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[From the Albany Banner .]
ARoview of the Party Action ofthe Whigs
in the last Legislature.
NO. 11.
Mr. Editor;
In my last number, I said that in this I
would review the course pursued by whigery in
the last Legislature, on the occasion of the re- |
signation and re-election to the Senate, of their
♦‘Magnus-Apollo,” the Hon John McPherson
Berrien. I remarked that a broad, clear line
divided Democracy from Whigery: the one
party planting itself upon equal rights—equali
ty in all political and social relations; the other
adopting a system of partial and class Legis- j
lotion —fawning upon and worshiping greatness
and glare whether of mind or of money; and
that I should, in illustration of this clear line
of division between the two parties, comment
upon the course of Whigery on the memora
ble occasion above alluded to.
It will be remembered by your readers that
the first important question before the last
Legislature arose upon the propriety of going
into the election of a United States Senator.
Mr. Berrien’s term of office expired on the
fourth of March, 1847. The Legislature met
on the Ist Monday in November, 1845. By I
the constitution, they were required to meet :
again in November, 1847. The Whigs contend
ed that inasmuch as the Senate of the United
States might be called together in extra session
between March and November, 1847, the elec
tion for Senator ought to take place by the
Legislature then in session. The Democrats j
contended that there was no earthly probabili
ty of an extra session being called, and even if
one should be called, the Governor could ap
point a successor to Mr. Berrien, and if he did
not possess the constitutional power to ap
point in such a case,still, when the emergency
arose, he could call together the Legislature to i
elect such successor. They further objected!
to the election at that time, because the Sena- i
tor would bo elected two years before ho could
take his seat, and would not go to Congress
fresh from his constituents; and because the
Whigs had refused to make the Senatorial elec- :
tion an issue in the canvass for Governor and
members of the Legislature. The question,
however, was suddenly sprung upon the
Legislature by a Democratic member of the I
Senate. A resolution had been introduced
Betting apart that day at 12 o’clock for the!
election of Judges and Solicitors. A member ;
on the Democratic side moved to amend the I
resolution by adding a clause to bring on the
election of Senator, thinking, doubtless, either
that the Whigs would vote down the amend
ment or would go into the election unprepar
ed, and confusion would be the result. The
Whigs, however voted for it, the amendment
was carried and the resolution thus amended .
brought to the House. It'was debated in the I
House until the hour set apart —12 o’clock — I
had passed, and the Senate had adjourned.— .
The House then adjourned without further
action on it at the time; but the next morning
Whigery in its lorn passed the resolution
just as it stood, and resolved to-day to go into j
the election of Senator and Judges yesterday at j
12 o'clock] Mr. Chappell, the President ofthe
Senate, refused to attest any such absurdity, j
and the w'hole affair fell still-born. The con
ieqnences, however, were very important, ;
illustrating most beautifully the faculty with
which the “rank and die” of Whigery in the
Legislature is cuffed and kicked about by the
leader* of Whigery there.
Aware that they had a majority of ten in the
House and that they could make that majori
ty do anything —even resolve to go into elec
tions on a day past and gone forever—and not
dreaming that the resolution would be arrested
by the President of the Senate before it got to
the Governor, (who no doubt would have
signed it foolish as it was,) the Whigs met in
grand caucus at Beecher & Brown’s to deter
mine who should be the Senator. All the peo
ple of Georgia, Whig and Democrat, except a
few wire-workers of Whigery—ultra and
hangers-on of Mr. Berrien, had got sick a;ad
t rad of that distinguished statesman. Though
his lips were honey and his voice music, they
cared not. He had voted against the annexa
tion of Texas, had proclaimed himself an advo- (
cate of protection for the sake of protection,
and was altogether too fond of affiliating with
Daniel Webster and hugging John Quincy
Adams.
Well, the caucus met. A member proposed
that “our able, distinguished and patriotic
Senator, Mr. Berrien, be nominated by accla
mation unanimously.” That, however, w-as
too strong even for Whigery to swallow at |
one gulp; for Whigery was then fresh in from
the people and reflected the popular will, and
the leaders, up to that time,had not drilled the
underlings and prepared their minds to disre
gard the will of those who had elected them. |
So, another member proposed to go into the
nomination of a Senator by ballot and this mo
tion prevailed by a large majority. Mr. Ber
rien’s name was put in nomination, also that i
of Judge Dougherty of Clark, and perhaps, if i
I have hoard aright, Col. Wm. Dawson’s of
Greene; and the caucus proceeded to decide
the question between these names by ballot.—
Out of ninety-two Whig members of the Le
gislature, Mr. Berrien received some twenty
five votes, CoL Dawson two and Judge Dough
erty the remainder of those present at the cau
cus. The latter gentleman was thus nomi
nated by an overwhelming vote, and Mr. Ber- !
yien, as every body believed, “laid forever on
the shelf.”
The scene the next day, as it opened in the
halls of Legislation, the public taverns, and the
streets of the Capital, was amusing beyond de
scription; and if I wielded the graphic and
humorous pen of Judge Longstreet, and had
the bitter tongue with the unrelenting heart
of Junius, I could not, Mr. Editor, do justice
to that scene. Mr. Speaker Jenkins, w hen he
took the Chair in the House, had the appear
ance of having passed through a spell of sick
ness, mournful and melting was his usually
calm and clear voice, red with weeping appear- j
cd his eyes, and his round, full face that was
wont to reflect so pleasantly the feelings of a j
kind heart, had grown in that single night
long and blank and lean. A by-stander re- i
marked in my hearing “what, in the name of
God, is the matter with Jenkins —his face is
twelve inches longer than ’tw-as yesterday.”—
Mr. Iverson Harris, doting upon Judge Ber
rien as his “beau ideal” of statesmanship, and
grateful for his defence of his unfortunate son,
fitful and restless, moved about the House dis
consolate, unable to keep his scat five minutes ■
» tima. Mr. Hull appear ed uneasy—anx- j
ious to bo pacificator, yet afraid to act —in
pleasant anticipation before him floated the
Gubernatorial Chair, but ever and anon behind
him was heard in fancy the tierce growl of the
Eon of Clark county AN higery, and he dared
not act. Messrs. Kenan and Calhoun and
Crawford of the Senate were crestfallen and de
jected, and all Whigery—l speak of the lead
ers —sighed and groaned in spirit—drooping
and doleful, with none to console them.
“The rank and file” presented a motley and
ever verying appearance. They looked into
hearts within and back to their constituents at
home—conscience approved the deed they had
done and a smile was on their face. They
looked into the eyes of their leaders—they
saw anger and resentment there—the smile
vanished and uneasiness and fear assumed its
place.
Meanwhile, the public streets and the bar
rooms of the taverns were lighted up with
joy and gladness, save hero and there a rice
eater from the sea-coast, readily distinguished
by his long face and angry eye, pleasure beam
ed from every countenance and hope gave
elasticity to every step. Georgia, our own
Georgia, w r as redeemed and disenthralled. —
j The incubus that so long had borne her down
| was removed. The strong man had risen in
! his strength and shaken a load of depression
S from his shoulders. Well might the people re
| joicc. lie, who had marched in the same
I procession with banners full of protection and
! abolition emblems, and had shouted in the
ears of a Northern multiude that he had re
cently addressed 20,000 Georgians identical
with them in principle and feeling, had been
told emphatically by a political caucus of his
own friends, that he was unworthy longer to
i ct as the representative of Georgia in the Sen
j ate. And, sir, I doubt not that in every ham
i let where dwelt a patriotic heart, as the news
spread upon the wings of the winds, eyes
brightened with gladness and hearts beat
high with the hope that Georgia, republican
and Southern Georgia, was redeemed.
Every where among Democrats, aye, and a
mong Whigs wherever the old Stateßights feel
ing was not totally extinet, the news was hail
ed with rapture, and all hoped—though some
feared lest it might not be so—that the new
; Senate in embryo would be better than the old
i As it was in the country so was it at the Capi
: tal—there was sincere, hearty rejoicing.
But while Jenkins mourned and Harris was
i restless and Hull hesitated and Kenan threat
| cnod and Calhoun sneared and the people re-
I joieed, let me not forget the “unimitated, inimi
table” Dougherty. Never shall I forget him,
Mr. Editor, on that memorable occasion. Ex
ultation was in every feature of his sac
it spoke in every muscle and movement of his
body; so proud and airy was his step that it
seemed to spurn tire very earth on which he
trod. He shook hands with one, and oh!
what a patronising air he assumed. He bow-
I ed to another, and condescending was the smile
I upon his face. He nodded to a third, and
i well might one be reminded of Olympian Jove
: who
‘Shook his ambrosial curls and gave the nod,
The stamp of Fate —the sanction of a God."
But “alas poor Yorick!” there is not in this
wide world a cup how sweet soever that is not
drugged with bitterness at the bottom. Dis
appointment awaits us all, and he, who had
revelled in fancy upon these cushioned seats
i towards which our old friend Kitchie casts in
vain his longing eves, the embryo Senator,
stilted already upon his anticipated Senatorial
dignity, sinks down quietly and peaceably in
; to an office which may, under our present ju
dical systen in Georgia, be properly termed
that of travelling Justice of the Peace?
“Oh! what a fall was there, my countrymen!”
Under these circumstances, the failure of the
resolution to become binding upon the Gener
al Assembly, through the unexpected interpo
| sition of Mr. Clappeli, saved Whigery from a
; sad dilemma and an awful doom; and the tem
porary respite thus afforded them gave ‘the
: powers behind the throne’ time to arrange the
wires; and farcical and ludicrous, beyond any
thing alluded to, was the puppet show exhib
-1 ited by them to the gaze of an astonished world.
1 Before looking at the shadow itself, however,
1 let us peep behind the curtain and see the
wire-pullers arranging the strings. True to
; his aristocratic instinct, the great Senator re
solved to become the “great unseen ,” and sat in
i his solitary chamber excluded from all society
save that of a few choice friends; and there,
sir, in that chamber was concocted the plan of
the next two weeks campaign. The battle to
be fought seemed desperate against such odds,
and therefore the greater necessity- that the
plan should be ar ranged with skill; for strata
gem and cunning are essential to overcome
brute force and numbers. The first develope
ment of that plan that appeared to the eye of the
outside "world w-as the resignation of Air. Ber
| ricn of the remainder of his term of office.—
| This first reached us, the people, in rumors
| and whispers; gradually the buzz became loud
; er, until it was asserted and generally believed
to be a “fixed fact.” Where is it then? who has
the resignation? were the eager questions ask
| from mouth to mouth. It turned out that the
Governor had coolly pocketed it and kept it
there for several day-s, while every- effort was
made by Whigery, from his Excellency- down
1 to the humblest wire-worker of them all, to
induce the Senator to withdraw it and thus
save his distracted and almost ruined party. —
But Berrien was inexorable. “No,” thought
he, “if I yield now lam done forever —I will
bring them, to terms —I will show them how
to trifle with me, whose fame has spread over
this whole Union —I will prostrate them at my
feet, and if they agree not to bring on the
election for the next term of six years and re
nominate and re-elect me for the term which
I have resigned, and appoint a committee to .
w-ait upon me and beg me at least to go to their
meeting and talk to them, I will then tell them
what I will do, and perhaps I may deign to ac
cept the office,” So thought the Senator, and
so doubtless he told the leadership of the
Whiggery in their little secret conclave, and
so they all thought with him, —for they had
an equal interest in suppressing the right of
the rank and file to think and act for themselves;
and so it turned out in the end when the curtain
rose. Is this fiction or is it fact? It is true;
and the indignant blood should boil in the
veins of every freeman when he reads the deg
radation of the State in this the action of her
last Legislature. Yes, sir, it is true. From
; that moment they w-ent to w-ork, every man
I was seen and operated upon, and when they
got the consent of all (save one honorable ex
| ception, Mr. Arnold, of Henry,) to carry out
the plan of the secret conclave, and bend the
knee to their great Molock, the disgraceful show
—farcical and ludicrous but for its disgraceful
character —was opened, as if to desecrate the
House of a free people, in the hall of the House
of Representatives. There the Senate march
ed in, and there the General Assembly pro
ceeded to ballot for Senator, and there John
i McPherson Berrien received ninety-one Whig
j votes for a seat in the Senate, of which he had
! been told by- those same men but tw-o w-eeks
i before that he was utterly umvorthy on ac
' count of his anti-Southern course. The scene
that then followed is mdellibiy impressed up
on my memory. When the votes had been
counted out, the President of the Senate arose,
and, in a clear calm voice, and with a tone and
manner, which show-ed the contempt of his
heart for the result which his office required
him to announce, after stating the vote, said;—
i “Gentlemen , you have therefore made choice of the
Hon. John McPherson Berrien toflia vacancy in
the Senate occasioned by the resignation of the
; llon. John McPherson Berrien and while
j mingled scorn and laughter w r as depicted up
on every Democrat’s face there, poor Whigery |
of the “rank and file” looked, as it felt, whip- j
ped and cowed and disgraced^
Nor was this all—for they carried out the
plan of the conclave to the letter. That night
they met at Beecher & Brown’s again, they
appointed a committee to wait upon him and
| request him to address them and accept the
office. He did so; and while he lashed them
I for their ingratitude, they applauded him for
| his dignity and independence!
I have thus, Mr. Editor, glanced at the
course pursued by the Whigs in the last Le
gislature upon this important matter, -with the ■
view of illustrating the power their leaders '
ever exercise over them, and their astonishing
proneness to worship at the shrine of talent
and of office often at the sacrifice of cherished i
and vital principles. I might draw from a va
riety of sources to show that this is not an
isolated occurrence, but that the principle
seems to be loved by them as one of the cher
ished dogmas of their political faith; but I for
bear, as such a course would consume too
much space, and comes not strictly within the
purview of this series of articles.
But I cannot refrain from asking how differ
ent has ever been the conduct of Democracy?
On the broad floor of our ample wigwam, all 1
stand upon the level of equality. In our con- ;
ventions, in our caucuses, in ail our meetings !
: of every description, every man thinks and |
acts and speaks for himself. Hence we always
have conflict of opinion and sometimes tur
moil and contusion; hut as the “conflict of
mind with mind developes truth," we generally |
harmonize it before wo part, and when thus 1
: harmonized and united we are invincible. In |
the recent Democratic Convention to nominate
: a candidate for Governor, Mr. Flournoy of
Washington, made a striking remark upon this ;
I subject. He said, in substance, that while he j
was a member of the Legislature and of the !
Whig party, the report was constant in the 1
Whig ranks that the Democrats had had a i
row at Buffington’s last night and the party
was broken up; but morning came and they
j presented the same solid and unshaken pha
lanx; while the Whigs were ever harmonious
: in their meetings because the proceedings were
I concocted by the leaders in caucus and the 1
; rank and tile were afraid to interfere,
j It is, then, in the wide hall of Democratic
equality that we invite all the people to enter.
; lie that comes penniless and friendless shall
! be received with a cordial grasp of the hand;
I and he that comes loaded with wealth and
: power, like the follower of our Saviour in his i
: earthly pilgrimage, must leave at the door all
I his pride and circumstance and pomp, and con- i
; tent himself with but an equal, if an humble
seat. A Lobby Member.
Will Gen. Taylor be the Whig: Candidate?
The N, Y. Courier and Enquirer, and Bal
| timore Patriot, seem disposed to cling to Gen. !
Taylor in spite of the “no party’ declarations
! of his ‘Signal Letter.’ The North American ;
and Gazette* of Philadelphia, still supports !
; him on the ground that he is a thoroughgoing
i Whig who is ‘anxious for a Whig triumph on
Whig principles.’ The Richmond Whig,
j speaking of Gen. Taylor’s ‘Signal Letter,’
1 says that “if the language of this letter is to
be construed literally, it is very certain that
Gen. Taylor cannot be a candidate for the
! Presidency, at all.’ The editor waits for fur
ther developments, before he will pledge him
self to support Gen. T., being ‘uncommitted to
any man,’ but ‘deeply and irrevocably com- j
mitted to principles and measures,’ which is 1
| as much as to say, he will support none but an
: avowed Whig,and according to Whig party or
ganization. The New Bedford Mercury and
i Boston Atlas, deride Gen. Taylor’s ‘no party’ i
declarations as a misnomer, an absurdity and a
; deception; and the Atlas says that the motto of
the New England Whigs will be *no more war
more territory, and the only Inducement
to support Gen. Taylor, will be ‘the
he alone, of all others, is the man
end the war and rescue the GnVeru
, ment from a party which has used its power to ;
j bring the scourge of war upon us, for the pur
; pose, as they believe, of extending the area of
human bondage.' In Georgia, too, there are
i symptoms of rebellion against the nomination ,
, of the late Whig Convention. The Augusta i
Chronicle, Madison Miscellany and Lagrange
Reporter, perfer Mr. Clay. Under all these ;
circumstances we are more and more confirmed !
incur previously expressed opinion, that Gen. J
Taylor will not be a candidate at all! We shall
j see bye and bye, however, how the stakes are i
| set. Being as cool, ourselves, as a Spitzber- j
i gen Philosopher, we can afford to ‘wait for the I
i wagon,’ and would recommend our readers to I
I ‘do likewise.’ There is no use in hurrying
one’s seft into much excitement about the mat- j
ter, for many a long day to come. —Muscogee \
j Democrat.
Whigism.
i From the resolutions of the Whig Conven- i
! tion published to-day, the reader will perceive |
• that the whigs are in favor of holding fast to
j their principles—though they are not going to
i make a blowing horn of them on every occa
i sion. Not they. And perhaps it would not j
be prudent. Gov. Crawford comes in for a I
I barge share of their admiration, and presents
j occasion for the whigs to do some tail brag-
I O j
ging. Gov. Crawford whipped off the Democ- I
j racy, and kept the Executive patronage in pos- '
j session of the Whigs for two terms, and that’s
sufficient to awaken the admiration of any live
j coon on record. They express an anxious hope I
that the Executive mantle may fall on Duncan j
, L. Clinch, whereby the Stale is promised a :
j continuance of the “benign influences” of |
Whigcry. In these resolutions we are in
j formed that they have lost all horror of mill- I
tary chieftains —and in despite the strong j
. claims of Clay, and in opposition to the feel- j
: ings of his admirers, they have nominated I
General Taylor—who informs them, in as many •
| words, that he will not permit his name to be I
run by them, as a party candidate. They’ve i
laid Clay on the shelf, and Taylor has turned
right-about and knocked their fat in the fire. — j
The resolution of thanks to Mr. Calhoun is de
cidedly rich, and presents a desire to appear
“all things to all men,” which is truly amus- 1
ing. But if Mr. Calhoun or his friends arc to
b 3 caught by such hollou-hearted profee nous of
friendship—they are not made of the stuff we
thought them. —Georgia Banner, 22 rl inst.
The following is in the Pennsylvanian’s best !
style. Need we say more?
Ruin run Mad. —When Imlac in Rasselas, |
was in the full torrent of his enthusiastic des- !
cription of the various qualifications necessary ;
to constitute a poet, he was suddenly inter
rupted by the Prince, with the exclamation: —
“Enough! thou has convinced me that no i
human being can be a poet. Proceed with thy j
narration.’ So, if twenty years ago, a picture
i that had been drawn of the present prospects
of our common country, and of her progress I
on the high road to fame, the prophe% would
have been laughed at and and a
thousand wise heads would have been shaken
in unmingled distrust. All would have said;
‘Thou hast convinced us that no such lot can >
be ours.’
But alas! a far wider prophecy would now
be credited. Now the world is ready to be
lieve anything that is said of us, and mankind
looks forward to a future for this country be
fore which the highest pictures of ancient re
nown arc but the panoramas of the stage.
I The prophecies of ruin that arose from the
tomb of the Tariff of 1844, and that presumed
the eagle of freedom could not soar because the
Jesses which had held it to the earth, had been
1 severed by the steady hand of a Democratic j
i Congress —all these funeral predictions have j
been dissolved, and a land that was to be des
i dated by misfortune, reverses the gloomy
prospect, by presenting a picture of unexam
pled plenty and prosperity. This is a fact that
cannot be denied, and demands and defies con
tradiction.
Another Martyr in the cause of Whigery.
Gen. Clinch,in his answer to the Whig com- i
mittee who had just informed him that he had |
been nominated as their candidate for Gove
nor at the ensuing election, makes use of the
] following very pathetic and moving language :
: “Having spent nearly thirty years in the ser- [
I vice of my country, I had hoped to have spent
j the remnant of my life in the tranquillity of i
my present pursuits.” Poor old man ! This
; appeal would have moved the compassion—
would have touched the heart, of any other j
! set of human beings but a whig committee. — :
But to them he appealed in vain, they would j
not lot him off. They believed that the smell I
of fire and brim-stone which still hung about |
I bis skirts would render him available, and
they would not suffer his grey hairs to go
! down to the grave in peace. They wanted of
fice, and they were determined to use him.—
But perhaps the people of Georgia will be more
merciful to the §ld gentleman than the whig
: committee. Perhaps in consideration of his
age and infirmities they will suffer him to en
joy his “ Otium cum dignitate," in the county of
' Camden. —Albany ( Ga .) Patriot, 2lst inst.
Augusta, (Georgia.
SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 25, 1847.
FOR GOVERNOR
HON. G. W. TOWNS.
OF TALBOT,
I —-■■■■■■,- . _j_„: j
publish to-day the second number
of the promised series from the able corres- j
pendent of the Southern Banner. It draws a S
powerful and graphic sketch of what we must
j ever consider the undignified and humiliating '
proceedings of the whig caucuses at the last ;
session. It is well to recall those scenes at
this time, as the struggle for ascendency in the j
next legislature is now going on before the
people. If the whigs carry the legislature Judge j
Beirien trill be again imposed upon them as a
Senator for the next six years.
There are some personalities in the article
not to our taste in reference to Judge Dough
j o => 1
i erty, and we regret that any one in the heat j
of political excitement should designate the
high and responsible office of Judge of the Su
perior Court of Georgia as being little better
| than that of “a travelling Justice of the Peace.'f
\ We hope that it will be in the power of the 1
! next legislature to place a man in the Senate
of the United States who ’will truly represent
the people of Georgia on all great questions of
national import, and will be the advocate of
those principles of State rights and strict con- ;
struction upon which depend the dearest in- !
tcrests of the South.
Why should Gen. Clinch be elected
Governor?
So far as the personal claims of this gentle
man go, we understand they are on the score
of military services. If he has rendered any
j other, we have not seen them enumerated.
No\v as to his military services. In his letter
of acceptance, he says he has been in service
nearly thirty years. In all that time we hear
of his having fought one battle with a hand
full of Seminole Indians. What extraordina
ry generalship, or personal feats of gallantry j
I ho performed on the occasion—all this is kpte
in profound obscurity. A full history of the J
! military exploits and career of Gen. Clinch is
very much needed at this time. Enlighten, the
1 people, gentlemen of the Whig party, on this
subject.
When wc can got at the true sum and sub- j
| stance of those martial deeds, we will submit
the following problem to be figured out:
If the battle of Withlacoochee entitles the |
i commander to be Governor cf a State, how !
i
many civil offices will be necessary to supply I
the demand of the various military heroes in
the small affairs of Palo Alto, Resacea, Mon- j
! terey, Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo? Are we
i not supplied with candidates enough to last for ;
i half a century?
Mr. Towns on the Stump.
It will be seen by reference to the following cor- I
respondence of the “ Journal Messenger,” that
Mr. Towns has taken the stump. We hope, since
he has adopted, of his own choice, this mode of j
canvassing the State, that the gallant Whigs wher- j
ever he goes will meet him before the people. Let j
j this be done, and he will soon be driven from the
j rostrum. —Chronicle of Saturday.
Is not Gen. Clinch considered one of “the
gallanl Whigs?” If so, why not recommend
kirn to meet Mr. Towns on the stump. Per
haps if the gunpowder candidate would show
! his warworn visage, the people might be mov
ed by his mute eloquence of looks. We think»
however, neither his lyoks would drive Col.
Towns from the rostrum, nor the tongues of
the gallant Whigs.
New Books.
We have received from the Messrs. Harpers’
through Mr. Thomas Richards, of this city,
who has the works for sale, the following:
Russell, a Tale of the Reign of Charles 11., |
by G. P. R. James, Esq.
i Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of
i j
France in the 17th century, by Miss Pardoe. j
C. Julii Caesaris Commentarii de Bello Gal- j
lico, —classical series, edited by Drs. Schmitz
and Zumpt.
New Illustrated Josephus, part 2d.
Harpers’ United States Almanac for 1848.
Capt. Grant.
The Muscogee Democrat of 22d inst. says—
A Company of Infantry from Cass county, un
der command of Capt. Win. B. Grant, arrived
in this city on Friday last, and has been mus- j
, tered into service. If this company is filled |
up, as it will be, probably, in a few days, it
\ will make the 3d company, only, of Infantry,
as Capt. C. H. Nelson, we understand, will
mount his men and attach himself to the new
Horse battalion.
i We clip the following complimentary notice
j of Capt. LoyaU’s Company of Dragoons, from
Newton county, from the Montgomery (Ala.)
Journal, of last Tuesday:
Troops. —A mounted company from Geor
gia, Capt. Loyall, passed through this place on
Saturday, on their way to the seat of war.—
They were uniformed, equipped, and excel- I
lently mounted, and were universally pro
nounced the most splendid body of men,* phys- j
j ically, which has proceeded on this route to 1
f Mexico. . J
Kail Road.
The Columbus Times of the 20th inst- says;
—We are happy to learn from some of the
Directors of the Muscogee Road, just returned
from Macon, that the arragements arc com
plete, in the entire union of interest and feel
ings between the M. and Western company,
with that of this city. It is understood that
! the M. and W. company will aid the Muscogee
company to the extent of $200,000, whenever
the Muscogee Directors can exhibit a cash sub
-1 scription equal to that amount. It is scarcely
i possible that this condition precedent will be
long wanting, when it becomes necessary to
ensure the fulfilment of the ardent hopes and
| important interests of this community.
American Corns.
The coinage at the Mint for the last six
i
months (namely, from Ist January to Ist July,
1847) is $8,206,223 —far exceeding the amount
coined during any similar period of time since
the government was founded. Under the new
instructions given by Mr. Walker, under the
law establishing the constitutional treasury,
all foreign coin received by the government is
at once transferred to the Mint, whore it is re
j coined, and paid out as American coin —the
only form in which it will circulate among the
people. There is every reason to believe (savs
the Washington Union) that nearly sixty mil
lions of dollars will be converted into American
\ coin during the administration of President Polk.
j When Gen. Worth left for the seat of war,
; he mortgaged his farm and residence for pay
of a debt of $-5000 which he owed one of his
j neighbors. The property was about to be sold
| under the mortgage, and a few Whig friends
opened a subscription and paid off the debt,
! without his knowledge.—Exchange paper.
: And we are sorry to add, (says the Albany
Atlas) without any one else’s knowledge.—
The story is a fiction; unless it is intended as
an intimation of what these whig friends will
\ do. For fear of dampening their generosity,
| in such an event, wc shall not tell how good a
democrat Col. Worth was during the period of
Mr. Van Buren’s administration, and down to
| 1844 —by which time he was withdrawn from
i this part of the State, and from active politics.
I It would not be right to check the penitential
work of those who for the first time talk of
giving “aid and comfort” to one of our own
gallant soldiers.
The Revenue.
The Washington Union of the 21st instant,
says—“ The airgmentation of revenue under
; the new tariff, for the first seven months and
seventeen days, compared with the same pe
riod of time preceding, under the tariff of 1812,
j is $1,337,597, exclusive of about half a million
of dollars, of duties accrued on warehoused
j goods. At the same rate of augmentation for
the year, the total increase of revenue would
exceed three millions of dollars. Last week
the duties received in New York and Phila
delphia were $672,000 against $336,000 for
the same week last year—being exactly double
under the tariff of 1346, as compared with the
tariff of 1842.”
From the Pacific.
Latest advices state that the blockade of
Mazatlan was still maintained by the sloop-of
war Cyane, the Commodore having sailed a
! little while previously for Monterey. No im
mediate design upon Mazatlan was entertain
! ed bv the Commodore, though the Mexicans
were excessivelv alarmed on this score, and
I *
martial law had been proclaimed throughout
.
| the State in consequence of the apprehensions
lof an attack. It was understood to be the in
i tention of the Commodore to return to Mazat
lan in September, and should peace not then
have been declare i, to take possession of the
j town.
From Brazil.
: The New York Herald has files of the Journ
al de Commerce, and the O’Mcrcanti, to the
| 3d ult. The U. S. brig Bainbridge, Command
er Williamson, arrived at Rio on the 2d, from
: Ilha Grande, and reported that the Whale
I barque Yeoman, of Plymouth, Mass.,was seized
1 by the Brazilian government, and ordered to
i Rio Janeiro. The U. S. frigate Columbia,
| Commnclore Rousseau, was in the harbor of
j Rio. A letter says—“We have now the plea
i sure of advising you that a prospect has open
i ed for a termination to our political difficulties,
! in the arrival of the plenipotentiaries of Eng
land and France, Lord Bowden and Count
Waleski. 'They yesterday had an interview
with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in a
few days more we may be able to speak with
some certainty on what, at present, in a mat
ter of doubt. Lord Bowden has stated that a
definite arrangement, just and satisfactory to
all parties, must depend upon his meeting with
the same frankness and good faith which he
intends to show, and Count Weleski, that any
arrangements to be sanctioned by him, must
be digine et cgnvenable.
This is so far as England and France are
concerned: but the position assumed latterly
by Brazil, has come to damp considerably our
hopes of peace and quietness, unless a general
j settlement of all pending differences should be
! the result of the present conferences.”
First Delegates to the National Conven
tion.
At the convention of the democratic mem
bers of the Maine Legislature, held by ad
journment on Thursday evening, in Augusta,
; Hannibal Hamlin and Charles Holden, were
! chosen as delegates at large from that State to
; the Baltimore convention for the nomination
of democratic candidates for President and
; Vice President of the United States.
| We see that Mr. Trist is getting some hard
i blows concerning his ability and general pro
j priety of character to fulfil the important mes
sage upon which he is sent as a negotiator of
peace with the Mexican republic. He was for
merly a consul at Havana, and had some diffi
culty there with a saucy English consul about
an American ship. The correspondence at the
time was published, and is now revived. He
was also accused by an English authority at
the Cape de Yerde Islands in relation to ves
sels said to be American, and by fraudulent
i sales obtaining Spanish papers at the islands
in order to sail under two colors, to prosecute
with greater safety the slave-trade. The Cass
kind of way in which Mr. Trist treated those
gentleman was very grievous to them—parti
cularly as England was at the time troubled
j with the extraordinary ambition of becoming a
i sort of high constable Hays over the police of
i the seas.—N. 0, Southerner, 1 9th inst.
The Weather-Crops—Caterpillar.
GEORGIA.
The Albany (Ga.) Courier of the 17th inst. r
says—After several weeks of almost incessant
rain, the weather is now fair, with the excep
tion of a thunder cloud passing now and then,
but excessively warm.
The corn crops of this section and the ad
joining counties of Florida are very fine, and
promise to reward the industrious fanner with,
| an abundant harvest.
I The cotton crop, though not as good a* could
be desired, is promising—better at this time
than was expected, owing to the backward- ,
ness of the spring; but a friend writing to us
! from Quincy, Florida, says that the Caterpillar
| its appearance in that section. If
this be true, (and we place all reliance upon the
I statement) we may calculate on a short crop*.
| The Fort Gaines (Ga.) Volunteer, of the
1 17th inst., says—“We stated, some weeks ago r
what at that time was a reasonable belief, that
the cotton crop of this section "w ould be a fair
- Since then, however, it has rained al
most incessantly, giving a premature impulse
| to the plant to the detriment of the fruit, and
causing \a growth of grass and w eeds too rank
to be eradicated. It is feared that the unto
ward combination—a late spring, rainy s«m
--1 racr, and the probable appearance of the cater
; pillar will cut short the crop.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
i The Winyah Intelligencer says, that tho
rice and cotton crops in that neighborhood an»
good, and that the corn and cotton crops in
i the adjacent districts are as good as usual; tho
corn crop especially has much improved in ap
j pearance within the last few weeks.
The Pee Dee River is in fine boating order,
but it is not full enough to threaten a freshet.
Columbia, July 20. The Crops. —From per
sonal observation in the Districts of Newberry,
Fairfield, and part of Lexington, we can testi
ly to the abundant promise of a corn crop, a*
iwe have never seen one look better. Cotton
is everywhere, at least one month later than
usual, which in all probability will cut off ono
third of the crop. It is also in the grass bad
ly, and by adding this to the usual vicissi
-1 tudes, should we not have an extraordinarily
late autumn, there w ill scarcely be over half a
crop made. Even where it is of good size, it
j has but Jittlc promise of forms and as yet but
j few bolls.
The wheat will be better than was expected. *.
In New berry, the crop wdl be nearly an aver
■ age one.
Yokxville, July 17.—0 n Wednesday last a
i severe storm of wind, rain and hail, accompa
nied with heavy peals of thunder, passed over
our village. Take it all together, it was as
pretty an exhibition in this line, as wc have a
i fancy to look upon. Our corn in this neigh
borhood has followed the example of some '
I politicians—points not at all in ono direction,
! hut “boxes the compass.” The fields of oats
j that wore not cut, wall not give the hogs the
trouble to raise their heads to reach the grain.
! One hail stone was measured accurately, and
j the circumference gave five and one-fourth'
| inches. It was fortunate for us, that when
I tho hail fell, there was not much wind.
NORTH CAROLINA.
' Fayetteville, July 17. The Crops. —Our
accounts from all quarters show that the grain
: crop is good throughout the State. The fol- .
lowing is an extract of a letter to the editor
| from Richmond county.
“The corn and wheat crop is good; indeed* •
the former promises better than usual; but the
cotton crop is as bad for it. The unusually
! cold weather, which has favored the ravages of
the “louse,” an insect which always prey up-. .
1 on the plant to a greater or less extent, and has
well nigh deprived us of “a stand.” —that
: which remains from the above causes looks
j bad.” •*;;
LOUISIANA. *' •/;'
Point Cor pee, (Lou.) July 10.— Weather,
Crops , &c. —For the last two weeks the weath
er has been quite unsettled —the mornings, be
ing intensely hot, the air sultry and humid,
winding up in the evening w ith severe light
ning and heavy thunder, attended with show- :
i ers of rain and violent gusts of wind. So far
as we have been able to learn, the crops arc in
I aflourishing condition, and bid fair to return to '
the granaries a bountiful yield, the corn and
cane are out of harm's way, or in other words
beyond the reach of a drought, For the cot
ton our worst apprehensions are aroused —but**
a few days ago, the plant presented a rich and
i luxuriant appearance, and bid fair to eclipse its
predecessors—on Friday last we were informed
by a gentleman, that he had discovered that
; the cut worm had made its appearance in our
immediate vicinity—that he counted no loss
than fifty on ono stock—he stated that from
their appearance the worst of consequences
j might, with propriety, be apprehended.
MISSISSIPPI.
i We learn from a private correspondent that
the rain in some portions of the country, ha*
I been unusually heavy. A letter from Natchez
; of the 13th, says:—Since the rain of 1804,
there has been no such rain as that which fell
| here on Saturday night or rather Sunday morn
ling. It commenced on Friday and has been
I raining more or less ever since. The greatest
damage was done on Sunday morning. Fence*,
: bridges and crops were washed away. The
large bridge over the St. Catherine Creek on
i the Washington road, was carried off—also the
bridges on the Pino Ridge road. It is impos
sible for me to tell the extent of the damage
done. My overseer thinks my loss in cotton
equal to 100 bales. Nearly half of my com is
on the ground. Col. Bingaman’s loss has been
| very great. lie had much valuable stock In
the meadows on the creek, which has been
lost, including a horse, which I am told, he
valued at SIOOO. His loss in fences is very
great, and the only way he has to protect his
crop from the stock is to put up gates on the
public roads to save lane fences. It has
been raining to-day, and is likely to continue."
N. 6. Bee. ' - 'W* f
The barque Exact, Capt. White, from New
York, for this port, went ashore in Calabogue
i Sound, near Bloody Point, three miles north
of Tybee Light, Wednesday afternoon. Two
j steamboats with lighters were yesterday morn
ing despatched to her assistance. They at
tempted to haul her off, but w ithout success;
! she had strained so much that the tide flowed
in and out of her. The whole of her cargo is
! presumed to be damaged, but will probably be
saved. It is doubtful whether the barque will
be got off. She is a fine vessel belonging to
Messrs. Washburn & Wilder’s New' York
Packet Line.— Sac. Republican, 23d inst.
The Magnetic Telegraph.
i We had yesterday the pleasure of convers
ing with Mr. Chester, the Agent for the Mag
netic Telegraph Line, hence to Columbus.—
He informs us that the line has been abundant
ly explored, and that the w'ork of construction •
is noiv going on throughout the entire dis
tance from Savannah to Columbus and Au
gusta, except that portion of it from Waynes
, borough to Augusta, which will immediately
I be put under contract* — 'lb, .*