Carolina Watchman

              «|' < . 1 iis two dollars per annum in advance \ iwrtis.-ments inserted at 1 yr square lor the lirsl -■ ! 25 cents for each subsequent insertion court or i f rscharged 25 percent higher from the rio grande ft*7"the following proclamation has been is ed by gen taylor and is published in both t e english ami spanish languages iu the mat unoras papers : a proclamation rv thk ce.vebai comxaxding tih akmv of t „|. i tri;i states or amemca /', ph of mexico : after many years of ifif/i endurance lhe united states are at length constrained to acknowledge that a war jiv exists between our gove.rnment and the 0 rerument of mexico fur many years our wizens have been subjected to repeated insults . iries our vessels and cargoes have been . and confiscated our merchants have been iodered maimed imprisoned without cause without reparation at length your gor ient acknowledged die justice of our claims agrsed by treaty lo make satisfaction by ivment of several million of dollars but this d v la been violated by your rulers ; and stipulated payments have been withheld — late eflbrt to terminate all difficulties by ;. iil negotiation has been rejected by the lalor paredes and our minister of peace i your rulers had agreed to receive has , refused a hearing he has been treated rith indignity and insult and paredes has an i u nced lhat war t-.vi-.is between us this tar thus tii=t proclaimed by him has been ac knoh-ledged as an existing fact by our president , congress with perfect unanimity and will . prosecuted with vigor and energy against v nr army and rulers ; but those ofthe mexican pie who remain neutral will not be molest id vour government is in lhe hands of tyrants , usurpers they have abolished your state mments ihey have overthrown your feder nstitution they have deprived you of the : of suffrage destroyed lhe liberty of the s despoiled you of your arms and reduced i.m to a state of absolute dependence upon the r of a military dictator your army and s ml it from the people by grievous taxa i/on by forced loans and military seizures the rv money which sustains the usurpers in pow er being disarmed you were left defenceless a easy prey to die savage camanches who not oij destroy your lives and property but drive into captivity more horrible than death itself your wives and children it is your military rulers who have reduced you to this deplorable condition it is these tyrants and their corrupt indcruelsattellites gorged with the people's ire by whom you are thus oppressed and impoverished some of whom have boldly advo ated a monarchical government and would lace a europeau pi ince upon the throne of mexico we come to obtain reparation for re nted wrongs and injuries ; we come to obtain i'letiiniiv forthe past and security for lhe future we come to overthrow the tyrants who have de stroyed your liberties but we come to make no war upon the people of mexico nor upon any win of free government ihey may choose to se > themselves it is our wish to see you r;ited from despots to drive back the savage camanches to prevent the renewal of their nils and to compel them to restore to you rora captivity your long lost wives andvhildren lour religion your altars and churches the pro pertyofyour chinches and citizens the em blems of your faith and its ministers shall be fleeted and remain inviolate hundreds of oor army and hundreds of thousands of our peo le,are members of the catholic church in rerj state ami in nearly every city and village four union catholic churches exist and the * perform their holy functions in peace and out ii v under the sacred guarantee of our con titutien we come among the people of mexi 9as friends and republican brethren and all who receive its as such shall be protected whilst who arc seduced into the army of your die latof shall be treated as enemies we shall an from you nothing but food for our army " '"' this you shall be paid in cash the full val *. it is the settled policy of your tyiants to de ceive you in regard to the policy and character « our government and people these tyrants ear the example of our free institutions and constantly endeavor to misrepresent our purpo ws and inspire vou with hatred ibr your repub lican brelhrcn of the american union ive us but the opportunity to undeceive you and vou will soon learn that all the representations of pa redes were false and were only made to induce you to consent to the establishment of a despotic overnment in your struggle for liberty with the spanish monarchy thousands ol our countrymen risked their lives and shed their blood in your defence our own commodore the gallant porter main tamed „, inumph your flag upon the ocean and our overnment was the first to acknowledge your independence with pride and pleasure we enrolled your name on the lis of independent uepubl.es and sincerely desired that you mi«d t in peace and prosperity enjoy all he blessing of free government success on the part of your tyrants against the army ofthe union is impos sible but if they could succeed it would only be o enable them to fill your towns with their sold ier eating out your substance and barrassin j-ou with still more grievous taxation already they have abolished the liberty ofthe press as the first step to the introduction of that monar chy winch it is their real purpose to proclaim and establish mexicans we must treat as enemies and over throw the tyrants who whilst they have wrong ed and insulted us have deprived vou of your lib erty but the mexican people who remain neu ral during the contest shall be protected against heir military despots by the republican army ot the union z.taylor brevet maj gen u s a corod'g the correspondence of the mobile herald and tribune contains the latest intelligence tiom the gulf squadron that we have received from which we copy the following items . they have had a little sprinkling of war at > era cruz as well as at tampico and the rj rande the princeton in attempting to get ater from a neighboring river had the party red on by a large body of mexicans the fire as immediately returned by tl.e watering par is . a c ,? fmm the sh p a shei1 &<«" her it - ud fell right in the midst oflhe mexicans a j did its work of destruction is the impression of the commodore that - mexicans cannot hold out much longer ey are doing nothing towards prosecuting the met paredes da re not leave the city of co an insurrection was expected there the carolina watchman bruner & james ) editors c r proprietors j " ke " a je£5 tora rulers do 8 , 4to i ikm ) "^ series gen i harrison dumber 15 of volume iii salisbury n c friday august 7 1846 on the 5th inst and all the troops were called ' out and kept under arms all night congress is still in session but is doing noihing it has passed a decree however authorising paredes lo prosecute the war but has furnished him no means of doing so on the rio grande noihing of much impor : lance has occurred gen taylor continues his removal to carmargo as rapid y as his means of transportation will allow of which there is a '' shameful deficiency there are nine steamers plying on the river between matamoras and carmargo but in many places the current is so swift that they with difficulty make a mile an hour lhe 2d battalion of tennessee volun teers and the 1st baltimore regiment in ali be tween 1100 and 1*200 men are now at tl.e mouth of the river awaiting transportation to , ijuiita the princeton brought despatches of an im portant character in the pacific and also the news that our gulf squadron has by this time taken possession of alvarado by the next mail we may learn something of the movements of the pacific squadron we find the following extract of a letter in the charleston news : u s stkamek mississippi ) off yera cruz july 14 1846 ( the commodore and all the squadron except the st mary's john adams and lawrence are here — the above named vessels are blockading tampico and the mouth ofthe rio grande we lay here in sight of san juan de ulloa with her big jjuns grinning at us — all we wan is a chance to batter down her walls give us two ships of the line added to our squadron and we can do it ihey are a cowardly set the princeton run sufficiently close to the castle a few days since to have been riddled but was not touched — her captain is the right stripe he went with the piinceton a few days since close to the beach put his men ashore and had a light with about 300 mexicans killed 3 or 4 and drove the re mainder off shot a bullock and took him on hoard our squadron has now got so indepen dent that they take what water we want ihere being a fresh water river nearby from thc n o commercial times camargo reconnoissance to monterey gen'l taylor forthcoming campaign every fresh arrival from the seat of war serves to sharpen curiosity and keep alive the interest we all feel as to future events in our collision with mexico which is now beginning to assume a place of ac tivity after a rather long interval of re pose on the part ofthe belligerents the following highly interesting infor mation although given in a rather desul tory form we derive from a gentleman who has just arrived here from camargo which he visited on the steamboat rig hatcbee and who left that town on the 1 4th inst the big hatchee reached camargo on the evening ofthe 13th having on board troops and provisions a company of the 7th regiment two companies of the same regiment had previously arrived on the steamboats brownsville enterprise and j e roberts the river was falling rapidly and the rancheros resuming thei usual occupations col hays rangers were not there at that date they how ever had been in after making a recon noisance of the country as far as monte rey our informant states that it was re ported by ihe rangers that they had pen etrated to the precipitous dill's that over hang monterey when a trooper a very adventurous soldier named cummins reached a point overhanging the bishop's lalace which commanded a view ofthe whole city the utmost activity seemed to prevail among the mexicans who were busily employed in repairing the old for tifications and creeling new ones the number of troops was not ascertained but from the movements observable it was evident they were preparing every means of defence gen taylor is now encamped with four regiments colonefs walton's davis's dakins and marks's with the alabami ans under capt desha at buena vista on the borders ofa lake seventeen miles north-west of matamoras the health ot the aolunteers here with gen taylor had much improved owing to the line air they enjoyed and splendid encamping ground they occupied the roads were perfectly impassable ior wheeled vehicles owing to the swam py soil occasioned by the immense falls of rain which had recently taken place the steamer mercer arrived at the mouth oi the rio grande all safe on the 17th inst there were no signs of mexican soldiery in the vicinity of camargo this town is but a paltry one after all as re gards houses and population the former not being more than twenty the whole ot the population had been obliged bv the inundation to seek shelter elsewhere on the high grounds there was no exhibi tion of hostility or discontent on the part of the people ; on the contrary they show ed every symptom of plea'sure at the change of masters the country was un . dcrgoing on the 12th instant before the : arrival of the americans seventeen horse < men left camargo for monterey , capt walker had returned from his ex ] pedition to monterey and delivered a re port which is said to he an exceedingly interesting ope ofthe state of the coun , try through which he passed halting pla ces etc etc there is no probability of i any opposition being made to the advance i ol the american troops between camargo . and jajubterey and from what could be i collected the mexican force concentrated at the latter point is extremely insignifi cant nothing regarding the reported ap proach of paredes with the army of re serve of an authentic nature has been ascertained at head-quarters although scouts are out in some numbers for that purpose every thing however seems to an nounce that the possession of monterey will be fiercely disputed as it is by na ture and art one of the most powerful strongholds in mexico the inhabitants and soldiers are daily employed in im proving its defences capt thornton — by news brought by the steamship alabama from brazos santiago the new orleans times oflhe 20th ult learns lhat the court martial on capt thornton terminated on the 15th june ; and the general impression is that he has been acquitted the proceed ings however says the times will not be made public until they have been approved and con lirmed by the president at washington one passage of his reported defence has been com mented on with admiral ion by all in the camp at mattamoras ile said that in the perform ance of the act for which he was tried — rash ness or precipitancy we believe — he did not see the numbers ofthe enemy all he saw was ihe mexican flag waving oveh american son and he was willing to risk his own life in an attempt to cut it down !' r»the xew orleans correspondent of the charleston courier of july 21st says : the accounts from the army are rather contradicto ry but i think it pretty well ascertained that all the v troops will soon be in motion for monterey i learn that col hays rangers had proceeded nearly to that city on a reconnoitering expedi tion and that one of them bolder lhan his fel lows had penetrated to the precipitous clifis which overhang the town and command a per fect view of it he reports that all seemed to be bustle and activity numerous workmen were busy in repairing the old and building new for tifications and every preparation appeared to be making for an active defence such is the sto ry reported by ihis bold soldier and though it has rather a romantic sound i believe it to be correct santa fe expedition — the following is ta ken from the st louis republican of the j2d ultimo : a letter horn fort leavenworth states that a rumor has just reached the fort to the effect that captain moore of the united states dra goons with his command had overtaken the mexican traders whom he was sent out to stof — that the traders had previously been reinforc ed by a body of mexicans from santa fe o which however capt moore was not aware the traders refused submission to the order and in attempting to enforce it an action ensu ed in which capt moore capt berguoin ant a lieutenant whose name is not stated were killed besides several non-commissioned ofii cers and privates the balance of captair moore's command were compelled to retreat such is the report but xve do not place anj confidence in its authenticity for if there was any truth in it it is probable that a correct ac count would have reached the fort quite as soon as thc rumor library for the army — a capital idea has been suggested by the rev mr marshall ot vicksburg mississippi of gelling the dilterent booksellers to make up a library for the wm of our army in mexico we presume there is now no doubt that they are in mexican territory — how long to remain so is a dilterent matter the following publishers in new york have al ready contributed a very respectable collection : harper c brother burgess stringer & co wiley isc putnam saxton c miles mark h newman w taylor & co j & g h langley baker & scribner m w dodd da nous mead j s redfield fowler & wells c s francis & co wood <__; son and stanford v-v swords vv e hope that when these books get to mat amoras and give the officers and soldiers some food for solid reflection we shall sec less ofthe flippant nonsense which has characterized too many ofthe communications to lhe new or leans papers — richmond times dcf 3 mr walsh the paris correspon dent of the national intelligencer states that the americans in france were inex pressibly relieved and exhilated by the newsof gen'l taylor's victories europe he thinks has been impressed in the most beneficial way by the battles the subse quent proceedings in congress and the patriotic manifestations of the whole un ion lively satisfaction he says perva h'd the chamber of deputies on the re ceipt ofthe news — most of the conserva tives even betrayed that feeling — m gui ot and two of his colleagues and a fi»w if his party the nearest and most devoted tvere alone chap-fallen he had been as sured that should war ensue between england and the u states 20,000 french volunteers under experienced olficers aould at once endeavor to reach our shores for the purpose of joining in the in asioii of canada lie states this as evin cive ofthe disposition of the french peo le whose anti-british feeling though dor nant is as active as ever epps the murderer of mr muir had not icen arrested when last heard from — he was lowever hotly pursued by a posse from lynch nirg in which town he spent a dav and night ut left the next morning in lhe stage for the aest : the news of thc murder did not reach ynchburg until he had departed tho city gen taylor headed the singular simplicity that marks gen taylor's personal appearance and habits have become a subject of universal fame it is curious that a soldier so eminent in all the qualities of discipline should be so citizen-looking in his own appearance — a curious scene occurred at point isabel at the time commodore conner appeared off that place with his fleet to give suc cor to the " army of occupation com conner is a naval officer that is not only strict in his dress but has a philadelphia nicety about it he appears in full and splendid uniform on all occasions being the exact counterpart in this particular of gen taylor at the proper time commodore conner sent word to gen taylor that he would come ashore to pay him a visit of ceremo ny this put the old " rough and ready into a tremendous excitement if com modore conner had quietly come up to his tent and given him a sailor's gripe and set down on a camp chest and talked over matters in an old-fashioned way general taylor would have been prepared ; but to have the most carefully dressed ollicer in our navy commanding the finest fleet to come in full uniform surrounded by all the pomp of splendid equipments to pay a visit ol ceremony was more than gen taylor had without some effort nerve to go through with ; but equal ever to all emergencies he determined to compli ment the commodore and through him the navy by appearing in full uniform — a thing his oflicers associated with him for years had never witnessed in the meanwhile commodore conner was cogitating over the most proper way to compliment general taylor having heard of his peculiar disregard of military dress he concluded he would make the visit in a manner comporting to general taylor's habits and consequently equip ped himself in plain white drilling and unattended came ashore the moment old " rough and ready heard that commodore conner had land ed he abandoned some heavy work he was personally attending to about the camp and precipitately rushed into his tent delved at the bottom of an old chest and pulled out a uniform coat that had peacefully slumbered for years in undis turbed quietude slipped himself into it in his haste fastening it so that one side of the standing collar was three button holes above the other and sat himself down as uncomfortable as can well be imagined with quiet step and unattended commo dore conner presented himself at general taylor's tent ; the two soldiers shook hands both in exceeding astonishment at each other's appearance the wags in the army say that the a bove contains the only authentic account where gen taylor was ever headed and that since that time he has taken to linen roundabouts of the largest dimensions with more pertinacity than ever — x 0 tropic extraordinary malformation wc were informed yesterday of the most extraordinary freak of nature we have ever had occasion to record being the birth ofa living child with the heart outside of the chest this remarkable phenomenon in the history of human na ture i.s an absolute and indisputable fact however unlikely it is to meet with cred ibility on the part of the public the heart is entirely outside of the body and desti tute of any pericardium ; thus even with out this natural protection it is protruded from the external surface of the chest xvhich at that point bears a mark resem bling a cicatrix as if the flesh had been opened the heart pulled out and the wound suffered to grow up again each pulsation of the course can be distinctly observed and the whole natural action of this delicate organ is made visible to the immediate investigation of the eye the facts above stated reached us by accident but so incredible did they seem that spe cial inquiry was made in relation to the matter the attending physician in the case we understand was dr wm riley bed i i more sun mammoth vegetable — mr cosby of the i nion hotel has presented us with a tomato a specimen of his present crop that " beats all creation it is decidedly the largest and best looking vegetable of the kind we ever saw — weighing in the neighborhood of a couple of pounds and in size something smaller than " our de vil's head we intend it for our senior when he " comes to town but really if would be a feast for a king ! — danville herald what's the exact weight of that toma to neighbor . it's likely we had one the other day a little bigger than yours — how many ounces ? whew the union says : — " to charge that mr polk's adminis tration has thus far been proscriptive is the ne plus ultra oi unscrupulous unfair ness it is mere madness men women and children know better is the union serious — or is it jesting merely to raise a laugh or excite a won der ? we cannot think the union is in earnest — alex gat affairs ox the rio grande the new york courier and enquirer con verts lo practical use the recent information of increasing sickness and discontents among the volunteer troops now on and near the rio grande the utter being produced bv the inac tion resulting pe r h aps necessarily by the want of transportation and supplies " we extract from its article on the subject the following par agraphs well worthy of the reader's attention : n at intelligencer in the state of suspense thus caused insu bordmation and discontent may it is lo be fear ed spread among the volunteers and the en thusiasm of the first impulse being worn awav in the tedium the privations and we fear tiie uuhealthmess ofa safe and inactive camp these troops will be less reliable when the hour of tri al shall come all this was foreseen all this was intend ed to be and if permitted to pursue his plan would have been obviated bv gen scott hi plan was that ihe twelve months men should not precede their supplies and means of trans portation ; but that being mustered into service put upon pay and in course of instruction with in the reach of the readiest points of transpor tation to their ultimate destination that when when all things were rea ij mow these troops already imbued with some instruction and a bove all with a sense oftbe necessity of subor dination and of exact discipline should be sent to the field at once to enter upon an active cam paign this was sneered at at the time bv the evening post and others as the pedantry of the profession ; by others as covering an unwilling ness on the part of a man who had affronted death in perils of war and in the black hawk campaign in perils from pestilence as a reluct ance to take the field ; and thus it turned out that the wise provision of an experienced and patriotic soldier who was desirous to save the volunteer force about to be levied from unne cessary and unprofitable delay and danger and most unwilling by preceding tbat new force to ihe scene of action lo supercede a gallant bro ther officer tavlok — who was doing hisduiv so brilliantly — this experienced foresight and these honorable scru vs have been turned into sources of reproach a inst winkield scott events are fast justifying him against the hasty censure and the poor and cheap ridicule to which unguarded remonstrances on his part against undeserved suspicion and unworthy ma noeuvres gave rise ; and it is now manifest to al who will see that — " 1st through the want of foresight of the administration in providing means of transpor tation gen taylok was entirely unable to fid low up his first sticcesses on the rio grande and to make a victorious and possibly an unre sisted march into the interior of mexico with the regular force and the six months volunteers who on his first call hastened to his standard ; and — 2d that the inactivity ofthe 12 months volunteers who are now joining gen tavlok and ofthe whole force of that ollicer arises from a neglect of the counsels of gen scott and irom the entire inadequacy of the preparations of the administration to give efficiency to the patriotic impulse of the nation which has fur nished at the first intimation that thev wen wanted more than the required number ot vol unteers benton on mckay s bill in the course of his remarks in the sen ate on monday mr benton paid the fol lowing high compliment to mckay's bill i undertake to say it is the first bil which rewards fraud which has been seen in the annals of human legislation thi section in our bill therefore differs fron the british in the great feature of appli cation to fraudulent importations it alsc differs from it in the measure of per cen turn allowed to the importer the brit ish act allows ten per cent because tha is the usual english profit on a fair im portation they therefore take the im porters goods at his own price and at th established profit that is treating bin as a fair merchant and carrying out th idea ofthe act but our act allows only five per cent and that not only different from the british act but from the reason of it and in fact is founded in no reason five percent is not our merchantile prof it but about twelve and a half if there fore the importation is considered fair as in great britain the usual profit in addi tion to the price should be paid but our bill goes upon the idea of fraud it is for intention to defraud that the goods may be taken for government use and now upon what principle can five per cent be given on a fraud i by all our custom house laws — by the laws of the world from the time of the patriarchs to the pres ent day — fraud is a crime punishable by fines and forfeitures by no human legis lation was fraud ever before rewarded — the bill gives five percent profit on that a mount this is incomprehensible — incon sequential — preposterous it can only re sult from copying the substance of the british act without understanding it : and then thinking ten per cent rather a high premium on fraud our bill reduces it to five ! why sir in the case of a fraud the british system forfeits the whole importa tion ; and this is reasonable and so have our acts always done our laws al wavs forfeit for fraud but this act rewards and now upon what principle can our bill propose to give five per cent only upon the principle of an honest importa tion can anything be allowed and then it should be the usual profit as in great brit ain but as a profit five per cent is a robbery of the merchant it defrauds him nut of seven and a half per cent as a fraudulent importation as the bill declares t tobe.it b a premium on fraud it ban s w"f nt to crinie lt ia a vice and folly ln legislation of which there is no example in tbe anna of human leeis lation but if it was a copv ol the brit iso act i should be still opposed to it the british parliament can do what w e cannot it is omnipotent we are limited it may take the subject's property in what place it pleases and pay him for it 1 go upon the ground of paying bis price and prolits we can only tftke the citizen's property in a specified case tha of its necessity to the public service as a piece ol ground for a fort passage of the anti-tarij bui groans from pennsylvania the news of the passage of the new ant tariff bill by the senate have been receded in philadelphia with alarm and indignation by both parties the times a democratic paper announces the news with black rules as follows : treason to pennsylvania the infamy has been consummated ! an ] hy the vote ot george mifflin dallas ef pennsrl vama the did keystone has been blasted hy the ingrale band of a treacherous b d like that of h.m who tired the epbesian dome the lame of ceo m dallas shall be in immortal to execration immortal to infamy the commonwealth that bad given him birth life favor wealth station and power calle on him to stretch forth his arm and save her ; he has answered ihe call as ll . rt .' sponds to lhe mercy cry uf the helpless alas . poor pennsylvania ! an empire within herself possessing more ofthe real elements nf wealth anu greatness than the entire union besides she has been sacrificed to the dogmas of the south prostrated and trod lea d wn to earth by ihose who were pledged orally and ia wi to stand by her the fraud mast be « iped out — repeal is ihe word and we set the hall iu motion even though we stand solitary and a lone but we shall not be alone the rough stout arms of sixteen thousand iron-workers and miners will roll on the ball nor will it stop till justice has been done to pennsylvania 1 he times after complimenting ihe repre sentatives and senators from lhat slate tur iheir erloits to defeat lhe bill concludes thus : tennessee ! what shall pennsylvania say to her ! w e gave her a president to whom she relused her vote sh has given us by tbe in structiona of her legislature the enviable ta bleau ofa ruined and dis^nn-ej commonwealth hell may pennsylvania exclaim in the lan guage of the simple thracian '• there art n gods in heaven i the inquirer a whig paper savs : the intelligence from washington which we publish this morning is well calculated to startle and excite ihe people of pennsylvania it will he seen that the tariff of 42 has been lost in the senate of the united states and by the casting vote ofthe vice president tbe hon george m dallas the gentleman named has assumed a fearful responsibility he has de serted the interests f his native slate aimed a blow at the prosperity of this commonwealth and committed an act of political madness from die effects of which he can never recover wo repea t — he has assumed a most tearful respon sibility the people ofthis commonwealth will speak upon this subject promptly and in tones of thunder the u s gazette also whig has tho fol lowing remarks on the subject : the great crisis is passed and th measure toward which the attention ofthe nation has been directed — the progress of which tens of thou sands have watched in fear and trembling — i virtually passed the productive interest of tho country reaches its culminating point wiih its passage and commences its downward course wiih lhe action of the law which destroys tho tariff of l-4 we give elsewhere the record of the procee dings by which lhe nefarious measure has been carried into effect it wiil be seen thai to pennsylvania it has not only lhe deadly • to destroy her prosperity but there i ingraft tude added to make her cup of misery m re bit ter the blow which smites her to dust having come from one of her own sons whom die has nurtured into honor and eminence and who has paid her by desertion in the hour of need the chronicle neutral las the fell postscript *. since the above a in lype we have learn ed by lhe ihagnelic telegraph that lhe last ray of hope forthe tariff of 42 . tinguisbed the fraud upon pennsylvania and the country at large ha l.'-en consummated ! and the hypocrisy and trickery oftbe demo cratic leaders iu the campaign of j i are folly exposed out noon such hypocrisy geance for such treachery — such ar the - ments and such wiil be the action of an . ted deceived an outraged people '• whr-n a man hath taken a new wife be shall not go out to war neither shall he be charged with any business bu he shall be free at home one year and hall cheer up bis wife which be hath taken — deuteronomy xxiv .">." thus we are enabled to understand why it is so many young gentlemen ar flying to the arms of tbe fair thev prefer such engagements and such arms u the arms oftb'-ir countrv and engagements with the mexicans well darby and the poor soldier is not alone in his opinion when he says — • t '- why the crow has so many enemies — as 1 was silting by my window a few daj i ago a crow alighted on an apple tree which stood six or eight rods irom me and stepping along to a small bii took up the gg one by ore and devour ed them i was not aware before this that the crow was accustomed to such de predations upon the property of its fellow citizens ofthe air : and 1 was h d to think that cruel habit is probably the reason why the crow is annoyed by so many smaller bird moral when you see a crow pursued and tormented by other birds remember that a • '■'<'> vxmld lie inpeact and friend slnji a ah others must respect their i — vermont chron