Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-09-11

0F GEs, TAYLOR AND THe Waies-A meet. |
ing wssh.ida tNewr OK Isstweek. by tbe "lDs.
mocrs,ic Why Young Mems lCensssl csmmi.
tee" who horninstsd Hshry Clay for lie prssi.
d.ncy They repddl.te General Taylor, and q. say
their candidate must be sound 10 the old and we'll
settled pruc iplss ofrle whit party. and declare
himself whig and 'nothin' else" all Of which,
every body knows, General Taylor will never
subscribe to. The following are among the re.
solutions passed:
Resolved, That the Wing party was organi.
zed upon, and has always profssssdto to be govern
ed by fixed and dstine tive principles, as consti.
tnting, in the judgement Of its members, the main
fnlcimcnts on which The prosperity and welfare
of the country rest and il 10 their bounden duty
TO maintain und defend them to the last, by a di.
rect aud straight. forward march, without being
swerved from their course by any surreptions OF
incidental influence, and should present man
for the Presidential chair, In the coming contest,
whose opinions are not only thoroughly known,
but shall be sound and othordox TO the old and
well.se,tled principles Of the whig party. and
who avows himself a whig, and nothing else
Resolved, That in the designa ton of the pef.
son for the Wing candidate for the approaching
canvass we-have encountered no embarrassments,
have met with no dscordant opinions, and for
that high and solemn trust we do not hesitate a.
gain 10 describe and blazon on our shields the
much.loved and long honored name of HssnY
CLAY. LOO,
0-F-MSxico Gen. Scott by the last accounts,
was within 20 miles Of the city Of Mexico, shd We
presume by this time he is in possession Of the
capital. We do not think that the Mexicsns will
risk aoy more pitched battles. The guerrilla
warfare is best adapted TO their habits and cha.
rac,er, in which they can lay in wait. assassin.
ate, plunder, and then run. When Mexico is
once in oYr possession, there may he some pros.
poets of a treaty Of peace, but not before. ,,
" THE IMPoRTs FROM EssLa,p are very
, large. The British pouring in their manu-
fac'ures at every arrival, In lsi6 the importa.
ton OF plain and printed calicos from Great Bri.
tain was, in round numbers, thirteen millions
seven hundred thousand yards. In Is47, under
the new tariff the imports Of the same kinds of
calicoes have run up 10 forty,six millions four
hundred thousand wards Now. 30 long as we
could send grain TO England at good prices, we
could stand these impostations well enough; but
the great fall ia the price OF our produce in the
British markets, shows too plainly that We have
no tight TO expect high prices there unless the
potato rot should again make its Appearance
The tariff Of 1876 will only now begin to be fair.
iy tested. ,..--.
Tnx OFFICERS OF THE SEcosp MISSISSIPPI Re.
erMxNT, with Gen. Taylor, have unanimous.
| iy rendered to Gen. Jefferson Davis, the Colo.
nelcy thereof It is known that the state Of his
woond, and other circumstances, will cause him
10 decline it, H7.an 'flr '.i
r4ff . ---------------.---..----l las 90 i'fIf..1
THK TELsGRArn from Wheeling to Cincinnati,
226 miles, was put up in working order, under
the management of H. O'Rsilly, in thirty work.
ing days m -...., .s,. ri,o.a.i, l,.,r,
PoraTo Ror-A Nova Scotia paper says =
We regret to state that the potato disease has a.
gain made its appearance in thi, country Two
days ago We saw field perfectly biackened with
| IT, t-t 1...r " .'''' ti .'
f, 5rlT is SAID that the town Of Williamsburg, N
y. will derive $1,000 from the sale of licenses
for the present year. rt,tH .7.a-
The Philadelphia Ledger, of the 7,h inst says,
Herr Ryninger yesterday afternoon repeated his
feat OF walking a wire across the Schuylkil, in
the preseLce Of thousands Of spectators The
hazardous act was per formed this time just above
the bridge at Gray's ferry, where wire had been
swung across the river, resting upon four bra.
ees set upon floats, by which it was rendered ca.
pable of bearing the weight required of it. '''
SEA BATHING on AN ExrEssisR ScALE-The
citizens of New York ara fortunately situated
For tha t.i6ng sum Of l2a cents piece, they
are conveyed in elegant steamboats, to Coney
Island, where sea bathing car be enjoyed in per
lection. AT least two thousand persons daily
leave New York for the island, to take dip"
BARos RoTHscHILp has been elected to tn,
r. III n - #