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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST, JAMES GARDNER, JR. T £ 11 A1 S . Pnily, per annum, ? s Tri-W’ eekly, per auuum, 6 ou i if pan! in advance, 5 Weekly, per annum, 3 00 If paid in adv ance, 50 SCT AH n«w subscriptions must he paid inadvain-e. Postage must lie paid on all Cummunicatn ns ami Letters of hueiness. [From the Louisville Journal. J To n Mtep-C'hiltl . Thou art not mine—the golden locks that cluster Round thy broad brow— Thy Line eyes with their soft and liquid lustre, And cheek of snow— E'fenthe stiange sadness or; thy infant features Blending with love— Are hers w hose‘mournful eyes seem sadly bending On her lost dove. Thou art not mine—upon thy sweet dtp lingers Thy mother’s smile— And while 1 press thy soft and baby fingers. In mine the w hile— tn the d -ep eyes so trust fully upraising Their light to mine— -4 deem the spirit of thy mother gazing To my soul’s shrine. They ask me with their meek and soft beseeching A mother’s care — They ask a mother’s kind and patient teaching— A mother’s prayer. Not mine—yet dear to me; fair fragrant blossom Ot a fair tree. Crushed to the earth in life’s first glorious summer. Thou art dear to we. Child of the lost, llte buried, and the sainted, I call thee. mttlC— Till fairer still with tearsand sin untainted. Her home he thifie. [From the New Orleans Fu nyune, Bth ins’ l.J Tampico. Everything relating to Tampico, and indeed Tamaulipas, must be interesting to the public. VV« have the means of furnishing much statistical intelligence concerning the country, vvitfeb we shall publish at an early day. The resources, soil, climate, productions and prospects ot this new acquisition, art? matters of general interest in themselves, and will become more so in case the country should remain permanently in the pos session of the United Slates. At present we must content ourselves with publishing the following letter from a foreigner, resident at Tampico, of the ’highest respectability. It will be seen that ho discusses the annexation question with freedom and without prejudice. As an indication of the wishes of the foreign residents in this regard, the opinions of the writer might be a safer criterion than they are of the disposition of the native and Mexican population. He predicts a destiny for the Mexican nation which many profess to foresee. His observa tions on this head must pass for what they are worth. We repeat that the writer is a man of character—a European who has long resided in Tampico. [Correspondence of the Picayune.] Tampico, Dec. 2sth, 1846. ]\lessrs. Editors .---This city, occu pied hut a few weeks by the American forces, has already changed its aspect. Theie prevails an unusual activity nev er dreamed of before. Public order and t ranquillity urc every where visible. Pro. visions are abundant, ami at low prices; such articles as the inhabitants were for ruerly deprived of, now daily arrive from New Orleans, and those that the country affords come into market with the same regularity and as plentifully as hereto fore. The Mexican people, in spite of their natural indolence—in spite of their blind haired to all that is foreign—cannot in a short time fail to acknowledge the advan tages which they will derive from the civilization and liberal institutions of the United States, although these be trans mitted by an armed invasion offensive to their national feelings and pride. Pub lie officers, civil and military, may com plain, but they no doubt will he the only Mexicans that will not be benefited by a change of nationality. The laboring class will always have employment and lair salaries, joined to cheap food and cheap clothing. House rent will prove a good income to proprietors; hut above all the land proprietor, almost reduced under the Mexican administration to starvation, will find himself opulent and wealthy. How could they have been so long blind to these blessings? The people tremble at the idea of the return of Mex ican power here, and it is only when they perceive that the Government of the Uni ted States has firmly established its do minion over their territory that they will venture to breathe their real feelings. This the Government at Washington should do at once : declare that the terri tory occupied by the American troops be longs to the American nation, and im plant, inasmuch as it can safely be done for the present, the laws and institutions of the United States, and so prepare tfie Mexican population to become American citizens. Is it not in the human destiny that at some future period Mexico will be invaded by the Anglo-Saxon race? Why, Ihen, since a proper conjunction offers, not avail ourselves of it, and anticipate the work of posterity, sparing further bloodshed and heavy expenditures, to at tain an object which is just at the point of their bayonets? Now that the war has been pushed so far, the Sierra Mad re should be the limits of the two Republics —Tampico, in the Gulf of Mexico, Ma zatlan, ou the Pacific, must be the bul warks of American dominion. Let the rest of the country belong to Mexico. Let its Government be ever so obstinate, let it be ever so vain or boasting, it must call (or peace, de[ rived of its riciiest pro vinces and of all pecuniary resource; but let it be at once curtailed of the northern part of the country, as far as the line we have just discribed, ami let that part be from this very moment an integral one ot American Union. 1 have gone far fiom my previous object; my intention was solely to speak of Tamaulipas and more particularly of the city of Tampico. 'Phis Slate of Tamaulipas, bordering upon Texas, is, of the Mexican territory, ihat which mostdeservesthealtentionofthe American statesman. Its possession will complete that of Texas,and to say the truth Tamaulipas cannot exUt unless annexed to the United Slates. Its greatest extent is on the sea shore, or little in the inte rior; its ground is level, and easy culti vated. At both of its extremities is a beautiful river, the Rio Bravo and the Panuco, which American industry would render navivable to a great distance. It might, perhaps, contain two millions of inhabitants, although in our days it is re duced to fifty or sixty thousand. The different produce which might be cultiva ted in its fertile soil—such as tobacco, cotton, sugar cane, coffee, &c.—would render it one of the richest State, of the Confederation, and under all circum stances it is a possession worthy of envy. Tampico is i's principal port and its principal city. This is where all foreign goods consumed in the inferior of the country must arrive, and with a liberal law of customs this place would in a few years count ten times the number of its present inhabitants. Its population is mostly foreign, and of all Mexican cities tliis is the most ready lo ieceive American institutions. It would he desirable that from this very moment the United States should not he satisfied with its military possession; doubtless there is an anomaly in tbe ex istence of two such ditferent powers— hostile, we may say, one 10 the other. Authority, under all its shapes, should he American- —municipal and judicial, as well as military—and it is only then that the benefits of in vasion will be felt by all parties. All this bears, a wonderful in terest. Tampico, during the war, is des tined bv its position to be the depot and general quarters of aggression; in peace, let its solution be what it may, it is a key to Mexic‘o, afid a security which it might he imprudent to give away—it is, or might become, the Gibraltar of the Gulf of Mexi co! Let the people and the Government of the United Slates reflect over this. [From the Mobile Advertiser. ] Celebration of New V. ai’» JEve. As usual in this City, New Year’s Eve was a stirring season. At as early an hour as eight o’clock the streets, especially Royal and those in the vicinity, began lo be thronged by citizens and strangers. Bv nine o’clock the assemblage must have numbered thousands—and all these m ihe open streets, apart from those who were looking forth from the houses and build ings adjacent. It was a warm and a moonlight night, thus affording additional inducements and facililes for wondcr seeking—and all this vast throng were out, seeking the expected wonders of the season. Os these strange sights we will proceed to give a brief sketch, which shall be truthful as far as our observation at the lime of their appearance will enable us to draw the picture. The Cow-Bell ion De Bakin Society , a secret and mysterious brotherhood, that makes its advent publicly but once in a twelvemonth, and that ou New Year’s Eve, is the first to claim notice. This fraternity is of quite an ancient origin. It can be traced back, we are told, some fifty or sixty years, to old Spanish times, though probably then it had not been brought into any very exact order or dis cipline. In its present form, we infer, it has existed for sixteen years, as we ob served on one of the banners the inserp. lion, “16f/t Anniversary .” The members are unknown, always appearing in public in masks, and under such disguises as to defy all efforts at recognition. As these anniversaries approach, there are, as might be expected, a thousand prying eyes about, seeking to fix an individuality ujxni this one or that, or to discover the mystic den from which this legion of masquers will issue forth; but generally, all scrutiny of this sort, we believe, has been fruitless. This year, we are well assured, public expectation, as to the spot where they would first be discovered, was entirely in the dark. While curious eyes were fleering, now up or down this street or that, now around this square or that, a strange cavalcade, a ghostly looking multitude, mounted on milk white steeds, came prancing into the city, from the direction of Choctaw Point or the Bay Road. They were preceded by a fine band of music, seated in an open carriage, drawn by four milk white horses. The procession, extending some two squares in length, numbering some 70 horsemen, riding three abreast, hud ambled its way so noiselessly that it reached almost to the heart of the city, before discovered, when the apparition was made public by a burst of music from its full and efficient band. Often as tin's fraternity has appeared, it would be supposed a difficult matter to have something new on each occasion. Yet such has been the case for at least sixteen years. It was a novel sight to see them mounted —and then lo see such a multitude all bestriding white steeds. The wonder was, where could such a number of horses all of one color be obtained, and then congregated without attracting notice, or exciting suspicion. It was truly an imposing spectacle—the most so, taking it in all its accompaniments, its illuminated banner and other unique appointments, that the society ever yet made. The fraternity represented this year some of the most distinguished warriors of ancient and modern times. Each war rior had his group of attendants, all clad and armed in the style of the age and na tions they prefigured. These characters and their followers were attempted to be represented in statuary, and the attempt was as completely successful as it was possible lo triage animated forms appear like inanimate. Hence the dresses of the masquers were of snowy whiteness from head to fi>ot, and even in their counte nances there wasthevery look of chiselled marble itself. The silence, maintained with scrupulous care wherever the throng moved, aided the illusion, and it needed no great stretch o t the imagination to fancy the pageant, as it passed in review before us, to be a legion of mounted sta tuary. The first warrior in the retinue was Cyrus the Persian—the last was Bolivar of our own times. Cyrus and his follow, ers appeared in a chariot drawn by while horses. The banners designated the principal acts and battles in which the characters represented were conspicuous —and were disposed as follows; (1) 'Pa king of Babylon 560 before Christ—Cy rus, the Persian. (2) Battle of Grani cus, 320 B. C. Alexander, the Macedo nian. (3) Battle of Cannae, 190 B. C. Hannibal, the Carlhageinian. (4) Rattle of Capha rsolarna, 160 B.C. Judas Mac cabees, the Judea n. (5) Homan Consul, 44 B.C. Cccsar. (6) Siegeof Aqniliea, A. D. 462. Attila, the Hun. (7) 'Fa king of Jerusalem, A D. 1139. Sala din. the Saracen. (3) Battle of A sea lon, A I). 1192. Richard, “Couerde Lion.” (9) Rattle of Tangut, A. D. 1225. Gong his Khan, the Mongul. (10) Battle of Stirling, A- D. 1297. Wallace, the Scot, . (11) Battle of (Jtnrnha, A. H. 1521. Cortez, the Spaniard. (12) Battle of'[’or gan, A. D. 1753. Frederic the Prussian. (13) Battle of Yorktown, A. I). 1781. Washington, the North American. (14) Battle of Aiisterlitz, A. D. 1805. Napo leon, the Frenchman. (15) Battle of Cara hobo, A. I). 1322. IGlivar, the South American. Such Was this most formidable array, and it was a spectacle of brilliancy and grandeur exceeding any exhibition of the kind ever witnessed in the city. We did not follow the mystic groups to their places of feasting, cr the halls of reception and merriment, but we learn everything went off pleasantly and orderly, till a late hour in the night, w the company vanished as magically as it had appeared. The Strikers, is another association of masquers of more recent origin, this be ing, if we mistake not, only its third An niversary in its present organized form. Us appearance was really excellent, and there w as so much of history in its repre sentations that we feel disposed to give them more than a passing notice; but as we have already filled a large space with the history of the Cow-Bells, we must de fer the description till to morrow. They deserve a niche in the gallery, and them selves and the public shall be gratified. [From the Charleston Mercury, 12 th inst. J Tlic War and Wur-Taxe*. We known of nothing more extraordi nary, in the way of Slatemanship, than the course of the great body of the De mocratic Party from the North and West, with respect to the Mexican w ar. They were furious for a war with England on the Oregon question; and then when a collision w ith Mexico occnrred, —with a precipitancy, never before heard of or witnessed, as if afraid to trust themselves with reflection,—they plunged headlong into a war. Well, the war has certainly gone on as successfully as could reasona | bly have been anticipated. Our army j has not needed soldiers; our treasury has not needed money. An empire has fall en into our possession, after a series of military exploits on land and sea, which must add to our reputation among all I the nation of the earth. Surely now, ac cording to all priciples which govern men, furious war makers, who pushed on the war, will sustain the Ad ministration, and the measures it recom mends, to enable it to continue the pro secution of the war. Yes—certainly, they sustain it—in one way. They chide the Whigs for being, as they assert, op. posed to it. Yet in action, they agree entirely with the Whigs as to the means of carrying it on. They will not vote the tax on 'Pea and Coffee, which the Se cretary of the Treasury says is necessa ry to negotiate a loan. They refuse, with the Whigs, to alter or modify the Independent Treasury Act, very proper it its arrangements, when the Govern ments is merely receiving the taxes through the customs and paying it out again in its ordinary operation, but entire ly, unsuited without modification, to the emergency of war, when the Government is to he a large borrower. By ibis means they render it impossible for the Govern ment to obtain money on loan, except at an usurious interest, which Congress will never authorize. If this is the case, as is distinctly set forth by the Secretary of the Treasury, we should like to know how these Democrats differ from the Whigs, in their opposition to the war. In words they differ a little—hut in policy they are identical. Both are working to bring the war to an end, and that in the | most disgraceful way. The army is to be left a prey to the enemy or to disease, without supplies or munitions of war.— They must move ors, under such circum stances, to fall ingloriously; or they must retreat to this side the Rio Grande, and surrender all the country we have ac- , quired. If such is to he the result, we think while pursuing such a line of poli cy, these Democrats might spare the Whigs, and the Whigs might spare the Democrats, the further discussion of that nice point of political casuistry—which of them do most “give aid and comfort” to the enemy. They are all opposers of the war—opposers of the Administration —and the very best friends of the Mexi cans. As to the contemptible argument against taxing lea and coffee—because the poor consume it as well as the rich —we would ask these sticklers for the interests of the poor, where was your hu mane zeal, when in the late Tariff Bill the sugar which sweetens the tea and col fee, was taxed thirty per cent? Where were you, when salt was taxed? W here was vnur tender consideration for the poor, when his flannel, his blanket, his woollen—his coarse cotton shirting—all of which the rich never consume at all, was taxed twenty-five and thirty percent? And how much more iron and coal does the millionaire use, than the poorest of the poor. He does not handle axes and ploughs. A single fire-place warms his richly carpetted and curtained saloons. — Yet all these taxes you have voted for— nav! denounced them as entirely too low; | vet when a tax by no means as exclusive ly operating on the poor, —in the midst of war, —a war of your creation —a war you affect to approve of and support, — is asked for by the Administration, you talk about the poor! The truth is, there are no poor properly speaking, who con sume tea and coffee. These are to all in tents and purposes luxuries, which the poor cannot consume. The great bulk of the people who drink tea and coffee, can just as well allbrd to pay a lax on them, as on any other article ofconsump lion. Taxes to support Government, must be upon those things which the peo ple generally consume. The rich are few. The only way they can he reached, is to abolish the Tariff altogether, and raise the revenue to support the Govern ment by direct taxes on property and incomes. If these men, Democrats or Whigs, will and vote for such taxes, we shall better understand their patriotism —and better appreciate their lender solicitude for the poor. [ From the N. I'. Globe, Jan. 9. j The Imlepcu.leut Treasury—How il Ope rates. The clause of the Independent Treasury law which provides fur the collection and dis bursement of Government funds in specie, took effect on the first day of January inst.— As the Whigs predicted that all kinds of em barrassments and difficulties were to attend its operation, and as some of the Whig pa pers of this city have seen fit to misrepresent its operation in New York, and who are charged with its administration here, we have taken pains to ascertain the actual condition of matters, so far as relates to the Assistant Treasurer’s department. It appears that from Monday to Thursday of last week, (the la-d four days before the specie clause took effect,) the amount paid into the Assistant Treasurer’s office in this city, was $30,000. From Monday to Thurs day of this week, in the same number of days, under the specie regulation, the amount re ceived in goid and silver com, was $123,000, being an increase of over three hundred per cent. There have been already, as wo are in formed, several unmanly attempts made to embarrass the Treasurer, by making pay ments in the kinds of coin that will lake liie most time or give the most trouble in count ing. For example, in one day $74 were paid in with half dimes, by a single individual; in other Cases, agents of some of the Wall si reel brokers, have brought large quantities of the smallest denomination of specie, and foreign coin of almost every description. On Thurs day about $50,000 were received in various kinds of com; and yet the Treasurer has had no difficulty, as he assures us, in getting along with these receipts, and the legitimate business, with the aid of two clerks. Masouic, We understand that the Grand Master of Freemasons of South Carolina, has just grant ed a dispensation to some 61 the officers, of the Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers, to hold a travelling lodge in that regiment, dur ing its time of service in Mexico, the great number of Freemasons in the regiment ma kin«- such a measure highly convenient to these patriotic brethern ot the “mystic lye.” Lodges ot this kind are, we are informed, by no means uusual in the Masonic family. Many regiments in the British and other Europeon armies are supplied with them, and such was also the case during the revo lutionary war among the American troops.— It has also been stated to us upon good author ity, and it may interest our Masonic readers to know, that one of the lodges working in this city, derives its existence from a travelling warrant granted to a regiment in the army of the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders, a cen tury and a half ago. Some of the officers hold ing the warrant came over to this country and permanently located the lodge in this city, where it has ever since remained.— Charleston News. Both the Northern and Western Mails due came through yesterday. The steamer Gladiator brought the regu lar Northern Mail, and from passengers we learn the cause of the failure yesterday. It appears that tfie steamer Vanderbilt left W il mington at 5 P. M. on Sunday, came down to Smilhville, and as the tide was too low to admit of her crossing the bar, remained there until 11 o’clock, when she started, but en countering a log, put back, and left again at 6 o’clock on Monday morning, a strong S. W. breeze blowing. At half past 10 it was found that she had sprung a leak u*ider her guards, and made so much water that she could not be kept free by the pumps. This being the case, the Captain most judiciously, determined to put back, and the boat was soon after freed by the pumps, the change of course altering the position of tlie boat, and consequently preventing her from making so much water. About 4 o’clock in the after noon the Vanderbilt met the Gladiator com ing down the river, and placed the passen gers and mail on board her, and the latter boat reached here early yesterday morning. The steamer Gov, Dudley boing, as we learn, repairing at some Northern port, the Wilmington undergoing repairs at VVihning ■ ton, and the Vanderbilit certainly unseaworlhy unless thoroughly overhauled, the Gladiator is the only boat in service. With tiiese tacts before us, we can expect no mail this day. We trust that the Company will at once charter boats to keep up the connexion, and not suffer any interruption of the mail beyond what must naturally occur from uncontrol lable circumstances. — Charleston Courier 31 th ull Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of tfie Sate of Georgia —present, Judges Lumpkin, Nesbit and Warner, yesterday commenced their first sit ting in Savannah. There are, we understand buTfevv cases for the Court 4 to decide at the present term, and these not being fully pro pared for argument yesterday, the Court ad journed to meet again this forenoon at ten o’clock. Uuc of the cases brought before it from the county of Bulloch, we understand, involves an interesting question as to the admissibility of a paper writing, conveying certain real and personal estate. The ques tion i s —whether the instrument is a deed or will?|and whether the same caiqbe admitted in evidence without probate? We retrain from any remarks in relation to so in teresting a question. The following gentle men were yesterday admitted as Attorneys and Counsellors of said Court: Joseph W Jackson, Ilobt. 11. Griffin, Andrew M. Webster, Win. F. Law, Alex'r R Lawton, Chas. S. Henry. John W. Owens, John M. Clark, Edward J. Harden, Henry Williams, Francis S. Marlow, Jas. H. Mc- Henry.— Savannah ( » eorgian , \'2th ins/. ■"» AUGUSTA. GEO THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 14, 1847. iLi We keep back until to-morrow an edi torial which we bad written (or to-day, on ibe subject of extension of slavery into the conquered territories of New Mexico and California, We shall then have the plea sure of submitting so much of the Hon. Ro bert Toombs’ recent speech as relates to , that subject. We are pleased to hud him standing up so firmly and manfully for South ern rights. He exhibits no inclination 'o abandon those rights because Northern fa natics threaten disunion. (CrThe Can phi.' has been in keen pursuit for some time past, intervals of re.spite, to find out inconsistences with which to con vict the Constitutionalist, It seems to think it has discovered one, or would at least have its readers think so, judging from an edito rial in its columns of the 12ih inst. headed i ‘‘lnconsistencies of the Constitutionalist.” | We have but a few words in reply. When j the Chronicle will point out any act or acts : of General Kearney approved by us in Octo ber last, as being in accordance with the law of nations, and now disapproved by us be cause they are not in accordance with the law of nations, then it may charge us with inconsistency on this subject—it it please, with contradiction. But our subsequent stric- I tures upon acts oT Kearney which we in October upheld, was grounded, not dti { his having violated international law, but on | his having transcended his instructions. We are asked, how do we know the fact | that he did transcend his instructions? We > answer that we have the authority of the President of the United (Stales, for the as sumption. Until Gen, Kearney takes issue on that point, we will assume that to be a fact. The contest in October last, between the Chronicle and ourself, which w'e have no reason to regret, relative to the acts of Gen eral Kearney was to the point, did he assume authority and exercise acts ot dominion over New^Mcxico, that eid not appertain to a cou- •according to the law of nations? The’(Chronicle asserted that he did. We contended that lie did not. That was the issue. We have not committed the incon sistency of asserting, since then, that .he did exercise authority over that conquered pro- Iviuce not authorized by tiie Law of Nations We think the Chronicle may again be fairly I considered as having found “a mare’s nest.” i 1 ’s researches alter inconsistencies are about equal to its efforts to show that the Editor of this paper holds political opinions now, differ ent from those he entertained in 1840. We presume that success would have been doubly gratifying, upon the principle that misery loves company. O’A letter received in this city from a 1 member o( the Richmond Blues,“dated Camp Allen, Dec. 13th, slates that the company I and regiment were in high spirits, and rnak | ing preparations to leave the next day for 1 Victoria. The regiment would start with about 510 men —13 of the Blues would be left behind under Corporal Guidron, with light chills and lever. The writer mentions i »* that Ringgold, Wheeler, Wright and Conk ! 1 iii have recovered, but were still too feeble to bear arms. He also mentions Gapt. Dill, ! Lieuts. Phinizy and McLaws, William and | Alexander Philip, David McMurphy, and Ro bert Musgrove, as well, and in fine spirits. O’ The following from a tri-w'eekly sub scriber, is a specimen of many similar complaints which vve are in the habit from time to time of receiving. We shall adopt the plan of publishing every such letter where the w ? iiter does not object to it, in the hope that this will have more effect than editorial paragraphs on the subject. Whoever holds an office should consider himself bound to discharge its duties with equal fidelity, whether he be w>ell or ill paid i for his trouble. The paper is regularly mail ed from this office. THOMASTON, GA. Jan. 12,1817. To James Gardner, Jr., Esq. Dear (Sir: As the editor >of the Conslitu- 1 tionalist, 1 address you to complain of the non-reception of the Constitutionalist I have received but two papers since the 29th of December. Where the fault is I know not, but many fiere believe it to be at Barnesville. It is said the Post .Master at Barnesville has too much to do for the compensation he re ceives and consequently much is neglected. Very respectfully. Kr It gives us great pleasure to present to our readers the communication signed “A Union Man.” It is from the pen of a gentleman in one of the interior counties of our State. This tribute to the gallantry of the officers of the army from the Northern States, w ill meet a hearty response front every generous mind, and from none more warmly than from the people of Georgia. We do not be lieve that they could ever stop to inquire the birth place of any of those heroic men whose deeds have reflected new lustre upon the American name, before they awarded their meed ofpnise to their conduct. Admiration of gallant actions is the in stinctive impulse of every heart not dead to pubic tmoiUous. ft never pauses to listen to mi. worthy jealousies before paying the tribute, and will promptly discard an after thought that would mar the force of that tribute. e do not believe that the author of the letter vve published, fora mo ment contemplated individual injustice, to a single brother officer, who bail won laurels in our present contest. We know him well, and know him to he incapable of a thought that could impugn his own honorable nature. Our correspondent proba bly places the true, as it is the liberal construction upon the exceptionable expression in a letter, which vve will remark, was not written for publi cation. It was the expression, in the course of a frank communion with one near and dear to the writer, of a feeling that great injustice had been done to distinguished Southern chivalry, when circumstances had recently placed it in the power of the South to exhibit a very remarkable number of individual instances of gallantry. It was a natural pride that induced the writer to speak of the fact. It was no evidence of a disposition to do injustice to the few Northern {officers who had also distinguished themselves, that the writer al luded to the disproportion in nu nbers. He would not withhold fur a moment due credit for gallant actions whether performed by a brother officer, from any section of the Union. Nor did he insin uate that a want of gallantry had been exhibited 1 by any portion of them. The insinuations and I charges against Southern valour, and against dis tinguished Southern officers had come from the North, it was a natural suggestion to answer the imputation by contrasting the number of conspi cuous instances of gallantry from the two sections, and if a little chagrin was to be seen peeping out, arising from a sense of injustice done, the South by Northern papers, it will not be severely criti cised when it is remembered that iHe letter writer was not the aggressor. Our correspondent does ns no more than justice in acquitting us of all desire to foment sectional jealousies, or to widen the breach between the North and the South. It is very certain that no one is more ready to honor the great and the gallant men of our country with an enthusiasm wholly re gardless of sectional limits. Their fame is the common property oftlie wtiols Country, and every citizen should feel licit lie is a recipient of its ben efit, and lias Ins share in the duty of defending it. However widely vve may differ in opinion from those whose fame is historical, ami has shed lustre upon our country’s annals in thi-ir civil career, vv© should be among tiie last to wish that that. lustre might have been le j -°. bright. However proud vve may be of the gallantry of our southern soldiery, we can never forget that in every war, and upon every battle plain, northern valor also has been conspicuous, and has thrown around the American nameahalo that must be immortal. IfijT The Savannah papers * .be 12th inst., announce the death of John \V. Long, Esq , one uUlhe oldest merchants of that city. Tiie Nfcvv Vork i*rcN». The eleventh edition of a pamphlet called ihe “Rich Men of New York City.” has been published in New York. Jl has a charming title. The following newspaper proprietors and editors make a figure in this fascinating brochure:— Beach, M. Y., of the Sun, $300,000 Bennett, J. G., of the Herald, 100,000 Hale, David, of the Jour, of Com., 150.000 Hall, Francis, of the Com. Adv., 155,000 Halleck, Girard, <>f tlie Jour, of Com., 150,000 Morse, S. E , of the Observer, lUO.OOO Proprietor of the Evangelist, 100,000 Me El rath, T., of tiie Tribune, 100,000 Finding the press so well represented among the hundred thousand men, we next looked for the authors, ami find but two, viz:— Stephens,J. L., author of Incidents of Travel, SIOO,OOO Verplanck, Gillian C., editor of Shak speare, 200,000 But, according to the authority of the N. Y. Mirror, the newspaper men made lheir own fortunes, w hile the am hors inherited theirs—from which we conclude that news paper publishing is more profitable than writ ing books. The publishers of books are not much more numerous in this list than the authors — the following are all that we could find: — Appleton, L>. $10».000 Wiley, John, lOOjKK) Huntington, F. J., IUO,OOO Paine, John, 200,000 Harpers, 500,000 There are numerous paper sellers, and type makers, but these are not exactly litera ry men, although their profits are chiefly de rived (rum tiie labors of iitcratcurs. Mr. M’Kuy. from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported to the House of Repres entatives on Saturday, the following bills, which were read twice, and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. For the support of the Army—(or the supply ol 1 ndian appropriations and Indian annuities—for the support of the Navy fur the year ending J une 3d, 1817. The sums appropriated by these bills are as follows: Army proper $fi,813,373 217 Volunteers 22,725,131 00 Navy 8,920,204 49 Indians 1,179,324 00 $39,038,232 74 Seven companies of the Massachusetts regiment of volunteers have been already organized. The remaining companies are in a stale of forwardness. [COMMI’N ICATKI* ] PUTNAM COUNTY, Jan. li, 1847. Mr. Editor— Knowing, from your reputation, that you are not the man wilfully to do injustice to any one, and especially to {any one who may have left bis home, and is now in an enemy's land fighting the battles of his country, I make bold to address yon a few lines, calling your attention to some remarks of your own in an editorial, just preceding the publication of a letter from tha Ar my, in your paper of the filh inst., in which you speak of the manly style of that letter, and the justness of many of its views, and saying that you were reluctant to suppress any portion of it. Now what I complain of is this:—ln that letter such a statement as the following is to be found ‘“Our memory has to he taxed w here we are called to name the heroes of the North, either regimen tally or personally;” and that your remarks might lead many of your renders to suppose that you sanctioned it, which, I believe, was very far from your intention. Nor do 1 believe the gallant sol dier who penned that letter, spoke in that state ment the feelings of ids heart when freed from a sense of indignation aroused by the base and false reports in circulation against the brave Rntler.— No mailer who put those reports in circulation, no , one belived them,and no where are the merits of Taylor, Butler, Quitman, Davis, McClupg, f