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Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-10-03
gs.A'E'S AND CAPS.

HAVE foccived thi, day, atmsy Cheap nat
anu Gar store. corner of Nam aud Union
streets. the la'gcsi aSSoTtn cnt of CAPS IN his
city, winch will dispose of at n small advance
ON cost prices, MY friends and customers are in
vued Ia call before uhty are all dsrostd of. The
ass t;inent consists nt The following kinds:
aGentlvmon's Ole Bull Black Cloth Cars,
ID Naval do do
10 Cloih caps, fur back and front,
DO Blue Naval caps,
Do NClvetecn do
Boys and lontlfs Cut Velvet caps,
DO do Fancy Black DO
DO do Gluzci
Infant cars,
80 Han and satin caps,
Tn-uih W III all kinds tsat ,re ueualIv worn
through Tie winter season. Take this opp.rtu.
may to gave my fricnds aud customers NV great
est lhanNs Tor ihclr patronage and support for
tSe last hv1 ears, aud shall always erdeHgor io
ECs$h, oy SiTici attention 10, business and n
dcSire IN please, and give COOP BARGAINS.
nov % SAMUEL. - HARPER
Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-10-03

This medicine Is highly recommended aud ma
mcrous certificates are given, by very expect
able persons, of the III any astonishing crTes
y htch u haa lrfinfmnh. nov DC
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24
The ARMY and Navy.

The steamboat Yazoo arrived at New Orleans on
July 4th from Fort Jessup, with companies of the
4th regiment of the U. S. infantry which proceeded
Immediately to the barrack below tire city. On the
6h the steamboat Rodolph arrived at the same place.
bringing from the military post the staff officers of
the Sd and 4th regiments Of infantry and three COM
panies of troops which also proceeded the barracks
The whole detachment including the dragons, will
amount to about 1900 men. The infantry will pro-
coed by sea for Texas.
Col. Twiggs, commanding the first regiment of
dragons, has proceeded by land from Fort Jesup to
the Rio Grande.
The Washington Union states that the steam fri
gate Princeton has been ordered to the Gulf
of Mexico; and that her boilers, which
may require some slight repairs, can be oyerhauled,
she will Immediately reion the squadron. 1t is not
the intention of the Department to diminish the naval
force that sea, but rather increase it, during the
threatened declaration of hostilities from Mexico
being assured that the most certain means of securing
peace is to be prepared for In connection with
this fact, the paper corrects report which had
obtained currency, viz 'the Secretary of the Navy
has ordered the ship-ofthe-line Pennsylvania to be
Immediately fitted o2t for sea. This looks very
squally."
The Philadelphia Ledger says that the frigate Con-
steaton, the gallant ship which the first laures
for our infant navy in 1893 aud 1900 under Commo-
dore Truxton, is to be metamorphosed into steamer
under the directions of Commodore Stockton We
learn from the Norfolk Herald that thirty feet is to
be added to her length, (Which will then be 2O0) and
she will take on board the great Stockton gun which
is now carried by the Princeton, and also the one
which has been manufactured in England to the or
der of the Navy Department. The Princeton, it is
sscertained, Is too sn to carry. without dctrment,
either of these enormous engines of destruction.
The Constellation, believe, was built at Balti-
more, and was universally acknowledged to be the
most beautiful and perfect ship of her class in the
world
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24
Bancroft,s Euiogy ON jackson.

Mr. Bancroft's admirable grafton on the occasion
of the funeral honors to Jackson at Washington,
Friday the 9th uIt., will need no recommendation
of ours to secure the attention of readers. We
copy it from the Union, which paper preaces it with
the following remarks
1t is marked with all the powers of its gifted
author. Who will not appreciate Its Just tribute 10
the extraordinary life and qualities of the who,
of twenty millions of great people, was alone able to
draw down upon his tomb such deep-felt tribute OF
nations regrets and respects-its fine and fearless
exposition of the great principles which form the ba-
sis of our popular institutions, and will constitute, III
great degree, the bold pioneer which is to trace out
the course of the present administraton-ts splendid
euogy to the peculiar beauties of our free government
to which Andrew Jackson himself is indebted for his
elevation, and fame, and greatness in achieve
ment, and without which many of our distinguished
men would have been but like the gems which bu-
ried in the " dark unfathomed caves of ocean, or
like flowers g born to blush unseen" under the dull
and whitening atmosphere of monarchcal government!
The only wonder with how the orator could have
found time to pour forth so long and admirable pro-
duction. We know that he never put pen to paper
until Monday that he has been compelled to attend to
all the duties and details of two of the executive de-
partments-the Navy and the War. We know that
he dined out on Tuesday at of the most agreea-
BILE parties in the city, where he remained until late
hour that he was also visiting three evenings in the
week, and was compelled to attend witness upon
Captain Voorhees, court martial at Coleman's on
Tuesday and yet Mr. Bancroft has contrived to pro-
duce ali Grafton which would do honor to any orator
in America. 1t only evidence of the astonishing
rapidity of the pen of the historian of America y
far beyond anything that we had anticipated and so
agreeably disappointed have we been with the result
of his labors."
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24
Mexico.

Arrivals at New Orleans on the 9th inst, bring
news from Vera Cruz to the Oath ult. 1t is stated
that Gen. Bustamente arrived at Vera Cruz on the
18th ultimo and offered his services Sustain the in
tegrity Of the Mexican territory, and the dignity Of
the republic. He was rather cooiiy received by the
government; and it is reported that he refused the
military honors rendered him on his arrival. 1t
believed that his return was not Invited by any party
and that he had no desire to NEEDLE in public affairs
The people generally were quiet and not at all alarm
ed, Notwithstanding the warcres made by the feder-
alists and the partsans of Santa Ana who are loud
in denouncing the government for want of energy.
The state of the finances presumed to be pretty
low, the officers in the employ of the government
found great difficulty in obtaining onefourth Of their
salaries. Business was very dull. The publication
Of The new tariff law was daily anticipated The
ronnito, or yellow fever, prevailing to very ag-
gravated extent at Vera Cruz. The French sloop-of
war La Perouse arrived at Vera Cruz on the 24th
from Galveston with intelligence of the action of the
Texan Congress on the annexation question.
correspondent of the ''Tropic,' writing from We
n Cruz, under date of June D. in speaking of the
action of the Mexican Congress against the
ton of Texas says that in consequence thereof the
government have decreed to put under all the
force of the army, conformably to tie authority
ceded by the existing laws and For the preservation
Of public order, sustaining the institutions; and, if
necessity requires, to serve as to the army
the government using the facilities conceded on the
9th December, may raise forces, of which the said
decree speaks, under the name of defenders Of the
independence and of the laws
proclamation has been issued for holding an
election for President on the first Of August. The
candidates are Gomez Farias, (for many months an
exile in New York; Gen. Almonte and Gen. Herrera,
the present incumbent. Farias, who is supposed to
be in favor of the federal form of government, is
deemed most likely to be elected.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24
NEW Postage Law.

The Boston Chronicle concludes an article on this
subject, as follows:
.sThe business might have been simplifed, both in
the general post Office and in every office in the
try had they adopted in regard to all letters,
The rate now prescribed for printed circulars, OF two
cents for any distance. and then added, they might
provision that all letters not prepaid shall be charg
ed double postage BY this one measure, the British
system has done sway with all the compexity of the
business, that the accounts be kept by beans
and chalks about Us wen as IN book. And now,
about % per cent? nineteea letters out az every
twenty sent by mail, are prepaid, And by the use
of postage stamps this is all done without the trouble
of making change, and great amount of time Is
saved in mailing, that mails can be kept open al
most up to the moment of starting.
1--WE therefore ueny that the question OF postage
reform is to be judged at all by the results of this bill
We care not in how many respects it may fail. We
feel no responsibility 10 give il success. We know il
will fail TO satisfy tie people, because it ought not to
satisfy them. We insist that the good or Ill success
of this awkward and illbegoten affair has nothing to
do with the question of rejecting the old system and
adopting the new system. 1t Is a mongrel, a mon-
ster. We pursue original demand the same il
this had not been done"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

MERCANTILE CREDIr.-The New York Morning
News, speaking of the different causes which have
tended to circumscribe mercantile credits alluies to
the system Of espionage practised upon all country
dealers. 1t says that in every village there is spy
or spies, generally young lawyers, who note every
business man, his capital, nature and extent of his
business, habits of business, moral character social
habits, and occupation, &c. &c. These all re-
ported and recorded in books kept for The purpose by
an individual occupying Office in the Merchants
Exchange. To this quarter information is applied
for by those proposing to give credit, and for fee it
is obtained. The collectors of the information have
their reward in any little law business that may be
trumped up II is obvious that this system, organized
ostensibly for commercial information, may be ex-
tended in the hands of an unprincipled fanatic, to
making the religious political opinions fatal to
their credit It's effect, however, in the main, seems
to be destruction of general credit, and is system
which should not be tolerated"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

0<5-The Herald, abolition paper, of Cincinnati,
speaking of Guizot, the French Minister'S remarks
about keeping up the balance of power between
republics on this continent, says:
THAT he and the British Minister should seek the
independence of Texas with view of limiting the
extension of slavery, was honorable; but if their
object indeed was chiefly to obstruct the growth of
the United States, and established this continent
their detestabe balance of power system then, much
we depiore the annexation with slavery, we still
take consolation in the fact that they were
defeated. Let European politics be confined to
Europe. Heaven kncws we have corruption enough
of our own without importing the knavery and trick
cry of foreign politics.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

AcQUITrAL OF CALEB ]. McNULTY.-Mr. McNulty,
late clerk Of the House of Representatives charged
with embezzlemeit of the public funds, has been
quilted in the first case brought to issue, which
contained three counts-the first charging felonious
conversion of the sum of $50 of the money of the
United States to his use-the second felonious
investment of the like sum in property-the third,
with having embezzled like by loaning it to
Thomas Moody. There are yet five other indictments
against him, the trial of which has been postponed
until the December term of the court Judge Dunlap
refused motion made to reduce the amount of bail,
and he is still held in $4,000 for his appearance to
answer the charge of embezzlement.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24
The Strccrs.

We are glad to see that the city government are at
isss doing something sensible and permanently useful
in the way of street improvement. The g-avelling
already done oiWashington street is worth more than
all former wcfk on the street for the last five
years, and we hope they will progress they have
begun. The custom heretofore has been to remove
the mud from the cutters the middle of the street.
every year--thus making bad worse. 1t looks as il
this operation to be repeated IN Illinois street
but we hope not Work Of this kind once well done
is twice DONE The taxes are heavy, our share being
about Sl1 but we will cheerfully pay, if
ly have the money judlciousy expended and not fool
ed away as heretofore.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

The "Union' copies in full the new treaty between
England and France for the suppression OF the slave
trade on the African coast and agreeing to the mu-
tua right of searching suspicious vessels wearing the
flag of either nation. The N. Y. News aludes to
this treaty as follows:
The broad basis CT the treaty appears to be, that
France and England agree To keep an equal force
aoat on the African seas and have conceded to each
other the right of visit 10 vessels bearing each otEers
flag only in such where such strong to
suspect fraud exist to authorize 1t. The validity
of these reasons must he made good in justification
of the act Some of the papers look upon this partial
concession of the right of search matter of great
moment to the United States We apprehend, how
ever that il is only so far as at the moral influence
of the French concessions may be supposed to give
weight 10 any new demands upon the United States
for similar treaty. This mutual agreement on the
part of those powers in no respect affects the po
sition of the American flag, which does and always
will cover the ship that bears 1t. A member of the
English Ministry stated Parliament that the Amer
lean navy was by far the most efficient in checking
the slave trade. When, therefore. vessel appears
among the fleets of the three nations that coast
no necessity whatever can exist for permitting her 10
be subjected to the rude visits of the subordinate Eng
lish officers. If the vessel bear French hag-no
matter what may be her nation-the French treaty
permits her to be visited by an English vessel the
officer of which does at his proper peril relying
such reasons as he can offer for doing If she bear
an English flag, the French assume the same risk.
If she bear the American flag, it is the duty of the
English officers, if they suspect her. to report her to
the first American they fall in with. The insoent
violence which has beretofo remarked English visits
American vessels must no longer be permitted"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

RUMPUs MATRIMoNAL.-A terrible rumpus was
kicked up the other day at Wilmington, Delaware,
on account of the following circumstances A Mr..
Barney sought the hand of daughter of Judge Booth.
Her father refused until Mr.. B. recovered verdict in
his favor, in suit for libel then pending and exhib-
tied proofs Of his estate. He finally recovered the
one and exhibited the other. Still the Judge was in
exorabe, when MIR. b. and tie girl eloped, vent to
Wilmington and were privately married by Father
Reilly. The young woman subsequently grew alarm
ed confessed the marriage, but said it a condi-
tonal one Her father at first indignant, saw the
necessity of reason, but his brother, in somewhat
dsordered state about the streets of the town call
ing for vengeance on the whole Catholic community
The sheriff arrested him and order was restored.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

ELECTRO MAGNETIsM.-It is stated that gentle
man of Pennsylvania has discovered means of ap-
plying the force generated by electro magnetism to
the propeng of railroad and trains as to
duce immensely the cost of locomotive power. The
invention has the farther effect of preventing any
ming off the track, and ensurng the safety of pas
sengers from what has hitherto been a formidable
danger, especially while in rapid motion. He is now
taking out patents for this country, and intends do
for all Europe before the process is disclosed to
the public.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24
france and Pcxas Annexation.

BY late arrivals we leaia that NJ Guizot, the head
of the French Ministry, gave the following expana-
ton of the policy of France with regard to Texas on
the first evening of his temperance in the Chamber
of Deputies.
He said-'sNo connection between the policy he
had followed with regard to Texas and the abolition
OF right of search. If Texas wished 10 renounce its
independence, and enter the American Union, nobody
had right to interfere oppose the wish of the peo-
pie. If the Texans, on the contrary, DESTROYS to
preserve their Independence, not only have we no
right to oppose their resolution. but do not hesitate
TO say that France would approve their conduct and
acknowledge that they were right. We have recog-
niZed the independence of Texas consider it real,
and we were interested in doing so. We not only
recognized the independence of Texas, but we have
concluded with that country treaties of commerce,
which Will cease 10 exist the moment it shall be
lohger independent State. France is interested in
the duration and maintenance of Independent States
In America. There are in America three great pow.
ers-England, the United States and the republics of
Spanish origin.
sFrance is not American power, but she has in
teresfs in that continent she must consequently de-
sire that Independent States should continue indepen-
dent that balance should subsist between the three
great American powers, and that of them should
obtain the preponderance. We do not mean to pro-
test against the annexation Of Texas to tie United
States to engage Id struggle to preTeht that
nexatiOn if 1t is to take place. We wish to leave
Texas at liberty to act as she pleases if they not,
they are free to remain as they France only
interfere by throwing her influence into the scale, and
expressing her opinion in favor of the alternative
which appears most conducive to her interests. She
is not called upon to act compromising part, nor to
involve herself in future difficulties, but it behoves
to protect by the authority Of her name the indepen-
dence of States, and to maintain the equilibrium Of
the great political powers in America"
Upon this development very interesting debate
occurred in the course of which, the conduct of the
Ministers strongly censured by the leading depu
ties The Ministry therefore not only find thei,
intrigues defeated by the action of Texas, bu
condemned by the public sentiment of their OWL
country.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

01r0ur attention has been called to the following
paragraph which appeared in the Freeman of July H.
:CHAPLAINs.-The Charlottesville Review says ::
If the Legislature should act like Congress, and elect
Chaplain to be paid out of the peoples money, would
not the members Of that body on their appearance
among their constituents hear busziRg about their
ears that would be any thing but agreeable music .
No. Mr.. Review, they would not. The last Legsla-
ture paid the Rev. Mr.. Guriey five dollars of the
peoples money, for opening the session with prayer,
and we have heard no busting YETI
The statement of the Freeman IS incorrect. Mr..
Robinson, the Speaker, did move an amendment to
the specific appropriation bill, for the payment of So
to the Rev. Mr.. Gurley: Objections were made
against the amendment; and Mr.. Robinson being
informed that Mr. Gurlcy would not take the money
out Of the Treasury, even if it voted to him,
withdrew his proposed amendments and such appro-
priation made.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

CURIOUS DIPLOMATIC OPERATloNS.-The w ashIng-
ton journals have been enivened for some time by
controversy between Mr.. Green, lately Charge to
Mexico, and Senior Autocha, Mexican. The latter,
in recent letter, makes singular expose of the
conduct of Mr. Green, which reflects rather seriously
upon his official character. He says:
"Yet must do him justice; there are diplomatic
exploits Of which he showed himself capable, and
which won him renown there even more permanent
than the fame of his State papers. OF OF them,
let me- though unworthy be the historian. Just oppo
site the Gran Sociedad in the Street del RJugto No.
%, there dwe in lodging humble and ill-furnished,
(such distressed beauty and virtue usually nhabts
in novel;, what Sir Peter Teazle in the play calls
little French miner." The goods which she sold
were brought to New Orleans and being the banker
with whom she deposited the money, always settled
for her, at the Custom House, the duties on them.
Upon occasion, she showed certain fashionable
articles Just received of the arrival of which had
not been apprsed. | asked her, therefore, how she
able to sell them before she had paid the duties
She answered they were part of several trunks Of
similar articles which Senior Green, the American
charge, (whose company she enjoyed some two or
three times week. had done her the kindness to have
brought from New Orleans for her and passed Free
through the Custom house, by virtue of having them
directed to 'The United States Legation, Meric0
Young Mr.. Green, she assures me, was very able
diplomatic, and highly useful to her.
Acknowledge then, that this ornament Of Cabinets
Illnesses
exploit of denouncing and eliminating his chief, in
an affair for which he himself alone is responsible
IT, indeed, such diplomatic innocent could be held
responsible for any thing. As little French Mlncr
is usually not very reserved with her feowgrisettes,
and Mile Eleonore and her class commonly
provided with several admirers to all of whom they
are equally communicative, need hardly say that the
scandal of such an abuse of Charges functions
was soon widely blown in Mexico, to the utter shame
of all Americans, who are unaccustomed to see the
national revenue defrauded and the American flag
degraded, in order that loose boy may copdHrt his
amourettes iii the cheap form of smuggling Ii was
soon known that the goods for this respectable COM
consigned above described, to an emil
nent American house-thc only one In Vera Cruz-so
that need not name it. The Government and dipio-
matte corps at Mexico of speedily learned the
affair, in city where spies abound; and you may
guess how much the brilliant position achieved by the
Charges diplomacy improved In social consider
alton"
Mr. Green in answer to the charge, says that he
did smuggle through box of cigars, according to
general usage, and that's all. He charges Brantz
Meyer with being the author of Autocha's letters.