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scribe to you understanding the dangers to w hich.wiih reference to its topography and the means of annoyance which may be employed against us, that prolonged frontier wou'd be exposed. Nofthin Could be mure imposing nothing could be bettrr adapted to its object, than the extraordinary and m?gificpnt plan of in terior communications which the British Government is fast hastening to its com pletion. At Loudon, which is ott the Thame?, about one hundred miles east from Detroit, they appear now to have Iheir great military depot ; it. seems to be a local point of concentration for their military force. From London, less, I be lieve, than one hundred miles still further east, to Lake Ontario, a great macada mized, or flank road is being finished. From London westerly three great roads are being extended : one coming in at Maiden ; one at Windsor, opposite the city of Detroit ; and one, as I have said, to Port Sawney, on the straits of St. Clair, about seventy miles above Detroit. Of the manner ofihe construction of these plank roads,' you ill see a description in the report recently printed from the Patent Office; and reading that descrip tion, you will at once perceive their ad mirable adaptation to all military purpo ses. I see no reason, indeed, why, for temporary use at least, they may not be converted into railways as rapidly as ap propriate rails may be spiked down up on them. j But the works I have mentioned consti- I sels into that great inland sea, Lake Su perior, where, by recent disclosures, it ap pears you have . mineral riches so im mense ? where you have so vast a do main of which, the Indian title being ex. tinguished, you woald now cause it to be surveyed and offered for sale T It is true, sir, I do not consider the immediate con struction of a ship canal to unite Lake Huron with Lake Superior, to be of so di rect and pressing importance, with a view to that general military defence you are bound by the Constitution to provide for. as I do the extension and completion of the central railway from Detroit to St. Joseph, across the peninsula of Michigan. For that, however, if the bill which you have passed here should become a law. you will have enabled the State of Michi gan to provide : but, with a view to those great numbers of people who are prepar ing to go upon your mineral lands in the region of Lake Superior ; with a view to the proximity of that great lake to the navigable head of the Mississippi, and to the splendid country beyond it; with a view to the countless numbers of Indiana upon the borders, and west and northwest of that lake, now so greatly under the control of the British Indian agents and traders ; and with a view to the intercep tion of any improper exercise of that con trol to your prejudice, and certainly with a view to the present and future military defence and protection of that remote por tion of the Union, whose great interests and whose population are growing up so THE SEMTI1IEL JOHN V A If FOSSE if, EDITOR. YPSILANT1, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1844 Democratic Whig Nominations FOR F RESIDENT-. HENRY CLAY. OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, THEO. FRELINGHUYSEN, OF KEW JERSEY. A the name of Thomas II. Benton who I ceipts of the four previous months, will i,;. firm tPrminntirm An 1 make, about nine and a half millions of uaa uvw.w. .... 5 , ,, . ., i t I . uoiiars ai inis port aiooe. it me remain ing seven months should produce as much more, the revenues collected here alone will exceed eighteen millions of dollars, under a Tariff proclaimed to be ruinous and prohibitive. The receipts and esti mates of the last Treasury report, of she revenue for the whole country, were about seventeen millions New York alone will overrun the estimate by a million. N. Y. American. tute a fart only, and a very small part, of j rapidly, I certainly consider it to bo a their gigantic system ; a system wnicn, when now shortly it will have been fully accomplished, will not only secure to our powerful neighbors the inestimable advan tage of uniting their whole military and naval force on either of the two lakes through their enlarged Welland canal' but will give to them the power also, thro' their Beauharnois, Lachine, and other of their St. Lawrence canals canals of im mense structure and dimensions to throw into the Upper Lakes their war steamers, and other vessels of war, at pleasure from the ocean. Sir, I do not over estimate the magni. tude of these works, nor are the dangers I allude to ideal. I have here, sir, the report of their Board of Works' made to the last Canadian Parliament, and which shows at once the vastness of their plan, and the rapid progress making towards its completion. In all the year 1845, it seems, these magnificent works are to be accomplished. An accurate and a curi ous observer, in reflecting upon so bold a policy, will not fail loo, to notice the re cency of its commencement, and the ener gy and rapidity with which these great works are pressed forward. I think I can form a fair conjecture as to the origin of that policy. You will recollect, sir, that a few years ago there existed thro' out both provinces of Canada certain re. volutionary movements, which for a time threatened very seriously the safety of the Colonial Governments. The strong arm of the parent country, indeed, was found necessary to put them down. In the con dition of things which then existed a dis play of military force at different and re mote points seems to Lave been deemed necessary to give rapidity to its move, raents seemed equally essential. The ut ter inadequacy of the ordinary roads of the country, especially in the Upper Pro vince.was made clearly apparent. It was then, I fancy, that the project was first seriously entertained of commencing the works of this description. The en'ang led condition of the relations between the English Government and this anterior to the treaty of Washington, and the 6trong indications of a national war which cer tainly then existed, accelerated the adop tion of the policy, I have no doubt, by the Home Government,' and led also to the enlargement of their plan. As that plan has been devised and prosecuted, nothing could be more admirable with reference to its object; for, whether that object were offensive or defensive war, it gate to them the surest guaranty of success which it would seem possible for them to obtain. And now, sir, are you to look upon all these formidable preparations with cold indifference? While your own country (a country for the defence of which it is enjoined upon you to provide while it is yet time,) remains exposed to so terrible destruction, are you to remain with your arms folded and do nothing to avert dan gers so imminent ? Are you to take no measures to open the channel near your own shores, opposite Fort Maiden, when (he expense of it would be so inconsider able ? Will you take no means by which o secure the entrance of your armed ves- great national work, worthy of our most favorable consideration, and which ought to be accomplished by you now. Let it not be understood, however, sir, that 1 indulge in any sickly apprehensions that war is upon us. I construe far other wise the signs ot the times. I confide in my belief, sir, that you will give no just cause for war. I cannot perceive that it is for your interest, nor for the interest of the powerful nation upon whose pos sessions you border in the northwest, that war should exist. And it is my most sin cere and ardent hope that for many, many years it may not come. But my proposi tion is that you should prepare for it, lest it should come that you should be pre pared or it as the most certain means to prevent its occurrence. But if you were certain, sir, that it never would come, are there not legitimate purposes other than that of providing for the general defence which would sanction the adoption by you of this measure ? May I again re mind you, sir, of the immensity of your existing commerce on those broad lakes ? of the magical suddenness with which it has grown up ? and of the boundless ex tent and value to which it must in future times attain? Sir, the eye of that wise and provident people who divide with you in part the dominion of the lakes is already upon that commerce. They mean to turn it through channels of their own. A monopoly of it they certainly aspire after. And, admirably adapted as their system of roads and canals and har bor improvements may be to give certain ty and celerity to their military move, ments in time of war, it is no less admira bly adapted in time of peace to the secu- rity and extension of their commerce there Sir, at a session of the Canadian Parlia ment in 1812, that commerce, its outlet to the ocean, and especially the Canadian trade with your Northwestern States, were considered of sufficient importance to be referred to a special committee of the body. That committee caused to come before it some of the most wealthy and respectable of the mercantile houses of Montreal ; and, in answer to interrog. atories put to them, they testified that the completion of the St. Lawrence canals alone (in connexion with the 'enlarged Welland Canal) would reduce rt:e price of freight to and from Lake Erie and the ocean full thirty-three and a third per cent. And are you to suffer that immense and growing commerce to slip thus easily from your hands ? Are you to take no measures to retain it to extend, secure, and fasten it within your own borders, and to your own Atlantic cities ? Sir, this whole subject is worthy of your most grave consideration ; and 1 feel quite cer tain that prudence, wisdom, and sound policy indicate most clearly the expedien cy of opening an entrance into that great and noble sea, Lake Superior, two-thirds of which is your own, and thus securing early to this nation its young but most vigorous and growing commerce. , GRAND RALLY! TO THE WHIGS OF MICHIGAN ! ! At a large and enthusiastic gathering of the Clay Club of Marshall, on aionday eveuing tni 10th inst., a committee of twenty was appoint ed for the purpose of making the necessary preparation and arrangements lor the reception of our Whig mends who may attend the state Convention, to be held in this place -on the fourth of July next. The arrangements nave not vet beeufully completed but the committee assure their friends throughout the State, that the Whigs of Marshall and vicinity will ex tend to them their hospitalities with a cordial welcome. The Clay club House will be the place of reception. Notice of further arrange. ments will be published in due season. JOSKPII CHEDSEY, Chairman. B. Veusow, Secretary. Extract from a speech delivered by Mr Polk, to the people of Madison and the adjoining counties, in Tennessee, ou the 3d of April, 1343: , The difference between the course of the political party with which he (Air Milton Brown) acts and myself is, whilst they are the advocates nf distribution and a Protective rarijf measures which I consider ruinous to the interes's of (lie country, and especially to tlx inteiests of the planting Stales I have steadily and at all times opposed both" POLK ON ANNEXATION. ' Iliave no hesitation in declaring that I am in favor of the immediate re annex ation of Texas to the territory and Gov ernment oj the United states. James K. I'olk to the citizens of Cincinnati, April 29, 1841. OCT Tlie Globe says the election of Polk secures the immediate annexation of Texa?. True enough. The job is to se curj the election of Polk ! Pet. Ado. WHAT BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS PROSPECTS. While the Free Press and its gascona ding associates are laboring with might and main to keep up the desponding spir its of their terror stricken and disordered forces, and stuffing such as will bear the operation, with yarn9 of promise for the Locofoco cause.in comparison w ith which the tales r.f Baron Munchasen, Gullivan or Sinbad the sailor dwindle into absolute insignificance. There is scarce a paper reaches us that does not contain accounts of some blowup in the Loco camp, or desertion from its sqalid ranks. In (he Sentinel of last week, we noticed the fol lowing cases given on authority that we challenge the Free Press or its coadjutors to refute. The Hagerstown Herald of Freedom, says : that within the hst few weeks several democrats, and among them An thony Campbell, Esq. have left the Lo co ranks and joined the Clay Club." The Mnrristown Herald says : M that one of the Secretaries of the Loco con vention that nominated H. A. Muhlinburg for Governor, at Harrisburg has done the same." The Philadelphia Forum gives the pro ceedings of a meeting of the Democratic citizens of Kensington district, Philadel phia, June 10th, of which John R. Sharp Esq. was President, Joseph Coke and H. Brades Vice Presidents, and Thomas Pe ters and Edward Taylor, Secretaries. Theodore Philips reported a series of re solutions which were unanimously adop ted, and from which we quote the follow ing : Resolved, That this meeting bring De mocrats, who supported Mar'in Van Bu- ren in the year of 1836 and 1840, first elected, and in the latter defeated, by the largest vote ever polled by the American people, deem it their duty to say to their Democratic friends throughout the State of Pennsylvania. 03" THAT THEY CANNOT SUPPORT JAS. K. POLK AT THE APPROACHING PRESI- DENTIAL ELECTION, to he held in this State on the Jirst day of November, 1844. The New York Republic, a free trade Calhoun paper, says : the harmony a- mong the Whigs mut lead tbem on to triumph, as surely as the dissentirn and irreconcilable difference of the Demo crats, must conduct them to defeat. We allow ourselves to speak of Mr. Clay's election, with that certainty which pre sent appearances warrant, and wbich no thing that we can imagine will prevent." The Detroit Daily Advertiser says,' that at a Locofoco meeting at Savannah, Georgia, of which Col. Geo. Robertson was Chairman,it was resolved as follows: 'That we disapprove of the action of the late Baltimore Convention in nominating Mr. Polk for President, and that we as DEMOCRATS REPUDIATE SAID NOMINATION." And to th's catalogue we might safely the floor of the Senate, to resist to the death the Polk project of annexation. Evidence or Locofoco harmosy. Polk and Dallas meetings at Harrisburgh a great and enthusiastic ratification gathering. Ou our first page will be found an account of Ibis interesting gath ering, which according to the Harris burgh Bugle," actually became so enthu- siastic, as to convert itself into an out and out OO" RATIFIK1CKING0 meet ing, in which, after draging each other out of the Court House into the streets, and Poking into "each others , eyes and ribs in the most approved modern style, till out of breath : Each one went home his several way Resolved to meet another day. Why don't the Free Press copy this evidence of the Polk and Dallas enthusi asm ? It would communicate more truth to its readers, touching the actual condi tion of the party, than all it has told since (he nomination. OCT The following is a postscript to a letter dated at Jonesville, and addressed ti the editors of the Detroit Daily Adverti ser : What an outrageous 1 r Bagg is. He ought forthwith to be appointed am bassador Extraordinary to His Majesty theD 1. OCT The absence of the editor, and in disposition of the D I, is our apology for the scarcity of editorial matter in this weeks paper. The editor will return iria day or two, and should his Devi'ship re cover, we shall have an abundance of edi- orial mat'er in our next. From the Erie (Pa.) Gazette Tliornlon, Jewell $ Co. is the name of nn li,r,g!ish company that have star'ed Woollen Manufactory on Six Mile creek in this county. Their new building is 28 by 66 feet and 3 1-2 stories high. Although not wealthy, they expect by in dustry and perseverance to succeed in all (heir expectations : and we believe hey will do it. They are from Leeds, England, and are doubtless wed acquain ted with the business thev have engaged in. We are pleased to see such eviden ces of substantial wealth going into ope ration in our county. 03" The Albany Journal in noticing the above paragraph, says : This is one of the fruits of the " Black Tariff." Eng lish Manufacturers come here with their capital, which is expended first in build ing manufactories and purchasing ma chinery, and then in purchasing wool and employing laborers ; and finally in pur chasing flour, meat, butter, clothing, &c. for the support of the persons employed in the manufactories. All this gives bu siness and affords encouragement to A merican farmers, mechanics and laborers. And this is the practical effect of a Pro tective Tariff. The free trade policy would have kept Messrs. Thornton. Jew. ett 4c Co. in England where, after pur chasing European wool, employing Eng- Frm the Daily Advertiser. AWFUL EXPLOSION ! Our city was yesterday shocked by the most terrible and mournful accident that has ever occurred in its vicinity. Yesterday morning, the Steamboat Gen. Vance, Capt. S. D. Woodworth, left tin wharf o.f J. N. Elbert, at 8 1-2 o'clock. with a full load of passengers and freight. for Toledo. She proceeded across the river to Windsor, and just as she stopped at the harf, and was letting off steam, the boiler exploded. The sound was like the report of a cannon, and was heard with fearful distinctness on this tide. The fore part of the boat immediately sank, and the afi soon followed. But this was of little consequence, compared ith the melancholy loss of life. Four persons at least, are supposed to have lost their lives. Mr. Samuel D. Woodworth, the captain of the boat, the eldest son of Mr. Benjamin Woodworth, the late well known proprietor of the Steamboat Hotel, was thrown into the air and killed. His body was found some hours afterwards, in the river. The bo. dy of George Sweeney, of Chatham, U. C. formerly employed on the Kent, has also been found. Robert Mother will, en gineer of the ferry boat United, who had just stepped on board the Vance, is also supposed to be killed, though his body has not been found. Mjor A. C. Truax, of Truago, one of our oldest and most re spectable citizens, was frightfully and mortally woundfd, and though living at the moment of writing, cannot survive. Mr. Gaylord, the engineer of the Vance, was severely but not dangerously injured, and also two of the firemen, whose names we have not learned. Some 30 or 49 passengers were on board, and their preservation is almost miraculous. The boat ib of course an utter wreck, and her cargo all ornearlt all lost. It is of course, too early to judge calmly of the cause of the explosion, but it is due to Mr. Gaylord to say, that he is an engi neer of skill, experience, and of the high est integrity and fidelity, in whom our citizens repose entire confidence. The following statement by him has been fur nished to us for publication : Mr Gaylord, the engineer, Rays, her steam was low, and not so as to blow off, when she left the wharf on this side, but as usual on leaving port, ho caused the fires to be replenished, not knowing that the boat was to land on the other side. But on coming to the dock, he bad her fire door opened, and himself raised the safety valve and tied it up, so as to blow off free ly. At the moment of the explosion he was standing upon the rail, with his hand ha ring hold of the shroud, saying to Capt. Woodworth, that be should have given him notice of his intention to land there, that the steam was making fast, and he must not stop long," that instant, the ex plosion took place : Mr. Gaylord was blown from the rail where he was stand lish mechanics and laborers, and support ing them from their own graneries, their . 0 ,Q ,hf forward deck of (he F Boat United, and was badly bruispd, and cloths would have been sent to America to b sold for specie. Jhose therefore, who would prefer keeping our manufactories and workshops in England, will vote for James K. Polk, who is in favor of Free trade and against protecting American Wool by duty. Let it be remembered, that James K. Polk was nominated for President be cause be is against a protective tariff and in favor of the immediate annexation of Texas to the Union. And these things being remembered, those who want to pay tribute to England and to extend the do minion of Slavery, should vote for Polk and Dallas. This is the true issue. Skip the hard places. The Locofoco papers are publishing biographical notices of Polk and Dallas, trimmed to suit the taste of the market. The Utica Obser ver, publishes one of these in which Mr. Dallas' Senatorial career of three years is despatched in as many lines, as follows: "In 1831 he was appointed to fill a va cancy in the Senate of the United States, which post -he occupied for three years with distinguished ability, and in a man ner which reflected much honor upon himself and the country." The reason of this brevity is obvious. In these three years, Mr. Dallas introdu ced and advocated a United States Bank Bill, voted for Mr. Clay's Distribution Bill, sustained all appropriations for In ternal Improvements by the General Gov. ernment, and went with the Whig Sena, tors, for Protection to American Industry. A beautiful candidate, truly, for a party which claims to be anti-Bank, anti-Distribution, anti Internal Improvement, and anti-Protective Tariff! But Mr. Dallas is for immediate annexation" and Locofo coism, just now, would take up with a Benedict Arnold if he would only pledge himself to go for Texas. Alb. Jour, Alas for the " Ruinous " Tariff, The receipts from customs at this port, during the month jut closed, were about two millions- of dollars, which, with the re- somewhat scalded, but not dangerously. P. S. Major Truax has since died. rbun IIickory.-The 44 Heaven born Amos " in his paper of the 4th instant, says that no widow or orphans weea the loss of a husband and father slain un der his (Polk'fc) counsels, as in the case ot Cilley and the Whig candidate." Mr. Polk will never do to stand in old Hicko ry shoes, if Kendall's account of him is correct. Old Hickory made more than one widow, as the voracious Amos has himself chronicled, and unless it can be established that M young Hicko-y has kil led his man, we are at an uttet loss to perceive the propriety of the appellation. The title will better apply to a brother of Mr. P. who shot down or butchered a gentleman in Columbia, Tennessee some years ago. The gentleman left no wid ow, we believe, but that was no fault of the murderer. He was " treading in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," doubtless. Whig Standard. State Elections. The following list shows the time of holding elections for State officers for the year 1844, in the several States annexed : Louisiana, July 1; Tennessee, August 1. North Carolina, August 5. Alabama, do Kentucky, do Indiana, do Illinois, do Missouri, do Vermont, September 3. Maine, September 9. Maryland, October 2. Georgia, October 7. Arkansas. do New Jersey, October 8-9. Pennsylvania, October 8, Ohio, do South Carolina, October 14. Mississippi, November 4-5. New York, November 5. Michigan, November 5-6. Massachusetts, November 11. Delaware, November 12. ' Correspondence of tha N, York Express. Washington, Sunday, 2 o'clock A. M SCENE IN THE SENATE. Tho only threatened disturbance of the peace during the day was, between Messrs. Benton and McDuffie during the morning, and this was one of the most dramatic and impoing scenes ever dis played in sny legislative assembly. It has produced a deep impression upon alt who were present, and was seen by mora persons than have witnessed any previ ous debate during the session. Mr. McDuffitf writhed in seeming ago. ny of spirit and body under tne charges of disunion and nullification made by Mr. Benton, and when Mr. Benton said he would meet him at I'hilippi, in his efforts to destroy the Union, nnd not as here, with bis voice and his pen, but sword rn hand, to die if need be in defence of the Union, a murmur of applause run through the galleries which nothing could re strain. Tho rebuke was just and terrible and the position of Mr. Benton a noble one that will cover a multitude of sins. All he said was for the Union and for this out of doors he is called a traitor to his party ! When Mr. Benton said, he would meet the Disuniooist at Philippi, Genera) Clinch, of Georgia, a whole hearted man w nt lo Mr. Benton and said in the ful ness of a patriotic heart that he would be theie with him ! When Mr. Benton left his seat he took John Quincy Adams, who was seated be hind him, by the hand nnd said Mr. Ad ams "you are passing off the stage, and I am passing away a'so, but while we live. we will standby the Union." This is the language of true heroism and Mr. Ben. ton has given abundant evidence of bis feelings and resolutions. More about Mexico. We learn, since our last, through a private channel, en tirely to be relied upon, that the true in formation from Mexico is, that the peo pie cf that country were never more uni ted than they are in their opposition to a surrender nt Texas ; that they are deter mined to listen to no terms in regard to the project of " annexation ;" that they continue to regard Texas a part of their territory, and " to n man " prrfer war lo any compromise of wh it they conceive to be iheir unquestionable rights upon the subject. It is now perfectly clear, and must be so even lo thnoe who have hitherto doubt ed, that if the Senate of the United State had not resisted and defeated the project of immediate annexation," we should have been at this moment at war with Mexico. The wisdom and foresight ma nifested by Mr. Clay in his Texas letter,' now stands forih in broad relit-f. Col. Benton, too, may well congratulate him self on the share w hich l e has had, by his able and fearless exposition ofihe un law fulness and wickedness of ibis Texas speculation, in the signal d:frnt and over throw which it has sustained iii the Sen ate. Nat. Int. Printers. No trade sends into the world smarter and more nc ive men than that of printihg. Look to offices of trust and honor, where talent and energy are. required, and you will bo most likely to find them filled with Piinters Who makes our best editors, lawyers, preach, ers, mayors, and Congressmen ? Printers. Printing is a glorious business, thus to fit a man for honor and usefulness. A coU lege education is not to be compared to an education at the case. One of the greatest lawyers England ever produced was a printer. The greatest philosopher of America was a printer. Who are Mayors of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Peth? Printers. So also are the Mayors of N. York, Washington and Savannah, printers by trade. The recent Mayor of Boston was a printer. There are something like a dozen prin ters in Congress, all of them honors to their profession. Certainly, the best conducted journals of this country -are under the control of printers. Look to this city for instances: Gen. Todd, of the American, Edwards, of the Advertiser, Backett, of the Bulletin, and Nichols of. the Washington ian, are all printers and reflect honor on the craft. Printers aue looking up: Who would not be a printer? To the voung appren tices at the case, or the roller stand, with smutty faces or dirty fingers, we would say, don't be discouraged. A few years ago, all the distinguished men we have named above, were similarly employed. Stick io your business and every leisure hour you have, employ it in the perusal of useful hooks, and in the cultivation of your minds. Then the day will not be . far distant, w ben, if you are true to your selves and contract no bad habits, you will become useful and honorable citizens, ex erting a wide and healthy influence. Portland Tribune. 03" Cultivate the faculty of hope. It is better than money, for the more you use it the larger it grows. 03" Elder Jfoapp, in a sermon, recent i ly compared the old fashionable ministers to a molasses hogshead, with tbe minis ters inside, preaching out the bung-hole. A chum thinks that Columbus is enti tled to no great credit for having discov ered the American continent. He say it was so large, he couldH have missed it. 03 Charles J. Ii.gerso.'l is spoken of as minister to Austria,