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the CONSTITUTIONALIST. ‘ JAMES GARDNER, JR. t i: it M s . Dally, P'T annum * Tn-Weekly, per aunum, w If paid in advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum, . 0 0-> If paid in advance, 0 50 T.» Cluhn, remitting s!0 in advance. FIVE CO Pi 15 S are «ea£. This will pn? wir weekly |a per in the reacU *>t new subscribers ai TWO DOLLARS A VTA 1% JrT All neiv subscriptions must be paid in advance. .►XPnsiane nasi ire paid uu all Cuiamumcaluns %i»d Let’ers of business. [From (he N. O. Delta, '2sth ult.] 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