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ir irw,m " THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARD’NSR. T£R V S . _ •. «8 00 Daily, per annum, *•' ()0 Tri-Weeklv, per annum, . . , , a 00 if paid m advance, S t)0 W «"*klv, per annum , .. , Z 30 Jl paid m advance, T O CLVU >* • We call particular attention to the following terms of our paper : To rlnte, remittin? §lO advance, FIVE rOPIES are sent. This will put uur weekly pu rer in the reach of new subscribers at TUO DOLLARS A YEAR. VII new subscriptions must be paid in advance. jyi* outage must be paid on ail Communications n id Let'ers of business. OLD FRIENDS TOGETHER. ft Oh. time is sweet, when roses meet, VV ith e prinif’s sweet breath around them; And sweet the time when hearrs are lost. It those who love have found them; And sweet the mind that.still can find A star in the darkest weather — But nought can he so sweet to see As old friends met together. Those <lays of old, when youth was bold. And time stole wmgfc to speed i ; And youth ne’er knew how fast time flew, Or knowing, did not heed it— Though grey each brow that meets us nuw, (Forage brings wintry weather.) Yet nought can he so sweet to see As those old friends together. The few long known whom vearshave shown With hearts that friendship blesses; A hand to cheer, perchance a tear To soothe a friend’s distresses. Who helped and tried, still side by side, A friend to face, bad weather— Oh, tlius may we yet joy to see And meet old friends tow-ether. A French Valentine. A Messieurs Field el Keende, edileurs , pro prieleurs, tl tons ce qui cen suit, <>J de Re v die: Messieurs:—l ask you,en honneur, if my case be nut too much annoying. \ raiment, it will drive me mad—distracted—crazy like vat you call vun March air; but 1 cannot help it; it be my destinee—always (ruble— always some dilemme—always in some Go detn peekle or oder. But listen to de pre sent treble novv on de record. De day of St. Valentine (vun glorious saint!) come to pass —tres bleu; it be my devoir, like vun true Fran as, to make de leetlo valentines—de itille billets, you understand—for de ladies.— Veil, i sit down full of brillanles ideas— write; scratch him out; put him back again; read him over six or tirteen times; burn him up; try noder sheet; go ahead; never stop; full of energie—full ol courage. It vas like de last effort of Mozart —dam interesting. 1 thought it vould take me vun day—it lake me tree, four, five days. At last, ven I have 'it all finished, grand, poetique, diablement .sublime, 1 vent to de Empire to get de opin ion of my fren Monsieur Jean Jacquede Go ronflat, President of de “seex beet hick’ and a ash” fraternity; and as I begin to read, my j fren begin to smile and nod, w:z a great deal of approbation on his figure. As I finish de last verse, Monsieur de 'Goronfl.it smile vunce more, wiz more approval den never, and re mark: “Dat is all very good, Comte, and would have done excellament on St. Valen tine’s Day; but, as it happens dat dis sacred day does not.last all de year round, you have had your pains all for nozing. It be too long now after de Valentine day to send your note to ze ladie, and you vould be laughed at for your trouble.” Ah, mon Diett! Monsieur Field et Keemle, etc., it came down on me 7ike vun thunder bolt!—vun shock of electric! Zee note dropped out of ray hand; zee arms dropped after -it; zee jaw inferieur dropped ‘opefc Viz astonishment; zee moustache fo’- low de example; zee eyelid superieur dropped up in vender, and I would have drop in a ‘•cock bat,” only Monsieur Fuller, wiz great tenderness, support me wiz a stout “cock tail.” Ah ! I sail nevair fail in gratitude to dal gen tleman—so kind and philanthropic. Vun cock tail have an effect magique,in restoring me a leelle; so two or tree more must have de effect a leelle more magique; and it did, Messieurs Edileurs; de last one give me vun good notion—suppose I write him in de pa paire? It will be needless to say. Messieurs, dat de last idee swept cveryting before it. TO FANNY. Ah! could dis leetle valentine Tell her de (oughts dat roam Trough dis love-streeken heart of mine, ’Twould speak of her alone. I've seen her fairest ’mongst the fair— I’ve sought for her where weetiest were; A grace ’niongst muses was she dere— The syrens paused to to list to her ! (What you link of dat, heiu, Monsieur Editeur? Pretty fair, n’es ce pas? Ah, pardieu ! I Jet him speak fur itself :) ’T be no use talking dus so free, VVidin de precints of a note; JVJais, vraiment, I’m in love wid thee, A dat’sde raison vy I w rote. Dere vas someting I did vish to say, Ven 1 caught up my villing pen; Mais, really, I’ll not write to-day De brilliant touglu vich struck rae den. (You understand de idee ?—vun passion —vun sacred flame—vun holy fire—which hasdevoured my heart, and vich, 1 link, be consuming my liver also, fur I have lose all my appetite.) Howevair, you yourself may guess. De secret reignent in ray breast, And of me, Fanny, link not less. Because by it I be distressed. De leelle pocket book can tell Vale’er you’d vish to know; S’pose you don’t likede billets—well, I’ve only spent one dime or so! (Vun dollaire, Monsieur Editeur, vun dollaire, I put van dime for de mesure, but zee eacre leelle lings cost like zee diable!) An revolt. Lx Comte Gustaae llonore de Pipolet. Rank iu the Army. OR, A DARKEY’S DIGNITY. After a portion of the troops had landed on the beach near Vera Crnz, on the night of the 9lh of March, a body of the enemy commenced j a brisk fire of small-anas into the encamp ment. Ofcourse, all hands were on the qui ! l ive, expecting the Mexicans would make j Borne demonstration upon our lines during the night, and when the firing commenced, con- I eluded there was about to he a general attack. | The lines were scon formed, and not a word could be heard from ihe soldiery, but there i was a negro who kept running from one ' jittle point of hill to another, apparently iu a 1 state of great excitement. He finally laid himself fl it on his face, at full-length, and .commenced working himself into the soft «and with a good deal of energy. On being asked what was lie about; he replied, “I is I’raid some ob dem’ere copper bulls will put rwaiin rrT r nrnag.Tiiwvf.r>ife imm-wn ii ■ i.rtraewpg a stop to me drawin’ my ra.-hnn.-.” ‘ Why, ! in the devil, asked the parly speaking to him, “don’t you get up and fight them?” No, sir-ee!" he said,‘Mat’s my nnssa’s part ob de ui-zuess; he done been to Wes-pint, where dey ma kes tight in’ people to learn dat, and you d‘*n’t keirh dis nigger meddlin’ lie-set wid odder peoples’ bizness. My niassa does de fightin’ an’ f waits on him, an’ misses him. Ifhe gets wounded we gets promoted.” “You get promoted! What good will his promotion i do you?” inquired the individual. “Oh’ Lor’ hab marev! dal question is been settled long | time ago in de«e parts down here; a colored I gemmen what wails on a kurncl always outranks one dal wails on a capton, an’ de 1 way we colored gemrnen reg'lurs makes dese volunteer niggers squat is a caution to while ! folks.” Ah Gcuiiii. i (’apt. Tobin, of the Louisiana Volunteers, writing to flie New Orleans Delta, from Sal tillo, give- the following account of an odd j fish he met with on Ids way up the country. “We left Gonzales, 30 in number, on the ; 11th ult., for Monterey, via San Antonio, and j near a pretty village, called ISeguiti, a few of ’ us fell in with an odd fLlt enjoying a Colo i nei’s commission. lie has a strange lialit 1 | ot using the longest words, and invariably j i misapplying them; for instance, (he wished | to sell us some lots.) —“Bur, gentlemen, if i you wish to make fortunes: here is the lora- I lion for a magnanimous city, vvere’re at the 1 foot of'navigation. Next year I'll put up a , lawyer’s fixins, a potiiecary’s doings, and a i blacksmith’s institution, and afterwards a reg ular cimetary, where ail the folks from the i circum jasper counties will send in their boys | and girls of both sexes to be Mc.Adarnized • into a college edication. Then I'll instruct ! a meetin-house, and the stores and taverns 1 will spring up in course. 1 can’t do lids till i | next year,’cos I hav’nt got hard cash enough ! I yet, and I’ll have nothing to do with the ! i darned blank bills; let a man offer me one | j and if I don't make sacrement of him, d—n j me. Do you see that well? I’ll put a pump j handle into it, and fix an anecdote to fetch the water through all the meandering and turpentine walks in my sassgarding, and the effects of the arrogation will be such., thattfie very air will be polluted, with the ordnrife j runs execrations protruding from the flow | ers—(if I’m an flcroncher in any tiling 1 it’s iu flowers.) I'll put up a diarrhoea in the middle of’em, for my women folk to store the 1 milk and butter, &c.; and then run a condi | tion through the house and provision it off, j but I’ll run up a real edifice next year, and clap a chronology on the top, so that the la- I dies and gentlemen may look at the stars and j milky-vvey through a horoscope tint I’ll ex | port from Galveston. I can’t do it all at once, as my women folks are growing up and get ting more and more costive and expensive on ! me every year. Come in gentlemen—let us j liquor.” An Artificial Paraili.c. tuk duke of Devonshire's conservatory. Os this grand conservatory no belter idea | can be given than by telling you that it is a glass structure, which covers an acre of I ground—that it is seventy feet high—and ; that the carrage road is continued directly ! through if, so that the duke and his guests 1 can drive through with a coach and four!— j The whole duilding is heated by hot water, the pipes to convey which measure miles Tlie temperature of various climates is imi i tated, and the Collection of trees and plants embraces all that is fairest and loveliest in the j vegetable world. Here is a whole avenue of bananas and plantains lining one of the : grand walks, and among them the Musa ■ Caieneisoii, full of flowers,' and laden with I heavy masses of fruit. There, in an ap propriate climate, is a charming grove of i oranges and lemons. An aquarium, or pond of water, is the site for all ? tie curious water j 1 illies, and other aquatic plants of the tropics. And near by is a wild mass of rock-work, or Derbyshire spar, looking like a rich bulk by a) forest stream, where rare exotic ferns, i lichens and air plants enjoy themselves as ! near as possible to their natural homes, j Over tltis hill ol rock work is conducted a | flight of steps; this leads you to a light gai- I lery carried quite around the conservatory, I whence, as you imagine, the eye of the spec tator revels in the strangeness and novelty of the masses of oriental vegetation, not i plants half starved and dwarfed in pots, but I trees nearly Jfull grown, and luxuriant with i their roots in the warm soil— palms, dates ! and bananas, developing almost all their na i live Grandeur and oriental wildness! j =» Ylilc. Lola 31oute*. This woman, (a Spanish dancer) is the one | that has bewitched the King of Bavaria, who ! is sixty years old and a considerable poet, j In a recent sonnet, the king compared htm i selfto a high mountain, covered with snow, j and the lady to the sun that has melted the i frost from its top. She was born at Seville, i and after perfecting herself as a dancer, start ed forth in quest of adventures. At Berlin site horsewhipped a gendarme, who endeav ored to keep her from riding before the king at a review. At Warsaw, she dared the Mayor ! to a duel from the stage. At Baris she was I the cause-of an affairof honor, in which a | talented editor, Dujarrier, was shoi; after running the flower of the aristocracy of these three cities, she left for Munich. There she cut up such capers that, on the | 16th ofFebruary, the people began to gather around her hotel, threatening to burn her for j having bewitched the king. So great was 1 the excitement, that the commandant of a I garrison sent a regiment of dragoons to i escort her from the city to one of the king’s country seals, where he followed her I Ik? i next morning. It would not bo strange if his majesty’s love should lose him a crown. t A Noble Recruit. The New York correspondent of the Bos ton Post, tells the following story: “About a year ago, the Baron Van Winck !er, a captain of artillery in the service of the King of Saxony, arrived in this country in (he ship Brarens, Capt. Flore, from Ham burgh; he was an accomplished officer, and an accomplished man. At the lime of (he | Ronge riots in Leipsic, lie was in command : of the citadel, and was instructed to summon the Rongeites to disperse, and if they declin ! ed to do so, he was ordered to fire upon them. | They refused to abide by bis summons, when ; he fired, and some two hundred defenceless i people were killed. For this act of obedi ! ence he was censured by many people, and i by some of his associates was insulted. For j these insults he sought redress; challenged ' several of his companions in arms to mortal 1 1 combat, and killed two of them. Finding himself in this unfavorable position, and act ing in accordance with the advice of the minister of war, he took shipping for the 1 United Slates, and with the intention of re- ■ inainiiig here till the excitement of Leipsic growing out of the Rouge riots should sub- side. He arrived here in March; was un happy and discontented, because of flie ab sence of active life, and had resolved to mi crate to the copper mines of Like Superior. While waiting here, the war with Mexico broke out. lie immediately proceeded to a rend< zcous, enlisted in the army as a private, was despatched forih villi to Texas, and at toe battle of I*a!o A'to was the first man killed in the gallant charge made on the ene my, He bad powerful and influential friends iii the city, but be sought no other place in our army than that of a private soldier.” [From the Savannah Republican. 21 si inst.] luicmting I.rUer from Mexico. One of the editors has received from a frien l on board the U. S. steamer Scourge, a letter giving an account of the faking of Al rarado and the city of Fra Ca Talpan. It is from a Georgia boy. and though not intended lor the public eye, we cannot refrain from taking the liberty of laying a portion of it be fore our readers. 'The letter is dated “Anton Lizardo, April 4tb, 1847.” v * * * ♦ % * “ The morning after, we were ordered by our Commodore to proceed to Alvarado to blockade that port. We got oiT the harbor 1 about sunset, and began to fire into the fort, I when it became dark, and the surf being very heavy on the bar, with indications of a norlh i or, we were compelled to stand off and on, j which we daJ during the night. The next morning wo stood in near the shore again, and began firing a second time into the Fort, when several horsemen were seen coining down the beach, at full gallop and bearing a white flag. We hove to, to see what they wanted, when a boat was seen coming out of (lie harbor, bearing a flag of the same kind, and commanded by the Captain of the port, who invited ns to take possession o' tfie town. | We stood up to the town and anchored run j out and pointed the guns, sent two officers ! with eight men ashore with, a summons of ! unrauditional surrender, (the bearer of which w as your humble servant.) with but 30 min utes lime for doing it, —all of which was ac ceded to, —and thus was taken by one little vessel of three guns and a bold captain, the town of Alvarado, the bugbear of the Navy. Hearing that the Mexican General with four hundred men," had gone up the river | with several vessels, and munitions of war, | we immediately pursued him, capturing on i our way up, four schooners, one loaded with | powder, &c.,which they had run upon a shoal i and scuttled, which burned; two we brought down to Alvarado, and the other we let them keep as being worthless. About 2 o’clock in Mie morning,we arrived at the city of Fra Ca Talpan, fired a gun and sent three officers, (one of which was “this child,”) with six men to summon the Alcalde of the city to surrender. We woke the old fellow up out of a sound sleep, and had our ideas of modesty very much shocked in seeing his wife dress him in the parlour. However, we put our hands before our eyes, (seamen and all you know,) to show how much our‘Teel ins” were outraged. I •have no doubt that you will be much gratified at seemgtiiat I l have lost none of the lessons ofyouih, in tire wav of modesty at least. We gave tins town thiriy minutes also— terms, “unconditional surrender,” which were acceded to. There were but nine of us ashore, with about three hundred Mexicans, inhabit ants ol the town, around us, with their sallow faces and black eyes, looking the very per sonification of treachery and deceit; I assure you that it looked rather had. I believe we could have made our way to the slior r, and have been able to kill many of them, but some or os would no doubt have been hurt, as the rascals can use a knife exceedingly well. Their cowardice is proverbial, however, and that accounts for our not being attacked. Our Captain was so impatient in his disposition, and was so determined as to the time for surrender, that I had to go from the Council House to the beach several times to tell him that we would soon be on board with the articles of surrender. I had a body guard of one men, to walk through these people, and these cowardly wretches did not dare touch us. After the surrender of this place, which is a very pretty town, containing some seven thousand inhabitants, we returned to Alvara do, getting there about sunset. That night the Captain took Passed-. Midshipman Temple and myself in his boat, and went up the river to assist in bringing down one of the prize schooners. On our way up we saw a large boat which we ran aboard of and captured, and found her to contain ninety hales of cot ton, with a quantity of dry goods and hides, worth three or four thousand dollars. You can tell my creditors I expect prize money enough to settle with them fully, and trust in a shdtf time to do so. Fra Ca Talpan is about six or seven leagues up a river of the same name—the river is the most beautiful that I ever saw. In some places the banks are one hundred feet high, covered with the richest verdure, with here and there a pal metto-roofed cottage, looking as primitive as need he. For the most part, there are miles of level plain running back from the river as far as the eye can reach, which are abruptly terminated by high hills and mountains.— These plains are covered with immense num bers of cattle. 1 think I saw upon one of them something like ten thousand cattle, horses, fee. The alligators upon the banks of the river, with a number of the same spe cies of birds that we have at home, reminded me much of it. ] 1 have given yon the pleasant part of our cruise; now comes the worst. The Comtno- ' (lore has arrested our Captain and taken his command from him. It is thus that the young officers of our Navy are encouraged in “well-doing.” For a dashing action, in faking a place hv which our Navy has been twice repulsed, and for pursuing into the in- I terior a Mexican General, with 400 troops, (nearly eight times his number on board the Scourge,) who by the by we just missed catching by an hour or two, having captured the very boat he had gone in to Fra Ca Talpan—for this has our gallant Captain been arrested. His orders were not to cross ; the bar, it is true, but circumstances render- 1 ed him justifiable in going up to the town, ’ as the Mexicans were burning and running j away with all the public property they could < lay their hands upon. * * * * * Xlic Canvass in Tennessee. The ball has opened in this state. The candidates for governor have taken the field. They addressed a large assemblage at Nash ville on the 3d instant. The Nashville Union gives the heads of the address of the whig candidate, and if he be correctly reported, a more suicidal exposition and avowal of opin ion, at the present moment and under exist ing circumstances,never tell from the lips of a man. We repeal what we often asked before —will the wings necer leant wisdom? — Alius. The Union says: Mr. Neill S. Brown, ('he whig nominee,) declared himself in favor of “an old fashioned National bank;"of“a modification of the tariff i of 1846, that it may discriminate still more for protection; “for a distribution of the pm ceeds of the sales of the public lands, and against the independent treasury. He de clared that “the war was unnecessary, and that it was brought on by the executive in moving the troops to the liio Grande.” But the war having been thus unnecessarily \ brought on by ike president, he was in favor of its prosecution until Mexico should pay the expenses, should tey (he indemnity mo ney she owes our citizens, and should agree on a boundary line! ! He was willing to (alee a mortgage on California to secure the pay ment of all this money! hut was opposed to tiie acquisition of territory by conquest! He denounced the administration for its picayune manner of conducting the war, and in the same breath tried to alarm the crowd at the enormous expense attending it, and dwelt upon the reckless expenditures of the public money with which it was prosecuted. Casca. —“O, he sits high in all the people's hearts: And that, which would appear offence in us. His countenance, like richest alchymy. Will change to virtue, and to worthiness, Cassius. —-Him and his worth, and our great need of him. You have right well conceited.” The above linos which Shakespeare has put in the mouth of the conspirators, when they desired to win Brutus to their cause in order that his great worth and popularity might | redeem the grossness of the deed of blood which thev perpetrated in the home of liberty, might well he used by the whigs of this day who seek the coifcilehiance of general Taylor, to gild their worthlessness. They love not him; care for his hafcl-earned laurels, nothing; i his virtues they won hi he the last to imitate. I and only use as masks to liieir designs. They ! prate of justice, honor, public gratitude, as j though they ever felt, or cared to 1 eel one j generous emotion. What are these things to : I them? JSpokes in the ladder by which they j , hope to clunh. And what to them are heroes? I Imposing names by which to lead the people; I and compass their own ends. 'J'hey have j “great need of him,” but we imagine, the old , general will think he has small use lor them, and give them little thanks and less support for the lip-service they now offer him.—[*V. O, Allas. A Belgian journal relates that about a dozen poor persons, driven from their huts by a fire, went to seek for shelter from a chateau near A’ost. In the absence of the proprietor, the j iniendafit consented to lodge them in a grana | ry filled with sacks of wheat, on the condi tion that they would not touch it. They re- j mained there three weeks, going out to beg I in the neighborhood in the morning, and re- j turning at evening, often without bringing j back any thing, lint faithful to thier pro mise, they suffered hunger rather than touch the grain that surrounded them, and when i the proprietor returned at the end of-the time,he found all his sacks untouched. Moved 1 hv such noble forbearance, he promised them j that tie would himself have their dwellings refill ilt. AUGUSTA, GEO." FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1847. - 03= For our share in the handsome com- j plimerit paid by the Oglethorpe meeting to a j ; portion of the Democratic press of Georgia, | i we tender our very sincere acknowledge- j i moots. We hope their suggestions of the urgent propriety of a very general patronage of the Democratic papers of our Slate, will ! bo fully appreciated and acted upon. No party can effectually sustain itself, however correct its principles, without extending a liberal support to the presses which advocate i those principles and defend them Irom the ; untiring assaults of their opponents. The Democratic party of Georgia can i hoa.-?t of several journals of distinguished ability besides those enumerated, and which j we presume were omitted only because they 1 are published at points remote from Lex -1 ington. • 1 • -d, .i o . . Funeral of Mr. IVafew. The funeral obsequies of this lamented citizen were attended by the Mi’ler and Washington Lodges of the Independent Or- I derof Odd Fellows. Os the former, he was a member in good standing. His remains were conveyed in the country for interment, to the family cemetery of hia connections by marriage, and were preceeded by a proces sion of the Odd Fellows, to the corporate * limits of the city. The cortege there passed through the lines formed on each sale of the road by the brethren of this mystic Order, who threw into the hearse their badges of evergreen which they wore on the occasion, as a token that his memory will he cherished fresh and bright in their hearts. After this touching ceremony, the Odd Fellows return j cd in procession to their respective Lodges. I j We can pity the folly that will believe in I such absurd lies, even in defiance of the flood of light which the recent experience, arising from the enlightened free trade policy | of the two most commercial nations in tiie ! world, has poured upon the stubborn preju | dices of protectionists. The above sentence appears in the Geor | gia Jeffersonian of the 2lst inst.. as a part of an editorial of the Georgia Constitutional ist which that paper pays us the compliment of copying entire. It is the article devoted j to “Messrs. Berrien, Stephens, Toombs and i ' Kinrr, and their Northern Allies.” The sen- i ' lencc quoted or rather mis-quoted succeeds j the following, which will explain the folly | on which vve were commenting: j We can pity the folly and fanatical dog -1 matism that would cling to the absurd theory that Free Trade is an injury to a country, and prohibitions, restrictions, monopolies and the thousand fetters that class legislation throws around the energies of a nation,would he fruitful of blessings. We call attention to this simply to make a correction. The Jeffersonian has made a mis-print. It should have printed, absurdi ties for absurd lies. The latter is an expres sion vve did not use. It is not in character with us to use such phrases in our editorials. The Columbus Times which also dopied * -- ; t!ie article, publisiied it absurdities, which is a term correct in itself as applied, and is the one we did use in our editorial. The Steamer Cumbria. We have no tidings of this steamer, due at, 13 isfon at our latest dates. 1 lie ( aledo nia, last vear, did n• >t reach Boston until the 20lii April. The telegraph between Phila delphia ai d Baltimore was not in operation on the 21st and 23d in.-t. We may hear of her arrival by this evening’s mail. Official Despatch©* from Gta, Taylor and Col. Pile©. The Washington Union of the 19th inst. contains the official despatches of Gen. Tay lor, giving lull particulars of the bailie of Buena Vi-ta. It is the most lengthy docu ment that has emanated from the pen of the valiant old hero, occupying over three col umns in the Union, \\ e will give it in our next. The letter of Col. Price sheds much light upon the transactions in New Mexico. Troops lor New The St. Louis Republican of the 18Kh instant, says:—We understand that a report has gained currency in this city, that Gov ernor Edwards has received orders from the War Department to raise two regiments of volunteers to march to the relief oftho e now in New Mexico. A gentleman who came passenger yesterday on the Tamerlane, from Jefferson city, is said to have derived the same information from tiie Governor. | The Philadelphia North American of the ; 19lh inst., says—We hear that a requisition has been made upon this State for more troops i —to what amount we do not learn. As soon ' as mustered they will be ordered to reinforce both the commands of Gens.‘Scott and Tav- I lor. This will be pleasing news to some of i our companies who were disappointed in re j ceiving orders under the last requisition. A New York letter published in the Phila delphia Inquirer says— One of our best silk and dry good houses, in Pearl street, failed a day or Iw-o since, after a career of ten years. The amount of their indebtedness is estimated at four hundred thousand dollars. The large auction houses, it is said, are the principal lookers. Arrival of lb© Diiucclon. The Ba timore Sun of the 2<i li inst. say?. — We learn from passengers on board the Philadelphia boat hist night, that the steamer Princeton, from Vera Cruz, via Pensacola and Havana, arrived at Philadelphia with Com. Conner on board, at -4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The New-York Journal of Commerce says —The Dry Dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is making rapid progress. The new steam pile-driver recently set up there, has been tested, and is competent to make sixty blows i in a minute. About 400 men are now em ployed at the Dock. The Sabine, a frigate I of the largest class, is ready for launching, I and it is expected will soon be afloat. t a;>l, Vinton. Several typographical errors having occurred i i the following extract of a letter from the late Capt. Vinton, we republish it, corrected. , “1 have hit herto lived mostly for others—but my children will reap some of the fruits of my sell denial, in’ the means I shall leave them of living independently, and securing a good educa tion. I commit them in full reliance to the care of their Heavenly Father, and I hope their trust in Him will ever be at least as firm and unceasing us has been my own. My confidence in the overruling Providence of God is unqualified; so that I go toihe field of action fully assured that whatever may befall me will be for the best. 1 feel proud to serve my country in this her appeal: and should even the worst—death itself—be my lot, I shall meet it cheerfully, concurring fully in the beautiful Roman sentiment, “Duke el de corum cat ]>ro Palria mori ” Democratic Electing in Oglethorpe. Pursuant to previous notice, a large and respectable portion of the democratic party of Oglethorpe convened at Lexington, on Monday the 19th inst. When on motion, Hon. Sarnl. Lumpkin was called to the Chair,and Hiram L. French requested to act as Secretary. On motion. Col. Win. McKinley stated the object of the meeting, viz; to appoint Dele gates from this county, to attend the Demo cratic Convention soon to he held in Mil ledgeville—for the purpose of nominating a suitable candidate for Governor. On motion of Col. McKinley the Chairman appointed the following Committee to nomi nate three suitable persons as Delegates, viz: Isaac W. Johnson, Richd. Winfrey, F Phin izy, Chs. S. Merriweather and Marshall Jackson,—who after retiring, reported the names of the following gentlemen, to wit: Col. Win. McKinley, F. Piiinizy and Hiram L. French, —which nomination was unani mously received and power given them to fill any vacancy which may occur. On motion, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved , That whereas the influence of the Press is universally acknowledged—it is j therefore of the highest importance that j sound Democratic principles should be dis- I geminated amongst the people. To this end ue urge the Democracy of this j county to subscribe to and circulate freely the able Democratic journals of onr State—of which we mention the Federal Union, South ern Banner.and GeorgiaConsfifutionaiist— the last mentioned being particularly desirable— not only on account of the soundness of its principles—the ability and energy of its edi tor—but also on account of the general in-* telligence of the paper—being published in Augusta—our market. Resolved, That the Secretary furnish co pies of these proceedings to. the Editors of the Federal Union, Southern Banner and Georgia Constitutionalist, with a request to give them publicity. After which the meeting adjourned. SAML. LUMPKIN, Chairman. H. L. French, Sec’ry. Lexington, Ga„ April 19, 1547, * m. <, Important to Mlnreliuldcrs. Columbia, April 15. i The following case winch came up before I his Honor, Judge Wardlavv, at the recent term of the Court for Kershaw district, and the action taken therein, involve considera tions of vital interest to every slaveholder iu South < ’a rolinia: South Carolina, > Iu the Court of Common Pleas, Kershaw District. > March 1 criu, I3E. Juliu Harrison ) . t-g. > Case—for selling Whisky to a Jefferson Berkley. ) Slave. The evidence as given in tins case, was substantially and briefly as follows: It appeared that on the 21th of December, 1 845, the defendant. Jefferson Berkley, kept a urog shop in Camden, and sMcl the plain tiff's slave, Bob, a gallon and a quart of whis ky—-that on tiie road home. Bod drank ot the whinky, became very drunk, fell down seve ral times, and once in a creek, and would probab y have been drowned, it he had not been assisted out —that he lay out all night, and was found dead near the road next morn ing—that his death was caused by the intoxi cation, and exposure to tiie inclemency ot the weatner. Tue Jury, (Dr. William Carlisle being Foreman.) under the charge ,of his Honor, Judge Ward’aw, found a verdict for tlie plain tiff lor Six Hundred and Fifty Dollars. SMAII T «!U GR.EGG.Ior Plaintiff, J. M. DESAUStSURE, for Defendant. The Cotton Crop in Alabama. A gentleman, arrived from Mobile to day, informs us that such have been the ravages i of tiie worms in Alabama that till the young cotton lias been completely destroyed by them on all the plantations between .Mobile and Demopolis; and that the work of destruction is so complete that the planters have coun | tertnanded their orders fur rope and bagging. —A. O. Mercury Lnrjie fa iaou. The editor of the Natchez Free Trader has been presented by Mrs. James Tooley of that citv,vvitb a lemon grown in tier garden, mea.-- I nring eleven inches and a half in circumfer ence. It was grown on a tree ot her own raising, and this is the second year it has borne. 'The lemons, the Free Trader says, are as fine ;n flavor asjthey are large in size. —lb. ALEXANDER McKENZIE, Jig ATT OR Xi : V AT, LV W . Wavnescoro’, Burke Cou.vrv, Ga. April 29 ly 163 IX~P Dividend Xo. I'd. —Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company.—A Dividend 1 of •32 per share on the capita! stock of lias compa ny, will be paid to the stockholders on and after the J'.'th inst. J. W. WILDE, Cashier. 1 April 16 6—lc 165 £o‘ DUST CLEVELAND A: SPEAR having purchased a license to administer Dr. Morton’s Letheon, for the alleviation of pain iu surgical ope rations, are the only persons now authorized to | use it in Richmond county, Georgia. They are also authorized to act in the sale of j licence for places unsold. D. G. TEMPLE, April 13 dtf Agent for I >r Morton. DR. J. A. CLEVELAND, has returned I to this city, and may he consulted at the office of Cleveland As .Spear, over the store of Messrs. Al driclt A: <lreeu. Feb. 28 VEAI*O LIT A \ If ON\E TS . PATTI SON, NOE & CO., Patentees and Manufacturers, 23 Delaney Street, New York. Feb. 23 3m— 121 rO 3 /v. S. Jackson , Teacher on the Piano Forte, Flute and Violin, respectfully tenders ius services to the citizens of Augusta. References—Henry Parsons, Thus. Richards and T. S. Metcalf, Iv-q'rs. B.—For terras, Ac., inquire at If. Parson’s Music store. (on Dec. 1 W. WILSON^ rOR TR A I T I* A I N T U R . | Studio—L niturian Church, corner of Greene and Jackson-streets. April 9 160 DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. This splendid and popular Monthly Periodical is now published at $3 per annum—ev* ry number containing a likeness of some prominent man. March 14 A. G. WILLIS, Agent. •Uli «EZi AJi-VPA if XT 'ZTSDMt A rgiT*ll —H ■! . THBLgrsrWBCVVSSrta*' ' . COMMERCIA I. latest dates krom liveiifooL,:::::;:.mar.cn 19- f LATEST OATES PROM M vvnK.::::;:;;;:•: M \K( u 15 CHARLESTON IMPORTS. APRIL 21- T.tverpool—Ship Franklin—lsoo sacks 3-dc,. to the master. NEW YORK, April 19—24 P. 31.—Colton, nothing doing. Floor, Western is .$7.53 aB. Sales tywxf brand* at 83; 10,000 bn. Rye at 100 ets.; 20,000 f>«. yellow I Corn at 100 <ts.; 1000 white at US to distillers. Meal, 15 0 bbh. at 4.75. Sterlimg is still tharer, sojne drawers ask G. prem.; francs 5,40 a 424. MOBILE, April In — Codon. —The arrivals thi* week amount to 6,333 bales, and the exiK>rts an*; ; 911 hales. Ihe stock on hand and on ship hoard not cleared is 149,641 hales, agahisi 131,323 same time last season. Onr last review left the market somewhat firm but quiet—sales on Friday readied 1501) hales, ami j middling cottons at lOic. A good inquiry prevail ed on Saturday, and 1500 bales changed hands at j the. rates current the preceding day, but on Mon day the market exhibited a marked want of anima j lion, w hich was continued uu Tuesday, ami dur ing the two days, although some better disposition to sell was exhibited on the part of a few holders, only I‘iOO hales were disposed of and at rates slight ly reduced, especially the lower grades. There was a revival In the demand on VVendesrfay, and 2000 bales were sold at the rates of the previous* : days, hut on Tuesday the market was again almost i at a stand—factors holding out for softer prices, and purchasers refusing to go on unless at a reduc tion. In this condition of things, wjiich continued up to Friday evening, only J9LKJ hales were do - ' posed of in two days. The principal holders are ! firm and indifferent about offering their stocks, and i the business of the week, which sums up only 6900 j bales, has been chiefly done by picking up small lots werefplanters had ordered sales. Onr quotations . I show a slight falling off in the lower descriptions, and the week closes on a very dull market. The j principal purchases have been on Northern and • 1 English account. . i LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. Ordinary, 91 a— Middling Middling fair, lOJa 1 t Fair, 114a 111 Good fair, nominal. Guc,d and fine, nominal. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 17— Colton.—Ar rived since Die 13ih instant, 75 tG hales. Cleared in the same time 6756 bales—making an addition ! in stock of7UO bales,and leaving on hand, inclu sive of all on shipboard not cleared on the loth in stant, a stock of 2 .‘6,560 bales. Our last report left the Cotton market with but a moderate supply offering, and we had occasion i to remark that rather more full prices were paid for the better grades, which were in considerable re | quest for the Continent and the North. Since then