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Progress OF the Good Cause.

Never before have the Wings been
cheered with more auspicious indications.
From every quarter come the deep heavy
tones Of popular condemnation of Locofo-
coism, It's men and measures. North
Carolina has gloriously vindicated by a
majority of thousands her steady adhe-
renee to sound Wing principles. Ken
tucky has more than maintained her an
ciont renown. In Indiana. the people
have entrusted to the Wings the substan-
tial power of the State New Hamp-
shire. onre the very bulwark of Loco Fo-
coism. has seen and renounced the politi-
cal error of her ways. Maine has glori-
ouslv followed her example--thus, as in
davs Of the Revolution, enabling New
England to present an unbroken Wing
front. Maryland too, emulous of her
former fame. has broken her bonds a5id
a decisive victory has crowned the enoF.
Of her Wings. Last year the locos mac
a popular majority Of more theh
1000. At the election just passed, q
greater majority was obtained the o'heF
wav. with a large majority IN boLn hou-
sus Of the Legislature. From Georgia
the news thus FAR. is equally auspIcious;
and to-day, the Locos will hear thunder in
Ohio and Pennsylvania. Wings OF New
Nork will you not follow up the work
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Fearful 2avages ofthe Cholera
fR India.

IN E3oia.
The rayages of the cholera at Kurachee
has been most disastrous. Between the
l4th and ed of June, about 5000 human
beings were cut of, including $50 Euro
peanS, of whom SIS were fighting men.
Besides this. 595 Scers, and it is believed
about 1000 native camp followers, and
inhabitants Of the town have died. The
disease commenced lis destructive course
on Sunday the l4th, when the weather
was unusually stagnant and oppressive.
The Bombay Times says:
Before midnight nine Of the eighty
sixth were at rest: and men began to he
borne into the hospital in such numbers
that it was difficult to make arrangements
for their reception. 1t was a fearful
night. With morning came the tidings
that the pestilence was 0verspreading the
town, and fifty had in 81 hours fallen
victims. The Eighty-sixth were the
earliest, and continued to be severest sul-
ferers. They and her Majesty's Sixtie,h
/ had. for six months, been in tents close to
each other; the dav after the disease ap-
peared, they were marched out for change
of air, and encamped by the sea shore
near Clifton. The Rifles were next at
tackled; then the Fusiiers; the Artillery
and Native Infantry began to suffer after
this. For FIVE fearful days did the de-
stroyer lay his hand most heavily upon
them; and in this time more than a thou
sand men were carried to their graves =
The pestilence now began to abaie-it
had done its worst, and seemed to with
draw; within less than a fortnight 900
Europeans, including SIS fighting men
were carried away, 600 Native soIdies and
1000 of the camp followers and inhabi-
tants of the town, had been hurried into
eternity The conduct Of the Governor,
| (Sir Charles Napier,) is stated to have
been beyond all praise; anxiety for the
comforting an alacrity on limbs that the
hand of time might have stffened. Only
two officers had died. So sudden was
death with some, that they were seized,
cramp collapsed, dead. almost as fast as we
have written the words. Previous health
&strength were no guarantees;men attend
ing the burial of their comrades were at.
tackled, boane to the hospital and buried
themselves the next morning. Pits were
dug in the church yard morning and
evening, sewn up in in their beddings,
eoffinless, they were laid side by side, ,one
service read over all. Public works were
suspended during the 18th and l6th.-
Medicine seemed powerless; nothing that
medical science could guggest took ef-
fect-they were, in fact, dealing with
corpses. 1t was not until the third day
that medicine assumed any sway; since
it has done so, should say two thirds Of
the cases have been been saved.
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THOMAS BRAINARD.
Terrible Massacre.

The Van Buren, Ark. lntelligencer of
the Sd inst. publishes a letter from Fort
Washita. stating that Col. A. NJ. Upshaw
the Chickasaw Agent. recently sent two
friendly Delaware Indians to the Witche-
taw village, TO ascertain if some horses,
that had been stolen. were not in posses
sion of the tribe. When they arrived at
the villaga, which is about $50 miles
from Fort Washita, they found the corn
growing, the skins and every thing be-
longing to the tribe in their usual places.
but nothing that had life in it was visible;
the Delawares, thinking it strange, re-
paired to the mud fort of the Witchetaws,
which had been destroyed. and around
which the dead bodies of the Witchetaws
were found-having been killed by ar
rows. The ground showed where one
party had drawn off their dead. and the
Delawares saw at one that the Witchetaws
had been attacked by an over number ol
wild Indians, and nearly the whole tribe
murdered. 1t was supposed that they
had been attacked by the Camanches OF
Pawnee Mahas.
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ROUTE FROM MONTEREY TO
MEXICO.
FROM TIE ANNAPOLIS REpUBLIcAN.

The expectations of men are often the
| offspring OF their own wishes. When
that is the case expectation is invariably
extravagant, and almost sure to encoun-
ter disappointment. In forming our
! judgment of the feasibility, for instance,
of au achievement, our wishes for It's ac-
conplishment should have no control
over our reason; facts and circumstances,
as they exist. constitute the basis of our
decision. We have been induced to drop
these hints, and insert the subjoined ex-
hibil" of the route TO the city OF Mexico,
! by the almost unbounded expectation 10
which the glorious deeds of our gallant
army have given rise, trusting that over
sanguine minds may be brought, by the
| information contained in the exhibit, to a
calm consideration of the true state of
things, and see and understand that TOO
MUCH IS EXPECTED FROM THE ARMY.
Ii has been stated by the official organ
[ of the Government, since the affair Of
Monterey, that the United States troops
in Mexico amounted to about 10000.
/ TO controvert or deny this statement,
| though we believe the number overrated,
is no part Of our purpose; but we will
take the liberty of asking, Who knows
how many of that number have been
placed hOrs de csntdat by disease and
casually, and what are the positions Of
those able to perform duty!. Every
body is aware that various places have
been converted into military posts, and
many men necessarily subtracted from
that namber 10 defend those posts. By
these causes the force operating offensive
| ly under the immediate command of Gen.
TAYLOR has been reduced to some 5000
men; vet, with these facts staring them
as it were in the face. and an extremely
difficult road (sprinkled with strongly
built and populous towns) to pass over,
many people expect this chivalrous little
force to penetrate nearly eight hundred
miles further into the country, and plant
the standard ofthe Union on the battle
ments Of the city of Mexico! We repeat
TOO MECH is EXPECTED FROM THE ARMY.
! To expect lmpossibilities from it will en-
sure the sacrifice of it.
From San .7nfoHiG de Berer (Te1as)
10 .nerice.
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The storm in New York on Tuesday
was very violent, ard caused mitch gener-
al damacc to vessels. wharve-, &c. The
sea wall on the Battery was broken up
f5r nearly one hundred yards. The un-
finished s;ecFies Of swo churches were
blown down.
10 The Delaware Bay the Storm did
also considerable damage. At Newcastle
the wharves were SWEPT away. At Fort
Mdflin the pier was tuFned over on is
side. The revc 4ge cr.ter Crawford
went osllore near Wilmington Creek
Five new buildings - burlington. n. J.
were demolished by ne wiAsa-
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aDeonlng song.

1Ct y HttiD <NHu'
The maid with her little hand
To-day is made bride.
A wreath of snowy roses
Around her brow IS tied.
There are roses on her path.
And on her cheeks are more,
And her tiny foot is pressing
Red leaves that strew the shore.
Our bark is full of flowers,
But we have left place
For the maiden and the bridegroom;
They take but little space
Her bodice is all decked
With gold and pearls so rare,
And silver pins are shining
Amidst the glossy hair.
The happy hours flee fast
OF youths delicious spring,
Ileaves the tender nightingale
But little time to sing.
There are clouds that come so quickly
Over summers tranquil sky;
You must take the blissfui moments,
Nor give them time TO fly.
Our bark has waited long,
The blue waves beat the strand,
Let us sing the bridal carol
For the maid with the lille hand.
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Vol. 2.-No. 81.

so gloriously begun.-Buaalo CONNER
cial.
The thunder has been heard in Old
Pennsylvania and in Ohio, and we ex-
pect New York to keep it crashing and
Jarrlng into the ears Of Jas. K, Polk aud
his administration and supporters, an
nouncing to them that the days Of Locolo-
co mlsrule are numbered.
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II4I

*Taken from work entitled Mexico
and Texas in 1892" the copyright of
which is secured TO Charles ]. Folsom,
of New York.
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59I.I6O do

Reduce this TO square acres and you
add as many millions to the amount Of
acres of Mexican territory as that over
which the stars and stripes now float, and
to which claim has been laid.
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A fop is like cinnamon tree--the
bark is worth more than the body.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11
Correspondence Of the Sentinel
VIOLENT HURRICANE-HAIL.
STORM-LOSS OF LIFE.
NEWARK, New CASTLE Co., DEL. }
June 8, 1886.


June 6, 1886. {
Mr.. EDITOR: hasten to inform YOU
Off violent hurricane, which passed over
our little village yesterday afternoon
about 5 o'clock. The storm came
from the north west, and so rapidly did
it come, that persons with great diff
Guilty could shut up their houses. The
damage done was considerable. The
corn was stripped, and the wheat crop
is generally believed TO be destroyed.
Trees were broken. Several roofs
were taken off. The old Paper Mill
was removed some three or four inches
from its main foundation, and a part
was blown down. Hail stones We're
seen as large as walnuis. And so
strong was the wind, that scarcely a
house escaped uninjured. To form
some idea Of the severity of the hail, in
Delaa0are College, which is situated
here, in the rooms of about 40 of the
students, no less than so or 200 panes
OF glass were broken, besides one of
the chimneys being blown down. The
oldest inhabitants pronouce this to be
the severest storm they ever witnessed
here. w. N. S.
P. S. / have lately learned that at
Wilmington the storm was worse than
it was here. The old ship-house was
blown down, and thus far t,co dead bo-
dies have been extricated. The roofs
Of the houses, and the signs and avn
ings along the street, were blown down.
w. N. S.
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the 4'h, the wind coming on to blow
fnriously, the flames were carried along
the settlement, destroying houses,
barns, cattle, the seed gram, and i'm
plements of husbandry, and, reaching
the village at the mouth of the River
Chez Marse, destroyed the whole there
the church and the two mills at the
mouth OF the stream-and continuing
a mile farther, round the Bay to the
Grand Bay village, destroying all there,
except the church and VIM. Price &
Co.'S. stores and houses, and a few
houses south of them, leaving about
1000 souls, men, acomen and children,
aoithout houses or the means Of soa0ing
their lands.
The Legislature of Canada is called
upon to do something for their relief
There were also rumors of the progress
ofthe fire to Stoneham, though nothing
was known.
FARTHER.-The fire in tie forests
near Quebec has been most destructive
in its course. Two houses at Lake
ST. Charles and more than twentyiin
the township of Stoneham have been
destroyed, but the most serious de-
struction has been at Grand Bay and
the neighborhood of Checoutimi; near
ly the whole ofthe former village being
in ashes. The church of St. Alexis,
the priests house and the store of the
Hudson's Bay Company and few
small dwellings only, being saved
Three mills belonging to Messrs. Price,
with a large quantity of timber and
sawed lumber and the wharves are
consumed, as are the provisions in
store and the sown grain.
The steamer Pocahontas has been
dispatched by Messrs. Price and the
Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec,
with supplies of food and clothing.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11
VOLUNTEERS!

1t is proposed to raise Company of Volun-
teers in the l46th Regiment. 10 be marched in
to the service Of the United States, whenever
the defence of the country shall require it,
Those who wish to avail themselves of this
opportunity of showing their patriotism, can
call upon Cor. ALBERT, or at this Office, and
enroll themselves Sixty four are required to
constitute Company.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

JNo. W. WArsoS, Esq, is author
ised to receive subscriptions for the
SENTINEL, and to receive and recent
for money due this office, in Page
county. HIS residence is at Luray.
as, Mr.. joseph Watson, near
Strasburg, is authorised to receive mo-
neys due this Office, and receipt for the
same.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

Latest from the .Army. The intel
i'gence of Gen. Taylor having taken
Matamoras, is confirmed. He took a
considerable quantity of ammunition
much of 1t was also destroyed by the
enemy before leaving. The citizens
were permitted to continue their yari-
Gus vocatlons, but were forbidden to
sell any liquor to the army.
Mike and others of our young
friends, shall be attended TO.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

"Ihe chief cause other death is attributed
TO an exposure to the severity of the weather, on
a tour to her relations in McGaheysvlle, Rock
ingham county, Va
1.-The deceased was passionately fond of the
study OF astronomy; and at evening when the
deep blue was illumed with the trembling lus-
tire OF heaven. and all Nature seemed uncon-
scionsly entolded in the arms of Morpheus, she
might have been seen, reclining upon the vel
vet carpet of nature, with astronomical chart in
hand, her soft eyes raised towards heaven in
silent contemplation of those inimitable orbs.
that beauteously light up our mundane sphere.
NEWMARKET, Va, May 2Sth, 1916.
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From the Rockingham Register.

The subject of the following sianzas, AMAN-
IA NJ. WlNsBoRouGH, departed this life
March oath, 1916, in the twentieth year Of
bor aUa.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

Summer Quarters ofMe United States
.army. We learn from private letter
that General Taylor has expressed a
determination to make his summer
quarters at Monterey, and there is no
doubt that with the force now under
his command, and the volunteers that
are Fastening to his standard, that he
can establish his summer quarters in
any part of the eastern provinces of
Mexico that he desires. The valley of
Monterey was visited by many of our
soldiers during the federal war, and
they all describe it as an earthly para
disc, groves Of oranges, lemons, figs,
and pomegranates, surround the city;
and the whole valley, which is ;rriga-
ted by countless rivulets of pure and
wholesome water, is but continuous
garden, producing various kinds of
vegetable and tropieal fruits in abun-
dance. The climate, however, in sum-
mer is rather too warm to be
agreeable to persons from The northern
States; but at short distance, in the
elevated plains along the mountains,
the climate even in midsummer is as
cold and salubrious as that of the Cat
skill mountains. Even the northern
fruits, such as the apple, pear, &c., are
produced in abundance in these eleva
ted regions. When our troops once
get pleasantly located in that delight
full region, they will be very unwilling
to fo:sake it, and the glowing descrip-
tons they will circulate throughout the
Union, will ere long excite desire
among all classes to annex to the Uni
ted States. The stupendous chain of
the Sierra Madre is boundary meet
for great nation; but the insignificant
Rio Brace is only suitable to define
the limits of states or counties. Texas
Telegraph.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

LIEUT.. JoRDAN.-We were in error
in stating, last week, that Lieut.. Thorn
as Jordan was wounded. From an au-
thentic source, we learn that it was c..
D. Jordan, of the 9Th Infantry, who
was wounded.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

Fearful Confagration-D Distressing
Calamity. "A serious misfortune has
beialen the new settlement of Grand
Bay, on Saguenay. 1t seems that the
settlers in that vicinity were clearing
their lands and burning the brush
The weather had been very dry,and On
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AN ELEGY.

| Leave, gentle falr, Inc tlnSeled lay,
| Come view the havoc death can trace;
Come, catch the zephyrs sweet, that play
Around Amanda's resting place.
Come with the pale and simple wreath,
And Irvine it round her pointed clay;
For her who sleeps, far, far beneath,
! Has bl0omed into eternal day.
! Come, gentle spirits, come and see
| This remnant of mortality.
All! this was once as fair flower
As ever bloomed along the vale,-
But Death, uncomfortable power,
| Has touched the life-bud cold and pale!
He came, in Winter'ss keen attire,
| In chilling winds and chrystal snows;-
He came and quenched the youthful fire,
| That in her breast so warmly rose,
She burst the chords of life that bound,
| And waived adieu to friends around.
Chaste as the luhar.orb of night,
| With virtues of a heavily cast,
| She sparkled in a radl'nt light
Till wishered by the Pale Ones blast.
| Weep not for her, the halo flame
Ofendless bliss enwraps her soul!
Weep not for her, her spotless name
I Is penci'd on the heavily scroll.
"Amanda." sealed the choir sublime,
''Come from the dreary bourne of Time!"
F., Oft as her virgin tomb is dressed
In Flora's pale festoon Of flowers,
Viii Mem'ry haunt her place of rest,
And while away the weary hours.
And oft as Summers sunbeams play
Upon her fragrant raid sod,
! VIII sister madens mark the way
| In which the youthful spirit lrod.
| The dark ordeal of death she passed.
She rests in angels arms at last
No more she treads the verdant hill,
! Or views the vari'gated vale
Her voice is hushed, forever still
! The blushing cheek TRANSPORTED pale.
| Her len'ient eye no more will trace
The trembling monitors of night,
That roll thru blue and boundIess space.
Enrolling worlds in liquid light.
Now brighter stars around her burn,
| And cast their lustre Ger her urn.
{ No more her sylph-like form will stray
Along the murm' ring. limpid stream,
To view the lucid waters play
! In Summers vvifyng beam
No more her gentle voice is heard
At dewy mornings welcome dawn;
No more the kindly soothing word
| Upon the air is sweetly borne
High up in Ether rings her song,
J Uniting with th' angelic thronp.
She has fallen in the bud of youth
And severed wide the kindred tie;--
She scales the mount of love and truth,
Where heavily joys profusely lie.
/ UPto the burning Throne she wings
Her onward and electric flight,
And strikes her Tyre of mirad strings
Mid blazes of angelic light!
Elyslan fulgor sparkles round
Amanda's walk in heavily ground.
Leave, gentle fair, the tns6led lay
Come, view the havoc death can trace;
Come, catch the zephyrs sweet, that play
Around Amanda's resting place.
Come, with the pale and simple wreath,
And Irvine it round her pointed clay;
For her who sleeps far, far beneath,
Has bloomed into eternal day.
And deathless in our souls shall be.
The fragrance of her memory"
wv. III.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

A FALSE RuMoR-A report has
been extensively circulated through the
country, that Gen. Taylor had been
killed and. the greater portion ofhis ar
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

Capt. May.-This gallant officer,
(whose exploit in taking the batteries
under Gen. Vega, and himself prlso-
ner, is the theme Of such deserved
praise it is said, was appointed by
President Jackson on his own applica-
ton, for post in the army. Congress
had just passed the act for raising a
regiment of dragons, when young
May, who was wearied with the idle life
of a young gentleman in Washington,
resolved to ask President Jackson for
an appointment in the same, and went
boldly in person to the Old Hero and
rendered his services. The general
measured him with the eye Of a veter-
n,and seeing in May the stuff to make
soldier, appointed him on the spot to
the command of one ofthe new compa-
MES of dragons. The old general re-
marked, "the army needed such men"
The sagacity of Jackson in this, as in
every act Of his eventful life, has been
fully veri6ed.-Balt. Rep.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

Deplorabze .Accident.-URBEL1No
DE ALvEAR, a student of Georgetown
College, and son ofthe Buenos Ayrean
Minister near Washington, was drown
ed in the Potomac, near the Foundry,
on Thursday afternoon. In company
with body Of his fellow-students, he
was bathing in the river, under the usu-
al precautionary supervision Of one or
two ofthe Professors of the institution,
and at a moment when he had swan
some distance from the shore,it is sup
posed, was seized with cramp, and, in
spite of the efforts to second his call for
assistance, was drowned. It's need
less TO add that an event so unusual
carried the deepest affection to the
whole body of Professors and students
of the College, who had in the mean
time thronged the shore. The body
was recovered in the course of the eve
ming .Advocate.
We have at this time heavy naval
force in the Pacific, under the command
of Commodore SLoAr, which will
probably soon be increased by the Co.
tunabus, seventy four, Commodore BID
DLE-and it is by no means unlikely
that the PRESIDENT, Immediately on
the passage of the resolutions decla-
ring war to exist between the United
States and Mexico, sent off dispatches
to the commander of our naval forces
in that quarter, with instructions to
blockade or take possession of every
port on the coast.-Baltinore Patriot.
Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-06-11

my made prisoners. We have seen no
such statement in the latepapers. The
rumor is evidently false. There is but
little doubt that Gen. T.. has taken the
town of Matamoras, without any loss Of
perhaps without firing gun.
1880
VALUABLE MAP.-The publishers Of
the Western Continent have gotten
up handsomely executed engraving
in Autograph, which they have sent to
their subscribers and exchanges-rep-
resenting the positions of the American
and Mexican troops near Matamoras.
New subscribers to that paper will re-
ceive copy Of it.