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tttf CONSTITCTIONALIST. • JAM £S GAR DN E R. JR. _ __ r i T £ il M S • Daily, per annum, s■-* CO Tn-Weekly, per annum, OU If paid iu advance, '* [) f‘ j \V tekly, per annum, ° 0-> It’paid in advance - 50 TO CLUBS. }\\ cal! particular attention to the following terms ! if our paper: T<* Club*, remitting $lO im advanck. FIVE I C’Oi’iES are ant. TOD will put our weekly pa- , per ia uit; reach of no a subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. rr V'l new siihsrrintions must he paid in at! vance. j » - jOr*l > -»stage nust he paid on all Commimicatiura t and Let'err of business. [From the A r . O Pica [tune j The liatlle of Cerr*> Gordo. Ti'o American Srar, a new paper cs tablished at Jalapa, in the fust number o' A wil 2-Ath, contains an account of the battle of Cerro Gordo, which the ediloi Elates was derived from officers engaged in the action. We republish it, as being the most connected bLtory of the event' of the I7ili and 18th April, and the trans actions immediately preceding them, \w have ’ret seen : The second division of regulars undei command of Brig. (i°n. I). L. I wig g < firi ivpil at Plan del Rio on the lllh—thf 2 1 Dragoons having driven from the place a bmlv of lancers, the division thei encamped for the night* On the 12lh,ih< enemv positions wore reconoitered will h view of making an attack upon all In? works, it found praclicahle. Deeming it impracticable to advance beyond the po silion taken on the 1*2:!), being three and a half miles Do n water, the genera! with drew Ins rn iin force to the encamnmr m at Plan del Rio, but kept tip an Glicien: m pii quel to retain the ground ho had pass ed over, as he intended the next morning to make the attack. On the 12th, the two brigades under Gens. Shields and Pillow arrived. Gen. Patterson beng too unwell to assume tho command, the whole devolved on Get). Twiggy. 'Pbe volunteers wishing so participate in the* coming H gh t, and being much fatigued from the effects of the march from Vera Cruz, Gen. Twiggs yielded to the solici tations of Gens. Pillow and Shields, and deferred the attack f>r one day. Having matured ids plans of attack and assigned to each brigade its duty, prepaiatory t > the attack ut 12 o’clock at night, Gen. Twiggs received an order from Got). Pat terson, some lime as rr night set in, In suspend offensive operations until after the arrival of the comm tndcr.in chief, or until further orders from himself. On the evening of the loth. Gen. Scott and staff arrived at Plan del Rio, and on Iflth, at night, the commander.in chief is- Kiled to Gen. Tw iggs verbal orders to pro c< ed to his line of operations on tiu? >ic»u of the national road. He got in position o’clock, A. M., on the 17th, In ttie trail previously \ A Adj. Gen. Brooke, without being discover ed, preparatory to the main attack on tlx 18th. The general arrived at the ex treme point iu his position covered by a commanding height between him and tin enemy’s main works, distant about sever hundred yards, and detached Brevet Is Li ut. Gardner, of the 7ib, to occupy tin bill with his company, and to observe tlx movement of the enemy’s troops rn tlx main works. Having gotte nin position he discovered a strong reconoitering part\ making towards 11; e place occupied by the division. In about an hour it arrived within feeling distance, and opened upon Lieut. Gardner with musketry. He re turned it with spirit, and held his ground under a heavy fiie. Col. Ha rney was ordered to drive in all reconnoitering and skirmishing parties beyond a hill intended as a site for the 2 4 pounder and the two 2 4 pound howit zers, which were placed in position that night wiih immense labor. This move merit of Col. Harney’s command brought on a more general engagement. During the evening (the 17lh) Gen. Shields join ed (Jen. Twiggs with his brigade, corn posed of the two Illinois and one New York regiment. While in the execution of the order to move lot fie crest of the hill, on* the left, Lieut. Gardner became engaged with the enemy, hut he gallantly maintained hi* position against fearful odds, until suc cored by the riflemen under Maj Sumner and the artillery under Cal. Childs, who : drove die enemy, after a severe conflict, from their position, and continued the pursuit until they made a second stand on a bill near the C’erro Gordo, within the range of their grape and cannister, | and from widen our troops suffered a severe loss; but the full was stormed and carried and afterwards maintained, - al l though the enemy made three successive charges to legain it. The rifles and Till Infantry slept on the hill, and to that point was brought in the night a 24 pounder and two 24 pound howitzers, w hich at 7 o clock A. M. on the IS:h commenced a cannonade on the enemy’s fornication on tile Cerro Gordo. Lariy in the morning, the Ist Brigade, under Col. Harnev, was ro nforced by four companies of the Ist Artillery and six companies of the 3d In famry, and lie immediately gave orders to t '6 different commanders to prepare their troops for storming the Cerro Gordo. The rifles were directed to move to the left in the ><iine, ami to engage the enemy and Maj. Loring was insisted that as soon as Col, Harney discovered that he had commenced the attack that be would meve forward the storming force which he was about to organize. The Till Infantry was formed on ihe right, I lie 3d Infantry on the left, and the artillery was formed in the rear of the infantry, wiili orders to support it. Observing < that a large force was moving from the i left on the main road towards the Cerro ( Gordo, it was deemed prudent to advance i al once, and immediately the charge was o.doted to he sounded, without waiting j (or Die firo of ihe riflemen. The enemy j ' [inured upon Col. Harney’s line a most j galling fn e of grape, cennister anil mus ketry, from different positions around toe hill, but ilie troops advanced intrepidly, and as steadily as on a parade day. j Around the hill, about sixty yards from the foot, there was a breastwork of stone, which was filled with Mexican troops, j who < ffered an obstinate con- j tinning to fire until our troops reached the ■ brea>twoik, and where, for a few mo- : merits, bayonets were crossed. Beyond ; this, and immediately around the fort, | there was another woik, from which our advance was again obstinately opposed, ; but our troops immediately surrounded it; j curried the foil, pulled down the Mexi can flag, and planted our colors amid the | proud n juicing ol our troops. Agreeably to instructions, the rifles moved to the left, where they became engaged with a sue- 1 J n r*> | coting force, hut which they lx Id in check, | notwithstanding a most galling fi r e from the enemy’s entrenchments and from the 1 musketry in front. The brigade under Col. Riley (2d) ad vanced under a heavy firo to gain a po , sitiou on the Jalapa toad in the rear of the enemy, wiih a view of cutting off his retreat. After crossing the valley at ihe foot of the Cerro G mlo, the fire of the ene my became so annoying that two compa nies of the *2d Infantry were oideied out as .skirmishers to < ccupy them; the re mainder of the 2d, commanded by Capl. Morris, and conducted by Capt. Lee, en gineer, proceeded on their course to the Jalapa roa !. Perceiving that the enemy | were extending to their left, Gen. Twiggs j ord ired Gen. Shields to cross the ravine on the right, and to keep nptheleit hank, ! previously recounoitered by Capt. L°e.— in the further progress of this portion of. Col. Riley’s brigade, he was obliged to turn his whole column to the left to op- j : pose the enemy’s direct movement down the spur. Capt. Lee continued his course, supported by a company of tlie 4th anil lory. On coming in the plain next the Cerro Gordo, and in full view of the Ja | lapa road, a battery of five guns, sup ported hv a body of lancers, was di-cov. I I erxd. Gen. Shields was discovered by i this part of tlie enemv, and the battery opened upon him and on Lieut. Benja min’s company w ith grape. The gallant i general, with a shout iVfirn his men. push ied boldly for I lie road on th<A*pnemy’s left. I The enemy’s poshioi being completely j turned, as well as being driven from the hill, they abandoned themselves to flight, and were followed by (Jen. Twiggs with the*lllinois and New ioik volunteers us far as Liicerro. In the moon time the hi igafle of volun teers under (don. Pillow, consisting of the two I ennessee font and two regiments of Pennsylvanians, bad made a charge llie oiiitiCUllC Ilf the llilcc fi >il -S si 111 . ated near to the encampment at Pian del Rio, The advance regiment (*2d Ten nessee) emerged from the chaparral into m open space about two hundred yards from the object of attack, under a cross fire from the forts to the right and left.— Not withstanding the fiie was a most de structive one, they continued to advance, the centre breastwork reserving its fire. In a few moments the major part of the brigade had shown themselves on the clearing, ihe 2d Tennesseeans continuing to advance, and occasionally firing their pieces, until they got within forty or fifty vards from the breastwork, and turn the enemy discharged bis cannon with such eff >cl that thirty or forty of the advance were mowed down. Before this time. Gen. Pillow had been wounded, and had given the command so another, who was wounded at the first discharge from the guns of the fort, w lien if was deemed pru dent to retreat; and before a secon I at tempt could he made on the works, the Mexican colors had been taken down. For Americans to give hack, even for a moment, is io rare an occurrence that the withdrawal of the volunteers from the j charge above noticed is the subject ofj pretty general remark at this time, and j wo have even heard some of our own ofil ccrs so uncharitable as to censure the movement. This, we take it, is entirely uncalled for; nor is there the smallest sjark of justice to found such condemna fion upon. That tlie boys got into a fight 1 place, from which they were receiving a j galling fire without being able to Gleet ! the enemy, protected as he was by the stone breastworks, and prudently wiih-! drew to a more advantageous position, we I i are willing to admit, but will not allow | the movement warrants the slightest spaik of condemnation. Unfortunate! v for us, in this country we have little or no means of obtaining information as to the position of ihe enemy, and hence the possibility of ueitimr info places that are too hot to hold us, and from w hich every principle of hu- j inanity should urge upon ti e leader to, w ithdraw immediately after convincing j himselfthat nogood to the cause was to* he effected by continuing the operations, J and that the lives lost were urmeecssari lv thrown away. Sue!) we conceive to have been the case w iih the volunteer bri gade, and our only wonder is that they were exposed so long. We were at the scene of Gen. Pillow ’s operations a very few minutes after the enemy capitulated, and the strength of their position astonished us. Even had the vo! nnteers ca rrietl the fi rst breast work, which they could not have done without far greater slaughter, a second one not sixty yards in the rear would have opened upon them w ith light pieces, loaded to thf I muzzle with grape and canni-ter, and made it a perfect slaughter-pen. Be i sides, this place was defended by no ordi I nary man, but by one who had coolness i enough to feel our troop < he fore discharg ing his pieces. A prudent withlrawal from such a ' place, in our poor opinion, in far better j than to reckless!v tinow awav the lives of | hundreds in endeavoring to maintain a position when the strength of the object i attacked becomes palpably insurrnounta- j hie. Nor was the place of such infinite importance as to demand such a sacrifice, ; for (lie earning of Cerro Gordo, ns was expected, unlocked the key load else. The Tennesseeans did too much good service in storming forts at Monterey even to have a word whispered derogatory t> them :h men and soldi, rs, aj?d the n&nncr in which they stood nj> to the late charge 1 wid.l't their comrades were being shot | down around them shows that theie was no lack of courage amongst them. There was not a regiment engaged against the force a! Cerro Gordo that lias j not won imperishable glory. The mount- ! ed liflemen, or malditos rijlcros , as the I enemy has termed them, sustained the \ heaviest loss of all, owi ig to i!ie exposed i ’ positions they occupied in the charge; ) and although a great majority of the men composing the regiment were new at H e | business, their conduct was worthy ofimi lalion hv the oldest veteran Troops. Capt. Huberts’ company [A] went in- ■ to action with fmly-one officers and men. 1 liis position was most exposed, being with- j in the range o! grape, canister and round i slrot of all the works and the musketry of j the principal height: of the forty one, , twenty-four were left d 'ad and wounded j on tee field. Every officer except him- ■ self was struck, and Fiisl Lieut. Ewell was killed. Not an instance 1 , however, of scatteiing or hesitation was known I amongst ids men, and through seowers of i I every kind of shot they moved on and 1 kept position with the coolness and preci- j i sion of men on drill. Probably in the ! i history of American arms r,ol one instance I is recorded where men were kept in order ; ! under destruction and carnage so terrible, j Those left unhurt were unable to Carry : i offthe wounded. Oilier companies in the regiment would he noticed did our space allow it, for all have dme nobly. The whole regiment did its duly—more, much more than could have been expected, and ‘-Cerro Gordo” should bo emblazoned upon the*colors it i has mo.-R gallantly won. Lieut. Ewell, of the rid s, who was killed, was the first man in the enemy’s enclosure, and with his sabre killed two of their men. tie was a brave man, and | a nation’s tears are due to hismomorv; ! 'The 7th, the lietoes of Fort Brown, , added brilliancy tothe laurels they ge.in ! ed on the Rio Grande, and the li>l of hill ed and wounded in that regiment will show the hot wo k they had to do. To see them mount that hill, their ranks being ! constantly thinned by the showers of ! grape and caonistcr, ere would really think they were on an ordinary march, so cool ami orderly did they a<ct-nd. Sergeant Henry, of the 7ih, of w hom Gen. Twlu»s .-«poke in tughl trim-, in Ids I report at Monterey, and who since that j time has won -‘golden opinions from all j sorts of people. ’ mounted the ‘*ca-t!e,’ hauled down the standard of the enemy, j and in a trice displayed E ~o his flagstaff 1 the “Star spangled Bar mu.” The day j 1 ~ I before, the sergeant who, by the. way, is a powerful man—seized one of Santa An na’s body guar I, and dragged him a pri ; soner to our lines. 'fiie old 3J got to the breastwork sim ultaneously with the rifles, and many is the f>e they laid low in tlie strife. The Ist Artillery, 2d Infantry, 4th Ar tillery, and in fact every man engaged against the enemy, achieved wonders, and we regiet that it is not in our power to day to award to them the praise they 1 merit. \From the N. O. Picayune, 1 '3th insl.] Am . ricau Prisoneis .u Mexico. Letter From Major Gatnrs—The Encar nacion Prisoners—Mexican Gratitude , Route from Saltillo to Mexico fyc. When Gen. La \ eg a left New Orleans ; where lie had been treated rather as the | guest of the city than the captive ofoui | arms, he expressed the hope tiiat at some future time he might he able to requite I the hospitality so liberally lavished upon him. lie brought with him from the field of battle a letter of credit from Gen. 'Pay lor, whose sympathies fora (alien foo im pelled him to arm him against the addi i tionai calamity of want in a strange land. Vhilst here he was feasted with a prodi- I gulity that has not been shown any of our j own officers returning from these wars. He was scarce allowed to feel the durance I of military parole; but was fee to go w here he lifted throughout the land.— When about to return to Mexico, he gave public thunks for the consideration that was shown him, and all of us believed that he would remember their kind offices ! for the good of such Americans as might \ i fall into the hands of the enemy. fiiese expectations have not been ful- j Ifi ted. He has forgotten what it behooved a soldier to remember, and has been un mindful of his obligation when occasion offered tor its redemption. We have he. fore us a letter from Major Gaines, dated the 3J of April, in the donjon keep of the j castle of Santiago, where he and his com rades had been immured since the 27th of February, without being allowed to breathe the fee air of heaven. During a portion of this time, Gen, La Vega was military commandant of the city of Mexi co; and he not only did not extend them the f-rivileges of a parole, which is seldom denied a prisoner of war, but ho took no heed to t'heir distresses nor gave a thought 1 to their comfort. This is Mexican grain tude. Our generals have permitted ar mies, office is and men, to go their ways upon parole, w hilst such of our soldiers as , have fallen into their hands are kept in j iron cages. Midshipman Rodgers has AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, MAY R», 1847. __ ~ ■ _ ...... L 1 V/’ll 1 V/R- ARTICLES Per - Whole sale. BAGGING—Gunny 1 a 20 Kentucky 15 a iH BALE ROPE—Manilla lb 1 1 -’ a Pa Kentucky ~ u 8 BACON—Haras ' 8 a H Shoulders. 8 BUTTER—G >*Uen. whine to 23 a 2;> | CoratWy* 12 a 15 CANDLES— 82 a 35 iWrtnSri du .... 15 aio CHEESE—Northern a n lu j COFFEE—Cuba none. Jii<C i 8?a 10 T.Gi v .*!- Vila 15 f Shirting.-, br‘#vn, 3-1 yd. 5 a fit X- I •• " "Ji, 7-8 7sa 8 § j “ “yd. wide {--•• 1 \ ia •0 Sheetings, hrown. 5-,4 ....‘ 12 a 15 •S \ “ bleached, 5-4..r«rJ....i 18 a2O i 2 Checks IOcTIG | Bed Tick. lt^.lß C; Oznnt>urj'p,lVz 10 a ifi fVurn (as-'iirtefi) lb a lOjT Flail—Mackerel, A i bbl. It a * Do. V No. 2 (I 10 Do. No. 3. | tali FLOUR —New Orleans none. Cana! 8 sna9 00 Georgia 5 /5a6 5) 1 GRAIN—< orn bus. I 05 a 70 i I Oats 37 u 10 | GUNPOWDER kejr. 6 a IIAV —Eastern iUU. North River : IRON—Pit? tOO.| Swedes, assorted ton.; 4la 5 Hoop 100. 7 a Sheet ID 8 a 10 A ail Rods C a 7 ! ! LEAD—Pig and Bar 100. <*> « sSheet ! ... 3 i White Lead., I ... 7ia 9 j f <.-rc < hmtu.aarggg •asr* "'tvjki <-^'T^ — t-Tkr «.?rir-»v t» - «TJg «ac* ■ «arstas jww * Kxports of Cotton to Foreign an i Coastwise Forts, commencing Ist September, 181(>. Savannah■ Cliarlcm—. Mobile. IV. o*-lriiH. ,\nv Vork. Other Ports. Total. V.-hither exported. 1847. |g IG. 1847. 1848. 1847. j 184G. jj 1847^84Q18 477j184(1 18477184 G. 1847* 1840. Over pool 93514 36603 9196$ 59103 8733! 125473 230 979 365 ■i 6 37987 45169 17677 %£7ll‘J- j~ Hull : I; _,! 1673 14000 | j .1 Glasgow and Greenock B.o* 3.4/ • 3.35 j 26 !; 43l;» 9387. 8331 1 4 101. 642| 1727' ■ Cork and a Market ,! ■ 5945 4020 I*l3 5962 2095 557 loo|| Total to Great Britain -I : ‘5 5 10.652 65760 . , : 39 36 ; 2 17677 27119 6.H801 j Havre liL>U 0303 ID -2 Zyjio 483 i 69124 100*83 24501 ' j i 292 Bordeaux, ! 229, 8-'l 5> ! Marseilles | 420 1665| * 326; i 1714! 297 i j 295 4 3062 5027 ; Nantes 573 8221 i!_ 1063 3201 |O4 798 Total to !• ranee. 1 ' 47 3 323 205“ 21 74287 8110 280 6 1025/ p7H2 12J2 |y * 2159148 Amsterdam t>bi 48; i 28U1 stood 526 7i: Rotterdam i| j i i 5J5j 1905 | 1007: 6101 Antwerp 7 : i 2333 1161, 636; 1577 1832; 4370 743 d! 32021 ihnniju g i| 1610; 5 5 6301; 41 "7 ! j Bremen |j | (j 30l lj 761 ! 3316; 827 ' Barcelona 7557 Havana, &c. ’j 6203) 216 )0 18458 1 Genoa, Trieste, Aic | 914; 4320 3731 40IS; 4373 25.67 * 234331 7630; 6122 *2853 1528 I Glient, &n 1 | | lj 2680 lUOOI Other Ports 1804 1428 2541 4719 16966 1723 1471! Total toother foreign Ports 9*4 9626) _ 8381| I519l! 205001 65084 71286 20113 17388 2853 1528 Hi I 10676 New York i " 45189 - 971 40690 25 12 575 31482 624 - i■. .v* r a6s>» Beaten 19698 17120 263 47i 17012 208101 31321 31583; 97800! ; 9510 11321 | Providence 'j 320, 1031; 3595! 3976. 81781 5324 ! 44*6 j 5052 6227; Philadelphia *2210 4621! 13792 7556 160;}; 1806 7301 IPJi'Oj i 410 Balt nn-.»r« 2077 1524 | 4762 J 1455 ; 285! 5362 5406 4904 2151 2 *O4 j Other Ports ■ 18U7 17433 599 IU4 8858 1072 30*7 3258 16449 1377 j Total Coastwise 9130 7277 133306 7 823 67448 86317 1»487U 184690 45170 to iSl7y4 Grand Potal 206682 136345 1 2023791 182704 2U7202 3 0217 489022 765307 96345 luiiTl 6/422 5 396 13496521 15T0Tju WLrxxju gwet -sgaweMn-tf gt :• been hurrietJ from prison to f >ri-sou in ad vanue of our army —this is w hat is report ed of him; but we shall he glad to know that he lias not born hurried to a prison house from which there is no release wdiilst time lasts. When Gen. La Vega was last heard fiom, though again a pris oner, he was dispnu tmg himself in Vera Cruz like any oilier man. Geo. Taylor arranged for |lie excltaogs of Gaines, Holland, Clay and others. Why are they not given up? And whv are not hostages t tken for their safe delivery. We have b *en betrayed into these :emarks from reflections which ihe date of the letter ol Major Games sngges ed. It is addressed to his iiroilier in tins place and is much occupied with private matters. We make such ex tracts as may ho ol public interest; Castle of Bai\tiago, City of .Mexico, April 3. Dear Brother. I have written you fre quently since 1 became a prisoner of war. .vl v former letters related to business almost exclusively. * * * * From fSaliillo to Agua \neva is eight leagues, and here there is tine water. Thence to San Juan de Venago, one hundred and fitly mi ; es, there is no water, except in tanks j and wells. The tanks are built of earth and | cement and filled in the wet season; but may tie easily emptied by opening the bottoms, I’iie wells can be readily ruined by throwing in dead animals. Hence the almost impos sibility of an invading army marching through the country. This pari ol the country is al-o very unproductive on account of the scarcity us water,it being imuossible to irrigate to any extent from tanks and wells, and agriculture cannot be pro.-ecuted without copious ir rigation in consequence ot the length of the droughts. From San Juan de Vcnagas to Matehuala is twenty-four mi'es. Thi.-, town is situated in a mining district and contains sixteen thousand inhabitants. From this place to San Luis Fotosi there is a tolerably good supply of water. The country presents a beautiful level plain, bounded by nigged bar ren mountains. The people are poor, mis erable, stupid. The country is going to decay, evidences of which are scon at every step. This lias been the case from the time of the revolution —some, indeed, say, from as far | back as the invasion of Cortez. tsan Luis Fotosi is a beautiful town with some sixty thousand people. We arrived there on the 6ih of February and left the 15th. We passed a number of small towns I containing from ihre* 3 to eight thousand peo- ! pie, and arrived at Quarelaro on the 21sl. i This i ity I had never heard of before. It is J the handsomest 1 have seen, and its reported population varied from thirty to seventy thousand souls. The buildings are truly > superb and the aqueduct, which supplies the ci'y with water, is indeed magnificent. We reached the vicinity of this place (Mexico) on the 27ih, when our conductors, learning that the civil war had broken out, detained ns at a point three leagues off, for j a day and a half—to preserve us from the! mob, as they said, but as we found out, to save themselves, as no! knowing which party was nppeirnost, they did not know to which they belonged. We reached the cattle after midnight and were smuggled into it with great privacy. A few moments alter we en tered, an alarm was raised by the discharge of four guns in rapid succession. We heard some one say four men were killed and ten bad escaped. We now ascertained that we were lodged in a prison containing two hun dred convicted felons. The escape made it necessary to change their cells and they were brought out and passed through the yard where we were, chained two and two, and placed in safer dungeons. The fight was yet raging in the city and I shall never for get my entree into the city of the Aztecs. The civil war lasted till about the 20th wit.. ARTICLES. j Per Wholesale LIME bbl. 15J u 250 MOLASSES —Cuba gal. ’2B a3J N Orleans 40 a 43 \ MLS—Cut, 4d lu 20d 54 « 5i OlLS—Sperm, \V. strained lo> a Fail strained ti I~ J a Summer do." i ... 100 a L 2 Li.iseeii bbl. 8* 1 i Tanners • • • u Lard 100 a i POTATOES bbl.l a PORTER do/.. 225 a 250 j PEPPER—BIack ib 10 al2 I PIMENTO 14ia RAISINS —Malaga, bunch box. 225 a 250 .Muscatel 2 a j RlCE—Ordinary UK). 425 a 150 Fair * 475 a 5 Good and Prime. 525 a 550 ■ f French Brandies ....'gal. la) u 2 j Leger Frenis .; 275 a 3 i 7) j Holland Gin 125 a 150 2 . American Gin u 10 7Z J.l.nail a Rum 150 a 2 A-i NE. Rum,lids, an 1 bids . ....... 37 a33 ' Whiskey, Phil, ct Balt 33 a 35 : jr Di. New Orleans 30 a 33 f Peach Brandy 75 a 1 i 0 iSUGAK. —Cuba Muscovado.... . Ib B<z 10 j Pit. <fe St. Croix ball | Havana, white j 10 a II New Orleans ;....{ 8 a 0 Loaf. 13 a II Lump 11 a 12 SALT—Liverpool sack 130 a IGi L.o >se bus. j 40 a 45 i SOAP—American, yellow 15 ; 5 a 0 i sit) I’— Vi 1 sizes )....' 162 a I? 5 i SEGARS—Spanish Vl .20 a3O American j.... I 8 alO 1 T VLLOW American J ... Sk a a i TOBACCO—Georgia I ib | 4 a | Cavendish 15 a 15 j TWlNE—Bagging 2.) a v7 Seine j. ... 30 a j;) when the arrival of Saioa Ann i put. no end to it. \V aether there were many killed dur ing the twenty day.-’ fight I do not know; but it is said that a great many old Women, cai.~ ; and dogs were stain. The insurrection \v*> I a god tend to Santa Anna, as it furnished j him a small job alter his dreadful defeat at Buena \.sia. He left here ve.-te-day with the shattered fragments of Jus army, preiend ing Iliat f.e would immolate himself, if need be, between this and Vera Cruz stimjlJ Gen j iScott attempt lo march upon the capital. i fits nation, so far as Government is con cerned, may he said to be annihilated. They are wnhunt an army, money, or men cana ille of ruling. fcMiita Anna nimseif is said to be superior to his countrymen only in know l edge of me Mexican character and me abili ty in humbugging them. Whether a peace would follow (he capture of this oily is ex tremely uncertain;-amongst our friends here the opinion i.- il will not. Gen. fscoll having taken n7arr-r prisoners at Vera Cruz we are in daily expectation oi being exchanged, in which ease we will re join the army and probably return to the Uni it*d Slates as soon as we would had we never been captured. [Santa Anna appears to be ..s forget In I as lus Inend La Vega, as it j -seems to have escaped his memory that lie i had engaged with Gen. Taylor tor the release of these prisoners. —Lids J i have written you several letters since my caplivi.y; * * * * * Although in the city ot Alex.co 1 have seen but little of a and that Utile through (lie iron grating of the castle of Santiago. Whether we shat* be in dulged with a view of it after our retea.-e J know not. J trust we shall, Vour allecUonate brother, J NO. IT GAINES. * AUGUSTA. GEO.. WEDNESDAY .HORNING, MAY 19, 1847. ilou. Daniei Webster. According to arrangements, a targe number of onr citizens us both sexes, assembled yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at the City Hall, for the purpose ofgivinga warm welcome to tins distin guished ,tlrang-“r. He was introduced by Chan. J. Jenkins, E>q., who on this occasion delivered a neat and appropriate address in his usual style, to w hich Air. Webster made a handsome reply. It was obvious to all present that he was labor ing under indisposition, caused no doubt by ihe fatigues of his journey, and shortly alter he con cluded his address, he retired to the Washington Hall, where, in consequence, he was prevented from receiving the visits of numbers who called on him. The dinner came off in the evening, at the ap pointed hour, at the .Masonic Hall, and a large nuin berof citizens were present; the indisposition of Air. Web.-ter, however, we regret to learn, was such that he was prevented from attending. As we have been promised the address of Air. Jenkins, and an outline of Air. Webster’s, we will give them to our readers hereafter, as also the doing* at the supper. Very I upopular War. The Union says it understands Gen. Scott will h ive under his command some 20,000 men or more, chiefly regulars or men enlisted for the war, by the first of June next. So great is the number of ap plications at the War Department, from voluntee r corps from all quarters, that the Secretary- has been compelled to decline accepting the services of the Maryland Brigade, offered hy Gen. Smith. The New York Legislature adjourned on Thursday last, after a session of 129 davs. Among ihe acts passed we notice one fur fix ing the compensation of Judges of ihe Ap peal and Supreme Court at $2,500 per an- | nutn, and allows five cents per mile for tra- j veiling expenses. h XL UA.\ Angnsia Insurance ami Hanking Company,.. par Bank ul Augusta,... Branch State ul Ceorgia, Augusta. ‘‘ Bank ul Brunswick (( Ceurgia tia.il iioad, (( .'dceUaiiu.'s' bank, (| bank ui st. Vlary s, • • • • Bank ul Milledgevrlle, Bank ul the State ul deorgia, at S» vannali,. .. Hi anches of ditto, .Marine ind l ire Insurance Hank, Savannah,. Branch ul Jiltu, at .Marun Planters' Hank, Savannah, Central Hank ol Georgia, " Central ii. ii. A. B’k’g. Co., Savannah, “ Charleston Hanks,... “ bank ul Camden, Hank ul ieuraeliiwn .... C om ne rural .Columbia * Hi-reliant-', at C lie raw, “ Hank >1 llammir , * \laiiama Notes 2 f3> «li^- Vierchanls’ Bank of Macon, & (S W Commercial Bank, at Macon, failed NO SAI.K oil UNCKRTAI.N. Bank ul 1 1 irien and Branches. Ha k ol (\dnnilnis. ‘iiatlaiiouciiee Bail lluad and Banking Company Monrue Hat iiuad and Hanking Company. Planters and Mechanics’ Hank, Columbus. vVcsicrn Hank ul Georgia, at iiurue. r.xciiauce Hank, Brunswick. Ins. Bank us C do in I ui. .at >1 aeon .. no circulation. PUumiv bank ol Columbus. Cll I.CKS. On N’eiv Vurk... i pr**ni. Philadelphia.... Boston .. Cuarlesrr.n and 'savannah, P ar He\i igimi, venttickV Nashville, Tennessee, STOCKS. 1 Georgia, 8 per cents 100 a 101 ‘ Georzia.fi percents 07 « 08 T-W* 'T- 'C~^ZJ^S V J. ”* : ■■.■ra'-T-y «r^ia»iifi«iwfWiw» | 'J lie comer stone of Hie U. IS. Dry Dock at Brooklyn, whs laid by Com. Smith, Chief o! the Bureau of \ ards and Docks, on Wed nesday last. I tie packet ship Constitution, at New \ork. f rt rn Liverpool, brought ££125.000 in specie. She brings besides only 518 steer age passengers.- I he packet sliip Anglo Saxon, xvhich sailed from iiosion on iheSth inst., laden with provision* for the suffering Irish, was ashore at the iSabi« Island, on the 14lh inst. r l he passengers ami crew and part of the cargo saved—the vessel will probably be a total loss. William O. Goode, E-q , late Speaker of ihe House of Delegates, and formerly repre sentative of the Mecklenburg dist., Virginia, is announced as a candidate for the vacancy in Congress occasioned by the dear!) of Gen. Drorrgnole, Richard !I. Baptist, E-q., is also ; announced us a Candidate for the same vacancy. Troops Encamped. i lie New Orleans Delta of the 13 f h inst. says—“Toere are now encamped at the Car rollton Race Course, a detachment of the 16th Infantry, aggregating 46‘0 men, under Lieut. Col. Webb. Also two companies of the lot It Infantry—one company of the Till Infantry, numbering in all 256 men, under command of Maj. Lee, of the 7:h Infantry; Caps. Gai ther s company, 3J Dragoons, 108 men; Capt, King’s company, Ist Infantry, 90 men; Capt. Blair‘s Voltigenrs, 126 men; Capt. iMofiord’s company, 1 3r h Infantry, 100 men, and CajU Me Reynold’s company of Dragoons, numbe.* ing 104 men. These troops will start the i moment that transportation can beobtaiaei^. r, A le’tcr in the New Orleans La Palrin states that Santa Anna has issued, from Ori ! zaba, over one hundred commissions to as I many guerrilla officers, authorising them to command small itinerant parties of fifty to j two hundred men each. Some of these, it | is added, have already commenced what wo should call tiie ; r “cut-throat operations,” on the Jalapa road. The same letter says, that it was at the instance of the clergy the pro ject to fortify tne capital was abandoned. Believing that any defences which could be thrown up would be unavailing,and knowing that their properly, in which is comprised the principal buildings in the city, would suffer severely if an attack were to be provoked, they advised that the fortifications be not proceeded w lh. Ibis would in some mea sure go to confirm, or at least to render pro bable, that a tender of the peaceable surren der of the city has been made to Gen. Scott. Court House Burnt. The Albany (Ga.) Courier, ot the Isth inst. says.— ihe Court House in Dooly county, together with all the records of the Superior, Inferior and Ordinary Courts, and §II,OOO, collected Irom Defendants, were destroyed by fire on Friday n ghl the 7th inst. Various suspicious are entertained touching the causa : of the lire. The general impression is, how j ever, that it was the work of an incendiary. | The regular term of the Court stands adjoura- I ed till the tetoni Monday in July uc.it.