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[tor the Baltimore j
Arrival of the Steamer Caledonia,
FIVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Continued Decline in Breadstuffs.
Dullness oft he Cotton Market.
Tine Frespects of the fJartest— Still Greater
Depression in. B reads tufs Anticipated—Ef
fect of Mercantile Failures.
The steamer Caledonia arrived at Boston at
1 o'clock yesterday morning, having left Liv
erpool on the 19th tilt. She arrived at Hali
fax on the 3ist nit., at 20 minutes past 7, and
left again at il A. M, on the same day. She
brings 137 passengers.
We received our commercial despatch from
Boston short!altar noon yesterday, and im
mediately issued a“. Sun blip” for the accom
modation of the mercantile community. We
annex much luller details, however, received
during the evening.
The Cambria, hence on We Ine-day for Liv
erpool, anchf red in the roads on account of
the dense fog, at 1 on Thursday morning, hav
ing been detained 12 hours.
The Caledonia passed on the 20th, off Kin
sale, steamer Sarah Sands from New York.
The following is the despatch from our cor
respondent at Liverpool, which has been evi
dently made up by him under the.impression
that the Caledonia’s news would reach this
Country before that of the Guadalquiver. It
must be read, as it is, a letter from Liverpool.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 19—11 A. M.
A rumor was in general circulation yester
day, that Louis Philippe had been assassina
ted. The London papers of this morning
bring no confirmation of it. The elections are
nearly at an end, and show an increase in fa
vor of Liberal ministers.
The Queen has arrived in Scotland. Her
tcuv will be completed in about three weeks,
Lieut. Monroe, late of i he regiment of life
guards, was yesterday found guilty of the
murder of Col. Fawcett, whom he slew in a
duel about four years ago. The verdict of the
jury has caused considerable excitement and
surprise.
The political aspect of France is th.rcatcn.in2
enough. A tierce contest is waging between
the government and opposition press. The
latter charges the ministry with corruption
and a failure of the financial administration.
The French funds have largely participated
in the embarrassments caused by the raising
of the rate of discount in England.
Portugal is quiet, and the Spanish forces
have been withdrawn from Oporto.
For Switzerland the Federal diet has re
quired the dissolution of the Catholic Son
derabondas, being hostile to the general wel
fare.
The accounts from Italy are various. The
progress of liberal opinions, particularly in the
papal States, is viewed with great alarm by
both France and Austria.
In Ireland the elections have been somewhat
inote stormy than in this country, and the re
turns will stand very much as they did in the
last Parliament.
o'Co.udij funeral was celebrated with
great pomp. The event has left no excitement
of any consequence.
Gen- Armstrong goes out by the Caledonia
with despatches.
The Caledonia takes 30,000 pounds in
specie.
Commercial and Financial. —The money mar
ket, owing to a variety of causes, has become
seriously depressed since our last advices uer
Cambria. The pressure continues to
branches of trade with an unrelaxed s verity.
Foreigh prices are downward, necessarily
limiting operations to the smallest po.ssible
scale. The primary causes of this state of
things are the advanced rates of discount re
quired by the Bank of England, whose exam
ple is followed by all, the private and joint
stock banks of the empire, and a succession
of disastrous failures in the West Indian and
American trade.
Up to last night the actual bankruptcy stop
pages were little short of two million pounds,
aid it is apprehended that many of these wall
full heavy upon American houses. Yester
day, in London, the public securities had
somewhat recovered from the depression of
the preceding day. and fluctuated merely
from the turn of the market.
Consuls for account, were 83$ to 87, and
for money 86i* to 83$. Three per cents reduced,
87J to 874; three and a quarter cents BS| to
88$ and 89 ; Exchequer bills 2s discount to
Is. premium. Speculation Jin foreign stock,
passive. Mexican bonds are quoted at 18$.
Among manufacturers business wears a most
gloomy aspect, nor will there be any hope of
improvement until the monetary restrictions
shall be eased. This is the natural result of
a stake of things which renders all bills of
London dates than those for three months
unavailable, and which not only paralyzes our
colonial trade but seriously effects our com
mercial transactions with America.
Corn Market —.Best estern Canal Flour
265. to 265. 6d; Baltimore and Philadelphia
245. to 255.; New Orleans and Ohio 225. to
235. ; sour 20s to 21s.
United States Wheat, -white and mixed per
70 lbs., 7s. 9d. to Bs. 6d. ; red 6s. 9d. to 7s. 6d.
Indian Corn, 255, to 30s. per quarter of 480
pounds.
Corn Meal, per barrel, 12s. to 13s. Gd.
Oats, per 45 pounds, 3s. to 3s. 4d.; barley,
por 90 lbs., 3s. 9d. ; oat meal, per 240 lbs. 30s.
to 325. ; Rye, per 480 pounds, 30s. to 345.
A serious downward tendency has taken
place in the grain market since the departure
pf the steamer of the 4th inst., only oc
casionally arrested by broken weather*; this ;
however, has failed to give a firm tone to the !
market, though at our market yesterday the
above quotations were freely realized, and
greater confidence was manifested among the
buyers.
the certainty of a bountiful harvest at home,
coupled with the continued large imports of
foreign bread stuffs forced upon our market by
necessities of holders, must exercise a still I
stronger depressing influence upon the trade,
and it may be fairly inferred that the markets
have not as yet retrograded to any thing like
'he point to which they appear destined to fall.
In the London market,a similar languor has
taken place, which.accelerated by the alarming
failures that had taken place, almost precludes
the possibility of re-action. Up td Ihe closing
i of the corn market in London yesterday,a very
limited quantity of English wheat had come to
hand, and though there were scarcely any
; samples to offer, the demand was tolerably
steady at average prices. There was rather
more enquiry for foreign wheat of the best
quality, but middling and inferior kinds were
quite neglected. Foreign oats were dull at a
reduction of fid. per quarter.
Cotton Market. —This market continues dull,
at prices rather in favor of buyers. Bowed
Georgia may be quoted, for ordinary to mid
dling at 6$ to 6sd. per pound; fair to good
fair, 7 4 to 7Ad. ; fine, 7-id. Mobile, ordinary
to middling, G| to 6sd. ; for good fair, 7$ to 7.$ ;
► tine, 6| to Bd. Alabama and Tennessee, ordi
nary to middling, 64 to figd. New Orleans,
; ordinary to middlidg, 6 3 to 6sd. ; good fair, 7 A
to Bd.; fine, 8$ t) 9d. Sea Island, ordinary to
middling, 10 to 13.; good fair, 15 to 17d. ; fine,
20 to 24d. ; stained ranges from 5£ to lOd.
The sales of cotton since Friday have been
j 16,500 bales, of which, speculators have taken
I 3,000, and exporters 1,500. The stock on hand
at present is estimated at 307,529 against 544,-
020 at the same period last year.
It was hoped by many that the unfavorable
accounts of the growing crops brought by the
last steamer would give vitality to the market,
but any such influence would have been seri
ously counteracted by the high value of money
and the continued dullness of trade in the
ma mi fact u r ing dis trict s.
Provision Market. —Prime mess beef per
i ticrcc, new, to92s. Gd. ; ordinary, 82s. to
-88 s.; mess, per bbl., 50s. to 5(35.; ordinary,
425. to 48s. Pork, prime mess por bbl., Bos.
to 70s. ; old sls. to 60s. ; moss, 655. to 70s. ;
1 prime 48s. to 555. Bacon, drie 1 and smoked,
| old, 255. to 40s. per cwt. ; long middles, in
' salt, 455. to 625.; old middlings, in salt, 455. to
j fids. ; shorts, do., 555. to 625. ; fine, 525. to
| 555. ; cut middling, 4Bs. to 495.; ordinary, 40s.
to 4 is. Hams, smoked or dry, in canvas, 40s.
j to 545. per cwt. ; casks, salted to 455.
liice. —Carolina dressed, first quality 19s.
6d. to 225.; second do., 18s. fid. to 21s.
Metals. —U. S. London, per ton, £l6 10s. to
£l7 10s. British bar iron, per ton, £9 7s. £9
10,., rods. £lO ss. ; hoop, £ll 10s. to £ll 155.;
sheets, £ll 10s. to £ll 155.; cargo in Welsh
: bar, £8 10s. to £8 los. ; tin plates, Ic, ; but
charcool 30s. pier box X. 3Bs.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Report for August 14, 16, 17 and IS.—The
trade have been induced to purchase rather
more freely this week, accompanied by a fair
demand tor export. In prices no change can
be noticed since the 13th, but holders are firm
er in their operations. The sales of the four
days enumerated above are 17.000 bales, oi
which fully 2000 are for export and on specu
lation. The imports reported since the 10th
are 5342 bales, all from the United States.
[From, the Washington Union]
The Governor of Ohio,
I We copy the following article from the Co
lumbus “Statesman” of last Saturday, which
reached us by last evening’s western m ilk It
states* a very “singular movement” of the gov
ernor of Ohio, which it reprehends in just and
1 indignant terms. We are happy to add, how
ever, to the statement of the “Statesman,”
that the moment the department in this city
| was informed by telegraph of Gov. Bcbb’s re-
I fusing to assist the volunteers, it issued orders
‘ by the telegraph which removed every dilfi
j culty. We have obtained a copy of the folio w
! ing correspondence, which we lay before our
readers:
By the New York and Washington Telegraph.
The following was received at this oflice G
o’clock, dated Cincinnati, Aug 25.
Our governor refuses to furnish subsistence
for volunteer companies of Col. Irvin’s regi
ment. If United States government does not
authorize the captains to contract for it, the
troops must disband on the spot. Answer
immediately. L. D. DESNEY,
For Adjutant General Jones.
Ttephj by Telegraph.
Washington, August 26, 1847.
The President directs that you furnish the
i companies of Col. Irvin’s regiment with rations
! at once, and that the regiment be murdered
into service by companies, agreeably to the in
siructions of the 48th.
R. JONES, Adjutant General.
Lieut. Col. J. Ehving, 2d artillery, Cincinnati.
By Telegraph*
Washington, Aug. 26, 1847.
Orders have been despatched to Lieut. Col.
Ervingto furnish subsistence to the volunteer
companies of CoL Livin’s regiment at onee.
K. JONES, Adj. Gen.
Mr. L. D. Desney.
The following letter was received at the Ad
jutant General’s office by this morning’s
: mail:
II iJADUUAHTEas Recruiting Service,
Western Department, Cincinnati, 0., Aug. 20.
General: Your instructions of this date by
telegraph are received. Directions will be
immediately given to furnish the companies of
Col. Irvin’s regiment of volunteers with ra
| tions. ,
I have the honor to be. General, very res
pectfully, your obedient servant,
J. FRYING,
Lieut. Col. 2d Artillery.
To Brig. Gen. R. Jones, Adjutant General
United States Army, Washington.
[From the Ohio Statesman, Aug. 28.]
Singular Movement of Governor Bcbb.
Lieutenant Colonel Irvin published in the
Columbus papers the following notice to the
companies composing the second Ohio regi
ment:
“The Governor of the State has received of
ficial notice from the War Department that
your services are needed in the war with Mexi
co, and has been requested to aid in your or
ganization. lam informed by the private
secretary of the governor, that no contract will
be made by the State for the transportation of
the companies to Cincinnati. Officers, there
fore, commanding companies, will contract for
themselves.
“An officer of the United States service has
been detailed by the Adjutant General to mus
ter the regiment into the sersuce as soon as it
shall be concentrated at Cincinnati. The
sooner, therefore, the companiis reach Cincin
natti, th'* better. WILLIAM IRVIN.”
It will bo seen by the above, that the gover
nor of Ohio refuses to furnish any assistance
to the companies of this regiment, to reach
the rendezvous in this city. We will merely
remark, without stopping to inquire whether
the governor of a State is bound to aid the
troops called for from his State in reaching the
rendezvous appointed, that the general prac
tice has been for the States to furnish their
quotas of men at the place of rendezvous des
ignated in the call. The refusal of Governor
Hebb to do this, is likely to retard the move
ments of these troops; as it is quite probable
that at least some of the captains have not the
means oi paying for the transportation of their
companies. V* e have been anxious to again
see the olive branch of peace wave over our
country, but we have believed this was only
to be attained by a vigorous prosecution of the
war until Mexico would listen tg overtures.
| We have assailed the President for not prose-
J exiting the war with vigor. We have thought
that an energetic prosecution of it would have :
long ere this terminated it, and we are truly
i sorry that the executive of this State has ta
ken the step he has. Our friends, our neigh
bors are in the heart of Mexico; their commu- :
nications cut olf for want ot men —-perhaps at |
this time beleagued; yet we refuse them aid. j
Should our gallant army, now in the heart of
Mexico, be cut off by the hoardes of guerillas
1 which surround them, who among us would
not drop a tear? — Via. Com.
The above is from a neutral paper j if leaning
either way, it has been whig , and it expresses
the feelings of every man in the State in the
above remarks, who is not lost to every throb
t of patriotism by a malignant party prejudice.
| What a figure do we cut before the world ? j
; Our nation involved in war, voted for by an
almost unanimous vote of Congx'ess, and yet
i those intrusted to carry it on by virtue of the
: offices they hold at the hands of the people as
; saile 1, threatened, and denounced by every in
vention of partisan feeling; and the soldiers
! who volunteer to light the nation’s buttle not
I only ridiculed, but even the pittance necessary
for their subsistence a\ ithTeld from them, with
threats that if they go to face the ene.ny they
I will be ordered back again.
Instead of encouraging in every proper way
a more vigorous prosecution of the war, every
j possible stumbling-block is thrown in the way,
and the enemy urged to continue it until their
friends here could got power to aid them. Are
such men mad, that they would attempt such
a stigma upon their country —such a lasting
disgrace—such a fatal stab at the future hope
I of defence of our insulted flag, no odds from
; what quarter it might come ?
■MTr.a-n-irrrrr r-T ms man ml ■ in
3 ugusta, Georgia.
T ITS S 5 AY BEfT.7.
i* Ok GOV LRMOR
HON. 0. W. TOWNS.
, Os TAi.iior.
Democratic Nominations for Senators.
4t!i Dist.—Uamden and Wayne—Elias Fort.
sdi Dist.—Lowndes and Vs are—Gea. 'l'. Hilliard.
7th “ Tattnall and Bulloch—John A. Mattox
Bth “ Bcrivcu and Etfingham—W. J. Lawton.
9lh “ Eurke and Emanuel—W. S. C Morris.
ieth “ Thomas and Decatur— Wm. 11. Reynolds.
13th “ B;iker and Early— Dr. Wm. J. Johnson.
I-lth “ Randolph and Stewart—William Nelson;
I7th “ Macon and Houston—John A. Hunter.
I9th “ Dooly and Pulaski— Geo. M. Duncan;
doth “ Twiggs aad Bibb—W. W. Wiggins.
i 2lst “ Wa hington and Jefferson— B.S. Carswell.
25th “ Jones and Putnam—James M. Gray.
'2oth “ Miiuroe-anJ Pike—Col. Allen Cochran.
2Sfh “ Moiriwethor and Coweta— Obe. Warner.
31st “ Fayette and Henry— Luther J. Glenn.
32d “ Jasper and Butts—Col. J. O. Waters.
33d “ Newton and Walton—Warren J. Hill.
38th “ Clark and Jackson—Samuel Bailey.
; 39th “ Gwinnett and DoKalh—J as. P. Simmons.
| 40th “ ■ Paulding an J
41st “ Cobb and Cherokee—Wm. H. Hunt.
: 43d “ Habersham and Rabun — Eow’d Coffee.
44th “ Lumpkin and Union—Elihu S. Barclay.
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Patterson, Col. Abercrombie and
Maj. Polk of the U. S-. Army, passed through
this city last evening, on their way to Mexico.
Stone IViouataan Democratic iWcctius 1 .
It was our good fortune to be present at the
Stone Mountain meeting on Friday last, which
assembled to greet our dktlngukhcd fcilow
citizea, the lion. George W. Towns. A large
number of his political friends rin 1 admirers
who met him at that place on the 11th of last
month upon the occasion of the Agricultural
■ | Fair, then urged him to address his fellow'
i citizens there assembled. But he declined do
ing so for the reason that the occasion was not
of a political character, that the whigs pre
sent from various parts of the State, General
Clinch being one, neither expected nor desired
| it, and that it would be discourteous to them
I under the circumstances to force political to
pics upon them. It was therefore concluded
to have a meeting specially for the purpose of
presenting Col. Towns to the citizens of De-
Kalb, and of having him address them on po
litical questions.
Notwithstanding dark lowering clouds, and
almost continuous showers of rain, a large
number of citizens, amounting to several hun
dreds, came together.
Quite a number of ladies graced the occa
,: sion, who had come from Madison and other
places on the line of the Kail Koad to see and
to hear the talented, the graceful, the agreea
ble Col. Towns. Many others were at the 110.
tels, who intended and desired to attend, but
i were deterred by the indications of the weath
er. At 12 o’clock the company repaired to the
j stand near the Spring, beneath the ample cano
j py of the tall Oaks which shade that romantic
i spot. Dr. Calhoun, of Decatur, was called to
the chair. Col. Towns was conducted to the
| stand and addressed the assemblage in a speech j
which, in style and sentiment and manner,
all admitted to be pleasing and happy. His
arguments and his reasoning were pOAver
f d —clear —logical; his facts Avere from the re
i °
cord and to the point, and wielded with great
force and directness. His bearing was cour
teous, his language temperate and respectful
I to his political opponents, many of whom were
j present, evincing throughout the character
universally ascribed to him, of being an amia
ble man. The fountains of his heart have not 1
been embittered by mingling Avith the bitter
waters of political strife. We were better ena- |
bled to understand, after this effort, how it
| Avas that he could be elected to Congress from
a Whig district, where his opponents had a ma
jority of several hundreds against him. His
speeches stimulate the zeal of his friends,
confirm the wavering, convince the doubtfufi
I and make no enemies. He uses no language of
insult, to be remembered in bitterness against
him.
j
Col. Towns alluded happily in his introduc
tion, to the censures which had been passed by
the whigs upon his mode of meeting and ma
king known to the people his opinions. He
could not feel that he degraded himself or of
fended them by travelling among them, coining
before them face to face and eye to eye, not
onlv to converse with them, but to address
* m j
t hcm from the stump. It was a republican
style, and suited a republican country and
people. It had not always heretofore met
with the disapprobation of the Whigs, for even
very great men, aspiring too, to very high of
fices', even the highest, to address their felloAV
citizcns on politicial topics. * But it had at this
particular juncture, suited the views of whig
papers to censure him for a course for which
he had precedents in the persons of the most il
lustrious men of the coilntry.
Upon the principles that divide the two
great parties of the country, and have divided
them from the commencement of our govern
ment —the strict constructionists on the one
side, and the latltudinariarts on the other —
the leading measures and schemes which each
have respectively advocated and defeated, he
was forcibly graphic and instructive. He
pourtray'ed with a pencil of light, the pcisition
of Georgia—of both parties in Georgia, in
1828 and in 1832, upon the tariff question,
which they united in denouncing as unjust,
oppressive, and a fraud upon the constitution.
He then held up the picture of their attitude
now on this same question—this identical
policy.
lie took up the question of the Mexican
war, which the Whigs have selected for the
battle-ground of political parties in Georgia,
and sought to make the test question. He
traced the original cause of quarrel as asserted
by Mexico, to wit, annexation — declared by
her as good cause for war if consummated —
declared by the Whigs, in 1844, as inevitably
leading to war. He recurred to the movements
of Mr. Tyler, elected by the Whigs to office, and
of his Secretary of State, Mr. Calhoun, to con
summate the measure, lie then followed
down this measure to its consummation —a
consummation so portentous of war —sure to
produce war a\ ith Mexico, as the Whigs pre
dicted, and then pointed out the fact that the
: Whig representatives in Congress from Geor
-1 gia, voted fur the Joint resolutions of annexation.
! Thus did the}' share with the Democrats the
responsibility of an act surely productive of
the war. From this point, the able speaker
traced the action of our government, and shew
ed that no pacific effort was neglected to re
store amicable relations between the twocoun
i tries, which were broken off' by the indignant
withdrawal of the Mexican minister from
W ashington City. lie sketched the negotia
tions with Herera, the Mexican President—
his pledge to receive a commissioner to treat
for a pacific settlement Os the dispute—the
consequent appointment of Mr. Slidell, arid
his unjustifiable rejection by Mexico on the
most frivolous pretexts. The overthrow ol
Herera in Mexico, for being suspected Os pa
c.fic inclinations towards this country, arid tire
installation of Paredes, the rear President, then
followed. Next comes the correspondence be
tween the War Department and Gen. Taylor,
-rationed at Corpus Christi. The repeated
cautions given to him to abstain from all acts
calculated to foment hostility, or create addi
tional ob-tacles to peace—the enlarged dis
; erfetion given him as to his movements, and on
j his part, the recommendation in his letter ot
' October, 1845, that if the Ilio Grande was to
j be proposed to Mexico as an ultimatum, in ne
| gotiation for the boundary, then, that the ar
my should be moved forward to that river. A
juotatiou was then given, from a speech, in
Congress, of the II m. A. 11. Stephens, an able
aid distinguished representative from Geor
gia, standing high in the confidence of the
Whig party, asserting that the Rio Grande
teas, or ought to be the boundary. “Who,” ask
ed the speaker, “then contended in Georgia
lor any other bouniary? Who, whether Whig
or Democrat, in Georgia, was willing to con
i cede any other to Mexico?” It was in pursu
ance of the claim to this boundary that the
order to march the army from the Nueces was
given. This order was in Janmiry, 1846 —
j several months after Gen. Taylor’s recommen
i d ition. By this time, all hope of reconeilia
tion was ascertained to be at an end. By this
i time, Paredes was in power, fulminating his
war proclamation, and collecting troops for
tie invasion of Texas.. Before he could have
heard of the advance of the army, he had ac
| tually issued his proclamation, declaring the
existence of a state olAvar between the two
countries, and the cause of it, not the march
| of our army from Corpus Christi, but —the an
nexation of Texas. Next in order comes the
the crossing of the Mexican troops to the cast
; of the Rio Grande, the murder of Coh Cross,
the attack on Capt. Thornton, and the killing,
wounding and capturing of his command.—
Thus was the first gun fired,and the first blood
spilt upon what we claim to be American soil,
protected by the flag of our country —spilt in
disregard of the earnest efforts of our govern
ment to ward off the collision of arms —spilt
notwithstanding offer upon offer, made with
almost humiliating perseverance and entreaty,
on our to ward off so calamitous a result,
by a treaty* embracing all causes of difference.
What was the result? The Congress of the
United States declared that a state of war ex
isted by the act of Mexico, and voted ton mil
lions of dollars and fifty thousand men to pro
se cute that war. The whig representatives
from Georgia voted for the bill. But four
teen members of the House of Representatives
voted against it —John Quincy Adams, and
Joshua R. Giddings being two of them. The
other twelve were of the same stamp. How
then could this be the President’s wart How
could whigs, in the face of the vote of Con
gress declaring it to be the act of Mexico, call
it the act of James K. Polk? Who could bc
*Tlie Speaker very pa’pably alhided to the ex
ample of grave Senators’ among whom the Hon.
John M. Berrien was conspicuous, who in 1814, and
more especially again in 18-14, stumped it from one
end of the Union to another —from the free discus
| sion barbacues of the South to the very dens and
camps of the abolitionists of Massachusetts, re
claiming trumpet-tougued, the identity of V\ Big
principles throughout the Union. He alluded not
less pointedly to the great orator of the West, ‘‘the
Father of the American system,” who stumped it
through the Southern States on the very eve of
the nomination of himself by the Whigs for the
Presidency,and with the full belief that lie would be
called to step from the stamp into the Piesidential
chair. That great stump speaker did in fact ex
press himself, in his speech from the steps of our
City Hail, as entertaining a confident belief that
the whigs would triumph in the Presidential elev
, tion of that year.
“Hope told a flattering taie.”
lieve that General Taylor would consent to
act as a pliant tool of the Prtisident in maxing
a war, if it was his tear —an unjust, disgrace
ful, unconstitutional war? With what pro
priety could whig members of Congress vote
ten millions of the people’s money, and fifty
thousand of their gallant sons to prosecute
such a war? What father or mother, vho
has a son in Mexico, or who may have lost
one, a fallen hero on the battle field, or a victim
to the malignant climate, could submit to
have it written on his epitaph, “Here lies one
who fell a volunteer in an unjust war of James
K, Polk against the unoffending people of
Mexico.”
Col. Towns next and in conclusion adverted
to the resolutions of the Whig Convention —
their vague arid studied generality,which can -
fully avoided the announcement of any prinei- |
pie—arihlagous to the National Whig Conven- j
tion of 1840, which deemed it inexpedient to j
set forth its principles to the country'. He
commented on their recommendation of Gen
eral Taylor for the Presidency, “ being assured
of the identity of his principles with those of the
whig party,” when it is notorious that at the
time they had no such assurance —that up to
this time the political principles of General
Taylor have not been disclosed, and when he
has solemnly and repeatedly declared that in
no event will he consent to be the candidate of
any party, to promote party schemes.
On matters personal to himself and in refer
ence to various slanders and misrepresenta
tion, Col. Towns forbore to comment at that
time, but intimated that they would receive
ample and early refutation in the most satis
factory manner, —that there were questions
which he had not dodged, and none that he
was not at all times ready to meet at all times
before the people.
Col. H. V. Johnson next occupied the stand,
and made a strong, eloquent and impressive
speech. He spoke in glowing terms of the
present great and unequalled prosperity of our
people under the wise and judicious legisla
tion of the democratic party, and contrasted
it with those croaking predictions of ruin and
desolation with which the whig panic makers
throughout the country had in 181 G filled
their newspapers, and thundered from tire
stump, and in the halls of legislation. The
revenue tariff and the independent treasury
of the democrats were in full operation. Yet
the country is in the full tide of prosperity —
* her commerce floats on every wave —exchanges
were regular, money abundant, her interna 1
: trade thriving, and the great farming interests
I of every section of the republic enjoying a
* prosperity to which they had been strangers
1 for many' years.
i Our space will not permit us to give a full
sketch of Col. Johnson’s able argument on
, various topics. It realized the high wrought
. anticipations of nis auditors, who had long [
heard of him as a powerful and eloquent speak
er. We will not omit here, howevef, to men
tion that Col. Johnson in the heat off his ar- j
gumenx made an erroneous statement which |
> docs injustice to the Honorable John M. Ber
, ricn, which none could fegret more than the i
. speaker. He identified Judge Berrien W'ith
the movement in the United States Senate to
direct by a resolution the withdrawal of orir
i troops to the east side of the Rio' Grande.",
This resolution was offered by a New England
Senator, Mr. Cilley of New II mtpshire. The :
■ resolution offered by Judge Berrien contain- |
■ ed a declaration that the Avar with Mexico i
should not be prosecuted with any view to the dis- j
memherment of that Republic, or the acquisition of }
; any portion of her territory. But it contained
no provision for the AvithdraAval of our troops
from that countin' before the termination of 1
! the Avar.
We Avould not ha at, nor Avould Col. J ohn
son desire it, Judge Berrien qdaced in a false ,
position before the public. That Avhich he j
does assume by his own declined sentiments,
in the Senate, and in speeches revised by him
self both on the Texas and the Tariff quest lons ,
j
is sufficiently obnoxious. By it do avc wish
■ him to be fairly judged.
After Col. Johnson concluded, Mr. J. P. 1
1 Simmons of LaAvrcncevillc, the democratic i
1 candidate for Senator, from Gwinnett and
l DeKalb, addressed the meeting. His speech
was short, but it Avas clear and sensible.
* He is a very fluent and rapid speaker, and
slxoavs himself to be a man of clear mind
and sound judgment. The ouh r topic of fede
ral politics he touched upon avus the Wilmot
Proviso, of which he gave a clear and succinct
account. lie demonstrated the very favorable
attitude of the democratic party of Georgia on
this question, in contrast Avith that of the
Avhigs. lie shoAved that the democratic party
of the Union Avas the conservative and consti
tutional party' that was destined to sa\'e the
Union from the storm that threatens it from
that portentous question. He alluded to
some local matters, reports and slanders aimed
at him, to defeat his election —and took leave
of his audience by saying that in Gwinnett
Avhere he is best known, his well establish
cd character Avas a sufficient reply to all injuri
ous reports, personal to him, and required no
set form of Avoids to refute them. He refer
red very courteously to his opponent, Col. Cal- |
houn, of Avhoin he spoke hi very high terms.
The day Avas uoav far advanced, and though
another speaker was called for, he declined on
account of the lateness of the hour, and the
meeting adjourned in good feeling, and Avith
fine appetites for dinner.
Yellow Pcvcr in New Orleans.
This disease, at last advices, Avas on the in
crease at New Orleans. ’lhe interments from.
Saturday', 9 a. ai., to Monday, 9 a. m., were
139, of which 104 were of yellowJeyer.
The Commissioning of Privateers.
The Union notices a communication in the
Patriot, upon the rumor of an intention on the
part of the administration to grant letters for
privateering, and says: “No commission has
been issued at Baltimore, or anywhere else;
and the President has no intention of issuing
them.” As the poAver to grant “letters of
marque and reprisal” is gi\-cn by' the Consti
tution to Congress, the President, of himself,
has no power to issue “commissions for pri- :
vateers.”
Unexpected Victory!
The W ashingtou Union of 2d iru:t. says—
If we may place confidence in the following
statement—Jr ora whig sources, too —we have
carried a democratic member of Congress even
in Rhode Island. This would be productive
iof important results. In summing up the
I members of the House of Representatives id
last night s Union, we said: “In Rhode Island
it would be too much to expect a gain of the
remaining member to be elected.”
[lJij telegraph, for the New York Fxjtress.)
Boston Atlas Officb,
Wednesday, Sept. I—l 2, m.
We have returns of the special election held
yesterday in the western district of Rhode
j Island from ad the towns but two, which sum
up as follows : I’or Benj. B. Thurston, (dem.)
2,308; for Wilkins Updike, (whig,) 2,249; for
[ Lauriston Hall, (abol.) 60. There is no doubt
jof Thurston’e election. The Providence Jour*
| nal giv.s it up.
[This is a democratic gain. The distHct was
’ represented in the last Congress by Lemuel 11.
Arnold, (whig.) Rhode Island is thus thrown
| out of the account —the delegation being
i equally divided —in case the election of Presi
dent should go into the House.— N. Y . Jour.
Cam.]
Tiio Weather, Crops. &c.
The complaints of the crops are becoming
every day more general and more decided. In
sdivle places the caterpillar has not appeared,
or done any mischief, while in others it is said
to be sweeping everything before it. In Lou
isiana some writers slate that the worm has
not appeared at all, or has done very little
mischief. The same report is published from
Texas, where the crop is said to be very good
and abundant.
In this State, as far as we can learn from our
exchanges, and particularly in this section, the
complaint is general; Thb boll worm is every
| where, and doing far more mischief than it
did last year. From some parts of Macon,
: Autauga and Montgomery counties, the ac
counts are very gloomy. —On one plantation
I where 250 bales were made last year, we un
derstand that the overseer says he does not ex
, pact to make more than 100 this year. Others
use similar language. Some weeks ago the
weather cleared oif warm and fine, and the
crop began to show considerable signs of im
provement, but latterly the damp, cloudy*
rainy weather that marked the commence
ment of summer has returned, and the hopes
which our planters began to nourish c'f making
an average crop have departed. Yesterday it
rained steadily all day, withiout intermission,
enough to destroy whatever cotton may be
opening in the fields. Indeed, in some instan
ces, for want of warm sunshine, the cotton in
j th “opening boll remains in a hard lump, while
in others it is found stained and even rotten
Complaint is not confined to any one character
: of soil either, it is as general from the sandy
land plantations as from the prairies. So far
as this section of the State is concerned, w e
believe that the crop will be less this year than
last. The same w ill likely be the result in
Dallas, Greene, Perry, Marengo, Sumter, and
other counties in this State, and those in up
| per Mississippi, lying near Columbus. — Moui
' go.nenj {Ala.) Flag, 4 th inat.
The genuine cotton-eating worm has come
at last, and there can bo no mistake. We pro-
I less to know the true cotton-devouring reptile
I by sight, says the Vicksburg Sentinel of the
: 26th msfUut, and having seen some of the late
comers, we pronounce them, without question,
the true cotton worm of ’44 and *4s. They
; have appeared simultaneously on several plan
| rations in this vicinity, though as yet in num
bers tod shiall to do any great damage- If the
s ason is as propitious to them, however, as
i forme; ones have been, they wall soon multiply
ruinously. The prevailing impression is that
j the second generation, wlnch is the destroying
oiie. appears ten days after the first. If so, the
first or second week of September i? as long as
we can now calculate on the escape of the cut
; tun crop; —Nl O' Courier} dsth ultl
[Cor respondent? N. O. Duly Delta.)
33 A YOU SARA, August 29, 1847
Eds: Delia—An h'.lit ife .vs ifies swiftly, you
have doubtless heard of the appearance of the
genuine caterpillar iii this vicinity. A littfs
bottle of some captured ones was shown to me
1 yesterday, taken from the plantation of Mr,
Hornsby, of Point Cotipec, - bvft I am still of
1 opinion that no serious damage will result from
j their appearance. It is said that a few can by
j seen on any plantation in the i\oighbr v hood.
Hopes are entertained, however, that they will
not come in such droves or masses as they did
List year. Should anything occur to satisfy
me tha the a op is to be ca 0 1 by the worm, t
; will write, but as yet I am not satisfied that
the pioneers are to be ruined this year.
J. A. K.
1 Some diversity of opinion seems to exist in
regard to the probable extent of the growing
crop. With reference more particularly to
our own State, and to the region wdiich for
wards its production to this port, w*e are cou
j strained to say that at the present m uncut the
accouiits arc of a very discouraging character.
The plant was backward at the commencement,
and it was visited during the months of June
and July with a constant succession of heavy
rains, which it was greatly feared would seri
ously injure it. These rains having measura
bly subsided during the latter part of July a
season of better weather ensued, under which
the crop recovered rapidly, and about the mid
dle of August our prospects for a pretty fair
yield wore flattering. After that periord how'-
ever, the rains returned again, and the boll
woim, an insect which pierces the boll and
destroys it, appeared in various sections of
the State, and is undoubtedly at this time
committing great ravages on the crop. Whilst
the present indications do not warrant the be
lief that we can reach even an average crop,
w'e yet think that the injury cannot be so ex
tensive as.to reduce the yield to any thing
near the limited production of the year just
closed. We have favorable accounts of the
States west of us, and in the event of no con
tingency of a disastrous character occurring
between the present time and the frost, the re
ceipts of New Orleans will bo heavy. In the
Atlantic States and Florida, they have had to
contend with a backward season and very un
favorable weather, and the intelligence from
those quarters induces the belief that they
will not reach the production of last year.—
Mobile Advertiser, Ist Sept.
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: Special Notices.
Election Tickets.
Those wishing to have Election Tickets
printed, can have their orders executed at this
office at 50 ccncs per 100. The money should
accompany the order. Sept. 7
TAXES, TAXES.
I will attend on Tuesday, the 7th inst. at the
Market House; on Wednesday, the Bth, at l.ag»e &>
Phoenix Hotel; on Thursday the 9ti' inst. at the In
states Hotel,and on Friday the ll th inst. at Andi es,
Wootten & Spears’ Warehouse, to collect the Tax
for the present year. Hours from 10 o’clock, A.
M. to IF. 31. R. A. WATKINS, T. C.ILC.
Sept. 7 i '