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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES Q ARDNErVjR.
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[From the New Orleans Picayune, \oth in.it.]
La td from Vera Cruz
The steamship Galveston, Capt. Haviland,
arrived here Sunday evening, from Vera Cruz,
having sailed thence on Wednesday, the 3d
inst. The news by her is not important, no
later advices from the city of Mexico having
been received.
The following letter from our Vera Cruz cor
respondent furnishes the latest news items;
(special correspondent of the picayune] ]
Vera Cruz, Nov. 8, 1847. 1
Major Gen. Patterson and staff, escorted by 1
a few mounted men, left yesterday morning to 1
join the column at Santa Fe, and put it in mo- (
fion this morning for the great city of the
Montezuraas.
The New Jersey battalion arrived yesterday. *
Gen. Marshall has been left behind iri conse
quence of ill health, but as he is not seriously
indisposed he will no doubt be well enough to
fake command of the next, detachment that
leaves here, unless Gen. Battler should ar
rive in the mean time.
The health of the city is about the same as
usual. For the last month the cases of yellow
fever have been very few, considering the
number of subjects; through I am sorry to in
form you that one of the most promising young
officers of the navy, Midshipman Coleby, fell a
Victim to that disease yesterday.
One of the passengers by the* Galveston is a
soldier who was marched to the mole this
molding to the tune of the rogues march < a few
feet before the points of seme half dozen bay
onets, in execution of the sentence of a court
Martial.
Letters from Jalapa of the Ist inst.have been
received, and say| that Santa Anna is at Oriza
ba, on his way to the coast with cords of
money, but I can hardly credit it. There is a
big proclamation from him in town, but as yet
I have not got hold of it.
Subsequently our correspondent obtained
the address referred to, and we also find it in
the Arcolris.
The Genius of Liberty has accounts a little
later from Puebla. Santa Anna had gone to
Tehuacan but was expected at Orizaba. We
put no credit in the rumors of his attempted
evasion from the country.
The “Genius” now says that Capt. Walker
was shot, not lanced. One shot is said to have
struck his head and another his breast, but the
account is rendered apocryphal by its adding
siat he addressad lus men after he was struck
isi the head.
The same paper says that Gen. Lane will
remain a t Puebla and Col. Childs proceed to
join his regiment.
Capt. Hearn, of the Pennsylvania Regiment,
is said to have made a sortie from San Jose, our
position commanding Puebla, to attack some
point in the city, when he was assaulted by a
large party of Lancers and fifteen of his men
speared.
The “Genius” says that United S. schooner
flirt has been ordered to sea to look after ves
sels dismasted by the late northers.
The U. S* schooner Tampico was to sail on
the 3d inst, from Vera Cruz for Tlacotalpan,
where she is to be stationed.
The U. S. steamer Petrita was completing
her repairs to resume her station at Alvarado.
The following items are from the “Genius” of
the 2d inst:
Com. Perry and his staff will proceed to
Compeachy in the steamer Mississippi so soon
as she has completed the taking of a supply of
coal at Anton Lizardo. The Mississippi will
be accompanied by some of the small steamers.
The commodore’s visit to this quarter is oc
casioned by the late anti-United States move
ments of the Yucatecoes.
The commodore on his return will visit L
aguna, Huasacoalcos, Tabasco and Alvarado.
The steamer Water Witch sails to-day for
Alvarado river, to take in fresh water, after
which she will accompany the Mississippi t©-
Campeachy*
The Germantown is anchored in the harbor
of Vera Cruz and the John Adams at Anton
Lizardo.
In the Arco Iris of the Ist inst. we find a de
spatch of Pena y Pena to the ex-Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Pacheco, the chief purpose of
which is to show on what ground he assumes
executive power for himself alone. We need
not enter into- this, for his authority is acqui
esced in; but he claims power, not under Santa
Anna’s resignation and assignment of his office,
but by virtue of the constitution which pro
vides for the case of a vacancy in the presiden
tial office. He therefore refuses to recognise
the authority of the associates whom Santa
Anna gave him, (Gen. and Sr. Alcorta,)
though he mentions them, with all courtesy.
The Rainbow, or Arco Iris, is now publish
ed in English as well as Spanish.
Later.—After the above was written the
ship Orphan, Capt. Williams, has arrived from
Vera Cruz, having sailed on the 4th inst. She
brought no letters or papers. She reports the
James L. Day to have reached Vera Cruz the
morning of the 4th. She also reports the ship
Canton, Capt. Packard, to have arrived at Vera
Cruz on the 3d inst. from New York.
Capt. Packard informed Capt. Williams that
the ship Empire, from New York for Vera Cruz,
with troops, was ashore on Elbow Key, Abaeo.
Capt. Williams did not ascertain the date or
any of the particulars.
Manifesto of Santa’ Anna-
Antonio Lapez de Santa Anna , General of Di
vision, li ßenemerito de la Patria,” and Provis
ional President of the Republic, to his fellow
citizens :
Since my return to the country, I have upon
•various occasions addressed you, giving an ac
count of my operations as chief of the army
and as First Executive Magistrate; but holding
no longer those positions, I now address you
with the most profound grief, to complain to
you of the cruel ingratitude of some, and of
the perfidy ot others, who, not content to
have acted with the most cruel indifference
during the period of the great conflict, are
now striving to throw upon me alone the res
ponsibility for those great public calamities to
■which they have so much contributed.
Such conduct does not surprise me, for a
fall year ago I discovered that I was again to
be made the target of the factions which had
tbrn out the bowels of the country. Their
audacity reached the piteli of holding me up
as a traitor before a community which had
been witnesses of my repeated services in the
cause of independence and liberty, and of the
sacrifices I had made to save themfrom the
yoke >sitiv which they are threatened.
But it was impossible for me to have antici- !
pated my violent removal from the theatre of
the war, in the mode in which it has been ef
fected by him with whom I had deposited su
preme power whilst I was fighting with our
unjust invaders; and as this inexplicable con
duct is calculated to confirm the malignat re
ports which have so deeply wounded my
heart, I find myself compelled to lay before the
world a historical review of my conduct dur
ing the fourteen months which have elapsed
since my return to the Republic, to the end
that my labors may bo seen and a frill expo
sure made of the cunning by which I was
thwarted, of the injustice with which I was
opposed by those whose duty it was to support
me, arid of the origin of that event of 'traitor
with which lam stigmatized, with a view to
discredit me in public opinion, when I had
done my best to serve the country; for I have
sought to respond loyally to the call made ups
on me to save the country from the barbarou
and iniquitous invasion it has suffered. But
as this work will require time, and cannot be
prepared as soon as I could wish, at the same
time that slander loses not a moment in strik
ing its venomotfs fangs into my reputation, I
entreat all impartial men who have not been
witnesses of the exertions I have made, to
deign to suspend their opinions until that pub
lication, assuring them that therein they shall
Icam what has been my true conduct, and
what that of my unjust detractors.
As the calmnny which is iniquitously urged
against me is so atrocious, I hurl it back with
all the energy of my character, and with the
force of innocence infamously outraged, I
challenge and summon all my accusers to come
forward with their proof, and if they fail to do
so, I denounce them as vile calumniators and
enertiieS of the nation.
I call upon Gens. Scott and Taylor, and
upon every individual in their armies, and I
conjure them to declare upon their honor whe
ther the Mexican general, who has fought
them in the north and in the east, and in the
centre, too, of the Republic, down to the 10th
inst’., has discharged all his duty to his coun
try.-.
Fellow-citizens: Misfortune has deprived
me of the inc omparahle satisfaction of offering
you a splendid victory ; but misfortune has
never been deemed treason. They insult you
who endeavor to persuade you that such infa
my can have fallen upon a veteran of indepen
dence, covered with honorable wounds receiv
ed in defence of your rights, and who has
grown gray serving his country with affection
and loyalty. Remember that these same men
have before abused your simplicity, mislead
ing your judgment, and cast upon the pages of
our history the blot which stains it, in the re
cord of the assassinations of Padilla and of
Cuilapan ; remember that by these men were
sacrificed the two chiefs who at Iguala traced
the plan of our independence; that they were
guilty of the act of removing from the sacred
soil in which it was buried, the foot which your
fellow-citizen lost in fighting a foreign foe, to
make a_public mockery of it under the pre
text that it had belonged to one whom in that
moment of delirium they called a tyrant. If
my conduct during these fourteen months de
serves reproach, if it is required that it be sub
jected to examination because its results have
not been fortunate, I am ready to meet any
charges which may be legally and fairly
brought against me; but in the meantime, I
believe myself entitled to the considerations
which the fundamental fact secures to me,
which my services demand, and which justice
exacts.
If you will await events as I desire you in
order to judge with certainty, you will per
ceive that those who from their clubs have
managed to diffuse distrust and malignant re
flections upon my conduct, taking advantage
of our misfortune, are the very ones who are
hastening to treat with the enemy and to yield
to him what I refused. These same men who
cried out “ war without truce,” and stigmatized as
“ Treason ” the armistice which necessity compel
led me to enter into at the capital, when it was the
duty of the Government to listen to that of the
United States, these men are now striving hypo
critically to persuade you that there are no ele
ments of war, that the nation is exhausted, that
its necessities tmd its sufferings require peace at
any sacrifice. Time, I repeat to you, will best
teach you the wickedness of these factions,-
the authors of our misfortunes.
Well you know that lam not the only chief
towards whom victory has been shy. Palo
Alto, La Resaca, Matamoros, Monterey, New
Mexico, Chihuahua, the Californias, Vera
Cruz, Tabasco and Padierna answer for me*
Mexican soldiers have encountered defeats;
none of us have been traitors. There may
have been some cowards; but this can never
be said of him who sought the enemy every
where, of him who was the first in danger, of
him who alone has offered to the nation in
this war trophies won from the battalions of
the enemy*
The position most eligible to serve the inva
der is the Government, and yet I refused it re
peatedly, prefering the hardships of a cam
paign to the luxuries of a palace. The press
ing solicitations of the representatives of the
people, which brought me from the field of La
Angostura to the capital to put an end to civil
war which was devastating it, induced me to
exercise for some time the executive power.
I laid it aside as soon as public tranquility was
established and went to meet the army of the
enemy, which had then taken Vera Cruz and
the Castle of Ullua, having to raise while upon
the march an army, which though small and
undisciplined, disputed as far us possible the
passage of the enemy at Cerro Gordo. My
duty and my design has been to fight, and I
have not been restrained therefrom by obsta
cles or by the superiority of the enemy. If
after that event I returned to resume power, it
was only to defend the capital which was
about being abandoned to the enemy. In a
few days I raised great fortifications and mus
tered a numerous army; I collected resources
and a sufficient materiel of war. Important
actions were fought before the enemy set foot
in the centre of the city, the ground being
disputed inch by inch, and the losses of the
enemy give the lie to those whopropogate the
story that the city was abandoned by the array
without fighting. The details of these nota
ble events will appear in the historical review
which I am about to prepare.
In the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo I deliver
ed up power to the President of the Supreme
Court of Justice, by a decree of the 16th of
September, with the purpose which I unfolded
in my manifesto of the same date, and with no
such motive as has been malignantly alleged.
If I erred.it was in not foreseeing that the men
on whom I bestowed power would first of all
employ it in rendering useless my services.
But this extraordinary incident will be clearly
explained in the review before mentioned, he
being responsible for the injury to the nation
which may ensue from a measure every wayj
impolitic,and in my opinion pregnant with fata
consequences.
And is the citizen who has thus comported
himself as I have done, to be celled “Traitor?”
Can he be so stigmatized whoso firmness and
dignity rejected propositions of pence on ac
count of the injury and humiliation which
they involved: What occasion could be move
opportune to meet the views of the invader* of
Mexico? They who presume to defame mo
will be covered with eternal shame and dis
grace, a thousand acts will bear witness auaiust
them. B
Mexicans! 1 am a man, and I have defects,
but never have I sinned against my country;
never lias nu breast harbored uti-national sen
timents. A good name to leave behind me has
I been the aim of my ambition. 1 have earnest
ly longed after every thing which is great ana
glorious for Mexico, and to dbtain it I have
spared not my own blood, Ydii know this and
you will do me justice.
5 ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
Teuuacan, Oct. 21, 1847.
[Correspondence of the Haltiinore Sun.]
Washington, Nov. 11, 1847.
Delay of Gen. Scott’s Despatches— The Expenses
of the War Reduced—Sound Credit of the Go
vernment —Return of Gen. Armstrong , to Liv
erpool, c.
We have no further news from Mexico, and
I now begifi to think we shall not hear official
ly from Gen; Scott till about the meeting of
the next Congress. It cannot be that the road
from Vera Cruz to Puebla, and thence to
Mexico, is so infested with guerrillas, as not
to allow an express from the Commander-in-
Chief to pass through, if accompanied by a
strong escort. At all events, the reinforce
ments which Gen. Scott must have received
by this time, must enable him to keep the
communication with Vera Cruz open, and to
correspond freely with the Government.
Though the proclamation of Senor Pena y
Pena is in every respect the strongest peace
document we have as yet received, prepara
tions are making for continuing the war. As
the great business of the campaign is now
over, and the Mexicans are not likely again to
raise a considerable army to oppose us, the
cost of the war henceforth will be much less
than the sum already expended, and will, for
the next financial year, not require more than
an additional outlay of from twelve to fifteen
% millions of dollars to be provided for by extra
ordinary means. For all the other purposes
of Government the ordinary income from cus
toms and the sales of public lands, together
with such means as may be available in Mexi
co itself, will be sufficient.
These fifteen millions will hardly call for a
new loan, and may be easily obtained by the
issue of Treasury Notes, bearing interest, say
from 5 to 6 per cent, per annum;’ and may con
stitute a floating debt, which at the close of
the war may be easily funded at a low rate. —
The floating debt of France, whose finances
belong to the best regulated in Europe,amount,
at this moment, to the trifling sura of one hun
dred an sixty millions of dollars, or something
more than 8'OO,(K>0,(>OO francs !
If, as I should think most likely, the Secre
tary of the Treasury recommend such a course,
it will not only enable the Government to
prosecute the war against Mexico with renew
. ed energy and vigor, but essentially tend to
relieve the money market, instead of depress
ing it.- The Government being now wholly
independent of the banks, its credit is supe
rior to that of any corporated or private bank
er, and it may avail itself of it for the benefit
of the whole country.
Gen. Armstrong is returning to his Consu
late at Liverpool by the steamer of the 16th.
All the real war being over, and no more glory
to be won, the General returns to his impor
. tant civil post. X.
21 u3tts ta, ©t o r ia .
TUESDAY MORNING, N0v716.~
{Editorial Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
MILLEDGEYILLE, Nov. 14, 1847.
The reporter engaged by me to copy the
proceedings from the journals of the two
Houses, was again disappointed yesterday in
getting access to the journal of the Senate, af
ter the adjournment. I have no fault to find
with the gentlemanly Secretary of the Senate,
Mr. Wm. H. Crawford, for these repeated dis
appointments which are so very annoying to
me, and must be equally so to the readers of
the Constitutionalist. They look for and have
a right to expect in its columns a diary of
proceedings. The Secretary of the Senate
promised that the custom, which has obtain
ed in his office from a time “ whereof the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary,”
should be kept up for the public convenience
and information. This is for one of the under
Clerks of that department to remain or return
after the adjournment at a given hour to the
Senate Chamber or enrolling room, where the
reporters of the public press -would assemble,
make their abstracts from the journal, and
thus be enabled to despatch them to their
respective papers by the next mail. The
Clerks were required to alternate in this at
tendance, so that it could be no great hardship
upon any one. This regulation exists in the
department of the Clerk of the House. I un
derstand from the Secretary of the Senate that
he would give the same facilities to the public
press that have always heretofore been extend
ed, and that the arrangement should commence
yesterday. My reporter, however, on going to
the Senate Chamber, after the adjournment,
and returning from time to time for hours, as
certained that the Clerk having immediate
charge of the journal had gone aw'ay and taken
the journal with him. It ir presumed that he
went to his boarding house as is his wont,
locked himself up, and sat down to an unin
terrupted monopoly of the journal to answer
his private ends. He is employed, I under
stand, as a reporter for one of the weekly pa
pers of the up country, and with a view, no
doubt, to give that paper an advantage over all
the other papers of the State, whether weekly
or daily, he monopolizes the journals of the
Senate as if they w'ere his own private pro
perty. That the Secretary of the Senate will
reform this conduct, or reform this young gen
tleman out of office, I sincerely hope, for the
benefit of the public generally and more par
ticularly for the benefit of the readers of the
Constitutionalist, for whom lam more imme
diately interested.
The proceedings of chief interest yesterday,
were the elections of United States Senators.
Accompanying this are the ballotings, ♦exhibit
ing as the result, the election of the two whig
nominees, Messrs. Berrien and Dawson. The
interest felt in these elections was intense, for
dow-n to the time of counting out the ballots,
it was not certain that these nominees would
be chosen. It was known that many whig,
members were inimical to Berrien, and had
run and been elected avowing themselves
anti-Berrien whigs. It is said that several of
them had made pledges to some of their con
stituents that they would, under no circum
stances, vote for him. The names of several
members who did this have been given to me.
It will be for them - hereafter tb settle the ac
count with their constituents. Judge Berrien
is certainly a very great man intellectually,
and has borne himself in a very dignified
manner in this canvass before the legislature.
M hethcr the refractory have been soothed
and cajoled into the files, or whipped in, is a
I II I 11l mil HUMS I Tl —l** l mm*—
matter of conjecture. But the result is a great
triumph to Judge B. It demonstrates his pow
er ever and influence with his party. It makes
the anti-Berrien men look very small before
the public. In fact they have shown them
selves to be, what dame nature made them—
very small men.
As far as political parties are to be affected
in Georgia by thCresdlt, the election of Judge
Berrien will be of no disservice to the Demo
cratic party. Had he been overslaughed, and
a less ultra Whig with fewer Northern Whig
affinities been elected, the Whig party wohld
have had a smoother time than now awaits
them in all future canvasses.
\ou will perceive that Judge Dawson was
not elected without some delay, during which
he must have been on the tender hook of anx
iety. It was in the power of the Democrats
at any time to terminate his suspense, and a
few did on the last ballot, by voting for Him.
They really wished him elected, and would
not have allowed any other Whig to run in,
had the great body of the Whigs, by any freak,
have been induced to abandon their nominee
and take up any other. The Democrats pre
ferred Judge Dawson, because his politics
have more affinity to theirs than almost anv
other Whig at all prominent. But they gene- ;
rally preferred to let the Whigs settle their ;
own family quarrel.
Ihe Democrats, you perceive, took occasion
to compliment the veteran Twiggs by a vote
which shows their appreciation of his services.
The cause of the difficulty among the Whigs
was, that a few of Gov. Crawford’s friends !
were very much provoked that he, who was in
fact the choice of his party, should not have
been nominated, while Judge Dawson had in
a measure intimidated the party into nomina
ting him. The fear of a schism was all potent,
and many were, perhaps very unwillingly, in
duced to vote for him in caucus for the sake
of union and harmony, who really preferred
Crawford. Some too, who had no particular
feeling in favor of the latter, thought it a good
opportunity to rebuke Judge D. for being re
fractory, and scattered their votes, thus hold
ing his election as it were, suspended like the
sword of Damocles by a hair. He no doubt,
however, comforts himself with the adage,
“ All’s -well that ends well,” and is as well con
tent almost as if he had been elected at the first
ballot.
The elections being over, the Legislature will
now seriously address itself to its appropriate
duties of legislation.
I think this will be rather a working than a
speaking Legislature. There are not talents
enough of a showy order on either side to
tempt to extensive display. Nor can either
side feel that much party capital can be made
by discussion. At this game, however, lam
certain the Whigs would be the greatest losers,
as has always been the case. They are, there
fore, particularly averse lo discussions. Their
reluctance has been made manifest more than
once this session already. G.
♦The ballotings alluded to by our Correspon
dent did not come to hand.
GRORGIA LEGISLATURE.
IN SENATE.
Friday, Nov. 12, 1847.
A message was received from the House, in
forming the Senate that the House had con
curred in the resolution of the Senate, bring
ing on the election of two U. S. Senators,
with an amendment.
Mr. Moore offered a resolution requesting
the Governor to communicate to the Gene
ral Assembly, at his earliest convenience, copies
of all letters written by the Governor of Flor
ida upon the subject of the boundary line be
tween Georgia and Florida; which was agreed
to.
Mr. Barclay reported a bill to assess a tax
upon slaves imported or introduced into this
State by traders and citizens, and to provide
for the collection and appropriation of the
same, and B to repeal all penal laws on the sub
ject, which w as read the first time.
IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, Nov. 12, 1847.
Mr. Robinson of Coweta, introduced a bill
to incorporate the Atlanta and West Point
Rail Road Company.
Mr. Darnal introduced a till to repeal the
law now in force regulating the practice of
Physic and: Surgery in this State, and to re-*
vivethe act passed Dec, 24th, 1925, regulating
the same.
The tw o Houses having assembled for the 1
purpose of electing State House Officers and
State Printer, they proceeded to ballot, where
upon Mr. Barnett was re-elected Secretary of
State, Mr. Both well re-elected Comptroller
General, Mr. Compton re-elected Surveyor
General, Wm. B. Tinsley, Treasurer, and Mr.
Orme, of the Southern Recorder, State Printer.
The Senate having retired to their chamber,
the House adjourned until to-morrow morn
ing.
Benefit of Miss Kllxs
This charming actress, it will be seen by a
card published in this day’s paper, takes her
benefit on Thursday evening, when will be
performed the popular tragedy of “The Italian
Wife,” and the comedy of “The Love Chase.”
Let her have a full house say we, for she rich
ly merits one.
General Tom Thumb-
By reference to the advertisement it will be
observed that the departure of this world-re
nowned wonder is at hand. His last levee will
be for the colored population on Wednesday
night*
Mississippi
In the Third Congressional District, Tomp
kins (Whig) is elected over Roberts* (Dem.)
late member. This is a Whig gain.
Connecticut IT S Senator-
Gov. BisseH has appointed Ex-Gov. Roger
S. Baldwin to the U. S. Senate, to fill the place
vacated by the decease of Senator Huntington,
till the meeting of the Connecticut Legislature
in May next.
It is said that Mr. Strong, of Norwich, de
clined the appointment, on the ground of in- i
Inference with his professional engagements.
The Georgia Battalion
e received on Sunday morning a slip from
the offide of the Muscogee Democrat, iii which
we find the following letter from its Vera Cruz
correspondent. We hope his fears may prove
groundless, and that the next arrival from
Mexico, will bring intelligence of the safe ar
l rival of the steamers Fashion and Beaufort
s District at Yera Cruz.
Vera Cruz, Nov. 3, 1847.
Dr. Andrews—Dear Sir: I fear I shall be too
troublesome to you, but nevertheless I must
write a little. For nearly four days I have
i atood upon the mole, watching for the steam
| ers Fashion and Beaufort District—the first
i with Capt. Hamilton’s company, the latter with
1 Capt. Wofford’s—and 'tis now 12 o’clock, and
not a word from them, except that a vessel
| which arrived yesterday,reported that she pass
ed a wreck of a steamer, and saw another one
in distress , but could render no assistance !
We all fear that both steamers are lost; the
‘Fashion’ has now been out 11 days. We are
looking hourly for the ‘Maria Burt,’—Colonel
Calhoun and Staff, and Capt. Kendall’s com
pany are on board of her. The ‘Staunton,’
with the rest of Capt. Goulding’s company,
and the ‘Galveston,’ with Capt. Nelson’s com
pany have arrived, all safe. A great many
troops arrived hdre on Sunday and Monday
last. "W e expect to remain here for four or five
weeks; it takes them a long time to get a train
ready to move. Gens. Butler or Marshall will
command the next train. I told you in my
last that Lieut, McCurdy was sick and left at
J alapa; but he was taken a prisoner; and forced
to sign or accept a parole j until he could be Ex
changed—l am rooming with him.
Official Despatches-
The Washington Union, of the 12th inst.,
.says —We learn that the official despatches of
Gen. Scott, up to the 18th September, have
been received this evening by the Secretary
of AVar. They are very voluminous. They
appear to be the official reports of Gen*-Scott
of the several actions which have taken place,
with the sub-reports. It is impossible to give
anything from them for the “Union” to night.
Official-
The following candidates for admission into
the Medical Corps of the Navy have been ex
amined by the Board of Surgeons, recently in
sessiona t Philadelphia, found qualified, and
commissioned as assistant surgeons, to rank in
the following order : 1. William Lowber ; 2.
D. Warren Brickell; 3. George H. Howell;
4. D. P. Phillips; 5. Ashton Miles; 6. Phi
neas J. Horwitz.
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce of the 10th
inst., says that Madame Restell -was, on that
day, sentenced to the Penitentiary for twelve
months.
The French steamer Philadelphia, which
cleared at New York on the 10th inst., takes
out $22,300 in specie. So says the N. York
Journal of Commerce.
Pennsylvania.
The official vote for Governor and Canal
Commissioner in Pennsylvania, is as follows :
Governor f Skunk, Dem.,.. 146,414
Governor £ Irwin, Whi g,. .. 128,438
Shunk’s plurality 17,976
Reigard, Native, 11,207
Canal Com’er 5 L °ngstreth, Dem., 143,833
Canal Com er £ p atton> WMg> 129>l ls
Democratic plurality -. 17,718
Wlaj Gen- Butler
This gallant soldier, accompanied by his
staff—Major Smith, Captain Butler, and Dr.
Hunt—arrived at New Orleans on the 9th
inst. on the steamboat Chancellor, from Louis
ville. They will proceed to Mexico by the
first conveyance.
New Orleans V- S Branch Mint-
We understand (says the N. O. Delta) that
during the month ending October, 31st, 1847,
there was coined at the U. S. Branch Mint in
this city $300,000 in gold, and $60,000 in sil
ver. We furthermore understand that the
Treasurer of the U. S. Branch Mint in this
city expects every day a remittance of over
$2,000,000 in foreign gold coin, by order of
the Secretary of the Treasury, which, when it
arrives here, will have to be melted and re
coined into American gold pieces.
r rhe following article from the New York
Journal of Commerce of the 11th inst., may
in a measure explain the reason why ship
ments of specie are going forward from this
country to England:
Funds in Mexico.—The financial difficul
ties of remitting money to Mexico, disappear
ed some time ago. In the present state of
things in that country, it is impossible for the
English merchants to'forward the dollars to
the coast which they collect from the mines
and other sources in the; interior. They have
been glad, therefore, to exchange those dollars
for drafts on the Treasury of the U. States,
and to give $lO5, and sometimes we are told
as high as slls, for SIOO payable here. The
effect is, to turn our coin to England instead of
Mexico. W e take the coin in Mexico which
the Englishmen would send home, and depo
sit the amount ourselves in London. This
mode of operation is going on extensively,
thongh exactly how extensively we cannot say.
Seizure of anlsngiish Ship-
The English ship Royal Saxon, from Lon
donderry, was seized by Sheriff Lelar of Phil
adelphia, Oja Wednesday, having been, attached
by a house in New Orleans, for $20,000, in
consequence of the recent failures of the ow
ners in England, and notes protested.
Naval-
The U. S. storeship Fredonia, Lieut. Com
manding Turner, 34 days from Vera Cruz, ar
rived at New York on the lltb instant. She
brings 90 sick and disabled seamen; 2 died on
the passage.
New Post Office*
A post office has been established at Three
Runs, Barnwell District, and named Treada
way, of which Wyatt Weatherbe has been ap
pointed Postmaster.
Southern Telegraph
The Baltimore Sun, of the 12th inst., says
—lfhe posts for the Southern line of Tele
graph are up by this time, to New Orleans,
and the wiring is in pregress from New Or
fcans and from Charleston, S. C. It is expect
ed that the line will be in operation to the lat
ter point, if not farther South, by the Ist of
December; and it is hoped that New Orleans
will be able to communicate with Quebec
some time in January next. The registers
and batteries are put up in Charleston, Colum
bia, Camden, Fayetteville and Raleigh,’ and
j the operators are in readiness at those places. I
. f _ n ‘r ~ Y r Juur - of Amerce, lUMmt.s.v.
I Letters from London say that the great biU
discountmg houses which are unquestioned
; th a :;zr:r sumß n fmoneyonhand -^
they dare not use. Overand, Gurney &Co
- are sa.d to have a million sterling lylL
■ Low prices and a returning confidence
t bring this money into circulation,
ernmen relief, from all we can hear, there U
, not the lcast of it. Lord John R us .
; sell unders tands the great principle ol politi
. cal economy well, and is ably sustained by hi*
great former opponent, Sir Robert Peel. They
j have discarded the quackery practice, and will
not adopt the schemes which prolonged and
aggravated oxer commercial agony, in connex
ion with the death struggle of the great author
of economical falsehood.”
Combustion on Board the Washing'to*-
Ihe New \ork Iribune, in reference to the
late passage of the Washington, says: “Eight
days out, great alarm was felt on account of the'
spontaneous combustion of the coals stowed
under the boilers, which was only got under
after the utmost exertion, fat nearly nine
hours, and by deluging the bunker with ihtf
water from three pumps, kept constantly at
work.” The passengers publish a card highly
complimentary to the commander.
Trotting, —We learn from the Philadelphia
Sun that the match for S2OOO betweeri James
Welphy’s Lady Suttan and H. Woodruff’s
Ripton, came off, on Monday, over the Cen
treville course L. 1., and resulted in Ripton,
the Philadelphia horse, w inning the race.
Tall Feeding--
The Delta editors accidentally obtained «
glance ait a bill rendered for the “provant” as
Major Dalgetty would say, furnished to th*
commissioners and clerks of election (five in
number) at one of the precincts in New Or
leans, on the day of election. The bill is ho
doubt a correct one, as it is approved by thi
parties themselves. By reference to the item*
which w-e give below, it is evident that the
said commissioners and clerks, while protect
ing the “palladium of our liberties”—the bal
lot box—did not forget the protection due to
“the inner man.”
ITEMS.
Lunch Steaks $4 00; Chops $6 0C; Hara
and Eggs $3 00; Fried Oysters $lO 00; Brandy
$3 00; Claret $S 00—total for Lunch $32 00.
Dinner. Venison $7 00; Mutton $3 00; 3
French ducks $5 00; 3 rodst Chickens $5 00;
10 roast Squabs $8 00; fried Oysters $lO 00;
Claret sls 00; Haut Partensac sl2 00; Bran
dy $4 00, 1 ies $5 00; Jelly $3 00,—total for
dinner $77 00. Supper —2o dozen fried Oys
ters $lO 00; 2 dozen Claret $24 00; et cetera*
$23 50—total for supper $57 50—grand total
lor lunch, dinner and supper for five $166 50.
Jewish Statistics
It is calculated, says the N. York Observer,
that the total number of Jews spread over the
surface of the globe is $6,000,000 of souls.—
Os these, 180,000 are in the enjoyment of civil
and political rights, viz: 30,000 in the U. S. of
America, 50,000 in Holland, 10,000 in Belgium,
and 90,000 in Franco.
It is said that live stock pay better than any
other species of freight carried on Rail Roads.
If it be true, w-e should say the Western &
Atlantic is doing a fat business at present, for
a number of large droves of hogs have taken
passage on it w-ithin the last week or ten day*.
—Mountain Eagle.
Sad news.—About seven Doctors have al
ready taken up their abode in Dalton. Fortu
netely but few have families to' support. A case
of fever occurred here last summer, and we
presume some designing individual ha* let it
be known.— lb.
“Ring-odd.”—-This is the name of another
Rail Road city , w hich is located some tw-enty
miles from here, in Walker enunty, and is
said to be the site of the next Depot from
this place. We understand that a number of
lots have already been sold at high prices —that
the city is laid out on a grand and magnificent
plan, and several stores are established, doing
an excellent business. We take pleasme in
chronicling these evidences of prosperity in
the upper country, and can assure our friends
above, that we have ample stocks of goods
here to meet any emergency. Our merchants
having fortified themselves against any extra
ordinary demand and arc anxious to supply the
country trade on the most liberal terms.— lb.
Enormous Fortunes.—Sir Robert Peel i»
said to possess an estate valued al: ninety mil
lions of dollars. His grandfathe rwas in quite
ordinary circumstances. His father was a cot
ton spinner, and accumulated a portion of this
immense estate, which the son lias since in
creased by judicious investments. Only three
generations have sufficed to raise a compara
tively obscure family to rank, opulence and
power.
Suffering in England.—A correspondent
of the New York Tribune, w-riting from Liv
erpool, predicts much suffering and sickness
in England, owing to the suspension of busi
ness. Many persons have been thrown out of
employment. There are about live thousand ;
cases of typhus fever in Liverpool at present
—of course, mainly among the poor. The
potato rot is doing its work of destruction to a
fearful extent.
PRESENTMENTS.
SUP. COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY*
NOVEMBER TERM, 1847.
ITThe Grand Jury for the November Term*
of the Superior Court of Jefferson’ county make
the following statement.
In consideration of the pecuniary liabilities which
the county authorities have incurred! in building a
new Court House, and other improvements, and
duly sensible of the great importance of sustain
ing the public credit of the county, we feel it to be
the duty of this body to request our Senator and
Representative in the Legislature to iiave a special
law enacted, which shall enable the Justices of the
Inferior Court of this county, to asses;; a Tax of one
hundred per cent on the present State Tax, if so
much shall be necessary to meet the liabilities of
the county.
As citizens constituting a body, whose duty if is
to watch over the interests and well-being of the
county, we have thought it proper to enquire into
the amount of property lying in the county upoif
which no tax is paid. By the best estimates which
we have been able to make, through a committee
appointed for that purpose; we find- upwards of
10,000 acres of land, and above 400 slaves, paying
no tax in this county. Common justice would seem
to require that the tax on thi» property should he
paid in the county where it lies. We therefore,
strongly recommend to our*Senator and Represen
tive to endeavor to have an act passed which shall
require the Taxes on all property lying or being
in the county, to be paid to the Tax Collector
of this county, except such lands as are unim
proved and whose owners live out of the county.
We present, as a very great grievance to the
moral sense and feeling of the community, and as
a flagrant violation of the laws of God, and of oar
j country, the practice pursued by the Central E*J'
I Road Company of running their various tram® 00 '