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ton. and wherefore the great oulcry raised
anainstit? Because Mr.. Adams and not Gen,
Jackson was elected. Il was alleged that the
popular will was defeated by shameless Goa
li,ion between the friends Of Messrs, Adams
and CLAY, and this cry was vociferated and re-
peated till it operated on the popular mind the
sam effect as though it had been true. Even
admitting for the sake of the argument that It
had some little truth in it (Which it had not
how much worse was the conducto OIL the House
than Of the Baltimore Convention in 1874!
That body disrcgarded the known and ac-
knowledged choice of the party it represented
fully as much as the House Of Representatives
is said to have dlsrcgarded The choice Of the
people Of the United States. Is not the prin-
ciple the same in one case as in the otler!-
It seems to me that disregard of the will Of
the constituent body is just the same in a
member OF a Convention as in a member OF
the House Of Representatives. viii some
acute l~ogician show the difference?
If the caucus system should be discontinued
there would be no chance Of concentrating the
whole strength of a party upon a single can
didate, and by being thus divided it might be
defeated, and its organization broken up
This is the very effect TO be desired. The good
of the country would be vastly promoted by
the breaking up Of the present organization Of
parties. Can any one tell what good to the
country has resulted from tho onvenomed and
embittered contests between the parties during
the last twenty years? The good would be
hard to find, but not SO the evil. That is at
once and everywhere apparent. Public morals
have been corrupted, official honesty has been
much tainted, and muItitudes of abuses have
been introduced into cur political system. A
Presidential canvass has proved the letting
forth Of the winds from the cave of Holus to
sweep over our political sea, the great deep of
public opinion, and tear it up from its inmost
depths. Amidthe uproar and tumult and vio-
lence Of the storm, the voice Of reason and
moderation, of sober counsel and prudent
warning, cannot DO heard. All is in the very
fury of excited passions. But these mad ex-
citemcnts pass away, Aye, after the storm
there is calm, but the laws Of the political
and moral world are not fixed and invariable
like those Of the natural; and the virtue and
good sense of the people, If often subjected to
trials SO severe, may not always prove, like the
power of the tabled Ocean god, sufficient to
still the tempest, and calm the fury of excited
passions. 1t would be better at any rate to
use more moderation, and not try public virtue
too la'. In the heat of passion men lose sight
of reason, and bad consequences might result
from too high an excitement of popular pas
sions. o. N. N.
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Candidate fOr secretary Of state.

We have the pleasure this week of announ-
cling Lieut., w. II. PATTERSON, of the Tombig.
bee Volunteers, the man who backed the intre-
pid McClung in entering the first fort at Mon,
terey, (and who, after the battles of Buena
Vista, lost a leg by the stupidity of an officer
OF the Ohio regiment,) as an independent can
didote for Secretary of State. He has repeat
eddy been solicited by his fellow citizens to
run for this office. He has at length responded
to a public call made, without distinction of
party, through the Columbus Democrat, BY
consenting to have his name announced The
gentlemen communicating to us the informa-
ton, say Of him; 'Elois a genuine TAYLOR man.
in every way worthy and well qualifedl tried
and distinguished, not less for his kindness and
generosity to his comrades in arms, than forhis
yalor and skill on the battle field"
Such is his character to a certainty. for we
will back the word of the gentlemen who saw
SO, as far as he backed McClung, (excusing
the grape, If it "makes no odds to youg') at
Monterey. VIZ congratulate the country tha,
ITS first independent candidate for a State
office is 50 worthy and competent, that he Is a
"soldier aud a gentleman" with every qualiG-
cation for the Office. Who will be the next
moral hero to come out for a State Office. relv-
ing on HIS W WORTH, CHARACTER AND COM
PETENcY to recommend him to the favor and
confidence Of his countrymen? We desire
above all things to see Independent candidates
for all the State Offices. We do not wish an
organised ticket, but an Independent one: and
we would rather have it without distinction Of
party than otherwise. Let us have the be,i
men the State can boast,-people's men. honest
and caPable,-Put forward By The people them
selves, and not dictated 10 them by a caucus
Let Us make Tie trial to see wheher The people of
m'' country haze sense enough 10 govern them
Sel0eS' Il they have not, after making the CO.
pertinent fairly, We then go in for an amendment
to the constitution providing for the appoint.
ment Of a caucus committee to take care of them
Let's Try II any how: selfgovernment is said to
oe a dangerous experiment, but still it is an
experiment we should like to see tried. What
has Gen, Clark done that ho cannot be an in.
dependent candidate for Treasurer ~ outhron
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A Farmer and the Presia.-
reasonable Quea,.

A Farmer and the Preside,
reasonable aueg,.'
A yIslr TO rnn PnrsrDr,7N
man farmer, from Lehipb
Washington, the other d.v Il"
President of the United 49,.
learning the occupation Of n.
him how he liked the Tariff !, !,
high prices it had produced N
prices did not offer good eyid..
value of the act! "Prices !.
said the farmer, "it is trae,p ~.
you being a learned man, MI. B.,
nothing but anignorant FARM,
kind as TO inform me how The NH,
duced these high pricesl?n Tbs y
ed, hemmed and finally soi8 d,
captain hoW It's" Now Mr.. PsI !
science, or rather the want /
wickedly to impose upon the IA
plain farmer, who askedbim !, !.
he asserted to be a fact, BIN, !.
have known to be untrue. y,
should be the judgement ag,io,, /,
he the President Of the Unil,i !
would impose upon the creduI,, \
ing citizen, and who would ev,,
self of one of the Provinces q a
inc in Europe,-,to bolster m 4.
Tariff of 1916?
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For the Mississippi Creole.
politics Of the DaY.-No. q.

Politics of the Day.-No. 6.
1t is urged that party Conventions to nomi-
nate candidates for the Presidency must be
kept up in order to keep the election out of
the House OF Representatives. Many seem to
think the final resort which the Constitution
itself has appointed the very Pandora's box
of our political system. AS soon as an cleo.
ton by the House is mentioned their imagina.
tons are disturbed by visions Of bargain, in
trlgue, and corruption, and the ghost of a GER
tain imaginary coalition stalks before them in
all The hideousness of a ghosts chalacter.-
Why this invincible r~epugnance to suffering
the election to go into the House of Represen-
%tatiyes? The Constitution itself has appoint-
cd that it should 60 there for final decision in
case a choice should not be made by the Elec-
toral Colleges, and it is a body elected directly
by the people, and directly responsible to the
people. This is more than can be said of a
Convention, for it is a body unknown to the
Constitution, not elected BY the people in any
regular manner, and responsible to nobody. 1t
may abuse the powers with which it lis entrust-
ed, or usurp additional ones without any dread
Of future accountability. It may and has set
aside the notorious preference Of the party
whom it assumes to represent for an entirely
new man not before thought Of in connection
with a nomination. This is carrying matters
with as high a hand as has ever been charged
upon the House Of Representatives. The
.G
grand objection to that body is that it defeated
the will Of the people on a certain occasion,
and therefore it ought never to be trusted
again. This is the bugbear which has been
exhibited to the people in 80 many hideous
shapes to scare them into submission to caucus
dictation. Strange indeed that they should be
afraid Of their Nv representatives whom they
can easily hold to a much feared accountable,
ty for any misconduct. The coalition, the
coalition Of 1925 is still The cry Of ~demagogues,
and no doubt falsehoods enough to sink Sodom
have been propagated IN relation to that affair
The election was made by the House in dis.
charge Of a plain duty fixed by the Conslitu.
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The Hon. Jacob Thompson /
Monday last, assigned as his r.,,,
against the bill before Congress h
monthly pay of the Volunteer, Nh
sage, injustice would have be-, n
soldiers Of the Regular Army, n,r,
provision was made in said bin 4,
OF their pay. How much more N,
and patriotic would it have b.,''
Thompson, had he, instead Of opDos.
used every effort to have passed
Congress. He could then baya !,
introduced another bill 10 increas
the Regular Army. Mr.. t. was b
dollars per day, for his services j
of Congress, and could not recOno
conscience to vote for a bill Chat },
ed the pay of the gallant volunteer
lars per month. He, however /,
credit for voting for the bill alIovia
dollars to the volunteers for clo61
regulars, according 10 the inierer
from his remarks, did not recsr,
pay, would he not have cxhibNa
consistency in opposing the l6auI
first ill?-Holy Springs Gasch.
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CoMMUNlcATED.-Died, in Walker County,
Texas, on the 18th ultimo, after a long, pain
full and lingering sickness, Mrs. SARAH ALLEN,
cOnsort of Mr.. Edmund Allen, formerly a resi-
dent OF this County. Tho deceased had been
fora number Of years a member of the Metho-
dist Church, and felt confident whilst she was
fastening to the tomb, she was also Fastening
to a blissful Immortality. She exhorted her
who were present to meet her in the
world where sorrow and sin are no more.
"Where the wicked cease from troubling, and
the weary are at rest"
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HfV"' "'t AotCf"O"fS VIZ lMt
"FEDERALIsTs." = Whenever ts
party are in a strait, and don't km
get out with whole bones, they niaI
"Federalists" against their opOa
much is this their practice, tha ID
and reiteration Of this talismanic vi
press of that powor-worshippi6g at
'ly indicates foul weather 10 them,
of the barometer denotes il IN ID
world.
The late Governor Barbour-u
cuIiar way, was the best anecdte
ever k%new-used to tell of q "a
who, having got 'Emco 6u" Of u
staggered to the vicinity of actl
where he laid himself down on h
went to sleep, Having partially sH
fumes of the liquor, he was aroua
sound of loud speaking, and in q
direction of the noise, he found hnI
presence of a large audience, Who'll
were listening to a stump speech 4
er-for such he was-was in iulT
in loud and fearful tones, proclaina
full sentence, Sunless YOU repent y
damned" To which the drunba
piled, "that's a id federal ie.a
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That LETTER from Gen. Taylor to the Editor
Of the Cincinnati Signal, which we published
in our last, has been pronounced by some a
forgery, The only evidence adduced as YET
TO prove this is the manner in which it con-
cludes-it being signed in Gen. Taylor's off,
cial character. All other letters Of his address.
sed to individuals, and those addressed to Gen.
Gaines, Col. Butler and Henry Clay, were
signed simply, 2. Taylor. 1t will, however
soon be settled.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING. p. w. ToMpKiNs, Esq,
Wing candidate for Congress in this District
will address the citizens Of this county at the
Court House on the Cd Monday, the 9th Of
August. He will also address the citizens at
other places in the county during that week, Of
which due notice will be given. II is expected.
that R. w RoBERrs, Esq the Democratic can
didate will accompany him.
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GEN. TAYIoRs-ThroughOut Virginia, Penn.
sylvania, New Jersey, New York, and in yari
GUS other States, large meetings have alread,
been held, some composed of all parties, and
some Of Democrats only, for the purpose Of
bringing out sold lack" for the Presidency,
Rough and Ready Clubs are formed, and the
better portion of the independent press is lend
ing it's powerful aid to the cause Of the people
and the country. Gen Taylor will be the peo-
ple's President as sure as his life is spared.
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Political parties are not like parallel lines
running side by side for ever, without ever
coming together: they are rather like two
lines starting from opposite points and meeting
half way towards each other. Political parties
in this country started from opposite points
under John Adams, and approached each other
and became united under Monroe. Again
they started under John Quincy Adams, and
will meet under old Rough and Ready, when,
after his two terms they will forget all their
old differences start new theories of govern
ment, and again go off to be again united
This course is inevitable, from the very genius
OF our Government. Each party has a truth
OF its own, with which it at last succeeds in
matchmaking the other, when thew become
one; and each discovering o new truth.
they divide again until they become again con.
WINGED; and SO the great conflict of opinion
goes on, and we learn new truths of our adj.
versary while endeavoring to persuade him of
his error. There is hardly a point of differ
ence between the prominent politicians Of the
Wings and Locofocos. The latter keeps up a
senseless babble about Federalism, which no.
body pretends to understand while the wings
who call themselves Democrats, hardly know
wherin they differ from their opponents. 1t
is amusing to see Father Richie accusing
Gales & seaton ofFederalism, and at the same
time quoting passages from old files of the Ma.
tonql htel'geneer as expositions of the pure
doctrines Of Deu.ocracy.-M y. Mirror.
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Mexico &c.--Mr. N. P. Trisf, now in Mexi-
co, as we learn from a letter of Mr.. Secretary
Buchanan, to the Mexican Minister of Foreign
Affairs, is q Commissioner, with full powers to
conclude a treaty Of peace with Mexico. Mr..
Buchanan's letter was referred by the President,
Santa Anna, to Congress, no quorum Of which
has assembled.
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FARMERS MERCHANTS BANK-No favor
able symptoms have yet developed themselves;
the patient reposes quietly, yet undisturbed by
THAT statement, so long promised by the atten-
ding physicians, from day to day. We think
It's epitaPh may safely be written. and some
how thus-Hiejacetl &c, requiescat IN pacel-
Its notes are selling at so cents to the dollar
Mem. Eag.
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For AUDIroE,-We find at the very bottom
Of the list Of candidates for Kinds County, in
the last Mississippian, the name Of FRANKLIN
SMITH, Esq, Of Madison County, as a candi-
date for Auditor Of Public Accounts. Is that
the way to put him down? 1t is hardly worth
$40 to be announcedthus.
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CEoFs, &c.-since our last we have had
daily rains, and we much fear that this will do
the Cotton some damage. We can hear Of the
boil worm only in the neighborhood we preyi-
ously mentioned. The health of the county
continues good.
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From the Natchez Courier Of 18th inst. We
learn that there was a very destructive rain at
that place on the Sunday previous. It had
been raining for several days previous. but on
tha' day IRON 3 to "a. N. it literally poured
down. Great damage has been done to he
bridges, several Of those on the St. Catbarines
having been injured or destroyed. The injury
TO the crops has been very great.
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TIE % RE7IMENT.-From letters up TO the
last Of June, we learn that the health of this
Regiment is now very good. Lieut.. Henry has
recovered his health, but is still lame, the con-
sequence Of disease.
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For SECRETARY OF SrArE.-It will be seen
from an article, taken from the Southron, in
our paper Of this week that Lieut.. PATTERSON
is an independent candidate for Secretary of
State, He is a democrat.
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Col. Haskill has replied to Gen. Pillow, and
it seems to be the general opinion Of the press
that Pillow is 'a used up man" 1t is too long
for our columns.
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Liquids will find their level" as the topper
sag when be fell into the gutter among the
hogs.
I'm! those are sunny spots" as the old
woman said Of her freckled boy.
"lm beat" as the drum said to the fellow
that knocked its head in.
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The WEATHER. AND THE CHoPs
been visited this week with Plsn0l.
which were much needed BY inc "
and Cotton are now looking finsly
nothing occur hereafter 70 injp'
we shall harvest a most abundar' Y
Corn can hardly fail now, and y, \,
unusually large.-Madisoa (Lsl
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RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-As the cifi
ing from Vicksburg on Friday Iai
Edwards and Bottoms, the train n
from the track by an iron bal tAal 4
in the form Of a man had placed
the evident intention Of hurting ne
the track. No person was injuffd !
fireman, a negro, end he slightly,
failed in consequence Of it, aDd lAS
siderable trouble in replacing lheA
Again, as the train was coming Y
day, in crossing a bridge about l@
low Clinton, the bridge gave T'll Y
tated the cars, apart or the n7'
down a decIivity; but loltun'Al !
injured, though the cars susIaln'e'u'
damage.-Baptist.
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LArE FROM GEN. TAYLoR. - Mr.. Atwood,
who left Gen. Taylor ON the 3lst ult., states
that he has only about -four thousand effective
troops, and will not have exceeding five thou
sand eight hundred, when all his reinforce
ments arrive. Gen. Taylor says he will not
move towards San Luis unless he has upwards
Of six thousand, He is still at Walnut Springs,
in fine health and spirits.
Mr.. Atwood Is enthusiastic in his description
of Gen, Taylor's treatment of him. He in
formed Mr.. Atwood, on his introduction, that
he knew the object of his visit, that he must
make his marquee his home, and then the old
General went to work, sitting for his portrait
with due energy and perseverance.
Direct from Bvena Tista.--Mr. Atwood, the
distinguished artist, arrived here last evening,
direct from Buena Vista and Monterey. Ho
has painted two portraits of Gen, Taylor-one
in full uniform, the other as "Rough and Rea-
dy'" This latter picture is pronounced a per-
feet likeness, even to the old "brown coat,''
and check shirt. Cannot Mr.. Atwood. give us
good people Of New Orleans a peep at this
Rough and Ready picture? 1t would be like
a distant sail to wrecked mariners; a perfect
Jamestown load Of relief to one hundred
thousand friends of old Zac.--N o. National.
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HLH a". ."H.. -ML L MI
The Mormon TEMPLE.-The cs'
fee has been sold to a committee .
oIic church for $4,000. Thisconnl \
also purchased other property q
The building is to be appropriate
tional purposes, connected wl'a
into Whose hands it has passed,
the Mormons in Nauvoo, copSsls'9
or forty families under the chpIgl
H Wells, have left NauvOo 70 l'lR
MIA expedition. Babbitt & o. "
at Nauyoo 10 close up the AFFAIRS
mons.-S \. Louis Rep,
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Escape Of Eight American Prisoners.
The schooner Home, Capt. Kinney, arrived
here yesterday morning from Tampico bring
ing over eight Of the American prisoners who
have been SO long and so unjustly detained in
Mexico. The names OF these men are A. W..
HoIleman, w. P. DeNormandie, w. Funk, Jno.
Thomas, Jno. A. Scott, Roberts. Cockrill, JRo.
Swigert and w. Russell. The last named be-
longed TO the Arkansas cavalry, the Others to
the two regiments from Kentucky. They left
the city of Mexico on the 9Th of June, with
the other prisoners, it being understood that
their destination was Tampico. They march
ed with a small escort in charge of a colonel
and two or three officers. On the l7th they
reached Huejutla, where they were turned over
as prisoners to Gen. Garay, in command of
that town, where several hundred troops were
stationed. The prisoners were treated with
some consideration by Gen, G0rny, and much
more kindness than they had before met with.
They were informed by him that he had no
orders to dispose Of them, and that although
he presumed it was the purpose of the Govern
ment to send them on to Tampico he had no
instructions to that effect, The prisoners were
here furnished with twenty-five cents each
daily for their expenses. This money General
Garay appears to have raised by contributions
among the towns people. After waiting here
some days, seeing no prospect of release, and
fearing lest events at the capital might induce
the Government to change its intention of for.
warding them to Tampico, they determined to
effect their escape. They attempted this in
small parties Of FIVE at one time, two at anoth-
er, and five at another. Seven in all left on
the 9th. The first FIVE weie all re.taken and
carried back to Eluejutla, but one of them
again escaped, and with the other seven reach
ed Tampico. They marched principally by
night, and were from four to six or seven DAYS
on the route. a
After their arrival at Tampico, news reach
cd there by a Mexican that about thirty of the
men had also attempted to escape; that
twenty-five of them had been re-taken, and
three others shot in the pursuit. These were
the reports in Tampico, but our informant does
not place implicit confidence in them. He has
little expectation that Col. De Russy's expedi-
ton will prove Of any avail in procuring the
release Of the other prisoners. He thinks it
certainly will fail, if the intention be to rescue
the men by force. The movement of the Col.
will inevitably be reported to Gen. Garay in
advance, and if he does not feel himself strong
enough to receive an attack, he can very rea-
Oily send off the prisoners further into the in
terror. .
The fate of these men is greatly to be de-
plored, and we cannot but think there has been
remissness on the part OF Gen. Scott in not OBJ
tanning their release. With a number of Mex
ict n prisoners in our power, we could have
brought that Government to a sense of its OBJ
legations to our prisoners, by hanging up some
of their OWL to the first tree,-Pcayune, l6M.
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The Rev. Jones Champlin, ofthe Institution
for the Education Of the Blind at Sharon, will
preach in the Methodist Church on Sunday the
lst August, at 3 o'clock, P. NJ, after which he
will examine one Of his pupils.