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J -'J- '? '. J..""i'. .'V' , .1 ii i l..' 'i I1!?. JJJ.. l*.'.K . .- JL . ... .'." I't-E*-i".- . 1 Ul" iJULJA- J.1 * _ ?1 1? - ' ' ' 1 - - "TO THINK OWN &KLF DE TRUK, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS TIIK NIGIIT EHK 1>AV, THOU CANST NOT THEN BK FALSE TO ANY MAN." BY ROB'T. A. THOMPSON. TICKLES COURT HOUSE, N. C. SATLTIII)AY, JANUARY 23, 185S. VOL. IX. NO. '27. ' . ' I' . " ' . . 1 .. I..?. ! I M ? ? . o^re?n if <=^> w r^-? m~- 1 - - u ifOtl. TTlrX W Bayond the River. ' 1 1 Time is iv river, poop ami wide ; ,|Ci And while nlo?$* it? banks wo Hfrny, <1,,] We neij our loved ones o'er il? lido ^ ..Sail from its sight away?nway. i. micro arc tiiey sped?they who return No more to ghul our longing eyes'i ( They've passed Prom life's contraqtod bouruc . To land uuxecn. unknown, that lies .. * lleyoud the river. ^' j 'Tis hid frftm View ; hut we mny guess am IIow beautiful tlmt land must In1; lm< For gleaming* of its loveline?.?, rot In visions granted, oft we ,uce. vyi Tho very clouds that o'er it throw cm Their veil, unraised for mortal sisht. With fioltl and purple tinting* gfW, tj? Kctlcctcd from llio glorious light ^r( lleyond tho river. I,,, Ami gontlo airs, ho sweet, ho calm, Steal sometimes from (lint viewless sphere, "P The mourner feels their breath of balm, ol i Ami soothed sorrow dries the tcav. '? And sometimes listening car may gain Kntraueiug souml that hither floats, of Tho echo of (V distant strnin Of harps' nml voices' blended notea val Boyoud (lie river. ft c There arc our loved ones in their vest; They've croasbcl TimcV Kiver-novr nomoro .. They iiecd the bubbles on it* breiutt, 1 Nor feel the storms tli&t jjwoep its shore. But there pure lovo can live, can last?- j . They look for r.s (heir lioino to share; ' When vfe in turn atfay have passed, What joyful greetings wait u.s (here c'" Beyond tho river. g -. ..-Ji. . - - iJ-JSWE? 80C j in: ? ? JP(1 The Palmettoes in Mexico. pr< I1Y OXK OK TlfK TWO HUNDRED. NKW SKIUKt??NO. BKVKNTKUN. OV( ,i " 1 i 1,111 v era t.ruz wns now in our possession: mil great as wns tho achievement, it wns only j,;, the beginning of our great task. Ik was 1m- tjc port ant only ns a baeo of operations. ToJin- j)n per tboro'wus to lose nil tho fruits of viotory; fttjnnd, still wr>rse, it wns death to stay. l$e- i,rt, iuic iiiv |miDuuv<i nrenin ui mm nrii]08nnoro, pestilenco would Imvo wooded like a uoniOn WJ. of wrath, unil tho elty would linvo boon one j,0j vast hospital and grave-yard. Not a day wan c0, to bo lost in removing tho army to tho tnhlo ;nj lands, wljord tin; winds blow over eqow-oan- fc| S?ed mountains, and ore oh awcot and lioulth- ftjt ul aH tbc breath of flowers. But the inter- |nl voning apaco was londoroddiflicult of paasage j,.. by 'ehp sand.s and mountain heights. In mules nn<l draught hovsaa, and tho other means of transportation, tho iirmy was sadly deficient. Tho ability and tho ro-soureos of a great commander are culled forth not only W(| oti tho battlo field ; he has to pupply ami sct transport his army, and all tho heavy l>ag- j | gage and muViitlona of war. The success of (jje a campaign depends as much upon this as mi| upon courage ai\d discipline. j10', C?on. Hcott undortook tho task with his characteristic energy, llo bought all the >n|j mules and horses whii-li nnnlil v>n ? "" t\v und at once began tho removal of th<> army Vll; to the table lands. It Tho Mexican mules wore small, and un- t;0 broken to harness; besides, they were vioious And dangerous. 1 shall always remember my attempt to break one ot* them. It pave j1(! puch exhibitions of spirit, that nobody would j?( daro to mount it. I never feared to bae.k ,|(M any thing "with hair on it," and I doteririmed'to sot an example. (Jotting two men to (l ,, hold it until I mounted, I pot on, when the furious animal went plunging and kinking, |J0, until it throw fnn fnol ? it-i " '? - w .Wv IVWV */? W* fto livau III (( J |)OU'l of w*l?r. Tticso wild mustang Onvlei wore in a great part our only dcponuencQ for j.. transportation. They balked, bolted, run ^.0 iiwnv, and played the very devil generally. One day, on a hurried' march,- they ran off with our hospital wagon and tore it to nieces Cft, lost the medicines. and tho wholo wrccli hail to ho loft to tho Mexicans. . W(l Ahdut fifty miles to tho south of Vera Cruz tj,; lay a considerable town, Alvarado, named Hiinr ono 01 uio onu-ers ot Uortez. It i? a milo from thh mouth of Alvarado river, a vo- g|v ry largo stream for Mexico, and navigable jl0] for many miles: It is the commercial town g(^fl of a *ich interior oountry, ancl has a groat ?t( commerce. Gen. Quitman's brigade. com- ? j posed of the Alabama, Ucorgia, and 1'almot- ftn, to rogiinonts, with onp train of artillery and n few companies 6'f dragoons. wore edit to p?| capture Aivarado and Tlacotalpam. a town up tho river. Tho only object of this expo- $0, dition was to get draught animals for tho jn j llttli rtf fl?A *' v,. vim;, aiiv wmiis wore 01 no 1U1- j011 portance, not worth koeping aftor taking f,,r them. Lieutenant Huiwer, of tho navy, \v?? ,m, went to blockade tho mouth of thp river. fft8 On tho 30th day 6f Maruh wo Btortod upon this vory unfortunate and disastrous expedi- 81U tion, which ended in nothing nseful, (owing to tho blundering of I/teut. Hunter,) attfi mn which, besidos, qhcutiug us of tho honors wo vV0 might havowon atOerro Gordo, killed in,heat ^ and fntigdo moro than a huudrod 1'ahncctooH It was nearly nun-down in tho evening of the ..... SiUth day of March whon wo loft tho boach, v-.\\ on the Alvarado niur<ih. Thoro wsw no roft l, ^a? nhd \vo marchod alc'ng tho boach, tho tide as j Sfc flowod in, v'OHlftg onr foot, This was tho f?j] first niarch for tho Pahnettoofl. it wentrory jefi bard \*ith thoin. Wo marchod from mwjdown f0f till midnight^ distance of milos* with all fy0 our harness cn, weighing fifty pounds. 1 was cgt vory weak and dolicato, ami ftlproat sank yudor'tfie fatigue. l'ho fresh, cool brOoftT of j tho ealf bnovod ns ui>,>nd Hup'|)t>rttfd u> jw ftrt " ? ** - uor a moron wntcn would linvo overcame ni? In tho day-time. I ouit tanks, and went a- On long aid paco to nuit myself. 1 J"?*}!** got tho Ataban i reghnont, and wnlkod ttiany JH> n>iloi with Uiojh Their term of *arvi<-? wa? rou almost out, and thcjr were qiagipgef "homo, HW< ?wcot &i?qto," Happy fellows! Tho Pal- tcti miHtoea viore Ikwkou " during the war with <yfv Mej^'oo," and ton Vears mi'ght still.Jlnd tho ijjd ronVnrtntof tlmin in edrvieo. Tito AhiMma (vrv? roginvent vtM singing a Mng, of whf' U tho ^ ebo'fltp iWUlM '"$* ' JH ivMi on, roil P?,'#\voot moments ^>11 on, un. And i&t tho jV?or oldioi* kv hoovo, fpx houio" Fur ovor fcho Muo ruIf, urtt'l ov?r tho plain* / rovcrltfHtod thin xnd hut Isopo-itiftpitici# rft* Mh frain. t ffcmomW on? tall, fttrtpniug follow1 Mr mUo san^j lou'.kr tbaa Wio root. I only ?'uvr a'' ? n then by the faint light of tho stars, 1 1011 I saw Stovo XunnoleO, a few weeks j ociognized my man. It was near midnight when wo roaehed < Signntcd camp, a little village on the I llin river. 1 never was before, or since igued? and stiff and sore, as on that ni^ was my night t ., stand guard, and I wo t have done it ?/r a thousand dollars, tered the army with the understanding t yiiw to be free from the restraints of cfisi o. nn<l to ilo as I pleased generally. A id do that thlu^'nll the way through. 0 c attempted to break this rule, niul he il abuudant renuon to regret hia folly, used lo go on guard that night, and U id .setting a daugefous example, I left opNY <? camped in the villugo on the banV river. The water wus Irtul, and hracki o inade up little lire*, broiled our bae ilea our eofTeo. nod with a aea-buHcuit \ nuule a soldier's Bupiior, then vrraun iii a blanket fell down under the cover iv ti cc and slept more soundly than Cm* Ids bed nf down. This village was almost deserted. Agi tailors had made a drunken foray upur ring tlio seige, and gutted it of every tli luable. As 1 passed a fire whero there \ irowd of Bailors, I saw them burning oden ima^o of a Deity, which they Jhad w from a Mexican's house. I have >aO images often in the houses of the . s. They arc coarse, ugly things, made od, after the imago of u man, and arc v ped by this stupid racc. It is a great 11 ie to futppuso tliat tJio A/toos linvo hi ristiuni/.ed. They still worship "stock 1 iics," dogs, cuts, and monkeys. 1 h mi nil this myself. We resumed tho march early next iuo 1 hud the misfortune to lose my e tn, while using it as a well bucket, and inpect of famishing that day wuh v noising. Wo orossod tho river on a brn boats prepared by the navy, and scon ;r. l was on tlio ndvanco guard, and vvclic.'d. on very rapidly. Wo soon begar nt nnd scatter. A tropical sun was pt ; sweltering rays upon us, and wo had water to assuage our thirst, and that ickish. Tongues began to hang out, i uirs to grow desperate. All along icli were fragments of the wrecks of ah y uf our small vessels, which had b eckedby tho nortbers. Barrels and he nds were strewed along the beach, but tl ltained nothing but salt water, which o i *i.~ ii-:?? * >.......<1 iihj iimni. i nuw OHO uespov low drink a half gallon of Bait wator. emptod to reason him out of such mudm t I might as well have reasoned witl cna; *' He would drink if it killed liii a the reply. About noon. "'Q reached the raneho of . \ Lizardo. 11 ore wo halted solho thne.i pplied ourselves with water from two g lis. There woro several peons (Mom vents) at the^anoho. I reinoinlicr alau >u tuviuuia till IIIIO jJllll'U. .Ill Illiterate tr wanted something of the peons, ami tde desperate efforts to make them com) id Ina wishes, but in vuin. He did not I I0s})tino7, and they did not cn/irnde Jn[/1 ere stood tlie Ihibol harrier of toriguos Don thorn. In vuin did ho upeeifv, and in did ihoy pour forth their ready glihm was decidedly no go. ]iu< !ro saw a s< n of tllO -diffi'Mllty ; he saw a littloh'ji iro* five years old. Of cour&O all child ak ttnglfsh, thought our greenhorn, i w*m11'i m;iK.e an imcrj?retor of tl>0 ufol i tpiod it, but tho fri^ntenod urchin re^ 1 in a voluble roll of Spanish, which Hsi iod our greenhorn an much as if he had h ;h >*t. It was; u rich ?oono, to wituoas. ink n?dmiishinent expressed in his into ?rln)5 r child Kpcak Mich a diabolical 1 rvch. Donn ony* tlmf, in Paris, e ! little children speak French. I have to state tho equally wonderful fact, in A . ovon tlie. liltlo .Vt Anton Uzardo, wo left the hoach, i nt through the country. After dark iipcd on i* o:\ttlo pond. Our marches 1 he rrtj^ulatcd ho as to cumin wne^o tfi s wntor, which wns at wiite intervals s part of .Mexico. This day \ro had mat twenty miles to get to this muddy cut ml. Ilad as it WW, it was the beat wo cu il. 7f wo did turn up our noses at it, rfios did not. Wo made colTeo of it, i >n strotchcd our tired b;>diosi on th? i?va - - - -?- r ? 1*8, find went to t\e land of slqop. Next morning wo worn up with tho div J off, having first fillod our cmtoens w s.muddy and filthy wutor. I hud to w a hundred yards into tlifl pond to ero i? ?vns deep enough to fill iny cantc rorbl hundred horaos wcro plimgcd ah it, and a thousand long-un\vusK4d feet w idinj* their odor to It. Bah 1 Ugh! 1 ne n?y hnndkorchlof 1 Pan me, to k front fttintin" ! But hprawnlur* /w*ni?n tidiousncsa. I drunk tho rrfttor, and of liod ovon at the remembrance of hav :1> water to satisfy my tbirat, (Vbaut noon of this, tho :Mrd day of roll, and which was thoSrstday of Ap werosuddenly halted. Verily it was " le-Day," for the delusive mirdje, tempt with it? frosh waters, and iU fino en 1 hornoN, led on many ft poor soldier o Iq8 of vain pursuit. Tho horcos and eai I a teal existeucG, but tho water WW o our eye / fteader, did you ever spo f IftW a mirtifir. / If vnn linvn I " - .r - J - ""?<l loriho it: and if you havo not, thank ( it, and ft?k no questions. Wo wore lod. I know goiuothing about Nanoloo npaign iu Egypt, and 1 aoou took tno hi Fcif.? Fun Bhould bo cultivated aa a ( , for it is altogether a lino thing. \\ ir knew a tunny man to bo a bau ^the contrary, fa not he, nine times iu t u'lD'w, immune, anu good l To 1)0 sure Fun?It athoothn l?l) placO?:pf Jlfc, Uttikbs i!t? uin^.;!!^? 3<lt anq rosy oh ft fro?h maiden's kicrn, hi irMtHhlhk &n(l flower* wherever wo W tho'wbVld ft rottrid jolly omihtontw k^H all tl?o girl* an prdtty us Juno irw V mnnfciiul oito of ttoe bent families tJtft void for fun. Tlx. mau who won't < till St mild* A r^?.wl J 1 ? v -v rua WtW V fctririnr, boing nskod tfhrit hohjwl t*>j y sA*f<?he# of iffntft ?ho\il?l not \* rnctm i!n?t him, ropUori,- "Ho hrid nothing toi Wo I'u-ch bid l*?ov said already." , - V " ' Imt Letter from Gsn. Walker to President 'S0 Buchanan. Washington, Jan. 4, 1858.?Sir:? u),1. On the 15th of .tunc last I had the honor , t to address you a letter relating tothe manner ;ht. i in which I emigrated from Cnlifornia to uld Nicaragua, tho events which followed my I j presence in Central America, and the un'l,lt just and illegal acts by which 1 was forced '||j ! for a time to abandon my adopted country. In thut letter I stated facts which 1 defy lm's my enemies to controvert; and i then I hoped your Exe'cllency would tako steps for > a- the punishment of the 'grievous oflenccs the ngainst right, justice and public law, committed by United States officers, in the seizure of a Nicaraguan vessel in it Nicara<m, : port. Commander Davis litis, howevad i L'ri gone unrebukedj so far a.s 1 am informed, iiig ! for his violation of international law, and of ing the Constitution of the United : mul MUM I it grieves mo to say tli.it 1 am tigain obt ' liged to approach you with n complaint |'j!p j ngainfct another and yet a higher officer of ; the United States Navy. lVus J In approaching you as a applicant for ; a justice I know that it is ncceseary for mo tu- J to hmiove erroneous impressions which have 1,0:1 been made oil your mind concerning my ' conduct in eonm ion with Niearajnian afi ol i - . - - " r0y~ I fairs. (Corrupt and malignant persons have i surrounded your Excellency and poured sen i into your ears false 6torie^ concerning events ind iu Central America. Iive And now, to you, tl\e President of the United States, 1 directly charge, and stand ready to provo what I say, that your officers tj)() of the Navy, not only by irresponsible stateory I ments through the press, hut also in official (?(> ! communfiTttiouo, lmvc misrepresented facts got I and falsified events. Feeling ahdbelieving we I a3 1 do, tlmt you would not willingly wrong 1 l" j any individual, no matter how humble, I IV i mil s:itwtir?fl tlinf tln> aiiiiii>inrtr in>l?n<A?i ut- - ' ? vax you l):lss on n,3' conduct m your Annual uul Message to Congress, is the result of incortlio roct information ; and T trust and confiont dently expect, that when the trutli is placed | 00,1 before yon, your judgment, will acquit inc of tlio grave charges brought against me. nl'y 1'ermit me, then, if you please, before 1 rito proceed to call your attention to the con, 1.. i P /I i* r* t * i | uuci ui uoiunipuoro rauming, tu ucny most I -H8, ! unequivocally, that 1 luivo evcy boon en1 }* ; gftgcd at nfiy tiiue or in any manner with u? i any unlawful expedition against Nicaragua.' ! In your messngo to ('ongrows yoi\ seem to mil ' i,nply ^hnt my first departure from tfftn oo<l ! l^ranoiHCO was illegal, l'or you say: "when j ran , it was lirst rendered probable that mi at- I gh- j tempt would be made to get up another un- i sol- j LiwFllI rivnpilifinn nmiimit \'in.i?.ii.no " . I 1 Jiiuma^uu. ,lf( | With all deference F bog leave to repeat yT" : what I said in a previous letter and to again frc inform you that 1 left San Francisco in \ 1>0. May, 1855, with the sanction and approval | in of tho Federal officers of the ports ai>d that ess. the Captain of tho revenue cutter scut his hi- sailors, to bond tho sails which carried us ?' from California to Central America. Alm'l ^ow mo' a^,s?) 1,3 suggest that the Coy em jjn mcnt ol the United States recognized and pen legalized the immediate results of the emi;mi gration from California, in the reception of con Padre Vigil as Minister from the Republic the 0f Nicaragua. Not only was the first ex (lt pedition, as it has been called, to Nicaragua \'ei" e"t're'y lawful in its origin, but all its conon sequences were marked by strict adherence lox I to law and justice. Some have told you, i. I know, that I mrtrt u "without faith and inrt without money," but from the beginning we to the end of my career in Nicaragua, 1 1 challenge the world to produce a single vio HI lation of public faith?a single deviation oh- from the great pribpiples of public right tlo- and public justice. On the contrary, the uld Americans in Nicaragua have always ma.'ivtho tained the faith and honor of their ruco, in the midst of falsehood arid treachery on the u 10 part of their enemies?in the face of count vn I less hosts arrayed against thorn-?no le?s iiii than in tho prosenee of famine and of pesadc tilonyo. Our conduct. in tho midst of traits got and of dangers is sufficient answer to tho epithets which have boon Jiuvlad against 9IU us ; and wlion the passions and prejudices 'or* ^ present have died away we calmly cop u,,u,v j uu^iuvu \j yjl JJVWWlll'Jf uil UUl UUHiors duct. ton officer of tho United States Nuing vy forced iw to bccomo exiles from Nicaragua ; and let ii?s remind you of tho fact '^r tl>at from tho moment wo touohed our natal soil wo protected against-tho illegality and injustice of tho act, atuldcclarod our iutentt'-* tion to return to tho lund whence we had vc been wrdngfully brought. lmo Kvery whore-?before the functionaries of tho Government-?ret the presone? of nssomin<{ bled multitudes of the sovereign people? fort wo declared that no effort should be unused ftU in ?*rder to regain the right# wrested from nV uh by fraud und illegality. int. Do you suppose that if wo had been conscious of any violation, or intonded violation of law, wo would thiu have proclaimed our ?>(> object and iutrntiooH ? Is it tho habit of 1 - -?- * ! ; - * cn unoimyjn pvono rignt, or 01 0011i tin apirator.-t ugainai ablic justice, to herald tho tliolr acta on thf corners of tho utrocts and' . R2 pubMsh tboii' wrong doing* in tho markut >8t" pjace? >v i. '?. i! *j i v ' ^?? Would we have violated tho ptibiio oohsclenoo of thUt nation by call in# on tho peoI pie to disregard thoifotf n enacted statutes ? :uU Wo, Mr. President, 1?>* all your District Atbou torncya oxoanst thoir ertotgy and their ingon\*i ty?~lbt thfftii nttompfe to pervert tho law to porposow for which it never wan uv TJl ?W fotnuot'mnko good tho uliar#?hy ci trhloh have bdon mjujn against um. j Oncc tbo District Atiofney ?ttcmplo(3 to I convict mo of a brcnch of the neutrality j laws ; but ft jury of the country renderei j a verdict of "not guilty," almost withou leaving the bar. Again a like effort woulc I bo crowded with a like result. \ftiT long effort and much patient 6ndu ranee, we at length sailed from Mobile fo r..?- A., xt: .1 ?' * ..... xii iu uu :nui<r(igun on uio i nn d.?y <? | November lust. The vessel in which w< j saih'd was regularly cleared by the collecto | of the pott, and a special inspector was son aboard to examine the cargo and the pas senders. Our rightw, too, as Nicaraguan: | were acknowledged, for the collector re I foxed to dear the Fashion with Captnii i i commanding, on the ground tlm | ho was a citizen of the United States. 1 With a regular register and elen ranee we supposed when once on the high sea wo wore beyond tho possible interferon no o any United States authority; for even i we were admitted belligerents against ! power with whieh the United States was a peace, the owners of the neutral vessel hat a clear right to carry warlike persons m well as contraband of war, subject only t< the risk of capture by the enemy's cruisers *\Ve did not for a moment imagine that na vol oDicers would undertake to place re strnints on American commerce in the ab Hence of Federal law and of Congressiona authority. Tho deference, too, we knov your Excellency has for the Constitution o tho United States precluded the supposi tion that any orders had boi? issued to de tain or capture an American ve??i>l w1w?o. p'jDppra .showed she was engaged in a lawfu vtiiyacro. Satisfied as we wore of the Cntir* legality of our voyage, wo d! 1 not hesitate to entei tlio port of Sau Juan do Nicaragua, al though we knew a U. 8. b!oop-of-war wa; present in the harbor, lint \w. had scarce ly landed before we wore subjected to a ee ries of illegal and insulting acts of the com inunder of the Saratoga. These acts hav< been detailed in two ?ir1flmuaorl 1m me to Commodore Paulding, and now 01 lilo, I presume, in tlie Navy Department. While we wore being embarrassed by tin action of the Saratoga we had not been idle Col. Anderson, who had served his nativ< country throughout the Mexican war, ai the head of fifty men had ascended the riv ei* and gained possession of the stronghold which in the last century had for years do tied the genius, of tin: proiv lost naval nanu in British nnnnl.s. Not only this, hvit hi hud regained possession of valuable Anieri can property, unlawfully hold by Costa lli cnu soldiers, and I had givcu the order t< restore it to the jigent claiming it for tin owners. Permit nic to ask whether it i; such acts as these which authorize your ua val officovs to apply to us the vilest epithet: of the laimuatro ( Soarcely, however, had the possession o Castillo Yiego opened to us tlie way to Lak< Nicaragua, and to the regaining of all w had lo-1 bv Capt. Davis' intortWeuce, thai a most grievous wrong was again inllietei. on us by Commodore Paulding. On tin 8th of December the latter officer Hum moned ine to surrender to him, and tin Niearaguan flag was a second time haulei down on Nietiraguan soil by the orders o the United States Navy. It would be superrogatory, sir, for me t? say that the act of (.'apt. Paulding wa u/if limit l'>?? Af * ? ~ h.v.ivuv 11111 ui iitn i iiiuuir, mil, ilN Wi felt the wrong, it was not tho act it.self, tu muoh as the manner in which it was doue that cut us to the quick. We knew tha the act was in violation of the sacred char tor?tho Constitution of the United States We knew that an authority higher thai that of any Commodore?higher evon thai tho Proaidoiit of tho Cnitod States?wouh vindicate the sanctity of violated law am I punish the offenders against the Aiucrioai Constitution. We felt, too, that the augus and most potent sovereign?the people o the United States?would render justici for tho injuries unstained. Jhil f?i moi'i grievous than the surrender?far more gidl ing than to hoc our own flag lowered on oui own soil?was it to be told that we wen there to t)ie dinhonor of the United States Ttioro'were men on that sandv beach. Mr President, who had carried your flag nlufi amidst) the thickest of the foo, and one hai been promoted by ft predecessor in your of fioe for lirxt planting your colors upon th< height* of (Jcrro (fordo. Others amonj thoin had led your soldiers across tho eou tiuout, aud always in tho path of duty ant of honor. For suuh men ti> bo tola thai they disgraced tho country they onco bat served so nobly arid ho well, wa.: a panj sharper than that of denth, nn(\ migist hav< wrung ft tear from men harder and mort caPou.l than ho who liifliotitd fchn imnrmrn. ablo injury. I need not toll you tliat I wna unable tc anticipate the net of Cant. Paulding. Military necessity required mo to hold Punt? Arenas, and tho idea never entered m) mind that an American oflfieer. wtfrtfeHidho to exooulo the law, woulJ so far fbr^! h? <Ii^ty as to infringe, not only Well eafcab li?)iod international .J^w, bqtolwo the requironiontrt 6jf, that instrument with trl?ioli are involved tliQ bast tiopcs of mankind?? the Constitution of IhpTJnitAU States.*-; Kvon coubl I have foreseen the action ol Oapfc. Pnulding, military reason* uWhi have m6 frotri leavfar the Point. liut it wtw impowdblo to iffingmo that s<< violent r stop?marked an it U? details by conduct worthy of aoldiei i In the wiolr of u tuwn?would have been taken by ah offfccT of fcho U. iS. iSavy, And, Mr. I'rewidmit, la t'?ic uame of the official olth which you m * * mm " " " ; I have taken in the prcaenec of Almigh 1 IJod, I call upon you to puuish the often t ev, and to right the wrong. I premium n 1 to dircct youe wisdom in the course it k!u pursue* but, in the nnmo of the men who - rights your officers liave infringed, a> r i whose honor hat* been most harshly ai .. i . J t j heedlessly trampled in the dust, 1 cull f 3 | the justice it is your high prerogative r j bestow. t | But permit mo to conclude by addii - j that in all events and under all cireunjsta * ees there are duties and responsibilities fro - | which 1 and the ofticefs and men 1 vepr i sent will not, d;iro not, shrink. No c t : treme of illegal interference?no amount j hard words and unjust epithets, can det !, I ur from following the path which is befo s us. The functionaries of the Govcrnmc f | niav exhaust unnn mn d ?- " -*I ...v v.?J/IVVHV?J VI 1 f language?they may insult the public co \ science and degrade their own characte t by applying to us all the epithets their mo 1 bid imaginations suggest; but, > conseioi i of the right and justice of our cause, v ) shall not relax our efforts nor be driven in . a violation of the law. As long as there - a Central American exiled from his natr - land and deprived of his property and ci\ - rights, for the services he rendered us, 1 evil as well as good report, so long shall oi t time and our energies be devoted to tl . . luau'iuuun. iVB lUllgllK II - bones of our com pan ions :u amis, nunden - under a barbarous decree of the Costa 11 b can Government, lie bleaching and unburn 1 | on the hill sides of Nicaragua, ko long shu I our brains contrive and our hands labor ft r | the justice which one day we will sure] p obtain. Permit your officers, if you can, to tran ? plo unJov font the Constitution and tl - laws; pass unnoticed, it you .... - violent invasions of individual rights an - public duties; treat, with scorn and eoi j tempt, if you choose, the demands for ju ; tice which we humbly and deferential! 1 place at your feet?-we will not be cast dow or dismayed. Wo light for the rights < ) our race, which have been denied us by a . ungrateful and degraded aristocracy. \\ strive to retain unsullied the device son t of our ancestors have borne on many a ficl - ?" None shall wound us with impunity. ; And so long as our faith in right en dun - irood our C.iillfiilmwr> in Jim nf .-> ) lathers remains unshaken??o long shu a we use all just and proper means to rogai - what has been wrongfully wrested from u I have the honor to remain, with bip > respect, your obedient servant, s Wm. "Walkkr. Acfs of the Legislature. i In the general incorporation act passe by the Legislature, we tind the followiu f sections : 5 That the limits of tho town of Walhal 5 he extended so ns to embrace all the lam 1 surveyed and admeasured as the town < ' "Walhalla, by Tyre J?. Mauldin, I 1 Surveyor, according to tho general pi; thereof. j That the Town Council of Pendletc J, shall have power to impose an annual t;i ' upon the kei pers of billiard-table# ami to pin alloys, or any other pin alley*, with 5 the discretion of said Council, and to s or refuse licenses for the same, upon su< s terms and conditions, and subject to su< i regulations as they may, by ordinance, e I tahlish. They sliall jiIho have power toil t pose a tax, within their discretion, on ? - s;iie.s made r\v itinerant traders and nuctioi ccrs, on all public drays. Wagons, carriage > omnibuses and other vehicles, kept for hrr ' and on the owners or possessors of all dray I i hoga, sheep, goats and cattle, kept with' I the corporate limits of said town. The sa > Town Council shall have power to impo t an annual tax on the amotint of all sales f <;oods, wares, and merchandize ; and, als J on the amount of income arising from r i fnuiovago nnd mechanical employments, f;t - ultios and, professions, including the profe i' sion of dentistry; nlso, upon the amount i income from all monies loaned at intorct and from dividends rcceivcd from ban nnd nil other stocks; I'mvith-tf, That 1 t tax shall be imposed, in any one year, 1 I excocd the nite of twenty cents on cue - hundred dollars of the value of such sal i and income. And the said Town ('rami r shall also have power to impose an annu - tax on all slaves, all fi'eo negroes, all can 1 ages ttyid Wagons of whatever lclad, !:ept? t privuto use, on all gold, silver, and oth< I watcher, kept for private uso, within tl ; limits of &tid town, and upon all per&oi s who shall open any room or car, for tl ' purpose of taking aagflcrveotypes, or oth< likenesses, within the corpornto limit!# ( said town. And the said Town Counc ' shall have power to hnpoflo an annnal ta: not oxceoilin^ twouty cents, on every h\u i dred tlollam of the value of all real cstai ' tying within (he corporate limits of sai [ town, the real estate of oluf ."choa and hcIio 1 Assocotc^ptod. an " for that pttrpoi thoy shall appoint throe fTyeholdors, res dent therein, to onxens the valne of said rc estato-npon both, and return the aswwiniel t. Within o?io month io said Ociinc:! fcTT CSX: ; uon, and to till any vacancy occasioned l the death, resignation, refusal to uorvo, ( removal from office, of the paid abso?.sor> and any jjorson who shall rcfuxe to act i ' awcftoOT, ttpou being appointed by tho Ofli oil, n?oy bo fined uny stun lint excecdin ivrooty dollnr*. Arid the s'm'd Oo'mieil shh r have power to rcctilnto the prieo of licens* I tipon nil pttMio fihowa and exhibition!* i [ *iUt lonn, to wcot n powder magn.imo, at ly to compel any person holding move than d- twenty-five pounds of powder, to stoic the 6t Hu.ne therein, and to make regulations for dl rate# of storage thereof, and for keeping and so ( delivering the same. And the said Town id ! Council shall have power to enforce the id payment of all taxes and assessments levied or ! under the authority of this Act, ngniuntthe to | property and persons of defaulters, to the . same extent, and in the same manner, as ig ! is provided l?y law for the collection of the n- general State tax, except that executions m to cnforce the payment of the town taxes e- Khali be issued under the seal of the eorporx I ntion, and directed to the town marshal, or Of i other person specially appointed by the stud or Town Council to collect the same; and all re ; property on which a tax shall be levied n?<l nt j assessed, is hereby declared and made liable ic j for the payment thereof, in preference to n- ! other debts due by the person owning such rs | property at the time of the assessment, e.vr ! cept debts due the State, which shall be first .is 1 paid. re | That the said Town Council shall have in ' nnu-nr - ?' j iivuvi) >11111 uiu uuii9v;ill Ul mr anjacem is land-owners, to close all such ronda, streets re 1 and ways, within the Haiti town as thoy il i may deem necessary, by sale of the freehold in , therein, cither at public or private sale, as nr j they may adjudge best for the interest of ie j the said town; and they shall also have le | power to lay out, adopt, open and keep in ^1 repair, all such new streets, roads and way*, !i- | as they inav from time time deem imn?r. r ; I"". id tant or necesKiry for tlio lmprovomont of ill , said town j Provided, That no now stwt, ?r road, or way, shall bo opened without first ly having obtained the consent of the landowner or owners, through whose premises i- any such new street, road or way, may pass. io That the charter of the town of PicKCns -? l.rt mwl tlio tnmu i>? liAi^liv >u? nincu/lad an id that hereafter the Town Council of said 11- town shall have power to compound with s- all persons liable to road duty, by requiring ly : tne payment ol na (W.uual sum of money in n lieu of the performance of such duty, the jf money so received to be applied to the pub11 lie use of said corporation ; and all person* 'o failing or refusing to pay such eoinmutaie 1 tion shall be liable to such fines and penalId i tie.* np the said Town Council may impose. " That the ."aid Town Council shall havn >s power to collect an annual tax on all lots, ir | lands, buildings, free persons of color, cm11 ployiuchts, faculties, professions, morohanin dize, and other articles, within the corpors. ate limits of the said town, which now arc, h or hereafter may bo, subject to taxation by the State ; Provided, That tlio amount so I J - 1 ?? * ? * * i juviuu collected sunn uot exceed iu nny one ye.;r the amount collected by the State. ,,l An Act for the Relief of Prosecutors arid Witnesses in Criminal Cases not Capital. I. lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in la (jencral Assembly, and by the authority of Is tho same. That hereafter, when any proscol eutor, resident in ?he judicial district whore ty tin1 prosecution is instituted, in criminal it cuses less than capital, shall have been committed to jail by reason of his or her >ti inability to give surety, on his or her reix cognizance to prosecute, the Clerk of the v>uuix oi v;ominon j'leau atxl Ucncval Wenin sions of sucli District, shall have power to nt d isobar go such prosocntor on his or her own jh recognizance, upon being satisfied of his or >h her inability to give such surety, s- 11. That whenever any witness in a erinw n- inal capo less than capital, shall have been ill committed to jail tjy the like inability to u- give surety on a recognizance to testify, the s, Clerk of the Court shall have the like poH* ', er to discharge such witness on bis or her own recognizance. in III. That nroKoeiifiir* nv ?!!|iw>c?ao f-Il id \ng to appear under such recognizance, B?i shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, nf and the Attorney General and Solicitors o, are hereby authorized to order warrants to dl issue against such offenders, without aihdao yit or bond to prosceutc. 's- TV. That the Clerks of the Court shall of he entitled to one dollar costs for each reit, cognizance taken under this Act. _ . Z~~ . I vHATORY.-^in looking over smnn old paLo ' day or two since, we stumbled over a sh i "pi'och delivered l?y Honry Clay before tho L>s students of tlio Now York State and National | nl Lnw-School. Sneaking of the art of exa] ! temfKntineous speaking, lie said J " I owe ifiy sneecKsin life to one single fart, 3r I viz: tlint at the age of twonty-seven, 1 commoncod and continued for years the process of daily reading and speaking upon tno con10 tontH of some historical and Acieutific hook, 13 Thsee off-hand efforts were made sometime* io in a cornfield, at others in the forest, and ->r lint. iirifrpniiAi?f 1 v in k ?|J-' __ . - .m puii.u uiouiui uurn, "\V1TI1 jf ; the horse and tlio ox for my auditors. Jt is ij to this early practice of the great art of hII arts th.it 1 am indebted fur tho primary nti'l ' loading impulses that stimulated me forward, and liavo shaped and moulded my entire sul> sequent destiny. lmprovo, then, young genid tinmen, tho superior advantHgos you heroonol joy. LfetHftt n day puss withoftt excising your powers of speoch, I'll ere is no power ,j? line iuiiiof ovaU>?y< . vK$ar oeptrojjea mo;? , i by oxotting thoir fears; Cicero, by captivat* ' ing their affections and swaying their pas* 11 sioKs, The Inflncnceoft'io one perished with iiu author: that "f the ethpi* <*r*T>iSr??r?ii <y day." ' )r Two mon, .Tosoph Spnrlc* i\nd Odenr Flint, 1' were n.^nilcd m the suburbs of ttaltimnm a JS fu\V nights ago by ? gang of sbouldnrR-hittor* i- Flint was knocked down and robbed, but Um g companion fortunately t^oiipcd by flight.--* 11 Wh?u tho 8co0indrols hit Flint. Soarfa tieip. ,f* Ton foundation r,f nil huppine^, temfiornl " and etovnal, is roliancc od the ertodne*8 of <1 Ood. 'm