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GOLUMBUS, GX,
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JPwr Cangrrii from the District,
ALFRED IVEUSON,
or MUSCOGEE coum.
The undersigned candidate* for Congress
ra l!ie 3d Congressional district, hereby agree to
waive all objections to voters on account of the
non-pay went of Taxes, at the approaching elec
tion—and they request that their friends in
the several counties in the district, be governed
by this agreement.
ALFRED IVERSON.
WM. H. CRAWFORD.
August 30, 1846.
lIWTS
Nkw-York.—V. B. Palmer, George Pratt,
Maaon 9t Tuttle.
PitumHit a **G. W. Carr, V. B. Palmer,
Bos TO a—V. B, Palmer.
Haunts Cflcm—Bordets &, Bruce.
Mario* Cotncrr—Wm. Mizell.
Rmnus Cocwtt—Henry J. Devon.
KOITORIAL. CORRESPONDENCE.
Rio Gra*dk, Near Burita,
August 34, 1846.
I hare been prevented by sickness, from writ
ing to you for several days. I am myself again
to-day, and shall report for duty to-morrow.—
Meantime I drop you a line to let you know of
our whereabouts. We have lost three more men
since my last. Gen. Samuel M. Rice, a lawyer,
and very respectable gentleman, who volunteered
as a private in the Canton Volunteers, died on
the 31st inst. He had been unwell ever since
we reached the Brasoa, was convalescent, and
want to Mctamoras to recruit his strength. Im
mediately on his return he was attacked with
measles, which in his feeble state of body over
powered him, Ho was a quiet, amiable and re
spectable man, very highly esteemed in the Regi
ment, and very deeply regretted in his decease.
You may remember that he was a candidate in
Columbus, for Lt. Colonel of the Regiment.
He was in Georgia, a General of Militia, and it
is reported in camp that he was induced to vol
unteer as a private by a sneering remark about
hi;.:Ua Generals in peace remaining ingloriously
at horns, in time of war. The names of the oth
er two deceased soldiers, are Cicero L. Brown,
ofllenry county, a member of Capt. Sargent’s
company and Wm. J. Conyer, of Capt. Turners
company from Bumpter county.
The measles have reached Head Quarters.
Our Colonel has had a right sharp brush with
•he disease, but his fins constitution and most
excellent nursing, (as good as a man could get
in the absence of those angels of comfort to a sick
conch—tite ladies) have carried him through,
and era expect him in a few days to resume his
duties.
Capto. Calhoun and Jones hate gone to Pt.
Isabel to recruit and get the benefit of sea-bath
ing. A number of the officers of the 2nd Batal
lion. composed principal.y of the up-country
companies have been sick; but are all recover
ing. Capt Gramling and Lieut Dobbs, have,
as I told you, gone home. We have had about
100 cases of measles,—of which only six have
died, and most of these traceable to imprudence
—-i circumstance I consider creditable to Dr.
Hoiey's medical skill. As far as Icanju lge,
he has treated Col Jacksons case with great judge
ment and address. The measles is on the de
crease, and we hope that we have had our largest
ah vc of the ordeal of sickness which we all had
a right to expect.
We are again the victim of a batch of reports
from the Head Quarters of the Army. The
story of McCullough's capture is false. We
jww hear, by a steamer just passed down from
Camargot that CoL Hays with his Regiment of
Texas Rangers had penetrated as far as Montc
rev, and had actually taken quiet possession of
that city. The story is, that Hays and Canales
discovered each other outside of the city, and a
few miles off, the latter being out and returning
from a scouting expedition; that both command
ers put spurs to their horses and pushed for the
Town—that Hays beat him, got in first, and
Canales moved off. I give you the rumor for
what it is worth. It is pretty certain however,
that Hays is in advance on that Route, that lie
is burning for distinction to make up for his ac
cidental missing of the battles of the Bth and 9th,
|ht something important is expected from
bins. If ha meets the enemy, I have no doubt,
he will answer the general expectation. It is also
•rue, that Gen. Worth has made a forward move
ment on the road to Monterey.
We are all becoming excessively tired of the
monotony and inaction of the Camp and anxious
to go forward. The foster we move, the sooner,
we hope, the war will be ended.
War have to-day a very pleasant change in the
vrestbnv After two dry weeks, with an inces
sant wind from the- same quarter, we were re
freshed this morning by a> pleasant shower. Ap
pearances indicate more rain. A day or two of
it, will put us ankle deep in mu’, and then we
•lull be wishing for dry weather again.
We bear that the Steamship “Alabama'’ has
arrivrdat the Brasos, and are looking anxiously
for tetters and papers from home. By the bye,
why am F not favored with newspapers from
you I'The last mail did not bring me, even the
“Times” from Columbus. A brother officer re
ceived it. ft wm of the sth inst. lam indebt
ad to the Editor of the Albany Patriot (I pre
sume) for that paper—and it is tha only Georgia
paper / geC- But for a friend in Mobile, Mr.
Charles Cullura, I should have received no pa
per but the “Patriot.”
Your types have made some blunders with- my
tetter of the 30th uit. I never write a word,
unless I know how ter spell it*—'Cannonry” is
a word not to be found in Webster’s Dictionary
nor in my vocabulary—certainly, I never wrote
it. I mention these things for my own justifica
tion, for I hold abuse of the “ Queens English’,,
an unpardonable sin in one who writes for the
public, a* it is an E Jitors’ business to do.
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Jliu Grasse, Near Burita, 36th Aug. 1846.
The reports of military operations from above,
which I gave you in my last continue to thicken
apses as u varied forms, with every arriving
Bat It waald take a whole sheet t detail
thesk. bis now aatd that Monterey was taken
by CaL Harney of foe Dragoons, who was snp
aoariiete at San Antonio- Again—that Har
|frV had marched towards. Monterey from San
Antonio, and had been ordered rmder arrest for
disobedience of orders, in lebVinghis post—that
Monlerfy is not taken but doubtless will be, so
soon as our cefamns can match to Its gates, and:
that all the small towns between Carriftrgo and
Monterey are taken. Again wo have rtmors of*
revolution and changes in the city of Mexico.
- These came via. Monterey. If you hive not
direct byTera Crus, before this teach
es yon, you may serf them down as fabulous.
We hear that trades is displaced and a Senor
Don Gomei—-somebody (report did not mention
his august name) has been lifted on the points
of the bayonets of the soldiery into his place.
new chief goes in upon the cry of “death to
and war to the knife I” What a
country is this j Here are
hostile troops pressing theil
- towns without the flash off
a guTnfr'tite. Je am of a sabre. Our soldiers,
and our munitions of war are peaceably trans
ported 500 milps, in unarmed boats, on a narrow
river and through a hostile country. Some few
of the men look a little fierce, while the great
mass continue to lie upon their lazy backs, and
smoke their cigarritos, or if they labor at all, it
is for the good round pay of the American Gov
vemment, with exalted ideas of the wealth
and power of the great Republic of the North,
which dan pay, feed and transport so many troops,
and which pays a Mexican the (to him) immense
sum of S2O per month for labor in the Quarter-
Masters Department, or as a fire, or deck hand—
feeling the want of parental care from and con
temning the weakness and poverty of their own
Government. Wfth the fact before their eyes,
that during*lhe lapse of three months since the
defeats of the Bth and 9th May, no ascertained,
energetic, manly effort has been made to put the
country in a state of defence agaitlst iteeriemies;
but, that, instead of this, their War President
has been afraid to leave his capital—their legis
lative authorities have been unable by force or
persuasion to procure the sinews of war, their
ports are blockaded, their country torn by civil
dissensions and its councils distracted by politi
cal anarchy. In such a state of things, what
are the Mexican people, themselves and what
are the World at large to think of the condition
of Mexico, and the probable results of this war ?
Here is a wide field for speculation, and we of
the camp, who are to take an active part in the
drama of the future, whose curtain is already
beginning to be drawn from the scene, are not
idle in forming our conjecture. The state of
things is so anomalous that my own speculations
change with the changing hues of each day’s
new reports. At times, I think the road to Mexi
co lies patent before oar advancing footsteps—
The government, I believe has not the power to
offer steady and supported resistance. I think I
have seen enough of the Mexicans to justify the
opinions that the amor pafriae burns very dimly
lin their breasts and that we may not expect that
fierce and bloody opposition springing from the
patriotic impulses of a brave people, which dis
tinguished their ancestors in old Spain, and
which during the War of the Peninsula, and in
every French invasion, have made the guerilla
warfare of Spain famous—-which dyed the moun
tains and vallies of the Pyrenees in French
blood, and poisoned the wells and streams of the
plains of the Provinces. The Spaniards hated
the French with a purely national inveteracy—-
the armed pcasansts ofthe Pyrenees, were bandit
soldiers at all times, and they turned their arms
and plundering propensities upon their own coun
trymen and levied contributions upon travellers
of all nations, when war did not offer them a
legitimate foe in the Frenchman.
The Mexicans are a different race. In them
the high Castilian blood is impurely tempered
with the gross alloy of African and Indian blood.
Indolent, ignorant, unenergetic and unambitious,
though capable of courage and fortitude, they
are not formed far gTeat achievements—And,
then, what care they for their Government ?
when.are they consulted, as to whether General
somebody, or Don somebody else, te ta be the
Supreme President of their military despotism ?
A sudden revolution in the city, gives to every
part of the wide-spread country its first intima
tion of a change of politics or of rulers. Is it
possible, with such materials to carry on a suc
cessful war, tven of defence 1 But these are only
only my surmises.
I have been interrupted by an interview and
conversation with a Pilot of one of the Boats
just from Camargo. He gives me information,
which he says may be relied upow. He states
that he was at Gen Taylor’s quartets, where he
went for letters, just before starting. The news
front Mexico was the subject of conversation.
Gen. Taylor stated, that Parades had been over
thrown, and that this Mr. Gomez something—
was President ad interim, until the arrival of
Santa Annas who was to bo invested with the
power of the State. Gen. Taylor expressed the
opinion that the revolution was farvorabletopeace,
and that there would Be no more fighting. In
formation had been received at head Quarters
from Col. Harney, who with 5,000 men - was
crossing the river 40 miles above Comargo, mov
ing towards Monterey—McCullough was sent to
join him, and Gen. Worth with the first and se
cond Brigades had moved in the same direction.
If all this be true; we shall see home soonerthan
we expected. For many weeks; we have made
up our minds, that 12 months would roll round,
before we should turn our faces homewards.
While our boys look with dutiful eyes towards
friends and house behind them, and wiR be re
joiced at foe signal to return; I Believe there are
but few, who would not be more pleased to re
turn'after a> good bout with the enemy. It seems
such a pity that all this hard drilling, and hard
Hiving; this exposure tar pouring rains and broil
ing sans, this risk of health and sacrifice of so
many lives,, as the Volunteers have already bu- ‘
ried in this- lonely soil, should be for naught.
Speaking of oar departed comrades, reminds me
of a few lines written By Col. Jackson; in pen
cil, upon his knee, a few moments after the al
most hourly funeral corteges from some of the
Regiments had passed our Camp. I enclose them
for publication. Our own dead lie together—a
few heads of the prickly pear of the country,
planted by friendly hands upon their mounds, the
.only raavsolenm to mark the soldier’s grave.
Col. Jackson hold's a most enviable and exalted
place iir the affections and confidence of his Re
giment ms reputation-goes for beyond it, in
deed. I have frequently heard him spoken of,
by officers of other States* as one of the best
Coftjtols in the Volunteer army, and when be
was rick, fits possible decease wot deprecated, as
a serious loss to the whole service. Fie was cut $
out for a soldier, He loves the science and is
thoroughly conversant with all his duties. It
|s his soldierly knowledge and: bearing, his ta
lents which make themselves manifest upon
every occasion that has caused hitnto be so high
ly appreciated By his command, and which has
converted fctf enemies info friends, in spite of
the severe discipline which he maintains and |
his censure of miaeondact and want of knoWl
edge, which falls with equal certainty upon the
soldier or the officer of Whatever grade. I haVi
known officers to come Off parade, swearing at
his tyranny, and smarting fffcder a reprbof, who
would next day be loud In their praises of him
as a soldier and a man-. I am happy to inform
you, that he has entirely recovered from the ill
ness which I mentioned in my last. He is up
to-day writing letters and will resume the com
mand in a day or two.
I have just heard of a terrible accident on one
of the Govdrrtment boats—the Enterprise. She
was going tip the river with a portion of the
Tennessee troops; had just left the landing,
when after the first revolution of the wheels*,
her boilers exploded, scalding 22 persons, mostly
’ soldiers. Several it is believed, Will die of their
injuries, 1 have not heard the names of the
unfortunates, but learn that ail the officers es
caped* “ f l .”
THIS MtUltL PASIC Anti) THE I*EO
PI.3S JUDGE IVERSON AND MR.
CRAIVFORD—THE south tribu.
‘f ARY TO Trtß NORTH*
Soon after the passage of the late revenue
bill as presented by Mr. McKay, the hue and
cry of the Whigs W?re raised, and their accounts
still continue to reacit us from every quarter of
our wide spread confederacy, stating, that the
country would be crushed, tfckt every species of
trade will be paralyzed, and that the .merchant
together with the manufacturer must inevitably
go down and share in the same common ruin.—
This Tariff act as seen at present by them, is liLe
a dark and ominous cloud rapidly spreading it
self over our canopy, and almost ready to burst
upon us. Indeed, to the Vision of some, it has
already dofie so, and is now passing athwart
our devoted land with a spreading desolation
that smashes to the earth the most venerable
fabrics and the mightiest growth of our soil,
scarcely leaving a shrub with which in thecoiirse
of time to hide its devouring ravages. But not
withstanding the awful warning thus given to us t
which calls upon manufacturers, merchants, la
bouring mechanics, and planters “to flee from the
wrath to come” yet it strangely so happens that
they one and all refuse. The manufacturer dis
charges not a hand nor does he work “ short
time” The merchant ungraciously refuses to
fail for the accommodation of any panic maker.
The laboring mechanic too, says he can’t afford
to suspend, for goods have suddenly fallen, lie
buys his supplies ori better terms than formerly,
and utterly refuses to give up a business prom
ising for the first time to be lucrative, whilst the
meretorioQs and industrious planter of the fertile
South who for Want of remunerating prices has
been long languishing under the paralysis of pov
erty, high taxation and debt, beholding the sudden
rise of cotton in all the great marts of the world
under the influence of our American tariff, feels
that he is soon to b placed on that proud emi
nence to Which liis industry, capital, and equal
laws entitle him, has raised his head and sneer
ingly says to these fat though greedy beneficia
ries of government, “ I also shall refuse to re
maingreen, and will not contribute 60 liberally
to the pap any longer.” Who then will stand
by and help these travelling whigs to blast
their trftmp, with the cry (through the land)
of ruin, desolation and death; Will the people
of the 2d district with the lights before them
vote for’ William H< Crawford. He who
would bring Back trpOn you the abominable
Tariff of 42, a U. 8. Bank, the payment of State
debts, and sanction all the other odious measures
of federal whigs. No! it cannot be, that the peo
ple of this district will elect such a person. In
the generosity of your feelings we are persuaded
you might vote for the man, hut never for the
measures. Mr. C. is young, meretorious and we
doubt not concientiously honest. He is too a
Southerner by blood and feeling, and if we elected
him, our only hope would be, that, like the no
ble Chappell, he would see the error of his way,
“ come out from'among the foul party” and ad
vocate the true interest of his country and his
constituents. But Why thus discuss the merits
of a whig. We have a candidate of our own.—
I Upon the Hon. A. Iverson the unanimous choice
of our convention has fallen. He is a democrat by
instinct.- In this cherished son of Georgia the
people may confide, and feel proud in being able
to find such a’ representative. He has a head
for the discrimination of right, the nerve to stand
by his principles, and the talents to enforce theim
He will do much to cause the Ark of Govern
ment to ride the angry flood in safety, and to
avert the abolition dagger from the institutions
of the south; to stay the hand of these apparently
deluded people, who, like fierce wild animals
turned loose for a time, are trying to desolate the
blooming garden of American brotherhood. It
: is true the capacities of Mr. I—have not been
yet tested in the national assembly, but we may
judge of them from his position at home. Who
stands higher than- him as a lawyer. Who has
occupied the judicial bench with more coflsu
mate ability, and who in his own time has ever
■ surpassed him in our State Legislature, there,
we remember to have seen him soar aloft; there
his glowing heart, brilliant faculties, and gener
ous spirit have often appeared conspicuous;
there his eloquent tongue has never been beard
reprobating a measure but with strains of finish-,
ed and lofty rebuke, striking the minds of
men in consequence of their eloquence and apti
tude,- with astonishment and force; there too
1 his creative powers have always been successful
in anadising the subjects brought before him,
and rising with the theme as it became im
portant and great into a corresponding roagni
tuderand splendour. We want such a maninCon
gress. Our foe is watchful as the Tiger when
preparing to pounce upon its prey, and perhaps
• equally as treacherous* The manufacturers are
’ determined not to be content with half the loaf.
They are again fonning and preparing for an
other charge. It will require the vigilence of
our greatest men- to detect their plans and the
most prompt activity to thwart them. The first
feature that stikes us in the character of those
men are their untiring industry restless activity,
and inordinate avarice. This hitter feeling has
grown so strong, together with their love of pow.
er that they have at length-dared to premeditate
upon the subjugation of the South by intermed
dling with our institutions and undervaluing our
property. The spinner and merchant together,
have controlled-the great Stople of the South
for-years, which they boy at a- lo6s to us almost
invariably, and pay beck m the manufactured
article at a profit to-thenr of some 50 per cent or
more. If we complain of this unequal mode of
exchanging we are called bed citizens and un
friendly to our country for refusing to patronise
and protect “home industry” even our own
Southern whigs. as if irr the pay of those cadave
rous northerners join in the unholy cry, and like
the army worm that is now stripping the green
fields of the land, they rise in myriads, to
scourge and if possible to stop even the wheels
lof government itself. Is it too much id s4y this?
Lodi at the conduct of Mr. Davis in the SertAle
lof the tjT. 8. on thA last .day of the session, and
! say if *you can thit be would not sacrifice his
country rather tltui see the administration pros
per; look at the pampered and charity fed cham
pion of the manufacturers, on a similar occasion
refusing to vote a dollar though the enemy of
his country were ready to batter down the walls
Os the Capitol, and look at our whig Editors from
the National Intelligencer down to every cross
road print in the land, now more faithfully en
gaged in sustaining the cause of treacherous
Mexico than are her own citiaeris} according to
Mr. Adams—one more step and they join the
enertiy. Add is this the party in favour of
which, you voters of GeO. are About to exercise
your right as freemen at the coining election.
The Georgia journal of Ist inst. says—“ We
take this occasion to tender our thanks to the Col
umbus Tillies, for publishing the whole of our
article, written two or three Weeks since, defin
ing the position of the Whig party of Georgia
upon the tariff. The Times evidently endorses
or approves of the principles it contains, and we
are pleased that it does so—and that it will, in
future, not attempt to misrepresent the -Whig
party, when it has such evidence As is furnished
—and We hope, also, it Will not advocate princi
ples different from those put forth in the article
published.”
It is our opinion that there is, to sAy the least
of itj a little want of generosity in the JournAl
when it charges the “Times” with misrepresent
ing the Whig par y—at least until it shall spe
cify in what the misrepresentation consists.
How are we to judge the sentiments of the par
ty ? Certainly by the principles and measures
advocated by those put in power by the party.
Taking *his rule as our guide we should judge
that the Whig party in Georgia is in favor of a
protective Why? Because its representa
tives in Congress against the tariff of ’46,
thereby showing the*T preference for that of’42
which is, we believe, to be protective
—-at all events we have the woril of the Magnus
A polio of the party that it is Sti. Mr. Berrien
refused to vote for the tariff of ’42, ho said, be
cause it was too protective. The Whig’ repre
sentatives in Congress toted against it, we sup
pose, for the same reason. Now if the Whig
party of Georgia sustain these men, does the
Times misrepresent when it sAys that party is
in favor of a protective tariff? But this is not all
the evidence. The Augusta Chronicle & Senti
nel which seems to consider itself, and which
seems indeed to be recognised ‘by at least many
of the most prominent men of the party as the
orthodox organ of the party, charges that the
Journal misrepresents the party, and advocates
openly, we believe, as does every other Whig
Journal of the State, the doctrine of protection,
and contends that this is the doctrine of the par
ty. Whether, therefore, we take the acts ofthe
constituted representatives of the Whig party,
or the sayings of the majority of their newspapers
as the criterion by which to form a judgement,
we think the Times is justified in saying that the
present position of the Whig party of Georgia
places it in the advocacy of protection—yea “pro
tection for protection’s sake.”
We ate with the 1 Journal, however, in this—*■
we think it is rigid; in saying that the present
position of the Whig party of Georgia is not
justified and sustained by its latest expressions of
opinion anterior to the last session of Congress;
and there is the origin of the difference between
the Journal and the Glironiele & Sentinel. The
Journal takes thepositioii of the Whig party as it
Was in ’42, while the Chronicle takes it as mani
fested by their acts in ’46; they are m bur opin
ion both right—the position’ of the party was,
in ’43, in opposition to a protective tariff So
far as a judgment as to the position of A party
may be formed from the acts of its organs, its po
sition is now in favor of a protective tariff—it
remains for the voters of the Whig party at the
October election to show whether they are will
ing to occupy the position in which their argents
have placed them before the world.
The arguments and the anthority of the Jour
nal are cogent—evfen unanswerable to prove the
position of the Whig party of Georgia in ’42,
though we confess ,we do not think them very
much in point as to that position in ’46, arid we
apprehend that a slight recurrence to the past
would satisfy the Journal, that proof, that a party
or even a public journal, occupied a particular
position At one time would be no evidence that it
occupied the same position at any other time.
If the Journal will be silent for a moment and
prick up its ears, it may catch some of the dying
sounds of its own voice whieh may satisfy it of
, this.
The Journal could prove By most mcontesti
ble evidence that what now constitutes the
Whig party of Georgia Was early in 1840, most
uncompromisingly opposed, both to Harrison and
Clay—yet that Would not prove that it did not
support most enthusiastically, the one in the
same year and the other in ’44. The Journal
might very easily satisfy itself that in 1833 no
man who had voted against a reduction of the
tariff could have got one hundred votes in either
Stephens’ or Toombs’ district, or in both of them.
Yet that does not prove that they will not both
be elected by overwhelming majorities in 1846
and if they should be, we think it may be very
safely charged that the Whig party in those dis
tricts has ceased’ to’ be “Opposed to a tariff for
protection:” We thtiik that the Editor of the
Journal may easily satisfy himself that the time
has been when no inducement would have brought
him to the support of men who had- voted a- did*
Stephens and Toombs on the tariff biff of’4s,
and yet it does not prove that he will not support
them now.
We Contend therefore, that the Times has not
misrepresented the Whig party of Georgia in
charging it with advocating protection. If the
acts Os the Whigs in the Legislature on ’42 were
evidence of the position of the Whig party upon
the tariff (as We admit they were) the acts of the
Whig representatives in Congress in ’46 are evi
dence of the position of the Whig ideas, and
will be evidence of the position of the mass of the
Whig party, if they should be sustained ; and
and so long as these men are sustained by Whig
papers, and the papers are sustained by the
body of the Whigs we have a right to infer that
they sustain the acts and opinions of these men.
The Whig patty proper, may therefore, be set
jdown at least for the present, as the advocates of
protection, nevertheless, there is a large portion
of those who have heretofore acted with toe par
ty who have gone as far as they will; men who j
will abandon party when they are satisfied their
party has abandoned their principles, and the
Whig-.patty in Georgia will before a great while
be found in a very small minority.
The Journal says that it would prefer the tariff
of ’42 to direet taxation, and desires to know
what position the Times would occupy in that
issue—and hopes there will be no dodc mg. The
Editor ofthe Times as the'Editor of the Journal
is aware, is now upon the Rio Grande in the
s-rvice of the country, and those who occasional- *
ly contribute to the Editorial columns of his pa
pers have no’authority'to say what will be its
position when that issue shall be made, this much
however, xfre have no hesftatioh in saying; in
the capacity of Editor or citizen he has manifest
ed do disposition to dodge wheri the interests of
the coutilry have required the services either of
his pen or arm, and if that isstie should ever come
he will be found occupying the positiori which
the interests of the country reqUi e.
But why does the Journal desire td know
what would be the position of the Tinies upoti
that subject 1 It is not now a qiiestidn before the
country, and we should suppose the experience
of the Journal might have taught it that it is
very frequently bad policy for a newspaper to
declare in advance, what it will or will not do—
Opinions may change with the lapse of time, or
circumstances may render it impolitic to act upon
them. If those who now occasionally contribute
to the Editorial department of the TimCs or even
the Editor td declare riow either
for dr against direct taxation, it would amount to
nothing, because before the issue is made “ cir
cumstances may alter cases*’ and of this, we have
many examples; Does the Journal consider
it a question of sufficient impdrtancetd the coun
try to be Calmly and dispassionately discussed
before the people ? It frequently harps upon the
odiousrtess of direct taxation and the evils td be
apprehended frdm it. Will it dpen its columns
for the discussion df that subject 1
FdREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
We invite particular attention to the interest
ing letter from Edinburgh df aiir European Cdr
respondent—This letter reached us by the Stea
mer Britannia. From the same able pen wd
shall receive frdm time to time, communica
tions;
COOil; ASSDfiANfjfi;
A whig candidate for an important post, who
lives somewhere down in Sumpter, was as
ked thd other day if he “had been invited to the
Blakely Meeting;” Drawing himself up With
dignity, while his lips smiled in scorn he answer
ed “No. they know better than to invite me
there.”—Dont be afraid brother democrats give
the boy “a horse.”
M T.
We-are pleased to see that our able and effi
cient Mayor pro tem the Hon. John (jfuin is
holding the Mayors’ Court authorised by the
Legislature. They have been long needed, and
looked for by our citizens with anxiety—The
effect is evident iu the.suppression of many dis
agreeable annoyances.
THE REV. MR. WINKLER.
This young, hut highly talented and yet to be
distinguished divine, left our city on Wednes
day last for Savannah,-
Circumstances of which we are ignorant and
which it boots us not to kftoW, has led to the
resignation of the pastorship of the Baptist
Church, in this city, and to the call of another
pastor. We are informed however that they do
not in the slightest degree reflect upon him.
Mr. Winkler during hie stay in this city, has
endeared himself to a vast number of our citi
zens of all denominations, by his pious and up
right walk, and by his urbane and courteous de
meanor ; a purer, or a holier man does not
breathe the air of Heaven.
The Church to which he may be called, will
find themselves in the possession of a jewel
which even the good may covet. As fire puri
fies and brightens the finest gold, so the troubles
which beset the path of every one in their youth,
will but prepare this divine for higher excellence’
until he becomes the purest and brightest of
them all!
Evidence of moral worth.
The New York Coroner held an inquest on an
unknown man found drowned nr the Hudson
River; He is announced as “ a good man gone”
from the fact, that a newspaper receipt was found
in his pocket;
BEET SUGAR;
During the past year, there was manufactured
in France, from- the root of the beet 88,000,000
lbs. sugar.
There are three hundred and six manufacto
ries of beet sugar in France.
GIRARD COLLEGE FINISHED;
The ceremony of placing the crowning stone
on this building, took place at Philadelphia, on
the 2d inst. The corner stone was laid thirteen
years ago. It is the largest and most beautiful
building in the United States.
PANIC FACT.
The Mayor of the city of Boston, at a late
celebration in honor of the commencement of the
building of an aqueduct in that city, by which
: the masses are to be supplied with water, stated,
that the reduction-of the late duty on Iron would
enable Boston to procure the Iron for the aque
duct, at an expense of half a- million- less than
formerly—a few manufactures may sutler, but
thousands are benefitted;
C AMBRIDGE CaLLEGE’ LIBRARY.
The number of volumes in this lib ary amount
to 51,000. In the department of American His
ory alone, there are 5,000.
Gen. Gaines has selected New York as his
Head Quarters.-
THE OCEAN RACE.
The steamer Cambria which started from Bos
ton on the same day that the Great Britain left
New York, arrived at Liverpool after a passage
•£ 10 days and 16 hours.
The Great Britain was 13? days upon the pas
sage, but was detained at Sea one day repairing
machinery.
The Cotton Worm. —A cloudy, damp state
of the atmosphere, accompanied by a rapid and
sappy growth of the cotton plant, seems to
favor the procreation of these all-mouthed little
.gluttons. They are deposited by a butterfly, in
the twilight-of evening, on the tender bod at the
end of a branch of the cotton plant. By mor
ning the egg is hatched* and immediately the
Work- of destruction commences. They are then
nut larger than a common sewing needle. They
start down the branch of the plant, perforate the
first square or form; which in a’ few hours spreads
wide open. Their growth is very rapid, and
according to their age and size so they attack
the boUs of different ages and sizes. One Worm
will i estroy about twenty squares and bolls if
they are convenient to the worm’s access. If
the weather turns-off veFy hot and dry, they leave
the cotton and go into the ground, like the col
ewort worm, and come out and eat in the night
and return again when the ertn shines hotly.
They Cannot survive hot and dry weather. In
the space of two weeks they can destroy one
third or more of the most promising crops of cot
ton. And the richer the land and the more
luxuriant the crop, the more complete ia the
destruction they produce—Gainesville [Ala]Pi
lot.
Snake ix the StoMaTh>~A correspondent
of the Bunker Hill Aurora'states that James Oli
ver, of South Reading, on Friday last, ejected
from htfe stomach a live snake, one foot and four
inches in length, which was probably swallowed
many years ago. Mr. Oliver has been sos sever-”
al years subject to fits.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Tlines.
No. 5
WashiXgtDx Citt, Sept. Bth, 1846.
Perhaps of all things public which have been
the subject of conversational comment in Wash
ington during the last week, the identity between
the tone arid spirit of the oppositi n to the war
with Mexico and of that to the last war with
Great Britain, h dds the most prominent place.
Among others, I have been so struck with the
spirit which seems to actuate Giddirigs, Stevens
of your State, Culver of New York, Charles
Francis, Addms of Massachusetts, fitid the other
leaders of the opposition school of politics,
generally, as Well as tviih that of the National
Intelligencer, the New York Tribune, the
Georgia and North Carolina federal newspapers,
&c., that by way of testing their patriotism, or
rather want of it, I have been looking over feder
al reminiscences of times past, to see whether
they do or do not come exactly up to the Hartford
convention notch.
It id needless to quote front the dnti-Anicrlcan
newflper articles or speeches written or delivered
within the last six months by citizens o’fyo'ur
rotate, because they are familidt td ydUr readers.
But as the Idtter may not have seen what the north
ern co-labdrers of the Georgia Federalists are say
ing and doing, r rid mdy not remember what their
fore-fathers said and did in 1812 arid 1813, it
may be well to quote these parties. Td begin
then. In 1814, the Bostox Gazette discours
ed as follows concerning the then existing war:
By the magnanimous course pointed out by
Gov. Strong, that is, by withholding all volun
tary aid in prosecuting the war, and manfully
expressing our opinions as to its injustice and
ruinous tendency, we hart arrested its progress
and driven bark its authors to abandbn their in
famous schemes, and to look anxiously for
peace.” * * * “ &ny federalist
whb Ibans money to the gbvrnment must go and
’ shake hands with James Madison and claim fel
lowship with Felix Grundy!! ! Let him no more
call himself a federalist and friend to his coun
try !!! He will be called by Others inf a
mous!!!”
Yorir readers will hardly fail to perceive that
the Editor’s opinions of the infamy and injus
tice of that war, on our part, are identical with
the views of the leading whigs ol your State con
cerning the existing war with Mexico. Nor
can orte help being struck with the similarity be
tween this attempt to injure the credit of the
Gfovernmenf, to cripple its financial ability to
defend the rights and honor of the country, and
the similar efforts of the National Intelligencer
and its assistant federal papers to embarrass the
government at this day, by bringing its credit
into disrepute through the publication of fats£
accounts rind idle rumors concerning its failure,
to provide funds at New Orleans anti other points
where money is requisite to meet war expenses.
True ; they do not beseech their felloW federal
ists to withhold loans ; but only beCausririo loans
are asked. Yet they attack the credit 6T the
government wherever and whenever they fancy
it to be in any manner vulnerable.
But to quote further—on the 23d of July 1812,
thiify-five days after the declaration of war, the
Reverend Dr. Gardiner, rector ofTrinity Church,
Boston, delivered a discourse, from which I
make the following extract :
“ It is ft war Unexampled ia the history of the
World; wantonly proclaimed on the most friv
ulous and groundless pretences, against a nation
from whose friendship we might derive the most
signal advantages, and front whose hostility we
have reason to thread the most tr-- m ndous losses.”
“ Let no consideration,- my brethern , deter
you at all times, and in all places from execra
ting the present war . It is a tear unjust, fool
ish and ruinous.”
What could possibly be in better keeping
with the sentiments expressed in Mr. Stevens’
speech against the present war ; copies of which
by tens of thousands have been scattered far and
wide in your State to effect the approaching elec
tion 1
Gidding3, too, the notorious in a
late speech given utterance to a sentiment which
one would almost think is copied line for line
from some favorite passage in Steven’s anti-war
homily. Here it is :
“ This is the war of the Executive of the U
nited States, independent even of our hair
bra ned C< ngress, against every principle of
right. All the responsibility rests on the Pres
ident and his abetters.”
The Reveille, a federal paper published in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, said lately of the
existing war:
“ The war (crusade rather) We deeply regret
as unworthy the American natron. Many lives
are to be sacrificed, and many millions of dollars
are tcf be squandered—for what? Why, that
James K. Polk and his adherents may make po
litical capital; and he seems determined to make
it in all sorts of ways.”
At a meeting, or rather convention of Unitari
an Clergymen, held on (he 27th of last May, in
Boston, the following “doctrine” was preached:
“ Recent events-, however, have and satirised us
of this error, and vVe have learned with shame
that c tizens of this State, even before the requis
ition from the President was made public, vol
unteered their services id aid in carrying for
ward this unrighteous scheme bf slaveholding
demagogues /”
They hope—“ That the Executive of the
Commonwealth will refuse, as did one of his
predecessors iri the war of 1812 a'nd 13, to send
;troops away frotri our territory.”
- If the people of Georgia want further evidence
to become satisfied that the spirit of Federalism
in 1846 is strictly identical with that of 1812 ;
this same address furnishes it; for it will be per
ceived that in the following short extract, they
opcrtly admit themselves to be Hartford Conven
tionists in principle, and their opposition to this
War to be founded on real old fashioned Hartford
convention grounds. They say—
“ The Hartford Convention, that great bug
bear to modern politinians, comes up before us
with its embodiment of true patriotism . puf’ing
to shaihe the readiness and zeal with which our
people respond to a call to go forth into a contest,
with Which that of 1812 and 13 bears no com
parison, as unjust, iniquitous, and indefensible.”
If the whig masses of your State have no*
made up their minds from reading Stevens’
speech, that the Hartford convention was indeed
n THE EMBODIMENT OF TRUE PATRIOTISM,”
as these whigs of Boston pronounced it on the
27th of May last, it seems tome they must be
satisfied that Giddirigs, Stephens, and Cos., “in
their opposition to the Administration forget
their country and condemn themselves ” as the
great Samuel Dexter said iri 1814 of their proto
types, whose precious anti-American efforts, for
ced him to break with, and denounce them his
former political associates.
I might follow up this theme with column after
column of quotations, going to’ show that the
whig leaders stand toWards their country in this
war as the federalists did in the last. But sos
fear of wcafryihg your readers who look to my
letters rather for news than politic* Yet, I
dan Jfot leave it with out solemnly calling on the
people ofGeorgia to pause, ere they too, lie coaxed
[to break ranks with the particular followers of
Charles Francis, Adams and Uiddings,
blackflagof opposition to their own country on
a question of war with a foreign nation, while
that war is actually raging. I know they an
told that it is but opposition to a democratic ad
ministration, as the federal leaders of ’l2 and ’l4
insisted that their opposition was but to the
administration of the illustrious Madison, True,
the tester of the motives and actions of all men
has bounded them Hi public estimation, as deep
dyed traitors. God forbid thrit the people of any
State of the glorious South should permit them
selves thus to be led blind folded, as it were, to
take place side by side with the Hartford con
ventionists on the gibbet offlitUrc popular exe
cration.
The Secretary of State who went to Saratoga
Springs on this day week, has not yet returned.
Jhe Post Master General is still absent. Mr.
Bancroft has been qtiite ill for ftedrß a week,
but is recovering. lam now inclined to think
that He w ill retire about the last cf iHis month,
and that the Attorney General.-hip (which will
be vacated by tne transfer of Mason to the Nafy
Department) will be filled by Franklin Pierce,
late Senator from New Hampshire. No better
selection could possibly be made. He is a re
publican Df the right stamp; a mSn of talent,
legal eminence and great personal popularity
throughout the north and edst, w'herc well
known.
The board of Regents for the Smithsonian In -
stitute held their first meeting in this city yester
day. They continue to sit from day to day un
til the organization of the institution shall have
been completed and therr plans for the future
Shall be matured; All the members of the board
except Messrs; Preston df South Carolina and
Breesc of Illinois, are present. It took them two
dnd a half good long hours to read letters of ap
plications arid recoriimeridaticrfi sos their Secreta
ryship, by their title, alone. That is—“ letter
from A recommending B.” So you sec, there is
still “a few more” of the sort of p itribts left who
desire—nay—who burn thus to s'crVe their coun
try. These applications are mostly from ci-di
vant distinguished men who I should think, ask
the office as a reward for what they may have
been Ordorie, rather than for what they will or
could do towards filling it as it should be filled.
Arnold Nandairr, Matthew St. Croix Clarke,
Thos. L. Smith, late Register of the Treasury ;
Dow, late publisher of the fishy paper here ;
Francis Markee, the corresponding secretary of
the National Institute, emphatically the hum
bug of the age, rid a’ host of such men are “ oiF
the anxious benches” in connection with this
office. The name of Caleb Cushing has been
suggested, it is said, for the office. This, I un
derstand, has been done without his knowledge 7
arid although there a'rc points about the man;
personally and politically, which arc by no means,
to my taste. I trust the choice may fall on him.
He is famfcd for his thorough kriowlcgc of such
literature and science, as it will be the duty of
the Smithsonian institute to disseminate ; and 1
the Secretary will be the active age:its—the
thinking man—to carry out its purposes.
It is understood that a spacious and elegant
bhilding in all respects suitable for the institu
tion Will be erected on the public grounds south
of the River,’ There are tvvo lota or “moles”
there, suitable for the purpose, one of which con
tains thirty otte and a half, and the other fifty
three acres, which’ will of course be improved 1
and ornamented, &c.; as the grounds around the
Capitol and Presidents’ House. The location
of the Institute in this city, will therefore add 1
much to the already Very delightful Jurdins
[publique with which we are blest.
! The Federalists in this city, as as at the
■ North, are hahgirrg their lips at the tenor of the
i commercial advices by the last two steam ships’
i from Liverpool, winch go to show that the repeal
of the corn laws arid the reduction of the Ameri
can tariff are, at once affecting the interests of tlio
i American agrictilturlistas the anti-protectionists
;of this country have all along predicted. The
prices of Bread stuff’s, and indeed of all American 1
provisions are rising with the steadily increasing
demands for them in England. For Indian corn,
for instance, the English demand is becoming so
extensive, that it has already gone up to 68 cts.
a bushel for best southern, in New York. This
advance on this article alone, will be worth mil
lion of dollars to the farmers of Georgia before
the end of the present year. Your readers will
hardly fail to see how soon the practical opera
tion of the repeal of the corn laws has routed the’
humbug of Mr. Charles Hudson, that “Ameri
can agriculturists cannot compete with those of
Europe and in tree market;” the recent sudden
full in the New York prices of iron, staple cot
ton, and w oollen goods, carpeting, and in fact of
every description of heretofore protected mer
chandize, proves beyond a shadow of doubt, that
low duties make low prices; whig humbugs to’
the contrary, notwithstanding. Yet, their siliy
humbug, that “high duties make low prices ’
was up, to this time, the strong cord of Federal
ism in its attempt to coax the masses to submit to
being taxed in order to swell the fortunes of al
ready plethoric capitalists. In the chagrin of’
the federalists referred to, I can trace an aban
donment of all hope of success to future efforts’
to procure (he re-enactment of the mis-narned
“protective” system, if any such may be altempt
i and.
1 Washington is still the very paradise of dull
ness—one may stroll from the presidents house
to the capitoi at * mid-day without nice ing two
dozen persons. Nothing is being done in either
of the Executive departments of interest to your
readers'. LOWNDES.
A Cl'KlDlS PREACHER
The favorite preacher rnNew Orlean#is Par
son C . He belongs to no denomination, sub
scribes to no creed, fant preaches the gospel on
his own hook, and with great talent and elo
quence. Meet him in the Ft. Charles, and he
will take a julep with yon, smoke a regalia,
play you a string of billiards, beat you a gan c
of tenpins, and, if not engaged to preach a ser
mon, w ill accompaynv you to the theatre.
Preaching, one Sunday, after the last hymn
had been sung, and jrist before pronouncing
benediction, he said;
“Mv btethern, I have the pleasure of diving
notice'that Mr/Booth, the tragedian, has ar
rived in town; and will perform in his great part
of “ Richard the Third,’ this evening, over at
the St. Charles Theatre. Mr. Booth is consid
ered a great man, and a very excellent actor, and
those who wdsh to see a good performance, can
not do better than to go and sec him. I shall,
also, v.’ith the leave of Divine Providence, give a
lecture in this house, at the same time, ami such
as p,refer to come to the Church, I shall be happy
to sec present.” He concluded with the usual
form of benediction.
No crie, except the few strangers presents
seemed surprised. Jhe I heatres are open al
ways on Sunday nights, and’we are riot aware
that the 1 preachers ofeven the strictest sects make
anv opposition to an established custom. As an
innovation, it would be of bourse a very different
affair. Strange place, New Orleans! Some of
our northern men wondbr it has not been long
since swallowed up, especially as it is so lar be
low the level of the river.
A’ New Wat to'Get Custom. —The Han
cock, (III.) Eagle, says:-—“lt was currently re
ported up here, that the landlord at Quincy,
who affected the gout to let people know where
a’ sumptuous table could l*e found, lias quite re
covered from his severe indisposition ; that is, Iris’
popularity has secured sufficient customers io
render the game foot advertisement unncccs.'.rt . .’