Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-09


he would take of himself though the Mexican ancers
were then charging the spot and towards confeld
He commanded his troops to charge them in advance.
Alter this battle armistice, proposed and Gen
Pierce appointed one of the commissioners He
strongly opposed to the armstce unless the castle of
Cheputepec given up security and there was no
in proposing armisce unless they were prepared
to give up California. General Scott opposed him
IN opinion but the event showed that Pierce right.
Inc armlstce was granted almost unconditionaly
Atthe battle OF Mono del Rey he rode the fie ID.
with the bullets flying about him, and called off by
zen, Worth, who told him he rash. He the
battle OF Chaputepec and when victory was declared for
the stripes and stars the South Carolinians and the
Ninth regiment which had fought together Churubusco
ana oontreras, met. Their blood had mingled in
common stream, and the Palmetto banner showed its
Tor by the numbers fits that lay dead the field
Gen Pierce addressed them and said here the extreme
North and South had met together of
the glorious Unonmet to maintain its rights and uphold
ITS honor These battles had cemented the union of
North and South and he hoped they would be forever uni
ted Nine cheers then given for the Palmetto
giment, which loudly responded to; and the
same compliment returned by the Carolnans the
Yankees
After this battle he resigned his commission and came
home having done enough redeem his pledge and main
| tam the honor OF his country.
| This, believe, is the sum and substance of
what is generally known of the civil and military
antecedents of the Democratic candidate. The
whole civilized world asked who is James K
Polk, when that gentleman was nominated for the
Presidency, but Democracy has descended into
far lower depth of obscurity to find its present
standa rd bearer
Our Democratic contemporaries affect great Joy
and exutation at Pierce's nomination. They say
that he is the of all others to beat the Wings
with and that an overwhelming and unpreceden-
ted triumph awaits the Democracy under his lea
dership.
| Now, it is somewhat remarkable that gentle
man OF such pre-eminent availability, a gentle
man whose nomination is equivalent to an cleo
ton, and whose name is tower of strength,
should not have been put in nomination until the
fourth day. when the Convention was in immi-
nent danger of breaking up without making a no.
mnaton at all. 1t is passing strange, considering
the troubles and tribuatons that long beset the
Democracy, that they should have been so slow
to recognize the claims of a champion thus admit
rably qualified to lead them to victory. If Pierce
be the strong man they now say he is, and if he
possesses the Ugh qualifications for the Presi-
dency which they attribute to him, why was he
not thought of as a candidate until the 48th ballot!
1t must be confessed that the assembled WISDOM
exhibited strange disregard of their own inter-
est in wrangling for four days over the preten-
sions of Cass. Buchanan, &c. when they had it
In their power to select candidate whose nomi-
nation would be "hailed with one spontaneous ac-
clamation of enthusiasm by the Democracy
throug bout the length and breadth of the land.''
| No Laquor.-In the town of Jackson, La, on
the god inst, election had to test the sense
of the people the propriety of issuing license
for the sale of liquor. The vote stood as follows
No license, %; license by the quart, 10; license,
2; license by the glass, l. So the Maine liquor
law exists in Jackson until further notice.
| The Paris correspondent of the Courier des
Etats Unis says:
The Gar Nicholas sees with great displeasure
the approaching announcement of an Imperial
Government for France, as it will be an example
of usurpation, dangerous to legitimacy, of which
he assumes to be the protector; besides, he fore
sees that such step will be followed by war and
conquest. He feels moreover, greater necessi-
ty for preparation, the late Prince Swartzen-
berg had shown some favour for the pretensons
of the Eysee, and Prussia is in antagonisn, moi
only to Austria the Zolverein question, but
with the second chamber of parliament upon
questions of Constitutional rights.
The journey of the Gar to Vienna and to Ber-
lin, where he is to be joined by the Emperor OF
Austria, is evidently intended to heal these dissen-
slons, or at least to postpone the rvalres of the
two German powers, in order to unite them with
him in holy alliance, in the event of war with
France.
The proclamation of the Empire at Paris W i'll
not necessarily be a signal for war, since 1880,
the right of people to choose their own form Of
government has been admitted. The league pre-
pared by Russia will be offensive not defensive
it's nevertheless alarming to those who think that
war must necessarily follow an imperial restora-
ton. The financial world is alarmed at the fact,
at first denied, but since confessed, by the minis
terial journals, that the Emperor of Russia had
demanded repayment OF part OF the French
rentes purchased in 1847, and will cause the rest
to be sold at the Bourse 1t is ascertained that of
the (35,500, 000) thirty five and half Millions a
repayment of which has been demanded by
foreign holders, 20 millions belong the Gear Nj
cholas If this sale is proofof the want of conf
dence of the Gar in future relations with him
we ought not to rejoice the less at seeing the
Russian autocrat disarmed, without agitation, of
a means of influence and of power of disturbing
our finances which would be dangerous in times
of distress, or in critical state of affairs.
Louis Napoleon is thus served even by his en-
emies. Fortune is a god-mother, who only aban-
dons, after numerous instances of ingrattude,
those whom her caprice or foresight has held at
the baptismal font Nevertheless, there are not
wanting prophets of evil, who see for the elect of
the Goth December, sinister omens in the triple
fall OF the new eagles in their Inauguration at tho
door of Elysee, in the ballroom at the Ecole
| Militaire and at their distribution on the Champ
de-Mars, where the first eagle presented fell from
the hands of Napoleon himself. These alarm
lists add to these evil omens the letter of Count
Chambord, the disaffection Of an important
fraction of the Legitimists party, the review AT
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