THE JOURNAL.
liuntingdon, Wednesday, May 26, 1817.
W HIG NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR:
GEN, JAMES IRVIN,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER:
JOSEPH W. PATTON,
OF CUMBERL.iND CO U.N7'Y.
[l7- Our subscribers nt ALEXANDRIA
will hereafter receive their papers at the
Public House of Robert Carmon.
At MILL CREEK, at the store of L. G.
Kessler.
na-On our first page will be found a
sketch of a speech recently delivered in
Richmond, Va., by Hon. Daniel Web
ster. It will be found by the reader to
be entirely worthy of its gifted author,
and this is all the commendation it is
necessary for us to give it.
Mr. Webster is at present making a
visit to the South, and the Southern
people appear to fully appreciate the
great intellect of New England's favorite
son. At every place on his route at
which he has stoped, he has been enthu
siastically received by the People, who
pay the most marked respect to his
great attainments, and his long and
valuable public services.
lEi=-After a long drought, we have at
length been visited by most delightful
showers of rain, commencing on Satur
day evening last and continuing, with
intervals, up to Monday evening.—
All nature appears re-animated and the
prospect of fair crops, of both fall and
spring grain, has been enhanced four
fold. The corn in the neighborhood,
we are informed by the farmers, is up
beautifully, and the present rain will
therefore have a tendency to give it a
fine start. A tolerably plentiful season
may now be fairly anticipated.
HARD LYING,
The editor of the Easton Argus, whose
publications during the present cam
paign would seem to justify his promo
tion to General Liar-in-chief of the Lo
cofoco party, recently published an arti
cle headed " Irvin at Home," from which
we extract the following :
In 1839, he became the federal candidate for
Congress in his district, but Mr. PoTrait the Dem
ocratic candidate DEFEATED him by 1200 ma
jority notwithstanding !Kyr,/ IMPORTED into
Morris Townshipc0•1000„.0) Voters—men who
had no right to vote there, but were permitted to
deposits their ballots in order to cheat and swindle
Irvin into office. He knew that he could nut be
elected by FAIR means, end was therefore deter
mined to do it by FOUL means."
This article has been going the rounds
of the Locofoco papers of the State, with
the exception of those published in this
Congressional district. The falsehoods '
it contains are a little too glaring to be
published near the home of Irvin. No
one in this district, either Locofoco or
Whig, could be made believe that Gen.
Irvin ever even meditated, much less
perpetrated a fraud upon the ballot box.
He is known here to be honest in all his
transactions of life, and therefore inca
pable of using any unfairness whatever.''
And it is also well known here that Gen.
Irvin had nothing whatever to do with
employing the hands upon the Canal who'
voted in Morris township in 1838. And
it is equally well known that the whole
vote polled in that township at the elec
tion alluded to, only amounted to 800,
of which the Locofocos had 73; yet this
lying editor has the boldness to assert
that 1000 votes was imported into Mor
ris township by Gen. Irvin. The Whig
majority of the resident voters of Morris
township in 1838 was about 300, which
was swelled by the workmen on the
Canal to 656. So that 365, in place of
1000, was the amount of the extra vote
on that occasion.
It would require more space than we
are willing to occupy to notice all the
falsehoods contained in the article from
which this basely lying paragraph is
taken. Enough has been shown to sat
isfy all that Locofocoism is hard run for
arguments to use against the election of
Gen. Irvin, when they have to resort to
such base publications as the above.—
Such shameless falsehoods w►ll recoil
upon the heads of their authors. The
object at which they are aimed—the pri
vate charaoter of Gen. Irvin—is imper
vious to them all, and instead of injuring
his chances of an election, will but ren
der it doubly sure.
From the North American.
TII POLZ AND SANTA AN
NA TREASON.
We find the following in the Ledger
of Saturday, and are constrained to in
vite our citizens to a thoughtful consid
eration of its developements. We ex
tract it from the regular Washington
correspondence of that journal:
Victory round on every side and not a drop of
comfort. Peace is apparently as far off as ever.—
We shall, for want of a power to treat with, be
obliged to keep possession of a goodly portion of
the conquered territory, and to fortify and hold all
the strong places in our hands.
ith the defeat of Santa Anna, my hope of
peace is! considerably diminished, for however
strongly the opposition peers may have railed
against what it was pleased to call "the ,p a tie port
granted to that chief," certain it is that our best
hopes of peace rested on him, and that nothing but
the impossibility of sustaining himself in Mexico.
has thus far battled his efforts to make Congress
agree to the proposition of our government to
send commissioners.
The tone of his warlike despatches was from the
commencement forced upon him by the circum
stances in which he was placed, and perfectly un
derstood here by the l'resident and his Cabinet.—
Banta Anna's only hope of success consisted in
first satisfying the national vanity of his country
men, or availing himself of seine lucky accident,
to turn, for a moment, the fortunes of war, and to
improve that moment for concluding a peace. He
came very near such a chance at Buena Vista but
the battle of Cerro Gordo has put an end to his
prospects, and with them, to our calculations of
peace from that quarter.
It is our first duty to inquire the
source of these terrible developements
of a most fearful and disgraceful trea
son; for unless this be the mere hallu
cinations of lunacy, or the idle slanders
of a print wholly out of the pale of cre
dit, there is that in it which demands
attention. We assert that it is of a
source worthy of grave consideration,
one immediately connected with this ad
ministration. The correspondent of the
Ledger is known to be a property of this
administration—an ultra Locofoco. It
is known that he is in the confidence
the Government, especially of the
State Department, and that he has re
peatedly been made, in advance of the
press, the organ of its divulgements to
the public. We cannot, therefore, and
we do not doubt, that in the above com
munication he has given truthfully the
views of the administration.
And this belief is rendered the more
confident by the knowledge, that the
President in his annual message admit
ted the existence of an intrigue with
Santa Anna. He did this—enough of
itself to cover the government and the
country with shame, and to rouse every
honest heart in our confines to mutiny
and rage ; but he did more—he recogni
zed a still continued connexion, and
promised, even then, that Santa Anna
would yet procure us a peace. Let this
be remembered in conjunction with the
other facts.
To effect this purpose, it was neces
sary that Santa Anna should be upheld
in Mexico. The alliance demanded that
the two Presidents should sustain each
other. To give eclat to the Mexican
miscreant, and enable him to carry out
Polk's designs, a victory was necessary.
Read the above letter, and say what
were Polk's purposes.
" The tone of his" Santa Anna's—
warlike despatches was, from the first,
forced upon him by the circumstances
in which he was placed, AND PER
FECTLY UNDERSTOOD HERE BY
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABI
NET." "AND CERTAIN IT IS THAT
OUR BEST HOPES OF PEACE RES
TED UPON HIM." " Ile came very
near such a chance at Buena Vista, but
the battle of Cerro Gordo has put an end
to his prospects, and WITH THEM, TO OUR
CALCULATION of peace from that
quarter."
Such is the language of the adminis
tration. We will not pause to charac
terise a policy so dark, so treasonable ;
but will proceed to prove, by facts, that
the plan of the administration was, as
here indicated, to give a victory to San. I
to Anna, in order that he might, to use
the words of the writer quoted above,
" turn the fortunes of war and improve
that moment for concluding a peace."
At a time when it was known, when
it was communicated by Gen. Taylor to
the administration, that Santa Anna
was gathering a large force, at San Luis
Potosi, of front 30 to 40,000 men, the
government withdrew from him without
notice or explanation, the main part of
his force, including nearly all of his re
gulars and his best officers. He was
left in a state of apparent helplessness ;
and that, too, in the face of an army four
times his number. What was the object
of this 1 An attack upon Vera Cruz.—
But why was not Santa ilnna at Vera
Cruz 1 Why did he leave the door of
Mexico open, and prefer to attack a de
tached force in an extreme section of the
republic 1 And when so unexpectedly
repelled—(" he came very near such a
chance at Buena Vista," says the ad
ministration writer quoted above)—why
did he make what his countrymen be
lieve to have been but a feint at Cerro
Gordo 1
Whether or not, authority, this letter
singularly chords with the facts. It ex-
plains the withdrawal of Gen. Taylor's
force, the orders given to hifirto retire
and afford Santa Anna a triumph over
every post this side of Monterey, bathing
the country in the blood of the gallant
American volunteers who occupied it.—
It acknowledges, in the most distinct
manner, that the intrigue with Santa
Anna has been continued to the present
time. It expresses with horrible frank
ness, a regret that Taylor and his little 1 1
host were not sacrificed at Buena Virta.
The charge of is treasonable conspire
cy between the Presidents of the two
countries, is recognized in both. The
Mexicans believe that Santa Anna is a
traitor in the pay of Mr. Polk, and seek
his life. The treason, if it exists, is
equal on the part of bot hl the contracting
parties. It is a crime which the coun
try can never by a false clemency, par
don. He who stamps a brand upon the
brow of the republic, by such a crime, is
a worse felon than any in her dungeons.
" Our best hopes of peace rested on
him," Santa Anna. There was then no
trust in the patriotism of the country, in
the valor of our army, or in the firmness
of our government. " Nothing but the
impossibility of sustaining himself in
Mexico has thus far baffled the efforts to
make the Congress agree to the propo
sition of our government." The whole
war has been a game played between the
two dark political gamblers, who, un
derstanding their mutual policy, have
played into each other's hands. .find
what of the thousands who have perished
in this terrible game? What of them,
indeed !
The lamentations of this writer over
the victory of Buena Vista, his express
ed desire that Santa Anna should have
prevailed, and our patriots have been
massacred (for such must have been the
result,) presents a picture of political
depravity too horrible for contemplation.
This is not treason merely—though it is
treason the blackest—but it is the most
insane form of sanguinary malice.—
Over the graves of McKee and Hardin
and Clay and their compatriots, the
writer laments that Taylor and Wool
and all who battled by their side, were
not laid in the same tomb. And these,
be it remembered, are the views and
sentiments of the Administration, All
should have been offered as a sacrifice
to Santa Anna "to satisfy the national
vanity of his countrymen," and enable
hint "to turn the fortunes of war and to
improve that moment for concluding a
peace."
" WAYNE GUARDS."
This company was mustered into the
service of the United States at Pittsburg
on the 19th inst. We have . been polite
ly furnished, by a member of the com
pany, with the following list of officers :
C aptain.—Jamts CALDWELL.
Ist Lieut.—Dr. A. McKamey.
2nd Lieut.—Dr. C. Bowers.
3d Lieut.—Dr. J. A. Doyle.
Sergeants.—Geo. Filey, J. L. Madison,
W. A. McMonigle, Wm, Westhoven.
Corporals.—J. L. Kidd, Jacob Shade,
C. D. Wilson, A. W. Clarkson.
We shall publish the names of the
privates as soon as received. Our cor
respondent promises to furnish us with
them.
FANATICISM.
At the recent anniversary meeting of
the American Anti-Slavery Society at
New York, the following resolution was
offered by Mr. WEHDELL PHILIPS, of Bos
ton :
Resoked, That it is the duty of every American
citizen to give his sympathy and aid to the anti-sla
very movement, and the first duty o: every citizen
is to devote himself to the destruction of that Union
and that Constitution which have already ship
wrecked the experiment of civil liberty here, and
hid fair in the end to swallow up the hopes of ev
ery honest man in a worse than military despotism;
assured ourselves that out of the wreck we may con•
fidently expect a state which includes in nobler form
those principles of independence which once made
us the admiration of the world.
When a man says foolish or wicked
things he should never put them in wri
ting. The record stands when the ex•
citement which betrayed into violence
has passed away—it stands like the
stereotyped impression of a countenance
hideously distorted, to be contemplated
in cold blood by the man himself who
wonders how he could ever have made
himself such a spectacle.
This resolve is nothing more nor less,
than rank treason, if it eminates from a
sane mind. And the author should
either be taken charge of by the officers
of the Law, or the overseer of some In
sane Asylum.
IRVIN AND SHTINK.—II is alleged as an
objection to Irvin that he has made him
self wealthy in manufacturing Iron.—
We doubt much whether Shunk has not
received more money out of the Public
Treasury than Irvin ever made in Farm
ing and making Iron. And if Gov.
Shunk has not laid up a portion of what
he has drawn from the public Treasury
for the last 20 or 30 years, it is not very
creditable to his economy. If Irvin has
laid up more from his industy than
Shunk has from his office perquisites,
the more creditable to him. Economy
is a necessary qualification for Gover
nor.—Wilkesbarre 114.
CLOSE VOTING.—In several of the Con
gressional dirtricts in Virginia the con
test has been remarkably close. In one
of the Counties the Whig candidate for
the Legislature voted for his opponent
who did not vote either way. It turns
out that the Democrat was elected by
one majority.
HOW TO PAY THE EXPENSES OF THE WAIL
We were not a little surpised a few
days ago to hear a most violent Locofoco
strenuously itisistihg that the right way
to pay the expenses of the present War
would be tit, seize upon the treasures in
the Mexican Churches, and apply them
to the use of our Government. To hear
such an idea advocated by a member of
a party which professed so mirth a love
for Catholics in 1844 was rather start
ling; but the suggestion seems not to
be confined to individuals only, for •the
press appears also to have caught the
idea, Here we have it in a Virginia
Locofoco paper :
' , The Pincastle Democrat recommends that we
seize the siker ard gold stowed in Me Catholic
Churches" of Mexico, as an indemnity for the ex
penses of the war. It says—.. There is more than
enough there—it is curs by conquest. Where it is
it is doing no part of the human family or God any
service, and it would be religiously right to return
out of these treasurers the money which their act
has forced Atlr tiovernmcnt to expend."
Those who remember the obloquy
which was heaped upon the Whigs at
the time of the Mob in Philadelphia in
1844, will be a little struck by the change
'of tune on the part of Locofocos. Then
the IA higs were nothing else but
"Church-Burners "—now these Loco
ifocos go in for CHURCH-ROBBERY,
and appropriating the property of the
' altar to our use " by conquest," or, as the
Harrisburg Union would say, "the ultimo
ratio gentium —war." The only prece
dent we have for such a sacrilege is that
of Nebuchadnezzar who robbed the tem
ple at Jerusalem of its holy vessels, and
they who would imitate his example and
that of Belshazecr, might expect to meet
a similar fate. In 1844 the cry about
" Church-burners' effected its object in
securing nearly the whole Catholic vote
for Mr. POLK ; those who were deluded
by it may now discover the sincerity of
those who then professed so warmly to '
be their exclusive friends,
OD.' The above was prepared for our
last paper but excluded by a press of
other matter. Since then, we observe
that the idea of Church Spoliation has
received official recognition at Washing
ton, and the Union—the organ of the
administration—after stating that the
Church has agreed to furnish the Mexi
can Government with the means of pros
ecuting the War, proposes to punish it
by seizing its property. That paper
says :
fn this aspect of the case. it rosy become a meta
ter of g , ave consideration, if the Church continues
to oppose a peace and furnish the fuel of war, whe
ther the immense revenues of the church in Mexi
co shall he left untouched—whether they shall be
suffered to remain at the disposal of the enemy,
and to be applied to sustain the war against us—
whether justice and policy do not equally dictate
that they should at least be sequestered during the
continuance of the war as a legitimate means of
cutting off the enemy's supplies.'
So then, Mr. Poix and his advisers,
after having realized the benefit of a false
and senseless charge of Church-burning
against the Whigs in the election of
1844, are now inclined to try their hand
at " annexing " the revenues of the Mex
ican Catholic Church for their own ben
efit I—Pa. Republican.
D-The U. S. Gazette thus answers
the question from the Pennsylvanian,
whether Santa Anna "was allowed to
pass through our squadron, with the un.
derstanding that he was to begin anew
his game of blood, and that the victims
were to be our own people'!"
Santa Anna was allowed to pass
through the blockading squadron at a
time of war!
Santa Anna was known to be a gener
al of unbounded popularity and consum
mate ability!
Santa Anna had never left the cock
pit for the field, without begining anew
his game of blood ! l !
And it was known that that bold man
could have no other victims than our own
people ! !! I
We are dealing with FACTS; let our
cotemporaries of the Pennsylvanian draw
the inference.
Santa Anna's Pass.
The following is published as a copy
of the pass granted by Mr. Polk, author•
izing the admission of Santa Anna into
Mexico, to take command of the army
in that country:
"The commander of our naval forces
in the Gulf of Mexico is hereby notified
NOT TO OBSTRUCT THE PASSAGE
of General 4ntonia Lopez de Santa 4nna
and suite to Mexico, should he desire to
return thither.
"May 15, 1846. JAMES K. POLK."
How it has been made public, it is not
stated—probably through the instrumen
tality of some naval officer. We have
no reason to doubt its genuineness, and
should be glad if the Union would en
lighten us with its present opinion as to
the "blunder in diplomacy," of which
Mr. Polk has been accused in granting
this document.—N. Y. Gaz.
THE CI N CINNATI ATLAS nominates
Gen. Winfield Scott as President, and
John J. Crittenden as Vice President of
the United States.
From the Pennyslaania Telegraph ,
Tricks of the Enemy.
Recollect that while FRANCIS R. STIUNK
was laboring to render your brave Soldier. comfor
table and contented, on their way to the tented
field, and even PLEDGED HIS PRIVATE
MEANS, limited ae they are, to providifor
Easton Argus.
From this to the election, every Lo
cofoco paper will contain some newly
vamped up falsehood, introduced to the
reader with imposing captions, printed
in hlack-letter capitals—the kind of type
the Locofoco editors usually head their
articles With to arrest attention, provi
ded the fillsehood is one of the first
magnitude ; a real "astounding, startling,
alarming, departure from the truth.—
The greater the " LIE ; " the more
" startling" its manner of introduction
to the reader. Whenever you too the
words printed in capitals in a Locofoto
paper, you may rest well assured it is a
falsehood so VILE that the editor does
not believe it himself, but which he ex
pects by words " full of SOUND and Fuss,
signifying NOTHING," to impose upon
others,
In reference to the above paragraph
from the "Easton Argus," we have only
to say, that it is, from BEGINNING
TO END ; as VILE and contemptible a
fabrication as has ever been committed
to paper by mortal man, and persons
here who know the facts, are Willing to
declare that he did not give TEN DOLLARS
to 4, provide for soldiers ; on their way
to the tented field," but on the contrary
he did what was in his power to prevent
the Harrisburg company from going at
all And it may be proper to give the
facts in relation to this Matter. After
the company was raised, and properly
equipped, they made preparations for
leaving the next morning ; but they were
Informed that evening that no arrange
ments had been made for their convey
ance to Pittsburg ; and that very proba
bly none could be made by the State
Government. Fortunately, however, a
gentleman from Lancaster, who had
come here to witness their departure,
made the arrangements HIMSELF, and
ladvanced from his private funds suffi
cient to defray their expenses to Pitts
burg. The key to Gov. Shank's indif
ference in this matter was because they
had called themselves the "Cameron
Guards,"--natimd after a gentleman not
on very intimate terms With his Excel
lency; either private or politically. But
this is not all of the affair. When a
collection was raised in this place, to
procure the Volunteers comfort—such as
clothing and blankets—his Excellency
subscribed Six Dollars, when many
of our citizens in a less degree of circatn
stahces, subscribed 10, 15, 20 and 25
dollars ! and others 30, 40, 50 and 60
dollars ! ! And when the committees re
ported at the meetings convened for
that purpose, a motion was Made that
the contributions be published, but his
Excellency's particular friends, knowing
the result of such a procedure, instantly
rose and protested, and hoped that the
Committee would go round again before
the donations should be published. But
the meeting ; from motives of pity to
some of the contributors, resolved that
they should not be published. Many of
our citizens will remember the exprev
sions of the "Guards," in relation to
these matters. They were any thing
else than expressions of gratitude for
Shank's generosity:
These facts are notorious here, and
hence the Locofocos have not dared to,
say anything in relation to them; but
try to manufacture capital elsewhere.—
We consider this the very quintessence
of meanness, and deserves to be exposed
to the people, whose votes they are at
tempting to secure by misrepresentation
and falsehood.
Exports of Bread Stuffs.
According to a statetnent in the Phil
adelphia American s the total export of
Breadstuffs from the United States, from
the Ist of September, 1846, to Ist May ;
1847, has been :
Of Flour, barrels, 4,248,766
01 Corn Veal
Of Whedt, bushels ; 2,045,432
Of Corn, " 11,007,441
Allowing five bushels of wheat to a
barrel of flour and the same quantity to
a barrel of don) meal, the result would
give --Total export of flour and wheat
equal to 23,289,263 bushels of wheat.--
Of corn meal and corn equal to 14,026,-
435 bushels of corn.
Of these large aggregates the city of
Baltimore has contributed its full share.
The exports of Breadstuffs from the
port of Baltimore during the rust eight
months,--that is, from the Ist Septem ,
ber, 1846, to 30th April, 1847,—were
as follows, ascertained from offi'ciaf
sources down to 15th March, and from
private sources for the subsequent six
weeks :
Flour, 513,•149 barrels..
Corn Meal ! 55,124 "
Wheat, 81,302 bushels.
Corn, 1,270,411 "
The great bulk of these shipments
from Baltimore was,
of course, to Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland. Their ag
gregate value, at a fair average, in our
market, is but little, if any, short of
four millions of dollars.
The Philadelphia Galaxy says an ar
tist of that city painted a cow and cab
bage so natural that he was obliged to
separate them before he had finished,
because the cow commenced eating the
cabbage!
FROM GEN, SCOTT'S ARMY,
The steamer James L. Day from Vera
Cruz, arrived at N. Orleans, on the 10th,
bringing among her passengers Gen.
Pitlow and Col. MAY, the latter having
got beard at Brazos.
The city of Puebla had sent a deputa
tion to Gen. SCOTT, and will make no re
sistance to his occupation of that place.
Arrangements had been made to de
fend the capital, but after Gen. Pillow
was on board at Vera Cruz he received
a message from shore stating that an
express had arrived with intelligence
that the Mexican Government had aban
doned the capital, taking with it the
archives, and that the citizens had sent
a deputation to Gen. Scott to advance
and afford them protection.
Proclamations were being circulated
by the Mexicans calling for the organi
zation qf guerilla regiments, which plan
of war- fare was to be adopted on an ex
tensive scale.
In consequence of sickness, death, and
loss in battle 3 it is said that Gen. Scott
will not have left more than about 5,000
effective men, after the return of the
volunteers, whose time shortly expires,
and whom Gen. PilloW states will return
almost to It man. Of the seven regi
ments he says not a coinpany will re
main.
Santa Anna's . ariny was entirely dis
persed, and he, wholly without power
and influence, was seeking to leave his
country,
Gen: Taylor remained at Monterey,
and the main body of his army at Buena
Vista, without any, prospect of an imme
diate advance. All the new troops re
cently intended for him were, under a
new order sent to Vera Cruz.
A letter from Mr, Kendall, dated Jalapa, key
2d, to the New Orleans Picayune, says:
Rumor has it that they are running
their bells into cannon, both at Puebla
and the city of Mexico, and farther that
they Will make a grand stand some
where between the two cities, with a
rabble of at least 100,000 men, collected
any and every way. The more bf this
species of force General Scott has to
contend with the better.
Gen. Worth was gathering up all the
grain he could, and has till tho bakeries
at work, as if in anticipation of break•
ing off all comniunication with Vdra
Cruk.
It will be gratifying to all to learn
that Gen. Shields was thought to be in
a fair way to recover. We have alivays
regarded him as about the best appoint.
ment from civil life yet made by the
President.
Gen. Scott, on the 30th ult., issued
General Orders No 128, for the got-
ernment of the Army, indicating an in.
tended forward movement, in which the
adjacent couhtry must be depended on
for supplies, as all connection tvith the
depot at Vera Cruz would be broken off
To secure a sufficiency of these supplies,
it is enjoined upon the army to abstain
from all acts which might have a ten.
dency to exasperate the surrounding
population.
LATER
JALAPA, May 4, Ig4ll
Orders rind Cot:titer-orders. This Morning Gen.
Quitman's brigade of volunteers was to take up the
line of ;much towards Puebla, and to-morrow Col.
Campbell was to move; but as the time for which
malty of the volunteera enlisted has nerely trans
pired, and as Gen. Scott has ascertained positively
that but few of them will re-enlist, he heir deterfnin
ed upon disbanding them here, and will send
them all home. This will of course not only delay
but alter his whole plan of r peratione, and the itn
pressioh with many is that he will go no fruther
than Puebla With his pfesent force. Ydn 41 the
U. States moy think that he has an overwhelming
power with him, and that he la folly able to run
at will all over the country.; but the truth is, that in
the first place he did not have half men Omagh to
advance upon the capitol of Mexico. nor half trans•
portution enough for what he had.
Q 3" The Harrisbnrgh Argils states
that Gen, CAMERON is earnestly engaged
in advocating the re-election of Shunk .
The North American says, "We crate
proofs of this assertion, and we do so
with a reason—proofs ; not vague and
doubtful, but such as would convict et
felon of horse•stealing. Give us the
proofs.
529,747
"And thereby heng a tale."
THE CTIOPS iN MARYLAND.—the Port
Tobacco, Charles county, Times of
Thursday, 13th instant, says:
The wheat crop in our county, so fttv
as we have been able to ascertain, has
suffered, but not very materially, fratn
the recent deauth. The light rains
"thich have fallen during several days
past ; and continues fallitrg ; have already
had a reviving effect upon the groWing
crop..
Corn has been retarded somewhat ins
coming up, and vegetation generirliyhas
suffered for the want of rain this spring:
The Itoekville;MowtgOrnery county,.
hunter of Saturday last, says that the
crops in that vicinity have improved
very much since' the late rains,• and that
there is now a plospeet of average
yields.
Poix's-Pass.—The following is a copy
of the PASS which the people of the
Union have determined upon to take ef
fect on and after march 4, 1849:
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"Fellow-Countrymen: You are hereby
notified NOT TO OBSTRUCT THE
PASSAGE of James K. Polk and suite
to Tennessee, as it has been found advisa
ble that he should return thither.
TIM AMERICAN PEOPLE.
May 15, 183-6,..