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BEAUrIFeL lDEA or GgN. .CAss.-Duriuq the discussion of Mir. Critienden's resolution for t.Ie relief of Ireland. Gen. Cass, in speak ing of the employment of our ships of war for the transportation of the national offering in the shape of bread s.ufs to the sufferers, thus beautifully expressed himself:
 ''I. would be beautiful tribute to the ad- vancing spirit of the age. The messenger of death would thus become messenger oI life; the agents of destruction, agents of pres erva,ion, and our eagle, which has flown above them. and carried our arms to the very coasts of ireland, would thus become the signal of hope, where it has been the signal of defiance. shall lend the bill my sup port with great pleasure"
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FREScH ksyRrY.- .-The growing oppses. sions of the French government are tht themes of constant complaint among lhe French people. There are evils in the coun. try which are daily making the dynasty q Lous Philippe more obnoxious. The nut terings of an impending ssorm in blood. drenehed France even now occasionally ar. rest our attention. Take the following d samples of some existing grievances:
 in Paris. ten people dare net meet .areah- CT in public piace--dare not dine together m public house, wilhou. the permission o the police. There aie now pending before the law courts two cases In one. $ gentle men are being prosecuted for having met ,o breakias; in a public house without notify ing their intention to the police; in the o,l,- CT, several respectable persons are being prosecuted for having met tn private house to pray. read and expound the Scriptures ae- cording lo the Protestant form.
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WINFIELD SCOTT.
Headquarters efihe -armg, !
 Vera Cruz. April II, ISl7. {

! g ' General Orders, No lO5.--l. The coun- try diiy miles around TampicO will consti- ute a separate Military Depar.ment 10 be calIel the Department of Tampico,r and the country the same distance around this city will constitate another separate Military Department, to be known as the department of Vera Cruz.
 z. The senior officer in each, in the ab- sence of the General-in- Chief, will make his ordinary reports and returns to the adiutant- general at Washington, and those of spe- cial character to General Head-Q Quarters in the field.
 3 The seige-train and troops in this vicin- lty will be held in readiness to march in the direction of Jalapa, as fast as the means of transportation can be furnished: each man with four days hard bread and two of ba- con or pork (cooked) in his havaisack, and each corps or detachment with train con- tsining extra subsistence for at least 10 days made up as in the case of the advanced di- vision.
 4. The march will be in the following or- der: l. The troop of the first dragoons with the General-in-Chicf; 9 4 section of the seige-train, escorted by Capt. Winde. snd his company. with detachment of recruits, early tomorrow morning; 3. The Is. divis- ion of regulars; 4. Brigadier-General Quit mans Volunteers, with another section of the seige-train.
 l 5. If the 9th Infantry be not back in time Brevet Maj. Gen. Worth will leave orders for I 1t to follow without delay, and if the horses of the Tennessee Cavalry shall not have ar rived when Brigadier-Gen. Quilman marches that regiment will follow as soon as re- mounted.
 s. Every corps or detachment il.a, follows the movement, from this depot, will take charge of any loaded train, for the army. which the Ordnance, Quai,ermasters' Con- missariat, or Medical Depastmenis, may have in readiness.
 By command of Maior-General Scott.
 H. L. SCOTT.
 .1 fl. A. G.
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WAsHiNGToS MoNuMEST.-The funds now in the hands of the commi,,e at Wash ington. amount 10 S64,000, and they are de- termined 10 Perseyere in raising monumen. worthy of the country. Whenever decided movement takes place all over the Union for this object, very large sum can be raised.
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Mississippi but ofshe Union, fos thsir gal lane conduct as tlss ssorming of Moniersy, and for the gallantsy displayed by shem oa the bloody field of Buena Yisia Tho list Ol the killel and wounded of the regiment is a suficient eu:ogium on their hsroisn.
 The Mexicans are returning to Monterey in crowds, and streets present . lively aud business appearance. The weather E de lightful, and the climate all that maA can wish for. ln haste IT.
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APPoINTMENTs BY mn PaEsIpENT,

Brigadier General GiDeoS J. PiLLows iO be major general in the army of the Unaed States, in the place of Thomas H. Benton, who declined to accept.
 Brigadier General JoFN A. QCtTMAN. lO be major general in the army of the Uni- ted States, in the place of William Cumming, who declined to accept.
 Colonel CALEB CUSHING, to be brigadiss general in the army of the United States, h the place of John 4. Quitnan, promoted.
 Col. James Ross Snowden, of Yenznep county, Pennsylvania, to be Treasurer q the United States mint at Philadelphia, n place of Isaac Roach, removed.
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END OF ANTi-RENTlsM.-The tenants on the Van Rens selaer manor lands are purchas- ing the nile to the property they occupy al s per acre. Thus leeses are, iii their own quiet way, settling the aHti-rent question, without further excitement, by purchasing the land
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TosAeco.-A fair besiness had been doae the prsvsoss week. the sales sesehag 900 hhds. al full prices.
 srsAa.--in the two or three days past the sales amount to iiee hhds. Prices steady. Inferior and common slasl>-f@if ass--ehoiee 7aTle pr h.
 MeLAssEs---sAles moderate. a, priess fsa-ins from 2s to 90 cts pr gal.
 FIeus.-The market ssessy, st rr,ces ranging principally from e iaa 70 ss.ss for seoa shippins brsaas
 . GHAis e--Ihe com market depressed on account of ahfasorabss sews frcE abroad. Prices ranging from 70 10 90 ss P hashsI. Lssgs ssiss were sase ted aTS. whsst--ao.eo .eoe sasheis sald ss .ren sI $ b si .ss P bashsl. oiher products re,ain fosnes rsiees
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Munitions of War.-Capt Huger, Chief of Ordnance has sent in the following list oi captured arms and ammunition to 4. 4. A. Gen. Scott:
 T'akea tn thc Castle of San Juan de Ui- lod.-3 l0-inch guns. English. 1 mounted; ] l l 8-inch guns, English. mounted; l2 42- pounders, iron guns. W. F. F., mounted, 38 24-pdr guns, W P F. iron; g 2l-pdr iron guns, old, mounted. g 24-pdr bronze guns, mtd, old Spanish; 4 l2-pdr bronze guns; 9 l3-inch iron mortars, very old, on beds, pear shaped chambers, l3-inch stone norlars, bronze; 2l4s l3-lnch shells; 34l5 l0-inch shells; 3672 8-inch shells; 200 l0-in. shells, strapped and loaded; l20 8-inch shells. do; 532 S-iuch spherical case shot loaded; 2l3O 42-pd shot; S36 42-pd shells; l054 g -pd. shot; 1878 2f-pd shot; 9S4 l2-pd shot ; 204S l9-pd solid shot, strapped; 4l3 musk cts; 4l3 musket accoutremenls 2S musket cartridges; boxesl; lS9 sponges and ram- mers; 2S2 haudspikes; II worms; 90 lin- stocks; g pass boxes.
 Taken in the forts of Vera Cru--6 Sin s c howitzers, W P Fonndry, mounted on West Point carriages; 1 42-pd iron guns, " F, mounted; 5 32-pd do do do do; s D. pd guns. w P F iron; l6-pd iron gun mtd; 9 24-pd bronze guns, new, mounted French barbete carriages; 3 lS-Pd s c and Gavin and bronze guns, mounted; 20 l6-pd bronze guns 9 l2-pd do do; 9-pd do do; 6 S-pd do do; Cpd do do,- 5 i-pd do do; 6 l3-in s c mortars, on beds; l0-inch s C nor tars, with beds; l0-inch c mortar. dis mounted; stone mortars, bronze; Il guns unfit for use; very old l3-inch s c mortar plaque, unfit for use, 30 S-inch shells, strapped ond loaded, 1921 2i-pd shot, 2260 l6-pd shot; 304 9-pd shot; 2l musket car- tridges, (boxes); 36 congreve rockets. Taken from troops on the Field -l60 es- copeis: 3626 muskets; 1873 musket accou- tFemea,s; standards, 96 carhines; 25i non commissioned officers's swords; 50 drums: 24 bugles, trumpets or horns ? flies; 2l hand instruments; l22 sets escope, accou. trements
 Besides the articles noticed Tn the invoice there are large quantities of ammunition. im- plemenss, small arms, standards, Sc, stored in the magazines of the town and casile.-- These magazines could not be examined minutely as the first visit
 Passengers.-Per steamship Massachusetts Maj. McRea, Maj. Campbell, Cap's. Nun roe. Roland, Bennett, Blackmore, and Bur rows. Lieuts Scammon, Turnley, Hill, Neil, Howard, Hawke and Myers, Lieut.. Green, U N, Mid Magaw, Messrs. M. '. Beach. F. C. Humphreys, Ed. Vischer, c. N. Smith. G. W. March, Beaumont, Fernandez, and p dIscharged soldiers.
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g. Hans :, said Du,chman to his urchin son, whom he had just been thrashing, for swearing at his mother, 'vat's dat you're thinkiu' go wicked apout, in the corner deres' | aint tinks nott'n.' You lie, you fagabone you you tinks got tGm-and now l'Il yip you for dat'
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Proclamation by the Governor

VXTHEREAS it has been made known to me, w that on the lith inst, q wanton and unpro- voked murder was committed tn the county ot Per. ry by John P. Houston, and Levi G. Houston, up. on the body of Joseph Pierce;
 Now, therefore, 1, Thomas $. Drew, Governor el the State of Arkansas by virtue ol the authority III vested by the constitution of said State do here. by offer reward of two hundred dollars to any per son or persons who may apprehend the said John P Houston and Levi G. Houston, and deliver them to the sheriff of Perry county, in oIder that justice in this behalf may be had and executed In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my ,,S hand. and cause the seal of said State to affixed. at Little Rock, on the 18th of April, A. b, ls47.
 THos. S DREW. By the Governor:
 DAVID s CRETE,
 Sscreiary of Stats.
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3r The following brief let,e,, says the N. O. Delta of 26.h uit., received yesterday from one of our Monterey correspondents, though not conveying any later intelligence than thai already published, is still interest ing;
 MONTEREY, MEXICO, March 28, iS47. Eds Delta :--Ssnce the late giarioas vic tory at Buena Vista all has been quiet save occasionally a set to la the streets between some of the boys, by way of keeping their hands in.
 There is at present no movement of troops in this quarter The twelve mouths volun- teers are looking forward to the sine of their discharge wi.h great pleasure, asa :s i. thought by many here that aUacIe Sam'' will have to hold out great inducements 10 pro cure men to volunteer or enlist tor Eve years or during the war.
 A srs,a of some eighty or ninety wagon, leave this n the morning for Csmargo, e. ecrsed by the aSAr Regimentr (isi Missis sippi Rihcmen,} as they are termed m thes, diggins. Miss,ssIppi has been nobiy fspre sensed in the field by the Is, Regiment, an, well do they deserve the thanks aoi only Q
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How IT WILL TRAvEL-On the Is. of Jaly, New Workers will ge, news from New Orleans in four days, by the Plt,sburg and Cincinnatli telegraph, then 10 be completed
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The effective force of France is now 35O,- 900 men. 10000 are in Algeria, as many more garrison Paris, 10000 are at Lyons, and the rest posted al different barracks. The daily cost of this force IS S200,0OO.
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THE ORDER OF THE JKsuITs.-The or der of the Jesuiis is about 10 be re-establlsf . ed m England, having been excluded for some hundred years.
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CALL AT JEFFRIES,.

YNHF subscriber has just returned from New Or \ leans, where he purchased genteel stock of goods, wares. and merchandise, of this Springs m portstions, and offers them for sale at his old stand. north room tn Aidrchs corneI. al perhaps tower rates for cash the produce of the country, than the same style of goods has before been offered in this market. He would respectfully so- bcit share of patronage from his Ofd friends and the citizens generally.
 C. l.. JEFFRlES. Litie Rc:k, April zs. is47. 3s~-ly.
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What name contains command of , man to his son, to escort the ladies
 Jereboam. tJerry-beau'em.)
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Oh, what soft seat as the hat said when placed on the dandy's head.
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Coannserciai.

From the New Orleans Delta of the 18th uii, we make up the following statement of the markets:
 COIrox--Ses@s to be rather on she decline. ow. ing to adviees received from Europe The proba- sity is however that prices will remain firm with, perhaps. sligh, apward tendency. Our quotation. are now w
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DESCRIPTION.

"J, r. Houston has dark hair heavy beard. dark eyss--Iather spare or slender buiit---is about 26 years of age, about five feet CT i0 inces high and weighs l40 or-t50 pounds,''
 "L. c. Houston has hark hair. dark eyes, saIlow complexion. is about 54 years of age. weight i20 or l25 pounds, height about lset g or 10 inches
 April Fl Ro32 2ws.
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notorious criminal, executed recently at Paris, imputed all his crimes to the theft of an apple iu his childhood, which was never detected
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6 Many men can never see the potai oi joke, because they are the but of ii
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Miss Margare, Fuller is the Paris cores pondent of the New York Tribune.
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Headquarters lst Diuision, :
 Vera Cruz, April l2, AZ {

Orders No. 9-( (Extract) )-The govern ment of the city is hereby turned over to Col. Wilson, lst infantry, 10 whom all per- sons on business will make application. By order of Maj. Gen. Worth.
 W. W. MACKALL, A. A.G.
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Cooper, 1t is said, received $500 for hi, novel, 'The islets of the Gulf now being published in Graham's Magazine.
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A schooimasler down eas, has been fined ten dollars for whipping the girls in his school. A high price Tor Licking Iasses
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yolun,eers ou Friday, aad he has, no dcabt, ...rhed the advance before ihis hour. Gen. Tmiggs had between 25O0 aud 27OC .....-ehoice ones, too-undeF his command, anJ entertain lit.!e fear for his safety. Gen p,uerson reached with Shields and Pillows .,,gades. and all the force except the garri- .,o the town and Quiiman's brigade, are s;,ber at the scene of action or on the road lo It =
 Gen. Scott, think. was pretty well sa,is- fed. before his departure, that Santa Anna v,s in the neighborhood of Jalapa, and was making good time towards that point before tEe express reached him.
 4 ,errible battle will be fought at Cerro Condo, or there will be litlle or no fighting an intelligent Mexican told me tonight, thai tbere would be no fight, and that Santa Anna had with him four prominent members oi the National Congress, with she aid of whom he hopes to negotiate a peace. believe truly, that il is the wish of his Exeelleney to end the strife, but whether he will embrace this occasion, which, by the way, IS an ex- esIlsnt one,) capnot say.
 The horses of the Tennessee Cavalry ar nved to-day from Tampico; and as soon as they are landed expect Quitman viii leave here.
 Moses Y. Beach, of the New Fork Sun, s now here. He came from the city oi Mexico by way of T'ampico, and that in so shor, a time that the news of the exploitation of this place had been received three days before his departure.
 fl can buy, beg or borrow horse, I will leav. for Jalapa as daylight in the morning. from which place l will endeavor to make up for lost time.
 CHAPARRAI..
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converted enemies into friends, will be hap Py to take leave of Mexico and return io their own country
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UNITED STATES OF AMERicA.}
 DISTRICT or ARKAxsAs. Tn the District Court of the United States tor the District Of Arkansas aforesaid for the adludiea- ton of uncon6rmed French and Spanish lana claims: April l2th. fst7 IT is ordered that court adjourn until the second \ Moaday of Jsns next. and that publication be made in the .3rkaasas Baansy. newspaper printed in the city of Little Rock by at least four saeees- siye weekly insertions previoas to said day.
 Attest; VIM. FIELD. Clerk
 By A. H. RvTHsRroRD. D. C. April II noJl 4ws.
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CHAPARRAL.

.Anna's lore dirided beticeea the belliger-
 ents-Hop happy could he De scith neither Ills professions of scar aad oieses of peace.
 MEXICO, Beth March, l847. Eds. Delta-The4riiy of the Montezumas
 is in a most extraordinary situation at this present writing. Farias and the ssConstitu- donalistsn had a civil war of twenty-,hrec Jays duration, in which nobody was killed, and neither party lost or gained an inch of ground That is, no one was killed of the lighters, unless we count some accidental deaths; but great number of harmless citi- zsns lost their lives by the incessant firing |up and down the streets, with which the |beIl:gerents amused themselves instead of |foing within reach of each other. Santa
 Anna wrote lovingly to both parties, and did |hs best to urge them 10 eat each other up, but as soon as he could reach the city with
 some force, he threw them all overheard
 He is playing for the Dictatorship, and is, in fact, clothed with absolute power at this
 moment. He has induced the clergy to aid
 him with money to meet, and as he says, to exlerminate Scott and 'sthe penidious inva- ders." But his plan undoubtedly is to make peace, and while he is yet entreDched behind
 American bayonets, and pethaps with the help of American gold, he will put his ene- pnies where they canno, Interfere with him.
 As soon as he has clear field, he will use his army to seize the possessions of the fh,lreh f1 .ra,ntain and ;nn.nnza ;t ~ foundation of throne. Whatever he pre- tends, he has his eye on the church property, and has twice put forward Gomez Farias as a cats-paw to grasp il, but when he found the clergy too strong for him, he made no scraple to sacrifice his tool and come out on ,ha ~tko. ...lo
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ll SkirnsisA al PHente .Naeiondl, nothing more-Pro5d6te Capture of Cerro Gordo by our Troops-Sania .4nna at or near. JalGpG- Order reigns tn Vera Cru=. VERA CRuz, April l4, 1S47. Eds. DsLa-There has been skirmish hs Puente Nacional, and we hourly look for |ihe intelligence of the capture of Cerro Cor |do. a strong mountain fort, tweniy-two miles from Jalapa. A decisive battle is expected |at this point, for 1t is the bes, vantage ground
 his side of Perote. Gen. Santa Anna was
 Hi or near Jalapa, at the last accounts, but
 by this time, there is scarcely doubt that
 Cero Gordo is carried by assault, and the frmy in snug quarters at the healthy and de- FlghIul city of Jalapa.
 Vera Cruz is as quiet and we'll governed
 es city in the United States. 1t would im- prove the health some 10 throw down the awas, and let in the fresh air, as the com
 mandant thinks of doing.
 If the army takes any more of those nean- i'dul brass 24's, hope they will be sent home
 hs trophies. There are in the town and |castle nearly oae hundred of them. They |Are of splendid workmanship, and superior Iio any the United States has of the same |calbre. They are worth abou, s5OOO a. |p'eee, and would look extremely we'll in the f'whiie settlements"
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 VERY CRuz ANCHORAGE, April l2 lS47,
 Eds. Della "A large detachment of the squadron leaves to-day for Tuspan, com handed by the commodore in person.
 The othcers anticipate something ofa 6gh, that place. It is believed tha. there are upwards of 2000 troops at that place, under 'ae command of Gen. Cos, with some sixty pseces of cannon.
 The squadron captured at Alvarado sixty P'sees of heavy cannon, all servicable and In hne order with the exception ofthree. The greater portion Of the army is now on me road to Jalapa; rumor has it tha, Santa Aeaa IS there with large force and intends 10 d''pu'e the pass near that place. The vo- mo has not vet made its appearance.
 Yours, CREOLE.
 From the Eagle of the 18th April
 'ASrA ASSA.--Again must we appear be- iOte our readers without having any positive ,u'"rmation as 10 the doings and wherea- o0us oi the enemy. Rumor, in the mean ame, 's F'ie with news, and we must. per- % Tee, set down to her account many things. -a'sn' however much we may believe them. e 0ale not give to the public as veri,able. s;' a' ,' ~ me most imporsan. ou.givings up to r'' vu ume, IS, that Santa Anna, seconded by La sfsa' aud force of near l2,O0O strong, has ~.. sena position between this and Jalapa. Na'eh IS said by those familiar with the ''oasry, to be very strong.
 ,.s ,a" report We ind very geaerally bslie- Soy many officers of the army, and by the e'asens of the place. o1N. rarrERsoS.--If gives Us much p.esssre to be able lo announce the recovery I aaI' Gen. Paterson, or, a. least. so to be a~s 70 assume the command of his division " Me army. He lei. this city yu Friday ..sa'ng last, and would probably reach nj, eonnand the sane night
 HE CAsrLE.--The castle of San Ina, 's oiaa has undergone thorough cleansing
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=. of Ten Killed. The fighting was. however,
o,' rot aver for the next morning, the llth, a.
T. ',hrce miles beyond the bridge, the advance
f. d' = sharp fight with band of Mexicans-'he
[,.or rs usual, being driven back. Whether
h W. ,Lirmishes have taken place is not absolute
1 ccr,nin. but it appears altogether probable,
bco those who left Gen. CHdw"oder' on their
|,urn to Vera CrOz' report that on tho l2th' the
~, If firearms was heard in the direction Of
loa Gorlo. All the information we have, yer.
s,J written, loads to the belief that the guer-
J." nroh.bly under the command Of Padre Ja-
~. swormed a'ong tho road from Vera Cruz to
",, and that the detachment under Gen. Cad
tm.odcr had, probably, to contest every mile of
Band on tho route
,be yraious rcncontrcs which had taken place
., ,bc l2,h, the loss of the Americans is STAT
=, from Is to 30, and that Of the Moxicans al
4 m 10 to 100.