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\ • \r'\ MEXICO INDEPENDENT, 3 banner of livi-doni down tbe Alississippi uuuei Fremont, always remember tbrtt' the eves 01 the world arc upon you, and tbit no victory is ^permanent, no peace is secure unless grounded upon the immutable principles of Justice. One word more, and 1 have done. If this, sword which 1 now present you is to be always drawn fa defence of Liberty atid iu viudieat-iuu of Human RightB, I .shall never cea^e to thank , God tb \t I wis permitted to place it in your j band? ; but may I never live io see tbat- hour j when it^ bright blade shall be tarnished by the ; breath of any pior, panting fugitive slave , driven btck by you.to the hell from which be ee;.ip*\3! Spire the women of tbe State of • Nev; York whose sons are in yeur noble regi* >' ment, the agony of believing that they have : forgotten their mission of Civilization—tbat tbey have forgotten Justice—that they have: •forpotten God ! Short Graves. j VVby do so many children die ? Why are our cemeteries filled with short graves? Why do more than half of the children boru never reach the age of-manhood? It is because G >d has not made man as wisely or as well as He mad ' the ox or the dug ? Who would think of raising t*tile or horses if five out of ^vtry ten died before being old enough to come to the yoke or h*rne>M? There nimt be some great mistake in lb\ original orgaii'zation of man. or else some ewrsgious errors iu the b.ibits and traiaiug of the ijutnan race There are several reasons foi these early deaths, for tuis want Of stunrna in the constitution. And let it be rer»a r k d tb »t FonT WASHING.nix, Md.. Oot.rl^JWil.^ M«HSH* HuuPHKr-KS & SC.VKRITT i^Any • newp from tie vietiuty >•< the > a 1 of war mn-i be of iuieres' to the iu »j >ri'y •>( your re.rVr*. . and-in vn w of this i«i-1 will y.. i in tk* in 'in for a few word* fiora this corner of the lartL? Fort Washington is on the Potomac river fourteen miles below Wa*hi, gt>n, and two nod a halt ahoife Mou;:t Vernon, Oa the Muyln.d s;d^ of the. river, bu* i'i the ta^rt of a.- cession neighborhood. Tfie soil in the vicini'y i- ver> poor.; Eoth ; ng but tobi-'co is C'iltiva*<-<i to any «extept.' The fi>i t is* tj li'.o larye, as'i'f 5> trnl-.t on a sde hill, so that it makes the be. t appe.ir.ini e wbe.n viewed from the front, and from thut di rection appears to h-u-e quite an implying height. The outwork in tront. in thp form \i a triangle, is what reira'iis of old Fort \Wh- ; ington as it was iu 1 Sly. and yearn before, vvbeu Washing'OH was here. Some of his pti'dir-h-'d t'tt-rs are dated tr^m this for*: 5'tit in bit- d-ty : it was merely a \water hittery.\ having tittle Or uo defens- on the land sidp. Ytttb«old- fort alone mo'ii>t-« ;i v > »'it 2'.\ heavy gun? u-.id if protect-d in the r>:ir a- it now io, co'd-f , eCtutilly put a st- p to ;vny attempt-o' filoHi! • fleet to asc-nd ihetivertn Wist.io\»tot.. ' The more recent \troot.i . r o ;ret>. Ht.oiit ,\.-i ^o'-' i OUly.30 of wheh are H je>-i! ; o:;'. WP c;>n racily throw s-' ot IT ?h>!l •» TOPS the r'ver, nnd do'not bi-'i'n'\ tod> so al'.r-ioj;h it ' is th^ ''t-'.cr'il «, [V'ai Virgil ia. wfi'cta the ha 1 ...- plbw up so savagely. Our \be!! f'-ll In B p tutu field, unit would probibly hive dug ?om • pot a* tops bqttfVat tbeoivn r thereo'lmd ilps-ad-y been exf i\rjei:C\d o-u-suir-ii. weif pretty . ticed.«i.i] i - I. s .,,<,n. It h ; s Mibj.-cts b.tve errei, be s n ould isgeii'ially known wha' bapp ns when yoir j ehast se t.'jna\vith reivfon's g\mle rod ; if tbey oar ( atch-n in i-b'e *»l\ t. aud y< u '•c.iicb a | |-a.ve r'-b. lit d acaini-t, bU authority, be sboubl crab'' We had. hardly reiched bon-; wli-n t!ie i call out the militia' forces of cor*stitution.«l o'her parly started off. anl from nil aeeouuts [ right and suppress the rebellion at .«>oce, and one d- ^ riptiou will iwswi-r\ for lx.ru \ trij.B. On resuming my duties as iffictr of the day (and by so doing relieving our turgeoa, wto bad kindly per-foinaed the Uuti-H .(.ppirtaininj thereto during my abs-enct?), I was excused irom hattalioa drill, anal lifter turning out' the guard 1 turned iii todiut.er, uhk-U-WttB sp :ed- riy turned Into m^. not issue pr<cldrr!at,ion&ft(r i-roclimat' a, »«d I end nt.lart by ts*uMis»hb\g _tlje f ict thut tbe ! bull frogs. m;ki-rs and alligators of Tond H*i- | bor (in bis extimathjti) rt re ail loyal citizens '; and true to the Union. . < Now, your Excellency, 1- wis-h to a<-k a favor •; from you, and trust yoa will grant i-f, that is, \ | if yoti,caa do it consistently, and withoit cr.m- f_ J ust after \Tattoo\ (^PJ p. M ) the sergeant of i-promising your official'dignity. I have receiv- i the guard reported a f u^p'e!0^« row boat in tbe ; ed a note from a noted biographer, in which he / fi-re'atn, aud V •« ;o omciodibK off,jei»\s orderly , culls upon rae t3 procure for him a kind rf a \ (Davi-). who knows-very nail in every plark .historic\! compendium of tbe lives of the Wins- : that fioaf son'be Potoniit, also reported a PU*- 1 triou\ m°n of the State of Amboy, a-'das-' piciouf crrtft The boat WHS La- led, but uo re- : \Solon\ entertain* a slight hope of hav'ng hia ply received and it lay p-rft-ctly quie'on the inam- handed down to posterity, be is very ;, water, out in th-.'stream. We thosmbt. though,; anxions to comply with the gentlem-n'sde- ' we caiid hear voices from it. and with the con *-ut -.ot' the cotamarding officer (Major J. A. Ha-kin) a boat's ctew «as selected froqQ the guard, aid Livut Norris volunteering to take charge of it, i.fl'they went. Th;t row boat went down the stream as it n-'ver traveled 1-efore, and iery mu^h disappointed w^ere the men to rim! i.-u reichinac the k>at tbat there was ••iioihnj„' in it. ' They brought it back with them, and nlm'p' all the'-staff\ and \line\ in the fort were on the wharf to receive it. A eood c.ooki:.g 'me was soon produced from its'in >fev mand. \Gov.\ we have a few traditionary '; relics of your noble acts ; but you know we ' Protestants lay avid\ all tradition, and re<k,' only for historiBaffacts; therefore, give us a ;- brief cata-ogue of your achievements in your ) onward journey, which has terminated in j placing you in your present high position,— \ Your great speech, made at Coon-hunt, in ( which you indulged in your overflowing En>> lish, is already at band. The expedition which i you formed against her Majesty's dominion, in f the autumn of 1860, with a division of Cona- • or. which tbo surgeon immediately appro- j mtndant Scriber\? infautry, is fresh in the • printed £'.r hospital purposes, and it, was fit?-1 memory of all, and you would have been too ; eestti that it »w at ouce.tak«n up into the j willing to assume the command of tbe expedi- £ fort tut f-ir the owner minbt claim it. Th it is not among the poor and Igacrant. tb- hard ' there on tbe TO ,„e err*- d : aeoti.er encounter working aud plate living class..vhere we fl ud , log «n ,ld w.eck n, nscourse laded to H~ P , the* greatest infantile mortdiity. It is with ' and accordingly went through, irid has not those who are well boused and bave a plenty of food and rat meat and culture. True, among the poor there are in\uy deaths from conta- gions diseases, and oaca?lonally an in«t ince ot wasting decay ; but the ragged, barefooted, and plainly ft*d laborer's child is more ofi^n ruddy, frolickitijg. hearty and healthy than tbe well eared for child oi tbe opulent. No doubt, extra warm rooms, and too little out of door exercise send raa-ey a child to tbe gravt>. Can dies, rich fo'id\. irritating condiment*, aud .tuts everlaning nibbling oetwt-eo meal*, of caket. and delicacies, tend to impair the young stom- ach and debilitate tbe nervous system a-sd produce early death ; but we believe tbe prime destroyer of children to-day i« tobacco, fl inked on either hand bv its coadjatitorg, tea aud coffee, and in many instances supplement-d with that Bcourge ot scourges, alcob'dic drinkw Boys t»moke and chew tobacio. They (hi nk it manly and smart. Thus, in tbe year* ol growth, they shatter their n* rvou* systi m, de range thpird'tBeftiveand circul >ory f appar.i tus fisop been heard fnm. It probably went on a '•bender.\ ChestDDt* are plentiful on the oth'-r s'de. and it i* coosid red a ' lo^ ib'na;\' »-o go ov».r in nenrch of the shot nod shell, which m iy he mad - to^e.rve agjiin and by so do'op., conduce to the benefit of Uuncle Fat!'j n 'V p cket The «xeur- sions of the mo'-th ho v.v-•-••, aw i.ff lo-daj The government s'e»rn- r \Hugh J ukins'' was run into Ly the \Robert L abie^'a government tug. and sunk. £he went dr,wn directly op- penite- Mount T'inon. apd thi-^ morning w*» \fi ached the s'j'j.ct of going dew.n tb re to see the damage done, a'so what of interest %vas to be seen at the mai.s-ou. |)t coarse all vol : epistles.—Ens. Isn] , uatet red to go, at.d it wa« sfcnu awaa^ed that ' —«.«- „ a half shonld go in th» morrling^and ancher WEST AMBOY. 0:t. 24, 1861. : trip should be made in'he af\y_nuk«-. The p-ir. ' ME*-ns. IIintnutiKrf k HCARKITT :—\Gov's\ ties were made up. ours coisi-tit.g of four of isst rrficiul dticnnaetit reitebed- thi-> plate <* the , flc«r-' an'l a rowing party of fo.ir nt'-n and a ' 17tb itist., and was very patriotically received skipper, and WP imrccdiately start d on our l,y our \rank defiant, b'a*k'hearted traitors,\ ittij. Limts. Baillet, McConne'l, 3Sorr> aud ; who have so long \floundered tion h-rd you not been incapaeitat ed aud \< relieved by Lieut, Edick, for we all have en-; tire confidence in jonr -pluck. Please grant my r request, for you know that \lives of great men j. remlud m we should learft and live sublime ; ; for departing leaves behiajd us foot-prints in the '/ pand's-of timp ; foot-j?rint<* that perhapsanoth*r, f andni'hthe exception of heavy Briug down 1 sailing o'er life's solemn' main, a forlorn ana ^ the stream at U A. .«., uuthiug Doit-worthy oc- ehip-wr.cked brother, se-ing. may tjke heart ^ enrred There has-been foqie vrry heavy firing J again.\ I suppose tbat the biographer's in-en- f this morning since I came iff giurd. but too tions are, to complete tbe works of Plutarch, i far dort n for u« to see tbe -smoke, or to judge i and to «orm in one grand volume the lives of ' boat's ciew wei' returned to tbe guard, and in half an hour nothing wa« heard in tbegani^on but the meaMired steps of tbe sentinels on tb • wa'''J<, which were \trang-Iy di-ttnet iu the dead stillness of the night. OCT 19—The night parsed quietly away accurately of the Vicinity in which it oc^«is. Your truly. WM. L. HASEW, 1st Lieut., U.S. A. [We shall be p!eas«d to bejir from you fre- quently, but your let (.ere, to in^llre insertion, mu*t be o:«ly about b ill' as long as the one above. We em't afford apace for lengthy in the wake of range ui^irutKefnv«-.uuu v<t^u.. u.j *»£.{,»... »„.. mjseit, each armed with a sword uud r< volver, Jeff Davio, and wersbiped at the shrino of and fail to develop into that brawny, robust } and each of them' -n with his mu«ket. I cannot' Beaurega'd.\ ''Gov''ha a uadoubtidly gained manhood which nature intended in their or-speak positively as to tbe number of pocket a signal victory over tbe'oringinij minions\ of ganization. They b -com • pale, sallow lank in ; pistole. We made fs.irne finei fiict\ at the wild f r> bellirn,, and reared himself a mighty, lofty cheek, lank in abdomen, weak.in ba;k, aud ; ducks, on onr way down, but did Dot briug pyramid of royalty, around whos? summit tbe weak in the head, fretful, fldgety, nervous, aud down any. although tbey all acted as If some- genius of his ofRoial dignity wiiniDger'in per- not more thin half developed. Many boys of j thing was the matter. j petual renown, and at whose base all inferior seventeen, when we advise them not to sm-ke. W-« found the \Hugh Jerkins\ in a very ubjects and honors must moulder intodnst, and tell- us they cannot possibly leave off smoking. | bad plight. Four feet of ber bow was cutaway, . ->Solon\ bim«elf be ina<le exclaim, that he is in They mast either smoke of cbew ; and they or knocked off. or at any rate not there to tell I reality the Alpha and the Omega of political rt veal to us the amount of their indulgences , the tale; she was sunk so low aa.'he could go, j revelation—the beginning and .the end of hn- in this respect, which is r-aHy alarming,' ! but fortunately in shallow water. Hr captain , man excellence—tbe urn in which is deposited Ten or twelve cigars a day is nothing un- j reported tbat the blockade below was really be ; the lost remains of that noble spirit whtch ani- ndeed. every day suf- ginning to amount to something ; that the • runted our fathers in the struggle of American rebels have a battery at a point where the river., Independence, and in the two successive con- common ; &i amount, indeed, every ficient to kill three men ^.were^t prevt • -^ -^ more - tban a mUe wide , and w >lcta Inched glorious and unsullied victory ?e!= of any. de-criptioo now rati grtat risk iu. ; on tbe sacred bauner of their undegenerate off' pas>ing, ttniesi the night is very dark; that; spring. « • „ -„ K f „„A u ,» iiaa 25&an or more ran through last night, and ! \Gov\ admlta tbat the State of Amboy is five to fifty pounds .nwetght and are lean,.. J • ^ ^^^ Pawne ; fts pbp ' j, the grea tes t place tbis side of \tbe Di 8mai scrawny, nervous, half built wrecks, lney __ ^ ^ ^ ^^ f ^ ^ ^ ^^ aA Cmom ^ ., and] woaW &fkM fbe name of the We received : Swarrp these statements with some degree of confi deuce in them, as we, at Fort Washington. 'Gov's\ bull-froge, snakes, alligators, and all the contemptible creatures which Inbftbit-that ously accustomed to the vile wetd. boys do not attain to th-ir normal growth by an inch and a half in height, and from treaty* and are lean,! wrecks. Tney' marry the daughters, perhaps, of men of eimi- j lar habits, and ih^e daughter\ housed up in i ladyhood without exercise ^«f^ ed to ; ^ ^ fiHDg down the rive , on the D \ ight ; d ^ mal loca i ity , (To ad Harbor), how could it strong coffee and tea, a e abont as nervous ^ J ^ ^^ tban a ^ Bme< w „ h mch a and nearly as m».cb debilitated a« their tobacco q • ^ ^ iatmA it8 ftffairB . witbsucA smoking bridegrooms Tbey *^*™\£ tt J i t Bmce . lvMatltet we made as.we a ^0^1 and political luminary filling the I°Tu ?« 'f from f 9 ch pareDt - 8 CaD , lauded; each \armed a,.d equipped, as the law Gubernatorial chair, and steering the ship of healthy children be expected? .'directs/'and all evidently careless as to per-'-State ovet the troubled waters of our prtoent Itis ?1 d hattVFeee canu.bals have J>«\ ; ^ ' ce# Aq we ^ up u,* path to ; adversity towards the Elysian fields of undi- come w»er than to fall totrao users for^the ^app a ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^.^^ ^ ^ the fa5r cfeembim8 of for if any of the rebels wt re a? out, they could Union chant unceasingly soul stirring melodies now have the best of opportunities for playing in honor to his Excellency's name ? their liivorite game of masked batteries. The \Gov'* thinks that \Solon\ mnst bean old set- woods and underbrush were quite dense, and t j er j a t be Toad Haibor region ; but that is not the prospect of a winter in Richmond or 1 8 5, All the information that Solon has in rela Charleston was not of th» pieasantest descrip tion. We met with no mi»h.ip, however, nor purpose of food; for they find it impossible to eat them, so saturated have they become with the poisonous drug! If a cannibal will not - -eat a tobacco user, is it not fair to suppose that children will inherit the nervous condition and the deMlitat* d state of a p irent so saturated ? MawsTa lnoiber nur«s her child after having draaJkifwo or three cups of strong coffee, and , that child from its birth is, to speak bluotly,! witn anything like an adventure, but made the drank^on coffee till, from enlargement of the ! best of our way to the u nib. brain, or brain fever it is hurried off to a tiny grave. Tbe use of tobacco produces, on nearly all who use it, more or lewdisease of throat. Who shall say that, the prevailing epidemic dip- htheria, was not born of tobacco ? Our young men must quit tobacco- or the race will be ruined.— Phrenological Journal. tion to the \ports bays and canons oi that God forsaken place,\ was first obtained from a volume entitled \Gardner'* Delineation of the On tbe lid of the j Crocodile Region,\ end he has also taken a few sarcophagus,, which is plainly visible, through; graduating lesson* from the father of alligators the .barred door,, is the one simple word— • h j m8e i{. WASHINGTON. On proceeding up to the mansion, we found ovet \Gov\ thinks that a mighty change has come Solon\ ot late, and he cannot, account the «uperintenden'- Mr- Herbert—and under for it. Well,\Gov isthis: \Solon his guidance made the tour of the grounds.— ; though possessing but -very little poetical lie stated that since the wor there has been I genius, is not quita a fool, and therefore is less trespassing on, and damage done to, the I subject to minor ohange, and one which has ground* than durintr any period before, and 'overcome \Solon\is this : He tbinks\they are that but one case had occurred within the last \ not all Israelites who are of Israel,\ neither are £#-Tbeohl\Rt piinting in the world is a Madonna and Cb Id, painted A. D. 886. The,. .,.._, , . ..«„«»„„» oldestinEo^hndaresaidto be the portraits | York ?7-h tore down a grape vine. Soldiers proftssion of loyalty ; an3 I think U-ov not Madonna and-Ob-ld, painted A. D. §86. The \ three months ; then two soldiersfrom the New | they the truest patriots who rnake ttogwatfst the\ illustrious men- of every—Gov. Nincom I pooop. '* SOEON. \ — [The controversy in our paper, between -j \Gov\ and \Solon\ respecting traitors, al.H&M gators, en codiles, bull-frogs, and oiber freauti- j ful and fascinating reptilep, must tsrminate with the above communication. Though the; discussion has been one of vast interest and,', profit to oar readers in general, and our Am- boy fiends in particular, we think tbey have • had almost enough of it, and tbat to sllow it to be continued ia «nr columns wonifl 1 an--r swer no good purpose. If, however, at some j future day, we shonld like the discussion re-jf snmed, we will apprise our correspordents df^ the fact.—EDS. IND.] ^ ] DDTCH-Hoj/, Oct. 21.1861. I, MESSRS. HuMraitilfe & ECABRITT ;—The rainy,' weather of late has been rather unfavorable for ?j securing crops, yet many hare finished, except,: harvesting corn, of which quite a quantity jet *\ remains in the fields. Potatoes are rather light.'' Buckwheat, of which quite a quantity is raised • here, is tolerable; corn is about an averaged j crop. . I have noticed that in many farts of this f county, correspondents are stating what \big { things\ they raise in the line of Tegettble*. f Now, because I have been giving accounts of | political discussions. I do not wish it to be un- derstood that we raise nothing else; far from it. Wo believe, on the contrary, that if our Hill is not classed with such as Bunker's, Breed's, &c, that It is entitled to the appella- tion of \some pumpkins\ at least, as any one V may see by calling at Wm. Deniae's of this '. place, and see the prolific growth of that vege- j, table. Prom a single seed there are three j vines, each measuring respectively 35. 24, and j- 22 feet in, length, and bearing 17 pumpkins ; that average 14 inches in diameter, and of a i quality suitable for culinary purposes; also > one that is 7 inches in diameter,- of an infe. iot I quality. Despite the hard times, our trustee has em* ployed Wallace Barnes, of Mexico, who taught here with much success last winter, to teach our school the coining term, • Thf-re is an item going the ronhds here that ', may be of interest to some, and a warning to-]. others, that I think worthy of note. A young ' gentleman bad long paid his addresses to a ! lady, and during that time managed to borrow i of her $50. After vainly pleading his case a i long time, he left her in no pleasant mood» A When the money came due, she respectfully asked him ^f° r • *'• b^* ne f? ave excuses, until flnally» fts a last resort, she asked him for it when in company, to which he meekly replied, that 'as he had spent that amount in carrying ber around, he did not think he ought to pay it, and Would noW^ B * tL - ^s»*Good actions, though they dimtaten our time here as well as bad actions, yet they lay up for us a happiness ia eternity; and will rec- ompense what tbey take away by a plenfial return at last. - ~~* vi_>#;*.^rJ^nsK l *j !S*rW!IHHB\HW^^B ?.-,„ -„--_ :~r-Z~ i...
