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Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

The election lately held in the State
of CoNNECTIcUT has resulted in the re-
election of the late Representatives in
Congress, all of whom are friendly to
the present Administration. This is a
result for which we were not altogeth-
er prepared, and is yet not altogether
so discouraging as it at first appears.
The election vas, for the first time in
Connecticut, made By districts. In
one of the six districts, the Wing can
didate was defeated by a majority Of
6S votes; in another by Il majority OF
100; in another by a majority of $50 /;
in a fourth by 800; and in a fifth by
"a small majority" A little over 800
votes, it will be perceived, would have
divided the Representatives equally be-
tween the two great political parties ;
and 500 votes more would have cleo.
ted five Representatives out Of the six
from the Wing party.
The Wings have gained considera.
bly, in both branches ofthe State Leg
i%slature; sufficiently to prevent the
tamperng with the Constitution, which,
if their opponents had obtained the pro.
portion of two-thirds in each House,
was threatened by the demagoguos OF
the day.-Nationa! InteHigencer.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

MAJOR GATEs.-This gallant and honorable
officer of the Army. whose nsme was stricken
from the rolls by the arbitrary Jackson, for al
legged misconduct in the Florida campaign, and
afterwards reinstated for the purpose of having
a trial by court martial, has been honorably &C.
quilted Of all the charges preferred against him,
and the acquittal of the Court forwarded to
Washington for the approval Of the President.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19
From the Alexandria Gazette.
ENLIGHTENED LEGISLATION

An act passed at the last session OF
the Legislature of Virginia, exempts a
certain portion of the property of poor
debtors from execution and other liabil-
tiles authorizes each white person in
the State, being a husband or parent,
against whom an execution may here
after issue upon judgments for which
the cause of action shall arise, after
the first Of August, to set apart a COW,
bedstead, bed, &c, half dozen knives
and forks, six plates, two dishes, two
basins, n pot, n oven, six pieces OF
wood or earthenware, a loom and its
appurtenances, a spinning wheel, pair
of cards, axe, five barrels Of corn, one
barrel of -four, 200 pounds o fbacon or
pork, and five dollars worth of hay or
other forage, or such portion of these
articles as they may have, which arti.
cles are exempted from execution /;
provided, all personal property is deliv-
cred up TO the officer, and affidavit be
made before a magistrate, that there is
no other property owned, except such
exempted articles and provides, that
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19
From the National Intelligencer.

Our readers may remember that we
considered the paper purportlng to be
the Farewell Address of the late Pres
ident ofthe United States as hardly be-
ing O legitimate subject for criticism,
but rather entitled, as the closing scene
of the General" political life, to for
~bearance, &c. This opinion we have
not changed, so far as the Generals
responsibility for the Address is con
cerned. Considered, however, as the
production of other minds, which he
has only signed, it presents itself in a
different point of view. In this light
the matter is placed in an article in the
last number OF the New York Evening
Star, under the signature of FL. Nj. b.
(H. M. BRACKENRIDGE, n gentleman
with whose character and talent our
readers are well acquainted After
numerically ridiculing the thought OF
the late Presidents initiating or liken-
ing himself to WASHINGTON, in this
matter ofthe Farewell Address, Mr.. B.
lets US into the following piece Of secret
history, for a continuation of which no
one probably is possessed of more I'M
pie materials than he:
"The Farewell Address is in all
probability the production o fsome such
father ofhis country as Amos Kendall,
with just a sufficient spice of Jackson
ism to give it Uraisemblance. Iknow
something about these fareweH address,
eS, having written two ofthem for him.
The first of those was on the occasion
of his taking leave of his command in
the army. The only part of it which
was his, was an uncouth memorandum,
containing some Liberal and ungentle-
manly reflections on a brother officer,
who stood high in the esteem of his
country, (Gen. BRowN,) but who, in a
recent military order, had been SO un.
fortunate as to speak with disapproba-
ton of the practice Of whipping in the
army and this was all he contributed
to the address. The paternal advice
to the young officers, and the fine mill
tary and patriotic feeling which brea-
thed through the rest of it, were alto
gether dramatic. The other State pa.
per was on his leaving Florida, where
he had displayed his erceSsire energy
for some months as military and civil
governor. "You know" said he,
"what will suit" Accordingly, |
wrote an address, without a single
suggestion from him, and which was
signed without a single alteration. The
address alluded to was often quoted to
prove the fitness oil General Jackson for
civil government, to show his exalted
love of liberty, and the absence ofdan-
gorous ambition in his nature. 1t was
highly eulogized as his production, |
own had some design, by contrast, in
portrayingo out whata government ought
10 be, to express my opinion of what he
waS."
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

UsURY.-Extract of a letter from
O~nondaga, IN. " to the editor of the
Albany Evening Journal
"Usury is carried to the most dread
full extremes in this country. The far
mers have caught the mania, and our
sober and honest men are now, under
the fashion of the times, defrauding
their %neighbors at the rate of from 80
to rs per cent. per annum.
Notwithstanding the failure Of the
wheat crop in this country amount to
halfa million of dollars, there is money
enough for all legitimate business, if
the more wealthy did not hoard it up
for usury. Again, the greatest curse
of al! is, that those who command large
sums in the country have been sending
it to Wall street, to shave short paper
at three to four per cent. a MONTH"
This is but a tri1e TO what is done
in Connecticut. Some of the Connec-
ticut parsons, we are told, are clipping
off the tail ends oftheir salaries, TO use
IN Wall street, al two and three and
four per cent. a month. Whether the
law a EVER reach usurers is a grave
question, which we are not disposed to
argue, but if public opinion does not
reach them it shall not be our fault
Sangrado is bleeding the people to
death. Money which. the country owes
New York merchants for debts, comes
here to share New York merchants
with. Shylocks of all the earth con-
centrate in Wall street to get their
pound Of flesh. Sangrado has glori.
Gus practice here now. Who will ev-
err pay what he owes-who will ever
do "a legal business-who will not eat a
shrivelled loaf of bread--who will not
kiss his money chest, when he a get
two, three, four, and five per cent. a
month? There is no fiction when we
say that the active, the enterprising,
and the heroic merchants of N. York
are TO DEATH.--Nep York
Express.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

Or For once in his life Mr.. Van Buren, has
set himself about fulfilling his promises. He pro.
missed, in his letter of acceptance to the nomina.
ton of the Baltimore Convention to "tread in
the footsteps" of Gen. Jackson, and, since he
has packed the old hero off 10 the Hermitage,
he has appointed no less than six members oil
Congress, all of them his political partisaus, to
Offices yielding fat and profitable salaries.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19
groes, and the vench and all three
,yara committed.

RrOeS an0 tno wcLCU puO AL bhA~S
were committed.
"Gilbert Hays, one Of the officers
was also knocked down and much
bruised /; David Waldron, another Of
icer, had his coat torn off by Russel
C.. Wheeler, a lawyer, who was ar
rested and bound over in the sum OF
$4,000 to answer for the assault.
"During the confusion the prisoner
was carried off by the mob, which pro-
ceeded up Broadway to Reed street,
where they turned down towards the
North river. Just after passing Church
street, the rescued man was stealthIIy
pushed into an alley, and the mob con-
tinued down the street, as if they still
had their prize in company. Their
movements we're however watched by
deputy sheriff Fountain, who remained
in front OF the alley, and sent to the
police Office for assistance. He was
speedily supplied with the requisite aid,
and after a diligenl search of the pre-
misses, the negro was found in a coal.
hole, and %reconveyed to prison. On
searching him, a dagger was found in
his pocket, with both edges sl%iarpened.
"The persons arrested are named
Henry Pierce, Jesse Harrod, and he.
ziah Manning.
A small party of blacks now pro-
ceeded to the residence of a colored
mar in Walker street, suspected ofha.
wing given information respecting the
reputed slave. They caused the work.
men in a carpenters shop opposite to
afix poles to the sign, and were about
to carry off the slsne, when Job Mon
day and Aaron Watson the principals,
were committed by Alderman Erben."
W. deeply regret to see this excite.
ment, because we know that it is the
precursor 10 others, which may have
fearful results. We hope this case Of
Dixon may be closely and carefully
investigated, and that not u loop to
hang a doubt upon may be found be-
fore he is given up /; for while in every
case we would carry the law into eff.
feet and give up "a fugitive slave, we
are not without u suspicion of two
facts-one is, that colored men are
seized upor to create an abolition ex
element, and the other, hat fellows
who make a business of it, attempt to
seize upon blacks as slaves who are
not so in fact. Such Of our Southern
friends who arc coming north this sea
son, we advise by no mean to bring
their slaves with them.-They are not
sale an hour.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

PASSING STRANGE.-There is a Cat at the
American Museum in this city which has taken
a young Rat Of which she takes the most pater.
nal care along with her own kittens.-Netc York
Paper.
STILL.-There is Fox in Washing
ton which has at this moment more than forty
thousand old Rats under his charge, and he man
ite'ts toward them all the most fatherly feelings
Imaginable.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19
THE GAZETTE 4:
@, " A.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10. 1887.

C1-The last Romney In,elligencer publishes
a card from Capt. EPHRAIM DUNN, which VIII
be found in our paper to-day, in which he de-
clines being a candidate to represent this sena-
torial district in the next Senate Of Virginia
DIR. JoHN HEDGES, Of this county, is announced
in the same paper, as the candidate Of the Vas
Buren, party TO take the place Of Capt. Dunn.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

WAKE SNAKEs.-A Miss Jane H. Beckwith .
sdvertises in the Salt River Journal that she is
ready TO receive proposals for matrimony. For
Bachelors whose heads are beginning "blossom
like the almond tree {" a rare chance is offered.
She is just eighteen-of comedy countenance-
is sufficiently wealthy TO maintain herself, and
wants a husband. The most liberal proposer
takes the prize.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

FROM FLoRIDA.-An official report
has been received from Gen. JEsUp,
dated Fort Dade, March &c, in which
he states that the Seminole chief, va.
holoochie, (Cloud,) who commanded
at Wahoo, is at Tampa Bay, with his
family, and that he has about 200 OF
his people in camp near that post.
That the principal chiefs on the St.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

CEThe Alexandria Gazette states that Co,
WILLIAM NJ. M'CARTy, one of the Wing c,s.
dijates for Congress, in the Loudoun district, Ia,
withdrawn from the canvass. The entire Wh,v
support will now be given to the Hon. Charlie,
+. Mercer.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

A public dinner is 10 be given to General Scott
IN New York on the second Tuesday il May.
Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-19

IMPORTANT FROM MExICo.-We are
indie bted to a highly respectable gen.
tlemar for the subjoined Correspondence
from Mexico. 1t is highly interesting
and lmnortant.
The Ripley transcript. (Ripley, Miss.) 1837-18??, 1837-11-16
1nneratiOm Of Teas to- The u. s..
e Gen. Hunt to Mr.. Forsythe. sr,.
tTExIAN LEGATION. t..,..

Washington city, august 4, 1887.
SIR: The undersigned ENJOY ex-
raordinary and minister plenipoten-
liary ofthe republic ofTexas in con-
Icrmity with Instructions from his
Government asksthe consideration of
the honorable John Forsyth, Secra-
,ary ofssate of the United States, on
the subject of a proposition for the
annexation of Texas to the United
States and which proposition ho has
now the honor most respectfully TO
submit. Haa
presenting the question through
the honorable the Secretary of State
ofthe United States to this Govern
ment the undersigned solicits in ad
vance the greatest indulgence for the
latitude which it will be Necessary
to take in opening this negotiation.
The subject is one of SO much mag
mtude that it is impossible in u single
paper, to exhibit even its general
outlines and the undersigned will per-
laps have sufficiently trespassed up
Oh the attention of the honorable the
Secretary Of State when he shall
have in the frss place briefly set forth
a comparative history of Texas and
Mexico which has been SO much mis-
represented by the recent envoy of.
Mexico to this Government and when
Mthe. second place he shall have
stated the main ground upon which
'la union Of the two republics is
proposed by Texas and shall havs
concluded by suggesting SOME few of
NE great advantages both national
and social which Mould result to the
lwo contracting parties from the pro-
1osed analgamation of their respec- Il
i've soyereignties. K
WIN the exception OF the first
Presidency nnder the federal consti- K
dtlon that of Victoria Mexico has /
Exhibited a series of revolution atten- T,
odWltl tdisastrouscivil wars. t
suIoide Who was chosen and pro- Il
AIMED by a licentious soldiert was i
ethroned and put to death after a
mort reign too turbulent to be regar- \
Ga even during that brief period, as Il
government. The rights Of pro- Il
Try We're. not respected and foreign S
'erchants as Well as native were n
posed to his rapacity. Witness n
. seizure ofmoney at Perote. +
Alter the downfall Of Iturbide and e
=, : adoption of the constitution ofn
~ !, which is a transcript Of that of n
United States affairs we're for IL
mc time conducted peaceably and ii
re y only inter- upted by the episode a
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Bravo the Vice Ia
, Yet, during that period pl
~, Jaws OF nations were repeatedly it
~ 'a,ed and the property of foregn d
,lcnants preyed by the corrupt ~
a'ehal agents of the Government.
- Z 'ne history ofthe claims ofAmer- TX,
n, citizens. II.
!, lne termination Of Victoria's pres Id,
~ NY was disgraced by the quarrel ht
sHeen the rival candidates for the ID,
scesslon whica after a bloody con- lin
y ! ;ermnated by eleyating to the |sil
I, theunsucc candidate Inc
,,,era, Guerrero, and the Danish |th
Y, Z. q q Fedraxo his competitor. IA lsy
q, year marked with disorder and |th,
i. terminated the career ofthis |pu
J, s,lIu:aon1ary hero. The struggle lrel
: "A ms power and his life, and y.
The Ripley transcript. (Ripley, Miss.) 1837-18??, 1837-11-16
lpey Missssippi Thursday Mofhng November Is. Isaa

lHe WnOle country was cOnvulsed bj
this civil strife. The Vice Presiden
4 Bustamente succeeded Guerrero bu
me war continued in different part
'lot Mexico rendering life and prop6rt'
insecure. After a short period @
commissions Bustamentewas banishee
and Santa Anna succeeded to power
he was elevated by the joint eforts
Ioi the aristocracy and the priest.
mood who made use of the successful
soldier of fortune to overthrow the
lree institutions of the country. His
reign OF mirule and career of blood
VIII De presently noticed. He is now
at Mango de Clayo the tiger in his
lar ready to go forth seeking whom
ne may deyonr. 1t is true Busta-
men'e IS again in power but it is noto-
rlous that the people have been Jug
ISled cut oftheir liberties and are dis
satisfied. The Government which
was their choice has beenoverthrown
and dentralism forced upon them
by the sword; this change sanction
Led by much acts Of a spurious Iegis-
lature, aud the States reduced to
submission by force.
With this briefview ofthe factious
struggles of Mexico, the undersigned
approaches the exposition of the his
tory OF Texas, which he conceiyes
70 be an important preliminary to the
due consideration of the subject of
annexation. r.r
Until the settlement of Austin's
first colony in 1921, Texas, for the
most part, was an unexplored wilder
ness. The Spaniards had endeayor-
cd, IN vain, to rescue it from the wild |
s tribes OF the forest. So early as the
year 1893 the old Spanish town of,
BeXar was founded: in l746 La Ba-
MA, afterwards Goliad; Nacogdoch- |,
8 inl732; Victoria al a later period. i
But these old Spanish settlements i
to besurrendered by Prov
ing parties Of savage Indians, and, L
Up TO the year 1921, Texan civiIiza- It
ION was only to be found within the L
larrow precints Of their respective X
jurisdictions. &c
!, On the 18th of January. 1921, I;
Hoses Austin obtained permission b
rom the Supreme Government off
ne eastern internal provinces ofNewIt,
spain, at Monterey, to settle colo I'll
y Of emigrants in Texas, and in the In
lonth Of Dece. following, his son, S. III
!. Austin, who had undertaken the la
Enterprise in obedience to the testi- al
ientary request Of his father, appeal I'm
ed upon the river Brazos with the b
rst Anglo-Anierican settlers. From \
lat period may be dated the Anglo lei
american history Of a. country which Ibi
as grown into notice with unexam- Iiin
led rapidity, and already presentsIth
selfas another monument of the in lw
oniitable energy ofthe extraordina- lu
race by which it was populated. hi
In the mean time Mexico had sha-l pr
en- off the Spanish yoke, and .estab- tn
she'd herself as sovereign and i'm th
ependent Government. Anxious, |un
owever, to increase herpoitical in "a
fence g. resources by every means lthl
her power, and prompted by a de- |ha
re to repress the Indians on her WI
frontiers, observing, too, uc'
. beneficial effects from the liberal
stem Of naturalization adopted inlTe
0 United States, she determined to lin,
rsuo 2 similar purse ofpolicy il wh
n f.n,, IA oIIOsac ~
The Ripley transcript. (Ripley, Miss.) 1837-18??, 1837-11-16

4 .
y strained them from participating in
hfthe internal commotions of the other
! States. But their rapidly growing
s strength, and stedy adherence 10 re-
( lpublican principles, began now to at
q tract the notice and excite the .ioal-
n ousy of the supreme Government
Q I'his was plainly evinced by the pas
sage ofthe arbitrary law Of the 9Th Of
-1A pril, 1880, by which the further in
production or immigration of Ameri-
can settlers into Texas was expressly
/, md totally prohibited for the future.
slNi llltary posts were established over
the province; the civil authorities
] were trampled under foot, and the
people Of Texas, for atime, were SUBJ
l|Jected to the capricious TYRANNY df
r fn restrained military nlisrule:
Il In 1892, Bustamente had establis-
he'd himself upon the ruins of the e.
Idoral constitution. The colonists now
flew to arms. On the 18th Of june.
with greatly inferior numbers, they
beseiged and took the fort at Valasco
They attacked the garrison at Ana
huac, and reduced that also. This
achievement was shortly followed BY. ]
the reduction of the garrison at Ma
Icogdoches, and, in December Of the
same year, upon the suspension of.
Ihostilities between Generals Santa
Anna and Bustumente, the colonists
found themselves once more In quiet
enjoyment of theft rights guaranteed
to them by the constitution and the
laws under which they consented to
become Mexican citizens.
1888. Texas now concious Of her
integral strength and anxious to be
erected into a separate State in con-
lormlty with the decree Of the 9TH of
May 1924 which had promised and
to her separate constitu-
ION SO soon as she was in possession
1f the necessary elements ofself.goy-
eminent ssembledageneralcpnven-
lon at San Felipe for the purp6se Of
iraftlng an instrument suited to the
wants and peculiar character and
labits ofherpeople. Accordingiyin
ne spring of the same year, Stephen
t:Austln was commissioned topresent
ne constitution agreed upon with
petition for the fllflmentofthe 4aia
ecree ofthe 9TH d. 1fays< TSes{e-
pectful petition aff Bneepie ofTex-
$ was treated with disdain and, their
commissioner incarcerated in dun
con.
1885. Affairs were now verging
'animportant crisis. General Anto.
10 Lopez de Santa Anna had openly
eclared in favor of centralism
hlch- however specious in its pre-
n wasreally based upon the down
II OF the State Governments and the
,nsolidation Of all power civil and
ilitary in the hands Of a single in
vidual. Many of the States had
course to arms in support Of their
yereignty and Santa Anna took the
I'D againstthem. The blood-stain-.
march ofthe usurper was invaria-
yattended with the most triumph-
tsuccess.. One by one the States
'pled and fell. The Legislature Of
'ahdila and Texas was dissolved ~
, point ofthe bayonet. The noble
ate Of Zacatecos battling to the
It for her liberties end welterinq in
life-blood other kutchered citi-
ms was forced to yield to the relent-
8 terms Of the Dictator Mexican