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Thursday, May li, 1 10.
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Democratic Win's Candidate.
TOR CANAL COMMISSIONER
JAIKS M. POWER,
OF MERCER COUNTY.
We learn that Mr. John Gruhc, a citizen of
Smilhfield township, Monroe county, on Wednes
day last, the 6th inst., was run over and killed, by
his own wagon, in the vicinity of Robert Levers1
Tavern, in Northampton county, a short distance
below the Wind Gap.
Alleghany County.
The Whigs of Alleghany are moving in the
work of preparation for iho fall election.
The County Committee have called a Conven
tion to settle a county ticket on Wednesday
the 3d of June.
The Gazette says "We consider the posi
tion of the Aniimasouic and Whig party of this
ounty, at this lime, as very favorable. We
have entire harmony hi our ranks, confidence
in our strength, firm reliance on the justice and
proprieiy of our principles and measures, and
cheering hopes of most triumphant success."
Two persons named Bartholomew and Kitch
en, were drowned in the Delaware near Col
umbia, on Saturday week. The circumstances
attending the sad catastrophe were as follows:
A party of seven persons employed at Mr.
Taylor's Slate quarry, were crossing the Dela
ware in a skiff, which was orcrturned. Five
.succeeded, with considerable difficulty, in
reaching the shore.
The bodies of the above unfortunate young
men have since been found.
A Long Pedestnan Tour. Elihu Burrett,
the ''learned blacksmith," intends making a
pedestrian tour over England. He says:
"About the 1st of June we propose, under cer
tain conditions, to take steamship or packet for
England. On our arrival we propose to take
a private hickory staff, and travel on, like Bun
yan's pilgrim, through the couniry, at the rate
of about ten miles a day."
Virginia Election.
All the returns are now in, except from one
county Prince Edward. The Locofocos have a
majority of 8 in the Senate, and 12 or 14 in the
House. Last year the Locofoco majority in the
House was 35 !
3fev Tork.
The election in this State for Delegates to a
Convention to revise the Constitution, has result
ed in the choice of a majority of Locofocos. The
Democracy, however, are very much divided in
reference to the several reforms proposed.
Yankee Enterprise.
'-Among the passengers by the Columbiana,
ui jjivijiuui mi oia uuui u.iiu ouuu uiuivcis,
who are about to establish themselves in Man
chester, England, to make "pegged soles " for
Jotin Bull. Transcript. " '
fnr T -t r1rtl 1 r n i linl nml ivi. 1' . '
At letter received in New York says that the
Mexican government has sold to Spain the two
war steamers built in that city, for $80,000;
and that they are to go to Havana.
, A copy of Willmcr & Smith's Times, re
ceived by the Unicorn, and expressed to New
Orleans, was sold there for S1000!
The Mormons.
The St. Louis New Era says: "We learn
jfrom an officer of tho steamer Fortune,ihat the
Alonnons aro moving very fast from Nau-
voo. Several hundreds arc encamped on tho
banks of tho river opposite that city, and that
vehicles of every description, good and bad, aro
in great demand there. It seems to be the
general impression in the vicinity that most of
tho deluded followers of Smith will remove
from the Holy City by the 1st of may. This
is well for all parties concerned, and may save
a vast amount of trouble; .and even perliap?, a
further effusion of blood;"' "
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
JJY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
Washington, May 11, 1846. )
3 o'clock, P. M. 5
The expected Message from the President
was transmitted to both Houses at noon. It
opens by a reference to our Mexican relations
as detailed in his annual message. He then
explains that his desire to fix the boundary of
Texas and to adjust the claims of our citizens,
which had been standing for twenty years, were
the causes of this inquiry to the open negotia
tions; that all his efforts having failed to pro
duce an Amicable adjustment, he has now to
announce a state of War.
He shows why it was, after Mexico had
withdrawn her representative and discontinued
diplomatic relations, a Minister, Mr. Slidell,
came to be appointed in October, 1845. Our
Consul at Matamoras had been desired to in
quire of that Government, if a Minister would
bo received. An affirmative answer was re
turned, if our forces wece withdrawn from Ve
ra Cruz. Mr. Slidell, in pursuance of this, was
appointed.
Herera, then at the head of the Mexican
Government, was desirous to receive him, but
circumstances of a political nature, and the dis
turbed state of the country prevented it, and
on December 24, he was refused a recoption.
Parcdos succeeded in January, to the head of
Mexican affairs. Mr. Slidell was again in
structed to present his credentials, which were
again refused.
The forces were kept at Corpus Christi until it
was known Mexico would not recognize our Min
ister. Texas had asserted the boundary of the
Del Norte in 183G ; and the troops were ordered
there on account of the convenience of carrying
provisions and obtaining supplies. Ampudia no
tified Gen. Taylor on the 12th of April, to retire
in 24 hours notice, and again Arista on the 24th
notified him that he considered hostilities as actu
ally commenced.
Hence ensued the difficulties now before the
public. Gen. Taylor in his present position has
called on Texas for four regiments and on Louis
iana for four more. In this state of affairs the
President invokes Congress to recognize a war,
and recommends that authority be delegated to
him to call into requisition a large body of volun
teers for twelve months, and that liberal provisions
be made to enable him to procure supplies, &c.
In the Senate, after the message was read, a
sharp discussion was proceeding when our tele
graphic despatch was closed.
Mr. Calhoun took the floor, and argued that the
position assumed by the President, that there was
a state of war, was incorrect; no such state exist
ed according to its sense as implied by the Con
stitution. A collision, it was true, had taken
place, and it was for Congress to decide whether
that collision was of such a character as to justi
fy Congress, the only party efficient to declare
war, in taking such a step.
The House of Representatives had before it a
bill for raising volunteers and supplies, and a
large appropriation. Upon this an animated dis
cussion ensued, and it was the determination to
close it at 3 o'clock.
Divorces. About sixty divorces have been
granted or "decreed" by the Legislature of our
State this session. The tax upon each is twen
ty dollars, passed to prevent the frequency of
application, but which appears to have had an
entirely contrary effect, the number granted
and the applications are both more numerous
this session than usual. Philadelphia North
American.
A Great Cast. The two Anthracite Fur
naces near Bloomsburg, belonging to Fisher,
Paxton & Co., after standing over one cast last
week, on account of the lightness of the blast
occasioned by the high water, discharged at
one tapping, twenty-nine tons of metal. Such
a cast we think has never been made before in
our country.
A Joc.-On the first of April, at Newburyport,
an honest blacksmith of the 'Miller faith, found
an order on his slate "to hoop an earthquake,
mend the lock on the gale of New Jerusalem,
and repair one of the hinges on the cellar door
of the infernal regions.'
An intelligent gentleman who has been en
gaged in the production of sugar in Cuba for the
last thirty years, after a careful examination,
estimates the value of property in that Island
owned by Americans, at $35,000,000. So
gays a correspondent of the Washington Uni
on. '
Early R,ve. A atalk of -rye, grown on the
premises of Moses Aaron in Plymouth town
ship, adjoining this borough, has been left at
thisofiiee. It measured five feet nine inches in
length, with, a head five inches long. Norris
town Herald.
A new tailor's instrument' for
measuring,)hc
human frame, called iho "Tailor's Tjan&fer,"
has been introduced into Bdliimoro.
James SI. Power.
The nomination of Mr. Power, we are grati
fied to learn, is well received in every part of
the State, and the prospects of his election are
by no means discouraging. It is true that Mr.
Foster, his opponent, can command the army of
office-holders and state hands on our public im
provements, together with the influence of His
Excellency, Frs. R. Shttnk, and his very able
and popular Administration, in his behalf and so
enjoys a very great advantage in the contest;
but then, thank fortune, these compose but a
minority of the voters of the Commonwealth,
and there are. still enough of honest freemen
loft to elect Mr. Power, if they will but do their
du'y.
By the way, the present contest does not
seem likely to assume a very ngidjjarty aspect
1 he honest and thinking men ol all parties
seem to be fast falling into the opinion that RE
FORM in the management of our public works
is needed, and that the only way to effect it is
to divide the Board in politics, instead of ma
king it exclusively Locofoco. We have heard
several very respectable members of the oppo-
II I r m
site party talK in tins way our sell; ana we
may now say, that unless something transpires
between this time and the election to change
the current of public feeling Blair county will
tell no unfavorable story for James M. Power.
Holhdaysburg Register.
The Tariff.
The course which the friends of the Adminis
tration in Congress are likely to take on the
subject of the Tariff appears to be involved
just now in some uncertainty. We find the
following paragraph in a recent letter of 'Ol
iver Oldschool' to the U. S. Gazette:
"I find much difference of opinion as to the
prospect of the tariff being disturbed. There
are those who would be glad to avoid a vote
upon the subject, who desire things to remain
as they are, but who will feel compelled by
party considerations to vote for a new bill, if
obliged to vote at all. There seems to be more
disposition in the different cliques or factions
in the Senate to unite, than there was. The
difference on the subject of Oregon, which
threatened to be permanent will probably soon
be forgotten, and those who were temporarily
estranged will seek opportunities to unite, with
the view of resorting former good feeling.
The Whigs should never calculate on the per
manent division of their opponents for those
divisions are healed with wonderful facility,
by a sort of "first intention" principle. "The
cohesive power of public plunder, which Mr.
Calhoun once truthfully and forcibly remarked
bound that party together, has lost none of its
I fores since he went back to those of whom he
thus spoke."
SOMETHING FOR THE LoCO FoCOS. PoLK
! and the Iariff. 1 he New York Globe
says among other reasons, James K. Polk was
nominated and elected.
"Because he was opposed to the iniquitous 'black
Tariff of '42."
There is something nice for Pennsylvania
Tariff Loco Focos to look at. How gratifying
it must be to see announcements like the above
coming from the party which endeavored to
prove in 1844 that Polk was a better Tariff
man than Clay.and that the only safety of the
Tariff of 1842 was in the defeat of the Whigs.
Let the people remember hereafter how they
have been duped, and not give the British Free
Trades an opportunity to swindle them again.
Miners Journal
The State Treasurer gives notice to the
Collectors of Taxes in this State, that they are
not to receive any more of the Towanda relief
notes, as there aro now outstanding but $275,
which will be received at the State Treasury.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says, Mr. Tyler
has written a letter, saying that no money wus
expended from the secret service fund but by
his direction.
The Texas State House. The Texas
"State House," or "Capital," is a one story
wooden building, made somewhat roughly in
side and out, over 100 feet long, and 50 wide.
It is divided into two rooms, by a wide passage
one for the Senate and one for the Mouse. At
the most, the building might cost $1000 not
more. The chairs occupied by the members,
are made of turned or rounded wood, unpain
ted and extremely common, with rawhide seats
hair side up, stretched on when green, and
fastened by holes slit in the hide and drawn
over the rounds. Their desks are ordinary
pine tables. The Speaker and President of
the Seriate aro equally provided for. The
strangers gallery is made of pine benches, ri
sing one above the other. So far as comfort
is concerned, no one suffers; and tho Texans
have no idea of lavishing money upon, things
io look at, just yet.
Settlers in Western' Texas, are" said, lobe
going largely into the 'purchase of Mexican
sheep,.to the great joy. of; the 'Mexican's, who
have. hiihertOjhadso poor, a -market-, -tjiat, : their
flocks wore nearly valueless.,. These sheen
are purchased at 40 or 50 cents per head,
Jl!ie war OIB Use KiO 4l'a22UC. mutucation in very offenMto terms compbi
More Fighting between the cricans'fi&K SoitXtft?
run. -wwT- .. - .
uiu, iucj.iLum.
The Crossing or the Rio Grande nv 2,000
M exicans confirm ed.
General Taylor surrounded by
8,000 Mexican Troops.
Requisition upon the Governor of
Texas for Aid.
Governor off Louisiana Ordered oul
2,500 Troops.
GREA T EXCITEMENT IN nToR L EA NS.
The Galveston News, Lxtra, of April 30th. ; ccwfully at. attack of the whole Mexican force
contains the ol lowing intelligence :-- HIld commands the town, which w, ,le b.u!
On .he 23d nil., 2,000 Mexicans crossed .he , lerk.Sf aready ra0UMted C0lll(I be raze(, .
Rio Grande about t wenty miles above General j aroilIld in an h()Ur,s ,ime Ge .,, .
I aylor s camp. I wo companies of cavalry, t CHmft fu raI1(ms for ,5 j wlic,,10 lhlnI
03 men each commanded by Captains Hior- ca be made lo jas, ,hirt d by which time
ton and Hardee were sent to reconno.ire .he. he is j , s , roccivo , ro.llorcoIie
next morning. I hey fell into an an.bu.h when j fM)m Tt5Xas and houillianj u ,;ach f)f , ,
Lieut Cairn and 3 men ere kiMcd; Capia:i, j S,a.es he has made a requisition for the imme
Thornton reported missing, and Cap.. Hardee i,al0 equipment and transmission to Poi,lt Ka.
d"Vlu 7 !"""": , .
wmuiueu man, sem in nv ine Mexicans.
made this report. These Mexicans were com
manded by Canales and Carrabnjal.
After the flight, the Mexicans were rein
forced, and Gen. Taylor's position is entirely
surrounded, cutting ofF all communication with
Point Isabel, at which place is ihe train, and
all the stores of the army
over ten days provisions.
Gen. T. no. having
1 he entrenchments
at Point Isabel are not half finished; and, to de
fend them, there is but 90 artillery, 20 drauooiM,
and about 40 teamsters, citizens, and laborers.
A call was made on Governor IIemlerM)n,
of Texas, by Gen. Taylor, for forty companies
of riflemen, sixty men each, twenty companies '
to be mounted, and to rendezvous at Corpus
Chrisii, and the foot companies ai GaheMon
Gen. Taylor has also called upon the Gov
ernors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
for 8,000 troops.
General Taylor's works opposite Matamoras
would be completed by the 28th, at which time
the fire would be opened on the city.
The Mexican forces is 8,000, well equipped,
and with an excellent park of artillery.
The Governor of Louisiana has issued his
requisition for 2,500 volunteers, and they woreUIlder lhe command of Capt. Perkins, and de
al ready in the streets, on the morning of the : nomifla,ed lhe Fronton Guards. A comna.tv
2d, actively preparing for departure. They
expected to leave the next day. 1 he Louis
iana Legislature has appropriated $100,000 for
the service The city of New Orleans was in
a great state of excitement drums and flags,
parading through the streets, calling for volun
teers. The following intelligence, confirmatory of
the above, we received yesterday.
From the New Orleans Picayune, May 2.
Deplorable News from the Army.
Colonel Charles Doane arrived in jthis city at
an early hour yesterday morning, from Brazos
Santiago, which place he left on the 2S.h ult.,
in the steam schooner Augusta. Sixty miles
west of the S. W. Pass ho was transferred lo
the steamer Galveston. He is the bearer of
important despatches from General Taylor and
of a requisition upon the Governor of Louisi
ana for four regiments. The previous news
received, that the Mexicans had crossed the
Rio Grande, is fully confirmed, and a detach
ment of American troops has been cut off.
But for the details we refer to the following
account of operations, kindly furnished us by
Colonel Doane.
On Thursday evening, the 23 inst., Gen.
Taylor received information that a body of tho
Mexican army had crossed to the east side of
the Rio Grande, ai a point some 20 miles above
his encampment. Early on the following mor
ning he despatched Captains Thornton and
Hardee, of the 2d regiment dragoons, with a
detatchment of 70 men, to examine the country
above, and Capt. Kerr, of tho same regiment,
with a company to examine the country below
the encampment. The latter returned to camp
without having made any discovery of Mexi
cans. The former however, fell in with what he
considered to be a scouting party of the enemy,
but which proved to be the advance guard of a
very strong body of the enemy, who wero pos
ted in the charparral, immediately in the rear
of Gen. Taylor's camp. Capt. Thornton, con
trary to the advice of his Mexican guide,
charged upon the guard, who retreated towards
the main body, followed by Capt. Thornton,
when in an instant he found himself and com
mand surrounded by the enemy, who fired upon
him killing, as is supposed Capt. Thornton,
Lieutenants Kane and Mason and some twenty-six
of the men, and taking Capt. Ilardeo
and the remainder of the command prisoners.
The Mexican commander sent into General
Taylor's camp a cart, with a soldier badly
wounded, with a message ihat ho had no trav
elling hospital with him, and could not, there
fore, render the soldier the assistance which
his .situation required.
It is supposed that the detatchment of the
enemy on the east side of the Rio Grande,
consists of at least 2,500 men, under tho com
mand of Cols. Carusco and Garrabatal, both
old and experienced officers, and that their ob
ject is to cut on all communication between
Gen. 1 aylor and Point Isabel, the depot of
provisions. In the execution of this object
they have fully succoeded, and havo thereby
placed the American army in a most dangerous
position, as it will bo utterly impossible for
uen. i aylor, with the limned number of men
now under his command, say 2,300 to force
his way ihrouglnHo dense chaparral, in which
the. enemy are already strongly posted.
Qn ..he 22d, Gen? Taylor received from Gen.
Ampu'Iia, by means of a flag of irucc, a com-
sen oeen tno cause oi tne b oekai w- u. l
i ii " "'K
exnifisslv fifinlnrnil Ihnl m.l.wo f' .. m. . 0
e.piessiy ueciarcu mat, unless (Jen. Tuvlnr
commenced his retreat behind the Notices
within twenty-four hours after his displaying
his flag upon the left bank of the Rio Grande,
he would consider war as being declared, and
would act accordingly. Gen. Taylor further
more stated that he would receive' no further
communications from the Mexican commander
unless couched in language more respectful to
wards i he government and people of the United
States
Gen. Taylor's position, in the rear of Mara-
imnras 'ls Mtifiirimnli.' utniri.r i .....I I
! be! of four full regiments of militia.
ik
IS
night by the superior ofliccrs of Gen. Tay
lor s army that VI0.000 men will be required
within a rery short period, as it is well known
thai the Mexican army is daily receiving largu
j.re-miorcemen's Irom the interior. It was sup
i posed by .he American officers that Gen. Arti
I a reached Matamnr:i3 nit thp nvnnimr ,r ii...
22(J ul wi(h a br5ade; bm 0 ,he m q
...rii..r' l...:.... .... ..
had been received by Gen. Taylor from Gun.
Ari.Ma.
Subsequently to his leaving the camp on
.he 2G.h tilt.. Col. Doano learned that Gen.
Arista addressed a polite note to Gen. Taylor
j infonniii! him that he, Arista, had assumed tho
j command of.he Mexican forc'o'l
At Point Isabel great fears were en'ertainnl
of a night attack, which, from tho pre-eut ex
posed situation of that post, could not Id other
wise than successful if conducted with energy.
The post i defended by Major Monroe, wulu
detatchment of SO artillerists. There are nUn
at the post about 200 armed wagoners and 5J
laborers, under the orders of the Quartern! ts
ter, and some 100 citizens ftirtithcd wnh
arms hv ihp IT S nrrlinnni-n ifVi..nr nr..; ...... I
of 50 Mexican cavalry were seen on the night
of the 26th within five miles of Point Infill.
They were supposed to be a corps of observa
tion. The body of Col. Cross was found on tins
21st ult, about three miles from Camp, fright
fully tnuulaied and entirely destitute of cloiliiu.
The body of Lieut. Porier, who was killed
some days previous by a party of bandtni, un
der the command of Ramon 'falcon, had nut
been found.
The principal officers known to be in com
mand of Mexican forces, are Generals Arista,
Ampudia, Mejia, and Canale-, Cols. Cantsco
and Carrajabal: all men of talent.
The extra of the Galveston News say, that
requisitions have been made upon the Goier
nors of Alabama and Mississippi for troops
though our own informant says nothing of this.
The News supposes thai Gen. Tavlor would
open his. fire upon Matamoras on the morning
of the 28th ultimo.
We have also received an- extra from tho
office of the Galveston News, where the in
telligence was received by the steamboat Mon
mouth, with Capt. Catlel on board, a bearer of
despatches from Gen. Taylor to Gov. Hender
son, of Texas, calling upon him for aid.
At Galveston, within an'hour after the receipt
of Capt Catlett's letter, there was a public meet
ing, and it was determined to dispatch S00 men
that evening in the Monmouth.
Gen. Taylor has fortified his position so strong
ly that he can stand a siege, but his communica
tion with Point Isabel being cut off, he is in dan
ger of being compelled to take the field with an
inadequate force, on account of the shortness of
his provisions.
Matamoras is almost deserted. The American
army could take the town at once, but under the
circumstances of his position, Gen. Taylor cannot
divide his command or weaken his camp by send
ing off any considerable number of men from it.
There were 300 wagons at Point Isabel on the
24th, loaded with stores for the army, and reaJv
to start. Besides confirming the general tenor of
the news brought by the Cornelia, Capt. Atwell
says it was the belief that a simultaneous attack
would be made by the Mexicans upon Point Isa
bel and Gen. Taylor's camp.
Capt. Atwell says it was reported at Point Isa
bel that the watch and horse belonging to Col.
Cross were in the possession of an officer of higa
rank at Matamoras, who did not deny the fact.
St. Joseph's Island, Texas,
April 28, 1S1G. 5
By the arrival of the steamer Monmouth, this
i day, intelligence has been received at this place
of the Army of Occupation being surrounded by
10,000 Mexican troops. The Mexican army pass
ed the Rio Grande in the night. Capt. Thornton,
2d Dragoons, in attempting to cut his way out
with his company, was killed. Also, twa suba
terns and 13 privates, the remainder takan pns
crs- Gcn- Taylr. on this day, tffiih, et.r
with the enemy. His whole force of fighM"g if-' '
will not number 3000 ; his motto is, "conquer
die." The United States troops ate eager, for tic
fray.
JTjThe Norristown Herald contains tho
following fair hit at the present aspect of Ore
gon affairs at Washington:
"Where's Amos? Th& Steamer Oregon
run on a rock in Hell-Gale, where at the lateii
advices, sho lay 'high and dry.' Amos die
Saint whoso omens wera published far am
wide, and; received with duo credence by lne
faithful, .can. perhaps lelhwhaCs. ia the tn"
now ' .