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the constitutionalist^ JAMES GARDNER, JR TEII 31 S . Daily, per annum - Tn-Weakly, per annum, * I, J If paid in advance .... 5 Weekly, per annum, J If paid in advance 2 aU To Clubs, remitting Sfo IN advance. FIVE COPIES are *ent. This will put our weekly pa per ia the reach of new sub.'cnbers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. {£r Subscribers who will pay up arrearages, nnd perui four new subscribers, with the money can get the paper at $2,00. $3“ All new subscriptions must he paid in advance. jjry Postage must be paid on all Communications Mid Let'ersof business. [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 | ' 15 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. —-—— 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.