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moderate use of ice than they are accustomed
to do.
A conspiracy has just been discovered at
Pampeiuna, but it does not appear to be of much
importance, notwithstanding the Government
makes an immensespl.Hier about it.
The eternal question of the tXueen s marriage
is still on the tapis, and the newspapers aie bu
sv in discussing the merits of the rival candi
dates.
Russia.
S/. Petersburg, July 11. The maniag- ol the
Emperor s daughter, the Prine* ss Olga, with
the Prince Royal of Wurtemburg, has just
been celebrated with very great pump.
Orders have been sent to Kenva to sign the
treaty of commerce between this country and
Austria.
Tic Cholera in London. — The Lord Mayor
of London had announced the presence of A
sialic cholera in some pansof London, but it
would appear by the following declaration,
which the annunciation had elicit d in the
House of L »rdr, that lhe disease alluded to was
not the /ksraiic cholera :
Eirl F. z.i tiding? made some inquiry res
pecting tue Lord Mayor’s announcement that
cholera had appearel in London.
The Maiquis of Lansdowne replied. As
soon as the report reached (he Council Office,
some medical authorities were consulted, and
in a lew hours alter a medical gentlemen of
great capacity and experience, conversant with
lhe practice in the difl rent ciiv hospitals, was
sent into all lhe localities in which it had been
asserted that cholera had broken out. He visi
ted all me houses in those localities, and also
all ihe hospitals; but he had nut met with a
single instance of disease which indicated the
presence ot A-ia’ic cholera. He certainly
found instances of that disease which exists in
London and which usually .appears in large
cities at this season of the year; it ha> similari
ty to the Asiatic cholera, but it possesses none
of ’he aggravated character of mat dreadful
plague
The Liverpool Times call* the disease lhe
English cholera, and has the following para
gra’ h respecting it:
Tie English Cholera. —Wuhin the last few
days there has been an enormous increase, at
the variousmetroolitßi) hospitals and dispensa
ries, of English ch lei a in a very acute t rm.—
kis attributed more to atmospheric influences
than the use ot fruit, to which it is generally
ascribed
The city ot London was visited on the Ist in
stant with a lenitic s orm of thunder, lightning
and hail. One of the papers contains tour solid
columns, detailing the destruction done by this
storm in every part ot London. The fine pic
lure gallery in Buckingham Palace, the resi
dence ot the Q,u?en, came near bein? destroyed,
and a great many ot the public buildings we e
seriously injured. Whole blocks of houses
were undermined, and a large number cf the
poorer classes driven out ol house and home.—
The violence of the tempest extended to a great
many oi the smaller towns in lhe neighboihood
oi London, doing immense damage everywhere.
The Manchester Guardian has lhe following
expression of opinion on lhe new American
tariff:
Should this important measure become a
law, as we have now every reason to believe,
it will exercise a most important influence
upon thecoinmerce between the United States
and this country : the reduction of duties upon
most of our staple productions being very con
siderable, and upon none, perhaps, more so than
upon the manufactures of cotton. Under lhe
existing law. the duty on these manufactures
(nominally 35 per cent) is levied, not upon ihe
real value, but upon certain fictitious valuations,
which serve to raise the actual duty in many
cases to 80. 90, and 100 per cent. Under the
provisions ot the bill now before the Senate the
dutv on embroidered and tamhoored cottons will
be 30 percent; and on all other manufacturesoi
cotton 25 per cent ad valorem. Under a duty
of this amount, the import of the finer qualities
of English cotton manufactures, and especially
of good prints, muslins, and probably finer ar
ticles to be restored to something tike the amount
at which it stood some years ago. The reduc
tions in lhe duty on iron, and on woollen
and worsted manufactures, are also im
portant; but, as we shall probably have de
cisive intelligence as to the fate of the bill at an
early period, we shall, for the present, abstain
from any further remarks u:»on it.
It is stated that the dissension among lhe re
pealers in Ireland has grown to an open rupture
Mr. Smith O’Brien has actually seceded from
the Association, with the members ot the
Young Ireland party, after a two days’ wrangle
with Mr. John O’Connell. The immediate
point in dispute was the physical force doctrine;
but there were other causes of discord.
In England, as well as in many par’s of Eu
rope, the apple crop is said to have failed.
The accounts from Fiance represent that, on
the whole, the harvest this year, will be very
good la .some places, however, the crops are
jess than the gverage, and in some parts of
Bretagne they have been entirely destroyed.
Since the final settlement of the Oregon ques
tion, American affairs have been but little no
ticed in France. The newspapers do not ap
pear to l>e in a very good humor with lhe alter
ation in lhe American tariff, as they say ih< y
afford at best only miserably small advantages
to Frent commerce, whilst some ot ihe
changes \ ; I positively be more injurious to it
than lhe existing tariff.
Jk rppr’Ft arrrrvnt »k-»» french Govern
ment intended to reduce or abolish by royal or
dinance the d.uly on the importation of sheet
iron coming from the United States of Au er
ica.
In a publication by the French Minister of
Commerce of documents on the trade with
China, the necessity ot bringing cloth not less
in width than 1 metre 57 to one metre 60 is in
sisted upon, the Chinese refuse all that is nar
rower. Bright colours should be employed
French cottons and calicoes, though said io bo
superior, were neglected for the English. Up
on ’he whole lhe French appear not to have
had any very great success in China compared
with that of lhe English, the Americans or even
the Dutch. The Mult is described to be in ex
porters not seeking to adapt their products io
Chinese tastes, Jjy trying to force the Chinese
to adopt European.
A concert in the open air was recently given
in Paris by 1800 musicians. It was the first
time such a multitude ot musicians overplayed
together in France, and the din and tumult were
consequently ihe most .errific ever heard.
Mr. Jobbard, a French ch-mist, has discover
ed a method of produch g gas for illumination
from water. lie charges the hydrogen from
aqueous vapour strongly with carbonaceous va
pour from oil or gas-iar or any other oil, and
produces a brilliant white lisht,
ft is stated, date ot Milan, July 21,
lhat the new Pope is by tar the most popular
pontiff known fora long time. He has won the
Jove of the people by cutting down the expenses
ot his household. He is remarkably modest
and unassuming in his manner, goes out on
lout and enters readily into conversation with
the people. Railways are to be authorised in
the papal domiinons.
A Geneva paragraph of 221 ult. says : - The
Council appointed to draw up lhe new consti
tution of Berne has completed its labors by
adopting the constitution by 88 votes against 9
It is thoroughly democratic in the most demo
cratic sense ot the word. It will come into op
eration on the 31 st inst.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool. Aug. 3, 1846 —The improved feel
ingin the cotton market which our last circular
noticid, has continued with little Intermission
throughout the weeks which hive elapsed since
its date, and notwithstanding the depr* ssed state
of trade in Manchester, the spinners have taken
a supply nearly commensurate with the con
sumption, while speculators and exportershave
also operated to a fair extent. The total sales of
ihe month which it may be observed has been
shortened three days by a suspend »n of busi
ness on the occasion of Prince Albert’s visit,
amount to 154.450 bales, which include '33.290
-of American descriptions : of these 16,350 Ame
rican are on speculation, and 11,790 American
and 1900 of other kinds for export. In prices
there is very Huie change to notice, but middling
fair and fair qualities of Mobile and Orh ans cot
ton are quoted jd higher thin in our last price
■current. The buoyancy in prices which the ge
neral tenor of accounts from the United States
was calculated to produce, has been checked by
theduiness of the demand for the nvinnfictuied
article, or we should probably have had to quote
a more important advance. The present im
pression in Manchester is in favor of an early
revival of general activity, as there promises to
be a good autumn home trade, and also a good
winter trade with the United States. It will be
noticed on reference to the tables, that the
Liverpool import of 1846 to 29th July, falls short
of that to tst August 1815, by 455.470 bales of
nil kinds, whilst the deficiency in American is
-126,727 bales; and the present stock is 269.230
bales less than at this time in 1845.
The Arkansas Volunteers.—The follow
ing letter from Col. Yell contains the latest in
formation of the progress of his regiment of
Arkansas volunteers. It is another evidence
ot the imbecility and carelessness of lhe War
Department in its management ot the details of
the war operations:
Headquartern, Shreveport. (La ) I
July 28. 4
My Dear Sir: 1 have only a moment io write
lo you. We reached this place on yesterday
at 11 o’clock, A. M.,and by 10 P. M. we cross
ed the river, and will, by to-night, be able to
cross our whole train of wagons, fn the morn
ing by 6 o’clock A. M., we shall take up the
line ot march for San Antonio. I regret that
we have been disappointed in receiving our
public arms and camp equipage. There has
been inexcusable negligence somewhere, and 1
«hall make the report to the proper department;
and it that negligence should be continued, ami
we reach San Antonio without finding our arms,
I shall make a final and direct report ot the case
to the Secretary of War, and it he does not
correct such inattention he will deserve to be
removed from his present position. 1 hope,
however, all will yet be satisfactorily explained,
and that we shall be furnished on our arrival at
our point of destination. j
1 am pleased to say that our troops ar? re
markably healthy yet, and in good spirits.
They will, when an opportunity offers, give a
good account of themselves, Jn haste, vnurs
A. YELL.
The Great Western. —This steamer left 1
New York for Liverpool on Thursday. She 8
carried out sixty-six passengers. <
TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 25. 1*46.
Veto of the River and Harbor Hill.
The Western members ot Congress and edi
tors of the Democratic party, have been open
ing the vials ol their wrath upon Mr. Polk since
his veto of the above bill. We published an
extract a tew days since iioin the Ohio
(dem.) Statesman, in which some scornfully
savage views were put forth about the editor’s
great broiher, the President. Other papers in
that State, as well as other Stales, (ot (he
democratic stamp) have been drawing trom
the reseivoir ot harsh epithets, as it they were
determined io be signally avenged by applying
them to his exalted excellency. They describe
the composition ot lhe Message as “shallow,”
“ ridiculous” in its reasoning, “vulgar” in its
language, “ paltry,” “ hair-splitting” and “wire
drawing,” more full of “cunning” than “wis
dom,” and exactly appropriate to the mind of
a “small character” like himsell! They speak
of him as “imbecile” and sneaking, deceitful
and treacherous!
This is no fancy sketch ot ours. They are
the notes now sounded by some oi those who
blew the clarions in the great Polk army oi’44,
till exhausted trom fatigue and want of breath.
To make the matter worse, lhe poor fellows
were sadly taken in on lhe subject ot lhe tariff.
I’hey went up, with clubs in hand, to demol
ish ihe Tariff of’42, tor ihe substitution ot the
new bill, and hoped by an awtul expenditure
ol zeal on that question, to pile up the happiest
and most irresistible obligations and influences
upon Mr. Polk, to give his sanction to their
tavoi ite river bill.
Mr. Polk had lhe running to keep back a
little and hide his own counsel in a secret place,
till be had secured their votes tor the tariff’, and
then he came down like a thunderbolt upon
them, dashing their hopes and perfectly stun
ning them with its suddenness and fury.
We don't care a moonbeam about the quarrel,
however, and only refer to it for lhe amusement
of our leaders, and to keep them informed of
the proceedings in lhe camp of the “progres
sives” and “ faithful,” as interesting news of
the day. It is a pity, though, lhat these western
patriots were ignorant ot the game which Mr.
Polk was playing, when they were making
their impetuous charge upon lhe tariff. If they
had known it, according to all accounts, they
would have been sufficiently less impetuous to
have not made it at all !
“Thecountry of New England is very poor,
broken, stonv, and in many parts barren. lam
sure ihe people ot the South, negroes and all,
would starve here in five years; and yet the
hardy and industrious New Englanders Jive
here and prosper. Every little stream that I
crossed had a Villageon it, where they made
some kindot manufactures. The farmers are
nol, however, men of wealth—the merchants
and manufacturers are. Boston, like New
York, has gathered wealth from all parts of the
world, and distributed it throughout the State.”
Such is the language ot B. F. Perry, Esq., of
GreenviHe, S. C.j in reference to New England,
through which he has just passed. How much
of food for the profoundest reflection and inves
tigation oi the Southern Statesman, Philan
thropist and Patriot, does lhat short paragraph
contain? The country', says Mr. P., “is poor,
stony, and in many parts barren, and ye!
the hardy and industrious New Englanders,
(whom many of our ignorant, supercilious,
prejudiced people affect to despise,) live there
and prosper /” People of lhe South! hear ye
these things? 'They are true! and they are
spoken too, by one who has lent his counte
nance, if not rendered his aid, in Carolina to
destroy the prosperity' ot lhat people, rather
than exhort Southern men to imitate the habits,
industry and frugality ot New Englanders.
People of lhe South! read again and again
that paragraph, and learn from it lessons ot wis
dom, that you may flourish and prosper there
by. It contains the key which unlocks the
mystery and informs you why it is lhat those
people in a climate and soil such as
that ot New England. “Every little stream
lhat 1 crossed,” says Mr. Perry, “ had a village
on it, where they made some kind ot manufac
tures!” Aye, and that is ihe secret of their suc
cess, their prosperity and happiness. Go, then,
people of Georgia, and the whole South, and do
likewise, and you 100 may prosper and flourish,
u haouv and contented neunle—in
stead of hoarding up your money to “buy more
land and negroes,” thereby impoverishing your
State and disregarding your duties as patriots
and philanthropists; appropriate your capital to
lhe establishment ot manufacturing villages on
the water-power with which the entire country
abounds. Do this and you wid, in a few years,
people the genial South with a new race of be
ings, a people rejoicing in the health, content
ment and prosperity which habits of active in
dustry secure. There are other incentives to
action, the necessary consequences of such a
stale of society, but we will not enlarge upon
them on this occasion.
The American Review.
The August number of this Whig Journal of
Politics, Literature, Ari and Science, has
been on our table for several days.
We have looked into this number with in
creasing interest. Its more important articles
are of decided vain? and merit—its tales are
interesting and the poetry exquisite. We have
not had an opportunity as yet to read but a tew
of the leading articles; among those are—
The Oregon Treaty.
Army—Attack and National Defence.
Out Army ot Occupation,
brighter Days for Poland.
France and Commerce.
Though so much nas been written on lhe
Oregon question, we have perused tfie article of
the Review on lhe Oregon Treaty with renew
ed interest. It plainly shows lhat lhe adminis
tration managed that profound question in a
most unscrupulous and hazardous manner.
The Review, while objecting to the way in
which the Mexican war was produced, and de
nouncing the motives for causing and prosecu
ting it, pays a high compliment to the bravery
and gallant conduct of our army, officers and
soldiers, at the bailies of Palo Alto and Resaca
de la Palma. ’The article closes as follow*:
“We toast 'h? men but not lhe cause; and
while a curse rests on our Capitol, a circle ol
light surrounds our army of occupation. Our
army has won enduring renown, but our govern
ment enduring disgrace.”
We would again, particularly recommend
the Review to our Whig friends. Sound in po
litics, pure and tasteful in its literature, just and
useful in its discriminations in art andscience,
anil its critical noticesol new works, it is well
calculated to delight, instruct, and direct the
minds ol its readers.
Terms, $5 a year in advance; three copies
for sl2; five for S2O. Published in New
York: Edited by George H. Colton, assisted
by C. W. Webber ol Kentucky.
The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette of the 19th inst.
says—We understand that a large iron manufac
turer not far from Philadelphia, has received inti
mation that a proposition for nearly six thousand
tons of iron is withdrawn. The order is to be sent
to England.
Appropriations.
The following is given as a list of the principal
appropriations made at the recent session of Con
gress j and the amount of expenditures provided
for:—
For the regular armj’ $6,873,000
West Point military academy 121,776
Prosecution of the war with Mexico.. 10,000.000
Pay of volunteers 11,957.000
Fortifications 1,440.000
Certain defences 170,000
Deficient appropriations for 1846
Support of the navy 7,450,000
Expenditures on account of the Indians 1,141,000
Pay of members of Congress and wild
lud,a *’ s 239,000
Civil and diplomatic service 4,034.000
Post office department 4,078,000
$51,144,000
“The only difference we know to exist between
and a Whig editor is, that the one has
loagercars than the other.”
We have met the above paragraph in some of
our exchange papers credited to the Charleston
Mercury. This must be a mistake, certainly.—
The Editor of the Mercury, we think, never perpe
trated such a paragraph. The uttering of such a
sentiment, places its author infinitely below his
own standard of Whig Editors.
A South Carolinian in New Kngland.
B. F. Perry,Esq., of Greenville, South Caro
lina, has, during the present summer, made a
partial tour of New England; some ot his im
pressions of which, men and things, he has giv
en in some very clever letters to lhe Gieenville
Mountaineer, from one ot which, written a 1
Boston, we cull the following extracts:
Boston, August 6, 1846.
i\ly Dear Sir: — I am now in the city ot Busion,
very properly styled lhe Athens ot America. 1
am delighted with Boston, and with every thing
that 1 have seen since my arrival in New Eng
land. 1 was phased on crossing lhe dividing
line between New York and Massachusetts. 1
got out ot ihe cars to lake a lunch, which was
served up by a nice Yankee Git I, and alter feast
ing bountifully, 1 inquired what 1 was to pay,
and with a smile, which was worth a sixpence,
she replied, “ twelve and a hall cents, sir.” 1
thought to myself, you must have a conscicniious
heart as well as a smiling /ace, tor it lhe charge
had been quadrupled it would have been cheer
fully paid.
At Springfield I took the cars to Hartford and
New Haven. Springfield is a beautiful town,
grown up within five or six years, and now con
tains a population ot thirty thousand persons.
Hanford is famous tor a Convention which
sat there during the last War. It is lhe semi
capital with New Haven, ot Connecticut. At
present it is nol in a flourishing condition. The
Rail Road, lhe Northampton Canal and lhe su
perior advantages of New Ila ven, have retarded
its onward progress. I did not have an oppor
tunity of seeing the famous “Charier Oak,” in
which, one hundred and fitly years since, the
Charter of Connecticut was hid, when demanded
by the Crown. It is still in a flourishing con
dition, and is visited by hundreds and thousands.
New Haven is ihe loveliest town in lhe Uni
ted States. For taste, beauty and elegance, there
is nothing like it in all the land. The streets
are laidoff beautifully, and a tow ot elms on
each side form a perfect arch, under which you
walk or ride, protected iioin the rays of the sun.
The town is divided into, and built up in squares,
regularly laid oft’. There are thirty acres in the
centre oi the city, forming a beautiful open
g'een, with no houses on it except lhe Stale
House and three churches. All the houses are
built in a peculiar style ot beauty and neatness,
and ail differing from each other. After riding
over ihe city and all around it, lhe inquiry natu
rally arises, where do the poor people live ? I
saw none. Every house looked lhe fit residence
of a man of refinement, wealth and taste.
1 called to see Governor Edwards, the old
friend of a near relation of mine. He is a fine
looking gentleman, with a face indicating a bold
and vigorous intellect. For many years he was
a Senator in Congress from Connecticut. • He
proposed carrying me to see President Day aud
Professor Siiiiman, to which I readily acceded.
Professor Silliman is a man of high reputation
as a scholar and a man of science. Noone can
K ok at his head, his fine face and fine person,
without seeing he is no ordinary man. He is six
ty-seven years old, and looks as it he might not be
more than fitly! Whatever may be lhefeelings
of others towards the South, there is nothing of
unkindness in those ot Governor Edwards and
Professor Silliman. 1 took tea with President
Day, and spent a delightful evening with him.
He has been twenty-five years President of Yale
College. At present there are between tour and
five hundred students in the Village—more than
in any other institution in lhe United Stales.—
Mr. Calhoun was educated there. I’he College
buildings are beautifully situated, fronting the
open green square.
The city of Boston is a noble city, as much
superior to New York as an old gentleman ol
taste, learning, refinement and virtue, is superi
or to a vulgar. overgrown upstart, who knows
that his chief recommendation is his wealth.—
'l’he Astor House is the best Hotel I ever saw—
greatly superior to the Tremont House in Bos
ton ; but in looking al lhe boarders oi lhe two
Hotels, you see a marked difference in lavor oi
the Tremont. They look like gentlemen, with
fine faces and high foreheads, which 1 could but
notice and admire at ihe table.
I went to the State House this morning, as
cending the cupola, and had a splendid view of
lhe whole city. I went in company with Mr.
Latta, of South Carolina, and on registering
our names in a book kept for that purpose, they
discovered we were from South Carolina. Ail
the officers seemed to vie with each other in
their attentions to us. They carried us all over
the building, showed us the ancient archives of
lhe Legislature and lhe Courts, kept in the finest
style, in fire-proof rooms. There were the trials
of Witches—there, t''o, was the legislation pre
scribing how the sons aud daughters of lhe Pil
grims should dress. One Act prohibited-ladies
irom going bare-armed or bare-necked—another
prescribed ihe size ol the sleeve, and prohibited
lhe use of lace—a third denounced a waste ol
cloth in making lhe legs of pantaloons. We
saw ihe original revolutionary letters ot Wash
ington and other officers—-also the original Char
ter of Massachusetts. Over lhe Senate Cham
ber door is a Hessian drum, cap, sword and gun,
taken at Stonington by Geneial Starke. They
are odd looking implementsoi war, now-a<iays.
Here let me say lhat Boston has seven
Bridges, connecting it with towns all around.—
They now form pretty much one town, divided
by lhe water. In fact, the country around Bos
ton, as far as lhe eye can see, looks like a city.
The earth, every where, seems doited wiih
-houses. .
1 <-aneu to see ivu.
lhe College, formerly our Minister to England,
and once Governor oi Massacfyjselts His
house is an humble one for Boston; but as soon
as I stepped into it, I saw an air of refined ele
gance and taste, which I think more perfect
than 1 ever saw in any house before. Mr Ever
ett is a man ol ordinary height and size, has a
mild, round lace, very pale, and a broad lore
head. He converses remarkably well, and is
full ot learning and science. He remarked lhat
we never could make Wine in America—that
our country was similar to China in many re
spects, which he pointed out, and lhat the Chi
nese had never been able to make wine. He
says the grape we raise here is not like the
same grape which grows in wine countries. 1
visited lhe College Library and their Cabinet
ot curiosities. The Library, although more
numerous, is not equal in value to lhe South
Carolina College Library. They have, how
ever, lhe best collection of American History
that there i« in the world. I was politely invi
ted by Mr. Everett to stay and dine with him,
-nd 1 regretted that previous engagements
would not permif .m? to do so,
1 saw this evening the house in which Gov
ernor Hancock lived. Jl js unique in the style
of architecture, arid must have been, when built,
quite a fine house; but it has long since been
overshadowed by modern aristocracy. There
are seventy-five acres jn front of it, which were
presented to the town by Governu- Hancock,
on the condition lhat no building should ever be
erected on it. This is now the great beauty and
ornament ot lhe city, where the people walk in
lhe evening to enjoy the fresh air.
We admire lhe tone and spirit of this fetter
throughout. It bears lhe impress of a man of
sepse, of one too, who can admit (though per
chance forced to it) that there are some things
and some people in “ Yankee land" to fye ad
mired, respected, and venerated j and we doubt
not Mr. P. will return to South Carolina abet
ter man than he left it—of more liberal views
and enlarged feelings and patiiotism,—Aye, and
rejoicing moro and more in the distinction of A
merican citizen. We know not Mr. P. person
ally, but we venture that such are his feelings,
and that in the fullness and sincerity of his heart
he will proclaim them on his return to Caro
lina.
Fortunate, indeed, would it be, in our opinion,
if a large portion ot those narrow-minded, little
soulefl creatures at the South, who, too small
themselves lo admire any thing great or noble,
are always denouncing New England and New
Englanders, could only make a lour among that
great and noble people. They would, in all
probability, return so conscious ot theirown in
feriority and littleness, as not to be able tu lisp
the name ot “ Yar,.Kee' y without exciting a blush
upon their own cheeks.
A letter written at Mackinac says that during
the lat? hot weather the thermometer i epea ted ly
stood in various parts of Michigan and Wisconsin
as high as ’o3° and 105° in the shade. In some
sections of that country the drought had been
very excessive.
The steamboat Julia Palmer, transported over
land around the Falls of St. Mary to Lake Supe
rior, had not been launched at the last accounts;
but soon would be.
Dallas on the Tariff.—ln 1844, during the
Whig campaign, a speech containing the fol
lowingextract, was delivered by Geo. M. Dallas,
at'thc door of his house in Philadelphia, to a
Democratic procession, on the evening after the
Presidential election :
*• Gentlemen—The Tariff of ’42 is a Demo
cratic measure : it was passed by the Democrats
and it will be sate in the hands of James K
Polk.”
And the following verse was quite a popular
one in Pennsylvania, during the same campaign,
A i R—“ Lucy Neal. 11
Oh. poor Cooney Whigs,
What makes you look sn blue ?
We will have Polk and Dallas.
And the Tariff of ’42.
Shame where is thy’ blush ?—/?«/. /fro-ister
Smithsonian Institute. —The* Vice-Presi
dent has appointed the following Senators Re
gents ot the Smithsonian Institution: The
Hou. George Evans, of Maine j the Hon. Sid
ney Breese, of Illinois; and the Hon. Isaac S.
Pennybacker, ot Virginia. The time fixed by
law for the first meetingot the board ot regents
is the first Monday’ in September next.
Singular Cause of Death.—The death of
Mr. Wm. G. Turner, lately in charge of the
Magnetic Telegraph at Oswego, is announced
in the Advertiser, published in that place, and
his death ascribed to the daily infoajarjen of the
noxious gases arising from the batteries. They
are, says that paper, strongly charged with mer
cury, act«*d upon by powerful acids, with which
the unfortunate man’s system became impregna
ted.
Prom the / \ruyunc., ityh inst.
Important brom Mexico.
The Brig P. Soul?, Capt. Delvaille, arrived
yesterday morning from llaAana, whence she
sailed on lhe Bih inst. Her advices are in.pur
lant.
The royal mail steamer Dec, Capt. Boxer,
arrived at Havana on inst. trom Vera
Cruz, with dateslo inst. She brought
oui twenty-seven passengers and $162,000 in
specie.
The Dee brought th? long-expected news of
a pronunci amen /c by Vera Ci u z inbeha 11 o t
Santa Anna. The city and the garri*on ot ihe
caslle have both declared lor lhe rx-Pirsideni.
Immediately upon ihe reception ot the news at
Havana, Santa Anna made his preparations
tor departure, and was to sail th? evening of the
Hih insi. tor Vera Cruz in the steamer Monte
zuma, under English colors. Su says Capt.
Delvaille —lhe papers ot Havana not having a
word o ’ lhe subject. We annex lire declara
tion of the troops at Vera Cruz:
Act of the Harrison ot Vera Cruz.
In ihe heroic city ot Vera Crt.z the officers of
the garrison whose names are hereuntosubscrib
ed, being assembled at ihe headquarters of lhe
Bth regiment, fur he purpose ol taking into con
sideration lhe calamitous state at which lhe
country has arrived, and to seek the remedy
most fit to withdraw it from such a state and
restore it to life and prosperity: —Con*-idering
lhat inc principal cause of the existing perni
cious discord is the want ot a fundamental
system ot laws, io be dictated Irealy by the na
tion which has manifested its detestation of the
monarchical system; and the want ot a Go
vernment which may be the offspring ot public
opinion instead ot ihe contestsot tactions:
Considering, further, that the existing Govern
ment is illegal, and has discharged its functions
n an oppressive manner,and issued an ami-popu
lar call lor a Congress with a \ iew to ihe es
tablishment of a monarchy, and that while oc
cupied in a plot so detestable it has neglected
ihe defenceot lhe national territory, and aban
doned upon ihe frontier lhat portion of the ar
my charged with its defence; and considering,
moreover, that the Republic is on the road to
ruin, and that it is necessary, now more than
ever, to labor assiduously to unite and strength
en tne bond*- of union dissolved by our misfor
tunes, abjuring all our private opinions;—[the
officers atoresaid] agree tosecond the plan pro
claimed by the people and garrison ot the city
ot Guadalajara on the 20th ot May last, as tar
as the sth article inclusive, with lhe following
additions:
-list. All persons imprisoned or banishedfor
political offences trom the year 1821 to the pre
sent time are at liberty to return to the Repub
lic, and are in viied to co-operate in the defence
ot the present p'an.
2J. By this plan ihe circumstances of wtr
in which the country is placed with the United
Slates aie nol altered: it belongs to the Con
gress to be assembled to determine upon that
question, and to Mexicans to obey its resolu
tions.
3d. All those who in ibis Department, or
out of if, have taken up arms against the ex
isting order ot things are invited to second
this, plan, which has for its sole end lhe public
well-being. The same invitation is extended to
the political and military authorities ot all lhe
departments.
4th. As his Excellency Gen. D. Antonio Lo
pez Santa Anna had the glory of founding lhe
Republic, and, whatever may have been his er
rors, was ah» ays the firmest supporter ol the
public liberties and of the integrity ot the na
tional territory, the garrison proclaims the said
General as the chief ol the great enterprise tor
which the plan is entered into.
The plan of Guadalajara above referred to
we published on tlic2l(h of June. The five ar
ticles specially adopted were to lhe following
effect: Ist. A repudiation ol the Congiess
summoned by Paredes: 21. A declaration in
favor of a new Congress, to be chosen accord
ing to ’he electoral laws o! 1824—which Con
gress should be charged with lhe formation of a
constitution, excluding utterly the monarchical
principle: 3d. Providing that Congress should
assemble within f*>ur months after the liberal.ng
forces gain possession of the capital: 4>’h. Gua
rantying the existence of the army ; and sth.
Declaring traitors whoever should oppose the
assembling of such Congress, attempt the liber
ty of its members or oppose the constitution it
should establish.
The Vera Cruz plan wassign-d the morning
of lhe 31st of July. The name of Gen. Mozu
who comman Is in the city ot Vera Cruz, and
ot Gen. Rodriguez de Cela, who commands the
castle ot San Juan de Ullua, are nol attached to
the plan.
The steamboat Charleston, from the citj F of
that name, arrived at Havana on lhe 4:h inst,
bearing as passenger Senor D. Antonio Haroy
I'amariz, who was Secretary ct lhe Treasury
during the last Adminisira'ion of Santa Anna.
We have no accounts as to the individuals who
were to accompany Santa Anna. The Monte
zuma had been tor some days preparing tor sea,
but as was alleged with ihe intention ot pro
ceeding to England. [ln this connection it may
not be amiss to recall a statement published by
us on the 31st ult., to the effect that the Monte
zuma as well as the Guadalupe belonged to
Santa Anna, having been purchased by him
through an English house. Such was the firm
belief of our i dormant ]
The following intelligence we derive from
extracts from Vera Cruz papers made by the
editors oi Havana.
Os ■O'- Ul itlC XT. co -Ji .mi-Ci
Mississippi lying at Isla Verde, and the
sloop ol war St. Mary’s and brig Porpoise were
cruising off the port of Vera Cruz. The frigates
Cumberland and Potorijac left Isla Verde the
morning of July29’h and anchored off the Boca
del Ria, and some U. S. war schooners, names
not rnen'ioned, sailed al lhe same time lor the
point Anton Lizaro.
The Spanish frigate Maria Christina and brig
Habanero; lhe French brig, the Mercure; and
the English frigate Endymion and sloop ot war
Rose, were lying at Sacrificios on the Ist in-t.
Th f e English steamer Vesuvius sailed from
Sacrificios on the 28th July—destination, Hav
ana.
'l’he Congress of Mexico has passed a law
authorizing the President to issue letters of
marque against American commerce, such let
ters to be issued directly by the Government or
by its agents in foreign countries. The Presi
dent had published a decree in conformity to
this law, which with instructions lo carry out
the purpose of Cuiigiess was forwarded by the
British steamer.
On lhe 28th of July, a= lhe Provisional Presi
dent was about to depart for the frontier, Gen.
Bravo tooklhe oath of office and entered upon
lhe discharge of its duties.
Early in July Senor Becerra, the Minister of
Justice, resigned his post, and alter €r?n. Bravo
was installed in power, the 'other Ministers
likewise resigned. Letters from lhe city ot
Mexico dated lhe 29th July give the following
as the most probable cunposjiion of lhe new
Ministry; D. Antonio Garay, Minister of Fi
nance; D. Ignacio Mora Villamil, of War;
Sr. D. Luis Gordoa, or D. Luh G. Cuevas, ol
Foreign Relations ; and D. Furnando Rami
rez, ot Justice, A letter of the 30th July
trom lhe city ot Mexico speaks ot the new Min
istry as being already formed, but without giv
ing the names. It adds, moreover, that the new
Ministers were without exception disposed to
make peace with the united States,
It is alleged to be lhe favorite policy ol Gen.
Bravo to centralize power as much as possible.
There had been a pronunciamento in Jalapa
as well as Guadalajara, and ncjther of them had
been pul down ; but G ?n. Bra vu did nol appear
to be much concerned in regard to either o!
hem. IJow the movement at Vera Cruz may
a fleet him it is 100 soon to learn.
A decree of Paredes is published, dated the
10;h ol July, declaring the ports at Tuxpam,
Gualzacoalcos, Soto ia Marina and Tecoluia
upon ihe Gulf, and Manzanillo upon lhe Paci
fic, to be ports of entiy whilst the b’oekade ot
the ports of Mexico shall be continued.
'l’he Mexican papers contain copious details
oflhe effects ot the rains throughout the North
ern provinces. The ruin ot Camargo by lhe over
flow of the San Juan is mentioned, and lhe
whole department ofTamaulipas is said to have ■
suffered more than was ever before known from ,
such a cause.
The Secretary ot War announced to Con
gress, on lhe 23d July, lhat all ihe troops ot
Chihuahua and Zacatecas had marched to the
aid of Gen. Armijo, so that Gen. Kearney may |
yet find an enemy ;o dispute the conquest of |
Santa Fe or Ne w Mexido.
In a paper ot the city ot Mexico of July 21th,
it is announced that the detachment at engi
neers, which will accompany the Provisional
President, will march under the or-. ers oi Cui.
Cane, and Gen. D. Isidro Reyes of the I’opo
j graphical Engineers—as we should call them,
I would accompany him. A later paper states
that Paredes would not move to the North until
th? city ot Guadalajara should be reduced to
submission.
The bills before Congress which w? publish
ed some weeks since —one conferring on the
Government the control over the revenues lor the
purposes of lhe war, and the other declaring rhe
existence ot war and that Mexico will repel it
were passed by Congress in nearly the same
form ia which they weie originally reported.—
Congress has passed another law tu which great
importance was attached, conferring upon Gen.
Paredes the unlimited potyer to appoint officers
and procure lhe necessary materialsforthe war,
giving the preference to those of Mexico. We
have not seen the law itself.
Paredes has determined to release all prison
ers for political offences.
The neu s received in the city of Mexico from
the frontier was such as to drive the Govern
ment almost to despair. On the 27 h July a
courier arrived announcing the departure ot
eight thousand American troops from Camargo
for Monterey. Gen. Armijo, about the same
time, sent word that six thousand Americans
had come down upon New Mexico. And to
crown the whole, a despatch was received trom
lhe British Minister at Washington, whicr
quenched every hope of receiving aid from Eng
land.
Gen. Mejia, who had taken the command of
the army which followed Arista io Linares, i ad
established his headquarters at Monterey. Gen.
Paredes was to direct his march thither, for
which purpose he was to leave the city of Mexi
co on the 3|st of July—making a delour, how
ever, to look after the city of Guadalajara. The
last brigade composing the division to be under
the President’s command left the capital on the
28th July. It was 2000 strong, and had several
pieces ot artillery. This brigade, like those
which left lhe capi.'al before it, was perfectly
equipped. All tnese troops iviili two ur three
thousand expected from Guadalajara, united t<»
those under Mejia, it was thought would give
Paredes a force at Monterey ot from 12,000 to
15,000 men. His lung delay in the capital is
attributed tu his solicitude that his army should
be equipped and provided in every particular.
In the city u| Mexico there were, at last ?c-
Counts, but 1200 troops, and there was some
mention ol raising a volunteer force.
Some troops tudfethe army had arrived at
Tampico to reinforar lhe garrison ol that city.
We do not hear or see a word touching news
from the Pacific coast <>f Mexico. It is possi
ble that the mails from that parlot th? country
were cut oil by the insurrections in Jalisco and
Sonoia; ’MMWftiormaiion were received favor
able to arms, the Government
may well oppressed it. (I is but a usual
I'eom <|- Emp of the 2lst ius!.
We received last night by the way ot Havana
papers trum Mexico to lhe 28 h ul July, brought
mere by the steamer Dee, and from which we
learn ’hat the country was again in a complete
state ol revolution, lhe pronun iamento be is
sued in Guadalaxara being very generally
adopted.
The Vera Cruz papers which we have re
ceived do not contain much n -ws, but the “Faro”
ot Havana having full files to the 31st July,
makes copious extracts, and we translate such
as we find ol interest.
The news gem rally is considered very un
satisfactory, the country being threatened with
the horrors ot civil war. El Indicadur of the
31st says lhat a laige number ot’ the populace
had given in their adherence to lhe plan of
Guadalajara, with some additions. Generals
Lmdero and Ferez were at the head ot the pro
nunciamento. The portrait of Gen. Santa Ana
was carried through lhe principal streets with
lhe greatest enthusiasm, and the garrison ot St
Juan d’Ulloa bad given in their adherence to
lhe pronunciamento.
El Diario, the official paper of lhe Govern
ment, speaks in grandiloquent terms oi the
abundant resources ot Mexico—of the patriot
ism ol her citizens—of her . i:y by recourse
alone to her internal resources, to maintain the
war, even though it should continue for five
years—and adds, that lhe military chest has re
ceived large additions by subscription and other
wise; that provision had been made for the sub
sistence of the men, and it was calculated lhat
the force of ten thousand men would soon be as
sembled at Saj* Lujs.
-The Captain of tlhe De? brought a report that
lhe Cumberland had got aground near Alvara
do, and had been obliged to lighten by throwing
her guns over in order to float her, and that she
was very much injured.
Cnthe 16ih. a brigade of troops under th?
command ot Gen. Conde, left lor Matamoros.
On ihe 22.1, two brigades, consisting ot 12(H)
men, with? pieces of artillery,soo horses and
400 mules left Mexico lor lhe San Luis Potosi,
(Camargo.)
It is said that lhe scurvy has made sad havoc
among the crews of the blockading squadron.
Col. Antonio Martinez had gut up a counter re
volution in Tepic, in favor ot restoring affairs
to their former stale and recognising the Su
preme Government. On the 10ih of July an
ac’ion took place near the city ot Mexico, be
tween lhe troops oi Piizozin and Torres,
and those of the Government, in which lhe
former were entirely routed, wi'h the loss of
eleien killed and wounded. Don Antonia
Si?za, first Judge ot Acapulco, had been con
demned to be deprived of office for being en
gaged in sinuEgliug tobacco. The garrison of
Tampico has been reinforced by a battalion.
We see no mention whatever of the vomito
said to be raging in the Ca-ilc at Vera Cruz;
and the only nutice of the Castle is, that a
newly invented telegraph had been placed on
It has been proposed to the government of
Zacatecas, to submit a plan tor a new elec
tion to Congress, tu give vigor to the national
defence, lo preserve the integrity ot me nation.
&c.
We learn from Capt. Adams that Ex Presi
dent Sama Anna with Generals Almonte and
R?j »n, sailed trom Havana the evening of the
Bth lor Vera Cruz in the British steamer Arab.
Th? U. S. brigs Truxton and Perry had been
off Havana a few days previous, and sent their
boats in.
From T’ort neavenwortli.
The accounts we have from Fort Leavenworth
arc up to lhe 9th instant. Seven companies had
arrived at the Fort, a d three more were expected
to complete the regiment. The seven companies
bad ' oted for field officers, and Sterling Price, cx
rnetnber ol Congress, had been elected Colonel of
the regiment by the unanimous vote of the com
panies present The companies to arrive could
not, of course,although privileged to vote, change
the result. The St. Louis Republican, from which
we glean these facts, states that the election of
Col. P. was foiced upon the regiment by* an unmis
takable intimtion that it would be disbanded if
he wras not thosen. 2! private in one of the com
panies named Allen was elected Lieut. Colonel
over b D. Mitchell, Esq., of St. Louis, th- person
designated v President Polk for the office, by a
majority of 90\olcs. Fourof the companies were
to leave the Fort, on their line of march, on the
10th instant; lhe others weie to follow as soon
after as they could be furnished with transporta
tion for provisions,&c.
Four companies, comparing a separate battalion
Lieut. Col. Allen, o/ the U. S. Army, in com
mand of the live hundred Mormon volunteers,
was still at the Fort. There was much bad feel
ing between this corps and the other volunteers.
Lieut. Col. A- and his commaud were to take up
lhe line of march on »he 12th instant.
The last accounts from Fort Leavenworth aie
up to the 1J th instant. About one thousand more
Mormons had arrived at the Fort in hopes of bem*
mustered into the United States service. Two of
the additional compinies of volunteers had arrived
at the Fort, and Colonel Price’s regiment marched
out on the 10th inst.— Baltimore American.
California Expedition.--This expedition
is to leave New ycik very soon. The Courier
says
We learn that Col. Stanton has chartered
the ships Susan Dtcw, 7’. 11. E rkins and Loo
Choo to convey lhe California expedition to
their placiol destination.
These vessels are all of the best class of
ships and of about7oo tons Custom House mea
sure—well ventilated asid admirably calculated
for transports.
Gen’l. Gaines Acquitted.—'l’he Norfolk
Beacon of Thursday says :
It is understood th it the finding of the late
Court of Enquiry at Fortress Monroe was favor
able to Gen. Gaines. kis rumored, however,
that the proceedings are to be quashed, owing to
some flaw discovered at Head Quarters, and
that lhe Secret at y <4 War contemplates order
ing a new Coqrt of Enquiry. What it is that
vitiates ihe rpcorc| we have not been able lo as
certain.
The steamers Spitfire and Vixen mad?
another trial trip yesterday, w th both steam and
sails. It was impossible to decide whi h o'
<he two made th? best performance On Tues
day, with steam a’one the Spitfire proved to be
superior.
Yesterrtav the Spitfire took her water, pro
visions and armament aboard, and she win go
to sea as soon as the machinists ar? ready. It
is supposed that she will be sent to Chagres.—-
JV. Y. Courier, 2\st ins!.
Commendable Candur.—The Columbus
Ga ) Democrat, the Hunker paper ol that ilk,
comes out q’ii>e plainly of’late in regard to some
ol the doings (4 tlie Adminis’ration, and gives
pretty good proof of th? want oi “honor” among
the Democracy at Washington. We cutout
the following as a sample :
Denial. — I’he Federal Union thus speaks ot
the President’s views on ihe Oregon question :
“We deny that lhe Presidem has ever belong
ed to the partv that wrn: lor ‘the whcle of Ore
gon or none.’ ” ♦ ♦ * •
“He firmly stood at his post He never for
a n,om?nr altered h's (|eterrn;n.itiob, or changed
his course. The result has been what he anti
cipated, a liberal compromise; and themaintain
ance of the peace of the eonntry.”
We regret to be compelled to differ entirely
with our cotemporaiy in relation to the opin
ions of Mr. Polk on this subjec as well as in
the result attained. II lhe President did nor go
for the Oregon then white and black are
convertible terms! Audit the “ backing out”
ur “caving in” on 49 is a il libera' compro
mise,” we should like to be informed what
would have been called an ‘ i’libcral compro
mise.” We have not time now, but mean shortly,
to review the late and present position ot the ad
min istra'i 'n, to see whether or not if is entitled
to the meed ot firmness and consistency which has
been bestjwed upon it. We have ourselves very
serious doubts about the crkM of sffch commen
dations.
Another Outbreak in Hancock Co., Il
linois. —The following we find in the Quincy
(Illinois) Whig ol the 12;h instant—
Ata very large meeting of lhe anti-Munn-ns
of McDonough, held at Macomb on the 22d
ult., a committee of six was appointed to draft
an address to the nine counties, in relation to
the removal of the Mormons. Resolutions
were also passed, inviting the nine counties,
(Hancock excluded, to assemble at as early a
day as practicable, forthe purpose of removing
the Mormons loan Hancock, according to for
mer agreement—pledging themselves to destroy
no property, and to use all means in their power
to prevent a destruction of property by others.”
The Nauvoo Eigle ot th? 7th, announces
the arrest of three citizens ol Nauvoo, at the
instance and on theoath ot Me A ulcy, who was
mad? prisoner bv th ? new citizens, and released
on bail. The Ei.le says that the writ ol ar
rest was obtained on Laise pretences and by foul
means, and calls on the people oi Illinois to
aid in upholding the majesiy ot ihe law.
Great Storm at Nashua. N. H.—The
Nashua Telegraph of Friday gives particulars
of a most destructive storm, almost unprece
dented in that pat', of the country, which occur
red at that place on Friday afternoon. The
storm combined hail, ram, wind and thunder
and lightning, was attended with less ot life,
and the damage by the bl<»w ing down o 1 build
ings, chimneys. fences, trees, <fcc., and the break
ing of glass, was immense.
Prom thi. Atlanta Comma/y.
Rail Road .Jubilee.
On Tuesday last, ihe 18th inst. visiu rs from
a distance io airive, in readiness loi the
Jubilee ol the 19ih. In lhe train ol cats lioin
Augusta, a large number both from that«iiy
and Chai lesion, as well as I rum other points,
were brought, together with lhe fine Band of
A tigtista, engaged for lhe occasion by M r. Kmg.
President ol ihe Georgia Road They ueie,
ol course, warmlv welcomed io ihe hospnaliio s
oi our city. About dusk, the first train ol cars
that ever passed trom Macon to this place, was
greeted by the repeated and almost deafening
cheers oi our ciriz ns. It consisted ol thite
most finished passenger cars, and was
whirled into our midst by a powcilul engine
lhe K?r Boyce. These cars were crowded to
excess by about three hund^^L*eim»iis from tin
ciiies ol .Savannah, Griffin, and
intermedia It a
Band hum Macon. N Wcdni--
dav, ihe Western & tilled in like
mannei to oveifluwing, wiiii the < uiz?nsof Ma
riella. &c. airived, and were soon followed by
another train Ironi Augusta, wiih I ao addition
al cars literally crammed. In ail, it is compu
l-d Inal about three thousand strangers honored
us with their presence, and best ul all i that the
witching charms ot woman’s loveliness and
beauty, wr.r? not wanting to render still more
bright ihe gladsome
he imagined lhat our woilhy proprietors of ihe
Washington Hall and Atlanta Hotel--Capt.
Loyd and Dr. Thomson—were quickly “up to
their eye brows” in business. Nearly all the
private houses were open t r the nonce, and
even we were compelled io cover lhe floor ol
our sanctum and our paper room u ith beds, f>-t
the accommodation of those who wet? unable
to obtain Io Igings elsewhere. I’Len then, many
were forced, as we say here, to “camp out. ’
On Tuesday night,a splendid ball was given
at Dr. 'Thomson’s Atlanta Hotel, wbicn, ol
course, we ditl not attend Our devil, devils,
our readers well enough know, always will be
where they should not,—thrust his phiz in at a
window, and describes lhe scene as oneol bril
liancy. We knot/ not whether it was because
of the all devils have tor the loveliest
portion ot our race, or because ours in particu
lar lovesthe ladies above all things, but he says,
as they went whiiling in the mazes of the diz
zying dance, they were perfectly enchanting.—
Our streets, too, nearly lhe live-long night, re
sounded wiih ihe thrillingnotesot music.
On Wednesday at 9 o’clock A. M. a proces
sion was formed in ihe order previously an
nounced in lhe programme published last week;
Gen. ER. Mills, of ihe Western Atlantic It.
R. acting as Marshal of the day. In the route
ot march through our streets, the vast concourse
thus paraded, passed successfully over the
Western &. Atlantic, the Macon & Western,
and the Georgia Rail Roads which have their
junction in the very heart of our city, and then
proceeded to a most beautiful spring, a fourth
of a mile from town, where a siand was pre
pare'lof lhe speakers. Th? Hon J. M. Wayne,
of Savannah, Associate Justice of lhe U. S.
Supreme Court, was then called to ihe Chair,
and Mr. A. N. Simpson of Marietta, appoint
ed Secretary; after which a most eloquent and
appropriate prayer was offered to lhe Throne of
Grace by Bi<lmp Andrews of lhe Methodist
Episcopal Church South.
'The President then read, among others, lhe
following letters from His Excellency, Gov.
Crawford, Hun. John C. Calhoun, and Mi.
Gadsden, President of the S Carolina R. R
Company.
Milledgeville, Aug. 17,1846.
Gentlemen: in reply to your invitation lo
the Railroad festival on the 19th inst, 1 hav**
to stale that 1 greatly regret the necessity wnich
prevents my participation in your congratula
tions on the occasion. The scene will be
full ol pleasure and hope.
At the distance of nearly lour hundred miles,
he ot me seaboard, will meet him ol lhe moun
tains, united by the ties ol brotherhood and
iron, whilst he oflhe midland can smile on
their union, and with generous pride claim to
be a pail ot the whole array with the pageant
that ushered it in. Your works of internal im
provement will remain. They will exist as so
many inducements to labor, bv offering to that
labor its fullest requital, it Georgia be whe,
shes'.ould retrace her slops in some things,and
tread in ways she has never gone. Her system
of agri ulture should be reformed. The van
dal spirit, which makes a ruin and then leaves
it, should be corrected by appreciating the pos
sible future want of present abundance. The
planter must observe, think and act as a civili
zed being. He must find some restorative to
his exhausted fields. lla>ie, like repentance,
may ensure true redemption. Whilst, mere
fore, your agriculture may derive energy and
strength and system, by works of internal
improvement, the mechanical arts should
he raised from their prostrate condition.—
They should be elevated in public opinion, and
by general encouragement Their neglect at
tne South has been a reproach. In this con
vention, with these leading objects, so much
the duty of every Georgian to promote, allow
me to propose this sentiment:
Agriculture and the Mechanical Ails: The
sources from which the necessaries and com
lo! 1$ ot life are dei ived.
I have the honor to be with great respect,
your obedient servant.
GEORGE W. CRA WFORD.
Committee of Invitation.
vvn 4; Aii9i»4ti. 1846.
Gentlemen: I regret that it will no’ l-c in
my power to accept ihe invitation which you
have tendered me in brh.ilt ot the citizens <4
Atlanta, to participate in celebrating there the
junction oflhe Macon and Western railroad on
tne 19th inst. I could not possibly arrive there
in time. My family are now at lhe While
Stilpher Springs in Virginia, waiting lor me to
meet them there after the a ;j>hiimnent of Con
gress, on mv return h >mr, whic h 1 cannot
reach until alter the time fixed fur your celebra
tion.
But I seize the opportunity to congratulate
you on the occasion. One by one the links ol
our admirable system ol railroads are comple
ted. When the whole are finished, Atlanta
will Income the centre (4’one us (he most re
markable system of railtoads to be found on
the g!-d>c. Ji will give her great advantages,
and will place her at lhe head ol our inland
cities in the South.
The improvement of the navigation of the
father of walers stands intimately connected with
our railroad system. Each will great I v adn'to
iht? prosperity of the other I hus regarding
them, I lake the liberty lo enclose herewith to
you a copy of a report on the memorial of the
Memphis Convent) -n, in which I have discuss
ed the importance ol th? navigation ol th'* Mis
sissippi, and the right and duty of lhe Federal
Government lo improve it. When our system
of iailroals shall have reached the several
points ofth? vast stream, towards wnich it is ad
vancing, we shall long part cipate in the advan
tages of its immense commerce.
With great respect. I am. &?.
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
J. Norcross, and others, Committee ot invi
tation.—
Office or S. C. R. R. Company, /
Charleston, Aug. 17,1*06. $
77? the Com mu tee of Arrangement, A 1 bin! a Ju
bilee:—\ ha ve to regret lhat the Board of Direc
tors South Carolina Rail Road Company were
prevented from being present at your Jubilee.
They do n ;t feci [the less interest in the occa
sion: and as an evidence, they have named a
delegation to represent us at tne meeting. This
will be hand’d you by Mr. Win. H Trcscuii,
one of th number, and who will make known
to you those associated wiih him. r. mong
whom wiil be our agent of transportation, Mr.
Hacker, and probably Mr. McGrath, our agent
at Hamburg. With a hope lhat this meeting
will b but lhe commencement of those social
assemblages, which are to make the people of
South Carolina and Georgia better acquainted
with each o'h- r, and thus bind them moreli. m
ly toaeitier iu harmony and union, I beg you
lo present, as irom me, among th? sentiments
which may b? offered on the occasion •
’l’he union of our Sou hern Hail roads; May
they be acceptable to all in the spirit and re
ciprocity oi a free and unrestricted commerce.
I remain, gentlemen, your ob’t. serv’t.
JAMES GA DS DEN, Piesident.
Several other letters received by the Commit
tee ol Correspondence from disiinguished tfen
tlenien have been kindly furnished us, b r ’l we
have only room furtfie above.
Alter the reading of ihe letters, the meeting
was addressed, in turn, by A. J. Miller, Esq., ul
Augusta; R. R. Cuyler, Esq, of Savannah,
President ol lhe Central R. R. ; Cart. Daniel
Tyler, Pies, of the Macon & Western R. R ;
Wm. [l. Trescott,
M. Calh ’tin, Esq., <4 Decatur; and John M.
Clark, Esq ,us Savannah ; allot wiioui chain
ed the attention oi the large audience by the
forceful strains in which they each demonstra
ted the incalculable ad.antages that n ay be
confidently anticipated, now that a great line of
railroad intercommunication, not only between
’he Northern and Southern sections ot our own
State, but also between us and sister States has
been opened up.
At this .stage of the meeting an intermission
was given to allow the people an opportunity
ol partaking ol lhe sumptuous Barbecue that
had been prepared by our citizens. At lhe close
oi the least, the fullowing toasts were offered in
addition to those contained in the letters read .
Bv Hon. Jos. H. Lumpkin The union ot
the Rail Roads at Atlanta—the next best union
to that ot Me States and the Sexes.
By Dr. F. J. Martin : Atlanta—the junction
of three great Southern Railroads: May we
soon have he West Point and Atlanta Railroad
fi r the fourth.
By Rev. Lewis Towers: Our Railroads oom
pleted, and thereby the cd our State
into contiguity, we have met at this
central point to celebrate a marriage union be
tween ihe seaboard and the mountains; an I let
him who has objections to these two being thu
joined together, now speak, or ever heiealier
hold his peace.
By J. Norcross: Hon. John C. Calhoun, the
deep reasoner an 1 profound statesman—his re
port on the Memorial, and the Memo*
tial itself—documents lucid and conehi*ive—a
galaxy of light in the aiouthexn and Western
By A. W. Walton: Atlanta—the offering
of State enterprise. Identified wi<h the in -rests
which have caused the great union of Railroads
at tin*, point, i; ill t.• siiKt }l ii, P( j |,y Georgia’s I
inlet na I 1 mpi ovement.
i y A. W Wheat; Th? meeting ol ihe Rail
roads at Allan’a —May it be as the meeting of
Joseph and hi'- brethren.
By Eiban Powell; Hon. J. Al. Berrien--th?
Solon of Georgia, the Cicrro of the United
'The people lh'*n assemble! again al. lhe
stand, and w?:e addressed by his honor Judg?
Flemming ol Savannah, who w-.s t<d'uwid bv
the H.»n. Mark A. Cooper ul Cass, | M .|h of
whom hotioivd lhe Stale, the occasion and them
selves.
'The following resolution, offere I by John M.
(‘laik, E ip, <d Savannah, uas then passed by
acclamation :
Resolved, 'Thai lhe meeting fully approve
ihe stiggr stion of ih? Agri-mliiiral Meeting ai
ilh* Slone Mountain on ih? 7ih insi. t to hold a
general Railroad Convention al Atlanta on the
liist Wednesday of Mav, 1847.
Altogether it was a day < fconfraiernal en
joyment among tie* thousands who aPenm-d,
'm-h as we expert not to witness in monttis oi
year.s, peihap'-, in lime. I; will n t soon be
loig.'Hcn by (.ur c!i'Z , .io-, who will I.,tig ( heri'ii
lhe pleasing remem: ranee of lhat day’s ;;s-"-. ia
lion with Ihe i i stranger liiends; and fioni what
W(* learned in conversation with several of the
(‘istingmshed visiters, especially Mark A .Coop
er and John M. Clark, of Savannah, wedonbi not
that lhe recollection ol'Atlanta will be vivid in
’herr minds, when <»iher Jubilees shall have
passed away Ironi lhe tablet <4 memory.
Imiortant Decision. —'t he judgment of the
(’ouit of Sessions in New York, ia he e-is? of the
People v*. Namm I Adam , which caused «-o much
uneasiness among ihe mercantile community of
that cily,bas been reversed by the Supreme Court
atit*: i ite sc sum). lr was an indi burnt against
Adams for obtaining money from the turn of Suy
dam, Nagc and Co. in th? city of New York, on
fal.»e pietrnces. J'he defence was that Adams is a
<itiz n of Ohio, and w .s never a citizen of New
Voik, and was nol p« ismially in the State of New
York at the time of the (ffmee: that he owed
Sew York no allegiant e. temporary or permanent;
and consequently could not be amenable to her
(riminal laws. The question in substance was,
whether ih* 1 laws < f New York bo violated
with immunity, provided the offender kept out of
the State at the lune of the offence, and p’oeured
innocent agents t »do the act fir him. The Couit
of Sessions decided that the Criminal Comtsol
New \ ork had no jurisdiction over such an off - rid
er. The Supreme Coert have l.tid down a more
loasouablc doctrine, and decided lhat they have,
in deciding the case, they say: —
“ i'he fraud may have originated and been con
cocted elsewhere, —but it became mature and took
effect in the citv of New York, —for there the
false pretences were u-cd with success, —the sig
natures and money of the persons defrauded, be
ing obtained at that place. The crime was there
fore committed m the cj?y of New Y(»rk, and not
elsewhere, (2 R. S. 677 § 53: 1 Chit. C. Law (1
Amer. Ed) 191: Rex v. Buttery mentioned bv
Chief Justice Abbott ia the King v. Burdett 4 B
M A 95 ) And oi this crime thus committed
within the limits of this State, taking the facts
thus charged and admitted to be tiue. the defendant
in mv opinion was plainly gui.ty, allhough at the
rime of its perpetration he was out of this State,
and with n the limits of the State of Ohio. The
intent to cheat was hi-; tne fiau.lnknt contri
vance was hin; and by agents acting within this
State lor him and under his authority and guidance,
themselves innocent of all fraud, were the false
pretences used, aud the crime fully coißUmm.ited.
Ite and he alone was therefosc the guilty party. —
Baltimore American.
The Worm! The Wohm !!—Sincerely du
we regret our duty lo announce that the worm
is now working ruin in our best cotton fields.
For ihe last nine 01 ten days, this destruction
has been spreading, and lhe amount ol'cotmn al
ready consumed is incalculable ; it is certainly
V' ry gn at. Belure we went to press, last week,
we v.eie informed that the dreaded worm was
amongst the cotton on several fine p'ama’i.ms
close at hand, but we felt an aveisiun to staling
lhe important and unwelcome intelligence, until
we might ascertain that the worm was there,
beyond the possibility of a mistake. This we
did. before the ink on the sheets ol our last num
ber was dry, and we discovered, also that it
wasthe veriiable cotton eater that was so indus
triously f t woi k.
From the mou.h ol Red River all the way
up to V idali.i, ’he liver fields aiesuffering from
its ravages. Fro 1 various points in lhe interi
or o! (be Parish, we have the same lamentable
accounts. Across the river,on the hills in ma
ny pails of Adams county, and a portion of
Wilkinson, the ruihlos visiter has given un
mis'.akeableevidence ol his presence, while up
ttie river, on boih sides, many planters have al
ready seen it pursuing ihe destruction of their
cotton, ant! are reduced almost to desperation
by the disappointment which it has brought
upon them.
We despise any policy by which the condi
ti m <>l lhe crop may be misrepresent d. Such
a policy has been charged on a portion of the
press m the South, but whether it has ever been
pursued or not, it is certainly the worst that the
cotton planter could sanciion. .Speculators of
course, there are on this, as weh as the other
side (d the Atlantic, and ihe cry of ‘short crops,’
on all occasions, mav be very likely to suit
their purposes. B-* lhat as it may, however, th?
pros; ert is- a sad one a' present. I'he truth is,
as it islu’ie written. Below, above and around
us, the finest co’ton fields in the South aie now
bring devastated bv an enemy, against whose
inioad- the planter is powerless.— Concordia lu
tMapnrpr
A New Musical Wonder —Wr have long be
lieved that tne next Musical Marvel would be 01
American production, and if an account which we
lead in the Heston I’raivcript be not greatly ex
aggerated om thought is about to become realized.
Accor-.lii'g to the fianscript a youthful cantatriee
not moie than fifteen j ears of ag-\ is soon to make
her s'ppcarance the American public to as
tonish and car rv them away captive. She is an
1 merican by t»irth, though now residing in the
Gia: (1 of Cuba, where she is completing her mu
sical educ ition under one of the best masters of
the day. I heard this young creature sing when
she was only about thirteen, and had not my sight
convinced me who it was.! should have thought
that Giisi h rself had suddenly descended into our
midst,*.(> brilliant was lhe cxccution in some pieces
and so birdlikc her notes in others. Iler voice is a
full contialto. its comp'l’.; is most extraordinary,
fai greater than that of any vocalist ever heard io
Ihe United States, m.d not surpassed by the most
emint nt in Europe ; it is clear, fol l and remarka
bly poweiful, combining incredible flexibility
and sweetness. She sings English, Sparish and
Italian songs v. i’.h equal grace and facility, while
all sorts of icAiladcs, chromatic and diatonic trilli.s,
half aud whole tones arc fieiTectly at her command.
Besides al! this, she is one of the greatest pianists
of the time, executing Th-.ilberg’s u:;d Listz’s com
position wi-hont any appaicnt effoit an’ accom
panying wi’h the greatest case through ali
the most (bfli ult bravuras. The guitar has ol
hie become a favorite study with her, and when
she sings some of her own particular solos, a d
accompanies beiseif on that i. she ‘coins
almost inspired ; and that melody which sb natural
ly flows from her soul, is at once so fully imparted
to lhe audience lhat evciy heart thnlls with de
light.
This young songstress will make a hasty tour
through the United Stales previous to her g.ring
to Europe. She will arrive here about the first of
October, and while she will rely upon the kind
feelings of her countrymen to smtajn her early
efforts, her extreme youth will claim fur her the
stiongestsympathies arid the kindest indulg?nce.
Her name is Isidura Hansen, daughter of the
violinist.
; German Burial Custom* —-The German cere
monial of interment is complicated and minute,
' and all persons of high birth arc exp ctcd to con
, fonn to it in every paitieular. Amoi g the rites
which precede burials one which, tn ing as it can
not fail t > pn.ve io the principal actor*, neverthe
less, greatly tends to tranqiiiliz * the minds of the
survivors. It is necessary that wrsh •uld desciibe
this. For ! »i;r and twenty hour* the corpse ic
maius under the roof where the death has taken
place,and while there all the affecting offi es ne
cessary to i’s final burial are performed. This
time elapsed, it is carried to cemetery: and
laid in its windup sheet, upon a bed in the inner
apiilmeiit of the low store building to which, in
our derriptioi of the death va ley of the Nicnberg,
we have already made alhbion. This solitary
i rerti.H) C<>n-..Sts only of two looms. That in
w.-iich the body is departed is called the Il.dl of
Resurrect inn, and contains no other property ib.ni
the bed itself and a belt n»p?, the cud which
i* placed in the hand of the corpse. Thi« coid is
attached tor; bed which rings in the next loom,
and which is theme railed tne Chamber of the
Bell, Thu.«, should it occur that the friends of an
individual may have been deceived and have mis
taken lethargy for death, and that th? patient
should awake during the night (for the body must
reman al! night in this gloomy refuge ’) the 'slight
est movement he may make necessarily rings’ the
bell, ami he obtain* instant mdp. it is customary
fur (he rcaroi relative to keep this dreary watch,
ano, from a beautiful sentiment, which must al
most tend to le-uutile the watcher to his ghostly
task, he ii fated to watch there alone, that it may
be no who calls back the ebbing life, and none
may share in a joy so holy and so deep—a j >v
moreover, so unhoped toil /•’'ruzer.s A/agari'’,?.
Cotton in Turkey.—We see it stated in the
New Virk Herald u.-t the Sultan of Turkey re
cently despatched to our Secretary < f state,
through the Hen. Dabney >J. Carr, Minister at
( onstantinopie, a c.irtc blanche authorizing him to
send to him a special instructor or two to under
take the experiment of the cotton culture on the
eastern side of the Dardanelles. Mr Buchanan
has, it i< further stated, complied with the request
of the Sultan by selecting Dr. J. 1,. Smith, of
Charleston, and Dr. J .B. Davis, of Fairfield, S. C.
I he former is a young gentleman educated in Ger
many, a student of Lie eg, and a nun of general
science. Ihe latter is a man of high leputatiou
as a practical planter and fanner, and w;.< to leave
;n the Great Western which sailed f;om New York
yestciday.— Bad. Amer.
I’*./'.c'ies —1 he New \ork corn -pondent of the
Philadelphia American writes—
Our peach season is just commencing, and they
-ay that the crop i, to be over an,j at.imdant. (».:c
orchard in New J(r-« v (that of the Mess. \
Sfcv. n<) wi.l send SO,00<) baskets of tins deiicious
iiuit to o n market during the season, which wiil
average 50 rents—making the snug little income
gI $4 ~i U > from peaches .done.
Death o. Cass. Worth.--A letter from St
-tu.’usiine received at Savannah, announces the
death of Captain Joseph H Wurth, ot the Bth
Regt. L. 8. Infantry Capi. W. was an officer
.leliu. ed by his comrades lor his open and man*
'? qua!ities, and fur bio fidelity to his profession
andcountty. He died on the2lst ult. lamented <
by all who knew him.
WEDNESDAY MDRNLNG, A UG 26, 184 L j
Address of Haywood, to the
People of North Uarolha.
'This address has been anticipate'! with no
small tleprce <>l interest, because ul ihe pecu
liarity of the case and the singular and savage
I Tociiy with which he was assailed bv a por
tion ui the democratic piess for resigning his
seat as Senator lather than give hi v vote in fa
vor of lhe recent tariff law.
We give the following I riel statement ol his
p -siiitm lor the present, and will in as« w days
lay the address entire before our readers.
Mr. Hay wood commences by slating, that he
had never, before, undertaken to write down an
accusation against himsell, “to consign lo ob
livion the wdii-perings of the envious, and th?
calumnies of ihe malignant. ’’ lie departed
lioin hisloiiner custom in accordance with ihe
wishes ul liiends, who thought he owed it to
ih? people, “not io remain silent tinder the re
cent censure <4 phtenzied pariisans.” lie went
into a hisimyol the tariff bill of 1843, known
as McKay’s bill, to show that it was a com
niomise measure agreed to by southern and
no.'thern democrats, for all participated in ma
turing, or acquiesced in it alter it was matured,
and submitted to thrir consideration. The ob
je- 10l that bill, says Mr. Haywoid, was to es
tablish a mean between high pruti-cii .n on the
one hand, and no protection at all on the other.
That bill, he cumends, though defeated at the
session (•! 1813, went before lhe country as
containing lhe views >1 ihe democratic parly,
and that party succeeded by large majorities in
GoLgrc.ss, and in electing the Po ridenl ol the
United Stales. He was in favor ol the pro
visions us that bill, had always been, and ob
jected lo the one lately passed, because it vio
lated ilie former, “uutand out.”
“ When there was no public emergency to
requiie it, and no national exigency to excuse
if, and that when 1 did most confidently believe
lhat the new tariff act of lhe present Congress
was, in itsrlf. unwise and full us mischief t >
the Republic.”
Mr. H. objected, also, to th? bill of 1816, be
cause, as h? terms it, it is an “Experimental
Tariff.” li was unwise lo make any experi
ment on a subject of such magnitude and dan
g r under any circumstances, but particularly
while the country was engaged in an expensive
war, and appropriations have already been
made lor the fiscal year “exceeding fifty mil
lions of dollars.” He thought the new tariff'
would nut provide hall ot that sum by several
millions, and would leave the Government in
debt nearly thirty millions, the first year, “and
there would be no way to prevent its y arl\' in
c/tv/xe except by a fesoit to direct taxes.” It
would seem, trom the following, that Mr. H.
thinks it quite a settled case, that the Govern
ment is to have California.
“II lhe war should end soon, still the Govern
ment here, we know, expected io terminate it
by a treaty fur peace and a new territory, viz:
California. No honest country would, take the
territory wiih.'tit paying ih<* owner for it, and,
it we would, Mexico cannot yield it upon any
other terms. 1 fence, wheiher we wen* to have
peace ur war with Mexico, we needed much
more money’ to carry on lhe Government. —
\\ hen the plainest rules of arithmetic and com
mon sense thus compelled me to withhold my’
support from a tariff experiment, to be made
now, at the expense of lhe nation’s credit, how
could 1 hesitate?”
Mr. 1 1, objected in lhe second place, that lhe act
of ihe session thti s terminated reduced the du
ties at too early a period, Ist ol December. It
would I educe lhe wages of labor suddenly and
thro v some out of employment at a season ot
the year which would result in extreme injury
and suffering to them. Th? compromise of
1833 gave nmeyews of gradual reduction, this
act ot ’46 only’ a notice ol four months'.
“It. was harsh, cruel, unjust legislation;
harsh to the wealthy, cruel to ihe laborer, and
unjust to both; and the general welfare did not
requite it.
Third. The Independent Treasury, of il<?lf
a great change; lhe VVaiehou.ring act another;
and lhe Experimental Tariff, the greatest ol
them all, will when taken togetler, work an en
tire revolution ol our financial system. One
ala lime they might have been introduced more
safely, some of them wisely. But, bv being so
nearly united, as they will be, in lhe time ot
their commencement, it is calculated lo excite
apprehension and alarm. To put them into
siiiiulianeous operation was, indeed, apolitical
movement ■! party too violent and too potent
for good. They will affect all the business ot
lhe people most injuriously; and, with a Gov
ernment expenditure ol fifty miilions and a
revenue under twenty millions the Government
operation. To attempt it when lhe nation was
at war abroad, and ihe Government was in the
money market, or so<.n expecit <1 there, as a bor
rower a’ home,clearly appeared toiny mind to
be tin wisely jeoparding public credit and pri
vate confidence.
Fourth. In nunc oflhe tariff’ acts ot the Uni
ted States in former years was the industry ol
our own country burdened by discriminations
made against home manufactures. Their poli
cy was to build up and not destroy, to protect
and not lo oppress. Not so ihe experimental
tariff. And is n not a mistake to suppose that
the republican people of North Carolina weie
many time hostile 10 those acts merely because
they were “protective? 1 Our hostility was
aimed at ih? extent us ihe tiring, not the thing
itsell; at extreme protection, not protection per
v• With here and there an individual excep
rion—for republicans in those days were allow
cd to differ— I boldly affirm that this was the re
publican doctrine of our Slate; and the people
will know ii to be true wl en I remind them that
it was D'ccisely the point ul our dispute with
lhe Nnlliffei*•. 'They were against protection
out and out. we, lhe (Jackson) republican pally
ol North Carolina in particular, went lurr/ur
tt- :itol protect ion, moderate protection by a “ju
dicious larifl.” They weie loi declaring the
lands of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional, and
nullilyir.r it because it pralccled manufac
tures. We thought it was unjust because the
protection was extreme, but not iinconMihithtnal,
and tliai the “Union must be preserved.” What
th? republican party <4 Noith Carolina thought
then, I thought, and spoke, and wr le.
Mr. Haywood then furnishes nearly two
columns of ex'racts from lhe writings and
messages of Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe and Jackson, to show that they had
uniformly supported the docliine of protection
to home manufactures and domestic industry in
general.
The last objeclion urged bv Mr. Haywood to
the late act was the .system of ad valorem du
ties. This he believed would give rise to im
mense frauds, by which morality would suf
fer and the g ivcnimcnl he cheated out of its
He produces extracts from reports of’
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasu
ry under General Washington, of Albert Gal
latin under Mr. JeffTson, and Wm. 11. Craw
ford under .Mr. Monroe, to show, that all of
those distinguished financiers were opposed to
a I valorem dniks upon the same ground. Mr.
IL then enters into a long detail of his difficul
ties of conscience, and conferences with politi
cal bm waK forced finally to resign
his seat, as most compatible with propriety,
rat her than vote for the bill against his judgment,
o in oppr sitioti to his party. He said that “he
well knew that the Sen tie were about passing
the bill, contrary to the judgment o! a majority
under the duress of a party drill- 1 Mr. II
could not sacrifice his judgment and his con
science at the dictation of party.
We have thus given a brief sketch of Mr.
Haywood’s address to the people of his State,
lie evidently was placed in a delicate position.
He had to do one of three things: vole for the
bill in violation of his judgment and conscience,
or vole against it in opposition 'o the wishes of
his party ; or resign hi* seat. We applaud him
for not doing the first. The question will arise
ought he not to have voted against the bill, and
thereby served the best interests of his country ?
Wc think it was his duty as an enlightened pa
triot to have done so.
Mr. Haywood alludes to this feature of the
cas«>, however, and says, that he knew the bill
would pass, by a vote of 28 to 27, lor Mr. Jar
nagin had told him that he Mould vote for it
if there had been a lie, he says further, that he
knew a week before the Vole was taken, that
Mr. Dallas would give the casting vote for the
bill, lienee he could with mote propriety,
gratify his wishes by resigning his seat.
Wes.iy m conclusion, that a :his is a deinc
cratic quarrel, wc arc no otherwise interest
ed in it, than as a friend to fair dealing an ! jus.
’ lice, a! way’s, between man and man, in politic*
as in the common transactions of life.
Mr. H tywim l has been vilified and wronged
in some particulars, and while we du not think
he has jus-ified himseh to the country, for not
voting against a bill which he looked upon to
be s.» disastrous, still his detence is triumphant
against the charge of his Democratic associates
that he was a traitor to his party.
Our Book Table.
Mr. Richards lias laid upon our table Nos.
18 and 19 ofihr “ W ndering Jew;” No. G ot
th? “ Pictorial History H England No. 2of
th? “Statesmen of the Commonwealth of Eng
land,” wiih a Treatise on lhe Popular Progress
in English History, by John Forster; Nos. 97
an I 98 ol Harpers’ “ Illuminated Shakspeare;”
No. 2-4 Morse's "Cerographic iMaps.”
lemp?rand Temperament, or Varietiesof
Character,” a neat 12mo. volume, contain
ing the ‘Managing Wife’ and 'lmprisoned
M ind?
“The Expedition to Borneo, of H M. S. Di
do, for ihe Suppression of Piracy, with ex
tra' is from the Journal ol James Brook, E<q.,”
by Captain the H"t». Henry Keppel, R. N.
j h? Modern British Plutarch, or Lives of
Men Distinguished in the recent History ot
England, lor their talents, virtues or achieve
ments,” bv W. C. T; yl<»r, L L D.
These three last are neat volumes, I2mo.
and are useful and instructive works, particu
larly lhe last.
The Cutton Crop.
We have culled from our exchange papers,
in the various sections us the Cotton growing
region, th? subjoined paragraphs in reference lo
the p osptcls of the growing crop, which we
give for what they aie worth. It is possible,
aye, probable, that in some instances these
reports of disasters are exaggerated —this is
lo be expected, but with an allowance for this,
th? paragraphs make up a very unfavorable re
port, to which we ar? induced to give some cre
dence. For it is well known to every intelli
gent man, who is at all familiar with lhe culture
and growth ol Cotton, that, in this immediate
vicinity, too much rain has fallen latterly lor a
laige produ'.l. It ihe&c rains have been gener
al, and we believe they have, the effect will be
quite ihe same—varying somewhat in conse
quence of location and tne qualities of the soil.
All estimates, however, in lhe present stale of
the weather and at this period, as to the extent
of lhe crop, are ihe merest guessing, as no man
can form any correct idea ot lhe effect to be pro
duced by the combined influence of lhe cater
pillar, a continued wet season, and a probable
early trust—which almost invariably succeeds a
wet autumn.
7'hc Colton Crop — We regret to stale lhat lhe
accounts in relation to the Cotton crop which
reached us by yesterday’s mail, Irom lhe coun
try, aic of the most discouraging character.
Several letters are before us from some ot the
most prominent planters in Louisiana and Mi
ssissippi, expressing the very gravest apprehen
sions on this score. From Hie neighborhood ot
Natchez they writ? to us under date of the 15 h
inst., that heavy rains had prevailed for some
ten days previous, wiih weather more resem
bling March than August—the thermometer at
74 deg , and ihe wind high and blustering. The
effect mu>t of necessity be most injurious. The
weed is already too rank, causing all lhe lower
bulls to rot, whilst th? few lhat happen lo open
arc on poor points, and then mostly damaged.
But by far the worst enemy to lhe Cotion crop
is ihe army worm, which is committing such
devastation in every direction. Already have
ihe ravages of this insect extended above* Vicks
burg, scarcely a solitary plantation remaining
exempt from its visitation, and we are sore
afraid lhat our next advices from Tennessee
and Arkansas will inform us of ihe appearance
<4 this dreaded visitor. But. tocap the climax,
the boll or bore worm, which has hitherto con
fined iis ravages to the river lands north ot
V icksburg, has suddenly made its appearance
in various pansof lhe country, and threatens
to annihilate the hopes us ihe husbandman.
Without wishing to contribute, in the slightest
degree, to create any unnecessary alarm, we are
of the candid opinion iha- the present prospers
ol the planter are highly unfavorable. All
those engaged in lhe Trad? must remember the
havoc which the caterpillar committed in 1840,
and now it has shown itself a month earlier than
then, whilM the crop is fully a fortnight to three
weeks later.— N. (). Times, 187/ inst.
The Baton Rouge Gazette says: The season
has been very unfavorable to ihe cotton plan
ter—th? crops present a gloomy appearance, but
the inclemency of the weather is not lhe only
unfavorable cause ol their present appearance.
The caterpillar is destroying almost every boll,
and even the plant itself. In West Baton Rouge
whole fields are totally destroyed. A planter
Irom that parish informed us, a few days ago,
that he had planted 600 acres, and that’ the ca
terpillar had destroyed it so effectually, if he
made 100 bales out of them he would esteem
himself fortunate.
Thr. ( a'er/4Z/«r.--The Natchez Courier says:
A strong sensation is peivading our communi*
iv in regard io the cotton crop ot the present
season. Alio! our most intelligent planters
have had their apprehensions aroused by the re
cent appearance of the caterpillar in various
And again.
I’hc oilicera of the Paul Jones informed
some ot our citizens, as the boat passed down
on Wednesday, that all the plantations at which
they stopped on their last trip up, from Walton
Smith’.*, six miles below Natchez, to Mihkcn’s
Bend, 25 miles above Vicksburg--in all, a dis
laf.c ? of 110 mih's—the presence ot the ca’er
pillar was reported to them. A most excellent
tanner, who has a valuable plantation some 25
miles above this, on the Louisiana side, reports
that they had entirely ate ofi the topsut his cot
ton, and that of several of his neighbors.”
Vicksbinir. Audits 1 If—The army and boll
worm are committing awful ravages in this
section <»f the country.
I?'-./ Diver, Aug. 8 —'The rains have done us
immense damage,
}\arren County, (neor Warrenton, Miss
14. The caterpillar 1 made its appeaiance
in the cotton. The appearance of this destruc
tive worm, one month earlier than in former
years, cans?, serious fears lor the extent of its.
ravages; ii general, the deficiency in the eisu
ing crop will be large.
't'nc Cotton Cro ■ in Alabama.— We find the
following communication in regard to the pio«pacfo
of the Cotton crop in Alabama, adhered to the
Mob'ffe Advertiser. The editor of that paper in
troduces tl ? letter by slating that it is written by
nvery intelligent gentleman of Marengo—a mer
cliuit and planter—a close obseivcr, and a man
incapable of deception:
MARE«o<) Countv, (Ala.) August 12th.
Editor of fie Advertiser— Sir: The season hav
ing sufficiently advanced f.u the planters to form
some estimate of the growing crop, I have conclu
ded to write you the prospect in this section. lr»
the North end of this county, and the contiguous
parts of Green, Perry, and Dallas, usually called
the * Canebreak,” there are great fears now that
the ciop will be very short. It was very Lite in.
the spring before good stands were obtained, and
consequently the crop is fully three weeks later
in maturing—as an evidence, there is none vetopen
in the fields to induce picking, and will not be be
fore the 26th—while l ist year, throughout all this
region, planters had commenced picking by the lit
of August. But the backwardness cf the crop is
no? our greatest complaint. It has been raining
more or le- s every day, far two weeks—wnich, up
on our black lands is exceedingly unfavorable—and
besides, the worm has made its appearance within
the last few <1 lys, and is increasing to nn alarming
extent. Mothing can save us now but dry weath
er from this forward —of which there is now no
prospect. If there should be no more rain, and no
early frost, we may make a tolerable ciop—but
under no circumstances can the (Janebreak crop
equal that of the last year. When you reflect that
the section of c nintry here alluded to makes a
heavy io m in the Mobile receipts,and assume that
•he brick Linds East of the Alabama and up the
Bigbee aie similarly circumstanced, you must ar
rive at the conclusion that the growing crop must
be shoit of the usual average for our Stale.
The Tallahassee Sent inti of the ISth inst. says :
“ The catterpi Jar, we are informed, is beginning
Ito be mis hiatous. We hear bad accounts from
several plantations.
The Montgomery Journal of the 19th inst. says:
since last Sunday morning, we have been deluged
with rain , after occasional showers for several day
before. So much wet weather, it is apprehended,
will greatly injure cotton throughout the prairie
region of the Mate. It was already much damaged
by the cerly rains, in this vicinity.
Alabama.— The Greensborough Beacon of the
15th inst. says: Dining the last two weeks we
have had an unusual amount of cloudy and showery
weather. In some neighborhoods near this they
tiave had not only frequent but heavy showers.—
.Much rain at this season is always injurious to the
cotton —but it must be particularly so this year.
I’he weed has for s. eve. al weeks past, particularly
on the biack lands, been growing quite too fast,
whilst but little cotton has yet opened. At this
time la*t year the picking m this section was gene
ially very good. One planter, we recollect, sent
five bales id new cotton to the river on the 27th of
July. Another had out about 40,000 lbs of seed
cotton by the sth or 6th of August. As yet we
have heard of no picking dene tins season.
A gentleman who has paid pat titular attention
to the subicct, infotms the editor of the Beacon
that it had rained in the neighborhood more or less
for ticenty consecutive days. The editor adds, we
undeistand the cotton worm has already made its
appearance in some cotton fields and is doing mis
chief. Should the cloudy weather continue a week
or t wo longer the amount of injury’ will be incalcu
lable.
Albany (Ga.) Courier,of the22d inst., says:
I he cateipillar has made its ap; earanre in the cot
ton crops of Lee and Baker.
The Huntsville Advocate, of the 21st iust. says:
The \v '..thcr lias been oppressively hot and sultry
this weak —so much so as to indispose any one to
active, constant, severe employment —in fact no
oppressive as to convert all into perfect iobeocks.
Heavy rains have fallen, which may injure codoit
somewhat uy cau'i.ig a 100 rank growth, and has
interfered with fodder gathering. The prospect
fur a large crop us cotton in this county is very hue.
’The Washington (Pa.) Examiner says:
Last week Mr. William Wolf, ot Canton town
ship, presented us with a Tomato weighing
Uuee pounds and a quarter. Il was a monster
in size, and pronounced by ail who saw ii to be
the largest they had ever seen.”