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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR- T i; K .11 s . t , C 3 00 Daily, prr annum >( Tri-Weekly, per annum,. ° O J ~ ■, ■ , _ 500 If paid in advance, ~ , i 00 >V eekly, per annum, If paid in advance. TO CLUBS. We cell particular attention to the following terms rs our paper ; * To Clubs, remitting §lO in advance, Fl'« L COPIES are sent. This will put our weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. W-AII n«w subscriptions must be paid in advance. | Postage ui.st be paid on all Coramunicatk ns and Let'ert of business. [From the Western Continent.] LETTER FROM. GEORGIA TO M ISSACHUSETTS. AO. 11l Dear Sister Mass: In my last, I plainly showed you, how utterly impossible it was for me to em ancipate my slaves. Why, then, arn I denounced and vilified by any one for not doim r it? But why are yon among the number who thus treat me? Does it be come the Mother of Slavery to revile the Heir ofSlaverv ? Every no,i slave h ilcling Sister should sympathise —deeply sym- ! pathlse*—with me, seeing that none of rny children now living had anything to do with it in its inception. You all agree 1 that it is a "real evil—the direst curse I that can befall a nation- how, then, should you all act to an innocent Sister, or at lest, to the innocent children of an on in" | Sister, who is under the curse*? linbittor it by harsh words and unkind treatment? cut olf her rights?—withdraw from her society? Will this militate its sorrows? Will this remove it? Why, Sister, am I, who am only your accessory in guilt, and who became thus far implicated only un der the sorest rernptat on—why am I treat ed with less civility by you titan the Turk, 1 the Algerine, or the Russian? I hear of no efforts made by you to emancipate j the slaves of the-e people, nor have I ever heard you speak harshly of them, upon this score. This seems to be adding cruelty—unnatural, ungrateful, wanton cruelty— to your usual inconsistency. Let us, in the next place, examine your system of warfare against Slavery. I omit your town-meetings, and the agencies used in them, because they are all within your j legitimate prerogative; they are good schools for declamation, and excellent things for abolishing the distinctions of ; sex and color, while they are very harm less to me. Your first plan is to disregard all compromises entered into upon this subject, and to twist the Constitution out of joint as a part of this plan. Believe me, Sister, a project thus begun, never can succeed. Mow shall 1 address to you the reasons for this opinion w ithout seem ing to calumniate you? For myself, ( look upon a compromise, entered into for the peace of the country, as involving a sanctity which is exceded only by that j which attaches to the communion and matrimonial vow. I should instinctively j recoil from the wretch who would ask me j to violate it. I think I might defy you to | produce a case in which a clear breach j of faith has ever been productive of ulti mate good to the party guilty of it. On the other hand, I could produce hundreds, j in which this conduct has been followed bv the utter ruin of the perfidious pa'tv. When a cabinet council was held in France, in order to deliberate upon the I propriety of violating a treaty, t he treaty, i was read to the members in turn; all gave their opinions to the Ivng, in w hich they unfolded the great advantages that ho would derive from violating it. After hearing them all through, the Duke of Burgundy closed the conference by sav ing; “ Gentlemen , there is the 't reaty / ’ You must admire this sentiment, Bister, keen as is its reproof to you, unless, for- I Booth, you have worked in kitchens so long that you have lost your relish fur the moral sublime. But what shall we say to a deliberate Infraction of a to hind to- j gether in peace and harmony, the several members ofone great family! Surc’y, it j is more sacred than a treaty between distinct nations. Now, add to it the sanc tion of an oath, which every member of i the family who is called to the manage- I ment of its local or general concerns, is obliged to take; and then measure the ex tent of its obligation if you can. To j pervert its meaning, is to violate it in the worst of all ways. To keep within the letter and to \iolato its spirit, is to cover ; perfidy with meanness. You a-k mo in- j dignantly whether I charge you with this vile conduct? Why no: not yet, j at least, f am only speaking of your clearly revealed plans, and it is possible that you may repent of them before you carry them into execution—or, which is more probable, you may he prevented | from executing them. Your next device is to cons ract the area of Slavery in the country. Ingenious as 1 you are, Sister, especially in the pursuit j of money, if millions were staked an it, ; you could find but one o’ cl in this project, and it is this: to confine masters ! and servants to such a narrow territory, that in a little time they both cannot live j cn it. Thus far I can follow you; but what you hope for, vs hen this point is reached, God only knows. At that point the whites must yield their territory to the blacks, and move away; or the whites must put j the blacks, or the blacks must put ihe | whites, to the sword. There is no other alternative; for, as you have seen, we could not remove them now—much less able will we be to do so then. Now, which j of these issues do you yearn for, Sister? When 1 find all your sympathies cu the side of the blacks—when I sec them ad mitted to your pulpits and communion tables, and the whites excluded—when 1 witness your exasperation at the whites, and hear vour ever streaming abuse of them, I am constrained to believe that you prefer the third alternative--that the blacks cut the throats of the whites. Bui when I hear you avowing that slave labor shall not come in competition with nee labor—that no territory shall be added to the country, into which the free born jo os of the North will have to commingle with the slaves of the South —with much more, which implies that the blacks, in your estimation, are a degraded race, not to be i | UJ t on a level with whites—( am led to infer that when the throat-cutting tragedy comes off, von hope to see the whites the victors. Whatever you may desire, this will certainly he the end of that drama; and if you really sympathise w ith the slaves, you cou’d not pursue a worse policy than to contract the area upon wl ich the two races are to live, until want drives them to war. As to our giving the slave-s our possessions and moving to the free States, that, of course, w ill not be done, and if it were done, they would soon all perish. The only rational con elusion that I can draw from your con duct in this regard, is that vou care for neither master nor slave, and that the true aim of this circumscribing policy is ; to weaken the v.vcr ot slave holders in ' the councils oi the nation. This conclusion is strengthened by ! many considerations :—your many corn- I plaints of that power—your attempts to reduce it during the last war—your op position to the C denization Society—your : refusal to give a dollar to free the slave i from bondage—your contempt of him when nut in comparison with Northern I freemen—the little encouragement you give him to come to your land—the cold j ness with which you treat the black who ! | dors go there—and the few privileges you i allow him when he gets there. To re- i ; concile such conduct, with either re'pect j | for the master or humanity to the slave, ! jis beyond mv ingenuity. And yet to sup- i : pose any being capable of such utter { j abandonment, as this conclusion would j imply, for the paltry purpose ofgaining a [ j little brief authority, is to suppose that ! Vice has yeaned anew, and brought forth a moster that startles even Vice herself. 1 pray you, Sister, have mercy uj on your I reputation for justice, truth or sanity.— \ i Do not speak, and so act as to bring them j ■ all in question; or to make them bring j each other in question. If you really j ! would emancipate the slave, without af i feeling the master, extend the area of : slavery as widely as possible. Remem ber, if vou please, (what I should be ashamed to confess my ignorance of.) that j to extend the arta of shivery, is not loin- | crease the number of slaves. It is not to I j increase their burdens. Just the reverse, j ! By as much as you widen the field of! ! slavery, by so much do you increase the ; i proportion of whites to blacks within its ■ ! limits. By as much a* this proportion is ■ ! increased, hv so much is the divis'or of i ! ownership increased, and the fewer must j he the number which each w hite man ! \ will own. The fewer that each owns, i 1 the better will ho treat them—the more ! i certainly will ho instruct them, an 1 the ; more ready will he he to emancipate ! them. Ist, because he will have a warm er regard f»r them, from his closer inti j nracy with them, and 2d, because he can | do it at a less sacrifice. Surely, there is no refinement or subtlety in this reasoning. Every body knows that the man who j owns hut three slaves, treats them better ; than does the man who owns fifty or a ; hundred. And if the whole number could bo divided in the proportion of three to one, every man in the country would lib erate his slaves, and give thorn a start in the world, the moment that he could sup ply their places with white servants. For verily, Sister, most of my children are just as sick of them as you are of their masters, and their masters are of you.— ! But the proportion must in a short time ! become even less than this. If no man in tho country had more than one slave, slavery must be soon abolished; aud while the whiles increase faster than the slaves, the tendency, under the common statutes of distribution, must ever he to tin’s state of things. As to the cry that vour free born sons will not mingle with slaves, it is like most of your crys—opposed to the evidence of your senses. They do min gle with them; and it is against them, your ow n blood, as w r ell as mine, that you are pouring out the vials of your wrath, and meditating destruction. So much for | your aims and the tendency of them. Lot ; us now look to ihe fruits of them, so far as thev have been gathered. First. —You have paralized the Colo nizalion Society; an Institution which united North and South, in the laudable enterprise of abolishing slavery w ithout periling freedom, of blessing the black man without cursing the white, of sepa r<iting master and servant by a power which drew their hearts together as it drew their bodies asunder, and of chang ing the civil relations of the country, with our violence to the constitution, or intru si n either side- 1 have asked my sell’, why did God permit m Institu mn w! Ich promised so much goo-J, to be the first victim of a fell spirit which threaten ed so much evil? Am Ito t»ke it as an indication of his favor, to these self infu riated fanatics? And I have found conso lation, if not truth in the answer; that on this wise has he often permitted his own most benevolent designs to be met by the worms for whoso benefit they were in tended. Even our holy religion began witli the crucifixion of its great Head,and the martyrdom of his disciples. IJo was of the seed of Abraham? And who was Abraham?—Be not alarmed Sister, I am not going to speak of his household, but bis progeny?—Who was Abraham? The man to whom the second promise of the m nfii - ■■ -g»t *- Jt*f ict^t.twp DIAGRAM OF TERA CRUZ—POSITION OF OUR FORCES. ( ■ L ITTLE callicjai* VUHITiSfI IS '.. . . csaP ';:, • # ./ ••; R6ATCLLICIAtI **' - -V **•*-*•«. lii-jL il-T'on't »' *« V J i . A\'V ,' ' r : - :: ;V- nftH os 1; v. :::? O o p& >■: ■• /” /■" - f: v ver/\ va. ' ' -iL C p •-*" \l '/£ fV\\ ’ i# J V ,/r- KV? V ' a (]\ 3/ / 'a. VN \ REFERENCES G—American linn of entrenchment?, established B, D, E and F---Positions of ifie gunboats. on the 13th- [Extending from Ft.de la Catita n-A Mexican redoubt, captured by our forces. to a point opposite B ] Sloop of war John Adams was anchored on the A and C— Positions ot steamers Spitfire ana _ . y\ xc , south side of Sacrificios, opposite F. Mosiah was made; (lie father of the peo ple to whom the Old Testament dispen sation was committed. But how strange ; its beginning ! Its dawn found that very people in the most abject slavery that ever afflicted min—at least, so { understand j the Scriptures. A slavery foreordained by God himself, and continued forcentu- ! I ties. A strange precursor of the light i which these people were to spread through | the world ! From these things, and others ; to which 1 might advert, I infer that the 1 shock which the Colonization Society has ! received, is no proof that God does not ! mean to prosper it yet: or that he does I mean to prosper the Vandalism which | I laid violent hands upon it. May it rise . | again with renewed vigor and strength, j t and may the good of ail latitudes sustain it and defend it, as the ark of our politi- | cul covenant. 1 arn strengthened in the opinion just advanced hv the fact that Abolitionism, after nearly thirty years ; i travail, has not yet produced oven a j I mouse. Not a man has it liberated —not | a blessing has it produced. Secondly. You have severed the ; Churches, and thus, at one blow, cut the j nerves of Protestanism, and the strongest bond of the Union. I speak ofthe first consequence, not as a Sectarian, but to a I Sectarian, a recruiting sergeant of the | World’s Convention— ■(! have-this i moment read the announcernt nt that the ! Wilmot proviso had passed the flouse — ! of course,* f am not in a frame of mind ito write temperately. Excuse mo, until | the re urn of belter feelings. There you ! are, Mass, first in the breach of the Con i slituiion.) Nearly a day has rolled ! away, and I am again prepared to resume my letter. i You have sundt red the Churches, and ! thereby produced a state ot feeling as un-* propitious to the cause of religion, as vour political m ivements have been to the stability ofthe Union. And here I find great encouragement, in view of the rev olution which your abolitionism is soon to produce. In every instance in which wo have dissolved our associilion with you, our peace and happiness have been greatly promoted. Can you say as much. Sister? Thirdly. —You have forced yourself al most entirely from the affections of your Southern Sisters, and led them to look with a cold, suspicions eye upon all your children who come hither. Many who would have received a hearty welcome, years ago, ami have bee n promptly intro duced into a lucrative business, now wander about among us, with their pock ets full of flattering certificates, seeking employment ami finding none. Some of these are doubtless of that noble class, of whom I spoke at the conclusion of my first letter; but we do not know thern-and your sins descends in penalties upon their heads. Hut here I forget who [am talk ing to. You who are plotting the ruin of your own offspring, largely mixed with mine, without feeling or remorse, would rejoice at the discomfiture of those w ho have ventured to oppose you at your own doors. Would that I could know such ! They should receive my highest honors and mv warmest affections. . Fourthly. —You have really rendered yourself contemptible to many of the slaves themselves. Os this i could give von some striking proofs. Forty years ago anything looking to the emancipation of our slaves, was spoken of only in whis ers, and was printed only in asterisks; now, we all talk as openly and freely about the abolilionsts and their aims, as we do of almost any other subject. The truth is, they have heard so long, and so much about abolitionism.and seen so little good result from it—that they begin to , think that yon really care nothing for them, or that vour fii mdship is not worth having. The soundest philosophy hat ever emanated from a negro’s brain. Fifthly. —You have spraed your in- I cendiarv principles abroad, and with them the spirit which you breathed into them, until your proselytes can overleapthe bar. rips of the Constitution, with as little scruple as you feel iu violating common promises. You smile at their proficiency, not perceiving that you are breaking down the only safeguard which you have from the fast growing power of the West, and establishing precedents which will come in vengeance upon you at no dis tant day. Not perceiving that you are ♦ Georgia’s three first letters all came in quick succession, consequently this has been on our | files for some time. —EJ, putting the scourge, of which you have been complaining for forty years, into hands from which you never can wrest it again. B dieve mo, Sis, it will not he long before von will want tiio help ofthe much abused South, against whom you have been practicing your political wiich -1 craft and diabolical incantations with so much success, \ou admit, do you, the power of Congress to sav what must he the character of the people, and what their private relations, and whatcondi -1 lions thov must have in their Constitution, before they can he admitted in o the Union. Very well. For the poor con solution of being thought, hv and by wiser, than mv very shrewd and self j conceited Yankee Sister, permit me to niter my solemn protect against this novel , 1 startling, revolutionary doctrine. By the | Shade of Hamilton, your Mentor in poll ! tics, and Madison, mine—joint architects of the, splendid political febric under ; which ire live—l protest against it! I pro nounce it an open, flagrant violation of a \ double obligation—the Missouri Com I promise and the Constitution ! What would have hreu thought of the man who, when North Carolina consent ed to come into the Union, should have proposed to exclude her, on the ground of her owning slaves? Nothing could have saved him from universal execration, but the [»lain indication in the proposition itself, that the man was deranged. But this is a legitimate point of abolitionism, winch regards no law human or divine. Os all the maladies that ever seized on man, it is the most remarkable. It is a disease in w hich there aie no stages—no gradations. Its first symptoms arr, a dethronement of the reason, a deadening ofthe sympathies, an oblivion of friend ships, and abandonment of shame, a for getfulness of vows, an extinction of pa ti holism, a recklessness of consequences, and a rabid fury, which knows neither bounds nor decency. Its victim is no sooner seized then ho springs up like a galvanized corpse—glares horribly upon his guiltless friends—banishes them from his heart —strikes down his compatriot— raves at his Christian brother—snatches the ucharisticelernents from his hand— drives him from the [ ulpit—strips him of his official robes —appropriates his con tributions—spends them for weapons to wound him—rushes to the arms of the negro—then screams nut “that he is ruled hv slaves”—and calls on Anarchy, in the name of Justice, to absolve him from their tyranny. Approach him kindly, and ho insults you. Ask him what you must do for him, and he is mute. Tell him you know not what to do, and ho gives you the lie direct. Administer to his cravings, and he craves the more.— Deny what he asks, and he usurps it. fie seems to believe himselfclothed with the prerogatives of Heaven and earth. lie gives now versions of the Scriptures, never before heard of, and changes old ones, which have stood undoubted for eighteen hundred and three thousand years, lie stands at the door of the tern pie, and says who may go in and who may not. lie proclaims who are worthy to mingle in the congrega'ions of I lie Saints ami who are not. He anathema lises whole nations, leagues and hundred of leagues oft’ who are quietly pursuing their own business and theiiv own devo tions. lie calls fellowship.favor—cour tesv, condescension —privileges— conces sions; and with an arrogance, that despo tism would blush to assume, he proclaims what in Church and Slate he will tole rate, and what he will never allow! He feeds and faMens on what he professes to abhor, and diives from his borders what he professes to love. With the eye of the eagle by day, and of the owl by night, 1 pries kitchens, quarters and shan ties, for s' iCtiiing to snap a'; and when driven lienee, he sets up a pilious howl of persecution. He shrieks out at slavery, and calls on the Catholic to help him crush it. lie shrieks nut at Popery, and calls on the slave holder to help him crush it—then hurls a fire-brand into the habitation of ihe one, and the Church of the other. He begs, and abuses his gov vernment —stretches its power and re bels against it, receives its largesses, and strikes at its pillars. And, what is not tlie least remarkable circumstance attend ing this unheard of malady, the world seems to consider the name of it a J'uffl cent apology for all its extravagances. — “ He is an Abolitionist,” covers all guilt, quiets all fear, excuses all insults, par- dons all injuries. At home and abroad, on sea ami on land,in peace anti in war,in trade and in treaties, Abolitionism must receive the first courtes, and then the in leresis of the nation. Such are the fruits of Abolitionism.and such Abolitionism itself. Its promises in mv next. In the meantime be it re membered, th it the country owes it to von, as it does mianly, the servitude w liic'i it was intended to remove. Thus, by your lust, you engendered a disease, which, by your quackery, you have turn ed into a cancer. Your Outraged Sister, GEORGIA. AUGUSTA. GEO.. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1817. j r We present to our readers a cut repre- I the harbor of Vera Cruz, the Castle I of San Juan de Ulloa, the Shoals and Islands, I and the position of our lines beleagueing the j city. This will enable our readers belter to understand the operations which have recent ly taken place, and will he useful fur future reference. It is prepared for this paper from a cut which was contained in the New Or leans Delta, and has been pronounced cor ! reel by an officer of our N ivy, now here, ac i quainted with the localities, j Two unimportant clerical errors occur in the rut. In Great Galiician one letter is left ; out, and in Sacrificius, one letter more than necessary is put in. We write the names as I ihe.y should be on the cut, i i Southern Alcdical anil Jourmit. ! This valuable periodical, tor April, is be- I fore us. Jt is filled, as usual, with articles original and selected, on a great variety of 1 toj ics, Surgical and Medical, which are well i worthy the attention of the learned Faculty. The Oiulcr of the Honn of Temperance. The recent institution in this city of a subordinate division of this order, has indu ced ns to make some inquiry into its origin, its aims and »ts progress. The subject will cunmend itself to the consideration of every lover of bis species, and no philanthropist can read, without great satisfaction, the his tory of its career in this country. Though instituted but a few years ago, it has already done much, very much, to mitigate one great scourge of our race—the vice of inemper ance, which annually hurries its tens of thousands to untimely graves, and what is wore, is unceasingly torturing, by the pains ofmoverty, and file keener pangs of blighted hope, the innocent and helpless dependants on the degraded, brutalized drunkard. The refoni a'ions accomplished by this Order are thorough and permanent, as statistics will show. They restore the reformed drunkard to station —respectability—to industrious hub |U», to a sense of self-respect, to the sympa thies of his race; and secure to him, during j his membership, the countenance and sup port of firm and fast friends. These remarks apply to thn?e, and there j are many such, who have been snatched by 1 this institution from the lowest depth of de- I gradation, where reform seemed utterly hnpe ! less, and the last stage of human misery had been readied. But it would be an erroneous j idea to suppose that it is of such chiefly that J ;his society is composed. On the contrary, the Sons of Temperance number in their or | ,j er many of the highest position—the purest character and brightest intellects oi the land men whose whole lives have been unstain ! ed by a crime—unsullied by a vice. They j add the influence of their associated exer- I tions in this new Order, to the force of their example in their life and conduct, w th a view to slid greater usefulness. Having premised this much, we now offer to public attention a low facts winch may be cf in -1 lerest. The Order of the Sons of Temperance was established in the City of New York on the 29th Sept., 1842. by sixteen Washingtonians. The Order was instituted to consist of Three Divisions. 1 First, A National Division, to meet annu- I a.Uy- Second, Grand or State Divisions—to meet quarterly —one for each Stale. Third. Subordinate Divisions of which I there may be any number in each Stale that the Grand Division of that State may see ; proper to organize. The next Division in the United States was established at Newark, N. J-, Dec. loth, I 1842. Same evening another Division was j established in New York. The first Grand or Stale Division was es tablished in New York city, January 9lh, I 1343. Its first general meeting look place ! Oct. 10th, 1843. Up to that lime, nineteen Subordinate Di visions iiaci been established. Number of members 1409. January Blh, 1844, a Grand Division wss established in New Jersey. February sth, 1844, a Grand Division was established in Maryland. April 22d, 1844, a Grand Division was es tablished in Pennsylvania. June I Oil), 1844, a Grand Division was es tablished in Massachusetts. The National Division was established in New York-City, June 17, 1844, This Division is composed of the passed officers of the Grand Divisions, and has juris diction over the whole Order. At this, its first meeting, there were then in existence six Slate or Grand Divisions, and seventy-one Subordinate Divisions, with about six thousand members. July 10th, 1844, a Grand Division was es tablished in the District of Columbia. . «wW"- - ■—J.wt—wy-.r January 29ih, 1545, a Grand Division was established in Virginia. April loth, 1 Slo, a Grand Division was established in Maine. May 11th, 1815, a Grand Division was es tablished in Ohio.’ 1 The second annual meeting of the Nation al Division took place in Now York. J hero were then ten Grand Divisions —one hun dred and ninety-four Subordinates, and 17,. 000 members. During 1846, charters fur Grand Divisions were granted for Delaware, Indiana, Ten nessee and Kentucky. In June 1846, the order had increased to fourteen Grand, six hundred and fifty fcJabor dinates and over 40.000 members. The Order is now supposed to number about nine hundred Subordinate Divisions, and about 70,000 members. To give some idea of tlie usefulness of this Order, we will state that though a secret or der. it is organized on the useful principled of benevolence, charity and friendship, which characterize the orders of Masonry and Odd Fellowship. It dispenses charities—it takes care of the sick—-it provides burial for the dead, and provides for the destitute widow and orphan. The sums it annually disbursed | is practical proof of its benificcnce. In proof of the superior moral restraint the ! order exercises on its members, we state that during the three months of the Presidential campaign of IS4 I—a1 —a time of unprecedented excitement, out of 4869 members in New j York, there were but 45 violations of the ! pledge. Os these 19 rejoined the order and continued exemplary members, i Out of the whole number who are known ! to the National Devision in 1845 as having once violated the pledge, 750 in a number of 36,000, but OS were known to have violated the pledge a second time. Oilier statistics of the same character will corroborate these results, anJ show the great efficacy of this order, in accomplishing refor mations. IVural. | The U. »S. sloop-of-war Saratoga, Com mander Farraguf, bound to the Gulf of Mexi co, sailed from Norfolk on Monday last. A Washington correspondent of the Balti more Sun says:—Tthe U. S. Steamer Union, j Commander Rudd, with 100 men and four 08 j pound Paixhans, would probably leave Wa.-h- I ingfon on Saturday for the Gulf of Mexico, I via Norfolk. ; Ilajli. A letter in the Nsw-York Journal of Com ; merce, from J icmel, says the name o( the | new Havtien President is Fauslin Soulouque. lie is aged about 50 years, well esteemed hr I the peop’e, a man of good and amiab’e rharac ! ter, am! distinguished for his firmness and 1 j courage. Fcon) S7«'jil*a Tort. The Sf. Louis Union of the 19'h Fays: — I “A letter received in this city yesterday, from Beni’s Fort, dated the Ist of February, writ | ten by a man who had charge of the Govern ment. stock near Taos, at the time of the re i rent insurrection, confirms the report here j tofore published by ns, of the ki ling of Gov i ernor Charles Gent, Stephen and Elliott Lee, ami the American citizens, and several Mox - cans, at that place. The writer in a letter to his relative, slates, that after the massacre, the Mexicans commenced stealing the stock he had in clurge, and having learned what outrages they had committed in Taos,lie fled to Bent's Fort. This letter puts an end to the hope entertained here, that the repoit ! rnmbt have been exaggerated or unfounded. , o ■ r’ The Itumora from Vera Cn;z. The Washington Union of Monday eve ning, in reference to the rumors from Vera ! Cruz, says:—• The streets of ot;r city have tin’s day been | inundated with rumors about Vera Cruz. It : has been said, that the city had surrendered | without firing a gun—and lit,at the ca-l!« of i San Juan d’Uiloa was blown up. Neither of these rumors is correct, as far at least as the government is now advised. The facts are these: — A letter, which we have seen, has been received this day from Havana, v. Inch states that on the previous evening the steamer Mississippi had arrived from Vera Cruz, hav i mg taken the place of the unfortunate | Tweed, which has been recently shipwreck jed on the coast. From the reliable accounts I brought, bv her, it would appear that Santa Anna had ordered the troops to be w ilhdrawn from the city, leaving the castle to defend it self. According to an order issued bv Santa Anna, it appears that tiis troops are to make a stand at the Puente Nacional—the National Bridge—about 23 miles from Vera Cn.z, j We learn, also, through the channel of j the same letter from Havana, that a new re j volution has taken place in Yucatan—that the Campeachy or independent parly have been defeated—the party favorable to .Mexi co, which lias been suspended since the 17tii of January, has been restored—and all re gulations adopted during this interval, have been abolished. The Apalachicola Advertiser of 27th ult. ' says—‘-The U. S. Steamer Ashland, Captain | Watson, from Philadelphia bound to Tam ! pico, 54 days out, put iulo this port to repair her machinery which broke at sea some 200 miles from this place, when she made the rest of the way under canvass. She came to anchor outside the bar, and (he steamer Emily, Capi. Hail, went to her relief and towed her up to town.” The Injury to the telegraph line between Wilmington and Philadelphia, and between Philadelphia and New York, has been so great from the recent storm, that they will not bo repaired and in perfect order to resume busi ness fur several days, probably a week or more. Nearly one-half the posts have been blown down, and the wires broken in numerous places. Large forces have been sent out in all directions to make the necessary repairs. When the lines are agaffi operating it will bo