The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-23
From the Hartford Daily Times.
veraeity or Whig Conventions.

Rssoped, That the tariff Of 1916 already gloom
wupaly the hand OF industry, clog the wheels Of enter
prize, depress wages derange the currency and reduce
peMti0~-
The above resolution was passed at the whig State
convention and OF course recognised as the deliberate
and Official declaration of that body. But never
predeticp IN every particular ia each part and parcel
so completely fasied Never was the wing party cant
s6nksd ID a; this has Sssa BY living se,s In
has nv1nracd it beyond measure instead of clogging
the wheels OF enterprise, has accelerated them .sl
raised ss % ut sss @ ~ currency. .aars Wing
ery-bu Il has improved Il III nH reduce the yape oil
all propsry croaks the lese propheuLs. i l Aas IN
side, and whigery the other. Even one Of their
high tariff leaders, Stewart, scooted this fsse0tion
fol- Of moaatrous lies and declared ~ New Esgand
p pro- ,d sain indicates lint 6s as ss
h as he the TOY Of S heir foolish sod bad does e' tbs
fair example of the whole. ~Er uno tlsre omnes"
from this one instance we can appreciate all OF them
An Extraordinary March.
The St Louis Republican, of the Goth ult, in announ-
cling the arrival OF company OF infantry from the falls
of St Anthony at that city says the first order for the
movement from Fort Smelling post in latitude 46 deg
NORTH in the depth of an unusually severe winter.
On the 18th OF January, Capt Plumme the commanding
officer OF the detachment took up ms line Of march from
winter from 4G deg, north to go 25 deg south The
second night after the company left Fort Smelling, the
poydgeurs who along with the transportation train,
say that the coolest night they had ever expe
renced. So cold it, that the horses employed in
drawing the trains had to be covered with blankets and
brought to the camp fire to keep them from freezing
For ten successive days before their arrival at Prairie du
Chen the bermometeg at that place averaged eight de
grees beotc 1t is hardly necessary to say that
much colder where the troops Were, they all
the time marching the south: Still worse for forty
miles before they got Prairie du Chen, the soldiers had
to break road through sixteen inches OF snow; and
from that place to Dubuque, they had TO wade through
two feet of snow .isa
This phase OF their hardshps; but before the
company reached the Illinois river, they had another.
The soldiers had to wade mud haleg deep; and when
they stopped night they had in instances cut
branches of trees to lay down upon, hoping thereby
keep themselves from sinking into the mud These are
some of the incidents of this extraordinary march For
nearly seven weeks, these faithful endured almost
every extreme of privaton without mumur, and dur
ing all that time they had shelter their heads,
save one night Lieuts Granger and Denham, who
the subalterns with Captain Plummer marched with the
company all the time-wading through the snow, and
afterwards through the mud nearly knee Deep and ang
in all respects like the soders and these gentemen,we
must be permitted to say here, West Point graduates
to whom common fame, until this war; has not
given the credit of great powers of endurance Captain
Pummer's duties required him to be on horseback por-
ton of the time, but when not thus compelled, he march
ed with his men, may also be mentioned that during
ing this terrible march only two men were lost