I!Z' .I.ArIit'EIILER, EDITOR AND I'II9PRILTOR VOL. XV1.1.-12. P OETPL V. Fur -S; (ti- a ,tri 3a ',N., LINES ON TM?. DEATH OF AN I:SiVANT • I a.c him %Alien life's \Va, wail:ling o'er hi, chuck, in Li, eye the swee!e,t Tu grace each Wanton Real:. A and :lie cone.t. sweetly Leiu i d Ilispers I,llw,ht Iffin Awl fans d 111111:1, (11.:,1111.11. ]le ynt n9t how to fear ficial.l ul the \Vhomi Ji utal anthem stsikn, the ear ()flit.: in bloom. }tint toli•ly morn 11:1 , 1 radiant And 'lion hi.. h id clo•ok wit , horn 'file blight Ji ~ ri‘ NV:is iiirit'd—the triV Wa• gl‘ , orti—and dark t.hatre, %Viten hie anti {. , siting day 11.1.1 tied, ai , Juli , l is I,l"y'd. 'e% swet in death ! a there ie.en',.l Ily pte-elice gik en, To play %%hew infant lile had :1111 grace it.. Light to heak'n. A N‘l ,, ..itlinv bad :k,d Its !wilily beauty t'a'r A n..% Iv In:die to the dead, And dn.'s:, d it I,A. tl,e 4tase. Trot all! t)p. Inotly•r••• kern he' 1,10.1,-,t! rh it .1 brighter Lr i' Cro‘vii, tremidinq te:11 - -111 , ,p—oh! how laq It 1111, «t•cping And c.lll--litit ”11! past ! Ili:, gone! he oil high. I ' ur the .Ctiir unfßanner Y 0 U T n. Give tkie the sunny day of youth, •dliu , e dreamy, soul-enchanting Lour?, IVleiti love and hope and guilekss truth t...trow in our path the fairest For t 11..11 the. IWO i ON er IfflOit. With pure. unbroken ; then Um •tep iv lice and light, rion.ir46l by care or flat mark the shade which time flings o'er Th,., changing hems of riper years : 'Flm rarer :mil griefs, unknown bet Ore, Call IMO' the brittle, scalding tears, Watering all the ‘vither'd dowers Of youth and hope. thou we feel - Life hash for us no inure sorb hours Of blight, unsullied happiness. - 'cis then that We mould fain bring back Thu.-e hours of pigsty and mirth : Whim hmorenee drew oa our track The kindest, dearest friends of earth— %Friend.; we've hung o'er when sickness came And blighted all their dreams of love ; We wept to hoar them name our name, And Mildly hope to meat above, Or when lord voir.s meet the ear In accents strangely cold. and ehang'il— Then smiles our lips refuse to wear, Por all is dm kokil and estrang . d. 'Tis then Nye know the hopes are past That forni'd Our youthful dreams of bliss, And kel they were too bright to last Jlid scene; of suolt a world as this. Yes, then we wish kr youth, and pine For those bright day-dreams of the mind, And wish that hope for Uti might twine The wre'aths we never more will find. Pennsylvania College. A. ill 1 S C 1, A N J. DcArNEss Tite Autm.—Nothing is more common than to hear old people ut ter querulous complaints widt regard to their increasing deafness; hut those who do so are not perhaps aware Mat this in firmity is the result of all express anti wise arrangement of Providence in constructing the human body. The gradual loss of hear ing is effected for the ber3tAAliparposes ; it being to give ease and quietude to the de cline of life, when any noises or sounds front without would but discompose the enfeebled mind, and prevent peaceful medi tation. Indeed, the gradual Nvithdrawal of all the senses, and the perceptible deem of the•fratne, in old age, have been wisely ordained in ordcr•to weau the human mind from the concerns and pleasures of the world, and to indute a longing for a More perlert state of existence.. A WirE.--Whim a man of sense comes to marry it is a companion whom he wants, not an artist. It is not merely a creature who ean paint and play, sing and dance; it is a being who can comfort and counsel one who can reason and reflect, and foci an d j u d ge , and discourse and discristi• nate ; one %vim can assist him in his affairs., lighten hissorrows,purify his joys, strength -1711 his principles, ;mil educate his children. Suoh is the woman who is lit for a mother, and the mistress of a family. A woman of the former deseription may occasionally figure in the drawing room, and attract the admiration of the company, hut she is en tirely milt for a helpmate to a num, and to "train up a child in the way he should go. - -Oht nochelnr's Scrims. CLERICAL W 11. •WC go to ‘var, father," said a bright-eyed boy, the other day to his clerical parent, front what . pait of the Bible shall you get the text for a new sermon !" The good minister, being taken by surprise at the question, thought a moment, and then smoothing the locks the ohild; with •a sort of parental pride, nswcred that he believed it would be front ,ft mental ions . ' these compare with the valley of Mexico. .. Why is a fasiMemblr lad). ''like 3 ri g id They want some of the elements of gran deur, all of which arc gathered here." ,ilstlr :Omura little waist (waste.) i The population of the city Of Mexico is .. __ ... ' lat some t• i fired thousand. A man 4.1111'1 help i 'whar:;';dolie behind estimate( • ‘‘( bun It has numerous public pchtives, smir of ,is bai.k—as the loafer s . aid 'when he was •ioked out of doors: , which are massive and m igniiieent,sln.ireb Some account, geographical and statis tical, of the American republic may be of interest at this time. Our relations with that country are likely to render a prelim inary knowledge of its condition and geog raphy especially useful. The natural features of Alexic - o are cut lied with great boldness. As the penin sula between the Gulf and Pacitie narrows towards the isthmus, the land rises into mountains and mountain elevation, all beat, ! ing volcanic origin. The city of Mexico' stands 7 . 4 00 feet above the level of the r Gulf. 'Yet the city itself seems to be in a valley; for it is envircled by mountains and is .situated in a vast plain of alluvial formation. The territory of the 'republic extends, from latitude fifteen South to linty-two de grecs North. In point of position no coon- • try is inure advantageously sintatod—for, it uononands both oceans, looking towards ' Europe and Asia; it is connected by the Mississippi with every part of North A merica, and to the Southern portion of the Continent it has every I:wilily of approach Oil either coast. The route olcommerce— which is one day to unite the Atlantic and the Pacific and to brim ,- Europe and the East into ; which is to leave Cape Horn to its storms and rotWentrate die trade of the world in central America— must pass through the territory of the Mex lean Republic. - The configuration of the country gives to Mexico almost every variety of climate— tropical on the coast L—and temperate on the elevated table lands—chilled with per petual snow on the mountain summits.— The qualities of its soil are equally vari ous. It produces the growths of unmet= ors latitudes, and such is the fertility of its tallies that with industry and skillful Cul tivation it could be made thc-trichest coun try in the world, Those regions which are made barren by rugged mountain: more than compensate for their agricultural pov erty by the treasures of gold and silver em bedded in their bosom. •The population of Mexico is supposed to range front eight to nine millions. Of thee more than two fifths are of the Indi an race. Those of our tianta Fe traders who have gone into the interior towards the city of Mexico speak of large and pop ulous towns, with fine editices, along the route, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, San Louis Potosi—Arise and other towns, some hay ing twenty dentsand inhabitants, :refound near the mining districts or in the rich tal lies of the interior. For years past the northern frontier has been subject to the inroads of the Cam:inches, who, sweeping suddenly down, on swift horses; devastate the country, and then with their phonier make a speedy retreat. The unwarlike chariwter of the .Mexicans is shown by the Impunity with which these invaders carry on their forays—outraqes which they dare not attempt on the Texan settlements, since the severe lessons they have receiv ed front Texan rifles. After passing the frontier of the northern departments the Mexican country presents an aspect of good cultivation, Farms, plantations, vil tagos and towns are seen, Wi th all t h e us'' , al accompani , ments of rural ha: in a well peopled district. To the city of Mexico the , approach is ascending front every direction. That capital stands, crowning, as it were, the magnificent region of which it is the central and culminating point. It is nearly midway between Vera Crivh on the Gulf and Acapulco On the Pacific. Tray. idlers speak in glowing terms of its splen did and imposing aspect. ''Mexico is 1111- donhtedly one of the finest Cities ever built by Europeans in eitherhemisphere," says Humboldt, "with the exception of Peters burg, Berlin, Philadelphia, and some quar ters of IVestminster." The imposing appearance of this Span ish built city seems to have made it strong impression on Iltfmnourr: for ho recurs to it more than once. "From a singular, eoincidenee of circumstances," he says ' have seen within a short space of time, Li ma, Mexico, Philadelphia, Washington Paris, Rome, Naples, and the largest cities, of (ferutaimy. By comparing together impressions which follow in rapid sticres shin, we are enabled to rectify any opinion which we may have too easily adopted.— Not withstandingsuch unavoidable compar isons, of which several, one would think, must prove disadvantageons•for the Capi tal of Alexico, it has left, a recollection of grandeur which I principally attribute to the majestic character of its situation and to the surrounding seenery," • -- 'l'he approach to Mexico, when the city first appears to the traveller, with its mag nificent valley, and its grand rampart. of Mountain enclosing it like a battlemented wall or series of barriers, is said to present one of the most sublime spectacles in the world- Our fellow -townsman, Mr. -MAY ER, who resided in Mexico In 181 t and CAI.I.IOpE 1812„ says-4"i' have seen the Simplon, the Splengen, the view from Rhigi, the wide “winding Rhine,'' and the prospect from Vesuvius over the lovely Bay of Naples, its indolent waves. sleeping in the warm sunshine of their 'purple bed—but none of From tho Baltimore American MEXICO. GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1846. aqueduliis, wide and .spacious streets.— Formerly there was great wealth in this city, but the many revolutions and distrac tions to which Mexico has been subject have tended to abate from the splendor of living and style in which many used to in dulge. Forced loans by the Government are sometimes the consequence oaf too great a display of individual wealth. The Government, indeed, or rather the want of a Government, is the greatest misfortune that afflicts Mexico. Under the visitation of this calamity, her natural ad vantag - es are of no avail : her vast resources are profit less, she pines in poverty amidst the Rim ing riches of her 'nines, The City of illexivo. TTlic new work on Mexico by the Ilan Thompson, recently .Imcrican toth:tt country, gives the fullowing sketch u: :hi City of Mexir:o eThe city of Mexico is said to be the finest built city on the American continent. In sonic respects it is certainly so. In the principal streets the houses are all construct ed' according to the strictest architectural rules. The foundations of the city were laid, and the first buildings were erected by Cortez, who did every thing well which he attempted—from building houses or writing a couplet to conquering an empire: Many of the finest buildings in Mexico are still owned by his descendants. The public square is said to be unsurpassed hy auj in the world ; it contains sonic twelve to fif teen acres p ave d w i t h s t one . Ti le cathedral covers one entire side, the pal ace another ; the western side is occupied by a row of very high and substantial houses, the second stories of which pro ject into the"width of the pavement; the lower stories are occupied by the princi pal retail merchants of the city. The most of these houses were built by Cor tez,,who with his characteristic sagacity, and an avarioc which equally characterized him in the latter part of his life, selected the best portion of the city fbr himself. The President's Palace, formerly the palace of the videroys, is aitiminense buil ding of three stories high, about live hun dred feet in length, and three hundred and fifty wide ; it stands on the site of the pal ace of Montezenia. It is difficult to con ceive of so nurch stone and mortar being put together in a less,tasteful or imposing shape; it has much more the appearance of a cotton factory- or a penitentiary than ; what it really is; the windows are small,' and a parapet wall runs the whole length of the budding, with nothing to relieve tile monotony of its appearance except some very indifferent ornamental work in the centre ; there are no doors in the front either of the second or third stories—no thing but disproportionately small win. dows, and too many of them ; the three' doors, and there are only three in the low er story, are destitute of all architectural I beauty or. ornament. Only a very small part of this palace is appropriated to the residence of the President ; all the public officers are here, including those of the Beads of the different departments, minis ters of war, foreign relations, finance and justice, the public treasury, 4.e., &C.- 1 The halls of the house of deputies and of the Senate are also in the same building, ! and last and least, the botanic garden.—! Alter passing through all sorts of filth and dirt on the basement story, you conic to a dark narrow passage which conducts You to a massive door, which, when you have succeeded' in opening . , you enter an apartment enclosed with high walls ( on ev ery side, but open at the top, and certainly not exceeding eighty feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mex ico ; a few shrubs and plants, and the eel. ebrated inanita tree are all,,that it contains. I have rarely in my life seen a more gloo my or desolate looking place. It is mach . more like a prison than a garden. A de crepit, palsied old man, said to lie more than a hundred goers old, is the superinten dant of the establishment; no one could have been selected more in keeping with the general dilapidation and dreariness of, this melancholy affair. But The cathedral which occupies the site•of the great idol temple of Montezuma, ofli-s a striking contrast. It is live Iwn tired feet long by four hundred and twenty wide, It ,would bo superfluous to 'add another to the many descriptions of this famons building, which have already been published. Like all the other churches in Mexico, it is built in the llothic The.walls, of several feet thickness, are made of unhewn stone and lime. Upon entering it, One is apt to recall the wild tic.. lion of the Arabian Nights; it tieents'as if the wealth of empires was collected them., The clergy in Mexico do not, for I obvious reasons, desii.e that their wealth! shoal(' he made known to its full extent. They arc, therefore, not disposed to give: very full information upon the subject, or . to exhibit the gold or silvervessels, vases, precious stones, and other forms of wealth ; quite enough is exhil*ed to strike the be holder with wonder. The first object which presents itself .on entering the ca thedral is the •altar, near the centre of the building ; it is made of .highly-wrought' and, highly-polished silver, and covered with a, profusion of ornaments ot'pttregold. On each side of this altar runs a balustrade, • • "Atli , I I a buster," as the steamboat enclosing a space about eighty 'feet wide, and eighty9l. a hundred feet long. ,or said to the Captain, when it threw tio'sky high in i The air. balusters are abdut four feet high, and four, - inches thick' in the largest part ; the hand- ! 'shall be hack again in minute;' rails trout !ix to rightinehes wide, Up- the emetic .:aid to the doctor. "FEARI.I:SS AND FREE." on the top of this handrail, at the distance of six or eight feet apart, arc human images, beautifully wrought, and about two feet 'high. All of these, the balustrade, hand .rail and images, are made of a compound of gold, silver and copper—more valuable than silver. I was told that an ofrer had been made tp take this balustrade, and replace it with another of exactly the same size and workinlanship of pure silver, and to give half a million of dollars besides.— There is much more of the saute balustrade in other parts of the church ; I should , think, in all of it, not less than three hun dred feet. As you walk through the building, on either side there are different apartments, all filled, from the floor to the ceiling, with paintings, statues, vases, huge candlesticks, waiters arid a thousand other articles, made of gold and silver. This. too, is only the every day display of artists of the least %Alm! ; the more costly are stored away in chests or closets. What must it be when all these are brought out, Nvith the im mense quantities of precious stories which the church is known to possess ? And this is only one of the churches of the city of Mexico, where there are between sixty and eighty others, and some of them pos-; sessing little less wealth than the cathedral ; and it must also be remembered that all the other large cities, such as Puebla, G nada jara, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Durango, San Louis, Potosi, have each a proportionate number of equally gorgeous establish ments;" SIGN IN A NI: WSPAPE Neighbor Shoemaker!. I see you have a fine siock of boots, bootees, and . shoes on hand--all sorts sizes, and qualities, cowhide, calfskin, su perfine and eNtra superfine--for gentlemen, ladies, misses and children, You wish to sell them I suppose ?" . "Yes," _ "I perceive you have got a shingk over your door, with the words, "Boot and Shoe titbre" inscribed thereon. - That I presume is to invite them to give you a . eall!" "Yes," • some few of those who pass a long this street will doubtless notice your sign, and they may be in want too. You need another sign, Mr. Shoemaker." "'l'liat's a fact, I didn't titink of that bo- fore." "Go then, the first thing, and get an ad •.- verttsement in your newspaper. Tell the people where you are, and what you are, and what you are about, and what varie ties of boots and shoes yOu keep for sale, and that you will be glad to see them,— Thus instead of barely notifying those who pass along by your shop, you will inform the people all around ; not only those who pass the other streets, Intl the farmers and their families away back on the hills ; she ladies, mechanics, and working men and all others, and my word for it, one such sign in a newspaper, will be worth a (104- en over your door." ""Fahli, I will try it before I am n day (hider," i , And you, Messrs. Merchants, Hatters, Tailors, Tinmen, Cabinet-makers, and Saddle and Harness makers, &c., you've all got yotir shingles over the doors, as thought that xvould notify every body in creatton• had, YOU not better try a sign in a newspaper, as bell as neighbor Shoe maker?" THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPIL—TIIO On ly link now ,wanting in the great chain of the electric telegraph between Washington and floston,is the distance from llidgeport to New Ilaven. When this giant scheme is completed, it will make the Union a whispering gallery, and re-echo thoughts with instantaneous speed front its one ex , trome to another. If the government in tend to carry -the war into .Mexico there should not he a ; single day's delay in com pleting the chain through to New Orloal- , , could be effected in one month; and then we should be within two or three days of the seat of war.--Delaware Journal. T E IJ. STATES A 111EDIAToit.—The Argentine News of March 7th states that our Alinister, by authority of his Govern ment, had offered the mediation of the U. States to terminate the vvar between the Argentine Republic and the neighboring Republic or independency of Paraguay, and both parties accepted it, This is gratify ing intelligence, Those three American Covernments aro now exactly where we have long wished to . see all our American Covernmentsonediating between each oth er, and settling their disputes among them selves, MAKING THE MOST OF HIS TIM/F.—ln the upper part of the city, says the N. V. True Sun; we noticed, a day or two since, a wholesale and rotail liquor store, and a well furnished eollin ware-house adjoining earl' other, both kept by the same man.— A• line subject for a lay sermon by any ono who has time and talent to preach, A son of the Etarald Isle meeting a roun tryman whose face was not pe:rfeetly re memhered, after saluting him most cordial ly, inquired his name. Walsh," said the gentleman. "Walsh; Walsh," responded Paddy,• "arc ye from Dublin ?—I know two ould maids there of tlw-tAnaufteas either of 'em yer mother?" ' 'The Tariff and Agriculture. . In the cour•te of a speech recently made at Wa , hingten, by the lion. Andrew Stewart. of Pa. uho, by the way, is one of the ablest and most practicable men of the House, he contended that no American interet was so mucb re b e n e tiit e d by the protective system as that of Agriculture.— The foreign market, he said, was nothing—the home market was every thing to them. • It was las 100 !o 1. In reply to a remark by Mr. Bayley, Mr, Stewart said--,"With all the protec tion we now enjoyed, Great Britain sent into this country, eight dollars worth of her agricultural productions to one dollar's worth of our rigrieuline ral productions which she took from us." And this Mr. Stewart contended he would prove by the returns furnished by Jtr. Walker himself, iu support of his new bill. Mr. S. continued, and we b e g the attention of the farmers to the statement, wldAr appears to us of unusual interest and inn prtallet I assert and can prove that more than one-half the the the value of British goods MA ported into this country, consist of agricul turalproducts changed in form, converted and manufactured into goods. And I in vile a-thorough analysis of the facts'; :challenae the gentleman to the SONtiny,— Take down all the articles in a store, one after another, estimate the value of the raw material,. the bread and meat, and other agricultural productions which have enter-.' ed into their fabrication, and it will be Ibund that one-half and more - of their value consists of the productions of the soil : agricultural produce in its strictest sense.— Now. by reference to Mr. Walker's report, it will be seen that, for 12 years back, we have imported from Great Britain and her dependencies annually fifty-two and a half millions of dollars worth of goods, but call it fifty millions, while she took of all our agricultural products, save cotton and to, bacco, loss than two and a half millions of dollars worth. Thus, then assuming one-{ half the value of her goods to be agricul -Itural- it giros twenty-five millions of Iher agricultural produce to two add a half millions of ours taken by her, which is just test to one. To avoid cavil, I put it eight to one. To test the truth of his po, sitioii, he was prepared, if time perms milted, to refer to numerous facts.— But for the information' of the gentleman from Virginia, who is so great a friend 'to the poor and oppressed farmer, I will tell him that we have imported• yearly for 26 years (so says Mr. Walker's report) more than $10,000,000 worth of woolen goods. Last year we imported $10,666,- 176 worth, Now, • one,half and more of the value of this cloth was made up of wool, the subsistence of labor, and their agricultural productions, The general es- - timate is, that the wool alone is half, The universal custom among farmers, when they had their wool manufactured, was to give the manufacturer one hail the cloth, Thus we, import, and our farmers have to pay for five millions of dollars worth of foreign wool every your in the form of (loth . , mostly the production of sheep feed ing on the grain and grass of Great Britain, while our own wool is worthless for want of a market ; and this is the policy the gentleman recommends to :\Anerican far , . mers. Yes, sir ; and the gentleman is not satisfied with Jive millions, but wishes to increase it to ten millions a year fur for eign wool. W ill the gentleman deny this lie dare not. lie has declared for Mr. Walker's bill, reducing the duties on wool ens nearly one half, with a view to in crease the revenue ; at' course the imports must he doubled, making the import of cloth 20,000,000 instead of 10, and Of wool 10 instead of 5,000,000 per annum. . This was the gentleman's plan to favor the farmers, British limners, by giving them the Smerieaii market. His plan was to buy every thing, sell nothing, and got rieh, (A laugh,) What was true as to cloth, was equally true of every thing else, Take a hat, a pair of shoos, a yard of silk or lace, analyse it, resolve it into its constituent elements, and you will find that the raw materials, and the substance of la bor and other agricultural products, con. stituted 'more than one half of its entire value, The pauper labor of Europe, em ployed in manufacturing silk and lace, got what it eat, no more ; and this is what you , pay for when you purchase their goods,— Break up your home manufactures and home markets, import every thing you eat and drink and wear , for the benefit of the Armere Oh, what friends these gentle men arc to the farmers and mechanics • and laborers of this country ! no, sir, lam wrong, of Great Britain. Now, I ask whether wool is not in the strictest sense, an agricultural production and if we import ton millions in cloth, is not five millions of that sum paid for wool alone —a product of British fitrme.rs As a still stronger illustration of his argument, Mr. 8, reformd . to the article of iron. Last year, according to Mr: Walker's report, we imported $9,0,13,396 worth of foreign iron and its manufactures, mostly from G. Britain, four fifths oldie value of ‘vhich,as every practical man knew, consisted of ricultural produce, nothing else, Iron is made of ore and coal; and what is 'the iron and coal buried in; your mountains worth Nothing—nothing at all, unused. What gives it value The labor of horses, oxen, mules and me i n, And what sustain ed this labor but corn and oats, - hay 'and straw for the one, and bread and meat and vegetables of every kind for the other These agricultural products were purehased and consumed, and this made neatly the TERM-TWO DOLLARS FEE ANNUM WHOLE NO. 544. whole price of fron t which the manufactu, rers received and paid over to the farmers again and again as often as the process was repeated. Well, is not iron made in England of the same materials i that it is made of here? Certainly ; then is not four-fifths of the value of the British iron made up ofßritish Agricultural produce? and if we purchase nine millions of dollars worth of British iron a year, do we not pay six or seven millions of this sum for the produce of British farmers—grain, hay, grass, bread meat and other provisions for map and beast —sent here for sale in the ford' of iron ? He put it to the gentleman from Va., (Mr. Bayley) to say if this was not true to the letter. He challenged him to deny it lor disprove it if he could. The gentle, man's plan was to break down these great and growing -markets for our own . farmers, ' and give our own markets to the British ; and yet he professed to be a friend to Amer lean farmers! ifFrom such friends good Lord deliver them!" One remark more on this topic : Secretary Walker informs us that the present duty on iron is 75 per cent. which he proposes to reduce to 30 per cent. to lie the revenue. To do this must not then double the imports. of iron ? Clearly he must. Then we must add ten or twelve millions per year to our present imports of".iron, and of course destroy that amount of our domestic supply to make room for it. Thus at '4 blow, in the single article of iron, this bill is intended to destroy the American mar, kets, for at least eight millions of dollars worth of domestic agricultural produce to he supplied from abroad; and this is the American—no, the British—system of policy which is now attempted to be , im liosed upon this country by this British, . hating ,administration ! Let them do it, and in less than two years there will not be a specie-paying bank in the country, The people and the Treasury will be _again bankrOpt, and the scenes and sufferings of 1840 1011 return; and with It ash neees, sary consequence, the political revolutions of that period, The home• market, Mr. S. contended, was every thing to the - farmer, and the for, eign market comparatively nothing. Mas, sachusetts alone purchased and consumed fourteen times as much - of the grain, flour and meat of the other States as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; from wham wd took fifty millions of dol. laps worth of manufactures yearly, Mas, saphuselts took thirty-five millions Worth exclusive of cotton and tobaece, while G. Britain took but two and a half! Yet, ac cording to the gentleman from Virginia, the foreign market was vastly the most import, ant! CANAL COMMISSIONER The following paragraph, which wo.clip from the Buck's County lntelligencer, shows the feel , ing of disaffection towards the Locofoco nominee for Canal Commissioner is spreading in the ranks of his party. It is more general, however quiet it may seem to be, than we have ever seen in the case of a candidate nominated by them. We hear of it every whom, and from the presses of both parties, Such demonstrations should induce the Whigs to determine to cicyheir duty to their own candidates, for, if they do, they pan elect him : From - the extreme sensitiveness of the Locofoeo papers, whenever any reference is made to the disaffection produced by the nomination of Win. B. Foster for re, election as Canal Commissioner, We esti. mate in some measure the trepidation they feel on the subject, They evidently see that it will be an uphill business to attempt to elect Foster ; and hence their earnest eflerts to stop what they call the "treason," from spreading into their ranks, Tho manner of Foster's nomination, aside from his official conduct, which is more than ,suspected of not being the purest character, is well calculated to create. distrust, We were not, until repently, aware of the ex, tont of the disaffection towards him in the "democratic" ranks in this County, espe, Malty among the mass or walking portion of the party, A feeling is now lying dor, inent, which will manifest itself in duo season, in a manner that will astonish the wirc,workers whose management forced upon the party a candidate whom a large portion of them cannot consistently support, We learn from goon authority that a simi lar state of things exists in other counties in the East and North; and it is said to extend over other portions of the State, ""OLD 11OUDIf AND RF , ADY, " • - n - This is the appellation by which the gallant Gen, Taylor will hereafter ho known. We have boon exceedingly struck with one see, tence in his official despatch, dated May 7. just before he left Isabel, and the day pre ceding his first battle, He s ay s: -,...,1f the enemy oppose my march, in tuhatev, er force, I shall fight him.:' There is a plain and direct point in'this sentence which itulilatcs the character of the wri, ter—a man of few words - and of;prompt and fearless action. The ori.sis . demanded that he should fight. without regard to the disparity of numbers or consequences.--.• His iron heart met ale att4 he ob tained the victory which thelifevitarmy• deserved under his gallant lead, An Illinois Editor, mentioning the fact that ladies have discarded ,ccrseli eludes with the foil. tri Sound t Ile tape Nun Alwv EMC=',l .161, ate lift '
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