Democratic Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 2

DETROIT DAILY REE PRESS Well? 261 30571 the 102 In the SI conservatives close allies of the whip io toae be A wft do do do do do do we allude is an answer to some question idei him by a correspondent of the Enquirer wheth er it were true as al I III II 67 35 30 132 or lhe ree Pros An editorial article in one of the city papers animadverts with great severity upon the cha racter and conduct of our fellow citizen Gene ral Hugh Brady Wes refrain from all adjec tives and phrases of commendation associated with that name His name and character are his His long life has shed a contin ued lustre upon the land of his birth It is a part of her honor her glory and her His native State by the solemn act of her peo ple in her legislative assembly has presented him a sword consecrated by the expression of their approbation of his long and meritorious services It is a worthy act of justice to one whose sword has never been drawn but in the cause of the republic and never been returned without honor Such is the man whose charac ter and conduct is assailed by the editor of a daily journal and for what! Simp'y for per forming his duty a duty to the people of these United Stales a duty (which When he was en trusted with the commission ho now holds) was imposed upon him with the solemn sanction of an oath to support the constitution and the laws a duty for the proper performance of which he is accountable to his country through her properly constituted tribunals a duty from which no threats can turn him he can die at bis post but never yield His calm dig nified and uniform action reminds us of that Roman whoj in reply to the fierce shouts of a tumultuous and threatening assembly exclaim ed Peace Think you that one who has heard the shouts of embattled armies is to be intimi dated by your senseless clamors Thus much it has been thought necessary to say in justice to the true sentiments of his fel low citizens The same paper under the head of truisms has this phrase Assertions are not facts vio lence is not validity of Now what is the comment of the editor upon this valuable lesson His facts are utterly distorted or ab solutely untrue and his arguments a violent petitio principii Ilis arguments and his asser tions are mixed together and we shall examine them in his own order He asserts that the people are the sovereigns and he would seem to assert too that this is a sovereignty of the sword Now though this is absolutely true in the sense that ad power is derived from the people yet it is absolutely un true and a doctrine perilous in the extreme when it assumes as it would appear from the context that any self organized and constituted assembly of the people are competent to dic tate to any portion of their fellow citizens who differ with them in opinion and to decide and act upon the decision that the action of any of ficial functionary exceeds the authority with which he is vested The constitution and the laws are sovereign and the sovereignty of the people must be exercised in their political ca pacity in conformity thereto until the people of the United States in their individual capacity reassume all the powers therein granted by a change and revolution of the government It should always be remembered that though the majority are governors in this Democracy the minority are the governed and that this minor ity have equal rights and privileges as well as the governors and it is for the maintenance and enforcement of these equal rights that we have a constitution and a law of the land It is also entirely untrue in a general sense that the servant are circumscribed within defined limit 15415 14800 356 THE BATTLE PRESCOTT The Kingston (U C) Chronicle of a late date contains the following in regard to the en gagement at Prescott The buildings on the left of the mill being now gained were set Are to and a white flag having been displayed from the mill Col Dundas with that humanity always a prominent attribute of the truly brave accepted an unconditional sur render when 87 prisoners Were marched out of the mill and 16 more wounded subsequently carried outo Ten barrels of powder and several stands of arms were found in thevnill Three pieces of artillery which had been placed in front of the doorot the mill on a battery constructed of loose stones were also captured The only loss sustained by us' on this occa sion was one of the light company of the gal lant 83d Regiment who was shot through the head The loss of the pirates as far as we can learn is as follows: Killed on the 13th Left dead on the field on riday night Total killed Prisoners taken on Tuesday and sent to ort Henry Surrendered unconditionally on riday Total prisoners majority The aggregate rdtq 30459 At the state election last year the vote stood for The forlorn' hope a The Cincinnati Republican a federal paper which sails under conservative colors gives the fol lowing synopsis of the reasons why the whig party should nominate Gen Harrison above all other men for the presidency Gen Harrison is the choice of the people He is a candidate under whose banner men of all parties can rally without an abandonment of principle He is not identified with any of the bjects or measures of either If Gen Harrison has no fixed principles as the Cincinnati paper insinuates and which we do not doubt he would certainly make a most excellent and appropriate candidate fot the nay more the only proper candidate Bank reform The Buckeyes are deter mined on bank reform and freeing the state from all incorporated monopolies The credit system as connected with banking institutions is not to be abandoned but they seem to be aiming at the organization of the system under a general banking law like that adopted by the legislature of New York The charters of the Ohio banks expire in 1S43 The New York General Banking Law ap pears to work well thus far and the field for banking operations no longer seems to be a garden tempting with forbidden The difficulty of establishing so solid a foundation as required by the New York law must prevent the rearing too great a number of banking houses for the financial convenience of the state The Next Presidency The Boston Atlas the especial organ ot the views And interests of Mr Webster and the leading whig paper in New England gives the following construction to the late elections in the several states The results of the late elections conclusively prove what we were severely flamed for stating in advance some two months ago that the Whigs are far from being so strong as some sanguine members of the party had believed and hoped and that in reference to the presidential candidate the great question is and must be not whom this that or the other individual would prefer but who has such a hold upon the popular mind and affections that if nominated he can be And then the Atlas goes on to point out the man the only whig who can run successfully against Mr Van Buren It says subsequently to the Maine election we spoke in a decided manner upon the necessi ty giving up all other preferences and concen trating upon General Harrison as the Whig Presidential candidate we were accused of having been frightened into a hasty rash and ill judged procedure That accusation was not just In the result in Maine we saw but the beginning of what has been fully developed by the election results in other states we saw the beginning of what we had a long time appre hended the beginning namely of that rout and defeat which must result from the attempt if it be persevered in to bring forward any other person than Gen Harrison as the Whig Presi dential Steam Cutter It appears from remarks in different newspapers along the borders of our great inland seas that the popular voice is in favor of government furnishing the revenue ser vice on lakes Erie Huron and Michigan with a steam cutter of about three hundred tons bur then manned and furnished in such a manner as to be in the highest degree serviceable in her constant cruising between Buffalo and Chicago in getting off stranded vesse)s and preserving our neutrality in times of patriot disturbances Such a craft would be the means of soon saving to the government the amount of her cost About have already been paid for the use of steamboats to follow the movements of the patriots Wisconsin The second legislature of Wis consin is in session Banks and internal im provements as in other portions of the Union are the great subjects of legislation The Mil waukie Advertiser declares nd doubtless with justice that the legislator? well selected and will compare favorably that of any state in the west Since the opening of navigation in the spring it is stated by the same paper that 337 vessels have arrived and discharged freight at Milwau kie and that along shore have been landed not less than 25000 emigrants Harbors light houses turnpikes railroads canals bridges public buildings with a rich soil industri ous enterprising and intelligent inhabitants blessed with a fair share of genuine democracy will soon convert the thriving territcry into a wealthy and populous state At the last dates flour was selling at New Orleans for and per barrel This is in consequence of a want of the usual supply occa sinned hyJ Intvwnfor nf tk lecicsippi which rendered them not navigable by steamboats rhe St Lonis Bulletin states that this circumstance has made a good market for the products raised on the Mississippi boat (says that paper) that leaves St Louis for New Orleans departs' deeply laden with the produce of the country and as nothing goes from the Ohio our farmers and traders re ceive the highest prices for every kind of pro duce which they take to the southern market Whilst the smallest flats and keels can with dif ficulty descend from Cincinnati the most mag mcent steamboats are daily departing from our city freighted with our richest products and they bring us in exchange all our necessaries and luxuries of Bellville At the flourishing village of Bellville Illinois there has lately been estab lished a branch of the State Bank of Illinois James Mitchel esq is president and Crittenden cashier 8 I 'i indication that the new steamboat law is to be enforced at one place at least The steamboat Ark has been fined five hundred dollars for leav ing port without inspection CoLb Near the city of New on the 27th ult the tberfriometer fell as low as twenty seven degrees below the freezing point In the western prt of 'the state ihe snow was two feet deep If the Yorkers wish to escape such severe weather let them come to Michi gan A human In Scituate Massachusetts there is a lump of humanity that is a greater curiosity than the Ashville damsel with out limbs who uses her tongue as a substitute for hands it is a boy about twelve years old destitute of legs and arms who iu the shape of a ball performs astonishing feats of locomotion Schuylkill coal During the season there have been shipped in 7727 boats 423161 tons of coal ree negroes Twenty thousand of them in the city of New York The result in New York The whigs of New York have it to boast that the democratic party have gained within the year not less than six thousand votes notwithstanding they were contended against by all the united factions of federal bank whiggery political abolitionism and political anti masonry These tactions elected only two more members of Congress than the democrats They elected 21 and the demo crats 19 The legislature stands thus: in the Senate democrats 18 all others 14 House democrats 47 all others 81 Liverpool correspondence of the Star Liverpool Oct 17 1838 I did not write by the packet of the 10th be cause I had little to say I have not much to communicate now but 1 write rather than dis? appoint you Matters are as dull as they can be Agitation continues the order of the day and it advances much more rapidly than was antici pated In fact the working classes have little employment at present and price of bread (which regulates the price of previsions gene rally) is very high Thus here are two elements of mischief idleness aad distress Besides the meeting in London there have since been meet ings of the populace in Manchester Liverpool Sheffield Coventry and other places At Shef field the Chairman was Ebenezer Ellcott the celebrated poet As a speaker he is fierce and vehement as a poet he is at the top of the tree in spite of his far farmed Corn Law Rhymes which are ranting doggerel In general there has been talk at these meetings not merely of the necessity but of the legality of effecting a change in the ministry and the Parliamentary system by force of arms At Manchester (where the yeomanry attacked and slaughtered the mob in 1819 at Hunt's meeting) it was intended to call out the military to enforce or der but it is said the intention was abandoned from a fear that the speeches might sow disaf fection among the soldiers if heard by them Good order was maintained by the people at Manchester and elsewhere At Manchester 300000 men were present They clamored there and elsewhere ior the dism'salof minis ters Lord Melbourne remains at Windsor castle the defendant in two crim con actions a con stant visitor to and companion of a maiden Queen! Palmerston passes his time between London and Windsor Lord John Russell and the Marquis of Lansdown are in Ireland nomi nally to see the Poor Law put into action there but actually to watch the aspect of affairs for anti ministerial feeling is becoming prevalent in Ireland as well as in England and Lord Glenelg is asleep somewhere Lord Hol land is at Paris Spring Rice is in In land Thus when an emeute may take place to mor row the cabinet are away from the seat of go vernment A row may take place especially as the people are armed and trained as well as angry and inflammable but I think it will be de ferred until they see what becomes of their pe tition in favor of the Charter The young prince of Saxe Cobourgh is co niing on a visit to Victoria with his father her uncle While she was plain heiress presump tive this young sprig of royalty was on a visit to her mother at Claremont and they were pur posely thrown much together The London papers now affirm positively that the match will take place next year and that Lord Mel bourne will come down to Parliament with a Royal Message claiming a marriage settlement Extracts from foreign papers uller the well known author of wrote his own epitaph as it appears in West minster Abbey It consists only of four words but it speaks volumes namely Ijere lies uL The Moniteur Parisien records the death of a woman named Marie Priou which happened last week in the environs of Saint Beal in the Haute Garonne at the patriarchal age of 158 years retaining as they say her mental facul ties to the last although her corpse weighed onlv42 pounds her flesh being gone and her skin and muscles adhering to her bones like parchment! They add that at the age of 66 she sold a cottage and some trifling pieces of land for an annuity of 162f which the purchas ers have consequently had to pay for no less a period than 92 years 1 The last naval obituary includes three admirals three captains seven command ers ten lieutenants six masters nine surgeons six pursone and two lieutenants sf marines On Saturday night 800 feet of the brick work of the Thames Tunnel was completed and the workmen were regaled in that portion of it appropriated to visitors One hundred feet more will finish the undertaking The Lord Chancellor on the recommenda tion of the Duke of Richmond the Lord Lieut of the county of Sussex has inserted the name of Mr Solomons a gentleman of the Jewish persuasion and late Sheriff of Middlesex in the commission as a magistrate for that county The register for the Roseland district latelv called on a poor woman to demand the neces sary information concerning the birth of her child but all he could gain from her was that it was born the day after Uucle Sam killed bis It is stated that since the evacuation of the Surrey canal and docks in the early part of the present century upwards of 2000 persons have been taken lifeless from these waters and that the majority were suicides A meeting was held at Calcutta on the 8th of July to petition the Bengal government to abol ish the exportation of Coolies Several cases of kidnapping have been discovered On breaking ground for the purpose of open ing a quary at VVovershill in the parish of Ban well at about two feet depth a burial place was discovered whence seven bodies have already been exhumed some of them in excellent pre auoii 1 i ne comns containing them were in good condition and made of burnt clay about three inches thick and dovetailed together something on the same principle as is now adop ted by carpenters New York and Erie This work is rapidly progressing onward in this vicinity Contractors are paid off every month in current money and will have their contracts finished next spring in time for achanco in the next let ting of jobs which will take (dace Dun kirk Beacon a Ear LT The extreme severity of the weather yesterday and the previous day has closed the canals and no doubt the river at least for several miles below this city This is nearly if not altogether unparalleled in the history of our variable climate A rgus Nov 26 1 Lower Canada Three proclamations have been issued by Sir John one extend ing martial law to the district of St rancis another extending the provisions or the ordi nance for the suppression of the rebellion in that and the third appointing riday the 7th of December as a day of pubhc fasting and prayer The Bantpie du Peuple has been au thorised to avail itself of the provisioMef the or dinance for the suppression of specie payments A death blow It is intimated by a corres pondent of tbc Chicago Democrat that the whigs of Illinois are determined to prevent carrying into exi cution tbe democratic plans of internal improvement calculated to secure the prosperi ty and greatness of the state Why are the whigs so generally hostile to the great system of internal improvement adopted by the enlight ened policy of the new western states A correspondent of the New York American says it is rumoured that the Head Quarters of the army is to be removed to New York citv It is rumoured that the Marquis of Normandy is to be the Governor of Canada The London papers state that 1000 tons of potatoes had lately been shipped from the Thames for New York The Miamis says the Cleveland Herald have just ceded to the United States some two thou sand asres of their chosen lands in the Wabash valley pf Indiana by treaty The New York Express states that upwards of four millions of bushels of wheat were im ported from Europe to that city last and that none has been imported this year The receipts for tolls on the Pennsylvania rail roads and canals the present year amount to over one million of dollars News from A letter from lieu tenant Couet now commanding the rench brig of war Laurier (at present at IJavaoa) states that the rench fleet had commenced bombard ing the castle of San Juan de Ulloa and had debarked 3000 troops on the coast who were on their march to Vera Orleans Bee RIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 7 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION We have ascertained from official sources the result of the late election in this state for mem ber of Congress The aggregate vote is for 15300 15090 i fir ny snip canal the waters of the Atlantic andPacific is likely to be entered upon at last The agent of the company has lately arrived at New York from the (isthmus He has been making some arrangements iq Central America prelim Bfuryto the commeucement of the work i 'in Tbbi HudbonAh embargo laid on the Hudson by that irresistible autocrat Jack fyost Qur river still lughr at his power 5' DETROIT the people of When our American father rM 1776 and threw off the British yoke committees to Canada with patriot? I invoking them the name i and humanity to nuke common them in declaring and fighting for pendence of Great Britain But tire Canada bad no sympathies with the rty in the thirteen and instead of co operating with th united with Great Britain in end? them fire and sword and the tomE1 scalping knife of the Indian were the very avenues through Britain poured her armies to robin thers and the refuge where torie7nd fled and were protected Spin 1812 When the United State th i dared war against Great Britain jt sed by our government that the peon' 5 Canadas were prepared for independen I would hail the approach of an American" I as the day dawn of their deliverance I our generals crossed the lines and uofurujT American Eagle on Canadian ground tb claimed to them in advance that they I for conquest or for spoils but to government and rational freedom AndkZ was the return "Mt i vanaianiniej under the American banner On iheeoJZ7 they rose as one man and fell upon tbeml enemy ruthlessly invading their country American flag but wbifo jt ved in Canada like a thunder against the During the past and present year the trit lored flag of the Patriots has been often aZ? ced as planted on the Canadian soil udf' merable proclamations have been issued officers in command inviting the Canadi? flock tn it nnrl flcrhl fnr their i AuucuennpftMj ilu wiidir lias uvtrii uie result Did come at the did a single son of liben rally under their banner! No not Nor has any American who bore and unfurled it to the breeze yet returned tell its fate In view of these considerations is it nottiia for American citizens to pause before thesm1 any more sacrifices of time treasure and Usd for Canadian independence! Senator Rives of ViBGjxu Havia ah ways held in high estimation the talents charartir nf Mr Rivo Itcan statesman we regret to perceive byu explanatory letter of his in the Richmond quirer that he has secretly co operated Ml Mason (gov) Trowbridge Scattering Aggregate vote in 1837 Showing a falling off of 112 votes from election of 1837 The people of the Canadas are composed of persons who were born there of tories who fled there from the old thirteen states during the American revolution or of emigrants who preferring monarchical to republican govern ment have since settled there Thosd who were there at the time of the revolution might have had their liberty if they had joined our fa thers then The sons of those might have had their freedom during the last war if they desirpd it and thought it worth taking and those who have emigrated there since have done so with a full knowledge that the Canadian government was monarchical and the American government republican and that they could settle and live in which they chose And if any of those classes of persons wish for a free government now they can emigrate to the states and enjoy all the privileges of American citizens If there is a citizen of Michigan who wears the bright honors of an American Patriot it is General Hugh Brady When the patriots of to day who are now assailing the war scarred veteran were muling and puling in their arms he was in Canada at the head of real pa triots fighting the battles of his country for its second war of independence And if (which may Heaven avert) the voice of his country shall again call him to her service in a just and neces sary war with Great Britain he would soon be found on the field of his former fame where some of his assailants are careful not to tread A cordial sympathy ia due by every republi can to any portion of his fellow men who are in arms struggling for the privileges of self gov ernment which he enjoys When the Grecian was in the field fighting for freedom and nerv ing the strength of his'right arm with the Turk Americans sympathised with the oppressed sons ot the classic land and contributed money and clothing to nerve them in the conflict When the attempt was made in Canada one year ago by a few brave and daring spirits to revolution ize their government and esfablish a republic i Liiiuuiy uuuuu in ci 1 on its ruinb uie people oi the United btates people are his masters His duties as a public sympauuseu wan mem ana would nave aided them hat the struggle continued with men and I within which limits he is bound to a strict obe means as far as they could be furnished without I lcnce tlie wll of the people politically ex violating our high duties and obligations as Passed through the proper and official medium he is responsible too through the same me anatrnn But the people of Upper Canada have durn and I3 not ainenable to trial or punish not been in arms for the last twelve months 1 ment by any other expression of popular will and while they are thus passive they deserve Beyond those limits he is no longer a public nothing from American citizens but their pray I srvant rlor are 11C people his masters He I claims with every free citizen an equal sove ers that if they are oppressed and sgh for free reignty It is honor in tt)is an dom the God of battles will inspire them with honor far beyond that of a birth descended title the spirit of the patriot which makeshim feel or authority to receive a trust from the public that they who would be THEMSELVES but if the broai doctrine assumed in the article MUST strike the blow alJuded to be the true one the holding an offi cial station is a servitude too close auied to The The Troy Whig speaking of slavery to be calmly submitted to by any man i i I deserving the name of an American citizen the patriotic whole souled sons of the Emerald ea 1 fie facts complained with so violent a parade Isle among us puts the following shameful ques of principle are simply these The General was tioh upon one of the wharves (not the ferry wharf) In a political point of view what are they 1 olone and was pressed upon by a number of but mere marketable cattle flawless persons with language of abuse and The base answer of the federal whigs is of violence in his capacity as a citizen Jr the protection of his person and as he had a They are nothing else and are fit for nothing pCrfect legal right to do he drew his sword The higher or more This is the universal incident on the erry wharf was on another oc sentiment of the federal aristocracy and they casion where he dispersed without violence rank with our Irish citizens the laboring poor ut "'tb hy the aid of the States troops sent here to preserve neutrality a num of our native populatmn They despse the ber of patriots or sympathisers poor and would glory in depriving them of their He did not arrest or cause to be arrested elective privilege and in using them as slaves Messrs Barker and Bull Such questions will be answered at tbe command nor was he on the polls with a distinctness and force that the lbe re when the shots were fired into whigs will not fad tofeeL It is only necessary to add for the honor of Detroit i broad that Gen Brady has nothing to Mississippi Congressional candidate Jo 1 I 11 4 9 9r 'U VI I 2 1 L44 vf I I I id 1 1 1 1 K7 seph Holt esq formsrl) of Louisville Kentucky I contrary there are a sufficient number of the will probably be the democratic candidate He citizens ol Detroit who consider themselves is thus spoken of by the Southern Marksman equally bound in their personal capacity as in Mr Holt possesses the highest order of in tbt'r to preserve inviolate the honor tellect such as is rarely to be met with in any I tbe nation to aid and support him country As evidence of the above hi 111 of his duties has been in wty about three year have retrained with a desire to avoid ex and by the mere fotce of talent has gained for luting by opposition from all discussion of the himself a splendid reputation as a lawyer a troubles If the reasons of the edi scholar and a profound thinker and for pure t0rs of that PaPer for engaging in this controver ourning lervia eloquence he stands unrivalled uiemseives uiey are pe for when he speaks nothing but the most as rech of argument and all discussion tonishing bursts of eloquence Jail from his lips I ls use that enchain the mind and it is led by the ora I A Citizen tor captive at his will Such a gift as this few men in the world possess in a higher degree ITEMS than the individual we have noticed I According to the New York rom his known devotion to the cause of demo Evening Star a youno Quakeress of the city of Xnlda "Z0 free1andeT7l we New York a Miss Ann Dickens who had been should hke to see him elevated to a station where he might break a lance with the mighti bltten a nlad and was with est men of the nation in the fierce conflicts of lbe borrible hydrophobic spasms has been cur the ed by the use of East India medicine If he has moral equal to intellectual power called Spiritus Vita She had been pronounced may success attend him What democrat would incurable by Doctors'Lindsey Blandin McNev not glory in seeing such a man plant his stan in and other eminent physicians It is stated dard on the great field of political strife and bat that in a few hours from the time the applica tle down the champions of federal whiggery and tion was commenced the spasms left her and aristocratic misrule? Us for the first time for several days she was able ornK ir mere is a power in medicine to re Lectures on the Dr lint is in 1 i move the revolting agonies of hydrophobia it terest mg and enlightening the citizens of Buffa Li 1 1 1 i 7 11 to on the ubje ind menu I'H DtATtn Tbe premnure and sndden death ft a Nathahiel oster Esq President ot the is highly probable that the brain is not a I a a i single organ but a combination of many adapt an Schuylkill Canal Company on ed to the various functions of the mind and up tie uas causet lhe deepest regret of on this probability is founded the science of phre a large circle of relatives and friends nology verified by observation of facts There is nothing in phrenology inconsistent with phy! 7 Powdy South Canaan siology and in no other mode can the various ale exploded and three persons were li intellectual phenomena be explained or account ferally blown to atoms and another projected ed for We do not 'find in the brain all th into and lodired in the ton nf a tall homlnotr phrenological divisions distinctly marked but atanding near the mill this does not militate against the truth of that science since mental operations are so intimate 0B The editor of the Darien Tele ly connected and blended 'with each other that groph having been set upon by fourteen arm wen hardly expect to find them visibly sepa ed ruffians and knocked down and beaten with bludgeoris offers his establishment for sale Texas According to the latest news from Who bids! Texas the Indians were still committing depre Cholera At the last accounts from the dations upon the Texian frontier They are East Indies the cholera was sweeping off the said: to he incited by Mexico Many families remnants "of the population spared by the pre have been killed The chief of the Cherokees ceding famine In some places three or four residing in Texas had agreed to join Gen Rusk hundred were dying daily in pursuit of the hostile Indians The Texian Small In Halifax county North Ca Congress commenced its session on the 5th ulL rolina the small pox is said to be committing Matters of much interest to the young republio extensive' ravages were tobe agitated' Within a few years the bu Panama canal The great project qf uniting siness of the lithographer has become a mnat rip chin Mn4l thn ae el Aaa 1 1 1 important one establishment in Phi ladelpbia where the magnificent portraits of celebrated 'Indian warriors are in a course of execution gives constant employment to fifty wprfanen 7 7 Invasion of Switzerland It is supposed that rance has invaded 'Switzerland with army of 20000 men A dear There has been a pretty plain '7 i'l 'j the open apostate Tallmadge in making conservatives ose allies of tlm 1 of the late slate elections The letter to dri A fiisS wivumjuuer'Wiieili jsn Ileged that he had wtitt letters to his friends in Pennsylvania adrsing1' them to prevent a sub treasury triumph if po ble in that state He admits in reply that he did write a letter in answer to one fani Kfel friend in which he (Mr R) suggested wbetj kI er it were not practicable for the coneervatim to adopt some means to prevent the electia Porter from being claimed as a sub treasontri umph in case he should succeed and he raj kf phiirly hints that if Porter could not be broqgbl to renounce sub treasuryism Le intimated to his friends that they Could not Conscientioulj support him So it seetns Mr Rivet wai 1 to adjutcr of Mr Tallmadge in allying cooeem tism with whiggery in the late election Senator opinion of the Aaotiinn The fallen Senator Rives of Vigmta tutwi vue oi inti nunn AIM IM luiw gence of the south by intimating in lue ietts to which we have alluded that the demoenk of the north are as much identified with pob cal abolitionism as the whiop Hear lum: We have seen (says he) recently in Mf 'ic inr dviihhId in thA atatMOiUM and Massachusetts according to oUteDeoU vuiJUMiit'u ni idle iiuuiuers or your some of the candidates for omceol the Ada nistration party have expressed setilimento nereucai ana dangerous in regard to we tutions and rights ot the south as tnose aiuw ted to the candidates of the opposite party Now there is not a man woman or child the north but knows that this imputation up the democracy of the north is false and There is not one whig candidate in twenty have answered the interrogatories of the tionists in the negative nor is there V1 twenty of the democratic candidates who I answered them in the affirmative Escape of Johnson and The A a1 A MWttlM Ki 8250 for the apprehension of WdHtnJdtU and Ward Birge who escaped from Sj tody of the Deputy Marshal while on tod Auburn 8200 is offered for the anertolW son and 850 for Birge rom the onrix'iziTinv nr tbf i ntlSUTDA Both Houses met this marning atlOo'd 0 a MpnaAivf tn ItlM MARL PA A AAVCIJ IIIUUIUVI pSXJOXjssU Mr Van Metre of the Senate from ra and Jackson and Mr Andrews or 1 ij from ijorrain Mr vvaiton cajieu to order when it organized by the the following officers pro tern or dliam Hawkins 19 votes Smith io scattering Mr Hawkins having received all the votes given and being CM 'l cnair oy luessre omtui anu gg very neat address returning thanb nor conferred and pledging utmost exertions to deserve their rogs a or AlcAaiiy ft votes: Osborn fwhi?) former rai 1 1 Diana 0 or Sergeant at Arms Thomas field (dem) bad 18 votes A mer sergeant 10 John Cook 5 The House was called to ordefty cob Roller of Columbiana Jw Esq (dem) of Hamilton county speaker pro tempore on the stfond Mr Chambers (W) of Muskingum received 37 votes Chambers 31 mg On the first balloting fjj votes cast for clerk through mwL prevented an election Mr arran ducted to the chair by Mr Chambefb returned his thanks to the conferred in a brieti neat and pertinpm William Blodget Esq editor of tMWJ Herald was elected clerk pro tempm first ballot: vv 1111am xi uiougwh Smithson Wright W) 33 Sc Birkett EUkms of Peny senSergeant at arms on the first bauWT Birkett Elkins (dem) had 38 1' Cook W) 31 Scattering 2 After adopting the uro al I tory to business both houses aqpo 1 in the afternoon 7131 The steamboats De Witt Hili Constitution isconsin came into port thia morning tion has aswe stated leas very cold weather cornea probably be enough arrivah do up the season a I '4 I 162 Many of the pirates it is supposed under cloak of the night sculked away in the woods 'of whom we hope soon to hear good accounts from the hands of our brave militia who are devoted and enthusiastic in the cause of their country We canot ascertain the actual number of pi rates that landed at Johnstown they could not however have been fewer than 300 One of the wounded prisoners named Kimball from Brown ville states that the chief officer a General Birge from Madison county with the greater half of the force intended to land remained on Abe opposite side rom this prisoner who seems to be an intelligent young man who sad ly laments the deceptions which induced himself and others to engage in a cause the object of which now appears was to force republicanism on a people who detested the very name of it we further learn that Col Brown who was wounded and whose body was burnt on Tues day in a barn set fire to by his own party was Charles Brown son to Judge Brown Post master at Brownville and nephew to old Gene ral Brown Among the trophies captured was a white silk flag having an Eagle and Star painted on it with the words fancifully worked upon it as is said by the fair and foolish repubheanesses of Og densburgh We have just been favored with the following list of the prisoners taken a few days since at or near Prescott and lodged in ort Henry How these pirates are to be disposed of will now become a very serious question It is supposed they will be executed forthwith Nominal return of Prisoners of War in con finement at ort Henry Nov 16 1838 Ernest Berius from Cracow Poland Jean do do Hiram Loop Oswego co Nelson Griggs Onondaga Nelson Truax Antwerp Jeff co Truman Shipman Morristown St Law co James Cummins Augusta near Prescott Martin Van Slyck Watertown Jeff co Powers Brownville do Cornelius Goodrich Salma Onondaga co Andrew Richards Hammonds Brown co Justice Miriam Haldimand Hosea Wilkie Orleans Jeff co Chauncey Mathers Salina Onondaga co William Alexandria Jeff co David ield Granby Oswego co Aaron Dresser Alexandria Jeflerson Ihomas Stackton Mills Joseph Lef en Cape Vincent Georue Brown Lyme Samuel Livingston Lisbon St Law co oster Martin Oxbow Jeff co from near Hexham Northumberland Eng reported to have deserted 7 or 8 years ago from the 68th regiment when in Canada at ort Ggorue Timothy Rawson Alexandria Jeff co Samuel Austin do William Gates Lyme Charles Smith Daniel George Lyme Jeff co stated to a paymaster of the rebels John Jones Philadelphia Jeff co Patrick White Rathlake co Limerick emi grated 6 years ago The Mormons rom the Boonville Emi grant of the 15th Joe Smith and the other leaders are to be put on their trial at Richmond Ray county and 47 other Mormons are to be tried at the same place It is not true that the Mormons are to be sent out of the state forthwith but are allowed to remain at present with the distinct understand ing that they are not to make another crop in Missouri but to leave it between this and next summer The forces are all disbanded and sent home except one troop of cavalry from Cole county which will be retained until the Mor mon trials are over The Circuit Court of Ray county commenc ed its session on Monday the 11th instant at which ter it Is expected the trial of Joe Smith anu uie inner Mormons will come on The ocean steamer Liverpool consumed 462 tons of coal on her late passage from Liverpool to New York The Ohio now lies in the East river at the entrance of Buttermilk channel She is a grand and beautiful exhibition of human skill Her measurement burthen is 1992 tons and her'draft of water 25 feer Her canvass for a single suit of sails covers a space very nearly equal to two avivr wik: vji HC3 XVw VIZ 34 421b caronades on her spar deck 34 321b long guns on the main deck 34 421b long guns on the lower deck Her bread room holds 1700 barrels She has on board about 1000 men She is bound on a three cruise to the Mediterranean where she will produce under her gallant commander Commodore Hull the goods effects which can be produced by the generous friendliness of peace accompanied with the most thorough re parations for 1V Jour of Com The northeastern The com missioners appointed by the government of Maine to examine the northeast boundary line have concluded theirduties and returned to their homes The Bangor Courier says We un derstand that they found very distinctly marked highlands at the point where the waters divide between the St Lawrence and the Atlantic ocean and all the country north of St John riv er extremely mountainous The country where the waters divide is not level and swampy as has been represented and believed by many but lies in mountains and dividing hghlands corresponding to the terms of the treaty of The vote for Governor Wp Htvp us the official returns of the recent election from all the counries in the state except Allegany The whole number of votes excluding Allegan is 369368 That county wifi add about 5600 Making an aggregate of near 375000 votes The whole number for Seward exclusive of Al legany is 189583 for Marcy ma jority for Seward 9768 add 600 in Allegany and the majority for is 10398 Last fall the Eve Journal and its federal adjuncts publishedk a 111 a tautc vi uiv rviurua irum an iae counuesand claimed an average majority on the assembly tickets of 18875 Now a fraction over 10000 ederal loss and democratic gain since last year upwards of Ai Argus Niles Our old friend A Brownell has taken the above house arid we have no hesitation' in saying that no expense or pains will be spared to make it in every respect what an establishment of the kind ought to be A good hotel is a desideratum long sought in this place and now it is Niles Intel A OBSERVATION ON AMERICAN The sons pf the poor die rich while the sons of the rich die poor What an encouragement to toil through life in accumulating wealth to ruin our children! Better do good with mir money as we go along Educate oursoMr cure their virtue by habits of industry and study and then Jet lbw take care of ranWin DETROIT DAILY REE PRESS THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 6 CANADIAN AAIRS We have nothing new from the Patriots Some of our citizens who have been over the riv er since the engagement at Windsor report that the patriot loss was more severe than we stated yesterday and the Canadian not so great Our informant who saw some of the dead yesterday morning upon the battle ground is of the opin ion from the best information that he could obtain that 12 or 13 of the patriots were killed and 7 or 8 of the loyalists Several prisoners were taken by the loyalists and are now in Sandwich jail Among them we are informed is a Mr Sheldon an elderly man from Macomb county who came to town the day previous to the engagement with a load of flour We regret to learn that two prisoners were immediately shot after their capture with out trial Others were executed yesterday after trial It gives us pleasure to state that most of the persons taken up by the steamboat Eric and now in custody of our officers for an infrac tion of our laws by the invasion of Canada from our shores are Canadian refugees who fled from the province upon the suppression of the rebel lion last winter It is far better for the reputa tion of our country that a nation with whom we are at peace should be invaded from our shores by its own citizens rather than by ours It is said that the Indians in the employ of the Canadian government brought in about twenty or thirty patriot prisoners in the course of the day yesterday It is not believed that any additions were made to the patriot force on the other side Like the unfortunate and deluded men who fell at Prescott they found themselves fighting alone for Canadian independence and like them we fear they will fall unwept unbonored and un by any portion of the people for whose liberties they avowedly fought We may be wrong in our impressions but we are confident in the opinion that the great body of the people of Upper Canada will rally at the tap of the drum to defend its soil from inva ion and its government from a revolution by force The only portion of the population who are'republicc and will fight for their are with few exceptions the rench and they are republicans every where It is utterly futile to think of a successful revolution in the Cana das until Great Britain engages in a war with the United States or some of the powers of Eu rope until then whatever blood is shed by Amer ican citizens for Canadian liberty will be shed in vain One of the patriots killed and lying dead on the field yesterday was we learn a Mr Cowan a printer formerly from Canada and late from Cleveland One of the loyalists killed in the garrison or barracks was an Englishman who kept a gro cery in this city Many strangers are in town and if any of them are meditating an expedition against Canada we hope they will pause before they pass the rubicon and consider what good has already been accomplished and what may be reasona bly expected by a further violation of our neu trality Hundreds of lives have already been hundreds of wives made widows and hundreds cf families fatherless and let them ask themselves what has been gained for the cause of liberty by this sacrifice before any more blood is unavailingty shed Knowledge As the means of securing hap piness knowledge is indispensable It may with truth be asserted that the degree of hap piness enjoyed by man is in proportion to the amount ot his knowledge The instinct of brutes as perfect at the dawn as at the meridian of life is their principal protection and the means of obtaining their stinted enjoyments Genera tion after generation of them comes and goes without any progressive advancement in know ledge But man inferior to the brute in in stinctive powers acquires all by the acquirement of rational intelligence and from age tc age may be progressive How vast toe barrier between man in the savage and man in the civilized state The pathway over it is a rough and thorny one be set with appalling dangers and strewn with the relics of innumerable dead Our present insti tutions as far us they are from perfection have been purchased by toil and suffering incalcula ble and the life of millions of martyrs to the cause of knowledge And many millions more have been sacrificed for the want of the know ledge necessary to guide man in the path of safe ty A suit caBeil upoo to yield up life in the great cause of human happiness before man attains to the ut 5 most perfectibility of his nature War will con I tinoe to stain the earth with human gore till a 1 proper knowledge of his nature and the sources i of happiness makes him humane and honest AD knowledge has been gained by observation most or it is deposited in the numerous volumes of this age of books But books should not i used principally as a guide to observation for mere book knowledge is the body without the soul Wherever it is possible the learner should go to the fountain head and be taught by the great teacher nature A knowledge of our selves of the natural moral and intellectual world will enable us to perceive with clearness the course to be pursued in acquiring an educa tion There is no man probably of the present day who possesses this knowledge in so emi nent a degree as George Combe the learned Scot who is now lecturing in the city of New York All the city papers as well as the Bos ton press speak of him in terms of the highest commendation His audiences are said to be the largest and most attentive that were ever gathered on a similar occasion The publications of Mr Combe are esteemed the most important of the age Hie work on the Constitution of we believe to be the best guide to a cor rect education ever produced by human genius We would say to every one who has not alrea dy done it read Combe on the Constitution of Mn and learn what kind of knowledge is ne cessary to secure long life health and happiness WHIGGERY The Cioeionati Republican goes for General nomination for the presidency be cause he is not identified with the objects or measures of either The United Siates Ganstto a paper of the same politics speaking but two sets of principles upon ye agura of the government can underM MMR cirennict aueee be administered: We define them further than by sayi that Ihe present administration have adopt ed Ma net and the whigs if elected adopt and pat practice the both these whig papers therefore be cor reet it follows of course that General Harrison has no principles which the affairs of the government can under existing circum stances be Morris of Oh iobas addreesed alongnd Mfomaloas letter to the people and legisla "tatei explaining his position on the question Mr' Moms is evidently re election to the Senate 1 Sl 9 ft till fxfi ft i i 1 1 I i 1.