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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. t i: u s. I Uil v, per annum S 8 00 Tn-Weekly, |»er 6 00 if paid in advance, 5 00 Weekly, p**r annum, I> 00 if p.i.vi in advance, 2 50 T O C' L I II S . >t> callp trlicii! ir a'tention to 1. 1 j following' terms of our payer : T.» (’tubs, ( OFiK"' aie—nt. in is will pui »mr weekly pit par in ;ne r« .ich of new subscriber* at TWO DOLL.IIIs A YIMR. rr AM new subscriptions must he paid in ad vance. and f>e!*crs of business. The Dawn of May. I‘h,the sky i blue am! ilie swan! ispr cn, Ami the. soft winds w a ke from ilie ha!it>y west; The leaves unf' I i on iheir houghs of green, \n ! the bird in i!ie tr -e-top builds its Koft. The truant z -pliyr Jiirlu pi uraes Ins v\ ings Owe more, ami quits rfi* perfumed bed - Soft calls on the slumbering flowers to wake. And sporiivc roams o’er each dew-clad head. The blue-bells nod them within the wood, The snow drop peeps from her milky btll, Tho tootlev ihora bends her hood, VS bile beauteous wild (lowers Hue the dell. The wild-hriar rose its fragrance breather, The violet op s it*; cup of blue; The timid primrose litis its leaves. And kii.g-eups wake, all bullied in dew. From flower to flower the wild bee roams— 'l hen. buried within the tow lip’s cup, Hr murmurs I i> low and music tones. Till .-he folds the wanton intruder up. 'J’lie spring bird, wakening, soar,, on high, Gushing aloft its melting lay; Whilst painted clouds flit o’er the sky. All ushering in the dawn of .May. Like a laughing nymph she spring* to light, Ami tripping along in her world of fl *ers, Brushes the dew in the morning bright. And weaves a Joy on each heart of ours. With frolic bauds the daisy meek Front her lap of green she playful throws. Whilst the loveliest fl mens spring round her feet. And fragrance bursts froth the wild wood rose. Oh, then g’a i i=> the heart, as through leafing trees The soft winds roartrt, them in music play. Whilst the "sick come t )rtb (or the healing’breeze.'' And rejo re. tu the h;nh of the. beauteous Mav! And glad is the heart of the joyous child. As, hounding a w ay through the tangled fl. 11, It roams ’mid the flowers in preen woods wild. And hums l .e caged bee in the cowslip’s bell! Ob, bright is this w orld! ’tis a world of gems,' And loveliness lingers w herever we tread; On the mountain top or in lone wood glens A spirit of I ean y o’er all is spread! Then warmed he our hearts to that kindly power That scatters bright r >ses o’er life’s tough way— That unfolds the cup of the snow-drop’s flower, And mantles the earth with the gems of May* [F- om the Richmond Enquirer.] Sonnet to Julia. LT .«3CHTI.US. When on tby peaceful pillow thou art laid; When happy sleep i> thine, and rosy dreams, Like on some stilly lake the moon’s cold beams, Jlalo luxuriantly ihy fair head, [fl^d, Lighting with smiles, whose beauty, e’en when I lings to thy pearl cleft bps in twilight gleams; When dreamle s life is lost in that which seems More life-like and mote real. Hopes long dead, Like Ixion phantoms woo to their embrace. The breast Despair has stamped with misery"; And visions which e’er leave-nprism lined trace, To tell of hours of thoughtless ecstasy; Spare, in thy happy bosom one pure place, And consecrate it to mv memory. Eiciunond, April 2 I J, 1817. [From the A*. O. Picayune, 9/h inst. j Scraps from ihe American Star. The advanced division of I he A met (can ar my cn'cred rhe city of Jalapa on life i9ili of ; April, during the following davs*lhe re- ! nia i ruler of the forces came up. Before the week ended a regular out and otU American 1 paper was established there, and op the 25th the first tinmber was issued abounding in in teresting- and important intelligence. 'J’he j-Nper ii* owned by the enterprising publislters i»f the Vera Cruz Ragle, Messrs. Jewell, Peo ples and Barnard. It would seem from the first article under the editorial head that bur adventurous cotemporaries have adopted the military maxim of “foraging on the enemy,” as the types, presses and material of the ♦‘Star” were part and parcel of a Jalapa pa per which, whilom belabored the ‘"Yankees” with grandiloquent ohjurgation. f i’he Star makes its obeisance to the public in this wise: The American S/ar. — Another glorious victory has been achieved, and we have fol lowed up the army to c hronicle it. Reader, you have before you the American Star. It is American in every sense of Hie word, and shall never disgrace the stars and stripes it i advocates. It is primed on the same stype i (hat this day \&eek spoke such bitter tiling : against us; But-vve trust that they are civil ized as well as’naturalized. Look at them nnd say whether you think they are the same naughty characters that so much slandered ns. Verily, “change makes change,” and those that were our bitterest enemies six days ago now speak to us in the most dulcet ac cents they a re-capable of. We have known strange changes tn the free press of this country erenow. We have Keen whig papers converted to the democrat ic faith and democratic ones pass into the hands of foemen d er, but never was there nucha type craft as these Span ish fonts have undergone. They have changed sides, and languages too, in a trice. An American paper in Jalapa ! Why ih 1 stones in the streets might prate round Castilian against such innovation. But to the Star. The following observations upon the “rank tnd file” will awaken aa echo in many bo soms : The Ranh and File. —Wuh what pride must every American review the conduct and hearing of the rank and file of our army in battle. 'The}* go to work with heart and sou! in the cause, and each private works for and exults in the glory of our arms as if he were the commander-in-chief and the responsibili- 1 ty of the action rented upon his shoulders. — ■ In the late fight this feeling was indulged in ( to an unusual degree, and the manner in | which lljey stormed and carried the principal j height—opposed as they were by men appa- j rently as determined Ts themselves—de serves the thanks and gratitude of the whole American nation. It is said that the strength of our army lies in the fact that every man is a. hero and every one capable ol being a com mander. This is true; they are all heroes, because they are ail actuated by the same proud feeling—that of seeing their arms vic torious or free.ly shedding their blood in the attempt.. The rank and file, as we said be fore, deserves tiie gratitude of the nation, and we would fain see them mentioned qmong the irjqre fortunate of the arm}’. The proprietors, we are glqd to see, are highly pjeased with their whereabouts. Os the goodly pity of Jalapa they hold this dis course; , • r Jalapa. —lf there is any one place in Mexi co that we deem superior to all else we’ve seen, combined, that place is Jalapa. It is the prettiest town, has the handsomest bund ing*, loveliest gardens and most delicious fruits of all others taken together; and what adds more than all this to the interest of ths place is the fact that it seems to be peopled with a race distinct from those we have on countered elsewhere —possessing more ideas of refinement, mere intelligence, more indus try and more neatness, ihe women are de cidedly pretty, and there is not a man who I will say aught to the contrary; and in their ! habits-—wc moan of course the‘"upper ten s ' I (1,,. v approximate nearer to American refine : no n!. Naught c m be said of the men but i what is to their advantage, and many a time, I whilst passing up the principal st reef .we ima- J gined ourself in some thriving Van ke o city, j Taking Jalapa, a I in ail, we are highly I phased wi'h it and its people, and cannot conceive that (here is any difference of opin ion on that subject amongst us Americans. Amongst the evidences of a rapidly growing civilization we remarked the following notice. Theatrical. —Messrs. Iltrl & Wells, the proprietors of the American drama in Mexi co, have sent us word that they will be up here iu a day or two with their company. Come on, gentlemen—now is the lime. Our people ha\e been amusing themselves long enough with viewing the lovely town to turn their attention for a few hours to the drama. You w ill he heartily welcomed by a'l Ameri cans here. Perhaps the subjoined paragraph may show i to the thinking ol many that our friends have fallen upon a race of men already advanced m civilization: One of them. —There is scarcely an hour in the day that some of the natives are not with onr q ia te ■inas’ers. irgng payment (or pro per'v destroyed or used by our troops. \\ ben ever the claim presents anything l.’ke just ice on its face it is invariably liquid tied. A day or two since a Mexican proprietor entered the office and handed in a b.ll for the u*e ol tit'y mules. After being interrogated through .in interpreter, it was filially a-certained that the animals had been u-ed in drawing a 12- pounder belonging tn the Mexicans up the Cerru Gordo, which said piece had opened upon our troops and sent a perfect shower ol gripe end cannister amongst them. The quartermaster informed the claimant that he was not authorized to settle tip fur the Mexi can Government, but that when lie was he would pav such bills with pleasure. The only account of the military stores | taken at Perote which we have seen is con | tained in the fodowing paragraph: The Advance. —On ilie 22' 1 inst. nt 12 M. Gen. Worth entered Perote, without opposi tion. The enemy’s forces had all left that place,and onr General look possession of the castle, with its armament in perfect order. Col. Velasquez had been left behind to sur render all tilings in the name of the Govern ment. Fifty cannons,.three mortars, four l .-(one mortars and four or five howitzers, lo j gether with a. large number of round shot and shells (no particular quantity of o’her am munition) and small arms were delivered np to us. Gens. Morales and Landero, who had been irnorisonf'd by Santa Anna forcapitula ! ting at Vera Cruz, were released on the ap j pearance of the Americans.. Two South Carolina volunteers and an American sailor, taken near Vera Cruz, were prisoners in tire castle, and of course released by our troops. Ampudia was in tfic vicinity of Perote on the approach of Gen. Worth, but had not the politeness to visit him before taking his de parture, which is said to have been hurried. Some two or three thousand infantry and cavalry of the enemy were also in the neigh borhood, hut (hey were disorganized and iu a most pitiable condition. On the road the inhabitants complained bitterly of outrages perpetrated by the re treating ftoldiers from Cerro Gordo, and many of them had left their homes. Midshipman Rogers was removed from Pe nile to Puebla the same day the fight com menced at Cerro Gordo, The last preceding sentence is a'l that has been heard of. Midshipman Rogers since the army left Vera Cruz. It is sheer wanton cruelty tn keep that gallant young officer in prison. We trust that the next lime a batch o{ Mexican officers (all into our hands lus re lease will be specially treated fur. From Recent French Papers. Translated for the Home Journal, from Paris papers received at t v's office, and from the able summaries a f French neics in the columns of the Cotirrisr dcs Flats Unisand the Franco Am erican. 1 r lias come into mo le rft Paris f>r gen tlemen to frequent places of public amuse ment in full ball dress—white waistcoat, body coats and black trow.sers. (The “night key” to which fashion, probably is, that it advertises an ulierior engage ment to ball or supper after the play.) Shoes are rigorously exacted. Short canes, which were a refuge to the awk ward who knew not what else ti do with their handr, are seen only at the opera. \hl sare no longer taken into the drawing room. Cravats, white or black, at pleas ure. A bunch ofjady segars, with month pieces of sandaJ-wood, are presented, [by some gentlemen lo some ladies] .instead of bouquets. A small bunch of violets, or some other (lower cosily and modest, is worn at the button-hole. Men of all ages, all degrees of gravity, and of all professions and pursuits, now let forth the moustache, unremarked upon, except ap provingly. Nature has prevailed; and tke general human being is allowed to proportionately embellished. Ladies say now they would as lief kiss a woman as a man without a moustache. There is, in the public sentiment at, present, a premonition of small clothes, and Mr. Macready, tlie tragedian, [who is the first living artist at “making up,”] is likely to realize a fortune, it is said, by the sale to laiJors of his secrets of the semblances of calf and thigh. Tights are trying. How ever true it is that d slender leg shows a man’s descent from ancestors who have not trudged and carried burthens, ihcfe n a certain plumptilude ot limb, becoming to a man, which, “to grace a carpel,” must needs be had, real or counterfeit. The age of elaborate dressing is coming about again, it is generally ptedicied. Hals are idiosyncratic;—no two of the unstereotyped wearing the same shape. No other change of consequence in the fashions for gentlemen. During the recent Carnival, the hold at tempt was made to introduce for ladies , the fashion of absence da corset. Those who fancy-dresses, a “cSiemtsefle o f idea I batiste,” conformed to this, and wore also, with their earning u;> around the throat like a gentleman’s shirt, were sai I to be dressed a V insolente. It was considered by the supersrveni.cen plurality* howevar, as an invasion on the part of extreme youth, and neither enduring nor endura ble. Velvet was not worn at ail for rna-qneracie dresses—satin and denlelles being the only wear. Powdered hair is making ominous advances towards be coming once more the fashion!. Mach Carnival at Paris has its belie?— those who distinguished themselves at the various public halls, by costume or hear ing, by dancing or wit. Tne most con spicuous v. as Mademoiselle Celeste Mo gador, the equestrian of the Hippodrome, famous from Petersburg to Naples for the beauty of her arms. She is large, well-made, marked [just enough for cx pressing] with the small pox, majestic in movement and very noble in her air. She expresses, even in her dancing, the bean y she is accustomed to borrow from her horse. The female centaur is there, though her steed is in the stable. A pro fjund sentiment of hers, expressed at the la-t hall, is now repeated in (’aids. On being asked why she danced so little, site replied, with a sigh: MPs time ! gave r up—l m I went y two! ’ it was reported that she would not re-appear this coming summer at the U ppodrome, retiring, henceforward, to private life. The liv< 1 est of the wonders this year at the mask'd balls has won admiration in theco-tnme of a jockey H a r electric vivacity of wit and movement, absolutely made people wink as if she filing out spaiks. Such a fool in such a boot was never before seen. The mystery of the whole carnival, how ever, was a couple of superb Graces, unsurpas>ahle in form and movement, dressed most r ichly as delardcuses, and marked w ith a closeness beyond all pos sibe detection. They danced only with each other, and spoke with no one, but their cm ions and wonderful variations of tiro dance, and absolute perfection ot the minutest motiui, and turn of head and limb, excited intense curiosity. Had they been public dancers they would have been recognized at once, but no one cored identify them with any known beauties either of public life or private. They left, as they came, together and unattend ed, and there is not even yet a guess at the fascinating riddle. 'l'he snow, rain, bail end sleet of ihis harshest of seasons, has bad no effect on the gavelv of the Carnival, nr has the prevailing grippe, though every body is afraid of it. dhe grand ball ol ifie Opera was jammed as usual, This is the cue place where every body coos —the gra vest not trusting their knowledge of its wonders to hearsay, d ire moment before the leader of the orchestra raises his staff for the waltz in Miat vast hall, it would not he credited that there was a pos'd bill ty ol even spinning round in the orbit of a gimlet. To-get your handkerchief out of 3 hind-pocket is an un realizable dream. But two bars of the waltz are not achiev od before there is a heaving of the mass, a dividing and solidifying, and like a charge ofcavalry, the waltzeis dash hack the slanders still, cram them and pack them, till I lie ordained circle, the room enough, is achieved, and thediincers have open field for display. It is a wilderness of confusion, however. The gayetv is so tumu'tuous and tbe astoniahinge are so numberless, that few can be remarked. There are so many people that it is a solitude. [Corrc 'ponden e of the Baltimore £un.] Washington, May 11, 1847. I learn that commi.-fionors are soon to be sent, by our government, to Mexico, with a view to ascertain ttie dispositions of tiie Mexi can government in regard to peace, if Mexi co should accept our terms. The prelimina ries. dais settled, will be submitted to the Mexican constituent congress, for latifica lion, and will of course, await the sanction of our treaty making power. Senator Benton will be one of the com missioners; Senator Soule may be another. I do not think .Mr, Buchanan will consent to be one of liiem, unless, in the jnean lime, Mexico should make some positive advance towards peace. He would not go to Mexico, I think, upon any uncertainty. We have a rumor that the government has sent orders to (!en. Scott not to proceed be yond Jalapa. 1 do not credit it. But granting it to be true, the orders to him will come too late. In my opinion, as derived from good sources, lie must have found, at Jalapa, the necessary means of transportation. A gen tleman here, well acquainted with the route, speaking of this subject, just now, said that an army moving west or south from this place, could not find better means of trans portation, at Lancaster, than our troops, on the march >o Mexico, could rind at Jalapa. While we are seeking new glories, it is well to contemplate old ones. Recorded honors and glories should be cherished. The Republic must not forget, nor longer neglect, the tomb of Washington. I happened to hear to diy that there is a gentleman now in this city who is negotiat ing for the purchase of Mount Vernon, with a view to a speculation. He proposes, it is said, to place upon the estate a colony of foreigners, Germans or Swiss, who will there establish a garden and nursery, but giving free admission and access to all pilgrims who may visit the spot where ‘Tie hero rests on the banks of his own Potomac, in glory and peace.” I do not much like the plan; but it may be better than to suffer the hallowed place to go to utter ruin. It (.he people of the United States—the de scendants of those who participated in the revolution—if the government of the United Stales, of which he was, in a great part, the founder— .-do nut deem it an obligation to pro tect his tomb, it may be well to call in the aid of those, in foreign countries, who may better appreciate the obligation, as one im posed upon the whole human kind. lon. Democratic Victories; Maine. —ln the Hampden district, Hon. IlannibaldHamlin, (d-em.,) was, on Monday, elected to the House of Representatives by 20 majority over Mexican whig.-? and abolition ists. 'i’he House now stands— 77, ad other-, 73; one district to heat^ptn. Troy, N. V. has thrown off ihts&yljig yoke in the charter election, having Oen. Albert 'l'.- Dunham president,and te-v*fpGmo traoc tfb'tees to one whig. Wilmindtcs, Delaware ---Herd, ion, the democrats enerfeeded nobly on Tuesday, choosing all their candidates in wards 1.2, and 3, leaving the wings only ward 4. Average democratic majority 6 j >. Rhode Island —Here we defeat one of the whig congressmen. I'he official vote proves R. B. Cranston (whig) to be r'oeted in the eastern district by only 24 majority. In the western district, Wilkins Upcl ke (whig) lacks about 300 of an election. His plurality over Thurston (regular democra') is only 107.— Boston Post. SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 15. 1817. o* Received from Thus. Richards, a new novel, by G. I*. R. James—“ The String of Pearls.” Also, “Hackley’s School Algebrt,” by C. W. Ilackley Prof. Mathematics, Columbia College, N. Y. Quarrelling about the .domination. —T he Whigs who arc so e >gcr to press General Tavlor into their party traces, to drag them cut of the political mire, are getting exceedingly intollerant. We perceive that our neighbor of the Chronicle if- Sentinel is rather severely ridiculed by the Macon Journal S' Mcssngcr for supporting Mr. Clay's pretensions. It describes the CHrcn i lc as “indicting stanzas on first love,” and like a beautiful maiden of sixteen, “shedding whole pints of bitter tears,” because papa (in this in stance the people) will not countenance the gratification of her youthful whims.” We s>e nothing so very ridiculous, if there is t >be Whig a candidate, in Mr Clay beingadvo cated by a Whig paper. For we have no idea that General Taylor intends surrendeaing his name and fame into the keeping of the anti-war party of the country. The absurdity is on the part of those who believe that he will ever con sent to be the candidate of such a party. Princip'cs—Not Moi>. This time honored maxim seems to be wholly discarded by a large portion of the whig press as of very inconvenient applica tion. It never was in very pood repute with them, and in practice has long since been re pndia'ed. In running after popular men and available candidates, that party seems wholly to h ive lost sight of its principles—if in fact it has anv—good, bid or indifferent. It seems very much engrossed with the idea of obtaining power by means of popular elec tion-, but it is silent as to the purposes to which that power is to be applied, if won, except the turning of democrats out of (Bice and putting in whips. 'J ins is what we un derstand to be the plain Hnglish of putting an end to “ democratic misrule .” The outs always will think there is misrule in the country, however prosperous may he its af fairs. as long as they are out. This is bu rn on nature. Tnis is the history of lhe world. Bui it is rather more difficult to point out the misrule of which to much clamor is made, than to assert its existence. 'The United States is at this moment the best regulated government in the world, and its affairs are managed in the most efficient manner pnssib’e. 'The treasury department was never in abler hands, and its financial condition is in a high degree satisfactory. In a time of war—an expensive war,in which the operations of oTr armies arc carried on at immense distances from the resources of our country, the cred t of our government is unimpaired. In fact she presents the unpre cedented aspect of an appreciating credit in the very midst of war. The war itself is a most striking evidence of the great ability and energy of our government, and shows conclusively that its management could not possibly be in abler hands. Order, arrange ment, efficiency characterize and preside over every department and combine harmo niously together. The brilliant results, not of one expedition only—not of this or that division of the army—not of any one squad ron of the navy, but of each and all, have as tounded the world at the power, the re sources, the energy of our great republic. Such results could not have been worked out by a single General or a single Commodore. But upon the land and upon the ocean— amidst the chaparrals in the valley of the Rio Grande—amidst the burning sands and narrow defiles of the route to the City of Mexico—amidst the rugged mountains and inhospitable snows of New Mexico, upon the Pacific coast, and in the blustering Gulf, the same watchful energy presides. Our gillant commanders, both military and naval, might have achieved each for himself miracles of skill and valor—but their victories would have been barren of results, and their progress would have terminated in disaster, were not sagacious and energetic men at the head of affairs at Washington, and directing them in all their complicated ramifications with mathematical precision. Let us look at home, and we behold the country enjoying unexampled prosperity un der the influence of wise and wholesome laws. Under a lower rate of tariff duties, the country is enjoying an abundant and pro fitable intercourse with foreign countries, and the treasury is at the same lime deriv ing a larger revenue, than under the restric tive system of the whigs. 'The products of our soil, which vve export as the basis of that trade,are commanding higher prices than un der the opposite system could be possible. The theory of free trade is thus doubly prov ed. . The cheap postage so triumphantly es tablished among us, is another of the bless ings our people enjoy, and exhibits the pro priety of facilitating in every way the inter courss of mankind by diminishing its bur dens. For as in tariffs of nations, so in the domestic interchanges of the mails, you in crease revenues to a certain limit by dimin ishing the tax. When the impartial patriot, untrammelled by contemplates the present glorious and prosperous state of his country —happy at home— *•<»*•*»-td, occupying c. most commanding attitude among (he nations of the earth, and with every prospect of k long career of prosperity and glory, how vain and ridiculous must seem to him the cmakings and c lamor* of a party that cry out that the country is misgoverned—a new system must be established—‘he present order of things must Le reversed—whigs must be put in power, or our country is hopelessly ruined. His reply must be, the country is doing very well. It needs no change, and least of all “Such change as they would bring us.” Alabama Nomination. The Democratic State Convention in Ala bama, have nominated the Hon. Reuben Chap man as a candidate for Govrjnor. Saudi. N. Inge has been nominated as the candidate of the pasty for Congress in the 4tb District, Tie N. O. Delta of the 9 h iost , sny ‘•The city has quite a military air about it at the present time. The Kentucky Legion are hereon their return from Monterey. »Scve ral companies are here en route f>r Mexico, and throughout the day the spirit-stirring notes of the drum and fife are heard in the recruiting rendezvous. Arrival of Troop*. Tit? New Orleans Delta oft he 9'h instant, says—“ Yesterday morn ng the steamer Star Spangled Dinner, Capt. l‘iorce, from Cin cinnati, arrived, and brought down tw« com panies of the 1 b'th Regiment of Infancy from Kentucky. The officers in command ure Capt tins Graves and G trrard, atid Lieuten ants Mc.Mordie, Smith and Gar eP, 'i lie force numbers in all 197 tner. They will shortly be despatched to the seal of war.” A Creva-se* The N. Orleans Picayune ot the 9th inst. says A breach in the levee of a m ry serious char acter took place about 2 o’clock yesterday at Al giers, immediately opposite Canal street. Such was the violence of the water that a frame house wis upset and others were niu.:h damaged. Sev eral persons were reported to have been drowned At dark last evening the breach was about two hundred feet wide, and the waters were rushing through with great fury. r i be hull of an old steamer was procured and scuttled immediately abreast of the crevasse, which impeded the flow of water somewhat, hut the banks were evident ly wearing away and the appearances were alann iug. The hank srcn-H to have caved : n, for where the levee was yesterday morning the water was one hundred and twenty ft et deep at dusk. The streets of Algiers weir flooded; and the water was three or four feet deep all nvi r the Ringa nnn Com Se. which is immediately in the rear of the break. The depth of the levee at the point broken is about live f et, so one mav imagine the terrible havoc a volume of w iter of the breadth of the breach and the depth of the lever must make, unless soon arrested. Unless steps are taken to throw up ale ee in the rear of the one now I rcken. tve fear the planters below will suffer terribly. A great quantity of wood was s.vept away, an i damage to property in the town must he sustained to a large amount. There was a numhoi of horses and cattle in the inclo -1 sure of the Dingamau Cou se, which presented a piteous sight. The ferry boats were crowded with people crossing the river to witness and marvel at the rush of waters. It Was a grand spectacle to be hold, and fearful in its ruthless violence. D. Korponay, the great Polka danecr < has been elected captain of a company of the regiment of dragoons now being raised in Mis souri. I Communicated ) Mr. E lilor. — Permit an eye witness, and one who is unwilling to see censure bestowed hy any one, however uninfluentia!, where on the contrary high praise was deserved, to make a few comments on the recent trotting race between Columbus and Dutchess. Lu liter Seargent the jocky of Columbus has been charged by a few discontented people with having attempted to throw away the race. And on what grounds? Why, the flimsiest and most ridiculous imaginable.— They arc in sac, 100 ridiculous for r filia tion, and need only be named to be laughed at. One evidence of foul p'ay alledged, is, the breaking of the breeching at the first turn of the second heat, and this is alledged, or in sinuated to have been designed. These snarl ing rynicsshould nnx upa little common sense with their carping. They must be very ig norant of trotting horses, il they suppose a driver would willingly place himself in such danger of the heels of the animal. No trot ting horse, especially so hard a pulling and self-willed horse as Columbus, could be driven with entire safety without breeching, it is with the gentlest —the most docile, an alarm ing accident. Seargant deserved great credit fur his presence of mind, and good manage ment, to have brought itte horse to the score, without breeching, in the very descent time of O' 2:4*2. Two minutes and forty-two se cond>, dont look, to a man up a tree, like an intention to throw away the race. We say that Columbus made this time. So he did, for though the mare took the heat Columbus, was close up—in about a length. He would have won it, had he not broke within twenty yards of the score, and lost ground thereby. lie was ahead, and the shouts of the crowd caused him to break. This breeching was nearly new, made by one of our best harness makers, and apparently of excellent leather. It’s appearance indicated that it would lake extraordinary force lo break it. Now us ol the third heat. CoUirabus won it, and with it the race. There is an old say ing, “the proof of the pudding is chewing the bag.”— 'Phis heal was made in two rnuiutet and forty-one seconds. When a horse makes such lime as that, his rider expect* him lo win, und “They be fleet steeds that follow, quoth young Ijochinvar.” It is all gammon lo talk : about such time being made, expecting it to be beat. In the trotting calends of 1817, no such time can bo shown on the American turf. So says a knowing one. If Luther Seargent had wished lo he beat, he bad only to give his horse an extra twitch or two on the back or quarter stretch, and throw him from his work. He could have lust five or l en seconds ea-y enough in that way. One nr two would have done the business, for Dutchess was not only jam up, but a little ahead at the score. She broke tip when Co lumbus locked her, near the distance post and ran out first. Rut she would ha ve trotted out, if her competitor had been a second or two be hind in the race, j Take it all in all, this was a very extranr i dinary race. If was creditable to the con i lending horses to have made such lime un i der any circumstance*. When we consid -r I the condition of (Mluinhus, his winning whs a brilliant feat, 11 id he fallen off ten or fif | teen seconds in tiu* second and third hratf, 1 it would not have created surpr ze. He had , been out of training for a long time, and had 1 been driven promiscuously hy his owner, in a buggy up to a few days of the race. He j was in the hands of Luther Seargent fur : training but eight days previous to the rare. It was feared that h* woti’d mt hold out | after the first heat, a >d many would only bet on his winning the fi st. After the second heat, he showed considerable distress, and h’ed a little at the nose. I*, was thought by n J j some that li'’ ought to have been drawn. Ha was under the entire control of Seargeant, who could have drawn him, and would have been justified in so doing by many witnesses*. Ifiit he preferred to do his best to win the race, as much money was bet on the result. He did win it, and in gallant style. 1 con sider that it was a brilliant achievement and that Seargent evinced by it. great i-kill as* a | driver. No less credit is due him forprepar ! ing his horse in so short a time for such & race. It proves him a good trainer. \ ; One sapient gentleman was heard to any i that Columbus was held back by Seargent* after getting in f o ihe quarter stretch—that he swung his whole weight on the bit, ami thus I jtrevealed ILe old horse from going along, j I hat i i'firmd Theban" ought to have known ; what he was talking ab>ut, belter than to suppo-c that mode to be the likeliestNo check, | such horse rs Columbus. lie is noioriotm -1 Iv the hardest mouthed trotter hut one in tho country. A i**rk or a saw, would have done ti e damage a liti le more surely than a steady ; pull. The brush down the quarter stretch on the third heat was rent trked as the great est flight of speed accom.dished that day. In conclusion 1 will add that no motive Ik\s been assigned, or ran be, why Seargent could have wished to lose the race. Ilerer ; tainlv d;d have strong motives to, win. lam ; * 9 equally at a Ins-. to conceive that a generoti* or just man could wantonly g ve fits mind up to suspicions so absurd—so improbable tnd visionary. They must be suspicions en gendered more by bad temper than good judgement, nnd in the end can only “plague | the inventors.” N « one hid any large in- I terest in the success of Duchess, except gen tlemen wholly above suspicion, and no oaf* whatever had un interest large enough to ' make it an object tn accomplish it by unfair means. Feeling a warm wish to see the sport of trotting fairly established a* an an* mial on our Augusta turf, I have taken sow* i . . = ) pains to refute an imputation which might tend to defeat that desirable end. SPECTATOR. i A correspondent of She Philadelphia Ledger | gives the following account of the personal ap pearance of General Taylor : The Genera! is not over & fret 7 ,i»r S inches high, is stout, and inclines lo corpulency, would weigh. 1 should think, near 2(X) lbs , und tho j most prominent thing about him is an unusual l shortness of legs. When tie is sitting he looks ! like a tali man - not so when standing. liisfaco is intelligent, and it is usually lit up with a b nov olent smile. He is in the habit, when speaking toanvone,ot partially closing his left eye. Ilia hair is g-fay and grizzly. In one word, gentle i men, if you can i nagine a p'ain old Pennsylva nia farmer, who has a farm paid for worth S3OOO, and nothing else in the world—an independent, jovial, don’t-care a-fig kind of an old coon—yon have “old Zack” before you. One word now us | to the Presidency. When the army last summer was at Matamo ras, a Mr. Reeder, (I think) from Baltimore, i came there to ci.-tribute medals to the non-rom i missioned officers and soldiers who had distin | gui-hed themselves at Palo Alto, Ac. Jt is rr i ported that while there, Mr. K. informed ‘‘old : Zick” that he had been nominated by some per ! sons in New York for the Presidency. Jhe old ! General’s rcplv was characteristic. “Mr, Reed er, I don’t want it—l have no other or higher ; ambiti »n than to remain at the head of my uobltr j little army. 1 have always considered mv self an 1 honest man—my neighbors so consider me---hut ! were I to accept a nomination, there are persons who would call me every tiling that is bad, and others who would say of me. ns they said of Gen eral Harrison, that i never was within two miles i of a fi-dd of battle No! no !—I don’t want it. I don’t want it! Democratic Meeting in Colombia county. 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