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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST, I — - r=:= 1 JAMES GARDNER, JR. TERMS. Daily, per annum:.....-. §8 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum 0 00 If paid in advance .....a 00 Weekly, per annum;.... 8 00 If paid in‘advance 2 aO To Clubs, remitting 1 $lO in advanck,' FIVE COPIES’arc sent.- This will put our Weekly pa flfcr in thd'reach'of- neiv subscribers at TWO'DOLLARS A YEAR* HU’Subscribers who will pay up arrearages, and send four new subscribers, with llie money, can gel the paper at $2 00. [UTAH new subscriptions must’be paid in ad vance. (OPPostage must be paid communications and letters of business. —■#-'* ■ ■■ ■” The Vcna||Banctuary- BY THE REV. JAMES GILBORNE LYONS, L. L. L* Where in our churches is the place for the poor ? I ask this question with shame and sorrow. Where is the place pou the poor: that here and there a poor person has a seat; Where is it ? Is he invited to sit with us “in a good place,” or do wo say to him “stand thou there; or sit hero under my footstool :”— Right Rev. Bishop Ices. “ I WILL BRING YOUR SANCTUARIES UNTO DESOLATION.’ Lee ideas x\ V 1 .3 1. 1* trod the hallowed ground that bore A Christian temple tall and proud; When at each wide and lofty door Went streaming in a gorgeous crowd ; A welcome day bid all rejoice— A fair and ancient festival. And the glad organ’s mighty voice Shook the strong roof and Gothic wall. Full many a token mark’d.the fold, Where rich an 1 high believers meet, The sacred volume clasped in gold, The costly robe, and drowsy scat: — Priest, people, altar, chancel, choir, Arch, column, window, porch and gate— That ample sane from vault to spire Look'd solemn all and calmly great. But mark ! An old and weary man— A stranger clad ‘ in raiment vile/’ With failing steps unci features wan, Went tottering up the fair broad aisle ; They cast him out —Oh faithless race ! On a rude bench —unseen— remote, — Pound guilty, in that hour and place, Of —a leanpwse and threadbare coat! Yes ! and if He who sav’d the lost Stood fainting on that haughty floor Array’d in weeds of little cost, Meek as He sought our world before ; In spite of words which none might blame And works of goodness freelj* done. That sordid* post of wrong and shame Would greet —Jehovah's only S>on. Oh for a prophet’s tongue or pen To warn the great in wealth and birth. Who build their God a house, and then Plant there —the meanest pomps of earth — To brand that church which spurns the poor From every vain and venal pew, Where “cloth'd in purple” herd secure, To kneel or sleep — the lordly few ! Give me the shed, low, bare and plain Where love and humble truth abide, Rather than earth’s most noble sane l>etil’d by selfish pomp and pride:— Give me the damp and desert sod Wall’d in by dark old forest trees^. Roof'd over by the skies of God, But perish temples such as these. [From the Washington Union, Nov. 19. J The Lcxing-ton Platform ” Wc commend to the attention of our read ers the following powerful article from the pen of “An Old Man.” It is a just and eloquent protest against the whig policy as embodied in Mr. Clay’s speech and resolutions. It is not to be doubted that this demonstra tion of Mr. Clay —anxiously as it has been looked for by the whigs, and loudly as it has been hailed by them in advance —has yet, when fairly presented, been received with coldness and sore disappointment. The whig journals seem astonished to find how unpromising and how unpopular their party creed appears even in the ingenious and elaborate statement of Henry Clay himself! They see at once that there is nothing in the Lexington resolutions to rouse the enthusiasm of the American people to their support. That we have ourselves brought this war upon us by our own act; that indemnity is not to be looked for from Mexico for her past outrages and robberies, and for the evils and sacriliccs occasioned by the war which her rulers have denounced against us, and waged against us; that California, with its noble ports and its broad valleys, now justly in our possession, and won by the patriotic valor of our armies, is to be given up in discomfiture before the braggart threats of subjugated Mex ico ; that the fertile region between the Nueces and the Kio Grande, though “claimed by both republics,” is to be regarded as rightfully be longing to the “jurisdiction of Mexico,” and “ inhabited by her citizens,” and so to be wrenched from our Union by the “ fixation” , of the “just and proper” limits of Texas; that “no more territory !” is henceforth to be the motto and the watchword of the Anglo- Saxon race on this continent; and that the Civilization of Popular Power, going forth un der the sacred shield of our constitution, has even now found is fated limit on which is in scribed, “ Thus far shalt thou go and no farth er !” —all this is the “ Lexington Platform” on which the great Whig Party is now astonish cd and dismayed to find itself standing for solemn judgment before the American Peo ple! These —just these and none other—are the responses which whig partisanship now proclaims to us from the blazing lines of Bue na Vista, from the bloody defiles of Cerro Gordo, and the dismantled ramparts of Cha pultepec! This —just this—is the whig voice to us from the captured Metropolis of the Aztecs I It speaks to us of renunciation, of retreat, of bitter and shameful discomfiture —of indemnity sacrificed, of advantage flung away—of glorious deeds done all in vain—of victories teeming with grandest results when wisely comprehended and valued, yet turned to dead ashes in the grasp of a dwarfish “ op position” policy which cannot rise to their just and noble elevation ! And worst of all —and most crushing to whig hope—this gloomy voice resounds from the tripod of the oracle at Ashland ! It is a bitter disappoint ment. Corwin might rave. Webster might equivocate and palter. But still there was hope in the “Mill-boy of the Slashes!”— “ Harry of the West,” when he last spoke, longed “to slay a Mexican;” and when he speaks again—such was the hope of his party —it will be in words of power and of patriot ism which the people can hear, if not with enthusiasm, then at least with patience. Ho has spoken —and in the tone of not a few of the whig journals, that hope has turned to ill concealed chagrin and dismay. And yet —and this is the crowning calamity —what one section of the universal whig par ty can as whigs object to anything which as a whig Mr. Clay has felt himself forced to say ■ What one political architect have the whigs in all their ranks capable of improving the Lex ington platform? The fatal issues in Mr. Olay’s resolutions are issues which as a whig he could neither escape nor alter. When he mounted the rostrum to speak, he found him self doomed beforehand by the whole policy of his party to utter “ sayings hard and grat ing’’ to the ears of a patriotic people. What i he could soften, he has softened. What he . could gloss over, he has glossed over ingcu- 1 iously. He has made a skilful effort to unite the straggling sections of his party. But he , could not change the nature of things. It was beyond his power —it is beyond any hu man power —to make systematic opposition to the cause of the country in war even appear to ' be either popular or patriotic. The whigs, j * then, ought scarcely to blame Mr. Clay for the j 1 bad and ominous look of the creed in his : : hands. The plain fact is, that as a party, they I , have no creed in relation to the war which can ' bear a plain and connected statement before the country. One of their issues here, and an other there, may do well enough. But it will j not do at all to put all the whig issues into ! one and the same schedule. “Most potently” j as the whigs may profess to “ believe” their doctrines, they are not slow in perceiving that i it is not “malice” only, but sheer discom fiture, “ to have them so set down.” Mr- Clay and the War Like Mr. Clay, I am in the decline of life, and hold no office in the government. Unlike Mr. Clay, no visions of office flit before my imagination. I expect none —hope for none —want none. I am am disappointed in the positions taken by that gentleman in relation to the Mexican war. I thought him patriotic; and when it was announced that the “Farmer of Ashland” —the “greatest living statesman of the age” —was about to come from retirement and give counsel to his countrymen, I did expect a dis- ! play of lofty patriotism as well as eloquence ! —something in rebuke of the spirit which sac- j rifices country to party —something of which | the true American, whig or democrat, might 1 be justly proud. Alas ! how different is the result! Let us consider how Mr. Clay proposes to put an end to the war : “ Mr. Clay said, he was opposed entirely to annexing Mexican territory; one half of the millions avc had already we did not want.”— “Ho spoke of the absurdity of asking indemnify for our losses of a people who had nothing to pay.” “ Mr. Clay avowed himself strongly opposed to the extension of slavery—deplored its exis tence — but remarked it was an unavoidable evil. He considered the refusal to accept new territory as the best means of averting the diffi culties that surrounded this important and delicate subject.” These passages are extracts from the ac counts of Mr. Ciay’s speech given by his friends. The resolutions offered by him declared that “we anxiously hope that each nation may be left in the undisturbed possession of its own labors, language, cherished religion, and terri tory ;” and that “ we have no desire for the dis memberment of the republic of Mexico, hut only the just and proper fixation of the lim its o f Texas.” Now, what is to be the result of Mr. Clay’s plan, if adopted ? We are not to demand indemnify for our plun dered citizens , because the robbers arc not able to pay it. We are not to take any of their hind, because wc have more than enough already, and may quar rel about it when tee yet it ! What then ? Nothing is left but to retreat within our own limits, amidst the triumphant shouts of the Mexicans, and the derision of the civilized world! “Ah,” the Mexican chiefs may well say, “ our perseverance has conquered you ; we know how to ileal with you hereafter ; wc will plunder and murder your citizens as we list, and you will no t ask us for indemnity, be cause we arc poor ; nor take any of our territory, because you do not want it; and if, perchance, having a favorable opportunity, we murder your officers and attack your troops, and your government blockade our ports, defeat our armies, and take our capital, wc have only to persevere until one of your statesmen rides into the presidency upon an anti-war hobby, when you will surrender all you have icon, and be glad to forgive us for the robberies we have com mitted.” Mr. Clay virtually says “ wc are a brave na tion, and can afford to let cowards butcher us with impunity; we arc a rich nation, and can afford to let rubbers size and retain our property without indemu ity.” Worse than in vain will bo the blood shed at Palo Alto, Ilesaca de la Palma, Monterey, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerro Cordo, Contre ras, Churubusco, and the city of Mexico, if this policy shall prevail. The spirits of the gallant dead will haunt the recreant statesmen of this dishonored country, if they shall give up the contest without a treaty securing in demnity for the past. It would establish a new Algiers upon our borders; it would en courage continuel outrage, plunder,, and war ; and, in the end, our country would be obliged to fight over again the giorious battles of the existing war, under more adverse circumstan ces, again watering the fields and mountains | of Mexico with much of our noblest blood. I am as much opposed to the “ annexation of Mexico” as Mr. Clay, and nwre the enemy of slavery. As to territory, I want Upper California for its ports, and the readiest ap- j proachcs to it from Missouri by land. I know that no black slave will over set his foot in that region, whether prohibited or not ; and that our people and their institutions will soon set free the white slaves which there exist un der the name of peons. But I throw behind me all such questions, when the present honor and future security of my country are at stake. “Sus- j ficicnt to the day is the evil thereof.” If wc j retreat from Mexico without indemnity, tee I are a disgraced nation. Thenceforward -wc 1 may expect the “ kicks and cjiffs,” the pocket- j pickings and stalls of every upstart power on I earth. The whole world will ask, in wonder, why we ever crossed the Kio Grande—wh} r Mr. Clay sent his son to die at Buena Vista— and why the old man himself felt as if he would like to “ slay a Mexican?” It is wc, and not our adversary, who will cry “ enough ” wc, and not Mxico, will be the party whipped ; her braggadocio generals and vain people will justly claim the victory, and the world will accord it to them. More insolent than ever, perchance with a monarch at their head, sus tained by European alliances, they will con solidate their power, strengthen their defences, replenish their stores, and then force us tc fight over again all our glorious battles, and j pour forth increased torrents of blood “to j conquer a permanent peace.” Away with all the factious and irrelevant , issues about slavery and all that, until the ! honor of our country be vindicated, and its future j peace be secured on a Jinn basis. Then, if there j bcroccasion, it will be soon enough to quarrel among ourselves. If the American people feel as I do, they will put down, WITH A STRONG HAND, President-makers andean- I didates for the Presidency, whig or democrat, j in the north or in the south, who, for purposes of self-aggrandizement, unworthy revenge, or unholy ambition, would disgrace their coun try, extinguish its glories, now so unrivalled, exchange the admiration of the world for its derision and contempt, and, in a dastardly re treat from a contest almost ended, lay the foundation for future outrages and wars with out end. AN OLD MAN. Commercial- | The New Orleans Delta of 18th inst. says— “ The news by the steamer Washington, which was made public yesterday, proves rather less ; disastrous than was feared, though the fall in 1 Cotton at Liverpool, since the sailing of the ' , Caledonia, is put down at fully <£d. The de- j cliue in our market brought forward many ( buyers yesterday, which rendered prices some- 1 what steadier, and the sales ran up to nearly , r 10,000 bales. As near as wc could gather, the • ml ingrates for middling to good middling were ( oi to s£e. per lb,” j * Augusta, (Georgia. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 24. Fire! About eight o’clock last evening a lire broke out in a small house on Reynold’s street, on the lot of John Mann, It was occupied by a negro woman, which was consumed. Fire in Charleston—destruction of Cotton. A slip from the Charleston Courier office dated 23d inst., 10,* a. m. says—This morning a little after 4 d’clock, a fire commenced in a large ware-house on Exchange wharf, which was totally destroyed, with its contents, con sisting, it is believed, of some 1500 bales Cot ton, 100 boxes Manufactured Tobacco, up wards of 100 bags Coffee, and other articles of merchandize. It is difficult now to estimate the loss, but it is believed to be from sixty to seventy thou sand dollars. Most of the property was in sured, as was also the building. 7 O There is no doubt it was an incendiary act. Theatre- The entertainments at the Theatre the pre sent week have been varied by the appearance of the Lehmann Family, and Charles Whither, the celebrated Hope Dancer. If any proof were wanting of the complete success of the Troupe, 1 the boisterous applause, and shonts of laugh ter, which nightly greet its members,would am i ply afford it. The Statues and Living Pictures I arc a study for the artist, and the grace and activity of the dancing, the humor of the Pan tomime and the daring feats of Whither on the elastic cord leave nothing to be desired. — The Bill this evening, to which we refer the the reader, is particularly attractive. At a meeting of a majority of the Judges of the Superior Court at Milledgerille, on the sth November, 1817, the following rule was adopted: Ordered , That Counsel shall propound in writ ng the points of law on which they may wish the instructions of the Court to the Jury, before the Judge shall commence his charge. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ACADIA. 11 DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. We received by last evening’s mail, from our correspondents the Charleston Courier and Evening News, slips containing the latest tel egraphic advices, brought by the Acadia, which vessel sailed from Liverpool on the 4th and arrived at Boston on the 20th inst. Commercial and Financial. —The dismal state of trade and money in this country, des cribed in our advices per Caledonia, continued to exist with unmitigated severity up to the 26th ult., when the Government, yielding at last to the popular cry for succor, authorized the Bank of England to depart from the Bank act of 1814 —and to make advances on good security on sums of not less than £2OO0 —at interest after the rate per cent. A striking reaction at once took place in the funds. Public confidence appeared to have ac quired a fresh impulse. Produce became in better demand, and the entire fabric of trade indicated returning strength and vigor. The accomodation, how ever, was found to be miserably disproportioned to the necessities of the public, and the re sult has been, within the last few days, that trade has almost wholly relapsed into the same state of torper and alarm. From the Manufacturing Districts, parti cularly, the advices are of a most unsatisfac tory nature. —Many mills had ceased to work, and numerous others were working on short time, —merely open from motives of humani ty to the workmen, and to preserve the ap pearance of occupation. It is there r orc perfectly clear that the pres sure cannot be ameliorated, if the Bank docs not extend its accomodations. Meanwhile it is impossible to form any adequate idea of the fearful ruin which must overwhelm every de partment of trade. Day after day, instead of dispelling, has but deepened the shadow of approaching calamity* which, though perfectly foreseen, cannot be averted, save by the interposition of the Gov ernment and the Bank. Fresh failures, to .an enormous extent, have taken place within the last fortnight, some of ! them the oldest establishments in the land, and all affecting, in a greater or lesser degree, ! various houses who have still continued to ! maintain their credit. I The funds, "which for some days following the depurturc had fallen to a point of depres sion beyond of any living man, have considerably revived, though suffering excessive fluctuations. Monday is represented as having been a com parative quiet day, the funds rising considera bly. On Tuesday the fluctuations were very rapid ; Consols opened at an advance of * per cent —the quotations for money being 81 £ to 82 J, from which point they slowly rose to 82|. Some speculative sales immediately took place, when prices declined considerably. Yes terday the feeling was easier in the money market, and less unsteadiness was perceptible. Consols for money were quoted at 811 to 821, and 81J to 82| for account. Rank stock is worth 185*. Foreign Stocks are merely nom inal. Mexican Bonds have fallen to loj a 16J. England and Ireland. — The English Par liament will assemble on the 18th inst., for the despatch of business. The Pope’s rescript has been received, condemning the proposed Roman Catholic Provincial Colleges for Ire land. A feeling of universal sorrow and dis appointment has boon caused by it. The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have ad dressed the Lord Lieutenant, on the certain recurrence of the famine in the approaching winter. He promises the Government will interfere for the preservation of human life. Switzerland. — 'I he affairs of Switzerland are fast approaching a crisis. The belligcrant forces arc in view of each other, and hostilities appear to bo inevitable. Spain. —A reconciliation has taken place between the Queen of Spain and her husband. The late Minister of Finance, Senor Salamanca, is charged with a fradulent issue of bonds to the extent of 100,000,000 reals. AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, NOVEM BE R 24, 18 47. ARTICLES. Per. Wholesale. j Duty. BAGGING —Gunny, | 21 fa) 23 oq nr.ct. Kentucky.. .... 17 fa) 19 BALE ROPE —Manilla...' ft, 16 (d) IK 05 nr. ct. Kentucky.. .... 9Po) 16 BACON— Hams 9 'fd) 16 j titles ( Jfw 16 (DO pr. ct. {Shoulders 7**i) 8* ) BUTTER— Goshen, prime! ft> 23 (h) 25* 2Jpr. ct. Country '....1 12 (a) 15 j CANDLES —Spennacetti.l....! 34 fa) 37* 20 pr. ct. R Georgia made .... | 13**£) 15 ) Northern ....I 17 fa) Is Jt-Jpr. ct. | CHEESE —Northern • j 7**£ 16 30 pr. ct ‘ COFFEE —Cuba '....1 8 fa) 9 n Rio i i B \fd) 9 i Java 12.p0) 15 f‘ ,ee * Eagyura 9 fat 16 ij f Shirtings, brown, 3-4. i yd. ! 5 'a) t>* j “ “ 7-8. ! i 7**l) 8 1 i “ “yd.wide ...J 17./a) 26 j Sheetings, brown, 54. ~.. 12 fa 15 u J “ bleached, 5-4 .... I IS f w 20 •« j Checks ; I 10 fa) 16 i ) lied Tick | 12 *£ 18 t j Osnaburgs Boz .... 1 16 fa) 11* l Yarn (assorted) ft, j 17 fit 19 FISH —Mackerel, Mo. 1.. . bid. 13 fa) 14 U l>o. No. 2... ; 9fa 9* I(20 pr ct. i Do. N0.3....t....j 7* fa 8 > FLOUR —New 0r1ean5...J....1 none. j Canal 1....8 00 <d 8 56 >2opr. ct. ’ Georgia 4 56 kl 5 25 ) GRAIN —Corn bus. I 45 fa) 50 1 Oats I 37 fw 40 26 pr. ct. GUNPOWDER — keg. 5 56 fa) 6 00 HIDES —Dry ® )on „ r rt i Dry, salted 8 fa/ 9 1 r * • j HA F—Easter. fd / nr rt North River fa) j * )r " ‘ IRON— l*ig 100. fa) 39 pr. ct. Swedes,assorted, ton. 4**£) 5* 30 pr. ct Hoop 100. bird) 71 Inn . Sheet 'ft, 8® 10 1 20 P r * ct - Nail Rods 1.... 6 fti) 7 LEAD —Pig and liar 100. 6 id) 7 ) Sheet ! 6**i) 8 >2O pr. ct. White Eead 7**i) 9 ) LIME— bblJl 50 Hd 2 50 MOLASSES —Cuba gal.. 28 da) 30 , N. Orleans.!:... 37**,) 40 jj 30 pr. ct- • NAILS —Cut, 4d to 20d.. .j.... s*@ 5* (30 pr. ct. EXPORTS OF COTTON TO FOREIGN AND COASTWISE PORTS, COMMENCING IST. SEPTEMBER, IB4G. __________ » “ BAVANNAIL CHARLEHTON~ 'MOBILKL N.7)RLHANB. NEW 7 YORK. OTHER PORTS. ; TOTAL. WHITHER EX PORI ED. 11846. 1847. 1346. 1847-1 1846. j 1847. 1846. 1847.1 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847. 1846. Liverpool 77 1.549, 4,700 17.110, j 9,‘>69 “ 41,713 14,602 15,981 j 8,732 1,909 ■ 801 “ Hull j Glasgow and Greenock | 1,227 1,457 .:•••••••; * ?10l ' Cork and a Market ( ; 1,<36] 1,573 E3 -• ........ ........ Total to Great Britain L 549 “ 4,700 18,343 13,048 i 9,259 43,449 10,435 , 16,t?97| 8,905 1,909 . 801 91,200 44,449 Havre ..j 77777777 83299 11,710 , 1,420 " 23,005: 12,252 , 18,362) 10,300 , 1,020 77777777 77777777 Bordeaux I! ' 1 ! !{ • ' Marseilles I ~.| 3(12 11,498 i 1 >OO7 Nantes j 1 ' I j ....'! 610, | 400 Total to Franco || j 1 8,299 11,710 I 1,420) ij 24,281: 12,014 | 20,32*5 12,027 j 55,352 36,351 Amsterdam I ! ; I 1045| 32 Rotterdam , j ;• ; * Antwerp..- 1 ' * I 2,102 I 150 3,735 j 1,C51 | Hamburg I ' I ' 2,003 j Bremen.. 1 .. '' ' 1 2,785 1,569 Barcelona * ........! i 305) 605 i ' : I Havana, &c 1 j. !| ! 1,993) 4,952 1 304 82 ! Genoa, Triesta, &,c 1 ..I 384 1,720 1 1,854 1,723 Ghent, &c« I; •••••••• •••••*•• •••••••• Other Ports. 140. 1 1,532: L 129 j 1 1 Total to other Foreign Ports.,.. |) 140| 384: 305, 005 j 7.347' 0,231) 10,827; 7,906 708 185 25,3^7j 15,371 1 New York <6919 15,659 9,179 23,583 LlB5 27283 10,591) 7,,788 i , Boston 655 2,070 2,567 3,390 3,615 ‘ 8,622! 3,725 j I Providence 012 ! ' L Philadelphia 430 693. 1,707 3,066 1081 387 1,483 784 1 Baltimore 2801 2«i3 913 896 1 450 485' 414 : ' Other Ports ],503 4,025) 16 253 32| 2,830 ! 107;; ' ........ ........ Total Coastwise I 12,847 22,707 I t,382 8,000 ; 5,959 ! 21,184; 12,876 ; | )l | | 56, 4 3 73,935 Grand Total 1 — 1L390 27 467 Ip! WICIIIIt ’ ““7 " Italy. —The affairs of Italy’ are not yet sa tisfactorily adjusted. The Emperor of Austriaa continues obstinate, but does not seem dis * posed to take any aggressive steps. The Hibernia arrived on the morning of the : 28th, after a run of eleven and half days from Boston. The Duchess d’Orleans reached Havre on the 26th; 19th, New York and Queen of the West; 22d, Sarah Sands, Oxford, and Wash ington Irving; 21th, 11. Clay’. Sailed 22nd, Liberty; 26th Patrick Henry; 28th, Ambassador; 31st, St. Patrick and Web ster. The Sarah Sands will not sail till January. Breadstuff’s generally’ have improved some what in price, it will be seen comparing the present prices with those current at the dc departure of the Caledonia on the 19th of Oct. Oct. 13. Nov. 4. ’ Canal Flour * 27s a— 29s a 29s 6d Balt, and Philadelphia. .25s a 26s 23s a 29s Sour 19s a 21s 21s a 23s Corn Mea1....... ...... 14s a 14s 6d 14s a 15s 6d Wheat, white, 8s a 8s 6d 7s 6 a 8s Do. red, 6s a 7s6d6s6da 7s Gd Indian C0rn,..30s a 33s 30s a 35s [From the. New I ork Tribune oj Saturday .* Flour and Wheat Market- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4—12 M,—Best West ern Canal Flour 29s to 29s 6d per bbl; Rich mond and Alexandria 28s to 295; Philadelphia and Baltimore 28s to 295; New Orleans and Ohio 26s to 275; United States and Canada sour 21s to 235; United States Wheat, white and mixed, 7s Gd to 8s per 70 lbs; red 6s 6d to 7s 6d; Indian Corn 30s to 35s per quarter; In ‘ dian Meal lls to 15s 6d per bbl; Oats 2s 4d to 2s lOd per 45 lbs; Barley, per 60 lbs. 3s to 4s; Peas, per 504 lbs. 30s to 40s. Os all the branches of trade, that of Com alone shows the slightest symptoms of anima tion. Before the day of the departure of the last steamer, and for two days subsequently, the Liverpool market was more than usually dull and declining, owing to the pressure of heavy home arrivals, with a limited demand; but a slight improvement in the money market on the 26th imparted a bettter feeling, which was greatly stimulated by the advices received per Hibernia. Since then prices have steadily advanced to our present quotations, at which they’ con tinue firm. The demand for Indian Corn and ileal for Ireland has been remarkably great. The ar rivals of English Wheat in London last week were upon a fair average scale; but the show of samples was small yesterday. Selected qualities of both red and white were in good request, but in all other kinds the business : was trilling. It may be fairly presumed that as the sup- | plies of foreign Grain and Flour will be limit- > eel this Spring, prices will maintain a steady j position. Louisiana Election—Members of Con gress- The account is now closed, and the result seems to be as follows : Ist District —Emile La Sere, (D.) 2d “ Bannon Thibodeaux, (W.) 3d “ John 11. Harmonson, (D.) 4th “ Isaac Morse, (D.) The Congressional delegation is therefore unchanged. The Legislature is as follows ; Vi, I). Senate, 1,5 17 House, ~,.,51 47 60 64 Being a Whig majority of two on joint ballot. Upon the coming Legislature will devolve the duty of electing a United States Senator in ARTICLES. Per. Wholesale. Duty. OlLS —Sperm,W.Strainei. .... 130 fa) 137 free. Fall strained 1 25 fd) Summer do 1 Ui) te 1 h Linseed Dbl. 87 }/a) 2Tpr. ct. Tanners ! 55 id) Lard 1 25 fd) POTATOES. obi. 3 00 fa) 3 2d PIPES ........L... ( WW « 00 PORTER do/.. 2 25 id) 3 50 PEPPER ft. j 16 id 12 PIMENTO ' 14**1)15 RAISINS —Malaga, biincb box. I 75 fa 3 ) . Muscatel . * id) 250 J 4f) P r * ct. RICE —Ordinary 100. 4 00 to) 4 25 Fair 4 37 *1) 4 50 Good and Prune 4 75 fa) 5 00 (■ French Brandies gal. 150 <a) 2 100 pr. ct. ILcgcr Freres 2 75 fob 3 Holland Gin 1 25 in) J 50 100 pr. ct. American Gin 1 40 fa 43 1 Jamaica Rum.... 1 50 fa 2 00 100 pr. ct. i r- I N.E.Kum, lids. 4c brls 1 37 *i 40 ISi Whiskey,Phil. Sc Balt 33 fa 3s j Do. New Orleans 30 *£33 Peach Brandy 75 fd 1 00.100 pr.ct. SUGAR-VaiUu Muscovado ft, 7pd) 8* [' P 11. & St. Cr. ix 9 toll Havana, white 10 *£ll . j New Orleans B*£ 9 f 3O P r ’ ct * | Loaf. 11**1)12* Lump 11 *£ 12 I SALT —Liverpool sack 1 G 2 fd) 1 75 i nn . Loose. Ims.| 45 *rso |j 2° pr. Ct. SOAP —American, yellow tb I sfa 6 30 pr. ct. i SHOT —All sizes J62fa 1 7520 pr. ct. SEGA US —Spanish A1 20 00*/)30 00 40 pr. ct. American 8 *£l6 j TALI.O W— American 10*1)11 40 pr. ct. TOBACCO —Georgia ft, 4 *t) Cavendish 15*616 U6O pr. ct. TWINE— Bagging | 18 *i)2s I ( . Seine 301*50 j| 30 pr. ct. TEAS— Pouchong 50 (d)75 j * Giuip’der Sc Imp 75 id) 1 00 ! Hyson j.... 75 *£>Bo f free Young Hy50n........ 50 *£7s J WlNES —Madeira gal. 2 06 *?) 2 25 30 pr. ct. Claret, Mars’llcsJcaskj 25 *x)6o 46 pr. rt. Do. Bordeaux do/. 3 00 fa 3 50 46 pr. rt. Champagne 9 06 fd 15 00 46 pr. ct. Malaga I 56 *i)62 *4O pr. ct. 7 i —j ' : place of the Hon. llcnry r Johnson, whose term expires on the 4th of March, 1849. Cotton- The Yidalla (La.) Intelligencer of the 13th instant, says —“The long continued favorable weather for gathering the cotton crop has re ceived an interruption this week. But even although the fine weather should be at an end for the season, planters have done better than they’ expected that they’ would do, six weeks ago. “We cannot agree with those, however, who, flying from one to another extreme, now begin to predict a crop equally large with that o f any former year. Such predictions we have heard, but when the parties making them have been asked to figure out where the cotton is to come from, they have been found lamenta bly wanting in their calculations. The crops will be large in this part of the cotton country, but, when we hold in view that the Atlantic cotton States and Tennessee and Arkansas will not do better this than last year and that all the increase in this over last year’s crop must be made up in Mississippi and Louisiana, it is not easy to rise above our estimate, 2,- 200,000 bales.” Cheap Postage- Wc learn from Washington (say’s the New York Sun) that the Postmaster General will recommend in his report, the introduction of a uniform system of cheap postage throughout the Union, similar to the Penny postage in England. This will be completing the cheap postage system so wisely conceived and admi rably carried out by’ Cave Johnson. It will be gratifying to the friends of the present system, to learn that the deficiency in receipts this year compared with the expenses of the de partment, will be reduced to less than $40,000. In 1845 the deficiency was SBOO,OOO, and in 1846 over $600,000. The receipts for the com ing year will no doubt leave a large balance in favor of the Department. This is a triumph for the P. M. General and the country. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS. BURKE SUPERIOR COURT. November Term., 1347. gj* Present —Hist Honor William W. fIoLT, Judge, We, the Grand Jury of Burke, county, sworn, chosen and selected for November Term, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, beg leave to make the following presentments: Wc have made a minute examination of the Jail, and deem its condition entirely unfit for the uses to which Jails are usually applied, and there fore present it as a nuisance to the county*, and ; would respectfully suggest that the Hon. Justices j of the Interior Court would take into consideration the propriety of repairing the Jail, or causing to be i built a new one, as early’ as practicable. We have examined the County Records, and take pleasure in stating that wc find them kept in ; a neat and correct manner. We beg leave to direct the attention of tile Hon Justices of the Inferior Court to the condition of th ■ Roads, which, ixith few exceptions, wc find in a bad condition, and recommend that the Road Laws be rigidiy enforced. We recommend to the Justices of the Peace a more close attention to the duty of appointing Pat rol parties and requiring the re turns of captains of such parties. We would respectfully request of our Senator and Representatives to use their influence in hav ing a law enacted, making it obligatory on the Tax I Collector to furnish to the magistrates of each dis trict in this county* a list of the defaulting tax-pay ers, for the more effectually preventing illegal vo ting. We are induced to make this request from the fact that there were 948 votes polled at our late election, and we find less than 800 tax-payers recorded ; and we further request that the Clerk of the Court forward our Senator and Representa tives a copy of these presentiments. Wc have examined the Books of the Treasurer, and find that the whole amount received by Isaac Mulkey (present Treasurer) from E. H. Carswell, the former Treasurer, i* $994 12-JOO, and the EXCHANGE. Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, “ Hank of Augusta,.... « Branch State of Georgia, Augusta, *« Bank of Brunswick, “ Georgia Rail Road, “ Mechanics’ Bank, “ Bank of St. Mary’s, . « Bank of Milledgevillu, « Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah, «■ |i Branches of ditto, “ Marine and Fire insurance Bank, Savannah, “ Branch of ditto, at Macon, “ Planters’ Bank, Savannah, “ Central Bank of Georgia, “■ Central R. R. and Banking Company, Savannah,.... 4t Charleston Banks, “ Bank of Carwlen,. “ | Bank of Georgetown, “ ij Commercial, Columbia, u j Merchants’, at Chcraw,..w. “ 11 Bank of Hamburg, a Alabama Notes, .. v.'.v ® dis* { Commercial Bunk of Macon, ......faded NO SALE OR UNCERTAIN. Merchants’ Bank of Macon. ♦ i j Bank of Darien and Branches. | Bank of Columbus. Chattahoochee Rail Road and Ranking Company. Monroe Rad Road and Banking Company. Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus. ! Exchange Bank, Brunswick. Insurance Bank of Columbus, at Macon. 1 Phoenix Bank of Columbus. CHECKS. On New York, 4 prenr Philadelphia, “ Boston, “ Charleston and Savannah, par. Lexington, Kentucky, “ Nashville, Tennessee, “ STOCKS. Georgia, 8 per cents no sales. Georgia, G per cents 98 it 100 ♦Not taken by our banks, but redeemable at the Plant ers’Bank, Savannah at par. I whole amount of the expenditures of the present Treasurer is sl,4 w i3 making the balance due the present Treasurer of the tax of 1846, $429 39^-100. We avail ourselves of the opportunity which now presents itself of tendering to his honor Judge Holt thethanksof this body for the con rtesy with which he has presided over this Court. To the Attorney-General pro £tvn., we (enderour thanks for his courteous attention to this i>ody. We request that these presentments be publish ed in the Augusta papers. JEREMIAH INMAN, Foreman, Edward Tabb, William J. Owens, FeRDIN’D V.hURDKLL, J * MRS H. R«'YAL, William Lasseter, Simeon Wallace, Elisha Watk ins, j Robert A. Rowland, Welliam J. J. Royal, Hughes Walton, Amos G. Whitehead, Anderson Lambert, George A. Palmer, Augustus G. Ward, Lewis Wimberly, William Naswortht. Nor. 24 «1— (Eominerc t a I. LATEST DATES FROM LIVERPOOL NOY, 4 LATEST DATES 'FROM HAVRE ...OCT. 0 Augusta Market, Nov. 24. REMARKS.—Since our last we have had u frost suffi cient to put an end to the growth of the Cotton plant, and so far as Georgia and South Carolina are concerned we are enabled, from the best authority before us, to form something like an estimate of this year’ll crop. Not withstanding more ground has been planted this year than last, we feel satisfied, from all the information we can gather, that the present crop will fall short of last year’s. By our tables below it will be seen, that, counting bales, the crop this year shows a falling off of 10,349 bales as compared With the receipts last year, but ax the falling off has been principally at the Atlantic ports, where light bales are made, if we esti mate it by pounds, the increase has been 4,407 bales. Whether low prices has caused this sudden filling off in receipts, or high prices in the early part of the season stimulated shipments, time will reveal; for our own part we are of opinion that tins year’s crop, notwithstanding the extraordinary late fall, (and in any other season fa vorable weather) that has been experienced, the crop of this year will not come up to the calculations of many— if it does, it must be made in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, for in tliis State and South Carolina, the long continued spell of dry weather was anything but benefi cial to the growing crop, and much Cotton that was cal culated on turning out well, about the first October, has withered on the stalk for the want of nourishment, and disappointed the hopes of planters, EXCESS OK UECEIPTS OVER LAST SEASON, AT X, Orleans,. .58,457 bales, av’g 450 1b5.... 26,305,650 lb* Mobile, 15,169 « “ 489 “ ... 7.437,541 “ Texas, 8151 « “ 450 “ ... 387,450 “ Florida, 660 '* H 415 “ ... 373,900 Total,.. ..75,147 34,104,541 lbs, DECREASE AT Charleston, . .53,832 bales, av’g 300 lbs.. .19,355,520 Ibc, 5avannah,....30,389 “ » 415 “ ~ 12,610,435 “ Virginia, 1,065 « •» 360 »» ... 383,400 « N. Carolina,.. 210 “ “ 360 « ... 71,%0 Total 85,496 32,421,315 RECEIPTS OF COTTON. From the let Sept., 1847, to latest dates received. 1817. 1816, Savannah, Nov. 19 16,609..,,.. 46,998 Charleston, Nov. 20 32,621...,,. 86,453 Mobile, Nov. 17..... 29,218... ~. 14,049 New-Orleans, Nov. 17 .191,395,,,, ~132,938 Texas, Oct. 23 ~,,,,, 2,206,,.... 1,345 Florida, Oct. 30 3,102 2,44 S Virginia, Nov. 1 550...... 1,615 North Carolina, Nov. 6 28 23^ Total 275,729 386,078 STOCK OF COTTON Remaining on hand at the latest dates received. Savannah, Nov. 19 9,904 26,107 Charleston, Nov. 20. 29,620...... 39,948 Mobile, Nov. 17 33,897. 14,707 New Orleans, Nov. 17..,, ,119,045 94,196 j Texas, Oct. 23 1,048...... 800 Florida, Oct, 30 1,395 1,333 Augusta & Hamburg, Nov. 1,.... 20,745...... 20,144 Macon, Nov. 1,..., 7,712.. ... 11,480 Virginia, Nov, 1 300,»,.,. North Carolina, Nov. 6 80 1-*' New York, Nov. 17 37,150 31,923 Philadelphia, Nov. 13........... 6,215...... 830 Total .260,901 241,943 COTTON.—In our last we stated that the highest - rif coffered by purchasers was tsc. fer fair Colton, hi*