Springfield Republican, 1847-12-25

REFORTS FROM THE DEPARTMENTS. The Report of the Post-Office Department is, perhaps, of more general interest than that of cither of the others. It occupies five col columns - umns columns and a half in the Union, and we were about commencing an abstract of it, when the following, furnished by the Washington cor correspondent - respondent correspondent of the Atlas, came to hand and proved to be exactly suited to our purpose: On the 30th of June last, the post routes in operation in the United States were 153,818 miles in extent, and the annual transportation of the mails over them was 38,887,899 miles, as follows: On railroads 4,170,503mi1e5, atac05t0f5.597,475 On steamboats3,9l4,sl9 " " 246,745 In coaches 15.209 005 " ' " 912,462 By other modes of inferior grade 15,593,972 " " 650,166 82.406,848 The increase in the extent of the routes since the Ist of July, 1845, is 9,878 miles, and of transportation, 3,253,630 miles. Since the Ist of July last, new routes have been put in operation 8,239 miles in extent, at an additional cost of 542.943 per annum. The number of mail contractors in the ser service, - vice, service, during the last year, was 3,659 ; of route agents, local agents, and mail messengers con connected - nected connected with the mail service on railroads and steamboats, 186. The mail lettings in the Southern section of the Union, last spring, as compared with pre previous - vious previous contracts, show a saving to the depart- f -108,697 per annum. - The numlier of Post Offices in the L nited States, in June last, was 15,146, being an in increase - crease increase from July, 1845, of 963. The number established last year was 829. Discontinued, 284. There were 3,450 changes of Postmasters during'thc past year: of these, 2,153 were ap appointed - pointed appointed in consequence of death or resignation of the former Postmasters, and 216 were re removed. - moved. removed. The Post Master General recommends the alteration of the Act of 1847, so that the com commissiong - missiong commissiong of Postmasters may be computed by the quarter, instead of the year. This mode, - he believes, will give a fair remuneration to the Postmasters for their services. The number of letters which passed through the mails last year may be stated as follows : Paid and unpaid single rates of 5 cts 36.152,556 Do " " " of 10 cts 12,851.532 Ship and steamboat letters at 6 cts 427,800 Ship and steamboat letters forwarded in the mails from foreign countries, 2 cts added to the regular postage 850.980 Dropped letters 865.308 Printed circular letters 1,025,304 52,173,480 The free letters sent by persons entitled to the franking privilege, and those sent free to the army, cannot be ascertained with any de degree - gree degree of accuracy, but it is believed would not fall short of 0,M0,000. The number of newspapers is computed to be 55,000,000, pamphlets and magazines, 200,000. The number of transient newspa newspapers - pers newspapers cannot be ascertained. « The number of dead letters returned to the Department annually, is about 1,800,000. - And the number of papers, magazines, and pamphlets not taken from the offices, is about the same. The revenue of the Department for the year ending June last, including 865,555,55 due from the Government, amounted to $3,945,893 31 - exceeding the receipts of the preceding vear, $458,693 96. Of this sum, $3,254,512 98 was derived from postage on letters, and $643,160 59 from newspapers, pamphlets, &c. The increase of the letter postage over last year was $272,815 24. In Increase - crease Increase of newspaper postage, SBI,OIB 10. - The partial returns for the quarter ending September 30th, show an increase of about 17 per cent For certain reasons, however, he thinks it would not be prudent to estimate the entire increase to be more than six per cent, which would make the net revenue for the next year amount to $4,413,157. which would leave a surplus in the Treasury of $413,951. He complains of the practice of private ex expresses - presses expresses carrying letters over the mail routes between the principal cities. The privilege of sending sealed letters "in relation to the cargo," is a source of innumerable frauds upon the revenue. He thinks the rates of postage on newspa newspapers, - pers, newspapers, .as at present constituted, unfair; as small papers have to pay as high rates as large pa papers. - pers. papers. Heavy magazines, also, are inadequate inadequately - ly inadequately taxed. He therefore recommends that newspapers and other publications be charged by r weight, as letters are. the last year there were sent out 2,782 dead letters, which contained $21,055. Of these, 2,365 were delivered to the owners, containing $19,474. The net revenue of the Department for the last two years amounted to about $ 7,300,000, all of which has been paid in, except $21,000, which is believed to be good ; so that the Post Office Department has not been defrauded of a dollar. A fact which we are gratified in having the privilege to state. He recommends that the salaries of the As Assistant - sistant Assistant Postmaster Generals be increased. The expenditure of the Department for the year ending June last, is less than that of the preceding year by $96,466. The principal deduction being in the reduced price paid for transporting the mail. The Postmaster General devotes about a column to show the exhorbitant rates charged for transporting the mail over certain railroad routes. The Railroad Company which owns the road between this city and Richmond, over which the great Southern mail ought to pass, receives a respectable blowing up. This, indeed, is the only Railroad company which has endeavored to coerce the Department into making extravagant terms. The act of the last session, establishing a mail to Oregon, has not been carried into effect, no bids having been offered for the route through. S2(X),000 was appropriated by Congress to carry out this project. The Post Postmaster - master Postmaster General thinks it requires twice that sum. He next takes up the subject of European postage, and comments upon the course of Great Britain, in subjecting all letters and pa papers - pers papers conveyed by the American line of steam steamers, - ers, steamers, to the same rates of postage, as if convey conveyed - ed conveyed by the British steamers at their own ex expense. - pense. expense. Major Bobbie and Mr. Bancroft were unable to make a fair and satisfactory arrange arrangement - ment arrangement with the British authorities in relation to the subject. In France and in Germany. Major Hobbie. the Conunissioner sent out by the I nited States, was able to make a just and equitable arrangement; though the course taken bv Great Britain is a great obstacle in the way ot carrying out the arrangements. He recommends that we take retaliatory measures with the British mails brought by the Cunard line of steamers, destinetl for Canada. He reverts to the inequality of the 11 sea postage" of letters sent from this country to Europe, with those that are sent from Europe here. The American policy l>eing the cheap cheapest - est cheapest and most liberal, he hopes an adjustment may be made.

THE WAR. The light of truth utterly annihilates all the pretences that have been set up, for this war with Mexico. But such is the hold of mere party association, that it becomes necessary to revert frequently to the evidence on this point, and to accumulate it until the impression be becomes - comes becomes ineffacable. The origin of the war is, the Annexation of Texas: the origin of ac actual - tual actual hostilities is the order to Gen. Taylor to advance from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande. Mr. Polk contends, with Texas, that the Rio Grande is the Western bounda boundary - ry boundary of that State. But of this not a particle of evidence has as yet been adduced. All the evidence is most strikingly and conclusively the other way. The independence of Texas was recogniz recognized - ed recognized by the American Congress in 1836. In the summer of that year President Jackson sent an agent to Texas. This agent, 11. M. Morjit Esq., made a report to the President, which may be found in the Documents of the 2d Session of the 24th Congress. Amongst the statements made in that report is the fol following, - lowing, following, which applies exactly to the point we have before us: - " The political limits of Texas proper, previous to the last Revolution, were the Nueces River on the West; along the Red River on the North; the Sabine on the East; and the Gulf of Mexico on the South." This is important; but a piece of evidence stilt more important, and most decisive and conclusive, is the following statement made by Mr. Morfit: - 11 It was the intention of this Government, [of Texas,] immediately after the Battle of San Ja Jacinto, - cinto, Jacinto, to have claimed from the mouth of the. Rio Grande along that river to the 30th degree of No; th latitude, and thence due TVest to the Pacific. It was found, however, that this would not strike a conve convenient - nient convenient {mint in California, that it would lie difficult to control n wandering population so distant, and that the territory now determined upon would be sufficient for a young Republic." Did any body at this period, 1836, pre pretend - tend pretend to dispute or gainsay these facts; for facts they were. Mr. Morfit was sent for the very purpose of getting accurate information concerning Texas. Upon this subject we hear no more till the annexation movement burst upon the country; and John Tyler sent to the Senate at the close of his Administra Administration - tion Administration a treaty, which represented the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas on the west. Then it was, in the debate on that treaty, that Mr. Senator Bentox made this memorable declaration in a Speech of the greatest elaborateness: - "I wash my hands," said he, " of all attempts to disnu ndwr the Mexican Republic, by seizing her do dominions - minions dominions in New Mexico, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas. The treaty, in all that relates to the bmiidary of'he Rio Grande, is an act of unparalleled outrage on Mexico. It is a seizure of tm thousand milts of her territory, without a word of explanation with her, and by virtue of a treaty with Texas, to which she is no party." Mr. Benton also declared, in the same Speech, that the claim thus set up in the trea treaty - ty treaty by Texas, would cut off " The capital and forty towns and villages of New Mexico, now and always as fully under the dominion of Mexico as Quebec and all the towns of Canada are under the dominion of Great Brit Britain." - ain." Britain." _ It was after making this Speech in the Sen Senate, - ate, Senate, that Mr. Benton offered the Resolution, which has so often been appealed to, in these j words: - "Resolved, That the incorporation of the left bank of the Rio del Norte into the American Union, by virtue of a treaty with Texas, compre comprehending, - hending, comprehending, as the said incorporation would do, a portion of the Mexican departments of New Mex Mexico. - ico. Mexico. Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, would be an act of direct aggression upon Mexico, for al the consequences of which the United States would stand None of the authority, to which we have ; referred, is Whig authority: it comes, the whole of it, from gentlemen, who have uni-1 formly been of the same party with Mr. Polk. And the same is the fact as to the authority i we next introduce; that of the late Silas Wright, who was in the Senate, when the Texas treaty was before that body, and voted against it; the reason for which vote he subse subsequently - quently subsequently gave in the following words " I felt it my duty to vote against the ratification of the treaty for the annexation. I believed that; the treaty, from the boundaries that must be implied from n - embraced a country to which Texas had no claim, over which she had never asserted jurisdiction, and which she had no right to Now, what is to be said against all this? How is this evidence to be rebutted or con controlled - trolled controlled ? Who will pretend to parry the force of such overwhelming evidence? The. pre pretence, - tence, pretence, that Texas by an act of her own Leg Legislature - islature Legislature had established the Rio del Norte as her western boundary, will not stand a mo moment. - ment. moment. As Mr. Gallatin well says, " she might just as well have established the Pacific Ocean as her boundary." And indeed we see, from Mr. Morfit's statement given above, that such was her original intention! The present Judge Woodbury was in the Senate at the time the treaty was under consideration ; and the National Intelligencer quotes the fol following - lowing following from a Speech delivered by him at that time on this very point: - " Texas, by a mere law, could acquire no title but what she conquered from Mexico, and actually governed. Hence, though her law includes more than the ancient Texas, she could hold and, convey only that: or, at the uttermost, only what she exer exercised - cised exercised clear jurisdiction over J But in 1845, Texas was admitted as a State into our Union by a resolution of the two Houses of Congress, under the, recommenda recommendation - tion recommendation of Mr. Polk. Mr. Doneldon, now Minister to Prussia, was at that time Charge d'Affaires to Texas. Now, it is a most remarkable fact, that Mr. Donelson did not sustain the ground taken by Texas, and assumed in the Treaty, that the Rio Grande or del Norte was the western boundary. Tn alctterto Mr. Buchan Buchanan, - an, Buchanan, dated June 30, 1845, he says: - " Corpus Christi is said to be as healthy as Pen Pensacola. - sacola. Pensacola. a convenient place for supplies, and the most western {mint now occupied by There is also a letter from Mr. Dondson, addressed to Gen. Taylor, under date of July 7, 1845, in which he says to the General: - " Your purpose will be, the defence of Texas, if she is invaded bv Mexico; and you will be in po position - sition position at Christi, San Antonio, and odwr points on the Neuects, ready to act according to circumstances " Now, let it be noted, that previous to the dates of these two letters; to wit, on the 15th

of June, 1845, a letter had been addressed to Gen. Taylor by Oeorge Bancroft, acting in the absence of Mr. Marcy, saying to him: - " The |x>int of your ultimata destination is the western frontier of Texas, where you will^ select and occupy, on or near the Rio Grande del Norte, such a site &c. to repel invasion." Yet, thirteen days after this, June 20,1845, Mr. Donebum says to Gen. Taylor, in a letter of that date : - " The occupation of the country between the Neueces und the Rio Grande is udisput-dquestion. ' And a few days after this, writing to Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Donelson uses this decisive language: " The question was whether, under the circum circumstances, - stances, circumstances, we should take a position to make war for this claim in the face of an acbmoledqment on the part of this Government that it could be settbnl by ne,io ne,iotiation. - tiation. ne,iotiation. I at once decided that we should take no such position, but should regard only as within the limits of our protection that portion of territory actu actually - ally actually rossESSKK bv Texas, and which she did not consider as subject to negotiation." ' We ask now with confidence - who, with this array of testimony, will have the hardi hardihood - hood hardihood to maintain, that there was anything to warrant the order to Gen. Taylor to " take a position on or near the Rio Grande "? This testimony is, all of it, from administration sources: not a particle of it is from any one, who has ever been suspected of being a Whig. No: we say to the Administration - " Out of (Bine own mouth do we condemn thee." The pretended origin of the. war, "in the Act of Mexico sis thus shivered to atoms. It stands as an outrage against truth. It is a stain upon the soul of Mr. Polk, which no waters of repentance can wash out The lives and the treasure, too! Who shall account for the thousands of the one, and the millions of the other ? Will he do it, who declares that " the policy of peace and good will has been steadily cherished and pursued by him"? - Will such a pretence avail him at the bar of final account ? COMMERCE AND THE WAGES OF LA LABOR. - BOR. LABOR. The President, in his Message, speaks of " our navigating interest as eminently pros prosperous. - perous. prosperous. Large profits have been derived by those, who have constructed, as well as by those who have navigated, the vessels." This was undoubtedly true during the period when we were all engaged in carrying provi provisions - sions provisions to Europe. But that is a circumstance, which does not seem to have caused the Presi President - dent President or his Chancellor of the Exchequer to think much : at least they do not give it any weight as a matter affecting our policy at home ab ;I. We will give to our readers another view of the subject, which comes from a business sec section - tion section of the country': and thus they will be able to judge, how far our commerce and navigation are really advanced, and how they stand, at this moment As the President talks about the " wages of labor," a word is added on that point The following is from the Newburyport " Herald :" - " We are extremely fearful that the President will find this assumption as unfortunate, as that in which he exulted in his message two years ago, that the acquisition of Texas had been a bloodless achievement, and that no arm of force had been raised to achieve or consummate it. It is a truth undeniable, that at the present time our navigating and manufacturing interests have seldom or never been before so completely pros prostrate. - trate. prostrate. At New York, and most of the other largest exporting ports, produce is shipping at rates of the most ruinous character, such as will in many cases hardly pay for taking in and out, and in none will pay the sa'iling expenses, leaving nothing to com compensate - pensate compensate for the great and rapid depreciation always going on in shipping, and nothing for insurance or for interest on invested capitals. New Orleans has been the only port, which at any time during the season has afforded living rates of freights, and that port is now so crowded that the rates have sunk to the lowest figure, and even at the ruinous ruinously - ly ruinously low rates quoted, not a twelfth part of the ton tonnage - nage tonnage offering is able to find business. A letter from a ship master at New Orleans, received by the same mail with the President's Message, says, i ' in all mv experience I have never known freights Iso low and so difficult to be obtained in New Or Or-1 - -1 Or-1 leans, at this season of the year.' With regard to the ' wages of labor,' of which the President speaks, they never immediately feel the effect of a decline in the value of capital, un until - til until after all old contracts, and unfinished works in progress, are completed. Their time of trial will come next year, if capital continues as unproduc unproductive - tive unproductive as it has been for the last six months. ' Attempted Robbery from a House in the Night. - On Thursday night about 2 o'clock (as is supposed,) a young lady visiting at the house of Wellington Thompson Esq., corner of State and Spring streets, was awak awakened - ened awakened by some person coming up the stairs and opening the door to her room. It proved to he a strange man, who after entering the room, proceeded to search it thoroughly, opening all the drawers uAl^Jiureau and turning over and takingottlMgo l ' lllo - lr te which they contained, atul^Hinining the closet. W liilc in the latter act, the young lady spoke, and asked him what he wanted; making no reply, he turned towards her and threateningly shook, what appeared to be from its glittering in the light from without, a knife. At this, she called loudly for Mr. Thompson, who slept in the adjoining room: whereupon the man quickly fled, and no trace, whatever, has since been discovered of him. On examination, nothing appears to have been stolen; the rogue was probably in search ol jewelry or money, of which latter Mr. Thompson hap happened - pened happened to have a large amount in his pocket pocketbook. - book. pocketbook. that night, which he had drawn from the bank the day before. It is not known how the person entered the house, as the front door was found locked, as let t the night be before, - fore, before, and no foot-prints are distinguishable in the snow about the yard. It is possible, it not most probable, that he entered through the wood-house and back door, which is not known to have been locked. The young lady (who is a daughter of Gov. Morton) describes with minuteness the dress and appearance ot the rogue, from which and other circumstances, it is to be hoped our police officers w ill suc succeed - ceed succeed in hunting him up. No other person in the house, but the lady we have mentioned, was aware of the outrage that had been com committed, - mitted, committed, till morning. Girard College- - Judge Joel Jones, of the U. S. District Court of Pennsylvania, has been elected President ot Girard College.

6?" The President's second Veto Message on the River and Harbor bills at the last Congress, excites but little interest in the pub public - lic public mind generally. The House of Represent Representatives - atives Representatives have it under consideration, anil it will receive a pretty severe handling both from Whig and Txwrjfcwo members. The Message is some five columns long, but is not essentially different from his former similar document The Wasliington correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser says of it: " The President takes strong ground against the whole tystemof improvement by aid of the general government He dqg> not perplex himself and others by nice distinctions be between - tween between improvements that may be considered as local, half local, three-fourths lecal. and en entirely - tirely entirely national. He objects to the whole sys system. - tem. system. Mr. Polk is emulous of the fame of General Jackson, and puts himself forward to crush the rising popularity of the international improve improvement - ment improvement svstem. This long me«sage is intended to upset the doctrines put forth by the Chica Chicago - go Chicago convention. The Western men. Democrats and all. are indignant at Mr. Polk's obstinate resistance to a policy so essential to their prosperity, and they already talk of what they will do, when next census gives them the power in the House of Representatives, and wliea the addi addition - tion addition of three or four more Western States to the Union shall give them a preponderating influence in the Senate. The President sug suggests - gests suggests the idea that the States, with the assent of Congress, may levy tonnage duties, and employ the means thus derived for the im improvement - provement improvement of their harbors." Strange Case. - A very singular trans transaction - action transaction took place last week, which temiinatr-d yesterday as follows: On Saturday last. Dr. Burhanse. landlord at Young's Tavern, five miles from this city, missed from his trunk $6<W, in specie and bank notes. He imme immediately - diately immediately commenced a search, and on Satur Saturday - day Saturday evening, from some circumstance, suppos supposed' - ed' supposed' he had good reason to suspect the ostler, and an adjoining neighbor and his wife to be concerned in the theft He had them arrest arrested - ed arrested and put in jail on Saturday night. On Sunday night, his own wife acknowledged that she purloined the money, when the hus husband - band husband immediately had two of the prisoners released on bail. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the case came up for legal investigation, and the wife was brought on to the stand as a wit witness, - ness, witness, when she swore that she herself took the money without the knowledge of or child," and now had it in safe keeping. In answer to the question where the money was, she stoutly refused to teU. The Court decid decided - ed decided she must - she decided she musn t. The Court hinted at a commitment for contempt. She told him to go ahead - said she could go to jail - would lay there as Jong as they could support her in those quarters - would die there, but never, never would she tell where the money was. She claimed that the money was her own, and took it as such, and meant to keep it too - if anybody could help themselves let them do it A dispute arose among the counsel, as to the " relevancy" of several nice points - pointswhether whether pointswhether it amounted to a theft, it being her husband's money, and whether she was oblig obliged - ed obliged to tell where it ^as, &c. She had fully exculpated the three accused, by shouldering it herself, and now who was on trial 1 or was there anybody ? She said she was something of a lawyer," and she didn't think it very good law that a person should be obliged to tel! ev everybody - erybody everybody where their money was, for * they might," said she, " want to steal it." Lawyers looked blank - the Court wasn't " sure he was rightthe woman was perfectly resigned to her fate, whether it was the Jail or otherwise - reiterating that she should keep the money any how. and the Court was obliged to dismiss the whole case, and all concerned. Detroit (Mich.) Advertiser. Cold Water for Burns. - Mr. Seth Hunt of Northampton gives the following statement of the success of treating with cold water a severe burn and scald in his family : - Cold water was applied by immersion, till the pain ceased: the water being changed as often as it became warm. The part was then kept swathed with wet bandages, a dry wool woolen - en woolen one enveloping them, until the injury was healed. The healing was rapid and effected without leaving a scar. The instant relief which the cold water gave from excruciating pain, was highly gratifying." Sad Accident. - Miss Frances Ann, a daughter of Mr. Cushing Baker of Boston, was walking in the attic of her father's store, on Utica street, last Saturday afternoon, when she accidentally fell through a scuttle to the lower floor, a distance of 40 feet Her collar bone was broken in three places, and one arm broken. She died in a short time. She was an amiable and intelligent young lady. 18 years of age. ITEMS. An exchange compares an old bachelor to a mule, who shirks his regular load. The correspondent of the Nantucket Inquirer saw a mail in Georgia who was bitten by a rattle rattlesnake - snake rattlesnake in the foot, and saved his life by taking spirits of turpentine in as large doses as he could swallow. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom. lie that thinks himself the happiest man is really so: but he that thinks himself wisest is generally the greatest fool. Official documents state that there are nt least 2300 women attached to the American army, cook cooking, - ing, cooking, washing, tending the sick, and loving the sur survivors. - vivors. survivors. Sir Andrew Agnew being asked what was " a moral engine an engine which does not run on the Sabbath." A letter from Texas says Gen. Houston will be returned to the U.»S. Senate from that State, by an almost unanimous vote. Mr. Rusk, the other Senator elect, is already in his seat. The Norwich. Ct, Fire Insurance Company has declared a dividend, making fourteen per cent, for the current vear. This company has been in busi. ness forty-five years. There is but one farmer in Georgia who makes cheese, and he sells all he makes at 15 or 18 cents per pound. Gov. Briggs of lowa, has called an extra ses session - sion session of the Legislature, and as the Locofocos have now a small majority in both branches, two Loco Locofoco - foco Locofoco U. S. Senators will doubtless be immediately elected, and take their seats at Washington. The Galena Gazette says a " Fourier which settled at Prairie du Chien last summer, has broken up already ; the difficulty was that in the field labor they all insisted on holding the plough, and none of them would drive the teams I In other words all wanted to be masters.

He asks that Congress may grant more dis- 1 1 cretionary power in the Postmaster General,' 1 so that be may meet st oner any advances to townrrls - wnrrls townrrls a liberal reciprocity that England may | i hereafter adopt These are the chief points stated in the Re Report. - port. Report. He is against any farther reduction of the postage svstem, at present, and here , tbinthe is altogether wrong. His argument about the weight of mailed matter is sophisti sophistical - cal sophistical and unsound, and we hope it will not be heeded by Congress. But I have no time to make comments. On the whole, we think Mr. Johnson's Report a very respectable document, and after making I due allowance for the peculiar prejudices of the author, it is more liberal than we expected to find it. The report of the Secretary of War, ' 'is devoted to a considerable extent to the Mexican War. After presenting a perapicu perapicuuous - uous perapicuuous exposition of the present campaign, and the expeditions to Santa Fe and California, the report surveys the various modes of conduct conducting - ing conducting the war which present themselves to Government; recommending at the tame time a plan of active operations in the ene enemy's - my's enemy's country, by retaining what we now pos possess - opening - sess - opening possess - opening communications into the inte- I nor, and by extending our operations as far as our means and the prospect of advantages may indicate to be advisable. The regular army which now consists of 21,509 men, he proposes to increase to 28,814, the limit fixed by law. The number of vol vol: - : vol: unteers already enlisted for the war, is reck- , oned at 20,000; but as their numbers have j been considerably reduced, it will require ' 12,000 more to complete their organization. This force, however, is not regarded as efficient. The Secretary proposes, therefore, to raise ten I additional regiments of regular forces for the ' war; and as even this may not be sufficient, he asks of Congress authority to raise, if neces necessary, - sary, necessary, 20,000 additional volunteers. In the estimates for next year, the eontribu eontribui - i eontribui tions collected in Mexico have not been taken : into account. The total amount of money ; thus far collected in Mexican ports, is $530,- ; 'BIO. His further recommendations are as fol- : lows: Payment of expenses of States, for organiz- ! I ing, transporting, and subsisting volunteers.; ' (He specifies the claim of Texas to such com- ' 1 pensation.) i The formation of a retired list An appropriation for repair, &c., of the public defences along the seaboard and north- I ern line. I An increase in the engineer force. The appointment of six additional hospital surgeons. An appropriation for the payment of addi additional - tional additional clerks employed by the department to furnish discharged soldierewith scrip and cer certificates - tificates certificates of location. | A pension for the widows and children of those dying by disease while in active ser- i ' vice, (no such provision now exists by law.) I Such a modification of the pension law as to place the widows and children of officers and soldiers of the regular army on the same footing with those of volunteers, with regard : to pensions. j Indian affairs are spoken of at some length, l and the policy of removing Indians from the settled State's and Territories approved of. Some embarrassments have been occasioned in removing the Choetaws. but generally the poKey has worked well during the past year. Additional schools among the Indians are re recommended. - commended. recommended. ^We extract the following from the last epistle of " Peeping Tom." the famous Hull correspondent of the Boston Courier. The burlesque of a recent movement in political circles at Wariington is capital, and will be readily recognized by all: - As to the affair mentioned in your letter signed with the huge paw, about Parson Jack's refusing to give Skipper Bob a poke with his boat-hook, to help him in shinning up the top topmast, - mast, topmast, I can only say that we have not yet got up the indignation, as our great gun has not quite cooled off from the last explosion, and she might kick if we load her too soon. How However. - ever. However. I learn that the foliowins' correspon correspondence - dence correspondence has taken place between the parties: - Parson Jack to Skipper Bob. Dear Bob. - lt would give me pleasure to poke vou up the topmast: but may I respectfully in inquire. - quire. inquire. whether, if you get on the truck, it is your intention - So to constitute fishing punts ns to stop lobster lobstercatching. - catching. lobstercatching. I So to constitute clatn digging as not to crack the shells. So to constitute eel-pots as to let in blackfish. I am, dear Boh, Your shipmate, with a marlinspike, i parson Jack. . - Skipper Bob to Parson Jack. Dear Jack, - I have got your scratch, and thank ; I you for the offer of that dig of your boat-book; but I must candidly say, that if I get upon the truck. 1 must go up the mast without any slush. I have not fished for the poke of any man's boat-1 hook. I was only slapped over the shoulders by the boatswain's mate, and told to " bear a I have been seven years chawing salt junk be be' - ' be' fore the mast, and my name is carved on the cat cat! - ! cat! head with a jack-knife. If I don t know the ropes, keel haul me for a Dutchman. If you have any eels to catch, bring 'em on. I remain, dear Jack, yours, As true as oakum, 808. As the above correspondence speaks for it itself. - self. itself. I shall offer no comments of mine, ex exi - i exi eept to say. that there are always two ends to a boat-hook, and a man is at liberty to take his > choice. I Yours. PEEPING TOM. Mr. Winthrop s Quotation from the ! Bible. - There has been some enquiry among newspaper editors and correspondents, who ' were supposed to be biblically learned, con concerning - cerning concerning the quotation from the Bible, which Mr. Winthrop made use of in his speech on taking the Chair of the House - " Whose (the Almighty's) recorded attribute it is, that he ' maketh men to be of one mind in a house": - aad some doubted whether such a saying was to be found in the Scriptures or not None seemed to know where it could be found; and the matter began to look quite serious for the new Speaker's biblical learning, when the N. Y. Express came to the rescue and solved the mystery as follows: The good old Bible of Coverdale. 1533. gives the first paragraph of the 6 7th Psalm ot David, (68th in the standard version.) thus - thus" " thus" He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an Kinji James s translation of the jKissage is as follows God setteth the solitary in families." The Psalter, (or Psalms of the Dav.) in the Eniscopal Church, is tak taken - en taken from the Coverdate, and not the King James translation ; and Mr. Winthrop is a regular attendant at that church.

THE REPUBLICAN. MANUFACTURING. The question concerning the manufacturing industry of the country is attracting more and more attention, as the state, of things in Eu Europe - rope Europe becomes more developed. Very much depends upon the turn things may take in England. How long the present prostration there is to continue, and what the prospect is of a continuance of the new system adopted by Mr. Peel, are points of great interest. One thing we think is certain : from the tone of the English papers it is obvious, that the free trade party is very much confounded by the residts, which have occurred, since the change of the tariff: and the Protectionists are pro proportionally - portionally proportionally excited and animated. Amongst ourselves, it is hardly possible to judge with accuracy of the. true condition of our manufacturing system; so much is de[x?n de[x?n-dent - dent de[x?n-dent on the novel circumstances, in which Europe finds itself placed. Our own belief, as heretofore expressed, we fully maintain: we believe, that we are destined to advance high higher - er higher and higher in this great business of supply supplying - ing supplying not only ourselves, but the world. What Whatever - ever Whatever there may be of an untoward character standing or thrust in our way, whether origin originating - ating originating in false systems of public policy at home, or in the heavings and agitations of society and policies abroad - we feel sure, that all will be broken through, and be made to yield to American energy and intelligence, and to the power of free labor. What the fact is in regard to the produc productiveness - tiveness productiveness and success of our manufacturing at the present moment, does not seem to be en entirely - tirely entirely clear. All that is doing, as far as we know, is mainly in what are called the large establishments; and those rely probably more upon the foreign, than upon the home, nulrket.. The men of moderate means do not, we think, 1 feel very great encouragement in the aspect; of things just now. Those who are preparing to go into the business are generally, and as far os we can ascertain, universally, the asso associated - ciated associated capitalists bf the country. In reference to the present condition of the Manufacturing establishments among us, we have met with a view, which is rather dis disheartening, - heartening, disheartening, in the " Newburyport Herald" of last week. The editor of that paper is thought-; ful and cautious: and his statements deserve most respectful consideration. We annex a portion of what he says on the subject: - 11 Concerning manufactures, we speak by esti estimate, - mate, estimate, only; but we think it is within bounds to say that one half of the manufactories in the country, hare not realized 1 per cent, profit on their capital for the last six months. It is easy to be understood that this state of things cannot long continue, espe-1 dally as depreciation is steadily going on in the machinery, without materially affecting the wages of labor. To show the market value of manufacturing' stocks, we copy from the Boston Price Current and Shipping List of Saturday, the table subjoined. This journal, devoted to trade and commerce, keeps a table of the choicest stocks in the market, i giving in one column, the price offered, and in another the price asked. We have copied this ta- i ble of the choicest manufacturing stocks, giving the ' par value of the shares in each company in one column, and in another the price offered for them 1 in the market, where any offer is quoted. For I fully one-half of them, however, the Price Current leavesa blank in the column of offers, there being we presume no call for them, and to these we have been obliged to put the asking price, which is no doubt now, as it often is in the best of times, much in advance of the rate at which sales can be effect effected. - ed. effected. We have corrected the quotations of the Bartlett Mills, by the last sales in this town, which have come to our knowledge.

CLOTBI&G! Gentlemen visiting BOSTON und in want of FIRST KATE Fall and Winter Clothing, lire particularly invited to call »- Brown, Lawrence & Stickney's, Nos. 6,7, 9, 11 and 12 Old SMte House, fronting State Street, Boston, where they will find the larg. cst stock of FASHIONABLE READY MADE CLOTHING. in the citv, consisting of every variety of ready made garments, munufmtured in the best manner >Vid most fashionable style - which we are selling at' prices that will insure satisfaction. Garments made to Order. We ' Iso invite you to examine (before purchasing) our c le tensivo stock of uncut goods, comprising a great variety of shades ol English, French and GermaiU Cloths, with English, French,German and American Docskins and Cassimeres, also, Silk, Satin, Velvet and Cashmere Vestings, which wo will make to order, in the neatest and most work workmanlike - manlike workmanlike style, and warranted to fit. Prices as low as at any clothing establishment in the Union. Remember OLD STATE HOUSE, fronting State sttcct, Boston Oct. 1. 3tawdawly6 JR. LUNT is selling all kinds of WINTER CLOTHING, THIRTY PER CENT LESS than can bo bought at any other store in Spring Springfield. - field. Springfield. FURNISHING GOODS. SHIRTS, white and colored, Bosoms and Col Collats, - lats, Collats, Under Shirts, Drawers, Hosiery, Gloves, Suspenders, Hdkfs., Scarfs, Stocks, Umbrellas and every article of gentleman's wear. BOYS' CLOTHING, at prices less than ever before offered. First door north of the Hampden House, Main Street. Springfield. Nov. 19. tfdaw!2 Hoops ibr Ihe Ears. WE have the best and largest assortment of ; Ear Hoops, received direct from the man ufacturer, of the most modern style, a good article and sold cheap. WHIPPLE & SKIEF. Oct. 6 dawp - | White's Daguerreotype Rooms, OPPOSITE COURT SQUARE. Open daily from 8 A. M. to 4 P. M. Families of any number taken in one group at their own residences, if desired. Aug 27. *l9wdawo DR. FITCH'S CELEBRATED Abdominal Supporters, Shoulder Braces & Inhaling Tubes. rpHE subscriber has been appointed agent for 1 the sale of the above, and has just received an assortment, which are offered at the Proprie- j tor's prices. Also, an extensive assortment of Double. Sin-1 gle and Umbilical Trusses, for children and adults, of the latest and most approved patterns, adapted for the cure of Hernia in all its stages. Those who are afflicted are invited to call and examine my assortment. B. K. BLISS, No. 7 Burt's Building. Nov. 24. daw WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c. Just received a large and extensive assortment of fine Gold and Silver Watches from the most yte \ celebrated manufacturers, V* | and warranted first rate ^* me keepers. Cameo and Stone Pins and Bracelets, Gold Guard, Fob, and Vest Chains, Gold and Sil-; ver Pencils, Gold Pens, Ear-Rings, Double and Single Hunting Lockets. &c., and every variety of Jewelry, which the present fashionable community i require, all of the very best quality, and cheap as the cheapest, and undersold by none. Please call I and see. Complicated and plain Watches, Jewelry, &c., neatly Repaired, and warranted by an experienced and honest workman. HENRY SARGEANT, Opposite Exchange Hotel. Springfield, Nov. 6, 1847. daw 11 Wager's Air Tight Cook Stove. This noted and highly recommended Cook Stove, which has given such universal satisfaction they have been used, can be found nt the old Stove Store on Market street, in rear of Town Hall. Also, a great variety of other A. T. Cooking and Parlor Stoves. W. L. WILCOX. Nov.lt. daw 11 G R( >UND~ SPICES, WARRANTED Pure and of the very best quality, for sale bv B. K. BLISS. Nov. 23. daw

Companies. Par value. Market value. Amoskeag, (ManchesterJSlooo SIO7O Boston, Waltham) 800 500 Stark, (Manchester) 1000 925 Appleton, (Lowell) 1000 1100 Boot, do. 1000 1010 Hamilton, do. 1000 750 Lawrence, do. 1000 1010 I,owell, do. 1000 900 Massachusetts, do. 1000 950 Merrimack, do. 1000 1200 Middlesex, do. 1000 IDO Suffolk, do. 1000 1010 Tremont, do. 1000 950 Jackson, (Nashua) 800 820 Nashua, do. 500 570 Cocheco, (Dover) 650 530 Great Falls, 420 200 Salmon Falls, 500 500 Cabot, (Springfield) 1000 900 Chicopee, do. 1000 600 Dwight, do. 1000 850 Perkins, do. 1000 900 Palmer, (Palmer) 1000 930 Thorndike, do. 1000 750 Salisbury. 1000 1250 Bartlett, (Newburyport) 500 455 York, (Saco) 1000 1180 Manchester, 5000 3750 N. E.Worsted,(Fram'ghm) 100 80 Sandwich Glass Co. 100 83 These companies are among the largest, most successful, ami longest established in the country. Most of them have large capitals; four of them possessing a capital of nearly eight millions of dollars, and are consequently not, like many of the smaller companies, obliged to go into the street and borrow money at usurious rates, to pay for their stock and labor, but can discount all their own paper from their own paid up capital. Probably the mass of the manufacturing stocks in the country, and particularly the new enterprises which have been put in operation within a few years, would present a more unfavorable aspect than these which are considered in the market, the most valuable and best established manufac manufactories." - tories." manufactories." We lay thus much before our readers, that they may have the means of judging on a point of such immense interest. This is a matter, as we have heretofore said, about which there cannot exist, or be kept up, any thing like delusion for any great length of time. It has too close a connection with every day business, to admit of delusion. But it is a subject, which is largely affected by extra extraneous - neous extraneous circumstances; as it has been, since our new tariff, by famine and short crops in Europe. It is also affected by the ehanging circumstances of nearly every country in that quarter of the globe. We are informed that Capt. McClal McClallen - len McClallen at Cabotville, has made and laid 6,000,000 brick the past season 1 If any other man in Massachusetts can say as much, w'e should like to hear of him. The Captain has now the j contracts for building at Indian Orchard, at I South Hadley Falls, and the new city on the 1 1 West side. He is making arrangements for j making and laying into walls, more than i I 6,000,000 brick the next season. '