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June 15th, 1845. Georgia six percent. State
Bonds being hy pothecated as security for said
loans. The money thus borrowed from the
Bank of Charleston was used for the current
disbursements of 1845. At the close of 1845
the only valuable means left in the hands of the
Engineer were Railroad Bonds amounting to
$130,000, authorized by the act of December,
1845. Some difficulty was experienced in
converting these bonds into cash, and this could
not have been done, at that time, on the terms
prescribed by the Legislature if the negotiation
had not been combined with the purchase of
the iron. Some time during the summer of
1846 an arrangement was effected with the
South Carolina Railroad Bank by which they
came under an obligation to sell SIOO,OOO of
these railroad bonds at par, and, as a part of
the contract, the iron then to be purchased was
to be imported through Charleston. By this
means alone could the intentions of the Legis
lature of 1845 be carried out and the railroad
completed to Dalton.
There are now remaining in the hands of the
Chief-Engineer, $28,500 of these bonds unsold,
though arrangements have been made for the
sale of $7,000 of that amount. Twenty thou
sand dollars will cover the present indebtedness
of the road for expenditures chargeable to its
construction, which is an offset against the
$28..500 of bonds on hand.
Os the loans supported by an hypothecation
of bonds, reported at the last session of the Leg
islature, those to the Bank of Charleston and
the Bank of Hamburg have been paid off, and
a portion of those to the Mechanics’ Bank, and
George M . Newton. The debts of this nature
now in existence are as follows.
Due to the State, Planters’ and Insurance
Banks of Savannahs7s,ooo 00
Due the State, Augusta and Mechanics’
Banks of Augusta 80,000 00
Due to Ker Boyce 20,000 00
“ “ Isaac Henry 5,000 00
“ George M. Newton 3,500 00
Total 00
As security for each of these debts there is a
like amount of Georgia 6 per cent. State bonds
deposited.
With the surplus amount of bonds released
by the payments to the Banks of Charleston
and of Hamburg, together with a portion of
accumulated interest, $37,638.52 were paid to
the Georgia Railroad Bank. This was in part
payment of a debt due to them for certain loans
and for transportation of iron, mentioned in the
report of October, 1845. There is still a ba
lance due to that Bank, which is included in the
$26,000 of indebtedness above mentioned.
The usual tables accompany this report, and
will explain themselves. It is gratifying to
compare the results of this second year of the
operations of the road with those of the first
year. The net profits of the road have been
used for its extension, as directed by law, as
fast as they accumulated. AH money used in
this way is dravVn from the Treasurer by a re
gular warrant from the Chief-Engineer, and
then disbursed by him: the Engineer’s account
current will show the sums thus expended.—
The interest on the bonds issued under the act
of 1845, paid by the Treasurer, also comes out
of the profits of the road.
Great care has been taken to keep up the re
pairs, so as to ensure die thorough efficiency,
as well as permanent preservation of the work.
The road and its appendages are in excellent
condition—and its business highly prosperous,
giving every assurance of increased profits.
All of which are respectfully submitted.
CHAS. F. M. GARNETT,
Chief- Engineer.
From the New Orleans Picayune, \)th Inst.
Dnter front Vera Cruz*
The steamship Galveston, Capt. Haviland,
arrived here on Sunday evening, from Vera
Cruz, having sailed thence on Wednesday,
the 3d inst
Assassinations, which were rather common
in the city of Mexico when our army first enter
ed it, are now becoming very rare—the Mexi
cans having become acquainted with a certain
domestic utensil, called a bowie-knife, in much
vogue with our soldiers.
Hundreds of indigent Mexican women are
in the employ of the American authorities, in
the custom-house and elsewhere.
Cap Is. Heady, C. M. Clay and G. W. Smith.
(A. Q. M.,) and Lieuts. W. F Barbour, T. J.
Churchill and Geo. W. Davidson, and several
of their men—Encarnacion prisoners—arrived
in the city of Mexico about the last of Septem
ber, from Toluca, in good health Among
them were Sergt. White. Privates Seabongh,
Crawford, Waterbury and Paul Williams.
Earthquake. — On Saturday, 2d October, the
shock oi a severe earthquake was felt in the
city of Mexico, lasting two minutes and four
seconds. Beds were rocked like hammocks in
a ship at sea, open doors were slammed to and
fro, and it was with difficulty any person could
keep their feet. The people ran into the streets,
and all kneeled with clasped hands and upturn
ed faces. It is described by the editor of the
North American as a most thrilling and sublime
sight. This was the severest shock which has
been felt in Mexico since the great one in I"14,
which threw down houses and made the earth
crack. I various parts of the city, says the
North A., Mean, the shock of the 2d ultimo
left strong races of its power. 'The fomrain
in the Grand Plaza was so moved that the wa
ter was thrown out of the reservoir in large
quantities; houses were cracked and standing
water ran several yards. It is difficult to de
scribe the sensation, felt for the first time, du
ring the shock of an earthquake. Almost
every one in the city became sick at the sto
mach. and experienced a dizziness equal to the
severest vertigo ; and, added to this unpleasant
feeling, was an almost utter prostration of the
system, which rendered them in a measure
helpless had any great exertion been necessary.
The Foreign .Ministers had not, up to the
19th inst., left the city of Mexico, in pursuit of
the plantom fleeting Government of Mexico.
It is said that they intend doing so in a few days.
We suppose they are only waiting for steam,
seeing that some similar propelling force is es
sential to a successful chase
The notorious Gen. Rea of Puebla renown,
is on his way to Queretaro, with 1000 men.
It is rumored in the Capital, that Mazatlan
had been taken by our fleet. No doubt it has,
because it is a natural consequence of things.
There is, it is said, a small peace party in the
interior, from which something might yet be
hoped to emanate, favorable to the settlement
of the present difficulties. The parly had bet
ter be quick in its movements. “ The hour
cometh w hen none can work.”
Independent Stale.—The following is an im
portant fact in the present aspect of Mexican
affairs. We take it from the Genius of Liber
ty :
A decree has lately passed the Legislature of
Michoacan, whereby that State has declared it
self an independent and sovereign power, no
longer subject to the laws of the general go
vernment. To this act it says it has been forced
by the disorganized condition of the Mexican
confederacy, and by the impulse of self-preser
vation. This step on the part of Michoacan has
excited the greatest apprehension among adjoin
ing States; so much so, that the governor of
Guanajuato, on the receipt of the intelligence,
w ent immediately to Queretaro. to consult the
governor of that state, as to the speedy dwvise
mentand adoption of measures best calculated
to counteract the disastrous results with w hich
the republic was threatened by this proceeding
of M ichoacan. Both these officers met in the
house or the coininandaut general, and agreed
upon soliciting the integral president to organ
ize forthwith a general government, to which
the president assented. Circulars were then
forwarded to the several States of the Union,
acquainting them with this important event.
It is said that almost ail the departments have
notified the general goeermnent that it is their
intention and determination to support and de
fend it to the last.
El Razonador and La Razon are the names
of two very able Mexican papers which are
tilled with statements and arguments strongly
squinting towards the necessity and expedience
oi the I tilted States occupying the republic of
Mexico.
The North American publishes the follow
ing order oi the new Administration, depri
vmg Santa Anna of the command of the armv.
in order to lake his trial for his successive de
feats:
Offick of Home and Foreign Relations, )
S. W. Deportment. Toluca, Oct. 7, 1847. $
/’.j’txn/ S: r -H»s Excellency the Senor Provi
sional President of the Republic,' feeling profoundly
his dunes to his country, convinced ot the necessity
of establishing io the nation public morality, and of
giving more energy to the discipline ot the annv, al
most extinguished by our civil drasensioae—desiring,
moreover, to manifest to the people of the city ot .Mex
ico and other points now in the enetnj's possession,
that their lot is not indifferent to his Excellency
considering, in fine, that m every country well organ
ised the generals .•! an army answer before a tribu
nal t>r the faults which they have committed, and
even tor the misfortunes which mav have befallen
their campaigns— has res. Iwd that your Excellence
deliver up the chief cciuuiandol the annv to h s Excel
lency the generalot'division, Itou Mamu 1 Rincon. and,
until his chief may present himself to leceive it. tem
porarily to bis Excellency Sr. Genera! IX>« Juan Al
vares.
The Prvs'dent vrders that your Excellency establish I
headquarters wherever you may see fit, m agreement |
with the Supreme Government,* and there await, un- I
der the guarantee of its word of honor, the orders you I
may receive regarding the formation ot a council of
wm. who max judge your Excellency for the loss
the actons which your Excellency, as cotnuiander-in
cliivfm the present war. has directed, and particular
ly for the loss o* the capital of the Republic.
H > Excellency lhe President believes that it is due
to your own hen, r that by a council ot*war vour mili
tary conduct should be cleared st" all blame, and he I
entertains the hope that the rasuh will be favorable
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MONDAY MORNING, NOV’R. 15, 1847.
Western Boundary of Texas.
Franre, under whom we claimed, always acknow
ledged the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas. —
Spain under whmn alone Mexico claimed, alwaysac
knowledged the I >wer Rio Grande as the boundary of
Texas. Jefferson, Madison. Monroe, /Xdamsand Clay,
always affirmed the Rio Grande to be most clearly
the boundary of Texas. Texas so claimed always,
and exercised military power, granted and surveyed
lands, organized counties there, served process, re
ceived votes and exercised civil and criminal jurisdic
tion there. Great Britain formally acknowledged the
Rio Grande in IS4I as the boundary of Texas. Our
Congress, by an u,; aniinous vote, also recognised it
in December, 1845, and carried our laws and sent our
custom-house officers there.
The above paragraph from the Washington
Union, seems to be copied by the Democratic
organs throughout the country with as much
approbation as if it were strictly true, when in
fact, so far as it pretends to define the bounda
ry of Texas, except as set up by herself, there is
not one word of truth in the entire paragraph.
The facts are these :
France claimed to the Rio Grande as her
Western boundary—not as the Western boun
dary of Texas—Spain claimed to the Sabine,
without any reference to the boundary of Tex
as—Messrs. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Adams and Ci.av. always affirmed prior to the
treaty with Spain, that the Rio Grande was the
boundary line between the United States and
Mexico, but subsequently our claim was set
tled by a treaty with Spain, by which the Sa
bine river was defined to be the boundary.—
Texas never had any claim to the country be
tween lhe Nueces and Rio Grande rivers, un
less the declaratian ofher Congress constituted
a claim—she certainly never exercised any of
the functions of a government over the territory
or people. The country was in the quiet pos
session of the Mexicans until they were driven
off by Gen. Taylor’s army.
Ireland.
The British government has been compelled
to expend over ten millions of pounds, or not
far from sixty millions of dollars, within the last
twelvemonth, for the relief of the destitute in
Ireland. From lhe tenor of the latest news it
is but too apparent that great distress is begin
ning to prevail over large districts, calling for
the assistance of public as well as private
charity. The standing complaint of a lack of
employment, and consequently lack of bread,
followed by cruel hunger, pestilence and death,
comes up from all quarters of that most unhap
py country. When or where this national dis
tress is to end no one is bold enough to predict.
The Evil springs from so deep a fountain, so
pervades the whole organization of Irish so
ciety and national character, that a preventive
seems almost beyond the reach of the wisest
government. Palliatives alone have hitherto
been employed in treating the dreadful malady.
Will Parliamentcontinne to advance millions
on millions of money to feed a nation of idle
paupers, and save them from general starva
tion ? Must it not, sooner or later, provide
employment for ail who are able to work, and
say to them “you must produce a fair equiva
lent for your necessary food and clothing, or
starve ?” In countries where the people have
no land of their own to cultivate, is it not the
duty of Government to see that they have a
chance to convert their honest toil into bread,
without such exactions on the part of landlords
as practically rob productive industry of its
hope of reward ? The wise man said: “The
hope of reward sweetens labor.” An Irish
peasant has little or none of this “ sweetening”
to stimulate his industry. Hence, there are
hundreds of thousands of idle peasants, and
an equal number of acres of uncultivated land
which might yield an abundance for all that
lack.
Parliament will be compelled to direct the
culture and control the rental of Irish soil.
Tht latter must support the Irish nation. No
nation can long be fed by charity. It begets
idleness and improvidence, and in the end only
aggrava’es the evil. Ireland contains more than
two millions of paupers, and an equal number
who live from hand to mouth on short allow
ance, by reason of a waul of remunerating
employment. At no lime within lhe last year
has good corn meal been worth over four cents
a pound in the interior towns of that island.
Hence, when famine was the worst, a poor
man who could command three dollars a week
for his labor, he boarding himself, could pur
chase with the money seventy-five pounds of
meal. This, as every reader knows, would
keep starvation out of the peasant's cottage for
seven days. But, alas’ no man would give
him $3 for six day’s service. Denied employ
ment, it was all the same to him and his starving
children whether corn was four cents or one
cent, a pound. They could only subsist by
charity.
There is nothing better than charity, in its
place; whilst nothing is more preposterous
than to attempt to support, year after year, a
population of several millions by the voluntary
or forced contributions of other nations. The
physical and intellectual power of Ireland must
be so developed and employed as to sustain its
inhabitants.
Cotton Tkaiu. —The New York Shipping
and Commercial List says: Having been re
quested by an • Old Subscriber’ to furnish a
statement of the net proceeds of cotton sold in
Liverpool, we have been at no little pains in
compiling tlie following, which we trust will
be found sufficiently accurate f# all practical
purposes.
Statement* showing the net proceeds to the seller in
the I uilcd States, alter paying all ordinary and
necessary expenses, of Upland Cotton, founded on
actual sales in Liverpool, ami on a computation of a
half-penny sterling per pound freights, and nine
per cent, premium on the exchange —insurance at
peace rates ;
3 pence nets cts. 4| S pence nets* ••cts. 13|
Si “ “ 5| Si “ “ 14|
4 “ “ bf 9 “ “ 15
4i “ “ 71 “ 15i
5 « “ 8 10 “ “ 16f
5j “ “ St 10i “ “ 17j
6 “ “ 11 “ “ IS|
fi| “ “ 10j Hi “ “ I9j
7 “ “ llj 12 “ “ 20|
7 * “ “ 14 14 “ L 211
Later from Brazil*
The barque Isabel, Captain Bright, at New
York from Rio de Janeiro, brings dates to the
20th of Sept. The Herald says:
The christening of the young Empress took
place on the 7th; Mr. Tod and family were
present.
The following extracts are from the Em
peror’s speech:
In endeavoring to cultivate and strengthen
even further the feelings of good understand
ing and friendship that exist between the em
pire and other nations, i am gratified in inform
ingyou that no occurrence has transpired that
may tend to shake them.
A new representative of the United States
has been accredited to my Court, and his con
duct. as it is conciliatory. making me throw in
to oblivion that ot Ins predecessor, has remov
ed any apprehension of a misunderstanding,
and. I trust, will contribute to the end that the
relations between the two governments will
continue on a footing of that perfect harmony
on w Inch they formerly rested.
The disputes between the Republics of the
River Plate, the effects of which 1 for so long a
time deplored, unfortunately have not been
brought to a definite term.
At a fancy ball on ’.he 13th. which the Em
peror and Empress attended, the former danced
with Mis. Tod. and Mr- Tod with the Empress,
receiving from all the most marked attention.
The Joseph Maxwell, whaler, detained for
some tune, has been released, and the Yeoman
will also be m a few days. A specified time, it
is said, is to be allow ed. that notice can be given
in all the ports that whalers will not be allowed
to refresh at any except the regular ports of
entry, without being liable to seizure.
I have the fullest confidence that Mr. Tod
will be able to settle all the old claims and sub
jects of complaint in the most satisfactory man
ner.
The following is translated from the Journal
de Co " 12. 1847:
The commander and officers of the Ameri
can hne-uf-battle ship Ohio, desirous of taking
a part in the demonstrations of public rejoicings
on the occasion of the baptism of the most se
rene Princess Ba Leopoldia. yesterday illumi
nated their magnificent ship.
Hundreds oflamps. sy metrically and elegant
ly located on the batteries, rail, bowsprit,
boomsand yards of that model of naval archi
tecture. presented i beautiful sight.
This act. so purely deiicate and attentive to
the Imperial family, as well as to .he (Brazilians
in general, is further evidence that the relations
of friendship and good feeling that have so long
existed between the Empire and the United I
Su te«. coiid not be broken asunder, in co rise- I
que nee of the conduct of aome hastv functiona
ries. "
’ •** 1 «bip Washington will depart from
’ ' ' crK °u i t r next vovage to Southamp
ton anc< Bremen on the l>ffi msk
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMER WASHINGTON.
FURTHER EXTRACTS.
Gloomy* lntclligence>-The Pressure In
creasing-More Failures-- Famine in
Ireland--The Cotton and Grain Mar
kets, &c. &c*
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The steamer Washington came into N. York
Wednesday, in gallant style, after a passage
of about sixteen days from Europe, with five
days later news than received by the Caledonia.
We received last night the following telegra
phic despatch from our correspondent, giving
a synopsis of the commercial intelligence.
A deputation of the principal London bank
ers, headed by Mr. Masterman.hadlan interview
with Lord John Russell on the 23d.
Sir Robert Peel had a conference with Min
isters on the same day, after which he went to
Windsor Castle.
The impression seems to be universal that
the Government will not interfere to aid the
mercantile interest, and the general opinion
seems to be that Government ought not to in
terfere.
The accounts from Ireland are more and
more gloomy. There has been another victim
to assassination —a Mr. Lucas. Bands of plun
derers range the country, sometimes attacking
the police and the military.
Wilnier.’sTimes ofthe24thsays:—All clamor
about the potato disease appears to have subsi
ded for the present. In Liverpool our corn
market yesterday for the better qualities of
wheat and flour was steady, whilst the inferior
descriptions slightly receded from our last quo
tations.
The reconciliation ofthe King and Queen of
Spain is authenticated. It was effected by the
Pope’s Nuneio.
Respecting monetary and commercial affairs
the Louden Observer of October 24, (Sunday)
says—
The week hasbeen one of unabated pressure
in the money market. In Liverpool, Manches
ter and other places it has indeed been more
severe than before. Consols have been as low
as for money, and the fall in railway shares
has been correspondingly great. Several oth
er houses, both in London and in Lancashire,
have been compelled to stop payment.
Two banks in Liverpool, one in Manchester,
and another in Newcastle, have declared them
selves unable to meet their engagements, and
rumors have been in circulation of a prejudicial
character in reference to others. As the banks,
with one exception, were joint-stock compa
nies. the creditors will eventually lose nothing,
though in lhe meantime their stoppage must
cause great inconvenience.
A deputation from the merchants and bank
ers of Liverpool waited on Lord John Russell
on Tuesday, to represent to his lordship the
extreme pressure prevailing in Lancashire, in
consequence ofthe impossibility of obtaining
discounts, and to urge upon his attention the
frightful ruin to all classes of traders which must
result, should government not take some imme
diate steps to restore confidence by assisting the
mercantile community.
The noble lord received the deputation with
great courtesy, and listened to their represen
tations and suggestions with much attention,
but distinctly stated that he could hold out no
hope of Ministerial assistance to them.
’Lhe Bank returns, published on Friday night,
give the amount of bullion in its coffers at £B,-
430.000, being an increase of about £22,000
'Che returns altogether exhibit evidence, not to
be mistaken, of the extent to which the Bank
has been discounting bills to the mercantile
community during the week ending on lhe 16th
instant.
Erom Winner <|« Smith's hie er pool 'l'imes, Oct. 23.
Commercial Matters*
In our last we announced the failure ofthe
Royal Bank of Liverpool, and the ineffectual
application of a deputation sent to London for
the purpose of obtaining assistance to enable
the institution to go on. When the intelligence
reached Liverpool ofthe refusal ofthe Bank of
England to interfere, great consternation en
sued. Mr. Littledale, the head ofthe firm of
brokers bearing his name, repaired immediately
to London with a view to alter the determination
ofthe Bank of England.
As regarded his own affairs he partially suc
ceeded. We believe that £250,000 in stock,
were advanced to him, and this arrangement
seemed to stay extensive mischief in the town.
—Several failures have, however, taken place.
A highly respectable house, connected with
Antigua and lhe West Indies, stopped payment,
as also Berry. Young &- Co , cotton brokers.
Livingston & Co., extensive East India mer
chants; and we learn from London that the ac
ceptances of Barton. Irian A Higginson, pay
able in London.have been refused payment by
Roberts. Curtis A Co., with the reply of “no
orders.”
'Fiiis morning the suspension ofthe firm be
came a matter of public notoriety, and it is
stated that the liabilities are not less than one
million sterling. 'Phis is by far the most exten
sive failure we have had in our town, and we
greatly apprehend that the mischief it will ac
casion will be most extensive.
Whilst we record these mercantile failures,
we have also lhe painful task of reporting that
the Banking establishments in some parts of the
country are now affected.
The Liverpool Banking Company followed
the fate ofthe Royal Bank, and virtually sus
pended cash payments. Its business was very
much smaller than the Royal Bank. The Man
chester Bank, Scholes A Co., a small cencern,
ha> alsostopped. The Newcastle Union Joint
Stock Bank has also closed theirdoors.
'Phis company had a paid up capital of £152,-
100. and. being a bank of issue, their notes in
circulation amount to £75.000. The stoppage
will occasion much inconvenience in the min
ing districts, with which the bank was con
nected.
Correspondence of the London Times.
Liverpool. Oct. 21.—We can to-day report
to you no amendment in tht? state of affairs,
The aspect of lhe money market and commer
cial ufl’airs is frightful.
From the Mercantile. Journal, Oct. 23.
We have only space to day to direct the at
tention of our readers to the opinions ofthe se
veral morning papers, which we have quoted
elsewhere, on the course pursued by the Go
vernment in lhe present menetary crisis. It
will be seen that the whole of them—lhe intais
tcrial papers in particular—condemn lhe apa
thy ofthe Minister, and significau ly warn him
ofthe consequences. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer, we learn, has been in the city this
afternoon. The strong opinions now express
ed on the subject cannot fail, we think, to lead
to some course of action. We find this morn
ing that lhe following petition has been printed
at Liverpool, and that should the Government
not decide speedily on some measure of relief,
a public meeting will be called iu consider the
adoption of this or some other decisive mea
sure :
7b Her Majesty the Queen.
Die humble petition ot the undersigned Bankers,
Merchants, Funders, and others, inhabitants of Li
verpool, sheueth
“ That your petitioners humbly beg to represent to
your Majesty the ruin with which toe commerce, man
ufactures and industry of the country are threatened--
trade is paralysed, manufactures to a great extent
stopped, and the laboring classes thrown out of em
p!«>) inent.
“ Your petitioners have in vain invoked the assis
tance of your Majesty’s ministers to restore confidence
and allay the universal alarm which prevails, and they
now venture to approach the Throne with full confi
dence in your Mujesty's solicitude for the welfare of
your people, and praying that your Majesty will be
graciously pleased to summon the Legislature to meet
tor the purpose of deliberating on lhe alarming condi
tion of the country, and of devising measures for re
storing confidence.
(< Your petitioners feel assured that, unless reme
dial measures be speedily adopted, the social condi
tion of your Majesty’s subjects will be impaired to
such an extent as tojeopard the national credit, and
lead to scenes of unheard of calamity and diserganiza
tion.
“The revenue of the country, tiom customs, excise
and income tax, is threatened with serious diminution.
“ The ruin of those classes on «hich the labor of
the country depends must inevitably lead to lawless
means of obtaining that food w hich can no longer be
p rocured by honest industry, necessitating the service
of the military force to repress the excesses of a mass
of people driven to desperation by impending want.’’
From the London Britannia. Oct. 23.
The progress of destitution is frightful in the
extreme. Itx Lancashire alone it is computed
that 50.000 work people, with their families,
are deprived of employment. In Manchester
during the last week the number of operatives
wholly without employment has increased by
1.200. and the number on short time has in
creased bv 3.300. The report of Monday’s
Manchester market states that •• it was the
dreariest market-day ever experienced in
Manchester, not a single sale having been re
ported." The following official returns for
Manchester for the last three weeks will show
the rapid increase in the number of operatives
now on short time, or entirely out of employ
ment :
Operatives in Ute Mills in Manchester.
Full Time Short Time. Out.
Oct. 5-...24.317 7.956 8.736
12.. . 23.200 8.701 9.108
19.. 18.316 12.198 10.341
The reductions are still being carried rapidly
forward, so that there is a prospect of greater
destitution than Manchester has ever known
before.
The sta e of the manufacturing districts is so
alarming that Government, though it refuses
all measures of relief. i< providing a strong mili- .
tary force to keep the peace. At Carlisle the
local authorities have received warrants from
the Home Secretary authorising them to
call out and enrol the pensioners of the
district, and a strong force of cavalry is
now stationed at Newbridge .No one sup
poses that the Winter can be got through. |
should the distress not be mitigated, without I
some desperate riot fig
The Momtng Chronicle of Thursday says:—
" We are sorry to learn that serious apprehen
sions are entertained ot an outbreak on the
part of the operatives, ot whom so many are
now out of employment in consequence of the
stoppage of the nulls. The return of the
number of the mills at work, and people em
ployed in them last week, shows that scarcely
more than half the usual number of mills are
working full time ; the diminution in the week
having been no less than fifteen. The number t
of unemployed hands is upward of 10,000, and .
there are more than 12,000 working short time. >
The total number in full work is only about (
18,000, no less than 5,000 having been placed .
on short time, or thrown altogether out of em
ployment, during the course of the past week ”
By a royal proclamation, dated Oct. 19. the
exportation of wheat from Belgium, after the <
26th of October of the current year, is pro- I
hibited.
Ireland. >
The Roman Catholic Prelates have assent- ‘
bled in Dublin, to deliberate on the state of the s
country. The Pilot reports the proceedings '
thus far:—
“Their Lordships have unanimously agreed
upon a memorial, whether to her Majesty or
the Government has not been, we believe,
decided, setting forth the condition of the Irish
poor, the prospect of coming famine, as well
as the sufferings induced by present destitu
tion. They represent the necessity of prompt
measures of relief, to provide against the fu
ture as well as to prevent the spread of the dis
tress which at present exists. We believe
the memorial will also refer to the relations
subsisting between landlord and tenant.
Destitution of an appalling kind has shown
itself on the Western coast of Clare, particularly
in Miltown Malbay. Eight hundred families are
said to be without any means of getting food,
except the precarious one of digging the po
tato fields a second time. The whole country
is posted with notices that corn is not to be
taken to market, under pain of death. Yet
the harvest and the potato crop have been unu
sually abundant. Terry Alt law prescribes that
the produce of the soil is to be given to the
people at their own prices, and upon credit.
The Tipperary Tree Press mentions that
fourteen hundred processes and thirty eject
ments have been entered for hearing at the
present Quarter-Sessions.
The Limerick papers contain accounts of two
open air meetings held by the peasantry, to make
known their demand for relief. The first was
held on Tuesday the 12th, at Garryfine. The
people assembled to the number of two thou
sand; and their subsequent conduct became
riotous, driving of cattle, &c., and forcibly
seizing other property, but which they ultimate
ly surrendered.
Oil the following day a similar meeting was
held at Ballyagrane. Here the people took
from Father O’Flanagan, their parish priest,
eight barrels of potatoes, and stole from a Mr.
Drew some wheat and carrots. Several sheep
which they drove oil*they restored.
A similar demonstration was fixed to take
place at Broadford, in Clare ; but the authorities
were on the alert and prevented the meeting.
Active measureshave at once been taken by
the government to put down this summary mode
of conveyance. According to a statement in
the Dublin Evening Post, “a large reinforce
ment of cavalry ami infantry has been sent to
Charlevilie and Bruree, and other places will
also be occupied with troops.”
In the Nenagh Union the poor-rate collectors
have been hunted oil* and in some instances
compelled to eat the notices.
The following portentous notice is posted in
certain parts of Tipperary : —“Several gentle
men in the county of Tipperary are marked out
for assassination —Liberals as well as Conser
vatives. ”
The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal As
sociation was held on Monday; Mr. Scully in
the chair. The chief subject was the present
and coming distress in Ireland, and its remedy.
Mr. John O’Connell demanded an additional
advance of twelve millions from the Imperial
treasury, to preserve the lives of the people.—
He insisted that England could find no difficul
ty in advancing this amount; for she expended,
in 1813. upon a useless war, £ 147,000,000 :
and in 1815. in the prosecution of the same mis
chievous war, X 174.000,000. Mr. Scully, M.
P., stated the important fact that Government
had forwarded to the West of Ireland already
1,200 tons of meal. W hen the Irish Represen
tatives should meet in Dublin, he hoped they
would seek to gel the 1,200 increased to 12,000
tons of meal.
Switzerland,
The affairs of this troublesome little region
cotinue to occupy a very large space in the
French and English journals, and we are still
assured that an appeal to arms is on the very
eve of being made; but it is some months, now. ■
that we have been regularly told the same thing
on every arrival, and we begin to doubt wheth
er there will be any fighting. It seems to us as
though liie disputants were only waiting for
some of the great powers to interfere decisive
ly, and keeping up a show of strife to hasten the
movements of the powers aforesaid.
Certain it is, however, that preparations for
war by the adverse cantons were going on with
great activity. The most prominent topics of I
interest, at the moment, were the supply of arms !
from France to tin* anti-Jesuit cantons, and the i
alleged determination of Austria to establish a
strong military cordon along the Swiss frontier
—to keep the fighting, we suppose, from cross
ing over into Austrian Italy.
Vienna, Oct. 14.—intelligence just received
states that above two hundred persons were
precipitated into die river at Komorn, among
whom were many nobles; and as far as can be
ascertained. 40 persons were drowned. Many
bodies have already been washed on shore.
The Archduke Stephen has testified the most
lively interest in the mournful event.
Tltr Cholera In Germany and Russia,
Letters from St. Petersburg of the sth No
vember stale, on the authority of the official re
ports received by the Government, that the
cholera continued toadvance toward the north
and east. Cases of it had occurred al Orel, and
even in the. village of Pensa, situated at only
fifty leagues from Moscow. In the province
of Astrakan, in which there were 31 inhabi
tants, 5915 cases had occurred, and 3131 deaths.
The disease raged with great severity at Tschar
no-Jarsk and in the environs. At Saratof, the
capital of the province of that name, 2500 per
sons had been attacked, 1991 of whom had died.
In the country of the Cossacks of the Don
there had been 12.651 cases of which 7017 ter
minated fatally.
From the Knst.
'rhe extraordinary Indian express arrived be
fore it was expected, in consequence of the
mail's being despa rhed from Bombay on the
11th instead of the 15th of Sept. The accounts
from Calcutta are to the Sth of September.
Accounts from Sciude mention that there
were symptoms of a desire on the part of the
hill Belooches to resume their old practice of
plundering the plains.
From Hong-Kong there are accounts to the
25th of August. All remained quiet at Can
ton. though an uneasy feeling still existed in
the minds of the residents.
Liverpool Cotton Market*
The sales for the week ending Oct. 22 were 15,160
bales, including 140 Sea Island at 11? a 18|d.; 10
stained do. 5j a 6|d.; 3430 I plant! at 4| a6; 6190
New Orleans.it 4 a 6f, and 3500 Alabama, &c.,at4|
a s|. The imports lor the same |»eriod were 17,463
bales. The quotations at the close <4 the week are ;
Ord. to mid. fair to g’d. fair. g’d & fine.
Sea Island ■•• -9 a lljd. 13 a Ujd. 16 a 18d.
Do. stained •• -5 a 6 a 7 Sa 8 j
Upland 4 a 4? 5f a 5| 5f a 6
V Orleans •••lai? a 6 7 a 8
Mobile tk Ala. 4 a 4| 5f a 5f 6 a—
Up to Oct. 22, 1847 and 1346.
Taken on speculation bales 274.400* ■ 393.900
Taken for export 842,380-• 1,110,410
Taken by the trade 103,640-• 196.940
Stock in Liveqivol 427,500-• 591,000
Report for the MeeA- ending Oct. 22.—Time
brings no relief to our Cotton market, nor to the com
mercial world generally. The past week at least has
not done so. Much fluctuation has taken place ; at
one moment depression, and almost dismay, al the
announcement of the stoppage of the Royal Bank and
the Liverpool Banking Company ; and to-day again,
we have the shuw of return in j confidence and com
parative cheerfulness. This latter feeling arises fiom
the satisfaction entertained by the public that the
Bank of England has afforded the required aid to one
of the leading commercial houses here, all parties in
terring, from that considerate step, that the door is
open to any one who can make out a similar claim,
rhe business of the week lias been transacted at j to I
Ad. decline from the quotations of Friday last; but t
this morning there is a turn round, and higher prices i
are demanded. I p to this moment, however, no j
great deal has been done at higher rates, nor is there '
much business going forward m any way. soineot the ,
spinners returning home without buying at all. We '
make no allusion to money matters, and their bearing :
upon our market, having made a full report on th it ;
subject in our circular of Last week ; we merely add. 1
that that great difficulty st.-1! remains as before. 1900
American have been taken on speculation, and 2420 i
fur export. Sales of the week 15.160 bales. ‘
Geo. Holt A Co.
From the Brokers' Circular, Oct. 23.
InofAer Report —\ variety of unfavorable circum
stances, combined with the stoppase of the R--> /al Bank
of this town, very materially increase.! the gloom and
depression which previously existed. The market [
has been in a most unsettled state throughout the «
week ; prices were very irregular, and the quotations
for manv descriptions q lite nominal. Forced sales |
for cash payment were made yesterday at a decline j
of |d per lb. for the current qualities of American.— j
The disposition of the Bink of England toatford relief |
has, however, given much more confidence, a decided- 1
ly improved feeling being manifest to-day. and with
a large attendance c uyers prices have recovered jd !
to j I from the extreme decline previously submitted
to, s. ecu lai ■;> have taken 1900 American, and •x
--porters .420. The sales for the week amount to 15.-
160 bales.
Report for Oct. 23. —The Cotton market to-day. up
to its cl «se. was very flat. About 2000 bales changed
hands, and at prices generally <»bta:n*-d yesterday. —
The sales were nearly all to consumers.
Havre Market*
HAVRE, Oct. 23. — Cottons— Scarcely a single
day has elapsed since our preceding circular, without i
bringing nt ws of s -me commercial or financial disas- :
ter in England, and fr in the successive accounts that «
are daily published, it is to i»e apprehended that the 1
crisis has not yet arrived at its last stage. I: cann t •
therefore be expected that any amendment should
take place in business, until a great change has been ’
operated, the total want of confidence resulting from
the considers: e failures, completely paralyses exten- I
sire transactions, and makes mercantile men of every ’
class careful how they enter into new engagements. <
The sales of cott.>n from the 15th to the 23d of Oct. '
were 3,519 - 1974 New Orleans at <
75t. 50 a 100: 1131 Mobile at 75 a 891. 50. and 514 c
Upland at 75 aB9 f. Th- 1 arrivals were 4982 bales, e
From the New Orleans Picayune.
Address of Penn y Pena.
We lay before our readers a translation of
this important public document—the more im
portant as the author is classed among the most
prominent candidates for the next Presidency
of Mexico.
The President of the Supreme Curt of Justice,
in the exercise of the Supreme Executive Power,
to the Mexican Nation:
Mexicans!—Called upon to tako charge of the
Government of the Republic, not by the triumph of a
party or of a |x»litical (•pinion, nor by an election,
which, although legal and honorable, might revive a
recollection of our dissensions, but by an express and
conclusive mandate of the fundamental charter, l ean
address you under the simple and exalted title ot the
constitution. The case which has been foreseen by
that document, and the imperious urgency not to
leave our country buried in the profound abyss of
anarchy, demanded of me a sacrifice superior to my
health and my strength, and a compliance with a duty
which I could not evade without rendering myself un
worthy of the esteem of my fellow-citizens.
Rash and inconsiderate would have been my reso
lution to seize the reins of the Supreme Government
in moments so calamitous and difficult, had it been
competent for me by any legal means to place the
destiny of our unfortunate country in abler hands.
You are aware of the state and circumstances in
which we find ourselves, and you cannot doubt that
the difficult service to which I have resigned my
self, and of which I may be the victim, have been as
necessary as the observance of the oath which binds
me as President of the Supreme Court ot Justice. And
if truly lamentable reverses have invested me mo
mentarily with the Supreme Magistracy, I also ac
knowledge, as a signal blessing of Providence, that it
has been bestowed on me by no cause or proceeding
which could foment disunion among the Mexican na
tion.
My Administration will be of short duration, and if
the situation of the Republic wene not so critical, I
should not haveconsideretTit desirable to address you;
but I must, however, now make known to you, with
the greatest brevity—because nothing can be indiffer
ent in the terrible crisis of the country —what will be
my ideas and feelings, and what the course I have
determined to pursue in order to discharge with honor
and with the approbation of my conscience the enor
mous burden which the constitution places on my
shoulders. Without any other character but that be
stowed upon me by the constitution for the exercise of
public power, and accustomed as an old magistrate
not to look at the public good except in the observance
of the laws and justice, it would useless to assure
you that my Government, or bad results,
with opposition or without or without
it, will never be other than a constitutional Govern
ment, subject in every thing to the laws of the Re
public, without ever exceeding the powers conferred
on the Executive.
Neither the difficulties of our present position nor
the importance and transcendency of the pending in
ternal or external questions, nor armed rebellion, can
ever make me deviate from the path which I have
ever considered as the only one capable of saving the
nation ; and, true to this purpose, the nation can confi
dently depend upon it that the Government will exer
cise with firmness the power bestowed upon it by the
constitution, and that it will never aim at that mis
taken energy which can only be exercised by violence
and by the usurpation of other powers, and which
nearly always subverts established order. I shall re
spect these other powers, anti shall afford them ail the
support and assistance they may require in the dis
charge of their exalted functions.
The States which at present form the Mexican Fed
eration, and of whose common interests the Supreme
Government is the centre, will contribute with their
resources and their forces to make it respected, and
will meet in return a harmonious and perfect recipro
city. It cannotescape the penetration and patriotism
of their worthy authorities that every transgression
or overstepping »>f the just limits fixed by the funda
mental laws for each, would destroy the last hope of
order and nationality. I conjure you all, and I doubt
not that you will hearken to me, that there may be
one cooperation and one feeling in favor of those prin
ciples which we ought to revere, and which are the
best guaranty for a happy termination of the stormy
position in which we now find ourselves.
For the same reasons, and with equal justice, my
Administration will respect and protect the rights and
public interests of every class. To attack any one
would be to inflame farther our passions and to render
onr dissensions more dreadful. Religion, its worship
and its ministers will be the object of my special pro
tection. When all conspires to our ruin, when itap
pears that no guaranty can be given for the security
of the conservative principles on which the Mexican
nation should rely—and when every thing portends
confusion and general disorder, I feel more pleasure
than I can exprss iu announcing to you this my deter
mination, whatever may be the dangers and perils in
which my Government may be involved.
Without revenues, as tiiey all have been destroyed,
and without public treasures —as there are none— an
equitalle and proportionable cooperation may, notwith
standing, furnish the necessary means for defraying
the most indispensible expenses. If in the short time
during which 1 shall remain at the head of the na-
I lion, I could contribute towards the settlement of so
| important a branch, (finances.) the only basis of my
decrees and measures would be that no class or any
citizen should have to complain of the slightest injus
tice. The servants of the Government, whatever
may be their station or rank, will not benegleted, and
‘ the tribunals of the federation, whose existence is so
much more indispensable, as the complete piraliza
i tion of the administration of justice would be a still
‘ more serious evil, will receive all my solicitude, and
, ' will be suitably protected.
I shall uphold with the best intelligence and har
j mony the relations which unite us with other nations.
■ Inasmuch as another Government will terminate the
war with the United States, I ought not perhaps toad
dress you Uf>on that vital question, which has brought
upon us so many disasters, and which rivets the re
gard of all the world upon our nationality. But my
silence would appear strange, although it might be ex
plained, und I, who am the friend of candor ami troth,
ought not to furnish occasion for misunderstanding of
anv kind.
The repeated disasters which have marked this fa
tal war, tlie blood of our countrymen which has flow
ed in torrents, the bereavement of so many families,
and the terrible shocks which we have suffered, di
minish in nothing our right or our justice. Our ports,
our most important cities, and even the capital of the
Republic being in possession of the invader’s troops,
the picture which the nation presents is sad and lamen
table. Providence has subjected us to a trial which
is felt by the whole people, and which demands of us
valor and constancy, prudence and humanity. To
permit in this murderous struggle sentiments of an in ■
sensate pride, or perlnps the pretensions of some po
litical party to prevail, would be to provoke the ire of
Heaven ; to submit to any peace without securing the
true welfare of the country for the present time and
for the future, without above all saving our honor,
without which there can exist no nationality, would
be to degrade our name, prepare new wars, and to
render us unworthy of the respect and esteem of
civilized nations. Extremes touch each other and are
equally fatal, and the Government which does not
avoid them can neither aspire to glory nor to peace.
Let us seek the medium, and not forgetting the indis
putable rights which we have to our territory, nor the
obligations we owe to those who have freely shed their
blood in defence of their country, let us try to render
ourselves by a unanimous effort stqierior to ourselves
and worthy of the esteem of mankind. It is a great
consolation to me that another Government will put
an end to this internal war.
The Republic is suffering the inevitable conse
quences of the disorders caused by the factions which
have tom it, and by the absolute oblivion of the rules
of morality and justice, without which nations fall into
ruins, and leave nothing but the memory of their
misfortunes. For the nation to meet tfiat enemy who
is tn possession of the capital, s’ilt divided into bands,
without an army well regulated and decided to seal
with its blood the independence of the country, and
without a people and public functionaries obedient and
faithful to the first authority, would be to proclaim
ourselves little entitled to the blessings of liberty and
of civilization. But il on the contrary we retrace
onrsteps, if tor this general disorganization we sub
stitute harmony and order, the war will be fortunate,
|>eacc honorable, and we shall see the commencement
of an era of abundance and prosperity.
In conclusion. I address myself to all the representa
tives of the Mexican nation assembled at the city of
Queretaro, where you have been convoked. You
will proceed at once to appoint the President who is
to govern the Republic. At the sight of the picture
which it presents, your patriotism and your wisdom
will be roused, and you will pass laws in conformity
with their dictates. If you defer your meeting, and
it on this account the public evils should be prolonged,
your responsibility will be enormous. From this
moment 1 disclaim for myself before God and the na
tion all responsibility, assuring vou with the utmost
sincerity that I do not consider myself capable of go
verning.
The fulfilment ofa sacred duty has called me mo
mentarily to this station, andon arriving at this city I
have thought that the first step I should take was to
conjure you to save the destinies of the Republic.
Hasten therefore to this solemn assembly, and rely as
1 n-! v upon the | rotection of Divine Providence.
Given at Queretaro, J3th October, 1847.
Manuel de la Pena y Pena.
From the N. O. Picayune 9th in st.
Manifesto of Santa Anna.
Affairs in Mexico are working strangely.
By the Galveston we have received from Vera
Cruz a manifesto of Santa Anna, which we
! fasten to translate for our readers, by which
it appears that he is now open-mouthed for
war. and is indirectly denouncing the Govern
ment for its willingness to makepeace. He
writes with great vigor and earnestness, and
we recommend the document to the attention
of our political readers. Just now the inter
nal affairs-of Mexico demand all our attention :
upon the turn which events may take depends
in a great measure the greater or less duration
of the war. In our paper to-day we give a
manife.'to of Pena y Pena, the present Execu
tive, and now add" that of hi» immediate prede
cessor. since disgraced. There are passages
in each which will challenge attention and re
mark.
Antonio Lope: de Santa Anna. General of Diri
siun, ' Benemerito de la Pal ria" and Provi
sional President of the Republic, to \isfellow
citizens:
Since iny return to the country I have up n various
occasions a idressed you, giving an account of my op
erations ns chief of the artnv and as First Executive
Magistrate; but holding no longer those j*>sitions } I
now address you with the most prof-hi nd grief, tocom- :
plain to you ut the cruel ingratitude ofsoar . and of the
perfidy of others, who, n-< content to have acted with
the most criminal indifference during the period of the
great conflict, are now striving to throw upon me alone
the responsibility for those great public calamities to
wh ch they nave so much contributed.
ago 1 discovered that I was again to be made the tar
get ofthe factions which had torn oat the t-owels of the
c untry. Their audacity reached the p ; :ch of holding
me up as a traitor before a community which had
been witnesses of my repeated services in the cause
of in dependence and liberty. and of the sacrifices I had
made to save them from the voke with which they
are threatened.
B u it was impossible forme to have anticipated my
violent removal from the theatre of the war. in the
mode in whi«-h it has been effected by him with whom
I had deposited supreme power whilst I was fighting
• ' - - - - lasth is • -
duct is calculated to confirm the malignant reports
which have so deeply wounded m> heart. I and myself
compelled to lay before the world a historical review
of my conduct during the fourteen m nths which have
elapsed since my return to the Republic, to the end
that my labors may be seen and a full exposure made
of the cunning by which 1 was thwarted, of the injus
tice with which I was opposed by those whose duty it
was to support me, and of the origin of that invention 1
of “ traitor ” with which I am stigmatized, with a view
to discredit mein public opinion, when I had done my
best to serve the country ; for I have sought to respond
loyally to the call made u|xm me to save the country
from the barbarous and iniquitous invasion it has suf
fered. But as this work will require time, and can
not be prepared as soon as I could wish, at the same time
that slander loses not a moment in striking its venom
ous fangs into my reputation, I entreat all impartial
men who have not been witnesses of the exertions I
have made, to deign to suspend their opinions until
that publication, assuring them that therein they shall
learn what has been my true conduct, and what that
of my unjust detractors.
As the calamity which is iniquitously urged against
me is so atrocious, 1 burl it back with all the energy
of my character, and with the force of innocence in
famously outraged. I challenge and summon all my
accusers to come forward with their proof, and if they
fail to do so, I denounce them as vile calumniatorsand
enemies of the nation.
I call upon Gens. Scotland Taylor, and upon every
individual in their armies, and I conjure them to de
clare upon their honor whether the Mexican general,
who has fought them in the north and in the east and
in the centre, too, of the Republic, down to the 20th
inst., has discharged all his duty to his country.
Fellow-citizens: — Misfortune has deprived me of
the incomparable satisfaction of offering you a splendid
victory; but misfortune has never been deemed trea
son. They insult you who endeavor to persuade you
thatsuch infamy can have fallen upon a veteran ofin
dependence, covered with honorable wounds received
in defence of your rights, and who has grown gray
serving his country with affection and loyalty. Re
member that these same men have before abused your
simplicity, misleading your judgment, and cast upon
the pages of our history the blot which stains it, in the
record of the assassinations of Padilla and of Cuila
pan; remember that by these men were sacrificed
the two chiefs who at Iguala traced the plan of our in
dependence ; that they were guilty of the act of re
moving from the-sacred soil in which it was buried the
fixjt which your fellow-citizen lost in fighting a foreign
foe, to make a public mockery of it under the pretext
that it had belonged to one whom in that moment of
delirium they called a tyrant. If my conduct during
these fourteen months deserves reproach, if it is re
quired that it be subjected to examination because
its results have not been fortunate, I am ready to meet
any charges which may be legally and fairly brought
against me; but in the meantime I believe myself en
titled to the considerations which the fundamental fact
secures to me, which my services demand and which
justice exacts.
If you will await events as I desire you in order to
judge with certainty* you will perceive that those who
from their cabals have managed to diffuse distrust
and malignant reflections ujion my conduct, taking ad
vantage of our]misforiunes, are the very ones who are
hastening to treat with the enemy and to yield to him
what 1 refused. These same men who cried out
war without truce f and stigmatized as a'Trea
son" the armistice which necessity compelled me to
enter into at the capital, when it was the duty of the
Government to listen to that of the United States,
these men are now striving hypocritically to per
suade you that there are no elements of war, that the
nation is exhausted, that its necessities and its suf
ferings require peace at any sacrifice. Time, I re
peat to you, will best teach you the wickedness of these
factions, the authors of your misfortunes.
Well you know that 1 am not the only chief towards
whom victory has been shy. Palo Alto, La Resaca,
Matamoros, Monterey, New Mexico, Chihuahua, the
Californias, Vera Cruz, Tabasco anil Padierna answer
for me. Mexican soldiers have encountered defeats ;
none of us have been traitors. There may have been
some cowards ; but this can never be said ofhim who
sought the enemy every where, ofhim who was the
first in danger, ofhim who alone has offered to the na
tion in this war trophies won from the battalions of the
enemy.
The position most eligible to serve the invader is the
Government, and yet I refused it repeatedly, prefer
ring the hardships of a campaign to the luxuries of a
palace. The pressing solicitations of the reprentatives
of the people, which brought me from the field of La
Angostura to the capital to put an eml to civil war
which was devastating it, induced me to exercise for
some time the executive power. I laid it aside as soon
as public tranquility was establishC' 1 and went to meet
the army of the enemy, which had then taken Vera
Cruz and the Castle of Ulna, having to raise while
upon the march an army, which though small and un
disciplined, disputed as far as possible the passage of
the enemy at Cerro Gordo. My duty and my design
has been ’.o fight, and I have not been restrained there
from by obstacles or by the superiority of the enemy.
If after that event I returned to resume power, it was
only to defend the capital which was about being aban
doned to the enemy. In a few days I raised great for
tifications and mustered a numerous army; I collect
ed resources and a sufficient material of war. Im
portant actions were fought before the enemy set foot
| in the centre of the city, the ground being disputed
inch by inch, and the losses cf the enemy give the lie
to those who propagate the story that the city was
; abandoned by the army without fighting. The details
of these notable events will appear iti the historical re
( view which lam about to prepare.
Iu the city of G ladalupe Hidalgo 1 delivered up
power to the President of the Supreme Court of Jus
tice, by a decree of the 16th of Sept., with the purpose
which 1 unfolded in my manifesto of the same date,
i ami with no such motive as has been malignantly al
leged. If I erred, it was iu not foreseeing that the
man on whom 1 bestowed power would first of all em
ploy it in rendering useless my services. But thisex-
I traordinary incident will be clearly explained in the
review before mentioned, he being responsible for the
injury to the nation which may ensue from a measure
every way impolitic, and in my opinion pregnant with
fatal consequences.
And is the citizen who has thus comported himself
as I have done, to be called “ Traitor ?” Can he be
so stigmatized whose firmness and dignity rejected
propositions of peace on account of the injury and hu
miliation which they involved? What occasion could
be more opjtorlune to meet the viewsol' the invaders
of .Mexico ? Th- y who presume to defame me will
be covered with eternal shame and disgrace, a thou
sand acts will bear witness against them.
Mexicans ! J am a man, and 1 have defects, but nev
er have I sinned against my country ; never has my
breast harbored anti-national sentiments. A good name
to leave behind me has been the aim of my ambition.
I have earnestly longed after every thing which is
great and glorious for Mexico, and to obtain it I have
spared n«<t my own blood. You know this and you
will do me justice.
Antdnio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Tehuacan, Get. 22, 1547.
From Belize. Honduras. —We have a file
. of the Observer and Gazelle to the 20tli of Oc
. tober. From the Gazette of the 16th we ex-
I tract the following: Picayune 9th inst.
The editor* of the N. V. Herald committed
I an error when they stated that the Central
’ American States had decla red their intention
* to assist Mexico in the war with the United
Stales. Honduras alone has made such de
duration, but bus taken no further steps, nor
will she. Guatemala and the other States are
too intent on their interest to meddle with the
r affairs of other nations We need hardly add
r that the further statement, that the “ declara
, tion was brought about by British intrigue," is
t all moonshine.
t
Stations of Preachers of the Protestant
Methodist Church.
1 The following arc the stations for the ensu
ing Conference year of the Ministers and
) ~
r Preachers of the Methodist Protestant Church,
’ Georgia District, as appointed by the Station-
I ing Committee of Ministers and Laymen of the
I last Annual Conference:
M. Tucker elected President by the Confer
I ence.
, Columbia Circuit.— S. Moore, Supt.; J. W.
Davis and J. Shields. Assistants.
Newton county. — L. Bates, Supt. ; 11. Baker
t Asst.
Henry county.— W. M. Biggers, Supt. ; J. G.
Mitchell. A. W Mitchell, S. Robinson, W.Grif
f fin. J. Thurman, J. Smith, and T. Thweatt.
1 Ass’ts.
Meriwether county.— J. C. Wallace, Sup’t :
| P. Ogletree and W. W. McCutchen. Assis
tants.
Randolph county. — Sup t. io be supplied ; W.
Myers. J. R. Swam, E. Smith, W. Haisten, and
D. Hoo en, Assistants.
Cherokee county.— P. Lingo, Sup’t; B. R.
Bray. W. Norton, J. Hudsell. and A. Smith.
Assistants.
Jfa/Z county.— L. P. McCutchen. Sup’t.
Twiggs county.— W. M. Edwards, Sup’t.; R.
A. Blount, Ass’t.
Savannah Mission.— R. C. Biggers.
Madison Mission.— J. O’Kelly.
Rome Mission.— Y. Mann.
Walker Mission.— W. Mitchell.
Conference Missionary.— G. Harlon.
G. Wilson, superannuated.
J. Rosser left in the hands of the Presi
dent.
Next Conference to be held at Lagrange
Church, Newton county, to commence on the
i Friday before the fourth Sabbath in October
| next.
The National Intelligencer of Friday says :
i The veteran Col. Bankhead, U. S. Army, left
j this city on Tuesday last, on his way to Vera
j Cruz, being ordered thither to take post as
Governor of Vera Cruz, and also to as.*ume the
| command of that important Military Depart
, menu The least we can say of one whom we
; have known advantageously during his whole
j military life, of more than thirty years. i». that
I perhaps no officer in the service is better fitted
| than he for the responsible duty to which he has
, now been assigned.
Tiie Irish Relief Committee of Pittsburgh
1 have forwarded to Ireland, since they entered
i upon the discharge of their duties, provisions.
Arc. to the value of $40.4*7.
Application will be made to the next New
Jersey Legislature fur an act to incorporate a
i company with a capital of $300,000, for .ne
: purpose of constructing a Railroad from
Mount Holly thought or nearer Moorestown
to some point on the Delaware river, in or
near the city of Camden.
Washington National Monument.—The
Board of Managers of the Washington Monu
ment Society has adopted a resolution authori
zing the corner-stone of the proposed Monu
ment to be laid on the 22d of February next, if
the site selected can be obtained in time from
Congress, and has appointed a committee to .
make an early application for it.
Steamboat Eureka.—This boat, on her I
passage d wn to Mobile, the 6th inst., struck a
srid2. near McNeil s Bar, and backing off. sank
on the bar in five feet water. She had 20 cabin
passengers and 6? on deck, with a cargo of5J5
bales of cotton and a few sundries. After re
maining 34 hours on bo rd. the passengers
were taken off by the Amaranth and carried to
Mobile. The cotton, with the exception of 41
bales thrown overboard, and 70 in the hold,
was saved in good condition. The boat is said
.0 be a total loss.— Mont. Flag.
Augusta, <Ba.:
TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 10, 1847.
From a paper prepared by Mr. Henry, of Mobile.
Value of Cotton Crop.
The crop of 1844, the largest we ever made, was
2,400,000 bales, weighing on an average 440 lbs.
each, it was sold at an average of 4? cents per lb.,
which amounted to $50,160,000. The latter part of
that and part of the following year was one of our
most gloomy periods, as all our hopes of a check to
production were mere hopes. The crop of 1845 was
2,100.537 bales of 440 lbs., sold at 6f cents perib.,
amounted to $62,385,000. The crop of the past year
in bales, will be about 1,780,000, and allowing at
each port the same weight to their bales lor this as
last year, their average is 428 lbs.; but if the propor
tionate falling oft' in weight elsewhere equals what it
appears to be at this port (13 lbs. a bale,) the average
would only be about 416 lbs. But let us call it 420,
and at 420 lbs. it would only make 1,697,722 (a few
thousand less than my estimate of December last,
which was 1,700,000), and this crop, sold at an ave
rage of 10 cents, produces you $74,760,000. Let me
recapitulate:
1844 • • 2,400,000 bales •• at 4? cents- * • • $50,160,000
1845- -2,100,537 “ *.at6| “ .... 62,385,000
1846- • 1,697,722 “ --atlO “ ••• 74,760,000
The result is amazing—and do these figures not
address themselves to the minds of planters in un
bounded force, and in the most urgent as well as per
suasive voice, entreat them to nurse and cherish, and
not destroy their lands? for those lands and our cli
mate are more precious th in mines of gold. And do
we not see that we have the strongest imaginable in
ducements to enter upon other enterprises? Through
out the South, and especially Alabama, the best wa
ter-power for cotton factories and most valuable mine
rals abound.
We clip the above from the Montgomery
Flag Advertiser, to express our thanks to that
Democratic journal for giving its readers po
litical doctrines at once so sound and thorough
ly Whig. The importance of encouraging and
extending the manufacture of cotton, iron and
woollen goods at the South cannot be too often
nor too strongly urged by the Press, whethejr
Whig or Democratic. The demand for raw
cotton is limited; and the fact that 2,400.000
bales brought only two-thirds as much money
as J,700 t 000 bales, or two-thirds of the first
named number, furnishes proof positive that
nothing is easier than over-production of tffis
staple What is the remedy ? To abuse Mr.
Clay and his system of diversified industry;
but adopt it nevertheless. We do not ask
Democratic journals to do so unnatural a thing
as to abstain from denouncing Whig doctrines.
All we desire is that they shall give the policy
of extending manufactures a cordial support,
as a measure of their own. Mr. Polk suc
ceeded in persuading thousands of Democrats
in Pennsylvania and New York, by his Kane
letter, that he was a better tariff man than Mr.
Clay. It was that letter which secured his
election, together with his claim “ to the whole
or none of Oregon.”
Secretary Walker’s policy of growing no
thing but cotton in the States adapted to its
culture, and depending on Liverpool for a mar
ket, is beginning to bring forth its legitimate
fruits. The profits of the business which ac
crue to the planter, according to Democratic
showing, average less than six percent, on the
capital, whilst the exhaustion of the soil—its de
preciation in value from too much cropping—is
confessedly equal to three per cent. No mat
ter. Free-Trade is a favorite hobby with the
Democracy. It will not do for Southern plan
ters to diminish competition in the growing of
cotton, by fostering Southern manufactures.
That would interfere with the theory of a few
trading politicians, who regard the prosperity
of the whole people as nothing, when weighed
against the ascendancy of their dogmas. How
long will men of good common sense follow
these party leaders, to the incalculable injury
of their country ?
Buffalo Harbor.
For the past week, our harbor has been a literal
jam from the Light House to above the foot of Wash
ington-st. It has been among the impossibilities for
boats to load, unload, or leave even if they had suc
ceeded in overcoming both other difficulties. A bridge
of decks has covered the harbor for nearly a mile,
and as lor canal boats, they have discharged cargoes
all along the towpath from lower Black Rock to the
Basin. There are miles of canal boats now in statu
quo, because they can neither take on or put offfreight,
or get away light even if they could gel rid of their
loading. To remedy the difficulties attending the ship
ping in the harb >r, the Mayor has attended to them in
person, and with a posse of police and citizens for sev
eral days been engaged in clearing;! passage (orsuch
vessels and boats as were ready to leave. He has
succeeded so far as to permit the departure of quite a
fleet, but still the crowd is uncomfortable.— lluffalo
Express.
It would bo difficult to find another port on
the continent which presents an equal amount
of shipping on an equal surface as may be seen
at Buffalo. The trade of the Lakes will exceed
.*126.000.000 this season. If it shall go on in
creasing for the next twenty years at the rate
it has for the la<t twenty, its tonnage will be
greater than that of Great Britain. This of
course is not to be expected.
Duties 011 Importations into Mexico.
The Washington Union contains the follow
ing official paper:
Treasury Department, Nov. 5, 1847.
»S’ir: The military contributions in the form of
duties upon impirts into Mexican ports, have been
levied by the Departments of War and of the Navy,
during the last six months, under your order of the
31st of March last; and in view of the experience of
the practical operation of the system, I respectfully
recommend the following modifications in some of its
details, which will l.irg» ly augment the revenue.
That the duty on silk, flax, heinp or grass, cotton,
wool, worsted, or any manufactures of the same, or
either, or mixtures thereof, coffee, teas, sugar, molas
ses, tobacco, and all manufactures thereof, inclu
ding cigars and cigaritos, glass, china and stone
ware, iron and steel, and all manufactures of either,
not prohibited, by thirty percent, ad valorem. (Ju
copper, and all manufactures thereof, tallow, tallow
candles, soap, fish, beef, pork, hams, bacon, tongues,
butter, lard, cheese, rice, Indian corn and meal,
potatoes, wheat, rye, oats, and all other grain,
rye meal and oat meal, flour, whale and sperm
oil. clocks, boots and shoes, pumps, bootees,
and slippers, bonnets, hats, caps, beer, ale, porter,
cider, timber, boards, planks, scantling, shingles,
laths, pitch, tar, rosin, turpentine, spirits of tur
pentine, vinegar, apples, ship-bread, hides, leather,
and manufactures thereof, and paper of all kinds,
twenty per cent, ad valorem ; and these reduced rates
shall also apply to all goods, on which the duties are
not paid, retraining not exceeding ninety days on de
posite ic the Mexican ports, introduced under previous
regulations enforcing military contributions.
Yours, most respectfully,
R. J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury.
To the President.
Instructions have been accordingly forward
ed to Mexico from the Treasury, War and
.Navy Departments, directing the proper offi
cers in charge of Mexican ports to regulate
their proceedings in conformity with the above
modifications.
From the Brazos.—The schooners 11. L.
Scranton and Florinda arrived yesterday from
Brazos Santiago, both having sailed on the
sth inst. We have received a copy of th Ma
tamoros Flag of the 3d inst.
The Flag has a rumor that the train with
which Gen. Taylor was coming down to Mata
moros bad been attacked by Mexicans. The
Flag seems to put no faith in the story. An
other rumor is given of the death of Canales
at a rancho near Cerralvo ; it is but a ru
mor.
Interesting Information from Washing
ton*.—The letter of our Washington Corres
pondent gives some interesting information re
lative to the mission of Maj. Hobbie. and to the
working of the cheap po>tage system in the
United States. The deficit in revenue under
the new law from .**oo.ooo (eight hundred
thousand) the first year, is this year reduced
to $40,000 (forty-thousand,) and the Postmas
ter-General, Johnson, is so gratified with the
result that he will probably propose in bis re
port the introduction of a uniform system of
rhrap postage, similar to the penny postage in
England. This is gratifying intelligence, not
only to the friends of that measure, who so ear
nestly advocated it in the face of strenuous
opposition, but to the whole country, and ful
ly justifies the predictions of the result made
by the friends of the la w.
Threaded Ban k Notes.—Messrs. Crane &
Co., of Dalton Mass., manufacturers of bunk
notepaper, have invented a very simple and effi
cient method of preserving the denomination of
a bill from alteration. Threads of silk or cot
ton are arranged in parallel fine, lengthwise
with the note, and embodied in the substance
of the paper during its manufacture. A one
dollar bill has one thread, and one added for
each denomination up to five dollars ; then a
ten dollar bill as six threads, another is added
for twenty, fifty, one hundred, five hundred,
and one thousand; the last having eleven
threads, h must be very difficult, if not impos
sible, to insert another’thread after the note
is finished, and as the theads mark its value
as distinctly as '.he figures, the chances of a
successful alteration are at least very greatly
diminished The Mechanics' Banking As
sociation of this city, and several of the Banks
in this State, and at the Last, have ordered the
threaded paper and it will probably come into
general use.—.V. F. Journal of Commerce.
From St. Thomas.—Accounts from St.
Thomas to the 24th of September have been re
ceived. A royal decree has been issued, pro
claiming the abolition of slavery in the Danish ’
colonies. Ail slaves under sixteen years of 1
age are by this decree declared absolutely free
from the l*lh of September, and those above '
that age to beheld in the condition of appren
tices for four years from that date.—.V. F. Com .
Advertiser.
Proccetiings of tl)c £cgislaturc.
FROM MILLEDGEVILLE.
of the Chronicle’and Sentinel.]
Milledgeville, Nov. 8,1847.
Messrs. Editors:—To-day I make my debut
as correspondent of the Chronicle and Senti
nel. In the prosecution of this undertaking, I
shallendeavortogiveyou.in a condensed form,
afairand impartial account ofthe proceedings of
the General Assembly—giving unto Cajsar
the things that are Caesar’s, and nnto God the
things that are His.” A failure to carry out this
determination, must be attributed to the head
and not to the heart.
11l Senate Monday, Nov. 8.
Mr. Wales reported a bill for the relief of
Simon Ward of Richmond county. Mr. Cof
fee: A bill to reduce the official bond of the
Sheriff of Rabun county from ten to five thou
sand dollars. Mr. Johnson: A bill to change
and fix the times of holding the Superior courts
of the Southwestern Circuit. Also, a bill for
the relief of Eldridge Fulghain of Baker coun
ty, from the pains and penalties of the Act of
1806 relative to divorces.
Mr. Reese offered a resolution to bring on
the election of U. S. Senators to-morrow at 11
o’clock. Laid on the table for the present.
Mr. Glenn reported a bill to enable a party
plaintiff, when an action has been instituted in
time, and he be non-suited, or shall discontinue
the same after the time oflimitation has expired,
to renew his action within six months there
after, once only and not after.
The following has been added to the standing
rules of the Senate: “The President may at
any time call a member of the Senate to the
Chair to preside over its deliberations for that
day’s session and no longer.”
At 11 o’clock, A. M. the two Houses met in
the Representative Hall, and on the 17th bal
lot elected Mr. Word, ofCass, Solicitor of the
Cherokee circuit. It would consume too
much time and space to give the several ballots.
There were 17 candidates in the field. The
ballotings for Solicitor of the Eastern circuit
were as follows:
Ist ballot. 2d ballot 3d ballot.
Gaulding, 23 78 85
Williams, 42 62 63
White, 26 24 13
Nisbet (dem.) 81 withdrawn
Blank, 0 2 3
Mr. Gaulding of Liberty county (Whig) is
therefore t lected Solicitor of the Eastern cir-
cuit.
For Solicitor ofthe Ocmulgee circuit, the vote
stood :
Ist ballot. 2d ballot.
Bartlett, 44 84
Grimes, 7 26
Day, 9 6
Brown, 29 49
Warner, (Dem.) SO withdrawn.
Mr. Bartlett, of Jasper, is the successful can
didate. Os course he is a Whig.
To-morrow the two Houses will go into the
election of Secretary of State, Comptroller
General, Treasurer, Surveyor-General and
Public Printer.
Senate Committees.—The following are
the standing committees, of the Senate as an
nounced by the President, to wit:
On Privileges and. Elections.— Messrs. Sim
mons, Holloway, Hilliard, Willingham and D. B.
Johnson.
On Petitions. — Messrs. Stapleton, Barclay, Little,
Camp and McArthur.
On Enrolments.— Messrs. Chastain, Moore, Hen
derson, Maxwell and Raiford.
On. Journals. — Messrs. Collins, Camp, McLeod,
Smith and Duncan.
On the State ofthe Republic.— Messrs. William
son, Wiggins, Martin, Lawton and Smith.
On Finance. — Messrs. Boynton, Hunter, Max
well, Cochran and McLeod.
On Hanks.— Messrs. Sneidcr, Fort, Willingham,
Simmons and Henderson.
Ou the .Military.— Messrs. Hilliard, Little, Coffee,
Collins and Watters.
On. the Judiciary.— Messrs. Wales, Glenn, Reese,
Moore and Chastain.
On Internal Improvement.— Messrs. Terrell,
Farris, Montgomery, Formm and Parks.
On Public Printing.— Messrs. Holloway, Camp,
Raiford, Martin and McArthur.
On Public Education. — Messrs. Hunt, Marks,
Duncan, Darden and Barclay.
On the Penitentiary. Messrs. Dunigan, Clay
ton, Irwin, Stapleton and S. C. Johnson.
On the Lunatic Asylum.— Messrs. W. J_ John
son, Terrell, Reese, Stewart and Parks.
House of Representatives*
Mr. Nisbett, of Bibb, introduced the follow
ing resolution, which was agreed to :
Resolved, That a Committee on Manufactures,
to consist of seven, be added to the Standing
Committees ofthe House.’’
Mr. Jones of Paulding : That his Excellency
the Governor, be ami he is hereby requested to
lay before this House a copy of the letter of
the Secretary of War calling for a battalion of
mounted men, and of any correspondence on
the subject ofthe appointment of a Lieutenant
Colonel to command the same.
This resolution is in keeping with other ef
forts of the same gentleman to annoy the
friends of the outgoing Governor. Il forcibly
remindsone of the boy shooting straws against
the wind. As it amuses Mr. Jones, and can in
jure no one, why let him shoot on.
Mr. Freeman introduced a bill to authorize
the issuing of grants to certain reverted lands,
in certain cases, to the persons for whom the
same were originally surveyed.
Mr. Graham: To alter the time of holding
the Inferior Courts of Telfair county. Mr.
Perkins: An act to compel persons non-resi
dents of the county of Randolph and owning or
holding plantations and negroes in said county,
to give in and pay tax for the same in said
county.
A bill was introduced to change the bounda
ry line ofthe county of Washington so as to -add
apart of the county of Emanuel to the county of
Washington. Also, one by Mr. Bethune,
for the relief of Marion A. Huginon, lately the
wile of Seymour R. Bouner,
There was some other business transactions
in the House, but of a local character, such as
changing the names ofandlegitimatising certain
individuals.
The House adjourned a.t 10 o’clock.
This afternoonat 3 o’clock the Scnatus Aca
demicus convened in the Senate Chamber, and
after hearing the report ofthe Trusteesand
passing a resolution, on motion of Judge Be.r
rien, the object of which was to secure more
full and accurate information in relation to the
state of education in the several counties, it was
adjourned sine die. The report shows the Uni
versity to be in aflourishiiogcondition.
P. W. A.
MiLi.EDGEvn.LE, Nov. 9th, 1847.
Messrs. Editors:—After several days of
warm and dusty weather, we had a pleasant lit
tle shower last night. VV<? only regret that it
did not continue longer, as several ofthe mem
bers are already somewhat indisposed in con
sequence ofthe heat and dust-
Mr. Petigru of Charlesto.n is here for the
purpose. I suppose, of attending to the claim
of Peter Trezevant. It is to be hoped that this
matter will be finally settled by the present Le
gislature. We have had time enough and light
enough to enable us to come to a proper de
termination. If the claim be just, let us respect
it: if it be founded in fraud, let it receive its
quietus.
In Senate Tuesda y, Nov. If.
Mr. Fort offered a resolution, that the Com
mittee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire
what further enactments are necessary to curry
the 18th section of the first article of the Con- ]
stitulion into effect. 1
The following Bills were introduced: An
Act to amend the several acts in relation to is
suing grants on head rights in this State, so far
as to extend the tiin > for granting the same
until the 2«»tii day of December, 1849. An
Act to alter and amend the 3d and 7th sec
tions of the Istarticje of the Constitution.
This refers to the. changing the day of hold
ing elections from the first Monday to the first
W ednesday in October. The Bill passed by
the last Legislator e on this subject, was return
ed by Gov. Craw ford on account of its erro
neous reference* .
Mr. Simmons : A Bill to provide for the sale
of certain evidences of debt belonging to the
estates of deceased persons, and for other pur
poses therein specified.
Mr. McLeod reported a Bill to create and
organize a new malitia district in the county of
Lmanuel, and f'or other purposes.
Mr. Reese called up the Resolution bringing
on the election of two United States Senators,
on Ihursday next, which was passed.
Some little «lebate sprung up on this resolu
tion between Messrs. Glenn, Foreman and
Dunagan, wb.o contended that it was improper
and anti-Dem ocratic, to bring on the election of
more than on e Senator at this time, and Messrs.
Reese, Wat ers and Terrell, who supported the
resolution.
Mr. Ra'/brd. Senator from Laurens and
Wilkinson, voted with the Democrats against
he resohi /ion. It is difficult to say what posi
tion he will occupy. He came here as an in
lepend.ent Whig, yet he sits with, and votes
■vith t’ne opposition on almost all questions.
A Resolution has passed both Houses, ap
>oin ting Thursday, the 25th instant, a day of
reu era! Thanksgiving throughout the Stale.
A long string of resolutions were introduced
b.is morning by Mr. Dunagan in favor of the
Mexican war, the Tariff of 1-46, and other
subjects of Federal Legislation. How fond
lertain people are, of leaving undone “what
■heir hands find to do,” and going in search of
oreign issues .* In the present case, one is re- ;
Minded of the adventurous Don Quixotte, leav- ■
Fug his peaceful home and quiet fireside that
he might display his heroic qualities in charging
upon wind-mills and Monkish processions.—
The resolutions were ordered to be printed,
and I will send you a copy of them as soon as I
can obtain one.
The Petition of Mr. Trezevant was read, and
on motion referred to a select Committee.
House of Representatives.
The Speaker this morning announced the
several standing committees of the House. I
will send you a list of them by to morrow’s
mail. The following bills were introduced and
read the first time :
By Mr. Alexander of Gilmer: To compel
non-residents of the county of Gilmer to pay
tax upon lands lying in said county and be
longing to them.
Mr. Bullard: To establish an additional elec
tion precinct in the county of Washington, and
to remove other precincts therein specified.
Mr. Bartow : A bill for the relief ofthe old
stockholders in steamboat companies of Geor
gia.
Mr. Morgan: /X bill to alter the time of the
sitting ofthe Fall Terms ofthe Superior courts
for the counties of Bulloch and Effingham.
Mr. lleaddon : A bill to incorporate the
town of Blairsville in the county of Union.
Mr. Harris of Clarke: A bill to alter and a
mend the fifteenth section of the Ist Article of
the constitution of this State.
Mr. Brinson: A bill further to define the
duties of Receivers of Tax Returns in this State.
Mr. Alexander: To exempt all persons of
the age of forty-five years and above, from the
payment of Poll Tax.
Also, to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of
the Peace, to sums of fify dollars, and to alter
the law regulating the lien of judgment in cer
tain cases.
Mr. Dtibignon: To repeal an act incorpo
rating the town of Brunswick, and to extend its
jurisdictional limits, and for other purposes
therein mentioned, passed the 291 h December,
1836.
A bill to change and establish an election pre
cinct in the county of Baker.
Mr. Ramsey: A bill for the relief of William
11. Monroe of Muscogee county. The object
of this bill is to remove the disabilities imposed
by a verdict of divorce a mensuet thoro In
consequence of the stringent rule laid down by
the Supreme Court in relatioji to divorces, I
think an effort will be made daring the present
session to alter the constitution on this subject.
I see that the following bill, offered by the same
gentleman, is to that effect.
A bill to alter and amend the 9th section of
the 3d article ofthe Constitution. There were
other bills of a private and unimportant charac
ter introduced and read the first time.
The election of State House officers did
not come off to-day as was expected—the
House failing to act upon the resolution passed
by the Senate to that effect.
Both Houses adjourned over till 10 o’clock
Thursday, that the members might have an op
portunity to attend the commencement exer
cises of Oglethorpe University, which will take
place to-morrow.
P. S.—Since writing the above, the Whigs
met at Beecher & Brown’s at 8 o’clock, P. M.»
and nominated Judge Berrien and Win. C.
Dawson for the United States Senate—Judge
Berrien to fill the present vacancy, and Mr.
Dawson for the vacancy occurring the 4th of
March, 1849. I have not time to say more.
P. W. A.
Milledgeville, Nov. 10, 1847.
Messrs. Editors: —l informed you by yes
terday’s mail that Messrs. Berrien and Dawson
had been nominated by the Whig party for the
U. S. Senate. The vote to fill the present va
cancy was 58 for Berrien and 26 for Dougher
ty and two scattering. To fill the vacancy on
the 4th of March, 1849, Dawson received 41
and Crawford 38, scattering 2. The nomina
tions were afterwards unanimously confirmed.
A committee was then appointed to inform the
nominees ofthe action ofthe meeting, and to
request their presence. They entered the hall
amid the most deafening applause, and each ac
cepted his nomination in a short and happy
address. lam glad to say that the greatest har
mony prevailed, and that every Whig left with
entire confidence in our future success.
I understand that Judge Colquitt and Gov.
McDonald were to-night nominated by their
parly for the same office.
Oglethorpe University.
A large number ofthe members attended the
Commencement exercises to-day at Midway—
the two Houses having adjourned for that pur
pose. The following was the order of fie day :
Prayer by the President.
Joseph M. Quartennan, T. S.* —Ist honor. — Latin
Salutatory.
Samuel Carter, T. S., Scottsboro’, Ga.—Forma
tion of Character.
;Levi Gallimore,-P. D. S., t Twiggs Co., Ga.lnflu
ence of the Fine Arts on the Moral Sensibilities.
Joseph S. Merrill, P. 1). S., Macon Co., Ala. —
Youth.
Francis!’. Stubbs, P. D. S., Midway, Ga.—Pub
lic Life.
R. Lee Warthen, P. D. S., Washington Co., Ga.
'Pendencies of the Age.
Joseph M. Quarterinan, T. S., Liberty Co., Ga. —
Devotion to Principle.
Thomas Francis Wells, T. S. —Ist honor, Jefferson
Co., Ga.— 77/e Glory of American Arms — Valedic
tory.
Degrees Conferred.
Oration before the Phi Delta and Thalian Societies,
by W. Gilmore Simms, L. L. D.
Benediction.
The services were interspersed throughout with
music.
♦Thalian Society.—+ Phi Delta Society.—;Exous
ed.
The young gentlemen acquitted themselves
crediiably. It is to be regretted, however, that
they had not committed their pieces better.
The subject of Mr. Simms’s address can be
more easily explained than defined, lie con
tended that every individual had received cer
tain natural endowments peculiar to himself
which, when properly directed, would ensure
success in the particular sphere for which they
fitted him; and that in selecting this sphere of
our future action, or, in other words, in choos
ing a profession, the point at which so many
erred, we should allow the profession to .select
us, and not we choose the profession. This
was the groundwork ofhis address, the main
trunk from which h< .inched oil* in a thousand
directions. Though inc address was too long,
and badly delivered, yet 1 must commend it to
all who are fortunate enough to obtain a copy
of it when published. It is well wnU/iii, con
tains much good thought, and above all is pure
ly literary.
1 regret that I cannot equally commend a
speech which he delivered last night to a num
ber of Democrats at Buffington’s Hotel. 1 have
it from good democratic authority that he traced
the genealogy of his party back to Christ, whom
he denominated the founder and first great
leader of the democratic party. What pre
sumption! What blasphemy ? Does the
gentleman think we are all ignorant, that
we never Faw or knew any thing, that he
should attempt to palm off such an enor
mous blasphemy upon us? It is indeed
strange that a man of even ordinary intelli
gence, who knew aught of the falsehood, the
corruption and the thousand elements of de
struction which eminently characterize the pre
sent Democratic party, should make such an
unfounded and irreverent assertion. And
what does the gentleman mean ? Why attempt
to connect his party with the great Founder of
Christianity ? Is this the initiative of an ef
fort hereafter to be made to connect Church
and State ? It used to be said that Satan was
the first Nullilicr; now it is said that Christ
was the first Democrat; Mr. Simms is both a
Nullifier and a Democrat; have Cnrist and Sa
tan combined?
I leave the subject with this remark, Mr.
Simms wasinvited here to deliver a literary ad
dress on a literary occasion, and I think it in
exceedingly bad taste for him to so far forget
the object of his visilas to be induced to make
a pp.rty speech to a few brawling politicians.
With this 1 bid him farewell for the present.
A.
Sta.ndixg Committees of the House.—
The fallowing are the Standing Committees of
the House as announced by the Speaker:
State of the Republic.— Harris, of Baldwin How
ard, Carlton, Robinson of Jasper, Burton, Jackson of
Walton, Townsend, Terrell a id Mosely.
On the Judiciary.— Kenan, Lewis, Jones, Gar
trell, Harris of Baldwin, Seward, Shockley, and Bai
ley.
Ort Ranks.— Harris of Clarke, Robinson of Lau
rens, Kilgo, Bryan of Houston, Mclntosh and Cabi
ness.
On Manufactures. — Nisbet, Bethune, Ward,
Williams McConnell of Cobb, Reid and Andrews.
On the Penitentiary.— Mosely, Gaulding, Ram
sey, Daniel, i?attle, Howard, Atkinson. Quartern.an,
Derminey, Wi.mbush, Franklin, Ward and Gresham.
(Jn Printing.— Hanford, Headden, Williamson,
Hodges, Terrell, Black, Reynolds, Freeman and
Price.
Ort Finance.— Pl. Bethune, Black, Brown,
Reid, Todd, Atkinso.n, Glenn, Pace, Darnall and
Dozier.
Agriculture and Internal
tow, Kenan, Gartrell, Andei w of Warren, Nisbet,
Perkins, Pinckard, Phillips, Jift, Robinson of Cowe
ta. Walker of Richmond, Price ar, d Harden.
Education and Shockley, Bird,
Ramsey, Dubignon, Frilas, Glovei*°f Jasper, Glover
of Jones, H arris of Clarke, McConn °JI of Cass, Mc-
Cara, McDonald and Hendricks.
Privileges and Eleclicms. — Jones, Arnold, An
drews, Bullard, Glass, Hearn, Maloney, Verdeman,
Fleming, Brinson, Cameron, Lawton, Smii h of Cass
and Sheffield.
On Petitions. - Jackson of Walton, Keith, C-rock
er, .Morgan McConnell of Cobb, Seward, Whitworth,
Baugh, Talbot, Smith of Oglethorpe, Graham and
Alexander.
On Journals. —Robinson of Coweta, Anderson of
•Wilkes, Barn<*s, Fitzpatrick, McDuffie, Brinson,
Neil, Walker ofCrawford, Pollock, Wilson, Holmes
and McLeod.
On Military Affiirs. — Seward, Morri-, Harris
of Taliaferro, Cleveland, Spear, Tillman, Jackson of
Sumter, Cone, Zachary, Pentecost, Bryan of W&yne
and Strickland.
On Enrollment. — Gaulding, Bacon, Hodges, Rey
nolds, Colbert, Quarterinan, Harris of Morgan, Lewis,
W’ood, Glover of Jasper, Pace, Canaler, Rawles
Hall.
In Senate Nov. 11*
An unsuccessful effort was made this morning
in the Senate, by Mr. Dunagan and others, to
reconsider so much of the journal of luesday,
as relates to the election of a United Slates
ator. to fill the vacancy which will occur on the
4th of March, 1849.