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About Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1848)
cH RONICLE & SENTINEL BY J. W. & W. S. JONES. DA I LI , mWEKKLf A WEEKLY OFFICE ~~IN K AIL ROAD BANK BUILDIW 0 . TRRMS —Daily Paper, per annum, in advance*. tlO Tri- Weekly Paper, “ “ “ " \ Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) •• * ('ASH SYSTEM —ln no case will an order for the . . i per be attended to, unless accompanied with the , n , ncv, and in every instancewhen the time for which any subscription may be paid, expires before the re ceipt of bids to renew the same, the paper will he discontinucii. Depreciated funds received at value in this city. _/ Ireland* The following very interesting sketch of this ill-fated country will be read at this period with emotions of thrilling interest by every lover of liberty. It is a faithful but condensed history ot her wrongs for near seven hundred years, and cannot fail to excite a deep sympathy in behalf of her enslaved millions. We copy from JVI. Lavoisne’s “Atlas and General Guide to History From this date (1170) commences the second great era of Irish history, and its subjection to English power, conceived in ambition, sanctioned by super stition and usurpation; sustained by division, treach ery and extermination; the regal deputies, needy, revengeful and merciless; their order, conquest; their means, massacre; their rewards, plunder; their service, a slaughter; their residence and their tribunal, a camp; ages of possession gave no title to estates, the sword made transfers of whole families to the grave, and of estates to their judges; what es caped the summary arbitration of the sword was se cured by the scaffold, and the priests, parasites, and paramours of English Kings and Q.ueeus became the nobility and the lords of the soil. A brief sketch from an English historian will convey a tolerably distinct idea of the English rule in Ireland : “ No thing can be conceived more tirrible than tlie condi tion of Ireland during the reign of Henry 111. The powerful English subverted the peace and security of the people, refused to recognize the native laws, while they denied them the benefit of the laws of England. ’ The clergy, equally abandoned and cruel, had been selected by the partialities of Henry 111. from the most worthless of the English ecclesiastics for promotion m Ireland ; and thus continued under Edward 1., ami succeeding reigns.” This picture is extenuated and mild compared with the reality, down to the very lales periods of the reign of Cromwell and the Stuarts, Elizabeth, who stands as an idol in the temple of British monarchs, is a demon in Irish history. Like Omar, she was not content with the subjection and slaughter of the people, her vengeance extended to the extinction of their history, their lite rature, their"self-love. The fury which had been turned against the treasures of intellect at Alexandria by the Ottoman, was directed against the records of laws, annals, and f «try of the Irish ; at the same time that she forbid the people to study their own la nguage, they were forbidden to pass to foreign coun tries (or education; after those efforts to brutalize and consign the people to ignorance, the systematic scheme of degradation was reared up. The people of one province were put to the sword, and those of an other driven into it ; so that the Golgotha into which they were driven would teach a perpetual and terrific subjection ; the vacated territory formed into estates for the ministers of oppression and extirpation. Crom well followed the same course, with a ferocity which exceeded all that preceded him. From the Charleses and James, of the Stuart race, they experienced al ternate treachery and ingratitude ; and that glorious revolution of 1698, which, as in the case of Elizabeth, has been the boast of England, was to the Irish only the renewal of a more insidious oppression ; the sword canid do no more, but legislation interfered to repress the bounties of nature, and the intellect was arrested to preserve them in bondage; it was not now a peace but a pause, not a combat but a torture, in which one party was bound hand and foot, and the other tram- | pled on his arcass. Cromwell had made war like a ; Crusade, and a tomb of a province; William 111. erected the cross as a gihl>et, and made the belief in ' the gospel a crime; wherever the discipline did not ' conform to that of a sect, whose example was that o( the follower of Moloch rather than the di-ciples of Chri>t. In England William was hailed as a glori ous deliverer; in Ireland aa\ stematic plunderer, who bestowed the principalities whichhe had desolated on his concubines and Dutch adventurers; on the Ginkles , the Denlincks, the Schoinbei gs, and his Duichesses ; while the bill of rights was settling, the press and commerce diffusing light and science and j politeness in England; Ireland was turned back u|>- j on barbarism, slandered, impoverished, and expose d 1 to every species of outrage and injustice. Prom the midst of this ruin, this prepared de»da- ' tion, this monument of human violence and cr ving wrongs, there arose a man, a philosopher, super.or to the power which aimed to suppress the spark of in tellect implanted by the Divinity, the friend a n d fel low-reasoner of Locke. It was Molyncau x. He dared to publish The Case of Ireland. If was the first dawn of native truth that dared to rise. above the darkness and desolation of five centuries. It made the Parliament of England tremble, arid in revenge they ordered the book to be burnt by ’.he common ex ccutioner. But the light of the conflagration remain ed after the paper had been reduced to ashes. The effect was a reiteration of violence and an appearance of moderation.. The lailure of one dynasty and the intrigues of another for the siYrcession, contributed to soften former rigors: the Irish were courted as they were feared; not to reshi, was as good as an al liance ; it had become indifferent to the Irish who occupied a throne, which always dispensed injustice, and never succor. While England was one half bartering with the old dynasty, and the other with the aspirants of a new, Ireland kept aloof from both : passive in the invasions of 1715 and 1745, when the legitimate descendants of the house of Stuart made efforts to assert their hereditary title to the English throne. At this period another Irishman arose, it was Swift, a true patriot, but he stood almost alone; sagacious, intrepid, and daring, he taught Ireland that she should be a nation, and England that she should not be a despot. His etlorls lasted but 10 years; his weapons were reason and the press—he rescued his country by his firmness, he adorned it by his talents, by his individual power he controlled the government, and mitigated ihe ferocity of its policy, making his fame inseparable from the history of his native land. The reignof George 111. was an epoch in the his tory of the universe signalized by revolutions. The despotism practised in Ireland, had served as experi ments, the results of which were attempted to be ex tended to the new world. The resistance of America became in time a lesson for Ireland and for the whole world. America, after seven years resistance, tri umphed. Ireland fir a moment partook of the bless ing; but it soon disappeared. The concessions of the British were the effects of their fears. The lifetime of i lie most conspicuous asserter of her rights, exceeds by 20 years the duration of a concession, which was never sufficient, and always uncertain. The century closed with what has been called an union , that is, the dissolution of an independent government aad parliament, and a partial incorporation with England. 1 lie embrace of a healthy bodv by one covered with loathsome and infectious maladies. The present condition of Ireland is that of a con quered and hated province, treated us if the ages of injuries and oppression which it has experienced, justified an eternal distrust, and had been cherished inm an inextinguishable abhorrence. The system of division by which princes and provinces were mar shalled against each other, lias only varied in its manner; a people 100 weak (hr rivalship, too strong for a province, are now held by the instrumentality of religious fanaticism. The gospel of Christ is made the instrument ol subjection; the slavery of five millions of one sect of Christians is accomplished by placing all the power in the hands of another sect, wh'fh docs not exceed one-fourth of the whole popu lation ; thus liberty is denied, because the character of the people has beyond human precedent survived and surmounted the mountains of injustice and the H hkls of falsehood by which it has been occasionally overwhelmed and sought to he swept away. Their courage feared, their spirit envied, their constancy and genius acknowledged with reluctance and appre hension. After six centuries and a half, the popula tion form two distinct races, who still speak of each other as strangers; the casual mixture of the races h<ts receded from the victor, and the character of the vanquished has predominated—a phenomenon in hu man history. The English are at this day spoken of as axons by the aboriginal race; and the war ofop f-T". t ongh it pervades under civil or ecclesias '* *' '™‘ S ' c ? nt ' n 'tes to be as intense and unsparing the aiir/n* n °* Wl, * lin a century ;to the native race sciousness oflT brio £ i,, gthe*i the con sciousness of subjection and shame, with the a^grava t,n„ of present anil unceasing involve. Hes fr°° who * e “"“ties suddenly in commotion of whom the morning sun discovers no vestige, ooliss To t|m flame, winch their vengeance h« a kindled, and e violence retaliated on their oppressor!. The nol cv of England wtll not permit them to be prajperous oc I industrious—the island is therefore kept as a nur sery of helots to man their ships and the ranks of their armies ; and, like the Roman gladiators, to shed their blood for their inhuman masters. Their resistance to tyranny, under the Hcnrys and the Elizabeths, such as gave to America freedom and glory ; con signs the Irish to reproach as rebellious and restless ; the meut admired of British historians have not dis dained to become the instruments of a diabolical policy, and the calumniators of a people whose whole offei ce is that they are placed by nature too close to a nation incapable of respecting their rights, or the laws of God or man. €l)rouiclc auit Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GA; SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 36, 1848. WHIG NOMINATIONS. For President of tiie United States * ZACHARY TAYLOR, OF LOUISIANA. For Vice-President s MILLARD FILLMORE, OF NEW-YORK. For Representative from the Bth District: IIUN. ROBERT TOOMBS. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. Electors for the State at Large* Dr. Wm. Terrell. | Seaton Grantland. Electors for the Districts. Ist. Hamilt’n Sharpe sth Warren Akin. 2d. VV.H. Crawford, 6th Asbury Hull, 3d. A. VV. Redding, 7th Y. P. King. 4th Wm. Moseley, Bth G. Stapleton, CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. Ist. Th os. B. King, I sth. Jas. M. Calhoun, 2d J vs. S. Ca .nous, 6th. Jas. W. Harris, 3d. Allen F. Owen, 7th. A. H. Stephens. 4th. J. N. Williamson, Bth. Robert Toombs. Farmers and Mechanic's Institute* Under tho above, or some similar name, it is proposed to organize an agricultural and mechanical association, to be composed of cit izens of Georgia and South Carolina, and make this city a common centre, and the place for public meetings and exhibitions. The ad vantages of such an institution, if properly conducted, must be obvious to every well in formed person. Our agriculture, horticulture, mechanical arts and domestic manufactures greatly need, as they well deserve, the aid of associated effort and encouragement. Much can be done to improve all rural and mechan ical operations in this section, through the agency of an Institute. Its annual shows will call together in Augusta from eight to ten thou sand people, who will remain several days for the doable purpose of selling at the Fair the various products of their skill and industry, and of buying such articles as interest or fancy shall prompt them to purchase. We can ge. up a splendid exhibition of do mestic animals and farm implements, and of borne manufactures, to gratify tho curiosity of business men, planters and farmers; whilst crowds of ladies and pleasure-seeking gentle man will be attracted to witness a magnificent display of flowers, fruits, needlework, painting, ami every produc. of female genius and talent. LiLe the American Institute in New York, and others that could be named, the one proposed can be made self-sustaining, i. e. it will require no bonus or present from any one to keep it up. . At t.he suggestion of the writer, the Association I which held its Fair recently at Stone Mountain, i took one hundred and fifty dollars extra in one | day'; and had the arrangement been properly made at the outset, some three or four hundred dollars would have been collected by a charge of only ten cents each on the gentlemen that visited the exhibition. This enables the Soci ety to give twice as much money in premiums as its members contribute. It is by a long list of premiums that an attractive Show is drawn out. Experience has uniformly demonstrated the truth of the remark, that an Exhibition tru ly worth seeing, never fails in this land of plenty to draw a crowd. Popular curiosity enables the American In stitute to keep open its annual Fair two weeks, and collect some $20,000 at its thronged gales. The State Agricultural Society of New York will draw forty thousand people to Buffalo to spend a week in examining (he ten thousand curiosities there to be exhibited. The love of sightseeing is as largely developed in the breasts of Southern people, as in those of the North. A great deal of useful information is ga.ined by the mutual instruction of the assem bled thousands. All are teachers, all are pn pi Is in a degree. By union and associated effort to advance the agriculture, horticulture and mechanical arts ol this region, incalculable good may be achiev ed, On the other hand, without union, with out common effort and public spirit, next to n othing in the way of improvement will be done. Human improvement and great bene fits to society, are never realized except as the just rewards of well directed labor. Profound indolence and profound ignorance as its off spring, go together. Mr. Stephens Re-nominated. We have the high gratification of announcing to the friends of the distinguished representa tive of the Seventh Congressional District, the Hon. A. H. Stephens, his unanimous nomi nation by the Whig Convention of that district for re-election. This is as gratifying to Mr. S. and his numerous friends out of the district, as it is honorable to the sterling Whigs of the in vincible Seventh. Mr. S. confers honor upon the station he occupies, and the Whigs confer honor on themselves in honoring him. The more especially now that he has been so wan tonly and ruthlessly assailed by those who would rejoice b.i his prostration at whaever sacrifice. J, L. Seward. Thu i gentleman, who had declared himself an indep endent Whig candidate in the first Con gress! onal district, in opposition to the Hon. T. B- K ing, has withdrawn from the canvass, and announces the fact in a very handsome style, in a well written letter to the Savannah Repub lic* m, in which he expresses his ardent desire fu r harmony, and the triumphant success of 0 w Whig# and their gallant standard-bearer. Louisville, August 15.—A fire occurred this morning, which destroyed a large bagging factory, on the corner of Sixth and Market streets. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO, 1 which is partly covered by insurance. Fruit Culture in tlie Ohio Valley* We clip the following from the last Cincin nati Gazelle : “Since the organization ami regular weekly meet ings of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, much has been done for the improvement of the fruit pro duct of the Ohio Basin, and to enlist greater attention in this neglected branch of husbandry, a great deal more is yet to be done, however, and the fact stands out distinctly, that it may be done in full face of the great commercial test, ‘ will it -pay?' without fear of disappointment—if proper attention be given to it, and judicious localities be chosen. "We have the re sult of one example now before us—?n experiment made in a small way, it is true, but one which, not withstanding, promises other than small benefits. We allude to a piece of ground, only Jive acres in extent, which our friend Joseph Clarke, of Brown county, Ohio, has now in fruit. On this miniature orchard, Mr, C. has now in cultivation 112 kinds of peaches, 75 of which are in bearing, some of the most vigo rous of the trees having not less than nine to ten bush els on each. His experiment is a new one, and this season he has had an abundant supply ripening in suc cession since the 15th of July. On this small piece of ground Mr. Clarke has also 83 varieties of plums, 33 of which are in hearing, 115 varieties of peats, 112 of apples, 60 of cherries, 15 of nectarines, 12 of apricots, 4 of figs, 30 of grapes, 3 of sti ..wherries, and Bof raspberries, including the new large Pul staff" variety.” Mr. Clarke now realizes a comfortable in come from the products of his five acres of ground. It is wonderful to see how rapidly the consumption of good fruit increases in this county; and yet there are millions of people in the United States who would gladly eat something like a bushel of fine apples each per month, the year round, provided they could be bought at twenty or thirty cents. Fruit cul ture is in its infancy; and it is only by degrees that an excessively carnivorous, swine-eating nation will abandon old habits, and learn to subsist more on the best products of the or chard, the vineyard and the garden. The de mand for these will more than equal the supply if well preserved. Mr. Stephens at Home. The reception of this distinguished son of Georgia by his immediate constituents promises to be a most triumphant fete. The day after his unanimous nomination by the Convention, a public dinner was given at the Glades, in Put nam county, near the line of Greene and Mor gan counties, in his district, at which he was present by special invitation and addressed a vast assemblage (two or three thousand) of his constituents in two speeches of great power and force. He was most cordially greeted by the multitude, and the greatest enthusiasm pre vailed, Such a constituency is worthy of such a representative. Aid to Ireland. The deep feeling which pervades almost all classes of society, with regard to the future destiny of Ireland and her generous, warm hearted sons, will call forth a large crowd to night. Theirs is the cause of liberty, strug gling against monarchy, and will meet with a warm response among native and adopted sons on this side the Atlantic. “The AV higs and the Barnburners.— Some time since our Washington Correspondent alluded to a rumor that, subsequent to the passage of the fir t Compromise bill by the Senate, a meeting of the Whig members of the House was held, at which its defeat was resolved on, and hence the course of Mr. Stephens, and the other Southern Whigs, who voted with the entire body of the Abolitionists in accom plishing that object. Some of the Southern Whig papers have affected much indignation at this charge of the affiliation of Southern Whigs and Northern Barnburners, but as yet it has not been denied on re sponsible authority, as witne. s the following from the Washington Union of Monday.” “‘We referred some days since to a rumor which was rife in this city, of a caucus having been held for the purpose of defeating the first Compromise hill from the Senate, We invited any respectable Whig member of cither House of Congress to contradict the report in his place, or under his own name in the columns of the Nation d Intelligencer. We are not advised that anv such contradiction was ever made in either shape, although some of the scribblers from this city, or some of the stump speakers have profess ed to deny it.’ ” The appearance of the above paragraphs in the Charleston Mercury of yesterday, not a little surprised us, after tho effectual manner in which the gross and infamous libel about that Whig caucus had been nailed to the coun ter by members of Congress in and out of the Mouse. If the Mercury's recent affiliation with that most servile of all prints, has not loosened its hold upon decency, it would do well to take the earliest opportunity to publish the following extract from Mr. Crozikr’s speech, made on the 3d inst., and published in the National In telligencer of the 9th; “ It had been said by the friends of the bill that the vote by which it had been so unceremoniously dis posed of was the result of a caucus. Mr. C. pro nounced that assertion to be false. There had been no caucus that be knew of. He certainly had never heard of any; and he believed the whole to be a mere electioneering story. [Several Whig members here cried out thatthere had been no caucus.] Mr. Toombs. —The Richmond (Va.) Times pays the following well merited compliment to our distinguished representative : “ The Hon Robert Toombs has been unan imously nominated for re-election by the Whigs of the Bth Congressional district of Georgia We can assure our Whig friends in Georgia that they honor themselves in sending such a representative as Mr. Toombs to Congress He is esteemed by the Whigs of other Slates second to no Southern member of the House.” The Louisville Journal publishes returns from 93 counties in Kentucky, in which Mr. Crittenden's clear gain over Owsley's majori ty in the same counties is 3,631. The seven counties to be heard from are Cumberland, Ferry, Harlan. Carter, Lawrence, Letcher, and Pike. If they have given the same majorities to Crittenden and Powell they gave to Owsley and Butler, Crittenden’s majority in the State will be 8,255. The Foreign Commercial News. The New York Express, of Monday afternoon, says: “ The news by the Cambria is decidedly favor able, not so much from any advance in price, or increased demand for American produce, as from the fact that all fears about the Irish question are dispelled. Cotton closed well, and the healthy tone before noticed in the manufacturingdistrictscontinuea. Flour main tains previous prices, and there can be little doubt that we shall find in the English ports a market for a large amount of breadstuff's at moderate prices, yet such as will pay our far mers and ship-owners. Corn is held cheaper since the news, but a farther jlgcline can be submitted to and the article s N|f| beat a price that will attract millions of bushels to the sea board. At presept there are no stocks of ship ping corn to operate in, but there is time enough to get a full supply before navigation 1 closes. Mr* Stephens--Spirit of the Press. Some of the Whig presses of the State are speaking out in defence of the position of Mr, Stephens, in a manner and lone worthy of themselves, the great question at issue and this zealous and able defender of Southern rights. The Journal and Messenger says : “Mr. Stephen’s Speech. —The triumph of vir trr genius and patriotism has never be i more con spicuous than in the case of Mr. Stephens. Ever since his first entrance upon public life, lie has been the pride of his friends and the terror of his enemies. His blows have fallen -hick and heavy upon the foes of the constitution and of good government; and it is not astonishing that “ the eagle in his pride and pow er should have been pecked at by the mousing owls” of party. His vindication however is clear, conclu sive, triumphant. It marks him as the man for the times —as the bold and fearless champion of Southern rights. Should he never make another public speech, I the one now before us would be sufficient to hand his name down to \ jnterity with ‘ honor and renown.’ In this opinion we are happy to find that we are not alone, that Whigs and Democrats, all men —oy nearly all —who have had candour enough to read his remarks, and firmness enough to express them selves, uninfluenced by party trammels, accord to the member from the 7th District the most unlimited praise.” The Athens Whig has the follow ing: “ The H on. A H. Stephens. —The Locofocos of ! this State, aided by a few hasty, hot-headed and in considerate Wnigs, are moving heaven and earth in a vain attempt to break down this gentleman, because of his course on the miscalled compromise bill, which was simply a surrender of Southern rights, as some conceive, while others thought it would allay the ex citement on the question of slavery and protect the rights of the South. It was a question upon which there might be, honestly, a wide diversity of opinion, upon which there teas and is an honest difference of sentiment among southern men. Mr. Stephens has made a most powerful speech in defence of his course on that position ; one which, it is said, must carry conviction to the mind of every reader that his was the true southern policy. We have not yet read it, but shall publish it as soon as we can procure a cooy. We are suprised that any of Mr. Stephens, constituents should condemn him without giving him a hearing, as we observe one or two correspondents of the Southern Recorder have done. We have beard the opinion expressed that his course on the Compromise question would, when properly under stood, not only strengthen him in his own District, ■ but make him one of the most popular men in the South?” The Griffin Whig remarks : “ Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. —The motion of this gentleman to lay the so called ‘ Compromise Bill’ on the table, our readers are aware, has been a source of many surmises aud predictions, both from friends and opponents. “We could not believe for a moment, that Mr, Stephens ever would, on any occasion, desert the in terest of his constituency; and not knowing the terms of the offered compromise which he was instrumental in defeating, we have hitherto refrained from any reference to the matter at all, preferring to wait and let him speak for himself, which we felt he was fully able to do. On the 7th instant, in the House of Rep resentatives, he did speak for himself, and our only regret is, that we have not time and space to publish his speech entire. We are forced from the crowded state of our columns, to content ourselves with some extracts, which we are confident cannot fail to satis fy every unprejudiced mind.” Gen. Taylor at Pascagoula* The reader is referred to the following very interesting sketch, from the Mobile Register, a zealous Democratic organ, of a visit to Gen. Taylor: Gen. Taylor at Pascagoula.—A considerable number of the citizens of this place including a few ladies, left here on Friday afternoon on the steamboat W. \V. Fry, for the purpose of paving a visit to Gen. Taylor, who, with bis family, it was understood, was at Pascagoula. The trip down from Ibe fine accom modations of the boat and the bright sky and beauti ful weather, was exceedingly pleasant. The boat did not arrive at her destination until 11 o’clock at night —too late to enable the majority of passengers to go ashore. When the morning came, it presented a pic turesque view of East Pascagoula, one cf the loveliest spots on the Gulf, with its noble umbrageous live oaks, and the fine hotel and adjacent buildings, displayed tastefully along the bay. A wharf, nearly a mile in length, conducts from the anchorage to tlie shore, and convenient edifices afford fine accommodations for bathing. Upon arriving at the hotel “ ihe Mobile dele gation” was welcomed by the hospitable host—Maj. Mcßae—to his “quarters,” which, however, were already overwhelmed by the large number of visitors jKitronizing the place. All eyes, however, were anx ious to catch a glimpse of the “lion, ” whose pres ence had called them to the spot. Seated quietly and sideways , in a “split bottomed” chair, was an old gentleman of short and round, but by no means cor pulent person, with a small military cap on, engaged intently in reading, by the aid of a pair of silver framed spectacles, a newspaper which be held folded into a small space, in bis right hand. His body was leaning forward, his elbows resting upon bis knees, and bis mind apparently unconscious of any thing a round him. It was difficult to get a good look at him, but a glimpse was sufficient to convince any spectator who had ever seen his portraits, that this was tho he ro of Buena Vista. Being approached and addressed by name, by an old acquaintance, one of our citizens, be arose, and with much courtesy welcomed him, and the gentlemen immediately witii him. A “good look” was sufficient to show that the General is a much bet ter looking man than bis portraits usually present him. His mouth is not so large, his under lip not so pro jecting, his face not so heavy, bis forehead notsohigh, and his legs by no means so short as they ate com monly represented. He is a plain, honest, firm, modest, farmer-looking old man. One could scarce ly realize, while looking upon him that this was the Murat of Monterey, the Bonaparte of Buena Vista. No man could be so little like one’s preconceived opinions of a beroor a great man. We were forced to remem ber Shakespeare’s classification : “ Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have great ness thrust upon them. ” The General had only arrived the day before, and this morning he was to have a formal and fashionable reception of tlie officers of the large body of forces, the army of Mexico, who are in camp near. At II o’clock they came; and in the parlor of the hotel were now presented the heroic Twiggs, the hero of Cerro Gor do, with his tall stalwart form, his white flowing locks and snowy whisKers, finely contrasting with his rosy cheeks; the chivalrous Croghan, renowned at San dusky, now Inspector General of the army, with his noble Roman features and symmetrical form; the gallant Lieut. Col. Fauntleroy, of Harney’s famous regiment, and a crowd of inferior officers, all fine look ing young men, wnose “ brows are bound witii victo rious wreaths. ” After their reception, which the “old general” went through with with much ease and urbanity, the “ Mobile delegation”—that is, all who had gone down from this city —were also received in form. Col. Chester Root made a short and appropri ate address, which was replied to by the General, in equally brief and formal terms. He said he thought of Mobile with pleasure, because it was so prompt to send him relief when he most needed it up on the Rio Grande. The General is by no means an orator, and he who was as firm as a rock at Palo Alto, was here embarrassed and abashed in the presence of a few plain spectators. The day passed away very pleasantly with all. — Many proceeded to the camp, a few miles off, to see the troops, and others passed the time in conversation with the General, Maj. Bliss, and other officers, — The Major appeared in fine health, and converses with much ease and fluency. The “old hero” is quite affable, but from some cause or other, did not himself upon political topics at all. He spoke freely of the war, and, in the course of a conversation, we heard him pay a high compliment to the energy and “unfailing resources” ofSanta Anna. There are a large number of ladies at Pascagoula, some of them very beautiful, and all apparently anx ious to “speed the time with mirth, and jollity, and smiles. ” Gen, Taylor’s family is with him ; his wife, a fine looking, matronly lady, and his daughter a beautiful girl of seventeen, with graceful rounded form, brilliant dark eyes, and a soft, rosy complex ion. From Yucatan. —The brig Mount Vernon arrived yesterday from Campeachy, having sailed on the 14th inst. The news brought by her is favorable for the whites, whose success continues. It is said that Valladolid and Tekax have been recovered from the Indians, who are gradually falling back.—Pic. 20th. The Camden Journal informs ns that the Branch Railroad to that place is now within 11 miles of reaching the town, and that in less than a week the trains will run to Swift Creek, 8 miles from Camden, whore a depot will be erected. From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.—By Telegraph. From New York. A despatch from Baltimore, dated at 12 0 c °ck yesterday, states that information from Galena had been received announcing the elec tion of Cook (Whig) to Congress from im nets. The Whigs have a majority in the Le gislature of lowa. In New York, the Cotton market was in an inactive State, but prices firm. Sales of Rice were made at s3s a $4, for fair quality. The steamer Crescent City arrived at New York from New Orleans yesterday morning. Nothing of the British steamer. The following notice was received yester day by Telegraph from New York : One Day for Ireland New York, August 24, 1848. The Directors of New York request the friends of Ireland in each Ward of the Cities, Towns and Villages in the United Slates, to assemble on the birth day of Lafayette, (Sept. 6th.) in order to give a day for succor to Ire land. To produce this united action, some friend in each section should fix a place of meeting, attend the organization, and announce the result without delay to the Directory. ROBERT EMMET-, Chairman. Papers friendly to the cause, will please to give the above an immediate insertion. From the Savannah Republican. Irishmen ! The lust act of British tyranny has been con summated against your long oppressed and unfortunate country By an act of the British Parliament, the benefit of the Habeas Corpus act, the great and boasted charter of English freedom, has been suspended in Ireland, and the Lord Lieutenant has been empowered to arrest and imprison, until the first of March next, any person suspected of disaffection to the Crown and Government. The las* remnant of the constitution has been violated, and the most peaceful inhabitant of Ireland may. on suspicion alone, or by the act of a designing and malicious enemy, be cast into a dungeon until the first of March next. Not content with the perversion of justice by the packing ofju ries, the Government has adopted a sweeping measure of the most glaring tyranny, and no man in Ireland, except the officials and hire lings of despotism, is safe from its effects. — The time has arrived when even the ultra pa cific O’Connell himself declared that the people of Ireland would be justified in resisting by force of arms. Stung to madness by the last crowning act of tyranny, your countrymen have determined to cast off the yoke of the oppressor, and to as sert their right to self-government by force of arms. A partial insurrection has broken out in Ireland, and a collision has occurred between the troops and the people. The blood of Irish men has been shed in defence of their rights. Should the insurrection be general, and should it be sustained by the strong arms and stout hearts of the people, the issue can scarcely be doubtful. A nation of eight millions cannot be conquered. Irishmen! You are called upon to aid your long oppressed and suffering countrymen in their struggle for nationality and independence. Removed as your are from the scene of con flict, that aid can only be given by liberal con tributions in money. The sum of one thou sand dollars has been raised in this city, which will be transmitted this week, to Robert Era met, Esq., President of the Association of the Friends of Ireland of New York. Your con tributions can be remitted to the Rev. J. F. O’Neil, treasurer of the Association of the Friends of Ireland in Savannah. Irishmen ! Let not this appeal to your sym pathy and love of fatherland be made in vain. ! By the wrongs of the past, by the hopes of the 1 future, you are called upon to aid a brave and generous people in the attainment of an in alienable right, domestic legislation and na tional independence. J ohm McMahon, John Everakd, Thomas D Murphey, I*. K. Sheils, James O’Connor, M. J. Reilly, John Murphey, Executive Committee of the Association of the Friends of Ireland of Savannah. 0 Editors friendly to the cause will please , re-publish. i : 1 Well Put. —The following from the Rich mond Whig is exactly to the point : The Washington Union says : “ The main, indeed the only principle in it (Gen. Taylor’s platform) is this : That the President ought to follow in the wake of Con gress; that he ought to register their edicts.” Admitting this to be so, is knot better that he should register its edicts than that Congress should register his ? He is but one man, and elected for four years—Congress is composed of nearly three hundred—coming from every section of the Union, and elected every two years. If one or the other must register the edicts of the other, it seems to us that it would be a little more Republican, even Democratic, for the immediate representatives of the people to govern, than for one man, far removed from them and almost irresponsible. But we are a ware that the self-sty led Democrats have a differ ent notion. Ever since Gen. Jackson’s time, it has been a cardinal doctrine with them,that one man can govern better than the people or their representatives. We see the practical results of this doctrine in the late war with Mexico— which the President originated. We shall feel it before we have paid the oeht and settled the perplexing questions which that war has crea- j ted. Circumstances alter Cass es.— Mr. Edi tor: Hereafter when speaking of the Casses, in your paper, would it not be more satisfactory to your readers, if you would make a distinc tion between Mr. Cass of the North and Mr. Cass of the South ; and between Mr. Cass of the East and Mr. Cass of the West! Although this has been done, to some extent in his lives which have been published for the different latitudes, still your readers are liable to be led into error and confusion, by suppos ing that they are all one and the same ! Not that there is much difference in the pop ularity of the man ; or that there is any pros pect of danger of the election of either of them, if the voles of all could be concentrated upon one ; but because there is, in fact, a great dif ference in their principles. If you would say Mr. Cassofthe North be lieves and says thus and thus, Mr. Cass of the South thinks so and so, Mr. Cass of the West is of tha, opinion, and Mr Cass of the East is of this opinion, you would be better understood, and it would prevent much confusion and con tradiction. If, for example, you say Mr. Cass is opposed to the Wilmot Proviso, you are at once con tradicted, or charged with misrepresentation, by those who know only Mr. Cass of the South, but if you say that Mr. Cass of the South is op posed to the Wilmot Proviso, and Mr. Cass of the North is in favor of it, all understand and believe it.— Toledo Blade. Baltimore and Charleston Packet:. — We have had the perusal of a letter from Bal timore, to a gentleman in this city, in which it is stated that there is now a fair prospect of having at least one Steam Packet between that city and Charleston. Merchants in.erested in the trade with East Tennessee and other points, have taken the matter in hand, and the enter prise will doubtless be followed out to comple tion. The letter is from a gentleman who is or will be himself interested. Our friends of the Baltimore Sun have done good service in this cause, and we shall look anxiously to their columns for further intelligence of the progress of this work.— Charleston Courier, Another Felon Paper.— -The Nation, Irish Tribune, Irish Felon and United Irishman all having been suppressed, and their editors ami publishers sent to Newgate, a successor hi been started, au*i is thus announced in tj, e j number of the Felon : On Tuesday next, and on every f..t, Thursday and Tuesday, will be D uhl -The Newgate Calem&,” Irish Tribune, a political, military and fdnnm journal, edited by R. D. Williams and KeviJV 0 Doherty, at present prisoners in \u«,- ’ jail. Price— Twopence. 1 The ? bje P l ° f thl9 Journal »» to teach the Irish people the ways and means of their i liverance, and the uses and results of frp Pr i when won. caon * 2. That it may do this effectively, a t j.: r , the Journal will be occupied with military' 01 formation, furnished by the ablest Under the heads of City Fighting Guerin’ War, Military Engineering, and Munitions War, ail the requisite knowledge will be Ca fully arranged and classified; and the U Department of the United Irishman, and iU Practical Instructor and Easy Lessons on M tary Matters of the Nation, reprinted entire 3. —With the same object, the Journal wm be published in a convenient pocket shape n* the conveniet pocket price of Twopence , to facilitate its work, it will be a week. The opinion of the editors on an Revolution being that— “ If ’twere done, when ’tis done, ’Twere well ’twere done quickly.” 4. —Several approved Felons have promisee their assistance, and the editors have to an nounce, that articles will appear in early num bers from C. G. Duffy, John Marlin,*T I) Redly, T. D. M’Gee, M. M’Dennott, Iff. Do' beny, Joseph Brenan, James F. Lalor, and • host of competent felonious contributors, of. fice 11 Trinity street. The names of Felon and Convict will be come as illustrious in Ireland as those of Baron and Earl in England, and future Irishmen vviH boast of their ancestors having been in Ntv.'- gate, as the Y r ankees do of their pilgrim father or as the Germans of their robber knights. The St. Louis Republican announces the ar rival in that ci f y of 2,000 pigs Galena Lead, per Red Wing, from Keokuk, which is des tined for the use of a White Lead Manufactory in Buffalo. The shipment goes by the way of the Chicago and Illinois Canal, and is the firs; lot that has ever taken that route. The Hon. Reuben Booth died at his resi dence in Danbury, Connecticut, on Mondaj evening the 14th inst. He was an able lawyer, and one of the most prominent men in the State—having been a member of both branches of the General Assembly, Lieutenant Governor of the Slate, and a Presidential Elector in 18)0. The Plot Thickens.—The Baltimore Amt~ rican says: —The following extract of a letter from a gentleman of St. Louis to a friend in Hartford (Connecticut.) aud published in a pa. per of that city, throws a broad light on the criminal enterprise which is on foot (to the hor ror, we venture to say, ofnine-tenths of all the well disposed citizens of the United States) against the Rio Grande tier of Provinces ofMex ico: “Sr. Louis, August 10— I am waiting to see Gen. Shields, who ought to be here to-day. A great expedition is on foot to take all the Sierra Madre country. There are enrolled now upwards of five thousand men. About fifteen hundred are now at Minoises, two hundred miles above Matamoras. Shields is to tab 1 command, if he do not play false; if so, Gen. Lane. You have no idea of the number of in fluential men this plan embraces in its ramifi cations. But nous verrons. Great Piety.—A chicken thief, who was convicted of robbing a hen roost in Mexico, has since his return home made affidavit that upon some occasion, when highly excited, Old Rough and Ready made use of language rather bordering on the profane. It is strange that no decent, honest soldier heard it. On one sub ject we admit that Cass is the most devoted praying man of the two. Old Zack may occa sionally swear a little, but according to his own declaration Cass does some tall praying. In reference to Slavery the great nominee of the democrats, says, I deprecate its existence in principle, and pray for its abolition every where. Now, prayer is said to be the desire of the soul, and if so, Lcivis Cass comes tolerable near be ing an abolitionist at heart. We could listen to a small amount of swearing from an irritated man with full as much composure as we con'd swallow such a prayer, on such a subject.— Don’t you think that you could ?— Col. Enq. Ohio.—Senator Corwin, Thomas Ewing and Mr. Vinton have made appointments to addr the people of Ohio from this time until the elec tion Mr. Corwin is perfectly confident of the vote of Ohio for General Taylor.— Rich. Whig- Consequences of the Mob Spirit.— ' Ad leg ha ny Cotton Factories —It was reported yesterday that the Factories would all resume work this morning, aud that a posse bad been summoned to protect the proprietors in the ex ercise of their rights; but we learned last even ing from the Mayor of Alleghany that all the j manufacturers had convened and unanimous- I ly resolved to suspend operations until next spring, in consequences of the mobocratic de monstration made yesterday and threatened let to-day. —Pittsburg Gazette. Aug. 15. [The Gazette of the next day says this reso lution was reconsidered, and amended by strik ing out “ next spring,” so as to leave the sus pension indefinite.] Wives of the Revolution. —ln a recentm’- of Congress revisingthe pension law, the term of the act are extended to all the widows u [ those who died in the war while in the line oi their duty, in any way whatever. The practice effect of this is to extend the uension law to ma ny widows who would nothave been entitled to it under the old law. There are many persons interested in this law. Messrs. Butler and Benton. — It apPfl ! that we were misteken in stating jhatthe m ‘ culty between these gentlemen was arnica 1 adjusted. The Charleston papers ®^ te J Mr. Foote first bore a challenge to Col- ton—which was not received on the al ;^ tp ground that Foote was personally hostile Ben.on. Mr Rcverdy Johnson then t)0r^ oll to which no answer being given Mr. j J ‘ i ', n stated that, if none was received by a hour the next day, the challenge would oe sidered asdecl tied. None was receive , so the matter stands. . e]l ,£ We see some allusion to substitutes proposed by Col. Benton —but it neet ? u »|y firmntion. As the thing stands, it l°° , u ||e!s for Old Bullion, when we recollect the and daggers, deaths and funerals, here no where, with which he interlarded nis rial discourse.— Richmond Whig • The War Between Germany mark. —Frankfort advices to reC oi‘ 1 ' nor nee that war was to be activ j raenced with Denmark. . j ado Von Krogthad been commission rim, to assume the command of tne deli ,»- my. More German ships had b ® e “ kade d ( t,r ed. The Elbe is to be strictly blfK* O some time. Hopes were penhagen that the Prussian forces advance.
