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Correspondence From Mexico.
The I oluntters Returning Home — r R&m (Joncin
Burnt in Rjfigy- - A Rogue Drummed Out
Camp-Gen. 'i'aylor at yjjnlcr -y--Col. .1/or
gans Appointment icell received-- Ijuntamente
and L rrca —7Vte Virginia Gni forms- \ ulun
teer Oratory — tdloqnent Speech.
I> o cNa ViaT.v,(near Saitiiio,) April 09, 1347.
Eds Della —No master ot the volunteers
will lake place lu-iuurrow heie, although
musters have generally been made every two
months. The reason assigned is, that there
are no funds here to pay oil* all the creeps—
and further, that in a month the ‘ one year
men” will be disbanded. Thu downward
movement ot the troops will commence in
aboel two weeks: we hear that the Idt ‘Ohio,
stationed heretofore at Monterey, will leave
the last of this week, but can place no con
fidence in the report. A great many will
doubtless remain with the army, but that
‘■‘bounty of twelve dollars” will lose more
than it makes. Is this their bounty! Rather
business tor ‘‘the Senate and Mouse of
Kepresenta?ives in Congress assembled”—
tion'l you think so?
Ty the way,the honorable Thomas Corwin
waburnt in effigy, by a large and respectable
convocation” of the boys, a lew nights since,
with very strong and unequivocal symptoms
of disapprobation. A great many prayers,
intended for the Honorable Senator’s benefit,
were put Tip on the occasion. We are sorry
to be compelled to remark, that their peculiar
character is hit off in a popular luite tract,
entitled “The IS wearer’s Prayer.”
A poor fellow (apropos to Corwin) was
drummed out of camp for stealing a horse.
He belonged to the Arkansas regiment. We
know not how the scene looked to others, but
for ourselves must say, that it was one of the
hardest' we ever looked at. The unfortunate
man (let us think as gently as possible) was
in rags and dirt, wounded and bareheaded,
marched 3ifong the line of mockers, while the
fifes shrieked out that ancient insult, that
musical tak; of infamy anddeeo disgrace, the
“Hogue’s March”:
“Toor old soldier,” Ac.
Gen. Taylor is still at Monterey. lie
issued congratulatory orders to this division
of the army, on the receipt of the intelligence
from Vera Cruz.
Col. Morgan of the 2d Ohio, regiment lias
received the appointment of Colonel of the
15th infantry. A better selection could not
possibly have been made. It is refreshing to
meet with an item like this among the ‘ do
ings at Washington.” Good can come out
of that Nazaroth at the Capital occassionally.
Reports of another battle, near Jalapa,
foave reached us. As usual, rumor gives us
the victory. The number of camp tales
would be astonishing to the uninitiated. Ac
cording to them, the enemy have been ad
vancing upon this point “times numberless.”
Gen.. Wool even, announced it once in an or
der. But no enemy “made good their ap
pearance,” as the phrase legal goes. Busla
tueete has been reported at Incarnation with
the usual complement—4o.ooo.
The roads are sale below Monterey. Gen.
Urrea lias left in some disgust. Trains go
up and down with escorts of from sixty to
fieveuty. The Virginia regiment is at Co*
margo: they have, by all accounts,more cloth
ing than any other regiment in these parts.
Their coals are curiosities. Buttons, to the
number of seventy, give to the soldier a sort
of comic apperrance; it looks as if the old
chain armor was revived again. They are a
clever set of fellows, though somewhat dis
contented, as all soldiers are at first. March
ing with blistered feet and heavy knapsacks,
eating what one can get with fingers, carry
ing one’s clothes to (he washwoman’s and
washing them himself) and that, will soon
become natural and easy. Ah! “the elephant”
has a great many mure spectators than ad
mirers.
It is amusing to hear the various tales of
the late battle here. Groups may be seen
gathered round some ‘‘individual” who re
tail, with astonishing fluency and geslicula
tion, what he saw and did in that memorable
action. We passed a crowd where a fellow
of this catalogue, with a felt hat which had
seen its best days, a couple of pistols, (pecu
liarly" ferocious-looking weapon,) two pairs
of breeches “rolled into one,” and a small
siniie'of a shirt, was giving the audience his
ideas, something after the following:
“Well, sirs, wherever the copper was rich
est and heaviest, there you’d see old Tay. It
made me think of old Gallup’s lard-house—
the bombs flew, and fell, and hissed, and
filed, like as if they was ‘rendering’ out the
sky, and] making candles by whosale. It
was about what I think h— would be on
’lection day for Pres’dent. Them there
mountains, that looks so still now, was all
on the wave with men and greasers, up to
the top, and the bay’nets made ’em shine as
if old Billy up there”—the speaker looked up
with a comic sort of reverence—“had been
raising half eagles on ’em. D me, if it
wasn’t one of them days. Old Tay, was one
of’em too. He was one of God’s own b’h ys
he was! They could not kill him. He was out
ail tiie time, and fit away without any grub
and when he came in, he said he was hugry
enough to eat a jackass and snap at the rider.
Aintanyof you got any of the ardent?”
Later from the City of Mexico.
Though the kindness of the editors o"
“La Patriot ,” we have been placed in
possession of full files of EJ Repubhcano,
El Monitor and Diario del Gohierno to the
Bth inst. These files are filled with in
teresting information, and were they to
be considered a fair index to the popular
mind, they would go to show that the “war
spirit” is increasing daily, and that new
measures are constantly being adopted to
carry on the war with vigor and persever
ance. Almost every number ol the Mexi
can journals is filled with appeals to the
people and to the authorities, urging ac
tiop-r-pj-ompl and incessant defensive ac
tion.
The papers complain bitterly of the
course pursued by the members of the
Mexican Congress—many of them (from
six to ten each dav) were reported sick—
about as rnanv, or more, would not attend,
and at last accounts, some sixteen or
seventeen members ha i left the capital
without license. Don Vincente Romero
was constantly endeavoiing to arouse ins
brother members to a sense ot the coun
try’s condition, but li;s eloquence seemed
una vail iug.
The Supreme Government appointed a
commiltee io mise money by subscription,
for-the purpose of paying the expenses ol
the war. There were several thousand
names on the list, and we see amounts
from I2i cents to SIOOO.
[What a rich idea is this* A people
raising the supplies to defend thoir homes
and friends in the same way that we col
led the means of aiding any charitable
enterprise, or of relieving the distress of
of any suffering foreigners. 'Just think ot
subscriptions to the amount of i‘2-1 cents
to protect oilr country against a foreign
invasion. Why, there is no American
who would nut be ashamed to subscribe,
such an amount to the relief of the dis
tress of the poor Irish and Scotch. A bn’.'
worth of patriotism ! Go! Mexico !j
Don Manuel Montano has been appoint
ed by the Government, Ciiief of the Guer
rillas of Tulanciago. and of the Llanos de
O '
Apam.
Tli a RvpubUcano of the Bth inst. says,
that by a letter from Orizaba of the 4lh,
they were informed that Gen. Scott was
sick at .Tulapa, and would not move' to
wards Puebla until the commissioners
from the United States, bearing the propo
sitions of peace, would read) lieaJquar
ters —that by that lime he would have the
necessary reinforcement; and that besides
two wagon loads of supplies which the
“gnerrilieros” bad capture! from the
Americans on the road, they had also ta
ken $ 30,t)0() in gold. The same letter
says that the forces under Santa Anna
were rapidly increasing, and that “His
Excellency” was only awaiting for the
monev which be had asked, in order in
begin iris operations.
u i
A letter from Durango, dated 23th
April, says the “Yankees” (Doniphan’s
command) had countermarched to Chi
huahua, on account of intelligence receiv
ed by the New Mexicans and “Pasertos,”
(native of El Paso.) together with the bar
barons tribe of Nabajoe Indians, headed
by the clergymen, had commenced an in
discriminate slaughter on a1! Americans
in tiie place. This insurrection us said to
have been so general, that even the wo
men were in it, and enacted a conspicu
ous pait in cutting the throats bf the
“Texans.” it was also reported that (hose
very filer!, feeling elated with the result,
were marching towards Durango, in order
to avenge the outrage of Cbihuahu\.
Gen. Bravo published a decree on the
Gth inst., ordering every person having
two or more horses in bis possession, to
deliver one of them to the commissary, at
or before the expiration of the sixth day.
The prices to be paid for the same were
put down at from sl2 to S2D per bead—
and in case tin horses delivered should
not be fit for use, the owners would be
compelled to replace them with good ones.
[This seems to us a very hard law, and
speaks harshly for Mexican justice.]
By ano her decree of the same date.
General Bravo (General-in Chief of tin
Centra! Army,) orders all citizens from
15 to 60 years of age, to enlist at the
shortest notice, and be prepared to present
themselves armed arid equipped, when
thev should be called upon.
El Monitor of the 4th, says that the
psyfiizans of Santa Anna have sent com
missioners to the different States, in order
to obtain votes for him to be elected Pre
sident.
The same paper asserts that General
Canalizo had received ordes to give up
the command of the cavalry, and proceed
to the capital.
El Revublicano of the 4th, says that
notwithstanding the ministry had promis
ed to court-marshal Canalizo, he still
commanded the cavalry. His flight at
Cerro Gordo during the battle, and his
failure to cover the retreat of the Mexi
cans were notorious, and yet lie is unpun
ished, whilst Arista lias been persecuted
for the loss of the battle of Resaca, which
was caused by the faults oi others; when
100, it is well known that Arista was fast
to leave the field of that disastrous battle,
and remained in the rear constantly, pro
tecting the retreat of his armv.
General Santa Anna has been joined at
Orizaba by General D. Francisco Perez, with
a force of 520, and also by Generals Brito
and Baneneli, with 800 infantry and a park
of artillery. Gen. Alcorta, who has succeed
ed Canalizo in of (he cavalry,
is still at Chalchiomnula, with 1300 cavalry
and 200 dragoons from Vera Cruz, under
Colonel Cenobio. [We should like to know
if these fellows were parolled at the capitula
tion of \ T era Cruz; if they were, and Gen.
Scott catches them, we trust there is a good
supply of hemp in the commissary’s depart
ment!.] There are already 500 men here,
and guerrillas are forming rapidly. Two
wagons, with goods, have been taken from the
Americans, which gives great encourage
ment and joy to the poor fellows who are
skulking about Orizaba.
Santa Anna has had a battery of artillery
mounted under command of Col. Aguado.
Santa Anna needs only money and arms to
give the Americans much trouble. “This
great genius,” says the admiring Mexican,
“works from six in the morning until late at
night, and is everyday becoming more wor
thy of the national gratitude.” An iron mine
has been discovered at Xaiapilla.
The Monitor of the Ist inst. says that some
important correspondence was taken from the
enemy, which will afford the Government
useful intelligence. According to the same
paper of the Bth, two letters from Aguas-
Calientes say that some bands of guerrillas
from New and Coahuiia, had attacked
some wagon trains, which they took, and
that Gen. ’Taylor was wounded at the same
lime. [This is evidently untrue, as we have
later dates from General Taylor’s division.]
Gen. D. Sebastian Guzman hid taken
charge of th e works of fortification near the
Capital, and the three following points haH
been selected to be fortified between San
Crisloval and Cuesta de Bcrrieutos: Us.
Cerro de Tlapacoya Chaleo, with those of
Jico and Tepecingo. 2d. Cerro de San Isidro,
'l'iahnac and Cerro de Teyahualco. 3d.
Penoi Viejo, Cerro da Galapeta and Santa
Cruz de las Lscobus.
The Bishop of Oaj tea had sent to the Gov
ernment $20,000 lor the expenses of the war.
Several churches [jad delivered the greater
part ol ti leir plate to the Government, in or
der that it should be melted into coin.
Don Pt-dro Si. Anaya, President Substitute
of the Republic, publichod a decree on the
2d, declaring the whole district in a st ile of
siege. In another decree of the commander
of the Federal Distrust, it is prohibited to in
troduce any goods or merchandize in the
towns or cities in possess in of the American,
under a tine ol from SIOO to SSOO, which
will be appropriated to the expenses of the
war. Tne sales ot any piuvisions, goods,
horses or cattle to the Americans, is also
prohibited, under a fine from SIOO to SIOOO,
aj>j; 1 cable to the kforesaid purpose.
A correspondent ut EI Repubiicano com
plains that there is lack of patriotism and
disposition to resist the Americans, in the
Slates of Durango and Zacatecas.
According to the Monitor of the 27th April,
the President Substitute ordered a “Yankee”
to be incarcerated because he Rad the au
dacity to appear before his Excellency and
expose to him the advantages o'!'entering into
amicable arrangements with the If Stales.
Tne village of Guadalupe was undergoing
through fortifications.
Gen. Leinus died on the evening cT the
30th till. Gen Joaquin de llurb.de also died
on the 1.-t in^t.
Tne State of Jalisco is to contribute 15,000
men (or the time the war may last. The Stale
of Guanajuato has promised 8000 fur the
National Guards and Guerrillas.
A recent order from the Government di
rect' that, all ihe forces from the East and
Soil'll should report to Gen. Santa Anna as
the only Com nil mder-in-Ciiie.
The f af Oaa Poio^i
Issued, on the 28Ui April, to their ‘’faith
ful hearers," a long address, which is pub
lished in El Repubiicano of the 4lh inst.,
witii the following letter heading if
‘•1 send you a printed sheet, issued by the
prelates and ecclesiastics, who have deter
mined to preach three days during each week,
in order to excite in the people the proper re
ligou.s enthusiasm. I hope that many will
be induced to join the army through these
means. They have here 7000 muskets to
arm them, and also 50 pieces of the artillery
(among them 26 of heavy calibre,) and the
necessary ammunition. The direction of
operations will be given to Generals Minon
and Urrea, who are expected to arrive
here soon, besides Don Manuel Romero,
Meiia, Amador, and other chieftains, who
Will follow their brave commanders. We
will have a large arnout of “ guerriUeros ” in
about a month from this, and a of 4,500
men which we now have here, will facilitate
the defence of the Stale with success. The
town is now in course of fortification by or
der of the Governor, who will start next
week in order to examine the operations in
the neighboring towns. This States of Za
catecas, Guadalajara, Durango, Guanajuato,
and two others, (tire names ! Junt recollect,)
will raise 6000 men, in order to give assis
tance to San Luis in case (his State should
be attacked first, or to detain the invaders
should they .proceed first to Zacatecas and
Durango. In every case, San Luis will ope
rate in concert with the forces which may be
raised; these, I expect, will be from G to 8000
men in all.
‘•A general enlistment, to take place in
forty-eight hours’ time, has been this day
agreed upon by the government; and this is
in accordance with the proclamations and
exhortations of tiie clergy, who will give the
best examples. All this affords us hopes of
salvation. Above all, there is a strong de
termination here to resist any treaties of
peace which Mexico would wish to enter
into with the ‘hated Yankees,’ as it has been
suggested in letters of very late dale from
the capita!.
Address efthe Clcrsj of Sau Luis Potoni to
ihoTcoplci
The Clergy of this Stale would not be a
fit depository of the high and sublime power
which has been placed in ils hands, nor wor
thy of the glorious name of Mexicans, if it
should behold the last sign of our holy reli
gion and our beloved country, and remain in
cold indifference, without raising iis voice
io arouse its compatriots from that indolent
apathy in which for mors than a year they
have been submerged; and if it should not
cause them to comprehend our present la
mentable and disastrous situation,and to know
and secure the means of our salvation. To
do this, is our sole object.
The Cabinet of Washington have determin
ed to perpetrate, in tiie present age, a horri
ble crime—rare, indeed, in the annals of the
whole world. Ambitious to extend their pros
perity and temporal power, and to perpetuate
their race to the last of corning generations,
they heve not hesitated to violate towards
the gentle society of Mexico the most sacred
of human rights. In their wild delirium
they behold, with raving thirst, the opulence
of our temples, the riches of our church, the
magnificence of our homesteads, tiie angelic
beauty cf our weaker sex, the immense and
inexhaustible treasures of our mountains, the
fertility of our fields, and the beautiful varei
ly of our climate, and ever the implacable
enemies of our race and origin, they have
taken rapid steps to extingish our name,
and possess themselves of all these precious
gifts.
You have already seen them, compatriots.
Iu vain is the memory of the thousand and
thousand assassinations committed at Palo
Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey. An
gostura, Vera Cruz, and Cerro Gordo—in
vain have we seen multitudes of Mexicans
wandering in the woods, and pursued like
wild boasts, in the own country, robbed of
their properly and driven from their families
— in vain do we recall the multitude ol peace
able and honorable men, who have been in
sulted, seized and beaten, in presence even
of a beloved daughter or idolized wife—in
vain do we recollect the proud barbarity, the
shameless cruelty required to burn the vil
lage, to slay the simple rustic, the feeble wo
men, and the innocent children, as we beheld
at Agua Nueva, Ilildalgo, and other towns
at the North. But what can we hope from
a horde of robbers, destitute of humanity—
monsters, who bid defiance to the Jaws of na
ture, when they even insult, rob and con
temn God in this holy temple? When a
man enters on a career of vice, and throws
aside the reins of religion, the insensibility
and obduracy of which he is capable can
hardly he believed. What can we expect
i from these Vandals, vomited from hell to
scourge the nation, when we know that
j they worship no God but gold, and aspire to
no happiness but the gratification of their
brutal passions? A wise writer of the last
century has said that “man without any re
ligion is a terrible animal, who appears only
to enjoy his liberty in destroying and devour
ing.” iSuch, in effect, appears to be the pic
i tare which Providence, with a h : gb design,
i has deigned to present to us. Yes, compa
triots! you have seen it: our religion, our
country, our liberty, our lives, our families,
our property —nothing—nothing is respected:
ami if they spare even our existence, it is
merely tor the purpose of turning it to profit
in the unhappy condition of slavery. And
finally, they will endeavor, as we have al
ready said, to blot our names from the caia
i logue of nations.
Fellow-citizens of Polosi ! Can you be
| hold, with waking eyes, and without the blood
freez ng in your veins, a condition so humi
liating. a fate so disastrous and frightful !
Can your bold and valiant character behold
rage that the foot of a heretic adven
ture should d< file your magnificent temples,
destroy vour venerated images, and trample
even upon your G id, overthrowing your holy
I sacraments, and depriving the Christian soul
of the sublime \ ir? ues and exalted enjoyments
of the angels? Will you permit, that a cove
tous and barbarous stranger should outrage
that God who lias visited and consoled you in
your infirmities —who" accompanies you m
the horrible transition Irum life to tne enjoy
ment of eternal beautilude? Will you con
sent, brave Potosinos ! to have the holy riles
■ of your church abolished, and the sign ul
your redemption and extermination ? Final
ly, fellow-citizens, will you be insensible to
tiie loss of your religion, your temples, and
even to the sweet name of ’'Christians ? Vet
) all this Will happen to you. Your families
will hunger after the bread of the Word, and
, the eternal consolations which tiie adorable
religion of Jesus can alone dispense, and
there will be no he, who car. furnish them.—
| Yonr daughters and your wives will be seized
in your sight, and made victims to lucivious
passions, even in the streets and public
places. Your tender sons will expire on the
points of the swords and bayonets of the bar
: barons conquerors, directing towards you
: their hist looks of fear and agony; and you,
I yourselves, will be seized and bound like brut-
I lish beasts for I lie dungeons of slavery, and
savage men, filthy prostitutes and wild beasts,
v ill craie and enjoy the comforts and delica
cues oi voliT homes. Yes, fellow-citizens ol
Polosi, hear it! one hundred thousand times
we tell you—hear it !—this learlu! calamity
conies upon you—it arrives at your threshold;
and in compliance With our high duty—at
tend, listen—-we announce to you, you shall
sutler all this misfortune, in all ils weight, if
you do not awaken from life profound sleep
in which we hold you prostrated, ami assist us
in raising a force worthy of the sacred cause
in which we are engaged, and the glory ot
your name.
The invader does not retrograde. lie has
: surrounded, in a manner, our territory—lie
has left us hardly a retreat. We ought not,
in so perilous a situation, to abandon a cause,
1 truly import int and common, wholly to our
armed force, weak by its numbers, impotent
bv its smallness—weak, through its poverty,
its sufferings and its past, labors, though wor
thy by its never-sufficiently-eslimated valor.
No! it concerns our common interests—all
that man holds most dear on earth. Let us
fly then, all of us, to the combat—placing
ourselves under the direction of our authori
ties—let us fully and sincerely place in their
hands-, our fortunes and our persons—let us
i enlist with promptitude, and with whatever
1 arms we may be able to obtain—let us throw
aside the senseless desire of living longer—
let ns encourage solely an insatiable desire to
die for our religion! our country and the
honor of our families—tnake effective that
compassion, hitherto sterile, which you should
show for your lender children. Let us die
before we see ourselves degraded to slaves,
in a strange land, deserted, or followed, per
-1 baps, by some ancient father, some son, or a
! wife whose lineaments are aiready changed,
every where abhorred, our powers prostrated
i by tiie weight of indigence, sending forth
| cries and lamentations without finding a sin
j gle being to extend to us a hand of pity !
Potosinos! for the slave there is no consola
i tion; his respect and his glory are eclipsed
! forever.
1' These are the sole means of salvation.—
Let us alt unite. Let us forget our domestic
disagreements; and authorities, army, peo
ple and priesthood —all—all form a compact
mass and resign ourselves to death rather
than turn our backs to the enemy, or survive
our rnistorttines and disgrace. Let ns swear
to God to die for ilis rcl gion, and to the
country for its independence. Let ns swear
to the tender child, the delicate maiden, and
decrepid age, that onr blood shall run in tor
rents—that we shall have sunk into the grave
before one of these proud \ andals shall place
a hand upon them!
Potosinos I these are the words of yonr
Clergy, and we shall not fail to inculcate, in
the villages and towns, and from the pulpits
of the capital, these grand sentiments. In
your humble hands is the religion which your
i fathers have left you, the country which
Heaven has awarded you, the honor of your
I daughters and your wives, the lives of your
I tender infants, and your whole future fate.—
| It depends on a heroic sacrifice. Make it!
Two fates are left open for you ; To be
I vile slaves, or independent Catholics. Choose,
j If the former, bend the knee to the invader:
if the latter, prepare for the combat!
Comprehend if—these are the last mo
ments. If by indolence you incur an unhap
! py fate, if your religion must fly to a more
hardv soil, disgrace and ignominy will fall
upon you. To your Priesthood will remain
tiie satisfaction of having exposed to you the
danger, and indicated the means most effec
tual and best adapted to our circumstances.
And we conjure you not to listen to our
; words without emotion, assured that you meet
i in us a tender parent who consoles and suc
: cors your families, a humane friend who
j anoints your wounds, a Christian Priest who
j dispenses to you the last consolations of reii
gion, who guards and remembers your ashes,
a companion that does not abandon you in
i the day of battle, and who now even is wil
ling to bare Lis breast in defence of the reli
gion of Jesus Christ and of the most beloved
ilepublic of Mexico.
(Signed) MANTEL DIEZ,
F ii, MA NI KLNAV ARR ET F.,
Primo FELICI ANO CASTRO,
Fr. IGNACIO SAMPAVO,
Fb. BLAS ENCISO,
Pr. JOSE DE SAN ALBERTO,
Dr. Fr. FELIX ROSA ANGEL.
San Luis PotoE, April 29th, IS IT.
AUGUSTA. GEO..
TUESDAY AIOKMMU JUNE 1, 18-17. “
Democratic meeting.
The Democrats of Richmond county a»e
requested to meet at the City Hall This
Afternoon, Istiust., at five o’clock, for the
pnri» se of appointing delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convent on, to he held at
Milicdgevißc 0:1 the fouith Monday in
J UUP .
[LTProprielors ot Warehouses in tins city
a tid Hamburg, w ill oblige us il 11 *t* y will
have the stock of Cotton remaining on hand
counted ]ur Uo at an early hour ihi.-> morn*
i»L r -
ilirWe give up our paper tins morning to
Mexican intelligence received at Me v Or
leans, which though not of much importance
will be read with interest, particularly the
address of the - regular and secular clergy of
San Luis Polosi.”
The Meeting This Afternoon.
We hope every Democrat will bear in
mind the meeting to be held this afternoon,
at 5 o’clock, at the City Hall. Ir is for the
purpose ot selecting Delegates to toe Con
vention to be held at Aiiiledgeviile on the
fourth Monday in this month. Let all at
tend, and show by their presence, that the
Democrats of Old Richmond, although in the
minority at home, are disposed to send true
and good men, to represent them, and when
the selection is made, to coniribute their mite
to tire election of the candidate nominated
by the party.
Sonlhcrii Medical and Surgical Journal.
The June Mu. ot tins valuable woik !o (lie
medical profession, has been placed on- our
table by the publisher, James McAllcrty.
Like its predecessors it is tilled* with valua
ble information to the profession, both origi
nal and selected..
IT We are indebted to R. C. Montgomery,
of the Charleston Hotel, (lonn o ly of Savan
nah.) fora half dozen tine cucumbers. We
are glad to sec that the worthy proprietors of
that establishment, have secured ids valuable
services. He is a good caterer, and it any
thing nice is to be had, or gotten up, Mont
gomery is the man to do it.
The Constitutionalist.
It is not often we speak of our own affiirs,
but so liberal has been the patronage extend
ed to us since the paper passed into our
hands, and more particularly within the past
five months, that we take this occasion to
return our sincere thanks to our numerous
friends in varices parts of the State for their
exertions in our behalf, and hope to merit a
continuance. Our aim will ever be, to make
the Constitutionalist acceptable to the mer
chant, the planter, and the politician, and by
the tirsl of July next, we will present the pa
per to them in an entire *E\v r okess —as the
type have been ordered and are now on the
way. When received, we purpose miking
the Const itutionalist one of the neatest sheets
in this section of country, and will endeavor
so to arrange its contents as to be interesting
to all readers. Although the paper will
not be increased in size but slightly, it will
contain in reading matter some six to eight
columns more than at present, and we will
devote .-ome four to six columns to the ad
vertising of our country friends, whose favors
will be very acceptable.
in die advertising line, our country friend.-,
can assist us materially if they feel so dis
posed. The circulation of our paper in the
surrounding counties is dtily increasing, and
in some of them, no doubt as large, if not
larger than any other paper in the State.
V\ iial we wish to impress on the minds of
our friends is, that those who act in the ca
pacity ol executors, administrators, &c. have
the right to publish their advertisements in
any paper they think proper, and by direct
ing the clerk of the different Courts to for
ward their advertisements to us fur publica
tion* we have no doubt it will be done. Rat
the surest way is to dy it themselves—and
as they will have the paper before them
weekly, they can see that their advertise
ments are legally and correctly published.
About the time the political campaign
opens, we wall have downed our new dress,
and we look to our friends in the interior to
give to our paper a wide circulation, assur
ing them that the duties devolving on us will
be faithfully attended to. With but little ex
ertion on the part of our friends the Consti
tutionalist can obtain the largest circula
tion of any paper in the State—we leave it
in their hands, satisfied from the rapid in
crease of our subscription list, that our la
bors meet their approbation.
Th»- Prcsidcut’s Visit.
President Polk, accompanied by .Mrs. Polk,
Judge Mason, Miss Mason, and Col. Walker,
his private secretary was to leave Washington
on the 28th u!t., on their trip to North Caro
lina, to attend the ceremonies at the North
Carolina University on Monday.
It is said that up to the Ist of May, over
SIOO,OOO had been collected at the custom
house of Vera Cruz, under the tariff regula
tions of the United States.
About 1000 new canal boats are estimated
to have been added to the New York canals
the present season, making, with those pre
viously registered, says 3.500. These, at 80
feet in length to each boat, would make a
line of boats over 53 miles in length.
A Trophy.
Santa Anna's Cork Leg.— The New Orleans
Picav unc says: 1 he brig Shamrock has brought
over from Vera Cruz, a trophy of the victory of
Cerro Gordo more significant ot the of the
battle than any previous one we have seen. \V»
allude to the cork leg of Gen. Santa Anna which
he left behind in bis carriage when lie mounted
oiic of his mules and sought safely in flioht. it
tells how imminent he thought the risk of capture
and how neatly he was circumvented in the
flight. It is described to us as a very beautifuj
piece of work, worthy to be worn by a more valor,
ous man than its owner. It belongs now to com
pany G., ith regiment Illinois Volunteers, who
took t lie travelling carriage of the Mexican gen
eral. and is in the especial charge of A. Walden
ol said company. We venture to say this pi -re
of-cork will be treated with much more respect by
the Illinois hoys than was the limb it was design
ed to u p ace by the Mexican populace.
The Georgia Regiment.
A portion of the Georgia Regiment has
arrived at New Orleans, Col. H. 'll. Jack
sun, with one hundred men, rank and file, ar
rived mi the 25th uit, in the bark Cora, and
in the schr, L eanur Stevens, arrived same
day, were companies D, F and G, 110 in
number, all under the command of Captain
Davis. The arrival of the remainder o( the
regiment may be looked for daily at New Or
leans, as at our last advices from Vera Cruz
they had all embarked.
The Recruiting Service in .North C irolinu.
The \Vilmington (N. C.) Journal oflln* 28th
u!l , says ‘ It will be recollected by our readers,
that tvim Companies of Infantry, and one of Dra
goons, was assigned (if vve may use the word) to
North Carolina, us her quota of the new regi
ments authorized by the act of last Congress.—
We arc glad to have it in our power to state, that
North Carolina has already furnished, or very
nearly so, the whole of what was requiicd at her
hands. The Company of Dragoons, under tlm
command of Capt. Cab! well, has already proceed
ed to the theatre of war. Capt. Clark’s Compa
ny of infantry, vve learn, from one of his Lieu
tenants, ( Wheeden,) is qui e full, and, perhaps,
will he here (in Wilmington) before vve go to
press. The other Infantry Company lacks hut
a few men, as we learn from Lieut. Cantwell,
and will he ready for Lite li Id in a few days
This Company has labored under disadvantages
as compared with the- other. Its Captain (Rich
ards,) is already in Mexico, us a private in tho
North Carolina Regiment of Volunteers; and
one of its Lieutenants has never acted as a re
cruiting officer. It will, however, soon he fu'',
and ready to proceed to Mexico ’’
Naval.
The N. V. Journal of Commerce of the 28th
tilt, says—We learn that, the U. S. ship-of
the-!ine Ohio, arrived in Hampton Rands
from Vera Cruz via Havana, was met on her
approach by a steamer froth Norfolk, with
orders from the Secretary of the Navy to
repair immediately to this port. Here she
will receive on board Mr. Tod, U. S. Minister
to Brazil, and Com. T. Ap. Catesby Junes,
appointed to relieve Coin. Shubrick in the
command of onr squadron in the Paciff.
After landing Mr. Tod. at Rio, Capt. Sirin
gliam will proceed to California. The Obi#
is selected as the flag-ship of Cum. Junes.
Com. Shubrick is to be relieved at iris own
request.
The correspondent of the Baltimore Pat
riot says* that the President of the United
Slates and the Secretary of the Navy have
resolved to appoint Lieut. Hunter, dismissed
from the Gulf Squadron lor the capture of
Alvarado* to the command of a vessel. The
Lieutenant returned home in the Ohio.
The Cane Crop*
The N. (). Mercury of the 25;h tilt, says
We have heard, says the Planters’ Banner of
tiie 20th iust., from a gentleman upon whom
vve can rely, that the crop of plant cane in ilia
Lafourche parishes, is quite backward, and
that the stubble was injured by frost, and wo!
be short. While vve have suffered from dry
weather in Atlakapas and Opelousas, they
have had an excess of rain in Lafourche, ami
on some parts of the coast. At Bayou Bceuf,
Berwick’s Bay, Dutch Praire and Bayou Sale,
in this parish, there was a fine rain on Mon
day. For the last five or six weeks vve have
not been favored vviih a sprinkle in this cen
tral part of the parish; but above they have
been still more unfortunate. We cannot say
that the cane in St. Marys lias suffered much
as yet.
Commerce of New York.
The New York Courier says—The ar
rival of vessels from sea, of all nations,
continues; and the North River side of tho
town has never, within our memory, exhibit
ed such a “friendly foliage of foreign flags,”
to use the language of our friend Chrittopl er
Hughes in a speech at a Liverpool entertain
ment many years ago to Mr. Canning.
A forest of masts literally extends from the
foot of Liberty street to the Battery—vessels
lying three or four deep off the ends of the
piers, and jammed as close as possible togeth
er between them.
[COMXIUKICATED.]
SPARTA, May 22J, 1847.
At a meeting of the Democratic party of
Hancock county, for appointing delegates to
the convention to be held in Milledgcville,
for nominating a candidate for Governor,
On motion of Col. R. M. Johnston, Capt.
E. S. Barnes was called to the Chair, and
Wm. D. Wynn, requested to act as Secre
tary.
The object of the meeting being under
stood, Benj. S. Harris, Esqr. moved that the
Chair appoint a Committee of five, who
should select such delegates and report their
names tor approval. The motion passed.
The Chair appointed Benj. S. Harris, R.
P. Sassnett, Col. R. M. Johnston, IL Bonner
and L. Sanders, Esqrs.
The Committee, after retiring a fox mo
ments, reported the names of Eli H. Baxter,
Marcus Johnston, Lee Reeves and John T.
Martin. Esqrs., which nomination was re