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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. BY J. W. St W. S. JONES. TRI-^YEKKLY & WBBKLYi OFFICE IN RAIL ROAD BASK BUILDING. TP«MS Daiiv Paper, per annum in advance * %10 Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ •• ® Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) “ GASH SYSTEM.—In no case will an order for the paper be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in every instancewhen the time for which any subscription may be paid, expires before the re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will be discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value in this city. , T\om the Mobile Herald <s’ Tribune. SONG TO JESSIE.—A SERENADE, Ah, Jessie, the moonbeams are playing Where oft from our troubles we flee, The zephyrs through bowers are straying, That whisper so gently of thee : Gome, hie thee, away with thy lover— The night and its stillness implore — The bird and the bee are reposing,— The strife of the day is no more. The flowers are sweetly inviting Thy beauty to add to their store; And when thine eye meets the dew’s sparkle, Thou’lt blush to hear praises they’ll p»ur; Oh, come, then, and join the bright circle, The moments are fast passing by, The slumbers of earth shall dispel, love, The gaze of profanity’s eye. The lawn that’s now sparkling, in gladness la lifting its incense to Jove, And in its soft mirror’s reflected, The image of hope and of love; Oh, come then, and taste of its worship,— Thy whisper shall be for its prayer; Its minister thou.—And thy voice Its anthems shall syllable there. T. G, C. From the N. O. Mercury of the Sth inst. LATER FROM THE GULF SQUADRON. Capture of Laguna—American Prisoner* Released. ® ; The Campeachv schooner A malic, a prize ta ken by the U. 8. steamer Mississippi otf Alva rado on the 27th nit. is coming up in charge of Passed Midshipman Barbour of the Mississippi, and a prize crew. The Amalio brings several days later intelli gence from the squadron, and we are indebted to Passed Midshipman Barbour, and Chief En gineer Wood, who also came on the Amalio, for the following interesting particulars: Gommodore Perry arrived at Laguna on the Mississippi. Vixen, 20th ult., with the sfeain^'/a 11 52 J- f 1 ,T . r “ f!T ' Petrel and Bonita, and landed the same day and took nine hundred pounds of powder, des troyed fifteen cannon, and disarmed about fifty soldiers, although they affected to he favorably disposed to the cause of the Campeachians.— The Campeachians had declared themselves entirely independent of Mexico, and had sent three Commissioners on the schooner Sisulnio to Commodore Conner, at Anton Lizardo, to request him to desist from any hostile measures against Yucatan, until Commissioners could be to the Government of the United States, to obtain the recognition of-the independence of the State. These Commissioners left Anton Lizardo on the 20th. to return, hut the result of their conference with Commodore Conner is not known. We regret to learn that Purser Andrew D. Crosby, of the Mississippi, was lost from on | board the Vixen, entering Laguna. He was in j the rigging of the vessel, assisting in piloting the vessel, as the fidelity of the pilot (a Mexican, the man who was piloting the Truxton, when j she was lost at Tuspan) was suspected ; the ves- i sel giving a heavy lurch he lost his hold and fell on the deck, and was instantly killed. He was j • buried with military honors in the cemetery of i the British Consul at Laguna. Passed Midshipman Fitzgerald, formerly of the U. S. schooner Flirt, but now attached to i the John Adalus, performed a most daring ex- | {doit about three weeks since. His vessel was | ilockading Vera Cruz, and of a dark night, he | look a boat and eight men with muffled oars, I rowed around the Castle of San Juan d’Ulloa, i landed, entered the water battery and examin- 1 ed it; then rowed round again, went under the drawbridge, and made a thorough reconuois sance of that point. This exploit has proved that men may he landed from boats at night, and Midshipman Fitzgerald ascertained by his re connoissance that the water battery may he easi ly taken. The Amalio was then off Alvarado, together with the Spanish brig Isabella, both sailing from j that port to Havana. Commodore Perry, on his return to Anton Lizardo from Laguna with the Mississippi, looked into Tabasco and Alva rado, and found that the fortifications of both places have been repaired and much strength ened since they were attacked by the squadron, i At Tabasco there were about 3000 troops, and at Alvarado about 4000. Notwithstanding these formidable preparations, the general impres- | sion is that Commodore Conner will soon at tack the place. On the arrival of Gen. La Vega at Vera Cruz on the 15th. all the prisoners from the squadron in the hands of the enemy were released. It is : now ascertained that but eleven of the crew of the brig Somers drifted to the main land when she was wrecked, and not sixteen, as was first stated. Midshipman Rogers was at Vera Cruz, j He had been tried by the civil and military tri- I bunals as a spy, and had been acquitted by the i former, hut found guilty by the latter. It was believed, however, that the more favorable ver diet would prevail, and that lie would be libera, ted. r l he Amalio sailed from Anton Lizardo on the 29th, and left the following vessels there; Frig ate Raritan, (flag ship,) store-ship Relief, steamer Princeton, schooner Petrita Mahouesa, and La Puebla, and the following merchant ves sels; hark John Barnes, brigs Albrasia, Garnet, Chinchilla, schooner Petria, and a schooner, name unknown. The Mississippi, with Com modore Perry on board, sailed at the same time for Norfolk ria Havana. She goes to Norfolk to repair, and will return in a short time to the Gulf. The John Adams was blockading Vera Cruz: the McLane and Bonita. Tabasco ; and at La puna. the Vixen and Petrel were left blocka ding- Mr. Wood comes to take charge of the prize crew, which are to go to Pensacola and there await orders. Ihe health of the squadron was good. W hat does this Mean' ?—“ lndependent g the well-informed Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia North American, hints at some important revelations, hereafter to be 0 made, in connection with the origin and pro gress of the Mexican war. “Give ns but light.*’ Let the 'secrets of the prison-house" he brought forth. Hesftvs: “A large portion of the i crUjten history of the war—of the correspondence' between Gen. Taylor and the W'ar Department, of other matters connected with secret negotiations just before the war opened, which Mr. Polk and Mr. Matey will understand, have never been disclosed to the public. There is now every reasou why they should be. and I intend to con tribute an humble part in bringing it about. "I now say, there are facts on the archives of the Government, connected with the advance of the army from Corpus Christi to the Rio „ Grande thatdisgrace the Administration, and that place this whole war question in an attitude 0 which it has never before assumed. In due # Reason I will present the details, and a Resolu tion in either House can test their accuracy.” Newspaper Subscriptions.—The editor of tjie Quincy, (111.) Whig thus announces to de linquent subscribers that he is ready to receive of their subscriptions "on the • Hogs ! Hogs ! We will receive and allow a small advance upon the market price for a • lew’ £°od hogs, paid in on accounts due this Office, it delivered soon. o © Chronicle an& Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GEO: THURSDAY MORNING, JAN- 1*» 1847. J The Constitutionalist —The Chronicle. ! The Constitutionalist of Wednesday, asserts, in substance, that the Chronicle exempts Mexi co from all blame for acts of commission or omission towards this country—claims indem nity by the United States to Mexico for wrongs committed against her, instead of vice versa— and asserts that the United States has done an injury to Mexico by an unjust war. Perhaps the Constitutionalist may not have intended to charge the Chronicle with these de clarations, hut they are necessarily interable from its language. They are of too serious a character to be passed in silence. We state, then, that the Chronicle has made no such de clarations. Our extracts from the law of nations were made, not to decide the question ofjustice, but to show the international doctrine on the sub ject. and that the question of indemnity for the expenses of a war was a nice and delicate ques tion. We do not exempt, but censure Mexico for acts both of commission and omission against the United States. But if the occupation of the east bank of the Rio Grande, was an aggression upon Mexican soil, then a wrong was committed against Mexi co, and if that was the immediate cause of hos tilities, Mexico would have that wrong of ours to place as an offset against her wrong to us. This would make the question of indemnity for the expenses of the war a very delicate one, and if it be true that the act referred to was one ot'aggression, perhaps it would be proper for each nation to shoulder its own expenses. We have not decided the question to whom the valley on the east of the Rio Grande be longed, but very high Democratic authority has. Mr. Benton, when the Tyler treaty was undergoing discussion, offered the following resolution in the Senate: t?.A.midfvi’aed-^nhf^.t “ Resolved, That the incorporation or me ic, of the Rio del Norte (or Rio Grande) into the Ameri can Union, by virtue of a treaty with Texas, compre hending, as the said iucorjwratioii would do, a part of the Mexican departments of iVeir Mexico, (chihua hua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, would be an act of direct aggression on Mexico, for all the conse quences of which the United States would stand re sponsible.” If a Whig statesman or a Whig editor were to say this, the word treason would be published in capital and glaring letters in Democratic pa pers to denounce him. Eut Mr. Benton, the great Democrat, who is courted by the Administration, and (according to general rumor) is to he made Lieutenant j General, if Congress authorizes the appoint i ment — Mr. Benton, we say, can use such language with impunity. The Constitntional j isthas nothing to say against him. We do not | claim indemnity to Mexico by the United States | for war expenses, for her wrongs to us would ! not entitle her to it. But if we have wronged j her also, we too will he denied indemnity by | the law of nations. We have never declared the war unjust. Its I commencement by the act of Mr. Poi.k was a usurpation of the war power, but its recogni tion by Congress made It was begun without necessity and in violation of the constitution ; but that reasons existed sufficient to justify war, it was the province of Congress to decide. We have been guilty of no “ miserable truck ling to Abolitionism. We defy the Constitu tionalist to show that, and we hold that paper to the proof! Freedom of Opinion and Speech. The Democratic papers and the Democratic President, having seen proper for sometime to charge the Whigs with giving “aid and com fort” to the Mexicans, because they condemned the usurpations of the President we took occa sion a few days since to introduce into our columns some extracts from speeches of cele j hrated English statesmen, to show how free and | fearless they were in their opinions and speech in the very presence of royalty itself. The Constitutionalist of the 10th inst. said: i “ The Chronicle wonld shelter its course under the I hallowed names of Charles Fox, and Burke, ami j Chatham, and Barre, and Wilkes, who raised their manly voices in protest against the war of George 111 against the American Colonies. The parallel will not serve his purpose. That was a civil war. It was a war between a government and a portion of its sub jects. It arose from the belief on the part of the col onists, that the mother country sought to oppress them, and to impose on them unconstitutional burthens. Many of their fellow-subjects in England thought with them, sympathized with them, and that sympathy found expression in the noblest strains of parliamentary eloquence, from the lips of some of England’s most illustrious statesmen.” The speech of Mr. Burke, from which we made an extract, was delivered in the House of Commons on the 14th of May, 1777. That of the Earl of Chatham, was made in the House of Lords on the 28th day of May, 1777; and that of the Duke of Richmond on the 18th of November, of the same year. Wc will give another extract or two, from ! speeches of a later date. In the Lords, Febru ary Kith, 1778, the Marquis of Rockingham said, “He was determined to serve his country, by making peace at any rate .” In the same House, March 23,1778, the Duke of Richmond brought forward a motion for tcithdrawing the forces from America. 1 A motion was made in the House of Com mons, Nov. 27, 1780, to thank General Clinton and others for their military services in Ameri ca. On that motion Mr. Wilkes said: “I think it my duty to oppose this motion, because, in my idea, every part of it conveys an approha tion of the American war—a war unfounded in principle and fatal in its consequences to this country, bir, I will not thank for \ ictories which only tend to protract a destructive war. I deeply lament that the lustre of such splendid victories is obscured and darkened by the want of a good cause, without which no war, in the eye of truth and reason, before God or man, can be justified,” \V e w ill remark here, that these very men who made these speeches in the English Parlia ment, belonged to the Whig party of that coun try, and put down and went immediately into power over the Tory party, as their opponents were called. Now let the reader look back and re-read, if I he pleases, the extract trom the C onstitutional ' i»t. That paper sees proper to say, that at the time these speeches were made in 1777, 7? and i ’BO, that the war raging “was a war between a i government and a portion of its subjects that ; these “noblest strains of Parliamentary elo ! quence,” were the results of sympathy for their “fellow^subjects.” The editor of the Constitutionalist certainly forgot for a moment, what was done by our ancestors on the 4th day of July, 1776. Their ’ | declaration of independence on that day was an idle mockery, if in 1777, 78 and ’BO, they were the “subjects” of the British crown, and the “fellow-subjects” of the people of England ! No ; Englishmen spoke with the bold freedom of fearless and noble men. They spoke the ; truth in defiance of demagogues, and unawed ! or unseduced by the frowns or the smiles of a king. But American freemen must tremble in the presence, and under the rule of “a petty tyrant” who dares to insult them by his official slander. They must stand mute in his august presence, while he and his followers falsely charge them with treason, and with giving “aid and comfort” to the enemies of their country! The people will teach such democracy as this the way to a retirement and silence from which it cannot soon escape, again to deceive them, and blight the prosperity of our country. Tile Jeremy Dlddler of the Cabinet* “A Washington correspondent of the New-\ ork Courier & Enquirer says: “great complaints are made by capitalists who negotiated the loan, at the con duct of the Secretary of the Treasury. He gave them |>ositive assurances, that the war was about being ter minated, and no more troops would be ordered out. On the faith of these pledges, offers were made which could not have been induced under other circumstan ces, ami yet the negotiators had hardly turned their backs upon the capitol before every promise was vio lated. Transactions like these are calculated to im pair every sort of confidence in the Administration, and this one will be the means of affecting the new loan should it be authorized by Congress. We have no doubt whatever of the correct ness of this statement—it is in perfect keeping with the duplicity of the Administration, and is but a counterpart to the letters of Marcv, just on the eve of u.w^ rtaut elections in the States, assu£ ing ' peo ple (for he au th^lT d J u,e pubUeation of his letters) that no J more volunteers would be called out. Besides, who could expect any manly policy in financial matters from a leading repudiator, from a repu diating State ? Does any sensible man expect anv Government can long maintain its credit which has such a man at the head ol the Treas ury, as Robkrt J. Wai.kkr, a mere mousing demagogue, who is unfitted, as well by his principles of repudiation as his ignorance ol fi nance, for the head of the financial bureau of the nation ? Georgia Finance* and the Constitution alist. In a recent number of his paper, the Editor ofthe Augusta Constitutionalist, while alluding to the existing prosperity of Georgia, remark- I ed : “Her financial condition, as exhibited in the late report of the Committee on the finances, is one of which every Georgian should be proud. Georgia will now hold her head erect and proud, among the proudest of her sister States. With her limited debt, and ample resources, her cred it should stand second to none in the Union.” We quoted the words and replied: “So much to the credit of Governor Crawford anda Whig Administration ?” Upon Constitutionalist takes issue,con tending that the change in the financial affairs of the State is not attributable to Governor Crawford’s Whiggery, but to “ Democratic legislation !” This, says the Savannah Repub lican, is certainly a very considerable discovery, and we would like to be informed to which of the Democratic enactments is to be attributed this great financial regeneration of Geor gia. Is it to the Central Bank, that truly Demo cratic measure which, after absorbing hundreds of thousands of the people’s money, is likely to entail upon them a debt of more than a quar ter of a million ? Is it to the Democratic system of borrowing money at a high per cent, to loan out to politi cal favourites at a low per cent. ? Is it to that peculiar management ofthe Peni tentiary, which made it an annual tax of thou sands upon the Treasury ? Is it to the great relief measure of Governor McDonald, or the fact that the Democracy ob tained power under a promise of reducing the taxes, and yet, instead of doing so, took occa sion to still further deplete the Treasury by ad ding to their oten pay ? Perhaps the Editor may still further enlighten the public by attributing the present financial condition of Georgia to that peculiar system of Democratic legislation, which created a heavy public debt, and which failed to provide, even for the payment ol the interest upon it; or which professing to be in favor of a hard money cur rency, absolutely shingled the State with shiu plasters in the shape of Central Bank notes at 40 per cent, discount ? If our cotemporary will cite a few ofthe fore . going causes, to prove that it is “ Democratic Legislation ,” which has “given the upward spring to our State finances and State credit,” we feel convinced that the people will award him “honor over much,” for his advocacy of the cause ol Democracy. He certainly mani fests— Which young and fiery converts feel.” \V ould that we could say as much of his pru dence, when he essays to take from the Whigs the credit to which they are entitled, on account ofthe present condition ol the State govern ment. It is in vain for him to attempt to seper j ate the Executive and his party. In all things, I their v lews and actions have harmonized in a ' remarkable degree, and to him and them alone, : will every honest partizan attribute that state of affairs, ot which even the Constitutionalist says “every Georgian should be proud.” For years w r ere the partizaus, to whom the | Editor has recently become allied, engaged in tinkering upon the currency of Georgia. The | public domain, one of the finest in the Union, was squandered—the money which had been accumulating in the Treasury, disappeared— debt and embarrassment ensued, and the ma ■ chinery ofthe government, literally ran down, and was motionless, when the Whigs were | placed in power, and now we are gravely told ' | that the ensuing prosperity is not to be attribu ted to Whig policy, but to “ Democratic legis i lotion, and that neither a H’hig Governor, nor • | any other sort of a Governor, could hate pre- j ' vented the elastic rebound" given to the State credit by the Democratic financiers ! We pre same our cotemporary must be under the im pression that Democracy had sunk the finances of Georgia to a debt beyond which there was no lower deep, and that the only movement must be an upward one. Such certainly were nn- | derstood to be his views before he turned his back upon the party which has done itself the honor to place Gov. Crawford in the Execu tive chair. Eighth of January in New Orleans. The New Orleans Evening Mercury says: The Veterans of 1814—T5 celebrated their anniver sary this morning, in a most impressive and ap propriate manner, according to the programme which we published yesterday. The military parades, and all other festivities incident to the day, have been conducted in the best spirit. From the Coosa River Journal. Southern Manufactories.—Trlon Factory, 1 Chattooga, Co., Ga. This establishment is situated four miles north j of Summerville, on Chattooga river. The j building is 100 feet long, 44 w r ide, with three floors; the wall is brick and carried above the ! surface ofthe soil 27 inches thick, and from this ; to the top 23 inches, making one of the most , substantial buildings in the up-country. The machinery in this factory is all of the very best and latest improvements, manufactured by Ketchen & Co. of New-Jersey. The water power is abundantly sufficient the whole year round to drive 40 looms and 5,000 spindles — the buildiug has been put up for this amount of machinery, and the water wheel large enough to move it—as vet, they only run 574 spindles, and turn off 300 bales of thread each week— which will compare successfully with any thread in the State for strength, color and evenness; the best material only is used, which will al- ; ways enable them to* furnish their customers J, with a superior article of thread. , The proprietors of this factory f Messrs. Marsh, Allgood & Briers, de- xVe great praise, and remunerating for laying the founda tion of a w^j i K which bids fair to profit the citi- ; L ze lns'of their county, creating a market for the j farmer and giving employment to the thereby greatly strengthening the resources ot the country. We find from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, R. J. Walker, that on the 23d Sept. 1845, we had in operation in Georgia, the fol lowing factories —Roswell Factory, Cobb co. ; Athens Manufacturing Company, Clarke co.; Georgia Company, do. do.; Columbus Compa ny, Muscogee Co. : Elbert Company, Elbert co.; Scull Shoal Company, Greene co. ; Eatou ton Factory, Putnam co. ; Upson Company, Upson co. ; McAlpin Factory, do. ; Schley s Factory, Richmond co. ; Rock Mills Factory, Hancock co.; Thoraaston Manufacturing com pany, Upson eo.; Waymau’s do. do.; and seve ral others have since been put into operation with from $20,000 to $1)0,000 invested in each establishment, paying a dividend of from 18 to 24 per cent annually. From the statistics be fore us, the amount of capital employed in the State of Georgia in cotton factories is near (1,250,000) one million and a quarter dollars. To this list should have been added the fol lowing : The Princeton, and another in Clarke county; Belleville, in Richmond eo.; Cheely A; Brothers, in Warren co., and the High Shoal Factory, in Morgan co.. all of which were in successful operation in 1845. Eds. Chro.v &. Sent. The New York Courier, in the course of an article on the war, says that the whole disposa ble effective force under General Taylor is re duced to 7,000 ; anil that the volunteers now as sembling can increase it only to 15,000 : a num ber with which the Administration hope to march into the heart of Mexico, in presence of Santa Anna’s army of thirty or thirty-five thou sand men, and the natural obstacles ofthe coun try ! Surely (it continues) such an attempt must he madness. The Courier then goes on to remark: — “ The season for active operations is rapidly passing away; and yet if the Executive and Congress would act with energy, sufficient time , remains to assemble an army of from forty to fifty thousand men at Vera Cruz by the first of April, who could pass into the interior and away from the sea coast, before the sickly season commences. To accomplish this, let the volun teer system be at once abandoned, as exceed ingly expensive and very ineffective; and in lieu thereof, let Congress at once authorize the raising of thirty thousand regular troops. — Let them offer a bounty of one hundred dollars each, and pay each soldier twelve dollars per month, and one hundred and sixty acres of laud at the termination of the war—and the whole number could and would he raised in less than thirty days ; certainly in less time than the same number of volunteers could be raised under existing inducements.” The Courier states further that the war has already cost double the sum which it would have cost had we resorted at once to regular troops; that the loss of life in this war has probably al ready exceeded the loss of life in the war of 1812; and that there can be no doubt but vve have lost twice the number by disease and pri vate broils ! To demonstrate our relative loss in action, now and in the war of 1812. the Courier gives a table of the number of men kiled and wounded in the different actions dur ing the last war, of which we subjoin the RECAPITULATION. ■L CLKtTI Battles. Killed. Woun’d. Miss’g. soners 1. Maguago iq 57 2. Queenstown 90 82 7d4 3. Fort Niagara 4 7 4. Frenchtown affair* 12 55 5. Prenchtown battle 397* Ko7* 6. Ogdensburgh 4 iq 7. York 66 203 8. Fort Meigs 91 139 9. Fort George 17 45 10. Sacket’s Harbor *.2l 84 51 11. Stony ,Creek 17 99 on 12. Thames 7 22 13. Williamsburg.. *lO2 237 14. Oswego 6 *3B 25 15. Chippewa 60 249 19 16. Bridgewater 171 572 117 17. Black Rock- .. . 12 8 Port Erie affair* ) 3 18. Fort Erie, defence 26 92 11 19. Bladensburgh ... *4O GO 20. Plattsburgh: 38 64 20 21. Baltimore 28 163 50 22. Fort Erie, sortie*.79 216 216 23. New Orleans* .* .55 I7(j "93 T oU 6 1344 2673 681 1351 * At the battle of Frenchtown there were 397 killed and missing, and the wounded were included in those returned as taken prisoners by the British. “Oliver Oldschool,” the Washington cor respondent of the L nited States Gazette, in a let ter of the 6th inst. said : “I learn that the President sent for a south ern Senator a day or two ago, and entered into a long conversation with him a* to the manner in which Congress and his partv were to 1 controlled r»nd give it as his opinion that the . only way vyas to govern the southern portion by their principles, and the northern by patron age. “I al *° leam ‘“any members were sent ( for by the President last evening and lectured ! for the disposition that had been made of the Lieut. General scheme yesterday ; a disposi tion of it that was a downright insult to him.— This accounts for the iuglonous c awing back exhibited this morning. But though the House crawfished this morning, those who did so, nave no intention of voting for the measure. “Washington is the field for a philosophic i observer now. Here is the place to read and ! study men, to observe the secret springs ol hu- ; man action, to leant with how little wisdom a nation can he governed, and to see how small, even the smallest, causes produce important ef fects. The war in which we are now involved is traceable to a cause not yet known to but \ er_v few, but which will probably he known some time, especially if Arista should he tried and shot, a* he may be.” For the Chronicle Sc Sentinel. Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone. Died, on the Ist inst., at the residence of his . son, James M. Cason, in Hancock county, ' Geo., Mr. William Cason, of Warren, in the 98th year of his age. Mr. C. served seven ; | campaigns during the Revolutionary "W ar j had been, at the time of his death, an acceptable | member ofthe Baptist Church more than 70 j years. This aged veteran in the cause of God | j and his country, lived to see the fifth generation; and when under the pressure of infirmities, in- I cident to such an age, death made its approaches, • 1 he was not taken by surprise, but was perfectly 1 willing, nay anxious to depart and be with ! Christ. Few men lived more respected, though many may have been more brilliant as to their I mental endowments. Mr. C. left six children, and quite a number of grand-children and great-grand-children, to remember his virtues and to deplore his remo val. , s. Whence comes the i‘ and Comfort ?” A Singular /V/r> j, e Democracy brought . t,le present war upon the country in spite of al! the efforts ofthe Whigs to prevent it. But, after the war was declared, the parties seem to have changed places. The Whigs are com i ing to the rescue and fighting it out, while the Democracy hang back. As a proof of this singular state of things, I refer to the very extraordinary fact, that every company of volunteers which has yet been raised in Virginia, was raised in a \V big county or city. Not one has been raised in a Demo cratic county or city, (unless Montgomery, in which parties are about equally divided, may he so regarded.) Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk and Alexandria are ali \\ big cities.— Berkely, Jefferson and Augusta are all IV lug counties. Where is the company from the Tenth Region, or Halifax, or Isle ol Wight, or Little Tennessee ? Echo answers, Where ? | This is a pretty commentary on the President’s ; Message and the diatribes of his cuckoo ofthe ; Union ! The Whigs of 1 846 are very much like their ancestors of 1776 —they go for their country. A Whig Bon of a\V hig 1 athf.r. Card Visits. —A Washington letter in the New York Courier says— There exists a system of card-calling at \V ash -1 ington, which 1 want to bring to the notice of the curious and place 011 record ol whomsoever may hve-aud-bv turn histrographer of the social characteristics of the age. Mr. A. having come to town, and being by no means a small man in his own range, and being ambitions of social distinctions, fills his pocket of a morning, with j five or six shillings, and as many hundred cards. He strolls up to the capitol, walks into the Su -1 pre me Court, and struck with the majestic ap pearance of its potentates, he leaves his card for each in the hands ofthe doorkeeper with his address annexed. Atthe door of the House he leaves a card for the speaker: calls out such as he chooses to know—makes a flourish of hands and hat, is invited to call, and hands to some particular intimate among them a bunch of his cards to go to Messrs. So-aud-So, who are men of eminence. He repeats the same thing at the door of the Senate. He buys a Washington Directory—finds the address of the ministers and secretaries, and gives two or three hoys a shilling each to he carrier of his card to each of Its eminentes. In process of time, say ten days at farthest, Mr. A. finds on bistable the card of Mr. Speaker, the card of ' Daniel Webster, the card of Mr. Walker, the 1 card of M. Bodiseo, but the deuce of a bit else does he know of any one of them. Little | black boys are the visitors dr facto, and little men the visiters de jure. When the cards grow old and crumbled, the interchange may be renewed, and Mr. A- may, | on the strength of three or four worn out cards, boast the acquaintance of half the worthies in the town. This inconvenience may sometimes result, that Ma. A. may happen to be introduced to an old acquaintance of the cards, and sub i in it to the mortification perhaps of contemp : tuous treatment at the hands of a gentleman who had again and again favored him with a black boy and a card. It would be interesting i to au arithmetician to compute the number of cards that change hands iu a day at Washington. For the ladies are not above this ridiculous sort of etiquette—the gratification of an absurd vanity—and on a fair day stop their carriages before half ‘he houses of the town, to send in a pacquet of cards and then drive on. This is making calls at Washington. It is reported iu some circles that they sometimes get out and run in for a moment, but the fact is doubled. The only actual day calls are those in the gal lery of the House, where ladies receive the gratulatorv words ofthe gentlemen and practice their little coquetries of speech between the gray columns of marble, just as the Donne of Milan receive all such favors in the richly hung boxes of La Scala. Except that here, ladies j cannot appropriate their own boxes, and a Ma jor General's lady may find her velvet cloak crushed under the weight of some huge wife i of a western member; and some pretty little ! lair one of New England may he dilly-dallying with the tassels of their curtains, and a buckish member from your Stale, while at her elbow j some awkward son of Tennessee is chewing | tobacco, or breaking into an obstreperous roar at a joke of one of his kinsmen. Special Notices. U? The friends and acquaintances of the late DOC CHINE BENCH are requested to attend his funeral, from the Baptist Church, This After ' noon , at 3 o’clock. j a l4 Dividend No. 3-4,—Office Augusta Insurance &- Ranking Company, Janu ary 12, 1847. —The Board of Directors have this day declared a dividend of four per cent, for the past six months, which will be paid to the Stockholders on demand. ja!2-3 ROBERT WALTON, Cashier. O’ ll •s. Jackson, Teacher on tke Piano Forte, Flute and Violin, respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of Augusta. References —Henry Parsons, Thomas Richards and T. 8. Metcalf, Esqrs. Vf N : B .;~ For terms, &r., inquire at H. Parson’s j Music Slore - n29-6m | ! 4PTER THE l«th INST., all cottons re ‘naming at the Georgia Rad Road Depot over “4 I hours after it is turned on the platform, will he sent to ! ** nearest Warehouse, at the expense of the con - stgnees. 1 Tramp 1 n Office ofthe G. R. R . £ /j. c. \ \ Augusta , Jan. 12, 1847. <> IJOUH AND CORN MEAL. BBBS * CANAL. FLOUR., 25 bbls. best Country Flour, 50 bushel 3 Corn Meal, for sale by j® 7 JOHN R. DOW. MARRIED. In tliiscitv on (he morning of (lie 13lli iust., by the Rev. Dr. A. Means, Mr. WILLIAM W. WALL, of Marion conntv, to Miss ROSINA E. C ARRIE, of this city. In this city, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. | John Barry, GEORGE FREDERICK HAUSER to Mrs. MURPHY, both of this city. Commercial. AUGUSTA MARKET. Wednesday p. m. Cotton —The market to-day has been quiet, and # transactions were limited, at the prices of yesterday. - ♦ CHARLESTON, January 13th.—Co//o/i —The transactions since our last do not exceed 2000 balea ; but although the market has been quiet it closed yes terday at the quotations given in our report of Satur- I dav morning. The sales comprise 23 bales at 9*; i 132|at 9|; 57 at 9|; 274 at 10; 490 at 10J; 723 at i 10* ; 40 at 10 5-16: 45 at lOf ; and 232 bales at i lO.ic per lb. Rice —Purchasers since our last have taken some 1300 tierces. The better qualities have been in most | request, and have brought full prices, while the com j mon qualities have receded about *c on the sales of the 1 previous week. The transactions e been at ex tremes ranging from 2J to s3f per hundred. COLUMBUS, January ll. —Cotton Notwith i standing the recent unfavorable accounts from the Gulf ports, our market continues very active at prices ! current last week. The quantity on sale is \erv | limited, and not at all adequate to the demand. No change in prices, which rate from 8 to 9h cents. Stock on hand, old Cotton, Ist Sept 833 bales. Rec’ts for week ending Jan. 9 2,063 Received previously, 41,074 43,97 r s Shipped same week, 5/^7 “ previously, 15,608 Stock on hand Saturday, Jan. 9. 23,085 MOBILE, Jan. 8, P. M.—Cotton.—There was a fair inquiry on M ednesday ami sales effected to the extent of 1000 bales, at the same prices as reported on Tuesday night. Yesterday and to-day there has been less offering, and buyers, with a f> - w exceptions, have kept out of the market. Sales are estimated at about * 1000 bales each day. Prices in these few operations I seem to be about the turn of the market, or Jc in fa vor of buyers. The majority of factors, however, are firm at former rates. W e quote middling cottons to night at 10J a 10jc. The receipts of the last three ; days are 6531, the exports 3983 bales, leaving the stock on hand 75,962 bales. Cotton freights to foreign {torts are dull—in truth we hear of none offering. There are several British j vessels in part unengaged, but with the exception of one bark, every Amercian bottom is taken up or laid on for domestic ports. Coastwise the rate has been quite uniform at £c. Rates to Liverpool and Havre j are nominal at §d and 15-16 c. A good business has been doing in the bill market, 1 both on foreign and domestic account. Rates are un | changed. We quote sterling at 4* a4* premium, francs 5 52, and sight and 60 day bills on the North * j a and 2a 2* dis. Alabama money is in good re | quest, though scarce, at * a | discount. Slipping intelligence. ! CHARLESTON, January 13. —Arrived Ship Rochester, George, (late Peabody,) Liverpool; U. L. ship Charleston, Brown, New York ; Line ship An son, Barkman, New A'ork; Line barque Palmetto, Kendrick, Boston; C. L. brig Linden, Williams, New York ; schr Alexander M., Caswell, New York ; schr Frances Hallen, Taylor, Philadelphia. In the Offing-—' Ship Amelia, Henderson, Thom aston, (Me.) Cleared —Ship Caspian, Torrey, Havre; ship Hanover, Rogers, Boston; Br. schr Ecli|>se, Bril, Hr. \V est Ind ies; schr Merchant, Tessier, Havana. SAVANNAH, January 12.— Arrived —Br. ship Oregon, Herron, Liverpool; Br. ship Sea King, Hnt , ton. Liverj»ool; Br. ship Eglinton, Muir, Greenock; Hr. barque Intrepid, Wilson, Hull, (Eng.); barque j Smyrna, Scott, Wiscassett, (Me.); schr Boutwell, Ell well, Boston; steam packet Ivanhoe, Gould, Au j gusta; steamer John Randolph, Creswell, Augusta. ('lea red —Ship Ellen Brooks, Howes, Liverpool; . brig Clinton, Andrews, New York. Departed. —Steamer John Randolph, Creswell, Au : gusta; steamer Chatham, Hubbard, Augusta. STOLEN FROM THE SUBSCRIBER, on the night of the 12th inst., a large calf-skin POCKET HOOK, containing sundry notes and papers: among i the notes are the following: one on A. V. Denham, dated 20th January, 1846, and due Ist January, 1847, for two hundred and thirteen dollars; one on Gazaway Beale, dated about March, 1846, and due Ist January, 1847, for fifteen dollars, both made payable to me. The public are cautioned against trading for said notes, as the makers are notified not to pay the same 1 to any other person. A liberal reward will lie paid for the return of the pocket book and papers. jal4-w2 LEANDER C. MILTON. ! RICHMOND County. Georgia s—Where as, Hays Bowdre, administrator on the estate of James Fraser, deceased, applies for letters dismissorv ; on said estate : i These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, within the time pre i scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. LEON P. DUGAS, Clerk. January 14, 1947. * JEFFERSON County, Georgia {--Where as, Benaja Moye, administrator on the estate ot Mary Tarver, deceased, applies for letters dismissorv on said estate: These are therefore to cite and admonish, all anil singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, within the time pre scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office in Louisville. EBENEZER BOTHWELL, Clerk. January 14, 1847. JEFFERSON County. Georgia {—Where as, James M. Perdue, administrator on the estate of James Perdue, deceased, applies for letters dismissory I on said estate : These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and ! singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, ; to be and appear at my office, within the time prescri ! bed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said ! letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office in Louisville. EBENEZER BOTHWELL, Clerk. January 11. 1847. JEFFEKaOK County, Georgia {—Where as, Benaja Moye applies to me for letters of ad i ministration o.t the estate of John C. Durr, defceased: These are therefore to cite and admonish, all ami singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, within the time pre scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office in Louisville. EBENEZER BOTHWELL, Clerk. January 14, 1847. ADMINISTRATORS’ SALE. --Will be sold, at the residence of John G. Hatcher, in • | Burke county, on Monday, the 22d of February up* l . some articles belonging to the estate of Josiah Hatch er, sr., deceased, consisting of tables, chairs, clock ami some other articles too tedious to mention. JOHN G. HATCHER, ) . VALENTINE A. HATCHER, ) " January 14, 1847. ■ * FOUR MONTHS after date, application will i*'* made to the honorable the Inferior Court off°* lumbia county, when sitting as a court of ordinary, for leave to sell all the land belonging to the estate 11 the late Matthew D. Holsoubake, deceased, lying 111 Columbia, Randolph and Paulding counties, in State. BENJ. F. HOLSONBAKE, E*’ r January 14, 1847. FOURMONTHS after date, application will be made to the Inferior Court of Burke counjy. , when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sf ! lot of land in Lee, a lot in Washington, and a h’ l j l ' j Cherokee counties, Itelonging to the estate ot H ar * • j Perry, deceased. OLIVER H. PERRY, Adm r. January 14, 1846. P~ OUR MONTHS after date,|applic!tion will b<- made to the honorable the Inferior Court of Hm j county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for l ea 's r i sell the lands belonging to the estate of Josiah Ha tl r I sr., deceased. JOHN G. HATCHER, t \.hr’~ VALENTINE A. HATCHER. *' , I January 14, 1347.
