South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-07-30

have been perpe,ra,ed. (which is ike
IvA were committed seventy miles
.1ithin the MEXICAN tsrritory,and have
hammered very apropos if RusK should
he driven eastward. Should this turn
out 80, and his retreat be upon Nacog
doches. the consequences are obvious.
The friends Of peace hope that GAINES
will have the good sense to stay where
he ia: the sort Of game he is made to
NAV for others 10 welt understood
here"
Here, then, is the Commanding Ga
neral of the United States forces, ON
the border of country with which
we are bound by treaty 10 perpetual
peace and inyiolable friendship, hold
ioa correspondence with the COM
mauder OF force warning against that
friendly nation within her own limits
nay, receiving advicas from h'ns to
guide the movements of our army
Making those advices the ground OF
reouisition for an additional fsrce OF
four regiments, and declaring his in-
,ention to move with his army into
this foreign territory, TO sustain and
support force which is retreating up
on the very post which he is thus about
10 occupy
The writer OF this Letter speaks Of
the hopes OF the friends ofpsace, foun-
dsd on the good sense Of Gen. GAINES.
Vain hopes Fortified az the Preai-
dent eonceives himself to be by the
action Of Congress on this subject
instructed, as the Gsneral already 10;
our hopes OF the preservation of peace
are faint indeed
The state OF effaiFs indicated by
these accounts 10 one, however, for
which, in our opinion, the country 10
not prepared. Perhaps, IL we are right,
i, is not too late for public opinion to
make itself heard against the deliba-
rate violation Of a treaty existing with
Mexico ) sgainst marching our armisa
into foreign territory under false pre-
fences /; against the wanton provoca-
ton Of war, for purposes Of ambition
or conquest, with nation whose ter
ritorial rights we are bound, by every
| consideration Of law and Of honor, re.
lIgiously to respect.
ITE MS.
o. A Northern paper says new
hat has been invented, which can be
| washed like any garment and ito good
| looks preserved by soap and water.
In a French work on the uncer~
| taip,y of the signs Of death, and modes
Of burial, fact 10 brought forward ola
! man, now alive, who has been buried
ttwiee.--Since the capture Of Santa
Ana, II 10 established that Texas should
be pronounced Takes US, and the pso-
pie called, not Texans, nor Texians,
nor Texicans, nor Texasians, but
/ Take anita an aonians. ----J. J. Cod
dington has been appointed Postmss-
ter OF the city Of New York, in place
Of s. Gouverneur. The Governor
Of Georgia has published notice re-
ques,ing all those who may be able to
identity the murderers, among the In
dams now a, Fort Mitchell, to come
forward and do so, that they may be
tried and dealt with, according to their
scrimes. THE Boston GALAXY says,
that on some OF the land 10 Maine, on
which the spectators have been opa-
rating, the humble-bees have to get
down on their knees to get at the clo-
yer, and the grasshoppers get on
mulIen-stalk, and look over forty acres
with tears ia their eyes.--aWill
you lend father your Newspaper, sir
he only jOst wants to read it ~ "Yes,
my boy and ask him to lend me his
dinner--I only just want to eat H."
Silk to the amount Of sixteen and
a half millions OF dollars was imported
into this country last year. We antici-
pate the day when we shall be expor-
tiers as we now are importers Of this
articls.-Dr. Robley Duglioson, for
merly Professor ia the Virginia Uni.
versiiy, and more recently in that Of
Maryland, has accepted the chat .9f
! Medicine aud Medical jurisprudencs,
| in the Jefferson Medical College Of
iIadelphia.--A party of eight Ia.
| dies and gentlemen were made prison.
ers by Msj. Kirby, Of the British Ar
| my, for hsying raised the American
flag on the Tins worn walls Of Fot
Erie, ia which they were celebrating
the 4!b, by pic mic dinRsr.-Ihs +
| Major took them all prisoners ano
marched them some tw o piIess wEea
he discharged them Oh their parole y
honor !--The old story 10 revissa
tina, the President intends to initiate