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[From the New York lie-aid, 27 1 h insl.]
HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS
FROM EUROPE.
G.\E WEEK EATER.
ARRIVAL OF TIIE
HIBERNIA!
By the arrival of the steamship Hibernia, at
this port, we are placed in possession of high
ly important intelligence from Europe, of a
later date by one week, than wchad previous
ly received. Its details are extremely inter
esting and important in m commercial, politi
cal, and social point of view, as will be seen by
the extracts which we publish below.
The latest accounts from Liverpool and Lon
don are of the i3th inst., noon.
The news from France is very important.—
An order had been received at Boulogne, from
Paris, to put the whole line of coast in a state ,
of defence, and to mount guns on the detached
forts, which are built a little way out at sea.
The gates of the upper town are also to be re
paired and lortilied. This looks like a prepa
ration for war.
There was an election In France for aPresi- 1
dent and Vice President of the Republic, and i
a proclamation has been issued.
The triumph of the liberal party is com
plete, and Louis Blanc and Albert have re
tired.
Several bloody conflicts have taken place be
tween the Poles and Russians.
One of the most important points of this
news is the declaration of war by Pope Pius 1
the Ninth, against Austria, and* that at, the !
last account* the situation of the Austrian ar- I
nry in Italy was very perilous. After this, the
ele trie telegraph reported the imprisonment
of the Pope for backing out of the war.
Serious skirmishes have taken place between
the Hungarians and the Jews.
The Danes, it appears, have completely
blockaded the German ports.
There is nothing important from Ireland.
Lord Palmerston has officially announced,
under date Foreign office, May 9th, the Dan
ish blockade of Stettin, Halsound, Nortuch,
and Wismar, from the 2d ; Pillau and Dant
zic from the 3d, and the Elbe from the 4th
inst. Also, the blockade by Austria of the
port of Venice, from the 23d ult.
There had been a decline in the middling
and lower grades of cotton of one-eighth of a
penny per lb-
The corn market was inactive, and prices
feebly supported. There had been a decline
in Hour.
THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
By Electric Telegraph
[From the London Times, May 13.]
A military insurrection took place at Madrid
on the 7th inst., at 4 o'clock in the morning,
which was suppressed after a sanguinary con
flict which lasted several hours.
The number of the dead was not known,
but it was considerably greater than in the in
surrection of the 26th ot March.
Among the killed was the Captain General
Fulgosio, brother-in-law of Maria Christina. |
Thirty-four of the prisoners taken —one- ;
half of them civilians, the other half military j
men —were tried and sentenced to death by a i
court-martial, and were about to be shot when
the post left.
The Paris papers of yesterday announce
the formation of the new Ministry for France; |
it consists of Messrs. Bastide Kecurt, Cre- ;
mieux, Carnot, Chanas, FJocon, Duclerc, Beth
mont, Frelat, and Admiral Casy.
It was apprehended that an armed demon
stration in favor of the Poles would take place ,
in Paris this day.
Some of the journals announced that the j
Pope had been deposed, and the republic proclaim
ed at Home, but the news seams premature.
Imprisonment of the Pope.
A report prevailed in Paris, yesterday, that
the Pope, repenting his late hostility to Aus
tria, had revoked his declaration of war; that
in consequence, the people had risen en masse
and deposed him from his temporal authority
—placing him under restraint in the Castle of
St Angelo.
The Journal des Dehais confirms the above.
It appears that Rome has regularly rebelled
against him, and the probability is that his
Holiness will be deposed as a temporal price.
In fact, the entire executive authority appears
to be exercised by the new ministry, without
any control on the part of the Pontiff.
We learn from Borne under date of the Bth
inst., that M. Ochsenbein had resigned the
presidency of the directory of the diet and his
other offices. This resolution was adopted by
him in consequence of the question of the in
tervention of Switzerland in the affairs of Italy,
which he opposed.
On the 9th it was to be decided if his resigna
tion should be accepted; if it were, it would
eettie the question of intervention in the affir
mative.
France.
Paris, May 11, 10 o'clock.
The following named gentlemen embraca
the new French ministry :
Foreign Affairs, M. Bastide.
War M. Charras.
Finance - M. Duclerc.
Justice M. Cremieux.
Public Instruction M. Carnot.
Commerce M. Flocon.
Public Worship M. Bethmont.
Public Works-- . M. Trelat.
>1 arine M. Case)’.
Interior M. Recurt.
The appointment of M. Bastide is consider
ed as unobjectionable. He was the Under
secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under
M. de Lamartine, and gave satisfaction. There
was a report at Paris that Ledru Rolliu had
tendered his resignation.
Liverpool Cotton Market-
LIVERPOOL, May 12.—Last week closed and
the present opened with a good demand from the
trade, and for export. Prices were low ; and the
supply held by consumers is small. As the week
advanced political events, full of inconvenience at
the present time, and pregnant with injury to the
trade in future, shook confidence, and induced
the spinners to limit their purchases. The hostile
measures rs retalliation adopted by Denmark a
gainst Prussia and the German States, are calcu
lated to interrupt the trade of Great Britain with
those countries] materially to limit her exports of
tnanufftctnres, and thereby to augment the obsta
cles already existing throughout the continental 1
markets, to the disposal of her goods. At such a
movement, the import of cotton during the present
week, has been very large, and this has further
tended to limit the demand; the total sales of
the week have not exceeded 24,120. To-day the
trade are buying steadily; the sales are 6,000 bales
at yesterday's prices. American descriptions are
only in limited request, and are dull of sale ; the
authorised quotations of fair qualities are the same
as last week ;in the lower and middle qualities a
de~line, scarcely amounting to Jd per lb. has gene
rally been submitted to Bra/.ile and Egyptains
are dull of sale, but they are without material
change in value. Surat are only in limited re
quest, but they remain at former rates. 1,366
bales of American, and 90of Egyptains hare been
taken for export.
BY OUR PONY EXPRESS.
24 HOUR? IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIL.
[ From the X. O. Picayune, of the 26th inst.]
Five Days Later from Mexico.
The Steamship New Orleans arrived from
Vera Cruz this morning at an early hour,hav
ing left that port on the 22d inst., with im
portant intelligence from the City of Mexico
to the 18th inst.
Extract of a letter from the City of Mexico dated.
May, 17th.
The sentence in relation to the parties ac
cused of the murder and burglary in the battle
de la Palma, is that Lieuts. Hare, Dutton. T 1-
den and Laverty shall be hung. Sergeant
Wragg and Stewart,and private Wall,are sen
tenced to be kept in irons until the war is
closed, and Lieut. Madison, the Court ordered
to be turned over to his regiment to be tried
by a Court Martial. The Court has appoint
ed a day f r the execution.
The treaty is still under discussion in the
Mexican Congress at Queretaro, and the last
intelligence we have from them is as doubtful
of ratification as ever.
Deplorable Catastrophe-
Com’rs. Haukis and Pinckney, of the Na
vy, and three others Drowned. —On the
15th inst., two boats belonging to the U. S.
steamers Vixen and Iris were swamped on the
Bar of Tuspan. Com’rs. Harris, of the Iris,
and Pinckney, of the Vixen, M. Duvall, a
French resident at Tuspan, and two seamen
were drowned. Three other officers, Lieut.
Ward, of the Cumberland, Lieut. Doughty,
commanding officer of Marines in the squad
ron. Dr. Bell, of the Vixen, and nine seamen,
were saved by the boats of the U. S. schooner
Mahoncse, in charge of Acting Master Dyer
and Passed Midshipman, N. C. '' cst.
We are indebted to an officer of the Iris for
the following account of this melancholy
event ;
U. S. Steamer Iris, off Vera Cruz, )
May 17th, 1843. )
Gentlemen —I send you the above notice
‘ which you will please give a place in your
■ valuable paper, and request the Louisville,
I Frankfort, Baltimore and Ph ladelplua papers
| to copy : as Com’r. W. S. Harris is from Frank
; fort, and Com’r. Henry Pinckney is from Bal
timore. Too much cannot be said concerning
| the gallant conduct of Act. Master C. Dyer,
and Passed Midshipman N. C. West, who risk
ed their lives in two small boats to save their
fellow-officers and seamen.
As it may be of some service to you, to
know how’ this sad and truly melancholy ac
cident occurred, I will give you a brief ac
count. Two whale-boats belonging to the a
bove steamers, with the aforementioned officers
and seamen, left this steamer, at about half
pa-it 5 P. M, to cross the Bar, which to all ap
pearances was very smooth. There having
been a heavy rain the night before, the cur
rent was very strong from the river, making
the undertow very great; the accident may
be partiaTy attribute Ito this. Ca it. Pinckney
took the lead, as he had crossed the Uar seve
ral times before, Capt. Harris followed at about
30 yards. Whilst in the midst of the breakers,
the Vixen’s boat became unmanageable and
broached to, filling immediately. Capt. Har
ris’s went over beautifully, not having taking
in a drop. As soon as he was inside, he or
dered the boat to be pulled back to the assis
tance of the other boat; at the same time, all
prepared themselves for the dangerous under
taking, by pulling off their coats, &c. The
boat soon filled, and the above disaster was
1 the consequence.
1 remain yours, &c.,
FRED. B. BRAND,
Acting Master, U. S. N.
P. S.—The health of the squadron is very
i good so far. The commodore has placed all
American men-of-war in quaratine that came
: to Vera Cruz.
I The crowded state of our columns compels
1 us <0 omit some interesting portions of the
| news. We make room, however, for the fol
lowing interesting items :
Quf.retaro. May 16, 1848.
Chamber or Deputies. —The Chamber met
l at a quarter to 1. The debates on the treaty
I were more and more boisterous. Several dep
; uties talk of withdrawing from the Chamber.
Fears are increasing that this plan will be ex
ecuted by the opposition. The Chamber ad
journed at a quarter before 6, to meet again at
noon to-morrow’.
If nothing unforseen should occur, on Sat
urday you will have the solution of the pro
blem.
Our readers may be interested in seeing a
more particular account of the of Pre
sident than is given in our letters. We copy
the whole of the leading article from the Star
of the 18th :
Queretaro —Election of a President ad
Intfjum. — We have already stated that the
two Houses of the Mexican Congress had de
termined to go into the election of a President
of the Republic on Sunday last, the 14th inst.
This was rendered necessary by the constitu
tion, which provides that a President shall be
chosen within eight days from the opening of
the session. It appeared, however, upon open
ing the votes Irom the States, that one State
(Morelia) wms not represented in the Cham
bers, in consequence of the elections in that
State not having taken place. It became ne
cessary, therefore, to choose a President ad
interim —or until by a full representation from
every State a successor to Pena y Pena for the
constitutional period could be elected. (The
election in Morelia commenced on the 14th
and ended yesterday, the 17th.)
The election of a President ad interim result
ed as follows. The vote is by States.
Eleven votes for Pena y Pena, viz: Coahuila,
Durango, Mexico, Puebla, Queretaro, Tobasco,
Tamaulipas, Vera Cruz; Jalisco, Zacatecas and
the Federal District.
Four votes for Herrera, viz: Chihuahua,
Oajaca, San Luis and Guana)uto.
The votes ot the members from Guanajuato,
Mexico and Puebla, were divided between the
two candidates, though the majority, controll
ing the vole of the State, was given as above.
Pena y Pena was, therefore, declared elected
President ad iiiterim of the Mexican Republic.
When the delegation is full, Herrera will be
chosen—or raeher his election by a majority
of the States, will be ratified by Congress—for
the term of years prescribed by the constitu
tion.
There is no further intelligence in regard to
the treaty. The report of the Committee of
Relations recommending its adoption, was dis
cussed in secret session on Monday and Sun
day, but nothing is said, however, concerning
the character of the debates. The Monitor’*
correspondent think* the subject will be dis
posed of on the part of the Chamber of Depu
ties in five or six day*—by the doe* of the
week at the farthest.
The Monitor’s letters adds that the only op
ponents of the treaty and the report recom
mending its adoption in its modified form, are
those who have nothing to lose, the revolu
tionists and office-seekers—in a word, those
who would be the first to run upon the appear
ance of an enemy.
We regret to learn, by our Vera Crm cor
respondent that the vomito is raging in that
port. Mr. W. F. Beebee, Sutler of the port,
died on the 16th of the disease, Capts. Masten,
I Jordan and Clendenin —all the quartermasters !
at that place—were down with it on the 20th, |
as well as Mr. Scott, the chief clerk of the de- j
partment. Capts. Masten, and Jordan and !
Mr. Scott, were convalescent on the 20th and ;
Capt. Clendenin was doing well. Capt. Pat
rick, the Commissary had temporary charge of
the Quartermaster’s Department.
Gen. Lane left Vera Cruz on the 19th for
the city of Mexico, with an escort of about
I twenty men. He intended to go through in !
; five or six days. lie was escorted out of Vera
Cruz by a large concourse of his friends.
By Telegraph-
New Orleans, May 26, 85 P. M.
Crf'on.-— Sales this day amount to 1,500 bales.
Middlings steady ; higher orjades firm at outside
prices. Pork, Mess
per gallon and in demand. Bacon, firm. Flour,
drooping. iVo change in other articles.
Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 31
FOR PRESIDENT
LEWIS CASS,
OF MICHIGAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
WM. O. BUTLER.
OP KENTUCKY.
Proprietors of Warehouses in this city
and Hamburg will oblige us by having the
Cotton on hand in their respective warehouses
counted for us by three o’clock this afternoon.
The Foreign News-
After our telegraphic despatches came to
hand we received in advance of the mail New
York papers of Saturday, afternoon editions,
containing copious accounts of the foreign
news. We have made some extracts front
the New York Herald which w ill be found
highly interesting.
Whig Tactics in Georgia-
In case of the nomination of Mr. Clay by
! the Philadelphia Convention, (a very impro
bable event) it is intended bv the Taylor
I _ '
Whigs of Georgia to run an independent Tay
lor ticket. In this contingency, three tickets
will be before the people of Georgia—a Cass
Ticket —a Clay ticket, being the regular nomi
nation, and a Taylor ticket, being independent
of and in defiance of the Philadelphia conven
tion. The Taylor Whigs thus play a strong
game. It is the old game of “heads I win;
tails you lose. If they can get the nomina
tion at Phil adclphiu for Old Hough and Rca
day, well and good. If they cannot they will
not abide by the nomination, but run him any
how. This course they conceive to be the
only practicable one to get out the full Whig
strength in Georgia, and the only chance for
beating the Democratic ticket. A Clay ticket,
i they think, would be very badly beat in Geor
gia. It was beat in 1814, by a man the Whigs
; affected not to know, and therefore, inquir
i
ed very cuiiou-ly, “Who is James K: Polk:”
How then could they expect in 1818 to beat
j General Lewis Cass whom they do know r
The Whigs calculate that in the event above
stated, the votes for the'two tickets—the Clay
ticket and the Tayior ticket, added together
would be a majority of the voters of Georgia
—that the Democratic ticket, though getting
a plurality, would not get a majority of all
5 the votes. The State would therefore be
| thrown on the act of the Legislature of 1843,
to make an electoral ticket.
That act, or so much as applies to the point
in question, reads as follows ;
Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority afore
said, That in the event that a majority of
the number of Electors to which this State
may be entitled at any election for President
and Vice President, shall not have received a
majority of the votes polled as aforesaid, and
there being no General Assembly in session, it
shall be the duty of the Governor to convene
the General Assembly, which when assembled,
shall proceed by joint ballot to the election
of Electors for President and Vice President of
the United States; but in the event that at
least a majority of the whole number of Elec
tors to which this State may be entitled, shall
be elected in manner aforesaid, then and in
that case, it shall be the duty of the Electors
; so elected, or a number of them amounting at
i least to a majority of the whole number to
! which this State may be entitled, to fill by
ballot, at the time and place appointed by
law for the meeting of Electors, any vacancy
that may exist in their body, either by non
election of the full number, resignation, failure
j to attend, refusal to act, or from any other
| cause whatever.
We have only deemed it necessary thus ear
ly to call the attention of the Democrats of
j Georgia to this scheme of the Whigs, in order
that they may feel the necessity of nerving
themselves for the contest and of giving to
Cass and Butler that triumphant majority of
all the votes in Georgia which the Democrats
can give when they poll their entire strength-
Gen Scott in New York-
It seems that the vanity of “ The greatest
Captain of the age ” could not resist the
temptations held out for a great glorification.
He has, therefore, receded from his very cor
rect and truly dignified position, assumed
originally in his letter to tr.e authorities of
New- Orleans, and has consented to have a
glorification in the city of New York. By the
j last accounts, “old Fuss and Feathers” was
] starring it and being stared at, in the great
! emporium of the New world.
This exhibition of “ pruriency ” of eclat du
ring the pendency of the questions before the
Court of Inquiry,and in the teeth of his own ad
missions of the impropriety of his courting any
such [ üblic demonstrations,it is thought by po
liticians at the North, will affect injuriously the
prospects of General Scott for a nomination
for the Presidency, by the Philadelphia Con
vention.
SAVANNAH. May 29.— Cotton. —There was a
better demand for Cotton on Saturday, and sale*
were effected' at an advance of about an sc. above
Friday’s prices, The sales reached 650 bales from
ty to cent*.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[ Correspondence of the Constitutionalist . ]
SEVEN DAYS LATER
FROM EUROPE.
First Despatch.
By Telegraph from Charleston, dated twen
ty-five minutes past one o’clock, we learn that
the steamer Southerner, from N.Y. had arrived
w-ith intelligence, announceing that advices
from England wore pregnant, with commo
| tions on the Continent, and other matters in
| jurious to trade. The sales of Cotton during
S the week ending 13th last., was only twenty
four thousand five hundred bales, at a Jd. de
cline on the lower and middling grades, while
I fair quality maintained the quotations of the
I previous week. Sales mostly to Spinners.—
The Imports have been large.
Second Despatch.
Five persons have been appointed to admin
ister temporarily the French Government.—
Lamartine is the fourth on the list. This Go
vernment has issued a Proclamation, autho
rizing an election of a President, and Vice Pre
sident. It is said Lamartine has injured his
popularity by defending Rollin. The Pope
declared war against Austria. lie afterwards
withdrew the declaration ; and inconsequence
was deposed and imprisoned. A treaty of of
fence and defence is agreed upon between
Austria and Prussia. All Germany is in com
motion and agitation; several bloody battles
have been fought between the Prussians and
Poles, in which the Prussians were beaten.
A battle was expected near Verona, between
the troops commanded by Charles Albert and
the Austrians. The Austrians are said to be
critically situated. The Danes are blockad- ,
ing the Northern ports,
[From the N. O. Keening Mercu/ y, 23th in si.]
In I” au War in Oregon.
TO Days Uater from Wallah Wallah I
Massacre at Presbyterian Mission-
Proclamation of the Governor.
Bv the fine steam boat Josiah Lawrence, ar
rived this morning from St. Louis, we have re
ceived papers of the 18th inst., containing late
and important news from Oregon. We take
the following from the Union :
Yesterday we had the pleasure of a few- mo
ment’s conversation with Maj. J. L. Meek,
who arrived from St. Joseph on the Mundan,
and immediately took passage on the Genesee
for the Ohio river, being bearer of despatches
from the authorities of Oregon to the Govern
ment at Washington.
Major Meek left Oregon City on the 4th of
January, in company with General Gilliam
and 500 troops, who w« re marching into the
mountain districts to put down insurrection
ary movements among the Indians. At Wallah
Wallah, 300 miles east of Oregon City, Maj.
Meek, Lieut. Bowman and eight others, part
ed from General Gilliam’s command and bent
their way towards the United States.
In the Blue Mountains they found the snow
very deep. For thirty miles the party passed
through snow- four feet deep, suffering very
much from cold and fatigue. On Snake river
they fell in with five villages of Snake and Po
nark Indians. These Indians manifested hos
tility, and declared their intention of march
ing against the Oregon settlers early in the
Spring. The cause of their enmity towards
the whites they alleged to be the introduction
of the measles among them. This disease has
been very prevalent in Oregon, as well a
mong the white settlers as the Indians. Ow
ing to the peculiar habits of the red men. the
malady among them proved fearfully fatal,
causing death n almost every instance of its
visitation. When the eruptive fever made its
appearance, the afflicted would use the cold
bath, or roll themselves in the snow, which
would almost certainly cause a retrocession of
the disease and sudden death.
From Fort Hall, Major Meek and pa-tv
crossed through the South Pass to Ik ar river,
suffering very much from the severity of the
weather and want of provisions. For two
hundred miles they passed through the enow
three feet deep. Many of their mules died,
and as the animals thus perished, they were
used as food, the meat being “jirked” and
saved for a dreaded emergency.
From the South Pass to the head waters of
the Plate, there was very little snow. Over
, this vast extent of country the party travelled
without meeting game, subsisting almost en
tirely upon the flesh of the animals they had
with them. Sixty-six days after leaving Gen.
G lliarn’s command, at Wallah Wallah, they
arrived at St. Joseph, on the western frontier
of Missouri.
When within one hundred and fifty miles
of the United States boundary, a party of Ore
. gon emigrants were met. They consisted of
244 wagons. From these emigrants the party
obtained food—the first they had eaten in four
days. The emigrants were getting along well.
The saddest news brought by Maj. Meek, is
the death of the philanthropic Dr. Whitman
and lady. They were mui tiered, with eigh
teen others, at their settlements in the plaines
of Wallah Wallah, some time in November,
by the Cayutes and Wallah Wallah Indians
who have always heretofore manifested the
most profound friendship for the whites.
When the troops airived at the scene of the
murder, they found the whole settlement laid
waste, presenting an appearance dreadful in
the extreme. The bodies of the murdered
I settlers were scattered around unburied. The
heads of Dr. Whitman and his amiable lady
j were lying in the yard of their late residence,
near the threshold. Most of the houses had
been burned, and everything wore the aspect
of desolation.
In the march from Oregon City to Wallah
i Wallah, the troops had four engagements with
the enemy. In two there was a spirited re
sistance on the part of the Indians, and many
were supposed to have been killed. The Ame
rican forces lost but two men in their skir
mishes— James Jackson and James Packwood,
killed at the Dalles of the Columbia while on
guard.
From all we can gather, it seems that a spirit
of hostility has gradually been engendering
• among the Indians of Oregon for several years.
! They have taken up the idea that a great chief
was coming from the United States to buy their
1 land, and render them independent. Finding,
however, the whites settling round there, with
out furnishing for the lands what they con
sidered an equivalent, they have at last de
termined to drive out the invaders, and possess
themselves of such implements of husbandry
and the arts that might fall into their hands in
, the way of spoils.
It is the opinion of those conversant with
the affairs of Oregon, that the Hudson Bay
! Company is at the bottom of all these distur
bances. At any rate it is singular that the
Americans only should be the subjects of In
dian malice.
Major Meek will return speedily to Oregon.
We ore pleased to learn that he is the bearer
of an application for the U. States Marshalship
for himself, signed by five hundred citizens of
Oregon. He is an old resident of the “moun
tain and plain” country, and withal, very
: much of a gentleman.
Additional-
Since the foregoing was placed in type, we
have seen a copy of the St. Joseph Adventure
of the 12th instant, from which we derive some
additional items of information, relative ter af
fairs in Oregon.
The last battle fought with the Indians was
on the Big Plains, in Fcbruaiy last. Gen. Gil
liam’s forces maintained their position man
fully against four times their number. The bat
tle commenced in the morning, and continued
till night put an end to the conflict. Both par
ties remained on the field till morning, but
the Indians were indisposed to renew the en
gagement. and retired. No whites were
killed, but very many wounded by Indian ar
rows.
At the time of the massacre ofDr. Whitman
and companions, sixty or seventy persons
were taken prisoners but afterwards, through
the intervention of Peter Skeen Ogden, princi
pal Factor of the Hudson Bay Company, they
were ransomed. The massacre, it seems, took
place on the 29th of November.
Maj. Meek bears a message asking for imme
diate aid from the Government of the United
States.
The latest date from Oregon City is to the
20lh January. The mail carrier who left there
since for Wallah, was killed, and the mail
lost.
The following proclamation is from the Ore
gon Spectator of the 20th January:
PROCLAMATION.
By George Abernethy, Governor of the Territory,
of Oregon.
In consequence of the low state of the fin an
cos of this country, and the general impression
being that the Indians in the upper country j
were not united, a small force was thought
sufficient to proceed to Wallah to punish the 1
I Capuse Indians, and a Proclamation was issued
by me for one hundred men, since which, in
: formation has been received here, which leads
to the belief that the Indians have united, and
the force ordered out in that case being insuf
ficient — 1 therefore ca lon the citizens of this
Territory, to furnish five hundred men, and
appoint the following persons Brevet Captains,
to enrol such citizens as may wish to enlist,
viz: Wesley Shannon, John Ford, Thos. McKay
Champoeg county. John Owens, Wm.
Williams, John Stewart--Polk county, Philip
Thompson, Geo. Nelson, Felix Scott—Yam
Hill county. Isaac W. Smith, Benjamin Q. j
Tucker—Tuolatin county. James Officer—
Clackamas county.
The enlistments to be for six months, unless
j sooner discharge by proclamation.
Each man will furnish his own horse, arms,
clothing and blankets. The companies will
bring all the ammunition, percussion caps,and
I camp equippage they can, for which they will
1 receive a receipts from the Commissary Gene
| ral.
Col. Cornelius Gilliam will remain at Ore
; gon city until the first companies arrived at
Portland, when he will take command and
! proceed forthwith to Wallah Wallah.
Lieut. Col, James Waters will remain until
j the rear companies arrive at or near Portland,
when he will take the command, and proceed ;
to Wallah Wallah.
Companies will rendezvous at Portland, or
opposite Portland, on or before the Bth of |
January, 1848. Whenever a sufficient num- j
her of volunteers arrive on the ground, at
Portland, they will organize and proceed to |
elect officers, viz : one Captain, one Ist Lieut- i
cmnt, one 2d Lieutenant, one Orderly Ser- j
geant, and four duty Sergeants.
Companies will consist of 8-5 men, rank and
file. If any company should he formed in the
! companies smaller or larger, they will be re
gulated after they arrive on the ground.
As the Commissionary General will not be
able to furnish a sufficient quantity of provi
: sions for the army, the citizens of the territory
are required to deliver to his agents all the 1
provisions they can, that the operations of the i
troops may not be impeded for want- of pro- 1
visions. Agents will he appointed by him at j
Salem, Yam Hill Ferry, Champeog, Bute, and |
j Portland.
In witness whereof I have signed my
[l. s.J name, and affixei the sealed of the
Territory at Oregon City, this 25th I
day of December, 1817.
GEO. ABERNATHY.
[Reported for the Baltimore Nun.]
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN
TION.
FIFTH DAY.
Friday Mornino, May 26.
Udie Convention as-embled this morning,
pursuant to adjournment, and was opened
with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Humphrey, of
Kentucky.
Mr. Cone, of Georgia, from the committee
on resolutions, stated that the committee were
now ready to report, and the resolutions re
ported were read by- Mr. Hallett, of Boston, as
follows :
Resolved, That the American democracy
place their trust in the intelligence, the patri
j otism, and the discriminating justice of the
j American people.
Resolved, That we regard this as a distinc
tive feature of our political creed, which we
are proud to maintain before the world, as the
great moral element in a form of government,
springing from and upheld by’ the popular
will; and we contrast it with the creed and
practice of federalism, under whatever name
or form, which seeks to palsy the will of the
constituent, and which conceives no impos
; ture too monstrous for the popular credulity.
Resolved, therefore. That, entertaining these
i views,the democratic party of this Union,
through their delegates assembled in a gene
ral convention of the States, coming together
in a spirit of concord, of devotion to the doc
trines and faith of a free representative gov
■ eminent, and appealing to their fellow citizens
for the rectitude of their intentions, renew
and rc-as»ert, before the American people, the
declarations of principles avowed by’ them
when, on a former occasion, in general con
vention, they presented their candidates for
the popular suffrages.
1. That the federal government is one of
limited powers, derived solely from the con
stitution, and the grants of power shown
therein; ought to be strictly construed by all
the departments and agents of the govern
ment ; and that it is inexpedient and danger
ous to exercise doubtful constitutional pow
ers.
2. That the constitution docs not confer
upon the general government the power to
commence and carry on a general system of
internal improvements.
3. That the constitution docs not confer au
thority upon the federal government, directly
or indirectly, to assume the debts of the seve
ral States, contracted for local internal im
provements, or other State purposes; nor
would such assumption be just and expedient.
4. That justice and sound policy forbid tire
federal government to foster one branch of in
dustry to the detriment of another, or to che
f rish the interests of one portion to the injury
of another portion of our common country ;
that every citizen, and every section of the
country, has a right to demand and insist
upon an equality of rights and privileges, and
to complete and ample protection of persons
and property from domestic violence or foreign
aggression.
5. That it is the duty of every branch of
the government to enforce and practise the
most rigid, economy in conducting our public
affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be
raised tkan is required to defray the necessary
expenses of the government, and for the grad- fl
ual but certain extinction of the debt created
by the prosecution of a just and necessary
war, after peaceful relations shall have been
restored.
6. 'Fhat Congrcsshas no power to charter a
national bank ; that we believe such an insti
tution one of deadly hostility to the best inte
rests of the country, dangerous to our repub
lican institutions and the liberties of the peo
ple, and calculated to place the business of the
country within the control of a concentrated
money power, and above the laws and the will
of the people; and that the results of demo
cratic legislation, in this and all other finan
cial measures upon which issues have been
made between the two political parties of the
country, have demonstrated to candid and
practical men of all parties, their soundness,
safety ami utility in all business pursuits.
7. That Congress has no power under the
constitution to interfere with or control the
domestic institutions of the several States,
and that such States are the solo and proper
judges of everything appertaining to their
own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution; J
that ail efforts of the abolitionists or others "
made to induce Congress to interfere with
questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps
in relation thereto, arc calculated to lead to
the most alarming and dangeroxis consequen
ces ; and that all such efforts have an
ble tendency to diminish the happiness of Pie
people, and endanger the stability and perma
nency of the X'nion, and ought not to be coun
tenanced by any friend of our political insti
tutions.
8. That the separation, of the moneys of the
government from banking institutions is in
dispensable for the safety of the funds of the
government and the rights of the people.
9. That the liberal principles embodied by
Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence,
and sanctioned in the constitution, which
makes ours the land of liberty, and the asy
lum of the oppressed of every nation, have
ever been cardinal principles in the democrat
ic faith; and every attempt to abridge the
present privilege of becoming citizens and the M
owners of soil among ns, ought to be resisted
with the same spirit which swept the alien
and sedition laws from our statute b oks.
Resolved, That the proceeds of the public
lands ought to be sacredly applied to the na
tional objects specified in the constitution;
and that we are opposed to any law for the
distribution of such proceeds among the States,
as alike inexpedient in policy, and repugnant
to the constitution.
Resolved , That we are decidedly opposed to
taking from the President the qualified veto
power, by which be is enabled, under restric
tions and responsibilities, amply sufficient to
guard the public interest, to suspend the pas
sage of a hill whose merits cannot secure the
approval of two-thirds of the Senate and
House of Representatives until the judgment
of the people can be obtained thereon, and
which has saved the American people from
the corrupt and tyrannical domination of the
Bank of the United States, and from a cor
rupting system of general internal imurove
ments. A
Resolved, That the war with Mexico provo- "
kod on her part, by years of insult and injury,
was commenced by her army crossing the Rio
Grande, attacking the American troops, and
invading our si-ter State of Texas—and that
upon all the principles of patriotism and the
laws of nations, it is a just and necessary war
i on our part, in which every American citizen
! should have shown himself on the side of his
country, an 1 neither morally nor physically,
1 by word or deed, have given “ aid and com
i for to the enemy.”
Resolved, That we would be rejoiced at the
I assurances of a peace with Mexico, founded
on the just principles of indemnity for the
past and security for the future; but that
while the ratification of the liberal treaty of
| sered to Mexico remains in doubt, it is the du
ty of the country to sustain the aclministra
| tion in every measure necessary to provide for
the vigorous prosecution of the war, should
! that treaty be rejecter?.
Resolved, That the officers and soldiers who
have carried the arms of their country into g
I Mexico, have crowned it with imperishable |
1 glory. Their tin conquer able courage, their
daring enterprise, their unfaltering persever
ance and fortitude when assailed on all sides
by innumerable foes, and that more formida
ble enemy—t ie diseases of the climate— exalt
their devoted patriotism into the highest he
roism. and give them a right to the profound
gratitude of their country and the admiration
of the world.
Resolved, That the Democratic National
Convention of the thirty St <tes composing the
American Republic, tender their fraternal con
gratulations to the National Convention of the
Kcoublic of France, now assembled as the free
suffrage representatives of the sovereignty of
thirty-five millions of Republicans, to estab
lish government on these eternal principles of
equal rights, for which their Lafayette and our
Washington fought side by side, in the strug
gle for our own National Independence; and
we would especially convey to them and to
the whole people of France, our earnest wish
es for the consolidation of their liberties,
through the wisdom that shall guide their
councils, on the basis of a Democratic Consti
tution, not derived from the grants or conces- a
sions of kings or dynasties, but originating *
f.ora the only true source of political poxver
recognized in the St.atcs of this Union : the
inherent and inalienable right of the people,
in their sovereign capacity, to make and to a
mend their forms of government in such man
ner as the w elfare of the community may re
quire.
Resolved, That in the recent developement
of this grand political truth, of the sovereignty
of the people and their capacity and pow'er for
self-government, which is prostrating thrones
and erecting republics on the ruins of despo
tism in the old world, wc feel that a high and
sacred duty is devolved, with increased respon
sibility upon the Democratic party of this
country, as the party of the people , to sustain
and advance among us constitutional liberty,
equality and fraternity, by continuing to re
sist all monopolies and exclusive legislation I
for the benefit of the few at the expense oftjic,
many, and by a vigilant and constant adhe- *
rence to those principles and compromises of
the constitution which are broad enough and
strong enough to embrace and uphold the
Union as it was, the Union as it is, and the
Union as it shall be in the full expansion of the
energies and capacities of this great and pro
gressive people.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
forwarded through the American Minister at
Paris to the National Convention of the Re
public of France.
Resolved , That the fruits of the great politi
cal triumph of 1841, which elected James K-
Polk and George M. Dallas President and
Vice President of the United States, have ful- {
filled the hopes of the Democracy of the Union,
in defeating the declared purposes of their
opponents to create a National Bank, in pre
venting the corrupt and unconstitutional dis
tribution of the land proceeds, from the com
mon treasury of the- Union, for local purposes,
in protecting the currency and the labor of the
country from ruinous fluctuations, and guard
ing the money of the people for the use'of the
people, by the establishment of the Constitu
tional 1 reasury; in the noble impulse given
to the cause of Free Trade, by the repeal of the
lariffof 18i2, and the creation of the more
equal, honest and productive Tariff of 1846;
and, that, in our opinion, it would be a fatal
error to weaken the bands of political organi
zation by which these great reforms have been
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