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he tyrant?” promptly rejoined Josephine Disconcerted by the question, the emperor re linquished her arm, and putting his hands be hind him, replied after a moment’s pause, “The tyrant, must be Fouche or Camba ceres.” A few days afterwards an officer of the Guards waited upon Josephine, and intimated to her that he was commanded to escort her to La Malmaison. “Who gave von the order?’ she peremptorily inquired. “ The Emperor himself,” he replied with an air of concern.— ’ She made no further remark, but busied her self with taking down and packing up several pictures, among others that of M. de Beauhar nais. pointedly omitting to touch the miniature of Napoleon. After her departure, the Empe ror started for Saint Cloud, and for forty-eight hours was unseen by any of his courtiers.— The third day he went to hunt at Grand Tria non, and, upon getting out of his carriage, desir ed Marshall Duroc to find a foot passenger.— He then wrote a letter to Josephine, and gave orders for its speedy conveyance. Before, however, the express reached her, he had ar rived himself at La Malmaison. The Empress uttered an exclamation of astonishment at be holding him again, and then throwing herself into h:s arms, was unable for some moments to speak a word. Tears at length relieved her. and an affectionate interview ensued, in the course of which the Emperor solemnly assu red her that under all circumstances he should continue her best and most faithful friend - He then gave her permission to inhabit the pa lace ol L Elysee Bourbon, where she resided until the marriage oflhe Emperor, and received from him repeated visits. If policy and ambi tion had induced Bonaparte to repudiate his consort, he would not tolerate in others the ne glect and ingratitude of which he had set the example. Madame de la Rochefoucault, for mer mistress ol the robes to Josephine, applied for the same appointment in the household of Maria Louisa. “ She shall neither retain her old nor have the new situation,” angrily observ ed Napoleon, when he heard of the applica tion: “Isl am accused of ungrateful conduct to my wife, I do not choose to have any imita tors, more especially among those whom she has honored with her confidence and over whelmed with benefits. The palace of the Tuilleries became a desert after the secession of Josephine, and the Em peror observed to his surrounding marshals, “ Gentlemen, we must candidly admit, that a Court without women is a spring without roses.” The discarded 'Empress had the curosity to witness her rival’s entrance into Paris, and was standing near the triumphal arch at the mo ment the municipal authorities were present ing their addresses of congratulation. Not all the blandishments of his new bride, nor the splendours of an Austrian alliance, could deter the Emperor from making stolen visits to his first wife. To the Grand Equerry lie would at times signify his wish, that Maria Louisa should, under some pretext, be detained in the riding school, and of opportunities so gained, he profitted to gallop off to La Mal maison. There, arm in arm with Josephine, they paced the gardens in familiar conversa tion. One day Napoleon was relating an acci dent from the upsetting of a boat on the Canal at Versailles, which hud befallen Madame de Montesquieu, who had reluctantly exchanged her former position of lady of the bedchamber to Josephine for a similar appointment in the household of the new empress. “Ah!” said Josephine, “ my little court of La Malmaison would better suit her tastes : here at least she would rind a friend, a difficult thing for her to meet with in the perilous post to which you have now exalted her.” Fo Josephine, Napoleon confided the secret of his meditated invasion of Russia, of which, in her earnest endeavor to dissuade him from that mad enterprise of enormous aggression, she, with prophetic instinct, foresaw and fore warned him of the failure. The Emperor him self admitted to her that an inward voice often seemed to admonish him to refrain from that fatal expedition, as the rock upon which his fortunes were to split! Once at a masqued ball given at court, Jose phine addressed Maria Louisa, and, changing her costume several times in the course of the evening, was enabled to puzzle and confound great numbers of persons, to the amusement ol the Emperor, who was alone in the secret of her presence. Upon the occasion of the birth of the King of Koine, Josephine generously sharedthe joy which that event diffused, and to the messen ger who brought her the intelligence, present ed a magnificent ring, valued at twenty thou sand francs observing at the same time to those around her, “ I think myself bound to acknow ledge, in a royal manner, the news of the King of Koine's birth. May this event realize the hopes which it has awakened in Napoleon’s mind, in adding to his happiness, and securing henceforward the blessings of peace !” Josephine was pressingly solicitous to behold the King ol Rome. It being deemed impossi ble for her to receive him at La Malmaison, Mad ame de Montesquieu, by command of Buona parte, took the child to Trianon, where Jose phine went to see him. She lavished many caresses upon the infant prince, and with tears in her eyes exclaimed. “Alas, he was not destined to realize the emperor’s hopes! Ma lie Louisa is more unfortunate than I have been ; 1 now forgive her for the harm she did me in invading rny place. From this day, I will endeavor to forget my husband's errors, to sympathise only in a father’s happiness.” It was observed accordingly that from that mo ment Josephine recovered her good looks and ceased to entertain for the woman who had presented the great Napoleon with the long wished heir, any other sentiments but those of friendliness and good will. She expressed, indeed desire to be presented to the empress, but Marie Louisa could not be induced to make the acquaintance of her predecessor, and upon the occasion of his visits to La Mal maison, Napoleon never mentioned the name of his Austrian bride. The last time he saw her was in January, Hl4, just before the disastrous campaign which led to his abdication. Upon parting he addressed her in these terms; “ If I am over come by numbers, most of the men who owe their fortunes to me will basely seek to depre ciate my courage. The very senate which does homage to me to-day will to-morrow be the first to decree my precipitation from the Tarpeian rock. In every case, however, when the time arrives, 1 shall know how to escape from my destiny. The poison I carry in my bosom is remedy alike for the intoxicating fumes ol ambition, and the unforeseen reverse of fortune. It has been my constant compan ion since my retreat from Moscow. If the fortune of arms be adverse to me during this memorable campaign, I shall have it in my power to avoid falling alive into the hands of my enemies. What say you?” The anguish of Josephine was extreme; she grasped his hand and placed it next her heart; emotion gained upon him ; and at length, bursting into tears, in half-stifled accents he exclaimed, “Ah si je possdais une autre Josephine !” When Napoleon’s banishment to the island of Elba was announced to Josephine, she wished to follow him thither. “Ifhis dearest friends now abandon him,” she cried, “ I at least will not be one of them. I hate the ungrateful, and shall never share any of their panic terrors. 1 will go and join him in Jus island, and there in the society of a few friends, we may both en joy, perhaps, some last rays of happiness !” From the allied sovereigns, who entertained for the personal character of Josephine the high est esteem and regard, she received the most marked attentions. Even during the continu ance of the warmest hostilities between Eng land and France, the Prince Regent (George IV.) had courteously given orders that all plants destined for the gardens of Malmaison, should be shipped without Jet or hindrance at any of the jjorts of the United Kingdom, i Os the English detained prisoners of war in i France. Josephine had ever professed and i proved h«rself the friend. 1 After the fall of Napoleon and his departure for Elba, Josephine fell into a state of profound melancholly. She could not hear his name mentioned without deep emotion, and profess ed the greatest repugnance for Murat,by whom she believed that both her husband and herself had been betrayed. A few days before her death, she entertained the Emperor Alexander at La Malmaison. She w T as too ill to do her self the honors of her house and deputed that task to the Duchess de St. Leu. Hearing that the disease was of a more dangerous character than her attendant apprehended, the Emperor of Russia returned within a week after to La Malmaison and craved admission to the bed side of Josephine. He entered the room, and beheld her in a dying state —Eugene de Beau harnaisand Queen Hortense, her two children, were kneeling by her side and receiving their mother’s farewell blessing! The name of Na poleon Bonaparte was on her lips when she breathed her last! The remains of Josephine were deposited in the church of Ruel, the adjoining village to La Malmaison. Her funeral oration was pro nounced by M. de Barral, Archbishop of Tours, who had for some years been her almon er, and for whom she had ever professed and entertained the most profound reverence and affection. The prelate had, on more than one occasion, avowed his unalterable attachment to her person, and proved it in life and death. So intense was his grief, that at her obsequies, tears repeatedly interrupted him in the perfor mance of his sacred duties, and when the tomb closed over the coffin of Josephine, the arch bishop hastened from the church, exclaiming as he crossed its threshold, “ Dies mei sicut fee mum arui ; tu autem, Domine in seternum, permanes! Some years after the death of the Empress Josephine, the writer of the foregoing pages visited La Malmaison. It was less a palace like abode than a country residence, of which any private individual might have been proud. The furniture and arrangements of the house were still exactly in the same order as when she had inhabited it; her very sleeping room remained unaltered. As he gazed upon the bed upon which she had breathed her last, u startled bat suddenly rustled forth from behind the curtains, and described its loud eccentric flight around the chamber. The incident was a trivial one, and yet con veyed to the mind a singularly effective image of desolation and extinguished grandeur! From the Journal and Messenger , The Central Bank—Col. Towns—Letter from Judge Sturgis. The communication in our paper of the Ist inst., making certain inquiries of the Editors of the Southern Recorder , has called forth from Mr. Sturgis of the firm of Towns, Sturgis and Den ning alluded to, the subjoined letter. When the matter was first presented to our consider ation, we hesitated in regard to having any thing to do with it, on the ground that charges touching the private character of candidates are often made unjustly, and without a knowledge of all the facts; and that they are generally ma licious, because always sprung on the eve of an election, and at a time to injure the public as well as private character of the parties. To this it was replied, that the transaction was a public one, involving the funds of the people—that every tax payer of Georgia ought to know in whose hands the proceeds of the Central Bank might he found—that it mattered not who was individually culpable in regard to j the defalcation—that the firm alone was respon sible, and that Mr. Towns as a member of that firm, having the means, ought not to have al lowed the account to remain unsettled, at a time j when the people of Georgia were borne down and overwhelmed with taxes brought upon them by his own acts and by the party with which he was associated. Still we hesitated, as we know the author of the communication did, until positive assurance was given by the Director of the Central Bank, that the defalcation ol said firm was matter of record on the Books of the Bank—that the claim was an old one of over ten years standing— that many efforts had been made for its collec tion—that it had been in the hands of attorneys of the Bank, and that last spring he had gone to Columbus for the purpose of enforcing the requirements of the law in regard to such cases ; but was induced to desist on the promise of a member ofthe firm that he would visit Milledge ville during the Democratic Convention and settle the matter. But that that gentleman hav ing failed to do so, he (the Director,) had given the parties notice that he would meet them for the last time, at Talbot Court, to close the affiur. The amount including interest, the director averred, was large—we think the sum named was over one thousand dollars! We did not un derstand that any proposition had been made by Mr. Towns, or any one else, to pay the money ; but quite the contrary. Upon the foregoing statement we published the communication in question. If there has been any error in the facts, it will probably be corrected at Talbot Court on Monday next, by an examination of the papers, as the Director of the Bank assures us, that he intended at that time to press the matter to an issue. For our selves we shall leave the matter in dispute to be settled between the parties themselves and the officer ofthe Bank. In the mean time, as a simple act of justice to Col. Towns, we giv* place with pleasure, to the following letter of Mr. Sturgis: Columbus, September Bth, 1847. To the Editors of the Journal and Messenger: Gentlemen : —A communication in your paper oflast week charging Col. Towns, the Democratic candidate for (iovernor, with being a defaulter to the Central Bank, has just fallen under my eye. As it is intended to operate prejudicially to Col. Towns it is due to him, that the facts should be made known to the pub lic. I was the member of the firm that made the col lections, and have paid them over long since, (nine or ten years ago,) except perhaps a small balance, which would have then been settled, and has since been of fered to the Bank, but the Bank claiming more than was due, as I believed, this small sum remains unset tled—the amount collected being about 53,700, and the amount paid over as admitted by the Bank, about 53,500. Col. Towns has, however, been desirous that this should be settled, even on the terms as de manded by the Bank, and has proposed to pay over the money himself, and would have done so, but for myself, as 1 am not disposed to pay the Bank more than is properly due. I have asked the Bank to have the matter of difference betwixt us, settled by the pro per tribunal, which they have advised me would he done at the next Talbot Superior Court. Respectfully your obedient Servant, Joseph Sturgis. We are free to say, from what wo know of the transaction and of Col. Towns personally, that not the slightest moral turpitude can attach to him on account of the original transaction,, nor do we believe that it was the intention of our correspondent to charge such—the main object being to show his want of business ca pacity, and his unfitness to manage the monied affairs of the people. Though not morally cul pable, it is nevertheless true, that as a member of the firm in question, and especially the senior member, he was certainly legally bound, having the means, to have had the matter long since ad justed! That the claim for interest on the part i of the Bank is just, no one will doubt. If the firm have had the use of the people’s money, it is but proper that they should pay for it.— The tax payers of Georgia have been com pelled annually to pay this interest into the Treasury. They have patiently done so, amid great pecuniary distress and embarrassment, and at a lime when they knew thatthe funds of the Central Bank had been scattered and wast ed by the very party of which Mr. Towns is now the leader. Littie did they think that the firm of which he was a member, was holding the money in question, and refusing either to * give it up or pay interest for the use of it. Had j Mr. Towns acted properly, he would years since, have recognized his responsibility, by ! paying the money to the Bank and looking to i his partner for remuneration. As matters now ; stand he is in the awkward predicament of ask- 1 ing office ofthe people, after having compelled \ them to pay heavy taxes to supply a deficit iu j the public funds occasioned in part, by the very ] defalcation in question. The people will be ' i apt to hesitate long before giving him nn- 1 , bridled control of the Treasury, the Central Bank, the Penitentiary, and all the finances of the State. CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. BY J. W. & W. g>. JONES. JAMES M. SMTTHE, Associate Editor DAILY, TRI WEEKLY & WEEKLY. OFFICE IN RAIL ROAD RANK BUILDING. TERMS —Daily Paper, per annum, in advance••slo Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ " ... 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) “ * ..2 (’ASH SY STEM. —In no case will an order for the j tper 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 he discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value m this city. AUGUSTA, G- A : SATURDAY MORN’G, SEPT. 18, 1847. FOR GOVERNOR; DUNCAN L. CLINCH, Os Camden. FOR SENATOR FROM RICHMOND AND COLUMBIA CO’S. : ANDREW J. MILLER. FOR REPRESENTATIVES FROM RICHMOND COUNTY : CHARLES J. JENKINS. ALEXANDER C. WALKER. The detention of the Western mail yester day, was caused by the derangement of some of the machinery ©f the engine which disabled it. No accident occurred. The Corn Trade. Democratic papers are still harping upon the value of the Foreign market for our flour, grain, &c. What is the reason they do not come out like men and state the real facts of the case? They told their readers that the ta riff of 1846 was the great sun of a political mil leninm that had risen upon the world, hut for the more especial benefit of the United States! It had warmed the farming interest into new life and carried up their productions to an ex traordinary price. It was going to keep the doors of foreign markets, particularly the English, wide open for our corn, wheat, flour, bacon and all other provisions, and the farmers of this country would have nothing to do but plunge right through them into the very lap of wealth and fortune. If a man were to prophecy that the world would come to an end in five hundred years, and that at the end of that time on a cer tain morning the sun would fail to rise, it would he a difficult matter to upset him by | reasoning; no body, then living, could detect ! the falsity of his prophecy by lapse of time, i But if he were to foretell that the sun would fail to rise next Monday, every body could ri dicule his folly and brain-sick fancies upon seeing that glorious old day-king peering up with his accustomed splendor and majesty on the morning of that day. Just so we have these 1846 tariffites. They stand before the country now, just as ail impostors do, stripped of their masks of hypocricy, or ridiculed for their va garies. Their tariff sun, which covered with light and glory the farming worWpwhich gave to the yellow harvests a deeper anekfo farmers, visions of golden prosperity*/has set behind, not an actual good crop, biifUie pros pects of one, and has gone dow/Famidst the clouds of false pretensions and detected hum hugs, never to rise again, till another famine oils its wheels and gives finmi motion. The English ports were openpfl before the tariff of 1846 was passed. They were opened rfor bread, because none at home to put in the mouths subjects which were open to iwceive it. This was the reason why they if they had not done it they would hajifflieen as guilty as he who would give a. tone when asked for bread, or a serpent when asked for a fish ! This downfall of the new tariffites is as com plete as was that of Mathias, the Impostor, and more so than that of Joe Smith. The farmers have not only been grossly de ceived about the durability of the foreign mar kets and high prices, but they know, them selves, that they have been heuefitted but little, if any, by even the famine. Corn, wheat, flour and other breadstffs,. had gone into the hands of speculators before the high prices, and those prices have fallen before the new crops could be got to market, so that the speculators and not the farmers have been benefitted, and only a portion of them , for some of them will re member the corn speculation of 1847, with feel ings very similar to those of the man who paid six hundred dollars for a small patch of Morns Multicaulis a lew years ago, and found a bull in the patch the morning after the trade, who had eaten them up. The truth is, the tariff had nothing to do with the prices of grain and provisions. It neither caused their advance nor their decline. If it procured the first, we could retort by charging that it also procured the latter. No, if Con gress had abolished all duties and adopted free trade in reality, prices would not have been higher, and they would have been just as high if the duties of the tariff of 1842 had been dou bled. Europe was exhausted, the granaries of America were full, and no sort of philosophy, moral, mental, or political, could avoid the ne cessity of calling upon us for it. It was neces sary to appease hunger, to prevent starvation, to preserve life. Famine had grappled the lower classes of the people, its hungry fangs had seized upon men, women and children, and nothing could relax its hyena hold but the bread of America. That, and that alone." of all things beneath the sun, could arrest the curse that was laying Ireland waste, and mak ng desolate the homes of British subjects. Gold could not do it of itself, kind words could not hush the feeble cries of starving children — nothing, nothing could hush them or give-color to the pale and haggard cheek of the mother, or strength to the staggering farm of the father but the bread of this Heaven-favored land. No price could test its value to these miserable be ings, no pen can describe the joy its distribu tion among them diffused through hunger laden and despairing bosoms, and yet our op ponents will continue to attribute its price to the tariff of 1846, a tariff which was not im ex ; istence when the ports of England were thrown j open to the breadstuffs of the world . We could more properly claim the tariff of 1842 as the cause, for that tariff was then in full operation. That must be a desperate cause which seizes upon hunger, famine and wretchedness to aid it, in violation of facts and truth. It certainly must be experiencing a political famine itself, , and such expedients, we trust, will not save it 1 from political dissolution, "War Expenses vs. Income from the Ta riff of 1846. Our opponents boast very extravagantly over the supposed revenues of the tariff of 1846. It is very doubtful whether it will yield this year as muchasthe tariff of 1842, notwith standing the many millions of dutiable articles which the famine has caused to flow into the country, in exchange for our breadstuff's. But admit that, under these circumstances, it may equal thatof 1842. What is there to boast of ? Let us recollect that the expenses for the last quarter, (three months,) were about twenty two millions and a half of dollars. Is there so much to glorify aboutlhen, when the expenses of one quarter nearly equal the income of a whole year ? Is there so much to rejoice over, \ when, in addition to this, the very breezes are filled with sighs at the news from Mexico, the details of the fatalities of war and disease, not a single one of which should have existed to blast the peace of many happy homes, and add oth er bloody pages without necessity to the book of history ? !t Oh how much there is to mourn over!” Public Meeting. In pursuance of the call of the Mayor, a meeting of the citizens of Augusta, was held at the City Hall, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Rail Road Convention, to be held at Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 24th day ofSeptember, instant. On motion ofWM. M. D’Antignac, Esq., His Honor the Mayor, was called to the chair, and William R. McLaws, Esq. requested to act as Secretary. A. J. Miller, Esq., offered the following resolutions, which being seconded were unani mously adopted : “ Resolved , That the chair now appoint a delega tion of twelve citizens, to represent the city o I Augus ta, in the Rail Road Convention, to be held at Knox ville, Tennessee, on the 24th inst.” “ Resolved , That the delegates be authorized to fill any vacancy occurring in their number.” The chair appointed the following named gentlemen, as that delegation ; Dr. L. C. Du gas, C. B. Hitt, J. P. King, Wm. E. Evans, A. Miller, H. H. Camming, John Bones, J. B. Bishop, George W. Lamar, Amory Sibley, John C. Sneed and W. R. McLaws, Esqrs. On motion, the Mayor was added to the dele gation. It was moved that the proceedings be pub lished in the city papers, and the meeting ad journed. L. D. FORD, Chairman. Wm. R. McLaws, Secretary. The Delegation are requested to meet at the office of the Chronicle 8? Sentinel, this morning, at 11 o’clock. Health of Mobile. —The Advertiser of Monday the 13th instant, says : there have been but twelve deaths during the past week, and only four of thesewere from yellow fever. The number of cases of sickness is not large, though during the last few days the fever has assum ed a more malignant form—not yielding so readily to medicine. We think we are justi fied, however, in saying the sickness is not in creasing, although the weather fo*r seyeraldays has been unfavorable. The Governor of Kentucky has made the following appointments for one of the regi ments of volunteers now enlisting in that State : Manlius V. Thompson, of Georgetown, Col. Thomas. L. Crittenden, of Frankfort, Lieut. Col. John G. Breckinridge, of Lexington, Major. Health of New Orleans. —We are grati fied in being able to stale that the mortality in our city has been visibly on the decrease for the last few days. The interments from yellow fever have been on the decrease since Tuesday last. On that day, the 7th. the whole number from that disease, for the 23 hours ending at 6 o’clock, P. M., including Lafayette, was 94. On the Bth, 73; on the 9th, 74; on the 10th, 46; and yesterday, 38—making the whole number in this city and Lafayette, for the five days ending at 6 o’clock last evening, from yel low fever, 324. This evident decrease in the number of interments, should not, however, be considered by strangers as a true index to the improved health of the city, as we fear it is rather more owing to the want of unacclima ted material, than to any abatement of the vi rulence of the epidemic. — Delta, 12 tkinst. The Democracy and the War. —Under this head, the Licking Valley (Kentucky) Reg ister slates that in the first Congressional Dis trict of that State, which gave a majority of three or four thousand for Polk, not a solitary wan of this large number has lent a helping hand to prosecute the war. The District num bers some eight thousand good and true Demo crats, every one of them clamorous for war and eager to avenge their country’s wrongs, but not one has responded to the call for vol unteers. Perhaps however they think, as the Union says of the President and Cabinet, that they “areas effectually conducting the battles of iheircountry at home, as if they were under arms at Mexico.” The Register thinks that this conduct of the Kentucky Polk men is worse than that of the Tenth Legion of Virginia, which has furnished at leasUwo volunteers for the war. Death of Rev. Mr. Lee. —The painful du ty devolves upon us of announcing the death of the Rev. Francis P. Lee, Pastor of Christ Church in this city. He died on Saturday last, ataboiftll o’clock, A. M., ot yellow fever, and yesterday his mortal remains were consign ed to the tomb. Mr. Lee had been but a short time a resident of our city, but during that short residence he had made himself exceedingly popular by his eloquence as a preacher, his unostentatious piety and his agreeable manners. His death will he deeply lamented by the whole commu nity, but the Church of which he was the faith ful and eloquent pastor will most deeply mourn his sudden and untimely death. —Mobile Adv. 13/A in st. The Government of Malta, under date July 30, 1847, transmitted to the committees of British and native merchants of that Island, a copy of a despatch from G. W. Crowe, Esq., her Britannic Majesty’s Agent and Consul Gen eral at Tripoli, dated the 20th ult., notifying that the importation and sale of all warlike stores, such as guns, gun barrels, gunpowder, gun flints, musket and pistol balls, had been strictly prohibited by the government of Tripo li; and that any such articles, being landed at any of the ports, or on the coast of that Regen cy will be confiscated as contraband. We learn from the New York Herald that Com. A. S. Mackenzie has been appointed to the command of the steam frigate Mississippi For the Chronicle and Sentinel. A Developementi “ Can such things be, And pass o’er us, like a Summer’s cloud, Without our special wonder?” Messrs. Editors: —lt well known that Gen. Clinch was removed from the elevated post, tion of Commander-In-Chief of the Army in Florida. The public, however, have only been , partially advised of the causes which led to his removal; and the people generally must be wholly ignorant of the individual acts and se cret machinations of designing and ambitious men. Now, therefore, that Gen. Clinch is prominently before the people as a candidate for their suffrages, it is proper that everything connected with this important event in his pub lic history should be freely and fully disclosed. Permit me, then, Messrs. Editors, to lay before your readers, in a connected form, the follow ing extracts from several letters which were ex hibited before the “ Military Court of Inquiry in the case of Major-General Scott.” HOW GEN. CLINCH WAS REMOVED. “Tallahassee, January 9, 1836. “My Dear General —The time for which the volunteers engaged having expired, I have returned to this place to obtain from the Governor the necessary force to prosecute the war. As yet, nothing has been done. When I left Gen. Clinch on the3dinst., he could not have brought into the field mere than ate hundred and fifty efficient men.” * * * “ To put a prompt and successful termination to th:s war we require an army 0f2500 or 3000 men. About one-third of this force can be raised in the territory, the balance must consist of regulars and mili ia from the neighboring States. I shall return to the frontier in some capacity or other so soon as I can raise a force of any description. I should be highly grati fied to command the Army, and believe I could soon bring the war to a close. I fear, however, this I cannot do, without injustice to Gen. Clinch. He is a brave and a good man , but I fear he is too slow in his movements to conduct a war against the In dians. “The enclosed letter from Colonel Fitzpatrick, the President of the Legislative Council, will inform you of the manner in which arms have been furnished to the Indians. It contains other valuable information, which I beg leave to lay before you. Very respect fully, &c., ’ ' R. K. CALL. General Jackson. “ War Department, January 21, 1836. “Sir: —The recent intelligence which has been received here respecting the state of affairs tn Florida, has rendered it expedient to order Major General Scott to proceed to that Territory and to assume the direction of the operations against the Seminole Indians, and also against the Creek In dians, should these latter have engaged in hostilities as from recent information there is some reason to ap prehend.” “ I am instructed by the President to request you to call into the service of the United States, and to place under the command of Major General Scott, such portion of the militia of Georgia, Alabama and Flo ida as he may require to be employed in sup pressing the hostility >f the above-mentioned In dians. It is expected that the militia thus called out will serve for at least three months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged. “Very respectfully, &c., LEWIS CASS,” Addressed to his Excellency Wm. Schley, Governor of Georgia. Milledgeville; and to the Governors of Alabama and Florida, respectively. THE RESULT OF TIME AND REFLECTION. “ War Department, May 16, 1836. Sir : — General Clinch has tendered his resigna tion, but the President is not willing to accept it, having confidence in his experience and military capacity. You arc at liberty to leave Florida and resume command of your department, whenever you think you can do so with a just regard to public in terest. You will turn over the command to Briga dier-General Clinch, or if he leaves the service, to the next officer in rank, furnis ing such instructions as you shall think proper. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, LEWIS CASS.” Major-General Scott, St. Augustine, Florida. THE VOICE OF FLORIDA. “Washington, May 28, 1836. “Sir: —By orders recently issued from the War Department, it is directed that should Major-Gene ral Scott leave the headquarters of the Army in Florida and retire from that command , it will de volve on Brigadier-General Clinch, This order leaves to the discretion of General Scott the period of his departure. It is with the greatest pain that I feel myself constrained, by a sense of duty to my constituents, respectfully to ask that General Scott be immediately relieved from the command. No man has more admiration for the gallantry or respect for the military achievements of General Scott than I have; but from the present attitude of affairs, and unfortunate and disagreeable occurrences, which have happened in that quarter, the public interests, as well as the lives security and property of the in habitants, imperiously require the order I have re commended. 1 have the honor to be, with high con siderations of respect, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JOS. M. WHITE. To Andrew Jackson, President of the U, States, From the foregoing extracts we learn that Gen. Clinch was deprived of his command in consequence of secret intelligence communica ted to the President and War Department; that a few mouths after his removal Gen. Jackson reflected, perceived that he had committed an error, and attempted to correct it by the re-ap pointment of Gen. Clinch, in the event that Gen. Scott, in his discretion, (after a very pointed hint to leave Florida,) should return to the command of his departmental Washington City ; and that a few weeks after this discre tionary order was issued, the people of Florida, through their Representative,; the Hon. J. M. White, importunately and “imperiously” demanded the immediate withdrawal of Gen. Scott, and (as is clearly to be inferred from Mr. W.’s letter,) the unconditional appointment of “ Brigadier-General Clinch Gen. Clinch, however, having previously tendered his resignation and determined to re tire to civil life, for reasons which were esteem ed by Gen. Scott “ every way solid and suffi cient,” declined this flattering tribute to his “experience and military capacity,” and with drew from the service. If the voice of the people of Florida had been addressed to Gen. Cunch personally, as well as Gen. Jackson, he would not have turned a deaf ear to their cries. His noble heart would have been touch ed by their piteous wailings, and, as in times past, their habitations and their children would have found in him “a refuge and a fortress.” But he had nothing to swerve him irom the course which he had determined tq pursue, save the compliment and expressed desire of the President, Gen. Jackson; and this alone, tempting as it was, proved insufficient. He had tracked the Seminole through the swamps and ponds of his native clime ; he had met him in his fastnesses, at his strong-holds, upon his battle-grounds; he had routed him with the dauntless spirit of a chieftain, on the banks of the Withlacoochee, at the battle of Oloklikaha, on the march from Tampa Bay to Fort Drane. On all these occasions,and whenever an oppor tunity was presented, he had displayed the vigilance, the courage, the heroism, the generos ity of the American Soldier; and he had every where perilled his life and appropriated his for tune for the relief of the people and the accom modation of the Government! Yes, fellow citizens, Gen. Clinch had done all this, and more, before he retired from the army. In all conscience he had done enough. And the claims of his family were then superior, immeasurably superior, to the glitter and renown of office ! For nearly 12 years he has now enjoyed the sweets of private life. In the county of datn den he has quietly dwelt with his family around him. There he has pursued the occupation of a Farmer with that simplicity and dignity f„ r I which he has been everywhere noted. And during a portion of this period of retirement from the tented field, he has occasionally ob ev ed the unsolicited call of the people and dis charged the public duties of the civilian. Fellow-citizens ! We should be proud 0 f til exalted character and distinguished services of Gen. Clinch. Indeed, we owe him a debt of gratitude which we can never adequately repay > His patriotic devotion and self-sacrificing spi r j t on numerous private and public occasions Pn title him to lasting honor. And Jet it not be said that the people of Georgia are ungrateful , that they are incapable of appreciating th, worth of so gallant a soldier and so excellent i citizen. Go, then, to the polls in October next with that patriotic enthusiasm which is nece< sarv to success, and evince by your votes that Gen. Clinch has not lost the esteem and confi dence of the freemen of Georgia. Hamilton Letters from Mr. Clay and Gen, Taylor The following letters from Henry Clay and j General Taylor were read at the “Native Amer ican Convention” sitting in Philadelphia. Letter from the Hon. Henry Clay. | Ashland, 2d April, 1847. Dear Sir: —Your favor of the 19tb ultimo trans mitting the proceedings of “The American Ratifica tion Meeting,” reached here a few days prior to Hiv return from New Orleans. Owing to my absence and to a great domestic affliction, which has befallen me in the loss of a beloved son, who fell in the battle of Buena Vista, of which intelligence arrived here sever al days ago, a delay has arisen in my return of an answer to your letter, which I hope you will have the goodness to excuse. You inquire of me, “at the instance of the Native American Committee of the State of Pennsylvania ” , of which you are Chairman, whether, if it be ten dered to me—and that unanimously—l would be dis posed to accept tiie nomination of President of the United Stales from the National Native American Convention, to assemble at Pittsburgh in May next for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. Waiving all inquiry into, and the expression of any opinion on the princ'ples and objects of your Associa tion, as being unnecessary, from the conclusion to ’ which I have come, I must frankly say, that I can perceive no public good likely to result from my ac ceptance of the proposed nomination ; and that, iften > dered to me, I should be constrained to decline ac cepting it. I request you, nevertheless, and the other members * of the Executive Committee, to be assured that Ijust ; ly appreciate the compliment intended me, and to ac- cept my cordial thanks for the personal confidence and ' kindness which prompted their attention to be di rected to me. I arn, with respect, Your friend and ob’t servant, Gen. Peter S. Smith. H. Clay. ’ Letter from Gen. Taylor. r H. Q,rs. Army of Occupation, / f Camp near Monterey, July 13, 1847. j Sir:— I have had the honor to receive your letter submitting on the part of the Nominating Committee of the N. A. Convention, the request to be informed of my views relating to several points of National policy entertained by the body of Native Americans in our > country# Limited leisure from my public duties constrains me to reply in very general and brief terms, that to the 1 points cited in your letter, Ido not feel myselfat lib erty to express my frank opinion. My willingnessto yield to the wishes of the people at large, and to sene ’ them in the office of the Chief Magistracy, should they fully and unanimously place its weighty responsibili ties upon me, has been more than once expressed, but I am not willing to be the candidate of any party, or to pledge myself to any political creed save that which proceeds directly from the Constitution, and the best and paramount interests of the country, and which they solemnly demand. If elected to the Presidential office, it must be without any agency of my own, (it certainly will be at variance with my most cherished aspirations,) and to those duties I most go untram meled by party pledges of every character. Should the people nominate and elect, (and there is ample space for this previous to the time of election,) some one of the gifted statesman of the country to rep resent its highest interests, I should hail the measure with joy. With sentiments of high respect, I have the bonorlo subscribe myself, Your most ob’r servant, Z. Taylor, Major Gen. U. S. Army. Wm. J. A. Birky, Esq., President N. A. Conven tion, Pittsburgh, Pa. From the New Orleans Picayune, of 12th hist. Prom tlie Army of Geu< Taylor. The steamer E. A. Ogden, Capt. Bowman, arrived yesterday morning from Brazos Santi ago, whence she sailed on the 7th hist., making a very fine run. Her news is not without in terest. We learn with great regret that Brigadier- General Hopping died at Mier on the Ist inst. The general was appointed from the western part of the State of New York, and was a gen tlemau of ability well known in the politics oi that State. The brigade under his command at M ier has been broken up, the 10th Infantry garrisoning Matamoros and Camargo, and the IGth Infantry Cerralvo and Monterey. Gen. Lane’s brigade was at the mouth of the river, expecting to embark about the Bth inst The first transport which reached there would proceed to take the troops; on board. Gen. Cushing arrived at Matamoros on the 3d inst,, accompanied by Lieut. Col. Abbott. Gen. C. is concentrating his brigade, as the several detachmentscome down, at EJ Sabi/iito, near Palo Alto. Deas’s battery, which was to have accompanied Gen. Cu«hing, has been or dered to remain with Gen. Wool, at the ex press request of the latter, Onr correspon dent alludes to the matter in a letter below Capt. Shover passed down the river with Gen. Cushing, on his way to Washington. The Flag says he hopes to bring out a battery and join General C.’s brigade in place of Captain Deas. Capt. Clarke, of the 2d Mississippi Rißes, was at Matamoros on the 3d inst., with a de tachment of recruits on the way to his regiment at Buena Vista. Capt. Clinch was at the mouth of the river on the 6th inst., with a detachment of recruits for the I3lh infantry, and would leave the next day for Gen. Cushing’s camp at El Sabinito- Despatches have passed through Matamoros for Gen. Marshall, at Monterey, to proceed to Vera Cruz without delay. The despatches were forwarded by Lieut. A. M. Henry as lar as the mouth of the Rio Grande, where he wa» taken ill and transferred them. He subsequent ly proceeded to Matamoros, where he was do ing well at last accounts. Col. R. E. Temple arrived at Matamoros on the Ist inst., wiffi four companies of his regi ment. the 10th Infantry. Ths Flag says that Col. Tibbatts, who was proceeding from Mier to Monterey with six | companies of the 16th Infantry, escorting 1 train, was attacked by a large party of Me' l ' cans near Ramos, and succeeded in drives them offl with a loss of two wounded. '; 1 have the best reason for believing that t/a whole object of the Mexicans in this attack plunder. Only the day before Lieut. Given - ; passed up from Cerralvo to Monterey with on j twenty dragoons, and Gen. Cushing, (who tn e Col. Tibbatts at Ramos) passed down the o-u alter with a guard of only twenty-five uioun !< ‘ men. and neither of them saw any thing of 1 guerillcros. Col. Tibbatts and his men' under fire for some time, and conducted t en selves wiih srreat intrepidity. * Intelligence was received at Buena V isUi the 20th of August, in a letter frorn 7 Potosi, by the way of Parras, that Gen. a o column had imirchedfrom Puebla, and tw afterwards a rumor reached there of tne H ulatiou of the city of Mexico. This jn the rapidity with which intelligence tr Mexico by The Flag says that Mr. L. B. LundJ, Mons. Monthly, who were uken prison J
