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RECEPTION OF THE MISSOURI AND
ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS.

The citizens and authorities of st. Louis
are taking praiseworthy steps to give the
above named soldiers a warm reception up
on their return to their homes. They are
expected daily, and probably some Of them
may be there by the time of our going to
press. From the St. Louis Union of FRI
day evening last, we gather the following:
"Ata meeting Of the Joint Committee Of
Arrangements-copsisting of a Committee
appointed by the City Council, and the
committee appointed by a mass meeting Of
the citizens held at the Rotunda, on We'd
nesdav the 23d instant-held at the Plan
ter's House" on Thursday last, all neces-
sary steps were taken, to insure a concert
of action upon the part of the different So
~cisties, companies, military and civic, to-
pether with the citizens Of the city and
country, to render the scene worthy OF the
occasion. A committee was despatched
Immediately to meet the volunteers and ap-
prise them Of the wishes and intention OF
the citizens, and to make arrangements
with the boats to secure their arrival at a
suitable hour by day.
"The approach of the Volunteers will be
announced by the firing of cannon, (lS
guns,) and the ringing of bells of the
churches, fire companies &c. Upon which
the military and civic authorities, and all
institutions and societies, will repair as
speedily as possible to the ground designa-
ted by the Marshal, and form in procession
When the vessels containing the Volunteers
arrive in front of the city, a national salute
will be fired, and the flags displayed from
the vessels in port" Col. Benton has
consented to make the reception speech
upon the occasion. The Illinois Volunteers
bring with them the remains Of Col. Har'
din and others who bravely fell with him;
So in the midst Of life, there will be death
To add to the interest of the day, it will
be remembered that the captured artillery
ten large and six small Pieees-will b'
brought there under charge Of Capt. HuD
SON, and also the black flag taken from tn
enemy at Eracito. 1t is expected to. b.
one of the most brilliant Getcs ever giveI
atthe city of St. Louis.
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AZ Your sympathics are instructed
Better "feel"-when in a sympathetic
mood-for your President and his party, on
the score Of "this eternal war;" and the
'lone continuance" thereof.-[Journal.
We have thought of this President and
the party, and have never done so but a
thrill of triumphant congratulations has re-
paid us for the thought. Proud are we Of
the man, who against foreign invasion and
domestic treachery, protected his country's
rights; and of "his party" which has al
ways taken the side Of country, and since
the foundation of this republic has been its
bulwark and its stay, We are doubly proud.
We have felt that sympathy, "for our coun-
try and those of her gallant sons, even in
GLIDING one Gen. Zachary Taylor, whom
his duties will keep in the field, lin Mexico
while you are periodically hunting for the
spoils of Office in Missouri" which it be-
comes q man to feel for his country and her
defenders. We know no distinction of par
Ity in that case, and we have made none.-
Fremont, D~oniphan, Kearney, Harvey,
Riley, Scott, and Taylor, have received
their full need of praise at our hands as
soldiers of the republic. We have never
prophecied defeat nor appointed to them
their positions. We believe in the rectitude
of their intentions, and leave the rest te
their W experience. From this upright
line of conduct, we will neither be wheed'
led nor driven; not eve by an allusion o.
petty malice.
As regards %ourself, it is true that we art
"hunting for the spoils Of Office in Mo-
and we are alphabetically hunting this Of
ice," while you are advoiding, and no
very periodically, lodging your portion o
the country's conflict. Circumstances owe
which we had no control, compelled OIL
stay in Pike, and while we had to stay mole
rs, ~volens, we did the best to mend thos
circumstances, by ~"hunting the .spoils o
Office" In this hunt, we have, thanks t
all our friends, Wings and Democrats, bee
buoyed up by encouragement that ensur
i success, and that encouragement was nj
j gained by hanging out false c%olors, an
pretending we would do one thing while il
tending another, or "nosing" any n ma
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The above article takes the ground that
Mr.. Polk vetoed or otherwise defeated the
bill to create a Lieut.. General, and there
fore is the cause and entitled to the credit
Of Scott and Taylor's victOrtes in Mexico"
mo. Journal.
The Banner said nothing about "victo-
ries." The Banner stated that Mr.. Polk
was answerable for all the damage that
might be done to commerce by those two
"Polk stalks" Scott and Taylor, and
"Meref0re" not one word about "victo-
ries." We give victory to whom victory is
due, honor to whom honor. There was a
rub due to those who had made the "snags'
in the rivers of the U. S. "Polk stalks"
and we gave that rub without intending to
take the skin entirely of the Journal. We
"took the ground" that if Mr.. Polk was an
swerable for "the fruits Of his vetoes in
preventing the removal Of snags," he was
surely answerable for the actions Of Gems
Scott and Taylor, whom he had placed in
Mexico, and whom he had refused to Gre
moye." And we will "leave it to men" to
say whether the " idea that a snag is Polk
stalk, which he neither planted nor remov'
ed, is mot more @false," more "absurd" anc
more Huncaudid," than to call those "Poll
stalks" whom he not only planted bu
sustained. GAS to tile patriotism ane
humanity that could rejoice' at the pros
peetive defeat of our armies, that their ma
~lignaucy could b gratiied in TRADE of a
buse against the President of the country
or seek to trample upon constitutional Law
in order to succeed in a p~artizan measure
they are not entitled even to a "rusty nail,'
except in the Israelitish fashion, it were t.
fssten their ears to their W decrease.
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II The St. Louis Union, of Friday last
says: The continued distress in Ireland
starvation and pestilence-has awakened
inquiry into the causes of SO general desti-
tuition. Statesmen of all castles are satisf-
ed that no permanent hope remains, which
stops short of a radical change in the laws
and social system. Hence some plan must
be devised by which the few will cease to
.monopolize the land, and exhaust the sub
stance of the many. The death of O'CoN-
NELL, will probably produce the most seri-
Gus consequences. His influence alone
could restrain the people from resorting to
violence, ever in more quiet times; and
now, when goaded on by despair, and in
famed by the sturdy appeals and impassion-
ed eloquence of O'BR1Ex, and the Young
ireland party, other than moral weapons
may be drawn, unless the imperial parlia-
ment shall make great concessions to the
suffering Irish. Indeed, all Europe Is in
great agitation. On the continent a spirit
of inquiry and boldness is manifested, more
clearly than heretofore; and with the down.
fall of the Peace Ministry in France, the
insurrection in Portugal, the conflicts ii
Spain, Austrian intrigues in Italy, tie lib.
eral viewsof the Pope, the religious dissen'
sions in Switzerland, the constitutional as
sembly in Prussia, &C., may come events
which will shake old dynasties and give t.
man a truer and better position in govern
ment.
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The Banner intimates the discovery Of an
inconsistency in the language used by us in
placing Gen. Taylor's name at our mast
.head-as a candidate for the nextpresiden-
cy-in that, we spoke in one paragraph, OF
Gen. Taylor's not having been Unidentified
with the mere party struggles OF the times
that he would be prepared to take his seat
in the chair of Washington, rot trambled BY
~cliques or factions &c.-and in another, Of
his being an illustrious ewing LEADER
Now if the Banner had reAecteda moment
upon the history of the country in the days
of General Washington, he wonld nave
recolIccted that immortal man, was never
identified, with the mere party struggles OF
his time-that he had an elevation OF soul,
and a dignity of character, that placed him
far above all such infiuences-and that at
the same time, the country "recognized" in
him the most illustrious Swing LEADER"
that ever bore the lonored name of 'whig."
-GMissouri Journal.
We did not take his remarks from two differ
emf paragraphs, (as the Journal ~asserts,) but
from the same, and adjoining sentences too. II
the Journal can see no difference between the
evident meaning of the phrase ewing leader"
in the days Of Washington, and at the present
day, his perceptive faculties are surely not to be
cnvied. In using the phrase in his article when
he raised Gen. Taylor's name to his masthead,
he ~denomipated him ''that illustrious Wing lead
er-Gen. Zachary Taylor" Now if an editor
in denominating a mali a 'great wing leader"
means that he is above party, and has never
been "identified with the mere party struggles
of the time, ~ then the Journal, by a fair showing
up, can make it appear, to be perfectly consIs-
tent, to recommend Gen. Zachary Taylor for the
Presidency upon the grousd that he has never
been identified with the mere party struggles
Of the times;'' and in the same paragraph, and
very next sentence, denominate him 'that great
wing leader,"& SC. We will not take the Journ.
ais definition of the language, if he thinks
sc wing leader" means now, what it did in the
days of the revolution. The common accepta-
ton of the term, we will venture to say, means
a leader of the present wing party, in contra dis
~tinction to the Democratic alias Loco Foco party
The common meaning given % the phrase in the
days of Washington, w will also venture to say
was a leader o. the then Wing party, in contra
distinction to the Tory party-out Of which the
Federal and Republican parties afterwards grew
As 70 our having spoken slightingly Of "oi'
Zach "it is untrue. Wespoke Of him just as We
would Of Old Hickory. As a lover Of his coun
try, we honor him; as Il brave and skillful Gen
eral, we admire him; as one who has never beef
identified with any political party, We rrsrrr
him; but as to his 'sbeing above party" and a
the same time a great 'Whig leader" we de
|nyit {.
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FROM MEXICO,


Attack Of the Guerrillas upon the Gov.
eminent train under command OF
Paymaster Bennett, escorted by Lieut..
Col. Mcintosh and 500 Regulars:
We are indebted to the ReviNe, for the
following intelligence:
To DR.. Dickinson, who arrived this morn
ing on the Viola, from Cairo, at which place
he left the Cincinnati, from New Orleans,
we are indebted for full files of New Orleans
papers, as well as valuable verbal informa-
ton from the seat Of war.
Our informant left Monterey on the stl
inst, Brazos Island on the 18th, and New
Orleans OIL the evening of the 18th, bring
ing the latest intelligence from all those
points. The steamer Princess, which left
New Orleans on the same day with the
Cincinnati, was passed about forty miles
above the city. Col. Doniphan's command
were in New Orleans, and it was doubtful
whether they would be paid off there or at
St. Louis.
Gen. Taylor's army was healthy. The
Virginia regiment was recovering from the
smallpox. This regiment was to have left
Monterey for Saltillo on the day after DR..
Dickinson left.
Lieut.. Col. Webb was met between Cam
argo and Monterey, on his way to join Gen.
Taylor, with six companies OF the Illinois
''Ten. Regiment troops.
Col. Butler, of the Sd Dragons, had also
left Matamoras to join Gen. Taylor.
The Camp OF Instruction had been moved
from Palo Alto to Matamoros. Different
portions of regiments are rendezvonsing at
the later place. The Massachusetts Regi-
ment left Matamoros OIL the 9Th June for
Monterey.
These changes were made by Gen. Tay-
Ilor, under the expectation of being speedily
reinforced, and being able to march on San
Luis Potosi. The division Of CadwaIla-
der's command in another quarter, however,
has defeated his purpose, andleft his future
Operations uncertain.
Gen. Taylor's command now consists Of
IBragg's Washington's and Shermans's bat
Iteries, two companies of dragons, second
Mississippi regiment, and North Carolina,
Virginia and Massachusetts, regiments.
Major Early, of the Virginia regiment, is
Governor Of Monterey.
We learn further from DR.. Dickinson, that
a recent arrival from Vera Cruz, at New
Orleans, brought the intelligence that the
Government train, which left Vera Cruz
recently under command Of Paymastrr Ben
nett, with $780, OO, and escorted by Lieut..
Col. Mcintosh and eight hundred regulars,
was attacked by gurriilas twenty five miles
from the place oi starting, and lost two
hundred packed mules with 500 600 worth
Iof property. Gen. Cadwallader, at the
head Of five hundred men, had gone to their
relief. When our informant left New Or
leans, fears were expressed for the safetyo Of
Col. Mcintosh.
Among the important items OF Information
received, notthe least is the election Of
: Santa Anna President Of Mexico! The in
Intelligence was received at New Orleans
,lfrom Vera Cruz a few hours before our in
former left.
Vera Cruz is represented as being very
sickly.
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for his support. This charge, too, comes
With a very bad grace from one whose hide
is yet reeking from the larding of the sPoils
of Office in Mo-, and whose only excuse for
staying at home can be that Gad-fy-like'
he may batten on the moral diseases Of
community.
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The Blind not BHnd.--A blind man, led
by q dog, while wandering in the stress Of
Paris, had his dog seized by some one pass
ing. Instantly opening his eyes, he gave
chase, and, overtaking the thief, cudgeled
him severely, after which be closed his eyes
and fell to begging again.
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g+The .Nsw Orleans Della says melons,
figs, fruits, &c., in great abundance are
brought to that port by every vessel from
Vera Cruz. They are raised in the vicini-
ty Of Jalapa and are the results of a new
trade with Mexico, springing from the &C.
cupation of fertile districts.
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From the. n: O. Pirayune Ct the 18Th.

ELPAso DE LOS ABrJos, June 9Th, lS47.
GenNemen:-Here / am, about twenty
four miles from Vera Cruz, with the train
that left on the 4th, inst, and you may know
by the length Of time we have been coming,
that we have undergone a great deal OF
trouble. For the last twelve miles we have
fought our way, under command Of Lieut.:
Col. Mcintosh. We are within six miles OF
the National Bridge, which is fortified by q
large body of Mexicans. Wehave lost some
thirty men. and about $4,000 worth Of
property since we left.
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IL We have received an extra from the
Office of the Metropolitan containing a list
of all lands advertised for sale for taxes,
and to be sold on the first Monday in Octo-
Der next, unless said taxes are paid before
that time. The list can be seen at this
Office.
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Mai. German, who was at the basie.a
Buena Vista, and ext Governor Wallace ~
candidates for Colonel of the new regimen
of Indiana volunteers, now IN rendezvous
at old Fort Clark. Gov. W. is a graduate
Iof West Point.
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II The crops are said to look very well
throughout the valley Of the North Grand
River in this State, which embraces sever
al counties.
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CROPS.-There is every reason to ex.
pect that the corr crop of this region will
be good. To o actually planted the
Drought in May and early in June was not
u~nfavorable to this crop with rain enough
the rest Of the growing season, and tho
drought authorizes US to anticipate sun
cient rain hereafter.
The hemp crop will be very short Of an
average, but chiefly from a diminished
breadth of land sowed, resulting from .
want of seed and failure to %germinate.-
We are informed that the growing hemp
now looks well-CLou. Cour.
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The crops of sugar and co ton in Louis
lana are stated to be in fine condition. In
Rapedes, however, the crops suffered much
from a severe hail storm.
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a Commissioner lin connection
with Messrs. Acock and Hughes to locate
the Lunatic Asylum, vice Mr.. "oodson'
refused to accept. This is a judicious aP'
.p%ointment, and will give entire satisfaction
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II The PiHsLurg Gazette says the wes-
tern telegraph will be completed as far as
st. Louis by the LIST of next January.
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We learn through a despatch from Phil
adelphia to Pittsburgh, that Mr.. Kendall
as attorney for the holders of three-fosrth'
of the patent of Morse's Telegraph, has rel:
flied the late arrangement between the ono
Trustees and Mr.. O'Reilly. If Mr.. Smith,
the owner ofthe other fourth agrees, no 90.
|stacle remains to retard the work, ana y
may be prosecuted without apprehension o
any legal difficulty. The public VII! =.
pleased to hear this. Mr.. O'Keiiiy II
said, is pushing the line from PittscursA
this way observation-disclosures u
zette.
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u Governor EDwARDs has appointed
DR.. William ]. mckinney, Of st. Charles
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of our better nature, as well as, mental cul-
ture and moral improvement.
A New VIsIroR.-The elegant and COM
modious steamer Hendriick Hudson, 50 fa-|
vourbly known in the Ohio trade, made her
appearance in our waters on Thursday last
crowded with passengers, and accompanied
with music. We presume upon a pleasure
excursion. She moved with case and
grace, presenting quite and imposing ap-
pearance.
"7Ime SETS all things right."-BYRoN.
Though We hesitate, in differing from the
noble author, yet, VIC cannot but doubt the
truth of the above aphorism. Time has
had time enough, in all conscience, to full
fill the promises of its friends. How much
time does it want? To have call things
right" is, indeed, a contamination devout-
ly to be wished; but to be agreeable, it
should come quickly. Nineteen hundred
wears, or thereabout, have elapsed, since
the dawn of that brighter philosophy, which
first promulged the great truth of mans
brotherhood; we still see, however, the
|ploughshare laid down for the sword, and
if the spear is changed into a "pruning
hook" it is used solely "to hook" the
property of other nations. We have wait
ed long enough on time, and it is now time
to wait on ourselves. Delays are danger
Gus, for "hope deferred maketh The heart
sick" and should that sickness become
lcLronic, time itself could not furnish a
remedy.
IT. indeed, we take the quotation as one
of the authors pleasantries, and imagine
that he chose the Indicative mode because
lit simply declares the thing, and used the
present tense so as to limit its meaning tc
his own time, it may pass; but on what 9th
er hypothesis could it do so? Is il right
that by far the greater portion of mankind
are mere slaves? Is it right that the MAORI
1ty of the human race should sustain vice
against virtue? Is it right that provinces
patriarchates, and republics should be aP'
portioned amongst the veriest despots OF
earth? or, is it right that the many shoul'
be taxed to pamper the few? If this is right
5 oppression is right, vice is right, violence
, is right, and the debasing inequalities o
, the whole social system are right But i
is wrong, all wrong. Since the days o
Nimrod, time has exerted itself to subju
gate man. From the s~urrendry of man
individual rights to that "mighty hunter
down to his entire subversion as a reasoDa
bic being, has time witnessed wrongs withou
. remorse. Time has seen man yield little b
i little till he had nothing left to yield; tn
bondsman of the barons, the mental of tn
. monks, the slave of the despot, his mind un
cultivated, his wants of all kinds neglected
:, Ibis intellect debased. And still forsoot
y |" slime sets all things right" For on
who was reared with all the ideas of great
mess attached to his station, who bid thi
= one to do, and he was ~obeyed, and anothe
to cease, and he submitted, this preceI
may do. 1t may do for an aristocrat, t
j. leave things to time; republicans must max
. time bend to circumstances. The MAXI
" may do for a lord, but its meaning will neV
;, er do for a man.
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OREGON EMIGRANTS.

The St. Joseph Gazette, Of the 18th, af-
ter stating that four hundred and thirty
three wagons had passed through lndePend-
ence this spring, with emigran:s for Ore
gon and California, says that the number
which have passed through that place will
make the aggregate upwards of thirteen
hundred wagons-which, if they average
five persons to each wagon, will swell the
number of emigrants to six thousand five
hundred, large and small. The emigrants,
in small numbers, were still coming to St.
Joseph.
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The Saturday Courier. This justly
celebrated family newspaper is before us,
laden as usual with all the current news OF
the day, and teemmg in its spacious columns
with the richest literature. Science, the
arts, mechanics. and agriculture, alike lind
an efficient aid in this valuable journal. Its
originality is its chief recommendation
How pleasing, after a day of TOLL or hour
of anxious care, to turn from the business
pursuits of life. or ~perusal Of stale political
iargon, to the fowery paths Of literature
and science, as decorated by the gifted
contributors of the Saturday Courier, and
pass two hours in ane, to the infinite delight
of our better nature, as well as, mental u
ture and moral Improvement.
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SHIP FEvER.-From the IN
fiux of emigration, it appearsthat this mala-
dy is becoming common in all the Atlantic
as well as Southern cities of the Union
At a recent meeting of the Medical Facul-'
ty of Maryland, held at the city of Bslti-
more to investigate the above disease, in
troduced there by foreign emigrants, they
report it to be the same as described by the
English medical writers as typh"s terer,
but that it differs widely from what is known
in the country as typhus fever, and should
be treated differently. They report it to be
contagious when individuals come in close
contact with the victim, but that no fears
are to be apprehended from its injecting
the atmosphere. The committee recon-
mends that all persons when attacked with
this disease be removed as early as prac-
Iticable to some well ventilated hospital -
And that migrants suffering with this dis
ease, as we'll as those who are convalescent
but coming in vessels in which cases Of this
fever have occurred, shall not be permit
ted to enter the city until they are entirely
recovered or out of danger Of theirtaking it
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Death IF Judge LELAND. We regret
very much to learn that the Hon. John D.
Leland, Judge of the End Judicial Circuit,
died suddenly at his residence near Fayette,
Howard county, about eight days ago. He
was an afectionate husband, a kind father.
and a good ~oitis"n. As An honest and anna
BILE man, he enjoyed the confidence and re-
spect of allhis acquaintance while living
and his death will spread sorrow through
out his late circuit. His loss to his famil,
will be truly irreparable. -[MetropOlitan