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: i i i ! wriwiMi i urmtff i u.jiiiiiiin m i m , iiumii i M i iiii iitixiiuM1UML-iJ1Uj1jjljMalaMuM-j mam.i m mm, , iMJa ...rmnimnTinMimiii 11111 uijLMMM-imiMMBBMiiWMM.wMiiuMujLi-i i-j.jLmiMJWJijmJMM ! i NO XIV. WEEKLY JOURNAL. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY i WM. H. CHANDLER & CO. - V ' 'jr. t , ill - 4 , .FOiZ PRESIDENT: GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR, Of Louisiana. FOi? F7C.E PRESIDENT: . MILLARD FILLMORE, Of New York. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, NATHAN IS O XV LEY. WHIG ELECTORAL TICKET. FOR THE STATE AT LARGE : JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jefferson. GODLOVE S. ORTH, of Teppecanoe. DISTRICT ELECTORS: 1st Dist. Jons 1'iTcnEK, of Po?ey. 3d " John S. Davis, of Floyd. 3d Milto.v Gregg, of Denrborn. 4th " David P. Hom.oway, of Wayne, 5th " Tuomas D. Walpool, of Hancock. 6th Lovfjx H. Rousseau, of Greene, 7th " Edward W. McGuaghey, ot Park. 8th James F. Suit, of Ciinton. 9th " Daniel D. Pratt, ol Cms. 10th " David Kiluore, of Delaware. CITY OF EVASSVILLE! SXTURDAYrMdZXING, JULY- 22. . The News From France, We publish this rooming the details of the late outbreak in France, which will be read with interests by every American. Although we were prepared to hear that difficulties had occurred in the adoption of a, constitution, we are deeply pained to learn the severe loss of life, and that too w ithout a cause so far as we can dis cover. The whole difficulty was occasioned by a misunderstanding among the people, or rather a misrepresentation of a certain official's words by designing demagogues. What hand the Bonapartist had in the affair, if any, does not appear. The Nor;h American publishes the news and adds. The news from France falls upon the ear like the souud of a death-bell, tolling the bu rial of a thousand fond hopes and proud dreams of the progress ot human freedom. "WThat a piece of work is man!" "Noble in reason! infinite in faculties! in action, like, an angel! in apprehension, like a god!" And yet "eight or ten thousand men ' freemen breth- r?n Frenchmen lie dead in the streets of Faris, slain by each other's hands, after a four clays' battle, or massacre, about what? nothing! The republic secured it was four months old; the Constitution in the very course of being adopted and solemnly proclaimed by the National Assembly; liberty perfectly safe "liberty, equality, fraternity!" what was there to fight about or even for in Paris? In America, we cannot understand these things: we can easily conceive that parties should be formed in advocacy of the various socialistic theories which have found such favor in France; but we don't comprehend the necessity of quar relling about them of substituting barricades for arguments, and grape and conister ' for the Woodless superiority of the ballot-box. . What do we know and' appreciate; and feel is, that democratic liberty, in America, has flourished, for three quarters of a century in peace has flourished well better than it ever flourished before, in war, and even the imagination of civil conflict we look upon tvith a superstitious fi ar, while alwayslaboring to avert the reality, as the almost inevitable agent of national destruction . It is in vain for us, however, to speculate thas early, upon this awful calamity. We do not yet know, perhaps, all its causes; nor can we calculate all its consequences. All that is certain is, that it will revive the dying hopes of monarchs and monarchists, all over the world; and that, in the United Stales.it will cause universal surprise and mourning. ; In the midst of what is so distressing, there is,at least, this consolation, which is not a email one. The Republic of France has not fallen. It was the republic which contended in arms against some of her erring children, whom she has chastised with a terrible scveri ty, for what, it cannot be doubted, was a sedi tious assault. The republic survives. It only remains for us to lament the occurrence and dread the results of an event which under all the circumstances, cannot but be regarded as one equally sad, unnatural, and portentous. CoppEa Oke. The Buffalo Co;n. Adr. no tices the arrival of the Propeller Goliah with 3C2 tons copper from the Cliff mines and 11 tons from the North-western Mining company. There were 232 masses weighing from 2500 to 3800 lbs. each, of native copper. The min ing operation this season are represented as being very successful among those locations which have proued, of any value,; . , , CC?The Rochester Avierlcan says: "We learn that a boy nine years old was carried over Niagara Falls on the 9th inst. He was with bis father and mother on the bank, and getting into a boat was swept away and precipitated over the American fall. What will thu Ladies Say to It? The great anti-slavery conventio n, at Yvorcester, resolved that they "go for free lips." The Hero or San Jacinto? The Pennsvl vaniansays: Gen. Samuel Houston. This gallant sol dier, the hero of the brilliant victory of San Ja cinto, and now one of the Senators in Congress from the New State of Texas, has lately been doing yeoman's service in the cause of Democ racy in this State. The locofoco press throughout the country are greatly outraged whenever they hear of a Whig member of Congress making a political speech, and never fail to raiseagreat cryagainst such; but here is a locofoco U. S. Senator who has been travelling for the last three or four months, making political speeches, and"cfoi)! nothi?ig else,'' yet never a word is said against it by the locofoco papers. No; on the contra ry they pat such champions on the back, tell them to go it, and announce that they are do ing good service in the cause of their party. U is perfectly right for Benton, Allen, Foote, Bagby, Houston, Douglass, and. other locofo co members of Congress travel to all over, the country making political harrangues; but it is morally and outrageously wrong for a Whig member to accept an invitation to be present at and address a meeting of the people in favor of their principles and their candidate. Out on such snivelling, humbugging cant. The Louisville Courier is of opinion that the United States had better pay Houston eight dollars a day to stay out of the Senate than for any services he can render in it, and upon second thought we agree. He can do no harm to the cause of the Whigs by his noisy speeches, and in his place in the Senate . he might do great wrong to the coun'ry. Upon the whole we are content that he shall travel. (0Tbe Princeton Clarion, .speaking .of Daniel Webster says: "His personal influence may not be half so tremendous as his Federal doctrines." After that we must certainly set the Clarion down as one of the bright ones. He is a pret ty fellow, truly, to prate about "federal doc trines,"1 while supporting a rank federalist for the Presidency one of the black-cockade sort one who gloried in wearing . the badge of that party and in abusing Mr. Jefferson, until he found it convenient for the sake of office to cut the one and support the other. Federal ist Cass will not thank his party press for con tinually affording the Whigs the opportunity of casting his former opinions and practices in his teeth. The zeal which begins with hypocracy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays. Princeton Clarion. The people will see to it that they are not "betrayed" by Cass. He and his party are at tempting to deceive the people of th'i3 Union by the publication of four ot five editions of his life, which differ one from the other to suit the diilerent portions of tne country: But it wont all do. The North has cast him off for his "hypocrisy," and the West for his "treach ery," to her interest; and the South is well aware that if he will "deceive" one section he will "betray" all, and it drops him too. "Poor old C-ass let him die." The Drug Inspection Law. The N. York urnal of Commerce; in speaking of the late law passed by Congress in relation to the im portation of sophisticated drugs," tells the fol lowing story: . "A New York wholesale druggist sold a Te tai'er up town, some powdered cantharides, under the assurance of their being prime and pure. A few evenings afterwards, the drug gist called at the store of the apothecary for a blister plaster. "Are you certain of the good ness of the cantharides?" asked the druggist. "Uuqnestionably.v replied the apothecary, "for you assured me so yourself." "But," re turned th druggist, with some evident trepi dation, "this is for my sick daughter, at the point of death." The same paper says that only a short time ago, a scamp of a chemist in Philadelphia, put up a preparation of plaster of Paris, handsome ly colored and small phials, which he called Acetate of Morphine. We ' think that Con gress should now go a step further, and pro vide for the punishment of these domestic fruuds. . Ominous. Since the. Taylor nomination, the editor of the Hamilton, Ohio, Intelligencer, says: Our press and types can be bought, but we cannot.' Princeton Clarion. But vou can be bought, press and types, body and soul. Like your leader, office will puichase you or any of your dim. Yolunteers Yoting. The Louisville Cour ier of Wednesday says: "A vote taken among the volunteers of the 4th Ky., regiment that ar rived here yesterday morning on the steamer Archer resulted as foliows: Capt.' Lair's com pany Taylor GO, Cass 15; Capt. Owens", Taylor 52, Cass 9; Capt. Bartletl's, Taylor 32,Cass 33. This last company was recruited from the Lo cofoc6 counties of Henry and Trimbli, and when they started from Mexico, more than three-fourths of them were Democrats. Three officers of the 4tb regiment, heretofore well known as strong Democrats, always voting the Locofoco ticket, have openly avowed their determination to vote for Gen. Taylor. . Accommodating; The' authorities of Wash ington fixed ladles to the pumps in that city, forThe accommodation of the cold watermen who might be there on the 4th inst. fv-H"I nm n Wilier hill nnl an nlfva Wrilr. l - ... - . v... "'6 says Gen. Taylor. The people sav he's the right kind of a Whig for them; and that's suf ficient. He has no enemies to puni-h no friends to'reward, and the people. whose can didate he ia know that his administration will be the purest since the days cf Washington, hence the enthusiasm with which his name i;, greeted by the masses all over the country. EVANSVILLE, IND., THURSDAY JULY 27, 1848. , .Cass os Waters, Improvements. A co temporary offers the following plan for remov ing obstructions from our Western river's, har bors and lakes. He says he will, not take put a "copy right" for the plan, it is freely contrib uted to every friend of the West every man who desires our commercial interests protect ed to all who desire these sawyers, snags, and sand-bars removed, and who wish to let General "circumstances ' remain at his home in Michigan, instead of inviting him 'to attend' to the duties of President for the next four years. . The Cass moid of Removing Snags. Sawyers, Sand-Bars, and other obstructions from Western, Rivers, Lakes, and Harbors; il lustrated with cuts in a "Rough and Ready" manner, and published for the first tims : ' ' ' Detroit, May 29th, 1S47. .-t ii ZZ Z o IZZ sZi c Dear Sir : . lam obliged to you for gygaa m a l IB yonr kind attention in, transmitting ms an Z? Z? A , j N , D - invitation to attend the Convention on Inter- W.'W ,iii.4B;!!!,,iiaB!,,V wa nal improvements which will meet in Chi . cago in July. Circumstances, however, will put it out of my power to be present at i n n n h si o ii u u s si ta u ra n u n n n i that time. I am, dear sir, respectfully yours, H7TiiiK3rafflriTW""riiinnr iTt LEW. CASS. W. L. Whiting, Esq., ' ; Here's the "CIRCUMSTANCES ' "Resolved, That the constitution does not confer upon the General Government the pow er to commence and carry on a general system of internal improvement." Democratic Plat form." . "I have carefully read the resolutions of the Democratic National Convention, laying down the platform of our political faith, and I adhere to them as firmly as I approve them cordially." Lewis Cass. Gen.- Cass Extra Pat. Not content with his liberal sarary. not satisfied with double pay, this servant of the "dear people," this Locofo co Presidential candidate, trumps up extra charges pleads for extra allowances year af ter year, and finally during the reign of favor itism, absquatulation and defalcation, under Jackson and Yan Buren, General Cass obtains the allowance of his extra bills, which previ ous Administrations had refused. During'tTris period of twenty-nine years, he drew from the. public Treasury two hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars, being nearly eight thousand dol lars per year, and over twenty dollars per day, Sundays "not excepted." And about tevenly five tlwusand dollars of this, is extra allow ances of extra charges, made by his political associates, years after the pretended services were rendered for which the extra pay was de manded. The records also show that Gen. Taylor, du ring forty years of hard, perilous, and constant services, has never received one cent extra, (X3N0R I;5 THERE ONE CENT EXTRA CHARGED IN the accounts of Zachary Taylor. No honest man can hesitate which c f the two to choose. Tayor and the volunteers. luvery re turned volunteer gives a vote' for "old Zack," and tbe"L6cos cannot hefp if. Their enthirsi asm cannot be restrained." The N. 0. Bulle tin states that on a recent occasion Gen: Tay lor went to the counting house of his factors, on Gravier street, and some volunteers who were passing, having got an inkling he was there, kept keeping about the building unti their numbers increased to upwards of one hun dred, and finally they caught a glimpse of him through one of the open windows of the office which was on the upper floor, "there he is!" 'there's the old man!' shouted out fifty voices alonce, and taking time to give but one tremen dous cheer'.they allm ute a rush for the door. and went clattering and shouting up stairs like a parcel of wild Indians, surrounding him in an instant, and crowding up tne wnote spare space between the desks, counters and cotton sample tables, every one pushing forward to get a grip of his hand, and almost shook the arm from off his shoulder. After each and every one of them had obtained a look and" a word, they came tumbling out of the house, with their mouths extended from ear to ear, and giving one more loud and hearty cheer, each wended on his way, in the best possible good humor. Are such men fresh from the fields of victor- going to vote for Cass, the "hero of Hull's surrender?" Never! never! Gen. Kearny Rdjected. Brig. Gen. Kear ny, nominated as major general by brevet, wa3 rejected by the Senate on Saturday. This is the gallant officer who achieved the conquest of Mexico and California, and the onjy general officer who encountered the foe in personal combat, in which he was severely wounded with a lance. The dispute with Col. Fremont isdoubtless the cause of his rejection. Gev Taylor and the Whig Press of New Jebsev. The Rahway Advocate, an earnest advecate for the nomination cf Mr. Clay, rais es the Whig banner inscribed with the names of Taylor and Fillmore. The Jersey Whig press is now unanimous. C3We learn from the Baltimore Sun that Brevet Brig. Gen. Whitney has been'appoint ed to fill the place of Geneial Cushing the court of Inquiry on tiitcharges preferred against Gen. Scott by Gen. Pillow. CQ-We copyXmm. the Louisville Journal of Thursday the foflownig beautiful transaction of the locofoco candidate, for. the Presidency, and call the attention of the Ireader to It is no doubt every word truth: ' A Financial Operation ofGes. Cass Ex traordinary Developemext Look at thi3. In 1S36, Lewis Cass Henry Hubbatd, Fran cis O.J. Smith Francis Markoe.'jr., and Ram say Mcjlenry, all then at Washington city, formed themselves into an association u.ider the title of the "Western Land Association'' for the purpose, o.f. speculating iii Western lands. One of the Association certificates of stock has been sent to us. It is as fol- ovs:, Western land association1. Be it known, that Lewis Cass, Henry Hub bard, Francis 0. J. Smith, Frances Markoe, ir. and Ramsay Mcllenry, on the 28th clay of April, A.'D. 1836, entered into an association. with the combined capital of 8220,000. for the purchase and sale of Public Lands, in certain Western States and Territoriesof the Union ac cording tojeertain articles of agreement bear ing said date, and signed by said parties; and ttiat is proprietor of thousand dollars of said capital . whereof the aggregate sum gpecifled jn the un derwritten ceriificate bus been paid; the said thousand dollars being a portion of the capital originally assigned to said in said articles of agreement, and subject to a deduction of one third part of the profits accru ing thereon, and the payment of a proportional fraction of the necewhary expenses of the con stituted Agent of said dissociation, and to no ether deduction. Be it known, also, that said stock is transfer able in whole.or in partsnot less than one thou sand dollars,by anassignment of this certificate by said or his Attorney, and record thereof being made by the Secretary in the transler book ot.the Association. Washington City, 1S36. President. Secretary. This Association for purposes of land specu lation was formed when Lewis Cass was Secre tary of War under Mr. Yan Buren. Casshim self, the chief of the speculators, paid in 820, 000, and others paid in 8100,000, making a to tal of $120,000. The contemplated capital of 8220,000 was not obraiued. The plan of the association was to enter lands in the West and hold them up for a vast increase of value. CassJ being Secretary of War' and, in virtue of his official station, having important' advantages over private iudividuals, the Association gave him thc'cohtrol of the whole business. He ap pointed the agent to make entries of land se lecting his own agent and agreeing to be respon sible for his acts. Theagent went to the West and made purchases, all under Cass's direction' and the latter, directly, and through his agent continued to have the management of the lands. After . several years delay, the members of the Association begau ,o have strong suspicions that there was little or no probability of their ever getting anything for their money. . All their applications to Cass for information were ofnoaveil. Nothing satisfactory could be learned. After a consultation with each other they appointed the Hon, Henry Hubbard, one of their number, and then or since U. S. Sena tor from New Hampshire, to look after their interests and ascertain if Cass and his agent had dealt by them fairly and honestly. Mr. Hubbard opened a correspondence with Cass, but, failing in every effort to get any satisfac tion from him, hh wrote a final letter inform ing the Aon. Secretary of War that he was a rascal, and the Hon. Secretary was quiet and silent under the charge. Air. Hubbard chorged him with swindling his associates, and the Hon. Secretary, instead of exhibiting resent ment or attempting to prove bis innocence admitted by his silence the justice of ihe accu sation, and even to thisday the Associa tion has not been able to get any ting out of him. - We are authorised to make this statement by a member of the Association, a gentleman who paid $10,000 into the hands of Cass or his agent and has never received anything weat ever in considerrtion of his money. Our in formant requests us, if the villainy is denied, to call on the Hon. Henry Habbard for a statement of the truth to demand of him a publication of the letters that passed between him and Cass particularly the letter to the Hon. Secretary of War, charging him with villainy in all its forms. We shall enclose a copy of this paper to Gen. Cass, and, if he hrs anything to say, let him speak out or authortze some of his organs to speak out for him. Mr. Hubbard, the pub lic are aware, is a prominent Locofoco and was the man that nominated Mr. Polk in the Balti more convention four years ago. , It was bad enough in all conscience for the head of the War Department to become a member of an association for speculating in lands to use the advantages of his high office one of the very highest in the Government, for monopolising lands, through the use of an im mense capital, to the great disadvantage - and detriment of the poor emigrant. Such an op eration on the part of a Secretary of War would have been in the extremest degree censurable even if there had been nothing dishonest or un fair in his treatment of his associates; but if it is a fact, as charged, that, to the monstrous im propriety and shamelessness of entering into Sucba speculation,, the Secretary aided the crime of cheating Pr overreaching his asso ciates, he -.deserves &u immortality of infa my. ; .- , : : : . , . The man who, as Secretary of Waf, specu lated so extensively in WTestern lands, and who by that and other means, has accumulated pro perty to the amount of a million of dollars, is now a candidate for the Presidency. If, with a high office and a salary of SG.000, he could operate thus largely as a land-speculator, what might he not be expected to do with a still higher office and a salary "of $23,000? If no j whoie.House of Representatives is to be elect sense of property could restrain him from con- i eel. A President and Yice President are to be necting himself with a secret 'nssociation for 'elected. Why do we. not say. Protection to the monopoly of public lands when he . was a American Labor is also to be elected? If the member of the Cabinet, what could be relied on i people will it, they can have it. - , to retain him from a simUjir proceeding if he were President? - '; : ' - - ' and Democrats', oil I decide for yourselves in i your own honest minds if this land-speculating Secretary of War, whether guilty or not guilty of the crime, laid to his charge by the Hon. Henry Hubbard and his other associates, of de frauding and swindling them, is the man whom you will elevate to the Presidency. CCjpThe following excellent article, which we copy from -the North American, is recom mended to the careful perusal of our readers: The Free Tuadb Humbug. When is this miserable illusion of Free Trade to end? It is true that England when her harvest failed, and she could not supply her wants from the Baltic and the Black Sea did temporarily op en her ports to our American flour and corn. But was that free trade? No! No sooner did that season of scarcity pass by, than her wise Sir Robert, forget ting all the sycophancy ofoitr Sir Robert, applied the screw 8gain revived his fa mom sliding scale and so effectually! drove ourbreadstuffs from her market, that the export of 1S47 was not one-tenth part of the: amount shipped by us. in '46 and now, in '46 ! threatens to shrink to one tythe of last yeor'sj tenth; in spite of our daft' Sir Robert's prom- j ised grand total for the millenium of nine hundred millions per annum. j Again Great Britain condescends to admit cur cotton duty free, while declaring "that to put arms in the hands of the Southern slave is a fair business transaction" (see Frazer's Mag.) but she does this only when our better fabrics threaten to drive her coarse goods out of many foreign markets, protesting all the time, most virtuously against using the "blood stained products of the guilty South" and spending millions for the avowed purpose "of crushing the Southern staple" by and through the "free labor produce" of her ryot slaves of Ilindostan, or her convict slaves of New Souih Wales. True, she will receive our spirits and tobacco at 1200 percent, duty. This is Free Trade with a vengranrc! But as if to put our supple Sir Robert to shame, the true Sir Robert issued an order "commanding the Lord Cham berlain to announce to the ladies who shall attend the d rawing room, and shall be honored with an invitation to Buckingham Talare, that her Majesty, ever desirous, of giving encourage ment to the trade and industry of the United Kingdom, and particularly at this t'nneof com mercial depression would wish to see them in dresses of British manufacture." . As the Queen had expressed ths. same wish the previous month, this reiteration can only be regarded in the light of a royal order. We can hardly be lieve that a Democratic American Ambassador though representing aBritish free-trade admin istration at Washington, could tamely submit to his lady appearing at court, clad in British costume, at H. B. Majesty's command. As lit tle can we conceive one of our Eastern mer chants after paying a discriminating duty of 300 per cent, on his cottons at Calcutta rel ishing such a comment on our Sir Robeit's doc trine of free trade as to find his wife excluded from court, unless rustling in British silks on compulsion. Yet such; after ruthlessly sacrifi cing the iron, woolen, and cotton manufac tures of our country on the altar of this Mo loch of free-trade, robbing oi r operatives of bread, and our farmers of the British markets promised to them by elevating Polk and Dal las to power, are the sad truths forced upon us as bitter comments on the celebrated Kane letter, which will, ere long shroud the furna ces, forges and factories of Pennsylvania. We commend our readers to an attentive perusal of Mr. Nile's speech in the United Stales Sen ate, in which the speaker, warning his brother Locofocos of the coming evils of the British Tariff, admits that the balance of trade against us in 1843 will be at lea st"84 2,000,000. But Mr. Niles warns in vain a Senate so hopeless ly inimical to home industry and national in dependence. There, party rules.and the coun try is forgoten Locofocoism has a poweiful majority, and the republic none; here we find may politicians, few statesmen lost g-eat men and perverted patriots of the Goldsmith school, who hold the interests of faction supe rior even to those of mankind a Senate with an impracticable Locofoco free trade ma jority! With no hope, then, of relief from our own Governmen wiih no demand abroad for our breadstuffs with our ports filled with the em igrating labor of Europe, anxicusfor employ ment it requires no prophet to fortell the re sult. Our manufactories closed our specie drained to pay for foreign fabrics inferior to our own our farmers without a foreign mar ket, and their home market paralyzed in the midst of a teeming harvest our . honest and high-minded merchants ruined by theviilanies of foreign agents (who deem ingenious frauds on the custom houses of all rival manufactur nations perfectly iunoccnt, if necessary to their success) ruin and repudiation must again stalk through otir.land. Shall we, then tame ly submit to witness these inevitable conse quences of the iniquitous policy of Polk, Dal las and Walker? The remedy is in our own hands. Popular calamity and popular pros perity are alike ordained, in America, by the popular plaesure. If the people of the Uniied Stales choose, they can at once esca pe all these thickening evils cf free trade. If they will it, they can, in a moment, change they can ut terly annihilate the. free trade majority in the Senate. Our great periodical, quadrennial rev olution of the Presidential election is now coming on. A number of new Senators are do horhnscn bv Legislatures not vet elected. A . Letter from Gen. Taylor. The following is the first lett we have sen from Gen. Taylor since his nomination by the Philadelphia con- veirkni. Ii was wriftn in acknowledgment of a ratification meeting, heldut Raleigh, North Carolina : . Baton Rouge, La., June 24, 184S. Sir: 1 have the honor to at knowledge the receipt of a copy of the resolutions adopted, on iheilth inst., by a meeting of my fellow-citizens of Raleigh ratifying my nomination for the Presidency by the National Whig Conven tion. I big that you will convey to my fellow-citizens of Ralejh my grateful acknowledgments for this distinguished mark of their confidence, and assure them that I shall feel proud of the support of men w ho are governed by such a spir it of moderation in their political opinions as that manifested in the resolutions belore me. For yourself, sir, be pleased to accept the assurance of my high esteem and kindest wishes. . 1 am, sir, your obedient servant, Z. TAYLOR. Hon. J. Iredell, Raleigh. N. C. Gen. Tatloe. It is said that every mail that arrives at Baton Rong brings from fifty to a hundred letters addressed to Gen. Taylor, and that on not one in twenty is the postage paid by those sending them. This imposes an onerous tax not only on the pockets but on the time of Gen. Taylor, who cannot find the leis ure to read oii3 half he receives, and he has been compelled to adopt the rule to take no letter from the post-office that is not prepaid. A correspondent writing from Baton Rouge to the Picayune says: I haveon.more than one occasion written to you relative to the enormous tax made, upon Gen. Taylor's time and pocket by letter wri ters. You will scarcely believe that more than fifty will often arrive, in one mail, yet this is often the case. In fact a sufficient number of letters arrrive to occupy his whole time, if he bhould undertake to read them all. But the evil does not stop here; it appears that there are individuals, who either from obtucity of intellect or from a vicious heart, will enclose to Gen. Taylor scraps of newspapers, often containing articles reflecting upon his politics, or asking him impertinent questions, or inqui ring after matters and things that he can know nothing of. Under these circumstances he has for some time past refused to take from the of fice any letter not post-paid, or directed in a hand he recognized: and the consequence is that a great number of letters collected here; were, of the 1st of June, forwarded to Washington. Among these forwarded letters, if it his not miscarried, that Mr. Morehead'slong exprcted letter was included, at least such is my con viction, and the only way that I can account for Gen. Taylor not having been since inform ed of the honor conferred upon him by that portion of hisf.einds that composed the Phila delphia Convention. ' If such is the case, it certainly affords a new and highly interesting phase of the unambiti ous character of Gen. Taylor. Unmoved amidst the honors a grateful country showers upon him, he never thinks of himself and lets escape for a time from his hands an annouioca- for which politicians struggle tnrougn a long mentsenes of years to attain, often sacrificing in the vain pursuit not only health, good fame. but often Four Faces. The Washington coriespon dent of the N. Y. Exnrcss, under date of 8lh inst., writes: I have seen no less than five lives of Cass intended for different meridians. There were two editions issued in March last, and two in June the two in March were, in character, unlike those of June, and the two of June like those of March, obviously designed for a Sou thern and Northern market. All attempts at explanation only make the matter worse. Here are the books and here are alterations free trade opinions are inserted in one edition, and omitted in the other the letter to JNi cholson, against the "Wilmot Proviso," inser ted in one, and opinionsupon the French rev olution taking its place in the other. Instead of being Janus faced, therefore, General Cass has four faces, one for each of the different points of the compas-3. He' looks North and West in favor of internal improvements. Southward, fie endorses Mr. Polk's notes against thein. and approves of all that he has done. He has two faces upon the Wrilmot Proviso, two upon the tariff, two upon the French Ring and the Revolution, and his friends have tdiown him up in so many ways, that he has more lives than a cat. TJie last I have seen is in German, and this is expressly intended by its omissions and additions to mislead and deceive that large portion of our adopted citizens, who dwell among us. These little tricks of little, politicians, can hardly have any other effect, now that they are ex posed, then to recoil upon those who make use of them for party success. E. B. A True Democrat. Geo. Seitzingcr, Esq., an old Democrat of Barry township, Schuyl k ill iounty,Pa. nt the following to the Potts ville celebration of the 4th July: "My first President was Thomas Jefferson, and my last James K. Polk. I was in favor of the. tariff of 1812. when Polk recommended the tariff of 18-46, and Dallas gave his casting vote in favor of it. 1 then recommended Scott or Taylor for the next Presidency, and as soon as old Rough and Ready gave the first blow to the Mexicans, I told my neighbors that Scott must give way to Taylor this time, and I feel confident, if we live, tosee Gen. Taylor in the Presidential chair on the 4th of March next. 1 have supported Jefferson and all the Demo cratic Presidents from his time down and I consider Gen. Taylor a democrat of the old Jtffersoniaa school." A Gem Passage. Inn letter written in 13S3, Lamartine thus beautifully and religiously explains his motives for entering political life:- . -' ' '' "When the Divine Judge shall summon us to appear before, our conscience at the end of our brief journey here below, our modesty, our weakness -. ill not be an excuse for our inac tion. It will be of no avail to reply, we we're nothing, we could do nothing, we were but afc e grain' of sand. Ha will say to us, I placed before you, in ynur'day, the two scales of a beam, by which the destiny of a human race was weighed: in the ona was good,-and i.n the ether was evil. You were but arain of sanJ, no doubt, but who told that thai grain of sand would not have caused the balance to incline on my tide? You have intelligence to see, a conscionce to tkcide, and you should have placedthis grainof sand in one of the oth er; you did neither.. Let the wind drift it away; it has not been of any use to you or your brethren." VOL 23 . From the Madison! Bnnns -. t ' GOV. W:HITCOMB"S SPEECHES. . The protralrteit cle'elarriatiori of MrrDisiWiy" at the democratic-mass meeting pn Friday af ternoon, left to the Governor of Indiana but a small fragment of the afternoon for the dis charge of his stump speaking" functions. He had but a few moments to speak. -The steam cars had just brought bun to that party gather ing, and the steamboat was even then near at hand that was to hurry our Governor taanoth er party rally at Rising Sun. Would that the magnetic telegraph could snatch up his excel-, lency bodily, and flash him abont the Stale, dropping him down wherever a few doz ens of his locofoco brethren, meet in coun cil. ' . ... But in the brief time allowed to his Excel lency; he felt it to be at once his privilege and his duty, as Governor of the State to welcome home the soldiers of the 4th Regjmeut Indiana Volunteers (a few of tthom, attracted by the bell and bellow of the citv marshal, were in attendance.) and to thank them for redeeming the State from the reproach cast upon the 2nd regiment. How singularly inappropriate this' sounds coming from the mouth of Gov. Wbitcomb. Does he recollect anything about a secret con- 1 clave of military politicians that met in the i"( spring of 1846, in Kent's back room in New, b?' Albany, the object of which was to secure io,.,:. the Locofocos any glory that the Indiana troops 'VI lght win in the Mexican wan A conclave of politico-miliiary jugglers, devisingbow they" j" might best toss locofocos into the saddles ofjG,. the field offices. Aiul does he recollect that lie, Gov. Jim. Wbitcomb was the master spirit of that conclave? And does he remember the' thanks he received from the volunteer privates for thus making them and their cause subser- '.; vient to his base party intrigue? Does he re--member how curses hissed along the lines as he passed, and how his excellency was threat- ened by them with immersion in the Ohio riv- er for his conduct in that particular?' Hit had occurred to him that the election of Colonel , Bowles was a part of the same system of in trigue, and that if party politics had been ban ished from the camp, Indiana might have worn the greenest laurelsof that campaign he migh t with more propriety have thanked the 4th regi ment for pouring out their blood to redeem the character of theState from the consequences of his political intrigues. Governor Wbitcomb told the volunteers that in his opinion it was the .knapsack and not the epaulet that won the battle; that Gen. Taylor with his $7,000 a year got too much Buena Vista glory, at the expense of the vol-, unteer with his $7 a month. The dead bodies of the soldiers went into the ditch covered with blood, while the fama of the General, went to the skies covered with glory. The whole of this portion of the Gov's, was an art ful attempt to excite the jealousy and preju dice of the volunteers against Gen. Taylor. . It breathed a spirit of insubordination that would soon prove fatal to all military enter prise. Who docs not know that without the" knapsack the epaulet is powerless in battle? And even that old fool, (as Mr. Disney" dis cribed him) General Taylor, would perhapsad mit that with nothing but his epaulets and "old whitey," he could not well have won the field of Buena Vista. And on the other Jianct , nobody knows better than the volunteers prea ent on that occasion, how vitally essential ara ' mUltii- discipline and subordination to suc cess ia military operations. " They would call that man a fool, be he Governor or private cit izen, that would turn loose each knapsack in an army of 5,000 in battle, to fight "on its own hook." For the safety of their own Urea and for the glory of their country's arms they1 would demand. military subordination, and a General competent to lead them. And when they have such a General as the one Whitcomb defames, they will follow him in war and love him in peace. The volunteers for whose benefit that hum bug speech was intended, seemed to, appreci- ate the singularity of the Speaker's position. They saw the Governor of the Commonwealth coming out from the capitol and running round the State in the capacity of a cunning dema gogue and partisan leader. They saw the Ex oflicio commander in chief of the militia of In diana endeavoring to prejudice the soldier against the general, and insidiously preaching doctrines of insubordination. They testified the extent of the obligations they fell under to his Excellency, by huzzaing for Taylor, and shouting "mileage." The Governor like the person ftial preceded" him, was of opinion that Gen. Taylor was toe ignorant to be fit for the Presidency, and he repeated the assertion that the Whig party was destitute of political principles. Ail the ques tions growing out of the war, the veto power that it is said he has exercised a little him self and all the other, questions upon which the opinions of the. parties are divided, receiv-r ed the go-by. But the boat coming in sight the Governor cut short his speech and hurried off to preach democracy td the citizens of Ohio county. He bolted through the crowd to the river with the Courier fluttering at his heels and this closed the great democratic inasi meeting. ' ' On Saturday evening his Excellency return ed from Rising Sua where in the meantime bae had let off a stump speech, and again the -stentorian bellowing of our city marshal announc ed that caily candle light his Excellency would hustle dowii a little more locofoco thunder from a beef bench in the lower market house. The volunteers were particularly in vited to be present,. .At the appointed bout, tolerably large number of Democrats and au equally large number of Whigs were in atten dance. - - " Again His Excellency felt it his duty as chiel magistrate of theState to bid the returned Volunteers welcome home. That it was be lieved he had done on Friday. But a fond mother will kiss the returned wanderer once; and not content with that she will fly back and repeat the embrace of maternal affection. Oh how the Governor "loved those brave boys he had parted with at New Albany," and he' must repeat the words of Welcome. When" such irrepressible love for the Volunteers was; swelling up from the Governor's affectionate heart, bow cruel it was iu those soldiers to suspect that His Excellency was; trying to humbug them, and to vociferate such words as "mileage , "soft soap," "that's a durn'd lie," ' "huzza for Taylor," &c. This speech was but a dish-water dilution of his speech of Friday, and fell far short' of that effort in every respect.. His manifest object in these speeches is to poison, tie minds of the troops on their first landing, that , tiiey, may' carry to their respective homes over the State reports and prejudices unfavorable -.to General Taylor. On Friday this demagogue policy was somewhat concealed by captivating eloquence; -but his speech on Saturday night was by many democrats acknowledged to be a -failnre, It was a labored, up-hill performance. 1 02 charm of eloquence had vanished, and a most con temptible humbuggery, that even Locofoco ' modesty would wish to keep concealed, stood forth ia "model artist" nudity, - A LOOKER-ON. . ! it i t i! 4 i II f ! 4 i ! ? j i i i I I S 1 ? i ' m I i i , L i j i -I fi - t ri r