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THE constitutionalist, j “J AM e s cardn er,J R. t i: ii 3i s . Daily, per annum, £' ( " J Tri-Weekly, per annum If paid in advance, O<J Weekly, per annum, - " uu If paid in advance, 2 50 To Clubs of five, remitting SlO in adcance. 200 iC7*All new subscriptions must be paid in advance, P'wtage must be paid on all Communicatk ns j *nd Defers of business. j [From the Western Continent, March 6.] LETTER FROM GEORGIA TO M ASSACHUSETTS.* NO. 11. Dear Sister Mass: You may remember that I left you, ; with your colleagues of the Hartford Con vention, paying your third visit to \\ a s h* ington, in quest of protection. About tins time the sisters of the South began to be come impatient of yourimportunities,and to protest .sternly against any further con cessions to them; but you had now en- ; listed so many in your favor, that \ou j were gratified once more. S’.ill in the 1 prosecution of your suit, you preserved the semblance ot modesty at least; though your spirit manifestly rose with your strength. It was not long before you were back again upon the same errand, j with a strength that was irresistible. — And now ensued a scene, which for the honor of my connexions, I blush to re- j cord. Your children thronged the Cou ncil chamber, with an effrontery, which in j mine, would cover me with shame, and demanded the old dish, according to their own recipes. Every ingredient was j weighed and measured by their own stand- 1 ards, and handed over to the Deputies to he cooked under their own directions.— There was not a morsel of the compound suited to the Southern ta-te, save a few grains of sugar thrown in, !o conciliate j sister Louisia. Your son John (Q ) was selected to preside over the mingling and simmering process, and your son Dan, was “to do it up brown” with garnish ments to his own taste. John, who is realiv a good man at heart—wonderfully good, considering his origin and calling— commenced his work; hut before he had completed if, the better feelings of his na ture, repeatedly prevailed over his servil ity, and he was several times in the very act of nutting in an element or two, to | make it palatable, or at least, less often sive to the South, when the purveyors ; pounced down upon him like harpies,and compelled him to plumb the line of their prescriptions ! It was passed through the furnace and finished to order. Such scones in the very temple of li berty, shocked and incensed lhe whole Sisterhood of the South, and they talked boldly of seeking relief from this miscall ed protection, by self protection. At first, you tried to convert them to your faith, as you do the heathen, by a liberal dis tribution of tracts among them, in which you set forth the blessings of the tariti with peculiar force and ingenuity. But finding them incorrigible, you told them plainly, that the slave labor of the South should not come in competition with the free labor of the North; and you gave them to understand, that if argument could not reduce them to order, Nonhern muskets would. My neighboring Sister Caroline, in the meantime, began to as- | mime an alarming attitude, and civil war, • r the fall of the tariff seemed the only alternative. This state of things found you at your old employment of abusing the government, but most of all, Andrew Jackson, who was then at the head of as- | fairs. Os all men in the country, this was tfie man against whom you had lifted i up the warning voice loudest, and upon ; - whom you had poured out your bitterest anathemas. As the clouds gathered and darkened over our political hemisphere, j you threw yourself into this man’s arms. *]fbe smiled', you tittered ifhe bent, you bowed—if he threatened, you bristled— and so fast, and all-confiding grew your ; friendships, in the course of a few weeks, j that you moved to clothe him with almost | despotic power, in order to meet the enter- ! genev. Isay that youmoved; for your i son Dan does nothing without your orders, 1 expressed or implied. The cannons were j loaded, the matches were lighted, and | nothing was wanted, but the word "fire,'' '■ to deluge the country with blood, when, by the interposition of Mr. Clay, a com- j promise was effected. 1 now flattered myself that this ever inflaming subject j was put to rest; and certainly it ought to ! have been; for conceding the benefits of | a protective tariff, it is but a matter of policy si last, and no demands of policy i will justify a breach of faith. But this is not your ethics, Sister .Mass, and it is with you alone that I have to do upon thisoc- j casion; though, as I said before, I shall ; 7 J not cover your faults, from courtesy to others wl o share them with you. The compromise was hardly effected before you began to throw out bin’s, (Irish hints) that you did not mean to abide by it.— Who that knew you, supposed you would? I did not dream of it, though I hoped that others, more trust-worthv, would not per mit you to violate it. So far as 1 have been enabled tc discover, you have never considered it as involving any higher moral obligation, than the concluding ac knowledgements ot a friendly epistle;— “your most obedient humble servant.”— Having brought you to this compromise, which I had mainly in view in giving the history of the tariff, and in reaching which, I followed the order ot events directly connected with it, regardless of the order of time, let me now take up the history of noma other compromises to which you were a parly. While the articles of onr confederation (which for the sake of brevity, we will here after call the Constitution.) were under dis cussion, a very knotty point arose, which had ld;e to have defeated the Union. Considering ! the views of the parties at that time, it was a j very curious one. Yon of the North consid* j ered slaves os mere chattels, and, therefore, | n-’l to he represented in the Common Coun- j ci!». We ol the South, admitted (he fact, j but drew an opposite conclusion from it, epon i the ground that taxation and representation | should be proportioned to each other. Ihe j matter was compromised, and from that day j to this you have been racking your inyen i tion to get rid of the compromise, \oitr HartfordConvr-nlion drew up a series of re : solutions which yon adopted and remitted ■ to the Si ters, as proposed amendments to ! the Constitution, among which was one to exclude slave representation. For the honor I 0 f the country, not a member of tiie confede ; ra cy. who was not at the concocting of these ' resolutions, adopted a 1-ingle one of them.— j What you could not accomplish by direct j means, you resolved to accomplish by indi- J red and less honorable means. They are plainly visible, and are as follows: Theirs/ is, to leave the obnoxious clause untouched, hut to stifle it by stretching other clauses over if. The second is, crowd the master and the slave* within such a narrow compass, i that they cannot both live in it. The third ; (which is subservient to this.) is, to re- I reive no new member into (lie Union, but j upon the condition of her repudiating slave | ry. r \'hp fourth (which is of like character,) is, to stop all egress of slaves from their pre ■ sent limits; hence the refusal of yourself and your confederates to receive them when ; emancipated hy their master.-;::nd hence your ; opposition to the Colonization Society'. These ; are startlingdsigns, Si-ter, to be conceived against those who spent their blond and : treasure in defence of the liberty which you : enjov; but I shall not furnish you with a prp | text for them hy ‘'blustering” over them, as i j confess with shame, my children are too much in tire habit of doing. And here I will disclose a family secret, which may he of ! service to you, not long hence, and which i some of the members of some of the churches j in your neighborhood may he able to avouch, j k is this - : So long as we bluster, you have ■ not much to fear; but when yon see our ; children looking calmly, with compressed i lip and reddened cheek, at your encroach rnents.be a--nred there are perilous limes at hand for all of us. And when once they gather for the flight, let them go—you never can conciliate them afterwards. We are idolaters of the Union, and will bear much before we give it up: but only convince us that it i.s a golden calf which the profane grow rich by mutilating, and the devout grow lean by worshiping, and we will crush it to atoms, and grind it Jo powder with as little remorse as did Moses, the calf of old. a pursuance of the plans just suggested, i you oppose the admission of Missouri into the i Union, except upon the condition < f her re -1 nouncing slavery. Here’was an unblushing j infraction of the compromise you made when i tiie Constitution was framed, and a direct ' violation of the spirit of that instrument, in i all its provisions. A stern of course was raised, which was settled as usual by a com promise. So long have you been in the ha’ j it of breaking compromises, and so • ' ; indifferent to them have you he. i ■ you cannot now wait for a suitable oppnr i iunity to break them; and you are at this m i merit engaged in breaking this last, by anti cipation. In the late war, you wiflield your troops from the service of tiie country, and afterwards demanded pav from the govern i ment <othe amount of more than a million i of money, for their sen ices in marching and ! counter-marching about in your ter.Tory. In i this war, you lay hold of the purse-strings of | the nation, and vow you will never let. go ; until vou get a pledge from the whole family, that if we are not driven or starved out of I Mexico, and if we should make a treaty 1 with her, and if by the terms of that treaty ! she should stipulate to pay the expenses of i the war, and her old debt, and if she should pay it in land, and if that land should become | settled, and become populous enough to be admitted into the Union, and claon to he a I mitted, without of its own choice—abjuring slavery—it shall not be received into the Union. This makes your conduct in the first war resplendently virtuous; but tlrat any other i Sister in the Union, without the casc-harden- I ing through which you have gone, should, at | a single leap, reach the platform on which | you stand, and ever raise her head after | wards, is, to me, inexpressibly amazing. In ; looking down to the far-off position which vou occupy, I (cel that you are entitled to j some credit for your ingenuity and en’er prise in getting there; but as to your enmpan inns, they seem to me to have taken your character, only to add to it a now' blemish j namely, rashness. The deferminai ion which you had formed to allow no more slave terri tory to come into (he Union, apart (rom the | principle involved in it, is of ail movements j ofabolitionism, to me the most inoffensive. It seems to have thrown the Southern States into a panic, and to have reconciled many of their children to a most disgraceful retreat from tiie war in which we are engaged. “Sup pose.” cry they, “we should take all Me.xi- j co, don’t you see plainly that i? never can he | admitted into the Union as slave territory?” ; What is the plain and obvious answer to all this? Why lot it stay nut of (he Union, by i abolition votes, and let it remain common property as long as they choose so to vote. The controversy will be between the appli cant and the abolitionist,and we will stand on the side of the former. She will renounce slavery or she will not. If she renounce slavery, there will be no difficulty in the mat ter; if she will not renounce slavery she re mains a territory, to which all will have free access. As to the propriety nr impropriety of the war itself, I have nothing to say, but to push its conquests just to the limits which the abolitionists prescribe, and there stop, without treaty, without peace, without ob ject—because,' forsooth, if we advance far ther we may conquer territory which may give rise to unpleasant difficulties —is to sur render in advance more than we could lose by threatened contest—to anticipate a bieach of faith by removing at our expense the in ducement to it, and to throw away the honor of the nation and the army into the bargain. If we do not conquer .Mexico,will her territory ever become a part of the Union? Your abolition petitions, and yur missions to Charleston and Orleans to stir up lawsuits about your black citizens, arc part and parcel of tiie plans already exposed. While you have been rushing on in your mad career, you have been unsparing in your abuse of me and my neighboring bisters. I cannot call to mind that you ever breathed one kind sentiment, uttered one kind word, i turned one kind look towards ih. To \ irg;n ia, your elder Sister, and your great benefac tor, you have been signally abusive and vin dictive, because, to the sin of slavery, she has added the still greater,sin, in your esti mation, ol exerting more influence in the councils of the nation, and producing more Presidents than any other member of tlie family. But “man-stealers,” “kidnappers,” -traders in Food,” “tyrants,” “murderers,’ are the ci mmon appellation? by which we are | introduced to the world by the devout, meek, I gentle, lamblike, sons of the ‘-Pilgrim Fath j ers.” Engrave, then, if you please, Sister, 1 on Plymouth Rock, in this form: MASSACHUSETTS, IN GRATEFUL HE ME.MBRANCE OF THE SERVICES RENDERED TO HER, BY HER BELOVED SISTERS: ! Maryland, Birmma, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ceorgia, 1 1 Ilesci/iig her from ths Cruelties OF AN UNNATURAL MOTHER, Records upon this Consecrated Rock, I The distinguishing Virtues of the Affectionate Sifters: Maryland — The Man-Stealer. Birgima—- The K idnapper. North Carolina — The Trailer in blood. South Carolina —The Tyrant. Georgia The Murderer. And now what have we done. Sister, to I merit this unkind treatment? What would ; you have us do, to save ourselves from fur- j ; titer injury and insult, and you, from further j | self-abasement? There is but one answer to ' i these questions, namely: ‘‘You own slaves and you refuse to emancipate them.” Well, i let us discuss the matter calmly. I confess 1 it wiil cost me a struggle to do it, for reasons | apparent, through \ our whole history; but I ; think, for the country’s sake, I can forget 5 who you arc and what you are long enough | to discuss the subject with you not only l calmly, but fairly. i I own slaves, and I sin in so doing. Sup . pose that this is all true; now what must I do? j “ U7h/, emancipate, them of coursed ’ Well, let | , us see jhe end of this course. I owo twn hundred and eighty-one thousand slaves. Os these, eighty-seven thousand live hundred are under ten years of age; hve hun dred, over a hundred years of age; and ten thousand, between fifty-five and a hundred. I i I sol these two hundred and eighty-one ; thousand human beings free—l proclaim 1 liberty to these old anddecrepid. these young and helpless. Among them are many sick, i lame, blind, deaf and dumb. I set them adrift upon the world, honsr!o ; s, breacliess, penniless. Before the God who made you, I Sister Mas?, do you think this would be right? : j A month's time would bury nineteen-fwenti- ! eth? of them. “But you should send lh c m | j away” Well, I turn to rny benevolent i S:-fers, who are moving heaven and earth to \ aboli.'h slavery, and not one of them will receive them. Os! think of the Randolph negroes, and try la think how 1 feel, at the abolition erv from Ohio. “But s r -nd (hem to Africa.” True; I have no ships of my our, | and 1 apnlv to you, the greatest ship owner i I in the Union, to transport them for me. And von exclaim: —"Be off! 1 am the most mortal enemy to Colonization on the Globe, and not i a finger will I rai?e to promote it;” (i I3iU I keep them yourself and furnish them with the means of living.” Exactly! For how long, Sister? Not more than a year, I suppose. \s they could not embark in the learned ; irofessions, I must furnish them with an outfit for agriculture. You would not think a half pound of meat, a day, and a peck of corn a week, an over allowance for each, would yon? Calculate the amount, if you please. Sister. But those capable of labor must have at least ten acres of land apiece. 1 suppose. ; Os these there are one hundred and forty thousand. We must give them, therefore, j one mdlion four bur Fed thousand acres, j But. they must have hor«e;?, ploughs, lines axes, &c., or the land will be of no avail to j them. —and they mu.-l be clothed for a year, ; I besides. 1 intended to have calculated the i amount in money of all these filings; but thia i would consume unnecessary time. You can j do it; and you will see, that to furnish means mv own children must be beggared, i All this proceed? upon the supposition, you perceive, that when I free the slaves, I am hound to provide these freemen with a living. Upon this head I have my doubts, hut that tlie care of them, in this way, would dissolve all mv social rehitinns, break up my mm- j merce, my schools, my colleges, my churches I i in short, restore me to a state of nature, 1 j have no doubt. Nor. if the clamorous Sisters j : of the abolition faith would receive them, I j could I endure the trouble ami expense of I transporting them—nor could I possibly send them abroad, if I would. Now, when these things arc spread out before yon. and you shut your eyes to them, and siili persist in ! your machinations and railing against rno, to what conclusion must the most unbounded charity he driven? We will reach it anon. Another long letter is written, and yet I : have not concluded what, I have to sav. Bear with me, Si-tor. 1 have permittee the ac j count between us to run on for a long time, i without a settlement, and, as is usual in sue it I cases, it require? a longer lime to settle than j either of.tm supposed. Yuur persecuted Sisfer, GEORGIA. ! *.\s the fetters which wo have received from \ ' Georgia contain some things which Mr. Calhoun I has said in substance, it may be well to remark j i that all of them were written before .Mr. C. made lus speech on the “Three Million Bill.” Eds. Co.nt. [From the iV. O. Delta, lilh ins!.] From ELaraiTa. Tlie barque St. Mary, Capt. Brown, ar rived here yesterday evening from Havana, bringing u? dates from that city to the 6th instf There is no news of importance. A subscription was on foot for the purpose of testifying the appreciation of the Spanish ' people for the exemplary conduct of Capt. j i (; H mp and the crew of the brig Emilio, who i | rendered such signal service to the passengers and crew of tlie British steamship Tweed j wrecked on the Alacranes on the 22th nil. | A had storm passed over the sugar estate “La | Trinidad” on the 21? t nit. The hail remain ed on the ground entire for twenty-four hours, a most unusual phenomenon in that latitude, i During the month of February seventy-six I vessels arrived at and fifty-eight vessels left j the* poi tof Malanzas. 1 lie local news is not j of anv importance. | There v'as an arrival from Vera Cruz on 1 the Gth in?t., with dates to the I2fh ofFeb -1 rnarv. 'The only item of importance which we hive been able to learn, (the piper? of the 7th not having reached us,) is that Gen. La Vega was at Jahpa at the head of 4000 men, ready to march wherever the r.mve i merits of the enemy should require it. Large j reinforcements had been sent to Vera Cruz, I and great nreparalions were on foot, as the attack of the Americans with 10,000 or 12,- 000 men, was expected to come on very soon. It was generally believed at Vera Cruz, at the time of the sailing of the vessel (a Spanish brig, whose name we do not recol lect.) on the 23d February, that by that time, Gen. Santa Anna had fought Gen. Taylor, and was then in possession of Saltillo, and -Ryr.-gx-r TcrM.i» probably on his march to Vera Cruz. This • we learn from a gentleman who came pas sengers on board the St. Mary, who had read the Havana papers ( f :he 7;!i and con versed wiili the Captain of the vessels from Vera Cruz. Nothing positive was known of the move ments of Santa Anna, after leaving Mute huala. BS.ii> tier. A man by the name oi Alien G I!, (gene- j ally knowm a- Bird Gill.) was killed \ ester- j dav afternoon, near the ml barracks, by Ire- I del W. Alexander. We understand tiiat both i tlie parlies were butchers,that Gills had been employed by Alexander, and that some trill ing dispute had arisen in regard lu money mailers. The killing was witnessed by A - wife, two negroes and a lad, a son of the lute Capt. Gayle, from whom we under stood that A'e.xaiider went to a negro hou-e. where Gills had been at work, with a double barrelled gun, and alter a few words in con versation, look deliberate aim and shot him in the left breast, killing him instantly. Al i exander immediately fled on horseback, and, j it is suppo.-ed, took the Ogechee road. We I could not learn whether he was pursued. I though we understood a v\ arrant was issued I by Justice Raiford. An inquest was held over the body of Gill, last night, the verdict of tlie jury. however, was handed in before going to press. AUGUSTA (lE(C TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH C 3, ISI7. (LT Our readers will remember that in the ! memoranda of Dr. Jarvis, who left Comargo I on flic 3d insf., and arrived in New Orleans I per ship Arispe, it is stated that the la-t of ficial despatch from Gen. Taylor was dated Agua Nucva, Feb. 21? f. We have before us an ex’ract from a letter. : which we give below, written by r a gentle man well known in this city, from which we | perceive that on the 21st Gen. Taylor wa? at Saltillo. This is authentic. At the latest dates Gen. Taylor was at Saltillo, and in a condition to give Santa Anna what the ex press reported him to be getting. Saltillo, Feb. 21, IS 17. i Dear : —. We are all armed, and in expectation of a Right to-night. Santa Anna is c'nse by, and j with 17.000 men. Gen. Taylor’s force i? ! ; above 5,000. We have possession of the , town, and we are well fortified. I will write the result, if I am alive. 'i’lie letter of Capt. Montgomery dated Mon | terev Feu. 23d, 11 A. M., says that an express had just arrived from Saltillo, who left there 1 after dark the evening before; s f a:ing that j Santa Anna had called on Gen. Taylor to surrender—that he had replied, “come and take me,” and that the latter was giving the Mexicans hell. We fully expect that the next accounts will confirm the statement. It is evident that there was no fight at Agna Nueva 20 miles beyond Sailil o. There is no confirmation of Mexican rumors that there was a fight between Saltillo and Monterey.— From the following extracts of a letter from another source wliicfi ue have been kindly allowed to publish, it will be perceived that General Taylor is well supplied with I means to maintain himself against battle or sege: “SALTILLO, Mexico, Feb. 20, 1847. “I arh writing von, (is said, on the eve o! buttle. Tlie enemy is in force on every side Santa Anna has informed his citizen soldien (his regulars 1S000) that our stores arc am j pie and profuse, and all is at their command: only rush to arm?, and Rom all accounts, right well have they obeyed tlie call. We are making all kinds or preparations. ♦ * * * * | “J have mentioned in some of my previous letters, that the inhabitants are all gone t< tlie rancheros and mountains. The general hospital i.s in the Governor’s house, and a splendid one it is. The flower pots around the fountain alone, numbers over 390 of the most choice plants, two kitchen", a splendid b.»thing, establishment, and every thing else in keeping. Speaking of stores above, 1 wnu'd only mention a few of our supplies— I Majors Dix and Coffee ten days since brought up $200,000 —Majors Colquit and Weston arrived here from Monterey last night, with i gome seven wagon loads of gold and silver— I ninety wagons loaded with provisions from i Monterey and intended lor Gen. Taylor's camp were ordered to be parked in the main plaza, and not to bo nn’oacled before the ar rival of this. I was told that there were on hand 180,000 rations, besides some GO.OOO pounds of Mexican flour, that had been cap tured by our forces—Wouhi'nt all this be a nice little prize for Santa Anna—say noth ing of the officers baggage, money, ccc. six hundred wagons and equipments, four parks of artillery complete, and any quantity of I medical supplies, hospital stores, &c. and ammunition in ibe greatest abundance. Just think of it—Fll dwell no longer on a theme to ; me so unpleasant. But we must and will i whip them. “I was out at camp the day before yester day and stayed all nigiit. In the course of conversation with Gen. Taylor, I him if ho could realize, tiiat Gen. Santa Anna was really approaching with such an army— the old “war horse, ’’Rough and Ready,shrug ged his shoulders and replied in this language “let them come, d d if they don't go back a good deal faster than they came”— He has no fears. * * * * * “Brevt. Lt.Col.May with 400 men and a sec tion of artillery, was ordered out to-day to make a recognizance and dislodge a body of cavalry said to be encamped about 13 miles distant on tlie San Luis Pofosi road. “P. S. The express is going— l have only time to say thay May has been forced to re tire, with the loss of at least one officer, sup posed to bo killed,and ten men. Gen. Tay lor bus returned to tlie heights above the | town and will there await the a’tack of the enemy—all is excitement and bustle, and , some confusion.” It must be remembered, however, that Sal tillo has not many natural advantages for j defence. Gen. Worth so reported when he wa? there in command and expected an at* lack. ! A letter dated Saltillo, Feb. Bh, written | by the same officer, from which we are also j permitted to extract, gives tlie following i enumeration of the regular troops at that ; post: Extract from a letter dated Sih Feb., 1347. “We have now in this vicinity about 5000 men, out of which we have only eight com panies of regulars as follows: Capt. Stein and Enslis’ Ist Dragoons, Brevt and Lt. Col. May an ! Capt. Pike Graham's 2.1 Dra goons, Capt. Washington's Light Artillery, Capt. Webster’s do., Capt. Bragg’s do., and Lt. Thomas’ do., altogether they don't a monnt to 400 men.” Though all must feel strong confidence in nur volunteers, there i.? great anxiety to hoar how they will behave when first brought into action. Courage is valueless without dis cipline. JXr-snicrism—it* Progrtss uu 1 ila Claims. Probably no city in the Union of the same size, has a larger number of intelligent be lievers in ibis science than the city ol Au gusta. We should be inclined to doubt whether there are here any intelligent scep tics, in the usual acceptation of the term. By this vve mean those who consider the whole affair an unmitigated humbug—a sys tem of imposture on the one hand, of gross delusion on the other. Many such existed a few years ago. The general prejudices of society—the uniform experience of mankind —the settled opinions of the mind as to the nature and the limits of its powers, were all opposed to the startling claims of this new science. It required a man of some intre pidity to declare in the face of the world his j conversion to the truth of the system, and his | belief in the reality of the phenomena exhibit ed. The dread of ridicule too often unfits t ie most robu't mini Irom vigorous investi gation. Ii sffll oftener suppresses the frank disclosure of the full result in producing con viction. But Mesmerism has steadily pro gressed, winning its way into the mist cn j lightened circle.?, and maintaining firmly the foothold it obtains—fortifying its positions by new facts and new discoveries of daily ilc velopemefit, and deriving fresh corroboration from the unerring demonstrations afforded by the established sciences. It is no longer considered evidence of an idle love of the mar.effous, ora restless desire to pursue ab surd novelties, for one to confess his belief in Mesmerism,and exhibit a taste for the in vc ligation of its mysteries. In this enmmu niiv the number and intellectual standing of it? proselytes would alone give it respecta bility, were it everywhere else frowned upon a? a monster of diseased credulity. 1 reter rnilfing all proof derived from a distance, some astounding facts have been here fur nished to the world within the last two or tfirce years by some of our most scientific men, learned members of the Medical Facul ty, which have placed the whole question be yond the reach of doubt. They have done more. They have secured tlie science from the category of subjects solely of curious speculator and placed it among the emi nently practical and useful. It can no lon ger bo classed among “Dark.tangled doctrines,dark a? fraud ran weave, Wliirh simple votaries shall *m trust receive. While crallier feign belief till they believe.” The surgeon’s knife, plunged deep info the human body and cutting out enormous tumors (without the infliction of pain) of which the medical journals have reported cases, attested by the distinguished operators, the patients, and disinterested witnesses— these, and a thousand minor, but not less satisfactory proofs occurring in our midst, have all vindicated the pretensions of mes merism, and invoked the liveliest interest of our citizens. That it is destined to still higher achievements —that it will prove itself still more eminently useful to the human race cannot be doubted. Though the theories of Mesrnerdate back into the last century, they had been laid aside as impracticable and un sound, and almost forgotten. It is but of comparatively recent date that they have been revived, discussed and investigated. It is probably as yet in its infancy. In this age, so eminently utilitarian, it will not be allowed to pause where it is. It will be ap plied in various ways to the discoveries of the properties of matter, and of facts in the physi cal world. It will be used as a valuable ad junct to the established tests already known to science. The medical profession, though proverbially the most strongly wedded to es tablished system?, and bitterly averse to iuno vationnn long recognized theories,will invoke its aid in the discovery of disorganization and disease, and the application of remedies— tlie surgeon will, a? lie ha? already, substi tute it as preferable to the most powerful anodynes in Pharraacopacia. Imagination shrinks aghast from the task of speculating on the vast results which Clairvoyance un folds to view. The mystical line which se perates the natural from the supernatural cannot be traced by the mind. Not only does the wizard, Memory, surrender his wand, but Futurity seems to unveil at its bidding. Intervening space becomes annihilated— stone walls oppose no obstacle to sight, or rather to aser.se more subtle, and even solid mountains are to its progress but as “airy nothing.’’ We do not not here undertake to say how far our credulity extends in this matter; but while freely admitting that wc have gone all reasonable lengths in yielding ■■——w *a—l« ir r,t*?mr»t w— ,-j credence lo facts which seem 100 well es tablished for denial, vve are yearning to hear something like scienlilic demonstration and reasoning upon them. The wonders of the electric telegraph and of the dagnerroetype would seem,unexplained, closely allied to the | supernatural. They would be as amazing i as-were, to the inhabitants of Jamaica the I prediction by Columbus, of an eclipse of I the sun. We borrow from another the lan guage which fitly expresses our feelings. It occurs in a Review of licichenbach's Re * searches on Magnetism. “ How men of strong prejudices and rnn- I servative turns of mind, —men wtio, like Pro fessor Lewis, think that one is to set lie his convictions immovably some lime or other, feel under this threatened invasion from the realms of science, we cannot say; for, even j with all our hopeful and reforming tenden ; cies, we are tempted to exclaim, with Soak-- 1 peare's hero, when he saw the march of the murdered spectre>—“ Will the Jo e stretch ■ out to the crack of doom ?” In other words, I our credulity is gelling exhausted, and ue ! long for some respite trom our attempts to ' keep up with (lie march of mind. Unlike old j Sir Thomas Browne, who said that tl e r a | were not enough miracles in the two Testa ( men Is for his capacity and faith, so that ho ! yearned for a great many more, we must con ! ftss if, we are a little tired of believing, and desire to see more philosophy under ail these accumulations of strange phenomena. Tim marvels of Magnetism are unquestionably all facts; for the evidence on that head cannot ! lie resisted; but is it not the season for sumo ; thinker to give us the why and wherefore of | these remarkable occurrences?'’—Democrat ic llccicir , March 1847. W’e are led into tin's train of reflection by i attending a Led are (so called) of Dr. Web ster on Animal Magnetism at the Masonic Hall one evening last week. Now the term : lecture we understand to be, a discourse in tended for instruction. We had on the oc casion referred to, nothing of tiie kind. We 1 had am exhibition of various curious phe i nomena in Phreno-Magnetism and Clairvoy- I anco. They were nothing new, by the way. 1 They are almost identically the same expori : ments that we have had in the same room | every winter by different exhibitors ever since i mesmerism came in vogue. But this exhi bition can scarcely be called a lecture on the science of mesmerism. As well might one ! cal! the muscular feats exhibited in the Cir i cus by the man who handles the cannon balls, “A Lecture on the Anatomical struc ture, power? and uses of the muscles, thews and sinews of the human holy:'’ Or the dia p'ay by the ring master of the accomplish ments of bis dancing horse, Champion, “A i lecture on the nature, powers and improva ; bility of the cquinine intellect.” Mesmerism is a grand subject for a lec ture. It is occupying the projound attention of many of the most philosophic minds of Europe and America. It is daily borrowing from and reflecting light on other sciences, j Many of its phenomena, at first inexplicable, 1 are now fully solved on admitted philosophi cal principles. Investigation is upon the 1 track of many others. Tne boundaries of knowledge are gra iually enlarging, nn 1 j trenching on the realms of the seemingly miraculous. Tire point at which that pro gress must be stayed—the point which is to | belli e ultima-thule of human inquiry is not j yet readied. Wc had intended to illustrate our mcan ; mg as lo the appropriate topics of a lecture I on Mesmerism by quoting a few very rr : markable discoveries, which the Researches | of Professor Iliechenbach have brought to light. This we must defer to another time. In conclusion we will add that Dr. Webster appears to be a very successful experimenter, possessing great mesmeric power—not equal we think to MiPs—but sufficient to exhibit phenomena that must pnt scepticism to rout. He is fortunate in having with him two high ly susceptible patients, who make good clair l voyants. 11i 3 exhibitions are interesting, though we are not prepared to say that his Lectures are instructive. Cone*]) iiulciice bitlwron the War I>rpart mrut «xii.l tirn. Tuj lor. The Union has commenced the publication rs this voluminous correspondence. It was called for by resolution of the House of Representative*. We have not yet had lime to examine any I portion of nearly six columns already published. Jjf We are requested to cai! attention to Mr. D. Murphy's advertisement. It will be perceived that his Lamps are highly recommended. 1I« i will be in our city only one day longer, and will be glad to receive orders at the U. S. Hotel. Promotion*! ami Appointments. Among the promotions and appointments announced from the Adjutant Generals office, we find the following ; Brevet Lieut. Col. Thomas Childs, Capt. 3d artillery, to he Major, Feh. IG, 1317. First Lieut. Francis O. Wyse, to be Cap tain, March 3, 1347, company M. third Regt. Artillery. First Lieut. Edward J. Sieptoe, to he Cap tain March 3. 1847, company L. third Regt. Ifftillery. First Lieut. Win. E. Shover, 3d Artillerv, | to be appointed Quartermaster witii the rack of Captain, Jan. 18, 1547. Second Lieut. Roswell S. Ripley, to be Ist Lieut. March 3, 1847, company K. second Regt. Artillery. Brev. 2d Lieut. Geo, P. Andrews, to be 2d ! Lieut. Feh. LG, 1347, vice Kelburn, promoted. Second Lieut. Lafayette Me Law?, to bn I Ist Lieut. Feb. 16, 1847, vice Montgomery. ; promoted. Brevet 2d Lieut. Win. M. Gardner, of tho Ist Infantry, to be second Lieut, vice Thom # appointed in third Dragoons. | Brevets for gallant and meritorious con | duct in the several conflicts at Monterey, j Mexico, on the 21sl 22d and 23d Sept. 1846 j —to date from Sept. 3, 1845. Col. Wm. J. Worth, Bth Infantry, Brig t