think there is something in the question of boundary, which may he so presented as to avail him • for a defence in his Mexican policy, and he strives to make it appear that when .our Army proceeded beyond:the Nuecea, we in-. laded the hicsicsit territory. •It is unnecessary to argue this point. We have aimed) , produced abundance of authority, of the highest character, showing that the boon dery and Terails the Rio del ; and consequently that the advance of the army beyond the Humes, was not an invasion of Mexican territory.— 'l'hisposition of Mr. Mcilvaine's is contradicted by the action °four own. Congress 'before the war, with. the satietkin . of the 'idea of Adams and others, extending our ransoms laws west of the Noeces: and it is also run. indicted by the presence of a member of Congress who occupies his seat , as the representative of ea:KM:eats west of that river, and is recognized in that body so the equal, in points of rights and printer. * with any other inAmber, not ev er, excepting Moser, representative l'unher, on this poi n t, and the coo., of the inn; we goi;o es•rata from 'a lati.......preat of the lion. 31.. 1 . soc ey of htha fit :- - "is not the Rio Grinder, then, to all intents and put' poses the Texan boundary, until it isaltered by negotia tion! Where is the law defining any other boundary 1 'Sir, thine none: The - reitidutiona'of annexation admit Tel", withilet lionridarhe subject alone - to: idjustekent by negotiation. Until negeti•thaticuitatles thefts:sites:lo: tiered by 'Alias to be byre letters': is the. poem which can rightfully do so WhO made the Maces the Than boundary line! Can the gentlaman fled any law so defining itt:C. It exists only in the distempered and Greer... ed brain of those who can see no line for our country honorably to rest upon in that country. The means pointeduut in the resolutions 9f annexation of. settling lend peicesidy e. Going the limits between the two come. trier failing, the Texan law is the law of the land—re cognized by Congress in its act of annexation and of extension of the revenue leers over that State. The President can know,no other boundary ; and in ordering the idol, to the Rio Grande, he did what hebad aright to do as the commandff.in.chief—what he was bound to do as rrendent of the republic. If, then, the "Rio Grande ought to be our boundary," the President "ought to be" no .subject of censure. If Mexico was in army, and in hostile attitude, it did not become a prudent Executive to wale until the country wu loud. ed before he used the means given him by the nation for its defence. He was in duty hound to anticipate it after such a series of hostler demonstrations, and to place the effective force of the country in such position es would most easily preserve our soil from an invading army. "The question as to the order of the removal of our are,; should be, was IT 81011T1 If right, wu Mexico justifiable in meeting that army in hostile array on our alit I Was Mexico justifiable in entrapping and slay ing the commands of Porter or Threnton ! in attempts to cut off our army from its depot of supplies! Was Mexico right in refusing to prevent intercourse between our officers and our consul! If we should ever have a right to traverse the territory claimed by Texas, we had failed to obtain a 'peaceful bearing upon it from Metico; and if we then had it, Mexico took all the responsibilities of war npun herself, in invading that territory, and cut ting off our detached Inutiea. The consequences that fol lowed this Mexican aggression, all are familiar with. " Our small detachment of troops were surprised and cut oil: The blood of the 'nave was profusely shed, and our whole force opposed Ind attacked by three times their number on our own soil, before American forbear ance gave place to just indignation, and American valor achieved for itself lasting glory on the plainsof Palo Alto and Pleases de la Pula r,," 'llhere sae yet other FACTC, which taken in connection with those now and heretofore cited, wholly repudiate the idea advanced by Mr. Mcllviine, that the United States had no rip lit, beyond the Seems. That aU the pretensions, clanns and rights, u regards territory and otherwise, that pertained to Texas, by annexation desoly. rd upon our Gov ernment ; and if she roads or exercised pretensions, cloi.ns and rights beyond the Nunes, we ran make or ex•ircise the same. This will notbe denied, and yet its adcU.sion justifies fully the conduct of our Government in moving our troops beyond the Nuecu.— That Texas had and exercised claims and rights between the Nneees and Rio Grande, appears most conclusively, by the far LA which we will now briefly state—facts stated open the floor of Congress by the Hon. Mr. Douglass, and never contradicted. When, in 1836, the people of Texas assembled in convention to form their Constitution, the inhabitants between the Nuecee and Rio Grande, had their represen tative in that body. Jamea Powers, a citizen and re sident of that part of 'rem, was a delegaie in that con vention. Ttie citizens between the Nueces atyl Rio Grande subsequently had a representative in the Texan Congress. That representative resident west of the Nueces • and the rime man was • member of the convention whi ch (rimed the constitution of Texas preparatory to her admission into the Union, and he is now a member of the Texan Senate. Texas has had for yearn, counties and courts organix ed and established west of the Nueces. During the war between Texas and Mexico, an armis. tire was proposed and agreed to, and in the proclamation of the President of Mexico announcing its existence, the Mexican troops were directed to, and did, retire to the west bank of the Rio Grande. Now in the face of facts which have time and again been produced on this subject, can any man pretending to he a citizen of our- Republic, and having the least spark of patriotism in hii bosom, say that our Govern ment had no right to advance beyond the Nueees 1 We leave the people to answer." Americans will gay NO. Her olefins, may say yes The Tariff. The late passaged the bill, in the House of Represen tatives, for the modification of the tariff of 1842, was an act of great importance. It was a triumph of right over might, and is but • beginning, we fondly hope, of that enlightened, liberal and comprehensive policy which shall hereafter characterize the administration dour na-, tional affairs, and lead to* permanent standard of revenue duties, and a highly prosperous result to all branches of our industrial pursuits. The effect of this bill, if it passel the Senate, will be to reduce the rate of " protection," afforded to some arti cles manufactured in this country. Consequently, we may soon expect to hear of distress and rumors of die. tress, most hordble in detail—when spread on paper—et which our whig cetemporaries ars proficient; our ears will be stunned with reportsoffactories stopped, of work men discharged, of orders countermanded, of commerce stagnated, and et whig "distress " generally, for the time being, until all has settled into ealm, and quiet prosperi ty, and the whip themselves trill be astonished to find that every thing is so prosperous. Our people may draw instruction and profit - from the history of this attempt at equalizing the profits and bur dens to be borne by the community, which will afford them more good than a dozen lectures on political econo my. It may teach them to beware of the Money Power. It is the antagonistic principle to Democracy. It has ever warred against the progression of human nature, and against the rights of man. In every country, where legislation has encouraged and fostered and protected it, it has grown and increased, until its huge form has cast a shadow over the length and breadth of the land, and a sight of its glaring and glittering externals has been the only recompense that squalid misery and honest poverty —borne down by its burdens, could obtain. This mighty power is but a germ, as yet in our land. God grant that it may never control our destinies, .or have a preporider- VICE in oar political affairs. It is this power, which has so assiiiluorudy banded for the permanency of the tariff of 1842. And hence the denunciations which have been cast upon the friends of its modification ; the money which has been lavished in " shows " and " fairs ;" the strenuous exertions to prevent this have been dictated by selfish and mercenary motives. We now assert.and shall hereafter take occasion to make plain—that the Tariff of 1842, was most unequal, unjust Mad oppressive in many of its details, and a just regard for the prosperity of our country, and the permanency of just and equal protection to our manufactures demanded its reduction to a standard, which giving them " pro tection " enough to compete with other nations, would produce revenue sufficient to carry on our government, and operate to the mutual advantage of all. These clamors for the preservation of the Tariff in its present shape, regardless of its onerous hoidens; and the epithets heaped upon those who would demonstrate it+ operation and expose its inconsistencies, contain a warning which should reach to the heart of every Ameri can. 'Whlit! shall a tariff not he modified, if it needs modification 1 Is there anything sacred in its name, which makes it sacrilege to touch it! Anything su highly elevated in its operation that it is high treason to discuss and expose its incOnsistraies! Now, for our par, we are desirous of the prosperity of our beloved country. We are willing to pay our share towards foe tering our manufactures. But we must confess we would like to know how far it is nexessary (or as to he taxed to protect our 'manufactures; and if it is necessary for purposes of protection,-that they should be able to declare dividends of 10, 20, 30 and 40. per amt.! Our e_iisqn manufactures reach the uttermost outs o _ . he earth. They enter English Ports in competition with British Manufacturers,. "bearding the lion in his den." The British , troop' in India, it it said, perform their drilla,in drilling of American manufaritunte r r If pito> lion has accompinhed this. we are content.: But we d;marid that these :ntanufacturesehould stand upon their own foundation. -We fear not the result; monopolists may grumble that they cannot longer " fleece" industry and whig presses may manufacture whole columns of distress; but capitalists, we feel assured. be content with fair remunerations, if they cannot persuade the Peo ple to-submit to imposition, and the government to legis late to fill their coffera Mimic is Swear.—The headlong sweep of a thun- dering cataract. as leaps from rock to rock, cleaving the wave worn precipice, and shaking the abyss, inspires one with feelings of reverence and awe. But the sweet seal•pleasing, heart calming notes from ladies' lips heard M a beautiful night on our lovely river, soothes the dis comforted, brings balm to the wounded heart, and makes all Owego ring with the echoes of delightful melody.— We have been soothed, we have been touched by sweet music, as it was borne by zephyrs pregnant with melo dious notes upon our delightful ears. It was our good fortune, but a few evenings ago to be an ear witness to one of those strains so grateful to the heart and bellow ing to the feelings. Just finegiucone of the purest most lovely evenings of July, the moon unmanned, showering bet rays of modest light upon the still and placid waters of the Susquehanna, then imagine the silence of the scene, agreeably broken by a choir of well tuned voices breaking out in full chorus—echoing and re-echoing among the rocks and hills that help to prolong the grate ful sound—such an enjoyment we have seldom before had the pleasure of participating in, and we earnestly hope that more frequently our eyes and ears may be pleasantly saluted by the amiableness of the performers, and the sweet music which they atone are so fully com petent to produce." The above is from the Owego Gazette. ' We think our friend Charley ought to here wound up with the following stanza : "Music bath charms to soothe the savage, To rend a rock and split a cabbage." CiINDID•TE roe '4B.—Some of the Whigs have nominated Gen. Vega for President.' It is said that he goes in with Giddings of Ohio fur a dissolution of the Union, sod that he believes, with our friend Greeley, that the war against Mexico is " murder." It is not yet decided whether Greeley or Giddings will be put on the ticket u Vice President.—Daily Globe. If Gen. Vega should be fortunate enough to be elected, be would in all probability select men for his cabinet from among the good Whigs of the city of Towanda.— We are sure he could find enough of the " right stripe." GEN. Tavzoa.—Gen. Taylor, by previous accounts from the Army, contemplated moving - towards Monterey on the 10th inst. We see by the last number of the Republic of the Rio Grande that some such movement was expect. ed in camp, as preparations for thin departure of the Army from Matamoras had been commenc ed. The greatest enthusiasm •and confidence in old " Rough and Ready" prevailed in camp among both regular and volunteers, and with such a feeling in his favor wherever he march es it will be to victory. When it was announc; ed in the brigade of volunteers that Gen. Scott was not to supersede General Taylor, so great was . the joy of the men, and so apparent. that their colonels immediately called them out and marched them to tne bank of the river, opposite the old hero's quarters, and gave him a military salute ; after which the soldiers gave him three cheers, the heartiness of which plainly indicat ed that they were from the heart. The Repub lic of the Rio Grande says : " Every face was elated with joy, and loud and numerous were the expressions of delight that followed the announcement. Everybody seemed end is of opinion that he should be left to consummate that work so gloriously begun; and now that the reins are in his hands, and the weeds of his vehicle unlocked, we have no doubt that lie will be All at the winning pod. Loved by his own soldiers, respected by the en. emy,(for his generous and humane conduct to them here,) idolized by the people of the United States, and complimented by all their corporate bodies, what else was needed to fill lull the measure of his glory but that which lie has just received—the absolute command of the Army of Occupation ; a position which in the hearts of Americans finds a pre-eminent and a lasting place. anti falsifies the MlOollsaying,that • re publics are ungrateful." MELANCHOLY AND FATAL Accwasr.—W bile two young men, named George Wood and Ro bert Brown, were fishing on Mitchell's Flails, near Charleston, on Thursday morning last, a dzvil-fish became entangled in the cable, drew up the anchor. and made off with the boat, with great velocity. Young Wood ran forward for the purpose of cutting the cable, but before he could effect his design, the sea monster gave a sudden turn and capsized the boat, throwing ood offsome distance from her. Brown held on to the boat, and succeeded in getting on her bottom, the fish Bull towing the boat through the water with great speed. With much pre sence of mind, Brosin stripped off _his clothes, the fish still running, and making for Drum Is land, which he approached within fifty yards, when it made another turn, and took the boat down in deep water. Brown then swam ashore, and after remitting it, looked for and discovered his companion swimming. lie hailed him and was answered, but soon after, we regret to say, disappeared, being no doubt exhausted, as he had sustained himself by swimming at least half an hour. THE MORMON WAR C LOSED.—The Hancock Eagle of,the 21st ult. brings intelligence that the apprehension of further disturbance has ceased. and that the Mormon war is at an end. It thus concludes an article on the suoject : * We have good reasons for believing that not only the inhabitants of the surrounding coun try. but a majority of the eitizeits of Hancock are decidedly opposed to the measures and de signs of the Regulators ;' and if we are not much mistaken, forthcoming events will make this manifest. To conclude, we think we are justified in announcing that PUBLIC opinion has prostrated Lynch law' in this county, and that we can look lot ward to the enjoyment of per peace." A SPARTAN WIFE.—We take the liberty of publishing Ate following extract from a private leas.. winch was written to a gentleman of this city " I must give you an anecdote of a woman's spirit which took place here a few days back. U married a man. a Lieut. of the —Guards" who volunteered to proceed to the seat of war. Some meddling gossip advis ed hit wife to exert herself to prevent his go ing. pointing out as is Uival in such cases the dangers be would ineur.and the difficulties she would labor under during his absence. "Let him go." replied the Spartan matron I would rather (lieu soldier's widow than live a coward's wife V' Had ire many such mothers and wives, soldiers would not be difficult to find. . _ (From the Petutsytianiana Ir. Buchanan and the Tariff. A great clamor has been ,raised by some of the Whig editors against Mr. Buchanan. in consequence. of a itatement made by Mr. Pol lock.itmember of the present Congress. from the.district composed of the •counties of Nor iho'mberland, Union, Lycoming . and Clinton. in this State. in his recent speech in that body on the subject of a Tariff. This statement is based upon a speech made by Mr. Buchanan. at Milton. in this State, on the subject of the Tariff, in September. 1844. We under stand that Mr. Pollock has been misreported and that he will do justice to Mr. Buchanan in the speech which he is now preparing for the press. We would remark, however, that any gentleman assumes a most perilous position when he undertakes to state from memory what was said by a political opponent in a stump speech nearly two years before ; and especially when he undertakes to repeat a sin gle detached sentence' without the context.— W hether he intends it or not, he is almost cer tain, under such circumstances, to do the speaker injustice. The writer of this .article happened to be on the stand at Milton, and heard every word ut tered by Mr. Buchanan in relation to the Tariff. We heard him on other occaltions on the same subject. On this question he pursued the same course adopted by other Democratic speakers generally, throughout the State. His speech at Milton was one of the ablest he ev er made, and was heard by a vast throng from the commencement to the close. Even the Whigs praised its moderation and ability ; and it is remarkable that Mr. Pollock, in all the speeches he subsequently made on the subject. was never known to allude to it in the manner in which he is reported to have spoken in the House on the 27th of June. Mr. Buchanan spoke from lull notes, and with characteristic clearness and deliberation. He commenced by stating that Mr. Clay and Polk, from their public acts and declara- tions, stood upon the same platform in regard to the Tariff; and from these it appeared •that the one was as good a Tariff man as the other." In order to !wive this position, he said that Mr. Clay was the author of the compromise act, which, by abolishing all specific duties, and by adopting the horizontal ad valorem rate of duty, bad done much, vi ry much, to prostrate the the Tariff policy. lie stated that during Mr. Clay's subsequent service in the Senate he had adhered to this compromise with unwavering fidelity : that one of the cele brated resolutions which lie had offered on the 15th of February. 1842, a short time previous to his retirement from that body,declared ••that in the adjustment of a Tariff to raise an amount of twenty-six millions of revenue, the principles of' the compromise .act generally should be adhered to ; and that especially a maximum rate of ad valorem duties should he established, which there ought to be as lit. tle departure from as poFsible." Mr. Buchan an read an extract from Mr. Clay's speech at Charleston, S. C., in April, 1844, more than eighteen months after the passage of the Ta riff act of L 842. in which lie not only declared that he bad been active in effecting the coin promise of 1833." but he felt it an obligation of honor - to adhere to it in good faith, and lie challenged the most diligent search of the rec• ords to show that he had ever countenanced its violation in the slightest particular ; nay, more. he was bold to say that during his entire ser vice in Congress since, there never had been an effort to violate it which had not met With his prompt and earnest resistance." Mr. Bu char.an read Mr. Clay's letter to Mr. Brown son, of Georgia. dated in September. 1813, which stated as folllows : I think that what ever revenue is necessary to an'economical and honest administration of the general govern .roent ought to be derived from duties imposed on foreign imports; and I believe that in establishing a Tariff of those duties, such a discrimination ought to he made as will inci dentally afford reasonable protection to our national interests." lie then placed in juxta position with this declaration, a similar dec laration made by Mr. Polk in his letter to Mr. Kane, of the 19th of June, 1844, as follows : ••{ am in favor of a Tariff for revenue such as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government eco nomically administered. In adjusting the de tailing of a revenue Tariff. I have heretofore sanctioned such moderate discriminating duties as would produce the amount of revenue need ed, and at the same time afford reasonable in cidental protection to our home industry. I sin opposed to a Tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue." Comparing these declarations of \lr. Clay and Mr. Polk, Mr. Buchanan concluded that they stood upon the same ground in regard to the Tariff. Mr. Buchanan proved that Mr. Polk had heretofore sanctioned discriminating duties, by referring to Mr. Verplanek's bill, which he (Mr. Polk) had supported, and indeed was a member of the Committee by -which it was re ported. It will be recollected that Mr. Clay's Compromise Act was substituted for this bill. Under Mr. Verplanck's bill, Mr. Buchanan stated that the duty on hammered iron was fix ed at $l5 per ton ; on rolled iron at $54 per ton ; and on pig iron at $8 per ton—duties nearly as high-as those imposed under the act of 81842„andfarhigher than contained in Mr. Clay's Compromise Act. This was-the course of argument adopted by Mr. Buchanan, not only at Milton, but at Towanda, and other places, where we were present. Until Mr. Clay's letter to . Dickinson Tgwn ship, dated at Ashland, on the 9th September. 184 , 4, we are not aware that he hadever chang ed the ground he occupied in his letter to Mr. Cope. of the 29th. of June. 1844, ha declared that he was opposed to the repeal !of the Tariff of 1842, but it did not state he was opposed to its modification. These opinions, he says, were announced by me at,public meetings in Ala bama. Georgia, Charleston, S. C:, North Carolina. and in Virginia." At none of these places had he ever come out against the mod fication of the Tariff of 1842. In his letter t Dickinson Township. he first came out agains any modification of the Tariff of 1842. Mr . Buchanan had no knowledge, and could have had no knowledge. of the existence cf this letter at the time he made his speech at the Milton meeting. He came there from Towanda, in the Northern part of the State, where he made a speech on the 10th of September, and not from his home in Lancaster. , What Mr. Buchanan said of the opinions hoth of Mr. Clay & Mr. Polk in regard to the Tariff, were inferences fairly drawn from their public acts and declarations—nothing more did riot pretend to have any knowledge, derived Irom any other source, of the private opinions of either-of:these gentlemen. He said nothing on the subject which might not have heed• uttered in the Senate of the. United :Rates, klittle incident, and we have done. When Mr. : Buchanan ascended the stand "a Milton, there was a banner directly in front of him, on the,side of which was a bloody hand, and on the other a ladyiweeping over an urn—evident." lv referring to the Cille^ duel. Mr. Buchanan expressed his disapprobation of this flag, re• quested the; it might be withdrawn, which was done accordingly. RAILROAD ACCIDENT—Lose OF LIFE.—The following account is given in the Trenton News of the accident mentioned in the Ledg. er yesterday. \ Saturday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock. Mr.' Mintel and his wife were return ing home, after having sold out their market ing. The way train from Bordentown was opposite the State prison just as Mr. Mintel drove on the canal bridge, opposite Sullivan's tavern. Mr. M. being a little deaf, probably did not hear the locomotive; his wife told him to stop, and gave the reins a check ; the horse stopped for a moment, and frightened at the noise started again, which brought his lore feet on the track just as the locomotive came up. The horse was first caught by the hoof, which was torn off, knocked round against the loco motive, at the same time upsetting the wagon and throwing Mr. and Mrs. Mintel out. The gears became entangled with the cars, and completely torn off the horse, while the wagon was broken to pieces, Mr. M. hanging on to the lines was dragged a considerable distance .over the projection (lithe sleepers until the cars were stopped. At first it was thought that Mrs. M. was injured the most. Mr. M. walk ed about the piazza at Sullivan's with apparent ly little pain. Patrick Riley immediately pro ceeded to bathe the wounds of Mr. M., and found his right .side, from his shouldier down, and also his bad:, very seriously bruised•— Mrs. M. was much hurt, one of her feet was very much swollen. Mrs. Pullen. who was about crossing at Taylor's bridge, hearing of the accident, came round to take . them home. Mr. M. walked to the wagon and expressed an anxiety to get home before he died. lie also desired that they should send for Dr. Clark. The old lady compfained a good deal to her husband for not stopping 'when she first told him. They were taken home, about a mile from Pond Run. where '4r. Mintel died about four o'clock in the afternoon, and was buried yesterday afternoon. • Elopes are entertained of the recovery of Mrs. M. Mr. Mintel is said to have been up wards of 70 and in excellent health. They followed the business of trucking, and were regular attendants of the Trenton market. Mr. NI. was a member of the Methodilt Church and a very respectable man. CAPT. RANDOLPH RIDDLEY.—The Philadel phia Spiro of the Times says, of all the recent brevet promotions in t h e army, no one has been more merited than that of Lieut. Rideley, who was next in command ro the glorious Ringgold at Palo Alto. In a private letter from an officer who was F resent, we procure the following characteristic conversation between May and Ridgley, which occurred the moment before May's gallant charge. When May was order ed to charge and take the enemy's artillery. the smoke was so thick that he could not tell where they were. He rode up to Ridgley and cited " where's their battery. Randy ?" Just ride nut of my Itne a litto and I'll find 'em fur_you Charley !" said Ridgley. instantly firing his battery in their supposed direction.— The enemy at once returned the fire, sweeping Ridgley's command with terrible effect. There they are Charley, now go it .' said Ridgley, •• Charley did ,• go it," with ••a_ vindictive rush." . Of all the young officers that were engaged in the Florida war, none distinguiShed them selves more than dill Randolph Ridgley. On one occasion in the Ocklawaha Swamp, with a small party of men, he was attacked by alargre body of Indians who were posted in a thick hammock on the opposite bank ola creek.— The men recoiled before the dreadful fire of the foe and turned to run. " Cowards . 1 " cried Ridgley, " will you see your officer whip them alone'" and spurred, his horse into full speed and charged alone acros , . the creek amid a per fect shower of bullets. H is scornful appeal and gallant conduct reanimated the flying soldiers, they turned and joined him with a hearty - and fearless cheer: in a moment more, all that lived of the enemy were flying into the far recesses of the swamp. Ridgley now hears several hon orable marks of the enemy's prowess in that war. lie is a Banimorean, has a brother now in the U. S. Navy, who is also " a chip of the same block." Another of his gallant brothers, a Lieut. in the Navy, was accidentally killed about 3 years since. TIIE PEACEMAKER OUTDONE.-011 Wednes day a stupendous . piece of ordnance was cast at Alger's foundry, South Boston, under the im mediate superintendence of Col. Bomford, who was the- first inventor of this species of weapon, called by him in 1809, the Columbia." The quantity of metal used was 40,000 pounds and the account of coal requisite to re duce it to a proper state of fusion, was eight chaldrons. The weight of it, when finished. will be 25.000 pounds, exceeding that of the Peace Maker by:5,000 lbs.. Length, ten feet ; diameter at the base ring. 39 inches ; length of chamber, 13 inches; diameter of chamber 9 inches ; length of bore. 9 feet 1 inch ; diameter of bore,. 12 inches. Weight of round shot which it will carry. 230 pounds; weight of shell, 180 pounds. Range of shot or shell. 31 miles—being 1.4 of a mile greater than the- re corded performance of the largest and latest in vented mortar in England. and half a mile be yond the reach of any gun in the castle 4 at San Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz. The cost of this immense instrument for har bor defence 'will not exceed $ 1700 or one sizth of the wrought iron gun procured in Eng land by Captain Stockton. Phis gun is intended for Fort George, in Bos ton harbor, where it will be placed in about 5 weeks, as it requires that time to complete it ready for use. Sus Snrozz.—Sudden congestion of the brain, or sun stroke," may not always prove fatal if a gill of brandy is at once swallowed and mustard draughts are' immediately applied to the abdomen.- The New York papers of yesterday contain a list of names of some thir ty persons whose death have been caused by the hot weather. between Friday and Sunday. By the way, the newspapers are discarding the English phrase sun stroke, which every• . body understands, and using the French term coup de ache!, which means the same thing. Out of a dozen who use the French name there are probably, not two who ki,naw how to pro nounce it properly, A Desperate Woman . Readers of newspapers have doubtlets t . ticed,'within the year past, occasional allusict: to a woman in the "Western country, who cot , plained of terrible wrongs she hadsuffered the hands of a man formerly resident in I L, city, and threatened some dreadful retribotee... The last notice of her stated that she had lei; Lafayette, Indiana, in masculipe atti re atd armed, and had made her way to acme town the interior of Ohio. Last Saturday morning, while the Great Western was lying at Mackinaw, it was lois. pered round that one of the passengers. rib, seemed a trim boy of some sixteen or eight years, was in fact a woman. Capt. -Waite; invited the youth and one of the principal ee. izens of Mackinaw into his office, and th e , being questioned, the suspicious passenger, declared herself a woman. and gave her ha. sons for assuming the dress she' were. Sh e said she was married, as site supposed, a fe w years ago, in this city, to a man whim aunt our informant was unable to give; that after living with him some years, and having two Dr three children, her husband told her the le e , nage was all a sham,"that he had another laz. ful wife, and had contemptuously -cast off h e . and her children. Under these circumstances, she had swo rn to 'have revenge or justice. She had ascertata, ed that the man who had thus deeply wrong; her was living at Mackinaw, and she had ru t there, to obtain a recognition of her rights, or vengeance in default, upon which she extub%. ed two loaded pistols which she carried abaci; her person. • After dome further conversatto % she gave up the pistols, and a messenger tree despatched to the husband with an intunatan that a passenger on the Western wished tune him. He soon came on board, and the ti n parties met face to face. The woman uphra.c. ed him with all the wrongs he had fur upon her, and demanded reparation fur liersoi and children by a legal inarriaze, at the saw: time, with all the recklessness of a •WO:113 3 goaded to desperation, threatening his life wit', the most vehement asseverations if he failed!) do her justice. At this point the door opened, and the roar., who had cowered before her, shot out hi.e lightning and escaped to the 'shore. She sons followed after, ascertained hie place of bustaeo and sought another inteiview. As she ae,. proached, the man, doubtless suppopuut had come to fulfil tier threats, and that hem,. defend his life, raised a qiistol and tired. 'l'; :e ball struck near her feet. She never blenrift, but drawing a pistol in turn from her eel.. took deliberate aim at him, anal then - lowert; the weapon, saying as she turned cm her i.e., no, you poor contemptible wretch, a WUL.. disgrace even a woman to slay you!" The affair, of course, mai!er a great noise sr. the island, but what was the issue we are en , . ble trustate. The boat swung off soon afr•r the events we ,have detailed, leaving both pm ties ashore. We have heard many eriirie. shout the character and the relations ni 111,! parties in this matter, hut not enough tlur se can rely upon to form a decided opmiai 21 lc the merits of the case. It may be that the . wo. man is profligate, but how often due's the term abandoned have a strictness of ineaning, not cu. tended by those who use it to characterise ty, and how many, now the scorn and °means of 817 riet y , desperate in vice and crime, and de graded until they have lust almost all sem blance of womanhood, would be happy. rutL ous wives and- mothers, but lor the foul wrnr; and abandonment of which they have been Me victims. There is terrible wrong somewhere in the case we have related, and our juazineri; as well as our sympathies, inclines us robe. lieve that the unsexed woman is the soff•re6 —Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, July 7. TIIE MURDER IN JERSEY CITY.—We MEL• tioned yesterday, that a shocking murder "" committed at Jersey city on Wednesday moo ing by a man named Spencer, on the person 4 his wife. It appears that they were quanta; together, when a watchman interfered and took the man off to the watch-housre. He (Spetwer) begged permission to go back and see his tuff, which was granted. He had no sooner got In to the house than he dresi a pistol and shot ha wife, the first ball taking effect in the neck, and the second in trie back, which caused her deith in a short time. The New York papers gn: the following account of the occurrence: "Spencer was married about' fifteen month§ ago to a daughter of Mrs. Dobbin. of Jersey Coy. and he and his wife have been staying for soma time past,at the house of his mother-indaw IJ Montgomery street. A serious di,ag:eeinerJ had fur some weeks existed between the title and husband, and the night befel's last, at the instance of Ins wife's family. Spencer WaS 2t . rested, as his bonduct is alledge to havi:beic extremely violent during the day and erentht. ann the family were apprehensive fur 110. Spencer's safety, should her husband he left ai large. When he was arrested he asked penes . axon to be allowed to speak to his wife, for the purpose of making overtures of ,reconciltatiin . This was granted by the officer, but hisute , who was in her bedroom. refused to unlock die door until requested by her brother. who 'F' s under the impression that her husband welit.23 reconciliation. ' It is said that when Spencer entered thd mg. he asked his wife to accompany him to prison This she refused ; upon which he presented pistol at her and pulled the trigger. It missy. tire, but upon pulling the trigger a .ecbuil tire' he accomplished his fatal purpose. Me' turned to escape from him the ball entered be right shoulder and came out over the left breic: perforating the lungs in its passage. So. O lt. ' were his movements that the biTther, who's''' standing behind him, could not airest his arte tune to prevent the murder. A BIT OF A FORTUNE.—John Jacob Aoc 6 we believe it was, who is said to have i rmarte that when a man to the owner of five hundred thousand dollars, he may consider himself co' (unable. By this rule. Mr. Astor must hero state of perfect beatitude, for his fortune is to amount to $24,000,000. This vast sun ,. six per cent. interest, would yield an a unualt e some of $1,440,000. which would he equal! $120,000 per month, or to 827.692 per l et ; or to about $3,959 per day, of a little over per hour. or to a fraction et over $2 per mintre. to near 4 cents per second. His fortune and': come, ere, no doubt, the largest to be found the possession of any one family on this eo" nent. THE CHOLERA.--The L.ondon toTtesponderl of the Boston Atlas, writing on the day of ° , 'sailing of the Britannia, says—" bit repor t " today in the city, that the Asiatic cholera t'3l made its appearanee at Hull.' It hat ! It' known for some time that the cholera hu 1 7 . neared in several places between India and 13 ',' sia. it having taken - precisely the carne tato° it did many years since."
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