PUBLISHED BY NV!LITF: it. 'l3O PITTBI3IIII.C4II THIIitSpAY MORNING, MIND 29, ISO. • Prrrcraiiirit D.nt 41...z.11-rs in piltdi a 11.97, 1 ;fa.Witekly, and Weerlyr—the 1:}44.11 , Se". DWI in pwr annum; Tri-Weet I y F-4,4 per annum; the Weekly is Taropollarrlier 4014 aeleisisrar. , icrlavitansens an earnestly 'resitteste4 to bank in lets favors . before 5 F. 1.1-• min.¢arli OS 111 , 5114 practicable.. Advertisements notlnltite for a pnel led time vril) invariably be charged atiitorderedsilut PHILADACLPUILA NOIITEI AZ141110131. - . Advertlierutma and avhseriptibm io th, North A ,I .ri luta mrd.United Stairs Gazette. rs Gazee. Pro tmirlphin, frt., or andrawardid from ttur °Mr.:. -: fiezt pegs for TelagrAphie Bergs, niFor.ltolial Matters sea ti t vies. .ANTIMAIONIC AND "VIrDID 491C11.01.. •118.1112,7,. • Awn'. C . WALKEII, of Eltiatt4tf, eirroott, JOHN MILLER, of Stattpkblagti' . CALEB LIE, of Pitudnorgh. WE. ESPY, of Lower Bt. Clair; $111,1117r, CARTER CURTIS, of PiCsburgi; OEO. S. lIAYS , o Upper St: Cy or itemocht, • JOHN MORRIS „ , of ASeghriy 01!R. 7, JAS. MITCHEL of Peelle. colon., WM. M4ARTII ,or Pim.burgb, JOHN DYERS, cat , We are sorry to p the Mercury maitiog„ but an illness which b confined us t:sehe- . house ior the tart Wee or fou dud, must (le oar exemi. and even now we a e ailmonisheepiy onnitstitkre able indications, that we most nuttier , slowly, : 11, 1 turning streilPh "' great calitimi., Ai the Mt, ' therefore, ofbeing charged with a "imetittwo day's' : inotibuion,"vve have been under "{he necessity Of leaving our neighbor on the "tenter hooks Of .e't. . pecistion." : - * Afiergiving vs an extract front•his lectureei L the duties and proprieties of the tess,', which we wi we humbly acknowledge our obliiition,this editar proceeds to remark, that:the Gazette has frequeisily attacked him; "as if to correct 1101118 errirr or Leif , , reprtmta ention." True, for once, We gave never lifted our pen to speak of the Merenrie, bot , iie were Melted thereto by a sense tef` deli - , fohtfie correction of some error or misreiresititation,il- cept in our notice of the first nuader; :When .ire spoke of it in terms of commendation, as the princiyeas therein set forth were i ii oharly le se co:dance with our own, and of th'i . ; Whig pef.iy, that we could not do otherwise that ails did, itae -r" seek° at 011. The next tuna we had oceasion;t6 speak of ;the : Mercury was in !anti of . ; re b 7 eke, yit. oncalleu ' for and most unjust assault upon tile' 7hia Pa* in which its character and principles .were leek shamefully misrepresented. We teak emasioi M the name time to show how far thi..Mtrettry talid speedy departed from the promise) :oel"lis salve tory address,..and how little it ental be relied upon to carry out those conservative principles it made so much of in the beginning.•: That article, the Mercury has not, and cannot aelsiser4 To evade the Mme of oar exhibilieur ef his er. centric aurae, the editor now v etttuldeell! as serts that the success of his paper:ffits orig Mated all our remarks, and that it is beeapie the "prcis. perky of this Mercury had begun to interfere will the busitteu of the Gazette," that we *ere led to see the difference between his poke' ' a nail his practice- -" they a change came over i i i , spirit of s 4 his (our) dreams!" This is tees ridiculoilbtor sober remark. It bas been the standing Ikeda of . com ment, and the avenue of eseake M r nearly every paper. which has arisen 'in !Ms/meet', and "strutted its . brief day" and then etpired.— "It interfered with the Gazette," mid that' was the reason the Gazette corrected their ertore r . We are sorry to disturb our neighbor's site, eamplieent egotism, but he may be assured thillithel Gazette views the existence of the Mereaell,:toffre as tie own prospeeity is concerned, with itipteine indif- ference. The Gazette's prosperity pr :stab ay Is not affected hi the least by the Merbitry, Mid (ne ther, has never been affected by theteitabli,shment of any paper in the city. It Is prolardilyeartv more propparolis Ilia' n it would otherwise Ite, but for the vigorous competition it haver encomiter, and so far tram being: eaten up with the envy Which the ydemary grves evidence it unildfc4, .0' Gazette has rather rejiliced in the number sedregbilliy of its cotempordries, feeling USSUTeII, Prom,this lights. of experience, that thelecrease , of papers: if not.: l beyond a reasonable number is miler beneficial' than otherwise, to theta long established. We • ... hailed the advent of the Mercury s&th pleasure, believing there was an opettitigwhieL:o4lit tote. filled in the Democratic ranks nod IP :Imirn . of its prosperity on legitimate grounds, glees as pleas ure. Bat we are not ready to SEM If :et Op a talst standard, as elute trigain support itti one hand, and to Misrepresent the Whig party ettd Whig prin- ciples and Whig men, to gairrpattony on the other. We like fair,: hooey dealiog. Wei have no pa tience with a Man who makes a stateinient of Prin. ciples as near,Whig as may be, and }lien Purim tures Whig principles in order to per Meade Demo. crate that there is a real difference Seiwten hint. retread the Whigs. There must be! Mmocrisy aomewbere, and we doubt not it will be Wand in pnetenditig to he at far removed linen' lecoLaco him, In the salutatory address. We eirlpect to find the Mercury, befoes a year passes, in ;kW COMeel- Well with the Locafoco party,—with`; "the rotten and selfish pol#feinn.,. th e ‘eiazy, doffing, dream ers, sell seletriers," and all the other classes count; crated. . .. 1 But to coma to the point In barni4 WO' editor of the Memulytteys, that in regard to Geti,Taykir, he "fully eatablished every theory he iienneed" —that Gen. Taylor had broken his eoleffin pledgee, and was, therefore, base; mean, vile end that no man ought to Speak a Word in his favini He has advanced proofs, he says, whiell."no eciphintry can overthmw." What are his proofs? The opinion, and sayings of others. Geo. Lipped, The editor of ' a vile, flash paper, in Philadelphia, fire illiterate:— What was theopinion of his witeesaes: flooded on! On their private and sell interested ' con struction of his letter, and on the one oily fact, that General Taylor had ?emoted a portion of Democratic office hoiden froVI their aituations, aneQ had given them to Whigs.— All these poinuivrere noticed In our reply, and yet the Mercury detains to answer us, tin tie plea that we hake not replied to his tugumeMil A con veustentexcuse:, Instead of answering out arta meat, the editornow makes this 'sweepingasiee tion,--Thet:Gont Taylor, "in all kes pledger, re pudiated aft party connections or party Prinalples ; as Nerdy as any man could." Thrs aseetticrats made in the face id . the evi dence which the' editor had before him; in the, ex tracts we gave fmuen Gee. Taylor's letters, tit oar reply, and which he has found it con!venient to pronounce "no reply." to his letter tto the editor oldie New Lisbon Palladium, Gen. Teeter em phatically declared—elm,. a Whig, and : male ev t7 be devotee in:individual opinion to the princi ples of that party];; Is this a urepacitatifon" of all party ccutnectiodtmd party principlek i In his let% ter to Capt. Allison, of the 13th Sept., Gen. Taylor declares-a-Who National Convention &kited me as me, strecremo Wele . lothiii a .reOu diation of alipatti connection and party principle!" Gen. Taylor says the Whig converitton!yound" him a "denied Mug," and "arkqesre' hiia Ea; such —and then he goes further, and reakei this re markable dectaration—.they [the Whig Conven tion] took me with the declaration of priiieiples I kid anode to the world, [i. e. Whig prioriOlos—a dtmded Mag.] and I would be wrrnairr:i esteems it I did any thing to impaer Ida fierce of e!ar :ircia. triton." . Azid in The same lever he mayeitua, al though be 'shoed esteem the support of Demo cratise VcompliMene to Innuelf,and tharke onght not to be expelled. to "repulse them meth jai auk." yet he finely and frankly declares,-4/,shan not modify my urine to entire them to my...ritle.7- lile was a "Whig?' "devoted in priecipte. -to 'the Whig party," a *aided Whig," and w6rld . hot, Therefore, =Ally hie views to gain datetactallc. te9Port ' - XII this the editor of the Mercury hail before Mtn, is our roply,'lhnd yet he collate Ski brod, • sweeping assertion; thee Gen. Taylor, "in all his pledges, repudiated rasp party connectiou or pas ty principles as ptfleoly as any elan anal!" So *from this being !sue, we affirm,ori the evideeie given above, ihat gen. Taylor, "as plainly as an& wan could," affiato . Wledged both patty irieeiple and party connedicw. Ho avowed Maw& to be a Wing, over and Oyer again. He pledged him *Wad to run 'es a candidate for 41ei Preildency in apposition to the nominee of the Whig *men , tioa. He acieeitert tile nomination of the Whig adro vaittoi,decliring that the convention had round him Fed adapted him airedecided Whig, and that ,ke ttlbe Twirkout sense'—mark the lamptage— tiii• ° weirs to shill thi4irleutotiakip which 'Alien tinbattled.", What relatiinahip P. That of Whig, of istmrse. l . None :othiti did 04,' could anbsisr.— Antijas this tango* was tat strong enough, and to put the queatiori beyond 'Cavil, he proceeds Whig Consentiort..took the with the data ' rart.4 of princrylea I hid made I to the world, and I would be without de f ence if did any thing to limperidle Aortae of that; declaitton." Whet de plarli on of principles fa . it, tciitoptti , the force of whic r i would leave hitictwithoitt defence Was it a tfeclaration that h e tti aa a n 3 party man, and lahatje was not a party imndidaft. or would not be I • o P Y President *ill the Intignege bear any such.cotialruction Stjcli s pet Version would be too brAre•faced to escape: condemnation. The "des larathn or principles" referred to in this sentence IN the alime as referred iopt the two preceding, that the fhavention adopted him as: it found tom. a derlis'erl TVlng." Thieves the relationship which • he cAuld not shift, and .be excusable—thin was the ttelaration of principles, the force of wh te a he etilld not impair, anti he defensible. Fullher, on this subject. The Mercury says, t.ten. l raylor . repcidiateil all parry connertnin as 'pain as any man copld.' To then declaration ..kve "pose the fact that Oen. 'Taylor agreed to ribidei ‘ by the decision ?of the Whig Convention, tabetKer he should run &w the gresidency at all, or not : If the Conventine nomiented hem, he was .a.caingidale—if it did oat, he with no, a candidate. Ii thet'e no. party connection in Lillis Again, we lopposii the fact, that the Convetition, art:orlon to his oPrn declaration, adopted Min as a Whig, and he aii,epted the nominntion,-witt the declaration that f was nominated an a Whig'. What ,trong er pat t y connection coultl exist?. Further, he woe nappriett . ed as the Witig•eaudidute, by the Whig partyliiind the Whig /mile.% anilm W. opposed, and Flllified , and abasest,:jas a Whig candidate, by the a mocetttie party. Ris pos4on as the Whig cendil!tatesins clear, defined, sptain—his party „conne7itionhieyond dispniet . "RI," say. the Meruity,"supllusing Gen. Tay lor hat, from the very centimencs?Ement of the can vas', ,•rtinounceil hlinselfpublichg as a moderate Whit What need of a euppoisrtion in so clear a case T.i In July, 1546, two yeive(ted three months beforiithe election, he ifeclared!iannsell to be a Whitiand devotZd to tlzttr princi'6es of the Whig party,ilt wu well know2,frcan the time Gen. Tay lor's acme woo Anil mertioned tar the Presidea thtt he was aWh 'and thiSl ; was the secret causenvf the efforts of the Loo&c o administra tion 14' uin him—efforts Which oiled forth his eel . ebutett letter to Gen. Gaines. Ileiz the Mercury further: - "1114 conduct, so farillll.ll beiin more culpable than tint of even the most desivl Whig Presi bleat sere ever had.' Whitt more " decided " WhiePresident have we ismr4 had: He, himalf, telly ita that the Whig Ckinv4tionndopted him as it fothid him, n "decided 0711,,itlital he would bc.tvithoot ± -excuse were he to shifithe relationship which thisa subsisted. Of courseihe will not change It now that he is elected. The tAinntry elected him with a full knowledge pf this"ileclanition, and itexpected then, and ex 'pees 4w, that ho will not 'impihir the force of that .sieFiaration."' • Whit "conduct" does the Mercury speak of as , cuipa,qa" Is'a Whig President culpable for car rying opt Whig miscurnrea? Or does the Mercu• ry sixtak of the appointments of Whigs to office? XVhn did Gen. Jackson aplioint to office " Where islhe lybig Ambassador, Or Collector,or Land Of ficer, at, Postmaster that he appointed Was h. - &ludo's!! ;culpable" in the opinion of the Mercu ry What Whig did Martin Van Buren or Mr Palk eii‘er appoint to' office I Was Misr conduct culpable' "More eulpableithan that of even the most Aided Whig President!" Such -language is - ziahMionidy supereiltotts. If it is right for a DamoClutic President to -carry out Democratic principles, is it not equally to her a Whig President tocarry, oat . Whig principles? Where is Gen. l'aylor'r , confines culpable,ihen vt 4,:e fear we have Wearied the patience of reiders. We have keen more prolix. than .probaki watnecessary,buMhe opposition have tri ed so hird to create an erroneous impressions° the ,injury she Whig party and Gen. Taylor in eel erenect Matters discussed} that we have felt it our duty to lace them in a light to clear that the most wilfullscperverse could not4so astray. We think Ave havjl shoWn, beyond ttie possibility of contra- JiCtion4llzat Gen. Taylor, previous to his election, did rasqepudime patty principle or party connec tion, bpp that he acknowledged them both in the Most Mlsquivoeal form, and that he ran for the PA' I6I •4•Y an a " 40 :dra71 4 ale,' and that he is briaklnt no pledges in carving out Whig princi ples and meaMses in his ailthiuisamtion. , ExasOnsvios.—We yestefd ay attended an ex asainaticit.'t of the pupils of Mr. L. Caton's English and Classical : Academy, in: the basement of Dr. liiddlei:Tharch, and mat ay that the proficien cy 91.'4 scholars redacted great credit both on their bailie: and themselves. Having been pre sent at Ite last examination:of this Academy, we had an opportunlty of Judging of the pnwess toads caeca then, and do nothesitate to say that &Ica pic x sorts avim have sea p tun!. to Mr. C. may dfdtgrats