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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. _ TEU M S . I>aily, per annum,.. Tri-Weekly, per annum,.. 6 00 If paid in advance, ’ L ’^ Weekly, per annum 3 00 If paid in advance, KTAII new subscriptions must be paid in advance. vCT Postage must be paid on all Coraniunicaikiib mad Lefers of business. f litrj/urled Jot the Baltimore Bun. j TTYENT YNIN Til CON GUESS. SECOND SESSION. Washington. Jan. T, 1947. SENATE. A report was received from the Xavy Department, irans.nilting copies of the official reports in relation to the loss of the Somers. A report was received from the War Department, vvith a statement of a!! ap propriations and expenditures made for rivers, harbois and fortifications. Mr. Cilley presented a petition from New Hampshire, lor the abolition of sla very, the motion to receive which was laid on th' table. On motion of Mr. Miller, the commit tee on commerce was ins’ rue ted to inqnii e into the expediency of establishing a Lighthouse on Tucker’s Island, m-ar the entrance of Little Egg Harbor, X. J. After some unim, ortarii business, the resolution offered on Tuesday, by Mr. Cameron, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report upon what articles embraced in the Tariff act of I84f» the duties can be increased so as to augment the revenu atnl to what extent they can be increased, an i what additional reve- | nne thev will produce, Mr. Ca me ton made some very judici- j ous remarks in support of his resolution. And said that bis object was to ascertain ; the best wav of tai i. nr means for the sup ; port of the government and prosecution of j the war. He <>;aed «iihk tacts in rela- i lion to coal, iron, cooper and refined su gar, and,expressed bis belief that an in- | crease of duty upon them would produce •a great increase of revenue. Mr. B reese made some remarks in re- j ference to Mr. Cameron’s great solictla tion about the particular interest he had named, to which the latter retorted w ill) tome strong sarcastic hits. Mr. Spei ghl was for looking into the j free articles, anc he proposed an amend tnenl to know what articles on I lie free lift it would he judicious to tax. Mr. Lewis submitted an amendment to know upon what articles a reduction of duty would cau-e an increase of revenue. Mr. Niles made a speech of some length, in which he denounced the fiuon cial measures of the government as total ly unfit for the present situation of the country. We should want loans to the amount of 835,000,000 a year, and yet no proposition was made to raise means for meeting the interest on these loans. — The onlv wav to get money lor peisent emergencies would he to sanction an issue < of paper money by the government. Every man must see that the credit of the gov ernment was fust sinking. Mr;,Johnson of Md., cdlered an amend ment to know whether taxing free arti cles would add to their cost to the consu mer, and how much? AH the amendments were agreed to and the resolutions were adopted. Mr. B“iitnn, from the committee on military affairs, reported a hill to encour age enlistments in the regular army, and asked that it he immediately considered, i as it was important th.it something should ! be d one on the subject. The bill provides that the term of en listment shall be for t!le war, or for live years, at the option of lie iccniit, and that he shall receive a bounty of 812 — one half on enlistment and the other half ,on being mustered into service. Mr. Crittenden stated that he should wole for the hill as at present advised.— f|e would like to know, however, wheth 4PT a-nv answer had been received from <he Mexican Government or Congress, to our proposal for negotiations. Mr. Benton believed no dates as late «s the lime of meeting of the Mexican Congress had been received. Mr.Crittenden was fora vigorous pro. «ecution .oflive war, and would vote lib- j •rally for men and money for that objec'. The bill was passed and sent to the House, where it was also passed with a alight amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate then took tip the report j of the committee on printing, that the j memorial of the sugar planters of Lonisi- | ana, presented some days since, asking a restoration of the tariff ol ’42 be not prin ted. After a long debate upon the tariff, war, Ac., the word ‘-not” was stricken out. and the report, as amended, was adopted. The Senate then adjourned until Mon- | day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tl.:* resolution of Mr. I iarralson, un der consideration when the House ad- j journed yesterday, to terminate the de bate on the bill providing for the of the regular army, tn day at 2£ o’clock, taken up, and amended so as to read Saturday, was adopted. Mr- Seaman, of New York, gave notice 1 Afhis intention to introduce a bill, in con forniity with resolutions of the common ; counp.il of the cjty -«i >jew York, to pro* | vide against the importation of foreign paupers and cwinid«jls into the United I States. * * ‘ . The House, then, f,3 ip GJ, decided to into committee oj the whole on the stale ol the Union. r I he hiV4 having been taken up* Mr. Da rgan, of Alabama., who Jvad. ihe floor yesterday, addressed tin* Cadffmt litre. ‘ He proceeded to discuss the provisions of tfie bill, and the question of slavery as connected with the acquisition of new territory, in particular, taking the ground that the term*; of the M issouri compromise should be sti icily carried out, and that there should be no interference with the subject of slavery, in any enactment by Congress having a view to territories acquired during the present war with Mexico. He was followed by Mr. Sed lon, of Virginia, whose views coincided en ■ tirely with those of Mr. Dargan. j Mr. Grover, of Xew York, next obtained ' the floor, and replied to the argument ol Messrs. Seddon and Dargan on the .sub ject of slavery. By prohibiting the in troduction of slavery into the new ter ritories, he contended there would be no infringement of the terms of the Missouri compromise—no interference with the rights of t lie South. He vvas in fa vor of the bill for prnsecutinglbe war with vigor, atnl opposed to anv course calculated to es t range anv portion of the democratic par! v, or lend io their union w ith the whigs. We want California, but we want it free of slavery. a Jn the course of the debate in committee, Mr. F icklin, bv consent, ollered a substi lufe for the whole bill, which will he con. sidered in its proper place. It differs essentially from the frill under considera tion from the military committee, and in i many particulars, front the substitute | i offered vesterdav by Mr. Ratlhhnn, confi ning llie force to lie raised to volunteers e.xciti'ively, and providing for the election of officers 1)v the companies and regi ments. but then to receive t!i*“ir cornnfis sions from the President, and not trout the Governors of the States in which the volunteers are raised. It also provides that when any State •-hall have (ailed or delayed for the space J of two months lo furnish the volunteers caller! for by the President, .1 shall he | | lawful for him to (ill up tlie regiment-; to j j he raised with volunteers from other j ! Stales, which may have been or gaui-eti | i and ready to he mustered into service. | j That volunteers to he raised under this i act, shall be received with reference to j the promptness with which 'hey shew i themselves ready, and their fitness for | service, and without regard to the S ateor ! territories fiom which they may come. That each volunteer shall receive 810 per month from 'he lime of being mustered | into set vice, and shall he entitled to lUO j acres of laud, and being honorab'y dis charged, if*© next of kin to receive land of those who are killed in battle or die in llie service of the U. Slates. At the conclusion ot Mr. Graves’ re marks, the committee rose. On motion of Mr. Boyd, the House took tip Senate hill to encourage enlistments in the regular army. Mr. B. offered as an amendment to that part relating to the time of enlistment (five years or during the war) the words ‘-unless sooner dis charged.” The amendment was adopted, j and the bill read three times and passed. ! h gives a bounty of 812 to recruits. A communication was read fVorn toe Clerk of the House, and ano'her from the War Department, giving the contingent expenses of bureau, &c., far the fiscal yea r. Sundry bills which bad passed the Senate, were read twice and refer re 1- The bill from the Senate, authorising the President to increase the naval es tablishment of the United States, was read twice and referred to committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Several bills, not of general interest, , j were introduced, read tw ice, arid referred i —chiefly relating to improvements of ■ . ~ western rivers. i Mr. W. \V. Campbell presented a memorial asking for lire establishment ol : an Admiralty Court at Key West. A resolution was adopted, requesting | the President to inform the House the j amount of po>tages of the Execuiine De- ! part ment under llie new postage law' for I the year 1840. Also, a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the amount ol public monies in the several depositories, and to give the reason whv tiie month!v statement bus not been , furnished. Adjourned. 3IR. OWENS’ SPEECH, [continued. ] This assent to the reception of an envoy from the United States was coupled with a single condition; and this the ininkster de dared to be indispensable, so that the nego tiation might proceed, without suspicion of menace or coercion on our part. 'The condi tion was the “recall of the whole naval force lying in sight of the port of Vera Cruz ” It w as immediately complied with,and the force withdrawn. Two months later, trusting to j llie above promise as ensuring Ins reception, } Mr. Slidell reached Vera Cruz. Everyone < knows the result. Mexico, false lo her word, ! refused to receive him, on grounds too frivo lous for repetition; and which, it they meant anything, meant that the question regard rig 'Texas must be settled separately, and vvilh i out anv reference lo the claims of this gov ernment against Mexico; a proposition ab ! surd and inadmissible. If there be any gen ! tieman here slid d sp< sed to veil Mexico’s i breach of faith under the flimsy pretences i with which she has sought to cover it, 1 beg him to read the leiier of <uir consul, Mr. | Biack, containing an account ol his inter view with the Mexican minister of toreigc af fairs, at the moment he first heard of Mr. Slidell’s arrival. The flr.-t unguarded ex pressions ot live man are h<mes#and truthful. Let gentlemen compare them with the la bored as er-lbought put forth by the mini-ter in ihe*iubsequent despatch. Consul Black’*- j account of the interview is Kief and instruc | live. Mr. Pena v Pena asked him who Mr. i Slidell was. * Mr. Black replied, that he sup ■ posed him lo be “the envoy whom the Mexi | can government had agreed n» receive from the government of the United States.” 1 give the minister’;, reply in llie words ol Mr. j Black’s letter: “He said I hat ought not to be; the govern- j mem did not expect an envoy from the Uni- I ted State* until January, «a they wer# not j <l 11 MW! ■■■ —i■ ■'■'M-1* ”■ 1 1 ***> prepared to receive him; and he desired, if possible, that he would not come to the capi tol, nor even disembark at lids lime; and that I should endeavor to prevent his doing so, as hi« appearance in the capitol at tins time might prove destructive to, the government, and tints defeat the whole affair. ‘You know, (said he) the opposition are calling us trai tors for entering inio this arrangement with you.’**—Mr. Black to Mr. Buchanan, Dec. 18, 1845; iio. Dec. 19b, 291 h Cong., Ist sess. p. 17. And i( this be not plain enough, take ano ther garapraph ; “He said that the government itself was I well disposed and ready to proceed in the ne gotiation, but that if the affair was com menced now, it would endanger its existence; t hat the government were preparing the thing, collecting the opinion and consent of the de partments, which they expected to have fin ished bv January, and then would be able to proceed in the affair with more security; that the government were afraid that the appear ance of the envoy at. this time would produce a revolution against it, which might termi nate in its destruction.” —Ibid. p. 13. A child mav see through this, fie who riins may read it. No nonsense here about powers nd hoc,or an ap[>ointment lacking con firmation by a Senate not in session; but the plain unvarnished truth : “We dare not keep faith with you. Ihe attempt would endanget our existence.” Here, without doubt, is exposed, not only the true reason of our failure in every at tempt to open negotiations, hut the whole se cret of Mexican bravado, Mexican war, Mexi- J can obstinacy. A President is insecure in i h s sent, unless he indulge in abuse and de nnnciat ion of the “republic of the north, and in boastful promises to re-conquer from her the lost province of Texas. A single World about pacific negotiation, an J soldo watch ful aspirant plies the soldiery with pfotesta ; lions of his zeal for their interests, and his j hatred of the northern rubbers; feeds their ' enpidifv vvidi hopes of booty; denounces the i peaceful designs of the executive as fraitor | mis; and a revolt, in his own ravor, is the re- I suit. Such was the part played, and suc cessfully p ayed, at this juncture, by Paredes against Herrera. Even before Mr. Slidell foot on shore, a large handbill made its appearance, couched in language the most inflammatory, and beaded in startling capi tals “treason!” And the same post that conveyed«. ,f » our government Mr. Black’s let ter, arid the o. ctamen of the Mexican council o f government the reception of an American minister, brought also ti es of the “Amigo del Pueblo,” the leading opposition journal of Mexico, hreai.bing the fiercest hos tility again.-t the United States, denouncing the proposed negotiation as treason, and, in its last number, calling upon the people to put down the government by Force. i he>e documents were received at the Department of State, on the 12th of January last, and the next dav orders were expedited to Gen. I av ion, to advance from Corpus Christi, and take up a position on the eastern bank of the Rio Bravo. Against this move, so long delayed, and made at last only when all reasonable hopes of peace had passed away, the whig party have chiefly concentrated their attack. ]t is set down as unprovoked, unwarranted; the sole and sufficient cause of the war that en.-ued. I have heard the two-penny tax on tea that war imposed by Great Britain in 1775. spoken of as having brought about the American revolution. They who so reason mistake a trivial incident lor a great ratt-e. That obnoxious tax but precipitated a mighty event, that had been slowly, gradually, but inevitably approaching. If may have deter mine.'! the year and the day when America assumed tier equal station among the nations of the earth. It may have decided, that in the month of April, and in the year 1775, the first blood shed in the revolutionary struggle should flow, dyeing the grass plat of Lexing ton. But the true cause of a political con vulsion that gave freedom to a hemisphere lay deeper and spread wider Car, than any iso lated act of oppression. A nation had out grown her dependence, and was ripe for (lie experiment of self-government. Therefore came the American revolution. And thus, though it be in a smaller matter, do they err, who -es down the atlvanee from the Nueces to the Rio Grande, rightful as it was. as having brought about war with Mexi co. If immediately preceded, but it did not produce it. It but accelerated, by a few days or weeks it may be, a crisis, which the state of public leeling in Mexico, gathering for years, had rendered inevitable at last. That which sufficed to cause, and did cause, tii s war, was flic facility with which the Mexican presidency can be reached by an appeal Jo the prejudices, and to the national animosities of the Mexican army and the Mexican people. Herrera talked of negotiat ing with us, and his administration went down. Paredes came in on the question of hostility to the United State.-; and to main tain his ill-go'len power, he found himself compelled to redeem the braggart pledges by which he acquired it. He bad called Her rera a traitor, Irocause he spoke of peace; he could evince his own patriotism only by urg ing on war. This view of the subject is am ply confirmed by an official communication drawn from Mexico in March last; the letter of Castillo y Lanzas, from which I have al ready quoted. In terms plain as language can make them,and in language intemperate as passion can suggest, this letter main'ains the same ground originally assumed by Al monte, when he demanded his passports. — 'The seizure of Texas is its theme; annexa tion the burden of its complaint. iSays the Mexican minister; “This incorporation of a territory which had const it tiled an integral part of that of Mexico during the long period of the Spanish dominion, and after emancipation tor so long a term, wiihaul any interruption whatever, an* l which, moreover, had been recognised and sanctioned by the treaty of limits between rite Mexican republic and the United Slates of America—’lns annexation —was effected by the reprobated means of violence and fraud.” And then, after repeating the argument about “unin’errupted possession,” he pro ceeds to say: ■•Here, then, is the true position of the Mexican republic, despoi ed, outraged, con temned. it is now attempted to subject her to a humiliating degradation i’oe sentiment of her own dignity vviil not aiiow her to con sent to her own ignmny.” But even this is not aM. If Senor Castillo v Lanzas be not very courteous, lie is at least very frank. 11 is government, so in another part of the despatch he tebs us, bad he fore ha ml declared, in view of the annexation of Texas that it would regard “so notable an act of usurpation” as a cause of war: when consummated, therefore, he adds, “negotia tion was, by its very nature, at an end, and war was the only resource of the Mexican government,” And to this man, and in the face of such declarations, we were to talk of the niceties of a boundary line,or the equita ble partition of a petty strip of land between the Nueces and the Rio Grande! Texas is his demand! A retrocession of Texas, his claim of satisfaction! To those who charge that our government wilfully began, and wil fully continues, the war, I desire here to put a plain question. You ha e heard the claim of Mexico; are you ready to grant it? Do you advise to cede the State of Texas as the price of peace? If so, well; avow, frankly, that such is your counsel. But if not; if you think the price Mexico has set upon i peace is too high, then do not, after the man ner of children, complain that you have not obtained what you are unwilling to pur ; chase. One of mv colleagues [Caleb Smith) , in noticing, at (lie last session, the short comings of our executive, charged, as a cul pable omission, the non-conclusion of a trea » ty of boundaries. “It was agreed by Con gress.” said he “that I he boundary should be settled by treaty.” It can, undoubtedly, be ; so i-ett led; Mexico has told us on what terms. We have but to agree, as the western limit of her territory, to the line of the Sabu.e. How the hundred thousand free citizens of Texas will receive an act of retrocession; what the world will think of it; and whether 1 before we give the dastard vote that shall abandon an integral portion of our territory, 1 a second time, to the tender mercies of Mex ican tyrants, the last spark of self-respect must not have died out in our hearts; these are matters which I leave the clamorers fur peace at anv cost to settle for themselves. — With these facts before ns, what becomes of i all die idle declamation about a war unpro j yoked and boundary unsettled ? I demand ! specifications. I a.-k again, what measure • of peace have we omitted ? Congress lelt the boundary question open for adjustment by treaty. Our Executive, sec'ruling the design of Congress, and overlooking alike the abrupt departure and war-like threats of Almonte, the breach of faith of one Mexican I «dfnini«’ration, and the insulting rharges I preferred against ns by aim ier, has sought, ; again and again, to open a fr-’tid'y negofia ; tion with Mexico, Disappointed in our over tures to Herrera, we still proffered peace to ! Paredes. Repulsed by Paredes, wo tendered i the olive brunch to Santa Anna. Gould we ! force negotiations'? GouM wo compel pea fee? ■ 1 Are the hearts of faithless rulers in our { hand*, that we should chang* them ? Is the , will of n mercenary soldiery ours to control? ! It is rnv deliberate judgment that we have I pushed to the verge of importunity our slriv { ings after peace. In the ca>e of a powerful i j nation one-half the advances we have made I would have exposed us to the charge of pu ; j silanimitv. As it is, we have lavished gen i erosity on a government that seems not to • j know the meaning of the word. I have hastily reviewed the past. Let ns I urii, for ■ brief space, to the doing- of (fie present, and i the prospects of the future. It needs not lo waste words in proof, that a nation at war i 1 has an absolute right to her conquests, until i i retaken, or reded by a treaty of peace; and , ! a further right to provide laws for conquered ■ j territory. If in support of one of ihe clear est principles of international law, as laid j down bv Grotiuf*. Pnffendotl” and every oth ' er publicist of standard reputation, it were : necessary to adduce the highest legal Amer ican authority, it i- at hand. We find among j the rases in the Supreme Court reported for ' the year 1810, one exactly in point. The fact< and the opinion, in thi- rase, are briefly as follows; On the Ist of September, 1814, the British forces captured the town and har- I bor of Casline. in the collection district of i Maine. It remained in possession of the British from that time until lhe 27th of April, 1 815, when, in pursuance of Ihe treaty of peace, then just concluded, it was restored to dhe United States. During the time of Its occupation by the British forces, certain good- were imported in o the said port, and ! the legal question presented was, whether ; these goods were imported into what was | then a part of the United Stales, and were i subject to American duties, or whether they 1 were importer/ info what, for the time, wa i one of the Britis h possesions in North Amer ica, and therefor.© subject to British law.— The opinion of the- court, delivered by Mr. Justice Story, was a unanimous one. It de clared that goods imported into Ga-tinc dur ing its occupation by the British troops “w r > in no correct sense impor ed into tnt United i S ates.” And it thus lays down the law on 1 the subject of conquest and the rights it : gives. j “By Ihe conquest and military occupation 1 of Castine, the enemy acquired that firm possession which enabled h.ni to exercise the 1 fullest rights of sovereignty over that place | The sovereignty of the I nited States was. j of course, suspended; and the laws of the 1 Ut i'ed States cou d no longer be rightfully I enforced there, or he obligatory on the inhab itants who remained and submitted to the conquerors. By the surrender the inhabi tants passed under a temporary allegiance to the British government, and were bound by such laws, and such only, as it chose to recognise and impose.”— Whelan's Reports, veil. 4, p. 254. Pdr Webster, for the defence, adduced nn merous authorities, which may he consulted by the skeptical, and of which Mr. Story said ; “The audrorities cited at the bar would, if fliero were any doubts, he decisive of the question. But we think it too clear to re quire any aid from authority.— Rage 255. [ To be concluded in our next, j [From the A T . O Evening Mercury, Jan. 4.] I.alc from the Ctnlf Squadron. The U. 8. frigate Potomac, Capl. Aulick, arrived at Pensacola on Wednesday l ist horn Anton L zardo. The Pensacola Gazette says: “She comes in lo replenish her supplies of water and provisions, having distributed among the other vessels of the squadron off Vera Cruz and Tampico those articles with which she sailed from this port but little more than two mouths ago. She comes in now with barely one week’s water on board, and but little more of provisions. # “The Potomac sailed from Anton L’zardo on the 23d nit. Left there flag ship Raritan, sloop-ot-war John Adams, store-ship Relief, steamer Petnta and several prizes taken at Tohasco and Tampico; also the American bark Joan Barnes from New Odeans, with slo k and small stores for sa '• to the squad ron. 'The Prince ion was block off Vera Cruz The British Steamer had arrived on the Is‘h nil. from Havana, having on board Gen. Vega and suite. “A Court of Inquiry was convened on board the Potomac on the 18th,to hives'igate the cause of the io-s of Ihe brig Somers, re cently capsized in a squall off Green Island. The result of the investigation, it was gener ally understood in the squadron, is an acquit tal of the commander, Lieut. Seinmes, of all blame for the loss of that vessel. Six or eight of the crew of that unfortunate ves sel, were still held as prisoners by the Mexi cans. “On the 17th, Commodore Perry left In the Mississippi with the steamer Vixen and the two gun boats, Bonita and Petrel, for the purpose of taking possession of Laguna and more effectually blockading the coasts of Yu- | catan and Tobasco. “On the night of the IGth, one of the small schooners raptured at Tampico, being on her way to Antonio L zardo from that place, un der command of Lieut. Winslow, was wreck ed on Green Island shoal during a norther — crew saved. “No news of importance had recently been received from Mexico, and bur iitile authen tic information could he obtained from the Mexican shore—and it tins become an ex i ceedingy difficult matter for the officers of the squadron togeg sight of a Mexican news paper, sii celhe French midshipman was im prisoned for being found with a newspaper in his posseg-ion from Commodore Connor to some gentleman in Vera Cruz.” [From the N. O. Eveuig Mercury, Ja7i. sih ] From .tlcxito. The Picavtine has papers from Vera Cruz lo the 17ih ultimo. It would ap ( pear from the accounts that the reports heretofore received byway of Tampico, of the adverse action of the Mexican Con gress on the pacific proposition of the Uni j led States, were at least premature. We make the following extracts from our con temporary, which comprise all that we find of interest, beside the items which we gave vesteiday via Pensacola. “7’he afternoon of the 13th nit. on« of our frigates en'ered the harbor of Vera Cruz under a flag of truce. The purpose { of the visit washo supply some of our j shipwreck sailors, who are now prisoners, J with money and clothing. Tiie case of ! Passed Midshipman Rogers, too. was probably the subject of discu-sion, for we learn that he is low treated as a prisoner of war instead of a spy. In making ihe reconnaissance in which he was captured it was proved that lie was in ihe undress unifmin of his rank. “In regard to the action of the Mexican Congress, the accounts which the papers give us are not complete, hut they do not j confirm w hat has been generail v said and i h- lieved of the rejection of our overtures | for peace. They do not, however, con - I t adict our former reports. Tin belief in die squadron appears lo have been that Congress had not acted upon the subject at all. Preparatory sessions of the mem bers elected were held as far hack as the 20ih of Novcornher, hut we have a dis i patch of Senor Lefragn'a, the Secretary j of Slate, stating that Congress was duly Installed at half past 1 I o’clock, P. M., of the sth of November. The procemi. ing of the J Ith ult. are the latest we find in the pepers, “We have before us, copied from the 1 Monitor RepUhlicano of the H h Decern her. the constitution of the Commi’tees of the Chamber of Deputies. These appoint ments are important to tho-e who tire fa- I miliar with die politics of the leading mien of Mexico. The Committee on Pun -1 los Consiitucionales. or the formation of i •j a new constitution for the country, are , Senores lU joti, Gomez I'arias and Otero. 'I he first is the lately dismissed Secreta- ; rv of State, who has quarreled with Sa las and Santa Anna. The second is die leaderol the pure republicans, and the friend of Rejon. Senor Otero, if we re collect aright, was a former proprietor of HI Siglo XiX, since 1* come, HI Monitor Republic on, a liberal Journal, conduct ed with ability. O'ero was the gentleman grossly a ffi on ted try the Baron Alleye de Cvprey, in the theatre. “The Committee on Gohernacion. or Government,consists of ex-President Her rera. Golov and Riva Palacio—all well 1 known names. That on Foreign Rola- ! Lons consists of Rejon, Ccballos and ; O e-o. “Gomes Farias is Chairman of the I Commillee on Finance, and Herrera of that on War and die Navy. We have : given mongo oft he names to indicate i dial the liberal statesmen appear to he in the ascendent in the new Congress.” The ship New York, II nil master, left New York on Wednesday, 23d nil—went ashore on the* banks between Hatteras and Cape Look Out on the following Sunday about bait past 5 o’clock in tbe morning, in a calm, ■ weather foggy. Shortly after the vessel grounded, the female passengers were landed on the main land, at a place called Hunting ; Quarters, and taken to tbe house ofa Cap tain Smith, at that place, where they remain ed until Wednesday, the 39th ultimo, when ihey were joined l»y the remainder of the passengers, a ; l of whom left in a sciir. (fur- j nished them by the master of die light iiou-e in the neighborhood.) for Beaufort, N. C., which they reached same day, and left shortly as; e r in the same vessel lor Ihe purpose of reaching Swansbury, but got aground be tween that (1 ce and Beaufort. They how, ever procured lighters and reached Swans bury the next day, from whence they at tempted lo reach SmithviUe, .N. C., but were prevented from so doing in consequence of head winds, and stopped (or several days ; lat a place on the coast cal ! ed Bear Banks with 1 die only family living «n die [ lace. The | wind becoming favorable, lelt that place lor 1 Swansbury, and shortly alter left for Smith j vide, which they reached on Saturday Ja-t, j about 11 o’clock, and mi die afternoon of the j same day were received on board of die | Wilmington boa,;, and arrived here yesterday. A letter to the Consignee in this city, states that die .-h p went ashore on the morning of tlie27th nil., at 5 o’clock, 25 miles soudi of | Ocracock. The passengers and baggage all i safely landed and cargo, a valuable one, with tiie exception ofa few packages, landed on tne beach in good order under charge of the wreck master. The ship lies head on about 80 feet from the beach— leaks, as \ef, but little, and there is some hope of getting her off. The wreck master advertises to com mence selling 12 h inst. The New York Commercial Advertiser states that the New York had a full cargo, but not considered a valuable one at this sea son of the year —was a fine ship of t!SO lons burthen, built in that city in 1844. Vessel and cargo insured in Wall-st,— Charleston Conner, \\th inst . __ AUCUSTA.fiEU., ' TUESDAY (MORNING, JAN. 12, 1847^ O* No mail received last evening from c?f ficea north of Charleston. Another Good Dividend. The Board of Directors of the Augusta In surance and Banking Company, declared & dividend, on Monday, of four per cent on thd business of the past six months, which is payable on demand. The Weal her— Rail Rondo. We learn from the Atlanta Luminary of the 9th iust. that the recent cold weather ex j perienced there has had some effect on th« ; Hail Roads in that section, delaying the usual time of arrival of the cars. The freight train which should have ar rived at Atlanta on Thursday evening, per Georgia Rail Road, did not reach there until half past one on Friday morning, being de layed by the freezing ol the water, and the consequent impossibility of supplying the engines. The passenger train on the Georgia road was also detained on Friday morning, some two hours and a half beyond the usual time; the delay being attributable to the stale of the weather and the condition of the road. >e downward truth from Atlanta to Ma : con. on the Western road, runoff the track about two miles from Griffin, in consequence I of the ice on the rails, but no material da | mage was done by the accident, further than the delay of the passengrrs. They suffered | considerable from the cold. Sin’ll (toveruora’ IVfrsnugca. The message of Gov. Young, of New York* covers but two columns and a third of the | New York Tribune. It was transmitted by telegraph to that city iu less than liiree hours, Iwo wires having been occupied in transmit ing different portions of it at the same time. \ Governor Shunk, of Fenusylv.wiL, ho.# also * been quite merciful on his constituents aa well as the printers; his message occupying ; but three columns and a half of the Philadel phia Ledger. The message of Governor Temple, of the little State of Delaware, on the other hand, covers nearly seven columns ol the Wilmington Journal. IT The person who has in his possession ‘•The Mier Expedition, h, Gen, Green,” be j longing to the editor of this paper, will oblige | him by returning it to this office. On. I.umnr. A floating rumor of the death of Gen. M. I B. Lamar, in a Northern paper, which we did not publish—having no confidence in its cor rectness— is fully contradicted by the receipt , of a letter from him by his brother—Dr. T; R. Lamar—eight days la'er in dale than thd rumored letter, which stales the Ger- .a! to be in his usual health. This we learn from the Macon Telegraph, I,tu:i. J. q. Atlanta. A correspondent of a New England paper, announces that Mr. J. Q Adams is recover ing his health and strength so fast that he and his friends hope confidently that he will toon be able to resume his seat iu Congress. {FTA Naval Court to inquire into the loss of the U. H, sloop-of-war Boston, was ed on the 7lh inst. on board the U. H. ship Pennsylvania at Norfolk. The Court is j composed of the following officers:—Presi dent, Commodore Jesse Wi!];i:i>on; Members, Com. Cims. \V. Skinner and Capt. W. I>. Halter; Judge Advocate, Lieut. George P* I Upshur. The Virginia Ilrgliucnt. The Virginia regiment of volunteers nas j been reported full, and the Governor lias ten dered the services of an additional battalion to the Secretary of War. The Palmetto Ilrgimeut. We are glad to »ee (*ays Hie Montgome ry, Ala. Journal,) that some of our citizen# are taking measures to give the South Coro liua Regiment, on rts arrival here, a hospita ble welcome, and the honor# appropriate to gallant men embarked in tbeir country’# ser vice, and on tiieir route to the field of their country’s enemies, ttJTVVe see by the Charleston papers that j that city will, no doubt, be shortly lit up by Gaw The surveys have been mid-*, and rt is thought the stock, after the first year, will yield at least ten per cent. President l*oik'a do.ton. Pickett, Perkin# & Co., at the corner of j Magazine and Canal streets, says the N. O. Picayune, have received ihe cotton crop, or I a portion of it, from the plantation of Pre#i -1 dent Polk, at Natchez. From the specimen I we saw at the office of Messrs. P. P. & Cn., we should imagine that the President ofthe.e : United Stales can raise as fine cotton a# any body else, and we imagine that it will go off as rapidly as if it were prepared gun cotton. lowa V. S. Senator. An Dtempt was made iu the lowa Legis lature to elect aU. S. Senator. The vote ; stood, 29 for Wilson, Democrat; 29 for Mc- Carty, Independent; and 1 for Mitchell, Whig. The Senate, a majority of which are Demo crats, then refused to enter into a second bal lot. It is thought that no election will take I place during the session. The Supplies. On Tuesday night, according to the Daily Fountain,it was rumored in Washington, that if Congress persists in its refusal to grant the supplies to carry on the war, the President will appeal from that body to the people upon this great question. It is also rumored that Mr. Secretary Wal ker has determined to resign hi# office at an early day if the House doe# not speedily re verse its decision and impose a war doty o« tea and coffee.