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ALEXANDRIA. D- C. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27. Communications. ABUSE OF THE VETO who are governed by the mil of a man are subjected to a Sydney.

General Jackson came into the executive chair at a very auspicious period of the Government Under the prudent administrations ol Monroe and Adams, the country flourished to an inconceivable extent. The greater part of the national debt was paid, and adequate provision had been made by law to discharge the remainder. In consequence of this, Gen. Jackson had the good fortune to see the debt entirely paid off during his administration. But a dark cloud came over the land.

The General gave way to his unrestrained will. He yielded to the impulses of his despotic temper. His pernicious languago was take the It was a resolution pregnant with mischief to his country. When he entered on office, he avowed himself friendly to a National Bank, lie expressed himself to that effect in his Messages to From some cause, supposed to be personal, he became the deadly enemy of the Bank. 11 is fc.

A A lo (jesiroy his judgment, and the Executive, instead of being under the wholesome influence of the trampled that instrument under his feet. He waa no longer under the sound discretion of the but under the lawless will of the He did not rest till he triumphed in tho destruction of a lawful and constitutional institution, and the reason oi his action in this case was, it was his yUasnrty histctli, to do so. rom the time he began to make war upon the Bank, the country began to sink. His indomitable willy ms Mr. Van Huron calls it, brought a blight upon our prosperity.

The Accidental President, after the National Legislature had twice sanctioned a Bank, interposed his will and vetoed the acts of Congress. A bank had been acknowledged to be Constitutional measure by all the distinguished men of both parties. It is almost a conceded point; and yet the Executive interposed his ill to dc feat the wishes of the National Legislature. The wisdom of the illustrious patriot from whom I have taken my motto is apparent to us in all the vividness of the sun beam. Who could have foreseen such a strange event? Who imagined that the of a republic, acquired by the sacrifices, toil, and labor of our ancestors, would be under such a And yet true it is, however galling it may be, that chose who are governed by the will of a man are lubjeettd to a beast.

In the place of being citizens, we are subjects; and instead of being under a constitutional Chief Magistrate, we are under the power, dominion, and government of Thus it is, that the unlawful exercise of power ehanges the nature of the human Instead of the Magistrate exercising authority with that discretion and judgment which distinguishes the man, he surrenders himself to the caprices end lawless desires of his will, and thus resembles in his properties, the characteristic features of In all ages the people have experienced the reality of this awful truth. What were Nero and Caligula but beasts? What was Henry the Eighth of England? What was King John, and nearer to our times, the wretched James the Second? These men fell under one eommon designation. In the administration of tbeir respective governments, they exercised l. IiIIa a their own wills, ana nencc beasts. In their respective reigns the people were wretched and degraded.

They were subjected to the cruelty and sport of Tyrants, who exercised their own wills, in place of law. They suffered all the misery arising from bad government, because they were governed ky the teill of a man. A constitutional Chief Magistrate consults the wishes of the people who have circumscribed his power. His will is taken from him. The people are not governed by his will, but by the law.

The object of the law is to coniine him to his duty and to prevent him from falling under the dominion of his ill. Such i9 the designation to which Magistrates who capriciously and lawlessly exercise their arbitrary pleasure are subjected; and cruel beyond description is the situation of that people who are aebjcolcd to such rulers. A Chief Magistrate exercising his will, instead of law, it compared justly to those destructive beasts of the forest, who delight in mangling the unfortunate victims who are fallen under their power. Such men are hateful to all who regard the liberty happiness of their fellow creatures. We trust that the Government will be restored to its purity, by the election of a Chief Magistrate who will consult the wishes, interests, and welfare of his fellow-citizens; who will not be guided by his own will and pleasure, but by the exercise of a sound judgment.

I believe a Chief Magistrate of that description will be found in Henry His whole lite proves him to be an AMERICAN STATESMAN, worthy of the highest offiee in the gift of the people. I trust, for the sake of my country, that all good and true Democrats wW unite with the Whigs in elevating him to the OrirsTtUte. annexed extract from a speech oi Senator Jarnigan, gives an imposing enumeration of the matters and things conveyed by the A. It comprises a long inventory of many airy public chattels, which we shall no doubt take when we find them. They sound very like the enumeration of weapons in an indictment fur as-, sault and battery, where, from the abundant caution of the law, almostevery sticks, stones, staves, and other implements of declar' to have been employed, and in fact every thing with which it is possible to beat a oiam Alt public lots and squares, vacant lands, mines, minerals, salt lakes and springs, public edifices, fortifications, baracks, ports and harbors, navy and navy yards, docks, magazines, arms, armaments, and accoutrements, archives and public documents, public funds, debt9, taxes and dues unpaid at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this AH this loo a great deal more )ike what a nation shou an might have, than any thing that 1 exa9 possesses.

There are said to he marriage which the bride, thuMgh as poor the beggai maid that King Oophetna loved and dressed otl in borrowed cMbes, has castles, hununglodges, villas ami hotels with a long rent-roll, all in imaginary lands and visionary cities only. is tit lhatthe bride and the nation should be supposed to have these things, whether she have them or not; they are for her beauty, or her dignity. I fear that, in this pompous schedule, the only part we shall ever realize is the last, a very solid body of that sort of public wealth which is usually called indebtedness, and a very plentiful lack of any thing to pay it with. Of and there may be lots, but in towns little more than ideal. The mines and minerals have not yet been worked, throughthc omission or casualty of not being yet discovered; or if any exist, they are surely those of New Mexico, from which the ingots flv, by some strange attraction, into a very different treasury.

There may be in Texas a but 1 have never heard of her salt lakes. As to her edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports and harbors, navy and navy yards, arms, armaments and that figure herein architectural splendor, or rr.ake up the pomp, and circumstance of glorious these are surely put in for the fl Uriah. Now, God forbid that I should laugh at honorable poverty, national or individual. That of Texas is not so. Let her repudiated bonds, let the unfortunate difficulty into which she has plunged a brave and honorable South Carolinian, to whom she owes still more in gra titude than in money, telljthat tale.

Is it, at any event, when she is driving a bargain, that rhis long display of titular possessions can be faicl) made? Would not the plain words, all her property and have been equally de terminate and far more modest. Political. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. Corr. of the AVir York Tribune.

At tho Metropolis we have the means of communicating with every corner of the Union, and thus far there is every tiling to encourage our friends for the triumph which awaits them in November. The organization is perfect throughout the Union, and even in distant points like Mississippi, where much was not hoped for, they write and speak as men resolved to The road to Victory is now broad and open for the Whigs, and all that is necessary for them to do is to march bravely, unitedly and firmly, in order to possess power, and place their principles safe for a quarter of a century. Commodore Steward who may be considered assume authority as a like the honorable and high-minded men of his party, takes decided exception to the nomination of Mr. Polk, and tcon'l vote for him. He says tho party deserted its principles at Baltimore, and though he place himself in an attitude of public hostility, still his private feelings are averse to the support of any such diminutive arid obscure leader.

He has farther stated, that the Committee at Carlisle, which addressed Mr. Polk for his definite opinion of opposition or favor to the Tariff of 1842, and whom he refused to answer, arc Stewart Democrats of old standing and reliable men, and that in his judgment, Mr. Clay will carry the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 1 make this statement upon no vague rumor, but the veiy best authority. Tho and other papers of that stamp, which aspire to character for veracity, continue to circulate tho falsehood, that Editorials which appeared in the Madisonian, in 1842, now rc-publishcd as and not after the form in which they originally appeared, emanated from the pen of Mr.

Wrebster. On a former occasion, I repelled this charge upon indisputable evidence, and 1 now take upon me to reiterate boldly and distinctly: First, that the articles in question were not written by Mr. Wrebster; Secondly, that Mr. W'ebster did not dictate them; Thirdly, that he was not in any tirov nriw In nr c.np'niznnt of fhoip nuhlication previous to their appearance in print; and lastly, are not, one or other, in the handwriting of Mr. Webster.

These are all plain statements which the Madisonian man dare not meet without quibble, and to the issue of which he has already been and is again invited. Does not the old maxim apply to the Enquirer, falsns in uno falsus in all events, Mr. Ritchie is without proof or good authority to sustain his charge, and he has not only retailed the implication of the Madisonian, that those Editorials were the production of a but gone a step farther than that disreputable concern, and ascribed them to Mr. Webster. The Texas-invasion-bubble, over which the ofTicial grew wrathy a day or two since, has exploded, but hurt nobody.

The purpose was to get up sympathy on Annexation, and so to help the cause of Mr. Polk. If it was such a serioii9 affair and the Government was determined to take so decisive a part in the War, strange that the President and half the Cabinet should have left the Capital so suddenly. The truth is, these fellows have the to do, but not the soul to State politic have become so alarming to the Loco-Focos in Mississippi that they have called home Senator Walker, who was engaged here in spreading the calumnies manufactured by Kendall and his compatriots. There is talk of merging the Madisonian into the Spectator, which is edited by Mr.

Harris, late M. C. from Virginia, and more recently a defeated aspirant for the Clerkship of the House. Our dyspeptic denizens object to any such incorporation, and argue that they contracted with John Jones, for fun during the full term of his which has yet five months and fifteen days to run. The Secretary of State, Mr.

Caliioun, guilty of a shabby and paltry trick yesterday, i deserves to be noticed. A rcgularly-ap! pointed Magistrate was taken to the Capitol and there presented w'ith the Journals of the House, recording Mr. vote against the whole Tariff policy, against granting Pensions to narninsi the widows nnrl nt-nhanc of American seamen who perished in their service, against Protection to the iron interests, against the indigent and unfortunate, and in favor of the Slave Trade. A copy of these votes was made, examined, and certified to by the Magistrate; and when the Secretary of State as called upon for his certificate, attesting to the power of this officer, he refused to give it, alleging that it was to be used for political purposes. And yet this Mr Calhoun lent his official sanction to all the vile and flagrant falsehoods of Kendall and his gang, and of Mr.

Walk-1 er and his annexationists Air. Calhoun and his fellow laborers in the Cabinet are struggling for their offices, and would be retained under Mr. Polk. These men wish to hide truth from the public scrutiny; and they are the people who would control and keep Mr. Polk, could he, by possibility, succeed.

Mr. Calhoun missed the figure in the effort to prevent an act required of him by law, and demanded by public justice; for the very certificate which he declined in the instance above mentioned, was given to the same examined the same votes in another form, on the day previous. So we shall now prove true position, ith John C. attestation, from which lie has no power to retreat, and dare not Air. WickLiFFE is making favor to get the Russian Mission, before the deluge comes which is to sweep him and his crew from office.

Like rats, they are all running from the sinking ship, whose flag Is dangling at the mast head, with Tyler and Texas, Polk and Free-Trade, Disunion and li-Protection, as the motto. T'fce Court Martial for tke trial of Capt. Newton, for the Missouri, has. opened its session. A great number of witnesses are in attendance, and the examination will be laborious and protracted.

My impression is, this tiial will prove a serious thing for Capt NewI ton, and that the Court Martial will recommend his dismissal from the service. No body believes that he was personally censurable, but the nonobservation of a system of proper police and discipline, unquestionably caused this heavy loss, for which the commanding officer may be made responsible. As Mr. Tyler commended the conduct of Capt. Newton to Congress, it is likely that he will defeat any recommendation of the Court Martial, should it be adverse to his views.

Without attempting to pass any judgment upon the merits of this particular case, it is the opinion of the best officers in the Army and Navy that obstinate and self-willed course as to their internal regulations and decision, has done more harm to the Service than their best efforts can recover in ten years to come. BRITISH MONEY TO BREAK DOWN OUR have already published a part of the evidence on which is based our conviction that tho British Manufacturers are supplying money, through their agents here, to aid the election of Polk for the sake ot breaking down our Protective Tariff, and so obtaining wider marketf and better prices for their goods. We have now farther testimony to adduce in corroboration of that the British Manufacturers have been applied to from this City to furnish the means of circulating Free Trade Tracis in this Country. Americans! lead! We have now before us the able London paper entitled 1The Leagueof April 2dth, 1844. This paper is the official organ of the grand ree Trcde combination, whose primary avowod purpose is the overthrow of the British Corn-Laws, but whose ultimate purpose has been repeated!) declared to be dissemination of Free Trrdt principles throughout the 1 his League is mainly composed of Manufacturers and Merchants, who, so far as they concern themselves with the laws and policy of their own Country, will elicit no criticism from us.

But the overthrow of the Corn-Laws is but a stepping-stone or a blind to their real ob opening of the markets of the world to British Manufactures. The number ot lie oeiore us nas a letter to Member of the (from internal evidence we infer it must he Mr. Cobdcn, M. leader of the League,) from English gentleman residing in the United ho dates February 28, lie begins by talking about benighted btites that ignorance and prejudice arc so prevalent here that Mr. Calhoun, the only real Free Trade candidate, lias been compelled to withdraw from the Presidential contest; and that either Mr.

Van liuren or Gen. Cass will probably be nominated; and that neither is sound and thorough on the side of Free Trade. He then classifies our People as friends or opponents of Free Trade, saving that the Planters (Sugar excepted) are for Free Trade, the Manufacturers for Protection; while the mass of the People are led by Edtiors and illiterate demagogues who are generally ignorant of or hostile to the true principles of Political Economy. He boasts that he has converted to Free Trade some Western farmers, who were in favor of Protection, and wished Manu factories established on the hanks of the Wabash and Ohio- IJe then proceeds: there are no people more eager after their own interests, or more likely once put into the right to pursue them with effect, than the farmers here, whether of native, Knglish, or German birth. Could any one bring clearly before their view the impolicy of their present course, and the advantages which would result to them from an opposite one, the present taritl would not be permitted to continue for another twelve month.

Nor is such illumination at all impracticable. It might be affected by any one doing here what has been praticcd so successfully by yourself and a few others in letting the people hear or read (which they have rarelly or cv er had an opportunity of doing) the truth! Cmtldsome such tracts as you have hern, and are still, diffusing in England be circulated tn sufficient numbers here, I cannot doubt the No people arc more open to receive, none more sharp-sighted or quick to hear, when it can be shown that their own individual interests are at btake, than the Americans. There, too, 1 may add, let the good seed hut once take root and sprout forth, and the work is done. Thousands will spring forward to foster and sustain its growth nay, the very men, the demagogues, the who, for their own selfish purposes, are note vociferating against Free Trade, will and for the same reason, bo found amongst its supporters, and prove themselves, possibly, as active for good as they arc now only puissant for i uvu might be done were there FrND9 (and very trifling ones would suffice) for the purpose is to reprint some of your best papers, and perhaps to compose and print a few others (on the same model, but more immediately and personally applicable to the American written in plain Cobbet-like language,) and diffuse them as widely as possible through the corn and cattle-raising districts of the Union. With the cojieration of certain excellent friends of mine here (well known for their consistent zeal and other virtues to several members of the League), 1 think that I could get immense numbers of them circulated through various parts of Pennsylvania, New- York, and New Jcrsey, through nil the great Western, and two or three of the Southern some gratuitously, and in others at a moderate cost.

Newspaper might also be found, here and there, to contribute its aid. But 1 have been saely drawing upon your time and patience in thus propounding to you a a scheme, against the realization of which there arc so many obvious difficulties in Free Trade, however, like Freemasonry, has a secret spell for a ttracting its brotheis towards each other am sure that I have experienced the fact in this country) and, right or wrong in my project, must therefore, be excused for unfolding it to one whom I look up to as the Grand Master of our The whole letter from which this extract is made is very rich, but we have not room for it to-day. That there shall be no cavil as to the fact that we make the above extract directly from the columns of the well known organ of the British Free Traders, we shall keep the original paper a few days at our desk, for the inspection of all who wish to see it. The same paper contains a long list of new subscribers to the League Fund of or $480,000. Come and sec it Ameicans! make your own Tribune.

WANTS MONEY AND MUST HAVE following begging address was sent to a good Whig, supposing him to be a Lorn Fnnn rrhn nrpntlman rptnrns thp. nnnenl to the public, and is mortified at the suspicion that he should have been taken for a Loco Foco. Democratic Republican General Committee at Tammany Hall, require funds to carry on with vigor the present political campaign in support of their candidates Polk and Dallas, for President and Vice President of the U. States, and to maintain the ascendancy of the party in this State, and the long established usages of the party gives the Committee a right to call upon all persons holding office under the authority of the State government, or by the election of the party, for contributions. The COMMITTEE EXPECT from you $10, which you will hand to the Treasurer, THEOPHILUS PECK.

New York, August 12, 1844." ANOTHER AND ANOTHER above comes in the form of a petition. Here is a threat from Tammany Hall Hall, Aug. 15, 1814. a meeting of the Democratic Republican Genera! Committee, held on the 15th instant, the following resolution was unanimously adopted That the Chairman and Secretaries of the (Jeneral Committee be instructed to ask for and urge the removal of all persons holding appointments under present administration of this State, who do 1 not pern to fmiww wnr be reported tv them hy the Finance Committee icith day a from thin ABRAHAM HATFIELD, President a0 i A Walker, Most of those thus threatened have paid over. Some fevv have refused and been turned out of They will remember their proscriptive persecutors Y.

Express. NOBLE Convention at Heights, was one of the largest ever held in New York. The ladies present numbered from five to seven thousand. The Convention was to celebrate the anniversary of the Rattle fought on tho lffth September, 1777, by the Whigs of the Revolution. The main stand fur the officers of the Convention and principal speakers was erected on the very spot where 1 lie tent of Gen.

Gates was pitched during the battle sixty-seven years ago. From this elevation the whole battleground was distinctly visible, and the superb panorama so familiar to all ho have visited the renowned scene of one of the most brilliant fields of the Revolution. Not a few of the survivors of the battle honored the day by their presence, and served by their graphic delineation of the memorable scenes thmugh which they passed in the time that tried souls, to strengthen the attachment of every true American who looked upon their venerable forms and listened to their words of wisdom, to the name of Whig. ROBT. OWEN, through his organ, the N.

Y. Heraldjhas issued a second Address the inhabitants of the U. States of The second Address treats of more miscellaneous matters than the first, and relates principally to communications between ex-Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Gen. Jackson, and his Secretary of State, Messrs.

Van Buren and cabinet; with Messrs. Henry Clay, Calhoun, Poinsett, Judge Marshall, and all the other Judges of the Supreme Court; and with most of the leading statesmen of that I I I mi. lie lUM IIIC ui uicac tlcmen because Murat, Nephew of the Emperor Napoleon, published a hook ol travels in the United States, in which work he stated that he was busily engaged in Europe lecturing against the American lie was not a little surprised with the changed conduct of these statesman, who 1 afterwards met in London and on the continent of Europe; but, when afterwards heard of this, to say the least of it, a thoughtless and most untrue paragraph of young the cau-e became obvious and the mystery solved. Nothing could have been more untrue or contrary to my feelings respecting all the members of the Government under the administration of Presidents Monroe, John Gtuincy Adams, and General Jackson for these gentlemen, and the other statesmen previously mentioned, trusted me with a confidence, truthfulness, kindness, and hospitality, such as 1 must always remember with a pleasure not easily to be expressed. It exceeded every thing I could anticipate in conduct to a stranger visiting them Mr.

Owen makes free use of the names of out countrymen, and a much freer use, we presume, than they would be willing to Mr. Owen goes on to say that the object ot his mission now is, in part, make such factknown as will convince the government and people of the United States and Great it is yet their paramount interest to become and remain cordially united, and to a-si-1 each other in promoting the extension of the arts and sciences and of every useful knowledge This is a much better object than that promulgated in the first address of Mr. in which he makes open war upon those well established principles of religion and marriage, the preservation ol which alone can give permanence and happiness to so. ciety. Mr.

Owen, it is very clear from his two addresses, has a very large development of selfesteem in his character and, no doubt, attaches much more importance to his mission than others will give it. We need no such radicals among us; and their appearance and dortiines have made them already one of tho greatest ol Y. Express. American Diplomatists have just returned home, one of whom, (Ion. Henry Ledyard, has been superseded at the Court of Versailles by Mr.

King, of Alabama, who is by no means and in no respect as capable as Mr. Ledyard to take carc of bis Interests and in France. Hon. W. H.

Hilliard, our Representative to the Court of King Leopold, in Belgium, was discharging his duties honorably to himself and useful I to hk countrv. To the attentions and hospitalities of both of these gentlemen, Americans, who go abroad, are indebted for much of their enjoyment in Paris and "at Brussels. Unlike some of our Foreign Ministers, these gentlemen were not only courteous but cordial to their countrymen. Having for several weeks in Paris and during our visit at Brussels, experienced untiring attentions and kindness from Messrs. Ledyard and Hilliard, we avail ourselves of their return to tender to each our most grateful and to express the hope that, in tlie homes to which they have returned with all their American principles and attachments confirmed and strengthened, they may find abundant prosperity and happiness.

Albany Journal. A learn that Amasa Leonard, (the father of Dr. Leonard, the great gun of Tvlerism in Baltimore,) whose appointment to an office in the Baltimore custom house, in the place of Mr. Robinson, we noticed yesterday, has been removed already. It appears that Robinson was a Polkitet and the leaders of the partyin Baltimore were getting up an indignation meeting against His Accidency for the removal, which coming to the Captain's cars, Leonard had notice to quit, and Robinson was reinstated.

By the way of salvo to the however, the longlooked-for commission as Surgeon in the Army is promised in a few days. The Doctor is now' in this city, hanging about the Treasury Department, and looking as if he couldn't help ll'hig Standard. CAPT. STOCKTON has made arrangements to address a series of Loco Foco meetings in New Jersey between this time and the day of election. A beautiful exhibition truly! for an officer of the Navy.

THAT redoubtable Gen. Pctriken has been nominated the Lorofooo candidate for Congress in the Lycoming District, Pennsylvania. Mr. Petriken is called Previous he being the hero of the Gag during his term in Congress A waggish member one day moved the previous question upon his w'ith the view' of cutting that otT. It is to be nf dhllirt Will QDUlV the gD2 tO Mr.

P. himself, and cut him Compiler. COLLECTOR OF7MIDDLETOWN, COW. Baldwin, has been removed by order of John Tyler, from the office of Collector of the port of Middletown, Connecticut, to make i room for one Philip Sage, a rabid i Those who know Mr. Baldwin, as thousands of his fellow citizens of New York do, will require i no better proof of the baseness of John Tyler, from whom Mr.

B. received this appointment in 1811, than his removal at this time. A more worthy citizen and taithful public officer than Mr. is not to be found. He was formerly dis! tinguished in the Whig ranks of this city, and as an ornament to the mechanical profession, and removed a few7 years since to Middletown, where he has since been equally esteemed, lie will now be prepared to do good service, as formerly, in the Whig cause, and will be warmly welcomed by good Whigs, in whatever part of the political field he may chose to labor.

Who can forget his thrilling speech at Masonic Hall, in 1S34, in which he denounced the removal of the deposited Y. Commercial. A PRESIDENTIAL calculations as to the result of the next Presidential election have been submitted to the I public, differing very widely in their conclusions. We annex which we think all dispassionate minds will admit concedes as much to our oppo VI VIII II 111 yields they are likely to We think the following votes may be set down as certain: Ctay. fhr Ptlk.

Massachusetts 12 New Hampshire Vermont 9 Connecticut Illinois 9 Rhode Island 4 Alabama 9 Delaware 3 Missouri 7 Maryland 8 Arkansas 3 North Carolina 11 South Carolina 9 Georgia 10 Tennessee 13 32 Kentucky 12 Ohio 23 Indiana 12 120 prolkible. New York 3G Mississippi New Jersey 7 Michigan Pennsylvania 2G Virginia 17 Louisiana 92 If we are not mistaken in our first we do not believe that a single State is set down as for Mr. Clay which will not vote for him, he will only require 18 iiinpn uniuc (n nlupt kinol it is not unreasonable to suppose that he will obtain that number from the 92 votes assigned to him in the second table; while it would certainly be astonishing if Mr should obtain them all! In the very worst aspect in which it can be received, Polk cannot obtain, we think, more than 93 votes. The ides of November, however, are at hand, and it hardly worth while to torment the Locos before their Virginian. Whigs of this District have nominated Geo.

W. Southall, the most popular man and the best orator in the District, as their candidate for Congress next Spring. Domestic Nous. MISSOURI RIVER St. Louis Rcpublican of the instant officers of the steamer Mendota, which arrived here yesterday, say that they have never known the the Missouri river so difficult as at the present I time.

The Water is very low, sand bars are formed in every direction, and the channelgis not yet washed out by the current, so that the pilots can trace it. THE GREAT FOOT RACE AT persons have entered lor the great foot race to come oil over the Beacon Course, at Hoboken, N. the 14th of October. Major II. Stannard is one of them, and is the general favorite, so far.

GUNPOWDER learn from the Bangor Courier that on Thursday one of the workmen engaged on the Fort at port Narrows, was regaling himself by sm iking a cigar while sitting upon a keg of powder. Several persons present remonstrated with him for thus exposing himself, when, in a sort of daring bravado, he declared there was no danger, and applied the end of his cigar to a few grains ut loose powder. The whole ignited, and in an instant lie was blown at a great distanne and instantly killed. Seven or eight persons were injured, some ul them seriously. REVOLUTIONARY Boston Journal gives the names and ages of twentyfive Revolutionary heroes, who were present on Thursday at the Whig gathering in that city, and who elicited enthusiastic cheers wherever they appeared.

They occupied six carriages in the procession, and were imbued with the genuine Whig spirit. Mr. Isaac Cazneau, who is past ninety years of age, and was a spectator of the battle of Bunker Hill, appeared on loot in the procession among the good Whigs of the Ward, and inarched through its whole course. Honor to his old age. The big of 177U maintains his Wiiig principles in 1844.

UMIPI) narin. u.uiuii a.c i it cd at Independence, Missouri, in the beginning of this month, bringing intelligence from the emigrants who left last spring for Oregon. These men are direct from Fort Laramie, distant about eight hundred miles from Independence. They state that the last of the emigrants left Fort Laramie on the 3d of August, and expected to reach their place of destination about the 1st of October. The had plenty of bacon, but were badly olf for Hour and bread-stuffs, and had nothing like a supply to carry them through.

Although there was plenty of flour at the Fort, the price lining forty dollars per barred, and only to be had for they could not procure it Sugar and wras also quite scarce with them. Their teams wrere jaded and weak, and their cattle generally in bad condition. It rained incessantly during the first months of their journey, so that all the water courses ere unusually high. They complained greatly of the hardships and fatigues of the trip, but enjoyed good health, and had loM only one man by death. They had divided and formed themselves into several parties, ow ing to dissensions which had taken place in the company.

It w'as thought that they would reach Buffalo in five or days after leaving Fort Laramie, where they hoped to lay in a sufficient supply of provisions to subsist tbcm till they arrived at their destination. Fears w'ere entertained of their being harrassed by the Sioux Indians whose chief had despatched a large wrar parly for the purpose of attacking them, but the only danger they apprehended in the event of such an assault was the loss of cattle. FECUNDITY AROUND FORT Dr. of the United States Army, now at Fort Kent, in Maine, remarks in a letj ter that for two month' not one of the men at Fort Kent tins been confined to bed by sickness, even for a single day, and the same good health seems to prevail in the surrounding This, he says, is the more to be wondered at, on seeing the of little unvacrinatcd that sw arm around the door of every log hut, half clothed, and but poorly fed, on sour, black bread and potatoes. Nothing has astonished him '0 much as the large families that are found among the French inhabitants.

Five adjoining married couples have had in all forty children, of hom titi rtj -five are living. A man immedi- ately opposite the Fort, on the other side of the I river, has twenty seven by two wives, the second of whom bore fourteen. Lareut Ferriaund, at Green River, has had twenty-five hildren by i one wile, no aoumons. u. uau nineteen children in eighteen years, and of these, five pair were twins.

Pierre Richou has had six in three years; three pair twins, all now living at Shattaquoi, six miles below the fort. In one house is a woman with five children under three and a half years, one twin and one triplet hirth. Her husband was then expecting soon to be presented ith another pair of the The probability is that iv hoi a candle to the plantation in either the production of children or potatoes. FALL OF SHEET the Tariff, there was a heavy fall of sheet iron in New York, at the store of Messrs. Stokes, Gilbert 6c corner of Clilf and John street.

I Providentially it took place before business hours otherwise should have had to record a loss of lives. As it was, the only damage done was to the building, except the labor of recovering the iron from the cellar, into which it fellen tnutse, breaking through three floors, timbers and all. Not the whole interior of the store, however, was demolished, hut only that section of it where, in the 3d story, the sheet iron lay. The crash was heard at a distance of several squares. AMERICAN TRACT New York city branch of this society held an interesting meeting at Pearl street church last evening.

This branch now employs 12 city missionaries, has the gratuitous services of about 1100 1 monthly distributors, and is exerting an amount of moral influence of which the busy crowd is i little conscious. The issues of publications from 1 wiv I'aivui owvia nuiiaiy, iui uiiiiiin August 15, amounted to upward of $19,000. (3 one important work in three volumes copies have been printed within the last six months. The gratuitous issues of tracts have amounted to about pages in five months. The col porteur effort is fully meeting the hopes of itj patrons.

Eighty colporteurs, including 28 German, French and Welch, are now in the field, performing a labori us, selMenying service, in diffusing the volumes, chiefly in the most destitute portions of the country. Thirteen steam power presses, (equal to between 30 and 40 common printing presses,) are now employed in the society works. In the bindery upward of a hundred ply the needle, the knife or hammer, industriously from morn till night. And the depositary, with five assistants, can meet the orders in that department only by the most unti ring labor. The English Wesleyan maxim, at it and always at well illustrates the at the Tract House.

Besides employing in our large towns in gratuitously searching out and supplying the ignorant and destitute with this intellectual food, and others in carrying il throughout our country, the society, at its last anniversary, appropriated $20,000 for printing in foreign lands. Club vs. all above match for $lo00 aside will hr played to-morrow and Wednesday on the ground ol the St. at Bloomingdalo. This match will be decidedly the most interesting one ever played in this country.

Both parties are said to bo in excellent practice and each confident of Y. The New Orleans Ball room, with the bar and saloon attached, which was last year leased fot 4000 was we learn, yesterday adjudicated at public auction for one year for the extraordinary sum of 9791 dollars Picayune. COMMERCIAL firm ol George of New Bedtord, Mass, which suspended payment and made an assignment two years given notice that, in consequence of successes in business, they an1 ready to moot the deficit of said firm principal and interest, amounting to $30,000. Such men are eminently worthy of success. TORRKY, the abolitionist, in Baltimore jail, imprisoned for attempting the rescue of certain slaves, thus writes respecting himself, under date of September, it, 1844.

My Dearest ara in much affliction. When 1 rote you la-4 we. as suffering ith a brain fever, the etlects of long and close confinement. Yesterday 1 made an attempt to escape, which was detected, or rather betrayed, by a counterfeiter named Dryer; and myself and others put into the ceils, i irons. The excitement, with a cold cell, and irons so heavy and painful as to prevent all sleep, have brought on the fever again.

1 suppose I shall be so con fin ed till October, if I survive so long. I deemed it my duty to try once to escape out of the hands of mv enemies. But God knows best, and has ordered it otherwise. (After giving some direction in regard to his children, if he should be taken away, be proceeds: Thank God! the good men who aided me are more than one hundred miles oil, and far out of the reach of my persecutors. 1 will never allow I others to sutler on my account, ii 1 can help it.

The man Dryer, who betrayed us, is a negro trader, and is in prison for passing counterfeit money. 1 lo tried to get my confidence, professed to have become an abolitionist, and encouraged us'to escape; all the while betraying our plans uj the keepers. the last Nauvoo Neighbor, we perceive the hand of fellowship has been withdrawn from Klders Higdon, James Kmmit, and Zachariah Wilson. It is also ru! mored, that on Sunday last, nineteen of the leading Mormons were rejected from church, ami amongst these was John A. Forges, and Kiiuna Smith, the widow of the Prophet.

There ap' pears to be a great dissension amongst the bretht importance is brewing, but i persons who live in the city seem entirely ignorant of what is really in contemplation. Many Mormons arc disatfected. and are remov ing from the city. The Tetrr ie is still going ahead, with surprising third tier of windows being ready to receive their capitals. Above them ii to be a belt course of stone, and then six fret ol plain cut stone work, will finish the walls.

Nearly the whole population seems to receive support from their labor on the Temple; only about half a dozen private houses now being under way If the contributions to the Temple should cease, the population would soon starve out, for there are no factories of any account in the city to give employment to any of the inhabitants. Confidence being destroyed by the death of Smith, private enterprise in the city is checked, and the I people have no recourse but to work for a scanty subsistence on the Temple. The leaders are well aware that their only hope of keeping the mass together, is to find them employment; hence their exertions on this structure. Property has fallen in Nauvoo, to about one third of its value previous to the death of Joe. This is the legiti; mate consequence of the ansiety of so many persons to get away from the city.

Sidney Higdon had not started for Pittsburg, as we slated last week; hut now since he is dhfcllowshipped, we may expect his influence to create a considerable rupture in the church. He has some influence, and is very determined, and there is no doubt but that he ill be troublesome. On Bear Creek, there have been some tall doings during the last week; some twenty-five families of Mormons have left the settlement, hut they took care to provide well for themselves before they left, at the expense of the Gentiles Several horses valued at about were stolen on the night of their departure, and also many head of cattle arc amongst tfie missing. The thieves are known, hut they have retired to Nauvoo, and of course are safe from the process of law. The Mormons arc leaving settlement, about twelve miles south of this place but we have not heard of any thefts in this neighborhood as yet.

John P. Green, irshal of the city of Nauvoo, died yesterday Warsaw Signal. THE PARIS POLYTECHNIC Our principal domestic event is the disbanding of the famous Polytechnic school, founded in 1794, and perfected by the care of the Government and the savans, for the formation of artillerists and civil and military engineers. From 1796 to 1835 it supplied the army officers, the navy with 289, and the department of civil engineers with 1,818. Its average annual contribution to the corps of engineers for roads and bridges, since the great increase of French public been from forty to fifty.

The most celebrated names arc on its tablets. The number of pupils is limited to three hundred the competition admission the keenest possible throughout France. It was anxiously fostered by the Directory, and more fondly by Nafolron. No body of youth in any institution have been inspired with so strong a sense or conceit of importance with legat'd to professional service and national In 1814 the pupils were enlisted to light they did the the allies they betrayed such a disaffection to I he Bourbons that the school was suppressed in 1816; but in six months it was re-established, the national feelings for the institution and the utility of the scheme left no option to tl Legitimists. At the outset of the Revolution o' July, every recollection, sentiment, and pretension impelled the inmates to take part with the people; their military proficiency and juvenile enthusiasm rendered them important auxiliaries.

On the 6th of August, HdO, Loris Phillifpe, as Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, issued an ordinance bearing testimony to their share in the work of the heroic reo days;" and directing the promotion ot the rank of lieutenant, the ot the kgi honor for twelve selected by tbcuiselves, exeinp".