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i--. COLUMBUB, UA.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 181 C.;
Wot Congress from the 2ml District,
AI.I'RED IVERSON,
OF JirSCOOEE COI-.ITI.
g-V In another column will be found a com
munication from Mr. Richard H. Clarke, of Ba
ker county. It* contents will explain its tenor.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Metamoras, July 31st 1846.
I reached this ancient city, recently rendered
famous in American history, by stirring military
create* yesterday. I came up with Col. Jack
son by stcam r the object of the Colonel be
ing to report himself personally to Head Quar
tern, and fcr endeavor to get a “position” for the
Georgia Regiment with the advancing columns
of the Army \ and mine to see the country. —
We left the camp opposite Burita in the fore
noon and ran on at the slow rate of four miles
an hour, until night The country presents the
warm, aspect from the mouth of the River to tliis
point The distance in a direct line by land
being 30 miles. The river meanders over the
space of 100 miles from here to its mouth. The
hanks arc very low, generally two; and occasion
ally mounting to four or five feet; on either side,
as &r aa the eye can reach, immense flats are
stretched out until prairie and sky scenery come
together, forming the visual horizon. Ihe Me'i
ran side is quite thickly populated. To the eye,
the vast plains present th>e appearance of bound
less fertility. It is one vast meadow, luxuriantly
coated with grass, and covered with herds of
horned cattle, horses, mules and asses. There
e more cultivation than I expected to see. I
row one field of com that extended upwards of a
mile on the river. The com was fine*—the fod
der withered and unpulled. They never take
the trouble to gather the fodder. Pheir lands
are tilled with ploughs made entirely of wood—
not an ounce of iron about them. 1 hey scratch
the ground with their wooden ploughshares,
something in the shape of ourscouters, drop the
grain and the cultivation is done. The product,
when seen in connection with this indifferent
mode of culture,, indicates a fine soil and climate.
But, it is said, that the great drawback to farm
ing here iathc want of rain in tire growing season.
It is. dry in the spring and wet in- the fall. It is
a drought or a flood, all the time. At night, we
landed at a large Mexican settlement on the
Wert bank; took in our wood” (the Musquit tree,
cut and corded up by the Mexicans to be sold to
us, their enemies at $2 50 per cord b) and tied
up foe the night. The night was fine and a
balmy atmosplvere lighted up by the new moon
tempted us U> stroll on shore. Here my Span
ish, which I hud spoken wlien a child in Spain,
but which had lain musty in the cells of memory
for so many years, was called into requisition. 1
had to begin by interpreting for the Captain of
the boat (Capt. Haley , formerly of the Chatta
hoochee river,) in bargaining for wood, and then
m asking all the hundred questions of the party
of the men, women- ami children. AV e here
saw the first Mexican, house and the Ranchero
at home. We saw some thirty men, with their
high crowned- and broad-brimmed hats, princi*-
fully bedizened with gold cords—their pants ol
sailor-cut, tight at the waist, and buttoned froia
the hips to the knee, and thence to- the foot fly
ing open, in large folds to keep their legs cool—
bbhc with shirts—some without covering from
the waist up, and others with their shirts curious
|y tied on their hacks, by the sleeves over the
shoulders. All the children up to ten years,
were naked. The women’s attire has been often
described. I immediately remembered Kendalls
and Stephens’ description of its exceeding scan
tiness and adaptation to-a- hot climate. Gowns
arc not known. A chcanise with sliort slec- es
and a short ietticoat, with the Ribosa , (a Mexi
can name, I take it for the Mantilla) for the heady
and sometimes folded over the bosom-is their
entire out-fit. If I were to describe these people,
I should call them slightly built Indians talking
light good Spauish. It startles one frequently
to hear the noble Castilian rolling from lips,
whose appearances would teach you to expect
nothing but the harsh gutturals of our aborigines.
Manx of them are darker than our Indians, and
die African blood is plainly marked. At the
Rancho where we stopped, a week before, had
•topped lor wood, a steamboat load of six-months
Volunteers returning home. These savages
(not the Mexicans but my own countrymen) be
haved here with the greatest brutality. They
broke into the orchards, fields and water-melon
patches of the people, stole and destroyed what
ever they could lay their hands upon, and wound
up the scene bv pelting the Mexicans with the i
melon rhintis and snapping th'ir pistols at them. I
The Mexicans said nothing and bore it quietly, I
but who that knows their proud revengeful spirit i
hut believes they will treasure up the wrong and .
pay it back when opportunity offers. These <
disbanded Volunteers have done more to preju- i
dice the cause of their country by their outrages
upon the people, than they could repair by years
of fighting. The policy of our Government, and
•f General Taylor is to conciliate the people, and
to convince them that our war is not upon them,
but their weak and unjust Rulers.
Knowing of this outrage, I went to their
homes* determined to convince the occupants
•hat all A merieans were not savages. The first
vm visited contained a large family. The whole
catahhehmeot was out ofdoors. The house, made
•fa few up-right Musquit posts planted in the
ground close together and covered with thatched
roofe, appeared to be made only to run into in wet
weather and to shelter them from the “Northers’’
in winter. We talked with. them, for half an
hour, about their farms, fruits, families, &c. A
ifttlo boy brought us a bucket full of milk at our
acquest which he sold us at a medio (a thrip) the
quart. Ouc woman was on her knees, grinding
something white between two stones, just as I
remember to have seen chocalate pressed from
the nut. I asked her what that was. She
smiled in seeming astonishment at my ignorance
and replied, they were “tortillas.” I told her
I often heard of them but had never seen
one. She said she would make me one. In
scarcely over five minutes, she prepared the
meal, made the cake, baked it and brought it
to me* on a dark looking cloth which she held'in
her hand. It is nothing but new corn meal and
water, without Salt or other thing, rolled out very
thin, and baked, l dont know how, that being
done in a shanty which served as a kitchen. Jt
was good, and did not taste like cam-bread, I
offered her a piece of money, Which she took,
and said she did not mean to sell the “tortilla.”
I told her to keep it, to which she readily con
sented with a smile and a gra.ias. Having giv
en some small coin to the children and treated
the men to tobacco, wc left them with onxbuenas
noches, and with the impression that they were
an amiable and kind-hearted |>eoplo.
All travellers report this of the females; hut
the men, we are told, arc treacherous and
false. “Never trust a Mexican with anything,”
is the advice to us. Stealing, they say, is
one of the Spartan virtues with them, in
which it is creditable to excel. Apparently, the
people here and on the river arc well disposed to
us. Yet it is said all these Uailcheros were in the
battles of the Bth and Dili not engaged, hut ready
to murder and pillage our flying troops when
their valiant soldiers should have whipped them!
Canale* was in Gen. Taylor’s rear, during the
action of the 2d day with a strong body of caval
ry posted there with the amiable purposes allud
ed to.
We arrived here at noon yesterday. At the
distance of ten miles by the river we could des
cry the Town, looking quite imposing—by land
we were only three or four miles off. The mag
nificent stars and stripes of our country were
waving over Fort Brown, and Gen. Taylors’
Camp on the opposite side. It always fills one
with strange emotions to sec that flag in a For
eign country. There it streamed, where it was
planted two months ago, by the valor of our gallant
little army. On the route from the Brazos to
this place, we fell in with several of the officers
who fought in the two engagements. Among
them wa3 Lieut. Ridgelcy upon whom fell the
mantle of the lamented Ringgold, and devolved
the command of the battery of flying artillery.—
Ridgely is a man of about 5 feet 7 inches, slightly
built, but said to be very athletic. He has al
ways been distinguished in the army for his ac
complishments in all the manly exercises; A
splendid rider, swordsman and shot, with a per
fect darc-Devil spirit. He just the fellow to
gallop his brass pieces up to close quarters with
the enemies lines, and to charge by himself (as
he did) an advancing party of Mexican horse,
sabreing one fellow across the head and crying
out, “go back you yellow-skinned scoundrels,
dont you come here.” His sword was dull,, or
he would have cut his head off. The next day
one of his troopers, who saw the affair, quietly
abstracted the Lieutenants and put* a
sharp edge on it. I was surprised to learn that
there were but 49 men to work the batteries that
did such tremendous execution. Ridgely told
me that he had frequently himself to drive the
horses attached to the guns, and to assist in load
ing and firing. Poor Ringgold, after he was
wounded, said “I always told them, I ought to
have an luimlrcd men to fight these guns.”
Col. Belknap told us that during the heat of
the first action, he sent a mounted servant to the
rear to get him some claret—as he returned, Gen
Taylor was near and he called him up to take a
drink. While the servant was opening the
wine, a ball came and killed, horse and servant,
and smashed the bottle to atoms. The second
days action lasted only three quarters of an hour,
and from the very well chosen and strong posi
tion of the enemy, from its vast numercial supe
riority, being at least 4 to 1. lam inclined to
think the prowess of the Mexican troops has
been very much over-rated. Gen. Taylor speaks
of whipping them wherever he encounters them,
as a matter of course, either with Regulars or
.Volunteers. It issaid they will endirre an artil
lery light, at long shot even though it he de
structive, but cannot brook a charge. It is in
the last—the quick onset and “fierce lurzza” in
which our Volunteers excel. I am told the
Mexican were astounded at the shouts of our
army. When our artillery sent a raking shot or
one of their schrapnels burst in the enemies lines,
the Infantry would shout “huzza for the artillery,
give it to them.” When May charged at the top
ot’his speed, on La Vega’s battery, it was done
with a tremendous huzza. The Mexican never
opened their mouths, and were astounded at the
hearty Anglo-Saxon cheers, with which our
troops clove their way to victory. The officers
of our army expected to be whipped in both en
gagements, more particularly in the last one.
They say that our army looked like a- handful
before the immense line of the enemy extending
right and left, three times the length of ours.—
Tire re probably never was just such a fight be
fore or since. It was like the old Roman, hand
to hand fights. Not only Regiments, hut com
panies were scattered. Col. Mclntosh lost sight
of his Regiment. He came across a handful of
men of different corps, and charged at their heads
into a thicket of the foe. Every man was slain
and himself left for dead on the field by Iriends
and foes. He was shot and bayoneted. Poor
Capt. Page, who I see has passed away since he
returned to the States, was stretching out his
head to examine something about the enemy,
when the ball came, which so horribly mutilated
him.
Rut these incidents of the battle are drawing
me off from Metamoros. On arriving, we trot
ted about the streets for an hour and a half be
fore we could find a resting place. The town
is full of eating houses, French, Italian and
American—but no beds. After giving up in
despair, we went to a Fonda to get dinner, de
signing to resume our search. As this was the
first Christian meal we had eaten since we left
“ America” (as it is the standing joke of the
Regiment, to call the States) we should have en
joyed it even without the help of a bottle of-good
St. Julien, which was not wanting in the feast.
Having reached the end of onr Claret and come
to our dessert, we became very much softened
in our feelings towards the Metamorians, whose
town we had been for 2 hours vituperating as the
vilest of hot & inhospitable holes. It is astonish
ing how amiable a good dinner makes a mam—es
pecially after fasting on. hard bread and Pork ra
tions for a few Weeks. We set out again, and
after a while had the promise of a place to put
out baggage, and at ray particular request', of a
soft plank to lie upon. We then had to hunt up
a Mexican cart, and go with him a mile and a
half (we did not dare send him) to the boat for
our luggage.
We returned and took a regular Spanish Siesta
of two hou.s in a shaded hammock. In the
cod of the evening, Gen. Twiggs called to see
us, and we had’ a very interesting conversation
with him upon the-subject most interesting to us
—the war. The General looks in fine healtli—his
hair somewhat whiter than when I last saw him,
and like every other male in this region, connect
ed, with. the army, with prodigious whiskers and
moustaches. Idont think any of the volunteers
brought their razors along— Certcs, I never saw
Isuch crops of hair on human laces as meet you
here,passim.
After * long,'and agreeable conversation,
(Jen. jl’wiggs left us promising to send up.his
private baggage wagon and mules to take us to
l.is quarters to breakfast with him, after which
he would introduce us to Gen. Taylor. In the
evening we strolled round to the Theatre under
the management of no less a personage than
Mr. Hurt of Columbus memory. Tire audi
ence was not large—no females, and principally
men connected with the army. We staid out an
ac f or two of only passable playing, heard a few
tunes from the U. S.Tfragoon brass band, which
officiated as Orchcstru, and went home to seek
a place to roost.
Returning, we took the advice of a citizen ia
going, and kept the middle of the street—advice
intruded to keep us prepared for an attack—and
from whom, you will say? I am ashamed to say
from our. own countrymen. This town like all
garrisoned towns is full of vice. Gambling,
drinking, knocking down and robbing are the
fashionable amusements of the Harpies who in
fest and hang about the army. We got home
safely and found that two officers had departed
down the river and left two Cots to our enjoy
ment—a sheet was the entire bed furniture. We
loaded our pistols and went to bed on the grouud
floor with our windows open, where in spite of
musquitoes and thieves, we slept soundly ’till
sunrise. In the morning, we found Gen. Twiggs’
wagon waiting for us, and having donned our
best military harness tc call on the General-in-
Chief, we enjoyed Gen. Twiggs’ capital break
fast and thence proceeded to Gen. Taylor’s camp.
The regular army is miserably supplied with
tents. Some companies have not a rag to protect
them from the weather. We approached one
of the shabbiest we saw, and were told that was
Gen. Taylor’s. The old gentleman was sitting
outside under a scrub of a tree, on a block bench,
conversing with Major Monroe and the Quarter-
Master of the Post. He received us politely, but
without the least ceremony or fuss, and fell
straight to talking. Now, although the General
in-Chief does not possess very remarkable collo
quial powers, it was pleasant to bear him. He
seemed to have no secrets—talked ot his plans
and prospec t; said we should all go ahead very
soon ; he was moving the Regulars to Camar
go; the volunteers should follow ; should go
himself in two days; wanted to end the war
speedily ; spoke of the inadequacy of the trans
portation to his force ;-said we should whip the
enemy everywhere we met him ; ihe difficulty
was, he was afraid we could’ntfind.him—thought
if he eould get to San Louis Potosi, he could
end the War; did’nt know whether he could go
so far ; he had yet to explore the country, and
learn its capability for feeding an army ;- that an
army could only march a certain distance from
the water communication affording, it supplies;
thought that Vera Cruz and Tampico vVere the
points of attack, and that the only prospect of
terminating the war without the compulsory pro
cess of whipping the Mexicans, was through the
mediation of France or England.
Gen. Taylor is, as he has been described a
plain—a very plain looking man. lie looks
like an old planter, who had never seen a uni
form, much less had one on. I liked the old Gen
eral’s manners and appearances, although I must
confess that the latter scattered all my anticipa
tions of the halo of chivalric glory to be dis
covered in the atmosphere surrounding a mili
tary hero’s head. ‘
There are very few troops in this place. Ridge
leys battery, a small Squadron of dragoons, and
a few companies of Regular Infantry arc the
whole force. These are to move up the river
soon, and this town is to be garrisoned by one of
the Ohio Regiments.
All the twelvemonths volunteers who have ar
rived, arc below on the river. They are all, with
the exception ol detachments below, to be mov
ed up to Camargu as last as possible; where
Gen. Taylor taking with him 6,000 troops, two
thirds of which will be volunteers, will leave
them in a c-unp of instruction, and push on to
Monterey. We have some hopes (and have been
to-day using all the influence wc can bring to
bear, to effect it) that the Georgia Regiment
will form a part of the advance under Gen. Tay
lor. I am happy to inform my Georgia readers
that the excellent reputation earned by our Re
giment for orderly conduct, discipline and sub
ordination, is telling powerfully in our favor.
Col. Belknap who has beerr below examining
the Troops as Inspector General, reported to Gen-
Taylor that the Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio
Regiments were the best of the Volunteer force
he had seen. He told Col. Jackson himself,
that he never had seen volunteers who moved
with so much quiet and order, and that he knew
from the conduct of the men that the Regiment
was well officered. I could.have slated all this
on my own responsibility as fact, but am glad to
have the disinterested testimony of one of the
most distinguished officers in the army, to a fact
that fills us all with pride and pleasure.
In our Colonel, every day convinces me and
the Regiment that we might have gone through
and through it, and not found so fit a man for the
post.
Georg a very well knows that he has talents,
but his command have discovered that he pos
sesses a talent for military affairs of a very high
order. His authority over his whole command,
officers and men, without being in the least of
fensive, is complete. The Regiment is improv
ing rapidly under his instructions, and some of
the Columbus people who witnessed its first at
tempts at drilling, would be surprised to see how
steadily and handsomely they go through the
battallion manoeuvres of forming squares against
Cavalry, breaking into column and ploying or
deploying.
If the Regiment has a chance, you will hear
good of it. But alas! Gen. Taylor says, the
enemy will run when the American columns
reach Monterey, unless Parades a force
from the Capitol, and take command, and of this,
there is great reason to doubt.
But, I must stop. I fear my letter is longer
uoW than my reader will relish. We return to
camp to-morrow and I fear shall be detained there
.a month. F.
(C/ > Cur city readers and others, who procur
ed a copy of our “ Extra,” of Thursday last,
must bear with the repetition of Mr. Forsyth’s
letter in our paper to-day. The publication of
it was anticipated ent rely for their gratification, I
and we cannot deprive our numerous country 1
patrons of the same enjoyment.
So great is the interest manifested to hear from
the Army, and more particularly from the “ Geor
gia Regiment” that near five hundred Copies of
this last letter found immediate circulation. As
soon as the fact ot their being issued was known,
the rush to the office to procure- them “ was like
the waves when Navies me stranded"!”
It-would be well for our readers and-friends at
a distance, to call upon us when in town, or
’ send when they have opportunity as the latest
news can always be obtained at our office, either
in an Extra of the “Times,” or through our
numerous exchange papers. a
THE TARIPJ/jUPROTECTION TO DO
MESTIC industry.
In our last, we stated we would resume, this
week, the discussion of this subject. We had
an article written, which was mislaid, and not
found until too late for insertion, we will give it
in our next.
A SMALL, MISTAKE—MR. TOOMBS.
In looking over Mr. Toombs’ late speech on
the tariff, we find the following statement; “ Our
highest tariffs have uniformly brought the most
money into the exchequer; this has been the
invariable result from 1789 till now.” Now
we say our highest tariffs have uniformly done
no such thing, and that “the invariable result
from 1789 till now,” shows that Mr. Toombs
never made a more random assertion in his life.
Mr, Toombs contents himself with assertions,
we will give facts, unless Col. Benton has
made a mi take, (which as yet no one has charg
ed him with, that we are aware of,) in the tables
prepared by him in 1844. From these tables it
appears that in 1806, 7 and 8, the duties aver
aged a fraction over $16,291,000 when the
averaged rate of duties was less than half what
it was in 1834, 35 and 36, when we collected
le-s than wc did in the three first named years.
And in 1840, 41 and 42, with duties much
higher than in 1806, 7 and 8, and a population
nearly three times what we then had, we col
lected about $15,000,000 per annum. These
facts shew that high duties are not essential to
produce an abundant revenue. That men, even
more distinguished than Mr. Toombs, (and we
admit him talented) should occasionally be mis
taken in their theories is not, strange, but it is
unpardonable to make such blunders in their
facts, when it is so easy for members of Congress
to get correct information.
These blunders are the more inexcusable, from
the fact that they are sent in pamphlet form all
■ over Georgia, and thousands of copies distributed
through the whig papers, who always extol the
speeches of their Representatives without ever
correcting their errors. Is it strange under these
circumstances, that thousands oloui best citizens
should be ignorant upon the most important
question that has been before Congress for years.
It would be strange, if it were otherwise. Hud
we seen this statement of Col. Toombs’ in a
newspaper, we might have supposed it was an
error of the reporter, but we find it in the pam
phlet copy, sent by the Col. to his friends, and
written out or revised, no doubt by himself.
For the information of our readers wc give
below two tables, one showing the amount col
lect’d by imposts'each year from 1790 to 1843,
and other the amount of exportations for the
same time with the population at different peri
ods. From these tables o r readers can judge
how far high duties affect the commerce and rev
enue of the country. High duties diir inisli
both exports and imports, and seriously injure
the skipping interests and the Agriculturists, two
interests, wc should suppose, fully as much enti
tled to protection as the sugar nabobs of Louis
iana, or the Lords of the spindle at Lowell or the
Iron mongers of Pennsylvania.
LOW REDUCED DUTIES 1)1 TO 1808,
INCOME. EXPORTS.-
Years. Population. No. 1. No. 3.
1791 4,000,000 $4,309,473 $19,012,041
92 3,443,070 20,753,096
93 4,225,306 26,109,572
94 4,801,065 33,026,233
95 5,588,461 47,080,472
96 . 6,567,987 67,064,097
97 7,549,640 56,850,206
98 7,106,061 61,527,097
99 6,610,449 78,665,522
1800 5,300,000 9,080,932 70.971,780
1 10,750,778 94,115,925
2 12,438,235 72,483,160
3 10,479,417 55,800,033
4 11;098,505 77,699,074
5 12,936,487 95,586,021
6 16,667,698 101,536,963
7 15,845,522 103,343,150
8 7,000,000 16,363,550* Embargo.
High Protective duties 1817 to 1843.
Years. Population. Income. Exports.
No. 2. No. 4.
1817 9,000,000 $26,253,348 $87,671,569
1818 17,176,385 93.281,133
1819 20,283,608 70,112,521
20 9,638,000 15,005,612 69,691,669
21 13,004,447 64,874,382
22 17,559.761 72,160.281
23 19,088,133 74.669,030
24 17,87.8,325 75,886,656
25 20,098,713 99,535,388
2ft 23,341,331 77,590,322
27 19,712,283 82,324,829
28 23,205,523 72,264,680
29 800 22,681,965 72,358.671
1830 12,806,000 21,922,891 73,840,505
31 24,224,441 81,310,583
32 28,405,237 87,176,943
33 21,488,753 90,140,433
34 14,797,782 104,336,973
3.5 13,458,111 121,693,577
36 21,552,272 128,6633)40
37 26,325,339 117,419,373
38* 13,315,129 108,486,616
39 15,373,238 121,028,416
40 17,000,000 20,560,439 133,685,946
41 10,159,339 121,851,803
42 15,789,173 104,691,531
43 18,500,000 17,500,000
* Allowing our income to have increased in
proportion to population, we would now with
low duties have more than 40,000,000 for our
revenue.
LATE FROM THE ARMY.
By the arrival of the Steamer New York, at
New Orleans, on (he 13th, we have information
of Gen. Taylor leaving Matainoros for the inte
rior. He left on the sth, accompanied by his
force of Regulars. Lieut. Col. Clarke, is left in
command at Matamoros.
TROUBLE IN TIIE WIGWAM.
The Geo-gia Journal, Augusta Chronicle &
Sentinel, and Georgia Miscellany, all rabid Whig
Journals, are at logger-heads, as to what is the
principles of their party—Go it.
OFFICERS IN TIIE FRENCH NAVY.
The French Government appear to believe in
having a sufficiency of officers. According to a
recent regulation, the number of Midshipmen is
fixed at 3,000 !
PALO ALTO.
“ Kiv,” that most excellent of mankind, with
his original genius, has stewed up a most glori
ous Sauce, which he heralds forth, with the
above cognomen. It is- from the receipt of a
bon vivant, and capital for Bed’ Fish, Game or
Soups.
The end to its many virtues, would he as
difficult to find as that of the “Gordion Knot.”
Suffice to say —it is some !
A man went into a drug store, in New Or
leans, some day’s since, and desired to purchase,
four ounces of laudanum. The apothecary
thinking that something was wrong, gave him a
strong decoction of Rhubarb, which of course
made the individual very sick, and instead of dy
ing quietly he became exceedingly anxious to
get well again. The kind assurance of the a
pothecary, that he bad only taken a cathartic
instead of a poison did much to reassure him, an-,
by this time, doubtle**s he is quitq satisfied* with
life, troublesome as it is.
for t.ie times.
“ TUE TIMKSC'IIAJfGK AND WE
CilANUlj AVITU THEM.
Mr..Editor :—Can you t<■ 11 me whether the
Mr. Flournoy who nou) edits the Enquires, is
the same who edited it some ten or twelve years
ago, or has iny old friend, whom I knew in those
times as a good Nullificr and Anti-Tariff man,
been called to his long home, and let his Edito
rial mantle fall on the shoulders of some name
sake professing different principles, I remember
to have seen him in the Anti-Tariff Convention
in 1832, sustaining Free trade doctrines then so
ably vindicated by Senator Berrien, who now
stands on the same platform with Daniel Web
ster.*
In those days all parlies thought tariffs for
protection were oppressive ant \ tin constitutional.
What the Whig party think, at this time, can
best be Seen by their present editorials and not
by the Prospectus put forth iu days that are gone
by. LEE.
*llow are the mighty fallen, tell it not in Geor
gia, nor publish it in the streets of Columbus.
Below we give one of the Prospectus alluded
toby oar correspondent, issued about 1834.
How far, the doctrines therein set forth, corres
pond with the Enquirers’ editorials, we leave our
readers to judge. — [E. Times.
“ The Editors of the Columbus Enquirer have
though proper to issue anew Prospectus, in or
der to increase its circulation. We feel assured
that no doubts can be entertained with regard to
the course heretofore pursued, nor do we believe
that any pledges in. advance are now necessary,
either to secure our future fidelity to the cause
in which we are engaged, or win the better con
fidence of those Who stand by us in aid of that
cause; it may not, nevertheless, be improper,
here to avow the leading principles which will
govern us in our editorial labours.
We regard the sovereignty and the union of
the States, as alike essential to the permanency
of our political system; the liberty, safety and
happiness of the people. We look upon the
States as the creators, not the creatures of the
Federal Government; as the judges in the last
resort of every violation of the Constitution of the
United States by that government, its agents, or
officers ; and as clothed with separate and sov
ereign, power to interpose in any manner they
think proper to arrest the inarch of federal usur
pation, and protect the rights reserved to them
selves and to the people.
Wc consider the whole system of Tariffs, Inter
nal Improvements, Proclamations, Protests and
Force Bills with all the doctrines vpon which they
are predicated and sustained, as violating the let
ter and spirit of the Constitution, and tending to
the ultimate subversion of the powers of a free go
vernment.
Wc regard the principles and doctrines embo
died in the celebrated resolutions of Virginia and
Kentucky, as necessary to the preservation ofthe
rights ofthe States, & as containing within them
selves, the only cement that cau add either
strength or beauty to the complex political sys
tem of this country.
With this candid and open avowal of our faith
.and tenets, we will be readily recognized as the
advocates of those great and fundamental princi
ples of Government, held, promulgated and act
ed on by the State Rights Party of Georgia, To
this party, its friends, its interests and its princi
ples, the efforts of the Editors will be devoted
through weal or woe, with a faithfulness and zeal
at least commensurate with their knowledge.
The friends of State Rights in Georgia, are ap
prised of the existence of a paper in this city
which urges with zeal and ability, the great an
tagonist doctrines to those we have set forth. It
remains to be seen whether a liberal patronage
will enable us so far to extend the circulation of
the Enquirer as to aid extensively if possible, in
meeting and refuting the dangerous political
heresies that are taking deep root, and growing
strong even at our own doors. This indirect ap
peal is made with the more confidence, from the
repeated manifestations of approbation which our
friends have showered upon us in substantial’
form, during the career. We look to the State
Rights Party to sustain us in our course, for ex
perience has taught us we have no right to look
any where else.
Correspondence of tlxc Times.
Bosrosr, August Ist, 1840.
Any one not having visited Boston for several
years would find himself lost at the Worcester
depot, or anywhere in the outskirts of the city.
For the last five years this metropolis ofthe
“ Yankee Land,” has very largely increased its
borders. From the Cupola of the State House
or Beacon Hill, there is a full view of the city,
harbour and neighboring towns and islands.
Few prospects ail'ord greater variety and inter--
ests than this.
The Museum in Boston does} not differ ma
terially from that of New York, except that the
collection ot antique paintings is more numer
ous, and the minerals are more systematically
arranged.
The Natural History Society of Massachu
setts has a splendid cabinet of both native and
foreign minerals in Tremont street. The Slate
collection was made by Dr. Jackson during his
geological survey several years since. It con
tains some rare specimens.
But the most popular attraction in the city is
the Chinese Museum, which was brought over
some ten months ago. The Boston Tea Com
pany sent out a cargo of cotton cloth, and find
ing a return freight of Tea unprofitable, with
true i ankce tact, and with much care and re
search collected the magnificent Museum now
located at the Marlboro Chapel. This collection
is exclusively Chinese, comprising all their im
plements of agriculture and mechanism, domes
tic utensils, furniture and specimens of the fine
arts. In the latter, the Chinese manifest great
skill. There are more than 60 figures of the
size of life, made by Chinese artists, represent
ing all classes of society occupied in their vari
ous employments from the Emperor and Manda
rian, through all the intermediate grades to the
servant and beggar. The 400 paintings in oil
and water colors are alone worth a half day’s
visit. Two Chinese in their native costume arc
attached to the Museum, having accompanied it
from China. They have sallow, sombre faces,
with heads closely shaved, save a cue reaching
from the crown to Hie feet. One of them speaks
English, giving visitors any information in his
power. The other was a music teacher in his
native land, and at intervals favors his auditory
with a Chinese song. The Museum will be re
moved to N. Y. in the fall. It has had 130,000
visitors in Boston. When wc consider that it
exhibits the customs, religion, progress in the
arts, and personal appearance of 300,000,000 of
people—a people but recently known, and yet
whose interests arc every year becoming more
and more connected with our own, it is not sur
prising that it should be so liberally patronized.
Chaoong, one of the Chinese in the Museum,
predicts, “ that in fifty years there will he u
greater emigration from China to Oregon, than
there is now from Europe to this country /”
A favorite summer resort of the “ upper ten
thousand” of Boston, is Nahant, a peninsula of
some 400 acres, lying 9 miles North-east of the
harbor, and joined with the main land at Lynn by
a narrow beach 20 rods wide. Commanding a
delightful view ot the Atlantic, with a pure and
invigorating air, and affording an excellent op
portunity, for sea-bathing, it is a desirable retreat
in the heat of mid-summer. The Eeastem side
is a bluff 120 feet above the ocean. Like all
the promontories on this coast, in the winter
season it is-exposed to violent east winds. It is
a dangerous neighborhood to the sailor during
an eastern gale, and many an incident is told of
ships which have been.wrecked—
“ On rocky Nahant’s sea-girt shore.”
The shore is fortified by huge columns and
bowlders of porphery and greenstone, which at
.many points stand bristling over the waters, ex
posed to their unceasing surge, it requires sev
eral days ot the visitor to explore all the won
derful excavations, pulpits, bridges and caves ol
the peninsula. It detains the Geologist still
longer to examine the peculiarities of this unu
sual formation. There are three hotels at Na
harnt, the largest having been built of native
stene, and capable of entertaining a multitude of
guests.
About 40 private..residences, lnrlt in the Eli
zabethean Style with the agreeable appendages
of verdure and trees, are the chief ornaments of
the Peninsula. Some of them are the most
beautiful cottages I have seen. Iu one of these
on the verge of the waters, the accomplished
author of “ Ferdinand and Isabella,” and the
“ Conquest of Mexico,” passes the summer
months with his family.
The most expensive residence is that of Mr.
Tudor, which l>y perseverance and munificent
expenditure is surrounded by the charms of a
more congenial clime. Mr. T. was a pioneer
in the East India lee Trade, and is said to have
made the cool sum of 200,000 dollars in the bu
siness. His gardens abound with every variety
of vines, hedges, blossoms, and fruit and forest
trees.
I will not forget to mention, that Nahant af
fords many valuable minerals, and when the Co
lumbus Natural History iSocicty shall be organi
zed, I shall take pleasure in adding to its cabi
net a collection of the glittering pebbles of Na
hant. Yours very truly, ■ G.
FOII THE TIMES.
ERROR CORRECTED.
Mr. Edit r:—ln the article in your last paper,
in which Mr. Randolph’s name was used, 1
made a small mistake as to his age. I was think
ing ol the age necessary for a member of our
State Legislature. I might however have added
the names ol Alexander Hamilton and Col.
Croghan. The first was one of Washington’s
aids before he was ol age, and the other made his
celebrated defence of Fort Sanduskey before he
was as old as Mr. Polk’s Quarter-Master ; a
gentleman by the by possessed of the highest
requisite for his office—lntegrity.
HARRIS.
FOII THE TIMES.
WATER J WATER l ! WATER ! s J
io the City Council, and Tax payers of the
city of Columbus. Your attention is earnestly
requested to the consideration of providing some
means for procuring water by which the Colum
bus Fire Company’s services can be rendered
available in case of fire. A statement of the
present condition of the company may not be in
appropriate at this time. We have a fine En
gine and Tender with 600 feet of Hose, besides
Hooks, Ladders, Fire Buckets, Pipes, Torches,
Axes, Truck, &c., all in good order and ready
for service. Our company was Instituted in
February, 1843, and Incorporated in December
of the same year, Since the Institution of said
company, there have been twelve fires in this
city, amount of property destroyed in the same,
will fall very little, if any, short of $ 100,000, and
on which the annual receipts to our city by taxes,
would amount to about §4O0 —a sum nearly suf
ficient to pay the annual expense of providing
water, as proposed in a plan submitted by one
of the engineers of said company to the City
Council, nearly all of which, might have been
saved to the city, and owners ol property, if a
more liberal spirit had been manifested on the
part ofthe city lathers.
Messrs. Iverson Sutton proprietors ofthe
waterworks now in course of construction, have
proposed to furnish said company annually with
water in accordance with plan heretofore named
for the sum ol >SOO per annum, contract to con
tinue 14 years, it the present condition of the
finances ofthe city will not warrant that expen
diture; why is not some other pian proposed 1
There lias already been an outlay by the cily
and Fire Company of more than §2,000,
tor the properties belonging to said company,
nearly all ot which might as well have been sunk
in the Chattahoochee as to have been invested
in the manner that it has, if nothing more is to
be done by the city to render the company effi
cient in time of fires. Should the present Mayor
and Aldermen ueem the responsibility too great
for them to make further appropriations, or rath
er to make the necessary appropriations for pro
curing water ior the purpose of suppressing fires,
the Mayor should issue a Proclamation to the
taxpayer's end property holders, calling a public
meeting to take into consideration the foregoing
object, and to devise some means for remedying
the same.
I am aware that a contract Iras been made for
building a Hydrant near the Market House, at
a costol about §2OO, & which will only answer in
the immediate vicinity of its location. If ‘lie
building of any other is contemplated, I would
suggest the propriety ot the Council consulting
with the Fire Company before proceeding farther.
A Member of Coecmbvs Fire Comfaxy.
Fon THE TIMES.
Aluaxy, Ga., August 10th, 1846.
Mr. Editor.—l have been made the .subject of
unsparing abuse by the Editor of a paper pub
lished in your city, because of the part I acted in
tire late Dom cratic Convention of this district.
So far as this is concerned, I am content to let
it pass in silence, for I fear not the consequences
of his epithets where we are both known, and
besides, it is unbecoming to reply to such gross
personalities in a public print. The only portion
of the editorial which in my judgement demands
notice, is that part where I am charged with im
posing upon the Convention and obtaining the
passage of a resolution for the purpose of grati
lying my private malice which charge is made in
the following language—
“He lias hail the effrontery to impose upon
the Convention an expression of his own private
malice and the consummate art to carry it through
and obtain for it the endorsement of that dis
tinguished body.”
If there is an individual member of that Con
vention who believes the truth of the ioregoing
assertion I know him not. nor do I believe there
is one. I therefore conceive it unnecessary to
defend myself from such a charge before the
members of the Convention, nor do I design to
attempt such a thing lor the benefit of my accuser,
for if practicable under other circumstances he
has forfeited his right to expect such a thing on
my part. But to free myself from so unjust an
accusation before the Democratic party of the
district, I have thought a statement of thercu
sons which induced the committee
the resolution, uni the Convention t
getiier u ith a history of the if v -
not lie amiss. The Editor alluded
ed as proof of his charge, that 1 vH
by malice because “ of his strictures
munication over tire signature of
Albany Patriot.” It is true that lam the author
of that communication, which the Editor ofthe
Democrat learned through the imprudence of a
friend who merely surmised the authorship. But
this is a matter of little consequence, for had it
been at all necessary, I would willingly have aj>-
pended my name to the article or any other
which If might perchance write. I wrote that
article because the Democratic meeting ofßaker
county was ibltarged witJtyPncting “ mean and
contemptible” forNiot having its proceedings pub
lished iu the “ and with having been
induced to this coursa^ijMthe “ secret machina
tions of others. Irarffie sStpe number of said
paper, there was Jhother article styling the late
Democratic as oneSlo be under the
influence ot the grand Sanhedrim of lawyers,
together with otlier remarks of like character. I
defended tha meeting in Baker, and took the
liberty to do the same for those of the adjoining
counties, and at the same time took occasion to
remind the Editor that his course had not been
such as to gain for him the confidence of the
great body of the Democratic . party because of
certain conduct which I then pointed out. In
consequence of this article the Editor of the
Democrat considered himself deeply wronged
and replied in an Editorial of a personal char
acter, and of an entirely a different spirit with
tire article written by me. I refer all the aru
j cles alluded to above, to an impartial public, and
I am content to abide the decision of that public
a as to my right to make the remarks over y.e
signature of “ Philo, ” and the i rSber-spirit
with which they wire made. 1 pennec* rejoin
der to bis reply, not addressedbut to the
Democratic party, setting r &Ksub.stancc the
Statement above made, but vsrflWf | t( . Editors of
the “Albany Patriot” to
publish; and accordingly declined. Upon thin
statement of facts the Editor of the “Democrat”
lounds his belief of the malice I entertained to
wards him. With regard to him, it does not be
hoove me either to conicss-or deny his charge,
but with regard to the public, and the Democrat
ic party, allow mo to say that such is not my
standard ot action, and that I regarded our little
paper controversy as one of the things of the
past, for I looked down in charity upon his harsh
remarks, and utliibuled them either to a want of
knowledge of character and intentions, or an in
feriority of intellect, rendering him an eccentric,
both personally and politically. His subsequent
conduct lias convinced me that I was mistaken
in taking this view ot the matter,
his charge of malice to be true, yet I In pe I have
a greater sense o! justice and propriety to at
tempt to dupe a Convention of the party, even
had f the “consummate art” and the Con
vention the little sense to permit me to practice
it Ihe principles ol the party I consider para
mount to every other consideration in matters of
this kind, a nd while acting in Convention 1 should
endeavor to maintain those principles without
the slightest regard tothingsof a personal nature.
1 do not expect any credit for these sentiments
at the hands of my accuser, bat I w ill now pro
secute further the designs of these remarks, and
let the party judge whether I have thus attempt
ed an imposition upon the Convention. 1 was
not one of the original delegates, and was only
chosen the Saturday before the sitting ofthe Con
vention, in consequence of the illm \ of Dr. Sims,
and in conformity with a resolution of our county
meeting authorizing the delegates to supply the
vacancies. Therefore, there could have been
nothing studied on my part, for instead of hav
ing “two weeks” to prepare my attack upon the
“Democrat” I only had one day, and that was
spent in riding to Amcricus. Previous to the
sitting of the convention the “ Democrat” had
appeared with two editorials against the bill for
reducing the tariff. These bail been copied
botli by the “Southern Recorder” and “Georgia
Journal” two rabid whig prints, as democratic
authority. One of the papers containing one of
the Editorials was in the hands, at Ainerieus, of
an eminent whig, which he extolled very much
to the injury ot the democratic party, as deow>
cratic authority. Besides this, there appeared
in the columns of this paper, articles cutting
against its party on the subject of the Oregon
treaty. One abusive of Senator Colquitt, the
talented democratic Senator from this State.
Several others calculated to cast distrust and
suspicion upon the convention iu advance, were
penned from time to time.
Again, the Editor ofthe. paper was selected as
a delegate and failed to appear. Other intima
tions liad-been thrown out by him, that a course
ot “conciliation” should be pursued towards him;
thus allowing him to write as many anti-demo
cratic editorials as lie might see fit, about which,
the party had not a Tight to say a word, but must
treat him as speaking its sentiments, and “con
ciliate” him in order to keep him in the ranks.
After all these things had transpired, a conven
tion of the party met at Aruericus, and there
found the articles alluded to, sneeringly pointed
at it by our opponents. What course was to bo
pursued under these circumstances ] If we pass
ed by his anti-democratic sentiments in silence,,
they could be pointed at us during the campaign
as democratic doctrine. If we pointed out tlnr
particular offensive article, this would he personal.
It we attempted to dictate a certain course to any
press or man, we. would attempt that which wo
had no right to do. We then concluded merely
to declare that if any of our presses promulgated
anti-democratic doctrines, we wanted it under
stood, that the convention did not endorse the
sentiments. This course could not be considered
an attempt to muzzle the press as stated ill the
resolution, but impliedly admits the right of an
editor to express his sentiments freely, but at the
same time the representatives of tire jHiople in
convention met, had aiso a right to say what
they regarded as a faithful expounder ol demo
cratic principles. We had no objections to the
Muscogee Democrat abusing democrats or whips,,
or both, but when it holds itself out to the world
as the supporter of the democratic principles,
ami pursues entirely a different course, string up
petty'divisions and jealousy, either in causing
discontent in the great body ofthe party, is it an
outrageous abuse of authority for a convention
of the party merely to give an expression of opin
ion in a general way, without attempting to in
terfere with any man’s per.-onai rights] This
was the view taken by the rest of the committee
as well as myself, and they are men ioeapable of
being duped by my “consummate act” or so
just as to assist me in practicing such a fraud
upon the convention. This view ofthe subject
was unanimous with the committee, except that
one wished us to point out the paper and the
articles objected to, but he offer war Js agreed
with the remainder. Nor was this view ofthe
subject confined to the committee. Other mem
bers of the convention were consulted, the sub
ject was fairly discussed perfectly independent of
any man’s private niaUce, if there was any of
this ingredient there. All agreed as to the ne
cessity ofthe resolution, for no man opposed it in
convention. I presented the report of the com
mittee and afterwards made some remarks in ex
planation of it. As for making a speech “violent
and denunciatory” of the Muscogee Democrat,
the members of the convention will bear me out
that I did no such thing, but on tlqj other hand,
said that the committee did not pretend to enforce
the passage of this resolution, but presented it
with the suggestion of its propriety, and I stated
in substance the foregoing reasons for offering it,
cooly and calmly. The convention agreed with
the committee and passed the resolution unani
mously among the others.
This is the part which I chanced to act in the
late democratic convention, and for which I have
been singled out as the ma k for the Muscogee
Democrat to hurl its venomous shafts at. I had’
supposed ifhc (the editor) had been ambitious of
distinction in arraying himself against the con
vention or a particular member of it, lie would
have selected one whose years, experience and
ability, would place him in the front ranks instead
of one who is Lut a pioneer in the democratic
cause, hut who by the appointment of the presi
dent, merely performed his part in committee.
Dut I suppose he would not have been satisfied’
without the gratifying opportunity of making a
personal attack on some one—which 1 believe I
can as well bear as any hotly else, tho’ I find*
myself in his estimation occupying too promi
nent a position. If, in the course of my life, I
am not subjected to attack from any higher guar-
or for worse offence, my path will he ai
Bjmvny” (mr. The foregoing, I apprehend will
the subject of another personal attack in
of some column and a halt, ‘‘hut which
■n pass by me as the idle winds which I regard
Wot,” still I shall take such a course, as in my
judgment my rights demand.
Yours, &c.
RICHARD H. CLARKE.
COMMUNICATE!!.
DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
There is a paragraphedng the rounds of the
papers, to the effect, that Washington drew his
last breath in the last hour of the last day of the
last week of the lost month of the year, and m
the last year of the century, viz: Saturday night,.
12 o’clock, Dec. 31st, 17119.
Now it is well known to even’ School-boy, op
ought to he, that Washington died on Satur lay,
flic 14th of Dec. 1799. I did not suppose
the classic editor of the*Alabama Journal would
have fallen an error, o soon after the
Muemotechaist passed through Montgomery.
Piuvtkb’s Devil, CHuinhusTimes.
A Youtiilul Bob-logic. —“ Johr, did you
leave Mr. Jones umbrella at home ?” said a fond*
mother yesterday to her first born.
“ No, ma,” said John.
“ And why did you not son, did’nt I tell you
tol”
“ Yes, you did ma, hut did’t you tell me to
keep something fora rainy day, and as it looks
as if tomorrow would he wet. what be'ter thing
can I keep than an umbrella!”
The ‘ma’ smiled at John’s simplicity,.