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Its circulation in the town of Wilmington is as large as that of any otlierpaper pub lished in the place. We would further stnte that its circulation in the counties which trade to this place is threb times as large as that of any other paper publish td in North Carolina, and that its list is daily increasing. We say, therefore, without the fear of contradiction, that it is the best vehicle for advertising which the peo ple of Wilmington can select. One other observation We think, that although a large majority of the readers of the "Journal" are Democrats, still they occasionally do a little trading, as well as the readers of the whig pa pers. We have written the above merely for the Infor mation of those who are most deeply intcrested-busi-ness men of all professions and til political creeds WHO WANT CUSTOMERS. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. Post Office, Wilmington. Northern Mail., by Rail Road, due daily at 2 P M., fid close at lOevery night. Southern Mail, by Steamer from Charleston, is due daily at 8 K. M., and closes at 1 1 A. M. every day. 1'avettevii.le Mail, by Rail Road, is due on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, at 3 P. M., and closes on same 4ays at 10 at night. Faybtteville Mail, by Prospect Hall, Elizabethtown, Westhrooks, and Robesons, is due on Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturdays, at 9 A. M., and closes 99 same days at 10 P. M. riMirttviLLE Mail, by Steamer, is due daily at 8 A. M., nd closes at 12J P. M. every day. Ta yi.or's Rrioge, Long Creek, Moore's Creek, Black Rivbr Chapel, and Harrell's Store Mail, is due every Thursday at 6 P. M., and closes same night at 10. Onslow Court House, Stump Sound, and Topsail Mail, is due every Monday at 4 P. M., and closes every Tlmisday night at 10 P. M. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Neatly executed and with despatch, on liberal terms for cash, at the JOURNAL OFFICE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WILMINGTON, N. C. MYERS & BARNUM, 1-Haituf actum Sc Dealers ftt HATS AND CAPS, WHOI.KSALE ani retail, MARKET STREET Wilmington, N. C. GEORGE W. DAVIS, Commission ami Forwarding MERCHANT, LONDON'S WHARF, Wilmington, N. C. A iictloncer fc Commission Merchant, WILMINGTON, N. C. Liberal advances madeonshipments to his friends in New York. September 21, 1844. 1-tf. Cjill.I.T.SPK Sc KOBESOW Continue the AGENCY" business, and will make liberal advances on consignments of Lumber, Naval Stores, &c. &c. Wilmington, August 1st, 1815. til arwmirti THE VOTE OF " CENSURE " AGAINT. In our remarks last week, under the above heading, in reply to a charge made by the Chronicle against Gen. McKay, accusing him of voting to censure Gen. Taylor, we stated that Gen. McKay, with 1C3 other members, voted for the proviso ; whereas, upon refer ence again to the proceedings had on that oc casion, we find that we mistook the vote. The error is an unimportant one, as it does not affect the force of our article ; but, as we are always desirous of stating things as they are, we take the first opportunity to make the cor rection, arid we do so under this head. The question was on a motion to lay the resolutions and amendment (the proviso) on the table, and resulted, yeas 10, nays 164. The question was next on the adoption of the amendment, and it was decided by a vote of yeas 110 to 70 nays. Since our last publica tion, we have met with the following article on this subject. Although it takes the same view of the matter that we did last week, it goes more fully into the case, and we there fore place it before our readers, with the sim ple remark, that we hope, out of respect for the newspaper press, if nothing else, that our federal cotemporaries will cease their croak -ingson the subject. They must be aware that they are publishing what they know to be false, when they tell their readers that the Democratic members of the House of Rep resentatives, at the last session of Congress, voted to censure Gen. Taylor. They know in their own hearts, that no member of the de mocratic party desired any such thing. But we will not detain the reader from the article below : The" Vote of Censure." The following article, says the Richmond Enquirer, so fully expresses our own views, and by a concise and forcible summing up of facts so entirely refutes the cilly slang in which the Whig press has indulged, that we adopt it as our own. We take occasion to add a single re mark' that when the news of the capitulation of Monterey reached the United States, many Whig papers (we distinctly remember the Philadelphia United States Gazette) denoun ced the capitulation as highly improper, mis chievous. They then thought that it was a greed to, under the instructions from Wash ington. They instantly changed their tune, when this was shown not to be the case : "o We scarcely take up a Whig paper in which there is not either a covert insinuation, or a broad allegation, that Congress at its late session passed a vote of censure upon Gen'l Taylor. We have hitherto permitted this gross perversion of truth to pass unheeded a mong the thousand fictions that daily issue from the same quarter, relying upon the bet ter information of the public for its correc tion. But the storjhas been told so often, and reiterated with such an air of sincerity, that persons not in the constant habit of refer ring to the record may be led astray and in duced to adopt the notion that it may have some foundation in truth. For the benefit of any such of our readers as may have given ear to this delusion, we have to ask attention to a simple statement of the facts upon which the charge is founded. " At an early period in the late session of ongresB a resolution was introduced into the House of Representatives proposing, first, a DAVID rULTOU, Editor. VOL. 3 NO. 43. vote of thanks to Gen. Taylor and his army for their courage, skill, patriotism and good conduct in the battles of Palo Alto, Resacade la Palma and Monterey ; second, a Gold Me dal to Gen. Taylor ; third, that the victories were acquired in a just, holy and righteous cause. " During the discussion of the resolution, the following proviso was offered, which, to gether with the resolutions, was adopted by a vote of 103 to 62 : " Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed into an approbation of the terms of the capitulation of Monterey.'" "The head and front the length and breadth of the 1 censure' has this extent no more. Everybody remembers that, when the news of the capitulation of Monterey reached this country, a universal feeling ot surprise was manifested at the liberal character oi tne terms conceded to the Mexican forces. It ex cited astonishment, that a defeated army of 10,000 men were allowed to retire with arms in their hands, and without conditions ; and the reasons and motives that prompted and justified these terms were for a long period, even down to the time of the discussion in Congress, involved in mystery. No onetho't .-.f .nmiiirinn tlm fifin'l linu'pvpr in tlio iv pression of this feeling, which was as gener-) al as was the admiration of his skill and gal lantry. It was simply a feeling of surprise, growing out of the circumstances under which the capitulation was granted. It was not doubted but there were good and sufficient reasons for the act, but those reasons had not been fully presented to the country, and the proviso went merely to the withholding any opinion, pro or con, on the terms of the ca pitulation. A sharp-sighted New England Whig, however, who denounced the war as infamous, thought an occasion could be made of the proviso to constitute the Whig party the special guardian of Gen. Taylor's fame, and thus acquire some amount of party capi tal. He therefore raised the shout of censure, and after the resolutions had been adopted, another Whig, Mr. Cocke of Tennessee, mo ved to amend their title by striking from it the word 1 thinks,' and substituting ' censure.' The amendment received the support of the Whigs generally, but it was promptly killed; every Democrat in the House voting against it. It is true that two Democratic members of the House, Thompson of Mississippi, and Fick lin of Illinois, condemned the capitulation, but they met with no sympathy from the House, and it would be as unreasonable and unjust to hold the Democratic party responsible for their vagaries, as to charge the Whig party with the insane ravings of Giddings or the moral treason of Hudson. " The vote to strike out thanks and insert censure, was a Whig vote. The Democratic vote was a vote of thanks, and the resolutions were got up and carried through, in spirit of grateful acknowledgement for the brilliant ser vices of the hero of Monterey and his gallant army. Let us look at the vote taken alto gether : 1st, they voted thanks ; 2d, they vo ted a medal; 3d, that the victories were ac quired in a just and righteous cause ; 4th, they voted that they passed no opinions on the one act of which they knew nothing; fifth, they voted that by that act they meant no censure. This is the true version of the ac tion of the House of Representatives, which party malignanty has endeavored to pervert into a feeling of hostility of Gen. Taylor. " For ourselves, we regret that the proviso was introduced we thought it in bad taste, and were glad that the Senate struck it out not that it amounted to much one way or the other, but that it furnished an excuse for a vast amount of party misrepresentation. Mobile Register. From the Boston Bee. THE OLD TORY DOCTRINE ON LOUISI ANA, and the NEW TORY DOCTRINE ON TEXAS. The New Haven Palladium has become somewhat excited at supposing itself to be re ferred to, in an old quotation from a New Haven federal paper, which was printed in that renowned city in the year 1803, and which was copied into the Post the other day. It seems that the present Palladium is quite an ephemeral, or, as Susan Nipper would say in Dombey & Son, only a temporary and not a permanency, it having come into the breath ing world, only in the year 1829, and neither ot its distinguished editors naving nonoreu this hemisphere with their appeaiance in it, until 1809. Whereat, the New Haven Palladium cries out " unblushing falsehood !" It seems therefore, that the present Palla dium is not the immediate successor of the N Haven paper from which the quotation was made, but merely the successor of that paper in its tone, temper and unpatriotic doctrines in regard to the extension ot territory. This is all that is necessary to our purpose which was to identify " old federalism and modern whiggery" in Connecticut, and else where, touching Louisiana and Texas. The arguments now and then. ae precisely the same, except that the old federal editors hat more point and purpose than these modern im itators in running down their country and si diner with her enemies. The authority we have for citing the old federal New Haven paper oi 1803, is the Boston Centinel, which is the best federal authority extant, and as we gave but a brief quotation from the article, we now transfer the whole, which may be found in the leading federal paper which was printed in New Haven, July 23d, 1803. Under the head of " Extracts from paper; by the last mail," the Boston Centinel and Massachuseets Federalist July 30, 1803, gives the following as theonnecticut feder al argument against the annexation of Louisi ana: New Haven, July 23, 1803. At length the public are favored with the amount of the purchase money for Louisiana Fifteen millions two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars is the price we have to pay. For i what ? Is it for our national independence is it for our national honor ? or is it for means to secure and strengthen both ? By no means. This would look a little like the spirit which animated the councils of Washington and Adams, or those dreadful days so feelingly de picted as the " reign of terror." For what purpose, then, is it that $15,250,- 000 are parted with so complacently ? Why, inaeea, to obtain so many acres ot good ara ble bog and wilderness ! inhabited, it is true, with a plentiful stock of savages, which we may drive from their inheritance, if we can. , But in the name of common sense, you ask, wherefore do we want this additional territo ry ? Hae we not already millions of unpeo pled land, and that without going two thou sand miles in quest of strange soil ? Hush ! be cool ! Do you not know we wanted a place of deposite for ou.- western produce ? A place of deposite ! This is indeed insuffera ble ! Honest farmer ! you and I don't get our peace by chanting lullabies. Let us then for a moment inquire how many dollars you will have to pay toward this same louisiana purchase! The United States, by the late census, con tain something above 5,600,000 souls. Ma- GOD, WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1847. king due allowance for the black population, &c, we shall find the taxable heads of families to comprise about every tenth person. Divide the whole number of inhabitants by ten, and it will give 560,000 as the number of heads of families who are taxable. In order to as certain the precise amount that falls to each, we proceed to divide the price of the purchase, 15,250,000, by the number of persons, 560, 000, who are to defray it, which will at once show that every father of a family must pay the sum ef twenty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents ! From this, however, some deduction should be made, as there are many individuals sub ject to taxation without families. This may possibly reduce the average sum for each tax able inhabitant of the United States to about TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS. Who is benefitted by this unexampled de mand upon your purses? Is it yourselves is it your country or is it the coffers of Bonaparte ? Froin the Baltimore Daily News. FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE We copy from one of our exchanges, the following chronological table of events con nected with the commencement of hostilities with Mexico, compiled from official docu ments : March 1, 1845. The resolutions annexing the territory of Texas to the United States were approved by President Tyler, and a mes senger despatched, (two days before the inau guration of President Polk,) conveying them to the Texas government. March 6, 1845. The Mexican minister, Mr. Almonte, residing at Washington city, protested against the proceeding, demanded his passports in a menacing manner, and went home to be minister of1 war against us. Sept., 1845. Instructions were issued by Mr. Buchanan, our Secretary of State, to Mr. B'ack, the American consul at the city of Mexico, " to ascertain from the Mexican go vernment whether they would receive an en voy from the United States, intrusted with full power to adjust all the questions between the two governments." Oct. 15, 1845. The Mexican government, through her Secretary of State, Mr. Pena y Pena, agreed to "receive a minister from the LTnited States in the capital of Mexico, with full power from his government to settle the dispute in a peaceable manner." Nov. 10, 1845. The Hon. John Slidell was commissioned as such envoy. He landed at Vera Cruz on the 30th of the same month. Dec. 6, 1845. Mr. Slidell arrived at tve city of Mexico, and on the 8th of the mon.n announced his mission ; the Mexican Secreta ry of State, in the meantime, objected to him, asKimr " wnat ne nad come lor r" and " who he could be ?" Dec. 20, 1845. Mr. Slidell's mission was annulled by an official note from the Mexican secretary, requiring him to produce special powers, ad hoc, for the settlement of the Tex as question alone. On the 20lh of January Mr. Shdell retired to Jalapa. Dec. 28, 184o. 1 he government of Herrera was overthrown, and Gen. Paredes, a milita ry usurper, succeeded to power, on a promise that his advent should be the recovery of Tex as by force. March 1, 1846. Mr. Slidell, from Jalapa, repeated the proffer of peace to the new Mex ican becretnry ot .Mate, Mr. CastilloT Lanzas, adding that the President was sincerely desi rous ot preserving peace between the two go vernments. March 12, 1846 Mr. Castillo y Lanzas rejected Mr. Slidell, and on the 21st of the month sent him his passports, and soon after he returned to the United States. Oct.. 4, 1845. General Taylor, in an offi cial letter to the War Department; suggested the propriety of " taking possession, at once, of one or two suitable points on or quite near the Rio Grande." Jan. 13, 1846. Three months afterwards, instructions were issued to Gen. Taylor to oc cupy the east side of the Rio Grande, but to refrain from any act of aggression against Mexico ; and to regard relations between the two governments as peaceful, until Mexico made further demonstrations of war. (Previ ous to this time, undoubted information had been received that Mexico had been raising troops for the avowed purpose of carrying on a war with the United States.) March 11, 1846 Gen. Taylor, with the army, left Corpus Christi, on the west side of the Neuces, and arrived at Brazos Santiago, March 28th. Gen. Taylor found an army of 2,000 Mexican soldiers already assembled at Matamoros under the command of Gen. Aris ta. April II, 184ft. Gen Ampudia arrived at Matamoros superseding Arista in command, accompanied by 200 cavalry, followed by a reinforcement of 2,000 more men. April 12. Ampudia ordered Taylor to break up his camp within 24 hours, and retire be yond the Neuces, or he would attack him. At the same time, all the Americans and our consul, were driven from Matamoros. April 23. Gen Paredes issued his war manifesto against the United States, and sent additional military forces to the Rio Grande. April 24. A large body of Mexican troops, which had previously crossed the RioGiande into Texas, attacked Capt. Thornton's com mand, killed and wounded 16, and captured the remainder. Previonsly to this they had brutally murdered Colonel Cross. Also Lt. Porter and one of his men, who went out in search of Cross, were fired upon and killed. April 28. Capt. Walker and 24 men were attacked on their way from Point Isabel to Gen. Taylor's camp, and six of his men killed, and a number of the Mexicans killed and wounded. May 8th and 9th. The battles of Palo Al to and Resaca de la Palma were fought in Texas. Mau 12. The President sent in his mes sage, recommending the recognition of the war ; and on the 13th, Congress declared the war to exist by the act of Mexico, and au thorized the President to prosecute it to i speedy and honorable conclusion. These things should be remembered : and whenever rampant whiearery undertakes to justify the course of Mexico, it should be re minded of them. Expense of British Railways. Some idea of the magnitude of the railway calls may be formed by comparing the expenditure per mile on the finished lines. The most expensive has been the London and Black wall, which was j287,000 per mile, it is constructed oa arch es, and the original site was covered with houses; and as the owner's title to each house required to be perfected at the expense of the Company, its law expenses were im mense. The cheapest Railway is the Dundee and Arbroath, which is onlyje8,500 per mile. When the cost of construction amounts to on ly Jt230,000 per mile, it may be considered as cheap; 40,000 as the average, and .50,000 as being the "full figure," which is about the cost of the London and Birmingham. The " arliamentary expenses incurred in these lines would alone be sufficient to make lines of sim ilar length in any well wooded district of the States. If the clock of the tongde be not set by the dial of the heart, it will not go right. 0W OUR COUNTRY"; AJT2 LIBERTY". REPLENISH THE EARTH. A writer in the June number of the Knick erbocker, holds the following language : " Allow us to put the question," says the correspondent, " What is to become of the world, if it goes on, 4 as in the days of Noe, marrying and giving in marriage,' for two hun dred years to come ? For, according to pub lished statistics, the population of the United States, since 1790, has doubled in 24 years; the British Islands, in 49 $ years ; France, be sides its loss of -over 2,000,000 by wars, &c, in 35 years ; the German States, say 50 years ; Russia, about 35 years. Average, less than 40 years. " Therefore, if the present organization of society, and the advance of arts and civiliza tion, serve to increase the means of subsis tence, of course population will increase in at least a corresponding ratio, and double in less time. " If is estimated that there are at this time 1,000,000,000 of people on the globe; which, if doubled only five times in 200 years, will make the number of 32,000,000,000. So if the whole surface of the earth, including riv ers, lakes, swamps, and deserts, contains Tut 50,000,000,000 of square miles, or 32,000, 00Q of acres, there will then be less than one acre of land for each individual ! " We ask, What is to become of the world?' And without seeking for recruits,' what will you do with supernumeraries ?" Do not be afraid. If th4contingency so much apprehended by " The Knickerbocker" should arrive, we shall probably be able to live at a less rate than one individual to the acre. Besides, when we become too much crowded, we shall quarrel probably and thus thin each other off. But we must confess that, for our own part, we experience no par ticular uneasiness as to the fate of those who will be here two hundred years hence, re cruits or supernumeraries. They will, doubt less, as in the case of the Egyptians, be able to pack themselves as closely as Smyrna figs in a drum. Education. This is a practical world not a world of reverie, of dream, or of imagi nation. A world more of nimble sixpences than of abstract ideas, or of the flowers of poesy ; and so far as comfort, success, and the happiness arising therefrom, may seem to go, and they go very far, perhaps the less we have of mere imagination the better will it be for us in the end, u. less, indeed, that imagination i be so curbed and kept under the foot of strong '.ad down-right common sense, that it cannot e high enough to do a serious mischief. The first of all blessings is a mind at ease; and to have a mind at ease, we must be pret ty well assured that the landlord, the baker, the butcher, the tailor, and all other impera tively essential people will be paid when they seek for payment. Now, the imagination pays no bills, though it has a curious knack at the encountering of responsibilities but that hard-headed common sense, at which imagina tion is apt disdainfully to curve the nose. keeps all its eyes open to the downright un- colored truth of the case and provides accor dingly. We like sordidness as little as any body and we are not apt to be a niggard but coramend us always for safety and for comfort to the scruple and the caution which the world is apt to despise. Nay, it is much better to err on the secure side than to risk a toppling over on that side which terminates in the abyss. The " multiplication table" is a mighty engine it deserves all reverence; and a business faculty is of more worth in this nineteenth century of making the most of ev erything, than to be able to build the lofty rhyme, and to secure those empty applauses which fill no stomachs and which cover no backs. Happiness does not exist with hun ger philosophy in rags has a bitter aspect ; and the great art after all yea, before all, is the art of getting along in the world. Chil dren, then, should be educated with this chief ly in view. The graces are well ; but let the graces be secondary to the substantials for starving graces graces that must solicit char ity, cap in hand, become doubtful graces in the end. Buying and selling, and making, these are the points ; and one ounce of practi cal available expertness in this direction is worth tons of lounging ideality. Napoleon was right when he derided the " ideologists," as he termed them, and relied on the man of facts. Solution of Silk. A simple piece of worn- out silk is, in ordinary usage, worth nothing, whilst the same in cotton, linen, or cloth, has for a considerable time been made available for various purposes. Through the research es of Professor Debzenne, the most useless portions of silk can now be transformed into new silk again, to serve for different articles. In the same way that caoutchouc is drawn out into filaments, and woven into a durable ma terial, so are these remnants of silk reduced to what is no more than its primitive state, viz : a glutinous paste, by means of a solvent; and like fused glass, re-acquires, on coming into the air, all its strength and tenacity. The crude silk, and that which is not dyed, is ea sily managed. The inventor at present has found it difficult, however, to recover the dyed portions of silk, and more especially the black ones ; but he hopes, by continuing his close attention to the subject, to overcome this diffi culty, and to relieve France from the duty of 70,000,000 fr. which she pays to foreigners for the means of alimenting her numerous silk establishments. For Ireland and Scotland. Our gallant tars of the frigate " United States," have sent their sympathy to the famishing poor of Ire land and Scotland in a manner which does them the highest credit. U. S. Frigate "United States," Port Praya, Cape de Verd Islands, May 14. My dear Mr. Harvey: The distressing ac counts brought from the United States, of the sufferings of the poor in Ireland and Scotland, have caused a feeling of deep concern for their unfortunate condition, which has been mani fested in a substantial manner by the officers and crew of this ship. Without having been prompted, they came forward and offered to raise a contribution in money. The amount collected might have been larger, but for the necessity of limiting and regulating subscriptions made by seamen, in consequence of the unequal donations which they would otherwise make. It was therefore found proper to fix the amount which each should give. A bill drawn upon the Hon. the Secretary, for the sum of $653, is herewith enclosed. We are aware that it is but the "widow's mite," when compared with the amount subscribed by our kind-hearted people at home ; yet we trust that it will effect some good, and that it may reach its destina tion in time to relieve the suffering of many individuals. With sincere good wishes for your future health and happiness, I am truly yours, GEO. C. READ, Commanding U. S. Naval Forces, West Coast of Africa. To Jacob Harvey, Esq. If you would borrow anything a second time, use it well and return it speedily the first time. onxn&t From the Philadelphia Bulletin. SNAKE BITES. As this is the season when we frequently hear of fatal results from the bite of snakes, the following article from the Burlington (Wisconsin) Gazette, will not be without in terest for many of those who live in exposed situations, and who, in the course of their bu siness, cannot know at what moment they may require aid to guard them against the ef fects of one of the most subtle poisons that can act upon the human system : " As the rattlesnake is found in no part of the world but the continent of America, and as it possesses several remarkable peculiari ties, it has frequently been captured, placed in a cage, and exhibited as a curiosity. The exhibitors of this dangerous reptile have fre quently lost their lives by being accidentally bitten, while others have perished from the bite, believing that they possessed an antidote to the swift circulating poison. Several years ago, one of the keepers of the New England ! Museum, in the act of rousing the den of rat tlesnakes, which are there exhibited, in con- nection with the thousand and one wonders of j mat esiaDiisnmeni, met witn a very alarm- ing accident. Having introduced a feather brush, by raising the lid about an inch, and getting them sufficiently roused to set their rattles going like the buz of a cotton factory a bystander at his elbow asked him a ques tion which he did not precisely understand, and turned his head towards the gentleman and at the same instant oe oi the largest snakes ran his head through the opening, and tnrust nis langs into tne little nnger oi ins right hand, with such prodigious force as to reach the bone at one of the punctures. The sufferer had presence of mind enough to cord the finger immediately; in a short time an ex cision of the flesh, including the wounds, was made by a physician, who also prescribed a dose of spirits of turpentine and sweet oil. Not only the finger but the whole hand swell ed exceedingly, accompanied with a prickling sensation, or, as commonly termed, the sensa tion of being asleep. About eight o'clock in the evening, there was a partial stricture about the lungs, and difficulty of taking a free inspiration, together with the prickling sensation over the whole system, and an ague fit that gave fearful indi cations of a free diffusion of the poison thro' the circulation. A large dose of opium re lieved the patient ot the spams and a con tinued use of it overcame the tendency of such paroxysms. An application of salt and vine gar, constantly applied to the hand and arm, kept the inflammation under subjection. The limb was very much swollen the tongue coated, and a slight degree of fever existed, but a happy recovery was accomplished. We have been particular in the narration of this case for the bene.it of others hoping that the mode of treatment, so successful, may be adopted by other sufferers. It should be re- collected that caustic was inserted as soon as the flesh was cut out. On one occasion, the keeper referred to, put a rat into the den on purpose to witness the result. Nearly every snake gave the affright ed animal a thrust with his fangs. In about six minutes, the rat begun to .tremble violent ly, and died instantly. A master millwright who was at wrk on a saw mill in Sullivan county, New irork, some years ago, one day during the dinner hour, and before his men had resumed their work, was sitting alone on one of the floor timbers, carelessly swinging his naked foot; he felt something strike it, and on looking down saw a large rattlesnake in the act of di ving into the brook below. He immediately started for the house, but had gone but a few yards when a severe pain or spasm brought him to the ground, and rendered him incapable of proceeding; his cries brought his men to his assistance, who carried him up to the house. They were all strangers in thst coun try, which was then a wilderness, almost without inhabitants, and none knew what to do to relieve the bitten man, whose agony ap peared to be extreme when the spasms were on, .which occurred about every minute, and which he said " struck from his foot to his heart, and would take his life." No sweet oil was to be had in that wilderness. But hog's lard, after melting it till it became liquid, was administered, about two-thirds of a com mon sized tea cup full, repeating the dose as frequently as his stomach would retain it. In a short time, perhaps less than fifteen minutes, the spasms were less frequent and less strong than they had been, and in about an hour ceased altogether, and he was free from pain except in his foot. No )ther remedy was used internally. All the outward applications were as follows : Previous to lard being ad ministered, and while getting it ready, his foot was washed and examined for the wound, but none could be found ; there appeared a very slight scratch, scarcely perceptible, on the spot he pointed out. It was then scarified a little, with a penknife, so as to produce a raw appearance. One of the men procured a buck et of mud from the brook and placed the foot in it. It was said by some one present, that if a bandage of white ash bark was placed a round the limb above the bite, it would not swell above. This was procured, and a liga ture of it placed above the ankle, and another below the knee. The b.'te was on the top of the foot just above the two middle toes. The foot was swelled greatly, and changed to va rious colors, and he was deprived of its use for some time. In the year 1750, a slave in South Carolina discovered another remedy for the bite of the rattlesnake, for which the Legislature of the State obtained his freedom, and granted him one hundred pounds in money. His remedy is as follows : 4 Take of the roots of Plantane or Hore hound (in summer, roots and branches togeth er) a sufficient quantity, bruise them in a mor tar, and squeeze out the juice, of which give, as soon as possible, one large spoonful ; if it is swelled, you must force it down the throat. This generally will cure, but if the patient finds no relief in an hour after, you may give another spoonful, which never has failed. But if the roots are dried, they must be mois tened with a little water. To the wound may be applied a leaf of good tobacco, moistened with rum.' " Since selecting the above, we notice a state ment copied from the Macon Messenger, which speaks of alum as a simple and effec tive remedy for the cure of the bite of the rat tlesnake. A piece of the size of a hickory nut, dissolved in water and drank, or chewed and swallowed, is sufficient It has been tried many times, on men and dogs, and they have invariably recovered. The writer says, I know of some planters whose hands are ex posed to be bitten by rattlesnakes, who al ways have themselves provided with it in their pockets, and they have sometimes found use for it. New Remedy for Pulmona ry Diseases. The late advices from England state that "large quantities of tobacco have been taken for home consumption." Well they do say that large quantities of tobacco contribute considerably towards con sumption of the lungs, as well as of smoke. We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to serve them. TERMS : SO in advance. WHOLE NO. 146. RISING IN THE WORLD.. Mechanics and Professional Mew. The Vermont Patriot, under the head of "Ri sing in the World," has the subjoined remarks, which epntain some striking truths which we commend to the attentive perusal df'vur rea ders : We saw it stated the other day, that a mem ber of Congress, from Tennessee, was former ly Tailor, and the inference to be drawn from the statement was, that he had risen from a Tailor to a member of Congress ! It strikes us uiai an such iuik. is excessively ueieieriuus . rr.. I, to nur rpnnh iran snnptv The rpiiilt otitis iL.t ii u ; i : if. M ir i ill . i .4 f I if v I 'ii t run- . rr. lninr nr i . i : . L. . . . r - . . .r .j. r i those who get their . ... " ivmg by their wits, and that in order to rise in the world they must abandon their business and seek their .bread in some of the fashionable professions. The truth of it is, however, that although the learned professions are necessary, yet the producer. 1 4 the mechanic, the great laboring class, must Qf necessity stand first and foremast the or der of worldly things. Now pray, show us a maker, or your Blacksmith, who labors hon- wormier man man vour lailor, or vour Shoe Kt v thrnnirh th Aw Jr. l; us vocation, dome like a man, what he finds to do, what, in the matter of making clothes, patching boots or shoeing horses, it is necessary should be done. Can this man rise from business to any other that he may follow as a mere means of get ting a living? Your law profession, your Medical profession, your divinity profession, so far as they are used as the means of a living, to make bread and money out of, what better are they, what higher are they than your pro fession of Coat-mending, your profession of Horse-shoeing, or your profession of Shoe-making ? Talk about a thrifty, honorable me chanic rising to a half starved petti foger, whom society calls a lawyer, or to a spiritual bland guide of a divine, or to a maker of rotton wood pills called a physiciar-bah ! rising! We are no preacher of aggrarianism. The learned proiessions are all i i , , . , , , i use u and necessary ; but what good is to be, S Vl1 f ot accomplished by indu- SSJJSTTE the,blafck7,1th' tte.l,r'n- I ter and such like to understand that their bu- j s.ness is lower than that of the learned pro-! j itrnt. proper ant i tessions ? Is it not better for them to know that their professions are also necessary, and i that it is the manliness with which they' labor in the calling, and not the calling, that shall bring them "consciences void of offence to- i wards God and man," and entitle them to the consideration of worthy and honorable mem bers of society ? You Law teacher, and you teacher of Reli- j gion, and you Physician, you are all necessa-! ry. The mechanic has no time to devote to j anything more than the general principles of your professions; he must trust you in the matters you profess, and he does "trust you ; but none of your airs, gentlemen! for the old shoe-maker and the jacket builder are jusfflas necessary as you are. They need you and you need them; let it be so understood then, and so agreed. You know a great deal that they do not know; but they are up to you, for they know a great deal that you do not know, and without their knowledge of shoe-making, 1111 ii -. ana sucn iiKe, you would be poorjy on. It ought to be sa.d, however, to a portion of the laboring people who are continually cry- ing out against those whom sma dprnnirnn-nps represent to them to be aristocrats, that you often, do very great wrong when you here such cries. You do, also, still greater wrong j when you fancy that every professional man, feels above you. It is, nine cases out of ten, mere fancy ; for we tell you, and you must hear us, in this matter, for we are defending you, now, it is all mere fancy. ou will meet able to each other after their union as they now and then, a thing of starch and rattan, i were before it. Seek always to please each who gives himself airs and turns up his nose other, my children, and in doing so keep heav at you; but who made you a fool that you en in mind. Lavish not your love to-day, re should mind him ? Do you get mad and feel member that marriage has a morrow and again envious toward your cock turkey because he ' a morrow. Bethink ye, my daughters, what spreads his wings and struts about you and j the word house-wife expresses. The married fills your ears with his gobble ! gobble ! gob-1 woman is her husband's domestic trust. On ble ! We tell you that no true man ever feels I her he ought to be abhe to place his reliance above any other man. You fancy sometimes in house and family ; to her he should confide as you stand in the door of your workshop, the key of his heart arid the lock of his store and see a man ride by with ruffle in his bosom room. His honor and his home are under her and a gold watch in his pocket, that he is an nrolection his welfare in. her hands. Ponder aristocrat and feels above you ! This iollows as a matter of course by no manner or means. The ruffle, the gold watch, &c, may be mere matters of habit, of education, things to which he has been accustomed from childhood, and which he thinks as little of as vou do of your apron and plain Dover unbleached. The true aristocrats of the country are the producers. It would be better perhaps, if there were not so many who liye upon other peo ple's productions. But a class of this kind we must have, and so long as the producers feed .1 4 II. 11 .1 mem it is wen to allow tne matter to pass without making much trouble about it. There ; London paper, upon the character of a good is a portion of our population who understand ! man bearing up cheerfully under the misfor their position. They perform their requisite ; tunes oi life- " Tnere is no spectacle,'' says labor, in their business are contented, happy this writer, " upon which God delights so and envying nobody, looking w ith green eyes ! much to look as upon that of a good man upon no other man's business better than theirs. ! struggling under the weight of misfortune These men cannot rise from their occupation ; the power of fortitude, the evidences of a firm to a seat in Congress. Their position is the highest already in society. These men are the noblest among men. There is another class who feel differently. They perform their part with grumbling; full of envy and jealousy; continually longing for some higher employment, and wishing they stood on the more elevated platform in society. Wrong as all this is, yet the blame is not al ways to be charged upon them. It is charge able, in the greatest measure upon another, and the most pernicious, and contemptable class in society. That class who are stuffed with false notions of dignity, manliness, and worth, and who seek always to impress upon their children that no man can be a man who gets his living bv anv other than what thev are pleased to term the higher employments, They are horirfied at the idea of their son fal- j ling in love with shoemakers' girls, and to al- j low tailors to 'set up' with one of their daugh- ters would be a greater sin than connivance i at her death If a son desire from taste to be - come a mechanic, their eyes protrude with borrow, and this vicious inclination must be broken or the boy is ruined. He must be ed ucated, sent to college, made something of ! He is consequently put to that for which he has no inclination, and the boy who might B- , , J .-. a rn ififi4tit m mLa Wt IM i o ti flaBM r i ;4 0 Li ; ti iv t jfe I der the 9th section of the act of the Uth Feb- We go for the utter extinction, root an : ruaJ7 147" . , , ttr - re branch of this most miserable class. They; The Secretary oHVar concurs ,n opinion are not fit to live. 1 here is no such things as rising, except in honor and worth. A man may commence life filing saws. He files his saws faithfullv. He is a temperate, honest ! and worthy man, as much so as it is possible for him to be. Bv-and-bv. he finds he has a capacity to file other things than saws ; and j farther on, by mending with files he learns to i make with files: still farther he becomes a machinist, and making learns to improve and invent. He takes out parents oecomes in D13 business me hium nuieu, piacucai man in ; his time, and his friends, to show their respect! for him, send him to the Legislature, to Con gress, and forthwith certain fools talk of his rising from a saw-filer to a member of Con gress ! Simply, his sphere of usefulness was extended, and by just as much as he is less proud, more humble, more honest and faithful, Terms for Advertising. nn sna or stmts iiM oa xxni One squats one insertion, $1 00 do. do. 2 insert inn i on do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. 3 do. 1 50 J months without change, 3 00 6 do. do. do. 4 50 13 do. d. do. 8 00 6 do. renewed wecklv. 13 ofl . m uut WW. fi U W ,lbral discount will be made on advertise-: menu exceeding one square, when published of -SS? etuh in advance. fl I'll the numhor r : - 4 tn ! .In .It, .1st Ail tn. v , . " luociiiuns are noi mantra on the adverusement, they will be continued until ordered out, and charged for accordingly. (AM adverhsements required to be FOR in ADVANCER oe Paw he is exalted, has he risin, and no more. If people knew more of what they call rising, thev would give it another name. How mant) ! a man who has risen to what the world calls 1 the highest stations, looks back from the top most round, and sees, that, so far as all the es ! sentials of manhood are concerned, every step" i up has been two steps down, and who would not give all high honors, if it we're possible I for him to rise to his Old' station of a happv i and honest saw-filer. It were better for us all to understand this ; matter of profession and stctionsrto know and ,k. ih.a - -- , ., . j believe, that tne man dignified the station. anf ... ... .. b. """-" ui nnt the station tnp man- t int tn him ....... . nd foithfnllv nprfnrma hi ,rt ,k , .w UIIU IT I1U IIVMl- ' -t mav ';Lnim " ' 7' , 7"T j , v... pvi. . uiiu iiuii- or are due, and to teach the rising generation! to trust to these last, and not to mere station for credit and esteem.' DECLINE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD STUFFS. Our readers are aware, some of them, pos-; sibly, experimentally that a Very marked Snd decisive decline had taken place in the price' of breadstuff's, a short time antecedent to the sailing of the Cambria. And this we appre hend will prove only the forerunner to a still greater and irresistible depression, notwithj standing the most strenuous efforts which will necessarily be resorted to by interested pan ties, to obviate an entire prostration of their hopes and projects. Convinced as we have been, that the original advance in the price of breadstuff's was actually the direct effect of a sensible scarcity, we have seen in the latter operations of the market the undisguisable' evidences of artificial means for the bolstering of prices, with the view of obtaining immense profits upon the purchases effected at the low est figure of an antecedent period. And not withstanding the elaborate statistics and care ful digests of the New York Commercial and some other papers, which were calculated to i , vn-" stnercror our confidence in the observations we u j i i .u i. ...i.:k uciu in.iuu uiiu me cuirciuiUHB iu which wc had arrive(U we took occasi0!1 nevertheless td predict this decine and the causes by which it would be produced, in the Sun of the 10th of M ana a in t'Q intimate our helief df the sam' lheB15th instant, on noticine the rise of price announced by the Hibernia. lhe elevation of price was disproportioned to the actual demand ; while the fact was clear, that had the actual demand been equiv alent to that which was reported, the price, instead of $8, $10 or $12 per barrel for flour, would have been $20 a $30, and in like ratio for the other articles of corn and grain. It was plain, therefore, that artifice was at workj and that speculation was the source thereof ; and the exposition of cause and effect would necessarily transpire, through the very effort that would be made to increase and maintain the price. When this occurred, it was ration ally to be expected that panic would ensue, and the decline of price would be sudden and decisive. It has proved so ; yet a halt and rally occurs, and will at intervals, as the de cline goes on. If speculation has an abun dant stock on hand, the present rally will be followed by a rush into the market and ano- ther and greater depreciation will ensue JMa- " tT li-i'rt iy'i J ii null liiriiui lliii rl.i i mr nnil gumm at the ale e se of the ; ma-ses of the le6. but gombody imist suffer at last. The subject is fun of admoni tion, and yields much experience for our profit in another year. Baltimore enm. Hints to the- Married. Many a marriage has commenced like the morning, red, and per- i i i tin r i isnea like a musnroom. wnereiorcr ne- cause the married pair neglected to be as agree- this ! And you, my sons, be true men of hon or, and good fathers of your families. Act in such wise that your wives respect and love you. And what more shall I say to you, my children? Peruse diligently the word of Go 1 ; that will guide you out of storm and dead calm, and bring you safe into port. And as for the rest do your best ! Frederica Bremer. Fortitude under Adversity A more true or iorcibly beautiful moral picture could scarcely be delineated by the pen, than that which we find recently introduced into an article in a I w't". e Christian resignation ot a chasienecl spirit, unfold their beauties to the omniscient mind of Him to whom all things good are pleasing the wisdom of his creation is vindi cated ; and the Creator then, if at any time, has cause to pronounce it 4 very good.' To men, too, is this an admirable spectacle : to see the man borne down heavily oy the pres sure of his woes, struggling cheerfully with fate ; and, as wave after wave of misfortune rolls over his devoted head, yet once more breathes up a prayer of gratitude and praise, is in itself so ennobling, so flattering to hu man nature, that the wise, with one voice, have given to the spirit, by whose power the sufferer is supported, the magnificent name of : philosophy. It is tne union oi an maiisgoou -v. - .a r ii i a" i and wise and pious upon earth.M Impoktakt to Volunteers. The subjoin ed letter is copied from a New 'Orleans paper of the 3d ult. We do not recollect before to ; nave seen anv public notice of the informa tion which it contains : Pension Office, May 24, 1847. Sm Tn jii.Bwir to vour letter of the 221 inst., I have to inform you that no soldier dis charged before the expiration of the term of enlistment, on his own application and for his I special benefit, is entitled to land or scrip un Willi un: uiiuvi oignw vii iuiq puni Respecttully, your ob't serv't, J. L. EDWARDS. To Gen. R. Jones, Adj. Gen. U. S- Army. Hints to Farmers.Drive your business before you and it will go easily. Cut bushes that you wisu to uesiroy in me summer, ana wu Duaiy uiauuiiKui , i f,.fteiv and die. j go;v cover deep ; it secures it against the bought. Accounts should be kept detailing the ex penses and produce of each field. When an implement is no longer wanted for the season, lay it carefully aside, but let it be first well cleaned. . . Wi8dTm"isTette71 an inheritance; than an inheritance without wisdom.