MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
SEVEN DAYS LATER
FROM EUROPE.
AKBIFAL OF TIIE II1BERMA.
Breadstuff Firm American Securities
Veru Steadu Paris in a state of lie
volt Ledru Rollin ,'lrrested Home
Assailed by France, but still Invinci
ble Great Difficulties in Germany
Kossuth proclaimed President in llun
s g'arythe Hungarians still Un sub-
1 t I I f " - . I - A. t i-t , I SI 1 1
France Dreadful Ravages in Paris
Eagand against the trench inter-
mention in Roman Affairs The Navi
gation Laws at last Repealed, fyc.
St. Join's N. B. ?
' . June 28, 1 2 P. M.
The wires hare been clown since last
niht until now. The steamer Ilibernia,
Capt. Stone, arrived at Halifax yesterday
V 'afternoon with 70 passengers for New
V-k, and 22 for Halifax.
She left for cw York at about 4 o'
clock, and will arrive at her wharf at an
early hour on Saturday Morning. By her
we have da tes one week later from all
parts of Europe.
At 9 5 o'clock last night, we commenced
receiving the foreign news, and at 1 o'clock,
wc received the whole of the following
highly important despatch:
- Insurrection in Paris.
On "Wednesday an incipient insurrec
tion was attempted in Paris by about 25,
000" of the Mountain party; headed by M.
Ettienne Arago, Jr., and was suppressed
by the troops, whose number amounted to
70,000. Several attempts were made to
erect barricades. In the evening the. As
sembly declared itself en permanence, and
passed a decree declaring Paris in a state
of seige. On Thursday the alarm had
- considerably subsided, and business which
was entirely suspended the day previous,
was generally resumed.
At one time the peril was imminent,
and nothing but the courage and prudence
oi the President, aided by firmness and
sagacity, prevented the most serious con
sequences. Numerous arrests have taken
place, including several members of the
Assembly M. Arago and Ledru Kollin
being among them. The last accounts re
port a state of tranquility, but there was an
uneasy feeling afloat that a renewed at
tempt would be made to upset the Gov
ernment, and that when it comes to the
point, the troops will not prove steady,
Rome Attacked by the French Troops
800 Rom ana killed City still
Invincible.
From Rome we learn that the French
army commenced the attack on the 30th
May, and after the sanguinary engage
ment, in which the Romans lost 800 men,
succeeded in carrying several important
posts. A series of attacks have since ta
ken place, in which the victory is various
ly stated, but in which the invading army
has suffered most. The French papers
publish conflicting reports of the opera
tions of the army, but from accounts re
ceived to the 5th inst., it is clear that Gen.
Oudinot had not then gained access to the
city, though he had gained a position at
the north of Rome, which would enable
him to command the city. The latest
despatch from Gen. Oudinot is to the 0th
inst., at which time he opened his trenches
and had regularly besieged the city.
There is no appearance of yielding on
the part of the Romans, but on the contra
ry everything goes to confirm the belief
that they would make a most determined
resistence and fight to the last.
All the Socialists or Red republican
journals at Paris, except the. National,
have been suppressed since the disturbance
on Wednesday.
Rhcims reported in full Insurrection A
Government of Republicans
Established.
The city "of Rheims, one of the most
important in Germany, is reported to be
in full insurrection, and to have establish
ed a government of Red Republicans.
Cholera in England, France, and
Egypt.
The Cholera has again appeared in
England, and several cases have occurred
in Manchester, and other parts of the
-country. At Paris the cholera is making
thejnost frightful havoc even more so
than in 1 837. Upwards of 1 1 ,000 deaths
have already occurred, and in one day,
there were ubout 90Q cases and GOO deaths
Tportd. Marshal Deaugeaud and many
other persons of eminence have fallen be
fore the scourge. It has broken out anew
in Siliesia, Vienna and Presburg, and is
raging most fearfully at Alexandria and
Cairo, in Egypt.
Kossuth proclaimed President of the
Huntgartan Republic.
Hossuth has arrived in Pesth and lias
"been received in the capitol, as the Presi
dent of the Hungarian Republic.
It would seem that hostilities are still
carried on in the South between the Hun
garians and the scattered remains of the
Austrian army, supported by the Russians,
bat the report- which reach U3 are so
vague and contradictory, it is not deemed
advisable to transmit them by telegraph.
Proclamation from the Russian General
to the Hungarians
The Russian General has issued a proc
lamation to the Hungarians, the pith of
which is, that if they do not lay down their
arras and submit to their fate, with a good
. grace, they will be made to feel the conse
quences of their presumption.
Every effort is being made to rouse the
p-oplr, and the Maygar Government h:is
ordered the clergymen to preach agains1
the Russians.
Tlie Struggles Baden in Fidl Play.
In Baden the Revolutionary struggle is
now in full play.
The Prince of Prussia has left Berlin,
to take command of the Army of the
Rhine; and in Baden, Wurtemberg and
Bavaria, the democrats are preparing for
a conflict.
England.
The Navigation Laws Repudiation
by the British Government of French
Interference in Roman Affairs. The
bill ibr the abrogation of the Navigation
law passed the House of Lords without
material announcement, on the 12th, and
has received the royal sanction; this bill
will go into effect in January.
The disabilities bill was passed by the
House of Commons, by a majority of 50.
Its success in the House of Lords was
considered very doubtful. .
The British Government repudiates all
cognizance or sanction of -the proceedings
of the French in their treatment of the Ro
mans.
Smith O'Brien, through his counsel,
denies the legality of the commutation of
his sentence of death to transportation, and
the Government have to provide for the
unlooked-for difficulty by- special act of
Parliament.
Different and apparently reliable state
ments are made from parts of Ireland, to
the effect that the potato rot has made its
appearance in some instances, but gener
ally the vine looks vigorous.-
The weather is represented as continu
ing very favorable, and the crops in nearly-
all parts of England and 'Ireland are said
to look unusually promising.
Additional Foreign Xews.
London H o'clock, P. M.
The Daily News has advices from
Rome to the afternoon of the Cth inst., as
bllows:
The attack has been resumed on the
same points as yesterday, and-can on again
thunder behind Fort San Pancrazia. The
Palazza Spaza, Palazza Madarna and the
Church of Sante Sabina on the Aventine
already show the effect of the enemy's
shells. The damage will be, no doubt,
frightful before the destructive labor is
over.
A tremendous storm of thunder and
lightning just now adds the warring ele
ments to that of nran, and the scene is aw
fully grand. The quarter Fraustevere,
which was bombarded on the 5th, has been
almost destroyed. Oudinot had summon
ed the Romans to surrender by the 0th, or
that an assault would be made on the city
that evening.
The journals are void of any further
statement as to defeat or te.reat of the
French.
Last Ilours of Mr. Polk.
The following letter, describing the last
hours of the late Ex-President of the Uni
ted States, is from the New York Herald:
Nashville, June 10, 1849.
Having taken up his abode here, the
Ex-President gave himself up to the im
provement of the grounds, and was . seen
every day about his dwelling, aiding and
directing the workmen he had employed.
Now overlooking a carpenter, now giving
instructions to a gardener, often attended
by Mrs. Polk, whose exquisite taste con
stituted the element of every improvement.
It is not a fortnight since, that I saw him
on his lawn directing some men; who
were removing decaying cedars. I was
struck with his erect and he.ilthful bear
ing, and the active energy of his manner,
which gave promise of long life. His
flowing gray locks made him appear be
yond the middle age of life. He seemed
in full health. The next day, being rainy,
he remained within and began to arrange
his large library; and the labor of reach
ing books from the floor and placing them
on the shelves, brought on fatigue or slight
fever, which the next day assumed the
character of disease in the form of chronic
(liarrhcr, which was with him a complaint
of many years' standing, and readily in
duced upon his system by over exertion.:
For the three first days, his friends felt;
no alarm. But the 'JisVasc baffling their
skill, (and for skilful physicians, Nash-'
villc will compare with the first cities in
the U nion,) Dr. Hay his brother-in-law,'
and family physician for twenty years,
were sent for from Columbia. " But the
skill and experience of this gentleman, aid
ed by the h ighest medical tulcnt, proved of
no avail. Mr. Polk continued -gradually '
to sink from day to day. The .disease
was checked upon him four days before
his death but his constitution was so weak
ened, that there did not remain recupera
tive energy enough in his system for heal
thy reaction, lie sunk away so slowly
and insensibly, that it was eight hours be
fore hfc died, after the heavy death-rcspira-Uon
commenced. He died without a
struggle, simply ceasing to breathe, as
when deep and quiet sleep falls upon a
weary man.
About an hour preceding his death, his
venerable mother entered the room, and
kneeling by his bedside, offered up a beau
tiful prayer to the "King of kings, and
Lord of lords,' committing the soul of her
son to his holy keeping. The scene was
strikingly impressive. Major Polk, the
President's brother, was also by his bed
side, with other members of his family.
Upon the coffin was a plain silver plate,
with these words: "J. K. Polk. Born No
vember, 1795. Died June, 15, 1849.''
The body lies in state to day.". -The
noble drawing rooms arc shrouded J in
black, and every window in mournin
with black scarfs of crape. The tall white
columns of the. majestic portico Picinf tiir
south, are completely shrouded in black,
giving a solemn majestic and funeral as
pect to the Presidential mansion.
The funeral took place at four o'clock
this afternoon, masonic ceremonies being
first performed in the drawing room, over
the body. I saw the body before it was
encoffined. The features are in noble
composure. Death has impressed upon
them the seal of majesty. In his life, his
features never wore that impress of com
mand and intellectual strength, that seemed
now chiseled upon their marble ouUine.
He was habited in a plain suit of black, and
a copy of the Constitution of the United
States was placed at his feet. Before be
ing taken to the cemetery, the body was
hermetically soldered within a copper
coffin. ' - ' - -
From the house, the funeral cortege,
which was very large, all places of busi
ness being closed, by order of our good
whig mayor, proceeded to the Methodist
Episcopal Church, where, after services,
performed by the Rev. Mr. M'Ferrin, it
was conveyed to the cemetery," followed
by a vast concourse of citizens. The body
was deposited in the Grundy vault tempo
rally, but it will soon be removed to a vault
on the lawn of the Ex-Presidential man
sion, where a willow now standsand over
it will be erected a stately marble ceno
taph; thus the body of the President from
Tennessee will lie entombed in the heart
of its capitol. Mr. Polk, by ,will, the
evening before "his death, gave the lawn
to the State, in perpetuity, for the purpose.
Mr. Polk sent for the Rev. DrJdgar,
of the Presbyterian Church, seven days
before his death, desiring to be baptised
by him. He said to him impressively:
"Sir, if 1 had suspected twenty years
ago that I should come to my death-bed
unprepared, it would have made me a
wretched man; yet I am about to die, and
have not made preparation. I have not
even been baptised. Tell me, sir, can
there be any ground for a man thus situa
ted to hope?"
The Rev. Doctor made known to him
the assurances and promises of the gospel
that inercitullv ran parallel with a man s
life.
Mr. Polk then remarked, that he had
been prevented from baptism in infancy
by some accidental occurrence, that he had
been several times strongly inclined to be
baptised during his administration, but that
the cares and perplexities of public life
hardly gave him time for the solemn pre
paration requisite, and so procrastination
had ripened into inaction, when it was now
almost too late to act. In his conversation
with the Rev. clerrvman, Mr. Polk evin-
ced great knowledge of the Scriptures,
which, he said, he had read a great deal,
and deeply reverenced as Divine truth; in
a word, he was theoretically, a christian.
The conversation fatiguing Mr. Polk
too much for him to be baptized, it was
postponed, to take place the next evening,
out in the interval, ilic ex-President rec
collected that when he was governor and
lived here, he used to hold many argu
ments with the Rev. M. M'Ferrin, the tal
ented and popular Methodist minister of
the place, his warm personal and political
friend, and that he had promised him that
when he did embrace Christianity, that he,
the Rev. Dr. M'Ferrin, should baptize
him. He, therefore, sent, for the Rev.
Dr. Edgar, made known his obligation,
and expressed his intention to be baptized
by his friend the Methodist minister.
The same day, the venerable Mrs. Polk,
mother of the ex-President, a very pious
Presbyterian lady, arrived from her resi
dence, forty miles distant, accompanied by
herown pastor hoping that her distinguish
ed son would consent to be baptized by
him.
"Mother," said the dying cx-Prcsident,
taking her affectionately by the hand, "I
have never in my life disobeyed you, but
you must yield to your son now, and
gratify nn- wishes. I must be baptized
by the Rev. Mr. M'Ferrin."
His mother, wise as she is pioifs, did
not hesitate to give her consent; and in
the presence of the Rev. Dr. Edgar, and
the Rev. Mr. Mack,. of Columbia, the ex
President received the rite of baptism, at
the hands of the Rev. Mr. M'Ferrin.
Mr. Polk has died worth about one
hundred thousand dollars, the bulk of
which is settled upon his amiable lady.
Closing of the Crevasse.
The great Sauvc crevasse, at New Or
leans, was nearly closed on the 20th inst.,
and we learn by a dispatch, dated on the
21st, that the water had been eutirely
stopped on that ilay. The preach having
been closed up, all to about 20 feet in the
middle, through which the water flowed
to the dep'.hoflS feet, a heavy timber
gate had been made to drop down and
close up the remainder of the breach.
The Bee thus describes the closing scenes:
At 7 o'clock in the evening, the arrange
ments were all completed, and the ropes
which sustained the powerful breastwork
at each cud having been severed at a giv
en signal, the huge mass settled itself a
ga inst the piling at an angle of about 45
degrees. This was the great crisis of the
undertaking, for if the piling had failed to
resist the terrible shock, all was over.
Scarcely had the barrier reached the bot
tom, before the mad current, suddenly im
peded in its course, ovcrleapt the timber
work some six feel above the water, and
poured a complete cataract across. For
a few minutes, the gentleman in charge of
the works, as well as every laborer on the
spot, held their breath it seemed as if
the destruction of the entire pile was inev
itable but, thanks to the solidity of the
barrier, the handiwork of man triumphed
over the fierce waters, and the sullen
Mississippi1, beaten in its very fiercest on
onsbusht. related to find vent in the
narrow openings on each side of the main
channel.
From the .Mayevlllo Ejglo.
Particulars of the Cassias M. Clay Difficulty.
We cxDected to receive in the Rich
mond Chronicle of Thursday, a full ac
count of the fatal rencontre between Cas
sius M. Clay and Cyrus Turner in Madi
son county, on Friday of last week. The
Chronicle, however gives none of the par
ticulars, but merely mentions the affair,
and adds, that Turner died on Sunday
morninc last, living about 34 hours after
receiving the wound. Capt. Clay is stil
in a critical condition, but the better opin
ion seems to be that he will recover.
We learn the following from a gentle
man who was on the ground.
"There are three Pro-Slavery candi
dates for the Convention from Madison,
Messrs. Willis and Chenault and Major
Squire Turner, (father of Cyrus Turner,)
and but one emancipation candidate, Ma
jor Burnam. At a regimental muster at
Walden s on Thursday of last week, the
candidates spoke, Willis and Chenault
leading. Major Turner, (although he had
promised Cassius M. Clay the stand be
fore him) alleging that Clay was not a
candidate and the crowd was fast disper
sing made a long speech. Clay then
took the stand, and bore more heavily in
his remarks upon Turner than upon either
of the 9ther two candidates, and it was
now evident for the first time there was
some unpleasant feeling between them.
On the next day, Friday, another dis
cussion took place at a regimental muster
at toxlown. villis spoke first, Turner
next. Y hen I urner had spoke about an
hour, Clay appealed to him to give Major
Bunham an opportunity of defending the
Emancipationists and their views; and
Turner refused, and spoke half an hour
longer in a severe strain, during which he
read from the True American newspaper
a portion of the article that caused the
Lexington mob and the removal of the
True American office to Cincinnatti. Clay
now appealed to the people to say wheth
er it was fair that this article should be
read unless accompanied by the statement
so often made by Major Turner, that the
article in question was written by a South
Carolina planter, as many of his friends
believed, for the express purpose of break
ing down his press,) and sent to his office
and printed while he was lying sick of
the typhod fever. The article, he said,
was as repulsive to his feelings, and views
as it was to Major Turner's or any other
man's and if he had not been confined
to a bed of sickness it should never have
appeared in his paper. Mr, William L.
Neale, the printer of the True American,
was on the ground, and would confirm the
statement.
Maj. Turner continued his speech, af
ter this interruption, and when he conclu
ded, C. M, Clay took the stand for the
purpose of making a kind of apology to
the people for the interruptions he had
caused. He again stated that he thought
each party were entitled to be heard, and
that each should be allowed a fair division
of the time. That the friends of right
and justice by such a course had nothing
to lose; for if the Emancipationists held
incendiary notions, and advocated princi
ples opposed to the best interests of the
country, the people would judge of them
correctly and put them down, while if their
principles were founded in right and jus
tice, it was certainly not wrong that they
should be known in order that they may
be upheld and supported. After making
his explanation, which did not occupy
more than two minutes, he was leaving the
stand, when Maj. Runyon, a lawyer of
Richmond, at a considerable distance off.
plied him with questions, and Clay, with
the consent of Chenault, who claimed the ;
stump, endeavored to answer him. Some
misunderstanding occurred in reference to
the disposition made of the School Fund,
in which Runyon pronounced a statement
made by Clay false and untrue. Clay
referred to an act of the Legislature in
proof of his assertion, and finally told
Runyon, who had interrupted him before,
that he was a mere tool of Turner, and
was obeying his master. Clay descended
from the stand in perfect good humor, and
withou; expecting a difficulty with any one,
when Maj. Turner remarked that "Run
yon was not his tool." Clay replied that
whether Turner Knew it or not he was
evidently his willing tool. Upon this,
Cyrus Turner, the son of the candidate,
stepped up to Clay, and pronounced his
statement a d d lie, and struck him in
the face. Clay was soon stabbed by some
one behind him, beat over the head with a
stick by Alfred Turner and perhaps others
and a revolving pistol was snapped four
times at his head, bursting a cap each time,
by Thomas Turner. He did not draw his
knife nor shake off the hold of those who
were clinging to him, until he perceived
the blood spouting forth from his side and
believed from the wound he must die.
With super-human effort he shook off
those who held him, encountered Cyrus
Turner and 6tabbed him.
The wound took effect in the lower part
of his abdomen, resulting in his death in
thirty-four hours.
War of Annexation. -Battle First.
The Independent, a weekly published
at Quebec, contains
statement:
the following warlike
"On Friday last, at the ordinary session
of the City Council, one of the members
proposed a motion of the nature of which
we are ignorant, but which another mem-
ocr objected to, remarking at the same
time that in three months we would be
Ayncricans. Hereupon, the member who
had brought forward Ihe motion, crossed
the hall and administered a tremendous
blow to his opponent, wnicn prosiraiea
him on the floor. The war spirit then
icated to others, and the combat
threatened to become general, when the!
r . v. r-iisr n'lin mil an
end to the quarrel ' and ejected the audi
ence." Whirry again Changing its Name.
"There is no room to doubt' that the
great republican party will present an un
broken front to the assailants of the prin
cinlf nnnn which it was marshalled at
- f - i
the late canvass." Republic!
Thus it seems (says the Washington
Union) the whig party is again undergo
ing one of its periodical metamorphoses.
It is a renuine humbuff. L.erv six or
t) a
eiht vears it sroes throurrh all the stages
of change egg, grubb, chrysalis but
always comes out a genuine bug a hum
bug the veritable thing in color, shape
and nature, which it was before the trans
formation. It has gone through many of
these periodical changes even in our day
It besran its beiner under the name of the
"federal partv." It was then compo
sed of the tories, monarchists, and aristo
crats of the revolution the men who
hated and despised democracy in all its
forms, and sighed only for the establish
mcnt of such a glorious government as
that of Great Britain, even "with all its
corruptions. Having been defeated by
the democratic party under the head of
Mr. Jefferson, it became the "commerce
party during the embargo, rrom 1807
to 1812 it was the "war party," andloud-
ly clamored for war with England. Af
ter war was declared, it became the
peace party," and gave "aid and com
fort" to the enemy, as it has since done to
Mexico. From that time, it has assumed
various forms and names. It has been the
"national republican party," the "demo
cratic whig party," the " whig party," and
has now become the "great republican
party. Still the rogue is known, under
whatever alias it may assume; and it will
be. It can no more disguise its true char
acter than a leopard can wipe out its spots.
That distinctly appears in all its phases
and metamorphoses. It is the party for.
ever at war with the true interests of the
masses. It is the party that builds up
banks and corporations, and goes for high
duties and taxes, that it may pamper its
pnveleged favorites. In short, it ever bat
tles for the capital of money against the
capital of labor. Instinctively conscious
that its nature and its designs arc odious to
to the people, it seeks to attain its ends by
deception and chicanery. Hence its change
of form and name, and its professions of
principles, which it docs not believe in nor
carry out m practice.
The Republic says Hcnrv Clay belongs
to this "great republican party. bo does
Daniel Webster. They both, it is said,
have received favors from, arc pledged to
sustain, the Taylor administration. That
is enough. Democrats now know what
sort of a cat is covered up in the meal of
the great republican party."
Something Xcw Under the Sun!
A brig is about to be dispatched from
Chicago, (in the heart of the American
continent, direct for San Francisco. She
not going over the Rocky Mountains,
but down the Jiakes and the Kivcr ot.
Lawrence, and then around Cape Horn.
Says the Chicago Journal:
"A new held of enterprise is now open
to the ship owners of the west by the late
alteration of the British Navigation Laws,
which will permit them to send their ves
sels through the St. Lawrence to the At-
antic and in" view of this, we are inform
ed, the owners of the brig HelfeeStein are
determined in sending her out in a few
weeks. The plan is to form a company
with a capital of 23,000 divided into
shares of $1,000 each about one half of
which is already taken. The owners of
the brig desire to retain one quarter of the
interest and she may be despatched du
ring the month of August for San Francis
co. A few shares may be obtained on ap
plication to John P. ilelfenstein, Esq., at
Milwaukie, from whom full information
can be now obtained."
Annexation of Canada.
A Toronto correspondent of the Roches
ter Daily Advertiser, confesses his positive
conviction that a majority of the people of
Canada are willing te be annexed to the
government of the United States. His
language, it will be seen bv the following
extract, is very decided:
I believe the time to have arrived when
annexation could be effected if it depended
upon a majority of the Canadians. I have
come to this conclusion by mixing with
all classes of society, and by close obser
vation, i ou cannot enter the house of
any well informed man in Canada, and
broach the subject of politics, but annexa
tion is spoken of as a cure for all our pre
sent mislortunes, and the fact is, that until
we have annexation wc shall have no
peace, no prosperity or safety, in the pro
vince.
A Loxo Runaway Match. A letter
from New York to the Philadelphia Inqui
rcr, dated on Thursday, details the follow
ing incident:
"Yesterday afternoon a very handsome
German girl, accompanied by a Pole, also
good looking, were presented to the May
or by an interpreter,- (neither of them
could speak a word of English,) but the
interpreter made known to his honor the
object of their visit to him, which was to
request him to join them in the holy bands
of matrimony. Our amiable mayor, after
satisfying himself that all was right, acted
as they desired, and the twain are. now
one. It appears they both eloped; that
the parents of each objected to the mar-
i , .
j w w -omc t0
and accomnlUK
pose
The will leave again in
steamer, and it is to be hoped thev
happy. The gentleman vas rW
remaining here a few months, but the l 5
'rod,,-
wanted to go home and see her m.v.sJ
This is about
that has taken place for a long time,"
mv. mni;i., run-awn- .
Infest from Santa Fe.
News has been received from Sans r I
to the 5th of June. The Santa Fe GcJ'
under Capt. Chapman, had afight within
miles from Avoqua.
HI-
The Indian Chief
and
tliirtv ofiJ
warriors were killed in the battle, f.
Chief was killed by Lieut. Hendricks
The Guards had three men mortally,
one slightly wounded. The Indians
finally routed though they numbered 3;
in the fight.
The Apaches arc very troubletect J
They recenUy made an incursion fci
New Mexico, killing ten American. 4
band of white robbers, led by the tctoriaa
Dr. Leman, are still committing dep.
tions. 1 he California kmigranti '.
o " u -.
wen out by the way of Fort Smith, cc-'.
plained that the route is a very bad or.e.
Eold and Striking Thonglit-
The Erie Observer, in commenting iV.
on 31 r. W ebster s assertion on the floo
of the Senate, that California "vris'ni'
worth a dollar, employs the followir,!
striking language: "Had an Europec?
sovcreigu acquired such a possession, hif
torians and poets would have vied inthei-
eulogies. But the wise and far sceisj
man to whose indomitable energy and lor?
of country the Union is indebted for thk
acquisition now sleeps in dc?th, in th? ,
State of his nativity; but this monumcr'
to his fame is left us, to be enjov-ed by th
millions of his grateful countrymen, andr
will require neither poet nor historian t:
render his fame as lasting as the hills ace'
valleys, that' are now sending their golde'
streams among us, to render the falsehood
and ingratitude of the whig party the more
striking. To James K. Polk and the
Democratic partv does the country aye,1
and the world owe the possession of thii 4
mine of power, by a people who willuw'
it, only for the welfare of mankind. Hid
Louis Phillippc possessed the golden sands
of California, think you France would now
be free? Think you the shout of liberty '
would now be ringing from Paris to Vien
na, and along the banks of the Rhine!
Think you the republicans of Hungary, L
Germany and Rome would be defying thr
Austrian and the Cossack that Bern and f
Kossuth would be leading their hosts to-
iciurv' io, me guiucii ums ui Vauiur-
nia in the hands of Louis would hav?
quenched the last spark of Republican'
in Continential Europe! Had Eng '
as she had endeavored to, obtained, v
sessions of this El Dorado of wealtli; , .
any body suppose that it would have bCe-3
used for any other purpose than to strength-'
till. X " W VlAfc J U-lAt ttlWI 1K
chains of the people tighter! England,
with this acquisition, that we were told t'
was "not worth a dollar." would be invin-r
cible. Her arm would b3 felt in 'every;
contest her power would be acknowK
edffcd in every court, and EuroDe would H
be at her feet. But thanks to the policy!
of that party which has made this repub-:
lie what she is the asvlum of the op-
pressea ot enery nation it was ordaincc
otherwise, and the gold of the Sacramento,
instead of becoming a curse, will be a ble-
sing to
mankind."
The Mobile Register and Journal, in uV
course of a rowing up of Henry Clay and I
Thomas II . Benton for alleged treachery
to the South, observes: '
"It must be confessed, that the doctrinr
of Free Soilism and Anti-Slaverv ha.
during the past year, spread most fearful-
ly among the parties at the North, and arf
beginning to preponderate over all othc:
political considerations. It is unfair to
censure the Democrats of that section, fo:
this for they alone have stood up at any
time in defence of our rights, or given any
obstruction to the career of .our enemies
That they now desert us is owing to the
fact, that wc have been unfaithful to our
selves that one-half of the slave-holding J
States, in the last Presidential elections
cast their suffrages in opposition to the only
candidate a Northern Democrat, too
who was pledged to veto the J fllmot Pro
viso, ?k use the 'influence of the Presi
dency against Free-Soilism,"
Rome. The Evening Post had a letter
from an American at Rome, which says ?
"The people are unanimous in favor of I
l T ui: " ....1 i-r
course are desirous that the Pope should -return,
with all his temporal power. The
great bone of contention is, whether Pius ;
IX. shall be a temporal and ecclesiastical t
sovereign, or whether his power bendta
shall be. confined to church matters, lea?-'
ing the. republic to regulate civil affairs."
A Dandy Robbed. The lodgings
of
dandy were lately robbed of a pair 01
stays, a smelling botde, two pair of arti
ficial eye-brows, and a white surtout, in
pocket of which there were three love-lct-:
tcrs, written to himself, in his own hand
writing. ....
Deserters for Love and Gold. Th i
whaling barque Smyrna, from the Pacific,
arrived at Newport on Saturday, 'Capt.
Coffin reports that her. late, commander
(Hilman) left the vessel and got married
at Callao and that most of her crew desert-;
ed her at Callao and went to California
The cholera is increasing in Cincinnau-
riage, so they
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