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impudence! Dues tha Marshal of the United publish) documents, of the most authoritative Ididate must conform to them, not they to the Cah- iore v. VICKSBURG SENTINEL mi' i didate. Will it not, when that gun shall boom terday eight companies of the third States recollect that he an officer of tho Fcder- stamp, to show that it is totally unworthy of PUBLISHED BY JOHN LA.VIN3. alengthe bosom of the nrghty Mississippi, be a United States Infantry, passed dewn the rive i I o. .1 wWia; Government, and beyond the possibility of being credit.

Indeed the affidavits they made before removed airccUy by the citizens whose rights he the jate Board on the point of contract, being signal advantage 10 nave a uvunKtmuv As-utia-i m. uuuia mo -paviuus snusuperD steamer tion in Warren to join in the cheer that will ring ria, bound for Fort Jessup on the frontiers of has to wantonly invaded woes no recollect tnnt coutrar lo notorious fact, and to all the testi beingthus as it were beyond the reach of law, our mQny ukta beforc the be citizens can look only to his securities for damages, from one.end of the Union lo another, presaging as. This regiment is composed of fine hardy triumph and victory to the hosts of liberty and soldier like men under the command of Lieut, fj principle? To this it seems to us (although we Hitchcock. The accomplished band of the would not dictate to the tried veterans of Vicks- ment played several beautiful airs durino the sufficient to exclude them as witnesses altogeth hich would have no better chance of coleclion than WALTER HICKEV, Editor. FRIDAY MORNING MAY 3.

fOR Pit ESIDENT, Martia Van Buren. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, James K. Folk. er. Two other points occur to us, which we ainBlla- ilmnafffll (mm tUa baiipiIab rfl t1a Anfnn ter Gwia.Miller's immediate predecessor into fT.ce bcS most Jpectfully to present to the burg and Warren) there can be but one answer, of the Maria at our levee, whieh thrilled every I consideration of the board.

and that answer, "Go ahead!" tener with noble and martial sentiments Docs he suppose that being backed as he is by the There aro some interests involved in tho Pre- companies of mounted dragoons belonging to ih. rash Prentiss, our citizens will stand coolly by and suffer themselves if property to be placed at the arbitrary disposal of an irresponsible government spo. 1st Would it not be well to have two interpreters? The position of that officer is a very important one. By the misconception of word or a entence, great errors may be com democratic state electors sidential campaign of 1841, which, important and same regiment, not being able to find room fv vital to the cause of human liberty as they are, themselves and horses in the crowded boat t'tl 11 8. FOOTE, of dilator an official speculator prostituting? his pow.

have been greatly overlooked, indeed scarcely soon pass down in another steamer. J( SEKI W.MATTHEWS, of MarihuU. JTEFPBRSCN DAVIS, of Wirrtn, JOiETH SELL, of VisKtoii. mitted, and upon his integrity almost every cr to the purposes of injustice? We uso the word ARTHUK FOX, of Liwrence. H.

BOONE, touched. We refer to the right of naturalization. The democracy in this as in all other matters, The treaty or annexation will summon the brave and chivalrous Thirds" to bivouac and unroll their banner on the banks of the Rio del Nnn. peculator, and charge it homo more boldly upon case may be said to depend. We do not know him since we have learned from Col.

Robins that the present Interpreter, Elliott. We do know always goes for "the largest liberty the whigs on tie bold Ja his possession evidence that the money however that it was the intention of Col Graves the contrary, would restrict, if not wholly annihi for the execution I question was paid to the plain- to insist upon having two interpreters, if he mi n.teneau ncputy Marshal wutiam Md- bad remained in the board. This we have from 1ST i 1 I ter, son Mrma. jinaerson Mier twelve ane of particuar friends. Two interpre- he, Mr.

Whitehead being first com. ters are certainly quite as important as two sec end then let Cumanche or mnrauding Mexican beware how they shall disturb the sleep 0f frontier men, or spill the blood of the American settler. When the eagle of our country spreadj its. wing of power upon the prairies, protection and the enjoyment of right are sure to folluw. George R.

Fall Esq. This gentleman, the talented and energetic member of the State legig, lature for Hinds, and one of the delegates to the late it. They would make the foreign emigrant a serf and a'helot in this glorious asylum of freedom. They would brand a free man for years, if not forever, for the accidental circumstance that he had been born in a foreign land; they would emphatically "take in the stranger" by profiting by his 8K.il! and labor, by his taxes to the support of government, by his life's blood spent in the de i retanes. rVe presume that 82,000 would so cure the services of two competent interpre THE BONDMEN OF PINC KARMA-ANDERSON MILLER HON.

S. S. PRENTISS CERTAIN SALE ON MONDAY NEXT THREE HUNDRED CITIZENS SACRIFICED BY A SINGLE SPECULATOR. Toe pressi ig emergency of the ciwis, and the near approach of 4 ho csnsummitieii of a high-handed act of injustice toliundreds of the ortizoits Vicksburg rcquiro us again, as a public journalist, Sentinel upon the watch-tower of public and private right, to sound the alarm, and make the tills of Pinikardia reverberate to the tones of our warn-ing, Chie ludfi and the bettor half of our city, all that part called Pinckardinjs still in imminent dan. 2d.

Would i not be well to carry out Col. fence of the country, and refuse him that loan of out ailed with he name the right honorttblo SargearttS. Trcnliiisl Great GodJ how cnti we, ns jraTOc journalist, surrousded by suck facts uud backed as are by hundreds of bih minded and honorablo oitiicnp, while suck bold-faced racility stalks CJai home's proposition, and appoint an addi. popular sovreignty, tho suffrage of a freeman! tional agent to defend the interests of the Uni Already a "Federal" whig clique, denominated ted States? We feel assured if the board would Native Republicans, in the large cities, denies the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore left this city for that great meeting yesterday morning at 2 o'clock in the Sultana. Five or six of the Delegates from the South ware on board the same steamer.

Success to them, and as much harmony in their as has of late been witnessed in the primary -reelings of the South. unrebuked a ad unscathed hi eur city! Why hrrsl appoint Gen. Foote, he would in a very short right of office-holding to a citiaen whether naturalized or not who was born in a foreign clime. not this wa'de-s weeping levy been withdrawn, and time convince the board and the country, that tlect the whig notnineee for the Presidency, ger of being sold, every title shaken, every homo put in jeopardy, nnd his wife and children io danger ol becoming houseless Our and foreigners will be set back years in their anx a new and 3 jhI levy been made publicly advertised, as all uch levys have heretofore tho Daily newspaper! We say again to our fellow citizens, look well to a monstrous fraud is being carried ou by co rupt speculators and perjured claimants. We make this suggestion without having ever had the slightest communication, direct or indirect, ious advance towards naturalisation.

Elect the Democratic nominee for the Presidency your praporty. The fact that the son of M.irshal ttsi'ia with the distinguished gentleman named, and ana many ol the embarrassments which now im ftlteuiion has been repeatedly solicited to an advertisement in tho Weekly Whig, (withheld from the Daily Wi.ig, son not to attract the attent ion and disturb the anxieties of our citizens) beaded Circuit Court of tho United States, Southern District, Whitehead and Hicks Samuel Mason Miner and Ms deputy dunned on payment a trans pede the process of naturalizatian will be remov we do so because it would at once silence sus for to klank is full evidence of collusion and ed, and wider, more generous and loftier induce picion and clamor, and give the board, (what em Democracy. Too well Daessed Capt Elliott, the British Envoy Extraordinary, late in the City of Natchez, having seen most of the citizens in assemblies, churches, and public meetings, made the remark that the people of Natchez dressed too weW. N0 doubt his privileged and aristocratic blood boiled with envy to find no common people in Natchez. The contrast bstwecn the courtly dressed median-ies and merchants of a republican cilv and th fraud.

Arouse wo would say; the Philistines are ments be held out to the distressed and the od. we ace anxious it should enjoy yas it doubless de upon you; expect no quarter, especially those pressed nnd the enterprising of other lands to serves) the entire confidence of the country come and become part and parcelof the American and This, we are informed, is a levy Kn Pinckardia.coiitaining no less than fifty acres of the business port of our city, served by Andcr- The gentleman who is now agent, is a respec table man, and we doubt not perfectly correct. family of freedom. democrats who hold any interest in Pinckardia, eathofwhom will be marked, doomed, and annihilated if power can effect its ukly will. What folly to expect quitclaims or establishment of Our fellow citizens of Irish, French, German but it requires talents of the highest grade to famished and half clad operatives of his 'own aris and Italian extraction, we feel sure will come to cope with the acute and eminent lawyers con on Miller, Uuttcd States Marshal, for the balance of a judgment against Mnson and sureties ofubout $300.

From tho date of the judgment and tho feigh character for speculation gained Ly tho par titles from a man of such shattorod fortunos as S. Prentiss! The numerous advertisements of tocratic land must have been painful but ha the rescue and aid in forming one of the strong est nected with this speculation. Gen. Word Democratic Olubs In the South. We- have briht should have blamed his own country for the con-tfast, not ours.

executions against bis property tho absurdity ties, as won as the Mnrshall.we are lod lo believe and encouraging examples in tho success which must also be delicately situated. He is the bo som friend of an individual largely concerned of his being able to give a valid quitlanco afterthe that ai extensive fraud is about to be practiced attends the neighboring associations of the cities of The National Intellisrcncer. the saleofriuckardia. Trust no man hi this mattcr.but who is supposed to exercise great control over Washington City Organ of federalism, laments wpoa m-iro than three hundred innocent property holder, many of whom ore now roaiding beyond Jackson and Natchez. We need the union, the concert and the intimate knowledge of each others over the treaty to annex Texas, for many rea his feelings and judgment, and wo doubt not he would icel greatly relieved to be associated with a man like Gen.

Foote. We mean no at opinions, talents and character, which only can be sons, but specially because it will benefit "a tne limits of tho State, and who will most surely be fleeced unless our timely notico shall scare tho cormorants and vultures now hovering over their gained by intimate and think- liostol speculators in scrip and land." tack on any one in making these remarks. ng and speaking together. rely solely on your common senso nor hope for any injunction against tho sale, as nous can now bo legally granted before mosaic for want of time ten days being required for notice of injunction. Tho sale, sot for the second time, is four days hence, and nothing that we know of will prevent it but such an cxprcssi'Sn of the public mind, or ol lliv iitrBrJ UllJMIIIS urn tibKutdlU, US Will tOftCII the speculators that there is danger in levying for It the Intelligencer be so sensitive and pat- With regard to the time and place of tho forma Tho claim is one of great magnitude.

We prey ion shall not prosumelo dictate' believe that vast frauds, are on foot. We hare Gentlemen of all parties liavo assured us that We shall abide the decision of tb -J mnk lt-ii aitk'opt nnd fthotlt all P.Oll- onthBwbjcctofTexa why docs party here, and at Washington, are engaged in making an enormous speculation on the Choc- no effort hasyot succeeded to induce the Mrlt cerned, and do not intend to be mealy mouthed "Party Engine" In the leTTeT ot ttie Hon. Anderson Miller, to withdraw this levy upon tho beat part of an entire city fur the paltry sum of George McDuffie, of South Carolina, in answer when we choose to censure. We have strong taws? They are grasping after scrip to the a- a paltry sum upon tho lands and dwellings of hundreds of pcacoablo and unindebted $SG0, or to substitute a moderate ley suf hopes in the action now about to be had by the new Commissioners, and do hope they will ficient to cover the demand. What should bo said begin by taking steps that will satisfy the pub to a public oflicer, who, for so trifling a sum duo Choctaw friend Thomp to certain interrogatories o( tho venerable Ritchie, reference to his present opinions upon tho constitutionality of a Rational ink, he replies that lie supported tho late Uuitcd Stutes Bank "as a national, and not ns a parti measure" After expressing the opinion that any bank which mny now be established ia destined to be a mere parly in the end be a great satisfaction to them to his near and political friend, Sargcant Prcn tins from his dear and intimnto friend, William mount of three millions of dollars.

Where is your old whig rallying cry of the poor Indian." Silent now silent as the harp in Tara's halls, for fear of waking up the spirit of enquiry; and directing the bolts of public indignation against those political leaders who are engaged in this spoliation upon "the poor In selves. Pmckard, shut I order a levy upon the property of son of the Winston Democratic Banner, says that Messrs. Gaines and Tyler opened the Board for the examination of claims on the 17th April, and thinks "tho business will be fairly CALL TO THE DE.vlOUItAUY OF WARREN. citizens, widows, orphans, wives and children, A correspondent over the namo of worth in the aggregate, perhaps half a million of writes us an earnest appeal in favor of the imme and expeditiously conducted." We doubt diate formation of a "Democratic in Warren fingine, and one of the great controlling powers of the State, he speaks in tho following energetic tanguago of its immense power of mischief: "Such an institution in thehandt of a bold and unscrupulotu political leader, tustained by a well dollars! Let a public meeting be held in Finckar-din, let one thousand persons opposed to such wholesale racnlity assemble and march to the cfficeol'tlio Mirshal for explanation. Let the county.

lis says "it is somewhat surprising to not that tho Bowd will endeavor to do what is right, just as we believe the other Commissioners did, but their path is a thorny and difficult dian." The All the whig journalj of New York, (with one exception) exhorted the whigs to unite with the native party in the election for city officers. The democratic many sound democrats that the Sentinel has not proposed tho formation of a Democratic Club organized political party, by the gnat manufae fraud be slopped, or let a full and fair represents one. They will be beset by influences of every description, and some of the persons associated otig before this. The democracy of Vicksburg turitig interest, secured in its allegiance by the bounties of a protective tariff, and even by sove tioo if the whole mutter be sent on to (ho Government at Washington, to seo if the authorities journals opposed any union between democrats are too confident of success, and have formed no concert of action while tho democracy in other with them, or rather in their service, do not reign States, seduced by the miserable delusion of there will sustain an United States1 oflicer in such parts of the State have their clubs in full opera stand above suspicion. We trust the new Board will not be induced to rush with race a peediug.

We know tho friendship and amia tion, and their political opponents are forming clubs from one end of the Union to another. and any such illiberal party. Our naturalized citizens ol Vicksburg may learn from this what they have to expect from whiggery. Curse on the Traitor. Duncan F.

a member cf the Louisiana Legislature, horse speed through this investigation. It may ble relations which exist between President Tyler and the Marshal of the Southern District, but, our Why do tho domocracy of Warren and Vicksburg word for it, ho will never sanction ouch public out thus continue to sleep when all is awake!" ragel And what are our civic fathers doing all gwmg them the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and assuming their debts, would be literally more terrible than an army with banners. I do not believe the public liberty would long survive such a combination," These are the candid, sober, far-sighted views of one who has recently brought his great influence to bear against the banking system. No one can doubt tho sincerity of George McDuffie, or question his ability as a statesman whatever" suit the views of speculators and others concerned to allow a dozen claims per day, but not the end of justice. The question of contracts itself, in every consume a great deal of time.

Thelaw is peremptory in its terms ume i Ua they know that this levy reaches has turned whig, and the New Orleans Bee exults over it. As the Sailor said to the pig "Go and be dd to you." Kenner isasprieof back and lies behind tho title of tho city to every street in Pinckirdta? Do they see the original fifty acres bounded by tho ancient posts and jtakes at stake? Where are tho public guardians of civ the sugar and molasses aristocracy, and never had a thimble full of brains. 111 prohibiting assignments, within five years, from the ratification of the treaty Indians to white men. The records of tho commis (0 We shall be very happy to receive fro ic rights, and where is the Mayor of tho city the fairest part of his domain, his southern realm. sion at old Indian Village will show, we are We ere aware that some of our democratic friends are of opinion that the proper time for the formation of a democratic association would be immediately on the receipt of the Presidential nomination from the National Convention at Baltimore.

This opinion would have more force if the democracy wero not in the habit of going for "measures, not men." The whigs invariably go for "men, not measures." Thus all their political clubs boar tho namo of whatever man mny be the popular idol of the day, whether "Tip and Ty" or or even "Johnny But the democracy always wears the namo of its principles, and, as these principles aro as fresh and immortal with- difference of opinion may exist between himself and his admirers of both political parties. Who would not as soon see a monarchy erected upon the broken and dishonored fragments of our once our friends in Winston, or any friend who may be in attendance on the board, an account of told, that in every instance Fisher's Indians swore that they never had, at any time, assigned their claims or agreed to do so. Their the proceedings of the board, movements, of glorious Union," as to behold the incorporation of a monarch, monster bank, with its almighty power speculators, Our friends may write free, ly. We never give up the namo of a corres statement thus made, was drawn up in the over tho interests, consciences and destinies of the hand writing of Charles Fisher, and sworn to, 1 people amalgamating in a triple form, in the as we are informed, in his presence. Yet Judge is m.

danger 7 VMiydoes ho uot rouao from his torpor and lay the matter before tho city council before it bo too late? And let tho public inter-bt be secured without fear of the secret assassin public duellist! hud prepared the foregoing article when its publication was crrestcd by a visit from Messrs. William M. PinckmJ and Anderson Miller, the larbl, the former satisfying us at the lime that fto fraud or swindling was intended, and tho latter assuring us that no talc of any property eve; sold by Mr. Pinckard should take place, throwing all hands of a few-dispensing bribery to cringinjr niA t. .1.

-I mat ne out candidates as with, to learn and Illustrate parasites shutting its doors against all invcsliga-tion, upon tho miserable, but as experience has ftshereay that he had contracted with those orinchdes. to nd thPra pondent We shall continue our regular history of the Choctaw the point where we stopped, our 4th number, as soon as we receive Senator Black's Report That gentleman now lives in Louisiana, and we have had to write for it 03-TliG whigs in tho most furious spirit of pro demonstrated, sohent subterfuge of "vested the Indiansjthat he wis to gat half their lands, full association is in order at any time. nd Out they would cost him about ten cents; Little think the whias when they taunt the de- rights measuring strength with the Government pcr acre. And Gen. Cocke swore that said mocrncy that they have no great loader, like a ri.l...

lit' a itself, and impudently asserting its claims to inde i-ucr, ioiu mm neana nis company nad thus "uarry 01 tho West," on whom to lavish and ex- the blame upon his Lfuty. On these plcdcr. mine corporate longevity! What might not such got two thousand sec' ions1. The same Indians ha us a boundless enthusiasm, that principles are a "arty Lsgink" do? Could it not make or un wrocmana lor tlio withdrawn! of scription, have removed nil the watchmen and make parties at pleasure? Would not peace or now swear that they never entered into any ni'ghtier things than men, or leaders. They ne-kind of agreement relative to their claims with ver chage whil9 men do.

Was not the lesson other city officers, who had voted the democratic isher, or any one else. Fads like these 1 Bnd the tast enthusiasm rou-cd ticket in Baltimore, thus reducing many poor fami claim the attention of the new Commissioners- U) rrthem flient to warn whiggery of the lies to the greatest distress. Not a single naturalized office-holder has been permitted to remain. war nang upon the ungucsscd dictate of its cor rupt will? Could it not rot our navy at its moorings, or send it out iu search of conquests? Could it not cripple our army, or place it at tho command of some popular leader, that ho might work his way to empire? Yet such a tremendous machine We beg leave likewise to suggest to them, the mn'W0P hey attempt to Some of these watchmen had served faithfully thirty-four years. expediency of inquiring into the degree of O6am0Wcr Wlin'a- weight that should be attached to Indian tcsti- fi.T an As30cia" tlOll Hi nnrntinn 1 i.

me levy, relieving that every thing would be ret right on ihc arrival of the Hon. 8. S. from the north. That gcMleronn hnsarrived.

remained orwc dajsin the city and departed again, iir company with Marshal Miller, on business beyord the ttate, leaving be levy in full force ns before, still published in the. Weekly Whig, throughout conntry, instead of being published as usual in the Daily Whig which circulates among the citizens wIm arc so deeply intcrcstr'd in the sale, so as to give them a chance protect their property. MoiiJuy is the day of sale yf, nrc fl)f( all riicti unhhishing such a terrible engine, finds advocates in this country Wuiggery amd Abolitios. C. M.

Clay, the ntony. The reliance placed on such tcstimo 1 W1 mv on'J i r.i intervene before the gun of the democraev ny was the great error of the former 8t BaIlimorc will ,1 iiuiu lllUUillillQ pet, relation and neighbor of Henry Clay, is a noted abolitionist. Just before the Connecticut especially ot our friend, Claiborne. Messrs. 03-Our representative, Hammct.

cat In' Mr Graves and Tyler, we arc informed, were nev Weller of Ohio, the lion of the Wesi.nndMv.t-.. to mountain, answered back in echoing thunders and dio away only among the gorges of the far hills of tho great Vcu. That signal gun will roar for (he sonic old prinriplps, nnd the national can- er disposed to attach much weight to Indian election, ho addressed a letter for circulation licje, for the effect of which, see tho following from th New York (whig) Tribune testimony. He have on hand (and will soon he frightens half a dozen wljgs jnto fils whenmr ne 'o "peak. "We learn, bv letter from tor.vicL thai the.

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