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V F, ilk ' :;. i ' -r ii - k on the i I 2iih a truce was signed, and Mr; iv; mlt the four Mexican Commission- Wl vh n negotiations wr commmced. I During ihe'(ir.-t four days of the truce there wpre mmanr palpable, violations or tiin StaVing our teamster murdering our men, receiving reinlbrcements, laboring W Klielr fort that, finally, on the Gth September. Gen. Scott demanded expla 'naiibnJnio?y,an(r retires or the reo pening -of hostilities. Santa Anna having ienl ai jundignihVd and impertinent an swer to 0en. Scott on the 7th,. Gen. Worth. Vrlih 2.20.') regulars, assaulted the mill of V' , TCI mi. iieso? north Carolina. Correspondence of the Courier Greenville (S. C.) Oct. 0, 18 I nrricced to complete what I had to say ibut Buncombe county, winch With us I associate Districts.Wesfof the Blue Hidge, : has been long known and sought by trav- ellers as the Switzerland of America. :'! Buncombe county originally included the whole Indian, or Cherokee country in North-Carolina, West of the Blue Uidge. but its dimensions have, ot late yenrp, been i much narrowed, the counties of Haywood, Macon and Cherokee on the Wesr, Yan cey on the North East, and Henderson on ! iO ,..Uh havinir been severed from it. . 4 . contain ho Indian relics or traces: It was i DESPATCHED FROM . MA J. DOWSING. never settled or inhabited by the Indians, but onlvused bv them as a hunting ground. "... ' -i - ii . 3 i , h I - r- k-trilSnlvaclor. defended by the Mexican army 10,000 men, commanded by Santa ri 4 i otl. so named alter Leonard Hen derson. a distinguished Judge ot tjie su preme Court of North Carolina, was the jast slice cut from Buncombe, and, it was vt-ry nearly half a loaf. Buncombe pro peri is now bounded South by Henderson, the line running across from West to East, at the junction of Cane Creek vvijh the French iBroad, East by the Blue Ridge separating it from Burke. North East by Yancey, North West by the Unaka Moun tains and the Bald Mountains, separating it from Tennessee, and West by Pisgah and other Mountains,! separating it from Haywood. Yancey, Buncombe and Hen derson form an irregular area, conhplete- '! r i -1 .I.ni'a ilm u'hn t rif ihem 'Vinuwill Lri juii, nw. i" - !. . . T . .... .i... r. ... from th tieltl, Wotting up uir louiiuiy at 'the (mill.! taking six bin, a good supply of Ammunition, seven hundred prisoners, and i Killing and wounding tvp thousand five ; hundred iMexioans. Our loss was above 1 jrTij-bljiiilred killed and -wounded. j ' Jfy thfj morning of the 12ih September, Uf iengineers had made a thorough recon- j joissance of every position ; and, while j Twiggs 4 divisiim kvas maknrg a strong demonstration at-the San Antonio gate, pett Scott had matured hi plans to take ihe Strong castle of Cliapultnpec by as- auiL Their settlements commenced beyond the Tockaseegee, the old ( Western boundary of Buncombe. j' ."Hii: ' The peasantry, or1 white laborjng class, of Buncorhbe and Henderson, are said to be a hardy, but slothful or idle and un thrifty people. Nothing but the pressure of some necessity approaching starvation, or the sheriff's officer, will compel them to labor. The following illustrative anec dote is said to be a fact. A peasant and j ) his family, some years since, were reduced la such extremity, that they came to the public house, at Flat Rock, to beg (a thing very rare, and &t which the pride of the mountaineer usually revolts) for suste nance. The proprietors relieved t;he fam ily and, being iti want of an ostler, pro posed to the peasant to accept the "birth. He did so, and rilled the station satisfac torily for some time. At length, however, having become sleek and well condition ed, and labor being irksome, he gave no To Jd.ncs K. PJlc, PrcMcil of thi V. Sta!csu fict; 'will City of Mexico, United States, . j' j ' . September 27r 1847. . ! Mr. Gale & Seaton : My dear old friends, lm ilive yet ihouli IVc been through show, era of balls at thick as hailstones. I got your paper contaiijing my letter that I wrote on the road to the war. The letters I wrote after wards, the gueiirillars and robbers are so thick, 1 think ils ten chances to one it you got Vin. . . ; x- . . . .u r rint down to ine uargani ne fiiade i in the same war. ISow we ve cot the city of . i , . . ,T eral ought lo have a more regular line of sia ges running hprc, so our letters may go safe. I wish you would touch the President and Mr. Johnson up a little about this mail. stage busi ness, so they may keep all the coachmakers at work, and see that the farmers raise horses as last as they ran; for don't think they have any idea how long the roads in this way, nor how fast we are gaining south. If we keep on an nexin as fast asi we have done a year or two past, it wouldn't take much rnoro than half a mi the not one who w place-;-who vou! dous influence He is rrnphaiicV.' cess to the U p efforts which wi'l CLATto'the Pn-iiJc ;u;: cofocos of the .S consenting to go i: tlon with their ' Locooca party, t'c JefTersonian asnl pledges given in j., tion: ! ! are of.n: i tice of quitting. The landlords enquired dozen years to gel clear down to t'other end of t The 12th was occupied in bombarding j jv hemmed in bv lofty mountains. ! this 'ensile, and m the morning ot the I Jin ; The French Broad is the great ri live hund Qditrhnt t e. ami m i ioi5 ; The French Broad 1 "drrd picked mi;!!, supported h)' BllncornbCt and a very .(on our right. Pillow ,n the cen- , u riseg on he r I 1ir-tl. .rr.ia loir nrirn f l.hu. r . ... i .i tre,. and AVorlii on pur ten, camru vua- tiultpec Vit the point of the hayonet. At tUlsniaceweKilieu some a or iw, aim iuou ;j 4nhoe300 prisoners nndan immensequan j: lOvbf ammunition. A Mexican was killed " i i tlje acV of setting lire to three mines, rf vjithl t!hn Jntention; of Mowing up the cas lie nbd killing every souj in it., General (Stnith's b'Hgadn joined Quitman's division in' this figlit. Riley's rigade was ordered l uj) from tjie San Antonio gales, 1 J llflivinrf secured our prizes. Quitman's ' division Mid Smith's brigade (Riley's sub l.sequentlyljoined) took the Tucubaya road, if, while Pillow's and AYorth's divisions took ine aan uosme roau. anu nursuea me en cmyjto tlje gates of ic city, which after iiomo 'flgljting vere carried. At these pieces our loss was veryj great, Dut it is cnpt!et acertained. Woith!s division dug I theiiji vva hflf a mile thrpugh stone walls, i took to tlrc-houso-tops, and carried every ! t hm be fare them. , Sana A n naf knowing i that next j morning we would drive him. ' ' out. eyacaated the city with all his army arijl iin the 14th we took possession of the j. OA thfcfmorning of the Hth September ; Gfneal IJcott and stnfi entered the cityf j nrjjr.fftfierj reviewing the troops were cs cortejd toihe palace. ! ! As the rtroops were aoux to move to ! their; qurlrters, a Ir body of leperos commenced firing on our men from he hni4tops, and a general street fight en ii.it .. . i . f . , h sutuJ wtiicti was Kept up tor two aays ana river of remarkable curi- northerri side! of the the reason, and the renlv was 44 blackber ries are ripe, and I t will work for no man, when I can get food in the fields and woods for nothing." This must bean exaggera tion. Ed. When the Sheriff is in pur suit of them for debt, they will do a job of work to keep out of jail, but will soon relax into their old habits. They: live in ill-constructed log-cabins, neither airtight nor water-tight, with no partition between Blue Ridge; and for the greater, or at , , . . ' fm:iw oftn Ifast a considerable part of its course runs, ; umbli into one bed : an( in their snowy With rapid current, over a rocky bed. be- , . irt;torB c; L-rincr nvPr mp. tyveen IdHy fand precipitous mountains on ; ab,e embers sooner tljan lake the trouble j he's agoing to agree to run the Missouri com- timer u?uu, turuugu wu.c.i u iin lorcqu tQ procure an adequate supply of firewood ..m.us ..uii..UU3 , ffom the adjacent forest. Scant tare, scant South America,' clear to Cape Horn, which Would be a very good stopping place ; for then, if our Government got into bad sledding in N. America, and found ihemselres in a dilemma that hadn't no horn to suil 'em, they would have a born in South America that they might hold on to. r I hope there aint no truth in the story that was buzz'd aboul here in the army, a day or two ago, thai Mr. Polk had an idea, when we get through anriexin down this way, of trying his hand at it over in Europe and Africa, and round there. And, to prevent any quarrelling beforehand about it on thi side of the water, or worn; a - i beautiful cascades on its way. It enters Tennessee directly through the Unaka Mountains, and falls into the Holston, a tributary of the Tennessee River. Direct- ly along! its margin, and on its right or clothing and scant hodsing, with little or no work, seem to constitute the climax of their felicity. On the 28th Sept., I left AsbevHle. and bade larewell to liuncomhe. 1 he wea Between Ashvillennd Hendersonville are several beautiful situations, and pleasant sojourning places, on the rroad, such as Lane's and Rritton's. The garden in front of Lane's is enriched with almost the finest profusion of china aster's I ever met with, and the prettiest, dahlias.; . ,y A nights, when the priests and authorities, i nnum uie iciwros worsicu. caueaon jren. SdMtJjwho stopped the further effusion of f hldou by recalling the troops, and every thijig; is now as quiet as if no hostilities existed. Ve killed nearly one thousand Ier ejros, and (ost in killed and wounded nb ut one-hundred men. j . - J , ; j '...lisioryjcarinot point to more brilliant j nctipps nor to a more successful campaign. ; EvVrV effort of our arms has been crown- " cd With success, and cverv officer and sol , ''TUB 'RESPONSIBILITY. he Cincinnati Chronicle thus fixes the errors oCjmanHgement in the conduct of thi var ipon the National Executive:; . iij ln May, 1840lhe President received a bmcral power to call out, when and y(iero he pleased, no less l ha n50,00a vol unteers.1 j : .1 ;, . vj; ,'2 Volunteers have always stood ready nt liis service. s - North Eastern bank, runs an excellent j ther was still fine and the road excellent. iurn-piKe roau, overnung oy precipnous r6ckp, and sometimesl built in the river In thjs raad the State of North-Carolina has fin interest, and Capt Wm. Garrett, of Edgefield District South Carolina, and Vm Df.vis, of Georgia, are large stock holdersand it is said tof ay a-dividend of 10 per cent annually. Beyond the Warm Springs and near the Tennessee line, are pass'ed two remarkable curiosities. The Ifaint Hock, and the Chimneys. ThelPairit Kock is a rocky precipice of considerable height, on the face of which, fronting the river, are certain mysterious hieroglyphics or marks, whether artificial I or; .natural, whether Indian or civilized, no j one Can saw from which the cock takes it$ name. The Chimney's are rocks, or mountains, of immense altitude, rising perpendicularly from the riveri which iVvaslies their very base, or would do so but ' for th-e road constructed in the water. The DIRECT TAXATION. : The Locofoco State Convention of Mas sachusetts, at its late session, passed the following Resolution : j j "Resolved, That the existing tariff is further deserving of general support, be cause it is, more than any that have pre ceded it, in harmony with the soundest principles of the science of national wea-lth, with the grand movement of our age to wards universal freedom of commercial intercourse, and with Democratic i truth, which teaches that, while tariffs and eve- Ti-llV ' 1 a granaeur arm : ry other form of indirect taxation encour subhfnity rarely surpassed, making lordly ' -nd conceal national elxtravaWnce. - - - , o extravaganc DIRECT TAXATION ALONE will at once constrain the public servants to ob serve a rigid economy, and enable the people to detect and punish thq first breach of fidelity in the management of EPISCOPAL GEN. CONVENTION. The voting was commenced upon Mr. Ingersoll's new canons in this body on Tuesday, not till an hour or so after the appointed timp, however. It was favor able to the Bishop, both being rejected. The first one providing that a djocese whose Bishop is indefinitely suspended may proceed to elect another Bishop, was lost, by a majority of 10 of the clergy, and 4 of the laity. The second canon, provi ding for the restoration of the suspended Bishop on testimonials and by a. constitu te man eel his littleness and insignificance, vjiilci lost in admiration of the magnifi cence of nature. Along the road here referred to pass those immense droves of horses, mules, cattle and hogs, from Ten nessee and Kentucky, which supply and the public resources." viciuai uj;i' oouio aiiu ouui u uesi. iiuis es and niules. and especially the latter, bavecome. this year, in greater numbers, than for , several years and are uncom monly fine. While passing through the dicrjhas tendered himself worthy of his mountains, from 8100 to S150 was asked coiWfry's everlasting gratitude.;; j for mjujesj, but I metJLwo drovers, return- Mf a ; ' rj - J - " f " a vj: y had sold at prices ranging: from $85 to 81001 llogs, it is said, will be late, this sea sop, and the price quite uncertain. jThe French Broad receives in its course the following streams besides others of lesser note; viz : Cathey's Creek, Little River. Davidson's River. Mill's River. IMurl Ureelc, Lane. Ureek. Avery s Lreek, ! tional vote ot the diocese, wiis lost, by as Bent Creek, Homony Creek, theSwanna- large a vote. The house will next take noa, IDick's Creek. Rims' Creek, Sandy j up. the Commercial supposes, the canons Mush Creek. Iw River. Laurel Creek. 1 renorted bv the ioint committee. r The V 3. He lias called volunteers out at five (at Fans wort h's, a beautiful and favorite I next annual meeting of the Episcopal i icreiu periods always Dy piecemeal locality,) Spring Creek, at the Warm i Board of Missions will bv held in Provi atid caused, directly or indirectly, the Go- Springs, and Big Pigeon River and the j rrRimrnt paper to overrate the . number WoliQhuekv, in Tennessee. The French In ,1... f! LI i ... i . . t .In.. 1 iv.. . xiroau, on 1'igeon, the 1 uckaseegee. and j the Ghatuga, (the last a tributary of the j Savannah, or rather of the Tugaloo River,) all head in a corner of the Blue Ridge, khbn as: I The Devil's Court House ; whether Rha djamantljur presides, or any lawyers prac tice there. I Jtnow not. I AVjier I visited Buncombe. 9 or 10 years agOrlhe'Indian name of the French Broad 70,000 men 1 I was believed to be v I Saliko ; but Judge. King, of our city, ljas found ah old map, on which it is de signated as . j T4e Agiqua. Judge K. has established (hatfthfl Indian name of Mud Creek is in t)u. fi.ld at least one third. Congress placed at his disposal ten WAV regiments in addition. : ; v IT-hus jhc President has had placed at 10,000 men 50,000 do. 10,000 do. his command by Congress the following lerces, viz : : . , Regular army, Volunteers, New recrular rpiriments. . . .1.' ' Av?rmy of his Is, in these times and I n ttii imin. lm nn !,nnpnse fbrcei and it was accom. i paniet! hy an immense appropriation of i money.! These were j the means. Now, I Y ' ",, t . V-"ia v;uuuillOn S dence, Rhode Island. San Francisco Cal ifornia) was recognized as a missionary station. A New York letter in the Philadelphia American says i ; I havejust beard that the Episcopal Convention have, by vote, ; declared the Diocese not vacant ; therefore no new Bishop can be appointed. ' The President - jj Pjacedt their command seventy thousand h'an' of the French Broad,:a few miles . Tf Vr tfxiouars a greai- muiu icuuessee line, are Uifi""?ufeatf7 meuns lha? !hse hte-Varm Springs, a beautiful and tMi Ti i Xa ? er,c3uered hsVfl ro44c Vith a very) fine, spa Iff irculcnt" Commandcr-in. fsiouWahd clmimodibus HotelUdt by Mr. ffl'Un responsible lor its pohpattm;a :iourtem mp olment. He caiis ,t out b iece. hosr. !thnlnnrr Kpph c:n u J rneaM it is d Wided into four different d fWr hsbundant: and 7x?inf Tiiil pediUinMi it is called out at four difier-land? thUti:Lw!X!!:nV Ti .! ' ine main nonvni ttt i i r" ut cue: ilrmv is struggling, after Ipvv 1 ntfine in tljie heart of a hostile count rv. ' I ev York and New Jersey Syn oil of Ate New School Presbyterian Church! bile. in vt sion a few days since, adopted! a pVeAndde and rstlations expressive of their Jielirf of the ' wickedness" of thi prexept war with Vrge Uieir ministers to " impress the minds; Viniwi wm, a sense ol the sinfullness and yiU ij)f the war. rtnd the desirableness of MBBw-fdy termination" and, luxurious in the world ; and highly r? vTal' loo ,n rheumatic arid ther nfftTj';: The scenery is enriched with au ihei charms of river, valley and moun- !;t1rTrJthe.,lnnual gathering! of both theintahd and the; fashionable throng, in seafch of health or pleasure, is very large. Just in front of th Km-inr tto ite side ot the river, rises Boyles Moun Independence of the Press.' It was Sher idan, then near the melancholy setting of his life, who, in 1810, uttered; these memorable words in the English House of Commons ; " Let there be a subservient House ol Lords, let there-be a venal House of Commons, but give me an unfettered press, and I defy you to trespass a hair's breadti; upon the liberties of England." 3 This was a noble sentiment, and not less noble than true. f At jhat period in England the press could scarcely be call ed free; for, though tliere vVas: no censor ship, fines and imprisonmleutl j frequently awaited those who dared to Ispalckthe truth. Then, every true patriot; felt: the value of an unfettered press. . : Arid it is one of the brightest gems vn the fame of Sheridan that he devoted his last expiring efforts, to assert the liberty! of the press. i?it7. Bulletin. promise line over thers, and cut Europe up in to free Slates and Alrica into slave fetates. Now, I think he! had better keep still about that till we -get this South America business all done, and well tied up. It isn't well for a body to have too much business on his hands at once. There's no knowing what little flurries we may get into yet, and there's always danger it you have too much sail spread in a squall. How ever, I haven't time to talk about this now. You will get; the accounts of the battles in Gineral Scott's letters, so I needn't say a great deal about them. But it's been a hard up-hill work all the way from Vera Cruz here ; and I don't think my bid friend Gineral Jackson him self would have -worked through all the difticul ties and done the business up belter than Gin eral Scott has. But the killed and the wound ed, the dead and the dying, scattered all along the wav for three hundred miles, it's a heart aching thought. I don't love to think about it. It is too bad that we didn't have more men, so as to march straight through without fighting, instead of having jest enough to encourage the enemy to bring out their largest armies and fight their hardest battle. One of the hardest brushes we had, after I got here, was the attack on Chapultepec. I had been into the city trying to bring Santa Anna to terms ; but, when I found it was no use, I come out and told Gineral Scott there was no way but to fighl it out, and, although I was only the President's private embassador, I didn't like to stand and look on when he was so weak handed, and if he would tell me where to lake hold I would give him a lilt. The General said he expected there would be a hard pull to take Chapultepec, and as Gineral Pillow was placed where he would be likely to have the heaviest tfrunt of it, I might be doing the county a great service if I would jine in with Gineral Pillow, as my experience under Gineral Jack son and insight into military affairs would no doubt be very useful to that valiant officer. So I took hold for that day as one of Gineral Pil low's aids. When we corne to march up and see how strong the enemy's works was, says I, Gineral Pillow it is as much as all our lives is worth to go right straight: up and storm that place in the face and eyea 4f all their guns ; I think we ought to fortify a litt je. Suppose we dig a ditch round here in front of the enemy's works. At that the Gtneral's eyes flashed, and he swore riixht out. Says he, No, d n the ditches. I've no opinion 61 'em ; they are nothing but a j bother, and never ought to be used. The best 1 way is to go right into the enemy pell mell." So, oh we went and Pillow fit like a tiger till he got wounded, and then the rest of us that wasn't shot down had to finish the work up the best way we could. ! ' ti The long and the short of it is, we fit our way into the city of Mexico and annexed it Santa Anna cleared out the night afore; with what troops we had left, and is scouring about the country to get some more places ready for us to annex. When he gets another place all ready for the ceremony, and gets it well forti fied, and has an army of twenty or thirty thou ' sand men in the forts and behind the breast. I works, we shall march down upon 'em with i five or six thousand men and go through the j flurry. After they have shot down about half I ef us, the rest will climb in, over the ; mouths I of their cannons, and annex that place ; and so I on, one after another. j It is pretty hard work annexin in this way ; but that is the ionly way it can be done. It will be necessary for the President to keep hurrying on his men this way to keep our ranks full, for we've got a great deal of ground to go over yet. What we've annexed in Mexico, so ! far, is'nt but a mere circumstance to what we've i and all Annexed Countries. DfcAB Sir : Pre done my best, according to ' yourdirections, to get round Sauta'4'nna, but it is! H no usei lle as slippery - an eel, and hits as many lires as a cat. Trift and 1 together can'thold him, and Scoit and Taylor can't'ljill him off. We get fast hold ot him with ourdiplomatics, but he slips through our fingers ; and Siott and Taylor cuts his head off in erery town where ihey can catch him, but he always I comes 10 uie in me ncxi town, and shows as ; " Tr'The sub; mnilM tAAflj fl a if lift Kofi lA'AM l-t ff I I mi unlit licaua unci I" 31 UIltT 1 DdU (' f 1 . i a lonirtalk with him in ihe city, and oinned him nr,,c,e " the last ith vou Dl "uicn seems H and asked him why he didn't stick to it. He said he did stick to it as far as circumstances rendered it jnudeiji. "Byt," says I, "Gineral Santa Anna, thai ami ihe thiu ; a bargain's a bargain, and if a man. has any honor he will stick to it. Now," says 1, 44 did'nt you agree, if the president would give orders to our Commodore to lei you into Vera Cruz, did'nt you agree to put your shoul der to the wheel and help on this annexin busi ness, spas to make easy work of it ? And now I ask you, as a man of honor, have you done it T ; 44 Circumstances alters cases, Major," says Santa Anna. 44 When Mr. Polk and I had lhal understandingrhe thought the needed a few more votes tlai he could muster in his own country to bring him into the Presidency another term. So wo agreed, if I would turn over the votes of that would be for G- Mexico! to bring him in another term, he would prepared jiow to io.v ' afterwards turn over his part of the votes in X. he is, however, s ii I t America to me, so as to bring me in next time, desire, orj the Tar But I soon found it would be throwing our la- and, as w? before V: borawjiy, for Mr. Polk's part of ihe votes in his ! ue .'' which the S country was getting to be so small that they ; Unless we are miifal.. wouldn't do much good to either of us. Sol Gen. Ts views up concluded to hold on lo what I had got, and ' uUcty refuses to rj.), stick tofthe presidency of Mexico." ; lhe candidate .f ii,. j "Then,!' says I, 44 you ain't a going to slick to yoqr bargain are you ?" 44 No," says he, 44 circumstances alters ca ses'i j Thert I tried to scare him out of it. I told him our; folks would whip the Mexicans all in to shoestrings in a little while. And it made no odds! whether he fit for annexin or against it, wc? should go on jest ihe same, and before anotherjyear was out Mr. Polk wooldJ.e Presi. dent of every foot of Mexico ; for we should get llirotihj annexin the whole of it. 44 Very well," says he, 44 go on ; the Mexi cans lile the business ; they can stand it long, er thanjMr. Polk can ; for Sir. Polk will have all the work to do over again every year as he lives, for there isn't a place in Mexico that will stay annexed any longer than jest while you are noldi "Ifw6 tional Convention be asked,' woulJ we t racy proceed ? Wc ( I through State Con v. themselves, in ll.t ir ( ting aside ihe sr!, ; ; political leader, s; : men.i. j And, in th f 1 1 i. 1 ... ' wouiu 00 uui one v i ing on to it. i So you see there's nooin any thing with SantaiAnna. What course it is best to take now seems rather a puzzler. I haven't time to give yini my views about it in this despatch, but wj try to soon. Give my love to Mr. Ritchie. I meant to write him too, but I shall have to wait till next time. Your faithful friend and private embassador, MAJOR JACK DOWNING. THE! CAROLINA WATCHMAN. : Salisbury, Y. C. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1847. ".lyiat will the Whigs do r Under this bend the editor of the Wilmington Journlil spins out nearly a column of pro phecies ! as to what the Whigs will do, has no sympathy fur now that they have a majority in ihv. low- j administers 'the ( er House of the next Congress. Take one principles adopted . of M predictions : "They will hunt and as he says he will harrassthe Departments for obsolete facts, i Chief Magistracy ( and defunct documents, on the plea of certain the Locofoc: publilenlightenment, with the apparent vigilance and impatience of Scotch ter riers.?? The editor is true to bis tribe: He don't like to have this Mexican affair probed to the bottom, for he knows there is rotienness theVe. Any concealed facts or documents that are calculated to throw lightjon the cause of its commencement, mocracy from sup; or its objects,' are considered " obsolete," but to show thf ni 1 " defunct," &c. Truth is a pretty thing, old orj new, so let the editor prepare him self id have it exhibited when the Whigs as little doubt that over all oppojiiion. subject again' How this step of ; will be, received I , : in this State and : generally, we arc whet her it will b. c on the part of thai ; at a loss to say, at '. one thing we do k:! looks a little like a As toGen. Tv: " Tariff 7 and -Slai, so think there can ! ther he is as "sou: : which appear to . ! considerable port it J the South, vc c-pir; : deed ; and from a : j General's principh Dr. Bronson, of Ch ir j It. Ingersoll, of Phil ! they are not of the 1. ' the IIcxry Clay .sc'.. he has no feeling ! I par!. But muht, :.' ! who loves his couu:; ' the pernicious in lit; ' of the party exerts i j an advocate for a ii ' Constitution and Lr thing to do with In: 1 points there is a great is it that they: as a pnrty, wit Loir fallacious doctrine, These remarks have a view to discoura:' shall commence their labors at Washing- I- ton. IIonesty, also, is a generaly receiv ed virtue, by the Whig natives of our Country, and we trust it will govern the Councils of the Nation. The Whigs, we ween, will do their duly, and that without heeding the yelps of small dogs, whether of Scotch, Irish, Mexican or Domestic bree'o. "VVniLE THE CANVASS 13 GOING OX, OF THE , 1 1 CLAIMS si- cf DISTINGCISHEU WlIIGS FOR THE FIRST OFFICE WITHIN THE GIFT. OF THE PEO- pleJiThe Republic will sustain those be without expect;,: ' the farther destruc'i carrying out their ' either upon the Tar ourTerritorial Urn I . weak and distract' is noti worth onc-fc ; readyj expended i; co to sav nothii!' which have been 1 erj respect, Gen. i been solicitous fur ; 'Clay to the Prrsid ment of Whig prn lir Col to do 1 CARD. HRr niCE Sc ItOYDKN I : 1 .1 .3 -thnafl in rain f. i.. r . ... . .. J illu., .Mv 6h. 147. 7 , j jri HM! kinds of Blanks "for sale "iiorn'1 Good Advice. An exchange paper, the editor of which has had some experience in the world, says. J ! r' Never neglect to read the Advertising Department of a newspaper, if vou would know what it concerns every one to know, y, hy no means. So that in the matter.of peo w here to lav out vour mohev to the besfTPle wa are dlng grand business. And as to advantage. Competition!is"at its height, tbe moey, it i no matter whai il costs ui, for Some think the business is'nt profitable ; but it's only because they have'nt ciphered into it fur enough to undestand it. Upon an average we get at least teni to one for our boilay, anjr way you cart rlgure; il upI mean in the mat. te r ol people, j Take for instance, the city of Mexico. , Itx0st us only two or three, men to aunex it; after! we got into ihe neighborhood of it; and we get at least a hundred and fifty ibou. sand people injj that city, and some put it down as high as two hundred thousand. Some find fault wilh the quality of the people wejget in this country; jest as if they that bad any thing to do with the merits of tbe case. They ought to remember that inj a Government like ours, where the people is used for voting, and where j every nose counts one, it is the number that we are to stan aboul in annexin, and not the quali the!;! greatest Statesman of the age, HENRY CLAY. Age. has not yet dimmed the (ustre of his genius. Time does not, can- not darken the moral grandeur and beauty of r 1 his fame, for that is founded upon UNunyc de votion to his country, ana public services, WlUCH HAVE GIVEN HIM A HOME IN THE HEARTS S - OF JIIS COUNTRYMEN, AND THE NATION A LOF- ty character abroad. His genius and prac tical wisdoml have illumined our councils, and,' blessed tiie Republic, while even sages hatie been fascinated by his eloquence in de. FENCE OF TIIE CONSTITUTIOX AND IN EFFORTS TO PRESERVE THE UNION. LlKE A STAR OF it, 1 Pumphin I or is a subject for th sit tain, aj lofty eminence, traversed by an ex cellent turnpike road, and erjility to the very summiWfrom which IS enirtVfil 0 mno J: 1 . -f Jj'r of varied grander sub.imUy i who h.veany ,hng voj.l, buy-1 Sa'Atf '" ""' iuu ueauiy. while, not far frnm it hn or gooa uargains, ai-w.ijs au.veruse. ,Pj- , , . 7 7. . nue, noi iar irom its base. . Th. . , enp . tn ..I M . There's A thousand things in this country foutters Cav t t I ... ol uiej inquisitive . . r ! They know it is the sure way to do a hriskLT. ' "f6. 8 T ,nhlVJTO Ave invites the exploration and profitable bnsiness-i-and by selling ! 1 ,hf0$ ,,kfT ,0 ,f ,hLad live and adventnrnn 1 pp.. ..:vi.. .i . i . i. l,me but things is so unsettled here yet, that grqtte much that my limited time did not Kn ,; ! tiT 1 ratherja confused chance to write. So permit me to revisit this attractive nhce 1 o.l .1 , - ' 7 i 1 break prT here, and write a few lines to knd bUtiful vicinitv ' I bTP t!?e lce. ?l ear s ; lhc Pident ; H remain your old friend, in ft.,Lnmb nn . !T , i . . ' uurnpuon is suveu Dyi looking, closely an latitudes, cleardown to Cape Horn. 3ucombc and Henderson arc said to ! over the advertisements.' i 1 IMAJOR JACK DOWNlkfi ' Hope, he yet shines in the West, and patriots still look to his radiant influence to ee-illu- IIINK THE CLOUDED PROSPECTS, OF THE Re- P U0LIC , - J ,. The ; above beautiful tribute to , the grat Statesman of the West, we clip from a Prospectus issued by James M. Smythe, Eq., for publishing in Augusta, G a.,- a new paper, to be called the jrRcpullic, We are Jconfi(dent the sentiments therein expressed, will find a ready and hearty response in the bosom of every true lover ntjhis Country of exalted intellect and true patriotism." , Of all the noble spirits ylio have been named for the highest of- gine wc can sec t;. who may happen t dling up with por tion of pumpkins a majtcr of cour'- i land, and fondly 1 of other days as pies, pumpkin ;cr. ses, and various i (to use a Western region of their m:i interesting subj' ct to every body c I Pumpkin vine - WTm. IL IViUj raised in his gnt ' kin jine from h' two pumpkins. (' a near neighl-ur, number, which 1. average one, r.r. ! 18 lbs. The r.r:r: weight, was 1,S: nearly all of a ' ' Since the ahov . . . '. metiwith tbc: u lotte JcOersoni i: . nearer match wj i
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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