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ent of the statistical department of the British
Association for the Advancement of -Science.—
After enumerating the causes which have oc
casioned such a result as a decrease of manu
facture, he sejs: “ The produce in England and
Wale*, in 1845, it lees than it was in 1840/
lhw the enormous demand existing, end 1o a
rim fiom currying, out the railway schemes al
ready sanctioned, is to be'niet, it would be diffi
cult to say. The laying down the lines, and
providing them with the needful stock of car
riage*, <kc-, would absorb all the ii on which it
is reasonable to expect will be made in Great
Britain during the next three year*; and if it
afford* no satisfactory solution of this difficul
ty, to say that the quantity required will only
be calledprogressively, and that the demand
will be spread over the same three years. To
render this service effective, we should, be as
sured that no further piojects be sanctioned
during the time spent m their construction—
an assurance for which ~wc can hardly look. —
And even then, we should be left without a ton
of iron applicable to the thousand other pur
pose* for which this metal is so indispensable,
far iron roads, iron houses, fire-proof buildings,
sailing ships, and steam vessels.’
I wul add, that Mr. Porter has the reputation
of being one of the most accurate staticians
in the Unit.'d K ngdom. And iov, by the way
of concluding this epistle, I will observe that the
railways authorized by royal assent, at the re
cent session of Parliament, will require for their
const ruction a capital of not less
than 1145,832,495
With powers to borrow 35,411,081
Authorized at the last session 50,000,000
In addition to this, capital invested
in Germany, France, &c., in
roads not completed 25,000,000
For the construction of railways in
India 15,000,000
Total (in round numbers) 270,000,000
Thus making the enormous snra of thirteen
hundred and fifteen millions of dollars that
Great Britain will have to raise during the next
five years for railroads—amounting to two hun
dred and aeventv millions dollars annnally!
Yours truly,
AMERICANUB.
COLUMBUS, GA.
WEDSESDAT, SOVEMBER 11,1846.
REMOVAL,
The Post Office and the printing materials of
the “Columbus Times” have been removed to
Winter’s Exchange east side of Broad 8 reet
above Randolph.
OUR PUBLICATION DAY.
For the convenience of our country subscri
bers, and to meet the present mail arrangement; ,
our day of publication will be hereafter Tues
iut instead of Wednesday morning.
Our city advertising customers will please note
the change and hand in their favors on Saturday
or early Monday morning.
TO ADVERTISERS.
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“Times” makes it a valuable medium for ad
vertising. We invite the attention of the busi
ness public to this fact.
With merchants, professional men and others,
in regular business, favorable arrangements will
be made for advertising by the year or for a short
er time.
Our Job office is in complete order, being fur
nished with new and handsome lettor of every
variety, and we are prepared to execute work in
handsome style and at low rates.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
We make our acknowledgments for 55 new
and good suhscriiiers from the counties of Early,
Randolph and Stewart, received during the last
20 days, and for upwards of 200 that have been
added to our list, since we leik the city in June
last.
These incontestable evidences of the public
approval of the course of this Journal, are in
the highest degree flattering to its conductors.
Wc attribute it, not to tire ability with which
the paper has been conducted—but to our hon
est efforts to make it the vehicle of truth and
justice—to the moderation and at the same time
decisiveness of its tone as a political paper, and
to the successful carrying out of a purpose, which
we have had always at heart—so to conduct the
“ Times” that while it had the confidence of its
pel Itical ft tends, it should lie entitled to the res
pect of its political opponents. We have long
since come to the conclusion, that passion and
violence, poisonalitics, and slanderous imputa
tions upon men and parties, (even if our taste
diJ not revolt at such course of warfare) were,
as a matter of policy, the worst weapons that
could be employed by a political press. For,
while an editor who gives way to tills virulence
of style and feeling, may gratify the passions of
the more thoughtless and excited of his own par
ty, he destroys his general usefulness by build
ing up a wall of prejudice between himself and
those whom it is his business to convince of the
truth and correctness of his principles. Indeed,
a press, that is not conducted cither on the neu
tral plan for tlie diffusion of general intelligence,
or politically, in the direction we have endeavor
ed to giva this paper, is a moral nuisance to
society. The free press has the most important
functions to perform in the great role ot tire mod
ern serial system,. Its influence for good or for
evil is vast, and it is a positive misfortune when
its powers come to be wielded by unprincipled
men, either for objects of personal gain, hatred,
or ainbitiou.
While we continue to adhere to the elevated
moral stand, which we have essayed to give to
the “ 1 imee,” we are perfectly satisfied that its
prosperity will increase as it has done, ever since
it came into our hands.
PAY THE PRINTER.
Wc observe that one of our contemporaries of
the press is about to publish a list of all his sub
scribers who have been taking liispaper for a cer
tain long time without paying for it; thus re
versing the rule of some of the Northern periodi
cals which publish a list of all who do pay. The
first plan is good in hard cases. Wo have a
tew such who live beyond the reach of otr Col
lector.. Wc shall have to do something with
them.
IVATAL OPERATIONS.
Reports say, that Tampico was to be attacked
by the American fleet on the 25th, and Alvarado
on the loth ult. If so. we may look cut for in
teresting news from the Navy, which has been
*o long burning for a chance to share the triumphs
of the land forces of the country.
SEIZURE.
I wo Yucatan schooners, the Ventura and
J oiquina with their cargoes, have been seized at
New Orleans by the United States, Marshal.
Some idea may be formed of the state of things
in the Army and of the murderous carelessness
‘of the War Department, from the'following
paragraph f.om a letter from Adj’t Forsyth. He
says:
September 16.
“ I left our sick at Matamoros yesterday. It
makes one’s heart bleed to witness, the sufferings
of-these poor fellows. In camp, you roust know,
i few of the conveniences considered necessary to
the ill at home, can be had. A man gets sick
and he is carried to the Hospital with his blank
et and his knapsack. Bed and bedding there are
none, and as the country is entirely destitute of
lumber, bedsteads are not to be had. A blanket
and the ground is therefore the couch upon
which the Volunteer lies sick, and dies, if he
does not recover. If he dies the same blanket
forms his winding sheet and coffin—plank is not
to be had. The Quarter-Master at Camargo told
me in answer to an application for a coffin that
every foot of plank, and every old gun box that
was to be found, had been worked up for the pur
pose, and that all the money in his department
would not command a coffin.”
If the men who sit in Washington and direct,
(or rather m/s-direct) tho affairs of this Mexican
War, do not find a day of bitter retribution, the
American people will have lost all feelings of hu
manity and justice.—]San. Rep.
The above iss fair sample of the stuff of which
newspaper opposition to the administration is
made. When we wrote the paragraph in ques
tion, we had aa little thought of b'aming “the
men who sit in Washington” for the lack of “bed,
bedding, bedsteads and lumber” in an army ac
tively engaged in the field, as wc had of laying
it at tiie door of the Republicans editor’s own
sanctum. In fact, one is as blameworthy as the
other for this “ murderous carelessless.” Does
the Editor expect the President and the Secreta
ry ofWartobe running all over Mexico after each
Regiment, to see that a feather bed is provided
for every sick soldierl or does the duty of these
details of an immense department of the Govern
ment fall more appropriately upon the Quarter
Masters and Surgeons of the army 1 Or is it
the fault of the Quarter Masters that the Mexi
cans, building their houses of stone, mud, or
thatch, have no use for saw mills, and therefore
that a plank is not to be had in Camargo?
This carping at the “ men who sit in Wash
ington” for the want of boards in Mexico, is of
a piece with attributing the death of the gallant
Col. Watson to the “ imprudence ” of Gen. But
ler in ordering his batallion to storm a battery !
Why storming a town, prudentially considered,
is a very “ imprudent” thing. War in any
shape is in the same sense a very “imprudent”
thing, and it was extremely “imprudent” in any
man, now in the army to go out to fight the bat
tles of the country.
Our soldiers in Mexico, fare like all other sol
diers in the field. A marching Regiment cannot
carry with it all the luxuries of a sick room. A
soldiers’ bed is his blanket in camp (and i’ was
of the camp hospitals wo spoke.) The army
regulations allow a certain quantity of straw to
each tent. But of this we saw none in the coun
try, and were told it was not to be had. If a
soldier gets sick in camp, his blanket is his only
bed. But it is not so in the “ General Hospi
tals” established at Mataim ros and Point Isa
bel where every comfort is provided for the
sick that money will purchase or the coun
try afford. Until the sick soldier can get to
these “general hospitals” where alone the com
forts essential to his condition can be provid
ed, he must put up with the scanty hospital con
veniences of a moving Regiment. One of the
sick soldiers of the Georgia Regiment died in
consequence of the fatigue of moving him from
camp to the Steamboat, when the Regiment was
ordered up the Rio Grande. That too, we sup
po. e, will be placed to the account of the “mur
derous carelessness” of the “men who sit in
Washington/ a'tbough Gen Taylor issued the or
der ; for the “ War Department” could just as
well have anticipated the necessity of a lot of
coffins,, and sent a csrgo of yellow pine from tl e
North Carolina to supply the demand, as that
the poor soldier would die in consequence of the
moving of the Regiment on a particular day.
But if a “bitter retribution” is to visit the ad
ministration because soldiers in camp sicken ar.d
die on blankets, how terrible will be the ven
geance of the people upon the glories of Monte
rey, which were purchased by the mangled bodies
of three hundred slain! This was “murderous
carelessness” shocking “imprudence!”
We have perhaps expended more time on this
patagraph than it is worth. But we have taken
it as a fair illustration of the flimsy material
with which Whig Editors are forced to combat
the popularity and principles of a sternly upright,
straigh&foi ward and manly Democratic adminis
tration. It shows how scarce are real causes of
complaint, and the usual Federal contempt for
the sound sense of mankind. We find too, that
this is not tho first time, that our letters have
been quoted, with a similar justice, to make capi
tal against the administration.
WHIG PATRIOTISM-
Gen. Butler (a Democrat ) has been made to
run the gauntlet of the Whig press.
Gen. Patterson, the only other volunteer Maj.
General in the field (also a Democrat ) is now be
ing put on the same track. The Mobile Adver
tiser publishes, and the Whig papers copy a ri
diculous and improbable 3trry about this officer.
According to these Editors there can be no
military t enius or merit unless it be Whig .?
Can the bitterness and meanness of party spirit
go beyond this ? to pick out for slander, ridicule
and abuse, gallant officers who are ex posing their
lives in the service of their country, because in
this free (?) country their political views are
Democratic ?
The conduct of the Democratic papers, who
have cheerfully accorded all praise to Gens. Tay
lor and V> orth, who have been plastered with
adulation by the Whig press, because they are
Whigs, stands in marked and dignified contrast
to this base spirit of party detraction.
GOVERNMENT FINANCES.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
proposals for a six per cent loan of live millions,
to run ten years.
The Union says:
“The. law under which the loan is proposed
to be made, limits the amount to teu millions of
dollars, leaving it to the option of the govern
ment to issue treasury notes, or make a loan, or
both, provided the treasury notes and loan do
not together exceed ten millions of dollars. It
would appear, from the course pursued bv the
Treasury Department, to be the intention of the
government to effect the whole operation, by an
issue of five mi lions of treasury notes, and a
oan of tivc millions of dollars only.. With a
loan of li’ e miliicus of dollars, and an issue of
five millions of dollars of treasury notes, togeth
er with the moneys now in the Treasury, and
the accruing proceeds ot the customs, and of the
sales ot the public lands, it is believed that the
government will have all the funds required.”
The Matamcras Flag pul lishes a.list of deaths
in the general Hospital of that city, up to the!
Ist October. Among them are the following
from the Georgia Regiment. Moore, com
pany A, Burton, do, Gibbs, do, and Mi
chael Koyston.
LATER FROM MEXICO.
Since our last, advices have been received by
the New Orleans Timea from the city of Mexi
co to the 29th Sept.,’ and from Gen. Taylor’s ar
my to the 22d ult. Santa Anna had left the
capital of Mexico with 2000 cavalry and 800
Infantry. He was utterly unsuccessful in rais
ing a loan of two millions on a mortgage of the
revenues of the Church, as the lien was consid
ered by capitalists illegal. He then applied for
$200,000, but could merely obtain $27,000
which was the sum total with which he started.
Santa Anna proceeds to San Luis Potou,
where he will halt and concentrate the whole of
the Mexican forces. Instructions have been
forwarded to the General commanding the Army
of the North to make no further resistance at
Saltillo, but to fall back upon San Louis Potosi.
A French bark the Duvivier, slipped into
the port ofYera Cruz on or about the 25tli Sep
tember.
In the Times we also find some letters witten
at Monterey, as late as the 22d of October.—
These letters corroborate t ie account in another
place that the Mexicans were retreating to and
concentrating at San Louis Potosi. The wri
ter says: “From all we can learn here, Santa
Anna does not appear to be firmly seated in pow
er, and the withdrawal of the army towards
Mexico may be necessary to effect some politi
cal purpose.”
We also find in the Times a translation of the
proclamation, after the fight at Monterey, of Am
pudia to the people of the three eastern Mexi
can provinces. Ampudia declares in this docu
ment that our army lost in the fight on the first
day [the 21st] 1500 men ! He says, “positive
ly lost.” He also attributes his capitulation to a
scarcity of all the means, materials &c., to de
fend Monterey. He concludes his romantic e
pistie thus:
We should not for an instant lose our cour
age, as the Republic will bring into action all its
great elements, and with one victory, which we
may, shall and must obtain, the problem will be
definitely solved it. favor of our arms.
People of the East: The alternative that was
. taken at Monterey is of no great consequence,
particularly when you bear in mind that in a
short time the favorite General of the Mexicans,
his Excellency Don Antonio Lopez de Santa
Anna, will personally direct the campaign. In
the meantime, let the 6acred flame of a love for
your country, burn in your bosoms, and w e shall,
without a doubt, triumph over our enemies.
The news of the withdrawal of the Mexican
troops to San Louis Potosi, the abandonment of
Saltillo, and the strong passes between Monterey
and Saltillo is confirmed by information from
Monterey. Gen. Taylor has therefore to make
a march of 3 or 400 miles before he can again
come up with the enemy and invite him to a bat
tle. Is not this a pregnant sign that the Mexi
cans are not so full of fight since their “ treat”
at Monterey ? To us it has very much the ap
pearance of a desire to postpone a fur tire r en
gagement until their “ Constituent Congress”
shall meet and have time to consider the negotia
tions for peace tendered some time since by the
U. S. Government.
All the Texan regiments have been discharged,
their term of enlistment being out previous to
the capture of Monterey. Gov. Henderson is
raising anew regiment to serve during the war.
Many of the old regiments, it was thought, would
again enlist.
Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar, has been commis
sioned by Governor Henderson to act as civil
and military Governor of the Texas frontier.
He is to make his head quarters at Larido,a Mexi
can town on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
The Galveston News thus describes the gal
lantry of Gen. Lamar at Monterey :
The conduct of Gen. Lamar in the battle of
Monterey was marked by his usual chivalry and
eager impetuosity. Mounted on a large white
horse, he waseasily distinguished throughout the
engagement. We are informed by those who
were present, that after the capitulation, the
Mexicans spoke of Gen. Lamar, (who appears
to be well known to them,) in terms of extrava
gant admiration. They say he seemed to bear
a charmed life—that they saw him in almost eve
ry street of the city where the battle raged most
fiercely—that, as in the battle of San Ja> into, he
was a mark of many a Mexican ball, which they
imagined he could only escape by the interpo
sition in his behalf of some supernatural aid.
The papers contain some correspondence be
tween Gen. Taylor and Morales, Governor of
Monterej’-. In one the former, through Quarter
Master Whiting, he requests the • Governor to
command the people to bring in their corn, for
which the Mexican price will be paid. The let
ter says, “it is necessary this corn should be
brought in, and it must be by your Excellency’s
order, or by force.” If procured by the latter
means, the owners will have to look for redress
to their own Government. The Governor re
plies by stating that the corn will be furnished.
The Governor also agrees to furnish mules for
transportation between Camargo and Monterey,
at the current price of such service.
A young officer in the U. S. Artillery, writing
to his parents in Baltimore, says of the Mexican
army, as it marched out of Monterey : “The sol
diers all bore evident marks of Aztec ancestry,
while among the whiter skinned officers there
were said to be recognised several deserters
from our army”!!!
The same writer says; “ The slightest wound
here, I might say, is worse than a mortal one,
for the wound is soon filled with worms, and in
spite of all the physicians can do, cannot be kept
clear of them. They exist in great abundance,
and are of almost every imaginable species.”
A RUINED^OUNTRY.
The New \urk Centner d* Enquirer, one of
the first Whig papers in the Union, in a late
number, containing a review of the political,
commeicial and financial condition of this coun
try, prepared to go out to Europe by the las t
steam; r, draws the following glowing picture.—
Read it as Whig testimony upon the subject of
the fulfilment of Whig prophecy.
“Congress will meet in the first week of De
cember, and the account to be rendered to them
ot the condition of the country, and of the acts
and progress of our arms, will be eagerly looked
for. Meantime, business continues in a whole
some state. The new Tariff - has not yet taken
effect, except as it may have deranged: the cal
culation and business of importers ; but on our
manufactures, it is as yet comparatively inope
rative.
The demand for our agricultural produce crea
ted by the dearth, in Europe, gives large returns
to our husbandmen;.and they in turn, with in
creased means, indulging themselves more liber
ally in the supplies furnished by commerce and
manufactures. The mo6t flourishing however,
ot all our interests just now, is that of navigation.
The freights earning by vessels carry ing.out pro
visions arc very large, and the demand in- no
wise diminishes. Ships are taken up as rapidly
as they come into port.
Upon the whole, therefore, it may be said,
with confidence, —notwithstanding the drain of
foreign war, and the hazardous experiment of
altering a Tariff which-was exceedingly produc
tive, at a moment when all the resources it could
furnish would be insufficient for the daily ex
penditures, and notwithstanding the inevitable
! derangement of business consequent upon all
such changes in laws affecting trade—that, as
well the commercial and monied interests of
this country, as its agricultural interests have
rarely -been more prosperous, or on a sounder
footing.
mexicO—her Resources.
. A careful perusal of the full extracts from the
Mexican newspapers, published by the “ Union,”
and referred to in the following article of the
Charleston Me.cury, excited a similar train of
reflection with that of the Mercury. If Mexico
was governed by any other than insane counsels
pushing her on, to her own ruin, she would ac
knowledge herself beaten in this war,, and seek
for peace. But, unfortunately, her destinies are
in the hands of ambitious military demagogues
who care nothing for the true interots of the
Mexican Nation. Peace, and an early peace,
alono can save that country from the abject ruin
of a conquered people. The press of Mexico,
even before the decisive battles at Monterey, had
begun for the first time to breathe of peace as ne
cessary to the Nation, to acknowledge that then
resources were exhausted, and to dwell with ter
ror upon the threatening aspect of the war.
They say, California is lost—New Mexico has
fallen—Chihuahua will soon yield to Gen. Wool,
for the people are without arms and ammunition
—the Gulf side is meanaced by our fleet, and
Gen. Taylor having conquered Tatnaulipas, is
pushing on to the Capital of New Leon—and to
all these points of attack, we are (say they) on
ly able to offer resistance to one ! Such are the
confessions of the enemy: and upon them the
Charleston Mercury founds the following sensi
ble remarks:
There is one feature in the extracts we yester
day published from Mexican papers, that de
serves to be noticed. There is no more of the
old-fashioned bragging and blustering. Their
tone is despondent, and in their humility, they
allow the truth to escape—that the Government
is without means, the provinces without courage
or preparation, and that they are beset by a de
termined, active . and powerful enemy. The
bloodless conquest of California and New Mexi
co—tire advance of Ger. Wool upon Chihua
hua with as little prospect of serious opposition,
the rapid march of General Taylor upon Mon
terey, were events that singly were exciting
enough ; but all togetlier, they overwhelmed the
Capitol with terror and amazement. At the
time these extracts were written, there remained
one hope of safety to the Republic, in a success
fill defence of Monterey. The following let
ter fr. m a Mexican, written, a day before
the arrival of Gen. Taylor, shows how much
was expected from, the preparations at that place.
“ Today if the attack we every moment ex pect
from the Yankees is realized, there is not a doubt
but the cause of the people will triumph. Our
army has just received a most opportune rein
forcement of five thousand men, with sixteen
pieces of cannon of the very best quality, so that
our whole available force is thirteen thousand
seven hundred and fifty regular troops, besides
the assistance we may reasonably expect from
the inhabitants. Immediately on the arrival of
General Ampudia, the city was declared under
martial law, but although we are thus deprived
of perfect liberty temporarily, we are thankful
that we shall soon be recompensed for the depri
va ion by a great triumph over the enemy.”
General Taylor is at Ceralvo, detained by a
scanty supply of mules, but determined to march
upon us with his present force of about three
thousand men, thinking the city is not guarded.
We shall give him a glorious reception indeed,
and when the news ot his fool-hardiness returns
to his countrymen, they will know that the glory
ot the Mexican flag is not to be sullied without
a struggle. Our troops are at work day and
night barricading the houses, mounting Cannon,
and doing every thing to render the city impreg
nable. A soldier was shot by order of General
Ampudia, charged with treason, and a proclama
tion of death to any engaged in traffic with the
Americans, has been issued by our brave Gen.
Ampudia.”
W ith a joyous and triumphant spirit breathes
through this letter ! And yet the anticipations of
the writer were really moderate. Doubtless Am
pudia had given an exaggerated estimate of his
own force and a greatly diminished one of the
enemy, for the sake of encouraging his troops;
but ho could not have deceived them so far as
to multiply seven thousand into thirteen thousand.
There were certainly not less than ten thousand
regular troops in the city, with probably five
thousand new levies—and these with the advan
tage of a powerful artillery and strong fortifica
tions. Gen. Taylor’s force was six thousand five
hundred men, one half of whom had never seen
a battle, and his artillery force was feeble. With
such enormous disparity in men, in guns and in
the advantage of position, it would have been
very strange if the Mexicans had expected any
thing but a decisive victory, and those who un
derrate the character of Gen. Taylor’s suceess,
do injustice to one ol the most brilliant achieve
ments in the annals of war.
-If we may judge from the tone of the .Mexi
can journals—humbled and despondent,—before
the capture of Monterey, that event is likely to
extinguish their last hope, of successful resistance,
and to lead at no distant day to the conclusion
of a durable peace. The rumor that Santa An
na was at Satillo before the end of September
with a strong force, is alike destitute of proof
and ot probability. Still, having accepted the
command of the army, he will doubtless try to
do something. His hopes of the Presidencj
must rest upon his conduct for the next two
months, and hence we look for a show of milita
ry operations and perhaps some substantial fight
ing; but what is done hereafter will be merely
in the way of making terms for a peace. All
idea of maintaining the war with the United
States, as nation against nation, must have end
ed with the battle of Monterey.
The following circular has just been issued
from the Treasury Department:
Circular to Collectors and other Officers of the
Customs.
Treasitrt Department,
October 23, 1846. y
In consequence of intelligence received at the
department, it becomes expedient and proper to
rescind the privilege granted to the ports of Yu
catan in my circular instructions of the 11th
of June, 1846, and to subject said ports to- the
interdictions of commerce applicable to the ports
of Mexico generally, as enjoyed by said instruc
tions. \ou are accordingly directed to refuse
clearances to all vessels and their cargoes de
parting from our ports, to ports or places in Yu
catan. R. J. WAKLER,
Secretary of the Treasury.
We fear, from the following from the Balti
mare Patriot; that the Free trader and Aboli
tion Locofoco, Wilmot, is elected by a small ma
jority in the Twelfth Pennsylvania District.
[N. Ot Tropic.
Would the Tropic like to have confessed that
everyone of its own party from the North, voted’
for Wilmot’s resolution, prospectively excluding
slavery from California, —on the ground of which
alone, he is-stigmatised as an “ Abolition Loc-\”
[Charleston Mercury -
Dots for the Museum of the Smith
sonian Institute.—We contribute the follow
ing:
A Boot mended by a Sherry cobier. ; and a
leg from the stool of repentance.
A tear from the iveeping Willow; and a leaf
from the last rose of Summer-
A seed from the apple of an eye.
A card from a pack of hounds playing, for
game.
A couple of dishes from the Swiss diet ; and
a claw from the crab tree..
A hat • made from the wool of a battering ram.
A decoction from the bark of a dog, made by
a quack —pf a duck.
A chew fromthe eudof sweet and bitter fan
cy ; and the handle of'the cup of sorrow.
A com from the tow of a Canal Boat,
A nail fro in . the missleto.
Punch says: “To resuscitate a drewned Yan
kee—search his pockets.”
Correspondence tot the Times*
No. 19.
Washington Citt, Nov. 3, 1846.
You will find in the Union of this morning
(copied from Garrison’s Liberator, the coadjutor
of the National Intelligencer) details of the plan
upon which the abolitionists contemplate estab
lishing a paper at this city during the approach
ing winter. I believe I referred to this subject
in my last letter, and again take occasion to
say, that those interested in the peace of this
district as well as in slave property will not per
mit the publication of an incendiary sheet here’
There are hundreds of whigs in Washington,
doubtles, ready to uphold the scheme ; but come
what will, it will be put down, it matters not
at what cost.
Peter T. Homer, Esq. of Boston, Mass, has
received the Democratic nomination for Congress
from the Boston District, at present represented
by R. C. Winthrop, Esq. Mr. Homer is the
“British agent” of the whig press. You recol
lect that during the discussion of the tariff bill
last winter, the Federalists made a great bue
and cry about a so-called “British agent” who
was not only helping the free traders in Con
gress to able and sound arguments and to a mul
tiplicity of insuparablc proof against the privi.
lege to plunder, but had the audacity to exhibit
such vile things as British manufactures with
their low prices annexed in one of the committee
rooms of the capitol for the inspection of all who
wanted oracular proof, that with but reasonable
revenue duties, our farmers could procure goods
of better quality at much lower prices. What a
hubbub they raised around Homer! Webster and
Evans gave the cue for the on slaught of vitu
peration upon him as soon as they found how
easily he produced authorities to show that their
statistics were garbled, their knowledge of trade_
manufactures, and the commercial regulations of
foreign countries but ignorance, and their de
ductions—notwithstanding the humbug weight
of their names—but non-sensical twaddle to sus
tain a desperate cause.
Mr. Homer, instead of being a British ag-ent as
they well knew at the time, is a native citizen of
Boston, who with characteristic yankee enter
prize had resided for some years in'Manchester,
Eng. where he became well informed upon
commercial matters, so well informed indeed, as
at this moment to be as able a political economist
as America possesses. He is of course a citizen
of Boston, of which no better proof can be need
ed than the fact that the democratic party ofthat
city have nominated him as their candidate for
Congress, and will give him a heavier vote than
they have ever yet polled.
This is election day in New York. But for
the feuds between the Hunkers and Barn-burn
ers, as they style each other, Silas Wright would
lead John Young, the Anti-Rent Abolition Fed
eral candidate, at least twenty thousand votes.
The fact that he is the recognized candidate of
the ablitionists, and again of the anti-renters as
well as of the whigs, will secure him a very gen
eral snd'systematic support, which would avail
nought for success, ifit were not for the d< termina
tion ofthe Hunker leaders to defeat Wright if pos
sible. The Albany Argus, the Hunker organ, has
laboured faithfully to this end ever since his re
nominatitus. I have no strong hope that we can
succeed in the face of this down right’ treason
against all necessary party usages. These men,
nominally democrats, who have’ arrayed them
selves against their party have been notorious
time servers for years past, and I rejoice to know
that as soon as this election is over every man of
them will be driven neck and heel into tire ene
my’s camp where they of right belong.
In three congressional districts of New York
all of which give heavy democratic majorities; the
party are running two candidates for Congress
This can only terminate in the election of at
least two more whigs then would be chosen
under other circumstances.
I do not regret our reverses in recent State
elections, because, I know well that they will
but sure to unite the democracy from Canada to
the Rio Grande in the support of but one demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency at the next
election. They prove beyond dispute that
when squabbling about men we are powerless,
but when seeking to advance our principles, we
are powerful beyond all resistance. The result
of this New York election is too close at hand to
justify speculations about it, even if I were so
inclined ; as lam not.
Last week, one million pounds of cheese were
exported from- the city of New York to England;
bringing 7 cts. pr. lb. Before the tariffs of both
countries were reduced, it sold for two and a half
cents per pound, and even at that low rate, not
one tei.th of the quantity now being sent to En
gland weekly, found its way across the Atlantic.
In itself, this new market for American cheese,,
may not be considered a matter of importance,
but there are a hundred similar minor agricultu
ral articles now beginning to find their way into
.England which in the aggregate amount to a
most important business. The exports of Indian
corn, you will remember, prior to the repeal ol
the com laws was a matter of no importance ;
but already the English demand for this article
has caused the exportation of some five millions
of bushels, with a strong probability that twenty
millions will be taken next year. When this is
compared with the four or five thousand bushels
of the article purchased of us in 1845 and annual
ly before, the federalist who will longer de
ride the value of low duties on either side of the
Atlantic to-the American agriculturist, must be
wilfully blind or determined to misrepresent for
paltry partizan ends.
The Federalists of New York, found great
difficulty in persuading Mr. Webster to address
their city brallying club, according to the adver
tisement. He however come to the scratch on
the day after that day on which so many thou
sands of the faithful had'congregated to listen to
him. Their leaders calculated that his speech,
which they had intended as a strong card to help
on John Young, would prove that it was but sus
taining conservatism to vote for the anti-rent
candidate. Webster, however, did not mention
the name of JToung during his speech, as anti
rent purposes are not exactly the ends to be ad
vocated according to the tacit bargain between
himself and the millionaire* who gave him the
hundred thousand dollars to struggle for their
special privileges in the councils of the nation.
The various employees of the Government in
this city are as busy as moles in preparing for the
meeting of Congress, at which time the annual
etpoeg of the condition of the Government and
country, is made. The work of preparing the
statistics far the reports ofthe different bureaux,
which, together, make up this is so la
borious as usually to keep the seven hundred
aftd fifty officials in Washington with a double
share of employ ment on their hands for the month
previous to the first Monday in December.
No call has yet been made for more Volunteers,
though I am still under the impression that some
thousands vfrftl be required during this month,
if, ere it closes, the war is not over virtually.
Commodore Sloat, the late commander of our
blockading squadron in the Gulf of Mexico,
reached Washington last evening. His arrival
was announced, a week ago by mistake. Though
I know nothing on the subject positively, I am
inclined to believe that his management off the
coast of Mexico has not given satisfaction to
the Navy Department.
It appears to be understood in this city, that
the Baltimore Battallion with Taylor’s army, or
some part of it, has for some misconduct fallen
under the disapprobation of Major General Win.
O. Butler. This is doubless the key to the slan
ders upon that officer with which the letters
from scribblers in that particular batallion a
bound. The Whig press of the North and East,
as Butler is a distinguished Democrat, seize on
and circulate them with remarkable avidity. This
is to be expected; though they will doubtless
make little capital out of such dirty work. You
will perceive that the Whig press of the North
are gravely arguing that at your late election the
Whig candidates for Congress received a majori
ty of all the votes cast. This is intended solely
for consumption in the State of New York, un
til this day’s sun goes down. Such assertions
show beyond all doubt, the avidity with which a
large class of our opponents circulate any and
all falsehoods promising to catch a vote from
those who like to be on the strong side, because
it is the strong side.
We are anticipating the most excited session
of Congress known in the history ofthe Nation
al Legislature. The war question is to be the
theme. The Tariff as I have before written to
you, will icceive the go bye from the Feds.
There are signs as plenty as blackberries, leading
to the conclusion that w ith but very few excep
tions, every Whig of the House and Senate will
mount the Hartford Convention platform. Our
friends one and all, are in tho highest spirits,
and are only glad that their opponents, having
determined to oppose their country’s cause in
this foreign war, have the manliness to show
their hands. LOWNDES.
Fda THE TIMES.
GEORGIA WHIGS AND THE PRO
TECTIVE TARIFF.
Mr. Editor:—The great body of the Whigs
in Georgia roundly deny being in favor of a
Protective Tariff, and abuse the Democratic
presses, when the charge is made, and say that
they (the Whigs) are grossly slandered. How
far the charge is true when applied* to the Hon.
Thos. Butler King, you may judge from the
following extracts from resolutions lately passed
by his political friends, in his own county. The
presumption is, that these resolutions, contain
Mr. King’s own sentiments ; if they do not, he
owes it to himself and his party to come out and
repudiate them. That they were not formerly
his sentiments, I am well aware, for Mr. King
was once a violent Free-Trade man, and was a
member of the nullifying Convention, that de
clared a Protective Tariff unconstitutional. I
have not time to copy the whole of the resolu
tions, but they can be seen in the Savannah Re
publican and National Intelligencer. The latter
paper, heading the communication, accompany
ing them—
“TARIFF VIEWS IN GEORGIA.”
EXTRACTS.
“Resolved, That the Tariff of 1842, was
loudly called* for by the then existing state of
things ; that it was in the main judiciously laid”—
Resolved, “That the repeal of (he Tariff of
1842, was uncalled for and unwise, and was
brought about in opposition to both the interests
and the wishes of file people.”
It is a little singular that the whole of the Geor
gia delegation ih 1847 t, paid so little regard to
the interests and Vvishcs of the people as to vote
against a- measure loudly called for by the then
existing state of things. I suspect if the truth
was told, that in 1842, there was not a Protec
tive Tariff planter in Glynn county—nor do’ I
believe there would be one now , were Judge
Berrien and Mr. King to come out against pro
tection.* Free Trade.
P. S.—ls Mr. Kirigs Tariff friends think that
justice has not been done them by giving extracts,
I will at a leisure moment give you the full set.
; F< T *
FOR THE TIMES.
SOUTHERN WHIGS AND THEIR AL
LIES—NORTHERN ABOLITION
ISTS.
It is with feelings of deep mortification that I
witness the triumphant echoes of Northern whigs
in proclaiming the defeat of the democratic party
at the North, who are, and ever have bteen, the
only true friends found to favor Southern insti
tutions while they held no interest in them For
once kind readers, throw aside your party feelings
for a short time, and let facts preside in* their
stead, if supported by ocular demonstration of
which you shall be your own judges. At a
Whig State Convention recently in Massachu
setts, and held in Faneuil Hall the boasted “cra
dle of Liberty” the following resolutions were
offered and passed by that body, together with
many others, equally strong in their bearing to
wards the South, and the Institutions of the
South.
“ Resolved, That the Whigs of Massachusetts
pledge themselves to present as firm a front of
opposition to the institutions of Slavery ;.s is
consistent with our allegiance to the constitution
and our duty as members of the confederacy.
Resol-ed> That the whigs of Massachusetts
will use all constitutional and proper means to
restrain the already preponde.ating influence of
slaveholding interests in the national legislation ;
to defeat all measures calculated to uphold slave
ry and promote all constitutional measures for
its overthrow.”
After which, a long homily is addressed to the
liberty party, to convince them that the most ef
ficient way to attempt to put down slavery is to
join and co-operate with the whigs, that while
they act seperately both parties may fail of their
desired end. The above resolutions were adopted;
and another set were offered by a Mr. Phillips,
one ofthe Vice and supported by Mr.
Sumner, Samvel Hoar, of Charleston memo
ry, die., which were much more violent and de
nunciatory, while-they savored strong of disun
ion and were only lost by 47 votes out of several
hundred voters. Had I space, I would here in
sert the resolutions just named, but having-some
other facts to demonstrate, I shall pass Massa
chusetteand take a peep into the “Pine Tree”
State (Maine.) At a State Convention recently
held by the whigs in the State of Maine, they
passed a set of resolutions which was an identical
copy ofthe same offered or presented by the
abolitionists at the last legislature in that State,
but which were voted down by the democrats.
While we are amongst the sisters we will pay
our respects to Miss Vermont, and see who be
longs to her ftWMeboid. Ths newly elected
whig governor ofthat State in h< reccnt raessfge
to the legislature, says :
“ Among these measures (Congressional) end
first in the train, is that by which the institution
of slavery has been so distinctly recognized as
one ofthe elements of national policy, and adop
ted as one ofthe objects of the nations
By thus prostituting the nations’ power, and
apply ing its energies to the unconstitutional and
unhallowed purpose of extending the limits and
nicreasmg the political influence of this institu
tion, the government has encroached upon our
own just rights, as well as committed an outrage
upon the moral feelings of our citizens.”
“Against slavery itself as a system, wrong in
practice, and wrong in principle, Vermont has
taken the ground of irreconciliable hostility, and
she must and will maintain it. Educated under
a State constitution which breathes the spirit of
freedom in every line, the people have deeply
imbibed that spirit.”
“ We have yet to engage in fresh conflicts.
The measure already consummated, (annexation
of Texas) we are reluctantly compelled to be
lieve it is of the series of measures yet impend
ing, designed to give the slave system still greater
influence in the general government, and to se
cure the perpetuity ofits power. Encouraged by
past success, slavery begins to appear to be project
ing schemes for the extension ol her domains over
yet wider space, and for an increase ofthe al
ready disproportionate amount of political power
conceded to the territory which has beeen recent
ly acquired, I submit then the enquiry wheth
er the occasion does not demand some action on
the part of the Legislature, at this time, by way
of resisting the further progress of this dangerous
and growing evil, which now threatens to absorb
every other interest of the government, and to
bind the nations’ energies’ to the unworthy and
odious task of ministering to its own unholy pur
poses and demands.”
“ Should not the State proclaim to the countrv
that she persists in the determination to oppose
the admission into the Union of any State,
whose constitution tolerates domestic slavery 7
And should not such declaration go forth accom
panied with the decJarafiim that Vermont be
gins to feel, in relation to this subject, that ‘there
is a point beyond which forbca'rance ceases to be
a virtue !’ that this ground of unyielding opposi
tion is the ground which right and justice and
the honor of the State require us to maintain;
there can be no question!. And we scarcely
need stop to make the enquiry \Vhethcr a public
avowal of our position, or any other action on
our part, will avail to resist the insatiable de
mands of slavery, and stay the present fiood-tido
of her power. It would stand recorded more to
the honor ofthe descendants of patriotic and
worthy sires, that they earneslfy and unwaver
ingly struggled, though in vain for the fight,
than that they aided or even 1 tamely submitted to
the wrong/’
Having tarried logger vvith our deformed sis
ter than we intended, wc will make a living call
on another of the family situated neighbor to tho
• lafct, and known under the comely name of “New
Hampshire.” It wilt hi recollected that one
John P. Hale servant of the last mentioned kin,
was elected a member to Congress by the demo
crats, but who afterwards turned traitor to their
cause, by becoming an abolitionist, was rejected
°y the democrats and taken up by the whigs
and elected a Senator from that State to serve
them in Congress, his colleague (Gilley) being
equally radical on the score of anti-slavery with
himself.
Leaving New Hampshire, we have a score to
settle with another ol our beloved sisters who
lives out West, Miss Ohio. The following is a
speech delivered by Mr. Bebb the newly elected
whig governor, while stumping it through ‘hat
State just! previous to the election.’
“My Countrymen —ls there is any orie subject
that absorbs my time a‘nd attention more than 1
another, it is the abrogation of the laws
M AKIN (i A DISTINCTION-OX ACCOUNT OF COLOR.’
My countrymen—my liberty fr.cnds—to you I
appeal for assistance to carry out this great re
form. It is a reform, which above all others,
should meet aiitl does meet the attenribri of every
true Ame ican,
“Why should we deny to our colored brethren
those rights and immunities Hitt are granted to
us 7 It is declared in the declaration of indepen
dence, that all men are born free and equal,
and being equal, all men whether blade of
white, shou and have the same rights guarantied
to them by the laws of our State.- The laws by
which the Negro Children are prevented from
enjoying the benefits ofour common schools, and 1
being placed on a par with white children should
be repealed. The laws that compels negroes to
give security for their good behavior, should bo
repealed. In a word all laws Making a
distinction on account of color should b.- repeal
ed.
These laws would have been repealed by thb
last legislature ; but considering that the issue
had never been before the people, it was thought
best to defer the matter until next winter, and*
in the meantime I was to make the issue.”
“ And n< wmy countrymen, I come befi rb’
you with thb following upon my banner :
“ The unconditional repeal Or all the
LAWS MAKING DISTINCTIONS ON ACCOUNT Ot
cS .on.”
“ WhenT made this declaration in the North
ern part ofthe State, the locofocos stated that I
dare not make the declaration South of Mason &.
Dixon’s line, but when I spoke in Cincinnati a
tew days since, I there proclaimed to the world
the same doctrines which I proclaimed on tho
VV estern Reserve, and the vast multitude made
the welkin ring with'their shouts;
But my countrymen, I shall have no vote irt :
the matter—nor neither have I : the veto power.
All I can do, if elected, is to recommend the re
peal of the black law, in my message. lam the
first candidate lor governor who has ever taken
the stump and declared himself in favor of the
repeal of the black laws, and if I be defeated, I
can return home to my family and have the plea
sant satisfaction of knowing that I have dono
my duty to my fellow man, and especially to the
poor African.”
What say you Southern whigs to your allies?
Will you still throw up your Hats and shout for
the sentiments breathed in old Faneuil 7 For
the resolutions passed by the whigs in their State
convention in Maine 7 For the sentiments ex
pressed in the message of Governor Eaton of
\ ennont 7 The election of such rank abolition
ists as Hale and Cilley of New Hampshire ?
And finally, are you rejoiced at the whig success
of Ohio, while its leaders are the avowed ene
mies of the institutions of the South? If not, why
will you longer cherish the viper whose
sting you know to be fatal? Again I say, it is an
incontrovertible fact that the democrats of tho
North have hitherto been the only true friends to
the South who hold no interest among you, and
have ever received as their reward, only curses
and contumely.
We find the following in the New York Ex
press of Thursday:
Runaway Negro —Another negro affair
came off; this forenoon, on board the brig Ala
bama, from Savannah. The brig was lying at
pier 14, (J 5. R.) discharging. When a few
bales of cotton had been taken out, a negro fel
low was found- secreted. The Captain as soon
as he found him, at once put him in irons and
hauled his-vessel into the stream. The aflhir got
wind, and the docks were soon crowded with a
mass of negroes of all colors, and sizes, eager to
welcome their southern friend with northern
principles. The captain, however, guarded
against this, and had the fellow sent to the
Tombs, under the escort of the police and a
crowd of negroes. In the vexation of the mo
ment, the negro, at the time of his discovery, was
welcomed in a way that, no doubt convinced
him it would have been as well to stay at home
as to run away. We presume-that he will be’
kept in the custody of the Police, until habeas
corpused, and hocus pocused out bj his abolition
friends.
This secret and forcible use of our coasting
vessels to bring away negroes from the Southern
States, thus involving our commerce in trouble,
should be frowned down by all officers of the
Law, and receive no encouragement in this or’
any other city.
The Great Britain was insured for nearly*
1250,000.