The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-11-26


to the grdiron," ard hope and do not doubt
that hc will acquit himself with signal sue
cess and ability.
Charles James Fox once asked Middle
sex butcher TO vote for him. | love your
head but damn your heart, was the reply.
! love your candor bu, damn your manners,
was the reioinder. No such colloquy shall
take place between me and Master Brooks.
The family Of Col. Scott. who was killed
at Chapultepec, reside at Milwaukee, Wis
cOnSin. Col. :. was a native Of Vermont.
The aSt'>ubstantial whc triumph" is that
achieved in Michigan. Here there were 10
hunkeyS or barnburnsrs TO help them. and
the consequence is that in the house they
have elected elerrn out Of 90 members. and
in the senate the "crcat vhic party" stands
without a single voucher. In the popular
vote they have not carried county
THE Y. REGtMENT.-By the following.
which we copy from letter in the Albany
Argus, from a member of Col. Stevenson's
regiment, in California, it appears that in
stead Of fighting, our soldiers are engaged
in teaching the Mexicans there the arts of
peace.
The Regiment Of New York Volunteers
is now very Inuch scaItercd-bcing dlsirib-
uied among d!Icron. posts from Suffers Set,
temeut. on the Sacramento, TO La Pdl, in
I ( H,it a OIL
The Regiment viii never probably be to-
gcther again while in service. They vii.
dearly earn all they receive from the gov
eminent. / he hand of American industry
and enterprise is plainly to be seen wherever
our troops are stationed. Bricks are burn
ed, ovens built, ohimneys erected, saw mills
put i'll operation, and comfortable houses
constructed wherever timber can be had.
Watches and clocks too, are sent to these
stations from a distance of 80 miles, to be
repaired; cloths brought to be made into
clothing, leather TO be made into boots and
SioeS-and atone Of the posts, a tanuery has
been estabshed-and at Monterey two Of
the New York Volunteers, who are employ
ed by the Commissary, have opened stall
Z az which beef, lamb, veal, and mutton can
/ be purchased dressed in Fulton market style.
/ They are doing remark ably well, and even
/ the inhabitants who have been in the habit
Of Strengthening a bullock in the streets for
their own use, are abandoning the habit and
pa,ronizing the New York butchers.
"a whig," writing for the Washington
Union, gives the following plan for conduc-
ting the war with ,.,oNiro, which he sup
ports with column of sensible arguments
"Scvcnty-fve or one hundred thousand
troops can occupy the whole of Mexico
every State to be occupied by sufficient
force, whose commanding officer should be
instructed to disarm the Mcyicans in the
particular State or district of country assign.
ed to him; and by constant expeditions from
his headquarters, to keep up such surveil'
lance as will prevent the collection of troops
of the enemy in his district, and enable him
to draw the greatest amount OF forage, sub
siStcnce, and pay from the country. If suct
an occupation Of the enemy's territory is en-
tire. we must get at their resources, if 1t i:
: partial, we may not.
Such mode of carrying on the war mus
he less expensive than the present mode
Boodshed must soon cease, and success II
certain; for if Mexico persists in her presen
reckless course, two disbandfnehts oil on
troops in her midst must Americanize he
territory, and the Mexican race must sooI
, be absorbed by the superior one. These eff
. fects will be justly chargeable upon her ri
lers.
claim for this plan that it is humdae,eco
, nOmicdl, and certain 10 succeed.
: Our friend Miller, of the "American,' I
getting his name into the newspapers an
Z well he may, for it is no common thing 4
feed and accommodate the great travelling
> world satisfactorily, and yet give them n
= poison. The editor of the Peru Beacon talk
$ about him thus
The AMERICAN HorEL---At Offdpd.-
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