Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-08-11
NIoro rires in the Rear.


These are--The Montgomery State Re-
gister. Chambers Tribune, Auburn. Ga.
zette, Talladega Reporter, and tho East
Alabamian,
The New York Courier, which some
papers said had come out for Scott, asks:
WAS ever there more stupendous
humbug, than the pretence that General
Scott was to be preferred to Daniel Web
ster, because he was more available z"
The Herald of the Union, edited by the
Rev, Oh. Lester, Consul to Genoa under
Harrison, says
q The nomination OF General Scott by
the Wing convention at Baltimore, was
the most fragrant insult ever offered
10 the public opinion Of II civilized nation.
Throu9hout the United States, among all
honorable and patriotic Wings, a senti-
ment OF profound regret and modification
has been expressed, No intelligent man
doubts that the Wing party now exist
Its life has been terminated by an act of
suicide so contemplate undeserving Of
public commisseration, that tho best
friends of the deceased will even rejoice
in Witnessing the funeral obsequies. 1t
is NO doubt true, that commonplace men
whose vision was not strong enough to
see the eagle in his fight. have tried to
check the grandeur of his soaring, and
they have pretended that Webster did not
possess the elements of popularity
Without exception, those who pretended
to be his friends, having pleaded in excuse
for the nomination OF his peacock rival,
that Mr.. Webster was not an available
candidate, although they have lost no &C.
casion of assuring their friends, and
the public in general that they
would have infinitely preferred him to
any of his rivals. The sincerity of this
mode of talking, the public have already
had sufficient opportunity to judge Of
Mr.. Websters whole career, if it has not
drawn out as many hurrahs as some other
meas, has shown that he has deeper
Judgment in the confidence of the nation
than any other man Of his party.
"They left the glorious and magniti-
cent statesman with his clear head, warm
heart and splendid genius, to become an
other convert to that oft repeated SANDER,
as we have always termed it, that repub.
lies are ungrateful. So, too, with Daniel
Webster. Every body says che is a
great man. but you cannot elect him. -
What confidence these Wings must have
in their all-decent party, when they do
not dare TO nominate the greatest man the
sun shines upon, They want tho gutter
argument, and like the dog in the fable,
they loose the meat and the shadow, too,
for they put up man who has never had
claim TO the office, and never will--Gen.
Scott, and then hurra for Chepultapec.
1t ought not to entitlc q man to be.
como President of the United States, be-
cause he happens to have won victories
with the aid of the best educated and
most enlightened legions that ever fol-
lowed a conqueror's banner. In the pal
miest days Of his power, Napoleon meyer
marshalled such soldiers. He had more
men, he had more cannon, he had pres.
tige that was almost omnipotent butne-
yer in three hours, did he work among
his enemies such ruin, as worked, not by
Gen. Scott, but by his fellow citizens
each one fired with the precision of a
Kentucky sporIsman-each one of whom
shot with the intelligence Of an educated
man, and the patriotism of one who loves
his country. Strip Gen. Scott of all his
fustian and humbug, and then hunt for
claims to the Presidency.
MASSACRE OF Cart. MARCY AND Men.
The following are all the particulars re-
ceived Of the massacre of Captain Marcy
and his command by the Camanche 1ndi-
ans:
Government expresses arrived at Fort
Smith on the 17th, bringing intelligence
of the destruction of the expedition to
the head waters of the Red River, and the
murder of Captain Marcy and eighty
men, by Camanche and Kiowa Indians.
The Indians were about one thousand
strong, and fought the troops all day
Captain Marcy. Dr. Shumard, Captain
Strain and j. h. Suydam of New York,
are supposed to have been killed
The Comanches were on their way to
attack the posts on the branches, when
they were met by Captain Marcy and
his troops. They entered his camp in a
friendly manner, received presents from
him, and left at night, running Oft with a
number of mules. The next morning
they returned and attacked the camp, and
after resisting them for twenty -four hours,
Captain Marcy deemed it advisable 10
surrender, i'll hopes they would be satisf-
cd with the plumber of tho camp. The
report however, is, that they made an in.
discriminate slaughter of all the prisoners,
The greatest excitement prevailed on the
frontier, and it was thought that Fort AR,
buckle and other posts on the branches
would be next attacked.
ne The Public Servant" is the title
of sprighily little paper started at New,
burg by II. L. Fisher. Esq. The edito,
has evidently seen some service in his day,
and will we doubt not, render his sheet
quite entertaining In the number before
u.s. he gives the following leaf from his
personal history
" AT the age Of seventeen our BODY