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From the N. O. Bulletin, Jan. 25. LATEST FROM MEXICO. Particulars of the late bat. tle. By the schooner Doric, IVoirt Matamoras, We have received dates to the 14th inst. News Was received in Mutumoius, bv an extra Courier, from Generals Wall and Oa r.ialus, on the 15;!) u It, to Genera! Ampudia. that t!te Tcxiaus, from eight huairryj to one thousand strong, and cati'nred Loredo, and that the Mexican forces were not strong e iiough to attack them, in consequence of which they had to fall back, during which time the Texians had advanced ahead of them by the southern route towards Mata moras. On the receipt of this, Gpo Ampudia made preparation for an immediate march up the south side of the Rio Grande, and on the following day (although the weather was very bad) he marched with two hattal lions, known as the Sappers and Miners, and continued a forced march until the eve ning of the 22d ult., when they arrived at the city of Mier, distant about fifty leagues from Matamoras. News having already that the Texians had crossed the Rio Grande and were only two leagues distant from the town, they stationed their aitillery and pre pared to receive them, and at an early hour of the morning of the 23d, the town was at tacked by a partj’ of Texians, under the command of Colonels Fisher and Green, numbering about 25;) or 2dO men in all. j The attack commenced in the suburbs of the city, and by daylight the Texians had cut their way through the Mexican troops, to where the heavy pieces of artillery were stationed, and then took to houses, and from j the windows, doors, &c., they cut down the Mexicans from the cannon as fast as they could be replaced. In this manner they continued the fight from street to street, from house to house, laying the Mexicans in heaps wherever they would attempt to form, and frequently killed every man from their pieces of artillery ; but inconsequence of their superior force they could not charge from the walls that protected them without losing a great portion of their men, but con tinued the fight from the houses, narrow streets and alleys with great success until late in the afternoon, when one of the Tex ian captains (without consulting) hoisted a flag from one of the houses, which General Ampudia observed from the opposite side of the square, and sent in one of bis prisoners which he bad taken during the day, to as certain whether they bad surrendered or not, which produced considerable excite ment and dissatisfaction among the Texians. At length the firing ceased on both sides, when they sent the messenger back wiih an answer to General Ampudia, that they would discontinue the battle if they were al lowed to return unmolested, to which terms GeneraT Ampudia informed them he could not agree, as be had then in town from fif teen to eighteen hundred infantry and cav alry, and that he could not consider he was doing justice to his government and his fellow countrymen to grant their request, | but at the same time he was willing to al- j low fair and honorable terms. Colonel Fish er then asked the space of two hours to call ] his officers together to. consult upon the j subject, and if not granted he would com mence the fight again. Gen Ampudia then finding his loss so great, and already satis fied with his day’s work, readily consented j to grant the request; at the expiration of i which, the capitulation was drawn, acted upon and signed by Gen ual Ampudia and his second in command, and Colonels Fish and Green, and several other officers, but the terms of which it is generally believed will not be respected when they arrive at the city of Mexico. During the battle of Mier, which lasted I 17 hours, with an odds of nearly 8 to 1, with a loss on the side of the Mexicans of nearly 700 killed and 200 wounded, and a great many of which have since died, and on the part of the Texians only 11” killed and 19 wounded, one of which has since died. Among the Texians were six boys; the! oldest of which was 17 years, and the youn- t gc-st 14 only, the latter of which from a ; window of one of the houses, killed 12 Mex icans from one piece of artillery, as fast as they were stationed there ; and when they perceived where the dead by fire came from, they immediately turned twoof'their heaviest pieces upon the house where the boys were stationed, and blew the end en tirely-out; the boys making their retreat to the adjoining house, and in the act ofget ting through the window, two of the boys were killed, which was very much regret ted by the Texians, both officers and men. The others soon found an opening, and re commenced their destructive fire on the ar tillery, until ordered to cease by their own commanders. On the 7th inst., General Ampudia re lumed to Matamoras (wiih the remaining portion of his favorite regiment) amidst the applause of the citizens, bringing with him two hundred and twelve Texiati prisoners ; and was to leave for the city of Mexico on the 13th or 14th. Colonels Fisher and Green, as also the other officers and men of the Texians, acknowledge the officer like conduct and gentlemanly deportment of General Ampudia and his officers, towards them, during the battle and since the time of their capitulation. All the foreign con suls and merchants at Matamoras speak in the highest terms of Gen. Ampudia’s con duct towards the prisoners. The officers have the privilege of the town, accompani ed by a Mexican officer of the same grade, they dine and spend their evening at Am pudia’s, and appear as well satisfied as could be expected in their present situation. There does not appear to exist the least bad feeling between them. The General has adopted the small boy, anil the little fellow js running about town as gay as a lark. Shortly after the arrival of the prisoners in Matamoras, one of the Mexican Colonels placing his hand upon the youth’s observed to him, “ you are too small, they would run over you in battle.” To which the youth replied, “as small as I am, I made twelve of your countrymen bow low \*v me the pilfer hv jo Tess jjnyi otfe, hour.” USE AND ABUSE OF WINE. Hoffman termed wine a panacea, a uni versal medicine ; he recommended it for j weakness of the stomach, indurated and ol>- j structed spleen and liver, flatulence, stone i and gravel fluxes, scorbutic complaints, | failure of senses and mental powers, de- I pression, barrenness, ami all the infirmities jof ago. Pringle ascribes it partly to the I prohibition of wine that the plaguo, small l pox and inflammatory fevers annually com ; mil such ravages; and it is said to have j been observed in Guienne that such disor ders prevail only in those years when the vintage has proved the least favorable. In ! an old French journal, the Germans are j described ns a melancholy people, and this ! disposition is ascribed to the want of wine. ■ The writer says that in a very small tow n | he has known twenty persons put an end to their lives within the space of a year ; and hu attributes most of these catastrophes to that dullness aud depression which seems to he innate in all the inhabitants of the nortii. Thus it would appear that wine is a specific for the plague, small pox, and e ven melancholy and suicide ! Some of these praises it must be acknowledged, are well founded. Wine is a real and most excellent medicine, but no person has char actcrisod it more justly than Fermellus. I “ Wine,” says he, “ is to the human body, i what manure is to trees ; it forces the fruit J but it injures the trees.” An intelligent ! gardener is not constantly applying ma -1 nitre, but only w hen he sees occasion for it. Ilis trees are not to be entirely nourished, but only occasionally strengthened by ma nure. lie must, therefore, apply it only j when they want it, in such quantity as they j may require, and of such a kind as is best adapted to their respective natures. Such, too, is the whole dietetic system to be ob served in regard to wine. WASPS IN A BALL ROOM. On Tuesday evening, the 28th ult., as two young men, who bad been taking a wasps’ nest, were returning to Chesterfield,, on approaching the town they wer? attrac ted to a house by the sounds of music and rejoicing. It proved to be a dwelling wiiere festivities in celebration of a mar riage were taking place; and. claiming some acquaintance with the inmates, the young men joined the festive throng. Thr wasps’ nest, which was folded in a handker chief, was placed in a corner of the room unknown to the company, and the dance proceeded. After a time, the two young men above alluded to, took their departure, leaving (whether intentionally or not, does not appear,) the nest in the room. The dance continued, when lo! one of the fe males made anequivocal sort of move ment, and a precipitate retreat from the house, her husband following closely a! her heels, anxious to learn the cause of his wife’s extraordinary conduct. Scarcely had the party left the house, when a second and a third, and a fourth of the female guests, exhibited similar equivocal symp toms. follow ed by suppressed -shrieks and tew kk red looks. The male members of the company looked anxiously and enqui ringly at the ladies, who in return, skip ped about the room with wonderful agility, j git ing sundry indications that their myste- j rious movements could not be satisfactorily explained. Suddenly the men became af flicted, though perhaps not exactly after the same fashion as the ladies, and a very ex cising, but at the same time very comical j scene ensured, to attempt to depict w hich would be, a hopeless task: it may be ima gined, but certainly cannot be described.— The cause of this derangement of the fes tive circle was, however, soon- apparent.— ! The fiddler, who was sightless, feeling j something very sharp enter his cheek, drop ped his instrument, and applied bis hands w ith great force to his face, bringing to the earth one of the monsters that had been a source of annoyance. Suffice it to say, some of the wasps had escaped from con finement, and, in revenge for the punisb | merit they had endured, crept up the legs of i the dancers, and inflicted their sting. As ’ many as three and four wasps were found j upon some ofthe females. Derbyshire Chronicle. HASTY BURIALS. The yellow fever raged fearfully in Bos j tori ‘be last part of the 18th century. The ! panic was so universal that wives forsook their dying husbands, in some cases, and mothers their children, to escape the eonta gious atmosphere of the city. Funeral rites were generally omitted. The death carts, sent into every part of the town,were so arranged as to pass through each street every half hour ! At each house known to contain a victim of the fever, they rang a bell, and called “Bring out your dead.” When the lifeless forms were brought out, they were wrapped in tarred sheets, put in to the cart, and carried to the burial-place, unaccompanied by relatives. In most in stances, in fact, relatives had fled before the first approach of this fatal disease. One of my father’s brothers, residing in Boston at that time, became a victim to the pestilence. When the first symptoms ap peared his wife sent the children into the country, and herself remained to attend to him. Her friends warned her against such rashness. They told her it would be death to her, and no benefit to him ; for he would soon be too ill to know who attended upon him. These arguments made no impres sion on her affectionate heart. She felt that it would be a life-long satisfaction to her to know who attended upon him, if she did not. She accordingly staid and watch ed him with unremitting care. This, how ever, did not avail to save him. He grew worse, and finally died. Those who went round with the death carts had visited the chamber, and seen that the end was near. They now came to take the body. His wife refused to let it go. She told me. that she never knew how to account for it, but though he was perfect ly cold and rigid, and lo every appearance quite dead, there was a powerful impres sion on her mind <that life was not extinct. The men were overborne by thq^strerrgth of her conviction, though their own reason was opposed lo it. The half hour again came round, and again was heard the so lemn words, “Bring out your dead.” The wife again resisted their importuni- I ties; but this time the men were more res- I olule. They said the duly assigned was a painful one ; but the health of the city re quired punctual obedience to the order they received ; if they ever expected the pesti lence lo abate, it must be by a prompt re. moval of the dead, and immediate fumiga tion of the infected apartments. She pleud od aud pleaded, and even knelt to them in an agony of tears; continually saying, “I am sure he is not di ad.” The men rep resented the utter absurdity of such an i dra ; but finally overcome by her tears, a gain departed. With trembling baste she renewed her efforts to restore life. She raised bis bead, rolled his limbs in hot flan ne',an.! placed hot onions on his feet. The dreaded half hour came round and found him as cold and rigid as ever. She renewed her entreaties so desperate ly, that the messengers began to think a lit tle gentle, force would be necessary. They accordingly attempted to remove the body against her will; but she threw herself up on it, and clung to it with such frantic strength, that they could not easily loosen her grasp. Impressed by the remarkable strength of her will, they relaxed their ef forts. To all their remonstrances, she an swered, “ if you bury him, you shall bury me w ith him.” At last, by dint of reason ing on the necessity of the case, they ob tained from her a promise that if he show ed no signs of life before they again came round, she would make no further opposi tion to the removal. Having gained this respite, she bung the watch up on the bedpost, anil renewed her efforts with redoubled zeal. She placed kegs of hot water about him, forced brandy between 1 iis teeth, breathed into his nostrils, held hartshorn to bis nose ; but still the body lay motionless and cold. She looked anxiously at, the watch ; in five, more min utes the promised half hour would expire, and those dreadful voices would be beard passing through the street. Hopelessness came over her ; she dropped the head she had been sustaining ; her hand trembled violently : and the hartshorn she. had been holding \va‘- spilled on the pallid face. Ac cidentally, the position of the head became slightly tipped backward, and the powerful liquid flowed into the nostrils. Instantly there was a quick short gasp—a struggle— bis eyes opened ; and when the death men again came, they found him sitting up in lied. He is still alive, and lias enjoyed un usual good health. I should be sorry to awaken any fears, or excite unpleasant impressions, by the re cital of this story ; but I have ever thought funerals were too much hurried in this country ; particularly in the newly settled parts of it. It seems to me that there ought to be as much delay as possible ; especial ly in cases of sudden death. 1 believe no nation buries with such haste as the Ameri cans. The ancients took many precau tions. They washed ar.d anointed the body many successive times before it was carri ed to tli,- burial.. The Romans cut off a ; it of the finger to make sure that life was extinct, before they lighted the funeral p:’e. Doubtless it is very unusual for the to remain lifeless for several hours, unless it be really dead ; but the mere pos- I stbiiity of sucii cases should make friends 1 careful to observe undoubted symptoms of i dissolution before interment. Mrs Child. i THE MARKETS IN ST. PETERS BURG. Not only is everything brought in sled- I gesto market, but the sledges serve at the ! same time for shops and counters. The ; m y,s which cover the goods are thrown j back a little, and the pieces of geese, fowls and calves, are ranged on the edge, and hung up at the corners and on the tops of . the posts. The geese are cut up into a hundred pieces ; the neck are sold separate ly, the legs separately, the heads and rumps separately, each in dozens and half-dozens strung together. Whoever is too poor to. think of the rump, buys a string of frozen heads; and be who finds the heads too dear, gives six copecks for a lot of necks ; while he who cannot afford these makes shift with a couple of dozen feet, which he stews down on Sunday into a soup for Lis family. The sledges with oxen, calves, end goats have the most extraordinary appearance. These animals are brought to market per fectly frozen. Os course they are suffered to freeze in an extended postvre, because in this state they are most manageable. There stand the tall figures oftheoxen, like blood stained ghosts, lilting up their long horns, around the sides of the sledge ; while the goats, looking exactly as ifthey were alive only with faint, glazed, and frozen eyes, stand threateningly opposite to one anoth er. Every part is hard as stone. The carcasses are cut up, like trunks of trees, with axe and saw. The Russians arc par ticularly fond ofthesucking pig, and whole trains of sledges laden with infant swine come to the market. The little starvelings strung together like thrushes, are sold by the dozen, and the long-legged mothers keep watch over them around the sledges. The anatomy ofthe Russian butcher is a very simple science. For, as every part, flesh oi bone, is alike hard, they have no occasion to pay regard to the natural divi sions of the joints. With the saw they cut up hogs into a number of steaks, an inch or two inches thick, as we do a rump of beef. The flesh splits and shivers during the ope ration like wood, and the little beggar wen ches are very busy picking up the animal sawdust out of the snow. 1 You do not ask for a steak, a chop, a joint, but for a slice, a block, a lump, a splinter of meat. The same is the case with fish ; they too are as ifeut out of marble and wood. Those of the diminutive species, like the snitki, are brought in sacks, and they are put into the scales with shovels. The large pike, sal mon, and sturgeon, every inch of which was once so lithe and stipple, are now stif fened as if by magic. To- protect them from the warmth, in case of sudden thaw— forthawing would essentially deteriorate their flavor—they are covered with snow and lumps of ice, in which they liecoOi e nough. It is not uncommon for the whole cargo to be frozen in one mass, so that crow bar and pincers are required to get at indi vidual fish. So,long as the cold in winter keeps every fluid congealed, and the snow covers every impurity with a white carpet this Haymarket is tolerably clean, and you cannot pick up much dirt that may not ea sily be removed. All offal that is thrown away is instantly frozen to the ground.— Hence there is formed in the course of the winter such an accumulation of sheeps’ eyes, fish-tails, crabs, shells, goats’ hair, hay, dung, fat, blood, (fee., that when spring strips off the covering kindly lent by win ter, the place is like a real Augean stable. — [Kohl' sßussia and the Russians. WONDERFUL SIGHTS IN THE AIR. The venerable American lexicographer has thought it worth while to notice, in the New Haven Herald, the use which appears to have been made in recent publications of certain atmospheric phenomena, in re ferencetothe great change which, it is said, is to come over the world this year.— He says : “To persons not accustomed to see any unusual phenomenon in the heavens, such a fiery appearance of the clouds mut be ve ry terrific. Ignorance in such cases is a calamity. I had seen more wonderful ap pearances in the clouds or heavens, and was not the least disturbed. “In the dark day. May 19, 1780, the hea vens were covered with a dense cloud for three or four hours ; the legislature was in session at Hartford, and such was the dark ness that business could not be transacted without candles. During this time the clouds were tinged with a yellow or faint red for hours, for which no cause has been assigned. I stood and viewed this phe nomenon with astonishment, but I had no fear that the world was coming loan end. “In the evening of March 20th, 1782, an extraordinary light spread over the whole hemisphere from horizon to horizon, north and south, east and west. The light was of a yellowish cast, and wavy. The wa ving of the light was visible, and some per sons beard, or immagined they heard, a slight rustling sound. I then resided in Go slicn, Orange county, New York, and stood half an houron a bridge over the Wall Kill to witness this extraordinary phenomenon, hut I saw no person that was frightened at the sight. “In the year 1785, a great part of Eu rope was for weeks overspread with a hazi ness of atmosphere which caused great con sternation. The churches were crowded with supplicants. The astronomer Lalande endeavored to allay the fright by endeavor ing to account for the appearance, which he ascribed to an uncommon exhalation of watery particles from the great rain of the preceding year. But at last the cause was ascertained to be smoke from the great e ruplion of the volcano Hecla, in Iceland, which covered more than three thousand square miles with burning lava, in some places to the depth of forty feet. I hail this from Dr. Franklin, who was in Europe at the time. “In a late paper published by the Mil lerites, I saw an article stating that the northern lights foretell something terrible. The writer seems not to know that in the high northern latitudes, in the sixteenth de gree and northward, northern lights are of daily occurrence, and so have been from time immemorial. So illuminated are the heavens that persons may often see to read in the night.” “The lights occasionally come so far South as to illuminate the sky in our lati tude. Sometimes they do not appear for many years. Al the close of the seven teenth and beginning of the 18th century, those lights were not seen for a long period, and when they re-appeared, about the year 1817, our ancestors, who bad not seen or heard of them, were all alarmed, and actu ally supposed the day of judgement had come. “During my life I have been so much ac customed to see northern lights, falling stars, so called, and fire balls, that they have long since ceased to excite my curios, ity. “Nearly thirty years ago 1 read an arti cle in a Vermont paper, stating that the northern lights, on a certain evening, were so low as to be visible between the specta tor and a distant mountain. N. Webster. Chance for a Lawsuit. —The following singular advertisement appears in a Lynn, Mass, paper : “ Whereas, Mr. Joseph John son, Jr., of Nahant, contracted with the subscriber to convey him to Lynn and back again to Nahant for the sum of 25 cents; hut having driven into too close proximity with a post, whereby the wagon shafts were severed from the body, thus obliging me to incur the expenses of supper and lodging at Lynn Hotel : this is therefore to notify Mr. Johnson that I shall continue to board at the said hotel at his expense until he shall provide me a conveyance to Nahant in some convenient vehicle agreeable to his contract. Signed, Abner Hood.” This will form the ground-work for a capital law-suit; in the meantime, says the Sa lem Gazette, “ Mr. Hood is feeding fat for his grudge,” and “ nursing his wrath to keep it warm.” The following question is propounded in one of our exchange papers: A prisoner in jail being visited one day by a gentleman who seemed deeply con cerned at his situation, the jailor asked him the following question : “ Do you know the prisoner ?” To which the gentleman made this reply : “ Yes ; that man’s father is my father's son.” Can any of your readers inform me what relation the gentleman was to the prisoner? It is a very simple thing, and yet there is a good cte&l of a puzzle about it. MESMERISM. Quite an excitement has been produced in our usually quiet town, for the last five days, by a visit from a disciple ofthe ccle rated Mesmer ; and the wonders he has per formed aro the theme of almost every tongue.—There are, to be sure, somoskep ties among us who refuse to be convinced by the testimony of their senses, but tho large majority of our physicians apd scien tific men have yielded their prejudices and expressed themselves perfectly satisfied, from the experiments they have witnessed, that a mysterious influence can be exer cised by one individual over another. The operator is a Mr. Shelton, or Fairfield Dis trict, a plain, rough farmer, who makes no pretension to any knowledge of science, but has performed wonders that science itself cannot comprehend. On Thursday morning Inst Mr. Shelton called at our Book store with a subject, a negro boy, and after placing him in a rnes meric sleep, commenced experimenting u pon him by touching several of the organs laid down by Phrenologists, and succeeded in making him whistle, fight, dance, and perform a number of antics to the astonish ment of ourselves and several of our neigh bors whom we had called in. In the course of the forenoon we had an opportunity of seeing another subject, the son of Mrs Slight; but he was sluggish under the phrenological touch, und no satisfactory re sults were produced further than putting him into a profound sleep. Still skeptical we determined to test tho power thoroughly, and in a case where there could be no de ception. We accordingly invited Mr. Shel ton to operate on a while member of our family. He did so, in our presence and succeeded in producing a mesmeric sleep in twenty-seven minutes. We then cal led in Drs. Wells and Gibbs to witness the experiments. In their presence the mes merizer, commanded bor to perform a vari ety of movements all of which she obeyed immediately; while site remained perfect ly insensible to the commands of any one else, even those of myself, her father. He then led her to an open piano, seaied her upon the stool and requested her to play, at the same time touching with bis fingers the organ oftune- She immediately commen ced the air suggested to her, and played it in excellent time. Other airs were sug gested with which she was familiar, all of which she performed, but never without the mesmerizer touching the organs of tune ; and on his taking his fingers off them, even in the middle of a tune, she always ceased. We then placed our fingers upon the or gans and asked her to play, without any apparent effect, although wo boseeched and commanded her with parental authoritv.— The physicians above named, after having tested her insensibility to pain, professed themselves perfectly satisfied, and the mes merizor woke her up. When awake she positively denied any knowledge of any thing that had transpired while under the influence of ilie mesmerizer, and express and astonishment at tho number of persons in the room, (several neighbors having conn - in while she was asleep.) No head-ache or drowsy effects resulted from the opera tion. Os course, after this experiment, all our skepticism was gone ; although we do not yet pretend to believe in Mesmerism to the extent which we have seen it asserted it has been carried ; but we are prepared to believe any further demonstration which carries equal authority with it as the one we relate above. At the suggestion of the several physi cians Mr. Shelton gave an exhibition on Friday evening nttheCarolina Hall, whore a numerous and highly respectable audi ence assembled. Ho introduced three sub jects : one a mulatto boy, belonging to Dr. Gibbs, another belonging to Mr. Kefder, and a voting man we mentioned at the com mencement of this article. The young man he mesmerized in the presence of the company, without over touching him. No experiments, however, were performed with him, except puncturing him with pins and needles, and testing the rigidity of his muscles. Dr. Gibbs’ boy, when mesmer ized, exhibited combat!veness strong, when touched on the phrenological organs said to denote this passion ; be also whistled when the organs of tune were excited; rubbed his hand when the mesmerizer was pricked with a needle, and went through the motion of swallowing when the mesmerizer drank water. On Mr. Reeder’s boy the expert ments were full as satisfactory. A great part of the audience we believe were satis fied that the effects produced were done without collusion ; but we have heard se veral express doubts. This is but natural, and we can tolerate it the better as nothing short of experiment on a member our fami ly could have convinced us. We have since seen several successful attempts at producing sleep, with similar results on the passion and feelings. In two instances they were performed by a young man of our family, who succeeded, after two or three attempts, in producing the mesmeric sleep, and making the subject go through a variety of exercises, and on Mon day evening last, we witnessed experiments by Dr. Gibbs, who put two negro boys to sleep, and also made them answer phreno logical touches. We have heard several persons who wit nessed these cases express disappointment that more wonders had not been developed; but we believe it was because they had im bibed a belief, from exaggerated reports, that mesmerized subjects could make known all things in heaven above, in the earth beneath, and in the waters under the earth ; yet we have not spoken to one can did man but what acknowledged that they had witnessed a groat deal in these exhibi tions that a few days ago they would have considered beyond the bound of possibility. As several scientific gentlemen have ta ken hold of it, we may expect still further results from their investigations* of which we will keep the public advised.— Cofum . bia Chronicle. An Irishman thus describes a wheelbar- | row: “It is a little carriage with one wheel, f apd the horse Ls a matt. POLITIC A 1.. From the Savannah Republican. THE ONSET— THE RIVAL CANDI - It is probable that every passing motfth will add new developements to the differed ces between Messrs. Van Buren and Cal lioun. How far a National Convention will adjust these differences, remains-to be seen; but to us it isobvious that they will go on widening indefinitely. The oligarchy, at the head of which stands Mr. Calhoun, has no sympathy with the managers and wire pullers of Tammany Hall, while these last accustomed to the sinuosities, the prevari cation, the dextrous shifting and double dealing of the Albany Regency school, grasp forever at power, its privileges and ‘ emoluments, and cannot comprehend, much less respect the bold, denunciatory, straight forward dealing of the Nullifies Mr. Butler, and a host of Van Buren’s of fieeholders, who expect a restoration to that Elysium of fatness, froth which they are now excluded, are hard at work for their master, and ifa letter writer at New York, who occasionally furnishes a half column to the Mercury, may be credited, it is only necessary for a man to declare himself a Calhoun man, to be denounced by this cli que. The Mercury is descanting upon the beauties of the one term principle, recom mended so highly, not introduced by the Magnus Ccesar, General Jackson. It is a musing by the way, tho religious respect which is paid by Locofocoism loan opinion ofthe General, which he did not choose to enforce by his own example. Most sturdi ly too, does the Mercury inveigh against a packed Convention appointed by the Gen eral Ticket System—as calculated to su persede the letter and spirit of the Constitu tion, and substitute the trammels of party management for the unbiassed suffrage of the people. To impress upon the “Democ. racy” the importance of tiiis fact appears to be the object of a pamphlet published at Washington on the principles ofa National Convention, entitled “An appeal to the De mocracy.” The pamphlet is obviously of Calhoun origin. “The Convention (saysthis paper) will make a President and Vice President ofthe United States. Hence the free, equal, and popular spirit ofthe Constitution must ‘ be maintained, though its letter be suspen ded.” Secondly, says “ the Appeal” —by which we suppose is meant that the Vau Buren method ofa Convention of partisans und politicians, who grasp at the offices must he avo’ded. The idea of a Oonven tioti is often deprecated, and the following language is quoted as instructive : “The power of a national convention, in uniting she Democratic party on the election of a Pr sident, has never yet been tried. There never, in past, conventions, has been any difference as to the President ; and so fur therefore, as this office is concerned, t.hero has never been any necessity for.calling a convention. This method of nomination originated preparatory to Gen. Jackson’s second term, when Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Wilkins, of Pennsylvania, were the most prominent candidates lor the Vice Presi denoy,” <fec. And further on—“ For the first time now, since the systeni has been re. sorted to, has there been any difference in the Democratic party, as to the President ofthe United States. The Democratic par ty, is clearly in the ascendant in the Uni ted States ; and if they act in harmony with each other, and fairly and faithfully carry out their principles, .the day is far distant, when they will feel the disaster of another overthrow like that of 1840. But there can be no cordial co-operation without confi dence ; and there can be no confidence, without a spirit of candor, forbearance, and J equity in all their dealings. Suspicions, jealousies, rivalries, and even personal an imosities among loaders, will probably al* - ways exist in every party. These baleful principles, will be ever too wakeful to seize on even ‘the appearance of evil,’ to make it evil—to sow dissensions,, exasperate prejudices, and in every way, to make in dividualsthe party, or the party subordinate to individuals.” We make another extract to show the justice of a party who came into power in 1828, with loud professions of reform and retrenchment, who nearly tripled the expen ses of Government, and who now abuse the Whigs who are not in power, for not carry ing out their promises of reform. In order to show the justice of the censure, we must first extract the following, which we place in juxtaposition to the remarks about the reform of the Federal party. In the first paragraph the position of the Whigs and of a “reforming Congress” and the Executive are defined-—and the second will explain itself to the entire satiefaction of any one who knows the shifts and fetches, and shameful verbiage and rant, with which lo eofocoism comqjends itself to the people. “Let it not be supposed, that the selec tion of the individual fit to be the CWCf Magistrate of this great Republic is an ea sy matter. It is vain to hope for any refor mation in the General Government, but by the conjunction of two circumstances—a reforming Congress, and a reforming Exe cutive. If the Executive be not exact, en ergetic, and honest in the administration of the Government, Congress will in vain le gislate. By mere administration, probe lily one-fifth of all our expenditures can be saved, To make accountability rigidly account, and responsibility stand up with clean hands before the people, in the vast disbursements of such a Government as ours, requires not only a spirit to rebuke and suppress abuses, but the bold tact and industry to find them in their foul hiding places, and with a whip of ten-fold cords, to scourge them from the dark recesses of the Government. An easy which hates to offend; an indolence, which shrinks from a task which might appal a Hercules: a corruption, which looks to office as a re ward for partisan services, and ljmreforeff winks at the accumulation of GoraßKWjtf retainers, and the misconduct or l’l)'ffe* | party con djut <*s. —w ill not do. T ‘gl
