i keep up her brotlierls spirits.
‘thrown on Otis.
the turnkey, ‘both innocent, I am sure of
mat. There they are, with a pirate one
tide of them, and a murderer the other,
enjoying themselves. If that ain’t inno-
cem,,.,1can’t tell what is. I declare, if
I don’t expect some day, when I open the
door to see the angel of the Lord with
, .
the_m—the same has \valked the Fiery
Furnace!’ _ _ , ,
‘An uncommon girl is that, -said the
matron. ‘Sometimes when we meet the
vagabonds going along - the corridor, just
turned in t-rom the Five Points, she looks
scared, and gathers her clothes close
round her, as if she were afraid of the
me plague ; yet she’ll stay the live_ long
,d'iiy——yes, and till ten or eleven at night-
in that dismal cell, and talk and read, and
She begins
with the Bible in the morning,_and ends
with it at night; and between times they
read out of Dickens, and Punch and 0‘’9‘‘)’
mud of nonsense M,-_ flgnsllatvbbflllgsg and
Hwy hugh _;ogether; and _ their ladugp
s.ounds like the best of music In 3- 3" i
,nig-ht, VVhen Mr. Henshaw sent_ her a
"basket of notions from the coufectioners,
she would not take them to 82, but gave
them to me, and modestly asked him If he
would send her brother a bit of beef steak,
or a mutton chop, to keep up IIES lllleall-ll;
and spirits. She has been what La we
trained.’ _
.The last letter received fromthe young
Hathaways was dated on luesday.—
Charles’s part expressed not hope, but a
cheerful couraoe that he was sure could
C‘ , . .
not fail him, while his friends had faith in
him. ‘You have trained me up, dqear pa-
rents,’ he said, ‘to believe that l.lle,;1m}')0l‘-
taut thing is to do right, not todseem
rig/1,1; and now I mean to feel an act
accordingly.’ _
Ruth wrote thus: ‘The trial comes on
to-morrow morning. There is nothing
new come‘ to light; so we are preparing
for the worst. The amount of the stolen
articles put in Charles’ pocke_t is less than
."‘S2i5), so that they cannot make grand lar.
ceny of it; and he cannot be sent to
Sing Sing, only over to Blackwell s Island.
The period of his detention there is at the
discretion of the Judge. Mr. Sandley
says it cannot be long, with such testimo-
From Te.z'a.<:.—The5 isteamshipi Ohio
Capt. Swiler,.which left Galveston on the
13th inst. arrived last evening. ‘She brot’
us the Gazette of that date. There is in
it a rather long but highly interesting let-
ter from Sam Houston, elicited by the re-
cently published communication from ex-
Presidem. Tyler, giving the reasons which
induced him to propose and carry out the_
measures of Texas annexation.
The particular passages of Mr. Tyler’s
letter, which form the subject of General
I-Iouston’s comments, and to which he
takes exception, are the following: _
“Nor was it until I received out/imztc
information that other nations were exer-
ting all-tlieir efforts to induce a course of
action on the part of Texas, at war, as I
firmly believed, with the permanent inter-
ests of the United States, that I gave di-
rection to my lamented friend, Abel’ P.
Up liur, then Secretary of State, to-break
up and scatter to the winds the web of
their intrigues, by a direct proposition for
annexation.” .
M r. Tyler farther says, in reference to
the measure ofannenation: “Nay, I may
go even farther and declare, before the
initiative was‘. taken, and when the pre-
liminaries were nearly all arranged, their
completion being alone prevented’ by the
death of Mr. Upsliur, and the appointment
of an adjunct commissioner to Mr. Van
Zandt by Texas,” &c,
Mr. Houston, in a well connectec state-
ment, goes over the whole question of An-
nexation, from its incipiency to its con-
summation. He says there was no web
ofintrigue woven by any party—that it
was a phantasy—a bug hear of some ofthe
newspapers, which, for wise political pur-
poses, he permitted to pass uncontracted,
knowing that the “measure of Annexation
depended upon the internal condition of
the United States, and not upon any in-
trigues of foreign powers, or of Texas.”
After running over the history of An-
nexation, as he iinderstands it, he says:
“Accusations have been so frequently
made against the authorities of Texas in-
a'2'reclZ,i/, and against the representatives of
foreign governments di7‘cctl_i/, that I have
felt myself imperatively called upon to
avow to all who feel an interest in learning
or embracing the truth in regard to this
nials to bring‘ forward, as Miss Einma’has
sent to us. Oh, thanks to her. The.
worst—-no, the best—-of it is, that Charlie,
positively refuses to have any SUSplClOn,
Mr. Hcnshaw feels sure,
he is the real culprit, and l\;lr. Sandlcy,
thinks it more than probable.
Concluded 120.21 zL'(c.7.'.
The Hon. Henry Clay reached this city,
says the§Baltimore American, Aug. S-Z5tli,
in the steamboat Constitution from French-I
town about half past eleven o’clock last,
niglit, and notivithstandiiigthe lateness of
the hour, and the short notice our citizens
‘had dfihis coming, his reception was one
of the‘ most enthusiastic we have everl
witnessed. VVithout any previous ar-l
rangement, and with the fact of there be-1
ing a mere possibility that he might come,
on in the boat, a’ dense crowd of the ad-i
rnirers of the illustrious Statesman of the:
VVest, lined the. capacioiis wharf at the;
foot of South street, before the boat hove,
in sight; and when she did make her ap-f
pearance, and it was ascertained that the‘
man who has so strong a hold on the af-,
fections of the great Whig "p81‘lYa“’33 onf
board, an enthusiastic shout of welcome‘
burst from the vast multitude, rocketsl
were thrown up, and every one seemedf
anxious to get a glimpse of the great man
Mr. Clay proceeded at once to Barnum’si
City Hotel, escorted by a concourse of as}
warm friends as it has ever been the lot off
an American Statesman to boast of. Uponl
his arrival at the hotel, the multitude as-I
sernbled around the building, and seemed
unwilling to depart until he should appear
before them. Mr. Clay at length appeared,
and after adverting to the lateness of the,
liour—-which precluded the possibility oft
a speech-he thanked them for the warm
and gratifying reception which he had re-
ceived, and wishing them an affectionate.
good night, retired amid the best wishes
of the assembled multitude.
\Ve learn that Mr. Clay will leave this
city in the VVestern train this morning, forl
his home in Kentucky.
Col. Pol/c’s T/tree .7lf 1'1/ion.s ./7gain.—La
Patria, alluding to the denial which the
story of its Havana correspondent relative
to the employment of the famous three
Millions has received, says that there is
something 2723-2't—72o:wit/tstanrlirzg. “In a few
days,” adds-La Palria, “we shall lay before
the public the reasons we have for believ-
ing that ‘the Three Millions have been
devoted to the vi-le use of buying up cer-
tain Mexicans. Among these gentlemen
it will not be surprising to find as the
chief the hero of Buena Vista and Cerro
Gordo, who knew hoiv to lose‘ both ac-
tions so skilfully, when he had such deci-
ded advantages over his opponents.
The wrong man hung-——A young printer
named Boyington, who served his time in
theofiice of the old New Haven Journal,
was hung a few years since in Alabama,
upon a charge of having murdered a com
panion, with whom he was travelling—
He protested his innocénce to the last;
but without avail. Recently the landlord,
in whose house the murder was commit.-
ted, confessed the crime on his death bed!
Boyington was a young man of fine’ tal-
ents, and prepossessing appearance, whose
guilt was deemed conclusive only from
the fact, that he was the_last person seen
with the murdered man.
Pototoe BaZls.—-ll-Iessrs. A. M. & F. VV.
Holt, advertise in the New London papers
for a hundred bushels of Potatoe Balls, for
which a generous price will be paid—to be
ripe but not rotton. To be delivered to
Asa M. Holt, in East Haddam, or F. W.
Holt in New London. This is a new arti-
cle of merchandizc, which our farmers
may improve. But what in the world
will they do with a hundred bushels of po-
tazo balls’! lfthey mean to raise ’taters from
the seed, this is enough. to sow all creation.
matter, that there was never any intrigue
connected with Texas and other powers,
nor was there ever any foundation for
such a charge, (though often reiterated,)
only in the feverish excitement of heated
fancy or the mischievous designs of the
wicked.”
He closes by giving to Gen. Jackson’s
letters, and their influence on the people,
causing them to overleap the bounds of
party, the whole credit of Annexation.
./V'. 0. Delta, 17//t.
TAYLOER LE'E"B‘Ei't€§.
Higlliiiy lmp0i't:.ii.iint Coi'irc.s;r oiii<i1oncc'
Pr.osPi~;c'ri'.'i:'.'iLLi-1, Juno 5.’, 1347.
Dear Sir :—As you are our candidate
for the Presidency, so constituted by the
people, you are, therefore, open to all sorts
of impertinentquestions. Your privacy
is to be invaded, and you are to sufler
yourself to be duly examined, as if you
were a simple witness in the hands of an
indefinite number'of sharp lawyers.
Iain one of the people, and being an
exceedingly small specimen, I have made
it a practice for years past, for the sake
of notoriety, to endeavor to fasten myself
on the tail of some great man, who hap-:
pened for the tiuie to be in the ascendan-
cy. lam opposed to your elevation to
any office, and would not vote for you,
were you, in the language of a late Loco-
foco Senator of this State, “pure enough-,
to sit on the right hand of the Throne of
I-Ieaven.”
9
share of the attention of philosophers to
show it don't ruin the nutmeg.
VVith high respect,.I remain
Your most obedient servant,
. Z. "I‘ArLo1t.
Augustus M. Snooks, Esq.
’ JV'ew Orleans .N'at1.°o/ial.
Shipwreck and loss of Forty two lites.-—
On Sunday evening, Aug. 15, in aboutlat.
48 N. long. 67 VV.»the ship Mamlouk,
while lying to in a violent hurricane, under
the main spcncer, and fore-topmast stay-
sail, at ten minutes before 12, was struck
by a tremendous squall, which careened
her so far over that the cargo shifted and
brought her in an instant on her beam
ends, so far over that the weather rail on
the quarter deck was within a few feet of
the water. The main and mizzen masts
were immediately cut away, and the ship
righted, but the cargo had burst away the
hatches and was floating about, and the
vessel was full of water, the starboard rail
being submerged. At daylight on Monday
morning, but 22 of 64- souls were found
alive. '
Throughout that "day and Tucsday‘tl‘ie
storm still raged and the sea broke violently
over the wreck. Saw a vessel on Tues-
day but the weather was too rough for
her to approach. By daylight next mor
ning she was seen bearing down toward
the wreck. She proved to be the brig
Belize, Capt. James H. Dawes, from Bos-
ton, boiind to Port au Prince. The sea-
men were immediately taken on board by
Capt. Dawes, their wants most generously
provided for, and his vessel’s course c.lian-
god for New York. Thirty-five stecrage
passengers and seven of her crew were
washed overboard.———.N‘. Y. Tribune.
.]l{/'. P. G. iS'/uyvcsnnfls Vl’z‘1l.—lt is now
said that Mr. Stuyvesant was far from
being the richest man in the City next to
Mr. Astor. His real estate is estimated
by those who ought to knowat $2,050,000,
and his personal property at $300,000.--
(We think this must be much too low a
sum.) One halfof the former is left to
twelve nephews and neic-s while three
other nephews inherit the comet‘ Iialf. The
following legacies are left to various benev-
olent institutions:
Aincricnn Bible Society $5,000
American Tract Society 1.000
Institution for the Blind 3,000
I’i'otestant Ilalf Orphan Asylum 5,000
Help one Avzot/ier.—Tlie race of mankind
would perish did they cease to aid each
other. From the time that the mother
binds the child’s head,to the moment when
some kind assistn.nt wipes the death damp
from the brow of the dying, we cannot
exist without mutual help. All therefore,
who need aid, have a right to ask if from
their fellow mortals :. no one who holds
the power of granting, can refuse without
guilt.—Sz'r Walter Scott.
A worthy clergyman in lilaiinfield, Mass
hasjust made a large and generous dona-
tion of books to Yale Colfege library.-
They arrived a day or two since, and will
soon be put in the alcoves by the indefati-
nablc M r. l-Ierrick, college librarian.
fldroiz R0g‘ur'7’_I/.—-r'\S M r. George O.
Strong, who keeps a shoe store on VVnsh-
ington street, Boston, was closing his shut-
ters last evening, he found that one of the
bolts had been stolen and substituted by
another, with the head screwel on so that
it rniglit be taken off with the finger and
thumb, and the store entered with all ease.
Mercliaiits and others will do well to look
to their bolts.
Constantinople has been the subject of
terrible fires almost every year during the
last century. After the loss of millions of
Yet I should be exceedingly delighted
ifyou would answer the questions I put;
to you in this letter, not only for the pur-'
pose ofhaving them published against you,5
if they can be so used, in case you are al
candidate; but also, for the sake of get-
ting my name before the people as having
done something to assist in misrepresen-
ting your real sentiments. If I accom-
plish this, and you are defeated, lam sure
of some small office as a reward for my
ingenious services. .
I wish to know, firstly, whether you are
in favor of putting corn in both ends of a
bag that is sent to mill horseback, or do
you believe in the modern system, inven-
ted by Bob Wal -er, who used a large
stone in one end to belance the grain at
the other’! Secondly, are you in favor of
muleshaving colts’! 'l'hirdly, are you in
favor of crossing the nutmeg melon with
the pumpkin 'l
A prompt and definite answer to these
questions, will oblige your fellow citizen,
Auevsrus l\Ioi\*'rAGUE Suooxs.
Gen. Z. Taylor.
Camp, near IVIONTEREY, .
July 9th, 1847. E
Respected Sir :—Your very important
communication came to hand in due course
of mail and baggage wagon transportation.
I read it with profound pleasure.
Izwas delighted with the independent ex-
pression of your sentiments, and the laud-
able motives that induced you to place
them before me in writing. The govern-
ment has kept me so exceedingly busy of
late in doing nothing, that I have not had
time to write to you as promptly as I could
have desired, nor can I as explicitly when
I do set down to the task, as the impor-
tance of the subject demands.
Your firstquestion—I shall answer them
all categorically-——is that involving a favo-
rity system of exchange, that it would be
indelicate for me, in my present position
to enlarge upon, but I would say passing,
that it is better to have a stone in one end
of a meal bag than in a bladder. To your
second question I answer, I am in favor
ofniules having colts, provided it suits the
mules, and don’t interfere with the vested
rights of the people.
Your third question involves a‘ point on
which I have many doubts—crossing the
melon with the pumpkin, certainly cnlarg.
dollars, the city is aboutto provide itself
with the means ofextinguishing these con-
flagrations. Mr. Hunneman, of Boston,
who built the new engine recently for New
Haven, is now building a splendid machine
for Constantinople, the first ever had in
that vast city. A
We are informed that the notorious Ma-
ria Monk is now an inmate of the State
Prison, at Sing Sing, having been sent
thither on a conviction for grand larceny.
B7'o';/rlgn fldv.
The extensive foundry of jStillman, Al-
len & Co. known as the Novelty Iron
Vlforks, foot of Twelfth st. East River, was
on fire on Monday night last week.
estimated at between $30,000 and $40,000
——covered by insurance.
The Annual Fair of the N. Y. State Ag-
ricultural Society is to be held at Saratoga
Springs on the 1'-I-tli, 15th and 16th days
of September.
VVm. Freeman, the colored man, conv'ic-
ted ofthe murder of the Van Nest family
in Cayuga co. N. Y. about ayear ago, died
rcentlyintlie, jail at Auburn. He had
been in :1 most miserable condition for
many weeks. \Vhatever he may have
been when he committed the horrid act, for
which he has so long been imprisoned, it
is said he was previous to his death, a
perfect idiot.
The number of dogs killed in this City
from the 15th June to the ‘24th August is
1,510. -
'1'/Lamas W". D0rr.—-Passing through
Providence the other day, I took an op-
portunity to call on Governor Dorr, who,
I am sorry to say, is lying very low. His
disease has bern a confirmed jaundice.
He has beeen a great sufferer. At present
his recovery is deemed doubtful, both by
himself and his friend's.—-C'or. Eve. Post
It is stated in the Tribune, that “a large
amount of perfectly new bills of the Plain-
field Bank are daily offered in \Vall st. for
sale at 4-0 to 45 cents on the dollar. They
have never been in circulation and are
numbered consecutively as" ifjust cut from
the sheet. It may be amatter of some
interest to the unfortunate real bill-holders
to know where this apparently unlimited
supply comes from. Who IIJS the. plates
es the melon, but it will require a large
, ..
of this Bank 1”
Loss '
Correspondence between Gen. Scott and.
Santa flnnu.—A letter" in the New_Orleans
La Patric, dated at -Tampico, August 6,
states that letters received there say that
Scott began his march to the Capital on
the 5th, without doubt. One of these let-
ters also says that two days ago the advance
Mexican guard intercepted a private cor-
respondence between Santa Anna and Gen.
Scott, in which the latter had written that
he had commenced withdrawing the troops
from Perote. This disclosure produced a
general excitement, and to calm the popu-
lace it became necessary for Santa Anna
to make a public manifesto, declaring that
his policy was only a ruse by which he
hoped to surround Gen. Scott.
A letter in the La Patria dated at Tam-
—
]lIore Guerilla Fz'glttr'.ng.-- Two
Americam _Cc_zptaz'n.s wo2mded.—
Escape fiom Jllcscico of Zllajor
Gaines and Zllidsltzprnan R0,,-
ers.-— T heir Safet_7/.—0rde7' for
llfarching the Army.— Va-rious
Rumors.
The steamship Galveston has arrived
at New Orleans, with advices from Tain-
pico to the 14th and Brazos Santiago to
the 15th‘ inst.
The Pic.ayune’s correspondent from the
camp at the National Bridge, twenty-four
miles from Vera Cruz, under date of Au-
gust llth, gives the particulars of an at-
tack on the train, and says the command
under Major Lally, was met by guerillas
pico on the 9th, states that the vomito has
appeared in its worst form among the
Americans, and already great mortality
prevailed; that a person arrived there on
the 8th, from the City of Mexico, who
states that the preparations of Gen. Scott
do not indicate an advance on the 1st of
August as reported; nor was it believed
he would advance with the force he had.
The letter adds that the news concerning
the interception of Gen. Scott’s corres-
pondence is confirmed.
T/Veilt/L of I-fa/‘vard Collcge.——Tlie be-
quests made to this institution are enor-
mous, whether seen in the aggregate or in
detail. In the annual report of the over-
seers of that Institution made to the last
Legislature of hlassacliiisetts, we notice
not less than nineteen separate bequests,
which average more tlxan $20,000 each!
The available funds of_the College, given
for speci ‘c purposes, the interestof which
only is used, exceeds six /Ill7l(1.'e’ll/l0llSfl?2..’f
dcl/ar.s-! The Law Department has funds
exceeding $40,000 and the Theological
School more than $80,000! 'I his opulence
is the result of individual liberality ofcit-
izens ofMassachusetts. Will Connecticut
‘men ever do the like for Yule College’!
D0:/glass <3" Ga/vi.-on. 17..’o.’)I;ml.—\Villiaiii
Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Doiiglass,
now on an anti slavery tour to the West,
were quite ill treated at one of their meet-
ings in Harrisburg, Pa. last week. Doug-
lass furnishes an account of the fracas for
the New York Anti Slavery Standard.-—
Several volleys of “unmercliuntable eggs,”
he says, were poured through the win-
dow s, filling the room with the most dis-
gusting and stifling stench, which he calls
“slave-ry’s choice incense," &. “one struck
friend Garrison on the back, sprin‘ ling its
essence all over his honored head.” A
pack of fire cralcers was also exploded.
causing much excitement and alarm. Cries
of “throw out the nigger” were shouted
by the mob outside, and stones and brick-
bats ‘were hurled when he left the house,
protected by some of his colored friends.
Douglass himself escaped without injury.
From the New Haven Register, 2-lth.
“Loco/.”—On the morning of Com-
mencement day, crics of“murder,” “help,”
size. were heard to issue from a house in
Chapel street, greatly to the alarm of the
neighbors—sevcral of whom immediately
rushed in to ascertain the cause; when
lo,and behold! the lady of the house was
discovered with her husband across her
lap, on whom she was inflicting a regiilair
spavz/cmlo, for some breach of family disci-
pline, and who was making the wclkin
ring at the top of his voice, for assistance.
Re:illy—thc order of nature seems perver-
ted in this town! One man runs with
a nursing child away, mid a woman spanks
her husband within an inch of his lifel-
\-Vhat are we coming to’!
The Palladium confirms this statement. “Oh
my I”
At the recent Commencement of Wil-
liams College, Gov. Briggs was appointed
to deliver the oration before the Society
of Aluinnis at its next anniversary. I-Ion,
James Dixon of Hartford is the substitute.
Colonel _,Chilils, Governor of Jalupn, in
Mexico, who ordered the American troops
to kneel as a Catholic procession passed,
is a native ofPit.tsfield, Mass. His brother
is Dr. Childs, formerly Lieut. Governor
of that State, and both himself and
family are members of the Presbyterian
Church.
Intelligence was received by the Cani-
bria of the loss of the ship Talma, a Boston
East Indiaman. She was abandoned in
consequence of her becoming very leaky,
about the middle of April, when 120 days‘
from Antwerp for west coast of ‘Sumatra.
On the 16th May, one of her boats with,
five uicn in it, was picked up by the brig‘
Guess, from Ceylon to Singapore. The
master, mate and rest of the crew had ta-
lien the long boat./ The Talma was insur-
ed for $4000 in Boston, and there was an
insurance of $10,000 on her profits at the
same place.
“The sober second thought of the peo-
ple induced them to elect James K. Polk
as President of the United States.” So
saysithe “Democrat’s Almanac.” It is a
pretty good almanac story. We should
be happy if Mr. Polk would so far over-
come his thirst for retirement as to let the
sober t/.2'rd thought of the people be exer-
cised upon him. He would stand a good
chance of becoming “a sadder and a wiser
man.”
The Collitzsville Ra2'lrocu1.——A portion of
this road, for a distance of five or six miles,
just out of the city, is now completed, and
sundry citizens have taken a ride upon it in
a hand-car. It is one of the best built
roads in the country. The rails are of
the most modern construction, and all the
fixtures are of the most improved patterns.
l‘he.people of New Haven will soon begin
to realize the importance of this road, and
they should never pause in their efforts to
push it forward until they see it reach
Pittsfield, and a branch at Waterbury, if
it should he wanted by the good people of
.that town.-—.’\". 11. I’a,/laa'z_'um..
yesterday, in heavy force, at a pass one
mile to the rear of the camp about three
o’clock in the afternoon. Attacks were
lmade upon the front, rear and centre
trains—the enemy were repulsed at all
points, and we advanced to this encamp-
ment having sustaineda severe loss. Two
ofiicers were severely wounded in the eu-
coiiriter; Capt. James ll. Cadwell, of the
Voltigeurs, and Capt.Artliur C. Cummings,
Of the 11th Infantry~the former a Native
of Maryland, the latter of Virginia. Ten
iiien, non-coiiimissioncd oflicers and pri-
rates, were wounded; none were killed
outright, but one l.as since dicd,and some
are perhaps dangerously wounded. Hopes
; are entertained for tl.e recovery of the two
Captains.
The writer thinks the command will
make its way tliroiigh securely, but not
without figliting perhaps for mziny days.
'lhe Sun of Anahuac says that eight
of our men were killed, including Capt.
Loyells, of the Georgi-.i mounted men, and
twenty five of the enemy.
Gov. Wilson immediately ordered out
reinforcements. '
Serious fears are entertained for the
safety of the train, the Mexicans liaving
made extensive preparations to cut it ofi‘.
The Mexicans are under the impression
that the train has a million of dollars in
specie.
It was reported at Vera Cruz that the
Mexicans had (I stroycd a part of the Na-
tional Bridge, and created defensive
works. A decisive action was expected
at this point.
The health of Vera Cruz is now much
more favorable.
The Spanish minister was expected at
Vera Cruz on the 25th on his way to
Spain. .
Mr. Kendall, from Puebla, writes that
Capt. Ruff, with his Rifles, has given the
giierillas at San Juan De Los Llauos, a se-
vere drubbing, killing 43, and wounding
some 50. August (ill), he writes that the
account af Rufl"s adventure is fully con-
firmed.
The most agreeable news by this arrival
is the escape of Major Gaines and Passed
i\lidsliipi'n.'in
Mexico, and their s'-ife ariival at Goa.
Scott’s head quarters. lllajor Gaines
tliin- s that Santa Anna has al 0 t‘ 15,000
tolerably disciplined, uni:'oriued and
drilled troops, besides undisciplined
recruits, adding little sicngtli to his
army. ’
Mr. Kendall adds, that since be com
inenced his letter, Gen. Si-.ott’s orders to
march the army have been issued, and
‘gives particulars as per first despatch.—-
The sick and convalescent he left behind
Gen. Scott was accoiripauicd by Gen Quil-
miiii, and the whole army will probzil.ly
be concentrated at some point beside the
Capital.
On the 6th, Mr. Kendall writes that
Pierce arrived this morning, without
losing a man, though he was attacked sev
eral times.
Mi‘. Kendall says a hundred conflicting
rumors are nfloat—one '
that Valencia is
coming out with 11,000 men to attack
us in front, while Alvarez, with 5,000
l’intoes, makes a demonstration in the
rear.
Another rumor says that Santa Anna has
disarmed 3000 of the National Guard, who
another, that a revolution has broken out
against him, and all was confusion worse
confounded.
Still another, that Puebla was to be
attacked after our army had left it, the
garrison put to the sword, and. the citizens
punished for their good treatment of the
Yankees. Kendall believes there is not
a shadow of foundation for any of these
rumors. He concludes by saying that
General Twiggs will move early to-morrow
morning.
Reports continue to come in, to the ef-
feet that large bod.es of the enemy are
moving in the neighborhood.
The Delta’s Vera Cruz correspondent
says a letter received from Puebla, dated
the 11th, to a mercantile house, states
that Gen. Scott moved forward that day.
Tampico was very unhealthy. The
yellow fever had broken out in the Anton
Lizardo garrison. AtTampico they were
constantly expecting a night attack
from Garry. Nothing further from Gen.
Taylor.
The Diario Del. Gob_ierno of the 3d of
August, says the Commercial Times,
seems to announce a desire on the part of
Santa Anna and his ministers to prepare
the minds of the people for pacilic
arrangements.
Potatoe Rot.—--We regret to state that
this disease has made its appearance.——
life have seen, says the Augusta (Maine)
Banner, several fields in this neighborhood
which are badly struck wiili a rust, or
blight, which we doubt not will be._ found
to be the potatoe rot. Most fields, how-
ever, appear yet to escape the plague.
Mr. Wm. Cortleyou of Newtown, N. J.
lost a valuable horse last week from step-
ping on a scythe, and reccivinga cut from
which he bled to death in. the pasture
unknown to his owner. Be careful of
your scythes.
Rogers, from the city of
were discovered plotting against him;,
Ifednesday, Sept. 1, 1817.
Diz.-vrii or‘ SILAS WRIGHT.—ThiS distin-
guished statesman died at his residence in Can-
ton. St. Lawrence co. on the morning of the
27th ult. aged about 52 years. In the death of
Mr. \Vright, the party to which he belonged»
has sufi'ercd a serious loss. In staying the ex-
travagance of that party, and making more
formidable, in its own ranks; the opposition to
hurtful, reckless measures of party policy. Mr-.
\Vright’s death may be viewed as calamitous to
the country. He was more conservative and
honest as a polititian than most of his party, and
more party success, was not always sufficient.
in his iiiiiid,to over-ride the claims ofjustice and
the well-being of the country. As a firm firiend '
of the \Vilinot Proviso, his loss is much to be"
rgretted. _He died in a fit of appoplexy.
Gi-zx. Hous'ro-.\' has been putting forth a lat-
ter on the subject of ainnexation, which seems to,
be worthy of some regard. The letter is n tri-
umpliiint refutation of rcpicsentatioiis made la)’
the friends of this iniquitous _ti'ansaction, \vI1ere-
by the country was seduced into a course of in-
justice, rapiicity and butchci'_v, in defiance of
oftlio laws of God and iiiiin, and which experi-'
once is past: dcinousti'at.ing, to be at war with
eiiligliteiicd policy, and true statcsinansliip.
It is well known that: the arguments used
with most effect by advocates of this meas-
surc 1844---5 were the alleged intrig-
ucs of England and France to defeat it, coupled
with the less scrupulous falsehood. that England
was conniving, and secretly strziining every nerve
to bring Texas under her o\vn doiniiiion. On-
this subject, the Tribuiie, which has not been
outdone in its maiiful struggles against this no-
farious scheme and its certain and truthfully
prcdictcd consequences, holds the following lau-
guago—-“Tlicse two stupendous falsehoods gave
in
all their point and nearly all their weight to Gen.
.l:ickson’s numerous letters in iiivor cftlic meas-
ure; they powerfully aided to stifle the natural
iudigiuitiou of Northern Locofocoism at the
ti'c::chcrous overthrow of Van Buren at Balti-
more, and to drive to torpcr the sad rcmaiiis of
ii conscience still lingering iiisoinc bosoiiis which
iiatiiriilly revolted at the pcrfidy and atrocity of
the general course of our rulers with rr-.gai'd to
Texas. ‘Britisli policy,’ ‘British
‘British rupzicity,’ ‘cinissiirics of I£iigl:ii1d,'tlieso
intrigues,‘
were among the watcli-words oftlie squad pe-
cuniary or politically interested in the success
ofthc Texas coiispii‘;icy, by which tliey drove
the mass oftlieir party, against the stoiiiiicli of
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denounced them as base and fraudulent at tl.e
its scii.so.iu1o llio meshes of Annexation.
time, and throiiglioul ; but the hundred of thoi -
sziiids forced to choose lietwccii adlici'cnc’c to
their party and obedience to their convictions of
an;l sulfci'ed tlieinsclves to be drawn into it re-
luctant but none the less cffcctual support oftho
g':iiiit; iniquity. And now, the mischief being ir-
rcvoczibly done, the Prcsidoiit of Texas through-
out llie period of the alleged Biitisli and Freiicli
iiiacliiiiatioiis, wliosc hands cousuiiiiiiatcd An-
nexation and who pc1'sui‘.nlly reaped tl princely
slizirc of its adviiiitagcs, comes out with it solciiiii
zlSS(‘-l‘\’2lil0ll that the whole story of l"oroign Iii-
torfcrencc was it fraud, it trick, a gross lll)[)0."-
tui'c—tliat there iicvcr was a shadow offouii.da-
tion for it! Now that SEll1lI‘T()1tSIUll sliouldsol-
cmiily affii'ni nii uiitruth is by no means lm]'Ot:'Si-
lilo; but that he should do it in the face of tho
docuineiitary and other conclusive evidence
which must exist. if the story he contradicts
He is ambitious,
saugiiiuc, cniiucnt; and, with all his failings, is
not ii siiiipletoii.
were true, is not supposablc.
He would not. have veiiturcd
the assertions he has just made in the premises
if their dispi'oofwoi'e within the bounds of pos-
sibility. The touiptutioii can be but slender;
the peril fearful.”
'I‘i~:.ui>i:iu.\'c1~; Li~'.c'rUai-:.—-JlIr.' Carpenter
gave a lecture on tcuipcranco in th% Congrega-
tional Cliurcli in this place on Sunday evening
last. The audience was not large, owing, we
suppose to a feeling of disrelish in the comnm-
iiity to the kind oftreat too frequently given‘ by
itiueraizt. lectui'ei's---such for instance as have
been inflicted upon this people by Capt. Coburn
To hear old, tough, and dis-
gustingly vulgar stories patched up and intro-
and some others.
duced as original, and the lecturer representing‘
liiinsclfas the hero ofthem, is a little too nau-
seating to listen to more than once. \Ve were
happy to find Mr. Carpenter a lecturer of a dif-
fcrent stamp, and witliall of some ability, both as
a speaker and thinker. His lecture was mai'k- ‘
ed with many good points, well put, and the-.
general cliaracter of it uncxceptionablc, and be-
coming the time, the place, and the audience
tliatlistened to it. \Ve saw many significant
looks and signs of satisfaction, and we think Mr.
C. only needs to be known among our citizens:
to be appreciated, and his labors attended with
good results.
The New Haven people appear to be awful-
ly perploxod with the multiplicity of Railroads.
in that quarter. The Naugatuck road seems
especially to trouble themgg \Vhile they look
upon the project as one enziinenlly calculated
to benefit their city if terminated there, there is
a feverish apprehension that a more natural
route will be persued, and Milford or Bridge-.
port be made the terminus. Then the collis-
ion of the interests of this road with the Canal:
road leads to gloomy doubts in the breasts of the
Canal Co. Then, again, our usually sedate
neighbors are considerably wrought up with the
tantalizing prospect ofthe N. Y. and N. H. road
takinga new and unexpected route below the
city across the harbor. So many points of fear
and quietude well nigh destroys their equanimi-
ty, and perplexity beyond measure. Thepapers
are filled with communications and editorial Iu-'
cubrations on these subject, and just such atime
they never did have in the semi-capital of this.
old model State. \Ve heartily wish them a good‘
tlH1._9_ Of it.-.
NORWALK GA-zia'rTE,. --
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policy and right, affected to believe the clap trap ‘
Norwalk Chronicler