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Till: ARTICHOKE.
Several trials which we have known made
w.ti this root indicate that it is one of the most
valuable for stock which can be cultivated.—
A few years ago, a gentleman of our acquain
tance plante I a small patch of rich ground
with them. Tit: produce was at the rate of
1,20') bushels per acre. They were principal
ly harvuste I hr hogs, which were turned in
an I allowed to root them up ns their appetite
prompted. They s lined well, with no other
fo xl, while the Artichoke lasted* A great ad
vantage of this root is, that>t will lie in the
ground without injury all winter*
Mr. Tnomas tfoi.i e, of Massillon, gave us a
brief account of a trial with artichokes, made
by him the p;*3t season* In April, 1843, he
planted two acres with this Vegetable. The
ground was of medium quality. The arti
chokes were planted in rows 2 1-2 to 3 feet
apart ; using a little more seed than is com
monly used m planting potatoes. As soon as
the frost was out of the ground last spring,
(18It,) the digging of them was begun and
continued as the stock required. The produce
of the two acres was 1,500 bushels. They
wore led principally to sheep, though some
were given to cattle, horses, and hogs. A’l
animals nte them well, seeming to prefer them
to turnips. While the sheep were being fed on
them, they were pastureJ on growing wheat
and clover„ The shepherd thought the wheat
and clover sufficient for them as there was a
Tull “ bite,” mi l he accordingly discontinued
the artichokes. The ewes “ fell off” in their
milk, and the 1 mbs soon showed that they
were not doing so well. The artichokes were
amtiti given, and they soon did as well as ever.
^Mr. Noble also used the tops for fodder.—
lie cut them in October, just before ficst came,
dried and housed them. They were fed to the
stock in winter and were evidently preferred
to corn or fodder.
Mr. N. is so well pleased with the artichoke,
that he is raising tnem this year on a large
scale. ' They require hut little cultivation ; it
bc : ng only necessary to keep the ground clear
of weeds tiil the artichokes get a good start.
Mr. T. M. Johnson of Greensboro’, Ala
bama, lately informed ih, that he is this year
growing 30 acres of artichokes. He considers
them the most profitable vegetable he can
raise. In that climate they can be dug any
time in the winter.
There are several varieties of artichokes, buj
that called the Jerusalem artichoke (Heliantht s
tuberosus^ is considered best. From the fibres
of the tops or stems, a cordage is sometimes
manufactured in some parts of Europe.
A GOOD Fliitl OI' - MAKING MANURE.
A writer in the Southern Planter recom
mends the following plan of making manure,
of which we highly approve:
“ Have a pit thirty or forty feet square, and
two or three feet deep, with a good bank around
it. In this pit let the materials, viz : oak
leaves, pine tags, earth, &c., he put in suitable
layers; on which throw all the slop water,
sonpsuds, yard sweepings, as ley contents of
chambers, and in short, every thing that can be
conveniently got together. It may be at any
convenient distance from the kitchen, so that
the slop water, soap-suds, &c., may be con
ducted to it by a trough. Be sure that no wa
ter gets into it in any other way. If at any
time it should become offensive, start your
teams immediately and cover it with sand or
earth sufficient to prevent the escape of any
effluvia.” We say we approve of this plan of
making manure; but we think it might be im
proved by sowing plaster over each layer of
tne materials of which it is composed, and oc
casionally, say at intervals of two or three
weeks, sowing it over the sut face, by which
means all unpleasant smells would be avoided,
and the enriching gases saved to fatten the
land. Any pit which may be made for the
purpose, should be protected from the weather.
[ Western Farmer.
Science nml Agriculture.
A spirited writer in the London Agricultu
ral Gazette, in speaking of the comparatively
slow progress of improvement in agriculture,
since the days when “ Adam delved and Eve
spun,” up to the present time, saya the scien
tific world is responsible for the backward
state of Agriculture, compared with our art*,
and that farmers arc not altogether culpable
for their ignorance respecting the scientific
princip'cs of their pursuit, since those who
alone had the power, and whose province it
was, to give them light, did not. refuse it for
their benefit, (if, indeed, they had discovered
it,) till the example was set by the immortal
Daw. Now, however, the writer thinks, the
farmers are promised the needed light of sci
ence, and being made familiar with its doc
trines and its terras. Thus he says:
“ What if farmer Dobson (lid think, last
year, that Ammonia was the name of a gentle
man’s daughter ? He knows better this year,
and next venr we shall hear of his putting sul
phuric acid or gypsum on his dunghill, to seize
this fair lady as she flies. Why should he be
expected to he a ready-made chemist ? When
he was a boy, chemistry was scarcely born.—
lie had no' education in chemistry. How
should ho know h had anything to do with
farming 1 He is not to he blamed for his ig
norance in this matter. The blame, if any
where, lies with those who advance it—name
ly, w th the scientific world, who have allow
ed' the physical world to grow nearly six thou
sand years old, and have only just made the
notable discovery that the science of all na
ture Chemistry—is eminently and necessari
ly applicable to the art of human existence—
farming, I say it is the backwardness and in
fancy of science, not the ignorance-of/artpers,
that deserves reflection.
Cooking Food for Swine,
Dr. Lee, in an article on pork making in
the last N.’E. Fanner, says:—'‘‘From some
experiments of my own, and considerable re
search into the published results of the experi
ence of others, I.am satisfied that ten bushels
of boiled potatoes, thoroughly mixed with the
pudd ng that can be made from three bushels
of corn or peas, will make as much pork as
twenty bushels of potatoes, and six bushels of
corn or peas fed raw.”
Many choose their friends for the sake of
their full purses, rather than their foil hearts.
They forget that a full purse may soon he ex-
Itaused by frequent demands upon it, while the
more a full heart gives away its treasures, the
». oftener it is replenished. We shah find the
strings of the heart and the strings of the purse
both°tighfened in the hour of adversity ; the
former around us—the latter around itself—
Selected.
From the X. Y. Sunday Mercury.
SAJI WAX.
Sam Wax a son of Crispin was.
And in the cobbler line ;
Ar.d though ue w as no wonder, yet
He had a famous sign.
A strap ping fellow, too, was Sam,
A* ever wax’d a thread;
Though he soCd the boots entrusted hi
Still an honest life lie led.
Though he made boots for other folks,
None for himself he made;
For. strange ns it mey stent, he said
His was a bootless trade.
ml a
I)v means most people gain the
In iliij life’s varying scents :
With Sam the :ase was quite reverse
For his emit gained his ine'.tns.
And thouph hii toil was endless, yet
Whene’er about to mend
A boot or shoe.ere he begun
He first looked for the end.
And although poor and much in debt!.
With scarce enough to eat,
He. to liis creil t he il saict,
Awl-wav, trade both ends meet.
hut Sam. lie led in love one day—
A la-s forsuch tniu-baps;
For right and left it rut him up.
And look him oiThis taps.
For lie neglected business and
Was quite down at the heel;
An impression or, his soul was made.
Such as wax alone could feel.
Sam fell in love with a charming girl.
Whose name was Dolly Wade !
And solely to be loved by him
Sam thought this Doll was made.
He swore he’d stick to lier like wax,
Tliro’ sunshine and thro' storm;
Like wax Ills heart began to melt,
His love did wax so warm.
* For you, my dear,’ said he, ’ I have
Forsook both Peg and Moll,
To be your wax unto the last—
O, wont you be my Doll V
Hut alas for Sam, there came that way
A tailor, tall and stout,
Who took such ample ineasnrea that
He quickly cut him out.
And Dolly said—the cruel maid!—
Quoth she. 'twill neverdo
To slight so fine a suit as this,
And bind myself to you’.
So Sam was ne’er himself again—
It laid him on the shelf;
Tho’ he possess’d the heel ing art.
He could not heal himself.
And every day he grew more sad.
Until all hope was past;
Nor boots nor shoes lie tap-ped more.
But tap’d himself at last.
And thus he died as he had lived.
Without a single friend ;
His sorows, like his shoes, could not
Be repaired without an end.
STICKS.
From Vie Boston Evening Transcript.
Astonishing* Facts in Relation to the
'jG^yptialt Pyramids.
The materials of which the Pyramids are
constructed, afford scope for long dissertation,
because, independently of the science and skill
requisite for their adaptation, the distances
from which most of them were brought, proves
that each monarch’s sway extended all over
Egypt and Lower Nubia, if not beyond ; and
in" relation to this subject, we gather the fol
lowing facts from the second lecture of Mr.
Gliddon’s new course :
“ Geologically considere 1, Egypt is a very
peculiar country, the quarries of different
kinds of stone lying at great distances from
each other in distinctly marked localities. If
you see a piece of basalt on the beach of the
Mediterranean, you know that there is no ba
saltic quarry nearer than between the 1st and
2d cataract, and, when you find a block of
granite at Memphis, you know that no granite
exists but at the first cataract—nearer than the
peninsular of Mount Sinai. Early civilization,
and extended dominion is indicated in these
facts, and when we reflect upon them, we al
most think we witness the work of transporta
tion going on ; that we see the builders, and
the buildings themselves in progress of erec
tion. The blocks of Arabian limestone ur-
ed in the interior of the pyramids, were brought
from the ancient quarries of Too rah, on the
opposite side of the Nile, distant about fifteen
or twenty miles from each pyramid. These
very quarries arc vast halls as it were excava
ted in the living Rock, wherein entire armies
might encamp, ate adorned with now mutilated
tablets recording the age of their respeclive
opening by different Pharoahs, not only show
the very beds whence the stupendous blocks
of some of the pyramids were taken, but are
in themselves, works as wondrous and sublime
as the Memphite Pyramids ! nay, at the Ycry
foot of these quarries, lie the countless tombs
and Sarcophagi of numbered generations of
ancient quarrymen! These quarries are of
intense archtelogical interest, because the tab
lets in them, record that stone was cut in them
for Memphis, on such a day, such a month,
such a year of the reign of such a king; and
these kings begin from the remote times be
fore the 16th dynasty, and, at different intervals
come down through the Pharaonic period with
many of the others, till we reach the Ptolemaic
epoch—and end with Latin inscriptions similar
to others in Egypt, attesting that “ these quar
ries were worked” in the propitious era of our
Lords and Emperors, Severus and Antonius,
thus enabling us to descend almost step by step
from the remote antiquity of 200 years after
xhe Christian era. The hand of modern Barba
rism, prompted by the destructiveness of Ma
li ana med Ali, has since 1830, done more to de
face these tablets—to blow up many of these
lralls in sheer wantonness, than has ever been
effected by time in 4000 years.
Every atom of tlic hundred thousand tons of
granite used in the pyramids, was cut at Sy-
ene, the 1st cataract distant 640 miles. The
blocks, some of which are 40 feet long, had to
be cut out of llteir bed with wooden wedges
and copper chisels ; then polished with emery
till they were as smooth as look ngglass, and
then carried by land half a mile to the river—
placed on rafts and floated down 640 miles to
Memphis—brought by canals to the foot of the
Lybian chain—conveyed by land over gigantic
causeways from one mile to three in length to
I the pyramids for which they were intended ;
j and then elevate by machinery and placed in
; their present position, with a skill, and a ma-
J sonb precision, that has confounded the most
i scicrilifi European engineer with amazement!
I The very basalt aarcbophagi that once held
- the mummy of the Pharoahs, in the inmost re-
j cesses of these pyramidal mausolea, S£ feet
< long by 3J broad, and 3 deep, were all brought
| from Lower Nubia, from the basaltic quarries
t of the 2d cataract, not nearer than 750 miles
[ up the river! Looking into the interior of the
pyramids, there is still much to stagger belief—
f to excite our admiration. In the pyramid of
■ five steps, the upper beams that support the
j roof of the chamber, are of oak, larch, andee-
! dar, not one of which trees, grow in Egypt,
! and establish the fact of the timber trade with
! Illyria, Asia Minor, and Mount Lebanon in
! ages long before Abraham ! , In the fragments
| of a mummy, the cloth is found to be saturated
with the “ Pissasphaltum”—Jew’s pitch or
I bitumen Judiacum, compound of vegetable
pitch from the Ardhlpelago, and of aspliallum I
of the Dead Sea in Palestine; we find Gum
Arabic that does not grow nearer than 1200 ;
miles from the pyramid, attesting commerce j
with upper Nubia. The gold leaf came from
the mines of Suakim on the Red Sea, or from ;
remote Fazoglu. The liquor which cleansed ;
out the body of ih*s mummy was Cudria the .
florid rosin of the pious cedrus—that grows not
nearer than Syria. The spices,selid us to the j
Indian Ocean—the aloes to Succotfa—the cin
namon td Ceylon, the ailcient Taprdhane—
anJ then the eirts and Science5 brought to bear i
upon thd pyramids that must lidve arrived at j
perfection long before that day, are not only .
themes for endless reflections, but oblige us to
confess that in thrOndogy we are yet children !
Among his novel and strange assertions in
relation to the science of the ancient Egyptians,
Mr. Gliddon maintained that from the very na
ture of their country, and the vast fossil re-
niairs in their quarries, &c., the Egyptian
priests have been geoligists ; and referred to
his “ Chapters,” page 49—for the remarks of
the priests of Solon. *• You mentioned one
deluge only, whereas many happened”—and
other evidences, that the Egyptians recognis
ed in their mythology and chronology of the
world vast periods of time, anterior to the crea
tion of man.
SiirM*da(i to Independence*
If more wealth and greater individual for
tunes have been made in our cities than in the
country, we cannot get rid of the fact that,
from the first settlement of the country, the
farmer’s occupation has been the surest road td
independence. If we turn back tothe men who
have cut down the forests of New England
within the last hundred years, where shall we
find in all history a more successful, more in
telligent, more independent and high-souled
race 1 In the so'*l nnd the growth Upon it they
have found’every thing: the use of their own
hands upon the means furnished them has made
tfiein whatever they have been. Few of the
original settlers commenced with means suffi
cient to pay for the lot of land which they first
occupied; yet, of these, comparatively few
failed in their first enterprize. At the close of
the war of the revolution, many townships of
New Hampshire and Vermont were indebted
for their first improvements to young men who,
as soldiers of the war, had suffered great pri
vations and hardships. That the great body
of such men should, after gaining our liberties,
settle down in successful rural life, and become
men of property and influence as the effect of
their own labors, is honorable to human na
ture.
As instances of the almost invariable success
of farmers, we might point to scores of the
heads of families who have been gathered to
their fathers in the town where we live. In an
adjacent town and its neighborhood, up the
river, eight men of one generation, all of the
same name, and we believe all originating from
one family, succeeded in clearing us many val
uable farms, and all of them in gaining each a
property equal in value to from five to fifty
thousand dollars.. Taking the whole group of
that generation together, it would seem that
the prudence and care of the farmer might al
most leave to command his own destiny.—
What other occupation in this world ol uncer
tainty can so well assure success as that of the
persevering farmer.
Farmer's Monthly Visitor,
Lord Kaimes, it is very well known, paid
great and successful attention to the improve
ment of Agriculture. A great number of years
ago, a German quack, who called himself Bu-
ron Von Haak, vaunted of having discovered
a powerful fertilizing manure, which he adver
tised for sale, pretending that a very small
quantity served to fertilize an acre of land In a
very extraordinary manner. Happening to
converse upon this subject with one of his
neighbors, a plain, sagacious farmer, the farm
er observed to Lord Kaimes, that lie had no
faith in the Baron’s nosirum, as he conceived
he proposed quantity vastly too small to be of
any use. ** My good friend. 5 ’ said Lord
Kaimes, “ such are the wonderful discoveries
in science, that I should not be surprised if, at
some future time, we might be enabled to car
ry the manure of an acre of land to the field in
our coat pocket!” “ Very possibly,” replied
the farmer; “ but, in that case, I .inspect you
will be able to bring back the crop in your
waistcoat pocket.”
Interest on Slate Bonds.
An order of the Executive Department,
Milledgeville, dated 14th inst. is published in
thepnpers at the seat of Government.
From it we learn, that after the first day of
January next, the interest on the six per Cen
tum Bonds of the State, payable between that
date and the first of September next, both in
clusive, will be paid at the Treasury, at tho op
tion of the holders of the Bonds, and that pay
ment be made on each class of the Bonds, when
and after the first instalment becomes due.
W. H. Mitchell, State Treasurer* (on the
22d inst., gives notice that the interest on the
State six per centum Bonds, will be paid at
that Department, and at the Agencies in Au
gusta and Savannah, In accordance with the
above order.
Emigration.
The following is an abstract from tho offi
cial report of the Department of State, of the
number of passengers that have arrived in the
United States from foreign countries during
the year ending Sept. 30, 1844 :
Maine,
3.649
N. Hampshite,
256
Massachusetts*
6,440
Rh. Island,
154
Connecticut,
58
New York,
59,762
Pennsylvania,
4,886
Delaware,
32
Maryland,
5,006
Disk of Columbia*
32
Vormont,
197
N. Carolina,
5
S. Carolina,
330
Florida,
5S
Louisiana,
3,889
Of which Were males,
48,S97
Females,
35,864
The proceedings of Congress are interesting.
The sub-treasury bill has finally passed the
House of Representatives. Whether it will
pass the Senate, is another question. On the
engrossing of the bill for the third rood ing, the
vote was yeas 129, nays 69. Of the Geoigq
delegation Messrs. Black, Cobb, Harat^pn”,
Lumpkin and Stiles, voted in the affirmative ;
and Messrs. Chappell, Clinch and Stephens, in
the negative. On the passing of the bill, the
vote stood yeas 123, nays 68. The Georgia
delegation voted as before.-— Constitutionalist.
From the Georgia Constitutionalist.
The whigs have been very indiscreet in their
attacks upon the democratic party. We copy
the following tables and accompanying remarks
from the New York Morning News, and sin
cerely hope that both parlies will unite for the
removal of an evil of which there is so much
cause for complaint. .
One Want More about" ikcailin# and Writing.V
This, we all know, is a favorite pretension
of the Whigs, tin t they have a‘l the education
dt the country on their side, and we all the rab
ble ignorance. Tlte pretension is as untrue in
fact, as it is impudent in the manner in which
we so often hear it advanced. Some of their
papers (the Tribune in particular) which lately
ventured to provoke a little attention to the sub
ject, burned their fingers pretty severely in the
attempt. We add to what we have already
published on the subject, the following from the
Pennsylvanian, which will show conclusively
the fact of a greater proportion of ignorance, of
those rudiments of education, in the Whig than
in the Democratic States. It shows the num
bers of electoral voles of each State, corres.
ponding of course to population, -together with
the number of white persons in each above the
age of 20, who cannot read and write. It is
not less mortifying to sec so large a number of
these, even though the figures do tell more
strongly against our political opponents than
against our own friends. We earnestly trust
that the returns of the next census will make
rather a better show in this respect than those
of the last.
Electors
cannot read
Stales.
far Polk ;
and write.
Maine,
9
3,241
N. Hampshire,
6
942.
New York.
36
44,452
Pennsylvania,
20
33,940
Virginia,
17
68,787
S. Cufolina,
9
20,615
Georgia,
10
30,717
Alabama.
9
22,592
Mississippi,-
6
8,360
Louisiana,-
6
4,861
Indiana,
12
38.100
Ihirfois,
9
27,502
Missouri*
• 8
19,457
Arkansas,-
3
6,567
Michigan,
5
2,173
170
322,306
Showing lS96
persons who cannot read and
write for every Polk elector.
Eh ctors
tdfinot read
States.
for Clay.
and write.
Massachusetts,
12
4,448
R. Island,
4
1,614
Connecticut,
6
526
Vermont,
0
2.270
N. Jersey,
7
6,385
Delaware,
3
4,832
Maryland,
S
i 1,817
N. Carolina.
11
56,609
Tennessee,
13
58,531
Kentucky,
12
40,018
Ohio,
23
35,394
105
222,444
Showing 21 IS persons who cannot read and
write, for every Clay elector.
A law is said to exist in Mexico, enacting
that no one shall be allowed to exercise the
right of puffrageofter the year 1850, unless he
can read and write. We should be well con
tent to see some regulations of the elective fran
chise on the same principle by our Slates—
and should be pleased to compromise on the
ground the existing difficulty with the new par
ty of ".Native Americans.”
South Carolina—The 25th Rule.
The (billowing Resolutions, in reference to
tho repeal of the 25th Rule in the House of
Representatives of the United States, were in
troduced by Mr. Pickens in .the Senate of S.
Carolina on Monday last, and adopted by that
body:
“ Resolved, unanintously, That this Senate
considers the recent movement in the House of
Representatives in Congress, in relation to the
reception of petitions to abolish slavery in any
portion of the confederacy’, as calculated to en
danger the peace of our. State—as a flagrant
outrage upon our rights, and a decided step
towards the subversion of our institutions, and
the dissolution of this Union.
“ Reso.lvcd unanimously, That on this sub
ject we admit no legislative power in Congress,
and that such legislation will be in fact a dis
solution of the Federal Compact.
“Resolved unanimously, That if there should
be legislation on this subject, by Congress, the
Governor is hereby requested to call the legis
lature together, in order to decide upon the
mode .and manner in which we shall preserve
and defend our ancient rights and liberties.”
From the Charleston Patriot.
1'IIE MAILS.
The rumored alteration ofthe Northern Mail
coming South, by what is called the Upper route,
is entitled to some little attention. It is impos
sible to throw away the mail facilities afforded
by steam as it is to adopt the customs of barbar
ism which prevailed one hundred years back.
The Wilmington company require increased
compensation for cartying the mails between
Wilmington and Chaileston. We think they
are entitled to it. The Fost Master General
i3 restricted by the amount of appropriations,-
from giving the increased of compensation.—*
Congress ought then to increase the appropria
tions. The Southern Cities should immedi
ately move in this matter by an expression of
opinion in public meetings and by memorials
to Congress. It would not do to permit pri
vate enterprise to outstrip the public mails and
afford scope to commercial speculation by the
loss of several hours between New York and
Charleston.
An express line can be kept up in opposi
tion to the contemplated change of the Great
Mail Route at the following rate:
Between distance.
Balt, fc Ports, by S. B’ts, 180 m. in 13 to 14li
Ports & Weldon, by R. R« 80 “
Weldon & Wilm’n " ' 162 “
96 '•
Charleston & Sav’h
Sav. & Macon, by R. R. 190 “
Macon & Griffin *• 58 “
Griffi& Chehaw, jbrjrSt’ge, 110 “
Cheltaw & Mont’gy. R. R. 40 "
1091m.
10 “
11“
14 “
16 “
8"
9"
11 “
12 “
4i “
5“
22 "
24 “
24 “
3“
102
Running time from Balt, to Montg. Al. 44- dy’s
102 .
Add 16 br’s from N York to Baltimore, and
48 “ “ Montg’yto New Orleans.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
It will he seen that the choice of Mr. Polk
by the American people to be the next Presi
dent ol'tlie United States, is viewed with dis
satisfaction not only in Englmrl hut in France
also, except pi-ihaps by those Europeans who
are sit < er> ly di s runs of the extension of libe
ral and free principles, and of tho establishment
of popular governments every where. In ihe
extracts we publish, the people of this countt y
and their government are treated with nbijse
and contumely. This treatment should not
surprise the American people , especially if we
take under consideration the feelings uniform
ly entertained, .since the recognition of Ameri
can independence by Great Britain, by the par
ty which will have placed Mr. Polk in the Pre-
sidential chair, towards foreign alliances afi
foreign intercourse. Englishmen know full
well, that a power has arisen in the west, whifcli
has hfegun to oppose the all grasping, policy of
their govbrnment, and its ambition to control
the coinrdeflcial world. And this western pow
er, if properly wielded, cannot fail to maintain
commercial freedom, and to punish all those
who will attempt to violate it. Hence it can
not surprise us to find English writers abuse the
government and people of this country, and de
precate the election of Mr. Polk. Let all this
pass for the present: it is not now our object to
critise the remarks of the English and French
editors : our readers themselves will be able
to perceive the glaring falsehoods and absur
dities directed against this country. Our prin
cipal object in writing these few remarks is lo
call the particular attention of the American
people to the opinion advanced by the London
Times, which is the leading organ of the tory
party in England, in regard to a combination
ofthe European powers against this countiy.—
We would not notice this opinion, if we be-
1 eved that it emanated from a single individu
al ; hut in this instance the London Times isi
the organ of the government of G. B. and n j
doubt of all the r iher gaverhmerifs of Europe.
We must not deceive ourselves in regard to
the policy some of the European powers wish
to establish towards the United States and
other republics of the American continent, but
more especially towards the United States.—
That policy is, the power to meddle and inter
fere with the domestic affairs of I he several gov
ernments on this continent. That policy Jias
been indicated more than once by Great Britain,
to hoof paramount importance, as it was main
tained, iri the preservation of general peace in
America. So far success has not attended
this bold attempt t<> become a patty in the po
litical transactions Ot the several American re
publics,- the United States being constantly in
the wdy: But how, it is very apparent that
the government of Great Britain will take ad
vantage of the subject of the annexation of
Texas, in order to meddle with the domestic
affairs of the United States and other Ameri
can republics. The London Times plainly
tells us, that if the other powers of Europe are
prepared, as England is, to resist the annexa
tion of Texas to the , United States, a solemn
declaration to that effect should he promulga
ted. In the position thus assumed by the Lon
don Times ns the organ of the British Minis
try, \4re fin'd the repetition of the principles
adopted by the European powers at the Con
gress of Vienna, and confirmed at the Connress
of Lav bach. And What Was one of the prin
ciples adopted, which the potentates of Europe
declared to be hereafter the law of nations ?
The Congress ofVienna, and that of Laybach,
recognized the intervention nr interposition of
one State in the domestic affairs of another
This is the principle adopted bv the European
powers, which, from the lime of its adoption to
this da3’, has been exercised on various occa
sions. Those principal powers have interfen r-
ed in the French revolution of July, which pla
ced Louis Philippe on the throne." Tney have
Interfered in the revolution of Belgium,- in the
Italian disturbances, in the Polish attempt at
independence,, in the affairs of Egypt and
Spain, and in other cases of less importance.—
And now they would accomplish all what they
desire, if they could bring the United States
under this law that they have themselves estab
lished. Will not this government and people
resist any’ attempt on the part of Great Britain
and France, to meddle with the domestic af
fairs of this nation 1 We go further, we say,
will not the United Slates resist any attempt
on the part of the European powers to med
dle with the political affitirs of the independent
nations of this continent? Adiftit the power
of any of the European governments to re
monstrate only against the annexation of Tex
as, and what will become* of our independence
as a nation, and of our destiny ? We should
keep constantly in mind the warning of Mr.
Monroe: "From the moment that we will ad
mit any European nation to meddle with Ame
rican affairs, w e will have to date the decline
of our political and commercial power. 5 ’ It is
essential also to keep in mind, that, for centu
ries past, all the treaties that have been con
cluded in Europe, were extorted by force, and
obtained by deceit and fraud ; that the strong
have imposed treaties on the weak ; that the
weak have been oppressed by the strong; and
that the lives of millions of men have been sac
rificed to maintain despotism in power.
The policy of England is to establish a com
mercial ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico;
and she is aware that this commercial ascen
dency cannot be obtained without a political
influence of some sort. We say this is the
policy of England, and the London Times is
explicit on the subject. What does it say ?
That the annexation of Texas to the United
States, would create a rival maratitne power in'
the Gulf of Mexico; that unless the interven
tion of the European Powers settles this ques
tion now, (of the annexation of Texas to the
United States,) it will at no distant p riod em
broil the western hemisphere in war; and that,
if the independence of Texas be recognized by
Mexico* under suitable conditions, and, mark,
reader, with the guarantee of Europe,- the na
tional existence of that stale is safe. Gan anv
declaration be more explicit, than that uttered
by the I imes ? And it is admitted every where
in Up rope, that the limes is the present organ
of the British ministry. England is seeking a
commercial influence in the Gulf of Mexico,
which she can obtain only by a political con-
11ol of Mexican and Texian affairs. She
dreads the creating of a rival maratime power
in that important portion of America-. Hence
her efforts to crush at once all the improve
ments cf. the United States in strength, popu
lation, and wealth.
miuKico;
The New Orleans Picayune, of the 29th
till., furnishes news of a general revolution
j throughout the republic ofMex'co; the erre$[
! of Cannhzo ; the overthrow of Santa Anna
I with other important facts with regard to the
I revolution.
166 •« in advance of the present mai
arrangement, 14 hours as it take
7} from N. Y. to New Orleans
An Amazon.
There is now at Stettin, in Prussia, a female who,
1S1!, assumed male attire, and entering the Prussian a.-
my, went through the campaings of ISIS, IS13, ami 1814
ami rose to lhe ran„ of sergeant major. She left the army 1
on account of a wound, nnd her sex was discovered, but 1
the king conferred upon her the cross of the iron crown. I
t-oon afterwards she married an English merchant capsai"
and has accompanied hiui upon his voya-es. 1 *** '
We extract, to the exclusion of other matte,,
sufficient to show the overthrow of this consum.
mate tyrant, and the stdte of the public rniuj
throughout Mexico.
By the arrival yesterday of the schooner
Fortuna, from Vera Cruz, whence she s;ij! e( i
On tlie 13th inst. we have the important inform,
j ittfon that the revolution,’ started in Jalisco bf
I Gen. Paredes, Iras finally extended almost erii
i tirely’ over the country, and that the complete
j overthrow of the tyrant Santa Anna is certain
j allhough he is still in command of ai few troops
at Queretaro. In the ciiy of Mexico, the rev.
| oration broke out on ihe 9d inst. and by the “iff
I all was quiet. Gen. Jose Jostfuin de Derrem
j was in command at the last dates,. with the tj;
| tie of Provisional President, while Canaliz,;
and some of (lie chief minions of Snta Anna
were in arrest.
On tlie 1st of December fifty-five members of
the House of Deputies issued a manifesto, pro*,
testing against the orders promulgated by Prei
sident Santa Anna and denouncing the Govern-
I nient for not having had him removed from <if.
lice, ’file next day ten others, who wereab]
j to get in the hall on the 1st, signed if. T|, e
| Senate likewise adopted the same proceeding
' on the 2nd December—every member, savi
! four, of that body signing tlie articles of de-
i nunciation. This action giving great offence
- to the Dictator, it seems that on the 3d Decern:
S her, Gt n. Canulizo, by the express order of
I Santa Anna, issued a decree (or the dissolu-
j tion of Congress. The Dictator was at thm
time at Queretaro, at the head ofsome 8000
men, on his march against the revolu'iop.istf
in Jalisco. No sooner was it known in Mexi-*
eo that the arbitrary decree had been promul
gated than an immense excitement was created
among all classes. The Chambers ut once
made three protests, besides a proclamation to
the citizens ; but before they could have litem
printed,- Conal zo issued a peremtory order
that all the printing offices, w ith the single ex
ception of that of .El Didrio d l Gobierno, San
ta Anna’s own paid organ; should be closed,
and that publications of etfery description were
expressly forbidden. When tin se tyrannical
decrees transpired, the excitement rose to such*
a pitch that all business was .suspended, nnd
groups of men was collected in all quarters to
talk -over the obnoxious measures and prepare
to act as circumstances flight dictate. Cana,
lizo in the meantime,- Seeing that affairs were
coming to a crisis,- and deeming himself un
safe, collected at the palace all the troops lie
could gather, some 2U00 in number, and shut
himself up with them. Baranda, Ri-jon [the
latter a name become familiar tothe people of
the United State'-] and Sala*, three of Smia
Ana’s minions, also look refuge in the palace
at the same time.
During the 4th and 5th of December the ex
citement continued, With little or no abatemedi
at anv time. Early on the 6th large number)
of tlie inhabitants. Comprising not only tV
leperos and middling classes hut all tlte most
wealthy and respectable citizens, gathered,,
with arms in their hands, at the Convent of
San Franscisco. Hero the members of Con
gress, having been driven from the Chamber- 1 ,
had assCinhled, among them being Generals
Herrera, (Jarcia,- CttUde and Cespedes. Pre
vious to tuis the gfedlet part of the t roops if
the garrison and in tlte Cinda Ida had really
pronounced in favor of the revolution. Gent-’
rals Condo niid Cesncde^ had come from the
Ex Acordada, where the movement was gciog
on. and reunited themselves with the deputies
in the Convent.
From this place, as we learn by some ofthe
accounts, ihe entire body—members of Con
cress, citizens, leperos and all—marched
the principal plaza in front of the palace, arft)
ordered Cannlizo to surrender—giving lorn
two hours to reflect nnd no more. We might
here state that this palace is near lhe centre »f
the city, and lias been tlie scene of many revo
lutionary conflicts as its haltered tv alls can* tes
tify.
Thinking that his officers and soldiers would
sfaftd by him, Canalizo prepared to attack the
citizens, and called upon his troops to make if
sortie. At this crisis, one of his officers e.v-'
Claimed fbnf he was the soldier of no tyrant, buf
of the nation, and then shouted, “ Long live
the Con'gress.” This cry was taken up by the
ranks stationed in the palace, when Canalizo
at once fled in consternation to his apartments.
We see rio account of the manner of his cap
ture, which took plaice Jn tlie afternoon of (he
Gth ; but it is certain that he wa* dCthrirted a
prisoner in tlie palace, together with SaTaS, the
commandant general as he is called. The
Ministi rs of war and of the* Home Department,
had been ^set at liberty, upon giving security,
while Rejon and f&iran'dq had made their es
cape.
On the evening of the Gth, nnd durirfg t!he
whole of the / th, of December, the greatest re
joicings took place in the city of Mexico, ac
companied by many acts' which show the Hef-p
detestation in which Santa Anna was held. A
number of bis portraits in the public place,
were dragged through the streets, torn into
fragments, and every Jepero preserved a piece
as a memento of their oppressor’s downfall.—
I be statue of Santa Anna in the plaza war
tumbled down, broken in pieces, and the head
borne in triumph through the city. It is also
s'ated that the crowd, intoxicated with joy and
frantic vifih revenge, afterwards pxocecded to'
the monument where the leg of their Dictator
had been buried with so much pomp a year or
two since, broke it into atoms, and* then kicited
and dragged the embalmed limb through the,
plazas ami principal thoroughfares. While ail
this was being enacted by the mob, the mors
prominent citizens were rejoicing heartily ir.'
tho change of Government. Messages of con
gratulation between the triumphant Senate ant?
House were interchanged, and the new Presi
dent, Herrera, was waited upon by crowds,
who* appeared most joyous in obtaining relief
rum the despotic rule under which they have
groaned since the downfall of Bustame.nte.—
Such were the scenes enacted in Mexico—
gieat were the rejoicings all over the country.
Ihe revolution against Santa Anna appears
to be general, yet we hear of little bloodshed
except at Jala pa where a few persons were
killed. At Puebla die inhabitants rose as wilt
one voice, tumbled down the statue of the ob
noxious tyrant, and tore his portrait into a thou
sand tatters.
Tlie revolution of Vera Cruz broke out on
the 9th inst, and notwithstanding, this may he
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