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Augusta, tbco.:
MONDAY MOKSISG, OCT. 9, 1848.'
Georgia Election.
The Democratic journals are crowing lusti
ly over their losses in this State, calling them
gains, for effect abroad. The Georgian ex
claims :
“ I,et then the peal of cannon respond to the shouts
of united Erecmen for the triumph at the ballot-box
of the Democracy of Georgia.
Cobb, Haralson, Hackett and Wellborn,
are elected to Congress.
The Whigs have elected King, Stephens, Toombs
and Otten.
Ist Congressional District.— We learn that in
Laurens county, the strong-hold of Whiggery in this
District, King received 452 votes, arid Jackson 23
a Democratic gain of fur since 1847.
In Tait nail King received 294 votes, and Jackson
73—a Whig gain of fixe.”
The above is the best showing that the Geor
gian can make; and what does it amount to?
Simply this, that in one county (Laurens) there
is a Democratic gain of "four rotes ;” whilst
in Tattnall there is a Whig gain of five.
We can furnish a much better test of the re
lative strength of parties than the above. At
the last Gubernatorial election in 1847, the ma
jority for the Democratic Governor was 1,289.
In no District in the State have the efforts of
the Democrats been so great as in that of Mr.
Stephens. It includes the Capital of Georgia,
with the officers, patronage, tact and ability of
the party, brought to a focus against one who
was vehemently assailed as “a traitor to the
South,” for his much-censured course on the
Compromise Bill. This “ traitor” shows a
popular gain of three hundred and sixty four
votes over that of the Whig candidate for Go
vernor in his district last full. This result is
as gratifying as it was unexpected. It is a
cutting rebuke to the Federal Union and other
prints which have taught the people to believe
that Mr. Stephens deserved repudiation arid
lasting disgrace, if not to hang on a tree, by
order of Judge Lynch.
tn the second Congressional District the con
test has been warm on both sides. The Demo
crats had the advantage of 374 majority at the
last election ; and that o' an exceedingly po
pular candidate for representative at the recent
canvass. Well, Mr. Calhoun (the Whig can
didate) failed only 79 votes of carrying the
district. Our political friends, whetherat home
or abroad, who understand the general charac
ter and temperament of Whigs, need not be in
formed how prone they are to stay at home on
election days, in districts where their party is
in a small minority, or a large majority. In
the former case they say: “ Why should I ride
ten or fifteen miles to vote in a district where
the Democrats will elect their man by 3,( 00
majority?” In the latter case they say: “ The
Whig candidate will be elected any how; our
party is 2,000 strong, and there is no need of
my vole to elect him.” Thus, in all districts
with decisive majorities, no matter which way,
hundreds of good Whigs abstain from voting
at Congressional elections. These will all be
out on the seventh of November. We aro wil
ling to trust the counting of ttie ballots between
Lewis Cass, the man who “prays for the abo
lition of slavery everywhere,” and the honest
Planter of Louisiana—the Hero of Buena
Vista. Every Whig knows his duly—knows
what is to be done to carry the State. Let this
work be done, and well done, without delay.
Col« Jefferson Da via--Gen, Tnylor.
Col. J. Davis, Senator from Mississippi, re
cently made a Speech at Jackson, in the course
of which he alluded to Gen Taylor in the fol
lowing complimentary terms. We quote from
the Southron :
“Col. Davis, although avowing that, as a member
of the democratic party, he should cast his vote fi>r
Cara and Butler in November, paid one of the most
thrillingly eloquent compliments to old Rough and Rea
dy, which wo ever listened to. II j said he had
known that great and good old man long and well,
ami hid seen him in the most trying and critical oc
casions in which it was for any man to be
placed ; but, said he, that man ol iron nerve, unbend*
ing honesty, and devoted patriotism, always proved
by the result that he possessed talents equal to every
emergency. Col. Davis’s description <»t the battle-
M*ene at Buena Vista was so brilliant and life-like,
that we fancied we could s«*e old Zack on the battle
field the night after the engagement, when, in answer
to the importunities of his staff to retire to rest, the old
hero replied, he ‘ could not think of abandoning the
ground, and leave his dead and wounded between
himself ami the enemy.”
In allu ' ’g to the proceedings of the late
Congress, he ‘‘referred to the history of the
legislation on the subject of the territories, to
show that the South must hereafter look to
herself for the protection of her rights ; for
•aid, he, ‘the day has passed when we can any
longer rely upon our northern allies” to aid us
against the efforts of fanaticism. He said he
was one of those who had heretofore believed
that ‘the northern democracy were the natural
allies of the South,’ but the vote on the Ore
gon bill had dispelled the illusion.’”
In connection with this subject, “Col. D.
contended that, without the interference of
Congress, the South could never participate in
the settlement and colonization of New Mexico
and California ; and scouted the idea that the
inhabitants of these regions should be permit
ted to decide the question, whether domestic
slavery should, or should not, be tolerated
within their borders. He seemed to look upon
the proposition as a monstrous absurdity, and
in this respect, differed as widely from Cass’
views, as John C. Calhoun himself.”
We commend the foregoing extracts to the
attention of the democracv of Georgia as en
tirely worthy of their consideration and reflec
tion. Col. Davis is a most thorough and de
cided democrat, one whose opi dons are looked
to with great interest in Mississippi and the
Southwest. He is therefore sound upon the
question of Southern interests and rights, and
will not. we presume, be subjected to the ob
noxious charge of treasonable designs against
the South on the question of Slavery.
‘rhe Nub-TrrsMiry Law and the Admin
-Ist rat ion.
Secretary Walker and President Polk
have found it convenient, if not necessary, to
evade the intention and violate the letter of the
fimous Sub-Treasury law. by offering to lend
SBOO,OOO of gold on government securities
The law’ which bears on this point is in these
words:
“ He. it further enacted. That all officer* and oth
er persons charged by this act with the sate keeping,
transter and disbursement of the public monies, shall
keep accurate accounts. *&•?., ami if any one of the
said officers shall convert to his own use in any wav
whatever, or shall use byway of investment in any
kind ol property or merchandize, or shall l>*an with
or without interest, or shall deposit in any b«nk, or
shall exchange tor other funds except as allowed by
this act, any p*r<i<>n ol'the public monies entrust
ed to him, every such act shall be deemed and ad
judged to be .in embezzlement of so much of the said
mmiies as shall be thu* taken, converted, invested,
use*!, loaned, deposited or exchanged, which is here
by declared to be a felony.”
It is contended by the partizans of the Ad
ministration, that the law authorises the taking
up and cancelling of Treasury notes before
they fall due. Tin* is true ; but the Secretary
of the Treasury proposes not to cancel the
notes taken in exchange for gold at par. The
paper of the Government is not paid. It is
merely It* J as security by the Sub-Treasury
broker, who loans com to the /icrortZcz of the
Administration' The notes of the Govern
ment are to be given back to the borrowers of
specie, alter they have shaved with it in Wall
street a few months, and speculated in English
good*, now selling in New York on account of
the foreign manufacturers, at ruinous rates for ;
American gold. Is it to be tolerated, that a
bard-money law. which was designed to check
the excessive importation of British iron,
cloths, and other good*, is to be set aside to fa
vor the enormous sales of English manufac- :
lures at this time, when so many iron works. '
cotton and woollen miiis are forced to stop •
work, and discharge their needy operatives’
To open the vaults of the Sub-Treasury and
loan its gold and silver for such a purpose, m
violation both of the spirit and letter of the In
dependent Treasury law. is an act which no
good citizen of any party will approve. We
are well aware of the ready plea that money is
now extreme!* scarce in New York, and there
lore the strong box of the Government should
ui*iorge D.J not the framers of the Sub
-1 reasury ,iw know that »easons of pressure
on the money market are unavoidable ? Is
it a good and sufficient reason for lending to
needy speculators and greedy shavers, eight
hundred thousand dollars of I'nt ted States
gold *
Sp* a.k. ig of th;* transaction the.N Y I rt .
mng Post (a Sub-Treasury Journal) remark 8 :
“ The arrangement we understand to be this. The
holders of Treasury notes to the amount above stated
deposit with the assistant trcasuier in this city the
notes in question, and receive specie at their par value,
with the understanding that at a given future period,
the money is to be returned to the treasury and the
parties who borrow it are to receive Treasury notes
again.”
Upon this “arrangement” the Post makes
this just and obvious comment: —
“However the transaction may be disguised, the
government have turned brokers and money lenders,
h is tor the people to say whether the administration
who have adopted the principle of the independent
treasury, are to be permitted to renounce it at plea
sure.”
At this time the gold drawn from the Nation
al Treasury is worth one percent, a month to
the borrowers; whilst the notes given as secu
rity draw but six per cent, per annum. All
notes so received should be regarded as paid,
and be cancelled. Messrs. Walker and Polk
will find that their system of favoriteism in the
use of the Government specie, will open the
eyes of all honest democrats, and enable them
to see the shallow hypocracy of Mr. Van Bu
ren’s hard-money humbug. The bubble has
burst, and nothing can restore its authors to
popular favor.
Gen. Cass at Home.
It is not reasonable to suppose that the inti
mate political and personal friends of Gen.
Cass, who are in the habit of daily intercourse
with him. are ignorant of his opinions upon
the great question involving Southern rights
and interests. Nor is it reasonable to suppose
that they would either run contrary to those
opinions, or support him if he differed with
them upon a question which they regard with
such paramount interest, as the extension of
slavery to the territories of California and New
Mexico. The South may therefore obtain
some indication of what his real opinions are
on this grave subject by referring to the follow
ing letter to the New Orleans Bee. written, says
that journal, by “a gentleman of high respecta
bility and mature judgement:”
Detroit, Aug. 20, 1848.
Gents : —Stopping here (ihe residence of Gen
Cass’,) on my way north, 1 have sought quietly to
ascertain, amongst friends, what are his reliable opin
ions, and what would be his future course on the
Wilmot Proviso, provided he was elected President
I have no hesitation in saying that the south cannot
depend upon his opposition to the interference of
non hern agitators on the slavery question. I find
that his most intimate political friends here are the
most rabid Wilmot P/ovisomen of his own party.—
This is notorious and acknowledge!l. Take this
fact, (which if the individuals were known in the
South, the names of such fierce Proviso men as Col
lector Hammond, Judge Hand, Chancellor Farns
worth amt others, would m ke evident,) with the
other iuif ortant arid acknowledged fact, that Gen.
Cass himself was avowedly not two years since an
enthusiastic proviso advocate, a\d I ask what guar
antee lias the north that this trimming politician will
not desert us in time of need 1 There is, however, a
still more important fact, to which, in connection with
these suspicions, I wish to call your attention:
Hvery member of both Houses of Congress from
VI whig an voted in furor of the Wilmot Prods >
in the <tregun bill. Now, it is said here that Mr.
McClelland is the very exponen' of Gen. Cass’ pri
vate opini ms and wishes, and in the event of his
election will lie the Postmaster General. 3/r. A/e
--( leltand is one of the most rabid Proviso men in
Congress! Mr. Felchof the U. S. Senate, another
[political and personal friend of Gen. Cass, voted in
every case against the south ’ Now should not the
southern press make these facts universally known ?
Will southern men trust a politician, who lik»* Gen
Chss, has manifested on every occasion a readiness to
sell his opinion to the highest bi *<ler? Will he not
desert us aft- r the election ! Let the south look to it ;
especially after the last act of Congress has proved
that Democratic Senators are ready to sell us too.
Another Democratic Witness.
Col. Maunhel White, of Louisiana, a
prominent democrat, in a recent letter to a
friend in Alexandria. La w holda the following
language in reference to Gen. Taylor :
(< It has long been my opinion, that the old issues
would all full away before the now absorbing one <»f
North and South, on the subject of slavery ami the
equality of the rights of Ihe South. So far as regards
myself I would never yield to any compromise be
yond ihe landmarks pointed out by the constitution.
“ From youth to age I have known Gen. Taylor
he is rmphaiically a pure ami honest man. who is
devoted t>> bis country and its Constitution, anti w II
stand by both uninfluenced l*y party he has said as
much and I believe him. I know hup to be a man
not easily turned aside from his purposes, nor influ
enced by any other consideration than the good of
his country.
“ His military exploits are to me the least in the
scale oflbe many excellent qualifications which hive
recommended him to his countrymen, for the highest
office in their gift. He is emphatically the man lor
the limes —his purity of character, strong, innate
sense of justice, incorruptible honesty, and sound un
erring judgtn> nt, will be our safeguard in the hour of
trial, and therefore, I have no hesitation in voting,
freely, to place the helm of State in his hands.
“ Y'ou know that I am a democrat, and have been
so all my life, but I cannot sell myself to party I
want neither office nor its enmkimonis I g<» f«»r
Southern rights, Southern men, ami a Southern Presi
dent.”
Col, White is the neighbor nnd iritiinnte per
sonal friend of Gen. Taylor, whom in his own
language he has “ known from youth to age.”
I Its opinion, therefore, is worth that of a a thou
sand mere political intriguers, whose only objects
are office and the spoils. Col. White feels
•ensibly alive to the importance and necessi
ty of maintaining the constitutional rights of the
South in the grave questions which are now
agitating the public mind. His support, there
fore, of (Sen. Taylor over Gen. Cass, is of no
doubtful import—he knows Gen. Taylor to be
sound on the question and he is equally certain
that Gen. Cass is not.
The Cass Spirit nt the Cnpitol of Indiana.
A cai.t. was sent forth in the Indiana ntinel
for the friends of Cass to rally in their might
at Indianapolis. The editor of the State Jour
nal says that he went to the meeting and staid
till half-past 8 o'clock, at which time just nine
persons were present.
There is “ great confusion,” if not “noise*
among the Cassifks in the Hoosier State.
Still they Come.
The Jonesboro’ Whig of the 27th ult.. pub
lishes the following card “ from a Democratic
citizen of that town, late a member of Capl.
O’Brien’s company of rentlessee volunteers
in Mexico:”
“ I (.artL —lt is stated in the Nashville I’nien
over ihe signature of ‘ W T H ’ meaning IF. 7’
Helms, the 1; le editor ol the “ Reformer” in this
place, that there is but one I'aylor Democrat east of
the Cumberland Mountains—alluding, n is said, to
General Anderson, of Knox. I publish this card to
request linn io add one in >re to the list. 1 am a
Democrat—l always have been—alwavs voted that
siri|»e- -and I intend to vole for Gen. Tavl*»r. I called
at the house of old Rough, on my return from M- xi
co - took a hearty dinner with the old General’s lady
—and dr ink a glass of Hrcnei which cheered me
up no little. WILLIAM B. THOMPSON.
Jo iesboro' Sept. 21, ISIS.’’
The Whig tires are burning brightly for l >l*l
Zack in Tennessee, and with the aid of such
democrats as Mr. Thompson, they will roll up
a majority of thousands in November for the
UM Hero.
In his speech at Cleveland. Gen. Cass said:
“ There is now lore you a severe contest; but
the pr.»speci is a cheering one. Go on, and our suc
cess will be an apprura; of the rouse of ihe present
Administration, ano will oivk direction to the
one which shall svcceeo. ’
National war: bitter sectional strife; pub.
he debt; excessive importations: low price I
ot cotton : ami lending specie to part*
favorites from the Treasury, are the leading
feature* ot an Administration which C a«* i* ex
pected to elongate tour years—if he can com
mand votes enough to elect him.
V M
AOTKOF M assachusktrs.—s»ome people at
the South (says the Boston Courier) are giving
themselves needless concern about the possi- !
bdity of the vote of Massachusetts for F ee- '
tors of President being lost, should there be :
no choice by the people on the 7th of Novem- I
ber. Such a contingency is already provided
tor. .»* will be seen by the toll iwing extract
from the law of the United States, fixing the
time of the election :
•• Pr-rridfil. That each State miv by law
I provide for the filling of anv vacancv or va
' fancies which may occur in its college of elec
i tors when such college meets to give itselecto
y -v • -
• shall have held an election for the purpose of
choosing electors, and shad fad to make a
choice on the div aforesaid then the electors
mav be appointed on a subsequent day. m such
manner as the Slate shall bv law provide."
Dogs anti Pictures*
Thf Rochester Courier, a zealous Cass pa
per. comes to us with pictures of dogs, to em
belhsh an argnmear against Gen Tailor, be
cause he is a slaveholder and dogs are some
times used to tr ick and hud runaway negroes.
If the candidate of the Anti Slavery men of
Michigan cannot be elected without the aid of
these exciting pictorial illustrations, w hich ted
so powerfully aga.-nst die whole South and its
institutions, should the slaveholders of Georgia
and South Carolina give their votes in h*s fa
vor to defeat me election of the Planter of
Loummmm*
The Western Boundary of Texas.
Y esterday, says the Richmond Whig, we re
ceived from Mr. Mason the proceedings of the
Senate on the ratification of the Treaty with
Mexico. This document contains many im
portant papers never before published, and
among others, the despatch of Mr. Buchanan
to Mr. Slidell, dated November 10th, 1845. —
This paper has never been before the public,
though extra is, which were purloined by a
correspondent of a Northern paper, have bee .
Its bearing upon the question of the Western
boundary of Texas is of the very highest con
sequence—and though it makes its appearance
at this late day, we trust it will too late
to have its proper eifect upon the public mind.
The partizans of Mr. Polk, and his apologists
for his involving this country in an unneces
sary and unconstitutional war, have always
rested their defence upon the alleged fact, that
the Territory on the Eastern side of the Rio
Grande was American Territory. This des
patch of Mr. Buchanan wholly refutes this po
sition. He expressly recognizes the right of
Mexico, and directs Mr. Slidell to oiler Mexico
10 millions (5 millions for the claims of our
citizens, and 5 milTions in cash) for all the ter
ritory East of the Rio Grande. After present
ing various considerations to show the worth
lessness of this territory to Mexico, the Secre
tary of State proceeds:
“ But the President desires to deal liberally
ny Mexico. You are,therefore, authorized to
oiler to assume the payment of all the just
claims of our citizens against Mexico ; and, in
addition, to pay 5 millions of dollars in case
the Mexican Government bhall agree to estab
lish the boundary between the two countries
from the moutn of the Rio Grande up the prin
cipal stream to the point where it touches the
line of New Mexico; thence west of the river
along the exterior line of that province, and so
as to include the whole within the United
States, until it again intersects the river ; thence
up the principal stream of the same to its
source; nd thence due north until it inter
sects the 42d degree of north latitude.
“A boundary still preferable to this would
be an extension of the line from the northwest
corner ol New Mexico, along the range of
mountains until it would intersect the 42d par
allel.
“ Should the Mexican authorities prove un
willing to extend the boundary beyond the Del
Norte, you are, in that event, instructed to of
fer to assume the payment of all the just claims
of citizens of the United States against Mexi
co, should she agree that the line shall be es
tablished along the boundary defined by the act
of the Congress of Texas, approved Decern
ber 19lh, 1836, to wit: beginning at ’ the mouth
of the Rio Grande; thence tip the principal
stream of said river to its source; thence due
north to the 42d degree of latitude.’ ”
In another paragraph the Secretary of State
authorizes Mr. Slidell to give 25 millions for
California. We copy the paragraph :
“ 'l’he government of California is now but
nominally dependent upon Mexico; and it is
more than doubtful whether her authority will
ever be reinstated. Under these circumstances,
it is the desire of the President that you shall
use your best efforts to obtain a cession of that
province from Mexico to the United States
Could you accomplish this object, you would
render immense service to your country, and
establish an enviable reputation for yourself
Money would be no object, when compared
with the value of the acquisition. Still, the at
tempt must be made with great prudence and
caution, and in such a manner a* not to alarm
the jealousy of the Mexican government.—
Should you, after sounding the Mexican au
thorities on the subject, discover a prospect of
success, the President would not hesitate to
give, in addition to the assumption of the ju*t
claims of our citizens on Mexico, twenty-five
millions of dollars for the cession. Should you
deem it expedient, you are authorized to offer
tins sum fur a boundary running due west
from the southern extremity of New Mexico
to the Pacific ocean, or from any other point
on its western boundary which would embrace
Monterey within our limits If Monterey can
not be obtained, you may. if necessary, in ad
dition to the assumption of these claims, oiler
twenty millions of dollars for any boundary
commencing at any point on the western line
of New Mexico and running due west to the
Pacific so as to include the bay and harbor of
San Francisco. The larger the territory south
of this bay. the belter. Os course, when 1
speak of any point on the western boundary ol
New Mexico, it is understood that from the Del
Norte to that point our boundary shall run ac
cording to the first oiler which you have been
authorized to make. I need scarcely add. tiiat
in authorizing die offer ol* five millions, or
twenty-five millions, or twenty millions of dol
lars, these are to be considered as maximum
sums. If you can accomplish eitiier of the ob
jects contemplated for a less amount, so much
mote satisfactory will it prove to the Presi
dent.”
The Secretary having thus cut up and carved
out the Mexican territory, offering so much for
this and so much Cor that. Mexico declined to
trade. Mr. Polk forthwith issued his order for
our army to inarch upon the Rio Grande. If
the history of the world furnishes an example
of a war more grossly unjust, more clearly
prompted by a spirit of rapine and plunder,
we have not read of it. It stanus upon the
same footing with the partition of Poland,
which has ever received the execration of the
whole civilized world.
The Isabel.
The Charleston Evening Xcirs of Saturday
says: This beautiful steamship entered our
harbor last evening between four and live
o’clock, having made the run from Baltimore
in 51 hours. We welcome to our port this fine
specimen of the proficiency in the craft of ship
building which distinguishes the monumental
citv. ami we trust it will be the auspicious
commencement of an intercourse that will
prove reciprocally beneficial to the commerce
of both places. With Capt Rollins, her com
mander, our citizens have a familiar acquain
tance, as an accomplished and gentlemanly
o rticer.
The Cor ton Crop.—The Concordia Intel
ligencer of the 30th uh., published at Videlia.
(La ) opposite Natchez, (Miss.) says:
the weather, during the few weeks last past, lias
been decidedly favorable f r cotton picking, although
the condition «>f the cation from rut and the effects of
the severe storm of IS h August, has tended to retard
the picking process. Every advantage has been taken
of tlie lunes, however, and great indeed has been the
pirhing which will be over, this season, .at an unosu
allv early time. On the hills, in most ot the places
in Adams, Wilkinson nnd Jefferson counties, the
picking will be finished next week. In the swamp
then* is still a gnat deal of cotton open, and it the
weather continues fair, the picking w ill lasi tor some
time. I’he b »re worm is still eating the cotton and
tha work of both it and the rot his been in* .re appa
rent within the l ist ten days than during any previ
ous part of the season.
The expression that “a planter cannot tell what
his crop w ill t e until made” is rarely contradicted,
mable. buck
general t'utti9, however, ought not to bar a fair ex
pression of opinion in this advanced part of the sea
xbi. We repeat our belief, published thre- weeks
ago. that damage enough has been sustained in thi<
section of Louisiana and Mississippi near us. to make
the crop smaller than last year’s. We go farther, ami
assert that no kind ot weather—even the most favora
ble lor picking—from this time until the end of the
gathering season, w ill bring the crop up to that of last
year in the cotton districts mentioned.
The Difference.—The N V. Post, (dem.)
has a letter from a correspondent in Philadal*
I phia. which says :
A< removals in the customhouse in your
! good city of Gotham are taking place, for the
• taking by individuals of prominent parts in poli
i ties I beg leave b» inform you dial h**rt . wh. re
near y alt tiie customhouse officers are genuine
nunker«. they can do s<» with impunity Li-r
Thursday evening James Page. Lias B
S. I. . . . hi i John W Forney. were i S ert -• |
ed positively £> address a meeting inthe Fourth I
j Congressional District, and no doubt did so I
These gentlemen are a l customhouse officers.
' appointed under Mr. Po k's a imtnistra'.ion.—
j I’he leaders of’he hunker party here are now
■ none but the officeholders, and without them
I the party would be a mere gang, so unpopular
have become Mr. Pulk, W alker, Marcy and
; company.
-
Coi. Washington’s Expedition to Cali
fornia.—A friend, says the N. O- Delta, has
obligingly placed in our hands a letter from a
gallant officer of Col. Washington’s command,
nowra route for California. From it we learn
that the command has proceeded four hundred
and twenty miles with a train of one hundred
and fifty wagons, heavily loaded, in the space
ot twenty-one days, and was then encamped •
near Maperne m the State of Durango. Tha
whole command was in excellent condition and
expected to be iu Chihuahua in ten or twelve
days. They hail been treated with great kind
n-'ss nnd courtesy by the Mexicans who furnish
ed them wnh liberal supplies of everything they
wanted. Ihe officer to whose letter we ar**
indebted tor this in! filiation, is acc mpanied
by his w :fe. a lady ot our city, who is also much
pleased with the expedition.
The Cochituate lake water will be introduc
ed into the city of Boston ou the 25ch insx., and
preparations are making for celebrating this
event m a manner becoming its importance.
The five steamships Collin’s New-York
aud Liverpool line are to be 29y0tons each
From the National Intelligencer.
Kditors.
Gentlemen : I ask a place in your paper for
the enclosed communication, sent some days
since to the Editors of “ the Union, ” contra
dicting the falsehoods asserted in their paper of
the 29th of September, under cover of a reso
lution said to have been passed at the Demo
cratic meeting of the 27th in front of the Union
office.
After the lapse of three days. I find in this
morning’s •‘Union” an acknowledgment of
the receipt of my communication ; an apology
for other and more important matter crowding
it out; and an expression of an intention on
the part of the Editors to seek for an explana
tion from some of the members of the Demo
cratic committees.
I know not what the Editors intend or mean
by seeking an explanation, but if they are not
satisfied of the falsity of of the
resolution, which I canMHKjfeppose, I again
proffer to them the ev idenßrtHTneir own senses,
and renew the invitation to visit the room of
die Central Rough and Ready Club on Bth
street. Your obedient servant,
RICHARD W ALLACH,
President of Hough and Ready Club.
Washington, Oct. 3, 1848.
To the Editors of the Washington Union.
Gentlemen : I perceive in the Union of this morn
ing, under the head of a resolution passed at the Dem
ocratic meeting in front of the Union ofiice on the eve
ning us the 27th, a statement in these words: ‘-They
have now in this city two separate publishing rooms,
in one of which documents arc prepared for the North,
representing Gen. Taylor as a ‘ Wilmot proviso man,’
and Gen. Cass as an advocate of the extension of
slavery ; in die other, documents are prepared for the
South, which represent Gen. Cass as a Wilmot pro
viso man, and Gen. Taylvr as the champion and in
terested friend of the extension of slavery. They have
in circulation fourteen different lives of 'tayljr,
representing him as one tiling in one, and another
thing in another, suiting him to each meridian, and to
every faction in each meridian of the country.” This
statement, f Ise in every particular, 1 deem it my
duty to contradict, and ask of you, and Democratic
Editors who may publish the proceedings of the meet
ing in Iron’ ofthe Union office, as a sheer act of justice,
to give publicity to this. Had the persons who framed
the resolution not known that it was false and libel
lous, they might have as ertnined its falsity by inquiry
at either of the publishing rooms alluded to, which are
now, and always have been open alike to Whigs and
Democrats, or upm Mr. Hoover, the Secretary ofthe
Jackson Democratic Association of this city, and one
ofthe Secret tries of the meeting on the occasion re
ferred to, who has on more th m one occasion visited
one of these publishing rooms, ami was, on the day
preceding the meeting of the Democracy, there for
• ear one hour, anti at whose request a notice of the
meeting in hand bills was posted on the wall. There
ire but two Whig rooms or places in ltrs city from
whence Wlrg documents of any character, kind, or
nature are sent. One, Hie room of the Whig Con -
•sessional Committee, on Pennsylvania avenue; the
other, that of the Central Rough and Ready Club, on
Sth street. From these rooms documents of a like
nature and characterare sent to all parts ofthe Union
North, South, East and West—and not, as the res
olution of the Democratic meeting avers, particular or
sectional documents to particular parts. I deny that
there was ever more than one life of Gen. Taylor sent
from the room on Bth street, which was sent, as other
|>olicical documents, alike into every section of the
Union, or that there was ever more than one life of
Gen. Taylor published in this city, and I challenge
anv Democrat, Whig, or other person to produce a
second. I deem it unnecessary to offer to the citizens
of Washington, to many of whom I am personally
known, any proof of what I here allege, but should
von, to whom I am unknown, or any one else, desire
evidence of the truth of what I here assert, I extend
to vou or them an invitation to visit the room on Sth
street, which is now, ever has, and shall always be,
<q«en alike to Whig or Democrat.
Yours, tespectfully, RICHARD WALLACH.
President of Central Rough and Ready Club.
Washington, Sept. 29. 1848.
Federalism.
“ In 1831 be was appointed by .Andrew Jack
son Secretary of War. and became lite asso
ciate, in the Cabinet, of such men as Edward Li
vingston, Louis McLane, Levi Woodbury, and
Roger IL Taney.”— Life of Cass
Now every man of intelligence knows that
etch and every one of these men were and are,
old black cockade and blue light Federalists.—
It is a very mysterious but significant ‘circum
stance’ that Lewis (.Lass ha< associated, all his life,
with Federalists. The Volunteer admits that
his father. Maj Cass, was a Federalist—here
is an adini-sion that his associates in the Cabi
net were Federalists —four of his competitors
for the nomination at Baltimore, like himself,
hid been rank Federalists ; two members of
Polk’s present cabinet, to wit : J unes Buchan
an and haac Tottcey, were Federalists; and
three of Polk’s M misters, of recent appoint
ment, we re blue light-liartford-convention-Fed
eralista of deepest dye, to-wit : Geo. Ban
croft, Minister to England; Richard Rush,
Mi lister to France ; and Ralph .1. Ingersoll,
Minister to Russia.— Shelbyville Grape Shot.
Methodist Episcopal Ciickcii, South.—
77m Property Question. — The Bishops and
Commissioners of the Southern division of
(he Methodist Episcopal Church, at a meeting
held at Louisville. Ky. on the 9th of September,
passed the following resolution :
Resolved, That it is expedient and necessary, in
view ofthe rights and interests in controversy, that
the neceesary suits be instituted as soon as practicable,
for the recovery of the funds and property falling due
to the Methodist Episcopal Church South, under the
contract of a plan of Separation, adopted by the Gen
eral Conference of 1844.
The reasons which the Episcopacy and the Com
missioners assign for this course are, in substance
that for the Church South, to agree to the arbitration
proposed, would be to admit tlic invalidity of the
“plan of separation that they have waited since the
General Cons, rence,nearly four months,without ‘ bav
ing received any pro|x»sition from the Church, North;”
that several of the northern Annual Conferences
have met and adjourned, without conferring upon the
General Conference the necessary constitutional au
thority to arbitrate; that superannuated ministers in
the Church South, their wives, and many widows
and children, are suffering from the long delay of
payments they were entitled to; that due notice was
given in May last tint the present resolve could not
be delayed any longer than September; and finally,
that any course than that now determined upon would
place m jeopardy ‘ rights and claims previously nil
milted and provided lor.” — New York Commercial.
Distance from the United Statfs to
England.—The frequent contradictions as to
the distances sailed by the Atlantic steamers
lias led to the compilation of tiie following table
for reference now and hereafter :
Ry .Mercator’s Sailing.
Boston dock tn Liveiqiool dock 2983 miles.
Buttery, N Y_, to Liverpool dock 3684 “
Boston dock to Southampton dock 2892 “ ’
Battery, N \., to Southampton dock•• • -3156 “
Ry Mercator and Great Circle
Boston dock to Liverpool dock 2849 “
Battery, N Y., to Liverpool dock 302 J u
Boston d<>-k to Southampton dock 2349 “
Battery, N. t > Southampton dock ••-3097 “
The man for a Crisis.—When the dying
Jackson was told that we would have no great
Military Commander to take the field in case
of a general war with Europe, with an inspir
ed strength he exclaimed : •• We have a com
mander perfectly competent— loir on the
Mississippi, in the person of Col. Zachary Tay
lor.' 1
Now that we want a commander to take the
hebn ofthe great ship of State, he is to be
found — "low down on the Mississippi, in the
jtlrs"n of Col Zachary Taylor.' 1
Approach of the Cholera. Already in
Paris. From the accounts by the steamer Her
mann. it would appear as if the cholera, which
has been making such ravages in the north of
Europe, has at length reached Paris. Several
r ises had appeared, which are said to have all
the symptoms of the Asiatic cholera, but in a
mild shape. A medical gentleman says that lie
had two cases of w bat he calls cholera asyphxia.
and that in both cases the patients are likely to
recover.
The cholera had also appeared at Trieste,
but had greatly diminished at St Petersburg.
On the morning of the 2d there were three
hundred and eighty cholera patients under
treatment. At Moscow, on the 25th ult..there
were twenty-five new cases and sixteen deaths;
and on the 2l*th there were twenty-five new
rases, but only eleven deaths. In the other
province* of Russia afflicted with this disease,
it is making great ravages ; in some of them as
many as between five thousand and six thou
sand persons are carried off by n weekly.
S 'i pier* Boi >rv lasi'* —The Cotnmis
>ioner of Pension*. says the Washington Union,
notwithstanding his untiring devotion to the
I duties of the utfice. cannot i**ue more than
two hundred and fifty land warrants each dav.
It appears from a statement in the Union that
the number of applications for Bounty Land
Warrants on the part of soldiers who have
served in the late war With Mexico will exceed
100.«HU).
Up t 27 Sept. IS4>
5'7'4
(From the i't to the 27th September alom.-
7.793 were filed.)
To the same date the warrants .ssued were 33.833
R rnauiin-’ to be disposed >»f 21.961
I be estimated number yet to be filed is about 50,-
000 more. ’
Distressiwu Murder.—We are appalled at
hearing of the brutal murder of Mrs. Nancy
Whiteside, consort of Wm B Whiteside. on
her mothers premises near P keville. The deed
was commi'-ed one day last week, bv a negro
boy about 17 years old. belonging to the fami
ly. It seems that he had been chastised by his
young master, for some misconduct, when for
revenge, lie determined, as he since confessed,
to murder his mistress Mrs. Thurman, and her
daughter Mr* Wuiteside. and her son Stephen
Thurman. But a* occasion for this did not
otTer. he watched Mrs. W.. as she was coming
through the orchard near the house, and with
anase on his shoulder, walked up behind her.
and split her scull open—instantly depriving
her of life .’ For this horrid offence, he has ,
been committed to prison, and we think even ■
the plea of insanity will fail to save him from
the gallows— Chattanooga Gazette.
Slavery i\ Delaware.—The Blue Hen s
Chicken says: ‘ The petition for the abolition
of slavery in this State is receiving the signa
tures of almost all of oar citizens. From ap
pearances it w I be one of the largest petitions
ever offered to our legislature.”
Augusta,
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1848.
The Presidential Electoral Question.
“Mr. Calhoun has revised and republished, in the
Pendleton Messenger, his letter on the subject of
transferring the election of Electors of President from
the Legislature to the people. Mr. Calhoun opposes
the change, and recommends that the present system
be continued. His letter is addressed, as formerly, to
Colonel Orr, W. Sloan, Esq., Dr. Evins and Dr.
Symmes. We published Mr. Colhoun’s views on this
question formerly, and shall endeavor to do so again.
They afford, doubtless, the strongest arguments that
can be urged against transferring the election of Presi
dent directly to the people.” — Greenville (S. C.)
Mountaineer.
It is a striking feature in the character of
modern Democracy, that the most “ Demo
cratic” Stale in the Union should be the very
last to yield to its citizens the right of voting
directly for their Presidential Electors. The
pure, transcendental Democrats of South Caro
lina dare not trust the people in the matter of
making Presidents. The Legislature must do
this service for the incompetent sovereigns. It
places a most potent political engine in the
hands of a few men, which they can use as pri
vate capital in all the business transactions of
national statesmen and demagogues. This
power, further concentrated by a most admira
ble rotten borough system, gives to the few a
control over the electoral votes of the Palmetto
Stale nearly equal to a hereditary right to gov
ern the same.
The practical workings of this exceedingly
“Democratic” system, not only prevents all
improvement—all advancement —but serves to
impoverish and gradually depopulate whole
districts. It directs the popular mind to look
back to the days of English feudalism when the
Anglo-Saxon race was bought and transferred
from one master to another with the soil they
cultivated. A writer in the last Southern Quar
terly Review, holds ibis language—“ And the
doubting mind, more than half distrusting the
self-gratulatory odes of ibis restless age, looks
lingeringly to feudalism, as to a high fort
ress, whose safety has been left to wander in
paths growing daily more slippery and unsafe.
It requires no deep investigation of English
literature to feel that this is so. Few of her
thinking men are prepared to answer in the af
firmative this question, whether the children of
the soil are wiser, better or happier, than when
God’snattiral order ofdenendence and support,
faith and interest smoothed and softened the re
lations of lord and his serf. ’’ &c.
Far be it from us to insinuate aught in dispa
ragement of the wisdom of those politicians,
who “ look lingeringly back to feudalism,” in
a sister State. They are the model Democrats
of the nation. Unfortunately it so happens that
States governed according to their principles,
are not distinguished for common schools, nor
the rapid ii crease of wealth and population ;
hot for the efforts made to dispose of property
and emigrate to countries where “feudalism”
and the go-backward policy, are less esteemed
Mr. Fillmore.
Democratic journals at the South,finding the
principlesand anti-slavery associations of their
candidate for President wholly indefensible,
do not attempt the task,but constantly attack the
Whig candidate for the comparatively power
less otlice of President of the Senate. The
Mississippi Sentinel brings this grave charge
against a northern candidate lor Vice Presi
dent:
“We of the South contend in antagonism to Mr.
Fillmore,that slavery is noZ an “evil,” morally, politi
cally orsocially considered ; and we are compelled to
view tint man as an enemy 10, and libeller of our do
mestic. iistitutions, who declares to us that our father’s
originated, and we continue, an “evil.” Fdlmorc’s
letter io Gayle is only a confirmation of his suspected
abolitioiism ; even to a Southern man he confesses
himself tpposed lo Southern institutions.”
If every man that regards slavery as an “evil”
is ipso facto “opposed to Southern institu
tions,” then Washington, Jefferson, Mar
shall and a host of other distinguished slave
holder and statesmen, must be ranked with
Mr. Ffl i.more among the ‘ libellers” of the
South. The rule will be death on Cass, foi he
•prays' for the extinction of the institution eve
ry where.
Gen. Taylor— Extra Allowances.
The expose of exorbitant charges of $63,-
990.46, which were made by Gen. Cass, and
which have been paid him by the government
in the shape ofexZras over and above his regu
lar salary, has very much disturbed the equa
nimity of Mr. Polk’s organist, who, in a late
number ofthe Union, concludes an article with
the following grossly false statement :
“ Aiuxint of extra allowances, ov»?r and above his pav
received by Gen. Taylor up to the l>t of Jan. lasi,
as stated 874,864 04
Amount of same for the succeeding six
months, ending 30th June last, according
to his account as rendered and paid -• • - 2.917.93
§77,812.02
Thus we have the respectable am >unt of seventy
seven thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars
and tiro cents fo r extra allowances; and this not
for extra services—f«»r Gen. Taylor’s name is not to
be found in the documents containing the names of
those who have been called upon at various times to
render im|x>rtant services to the government, 'beyond
their regular duties —such as Jackson, Harrison,
Cass, Scott, Gaines, Macomb and others. That large
amount was received by Gen. Taylor over and above
his regular pay, when performing only his regular
and ordinary military duties.
To show what reliance is to be placed in the
above statement of the official organ at Wash
ington. we annex the following correspondence
between the Hon. Reverdy Johnson and Adjt.
Gen. Joses, whose official position enables him
to give correct information on the subject:
Mr. Johnson to Adjutant General Junes.
Baltimore, 30th September, 1849.
_Vy Dear General— At.article in the Union, a few
days since, relating to the pay and emoluments re
ceived by Maj. Gen. Taylor, although I hope not so
intended, is capable of the construction that he has
received more than the laws of the United State® au
thorise, and that he has received it in the nature of
extra allowance. Although there may be instances
in which such allowances may be perfectly proper, I
am as satisfied as I can be, without actual knowledge,
that Gen. Taylor has never applied for or received
them. And as you are or may be easily possessed of
the information necessary to put the matter beyond
doubt, you will oblige me by saying—
First — If, from the commencement of his military
service to the present lime, Gen. Taylor cverapplied
tor, or received in the form of pay, emoluments or
otherwise, one dollar mnre than the laws in terms
allowed, and
Secondly— hetber his pay and emoluments dur
ing the period he has been a Major General, have
not been the same as those received by Gen. Jackson
whilst he held the same post in the army of the U.
States ?
I have no hesitation in making these inquiries of
you. because I know that yourself, a soldier to whom
the country is inde?»ted, wdl rejoice to do justice to a
brother officer who has so greatly elevated the milita
ry fame of 'be I nited States, and whoso only offence,
in certain quarters, is to be found in the fact that his
countrymen have brought his name before the public
in evidence of the r confidence in his integrity, for
the highest official honors within their gift.
Yonra truly, REV ERDY JOHNSON.
Adjt. Gen. Jones, W ashington.
AJ/utanZ Gen. Jones' Reply.
Washington, Oct. 2d. 184°
Dear .Sir —I duly received your letter of the 30th
ult., and h 1 vingexamined the article in the “Union”
* ptember 2'. referred to, have no hesitation in
saying that all the pay and allowances specified as
having oen received by M.tj. Gen. Taylor, were in
strict conformity to Jaw and the Regulations of rhe
War I • nade pursuant there! ; and are
precisely such as any other officer similarly rituated,
would h*' l been entitled to receive. lam sir. very
respectfully, your ob't. serv't.
R. JONES, Adjt. Gen.
Hon. R. Johnson, Baltimore, M l.
The statement ol the L'nion. therefore, that
Gen. 1 ai lor had received •• extra allowances
over and above his pay,” is entirely and wholly
false, and must have been known to the editor
to be so when the above statement was penned.
A Prophet.
H e clip the following from the last Missis
sippi Sentinel;
.. V c :n the coiuiuns of that able journal the
1 n >on,published at Mhledgev-dfo. G -... some
stricture® upon the conduct f Hon. A. H.
| >tephvus. of that State, in his vote again*: the Com
pr_-i u :sf Bnl ; a bill, tne p 3Ssa j e f which j|.j | lare
’ forever t rest 1
e signature \ I
and are wntten with great d’gnity and purity.—
A lexandi r Haohlton Stephen* rum-! his own p<iiical
death knell when be sacrificed the South to the
-r:y. as projected i the U grt i
cau.-us of tug, al t | |e CJ .y o f Washington.
TheScnn/uZ will grieve to learn that “Alex
ander Hamilton Stephen*” i* re-elected by a
majority which exceeds that of his party last
fall by 364 votes.
Holmes of South Carolin a.—‘-Read w hat
the gallant Holmes, of South Carolina, says
about Lewis Cass. Holmes is a democrat, hut
not a collar man. He said at the great Taylor
democratic meeting in Charleston, on the 17th
that the doctrine of Lewis Cass on Southern
rights in the conquered territories is
insidious, more offensive and more humiliating
to the South than the Wilmot Proviso itself. 7
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSHIP HERMANN.
FURTHER ITEMS OF INTELLIGENCE.
The American steamship Hermann sailed
from Southampton on the 20th ult., and reach
ed her wharf to night, making a passage of 14
days.
Ireland.
First in importance, is the Irish difficulties.
Comntencement of Insurrection at the South—
“ The down coach from Dublin to Waterford,
when within three or four miles of the latter
place, was stopped by a large, party, not with
intention of robbing or molesting the passen
gers, but with a view of preventing the coach
man or guard giving any information, and for
cutting off the communication between Water
ford and Carrick-on-Suir. It appears the po
lice and insiirgentacame in contact, and that
two dead.”
Clonmel, real rebellion has
come at last. are posted in almost
inaccessible positions M New Inn, near Carrick
on-Suir and Kilmachtomas mountains. Dohe
ny commands in Waterford The troops yes
terday only captured nine scouts. Last night
there was a general rising ofthe peasantry with
in about 6 miles of Carrick. Many had guns.
At 6 o’clock a large body marched to attack tiie
police stations. Sept. 14.—The out-offices of
a Protestant clergyman were burned last night,
and a farmer shot for refusing to give up arms.
The 3d (Buffs) came into Clonmel to-dav, and
28 of their men handcuffed for shouting for re
peal. At the insurgents’ camp, 7 miles from
Clonmel, they roast bullocks and sheep on iron
grates, and are pressing every one to join them.
At Glenbower, about 8 miles from Clonmel,
the police were preparing to seek refuge in Car
rick, when the rebels fired at them; the fight
lasted a quarter of an hour, and the result was
a number killed on the part of the assailants.—
Only two or iiiree of the police were wounded;
the dead bodies were left behind. The police
lied from the out stations, and to-night it is fear
ed will reveal some awful scenes.
Callan, September 13—The reports in Kil
kenny were much exaggerated, and it is thought
the number of insurgents were overrated. The
police were nowhere disarmed, but on every
occasion defeated the insurgents. Among the
rebels who assailed the police station, four or
five wore the uniform of the 82d Club. It is
believed that some pieces of cannon have been
captured by the rebels.
At about 4 o’clock, p. m. yesterday, a de
tachment from the camp proceeded lo the po
lice barracks of the Slate Quarries, which the
constabulary had only quitted about twenty
minutes previously to take refuge at Pilltown.
The insurgents at some distance from the house
fired through the windows, but finding that
there was not any person within, they soon
took possession of it, and ultimately set it on
fire, reducing the entire house and furniture
to ashes. Rumor stales that all the other sur
rounding constabulary stations were attacked,
and that in some cases the police were dis
armed, while in others the men had fortunately
quilted their barracks previously and retired
upon Carrick and Clonmel. The driver and
guard of the Cork mail, which arrived here at
about 10 o'clock last night, report that the po
lice had quitted the Glenbower station, and had
retired to that of Nine mile house. Shortly
previous to the arrival of the coach at the latter
place, a party of insurgents had surrounded
the station and demanded that the united par
ties within, numbering about ten men, should
surrender their arms. The police refused, and
upon the insurgents proceeding to attack the
bouse, the little garrison fired out and put the
heiligeren’s to flight. The guard states that he
saw one man, an athletic young peasant, lying
dead on the road, and the people ofthe neigh
borhood told him that inanv had been wounded.
Appearance of the County— The correspon
dent of the Freeman’s Journal, visiting the in
surgent district on the 12th. writes as follows:
At Newtown hill, the insurgents, it is believ
ed, have formed an encampment, and i am as
sured by a person who travelled close by it.
that it is covered with people. The military
have formed a camp close by. Last night Cnr
raghmore was attacked by a body of insurgents
for the purpose of taking the swivel guns and
cannon, with which the Marquis of Waterford
recently fortified it.
The Marquis of Waterford's Cannon taken.
—September 13, 7.1 o’clock, p. in—The car
from Carrick has just arrived, and by it we
learn that on its leaving the above named town
the streets were filled with soldiery, and the
people were in all directions departing for the
mountains. Curraghmore House, the seat of
the Marquis of Waterford, was attacked on
Monday night, and the cannon which he had
there were, after a sharp encounter, taken and
carried away. In the affray three of his men
are reported to have been killed. Several ol
the Police are said to have lost their lives at
Portlaw. Three camps of the insurgents have
been formed at Newtown, Curraghmore, and
Pilltown.
The insurgents are said to be in the moun
tains in considerable numbers, and have formed
themselves into guerilla parties. They had
surrounded Carrick, and great fears were en
tertained that an attack on that place would be
made, but they finally dispersed without mak
ing any demonstration. A large force of Eng
lish troops had been sent in pursuit of the
mountaineers, who had banded themselves to
gether. with the determination of capturing or
dispersing them, which, from all appearances,
will be the eventual result.
Shortly after the departure ofthe America,
the insurgent forces moved from the mountains
and a force consisting of portions of the Third
Bulls. Fourth Light Dragoons, and Eighty-
Third Regiment, were despatched in pursuit
Mr. O’Mahony was nearly captured and the
insurgents perpetuated some excesses in the
country through which they passed. The
main body had been broken up in small detach
ments. and it was supposed they would adopt
a system o Guerrilla warfare, which would be
particularly harrassing to government troops
during the approaching inclement winter sea
son.
Causes of the Insurrection.— The causes
which led to the last insurrection in the South
of Ireland, an account of which we give be
low, are thus stated by the Dublin Freeman’s
Journal:
“ They are not political but social They
arise from the relations between landlord and
tenant. We have been assured that scarcely a
load of agricultural produce is sent to market,
without a person empowered by the landlord.
I.is agent, the bailiff, or his agent, accompany
ing it to market, and receiving from the.
buyer the. p ice of the commodity, giving lo the
grower anything or nothing—just as he pleas
ed ! This has maddened the people, and it is
more than feared it will cause a general rising
all over at least the South of Ireland. It is
said that a seizure of crops was the immediate
cause of the outbreak.’’
The correspondent of the London Daily
News writes as follows : “ ail who were on the
spot and had facilities for ascertaining the facts,
agree in stating that the movement was alto
gether of an agrarian character, and had no po
litical object whatever. The impelling motives
were poverty and privation, not the hope of
political amelioration.”
France.
It is stated that General Cavaignac is gradu
ally declining in popularity, and prognostica
tions of an early fall from his high station are
freely made. This does not surprise us, as a
people that have been struggling so boldly to
throw ofi' monarchical shackles, are not likely
long to remain quiescent under strict military
rule.
Naples ami Sicily.
Bombardment and taking of Messina.— The
advices from Sicily are discouraging for the
cause of the people. A large body of Neapo
litan troops left Naples on the 30th ultimo in
several war steamers. These troops had ef
fected a landing at Messina, but were subse
quently repulsed by the Sicilians.
A steamer, which had arrived from Messina
at Genoa, ami which left the former town on
the 3d. announced that the struggle had com
menced At 6A. M , the citadel had opened a
terrible cannonade, responded to by the town
with equal vigor. A few siwiss landed, and
were immediately cut to pieces ; but 2000 men
were introduced into the fortress. Enthusiasm
was at its height and the resistance desperate.
Men and women were armed and fighting. At
the moment of the departure of the steamer
the firing continued unabated.
Men of all classes, priests, monks, and chil
dren, were working night and day to place the
city in a slate of defence; but the inhabitants,
although determined to resist to the death, have
no efficient leader; they are badly armed, and
their strongholds inefficient. The Neapolitans
had landed at two point*, under the protection
of a heavy fire from their ships of war. and the
■ town was thus about to be attacked on three
sides.
Finally, we regret to learn that the important
intelligence has been received, by means of
telegraph, by the French Government, via
Marseilles, tnat Messina had been taken by the
Neapolitan troops, after a bombardment of the
I most frightful kind.
Another Insurrection at Leghorn—Slaughter
of the Troops.— A fresh insurrection took place
at Leghorn on the 2d and 3d instant, and at the
date of the latest accounts the insurgents ap
pear to have remained masters of the town.
H it it "ar y.
A battle look place near the Roman encamp
ments between Ternmi and Sarek. It lasted
two days, viz: the 2sm and 29th nil. The Hun
garians under the command of Messaros, were
driven from their positions, and thrown back
upon old Ker. where Gen. Bechthuld succeed
ed in rallying the fugitives. Since that
lime, on t.ie 3d insl., a combat took place at
Perlass, in which the Hungarian troops suc
ceeded in storming the camp of the insurgents,
taking seven pieces of artillery and a number
of prisoners. Ninety of the insurgents were
killed.
A letter from Temeswer in the Banab. in the
Oesterreichische Zeitung, states that the city of
Weisskirchen has again been attacked by the
Servians, who. on lbe29thnit. bombarded it for
~ hours, but were at length forced to retire, leav
ing 2UO of their dead behnd them
llitssiu*
There has been severe fighting in Caucasus,
and the Russian journals report that the Circa
sians have been partially defeated.
Italy.— Charles Albert has arrived at Turin
and requested the cabinet to resign in order to
form another in accordance with the wants of
the country.
Turkey.— The Cholera is raging in this coun
try. Another fire had taken place, which de
stroyed 200 houses.
Saxony.— The insurrection in this country
has been put down.
Miscellaneous. — The Asiatic Cholera is ma
king rapid strides towards England.
The steamer Britannia arrived at Liverpool
on the 29th.
The Hermann brings 85 first class passen
gers, and 60 second class, with about 270 tons
valuable freight and $25,000 in specie.
FURTHER INTELLIGENCE BY
THE STEAMER CAMBRIA.
from the Charleston Courier of Saturday.—By
'Telegraph.
At 45 minutes past twelve o’clock yesterday
afternoon, we received from the telegraph of
fice the information that the British steamer
Cambria had arrived at Boston. Her day of
sailing was the 23d lilt.
Commercial Affairs. — The accounts from
the Continent, with respect to political affairs,
still exercise an injurious influence on the com
merce of England, leaving trading men in
doubt and uncertainty, always calculated to
circumscribe and repress mercantile transac
tions. Businesss generally was consequently
limited in the manufacturing districts of that
country, and the factories were in most cases
working at short time.
Cotton was inaciive. Fair Mobile and New
Orleans have declined an eighth of a penny per
pound. 4 Other descriptions are unchanged,
but there was a downward tendency, as hold
ers exhibited an anxious disposition to part
with their slocks. Fair Orleans is quoted al
4.|d.; Mobile 4d, and Upland 4Jd. The sales
of the week amounted to 25,000 bales.
The Corn market was firm, on account of
the easterly winds preventing an arrival of sup
plies. The information from this side of the
water, however, of large shipments expected,
was calculated to check the tendency to any
advance in prices.
Political Matters.— The Irish insurgents still
foil all efforts on the part of the British soldie
ry and police to capture or disperse them, or
suppress the rebellion.
Frankfort has been the scene of a most san
guinary contest between the people and the
troops. Thirty barricades were erected, and
most desperately defended ; and at the last ad
vices the outbreak had not. been suppressed.
The armistice between Denmark and Prus
sia was ratified by the Frankfort Assembly.
Accounts received from Italy speak of the
most dreadful atrocities perpetrated by both the
Sicilian and Neapolitan armies. It is stated
that scenes of cannibalism had taken place al
most too horrible for belief. The dead bodies
of human beings are san to have been cut to
pieces, roasted and eaten We trust that these
accounts are exaggerated.
Stili furtl>er by the Cambria*
Correspondence N. York Courier Enquirer.
Liverpool, Sept. 23d.
Continental politics continue to exercise a
most injurious iulluence upon the commerce
of this country ; and the strange turn that
events take on the other side of the channel is
so sudden and unaccountable, that the most ex
perienced find themselves in doubt and uncer
tainly as to what is to follow.
Under these circumstances it is not sur
prising to find a gradual diminution of business
in the manufacturing districts, and tendency in
prices to recede. Tile feeling prevailing at lhe
Manchester market on Tuesday was more
gloomy and desponding than for some weeks
past, and a strong opinion was advanced that
many of lhe factories would again have re
course to short lime.
Onr accounts received up to the moment of
the steamer’s leaving report a continuance of
lhe depression, notwithstanding lhe ratification
of the armistice between Denmark and Prussia
by the National Assembly at Frankfort.
Manufacturers and spinners are firm in their
demands as regards prices, and inconsequence,
there has been no general reduction ; but in
some cases where forced saleshave been made,
lower prices have been accepted both for
goods and yarns.
The feeling in Liverpool is not much less
gloomy than in Manchester. The business
done in lhe Cotton market has not been ani
mated, and prices have had a further down
ward tendency. Fair <lrleans and Mobiles are
quoted al Jd lower, but with these exceptions
quotations remain unchanged, and at the same
time lhe demand is so freely met by holders
that it :s impossible to sell a quantity at the cur
rent rates; fair Orleans are quoted at 4|d ; fair
Upland 4sd ; fair Mobiles 4d per lb : middling
3$ a 3]d per lb; the sales for the week are 25.-
030 bales, of which exporters have taken 3230
and speculators 500 bales. The Corn market
has been somewhat more firm, but this arises
more from the fact that the prevailing easterly
winds have kept out supplies than from any
other cause, and the in'elligence received by
the last steamer from the United States is cal
culated to check any tendency tiiat prices might
otherwise have to advance. 100.000 bushels
of Indian Corn may be expected to be landed
in this country w ithin a month from this time,
to say nothing of Flour and other articles, large
quantities of which we are advised of having
been shipped.
The weather has continued fine during the
week for securing lhe balance of the harvest
and lhe ripening o. the potato crop, and the
fear of the deficiency of food and lhe necessity
of very excessive imports, is much less general
than it was a week or two since.
The position of lhe .Money Market has not
materially changed since our last, but there has
been an improved feeling in the Share Market.
from the London Globe, Sept. 22—2 PM.
Paris. Thursday noon. Sept. 21.
It is almost impossible to describe the gloom
which has come over the public mind here.—
Every body seems to think that Gen. Cavaig
riac and lhe National Assembly will find it im
possible to establish the Republic, and yet no
body knows how it is to be got rid of without
a conflict. in which none of the friends of order
are willing to engage. If it is to be overthrown
it will probably be by some sudden event, pro
bably a military conspiracy.
The intentions of Gen Cavaignac are believ
ed to be excellent, and such a Republic as he
would give us, the enlightened men of the
country would willingly accept, but they have
not the energy required to second his efforts.
The great obstacle in lhe way of the Repub
l;c is the peasantry. The men who proclaimed
the Republic in obedience to the orders of some
15 or 20,000 of the populace of Paris, forgot
that although they might get up a good deal of
enthusiasm in the city, and in a few of the large
towns of the provinces, the agricultural popu
lation. w ho are by far the most numerous, must
be consulted at last.
The farmer has had 45 per cent, more to pay
in taxes, and the farmer’s man his wages re
duced to enable his employer to pay lhe taxes.
Put your hand into his pocket and draw’ out his
earnings to pay for lhe Republic, and then see
whether he will support it.
The Constant Decline in Trade.— lt is declin
ing, although lhe Government organs tell you
to the contrary. The low state of the treasury,
the difficulty of getting in the taxes, and the
general complication of politics, have a tre
mendous etlect on the Bourse.
The funds to-day have fallen considerably.
The 5 per cents to 67 j. and 3 per cents to 43}
Tiie Ultra Democrats say this is the trick of
the rich, to kill the Republic; but the rich, as
they are called, would be glad to see the funds
20 per cent, higher, for they would then have
a confidence in lhe payment of lhe dividends ;
trade would revive, and they would find tenants
for their houses No, it is not a conspiracy of
the rich—i’ is lhe result of the general melaise.
The general opinion is, that the Government
w ill be unable to establish a system, for which
there is only lukewarm support on one side,
and deadly hostility on the other.
The number of votes for the successful can
didates for Paris were declared officially to day
at lhe Hotel de Ville. They are. Louis Na
poleon, 110,752; Fould, 77.*31 ; Raspail,
ik>.363.
A statement has been published to-day by
some of the Deputies, who were to have been
sent by Gen. Cavaignac into the Departments.
The instructions given them show that the
General had never, for a moment, abandoned
the cause of order and good government.
From the Postscript of the European Times.
Paris, Thursday, 6£ o'clock, P. M.
The fears of the Government have happily
proved, at least for this day, groundless. The
■ tranquility of the capital has not been, so far as
I have learned, disturbed ; nevertheless the
greatest agitation prevails. The Boulevards,
from the Port .'it Denis to the Bastile. have
been the theatre of numerous assemblages of
. the populace to-day. The Government con-
I tinues under apprehensions of a movement,
i and the troops are all consigned to their quar
ters Tiie town will be overrun to-night with
strong patrols in every quarter.
A great multitude was collected in the neigh
borhood of the Hotel de Ville this morning, at
'J o'clock. The Mayors of all me Arrondisse
ments assembled there under the providence
of Latnosee. Mayor of the fourth Arrondisse
ment, and President by seniority. Al noon the
results of the election were duly proclaimed.
When the name of Prince Louis was announ
ced the greatest enthusiasm was manifested by
the populace. Military music was played and
shouts of •• Vive Napoleon - ’ rent the air. The
name of M. Fould was received with the most
profound silence, that of Raspail was saluted,
hut not with the same enthusiasm as that of
Prince Louis.
A meeting was held at the Rue de Poicliers
last night, at which it was resolved that no op
position should be made to the admission of
Prince Louis to the Assembly. A meeting of
the Club of the Palais Royal, was also held,
which appointed a committee to confer with
Gen. Cavaignac on the state of affairs. The
propositions made to the General, consisted of
an offer of th* 1 support of the meeting on the
following conditions :—First, a diminution of
lhe lax on salt; second, a creation of paper
money secured by mortgage ; third, the change
of the ministry.
It was reported in the early part of the day
that Gen. Cavaignac was disposed to accept
these terms, and that he would lay his pro .
gramme before the Assembly in the course of
the day. There was, however, no gronnd for
tins ; the truth is, the chief <.f the government
is cruelly embarrassed at this moment, drawn
as he is, in different directions by different par
ties. 1
The Rue de Poictier’s (club) demands, it is
said, the appointment of M. M. Du fan re, G.
Milleville, and Gen. Bedau to the Ministry.
The club of the Institute has also decided to of
fer no opposition to Prince Louis, so that no
doubt remains as to the verification of his
powers.
A resolution has been taken, it is said, to de
mand that the question of legality of the arrest
of Raspail shall be referred to the Minister’ of
Justice. Considerable attroupements have
been formed in the Faubourg Sc. Antoine, at
which the forcible liberation of Raspail and a
triumphant entry of Prince Louis were the ob
jects of the discussion.
The Government is in full crisis, and we are
in hourly apprehension of a movement.
The London Times of the 22d says the
Bourse had been in a lamentable state all day.
Every moment brought one or another new
factor report to depress prices. The situation
of Paris, it was stated, was reassuring when
compared with that of Rouen. Again, it was
stated that lhe chief of the Executive having
called upon the Generals commanding through
out France for reports on the spirit of the army,
had received very unsatisfactory information.
To these discouraging allegations was added,
later in the day, the resignation of the Minis
ters of the Interior and of Justice, M. Renard
and Marie, with the addition that the department
the Interior had been offered to M. Ledru Rol
lin.
Ireland*
The belief entertained that a positive rebel
lion had broken out in Ireland, is to a certain
extent without foundation; but it is neverthe
less true that predatory bands of armed men
had turned out in hostile array, encamped in
almost inaccessible positions, and openly defy
ing the military authorities. Numerous attacks
had been made upon the police and non-sym
pathizing residents. These demonstrations,
however, so purposeless in themselves, and so
well calculated to inspire alarm, particularly
in England, have in a considerable degree sub
sided, though the rash insurgents are far from
being dispersed.
The last accounts from Ireland state that the
neighborhood of Carrick on-Suir, is still much
disturbed; that the insurgents occupy formida
ble localities upon the mountains; that signal
tires are lighted every night, and luat the ut
most vigilance of the military and police failed
to crush lhe display.
Search is kept up after Doheny and the other
leaders who are known to be with the insur
gents, but as yet without lhe slightest effect.
The Commission was opened on Thursday,
when true bills were found against Mr. O'Brien
and Mr. McManus, and three others of lesser
note. Copies of the Indictment were then
delivered as well as an assignment of Counsel
made to the Traversers. The trials are fixed
to take place on Thursday next.
Considerable excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood of Clonmel, but the presence of
an overwhelming military force will be found
sufficient to suppress the exercise of any physi
cal sympathy for the accused. Much diversity
of opinion prevails as to the probability of lhe
conviction, and it is confidently staled in high
quarters that in the event of such an issue, it is
the intention of the government to carry the
capital punishment into immediate effect.
The agitation for the holding of annual Par
liaments in Dublin, is receiving daily accessions.
So far as an opinion may be hazarded in the
present immature stage of the movement, it is
likely to prove successful, though probably at a
remote period.
The prospectus of a paper to succeed the
“Nation” has been issued; it is to be called
the “ National.”
Germany.
Frankfort. — A sanguinary insurrection broke
out here upon lhe ending of Sunday last.
Upwards of thirty barricades were erected
throughout the city, and defended with des
perate courage by lhe people.
The revolt had not been effectually sup
pressed up to lhe departure of the latest ac
counts. The loss of file was considerable.
The following letter, dated Frankfort, Sept.
18, 7A P. M. gives a full account of the late dis
turbances :
The resolution ofa majority of the National
Assembly to ratify lhe truce with Denmark,
immediately caused a violent explosion of in
dignation on lhe part of the democratic unions
and societies of this city. Ala great popular
meeting yesterday evening, the most inflamma
tory speeches were delivered by some of the
orators. The meeting passed a resolution to
the effect that the majority of the National As
sembly were traitors to Germany and lhe Ger
man people.
The attitude taken yesterday by the demo
cratic party, induced the authorities to dispatch
couriers in various directions requesting mili
tary aid without delay. Austrian and Prussian
troops soon arrived, and this morning they
ranged themselves all around the Paului Kirche,
the place where the National Assembly meets.
In the forenoon the populace began to erect
barricades in numerous streets, and from I till
5 P. M. the conflict between the military and
the democrats continued witn little intermis
sion. The barricades were obstinately defend
ed. and from houses shots were fired upon the
soldiers, particularly upon the Prussian troops,
who are very unpopular. Foremost among
the combatants are the people of Sochsenhau
sen (a sort of Whitechapel suburb of this city,)
and they are nearly all well armed. Several
shops containing firearms have been broken
open.
An enormous barricade was erected at an
early hour this afternoon in lhe Dingesgasse,
and at the present time there are not less than
thirty in different parts of the city. An unsuc
cessful attack was made by some Austrian
troops on the above giant barricade, which was
surmounted by a red flag. Toward 4.$ a heavy
firing was heard in lhe Zeil (the leading tho
roughfare.) which was chiefly occupied with
Prussian troops. Some members of the Left
endeavored to pacify lhe insurgents; but al
though they bore white flags, they were fired
upon by some of the latter, and Prince Lych
now’ski was shot dead. The majority of the
insurgents however accepted a one hour’s
truce, rheirdemand being that the troops should
evacuate the city before lhe barriers should be
removed. Herr Von Auerswald hid been
seriously wounded. It appears that the Vicar
of the empire is willing to allow’ the troops to
retire, butthat he is overruled. Up to tins hour,
at 7£. lhe great majority of the barricades are
still in lhe possession of the insurgents, and
cannon are firing down the Zeil.
Among the insurgents are many Democrats
from Mainz, Hanan, Cologne, and other places.
The troops here are chiefly Austrians, Prus
sians, and Hessians. The firing was commenc
ed by the Slavonic portion of an Austrian rei i
ment. The headquarters of the insurgents are
at the I riedberger Thor. A portion of the
Austrian troops has been disarmed by the in
surgents. ft is said that there will be assem
bled before 10 P. M. not less than 10,000
troops.
Saxony.— A revolt took place at Chenmitse
ori the J Ith. Barricades were formed and the
operatives, re in forced by numbers from the
suburbs, had attacked the troops but were
effectually overcome.
Vienna,
Vienna has again been the scene of fresh
bloodshed, and still continues in a most dis
tracted state. .
Hamburgh.
Some local disturbances have taken place in
Hamburgh.
Hungary.
The affairs of Hungary are becoming more
and more conflicting.
Northern Italy,
Owing to the accepted mediation of France
and England, is in a state of suspended hostili
ties ; but it is feared that influences are at work
which will lead to a resumption of arms. The
army of the Alps, meanwhile, is to be reduced
by one half.
Naples and Sicily.
The king of Naples has prorogued Parlia
me nt till the 2d November, and the utmost
alarm and anxiety is felt for the issue of hostil
ities. It is said that the French will oppose
any further efforts of Naples to subjugate the
Sicilies.
General Intelligence.
Lord George Bentinck, well known as the
leader of the Protectionist party in the House
of Commons, and the greatest sporting char
acter in the world, died suddenly on Wednes
day. He is said to have amassed upwards of
£6O,OCX) sterling on the turf within the last two
months.
The Queen is still sojourning in Scotland.
Intelligence lias been received from Sir John
Ross’ expedition which went in search of Capt.
Franklin. It is dated at Whale Inland, Davis’
Straits, 29th June, but stated that nothing bad.
up to that time, been heard of the hardy and
devoted explorer.
i A sanguinary insurrection has taken place at
Siam in the Dutch East Indies.
The British iron trade is extraordinarily ac
tive at present while general stagnation prevails
in almost every other branch of commerce.
Divers are at work on the wreck of the
Ocean Monarch, and it is expected that a por
tion of her cargo will speedily be recovered.
Mr. Doheney, the Irish refugee, has arrived
in Pari-, be landed at Bologne after many hair
breadth e.-capes. and seems to be heartily re
joiced that he has avoided the fate of some of
his fellow-countrymen.
TO THE LATEST MOMENT.
By Express and Telegraph.
Liverpool, Sept. 23, 2A, P. M.
London.— ln Foreign Exchange yesterday
the demand for bills on Hamburgh was some
what stronger than last post and rates conse
quently were rather lower.
Exchange on Holland and Paris was affected
in a similar manner but to a less extent.
I icnna, 17/Zr.—Funds continue firm and with
a tendency to a more settled state of affairs.
Conservative manifestations on the part of the
trading classes are on lhe increase. The num
ber of operatives supported by government are
reduced one-half.
Hamburg.—More business than usual trans
acted in exchange. Paper on London on long
date in demand and scarce; less difficulty in
procuring short dated bills. Money abundant.
France*
The Legitimist candidate has prevailed over
L. Napoleon Bonaparte in lhe department of
the Seine. The return of Count Mole for
Bordeaux is settled. Gen. Cavaignac is said
to have ordered a movement of troops toward
the capital.
lhe armistice in Italy has been prolonged
for forty-two da vs.
1 aria papers notice the prevailing rumors of
a change of ministry, without being able to
confirm or deny them.
Disturbances at Elbrus had been quelled,
there^of-nn" m Alglers represent movements
mere as ot no importance.
menu rel,cb and Austrian Govern-
Venice remain
°' are «P-
Assemb| y was irritated on
Thursday at the prospect ofa property tax
being necessary. 1 r J
The excitement in Paris is hourly increasing
—matters appear to be at a crisis. Louis Na
poleon had not arrived, nor from what we
know in England, was he likely to do so. Still
the report that he hud left London and was on
his way to the French Capital, prevailed so
strongly that crowds of his excited admirers
continued to crowd round the Hall of Assem
bly.
The news of a further armistice between
King Charles Albert and the Emperor of Aus
tria, fora period of six weeks, is confirmed;
and farther, that the three Governments of
England, France and Austria, have agreed that
the city of Venice shall remain free and unoc
cupied during the time of an armistice.
Paris, Friday Evening.—The capital is in a
very excited and feverish state. Crowds much
greater than usual are assembled around the
Assembly, and lhe election returns form a con
stant topic of conversation. It is said, on au
thority, that Gen. Cavaignac has decided not
to object to Louis Napoleon’s taking his seat.
It is also reported that he has taken extensive.,
precautionary steps to prevent another insur
rection, by the movement of a large body of
troops towards the Capital.
In the weekly account of the Bank of France
published, the credit of the Treasury is upwards
of fifty-six millions francs, which puts an end
to any doubt of payment of dividends now due.
Funds—Noon.—Consols for account, 86} a
J ; do. for money, 86| a }.
By press* —Ireland.
It is now confidewih’ stated that at the next
commission in Dublin, Mfr..JJuffy will be
but whether on the
a".iiu-t him for felons, or a new
treason. does not appear to be
is said that in either case lhe Crown, exercisiilQßM
a power confirmed by statute, will try him by a ’
jury not of lhe city, but of lhe county of Dub
lin. Mr. O’Doherty will also be put upon his
trial a third time. An order has issued from
the Privy Council in Dublin permitting sixteen
suspected individuals now in custody under
the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act to tender
bail. The trial of Mr. Smith O’Brien will
certainly take place on Thursday. The indict
ment includes with Mr O’Brien, Mr. McManus
and James Orchard, Patrick Donnell and Denis
Thyne.
The latest accounts from the disturbed dis
tricts describe the insurgents as being strongly
fortified in the mountain ranges of Kilkenny
and Tipperary, openly daring lhe Military and
Police authorities. A vast meeting of the
Peasantry was held upon the Hill of Mealiff
upon lhe withdrawing of the troops on Mon
day. and upon lhe following day a similar as
semblage took place at Dormbane. Numerous
notices have been affixed to lhe Chapel gates
in lhe neighborhood, calling upon lhe people
to stand by their arms, and attack the troops
during the holding of the Commissions. The
system of extermination continues to be car
ried on with unmitigated vigor in the South,
hundreds of people being weekly turned out
upon the highway.
Dublin was tranquil up to a late period last
evening.
[ From the Buffalo Com. Advertiser, 2d insl. ]
A Mun over the Falls*
Neither fiction nor fact furnish an incident
of more thrilling interest than one which oc
curred last evening nt the Falls, and is detailed
below by our correspondent. There is some
thing terribly appalling, almost sublime, in the
struggles for life of a strong, self-possessed
man, when drawn into the torrent that with the
speed of a race-horse, sweeps him onward to
certain destruction. A moment scarcely elap
ses between entire safety, and a most fearful
death, yet in that moment what a wealth of life
may be compressed. I low like lightning must
flash through the mind, all the pleasant recol
lections of childhood, the firm resolves of vigo
rous manhood; the hopes of the future, the en
dearments of home and friends, repentance
for past errors, and prayers for forgiveness in
(fiat drend presence to which he is so awfully
summoned !
Niagara Falls, Oct. 2d, 1848.
At about sundown last evening a man was
carried over the Falls. Who he was is not
known. From his management of the sail-boat
in which he came down the river, I think he
was not well acquainted with the current or
the rapids. His dress and appearance indica
ted respectability, and after he got into the
rapids, Ins self-possession was most extraor
dinary. His boat was a very good one—
decked over on lhe bow, and I should think
would carry three or four tons. From what I
learn of a sailboat having been seen below
Black Rock, coming down, I think it is from
there or Buffalo. No other than a person
unacquainted with the current above the rap
ids, would venture so near them.
I was on the head of Goat Island when I first
discovered the boat—then near half a mile be
low the foot of Navy Island, and nearly two
miles above the Fall*. There seemed to be
two in the boat. It was direct d towards lhe
American shore—lhe wind blowing from this
shore, and still the sail was standing. Being
well acquainted with the river, I regarded lhe
position of the boat as extraordinary and haz
ardous, and watched it with intense anxiety.
Soon I discovered the motion of an oar, and
from the changing direction of the boat, con
cluded it had but one. While constantly ap
proaching nearer and nearer the rapids, I could
discover it was gaining lhe American shore,
and by the time it had got near the first fall in
lhe rapids, about half a mile above Goat Island,
it was directly above the Island. There it was
turned up the river, and for some time the
wind kept it nearly stationary. The only hope
seemed to be to come directly to Goat Island,
and whether I should run half a mile to give
alarm, or remain to assist, in the event the boat
attempted to mak i the Island, was a question
of painful doubt. But soon lhe boat was again
turned to lhe American shore. Then it was
certain it must go down the American rapids.
1 ran for the bridge—saw and informed a gen
tleman and lady just leaving the Island, but
they seemed unable t > reply or move. I ral
lied a man at lhe toll gate—we ran to the main
bridge in time to see the boat before it had got
to the first large fall in lhe rapids. Then I saw
but one man—he standing at lhe stern with his
oar, changing lhe course of the boat down lhe
current, and as it plunged over, the man sat
down.
I was astonished to see the boat rise with the
mast and sail standing, and the man,again erect,
directing the boat towards shore. As he came
to the next anc to each succeding fall he sat
down, and then would rise and apply his oar in
the intermediate current.
Still there was hope that he would come near
enough to the pier to jump, but in a moment
he was gone. Another that he might jump
upon the rock near the bridge, but the current
dashed him from it under the bridge, breaking
the mast. Again be rose on the opposite side.
Taking his oar and pointing his boat towards
the main shore, he cried, “had I better jump
from the boat.” We could not answer, for
either seemed certain destruction. Within a
few rods of the falls the boat struck on a rock—
jurned over and lodged. He appeared to
crawl from under it, and swam with the oar in
his hand till he went over the precipice.
Without the power to render any assistance
—for half an hour watching a strong man
struggling with exery nerve for life, yet doomed
with almost the certainty of destiny to an im
mediate and awful death, still hopingwith every
effort for his deliverance—caused an intensity
of excitement I pray God never again to expe
rience.
From Tabasco. —By the arrival of the schr
Relampago, yesterday, from Tabasco, which
port she left on the 20th ult., we learn from
Capt. Wakeman, that Gen. Paredes, with
600 troops, was marching toward Tabasco,
and on the 16th inst. was within six leagues of
that place. Gen. Bravo, with 400 men, had
been out to meet him, but returned again to
Tabasco on the 15th. It was the opinion of
the people of Tabasco that an engagement
would take place between the two parlies about
the 16th or 20th ultimo.—.V. O. Pic. 4th,
Liberia Coffee.—We have received from
the Colonization office, in this city, a sample of
coffee, which was grown on the farm of Rev.
.Mr. Moore, of Bexley, Bassa County in Libe
ria. We are glad to learn that the cultivation
thrives to such an extent in that country, that
some of the inhabitants are beginning to have
a surplus for exportation, and 1400 pounds
have recently been sent over to this country by
Hon. S. A. Benson, of Bassa Cove. The
coffee is good looking, of a large kernel, and
quite green in appearance. Ils flavor, although
a little peculiar, is very pleasant. — Bost. Jour.
A Mammoth Hotel out VV est.- Cincinnati
is at last to have a hotel worthy of the Queen
Citv. The Burnet House is to be one-third
larger than the Astor House, New York, and
building will cost $150,000. It is built by a
company, and it is expected that Mr. Coleman,
of die Astor House, will become the lessee.