TERMS OF THE " AMEIIICAX." H. B. if A88ER, JOSEPH EI8BLY. ) PoeUaXaBS ABB I PnerntBTOa. jr. tt. MjtaasH, e. 1 Mi in Centre 4ey, in the rear ef tt. Mat- THE" AMSRIOAN" UiblKl every Satur day t TWO DOLLARS per annum la be paid Waif yearly in advance. No piper discontin ued till ah arrearages ere paid. No subscription received for a lees period than it wotbs. All communications or letters on business relating o the office, to insure attention, taoet be POST PAID. XT. H. THOMPSON, Fashionable BOOT AND S1IOK MAKER, Mark Stbst, Sonaoat, THANKFUL for past favors, bege leave to in form hie friends and the public generally, thai he haa Jort returned from the city with new end feshionshle laels, and full sssnrtmrnt of Light colored, Bronte, Black Kid, and all other kinds of Morocco for Uentlemen, Ladies and Children's Wear j and he ssaures all woo may ivor mm wnn their cuetom. thai thev may rely noon having their woik done in the irnai aulwtantial and fashionable . . a . , nil 1 - - - . i J. -I.. I . 4..n m..m.9i maati nfl.tav riilnl tar1l aelect-d by himmlf. which ha will a.11 lower than , III alio Ufl" iuii ei ' v, .. j ever offmi in thia blace, vix t Meo'a hoe. aa low as Eura 8toul B.ot, " Good Lace Boo-a for Women, ' Women's Hlipa, ChilJren'a Show. 3 00 ' no ! SO ; 25 ! Sole Leather, Morocco, Sic, foi U low, August 83d, 1846. aplStf Boot & Shoe ESTABLISHMENT. DANIEL 'nRUCKEMILLER, At hit Old Estublishment, in Market Street, Snnbury, (OPPOSITB THE BKD I.ION HOTEL,) RETURNS hia thank for pnat favora, and re apectfullv inform hia fiienda and the public generally, tnat he eonnnuea io manuiaciure io oi- der. in the neatest and lateat atvle. CHEAP HOOTS AXH SHOES, warranted of the beat roat n-l, and made by the j djoiI exuili'nced workmen. He nlao keeps on hand a general ansortnieut of fushionablc Bonta bit grntlrman, together with a laree atnrk of fashion, able gentb men'a, boys', la.lif s' and cbildteit'a 8h net, all of which have bei-n mnilo under hia own imme diate inclion, and are of the bent material and workm.mnhip, which he will aell low for cituh. In addition lo the above, he has jimt rrcrivrd from Philadelphia lame and extensive supply of Uooia, Shoes, itc. of all description, which he also cflcta for ra.h, cheaier than ever before off red in this place. He reapectfully invite hia old onto mera, aud oilier, lo call and cxainine for ihcin e Ives. - Repairing done with neatneea and deapatch. friunhury, Auuvt 1 6th, 1846. PIANO S. THE SUBSCRIBER haa been appointed agent, for the aide nf t'ONRAD MEVEK'8 CEI EU RATED PREMIUM ROSE WOOD PI ANOS, at this place. The Piano have a plain. Riaiwive and beautiful exterior fini.h. and, for depth and aweetne of lone, and eleg ince of workman ship, are nut euriaard by any in the United iSlatr. The following i a rernminendatinn from Cabl l)i its, a eclcbrited performer, and himself a man ufactuier j ' A CARD. IliTina bad the pleaure ol trying the excel lint Piano Porlea manfactured by Mr. Meyrr, and exhibited at the hut exhibition or the Fr.nklin In atitule, I feel it due to ibetrue merit of the maker to declare that these inMruineiit are quite renal' and in some renpects even i-uprrioi, to all the Pi ano Foik-h, I aaw at the capital of Eotope, and during a sojourn of two year at Pari. The- Piano will be sold at the manufacturer's lowest Philadelphia prices, if not eumething lower. Peraona are requented to call and examine foi themaelve, t the residence of the iubcribf r. Suuhury, May 17.1845. H. B. M AWWER. Counterfeiters' DEATHBLOW, The puUic will pleaea ohere lhat no Brandietb Pill are genuine, unles the box haa three la hela opon it. (the top, the side and the bottom) each containing a f.c-aimili signature of my hand writing, thua B. BaaaiiasTN, M. D- Theae la. he!-ate engraved on steel, beautifully designed, and done at an eiitenae of over f 3,000. Therefore It will be seen thai the only thing necemry to pro core the medicine in ita purity, is to obeerve these labels. . Remember the top, the side, and the bottom. The following reapeciive persons are dulv sotbri aad, and hold OESTHTOATB8 OF AOBXTCT For the aale of Brandrrth'i Vegetable L'nirertal J'i. Northumberland eountvs Milton -Mackey eV Chambeilin. fnnbury H. B. Manser. M'Ewens ville Ireland 4. Meixell. Northumberland Wm. Torayth. Georgetown J. dr. J. Walls. ' Union County l New Berlin Bogar & Win ter. ' 8alinegroe George Gundrum. ' ' Middle, burg Issae Smith. Beavt-rtown David Hubler. Adamburg Wm. J.May. Mifflinabotg Menacb tc Ray. Hartleton Daniel Long. Freeburg G. A F. C. Mover. Lewiaborg Walla tt Green. Columbia county l Danville E. B. Reynold it Co. Berwick -Shuman St Rittenbouse. Cat Uwisaa C, G. Btobt. Bloornaburg John R. Moyer. Jeiaey Town Ivi Biael. Washington Robt. McCay. Limestone Balb- iz MeNieh. Obaerve lhat each Aient has sn Kngrsvrd Cer tificate of Agencvi coaiaining a representation of' Or BRANDRETH'S Manufactory at King Hing, and upon which will also be seen exact eopir of the new label now used upon the Brandretk Pitt Bore. Philadelphia, office No. , Nb tbatreec r B. BRANDKETH.M.D. June 24th " UttfJricJ. Weaver BOPB mAXSB aV 8 HIP CCANSLXS. So. 13 Forth Water Street, Philadelphia PAH ronstsntly on hahd, general assort. manl of Cordage, Seine Twinee, eVe., ii Ropes, Fishing Ropea, White Ropes, Manil La ilopea. Tow Line for Csnal Beats. Alee, a complete assortment of Seine Twines, aVc such as Hemp 8had and Herring Twine, Best Patent GUI Mat rajwevCotlM Bhed and Hairing Twine. 6kee Threads, dtc dec Also, Bed Cords, Plough Lines, Halters, Tracee, Cotton and Linen Carpet Chains, Ac, ail at wbfci Je wall dispose, of an rMaabla ' Pmlsdelphie, November 9, 1 Ml..ty. V T5TfcE"STl Bi- qesUty 8egM Huas If 11 Molasses, only I3 ceuU r quarlj aiao.a uperi ne article of ysllow Molae. fur bakngton ft rt eenspan:osrt-.fei'sa1esthaBteveef'' Je e IS, l4. HE.NRY MAttLR. , . , Absolute acquiescence In the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of Republic, from which By Maner Jt Elnely, LATK PROM TAMPICO AND MEXICO. A Ctaipiay rKentnekv Cavalry Cut orY Despatchra Ceptarril. By in arrival at N. Orleans, Tempico dates to the 8th, Brszne, to the flth, Mstnmoras to the 5th, Camargo and Vera Crux to the 2d Feb., and City of Mexico lo the 2Dih Jan., have been received. , : ; i . A detachment of eighty of the Kentucky and Arkansas cavalry were cut off thirty mile be- yond Saltillo by General Minon, l nT iwinf-u ...... nu uuiiiwi inu were rurpripeu miu iaarii uii r r '0"c without res etsnce. Major Borland, 1 I v 1M- ni1 M"J"r ",ncs "re ,monk' ; :1 taT'"! . a . srj . ... . 1 'he pri9ner8' The c"P,ureof L'8U, Ri,chie ' nd ten dragoon, with despatches frem G.n. j Scott to Gin. Tayior, is confirmed. j rlnO arnnimt mmum llinw irpra itt'iA t,nltlntt ' -ww.. ... " j " .... j " w ..... . H. j Monterey and Victoria, and that all were killed ( The despatches are said to have contained the whole plan or operations. ( Another account states lhat the ten drsgcons ; had reached Victoria in safety, but that there ,,c' a,u ,M ,,nor 01 ,ne ,Ma't i""" ,ner WM wie no doubt of the death of Lieut Ritchie, i " P'nnicle to the temple of Fame," they mint He was lassoed and drsgged -cross a corn field i lhink n8t en,y of ,he ''". f "e labor and at full speed. j the cost of ascending But "to consummate thia An officer ol the Ohio Regiment supposed to j -"""taking all the nrt refWr. of Phila be Lieut. Miller had been murdered near Chi-1 Pi'Ubrf ' Xo b,"r,fi,"y 'Ppr0 chironi,and awfully mutilated by Mexicans. . - Then in reference to the trsde of the Lakes, he oeiuiscott was to emoarR louneniateiy, .nia : destination supposed to be the Mand of Lubne, ' about .) miles Irom era Crux, I he attack on i vera Crux it was suppoved, would take place ! about the li-t of March. J Col. Harney had been sentenced to be rrpri- ! mended, but General Scott had remitted the j sentence, and ordered h m to regime duty. The j news in regard to the volunteers wrecked on board the ship Ondiaka was less favorblethan was anticipated. The detachment tent to their assistance is said to have been made prisoners, with all the volunteers.' Cnpt. Magruder's forces had started tor the wreck, and the whole brigade, it was said, were to follow. The main body of the volunteers wrecked had certainly not resched Tampico, and at the latent accounts from them they were engsged io a conflict with a body of Mexicans tar superior in numbers and equipments. The ships Statesmen, Prentice and Catha rine were off the Bir at Tampico, on the 0th filled with troop. The Mississippi volunteers on board the Statesman were suffering terribly by sickness, and dyinjr daily in great numbers. The New York regiment on board the Catha rine were in jrood health. There were about 7000 troops at Tsmpico, composed of repular and volunteers. Lieut. Gibson, of the Second Artillery, died on the Bth inet- ol tever. The rumored assassination of Santa Anna turns out to be unfounded, so also hia active op position to the confiscation of the church proper ty, though the law appears to be a dead letter. The laHt accounts ttate that he had left for Tu la at the head of the main body of the Mexican force.. Gen. La Vepa had been appointed to the command of Vera Crux. ' The Congress of the Stale of Vera Crux had c.lled on the people to resist, at all hsstrds, the invasion of the Amer icana. The Congress of Sen l.M)ie had pa seed a de cree authorizing the Governor to negotiate loan in forty-eight hours, forced or voluntary. Some further accounts of the captnre of Chi huahua have been received. The Mexicans ad mit over one hundred killed. Another account mentions that an action had taken place in the immediate vicinity of F.I Paw del Norte, in which our troops were entirely successful. This Mexicie report states that the Ameri cana were in the possession of El Psseo with six hundred cavalry and four l.undn d infantry, on the 27th. The lose on each side not stated. The Yera Cruz Indicador, of the 31t, asys that Gen Telegia mediates attack on Tampico, and yet the Mexican troops were all in de plorable aituatioo. The same ps per contains a communication from Santa Anna, declaring that although he has entirely renounced the Presidency, he will oppose, with all h strength, any attempt te eisturb tiro peaceable slate uf things in any State ol the Republic. . Sixovun FCT. When Gn. Jackson . on the Plains of Chilmctte put to rout lb whole British army, ih 1815, he did it with less loss I ban hse been teffered by the yd Miseiasippf re gment of Volunteers recently on the seme ground from sickness. f ' - ' ' ' Th Coar already incorred by the pttblie works in Ireland, which have been undertaken forthe perpDse of giving employment lo the poor, ameeoted to 2.000,000, Lord Johfi Rus sell eakt, and that the monthly expenditures tin til Aeguat next, if the Government measuree were'pereevered n', would' be from 300,000 to iflfjO.OOfJ, and the.' whole cost not leu than 8.000,000. , , :,, A wicked old bachelor once said, that no tnat tr wkeoj you married, yen would find ot after. weida that voii had married eifcrsnt petM. and shamokin JoUftNALf - Sunburr, Northumberland Co. . Correspondence of the M inera' Journal. " Banbury an Erie Rallraan. ' PnriAB , Feb 22, 184T. - Ma. Bannak Dear Sir: In the last number el the Rail Road Journal, a lecture "by John A. Rolling. C. fc.M ia given to its readert; but aa It ia "the Central Route" from the noae to the chin, I propose to notice the points that bear npen the Sunbury and F.rie, and ahow how admirably he W,iftli ... ,. r .1 fiiiiciii m.u 1 1 win tiiej uuaiitn y mi vt vi! engineering to he done on the work it it but ri ht ,h ,t f xen, 0,,iti b9 ...et in di. monda." In the preliminary remarks, however. e repudiates the Idea of terminating at Pittabnrg of "goinc to Cincinnati," or "of going to Clave- land," "the latter would be a treat mistake" but tA It. ramiu ; MBBHitHJ. it JAa.:.M I .w. ui..H.ur itvi in Udlgil, I he triumphantly and emphatically proclaims its termination in St. Louia. This to the councils i our ry woo are "in for the money" must be "C,J --, - in. mrm rrrn- think a direct road to Erie would be the moat advantageous at leaat it would be preferable to a connection at Cleveland from Pittsburg.: ' At the town ef Erie, however, we "would encounter the opposition of the New York and Erie Rail- road," and after many arguments to prove that New York would "run away with the trade," be ke a "few mile" from the one side and adds them to the distance on the otber, to enable bim toeatabliab the position. , But the surveys aa published in the seveial reports ahow the diitaece as follows : . From New York to Piermont 22 mile thence to Dunkirk 1.11 thence to Erie 43 making the entire di.t.nce to Erie SIS From Philadelphia to Erie via Pottaville and Sunbury, the entire di.taoce, 423 ct ' I A ' it, I ....... , w. , are from 15 to 20 aummtis, anq mai ine mazi mum grade going east is 68 feet to the mile go ing weat 67 and from a table published in the same report, it appears that an engine of 20 tona weight will carry upon a grade of 20 feet rite to the mile, 185 tons. As this is the grade of the Sunbury and Erie, with the exception of that portion near the town of Erie, called Lebeeuf summit, we may fix this as the maximum of our route on a grade 45 feat to the mile 107 Ions would be the maxium of the engine en a grade 68 ft to the mile the maximum would be 79 tons Thus to show the comparative value of the grades, a twenty ten engine would esrry on the Snnbury and Erie 185 tons. Central to Pittahnrg . 107 " New York and Erie 74 " Leaving a difference in favor nf the Sunbury and Erie over the central route of 78 tons and over the New York and Erie of 1 1 1 tons. Then if we follow the data for the wear, the tear and the otber expenses of the motive power, we find 20 cents per mile ia the estimate which on 518 mile would be equal to $105.60 for the distance on the New York and Erie, and $84,60 on the Sunbury and F.rie quite enough we should think to overcome "the superior commercial advan tsgesof the city of New York But why is it that the rule has but ene way of working? If our advantages at Erie are to be cut ofT by those "auperior attraction," will not the action extend to the Central and St. Louis 1 Will the trade which is ihipped at either of the ports on the Ohio or the Misaiaaippi for either of the porta en the Lake, will it stop at the "Can Iral" for the pleasure of being drsgged oVer the mountains by two locomotives, instead 6f on? Will it leave the "grand," and the most direct route from Philadelphia to Iowa city for similar advantages? Or will the New York and Erie with the advantage of distance and tonnage in our favor, "be able to transport at so low a rate as to command the trade of the Lakes But Mr. Rabling says "we are apt to mistaks effect for causes," and in esrrying oot the prin riple be is mistaken in the appropriation of the trade of the Lakes. By tookiag et bis map he will discover tbat the direct route for the trade of the weal will be from Erie to Cleveland from Cleveland to Sandu.ky thence to Toledo te Mii bigsii city to Chicsge and to" Iowa city.- These roada are chartered and most of them com - meuced, and will be completed by the lime we reach Frie with our Sunbury route. If be lakes ........... the map published by the Central eoneern, he will ae that tbe connection with "the Ohio" through Ohio, are not "at right angles, bat srs exactly diverging to the i tie on the Lakes. W will also be- able te discover that "ths as une$ which strike at the main loot oflbetrade' Ikreegb Indiana and ' Illinois are in the same di rection and will eventeally poor in tbif Iree- sutes to the SUftaoa a Ears. X'wmt Ut wm caughte lew day ine in tbe store nf U P. Jlupttt, this place, where it Is "ho betrt alive in a cage. . II ia entirely. white and appears about two third frown. W have often heard ef white mice, t if mbtake net white rat is rare tbltig BlobM (ffWAWMf)'Veieef. ' there is no appeal but W force, A itl principle and Pa. Saturday, March 0, 184T. i- - 1 . .i.i ..-i..U. Il'll (From the Liverpool Standard, Feb. 2. The Faaila in Karop,-Thii Daalltullnn in ireiana ana Holland ' " ' BcOTLANBy , I jit night Dr. Msckay delivered an add reus in Great George at. Chapel, delollirijr the . dia- treaa in which the Highlands and Mande of I Scotland are at prment plunged. He mid that of 400,1X10 sou Is inhabiting the Highlands, about 60000 are at Ihle moment totally ilentiiu'e of daily lood, and are suppiled by clmrity ; and lhat number will, in a abort lime, be. doubled. B- fore next anmrner arrives the Highlands and Islands of Scotland will contain 300,(100 totally dependent upon charity. The failure of Ihepota tocrophea been universal throiifli the Ilijh lands sod the whole of Scotland ; and the popu l.tSnM nf Ik. fTl,, M.nrla .-J t-1 I ... . -. -M .. i.iivu ui i,,w itLliu, I1U trmuiis If IUI B II J dependent upin that crop. From 120 districts accounts had been received, Muting lhat po'to formed seven eights of the food of the people, Tnjs calamity has fallen upnn s population who are totally destitute of mnnt y to buy other food, and who have no resource in their extremity. The population of iho Highhnda was divided into two ciaaees of cottere, payinp no rent to the proprietor of roil, but boing permitted to build huts, and plant thoir lir.le patchraol potatoes, which furnish them with means nf humble ex istence throughout the year, and of crofters, or small tenants, paying rents of from 0--. to 12 to the landlords, but raisins' little more limn is sufficient to meet those rente and Their wants. Thisclnss live almost exclusively upon potaios The Ion had come suddenly and unforeseen. Ireland. It is stated that there sre nftO.Gt'O lamilies over and above the ordinary laborers and far mers now destitute in Ireland, requiring at I calculation of X20 per family 7 000 000 f..r their yearly maintenance. Description is futile to convey any notion of :M Irelsno, hut some nlea may be the suffering in Ireland, but some idea may be nau mmi tnoivtouat racis. nr. u-mnvan, tne had from individual facts.' Dr. Donovan, the pttyueien to me CKiooereen M.epeneery. in the connty ot t.orfc, gives these dntsils, which we ryfrart Tmm m ir tiitifiiiti, nf nth.p. m ih. rV,.L ' wv.. nomnffA importer On Monday morning last, a woman called si my house at a very early hour, and, forcing herself into the hall, requested that I would visit her daughter, then in confinement. In an swer lo my interrogatory aa to whether her la bor waa bsd, she said 'no,' 'but she is sufloca ted by the smell ol a dead man lhat was in the hnuae with her.' When I visited this misera ble and suffering creature, I found her lying on the ground, without a paiiicloof straw to pro tect her from the dampness of a filthy earthen floor, or a single article of covering to screen her from the bitter cold to which in this com fortless cabin she waa exposed. Immediately opposite lo her, near the hearth, where the fire had burned out, ley the body of her father in law in the rags in which he died, and in the attitude in which he breathed his last Putre faction had at the time made rapid advances fiom the nature of the dtsesae of which he died, viz: the dysentery thai is now ravaging the country. A man of the name of IK aly died in the pa riah of Drimuleague about a fortnight ago ; his wife and two children remained in the house until the putrescent exhalations from tho body drove them from their companionship with the dead : in a dsy or two a'ter eome persona in packing the man's cabin had their attention drawn by a loud snarling, aud on entering found the gnawed end mangled skeleton ot llealy con tended tor by a eel or hungry dogs and piga, that were completing their horrid banquet on his putrid rents ins I A woman in the townland of Lether, belong. tng lo Alexander uiimhcoii, tvq, and on which there is more poverty then any farm of its extent in the west riding, crawled to my door; she was at the tune laboring under ma lignsnt fever, wae emaciated to- the utmost de gree, and appesred aa if the grave at lhat mo ment vomited ber forth, . I handed her some relief anddirecled her U leave the door, as I dreaded inleclion tor my family. M i!ou l want Ibis,' said she point mg io the shtlling w Inch 1 'b'1' ' My hoy buried ; I he ie dead these eleven days; he died in two day after h e fstlier 5 I got ll.u siekneaa myself I niy two fhildten are dying ; no person will go to give them or me a drink of Cold water, and I j0t up U the fever Jo'day sud put the coroMj . ..-'---'r.-- ... in a ditch, and I cime to you, to gel it put in the grave, that the doge iaay oi eel tt.S 1 ' . Tub DRriaxNcv or Ghajn ih Grrat Bui. tain To the tdiier the London Timet Sir 1 I tend herewith en estimate ot the lien . .1 . cieury or grsin and other erops in Die L'nllra Kingdom tor the year ending Sept. 1, 134?. , The e.iimuie ie founded chiefly upon the statistical facta furniabed bv Mr. fahniirko.a, J in bis speech of Tuesday eyeaiug tbe lftihioat. J The result re trtling and eonfirm the view I you hse recently exeMseed mi relation lo the j dangers which tnenaee the commercial and mo. IMWj tnierevt ol ureal ifrKaln -' f- If Ike etlmt seeirlUHy erroneous, ' will p ey fvr a tie fcertcr mfcrmtd cor'res- 1 i?. ) Immediate parent of defe4iemmtM. , Vol. V-No. 34-Wliol !fo, 836 l. ...j..i.ig.ijj-..a' pondent of the Times to paint out the errors) il eubnteni tally correct, the sooner the full ex tent of the evil iemtde public the better Fore armed is (ores nned.' J.A.'D;- Eltmalt tf DrMimry rT Grain, Una nlher Crops reduced to Vrain, in the United A mxdomjor Ifte year tnamg aepitmoer , p est. m . I I'M. .Ouerfer. 1 Ordinary annus Ideftciency. . 2,000.000 I) nf potatoes in Ireland, value 12000 000. to be applied by grain, (a food of double cost Of potatoea.) value 21 .000,000, re presenting, at 50. per quarter, 9,800,000 3. 1ws of oats in Ireland, stated by Mr. lisboucherw to be one third the crop, or 5,227,000 Lo-s of potatoea in F.nplahd and Scotland, say one tenth only the Ioks in Ireland, nr 1,000,000 Loss ol oats in Scotland and Hng- Innd, 1,000,006 6. Iiossof burlry in the United King dom. - 1,000,000 7. Ex'rs seed for incrnasetl cultivation ofgrain, 300,000 8. Extra consumption of railway la borers, 300,000 20,607.000 Di'dnct economies made by fl&rva- tion and non-feeding of pigf, 4 276,000 Total deficiency, 16,000.000 Money valuw of the deficiency, at 3 per quarter 481)00,000. . IUmakrablr PaoriiKcv or CodbxVt at- SFKCTINO IRELAND AMI Tilt r AU.VRC Of THX . Potato. "feumington. My Dear S;r; Last evening I met, at dinner, a Roman Catholic priest, s Doctor Smith, from Connemara eoun- tJt Gaway, who relsted the following conver Mtjon he d wi h that extraordinary man, Cobbett, in 182a While speaking ol Ireland, Cobbett said that the dirty weed, alluding to I . , . . n l . . i . k h.tJ lnB poiaio, isnuiu ow tnm cuth oj iriwiw, How sol' replied Dr. Smith. 'What must the people do without it? They live upon it. They have had it in cultivation one hundred and eighty yeara ' Cobbett ertswered 'They must go back to the same food they were accustomed to live upon previously to the general cultiva- tion of the dirty weed; and that is, lo grain, as wheal, oats, rye, Ac, 1 ou have four millions of souls m Ireland, and eight millions of acres of uncultivated ground. This ground must be drained and brought into cultivation, and you must again grow wheat, nats, rye, die. Tbe potato will not last more than twenty years, when it will work itself out, and then you will see to what a state Ireland will be reduced. You mutt return to grain crops; and Ireland, instead ol being the moat degraded, will become one of the finest countries in the world. , You may live to see my words piove true, but I ne - ver shall.' "Doctor Smith made a note of the above in 1826, and the same opinion and prophecy eon- cerning the potato occur in one of Cobbett'e books tMioge Economy, or Cottmgt Com. fortt. I forget which." London Economist, Dec 19 1546. CoDtJEtt on Fooo Cobbett, whose predie- lions ss lo the miserable state lo which Ireland would b- reduced when the notato crooa failed: now b-ing resl fe-d. ree made the following ' comparison td ibe advantages of bread and poti - toee ss food. After eivmg particular directions for making bread, he says : ' 'And what is thwe Worthy of the name of plague or trouble in all Ihia . ' Here hi no dirt; I n filth, no rnbbish, no litter, no slop. And pray what can be pteasanter lo behold? Talk indeed of your pantomime and gaudy shows. your processions and installations and corona tions? Give me, for a beeutifnl sight, neat and emert woman, livating her oven sod setting in her bread and if the bustle do make the sign of labor glisten 011 her brow, where 1 the man that Would not k.sa that off. ratber than lick the plssier frmn the cheek of ducbeeal And what i the result! Why good wholesome food aiifTicietit fof k ronsiderable family for I wei-k prepared in three or four hour. To get this quantity of fond fit In be eaten, in the shape nf pot lues, how many fires,, what washing, . ... I what a boiling, what a peeling) what a slop. I plmgi and wla! a rrlesaing ,' , The collage ev I eflasiingly in a litter ; the womap'enandeever I Isntingly wet and dirty, the children grraaai eb - lo their ejres with duit liied tin by the. potst . I . . . . ,. 11 1 .t starch, and ragged as cone, no poor aunrivi time all being devoted to the everla.tihg boiling of the potrCan any enait ! woo knnwa ay I thine of tha laburar'a iiladeoV thij AodwilL then, ay body, except tbeUJ ehuffl bfeeche baud of Ite Hwrterly BevMWi wo u their le been iwig "a gtnn 10 garret I who have seldom seen the sun and never: the 'Idew, eeeent m prim rwtrr eny oooy except it theae loed say that the people ought loWtaugM tb e Of pole aeuftl?tft)r egaot - -' - .WJ.' !-- .1 . ' IT ' miEs or ADrnnrt a. I severe J inaartiM. M 6S t da 1 4.. . . .... Tli l do a ' " u v t oo Evay eobaequenttaaBTtta,- . ' . M Tearlr Aitartfaaeaanla i miiJ... eaft llf cotumn,t8 hreqttara, two snaares, M Half-yearly! one mImm, $lt an commo.aia , inres e.Varea, f , tWoeqaarM, l on i)uarv, vu. . ' ' AdVertiaementa VK without direei'iMta aa Ia tka length of time thev kra to he puhHahed, will be contmtoed nnui ordered et, and toaVgwl aeoord CT-BUtoan nnes or leas make a square. aw ii ii i "I ' mm I i . , , , Hwwe " re Ikvtruetr arLlawt.KltahU. We find In the New Orleans Tira", an ke towtit ef the neener et tb death el Lieut. Ritchie ' On General ficotts atrital st the'mou'h of the Riotirande, ktii arautninir tlie chief com- roin(j ,e forthwhh eent deti-tch to 8-iltil addreKd In General TavW. tV r -..wn.n,!. fn? officer tWtev When tfce be a ret t etched that cityt General Butler, the officer in com mand, opened the despatches, the result of which wae the immediate departure tif Gen. Worth arid hia division lot the kic Grande. The despatches were then re-sealed and sent off in charge of Lieutenant Ritchie, 6th infantry to Gen. Taylor, thett on bis retrograde move ment to Monterey from Vicloris. Ten men, belonging to Kearney's company, ' of the 5th, accompanied LiouK Ritchie as sn escort. They arrived at Monterey In safety, stopped there a night, and proceded on their route to meet Gvn. Taylor the next day. Towards riuk Ritchie reached the Villa Grarrde, distant iwen- ty-three miles from Monterey. Meeting, ji6t after his trrivtl, with an Englishman CFbibtiehed in business there, he availed himself of his ser vices to procure refreshments for himself sn i Command. As the two were crossing the n'aza uf Villa Grant!?, in furtherance of that object, a Mexican on horseback come whisking by them when suddenly be threw a lssse over Ritchie, put spur to hisaaimai.and succeeded in drag, glng hrm beyond the town, to a fiuall crtek in the Vicinity. Here he murdered him, and after mutilating Lie body in a horrid manner, made oft wiih the despatches. These ore said to bo of great consequence, Containing a sketch of the plan of the forth-coming campaign, with other important particular. It seems at il tho movements of ft itchie and his party were nN rowly watched by the enemy, for during the night they passed at Monterey the arms of Bvo of his men were stolen from them, necessitating dernarid on the 'quartermaster for a fresh sop. ply. Lieut. RilChTe, We understand, is a ne phew of the venerable editor of the Washing totiDnloa Cowrrt'e PaoHHEcx of the extinction r.ftha p. itilr0ngly combatted by Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimore.in etoroaiunication to the Patriot, who says there ia not a single instance on re j corj 0f any vegetable having been extirpated. or iworked itself out.' The idea is unphiloeopii- ji nngCientinc, almost doubting the favor or venovolence of Him who baa promised 'seed time and harvest.' Instead ol the potatoMhe I -dirty weed having been ot even becoming a l curse to Irelatid, it has been one ' ; greatest I blesainffs that waa ever Conferred upon that ot anv other neoole. I The potato rot, so destructive last year in Eu j i I tope, is nothing mote than the disease that haa I alwavs affected tho botato in a email wat. Mr. 1 kth exam toed it after it became epidemic, I and (ouho It to be caused by a fhntui, and he eve it ks hie opinion that it would spread oVer the whole world were potatoes Were cultiva J i tht t would last from five to seven yean, end then dlseppekr. He says next year will be the climax )o fcurope; me Disease win pervaoe I generally. If not universally, do far as the po tato is concerned, there will be a great scares 7 r num"a Dd America win oe orawa .. . aft I 1 . ..... 1. upon neaviiy lor supplies oi an atnoso. ureaa I .a . m ' il lJ 1 lfl- behooves our farmc-re to prrpare for 1..-.. x . e .i v. Ia .:ti ..u I inte ataie or inings, ror u win ci;inc. 1 What he says of the wheat crop seems likes. stslettient due to some theory of his rathef then j to feet. Farmers will hardly oh deterred rai sine? wheat as lon aa its price is uj tb ihe pre -Dt Wr, and a prospect ot anoill'er abort crop in Esrase next season from '.he high price of seedtha. ' it ere ii what he says, however: Tlntj wheat crop must also be looked to. 1 sin Mot $ dealer in wheat, nor interested in it other than an eater of bread. But the tcab will he foond to affect the crop of 184? to such an extent that a great scarcity of aTOod flour I will prevail. The scab is al an epidemic at time. It will epresd bver tne wltole of this country in i&4V48; will ppear in Europe thie year end in ahd spread over tha a I whole efibal twinueut. it will lo'Jurw tne u- slial CoOree of all vegeUble epidetnicp, froroj west to keej that is it commence ift Ameri ca and will reach the eastern world. Nearly all, if not aii, animal epidemic commence in the. east end progress weetwardly, a io the case cf ihe eMera. ' When the scab (hail have run ire course, then the wheat crop will be relieved of ft banefbl efieet-ilMT will be the climax im America. Io 1848 there will be some of it ffjor of leee; in 1 949 it wilt disappekr; on year later ia all these date will be Ui time bf it progress in Europe, Rot let no bne despair. The potato and wheat and Corn, and kit other kiod of hetnsn and animsl food will be prescr. red, end continue their abundant lupptiee or human food. It ha been said lhat we must never despair df the Kepubiio' I y Ibat w must never eVptrr of tntrcifol and benifieem Peovidenef, ' . . t
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