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FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLICJENCEU.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
ms LIFE AS A COMMANDER.
[roXTINUED.]
>TT SKI.KCTF.1> To INSTRUCT AND DIP-
IPLINH Gl-N. HUUWN’S ARMY FOll THE
^EXT CAMI’AIGN.
riius f:ir, those larrcr operations of the
whii h hiul ]>een L-ntru.stcd to the more
5ra» (Jonerals were, except Harrison’s
rthrow of I’rootor, failures. It had
)nie clear that either the contest must
riven up, or anoth«‘r kind of eoniniand-
lust be found. It was not that these
were too old, but that they were poor
the advance of their own infuntry on the
left flank soon threw them between their
batteries and our columns, and thus com
pelled their cnnnon to bccome useless
against our line. So much for the artille
ry positions. Those of the infantry were
on cur side equally well di.-^posod. The
enemy came on in an unbroken line, which
outflanked us and reaciied into the wood
on our left. To rem.jdy this, Ijcaven-
wortli’s battalion was obliipied to the
ri^ht, ^IcNeil’s to the left, with an inter
val betweeti thf'in; while Je.sup s battalion
was obliqued still more to the left, so as to
meet the ..Memy’s right wing in the woixl,
and there hold it in check. At the point
where this was done the wood projected
r.. They had never known enough i
ii.a.le generals of; and now they were j ^..eu.y's line o„t of the wood
d to learn. It is neither because a , shorter than ours; and as their line in
8 Old or because he is }oung t la j plain continued to advance while that
n make hun safely a Icat er o a' j wood conUl not, the former was pre
sently, at the critical moment when it came
Nature must have created him for
Art have perfected the work. Xa-
lade a .Jackson and a Taylor; but she
uonld never have made a master ot
Scott.
^the in.uduit of this young officer
Ihe ■oviTiiiiifut peiccive that in him
|a! a man for victories. They had
c(I him rapidly; and the more ad-
the more had he shown himsclt fit
immand. Indeed, it has been rc-
ible in him that, no matter what
[have set him about, war or peace,
ing or negotiating, he lias always done
tter than anv boilv else.
into contact with our centre under McNcii,
i outflanked by it iu turn. These advanta-
j gcs had been at once seen atid .seized by
I superiority of generalship and that rapidi-
! ty and precision of inameuvre to which
■ his men had now been brougiit, so as to
be able (as they should) to exccute an im
portant movement almost as soon as their
! general had conceived it. l>iit this was
not all; a still more decisive evolution was
at hand.
' The movements just described had
i brought the adverse line. to exactly- that
body he had sent across the ]S«iagarn.
Pau.sing, therefore, only long enough to
report the fact by an aid-de-camp to Gen.
Brown, Scott pushed right on. He had
no sooner passed the wood than he found
himself in the presence—nay, under the
severe fire—of a force full live hundred
stronger than his own, and more advan
tageously posted. For they had chosen
their positions, and stood on it readv
drawn up in order of battle, occupying
with their artillery (nine pieces) an ele
vation which commanded the whole ground.
The JJritish line lay stretched along
Lundy’s Lane, a little beyond (north of)
it; its right, ue:.r which were its artillery.
clock, however, before they finally, with
uo very good grace, gave up the contest
and abandoned the field to us. In driving
back one of the last of these obstinate and
bloody charges, Scott received a very se
vere musket-shot wound, which shattered
all the bones of his left shoulder, and still
greatly disables that arm. Gen. Hrown,
also, was badly wounded about the same
time; and both (renerals had to be borne
from the field, with hurts that left it doubt
ful if cither would ever be able to serve a-
gain. We have only to add, in regard to
the tight of Chippewa, that if modern times
can show us battles on a greater scale or
more decisive iu their consequences than
point at which that terrible stratagem call
ed the “inoveirent fii imt'tue" (a sort of
,11 (W Slip,.lies fo.- tho ,attack) ,au be .nn.l,.ve,l.
aiirt, ,m.loi- u,str„ctio„, from "• "“'"V
was now, in the winter of lslo-14,
by the 1’ri‘sidt nt ti *\ll>anVi there
:»pare
Miign,
i to consult on and settle with G«iv.
)kins certain important arranaemi'nts,
|cal anil niilitarv, which have not yet
divulged. That business done, he
on tile !>th Mar h 1^14, promoted to
ink of Hriirailier (Jeueral, and sent to
Tiagara frontier, there lo form at i>uf-
by discipline and insfructii>n, as fast
ley urrivcil, a new army, meant to act
in the next campaiirn, under Major
[-ral Hiuwn. '1 hat ofti. er withdrew
Uiree months to SMck!tt’s Harbor, in
ir to leave this important operation en-
IV to Scott. He went ahout it accord-
with all his ini'^ht. W(> had here-
re used the old Kngli.'-h or rather I’rns-
■iystem of t.ictics; hut with a poor drill
Ifcn that; he at once adf>jvtcvl the far
}>erfcct molern Fremh one—that
li we now empli>y—anti plating the
army in a l.'ainp of Instruc tion, a
practical military school. kcj«t tlicm
jssantly, for the in'Xt three months,
and oflii ers, at learninir the whole
liness of fighting. First he t.night the
(ccrs, and then they taught the men.—
th were thoroughly trained to all the
li«r evolution.s. This elTfeted, he went
> the iiiirher mnvenients, n >t of mere
ils and ctimpatiies, battalions and re-
letit'. bri;iadcs and divisions, but made
.'k'lfiil in the maiueuvre t>f whole
pe>; and, in a word, aceustomed them
111 the duties of the camp, the march,
ithe battlefield. He did his work tho-
rhly, and stopped not until he knew
Iwe had now vn>' army fit t cope with
\t troip-; of Britain. He had iv-
theni from Gen. Brown raw i(‘-
he gave them back to him veterans
L-ijdine; he had taken th- in iu hand
crowd, (a mob with unit'»vms on;)
left him an invincible host tilled with
il skill ati'l lontidonee, anl soou to
befo.c them witii the h.iyonct ; that
bst test of the soldier; Wellington’s
’-eaters of the Spar.ish peninsula,
iad never before given back.
ri.\GAHA CIUK'J.'^KK—FOr.T KlllK TA-
fKi;X—DATTLH OF lliri>f:WA.
was now read\* for action. At the
bf Juno Gen. Brown retnrnel to F>nf-
fand on the ."d of July Si ottand llip-
rere sent across the Niagara with
brigatles to take Fort Frie. It so-^n
*idercd its 170 men, wiiile the re^^t of
t.ince of the enemy, yuur flanks are sud
dcnly pushed forward and your line thrown
into the shape of the rafters of a rather
flat-roofed house, while the enemy s line
occupies, in regard to if, the position which
the sleepers have to the rafter.'. The ef-
t\‘ct of this is to converge the file of your
line upon his centre and cut it in two; to
finish which i peratiou, you tlun charg(>
upi>n him, (the two angles of yuir line
moving upon the same j>oint on which their
double tire was just now poured,) and the
bayonet ends what the balls began. 'I’his
juovcment, when well executed, inevitably
breaks your adversary’s line, and is fatal;
no troops can stand it.] Scott now j)Ut it
in practice. 'J'he oppo.-.ing lines had ad
vanced upon each other, firing, halting, re
loading. and advancing again by turns, un
til now they were within eighty yards of
each otl)er. 'J’hcn Scott gave the word f'tir
the evi.hitioti pttriirc. To add to its i f-
fe.-t, he had a moment bt'fore rii'den over
t«j Towsoii’s artillery, (which he pcrceived
was, from the smoke and the » ncni_\’s ad
vance, tiring too much to the right, i and
told that aide gunner where next to pour
his balls; and his u^ xt raking discharge
was aceoidingly v ry dc.-tructive. A mo
ment after, the infantry made its matueu-
vre. No soomr was its tloubic fire jioured
in than Scott called out to MtNcil's bat
talion, “The enemy say we are o'.ily gool
at long .»hot, and can't staml the cold iron!
J call upon the Kicvinth to give the lie t(»
that siundcrl (.’harge! " A like ortler
v.'as given, at the .sune monient. to Leavcn-
wortli's battalion; ami both lio.lies rushed
upon the enemy’s centre with thi' bayont t.
It was instantly overthrown; and with it
the whole main botly i»f the Briti.'h army
broke, and fled iu total confu.'iou. Ahout
the .same time .Ksnp, under a heavy fire,
advanced upon the enemy in the wood,
forced them to retire, and thus comjd-.-tid
their defeat at all jjoints. Such was the
masterly acti\ity ot‘ Scott (others may
boast of “mast'Tly inactivity") that before
liipley, whom (Jen. Browii had gone to or
der up, could arrive, the battle had been
Won, and Scott was hotly pur^tiing the
routed adversary back acro.>s Chippewa
bridge into their entrent hnu'nts. It was
at the moment when hi.^ terrilie charge ut-
terl}' broke them to pieces, anl covered
the plain with their fallen and their fi\ing,
that he raised up his h inds on high aini
reaching to a ,,’ood; its left resting on the | this Lundy’s Lane or Bridgewater, they
road jiarallcl with the river, by which \ can present none more skilfully or bloodi-
Scott was approaching, and from which ly contested; for again (as at Chippewa)
diverged at right angles the lane. From ' the loss among all those engaged may be
their rear were n:andiing to join them, np i fairly stated as probably one in every four,
this same river road, reinforcements, while ' killed, wounded, or taken,
ours were to come along it from above. — ■ - y i ' j;- m . i ■».
We need hardly say that this was lliall, j
j and that instead of having (according to I
j the j-ositive information Brown was acting j
j tjii) sent off one thousand of his men 1
I across t!ie river, he had not sent one; but, j
1 on the contrary, was in the act of uniting |
j with a largo force which h.id arrived by !
I the Lake at Fort (Jeorge from Kingston i
I and Prescott, the night before, \>y a con-
j certcd movement, umler Lieutenant-(jen- •
I eral Sir Gordon Drummond. Strange to :
j tell, inform.ition h.id been sent to Brown
of a movement of the enemy, as occurriiiir '
! only a few hours before, wliich had not
hajipened at all; while they had left him
iu complete ignorance of titis most impor- ‘
tant event in the same (piartcr, happening
the nigiit b‘foreI Such was the situation
in which, at a glance, Scott s.iw himself to
1 be ])laced; if he fought, it must be at
much disadvantage; and it was too late to
TldR.^DAY. Al’lilST 19, 15^:2.
FOR I'RKSIDKNT,
GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT,
OF NKW' .)i:kskv.
FOR VICK I'RKSIDKNT,
Hon. WM. A. GRAHAM,
OF .\01;TH CAHOl.INA.
Scoff fotnnif ntnf his iii:/*-
ifirtf carrtr ht/ a ntist'orfitur tmtch
irttrsr tfiaii tnitffhinff t/mt has btrtt
chartfrti atfainsf fiai, i^itrer. Miv
iras (frf'tatrti in tfir futftteof 'ffuf rns-
fotrn, ftnet tiintsti/'iunf
From l^unol’E.—The Franklin arrived
at New York on Monday with Liverpool
dates to the 4th inst. And the Canada
arrived at Halifax on the same day, from i
Liverpo(d m the 7th inst. j
The election returns had all been re- '
ceived and no party had an actual majority.
In the cotton market prices are a shade
lower, the quotatiotis being, for Fair New
Orleans Ggd; and for Middling 5id.; for
Fair Mobile 6d, and for Middling 5§d; for ;
Fair Uplands Gd, and for Middling 5|d. j
From California.—The Illinois ar-1
rived at New York on Saturday with §2,-j
000,000 in specie, and California dates to i
July IGth. I
Much excitement prevailed at Mariposa, I
in consequence of the forcible ejection of ^
foreigners from the mines. A regular I
battle had taken place—(the foreigners ^
400 strong, and the Americ.ins about 200) j
I —but only one man was re]»ortcd killed, '
and several wounded. I
The latest accounts state that 40 to .50 ,
nt'groes had been arrested,—but that pre- j
parations were going forward for another i
ct>nflict. j
Indian difliculties continue to multijdy
all al ong the frontiers. ,
On Kings River (near San Joaquin),
the savages wore gathering in strong force, ^
threatening to extirpate the white settlers !
there. Volunteers were raising to o]>pose ■
them. I
About ."O miles from Tehama, a despe
rate tight with the Indians had taken place
on the 12th. Klcvcn savages were killed, .
i
, , , Itistvhofr at'mtf umonniinff to7m>
^ ilraw (»it, except l»y a retreat which could ' men, prisomt's of ir/it' ftt ft and one American.
! hardly help bein^ ])resently turned into a force fstiitlfttat Ht tiffht —
■ flight. Now, a fliirht w.is a thinir he had ' .Vorf/i Carolinian, Aug. 14, j Gk.v. JMkrck’s Lkttku.—We find in i
\ never seen, am! w.is not born to s‘e. So AVe publish the above statement of the the l{c}uiblic a letter from Gen. I’icrce
he dec;(led in>tantl_\ to engage, as it ■ North ('arolinian in the same c(mspicu»us denying the correctness ot the report of
I>ro\Mi > whole fouc Was jiu.m nt, and to , i»ieci.“elv the same prin- the New Boston speech. He sJ.ys the re- !
h:ht it (lut, at whatever odds, until the . , , , . , ' , ■ , i i it r i o ^
: 1 itter could come to his assistance; to ■ ‘ 'I’’"'’ publi.she.s an extract port ‘is grt.j^sly and absurdly false. So
which end he sent him, by a second aide- the Ob.server of April 27, 1S.32. much for the South.
de-camp, an account of the w hole state of And we intend to keep it there as long as As bait for the freesoilers he says in
' things. I iiu* extrai t I’rom the (Observer is so pub- the same letter, “my action and my lan-
It was now’ nearly sunset. Seott had li.shed. Hamiishire, touching this
: seen that on the enemy’s left flank lay a : — ^ matter, have been at all times ami under
; sjiace of some tw o hundred yanls, covered Ll,K( K»r K)R HisiitlCT. We all circumstances in entire accordance with
■ with brushwood, umier concealment of have not as j'ct received any account of
which that fl.ink migiit be turned. Hein- jiroceedings of the Hleetoral (,'onven-
stantly took advanta;;e of il, and sent ui.- , . . .... , ,
' .. ■ T . I .. )■ r,., * t’on which met at ( linton on Juesdav.
on the .service .Jes;ip s hattalion. 1 hev
my action and language at Washington.”
Of his action at Washington the follow
ing is an cxamjde. He spoke and voted
iierformed the dntv linclv; for they U')t W e are gl.id lo learn however that we are jj, favor of n.ceiviio' and a;rainst layiii'i
1 . 1 1 . , •. . , I .1, • . £• ^ I =
)tdy turned but broke their way back again to have the services of Gen. JoliN
through the enemy's left winj:, and, aft' r WlNsi.ow, of Cumberland, whose able
thus cutting it ofi, returned t( their own ^,|,l telling efiorts in the campaign of
' itlace in tear line, briiiirinL' with them .Ma- ivi>' ii i i
! 1 1,- I, , ' , , l'^4^' are well remembered amouif us.
j:>r (leucral Ivia'l and some other l>nti.'h _ ^
■ ollieers as prisoners. Whih' we thus de- [Mkktino or Tilk Clli!.—The regular
iiiolished their left wing, they attempted uieeting tif the Scott and Graham Club
t.. return ns_ the compliment np.m '-urs, The lar-e attendance
upon the table an abolition petition pie-
scuted by - Ir. AVall of New Jersey. j
(I vs. IMi.ucr/s oi’i.MoNs un tiik Sr.AVK-
RV (Ji.KSTi()N.—The l>emocratic papers
in the South have poured any quantity of
abu.«e uj)on the Whigs fir publishing
I'ieree’s New J> istoii speech in which he
and the able and animating speeches of the fugitive slave law. Without
Mes.-r.'. Banks, .'lullins, and I\ey, afTurd (l,g vjiuhtest authority they pronounced
us cheering and .sufficient evidence, that the charge false hmni^ic inale by aboli-!
though beaten in the recent election, the tionists, and denounced the Whigs as '
Whigs of Cumberland are determined to K>a-ued with Northern fanatic.s. Bu't late-
w hich their right considerably out-flanked.
l*ut .''c'tt, alw.iVS as (juiek to foil his ad-
ver.->ary's maiueuvies as to strike by his
own, im t tlii» movt inent ith McNeil’s
>malh r but iuviiu-ildc battalion. A diad-
ly cout'.'>t foil..wed; but the eivmy was at
last drivi-n back, tiiouirh m.t without s.,“- .... . -
vere h-.-s on both .-^ides. .Meantime the ‘‘'ery exertnm ni the coming campaign ]y they have published certificates deny-
main battle of the two centres had joined, ""b' ^i‘>tain, but to inciea.vj the i„g the charge. Who are the signers?
ami was fought most desp. rately. Brady’s strong vo^e given to M^ Kerr. ’Why, Ayer, Campbell, Norris, Hibbard
battalion, L a\mwoiths b.ittaiioii. ami \,'outh C.mi»*m.n.v KLi.crn.tX. The ;»nd others whose /»/-./«trry oj)inioiis arc
; 1 oM .'ion s artilh'rv tlicre sn.'fained with un- i i i i i
>haken intrepiditV the wh.de weight of the ‘Standard publishes returns from recorucd quite^as strongly as tho.^e charged
, enemy’s superior numbers; and now, to all the counties in the State except Curri- against (len. Pierce!
add to the horrors of the ti.^ht, the last tuck. sum them up as follows: cour.se the Pemocracy will denounce
liCid,
Reid’s maj.
Add ('urrituck at
Tiny Jiassed over; and now jncpara- tried out. ‘“'J'cn years of my life for a hnn-
lightof day, which, glisti'iiing through th
spray of the great cataract behind our col
umns when tlu-y engaged, had spreail a-
bove their heads to the enemy’s view a
bright rainbow, as if the jiroini.'c of victo
ry was gon'; and darkne^s, thiekenul by
ihe smoke of battle, or only lighted up for
an instant by the artillery’s glow or the
mu^kctrv’s ^Icani, came to add to all that , . .
tug of the combat a blind fury, the veriest ma.,..nty on joint bailot. But
raire of war that can be breathed intii the if •**e K-gister s reports are c»rrect, the
4.'i,')K’> Kerr, 40,»28. the certificates as fal.se, and the certifiers
tO,t‘»28 i as .«!landcrers. It’s a bad rule which
won’t work both ways. j
]>ut suppose the certifiers tell the truth,
.'^ujipo.se that Pierce did iint use the lan
guage alleged. What then? Why in
November I'^.'VO, at a meeting at M.inches-
chcster New Hampshire (Im. Pierce de-
clarol that' he HATFl) and deplored
4,0 IS
.-.,2 IS
The ."'tandard claims the Legislature by
I were at once maile to attack w itlouit
the liritish army, which, 2.10U
, lay, under Gen. Riall, on the’hip-
below. Early on the 4;h Scott
forward in advance. He was .soon
fcy the Marquis of Tweeddale, who for
III miles kept up a running fight with
)ut could make n* stand. By night-
was driven across the Ciiippewa,
it.-? briil^re rejoined Riall; while
hook up bis fpuirters for the niLdit
.■t’s creek, two miles above. The
^■tween is the plain of Cliippewa,
on w hit h occurred the next day’s
battle. East of the plains runs
Igara; west of it stretched a wood,
ing irregularl}’ the battle-ground.—
r>th the chief part of the tlay had
jnsumed in skirmishes hetween our
foops and Indians with those of the
w hen Gen. Riall chose, about four
li’tt'rnoon, to anticipate .in att.ick
in his lines by passing the bridge
L'hipjM Wa and advancing to offer
the middle of the plain. Nothing
aiii T than the ground; and though
|i;bere.l us l;y .^ome 200 men, he
^pOM-d us to have at least that
over him, hut that he was more
dred gooii dragoon>! ” With but that lit
tle body of horse, to cut tin m ofl from the
bridge, he might hav; ile>troyed or cap
tured their *wliole force. Such was the
baffle of Chippewa. In jeopoi tion to the
numbers engaged, a blooilier one has .sel
dom been .seen; for one-tburth of the com
batants were killed or wtiunded. Almost
equal in its terms, and fought as if by a
regular challenge, it was yet leiided with
su( h a rajiidity as affords an ext -cme proof
of the conqueror’s military skill; and would
fairly, did it even stand i.lone, hand down
his name as a remarkable one in the an
nals of warfare.
.'^ECOMi IJATTLF, OF Till: CATAllAi’T, Oil
OF LL.NDV Js LA.NK.
breasts of men w hen they t their teeth \\ higs have a majority of iu the House sla\ery more than the abolitionists didi
like a vice an 1 their sinews like steel, and and 4 on ioiut ballot. witnesses to this fact are not aboli-
swear that nothing .-hall make them yield.
It was thus our men fought through the
liereenes of that bloody night-enconntcr.
Scitt, letting loo.-e all that jtersonal iaring
w iiich a gi'iieral must u?ually control, was
every where, animating or directing or
Icafling, and watching ever}- shock or shift
tionists. They are the Boston Post, the
Richmond Emjuirer and the Washington
I N I ON.
On the 27th June last, the I'nioii pub
lished a report of Pieree’s speech at Man-
On the 7th July Brown’s aimy (Scott's
brigade leading) forced the passage of the
Chip{>ewa, Riall retreating upon Forts
(ieorge and 31e.ssasauga below; after rein
forcing which he took refuge with his re
maining force on Burlington Heights,
there to await succors. Jicfore attacking
him there, (ien. Brown held it advisaide
to take the fortified jdaces below him on
the peninsula; for like Seott afterwards,
he did not admire marching w hen he was
i}icnsated by the superioritV of his have “a tire iu his rear.” But these
who were mainly veterans that had liritish works were now such as tield-
‘under Wellington. (Jen. Brown artillery could not hurt; a battering-train
at the wood near the centre of "as neee.ssary; and this must be brought
in directing some of the movements ^^p from Sackett’s Harbttr by our fleet. It
skirmishers, w hen he saw Riall thus "as accordingly waited for; but meantime
e bridge, display his columns, and CMiauncey had fallen sick, and we tempo-
'orward iu order of battle. He im- rarily lost the command ot the Lake; so
:«ly hastened back toward’s Scott’s that the heavy guns could not come. I'p-
Ti, beyond the bridge of the upper on this Brown determined to leave the
He met him about to cross into fortresses behind him and attack Riall
jbiu merely to give his men a little upon Burlington Heights. But tirst he
“Tor he had yet received no order to endeavored to draw him down from them
As they met, Gtn. Brown sim- by a feigned retreat up the Niagara and
d to him, “The enemy is advancing across the (.hippewa, beyond which he
will have a tight,” and passed on encamped. Ihe stratagem succeeded, but
rear to order up Rijdey’s brigade. | until we siuJdcnly met the eneniy was
few words ju.st recited were all the its success known. )n the afternoon ot
and all the instruction,s that he the 2oth (Sunday) positi\e but talse advice
ht it necessary (sm h was his confi- ^ was received from u commandant on the
in .*^0011) to give him. The latter American sidi; of the Niagara, that Riall
ced to pa.-;.s the bridge, now within had thrown across at Lewiston a corps of
blank range of the cneniy’.s battery | one thon.sand men. Brown .it once dc-
His troops crossed it stead- cided to couiptd their return, by^ threaten
Wmk; .M(»vkmi:.nt.s in 3Iarvlano.—
One of tl.v' largest and most enthusiastic
meetings ever held in M '.ryland took place
at Fredcriik City on Saturday last. Hon.
William C. ])aw.«^on, the distingui.hed ehester, in which he .aid
of the tight. His horse was killed under AVhig .Senator from Georgia, made a strong “ IT/iw not drjilnrt' ahtnn/? But
him; he nu>unted another; that, by and by, .speech in favor of Scott and Graham, what sound-thinking mind reganled them
fell dead; he was quickly in the s.i.hlle oi Stanlv and Morehead of this .^tate as the only evil w hich could rest uj»on the
a third; he was himself woundd in the .^ttcnded and addre.s.ed the meeting. land? TliK MKN wiio w.,ru. l.lssuLVK
l.ol\; l.ut s.ill f. nght on, as if he hud been 1 1 11 tiik I MON, ltll> NOT IIA'I'E OR 1>E-
buliet-proof. 'Ihe conflict went thus until ">ass meeting was abso held on SLAVKRY i\lORK TII.VN lit:
about U o’clock, when G( n. Hrown :ii ri\ed tb(,* Kastern Shore on Monday last, and
on the ground, 'ihe emniy had rcccive| anothiT will be held at Centreville on the
se\cral reiuforccuicnts frr)iii below, and o4th inst.
.•mother w...> not f.tr uiY: but .still we had ' Haltimore Patriot “conirratulates its
the advantage; their w in^s had iiecii heat- . , , , . , i - c -•
en; their centre only mafntained the con- ; brethren throughout the State upon
tv, ami of course it must be true.
^ tlic-cl,,.ori,,g asp«t .1,0 co.ncst l.ns alrcu.ly ' '
on a ri.lge, and iheir yet greatei adyaii- assumed within our bor.lers, an.l is sure „as made, says the Republic, was enibo-
tiige in tlie supe rior force ami position ()f that the most lukewarm Whig iu Mary- died iu an elaborate biogmphy of General |
What say you to that, Deniocr.its of
North Carolina? TJiis charge at least is
no Whig lie. It is recorded as a fact by
the National organ of the Democratic par- J
their artillery, whi( h wa.s more th.in twice J.jjj,] oannot fail to be awakened to activity Pierce, prepared by the Bost('u J’ost im-
as numerous as ours. While that was un-
taken it was evident that we could mtt de
feat their centre; and as we had al’ .ost too
little force to stand up against their cen
tre, it had been impossible, until Brown’s
succors came uj>, to
lery. 'J’hat, of course
in the midst of the growing excitement niediately after his nomination, and ri pub-
, , • ,, lished in the Union of .June 27, with this
around him. i-.. • i • .
. i editorial accompaniment;
Gkn. Bi tlkr an1» Gen. Sroxr.—Gen. ‘ ‘*Wc assign to-day a large space in our
■ts iil flieir fit il -irril j W. O. Butlcr, the Democratic candidate columns to a very able and wdl written
as.sail their tat. 1 ai til-I » . ^ notice of General Pierce, which we copy
rsc, as soon as he had for ^ ice President four years ago, sjioke . , t, ,
, ; »v, 11. ^ , J r, I trom the boston l*ost, where it ai)pears as
made Scott repeat to him how matters thus of (.cn. Scott at a recent ratification commeud to the
stood at all pttint.s, became the first mea- ; ,iieetin«r in Kentucky;
sure which he took. The regiment of' Sentf is know
CONGRKSR.
In the Senate, on Saturday the 14th
inst., Mr. Meriwether’s resolution calling
on the President to state wdiat amount of
money had been paid to Gen. Scott and
Gen. Pierce respectively, was passed, af
ter an ineffectual attempt by Mr. Jones to
amend so as to present the subject fully
and fairly.
On "Monday, the bill for the construc
tion of a .ship canal around the falls of the
St. !Marys river occupied the day.
In the House of Representatives,
on Saturday, the Army Appropriation bill
w-:(s passed.
On Monday, the bill for the benefit of
the indigent insane of the several States,
itc., was ordered to its I>d reading.
Death of .^Iks. Taylor.—The widow
of (fell. Taylor died at Pascagoula, Miss., !
un Saturday last.
The National Intklliokncir and
Pierck’.s Nkw Boston Si'kkoii. — We ob
serve that the Wilmington Journal and
(loldsbor.iugh Republican infiT th.it the
charge of abolitionism against Pierce is
not true because not noticed by the Intel
ligencer. J hey are both mi.staken. ^\’e
di.stinctly remember reading the charge
iu :m editorial in the Intelligencer.
But suppose the Intelligencer had not
noticed it. The Locofocos could draw no |
con.'solation from the fact because accord- j
ing to tho!U the Intelligencer is an aboli
tion organ, and an abolitionist cannot
speak the truth.
“Blt one Stei' from the Sublime
T(» THE Rilijcuj.ous.”—The Washington
I'nion of the oth inst., published a “thril
ling dialogue” between Mr. Henry A.
^V ise and a Mr. !Map at a Locofoco meet
ing in Virginia. The dialogue as report
ed in the I’nion is very sublime and ver^’
thrilling, but as the occurrences related !
Hvi'tr uri urrifl tit n//, it turns out to be
extremely ridiculous.
II ere’s the dialogue aTil the contradic
tion by one of the parties, which the
I’nion says it is ‘’not disposed to ques-
fion.”
Dover, (N. H.) .August 11, ls;)0.
To tlir /Jifihir df the, (_ ittfili:
Sir; In the AVashington L’liiou of the
•Oth instant under the head “Electing iu
Accomac, A'irginia—Thrilling Dialogue,”
a ctmvers.ition is said to have occurred be
tween Mr. Wise an«l a Mr. Map at a jtub- j
lie meeting, in which “the following thril
ling dialogue took place;” j
.Mr. Wise. ‘‘Were you in New Hamp- j
shire two years ago, and did you not hear i
Hale speak, and .say in his speech that ‘he
would head an army to inarch upon the
South and put down slavery?”
Mr. Map. ‘T was there; heard Mr. Hale i
speak, and say what you state.” 1
Mr. V\'ise. “Did you not hear Franklin j
Pii'rce rejt^y to this, and say: ‘If Hale j
should heatl an army to march on the i
South, he h.id first to march over his
(Pierce’.s) dead body; for he would head
an army to oppo.se him?’ ”
Mr. Map. “I did.”
The account then proceed.s: “You can
imagine the feeling which this reply '
elicited. The court-house rang with shouts
of applau.se repeated again and again. Mr.
Wise then requested his opponent to state
the facts again, which he lid to an almost
breathless auditory; ‘Gen. I’ierce did say,
(slapping his baud upon his breast,) that
Hale would have to pass over his dead i
body before he marched upon the South.” j
'J'o this permit me briefly to repl}’, that
for whatever purpose such a dialogue may j
have been s])okeu in a A'irginia court-j
house, there is not a .syllable of truth iu
the whole of it. Nii such remark was ■
ever made by me, and, of course, no such .
answer by (ien. Pierce; nor was there a 1
meeting holdeii in New’ Hampshire, or
elsewhere, in w hit h su( h a dialogue could
have occurred. General Pierce and my
self have not spoken at the same public
meeting since 1840, when we both s}>oke \
on the same side, but once, and tli.it was
at the North Church, in Concord, New
Hampshire, June, 1S4.>; and I am sure '
that (d‘the thou.saiids w ho attended that
meeting, not one can be found who will
pretend that anything of the kinil took
place at that time. That however, has
nothing to do with the statement, as the
remarks ndated by Mr. Mapp were uiade
at a meeting Indden two years since.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN 1'. HALE. 1
P. S.—.\n\* one who doubts the cor
rectness of my statement can be satisfied
by applying to Mr. i’ierce him.self.
J. i*. H.
"Will the Locofoco p.-ipcrs in North
Carolina w hit h have circulated this story
as an offset to Pierce’s abolition speech
give their readers the benefit of its coutra-
tliction? We imagine not. For nio.st of
them seem to think that “a lie well stuck
to is as rood as the truth.”
Fayetteville Prices Current.
AUC.U.ST ly,
1852,
From ■
To
BACON—
1
12i
BEKSWAX—
22|
2;i
CANDLES—Fnyette. mould
13**
14
Adumuntine
30 f
35
Sperm
r)0
COFFEE—
1
Rio,
1
lOi
IIU
Laguira,
ill
St. Domingo,
1
!lO
COTTON—
Sti-ictly prime,
Prime,
Fair,
»»
COTTON B.\GGIXG—
Gunny,
14
10
Dundee,
i:;
1.3
IJui'laps,
10
12
COTTON YARNS-
No. 5 to 1(1,
10
DOMESTIC GOt»DS—
Brown Sheetings,
G
G J
Osnalmrgs,
10
FKATIfKllS—
33
FLOCK-
Supei-fine,
4 50
!
Fine,
4
2-')
Scratched,
4 00
1
GRAIN-
Corn,
7",
Vlieut,
80
'8.5-
Onts,
40
1
I’eas,
70
jso
K^e,
7-3
i
IIll'ES —
I *ry.
1
8
Green,
3
1
IRON—
Swedes, common bar.
5
Ditto, wide,
G
English,
3
4
LARD—
13
14
LE.AD—
G
7
MOLASSES—
Cuba,
24
2G
New Orleans,
40
OILS—
Linseed,
80
Tanners’,
GO
70
SALT—
Liverpool, (sack,)
1
GO
.Vluni, (bu.j
40
SEED-
Flaxseed,
1 00
•
Clover, per lb.
12.’
!
15
SHOT—
Common, per bag.
1
lo
(
Ruck,
i
SPIRITS—
i
I’each Di.indy,
G.’>
Apple “
40
GO
Northern “
43
N. C. Whiskey,
fl7
40
Northern “
.3-3
38
N. E. Rum,
40
.Jamaica Rum,
O
2
.30
French I’.rundy,
2
American Gin,
.30
\
40
Holland Gin,
1
•50
O
SUGAR—
f
Loaf,
10
11
Criiphed,
10 J
St. Croix,
(.r
Porto Rico,
7
! 0
New Orleans,
(;
■ 8
TALLOW—
7
! 8
TOfiACCO—
Leaf,
2
Manufactured,
8
15
WHITE LEAD—
2
! O
25
WINDOW GLASS—8 x 10,
-i
j
: 2*
10 X 12,
1
2f
WOOL—
IG
t 17
REVIEW OF TilE
MARKET.
Cotton has atlvanced, and s.iles a.
e makinff
at 10 to lOJ. Bacon 12,i to iJJi.
Flour fj)4 to
■i G2i. Corn tlull at 7-3. Tratle improving.
AVILMI NO TON M A R KET.
Turpentine—Yellow dip
2 4.5,
virgin 2
75,
hard 1 20. Sjiirits '6'i\ to
."G.
Rosin t'2
i.—
Corn GO to G2.^. Bacon hams 11
to
1*5, sides
10.] to 11, hog round 18, shoultlers 0
to 10.—
Lard 14 to 1-3. Fayetteville Flour 4
7o to
^0.
Salt
At Charleston, sales of -jOO bales cotton
, at
prices ranging from to ll^J.
c()mmi:rcl\l
RECORD.
ARRIVALS.
August 17—Str Southerner, with goods for
Hall iSl Sackett, A A McKethan, D .J McAlister.
J C Thompson, H & E .T Lilly, 1*
P Johnson, S
J Hinsdale, Cowk & Johnson, D McNeill, J H
Widtlifield, Fillmore & .Vshlev, F & H Fries. J
11 Ennis.
Aug 11)—Str Chatham, with Mike Brown in
tow, and goods for G J..auder, Starr v'i Williams,
Williams, Haywood & Co, Wall & McDonald. .)
Hargrave, .Jenkins & Roljerts, 11 L .Myrover A
Co, W Smith, J M Johnson, J W Scott, J Sulli
van, Powers & Pemberton, J H Faulks, J & 11
G Worth, J H Thompson, G W Johnson, C '.V
Willi.uns & Co, J Smith, N Kendall, E 11 Ev
ms.
A H lirooks, N M Gardner,
CC
c
J D
W illiams, G Womack, — Webb,
C G Vates, J
M Worth, Edgeworth Seminar\
, Lehman &
Butncr.
POItT OF \VI l.:»11XCJTO.^.
ARRIVALS.
.\ngust 1;]—Schr. Mary
Powell from New
lork. 14—Schrs. Dolphin fi-oni Newborn, Ex
press, Sail}' Ann, and Miilyett from Hydecoun-
ly, h. .Morns Wain from New York,
Alcvomi
from Philadelphia. 1”)—Br
Brig Vernal iVom
Port Spain, (Trinidad:) Brig David Dud'ell from
New \ ork; Schrs. A. Heaton from Geoi’gctown,
S. C., Champion from Charleston, L.
P. Smith
anti Ira Brewster from New York.
IG
—Barque
Clari.ssa from Boston. 17—
Schrs. Gen. Taj'lor
from Charleston, H. P. Russell from Baltimore,
Balance l'ri>m iSoston.
VLASK ROAD CONTRACTS.
f ■ ^ H K I'resiileiit nml Dirvctors of the Fayette-
-■L ville anti Centro IMauk Moatl Cojupany
will receive pn)pos-:ils to construct the 2d I»ivi-
siou t»t' their Uoatl, bepiiiiiiiig :it Piijipy Oeek
and ciii?ing at or near Ulue’s 15ridt;e on Drown-
iii;r Creek, a distance of I'J luilcs, until the 1st
Oct. next, a.t lli o'clock.
For pliins, estimates and specifications, ap
plication may be made to John M. Hose, Sec’y
of tlic Co»ui>any, to Juhu Eccles, Engineer, or to
the uudcTsi^ned.
JNO. A. WILLIAMS, Prcs’t.
August 10, 18.52. 18-tlO
I attention of our readers.”
“Gen. Seott is known to the nation ami ^pi,g Boston IVist prefaces the s{>eeeh
personally, but for the kuown }>t>sitions we ings ever held in New Hampshire.” Now,
relatively occupied in the city tif Mexico, this “most interesting and important meet-
and for the purpose ot saying publicly, ing,” which called forth General Pierce’s
. !i not without loss, under that ing their rear and the forts below, tor
tire, ami, deploying as they ad- this purpose, S^ott 9 brigade, nov\ about
iii:ir( lied coolly up to the encouu- 1,‘>UU men, was dis^iattdied down the ii\er,
^ ous service. He was suuiimmed. ‘“.Sir,
, said iirown to him, “can y(m take that
battery?” “I will try, sir,” was his an-
: sivor. He lllinitdliili..ly .«ot funviird Wllh our «lii>ie intcrcuiireo, „„'ti..«|avL.|y av.)w;ila, uiiiiiiiiuously rei.«siHl
i '““.'’“Tr' ^ l,c »c- ,l,c f..llowing resolution:
win my esteem and admiiation.
That is the truth well spoken. *1 he iju^titution of slaver^’ with other feelings
people of the Lnitcd States will we trust than tho.se of regret.”
Scott, therefore, who knew'‘ how the wdiole ' ratify Gen. JJutler’s declarations by an ' 'J'he resolution and the avowal of Gen’l
laiitl lay,” became his pilot in person, ai.d I overwhelming majority for the old Hero . Pierce have previously appeared in our co-
letl hini through the darkness up to the jg traduced by Locofocos as a coward, ‘ ’
point from which the attack was to be , - , , „ „
; 1 nn .1 1 , 1 i I ■ ‘t fool and a rojjue.
made. I hat dtine, he returned to his own
the occasional light tif tho.se deadly explo
sions themselves that he was going to muz
zle, he might have missed the way, fallen
upon iitime intervening forces, and failed.
The artillery of (’apt. Tow.son was at twenty minutes
II ofl to the right flank, along the iniles it suddenly came upon a reconnoiter-
jcwa road, to just the point where ing party of the enemy. A considerable
■I)j)o.-,ing columns would meet iu body was speedily ascertained to be be^
so that it woubl m>t only play up- yond the wood, (at lorsythe 3 house, just
: eiKiny all the while, but, when the above tbe I’all'^,) ^^hich we were then ap-
|ive shock came, rake him tlrcatlfully proaching. It seenu;d certain that they
the flank. The enemy’s artillery, on could at most be only the other halt ot
oiifrary, though stronger, was far less Riall’s force, and thiit his movement w’aa
iki'ju.^ly posted, in such a manner that merely meant to protect the rear of the
division, in order to favor Miller’s niove-
nient, by pre.ssing the onset upon the ene-
ijotiee, Within two my’s front. jMiller advanced steadily to
within striking distance of the batteries.
lumns in connexion with the controversy
on the New Boston speech. We repro
duce them now for the purpose of show
ing that the Democratic organs of Boston
and \Vashingtou, which are ferocious a-
gainst the Whigs for having exposed Gen. ;
Pierce’sfreesoilism, have themselves chron-1
icled sentiments in perfect harmony with '
the New Boston speech. The Union can-
TiiE old Game.—The Cleveland Plain-
dealer, an Ohio Locof(x;o paper, recom
mends Pierce to the Democrats of that
and then rushed upon them with the ba}’- ' State, because as he said in his New Bos-
onet. After a short but bloody contest he ton speech “he lo.vthed the fugitive
captured them—an event, we may say, de- i .^nd had a most revolting feeling ' «ot dispute the accuracy of a report which
cisive of the battle; for although the ene-1 . ■ ^ fucitive slave ” i Pointed less than seven weeks ago; and
my made repeated attempts to recover their j ^ ”, ^ ® ■ ' we want to know what infamy there is in j
guns and their |M*sition, they were as of-1 the Democracy ca that a ug ^ urging Gen. Pierce with repeating at |
ten driven back by the unflinching stotidi-! lie. In Ohio it h good Democratic doc- j Boston ideas which he had previous
! ness of our men. It was past eleven o’- j trine. [ proclaimed at Manchester.
I am in the daily receipt of letters, pro-
pouiiiling the greatest variety of curious
tjnc.'itioiis upon all contcivable snbject.s.
J^n rvc’s If'ttcr to J>f Leon.
That cxjilains the non-ap])earance of an
answ^'r to Capt. Scott, ’ihe questions
about the Faiiitive Slave Law ireti- rather
“We have cljs.'icd 3Jr. Erwin with the
Whigs, becau.se he was then a Southern
Rights Whig. By the way, we hope to
have the high gratification of reconling his
election to tbe Senate from the Jiuncombe
District over the Seott Sewavd Candidate,
N. W. Woodfin.”
Jidlfh/h —A»;/n>it4, 1852.
We hasten to coinniunieate to Gov.
Holden, at our earliest possible conveni
ence, that tbe “Sc(»tt Sewai-d candidate,
N. W. Woodfin,” only beat Mr. Erwin 5GL
“SfcOtt Seward” stock is above par here.
Anhtcille JiIeitAKiiyer,
BRICK LAYERS WANTED.
SIX gootl Brick-Iayers will find immediate
emplo\ ment and good wapes, to work on
the Bunk of Fayetteville. Apply on the prem
ises, to GEO. S. HOlXiES,
l;»iilrter and Architect.
Faj’ctterille, Aug. 11, 1802. IH-JU
Bank Cheeks for sale here.
HALL liOLLlNGER
C'CONTINUE to carr\" on the FOUNi^RY BU-
y SINK&'S, with all its hmnches, in this
place. They liate atlded, within the last six
mouths, .'jflOOO worth of Patterns, and are now
prepared to furnisli Millwriglits with Machine
ry, ut short notice, for Wheat, Corn, Grist, anil
Saw Mills.
t^team .Mills repaired thronphout.
Our terms are cash on delivery; 10 per cent,
will l>e added for every days an aceonnt may
stand unpaid, "tt'e eannut e."\rry »n this busi
ness on the credit system, neither do wc intend
doing so.
IIALL & BOLLINOEK.
August 18, 18i>2. IHtf
^ALV L!> ULMIEk7
fAroccrs and Cotittuission
\ ^llerchantH^
135 From Mroef,
NEW YORK.
p. MALEETT.] [.T. PAl’LMlER.
August IG, l8o2. IStf
STOCK~C)F GOODS,
AT AUCTION.
OX Thursday, the li^tL ir.stflnt, at 7. past •>
o’clock, I will cominence the saU of niy
entire Stock of Cioods, which is large, ot gool
quality, anti in good order.
Country nerchants, and all buyers, will Jo
well to attend this sale. Terms at sale.
W. S. LATTA
A. M. CAMI'BELX, Avrt’r.
August 1C, 18o2. Xt