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THE TELEGRAPH, IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING by o. h. prince, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 1N VARIABL Y IN AD VA NCE. ADVERTISEMENTS ore inserted al Si OO per • quare for (lie first insertion, and SO cento per square for each insertion thereafter. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. JTFN. B. Sales of LANDS, by Administrators. Execu tors, or Guardians, are required by law. to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon, and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house, in the county in which the land is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette SIXTY DAY'S pre vious to the day of sale. Sales of NEGROES must be made at a public auction •n the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual h >urs •f sale.at the place of public aales in the county where the letters of testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, miy have been granted, first riving SIXTY DAY'S notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in 1 ike manner. FORTY' days previous to theday of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be published FORTY days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell LAND, must be published for FOUR MONTHS. Notice for leave to sell NEGROES must be published or FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. Citations for letters of Administration, must be publish ed thirty days—for diamission from administration, month ly bix months—for dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Hut. its for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly forfour months—for establishing lost papers._/i?r the full space of three months—for compelling titles f,om Executors or Administrators, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always lie continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. REMITTANCES BY MAIL.—'A postmaster may en- eloae money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a third person and frank the letter if written by himaelf.”—Amos Kendall, P. Al. G. ‘ Thai’s true ; I did not think of that: but it’s too late now.’ Wiih a deep sigh the simple hearted Major left our office in search of somebody who would aid him in ‘raising the wind.’ JHffiiccUiWJ}* ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. We take pleasure in introducing to our read ers the harangue of Billy' Earthquake. Yesterday we were passing by the Court House, where an elociion had been going on, a “real screamer from the nobs” about six feet six inches high, sprang out of iho crowd, and uttered the following: “This is me; if it aint cuts me, and no mis take? Billy Earthquake, Esquire, common ly called little Billy, all the wav from the big North fork of the Muddy Run ! I’m a small specimen as you see, a remote circumstance, a mere yearling, but I’m of the true ‘imported breed’ and can whip any man in this section of country? W-h-o-o-p! Won’t nobody come out and fight me ? Come out some o’you, and die decently, for I’m spiking for a fight! I haint had one for more than a week, and if you don’t come out, I’m fly-blowed before sun down to a certainly!—so come up to taw! “Maybe you don’t know who little Billy is ? I’ll tel! you : I’m a poor man, it’s a fact, and smell liko a wet dog; but I can’t be run over! I’m the idenlicle individaal that grinned a mi- najjerio out of countenance, and made the rib- nose buboon hang down his heqd and blush.— W-h o o-p! I’m the chap that towed the broad horn flat boat up Suit liver, where the snags were so thick that a fish could’nt swim without rubbing the scales off! ftets, and if any body doubts it, just let them make their will! Cock- a-doodie-doo! May be you never heard of the time the horse kicked me and put both Ins lips out of joint! if it aint true cut me up- for catfish bait. I’m the very infant that refused its mother’s milk before its eyes was open, and called out for a bottle of white-eye whiskey! W-h-o-o-p-h o-o, ay ! Wake snakes and come at me! Perhaps, too, you never heard tell of a youth that tried to look loving at a ga’, and threw her into spasmodics, and she’s a roaring, raving maniac to this day. W-h-o-o-p! I’m that little Cupid! Talk about grinning bark off a tree! taint nothing—one squint of mine at a bull’s heel would blister it! O ! I’m one of your toughest sort, live forever, and lurn to a white onk post. Look at me ! (said he, slap ping his hands on his thigs with the report of a pistol.) I’m the genneine article—a realdnu- ble acting engine. I’m the locomotive that pushed the hull off the bridge, and can out-run, out-jump, out-swim, out-talk, out-e.-tt, chew more tobacco and.spit less, drink more whiskey and keep soberer than any other man about these diggins! D n it, if (hat don’t make ’em fight, nothing will. I wish I may be kiln- dried, and cut up into wooden shoe-pegs, if I believe there’s a chap among them that’s got Courage enough to collar a hen ! Whoop-hoo- hy! Well (said Bill, walking off in disgust.) I’ll go home and have another settlement with Joe Sykes. He’s a bad chance for a fight seeing as how he’s got but or.e eye left to gouge at, and an underbit out of both ears, but, poor fellow he’s mighty willing to do his best, and will stay a body’s appetite till the next •hooting match.”—[ Exit little Billy grumbling. Go Ahead! This is the mo'.to of the. age. The only ques tion is, how shall we ‘go it ?” For one we be lieve in going it by steam ! To us, there is noth ing like the ‘‘puff” of a steam-boat, and the ‘•snort” of a locomotive. They speak of pow er, the real “speed nnd bottom” and unlike the panting horse, the fickle gale, and the moping canal boat, “go ahead J” That is what we like- give us something adapted to our short lives. Let us live last and accomplish something.— Twenty miles to the hour will do for sober-peo- ple, thirty will do for moderate livers; but we have a work to do that will require a run of sixty. Pity, the human body could not be con verted into a steam engine, without the cum- bersom tacklins of fenders nnd fixtures. How we should like to “get up steam” and pace over creation. The following humerous argument was ad* vanced by a canal stockholder, for the purpose of putting down rail-ways.— Clev. JP/aindcaler “He suw what would he the effect of it; that it would set all the world a gadding—twenty miles an hour, sir! Why, you will not be n- ble to keep au apprentice boy at his work—ev ery Saturday he must take a trip to Ohio to spend the Sabbath with his sweetheart. Grave, plodding citizens will he flying about like com ets. All local attachment must be at un end. It will encourage fliglitiness of intellect. Va rious people will turn into the most immeasur- able liars; —all their concept ons will be ex aggerated by their magnificent notions of dis tance—‘only a hundred miles off! Tut, non sense, I’ll step across, Madam, and bring your fan! ‘Pray,sir, will you dine with me at niy little box on the Alleghany?’ ‘Why indeed I don’t know—I shall be in town until 12—well I shall be there, but you must Irtme offin time for the theatre. And then, sit, there will be barrels of potk and cargoes of flour, and chal drons of coal and even lead and whiskey and such like sober things that have always been used to sober travelling—whiskey away like a set of sky-rockets. It will upset the gravity of the nation. If a couple of gentlemen have an affair of honor, it is only to steal ofl to the Rocky Mountains, and there no jurisdiction can touch them. And then, sir, think of fly ing for debt! A set of bailiffs, mounted on bomb shells, would not overtake an abscon- ing debtor—only give hint a fair start. Upon the whole, sir, it is a topsy turvy harumscarum whirlligig. Give me the old solemn straight forward Dutch canal—three miles an hour for expresses and two for jog ot trot journeys— with a yoke of oxen for a heavy load. I go for beasts of Durden : it is more primitive and scrip tural, and suits a moral and religions people bet ter. Nr rie of your hop skip and jump wliitn- seys for mo ” TEXAS AND MEXICO. We clip the following from the Galveston News of the 5th instant: STILL THEY COME. Another British vessel of war arrived yes terday from Vera Cruz, bringing despatches for this government. The report is that those despatches contain a positive and uncondition al acknowledgement of our independence by Mexico. Whether this be so or not we can not ^ay, nor indeed is it of any consequence to the people of Texas, except to convince them beyond all possible doubt (if any doubt there I wusj that our relations with Mexico have al ' ways been under the absolute control and di rection of Great Britain. No Texian can any longer doubt th:it, heretofore, it has been the policy of England, as has been said already, to use Mexico as a cat’s paw to whip Texas into compliance with her terms. Our indepen dence would have been obtained long since, had not the slavery question been n stumbling block. The decisive course now taken by the United States, has alarmed the powers of Eu rope. Great Britain sees clearly that she has no longer any power to harrass Texas through Mexico. The interposition of the great North American Republic presents an insurmounta ble barrier to this policy. There is now no alternative. Texus will effectually escape from her clutches, unless we cun be induced to renounce the protection of the Union that is now presented to us for acceptance. The emergency i3 great—no time can be lost— money and Ministers and agents are put in re quisition. D spatches and expresses by land and water ure hurrying to and fro. Every artifice and intrigue—every device and strata gem of diplomacy is resorted to—pfom'ses and threats and bribes are alternati ly presented.— 1 bought his stages, and all necessary fixtures, and bids, say 10,000. Another man comes in, (who is under no obligation as heretofore to purchase out the present contractor’s hacks and horses) and says he w II carry the mail in a one horse vehicle, for -$5,000 ; now if there is not travel enough on the route to enable the stage bidder to comedown to $5,000, the -stage must stop, and the one horse vehicle gets the contract. It is probable such may be the case in ma ny places in the southern country. Such are some of the most important ob. jections to the law, as far as the south is con. ce rned. In nnswer to all this it may be said, that much the largest proportion of the revenue of the Post Office Department is derived from the northern section of the country ; and that under the old arrangement, the north in a mea sure supported the mail establishments of the south. But to counterbalance this, the south pays heavy tribute to the north through the ta riff, and through the immense quantity of goods annually purchased by our merchants, and in other ways. From the Washington Constitution• RECIPROCITY. We perceive that a proposition has been brought forward in the British Parliament to lessen or abolish the duties on Indian corn — The advantages and importance of such a measure to the toiling and starving millions of that country, has at last become manifest to its leading statesmen. They seem willing now, not only to lessen the duty on corn, but upon many other articles of commerce, which are raised here in superabundance, and which, un- Fromthe Washington Constitution, The Hermitage. We make the following interesting e ., from a letter of the Hon. Isaac Hill to ti, e Hampshire Patriot, describing a visit to 1 t* venerable Patriot of the Hermitage on the 11 instant. eit| > “ I found Gen. Jackson better in health ih a ed by cruisers. In 1S40 she made overtures to Mexico for the Californius, and there is scarcely any doubt but that her negotiations have been constantly prosecuted with an eye to the possession, if she has not already obtain ed a mortgage on them as indemity for the debt of Mexico. We need not stop to discuss the question, whether our commerce could be. safely and prosperously prosecuted on the Pacific, if the Cafifornias with their harbors were in the pos session of Great Britain. We sought the ac quisition of Texas in order to se.cure to our- ^ selves the command of the Gulf of Mexico— j structed easy chair, with his writing maJeria 1 '- and it is more important, probably, that vve ; his miniature bible and hymn book before him should acquire the Californias in order to se- To him are brought ns soon ns the mail arrive, cure the harbors before referred to in the pro- I expected ; yet so weak, if it were any man, I week. For tempted to take his cus'omary meals with familv. He sits through the day in a well., j , ’ “ “ an y other ould scarcely suppose he would lj v fertile last four monilis he has not ^ con. der legislaiive or treaty compacts of recipro cal provisions, would be of vast benefit to the But have we not had enough of British media- i agricultural interests of our own country. We Byron's Superstition.—That he was super stitious ('and lew highly imaginative men have not a secret leaning to a belief in supernatural events) is clear, not only from his own confes sion, but from the solemn tone in which he generally spoke of sue!) occurrences. Even in his letter to Mr. Murray, alluding to the ghostly disturbances of the house on the Arno, notwithstanding the light, ironical style, and the attempt to account for the noises, an unea sy feeling as to the visitations complained of by the “ learned Fletcher” and others, is percep tible. Possessing a mind of extraordinary powers. Lord Byron was blessed or cursed with the must acute sensibility. Generous and brave to a fault, if generosity and bravery can ever be excessive ; the very soul of friendship and love, with a heart open as day to melting charity, he resembled n charming and sublime instrument, whose chords, touched by delicate and skilful fingers, discourse most eloquent music; but ruddy struck by coarse and igno rant hands, send forth the most jarring discords. Alas ! how little was he understooo’, till it was too late. Such a sensitive temperament was well moulded to receive impressions from the world of spirits. When he was at Genoa, he told Mr. Cowell that some friends of Mr. SJie/- From the North Carolinian. The New Postage Law*. Sonic of the provisions of this law, (which goes into operation in something Fss than three months) operate peculiarly against our section ly, sitting together one evening, had seen that j of countr y f as Wt p as the whole South and tion and friendship ? This mediation was once sought for ; it is now forced upon us. When it might have given us relief in a time of dis tress, it was withheld, except npon conditions dishonorable to our country. Can we forget the Armistice meditated by England, and per fidiously violated by Mexico ? Can we for et the cold blooded slaughter of our citizens, their lingering sufferings, and the brutal cruel ties iu(1i<‘ted upon them ? And has the friend ship of England ever yet ransomed one Ame rican Citizen? The simple question now presented is, whether we shall abandon the broad protecting shield of the American Eagle, and accept of a recognition obtained by British diplomacy, and offered for no other purpose but to carry out Bri'ish policy and crush the American Union? This tender of indepen dence at this time, is the legitimate result of the offers of friendship and fraternity upon a footing of equality l:y the American Union.— For this offer of recognition we are therefore indebted to the United States, and not to Eng land. Had we been repulsed by the United States, this offer would not have been made, and we should still be subjected to the harms- sing and predatory war of Mexico. The whole operation is the result of foreign intrigue and policy, and Mexico has no more free agency or volition in it. than the Emperor of China or the Pope of Rome. Was it not the first de clarution of Herrera’s government, to renew the war upon Texas with redoubled vigor? Whence comes this sudden and unexpected change, after nine years of empty threats, and abortive attempts to invade us ? Do we want independence under such auspices ? This kind of independence partakes too much of compul sion, and in this respect resembles British emancipation, which ransoms the African from the name of bondage, but, subjects him to ac tual servitude under the authority of a master, duringall the years of his strength and physical energies, then throws him friendless on the world. Such independence ol the people of Texas do not want. Already has the Amer ican Constitution made them more indepen. dent and free, than any people have ever yet been made by the favors of Great Britain. From the Crescent City. A Slronjf Game. Our good friend Major Oudesluns returned to this city yesterday, from a trip to the North, ern part of Alabama nnd West Tennessee.— We understand that ho enjoyed him-elf huge ly. As he came into the offi :e yesterday mor. ning, wo observed that he was a liitlo out of sorts, and asked him what was the mailer. »I am trying to think, said the Major, • where I shall raise some money to-day.’ ‘ Why, asked we, ‘ d.d you como home with out money V * Well, I did,’ was the reply. * You sco I undercook to play what they called ‘ A small game’ of Poker, on an Alabama river steam boat, and I didn’t have very good luck.’ ‘Did you lose much V * Yes ; I was flat broke.* 4 How was that ?’ 4 Why, you see, it so happened that other players held better hands than I did. My knowledge of the game was somewhat limited, bur after they had explained to me the value of the different hands, I concluded I would get along with tolerable 8'fety. First I held two pair, but somebody held two larger pair, that cost mo five dollars. Then I hejd three queens, bot »omebody else held three kings; that cost ibc twenty dollars. Finally, I thought I h d ’t>« sure ; I held four aces. Tne betting was brisk, and at it 1 slapped up my entire pile.’ 4 Of course, you won that time.’ •No, I didn’t, though: what do you think one man showed against me ?’ ' Havn’tthe slightest idea.’ ‘ He just turned over five sevens of spades, and raked down the money !’ * But that wasn’t fair, Major.’ ‘ Why not ?’ ‘ How could there bo five sevens of spade* m one .pack V gentleman distinctly, as they thought, walk in to a little wood at Lerici, when, at the same moment, as they afterwards discovered, he was far away in quite a different direction. “This,” added Lord Byron, in a low, awe-struck tone of voice, “ was hut ten days before poor Shel ly died.”—Ifood’s Magazine. Character indicated by the Laugh.—The following paragraph is from the February num ber of Blackwood: “How much of character is there in a laugh ! You know no rran until pou have heard him laugh—till you know when and how he will laugh. There are occasions—there are ru mors—when a man with whom we have been long familiar, shall quite startle and repel us by breaking out into a laugh which comes man ifestly right from his heart, and yet which we had never heard before. Even with fair la dies with whom I have been much pleased, I have remarked the same thing. As in many a heart a sweet angel slumbers unseen till some happy moment awakens it, so there sleeps of ten in gracious and amiable characters, deep in the back ground, a quite vulgar spirit, which starts into life when something rudely comi cal penetrates into the less frequented cham bers of the mind.” From the Columbian Register. The Election. In this State, field on Monday, has resulted in the continuance of federal domination lor an other year, as we anticipated it would. It is probable ;hat the wl>ig State Ticket is elected by the people, that the Legislature is whig by about the same majority as last year—that they have elected tii»-ir four Congressmen, and per haps their Sheriffs. VVe have never known so little effort put forth by either party ns on this occasion, and it is evident our opponents have gained more from dissensions in the democrat ic ranks than from any other cause*—Tne statu of the vote in this town, huni'liattig as it is, was produced by u combination of circumstan ces such as never occurred befoie, industriously circulated by whies and iheir abettors. linn. TVm. II. Slileg. A Washington Correspondent of the Bnlti- raoie Patriot writes (11th inst.) that “Mr.Stiles, ol'Ga. will gel the appointment of Charge des affairs to Austria.’’ We would rather see our friend Stiles a R' presentutive in Congress from his native State, but he will fill with equal honor such a position as that indicated in the above report.—Savannah Georgian, A fortunate fall.—A poor Irish laborer in Dubuque district, Wi%co si i, digging in search of h ad on a small patch of grouYid which he owned, fell suddenly into a deep cavern, and on looking around found the aides covered with pure lead, being the richest mine ever discov ered. Southwestern portion of the Union. The second section provides that all news- papers of no greater size than 1900 square inch es, (which includes most newspapers in the United States) mny circulate within 30 miles of their place of publication, free of postage. It is not difficult to perceive that this provision benefits only the populous parts of the coun try; for, while there are numerous Post Offi ces within 30 miles of each other in the thick ly settled Northern und Western States, there are never more than two or th.ree in the sparse* ly settled Southern country; thus, while al most every man in the South will haw to pay his newspaper postage, a large portrait of the Northern and Western men, are keeping t,le money in their pockets; by which it wt/I he perceived that the less favored people of t he South are actually bearing at least three-fourths of the burthen of the tax so far as this item is concerned. The fifth section abrogates entirely /he franking privilege to all persons. (Other parts of the law, however, restore it to mem bers of Congress.) Thus the postmasters are cut off’ fiom one of the principal privileges of the office ; and in our section of country, where the commissions on the amount of postage, in a great number of cases, do not amount to two dollars a year, the franking privilege is t e prin cipal inducement to h<>]d the office. This, it will be' perceived is not the case to any thing like the extent in the northern and western States. There are many Post Offices in the South, where the whole amount of postage collected during the year, is not $10 ; conse quently the salary is a mere nothing. To he sure, the law does say that where the commissions of a Postmaster do not amount to $25 per annum, they shall be increased to 50 per cent, thus dividing the amount of post age annually received at the office, equally be tween the Postmaster and the Government ; but as «ve before mentioned, at many places where the whole amount is not more than ten dollars, it is litile or no consideration. And it certainly cannot be const- ered just and fair that the inhabitants of a thinly settled country shall bo deprived of mail facilities on that ac count. But we hope our Postmasters will hold on uutil they see how the law will operate, and whether the next Congress will not amend the law iu some particulars. The 18ih section of the law authorizes the Postmaster General to let contracts for carry ing the mails, regardless of the mode of con veyance. We have remarked upon this sub ject before ; but to illustrate the matter, we will suppose the present contractor who car ries the mail between Fayetteville and Ra leigh, has put in his bid under the new law, to curry the mad in two horse hacks, capable of accommodating four passengers. He has rejoice to perceive that the more the princi ples and advantages of free trade are discuss ed nnd examined, the more they are advanced and approved throughout the world. And, in this connection, we ngnm advert to n rumor, mentioned some time since by us, und which has obtained general credence here, that Mr. Packenham, the British Minis'er, is charged with the negotiation of a treaty based upon re ciprocal advantages to the products of each country.in their respective markets. The pro bability of such a power l>eing vested in that m nisier, derives additional force from the fact to which we have just adverted, that Parliament itself is acting upon the principles of such a policy. This state of things presents a spectacle worthy the profound consideration of those American statesmen, who have at till times ad vocated the advantages of a hi«li protective ta- riffin this country. The protective system in England as w* 11 as in the United States, has ulwa'ys been kept up against the will and the interests of a majority of the people. But the system in England was by far more just in its principles, than it is here. There it protects the agriculturalist as well as the manufacturer Here it is for the bonefil of the manufacturer alone. Ai d yet, we find that in England, af ter a trial of five hundred years, her most en lightened statesmen are anxiously seeking to relax its rigor, and to adopt a policy more in consonance with reason, justice, and of the enlightened age in which we live. The prin ciples upon which it is bused, operating unjust ly upon the great producing classes of the country, and being also violative of the proper Jaws of commerce, would finally find their ca tastrophe in the destruction of a'l. This re sult, by a wonderful concatenation or circum stances, events, wisdom, and management, has been starved off for centuries, and the system has been sustained until the hour of its doom seemed near at hand. The irjustice of its principlos being thoroughly understood ; the discussions of the doctrines of free trade hav ing satisfied all of their justice and truth ; the enlightened influence ot free inquiry, Having prepared the world for the adoption of truth whenever it is presented, we are scarcely sur prised to see the statesmen of Great Britain ready to adopt a policy better suited to the in terests and welfare of mankind. They are sur rounded by circumstances which cannot bo any longer resisted. They can neither tem porise with them nor control them. It is the part of wisdom to yield when they may, and to make it n matter of merit to do so. The wonder, then, is not that they are now willing to abate their high protective policy, but that some of our statesmen are anxiously se-king to fasten the unjust and abominable system upon us h' re. The advocates of a high protective tariff here, will not be instructed by tire lessons of experience which centuries teach; but, with an impudence which conveys a perpetual insult, and an effrontery which has no parallel, they argue against reason, truth, justice, and the fitness of things, in favor of their own sor. did interests. Bur, when Great Britain shows her willing ness to take the duty off) or to reduce it upon flour, corn, pork, bacon, beef, cotton, and hun dreds of other agricultural products, provided we do the same by iron, cloths, cutlery, &e„ we can scarcely expect that the Princes of Lo'vpII nnd Providence will long sustain their system against the interest and demands of the people. That -uch a system of reciprocal du ties will b.® proposed and adopted, cither by treaty or legislative compact with Great Brit ain, we have v\arv little doubt. And, with its adoption will end.that miserable contrivance, concocted to promote the purposes ol sordid interest and soffish anffi'lion, pompously styled '• THE AMERICAN SYSTEM.” secution of our commerce on the Pacific.— But with the evidences oi the anxiety of Great Britain to obtain possession of this territory, which are well authenticated, out Government cannot fail to see the importance of preventing any such acquisitions by th • t power. The last advices from California inform us that the province is in a state of revolution— the natives wishing to expel the Mexicans, and havintr every prospect of success. The struggle will be short, if it has not already ter minated. We leurn also that many of our citi zens who emigrated to Oregon, have fallen down and settled in North California, and that they have found the most delightful climate and a rich soil. They affiim that Oregon is but a bleak, barren waste, compared with California. We refer to these facts to show that it is not at all unreasonable to suppose that California may be iii a condition at a very early day to be an nexed to our Union. the newspapers ; and during the tarried at the Hermitage, his first ir, From the MissUsippian. Hon. Kobt. J. Walker. Mr. Walker is a native <>f Pennsylvania, a ripe scholar, and a lawyer of profession. At an early age he commenced the practice in the western part of his uat've Slate. Unlike, how. ever, the m j ray of lawyers, his mind was ne ver bound down by the doctrine of precedents, nor chained to error by the persuasive learning of “ the bo- ks.” The untrammelled activity of his mind soon directed him to the conclusion that many of the evils of soci* ty might be reme died by a c’oser adherence to th it excellent maxim, “ The world is governed too much.” When he had scarcely attained the age of ma jority, he wrote a series of essays, which were pubhshed in a Pennsylvania Gazette, advoca ting a change no less radical in Ins jurispru dence of the country than that which but now is growing into favor, namely: the total abol ish men tofu II laws recognising accommodation paper, or for the collection of what are called security debts. The periodical convulsions which rack society, springing from a plethoric credit system, were found to have been occa sioned from the mistaken policy of the laws in enforcing the collection of debts imprudently incurred, and for no bona fide consideration on the part of the contractor. Mr. Walker has always been a democrat.— It is asserted, and we believe it to be true, that he was the fust man in the nation to suggest Andrew Jackson for the Preside' cy. He emi grated to Mississippi in 1S26, and, engaging in the practice of his profession* acquired a repu tation as a jurist equal to that of any man m the Union. When the Planter’s Bai k «f M's sisstppi was chartered, in violation of the com pact of the Stale with the old bank of Missis- dppi, Mr. Walker was selected, with Dame! Webster and H orac? B-nnev, to give an opin ion as to the con-liiutionaiity of the charter.— He continued quietly in his profession until 1835; when George Poindexter, then a sena tor in Congress, outraged the rights and wishes of his constituents, and set tip “ fi>r h'mself” and the fierce hank aristocracy then battling with the Old Hero. Mr. Walker took up the cause of the people, avowed himself a candi date in opposition to Poindexter, who before that time had been considered omnipotent in the State, visited every county, and overpower ed the champion of bunk whigery. In 1S36 lie was elected to the Senate. Since that pe riod his career has been before the whole coun try. No Senator, in so short a period, ever won a name so distinguished, so honored with his party at home and abroad. Mr. Walker’s senatorial history would embellish the pages of the life of any philanthropist. He has been the champion of the rights of the masses. The new States have found him their most active and efficient friend. His course in regard to the pubi c lands, advocating; as he has done, the rights of settlers to pre eruptions at low rates, and a continual graduation in the price of the unsettled territory, has gained 1pm the lasting gratitude of un immense and har.ly population in e»ery new State. On the cur- re' cy question, the tariff) the rights of States, &c. See , Mr. Walker lias stood forward with the republican ranks. No subject of impor- I tance has come before the Senate, since lie en- ; tered that body', that he did not show himself master of. arriv L f °ur days] for the daily Washington newspapers, andri' letters bearing the postmark of tbecapitoi^ With all his bodily weakness, his inteJl." seems to have been brightened and mature by time, ai d his attention to the most minir public affairs far greater than that of sonic of the most wary statesmen and politicians er, gaged in public life. The all absorbing to pi , with him now is the annexation of Texas! correspondence with Gen. Houston and otherj* has given h m a knowledge of the state of th a ! question, as it exists in the interests and f ee { ings of the people of that country and of d,] Western States, that is not generally under, stood by the people. His feeling for tlierevp of the vote in the Senate was intense, and hij whole countenance brightened at the annuneq. tion in letters of two successive davs, thy 5 majority if the Senate would probably votefo the resolutions. “ The General has lengthened out bis ljf t for years bv his prudence and abstinence-. His complaint is pulmonary : one lobe of tt, lungs he believes robe entirely consumed.— This cond lion is shown by the shortness of breath, which almost entirely precludes rj, t benefit of personal exercise. When he moves it is so quietly as to produce tic disturbance.— His feet and ankles are swollen from co .ft. oed sitting, and he finds u substitute for salutary exercise only in the bathing of his limbs every evening in those emuHei-ts calculated to pro. duce a healthy aciion of the skirt. Weak as he is, lie shaves with his own hand, and combs and adjusts the ample gray hair which, continues to add to the dignity of his appearance. “ It is not age simply tuai has reduced rie old Hero to his present weakness. Had his life been that of thousands of the present itene* ration, he might have tivrd to be an hundred years of age, and no more exhausted.than he now is. Exposure in the campaign of lSI5, brought on a diarrhoea, which contii ued w,th more or less violence for four months, and which was cu. ed after the case seemed to be hopeless. In the Seminole campaign i f 1813, he had hemorrhage ol the lungs, which wjj probably the commencement of the diseaseev. er afterwards gnawing his vitals. “Of the highly interesting intercourse with the veteran enjoyed fur four days, 1 shall here after have much ic say to my friends on nj return; and o the public l may have that to repeat which, if it shall gratify them as much at it did me, will not be words thrown awav. I oh im I he right to speak us the representative to Gen. Jackson in New Hampshire, as well from an earlier friendship, as from the fuel that I am the only person from the Granite State who lias travelled four hundred mites out of his way to vis't the Hero since his retirement to the Hermitage. '1 he State which has stood firm on the giound of principle on all *pies iui*»C national politics since 1S28—which has never been veered to the right hand, or the left by heartless demagogues who in other States have corrupted the people with their own money, tnd misled them in monnshy e projects of gain, ng wealth by speculation end of protecting la bor by higher taxation—the State wh cii has been led astray by no false issues—is as highly ppreciated in the gieat West, as in tne East: her praise is upon the tongue of every patriot; ind by none is she higher complimented than by the Heroof the Hermitage, who has carried out her principles in the vetoes of the Bank and the Maysvillu road bill.” It will be remembered that Mr. Webster re ceived nut long since, the sum of $100,000 to be invested for his benefit daring his life time. The reception of this gratuity, to enable Mr. Webster to enter tin- United States Senate at the feed Attorney of the Northern Manufactu rers, bus damned what little fame be had left, to everlasting infamy, and the question has been started in some of the papers, whether he ought, under the circums ances, to be allowed to take i From the Washingtcn Constitution The Value of the Cali^*®»«*as tc Hie United States. Whilst it is not our policy to Require new territory fur the mere purpose of national glo ry, it does fall legitimately within the great ob jects of republicanism to extend the area of freedom, and diffuse the blessings of liberty, of peace. This noble purpose, however, iN to b8 accomplished by peaceable means, and with the voluntary consent of the inhabitants of the acquired territory. When such acquisitions cun be thus made of contiguous territory which is essential to our national defence, the policy becomes obligatory upon us. Upon these prin ciples the annexation of Texas was not only justifiable, but absolutely necessary for our na tion >1 safety ; and upon the same great con siderations, the acquisition of the Californias will become the republican policy of our Gov- ernment. To this point events are now rapid ly lending, and sooner or later it will become the great question of the times. A few facts well established will present the importance of this subject in its true light. Theoi ly two important harbors for our ves sels from Gape Horn to the mouth of the Co lumbia river are the l>a\sof San Diego nod San Francisco. Tne British Government is so well apprised of the value of these harbors in the navigation of the Pacific ocean, that she has caused them both to be sounded at great expense. She has had the whole coast survey- PBOTEt TION. One of the chief characteristics of the protec tive policy, is ihe taking und fascinating garb in which it is always dressed when presented to the public. If somn great manufacturer is de sirous of making more money from the capital inverted in bis business, and asks Conjrre«s to impose heavy burdens upon the masses for this | object, he invariably disguises his real motives, | and insists that such a policy will encourage ! American indusrty, and protect the farmer, the j mechanic, and the laborer. The reason, then, | which lie urges for the adoption of the mens- j ute is not tiic real one ; for if that were frank- J ly avowed, he has the sagacity to know t'-at he might ask in vain for ti e imposition of duties upon foreign fabrics which come in competition With his own, The farmers, mechanics, and laborers, are, by far, the nio-t numerous in this country, and t<> keep them quiet under the ex actions which high and protective duties im pose upon them, charms them with the prett” idee of “protection to home industry.” [Utica (N. lurk) Democrat. his seat in the Senate next winter. It see®? there is a case in point, where a member ol Congress was not permitted to take his seat. We learn from good authority, that Mr. Clay lias also been made the recipient of the bounty of his frien Is. He owed, our informant says, $20 000 to John Jacob Astor, which debt has been paid off, as. also, five thousand dollars to one of the Lexi gtou banks, and five thou sand dollars were deposited thereto his credit. We do not [dace Mr. Clay in the category with Webst> r, because we presume lie has retired From the Batavia Spirit of the Times. Gov illarcy. Major Noah, in speaking of the new Cabinet, makes the following naive remarks : “ New Yoik has an able ai d honest man in William L- Marcv. We have kn*>wn him from th" time lie kept a little wooden law of fice in Trov, S by 10, with a ft w law books and a good French Horary. He edited the Budget and we the National Advocate, und to gether we achieved in this State, more politi cal victories than Ney or Soult, but being a fa»t runner, he got into the Governo-’s chair before I could come op to him. My misfor tune was that I sprung from an old aristocrat ic family in the time of the Deluge, and my an cestors came out of Egypt with the Iiaeli'.es.— Gov Murcy unites many excellent qualities, personal nnd political, and he will place the country in a state of defence such as it never before has been placed in,” fn m public lifg, and b cause we do not think lie is a nmn to be corrupted like Webster in this way. Nevertheless, we think it will add nothing to his fanv, that after having received so many thousands of dollars from tieTre.is J ’ ry of his country, he finds it necessary at his age, to receive tlie bounti s of Ins friends, ho"'- ever disinterested tne (mentions of ihe donets may have been. One thii g we will say for th® Whigs in this c nnection, that they are liberal of their means in the promotion of the interest: of their party, or in rewarding the services of their public men.—Kentucky Yeoman. . We learn that the Hon. Thomas F. Jfttf- 1 shall will be a candidate for Congr.-ss in this district. We are glad of it. Though not as good a Democrat as we could wish, lie is bold, talented, honorable, and a gentleman. If th 6 Democrats have no candidate in the district^* and wi beheve they will not have—they W| 1‘ go for Mr. Marshall to a man, and against M r ' Davis w:ih so manv political sins to answer wh vve think his chances of success tolerably good. It is certain that the would-be leaders of ike Whigs will do all they can against him—"® meat) the Simon Pure Clay collar rnen—though j as we believe a majority of the district agr ee i in sentiment with Mr. Marshall on the To* 35 i and other questions, there is a reasonable pi°' r; babiluy of his success.—Ken. Yeoman. lion. Jacob Thompson- The Hon. Jacob Thompson has been aP* ! pointed by the Governor of Mississippi to" 1 * I Un ted States Senate, in the place of the H° n ' j Robert J. Walker. It is w ith great pleasiir® that we make diis annunciation. Mr. T hotnp^ son has served long and faithfully in Congr es5 ' and in audition to distinguished ability, h« } ,oS sesses soundness of principles, firmness of cb ar acter, and all those manly attr butes, wh^ make him one amongst the tiu ; y irtfli ,el ’ n and trusted men of the South.— Wash. Co*•