CONGRESS. - -
MONDAY. Jan. 3.
In. the SENATE, Mr. Hunter presented a
resolution callingion the President for the
correspondence of Mr. Wise with‘ govern-
ments and distingtiished persons named,
on the subject of the slave trade. Adopt-
ed.
Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, introduced
it resolution to ascertain and determine
the amount of claims field up by our citi-
zens against Mexico.
The Senate then resumed the considera-
tion of Gen. Cass’s bill to increase .the ar-
my of the U. States ten regiments.
Cass opened the debate with a statement
that the bill is the first of a series which
he should biing forward. He expressed
a determination to avoid every topic cal-
culated to bring into discussion the policy
of the war. He wotild be prepared, how-
ever, to defend it when assailed. Consid-
erable discussion followed on the proprie-
ty of postponing further debate on this bill
tintil Mr. Calhoun is
lions.
\Vednesday. The Senate tlienwent into
executive session and afterwards adj.
In the House, Mr. R. M. Johnson from
the committee on elections repoited a
resolution authorizing the parties to the
contested election in the Sixth Congress-
ional District of New York, to take testi-
many by deposition. Passer].
Mr. Ashmun offered a resolution inqui-
ring into the expediency o,fi'epe:-iling laws
prohibiting the transportation of letters
and newspapers by private means. Adop-
ted. . .
Mr. Hudson offered a resolution itistruc-
ting the Military Cotnmittee to enquire in-
to the expediency of requesting the Presi-
dent to withdraw our armies east of the
Rio Grande, and to propose forthwith a
treaty of peace, on the basis that we re
liuquisli all claims to indemnity for the
war, the boundary to be the Desert be-
tween the Nueces and the Rio 'Gl'iintle,
security to be-given for the payment of
the just claims due to otir citizens
previous to the commencement of
the war. He demanded the previous
question, which was - sustained. 'l be
main question was then ordered. Mr.
Stevens moved to lay the resolutions on
the ‘table which was decided in "the nega-
tive. Mr. Scln-tick moved a reconsidera-
tion of the vote which had ordered the
main question. The ye-as and nays were
-called, and resulted in the negative. The
main question was then put, the ayes and
nays called and the resolution rejected,
41 to 137.
Mr. Rockwell of Conn. introduced a bill
to provide for a consular system. Read
twice and referred.
i\'umerous resolutions of inqui
‘adopted.
Mr. Dickey offered a joint resolution,
with a long preamble, for the appointment
of it Committee of five froi_n each House
to invite the President to a conference on
the best mode of effecting a peace with
Mexico. Lies over.
Mr. Hampden, of Pa. oflered a joint
resolution and preamble to the effect that
new territory should be received by the
vote of the several States.
Mr. llouston, of Delaware, introduced
joint i'eso_lutions of thanks to Gen. Tay-
lor, his officers and men. Mr. Henley
moved to amend by adding ‘* while en-
gaged as they were in defending the rights
and honor of the country.” Mr. Ashmuri
moved an amendment, adding thereto-
" in it war tinnccessarily and unconstitu-
tionally begun by the President of the U.
States.” Mr. Asli‘mun’s amendment was
adopted by yeas and iiays S5 to 81.
Adjourned.
ry were
TUESDAY, Jan. 4.
In t_be SI-2.\‘A'I‘E, Mr. Cass submitted a
resolution, calling on the Secretary of
Vllar for any dispatches received from
commanders of the army since the annual
report. Adopted. I
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the resolutions of Mr. Cal-
hotin, who spoke at length in defence of
the same.
On motion of Mr. Sevier the resolutions
were then laid on the table, to be ta‘.-en
up again after the bill to increase the ur-
my Las been disposed of.
Mr. Stanton from the Naval Committee
reported a bill apprppriating $150,000 to
the Dry Dock of New York. Read twice.
MIN Truman Smith, from the Lfominittee
on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill to pro-
vide for the ascertainment and satisfac
_tion of claims for French spoilations.
Mr. Cooke reported a Revol-Jtionary
Pension bill, making farther prov sion for
the widows of oflicers and soldiers of the
Revolution. Passed.
Mr. Goggin’s resolution calling on the
President to coiiimttiiicate any instructions
relative to the teturii of Santa Anita to
Mexico was taken tip.
.Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, moved to
amend by including a call for information
in regard to the return to Mexico of Gen.‘-
Paritdes. Mr. Thompson’s amendment
was accepted by Mr. Goggin and the pre-
vious question was moved.
The resolution as amended by Mr.
Thompson, then passed, ayes 14-5, nays 15.
Adjourned.
, \Vi~:nNi~:sn.nr, Jan. 5. .
' In the Si-:.\'.»i'i'.=:, the House Bill, making
provisions for the widows of Revolutiona-
TV officers and soldiers passed a first read-
ing.
l he bill to provide for the further pros-
ecution of the war, and granting authority
to call out twenty thousand additional vol-
unteers, came out in order; bttt on motion
of Mr. Cass, it was laid on the table until
the Ten Regiment bill is disposed of. The
latter. bill was then taken up.
Mr. Crittenden moved to amend, by
striking out alliafter the enacting clause,
and inserting a provision in the bill au-
thorising the President to accept the sort
vice of thirty thousand volunteers. _He
considered the nutnber now in Mexico
lufficient to carry out the plans of the
I
Gen.
heard on his resolu-l
It was finally postponed until,
ecretary of War. Halfthat number had
onquered in this war every thing opposed
to them, and the mere number had been
doubled He wished to give the Piesident
authority to call out all he asked for, but
lonly when required by circumstances.-:.
5.He would not consent that Congress
lshould be held to take the responsibility
of adding a positive force of ten regiments
-_to the regular army. Those asked for
would increase our military force to be-
.tween ninety and one hundred thousand
men.
-Mr. Cass made some corrections in Mr.
jCritten<len’s calculations, and after ex-
planations from Mr. Crittenden, Mr Jef-
ferson Davis addressed the Senate in op-
‘position to the amendment.
i Mr. Calhoun made some objections to
‘the aincndment. ‘It was finally negatived,
'yeas, 19, nays 20. r
l The bill was ordered to be engrossed,
lwhen on motion of Mr. I-lannegan——some
Senators wishing to speak on the bill—the
"Senate adjourned.
In the House, Major Gaines, of Ky. was
sworn in and took his seat. Mr. Venables
moved to reconsider the vote of yesterday
adopting the resolution calling on the
President for instructions relative to the
trcturn to Mexico of Santa Anna and Pare-
ldcs.
I Mr. Ashman move
‘motion on the table.
nays 8'7. Adjourned.
lf
cl to lay Mr. Venables’
Carried, yetts 107,
THURSDAY, Jan. 6.
Petitions being in order, several were
presented.
A bill was reported for extending the
botinty so as to secure the filling tip the
ten regiments, proposed to he raised,which
was read twice. ' '
After the transaction of some other bus-
ltlie_n taken up, it being the bill for raising
jltill additional regiments to serve during
-the war against iV:exitso. Mr. Hale of N.
ll. had the floor, and went on to address
the Senate in opposition to the bill.
ll/'lien he concluded, on motion the ftir-
ther consideration ol the bill was postpon-
ed. The Senate then went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned till
Monday.
The Hotistz convened at the appointed
hour, and after the transaction of some
unimportant business resumed the consid-
eration of the special order of {.the day, it
being the resolution in favor of restoring
the Southern Mail to the Richmond and
Fredricksburg road. This again gave
rise too. warm and animated debate, in
which several tiieuibers participated.—
adjournment.
FRIDAY, Jan. 7.
The SENATE was not in session.
In the House, on tnotion of Mr. Vinton,
the Committee of Ways and Means was
authorized to employ a clerk at $4 per
day.
A vote was then taken on Mr. Stewart’s
motion of yesterday, to reconsider the
vote closing the debate
the Whole on the resolution
Southern mail arrrngement.
tived.
The Committee of the Vfhole, Mi°.
Smith of Indiana, in the chair, resumed
the consideration of the question on yes-
terday’s appeal from the decision of the
chair. It was discussed at great length.
The Chair was sustained, 101 to 73.
The House then adjourned.
»
renewing the
It was nega-
Impor.-‘rm! Political .7lIoz:er/zerzt.--One of
the most important moves that ‘has yet
been ina-;le on the political chess board,
says the Washington correspondent ofthe
New York Herald,'under date of Decem-
ber 30th, is foreshadowed in a correspon-
dence that appears in the Washington
Union of Thursday evening, between Mr.
Cass _and several members of Congress, in
relation to the war, the" Wilmot proviso,
and the settlement of the slavery question,
in territory hereafter to be acquired by
the United States. Mr. Cass’s letter is
dated the 2-lth Dec. 1547, and is address-
ed_ to A. O. P. Nickolson, of Nashville,
Tenn.
Mr. Cass declares himself opposed to
the proviso and in favor of the war, and o
the principle of territorial indemnity. On
_tlic slavery question he goes further than
Mr. Calhoun himself. Mr. Buchanan op-
posed the lVilmot proviso and advocated
the extension of the Missouri comprom-
ise. Mr. Dallas bid a little higher than
Mr. Buchanan, by declaring against corri-
promisa, and that the new States alone,
and not Congres. have the right to decide
-.vhether they shall have slavery or not.
.‘vlr. Cass bids higher still by stating his
conviction that not only have new States
the right to determine on the question of
slavery within their borders, but that Con-
gress has no right even to legislate for
territories. In support of this position,
he is obliged to question the constitution-
alit.y of the ordinance of 1787. and conse-
quently to deny the right of Congress to
legislate for territories at all in atight that
concerns their domestic regulations.
We learn that there has been a coalition
between the friends of Mr. Cass and those
of Mr. Dallas. It is said, on unquestiona-
ble authority, that Mr. Dallas has consen-
ted to be placed on the Cass ticket as Vice
President. J
Executive .N'omz'nalion.g -—The President
has nominated to the Senate ex Speaker
Davis of" liidiana, to be Minister to China,
in the place of Mr. Everett, deceased.
John Rowan of Kentucky, to be Charge
de Affaires to Naples, vice Maj. Win.
Polk, resigned.
Dr. Niles of Baltimore, formerly Secre-
tary of Legation at Paris, to be Charge d'e
Afliiires to Sardinia, vice Robert Wickliffe
resigned.
These nominations were taken up in
Executive Session of the Senate on Thurs-
day, ‘and referred to appropriate Commit-
toes. The nominations have been con-
-firmed,
I I V ‘g ‘ .
‘mess the Special order of the day wasl
The debate was kept up to the hour of
in committee of
FOREIGN NEWS. '
ARRIVAL or THE CELEDQNIA.
The Caledonia arrived at her whagf at
East Boston at half past 6 o’clock on the
evening'ofthe 4th, from Liverpool,whence
she sailed onthe 19th ult. having made
the passage in 16 days. ,
The Corn Market at Liverpool on, the
18th ult. was for best Western Canal Flour
295 to 303 per bbl.
Tho Cotton mar‘-.et still continues lan-
guid at a farther decline of 1-8d to 1-4~d
,per lb. with little floctuation. Operations
iare conducted on the most limited scale.
Since the departure of the Hibernia the
money market has not undergone any very
lgreut change. The rapidly improving
condition of the'Bank of England, which
lnow holds upward.of' 11 millions of bull-
lion, has greatly tended to ameliorate the
,consequences of additional failures and to
fisusiain in some measure the tottering con-
ifidence of the country. .
The English Parliament since opening
'has-been chiefly occupied with the affait's
,of Ireland. The bill for the repression of
{crime in that country will soon become a
,law. It is of the most gentle character,
‘and is expected, as the precursor of ameli-
orative measures, to answer the end de-
signed.
Within the last fortnight or three weeks
the British Islands have been visited by a
succession of tremendous gales, causing
the most appalling loss of life and proper-
ty on the coast. Several vessels have"
been wrecked. either with the whole ora
portion of the crews. Among other ships
from this port that have shared in the eas-
ualties,is the Franklands, for Cullao, whose
master and ‘.20 hands were drowned.
The commercial news from India is
highly gratifyiiig. ‘l‘iadc has ‘suffered
gnotliing from the embarrassments of this
icountry and is represented as bring in an
exceedingly flout ishing condition.
The turmoil in Switzerland is brought
to a final close. The Diet has decreed
that the seven revolted Cantons ‘of the
League are to be held accountable for the
expenses of the war and to be occupied
by the Federal troops until the account is
paid.‘
Spain is tolerable tranquil, though the
Carlists, as usual, are unsettled. In the
Cortes a fierce attack has been made upon
the administration.
There is no intelligence of importance
',from France. The health of the King is
'bad.
Agrarian disturbances have somewhat
subsided in Ireland. Father Matthew will
proceed to America in the New VVorld
early in April. Mr. Liston, the eminent
surgical operator, is dead.
,
CASSIUS Ill. CLAY.
VVe rejoice to find, in the last Louis-
ville Exaniiuer, the following card from
Cassitis M. Clay. Its spirit and hearing
are such as we had a right to expect frotii
its source, and we rejoice still more to
learn from the Editor’s introdtic ion that
,Mr. C.’s reception throughout cntuckv
has been of the most gratifying chitractef,
while at Lexington it was enthusiastic-
all parties and all classes uniting to honor
him. The Editor says:
“Nor let any one suppose that this re-
;sults from his mi'l2‘t/try service! He had
no opportunity to win warrior fame. It
was the spirit of generosity and self sac-
i'ifice—the remembrance of his fight in a
holier battle than war ever witnessed-
which badefthe people hail his return home
with so wide and earnest an enthusiasm.”
-lere is Mr. Clay’s Circular:
To t/ie subscriliers oft/tc True flmerican :
CoMi>.t"ritio'is—-The True American has
ceased to exist; but it was not in vain
that it v.-'°as established by me, and so libe-
rally sustained by you.
The true friends of the South were not
behind their brothers of the Free States
{in feeling the evils of Slavery. Not con-
',tent with infecting the pulpit, the Legis-
glative Hall and the social circle, it breath-
Eed upon the Liberty of the Press, and de-
gspairing silence sat upon millions. Here
;and there at long intervals srme one- more
ldaring than the rest, gave utterance to the
holiest instincts of l\'atur'e, and spoke out
against the giant curse. It was but a mo-
imentary ripple on a vast sea, whose wa-
gters again subsided into more than origin-
ial stagnation.
In all the South, there was not a single
,press where the right could be vindicated
tor calm reasoning allowed. in the year
1835 I ventured single handed into the
{fearful contest. Holding in mind the ex-
;amplcs of those who in all ages had vindi-
lcated the liberties of men—I had counted
itlie cost and was prepared for the catas-
,§trophe. .
| The American People know the result.
The Gotl of battles has stood by the right.
The Liberty of the Press is for the ‘first
time since 1776 established in the South.
Not only in my own_States, but inthe Na-
tional Capital and divers other places, men
"‘ may. fully speak and write upon any sub-
ject whatever,” being responsible only to
the laws. . i
The Examiner has succeeded the True
American. My detention in a Mexican
prison delayed my return longer than was
anticipated: the editor of the Examiner
has forest-alled my wishes, and is now— ful-
filling all my obligations to my subscribers
by substituting his paper for mine. Those
who have seen both papers will not regret
the change. 1 ask for him the continuiti-
tion of that generous support in that cause
which was in me shown dear to so many
noble Americans. The first scene in the
drama is accomplished: brighter hopes
dawn upon Kentucky and the American
Republic. The extraordinary events at
home and abroad for the last few years
have aroused the consciences and startled
the minds of millions. Go read Guizot’s
History of Civilization, and take courage.
Faith in the progress of mankind is no
longer the dream of “fanatics.”
'l'he spirit of large and liberal inquiry
and consequent amelioration is moving all
l
TL —
low in the unwilling wake of Transatlan-
tic despotism iii securing the liberties of
men. A great destiny awaits us--Ameri-
ca. will yet be Free! “ God and Liberty.”
C. M. CLAY.
Lexington, Ky. Dec. 18, "1847.
MR. CALHOUN’S SPEECH.
The following extract of the speech of Mr.
Calhoun in the U. S. Senate on the 4th inst. is
from the ‘pen of the Wasliington coirespondent
of the N. Y. Tribune. \Ve cotnmend it to the
perusiil of our.1'eaders.
Mr.'Ca_lhoun spoke an hour and it half.
There was not a sentence in the speech
that could be called eloquent. He never
affects poetical flights‘, but lays down
what he has to say without much anima-
tion or ornament. His statements, par-
ticularly about the folly, danger and utter
want- of necessity, of this war,l might
well say contained more truth than poetry
for the ears of the guilty authors of the
dangers which now beset our path.
I shall try in one paragraph to give you
an idea of his positions.
This war was unnecessary; easy to
have been avoided; commenced on ter-
ritory in possession of Mexico; reasons
for its commencement unfounded in truth.
VVe are worse off now than we were last
Session. This is not the soldiers’ fault;
the plan of the war was it blunder. We
have gained absolutely mt/ting by it but
military glory. We might have gained
all we can by it, with the inte/rest of the
money it has already cost us, and with a
force equal to those who have died in the
unfortunate war. We are 'worse offnovv
for funds. Famine in Europe favored us
before; now exchange is against its, the
money market deranged, Treasury Notes
below par. The longer we prosecute the
war, the more certainly will that which
we profess to seek mt come. \Ve can
never make a peace if we become the sov-
ereig-n of Mexico. We cannot manufac-
ture to order free Governments; they will
tumble down when we withdraw our sup-
port. VVe must finally take a defensive
line: yet every day the obstacles to that
are greater. The agents of war will soon
absorb the whole resources of the ‘Gov-
ernment and be powerful to perpetuate
themselves. To take territory with a
Mexican population is the reverse of in-
demnity.
pay the loss we would sustain by such an
indemnity, Our character, except in a
tnilitary point of view, has not been eleva-
ted. VVe have been injured in oitr Civil
and political capacity. \Ve are looked
upon as a fighting, over—ieat-hing people,
who drive hard bargains with weak neigh-
bors. The loss of character for political
integrity and justice is but poorly compen-
sated in the gain of mere military glory.
Our Government is one of free white Cau-
cassian men; shall we make a mixed-col-
ored race, lower than" the Cherokee or
Choctaw, our equals here ‘.7 Absorb Mex-
ico and the patronage of twenty Territo-
ries follows; State Rights would be over-
shadowed; our Government would be-
cotne imperial: the weight of the super-
structure would crush the foundation.-—
Otir country would not be able to bear
the excitement ofa Presidential election.
VVe would, of necessity, slide into anarchy
or despotism. Rome got indemnity for
conquest, and sank under it. England is
now groaning under her indetnnities.—-
Even Ireland is costing England and her
people heavilyfor having, seven centuries
ago absorbed her. They are at this day
a hostile people. Mexicans never will be
reconciled to its. Military fame has made
us lose sight of liberty. There will be a
day of retribution for this. We must, to
save ourselves from destruction, fall back
from the central parts of Mexico. We
are tied to a dead body, and tnust disen-
tangle ourselves or die too. If these
views give offence, it is becauss the char-
acter of the Senate is changed since he
entered it. The Administration party
would act more magnanimously by back-
ing otit from, than by persevering in, an
error. They must back out, or nothing
but accident can save them from signing
their own death-warrant. They are heap-
ing up National Debt, building up Execu-
tive patronage, an_d making high Tariffs
or direct taxation necessary, contrary to
Democratic or Republican professions.
The VVhigs are not guilty of the war; yet
the people are asking why they are voting
all these means ifthey do not mean to
absorb Mexico. He should propose noth-
ing now ; may hereafter, if signs are fa-
vorable. 'VVe need not in any circumstan-
ces except immediate Peace, but we may
offect the great object of disentangling
ourselves from ‘this body of death!
fltlempt to Kidnap.-—We have been in-
formed ofa strange and unaccountable event
which is said to have occurred last Thurs-
day. On that afternoon, a son of Mr.
Daniel Baxter, living in the western part
of the town, left home to go to the pond,
and on the way was overtaken by two
tnen in a wagon, who questioned him as
to his name. and place of residence. and
then offered him very liberal inducements.
to o with them and work in a factory.
He replied that he could not leave home
without the consent of his parents They
prevailed upon him to get into the wagon,
saying that they would go with hint and
consult his father, but instead of doing so,
hurried off in an opposite direction, re-
gardlessof his intreaties. They took him
to’Old VVell, and put him aboard the
steamboat telling him that he must go
with them in the morning. He passed a
sleepless night, and early in'the morning
escaped to the shore, and pursued his way
home, where he arrived in great distress
of mind. Such, we lrarn from a family
connexion of the youth, is the account he
gives. _ His. futher’s family had passed a
night of great anxiety, on account of his
absence, apprehensive that he had fallen
through the ice.-—Dan_b'u,ry Times.
T Roman Catholics.-—Th‘e Catholic Regis-
ter for.]84-8 estiinates the Catholic popu-
lation in_this country at l,190,’700§
nations. The land of ’7G cannot long fol-
The people will yet have to
By 'Teleg'raph to the Tribune.
LATER FROM IVIEXICO.
PETIZRSBUBG, Jan. 8, 1848.
By your Express which left New Orleans
on the afternoon of the 2d.inst. intelligence
has been received from Vera Cruz, by the
steamer Portland, to the 29th December.
It was reported that Gen. Scott uas
about to invade Queretaro, the city in
cated. , Preparations had been making for
some time fora new movement of the
American troops, but the object did not
transpire until the day the Portland left
Vera Cruz. ,,
‘Recall of Gen. Scott.
Wxsiiixcrox, Jan. 9, 1848.
Gen. Scott is said to have been recalled
front Mexico. The name of his succes-
sor has not transpired. Rumor mentions
several generals, but the one who received
the appointment, if any, is not yet known.
Generals VVorth and Pillow. and Col."
Duncan have been ordered to Vera Cruz,
where a Court Martial has been convened
to try them'upon the charges whichi“cau-
sed their arrest by Gen. Scott. .
Orders:have been received from Gen.
Scott, requesting officers of the army now
in the United States on leave of absence,
to return to the seat of war at the earliest
practicable day, and resume their respec-
tive commands in the army.
I give you the above news as I received
it, upon authority generally believed reli-
able. It is currently circulated and cred-
ited throughout the city.
I
l
T/Le fldministraticn and Hie War-the
Testimony ofa brave SoIdz'er.——The charge,
repeated on every occasion, that the whigs
have sought to embarrass the operations
of our army in Mexico, received a signal
rebttke from John P. Gaines, who
hasjust returned from along captivity in
Mexico. He reached his home in Conting-
ton, Kentucky, on the 23d ult., and met
with an enthusiastic reception. The Cin-
cinnati Atlas gives tli_e following sketch of
his speech on that occasion 2 "
"He said very little of political matters;
but that little was full of tneaning. In re-
gard to the war, he re-avowed the opinion
declared by him before he joined the ar-
m '; and he now added that the adminis-
tration were quite as censurable for the
tnanner of its prosecution as for its origin.
The army, he knew, from personal obser-
vation, hadsuflered for want of provisions,
munitions, and men, the tneans of furnish-
ing all which had been placed in the hands
of the President by Congress. Not only
had the gallant soldiers suffered great
personal privations owing to this derelic-
tion of the Executive, but the war had
been actually prolonged and rendered much
more bloody and disastrous than it would
otherwise have been. Had the President
employed the means at his disposal in
Mexico would have been captured earlier,
and in his opinion, with far less loss 0
life than that actually incurred from the
inefficiency of the administration. In
these opinions respecting the failure of
the Executive to furnish’ provisions, mu-
nitions nnd men to the "army, and the
mournful results of such inefficiency, Maj.
Gaines said every man in the army what-
ever his political predilections, emphati-
cally concurred with him.”
Capt. Whiting of the Massachusetts
Volunteers is home on the recruiting ser-
vice. we believe. Some idea of his suc-
cess may be gathered from the following
item from the Providence Transcript:
Capt. Whiting, of the Massachusetts
Regiment, was found asleep in the street,
last night, and was taken to the watch-
house. He was discharged this morning
by the City- Marshall. The Captain
should not practice city life by day
and camp life by night. ’ They don’t tally
at all.
Small Begi'1zni7igs.—A Sunday School
Missionary Society, says the New York
Journal of Commerce, composed of the
teachers and scholars of the Broadway
Tabernacle, raised during .the year 1847,
$4-I2. The money was appropriated for
the benefit of Sabbath Schools in other
part: ofthe country. Most of the con-
tributions were in cents or stnall pieces of
ces than a quarter of a dollar.
Coiinleifiiters flrrestcd.—VVe learn that
two men were atrested in Derby on Sat-
urday evening, for passing counterfeit
money, and taken before Justice Wheeler,
of Southbury, where they procured a con
They were ordered to recognize in a bond
of $1000 each for their appearance at that
time. One of thetii procured bail, and
the other neglecting to do so, was brought
to this city by Deputy Sheriff Carr, Mon-
day and committed to Jail.
,, .N'. H. Journal.
Hitching t/ze cussed t/i2'ng.—The New
Hampshire Register gives the following ac-
count of an incident on the New Haven
and Hartford Road :
Thetrain stopped at Meriden to wood
up, and a fidgety gentleman, who was
propably for the first time in his life in a
rail road car, and who held on to his seat
with ' both hands, from the riioment the
car's left Hartford, looking as though he
expected every moment to be shook otit
of the window, suddenly stepped out on
the platform, and took a rapid look at the
locomotive. .
“Anything the matter '!” inquired 21 W82
who had greatly enjoyed the countryman’S.
perturbation. ’ _ ‘
“Any thing the matter! I should think
there was something the matte’: lf Y0“
ever noticed it! Why they've stopvefl
right in the middle of the roa,d, and ‘hatn.t
hitched the cussed llmig. _ Spose en, it
should start’! hey’! Iguess some of us
’ud be in the kingdom come afore night !”
which the Mexican Governmeiit was lo- _
reinforcing General Scott, the city of
silver, and very few of them in larger pie-.
tinuanceof their cases till the lltli inst. '
NORWALK GA_Z_E,'l‘TE. -
Ivednosduy. Jan. 12, 1949.
WIIIG TICKET.
roii coviriuvoit.
Clark Bisscll, of New Haven.
. ron 1._u:u'r. GOV!-ZRNOI,
Chas. J. lIIc(‘-IINIV, of Lyme.
.1-on si-:cn£'r‘/tar,
B. Robertson, of N Haven.
ron Tnxascnita. ‘
Joseph . Gilbert, or Hartford.
~ _ I-‘OR C0.'I1'ROLL)-Ill.
Alnjah Catlin, of Ilarwintnn.
John
“THE SI-ZIEURITY."-fone thing, at least, is
manifest. l\ot. only must we have reparation
for the rpastylmt we must, in some mode, se-
cure onrselves from the future outrage and
wrong doings of it neighboring military. an-
aicliy.——l1-’aslzi7iglmz Union. _
FF Such are tlte flimsy pretexts of the loco
foco press for the continuation of the present
unjust and cruel war with Mexico. “ No:
only must we have reparation for the past, but
security for the futt:i'e"—-—is the hue and cry—-
_not only must we ravage their coasts, plunder
and burn their towns and cities, massacre and
butcher their-inliabitnnts without distinction of
age or sex (as in the storming of‘ Vera Cruz),
in order to secure “reparation for the past,"
and then licavenknows what will be considered
“ security for the future,” unless it be the total
aimihilation of all their institutions and tho 9;
tinction of the entire Aztec race. But " repri-
ration" and “ security” is sounded from tho
official organ—-—by the President himself, by
loco foco orators and Senators; and then the‘
tnost; obscure locofoco press cat‘<.-hes the echo,
and it is sounded through the land with all the
patriotic seriousness of an honest cause. It is
no difficult niattclr to discern what all this over-
flow of patriotism means—it signifies territory
and nothing else but territory. The President
has explained the matter in his last: message.
“A portion of Mexican tel‘l‘lt0l'y" is the prize
to be secured, but who knows but that “portion
of Mexican tei'i'itoi'y” means the tclzolc of Mex-
ico ! )
Had it been iusinunted at the outset of this
“ glorious” war, that: it was it war of conquest,
it wottltl have roused up a score of tlemocatic
prints and been denounced as a “ \Vliig lie,"
But: now
it is not only aaimitlccl. but recomnicndcd, and
by the President, in the strongest terms. The
Evening Post, however, in t.lie following para-
graph, takes it more patriotic view of the ques-
tion than most ofits political coadjutors :
No party in this country, says the Post, con-
templates tlio dismetiibcrincnt of Mexico
propci',_or the annexation of any portion of her
populiitioii to our own. It would be it disas-
trous event for the whole coitft-edcracy. But
we owe it as it duty to ourselves and the gene-
ral causc of freedom to keep our flag flying at
San Juan clc Ulloa _and in the ci!._t/ of JlIc.z'ico,
till the progress of time, and the silent effect of
our presence, our customs, our busy commerce-,
our active intelligence, our press. shall have
lireatlied it new life into this unfortunate coun-
try. and we have S0n]eS€Cll-Tll_‘l/ that she will not
be :1 curse to lierselfand to her neighbors.
The Post, it seems, is niixious for the civili-
zation of the Mexican peop_le only, and not for
“the dismemberment of any of Mexico proper."
How these clashing doctrines of the democra-
cy are to be reconciled, we do not see, unless
they all 5‘ whip into the traces" and come out;
at last; for “ the whole of Mexico." But to
civilize Mexico-—it is to be done at an expense
of at least twenty or thirty millions a year. A
standing army must be stationed there, and
she civilized by (error alone; and this is the
and visited with no inensured nbuso.
economical mode of obtaining “ scczn-it_1/.”
Had half the money which has been, and
will be, expended upon the war, been given to
the various missions which spread cliristianity
among the heathen, and not only Mexico, but
the wliole world would be civilized in avcry
short time. \Vhat is to be the result of this
war, is a question of serious import to the
American people. Congress is now the then-
tre of domestic agitation, and time only can
solve the enigma.
Azvoriiizit Eciio—Pi-:itiiAPs.-—_-Tlie Bridge-
port. Farmer chronicles the circumstance that
the Times had published the National Intelli-
gencei"s Review of the President's Message,
with a very superfluous chuckle’. In its estima-
tion the gentleman who offered the $50 was
“ bit." ‘ '
The Fztrmenhowever, might have spared
its gratuitous iusinuations that; the publisher of
the Times would not be paid. \Vhen the par-
ty principally concerned complains that the
enough for others to cast iinputatioiis on the
gentleman who made the offer. The cash was
paid on Satui'day.—-Ifarlforrl Cou-rant.
3? So it. seems that the Former wasted its
any cause, as we predicted last week. We
the very acceptable offer of $25, consequently the
readers of that print will be served this week
with more truth than they have received before
in a long time. The Palladium man will never
regret the investment. \Ve do not know as it
would be a bad move to “ keep the ball a roll-.
ing."
A convict, about 70 years of age, by the name of
Jones, escaped from the State Prison Friday ailer-
noon the 3lst tilt. He was coinniitted to Priiiou
Nov. 1836, for 15 years, and was pardoned? by the
General Assembly May 1846, on condition his
friends wotild remove him from the State and pro
vide for his support.
Zloiies was sent to do something in the barn, and
took the opportunity to walk of? under the cover of
the barn with an axe upon his shoulder, withoutex-
citing suspicion from those who saw him after he
got into the street. 7 A
A NEW C;ivr:.—'I‘he Editor of the Wiscortsil
Argus. accompanied by several friends. recently en-
tered upon an exploration of a newly discovered
Cave in Dane county, near Madison. They won-
dered through its labyriiiths for several hours, but
found no signs of itstermination. It is probably of
great extent, and is marked-by many of the pecu-
liarities of the great cave of Kentucky. '
I
bargain is not fairly executed, it: will be -time .
sympathies in behalf of the Times, witlioul: '
also observe that the Former has accepted of‘
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