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,n- i, , [IT - hi ■■ —mm ■» rmrm •wp '** *• - *--•* - •** 17 MIS «I" >■ 1 11 1 . _ - .THE CONSTiTUTIOMLIST. _., v . . - --■■■■ 1 | JAMES GARDNER. JR. k t i: R M s. Daily, per annum ■ 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum, r> 00 Tfpaid in advance ’ (, 0 Weekly, per annum, 3 (,u j If paid in advany 2 50 j To (''l'd**', teqyUina $lO iv atjvavce. FIVE COPIES a.e -ent. This will pnt our weekly pa,- n *r ia ihe reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, jv'/- Subscribers who will pay ur> arrearages, ar I send foer new sithscrihera, v, iili the money can p. i the paper at 5'2,00. {ty-All new subscriptions miiat be paid in advance. must he. paid on ail CtWfnißutucatioiis A mother’s Memories. Tlie “ship-wrecked affections” of the wife atul mo ther, choH2t« ho where else referred to in Mrs. F.mlci s “Year of Consolation” in Italy, and impassioned ulter aace in the occasional verse with which the pages of the Diary arc Interspersed —rising incidentally out ot some incident in the text, ”1 have seen to-day,” she writes, “the. first blossoms of the spring,” and hence arises to her desolate recollection this affecting maternal scene: The blossoms hang again upon the tree, .A.- when with their sweet breath they greeted me A*nilist my casfttn«Mit,on thnt sunny morn, U'h ’ii thou, first blossom of my spring was born. A id as I lay. panting from the fierce With death and agony that won thy life, Their snowy clusters hung on their brown hough, F/'*u n.< upon mv breast, my May hud, thou T.iey seemed to me thy sisters. Oh,inv child, Aud now the u r, full of their fragrance mild Recalls that hour; a ten-fold agony p,,p g ,t my heart-strings, as I think of thee. Was it in Vain ? Oh, was it all in vein ! T; at night of hope.of terror, and ot pain. When from the shadowy boundaries ot death I brought thee safely, breathing living breath Uoon mv heart —it was a holy shrine, Full of Goo’s praise—they laid thee, treasure mite. Aaifrom its tender depth- the blue heaven smiled, And the whi'e blossoms ho wed to thee, my child, And seMbm joy of a new life was spread, Inks a mv sieriotis halo, round that bed. And now how is it. since eleven years Have steeped I hat memory in bitterest tears A lone, heast-bruke.o, on a distant shore, .Thy child'ess mother sits lamenting o’er _ ' which the spring rails from this foreign em tn, hy twins, that crowned the mo ningofthy hit ill. v is it with thee—lost —lost—precious one! *v fresh spring-time growing up alone! w >i l rarinth unfolds thee?—« hat sweet dew# are shed, J'’! I*’ 1 *’ ’> and patience over the young head ? V. hat h- springs feed thy sweet inner life ? vV hat sb( >r< f| !Pe f r om passion’s deadly strife ?- .. f, t |j y gfowikystraigJil, strong, and full and • 4v>/ r . free, * “‘s.U’ and g'-jons, oh, my fur voting tree? '.r ’ o , u —FATHK«-., h0u —who by this awful fate .; sst Topp’d. anil 'ripp’d.and left me desolate! I'» the dark bitter s o(| , th ., t 0 -,. r n , v . soul, Tfeeir billows«t <lc.- nir roll, Lot me notfcs orerwtu n >j , 'From the .V. 0.-»i in.«f.J , From the Anr.y Q en , Taylor. ■'Hie Fashion touche* at Brazos Santi figo on the 20(h inst., on - lf i|. vovage from Vera Cruz, and brought o er thence the following gentlemen: Col. j p. Tavlor, ot‘ the Subsistence D< j nartrrN,>t. Cai>t. Chase, Adjutant Caldwell, 2d Kentucky Rfejuvent- and Lieuts. Wttosler, Mont gomery, Allen and Mizncr, ot the army. The Fashion also brought over forty discharged soldiers. ■! i From the Flag of the 19;h inst: wp loam that Capt. Eaton relieves Col. Tav lor in the charge of the Subsistence l)e --.? n * part orient, and will make his headquart ers at Brazos Island. Major Colquhoun acts as subsistence agent at Matamoros. The Flag makes graceful mention of :'T Col. Taylor's services while stationed vf ?l there. Major Ben McCulloch ha? arrive ! at the Brazos tflih 150 horses for the sdr vice. Fifty of them, says the Flog, will be reserved for his o«’ij spy company, anti the#rest probably used in Col. Butler’s dragoons. 'File Flag sug gests that Col. B. should range the coun try between Matamoros and Victoria. Cart. \V. R. Andrews, of the I Oth In fantry, has been ordered North on ac count of Sickness, resulting from injuries received in the wreck of the Mobile on Orange Keys. Two robberies are mentioned in the Flag as Soccurring within the limits of O ' u the city. The same paper also mentions the death of John Comegys, a man well known here as a printer and reporter. — He was accidentally slid on hoard (he steamer Wfiyfcville, just below Reyiosa, on the 16i|j Inst., under the cir cumstancbs. Mr. Camegys, wiiilc resting“P° n a GOt on the boat, amused himself °y playing with,* Mexican boy about den years of age. The hoy, in a spo >l] ve mood, pick ”u an old Korsemap’ B pistol that had been e.jving aboutboat, and which n ° one even ean was i°. a<; i e d. point ed it at Mr, Q /P u,le ‘ , ,he logger. A ball issued Eg e r,nj^z^ an( i penetrat ed one of l,j ™|d° s > killed him instant- He . buried at Reynosa. Mr C jmecrys j* 3 a native of Pennsylvania, a prinikft’ profession, and had worked in thfa&iee. He was for sometime a cierJfSh it)e Quartermaster’s Department, ; d ie lime of his decease oftiorated i capacity on the Whiteville. His <ite will be lamented by all who knew .Vim, and furnishes another impressive lesson to show with what exceeding care fire arms should be handled. We give below a letter from our cor respondent now at Monterey, though it is not so late as accounts received here several days since. We regret to say that he had suffered a relapse of his ill ness, brought on by the fatigues of a se vere ride when yet feeble. At last ac counts, however, he was better, and we i doubt not will shortly be ‘ ! at himself.” ** ’ [S/ ecial Correspondence of the Picayune } Monterey, Mexico, June fi, 1847. % Once again I am enabled to resume |s:iy pen, which a severe relapse of the f ,'e v er under which I suffered so severely at Saltillo has* prevented me from using' lor several days. I have had a tough time ot it, but, thank Fortune, am now on r i“lhe Improvement Committee,” and hope 'soon to rcgai.i my strength. At present ; no scales save an apothecary’s would weigh a sufficiently smali quantity to make a correct estimate of my w eight.— : j wrote you a loiter an the 30th nit. i nd »e Is: iust., but you will probably gel i :'ois letter as soon. Since the Ist inst 1 M: ‘ " ' Pi mm mm mm !■*■«*> ummm until to day I have been confined to rny bed. The Illinois volunteers an I Capt. Pike s squadiou of Afkan-as cavalry have been , here several days, but leave to-morrow for Camargo and home. Since 1 left Saltillo news has reached us of quite a successful scout of Eieut. i Tobin, wiiij a party of McCulloch’s Ran gors, which I presume Co/, bclknap will | have no nh'trcticm In his mentioning. When a long distance from Buena \ isla (near what place I have been unable to learn) he discovered a parly of ten or a doz* n , armed persons, and gave chase. It prov ed lo be a Mexican express rider from i j I fen. Sanchez at Patos to the Governor j of Sau Luis, with an escort,* mostly de sorters from our airnv. Ihe bearer of ! despatches and his horse and papers were captured, but ihe men escaped. The con- j i tents of the despatches conveyed ttie in- | formation that there were very few Amer ican tmops in the neighborhood of Sallil j 10, at that city, or along the lino; people smarting under injuries and wrongs, and anxious lo fight to die for their conn- i I try, but prevented from want of means i from resenting their injuries, and recom- ! mending that troops be despatched with all possible speed to rpiale Saltillo, an easy taJ< ! This information I derive ! from, 1 am induced to believe, an authen j tic source, and ihe above is the purport i 1 of the despatch. They would hardly I t come with anv very large force, except 1 perhaps cavalry, and they are of no ac count. They can scarcely have any ar tdfery now to spare, and I am a little , afraid that Gen. Sanchez if he it was who j i sent the despatch, would not realize his ; | expectation of its being such ‘‘an easy task.” There is “a pretty smart chance” ‘ of artillery in that neighborhood. The horse which the Mexican despatch j hearer rode, singular to say, was one sio ' len from Lieut. Stiwgis some months since. On. Wool, lam told, despatch- I ed some of the rangers and a company of dragoons after the residue of the party as | soon as Lieut. Tobin reported. If they are taken, and are deserters, they will j have a hard time of it. I have alluded in my previous letters to the murders committed at Saltillo by i Mexicans upon Americans. Then killed I one loomany. On the 31st ult. a member : of the Arkansas cavalry, while leading liis horse in a grove near the Alameda, used a* a race track, was accosted by two Mexicans, who extended their hands | io him in a friendly manner; but, instead I of the grasp of friendship, the assassin’s knife was plunged into his heart, and he was cart into a ditch, while his horse was made away * Some of die companions | # of the deceased, wV.o came to join him on ihe track soon after, d.i&oovered traces of : blood, and on pursuing them found the j wounded man breathing Ids !asf, wnu Gist life enough to tell the cause of Jus situa tion. Not far from the place two ;vi xi cans were shortly afterwards discovered, whose conduct was suspicious, and they were capture I. U was afterwards deem ed inadvisable to permit them to be regu larly tried; a party of men demanded them, and they were taken out and shot, t [n the sleeve of one was found a bloody knife, corresponding with the size of ihe 1 wound. This was not to slate that many Mexicans were killed* that day—some say seventeen, and some j say more. Comment is unnecessary. Col. Curtis, formerly of the Ohio regi ment, has volunteered for the war, and been appointed Governor of Saltillo. We have no*piore news of Crrea, and heard nothing of any guerilla parties as vet. The 2d battalion of Virginia • 1 volunteers garrison this place, but '"‘tl j move on as soon as they can be relieved, i There is stiill a good deal of sickness t here, hut of a mild character, and but few deaths. For die I few days we \ 1 have had several showers during the day, and 1 imagine it-is brewing un for the | rainy season. You will probably have an opportunity of seeing the portraits of Gen. Taylor by Mr. Atwood in New Or leans. Mr. R.. G- Brown, a portrait paint- i er from Virginia, hag also-come out to take portraits-of the general and the mem-' bers of his staff. It seems there is still a bare possibility I of our going to "San Luis at a more ad vanced period than was contemplated by I Gen. Taylor at first, but all depends up- I on whether tiie troops can he had. Tire despatches brought from Wash ington by Mr. Bradish, who left vour citv 1 |on the 21st tilt., were of no importance, and (heir date was not so late by several j days as Washington papers received by mail, ] believe I Hava cp you «11 tlio items of news that have reached me, so farewell for the present, j. e. d. [Prom the ,V. O. Picayune 24 ] The Alleghany, i This vessel is yet laying opposite the ci f y. She has not. we believe been ordered to any j particular duty. Coining immediately from the West, it will require some days to recruit a sufficient crew and get in condition lo go to j sea. Many circumstances combine to make the future operations ol the Alleghany an ob ject of great interest to a large portion of the people of the United tStates. She has been built and rigged and armed in the interior of the country. Her keel was laid 2,000 miles fmrn the sea shore. Herspars I and rigging were fitted at the naval depot at Memphis. Her guns were cast at Pittsburg, and she now approaches the hroad ocean as the representative of rfie West; or as a sam ple of what the West can do in fitting out war steamers. The arrival here of a war vessel of her class from Pittsburg solves a problem j that concerns more than the people of the West.Tt shows that the United Slates, under whatever investment of the seaboard, will have a naval resource beyond the chances of foreign invasion. The Alleghany is the realization of Lieut. Hunter's idea of a vessel constructed !q>on his plan. Her motive power is below tire water line. There is no part of her machinery vnl- : nerable to thb shot of an enemy. Her paddle j wheels are horizontal and submerged, so that I I they are safer from injury limn even Er ricson's submerged propellers, which set ver j tically in the water, the upper portion being i within dangerous proximity to the surface. The Government has expended a large sum i of monev in testing his plan. L'eut. Hunter s i theory was just plainibue enough to escape | peremptory condemnation, but not sutnciently i obvious to defy scepticism. 1 tie trials of it heretofore we e made by persons who had Hale faith in ;t. Now we have a vessel that was constructed under his immediate super- j vision, one upon which he is satisfied to wager i (he merit of his invention. The advantages : , of the submerged hor znntal paddle wheel are j so important that a full and complete trad of the Alleghany is a matter of immediate im portance. If she is ordered down to Vera j 1 Cruz load as flag-ship of the squadron, or | do blockade duly, or make short voyages be j tween beieagured ports, it wi i 1 be a longtime before she can be thoroughly tried as a sea j going vessel. There being no -pressing ne- ! | cessity for her in the ?q iadron,tlie Navy De- ; | parlmeut would gratify the whole Western country by ordering her first to tire N«rt_h, and then sending her on a cruise across the \ ocean under her gallant contractor. We I confess a great anxety to see this child of the j 1 West pul to the trial of a long voyage. We , I would have her run the gauntlet of the high ! seas, visit the Mediterranean, the British channel and the Baltic. Let her go along until .~lie establishes her reputation as a sue- | cessfui war steamer of proves a failure. \\ e know of no vessel afloat about which so deep an interest is felt by so large a number of persons. Apart from a general desire, which 1 is feit no d*>uhl throughout the Union, that an invention of one of our naval officers should coutrjjju*e to the per'ection of sea-going steam vessjTs of war. every’ body this of the Anjft&chian iMouutfeels an ittividual | anweu* abnut llie of this We are pervaded tha4Mhe Qepartmed"cotTld not. by a single act, gratify so large a mimtfbr of people as bv giving die Alleghanv a fair trial, j Cut her loose noon tfie broad ocean, and let ) her d-» credit t<» Iter breeding or lapse in to , the category of common-phmee things. Jolm Tyler Heading the Whigs* Alter manv abortive efforts upon the ( part of the whigs to head John 'Tyler, it seems, he has at length succeeded in turning the tables upon that hopeful par ty. We give the story as we heard it. It seems that during die last winter or spring, a county couit in Mr. 'Tyler's country, composed of several whig Jus tices of the Peace, with a view to morti fy and humble Mr. 'Tyler for bis political sin, of turning democrat, appointed him overseer of a road, w ith the intention of enforcing die duties, or impose the fine in such cases made and provided in the statute. The law of Virginia, it seems, speci fies no limited time for working on and repairing roads, but its terms declares they shall be put and kept in good order. Accordingly, Mr. Tyler being notified of i this new honor conferred, sat about to ! discharge bis duty. To the delight of his patron Justices and whig brethren, be | was soon seen riding through the neigh borhood, summoning the hands to work.— j Ihe j l- e was too good to be lost, and . mtmy a whig countenance was lit up with strides, at the ihougv« that the ex presi i dent, was f?t length harne.v>a(| with such ; a mortifying dt?ty- O. i John, however, had too often do'lged their leaders, to be hea o 1 by the sm-iT fry. I He commenced his labors as a faitbfu | public servant. The road being very un dulating, he rj terrnin? 1 to cut down the I hills, fill up the gullies and ravines. ! make it a good level turnpike road- lOy ! by day he ’plied himself to tits work.— ffills and vales attested his industry.— 'The effects of his d 'lgence was not only visible on the road itself, but the neigh frors farn»" soon to show that ]usl ! in proportion as the road proceeded, j fences, ditches, hedges, plowing, carting, an I every other plantation service was 1 neglected. For this there was no rerne. dy. The hands were all upon the road. The joke became, in truth, a serious mat , ter. The smiles, that lately illuminated every countenance, turned into ghastly and frightful dismay. A public meet- j ingof the whole neighborhood was called, j | Headed by the august Just ices, they pro- i ceed to the scene of operations and begged ! Mr. Tyler for God sake, for their sakes, {and perhaps for the sake of Ireland.) to quit workingon the road and lei the hands go home. Mr. Tyler replied, “that the , Jaw made it his duty to put the road in : good order , and to keep it. in such. There ; wree yet a good many had hills to be cut I down and ravines to be filed; till that was done, he felt it his hounden duty to work 1 on. He should dislike to he presented by the grand jury for neglect of duty iinme | dial ely after his appointment. The Jus • tices promised to excuse him if he should | be indicted before them. “He preferred i co pOtce himself above ihe cfcmrncy us the court.' 'J he Justices then begged him to resign. Mr. Tyler-replied ‘'that off ces were hard to obtain these times, and having no assurance that, he should soon ; obtain another , he could not think , under ! the circumstances , of resigning.” It is said he kept the hands at work upon the road, widening, excavating, fill ing, gravelling, and McAJamising for nearly two months, making one of the best roads in the Union. It isthoughtby many that the road will not need repair again for the next century. Wonder if the whigs will make another effort to head 1 him? JUSTITIA. Mammoth Tomato. O i yesterday we were shown a Toma to, the product of Mr. John I). Howell’s garden, weighing seventeen ounces. — This is rather ahead of anything that has come within our observation in the To mato line. —Fort Gaines Volunteer, 2Gth inst. During the past week, a religious im pulse has been manifest in our village. Frequent meetings were held and attend ed by all denominations, who combined in the true spirit of Christian unity, for the purpose of doing good—and we are 1 II 111 111 ■ HIM 111 nr I - rnrrnrmrm happv to see strong evidence of the rich fruit of their labor. The meeting is still going on.— Th. AUGUSTA GEO.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE &), 1847. ILTSubscribers residing in the upper part of the city, who do not get their papers, will ; please send to the office for them, us the car | rier on that route is sirk. Camp Jleetiusr* We are requested to state that the Rich- ■ j nrmnd Camp Meeting will commence on Fri | dav night the Oth ot Julv. I w O O alors of France. We have received from .Mr. C. E. Gren ville, a neat volume, under the above title.— It is by Timon, (V-scount de Cormenin,) | translated by a member of the New York Bar from the XlVih Paris Edition, withan es | say on the rise of French Revolutionary Elo- I quence, and the orators of the Gomndists, by I J. T. Headley. The work is enibelished with portraits of Mirabean, Danton, Napoleon, Lamantene, Guizot and 'I h ers. We have not had lime to give it a perusal,but our m r'.h ern cutemporaries speak very highly of it. Geoigia iboui. ft is always a pleasure to us to notice any improvements made in the manufacture of an ! article the production of our Slate, and more j ; particularly that of Flour, to which but re- I centlv our country friends have turned their attention, and which will, ere lung, be one of ! | the principal articles of export from our sea board, should the same improvements con tinue in preparing it for market, which has marked its progress thus far. 'These re ' marks are caused by viewing a lot of about ■ thirty barrels yeslerday.at the store of Messrs, i William s’ on Broad street, received from the mills of Gen. D. M. Burns, situate in Jack- I son county. The fl uir bears the brand ‘•Planter’s Mills,” and is marked No. 1, Ex. I No. 1, and No. 2. The No. 1, Ex. is a very superior article, and No. lis but line infe rior. Thebbls.vve understand are full weight, and for neatness of make and hoopage will compare with any northern. 'The only thing i wanted is oak instead of pine headings, and we understand it is the intention of the Gen i era! to use oak headings in all hereafter sent to this market. Gen. B. has set an example to those in the flour business which we hope | will be followed, and he has our beat wishes j fur success in his new undertaking. The Democratic State Convcutionj which as- | seniblcd at Annapolis on Thursday, nominated : the Hon. Piiilip Francis 'Thomas, of Talbot county, as the candidate of the party for the of -1 icvcrnor. Mr. T. was chosen on the first ballot, which stood as follows: Thomas, uG; Stew- t ait. 37; Humphries, 7. Lloyd. 3. The President in Now York* 'The President reached New York on Fri day last at half past 2, P. M., and was greet- | ed by a large military cavalcade and dis , charges of artillery. The Express says | Mayor Brady, in behalf of the city, welcomed him and offered him the hospitalities of the ! city. The President icp/iVj in a a?w bi icr words, i thanking him fur llie kindness and courtesy j extended. W c will give a detailed account in our ! next. 0. —. One Day Later Lorn Vera Crux. The New O.leans Picayune of the 21th inst. says—“ The steamship F ashion, Captain Ivy, arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz, via Brazos Santiago. She left I lie former port J on the 17th inst., the dav after the James L. ! Day. She brought over from Vera Cruz Dr. | C. T. Dardy, of the Palmetto Regiment. “We have no letters from Gen. Scott’s ar- i | my by this arrival, or from the city of Vera | i Cruz. We cannot learn that there bad been | any later arrival in tfiat city from the arrnv ; above; we presume there was none. The most contradictory rumors are sa : d to prevail in Vera Cruz in regard to Gen. Scott’s move- \ merits. We prefer to give none of them, j having no faith in them. We have no con- j j firmalion of the truth of a report that Ihe j Mexicans had made overtures to Gen. Scott for peace, though Capt. Ivy heard the same report brought by Capt. V\ ood. We are now j more than ever convinced that the rumor was without foundation.” The Matamoros Fiag copies the Constilu • lion of a band of Mexican Rubbers. It con i tains forty Articles, the la«f *►«•> of rrhioh I reads thus: Art. 40. The principal object of this con stitution is to elude the vigilance of those I foolish judges who think they can exterminate us, without reflecting that our profession is the master-passion of man, which induce* him to obtain, with the smallest trouble, that wealth by which pleasure can be procured. | As long as riches are sought after we shall continue to have imita ors; to become perfect ; these imitators must have valor, activity, zeal, ; liberality, and constancy; which five qualifi cations are only to be acquired by despising j life, honor and interest. WhaPfihilosophical scoundrels they have been! - The exports of Flour from New York since ! the Ist instant are upwards of ’Jbs.OOO barrels, or more than 10.000 bids, per day. Tire exports oG Corn, Wheat and Barley, during the same time, 1 were nearly a million bushels—about forty thou sand bushels a day. The Ex press says that this is an amount of expoit altogether unprecedcnt- j cd. The Crops. The present season, observes the Franklin (La.) Planters’ Banner of the 17th inst., has been the best we have ever known for the cul tivation of crop=. We have only to complain of 100 much dry weather. Last night we had a heavy rain. mm . * .'I ■ '■ *mm. nm»ni | P r ty r W (UrThe following letter from an officer of the Richmond Volunteers, will he read with interest by the relatives and friends of tlre members. Letters sent to the members of this company should be directed, after speci fying the name, 13th Infantry, U. IS. A , Gen. j Taylor’s Division. * Matamoros, Mexico, June 14,1847. “Yoii have no doubt learned heWe this of j our long passage out. Notwithstanding we were twenty-nine days on shipboard and much crowded, h iving two companies, in all about one hundred and sixty men, yet we remained healthy, and not the slightest acci dent occurred to mar the pleasures of the j voyage. “We landed at Brazos on the 27:h May, and received an order to proceed forthwith to tins pi ace, which I did after Ling at the j mouth of the Rio Grande one and a halfdays j awaiting our stores, baggage, etc ; , which was sent round on a steamer from Brazos to the mouth of lie river. I at this place on the night of the 29th, and encamped , o i the bank of the river, on the ground oc cupied by a portion of the iOtii Regiment, u ider the command of Lieut. Col. Fay. I was not permitted to remain here long, tor ! on the I -I, I received an order from Col. Dtv- j enport, commandant of this place, to proceed firthwithto Fort Paredes and llit*re aw til further orders, where I still remain with my command. Being a little unwell a day or two since, 1 look lodgings in town to take a little medicine, and now feel that Richard is him self again; this accounts for my letter befog j dated at Matamoros. I shall return to rny command to-morrow morning, I lake plea sure in saying that in a short time I shall have a disciplined eorp-; in fact 1 hive been here over two weeks and have not had a sin gle case of drunkenness, nor a fight during the time, nor have I had occasion to punish | a single man; but well they know punish- i ment follows disobedience. I have had, and I j do have daily on (be sick report, a few men i sick, but not a single case has yet been sent to the hospital. Il does seem to me that with due prudence there can be but little danger of getting sick here, for the climate is most delicious; we have a soft and gentle ; breeze every hour in the day, which makes it delightful. The lands on this river are the finest I have ever met with anywhere* As to the anticipated movements of tins divi- j i sion of the army, but little i.-> known; this j | much however is very certain, that General | Taylor cannot advance on San Luis PotoM, I 1 until he is re-enforced, which from the pre j sent prospects will tube till full. 1 am the | only one in the field of the 13th Regiment. | 1 should like to know where A, B, C, D, E and F i-; I suppose lliey will be the right I sort of fellows when they gel here. We can ; learn but little here of the movements o: f | Gen’l. Scott, bat presume he is on his way to the City of Mexico. Whenever anything of ; interest shall occur, I will drop you a line. “Yours Iruly.” The Bank of Hamburg, S. C., hr.s declar ed a dividend of Two Dollars per share, being 4 per cent, for the !a<t six months, payable on or after first ol July next. The New York Courier says, that, the fon i nage of the steamer “United States.” trow building in that city for Charles li. Marshall, | E-q , and others, will be 3,031 tuns. Some j idea may be had of her dimensions when if is recollected that the tonnage of the U. 8. ship Pennsylvania, said to be the ves sel in the world, is 3,000 tons. 'The length of the spar-deck of the “U. States” will be j 251 feet, whilst that of the Pennsylvania is j 219 feet. Notwithstanding her sz* »he is j so modelled that, with all her coa! and stores | "on board, the luggage of the passengers, and j some 600 tons of cargo, it is calculated rfiat j her draft of water will be light enough to | permit her to enter such ports as New Or leans, or Havre, between which she is te p!v regularly. Another fine vessel is also in course of j construction immediately alongside of this : sfeamer. intended for the old Live-pool black ball line, and to be called the “Isaac Wright.” ►She will be 1200 tons register, and yet,com pared with the hugh steamer we have just j mentioned, she looks, remarks the Courier, 1 i like a coaster. The Jackson Monument Committee have advertised for proposals to furnish and deliver in Lafayette Square, Washington, “a solid rude rock of granite or other durable stone, jif bata’ijpn 600 an<l 1000 tons ill weight as near as may be of the latter weight.” The rock is to he used as a pedestal for the pro posed monument. The Milton (N. C.) Chronicle thinks an average crop of Wheat will he made in that region; Corn is promising, though it is yet too soon to form any opinion as to the result; ; and the Irish Potato crop will he larger than for years past. Tobacco, it says, is not doing j so well, the bug causing great destruction among the plants. | The hay crop in New-England this season is said to exceed all past experience. It is ! there considered more important and valua ble than the other crop. Mr. Buchanan, the Secretary of State, left Washington in the cars at 12 o’clock to day, for Baltimore. He expects to overtake the President in New York, and to accom pany him during the rest of his tour. Mr. Buchanan is accompanied, as liras Boston by A. Dudley Mann, e-q , the distinguished negotiator of the treaty with Hanover, who expects to embark for Europe in Hie steamer on Thursday next. We understand that John Y. Mason, e-q . the Secretary of the N ivy, will act as Secre tary of State during the absence of Mr. Buch anan,— Washington Union, 26'A inst. [From thr .V. O. Delta.2ith in.ft.j Views of a \ oiunteer. OK, IHR OriNIONS or WILDFIRE. The Recorders dock was yesterday crowded with all soils of occupants.— There was crone with her dirty check apron folded over her head, who looked like a very ancient, filthy sprei men of Rachael going to the well; there was the little w eazened faced “wharf-ral” in a coat a smile too big for him, and trousers of the same dimensions; there was the rough honest son of Neptune, who didnh care a d— n whether he was sent him to pick oakum in the Workhouse or curse the cook for making bad !ohscou*e or sour “dutF ’on board Ids ship. The imtornmnte courtesan, decked out in gay tihho-'s and “Peter Funk” jewelry, with features perfectly galvanized by vice and therefore entirely impervious to si •me, stood hv Hie side df the miserable loafer, ; who, lo'l to all pride and propriety of | conduct, cared not whether the Recorder -.eni to the Wok house or Death least d him a grave. In the centre of this md. lev cr< wd, with hD long arms resting on | the ratling of the d< ok, sat Will Wildfire, a discharged voliJn’eer. Will had cm a | coarse blue cloth jacket with broad white I stripes in acute angles on tin? arms, and anv quantitv of tarnished bia>s buttons i down the front and about the sleeves.—- His pantaloons might have been made for (F n Mi non or Canales for aught we know. The v were made of green cot toll velvet slashed with wide seams of shining black leather, and ornamented with any quantity of little silver buttons, which jingled like Shakspea re’s hells‘‘all out of j tune.' ’ W ill had evidently left the rude | couch of war for*a bed quite as hard, that lis tosav the street. Will’s hands were too nervous to grasp the buit-end of a runs -1 ket, and his brain too much flurried to I answer to the questions of the greenest j martinet in the art of war, hut Will’s ! tongue was very voluble, and it trembled ; like tiie wire of a magnetic telegraph to I give vent to its burthen. “Will Wildfire,” said the Recorded, “vou were found drunk last night.” Will rose majestically, and saluting I the Recorder, said “You’re right, Can : tain; but may I be presumed to talk to this (' )itrt ;Ma i lia! ?” “You cm state your case, but do not he long about it.” “Sir —1 beg ver pardon, Capt, ]’m rig: I straight from Tennessee, but would ji-l as leave been born in K iintuck or Mis sissippi. When S heer’d that old boss Doimiplian was gr»in to raise a regiment in go th’ough* Chew warwa r and Santa Fee. 1 dropped my plane and told the i planks that thev might go to h —ll. WeP, i I fond that 1 couldn’t go along with him, ! sol started down the river, and at L mis i ville 1 jiued Maishali’s cavalry. 1 had i the cussedest boss that you over did see, i hut he was a snorter when a fight come j on. He’d break his man ingale and throw out his hind feet as if he wanted to kick i ihe whole Mexican nation into futurity, 1 and there was one small Mexican gentle i man that I think was knocked considera ! hiy far into that mellifluent stale —and— ’’ “ We don’t wand to hear an vt hing a I xml your horse; we only want toliotir how it j was that you wptc found drunk in the | 'treets last night.” “Whv, you sec, Colonel, ’bout a week | ago old Col. Lamed, the paymaster, i give me my dimes, and asked one of my mess, Rill Jones, if lie wouldn’t take a | drink. We took a couple of horns and j got a talkin about polyticks. Bill sai l j the wdigs was gain to run Gen. Taylor j for President, ami I said the old man wouldn't run no how. He then said that Gen. .Scot i was the man w ho had planned ] out all our battles, ami 1 told him ifohj ! Zich had been let alone he'd had his ol 1 j crooked nose smellin the perfumes of the i halls of dm Monterzumer.s months ago.—• Bill got mad at this, for he’s an all-fired strorpr Sno t man. and we took another ho>n. Conin out of the doggery, Bid told me 1 was a fool and I. told him he was a liar. He gave me a Palo Alio lick in the head, and 1 returned thecornpli ! men! by a regular Monterey sckdologer jin his fiead basket. Ho then come the ! Cerro Cordo lech on rnv nose, w hicli I j repaid with *a l» teiia Vista [»lug in his mouth. This lick settled him. aider which | I went to lake a horn, and I guess 1 ful lered ’em up until I was wus.s than the beast with seven horns spoken of in ttie Revelations.” The Recorder read Villa lecture,and | told him that i: would be well for him U> draw out bv rnoansofan emetic the horns | that lie hu 1 tak- n, and never again med j die with military politician*. Shipwreck. The schr. Henry Jenkins, Captain Wass forcl, with a cargo ot Fruit, from Barcox tor tSavarimth. was lost on one of I lie Bahamas, about ten days since. Vessel and cargo a | lofal loss; officers and crew saved. The captain and mate had left for Nevv-F vi dence to obtain a passage to ihe United States. We obtained the above particulars from one ! of her crew, who arrived at this port yester i day in the Spanish sebr. Jupiter, from Xtbara. j — Charleston Courier, 29 (h insl. | itIVKIUEI). On Sunday evenin'*, -7th June, by the Rev. J . ; E. Evans, L. C. SERVICE, to 3ii«s C. H. S. | DAVIS, all of this city. Wistai’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. The extraordinary success attending the use of this medicine in the diseases of the lungs, and the many singular cures it has effected, having naturally attracted the attention of many physi cians, as well as the whole fraternity of quacks, various conjectures and surmises have arisen re specting its composition; some physicians have supposed it to contain iodine, other ignorant pre tenders ?av it must contain mercury mid to some such substance they each attribute its singular e - As such opinions are altogether, errone ous, and calculated to prejudice many persons against it. we PLEDGE OUR HONOR that it contains nothing of this kind, or anything the