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THK CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARONeTr, JR. j TSUMS. Daily, per annum 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum 6 00 t If paid in advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum 8 00 If paid in advance To Clubs, remitting 10 in advance, FIVE COPIES are sent. This will put our W eekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. tnrSubscribers who will pay up arrearages, and ; rend four new subscribers, with the money, can get the paper at $2 00. IETAII new subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. QjTPostage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. [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, .*