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pro* iuces; and will ensure us besides great
supplies of provision®. Volliynia was the Ms-
g.tziue for the army of the Field Marshal, who
had already obtained from it a considerable
transport of corn. Nothing resisted the en
trance of our general, he is said to be at Dub*
Sio, and that on his road he routed some de
tachments of the enemy. Every body 13 arm
ing; already several squadrons arc ready to
march. You can form no idea of the enthu
sjasm of the inhabitants who at every step ar
rive to crowd the ranks of our brave men —
For the last hall century our brethren of Sa
inogitia, of Volhynia. of Podalia, and of the
Ukraine, have groaned under the weight of
servitude, and of a hostile occupation. Nine
teen long years have passed since the inhabi
2ants bevond the Bug have seen for once the
Polish lance; Dweruicki showed them again
our victorious phalanxes bearing the standard
of liberty.
SECOND REPORT OF DWERNICKI.
Scarcely had Dweruicki passed th«3 Bug
when his first steps on that Polish soil, were
marked with success" On the lith instant
five platoons ol the second regiment of Lam
cers, and of the fourth horse Chasseurs, com
posing a part ot his corps, encountered near
Povick, the whole regiment ot Dragoons of
Chargopoloki which enjoys a high reputation
io the Russian army. Our detachment rushed
upon this regiment, put it to rout, took five
officers (amongst whom is Prince Gbelenski)
iCrO- Drn^uviis, as many horse, ann more man
200 carbines and other weapons. The ene
my’s regiment lost also a great number of men
in killed and wounded; finally, the remains of
this celebrated regiment have been dispersed
in the woods, and arc coulinually falling into
our hands. The attack was so unexpected
and at the same time so impetuous, that we
had only one man wounded, whose name is
Captain Sajowski. General Dwermcki has
already takeu possession of the baggage and
transports of provisions destined for the great
army.
Dated from head quarters of Jeychrzejow
Xainzyn, 17 of April, at two o’clock.
* SCKZYNECKI.
The London papers of the 28th, published
the following paragraph, from the Paris Con-
gtitutionnel of the preceding day:
“It is rumored'that a courier arrived yester
day from Germany, with the news that the he
roes of the Vistula, »lier a terrible battle of
three days, fought only seven leagues from
tho frontiers between Russia and ancient Po
land, in which they displayed prodigies, of va
lor, had completely routed the army of the #>-
nerny. They intercepted a courier from Mar
shal Diebitschto the Etnperor, informing him
that the Imperial Guards were entirely dis
heartened and disaffected.
This i dalliance, being too good to be true,
has net been confirmed.
The Dutch aod German papers on the con
trarv represent the Polish forces as diminished
in numbcr.and exhausted m energy, while daily
reinforcements hdd vigor to the Russians, li
wo are judged by passed efforts, the latter pic
tpre must be false; on the truth of the former,
a few days will decide.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The elections of a new parliament, were
proceeding with spirit in England, and the
friends of-reform were carrying wvory xmng
before them. The appeal to the people, it is
believed, will enable the Ministry to triumph
over all opposition.
The London Morning Chronicle of the 30th
says “The Anti Reformers are, in every popu
lar place, driven, in -a moment from the field
The city of London has returned four staunch
Reformers. Tho Anti Reformers see that it is
hopeless to conieud with the force arrayed
against them—the force of a united people.
The Allas of Sunday, May U>t, states, that
as far as tho elections have gone, the ministers
have obtained a clear majority of twenty.
Sir Robert Wilson was defeated by a large
majority, and in the strongest Tory districts the
aristocracy have met with similar defeats. Up
to the eveoiug of 30th April, not a single die
(rict had returned members favorable to the
Borough* mongers. * -
The' ’German Diet have consented to post
none the question of ibejiccmialion of Lux
emburg for one month, with the threat that Bel
gium herself shall be* occupied by the arms
of the Confederation, if satisfaction bo nos
then made. Some preparations have beea
made by the Belgians to attack the citadel ot
Antwerp. PORTUGAL.
It appears that the subjects of England, as
well as those of France, have suffered from
the government of Don Miguel, and that he
has returned the same answer to the remon
strances of the British Consul, thafhe did to
the French Consol, viz. : that he would not
enter into aoy diplomatic explanations with a
Consul, who is appointed only for commercial
purposes. Assurances are given on the best
authority, that tho ships of war which have
gone from England with sealed orders, have
instructions to demand instant redress, and if
it be not granted.:-Id blockade Lisbon forth*
with. _ , - , , •
The address of the French Consul to his
couotrvmen in Lisbon, previous to taking his
departure, is published in the Paris papers.—
He states, that being directed by his govern
ment to insist on full satisfaction for the mdig-
nities offered to Frauce, he had been unable to
Oblain a categorical answer from Viscount Sau-
terem, and was therefore about to leave the
country. He tendered them the means ol do
ing so in ships which would be at his dispo
gition from Um 17ib lo th. SOtt. April. Mom
of them intended to accept the otter. I be
Miguelists pretended; th^ the Consul being
only a commercial agent^ad no right to do
maod reparation for injuries not connected with
commerce; and that he w^i not accredited by
Miguel. The latter was most affronted by be-
inff 3 addressed as Piinre R egent by the Co.u!*
6 turkey.
The insurrections m Greece aod Turkey are
confirmed and letters from Constant inople as
sure us that ihe Sultan is determined on war
with Russia, which it is supposed, will unite
ell parties in his favor, as the malconteots are
principally drawn from the cllasses who think
that national honour has beeo tarnished by the-
events qf the last campaign*
GREECE.
From Greece also the advices represent the
revolt in Maina as having assumed a serious
aspect. The insurgents had come to an en
gagement with the regular troops, and had
been driven to the mountaips. The Wand of
Hydra had refused obedience to the General
Government ol Greece, and it is said tbat-Spez.
za bad joined its cause.
RUSSIA AND POLAND.
From Poland we have the gratifying intel
ligence of a defeat of the Russian army under
Field Marshal Diebitsch, with the loss of 25,-
000 men, killed and wounded, and 60 pieces
of cannon. The Russian army was considered
as essentially destroyed. The battle commec-
ed on the 5th of April, and lasted till the 7th.
Besides, Wilna was said to be in the hands of
the Revolutionists, with other positions, while
the plague had appeared ia the rear ol the
Russians.
GLORIOUS VICTORY OF THE POLES;
TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS.
By the Journal de Verviers, dated the 16th,
we have received the following important in r
tel!iger.ce:—M. Fitchbach, of Staveiel, who has
just arrived post from Frankfort, announces as
certain, that at the moment of his departure
the house of G. Mumm and Co of that city,
had received an express from Warsaw, bring
ing the news that the heroic Poles had ag in
attacked the Russians on the 5th of April, and
taken 15, 000 prisoners and 42 pieces ot can
non. The Russian army is completely routed,
and M;u<Ik.I Diebitsch flying with the remain
der of his troops It is believed that he ha-
been obliged to take the road towards Wilna,
where an insurrection has just broken out
This circumstance may cut off his retreat on
that side.
Hitherto only insignificant details of this new
battle have been received, consequently the
number of the killed is not known, which must
b» very considerable on the pari oftheRus
sians.. During the action the Li'huanians and
V dhymaus who served in the Russian army
turned their arms against tho Muscovites, and
powerfully contributed to tho succes of the
battle.”
WARSAW April 7.
Among the prisoners are young men of the
first families; for instance. Count Modem,
Prince Schachowsik; Baron Sacken, d’Aavral,
&c.
It is said that General Pac, with his corps
has passed the Vistula, ami the detachment ol
cavalry ordered to the left side, from Kaluszyn,
have destroyed .t he bridge of boats over the
Bug, by which the Russian guards were to pass
into Podlanhia.
It is reported (hat our troops have taken tho
army chest of Fmld Marshal Diebitsch, and
made 1,200 men of his corps prisoners.
Among the prisoners brought in the d-tv ba
fore yesterday are several of the corps of Count
Pahlen, anti some grenadiers of the 1st regi
ment, of which the E noeror of Austria is Co
lonel. Considerable detachments of Russian
regiments of Huiani and Yagers were also
brought in thp day before yesterday. On the
whole nearly 12,000 prisoners had arrived it;
the capital.
The Emperor Nicholas has had new regi
ments organized, which are named afte# town®
in Poland, o a the regiments of Warsaw. Mod
liu, Pula way,Sf.
“Warsaw April ITT
Another affair has taken place at Wengrow
under Genetal Umin t -ki who has passed the
river Liwiec." He took 400 prisoners of Rus
sian Guards, the choicest of the army, and oh
tained possession of s»?veral valuable mnga
zincs. Samogotia and Lithuania have been it
a state of revolt since the 29 of March. A
estafette who arrived last night brings inhu
mation that a revolution has also taken place
iu Volhynia
We have received a private letter frr-tn
Warsaw, dated the llih inst hip the inform*
tion it contains is not official and we. therefor-
do not givH it with such confidence as the y-
Hove. The letter states that an insurrection
had broken out at Berdiez* ff. a large town in
Volhvnia.and that it had assumed a formula
hie aspect. The promoters of this insurrection
are stated to be toe Brazilian priests a serf
who are half Greeks and half Catholics.
These pri~sf9 appeared resolved lo make a
strong resistance, and had fort fi^d their mon
astery, which 'g in a very advantageous posi
tion, being situated on a high rock. Accor
ding to this letter, ihere is not the least dout t
of the reported revolution in Samogntja apd
Lithuania The corps of General Daernicki
which was at Lamosc, Iwd entered Volhynia
with the intention, as the letter says, of joining
tbe insurgents
Private acconnts from Warsaw state that
the Polish Commander in chief, whose head
quarters were at Siennica, was near those of
Gen Diebitsch, at fiarwslin, and that Di^bit-
sch could easily be taken in fl ink by a Polish
corps which was at Siedlec, and in his rear wa*
Gen. Bwernicki.
It is stated that (he number of prisoners ta
ken by far exceeds the amount in the bulletin,
and the demoralization in the Russian army
WAA very gre-.il—nal wpid wmy, which
was in want of canon at. the beginning of the
campaign, has at present a sufficient quantity,
with a reserve of 40 pieces The Russian ar
my have lost their talisman—those famous
pieces of raonon which were in the campaigns
of France and Turkey have been captured by
♦lie Poles: the Russians used to call them their
Grandmothers.
Extract of a letter from Memel:—“A gen
tleman, who has returned here from Polangen,
states that the whole town has been burnt by
the Russians, in consequence of the insurgents
having fired' from the bouses on the Rus
sians.'' •
Leaving all collateral accounts out of the
question, and pursuing the Polish story, as re
corded in the Gazette of Warsaw, we find that
on the 3d and 4th and 5th of April. Skryznecki
followed up bis good fortune, and that the im
portant battle of the 1st and 2d, was succeeded
on the 3d, &c by the regular advance of tbe
Polish outposts, and with tbe hourly accession
of stragglers, guns, standards, taken by the
skirmishing parties of the Peles. The bead
quarters were at Siennica on the 4th. The
Prussian papers appear to make light of tbe re
volt in Lithuania, but they allots it. Ampng
the prisoners taken by the Poles daring the
‘\ several battles, are members of tbe first fami
lies in Russia, The gallant General Dwernicki,
is represented as being delayed in bis manoeu
vres by the difficulty of finding food and ac
commodation for his troops. From the man
oeuvres of this general, apparently in combi
nation with those of Skrynecki, and also from
the approachments ol the Russians, a decisive
battle is every day expected.
The Temps of Monday gives an account —
which we cannot authenticate—-of another im
portant victory gained over the Russians. It
is reported to have beep fought pear Zelechow,
were hung out, end decorated the windows,
while the number (^transparencies, lamps, illo-
aiinated windows, and other means ol joyous
expression, gave to the splendid night scene
the character of enchantment. To this is to be
added the firing of small arms, the “concord of
sweet sounds,’ issuing from numerous bands,
and the wild extravagance of joy, which, re
strained wilbio due bounds, left nothing for
the spectator to feed upon but delight.
Oxford (University ")—The two. late mem*
hers will be re.elected on Monday, unopposed;
alas, for the seat of knowledge and learning,
to the noith of Skladwo, one of the branches always behind the rest of the kingdom in love
of the river Wiopey, where the Russians wish
ed to concentrate. Twelve thousand Rus
sians were killed, wounded, or taken by the
Poles, with thirty or forty pieces of cannon.
Marshal Diebitsch was on the point of being
made prisoner, when he ordered his corps
d’armee to concentrate, and retreat, and to pass
the Bug on ths side of the Volhynia. The
Warsaw Gazette places the Russian head quar
ters at Rtcki, and the Polish at Laskarew.
250 Saxons bat! arrived at Warsaw on the 8th,
to enter as volunteers in the Polish army. The
Journal de Verviers repeats the statement of
a great battle on the 6th inst. Diebitsch was
described as flying towards Wilna, where an
insurrection ^ged. During the action, the
Lithuanians uud Volhynians»who served in the
Russian army, turned their arms against the
Muscovites, and powerfully contributed to the
success of the battle.
The following, signed Skryznecki, dated A-
pril 10th, gives an official acount of the Polish
success.
‘ I have great satisfaction in announcing to
the government that the Polish army obtained
a considerable victory yesterday. We have
taken several cannons, and 3000 or 400Q*pris-
oners, amongst them are nearly 300 officers, of
different ranks. Gen. Promdzynski, comman
ding a separate corps, covered himself with
glory. Tbe advanced hour of the evening
does not permit me to give a more detailed re-
pert.
Russian prisoners, guns, standards, &c. were
daily poured into Warsaw, from the head quar
ters of the Poles. On the 11th. the State Ga
Z‘*tte announces its belief that Skryznecki
had entered Liedlie: and it is clear that from
the TOomeot the Polish general had crossed the
Vistula, up to the latest hour, the Poles were
victorious, and regularly advancing against
heir enerpie9. Lithuania, Volhynia. Podalia,
and the Ukraine are in arms for Poland.
Lata Letters from Ditiizig, state that the
ct»oleram«rbus had again hroken ont, 80 miles
to the east of Warsaw, in the rear of the Rus
sian army They also dQhounce the important
fact of the Poles having stopt all tbe corn On
its passage down the Vistula, paying one third
of i he value in money, and tho remainder in
Polish land.
GREAT BRITAIN.
April 29 ii —Pne illumination last evening
was spendid, the T.mes and Herald say. I
wa« out from 8 fill 10. andean truly say that
there wore not fifty windows lit up till the mob
compelled them to light them. Mmytefused
to do it at all and. ns a consequence, had tli*ir
windows sma<d*T*d The M.-rquis of London
derry^ wore shivered to atom*, sashes and all
Cro: kford’s (the panes of glass cost I am told,
12 10 each) has -not a single pane remaining.
Tire Sfc»ci«*y of Friends had their windows uoi-
v- rsaily beaten in. I doubt if the damage
done to the windows bo less than /60,000 I
never saw such a mob. before, and probably
never shall again. Regent street, from Oxford
-irent to Pall Mall, very near a mile in length..
>nd ten rod* wide, St James street, Picaddly
•om Coventry street, tor tbe whole length,
vere one mass of heads. There could r.ot have
oeen less than three or four hundred thousand
•fthe gentlemen reformers.
Tins wdl lave a very unfavorable effect tip
o tbe election. P ople of property begin to
ne The danger they.are in. But it has gone
op tar now—the bail of revolution never turns
back—if the bill be not carried, I shall not wish
to be id St Stephens. nor any where else in
London Great events are being born—Eng-
• ud’s stability is at staLo Yours truly.
ILLUMINATION. IN LONDON.
As far as the feeling could be manifested in
the various provincial towns of the kingdom
the euergo ic course oftlu Kng in dissolving
Parliament, has been received with great re-
jairings. This step has made William 4th as
•.’•’pillar as George the- 4th whs on the passage
d the Carbolic bill. Toe feeling in London
was very strong. The Lord Mayor suggested
o the city the expediency ef “fighting up in
tonor oft he reform proposed by his Majesty’s
Ministers, and so patriotically supported by
i he King” Inconsequence of this intimation,
ibe citizens prepared for the occasion, and
Wednesday 26fh of April, was tho evening ap
pointed for the display. From a London pa
per of the 27th, we make tho following extract
m relation thereto:
‘The General hilarity was never so superem
inently manifested as on last evening. Wheth
er we refer to the splendor of the iuuminations,
to the universality of them, to the immense
assemblages ot the people, to the order and
regularity, so far as they ceuld be preserved
by the immense masses which filled the streets,
or to the joy which depicted tbe countenances
••fall, we never recollect an occasion ofrejoic
ing which seemed to have won the hearts of
the people, and to have infused, as it were, a
new soul in?o their bodies, as that which shone
forth last night, making not “night hideous,”
but one diversified picture of beauty and joy
ousness.
We could dilate for hours upon the scene ex
hibited within the city: it was one continuous
stream ofplepsurr —one expression of sati-fac
tion—one sentiment of joy which animated the
various groups which, from the first appear
ance of the illuminations, filled the streets, and
gave expression of their feelings in various
ways. God save the King! Rule Britannia!
Cheers lor the Ktngl and other demonstrations,
ofjoy, filled the otherwise “dull ear of night,”
and gave tothe scene an animation of the most
pleasing description.
We really have not space, we fear, to de-
scribe scarcely one tithe of the display -vhich
throughout tbe metropolis were put forth in
honor of the occasion. Triumphant flags, de
vices of all kinds, banners, and other insignia,
of freedom.
Elsewhere tbe election is going on with the
greatest vivacity, in Conventry, at the close
of the first day’s poll, the number were, Ellice,
d73 ; Bulwer, 457 ; Fylor, 164. The retarn
of the two first gentlemen, reformers, is cer
tain. *
PARLIAMENT REFORM.
Reform, says the Globe of the 30th, has
gamed already two in London, two in South
wark, two in Dover, two in Lewes, two in Hast
ings, and two in St. Albans. In all the other
places the former members were returned, ex
cept at Litchfield, where Sir E. D. Scott re
places Mr. Vernon, who supported the bill—
In Oxfordshire, Mr. Fane, who opposed the
bill, has resigned in despair on the result of a
canvass ef three days. In Cornwall the can
vass of Sir R. Vyvyan has been most unsuccess
ful. Some of his friends, who bad underlak
en a district oFTonr parishes, where he obtain,
ed last year from 300 to 400 votes, could only
get 11 promises in favor. Io Liverpool, Mr.
Ewart, Mr. Denison, (by proxy,) and General
Gascoyne are the only candidates likely to be
proposed.
SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh.—— Mr. Jeffrey has announced
himself as a candidate; so has Mr. R A. Dun-
das. All the corporations are meeting in favor
ot the Lord Advocate.
Haddington.—Mr. Stewart of Alderson, a
reformer; has secured the votes of Hadding
ton and Jedburgh. .
Linlithgow—The town and council give their
support to Mr. Gillen a decided friend of the
referm bill. .
Renfrewshire.—Sir Al. S. Stewart, in favor.
Dumbartonshire.—Mr. J C. Conquhoun, in
favor; and Lord W. Graham, against.
Jlgleyshire.—Mr. W. F. Camhbell, in favor.
Ayrshire.—Mr. R. A. Oswald in favor, and
ami Mr. Blair against.
Sterlingshire.—Admiral Fleming, in favor.
Stertin Burghs—Mr. J. Johnston, in favor.
Edinburghshire—Sir George Clark, against
Dumfries—Mr. Hope, Johnstono, in favor,
Mr. R. Dundas, against.
Haddingtonshire—Mr. D. Baird and Mr.
Grant Suttie. in favor: M. J. T. Hops, and Mr.
Balfour, against.
Linlithgowshire—Mr. A Hope, against.
Perthshire—Sir G. Murray.
Ffeshire—Capt. Wemys, in favor; Captain
Limisay, against.
Selkirkshire.—Mr. Elliot Lockhart for, and
Mr. Pringle, against.
KirUcudbrigtshire—Mr. Cullar Ferguson, in
favor, and Mr. Forbes, against.
Roxburghshire—Mr. F. Scott, against.
Ross Shire—Mr. Mackenzie, against.
Selkirk Burghs.—Mr. Gillon, in favor.
(Prom our Correspondent)
LONDON, Saturday, April 30—half past
seven.—Now that tbe bustle of the election i®
over, affairs in tho city are reverting, in some
degree, into their ordinary state; but the great
est interest is felt, and will continue so to the
end of the elections, in the progress of reform,
as intelligence arrives from different parts of
the country Every arrival communicates a
greater confidence lo the friends of the cause,
but without encouraging any of them, in any
instance, to slacken their efforts. On the con
trary every now return of (he reforming candi
date seems to give ri^e to opposition in quar
ters wliere, otherwise, it would not have been
thought of. Three days ago for example, a
contest for Westmoreland was hardly consid
©red possible; but now, a defeat of the Low-
thers, in tLis their strong hold, is thought by no
means improbable. The London freeholders
hold a meeting to-night, and will certrinly bring
forward two reformers for that county The
friends of the cause in the metropolis will not
relax their efforts while any chance presents
itself of increasing the number of members
supporting their opinions, thereby trusting to
send the bill to the upper-house with an over
whelming majority, that its rejection there wiil
be quite out of the question.
ST. PETERSBURG, April II—His Ma-
jesty has been pleased to address the following
Rescript to the Senate:
‘In consequence of the troubles which have
broken out in some districts of the Government^
of Wilna, we think it necessary to declare the
Government of Courland, adjoining those dis
tricts, in a state of war, and we confer on the
Governor* General, Lieutenaet-General Baron
Pahlen, authority to act in that Government
with all the powers and prerogatives ef the
Commander of a detached corps of the army
in time of war, in order to repel all attempts
whjch the rebels might make against the said
Government, and to maintain there good order
according to the laws.
“The Senate will immediately take the ne
cessary measures to communicate this our de
cision to those whom may concern.”
The l alley of La Plata.—The great valley
efthe La Plata, with respect to its magnitude
and peculiar soil and surface, is the most ex
traordinary on the globe. No country in the
world presents so level a surface; being one
wide extended plain, reaching from the river
of Plata to the Cordillera of the Andes. It is
tbe lower section ol this superfices which is
emphatically denominated the Pampas, and it
extends nearly 1500 miles from to north south,
with a breadth of about 500 miles, being a
great trapezium, as Brackenridge calls it, or
irregular figure, containing 100,000 square
miles. Over all this immense space there is
carcely a tree or shrub, or a single perennial
plant. There are neither hills nor er.tinence,
and the undulations are almost discernible by
the eye. The keen and desolating tornados
called pampora9 sweep across this unsheltered
region without any obstruction, aiid discharge
themselves with accumulated add resistless fe
ry upon the bfMJ* expafiic of the La Plata,
The surface is u- rich black mould, without
stone, gravel, or sand; next is a stratum of clay,
and lastly a substratum of gravel, which reach
es down to water. Tbe whole is luxuriantly
productive of grass, and forms one boundless
pasture ground. Baldwin and Bonpland, the
companions of Humboldt, both sny that it
might be timbered with success; and M. Head
informs-us “that if cities, and millions of in*
habitants, could suddenly be planted at proper
intervals and situations, the people would have
nothing to do but drive out their cattle to
graze, and, without any previous preparation,
to plough whatever quantity of ground their
wants might require.”
At a particular season of the year, when the
clover withers, enormous thistles, ten or twelve
feet in height, suddenly shoot up, hem up the
roads and paths, and form a dense and impene
trable barrier. ‘The suddeirgrowth of the90
plants,” says Mr. Head, “is quite astonishing,
and, thoogh it would be an unusual misfortune
in military history, yet it is .really possible that
an invading army, unacquainted with this coun
try, might be imprisoned by these thistles, ba»
fore they had lime to escape from them.”
Upon tbi9 vast level are fonnd innumerable
herds of horned cattle, horses, mules, and
sheep also deer, ostritches, lions, tigers, nod
wild dogs. Thousands of these animals may
be seen together; they are its principal sources
of wealth and commerce. They have been,
estimated at between two and three millions of
cattle, ind three or four millions of horses,
which range unbridled over the interminable
savannahs of the Pampas.
DOMESTIC.
Mr. Van Buren.—It is said that Mr Van
Buren will accept the Mission to England; (hat
be expects to leave Washington about the
middle of June—and sail from New York about
tbe 1st of August.
Judge White—We are sorry lo understand
that he has declined the appointmant of Secre
tary of War. It is said, that his letter to. the
President reached Washington on Friday last
—and that he assigns, in the most touching
manner, bis reasons for declining. The do
mestic afflictions of this worthy mao have b.ieu
severe, almost beyond example They have
prayed upon his spirits and stripped public lifm
of all its attractions. He has lost, in raVn^
succession, nine children, and lately his belov
ed wife. His only remaining child (Mrs. Arm
strong) is now threatened with the same com*
plaint which has proved so fatal to his family.—
Every generous heart will sympathise in his
feelings whde we lament the loss of so pure
and accomplished a man to the Councils of his
Country —Richmond Enquirer.
The following extract from the Circular Let
ter of Gen. Barringer, a Member of the .Ust
Congress (and a candidate for r e-e!eciion) ac
cords with the views of the same subject which
he has expressed on the floor of Congress, and,
we presume, may be taken to speak thes«nti
ments of a great majority of the people of the
State (of North Carolioa) which he repre
sents:
“On the occasion of my.Iast address (o vou.
I endeavored to point out some of the effects
resulting from such a system and course of
measures, and will not, therefore, now repeat
the often told tale. The Southern presses
have for years teemed with arguments and re
monstrances, and some of the States have sol
emnly protested against a system of measures,
believed to bear with peculiar pressure upon
their interests. I will not say that this haJ no
effect, for I believe that a spirit of concession
and compromise pervades the public mind in
almost every portion of our country; and I can
not but believe, that a dignified moderation
will in the end effect a change in our national
legislation, which has hitherto been denied to
threats and violence; and I am tbe more con
firmed in this opinion, by events which have
already transpired in the reduction of^doties
upon articlesof first necessity, such as salt, cof
fee, &c. The ordinary limits of a circular letter
forbid the attempt lo enter largely upon the
discussion of this vexed question, of the right
and policy of protecting particular branches of*
industry, or indeed any domestic production
(for our laws are so framed as to hold out the
semblance of protection to all) but if the right
exist (which abstractly, may admit ef much
doubt) the policy must be left to that obvions
principle which lies at the foundation of all our
institutions, as incident to popular governments,
that a majority roust rule. The denial of this
principle, is to ail intents the subversion of
the forms of the Constitution, and there re
mains no middle ground between acquiescence
and resistance or revolution.
“I will not trust myself to speak of such a
disastrous termination to the hopes of all good
men every where—nor of those who would
goad us on to the brink of the fatal pricipica
on which there remains no alternative but to
embrace foul treason and make the fatal plunge,
or to retreat-with dishonor from machinations
involving the destruction of the most glorious
fabric of Government which ever blest the
hopes of man; I leave them to others and to
the tortures which await their guilty spirits!.!
But lo you I would say, in the language of our
vanerable Chief Magistrate—and 1 doubt not
that yod will respond a hearty amen—“The
Federal Union—it mast be preserved.”
In this age of reason, we hear it frequent^
stated by persons, that tbe State of New York
has made a loosing business by her public
works. That the sum annually collected from
the tolls on her Canals, was insufficient ta de
fray the expanses incidental to keeping them
up. The great Erie Canal that brought into
action the latent energies of tbe illustrious
Clinton, which acquired for him a fame more
durable than brass—and which has justly en
titled him, its projector, to the highest rank
among the public benefactors of tbe age, was
deliberately declared to be DQtbing more than
a sponge.to suck up tbe resources of tbe State.
We never have believed wbat was said. At
the first blush,* we viewed the assertions .of
certain individuals, as vague and^mpty dec
larations, not calculated to enlighten, k but to
deceive the community—as a great -political
bugbear, hatched up to frighten the illiterate.
To sustain the ujonstrous doctrioe, that the
‘ Coosa Gaaal” if ever completed, would in-