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THE REPEAL OF THE UNION.
BY T. HOOD.
It was a fine, clear, moonlight night, and
Mike Mahoney was strolling on the beach of
the Bay of Bealcreagh—who knows why? per
haps to gatner dhoolamaun, or to look for a
crab, but thinking intensely of nothing at all, be
cause of the tune he was whistling,-—when look, j
ing seaward, he saw ut about a stone’s cast
from the shore, a dark object which appeared I
like a human head. Or was it a seal? Or a
keg of whiskey? Alas! no such good luck !
The dark object moved like a living thing, and
approaching nearer and nearer, into shallow
water, revealed successively the neck and
shoulders of a man.
Mike wondered extremely. It was a late
hour for a gentleman to be bathing, and there
was no boat or vessel within Leandering dis
tance, fiom which the unknown might have
swam. Meanwhile the stranger approached
the gliding motion of the figure suddenly chan
ing into a floundering, ns if having gGt within
bis depth, he was wading through the deep
mud.
Hitherto, the object, amid the broad path of
silver light, had been a dark one; but diverging
a little out of the glittering water, it now be
came a bright one, and Mike could make out
the features, at least as plainly as those of the
man in the moon* At last the creature stopped
a few fathoms off, and iti a “forrin voice,” such
as the Irishman had never beard before, called
to Mike Mahony.
Mike crossed himself and answered to his
name.
“What do you take me foi?” asked the
stranger.
“Devil knows,” thought Mike, taking a ter
rible scratch at bis head, but he said nothing.
“Look here then-” said the stranger; and
plunging bead downwards, as for a dive, he
raised nud flourished in the air a fish’s tail, like
asnimnn’s. buia great deal bigger. After this
exhibition hail lasted for a minu.c, the tail went
down, and the head came up again.
“Now you know of course, what I am?”
“Why, thin,” said Mike, with n broad grin,
“axing your pardon, 1 take it you’re a kind of
Half Sir.”
“True for you,” said the Merman, for such
lie was, in u very melancholy tone. “I am
only half a trentleman, and it’s what troubles
me, day and night. But I’ll come more conve
nient to you."
And by dint of great exertion, partly crawl
ing and partly .shooting himself forward with
his tail, shrimp fashion, he contrived to reach
the beach, when he rolled himself close to Mike’s
feet, which instinctively made a step apiece in
retreat.
“Never fear, Mike,” said the Merman, “it’s
not in my heart to hurt one of the finest pea
santry in the world.”
“Why, thin, you’d not object maybe,” in-
inquired Mike, not quite reassured, “to cry O’
Connell for ever7”
“By no means,” replied the Merman; “or
Success to the Rent.”
“Faix, where did he learn that?” muttered
Mike to himself.
“Water is a good conductor of sound,” said
the Merman, with a wink of one of his round,
skvblue eyes “It can carry a voice a long
Way—if you think of Father Matthew’s.”
“Begad, that’s true,” exclaimed Mike.'
“And in course you’ll have heard of the Rc-
pcalel
“Ah, that’s it,” said the Merman, with a
long drawn sigh, an J a forlorn shake of the head.
“That’s just it. It’s in your power, Alike, do
me the biggest favor in the world.”
“With all the pleasure in life,” replied Mike,
“provided there’s neither sin nor shame in it.”
“Not the least tuste of either,” returned the
Merman. “It is only that you will help mo to
repeal this cursed union, that has joined the best
]>nrt of an Irish gentleman to the worst end of a
fish.”
“Murther alive!” shouted Mike, jumping a
step backward, “what! cutoff your honor’s
tail!”
"That very rante,” said the Merman. “He
reditary bondsmen, know ye not who would be
free, themselves must strike the blow.” But
you see, Mike, it’s impossible in my case to
strike the blow myself.”
“Shure, and soil is,” said Mike reflectively,
and if I thought you would not be kilt entirely
—which would be half a murder anyhow—”
“Never fear, Mike. Only cut exactly through
the first row of scales, between the fish and the
flesh, and I shall feel no pain, nor will you even
spill a drop of blood.”
Mikesbook his head doubtfully—very doubt
fully indeed, and then mult' red to himself,
“Devil a bit of a Repale without that!”
“Not a drop, I tell you, said the Merman,
“there’s my band on it," and he held out a sort
of flesh-colored paw, with webs between the
fingers.
“It’s a bargain, said Mike, but after all,’ and
he grinned knowingly at the Merman, “suppo
sing your tail cut off from you, it’s small walk-
:ig ye’ll get, unless I conid lend you the loan of
j pair o’legs.”
“Trim foi
“but it’s not
the silting, Mike,” and he wiked again with
his round, sky-blue eye, “its the sitting, and
which you see is mighty inconvenient, so long
as I am linked to this scaly Saxon appendage,”
“Saxon is it!" bellowed Mike, hurrah then
for the Rep' ale, and whipping out a huge knife
from his pocket, lie performed the operation ex
actly as lie Memiati had direcied—and strange
to say of an Iiisli operation, without shedding
a single drop ol blood.
••There,” said Mike, having kicked the so
dissevered tnil in'o the sen, and then setting up
’he Half-Sir like a nin< pin on the bread end,
•there you are. free and indcpendirit, and fit to
ait where you p'nse.”
“M lln Beacons, Mike,” replied the Merman,
“and as to sitting where I please,” here he nod
ded three times very significantly, “the only
seat that will please me will be in College
Green.”
“Och! ih.it will he n proud day for Ireland!”
said Mike, alteniptii g to shout, and intending
to cut a caper and t>> throw bp his hat. But his forded
limbs were powerless, and his mouth only gap
ed in prodigious yawn. As Ins mouth closed
again his eyes opened, hut he could see nothing
that be could makeheador tail of-lhc Merman
was gone.
“Bedad!” exclaimed Alike, shotting ids eves
again, and rubbing the lids lustily with his
knuckles, "what u dhrame I’ve had of the Re
ptile of the Union!”
From the London Examiner.
REVELATION OF SPAIN IN 1845.
BY AW ENGLISH RESIDENT.
A Madrid Mob.
The Porte de Si. Denis and the Boulevard
St. Antoine, Guildhall and Kennington Com
mon are pale by the side of these brmvn and
impassioned faces, these black and wiry locks,
like the snakes of Tisiplione, these moustaches
of Barbary darkness* these ever moving lines
and ropes of facial muscle, strangely set offby
bv the peaked black velvet hat which is univer
sally worn; and the cloak, which even in his
rags the Manola wears with the “race of a Ro
man Senator and the dignity, for he thinks
himself no less of a Castilian hidalgo.
A Spanish Revolution.
It requires little to decide .he Peninsular re
former to rush to the public square and make
a new revolution. At limes he is so quick
about it that lie forgets to put on his shoes ; a
fact surprising to our Northern natures, but fa
miliar to all who have wit lessed an alboroto in
Madrid, Barcelona, or Seville. A dozen vivas,
the beat of a drum, three steps in advance—it
is done!
7 lit Queen and her Bonbons.
The most striking characteristic ol the youth
ful Alajesty of Spam, is her relish and constant
use of bonbons and sweetmeats. Her papers
of comfits strew the palace, her bags of sugar
plums visit the council chamber, her dulces line
the throqe. The degrees of ministerial favors
may be estimated by the number of presents of
confectionary, tmd the Alinister of the Interior
is first fiddle by right of four hags of sugar
plums, till the Minister of Grace and Justice
produces five sticks of barley sugar. When she
despatches business with her Ministers fwhich
she does twice a week,) she despatches a pro
digious quantity of sweets at the same time, and
the confection of decrees, and discussion of
dainties, proceed pari passu.
Narvaez.
General Don Ramon Narvaez, the success
ful hero of the day, looks precisely the daring,
energetic, obstinate, and iron.nerved soldier of
fortune which he is. In habits, manners, and
appearance, he is of the purest military breed
blunt and off handed in his address, overbear
ing in disposition, slow to take advice, impoli
tic, violent, and very determined in his pro
ceedings. His dark mustache has the roug
campaigner’s cut, and his pale, stern, and
somewhat cruel countenance, betokens bis un
bending character. He is sumptuous and
showy in his habits, but not luxurious in his
tastes, and is always ready in his food and
drink to rough it like a campaigner. Those
who remember him an outcast two years back
expelled from Portugal upon the requisition of
Espartero, a wanderer through Provinces of
France, with broken boots that let in the wet
a greasy hat and a tl.in coat, which ill protect
ed him from the inclemency of a severe wi
ter, will appreciate fully the fairy like change
in his circumstances.
Recipe for a Pronunciamiento.
Buy over three or four officers and a dozen
sergeants of a regiment. Give twenty dollais
to each officer, and a four dollar piece to each
of the sergeants; give a peseta to a blind news
hawker, and n well invented tale of political
rascality of any kind ; distribute a score of rus
ty guns and pistols among as many mauvais
sujets ; appoint a particular hour for an explo
sion, and the thing is almon as infallibly ac
complished ns the recent blowing up of the
Shakespeare Cliff at Dover.
And yet the writer is indisposed to admit
that the early pronunciamientos against Es-
paiicro were “ bought over” with the gold of
France.
Absurdities of Resident English.
I find “John Duncan Shaw” metamorphos
ed into “ Don Juan Duncano Schau”—“ Sal
ter” into “ Snllero,” and plain *• Paul Cross”
into “ Don Pablo Mariano Cross.” But the
oddest of {ill these metamorphoses is, that ef
fected in a few years time in person, who for
political purposes, was desirous to appear as
Spanish as possible; and he who went forth
masquerading as “ Don Jacinto Rom*I,” had
sometime before been little “ Jack Russell.”
The Greatest Lord in England.
An amusing sensation was created by the
news of Espartero’s having been invited to a
public bnnquet by the Lord Mayor of London.
Most Spaniards translated the word Mayor
literally, according to its meaning in Castilian,
“ greater,” and took it th.it the ex-R.gvnt had
been invited to dine by the greatest lord in
England.
Spanish Epithets.
When the beggar goes forth to make his
rounds, they say, Vase Pordioscur, «* He goes
to G'ol’s-sakeitv,” or to beg alms fur the sake
of God. No other language has any equiva
lent for this forcible phrase, which might be
paralleled in a multitude of instances. When
the beggar proceeds from door to door, he is
menudeando, “ little-and-littleafying,” or col
lecting his fragments and copperas in a bag;
and when becomes home, the neighbors say to
each other—for Spanish women seem to have
nothing to do but to gaze out of the window—
“ ‘ It is many years since that event took
place,’ added the old man, in conclusion,* still,
I can never think of h w ithout a shudder.’—-
And, if I understood him right, the mental
anxiety he underwent at the time had the ef
fect of changing the color of his hair into gray
ever since. To me this narrative had a pecu
liar interest, as 1 was standing on the very
spot which the traditions of the east point out
as the scene where twenty-five centuries . oo.
Da niel had his miraculous escape ; and I
could not hut contrast the calm confidence of
the prophet, witli the agitated state of the
Arab youth, who had not yet learned to place
complete and implicit reliance on his heavenly
Father.”
Fro~ the Srrannah Georgian.
ANDREW JACKSON.
“ I cannot consent that my mortal body
shall be laid in a repository prepared for an
emperor or a king. My republican feelin
From the Charleston Mercury f
THE ENGLISH MISSION—OREGON,
The Boston Courier, copies the statement of
ihe N. Y. Herald’s correspondent, that the
Mission to England had been offered to Mr.
Pickens, urid that if he declined, it would again
be pressed on Mr. Calhoun.” The Courier
adds : “ If a South Carolina mail is sent to
E gland, there will be very little trouble about
Oregon. The sovereignty of that almighty
Stale care very little about adding any n ore
free Territory to the American Union.”
The Boston Courier, tnotrgh it could con
dense into a look the acerbity of half a century
of New England Federalism, is not likely to
trouble the conscience of the South, or even the
“ almighty State” it holds in such horror. The
acquisitions which the Conner’s party have j and prejudices, and dislike to otbers,
made to the “/r« territory ’ of the Union— j it into errors and difficulties, which hi
where are they? We never heard of them. * ' '
It is the acquisition of territory that has always
THE GLOBE.
Ehe last number of this long established and
able paper was issued yesterday. Mr. Blair,
its editor, gave us his valedictory a few days
ago; and yesterday Air. Rives, the “ fiscal
partner,” took leave of their friends and pat
rons in one of his characteristic letters, of wit
and good feeling. Thus terminates the Globe!
It lias rendered much and varied service to the
Democratic party Afore powerful in the at
tack than in the defence, it has ahvavs been
more successful in demolishing the ranks of the
enemy, than in securing the fruits of victory,
by harmonizing and strengthening its own. It
is with great respect that we say it, hut its adhe
rence to men rather than measures—its nffl li
lies and preferences for particular individuals,
have led
have at last
A Proclamation.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
TEXAS.
or
Whereas, since the close of the last session
Congress, a joint resolution respecting ti^
annexation of Texas to the United States k
their Congress has been adopted, aothorizi ^
the President of the United States to s J n =
the alternative of two certain propositi, Cl
contained in the said joint resolution as p, 5
basis for consummating the proposed Annex' 3
ation :
and principles forbid it; the simplicity of our ' l rou Wed that body of patriots. They went in
'to spasms about Louisiana, and the fit was re
peated in the case of Texas. Bat these had
an odor of slavery. Well, what have they
done for their own peculiar province of free
territory 1 VIr. Webster was thought by ma
ny to have given away a good slice even of the
sacred soil of New England, and Mr. Benton
charged him on voluminous evidence, with
yielding not a few swamps, &c., beyond Lake
Superior. However that may he, it is certain
that lie never crossed the Rocky Mountains.
He had perhaps the best opportunity that was
ever presented of settling the Oregon question
system of government lorhids it. Every mon
ument erected to perpetuate the memory of our
heroes and statesmen ought to bear evidence
of the economy and simplicity of our republi
can institutions, and the plainness of our re-
publican citizens, who are the sovereigns of
our glorious Union, and whose virtue is to per
petuate it. True virtue cannot exist where
pomp and parade are the governing passions,
it can only dwell with the people—the great
laboring and producing classes that form the
bone and sinew of our confederacy.
“ For these reasons I cannot accept the hon
or you and the President and the Directors of t advantageously for the whole country, and lie
the National Institute intended to bestow. I : r '— — =• L ’
cannot permit my, remains to be the first in
these United States to be deposited in a sar
cophagus made for an emperor or kino-. I
again repeat, please accept for yourselff and
convey to the President and Directors of the
National Instituto, my most profound r&spects
for the honor you and they intended to bestow.
I have prepared an humble depository for my
mortal body beside that wherein lies" my be
loved wife, where, without any pomp or pa
rade, I huve requested, when my God calls me
to sleep with my fathers, to be laid ; for both
of us there to remain until the l ist trumpet
sounds to call the dead io judgment, when we,
I hope, shall rise together, clothed with that
heavenly body promised to all who believe in
our glorious redeemer, who died for us that we
might live, and by whose atonement I hope for
a blessed immortality.”—lixttact from the let
ter of Andrew Jackson to Com. Elliott, U.
S. N. dated Hermitage, March 27, 1845.
Glorious on ihe battle-field.
Glorious in tbe chair of ttate.
When thy country found a shield
In thy arm, to puard her fate j
Still more glorious art lliou now.
Gasping feebly for thy breath,
While upon illv martial brow
Fast distil the dews of death! ,
ough disease has sapped thy form,
tnd the lightning from thine eye
Thong
And me iigiuuing irom mine eye
Fades, which through the battle’s storm
Gleamed so bright and valiantly ;
Though thy voice, whose clarioirtone
Sent to gallant hearts a tlirilh
As the line moved bravely on.
Fainter grows, and faiuter still.
Yet thy spirit, bright as erst,
Thpiugh the gathering clouds of night,
O’er thy country’s sky it burst
Like a glorious beacon 1 ght ;
Pitre as when its ray was given,
Though it hastens to its set,
’Till it pass away to Heaven.
It is all of Jackson yet!
Set it must—but thy grtat name.
Lingering here beneath the sky.
Cherished for thy country’s fame*,
Will not, nay, it can not die!
Living through each future age,
Living in her gallant sons.
Living on her history’s page.
Side by side with'Washington's !
When the storm of battle pouts.
And the invader's ruthless band,
Fiercely, on these western shores.
Seeks to conquer freedom's land.
Sternly grappling with the foe.
In the battle’s reddest flame.
Where’s the brave heart will not glow
When we breathe old Jackson’s name!
In no tomb for monarch made,
With no pageantry of woe.
Shall ihy glorious dust be laid.
In the earth, when thou art low ;
Like thy life, thou dauntless mm,
VVe will dig a crave iorthee,
Simple anc republican.
In the soil of Liberty!
With a stern and lofty pride.
Patriots, in nil coming time.
From the hil.s to tb* ocean’s side,
Shall recount thy life sublime ;
Ceasing not to hope that men.
With great souls inay rise to guide
iUehilj this free nation—when
Such, as thou, have lived and died !
vnu. Mike.” replied the Merman, A1 ' ora . va * c ™charctcar There he goes to
the walking that I care for. It’s 5 P° 0ni,y ’ ( m f ean,n S he is about to convert
n his scraps into an o//a^)orfnaa.)
It is said of General Jackson, that the Presi
dent, while on ins way to Washington, called
to see hint at the Hermitage, and to hid him
farewell, in all probability, for the last time.
As they were about parting, the General, hol
ding his friend with a wurm grasp by the hand,
remarked with great emphasis, “ Sir, I shall
uover see you again in this world ; but do
your duty like a man, und we will meet in
Heaven.”
THE ARAB BOY AND THE LIONS.
The Baron de Bode, in bis recently publish
ed Travels in Luristan and Arbistan, states
that among the reeds and marshes which envi
ron the ruins of Shush, lions are sti'l found in
great numbers, and the Arabs were full of the
stories of their ravages. An old man of the’
party, with vehement gestures and considera
ble volubility, detailed a personal ndventure:
“ When a mere lad, of eight or nine years old,
I was sent,’ he said, ‘one day by my parents
to scare away birds from a plantation belong
ing to us which lay close to the river. As”l
was sitting in a frail hut of rushes, I suddenly
espied n lioness making her way towards my
place of concealment. My liver melted into
water at the sight, ( jihe ab shud,) and I be
came like one transfixed. The animal stop
ped abort, then couched, and rolling on the
sand appeared quite unconscious of an intru
der. Although I trembled like a leaf, this af-
me some respite ; bui, presently, I be
came aware of another lion through the rush.
e S ,—by the tremendous roaring which prece
ded him. They met, and apparently on very
friendly terms, and for some time they gam
boled like dogs together. But I felt my situa
tion was not the better for it, as their stav
might be prolonged. I was more dead than
alive, expecting at every instant they would dis- |
cover my hiding place ; and one stroke of the j
paw was more than sufficient to bring down tbe I
iiut. I was afraid to breathe lest the sound j
should reach their ears, yet 1 could not prevent j
my teeth chattering quite audibly. But, I
whether it was that they were too much occu
pied with their own concerns, or that they are
deficient in scent, I do not know ; suffice it to
say that after a shoit time, which to n. e appear
ed an age, they separated, each taking a differ-
ent direction, and were soon lost in the high-
grass.’
H. R. J.
A TURKISH VIXEN OF IIG1I RANK.
When Shah Sultana, sister to Selim III.,
was marrit d to Kara AIu>tafu Pasha, her high
ness established the superiority of her rank over
her husband in a summary manner, and this up
on their marriage 'right. The impatient Pasha,
not aware of the fiery and capricious character
of his imperial bride, vainly waited until within
nil hour of dawn lor the wonted summons to
the nuptial chamber. At length, fearing that
the muezin would announce morning prayer
before he could enter bis wife’s apartment, and
that he should, consequently, be accused of
neglect, lie set aside his twentieth pipe, and
boldly proceeded to the harem. Here he open
ed the Sultana’s dour, said his prayer, and ap
proached the foot of the couch. Better had he
disturbed a sleeping lioness. As lie was in the
act of stooping to kiss the hem of the coverlet,
the recumbent Sultana cast him prostrate with
a biow of her foot; then, springing from her
couch, she flew at his face, and, in spite of his
supplications of “My Sultana ! my soul! my
lamb! corner of my liver! aman! amiui!
(mercy) she lacerated his cheeks and nose so
piteously that blood streamed on the floor; then
clapping her hands for her female attendants*
she bade them drive the insolent intruder from
her presence, and retired to bed to compose her
self, Not satisfied with this exposition of cho-
ler, the irritated princess proceeded next mor-
ning to the seraglio and throwing herself upon
her knees at hey imperial brother’s feet, deman
ded the immediate disgrace of the “infringer of
etiquette” and her divorc from “the insulter of
her digni y.” Sudan Selim listened attentive
ly, and when she had finished speaking, highly
applauded her spirit, and promised to admonish
and chastise the husband. He then dismissed j
his sister, with an earnest recommendation to j
pardon the offender, and burst into a fit of laugh
ter. This merriment increased two fold when
Kara Alustafa entered the presence, humbly
craving pardon for the fault he had committed
and exhibiting his face miserably furrowed and
scarified by the virago’s hails. It neveriheless,
requireJ many days’ negotiation before the
haughty princess coulu be induced to look upon
shrunk from touching it. And what has Mr.
Everett done for the acquisition of “ free ter
ritory ?” VVe have not heard that our rights to
the Oregon have received either new light ot
increased strength front him. We have reason
to believe that his mission in England has been
one of marked and especial imbecility—a few
years of elegant idling, deserving rather to be
chronicled as the travels of a Cambridge pro
fessor, than the labors of an American States
man.
But passing this, let us go io tbe root of the
Oregon dispute. The two insuperable obsta
cles that lie in the way of the plausible assertion
of our right to the whole territory between
California and the Russian possessions, tire the
treaty of joint occupancy, and the offer of our
government to accept the line of the 49th de
gree of latitude as a compromise boundary.—
Each of these was an undeniable concession
that tbe claims of England had to some extent
a just foundation—unless wo affirm that each
was a cowardly and traitorous abandonment of
the rights of our country. And who, more
than nil others, is responsible for these conces
sions? Truly, Mr. John Q. Adams. VVe
don t blame him for the proffered compromise
for wo think it was a very fair division. The
claim of the United States attaches especially
to the Southern part of the territory—’hat of
England to the Northern part. The49ih par
allel would give us about three fifths of the
whole country—it would secure to us the whole
valley of the Columbia river and its two great
branches, and would carry through to the Pa
cific, to the boundary of our territory this side
of the Alountaios. VVe have always believed
that this boundary could he gained, and that
we ought to be satisfied with it. As to the as
sertion that our right to every font of land be
tween the Alexican and Russian boundaries, is
clear—it deserves not the least resoect, and
comes manifestly either from presumptuous ig
norance or reckless demagogism We do not
believe there is an impartial man in the world,
who on a full hearing of both parties, would ad
judge that all the right is with ns, and all the
wrong with England. VVe have already con
ceded that she has some right, and it w>*uld be
dishonoring the past pledges of the Government,
to deny it now.
VVe blame not Mr. Adams then for the pro
posed compromise; but let the New Englan
ders show that any Southern statesman has
conceded more for the sake of settlement, or
has weakened the claims of the United States.
resulted in its transfer to others Let its mer
its and its services be cherished with respect—
let its errors be forgotten.
W e are now the oldest Democratic paper at
llu’ seat of Government. Our seniority imposes
a heavy responsibility, and we shall endeavor to
practice that gravity ot manner and leniency of
spirit calculated to preserve peace and insure
harmony among the younger professional breth
ren of our own party at tin- metropolis. Hap
piness and peaco to those whopo out—success
and happiness to those who come in!—Constitu,
TFXAN SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mr. Aslibel South, the Texan Secretary of
State, arrived in this city yesterday, and pro
ceeds on to Boston this morning, to embark on
Thursday in the steume for England. It is
difficult to imagine any other than one ob
ject of such post-haste speed on the part of
this functionary, on the way to London—name
ly, to ascertain from England what terms they
can get in the way of money for their debt, as
the condition of refusing annexation to the
United States. If this is so, according to the
general rumor, it is certainly a very indecor
ous and indecent proceeding, worthy perhaps
of some stockjobbing politicians about the gov
ernment of Texas, anxious mainly aOout scrip
and place; but it is not one likely to find favor
with the pe<- pie of that country, whom all ac-
counts concur in representing as enthusiastic
in favor of their long cherished hope of coming
into our Union. If such is the object of Mr.
Aslibel Smith’s extraordinary mission, we have
little faith, either in the idea that the English
Government would like to venture so far to
irritate tbe people of the United States, by
bribing Texas to defeat a favorite measure of
our public policy; or that, if she should do it,
the penpli of T'-xas would ever tolerate such
a transaction.—[iV. Y. News April 29.
the offender, with whom she continued to live ^ them. Mi. Pukcnliam lias borne testimony to
before th u y venture to repeat the sneers of ti e
Boston Courier.
But we did not set out to discuss the Oregon
question, but to say, that we hoped no South
ern man would undertake the negotiation of it.
Let it be settled at Washington. Let Air.
Buchanan have whatever of glory or fun is to be
made out of it. No Southern man can man.
ige this matter without either involving the
country in a war, or loading himself a-d his
section with accusations that will be multiplied
and embittered just in proportion as they are
undeserved. We trust, therefore, that if Mr.
Pickens accepts the Mission to England, he
will stipulate that the Oregon kettle of fish glial’
be stewed at home. It is more than his or any
Southern man’s reputation is worth, to carry
it to London. If indeed, it is to be dealt with
elsewhere than at Washington, the proper step,
in the present crisis of dispute, is to send an
Extraordinary Ambassador, and we know of
no man so fit for that office as the one already
named by the newspapers—ex President Van
Buren. The whole couutry would be satisfied
with iiis moderation and address, and he is a
proper representative of that section of the
country which assumes to be alone interested
in the acquisition o? Oregon.
The Mission to England.—The Washing,
ton “ Union," says:—“We understand that
the mission to London has been offered to
Mr. Pickens of South Carolina.” The Pres
ident, we feel satisfied could not make a bet
ter selection, nor one that would give more
general satisfaction to the Democratic party
of the South,—although we have our doubts
whether Air. P. would accept of the Mission.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald, in his remarks upon the subject
of this mission, recommends Air. Rheit, of S.
C. f as a gentleman in every way qualified to
fill the station, but, at the same time asks:
“ Is it not advisable to treins r er the negotia
tions respecting Oregon to London? Would
not Mr. Calhoun, like the self-sacrificing man
that he is, withdraw bis objections, and now
that apparently a dark cloud lowers on the ho
rizon of the poli'ical firmament, would lie not
accept the mission to England with full pow
ers to negotiate and settle the Oregon ques
tion ? What man more fit, or better able to ! he has left all bis papers to him,° and requests’
take tins matter in hand? He is fully ac- j him to use them in vindicating his character
quainted with the subject. He has up to a ve- , should it be assailed,
ry recent period, been engaged in this very ne
gotiation. The whole country will willingly
commit to his hands their honor and interests
knowing that he would never forsake or betray
TITLE TO OREGON.
The English ministry attempt to make ouf
their title to Oregon by right of discovery,
when Spain, from whom we derive title, not
only di covered but possessed the country as
far as Nootka Sound, (north latitude 49.)"aud
our treaty with Russia fixes the northern boun
dary at 54 40 nortli latitude. Our southern
boundary with Spa n, and next wiili AI tico, is
42 deg. north latitude. The mouth of the Co
lumbia is about 46 deg north la'. By discov
ery, by actual possession in 1811, in advance
of any English settlement, and by purchase
from Spain and Franco, wo became the pro
prietors of the Territory. At the close of the
revolutionary war England did not pretend to
have any claim to Oregon, and as late as 1S26
she offered io extend the eastern Rocky Moun
tain boundary fixed at the close of the war
(49 deg north lat.) to the P;ic fie, asking at the
same lime a transfi-r of our rights north of
that line to lat 54. as defined in our treaty with
Russia. This would have given E -gland five
degrees, and the United Suites seven degrees
if territory. Rut our overnmeut very pro
perly rejected the proposition, which has been
again renewed, we have reason to believe, by
the Minister now at Washington. The Lon
don Times says that “the tone of Mr. Polk’s
address does not lead us to suppose that lie
would even adhere to the ultimatum [extend
ing the boundary along 49 deg north latitude.]
of 1826,” and the Times is right. Ai hough
that line would give us the free navigation of
the iMuItonnmah and Lewis’s Rivers, (the great
southern tributaries of the Columbia,) and the
Columbia for two to three hundred miles fiom
its mouth, it would exclude us from tlie north
ern half of the Columbia river, and Irom Clark’s
river, its great northern tributary, as well as
from Nootka Sound and several valuable har
bors along the const. Justice to posterity re
quires great sacrifices to retain that territory,
and howewr much we may wish no amicable
settlement by negotiation, we cannot see how
our government would be justified in giving
up any part of it.—N. Y. Sun.
Handsomely done.—A letter from Lexing
ton Kv. to a gentleman-in this-place, sneaking
of Air. Clay, says; °
“He (Air. Clay) has b**en largely in debt,but
within the last week his entire indebtedness,
(amounting to near $30,000.) was cancelled,
and Iiis notes delivered to him from Bank!
The great man w.is deeply affected and asked
who had done this thing. ‘We know not,’ was
the reply, the money was deposited to your
credit and your notes are cancelled. It need
not concern you who did it; it was not your
enemies.” Somerville Reporter.
As this matter lias been made the subject of
invidious comment in Journals hostile to Mr.
Clay, we shall not now violate any confidence
bv stating the facts more clearly. The truth
is this : Mr. Clay, who lias not. for many years,
incurred or owed a debt on his own account,
had involved himself by endorsing for a rela
tive who becamedeeply embarrassed and fiiled.
The debts came upon Mr. Clay to such an ex
tent that Iiis property must have been swept a-
way to p >y them. The circumstances came
to the knowledge of some of Air. Clay’s political
friends and admirers (few of whom knew hitn
personally,) and they quietly subscribed the sum
necessary to relievo him from embarrassment.
The first intimation lie had of it was bv the re
turn ol his cancelled notes.—N. Y. Tribune.
And whereas, the President of the Dtst e( j
States has selected the first anc second ^
tionsas such basis, and notified this Govp rn "
ment thereof, wnich sections are as follow
viz; ’
Resolved by the Senate and House ot'
resentatives of the United States of America
Congress assembled, That Congress doth as-
sent that the territory properly included tvii|,| n
and rightly Ixdongingto t he Republic of Texas
may be erected into a new State, to be called
the State of Texas, witli a Republican form o|
Government, to be adopted by the p-opleof
said Republic, by deputies in Convention as
sembled, with the consent of the existing Guy.
ernment, in order that the s one m >y be admit,
ted as one of the States of this Union.
2. And be it further resolved, That ihe fore-
going consent of Congress is given upon the
following condition, and with the following
guarantees, io wit :
First. Said State to be formed subject to the
adjustment by this government of all questions
r of boundary that may arise with other govern,
meins, and that the Constitution ; hereof, with
the proper evidence of its adoption, by the peo
ple of said Republic of Texas, shall be transmit,
ted to the President of the United States, to be
laid before Congress for its final action, on or
before, the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.
“Second, Said State when admitted into the
Union, after ceding to the United States all
public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports
and harbors, navy and navy-yards, docks, ma*.
azines, arms, armaments,and all other property
and means pertaining to the public defence,
belonging to said Republic of Texas, shall rc.
tain all the public funds, debts, taxes, and dues
of every kind which may belong to or be due
and owing said Republic; and snail also retain
all the vacant and unappropriated lauds lying
within its limits, to be applied to the payment
of debts and liabilities of -said Republic of Tex
as, and the residue of said debts and liabilities
to be disposed of as said State inay direct; but
in no event are said debts and liabilities lobe-
come a charge upon tlie government of the-
United States.
“ Third. New States of convenient size, not
exceeding four in number, in addit'on to said
Stale of Texas, and having sufficient popula
tion. may hereafter, by the consent of sad
State, be formed out of tlie territory thereof,
which shall bo entitled to admission under tlie
provisions of the Federal Constitution. And'
such States as may be formed out of dint por
tion of said territory lying south of thirty-six
degrees thirty minutes north latitude, common
ly known ns the Alissmni compromise line,
shall be admitted m o the Union, with or with-
out slavery, as the people of each St fie asking
admission may desire. And in such State or
States as shall be formed out of sai l territory,,
north ol said Missouri compromise line, si avery
or involuntary servitude (except for crime)
shall be prohibited.”
And whereas, the premises, requiring the
soh mn deliberation and action of ihe Represen
tatives of the people, form an extraordinary oc
casion fur convening the Congress of the Re
public.
Therefore, be it known, that I, ANSON
JONES. President of the Republic of Texas,
by virtue of die power vested in me by the
Constitution, do, by these presents, require that
the Senators and Representatives to Congress
of this Republic, shall assemble in sessio , at
the town of Washington, in the county of Wash
ington, on Monday, the sixteenth day of Ju> e
next ensuing, then and there to receive such
communications as may he made to them, and
to consult and determine on such measures as
in their wisdom may be deemed meet for the
welfare of Texas.
[L. S.] In testimony whereof I have caused die
Great Seal of ihe Republic to he hereunto
affixed. Done at the town of Washing
ton, this fifteenth day of April, in tlie year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-five, and of the Independence of
this Republic, the tenth.
ANSON JONES.
By the President:
Enx'n Allen,
Acting S' crefary of Slate.
This news "ill be hailed with a burst of joy
throughout the Union. The great national
measure of annexanon is, to all meats and pur
poses, accomplished !—Galveston News.
linn. Edmund llurke.—By the article which
we copy Irom the New Hampshire Argus, it
appears that this gentleman has been called by
tbe President to take charge of the Patent of
fice. We can add our testimony lo that of the
Argus to the ability of Air. Burke, and the use
fulness ol his career in v ongress sufficiently at
tests the luboriousness of Ins habits.— Globe.
General Jackson's Papers.—The Globe
says a letter has been received by Mr. Blair,
front General Jackson, informing Mr. B. that
The N. O. Picayune says: Any quantity,
in bulk, ol despatches for Air. Elliott, the Brit-
The Taxes are endless and enormous in
Great Britain. An English writer says that
the school boy whips his taxed top; the beard
less youth manages his taxed horse with a tax
ed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Eng
lishman, pouring Iiis medicine, which has paid
seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid
fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his
chintz bed, wnich has paid twenty two per
cent., makes Ids will on an eight pound stamp,
and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who
has paid a licence of an hundred pounds for the
liberty of putting him to death. His whole pro-
petty is then immediately taxed from two to
ten per cent. Besides tlie probate, large fees
are demanded for burying him in tlie chancel;
his virtues are hand' d down to posterity oil
taxed m irble ; and then he is gathered to his
fathers to be taxed no more.—Phil. Times.
An Englishman's opinion of our navy.—A
shrewd writer in the London United Service
Journal says : “ there is no doubt that we (ihe
English,) have three powerful rivals in France,
Russia, and tlie Un.ted States; but of these
three the Americans are the must important
upon the most distant terms.-
ners of the Turks, in 1844.
-Domestic man-
The Mission to England.—Tlie Washington
Union of Friday evening says: “We un ler-
stand that the mission to London lias been offer
ed to Mr. Pickens of South Carolina.” This
sets at rest the infinite rumors on the subject.
We have not y*fi heard of Mr. Pickens’s ac
ceptance’, but know of no reason likely to in
duce him to refuse.
his diplomatic lalent and ability when he de
clared that “ Mr. Calhoun wus the hardest
man he ever had to deal with, for there was
no getting round him at ail ” What man
then, more fit, or lo whom do events point as
better suited to ihe crisis, the position, and
the duties of Minister to Eeglaud. than Mr.
Calhoun ? The whole country would ratify
his nomination with acclamation, ai d he, the
patriot and the statesman, would waive perso
nal feeling for the benefit of his country.”
ish Charge to Texas, arrived Ii re yesterday. I one:i 0,1 account of their origin, their courage,
They C "me out by the Caledonia,"and will ! and their even greater ent- rprise a d activity
probably be forwarded bv the New York on 'han our own.” The writer then proceeds to
probably
Saturday. It may be fortunate for the dip] n-
atist that no “Sir John Grahams” are employ
ed in republican post offices, provided with false
seals and stamps and oilier instruments of a
craft akin to a counterfeiter’s
“Do you think raw clams are healthy, Bob?”
“Yes, I do.” Some folks say they are not.”
“I don’t care what some folks may say, but I
never knew of one in my life to complain of
feeling unwell."
show that our navy, though numerically inferior
to that of France, and even to that of Russia,
is intrinsically superior to either, and contains
the germ of a great and powerful fleet. Wo
have the raw material, tne w rkmen, and a suf
ficient merchant navy, to arm as men of war,
whenever called on to dp so. Our navy is a
thing of life ; it is proci%itive ; and that <>f tbe
French and Russians resembles a huge und
costly machine, which once destroyed, is not
easily replaced.