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| TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 3, 1847.
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Agents for the Gazette & Union.
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Job Printing, and to receipt for and forward the same
o us; Isaac L. Forsox, Esq. Exeter,
: Gzuorer A. Bexverr, Esq. Newmarket,
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BexNiNg: W .Saxsorx, Concord:.
Ernrain. FsBBETTS; Nosthwoed,
B, A. Marpex, Windham. :
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Taking thé other Track.
Now that the special congressional elections are over
in this State, and .the opposition have succeeded in
choosing their eandidates in the vacant districts through
& union with abolitionism, the whig branch of the al
iled army begin to look ahead to the Presidency. In
their anxiety to acquire temporary ascendency in the
next Congress they have been entirely unscrupulous as
to the means used. Hence we find them conducting
their congressional elections in Virginia and ether
soutliernstates with Gen. Taylor’s name for the presi
dency nailed at their mast head, while at the North
their whole effort has been to effect a coalition with
Abolitionism. Here the “Wilmot Proviso” has been the
great cry for the last six months with the whigs, under
which they have joined hands with the “Liberty party.”
But now that they have attained their end, so far as
to elect Wilson and Tuck to Congress, it is at last dis
covered that this Wilmot proviso is “no great shakes ”
after all. Itis found that even the Wilmot proviso
will not prevent the adrhission of new slave states, be
cause, although one Congress may vote to receive new
territory with the restriction that slavery shall not ex
ist therein, the next Congress tan constitutionally e
rect the same territory into a slave state and repeal
the proviso. N
This is an opinion which has frequently been advan
ced by democrats in different sections of the Union, but
it has not been until very recently adopted by Northern
Whigs.. The reason is manifest. The Wilmot provi
so hias been “ a good enough Morgan ” for the federal
ists in New England, to conciliate Abolitionism, and,
in this State, to carry the late special Congressional
elactions with. This being done, the presidential elec-’
tion next comes on the carpet. The whigs must have
the aid of -the South to carry it. Consequently we find
their leading prints repudiating the Wilmot provise,
and recommending “ no more territory ” as a fiew ral
lying cry which will *“ be supported by all Southern whigs.”
‘Witness the following, which we cut from the Boston
Atlas of July 28:° :
“WiLmor Proviso.—We fear thers are-some of our
friends in the North who view in-a- false light, and’at
tach an undue value to, what is generally Known as the
“Wilmot groviso.’ Many seem to suppose that-it is the
only available means of keeping in check thie progress
of slavery, and the farther extent of slave territory: In
this we think they allow themselves to be deceived..
The Wilmot proviso, to have any value---to be of any
intrinsic meaning, of necessity, involves -the addition
of territory. Of course we must have new territory to
give to it an'y vaiue whatever. If we have no more
territory, it follows of necessity, that there is nothing
for it to apply to, for we can have no new slave territo
ry if we have no new territory at all.
“ So, too, we fear some of our fricnds allow themsel
ves to be deceived as to the binding and abiding force
of this-provise, even if it be adopted by both Houses of
€ongress. It may pass one Congress and the territory
be thus admitted, and, after all, the proviso may be
vepealed by the succeeding Congress, and slavery es
tablished in the new territory thus acquired, and thus
we may have a virtual and actual spread of slavery,
and increase of slave territory, by the very means of,
and under the cover of the Wilmot proviso itself'!
*‘ Now, all this may be guarded against and prevent
éd in one way, and only one way—and that is to have
no new territory at all. Then, and then only, shall we
be sure to have no new slave territory! Let the cr{'
go forth, xo MORE TERRITORY! It is a cry that will
unite the entire Whig party, from Maine to Louisiana.
No new territory, no dismemberment of Mexico ! I¥p~
on this the whole Whig party will be sure to unite, for
such is already the ground taken by Southern Whigs.
It is higher, broader, and nobler ground than that occu
pied by the Wilmot proviso. It more surely secures
us agzinst the spread of slavery. It can be maintained
if'the Whigs are but true to themselves throughont
the Unien, and it will more surely keep out slavery
and slave territory, than any method that can be de-
This was proposed by Senator Berrien of Georgia,
in the Senute last winter, as a substitute for the three
million bill. It was supported then and would be again
by all the Southern Whigs, would, no doubt, unite the
entire Whig vete of the land.”
03~ The New York Herald is surprised that the con- {
struction of the new War Steamers should have been
ordered at Kittery, and enquires---“ Where is Kittery?”
If the editor will take & trip this way we will soon
show him. The “New Hampshire Navy Yard,” which
ex-Governor Celby spoke of in his first and last mes
sa3:, is situated in Kittery. It is acknowledged to be
the best loeated yard in the Union by all who visit it. It
is situated on the eastern Bank of the Piscataqua, oppo
site Portsmouth, and in and around it are built better
ships tham camw be constructed’ ir amy other section of
the Union---ser we are assured by New York and Phila
delphia ship-masters who come here to superintend the
building of vessels: The harbor of Portsmonth and
Kittery, also, is one that always remains open, when
vessels are prevented from entering New York and
Boston by the ice. ) Y
03 The Journal appears te'be well advised i rela
tion to certain movements in the army which do net
always find their way into the puwblic prints. It has
always been prompt to chronicle the American losses,
but not so ready to notice accessions. In publishing
_ the following paragraph it seems for once to have de
parted from its usual course :
“LatesT NEws »RoM THE ARrMY.—Capt. Rowe’s
eompa:ly, near Vera Cruz, at the latest dates, had just
received a recruit who had not yet signed his name on
the roll, though he had been in the army from his birth.
He and his mamma are both doing as well as could be
expected. "—Journal, July 31. l
A Forcep Rerracrion.—The Journal of week be
fore last said, in relation to the Dry Dock :-
SN Secteurrdy of the Navy, by their advice Plessrs,
Polk and Clifford’s,] has decided that not a dollar shall
be spent here this year, if ever!”
The Journal of last week, driven to the confessional
by the Sace Democrat, says 3
“ There is little or no doubt that a Dock will ultimate
ly be built here—and the site might be prepared this
year under the above decisions. ”
.- We shall wait anxiously until next Saturday to see
what new “ Roorback ” the Journal will invent, to be
subsequently retracted in the Journal, after due exposure
- g7~ The federal Balimore Patriot, from which
the Journal copies abusive falsehoods of Messrs. Polk
and Clifford, calls Mr. Amos Tuck “ & Jocofoco abolition
" i
- @3 The report that Mr. Webster was ‘‘gored by a
hull” turne out to be a hoax. A Boston paper says he
. Ware Dmwwer ar Hawover.--The “whigs of
d&w}‘ : gos course the federal students
n Dartmouth .fiutmm“ifimof
e recent victories by our [ther] fiends in
]‘A ,‘, w i \w © di . » ne 0-
' ceed ”“"‘j’ in the Coneerd Statesman. Vg;xy
“PERsoNAL VERACITY.”---Under this head the edi
tor of the Journal devotes a column to our benefit. It
must make even his own political triends laugh to hear
the Whining tone in which our neighbor now acknowl
edges the mis-statements for which we took him to
task a fortnight ago. He admits that he altered and
garbled his own published return of the Congress vote
in this district last March—-which was done in order to
make it appear that there was a gain, at the late elec
tion of 34 for the allies in Portsmouth, when in fact
there was a net gain of 56 for Mr. Jenness. He admits
his mis-statement relative to the alleged secret circala
tion of the democratic handbills, and now acknowled
ges that they were publicly posted, as we directed they
should be. He admits, also, that he grossly misrepre
sented the private conversation between himself and us
relative to the fgderal clerk in the post-office. But all
these admissions are made with a very bad grace, and
with apparent unwillingness. Mr. Brewster says:
. “The editor of the Gazette has been brought up
in the Concord school, and will have to enjoy a
residence of some months among us, before he will
learw that the- Concord system of calling all who
happen:todiffér in: pelitical opinions knaves and li
ars, dbes not down Here, without evidence to
substantiate &Z charges. Even Joel C. Virgin,
who began his career with personal vituperation,
learned this, and his manners began to g: far in
advance of his morals before he left Portsmouth.”
Will the Journal please to point out the place where
we have called “all who happen to differ in political
opinions knaves and liars, without evidence to sub
stantiate the charge ¥’ Our education “in the Con
cord school” has taught us at least to speak the truth
boldly and directly to the point---not sneakingly insin
uating and hypocritically leaving our readers to infer
falsehoods which we dare not assert in direct terms.
We shall indeed “have to enjoy a residence of some
months” in Portsmouth, before we shall consent to
take lessons from the Journal and adopt its “own pe
caliar and beautiful style.” And if we should ever
have occasion to go to school for the purpose of mend
ing our manners as an editor, we are not so clear, pro
viding we are reduced to the alternative of choosing
between the two, that we should not select “Joel C.
Virgin” for a master as soon, or even sooner, than the
editor of the Journal. -
0= The Journal feels itself compelled to retract, at
least in part, its indecent attack upon Mr. Attorney
General Clifford. and President Polk, relative to the
Dry Dock. It acknowledges that it has condemned Mr.
Clifford without even reading his letter, as follows :
“If we had seen it [the letter] before, we should have
modified some of our opinions and expressions. But
it is not too late for us to do justice to the Attorney
General.”
What shall be said of the partizan malignity which
would induce an editor to adopt the course pursued by
the Journal in relation to this m#ter? It is enough
for the Mexican federalists to know that the Adminis
tration has decided upon a particular -measure to call
down upon it anathemas by the wholesale. Such has
been their course in relation to the war and every mat
ter connected with it. Again and again have their
falsehoods been exposed---again and again have they
invented new ones. What a contemptible faction !.
THE Wauics or GEORGIA AND THE WiLmoT Pro
viso.—We recently gave (says the Boston Post) the
resolution of denunciation of the Wilmot proviso adop
ted by the whigs. of Georgia in state conventicn. We
give below a resolution of a county convention, which
after presenting the name of General Taylor for the
Presidency,.speaks to the same purport :
“ Resolved, That we do most heartily accord with
the action of the whig state convention on the Wil
mot proviso, and believe it to be unjust, ungenerous
unwise and unconstitutional, calculated to stir up
sectional hostilities and embitter one section of the
Union against the other, and that while we hold in
ulter abhorrence its end and aim, we condemn and
despise its base and deluded projectors.”
05 The Journal still insists, in the face and eyes of
figures and common sense, that the allies made a net
gain of 34 in Portsmouth at the late election. In order
to make out a seemingly plausible case, it puts the vote
of Goodwin and Tuck, cast last March, together, pla
cing against it the combined vote of, “ Jenness and all
others.” Now-it is evident to any school-boy, that 37
votes cast for ‘ all others” counted just as much to
wards defeating Mr. Jenness, as 37 for Amos Tuck or
387 for Ichabod Goodwin. Conscquently they should
be reckoned against Jenness, instead of for him. Thus
the fallacy of the Journal’s reasoning, as well as its
gross unfairness, is Jaid bare. We repeat that the ma
jority against Mr. Jenness last March was 143, while
on the Bth of July it was only 87—showing a clear net
gain for Mr. Jenness of 56. .The majority against Jen
ness in March, in the whole district, was 1596, towards
neutralizing which his gain in Portsmouth contributed
just 56 votes. -
0™ According to the New Hampshire Statesman
the dinner table on the occasion of the President’s late
visit to Concord was provided with five kinds of wine,
viz :—“ champagne, claret, old madeira, old sherry and
Sicily madeira.” As Gen. James Wilson was one of
the committee of arrangements, we have no doubt that
these wines were selected with great care and judg
ment—the General being a good judge of the article.
The editor of the Statesman is evidently shocked ihat
nothing stronger than wine should have been used.—
He would seem to be partial to the description of li
quors formerly used when he acted as Secretary of
the “ Dinner at Hook's, ” such as “ rum, gin, brandy,
whiskey, ” &e.
Mr. Wentworth, of the Chicago Democrat, says of
the New Hampshire election—“ Thus the New Hamp
shire delegation will be tied in the next Congress.—
Make Tom Ritchie the exponent of democracy, and
keep him warring on-the Wilmot proviso much longer,
‘and where will our party be?’— Boston Courier. ‘
;- 'Tom Ritchie’s “warring on the Wilmot proviso’ had
as little to dorwith the New Hampshire election, as had
the fact that “Long John” confdn’t obtain just the of- “
fice he desired from. the Administration. It must bew‘
réfreshing to John, after being called by the federalists i
soomany scurvy names, to have such papers as the
Boston Courier dignify him with the title of ** Mister. »
How MarrEßs STAND.—The Philadelphia Even
ing Bulletin publishes the following extract of a letter
from a gentleman of that city, who is now with the ar
my in Mexico :
‘Now every port along the coast is in our power. In
most of them we have a naval officer, Governor, and
~one or two small vessels io look out for the place. We
‘have taken nearly every larfe gun in the whole of Mex-.
ico, and thousands of small arms. Not a point on the
coast is left for a pound of powder to be got through
into the interior. The whole revenue is in our hango.
The manufactories of the country cannot be carried on
but with our cotton , which, paying us a large duty as
it goes in, cannot be turned into goods to compete with
our manufactured goods—so they must stop.’
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The democratic whigs of Maine had 8 meeting at
Augusta, 4 few days ‘since, and nom:utedm&on
Taylor for the Prugd’oncy. ‘The Whig State Con
vention declined to lct&onmthe subject, and this
meeting was comrd ounger portion of
the convention. It is said the h’;drn'&ora' ally
time of it. “ Democratic W{l‘l N woufl not
bouus:amglflpoflion of the whigs were to as
sume name of “Loco Focos. "—Newburyport
Advertiser.
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FuseraL CEREMONIES IN KENTUCKY.—A¢
Frankfort, on Tuesday, fifteen to twenty thousand
Emm assembled to g:y honor to_the remains of
entucky’s departed heroes, who fell at Buena Vis
ta. The oration of Mr. Breckenridge is hifihly
spoken of. Annfi:n chief mourners were Hen
ry C’l‘z;Mrs Mcßee, wife of the deceased colonel,
g’dg Vaughan, wife of the mm Ijutant.
b Ay e
From the Saco Democrat, July 27.
Mr. Clifiord and the Dry Dool':. ‘
The Portsmouth Journal oflast Saturday contains
an attack upon the Attorney General, in connex
ion with the Dr: Doi:kguést_ibii‘;-' which, for mein-:
ness, malice an? want of truth, exceeds anything
we have seen for a long time in the Lfe.der%‘
Mr. Clifford is represented as “ vetoing the Dock:
at Kittery,” and setting aside, on the most frivolous
pretext, the appropriation for its construction. = An
attempt is thus made to demofi. his reputation.a--
mong the “workingmen of Kittery and Eli
But we have no fear for Mr. C’s good name when
subject to such dastardly attacks—attacks which are
a disgrace even to the federal sheet which makes
thera—and which are barefaced lies, with scarcely
a particle of truth intermixed. 24 e
We are happy to have it in our Eower to set the
workingmen right on this subject, by laying béfore |
them the whole truth and nothinéehut _the truth.
It will be seen that the Attorney General came to
the only conclusion which the law would allow,
and that so far from deciding ‘that not a dollar
shall be spent this year if ever,” as the Journal af
firms, he recommends the spending of the wholé
appropriation ($50,000) -in preparation for the
construction: of the Dock. - M. C’s decision-is sim*
ply this—that the Secretary, unless specially au:.
thorized, has not power to make @ contract invol
ving a larger expenditure of motié‘f than Congress.
has made appropriation for. And who does not;
see the justice and reasonableness of such a decis=
ion. IfJ it were otherwise, the Secretary, in expen
ding an appropriation of $50,000, might, by con
tract, bimg the Government to expend a million
more. Mr C. decides that he can spend the amourit
appropriated, and this he recommends him to do—
what more can even his federal abusers ask ? "
Attorney General’s Office, 12th July, 18417. 1
Smr: I hag the honor to receive your commuti
‘cation of the Bth inst., requesting my opinion wheth-"
er the Secretary of the Navy has authority, by law
upon the statement of facts therein contained, to,
enter into a contract for the construction of certain
floating dry docks, specified in the act of Congress
approved 3d March, 1847.
By the aforesaid act of Congress, entitled ¢An
‘Act making appropriations for the naval service for
the year ending the 30th June, 1848,” the Secre
tary of the Navy is “directed to cause to be con
structed at each of the navy yards at Kittery, Phil
adelphia, and Pensacola, a floating dry dock for
ships-of-the-line, with basin and rail-ways at Phila
delphia, and reference thereto at the other plac es,
on such plan as may be preferred by the Secretary
of the Navy; the said dock at Pensacola to be com-.
pleted with all possible despatch; and the sum of
fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to
wards said dock at Kittery, fifty thousand dollars |
towards said dock at Philadelphia, and two hundred |
and fifty thousand dollars towards said dock at
Pensacola, out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.” 3
It appears from the statement of facts in your
letter, t?xat such measures have been adopted as
were deemed best calculated to elicit the necessary
information to enable the department, in pursuance
of the directions of said act, to make a selection of
the preferable plan for the construction of the said
docks. It turns out, however, upon investigation,
that the choice is limited to two patented inventions
—neither of which can be adopted without infrin
ging the rights vested in the patentees, unless a
satisfactory arrangement can be made for their use.
It furtber appears that the patentees have each
respectively declined to sell or grant to the United
States authority to use their patent rights, or to
permit their use, except by contract made with
them for the construction of the works. Competi- |
tion of course is excluded, and the prices proposed
by the patentees exceed the amount of the appro
priation in each case. e ,
The single question propounded to me, on this
statement of facts is, whether the Secretary of the-
Navy is authorized to contract for the works at
a price exceeding the appropriations made by Con:
gress ?
If the appropriations were adequate to the com’
gletion of the work at.either place, no doubt could
e entertained of the authority of the department
to contract for its construction. Confining my o
pinion, however, to the statement of facts on which |
118 requested, it is very clear that no such author:
ity exists. The case, as stated in your letter, is
brought directly within the prohibition of the sixth®
section of the act of Congress of the Ist of May,
1820, which provides that “no contract shall hereaf:
ter be made by the Secretary of State, or of the
Treasury, or of the D.prtn en's of War, or of the
Navy, except under a law authorizing the same, or,
under an appropriation ade%mte to its fulfilment. ”
It is not pretended that the act making the ap
propriations contains any words authorizinf a cons
tract for the construction of the works ; and as the
amount appropriated is confessedly inadequate to
the fulfilment of the econtracts, ify any should be
made, it is manifest that the authority does not ex-’
ist. The prohibition is too explicit and comprehen
sive to be overcome by any rule of construction.
known to the law. : A
Whenever Congress has intended a departure
from the salutary rule contained in the act of 1820,
the authority to contract, it would seem, has been
conferred by express words. Several cases might
be referred to, in confirmation of this remark.—
Take, for example, the acts of the 14th Aprily
1822, (5 Statutes at Large 427.) In that case, the
Secretary of the Navy was authorized ¢ to enter in
to contract with Robert L. Stevens for the construc
tion of a war steamer,” though the appropriation
made at the time was clearly insufficient to com
plete the work. The authority to contract being
expressly conferred, the law of 1820 could not ap
ply. So, again, in the naval appropriation act of
the 10th of August, 1846: ¢ The President is au
thorized to construct by contract any vessel or
steamer for the public service, when, in his opin
ion, the same can be done with equal efficiency and
on terms more economical than in the present navy
yards.” The act providing for the guilding and
equipment of four naval steamers, approved 8d
March, 1847, affords the most ample proof that the
last Congress concurred in this view of the subject..
The second section of that act makes it the duty of
the Secretary of the Navy to accept the proposals
of E. K. Collins, and to contract with him and his
associates for the faithful fulfilment of the stipula
tions therein contained. Other examples migl:t be
cited to illustrate the point; but.it is deemed und
necessary, as ‘those already given, when takenin’
connexion with the express language of the act of’
1820, apf)ear to be conclusive. JRE e
.Doubtless it is very desirable that the works;
should progress immediately, if it be practieabld
without a violation of law. The intention of Con¢
gress in this respect is very clearly indicated in the'
act making the appropriations. As one mode 6f
avoiding the present embarrassment, allow me to
suggest that the amount appropriated may be ex
pended, if necessary for that ‘})uri)ose, in preparing
the sites, or in purchasing and collecting the mate
rials, with a view to the completion og the works.
under the future direction of Congress. The ob
ject of the law of 1820 was to prohibit the execu
tive department from involving the government in
contracts for the pa({ment of money beyond the
amount appropriated by the law-making power.{
No one can doubt the authority of the department
to expend the amount set apart by Congress for the ‘
urpose specified in the appropriation act. It must, ‘
Eowever,ge expended in pursuance of the direc- i
tions of law, and without committing the public
faith beyond the amount already sanctioned by:
s g:ve the honor to be, rea&eou' fully sir, your obe
dient servant, - NATHAN C’LIEIIOBD |
- Hon. Joun Y. Masox, Secretary of the Navy.
Goop Spuxk.~—Professor Risley, who is now in
Italy, says that recently when he was iri Venice, an A-
M:L n captain and an Englishman met at dimsds‘
“ You are an American, sir ?” said thoE;glhhn-."‘ |
reckon I am,” returned the cc,Puin. “ You have “the
name of being good warriors ¥’ “ Yes,” said the Yan
kee, “we shoot pretty well.” “ But how is it you are
anxious to nake peace with Mexico ? this does not ap
pear much like spunk ?” ~
Yankee—You are an Englishman 7’ s
et A b ol St A soB
| an , 1 don't know what our ve of
fered to do with Mexico; b, stranger, I'l jest telt
[xcmfi%wmma’:&.,.m
| 'flzl'.l ol ibee ol ogl ot Ldth A
table in an yproar of lawghter. .. .|1 *’“l
From the Coos Democrat.
. Representation of Gosport.
. The Statesman denounces as-a ‘gross outrage’ the
the law authorizing Gospert to' send a Repre
sentative. The Portsmouth Jourmal says it is
a * bare faced party measure.” It further says :—
«With the same progrlety the citizens of Noble’s
Island in our river, (which contains about as many
voters as _Gosport,) might be separated from our
town, and allowed a regresentative. So might sev
[eral other islands. Then Christian Shore might
‘be set off, and Lon? Lane also—nor should Safia
‘more Creek be neglected—-each of these appenda
ges to Portsmouth might be spared, and yet have
lfif a dozen representatives to our town besides
the six or e;fh.t from the new districts. And in
‘ this way a House of Representatives of a thousand
'members could easily be made up in our State.”
} In the cases compared by the .?ournal there is all
the difference in the world. The inhabitants of
Noble’s island and all the other “appendages to
Portsmouth” named by it, have the same right of
l.u'fl'rag'e now, as the editor of that paper. sl‘hey
lfielon‘g to Portsmouth, and vote there. On the
other hand, Gosport isan incorporated town, cut
‘off about the time of our annual election, in most
eases by rough wpather, from all communication
~with: the shore. It is classed with no town for the
choice of a representative: It can be-classed with
‘none. It was before the passage of the late law,
the only place in the Stafe, whose inhabitants, hav
ing the legal qualifications of voters, could not vote
-somewhere in the choice of Representatives.
- It is for this very class of cases that the constitu
‘tion intended to provide, when it authorized the
Legislature to extend the right of Representation
to places not having the requisite number of polls,
to send a representative to the general court, which
may be so situated as to render the classing there
of with any other town, parish or place very incon
wenient.”
This is the precise state of the facts with regard
to Gosport. The law, allowing it in accordance
with its request, the right of representation, is in
accordance therefore, with both the letter and spir
it of the Constitution. The acts, which the Journ
al supposed might be done with the “ same propri
ety” would be in violation of the same instru
ment. The places it refers to are actually parts of
a town, and if they were not, the classing thereof
with the town of Portsmouth would not be incon
venient. The argument of the Journal therefore
is that the Constitution may be violated, or its re
quirements complied with, with precisely the “same
propriety !”
Buat both papers and all the whig papers charge
‘that the sole object of the democrats in passing the
law, was the securing of anothér democratic repre
sentative! What they charge as the sole motive:
of the democrats, was their only ground of opposi
tion. It was because it was likely to elect a demo
crat, that the whigs trampled upon the clear Con
stitutional rights of Gosport a year ago, and refused
either to class its voters, or authorize them to send
a Representative or in any way to recognize their
rights as citizens of this State. In doing this they
violated all precedent and acted in gross opposition
to justice, and the spirit of the Constitution. We
say they violated all precedent—and we defy anv
man to point us to an instance, where under simi
lar circumstances, a request like that of Gosport
has been refused. No such instances can be found.
The whig papers denounce its peo‘ile as an am phi
bious race—as a parcel of poor fishermen, and un
der cover of these scurrile attacks, the whig legisla
ture of 1846, doomed them so far as they were a
ble to do it, to perpetunal disfranchisement. And
this they did because they suspected that a majori
ty of these same people were guilty of democracy !
We take pride in the fact, however much the New
Hampshire Statesman, and other whig papers may
abuse the vocation of these men, that their honest
hearts are wedded to our principles, and that they
desire to do something to sustain and defend them.
There was one of old, whose followers we believe
both of these whig editors profess to be, who made
poor fishermen his companions, and the first teach
ers among men of the great truths he came to pro
mulgate. To him, it mattered not that the humble
pursuits of honest labor, were sneered at then by
the Scribes and Pharisees of a proud and heartless’
creed, as they are now by the Scribes and Phari
sees of a heartless political faith. -}
Tae River Axp Harßor CoNVENTION, at
Chicago, about which so much has bean said of late,
is over. It appears to have been a very large and
respectable gathering. Delegates from eighteen
states were in attendance. The proceedings so far
as we have seen, are little tainted with partisan
views; and the resolutions themselves, with some
amendments, might suit even a southern politician.
When analyzed they amount to about this, that it
is proper for government to make constitutional
improvements. No one has ever denied this. But
the difficulty has been that in the general scramble
for plunder every point where a dozen houses had
been built upon a lake or river, was in for ten or
fifteen thousand dollars ; while national works were
almost wholly discarded. For instance, the same
congress which passed the improvement law vetoed
by §lr Polk, twice voted down appropriations to
improve the Mississippi rapids. They unhesitating
ly gave $75,000 to build a harbor at St. Louis, but
not a dollar to improve the river navigation for a
thousand miles above that place. In like manner
the appropriation to the St. Clair flats bore no pro
portion to those for local harbors on the lakes. It
must not be forgotten thatin the general grab of
the log rolling system, national improvements are
rarely remem%)ered, and then are made secondary
to the interests of speculators. If the people want
improvements they should look well to the kinds
for which donations are asked, before objecting to
an executive veto. A president who would not ve
to a bill which gave millions of dollars merely to
advance the interests of a set of speculators, would
deserve impeachment.— Wisconsin Argus.
Erections.—Congressional elections are yet to
be held in the following states, viz :—Kentucky,
Indiana, Alabama, and ?owa, on the first Monday
in August; in North Carolina and Tennessee on
‘the Thursday following ; in Maryland, October 6th ,
‘and in Mississippi and Louisiana, Monday, Novem
‘ber Ist. The erections in these states will complete
‘the members to the next congress.
‘l - Louisiana.—ln the 4th congress district the dem
ocrats have renominated Isaac E. Morse, present
Emember.
’b Indiana—At the democratic convention in Har
.mony, sixth congress district, Dr. John W. Davis,
late speaker, formerly declined, and Dr. David M
E‘Dobson was then nominated by 62 votes to'll for
‘John R. Jones: George W. Carr having with
‘drawn, Dr. Dobson is the only candidate of the
'democrats, and will doubtless be elected, It is
pleasant to record these proofs of union and har
mony. ;
Maine.—The wbif state convention met at Au
gusta and nominated David Bronson for governor,
the gentleman who was defeated last year. Among
the resolves passed was one recommending a nation
al whig convention to nominate president and vice
president. '
Tae ReveENueE.—The Washington Union of
Friday night contains a letter from Mr. Walker,
Secretary of the Treasury, in which he states that
the fi“’ reccipts from customs from first of De
cember 1846, to temth of July, 1847, under the
tariff of 1846, compared with the same period of
the previous year under the tariff of 1842, exhibits
an ncrease of the tariff of 1846, of $1,400,000.—
This is exclusive of the duties accrued on goods in
warehouses under the new warehousing law, which
is- nearly half- a million, and will mafie the total
augmentation of duties accrued during the first sev
en months and ten days of the tariff of 1846, com
pared with the same time under the tariff of 1842,
about one million and a half of dollars. .
NEwSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS.—The law which
formerly allowed postmasters to receive subscrip
tions for néwspaferfl, and forward the money to
publishers free of expense, was repealed at the last
session of confgres’s. The repeal was to take effect
on the first of July, butthe postmaster general has
extended the time when it &‘:u; come info opera
tion to the Ist.of August next; after which pay
ments efnhmmm.h forwarded through
the post-office, to the proprietors of the re-
NewsparEr EstaßrLisaMENTS.—ln Europe, all the ]
leading newspaper establishments are owned by joint
stock companies, and the sale of the stock in market,
is as common as that of banks or railroads. In Lonu
don, out of twenty-three mewspaper associations, there
is but one that is under par, the balance selling at an
adwauce of from fifty to four hundred per cent on the
amount paid in. TKG ital -of' the London Globe is
sloo,ooo,—that “of thecq"ilmes,f the same." Each of
those papers employ some twenty-five writers at high
salaries, pay stamp duties, government charges on every
advertisement, &c., and divide some seventy per cent.
on the original investments. In Franee, the establish
ment of newspapers is by similar means. But there,
more than in Kngland, the stock is generally con
trolled by parties. The leading joumaf: all pay large
dividends. The business is done altogether on the cash
principle. : :
In both London and Paris the papers are always
sold to what is called ‘newsmen,’ at a certain price, and
the newsinen procure their own subscribers.
In this country. all is left to private enterprise.—
There are many lvarge and exceedinfly profitable offices
in the eastern cities. Some of them have recently
changed partners. ‘The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette sold
last month for $45.000, ‘one-half the Boston Atlas at
$35,000. An offer of $40,000 has recently been made
for one-half of the Boston Daily Advertiser and refus
ed. One-third of the New York Courier has becen
bought by Mr. Raymend for $30,000. One quarter of
the N. Y. Tribune at $25,000 ; one-third of the Albany
evening Journal was bought by Mr. Dawson, at $25,000;
one-half the Rochester Daily Democrat was sold late
ly to Cook & Allen, at SIO,OOO ; Mr. Hyatt, half of the
N. Y. Globe, at SIO,OOO. The Ohio Statesman sold
lately for $16,000. Out West, we have no such prices.
The price at which one New York or Boston establish
m:nt is valued, would purchase all the printing estab
lishments in Michigan, ‘and yet the material costs the
same.— Detroit Free Press. ;
LATER FrROM THE BrAZOS.—We have advices
from the Brazos to the 18th inst. by the arrival of
the James L. Day at New Orleans, - The Mexican
forces at San Luis Potosi were variously estimated,
by some at fourteen thousand. They are commard
ed by Gen. Valencia, who it was reported would
Jjoin Santa Anna with nine thousand regulars.—
Gen. Wool’s troops were in good health. General
Taylor has one hundred and twenty days’ rations,
eight hundred wagons and two thousand mules
wiiting to move forward. Ilis force amounted to
2900 men. .
Gen. Urrea, it is positively asserted, was at Vie
toria recently, and arrested the governor of that
place and sent him to the capital, charged with
treason against the government. It is also said that
Canales’s son hus been shot by him on account of
treasonable correspondence being found in his pos
session. The department of Tamaulipas has been
put under contribution for a large sum of money.
Urrea departed to enforce its collection with the
bayonet. It was reported. that he left Vietoria to
attack Tampico, but not credited. Caravajal is re
ported moving all over the country, letting few tra
ders escape. The intended march of the Mexicans
from Sun Luis against Gen. Wool seems to have
been abandoned.
It was. rumored at San Luis ‘Potosi on the Bth,
that Gen. Scott had marched from Puebla, but
countermarched on learning that resistance would
be offered, when within twenty miles of the cap
ital.
Gov. Dorr.—The Legislature of New Hamp
shire, at its recent session, passed an act conferring
upon ex-Governor Dorr, of Rhode Island, the
rights and privileges of a citizen of the former
State. This is an act of lezislative bodies which
can be passed only upon an eminent occasion, and
is a high testimonial of the respect entertained for
the individual upon whom citizenship is conferred.
The course adopted by the whigs of Rhode Island
toward Gov. Dorr, says the N. Y. Eve Post, al
though unjust and unmanly, is is not unusual with
that party, and is perfectly in harmony with the
constant endeavors of too many of them to drive
every one from the exercise of his rights, unless he
is disposed to support their views. The followingi
extract from the Providence Herald expresses the
lively feelings which the act of New Hampshire
has awakened among the friends of Gov. Dorr:
“We will not thank New ‘Hampshire for her re
membrance of the man we love and tle principles
we venerate ; for her conduct is above thanks.—l
The exalted motives by which she is actuated,
working through generous deeds, are sure to bring
their own reward—a higher %hd richer rewzml"
than the praises of grateful hearts. - Her generosity
gprang from the hearts of her own peo‘)le. We
hazard nothing in saying that it was unsolicited by
Gov. Dorr or any of his friends here. It sprang
forth of itself, and represents its high source as wa
ter in the rill represents the fountain from which it
first gushes. All the better and all the more wel
come it is for this; and we know it finds a hearty
welcome, and a hearty thankfulness in the breast
of every man in Rhode Island who loves the great
principles on which our republic is based, and
which have shone so conspicuously in the life of
Thomas Wilson Dorr.” .
A Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun writes that :
“Mr John Q. Adams, just before he left this ci
ty for Massachusetts, held a conversation with a
friend of mine, on the subject of the Mexican war.
He gave his views very freely, and in substance
they were that the war with Mexico would not end
until the United States had conquered the whole
of it. He believes that the matter had gone so far
that it was no longer under the control of this gov
ernment, and that our people would subju gate, ac
quire,'a})propriate and annex the whole of Mexico.
It was his opinion, moreover, that from the war,
would arise a military enthusiasm in this country
leading the people to prefer military men for all
elective offices. He was quite certain that, for
years to come, all successful candidates for the pres
dency must be military men, connected with, or
grown out of the Mexican war.” .
The ILonisville Journal—organ of the gentleman
who said to Mr. Mendenhall, “mind your own busi
ness ;my slaves are fat and sleek’—is delighted with
the success of the allies in choosing two congressmen
in New Hampshire, but is full of lamentations at the
prospect in Kentucky. In 1844 the whigs had every
congress district but one, and now “there is not a solita
ry district in which they are at all ceriain of electing
tlzeir candidate™! This is certainly a gloomy state of
things for whiggery, and if the democrats happen to
choose the ten congressmen, the whig newspapers will
have to alter their tables, and perhaps withdraw some
of their candidates_for speaker and clerk of the next
congres . = Boston Pos’,
Reverdy Johnson. a whig memberiof the U. S. sen
ate from Maryland, in a letter to' the N. Y. Courier.
thus declares himself in favor.of-the ‘election of Gen.
Tai'lor to the presidency: s g
‘lf the signs of the times are to be:welied on, the vir
tue and intelligence of the people aresagain awakened,
and in opposition to all mere. party gactics and contri
vances, an eminent citizen is ,nKous to, be ca'led to pre
side over us, whose fixed and st'endg ~virtue—sound,
natural sense, and sterling patriotism, not less than his
immortal achievements on the battle field, prove him
eminently worthy of the nation’s confidence and the
nation’s honor.
The Troy Whig has the following wholesale retrac
tion in regard to the U. S. Bank and sub-treasury
questions : :
‘Some say he [Gen. Taylor] is opposed to a national
bank. Suppose he is—so are seven-eighths of the whig
party. The present healthy condition of the domestic
txchanges shows that there is no absolute necessity for
_regulator, and the whigs, as a party, have no disposi
ion to disturb the existing financial system of the
country.’
WEAR FranxeLs.—lf your constitution is delicate,
wear flannel next the skin during the summer season,
and be particularly careful that your young children
wear it also. We have heard an eminent physician,
now residing in this city, say that a very large propor
tion of the deaths by cholera infantum, which annually
take place in this city and vicinity, could have been
prevented by this simple precaution. It is the sudden
chan%:’s' of the weather, tfie ordinary effects of which
may be in a great measure warded off by wearing flan
nel next the skin, which produces these fatal diseases,
and which are generally ascribed to too great an indul
geuce in summer fruits.—Boston Journal.
The Nashua Gazette understands that no printed
tickets for Preston were distributed in that county, as
usual. The bargain was well understood by both par
ties. Henceforth let them be treated as one party, and
:;!:‘thoae democrats who have found th:;‘n:e&levu sold to
the , through their connexion with the abolition
m.m return to the lowmpm demw!tz/ cracy, from
:bomtho hond::n has most to ho: 'Ora such
Miscellaneous Summary.
The editor of the Ohio Cultivator is becoming quit e
poetical. Hear him -
‘We never loved a charming critter,
. But some one else was sure to git her.
This is the time of year for sickness. People cannot
be too careful of themselves and neighbors. Let alB
bathe ey:r‘g mdmi:g, “\lvith a basin of water amés
sponge, if they can afford no more convenient fixi
Cheat the doctors. .
“The Whigs are sound on great national questions.”
— Springfield Gazette. —
Yes—'all sound’—like a Chinese gong—and no sub--
stance.--New Haven Reg.
Mrs. Polk left Columbia, Tenn., July 19th, for the
residence of her mother, in Rutherford county, and
would return in a few days to Washington.
An acre of ground planted with potatoes will sup--
port three times as many people as an acre planted!
with wheat. 3 :
* N. H. StaTesmaN.—This paper has been enlarged.
and somewhat improved in its outward appear--
ance. R S
OrprosiTiON THE LiFE ov Trape.—Fares from:
Boston to Portland by either of the steamers only fifty
cents—cheaper than living at home.
There are, it is said, at least - thirty of Santa Anna"'
wooden legs mow on exhibition in the United States!
That ruinous Tariff has increased the amount of du
ties in seven months and a half, abount one million five:
handred theusand dollars. Oh! the ruin.
The Cocheco House, Dover, formerly and for many
years known as the Ela tavern, has been sold to the:
€Cocheco Manufacturing Company for the sum of
$9500. : 4 : : :
Doixe WEeLL.---The schooner Far West, Capt. Mo--
ses Pettingell, arrived about three weeks ago, with 275
bbls. mackerel, cleared again, and arrived Tuesday withs
130 bbls. fat mackerel.--- Newburyport' Herald." - * " ¢+
~ The impression made by Mr. Polk hinrself, on the:
minds of our citizens generally, secems to- have been dé--
cidedly favorable.---Boston Gleaner, neutral.
St. Paul’s or Grace church in Rochester, N. Y-, was:
burnt before daylight on Sunday morning last; the
' organ and bell, which cost S2OOO, were destroyed.—--
‘ Loss about $20,000 ; insured SIO,OOO. -
| Col. Doniphan rubs Tom Corwin down with a cur-
Ii ry-comb and smooths him off with a briar, for his vile
l abuse of the Mexican war, delivered in the U. S. Sen
ate. Col D.is a whig, but not a traitor.
| Died in Grecne county, Alabama, Mr, James Saun
\ ders, eldest son of the Hon. R. M. Saunders, U. S..
| minister to Spain. Mr. Saunders had served a short
| campaign with the army in Mexico, under Gen. Scott,
| from which he was honorably discharged.
Tne Keytvexky Hemre---as prepared according tor
the method of Mr. Anderson---is said to be superior, for
{ all purposes, to any imported articie of the kind. J.
| Vincent Brown, late of Boston, is engaged in the man
ufacture of hemp in Illivois. -
The U. S. ship Raritan, one of the Gulf sqwadrom,
l lately arrived at Norfolk with sixty-six sick on board.
She lost on the passage Capt. Edson, of the marimes,
Midshipman Storer, and fifieen others, sub officers and
crew.
’ The Boston Daily Advertiser says---“If the whigs of
| Massachusetts vote ayainst Taylor, it will not be be
| cause he is a ‘slaveholder; if they vote for him, it
[ will not be because he is a general.” 'L'he elections in
x! New Hampshire for Congress are all completed.---
Post.
The Washington correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce predicts that before the meeting of Congress
Gen. Taylor will announce to his friends that he will
‘not any how suffer his name to be uscd as a-candidate
for the presidency. 5
' The Boston Whig appears to be alarmed least @ man
Jfrom a free State should be a candidate for the presi
dency ! Its correspondent, “New Hampshire,” shivers
like a man with the ague at the mention of Judge
Woodbury’s name.”---£’ost.
Birtn EXTRAORDINARY.---The lady of Mr. Henry
Gosling, restaurator of Nassau street, last Saturday
morning became the mother of her twenty-fourth child..
In consequence of the increse of his family, Mr. G. has
been compelled to move up town where the city is less
densely populated.---N. Y. Trib.
Col. Wright, of the Massachusetts regiment, desires
the Matamoras Fiag to say that the ariicle published
some time since in that paper, relative to'a” memberof
that regiment stabbing a Mexican woman, is incortect.
He says'she was murdered by “her husband™ in a“fit'of
jealousy, and his knife, wi.h bl.od upon it, was found
underneath the bed. S 3
Trornies.—We were yesterday shown a couple-of
swords taken on the battle field in Mexico. by Lt..N.
J. T. Dana, U. S. A.—also a Mexican belt and sash.—
The swords were straight ‘cut-and-thrust,’ and’ are
probably the regulation sword of the Mexican army.—
They had the appearance of having seen some scrvice
— Boston Times.
Deati 1N THE MaINE LEGISLATURE.—DY: Thom
as W. Bridgham, a member of the House of Represen
tatives from Leeds, (Kennchec counay,) died at his res
idence on Friday, and was interred on Sunday last.—
He died ot consumption, and has been absent from his
seat four or five weeks. lHe was a democrat.
PorrsmouTH NavyY-Yarp.—Our citizens will be
gratified to learn that Benj. F. Delano, Esq. Navak
Censtructor, has been stationed at this yard. Prepara
tions have al:cady commenced for laying the keel of a
War Steamer, of the second class tonnage 137 D—
. between perpendiculars 210 feet ; Beamy
extreme 27 feet. Depth to gun deck in hold 23
feet. To te propelled by side wheels.—Journal. '
Mgs. FrßeMoNT.—This lady, (daughter of Col. Ben~
ton, and wife of Col. Fremont ncw in California,) it
appears, who left Washington with the famous Kit
Carson, designs travelling, under his protection, for
eighteen hundred miles, to a point where she has
agreed to meet her husband. Here is a wife worthy of
tiic young hero-explorer of the Rocky Mountains.
Joseph C. Neal, deceased in Philadelphia, editor of
the Saturday Gazette, and formerly of that able demo
cra'ic paper the Pennsylvanian, was a native of Green
land, % H., where his father was a Congregational
minister. He leaves a mother and a new married wife.
He is widely known as a writer, especially cf the Char
coal Sketches, and his reputation as a man and a citi
zen survives him. _
| GrEAT FarM.—The largest farm in Vermort is said
\ to be that of Judge Mecch, at Shelburne, eight miles
south of Burlington. A correspondent who has just
| been over it. says this year he will mow over 500 acres
' and cut 1000 tons of hay. He keeps 300 sheep and
has now 490 head of necat cattle. A few days ago he
sold fat oxen enough to amount to the sum of $2460
He has also sold this season 1000 bushels of rye.
“Except Cray.—The Delaware Express, a Whig
paper, is evidently aiming to bring forward a military
chieftatn, to neutralize the strength of Taylor, and for
the benefit of Clay. It says:
*lf Gen. Scott, in addition to what he has done i the
field, conducts the war to a termination, and brings a
bout an honorable peace, which the administration
unaided is incapable of doing, he will deserve more of
the gratitude of the people than any other man in the
Union, except Clay. ‘. -
The total result of the deliberations of the whigs of
Maine who had met in council ' to take into considera
tion the subject of the next presidency !—
‘Resolved, That it is inexpedient to appoint delegates:
at large to the national convention at tl?e present time,
Resolved, That when a national convention shall be
called, the whig state committee be requested to take
such measures as may seem to them most expedient to.
provide for the choice of such delegates at large as this
state may be entitled to.’ 5 g
~ Doct. Ezra Green, who was the oldest surviving
graduate of Harvard, died in Dover on Sunday
fortnight, aged one hundred and one years and one
month. He served on board the Ranger, Com.
Paul Jones, as a surgeon, in the revolutionary war..
Hon. Timothy IFarrar, now the oldest graduate, re
sides in New Ipswich, and was one hundred years.
old on the 11th inst. g B e
AwrFUL MoORTALITY.—The St. Johns Heral®
states that of the emigrants who left Great Britain,.
for Quebec alone, 4095 never reached their desti-"
nation, having died at sea or at quarintine. ' "About
600 more perished at sea, by &?M!:M g
about 4700 deaths up to the 30th June. The ship:
Avon, Johnston, of“&. Johns, was at Grosse Tile,
with all the crew and passengers sick—and 136 out.
080 doad . .7 bt DGR oA
mfia an old man, if he should read overhis:
Bl "g»"%%g J«»&%lfiufiw :
L R R W R “”s}: e R .