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Towanda. Wednesday, August 26. 1546.
FOR CANAL CVMMISSIONER,
,XILIAAM B. FOSTER. JR.
OF lIRADFoRD C.O,STV.
commrrrEt:s OF VIGILANCE—The
m idersicheil,Sianding Committee. appoint
ed by a t Democratic Convention °lithe Elth of sep
temiwr; 1546. have appointed the tOlowing persons
rn their respertlve ti.wnships, as a committee of
igilance, whose duty it is to call meetinzs of the
Democratic Electors of each township on Saturday
the sth day of September next, to elect tWo delegates
from each township to the Democratic County Con
vention, to be held on Tuesday evening, the Sth
day of September. at the Court House in Towanda.
for the purpose of placing in nomination a ticket to
be supported at the general election.
The Standing Committee would respectfully urge
upon the Committees of Vigilance, the importance
of the duties they are requested to perform. The
success of the cause depends in a great measure,
in a cordial and hearty support of the ticket formed
at the County Convention. and to deserve and se
cure this support fair and timely notice should be
given of the place and hour of holding the primary
meetings, that every democrat who wishes, may be
present.
The meeting should he called at some convenient
place, and kept open until every one has had an
opportunity of voting.
They would also arse upon Democrats -the im
portance of a punctual attendance upon the prima
ry meetings, and the selection of the delegates who
will be prompt in their attendance upoa the Con
vention, and faithful in the discharge of the duty
assigned them. It is :to be hoped that every dis
trict Will he folly represented, by duly elected dele
gates, as thereby much confusion and dissatisfac
tion will be avoided, which is ever likely to succeed
when vacancies are supplied by substitution.
E. O'MEARA GOODRICH,
PETER C. WARD.
EDSON ASPEN WALL.
FREDERICK OR WAN.
CHARLES STOCKWELL,
JOHN BALDWIN,
JOHN WATKINS.
Standing Committee.
°July 25, 1846
Athens tp,.Levi Westbrook, Constant Mathewson
Athens born.—.C. H. Herrick, J. K. Wright:
Asylum—Elmoi Horton, John F. Dodae;
Albany—Peter Sterizere, Jos. Menardi :
Armenia—John Kitt, Isaac Williams:
Burlington—Benj. Ross. Morgan Dewitt:
Canton—Asa Pratt. 0. P. Wilson:
Columbia—Myron Ballard, Jas. Sherwood :
Dnrell—Joshua Kilmer, Bent. Lewis:
Franklin—Elijah Blake, Sainnel Smith:
Granrille--Stephen Vroman, D. B. Ross:
Herrick—Wm. C. Knapp, Richard Hillis:
Leroy—E. A. Bailey, Jedson Hunt :
Litchfield—AD. B. Cotton, Elijah Wolcott:
Monroe—Xhas. Holland, C. M. Knapp;
Orwell—Julius Gorham, Shelden Chubbuck :
Pike—Gen. W. Northrop, Joshua S. Roberts:
Rome—D. M. Wattles. Hiram Mann :
Ridgebery—John Burt, Geo. Cooper:
Standing Stone—Win. R. Storrs, Wm. Griffis :
Smithfield—P. P. Sweet, Laertus Smith:
South Creek—John Reed, John Thompson:
Springfield—Norman Cooley. S. P. Mattocks:
Sheshequin—F. G. Van Ostrand, John Horton:
Springhill—Judson Stevens, D. D. Black:
Towanda boro.—H. L. Shaw, Jeremiah Collins:
Towanda tp.—J. W. Decker, Edward Patterson:
Troy boro.—J. A. Paine Ballard, Deloss Herrick
Troy tp.—John Porter, 1.. P. Williams:'
Ulster—John Bowinali, James F. Gazly:
Wyalosing—Saml. Gregory, E. Beeman:
Wyscre—D. E. Martin, Win. D. Strope :
WellsE. A. Ayres, S. Rowley:
Windham—Wm. B. Dunham. D. M. Brainard:
Warren—Rufus Buffington, David Haight:
A Spectates or Waits Hvis !—The and
Courant have a great deal to say about \ the ruin of ,:ur
manufactures, under the new tariff law. The shoema
kers, carriage -makers, blacksmiths, hatters, !inners, &c.,
are called upon to prepare fur "ruin," and the workmen
for starvation. The Bridgeport Farmer his instituted
a comparison of the two 'tariffs, in such matters as relate
more particularly to our own State, and it may be seen
what a tremendous blow has been given to the principal
branches of manufacturing industry in this quarter:
Articles Present Tariff New Tariff
Carriages 30 30
Saddles 3O 36
Harness 35 30
Cabinet-ware 30 30
Hats- - -Fur 35 50
Hat-bodies, fur 25 30
Hats—Wool 15 20
Hat-bodies, wool 15 20
Boots and bootees, men's., 31 30
Shoes, men's 29 30
Tin-ware 30 30
Castings 30 . 30
Broadcloths 40 30
Blankets, fine 25 20
Blankets,coarse 15 20
o much for the fell blow of Loeofocnism" on these
articles, which employ a great proportion of the manu
facturing capital and industry of this The figures
speak for themselves. The duty on men'■ shoes, fur
hat bodies, wool hats, hat bodies of wool, and coarse
blankets, is higher than under the tariff of '421 while on
all the other articles, it is the same, or so slightly reduced
as to be hardly perceptible. Such are some of the modi
fiutions which are henceforth to make us colonists
again to the mother country."
ACOrtrt Et.sc-rtoas.—The result of the general cite
lions lately held, are represented thus:
In North Carolina the federalists have carried the G'o
vernor, and, it is supposed, the Legislature. ,
In Kentucky the federalists have elected to the Legis
lature a large majority.
•In Illinois the Democrats have carried the Governor
by 10,000 majority, both branches of the Legislature,
and 6 out of 7 Congreumeo.
In Missouri the Democrats have succeeded by large
majorities.
In Indiana, Whitcomb, the democratic candidate for
Governor, is elected,—the Democrats have a majority in
the Senate, and able federaliata a majority in the House.
The Board of Regents, under a recent Act of
Congress, of the Smithsonian institute, is composed as
follow; except the three Senatorial Regents who auraot
yet announced :
The rice President of the United States.
The Chief Justice of tho United States.
The Mayor of the City of Washington.
Representative Rob% Dale Owen. of Ind.
Representative Win. J. Hough. of N. V.
Representative Henry W. Hilliard, of Ala.
Rufus Choate, of Massachusetts.
Gideon Hawley. of N. Y.
Richard Rush, of Pa.
Wm. C. Preston, of South Carolina.
Alexander Bache, of Washington.
Joseph G. To:ton, do.
The Regents are required by the Isar to meet in the
city of Washington, on the first Monday in September
nest, to enter upon the duties 'of their appointment ; and
the *onagers, or Regents, as they are called, created by
by the bill,to carry it into effect, consist of fifteen per.
Estetteatstsc.—Surne of the manufacturers do not
apkeat to be aI.IIIIIVI at the tariff, u it passed. The
Naumkeag Cotton Company have erected at Salem,
lklass., an edifice which. contains twelve thousand panes
of eau., two millions and two hundred thousand
briekr, and h,c, four hal:, rapabk of holding twrbe
t:rou-and perum, (wh.
PCMISYIVanIa
Public opinion is fast settling doer to the conviction
that the tariff act passed by the Late Congress, will not,
in any considerable degree, affect the prosperity of the
various manufacturing interests of the country. That
factories will increase, and the various branches of indus
try wherein the skill and industry of our citizens are de
veloped, will multiply, and return to capitalists fair re
muneration. The fact is, the " manufacturers," as the
eastern monopolists are tamed, have nothing to fear from
competition. and if they cannot get Congress to legislate
bounties fur their benefit, they are content with the
awards of the industry of our citizens, and the great and
labor-saving improvements in machinery.
This fact, being admitted try all, that the cotton and
other manufactures are in no danger, the attention of the
panic makers, and the manufacturers of distress and ruin,
is turned toward Pennsylvania. and their sympathy ez•
haunted upon the melancholy situation in which her
great interests—the interra•s of the whole Cniou—are
ph/rad by the Tariff of 1846.
If there are airy great interests which have been ne
glected by the late Tariff act, they are the coal and iron
interests of Pennaylvania. We believe that it is the on
ly interestrupon which there can be any question that
the Tariff will nut operate beneficially ; and those beat
informed, are sanguine that Pennsylvania herseif will
find the provisions of the bill beneficial to her coal and
iron. De this as it may, it,is high time that Peithrylea
ma Legislatures . and Pennsylvania Representatives in
Congress pursue a different course from that heretofore
pursued—a course more in accordance with the high
standing of our Commonwealth. and the nationality of
our great interests. It is high time they took a morede
tided and manly stand in favor of the development of
the-resources in which elm is so rich. Wu hope that
hereafter they will come out from under the protection
of the East, and nut assimilate our great interests with
cotton., button-molev, and pins.
The action of the Pennsylvania Delegation in the late
Congress has placed our state where she is—if it be in
jeopardy, it is their fault. While Eastern men were
content with a reduced rate of dutiesmird while all would
have been Old to have fostered Pennsylvania, if she had
pursued i liberal course—we find her Representatives,
with one honored arid honorable excepien, most blindly,
wilfully and stubbornly sacrificing oar State, for that
which no one asked—against which our state bad em
phatically decided—•' The Tariff of 1812 as if was."
We are much mistaken if the voice of Pennsylvania
is not heard in this matter, and that her verdict will be
for a divorce of this must unnatural connection. We
have no special interests in emotion wan the manufac
turers of the east, other than a wish for their permanency
and prosperity, and we have no desire to see Pennsylve
nia sacnficed to proccure them the means of aggrandize
ment.
We leave this subject. at present, presenting to our
readers an extract from the Bkionisburg, Democrat, up
on this subject, which contains some valuable sugges-
"One of the mi , st important features of the American
system—(we use this en precsion in its correct sense,)—
is, the entire separation of the Government from religious
establishments. The' state and the church' are wisely
separated from each other; and this fact, we know, was
a subject of rej to our fathers. The sects into
which religious sentiments in the Union are ranged,
stand divorced, from the Government ; they take, as such,
no part in conducting it. nor are they specially the re
cipients of its favors any more than subject to its con
trol. May this divorce of Church and state be ender-
Some years before the charter of the second Bank of
the United States expired, a struggle fierce and protrac
ted coin:nenced between it and the administration of the
Government to which it owed its creation. The charac
ter and the results of that struggle are known to all. IL
tvls Linn, with that bold and sagacious patriotism that
distinguished President Jackson and his immediate suc
cessor, that an enure divorce of the Government from
Banks, was proclaimed. That just measure of policy
has since been upheld, through good and through evil
report, by the party of progress and principle, and the
recent passage of an act establishing a coustitutional
Treasury, alt.rds a cause for congratulation and pride.—
Substantially. so tar as the General Government is con
cerned, a sound and unfluctuating currency is secured.
The divorce of Bank and State ; measures that have
struggled with fierce opposition and unmerited obloquy,
is established, we trust, as a permanent featured our na
tional policy.
•We now, propose another Divorce ; mare humble in
its character, and local in its application, but we think,
equally important with either of the foregoing, in its in
fluence upon the interest and destiny of our own State.
We propose, the Divorce of Pennsylvania from Massa
chusetts ! the release of the land of Penn from the thral
dom of Puritan polities and the curse of Puritan friend
ship. What have we ever reaped from this unnatural
connection, but injury and insult? The result of our
foolish partnership with Massachusetts on the Tariff,
may be summed up, in the fact, that we are smitten with
30 per cent. duties on iron and coal; and are bereft of
sympathy from abroad under the infliction ! In the re.
cent adjustment of the Tariff, we were afforded ten to
twenty per cent. higher duties upon our state produc
tions than were given, and even specific duties, on con
dition of agreeing to the modification of other portions of
the act of '42 not specially affecting us. But, no! even
the increase of duties upon luxuries ; upon wines,
jewelry, and silks,—must be opposed, because Massa
chuseus so decreed it. " The tariff as it is," with all
its admitted imperfections, was the watchword of selfish
ness on the one hand and fully on the other;—Massa
chusetts chanted our death song and we danced it with
rustic and heedless simplicity ! Does any one imagine
that if Massachusetts had been offered a retention of du
ties uptitiontnn and woolen gone', that she would have
sacrificed herself for the coal and iron interests of Penn
'sylvania 1 For our part, we protest against any further
connection of this State with the selfishness and Feder
alism of the East. It is a connection that .can only
breed pure, unmixed mischief to us. It has already
smitten down the duties upon our productions, and can
only hereafter defeat our efforts to Increase them."
New Detinktions.
Ruin.—Redocing the profits of the manufacturers
from $50,000 to $20,000 per annum.
Panie.—A Whig symptom that the election is near.
Diecrimination.—The exemise of the right of choice
of a 'highly " protected " manufacturer, between the
clothing of his own country and that of Paris.
Compromise.—A delicate subject, which " puts the
Whip upon explanation•."
Protection for the foreign producer.—Reaucing, for
instance,nefined sugar from twelve to eight cents •
pound.
Merieo.—" The Poland of America."
Alstssenot.s Aceinzar.—An interesting little hoy,
about three years of age, son of Wm. H. Bair., of this
borough. was found in the river, above the Bridge, nn
Tuesday last, in the afternoon. It is supposed that the
little fellow had wandered to the water, and accidentally
fallen in. When discovered, he was quite dead, and all
attemp6 to re.u•citaty hum proved unavailing.
The Tariff of 1542.
A paragraph has been published in all the Whig and
liative papers in the Northern Stater, which asserts that
There are eighty•sis English Democratic papers
published in Pennsylsania, eel ENT tcrisr. of which
openly disapprove of ]!!'Kay's (tee trade Tariff Bill, and
the alteration of the Tariff of
For ourselves, we have no objections to the paragraph
as it stands, but for the sake of our cntempomries
throughout this State—generally, as sound Democrats u
ever breathed—we deem it proper' to demonstrate that
it is not the fact. The Perry Standard says also:
The stay free trade papers may be classed thus,
Pennsylvanian, Perry, County De ~,,, (Tat. Bedford Ga
zette, Lancaster 114elligencer, Doily Keystone."
Now for the truth ; always bearing in mind that there
are "eighty-sir English Democratic papers" in the
State, and about CO German. Of these, the following
do not approve of Mr. M'Kay's bill, in all its details, but
at the same time decidedly condemn the Tariff of 1842:
Erie Observer 1 Erie
Carbondale Democrat Carbondale
Republican Farmer Wilkesbaere
Independent Republican (Ger.) Allentown
Lehigh Bulletin do
Democratic Press Reading
JetTersonian do
Readinuer Adler (German) do
Republican West Chewier
:lelfitrsonian do
Upland Union Chester
Democrat (GerniaN st„ Plo d ls o delphia
Keystone.
Examiner Wa.hington
Intelligence? Lanca-ter
Monroe D. moerat Stroudsburg
Perry Democrat ' Perry Co.
Chamberaburg Times Franklin Co.
A rg..ts Ea-ton ,
I 'orrespondent Easton
Gazette York
Democratic Press do
flarto.er Gazette (German) Hatiorer, York co
G een CO. Mest.enger . Waynesburg
Democratic Republican Meadville
Ttoua Eagle Welleborough
Northern Democrat Mantro.,
Bradford Reporter Towanda
Troy Banner Troy
Visitor Mt. Pleasant
Republican do
Westmoreland Argus Greensburg
Doyle-town Democrat Diryle.towit
Expres (German) - - do
Wyoming Patrol Tunkbarinoek
Indiana Democrat
A torlactoan
st.blllll3ineer
Standard fbAlitlaysburg
Siatesman Carlisle
True Democrat Levvi.town
Juniata Times P4ifittntown
Clinton Democrat Lock Haven
Cntnpilier Gettysburg
Morning Post PI ts burg
‘Vestern Star
13,nner
Deinocrat
Jsrkson Democrat Williamsport
Gazette Sunbury
Union Times New Berin
Potter Pioneer Coudersport
Weekly %sitar Somerset
G tzette Bedford
Wayne Co. Herald Honesdale
Somme des Volk, (German) Orwig.hurg
Genius of Liberty Uniontown
Mercer Press Mercer
Lebanon Republican (German) Lebanon
Democrat Bloomsburg
Pennity Ivan ian Philadelphia
°nanny Szorseamms.—Tbe SI. Louis Reveille has
received the tirst number dare Oregon Sprclalor. pub
lished in the Oreg.rn Territory. Its M 11t0 is. West-
ward the Star of Empire takes its way." The paper
bears date February 5, 1816, and contains a cope of the
Constitution pasted by the Legislature of the Terntory,
and also an act to prevent the introduction and sale of
ardent spirits in Oregon. The editor it a Win. G.
T'Vault, who is also Prosecuting Attorney and Pont.
master General of the Territory. He stye the paper will
be neutral in politics, but at the same time *ays he is a
Democrat of the Jeffersoman school.
Pa Nit Dray ntrics.—The Deleware Gazette denies the'
statements made in a Wilmington piper that the f
dries and machine shops have already commenced di—
charging their hands, and are preparing to close their es
tablismenta after December next. It says there is no
foundation for these reports and predictions, and that
those oho have heretofore depended upon the foundries
and machine shops of that city for articles of their manu
facture, may lull do so.
[From the Graham's Town Journal.]
From the Cape of Good Hope.
By the Vancouver. at Boston, Cape Town
papers to the sth of June, have been received.
The anticipated attack has been made on
Fort Heddte, and the Kafir, have there received
a most signal discomfiture and defeat. Unkey
(our only friendly chief.) gave Information on
the 24th May, that a general attack was soon to
be made on the fort; several skirmishes took
place on Tuesday and Wednesday, but on
Thursday morning the 28th ult.. at 10, A. M.
the enemy was seen approaching in peat force.
The plan evidently was to draw out the troops,
and then rush into the fort ; finding this did not
succeed, they extended themselves a I around.
and there was a continuous line of Katirs at least
miles in length. Rockets and shells were
but they did not come near a enough for
the infantry to play upon them ; the Kafir balls
whistled over the Leads of the men; Sandilli is
said to have been recognized on a black horse;
a great proportion were mounted. Stork has
joined the war party, so that the government
will he 'lto longer encumbered with friendly
chiefs
Sir Andris Stnclienstrom has secured the
country. without falling in with any considera
ble parties of Kafirs. The Beaufort levy are
exuected to join him immediately. The Fin.
goes fou ht at Fort Peddle a ith the twist de
termined bravery. and the loss of the enemy
must have been great.
The news by the post is the most cheering
we have yet re..eived—the tide is turned—our
burghers are daily arriving at scene of action—
and we may reasonably hope that from this
period our fource will enable us - to act upon the
offensive.
HIS Excellency the the Governor intended to
proCeed to Fort Peddle in the early part of the
oreeent week.
MURDER.—A very shocking tragedy has just
been enacted at Freetown. a little village. on the
right bank of the river. opposite the city, he
tween McDonnuohville and Gretna. A man by
the name of Johnson. who lived at Freetown,
was found in the river, a short distance frOm a
little shanty which he °peopled, basely murder.
ed. He was fastened by a rope armlet! his neck.
to a stump in the bank. and bore on his person
horrible marks of the violent death he had suf
fered. He had been shot in the back, his head
was split open, and his throat cut. It would
seem as if the body had been fastened to the
stump with a view to concealment, but the body
floated, and thusU'lle murderer's intentions were
frustrated. The deceased was su pposed to have
a considerable sum of money by him. No one
has yet been arrested.-from what we can learn,
as crtcd of the rriordcr.—.V. 0. Times.
Late and Important from Havana and Mexico.
Departure of Santa Aruia. dilmonte and Re.
jon for Mexico
By the ship Adelaide, Capt. Adams, from
!hyena, 9th instant, we learn that Generals
Santa Anna. Almonte and 13,vjon, chartered the
steamer Arab. an English trading vessel. and
proceeded to Vera Cruz on the evening of the
Sit, for the purpose. as General Santa Anita
facetiously remarked, of " making peace be
tween the United States and Mesteo."
Santa Anna and his former ministers of
State have thus rushed into Mexico at a mo
ment when all idea of such a step had vanish
ed from the public mind. They have seized
the most auspicious moment for a vigorous and
successful effort to regain their lost power.—
Paredes will probably abandon the caparl on
their approach. if he dues not actually transfer
the Government over to them. Santa Anna and
Almonte have proved themselves the must sa
gacious. and certainly the wisest statesmen.—
Their acquaintance with the Anglo Saxon race
enabled them to foresee a very different ter
mination of the Oregon dispute from that which
Paredes anticipated. Their expectations have
been realized, and they now return to Mex , co
at a moment when the evidences of their wis
dom are staring. their countrymen in the
lace—at a moment when the Olive Branch of
peace is offered by a conquering power march.
in to the very gates of their Capitol. The off.
er of peace would get to Vera Cruz a le w days
after Santa Anna and Almonte arrived there.
It would follow them, or accompany them to
the Capitol. This was probably known to
them before they set out.
The Adelaide brings regular files of Spanish
papers to the New Fork Sun, to the Bth inclu
sive. from which we translate as follows :
The British mail steamer Dre, Capt, Boxer.
arrived at Havana on the 6th instant, from
Vera Cruz. eller a passage of four days. She
had on board 6163.000 in specie, and 27 pas
sengers. 'I he Dee brought papers from Vera
Cruz to the 2nd instant.
The Nlintster of the Revenue, under date
10th July, anounces that President Paredes by
virtue of his extraordinary powers, and in ac
cordance with a decree of 29th June, has de
creed :
1. While the blockade exists, Mexican and
foreign vessels,when unable to reach their ports
of destination. may enter and discharge Metr
cargoes in the following ports : Alvrado, Tax.
pan, Goatzacoalcos, Sotoamarian and Teeluta,
in the Gull of Mex,: 0. and in the port of Man
zanillo. on the Pacific.
2. There will be established in the above
ports, temporary Custom Houses and maritime
stores, on the terms and under the rules de
creed on the 17th of May, 1838.
3. As soomas the American blockade shall
be raised, this permission shall cease„ when
the vessels that may now enter the ports nam
ed, must go to their original ports of destina
tion.
Indisida
Eh,neburz
Beaver
Clearfield
Bellefonte
The Gazette of Victoria (Mexico), of 20th
July, reports a destructive storm it/111,h delay
ed the post seven d.,ys, and obstructed all CUM-
Vera Cruz parrs of 10th July learn hy a
confide tdil ine,enger, that on the 7th of that
montli i an Americiiii boat appeared on the riv
er Antigua. and wit, fired up,n hy the troops
on duty. Ttto sailor; and all ,PlFlrrr I:t Oa ,
stern were see,' to dull dead or tt nm led. On
the g•lt, eta Amer', in boat.. en tered d i d landed
i tilt one hundred men, to procure
when an engagement diolt place ul whii•li
Aflirrie;ill9 were breed a, rt treat. 1t . a , 1112' (0
dad on the beach and eurrvlng the re,t unh
them. On the 911 i. three Ailirriran sof
war entered the .infigua. One went to la/a
Verde, the other two eriosing in eight.
On the 12th a new 'telegraph ttv.o3 p!aeed on
F.,rt San Juan d'Ciloa, to report the move
ment• of the enetto .
El RepublicattoolMexien, of the 24th of
Jaiy, reports that on the previous day.ilie %1011-I,r
l-1 , r of %Via informed the Natoilial Cfrimbers.
t:iat U.e timtain-a.-neral of Ni w Mexico hail
communicated the appearance of six thairlond
.Intericsots, commanded by the second Gener
al-in-chief. in their way to that clepariment,
and that HiliEseellency, the Mini ,, ter of War,
.had debpatCheo all the troops that vt ere in Chi
huahua and Zacatecas in reinforce the troupe
under General Amok). at S ut t Fe.
A Briush merchant brio which hail been de•
taitiett by the blockade at Vera Cruz, managed
to escape in the night, unnoticed by the block
ading squadron.
Vera Cruz papers of 29th July report the
U. S: v• ssels St. Alary's and Porpus, crutsin
off that port.
The abut/e r as all the news of any importance
that we can find in our Spanish plters. Not
a word front the Pacific•.
M"RMON EMIGRASTS.—The St. Louis
New Era states that the steamer Gen. Brooks
arrived on the 6.11 mid , from the mouth of the
Yellow Stone. whetter she left °it the 7111
ly. At Council Bluffs the:: learned hit five
hundred Mormon wagons hadeloss d 41111 gone
on towards Fort Laramie, and one thousand
more were ready to eross. They hail planted
barley and buck IA heal tear Connell
The foremost parties expected 141 winter at Fort
Laramie. and the balance 4111 the Platte river.
At Fort Leaveinvorth. no the north side, they
passed the five hundred \. minims wi; hail
joined the army. The distant prairies • were
much burned, and the huff.do ranged I .w down
towards the settlements. Plenty of buffalo
were found two hundred miles above Council
Bluffs. The boat brought down some live hut
falo, elk and a grist, hear, and also the :Atari]
skin of a grisly hear larger than the largest ox;
it was killed in the act of carrying off a buffalo
that it had caught comine v out of the river.—
The host brought iloWd a
. large quantity of
fors, robes and peltries fur Pierre Chouteau,
jr., & Co.
BANKRUPTP ENDER THE LATE LAW.--.-A re
port has been prepared by the State Depart
ment for Cotigre4s. from which it appears that
the number of applicants for the benefit of the
bankrupt law,. heretofore passed. teas 33.739 ;
number discharged from the payment of their
debts. 28.291 ; refused by the courts. 766 ;
applications still pending. 4468; aggregate num
ber of creditors, given by the applicants. 1.-
049.603 ; aggregate debts. $440.934,615 ;
property surrendered. $43.697.307 ; co-t of
judicial proceelltues. $602 322. Only think
of a difference of nearly $100.000.000 between ,
the debts and the amount ~f property surren
dered—or not far from $4OO for each creditor.
Tun TEA TftAne..--During the last hall of
the year 1845. the tea exported from China to
the United States was 8.922.834 pounds. of
which 7.250.982 potintl4 were green tea. The
quantity exported to Great Britian in the game
time was 37,853,740 pounds, of which 5.518,-
907 pounds only were green tea. So says the
Merchants' Magazine.
[From the Public Ledger.]
Letter from the . Army.
MOUTH OF THE Rio GRANDE.
Camp Ringgold, July 28th 1848.
Gentlsmen—As I have a leisure moment. and
as there has been -some little new. received
here to-day. I sit 'down in my carivarNtouse to
write you a few hasty lines, in order that you.
may (if you think it worth while) lay before
your readers.
fhe steamboat 'Cincinnati has just come
down the river from Matamoras, and from the
Matamoras Reveille, (a copy of which I send.)
and from a conversation with an intelligent gen
tleman, I learn the following :
In the first place. then, the war is ended.—
This is a.• fixed fact." My information as
sures me that he heard Cbl. Twin's say, the
day before he left Matamoras, that in his opin-.
ion there would be r,q .more fighting ; that the
enemy could not in. a twelvemonth raise an ar
my sufficiently strong to meet that under the
orders of General Taylor. He also said that
the arrival of Santa Anna at Vera Cruz was re
garded by General Taylor as favorable to peace,
as almost all the Mexicans (those here too) re
gard Santa Anna as almost a d•:mi-god. and he
has said that the war must be brought to a spee
dy close, as no lung but disaster and defeat
would attend them in a war with the U. S.
Ile (my informant) also states that intercepted
letters have been brought to General Taylor .
—one (run Canales to the Governor of Taum- ,
aupaliii, in which Canales bays that the spirt`
of his force is at do- lowest ebb, that desertions
by scores daily occur, and that it (the cavalry)
must he ili.perseil, as they refuse all discipline,
and are almost in a state of starvation.
Coin. Alex Slidell Markenite, who has been
appointed on a secret mission to Mexico. paid
our encampment a visit t eslerdar ; he paid our
battalion (the Baltimore Volume-re) a high com
pl turf t. and said they ;were the heat thrilled
volunteers he ha& seen. The fact that ewe all
wear Uncle Sam's Livery sets us off, no doubt.
to advantage ; all the other volunteers are in
citizens' dress ; some of them. the Alabamians
especisilly, remind me of the fantasticals who
flourished in Philadelphia some ten years
since.
It would do you good to get a sight of Capt.
May who made the splendid charge at the hat
tle of the Resaca de la Palma. His beard.(ex
ruse roe.) his goat, as he terms it. is just 23
inches long, and his hair reaches half way down
his back. He is said to be under a vow not to
shave nor have his hair cut till he gets to Wash
ington. when hedntends to get Plumbe to take
his likeness with his unrivalled Deguerrenti pe.
I have also seen the gallant Captain Walker.
and spoke a few words with him. It is said he
his declined the commiAsicn in the army which
was tendered by the President, on account of
the deficiency in his education. Some even
say he can neither read nor write.
By the way, some kind-hearted Philadel•
phian sent our Coloolel some tour or five en
pies of your paper. It would have flattered
your editorial pride not a little to see the avi•
dity With which the Philadelphi ins amongst
us seized them. By the time they came to
my hand. they were almost as black as the ink
with which they were printed. God hless the
- sender whoever he was. for remembering us.
separated as tee are from our foes• 110 and 11011 We.
in a cumin where you see nothing hut saint
and elvipparel. without even a imp of water fit
to drink. and that too under a tropiral
.. have sit tTered iti eh from these raur ec and
co in :. pecnlc.r species ..t dysentery. But we
ive this morn rig received orders to niareli up
the river to Barna, where we will be he . iter p r o.
sided for than we are here. It is my optui
that we will Lit there.lor two or three months
linger, amt then he discharged. \VP ma t• even
once it ore_git up to M atamoras. or Fort Brown,
just opposite. hut I do not think we will go fur•
!her than 13 irita. About three thousand men
landed at lira-os St Jairo a lew days since
Ode thou-std e( them (A!abamians) are now
here. and 1600 were to leave this morning. and
if so will Im here before nightt. The ratite sea
aim has set to here with a vengeance. 'Omits(
every miming our tents are under water.—
The days are clear—the nights rainy.
By the way I think there is something wr.•ng
in the way provisio i ps. tte., are transported
here. There are not half enough Wagons the
consequence is that we scarcely ever have sit
gar or coffee • h. , . • ore time. The Govrrii
ment now. a i' is very moment. owe the 13a1-
timbre v leers tett days' rattone of sug.w.—
%V ilat is the reason of thus ?
I was about to close when I was told that a
man-of war w..s in sight. I went down to the
beach and there w•as, one hut ton far in reeng
inv.. She is supposed to be the Law relict.—
Yours, eery truly.
E. F. R , 01 Philad.
P. S. sin, writing the atutve. the Captain
n( the Ciiiitina•i tells me that he saw General
Tat lor in.., beret.a th , boat Ict . t Matamoraw, and
that the old hero told him he •• would have he
fore this net en enemy. if indeed, he added,
there is one to meet, which I do en, tf iny sup
plies had been received. I have force enough
here. I thiek, to march up to the env of Mexi
co. The M-xicana were but are not." Cool
and characteristic. E. F. R.
PROM THE PACIFIC —.ln Old Report.—
The New Orleans Picayune says :
The schooner Velasro. Captain 'f ow. arriv
ed here here on the Bth instant, from Kingston.
Jamaica, having sailed or. the 24th ult. The
Kingston editors are in great distress of mind
at learning by the officers of the British brig 01
war Daring. from Havana, that the California.
had declared their Independence. and that the
American commodore had landed and planted
the American standard. They have got hold
of the same rumor we had here some weeks
since from Havana. and giving it full rtedenee,
are extremely indignant. Thf y anticipate a
collision between the English and American
squadrons so soon as Admiral Sec more should
return from the Smith. whither they say he
had proceeded for reinforcements.
THF:END OF A LIFE OF CRlME.—Wyatt. who
killed hiss fellow prisoner, at Auburn. N. Y.
was hung at that place yesterday. His life had
been one of crime and violenee. as his youth
probably hadbeen neglected, & hislopportunities
unimproved. His education was limited. his
general information restricted, and his mind a
very ordinary one. Ile represented that hr
had been a pedlar in the smith western States
and hi s family resides in Baltimore. Ills real
name is tint know. though it is suppiwil to he
Mead- He is accused -of having deserted his
wile in Ohio, afterwards munlered all "thee!' of
the army and his companion. whose bodies
were found at M•lllmee. And then it is said lie
was a !ambler, and fol'oweirthat businessiin war -
dering over the country ., These crimes are now
all expiated. The end of the wretch was as
terrible as his life had been had and unprofi
able.
THE Fran CRINC.—We find the followila,
Affecting story among the court repuns of t h:
New York News:
', Sarah Houston. a thin featured, pale littl e
girl, with very large blue eyes. pleaded guilty
;tearing several dressess from Mrs. Darn. Iler
bosom heaved some wh at
. convulsively, as sE e
faintly articulated an affirmative to the usualq o .
estion.of the clerk. "Are you gull.) , or ant
guilty ?" A sudden flush crime over her white
cheeks, and those large eyes grew still therein'.
trous, until at last the fountains were unSealed
a tear started all unbidden from each blue orb'
and dropped from the long eyelashes—annthe;
f o ll o wed, and instantly another, 'till bending
'nentli the weight of these repentant gems, t h e
dark fringes sank upon her cheek. and the p oor
girl, as a frail.hly n'erladeli he die shower, t h at
droops to shed the soothing moisture, bowed her
fair face to the rails hef re her and wept in silent
agony—Tears ? blessings on those v o i ce ,
h-ss pleaders ! Guilty may have tainted th eir
hidden source. yet doth the thought that eh,
them birth ri-ni , •-e the stain, and ever when die s
spring to ;iqt.l 'le youthful frailties, their erystil
flow is pore ,rah was but 14 years old, sa d
was sent to the House of Refuge.
COINAGE OF THE UNITED STATES...4O 1845 ,
the coinage at the principal mint at Philadel.
phia. amounted to 83,416.800. comprtsing 82,
574.652 in gold, and 8803.200 in silver, and
938.948 in copper cointe. and composed of 9,.
283.607 pieces. The deposits of gold within
the year amounted to 82,578.494, and those
of silver to 8813.415.
At the New Orleans branch mint. the coin ,
age amounted trb81.755.000.t:0m prising 6680,,
000 in gold. and 81.070.000 in silver come,
and composed of 2.412.500' pieces. l'he de.
posits for coinage amounted to 8646,981 in
gold and 81.058.071. in silver.
The branch mint at 113111one:fa received dur
ing the rear deposits of gold to the value' of
8498.632. and its coinage amounted to $501,-
795. composed of 90.729 half eagles and 19,.
460 quaver eagles.
The whole coinaiir for the year, at the
three minis. in tveration. amounted. to $5,.
66g 595. comprising $3.756.447 in g01d,41.-
873.200 in silver, and $38,948 in copper come.
MALES AND FEMALES BATHING AT NEWPORT.
—A correspondent of the Boston, Tratit , .cipt
writes thus from Newport_on the Cubject of
bathing
I h a d in) prejudices_ against the custom of
both sexes hathingetogether, but on seeing the
fun at new port, my antipathy against the fashion
was much , removed. The sight is picturesque,
certainly. Fancy an encampment of Indians, gr
rather, Gipseys,divested of the boiling pot, and
von have the' scene previous to immersion.—
You cannot tell the gentlemen from the ladies;
and in hie , it is difficult to distinguish the mem.
hers of your own family. I'he gents west red
flannel itineleS, duck pants. and straw hats; the
tunnies and pantilettes of the same rohr,
with white collars and straw hats 31=40. 'flitte
are, as many as 150 bathing, houses. You ewer
on one side and go on to the beach front the
oilier. all sqiiippeil in act the part of the efa rum
phs, or ought rise that seems an appropriate
chara,ter. It is really very exciting to belay:it
tile fun.
ATTEmPT oF Vll /f 4. 'rtiE :kll.ltorsEß.. TU
(7n)lmiT r'llctor..—Ws ail, the murderer. tau
was to he hanged on Nl..ntlav last, at Auhara.
math. an an, MO to I . ollillill tlllf•de on Ft 117,y
night by bleetbne himself to the arm. It ap
p., tred by a rennet statement which he had prt
pared. that he hail been for thirteen moths ,
pospes,iiin , if the point of a penknife Hail,
which he had kept concealed in a plug of tube.
rt. This blade he had inserted in the end of 3
rtub, and nub it he ripened a tetwand hied IL.
he tainted and fell. which attracted the intention
of the prisoners below. who itrosised the
Pro. who suer. eeded restoring him.
a uoi.ted a very ingenious method of rffeei•ni
1.1- ~.:• • ;Navin_ , saved the huller with it- 1 .lb
hr tia., puttit•g it in part of a
1 clam shell and Inset tin. a wiek from part
hits susni inlets, and lighted the whole will /
Naar. he hail provided himself with -a very tole•
table Ivoit , , by II‘" light of which he was enah••
ed to c . 71% on , F. Coss.
En.:
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On thurtatlay evening
last an tit•em pi was made to kill and rob a roan,
Robert,james, near a tavern kept by Mr.
Ili,tcknitin, in Durham. Mr. James is a drover,
and had been to New York with a drove, anti
was rettiroing West, it io said fl the purpose
of buying more stock—leaving a person by the
name of Fitzpatrick, in New York. to dispose
of stock or transactother business. On his war
West, Mr. James stopped at the above tavern,
and proceeded to take care of his horse by pit
ting it to pasture. While Mr. J. was thus em
ployed, at some distance from the house, he
was shot. As soon as the act was known in the
neigliltorlined, it wad asct.rtained that Mr. Fitz
patrick (who was a partner of Mr J.) had been
in that vincinity a short time before, and then
could not be found. He was suspe+•ted n and
three persons immediately started in prestat
taking different direction. He was overtaken
at Athens. and emitted. Mr. J. still sumer ,
'bough but little hopes are entertained °finite
covery.— Cau skill Gazelle.
Doom IN THE Barnss.—Very many of the
officets :inched to the army of occupation. ? 5,1 "
temarkahly fine dogs. principally of the pointer
and setter species. After the battle of the 6th
began and the firing became very intense. tira ,
clogs, remarkable for their intelligence, appear'
ed to listen to the confusion for a while trlth
great astonishment. and then eridently:holdi n r
a ennsultaion, they aimed off at great speed
for Point Isabel, being the arrivals at that Ore
from the battle-field. There was a brave deg.
however. to redeem the character of ;pecies.-•
He posted himself in front of one of the battenei
and watching atth the intensest gravity. these
penance of another ball, and then again co'
mence the chase. He thus employed himself
through the action, and escaped unharmed.
SERVED ' EH RIGIIT.—We understand li l3l
that workmen employed in the Thornpsonvd le
Carpet Famory, whose' wages were rctiorf d
20 per rent, on account of the passage of the
new tariff hill, refused to work, and that the
Company, having so many orders on hand bed
to set them to work at the old prices.—S.
Globe.
LARGE CIECULATION.—The Sunday Schr3l
Advocate. published in New York. for the Sun'
day erhuid Union of the Methodist Episc 4al
Church. circulates eighty-five thousand coin"
regularly. This is supposed to be larger this
the circulation of any other paper in the Unit
States. Every subscription is paidfor in g`"
van cr.