A. BUEHLER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. • . [From the American Review. • •AlrE DEO. Wee& in•doeide ef light are waving, To •swift like swinging sees, Nifhlo k ettave,tbeir tope are floating Theglad children of the breeze. Jactilort hi-moonlight straying, Steals Won" the trembling fawn ; ehddren, •now are playing • Wand nut - the gate of dawn. • An hour ago, the tempest swelling, 'Emote in wrath the shrinking led— Thunders trooped above our dwelling, Throbbing like the pulse of God. Over time's abyss impending, Centuries in darkness lie. 11111ifilithillintig, TIM Unending, - Misdates of a Deity S • Life and death--a thin partition All thy mysteries divide, Far in shadow waikoethe spirit With the ntortel, dile by aide. la my beast thew many a token Of the past's enchanted spell ; 4. the sound when hours are spoken Lingers in the holler bell. This in high melodious measure Bards theli• holy strains prolong ; Heir, to the eternal treasure Denied in the depth of song. EVENING RHAPSODY OF A CHILD co= One evening liras wandering Beside a river fair— Wild roses and blue violets I'd plucked to deck my hair The birds were singing over me In trees with foliage bright, All nature smiled in harmony, And filled me with delight. My cup with Joy was running o'er, My spirits light and free-- It seers d that I could rival them— These songsters in their glee! My heart was tuned—my song arose With theirs upon the air— It seemed that naught could change a scene So beautiful and fair' The sun tae■ Sinking in the west, To gladden other skies ; lie never sleeps, (that glorious orli,) To other lands he hies ! Twilight wan Treading der the acene, The hints had . ceamed to ohf; Nature, with chastened beauty, sea To heaven her utrering. A anft and pleasing sadness Waa stealing o'er to heart ; I thought of bright `rnwllleving ones That I hod seen depart ! And yet it w•as no sorrow That thus my thoughts lieguiled ; I could not have ■ real woe, I'ol.l NMI TIT I CHILD ! It opened that those lost, loved ones, Were angels, hovering near; Spreading their height oiugs over me; What then had 1 to fear ? I raised my head in gladness ; The stars looked down and smiled; All things seemed bright and benutifid, Furl WAS TST • CHILD. OCTOBIRR.—III spite of the gorgeous liv ery assumed by Nature during this month, there is always a sad tone in the music of its breezes. Its melodies are in a minor key. Winter already casts his shadow before, and Summer flees his approach.— Love our firesides as we may, we cling in stinctively to the careless season when warmth was not to seek. In an ideal life Summer would reign perpetually. When we muse of brighter worlds ; when we try to imagine what will be the condition of thb blest, who ever thinks of lire ? No poet of the ideal ever draws a cheering or exalting image from winter. "Thick-rih bed ice' and regions where "the air burns frore, and cold 'performs the effect of fire," have been culled in to heighten our notion of a place of torment. So we never long for the "frosty Caucasus," even when we are melting under Cancer. Yet the pleasures of this season are neither few nor slight. "Nome-bred hap piness" begins with cool weather. The friends whom pursuit of health and fresh air has separated Tor two or three months, will now meet and exchange greetings with new zest. All is animation and excitement, between the history of sum mer tvanderifige and the preparation for winter. It seems like a new lease of life to the happy, refreshed and inspirited by the heart-cheering breezes of our lakes and mountains. ' May they include the poor 1 end needy in their plans for the approach- i Ing severe season. One of the saddening influences of the 1 illaUllllllli change is the prevalence of stor my winds, which remind us of disasters at sea. elow any hearts will tremble as the loud blasts 4 f this month bring back ra the sufferings o last fall, on our wreck ntiewii epastr 'od help the poor mail ner;inil spare the hearts that' watch for hie returnl—Mrs. Kirk/and. . Panes ON.--We find the followingnoble sentiment---the key to fortune—in a little English periodical: , ' • -Tke taystagy . of Napoleon's career was this, under all , difficulties and discourage ment to prise - axon. It was the problem of ell the kteroae; it is the rule by which to judge rightly 04 wonderful success. It should be the . slid Al, high and low, fortonsta and nufurtunate,tiocalled—"press on," never despair, never be dicouraged, however stormyx , the heavens, however dark thf way'Ofetwever4reat the difficul ties, or repeated the failure, "press on."— If fortune , has' played false with' thee to day;do thou play true for this to-morrow. Lei the foolishness of yesterday make thee wise to-day. If thy affections have been potired . out like water into the desert, do flat kit down or perish of this, but “presi; onil— a beautiful oasis, is before thee, and thou mayet tench it, if thou wilt. If an- other! has been false to thee, do not thou lice ease the evil by being false to-thyself.' 41 not say, the world has lost' its poetry an beauty, it is not so ; and even if it be *Make thine own poetry and beauty, by A +alive, a true, and above all, a religious , -.* - • reounsa.—The difficulties we com plain of are laid in our way, that wo may make them so many steps to perfection end happines. • Ito glover 4111 i Ur t.au X 3 CS solilow go utrewartl koitt. AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON. 57' N o JP. It was getting towards midnight vyhen 1 a party of young noblemen came out from one of the clubs in St. James street. The servant of each aii_he stepped upon the e, pavement, threw up hit, wooden apronal, the cabriolet, and sprung to the head of the horse, but as to the destination of the equi pages for the evening, there seethed to be some dissension among the noble masters. Betwixt the hue of coronettild vehicles stood a hackney-coach, and a person in an attitude. of eager expectancy pressed as near the exhilarated group as he could do without exciting-immediate attention.- - "Which way ?" said he, whose vehicle was nearest, standing with his foot on the step. "All together of course," said another. "Let's make a night of it."' "Pardon me," said the deep and sweet voice of the last one from the crowd ; "I secede for one., Go your ways gentlemen." Byron stood looking after them a mot meat, and raising his hat pressed his hand hard on hie forehead. The unknown per son who had been lurking near, seemed to leave him to his thoughts or was embarass ed at approachinu a stranger. As Byron turned with his halting step however, he came suddenly to his side. "My lord In.he said, and and was silent ae if waiting for permission to go on. "Well," replied Byron, turning to him without the least surprise, and looking him closely iu the face by the lig h t of aitreet lamp. " I I come to you with an errand which per h aps"— "A strange one I am sure ; but I am pre pared for it—l have been forwarned of it. What do you require of me 1 for I am really." "This is strange," exclaimed the man. " tlas another messenger then—" "None except a spirit—for my heart a lone told me I should be wanted at this hour. Speak at rinee." "My lord, a dying girl has sent for you." "I)o I know her ?" "She has never seen you. Will you, rome at once, and on the way 1 will ek` plain to you what I can or this singular er rand ; though, indeed, When it is told, you will know all that I comprehend." They were at the door of the hackney coach, and Byron entered it without further remark. "Back again !" said the stranger, as the coachman closed the door, "and drive fur dear life, fur we shall scarce be fear." Au heavy tongue of St. Paul's struck melt , ' . the-oiling oiling vehicle hurried on i throe • yky , streets, and though It i liv so fal. h re uty had started neither l of the ttim occupants had spoken. Byron eat with folded arms and bare head in the corner of the coach ; the stranger, with his hat covered over his eyes, seemed repressing some violent emotion; and it was only when they stopped before a low door in a street close upon a river; that the latter found utterance. "Is she alive I" he hurriedly asked of a woman who came out at the sound of the carriage wheels. "She was a moment since; butte quick !" Byron followed quickly on the heels of his companion, and passing through a dim ly lighted entry to the door of the back room they entered. A lamp shaded by a curtain of spotless purity, threw a faint ligh - rupon a bed upon wlvich lay a girl watched by a physician and a nurse. The physician had just removed a small mirror from her lips, and holding it to the light, he whispered that she still breathed. As By ron paused, the dying girl moved the tin angers of the hand lying on the coverlet, and slowly opened on him her languid eyes—eyes of inexpressible depth and lus tre. No one had spoken. "Is lie here f" she murmered. "Raise me.mother, while I have time to speak to him." Byron looked around the small chamber, trying in vain to break the spell of awe which the scene threw around him. Au apparition from another world cold not have checked more tearfully and complete ly the more worldly and scornful under current of his nature. He stood with his heart beating almost audibly, his knees trembling beneath him, awaiting whit he prophetically felt to be a warning from the very gate of heaven. Propped with pillows, and left by her attendants, the dying girl turned her head towards the proud poet, and noble, standing by her bedside, while a smile of angelic beauty stole through her lips. In that smile the face re-awakened to its former lovliness, and seldom had he who gazed breathlessly upon her, looked upon such incomparable beauty. The spacious forehead and the noble contour still visible on the emaciated lips, boapoke genius im pressed upon a tablet all feminine in its language.; and in the motion of her grace ful neck, there was something that still breathed of surpassing elegance. It was the shadowy wreck of-no• ordinary mortal passing sway—humble as,: Water the sur roundings end strange as had been Ids sum mons to her bod-eide," "And this je Byron r she said at last, in a voice bewilderingly sweet even through its weakness., "My lord, I cannot die with out seeing you—withbut relievingmy soul of a mission with which it he long been burthened.• Come nearer, for I have no time for ceremony, and, must say what I have to env—and die. • She hesitate& and as Byron , took the Thin hand she . held to him , she looked steadily upon hie noble countenance. "Beautiful," she said, "beautiful as the dream of him which has so long haunted mg! the intellect and parson of a spirit light!-- Pardon me, my lord! Pardon me that a moment so important to yourself, the res membrane() of an early feeling has been be trayed into otpression !", She paused a moment, and the bright color that had, shot through her chock and brow, faded again, and her countenance m en malts heavenly serenity. "1 am near enough to death," she resum ed—" near enough to point you almost to !leaven from whens I am ; and iris of my heart like the one brrund of my life—like GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY E'VENING, OCTOBER 8, 1847. the bidding of God—to implore you to pre pare for judgement. Oh, my lord! with , your glorious powers, with yopy wondrous gifts, be not lost. Do not for a poor pleae ure of a world like this lose an eternity in which your mind will outstrip the intelli gence olangela. Measure this thought— scan the worth of angelic bliss with the in tellect which has ranged so gloriously throUgh the universe; do not, on this one momentous subject of human interest—on this alone, be not short sighted!" ..What shall I do?" suddenly burstfrom Byron's lips in a tone of agony. But.with an effort as if struggling with a death pang, he again drew up his form, and resumed the marble calmness of his countenance. The dying girl, meantime, seemed to have lost herself in prayer. With her wasted hands clasped on her bosom, and her eyes turned upward, the slight motion of her lips betrayed to those around her that she was pleading at the throne of mer cy. The physician crept close to her bedside, but with his hands on his breast, and his head bowed; he seemed but watch ing for the moment when the soul should take its flight. She suddenly raised herself on the pil low. Her long brown tresses fell over her shoulders, and a brightness unnatural and almost fearful kindled her eyes. She seemed endeavoring to speak, and gazed steadfastly on Byron. Slowly, then, and tranquilly she sank back again upon her pilloW, and as her hands fell apart, and her eye-lids dropped, she murmered-"Come to Heaven !" and the stillness of death waif in the room. The spirit had fled. PAUL Jusits.—Headly, in his sketch of Paul Jones, relates the following laugha ble anecdote : he daring rover was hovering on the coast of Scotland, and just then threatening Kirkaldy. The inhabitants. as they saw her bearing steadily up towards the place, were filled with terror, and ran hither and thither in afright, but the good min ister, Rev. Mr. Shirra, assembled his flock on the beach, to pray the .I.ord to deliver them from their enemies. He 'vvas My . 6 crentelic man—one of the quaint est of the quaint Scotch diYines—so 'that his prayers, even in thesedays, were often quoted for their oddity, and even for their roughness. \V liether the following prayer is literal ly true or not, it is difficult to tell ; but there is little doubt that the invocation of the excited, eccentric old man was suffi ciently odd. It is said that, having gath ered his congregation on the beach, in full sight of the vessel, which, under a press of canvass, was making.. a long tack that brought her close to the town, ho knelt down on the sand, and thus began: Allow, dear Lord, dinna ye think it a shame for ye to send this vileTirale_to rob our folk o' Kirkaldy, for ye ken they're puir enow already, and hao naething to spare ? The way the wind blaws he'll be here in a jiffy, and wha kens whathe may do? lie's nae too good for anything.— Mickle's the mischief that he has done al ready. He'll burn their houses, tak their very class, and tirl them to the sark. And wae's, me ! wha kens but the bluidy vil lain might tak their lives 1 The puir wee men are most frightened out o' their wits, and the bairns skirling after them...lean na think of it! I canna think of it! I hae been long a faithfulservant to ye Lord, but gin ye dinna turn the wind about, and blaw toe scoundrel out of onr gate, I'll nae stir a foot, but will just sit there till the de'il comes. Sae tak yer will o't. MRS. 13ANCROFT IN LONDON.—"II so hdppOlled that one afternoon, this summer, our Minister's wife, Mrs. Bancroft, walked down Regent street, and called at a fash ionable store to purchase a shawl. She found an excellent one, costing only £2O; and wishing to test its virtues, she threw it over her shoulders, and left her old one to be ordered home. She sallied out a gain, sailed along up Regent street, desk ring to make a sensation with her splend id shawl, and she succeeded wonderfully. She soon . perceived that she was drawing unusual attention. Some stood in great wonder, some stop* and looked, some laughed outrigholllainnus boys pointed with ,theiicanes,young ladies turned round onfiasaing and blushed, gefulemen on look ing at her suddenly examinetk the sky for stars, acquaintances rode by in carriages, nodded, smiled, and bits their lips imme diately afterwards. What could it all mean? It certainly was unusuaLand.very singular, and Mrs. B. hurried hoaw.out of her breath, and-out of.her wits, too. Her maid soon solved the mystery. The shawl proved to be one which was exhib ited in the front window of the shop, the merchant having forgotten to remove the show label, and there it was still, bearing the following announcement in magnificent caliiiiila, WERY CHASTE, AT £201" —.Sunday Atlas. thyrnastm R6PLY.••• A. rather ludicrous circumstance occurred in ,s parish church within:the Amite of caritayeron, on Sun day ovening.? - 'the Officiating clergyman in the course of ' sermon, and when near the close, raised his voice to rather a higher pitch, and said, 'flow is it that the . Almighty glorifieth in the foighteriess of . sins ?" rite clerk, who was Teat asleep below. him, roused by the higher tone iif ficiently to catch the question, to the as tonishment of the congregatiorriiestantly replied, loud enough to be heard all over the church, 441 don't know indeed, Sir." llnisrosiv's GamesT Msut.--Who are the mon othistory to be admired most ? Tholie whom most things bectue who 'dread be weighty in debate, of m uch de. vice in council, considerate in a sick room, genial at a feast, joyous at a festival, capa ble of discourse with many minds, large souled, not to be shrivelled up into any one form, fashion or tempeianient." Costrov.—ln the whole course ol; my life I never knew one man, of what ever condition, "arrive to /any degree of reputa tion in the world, who made choice of, or delighted in, the company or conversation of those who, in their qualities, were infe rior, or, in their parts, not much superior to himself.—Lord Clarendon. .FEARL,EES AND FREE." AM OVER TRUE 'FALB OF THE 'FEL LOOP FEVER. flow mysterious is the invisible chain, forged by nature, vildelf, - iii Initial or thi purest and strongest affections, binds pa rent to child, and child to parent! Distance cannot sever itt. time cannot destroy its tension; with death oily do its links dis solve their connexion.; Of all the streams through which the social affections flow, parental love is one which more immediate. y gushes from the heart's centre—thecon deft through which filial affection passes free from all the impurities of selfishness. These, however, arc but truisms, and with out further indulgencriin them we shall proceed to narrate a-recent inskanee- in. which the force of parental loie and filial affection has been sadly but strikingly il lustrated. - When the .last call for volunteers was -made in Indiana, Edgar Derwin was the first to ?enrol his name among the active upholders of his countr7's standard. H was a daring, intrepid, athletic youth, knowing no fear ; a 'triot by intuition, endowed with all m a a most ennobling feelings, •though manh 's threshold he 1 had not yet crossed. ' e father, fast sell ing towards life's winter eard his purpose with silent approval, fo in truth, he felt a secret, satisfactory p de, at the patriot ism so promptly ovine by his son. - Not so his mother. She looked to him as the prop of her declining yeti's, and a present iment audibly whispere to her that- he was about to leave her, Sever to return.- - She interposed rio otistecle to - his resolve; though the tears that coursed down her fur. rowed cheeks, as she embraced and blessed him when leaving. too 'plainly told how acutely painful to her-suss-the-separation Young Derwin had gat no further than Matamoros with his regiment, when' he was seized with a severe fit of sickness.— Being unable to proceed ie was placed in the liffspital. His regi4nt marched on. The captain of the coiripany to which i . young Derwin belonged, lost no time in n ! forming his father of his son's illness, tel ling him he need entertain no apprehensions for his life, as his recovery might be pro ! pronounced certain. -This letter, notwith -4 s tanding that'inunirance. - when -- it reached the quiet western home of the sick young soldier, proved to his parents a missive surcharged with sorrew. : The first burst of grief over, old Derwin, prompted by the quick instincts of parental affection, conclu ded that duty to his child, lying on a sick bed in a foreign - emintryt=perhaps in a grave made by strange ands, required inure of him than unav ailing tears. ,He brushed them away, and *the early rays of the next morning's sunfgilded the roof of the humble log cabin, he departed; to seek in Mexico, the son ho SO "much loved —to succor him if alive, and if dead, to transport his corpse where it would mingle With its 'heave elifyz=-liihere` he- and. his stricken wife might in death lay beside it. He speeded on without impediment till he reached this city, and while here, wait ing for a conveyance down the Brazos, it pleased Providence to afflict him with yel low fever. From the boarding house 1 where he was staying, he was sent to the Charity hospital, which he entered on the Wednesday of last week. His **case" was a severe one: it unsettled his reason. All the imaginings of his fevered brain had reference to his son. At one time he wit nessed him in battle doing deeds of mighty daring, and he cheered him on. Atanother time, he saw him a manacled captive in a prison-dungeon, and he would offer a large sum for his ranson. Again, he would call on the Mexicans not to desecrate his grave ! Skillful medical aid, and the watching and nursing of the Sisters of Charity car ried him through the most violent stage of the disease : if they did notsnatch him from death's door, they at least prevented him from stepping over it. Thus he was, his reason restored, himself lingering on the confines of eternity, as it were, when about noon on Monday, an emaciated youth was 'carried into the same wind 'did placed in the bed beside him. His glazed eye ga zed on the young, emaciated patient with intense anxiety. He tremblingly looked and looked till it might be laid that be had well nigh looked his life away. He sprdng from his bed ; with couvelsivegrasp he clutched the small paper label which the porter had just placed at the--bed's bead of the recently arrived young patient, opening it in his tremulous hand, he read : "Edgar Darwin, just, hulians." "My Sou!" he said, and no more did he say, for as he uttered the phrase, be fell mid-expired. • Young Derwin, wbo,on ac count of hie sickness, had been ditclarged, was on his return home, when he, too, was taken by the n pidemic, and hence the pain fully singular Coincidence of this, meeting between father atid - ion, and its - tregic ter mination. Ite soon, though not immedi diately, recognized hie father. The scene was too much for his already shattered constitution, before the bell of the cathedral tolled twelve that night, he mast a corpse. They now, though not at their homestead in Indiana, sleep where the mournful cy press and the death-burdiened north wind chant the last requiem o'er the stranger's gmve.—New Orleans Delta. NATURE'S KITCHISN.--On the long san dy beach facing Capri We made acquain tance with a natural cuisine well known to the cmitaditti and fishermen, and large enough to dross the victuals of a regiment. Here you need neither fuel nor fire, pots nor pans; you have only to scoop a hol low in the boiling sand, wrap your viands ;in p clean paper, and bury them. Twen ly minutes will cook a fowl, four or five an egg : “pomid'oro," and- such like, are done to a turn before you can say Jack Robinson.—Francis'a ftaly and Sicily. AWKWARD MISTAKR: - A fine stone church was lately bull►, in Missouri, upon the facade of which, a stone-cutter was or dered to cut 'the following as an inscrip tion : ..My house ehallbecalled the house of prayer." He was referred for accuracy to the verso or, Scripture in which these words occur, .but unfottunately he trans cribed, to the scandal of the society, the whole verse : "'My Muse shall be called the house of prayer, butye have made it a den of thieve:l." Election on Tuesday next (the 12th.) The lose!—Our own mechanics and - iesirkilhops Mpriference to those of Eu rope, now and forever, is the doctrine -ad vocated by Gem JAMES IRVIN and the Whig party. The Whigs are the AMER ICAN PARTY. The tine issue before the people is, IRVIN AND PROTEC TION vs. SKUNK AND MIMI! FREE TRADE. Who doubts the-result Voters. of Aduto Comity, REMEMBER, That James K. Po& mum mended the REPEAL OP THE TARIP OF 1842, mad approve& the Bridal' Fete-trade Twit of 1846, by which American Weep mud be , brought into ninon, competition with heti* n pau per Labor. REMEMBER, That Risco K. Polk, lm amp. ping powers delegated by the Canaitetire to Corr genii ileac, his . medrod oeturhy toan ITN; NECESBARY WAR; waged for. the demon banner' of a rimer Republic. and the litnloollatbal of American Slavery. REMEMBER, That dames K. Polk gave or ders to the commander of our squadron in the Gulf not to obstruct the PASEAGE OP SAN TA ANNA _INTO MEXICO, by which act the broken and dimirite . d soldiery of the enemy were twiddled with a favorite and moiler leader. REMEMBER, That holies ff r . Polk iiiMied himself to the utmost TO DEGRADE GENE. t3C(YTT & TAYLOR, by repeatedly tinging up- on Congreas the appointment of a Lieutenant Gar end to supersede them both that haws' K. bywith holding the reimisith supplies anion, has. through out the entire camptiipt,einkturrnmed the opitia*th of these offerers, and fovea timm to ampule tin en emy under desperate odds. REMEMBER, that James R. Polk's official organ, the Washington Union, recommended that the wsrlie conerrna into A CRUSADE A GAINST THE ESTAHLISHIELERELIGWI OF MEXICO, and that the tamples of Refuthan be desecrated abil - pillalmd; to procusteniesns for arming on thewar. . REMEMBER, that James K. Polk. in ths Jana spirit of black-cockade Federalism, CHARGED" TREASOIyi upon all who dare to spark of them things, or callin question "the merit* of his titration. REMEMBER, that, James K. Polk warmly urged upon the hat Congress to lay • revenue tax of 20 per cent. on TEA AMY - COFFEE, and that the Union dandy denounced thlise members of "the party" who termed obedience to hie Ex cellency's BOWL And an you remember Istdia illi REMEMBER ALSO, that tlselate Limbo° County Convention, which called upon you to east your suffrages for Mr. Sauna. APPROVED of an these arta et . Mr. Tom irradopting ilea l& lowing romantic= Resolved, That the course punned by JANIS K . . Pout, during his truly trying administration, MEETS OUR MOST HEARTY APPROBA TION ; and that the honesty, ability and armoem he manifests in the prosecution of the present war, notwithstanding the opposition be meets with in the Federal party, eminently entitle him to the ee teem and admiration ante American people. EXAMINE YOUR TICKETS !—Let every Whig be upon his guanl spinet spu rious or mixed tickets. Let no one vote without examining every name upon his ticket, and comparing it with those below aoirEllorol. JAMES IRVIN. volt cAIMAI. COMMINIONOreIt. JOSEPH W. PATTON. Foe sigNATOR. WILLIAM R. SADLER. FOR agrairssirrAnva. - WILLIAM -McSHERRY. - FOR coxinsininnia, JACOB KING. FOR aNDITOII. AMOS' W. MAGINLY. FOIL DIMIWTOR, - THOMAS McCLEARY.. • -- FOR TREANCIUM. ROBERT G. HARPER. KrOpreopplinents We becoming des perate under tbe , tbreateuing gloom that is daily gathering around their prospects, and their leaders, will leave nothing un done to carry the day. Let every one then be WIDE AWAKE. p 7 VOTE EARLY !nn•efiine or rain, loheserrillid4 toter be at the Polls, and at an EARLY none. Half the Victory depends on' comrnencing rigid! Freetrade,Pro-Slavory, Locothco War Ticket. Governor—Francis R. Shank Canal Commissioner—Morris Longstreth. Senator—James J. Kennedy. Assembly—James Patteripn. Commissioner—Jacob Ilaffensperger. Director—Garret Brinkerhoff. Auditor—William Yeatts. • Treasurer—George Sehryock. Resolution adopted by the Locojoco Com fy Convention, which settled the above ..RESOLVED, THAT THE COURSE PURSUED BY .1 AMES K. POLK, during his truly trying Administration, MEETS OUR MOST HEARTY AP PROBATION ;-mud, that the honesty, a bility and firmness lie Manifests in the pros ecution of the present war, notwithstand ing the,opposition he meets with in the Federal party, eminently entitle him the esteem and admiration of the American people." General James Irvin, locrThe annexed Sketch of General IR YIN IS taken from a series of "Sketches of Public Men," hy Ea*sres BROOKS, of the Pittsburg Gazette: We remember Gen. Irvin as a member of the memorable sessions of Congress of '4l—'42 Of this Congress there were three Sessions, and each remarkable for the importance of the subjects discussed, and the excitement attending the discus. sions. The Abolition storm raged, and memorials were literally poured into Con gress from all the free States, remonstrat ing against the odious rule of the majority, practically declaring that men might not oven pray for the redress of what they re garded, and what, no doubt, is a public grievance. The Compromise Act, which, ten years before, had been born, of the Nullification excitement, was also passing through the last stages of its legal existence. The whole country, too, was Bankrupt.— The vices and follies of previous years had stamped misery and misfortune upon the face of the people. 'rho country had been revelling in speculation, until her dissipa tions made men, Corporations, and States rock, as it were. like a ship upon the bil lows. • Never had a Congress met under great er eacitement,—never, indeed, in time of clubipmlyp_smsjyruit run so high.— The ao.oalled aDemocratic party" had been so. long in power, that they seemed to-.regard-the country-as theirs, by a sort of prescriptive right. They had ruled, and they had ruined, and by virtue of long -precedent and bad example, they claimed the right to rule on, and ruin more. It was two weeke and more, wider this re sinience-of the of the-majority by the minority, before the popular branch could be organized. Day after day Congress met,-..day after day. preliminary questions were discussed, but in all and thro' all, the Demon of Discord stalked abroad, and threatenid Something worse than the rising ' and,subsiding of stormy passions. The French Assembly at Paris during thtiJittrohnion. what the Jacobins and thaConetindioneliste,were battling togeth er, wairno snore the scene of strife than occasionably our.own legislative chain be re. Somethere were, who had been elected as Whir l netbei4rehosen to reign, who were determined to rule without a choice, and the previlence of that sin üby which the an gels tee," - had complete mastery over the minds of such men as Henry A. Wise and a etrigrus — e - iirniTeete; They could not rule !tut! they would not serve. ":14-Wriiiinstich-iui assembly as this, made -up.of afaeticious opposition and a few dis cordant spirits, together with an able and powerful body of Whigs, that Irvin was introduced into the house of Repro senistives....-A-reineteiber well his cOurte ous demeanor, his constant attendanle and the general respect manifested for him, both by his colleagues and his associate members. He was there not altogether unheralded by fame, since the people who sent him - to represent them bad dune so, alike from personal respect and undoubted confidence-in the ability and honesty of the man of their choice. He had beaten in fair fight the strongest manor the oppo sition and that in a district which for ina. ay years had been signalized for it. deal). Totion3a.mim_muLoputione, harmony with their present choice. His own immediate constituents had always voted for him- with increased favor. Where Gov. Porter received majority of 1147 in 1841, General Irvin received a majority of 342 in 1843., Never was favor sad confidence more worthily bestowed than in the person or ,the Whig muulitletelor Governor. ~ I nVongress- he was devoted to his eonstituenni sold State, and though not one of those garrulous members whose feet anti tongue more yearly illustrate per pewit! motion than anything else infer in vented or likely to be discovered, yet lie ever had a word in.sesson when a season. able -word was necessary in defence of the right. Not wes he, as some have said, a aionipit that lass of men whom the Poet Paiute . • "Reputed wise for iiiiyiagnothing," though in Cot/griefs no members are more serviceable or more intelligent than those who are rather heard by their votes than IheirApeeches. We remember a speech of Mr. Irvin in behalf of the Tariff of 184.2, and eminent ly is this.gentleman and the whole 'Whig P arty identified with this wise and Patriot-, lc law. We commeud the speech to those who would see the mutual dependence be tween labor and capital, and • the advanta ges of the protective policy to the working man. It is a speech indeed for every Pennsylvanian to read, since it strikingly illustrates the benefit of Protection to a State like this, and is a truthful and intel ligent exposition of the affairs of the State. We look upon General Irvin as happily illustrating the republican character and powerof our free institutions. lie is Peen sylvanian all over, born some forty-seven years since in Penn's Valley in Centre county. Whig Revolutionary blood runs in his veins,—his maternal gratulfather be ing one of the Revolutionary Whigs of Lan caster. His father was born in Ireland, and settled in the Valley in 1792. His poor and honest parents appreciated the advantages of education, and gave him all that a country school afforded. Small were such benefits, except to a mind re solved upon advancement. Self-taught, many are best taught, because they feel that Knowledge is Power. Even at thir teen, those small privileges of a country school were denied him. and he was call ed home to serve his lather in the varied occupations of a busy life. Parental af fection and confidence he enjoyed largely. and contributed much to the happiness of a home every day becoming more blessed by his care and presence. Here wore his triumphs, and here he won honors to be envied. His studies were in the workshop and his college among the utensils. of a country store, He studied men more than books, and learned . Irma the great book of Nature when the school room was , debarred his presence. Good habits,great I industry. sad a knowledge of business,l have made hint a rich man, but neither TWO DOLLARS PER ARNIM I NEW SERIES-46 20. parsimony upon the one hand, nor extrar agance upon the other hand. ever control!. ed his conduct. He is kind as a neighbor, liberal as a friend, just as a citizen, and . in all the relations of life a true gentleman And an honorable man. His Aristocraop if he has any, is that of Merit and not of gold and silver. Poverty was his inheri tance and riches the mere incident of hard continued labor. 'We admire the man and commend his life and example to than, who, by a course of manly conduct. are ambitious to be of service to the State and country. The War. The news from Mexico 11e 1 9.40.9 . re 4 by the whole public to be of the most [midst character. The hope was of Peace; but there is no Peate. All is,asbefore,Weir; near strife, new battles, new bloodshed ; ead the prospect of peace is as fur oft perhaps further off, than ever. As we have always apprehended, the President's terms have preventel peace . — and that at a moment when the Mexicans need peace as much as our own country men desired it. The terms are too hard evee 4 for a defeated nation. reduced to ex tremity, and almost totally desperate.— What these terms are we can only guess from the vague accounts that come from Mexico with the news—territory, territo ry,—the Rio Grande, and California down to the line of the Rio Gila,—whether to be taken as the price of bloil, or paid for at the rate of fifteen or chesty millions of dol lars. There is the better reason for be lieving that these were the President's terms because they would give us some of that "one-half or two-thirds of the territory of Mexico," which Mr. Dallas, in his Pitts burg speech, 80 complacently supposed we might find ourselves in possession of at the peace, and Which he seemed to think such a trifle as to be unworthy of figur ing among the "objects" for which we were waging the war. Is it wonderful that the Mexicans refuse, utterly refuse, to give up "one-half or tw6- thirds" of their territory ?—refuse with Our bayonets at their throats, even, and the Murderous mortars about to, play on their devoted capital ?—is it wonderful that they refuse ouch terms, while their eight Mil lions of people can yet furnish armies to tight the puny force which Mr. Polk has sent rather to irritate and tempt, than to overwhelm their efThrts ? Such terms ought to have been proposed at the head of fifty thousand men: or, rather, they ought not to have been proposed at all. They are time President's terms ; and the Pres ident offers them his own will and' plea sure merely. IVhat right has he to offer such terms—knowing that it is, at least, doubtful, supposing them even accepted by Mexico, whether our own people will, or can agree to them ? We do not know that the Senate can ratify any treaty tak ing land from Mexico south of 36° 30'.— We may fight through anotheryear, wading through carnage and heaping up a vast public debt, to compel Mexico to grant the line of the Gila. But what will it profit us, when it is found that all this territory may be rtfused by the Senate and Ameri can people ? The peace escapes us "by the act" of the President. The responsibiity for the failure of negetiations rests with him.— And if Mexico now burst into a flame, and new armies start upon all sides to hem in Scott, amid the ruins of the "Halls of the Montexumas," , afar from succor, and no considerable reinforcements ready to be marched to his assistance, within any rea sonable time, the responsibility fur any disaster that ,may befal the army will also rest with and upon the President. Santa Anna—What has been Seen. President Pm.x, in hie nnnual message of December 7, 1846, said : 4 •When orders were issued to the commander of our naval forces in the OilIt; on the 15th day rilr, May last, only two days after the existence of the: war had been recognized by Congress, to pleat the coast of Mexico under blockade, ME WAS DI RECTED NOT 'a) otwritucl"rHE PAS SAGE OF SANTA ANNA TO MEXICO. SHOULD HE RETURN. • • Itrcmainato. be seen whether his return may not yet prove favor able to specific adjustment of existing difficulties.' SANTA ANNA being thus passed into Mexico by President Pour, to "Aid and Comfort" the "poor miserable Mexicana,7 let us inquire what we have seen oE the things the President told Congress remain ed to be seen." At the battle of Monterey, in September. 1840, we have vice five hundred Ameri can Soldiern left on the field, killed and wounded. At the battle of Buena Vista, in Feb's". ry, 1848, where Santa Anna commanded.' we have seen seven hundred American Soldiery left on the field, killed and mut ded. At the battle of Cerro Gordo, where Santa Anna commanded, wo Wire seen six hundred American Soldiers left en the field, killed and wounded. At The battle of Churubusco, where San ta Anna. with Valencia, commanded, we have seen one thousand and seerniceri merican Soldiers left on the field, killed and wounded. We have seen the loss of twenty-eight hundred and seventeta Sinerican Soldiers. with a host of others killed and wounded by this "aid and comfort" to the meaty, and still "it remains to be seen," as much as it did when President Polk sent in his message last December, whether,Santa Anna's return, by Mr. Polk's agcney,"iney not prove favorable to a pacific adjustment of existing difficulties." And "it remains to be seen," also, how much, loner ho may continue the, war, organize ueW sr titles, and give us battle, anti how many more American soldiers he may kill. [Cincinnati Gazette. LOCOFOCOISM AT WOUK.-- ' Fhe whol. plan of the Locos now is to operate quiet ly, and get out their full vote! They hive mohey front llarrieburg, secret tinnier* and extra Democratic Unietur,Whieb duo are spreading in every direction: ineesti b litt for them They have beau emulluer cargoes of these vikr - papent to. WitillOs—` whom they- thought were lukewarm": -• , ; r: • • 0 /Ii• 't‘
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