Mae for the clod that is resting now Oa those iltntibering eyes: on that faded brow! %Vo fur the cheek that has ceased to bloom: Fur the lips ,that are dumb in tint nuisomel tomb; Their melody broken, their fragrance gone: Their aspect cold as the Pollan stoner Alas, for the hopes that with thee hove died U'A, loved ooe ! would I were by thy side! Yet the 'joy of grief' it is mine to bear; I hear thy voice lathe twilight air, 'l'hy smile of sweetness untold I see, When the;visions of evening are borne tome The kiss on my dreaming lip is warm,— My arm embraces thy yielding form; Then I wake in a world that is sad and drear, To tee! in my bosom: thou art not here!' The morning had already - began to fire l the eastern horizon. beyond the distant wilderness, and to sparkle on the rive',• when i parted with the Snake Et',',er, and purs•►ed my journey. On my return from the great metropolis of the M'ssissip pi, I found that lie had died, and gone to rejoin the lost treasures of his affection, in a clime where sorrow has no residence, & where neither reptile nor poison can enter• • •The writer has now in his possession al curiosity from the far West, in the shape a large prairie-beetle, which is conr„. se d, among other ingredients, of paper and woodAt the end of every claw anti reeler, where they are attached to the body, are small hits of lead , imPr , !•;; ll ....ted with loadstone. This 10 lotion performs all the movententn of t:ne actual beetle, moves and ;rxteu , ls it e limbs, precisely like nature. It would puzzle the profoundest entomologist, on a common examination, .to wotte wheth er that it livedde, or was dede.' TEXAS. By an arrival at New Orleans, Texas dated to the 20th ult. haae been received. E. H. Bee has been appointed Secretary 'of State, and Gen. Johnson Secretary of War. Gen. Rusk will be 'nominated to ;the Senate for Chief Jnstice. The death 'of the Hon. John A. Wharton is announ ced. Several of the mns respectable and :influential Mexican ci:cizens living near ,the borders of Texas, had arrived at Bex 'sr, and expressed the desire of the resi dents of Coahuila anti Tamaulipas to con ,tract friendly relations with the Texians 'and of ,iei.aing them in an expedition against tte Camanches. The Mexican —.es e 1... troops !rave all been withdrawn from the lboundary of Texas, and some of the offi- Latest and Interesting frons;cer6 becoming disgusted with the Maxi- M VERA CRUZ TAKEN BY THE exico. t le,gi h g n overnment, have determined to quit e country. FRENCH. We learn, says the New York Star, P• By the subjoined, Which we received that Gen. Henderson, the Texian repro last;! evening in a slip from the New Or- !mutative to leans bee, of the Ist inst., it will be seen h as closed a commend arrangemen t,the French Government , whereby the ports of 1 exas and France that the Mexicans, refusing to abide by r t e o v e nto the . vessels and products the treaty made with the French after the cre loss of San Juan de Ulloa, have been each other . f may t be cono id and again defeated, and have lost the city of as a av i ation of he policy ofFrance as , regards our new sta Vera Cruz. This is probably tont the end views ter Republic, and ollowing the example of the war, nor the contest.—U.S.Gazette, of Great Britian, (who entered into a 41m- The brig Kenhawa, which arrived last ifar arrangement some time since,) it may evening from Laguna, which she left on be considered as furnishing good evidence the 16th December. brings interesting „f a speedy and more formal recognition intelligence derived from the British bar- of the Inilependence of Tens, on the que Pere, from Seer:lll6os, then at Lego Pat of both England and France. Tex na. Front this source we learn that the as will not then want the means, either to town of Vera 'l'rtiz has been taken by the pay off her debt, (which is but small,) or French, after a bombardment. The to develops her vast resources. • icati General Arista was taken prisoner by the French. And General Santa Ana was so grievously wounded as to render necessary the.aineu team] of a leg. The Mexican government, not willing to recognize the treaty entered into be tween Admiral Muffin and General Rin con, and having declared war upon the French Doverntnent, General Santa Ana pieced himself at the head of 5,0(0 men and entered Vera Cruz in spite of the treaty. Admiral Hamlin having learned that Santa Ana was advancing towards the city, sent' number of boats filled with troops, with orders to spike the cannon of the batteries at Vera Cruz. While they were engaged in this !aim', the Mexicans' came upon them, and slaughtered a con siderable number of officers and soldiers. The French were compelled to retreat to • wards the squadron, which opened a hea vy fire upon the town, dislodged the Mex icans, and took possession of Vera Cruz. We have been unable to ascertain the ex act loss on either side. We subjoin an extract from a letter which a commercial house has had the kindness to place in our hands, (dramatic f face,' is t unusual amo'g the fr o aternity . no The celebrated traegdian, Booth can easily flush his face with the deepest suffusion of guilt or anger and the rinct moment cause it ;to 'bear the livid hue of death. This power often adds., tremendious effect to his personations. (EIITIZAVT.) Lanctut nz Taulimos Dec, 15,1838 By the arrival of the British barque Peru, from Sacriticios, Ihave learned that Gen. Santa Ana had arrived at Vera Cruz with 5,000, and the French that were on shore spiking the guns of the batteries hail to retreat to their. boats after losing sever al hors and men. It appears the terms of the capii.:!laion with the commander of San Juan de Uiloa were, that the French should keep pessesiiOn.at the cast le.' and the Mexicans of Vera c:uz, until the de cision of the King of Brant: was learned, but the blockade was to be raisu'd immedi ately, but it is said that the Mexit:ta gov eminent' has disapproved of the ctp:.*ala tion, and declared war agat;:qt Franc.". I believe it, as the garrison ofVet:: Cruz was not to exceed 1,009 men, and as I as the French learned that Santa Ana was coining. they lunded,on the morning of the 3J about 3 o'clock, to spike the gins, and the vessels commenced throw tng bombs into the barracks to dislodge the troops. It is also true that Santa Ana drove the French into their beats, and • he received a severe wound in the engage tnent, anti has since had his leg amputa ted. General. Arista is a prisoner of the French. LATE FROM FLORID Al [Private Correspontreneel St Augusta, Dec. 19,, 1838 ' , Gen. Taylor has done nothing, ye/ since the opening of the campaign, and I fear the spring will come upon him before his army trial bare captured even an fridi• an woman. The policy of the Govern ment in relatiun to this war seems to 5e entirely changed since the last season.! Then die army moved in large bodies with effecting nothing but the most' wasteful expenditure of public money that as ev lr heard ol; now, the troops are in very onall bodies at posts across East Florida. raking roads through the swamps, as it is said for 'the purpose of keeping the Indi ans south of this line,' so that 'the plan ters mabbe safe on the north of it' LIP . : well this has succeeded 'thus far. •we nil can judge from the murders t' !flitted every few days, " ..at are - en wit'in a few miles of 'Grarey.'s erry.' m:nere is the before General,. depot - of;ithe army. Two days I ,„; “ there, etc, on ley way here, two' .ed were MU rdered within twentyfivt :niter of us.—The chan g e, also, in the ex pendite res is very great. What they call econumy now is as improper as their for mer extravagance; fur at prcF.nt, suffi cient is allowed to coinvaan.; what is abso- Ilutely necessary fir: successful okra ;tiens of the aly own opioibit is, that if this war. ;s ever ended, it will be by ,p mitt.% one Indians to occupy the south ;11?' of '.:.ast Florida, as 3 essup proposed." --cee- - JUST THE DIFFERENCE. In New York State, the Whigs have the ascendency for the first time for many years, and every office is filled with men of the Van Buren creed. Aware of the likelihood of changes, a writer i►► the New York Evening Post, (a real Van Buren pa per,) thus talks: 'The Whigs have it in their power to' do a great good in this State, to set a high example, and thus dispose many of their opponents to think very differently of their policy from what they do at present. But herets no reason to believe that they will, do it. Their motto is "a clean sweep!", Nothing but this will satisfy their aveng. big spirit, and cormorant appetite for of. fice." All this because the Whiga have the power and the Van Buren men the offices. In Maryland, a Van Buren Governor has recently been elected, while most of the appointed officers are of course Whigs —and the Baltimore Republican, an out and out Van Buren paper, holds the fol• lowing language: “We would volunteer a word of com , fort, to certain office, holders, who under the late regimen, have enjoyed for years the cream of the state. And that is, so long as the leopard retains his spots, the Ethiopean, the color of his skin, and whiggery its vile and destructive charac ter, even so long will it be, before you are permitted to thrust, your genteel paws in to the public purse: The people have sat in judgment, and require the dismissal of the entire troop of these vile cormorants; and out they must go. Although some of these cringing, whining sycophants, are. praying forgiveness, and promising a mendment in order to be continued in place:—We say dismiss slim to a man.” All this because the Van Buren men have the power, and the whigs the offices • We e ':+nol know that we could present vim of the movements. than party • than is obnj n „ !hroul the pair of spec lades above.g• elle' —..,_...ci te_ - '5^. -- '."" BARK Ronnans.—A daring at tempt, was on Friday night, th:.`"l e ., -63 ;,.° ll the Union Bank of Charleston, F, L.. ", e learn from the Patriot of Saturday In that the robber:got admittance during the day, into the cellar, in which he conceal ed himself in a part of it used to deposit coal, by surrounding his body with so large a mass of this substinance as effeetu al lY to elude the observation of two of the officers of the Bank who make a nightly ex amination oh the cellar. Au officer of the Batik was engaged 'writing therein, until 11 o'clock. Subsequently to this, the thief bored auger holes in the floor frum his position in the cellar, and made al space in the flooring large enough to ad mit his body. He then broke upon Jo ar- ly all the desks and drawers, ah.dtrac-ted from seventy to eighty della.: a ir i money, besides several articles 1 'of doething, but not being able to 1 ),n• '..r0 1 , the vaults, this was the whol e .... Ito' tof hisbooty.He then must I the an the . wig' "aye, a of She Bank, looking into the, • ~:et, and made his escape, closing the Isl'Aitters after him, and leaving his light lextinguished on one of the desks. ALMOST AN ACCIDENT. The city of N. Y. was thrown into a great ferment on ,Thursdtv . u,y a report Ithat Captain Sivainson, of the . Royal Wil lliam steamer, had been drowned by being backed off the deck at the foot of Pike st. in a hackney coach. After making prop er inqUiries, the following were ascertain t to be the state of facts connected with this direful disaster. A coachman na med James NVelsh driving hack No. IS4, ;was engaged to take ,two!gentlemen from one of the Theatres, to the foot of Pike st. When he arrived there, his passengers re quested hi:n to turn the carriage around before they got out, and cleared off with out his knowledge. By some missmanagement, [he being full Bled at the time,] his horses, carriage and himself backed oft the dock, and he was very near being drowned before he was re covered by some watchmen. As it was he lost one of his horses, and after soak ing in the cold water about 15 minutes, he was taken out and marched off to the watch house, where he was kept all night. As soon as he was fairly . recovered, he mentioned that there were two persons in the carriage, and accordingly, prompt measures sere taken to get it from the water, but on raising it, it was found to be empty, and 'both doors were one and fast, thus proving that no one had been drowned. As it was, he was most dread fully frightened, and probably will not venture near 'the river again at night, fur some time, more especially, wheo he has been sacrificing to Bacchus.-- courier. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-OH Tuesday evening last, Mr. John Worley, a respec table timer of Antrim township in this county, suddenly lost his life by the acci dental discharge of a gun in his own hands —by which accident, a wife and a family of children have been bereaved et an af fectionate and provident husband and pa rent, and the community, of a worthy u.selul citizen.- -Chanibersburg Repub. MORE LAWLESS PATRIOTISM. A letter of the 2nd inst. from Oswego, received in this city, states that on the previous day, the Collector having heard of two brass field pieces being concealed near the bridge, notified the fact to Captain Gwynn, commanding the United States force thee. lie detached a file of men to seize them. A mob, however, interfered to prevent this, when the whole company were called out to execute the buss less. Even they, however, were unable to effect it, The mob, amounting to several hun dred, prevented their taking the cannon, which, after, the soldiers had returned to their barracks, the mob paraded and re peatedly fired, as if in derision, and finish ed by burning the United States Marshal in effigy. Such is the story as related to Investigation Demanded. We have not a doubt but it emu be shown by an honest investigation that the Keystone has swindled the State out ut• UWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS within the last two pars, and yet it has ,the audacity to charge others of "defraud ing" the Treasury. We have often call ed for an investigation; but the Loco Fe ces have sternly resisted it. One fact alone, of which the proof can be found in the Commissioner's Office of every county in the Commonwealth, goes conclusively to establish the swindling. In 1835-6, we received for printing the Journal of the House of Represetatives, less th, n $6.000, although there was an extra session, and more business dono than has ever been done by nny other Leg. slature. In 1837-8, the Keystone receiv ed upwards of $16,000, for printing the Journal. An increase of $lO,OOO, on a iltort session!! ! In the other printing done by the Key stone, we have no doubt but the same swindling scheme has been carried on to its ILL! extent. When the day of reek oning conies wepresume that they will follow the example of the Sub-Treasuries in giving "leg bail." Penn's. Telegraph. Public Plundering on the Loco Fuco Systein. . Within the last year it has been discov. erect that the United States Treasury has been robbed of upwards of TIMER At UJ.IONS by the officeholders of the IGeneral C•:.'rerument--and the Pennsyl- I vnia leeches are yet to satisfy. The Loco Focosarb Ali !! t to obtain rule in PelL'isy:Yania, when the packets of the Farmers And Mechanics may be excected •to sweat. Thu estimated expenses of the General Government fur the present year, are 840,424C8 08! Under the "profligate and extravagant" Administration of John Quincy Adams it never amounted to 818, 000,000, Siuceit gotinto the hands of Loco Foco or plunder party, it has more than trebled. Such a result may be expected in Pennsylvania. Penn'a. Telegraph. Extract froin Washington's Farewell Address. We commend the following extract front the address of the Father, of his Country to the perusal of the advocates of the late lawless proceedings at Items burg.—P. Morning Slur. "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish a govern '!'.;:nt, presupposes the duty of every indi, victual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausable character. with a real design to direct, control, counter act or awe the regular deliberation or ac tion of the constituted authorities, are de structive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to or ganize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary feree, to put iu the place of the delegated will of the nitlion the will of a party, often a small but artful and an : terprising minority of the community, ant i I according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the pubEc ad ministration the mirror of the ill-conter ted and incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual inter ' este. However combinations or associa. Arens of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time, and things, to become potent engines, by which con ' nine, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp to themselves the reins of government, destroying after wards the very enzines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. rAlf \ • 4 - %* .40 THE JOURNAL. 'One country, one constitution, one **tiny Huntingdon Jan. 16, 1839 , Democratic sintintasonic CANDIDATES. FOR PR ESIDENT, GEN.WM,II, HARRISON lOR VICE PRESIDENT DANIEL WEBSTER. FLAG OF THE P-EiiPl4-E! A single term for the Presideney, and the office edministered for the whole 'PEO PLE. and not for a PARTY. . 17 A sound, uniform and convenient Na tional C URRENCY, adapted to the • wants of the whole COUNTRY, instead of the SHIN PLASTERS brought about by cur present RULERS. rPECONOMY, RETRENCHMENT, and RE• FORM in the administration of public affairs, ri•Tired of Experiments and Experi menters, Republican gratitude will reward unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub altern of WASHINGTON and the dosciple of JEFFERSON. and thus resuming the safe and beaten track of onr Fathers,—L. Gazette. Governor Ritner has appointed James Steel Esq. Prothonotary in the place of R. Campbell resigned, according to the concluding clause of the third section of the sixth article, all the appointments made since the Ist of January 1839, must continue till the next election. The election to fill the vacancy occa sioned by the death of Mr. Cassat in the Senate, took "place yesterday. Jno. F t M'Farlane, is the candidate of the Demo crats, and Thos. Q. Miller of the Loco Focus. Miller was', we believe, one of the revolutionary "committee of safety." The result of the election, we deem some. what doubtful. netting on Elections Soon after the late election, we gave I our opinion upon the criminality .of bet . ting on elections. We however, will re cur again to the subject, having our at tention called,to the subject by the con- 1 eluding part of Judge Burnside's charg e to the. grand jury.. The Judge in a few words expressed his horror of this iniqui tious practice. He considered it the cause of alt the strife, ill feeling, fraud, slid tilt committed on the election ground. ft was the fruitful mother of all corruptions arid crime that disgraced the day which shcr.gtl be held sacred by every freeman. The Freedom of •.:ty.:tion he considered the fountain of our nappy institutions—, corru r pt that, and every stream that flows from it will become polluted. Nothing can be inora true, and we `rust 4.19 t the jury will present the evil I to the Legislature as one of fearlal mag nitude, and we Lope that every good cit izen will lilt his voice in favor of the pas sage of a law, the penalty of which shall stop in all after time, the wicked and dan gerous practice. • The _Frye Senators. We have been waiting anxiously, ex pecting to get some reasons, given by tin five Senators, • who supported the resolu tion recognizing the flopltin's Rouse, al t'iough had previously declared it was, not constitutionally organized. Nothing' however, has appeared, which in any way satisfios our mind, or reeves them of tl e charge of incons'stency. 'no. Strohm has addressed a letter to his constituents but to us it is a very lame affair. We ref Bret his conduct more than any other man. His name has often been menticnel to us in conversation with the next gubernato rial contest, in such a manner, that we could not misunderstand. Since his •iconversion," we have heard the same , persone say they would not support a man vho had Ef. , .! more firMness. A few weeks since we notices 1,40 suite of Gov. Porter, when he went on his fuol•1 ish errand to Harrisburg. The Advocate) got quite cross about it, and in its usual spirited manner, sighed •'over the widows and the orphans tears." We have not had time nor room to notice it before; we dislike to be in debt, in such matters; we will close the account now. The "Advo cate" said none of the party ever "robbed the poor widows." We doubt very much whether widow Summerville will say that is true, but admitting none of theta eve r did—was there none in the company who had lied like a knave and "licked the lea ther," to prove it? Answer me that was ter Brook, The Governor's sitiessage. Never was there a public document which called forth more the denuncia-' dons of its opponents, than the last mes sage of Governor Ritner; and never was there one which required more unremit— ting party condemnation to draw the at tendon of the honest people from its plain, statement of facts. .Th prefaratory part, describing the conduct of the ruthless and unprincipled mob, and its more unprincipled leaders, makes the advocates of the rebel power writhe in agony. • Out former ll hig friend of the Lewis town Republican, is particularly zealous 'to show that Gov. Ritner "pronounced a withering satire" upon the conduct of "Stet.ens, Burrowes 4. Co." in his allu , sions to the usurpations of the m Our neighbor shows that he feels the lash properly applied, and in order to save his party says "'taint I." The causti c applied by our young Loco friend seems to strike us as being lunar, fur his commen taries have no bearing at all upon the message; and cannot affect eithei• one par• ty or the other, as arc s i town.by the fitct that it was written during the last quartet of the moon. Next we have the efervesscnce of some one of the editors of the "Advocate and Sentinel." As might be supposed it is a l spirited comment, and entirely worthy of its scou rce. • • The commencement of this strange production shows, that if not written b . )n pious David himself, he has dictated character, and it is a b-ggarly attempt, to censure a public document by buryiug it in a pile of falsehoods. Fro►n its corn mencement to the end there is hardly sentence without a lakehoOd, in the whole' Particle. it charges falsehood upon Gov. Ritner in his message, yet does not aduce one single case that its falsehood can transform it into any thing.but ;he truth• "The Governor - is a sworn officer," an oath will be a usfel article hereafter Ai He says (the writer in the Advocate) "it is useless - to begin to expose this doe meat." Exactly so, but .still you try your ingenuity to distort into something astonishingly bad, a number of sentences which the most ignorant will at once say, are as plain as the sun. The message says "certain members were admitted in accordance with the known laws of the state"—this the Advocate denies, and . say •there never was a law to admit mem: bets when oveiwitelinirgyl &fettled," If that, is true, why did you and your party send your supple, as well as miserable dupeS Frow and Eyer, on to claim their seats. Your paper counseled them to do so—did you counsel them to break the law? Did you try to make your read ers, and your senators believe that Bell and McClay could not take their seats, although you knwyour meu•to be ''orer wliebningty defeated:" Do you not I know that Bel! of Chestet, your Loco foco bell wether in the senate, holds his seat at this moment, although odefectidl" yet you pretend such holy horror of such con_ duct in our friends. 'The Advocate says 'the Governor AD MITS that he borrowed money from the President of the U. S. Bank to pay for re pairs, and to reward his partisans and. to PURCHASE VOTES to re-elect him." A plain, direct, and wilful falsehood, and we defy the writer to his proof, where any': such-disgraceful admission is made. • In another paragraph, in commenting upon the repairs, on the canal, an allusion is made tcr the defect in the Dam abore town. That our readers may understand something of this case, we will, inform them, the dam abet , e town, is the one, where the notorious Gibbons, figured as boss; until he was discharged for his inat #entiOn to his business, and we have since its occurrence, heard this "Saint" in the Porter ranks, boast that he did Lass that job. Ecrnthe "Advocate" will not deny that one of their own - friends tossed that Again it says "the whole is worse limn ,not [.paired al all." Now we desire ev ery man who has one spark of honesty re maining, to say if they do not know the above to be false? we ask every boatman . who passed up the canal last fall if it is not untrue. The writer dues not like Gov. kiiner'it censure upon the wicked-.extravagance the Loco Foco Legislature last fall which squandered all the public treasure. The people must well remember the mammoth Bill, and the Governor's Veto--any aliu sion to the extravagance of that party makes them very "wrothy." Neither does he like the Governor's statement that a part of the permanent State Debt has been paid off. And goes on and enumer ates the temporary loans made since Rit ner's adininistratioir has been in rower, but entirely forgets to notice the. tempora lry loans which had to be paid by him, al. though contractrd by Goo. ,Woltz He forgets to notice the item in Daniel Star. lovon'S Report of 'MITCHELL SCRIP' —he does not think of that. 1)o our rea ders know what 'mitchcil scrip" tneanst it means money paid for debts contracted 'by one Wm, Mitchell, a supervisor or au, i perintenclent on the Columbia Rail Road. who kept the money he drew from ill, Treasury, for hi 4 own use, and issued': ''scrip" -to such as he owed, pretending he had no public funds; and then when he had about TWENTY THOUSAND DOLT:ARS of Plunder, lie Made tracks "westward hot" and now the State ins • paying his "scrip"—yet not. one of these things are thought of, by the veracious writer. We ask our readers to read the message carefully, and the paltry misrer . resentations of the pensioned villifler cannot mislead them. • Thaddeus Stevens Esq., has addressed a letter to his constituents, declaring his intention to return 'tome, and to stay with them, unless,•they.instruct hm other. wise. We trust that they will do so, for we can ill brook the lots of his ein7tiebt ser vices in the Legislature.' True he ran a. wail but little there, egrun4 overt% helm ing members, yet .when any grois ,and glairing assault is made upon any of our institutions, his arm alone can stay the - assailant until the sovereigns thetnsedves can hove time to be heard: His fearless, bold and energetic manners, and his toe ering eloquence, would astouish„if not frighten the marauders from their work 'of destruc!ion. • We shall rejoice to here that Mr. Stevens has taken his seat again in the Hall. It is also said, that. Mr. Cox of Somerset • also has s'gnilled his intention nut to re— sume his place in the liodse of Represen tatives. We earnestly hope that the in . jured feelings of that Gentleman, will not make him yield his whole county into he hands of the Goths and Vandali.. They would exult in the fact. They, mould glory in the uncontrolled commat4 that they had over our institutions, matt our treasure. Go back we say to every democrat, & if you cannot triumph over; scare thevul. tures':from their 'prey. Once they have succeeded in their disregard of the laws, and if allowed to go on unchecked, ere a. nother year is passed they will run riot over 'every thing we hold dear. Go tack. sacrifice your individual feeling upon the , altar of your country, and devate your un-, ceasing energies to secure us from another, like disgrace; and our country and her in stitutions from the. on tbreakineof any mob ' hereafter. Yesterday wits the day avpUintr4l by t)e . ew Constitution fur the Coie: nor 'e be Inaugurated,
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