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THE
ADVERTISER
J. F. FOItD.
PHOmilTOR AMU PuSLIlHIB
TERMSi The AnviaTissa will beiuuedrer
larly every Saturday, at $2 50, in advance
' fo .T.rj instance, no luoicnpuon wiuoere
cieved for a leu period than nx months.
ADTtTiimNt will be charged attherateofi
onidolLAB persquare, I ten line orietsjior
the Antinsortion, two, flftj ceoti lor eaob
continuance. ' "
Announcing eandidateifor office ten forslate
and ne for I'Ouniy iDTHrmuijr iubutbuuo.
The CASH will be required for all Job work
when delivered -this rule will beitriotljr ob
erved. .
L.tten addressed to thu office on buainew, rnunt
be addreised to the Kubinher(,poMpaia;or mey
mieht not be attended to.
(H-The cah will be required for Advertue
-ni m innn i Dublithed.
ruk-PnlitiV.aladdre4tiei will be ch a reed as ad-
,rtUements, fof winch the caiti
will be required.
in advance
PLAYING OLD SOLDIER.
' We are I debted to the Fulton County Dern
ncrat, published in Johnston, N. Y , for the fol
lowing ludicrous account of a dialogue that re
cently took place in that village between a
JJurgnon and a Militia Man, who had become
much alarmed at the prospect of being craned
for the Mexican War, and winded therefore to
procure a certificate of inability to perform mil
itary duty.
The cream ofthejike is that the applicant
was a large athletic person, perfectly sound and
well, in every respect. He walked into the
Burgeon a onice with a downcast appearance,
and apparently ingreat,bodi'y distress, and then
commenced the following
DIALOGUE
Militia Man Well, Doctor, I've called to
see you, and 1 want to got a certificate to clear,
me from trainio'.
and can't do day', work. I work for boy's
wages. I can't do nothin' but little chores
about the bouse. I can't cradie nor any sir.h
hard work, and 1 think any man that's got the
consumption and can't do a day 'a work ahould'nt
go to war.
Soto. Tis a hard matter I know, but in
seasons of ' war in perilous emergencies, the
country expects every patriot to do bis duty.
Mil. Well, Doctor, I would-be Jintratt
patriot too if I was able, but I aint able. 1
could'nt stand the .wear and tear of, war, f .jt
ptctto drop off with the onsrmption one ef
these days. J can ft el rat liver is about pat r,
With it, and so what's the use to take me away
'ff to die amonc the wild Texicans.
among the wild Texicans
St'HO My friend. I'm reallv sorrv for vnn "
but are you laboring under the t fleets of con.
sumption
Mil. To be sure I am ( here he puts his hand
upon nts chest, and raises oni artificial cough,
tounlerfeitivg symptoms of great pain) just ex
amine me, Doctor ! if vou had half the d&iu I
suner, you'd give me a certificate quick.
Here the Surgeon avvroaehes the consumntive
'muma iwan ami examines aw q'xtJtions him,
on various points as jotiows :
Scbo. Well, sir, your pulse beats raoid. and
indicates a high fever.
Mil. Yes, sir, but taint half so high now as
us sometime. S imctimes I feel as hot as if I
was in a pot of bilin' water.
Subs. Hjw often are vou troubled with this
i...
cytT '
Mil More 6? lees" every day, ita a great
deal worse this hot weather, H ; then could
I stand it in Texico where they say you C2n
bake egg, and other victuals in the Sun, without
either kettle or water I would'nt go there, for
all the all the niggers and land to boot, because,
Doctor, I could'.it stand rt.
Svna. You eay your liver is nearly destroy
ed with consumption, what id the state of your
tnd let cm fight it out) Oh! oh I the very
thought breaki my heart. (Jo tiff I here 1 no,
shan t do it ! They may shoot, or hang, or burn
me but I'll be d-d it I go to to Trxiro. 1 aint
no coward, neither, but 1 couldn't stand the
hardship, the marrhm', the fightm', and so on
that's all. Now Doctor, do take pity on me,
and write me a short certificate. O.'i, do I'll
pay you well, Doctor, (puyiig bi hand in his
pocltety I've got lot r,f change, I'll give you
9i or 9 iu. come, Uoetor, come,
Svita.-Yon are cfrtaiu! an object of eyra
pathy, my friend, but I can't disobey my in.
ettuctions. Perhaps, friend if you cau't endure
the foct service you might join the cavairy, or
act as teamster for the baggage wagons. .
Mil Worse and worse 1 1 can't ride a horse
faster than a slow wa'k on account cf roj con
sumption, and I conldn'i drive a team on ac
count of my dizzy fits I mbht tumble effand
break my neck.
m Sueg. Really friend, you are In a drctdfu!
situation if your statement bo rorrec', and I
don't know but I ought to grant you a certiLcatc,
notwithstanding my instructions to the contrary.
Would you twear to the statement you lave
madotome?
Mil Yes sir, and more loo, what I tell vou
is as true as the Uoppel.
Suro Well I'll wait a few days to see if my
orders may not be couutennanded ;jrobab!y it
may not be necessary to. send off this regiment,
and if so I will then prant vcu a certificate
Call 8?ain next Saturday.
MiL Very well, if they only wait a few davs.
thank (Jod ! I'll be in my grave I'll be cut of
their reach in fpite of 'em aid then tht vcan't
;eriu' me off to lijlit the bloody savages of South
Ameriky.
ordered G-n. ,Vtt to procred to the seat of ' "P'rit devoted his sleepless energies-. thera
wr and take command of ths army, to nhich'"' ni)y whoawociate the memory of John
he aentedibut his dilatory movements (wh.ch P"' Jones with reckless oaring, sometimes dis.
--. ..,,,,. mi operation .gainst Mexico until ,fa7u m (jueiuonauie enterprise.-I'icjvnn.
. t vi ml iu urv9
his immediate departure. To ihis Gen.
rfpneu tnat he was-too old
Hcott
ine late oi raui Jones, living and dead, baa
been a strange and a hard one, and contains as
bowels !
Wit. Oh, dreadfully out of order, Doctor ; I
ae 10 lane two srua-hin' doses of salts every
day to keep me r g it, and every night when I
jr ujwn i to m nurriDie pain, t teel as tbnuirb
BoRflEON. Well, friend, what id thn mattfr'
MiL.-Why, sir, in the 6rst place. I'm deaf e", hAT.a?d f'L" We P'led ,h" ,op of me'
in my right ear, I can't hear a bit through it.- '!'' ?e! fT '13 mde l? .t0,th2r ,a!,J nc;yer Cet
I couldn't hear the noise of forty cannons on'nL- . ? midn8,,t'. Dictorl
u jL,iur : villi tifiii I unnvti uiii'.i .man... .tin .m
j v w. nnui iijiqcI J I OUUCI .
OUEG Anything wrong about your head.
Ail Oh ves. Doctor: niv head ini miwh
ueiier maa no head at all, . My brain seems to
r'it. , -f-nit
ful headache, and th-n agin eich dizsypts .
Why, Doctor, every moriun' when 1 ict un.
these dizzy spells come on. and I have to clinch
noia or the bed post, to keep from fallin' down, 1
stay in the bousa and never do nothia' till after
breakfast.
that side.
Kobg. Deafness is an nflliction, my friend,
but that alone will not shield you from military
dutv, in 'times of national peril but you can
liea-!- in the otner mrcan't yon .f - " 7 "
Mil. Not very well when 1 take cold it
sVIIpbii my head til's it p fiVh, and then
one ear ain't much better than t'other. Oh !
it's an awful fophn' to he deaf, and ought to
lear any rain from ttainin'.
Rcna Idoep'y ym?Vh!-e w'ili yo'i, sir, and
under ordinary circumstances I would be happy
fo grant your rcq-icst but thrs ar3 trying
limes times of danger and bloodshed, lie
are enerasred with Mexico on the south. Eng
land threatens to take part in the contest, and if
she does, we will be surrounded on all sides ny
enemies, and we shall witness the "inott terrible
struggle the world ever saw," and further, sir, I
have been instructed by the commanding Gene
ral not to grant certificates for slight causes
dnring th" continuanre of the war.
Mil Texico they'll not catc1! me in Tex
ico. I'll not go totha burnin' climate to be
murdered, and roasted to death by Spaniards
and bloody injune besides, d ieter, my consti
tution wouldu't stand tt. I'd die there in less
than a week. It's horrible to drag a man away
ciff to Texico to fight with niggers and Injuns,
especially a poor deaf feller like me. Go to
Texico ! no, by thunder. I won't I'il die fir-t.
Sues All the sound, able bodied men in this
regiment will soon be called upon to march to
Mexico; and snrely no patriot will refuse to de
fend bis country.
MlL.--Ab!e bodied men! yes, but I ain't able
bodied, as I said before, I'm deaf as a door nail
in one ear, and besides, Doctor, I've got a dread
ful lame foot, three yesre ago, I split my big
toe thro' and thro' and it's never been well
since, I have to wear a big boot on that foot
(you see,) and even now it sometimes gives me
geat distress. Oh, me ! what limes I
Euao. Then you are lame, are you 1
Mil Yes, Doctor, I've no rest day nor night
with that big toe and you know, Doctor, that
if I went id the array, and got in a battle, and
cur side got licked, and had to run ; why I
couldn't keep up with the rest on 'em on ac
count of this ere lame foot. I 'd surely be taken
prisoner, and then like enough they have an In
jun powow over me, and tie me to a etake and
roast me to death by inches, as they did John
Rogers. Oh, Doctor ! do give me a certificate ;
you know I ain't fit to make a warrior, and as
for going to Texico, I won't do it. Ho, by
blixem, 1 won't I
' Surg. You will be obliged to go if they call
upon you, otherwise they will hang you up or
hoot you as a traitor. I
Ma. Shoot me I I'd rather die here among
Christians and decent folks, than to be tortured
to death by them infarnal bloody Spaniards.
Oh ! oh I I think they might let poor deaf and
lame fellers like me stay at home.
Subg. Well, friend, I should be pleased to
comply with your request, but the General's or
den are imperative not to grant any certificates
unless the person applying has some better ex
cuse than you appear to have a deaf ear or a
lame toe ia a small matter in such times, and
, ill not clear you.
itfit Oh, Doctor! Ibainttold you half of
?7 ,di8?MI yet. That toe, and ear, aint noth
J tnil ere consumption (laying his hand on
1. 1 . j" na 'T'DJ to cough) and this cougn ;
0n I It distresses ttlA nirrM nH t:nr .nil IW.tOI
Mr. Cbvsd wriiinir from Brussels to the
Philadelphia Ledger, saye; j
"To 6how the state of the lower ciaeses in
Europe, I will as an instance iclecl Berlin lit
erary and scientific Berlin nat the quarter of
oi. uuee, iionaon, or the i auDourg St. Aoto.
nie, and St. M arced u, in Parii. The nonula
lion of that educated and scientific citv is. ac
cording to the last ren?ue, .452,000; 133,000
femalfs and 170,000 males, anions1 whom are
.Tuemutes ana iz,w) criminals, and
6,000 persons receiving public, charity, to the
amount ti 111,000 liix dollars. Berlin, it w
further ascertained, contains 5,000 waver.
having on an average, four children esch, surf
bread for their ramifies. This fuskts an sodi-
Br Mm t a . 1 B. " 1 u '
ffainst the Mexicans and leave an enemy in his 1 a' !nTWe . evrfe" 10 on9 ""
. rk-u.-- .roT.inni,jlot. Araonir the foremost ard mni j.u,.i u.
SClna mil hhlirn U - .t.. iu
: . ""is "en. rrpni'u iiibi ii rcierreo
to his personal et.emie', who, be apprehended,
would influence thu President and Secretary of
war to n.a prejudice. Tha President ihr
upon revoked the order instructing Scott to
take command of the invading army, thus leav
ing him at Washington to guard his rear. The
Gen. then addressed a letter to the President
eliciting the command, and laid before the
I resident his plan of operations after the 1st of
October; which he insists is as soon as volun
teers can be raised and nlaced fin I ha fprtnt id
of Mexico, and he recommends that those who
can reach there earlier be kept in their reppec-
m.o oioiuB.iiu urinej until eucrj time as it may
ne necessary for them to depart so as to reach
their destination on the frontier by the Is; of
October.
Gen. Scott has pronounced Gen. Gaines to
be insane, and said that he wou'd acquit Gen.
G of any cr;mo whatever on this ground. IVe
are disposed to believe that Gen. Scott must be
insane when we see him proposing to keep vol.
unteers w ho are enlisted far only twelve months,
nto the common treasury a soul n horn.
ic.as adventurous, as exhaustions of resources
as ever lived, sadlM, labor, and money to the
last dollar of his fortune. The onlv nji,.m.-
six months of that time drilling -Franklin Dem
SELP-MAD2 MEN SAM HOUSTON.
The many self-made men who, from the most
humble beginnings, have elevated themselves
to the highest rank, and arc now in Congress,
are cl)r&clerietic trs; in the history of cur
countrymen, and show how superior nature is
to artilicial embeliishrnent, and what persever
anceand iiidoainibly energy will finally effect.
'Look at this newspaper," said one senator
recently to another; see how that scamp abuse
tne."
" Well, the freedom of the press must be sus
tained. There is no 'divine right which ex
empts senators from its scrutiny." ,
"Very true; but the ungrateful hound of an
editor should never have attacked ma. Why,
sir, he came into our village a ragged fellow,
and I bought the cloth and made h
giad suit of clptbcs he ever wore,'
,"jne deviiyou did.'
Why, then, you area
k sanrl Art if mwA rftAI
that RnilrhAfn nlimafa wnnl'nt rrrofl
. - - - "-""HI U UllUIUtU Vl WKWW
witn my disease. He says it would kill me off
u . And besides Doctor, all tne
utigbbors know I'm a sick and weakly folier,
Sure. Dj you ever dream any during the
night ?
Mil Yes, I have frightful dreams. I see
devils and witches dincin' cotillions like all na
tur'j Oh, what droll capers they do cut up! I
e'pcMe these dreams are caus.d by my brain
bein' out of ordef.
Sceg No doubt of that, but as to your lungs,
you seem to be troubled with a bad ccugh, do
you throw up any matter 1
Mil. Yes, mora than a quart every day, it
sometimes almost strangiea me. Oil ! oh !
(raising a cough )
iSueg. Do you raise any blocd t
Mil Yes, a great deal.
Sues. Perhaps it proceeds from your nose,
if you are subject to bleeding at the nose.
Mil. No j no ; Doctor, my nose never bleed.'-,
this blood comes right straight up from my
liver, and it's as fretili as if it was taken from a
hog. 1 raise it by mouthfuls ; so you see Doc
tor, I can't stand it long at this ral and 'twould
be nonsense to send a dyin' man like me away
off to flight them savage Spaniard niggers. Ifl
could tight, Doctor, 1 would, I aint no coward
by natur'.
SuKO. Do you have any sweats or cold
chills I
Miv Yes, I have both, terrible spells I have
too. When 1 get up in the mornm' the bed
clothes are as wet as if they was soaked ia a
wash tub, and then agin, the cold chills come on,
and I feel as if I was ktvered aI ovf r with a coat
of ice. Oh, Doctor ! you don't know what a
sickly cretur 1 am ; if you did, who would'nt auk
no questions.
Subo. Your eye-sight is good, is it cot!
mil wot at all, Ooctor. I ra very near
sighted. When the sun shines it dazzles tax
eyes, and in cloudy weather I can't see from one
eua of the gun to the other, so you see I wou!d
be of oo kind of use in war. I'd be as likely to
shoot the stars as the Mexicans. Don't you
think so, Doctor 1
, iStjrg. Are any cf your bones dislocated !
Mil. Yes, sir, they are, there's bard'y a
sound bone in my body, the fore finger on my
ngiit nand is out of joint and very weak, so that
I can't ehoot olf a gun, and these fits I spoke of
are so orful bard that they have unjointed three
of my ribs, and then agin, 1 broke my breast
bones four years ago by fallin' eff a horse, in
three pieces, and, Doctor, my bones never heal
up when they break once. The night air is bad
for me, (nenr he coughed tremendously,) I never
go out in the night air. 1 don t get my feet
wet, it 1 did, my toe would swell up so big that
I couldn't get my boot on for a week. 1 baint
no appetite I can't eat nothin' but delicate
vitals, and furthermore, Doctor, I have a dread
ful pain across the kidneys and in the spine it
darts through my hull body like sharp arrows.
Seven years ago I took the fever and ague, and
it hangs on to me yet, and will till I die. Oh,
Doctor, I'm all pain and misery, from the top of
my brains to theeud of my toes, and - do you
think its right, Doctor, to send a poor, miserable,
half dead skeleton like me to fight the Mexi
cans; besides, Doctor, I'm a Whig this war is
agin my principles, the Lokics made
tional nuroher of 20.000 poorj besides 2,000
public pauper children end 2,1103 poor erphsns
10 De supported uy tne government. ziie otn-
ciaf statistics give thu following recapitulation:
10,000 prostitutes, 10,000,, sick in conse
quence of vice. 13.000 female servants. 2,
000 natural children (foundlings.) 12,000 crim
inals. 1,000 living in almshouses, 200 prison
ers of the police. G.COO receivers of public
alms 20,000 weavers and children 2,000 chari
ty children. 1,500J orphants. 0,000 poor
Bick in tho hospitals. 4,000 beggers 2,000
convicts of Slate prisoners euJ houses of cor
rection. Total 100,700 poor, akk, criminals
and debauched people in the most hteraVy, ed
ucnted and moral city in Geramny! The mod
ern Spartans (the Prusisiacej livs it appears, to
a very great ex'ent on black broth; but not ex
actly from choice! A lid. yet the proportion of
paupers in tiermany is ie tnao that of i'rance,
Italy, Iielgim, Holland or England! It is only
as one to SO; in England it is as 1:6 and in
Holland as 1:2:!! V
tihr,lh?w Cameyo ha a lawyrr."
cer in the service who showed the intuitive re
nius of a great chief, b not only was not pla
ced where he belonged.at the head of the navy
but was postponed in rank to a long string of
men who had no reputation and never acquired
any. Engaged in the most active and success,
ful service, fur seven years he not only did not
receive a dollar of pay, and no ratione, but be
was a.most the whole time in advance to Coo
gress for money paid out in repairing his shir
and reeding bis crews. r
From time to time he occupied himself In
giving to the Navy Department his views, lull of
sound sense and a comprehensive system of
the organ.xation of the N avy. But while time
has confirmed his views and led to their adon
tion, it was not till the world had forgotten who
was their owner.
Cut them . st heinous wrongs done to Paul
Jones is found in the popular notion of bischar-
auitr, wmcu deems w nave been borrowed
from the coarse slander of the British press, at
the time he heightened the Isles from tLir
propriety and put Brittannia in a paroxism of
terror and rage. For a half a century he exis.
ted in the popular mind as little better than a
successful ruffian, a big, ferocious eava-e. of
diabolical eye, whose voice in battle was that
of enraged tiger, whose soul rxulted in killine
met!, Hkipg ships and burning towns. Tha
friends, correspondent and companion of Frank,
lin a ruffian! The idolised hero cf the Court
of Vcreaila a savage! Never was there a more
rascally caricature. -Paul J:inea was a slender
man, delicately moulded and organized hand
some, courtly in manners, with a great love of
reined society and with qualities to adorn i',
given to wri'.mg poetry,, and as dieinguished
through lite for his humanity as his heroism;ind
if we consider that, excepting the lion cotiraga
and intuitive genius that God gav him, he
was in all respeors absolutely a self mads man,
the re finemeot of bis manners, (Be culti'vanon
ftf hia Alinft hia nrtinrifiun..n ' 1 ....... I.. J r
Jhii prufusaian. wUI putm trarce.'v , Uuu uud
1 lous than the successful aarieir or his action
-on, out WM one' . r :,h-; lit Lc?.n"if ' nrva rtor a
getting on the wotla. J wo. common. JrficVjTn S?, r . ! - l. aDm!ra u
IIMJlatl . n laMl... si.
J l ""uirofii tne Indian wari,
uo oesiaes mat honor. I bid fa r to bMnnm f ivr ui n. united a
- . j i. . . . w I snmnl hinrr mrma . IJh . a.
vuuiiuuii c;ruimaru; ana when J got backtoour r 8 B .meir nrst nava
From the N. O, Delta.
Texas. The scocner Fairy, Capt. Thorop
Son, arrived yesterday from Galverton, which
port she left on the 4;h inst, bringing us a few
days later news than was ptevtoufrly received.
The Galveston Weekly News of the ISih
ult, states, that the rftwrt in regard to the ta
king of the train of 100 wagons aud effects be
longing to German em'graots, who were on
their way from New Brunsftls to Perdinales,
by a party of Indian), is entirely unfounded, let
ters having been received from Houston, sta
ting that the whole party had arrived in safety
at Pordinalrs. Thvy were cultivating the
beautiful lands they found there, aud bad not
even seen an It it. an.
1 he above news is no doubt correct; it is
confirmed in the Galveston News of the 29th
ult. The name of the new town recently star
ted by the emigrants on the Pordiuales, is call
ed Fredericksburg.
The settlement is rapidly progressing, and
they appear to be highly delighted with the
great fertility of of the soil. The Houston Ad
vocate of the21s't ult., states that some four or
five discharged soldiers from the army, on their
way home, when about 75 miles from San An
tonio, were surprised by a party of Indians,and
stripped of every rag of clothing, but their lives
were fortunately saved by some American wag
oners.
We learn from Capt. Thompson, that on his
passage from this port to Galveston, about the
2lst ult, between the a. W. Pass and hip Isl.
and ISboais, he saw a large scooner, copper,
bottomed, carrying a heavy press of canvass.
She at first appeared to be making for Vermil
ion Bay, but soon bore directly far the Fairy
hoisted the American cnsirn, winch was an
swered, A heavy gale was blowing at the time
and and the stranger could not carry full sail.
She continued In pursuit several hours. The
Fairy, carrying every rag of canvas, gained on
her pursuer, and finally Ibst eight of her. ,
Geh. ScoTT.-The Correspondence between '
Gen. iSocu and the Secretary of War in regard
to his taking command of the army against Mex
ico, has beeu laid before the Senate is cornpll
ance with a resolution of that body. We have
not seen the whole correspondence, but under.
'stand that it shows that upon the breaking out
the war,! of ths war on the Rio Ufaot'e, the President
1 1 . - .. . . .
village, I got into so many scrapes and whip
P3Q so many leiiows that I wm ihmam
jail for sheriffs fees."
'How did you manage to get out of that dsf-
eulty?"
"Why, finally my brother naid tho rr.
iiiviiKu uie 10 Biutiy taw witn him."
"iou mane rapid prcgrcss.no doubil"
"Not very rapid. The difficult wa. th.r t
had never learnt to read; so I educated myself,
and studied law at the same time pot admit.
ted went farther west poa intn nr.irt
into the Legis ature zot into Concress and
re t'gnum, nere i am iu the senate. '
That senator is a ssnsible, well-informed,
intelligent citizen, fit for any station. Sam
Houston, Senator from Texas, is another of
those rough and remarkable gems like the
reeky and sterile surface of the Aileghantes, full
ct mineral riches beneath. Sam was original
ly a carpenter in Nashville-turned out the sha
vings from his plane and resolved tc go ahead
while making grooves arid mortices and nailing
up posts and sashes. lie became Governor of
Tennessee, fought as a common soldier in the
IndiHn wars, and secured by his courage and
perseverance, the liberty and independence of
Texas.
But to the people of the United Stales he i.
snething more.- He is their fi ,,.. M
hP.mni-B ihn ,.,!,. a. :v ""' ucro
7 . ; . i ueocrvea to be fion.
cred as the founder of our navy and the fount
of us Inepiration-the tutelar genius of our
wooden walla. He first showed . that success
was possible; and so unexpected and i.in
Wff was the proof, that all Eumna
the capture of eranis. as if ii hori ....
downail of an.empire. ft wa, jn (actt u,e birth
of a rival to the proud Mistress of the Ocean.
"There, said Gen. Jackson, having a map ef
Texas before him "There is the Colorado
there ia Bexar there's the Alamo? Now, if
the Mexicans separate their Lrces and come
down this pain, and Sam can catch 'em under
trie urow oi mat range oi nu:a, ne ii lica. em,
and take aanty Anny. you usee! '
Just as the old General predicted, so it tur
ned out at San Jacinto. The English would
have made Gen. Houston a duke for achieving
sucn a victory, vye see ma progress cl events
Gen. Houston is in the Senate.
One dark, stormy evening, some years ago, a
nuie auer lea time, we were coming down
Nassau street, and, on turning down Fulton,
came upon a tall athletic man, wrapped in a
blue cloak.
Who goes there!"
"A friend!" it was Sara Houston.
"I am going by invitation to a meeting of
clergymen, at the corner of Ann and Nassau
streets to make a speech about the best mode
of reforming the Indians. Come along Aajor.'
We did go, and I hoard a most able . and in
teresting discourse, showing hia familiarity with
the red men, and deprecating the course pur
sued to reform them, by giving them religion
first, and then education and industry. lie was
practical and convincing, out they did not car.
ry out his propositions. This is a dans of men
we find in our Senate men, not made off-hand
by a tailor, but fashioned by tature for perse.
verance, courage, and constancy .-A oA' Mts
PAUL JONES.
The Charleston Mercury, of a recent date.
contains the following vindication of the char
aeter of J'aul Jones, w men has suffered as much
from prejudices which foreign paragraphia
implanted in the mind of his own and succeed,
ing generations, as his private fortunes did from
tho disinterested quality oi his patriotism, in
Vote nteebs Disbanded Orders ho
sent to Gen. Taylor's army to have alj the vol
unteer? who have been enlisted for six monlha.
disbanded and sent to their homes imip.. m
re-enlist for one year. It must be remember.
ea tnat an the troops who went under Gen.
i syior s cahs, as well as those whrr went under
Gen. Gaines', were enlisted for six months.
We shall not be surprised if this order cau
ses the disbanding of a very large proportion of
""'piiie gone, many made arrangements
to be gone for six months, who cannot remain
ftota home twelve. Many went under tbe firm
conviction, that ihe war would not last even
three months ; and who would have gone uo
dor no consideration, if they had supposed that
a tardy, inactive policy was to nroirar.t th
indefinitely, and keep them idle on the frontier
instead of marching them at once into tbe heart
of Mexico. i ,
We think common fairness should have requi
red that something dtfinite as to the plan If a
campaign should have been made known before
tha volunteers were bound by their enlistment
A large proportion or them took arms only be-'
cause they hoped for vigorous proceedings, and
would disband io a moment if they find that
tardiuess and delay are to be the order of tha
times. Sentinel. s
. Manufacturers and the Wai -xTis roost
important public meeting since the proclama
tion of war assembled io tbe great manufactu
ring city of Lowell, Mass, on the 2d inst. Long
before the hour arrived for calling the meeting
to order, the City Hall was crowded. Cof.
Bancroft, the Mayor of the city, was appoin
ted President. Resolutions supporting the war,
in favor of raising $50,000 in Lowell for the use
of the Massachusetts volunteers, of thanks t
the army and navy for . their services on th
frontier, and complimentary to the sdministra,.
tion and both Houses of Congress fay their rjnaJ
nitnity, were adopted. The meeting adjourned!
with three cheers for Gen. Taylor, his eScer.
and soldiers, for their orient achievements on,
the Rio Grande, three for the military compa.
nies and the bands, P.nd three for the laftes.-
St Louts Repvbltran.
It seems that Madam rumor baa beeo rather
extravagant withregard to tbe arras, aumuni.
tion.&fi., ot the way to Santa Fe. A gntle
man wtio earoe down on the Pride of the West
inrornvs us, that a small quantity of powder
soitie ten kegs had been sent out to Gov. Ar.
rmjo, by his friend at Independence, Coh Sam
uel C, Owens and that this gave rise to th.
report which has caused so much excitement
A. In ii.. ....... : . . : J .... .i
. ucun, ii io mmm mai mere were not
our own country ths land for which his gal. , over a hsif doxen boxes.-f Louis Rtforttr,