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NEW. SERIES VOL. 2. NO. 8. LANCASTER, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1847. WHOLE NO. 11 36. rUBUSHKD KVliRY FRIDAY MORNING BY JOHN If. WRIGHT. Owes Tallinadge Buildings Third Floor opposite J. & J. C. Maccruckou's Store. Terms. Toronvyvur, catkin advance, ti 00 ' Within the year 3 50 After the expiration of the year, 3 00 IJCDUCKMKNTS FOR CLUBS. Teu copies, to oue address, cmh in ad- watte, $17 50 Any larger number in the aame proportion. ADVERTISING. One square, oue insertion t0 50 " " three insertions, 1 00 Kach continuance, 25 tP"A liberal discount will bo made to yearly advertisers. UsTJOB WORK neatly and promptly executed. Agents for Ihc Lancaster Onxettc. MMertport: E.Vante . ,QrenJlM T; Wilier Mc-Par- J stum: ur. v ii. nrock laml I unman l.mk-licin HckeringlnrA. Bright, Ir jefftrton: uavin jamiing LitknvoHi: Lewis Hulwr t'aaal irmtMittr: nr. roller lMojl 7'; T. P. Aslihrook Katt Kuikmllr; David Hiker tY.RikcMe; N. B. Collision r RremiM Hrerv St Anltlaiivh Ltktiut: Win. r. 1'entwHl 'Jlnburn T; J. Hall.H. mack Jlmmnda: Nathan J. Worra.ll intra T: Jinhcs R. Pnrr Kofallm: J.CIcmenlK, Jr. Vrry-Tfeva.- Levi Friend Jtmanda Tp. Wm. Ashlirook Mwlitm T: I. E. Komiia Carroll; William P. Brock IClnrtmk; Col.W. Hamilton Basil: Henry Monard !G'iH.- P. R. Ilagernian Dufiiman; II. L Nicely Smtrttt; David Hewitt V. II. l'lLKia, Esq., General Agent fur Die Eastern Cities FOR CASH AD PRODUCE ONLY Wholesale and Retail. ANOTHKR TREMKNDOUS ARRIVAL OF HEW GOODS I. LANCASTER. C A It D. The subscriber having returned from the Eastern Cities, whither she hadeone to receive the 8pring fashions and purchase her Stock, can now be found at her new establishment over the Store Room formerly occupied by Ailisworth & Wlllock and Just one door east of Reber & Kutz. She has on hand a beautitul assortment oi irape, Pearl . Braid and l'attnetto - Bonnets, Ribbons, French flowers, all kinds of Bouneta and dress Trimmings (latest styles) together with a great varity of Fancy articles for Ladies. 8he is pre pared to make Dresses, Bonuets and trim the Uarion0 ittattcrg. From tkt Cincinnati Gazette.. John W.Taylor Interesting Letter. John W.Taylor, who many years since, at different periods was Speaker of the House of Representatives in Congress, while a Representative of the Saratoga District of New York. An able and in dustrious man, Mr. Taylor was distin guished as an efficient and influential member ef Congress. He also filled same combining taste, beauty and fashion equal to with credit many places of trust in his any eastern establishment Work promptly linisned and turoished at the time promised. ELIZABETH MUMMY. Lancaster, April 14, 1817. 49 CANAL Bouts laid aside and Railroads used for bringing Goods to the GREAT WESTERN, in the shortest time that any stock was ever deli vered in the Stute. The Great Western patron izes the lightning lines, buying Goods oftener, receiving them quicker and selling fatter than all Lancaster together. Not only the Eastern Cities of the United States have sent thoir share, but the whole World has contributed its portion to make our stock in every respect what the citizens of Ohio wish HAND SOME, FASHIONABLE and CHEAP. JAMES C. MACCRACKEN having connected himself with WORK GALBRA1TH, under the firm of MACCRACKEN & GALBRAITII, and etill owning part of ono of the most extensive wholesale Stores in New York and the largest manufacturing establishments in theUnited Stales, lliey are receiving a larger lot of Goods than ever was brought, even to the Great Western. On the 10th of May, the Store Room and Street were blockaded witlt our boxes. Our manufacturing establishment, as usual, has supplied ns with overy variety of American man ufactured DRY GOODS, furnishing us with Cloths, which we are enublod to sell at least 50 cents on the yar , less than any other Merchant can buy tticm. Our Stock of CASSIMERES, 8ATTINF.TS, TWEEDS and CALICOES cannot be be equalled, oithor in pricet or style. The Steamships, Sarnh Sands and Caledonia, which brought the last favorable account of con tinued good prices for Grain and Flour, brought for us, direct from Europe, an unusually large stock of handsome fashionable DRESS GOODS for the LADIES and for the GENTLEMEN every variety of latest stylos. Wo have another very large Btock of BROWN MUSLINS and being of our own make, notwith standing the advance in the price of those Goods in the East, persons, who buy at the Great Wes tern, suy that muslius ore cheap as ever, while those that goto other stores will contend they never were so high priced. Our BLEACHED MUSLINS, being algo from our own manufactory, we can warrant their quul ity, and our prices any one cau soe are the low est. Indeed, all who wish to buy goods made in the United States will soon ascertain, that if they wish to buy them cheap, they must go to the Great Western. We have ticking, at 12J cents por yard, that is better than ever sold in Ohio at 18. Our STOCK OF CALICOES never was larg er Did all entirely new styles, us all know that, until we received this last stock, we bad scarce ly a dress pattern in the house. We have nearly 5000 pioces, over 200 diflur- on K them a beautitul rich lung- Sale of RealEstate by Order of Court ON the 13th day of July next, at 3 o clock, in the alter noon ut the Court House in the city of Columbus, will be sold to the highest bid der, the following reul estate, as the property of Moses M. Hunter, deceused, to wit: Lots No. 1, appraised at $200 00, No. 2, at $75 00, No. 3, at slJG efif, in Crawford s addition to the town of Ueyuoldsburg, as the same is described and de lineated on the recorded plat of said town, Also, the following: a part of Sec. 8, east, township 16, and range 2(1. Refugee lands beginning on the north side of the National Road, at a stake which is opposite the N. E. comer of the culvert, which is opiwsite Jacob Htitson's houso, thence from said stake N. 4J, west 100 feet to a corner, thence S. 854, W. to the west line of said McCullum's 4 acres; thence southwardly on said line 100 feet to the road, thence S. along said road 80 foet, more or less; to the beginning, appraised at $100 00. Also, iu the county of Fairfield, and Stute of Ohio, parts of lots No. 8, 51 and 52, in Section 29, in township 16, range 20, of the Refugee track; lot No. 1 containing 64 2-100 ucres, being part of the subdivision of said land; appraised at $1500 00. Also, iu Frauklin county, and State aforesaid, the following real estate to wit: commencing at the S. E. corner of lot No. 4, thence N. 85A, east, own State. Several years since while in the discharge of his duties as a mem ber of the Court of Errors, then in Sess ion in New York, lie was struck with a paralysis, uoder the effects of which he is still suffering. He was removed to the residence of a daughter in Cleveland, where he still remains, suffering much, and unable to move without assistance. We visited him a few days since, and were agreeably surprised at the vigor of his mind, under the severe and protrac ted suffering and confinement ho had en dured. Feeble as he was, his mind was active, and when the presence of an old friend induced the recollection of trans actions bearing upon his country's wel fare, in which he had taken an active part, his countenance brightened, and his eye flashed as old, and, though with great effort ho spoke ol those events with evident feeling and great anxiety for his beloved country, lie regarded himself as on tho brink of the grave, and cannot be suspected of any ambitious views, yet the welfare and honor, and the best interests of the country are near his heart, and (lie dangers attending our political and other institutions are contemplated with the National Road 13 poles to a stake, wit nessed by a stone, thence north 24 poles and 16 links to astone, thence south 5, west 13 poles to with doep interests, and the strong feel the N. E. corner of lot No. 4, thence south with : f fr;,;m Mr TnvW wii n the east line No. 4 to the beginning; being part of the Refugee track contuiug two acres; appraised at $443 33. Subject to the dower of the widow as heretofore assigned. Terms of sale, one third cash in haud.onu-third in one year, and one-third in two years, with interest from the day of sale, to be secured by mortgage on the premises. - . MARTIN &, GOULD, Adra'rs. of Moses M. Hunter, deceased. May 25, 1847. O.S. Journal. $3,75 4w4 dTaijgii ert LANCASTER, OHIO. WILL attend promptly to all operations iu the line of hts profession. OFFICE Maiu Street, opposite the Tallmadge House. Lancaster, May 81, 1847, lyS Public Sale by order of Court BY virtue of an order to me directed from the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Fairfield, and Slate of Ohio, at its May Term, A. D. 1847. 1 will offer and expose to sale by public vendue and out cry, to the highest and best bid der, at the door of the Court House, in Lancaster, On Saturday the 3rd djr of Jnlynext, between th hours of 10 o'clock, A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M.of that day, the following described Real Estate, ot which Henry Dubblo died seized and possessed, to wit: The North part of Lot No. 49, Iu Carpenter's addition .to the Town of Lan caster, Ohio, containing sixty-two (62) foet front, with the dwelling house and all buildings inereon . The above Real Estate is free of alt incumbr ances, and the title is unquestionable. It is ap praised at $1200,00, and will be sold for not less than two thirds the appraised value, on the terms of one half in hand, and one half in six mouths with interest on the deferred payment. A good bargain is ottered to purchasers. JACOB GRAYBILL, Adminittt ator of the Etlate of Henry Dubble, By Mimn Sc. Whitman, Hit AUorneyt. Lancastor, Juuo 3, 1847. $3pf 5-3 AND FOR HALE BY GEORGE EACPrifflAH, ent natterns. ainniiiF them a beautitul ncti lung' hum print, only 18 cents per yard n style of Goods always lieretolore sold at Ji io cj cents. 1 lie very uanusomesi American prim muu ufacturer's prices, only 12J cents per yurd. The handsomest blue and oruuge prints ever made. The variety of our dress goods is unusually largo a very large stock of both English and French Ginghams Black, & white Scotch Ginghams, chenper than over known in tho West. Gingham Lnwns and Muslin Ginghuins, Madder colored Lawns, Rose bud Sus., the very latest style. Monterey and Buena Vista dress goods, very rich and beautiful entirely new, but 26 tlnys from England. Best Bombazines, Veniliau Organdies, Striped Plaid Lawns. A vory lnrge stock of Ribbons, every variety 'of style.all the lutest imortatioiis,-custoiiiers can and must wake tin we sell them so cheap. . LADIES AND MISSES BON N ETS Florence braid Bonnets ut nnv price A spleuded assortment of Spring and Summer artificials. Ladies French work Collars, unusually cheap Olid beautilul. Gloves and mitts, every variety and price. Lyms Cranes a beautiful and new style goods. A very huge stock of 6 U MM ICR SHAWLS all beautiful Cashmere, D'Ecore, Mouslln do Lain, and twisted Silk Shawls, oi fust quality. LA DIE'S SLIPPF.RS and Shoes ot every kind, black mid Bronze GAITERS, HALF OAITKRSJ Bootees, &c, all purchased of the mimutactiirers, Hosiery of every eolor and quality some as low as 10 cents n puir, white und black cotton. TARASOLS Gingham and Silk Purasolets. For thoGontleinou we haveaof little everything. German. French, American and west of England cloths. Fancy Tweeds, Gnmbroons, Linens, Nankeens Cumberland pluids, Tasia Checks, Ringgold single mill Cassnmeres and many other varieties for Gentlemen's summer punts fancy cussiiiieres, black cussimores. Our assortment ol coatings is unusually large. Croton contiugs, Ermiiielt do. Mazurka do. Gold mixed Tweeds, all wool, very low, Amazon cloth- ,.. ' Silk warp Codingtons all beautilul. Lasting cord, an entirely new articlo for gen- tlomeu's wear. ' Tweeds from 25 cents per yard up. Men's best calf boots moil's slippers und shoes Vestingsofnny kind from lSjceutspor yard UPPalra leafHats at lower prices than ever before were brought to the West. Leghorn hats equally cheap. Carnpt Chum, mlfircul and white. Coverlid Yarn beat cotton yarn, long reel ouly, inaigooi oesi quality, Our stock of GROCERIES is unusually large end were purchased, at New Orleans, at the low est prices- Our coffee is of the best quality Rice always on hand. We are determined that the Great Western and the Goods sold by the Great Western shall speak for themselves. All we ask is that all, who wish to buy Goods chtart for ready pan. will call at our establishment, see our constantly changing varieties and ask prices. - . We are always the first to raise the price of Grain and the last to put it lower. Any cmantv of CASH always on hand for Far- mtr'i Produce, and War-eons unloaded at our Ware-house without any work of the Farmer, Come, then, every body to the Great Western Lancaster, May 14th, 1847. 1 FRESH SUPPLY of SUGAR, MOLASSES, RICE and COFFEE Also, a luree Stock of the FINEST LEMONS and ORANGES, for sale cheap by the Box. A large and general assortment of DRUGS, OILS PAINTS and DYE-STUFFS. ryCnll at the OLD DRUG STORE. Lancaster. May 7, 1847 3m52 Administrator's Sale. Administrators of Thomas') McArtliur, deceased. I IN r AlurlELU tit. The Widow and Heir of COMMON TLEAS. said deceased. I BY virtue of an order of sale to us directed at tho May Term, 1847, of the Court of Com- moil 1 leas olorcsaiu, we wuton Saturday the 10th day of July next, before the Court House door in said county, offer nt public vendue nnd out-cry, the following tracts of Land situato in Fairfield County, to-wiu 1st. Lot No. 4, and half Section Nos. 40 nnd 45, Township No. 16, Range 20, containing 88 Acres l,1iir thatnnrt of the Real Estate of William Mor- -- o - I . ., , , . c nsou sot niwrt to Utto van ocnr.iuer, assignee oi Frederick Van Schrader and Olivia his wile, and daughter of said William Morrison, under pro ceedings of purtition iu Franklin Common Pleas, except ltl Acres on cue ooum part oi taiu l.oi. liml. 1 lie norm nan oi uau oecuou no. it, in Township No. 16, and Kunge No. 20, being Lots Nos. 12 and 13, ol Hie estate ol vvniiain morn- et apart in the proceedings ot partition alore to David Hiolmmiand Eliza L. his wife, con taining 162 Acres, deducting however 60 Acres taken nil' the South side of said tract. 3rd The East half of the Northeast Quarter of Section No. 3, in Towuship No. 15, and Range No. 20, containing 80 Acres. 4ih. 75 Acres more or less, being from off the South side of the Northwest Quarter ofSoction No. 2, in Township No. 15, and Range ISo.20 5th. 36 Acres in tue Bouinwesi corner oi uio Northwest Quarter of Section, Township& Rauge last aforesasd, the two last tracts containing 111 Acres and sub!Ct to nil assignment ui uwr iu favor of tho widows dower therein, and the three first free and unincumbered of any dower estate. Tim ulinvn lands will be ottered upon the terms following, to-wiu One-third in hand ono-third in one year, and the residue in two years, with in- teresi irom ine uay ui auio, mm m un less than two-thirds the appraised value thereof. The above lands were appraised as louows: Tract No.l.cntaiuing78 Acres.appraised at $780 " 2,....".... 10--.." " -" 3 80..." '-.....1.360 'i " 4 and 5.... Ill subject to dower 1,500 JOHN T. MoARTHUR, WILLIAM Mc ART HUB, Admtort of the Etlate ofThomai Afci4WAr,ice June 4, 1847. pi ' ow T IliOttlS G. P. a. & P. O. DRINKLE. RESPECTFULLY inform the citizens of Lan caster and its vicinity, that they have open ed a Tailor shop, in Cornell's Row, under the Eagle office, directly opposite the Post Office, uhr their can at all times be found, ready to execnte any work that may be entrusted to them in th neatest and most fashionable manner and low for Cash or all kinds of Country Produce. They respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage. ' Lancaster, April 16th, 1847i ly49. 1 1 1 1 " BLANK DEEDS AND MORTGAGES PRINTED oo tine paper, for sale at tin Gazette and Express office loading man in the National Councils in times of great difficulty, and has done much to establish free institutions, and to secure the blessings of liberty to his conntrymeu. He was of the old Repub lican party, a firm and active supporter of Mr. Madison's Administration, of the war of 1812, and of all the measures to encourage and protect the industry of the poople against foreign competition. He was opposed to Slavery, and to meas ures for extending and perpetuating the institutions, or its direct or indirect influ ence. He was an earnest, zealous advo cate of the Missouri restriction. The letter below was written by Mr. Taylor to an intimate friend, a few weeks since, and was not designed to be made public. It speaks of the piesent war with Mexico as aggressive, and brought on by the President in violation of the constitution. His friend desired to spread the judgment of this old, woll tried and experienced friend of the coun try, upon this war, before the people, as the sober judgment of one standing on the "verge of the grave," and he asked Mr. Taylor's permission to publish tho letter. in tne repiy, permuting inu puuneuuun, Mr. 1 aylor says: "Whatever I wrote was written with out a doubt of its truth; and the facts, if useful to promote the cause of freedom and free labor, should not be withheld. Great efforts are making to magnify and consolidate the political power of the slaveholder interest. I would rob it of no constitutional richt. In 1816, 1 re- joicod to find my most ardent friends in Congress, uniting cordially ana etiicientiy with the advocates ot tree labor in establ ishing the American system. Alas ! that this union was over disturbed. Thore is much objection to slavery in principle, but its practical hostility to free Ameri can labor makes it especially odious in our Union. The vote of Texas against free labor, at the expense of her own in terests, more than any thing else, has roused me, on the brink of the grave, and recalled my struggles against tho malig nant influence of slavery in by-gone years. I commenced my professional life by res cuing from slavery a free man, emanci pated by the rtew ioik law, in conse quence of his master having attempted to send him for sale to a Southern market. All that the constitution and law gives the master he shall have; but not content, ho usurps, while talkinjr of equality, and has actually won, by threats of disunion, do meal rower unauthorized byine con stitution. But what can I do? Palsied from head to foot, and loathing food, tho comine battle- must be fouchtby yeu and your peers, after I get the discharge for . r i.i i. mi.: .:....: which i anxiously iook. x ma uom " ten to suggest the expediency of making nnv use deemed Drooor of tho facts re called in my lettor bflast month, without giving prominence to my liumoie name. The leadinrr facts are on record, and known to the survivors of the 18th and 19th Congresses. I shrink from no need ful responsibility, but from the appear ance ef seekinz notoriety. In the war of 1812 I stood liable fur a military ser vice in support ef a war, the justice of which I advocated in the XNew ifoiK leg islature and in Congress, having volun teered before mv election, under the act for a detachment of 100,000 men, in con sequence of the attack on Chesapeake." We now give the letter, as published in the Boston Atlas, aid bespeak for it an attentive perusal. Cj,F.TEt,AND,Ohio, April 15th, 1817, Hon. Charles Hudson Dear Sir: Continued infirmityha do laved thanks for the considerate kindness which has relieved my solitude, by your speech en the 3,000,000 bill, read and re read with entire approbation and pleas ure. .In the 15th and 16th Congressess, when mv efforts to arrest slavery in Mis seuri and Arkansas, were defeated by douehfacos. the result was deeply deplor ed, but none then anticipated the present fearful declension, when the heart's blood of freemen is poured out in foreign lands, to enlarge and perpetuate human bon dace. . The axiom you announce, "A conquering republic is a political sole cism," lays at the foundation of our Union Its disregard must lead to dissolution We have gone far in a downward course when Coneress. instead of impeaching and renouncing a President who wantonly your friend, usurps its prerogative of making wor, tamely ossumes the war, with a lie in its front, and authorizes its prosecution for objects too base to lie avowed. The dough-faces of the 15th Congress are just ly chargeable with the triumph of slavery; for although Mr. Scott, the delegate of Missouri, and the slave-owners in Ken tucky, opposed the restriction against sla very, yet, after it passed tho House of Representatives, they implored their friends to acquiesce, which would have been the peaceful result, had not slavery found Senators from free States, then the majority falsetotheirconstituents. From this fatal begiiminir. the course of Free-! dom has been downward. The attempt to make Missouri a free State has been falsely attributed to unworthy ambition. Bear with me, while I relate some facts not generally known ef its origin. One day early in February, 1819, Gen. James Tallmadge Uicnof I'oughkeepsie, in Con gress from Dutchess county, was silting ...:.t. . : .u t .l - st nun ma iu uio ruum oi me tornmiuee oi Elections, of which I was Chairman. We discoursed of the petition of Mis souri to become a State, then before the House, of its noble rivers, fertile soil, and position by the side of the Northwest Territory, and to which would, doubtless, have been applied the free ordinance of 1737, confirmed by the first Con-rress. had Missouri then belonged to the Union. Tho rich fruits of that ordinance were brought forward. We both felt the sol emn duty of applying its principles to the young giant, destined to be the empire State of the West; we nettled the form of restriction to be moved, so mild as to im pair no vested right, and we indulged the hope that our brethren of the South, like their predecessors of 1787, would cheerfully co-operate. With the great south we had zealously supported the war of 1812, and considered its represen tatives our political friends, together cor dially supporting the administration of Mr. Madison. Saturday, February 13th, the Missouri bill being reached, General 1 allmadge, as agreed, moved tho restric tion, after boundaries and other matters were settled. The hour being late, the House adjourned. Monday, Feb. 15th. Gen Tallmadgo was too ill to come to the Houso, and I opened the debate, in a speech widely circulated. On another day, Gen. T. came iu, and ably sustained the restriction. Tho bill passed thus, 93 to 56. The Senate, by the aid of dough faces, struck out the restriction of slave ry. Each house adhered, and the bill failed. During the next Congress, Gen. Tallmadge was iu tho service of the State ofNew York, in another department. The duty of bringing forwarJ and sup porting the restriction devolved on me. My speech on the occasion was fuller and more widely circulated. Able suppor ters were not wanting.- The Houso a- gain passed the bill restricting slavery. The dough-faces in the Senate preserved in mis-ropresenting the Free States, some against positive instructions, all abusing confidence. Tho Committee of Confer ence reported the compromise, which slavory and dough-facoseuforced, against the votes of Freedom's sons. On the pas sage of t'.iis compromise, Randolph said of those dough-face, as he called them, "we got ull we wanted, had we needed more, they were in the market. Slavery hen triumphed tn a victory which now it pretends deprived it of inherent right north of 36 30. November, 1820, Mr. Clay sent in his re- gnatien as Speaker, and the contest of freedom and slavery was renewed in choice of a successor, which, after three ays halloaing, fell on me. Dec. 1821, Van 15 men came SenatorfromNew York, le bucktails in thellouse.havitig in oppo sition to my efforts, turned Clinton out of the management ot his own canal, brenth- ng slaughter to any one who refused to ry, Voxcn with VI in ton! I he day (Jon- reus met, seven ballots showed no elec tion, though thrice I had a plurality, the seventh within four of a majority over the four other candidates. The bucktails vo- ng for C. A. Rodney, of Delaware. The South steadily voting for a slavehol- er. The bouth finding Now lork bucktails resisted me, fearing another ballot would elect, effected an adjourn ment to hold caucus. In caucus the bucktails were beaten by the Seuth, as at Baltimore since; and Barbour, who like Polk was unexpected, and had not re ceived a vote in the House, was nomina ted, whether by the two-third rule I know not; but on the twelfth ballot he was elec ted Not a week passed before double the number of New York bucktails re quired to secure my election, expressed regret at thoir being made the tools of "the Northern men with Southern prin ciples.' But it was too late. I mention this ouly for the lesson it should teach the livided North. I he south on slavery being u Macedonian phalanx. Gen. Alex. Smythe told me I was rejected as Speaker, only for my opposition to sla- S l 1 .1 1 very, uuiers saia iaey voiea against, me with regret, but they could not go home, fthey voted forme against a Virginian Gen. Mercer alone, of a slave State, rep resenting the district still Whig, gave me publicly his open ballot. May I hope that, taught by experience, the froe States will insist on the true bounds of Texas on the Nueces, south of Red River, and that no territory now free shall ever be subject to slavery. The spirit of slavery in all times is at war with free labor. It was evinced in the unconstitutional vote of Texas to repeal the Tariff of '42. If the North continue to submit to usurpation, it deserves to breed while slaves. On the verge of the grave I shall not livo to see the evil, but my children must bear it; for slavery, like avarice, sharpens its appetite by the food it devours. Some men have been repub licans in spite of slavery, but its tender. cy is evil, only evil, and that continually. The fathers ot the Revolution looked up on it as a temporary evil, to be removed at the earliest day; a generation has arisen striving te make it eternal. In great in firmity I write from day to day to akin dred spirit, 1 lear too long, but am truly JOHN W. X A X LAJti, he AdmlnMrntioii of Air. Polk. It is very manifest, from the efforts of his organ to build ud a re nutation for him, that Mr Polk is satisfied that his ad ministration is unpopular, and that ho, as the chief ofit, will retire to private life, wiwoui me regret of one good citizen. There are many who believe him to be perversely wrong headed and hard-head ed, and that the utrnrs of his administra tion hore been willfullv committed.-. Otbors believe him to be a vain, weak man, who is swayed, for the time, by those who share his counsel, upon whom circumslancesdemand that he should rely upon -that he is capable of no deep feeling, and is never moved by a strong conviction. We readily acquit him of wilful error, but do not, we are a vara. pay him a high compliment when we a gree that his errors are the result of his own weakness that, iu short, he is unfit for the place he fills. It is this negative character of Mr. Polk that forbids all predictions as to the prob able end of the war with Mexico. That he might end it, if lie could be made to feel the responsibility that demands he should end it, is as certain, as that if he had been able to appreciate the difficul ties and could understand the conse quences of engaging in a war with any power, however leeble that power may be, he would have exerted his authority to have prevented the war. All that has been said or may be said about the prospects of peace is to be tak en in connexion with the fact that Mr. Polk's weaki.oss makes him of such in firm purpose, that you may not rely upon him to do to-morrow what he seems bent upon doing to-day. If peace does take place it will be by a happy accident, iu which the President will be kept suf ficiently long from the control of the in fluences which are exerted by those who proht by the continuance of the war. This happy accident may occur to-mor row it probably will not occur during the continuance of liis'administration. It follows, then, that we cannot safely cal culate that peace will bo made on any terms whilst Mr. Polk continues to be Prosidcnt. Bait. Patriot. The-War on 7cn. Taylor. Locofocoism has a special ebhorratico of all merit and high qualities except those displayed by its own adherents. before long, a regular system of warfare upon Gen. Taylor's military character, will be prosecuted by the minions of the Locofoco party, the foundation of which was laid last winter by the Ficklins Farans, Thompson's and Wicks, of Con gress. No one will be surprised at this, who remembers that the same class of defamers pronounced Gen. Harbison a granny and a coward. But the upshot in regard to Gen. Tati.or will be the same in 1818 as in 1840 a verdict by an im mense majority of the honest, discerning people of the country, that his heartless, soulless defamers are themselves desti tute alike of courage and truth. The following is from Chapman's In dionopolis Sentinel ef the 2d inst: "We will say and in good time will produce the proof, which may be partly found in Gen. Taylor's own official des patches, that he had very little to do in fighting the battle of Jiuena Vista. In deed he was absent from the field at Sal- tillo a good part of the time, with 400 men. I his ts the truth, and we are not afraid tosny it, notwithstanding the pres ent general dosposition to give Gen. Tay lor the entire crodit ot that terrible battle. It is hardly necessary tossy that Chap man s Sentinel is the leading organ of La col'ocoism in Indiana. Gin. Atlas. KrJ oik relied largely on Mexican reason for success in the dismemberment of Mexico. He expected there would be dasaftuction in the northern provinces Instead of that he finds insurrection a- gainst his military governments. He ex pected a treaty ot cession irom Santa An na, but has received Irom him nothing yet but cannon and musket balls. He attempted to propitiato the Mexican clergy, but they have answered with an athemas, so it seems the scheme ot making American citizens out of Mexi can traitorj has utterly failed. And in the attempt Polk has lost tho support of that maiority which elevated him to the Presidency. i'olk has been very unfortunate in his striirrprlaa for nonularitv. He was elect- oo i r j ed Governor of Tonnessee, but was re jected the next time he offerod. He was elected .President, but has been repuui atetl by the people at the recent eloctions, and hns tailed to annex a sufficient num ber of Mexican supporters to make up for his loss of Americans. It is evident he does not stand well with the people of this continent and they seem to have a poor opinion of him in Europe. Had he not better, before bis term is over, attempt the acquisition of the island of Ichaboe, which is, as yet, uninhabited, and retire to it, with such as will follow him, in or der to make the experiment to deter mine the lowest amout ot ability, justice, and liberty with which a community can be governed! Lou. Journal. IThe following paragraph from the Alexandria Gazette is appropriate and pointed: It continues to be believed by many, that there was an understanding of some sort or other between Mr. Polk and his friend Santa Anna, that the latter was to grant us a peace, at some time or on some contingency, not understood, or explain ed. 1 he series of defeats he has met with, and his consequent loss of power and influence, have deprived him ot the means of fulfilling his agreement, w.nere Mr. I'olk is to find another traitor, witn whom to make a like bargain, is a puz zling question, we hope tne Aorainis tr&tion will not condemn Gen. Taylor for havin? failed to erive Santa Anna the 'op portunity' sought for at Buena Vista and charge upon his obstinacy in refusing to be whipped the responsibility ot a con tin uance of the war. In the memtime, it would be gratifying to the public curios ity to know what has becomt of the three millions! Productions or the United Mt-ile. The Patent Office report furnishes the following important information: Wheat, oats, rye, Indian corn, potatoes, hay end tobacco, are raised in every Stale and Territory in the Union. Barley raised in all except Louisiana. Buckwheat raised in all except Louis iana and Florida. New England, New York, New Jer sey, roiinsylvauia. Michigan. Ohio and Wisconsin, do not raiso cotton. Tho States that do not raise cotton, to gether with Maryland, Delaware and In diana, do not raise rice. Every State and Territory except Iowa, rai.ses silk. Every State except Delaware makes sugar. New York raises the most barley, viz: 1,802,282 bushels. New York raises the moit potatoes, viz: 4,907,555 bushels. New York raises the most tlay, viz: 4,695,936 tons. Ohio raises the most wheat, viz: 10.- 786,705 bushels. Pennsylvania raises the most ryo, viz: 8,429,226 bushels. Pennsylvania raises the most buck wheat, viz: 6,408,509 bushels. Tennessee raises the most coin, viz: 67,733,447 bushels. Virginia raises the most flax and hemp, viz: 31,726 pounds. Kentucky raises the most tobacco, viz: 72,322,513 pounds. Georgia raises the mostcotton.viz: 148, 175,126 pounds. South Carolina raises the most rice.viz: 06,892,307 pounds. Value of l'ewftiiperg. We find the following gossip about the value of different Northern newspaper establishments in the New York corres- J pondence of the Charleston Courier: ! Notwithstanding the many newspaper failures winch we have witnessed in this city, the value of well established news paper property, is very great. We had a few years ago a prevailing mania for types and paper, which, while it lasted, used up. a considerable amount of float ing cash. It went out a few years ago, and the last new daily established was, 1 think, tho Telegraph, which lived about twe years. This mania has now run in- toSunday publising, there being now five or six Sunday papers, The Atlas, Mercu ry, and limes, are doing well the Atlas probably divides S40 per week to each of its proprietors, and the Mercury near ly as much. But I wis led to speak of the value of ne wspaperproperty, by hear ing of the salo of one half the Boston Alias, by Mr. Hayden.to Col. Schouler, of the Lowell Courier, for about $35,000. Tho Atlas is one of tho best papers in Boston, and is liberally patronised, but probably the most profitable paper is the uaiiy Advertiser, which lias a very large advertising patronage. It is considered worth 90,000, and 40,800 it is said has been refused for half of it. The Boston Post is also a valuable paper, even the whigs not being able to resist the bon- hommie of Col. Green, and give it a lib eral sopport. Were the Courier es tablishment is probably as valuable as any, although the Journal ot Commerce runs it closely, and the Sun and Tribune prob ably make quite as much money. One third of the Courier was sold a few months since to oue of the assistant edit ors for $30,000; and one quarter of the Tribune, re port says, was sold at $15,000. A portion of the Tribune could not be bought fur loss than equal to SIOO.OOq for the whole, and the Sun is held equal ly high although sold originally to Bead for $28,000. N. D. Our readers will bear in mind that the above are not Wettern papers. Ed. Exhaustion or Talk. How long the lamp of conversation holds out to burn, between two persons only, is curiously set down in the following passage from Count Gonfalloiiier's account of his imprisonment: "1 am an old man now; yet by titteen years ray soul is younger than my body! r ifteen years 1 existed tor 1 did not live it was not life iu tho selfsame dun geon ten feet square ! During six years had a companion; during nine 1 was a- lone! I never cjould rightly distinguish the face of him who shared my captivity in the eternal twilight of our cell. Ibe first year we talked incessantly together! we related our past lives, our joys forev er gone, over and over again. The next year we communicated to each other our thoughts and ideas on all subjects. The third yeiir, we had no ideas to communi cate; we were beginning to lese the pow er of reflection ! The fourth, at the in terval of a month or so, we would open our lips to ask each other it it were in deed possible that the world went on ao gay and bustling as when we formed a portion of mankind. .1 he tilth we were silent. The sixth he was taken away, I never knew where, to execution or to lib erty; but I vr&tglad when he was gone; even solitude was better than the dim vision of that palo vacant face. After that I was alone, only one event broke in upon nine year s vacancy. One day. it must have been ayoarortwo after my companion left me, the dungeon door was opened, and a voice wiionce proceeu ing I knew not uttered these words: "Uy orders ot his imperial majesty, i in timate to you that your wife died a year ago." Thon llie door wns shut, and I hoard no more; thoy had but flung this great agony in upon me, and left me a lone with it again." 1 The Divinitv op tub Gali.owi Sir Fitzroy Kelly of England, has stated, that since the year 1800, no less than 14 persons have suffered death for crimes in that country, tor wnicu u was aiter wards clearly shown that they were in nocent. QTA singing master, while teaching his pupils, was visited by a brother ot the tuneful art. . The visitor observing that the chorister pitched the tune vocally said, "Sir, do you use a pipe?" "No," said Semibrave, "I euzw." Indian Diatemtlctt. We leurn from two traders from the Osage nation, who arrived here this morn ing, that frequent acts of violence and bloodshed are committed by the Osages, on tho one part, and several other tribes on the other, between whom bitter hos tility has for a long time existed. To wards the close of last month, before our informants loft, a party oi the Osages had brought in several scalps, of the Dela wares, a small party of whom had been met and killed. It waa reported, be fore thoy left, that a Grand Council was being held, on the Salt Plains, in which the Chcrokees, Camancbes, Creeks and Delaware tribes were represented, the object of which was to unite and declare war against the Osages. It is high time that the General Government, which pro fesses to be the guardian and protector of the Indians on our western frontier, should give some attention to the grow ing evils to which we have frequently ad verted, by stationing an adequate force of mounted dragoons, the roost efficient troops for such service, at. some point where they may not only preserve peace between the different tribes, but protect the property of traders and the govern ment, and the lives of tho3e who conduct it, from the piratic hordes that are con stantly on the alert for opportunkes to attack and plunder the trains new daily traversing the plains. St. Louis Rep. Postaoe. From a statement made by" the Post Office Department, that there is an mdication of an increase of the reve nue of the department fur the year 1847, over that of 1846, of a little over 17 per cent a triumph of the low postage system. We are gratified at this. It shows al so that there was no necessity for the cur tailment of free newspaper circulation. The people for a short period enjoyed, in the transmission of their papers 30 miles from the place of publication, free of postage, some of the legitimate bene fits of a liberal policy. 1 he last Con gress, to their shame be ittpolccn, as if sv fraid that they had advanced in knowl edge a step too far, took this small boon from the people, though they took good care to be more liberal to themselves. The public press should bo heard up on this subject. They are equally inter ested with the people in the repeal of this fmrt of the law, as well as that rid wu o:h part which relates to the enbrmous postage to be pre-paid upon casual pa pers. It has got to be pretty generally understood now, that the Pest Office sys tem, while it monopolizes the busiuess, is not to be a ourden to the people. Our law makers can square their conduct ac cordingly. Indiana Journal. Spirit op the Age. The receipts of benevolent societies, as reported during the Anniversary week in New York, were as follows! Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, $95,028; American and Foreign Bible Society, $31,739; Sea man's Friend Society, $17,515; American Anti-Slavery Society, SS.797; American and 1 oreign Anti-Slavery society, 812,- 635; New York Colonization soetety, $5,813; Foreign Evangelical Society, $14,820; American Baptist Home Mis Society, $30,79 Female Moral Reform Society, $6,693; American Tract Society, $160,130; American Home Missionary Society, $1 19,453; American Bible Sociov ty,5210,386; Society for Relief ef Jews, $6,690; American Temperance Unien, $1,522; American Protestant Society, $9,709. Of the Annals of the Propaganda, 167, 000 are now printed: 96,000 in France; 18,500 German; 13.500 English; 1,000 Spanish; 4,800 Flemish; 29,000 Italian; 2,500 Portuguese, and 1,300 Dutch and Polish. Oft-hand wit. There is a species ef off-hand wit which is used to get out of scrapes, and which the Irian people aro proverbial for possessing Quizzle, at our elbow, tells a good anecdote of this kind of impudence and wit combined. Plase yer honor I have been pilot here these twenty years," said a raw son of Lr.n, as the skipper hesitated to surren der the ship into his hands. Pat had been fishing in Narragansett bay, when a ves sel entered the mouth 5c struck a signal for a pilot; and a bright thought struck him that he might earn a few dollars, he bold ly ran aboard and pretended to be the re quired official. "But are you sure you know the riven replied tho skipper as Pat went to the helm. "Ay; ay starboard there," was the reply "now ease her s little By yer honor, I knew every sand bar, and channel, and rock in the onld bay" but at this instant, Unfortunately for the amateur pilot, bang went the ves sel agaiust a rock almost knocking. down the skipper and Ta. But the latter, un dismayed, finished bis sentence, with 'true Irish wit, "every rock in the ouU bay, jerhoiier,aJAireMeT' one of eMf Did Yov Sat Socrt We clip the: following good thing from tbe N.O. Delta "Waiter," said a diner-out, in a down town restaurat yesterday "Waiter.brirrg md'a plate of seup, quick." "say soup agaita, stranger, said a tail Tennessee returned volunteer, who hap pened to sit opposite to him, "and -I'll give you a Cerro Gordo whipping, I wif . I told the old General when I left him at Jalappa, that when I came to tfte States, I'd lick the first man I'd hear aayin' soup." The Delta adds, that it waa with great difficulty the Tenneesean could be satis fied. Hereafter, gratitude and admira tion will alike compel us to dispose of our soup tn silence. ' tyA spruce looking Lieutenant, un der the ten regiment bill, asking a friend what he weiTld be taken for without his epouletts, was answered that he would be Taken for Debt." "Poi.k and His Generals.," The Vicksburgh Wljig says that this new work will shortly appear. The pnnct pal "Generals" sketpbed are Antonio Le pes! de Santa Anna, Thomas Hart Ben ton, and Gideon Pillow. The Whig pre dicts for it an immense run! if ( it 1 :-'