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THB rONSTITUTIONALTST. J A svl E3 GAKuNER. JR. ________ - Daily, per annum $8 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum 0 00 If paid in advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum S 00 If paid in advance 2 30 To Clubs, remitting 1 $lO in advance, FH E COPIES are sent. This will put our \\ eckiy pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. [Rf’Subscribers who will pay up arrearages, and send four new subscribers, with the money, can get the paper at $2 00. [£TA!I new subscriptions must be paid in ad* vance. (TyPostasre mustbe paid on all communications and letters of business. By Magnetic Telegraph. [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. Our Letter Sheet. The Constitutionalist Letter Sheet Prices Current will be ready for delivery to-morrow ; morning at 9 o'clock. The tables will be made |up to the- latest dates received. Those vrish ' ing extra copies will please leave their orders at the cilice this day. 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. ■i ■ w ■■!■■■■■ 1 w « 111 w— »!■ I—■ mmtmmmm ■ ,111- it— gnr : 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 '