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DAILY NATIONAL WHIG.
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 30. 1847.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ZACHARY TAYLOR.
OF LOUISIANA,
Subject to the decision of the Whig National
Convention.
WHIG NOMINATION
FOR GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND,
WILLIAM T. GOLDSBOROUGH,j
Or BOBCHCSTKR COUNT*.
TELEGRAPHIC.
JWSTIOJVJL WHIG OFFICE, July 30.
VERY INTERESTING
FROM MEXICO.
Commissioners from Mexico to negotiate a
Peace.
The Enemy defeated at Perole, by Cad
wallader and Pillow. Mexicans defeated
?t Lahoya. Lieut. Whipple captured? j
supposed to be murdered, &c.
An important express bad been received
from General Scott, who was still at Puebla.
Commissioners have keen appointed by the
Mexican Government to negotiate for peace
?and were to meet Mr. Trist, within 8 miles
?of the above named place.
Generals Cadwallader and Pillow have been
attacked by the enemy at Perole, but succeed
ed in repulsing them. The Mexicans have
been defeated at Lahoya.
Santa Anna is supposed to be in favor of a j
peace. Lieut. Whipple had been captured,
and was supposed to have been murdered.
General Pierce left Vera Cruz on the 14th
at the head of 3,200 men, and encountered
lite enemy at the National Bridge.
Col. De Russey had got into a pass near
Anejulla where he was surrounded by 1,400,
but succeeded in extricating himself with the
Joss of 20 or 30 men.
Col. De Russy received several balls in his
?coat. Boyd and his first Lt. were killed. The
Unas of the Mexicans is stated to have been 270
'in killed and wounded. The Mexicans took
refuge in a chapparal.
Nothing new has been received from Gen.
Taylor.
The Commissioners appointed to treat for
a peace are Tornel Garostiza and Baranda.
OUR IVJ1R STEAM MARIJVE.
We hope that the next Congress will take the sub
ject af increasing our war steam marine into con
sideration, and carry out, on a scale commensurate
with the importance of our country.
This hope is expressed by that very able
journal, the Herald of New York, and we are
sure that the whole country will respond to it. [
The past condition of our War Steam Marine
has been a disgrace to our national character,
and we are sorry to say, it is very little belter
at the present time, than it was when we made
our first effort of getting a Steam Navy. Eve
ry effect has a cause and the apathy exhibited
by our government in relation to war steamers
for so many years?an apathy that no exertion
on the part of the people has been able to drive
away?must have a cause. That cause is seen
and felt by the whole country, and yel Con
gress has not dared to remove it. Do you ask
what it is? It is the Act that the Navy De
partment of the United States is administered
and controlled by old Navy officers whose
prejudices in favor of wind and sail are des
perately opposed to steam and machinery.
Not only is it managed by these men, but they
possess the power and influence with (he Ex
ccutive and Congress, no matter of which
party, to retain their control and administra
tion of this branch of the public service. But
how ? Through the extended ramification of |
family, party and money influences. The
Mpril du corps of the Navy helps to keep its j
departmental administration in the hands of j
its officers. No m.in is interested in putting
down or in exposing abuses, or if he is,
he is soon prostrated by his brethren whose
views rire opposite. There never goes a ci
vilian into Mr. Mason's chair, but forthwith
commences a struggle hetween the heads of
Naval Bureaus who shall have him, and one or
the other is as sure to get hiiu as the spider is
f) catch the unwary fly in his meshes. In
this contest, the public interest is never once
thought of. It is the supremacy of the Navy
and its officers. They regard their arm of |
the service, as made (or the especial accomroo
daiion of themselves. They fight for the
country, say they, and they will have the right
and the power to say when and how they
shall fight, and at what cost to the nation.
It is this state of things which has prevent
ed and continues to prevent the establishment
o! a War Steam Marine worthy of our coun
try, its resources, and its wants. The military
habits, (he naval knowledge, the whole tone
and spirit of Steam Marine armament are al- {
most entirely opposed to those of wind sea
going armed ships; and this fact, in addition
to the considerations just mentioned, renders
it next to impossible that tho Steam War Ship
shall ever be adopted as an arm of the public
defence, until the Administration of the naval
service by the Executive shall be taken out of
the hands of Naval Men and confided to Ci
vilians. The purity and efficiency of both the
War and Navy Departments absolutely re
quire that this should be done by Congress,?
and much more so, if Congress desires to make
Steam the principal means of harbor and river
defence, and of the protection of our Com
merce on the high seas.
But we hope never to see a large Steam
Navy any more than a large Army in time of
peace. The Naval Establishment has always
been loo large for the wants of the Country.
It has been a huge moth, devouring the peo
pie's substance and rendering no real service
lo any one but to the officers themselves. Mr.
Corwin at the Chicago Convention said that
for the last twenty years the peace expendi
ture for tha Army and Navy consumed annu
ally 82 per cent of the public revenue. What!
82 per cent I The most extravagant opponent
of these peace war establishments (if we may
so speak.) has never reached to snch a point
in his calcluations, but Mr. Corwin has devel
oped the fact. When peace is restored, if in.
1 it he ever restored?of which we have no
the duty of Congress to
fix upon a peace establishment in both the
Army and Navy. We trust that the public
mind will have become by that lime so awak
ened to the necessity of abandoning the present
policy in relation to the Navy, that Congress
will be found bold enough to change existing
laws and make new ones placing the adminis
i iration of the Navy Department entirely under
the care of Civilians, coufining Naval Officers
to the duties of their profession, and reducing
ihe Navy to a skeleton Navy. We also trust
1 that it will erase building ships or the line and
huge frigates and tub-like brigs to be propelled
by wind and sail, that it will encourage, as the
Biitish Government has done, the citifen to
build Steam Sbipi of moderate tonnage
and suitable to be brought into the war ser
I vice of the country at a moment's warning.
By the association of thesesea-going-Steamers
with the grand art of peace?the transmission
of intelligence between this and fortign coun
I tries, we form a Naval School worth a thuus1
and of the naval systems now in vogue. At
the same time the government could have a
skeleton Steam War Marine as the nucleus or
future operations, but it would have to be
placed on a totally different basis ftom the
present miserable apology for a Steam Ma
rine?the fruit of Bancroft's eccentric and im- j
practicable mind. We hope the next Congress
will break it up root and branch, and reorganise
it on a basis worthy of the real scientific mind
of the country.
THE MEXICAN NEWS.
The latest news from Mexico, received this
morning at the National Whig office, by Tel
egraphic despatch, will be read with deep in
terest. Of the unfavorable results of any ne
gotiations lor a peace, we entertain little or no
doubt. There has been some fighting, but not, I
as far as we can see, of such a character as to j
alter materially the determination ol the Mex- j
ican, as expressed in the late action ol their
Congress and the declaration of several of the
States which refuse absolutely to come to terms.
Much reliance has been placed by some of our
friends on the capture of the city of Mexico,
putting an end to the war. In these anticipa
tion we do not, we confess, agree with them.
It does not appear to us probable that a nation
which refused to accept the terms of their in
vaders when, by doing so. they might have
saved their capital, sea ports, and a vast por
tion of their territory, to say nothing of the sums
expended in organizing their armies, would
all at once change their policy, when the pre
sence of our army is rather an advantage to
them by furnishing a market for their commo
dities.
In this we hope we are mistaken, and shall
be very glad to find ourselves in error, provi
ded a restoration of peace be the result. A few
days will, in all probability, solve the difficul
ty, and show whether we are to be cursed j
with the melancholy cousequences of the im
becility and incompetency of the Executive;
for, should the Capitol be taken, and no peace
follow, there is no telling to what length the
war may be spun out.
The Mexicans may bo said to have every thing
their own wuy now, for acting asguerillas they can
fight when it suit* them, and when tired of pillage
and robbery can re'urn to iheir ranchos and furnish
supplies to our soldiera. Happy, happy country that
we are, to expend mil'iona on millions of treasure
and thousands on thousands of valuable lives for the
alleged purpose of r covering four or five Bullions of
debt, but in fact to enable the President and his
Cabinet to reward partnn services and find some
thing to do for those who voted in accordance with
the high behest of the Baltimore Convention.
GEN. TAYLOR'S WHIGGERY.
Extract of a letter by an American officer in
Mexico to a gentleman of this city:
" It is a matter to me of much surprise to
find such an array of party contention in rela
tion to General Taylor's politics and opinions
in regard to the great principles which create
such a diversity among ouc countrymen, par
ticularly when he has beea as he thought so
explicit in expressing his sentiments; being
myself an intimate friend of General Taylor^
and having conversed with him on the subject,
I do not scruple to affirm, with all due defer
ence to those who differ with me, that General
Taylor is and has been?as long as I have had
the honor to be acquainted with him, in favor
of those views, and coincided with those mea
sures which characterize the Whig party. An
moreover has ever been the great admirer and
ardent supporter of the soil of his own State,
Henry Clay."
Caution to Mothers.?Last Tuesday the wife
of Robert Field, of Flushing, N. York, while
washing her house, left the room in which was
her infant child of about nine months old, and
on her return found that it had fallen into a tilb
of filthy water, and was nearly drowned.
Stocking Jlccidcid.?At Philadelphia, on
Wednesday night, some young men were pre
paring for a gunning expedition. One of them
had a musket, which he was putting a cap
upon, when it was accidentally discharged,
and wounded- four or five persons. James
McMullen, who was engaged in putting on
the cap, had his whole lower jaw shot away,
and was dreadfully wounded in the breast.
He died shortly after. A young man, called
Baity, was severely wounded in the left breast,
and was taken to the hospital. The others
were wounded about the limbs, but not dan
gerously.
Approaching Elections.?Next Monday .being
the first in August, Congressional Elections are
to l>e held in Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama and
Iowa. In North Carolina and Tennessee, on
ihe Thursday following; in Maryland, October
6th ; and in Mississippi and Louisiana, Mon
day, November 1st. The elections in these
Stales will complete the members to the next
Congress, when vacancies are all filled.
The Telegraph between Detroit and Mil
waukee is going forward rapidly. The neces
sary amount of wire (13*2.300 lbs.) has been
ordered, as well as the registers, batteries, &.c.
The poles of the whole line, from Detroit to
Chicago, would be under contract by the 20th
iaataot. ?
If you are about lo leave a neighbour'^
house don't stand stammering and fumbling,
and saying, "Well, I gueas I moat be go
ing." When you are ready, go at once.
For tin Motional fThif
Lest my silence should be uuderstood as ac
quiescing in the charge so unjustly preferred
agaiust me of having written a ludicrous com
munication which appeared in the Whig a
short lime since over the signature of Dahlia,
I take this occasion to inform those who circu
lated this charge as well as those immediately
interested, that I have other duties and obliga
lions to perform than that of drawing fictitious
pictures from scenes in the Capitol grounds.
UWEN CONNOLLY.
Washihoton, July 30, 1847.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL
WHIG.
The Jomes Affair.?No impartial man can
hesitate in pronouncing the whole Joues trans
action on the part of Mr. President Polk and
Mr. Secretary Marcy a down right piece of
cheating and swindling, only change the rela
tive position of a President and a Secretary to
that of a private individual, and if the same,
or indeed a much less degree of Iraud has been
practiced to procure a bale of goods, Instead ol
a battalion of volunteers, the rascal guilty ot
the cheat, would have been sent to the State
prison as a swindler on a charge of obtaining
goods on false pretences. X.
BEARING FALSE WITNESS AGAINST
YOUR NEIGHBOR.
Ma. Editor : I fear that our country is on
ihe high road to ruin, and that it is destined to
live as a nation of confederated sovereign Slates
a much shorter period than what its best friends
and the oppressed of all nations, desire. While
Rome and Venice were virtuous, honor and
integrity reigned supreme in the bosoms of their
citizens, but when ambition, personal and pe
cuniary interests, based upon falsehood,became
the object of their leading pauper public men,
the Stale set the example of crime to its citi
zens, and both ultimately fell from their origi
nal elevated and dignified position belore the
world and posterity. We, loo, until this un
fortunate and disgraceful war with Mexico
commenced, stood high in ihe estimation of
mankind ; but now, sir, what will be thought
of us by every civilized and rational being,
who scans the objects for which it was begun.
Will any one say that the men who might
have prevented its breaking out, and who com
menced it in violation both of the letter and
spirit of the Constitution, which they swore
to observe faithfully, are free from the suspi*
cion, I will not say ihe fact, that base and mer
cenary anticipations were at the bottom of i'.
Bui, sir, as if the public and undisguised plun
der of Mexican territory, to meel the unpaid
and never to be paid Texas land scrip, which
the government of that State issued before il
came into ihe Union, and for which il is yet
responsible?the wholesale murder of innno
cenl men, women, and children, at Camp Bu
ena Vista, China, Marfaline, Santa Fe, aud a
hundred other places?the desecration of
Churches?violation of women, and other bar
barities too shocking lo mention?the one-twen
tieth of which we have never heard of, the
Government has stooped its neck so low as to
seek for aid from the mosl vile, unprincipled,
and immoral class of men in the country, lo
write down the moral character of a people,
against whom we are perpetrating all the out
rages above enumerated. "Hill-civilized;"
"semi-barbarian;" "ignorant;" "enemies lo
progress ;" See. &.C., are ihe set terms of those
base penny-a-liners of Government for the mosl
inoffensive, moral, innocent, and religious peo
ple on this continent. It is the old Anglo
Saxon or rather Anglo-Norman gone over
again, "rob those of their character first whom
you intend to rob of their purse."
Sir, the Mexican people as a nation, will
compare in points of civilization, honesty, and
honor with any other on the face of the earth.
'Tis true, historians, like the Trollops, Basil
Halls, el itl omiie genus?poemies to their cast
and their creed, have slated otherwise, but thai
does not make them so; the only thing I fear
is, that we shall find them loo much so for us
before they are done with us. That miserable
pander to "the powers thai be," who writes
for the Baltimore Sun, has taken up his chapter
of calumny on Mexico, and commenced study
ing it. A month before the Union recommended
ihe robbery of the churches, he was studying
the chapter on sacrilege, and gave us some of
his views in the same paper on that very
important matter. Such men believe there is no
harm in robbing an individual or nation of its
character, or its properly; thinking that He,
who holds all men to a strict account for what
ever wrong they do their neighbor in either,
will accept the puerile and wretched apologies
which they set up as an excuse to themselve
for their crimes. Mistaken?miserable men?
ihe day of restitution must come?if not, the
day of retribution, and no act, if wrong, though
done under cover of national authority, will
screen the guilty one from the anger of a just
God. French Atheists and German Rationalists
will, of course, sneer at the concluding para
graph above ; but he who has a particle ol
faith in ihe truths revealed to us in the scrip
tures, that "God will render lo every man ac
cording lo his works," must now feel a remorse
of conscience, which will continue within him
while he lives, if he have had anything to do
with precipitating this war upon us, with all
its attendant horrors and evils,
FIAT JUSTITIA RUAT C(ELUM.
The Burning of Las Vigas.?On our reach
ing Las Vigas, a pretty and flourishing little
town, it was found that the dwellings were en
tirely deserted by the Mexicans, and was satis
factorily ascertained that they had identified
themselves with the guerrilas. With the con
sent of the commanding General, the torch
was applied to ihe buildings, and in a few mo
ments the entire town was one universal scene
of conflagration. Every building in it, nam
bering between eighty and one hundred, was
destroyed by (ire?the only one that was spared
being the neat little Catholic church that adorn
ed the town. Its solitary appearance among
the smouldering ruins of tbe town, created
sensations belter imagined than described ; and
the example set in this instance, it is greatly to
be hoped, will have the (fleet of restraining the
enemy in future in th^ir murderous course o*
warfare.?Gomez of St. Louis RepvLlicau 22d
Jims.
Ocj-A grog-shop keeper in Cincinnati, calls
his place ihe " Western Light Home." Its
light leads only to the regions of darkness.
NEWS kc. BY THE MAILS.
New Weather Guage. In Clark.rille, Tenn.,
they uj, when the thermometer stands at 89?
"Weather to day?Mint Juleps palatable t"
0Z? The Roanoke, Vs., Advocate bay*, that it ha*
seen a letter from a gcntiemaii who knows General
Taylor intimately, and that the writer endorses the
old Hero's Whiggery 'up to the notch.'
Fredericksburg. Va., July S9. Wheat 105 to 110
cent* Corn 55 to aixly ceuta. No flour coming in
and no aales. So says one ol the best journals in
Virginia, the News.
CO" Tho Editor of the Richmond Whig saya. that
be believej General Taylor to be as much of a Whig
as ho, the editor is. The Whigjery of Mr. Toler i>
an firm at the mountains.
Nashville, linn. This village is improving. The
Orthopolitan aays that 35 bouses are going up. Vil
lage, did we say t?City, we mean, and one of the
plcasantest and tnojt hospitable on the continent.
dj* Mr. T. Savage, late teller of the 8iate Bank
at Washington, has been made cashier of the new
Commercial Bank of that village. Mr. O. G. Pars
ley is president. This, for men who deal in Bank
notra.
(?> James McDowell, an ohl 'Revolutioner' in N.
Carolina, is the bro her of the Hero McDowell who
fought by the t'de of Marion, is 104 years old, has
a grand son 60 years i f age, and his eldest sob is
81. The old soldier lost one eye in the battles of
his country.
The Flux. This old fashioned diiease is very
fatal in the Abingdon District in Virginia. So we
learn from the 'Virginian' of Abingdon.
Good News. CoL Williams has withdrawn and
Col. Haskell has a clear track of it in his District in
Tennessee. He will make quite as short wsrk with
his Democratic opponent aahe did with Pillow?rip
up his casement and let his feathers out.
Hear this, Boys. The laborers on the. Illinois
canal receive $28 a month, and have struck for
higher wages. Now is your time to st ike in.
Mr. G. L. Curry, in a lettei to the 8l Louis
Reveille describes Oregon to bo a second Paradise.
(?7" Flour at Cinciunati on the 20th instant ?3.
50 only.
Tragical. In Pittsburg, on the night of the 27th
instant, a brother endeavored to rescue his sister
from a house of ill-fame, and not finding her, he and
his friends attacked the house, whereupon some per
sons near by began to fire several muskets, by which
five pcisoiis were wounded and one p:obibly killed.
Cj" The farmers near Marietta, Ohio, havo raised
146,500 pounds of wool.
03* Chief Justice Durfee, of R. Island died on the
26ih instant, in Provideuco. He went through life
doing what ho thought was right.
A ntw Bishop. Sam Bowman, of Lancaster, Pa.
hss been mado Buhop of Indiaua in the Episcopal
church. He will refuse the hat it is said.
(?5" The Editor of the North American and Ga
zette calls the editor of the Union a second Mause
Headrigg of o!d "mortality'' memory?because he
scolds the Whigs so terribly, for daring to go for old
Zich. Don't mind him, Mr. North American, he
id only ar.gr) l ecause Mr. Polk won't lot him go for
the old Hero!
Hypocrisy?til for tat. The Democra a accuse
the Whigs of hypocricy in going for a military chiof
tian of whom they used to afTcct such a holy horr. r!
The Whigs retort the charge upon the Democrats
for their equally holy horror of a military chiefiian
when at one time they were worshippers of military
qualities!
Jtjr* The Jefferson city, Mo., Metropolitan says
that Gen. Jackson was elected because he was a
Civilian. History and the Editor of this Metropo
litan are evidently at loggerheads.
7'he Clergy. A prominent Democrat of Kentucky
asserts that the clergy in all countries go with the
corrupt. This Democrat must be of tho Gruud
school of thinking!
CCf- 'A few years It ngcr war will de us no harm'
?says the above Democrat. Wonder whether be
would have thought so if he had been in Veil's for
lorn hope ?
The President's Own. Col. Hughes's Regiment.
Poor Illinois. Her Htatedebt ia $14,912,820,16 !
What a miserable aet of Legislators she had when
they created thii terrible debt. They were all im
maculate Democrats!
10. Resolved, That we will vote for no candidate
in 1848, for President that nins under tho ahade of
military glory, without principles.
8o declare the Democrats of Platte county, Mis
souri, in their conveniion of the 6th inst. This reso
Iqtion kills Gen. Cass and all other Democratic Ge
nerals dead?for they not only have no principles,
but no military glory to rrpose in !
Democratic National Conveniion. This body is
to meet in May, 1848, at Baltimore?so say the
Platte meeting. It might as well stay at home. It
goes in for Mr. James M. Hughes for Governor.
Col. Doniphan will 'fix his flint.'
(C/- The Telegraph was posting along through
middlo Ohio at last dates.
Another Straight-otU. James A. Stewart, who
came near beating Philip Francis Thomas for Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Maryland, is out in
the papers with a aeven column address to the peo
ple, announcing himself as an indoirendent candi
date for Congreas from the 9ih District He handles
the Democratic leaders?quorum pars supremafuit
?without mittens, and then declares for Gen. Tay
lor with all his might and main.
Brazil. The Emperor has seised five of our
whale ships. He certainly has not the fesr of Mr.
Polk before bis eyes. Pedro wants a trouncing and
James is the one to give it to him.
Bird and Woman Shooting. A Miss Cashing
of Constantine, Mich., was recently shot by a rifle
ball from the gun of her lover, who was tipping off
a few birds for her near the house. She wss stand
ing near the window and the ball entered her cheek
and injured her tongue very seriously. She w.ll re
cover.
A few days ago, Mr. Grant, of New Haven, losi
a daughter by drowning. Before she was buried, a
son whom he had reckoned among his lost sheep, re
lurnod from sea !
OCT Mr. Clay has written an appropriate letter in
reply to the resolutions of condolence for the death
of his son, from the lata Whig Gubernatorial Con
vention of Maryland.
$7* The Merchants on 'Change in Phladelp'.is,
were terribly frightened the other day by the sudden
rushing among theip of ? worried dog whom they
took to be a mad dog. 8uch a gel tin' down ataira !
55* J he Rov. John M. Dun.an'a house, on Cal
vert street, in Baltimore, came near being burned
down on Wednesday.
War on the Pi cockers. In consequence of one of
the preachers who had been invited to open with
prayer the Illinois Convent'on, having been assault
ed by one of its unworthy members, the conveniion
formally released the preachers from any obligation '
to attend in their ministerial character, on the ground
that it wished to protect God's ministers, but could
not do ao any other way.
Mure Robes. The traders have arrived at 8t
Louis with 1900 more Buffalo robes.
Slow March. One of our trains was 14 days in
letting from Vera Crui to Jala pa, 70 milea apart.
Uh^tTfighT^y^ch of iu way, bowe?r. Our
low vii 30 wagon*, mulea, Ac. without number,
A G*C. Scott'a Opinion. A letter writer from
Mexico to the 8t Uuie Republican aaye that Oen.
Scott anticipate* the hardeat light he hae yet had
with the enemy near Rio Frio
In one short hour after the act of recognition
of the war passed, he bad said b'sJ"eI^'
(hat a deed ltad been done from whidh the
country would scarcely recover. A curtain
had been dropped between him and the future
and for the first time m his life the f"l"r*/wab
shut out from his view.?CaUu>un s Speech.
We belitve that the God of our lathers wil|
lift that curtain.
citTaWXTrs.
Street Fight.?A fight occurred this morn
ing near the corner of C and Second street, in
the rear of the Railroad depot, in which a pis
tol was discharged. Fortunately the ball took
no effect. We were unable to procure the
names of the parlies engaged in this disgrace
ful affair.
The war with Mexico seems to have intro
duced along with iu other attendant evils, a
, fondness for carrying and using fire-arms,
I which should be checked by the strongest mea
sures. The habit of wearing pistols or knives
is in direct opposition to law, and it would be
I well for the civil authorities to manifest on all
I occasions their disapproval of the custom, by
making it an aggravation of the offence against
good order. For our own parts, we have uni
formly regarded the practice of going armed,
in a law-governed community, not only as an
insult to those entrusted with the administra
tion of justice, but a proof of cowardice on the
part of those who resort to it. Few instances
can occur in which recourse to such means ol
defence is justifiable, and craven indeed must
be the spirit that would needlessly deprive a
fellow being of life, under the impulse of heat
ed passion. CaBes have lately occurred within
the limits of our ciiy, in which pardons have
been granted to persons convicted of assaults
with deadly weapous. Every such mistaken
act of clemency operates as an inducement to
a continuance of the evil, and is nothing more
nor less than a reward for assassinatiou. In
taking into consideration the feelings of those
who suffer for their own wickedness it is hard
ly fair to lose sight of the safety of such as may
be willing to trust their lives to the protection
of the laws.
The habit of throwing stones aud other mis
siles in the streets has grown to an excess,
which renders it unsafe for ladies and others to
walk abroad. This morning a servant girl be
longing to a Mrs. Brawner, threw a stone
which struck another under the eye, and in
I flicted a very severe wound.
A m?n. as " drunk as Davy's sow'' was ly
ing at the Railroad depot this morning, and re
mained there until he was carried to some
place of. shelter?it should have been the work
house. -
" You hev got a addition ol stoekins on
your line, dear," said Mrs.
" Oh, yes," says Sally, " 1 have been knit
ting a pair for the I'arton, ma'am.
" Indeed!" said Mrs. Q... tinnuraw gay in
high dudgeon ; " the pesked, nasty, good fur
nuthin' chit thinks tu bogin at the parson'*
Teet and knit upwards tu his affections, but I
reckon I spile that; I'll gin him a hull suit of
woollen tu kiver his reverence. I know'd them
stoekins hed no good purpose?I know'd it!"
An rxchange paper tells of a person who
prefaced his sermon with, "My friends, Id
us say a few words oefore we begin " This
is about equal to the chap who took a small
nap before be went to sleep.
How to make Bread. It is the repetition of the
dote that kill*, eaya the London Times. I ho alice
of bread well impregnated with a'um. which is
awallowed morning and evening does the real harm.
Common bread, such aa we all purchase for our
daily uae at the baker'*, i* but partially fermented.
Hence it is that, when swallowed, it aets as a fer
ment, and communicatee a aimilar action to the food
in contact with it. Wo to the unhappy man whose
digestive power is not strong enough to control the
chemical affinities. He will shortly become liable to
headache, acidity, flatulence, and all tho other dis
tressing *ymptoms of dyspepsia.
Dr. Thompson recommend* a* a substitute for the
compound of alum and wheat now in uae unfer
mentcd bread. That author had observed that the
only purpo*o *erved by fermentation in bread-mak
ing was the generation of the carbonic acid required
to raise the dough. He then went on to obaerve
that this might be obtained from carbonate of *oda,
by mixing a portion of that article wish the flour, and
then adding a corresponding quan ity of muriatic
acid.
TO MAKE WHITE BREAD.
'Take of flour, dresied, or household, 3 lb. avoirdu
pois. Bi-caibonate of soda, in powder, 9 drachms
apothecariea' weight. Hydro-chloric (muriatic) acid
(.peceific gravity 1-16) 14 drachm*. Water, about
85 fluid onnce*.
TO MAKE RROWN BREAD.
?Take of wheat meal 3 lb. avoirdupoia. Bi-carborate ?
of aoda, in powder, 10 drachm* apothecaries' weight, j
Hydio-chloric (muriatic) acid (epecific gravity 1-16)
12? fluid draebms. Water, about 28 fluid ounce*.
"Sam, why am lawyers like fishes?"
"I doson't meddle wid dat subject at all."
14Why, kase dey am fond ob debate P'
(jr^On the 19th instant, from 1 o'clock
to H p. m , no less than 12,000 people pass
ed through Brooklyn South Ferry,?that
great highway to New York city.
(ji^ Persons from the cities are enjoying
themselves finely at the various "Springs,"
and other resorts of fashion and pleasure.
Two of the prominent physicians of I
New York had a disgraceful street fight on
the 24th inst.
?#? The Centreville, Md. Times, of Sat
urday, says, " The farmers are cutting their
oats. The yield promises to be vfty^amall."
(Jr^Tho " National Whig," of this city,
has been enlarged to the size of the Na
tional Intelligencer.
Rev. J. N.Maffit preached in Brook
lyn last week by iDvitatioo.
$5* The St. Paul's German Lutheran
Church, at Philadelphia, was destroyed by
(lightning on the 25th init.
The Fanner's Life.
We lake pleasure in presenting our country
readers with the following excellent remarks
from the New York " Farmer and Mechanic,'*
on the "Dignity and Pleasures of Agricul
ture
There is a moral dignity in (he pursuit of
agriculture. True^ it is toilsome; but ivha
gainful pursuit is not I There are few mert
chants or professional men who would not at
limes willingly exchange their burdens, their
cares or anxieties, for following the plough or
other labor connected wi'h farming. The young
man Who fancies there is so much of l.-isure
and aristocracy in trade and the professions,
and so ituch drudgery in farming, knows less
ol humau life, than he will he likely to learn if
he lives 10 middle age. But, while the labor
ing people usually attain greater longevity than
men of leisure, their t xercise may be consi der
ed as conducive to health, and hence to happi
ness. In labor itself, there i.i nothing degra
ding to the best feelings of our nature. It is
only a vitiated artificial public sentiment, that
can induce painful sensibility in view of the
I necessity for induslry, which the wants of life
impose.
It is not ihe objects thrown around the farm
er, the woods and streamy, and fields arrayed
in gr< en, that make all the charms of his life,
Tor, while he subdues the soil and fits it for I113
purposes and scatlers-the seed on ihe furrows
the progress of vegetation and the ample har
vest are in his mind, as the reflection at ni?ht
that the day has been devoted to usefulness,
prepares him for peaceful rest. Then there is
a practical independence enjoyed in the feel
mgs of the fanner, when he gathers the golden
harvest, and partakes of the fruit of his labor.
"Ho cats his own lamb, his own ehit-kens ami ham
[ lie shears his own flecce,and he wears it."
Agriculture has in all ages been esteemed Ihe
true associate of nobility. Virgil wrote its praise
and the greatest statesman ol the Roman Em
pire made the following of the plough an indi
cation of his conscious dignity and an ex
ample of his most sterling virtue. Later, du
ring the middle ages, ihe possession ol land
was a necessary appendage of nobility. George
Washington was a farmer, and all the ex-Pre
sidents of the United States, with perhaps a
single exception, have found the honor of their
retirement in farming estates and their cultiva
lion.
Swedish Children?Mr. M'DonaU, in
bis travels through Sweden, says : "Young
children from the age of one to that of eight
een months are wrapped up in bandages,
like cylindrical wicker baskets, which arc
conlrived so as to keep their bodies straight
without interfering much with their growth
1 hey are suspended from pegs in the wall,
or laid in any convenient part of the room,
without much nicety, where they exist in
great silence and good humor. I have not
heard the cries of a child since J came to
Sweden."
Eastern Markets,' Julv 29.
Baltimore. Sales of Porto Rico sugar at
auction, 300 hhds., at $6 10 to $7 05; these
prices are an improvement. Small lots of fresh
ground flour sold at $5 50 to $5 62; receipts
very light. City mills held at $lj. Corn meal
dull at $3. Receipts of grain light. Wheat HE
to 130 ccuts, according to color. Corn 72 to
75 cents. Oats improving, at 50 to 53 cents.
Bacon is in fair request: shoulders 7J to 81 ;
?ides 9j to 10; hams, superior, 114 to 12J.
?Sales of 300 kegs of lard at 10. Whiskey 23
l to 26. Uuited Slates Treasury G's, 105]. Ohio
I Railroad shares, sales, 471. United States (5
per ceuts closed at 105} bid. Maryland 6'*,
I 89 bid. Baltimore 6's, 1890, 101; hid.
I Philadelphia.?No change in stocks. Sttlrj
! ?1 500 bales of cotlon at an improved rn'e.
Small sales of flour at |5 75 10 $5 SO. ( . rn
j meal $3 25. Supply of grain light. VVI:< ;it,
j 125, sales. Corn 73 to 75, no buyers. Otils
50 to 52. Rye 78. Whiskey 27.
Pittsburg.?Charming weather; wafer in
channel way 7 feet; business of all kinds dull;
flour wailing steamer; pricesof provisions have
advanced.
Acw York.?Stocks active. Ex-ehange on
London 5} fo |,rr crn(. premium. Supply
of flour diminishing: sales of 5,000 barrels at
$5 62 to $5 68, for (7enesee; at $5 37 to $5 50,
for Michigan; .. 1, 61 to $5 37, for Ohio; and
75 to $5 bU, lot southern brands. Corn meal,
sales at $3 75. Several thousand bushels of
wheat at 120 to 130. Large sales of corn at
62 to 68. Rye 78. Oats -19 to 52. Whiskey 26.
Provisions and groceries firm, tlry goods firmer.
MATCH.? MATt HES !?Ono hundred and
liftjr C* rose of and Donnelly friction
hea. Just rcccivcd and for solo at mnnufactu
rem prices, hy E. WHEELER,
July 27?3t Pcnn. avo., near 7th street.
NOTICE?The temporary partnership formed
between myself and John V. Shields is this day
dissolved. G. L.GILLCREST.
July 27?3t
THE PLUMBE NATIONAL DAGUEERIAN
GALLERY,
Conecrt Hall, Pcnn. nr., over ToSd's Hat Store.
TWO PATENTS G;i VNTED UNDER THE CIBEAT
SEAL OF TlIE UNITED STATES.
A WARDED THE GOLD and Silver Medal.,
Xm. Tour hr^t premiums, and two highest honors,
at the National, the Massachusetts, the New Vork
and the Pennsylvania exhibitions, for the m..sl s,.|en
did colored Daguerreotypes and best apparatus.
CJ" Portraits taken in sny weather, in the most
exquisite style.
Apparatus and Stock wholesale and rctail.
Instructions given in the art.
july 27?3m
)V?NT8 A LOT OF GROUND
h r ^^EAP PIUUE1?The subscriber
has divided his f,.rm slid laid oil'a tract ol'aliout '10
?crts into lot* of from one, two, four, and sh acres
each, which he wilt sell at low price, and on easy
terms, so that it may bo within tho means of any
person to purch.se one, and thereby to tecuro to
himself and family a homestead. These lots sre
handsomely ..tasted in a very healthy location, on
a public road, about 1J miles from the Navy Yard
Bridge, on the esut side of the Auacoatia river.
we" ""ited lor garden |>uri>o?ca or tho
cultivation of Iruit trees, and several excellent springs
of water are near to them, 'j here i? ala., rulHciei.t
wood on each of the lots to encloao them, and limbor
m abundance can be had in the neighbor ood to
erect any building at a very low price.
Those wishing to purchase, will Jo well to apply
soon, a. they ran have a choice of location. Ac. 1
IIOIMP 'PB dwelling!
HOUSE, with as much Isnd as may be desired, a<l
jotning the above lots, very han.'son.ely situated, and
wih a small expense could be converted into a
dwelling for two .mull families.
ror further particulars apply to
<J. A. SAGR,
july 31?tf ^ H0I>? Tavtr"? D
CITY LUNCH, "
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
Between fourteenth&fif iee nth
,V.7e ^ UP to-morrow in aoup.MeaV,
N. H. Families supplied at the .hortest nofM
from the Readiug UueUu.
ORIGIN
or THE
COLD WATER SYSTEM.
BWKTHKEN lit FAITH AND OTHERS
bear in mind that all, yea all, who put forth
a utluing healing band in this pat, th.s gb
riou" tins mighty and universal cause, will he
rewarded by H.m-wbose reward is of more
value than all worldly valuable th.ngs, verily,
is it, for woudrous are the worka of God.
He rn.li.th the Needle, point
Polo,-with not more certtunty, thai. He maketh
WATER,?point to the Temperance Goal. Dr.
Grecu. .
The cold water ?ystena, ibe remedy and the
I? Reading, 'twaa first brought U? tabu-By
her first made known to the people of Ameri
ca, and through them, to all the P??P^ ,he
world,?to all national?Yea verily, to all na
tions of the earth.?Let us be. if|
Truly, cold water is one of the giwe3i gins
God hath given to us, and if he was to with
hold it from the earth; if He ^?1a4.torwlthht0^
this liquor of life, this water of life, from the
world; all, yea, all of us would inatently per
ish, not a living creature, would be found oa
the face of the earth,?no! not one!
The cold water system?creating cold water
societiea,?setting in motion cold water
hath wrought wonders; for the tnom.n . m a
drinketh cold water, that moment refbrmauoa
begins, intemperance ends and tempetanct(be
gins. >Tis a law of nature-a law of God
which is above and goeth before the laws o
'"Wonderful; a cure for i.nte?Per*ac?T'ah'l5!
very cause of temperance itself; yea, and who a
have thought it, that, in the very capse of tem
perance, (in the element of water,) a remedy
has been found. A remedy, heretofore, never
made known toman; no! never! uaul made
known by Him. who knoweth all u?mg?
?' Wonderful, an scripture teacheth, are the
' ways of providence* surpassing the uiider
r standing of man." Reading, Pa., 1847.
THE COLD WATER MAN.
the following lines, inscribed as a memento
of esteem to Dr. Green,?The originator of the
Cold Water System as a remedy against in
temperance.
BV A LADY Of READ1NO.
Air?" wfuM Lang Syne "
The clement that sparkles bright
In pitcher, glass or can, '
The pure bright liquid God designed,
A bounteous gift to man.
Chorus?A bounteous gift to man,
A bounteous gitt to man,
The pure bright liquid God designed
A bounteous gift to man. '
The Thirsty earth drinks up the rainj
The flowers inhale the dew,
And the fragreut herb that health restores,
Cold water doth renew.
Chorxu?Cold water doth renew, &c., fee.
Tie cattle at their daily toll,
1 lemand no liquid fire :
And the bird that carols forth his note
No poisonous rum require. t.
C/ionu?No poisonous rum require, fcc.
The Mother, through her household call,
Calls not, for 'suraing fire
And the daughter, in her youthful heart,
1 ,oves not, her Lover's Ire.
Ohorttt-?l?oves not. her Lover's Ire, fcc.
Then why should man, the lord of all:
in air, on earth or sea :
Despise the drink that nature sends,
The sparkling, bright and free. *
Chorus?The sparkling, bright and free, fcp.
Then let the bowl be thrown afide :
With drunkard's ne'er be seen,
But choose the pure cold water plan,
l,ike Dr. Dank 1 Green.
Chorus?But choose the pure cold water plan,
But choose the pure uold water plan,
Like?
Doctor Daniel Green. [jy 29?It
THE PILES.
A CURE FOR LIFE SECURED.
Dr. UPHAIM'S Vegetable Electuary,
an internal remedy for Ike Piles,?prepared by
Dr. A. Upham, M. Dn a regular educated Physician
who boa devoted fifteen yean attention almost en
tirely to this disease.
The Electuary is a certain curt for the Piles. and
also for othor diseaaea of a similar nature, which ara
frequently found in conjunction with Plies, Rashes,
Inflammation of the Liver, and Spleen; fcflamma
lion, Soreness, and Ulceration of the Stomach, Bow
ols, Kidneys, and Bladder ; Inflammatory and Mer
curial Rheumatism; Imparity of Blood; Weakness
and Inflammation of the Spine.
THE VEGETABLE PILE ELECTUARY ia
the only really successful remedy for that dangerous
and distressing complaint, the PILES, over offered
to the American Public.
Mark thia: it is an INTERNAL REMEDY?
not an external application?and will cure any ca*a
of Piles, either Bleeding or Blind, Internal or Exter
nal; and probably the only thing that will. There
is no mistake about it. It ia a positive core1?speedy
and permanent. It ia also a convenient medicine U>
take, and improvea the general health in a'remarka
ble manner.
It is very mild in ita operation, and may be taken
i cases of the most acute inflammation, without
danger. All external applications are in the highest
degree disagreeable, inconvenient, and offensive ; and
from the very nature of the diaeaae, temporary in
their elFccla. Thia medciine attacka the disease at
its source, and REMOVING THE CAUSE, ren
ders the cure CERTAIN and PERMANENT.
The Electuary contains mineral medicine, no Al
oes, Cucocynlh, Gamboge, or other powerful and ir
ritating purgative. No fear of taking cold while unf
der its influence; no change m diet necessary. If
taken according to direction* 41 cure for life is guar
anteed.'
Sold wholeaale and retail by WYATT & KET
CHAM 1*1 Fulton at, New York. CHARLES
STOTT Washington, and by Druggists generally
throughout the United Statea. Price 01 a box.
Jan 13? 6mf
C^ h. Vaw Pattbn, m. o., Dentist, performs
forms all operations upon the teeth, gums and
mouth, with the greatest care and skill. Officc near
Browu's Hotel, and next door to Todd's Hat store.
A BEAUTIFUL BOOK We have just re
ceived one of the prettiest editions aver pub
lished of the Pilgrim's Progress?handsomely
bound, which we will sail very cheap. It is illus
trated with numerous fine wood-cuts. Call st the
Fountain Book Store.
U. WARD 6t SON. >
jan 16?iff
I^KituiNAHD K. Stuck, GROCER, Pennsyl
1 vania avenue, north side, between First and Se
cond streets, a few doors east ol the Fountain Build
ings, has always on hand a complete variety of family
groceries, which he ollfers on the most accommodating
terms. dec ly*
CARRIAGES, CARRIAGESt
THE subscriber rename his sincere
thanks U> hit friends and the public
generally for the paltoaags heretofore
extended to him, and haa the plssaurc to inform
them that ho haa just finished a splendid aaaortmcnt
of FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES ef every de
scription, which ba will sad on the most resso; able
terms for cash or approved paper. Hia astsl li?h
n-nt is two doora waat of his old stand, corner of
,ld suaet and Penney Wania avenoe, and opposite
tiadsby's New Hotel. Persona in want of carriaRes
will find it to their advantage to give me a call be
fore purcbaaing. Old carriage* repaired at the
shortest notice, or taken in exchange
fob 13?tf MICHAEL MeDBKMOTT.
SBowSTHMrT"
children's shoee, very cheap.