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THE constitution a list. JAMES GARDNER, JR. T £ 1131 S . Daily, per annum, ? s 00 Tri- Weekly, per aunum, <• 00 If paid in advance, 0 00 Weekly, per annum, 3 00 If paid in advance 2 50 To Clubs, remitlimr §lO in advance. FIV E COPIES are sent. This will put our weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A VEAIL Subscribers who will pay up arrearages and send four new subscribers, with the money can I lie paper at §2,00. iPT-All new subscriptions-must he paid in advance. ~7~ Postage must oe paid uu all OommuarcatK-ns and Letters of business. wrnmmtmmtmmm— ! From the Home Journal.] The Sculptor’s Love. by crack greenwood, The Sculptor paused before his finWied work- A wondrous statue of divinesl mould. I ike Cytherea’s were the rounded hums, ♦jt hands, in whose soft fullt.ess M.l arid deep. Like sleeping Loves, the chiseled dimples lay, The hair's rich fall, the l»P * exquisite carve,— But most like Juno’s were the brow of pride, And lofty bearing of the matchlef* Lead. While over all, a mystic holiness, Like Dian’s purest smile, around her hung, And hushed the idle gazer, like the air Which haunts at night the temples of the god.. As. stood the sculptor, with still, »ohled arim, And viewed this shape of rarest loveliness No flush of triumph crimsoned o er his brow , Nor grew his dark eye luminous with joy. 'WI-crushed with grief, worn with intense de- Sircs, . a And wasting with a mad consuming flame, He wildlyjgazed— wrought. The robe’s loose folds, which lay upon Ins breast, Tumultuous rose and fell, like ocean-waves Upheaved by storms beneath; and on his brow in beaded drops, the dew ot anguish lay. And thus he flung himself upon the earth, And poured in prayer his wild and burning words: “Great Jove, to thy high throne a mortal s prayer In all the might of anguish struggles up Thou see'st this statue, chi-eled by my hand— Thou hast beheld as day by day, it grew To more ihan earthly beauty till u stood The wonder of the glorious world of art. The sculp lor wrought nut blindly , o, tt h i e came Blest visions tohissoul,of lorrns divine; Os w hite-armed Juno, in lira hour of love. When fondling close the Cuckoo tempest-dulled; Ehe all unconscious, in that form did press The mighty sire of the eternal gods To her soli bosom; —Aphrodite lair, At first she tr.od the glad, enamoured earth. With small, white feet, spray-dripping from the sea, , . Os c res led Dian.when her nightly Kiss Pressed down the eye-lids ol Lndymiou— Her silvery presence making ail the air Os dewy Laimas tremulous with love. “And now, (deem not thy suppliant impious, Our being’s source, ihuu t a liter ot all File.,) A wild o er-mastering passion tires my soul, / madly love the work my hand hath wrought. Intoxicate, 1 gaze through all the day, And mocking visions haunt my couch at night; iMy heart is faint and sick with longing vain, A passionate thirst is parching up my life. “1 call upon her and she answers not! The fond love-names I breathe into her ear Are met with niad’niiig silence- when 1 clasp Those slender fingers in my fevered hand, Their coldness dulls me like the touch of death And when my heart’s wild healings shake my frame, And breast with love’s sweet agony, No faintest throb that marble bosom stirs ! “Oh, 1 would have an eye to gaze in mine ! An ear to listen for my coming step — A voice of love, with tones like joy’s own bells, To ring thdr silver changes on mine ear ! A yielding hand, to thrill within mine own, Arid lips of melting sweetness, full and warm ' Would change this deathless stone to mortal (les.i, And barter immortality for love! “if voice of earth, in w ildest prayer, may reach To godhood, throned amid the purple clouds, To animate this cold and pulseless stone, Grant thou one breath of that immortal air. Which feedeth human life from age to age, And floats round high Olympus.—Hear, oh Jove. “And so this form may shrine a soul of light, Whose starry radiance shall unseal these eyes, Send down the sky’s blue deeps, • h sire divine, One faintest gleam of that benignant smile Which glows upon the faces of the gods, And lights all Heaven—Hear mighty Jove . , He stayed his prayer, and on his statue gazed. Behold, a gentle heaving stirred its breast ? O’er all the form a flush of rose-hght passed— Along the limbs the azure arteries throbbed— A golden lustre settled on the head, And gleamed amid the meshes of the hair; The rounded cheek grew vivid w ilh a blush— Ambrosial breathings cleft the curved lips And softly through the arched nostril stole;— The fringed lids quivered and uprose, ami eyes Like vio;ets wet with dew drank in the light. Moveless she stood, until her wandering glance Upon the rapt face of the sculptor fell; Bewildered and abashed, it sank beneath The burning gaze of his adoring eyes. And then, there ran through all her trembling frame A strange, sweet thrill of blissful consciousness, — Life’s wildest joy, in one delicious tide, Loured through the channels ot her new-born heart, , , Ami love's firstsigh rose quivering from her breast. She turned upon her pedestal, and smiled And toward the kneeling youth bent tenderly, lie rose, sprang forward with a passionate cry, And joyously outstretched his thrilling arms ! And 10, the form he sculptured frdm the stone, Instinct with life, and radiant with soul, A breathing shape of beauty, soft and warm, Os mortal womanhood, all smiles and tears. In love's sweet trance, upon his bosom lay. Disease of Ladies iu Paris, A husband who had the cruelty to ex tend his base economy to his wife’s ward robe, lately called on a witty physician of Paris lo consult him as to the increas ing melancholy and depression of the voting partner of his soul, I lie doctor took the case in hand, and made one or two visits -to the lady. At a subsequem call of the husband’s to enquire the re sult of the medical observation, the as tounding intelligence was communicated to the anxious questioner that his wife was mou/ling. The husband at first laughed. “Birds shed their feathers, 1 k-aow, rny dear doctor; but ladies —come, come, w hat is my wife’s disorder, for feathers h venture lo say she has none I” Ihe doc tor made no reply, but sat down and wrote out a prescription, which he hand ed to the gentleman, aod taking his ac .customed fee, bowed him out. On reach ing home, the hasbacd banded the un read recipe very indifferently to his wife, requesting her to send for the medicine. She opened it with melancholy listless yiess and read as follows : Prescription for Madame i?. de & £ decoction of fifteen yards of velvet:— friction of *the shoulders \vitb new cache mire shawls:-—a tisane of several new bonnets;—the whole mixed up with a vigorous stir -of visits and an infusion ot pocket money to suit the taste of the pa tient. iVo/a hene. —The improvement in the health of the lady will be perceptible from the first shedding of the feathers of her present plumage. Cultivation of Colton—ln fhdi& and the i United States. An interesting discussion took place in tlie , British House of Commons, May Bib, rcla- ; tive to the prospects of a supply of cotton lor I the manufacturers of England m future years. Mr. Bright, in moving for a Select Comm.t tee to inquire into the progress of lue cu.li vation of cotton in India, said, What potatoes were lor the population of Ireland, coiton was for the population of the manufacturing districts ot Eancashiie and Yorkshire,so that if vve could suppose a time when the supply of the raw material of the cotton manufactures should tail, the evils which were now desolating Ireland would be precisely those which would fall upon Lan ca->liire and fcorne parts ol Yorkshire. He then brought under the consideration of the 1 louse a lew* circumstances relative to the rise and progress of the coiton trade, from the year 1760 down to the year 1844, to show that lie did not overrate the importance of the cotton manufactures of England. He calculated that at the present moment 320,- 000 persons were employed in the cotton mills of the united kingdom, and, as the cal culation in lire trade was, that a capital of £ 100 sterling was required lor the employ ment of every hand engaged in the cotton manufacture, there must be a capital of £32,- 000.000 now invested in the cotton mills and cotton liaie. In 1844, the Value of our ex ports to foreign countries, in cotton, am mut ed lo £25-,800,000, which was one-half of our whole exports in every other corn mod <- iv, 16 years ago an eminent statesman hid calculated that 1,400,000 persons were de pendent fur their livelihood on various branches of industry connected y al ‘ c t(ir> ..mu manufacture; and bright) believed that he should not be under the mark in estimating the number now at 2,000)000. The necessity, therefore, of finding a supply of the raw material ot cotton was a matter of national and perma nent interest. present was a year in winch we w itnessed some ofTfie effects aris ing from a short supply of the raw material. The priced coiton had risen in consequence, 75 per cent, and the result was that a num ber of mills in Lancashire hud been compelled to stop altogether, whilst some vvere working only two or three days in tne week. Ail this was owing to tlie failure of the Ameri can crop, and itie distress which it had occa sioned m Lancashire was grcaler than any known since coiton had first come into that ' country. It therefore became important to ! consider what was the chance and what the i sources of a belter supply in future. There was a lime when our supply ol coiton came neither from the linked Slates nor from British India. In 1786 our supply came from the W est Indies, from Smyrna, from Turkey, and troin other places in the Mediterranean. It was not till the year 1702 that the first im portation of cotton came into lids country from the United Stales. Shortly afterwards a small importation also came from British India, lie showed that since that period the importation came the United Slates had in creased 6UO per cent., whilst that from Brit ish India had not increased more than 50 per cent. The cotton from British India had not, i he repeated, increased much during that time in quantity, and he was sorry to add, that it had not improved in quality. He had now said sufficient to show that the circumstances attending the growth ol coiton in British In dia were not satisfactory, and that they justi fied an inquiry whether the cultivation of cotton there could not he improved. He wished, therefore, to inquire whether India could grow cotton sufficient for our supply ? and, if she could, what were the causes which had hitherto prevented that growth ? There was every reason to believe that, in India, a larger quantity of cotton was pro duced than in any oilier portion of the globe. There was every variety ol soil and climate for its production; and yet the supply of cot ton was not so great as there was reason to anticipate. Li 1836 the Court of Directors of the Lust India Company published a correspondence which they had with the Gov enor of Bombay, and other persons on ibis very subject; and in that correspondence all Lite averments which he had in tde on this subject are sanctioned by the opinions of the directors themselves. They stated that In dian cotton might be produced in quantity and quality quite sufficient lor the general purposes of the British manufacturer; and they added, that capital and skill were the only things wanting to raise the indigenous crop of the country, from which all other crops hau been supplied, to a standard equal to the best cotton of the West. The East India Company lias since undertaken to raise that crop, but had failed. They bad land fit for the cultivation of coiton—-they had a pop ulation upon it docile and intelligent—they had labor cheaper than in the United Stales, and every thing among the cultivators ne cessary for the improvement of the crop, ex cept sk.il and capital. The East India Com pany had expended £IOO,OOO in their at tempts to improve the coiton of India; but they had failed, and he wanted to know how and why they had failed, and to ascertain by the examination of witnesses, the causes which had prevented the increase of the growth of cotton in their dominions. If any steps which were available to promote that growth It id been left unemployed, it would be the duty both of the East India Company and of the British Government to employ them at once; fur it any accident were to destroy the cotton crop in the United iSiates, its results would be awful to England. A treat coming too early or too late, too much wet or too much dry weather, an invisible worm, might produce the most disastrous results on the cotton crop in America, and on the manufac turing population in England. Besides, we might be at war with America. Moreover, the whole of the American cotton crop was the produce of slave labor. ’The system of slavery must come to an end in America, 1 either peacefully or violently; and, whenever it did come to an end, its results in this coun try would be violently (eit it) the loss of the cotton crop. He jcould dilate further upon this topic; but he abstained, as he understood that it was not the intention of Government lo .oppose his motion. Sir J. Ilobhouse thought that Mr. Bright over-estimated the effects of an inquiry into tiiis subject, before tire committee, if he sup posed that by any encouragement the East India Gorapany could ever make the people of India producers of cotton equal lo those of the United Slates. He was convinced i that we never could have such a production of cotton in India as would make this coun try safe. Indeed, vve had been so much im porters of cotton manufactures into India that we had destroyed the cotton manufac tures of Dacca, and were absolutely clothing the people of India with the produce ot Brit ish looms; and that was one of the reasons why the grow th of cotton had fallen off in Hindustan Since the ye<ir 1780 every ef fort had been made by the Last India Cora ! pany to improve ihe cultivation of cotton in India*, but it was not till the year 1828 that the first effort was made to introduce into | that country the cultivation of foreign cotton, ! and that Lord Ellenborough, then President of the Boardof Control, obtained the forma tion of some farms for the growth of Ameri can cotton in Bombay. In 1839 Lord Auck land drew up a minute, calling the attention of the Court of Directors to the best mode of cultivating Indian collonjand inconsequence the Court of Directors sent Capt. Baylis to Carolina to get American planters to teach the Hindoos the best mode of planting. Capt. B. returned with fen planters, three of them were sent to Bombay, three to Madras, and j Capt. Baylis with the remainder went to Ben- j gal. The success of the project was not uni form. It failed in the north-western provin ces owing to two or three consecutive dry seasons, w hich discouraged the ryots; but in Bundlecund and the South Mahratta coun try the success had been complete. He j mentioned this to show that Mr. Bright was I not correct in saying that the experiment in | India had failed. In the last year the num tier of acres cultivated with American cotton m India had greatly increased. The increase in the price of the cotton so produced had kepi pace with that of the N. Orleans co - ton. With respect to its quality, he must admit that the natives of India failed in pack ing and cleaning if, because they were not acquainted w ith the mode of packing adopted in the U. States, amt wo<e rut in possession rxiouunery tor it. The diminution in the importation of cotton to this country was last year 23 per cent.; but the diminution in j the importation to China only readied half | that amount. The reason of that diminution j was, that the merchants of India had spent I their money in importing opium into China, just as Ibe merchants of Lancashire had spent their money in railway speculations, and had therefore less to expend on the im portation of cotton. Besides, latterly, freight I that had been taken up for bretuLtuffs, to he I sent to it is country, which was another cause of the diminulioiyof the importation of 1 Indian cotton this year. He believed that j .Mr. Bright had overrated ihe power of the i Indian Government to do anything with re- | gard to this plant. The Court of Directors ! had hitherto given it fair play, and were pro- 1 pared to do so still. They had already Spent jCIOO.OOU in these experiments, and had not yet discontinued them. They were encourag ing the formation of roads and canals in those districts where the cotton cultivation flour ished most; that was the best and mosl le gitimate method of improving the cultivation , of cotton. In conclusion, he observed that lie did not anticipate any very great results from the investigations of mis committee; j but Mr. Bright should have every facility w hich the Government could afford in con ducting his inquiries. [From the N. O. Picayune.] Letter from Santa Anna, The Mobile Herald and Tribune gives I us the following translation of an interest ing letter from Santa Anna. It is taken f rom the Re.pubJica.no of the 16th ult. In a file of that paper received by us from early in May down to the 19th, the num ber of the 16th alone was missing, or else mislaid by us. It happens fortunately far us that the Herald supplies the missing number. The letter of Santa Anna will attract very general attention. II EADftCARTERS ARMY OK OPERATIONS , ) Pn-’tts, May ’3, 1847. \ Excellent Sir —Tne commandant of the flying revenue guard of lohaccool Orizaba the Col. D. Juan N.Caraveo, whom I left with his command near the National Road, between Perote and Nopalucan, to ob serve the movement cl the enemy and to harrass him wßen the opportunity might oiler, has remitted to me the .accom panying documents, which were taken fiovn tne enemy’s mail which left Jalapa I for Col. Worth’s camp. 1 Among them you will find the Gen. | Scott’s proclamation to the Mexican nation which from its s vie appears to have been i Written originally in Spanish and not translated from the English. This proclamation of Scon’s is written with the most refined hypocri-y and with the most infamous perfidy. It is the greatest insult yet offered to the .Mexican peoole, whom it has attempted to lull (« quien se pretende adormecer ) to make it j the vie im of the ambition of that nation j which is the enerfiy of cur race, when, in [ another place, it feels no embarrassment i in proclaiming by the press and inofficial j documents, that it carries on against us a war of conquest and that this war must 1 he made at the cost of the blood and | treasure of this unfortunate country. Your Excellency will note in one of the i accompanying intercepted letters, that ! Scott, tlie inspector general of the United I States army, considers the above procla mation well adapted to aid the views of j the invaders. You will observe that this letter bar- : monizes with others which have been | lately published in this capital, and which with reason have been regarded by all well disposed Mexicans as more preju dical for the venom ( ponzona ) which they : conceal than the loss of a buttle. But in the midst of the malevolence i ( encono ) which Gen. Scolt shows he has j against rnc, he does me too much honor J when he says, that they hid been deceived i as to my real intentions , and that on ac | count of this mistake his Government per . milted ins to pass to my country. Indeed, most excellent sir, the United States did deceive when they dreamed that I was capable of betraying my country. Be fore this should happen, I would prefer to be consumed by fire and my* ashes should be scattered that not a single atom be left. Would to God the Me*Leas? would open their eyes to discover the poison in the golden chalice that the perfidious Scott proffers to them, and that the reply to liis proclamation may be one shout of uuLver al indignation against the invaders of our soil. Let a war be made against these without period, that when we may no lon ger be able, because Providence may have decreed the subjugation of this un fortunate country, there may remain to our children or grandchildren, when the wrath of the Omnipotent shall have pass ed, the noble work of revenging the out- . ii. ii n mrnu n■ i i~i ■ i ■ irrm - "' — _ * ~ rage committed by the Republic of the United States on Mexico. God and Liberty! ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA. To his Excellency the Minister or War and Marine. AUGUSTA. GEU.. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE It, 1847. Washington aud his Generals, We have received from Mr. C. E. Gren ville, who has the work for sale, the second volume of this popular work of Hedley. r l his volume is embellished with portraits of Ma jor Generals Lafayette, Greene, Moultrie, ! Lincoln, Lee, Sullivan, Brig. Gen. Marion, and Paul Jones. It is needless for us to say anything in praise of this work —as a descriptive writer, Mr. lledley lias no superior, and all who have perused the first volume will welcome the second. Georgia Flour, We were yesterday presented with one of the best samples of Georgia Flour we have yet seen. It was from the mills of Alessrs. Phillips & Hear ing, Newton county. Not only is I lie quality ol this Flour superior, but the condition in which it was put up is very creditable fur a new estab j lishmertt. The barrels were well made, with ten ! flat oak hoops, and poplar heading, and although | not quite as neat as the Northern made barrels, ! they are equally as good for shipment. The lot received was a small one, and S7J offered fur it as short as put on the market, hut the agents, Messrs. Baker, Wilcox & Co., refused to sell it at less than $8 per bl>!., which they will no duubt i obtain. We wish Messrs. Phillips & Hearing every success in their new line, and if they will pay a j little more attention to neatness of package, their brand us Flour will always bring the highest mar ket price. As it is, they have set an example to i Georgia millers, which if followed, vv il 1 suon pul Georgia Flour on an equal footing with any made 1 in this country, and for the South American and West India markets it will be sought after, as it stands the climate of those countries much hi t:er than Northern Flour. General Taylor—A Democrat. The friends of General Taylor, who pro j fess to be acquainted with his political opin ions, and who insist that he is a Democrat, I do not rest the assertion on the ground sim ply that he vias the political as well as per sonal friend of General Jackson, and there fore voted for him. They rest the assertion bn the ground that lie is opposed to thejrrin ciple of protective tariffs—that he is opposed to a national bank—that ho is in favor of equal rights and privileges to all classes—in favor of a separation of the government from banks—in faVor of the principles of free trade, ai.d in favor of a strict construction of the constitution. What more could a Democrat desire? Are not 11 res-e democratic principles? Aye—and State Rights principles to boot. We would like to know if there is a . iff Je whig in Georgia or any where else who holds them. We should be pleased to hear that there are a few such in Georgia. For if there are, they will find it necessary to vote with the democrats if they wish to maintain : those principles. From Julnjia. The New Orleans Della, of the sth inst. says:—“From a conversation had with a gentleman direct from Jalapa, we yesterday | learned that the report there was, that Gen. Scott would not remain any length of time at Fuebla, but posh on with all possible speed for the City of Mexico.” The Baltimore papers announce with expres- I sions of deep regret, the death of Major James O ! Law, their distinguished ami much beloved fel low-citizen. He died of a violent attack of ty -1 pboid fever, communicated it is believed, from the disease commonly called ship-fever, while engag ed, as a member of the Hibernian Society, in ad ministering to the relief of emigrants recently landed upon our shores. Crops. The Butler (Pa.) Democrat states that the re j cent rains have greatly revived the crops of grain i in that vicinity. ! The Columbia (Pa.) Spy also speaks favorably of the appearance of the grain crop in that region. Lieut. Hunter respectfully declines to receive the sword and epaulette which some friends in New York were about to present him. lie does not feel that he should receive them while under the censure of a court martial. Customhouse Keceipts. j The amount of moneys recived by the Cus tomhouse in New Orleans last year during the month of May was .$159,957 28. The amount received during the same month of the present year was $236,126 41. This j shows an excess of $76,169 13 over the sum | received during the same period last year. High Prices. The incrcsed value of the products of the country this year is estimated at $300,000,- 000. ~ One of the most convincing proofs of the ruin brought upon the whole country, is the fact that Mr. Abbot Lawrence, one of the principal manufacturers in Massachusetts, is engaged in building a town of factories that will rival Lowell. This gentleman was one of the keenest and loudest prophets of ruin and destruction as inevitable results of the reform of the restrictive tariff of 1842. He himself is so far ruined by that reform, that he invests his vast capital in new manufac turing establishments. This is the same per son who wrote to one of his friends that the American manufacturers have the advantage over those of Europe in every respect, ex cepting the wages of their laborers—“but in this matter we hope soon to be on a level with our English rivals.” This is one of the chaps who talk about the pauper labor ot Europe. , U. s. Brig Porpoise. This vessel arrived at New Orleans on The ' 4th instant,.from a cruise of two and a half yeaxa in the Gulf, accompanied hy a prize schooner, captured by the gun boat Bonita, in charge of Passed Midshipman 1 hompson. A communication in the New Orleans 1 i* cayune says—“l'he Porpoise is sent uere tor repairs, after a cruise of nearly two and a half years in the Gulf, during which time | she has not, until within the last month and a half, been permitted to lie in any port for a single week. The only rest she has had was at Lamina, Yucatan, to which place she O' was sent about the middle of April and re mained »Lore until Cum. Perry arrived and hoisted the American flag, on the 17th o! May. During the past winter, while block ading Vera Cruz and Tampico, she has been ! in seventeen northers, some of them of the ‘•tallest kind;” the last of which came very near sending her down among her finny pro totypes. At the time it commenced wo were blockading to the northward of the castle of ■ San Juan de Ulua, while the attack was be ing made on the city of Vera Cruz by our army, and were blown off on the evening of the 25th of March, Next day about noon the brig was struck by two heavy seas, in quick succession, the first causing her to stand still, i and the second sweeping her decks and throwing heron her beam ends, at the same j time staving in her weather hammock net ting and all the boats, &c., stowed amidships, forcing them into the waist, then under wa- ■ ter. She remained in that situation about •*, I , fifteen or twenty minutes, wnen, through threat exertions on the part of her officers j . and men, the boats, sails, &c., with nearly all the lee battery, were thrown overboard, when she fully righted with two feet water on her docks; no one, however, felt secure i until evening, when the wind grew lighter ; and the sea commenced going down. To i me, never having been placed in precisely the 1 same situation, it was surprising to see the coolness and energy (with a sudden and hor rible death staring thorn in the face) exhibit ed hy both officers and men, from the com -1 manding officer to the smallest boy on board. I Not a word was spoken of danger until it was : past, when all acknowledged it. 1 ‘-The Porpoise lias been one of the most effective and useful vessels in the squadron, and lias sailed a greater number of miles than any other vessel attached to it. IShe has, however, been much injured by such continu- j ed hard work and hard weather, and now 1 comes to this city to be repaired and copper ed. It is understood that her officers, in con sideration of their laborious and faithful ser vice during the cruise, are to have leave of absence to visit their humeSj and that the crew will be discharged and paid off” Cane in Rapides. The Alexandria Democrat savs, that in the parish of Rapides there will be about six 1 thousand hogsheads of sugar made this sea- i son. The editor is perfectly rejoiced at the i extraordinary success which has attended sugar planting in the “new sugar parish,” as | I he terms Rhodes. “Passing,” he says, ! “through a winter of great severity, our rat i toons are waving with apparent joy in the ; delicious summer breeze, and our seed cane c moot be surpassed. We will lake the crop of John Compton, Esq., as a sample of our cane, with the remark that if a field superior to it can be found in the State, the happy 1 : owner can take the best beaver hat on sale i | in the “wide world.” Mr. C. will grind three ; hundred and fifty arpents of cane, and we hazard nothing in saying, that he will “roll | out” five hundred hogsheads of excellent j sugar. Other planters—Calhoun, the broth | ers Flint, Carey, Baillio, Wells, Tanner, Mrs. Overton, Archinard, Carlin, and many more —wiii come up to this mark, or near it, if calculations founded on the present appear ances of the crops have any weight.” The Macon Telegraph of the Blh instant, ! says—“We regret to learn that the depar- ! ! ture of Captain Scott’s company has been de layed in consequence of the severe indispo sition of the Captain, and his only officer, Lieut. White. The company have been in i camp for some days, and are a well drilled and fine body of men. The ranks are not yet filled, and a few more recruits are want ed. As soon as the officers have recovered, and vve are happy to say they are convales cent, the company will be pul en route for i Mexico.” Commerce in Eggs. We copy from Skinner’s Monthly Journal of Agriculture, a periodical conducted with singular ability, and of great value to the in telligent farmer, the following statement in regard to the egg trade of France : j In the whole cycle of commercial statistics, 1 we have not lately met with anything more i remarkable than the account we find in the ! “Journal d’Agriculture Pratique et de Jard - i nage,” on the Egg Trade of France. The editor says that it appears by official returns that in 1815, the number of eggs exported was not more than to the amount of 1,700,000 francs. In 1816, 8,800,000 francs; in 1822, 55,000,000; in 1824, to 99,500,000! The trade was then arrested, and experienced a refrogade movement. The exportation fell to 55,000.000 in 1830, but in 1834, it rose again to 76,800,000, and in 1844, it mounted up to 88,200,000. This mass of eggs weigh ed, at the rate of sixteen to a kilogramme, 6 213,000 kilogrammes; upon which I he trea sury realised 114,000 francs (about §25,000) export duty on eggs! England takes almost ihe whole of the eggs exported from France, Os the 88,000,000 above-mentioned, 82,500,- 000 have crossed the Channel. According to the official estimates, the consumption of eggs in Paris is 138 for each individual, which is very nearly 20,000,000 a year.— We may double this estimate for the rest of France, without exaggeration; for, in the country, eggs and milk are alime te to be found on every table. We eal, instead of eggs and milk, vast quantities of solid fat meat —Americans having, as was expressive ly paid by the Abbe Cornea, *’bacon-stomachs!'* The consumption, then, of eggs, in all France, may be safely pot down at 9.300,- 000,000. If we add to this total that of the eggs exported, and one-hundredth in addition of these two numbers, for the eggs reserved for reproduction, we will find that France has produced nine billions and a half ; and valu ing each egg at the rate of a teuih ot a cent, we have the enormous sum of 465,000,000 francs, or nearly §100,000,000. Though this estimate may overrun the production in some of ttie Departments, it is nevertheless certain that the value which represents the annual production of eggs, is to be counted by mil lions of francs, and to most people must be a matter of surprise. f Frvm the IV. O. Delta, sth inat. j Spanish Views of the Mexican War. The people of this country seem to be af fected with a morbid appetite for everything , that is said of them abroad. The violent abuse of the London papers, the learned ig norance of the French journalists, and now, and then the profound speculations ui some modern Anacharsis,who'has derived his opin ions of men and things American frouj a two week’s experiment of our railroads and steam boats—are all looked for with anxiety, and devoured with eagerness. With such a dis position on the part of the great body of read ers, we cannot hut suppose that the following speculations of El Ileraldo, of Madrid, of the 26th of April, will be interesting. They are the ideas of an intelligent Spainiard, upon Ihe probable fate of an off-shoot of his once powerful and still proud race. The editor takes for gospel tlie English and Mexican accounts of the battle of Buena Vista. “The latest news from Mexico announ ces a triumph of the arms of the republic which would be gratifying to us as Span iards, as united to the people of that coun try bv so many lies and so many traditions in common, if we thought it could decide, in favor of Mexico the present desperam struggle between the Spanish and Anglo- Saxon races. But unfortunately it is not so. We see that after prolonged disasters, after infinite de eats, operating in a com t y the lb nness of whose population mikes war most difficult, tiie Mexicans found it neces sary to unite the flower to their army, in number fourfold superior to that of the An glo-Americans, to achieve a triumph exceed ingly d nihiful, attended with losses which rendered any new operations impossible. •• This victory, it is true, has somewhat reanimated the spirit of the country, so far at least as a nation, whose people are not homo geneous, are susceptible of being reanimated; but in exchange for this advantage, it has deeply wounded tL6pride of the Anglo-Ain- * ncans, and if they determine to employ all their resourcess, the conquest of Mexico is inevitable. “Let ft be considered that the Mexican 1 troops obliged to make a herculean effort to gUliera lew t opines from one of the divi sions of the enemy—that inis effort is almost a defeat, as it lias left them exhausted—and that there yet remain in the country three or four divisions of the enemy, against which nothing can be opposed—and it must lie con fessed that tins victory of Santa Anna will only serve to precipitate tlie feeble nationali ty of Mexico, down the declivity which leads to the precipice, i “For ourselves, we believe that. .Mexico is J already virtually blotted out of the list of in i dependent nations. What can by expected of a nation, distracted by revolutions and con tests for ephemeral power, when tlie enemy i is at its gates, and that no common enemy, I but one which aims at nothing less than the destruction of its nationality? What can we expect of a nation, where the clergy—’he richest Catholic clergy in the wor'd—refuse the smallest sacrifice in favor of (lie country, and prefer the precarious possession of word ly goods to the salvation of toe land ? “The army without resources, even with out food—the ricketly politicians of the capi j tal conspiring to overthrow the established | order ot things—ihe clergy occupied in se creting their valuables, and in exciting the fanatical opposition of the people against the sale of their property, without considering whether the Anglo-Americans will not ap propriate it with less ceremony—the only fortification of the coast threatened by a form idable squadron—a great part of the country | occupied by an army highly-disciplined, com posed of men whose energy is proverbial,and abundantly supplied with every kind of mu nitions: what can result from all this? We look upon the consequence as inevitable.— Enthusiasm will be re-awaken d in the Uni ted States. An irresistible torrent ot voinn | teers will inundate Mexico. And it will net i be long before the Eagle of the Union wifi light in triumph upon the ancient capital of Montezuma, “We, as Spaniards, cannot but lament this result. The last remnants of the mign ficont work of Hernan Cories are abmt to disap pear, and one of the most brilliant pages in our history will he bound, so to speak, in the volume of the stranger. Sorrowful effects')! revolutions ! of demagognical tendencies pre maturely engrafted on a nation without stamina to support the effects of unholy am bition ! Thirty years of independence have not sufficed to make the Mexicans a nation, notwithstanding they have held in their hands the richest elements that Providence ever placed within reach of the human family.— And why? Because they have strayed from the proper path; because they desired to form a republic with the materials fit only for i monarchy; because they converted, by a sim ple decree, the ignorant and oppres.-ed In dians, the dregs of the population, ignorant um.l then even of the language of their lords, into free citizens, possessing all the rights ' which a free nation could give. We now be hold, though too late, tt e unavoidable es.!» which this error drew after it. “And now, is it not permitted to ask what the nations of Europe think of the indefint® extension which the American Union is ac quiring, and which it carries forward with** much safety as rapidity, sometimes by arm*i sometimes by money, sometimes by emigra tion, without ever appearing to consider o> e merality of the means which it employ:? Will they permit if to absorb, successively, the whole continet of America, and so form a nation by the side of which the most powe f ' ful slates of Europe would appear as ridicu lous piguiie;-? Will they consent that it sit* 1 cun>oltdate its rich conquests, and make the lll the base of operations from which to invad® in succession the states of Central America, where are to be found some of the most mag nificent harbors in the world? Will they p mit it, without obstruction, to reach tb® Isthmus of Panama—its golden dream— thus yield to it one of the principal keys 10 the commerce of the globe? “Time alone can answer IheiS question 3.