Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841). (Columbus, OH), 1846-07-15

              0 0 'ATE VOLUME XXXVI. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1846. NUMBER 50. HUULISIIKD KVKRV WEDNESDAY MOIININO, BY UII.MiliKS SCOTT & CO. Office in tho Journal Building, south-east corner of lliyh atreetand Sugar alley. TKHMS: j Three Dollars vr.n annum, which may bnd'ncliurged by the payment of Two Dollahb in advance, and free ol pontile, or of per centime to Audits or Collectors. 'Die Journal it also in 111 isl icul dully -dunlin the session of the Legislature, mid thrice a week the remainder of the year for $b ami three time a week, yearly, fur jjtl. TIHIHNOAY EVENING, JULY 0, 1N4.0. Passnue ol' McKuy'a Itill through the House I Party Drill and the "Spoils" Triumphant over Duty and Jliuhtt ! Ohio Locofnco Del-cifiitinn Uucreunt to their Deliberate Ucclur-Htionttl 1 Even while placing before our renders tho humiliating confessions, the bold and vaunting assumption, threatsand declarations of Messrs. Brinkcrholf and McDowell of the Ohio Locofoco Delegation, in reference to the bill of Mr. McKay and the lino of policy pursued by Mr. Polk, we had our misgivings as to the ultimate course of those gentlemen and the other mem Iters of our delegation for whom they professed to speak. A knowledge of their past course general-! ly and more especially a recollection of what was sid and done byhis same Mr. BrinkerhufF on the Texas question, admonished us to beware how we relied on vaunting words put forth at a time and in a crisis like the present, when Urn President wields an all-potent influence in the shape of patronage greater than has ; ever before been wielded by one man since the Gov eminent of the United States was established. We wilt not deny that tho explicit and unqualified declarations of Mr. U. awakened a hope that the Tariff would he allowed to stand. There seemed to be no disposition to reserve an opening for escnpo,nnd nothing short of deliberate falsehood and stultification could enable him and his colleagues to cast their votes for Mr. McKay's Bill. With such declarations as the following, deliberately made, after full consultation, how could we believe tint in two days every Locofoco member from Ohio would vole for McKay's bill, even with the Tea and Cuflec Tax out? Look at these asseverations:Mr. B. said he was warranted to speak the unanimous sentiments of the entire Ohio delegation, without the exception of a man. Did gentlemen suppose Ut&t they were going to support this bill ? They would do no such thing. And why? They had some ob jections against it, which, though strong, would not of lliemscivcs ue. insupcrnuie, , um uieru wi'io tuners which nolhing could remove. The average expenditure of this Government has been shown to be nearly twenty-six millions per annum, and ynu huvo brought us a bill which, without tea and colfec, will not give you eighteen millions, 1 am under no pledge to go for a tariff to destroy revenue, and especially when it is foreseen and is so intended that this bill shall lend to a permanent tax on tea and coffee. I suppose if wo refuse to insert the tax in this bill, you will bring in a separate bill for that purpose expressly. Now it is not my duty as a Democrat to vote for such a bill to raise revenue. I bold it neither wise as a statesman nor politic as a partisan, and I here give you fair warning that we innko an is-no with the Committee of Ways nnd Means on thsi !Knnt, and if you reckon on our votes to carry your nil, you reckon without your host. I warn you to come to it in time. There is a point where neglect will lie remembered and where insult will not be forgotten. I believe Pennsylvania will yield much for the sake of compromise t but to go with our eyes open and with full knowledge for the destruction of a tariff which doe yield sufficient revenue, to adopt a bill which begins with a deficit of three or four millions, we cannot do it and we will not do it. We ran defeat your bill anil wo will defeat your bill. I steak this more in sorrow thin in anger. I cherish no hostility to any man on this floor, but gentlemen on all sides may reckon upon this purpose to be fixed as fate. " I speak as to wise men ; judge ye what I say." Yes, to add additional force to these sweeping, unconditional declarations of 11 insuperable " hostility to Mr. McKay's bill, with or without the tea and coffee tax, for without it, as was correctly staled, the bill would not secure sufficient revenue for the wants of the Government,- they were closed with a scriptural quotation! Still, with all this, after such avowals of the potent influence of the spoils" in bringing about this outbreak, we felt that the country had every thing to fear, nothing to hope, if the Prcsidententcred the arena with the gold of the Treasury in his hands! Thus feeling, we aaid in our last paper: Now. shall we give honor and nroise to Mr. Brin- kerrmfl' and his Ohio colleagues for saving the Tariff, i saved it is to be by their votes ? Not at all. Selfish in what they ore doing and have done, ire may not eren assure oursrlrrs that it is safe until the rote in re-torticd nnd Congress adjourned. If Mr I'olk should hold nut a rich bait and will consent to be a little more liberal with the sitoils, we have to all intents the as surance of Mr. B. that he will yield his opposition and mid some excuse for voting with McKay .V Co. Verified has been our declaration to the latter ! The lash and the spoils hurt accomplished their work ! On Friday last, Mr. McKay's hill for the prostration af A merit ah Iniu'stht and the huilding up of that of Enulanu, Jar imporeriihing the laboring men of our oten Und to enrich still more that of another, for bring- tug upon the nation bankruptcy, oJarm and suffering, passed the House of Hrprestntatirrt by a rote of 114 to Ik! Messrs. BiiisKKRiiorr, McDowfi.l and every oTiticn Lorororn mfmskh i rom Ohio, rRr.sr.NT at the tihe. VOTING FUll IT!!! Thus onco more lias the Loeofuco delegation of Ohio displayed its sub- aerviency just after declaring its independence and vaunting its purposes. They have done that winch they asseverated before the whole country they would not dol And for what? Letthe people of Ohiowilhtln events of the past week before them decide. They asserted that they had power t defeat Mr. McKay's I! ill and that they would do it ! They had the power. Thus far they told the truth. Had they cast their votes against the monstrous scheme of Mr. Me Kay, the interests of the country would have been saved and that scheme would have been defeated by a majority of fire rote. They determined otherwise, moved by considerations that the country, after their own avowals, can appreciate. We hold them, now, sponsible to the country, and a fearful responsibility they have incurred, as they will soon learn. And what, it may be asked, were the rhanges made in Mr. McKay's bill, which secured for it the vote of the high-spirited and independent delegation of Ohio: They had already declared that there were "insuper ble" objections to the bill that the striking out of the tai on tea and collet would not secure to it their votes, because of the certainty that it would then fail to yield a sufficient amount of revenue. (Several changes wero made in its provision, some of the be nr lie ml and others injurious. Nothing, however, was done that leaves the remotest hope "f securing, through the bill, gulticirut revenue to defray even the ordinary rxpenses of the government. On the eon trary, some of the changei made will very materially lessen the chance of deriving a sufficient revenue The duty on Tea and Cffie, as wu stated in our last, was abandoned. In order to secure the vote of N York the duty on SiH was restored to twenty percent. after the House had already decided to make it, with Tea and Coffee, a free article ! The fishing llounties were also struck out, but to save the bill they were restored and placed as they are now! Tho administration had resolved on carrying through its bill. Tho Secretary of the Treasury and tho Kditor of the Union were in the House when tho vote was taken. They accomplished their end and can now rejoice at an achievement effected against the honest impulses and convictions of the majority and against the will of the nation! The " insuperable" objections of the Ohio locofoco delegation all, all vanished, when the mandate of the administration went forth. The threat was silenced, the clamor was hushed and like a train band they moved forward side by side, with the men who had, according to their own declaration, iutlicted on them irreparable wrong! Oh) valorous dough-faces, who shall sufficiently extol your limitless in this crisis of your fate ! Mr. Sciienck moved while the bill was under consideration and just before its passage, to have its provisions construed according to the terms and provis ions of Mr. Pslk's letter to Mr. Kant of Pennsylvania. The letter was read amidst the sen ire suppressed ex ultations and congratulations of the Houthern free traders. Mr. llrinkerhoff moved to vest in the President discretionary power to increase the duties imposed by the bill five per cent., if it should bo found necessary to do so in order to secure enough revenue j as if the President had not already enough power to make him the law giver of tho nation, rather than its taw administrator. Tho motion did not prevail. The presentation of such a proposition shows what wo have already slated, that Mr. B. and Ins colleagues have no idea that the new bill will produce enough revenue for the wants of the country. Mr. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, desired to add the following amendment to the title of the bill, but was denied an opportunity of securing a vote on it: " A bill to reduce the duties on the luxuries of the rich, and increase them on the necessaries of thu poor; to bunkrupt the Tieasiiry ; strike down the American farmers, mechanic, and workinguien, to make way for the products of foreign agriculture and foreign labor; to destroy American competition, and thereby establish a foreign monopoly in the American markets; and, by adopting the principles of " free trade," to reduce the now prosperous labor of this country to the degraded level of the pauper labor of Europe; and, finally, to destroy the property and independence f these United State, and again reduce them to tho condition of colonies and dependencies of Great Britain."The following is the vote nn its final passage. We have placed the Ohio Locofocos in ilalie. Every to cafoco from Pennsylvania (thu Old Keystone no longer graces the Locofoco nrch,) voted against it but one! That one will be provided for by the President, as it is to be hoped Mr. Brinkerhoff and others will be be-Ave the termination of his career as President. Several Locofocoa from New York voted against the bill. But one Whig was found base enough to uid in inflicting the deadly blow at the industrial interests of the country, (Mr. Hillianl, of Alo.) Solitary and alone he stands. The Whigs havn nobly, with an undivided front, battled for the right. Never did they occupy a prouder position than they do now. Principle is tho bond, tho only bond that binds us together, north and south. Its forco and strength were never more signally displayed. Yeas Megsrs. S. Adams, Anderson, Atkinson, Bayly, Bedinger, Benton, Biggs, J. A. Black, Bowltn, Boyd, Hrinkcrhot Brockenbrough, VV. G. Brown, Burt, Cathcurt, A. A Chapman, 11. Chapman, Chase, Chipman, Clarke, Cobb, Collin, Cullom, Cunningham, Daniel, Dargau, J. Davis, De Mott, Dobbin, Douglass, Droingoole, Dunlap, Ellsworth, Foran, Ficklin, Fries, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon, (trover, Hamlin, lluralsou, Harmanson, Henley, Hilliard, Horn-, I E. Holmes, Hopkins, Hough, G. S. Houston, E. W. Hubbard, J. B. Hunt, Hunter, J. H. Johnson, Jos. Johnson, An d. Johnson, G. W.Jones, S. Jones, Kaufman, Kennedy, P. King, Lawrence, Leake, La Sere, Ligon, Lumpkin, Maclay, McClellrind, MeClernund, McConnell, Mo-Carle, J. J. McDowell, Jns. McDowell, McKay, J. P. Martn, B. Martin, Morris, Morse, Moiilton, Niven, Norris, Pariah, Payne, Prrrill, Phelps, Pillwbury, Rath-bun, Keid, Belfe, Hhelt, Huberts, Sawtelle, Sawyrr, Scammon, Seddon, A. D. Suns, L. II. Sims, Simpson, Thos. Smith, it. Smith, Stanton, Starkweather, -St. John, Strong, Jacob Thompson, Thitrnuin, Tihhntls. Towns, Trcdwoy, Wiek, Williams, Wilmot, Wood, Woodward, Yancey 111, Nava Messrs. Abbott, J. Q. Adams, Arnold, A annum, Barringer, Bell, Black, Ulunehard, Broadhead, Drown, Bullington, W. W. Campbell, J. II. Campbell, Carroll, Cocke, Collaincr, Cranston, Crozier, Culver, Dtirrngh, Davis, Delano, Dixon, Dockery, Edsall, Erdinan, J. H. Ewmg, K. 11. Ewiur, Foot, Fonter, Garvin, Gentry, Giddtngt, Graham, Grider, Grinnell, Hampton, Harper, Holmes, J. W. Houston, S. W. Hubbard, lludxon, II uugerford, II unt, C. J. lni;crsoJ, J. R. Iiiierso, Jenkins, I). P. King. Leib, Lewis, Levin, Long, MeCleim, MeCnnghey, M'-Henry, Mc-llvaine, Mnrull, Miller, M one ley, Pendleton, Perrv, I'ollock, Ramsey, Hitter, J. Rockwell, J. A. Rockwell, Hoot, Hunk, Hiissi'II, Sehenck, Seamen, Severance, I Smith, A- Smith, C. B. Smith, Stephens Stewart, Strohm, Sykea, Ttitlmdeaox, Thouiamton, B. Thompson, James Thompson, Tilden, Toombs, Trutubo, Vance, Vinton, Whenton, White. Winthron, Wood ruff, Wright, Young, Yost 1)5. The news of the passngo of Mr. McKay's Bill will cause the greatest consternation throughout the coun try among the laboring classes ami (he cultivators of the soil. Both will feel the shock. It cannot be otherwise than disastrous to each. The country will mourn, but it will at the same time be aroused to an ellort that will utterly overwhelm the corrupt cohorts of the administration. Thus will good come out of evil. There will be "joy in hnulun!" Yes, while our own people mourn, they will hear shortly shouls of joy through nil England' Shouts of exultation at the prostration of her formidable rival, will convulse the island kingdom ! Will they not be music in the ears of those in our own Congress who have abandoned a people whose interests they were sworn to sustain? The bill has yet In pass the Senate. We have, how ever, little hope of defenttng it there, though there aro those in that body who will ably and eloquently battle to the last. The country may yet make itself heard in that body in a tone that will stay the uplifted hand; but the hope is a forlorn one. 1 here is a remedy. It cannot be applied to-day or to-morrow. But, when the next elections for members of Congress take place, the country may vindicate itself against its unfaithful servants. The Rntrit of the Ohio Whigs Is up, and no mistake. A few mouths ago there was to be found here and there a few who felt alarmed be-eauso tho Locofoco press misrc presented so abominably tho operations of tho new Tax Law. We urged them to wait and they would see " Bights." Wo felt as-rtured that the measure would vindicate itself. It has done and is doing go, more signally than any measure ever adopted in the State. Wo now receive, almost every day, the most encouraging assurances from vari ous soctionsof tin Stale. Duringourcunnectmn with this press wo have never seen a more determined spirit, a more encouraging state of affairs in the Whig ranks of Chio, though victory has crowned its labors ever Bin co that connection commenced. With two such questions as tho Bank and Tax Liws at stake, Whigs feel determined to spare no effort to effect a thorough organization am! bring out every vole. TIiomo who wero inclined to dcBpond are now the most zealous, indignant at the frauds that were attempted in reference to tho Tax Law. Tho farmers begin to feel and see that it is their measure, framed lor their benefit, by men whose feelings nnd iympathies are nil with them and enlisted in behalf of tho highest interests of the State. A few mornings since, we met in market nn old farmer friend who told us a few weeks since, wnh a good deal of alarm, that some of his neighbors had allowed themselves to be deceived by the Locofoco clamors against tho Tux Law, and unless we met and refuted them promptly that unpleu-aant results would follow in October. We united him, when we met him a few mornin.r mtice, what tho farmers in his section begun to think of the Tux Law ? u Well it U, as you satd ; since they begin to under, stand the operations of the law, and to see through the falsehoods of the Locofocos, they are coming out its warm friends. It is gaining advocates every day errr among tho opposition." That's tho word from every quarter. Another encouraging sign is, that subscribers to tho Journal, tho regular and campaign paper are still coming in. A friend in Tuscarawas wiites us most encouragingly. A friend writing from Portland, and sending a list of subscribers, snys they mean to do up things there swimmingly next October. A correspondent in Sleubonville, sending us a list of subscribers, writes : "The Whig cause is onward in this part of the State. I have no doubt but old Jelfenon will give a good account of herself this fall, by rolling up a larger Whig majority than sho ever did before. The Loco-I'ocos ore liko ruts ill a sinking ship deserting. Go on, Mr. Editor, the truth is mighty and will prevail. And if the Tax-Killer should happen to stray this way the coons will dispose of it, be assured." All things promise well then, Whigs of Ohio. The spirit that animates you, will leid to victory ; a great and signal victory, if you but carry forward the work of organization. Let us not be satiated with carrying the Si lie, let us say to the country Ohio, claims the right to lead the van in 1HH as the banner Whiy State of the Union another star that never sets. Congress Adjourned on Friday evening, after tho passage of Mr. McKay's Bill through the House. Saturday, the 4th, that should have been celebrated as tho anniversary of American Independence, was spent by the Southern Locofoco members in exultation over the passage of un act that, should it become a law, will plaeo the people of this country completely ut tho mercy of British manufacturers and monopolists. Humiliating and mortifying in nut have been the re flee lions of the Ohio Locofocos, if not lost to a sense of Jiamo. Diwhonest Men Condemned out of their own Mouths I The Locofoco Delegation of Ohio in the House of Representatives, have placed themselves in a most unenviable position by their shuttling policy. They have said to their own party throughout the State, that Mr. McKay's Bill contained all that was iniquitous and odious in its provisions that it was s bud as to ho positively beyond amendment calculated to render it tolerable. They have pointed out some of its objectionable features and then stated that with those features changed there were insuperable objections to it. i hey have stated what every sensible man knows cannot be controverted : thut tiie bill will not produce anything like a sufficient amount of revenue for the wants of the Government. Thus they have virtually admitted that the Government must become bankrupt or impose a Direct Tax ! It is about time now, therefore, that tho Tax Killers set themselves to work to prepare the public, already overtaxed, for new burthens to aid in paying the expense of a war for tho extension of (he area of slavery, administering tho Government and paying members of Congress ri;ht dollars per diem for legislating in behalf of Ureal Itritaiu ! They have charged Mr. Pulk and his southern friends with basely crouching before and surrendering their unquestionable rights at tho command of Great Britain ! They have said in so many words that the present war is for 11 Houthtrn Conquest!" In imposing a Direct Tax, then-lore, they do it to aid in enslaving the North and maintaining the supremacy of the South in the Counsels of the Nation ! They have told the country that the offices, honors and profits of tho General Government aro monopolized by tho South! All these thin if i and more too, verifying every charge mad; by the Whigs in reference to tho policy of the administration, have been dehherntely stated with tho HwiHiifMOM consent of the Locnfuco delegation of Ohio! Thus endorsed they nk anil demand the consideration of the people of Ohio of all parlies. The man who, under such circuuiitauce, decides to sustain thu Locofoco candidates next fall in Ohio, avows his willing-nens to lolenito servility and baseiies without paralle ! Who is ready for such a work? Who will lend his sanction to the continuance of such a state of affairs! Tho position in which (hey (the Locofoco members of Congress) hive placed themselves and in which they now seek to place those who hive heretofore act ed with them is, we repeat, a most unenviable one, Hnd they remained silent, had they withheld the ad-missious of Mr. Brinkerhofl', they could then have claimed merit for their own bill, honesty and sincerity lor themselves, with some hope of obtaining credence ; at Icastamong the unthinking of their followers. It is now otherwise. They cannot justify their own course, they cannot say a word in behalf of tho dark schrmo forged by slavery for enthralling the freemen of tho north and subsidizing the country for their own benefit, without crossing their own track, belying their own words, denying their own deliberate asseverations. Out of their own mouths they stand condemned. Wo go before the people of Ohm wilh the gteech of Mr. Briiikerhoffaud read the verdict of condemnation they have rendered against themselves. On their own au thority wo charge them wilh voting to repeal a tariff that does provide enough revenue lor the government to make room for one that will not. The Kipvditiou to Mnntn Fo Under Gen. Kearney, numbering almut 17(H) men, hnd taken up ita line of march from St. Louis, across the prairies, at the last dates. The furce is mainly composed of volunteers. Six Companies of regulars, (dragoons,) lead the van, and the whole force was well equipped and provided fur service. It is supposed that Gen. Urrea, wilh a Mexican command of three or four thousand, will reach Santa Fe before Gen. K. This expectation is, however, based on rumor. Should it prove untrue. Gen. K. will have no difficulty In taking possession of Santa Fe,and a largearea of territory, embracing mora than ono Mexican Suio. The Mit, Failure ulluded to in our last was oc casioned by very destructive freshets e.ist of the mountains. The various creeks tuking tlifir rise in the mountains were overflowed. The waters u re higher than they had been for many years. A vast amount of property was destroyed and floated off, Dams ond bridges were swept away. The newly tut crops of grain and hay were s.vept from the meadows and fields and destroyed. The cellars in Cumberland wero filled and much property injured there. ITrThe card below appears in the Cincinnati Adver tiser of Tuesday last, signed by the captains of the several companies composing the second regiment of Ohio Volunteers. We give it a place wilh pleasure. From what we considered a reliable source we re ceived intelligence aeveral days since that there had been a serious difficulty in the second regiuicnl on account of the unjustifiable severity of Col. Morgan to wards Lie uta. Markland and Arnold who left the camp with a permit, obtained from the Lieut. Colonel, in order to participate in a celebration here got up hy the Sons of Temperance with whom they had formerly been associated. We understood that a portion of the company did leave and that tho whole company threat- ned to leave. We also understood that some of the companies, through their commandants, expressed a desire to be transferred. Now, why did not those who got up the following curd take up these charges spc- ificolly and deny them ? Wo have the beat authority for reiterating all wu stated, and wu only withhold a more direct allusion to facts, because we have no dis position to create difficulty or hard feeling among men who are associated together nnd will be called upon to act together. Wc trust all difficulties are reconciled, and that officers nnd men may find their association a source of pleasure and of honor to themselves and advantage to tho country. A Card. Head 0.t-Aim.Ri, C imp Wahihoto(, July ft, I-IG. We, the tindeisiirned, commandant of companies in the second regiment of Ohio volunteers, havmir no ticed an article in the editorial columns of die Ohio State Journal, calculated to impress the puhlio mind with the belief that discord and dissntisfaetion exist among the officers and soldiers of Ibis regiment, feel it incumbent upon ourselvex, and but justice to our wormy nnu popular oiticers, to make tins public correction of the error into which the editor of the Journal has been led. So far from tins being the case, although thu most r'ljrid dicipline bus been established and enforced, yet tho utmost cordiality and good feeling prevail among o ir comrades, officers and orivalea ; and so far from any company or companies w, siting to oe transferred, mere is no inducement wuicii could m-lluence a aiugle company to submit to a tratiHler. The authority upon which the editor of I lie Journal made the statement is utterly false and unfounded. A little Ciiiinoiindiiiv; oU Tumplro! A letter received by tho Norfolk Herald from the U. S. Ship St. M try's, lying off Tampico, conveys the intelligence that a little cannonading took place between the Mexican fort and gun b uts and tho above named vessel of the U.S. N ivy, on the tHh day of Juno. An attempt was in progress to erect another fort on the north side of tho entrance of 'he river. This wis discovered by the coninmtder of the St. Mary's, and after a little cannonading, was frustrated. The men engaged at work wero driven away. On Iho I'Jth an attempt wis made to cutout the gun boats of the Mexicans, by a b tat expedition. This was dis covered, owing to the dilli :uliy met with in finding nnd entitling thu bar and reaching the channel. Alter exchanging a few sluts and finding that an attempt, after discovery, to take the gun boats, would expose our men to a raking lire and possibly destruction, tho exedition was almndoiied. It was undertaken at night. A hre was opened, at long distance alternants, from the vessel on the t trl and gun limits. It was re turned prettv briskly. Finding, h-iwever, that nothing could be effected at that distance, I he tire was suspended. Tho boat esiiedition seems to have been well planned and would have succeeded probably, but for discovery. Not Paid Yet. The course of the administration in reference to the volunteers called out is as inexplicable as it is unjust. Wo learn from tne Cincinnati G azette that complaints loud and long are heard in tlot city on account of the refusal of the government o Hirers to pay tho expense incurred in the transportation of the volunteers, their support, i&c. prior to reaching the place of general rendezvous. They have not only refused to pay these items but have refilled tho commutation allowed by law in lien of trasportation paid. Thu officers state that they have no instructions to pay such cxjmmibcs Yet, it seems that instructions were given to allow the Missouri volunteers the commutation allowed by law for expenses thus incurred. Tho G rue tie says : 1 rnnsportnlion Pay. No transportation has been paid here, nor any com-mutation in lieu of it Why ? Because it is said no instruction! to that end have been received. The law illowed the volunteers t4'J each in lieu of clothing ; they have been paid here only fJT.lli.M). Why has the remaining 4to,o0 not been paid? No instructions have been received under the new law, and the law itself is not regarded as auHicient authority In pay without instructions. So il is said. Where is tho fault? 'Ike Governor and the Oischnrged Voluuteers The correspondence below appeared in the Washington Union a few days since. The Secretary of War thinks thtt the Governor was in error in discharging a portion of the Cincinnati Volunteers, bo- cause they were Germans and could not understand English so as to act under officers uimg the English tongue. Ho slates tho fact that a new order was made in 1H 14 which superceded the old army regulation under which the Governor acted, and that thu rule would not, at all events, have n bearing in refer ence to volunteers. He exculpates the Governor from blamo and expresses his conviction that that officer acted under proper motives. The Secretary can do I this, but the Locofoco press of Cincinnati and this city cannot. TUeu charge the Governor with the basest motives and have all along charged fraud and collu sion on him and his friend in selecting tho com panies and the election of officers. An attempt has been inudo from tho firat to make party capital by representing tho German companies as wronged, yet the fact has not escaped public attention that one Capt. Churchill, a political partisan, who is not connected wilh tho German Companies, has mude nearly all the disturbance und outcry about tho manner in which things were done. Party motives have been ascribed to the Governor and his friends in what they have done, notwithstanding the fuet that but a single, one of tho nine officers elected is a Whig! All tho rest are Locofocos. Now, is it not palpable that parlizan influences, if brought to bear at all, were used by our opponents, in view of Btieh a fact. Tho election of Oil. Cl'Rtis, the only Whig among tho general oiticers, instead of being brought about by his friends improperly, was brought about against the wishes of many of them. Gov. B., as we are advised, was urged by tho nearest kindred of Col. C. to prevent, if possible, his election to a command which would require him to leave the State. Th.' editor of this paper, who has been long and intimately acquainted withCff. C, opposed his election and remonstrated with him for volunteering, knowing that his family and friends dreaded tho influences of a Southern campaign on his health. Tho characteristic reply of Col. C. was that he had been educated at West Point and ho owed a debt to the country for that education, which he would pay at all hazards. So far from seeking to force himself on tho regiment ho was chosen to command, ho was waited upon by a Urge number of thu officers and men und solicited to allow his name to be used, and after he was elected was designated as senior officer in command of the encampment by the joint action of Col's. Mitchell nnd Moikian. lusteud ol desiring the discharge of tho German Companies, the Governor and the State officers deeply regretted the contingency that seemed to render such a step necessary, as those companies had disliu. guished themsi'lves by soldier-like conduct and superior discipline. On party grounds there was every inducement to retain them. They wero nearly all , cufocos, while many of tho companies retained were Whigs. The retention of the German Companies and Ihe d inch urge of the Whigs would have been a desirable movement for party purposes. The Secretary of War declines receiving tho German and other Cincinnati Companies discharged by Gov. il. When wo first heard tint such on application would be made, we expressed a hope (hat it would be granted. That thono who were taking so active and prominent a part, however, under the pretence of sympathy for the Germans, were merely striving for a little political capital lot themsdecs, wo have been itislied from the first. Notwithstanding the fact that they had succeeded in securing the election of Loeof co officers, with a single exception, the annunciation of the fact wag accompanied by a portion of the Locof ten press with a charge that fraud hid been used in the election of that one, thus showing that they had been intriguing on purpose to prevent the election of a single Whig officer! Is commentary needed on s ich a fact. From the first we have not intimated Hint Col, Morgan or any of thu other officers secured (A fir elections by fraud, although we were fully aware that politicians left this city on purpose to aid in securing tho election of tho former ! Correspondence about Ohio Volunteers. War Dt'.rAHrMt nt, June IHffi, Sin : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Si7lh inst , and tender you my thanks for calling the attention of the department to the general order of the Governor of Ohio, from which it appears that three tterinnu companies were rejected on (he ground that they could not be received conn int ently with the regulations prescribed by this depart-incut.You will perceive, from tho scconipanving copy of a letter to the Governor, that the matter has abeaily received the attention of the department, and that he has been fully in fun ned of the misapprehension under which he acted. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, WM. L. MAHCY, Hon. J. J. Frm, Secretary ol War. House of Representatives. War Di'.partmekt, June '17, lef-lfj. Sir: Tho department has learned wilh surprise, tVom Ihe order of the l?th inst., signed It. W. Bruce, A. D. C, that three German companies of volunteers were excluded from the quota of Ohio volunteers, " because the regulations prescribed by the War Department, for the government of troopn in Ihe service of the United States, socially provides that none can hi' received into service who do not speak and under-stand the English language." Paragraph (W, of tho general regulations of the army," is referred to in the order ss the authority for rejecting the three companies in question. in justice to the department, and in order to give you correct information on the subject, I desire to call your attention to the fact that the regulation referred to relate only to the recruiting service to the enlistment of indiridiuOs for the army and that it has since been modified hy an order promulgated by the Seen, lary of War, on the tilth day of March, IHIJ. In its original or modified shape, it had no application to volunteers entering the service under the act of May Ltlh. That act made no distinction of the kind staled in your order, nor did the requisition from this department. In view of that act, and of the provisions f the act of May H, for providing fr the establishment of "on uniform militia throughout the United Slates," tho department would not have felt justified in making any such distinction, as the Initer act renders liable to military duty each and every free able bodied white main titixtn of the several stales, resident therein, who is or ahull he of the age of eighteen years and under the age of furty-rHc years," w ith the exception of certain persons exempted by the second section of the act, on account of their official or peculiar position or employment. As not speaking tho Knglih languge cannot be alleged by iriliim in cause of exemption from mihtury duty, certainly it should not bo the ground for rejecting his services as a volunteer. This communication is made solely for the purposes slated, and not with any view of casting censure upon the proceedings of your excellency in the mutter, as no doiihl ts entertained that you acted under a conscientious sense of duly, and upon what you considered correct information upon the subject. Very resecllully, Your obedient servant, WM, L. MAHCY, Secretory of War. His exellency, Mordecai Barti.kv, Governor of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio. L'orreiipomleiicu itl tint Ohio Mate Journal. McKity'a. Hill Ins.d ! Mr. Ilillinrd ol A In., the only Traitor in the Whiff rmiks. Washington, July 3. The deed is done ! The Tariff of lf4!i, which re stored the credit of a bankrupt government, rendered so hy political gamblers and charlatans which gave tality, activity, and energy to the entire business of the country, and mude green a land which had been blighted, and withered, by the curse of tree trade, is destroyed, so far as the House of Representatives is concernedr McKay's bill passed the House this day, by a vole of 114lo95, The struggle was severe, and the result for a long time doubtful. The Committee of the Whole had placed salt upon the free list, and reported an amendment repealing the Ashing bounties. The friends of the Tariff felt confident that tho bill could not pass with these amendments; and hence upon these, the battle woa first fought. The House refused to concur in the amendment placing salt upon the free list, by one or two majority only. Tho vote refusing to con- J cur in the fishing bounty amendment, gave the Loco focoa a little lurger majority. Let it bo remembered that every anti-tariff, free trade Locofoco from the South, voted against p'ocing salt on the free list, and n gainst repealing the tnliing bounty laws. By saving a 2') per cent, ad valorem on salt, by preserving the fishing bounty, and promising certain offices to a few doughfaces, tin' South have succeeded as usual, in striking down the free labor of theree States in destroying tho great cauio of the country's prosperity, and in rendering Northern free men slates to Southern slaveholders. Never did men fight more gallantly than tho noble Whigs on this occasion. Shoulder to shoulder they presented an unbroken front. To this remark, however, there, is one exception and only one. Henry VV. Hili.iahd, of Alabama, who pretends to bo a Wlrg, voted for the bill which passed-This man, not being satisfied to vole with Locofocos on this important and leading question, immediately upon the adjournment of the House, left his scat, went to the opposite side of the Hall, and shook hands with Mr. Yance with an air of joy and gratulation. The act of dcaerfioii could have been borne ; but to see tho deserter leavo the company of tho Whigs whom ho had aided in defeating, and go to the ranks of the enemy, at a moment when every friend of his country was sorrowing at the wound just inflicted, and there meet and apparently congratulate such a man as Win. L. Yancey, was beyond sufferance. To render this scene still nioro disgraceful, and to deepen the degradation of Mr. JHIiard, the free traders, at the moment of this singular meeting between Mr. Hilliard and Mr. Yancey, raised a shout of exultation and triumph over the fallen and proslrnte inter- eitts of our common country ; amidst which shout Mr. Hilliard was, und which, us much as any, he strtnnl lo enjoy. Let hi.n no long-r be called a Whig. He has dishonored the name. Ho has deceived his friends, and trifled with and trampled upon their feelings. Lei him do it no longer. Strike him Jrom the list. The Foreign News Flour Going Pawn The news by tho Bnttani i, in another column, contains one or two items of interest. Tho passage of the Corn Bill, through the House of Lords, is now rendered certain. In all probability it it the law of Iho realm at this time. Yet, tho vessel that brings this intelligence, announces the downward tendency of flour and grain. A heavy reduction in the price of flour has taken place since the last arrival. Importations of grain had increased from all quarters, but much mure largely from the Baltio ports than from this country. At the present pricei in England, in or der to make the exportation of flour profitable or allow of exportation without aclutl toss, Wheat must sell at about THIRTYHKVEN CENTd per bushel in Ohio I This is the prosMct opened up by the free-traders and their allies, the doughfaces ; for, be it remembered Wheat, iVc., are now received in bond at the rates provided for under Ihe Corn Bill. Down with the Tariff and a Homo Market! Up wilh the Foreign Market, wilh 117 cts. lor Wheat! This is the market lo gain which the Ohio Locofoco delegation have aimed a fatal blow at the industrial interests of the country and consented to render tho United Slates a colonial ap-HMidage of Great Britain onoo more I 'If I had thirty thousand children," mid the vrn erable Dr. , I would rear thrm all in Virginia, that Iher might have in nrmnrtunitv of learning th (value of themselves; for 1 never knew a Virginian that did not hive a high opinion of himself. Correspondence ol the Ohio Mute Jnurnnl. Wahiiikgto.i, July, , J ri4G, Events and doings crowd upon us so here, that, after a week's silence, I scarcely know where to begin, what to notice, or what to pass over, as all cannot be noticed in a brief letter. But out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speuketh, therefore I will begin with the moat recent sayings and doings up to the moment of writing. The debate upon the tariff question, which is to close in a few minutes, has been rich for the last two or three days, and we have had some of (he richest parts of it to-day. Mr. Gentry of Tennessee, had the floor at the opening of the debate this morning, and such a raking, such a casfigation, such a cutting and slashing as he gave Mr. Pulk and Mr. Buchanan for the trick, fraud, deception practiced upon Pennsylvania and N. York hi IH-J4, but especially the former, in re-gird to the opinions of Mr. Polk on the subject of the Tariff, which has rarely been listened to in that House. The letter, which had been several times produced and read in this debate, commonly known as the Kaxe letter, ho charged, was concocted in Pennsylvania, and then sent out to Mr. Polk to sign. Its design and purpose was to practice a fraud, a gross deception, and infamous imposition upon the people, and with that object and purpose in view that Mr. Polk signed it, and permitted his views on the Tariff ques tion to be infamously misrepresented to the people of t eiisylvania, N. Jersey and N. York, for the purpose of inducing them, under these false resolutions to cast their voles for bun, and it was by tiiis fraud tint he was elected, which was denied. Mr. Buchanan had lent himself to the perpetration of this fraud, and it was enough to cover both him and Mr. Polk, and all who had any part in perpetrating it with the most damnable infamy. As to the people of Pennsylvania, they are only culpable for their ignorance and stupidi ty ; but as to the politicians of that Slate, her Locofoco delegation upon this floor, they too would ho ox-c useable if they had been deceived. But had they ? If they had, would they not, long ago, like honest men have come out and said so, at the same time have denounced those who had deceived them ? If they were honest they would. But had they done so No. So fur from it, they were emulous who should show the most loyal attachment, and give tho most steady and heavy support to that same man who had thus played a mean, disgraceful and conleaiptible trick upon tho people. It showed that instead of having been deceived, they wtv partiecps crimmis; that they, too, had had a hand in the infamous piece of chivalry. Mr. U. proceeded m this ilrain, using, however, much stronger and more emphatic longuago than I have, for some twenty minutes, leaving neither skin nor flesh upon the bones of Mr. Polk, Mr. Buchanan, and the Locos from Pa., on that floor. He afterwards paid his respects to Mr. Polk upon the subject of Or- goii. He commended the settlement of the question and the treaty, if the treaty was Mr. Polk's, if he had taken the responsibility, as he should do, in a manly and fearless manner, to make the treaty with KnaUnd. ho would support him in it. But if the rumor was truo that ho had skulked behind the Senate had told them thai for his part he was for M 40, and would not make a treaty unless they bade him, but would do just they ahmild advise, they taking tho responsibility and not he, then he would say that Mr. Polk had exhibited himself in the most pitiful, cowardly, cringing, humiliating attitude that it was possible for man to place himself in. Ho was almost beneath contrmpt. But he would leave hiin in the hands of his very par ticular friends, tho fifty-four forties, who he had n tfouht would deal justly by him. In the course of Mr. G s. remarks, he aaid il had been asserted during the canvas of '4-1, by tho member IVnin Pennsylvania, now on this floor, as the themselves had acknowledged, that Mr. Polk trust Protective Tariff man; he asked them what he wa nowf Was he a Protective Tariff man now? II. paused for a reply let gentlemen answer me? Si ne.e A voice, all missing No, gentlemen, von dare not get up here and repeal whit you told Hit people in aim winch yon Ihen knew was not truo. You are all silent, all. au But I must not dwell too long with Mr. Gentry, fit we had another speech which I must notice. Mr. Wick, unndiaiia, generally called "Billy Wick,'' made a speech yesterday, in which ho undertook It give Mr. Brinkerhoff,and the Ohio delegation, ss well us a pmiun of the New York delegation, a lerribh castigatmn, and then lo read them out of the parly; taking upon himself the double office of whipper-in and whipper.out. Tho self-imposed duty was per tunned, nnd in such a way that, while it gratified the fnthfiit, and rinsed the Wings to look on wilh indefinite sorrow, in rerij scrum I assure you,) s caused the teeth of others to grit and grind in a iini significant manner. Mr. Rathhun, one of the members of the parly from N. Y ., endeavored tn obtain Ihe floor in reply to him; but Mr. Cobb, of Ga., being in tin Chair, studiously avoided seeing him, or, ot least, mi every occasion gave it In gome other person, Thi morning the some game being played by Mr. Cobb, Mr. Ashmun, of Mass , having, the floor assigned to him, though Mr. Itilhhuii waa clearly entitled to if yielded it to him. To litis Mr. Cobb could not ubiret and Mr. II. had the floor in spite of ihe evident deter mination of the Chair to prevent htm from speaking Mr. Rithuun apoke a short time upon the tariff, giving his reasons why h woutd not vole for tin bill of th Committee of Ways and Means, chiefly be- cause it would not raise sufficient revenue to meet the I wants of (he govern men I, and then paid his respects, or more correctly speaking, his contempts to Mr, Billy Wick," as he denominated him. He returned Ihe hotshot thrown by that member yesterday, with additional heat, ridiculed and lampooned him until he had exhausted tho vocabulary of epithets of contempt and ridicule. He said he had ln-ard a rumor, but could not vouch for the truth of it, that in the District which the member from Indiana represented, there was living a few years ago a mart generally known as " Billy Wick," who ran three limes for Congress as a Whig, and was defeated, and that he then suddenly became better informed," Mr Wick h id h.i d, yesterday, that he was a few years ago a Whig and was as honeatthen as he is now, Laughter but that he was now "better informed, came out a Locofoco, and was now in Congress. Laughter. Mr. R then referred to a letter which hnd lately appeared with the name of the member ottached to it, which heralded this whipping in that had been under taken yesterday. Mr. R. pronounced the letter a contemptible, mean, pittiful production which could coma from no ono but him who would lie down in the straw and lick the dust from the foot t int kicked him. He, Mr, Wick (Mr. R, said) had played Ihe clown and buffoon, and hud used tho language of a low p.tt house brawler, not only before the House but before respectable ladies in the gallery. He would bo sorry to suppose there was a single man in his district who could demean himself in so contemptible a manner who had not more self respect and elevated thoughts. But the member, he said, hid told them that he wanted to be n general, and had applied to Mr. Polk to make him one but was promptly refused, because ho was a mem- tier of Congress, rageneral! UK a general! whew! HE A general! w-h-e-w! exclaimed Mr. R. bringing out tho whew, with a half whistle, and drawing his face into a most contemptious expression. And lie thinks Mr. Polk refused him because he is a member of Congress ! Sir, it was not for that reason. Mr. Polk saw his eyo his red eye j that was enough. Ho saw he was never made for anything more than a cor poral, and hardly that. But the member told us he was like arAt7r,hc talked right out. Sir, there arc two kinds of persons who talk right out children and fools. The member is no child. Sensation and laughter. But, Mr. R. said, this whole thing was disgraceful ; the disgrace belonged, however, to him who commenced it, and upon his shoulders it must rest. Ho talks about whipping in New York ; there were a considerable number from New York to bo whipped, and it would be no small job. He would find when he commenced it that he wag whipping a hornet's nest, and the sooner he got out of tho way the better fur him. Such was a portion of tho entertainment of tho lookers on at the House to-day. Tiie Whigs looked on with exceeding great regret and sorrow tosee brethren full nut in this way, and thought of wearing crape lo express the depth of their sorrow ; but bethinking themselves lint such things had happened be 0 ire, and yot thoao who had clapper clawed each other, afterwards worked most kindly and docilely together in the party h irnesa, concluded to postpone any such demonstration of their feelings until they saw what wus to be the result, and to " Let doj delight to bark and Into For 'lis their nature lo." Remembering, also, the words of Solomon, that ' he that passeth by and ineddleth with a quarrel not belonging to him, is like one thattuketh a dog by the cars. Tnr.TfMrr.RAscE Societt. A meeting of the Co-lu iihus Temperance Society was called for Tuesday evening, but owing to the al sence of the key of the old Court House, it was not held. We would advise a postponement of operations until fall. Several failures lately have disappointed many friends of the cause and are calculated to injure it seriously. The Sons uf Tern-Iterance are adding to their number largely every week as we learn, so that there is no danger of a retrograde move me ut in the main. The evenings are now en tirely lo short to allow of anything like a full discussion of an interesting question. QjT We were mortified to find that an onvsaion of a few worda had rendered quite obecure a porlb n of an article in our last, devoted to tho Statesman. In alluding to the 'quandary" in which our neighbor found himself, wc were placed in one by the omission alluded lo. From the National Iiilellinncer. The Tariff Hill. The bill for the reduction of the Duties on the im portation of Foreign Goods aud Manufactures has passed the House of ttrprcsmtattres. The majority on the hnal passige ol the bill wus nineteen Votes; ex hibiting cninoined rflect ot r.xecutive influence and parly drill, against the undoubted wish of the people. and, as we suppose, against their actual instructions to a portion at least of thos Representative! who composed tho majority nn tho final vote, such as has rarely been witnessed even in tho popular branch ofCongress. lea and lunce, tho ohiects without which no ad vantage lu the revenue can rationally be expected from the passage of this bill, were struck out of it by ac clamation ; hut, to ace u re the votes of the Democracy of tho Empire Slate, (uiditcnahe to the passage of the bill,) a duty of twenty ptr cent, upon the rulue has been laid Utnu the article of Sit, T, the most indispensable of all the necessaries of life, without the daily use of which tho poorrst man in the country would be unable lo keep body and soul together. An examination of tho pntceedings of yesterday, and of tho yeas and nays on Ihe several questions, will show that this duty probably would not have passed the House, could the bill for stripping the American Manufacture! of their present protection been passed without it. So the majority may almost literally be uid to have been procured, as children in the nursery are told that birds are caught, by sprinkling salt upon their tails. There are other things also m ihe proceedings which our readers will find well worthy their attention. Ihe bill, having passed the House ot Representa tives, has now to undergo consideration tu ihe Senate, list Us reception there will be, we havu no means of judging. Whatever its ultimate, fate may be, tun ninety-five Representatives of the people who have manfully battled against it in the House of Representatives are entitled lo the Ihe thanks of the friends of Home Industry all over the United States, as well of those who till the soil as of those who prrparo its products for market. One effect of the passage of the Tariff bill in the House of Representatives will be to prolong the Ses sion of Congress to an indefinite length. Had the bill liecn rejected, tho session would, in all probability, have ended on this day fortnight. Tux Law NtnliMIrs Below we give an exhibit of Ihe taxable rwsonal properly for three years, derived from the books mid returns in the Auditor s o It ice. 'I be column for I Kill mows ihe amount nf each item as taxed, being okk tiAt.r the actual valuation. IHU. 1H-IR. IHIti. :.-?! 4tllti 4w.H I.Vi,.Mil IHU.rMu $KU4 SM,?7I l!,7'J; !!,! )llm,ltH flfi7,7M $lit7,H(ii) Number of Horses, value, No. of Cattle, slue, . Money at interest J and capital in trade and man. No. 1'lensurecarriages, lue, No. Witches, value, No. Pianos, . alue, No. Hlieep, Value, . No. Mules, Value, No. lings, - Value, Non-enumerated articles, :7,147 $15I,7H iTi;,V7tf From the IJaltiniorc Sun. Arrival of tho NteHinnhip Ilritimnia. rift ecu duys hiter lioin JEuropu The steamship Britannia arrived at Boston on Saturday morning, and was received in Philadelphia by express, from whence it wus communicated to the Baltimore Sun tiy Magnetic Telegraph, some twenly-four hours in advance of thu mail, Tho com bill has iriuuiobed in the committee of the whole in the House of Lords by a majority of thirty-Ihree. Consequently all ftnrs us lo its html pnusago are at an end, and a rich market for our superabundant cropa uf breudstufls may now be. confidentlyanticipated. 1 here has been a decline nf one eighth pence in the Cotton market, though the demand continued steady. In Eugluud and Ireland the wheat and potatoe, us well a oilier crops, have a fine and prosperous ap pearance, and the prospect uf a plentiful harvest was considered good on (he HHh ult., when the Britannia sailed. It seems, therefor', thut we have monopoliz- dull the mm in this direction, unless the storm clouds have paid them a later visit. (Sir Hubert reel 8 retirement is more continently spoken of than by former arrivals there is, however, nothing positive known yet with regard to his intentions in this respect. It is based on the supposition, that on tho completion of his great measures ho will retire from active life. The war hetveeu tho United States and Mexico eiiirronses public attention. The victories ot Iho Americans on the llio Grande lias changed punno feeling both in fcugland and France from sympathy for Hie MexicmiH to contempt. M.Guizots organ is still pointing out the necessi ty and policy of Prance and England interfering by a joint action of some kind to protect Mexico from what it terms the rapacious and tyrannical conductor tne United lata leu in seizing on the territory ot a weak and unfortunate nation. The government organ, however, does not touch on the subject, and the probability is that Ihe organ ot M. liutzot ig used as a leeler to ascertain the views of the peoplo in regard lo such a movement. Lo Couiptc?, the attempted assassin of Louis Phillip-pe, King of the French, has bceu executed. This announcement will be received wilh universal surprise, as this unfortunate man hug heretofore been uniformly represented as laboring under a singular delusion, nearly approaching to insanity. Okath ok thk Pope of Home. His Holiness, tho Pope of Home, i dead, having expired suddenly on thu first of June. Cardinal Franz-mi, it is said, is tho person most likely to succeed him. Nr.w SrKAM'iurs. Three or four steamship for weekly communication between the United Stules and Great Britain, are constructing by the same buildern and engineers who buit the Cambria, and steamship of the Britmh nnd North American line. Tho Messrs Cuuard are to have the contract. Dr. Kllig, a pndeiuor of Hydropathy, has been hel l to bail for uiaiinlaugliler for causing the death of a patient by administering the cold water system. The heat was greater in Paris the week before tho l.'ith of June than for some years. The tbermumeti r marked, in the shade, HH deg. of Farenheit. Tint Knglmh papers speak of the mouth of June being th i holiest experienced in that country fur sixteen year. Tiie number of deaths recorded from being struck ty the mm is very numerous. Wheat ling declined in the Liverpool Corn Market, between the l-'ilh of May and the ltilh of June, from .7s. to .Vis. lthl. per quarter. Flour is also lower. Apprehensions wire entertained in Holland of a fuilure of the rye arid potatoe crop. tii itMAM . l tie ttcrmnn paper announce that the Kmperors of HuHsia and Austria, and the King of f rusdui, are to meet at Vienna in September next. eu r.nr.M and JNorwav Stockholm, June o. Mm- grati-m is rapidly on the increase from tins part of the worhl to tiie U nitcd mates. A United elates vcsnel lately left He i en with &"0 emigrants, leaving sevi n hundred prepared to follow on the firsl opportunity. The ureal er part of the emigrants are artisans and ag riculturists. The majority of them are tolerably well to uo m the world. Ihe coronation ot the King ami Queen is to take place in October wilh great pomp Great Freshet. The Cumberland (Maryland) Civilian of the lid instant, says : It becomes our painful duty to record the occurrence of one of the most devasting freshets in this place and vicinity, that perhaps has ever been witnessed here. toff ire equalling if not surpassing tho great flood of If Ml. During the whole of Tuesday afternoon the rag hi streams poured their noisy floods into our streets, u wrii niii a un cf-iiarn, urnrnig on uieir nruuiong currents numerous small buildings, located on their barks, hen-coops, pig-tys, bridecs, mill-dams, barrels find lumber o' every description. The water rushed in upon us so suddenly as to prevent some of our merchants from clearing their cellars, which speed ilj filled wilh water, to the injury of a considerable quantity of sugar and liquor. I'Jte damage iu this way, however, was not serious. We have learned on competent authority that llm damage to the Mount Savage Railroad will all be re. paired by Monday night next. The expense will not amount to more than (tlttlHI. The injurv at the works was by no menus serious the Rolling All II and Blast Furnaces being ail nt work ss usual. 1 lie injury lit the Mary land Mining Company g Road above Wills creek, can be repaired in three or four davs; but at Wills creek the embankments ere almost entirely destroyed, sit much so as to require I') or I'i days for their restoration. The bridge itself remained iirm after the embankments had been swept from it. Whilst, however, Cumttcrland and the immediate vicinity have escaped with a loaa of about ffWO, iho crops fn the Potomac must have been almost enliii ly swept away, com, wheat, rye, grans, &c. cVc. From tlin Geauga Whig. Whip; JHims Medina; nl C'bardnn. Agreeably lo the call of the Committee of Arrai.;c. menu, the Whigs of this county assembled at llns place last Thursday, (the tftth) to meet Mr. BK1IB, our candidate for Governor, and hear him, with others, discuss the great questions of Slate and National t -h- ey which aro involved in the present political contest. 'I ho day was fair, but excessively warm, and the roads were quite dusty; but notwithstanding all this, and the busy season with the farmers, there was g.eat turn out, much exceeding our most sanguine antic pa-tions. It was estimated by good judges that tlu ru were between 11,000 and 3,(HM penpls on the ground, with a sprinkling of ladies, of tours. Every thing pasai-d off finely, nothing occurring lo mar the feel'iigs of any one, and the whole proceedings conducted in a manner and spirit calculated to do away the preiu liro against the asscmhlago of great masses to hear political discussions. The people assembled on the public square, but the heal being deemed loo oppressive for the comfort of such a crowd, they marched in a procession to tho west of the village to a grove, whrre a stand and seats had been hastily prepared in the m 'ru ing. J. P. Conykrnk K'U.-, of Parkman, pres ded over tho meeting, assisted by three Vice Presidents. OrERATion or the Tax Law! More Facti ! We have been furnished hy a friend with the fol lowing facts relative to the oterstion of the Odioim Whig lax haw in Darke county, as compared Willi the return of Hl.". Wo commend them lo the consideration of those reckless demagogues who, regard-Irss alike of honesty and truth, have been endeavoring to create an impression in the public mind that tho new Tax law was calculated to screen the nVa, by oppressing ihe poor! They carry with them their own com ment : lu lH t", the value of horses, cattle, and pleasure carriages in this county was $330,-141) And the amount of merchants' capital, stock iu trade, and money at interest was 40,7 Total prnmnal for IH43, - f'J71,l(iS In r4i,1he value of the enumerated and non-enumerated articles, amounts to ft'&G.OVil Merchants' and manufacturers stock, $IH,Q71 Mom ys and credits, - )'l,ol3 $171,1 i.:i(i I,i7l s;,iii3 7 84,4 sl,r7H ;c syi!i MKt $'.U,o7! Total tatahle value, fli.lSO.liCi $:,.,:t(i;( :;tM,:,3,i Ihe cat I hi and horses constituted Mi per tent, of he whole taxable personal property m lf44. In llii, hey constitute a fraction over 31 per cent, nf the total taxable persoml properly. W atehes. Pianos, ami 1 'nrnage amount to more than Sheep, Hogs, and Mutes. The money and capital has .increased nearly tWe fold from Ihe returns of 144 ; or utits JuH umvunt more than nine fold. The entire average valuation of horses is ( :'li H rattle, hl Mi " sheep, M 8 " hoga, ff r7 it It thus appears tlmt Imrses have been Inxed at su ariitiei.tl value, Ingher Hutu their actual rah value as returned, and caltle at more than two-thirds of their eash value; while of the money and capital in trade Ac. under the old law leg than one ninth o tiie w hole amount actual invested, was taxed Foii'ige Star. Total personal for 14(1, (irttnenlU Patriot. Tat' it. Really beautiful women are seldom vain of their persona appearance. Vanity is the fuihle of thtae who are conscious of a deficiency in their own ehorma. A woman of gitud sense, nioru valuable far titan beauty, is, however, never tain. Bi TEirt i. tiMTKnrniir.. The brig Francis Amy arrived at Baltimore on Thursday, from her second vovaje of exploration and search ofter the treasure of the tditp of war Han Pedro," whirh was gunk oil thu Hpninili mam ir the year IrO.V We understand (bat she has recovered this voyage about the sum of tk.rtu jire thou.Hind dollars in Spanish dollars. This money wus ton nil at the bottom ot tne sra, about three feet under Ihe sand, and beneath a coral formation, insmv feel water. The whole amount recovered from the wreck thus tsr aoiueihing more than sixty (Aims imd dollars .iiucricum The announcement, says the New York Journal of Commerce, (which appenrg lo lie authentic,) that ihrrn ships of the line hove, been ordered lo be got in n ad-mens lor active service, vis : the Pennsylvania, 1 , nt Norfolk, the North Carolina, at that port, and the Ohm at B-titnn, naturally suggests the idea thai a heavy homliaruineut is contemplated, and thai there ia only our fortress on the Mexican cog it where such a fotce, in addition to several large frigates now in the Gulf, could bo required. The venerable Asbbel Green has been re-elee'ed President of the Pennsylvania Rihle Society. This venerable Jersevman, who was Chaplain to Cungiens during Gen. Washington's Administration, and enjoyed familiar intercourse wilh the great men of Hint day, is, the country will be pleased lo learn, enguj-ed in writing out Ihe minutes of his diary a faithful daily record of public events and Ihe course of opiti. ion, embracing the whole period nf our history from ihe commruccment of the Revolution. Snow. On Monday, thu Hid June, It snowed so much as to whiten the ground on the A Afghan ics.