The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-19
EDIroR,s TABLE.

EDITORS TABLE.
| Mr.. Tompkin's, TO-, majority over Rob-
erts, d., for Congress from-the Sd District in
Mississippi, is 55O-unnofficial.
DR.. Wilson, an English traveller, recent
ly sounded Jacobs Well, and found it only
rs feet deep and very little water in it. When
Maundre visited it, it was los feet deep,
and had Is feet of water in it.
+ The papers in the interest of Mr.. King
as Senator from Alabama, are out against
the return Of Mr.. Lewis. The war is wax
| ing hot upon this question.
/ A mule driver recently entered his name
opposite a berth on a Vera Cruz steamer,
and placed opposite to it the letters, M. d.
| Every body took him to be an army surgeon,
until an officer, who knew him, let the secret
out to the amusement of all the passengers.
4 The Plymouth is to 60 to the East Indies,
under command of Capt, Gedney, and the
| st. Louis and st. Marys to the Brazil sta
4 ton. The Decatur arrived at Norfolk on
the 10th inst from Pensacola.
j The destruction Of U. States property at
i Vera Cruz, during the northers Of the latter
| part Of last month, will help, to swell the ma
tional debt not little.
i II is said that the Rotcbsh;lds are about to
ship three millions Of specie from N. York,
i that being the amount Of bills on the U. s..
! Treasury cashed by them in Mexico.
i Treasury uotes are now beginning to be
paid into the Treasury for duties-they being
at par. The increase of the revenue will
not benefit Mr.. Walker much in this event.
II will in measure decrease the national
debt bv absornt;on of tbe Government dine
j hills - 4" -1
i The Alexandria Gazette yery truly OBJ
, serves that the most wonderful mart Of the
Electric Teleoranb ;s the extort;onate CHARGES
which the companies make for the transmits
sion &c intell;oence
Our army On enter;no Mex;co encounter
. ed an American nr;soner tied on hoard
. with the flesh flaved from his limbs. and his
heart cut out. ana other ;ndionities commit
L tod nm the cornse too Stacking 10 decency to
relate. Surely, such barbarians deserve the
vengeance Of conquest.
The last dates from Vera Cruz assert that
Santa Anna had fed from Mexico, embark
J ing on an English vessel at old Tampico.
In the battle of Atlixco we lost but one
man killed and two wounded, while the enc
my's loss was $40 killed and wounded. The
conflict commenced between the towns Of
Choeula and Atlixco, and ended in the latter
place after few moments resistance.
A few days since one man shot another in
Benton, Miss. and fled. In his fight he met
the child of his victim, and, telling the
nurse what he had done, fastened on, but
, his knees gave way and he was taken with
the arms in his hand with which he had COM
mitted the murder.
The dead hody Of young female was
found day or two ago near Doylestown,
Pa. It was terribly bruised, but no clue
, was found as to her identity.
{ So far as heard from Gen. Lamar has
nearly all the votes of the Counties Of Nueces
/, and San Patricio in Texas for the Legisla-
ture. Over $50 votes were thrown in the
precinct opposite Matamoras, and they were
chiefly Mexican votes
We are sorry to see the Rail Road Jour
} nal enter the lists in defence of those, soul
, less monopolies, the Rail Road Companies,
against the public condemnation for their
outrageously exorbitant demands for carrying
the mails.
The Patriot is a new Wing paper to be
, published at Lynchburg, Virginia. 1t sup
ports old Rough for President, as every
Wing does, who wishes to rescue the Ex-
ecutive from the corrupt hands of politicians.
Dallas and Jefferson Davis is a Demo-
cratic Presidential Ticket--but all in vain
are these things of an hour The public
mind is filled with one name--the Heroic
Taylor-and there is an end Of all trouble on
this point.
There isa body Of Mexican lancers who call
themselves the Rancheros of the Poisoned
Lance, because they carry poisoned weap-
ons They have hitherto taken good care
not to be found in any Of the battles, except
that of Atlixco, at which some Of them were
captured. Their fate may be imagined.
The road from Vera Cruz to Jalapa was
open on the 9TH inst.--garrisons being sta