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these forts against the assaults of the enemy. From them scouting parties should have been sent out to explore the country, and to meet the scouts of the enemy. By these means, when you had learned the situation of their corn fields, cabins and villages, 1t would have been an easy matter to concentrate at one point force sufficient to strike decisive blow. All that was requisite, under such a system, would have been few men like the early " Hunters of Kentucky" commanded by a Clark, Logan, or Whitley, to termin- ate, by single campaign, this disgraceful war. Only contemplate single moment the numerous hordes of savages with which the early settlers of the West had to contend :; the destitute condition of those settlers, com pared with the means afforded the invaders of Florida contrast the results n0W and then, aud the conclusion Is inevitable that the Florida war is diSgr0ceful to the country The Army and its brave and talented officers have been sacrificed, without fault on their part. The blame is not theirs. It belongs 10 the blundering policy of the administra- ton.

 What does tt nee0n?-The Western Caroli- niGn, u Calhoun paper, published in Saisbu- ry, N. c. contains the following ominouS par agraph:

 "The Watchman of this town, formerly q Jackson Van Buren paper, has hois:ed the flag l of Mir. CLAY for the next Presidency. The editor wishes to know what will be our course, promising there will be but two candidates in the ficld-Mr. Van Buren and Mir. Clay The election is yet a long ways off; but be- tween the two men named we wish no con- cealment as to our choice. Were we compel led to choose between the two, we would pre- fer Mir. CLAY. But we think the editor of the Watchman has let off his steam prematurely.

 We hare no idea thdt Mr. VAN BUREN tciH eren be candidate Gt the nert election. He is power less. In a minority in both houses of Con- gress-his own great and powerful state, N. York, has renounced him in common with eV- cry other state in the Union, where formerly his party had the ascendant, so he cannot have the slightest hope of success. Then the contest must be between Mir. Clay, who seems to be now the hobby of every federal proclamation editor in the country, and some other man than MT. Van Buren. Who this other man may be, we are unable to say :and until we see issue fully made-until we see that Mir. Clay is the last resort against Mir. Van Buren, or some worse man, w. c. Rives or Daniel Webster, we arc against him." Is it MT. CALHoUN's game to drive MT. VAN BuREN off the course without giving him the chance of a second heat! Is it with this view that he. is agitating the slave question. and making up his various issues between the North and the South, to force himself into the field as the Southern candidate, to the SUD- planting of Mir. VAN BUREN? Does he pro- pose to play the same game between Mir. VAN BUREN and the South, that Mir. VAN BUREN played between General JACKSON and Mir. CALHOUN! N!--N. Y. Courier.

 Travelling by stage in Ohio year or two since, it so happened that yankee pedlar and son of" Old Kentuck" were my fel- low passengers. The latter inquired of the man of " notions" whether he had plenty of wooden nutmegs and pumpkin seeds on hand. To which query the Yankee. with character istic promptness, replied, that he had sold out but expected every day an abundant supply for, says he. we manufacture them ing thrown into machine, they immediate ly appear in the form of pumpkin seeds and nutmegs.

 l am reminded of this occurrence from be- ing informed that number ot office holders, and office seekers, attending meeting, short time since, at Fairfield, as "whole hog" Loco Focos, when, ecce signum!! they be- came suddenly transformed into Conserva- tives {! and appointed Delegates to attend the Conservative Convention to be holden at Hartford in February next.-Bridgeport Rep.

 Instructions.-Who has forgotten the fuss that was made in the '' By Authority" papers, three or four years ago, because two or three U. s: Senators did not obey or resign, in con- formity to the supposed will of those who elected them. We'll. how is it now' Dove sec any complaint in the Tory papers about MT. Grundy of Tennessee, who has held his seat two or three years, voting uniformly against the expressed will of the People of that State! None at all. What Tory pa. per finds fault with Morris and Allen of Ohio, for retaining their seats in the Senate, when the Wings have fifteen thousand ma. jority in that State? Who calls upon Tip. ton of Indiana to " obey or resign" when the Whig majority in that State falls but little short of twenty thousand? And where are the voices ofthose "pure patriots" who were vociferous for the resignation of Southard of New-Jersey, now that Senator Wall sees the hand writing on the wall at home?

 How does it happen that these Senators do not receive from the "patent democracy pa- pers." even hint. that they had better obey or resign !--Springfs1 Repub.

 WASHINGTON, Jan. 18th, 1898. An amusing discussion, brief and pointed, took place in the Senate Chamber yesterday. MT. Clay introduced an amendment to the Pre-emption Bill. based upon recommenda- tion in the Presidents Message, that the right of pre-emption should not be granted to set- tiers upon the unconveyed public lands after

 December, and that all who took possession without authority should be considered in- truders.

 Mir. Clay called upon the Administration Senators to support his amendment as a re.