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THURSDAY MOHLING, AUG. 19, 1847.
“The Grand Junction Railway—Wilkes.”
Iff an editorial of the 13th inst., in reply to a
correspondent, “Warren,” we used the ful
lowing language, in reference to the projected
Railway :
‘‘The letters (to the Savannah Republican) were
published as matter of news to the citizens of Wilkes
aad Hancock, auiong whom our paper lias an exten
sive circulation, and we did not choose to enter into a
discussion with the friends of the contemplated road
from Washington about the profits, though we confess
we cannot sec where such large profits, as seem to be
anticipated by the writers of those letters, are to come
from, especially without the co-o|>eration of the Geor
gia Road ; and we cannot perceive how this can be
reasonably anticipated, w hen the whole scheme is un
derstood to have been founded on a disagreement with
that company as to the terms of a proposed connection
with it. On this latter subject, we may in conclu
sion remark, (from the to .e of private letters received
in this city,) that we believe the citizens of Wilkes
are laboring under a strange misapprehension. We
understand that they are under the impression that the
Georgia Road was averse to any such connection, ami
in that spirit promised to them illiberal terms. This
somewhat surprised us, as we know from frequent
conversations with those most closely and intimately
connected with this road, that they have been always
favorable to such a connection, and expressed a wil
lingness to oiler every inducement consistent with the
interest of the company for its accomplishment.—
Hearing these charges often repeated, we applied to
the proper officer, and by his permission, was permit
ted to examine Hie action ofthe Committee and Board
on the subject, and we feel fully assured that they have
been misapprehended ; otherwise such a feeling could
not have been excited.”
To these remarks “Wilkes” calls our atten
tion in the following communication:
Washington, Ga., August 16, 1847.
Messrs. Editors : —I wish to call your attention
to one |osition assumed by you in your article of the
13th instant, on “the grand junction Railroad.” You
therein express the opinion that “the citizens of
Wilkes are laboring under a strange misapprehen
sion** in reference to the feelings and recent action of
the Board of Directors ofthe Georgia Railroad, upon
the late project of building a branch road from this
place to the Georgia Road. The people of Wilkes
have taken upon themselves some trouble to get cor
rect information upon these points, ami if you are cor
rect in your opinion, there must be blame somewhere.
We wish the facts upon which you have founded
the opinion which you so confidently express. And
we desire it the more because your means of informa
tion seem to have been ample and us the must authen
tic character. Our opinions an* founded upon the
official reports to public meetings of the fieoplc, of re
spectable citizens, to whom we intrusted this branch
ofthe subject. Ami the people here believe that by
these reports they were informed of the facts, of all
the facts, of the whole truth, connected with the ac
tion ofthe Board of Directors of the Georgia Railroad
upon their propositions, of what was done, and the
way it was done. And from tliose facts thus acquired,
I think I am safe in saying, that the people of Wilkes
have a strong, settled opinion, that whether or not
“the Georgia Railroad was averse to any such con
nection,’’ they did promise t«» them “illiberal terms.*’
You seem not to Hunk so, from ihe lights before you.
Now it much concerns the people of Wilkes to know
whether you and they draw different conclusions from
the same facta, or whether your facts are different from
ours. It is due to the public and the parties concern
ed, that this point should be freed iroui all ambiguity
and doubt. If an examination of “the action of
the committee and board on the subject,’’ or your
“ frequent conversations with those must closely and
intimately connected with this (Georgia) Road,”
will shed any light upon this point let us have the be
nefit of it.
The people of Wilkes wished to build a Railroad to
cheipen transportation between them and their mar
ket towns. They proposed to connect it with the
Georgia Railroad in Warren county; they could n«»t
make terms of junction with that I'oinptny satisfac
tory to themselves, they then sought the aid and co
operation of others to effect tins object; they were met
not only in a spintjof justice but of liberality, and are
n»w struggling with others of their fellow-citizens to
construct a great public work which will open to them
ami to thousand* and ten ot thousands of others of tneir
fellow-citizens, the choice ofthe Augus*a, Charleston
and Savannah markets, and otherwise greatly facilitate
*’ the internal transportation ofthe State. Whether the
enterprise will pay “ large profits,” or small profits,
or no profits, or whether it will require a single track
or double track to do its business, are questions im
portant to the subscribers, but-»f not niucti importance
to others. They have doubtless satisfied themselves
sufficiently to risk their money tn the enterprise. We
n*ithvr expect nor desire “to tear up the Georgia
Railroad and appropriate it to the use of another,”
nor are we moved or surprised at this cry of “great
is Diana of the Ephesians.” We seek peacefully
and legally Io employ our own money for our own and
the public advantage. If the Directors of the Georgia
II uiroad Company believe that our proposed work
will infringe their “ chartered rights,*' the Courteare
open to them, we are ready to stand by the Law.
“The head ami front of our offending
Hath tli ; s extent, no more.”
WILKKS.
In accordance with the requestof“Wilkes,’*
we have procured a full and exact copy of the
action of the stockholders in convention, and
the Board of Directors of the Georgia Railroad,
the latter in reply to the two delegations from
Washington, which we append with the cer
tificate of John W. Wilde Cashier:
Extract from the minutes of the IM .Irnmu?
Convention of the Stockholders of the Georgia
Railroad and Ranking Company, held in
Augusta, the IDA and \'2th of May, 1547 :
The following resolution was adopted on
Mr. Miller's motion. It being represented to
the Convention that the citizens of Wilkes
county contemplate a connection, by Railroad,
between Washington and the road of this Com
pany at or near Double Wells :
Resolved. Flint the Board of Director* be request
ed toatf.Hxi all the facilities in their p»wer for the ac
complishment of that bject—without detriment to the
interest of this Company.
Copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Board
ot Directors of the Georgia Railroad and
Ranking Company. held at Augusta on the
M of May. 1847 :
An extra meeting of the Board was held on
Wednesday, the •tuh May. 1*47. composed of
the following members, viz: Mr. King. Presi
dent, and Messrs. Warren. D'Antignac. Bones.
Bowdre. Fargo. Miller and Davies. Directors.
The President stated that the object of con
vening the Board was to receive a committee
of citizens from Washington. Geo., then in
waning, who were charged with the duty of
conferring with this Company on the subject
of constructing a Branch Railroad from Wash
ington to some convenient point on the Geoi
gia Railroad; and the committee were accord
ingly invited and appeared before the Board.
Messrs Lewis S Brown. Charles |. Bolton.
Thomas Semmes and Lucius J. Garirell. the
members present of the Washington commit
tee. being seated al the Board, were requested
to submit their views and desires. In com
phance wuh this invitation. Messrs. Gartrell
and Semmes addressed the Directors—the
other members of the committee contributing,
by occasional remarks, to the development of
the subject.
Phe object ot the committee w as to ascertain
w hether we would furnish their contemplated
Company w ith such of our Hat-bar iron as w e
should replace w ith a heavier rail: and to know,
from ns. upon wbat terms the freight of the
\\ ashing ton Branch would be transported over
the Georgia Railroad: suggesting the necessi
ty ot some encouragement to their enterprise,
and the hope of our ability to allow thorn, as a
bonu*. a third or fourth of the freight or gross
income derived from the business of their
Branch or put the transportation of such busi
new on the tuotmg o| the most favored of our
Branch connections
ft i| ’ O f
I~tdllu lr lii I 11 M 111 Illi IBJr OCs Jo if /111 111 iSi
mittee appointed by a meeting of the citizens
of Wilkes county, to confer with the Georgia
Rail Road &■ Banking Company, and settle
with it all matters connected with the junction
of a Railroad from Washington to the most
suitable point on the Georgia Railroad, submiLs
the following propositions to the Georgia Rail
road Company, and asks the action of the Di
rectors thereon :
Ist. That the Georgia R. R. Company shall
transport such freight and passengers as may
be delivered it by the Washington Railroad at
the junction of the two roads, to their destina
tion on the Georgia Railroad, at the lowest
terms per mile that said Georgia Railroad trans
ports any other similar freight or passengers
on any part of their road, and for any distance.
2d. That in all things the Georgia Railroad
shall grant the Washington Railroad all the ad
vantages, in the transaction of their business,
which said company do now or may hereafter
grant to any other Road which now is or may
hereafter be connected with said Georgia Rail
road.
3d. That the Georgia Railroad Company
slate the best terms upon which it will trans
port the freight cars of the Washington Rail
road from the junction of the two roads to
.Augusta, or any intermediate point, should the
Washington Company deem it to their interest
to furnish freight cars for their own freight the
whole distance to Augusta.
After deliberating on the foregoing proposi
tions, the Board passed these resolutions:
Resolved, That this Company will allow the
Washington Road to connect with the Georgia Rail
road at Cumming, or at such contiguous point as may
be hereafter agreed upon; and will agree to transport
the freight of this road at the same charge made on
other |iM*al business from Camak.
Resolved, That it is deemed inexpedient to bind
this Company to any further, future or prospective
arrangement with other companies, or to make any
agreement Io allow the rars of the Washington Rond
to pass over the Georgia Railroad.
G’co. /?. Road S; Rk'g Co., Aug. 18, 1847.
I certify the accuracy of the foreg iug ex
tracts, that they embrace all that appears upon
the subject, on the minutes of the Convention
and the Board. J. W. WILDE, Cashier.
This is the evidence, together with frequent
“conversations with those most closely eonnec
ted with the Georgia Road,” upon which we pre
dicated the opinion, that the people of Wilkes
were laboring under a misapprehension, in sup
posing “the Georgia Road averse to any such
connection, and in that spirit proposed to them
illiberal terms.” The action ofthe Stockholders
in eoiweuUon. and the Board of Directors
prove satiadactordy to our mind, that tltey
were not 'averse to the proposed connection
with Washington. The matter then resolves
itself into the single and simple question,
were the terms "illiberal f" To this inquiry
we propose to devote a few remarks by
way of elucidation, and we must ask the indul
gence ofthe citizens of Wilkes, while we in
voke their calm and dispassionate consideration
of our views. W’e have no feeling in this
matter, for we are not to be affected by the re
result, be it what it may, our only object he
ing to elicit truth, now that we have been
drawn into the discussion. W T ecomc, then, to
the consideration of the first proposition of
Mr. Toombs, as reported in the « xtract above.
This proposition, which seems exceedingly
plausible and fair to the casual reader, as it did
at first to the writer, we propose to show the
Georgia Railroad could not have accepted
without manifest injury to the interests ofthe
company. Let us illustrate, the distance from
\iigiisla to Atlanta is 171 miles—from Augus
ta to Camak, (the point to which the Georgia
Railroad agreed to charge for freight,) is 47
miles, or about three-tenths of the whole dis
tance to Atlanta. Now the Georgia Road char
ges the following freight tn Atlanta: For box
es of hats, bonnets and furniture, lOcentsper
foot; boxes of dry goods. >hoes. saddlery, Ar..
60 cts. per 100 lbs.; groceries and heavy good*
35 cts. per 100 lbs.; tlo tr, bacon, Ac., 25cts.
per 100 lbs.; cotton, 30 cts. per 100 lbs.; salt
10 cts. per bushel; and for corn, wheat, peas,
Ac., lOcts. per bushel. If Mr. Toombs’s pro
position had been accepted, the Georgia Road
would have received about three tenths ofthese
rateslot transporting freights between Camak
and Augusta, that is—three cents per foot for
boxes of hats, bonnets and furniture, H cents
per DM) lbs.; for boxes of dry goods. Ac.; for
groceries and heavy goods. 10 $ cts. per 100
lbs.: for flour, bacon. Ac .7 jets, per 100 lbs. ;
for cotton 9 cts. per 100 lbs.; for salt, 3 cents
per bushel; and for corn, wheat, peas, Ac,
three cents per bushel. Certainly this is sufli
cient to show any reasonable man in Wilkes,
or any other county, that the Georgia Railroad
Company would have been guilty of the most
suicidal policy to have accepted a proposition,
imposing such a rale of freight* as that. It
would not pay for turning the goods in or out
of the cars—and making the necessary en
tries on their books.
Again, if such a proposition had been ac
cepted, no one who knows anything of the
geography of the country would hesitate to
declare that, they might as well abandon every
depot on their road from Camak to .Athens, so
far as any hope might ever be indulged of re
ceiving freights at them or transporting it to
them at remunerating prices.
The reasons for the very low rate of freights
between Atkinlaand Augusta are obvious. At
Atlanta a rival company enters into a vigorous
and active competition for the business. This .
competition has already reduced the freights I
very low . and it it become much more despe- *
rate may still farther reduce the rate of freights
to that point Hence in our opinion the Railroad I
directors acted discreetly in declining to enter
into any prospective arrangement, such as pro
posed by Mr.Toombs. Besides, ail experience
and the common sense of eveiy man. teach that
freights can be transported r.l 3 lower rale, pro
rata per mile for a long distance than a short
| one.
The Georgia Road agreed to permit the con
• uection at any point between Camak and Craw
' ford vide, and only charge their regular rale tor
freight to ('ainak. Suppose then the W ash
i mgton road had connected nt Double XX ett*.
I ten miles above Camak, they could have re
‘ ceived pay for the transportation of ail freight
above Camak to Washington, thereby inc re as
mg the length of their branch one-third. and in
creasing in like ratio the gross amount of their
receipts. This much upon the subject of the
rates of freight, which in our opinion is amply
sutfieient to convince the most prejudiced mind
of the unfairness and illiberal ity of Mr. Toombs.s
1 proposition. and the absence of all ■ illiberal it y"
Aller a free conversation with the Board on
the matters in hand, the committee retired and
the following resolution was passed :
Resolved, That this Company will furnish the cars
for the transportation of freight on the proposed Rail
road from Washington—charging therefor, one-eighth
of the freight earned on said Road; being the same
terms that exist between this Company and the Slate
Road and Rome Branch.
The President was requested to communi
cate this resolution to the Washington commit
tee, and to say to them that if we should deter
mine to take up our flat-bar iron, it would be
sold to them for their Road on reasonable terms.
The Board tiien adjourned.
J. W. WILDE, Cashier.
Extrac t from the minutes of a regular meeting
of the Hoard of the. Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company, held at Augusta, on Tues
day, the t*th June, 1847.
At which the following members attended,
viz: Mr. King, President, Messrs. Warren,
Pouliain, Jones, Satfold, D’Antignac, Dougher
ty, Fargo. Hamilton, Davies, Stovall, Conyers,
Miller and Cunningham, Directors.
A communication in these words was read
to the Board : Mr. Toombs, one of the Com-
on ihe part of the Georgia Railroad company,
in declining to accept those propositions. In
deed we have too much confidence in the in
telligence and sense of justice of the people of
Wilkes, to think that they, after a calm and dis
passionate consideration of these facts, can ar
rive at any other conclusion in the premia s
than we have.
The third and last proposition of Mr. Toombs,
although declined by the resolution of the
board of directors, wc are informed by the
President, that he said to Mr. Toombs, rather
than fail to make the connection he would ex
tend to the Washington company the same
terms the Georgia road proposed. That is, the
Georgia road would pay one-eignth, or receive
one-eighth; and the Washington company
should decide which party should furnish the
cars.
It was upon this data that we formed our
opinion, and if the people of Wilkes have not
had the same light, “ Wilkes” is very correct
in supposing there is “blame somewhere."
We concur fully with “Wilkes”, that the
citizens of Wilkes county have a right to invest
their money in any enterprise they please, and
“whether it pay large profits or small profits,
on no profits,” it is of importance only to them.
We have not sought to direct the citizens of
Wilkes (we have too much respect for their in
telligence,) in what manner they shall make
their investments, and shall not venture upon
such a thankless office. We do desire, however,
that they may not labor under any misapprehen
sion in reference to the course of any portion
of our citizens toward them, and upon that
question, and that alone, we ask an impartial
hearing.
“Wilkes” in his zeal seems to have forgot
ten himself, and by quoting some of the re
marks of our correspondent “ Warren,” lias
confounded our article with his. We made no
allusion to “single or double tracks," or “tear
ing up the Georgia Rail toad." These allusions
were made by “Warren,” who is abundantly
able to take care of his own positions.
Another remark and we have done, it has
been repeatedly stated here, that, it was report
ed, and generally believed in Wilkes county,
that Mr. Too.mrs was refused admission to. or a
hearing by the directors during their sitting.
This surprised us, nor could we believe that
such a report was in circulation, if so, it cer
tainly never reached the ear of our friend
Toombs, without receiving a flat contradiction,
for he was invited by an officer of the bank in
to the room, in the presence of the writer, who
urged him to go and see if their differences
could not be reconciled which lie declined.
Heavy Clearances.—Eighteen vessels clear
ed at New Orleans on the 12th inst. with 7217
bales of cotton, and 1459 hogshead of tobacco.
New Cotton. —Seven bales of new cotton
from four different plantations in Louisiana, ar
rived in New Orleans on the 12th inst.
The Cotton Crop.—The Mobile Register
ofthe 14th inst. says: The reports from the
country ofthe prospects of the growing crop
are rather more encouraging, the rainy weather
having in some measure abated. Still they are
not of so decidedly favorable a nature as to ex
hibit a permanent change for the better. The
many ‘contingencies’ the plant has yet to un
dergo, renders it, at best, so early in the season,
a matter of conjecture as to its ultimate product.
Taking appearances just now, however, they
are much againstan abundant yield : ami should
the depredations of the worm be realised that
nave been threatened, and seriously apprehend
ed, we may look for another material curtail
ment ofthe crop of this State.
Health of New Orleans.—The interments
in New Orleans from 9 o’clock, A. M., on the
11th inst. to the same hour on the 12th, were
65, of whom 46 died of yellow fever.
Steamer Washington.— The New York
Herald says—“ The steamer Washington will
not leave for Southampton and Bremen until
the24lh of September This delay is owing to
a number of alterations which the company
deem in a measure necessary. Iler day of
sailing in future will be on the 24th of the
month, instead ofthe Ist, as heretofore.”
Krom the .V. O Delta. of \ \\th tnst.
Falnl Hrncontre.
This section ofthe city wits thrown into a
state of sudden exci emeiit last evening by the
announcement ih.it a rencontre had just taken
place, which terminated fatally to one of the
parties engaged in it. The circumstances, as
we gathered them, are these: A mutually bail
feeling, originating m some pecuniary transac
tions. hail for some time existed between Mat
thew C. I'dwards. a voting lawyer of this ritv,
and Orran Byrd. The former had recently re
turned from the North, and was informed that
the latter had. in his absence, denounced
him. and that he yesterlay denounced two of
his friends for some part they had taken as um
pires or referee* in the difficulty existing be.
tween them. To such a pass had the matter
come that he yesterday expressed the opinion
that he expected an attack, and hence, perhaps,
it was that he was found armed with a revol
ving pistol. About half-past live o’clock yes
terday, when in company with a friend, passing
towards the St Charles Hotel, through Com
mon street, and in the neighborhood of Camp
street, he met Orran Byrd. Mr. Walton, and
another gentlemen. As they met, Byrd ad
dressed Edwards, striking him al the same mo
ment over the head with a loaded cane. Ed
wards fell on his knee, rose and ran back across
Camp street, towards Hewlett’s Exchange-
Byrd pursuing him. While running he drew
a revolving pistol from his pocket, turned ami
discharged it twice at Byrd. Bird then turned
and ran, passing into the banking-house of Ho
race Bean at the corner. Edwards passing
round it. Walton, as we are told, following
him. Here Byrd met Edwards again; and
here again Edwards discharged another shot at
him. when he fell lifeless on the ground. Wal
ton. we are informed struck Edwards here with
his cane, knocking him down. Edwards left
rhe scene of blood badly cut in the head. The
lifeless body of Byrd was removed into a neigh
boring store, where in the course of the eve
ning an inquest was held on it. and a verdict
returned that the decea*ed came to Ins death
from pistol shot wound* inflicted by M. C. Ed
wards. An amiable and afflicted young wife
and two children are left to mourn the untime
ly fate of the deceased. Mr. Edwards holds
himself amenable for the legal consequences.—
One of the wounds was in the left side, be
tween the ninth and tenth ribs ; another on the
same side, immediately over the hip : and the
third on the right side. Any one of them would,
it was thought, prove fatal.
Mr. Byrd was a son of Johm J. Byrd of this
city —r.p' (,'hron. A Sfni.
Things in Dalton.
We find the following items of intelligence
in the Mountain Eagle of the 14 th inst. :
Our Church BrZZ.— A splendid bell, w eighing
between seven and eight hundred pounds, has
been placed in the steeple of the new church
in this place. It is said to be as large as any in
the Slate.
The Rev Mr. Aldridge. Pastor of the Luth
eran Church tn Savannah, paid us a vi<it last
week, and preached in the Church, on Sunday
night, to a large congregation.
Travelling.— Some idea of the amount ot
travel on the State Road, at the present time
mav be formed from the fact, that the Super
intendant has been obliged to attach two pas
senger cars. each w av. for the last lour or five
days.
Troops fur Mtrico.— Ten of a dozen as fine
looking young men as can be found any w here,
left this place, on horseback. on Saturday last
to join Capt. Hamilton's company of mounted
volunteers al Cassv die.
A Genuine Windfall—We hear that let
ter- were received by the last European steamer
relative to die death of a Capt. Lamphere. in
England w ho bus left a large properly aud some
SIOO,OOO in cash io five persons in Lapeer
county The immediate heir m this country
was Mr< Hubbard, of XX'.ndsor. Vi . formerly
a lumphere. She died some two years since,
lea* mg ’our by the name of Hubbard, and
a daughier. who reside near Lapeer county
seat- Fhe daughier was the wile of Dr. Car
penter. of Almont, w ho w ill soon visit London
on the business. — Detroit Tree Press
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1847.
CAuqusta, Oco.:
FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 20, 1847.
“ And yet he may be a high toned ultra tariff man—
as much so as Abbot Lawrence himself, or Henry
Clay, or John McPherson Berrien.”
The above extract we have taken from a re
cent editorial of the Constitutionalist. The in
timation is put forth therein, as if it were strict
ly correct, and as if Democracy was a perfect
stranger to any support of a tariff! Upon this
question our opponents continue to claim,
comparatively speaking, a vestal purity for
their party and party leaders They urge it
day after day, week after week, with increased
earnestness and unfaltering pertinacity. The
greater portion of our readers, we know, are
acquainted with Whig views upon this sub
ject, and are fully aware of the spurious pre
tensions of the Democrats. But they will ex
cuse us for considerable repetition during a
warm canvass, as we wish our paper to con
stantly contain the facts that will enable our
friends conveniently to produce the testimony
to convict their political antagonists of profes
sions iinsustained by practice, and pretensions
not warranted by truth.
We have before us the views of Mr. Clay
and Mr. Berrien in reference to the subject
alluded to in the above extract.
Ist. As to Mr. Clay’s, we give bis own lan
guage :
“ Stability, with moderate and certain protection,
is far more important than instability, the necessary
consequence of high photection.”
We now submit Mr. Berrien’s language on
the same subject:
“ I believe that the revenues of the Government
should be raised by duties on importsand not by di
rect taxation. ♦ * ♦ Within the limits of re
venue, however, I have heretofore avowed myself to
be, as 1 now am, an advocate fi»r the protection of our
domestic industry, by a wise discrimination in favor
of those articles, which, sustained by this protection,
can be produced at home. * * ♦ What I have
advocated, and still advocate, is a tariff for revenue
and discrimination ibr protection.”
W’e have very recently given our readers
some of General Jackson’s views upon this
subject. All that we will say now in reference
to him, is. that be advocated a tariff for protec
tion, both upon the grounds of its constitution
ality and erpcdiency.
Now for a word or two from Mr. Polk, who,
the Constitutionalist thinks, has “done the
State some service.” In his letter to John K.
Kane, of Philadelphia, written while a candi
date lor tlie Presidency in lc*44, he said:
He “sanctioned such moderatecZweri/nina/inif du
ties as would produce the amount of revenue needed,
and at the same time atlord reasonable incidental
protection to our home industry."
.Again, in the same letter, he said :
“In my judgment, it is the duty of the Govern
ment to extend, as far as it may be practicable to do
so, by its revenue laws, and all other means within
its power, lair and just protection to all the great in
terests of the whole Union, embracing agriculture,
manufactures, the mechanic arts, commerce and navi
gation.”
Heavens alive? How liberal.’ He was for
extending out his arms and embracing every
thing. What a kind friend to protecting every
home interest just before the election ! It
was no wonder, that upon this letter, the Dem
ocrats of Pennsylvania based their hopes of
his supporting the then existing tariff. Hence,
upon all their banners were placed in large and
glaring letters, “Polk, Dallas and the ta
riff of 1842.” What fraud and political
swindling! Have the Democratic papers of
Georgia ever abused General Jackson for his
real support of a taritf, and Mr. Polk for his
disgraceful dissimulation! Would that the
Democrats could know these facts? They are
carefully kept out of the Democratic papers.—
The W’higs ought to show them to their friends
of opposite political opinions. They will,
I'lej' UIUM vQYvt
i>iin<h. The sentiments of dvermon, which
they feel for supposed Whig heresies, will van
ish and leave them, when they find that they are
only the sickly pretexts and subterfuges of par
ty desperation, striving to maintain an ascen
dency, which it obtained in 1844. by means of
fraud and misrepresentation.
We do not believe that any party can reign
in the hearts of the people when it* triumphs
are thus obtained. .All the kite elections which
have taken place throughout the Union prove
it, and show that ruin will come sooner or later
upon any party which leaves the loftiness of
principles and honor, to tight in the ambushes
of dissimulation and fraud.
We would observe, in conclusion, that the
sentiments of the distinguished gentleman,
whose name is mentioned in connection with
those of Messrs. Clay and Berrien, are those
of moderation in reference to a tariff. We
cannot, at this moment, place our hand upon
papers of his which would prove this, or we
could present the testimony, as we have in the
cases of the other two, to show that they are
not for high-toned ultra tariffs, a* die Constitu
tionalist has declared.
New Cotton. —A bale of new cotton was
received in Macon, on the 16th inst., from the
plantation of Isa ac West, of Houston county,
which was sold at 14 cents.
The same bal j was received in Savannah on
the 17lh inst. So says the Republican.
Mfrder of Alexander George.—The fol
lowing notice in the Picayune, of the 12th in*t.,
leaves no doubt that Mr. George is the same
who formerly resided in this city:
Mr Alexander George, living near Fort
Pike, on Grande Coquille Island, Louisiana,
was murdered by one of bis own negro
men on Monday morning, the 9th instant.
Our informant says that Mr. George was
occupying a temporarv building on a new
place, upon which he was having a house built,
and slept with his doors open. The negro made
the attack upon bun while asleep between 3
and 4 o’clock in the morning, with a knite,
which appeared to have made from the
end of a scythe blade. He inflicted several
terrible wounds in and about the chest, which
caused the death of Mr G. in less than an hour
The negro made his escape, but it is believed
that he by some mean* received several severe
wounds, as his course wan traced by blood for
i some distance.
Faiilke OF Negotiations.—The Washing
ton correspondent of the N Journal of
Commerce. writing under date oi the 12th
inst-. says:
I write for the purpose of stating that a letter
has been received here by the British Legation
from Mr. Bankhead, the British Munster m
Mexico, of recent date, and by the last British
courier, that contains highly important infor
mation as to our relations with Mexico.
Mj informant says that the facts and opinions
given tn Mr. Bankhead show conclusively that
we shall have no treaty of peace, through any
regulation with the present Government of
M exico.
Mr. Bankhead says that, in compliance with
the instructions of his government, he has em
ployed every effort to promote a peace be
tween the U. S and Mexico, but that all at
tempts for this purpose had failed and were
abandoned. He adds that the dissensions
among the Mexican leaders and rulers render
it impossible to effect any pacific arrangement
I never believed—nor did anx man of saga
city ever credit—the statements sent from this
city that a treaty was in progress and would
soon be ratified, and all that. The members of
: the Cabinet. I am sure, never authorized any
such statements. But. still, it is well to have
• from the British minister this authentic slate
‘ inent of the utter failure of his mediation, and
of our peace proposition.
New Cotton. A bale of new cotton from
I the plantation of Col. Isaac W. Hayne. was
i sold in Montgomery Ala . on the 14th inst. at
I l| cents.
[communicated ]
X Successful Administration -A Popular
President.
If the administration of a popular President
succeeds, in a single Congress, inchanging their
majority of seventy, into a majority against
'.hem. 1 would beg Mr Ritchie to ted us wh it
an mmsbcczcss/iU administration, and an unpopu
lar President would do I Quip
Krom the. N. O. Picayun.
LATER FROM VERi*
TAMPICO.
The steamship New Orleans. Capt. Auld,
arrived yesterday afternoon. ha v ingsailed from
Vera Cruz evening ofthe 7th inst., and from
Tampico the evening of the 10th. Capt. Auld
reports the steamship Mary Kingsland having
left Tampico via the Brazos, for this pon on
the 6th inst.
The steamship Galveston left Tampico 9th
inst., for V era Cruz.
Steamship Funny arrived at Tampico on the
7th, and was to have left for Vera Cruz on 1 Olli
inst.
Dr. Hawkins, of Baltimore, died of yellow
fever at Tampico on the 7th inst.
The New Orleans brings mails from Vera
Cruz and Tampico. We regret to learn that
the Tampico mail was stolen at an early hour
yesUa day morning and rifled of a portion of its
contents. Some of the letters were subse
quently recovered, though the rogue supposed
he had disposed of them by casing them into a
water closet. In the mail was a letter addressed
to Win. Swift, Esq. from the contents of which
it would appear that three U. S. treasury notes,
numbered32l,322 and, 323, for§sooeach, have
been abstracted. They were dated Oct. 31,
1846. It is supposed that other Valuable letters
have been stolen.
Capt. While’s company of the 3d Louisiana
battalion received orders at Cruz to em
bark on board the New Orlteans and proceed
to Tampico. They did so and reached
their destination on ike 46^* nst. The Tampi-
Sentinel says they mustered one hundred
men rank and file.
Capt. Fairchild’s company paraded in Vera
Cruz on the 6th inst., fully armed and equip
ped. They made a fine appearance. Tne
following morning they started out on a scout.
Lieut. Waters, with a detachment of Capt.
Besancon’s company , returned from a scout on
the 6lh inst. About 15 miles from the city
while riding along the banks of the Medellin
river, they were tired into by some Mexicans
concealed in the bushes on the opposite side of
ihe river, but no harm was done. The Sun
says that one of the party Mr. Wilkinson, being
in advance, entered a house which had from ail
appearance, been abandoned with precipitation,
and found in it some papers, among winch was
the following:
“2d Company of the East.
“ The chiefs of guerrillas will please let the bearer,
Crespin Marin, pai-s unmolested, with ten mules, as
he goes to Vera Cruz to get provisions for the guer
rillas.
“God and liberty! Estero, Augusl 5, 1847.
“Juan Aburto.
“ To 1 he Commanders of guerrillas.”
A train left the evening of the 6th inst. for
the army above under tne command of Col. Wil
son, of the 12lh Infantry. The train was es
corted by about 10U0 men. The following
officers are enumerated by the Sun as com
manding them : Capts. Clarke, Morris, Alvord,
Hoke, Hornsby and Winans, of the infantry ;
and Li .uts. Jones, Cantwell, Waddell, Whee
den, Wilkins, Doyle, Sears and Creanor, of
the artillery. Some accounts set down the
number of troops in this train at from 1300 to
2000 ; our own correspondent says one thou
sand. Verbal reports say that Col. Wilson
was taken suddenly ill and could not proceed,
and that the command devolved upon another
otiicer whose name is not recollected. Our
letters say nothing of this.
The Sun relates that on the 3d inst., a man
named Thomas Clark, belonging to the Ist
infantry, a prisoner in the guard-house ofthe
palace, tried to pass the soldier then on guard,
and to accomplish his purpose seized one end
of the soldier’s musket and made some efforts
to lake it out of his hands. The latter fired at
Clark, the ball passing in through his side and
coming out at the back. The ball afterwards
wounded another man named George Evans,
one of the company of mounted men under
Capt. Besancon, and finally grazed the hip of
the sentry al the other end ofthe porlallis, also
belonging to the Ist infantry.
The name of the man who fired is James
Robinson. Our correspondent writes that his
conduct was fully justified.
The wounded men were immediately sent
to the hospital, and it i* said Clark and Evans ’
are dangerously wounded.
On the 4th mst., two cut-throats, by some i
supposed tu be guerrillas, attacked a serge tilt
of me I Ith inlaniry, while on his way from the
city to the camp, at Vergara. Both Mexicans
were well aimed, while the aergemit hud only
his hword. lie used it to good purpose, dri
•Hig l,ul
slight wounds niilisen. A ne»;tchiuent of the
Georgia cavalry was sent under Capt. Loyeil,
to endeavor to overhaul the two Mexicans, but
the pursuit was vain.
Nothing later has been received by this arri
val from tne army at Puebla. Various rumors
had reached Vera Cruz, purporting to be from
.Mexico. One of these is to the effect that com
missioners had actually been appointed by ban
tu Anna to meet Mr. Tnst. Our correspon
dent al Vera Cruz, writing on the 7lh inst., at
taches importance to this rumor. We may re
cur to it.
On the 3d inst. a mail arrived in Vera Cruz
from Jalapa. The Bub tin de las wns
received by it as late as the 30th of July. This
is a little paper thoroughly Mexican, published
in Jalapa. From it we learn more particulars
of Gen. Pierce’s march through that town than
had before been received. The Buletin says
that the tram which the general escorted passed
by without halting, but he with 300 dragoons
entered die city and addressed the following
note to the corporation —(we give the Sun’s
translation:)
Jalapa, July 26, 1347.
To the Corporation of Jalapa:— A brigade of the
American army, now encamped near Jalapa, are in
want of provisions. I there lore ask this corporation
of Jalapa to furnish, at a n asonable price, all this bri
gade is m need of. I will take the uecessay steps
to protect those who will furnish those provisions. It,
at two o’clock this evening, precisely, the provisions
demanded are not forwarded, all ihe members of the
corporation will be sent to Perote as prisoners.
F. Pierue.
W. K. Van Boniin, Brigade Q. XI.
The reply ofthe corporation is given on the
Spanish side ofthe Sun. The members are
very indignant at what th y consider the harsh
language of the general. They make no diffi
culty about the provisions; these could have
been had at reasonable rates without any
threat. They deplore their unfortunate posi
tion, being defenceless. This they say should
have protected them from insult. Gen. Pierce
is the first American officer, they say, who has
thus had occasion to find fault with them. The
reply i* pretty -sharp” upon the general, but
it is hardly worth while translating.
We give from the Sun of Anahuac the fol
lowing summary of news made from the Bule
tin :
“The same pap r says that a Mexican, (“traitor,”
it says.) was encountered by a party of guerrillas, and
being suspicious, he was required to undergo an ex
amination ; but having offered resistance, he was
killed. Three large p-vkages, containing letters from
the officers ofthe army, to their friends in the United I
•States, v.crc found in his possession,
‘•The Boletin adds: ‘ln said correspondence it is !
stated that great discord exists between the volunteers !
and regulars ot the American army, and that this may
, cause them to fight among themselves.’
••That pap r is delighted at this, and takes that op
portunity to call the Americans “highway robbers,”
“X ankers.” It also says that it appears from in
tercepted letters, tiiat Gen. Pillow ether Ameri
can chiefs are of opinion that the attack upon the cap
ital will not be successful—that the commanding offi
cers consider the capital to be in a very strong state of
, defence, as much fur its L»rtihcati«»n.s asfor the nnmber
of men wh • will be brought int ♦ action—and finally
that the guerrillas had •■mpleu ly interrupted the cor
respondence between Puebla and X era Cruz.
“The letters after having been read were sent to the
government at Mexico.
••Four American deserters arrived at Jalapa, on the
30th uh., three «»f whom were inxnPuet>la and one j
from Gen. Pierce's train. They were to leave Jalapa I
tor Cuatepe'. The Bidetin says that I hose from Pu- !
ebla report ’.hat the desertion was very great from the ■
runkj of the American army, and that seventy-three
deserters were advertised in one day, at Puebla. —
I . m Gen Pierce’s train, i* said to report
that waggons full of sick follow him. We don't be
lt’ ve one word ««f this.”
Tilt* B.detin further says that the induce
ments held out to Americans to desert are not
enough : that if the government would promise
them money or any other rewards. Scott’s armv
would be destroyed. It counsels the Gover
nor? of States to take measures to foment and
encourage desertion.
The same paper says assassinations are fre
quent in Jalapa, as well of Americans as Mexi
cans. A small garrison is required there fur
the protection of the inhabitants.
The Boldin of the 3Uth ult., says its paper of
the 27 th was so far from giving offence to the
Americans that it was bought by many officers
and soldiers. The B■ detin expresses its sur
prise that the Americans had not rebuked its
freedom w ith them, as anta Anna would have
done w ith the press of the capital.
Another courier from Jalapa arrived at Vera
Cruz on the 7th inst.. and by this we have re
ceived the Bold tn of the Ist and :>d of August.
The letters received by this mail gives no later
news from Mexico or Puebla, but some further
details.
We announced a week ago the death of a
messenger from Mr. Kendall, named Francisco
Espina. We now learn to our surprise that he
was not killed outright when taken. He was
tried and condemned to be shot. The sentence
was executed the morning of the 3d August.
We find in the Bole tin hide news worth
copying, but some long articles which we have
not room for to-day. even if they were worth
translating. We turn to other Mexican pa
pers in which we perceive a series of decrees
' of Santa Anna promulgated through Gen. Lotn
bardini. They refer to the organization of
troops forced loans, &c.. and are not general
ly interesting. A decree of the 12th July orders
a strict compliance with a previous one direct
ing the Americans to leave the city. It com
• mands them to leave within forty-eight hours
for San Juan del Rio, a town in the State of
Queretaro, forty-three leagues from Mexico.—
Those thus ordered from the capital include not
only Americans by birth, but naturalized citi
zens of the United Slates and all who under
any pretext have previously obtained leave to
remain. They are commanded to confine
tbeniselyes to fean Juan strictly, and espe
cially not to move a step towards the capital.
A stringent decree was issued on the 13th of
July, the preamble of which assigns the “move
ment ofthe eneniv upon ihe capital” as an ex
cuse for its harshness. Every soldier found
outside ofthe line of sentinels of the city, no
matter under what pretext, unless he have a
written pass from a chief ofthe line, is declared
a deserter and is to be shot as such. Those
who may assist or encourage soldiers to desert
are also to be dealt with summarily. The last
clause of the decree, however, allows those
who may already have deserted to give them
selves up within four days, and so escape all
penalties.
Another decree, dated the Ist of July, pro
vides for the organization of two companies of
infantry to be formed out of the “ Foreign Le
gion,” which are to be known as the “First
and Second Companies of Active Infantry of
St. Patrick.” Each company is to consist of a
Captain, a Lieutenant, two Sub-Ueutenanls, a
first sergeant, four second sergeants, nine cor
porals, four cornets and eighty soldiers.
There are various other decrees in the pa
pers which, if not otherwise interesting, prove
how absolute is the authority of Santa Anna.
Under the powers conferred upon him to resist
the invasion he is in fact, though not in name, a
supreme Dictator.
We have received by this arrival a copy of
the Tampico Sentinel of the Blh inst. That
paper sums up the state of affairs in that city
thus:
“ XVe have not been attacked, we are not all pri
soners, nor is the yellow fever carry ; ng dealhand de
struction into the dwelling places of our inhabitants:
but ou the contrary, we are in the enjoyment of a rea
sonable share of that precious boon, health ; there be
ing no epidemic amongst us, and what few cases of
sickness really do exist, are of a mild character,
and readily give way to medical treatment. As to
<>ur being attacked, we hope we may be, but the pros
pect looks dull at the present writing.”
The Sentinel takes exceptions to the strictures
of the press upon the expedition to Huejutla.
We have neither time nor room to discuss the
subject to-day.
We have received no letters from Tampico
by this arrival. Can the following order of
Col. Gates have anything to do with this ! We
hope, at all events, that Mexican papers w ill be
allowed to come through. We underscore one
paragraph in the orders.
Orders, No. 67.
Headquarters, Department of Tampico, ?
August 7, 1847. 5
1. The following extract from the “ Army Regula
tions” is published for the information of all concern
ed :
“Private letters or reports relative to military
marches and operations are frequently mischievous in
design and always disgraceful to the army. They
are therefore strictly forbidden ; and any officer found
guilty of making such report ibr publication without
special permission, or of placing the writing beyond
his control, so that it finds its way to the press within
one month after the termination of the campaign to
which it relates, shall be dismissed from the service.”
2. Any citizen of Tampico found guilty of ma
king similar reports for publication, without trie
sanction of the commanding officer, will be dealt
with according to the nature of the case.
By order of Col. Gates :
XX’m. H. Gray, A. A. A. G.
Correspondence of the Commercial 'Times.
Vera Cruz, August 7, 1847.
Gentlemen — The New Orleans arrived from Tam
pico this morning with about sixty troops from that city,
in exchange for the company she carried up. A gar
rison of some six hundred remains then-, which is
supposed to be an ample force for the protection of the
place. I have seen some gentlemen who came down
in the New Orleans, and who describe things in Tam
pico in most disagreeable colors, and they generally
agree in attributing the bad state ot affairs there to the
bad management of the authorities.
A train consisting of some two hundred wagonsand
four hundred mules, left tins morning tor the interior,
with an escort of about twelve hundred men, under
the command of Col. Wilson, ot die lllh luiantry.
• ther/X ■«•••“'*•' *” y will 1...v0
. fighting to do to their full content before they reach
Puebla.
A party of our Cavalry, which ha.; scoured the
neighboring country for flic past two or three days,
report all the hamlets which came in their way to be
deserted, ami it is said that the rancheros have turned
out, to a man, to swell the ranks of ther guerrillas.
Their first stand, as usual, is expected to be made al
the National Bridge.
A large number of mules tame in this morning
from Cordova, loaded with sugar, having passed ihe
Guerrillas without being molested. Several came in
yesterday with cargoes of the liquor of the country,
for which they paid a toll to a Guerrilla Ctref of four
dollars per package. XX’hether this trade will contin
ue it is impossible to say, or whether the carriers will
be permitted to carry out merchandize in • xchange
for that brought in. 1 fancy’ they will be so permitted,
and that much ammunition will find its way to the
enemy by such a channel. Indeed much of that arti
cle passes out of our gates, as it is.
The vomito in this city, seems to lune taken a lull,
very few cases having occurred for the past seven
days. During the fifteen days previous to the Ist. inst.
eighty-one Americans died, about half with ihe vom
ito. I think the first half of this month will give a
smaller number, but the first rain will probably make
up the amount to an average.
The schooner Frederick, Captain Thompson, about
which some anxiety has been felt, arrived yesterday
all safe ami sound. X’ery respectfully yours,
Vera Cruz, August 7, 1847.
Gentlemen — Since my last letter to you nothing of
importance has occurred. The train left yesterday
under the command of Major Lally—Colonel Louis
D. XX’ilson being taken si k with the fever on ihe eve
ning of the sth, and is now on board of the Transport
ship American, and attended to by Dr. McFarland.
He will be brought on shore to-day to the house of a
citizen.
An officer has just come in from the train, and re
ports the greater part of the wagons broke down, the
end of the train only' one mile from the camp.
Yours, &c., Tar-Bucket.
Democratic Hand-Bill —Gen. Clinch*
The following notice of a forthcoming
•• Hand-bill" we find in the Savannah Republi
can of Thursday morning. Such efforts to de
tract from the fair fame of Gen. Clinch will
recoil upon the parly that makes them. The
intelligent people of the country cannot be gam
moned by such a contemptible resort. Will
the Republican procure a copy for publication ?
It would be well to aid in its circulation :
'Wit Bank of St. Marys. — The people of this
District remember a famous hand-bill got up in this
place headed '• Thos. Butler King and the Bank of
Brunswick.” One of similar character, wc learn,
has been prepared for circulation, with a change of
names—“ Gen. Clinch an 1 the Bunk ot >t. Mary- ’
l»eing substituted. The attempt to defame Mr. King
met with a signal rebuke from the people. He was
elected by a largely increased majority—and carried
uld Chatham, the residence of his opponent, by 211
majority. The same fate awaits the projectors of this
new attack upon Gen. Clinch. We take this oppor
tunity to caution the people against the frauds that
will be attempted by the enemies of Gen. Clinch,
when it is too late to meet them.
No party men are usually found in one
or two classes—those who are destitute of pub
lic spirit, and those who have been personally
disappointed in some dealing with one or more
parties. The first class are either engaged in
pursuits which they think of more consequence
than good government, or they have that sort
of indolent faith which assumes that ail will go
on well because there is no pressing evil hat
now crosses their individual paths. Hence,
while they are enjoyinzthe good government
which political watchfulness secures, they de
spise the very agency by which they are ena
bled to indulge their contempt peacefully. —
The second class is a numerous one. 'The loss
of an office the success of a rival, the failure of
a favorite scheme, wonderfully open their eyes
to a sense of the hollowness oi* party. Hence
forth they are pure patriots, privileged to rail
upon the rest of the w orld, and pronounce all
men either deceivers or deceived. In short,
no-party ism is always the growth of a mistaken
estimate of tilings, or of lazy selfishness or dis
appointed expectations. A reasonable.
sible, unselfish, modest man seldom falls into
it. He may be more or less active on political
subjects, but he will have some opinion on
them, and act at proper seasons with firmness.
—Connecticut Courant.
From Puebla.— Gen. Scott and yir. Trist. — A
letter has been received in Washington. says
the Union of Monday night, from an officer ot
the armv. as late a* 23th and 30th oi July. It
I states that Gen. Scott would move upon the
capital as soon as Gen. Pierce arrived with hi
reinforcement —about the 2d or 3d of August.
Mr. Trist had been quite ill but was then con
valescent. We are happy to hear that Gen-
Scotx had waited upon him during his indispo.
sition. to confer with him about the public con
cerns. — Balt. Sun.
A ladv recently died m this county, in the
42nd vear ofher age. who was the mother oi
twenty-four children- Rather a hard story, but
Iwe have the must respectable witnesses, now
in court. — Mountain Eagle.
CAugustci, (5n.:
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 21, 1847.
State Policy—State Finances—And the
issues they involve.
Under the above heading, the Constitution
alist of Wednesday last undertook to prove,
that “the restoration of State credit” is “attri
butable chiefly to the Democratic party ” He
asserts that Whig legislation and Governor
Crawford, had nothing to do in restoring
State credit —that Central Bank Bills an tate
Bonds had nearly reached par value, when Go
vernor Crawford was inducted into office in
1843; that this was the result of the Democrat
ic legislation of 1839, 1841 and 1842; that the
Whig legislature of 1838 extended the charter
of the Bank for twelve years; that in conse
quence of Whig legislation the Slate was un
der protest in 1838, for the $300,000 due the
Phoenix Bank of New York city, that the Cen
tral Bank was the work of the Troup party, &c.
Byway of reply to the positions of the Con
stiiutionalist, we propose to offer a condensed
statement of some of the most important facts
in reference to this Bank and its management
to vindicate Whig policy and measures. We
invite attention to the truths which we shall
present from our Democratic friends particu
larly, for our object is to elicit nothing but
truth, and that for the common good of the peo
ple of Georgia. All are interested in the pros
perity of the State—Democrats and Whigs—
and we cannot believe that either will rush
wilfully and knowingly into the meshes of wily
deceivers, and the vortices of financial mis
management, and its consequent general em
barrassments.
We propose to give rather a general exposi
tion of this important matter, than a particular
reply to all the positions assumed by the Con
stitutionalist. They will be answered and ex
posed by this statement. While we prefer
adopting this method now, we do not intend it
to supercede a more minute and special allu
sion hereafter, to a few of the most prominent
points of the article of that paper, to which we
refer. As the odium of establishing the Cen
tral Bank is cast upon the Troup party, we
shall in the first place devote a few remarks to
he origin of the Central Bank.
It is not at all surprising to ns, that, in view
of the mismanagement of the Bank, and the
losses inflicted by it upon the people, the Con
stitutionalist should desire to shift the responsi
bility which falls so heavily upon the shoulders
of the Democrats to those of the Whigs. It is
true it was chartered in 1828, when the Troup
party had a majority in the legislature: but it
is also true, that the charter of the Bank was
sustained by a greater number of the Clark
than the Troup members of that body. It was
opposed by such Troup men of that legisla
ture as Wm. Dougherty, Dye, Nesbitt, Cur
ry, Branham, Clower. Harris and Peter
Crawford, (the father of the present Govern
or.) and, supported by such men of the Dem
ocratic party, as R. M. Echols, Park, War
ner, Sturgis, Wofford, Tennille, Swain,
Williams and Powell. The vote in the Sen
ate was for the Bank. 15 Troup men, and 24
Clark men; against it 23 Troup men, and 9
Clark men. Os the 38 Troup men who voted
on the bill, a majority of 8 were against it; of
the 33 Clark men who voted, a majority of 15
were for it. If a majority of party votes is a
correct test of a party measure, it would thus
be established, that the Creation of the Central
Bank was the work of the Clark, now Demo
cratic, and not the Troup, now Whig party.
But that test would be fallacious. In all cases
where respectable portions (we mean as to num
bersjjaf two opposing parties unite in support
of a measure, as was the case in the origin of
the Central Bank—in all such cases, we say, the
distinctive characteristics of party action are
lost, and the responsibility of the measure thus
established, rest upon those individuals, as such,
by whose votes it was sustained.
The creation of the Central Bank was not,
therefore, the work of either party, as such. It
was not, in the language of the Constitutionalist,
“the especial protege ofthe Troup party;”
but whether it was or not, whether the offspring
of one, or the other, it may have been a good
institution in itself, as originally chartered.
No one will pretend to say, that during an ad
herence to its wise and cautious provisions, it
either injured the currency or credit of the
State. It was impossible that it could have
done so under the original charter, which de
clared that “the directors shall not at any time
put in circulation the bills thereof, to a greater
amount than the aggregate of specie and bills
of the other chartered Banks of this State, and
the bills of the United States Bank in its vaults .”
While this provision was complied with, no
danger or evil occurred, nor could it have pos
sibly originated to the Bank itself, the State or
the people, for every dollar of its bills in circu
lation could at any moment have been redeem
ed by the specie, or its equivalent, lying ready
for the purpose, in the vaults of the Bank. So
much for the origin of the Bank.
Truth boldly Spoken*
The follow ing extract from an article in a late
number of Brownson’s “ Quarterly Review. ”
formerly editor of the ''Democratic Review" the
great acknowledged organ of the Democratic
party, should be read by every .American citizen,
for its manly and bold proclamation of truth.
The writer is a bold, able man, one who
looks at things as a patriot should do, and who
has the manliness to proclaim his convictions
regardless of the shackles of party. Read it,
we repeat, let every man read it, and ponder
upon its truths—they are the same the Whigs
have proclaimed since the first outrage com
mitted by Mr. Polk and this administration,
upon the constitution and institutions of the
country :
“The course the President should have pursued is
plain and obvious. On learning the state of things on
the frontier, the critical condition of our army of occu
pation, he should have demanded of Congress the re
inforcements and supplies necessary to relieve it, and
secure the purpose for which it was avowedly sent to
the Rio Grande ; and if he believed it proper or neces
sary. to have in addition laid before Congress, a full
and truthful statement of our relations with Mexico,
including all the unadjusted complaints, past and pre
sent, we hid against her. accompanied by the recom
mendation of a declaration of war. He would then
have kept within the limits of his duty, proved him
self a plain, constitutional President, and left the re
sponsibility of war <>r no war to Congress, the only war
making power known to our laws. Congress after
mature deliberation might or might not, have declared
war—most likely would not, but whether so or not, the
responsibility would have rested with it, and noblame
would have been attached to the President.
“Unhappily, this course did not occur to the Presi
dent, or was too plain and simple to meet his appro
bation. By declaring that the war already existed,
and l»v the actol Mexico herself, the President relieved
Congress of the responsibility of the war, by throwing
it all on Mexico. But since he cannot fasten it on Mex
ico —for war did not already exist, or if so, by our act,
and not hers —it necessarily recoils upon himself, and
he must bear the responsibility of doing what the
Constitution forbids him to do—of making war with
out the intervention nf Congress. In effect therefore,
he has trampled the Constitution under his feet, set a
dangerous precedeu’. and, by the official publication
of a palpable falseh'iod. sullied the national honor. It
is with no pleasure th.t we speak thus of the Chief
Magistrate of the Union, for whose elevation to his
; high and responsible office we ourselves voted. But
whatever mav be our attachment to party, or the re
spect we hold to be due from all good citizens to the
‘ civil magistrate, we cannot see the Cunstituti’W vio
! lated, and the national honor sacrificed, whether by
< friend or foe. from zo'xl motives or bad. without en
t (erinz. feeble though it be, our stern and indignant
’ protest.”
Honors to Mr. Clay.—A meeting wascall-
I ed at Trenton on Tuesday, for the purpose of
; appointing a committee to proceed to Cape
J May. and invite Mr. Clay to visit that citv.
Health of New Orleans.—The official list
ol Interments in the City of New Orleans from
9, A M., of Saturday, the 14th August, to
Monday, the 16th, (two days,) at the same
hour, was 103. of which 66 were of Yellow Fe-
VOL. LXI.—NEW SERIES, VOL. XI., NO. 34.
Tor the Chronicle Sentinel.
Lines to My Early Home.
By thy banks, lovely Buffalo, a wanderer roved,
And gazed on thy waters as they glided along,
’Till saddened with scenes his young heart had loved,
His soul, moved by sorrow, was melted to song.
He sung of his childhood, when his spirit was free,
And his sunny heart glowing, was bright as thy
waves;
Os the home of his youth, of the old oaken tree,
That crown’d the red hill, whose base thy foam
laves.
Changed was the scene ! —no glad home did he see,
For razed to the earth was the cottage he knew,
Leafless and branchless stood the patriarch tree,
A hoary old sentry, to point out the view.
He turned him away—his heart it was full,
For the ground that he trod was the place of his
birth ;
No kind mother was there, his pained bosom to lull,
As he stood by the stone that marked the old hearth.
In his youth, did he roam by thy bramble-clad shore,
His earliest sports thou did’st enliven, beauteous
stream;
But the pastimes of childhood can gladden no more,
And faded and gone is his youth’s fondest dream.
In the sunniest hour that life ever brings
When the spirit takes flight on hope’s golden wings,
He had dreamt of renown, of a glory that flings
Its halo o’er life’s path, and lures from fortune its
slings.
Thy shores, lovely streamlet, are beautiful still,
Though thy sands, ever shifting, have altered thy
course,
Yet free from restraint, thy bright mission to fill,
Thy glad waters run gaily, e’en on from their source.
You murmur soft music as you flow swiftly on;
There are strains that I catch that belong but to thee.
Thou art the loveliest of streams I’ve e’er looked upon,
Thy waters the brightest that e’er gemm’d the sea.
Few joys are left ’midst the wreck of his hopes,
Thy pilgrim despondent seeks his once happy home,
To mourn o’er its ruins, view thy neighboring slojx»s,
Mark thy silvery waters, as sparkling they come.
A blessing for friends, that dwell by thy side,
A blessing for kindred, who linger here yet,
And a wish that thy waters may ceaselessly glide,
Is a prayer that his heart shall never forget.
J. H.
From the N. O. Picayune.
Very Late from Oregon and California.
Messrs. Shaw and Bolder arrived at Si.
Louis on the 4th inst , direct from Oregon.—
They left the frontier settlements of that coun
try on the sth of May, and made the trip in
eighty-three days. They left with a party of
nineteen persons, and had some difficulty with
the Pawnee Indians on the route, but succeed
ed, by giving them small presents, in passing
without injury. We copy the news, which
is interesting, from the fcst. Louis Re publi
can :
These gentlemen inform us, that the emi
grants to California and Oregon were innking
v ry handsome progress, being some twenty
five days ahead of the time usually occupied by
emigrants. One company, Davidson’s, was
met at Big Sandy, and two at Green river.
Two Mormons, with six hundred and seventy
six wagons were met at the Forks of the Platte,
on their route to California. The Twelve
Apostles, as they are called, were at Fort Bridg
er, and it was understood that the Mormons
would not proceed, this season, further than
the neighborhood ofthe Salt Lake. All the
emigrants, as we have said, were getting along
very well.
At Fort Hall, these gentlemen met with Mr.
Samuel Brannan, and four others, who ihad
arrived there for the purpose of piloting «the
emigrants on the route to California. From
Mr. Brannan, who is described as the edito.” ol
the “California Star” they obtained information
up to the 25th of May—the most important of
which is, that Col. Fremont had been placed
und.-r arrest by Gen. Kearney, for disobedieirce
of orders, and ordered to the United States f'»r
trial. He either had left, or would leave im
mediately for the States. Com. Stockton was
also on his way home. The American fleet was
engaged in operations against Mazatlan, Aca
pulco and other towns in Lower California,
mid the troops l»>nl been mdeied iu the same
direction. Gen. Kearney, it was understood,
would leave for California in time to reach home
in September. Things were not in a very
quiet and settled condition.
These gentlemen add. if possible, to the hor
ror ofthe accounts heretofore received in rela
tion to the sufferings ofthe emigrating parties
which failed to reach California last winter.—
Seventy-three of them perished in the snow,
and from famine, and the living survived only
by feasting on their dead companions. Among
the number of this unfortunate party was a
miscreant, by the name of Keysberg, who left
the Slates in Col. Russell’s company. He had
a wife with him, and contrived at the extremity
of their sufferings, to send her tothe California
settlements, when relieved by persons who
went out to aid them. This villain remained
behind to rob the dead and living of their pro
perty. A family ofthe name of Conner, of
Springfield. 111., was robbed by him of about
$4,000 which he cached along with other spoils.
He was suspected, threatened and finally pre
parations were made to hang him up, and then
lie disclosed the places where the money was
to be found. To add to the enormity ofhis of
fences, be is said to have boasted of having
lived, for a time, upon the dead body of Mrs.
George Donner, even when provisions were
within his reach. Other enormities are toid ol
this devil incarnate, but he survived them all
and was employed in the army at the last ac
counts. The whole ofthe family of Reeds,
connections ofthe Donners, had reached Sut
ter's settlement in safe, after enduring almost
incredible sufferings.
It was the expectation of these gentlemen to
be accompanied from Oregon by Com. Drake,
ofthe British ship Modeste, Mr. John J. Camp
bell,and perhaps others. But as they failed to
meet them at the time appointed, at Fort Hall,
this party travelled slowly, in the hope of being
overtaken by them. This they did not do; and
they are probably some fifteeen days behind.—
As the party is small, the Pawnees may, it is
feared, deal roughly with them, should they be
met by them.
Regarding the affairs of Oregon, we have
been able to obtain no news which would inter
est this section of country.
From the St. Louis Union we learn that an
election for Governor was to have been held in
a few days after the party left. The present
GovernorandaMr. Lovejoy,formerly of.Maine,
were the most prominent candidates.
Whilst encamped at night in Rogue Valley,
the party was attacked by a small band of
Chertic Indians, who shot three horses, but did
no further mischief. They met on the 6th of
July, about 1,000 Sioux warriors on their way
to attack the Pawnees. The Sioux were very
friendly. Onthe2oth, they met about 2,000
Pawnees going op the Platte, prepared to fight
the Sioux, and to go on a hunt.
The Oregonians are determined to have a
steam tow-boat, so that vessels may be brought
up the Columbia river with safety. The cur
rents are strong, and sail vessels cannot depend
on the winds, to stem the currents. The~ ap
propriations made for the year was SSOOO,
which will increase the territorial debt to $lO,-
000. The following territorial officers were
elected by the Legislatures: Frederick Prigg.
Secretary of the Territory: Alonzo Skinner,
Circuit Judge : H. M. Knighton. Marshal;
John IL Couch, Treasurer ; George W. Bell,
Auditor.
A memorial to Congress states that Oregon
can already furnish at short notice, five thou
sand barrels of flour for the use of our Pacific
squadron, three thousand barrels of beet
and two thousand barrels of pork. Lumber,
tar. pitch, flax and hemp can be herealter sup
plied. if a demand should be created for them.
It asks for confirmation of locutions already
made, for grants of lands for educational pur
poses. and fora steam tow-boat on the Colum
bia : and recommends a railroad to the States.
The wind blows down the river five months of
the year, and vessels are said to be two months
in sailing up 100 miles, whilst the difficulty
could be easily overcome by steam, and a large
trade opened with the Pacific.
The Oregon treaty by which the boundary
was settled with Great Britain, seems not to be
very popular with the American emigrants.
Expenses of the Government. —Arc the
Government aware at what enormous expense
this war is conducted, ind what a bright pros
pect exists of anice little National Debt to be
paid off when we shall have gotten out of it f
I'he official quarterly return of the Secretary,
for the quarter ending on the iknh June, es
timates the war expenses alone at $16,572,594,
and the whole expenses of the Government at
$22,474,505. There are more troops employ
ed now than there were then, and consequent
ly the expenses for the next quarter will be
greater : but allowing them to remain in statu
juo, at the end of the year the Government
will have spent $90,000,000 .’ Pretty well lor
in economical Government' The receipt
irom customs, and other sources, or t le same
time, were scarcely eight that? ,!!*
the year, if there is no falling off. they will
reach thirty-two millions. Take 32 from 90.
and $68,000,000 are left of debt with which the
country will be saddled at the end of that time.
—Rich. Whig.
N. O. Times of Ylth inst.
From Texas.
By the arrival here, yesterday, of the steam
ship Yacht, Capt. Crane, from Galveston, the
10th inst., we have received papers to the date
of her departure.
Lieutenant Governor.— Colonel Greer, of
San Augustine, has become a candidate for the
office of Lieutenant-Governor, at the ensuing
election.
The following items we take from the Civil
ian of the 4th and 6th instant:
The Worm— The accounts of the appearance
of the worms among the Colton is confirmed.
We have accounts from various sections, from
the Colorado to the Trinity, and but few are
wholly exempt, though, thus far, the damage is
slight. The most complaint appears to come
from Dr. Hoxie’s neighborhood in Washington
county on the Brazos. We have no accounts
of any injury in Brazoria county, and. so far
as we are informed, they are picking there, at
a rate equal to a hundred pounds to the hand,
per day.
Much depends upon the weather. Should
it continue dry, as at present, a large crop is
yet certain. Picking is in progress by this
time throughout the State, and much cotton
must be secured in any case.
Fatal Rencontre.—W e regret to learn that,
a few days since, a dispute, resulting in a scuf
fle, took place in Brazoria, between Mr. Reu
ben R. Brown and Mr. William Carson. The
parties .were separated without any apparent
injury to either; but Mr. Carson expired a
few minutes afterwards, as was found, from the
rupture of a blood vessel.
The health of Galvestop continues perfectly
good. It was never better than at present.
We understand that Gen. Lamar is a candi
date for the Legislature, in Nueces county.
The corn crop of Texas, the present year,
has turned out remarkably well. The grain is
now matured, and the specimens we have seen
are large, firm, and sound—more so than is
usual with the corn of this climate.
The Texas Regiment, under Colonel Hays,
is still divided between Austin and San An
tonio, awaiting orders from General Taylor.
It is now believed at Bexar and Austin, that
the four surveyors recently captured by the In
dians have been murdered. The Camanches,
who attribute their capture to another tribe,
have so reported.
The Cotton Crop—The Worms.
Long Creel,Tallahatchie co.. Miss.,
July 30. 5
Editors Delta :— One or two columns of your
weekly, devoted to correct information relative
to the growing crops of cotton and sugar, from
friends in different sections of the country, will
make the Delta all that a planter could wish a
journal to be. I shall therefore comply with
the request in your paper of the 12th inst., and
Iwpe that at least one friend in each Congres
sional district will contribute his quo'a of such
information as inuy be important and interest
ing to planters generally, in this region—say the
scope of country watered by the upper Yazoo.
Tallahatchie and Yaliobusha—it has rained
(with only one or two exceptions) every day for
four weeks. This has injured more or less all
the cotton crops, and very seriously those that
were planted on low, rich lands. The cotton
worm has commenced its rav ges, and its ap
pearance causes more consternation than would
that of Santa Anna and bis invincibles. 1 first
discovered them about a week since, and deter
mined to try (what some of my neighbors had
been engaged at for several days) having them
4iaken from the cotton and killed 1 found,,
however, upon making the experiment, that it
would be perfectly useless. Out of five hun
dred acres, I could not find one that was ex
empt, and generally in such numbers, that no
impression could be made upon them. It is a
subject of dispute as to whether or not it is the
same specie of worm that was so destructive
to the cotton last year. Its general appearance
is very similar —about the same cize and color
—has the same snake-like head, fierce counte
nance and lively actions (when touched) which
constituted so important a feature in the appear
ance of those of last season. On the other
hand, it has made its appearance in a very dif
ferent manner, being first found either on the
ground or grass, and seems, from what observa
tions I have made, to be hatched in the ground.
Wbea covered with earth, they immediately
emerge from it, as though it was their natural
('lenient. They seem to prefer gium to
anything else. When that is not to be had,
like the Irishmatf »»i a row, ll,e y are anything’s
customer. Upto .’hi* time, they have not in
jured any cotton sen.''°*ty« u "*l have scarcely
touched that, amongst w 'hick ’.here was a plen
tiful supply of grass. They vommeijced by eat
ing first the top and tender bn.‘k the cotion
Corn crops are unusually heller
(through the country generally) th. 1 cvel
have heretofore been. Respectfully, **• F
Negro Stealing,
We learn from a letter from Liberty county,
that a man has been arrested in the act of run
ning several negroes off to Florida. He has
been lodged in Jail. The writer who was the
owner of the negroes, says:
“ On my return home, on Tuesday night, I
found my negroes had left on Sunday night, the
18th ult., consequently they had three nights
the start. I was satisfied that they had been
stolen by a white man, who, i had every reason
to believe, had been lurking about the place.
A number of gentlemen of Montgomery ami
Tattnall turned out with me, and the next
morning we struck a trail leading into a large
island in Pendleton Creek on the line of Eman
uel. We traced it to their camp, but they had
left it the night before. We then trailed them
some ten or fifteen miles, and overtook the man
we suspected, and arrested and made him tell
where the negroes were.
“He had left the negroes four miles behind
in a thicket. We tied him, ami went within
about a hundred yards of the thicket, and three
gentlemen and myself laid down behind the
trees, directed the rogue to advance a few pa
ces ahead, but not out of gun shot, and give the
sign. He whistled three times in a pecnlar lone,
when the negroes answered, and in a few mo
ments all three of them came out with their
packs, two fellows with the gun and rifle they
carried oft", and walked up to within ten feet of
where we were lying. I sprang up and order
ed them to stand, the mulatto fellow and the
girl submitted, but the black fellow presented
his gun at me and attempted to shoot, when I
fired on him, but struck him with only one
shot, at the same moment Mr. William Mann,
of Tattnall county, snapped at him. He
wheeled and ran at the fire of my gun, when
Mi. Mann fired upon him and brought him
down.
“The plan, which the villain had adopted,
was to travel only at night, the negroes to re
man hid during the day ; he was to show him
self as seldem as possible. And had it notbeen
for the invaluable aid which i received from a
number of gentlemen in trailing them up. there
is no doubt but they would have escaped. I
(bund the services of .Mr. Maun peculiarly val
uable it. this respect. He could gallop on the
trail where my inexperienced eye would detect
nothing, even after slopping. And there were
other gentlemen as well skilled as he in the
matter. My thanks are due to the citizens of
Montgomery and Tattnall for the prompt man
ner in which they turned out to aid me.
“The rogue has induced the negroes to be
lieve that he would take them around to St.
Augustine in Florida, and get them on a vessel
and carry them to a free country. We over
took them in Montgomery county, going in the
direction of Florida, but not towards St. Au
gustine. ” — Savannah llcpublica n.
Favoritism. —The returns of the Treasury
Department, made on the 26th, exhibit some
singular facts, of which we beg leave to call at
tention to one.
The Sub-Treasury system was to go into op
eration on the first day of last April, and at that
time all monies were to be paid over to the
Treasury of the United Slates. The provi
sions of the Act are peremptory and admit of no
evasion. Yet, in spite of them the returns to
which we have alluded show that very largeba
lances remained in the hands of individuals./bur
months after the law required them to be. placed in
the Treasury 111 What is there, what can
there be in the nature of any of these cases to
justify such flagrant favoritism, in utter disre
gard of the law ?
Among the persons thus holding oyer ~rc
Corcoran & Riggs, of the city of VVa-hrngton ,
who, it will be recollected, were “? vore ‘.
highly bv the Government in die a air
$P < .600’000 loan. They hold a balance at,,oun
un« to forty seven thousand dollars, and then
office is on theopposites.de of the street to lhe
Treasury Department.
Whv we ask this abuse of law in favor of
one person !-/&>■
A Row Expected.—The co rrespondent of
the Baltimore Patriot says: “ We anticipate a
most decided muss here when Commodore
Stockton, Gen. Kearney, and Colonel Fre
mont arrive. They are all coming home, and
will probably be at the seat of Government by
Ike time Col. Benton has returned, who will
be apt to look after the rights of Col. Freinont