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[From the N. O. Picayune 13th inst.]
S.alcr from Veto Cm*.
The steamship Fanny, Capt. SeolE ai
rived yesterday morning front \ era Cruz,
having made the run to the L»a.‘ZC in
ninety-two houts.
But this arrival we have the American
Eagle to the slh inst. and private letters
(o tiie 4 h from -Vera Ortiz. i here had
been no arrival from the army of Gen.
Scott since the night of the 31>t ult. VV e
have therefore no later news from the
'i .terior.
The papers and private accounts say
that the fever at Vera Cruz is on the in
crease. When taken in time, physicians
have been prettv successful in its treat
ment and it is not considered dangerous;
but it fs to be presumed that the habits of
many of those exposed to its ravages are
not at all calculated tosecure their exemp
tion fiom attack, or a favorable issue
when attacked. The heat at Vera Cruz
is intense. For ten days, says the Eagle
.©■fthe 6th, the thermometer has ranged
from 87 J to 92~, day and night, in the
shade.
A large train was to leave Vera Cruz
on the morning of the 5. h inst. for Puebla,
imder the command ct Col. Mclntosh. It
was to carry up a mail, the first, says
the Eagle, ?or nearly a month, and about
$300,000 in specie, in charge of Major
A. G- £k nnelt, paymaster. The train
was to be escorted by a large force ol
soldiers, composed ol company F of the
4'h Infamry, company B of the bill Infan
try, company Goftlie 7th Infantry, com
'pnnies K. and I of the Is:h Infantry, and
tom panics D, G and K of the 3J Dragoons
—in all about SOO men.
The U. S. steam revenue cutter Me-
Lfcjj.fr, Capt. Howard, sailed for this port
h on the 4th inst. from Vera Cruz. This
« ! is the hulk which so often went aground
v*and thereby eit-batrussed the operations
«>f Com. Conner against Alvarado, and
subsequently of Coin Perry in 1 abasco
Jforlver, She comes for repairs, but it
/ is supposed willbe sold. For several
inontjUii she has Bfeen lying at the mmiiii
of the Tabasco river.
The steamship Massachusetts, Capt.
Wood, arrived at Vera Cmz on the 3d
inst. from ths port, w ith over 300 officers
,and men. The steamer Mary Kingßand
arrived oa the 4th inst. Siie lost her cook
overboard on the 2d inst. and saved him
after being in the water nearly an hour.
The steamship Teleg! ap i sailed from
Vera Cruz f r his port on the 4th inst. by
way of the Brqzos.
From a letter in the Eagle dated off
-Santander the 2d inst. and written ap
parenfly by a naval officer, \vc make
an extract.
We were detailed the second day af
ter the captured of Tuspan to blockade
this place [Santanderj the entrance to the
river on which is situated the town cf
•Sola la Marina, distant some forty five
-miles. Observing a proper degree of
-caution on our arrival ofT here, we sent
our boat ashore, with sufficient arms
.concealed in her for the protection of the
•crew, and came to anchor in the brig near
the opening of the bar, at sufficient dis
tance to observe, by the aid of the glass,
the movements ashore, and in case of ne
cessity, to give a fair range to play a
game with our 10-inch shell. On the
arrival of our boat at i isca, a village a
little inside the bar, the few people neith
er diffident nor belligerant, approached
tke boat with conutenances alternately
expressive of surprise, curiosity or glad
ness. Without the slightest reserve they
.politely accosted and welcomed our men
Us friends, and showed even marked at
tention-to the officers of the boat, to whom
they freely communicated answers to
every question he propounded, from
•which we gleaned that the isolated posi
tion of the place had secured them an ex
.emption frem the scenes of excitement
prevailing in other portions ©fllteir ccun
try, and* .with the exception of Santa
Anna’s pronunciamento, declaring it
punishable with death to supply our ves
sels or troops with provisions, at what
.ever price, they knew little of what was
going on in the country. In answer to
©ur inquiries about troops, they knew of
none, save a bandof some fifty men, half
■brigands and half soldiers, under a fellow
rejoicing in the name of Capt. Paulino,
whom they feared more than foreign foes.
This fellow, it appears, pays them an
occasional visit to make levies with as
little ceremony as his more notorious
countryman, Santa Anna.
Notwithstanding all the appearances
.of friendship, prudence dictated caution
in-adl our movements, which has ended
in our peaceable survey of the bar, bay
and river with accurate soundings, bear
ings, &c., and we now only await the ar
rival of our gallant commodore from Ta
basco logo on any other service he may
detail us to perform—prefen ing, however,
if the choice was our own, more active
service than that of this month. On
Com. Perry’s arrival, I doubt not a boat
expedition will be fitted out to proceed
up the bay and river to Soto la Marina,
distance if forty-five miles. We are
looking for the commodore and the rest
!of ihe squadron. After the performance
of our service here, our next Julies will
I be performed on the coast to the souih-
I ward and eastward somewhere.
Honor to the Dead.
The remains of Co!. McKee, ißem.
Col. Ciav, Adjutant Vaughan, Capt.
Willis and Private Trotter, of the 2d
Kentucky Regiment, who fell at Buena
Vista, were vesterday escorted bytheOr-
I leans’Battalion of Artillery.thestaff of the
Legion, the commanders of the military )
corps-, and a large concourse of citizens, j
| from the Arsenal to the steamer Ringgold. •
The funeral cortege moved from the
Place d Acmes at 4 o’clock, and passed
through Chart res, Cana! and St. Charles
streets, to Poydras street, down wl ich it
! marched to the Levee. aAH the vessels
in the river carried their flags at half
i mast during the day, and minute guns
were fiied whilst the procession was in
motion.
In*the absence ot Maj. Gaily the batlal
ion was under charge of Capt. Grivot. —
'The bodies were carried upon cannon
carriages covered with black velvet and
I appropriate emblems of mourning. Ihe
Kentuckians, resident in the oitv, assem
; bled at halt-past 3 o’clock, and marched
| to the Place d'Acmes in a body, and walk
ed or. each side of the hearses during
the procession. In the procession we
noticed Gov. Johnson, the Mayor and
many of our most distinguished citizens.
‘ | As the solemn -pageant passed through
our streels many a ssgh was heaved for
the brave spirits whose mouldering dust is
all that is 'eft of them on eailh, except
the memory of their virtues and their gal
lant deeds—many a tear was shed tor
the hearths made desolate by the chances
of war. , ;
'['he bodies were deposited in the Ring
gold at 6 o’clock, and at 7 she dropped
down to the Place d’Amies where a sa
lute was fired. She then left upon her
mournful errand. Would that the grief
i evinced by our citizens could assuage the
anguish of those who have more cause to
mourn.
[ prom ike A ew York Herald ]
Lot th* Poor ladinn —Lo! the Poor ITlcxi- j
cans—Outrage on American*.
A short time since, *vve published an ac
count of one ot the numerous outrages which
i have been committed again-t the persons and
property of the citizens of the United States
by Mexican officers acting under the Mexi
’ can government* for the purpose of disabus
ing ihfe minds of such of our people «s ima
-5 gine the Mexicans to be a wronged and in
l jured people. ’1 hat outrage, we have reason
i to believe, opened the eyes of many, and in
i dmed them to think that anything short of
, total extermination would nut be too hard fur
, those faithless and cowardly wretches.
, We have read many of these out rages, and
we have been horror struck at live details of
1 suffering which they present. No matter
w'hat party was in the ascendant, the officers
of the Mexican Government hesitated nut a
i moment in inflicting wrong and injury on
, our citi-z ns, whenever it suited their pur
j pose to do so. It is not once or twice that
outrages of the nature of the one which v/e
“ recently published, occurred, hut in one hun- j
1 j drtd or more instances; and we venture to !
say, that no government but our own would |
i h ive remained so long without adopting the i
most stringent and summary means to obtain I
redress. In fact, European governments ;
- would have demanded reparation on the-spot '
and at the time, and it would have been bet- |
ler if our government had taken a similar ;
course—fur by doing so, the outrages would 1
not have reached so large a number as they
have.
The following crsg of outrage, resulting in
the death of one of our most valuable citizens,
occurred in ihe summer of 1832.
At that time a revolution had broken nut
I between Santa Anna and the government,
j and the Siaie government of Tobasco had
; pronounced in favor of Santa Anna. Jn order ;
; to suppress the revolution, Bustamentc, the
President, sent a flee?, consisting of the armed
| schooner Vera Cruzana, and oilier vessels,
j with a military force to Frontera, where it
, arrived onlhe 29ih of June. For the pur
j pose of resisting the contemplated attack on
; Tobasco by this fleet, the fSania Anna party
1 took forcible possession of ihe steamer Bello- I
j na, owned by citizens of the U. Slates, and
j converted her into a vessel of war, and com
pelled her crew to navigate her, by threatsof
death in case of refusal, Whitethe Bellona
was professedly proceeding to attack the ffi el
j of Bustamente, the brig John, of New York,
Captain Hughes, was seen warping up the i
j Usumconia river, near its junction with the
'Tobasco river; and the Mexican officers on
board ordered her to proceed to the brig, and
directed their soldiers to board lier, for the
purpo-e of practising them in that species of
naval tact cs. As soon as the steuner got,
alongside of the brig, the :-o!uiers boarded her
in man-of-war fashion, and in a moment her
deck was crowded with Mexican soldiers,
who seized the unarmed Captain Hughes,
beat and bruised him in a brulal manner—
I one of them going so far as to attack him
I with his bayonet—and concluded by break
! mg open the captain’s trunk and robbing it |
i and the vessel of the va u ibles they con
ta ned. As soon as the brig was ransacked.,
these ruffians, officers and men, dragged
Capt. Hughes ot; beard the steamer; but af
ter a few days’ detention, during which liis
life was many times threatened, he and a
Mr. Gahagan, one of the crew, made their
escape to Frontera, a distance of about twen
ty miles. On the 23d ot July, a bailie was
fought between the opposing forces, in which j
the Santa Anna party obtained a victory, and
succeeded in capturing the whole of the go
vernment army and fleet. Frontera ted info
their hands, and Captain Hughes and Mr.
Gahagan,and another American citizen,Cap
tain Philo B. Johntson, were again made
prisoners, and taken to Tobasco, where they
were confined in tiie common jail till the 20th
of August, when, at the demand of Lieut.
Boenim, cf the U. S. schooner Shark, they
were released. Tiie injuries which Captain
Hughes sustained from the ruffianly Mexican
soldiers affected has brain, and superinduced
sickness, of which he died oa his passage
home on board the Shark.
This was a wanton aggression, assail who
read the account of it will admit, yet it is
only one of a thousand equally as bad, or
worse. Now. we put to tne Inends of the
Mexicans, and to the editors of the journals
which lake their part, and insist on terming
them a wronged and injured people, whether
this outrage alone was not sufficient cause of
war; and yet our government is charged with
designing to wrong and injure them. What,
we ask, would the government of Great
Britain or France have have done, in ca-e a
similar outrage was committed on a citizen
of theirs. They would., have demanded re
paration, and security that another would
not occur, and in case of refusal would have
obtained it at the cannon’s mouth.
Lo ! the pour Mexicans! But the cring- ’
ing and crying abettors of the Mexicans,
have nut a single tear lo shed for our own
citizens.
[Frutn the TuU.hassee Floridian.]
General Taylor and the Administration.
The whig papers have been clamorous
ly asserting for a long period that the ad
ministration. jealous of the growing popu
larity of the old war-horse, who has
achi veil for himself'and his count ry such
distinguished and brilliant renown in
Mexico, had detenu ned upon sacrificing
him, and for that purpose had withdrawn
from his command a portion of his mo.>t
efficient tronj s, and left him to struggle at
Buena Vista with a largely diminished
force. If the regulars had been detached
from Gen. Tay lor’s army bit the President
with any such design charged, the lan
guage of the Whig press could not be too
strong to express the abhorrence of hu
' inanity at a dime so heinous. But the
whole correspondence of the \\ ar Depart-
I meat with Gen. 'Faylor lias been publish
i ed, and not a shadow of a shade of reason :
have the opposition to impute any such :
wicked design to the administration. On
the contrary the letters of the. Secretary
of War breathe the most unlimited, and
we may say, unparalleled, confidence in
j Gen. Taylor’s opinions and views. He
| is especially charged not to detach a sin ;
I gle nvm from Ids army upon any of the j
1 enterprizes the Department was desirous t
{ should be undertaken, if his own safety !
| or any pari of the valley of the Rio j
i Grande would be endangered thereby, or
! his own contemplated operations disar
• ranged. The'President was anxious to
j make k demonstration upon Vera Cruz,
but advised Gen. Taylor that even that
expedition would be abondoned for the
time being, if the description of troops de
sired for that purpose could not be spared
by Gen.'l'. Instead of diminishing his
command, the Cabinet was desirous o!
augmenting it. In short, the correspon
dence evinces a just appreciation of the
character of Gen. Taylcr, 'and an incli
nation to be guided in all things proper,
by his advice and judgment.
On the 215 1 of November, Gen. Scott
received orders to repair lo the seal cf
war and superintend the operations a-
I gainst Vera Cruz. No positive instruc
tions were given him, but he was directed
‘ to act, on his arrival in Mexico, as cir
| cumstances might suggest. The Secre
| tary of War says lo him : “It is not pro.
por-ed to control your operations by defi
nite and positive instructions, but you are
left lo prosecute them as your judgment,
under a full view of all the circum
stances, shall dictate. The work is be
fore you, and the means provided, or to
be provided, for accomplishing it, are
i committed to you, in the full confidence
; that you will use them lo ihe best advan
j tage.”
■So, it will be seen, that the President
1 could not have designed what ihe Whig
I papers charge him with, fur no instruc-
I lions were given either to Gen. Taylor
| or Gen. Scott to direct any portion of the
j troops under the comtaacd of the former
j to any point whatever. Two days after
i the d ue of General Scott’s order to proceed
j to Mexico, however, that General wrote
; to General Taylor informing him of his
j intendedddenature, and notifying Gen.
T. that be should be obliged to withdraw
from him a portion of his command, &c.
The letter was written from New York,
and is also published with the correspon
i dence alluded to. The following is an
! extract therefrom.:
‘ I am not coming, my dear general, to
j supercede you in I lie immediate com
mand on the line of operations rendered
illustrious by you and your gallant army.
Mv proposed theatre is different. You
may imagine it, and I wish very much
that it were prudent at tills distance to
tell you ail that I expect to attempt: or
hope lo execute. I have been admonish- |
ed that despatches ha\e been lost, and 1 ;
have no special messenger at band, lour
imagination will he aided by the letters j
of the Secretary of War, conveyed by Mr. !
Armistead, Major Graham and Mr. Me- ;
Lane.
“But, my dear general, I shall be oblig
ed to take from you most of the gallant
officers and men (regulars and volunteers)
whom you have so long and nobly com
man led. lam as aid that I shall, by
imperious necessity—the approach of
yellow fever on the gulf coast — reduce
you, for a time, to stand, on the defensive.
This will be infinitely painful to you, and
far that reason distressing to me. But 1
rely on your patriotism to submit to the
temporary sacrifice with cheerfulness.
No man pan better afford so to do. Re
cent victories pi ace you on that high emi
nence, and I even flatter myself that any
benefit that may result lo rne personally
from the unequal division of troops allud
ed to, will lessen the pain of your conse
quent inactivity.”
This is enough, we apprehend, to satis
fy the most uncompromising of the oppo
sition that the Administration is entirely
innocent of the grave charge so industri
ously circulated against it. We had oc
casion some weeks since to notice these
gratuitous attacks on the President and
his Cabinet, but we had not at that lime
seen this correspondence, or we should
have extracted copiously from it, but
deem that unnecessary now. If the
Whigs are disposed to do justice to the
Administration, they will at least read
the refutation of their charges as furnish-
ed in the published correspondence be- j
tween it and General Taylor, us well as
Scott’s letter lo Gen. T.
How Gen. Taylor received (hat fetter from
Geu. Scott.
The papers contain some pregant hints
that there is not the best o( feeling exist
ing beween the *‘two Genera's since that
letter was w ritten bv the hero of ‘•Lundy s
Lane.” Some curious things are said
bv correspondents of W hig papers in re
gard to the manner in which it was re
ceived by “old Rough and Ready,” from
among which the following is an extract:
“In regard of that letter which Gen.
Scott addressed in such affectionate terms
to Gen. Taylor, I have learned an inci
dent or two, which it may not be amiss
here to give, lu writing to a friend just
after the receipt of the letter, Gen. i ay
lor alluded to it in plain terms and also
stated, in substance, that he had suitably
replied to it. Very much would I like
to see that replyl What it must have
been may in a measure be judged of from
the known demand of Gen, Scon, the
known character of old “Rough and
Ready,” and the fact that a gallant officer,
who was silting at Gen. Taylor s suppe'- ;
table ai the time Gon. Scut’s letter was i
recieved, opened and read, slates that j
Gen. Taylor, after reading the epistle, j
crumbled the sheet on which it was writ
ten very much in his hands, laid it aside
and then commenced, in a furious man
ner, putting miisfard over his meat, pota
-1 toes and bread into his coffee and divers
other things all round his plate.”
mm jy m , JWWIT—I 1
AUGUSTA. GEO..
SATURDAY /MORNING, JUNE 19 1847.
Bolls.
1 We had left at our office yesterday, two
i Cotton Bolls, taken from the plantation of
| Col. McKinne, Burkecuunlv,and understand
there were plenty more of the same sortie t.
The bolls are not very large, but perfectly
formed with a showing of the silken weed
inside.
IVishl Blooming Circus.
This beautiful and rare plant it is expect- ,
ed will be in bloom, with two flowers, this eve
! ning, opposite the Masonic Hall.
Onr Asvnilaßla—Foreign a:ul Doincslici
From three dist inct and independent quar
ters proceed the ceaseless and untiring as
saults upon the conduct, the character, the
designs and the motives of action of the Ame
r can people. While different motives actu
ate them all, there is a remarkable uniformi
ty in their spirit of detraction and misrepre
sentation. Their assertions however, do not
exactly correspond. The three quarters we
allude to the Mexican journals, located
in Mexico, the journals under the
monarchical influences of their respective
governments, and pal-taking of their strong
hatred and fear of every thing rej üb’ican
and last, not least, the journals of federal
whigery in this country. We Will not dilate
1 on all the hard things the Mexican journals
say of us. Mexican mendacity is toe well
established to be formidable. Then too,
much is to be allowed to the national igno
rance—to the prejudices artfully fomented by
a wiley priesthood and ambitious military
demagogues, and to the wounded selflove of
a boastful people exasperated by the most
galling defeats. We can even bear with
| equanimity, the venomous assaults of Euro
! pean journalists whose vocation is to malign
i every tiling republican —to decry every thing
| that favors free government, and threatens a
■ downfall to the hoary despotisms of the old
i world. The infection of an example in free
j government such as the American States cx
| h.bit, is terrible to think of. A motive is
j therefore nut wanting for all the ribald abuse
—the adroit sophistry, and even the unblush
ing falsehood Lunched forth agiiust us.
Even brilliant witticism and’cau.-lic sarcasm
lose t,Ueir force, and ridicule tails pointless,
when we reflect on the motives which wing
the shafts. But our assailants at home have
i no such palliation. No such sympathies of
national prejudice and ike influence of na
tional institutions plead in their behalf. No
j motive could be sufficient to palliate the of
1 fence of endeavoring to bring our national
| character into contempt, in the eyes of for
i ei'rn nations and of our own citizens. But
j
; whatever the inducement may be, the result
i does not seem to answer the expectations of
these combined attacks. There is a want of
unity of action ami agreement as to the sa
lient points.
Our domestic assailants attack our policy
in reference to Mexico on the ground, among
others, that it must bring upon us national
weakness and destruction—that it must sap
our national prosperity, and destroy, perhaps,
our national union. The administration is
assailed as weak, imbecile, inert—ambitious
without foresight, and adventurous without ;
sagacity—too ignorant to guide, yet too ■
headstrong lo be controlled by moderate
counsels. These are somewhat contradicto
ry complaints, yet they are all successively
made. Were one half of them true, or be
lieved to be, one would expect that our coun
try was going fast to ruin—becoming a mon
ument of inert folly, or misdirected energy—
the shame of our own people, and the laugh
ing stock of foreigners. But it seems for
eign nations take a very different view. They
seem perfectly awed and panic-stricken at
the giant strides of our nation in the march
of political greatness. They see the most
prodigious energy exhibited by our govern
ment, as well as the most invincible gallan
try di.-playod by our troops. They behold
wisdom and profound statesmanship presid
ingover our counsels, and order, system and
practical knowledge carrying out its plans.
While therefore they rail at what they are
sanctimoniously pleased to designate the mo
rale of our national policy, they are tilled
with undisguised respect tor the energy and
prowess displayed. They are alarmed at the
growing power and greatness ofour republic. t
Not all the detraction of our domestic jour
nals in the. opposition, can succeed in con
cealing the real existing power and prosperi
ty of our country, and the prospective glo
ries of its destiny. It an American citizen
confines himself to the reading simply of
virulent partiztn newspapers, whose voca
tion is to abuse the administration, and the
democratic party, he would be apt to imbibe j
a very thorough contempt for his own conn- .
irv and countrymen. He would reel dispos
ed perhaps to retire in disgust tea le.-s wick- |
cd land—one less cursed by the blight of j
heaven’s displeasure, and Tnan s unworthi
ness. But if he would occasionally peruse
the pages of Blackwood —-the London Quar
terly—or the columns of the London Times |
or Morning Chronicle, or Galignam’s Mes
senger, he would begin to suspect that he
was one of a very great people—dreadfully
ambitious, —it is true, and over sensitive to
j avenge insult, and cruelly persevering in ex
tending their conquests and their republican
institutions. But still a great and powerful
people —a people whose alarming progress
tells the crumbling dynasties of Europe that
this government is to be Ike great power on
this continent, and one of the great and over
shadowing powers of the world—one whose
influence for good or evil is to sway in a
; great degree, the world’s destinies.
Between the conflicting views of our as
sail mts at home, and our assailants abroad,
the true patriot lias nothing very terrible to
fear for Lis country, or any very cogent rea
a>n to be ashamed of it. The difficulties
beth foreign and domestic in which she is
involved must cau.-e him to cling with devo
| tion to her cause, while the manner in which
: she has contended with them must fill him
with pride. Engaged in a war commenced, as
declared with great unanimity by her Con
gress, by ike aci of Mexico, she has won a
renown that must shine in immortal glory
1 on the page of history, and will teach all na
j lions hereafter, for generations to come, to
j respect her rights.
The Crops.
The New York Journal of Commerce says
I —“Accounts from Michigan. Ohio and the
VV estern part of New York, are more unf'a
| vorable for the wheat crop, indicating that
the ravages of the fly have been destructive
i in various localities throughout those rc
j gions,”
The Crops.
The New Orleans Delta ot loth inst. says—
; Proman intelligent gentleman who arrived in
I this city yesterday. and who has recently been
| through all the river parishes, we learn that the
1 crops—both sugar and cotton—present a most fu
| vorable appearance, and give promise of an abun-
I dant vicld, should nothing hereafter occur to ruar
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J the present prospect. The army-worm has no
; where made its appearance.
The state of things in Rapides would seem,
ftom the following extract of a letter from a friend
there, not to be altogether so cheering :
“1 have been somewhat indisposed, and have
seen but few of my neighbors, and the few i have
seen, are so ‘down in ine mouth’ in const quenee.
of toe injury done them in their crops by toe late
hail-storm, that they have little to say about mat
ters in general. I think, from what ! can sec a
-1 round me, that if some othei disaster does not
befall the poor Red River planters before fall, they
may yet ni-tke tolerable cotton crops. Those who
; are going into the sugar business, appear to be in
very good spirits, and 1 entertain no doubt iny
i self of their ultimate success. The Cane grows
; here as well as it does in any other part of Loui
siana.’’
The New York. Herald says, that a private
I company in that city are about to build four steam
i ships for the New Orleans and Liverpool trade,
i the average burthen of which will be 2,100 tons,
j The keel of the first vessel has been laid. She is
| to be called the “United States,” and will be,
when completed, remarks the Herald, “one of
| the most perfect specimens of ocean steamships
| in the world. She will have two marine engines,
I of eleven hundred and twenty-five horse power
each, tire cost of which, with the machinery, wilj
he one hundred and fifteen tiiousand dollars.—
The diameter of the cylinders of these engines
is eighty inches with nine feet stroke. She will
have four wrought iron boilers with iron shafts
j and crank.-., as well as iron water wheels.” ’I he
: bed-plate for this steamer, which was cast hist
week by Messrs. Secor & Co. of New York, was,
says the Herald, “the largest and heaviest work
of the kind ever performed in the United States,
weighing forty-three thousand poundsof metal.”
The New York Shipping and Commercial
| List says, that there were broughtdown the Hud
| son river, from the Ist of May to the Bth of June,
| 627,289 bbls. of Flour, 204,648 bushels of Wheat,
i and 795,555 bushels of Uorn.
A Faithful Messenger.
Mr. Sol. Hayes, who is in the service of
Messrs. Livingston & Wells, Express forward
ers, has travelled on railroad and river since 1829
without accident, 482,500 miles ! He has never
missed a trip, and has carried safely for his em
ployers, at a moderate calculation, during those
18 years of service, 558 millions of dollars, with
out the loss of a single cent.
Farming by Steam.
The leading article of the London Agricultu
ral Gazette of May Sth, is on the employment of
steam in farming, to which the editors are favora
ble.. considering it a most docile and less costly
power than either man or horse. Every hundred
acres of ploughing involves the passingover 1000
linear miles by 500 consumers of food. They
calculate the saving by steam on every ploughing
at Si per acre, or $100,000,060 on as many
acres.
Lord John Russell, Premier of England, has
announced that. Government intend to suspend
the operation of the British Navigation and Corn
Laws for three months longer.
On the occasion of the opening of the Birken
head Docks, at Liverpool, a train of seven large
cars left London at six o’clock in the morning,
and reached Liverpool, a distance of 212 miles,
at 12 o’cdock, M. There was some delay owing
to the heated slate of the gearing, but the speed
attained for the whole distance was exactly forty
miles per hour; including stopages, thirty-five
miles per hour. One mile was run at the rale of
sixty-one miles per hour. The train left Liver
pool on its return at twenty-four minutes past six
in the afternoon, and arrived at London at eigh
teen minutes past twelve —thus making the round
trip, — i 24 miles, —in eleven hours and fifty-four
minutes.
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Relief to Ireland.
The following’ is the cargo on board the
ship Macedonian, for Ireland and Scotland.
| contributed for the relief of the suffering poor
: in those countries:—3o pkgs clothing, 200
! tes rice, 6 do peas. 1,132 bags oats, 1,115 do
j corn, 85 \ brls corn, 2,103 bags beans, 122
brls beans, 1047 bags meal, 5,179 brls meal,
8 do rye, 7 do potatoes, 4 do beef, 6 do pork,
13 do flour, 10 chests tea.
Pennsylvania Improvements.
The lulls received upon the Pennsylvania
Canals and Rail Roads owned by the Slate,
from 30lh November, 1846, to the Ist June,
1847, amount to $628,362. The receipts
last year for the same period were $399,883,
showing an increase of $228,479. It is e
- that the entire receipts of the year
will amount to $1 600,000, and the nett rev
enue to the State will be $1,000,000.
The exports of Domestic Cotton Goot'g
from Boston, during the year ending on the
I 31si u!t., were 32,123 bales. This shows
an increase of expo. Is over the previous year
j of 2,807 bale*.
The Steamer’s News and the Market.
The news received from England, by
j the steamer Hibernia, has produced an
unusual excitement in our ma rkef.and oc
! casioned a very considerable advance in
Breadstuffs. Cotton, on lire other hand, is
I ....
much depressed,though it is yet impossible
i to decide how far prices have declined.—
| Flour has been most sensibly aff-cted.and
j the week’s sales amount to about 50 000
bbls., the closing rates being $7 to
$7 374 for Ohio and Illinois, and $7 75
to $8 per bid. for choice St. Louis brands
—an advance of 50 to 62|c. per bid.—
Corn has gone up Bto 1 Oc. per bushel,
the week’s sales being 160,000 bushels,
and the rates since the ncv v s 75 to 85c.
per bushel for prime w hite and yellow'.
An advance in Wheat of 20c. per bush
el. Bales i f the w eek 75.000 bushels,
the closing prices being $1 G 5 to $1 70
per bushel for prime, and higher ra'es
asked. Provisions inactive, with little
or no change in prices. The week’s
transactions in Cotton sum up about 2800
I bales. The last small transef ions indi.
! cate a further decline of i to |c. per lb.
I —iV. O. Dr/fa. 13 thin "it.
Arrival oft he. AMesdi tnyi
j This splendid war.vessel arrived yes,
ferday morning front Pittsburg. On
: reaching thiscifv, she was the “observed
1 of all ohst rvcr.-P’ amongst nautical con
noisseurs, and well did she deserve the
compliments paid her speed and trim.
She is one of the handsomest h on steam
vessels that has bet ri built, ami is under
the command of one of the most accom
plished officers of the Navy. Hundreds
i ofour citizens yesterday visited her, and
| were struck wiih admiration at her pro.
I portions and strength. In passing the
city she fired a salute in honor of New
Orleans,and we learn that the compliment
* will he returned today by a salvo Lorn
1 (he Place d’Armes. Thesleamer Allegb
i anv was built at Pittsburg and rigged at
- O r* O
Memphis, under the superintendence ot
Lieut. Hunter, and is propelled by the
submerged propeller. She is 200 feet
long, 1150 tons burden, draws fourteen
j feet water, and is armed with ;ur 64-
’ | pound Paixhan guns. She runs by means
of her propeller alone at the rale of about
' twelve miles an hour. The following is
! a list of the officers ot the Alleghany:
f . r
Lieut. Comanding, Wm. \V. Hun'er;
Lieutenants, Wm. Mcßlair, Wm. Rev
’ i nolds, Joseph Sanford; Surgeon, Robert
I Woodworth; Purser, James A. Semple;
! Chief Engineer, Alexander Birkheck;
j Acting .Master, Andrew Weir; Asssstant
I j Surgeon, John A. Pettit; Passed Midship
| men, Paul Shirley, Frederick B. Brand;
i Midshipman, John H. Russeli, Frank A
’ \ Roe, Jamas B Yales; Captain’s Clerk,
John B. Heaehy; Ist Assistant Engineer,
’ i Alexander McCausland, jr.; 2d do,,
Robert Dauby; 2 1 do., Charles D. Great
-1 J rake; 3d do., William Luce; 3J do.,
! Eathrie! P. Patterson; Gunner, John. G.
i Williamson.— N. O Dr If a.
1 j
Nulcol 4lal« Laud.
We have been politely furnished by the
’ | State Register, Major Beard, with the foflow
’ ing statement of the amount of land sales
which took place recently, pursuant to public
notice; in the Counties of Jefferson, Gadoden
and Jackson,
f In Jefferson, about 400 acres sold for $1,682.
- j Gadsden, 3,880 “ “ “ “ 10,248.
, Jackson, 7.128 “ “ •• “ 17,875.
r These lands sold trom $lO to S2O per acre,
and comprise some of the best lands in the
5 | Btate. The whole amount of sales was $31,-
805, of which more than one-fourth was paid
in advance. We learn that sales were made
almost entirely so settlers, and not to specu
lators. It is giatifying to observe the esti
-1 mate put upon our lands by new settlers
j coming among ns, and that the industry and
; wealth of the older Slates has, to a very con
; siderabie extent, determined upon a location
in our new State. The public sales are clos
-1 ed for the summer; but should circumstances
I render it expedient, sales will be made next
. fall in the Eastern counties. All the land
r offered tor sale, however, we believe, is yet
subject to private entry at the appraised
prices.
I Major Beard has been indefatigable in the
j discharge of his duties since his appointment,
’ i and we are pleased to learn that thus far he
! lias given entire satisfaction to all having
| business with his office.— Tallahassee Flo-
I rtdiav, }2th inst.