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LocomoTIvEs.-Mr. Thomas Winans, of Balt-
more, has left for Russia, carrying with him pat.
tern locomotive engine, made by order of the En-
peror, who, after fair trial, preferred the Amer
ican. Mr.. Winans has the contract for compile
ting l62 locomotives, amounting to four millions
of dollars, the work to be done in Russia and
completed in 1913, when, we presume, the rail-
roads being all finished, the Emperor will pour in
his army on Turkey and Circassia. These prepa-
rations of the highest Importance to the peace
Of Europe. An army of 100000 men and equip
ments can soon be transported to the borders of
Turkey by railroads.
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10 THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CLAY
CLUB will meet at the Committee Room in the
City Hall this evening, at o'clock. A general
attendance is desired
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nj ATlONAL INTELLIG ENCER.-Six volume.
y OF the National Intelligenccr from 1899 to 1874
inclusive will be sold cheap if immediate application
70 ipaue a' uiis ONCE, feb. 1876 4
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MARRIED,

On Sabbath afternoon, by the Rev. JOHN c. SMITH,
Mr.. THOMAS E. WILLIAMS to Miss JOANNA
M. KING, all Of this city
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THIS Black TAsiFr.a file Journal Of Cohis
tiefce denounces the Tariff as the most oppres.
sive and burdensome ever known, says It's ruin.
ing the farmers, and has all but annihilated COM
merce, and calls upon every body to unite in
destroying the "abominable" thing. In the
same paper we find the following paragraph:
"a GREAT REvENuE.-The receipts at the
New York customhouse, for the month of Janu-
airy, amounted to the very great sum of $1,876,-
600, or three and half times the amount collec-
ted in the same month last year."
Reports from Maine assert the election to Con-
gress of ROBINSON, Wing, over Cary, by tpenty-
three majority.
TRUTH-The Locofoco editor of the Saratoga
Republican, in stirring up his friends to organize
says:
In the whole history of the universal Wing
party" there never was such complete organ
Ration as it now possesses. Its machinery is in
perfect order, it is now in battle array and if we
as party, expect to give any efficiency to the
prinples we profess or the measures we advocate,
we must borrow something Of the order and har-
mony which prevail with our opponents.
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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAzINE.-We have
received from the editor the February number
OF this valuable commercial and statistical Jour
nal. Its articles are written with great ability,
and many OF them, particularly The Com
merce and Manufactures Of the Papal States, are
OF great interest to the general reader, as well as
to the man of business.
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CRAZY PEopLE.-Miss Dix, the philanthropist,
states, that among the hundreds Of crazy people
with whom her sacred mission has brought her
into companionship, she has not found one nd-
vidual, however fierce and turbulent, that could
not be Gained by Scripture and prayer, uttered
IN low and gentle tones. The power of religious
sentiments over those shattered souls, seems mi
raculous. The worship of quiet, loving heart
affects them Ikea voice from Heaven. Tearing
and rending, yelping and stamping, singing and
grooming, gradually subside into silence, and they
fall on their knees, or gaze upward with clasped
hands, as if they saw through the opening dark
ness golden CLEAN from their Fathers Throne
of Love.
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BENJAMIN RoMANE.-The BROOKLYN Star, in
referring to the death of this revolutionary patri-
OF, at the age of 80 years, mentions that he had
for many years been the custodian of the bones
OF the Prison Ship Martyrs, deposited in the
vault in Jackson street. Brooklyn. Thirteen
coffins filled with these remains are lying in the
vault, and in their midst there has been for some
time past an empty coffin, placed there by Mr..
Romaine to receive his own corpse.
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HE STEAMER PRINCETON arrived off the Arse
nal IN this city on Monday evening last about
7 O'Clock, having made her way through forty
miles Of ice to reach here In passing Alexan-
dria she attracted much attention, and is said to
have received but little impeachment from the ice,
SO powerful is her propelling machinery, and
the perfectness of her ice breakers We are
glad that an opportunity has been afforded men,
bers Of Congress to rid their minds, if they will,
OF much prejudice on the subject Of war steam
ers; and hope hereafter to hear less Of their I'M
practcability as means Of defence, as well as
their ability to operate at all seasons of the year.
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TRUTH.-The Locofoco editor Of the Saratoga
Republican, in stirring up his friends to organize,
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become Va Squatter'' near Us, and trench upon
our rights, especially as there Is not ahothef to
be found in any "diggins' in illinois.
Under this head we proceed at once to furnish
our readers with our first gatherings. They are
the following:
ELEGANT EXTRACTS FROM BRIARTus."
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-02-08

which has the uniOubtcd power 10 reject H.. ,..
OF The petition, ~ vote on final proceeding. a,t
not the House, IN iact adopt as standing rule o -,
ceed'ng upon all petitions, that the qreston Of hdn
ing or rejecting the prayers Of petitions should be ,e,
on the question Of RECEIPT oa'
J, cannot be said that petitioners in the case upa
oscussIon have not hearing. They present pet,,,,
may state their contents; may have them, npnn =, .
question oil reception or the question whether t.,
come within r rule, read at lie Clerks ,at: Lu, f.
t"em Is t. take jurisdiction OF the subjects III
MOVE ah','o some eateat, binds the Hous. /, a.,
'u''her upon them But many who contend Tor t.,,
''.p''oh would immediately reject them or las them
on The !aoir Why so, If 10 refuse to receive Them d.
" ''pa'r ,.e right Of petition /! the r,rht of pctnn
o'"as Tue House 10 receive WHY not to telrrs Ilt
e', why ""i |" report upon; Ii To report upon wly
h't 10 report iavofaGly upos why mol 10 afant n.
prayers: FOR what, at las, is the riaht If v,ft,
worm, y may De much more p-ri,nently asked N ,a
sense u Their prayers be Mt granted, INV dnss
prompt rejection any more impair Tia, r;ob, -, ,.,;,,
Than hnai rejection: AND # CONGRESS - hmm, =,
take The hT't step OF ur'sdlclon Why Is II no, onl
bound TO lake the last: Indeed il is hut ,cn clea, ,
the very mode Of reasoning pied to c,mpl Cens,r
to take The first, VII be brought To bear th Ton j.,
force to compri II to take the last The en,.r,n.vct
1t is which makes all that II follow coa,pata,iyeIy
easy.
ID
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GOOo-SNi:
Seine parting say Farewell, Farewell
And some Adiru. Adga.
Ru; 'tis uot 80. choose 10 tell
The feelings III my heart thai swell
In Mating n,w aih you.
Ih.t,rr Inv. than all lha, sounds 81 high
Tina, plain Cd houcsi, Yankee VOID ,"V' aye
II hath a soul, that houcl phrase
And this The PRAYER Il r"Hf>
MAY GOOD ate nj yau all ,ouf days,
,:o;, crown. aud guard aud guide .urI ways,
Al good IL you and yours.
An i,r de y foin,s Of good TN: hidden lie,
In that ,ian oid honest, Yankee wmd, Good Bye
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SAMUEL w. PiiGii continue I" transact a ''i, -.
- sion aud Receiving and Forwarding hnSiht-3 - -,
e. He sutits n continuance nt the patronage n' =,
rally bestowed, promising prompt pos"na' ai.rii'"
signments file has r. ducei his ohIfge; more Ha" ''
low former rates. -
CASTOR, n. c., January, 1874
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l NCERf.-NiRGf>ts-At Rus held Ia the ,l,,,.. -.
nee oi Tn Circuit superior tunu OF Law and C!i,u,t
Bu. Bingham county, Monda. lie iii day or Dt,rhr
Charles t.loNrf pr, ~
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-02-08
Clover, Joseph L. Glover aud Hugh C. Rrrs,

The defendants IlHlo Glover aud Hugh g. Re-.
entered Their appearance AMI gwen security a,oori,.
factory evidence that they inhabitants al Il, ,
Is ordered Thai the sand absent d.i,nLiA d, a,o,,r
rules Ia be holden for The nn the ms. Nt
March neat, aud answer lie hill pla NAM lad man 2
OF tiis order H. forthwith asserted Ia some nrw ,,.
Ia ilr city OF Rirln"nd tor months ic,rs. i, ,I -
III The i"nt door al the uart house - Tia, ,"lIi.
Dee ~ 10-w.in Z ELpalbsH e. = = e.
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'I'O Ali WHOM IT NAY CONcCgN-Tak~ nni.re MAJ
shall not pas an debts contacted hy ny wit, Temporal.
Badand. she ha> s hrd hoatd tnd. l., condu
has forfeited al protection itum has aud
WILLIAM BiRTiiNn
Chesterfield, Jan. ~ l-II. ,U-w4,
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iSllRMARN ur THE RICHMOND MEDICAL. CUiftGL
fINlS w. 'p tor the ia, follow haze
payable M advance lof lir lif,t week
NiIir patients, s. per week.
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POETRY.

"aucn y.r rIw>,>> u.su>c."
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| Remainder on S'tpr}ag.l
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
TExAs-IMMEDIATE ANNEXATION.

Among the first fruits likely to be realized by
the election OF Mr.. Polk 10 the Presidency will be-
the serious consequences connected with the re-
newed prosecution of the measure of the immed;.
ate annexation Of Texas-a measure which cam
not be consummated, as matters now stand, with
out compromising the National honor and incur.
ring the risk of the evils of war. In an article ON
this subject in the Madisonian of Tuesday even
ng' we find the following paragraph:
''Ihe verdict Of the ballot-box not only decides
the question in favor of "in,-mediate" Annexa-
ton, but 1t as an unequivocal expression of indiq-
nation against the shallow demagopues who
charged the Presiden: and Secretary Of State with
design to disnember the union in the event of
failure 10 carry measure opposed by majority
OF the People. They have calmly submitted the
measure TO the test of public opinion, and now
stand up proudly indicated, and encouraged by
The authority of the soveregns, beyond whom
there can be no appeal, 10 90 on, and accomplish,
the great work so well begun. but SO UNANIMOUSLY
arrested by the nstrumentality of INSCRIPTIONS
politicians"
"That our readers may again be assured that
Colonel Polk "goes as far as he who goes far,h-
est on the subject of AnnexatioD we will soon re.
publish his letter on the subject written in April
last 1t is the only one he has written, and was
sufficient, for il is sufficiently explicit"
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21

aJWe publish in this paper number oi
extracts from Newly ork Journals to show
The vile and unprincipled means bv which tho
deieat OF HENRY Clay was accomplished i,
mat S,ate-a State whose vote would now he
sufficient to make him President, and to which
we verify believe he is fairly entitled upon G.
very principle Of justice and honesty. II the
VIII OF the people is to be set aside bv
such wholesale and unblushng fraud, villainy
and perjury, then are our elections a farce.
and our free institutions rendered worse Than
mockery and an empty name. It is impos-
s.ble that they can long subsist, even in form
1t some more efficient guards are not erected
around their great conscrvator, The Ballot
Box But how is this to be done The
Wings of Newly DIRK enacted most ef,;cien,
Registry Law for this purpose, but il was re-
pealed by the Locofocos the moment thew got
the power-So did the Wings of Pennsylya-
MA in regard TO Philadelphia, and so the
Wings of Maryland in regard to Baltimore.
but all have been made TO fall before the
ruthless spirit of Locofocoism. What il is
best to DO now to secure this great end, we are
not prepared to say but we feel tina. it is a
question to which the whole mind of tho
country ought TO be directed, as vitality AZ.
fecting the public liberty.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
ELECTION FRAUDS IN LOUISIANA

See the account of the stupendous frauds
and villainy practised in the Parish of Pla-
quemines, Louisiana, given in another column
OF this paper. No wonder that Mr.. CRAY
has been defeated when such means were re-
sorted TO. 1t remains to be seen. however
whether the citizens of those States in which
frauds have been perpetrated to an extent
sufficient TO stihe the true voice of the neonle
will submit to them. Come what will. we
deliberately say they ought not. No dead
lier wound can be inflicted upon our free
institutions, no deeper wrong upon freemen,
than corruption of the ballot-box and al
though the correction of these wrongs now
may not affect the general result of the elee-
ton, the duty TO do so is not less important
or lmparative.-lmpunty and success will
only encourage their repetition, and aggrayate
the evils of resistance to them, when resist
ance can no longer be avoided.
letter to the editor from citizen Of New
Orleans, exposes another piece of villainy
practised at the polls in that city-not to adj
NIT TO suffrage those who had no right. ms in
The Plaquemines case-but to exclude those
from voting who had clear right to vote
The letter says:
"a Locofoco Judge in one OF the wards decided
at the opening of the polls that no man sbould
be permitted to vote who had passed the bounde.
ries of the State during the preceding twelve
months, and he did not recede from his position
until 2 o'clock, and then there was not time to
poll the votes of the ward. This took place in
the strongest Wing ward in the city, and was
a trick resored to by our opponents to exclude
Wing voters. But for these things the Wings
would have had majority of fully 500 to 9OO.''
In the city the polls are kept open but one day,
while in the country they are kept open three
days.]
85-The New Orleans Picayune contains re-
turns from all the parishes but eleven, which
give MIR Clay majority of about GOETHE
parishes to be heard from gave majority Of
nearly 1900 against the Wings in the Cover
nor's election; SO that it is probable the frau
dulent vote of the Plaquemines may control
the result-We shall see, therefore, whether
1t will be quietly submitted TO.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT,

The Petersburg Inteligencer Justly remarks :
NO man can look at the means by which the
election of James X. Polk has been effected
without coming to the conclusion that the part v
electipg him have in their constitution the seed $
OF speedy dissolution. Connected by no uni
form prIncpe-having no harmony of political
opinion, but radically differing on many vital
points OF National policy, they must, before one
half OF Mr.. Folks time has expired, be convused
wish dscord, and split up into as many different
factions as they entertain different creeds. How
can the Ant-Texan Abolitonists who voted for
Wright and Polk in New York, fraternize with
the South Carolina UNra-Slaverv men
How can the Pennsylvania Tariff man get along
in peace with the Southern Free Trader And
how can Mr.. Polk pursue a course which will Sc
ciNe him the good will Of al! who have supported
him The thing is impossible, he must dis
please his Northern or his Southern friends and
in either event, he will find the Presidency anv
thing but bed Of roses.
10 give The present Democratic party two years
OF life, IS to lenghen their span TO a very liberal
length. The first session of the next Congress
will, we verify believe, witness their destruction,
and we should not be at all surprised, if they ex-
hibited some signs Of the death agony at the next
session of this Congress. The Globe and Madi-
sonian, determined TO take time by the foreIock
have already commenced war which will prob
ably attract other combatants TO the respective
sides.
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From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser

1t is startling fact that the result in this State.
and perhaps in the Union, has been wrought. with
the exception of the few who felt that thew were
.7naertcan citizens, by the aliens who have been
naturalIzed in this city and New York within the
past two years; and their action has in great
degree, IT not entirely, been controlled by dema-
gogues In whom an individual would not repose
the slightest confidence in matters of private per-
sonal concernment. Yet they have rushed in.
and to their keeping are entrusted the mighty
destinles of this nation, with all the resutin1
consequences TO the people and their Children
VINO has reason TO rejoice over this resultl Will
1t stimulate enterprise, will it give new impulse
to industry, will it gladden. the heart of the far
mer' the mechanic, the merchant, or the laboring
man !-wlll II cause the Dhilanthropist TO rejoice
10 learn that party pledged to the suspension of
ane public works In this State, TO repeal of the
Tariff, to sqnandering in the yearly expenditures
oil government the proceeds of the public lands,
and TO Instrumentation of Texas for the avowed
purpose OF Increasing and perpetualing the slave
power, has succeeded in the State and Nation?
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
From the Poughkccpsc Journal.


"We are asked almost every hour how !, &c
possible that the State of New York should cas-,
her vote for JAMES X. POLK WAC had been twice
beaten and rejected in his own State when seek.
ing the Office of Governors The answer is ner
'ect'y plain and simple. In the first place, that
slavery party, the aboltionsts, have done all in
'heir power, utterly reckless of principle, to Gre
ave divisions, and TINS cast damper upon the ef-
iorts OF the Wings; but they alone could never
nave accomplished it. Within three or four
months, more than ten thousand Irshmen have
oeen put at work on the canals, under pretext of
making repairs, and more than twenty thousand
OF them have been natuTalized IN the State. under
me management Of party committees and political
clerks and judges. In every place men have
neen employed to swear for all who presented
themselves, and perjures by thousands upon
thousands have been committed with scarcely a
disguise. The victory has been secured bv an
PeaiS TO Europe against America, and our own
cIiZens, the sons of the soil and the descendants
OF the patriots of the Revolution, have been trod.
uen down and their interests crushed by foreion
mercenares. Ii is needless to disguise The truth
or attempt to palate the facts in their disousting
odiousness. If such abuses are to continue with,
OUT restraint or check, it is mockery for Ameri-
cans to talk of liberty, for they no longer rule
themselves: Perhaps some of our friends NAV
mink 1t well to submit longer and quietly to such
tremendous abuses but, in cur epxsion, it is hiph
Time to speak out. We intend McS rake new
position, abandon the Wing platform, or compro-
mise Wing principles for single hour, bot as to
submitting quietly to such monstrous outraues
upon our rights and privileges as Americans, we
shall not
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION

The Harrisburg Intelligencer contains re-
turns from all the counties in the State, tile
whole with the exception of ten, being official
The majority for Polk is $685., which will
no; be varied much by the official rcturns.---
This seems strange when Clay's vote was
greater than Shunk'si
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21

1t Is said that Silas Wright, the Governor
elect OF New York, will occupy his seat in
the U. S. Senate during the month of Decem~
Der. His Gubernatorial term does not COM
mence until January.
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n A U 81 ~ o. Ns.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1914.

u a meeting of the President and Directors
o' me valley Turnpike Company will be held in
inns place to-day, (rhursday,) at the Courthouse
where all persons having business with the Board
are requested to attend.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21

INDIANA SENATE.-The Vincennes Gazette
says that Mr.. Haugbion, Wing, is certainly
elected to the Senate from Daviess county.
Tbs, IL true, will give the Wings majority
of one in that body.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21

ne"oi'als on the subject of M'Adamising
inc Nco''sv'lo Road will be ready for circulation
IN a day or two, when it is hoped the friends of
Inc measure will lay hold of it with the spiri, and
energy its importance demands.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21

ed. They were as well driledin this way as
most Of them had been by the police n, home. o,
the military despotsms from which they came,
These men apparently understood tut little of the
nature Of the allegiance they renounced and less
OF uat which they assumed. Large numbers OF
them could not write, but were Obliged to make
! their mark, and nearly half could neither speak
nor understand our language! Interpreters were
constantly required, and the vagueness as well as
lncongruity OF their replies demonstrated how
monstrously defective We're the examinations and
the unfitness OF such men to become "na:uralized
citizens"
From the above brief statement made in good
iaitii' and with full personal knowledge of the
matter, no rejecting man, be he Whg or Demo-
crat, can for moment hesitate to rronounce INA.
turalization," under such circumstances. an afro
cious wrong, high-handed outrage upon the ma
tive American people. 1t is equally so to adopted
citizens, who have resided here for wears. and
whose interests as well as sympathies have long
since become interviewer with the social texture
OF society. Voting pre-supposes intelligent, ac-
tion, but how can man recently from n country
grovelling in the darkness of political despotism,
with an unenlightened mind, and perhaps ipcapa-
ole OF recording his own name or reading The
ticket he deposites-how can such man vote in
'eiiigently or conormably to the oath he takes to
support Constitution which he never read, with
out perpetrating an injury to others, Ii not to him
'o,,, "nioh ne mas no power to repair!
The laws inilict summary vengeance upon the
man who votes illegally, and every year there is
more or less Legislation to punish this sort Of
wrong-doing; yet the facilities which are given
10 aliens by our judges to svadetlo laws, BY
granting naturalization papers 10 nearly every
man who asks the boon, is rendering legal enact.
nents on this subject farce, and the whole bu.
slness Is low-lived and Ubiquitous species Of
compromising felony. The American people. no,
political party, should unhesta,ingly express
'ner a6borrence of this business Of naturaljza
ton. They dishonor their birhright by quie
acquiescence in such monstrous political enorm
tles, and they disgrace themselves by submitting
70 complicated wrongs which they have the pow
er to redress. The laws on this subject are lax
but their fai,hless administration renders them ar
insuiierable outrage. If they cannot be CHANGED
let the legal administrators be held religously a.
well as legally responsible for their interpreta
lions. Judges will then understand that ofticia
turpitnde will be met by adequate punishment
and Judicial baseness find is reward in solemn
impeachment by the American People.