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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-21
REPORTED ADVANCE OF GEN. TAYLOR

The Matamoros Flag Of the 4,h instant says
" From Major ARTHUR, formerly quartermaster at
Ceralvo, we learn that Gen. Wool has received
orders to proceed with the advance of Gen. TAY-
LoR,s column, on the goth insta Mt in the direction
: oil Encarnacion, some twenty l.eagaes from Boena
Vista, where he will establish depot. into which
three months ratons will be thrown. The army
will then advance upon San .uis, and communica-
uon be opened with Tam pico or Tuspan, from
whence supplies will therea iter be received All
the mules and other means Of TRANSFORMATION have
been ordered above and ac aiviy prevails through
out the whole department -
Referring to the same s object, the correspondent
OF the New Orleans M ltional" says: The i'm
preston now is that Gen. TAYLOR will make a
forward movement alb out the first Of September
our columns VIII be ! Immediately advanced to En-.
carnacion, which is ne last Mace where running
water is TO be had, 2 md where an advanced depo
OF provisions and unitions will be established
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THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL.

The Salem Mass Register givesa statement Of
the original cause of collision between the Officers
of the United States and the civil authorities at
Rio Janeiro which led to the open rupture between
our Minister and the Government Of that country,
and arrives at the conclusion that the conduct of
our Minister such as to demand unqualified
disavowal by the Government Of this country.
As we have heretofore had occasion to say, we
cannot undertake to pronounce judgment, in this
matter, upon opinions of others which appear to
be strongly tnged by prejudice against our Minis
ter: but we do not the less sincerely unite in the
hope, expressed by the Register that " the diff
fcutes which unfortunately now exist between
that vast country and our Government may soon
be brought to a conclusion equally honorable to
both countries
The earnestness of the /" Register on this SUBJ
feced, that we feel bound to give currency so far
as republication in this paper can do it, to what
that paper has to say on the threatening aspect of
this foreign question, both as respects the particular
interest OF the seaport of Salem and our maritime
navigation and commercial interests generally.
With this view we invite the attention of our
readers to the following remarks of the Register
AS citizens of Salem, we feel deep interest
in the peaceful termination of this question, which
threatens to involve our country in another war.
Our fellow-citizens are deeply interested in the
lucrative and advantageous commerce carried on
: between this city and various ports of Brazil.
= Our East India commerce, too, passes within
= few hundred leagues Of the Brazilian coast and
: would be exposed to the utmost danger in case of
war. We sincerely hope that our Government
will be upon their guard not to thrust the country
into another war, which would be both unjust and
: unnecessary on our part The Brazilian Court
has already recalled its Minister, and the public
feeling throughout that country is decdedy against
u.s. and would need but little tanning to break into
flame in which the lives and fortunes Of many
Of our fellow-countrymen would be consumed"
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THE WAR.


We are satisfied, upon deliberate review of all
the public and private accounts that have reached
us from Pueba, that no news of decisive chaiac.
ter need be looked for from that quarter for several
weeks one reason for this impression being he
want of likelihood that Gen. ScoTT would under
take to march his force for an attack upon the city
of Mexico, without urgent necessity, during he
rainy season, which began on the 10th of June,
and will not end before late in September. Th,re
are other reasons against the probability of an IN
mediate m,vement by the main body of the Army
upon the City; but this one reason being sufficient,
il is hardly necessary to state the others which have
influence upon our mind, especially as they resch
us through private channels.
Nor do We feel so certain as some of our conten-
poraries appear to be, that it will be necessary Tor
the Army 70 advance upon Mexico at all. We
cannot bring ourselves to believe that the Mexc;n
chieftains, by whom every thing is directed, will
not find it tc be their personal interest, as well IS
that of their country to listen to proposals for peace,
which our Government now makes to them pre-
posas which of course there would have never been
occasion to make had not the war been most unns-
cessarily bought on.
The tone Of some of the Washington correspol-
dents for the Eastern city presses, who have hereo-
fore been supposed by us to be possessed of tie
views Of the Administration, is calculated we Think,
to mislead their readers. We refer at this mommt
particularly to the letter of the Washington cores
pondent Of the Public Ledger that appears in that
paper of Thursday, which talks about "ictating
peace" and making the Mexicans conform to our
terms;" about hanging" all Mexican found in
arms who are not under the command 4 regular
officers about "begnning to tao the Mexcans,
not only indirectly, but directly, is c,tomary IN
all acars y laying export duties on secie, &C.,
concluding as follows
"If Mexico does not make an immediate peace,
the whole conquest of peace will be rduced to a
financial problem: how to draw from HeIico the
sums necessary to prosecute the WARMTH vigor,
z 10 the entire su9jugation Of Merico o,cn to the
= Isthmos."
We sincerely hope that Mexico mig make an
immediate peace but it is greatly unloading the
public mind to induce it to suppose tat it will be
by acceding to such degrading terms or yielding
TO such ferocious threats, as are hee intimated.
We do not deem so harshly of our administration
as to suppose that it will offer sun terms as are
inconsistent with the usage of civilized nations, or
such it knows that the rulers Of 10 nation of Eu-
ropean descent can accept. We d not think that
our Government can have offered such terms and
therefore we do not despair of pace without any
further shedding of blood.
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Let no one understand US, when exulting at the
certainty of Wing malorite in the House of Re-
representatives., as expecting that majority to make
any attempt to stop the wheels Of the Govern
ment'' by Withholding either the necessary appro-
prations for the support of it, refusing to pro-
vide the means for meeting any expenditures which
have been already authorized by law. Quite the
contrary. Scrupulous regard for the public faith
and for the obligations of contracts generally, is
cardinal principle in the Wing creed. The Wings
will, we hope and trust, do every thing they can to
bring this odious War with Mexico to an honorable
close But, with reference to the public credit for
whatever purpose pledged, we have no doubt that
it is fortunate, even regards the Administration
itself, that the Wings now certainly ascendant
in the body which has original jurisdiction over the
Ways and Means. They will doubtless hold the
Administration, in every department of it, to rigid
accountability they may refuse to lay taxes on the
necessares of life, proposed at the last session.
that foreign luxuries may come into the country
free of duty: but, should the War with Mexico be
prolonged until the meeting Of Congress, (which
Heaven forbid !! other means not incompatible with
national honor and dignity than stopping the sup
plies will be found to put stop to the war.
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HE Cost OF WAR.-FRANcE AND ALGIERs.-
The UNITED STATES AND MExIco.-In late let
ter from the Paris Correspondence of the Bostor
Atlas, an ntlmation is made, in alusion to the pre-
sent financial condition of France that storm CLOUD
hangs over the treasury of that country, which mus
sooner or later burst and produce the most seriou,
disasters. The cause of this apprehended conclu.
sion IS founded on the following ia cts:
during seven years, from 1899 to 1916, the public
expenses OF France have risen from I,I79, 600 600
francs to 0,000 or nearly one hundred mil
lions OF dollars ! During the same period the reve
nues OF the State have risen from l,I23, OOO, 900
to 1861 100000, an increase of 23S,OOO 900.
or an increase of expenditures over income OF
lS9,OO0,000. In 1899 there was nearly an exac
balance between the receipts and expenditures in
1916 an actual deficit OF hundred and eighty-nine
millions of francs.
The cause is thus explained:
10 what Is this state Of things owing Why is il that.
France one OF the most productive nations on the globe en-
essedy sraning every by the grinding and ps
vadng system OF taxaton that Yields her an income of over
TWO hundred millions OF dollars is rapidly accommodating an
oVerwhemlng public debt with prospect Of qudatinq
The answer is a simple one and il is as applicable 10
our condition as il is TO hers--it is WAR"
Il is added that Of 427,O0O,OOO by which he
budget OF France has been swelled during the hst
seven years, more than tvo hundred millions have
been caused by the additional expense of the army
and navy alone. The war in Alpiers and the navy
now cost France two hundred millions a year more
than they did in 1899 The more ground she bas
conquered, the more territory she has acquired. the
greater her apparent success, in just the same pro-
portion does the cost increase
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TrE oUscE LErTrR-For the benefit Of our subscribers
VIC publish this article We have been great pains to as
certain how much be transmitted for five cents An
avordupos half ounce is 2lss grains Waters one grain.
Sealing wax usual quantity, he grains sheet of ooscap
weighs 72 grains; letter pape 1876. Small envelopes az
grains large So. You send letter 800 miles Tor hive
cents, containing the sheet Of letter paper with three
bank notes. sealed with the letter with three bank
notes in an envelope Half sheet Of letter paper with hall
eagle enclosed under sheet with dime and hall en-
closed secured by waters single sheet OF letter paper WIN
quarter eagle enclosed secured by sheet Of fools
cap in an envelope, sealed with wafer One and bal
sheets Of letter paper secured by wafer These cal
cuaons based upon the ordinary letter paper now IN use
BY using very thin French paper greater number oil sheeu
90 TO the hak ounce Of course Philadelphia Sun.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-21

KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE Frankfort Com
monwealth says that the returns for State Senators
and Representatives show that the Wing party will
have nearly as large majority in both branches of
the Legislature as last year. There may be some
three or four votes less in the House of Representa-
tives. So far, ffty-fve of the members elected to
the House of Representatives are Wings and thirty
Locofocos. The Wings have consequently already
majority of ten, as the House consists of one hun
dred members.
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INDIANA.-The popular vote Of this State at the
recent election exhibits a large Wing majority.

Iowa ELEcTIoN.-It appears by the returns from
Iowa that WILLIAM THOMPSON and SHEPHERD LIEF
FLER, both Democrats, elected to Congress
from that State. Their Wing competitors were
JESSE B. BROWNE and THOMAS McKNIGHT.
There was no election this year for members OF
the Legislature, except in one two districts where
vacancies had occurred Whether these partial
elections will have effected such change in the
state of parties to enable either of them, at their
next session. to elect two United States Senators
remains to be seen. At the former (frsD session
of the Legislature of this State as the reader may
recollect by the Locofocos Of one House refusing
to go into joint meeting, the election Of Senators
was defeated.
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The TELEGRAPH OUT WEsr.-The people of Ohio are
delighted with the practical operations of the Telegraph The
Columbus State Journal says gentleman of that city whose
wife visit New York, steps into the office and makes
his respects her. saying he WELL and nqung into her
welfare and the price of This is addressed COM
mecal friend in New York. and in little more time than is
requisite for active penman to write the message, receives
reply, saying, "Your wife is at my house she is wei
cents per bushel."
Besides this, the Zarespe Courier has been enjoying
little fun by telegraph 1t that Columbus mas State
House in about great state of orwardness as the Wash
ington Monument, and Zanesv lille has fountain So the
following passed as telegraph &c correspondence:
" .sEsvILLE, Ausrsr IL, ls47.
J. Griener, Esq, State Librarian
DEAR Sin: How hgl il the grass on The foundation 81
the new state House ZASEsvILLE FOUNTAIN.
COLUMBUS, AUsUsr IL, ls47.
ZanesUiA Fountc in.
On die State House foundation,
he grass is, to-day,
fiboIt twice as high
As the fountain can play. GRIESER.
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GRIENER.

Inc New Orleans papers notice the death Of Lieut. NILES,
comr andg of the companies of the second Illinois eg
me Mt just returned from Mexico. He proceeding up the
Mississippi in the Yazoo, when that vessel in
contact with snag, which carried away her wheehouse.
Lieut. NJ who below at the time carried away in
e wreck of the wheehouse. The boat stopped some time
TO repair, but nothing Of him. This
sad death for brave soldier, just returning home the
bosom of his family and friends.
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= :" eks colony Of emgrants, numbering some
my Al present residents Of Brooklyn, will take up
~ march for the western part Of Virginia, where
purchased several hundred of wild Ia nd near
Cincinna Nth b;h , :, :. - 80. -. -,
by water Tbe.o ,,nds vh;oh -. ,,n,o.onod : -. !,
ably &c r;,e ,yo,o rocon,, =; no....;on &C NJ
gentlemen OF Brooklyn, and have been disposed Of to
ueSe actual settlers at the price of 81 l2I per acre
Ne,o York paper.
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MARyLAND.--We see, by the Baltimore Argus,
that the Locofocos of Maryland calculate upon the
supineness of the Wings to play the same game
upon them that has been played in the two Ken
lucky districts above referred to- They who make
such calculations know little OF the intelligence and
public spirit of Marylanders. They suffered them
selves TO be taken by surprise at the election two
wears ago. They are wide awake now.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-21

DR.. SAMUEL Henry Dickson, Of Charleston, South Ca
rona has been appointed the Proesorshp Of Theory
Practice of Medicine in the University Of New York. vacant
W The death OF Dr. REVERE. DR.. DrcKsoS has held the
same Poessoshp for twenty years in the Medical CO.
ege OF South Carolina one Of the largest and respc
able institutions Of our country, Of which he was the foun
lie IS the author of highly esteemed ea Use on the ORA
Of medicine 'uc
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FIX IN VERA CRUZ.

The steamship telegram. from Vera Cruz on
ue fth instant J arrived at New Orleans, but
brings nothing ter than before received from the
army Of Gen. s corr
bearer Of q esn.tcboo g., ~ r, ouor,,o,,, !, !
alrl'ee a. Yer aCruz, his way to the Headqusr-
'oie vi VIC NJ nv.
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KENTUcKv.-Two Of the Congressional districts
of this State in which the Wings suffered Demo-
cratic candidates to be elected at the late election
are overwhelmingly Wing, if the Wing strength
were concentrated on single candidates In one of
these two districts, at the last Presidential election
Mr.. CLAY received majority of eighteen hundred
and f,ceiue, and in the other of eighteen hundred
and seuentyJfUe. To lose these districts with such
recent overwhelming majorites is, as the Kentucky
Observer Justly remarks most shameful.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-21

FREAK LIeHrsINe-Durng the thunder gust last
week. says the Cecil Wing, the lightning cut some strange
antics the railroad depot at that place. split the pump
and down several of the poles tearing them went and
going into the tenpn alley twelve strike with one roll
knocking down all the pins and two Of the players.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-21

HEALTH OF New ORLEANs.-The Board of Health
reports that the total amount of deaths in New Or
leans from yellow fever, which was fortyseUea for
the week ending the I'd instant, had increased to
one hundred and hirty-three for the week ending
on the 9th. The suffering and mortality BY the
disease greatly aggravated by the restitution Of
a,e classes among which 1t hnds the most Of is
victims
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SIXTH ILLINOIS REGIhEST-Ths regiment which ranks
the second regiment of requisition and is full
numbers $40 strong Its rendezvous is Alton, whence will
make its departure for New Orleans, and thence to Vera
Cruz in about a week.
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SUPERIOR PEACHES small but beautiful lot the growth
of Dr. BArSE, Alexandra, (Va) selling in our
principal market yesterday the rate of 81 so per peck
Dr. Bayne fortunate in having any for sale he is also for
in having such large luscious and wefavoed fruit
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VIRGINIA has just finished her last Congress
sIona election, and the result is every thing we
could have desired. There is no change against
: as there since the last election. The voters of
the dlstrc, are more decided and active. Instead
OF the II majority by which Dromgoole was elect
ed, Meade has carried off the palm by solid ma
jority Of 800"
las the Editor Of the Union y already forgot
ten' but little more than three months ago, on the
oecease OF Zen. DRoAGooLE, his declaration that
but Tor some unfortunate habit" he could never
have been brought to SO low vote as in the imme-
diately preceding election! I" Had he always been
true to HIMSELF was said lin effect his party
would have been true to him. &c. To Judge Of
the bearing Of the vote in this district now showing
Democratic majority las stated by the Union) of
800 votes. 1t must be remembered that the MAORI
" Tor Mr.. Polk over Mr.. CLAY, at the last Presi-
dental election, October, Is44,) was ouer eight
hundred rofeS. 50 that the gain of the Wings at
the late special election in that district is no less
than 44o, to say nothing Of their gains in other dis
trlcts on the regular day of election, when they sue
ceeded IN electlng to the next Congress sir Mem
bers instead OF one Member, which was all they
had in the last Congress.
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nv, AVE not these People of the South and West
presented to us In the general result OF these
elections, what moral triumph, more glorious far
THAI victory in the bloodiest field of battle, have
nothey achieved How beautiful trait VIII not
Their conduct offer to him who is hereafter to
write their country's history! In the same page
with the gallantry which induced them voluntarily
toperil their lives in war which they were told
BY the Government was war of defence against
INVASION, in how bright contrast, and YET more oeau-
tu concord may not the historian depict the moral
curage which has enabled them, on their return
With their fathers and brethren whose hearts were
With them, disregardng all the allurements OF mill
airy glare and all the Establishments OF power, to
,ender at the polls true and just decision, with full
evidence before them, upon the merits OF the Gov
srnment which embarked them in that war
1t is to the State of TENNESSEE, more particu-
ary where the contest was waged the hottest, and
where the question of the war was most thorough
" probed, and perhaps best understood, that these
remarks may be taken to apply. Never were the
gifts of the orator and the arts of the demagogue
on any occasion more industriously employed than
in the canvass in that State and great indeed must
have been the united power of truth, reason, and
eloquenee to have successfully combated as it
has done in that State against them. But to the
Wings Of each of the States which sent forth its
egions to the war, and has nevertheless done its
luty in this civil contest-to INDIANA, to KEN
rucKY, to TENNESSEE, to Nonru CAROLINA, and TO
ALABAMA, be such honor and praise awarded as
ire due to the most distinguished civic services !!
They have saved the Constitution.
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We agree with the Boston Journal in the senti-
citizens Of the noble metropolis of New England
and complimentary to the great statesman and
patriot.
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Capt E. A. OoDEs has been relieved, at his own
from the post of Ouartermas,e, =, ~, ,,s e equest,
Grande On his retiring The M.,.,ao a. FL the Rio
the highest commitments for he .a;.;an, l bestows
study 70 advance the interests Of the Government constant
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THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE ELECTIONS

1t would be expecting perhaps too much from
the well-known philosophy and imperturbable tenn
per of the Administration and its Editor to suppose
that their equanimity would not be somewhat ruff
fled by the news from the Western and Southern
elections. Vet os~faas ~..rrieo that tt,s
eminent Editor will not admit the results of these
elections TO be plain indications of disaffecton to
the Administration.
The people have not changed" says the Onion /;
I" so, at least is the best information we have re-
celved. They will never turn against their coun-
" try II the midst of foreign war;
Certainly not-never against their country, whe-
ther IN peace or war. But the elections decisively
prove that the People are against the Har because
they are for their country, and not for entanqling
and jeoparding it in interests that are foreign TO il
and to its institutions. bungling attempt is made
by some Tennessee correspondent of the Union
to account for the defeat of the reelection of the
able and interchangeable eIectoneerer, the present
Governor Of that State. We presume that the Edi-
tor does not intend to intimate that the Governors
election in that State-the Presidents own State
did not turn upon the merits of Mr. Folks admin
trahon Of the Executive Office, and especially on
that part of it which relates TO the Mexican War.
He will not, we take it for granted, deny that the
Governor (Mr. A. V. BRowN) made that War his
hobby throughout the campaign, and rode it at every
encounter full-tt against his opponent, mr. N. S.
BRowN;) and that, upon the ground of his own
choosing, with the people for judges of the lists he
has been endorsed and beaten down by the supe-
nor power Of his opponent in having on his side
the favor Of the People for the cause of truth and
justice, Of which he was the advocate, against the
redoubtable champion of the present unnecessary,
sanguinary, and most costly war.
If he does deny this, however, we shall have
something more to say upon the subject.
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AIRS. PORTERs Seminary for Young Ladies'
lvI The next term will Monday, September
18Th the Session Room adjoining the First Presbyterian
Church, Al street. aug 2l-eoSt