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TilE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. T,EJI •& S . JfiLi Daily, per annnfw,.. 00 Tn-\Veeklv. ner annum 0 00 If pair! in advance, ; h 00 Hg Weekly, a mum 300 If paid in 2 To rluG, remitting $!0 in advance. FIVE roPiGS are se.il. Tlii-< will put our weekly pa per iu th** reach of new subscribers at, TWO DOLLARS A>YE VR. OCT who will pay np arrearages, ami send four new subscribers, with the money can pel the paper at $2,00. ify~ AII it**w subscription? must be paid in ad v ance. gy~ p, istape must t»e paid on all Communications and Defers of rmsiness . _r— [ Correspondence *>/ the W asliinglon f nion j BALTIMORE, June 24 —5 [)- m- I yesterday noted die fact that his ex cellency ihe President oftlie U. S. had left this city on Ids way to Philadelphia, at 7 o’clock in the morning. I learn from ihe Philadelphia Ledger ihe following particulars. A delegation of the committee appointed hv the town meeting of citizens for the purpose, having proceeded to Baltimore for ihe purpose of escorting him by a special train from that city to Wilmington, the other portion of the committee embark, I cd on the steamboat George Washington- | to meet the President and Ins e>cott at Ihe latter place. Ihe steamboat ai rived there about 10 o'clock, and a quarter of , an hour afterwards the whistle of the ; locomotive announced the. approach of the special train. The Philadelphia committee- was ac companied by Bailey’s brass band, attach ed to the State Fencibles, and their beau liful yntisic tended to increase the harmony which prevailed throughout the day. The special train had made most ex cellent lime all the way from Baltimore, j having left that city at fifteen minutes j past seven, and reaching Wilmington in ; exactly three hours, though delayed by | stopping at Magnolia, Havre de Grace, and Rlkton. A portion of the distance ; Was run at the rate of forty miles an hour, i Brhe railroad car which contained the President and suite, together with the de legation from the Baltimore and Phila delphia committees, was of t fie most splen did description, having been recently built at she workshop of the Philadelphia Wil mingtoiqandßaltimore Railroad Com- i pany, and was used on this occasion for i the first time. The car was designed and constructed under ihe superintendence ofJes.se Osmond, at the company’s work shop at a cost of $2,000, -r A universal shout of welcome was raised from the multitude congregated at the depot, accompanied by a national salute from the , revenue cut f er Crawford, Captain Day, moor- : ed opposite the steamboat landing. The President was received by Major j Porter and the council of Wilmington, and, accompanied by the Philadelphia committee, were conveyed in carriages to the City Hall, after making a circuit through the principal ptreets. Here he was welcomed to the city and its hospitalities tendered by the venera- j ble Col. Samuel C. Davis, in a short address, 1 to which the President made a neat and up- ! propriate reply. After shaking hands with such of fire citi- ! zens of Wilmington that presented them- | selves as aspirants to that honor, the Presi dent and the Philadelphia committee were } invited into the Council Chamber in the up- j per part of the Hall, and there in'roduced to the members of the corporate authorities The company then partook of a collation, and after a short time spent in the enjoyment of the good things,spread before them, return ed in the same order on board the bolt. Shortly after leaving Wilmington, the company, including the Wilmington, com mittee, sat down to a sumptuous co’lalion in j the cabin of the steamboat. On nearing Chester pier, the speed of the | boat was arrested, in order to allow the po pulace collected there to greet the President. ! A file of men, with muskets, in their work day clothes, and bringing to mind the de.s- j eruptions of the old continental mil tia, fired a few dejoie from the wharf, amid the huz zas of ihe multitude. On nearing the Point House, the George Washington was met by the Gloucester ferry boat Fashion, filled with ladies and gentle men. The next object that attracted univer sal admiration was the government propeller Secretary Buchanan,most beautifully decor ated with flags and streamers. This vessel was on an experimental trip, to test her mi- j chinery, previous lo being delivered over to j the Quartermaster’s Department, by Captain ; Lnppr, under whose superintendence she was built. The steamship Princeton, lying at. the na vy-yard, was splendidly decorated with flig=, from her trucks to the deck. The wharves were crowded with a dense mass of people, as, indeed, was every accessible point along the city front. The shipping were gaily decked out with flags, and the English ves- 1 sels were uarticularly liberal in their display.-! A short distance above the navy-yard was ~,% moored the gallant little cutter Forward, which, under the command of Captain Nones, did such good service at the capture ol To bacco. Though dismantled, she fired a sa lute of 21 guns from her thirty-two’s, as the « steamboat passed up. From Catharine street i k'vL. wharf a salute was fired by some patriotic ■ *\C individuals, who were posted with a small I piece of ordnanc i. The progress of the George Washington ijKj up to Kensington, and her return to toe na- Vj-T vv-yard, was hailed with the huzzas of ,the multitude and the ringing of the steamboat hells, as a welcome to the city’s distinguish- i I cd guest. The boat was hauled into tlie ; wharf, and she President was received on hts landing by Commodore Stewart, Major Gen fill eral Patterson, and other distinguished offi- I HI cers of the army and navy, lie was con- ! pi ducted into the commodore’s quarters, where tne party partook of refreshments, while the ipf final arrangements for she escort were being p|l| made. The National Guard were posted on the wharf as the guard of honor, and attend yak ed the President in his progress through the p|fp yard. .LT‘ The streets through which the procession Si .. passed were lined with people,anxious to see Lp? the President, while every window was oc ||m| copied with womenand chikffen. Thecheers fr oiri ie P°P u lace were frequent, which, as gjamw*?ll as the waving of handkerchiefs by the a. *' Sr&i -' ' • • - ‘ I—wi —l KTrrrrgyt- ■ l n i * ladies, kept the President in continual mo tion, returning their salutations. The distinguished guest was finally de posited at the residence of the Hon. George ! M. Dallas, in Walnut street, below r l enth. [From the ,V. O. Delta. 2'2d hist ] |‘T.>m Matamorus. By the Jas. L Day yestenhy, we received i the Matamuros Flag of the IG’h in-t. Ihe Flag says that a parly of gentlemen whilst on a hunting excursion on .Monday, found a Dragoon's uniform about two miles South lof the city. 'Fhe owner hat! evidently : been murdered; a charge (apparently buck ! s |)o’) had entered just under the shoulder blade, immediately below which was a trian gular perforation, evidently from a bayonet. The name had been carefully cut off of both the inside of lue collar and lining ol the ■ s'eeve. In another paragraph the editor says; “A gentleman recently from Comargo informs us that on the passage down, he counted no loss than six dead bodies floating in the river —three Mexicans and three Americars — j Several Pilots of our acquaintance inform | us that dead bodies are seen on every trip, i generally stripped of (heir clothing,leaving i no doubt that they have met with their death | at the hands of assassins. The Indians are : charged with the commission of many of I tilths murders, and as they are frequently i seen oil ihe banks of the river, there can i be no doubt bi:» that they have a hand in ! them. Fears are caressedl by the captains j of steamboats that they will not be able to j obtain wood ab< v 1 Ileynoea, as she Mexican.- | have deserted nearly all the wood yards and ; retired from the river to escape the Indians. The balance of the 10th Regiment reached ; Matamoros on the 1 4th i ust. Our New Orleans brethren, says the Flag, 1 have been betrayed into an error in regard to Hays’ regiment. It was stationed at Pa lo Alto. We do not know its whereabouts. It it crossed the Rio Grande :t all, it was somewhere in the neighborhood ol Laredo. The Flag gives the following, likely to be true, but good even as a jcu d'esprit: Arista and his Generals The follow ing scene between Arista and bis generals actually took place; the description was de i r v *u from a gentleman high in thee mfidence i and esteem of the chief actor, but whose | name we are not permuted to mention. Alter the battles of the Blh and Oili of i May, when the Mexican army in their re- I treat had reached Linares, Gen. Arista, surn j mondedtieneraisAinpudiH,Torrejon,Riquena, i and Canales to his quarters, and thus ad dressed them: “ •JHenllemen —I am about to resign the com mand of the Army of the North, and I have sent for you that you may know the reasons which have influenced me. They are simp ly these: I cannot command the army with honor to myself or coun'ry, as long as it nmn- I bars so many cowards, with high commands, !in its rank. You, Ampudia,are a base cow ! ard; I trusted you with 3,UOU o( my best troop-; you betrayed your trust, proved re creant to the interests of your country, and, terror stnken, fled trembling and dismayed, without being within half a league of a hos tile gun. “Yon, Torrejon, have some regulation as | a cavalry officer; God knows how or where j you obtained it; lam only astonished that I you should have the eff.ontery to pretend to I J . j command. “You, Riquena, call yourself an artillery officer; you have Leen consistent through life, only in one thing, your cowardice: you are brave, like all ga-< onaders, when dangers are i at a distance; Imt when the hour of battle j . arrives, von are either not to be found or your j terror renders your presence not only useless i j but injurious, ; “And you Canales, to be called General! j what a satire! what Inter irony! General! faugh! a robler, a cow-Jriver, a vagabond i skirker from rancho to rancho, a cowardly pauper, whose very presence is loathed by every honorable man, and whose claim lo the title of General produces the most profound contempt. As for you. Col. Carasco; begone ! and w ish your b caches, you dirty dug! “Gentlemen, 1 am done with you; our con- j 1 nexion is at an end. Would that your con nexion with our unfortunate country was also at an end.” ' THE MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS. Incidents not to be found in the Official Despatches. We yesterday had the pleasure of an intro- 1 Auction to one of the officers of Col. Doni- i i phan’s regiment, whose martial exploits and ! indefatigable marches, form laudatory themes j for every tongue. We found him unaffect edly frank, possessing an earnest energy, which is no doubt characteristic of the wiiole regiment of those western braves. Omens,—ln the course of the march, cer tain circumstances occurred, which the men i tran-lated in’o certain auguries of success, j whatever might be the perils they should have . j to encounter, and this opinion may have had I some influence in forming the indomitable ; spirit they subsequently evinced. One of ! these omens he related ; At. one lime, during the march, both men and cattle were almost overcome with thirst, and no water was to bo had within a distance of sixteen or eighteen miles of them. To travel so far was impos sible, for the oxen fell down under the wa gons, unable longer to hold out against the parching thirst which was choking them.— Jjusl at lliis time, and without a single indica tion in the Heavens of jts approach, the rain Ucame pouring down in t<frrenls. and continued till the oxen could drink from the earth around them, where they lay, and where they i had lallen from sheer want of it. Flying Artillery.—Bv the way, it may sound something like a misnomer, but still it is not less the fact, that the flying artillery of j the expedition had no oilier agency of trans ; portalion. either in the battle or out of it, than oxen —not the swiftest messengers of Mars it must be admitted; worse than Mrs. | Bardell’s slow coach, bv a long odds. The Black Flag —ln one instance, in the | the presence of some American officers, the I British Consul was very eloquent in bis eu j iogies of the Mexicans. They were a most j brave, enlightened and a particularly mag- ; | nanirnous and humane people, who, in their I engagements with an enemy, scrupulously j observed the rules of war, and that forbear ance to a vanquished foe, dictated by the more enlightened ethics of the present day. “Are you done now, stranger?” said the captain of a company raised in the western part of Missouri, when lie thought he had j heard him out. “I am done,” said the Consul; “I willhow | ever add, that my statement i* unanswerable.” “Well, if this here don’t answer you,” said j the young volunteer. “Tom Benton himself could not stump you I” and he held np the black flag which the enemy unfurled before going into the battle of Sacramento, which showed the murderous designs of the Mcxi cans. The representative of Queen Victoria said nothing, though he evidently thought there was something in the emblematic elo quence of the Missourian. The British Consul.— Our informant stales to us that the British Consul at Chi huahua, made himself offensively officious, if he did not culpably compromit himself. It was known that he gave aid and comfort to the Mexicans, in furnishing them, to some extent, with the sinews and munitions of war. The Consul thought to keep the American fmops out of a public building in Chihuahua, j which a party had been ordered to enter and * examine. The offict rin command to'd him j that his orders were to enter if, and enter it i lie would. The Consul replied that if he did, ! j it would bea f the risk of incurring the hos j ti'ity of his, the Brit sh government, and he i j officially warned him of the fact. The Missourian said that at the risk of in j curring the hostility pf the British Govern- j i merit or t hat of hell itself, the house should be i ■ opened. lie ordered up a 24-ponoder to b'ow , i jt open; but before it arrived, some of the men had climbed up to the top of the build- ! ing, down inside, and threw the doors o.en. | Lieut. Col Jackson—The Lieutenant j Colonel of tire Regiment is Mr. Jackson, as j brave a man as breathes, but one who makes | no pit tensions to a knowledge of the science 1 of war. In g"ing into the bade of Sacra memo, Idem. Col. M tchell, who hid been j detached from Price’s command on special I duty, was present. “Look here. Mitchell,” j said the gallant Jackson, “you hold the same i j rank that I do. I know you ran fight as well | !as I can, and 1 know you can order better. — j 1 I resign you mv command during the bat le, j for 1 prefer go ng into the ranks, and having ' a few cracks out of Nancy [his favorite dim- I gun j at those yellow boys on hor.-e- , back yonder, ' Lieut. Col. J ickson would accept of no re- | fusal to this arrangement, and it was adopt- : ed. lie soon look down his man, and toon after—it is not known how many. When the battle was over, they were go- , ing among the wounded, whun one of the men j , remarked—“ Why, Co’onol, this leiiow here I j looks L ke that first fellow you shot.” j “Well, he does, that’s a fact!” said Ltent. i | Col. Jackson. “I had fifteen buck-hot that J j time in Nancy: see if there were as many I | put in his body.” The man examined and found the marks i of fourteen buckshot in the Mexican’s body, j When the despatches of the battle were ! . about to he sent to Washington, Lieut. Col. i j Jackson was called on for bis report. He i i said be never thought much of reports, no | i how—he always went in for the reality.— : ! Thev might say to lire Secretary of War tor j : him, if they choose, that at Sacramento the i i Mexicans caught hell ! [From the New Orleans Picayune, 22 d insl.] i Adairs in theC.ty ofJlexico. I ; In a package of papers, &zc., sent tons ; by Mr. Kendall from Puebla, we find fill S ler details ofaffairs going on in the city 1 ot Mexico, tliougli still nothing later than j the 29th of May. Le Courner Francois translates a now. ; erful article from the Raznnador. The } greater part of it is written to show that ( tho guerilla system will be a thonsan 1 : times more disastrous to good Mexican i j citizens than to the armies of the United j Slates; that the inevitable tendency of the j system will he to leave the honest well disposed and thriving inhabitants at the j mercy of lawless, needy desperadoes; and ! that such worthy inhabitants will inevifa- j I bly apply so the Americans f>r protection, ! who are too sagacious not to grant it in : | full. To prolong the war by n guerrilla sys- i ! tern the writer deems, therefore, suicidal for Mexico, The only other practicable mode, lie says, is the levee en masse of the j inhabitants, attacking ihe Yankees in front, in rear, and upon their flanks. Such a rising, ifTxecu'etl with spirit, vigor and courage, he thinks would bo successful, j although the Americans might gain ad- j vantages in the outset. Such a rising die editor fully approves of and still advoca- j tes, but it will never lake place, he says; j i not because it is impossible in itself, but , ! because the Mexicans do not heartily | i desirs it and have no intention of making i ’ it. Such being the case, he calls upon i ! his countrymen not to solicit a peace, but | to listen to the overtures which may be ; made to them. f!e writes with great | clearness and force, and had vve room we | would reproduce the article. Such ap- I peals mint tell powerfully in Mexico for | : peace. The people are unused to them. One of the last acts of (lon. Bravo while he remained in command was to sanction a plan for the preservation of order in the city, which was adopted by the municipal council. We should give the plan at length had it not been ultimately rejected by the Government, but the design was to j enrol the citizens, foreigners as well as ; natives, for the single purpose of watching | over the security of private persons and | property, and maintaining public order. I Os these citizens companies of thirty and forty were to he formed, « ho were to elect their own officers, &c., &c. The project was approved of hv Senor Anaya, by the Governor of the city, and finally by Gen. ! ; Bravo, When it was submitted to Senor ; Bir.ni la, the Minister of the Interior, it j was rejected by him summarily as being i I scandalous, impudent and dt testable in i I every respect. The council, neverlhiess, ; I promulgated the plan, which the Govern- j i ment arbitrarily interfered and suspended | | ihe operation of it. It receives no praise 1 i for this act fro n the Monitor; quite the | i reverse. The resignation which Gen. Rincon i tendered of his offi ve, as second in com- ! Tnand to Gen. Bravo, had not been ac cepted by the Government on the 29th j ul». In the Courricr Francois we find an ! extract from the Boletin dela Dcmocrada, I the organ of Fatias. It is a witty, caustic ! review ol the defence of Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo, made by Senor Jimenez. We can understand that Santa Anna finds his position uncomfortable with a few papers ot this kind, as witty as remorseless, [louring hot shot into him all the while, and he unable to defend himself by point ing to a single act ofsucceesful gallantry in this war by which to deprecate the contempt excited against him. [From (he N. O. Picayune. 23P inst. Matiy ot the officers ot Col. Doniphan’s command, now in this city, are startled by the accounts received of the utter dis organization of the troops left at Santa Fe under Col. Pi ice. Whilst Col. Doni phan’s regiment remained in New Mexi co, that of Col. Price was held in good discipline, and the colonel himself was esteemed a competent nerson to maintain order in the camp. The insubordination and demoralization of the regiment, of which such deplorable and frequent re ports have been received of late, are at tributed by several officers w id) whom we h ive conversed to the con noting influen ces of the society of Santa Fe upon the soldiery. In all New Mexico society is organized upon the most abandoned no tions of domestic fidelity. There is little marrying or giving in marriage there.— Unrestrainedconcnl luage is a recognized feature of the social system, and the man ners of the people are not formed upon any acknowledged right or obligation per taining to wedlock. It is feared that as ter the suppression of the insurrection in which Gov. Bent and many other Ameri can citizens were murdered, that theso!- d ers distributed through the towns to keep order and watch the movements of the citizens became contaminated by evil example, until the disoiders of the camp reflected the licentiousness of the coun try. Tne St, Louis papers, which may he supposed to take little pleasure in re porting such things, publishes letter after letter dwelling upon the fi arful abandon ment of the soldiery to the most profligate pastimes and vicious occupations’. With the exceptions of the artillery companies from St. Louis, and Capt. Agney’s com pany from Jefferson City, the hoops are said to have given themselves up to a de p-aved and barbarous course of life.— This stale of tilings is so difl r nt from that which existed at the time of Colonel Doniphan’s departure from Santa F /hat those of his officers with whom we nave conversed are at a loss to account for i - , unless it be that the soldiers were not able to resist the influence of a society which made a merit of prostitution. It was per haps in view of the power of evil exam pie upon the morals of men that one of the most intelligent officers of the Chihua hua expedition said to us, that “the more of that country we annex to the United States the worse off we will lie.” In Chi huahua there does not appear to he a ! ot ter social organization. There too, as in New Mexico, a gross sensuality predomi nates over all sense of shame. The country from Santa Fe so Chihuahua is as barren in soil as the inhabitants are destitute of principles of virtue. No rivers of water rnoLlen the arid rocks which are piled up in continuous ranges of mountains, or irrigate the scorching plains between. Nor do si reams of moral sentiment fructify minds which have been withered and parched by lust and ungodly incest. f From the Richmond Enquirer, 2hth in*f.] The Whig papers a re wasting columns to prove that Gen. 'Baylor not only did not sanction the march of the army to the Rio Grande, but looks upon the war as unnecessary and unjust, and wanton— being produced I >v the invasion on our pa r* ; if territory w Ircb belonged to Mexico. If this be so, it is most extraordinary that, in tlie discussion of the War Bill, in the U. S. Senate, the w hole body of Whig Senators voted for an amendment ot Mr. Crittenden, which confined the operations of our troops to the repelling “ invasion ” — thereby fully conceding that it was not our troops, but the Mexicans, who had invaded the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. This irae an im portant admission of the whole Vv big par ty in the U. S. Senate, But we do not mean so go over the ar. guments on the subject. Our sole design is to record what old “Rough and Ready” himself thinks of tLe course of the Whig press, which make it a daily habit of de nouncing the war as “miserable, atro ci uis, damnable,” &e. We have never imagined that Gen. P. could look upon their party violence, in justifying the pub lic enemv and opposing the side of their own Government, with other feelings than cordial dislike. We find the following anecdote in the Washington correspon dence of the Pennsylvanian : A gentleman now in this city, just from the army of Gen. Taylor, related to me an incident which I deem worthy of re petition. 'i'he gentleman was sitting in the lent of “old Rough and Ready” in con vernation, when they were interrupted by the appearance of a young officer who handed the old General a bundle of news, papers. “Here is one, General, that has your name up for the Presidency-” “Let me see it, sir. 1 ' The eld General looked at it for some minutes, scanning it with seeming interest. “Take it awav, sir,’ said the old hero gruffly; “I don’t believe in it—no one can support me wh i opposes the war—he’s worse than a Mexican! ’ The Editors of the North American will please “stick a pin there.” The Granite State Erect. We have cited many proofs that, while the Democrats on every occasion have applauded the valor and services of Gen. 'Taylor, Ids worst enemies are found in it e Whig ranks. We announce a new piece of evidence this morning. Last year, the pie-bald alliance of Wings "and Abolitionists obtained the control of New Hampshire and the Legislature re fused a vo’e of thanks to the officers and sol diers who have fought and are fighting our billies in Mexico. The Democrats are now in power, and have promptly wiped ont this disgrace. Gen. James Wilson, the Federal leader, and others of (he allies, made a strenuous opposition in the House —but. they were routed and the resolutions below pass ed. We call attention to the strong vote given against the first resolution : 1. Res )lved, by the Senate and < f ; i Representatives in general court convened, i Tliat the thanks of the Senate ot New Hamp shire he tendered to Major General Zirliary I Taylor and Major General Winfield Scott, : of the United States army, and to the brave 1 officers and soldiers under their respective : commands, fur their distinguished and gul hnt conduct during the several engagements j with the enemv, by whose act war now exists. Yeas 151, nays 108 2. Resolved. That we lender onr «vmpa thy to the friends and relatives ot the brave men who, since the commencement of the war, have fallen in defence of theif country. ; Yeas 184; nays 61. 3. Resolved, That; notwithstanding the repeated outrages of .Mexico upon the per sons and property of our citizens since the treaty of 1831—outrages which wouhl have justified, in the estimation of the c v Size I world lhe strongest measures for red res.- ! the course of onr government ha 3 been marked bv a spirit of forbearance and con* ; cilliation.until the series ot wrongs was con | stimulated by actual invasion ot our territory. , | Yeas 143; nays 63. i 4. Resolved, That in the measures of (he i national executive for the protection of our 9oU. the security of our citizens and the vin dication of Ihe rights and honor of our coun try, in reference to our relations with Mexi- I co and her invasion, we recognize not only i a spirit of justice, and a desire for peace, ! hut, at the same time wisdom, state-nunlike | forecast and patriotic energy. Yeas 140; nays 56. iii mm mtmmm ■. . iiiii, _ _ji ..i m i -.-I.—— ..i mirr— AUGUSTA. GEO.. Tl ESOAY MORNING, JIN E 20. 1847. ilj Subscribers residing in the upper part I of the city, who do not get their papers, will please send to the office for tiiern, as the car rier on that route is sick. Specie! The New Orleans Delta of the 23 1 in-t. says—“ Hungry Claim ints ter government gold, no longer growl! Your n d Uncle Sain has at last hearkened to your cries, and 1 determined to feed you to your heart’s con lent. Yesterday the steamer Gen. Pike, | Capt. Ross, arrived at this port, with only | one million of dollars in grid, for the service I ofThe Quartermaster’s Department.” ; IZcalitb of the Steifimy of Hie. ! The Washington Union, of Thursday says I —“We have been asked by our correspond ents —in consequence of some rumors that j have gone forth —what was the condition of the health of Mr. Robert J. W alker, Secre tary of the Treasury. We are happy to re ply, from having seen him yesterday, that, he is rapidly recovering his health alid speech. He speaks with more ease, and without diffi culty. His cheeks are acquiring the Hush ol health. His intellect, of course, is always healthy, active, and vigorous. But his labors ; have been sufficient to wear almost any man I down; and, with the view of re-establishing his health, he proposes, as soon as the Presi dent returns, if his public du'ies will admit of it, to visit some watering place lor a few days, to recruit his constitution.” Destructive Hail Morin. —Doss of Life, A destructive hail storm visited Peoria ! (HI.) recently. It continued for half an hour, 1 accompanied with high winds and heavy thunder; many of the hail stones that fell, measured from three to six inches in circum ference. The destruction to properly was very grea*; all the glass in Hie windows ex posed to it were broken, and even the sa.-h was cut through in many instances, while the gardens and fruit trees suffered great, damage. The forest trees were stripped of their foilage and curtail branches, and after the storm had passed, every thing around wore a shattered aspect. The house of Capt. Moss was struck by lightning during the atorm, and killed a little girl about eight I years of age. Capt. Tattnall, of tiie navy, left Pensacola on the 18lh iust. for the North via Savannah. The Gazette says he suffers linle inconveni ence from the wound in his hand which he received at Tuspan. He arrived at Savannah on Friday last. The cost ot Use engines tor me new steam ship United Slates, to run between New Or leans and Liverpool, will be §IIS.UOU, which is $15,000 more than those of the Wash ington. The steam ship Washington left New j York, and the steam ship Britannia, left B n i ton, nearly at the same time. Wagers to a considerable amount are, it is said, depend ing upon the speed of the two vessels. The impression is that the Washington will be successful, even though her qualities as a sea boat are unknown. Maryland Cr^ps*. The Baltimore Clipper slates that from I what il has heard and seen, the yield ot wheat | in Maryland, will be fully equal to that of last year, although there will be a deficiency | of straw. The grain is generally large and heavy. Os oats there may be a falling off i from the crop of last year, on account of the | long drought, which greatly retarded their growth. In regard to the corn crop, we j think it promises well, although it was af fecled by the drought, and injured by the cut worm. We have seen whole fields winch I had to be replanted from these causes. The I wheat harvest has already commenced on the Eastern Shore, and the wheal generally will be sufficiently ripe to cut by the first of July, or sooner. The Crops. A gentleman writing from the parish of . St. Landry to a friend in New Orleans says : 1 —“ Our prospects for all manner of crops ex- L ceeds anything we have experienced for a number of years. Corn, cotton and cane- are larger than 1 ever saw them at this season of 1 the year.” Crops in Indiana. The editor of the New Albany Bulletin says, that in the counties of Washington Orange, Jackson, Lawrence, Munroe, M» r gft.n and Owen, lie noticed that the wheat crop will not yield more than one fourth.— Many fields that presented flattering pros pects lust fall for a productive crop this sea son were so much injured by tlie winter fro.-fs that the farmers have ploughed them up and are cultivating them in corn. He observed a difference in the appearance of the crops, especially wheat, in the counties of Jackson, Lawrence, Morgan, and Owen. Where the soil is of a loam or sandy character, the wheat promises an average crop: but in the city soil, so far as he could learn, it is a gen eral failure, rite crops of corn and oats present a rfiost flattering appearance. The i editor states that the prospects for a plehli- - : ful fruit season are bad. The peacli ciop ft! * i almost dn eni ire failure. The Crop" in South Cnrolinnt The Charleston Mercury of the 28th insL says—“We have received intelligence from : various quarters of the Slate in relation tW 1 the growing empsj and we regret to say that : the Cotton cfop is represented, on all sides,- • to be in a most unfavorable and unpromising I condition. This is Ihe result of U r.mnbinatiori i of causes, among which the backwardness of the spring, and the recent heavy rains, are the im st prominent. The season is said to be at least three weeks later than usual,and the wet I weather has given such an impetus to the gr; ss,as almost entirely to check the growth and progress of the plant. It is the opinion of many intelligent planters,with whom we have been at some pains in conversing on the sub : ject. that it is almost too Irftc to hope for any material improvement, and that the crop of 1847 must fall far short of the general aver age. “Willi respect fograin of e verydescripflon, the accounts are much more favorable; and without some accident, we may confidently expect an abundant yield, both of Wheat and Indian Corn.” Sfldir. Snow 101 l in Boston, on Sunday morning week,*between one and two o’clock. The snow was very fine continuing about fifteen minutes, but melted as it fell. [Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun] Sew York, June 25, 0 P. M. The President at New York. The President readied here about one o'clock, and lias mes vvi’b a glorious re ception. He landed at Castle Garden amid the booming of cannon, the cheering of j the thousands assembled, and fsurronnrt j ed by numerous steamers, yachts, ami ! boats, dressed in Hags and filled with rVas sengers. The battery was covered with I spectators, and from almost every promt’- i nent point in the city the national flag was ; flying. in Castle Harden he was met by the Mayor and City Council, and welcomed to (he city. The President then passed from the Castle to the Battery, and seated in an open barouche, reviewed the immense body of military that were formed in line fb'- escort duty. This ceremony over, the procession moved, and a her passing through a large portion of the city, arrivt d at the Astot House at about 4 o'clock, where a fan fie join was fired Sv the mili -1 tary as he ei.tmed his quarters. The fmre j passed over by the escort, w hich was completely lined with people, was six miles long. It was die gj-eatest turn out | we have seen for many years. To morrow he receives visitors a* the : Governor’s room, and remains with ns j until Monday morning, when he " ill eni i bark for Boston. G. R. I mumm — juutm ■ jil uni i■— i utt— m awwweawMMMBMMMPPi KkUniomi SiStpei-lor (onri-Jniif Trim. PRESENT.'! F.NTS OF THE GR.VXD JURY. The Grand Jury fo'r tho second week of the Jmm Trnn of the Superior Court for the County of Richmond, beg leave to report ; i That the industry and attention of the H rood Jury of lh'- first week, lias nearly completed ali those examina tion* which are connected with the official dm e* of ouir body,and we have only to notice two remaining objects | of annual business, to wb : The Insolvent List of the Tax Collector for the year 1946, and the condition of the office, of the rink ol the I Court ol Ordinary. The Committee appointed to examine the first. aft<-r I careful and patient scrutiny, recommend that the sum, ; as claimed by him, amounting to $302,32, be allowed— | but that ho he required to make out full and complete at | phabctical lists of all the defaulters for e..ch separate i precinct or election box —and furnish the same to the re spective managers of elections in tho county, in order i that the Laws of force in such cases, may he properly ; and strictly enforced; and wo further call the special at tention of ihe Honorable the Judges of the Inferior i Court to this subject, earnestly requesting from them such aid and co-operation as will insure a rigid compli ance to the exact me nts of the lax Haws in regard to voters. j In connection with ,'iis subject, we are constrained to 1 notice soma imperfections in the Laws regulat up the col lection of Taxes. First, in reference to the course made obligatory an the Collector of issuing writs to he served j by the Sheriff at his own expense and risk, for the colli ca tion of duo, by defaulters. This we conceive to be un just and onerous upon that officer, and this could easily be obviated by giving him the necessary power to compel payment, where compulsion is or may-be necessary, with out expense to himself, if the measure prove unavailing, which, from the small amount of compensation received j by him is made desirable. And secondly, we believe the j compensation at lowed to the Receiver of Tax Retursa t* j bo inadequate to the value of the services required and performed by that officer. By the Law ol 1845, the j commissions of that officer was reduced by a scale, the effect of which is to pay in inverse proportion to the : work done, as thus: for a digest amounting tofSO,OOO the 1 Receiver is entitled by bs commissions to hut i! (he amount of Ihs digest should be §2o,i)ii 1 it would be ; reduced tos6oo 03— uch a result for the greater amount to receive less commissions than a smaller amount, used* no comment. We would therefore present the sai l Law as imperfect and partial in its operation, ami greatly sus ceptable of amendment in the specifications referred to- Tho county of Richmond is, and has been, proverbial for its just liberality. She requires the faithful dischargo I of a duty, hut at the same time is willing to requite, with | full and fair compensation, the officer called by the >oir« i of the people-to the performance of a duty, j The office of Receiver of Tax Returns requires a ) capable and efficient officer—and sttcit an one we cannot | exjmello procure far the rm»U sum which ii now paid—