poison and the antidote side by side: Which,
shall ie 'credit ?,4—for- , ,We calthgt Credit .both '
•
Thaf,so , staunch ti Whig as Wiithlyr Thiunpsdtt
should fttrnish us with suchlunigurnent, uni
lessm .eo pelled by thel orce of"' 14 . h,•
credible to be sipposctd.. We.think therefore
thatamis right and that our t neighbor is-wrong.
- I
FO It P trsIDENT, Upon thikpoint we de,em nothing furthetnecett
'JAMES iIIICHANAN, isary I
Subject to decision okie Natimial Convention. But the price paid 'tor thelse f`mongreliMextl
Ican Spaniards tunl rattlesnake 47 is what most
. FOR CANALyOMMISSIONEn, • displeases otir neighbor. It is the pecuniary
.1.,S It AE.Lir A .I N ER, i consideration, after all, that has gagued his pa
• • - Of WeStratifeland County. triotism for so long -a time, and caused him to
- - .I)give " aid and comfort" to the common toed
Irk The foreign news has crowded the pro- -
„ Alack I lie can see ne good that is to result"
ecedings of the met.Oiociety's meeting, and
. , . either to this nation or Mexico from- the war,
several other arttetes i - mail) our [flier tuts
inni"g it come in the shape of dallars and cents;
j The lesson that it lir taught : Mexico, the in- I
week.
I flueuce it will have upon her ;institutions and /
her destiny, the reputation it has given us.l
among all nations, and its consequent bearing'
upon their dealings with us in all coming time
—these ate nothing in his 'estimation, and)
should be wholly east Out of the reekonine,,.i
Fifteen millions of dollars is a, sum quite too!
'large to pay for nearly one halt of Ttlexico, ins !
all those harbors in , California, aid
San Francisco, and the entire territory which '
! Mr. Thompson said would " be worth a war of
twenty years," &e. So say the Whigs now—
so reasoned the Federalists when Mr. Jeffer
son acquired Louisiana.
But are we told that the expenses of the!
I war should be taken into the item of the cost ?:
We ask why so ? We deny that the acquisi
tion of this territory was the primary object of
the war. This is abundantly proven by the;
instfuctions to Mr. Slidell when sent as Minis-
Iter to 'Mexico, recently published, as ivell as by
numerous other facts. lie was authorized tb:
purchase that territory, if possible, for any sum /
within twenty-fire millions of I dellars. Before
he reached the Mexican capital, however, or,
even had the slightest opportunity of making,
,these proposals, the war was precipitated upon
us "by the act of Mexico," and there was no
other alternative but for us to fight it through
until Mexico should manifest willingness to
pay what she owed us and keep the -peace in
future. These were the objets, on our part,
of prosecuting the war. True we might have
been justifiable in demanding indemnity for,
tfte.expenses of the war, but this our govern
ment never has done. We ask MeXico nothing
for giving her a " trouncing,' except decent'
behaviour in future, which wo shall expect or I
take her in hand again. The territory that we:
get we pay a moderate price for, (loss by sev
eral millions of dollars:than the President origi
nally offered) and we • submit it to any man Ofl
common understanding whether we have lost by
the bargain, even taking !Whig authority
(Thompson) for the test, and,especially when :
we c Insider that to have refuSed the overtures
of Mexico might have cost ;us perhaps ton
times that amount in prolonging the war. If .
not, let us-be satisfied, and cease our intolera
ble whining about abstractions of so small
moment as those under consideraticn.
TIIE DZIOCIIAT.. ,1
0. G. lEEMMEAD. Editor.
MO V,rIROSE.
Thursday,
True to Piirty Instincts.
In the Register otlast week was an article
of somewhat singnlir character for a piper
whose editor . so sedtilously and perseveringly
disclaims the name i'of Federalist, captioned
" What have we Oiled by the War ?" the
main drift and objoo of which ostensibly was
to disparage the tertitory we have acquired
fr6nl Mexico, and slur over and load with
opprobrium the war,ito which said acquisition
is attributed.
This is , no new triek of the party, as those
of our readers whosti memory compasses the
.t ,
acquisition of lemistna, Florida, and other ter
ritory, are well award. The same arguments
were used, the same - nbjections urged, the same
sophistry and bug-a4boo stories employed, and
the same appeals-to Prejudice and passion put
forth, by the federalists of those days as by
the Wbigs now, for purposes purely identical.
And were there no dther evidence, the fact of
this remarkable identity of sentiment, argu
nent„ objections, an 4 the means employed by
Tim Federalists of those days and the Whigs
of thesii, to defeat both, would'be ample to show
therti to be one and the same, inseparable and
indivisible, iin every ense except in name.
Mat to the .artielon question. After cre
ating,a monstrous bk-bear about " trouncing
a weak and impotent oc," and a greater one
abon't the expenses Of so doing, the author goes
on to institute a coni i parison between these and
In
the object attained, which be draws a most
-hideous picture, andone which, were it not
"all in his eye," and,disproved by some of the
most able and orthodox writers and statesmen
.oif his own. party, might; indeed, cause even
the afloat sullen and incorrigible. to " weep - over
the desolations" of oar political " Zion." He
says:
•••• True, we are to have a few hundred tbon-
Rana square miles of territory, consisting of
wild and barren mountains, (with a few valleys
of fertile lan4 the title of which will all i
be
long to individuals,) :and with those worthless
deserts, bf which the ; more there is of it the I
poorer it would inali4;:its owners, we are to get I I
a plentiful batch of m*grel Mexican Spaniards, I
Negroes, Indians, an4l rattlesnakes !"
to combat so shallow " an adequate idea,"
as our neighbor callsjt, is too small business,
nor shall we make tine attempt. We have giv
it in his own language!, and shall (Her in refu- I
tation only the foll4wing extracts from the I
writings of one of his favorite partizans and •
statesmen, lion. WkAdy Thompson, Minister!
to Mexico in-18.13. is fry his "Recollce
tiotis of Mexico," not l will he seen from Ids .
disparaging descriptaims . of Oregon, was writ
ten with his partizatleelings and prejudices in
full blast. On page* 233, ..23-1- and 235, he'
says : • '
From all the inforniation whhhi I have re
ceived, and I have 'Veen inquisitive upon the
subicnt, I am well saisfied s that there is not on
this Continent any country-ot the Mule extent
as littfe desirable as .oregon, nor any in the
world which eombineit , : as many advantag,es- as
Califoruia. * To say titling nroth
er harbors in California, that-of San Francisco
is capacious enough tkr the na‘ies of the world,
And its shores are cored with enough timber
(a specics of the oak) to build those na
vies. If man were try ask of boil a (Innate, he
would ask just such 01 one as that of Califor
nia, if he had ever keen there. There is no
portion of our wester!! country which produces
al oho eso ws,; I have been told by
more than one pers4 wt whom I entirely re
lied, that they had ktoxn whole fields to pro
duce—a quantity so ; Incredible that I. will not
state it_ The whole Taco of the country is cov
eyered with the fitie4 oats growing wild; su
gar. rice, and cotton find their own cuogenial
climate. Besides al these, the richest Mines
~ , L 1 ^nol silver haTe been discovered there,
and the pearl — Gterl4 have always been sour
ces of the largest prof i ts; and more than these,
there are the marketiof India and China with
nothing intervening *t the calm and storm
less Pacific ocean.
The distance from ;the head of navigation on
the Arkansas and lloit rivers to a navigable
point of the waters ot;the Gulf of California is
not more than five of i six hundrud miles; let
that distance be oreirome by a railmiad, and'
what a vista is opened to the prosperity and
power of our couutry4; I have no doubt that !
the time will come tit New Orleans will be
the greatest city in toe World. That period
would be inealculabls hastened by the Incas-;
ures which I have indlcated, which would throw!
into her lap the vast tiommerce of China and of,
India. Great Britaitt with that wise and far
seeing policy for whidtt she is more remarkable!
than any other govetnment, has already the
practical possession 14 most of the ports of the
Pacific Ocean,—.New )Lealand and the Sand
wich Islands, and verb soon the Society Islands
also. We tuft a counneree in that ocean of
more than fifty milliOs of dollars, and not a
single place of refugel or out; ships:
I will not say whatis ottrpolicy in regard to!
CilVornia. Perhaps It- is Ant it remain in the
hands of - a weak pow* like Mexico, and that
all the maritime power's may have the advan
tage of its ports. BA ' one thing 1 will say,
that it will be worth 4 1 war of twenty years to
prevent England apcpiiring it, which I have the',
best reasons for beliefing she desires to do and j
just as good reasons ft3r believing that she will
not do.if it costs a wit with this Country.
Thus then we hal the refutation, of our
ne i g hb or ' s fallacious qnd deceptive picture, the
April j 3, 181 S.:
It" rarely occurs that the Democratic part
of Pennsylvania has greater Ouse fur ii:digna
iion at the conduct of any body of pubic men,
than it now has with that of. a portion of these
who profe.:s ha sentimeos, in the late House
of Representatives, but who pave basely de
serted its platforin and become supple tools in
the hands of a fa.tinus Whig senate, to the
defeat of 'some of the most wholesome and vi
tal measures known to the Democratic creed.
We allude, of course, to the subject of Banks,
and the (disreputable course of d few individu
als holding the balance of power, who were
elected to that ividy as Denir , er4ts, (?) but
who have been in fact the must efficient allies
the Banks and Whigs wanted, and in so doing,
laid up fur themselee — s--we will not say the
" thirty pieces of silver"—libt an unenviable
immortality, at least.
In the language of the Pennsylvanian :
"There is no subject upon which the duty and
obliontions. of every Democratic representa
tive are more broadly defined—as indeed there
is none, which marks inure distinctly the lines
of difference between the two leading parties in
this country. The Democrats' arc committed,
solemnly 6,otninitted, before the peOple, to op
' O i se the grant of all corporate' privileges, tin
t
less in extreme cases, and then always with
certain posit ire snd stringent restrictions. The
Federalists, on the other hand, in the true spin
it of their party creed, know no limit to the
unlicensed bestowal of the - moSt dangerous and
extravagant powers. As well might the man,
with undimmed vision, deny the preser.ce of the
,sun at boon-day, or the existence of übjects
tangible and definitive, as for any one to de
clare that the position of the two parties in
this country on the ;question of special privi
leges, is not precisely as we s have stated it. If
time makes any difference betwecu.thent, it on
ly serves to convince the honest men in the ;
opposition. ranks—sometimes, We grieve to aild„;
after a most melancholy experience—that the
creed of the Democrats on this subject is not
only light in itself, but absolutely essential to
the preservation of the people from corporate
canning and chartered fraud; We see daily;
evidences of this. It is no longer only Mn;
Writsrin who declares, that the Dank of the'
United states is an " obsolete 'idea." That is
now a. term, pretty univerially applied to all
schemes for the creation of a false, fictitious,
and dishonest currency:" I ;
And, ict iQQ direct riew ! of !all this, Demo
crats will falter whenever an old Bank asks a
rettewalo its charter, and if necessary to per
fect the wishes of ifs advocates, go over en
tirely to its care and Jt;eppitig. !\put pon such
Demoorats, say we I - "the ircallery of Judas
Members of the late LeEistatinre & Banks.
, .. ,
--.-- ..
;.. . - 1- 7 .- - .-- 4I • -^,..-.. - 7 ' --' ' • 1- .. ,
ICAO seareelY more eitlpalie. Would that We An Irlick in Which thire is, reo Moulin.
haski,6 tomes of : such 4ellert s trsAlitit . ,ye could ! The tollowing . ltapital article 4 copied from
liar r e ct P u r r a ni ni nc of
rtl F t r a ' n frr hs al to rr C r l a i e v ile ‘ r lib l— st l r lie k li rV —":
11014(144 4, t..) the gar.a - #4eticratißn of the the Sew York nretting cost, 'rind respectfully ....„
or 4 ilmertcart, .published In the s elt.
~; , 104' 4 tun plundered
leas‘es *tio'llave been, so : ,,,,p 11 ley; 1 of , .i-t-.
below an ' .. ,. • ; :n, ' i:le.i . s..r i tiefe . fromliso
, , ~ . whose eye it may fall,
sueli-instlintions. NO that wealeem it a part of the - Register" as one.most.oppoi trine, and y
.1. a: . of Mexico We want ever y_i American tiiide
of tbe Dlimeratie policy to slitit tlie:'!loor a- perhaps containinet, some valuable infermation.,
whathet-heipll 144e1
!gain's t Blli. charters Iniliserhninatayior their lf it shouldproYe a mirror In which lie can
. a Democrat 'Whi,g or Nativa; to read it an
! rene wal tinder certain -restrictions ; but that dise(iver his true position, the object in copying
..i. then hand it to his neighbor. It is but a4oth
„
they : be so eionPassed with restrictions it will have, beenfully attaiued, mid ” no charg
cr evidence :of the undenible fact, that the tta
land Conditions that the a:immunity would be es made :" .
ers of the Federal party, with CLAY at Died
~.
Aeoutsretoal or N- T , ,1 - • T 1 ,
r.iv tat „. T0..1.
fully anOeffectntilly:iseeured against their dis-
IL
head, have been during tli .
honesty Ind favoritism. But wl.at Las been i aequisithel of new territory by tlid cttier:ll eov- . I• ,
' the emu* with the eons'ervative few who; ernment has always been • attenth il with the -strnngest kind of "aid and eoco1Ort” v . ! 6
~ ..e war, lending th
chanced it. hold a seat in our late Legislature? imlstt fearful furbutling by the,toltl,4-dcral party. M e:a
exivan nation. Just think of the id !
!They ever predirted that stmlilicpiisit I a.s would I li.iiry Clay aturDiiiiicl Webster elected "thot
Therprofessad friendship to these restraints
ii
'inflict, upon us the greatest of evils. -• ' orary members o a
eomplimeat for men :.*.al
f the Mexico illtilanthiop ,
What
it is true,;: but they well nigh, defeated them in • Dismenibei went of t
"(
he Unian, they said.; . •
the outset by their indifferent course, and ilffien i would follow any eillin•gement of our a: ca, and si"t) .l "
they i nothing seemed to satisfy them So much, and big themselves. American .citizens ! Is 4ti
; they entered upon-middle , with so much zeal, enoii g h to make an honest patriot blush Iwit
a Whig Sihate refused to concur in them,
Caine plitayly around and voted for receding ,
is an attempt to restriet ''‘is to the old original
from thedi, as that body dictated. In four dif- 'i
•
tiiirteen state. We now nutulii.' r thirt v, and sliiiii;:, tat Sllt'll. men are known by the Oan.
been., title as himself? Toary is deservedly stye
'ferenst caies at least—those of the Farmers'' the admittanee of every new s stke las
tihcin. I.et the scoundqls be known. ...4' . 11,
and 3leeliauies' Bank, of Philadelphia; the Co- oppr sad by this same federal (,r
_wbi l . , .. party.; on t
'Flat arquisith nof Mexican territory' now the people understand their true pasitin..
Illptu) . s . Fd bythe same party, as all oilier aa
lutnbia 14-itige Bank, the Chambersburg Bank,
and the Waynesburg Bank—have they pur- How with the federalists manage to getiovi
1 pina.mtis I eve been. IN hen Louisiana was
i t
pureliased by Mr. Jefferson, the feileralisk phis:'N\ l,at excuse can they melte fint th
sued thislipolicy, and the bills have gone to the'
~ .i
Executivo shorn of all security to the publie:niad.. use or precisely the: wine areainient manifestatiim if 'Mexican gratitude to ffen
except tlla
, tafforded by the old corrupt system.
•.- I .7gninst it, th a t th e w hi g - 3 1 - 1 ,•wItlo itilgait.st.mainir- Clay and l.;aniel Webster? -:„No doubtinai
of the .Mexican tcrriiory••• . will swear that "it's an infernal loco-foci lie
Thank (Aid they have there met their deserts, I m g a ''Y
1 .0 Cof the pi inch' grounds .of cppesitioon •
and the tiaitors a rebuke, in the shape of an 1 • •,. I. - " I\ e have the paper in our office ar.tlean hi
ti t 0 pure lasti.g Lealisiana was that the sum
unequivotal SO ! Yes, we have one buittark I paid was too great, sU,,lnifi,tnlt), That but it to any one wl:o chooses to look at it ;
of protcetion against the evils of corrupt and; a small portion of this vast tract ; equalling in
• mereent4 Legislation. The " honest Dutch-
, extent that of nearly the -whole of the old thir
man owith teen states, was orally value—that it was filled
'f die Keystone" is in the sentinel box,
1
was sufficiently r! y- large ialreaily—that
and no snapieious characters, however specious-
territory
ly attirett, or bland and c aptivating, ca n pass, wehad immense tracts of wild lands yet to be
„ t o r:occupied cast of the 3lississippi-ithat the fett
him with:out being reported, and placed a
~„l e: yairop inha t• 0,00 ut who
harm's why. Dow fortunate it is to the people'
inhabited that country (
did o not est:UM:ate9o,ol'o) with
of Pennsxlvania that it is so ! l our own people, at all, they being print:lli:lllv of
~
So far es our own members are concerned, French and ' 4 • • • • • d ' '.
t I,anis.i 011$:111., an tee idea o,
we are prOud to observe that their course has' admitting such into our halls of legi-l a tioe was
fi
as the whip. now make .u4e of in refer-
• been unifOrmly consistent, and in accordance: `''out and ridiculed, in the same terms pre
' with the
. be moeratie creed. Let them be con- I eisc 'Y
limee to incorporating about the` , tinie extent or
gratulate:il for it ; but let not such traitors as :41,,,,i5h .Mexican (eFritor t't -• • : t
y, ;,.. , 11.,:,11,0 , g aou,..
those who have turned their influence against the same number of Inhabitants. But this ac
. proteetioO to the plundered masses again - en- quisition was colic/lined by: thei Seaate by a
`vote of 24 democrats to 7 federalists, and the
joy a seat in the halls of Pennsylvania Legisla-
money was appropriated UT the ukase by a
thin. il , .. vote of 4 •Jil dennierats to ".•'i federalists-. The
wisdom of the dem wrath: party 61 that daY, or :
P. S. 4 A LITTLE LATEIL—We learn front
, tit l e Legifilative Proceedings of Saturday, that. the felly of the federalists,iettaiires no comineets
Governor Shunk's veto of the above named here. Fur what stun wt.uld this vast and rich
Bank bills has been sustained by the house la territory, to reviled:at the time by the oppo-
. 11F:its of deiniaa au:. ,
~
(1
be nor red:nal:toe il or
a vote ofl I ..: i 4 to 18. When it comes to oppo
it,
'
the eie-servativcs are ai;given up . Lt. t the It':,i ~Sc.ctittants offs -ler , -
osiii. ti ie o wini o,ro 7to O ii,
A. •, iii l z in• ~, ii
sing " F i •ptik Shull -
nib:lay saree. ..i.-, I MeNican ter rit.,,ry, answi r. Those wine now
--- -
speak so cold cell:tem:sly i f the '• ::ICIIIII, r froth
, New ;Mexico, - or '• the metul...-ri from c. i n't cv _
ThOltesolutions of Sympathy
, , ~,
with erlnce passed the Senate, after several I I n a ," w ill, w h en tie ( II .`• • T
bare aim, s H T such mem
;
hours' discussion, on Friday, by a unanimous I bens to take their seats, lie as little disposed to
w i t h , question their tight or propriety,. as they are
vote of tkirty-two ayes. Several Whigs,
;now that of the members from L Ali:Ian:1 ur
Mr. Cull Rin g declined voting upon the pretext . . .
1,, , . - Mississipin.
that congratulations before the experiment of; : this ii , proves two this inoSt e riI : CIUSIVUI V
:, paiav, are the true andl
repululicinism had been tried in France, was,—that the present wil
rprematuO. , legitimate descendants +,f _the old federal' pa: ty,
Mr.. CAlhoun opposed their passage, profrs
- and also that they are governed I I ; . • preeisi I . :, the
lint , same principles and prej:olt4s then- fore-fathers
redly beonse lie thought them premature,
t were.. It is indeed curious t, look i ver the
really, nii doubt, because the new Government , prnece•dings of C.nngrss dun hug I the atleliiiis
of Fianel' had published a decree to abolish , tration of Mr. Jefferson, from 't'vieh the ahuve
: facts are tau:dat!, at.d see What perfect Lac-
Slaveryifi all of her colonies. TO congratu
late her 'With this xi. in view, of course, nn man' l , n ' in• -' • ,
o f feeling a i l ai:i..ii (~::44... lii_t we. it t' I
of Mr. Ctillioun's jealousy about the institu- : present. , tederansts of that day' aril th •v' o -
' "Mitx , -a . nw .' ies" ist e a ‘ t. - t i -1 - -:ii j ( 7ist i a t.
thou of Slavery could do. The influence it will t• .
n itprai,:•::l. c WAN' a. 4 - Iritti:• l . tries Wa. ,
have nil the institntion in the United States thee. Tlie latter tool; a loag I.ase of i.l:. ; in , -,
see k s tn ; the others have reneweththe titles for aii:itidefi
he wiselli foresees, and prudently
guard aa•i;i Ist. . Hite nuttiber of , N I :1. S.
- - • 1 ,, -.2-• The Teo Hour IIi:I, as it camp fr! in .
!ficlanc.i.c.ty Tidint's.--The OweErn Gazette of . t h e ;..: „ aft , 1 ,a,, , ,1 the 11 .115;: cic 1 . ).•1 , 1' 0 '. iita
yesterilak SnVS : -_1 s , n of the ii n. •D tvla ' t
iVeS, 1:1 this rate. On M.,i ti . y 1ru..1;, I.y an
WiLmor,ts.,ine 12 years of age, died esterday, ovio;vhe'll):l , ,g ma,: :rity.
at Atheni, Pa , liftlie poisonous effect of eating \
, r on , (~,,.,,,
Nic
~.r
I,
\ ... --- = l , ! , e f . ,, , ,1 ,
win ,,l
wild parfpip. The melancholy intelligence was ir , r rili ,, o h • : ., in t; : ; „, :„- t , „ u ,„l„. r . ~f LI •
„ ••.( :
~t .'
sent to S. V'., at Washington, this - morning. of Ow I . iii,,11.” Cvn aoy one tel whatTh
.
by tele g 0
pipli. , , ini.ntrs'f
; the mired and),s :v utiv-eigi t graduates
•i l
• Elections. i
wpr, Scotir red ever C. e Unit, d `talcs h•; the'
s J, fferooliaii Medical College this week. _ Cal- !
fennrriirul.—" The Dutch have taken Hol
land" agliiii as usual. The Whig ticket is e- rise. HICKORY 13110031.
oinel Plebotutny ir.il crave-iligging ilk. on Gt.,'
_ ..._ _
lected b labout its ordinary majority, and two Aril:An - or li .:10:0: I, LAN I ,
—The provisional
Federal 4. S. Senators rill be the fruits therc-' government of France iss.:cs its pr clainati •ns
of—one4ain. ('lark Bis se l is-ele e ted Govern- io tl.e name of the s •vereign people, and pro
or, and the Legislature will be Whig as usual.' claims the. right 1. , vut". by secret ballot, rt",
No one 14Oktt1 for a different result in this land
ever
I y male eitiz,n over :21 ;ears of age.t The
•
of blue-)mitt, Ilartford Convention Federalism. revolution is justified on the grotind that the.
-.
' people are soverchui. a•ol diave the ri:rh.t to'
no men itather grapes of thorns or figs of this- I change their. Ita-its of tl:e t rove] nineLt Id en
tics? 4 . . land in the manner to su it O wl : lir : e l ves . The'
ft
I Providenve Herald ii ti es a rumor that Loris
•
Rho& land.—Whig all over—never will be: mrrirpire 18
cornrow
any thingelse, while free suffrage is nut toler- to Rhode (dung),,in order'
'to be rroterted from the sovereignty of . the!
ated. !ci• people.—N. V. Eve. Post. ' ' I
il. _ .
314sralusrtis.—H-m. Horace Mann has been _. i
Siiiiiirti and li)Nlerious llissappeitptire.
elected ii the Whigs of the eighth dist: let, to We gather from the (klieg.) (irilZ* the fol-.
supply tint vacancy in Congress occasioned by lowing aeeount of the mysterious disappearance I
the deatWof John Qainey Adams. lof a young gehtleman of Athens—son of 3lr. •
_______
I G. A. Perkins, one of the most respected citi- •
A ,P4ettEcv.—The Washington cones- I zees of that ',tare. The etlitoe f the Gazette I
pondent if the Tribune counts one fourth of; derived the circumstances, as related, from Mr.'
the DeleOtes to the Baltimore Convention fa.' Perkins the father of the missing young man: :
s
vomble td the re-nomination of Mr. Polk, and: 0.11 Thursday evening last tb young ma
.
predicts Oita he will be the candidate of the (Geo. 13. Perkins,) returned W Ins father ,n
s
Detnoerao next fall. This seer is very store front a religious nteetin;o7 between the:
often . hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, soonafter whielt bis
wide of die mark, but stranger things-than father le:t the store disoveting nothing unusual ,
that bavglhappened-Land that may. iin the appearance or conduct of his son, who t
I uas his father's clerk ; and' froth this tune he
A certain up-start officer—(Can't the has nit been seen and not' a Word has been •
reader giless who?) it seems was . consider- !heard from him by his friend. His fath4
' 4;
ably*aninVed by the remarks of Mr. Streeter I had been in the habit of allowing him a stated
• salary for his services as a eldrld; keeping witii
upon the Lill to abolish militia trainings, and •. hi, a •
regular account of debt4r and erediC3 '
last weck s ;;he appeared, in the Reg-later with a' an d it was found that lie had charged I • dr•
half colunin of slang,sridieuling the idea that with ""° " it ' ll ' g
; must ; ,
'articles,_ and balancedl4;
sueb.musters were a burden upon the poor man I account corrertly on the evenin of his di.sapl ,
••i
and of net- with ihfi
,;sort of benefit whatever, ''' pearance, and after , his father ha left the stunt I
- : The key which lie was in timbal it of carrying
nitelymorie effort than effect: We wond er that' wag found carefully hid- aWay where no one
our neighbor would. allow his columns to be ' conld find it but his fatheri every thing was
made a siwer fur such scurillity. Cleft in its customary order, and nothing what fl
Li ~
'ever has transpired to cast the lest shade upoti
5.... -- - - ---
Dead.--lioo. James A. Black, Democratic' his reputation or integrity. : Nothing had oct
member cif Congress from South Carolina, dieCeurred of an unpleasant nature hbutween kiln;
at WashOgtou on Monday week. 'self and nny members of the fa 'lily, and if hi
,o- , has gone away., •as the facts' in relation to:tll4'
balancing the books :and puttin `away the key!
would seem to indicate, his frt.° ils are utterly'
'at a loss to account for tbei unbappy a i d ox 4
traordinary step upon any otbei . 'ground that I,
I that it was • induced•by some stfilden.impulse;'
i
Severs( French houses in New work i l and taken with Out deliberatinn. t•
1,
have late 4, failed, and it is feared that otliersi Any information in relation 'ito this youngl
man will be gratefully received by his afflicted I
will Soon.lbllolY their example. . parents at Athens; Bradford 'Co.,Pa.
fi
s , ..
• ARKAOAS SE/ISTOIL—Mai. S. Borland has!
been apkinted Senator from Arkansas to fill
the natti l y caused by the resignation of Mr. I
Sevier, tIM rew Minister to -Mexico.
Flom the Mexico gnrfla AmrOcan
THE EMAgATION or FAma..—The Prcttem
ings in the Philanthropic society of Mexito,
regard to the apostacy of Messrs. Clay.fj C
holm ; Webster, Botts, Ste.; , have made t
cames of those illuStrions, men immortat
there were any ia the list who feared
let them banish all apprehensibn, fur f,th
friend. , in 'Mexico have,-graven the initiqls
eneli opon everlasting tablets. Ihey e
rolled among the list of the Philanthrbpi , .
rut- thr , ,ats of their sus and brothels anil
forever s-l.ine opposite the 'names of those kali
blood has enriehed the soil of the' invali,t 1
public" and wh , sq bones whiten upon her Oai
Satan, when a young and ambitions spirit" co
sidered it preferable to rule in hell than *et
in heaven, and friends upon earth null wi
propriety follow ills exampl3. Not that
who attempt to light fires of discord in ourm:
ti,m a l councils are of this fav,,r, for we ho
Whether Satan would turn traitor to
honselr,l,l
We puldis'iefl yesterday tlie reward
c:s out to ' defenders' in the Tina
Statue. yet we cannot refrain from again ivi
it a in , zir columns. We do tint want
incri , an luxieo or out of to luss. t
roc; rd.
I . fll/II the rot.itor I . ..Tubas:m*l, Ms xicsl, an. E 7, 19-18.
" .I . lessrs. (lay. 13(.tts,, Wyliste4
Latin, IL lmcc4, Van Dyck, &:c.
" These ilhtstri.,us defeoers of the cause
M have jastly nevirerd the gratiitile
all g nul lesdeans. At atrublie nieetiogilff t:
ekty of Mt lien, held (ji
b - rst. it wm; Ptesolvol to direct to
c , jilininti4 a' bet mani 'est big the gratitinle%nf t
sot.i •ty, and ap`peititing thin licytturary to 'tilt?.
of the ermay be the
most:tures tu.dur whicth Me:std.a.o and tle
nited s 111;(11.:.cinsclves, we' mus'.. td n.
our luanage and gratitude to tl.c inagnapf,nc;
11:d "••11 , :r. us men elo dare to ofir
hear is t'.e very stone laud in trhi.S men five
se:al:led wa'm war a g ainst Its lleri
jurrds , • to the ii,•;:eialets the canse of jf,eit
and -
• 'llea: ti .Irneyien.ns! ' Hear it ye il -,
o. i..ts aid have fallen in 'tile ffes;,
rate eaeou !tors of Mt s.ieolrliik
B inners of your e ,Ituitry .! Hear it ye s' is
orplams, whose s-,Tp,
1::17,• laid down their %live:, in 'tiros
gn:trantiett them and pm t
bt it (I of Coil pat ri, ts of the rerulution.! fi A
II ear it few rettudiiing links between tl*g'(
a. hi..t er,ion's of '7l; :Aid '47, , tlmitth
frene the feeble life-puls.2 and still your i)ra
ly•arts' 'atiof(• forever' ttiod of
can false to tlitir euni.try. tht4. flu
t,red by tbe eommin eatery of the laid
their bilth, have the effrontery to retain fth
.. I ,l aet , s in th e f'ongret-s they hate dishon§re
We hope not. It they have any sense of : Lai
I, , ft. let tbon d( sort the conipanionship
liter:cans and j(,in our foes. Here they 'to
hut kill their countrymen—there theyist
their countrr. .•
"Tu what Las ~ i uses do we cme at list
We remember sumo of the men above apj4a
ed when they stood forth shining exanyks.
how the nation doted on - them t S
con: tkd them among her ,jewels and Itiok
forward t) their maturcr years with thepri
of a mother. • But the demon ambition ll
her cup fur them and they drained it the to ,
Unrevited hopes and chided aspirationsp
thyir %cants with 'bitterness and turned th
lovedf country to gall. In an evil m4in,
the motto " r Ile or ruin"..was adopted by he
at:d failing in the first, all their energies
devoted to the latter.
• 0
Much as they have been , denc:unted 14 t
people whom they have betrayed, erhei• t
tribute of Mexico shall be received, the rim
ore of their disgrace wine ;filled. Who 'Ot
little ba•:d of patriots here is there,-who,
change positions with the greatest of they ?
Who would consent to become se unyvtutiby
country and all honorable men as th
eonsidereti a fit subject for Such a complinjen
'JOE MELT/NG IN NEW Vl:K.—Nine (los
in inter' COllllllll5 of the New York Ileraa
occupied with a report of the great mtti
held in that city on Monday, to expres.,' t
sympathy of the people of New York_ toltar
the French people. From the accounts
the New York papers, it must have beet
.o
of the greatest public demonstrations eve 4 w
nessed on this continent. It is SupposeC tb
nut le:s than one hundred ithe.tisand p4so
were present on the occasion. speeelies,fAve
delivered in the French, Italian,. Germar4 a
English languages, by several very abler;;
eloquent gentlemen, Manz ; houses in thpi
i . were illuminated in the evening, and eie
thing passed of with greatekt good humor
enthusiasm. '
• .
I'r PrCoolidge was. takch tho Ota
Prison at Thoulaston,.on ThFs(lay last.
business will ho that of shoemaking.
According to the amended Ilawi of Maint
C. is to remain in solitary ecinfindient at F ha
(labor for ono year, and' then lioexocuted.
•
• HE-1Y Y DAM AO jury in Philade
. 141
on Thursday, last week, 'gave the plaintiff
verdict of ten thousand doll4rs is a breach
promise ease. This is the largest yard
of the kind ever given in this eouhtry.
, Deiittiictive 'Ciro at Troy.
FiDCS'tore.s . :.., and Me TaFertLißitrnesd !
This _beit
•,,ittiro • !,_,. l and flo • • •
urishitig village of Troy,
situated iii,tW western part of t hitt , county, was
visited hY, a iitost deStructive fire on Tuesday
i morn i ng last,3vltich laid much the largest nor
ti ,n of the laiainess part of the Wan in ashes.
1 The tire brok4 out about 2 o'cloclt . M., in a
building aituati d in the South part of the toWn,
and occupiedlsy a man by the name of Jones,
as , a Grocer3ltore. , This Wilding whiefs wa s
of wood, we learn was nearly consumed before
the tire was liscoverW, and when the alarm ,
i 0
was given, the rear of the large and commodi.
ous store of Om Messrs. Pomeroys was also on
tire. This Is ildiug •was soon consumed, -as
1 were also su4cessively the . Ames of Messrs.
131ex:well, Runyan, aad Braid & Stephens, sit
uated on the ,same Side of the y street. Th e
large dwelling house id the sessrs. Pomeroys,
t I which, if mirlecollcction serves us right, is but
i; a rew feet east-of thwstore of Braid & Stephens
, ! —was with Much difficulty paved.
e In the mean-time the clethuring element wtt
busy in anather dcrectioni The wind was
t I blowing strong- from the smith atj the time, and
all en; is tej .prevout thefire from crossing
r Main street proved Fain. The "Troy Muse,"
s i owned. and kept by 'V. M. :Long, first caught
lon the north side of the- street,; and rras soon
Y consumed, t4g'ether irith the lard tavern ham
Y , and stn: e of fJ. P. Ballard. ,
Thus, 1.1 ope short hour, *-as ruduced to ash.
✓ es nearly tlni entire !business portion of one of
the must flotirishing busine.is villages in North.
'e mu I'e nnsylyania. -Of the Ms stores of the•
phice five hai•e been ;burned to the ground, a n d
_ 'tn..) of the three taverns ate also in rui ns .,
• Rarely indeed does it happen that fire makes
_'so clean a siveep, ;
We deeply sympathize ivith lam friends at
I f, Trey, in their {land trust to hear
• that their I: lases hive been t)retty fully eon/et'
it by insnrahee.
of'
I'. S.—Since the itliove Was Written we learn
that the •".Ttinv House," "waiinsured for $1,200
. .
; ,I ,—an amount insignificant, when 'compared
II; with the 1 >si which 'Mr. L ang Must have sus
,. tained as we untjcrstai.d that hot half of his
furniture was removed, Mr..l. had recently
re-fitted, the building, and had it '
furl ished in the inr.it complete' manner. We
e also hear that Mr, Ballard. was not insured
sine cent. his less must be very heavy.—
NVe have net
the
the amount of theinsu
_ :ranee upon the resybut understand that they
t ar: partly sceuredH-Brddford
n
; i ri hie 1;41051C11 ! cil the rarlage Railreed.
Va Saturday, April Ist, as the locomotive
.d , David It. Kiter, was starting from the depot
Gaysport ; with a train of cars, the boiler es
in plodo.l upward, with a-repert that was heard
m' all over 11. ilidaysbnrgli and Ga.ysport- . The
pas'iron d ,tae with rols, sa'ety valve, and part
tic neck= of the , b tiler attacheth.weighing
1. aLoat 390 lhs. was carried soma :200 feet in
the air, and:throwdiinto a field 150 or 200 feet
of from the road.. The shed . aver tby boiler was
ur torn to pieces,
,and !one of the: upright posts
tit , I some six fcit long nnd three inches square;
I , tirried ,acress the turnpike, and intervening
spa‘..e about',3oo foek., and driven almost
zoutally i to the rocif of a house where it still
-ttielcs, pr , ttint Re a flag staff
Thn entriacer - Mrj John IVazuer, was stoop-
T_ inq over tfie;Tailltz . at the time . of the explr
saw] lookingsat a piece of iron- he had placed to
carry a d ojj ff the ;driving Wheel • to this po
t- I salon he is it:debt : ea for lindife.; Lad he been
standinz erect as usual, he must lave been in
n] stantly killed. As it i., he is severely, thinigh
we hope notAlanzerausly scalded on his face ;
breast ard left_arin.! His cap was t , -.-”ifr "
„ 2 all,l art ch - rricd to the t tirni,ike and part fel
-1 t!.e dome to , tie field. The fireman,
,„ 11.• i ry Taylor, had Yost le . t, tile platform and
' was letting on the bbuiping beam, and escaped
rt ;inli.urt
t The cause of the explosion was a defect in
;„ the iron 0f41.1,11 the boilei• NTILB made. Theo
is ,nuns hart been cracked in
~.1).1.4;;:g.. and :1:c-i,Ely
it' l'l -i I hadot taken
long since. Mr.
. e Wagner is 'practical engi;!eer,. a skilful ma
and':tme of the most. careful and
_ Pete t engineers in the, eml loy. of the State.
The David it. Porterkva:. built 'at .11ctling a
ir.' bout - le4o, tly pettdfer
• , A Runio4cd Battle lu Mexico, and
le severe Refeal-of the Anaerleans.
' - '
tel,-ranhic announcement, a few days agn,
1(11 A .c 4' 7 • .
~, fri m Cincinnati. gave the -rumen. of a battle at
'; El Pass be 800 Americans, under Col
Rills and 40 . 00 Mexicans, in which the further
- rwere defea(ed, with the loss 4 eighty men.
• 1 The lirestc* Argils, received 'since, brings a
ie
J sort of confirmation of tl.iss hew.i We give all
•
d I the rumors We find. ' The fnlloVing particulars
he . we copy from - the Sir. Lonis.papers :
d -
A geittlernan' -
who left Santa Fe about the
-
25th of Febivary, arrived here .Sin..day. Be
ii' hri-ii- , s new&ef a !Attie betwe n Col. Rabb'
' c
regiment, stationed at Eli Pa o, (800 men)
ir i
' and 4,4100 '..lexiCatii, ' In.'',', ierieans forces
t j
were ihifeatitd o .m.if (Ong the 1 '. of 60 to SO
0 ' !nicilar;d Ca Rails was ietreat'ng before the
Me ins. rlDn • the :ree-ption f the news at
Santa Fe, den. 'Pri'ze irmubdia cly ordered all
1° •- 1 his disrsalfie force lo mar'4ll to' the aid of Col.
IC ; Rails. 'rhct'express; with the ail', left Santa
o: Fe three days before the beare of this news,
d, was evertfikhn by hits, and pass d.
1 'rho fulloVing, from , the Wes on, Mo., Her
.f j aid extra ; or tillo2lst, thoughnot so late gees
e j to confirm the above intelligencei
? ; An expreks has.juSt arrived
We have seen a leteer dated
'Y l. Febtiary 7th from which we mat
Cling items : !: ;
' 4 ' I On the 3d Of February, the dr
ts
IC i ed here vveie arousal . ' byj the
American, mho escaped . film - •
111 came exprosS. • He- hrouglii in
' e l the movements athei Mexiians
- I and that GO. Urren, was iadv .
' t i 1 1 aso With 34600-men. Three
ales of Col. :Rails' rregiineti4. we
e
, that place. ph° dragoons,liere
," march to their relief at a 4no
' . and were Whiting the arrival
Y 1 from Santa(o , who; was expo
;Ida - vs: :', ij.. • '
" 1 •We have tiled received a Sant
dated , Felpru4rY .124, from w
, !the follciwing" , news-: I
1 - Santa Fe iVas in gieat excite
reported that I.lrrea, was Ova •
Paso with ancnimy bt16,090! to 1
d'rapidjmartheS. • :Gen, Price' im
lproparittlomi for ' .marching with
of troops "tty'llis relief of that •
a' Abel arrived ht Sandi Fe on the
a' Patin; anittiMight voids that th
'f! were ill'on - 14 forced March ifor
'f! that there eras a strong fight at
Large bodiektif - Mexicans were
wonder is that the ei-
'tom Santa Fe.
Altinquergne,
act the follow-
goons statiou
ntriral of an
ilinalma,. and
Idligence of all
in. Chihuahua,
mina upon El
r fourconipa-_
e stationed at
were ready to
oat's warning,
f Gen. Price
ted in a few
Fe Repellent
lob w obtain
ent. 'Oros
ring upon. El
,000 men, by
ediately made
Uveral , bodies
lace. Mr. J.
11 th ,from El
troops below
El Paso, and
that place.—
.eported to bo