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JOURNAL & MESSENGER. S. T CHAPMAN A- S. ROSE, Editi ns. Vnothtr Lit lot from .Uajor Dou mill;. On Tire Ruri th hie War, ( August —, l&ft. i M* Gaiss A Sr-.ton : Mu D’-ar 01-'i Frir idt: I pm>- you’ll he mruwiniy dfapinwii to M'J that I'lii sy olt ucre. tw\sn a- to the of war,and didn't call to see you hn 1 eanv* thmngh W.ts.mißom But von nristot biaiue nir ff It, Or 1 couldn't help it ; hie t*l • ■Vnt woWl.t nt ii , rail: hesudl we- gdtim: unit- tooJl’uck with you, wrirug It iters to you •%! ’• .1 it And wh h !•< tbouttne i.'.ttc”- tie took, and kind ot ice i.d sho con-; stderabie epunk. , , , I Sava he. Major Dowr.-. u! 1 have p.r . good deal <>t | confidence in vnu asa trivnd o* i.ty ntlm.n .-tratiott , an!, it you area trirnd to it.yott mu let lSale- an,! S. nt.n B |onc ; Veep out of their way nuJ have nothing to do , with them: they ere dangeruu*. niiechiel-making tel-‘ lers eternally ricking at my edmimstration. all w.oiili- . ere. Let r.v : try tc keep tli.ags r - tug, niul jy Plana ever , they are sun to and„, them all up, lug _ them into thr hit iligeneer, ‘laze ’em ell ever the. country Cnutoar ‘ their ■ ... ‘ they ere t 1 most trouble •wwe customc an ailninitrntion v\ had; they've coni ‘pr. “. near •wiimpmg me two it thtee tunes Si. it’ you my friend, 1 warn you not to be P I xtiick with (falee end beeton Well eiiys I,Colonel.you know I am n friend to you and vmir edrr.mistraliou, as much as 1 ever waa to the , oldl.itieral and hia administration ; and I shall stand by you and do every thing 1 ean to help you out of this fcrane you’ve pot into nboul the war. Hut J don't know as that nee ! to m ike m’ break with (Sale < and Seaton. We've been friends so long, it would be kind of hart lor ine to give ‘. m tip now ; an 1 1 don't hardly think they are quite so hud as vnu think tor They may not mean to do yon so mueh hurt when they pul these things mm ibeir liner, and c.nlv put them in becauaj tiiey think liilks want m know what's goin on Mr K urine some timed puts things into his paper that felka think uon t do vou no good , , , .. Th * Free*.l.’iit give or three hard chaws upon his cud of lobar-■ami snyshe. Yes Major, that’s too true* j t mtt9 t be - nut beyond all pa tienc • Hut then l have to forgive it and overlook it, becau- Mr Ritchie don’t mean it. Ihe old gemle man if always willing to take it bark. \nd then hr> uch a t iff old teller to tight me federalists, l can t have t heart loscoli at him much about his mistakes and’ b Well 1, Colonel, V'in y° u ’ vr named federalists. I want to know if any -f them animals ip really sup- to b* alive anv where in th* country now-a-dnys. beciu firh awful accounts about ’em in the Union pa per all the ti'i , i inquiicd all the way along through New La/lun i. where they u, and to he the thickest, and I coni l*nt g t track of one; and when I asked the folk jf there was ry federalists any where in them quarters. tkey all a*arcd a: me and aaid they didn’t know what sort of < .:n rs iltcy wn- When 1 got to Duwningville i asked uncle Joshua about it. He said, in his younger Wsys th.-re used to be considerable many of ’em about,, but they wasn’t thought to be dangerous, for they never was in’ h given to fighting. But he said he guessed they’d Jill died out long ago, for he hadn't come across one tli b twenty years. So now Colonel, says 1, how is ; it they are so thick in Mr Ritchie’s paper all the tune l At that he give me a very knowing kind of a look, and lowered his voice down almost to a whisper ; and sn\ •* he, Major, 111 tell you how that is. \\ hen Mr. Ritchie was a young man he used tc* tight, a good deal with the federalists, and took a good deal ol pride in it ; and . now the lane ica and scenes of his youth all seem to come hack fresh to his mind, and he can’t think or talk about any tiling else. You know that’s oftentimes the way with old people. As lie always used to have the name : of a smart tighter, 1 give him the command of the news paper battery litre to defend my administration. But? Ywm as great a mistake as ’twas when 1 sent Taylor in to Mexico , 1 didn’t know my man No matter what forces was gathering to overthrow my administration. Mr. Ritchie somehow didn’t seem to see ’em ; no mat ter hw hard they tired at me,he didn’t seem to hear it and when 1 called to him to tire back, he would rouse | up and touch off a few squibs with about u s good aim as the boys take when they tire crackers on the 4th of July.! and did ax ut a. much execution At last 1 found out , a way that 1 could make tile old v< teran fight like n Turk and hold on like a bulldog. It washy .giving him j notion at any lime that he was fighting with federal- i iA Since I made ilia* discoveiy he s been more help to me. Whenever I see the enemy entrenching him self around me. and bringing up his batteries to fire into . my administration, all l navt to do *s to wiiisjsT in Mr. Ritchie’s oar,and say, ‘ Mr. Ritchie, the air smells of t federalism ; you may depend upon it, there is federalists abroad somewhere.” In a minute, you’ve no idea with j wiiat fury ilw* oid gentleman flies around, and mounts his heaviest guns, and sets his,paper battery in a roar.— Ills shots fly right and left, and sometimes knock down . friends as well as foes To he sure they don’t make n ! v-ry great imprersion upon the enemy ; but then there’s! this auvantage in it : if lie don’t kill or heat off tin- en emyke ke h ,admini“trati(n sop *rfect!y covered up i with smoke that t!. enemy can’t s.*<* halt the time where ! to fire at Onthewhoie, Mr. Ritchie is n valuable* man to my administration, noiv.ithsianding n!l his mis I takes aie; blunieis. I Jesttlien the dfM>r opened and who should eomo in but Mr. Ritdi.e hunse.f A he opened the door h* k etched the sound of the two lus* wads th* Riesul.-nt was saving. “Mistakes and Mund- rs !” pays .V *. Ritchie,say< hr what have you gt s crhing m ri oi JScott and i’uy lor’s blund&ring m Mex.eo I Nothing uioic to-day,aay*^the Pr* s cut. I was on ly telling Major Downing !ow th* r blunders th* re hnv< come pretty near ruimng thecotim.ry, and how it is ab aolutely necessary to g ’ the staff out *t t.ieir iiands somehow or other before they quite finafli the job. I’m going now to try one more plan, Mr. Ritchie ; but be car* bii that \> u don’t say any thing about it i’i the Un ion, and blow it all up. I tried one ?<> send Col Ren ton on for the same purpose, and Cong.eas Mowed that up. Then I sent Triit on ior the s. i purpose, and Scott has blowed him up. Now J'in agoing to send Ma jor Downing, aot as a regain: ; j Inin, but ns n sort of watch upon them, you know, to work round and do the bnaiseHS up before any body knows t lle isn't to go to Scott or Tayiorvwor iwo any tiling ;<> do u .tii ’em, but work hia way into M* vit . and go right to Santa Anna and knock up a bargain with him 1 don’t care what li* gives. The fact is. Mr. Ritchie, the country need l>eace, and I’ll have peace, cost what u will. An excellent idea, says Mr Ritchie; an excellent plan air. I'm for peace at all hazards, if it is to be found any where in Mexico—that is, il we can get hold of it before Scott or Taylor does And I think Maj. Down ing is just the man for it—a true stanch Democratic re publican . and whatever he does will go for the benefit of the aammistration. Now the country’s shins are aching pretty bad with the war, it we can fix up a good einootn peace right off and not l**t Scott or Taylor nave any hand in it, who knows. Mr. President, Hat it might Huftmmi WwwgffKrftfli* a icniff frnifyeare ? But i when is the Major to start ! Right off to-night, says the President, or, rather, in the morning before daylight—before any body m Wash install finds out that he has got back from Downing ville. I fiave forbid hie calling at the Intelligencer of fice, und I don't want they annul 1 h id out or mistrust that lie’s been here. It they should get wind of the movement, they would be sure to throw some constitu ti >nai difficulty in the way, and try to make a bad botch of the business. The President shot me in hia room, and charged me not to leave the house, while he sent tor Mr Buchanan and Mr. Mnrcy to iix up my private instructions While he was gone, .Mr. Ritchie fixed me up a nice lit- { tic bundle of p: vate instructions its*, on Ins own hook, .noddled, he sai I,on the Virginia Resolutions of ’UB Pfesently the President came back with iny budget ail 1 ready, and *tlve me my instructions, and filled my pock ! ets with ration?, and t<4d me how to draw whenever I ! wanted money; and before daylight 1 was off a good piece on the road to the war. To-day, 1 met a man going un to carry letters to the (fOVemui’iit frr-:: (jeneral Bcott’s side of the war. and I ma le him *c >p a little while to take this letter to you ; lor i wtid ufrsiu you in.ght Itegin to think 1 was dead.— He anys B**ott is quite wrnthy slx*ut the ‘Prist business, and wants to pu-ii light on and take the city of Mexi co. but Mr. Trist is disposed to wait and see if Im* can’t uuiiut a bargain with Santa Anna’s men. 1 -hall push • alun>* as hist as I can.and get into the city of Mexico il I possible before Scott doea, and if I only once get hold ol I Banta Anna, 1 have no doubt 1 shall make a trade. j I don’t know vet whether I shall take Scott's road or | Tavlor’s road to the city of Mexico ; it will depend a , little upon the n. ws l get on the way. Two or three times, wfien 1 hive been stopping to re*t, 1 have been 1 looking over uty private nisi ructions They are fust rate.especially Alr Ritchie’s. 1 remain your old friend, and the President’s private 1 Flmbaaaeder. MAJOR JACK DOWNING. I The Nitvltrnliou of the I.akc*. The navigation of tb r Great Lakes, in midmmmer, | when thpc* hum id seas arc placid a* the Hudson, is a 1 matter ol en*e, ( and pkaaing pastime to the laase .ger travels i. Delighted as he speeds, with ar mwy mgtit, Hcr**t. their artusith lH>k>in,he wonders at tle tab sos gafe und shipwreck, nf the creations of the fancy, or Roim ideal faf4p of theses. To the inarmcr even, o 4 whatever craft, th’ y ure.nttliat neaaon, with <mt hazard, us tie y are wnimut (longer It la in fh© Spring, and especially at tlc Autumnal acaaon, ” when the Almighty’s iorm (dames iiaelf in tempest*/’ tNat tbs pesaage of tlic Lnkev becomrt often the *c nc of uvemßrliMßf horror and futality It wdt surprise die reader, not lami'uar wiih tle Lake navigation, t( b told that from Fort (Ira tint, at the en trance into Huron, U Chicago, a dioUmcc of nearly evati hundred i;,lki. not a tingle harbor, aave (me, has j beau eoTirfruetcd o improve t by Clovemmsm.ar by the ; •nnd of man ’H.at one is Cluaaga, which, only par •i*44y oonotmeted, rt quirea repair# and add Eons.—- Throughoui tlw long • xtriit ol cant in the Michigan raiaui Hufon.and the stili hanger line o! coast on the side f Lake M. ’higan, v hih art has (!cn# nodiing. even Nano* hs* done little, n l*trct t<;a h* r< > navigator of tls*e Med •’ mmear, scaa. From FWi (rnuot to '<*gHii>w }5 y tt* rc is, w( believe, iinther inlet tu*r nadirs* harbor -I any h rt :rotn the Bay to Mhekinaw, tn-'ie aie s *voral uaturn 1 Mrea’s from stern* r.m ! tein; • ich a • Tm waus ■ Buy fhuiuler Bay, ard the P*e ot ‘1 mind* r It > khn is an Pnaqua isb But these i quo skill . 11- 1 re i .i, ways avuiUblc. The harbor of Mackinaw is deej capacious, an I seen re Thence up tin M*! *i i t4*. Helms fsinbc. Uule Travr.* ■ Hsy.fiiand T* veis U y,th n Fox and Mnmton |* . s.and ♦fie riMuths of th Grand, ItalnuM/on an i Bt Jixeph's nvers, often eff'r ♦ hrltt , hut tin. iaiici, Ui their pn-H-M (immpiovcd con til n.h ‘vc olter. w’ui: * df *• rfei sr t** ofshniwiec iud dentil. Ami'll, e,. tiic Wkeoitsin . ist.althoug t*t what vet <! Milv*ike, KwP(de, r>> : Kouthj>ott— A m rarW/.v tut paring <• mi ue aappoaad \ isiouar, axpso aion of tlie tide of American population and progrefi-—- afford vrurity t.-r v*m*lp fortunately safely moored there, y* twe siisp.*ct tew- attempt to run in, where there j are neither harbors tior piers, when the gale in up,and j they are caught upon thy heaving billows ol the lake. fjpon ev*ry principle of humanity, the navigatpm > of the Lakes if then- icrrc not other public amt ] national reasons, is entitled to thf. protection and . < arf of the General Government. But when to Ui* appeals of sympathy nnd humanity arc added the c!nim r <: a commerce already whitening tires** inland waters, am! demined l * expand beyond even the conception ul those w 10 live n. *w to vit:i*‘ ■ its gig'irUiC pro|M iGuns. - one would think that the quem-on vv.utld i.eotl no te.. -he argument or it istration— Al'at,y Argus ‘ ( ■ - 11 TI 1 t O IV , Cta. \\ EDNESDA . . AUGUST 25, l-.T. t ,■ in iiwwii .iMitimwiii * ,M * n 1 M ‘•“f*'*’ GEX. ZACIIARV TAYLOR. Per Governor* OBBf DUNC IN I*. < LINC .1. Advertising* Persons wishing to Advertise in up-country papers are referred to the Card of Mr. Hnnleiter, of the Atlanta Miscellany VV<* will take pleasure in receiving end forwarding nnv favors intended either for tlu* Miscel lany, or the Mountain Eagle, published at Dalton.— ‘ They are both well conducted papers and have an cx- j tensive circulation tn upper Georgia. The Monroe Cninp Mootin''. We take pleasure in informing those cit.zens win ; may deairc to visit the Monroe Camp Meeting, that an extra train of cars will leave this city on Saturday even ing, at 4 o’clock, also on Sunday, at OJ A M .and re tumatfiiP M—Tickets to go and return $1 A train will als* leave Forsyth at 81 AM. on Sunday,nnd re turn ui P. M ‘Picketsas above, 75 cents International l)cht. Th* article copied in another column, in regard to the national enforcement of the payment of individual in debtedness, has an increased importance because it is intimated that England is disposed to make that th** pretext for a srizure of California under the mortgages held by her citizens If such be the case, Mr r<*l.K i y in a “ scrape, sure enough.” Acquitted* Wc notice by the New Orleans papers, that Mat thew <’. Edwards has, after full investigation, been acquitted of the charge of murdering Orran Byri—it appearing to tin* court of examination that the shooting was done in selfidefence. Yellow Fever. This disease seems to he greatly on the increase in New Orleans, and to have assumed a highly malignant type. The number of deaths on the 18th was 52 equal to 448 per week. Truly a frightful mortality, even in the opinion of th 1 * Jhlta. The Jitl (igci life Itfti.roa l. The gentlemen of the Engineer Corps employed to * survey the contemplated Branch Road from Gordon to Milledgeville have completed their lalnirs. The entire distance is reported to be seventeen miles and a quarter, which it is believed however, can he reduced to about sixteen miles by a judicious location of the line The country was found to be very broken, and some of the i grades will have toh * heavy, particularly those surmount ing the high ridge between Camp and Commissioner’s j creeks. These grades, however, will not !*e higher than ( many of those on the most important nnd such c .!ul of the northern roads. Norwill this difficulty in the con- | I struction of the line he a very important one, particu i larlyas th** recent improvements in Locomotives enable them to ascend a grade of fifty feet in the mile with as j j I much east as the old Engine# could ascend one of thirty ‘ f*et. Besides, as the proposed road will not be expected ( , odo a heavy freighting business, lew grades are l**ss j essential than they would be under different cireuin- ( stances. j It is estimated that the cost of the w f ork will be some- , thing like $130,000. The City Council of Milledgeville have agreed m issue Bonds for $30,000 of tfierunL.it | ‘i i. ; e Bonds an to be made payable in ten yeare, and it iHconteniplat>-d to levy an annual tax upui; the property of the citizens eqml t > the interest Rod onc tenfh of ihe j lir cipal. it is s* ppcaed that the contrac-; ‘ tor foi the g*-a'.ng and sup* s.ructme rs well as the iron ca: 1 tx* induced to take one-fi urth ot their contracts in stock, und that there will be no difficulty in procuring private suDvriptions for the balance. \V* have recently i convers. 4 with** prominent citizen of Milled eville up- 1 on the subject a id an* inclined to believe that the good p ’pie ol th** place r*re fully aware of thegren* necessi ty of an tspecia’ i rt to accomplish this undertnkinr*. ( The impressionbccm*to be universe! in all sections of th ■ State, except in Baldwin, that this movement, nnd ( tils alone, can prevent the removal of the Capitol to, some 1 more acc-saiMe point, and that too nt no very dis t mt day. The Hail Itonil Connection. We need hardly say that Mr Cuyler, in his letter published without comment, during our absence last week quite mistook the whole point at issue between us Our remarks which elicited his reply, were intended to have reference solely to the connection of the roads within the state of Georgia. The present arrang-ment is such as not only to drive n large majority of the , through travel away from the Central route, but it is j rapidly turning both the trade and travel of the whole up- i per and western part of the state of Georgia to Charles- ; the operations of the present system. ()n!y a few days since w** travelled in company with several gentlemen j from Columbus, on their way north, who took the cars nt Burnsville, and parsed by way of Atlanta, Augusta and Charleston, because, as they alledged, they would rather pay the difference in fare, than Ik* detained on the mote I Now if this be true of the travel beyond Macon, how much more true of that beyond Atlanta ? Iwt us look at the facts under the present arrange ment of the companies Pi rut. The citizen of Cherokee who semis his produce to Savannah is compelled to lose the better part of four days while going to and returning from that place in useless delays at Atlanta and Macon Second, lie can reach Charleston by the upper route as soon as he can reach Macon by the lower one Third. Heoan reach Savannah by tray of Charleston, a distune** of over 400 miles, 100 of them by water almost as soon as he cun arrive there by the Central mute, a distance of 291 miles!! Fourth, letters from all points beyond Atlanta cun • reach Charleston nnd answer# hr re turned in a little more than half the time conoanied in getting answers from Savannah. We hold it tube self evident, that there must be some thing radically wrong in a system which thus cuts oft the people from their ow n be..port and which compels them to trade elsewhere. It will not do to answer that i the contracts with the Port Office Department require I the companies to k*'p up there arrangements Theae ’ great work* were constructed by tlrep-'ople ol for their own convenience and not for th** benefit of the | Post Office Department, and th* ir officers ought not to i have lost sight of this fact iu making the very contracts jls hind which they now'shield themselves Nor will it do I to reply that because th** company cannot gam twenty | four hours by a change and sump*: a fertile though travel that therefore the preurnt system ought to reman | unchanged If they cannot gain every thing they ; ought not to abandon every thing 11 they eann<*t g t I th*s through travel there is the greater reason why they j should labor to gain the local travel and super ally th* I local trade. Tlie Central Company would ceriuinly i*>l lose any time on its mails leaving Macon as soon as tli* ca r s fnmi the west arrive and if Bavan.tab cannot be brought upi‘ *be main line of travel ah* ought at least to be placed u;H*n th* same looting as Charleston tit the “terminus of line of .our improve me nts ]f there iiniM be delay let ‘l Uk** pine** at the s* ap*ut hut let not the travel and track* 5f the state Im.* driven from our tiordurs by a perpetuation ** th pres* nt system The Mac zii ;uid*Wsif rn Jiond m nte nn urnm, • ment, or iu on the eve of perfectin'; an mnu, by which thf delay at Atlanta will be uhvtn.ed lluv we not said enough to oumviium the Prenuieni and Ducctor* of ilw Central Cmupany that u thsir duty u* pervert the c* iukcUou at leant so lari# Gtiwrgdi m cotxem *d even at a temp* .a.y pecuniary i jrltic * We ••ppesl to t them *a tue guard unsof an iiuporum; inures, n* look 1 U> thin matter. The iiwuii.-nt haa arrevni wlien delay wnl i*oi out/ he vlai.g *rou . but a s.jiuteiy and ‘dm. i.vo to j tlu* bl Lnen-Kts >t tliest* .kiiolders an J tSic stote. Tl** 1 < tion C rop, Ths weatfeir (U the *ss* t* n days Ima bsea rathe j favorable (*r tlie cotton crop, mid consequently the i c*inplamts hive fe*eoirw less gneral. Tne ru t i rap idly aMtuffeg, and we would not be surprised if the j rn*p of Georgia would be cunsidcrably over an average i one, partriUl/ ffw% have a late fall lleury % tap* Th; rccont visit of this *! .1 Citizen to the fci-iat, acema to Uav** avv. k *iied inucii u lUoug,|(lu; people of all p ir* s It h he- m*i! isDmm: thnt lie will return im.nc i .tel; m Cape Mny t< Kentucky, and not virdt New \ ork, Newport, &e. uh was atv .< ipated. Mr. ICinc and the Onfrnl Railroad* The reader will be gratified to notice the triumphant vindication of the act bf the Central Railroad Compa ny. in the 1 :i*v < t Mr Cuyler, copied into **ur columns tli k ‘1 .-frets, it ej-p.*ars, are sulmtantmlly as Rtnted by u*nt tt. time alius.on was made to the matter by the Constitutionalist. ’i c.u. \S big Victories* The Whret* of ( '*!•’ toi.i sh* ul i t *el doubly bound to innku an imusual ofliit ii the pending election, bt-eauae |of the g!cr!( n • topic which hnsjust been placed be ; tore them by tlu*ir winter .Sum s. Every wheie theprin i oij les of the dominant pr uy have teen markedly, sig | naliy condemn*d. V\ hciever the issue has been fairly made th** result has been the name. The \V bigs have triumphed even in Mr. Polk’s own State, where*, prior to the election. Id* was declared to he invincible. Shall Georgiu be th** first to falter—the first to g.ve way un der the combined power of the spoilsmen l IJnve we not had suflicuMt experience in regard to the conduct |of our opponents while in power ? Did they not destroy | our State currency, bankiupt the treasury, and over whelm the people with debt { Are they not re*w do ! ing the same thing with the nation at large ? Already j has the administration of Mr Polk, which m supported | und lauded ar ! * ‘-mined by Mr. Towns, squandered J between eighty nnd one hundred millions of dollars, nnd it is confidently asserted thnt nt ihe present time j his expenses are eqii- l U> one million of dollars per 1 irrrk ! ! No wonder that the Democratic papers should | seek to draw oft the popular gaze from the corruptions ’ of their patty ton petty personal charge against Gen. Clinch. No wonder they should seek to prevent the people from looking into the political nnd personal pre tensions of their own candidate People of Georgia, the trick is too shallow. We know you cannot be de ceived by it. Then organize and prepare for the con flict. Gen. C linch uml his Rcvilcrs* The fiendish spirit manifested by certain of the Dem ocratic papers, in their attempt* to defame nnd vilify General Clinch, cannot iail to arouse a feeling of in dignation among the good men of nil parties. It i9too lute in the day for such assaults to have any other effect than to bring ignominy and contempt upon the men who have iustiguted,and the miserable tools who arc making I them The allegations in re gard to the St Mary’s B.ink originated, we understand, from the same sourc • w hich Inst year sent forth certain similar charges touch ing tire personal integrity* f the Hon. Thomas Butler King. Now, as then, it may become necessary for the parties making the charge to bolster up their ow n char acters with certificates Ik*fore the election day has, pas-ed. Now, as then, tlie poisoned arrow will fail short of the matk,ond the “ curses will come home to roost” upon the impious heads of those who had the effrontery to ulter them. Who believes—who will dare allege, that Gen. Clinch has b en guilty of any net not wholly consistent with the purity and the spotless integrity oft his past life ? Even in thcii am mpt to g.ve prima facist evidence of any impropriety, the parties have found it necessary lo falsi u the record, and to give, a gaibled,partial, un true statement of the ease. Th. y not only seize upon the iule plea of his attorney, made in his absence and 1 without his knowledge or consent, to fix upon General ‘ Clinch the charge of repudiation, but they conceal : from the public th * fact that Mr. Winter, the plaintiff, finding that he had no erase of action, actually aban doned and dismissed the suit oejore coming to trial. This assault first appeared in the Federal Union, the Editor of which seems to have bt*en terribly troubled in regard to those moral influences which a ch.ef magis trate is calculated to exert at ound the metropobs. Will he inform us hoir r ;s, and why is that he made it convenient nut to suite the who e truth? Will he in form us upon what principle of nioiu.s he relics to justi fy a suppression oj ti nth, espccinfiy when such a sup pression is calculated to injure tlu* fair fame of one of the bn-taml purest c.tizensot the StMe l Can he re concile it to his conscience or t j his religious professions to give sttcn cuuency to a Jal. tfied record *l9 is calcu lated to mv ireG n Clinch, wh.;n he knows, and prob bablv ua* said i.i subst.tnce, that he does nut fi -li.-ve it could tarnish ” the personal integrity or honor” of the old hero ? These ate questions which must be settled upon the veiy ihreshhold of this c ntroversy. We object to the credibility of the witness, bee use. ahhough both wit ness and accuser, he I; s found it necessaiy to falsify the record, m order to m ike out ev n the semblance of a c *ce against the accused. The Editor of the Federal Union is at least lawyer enough to understand the very unenviable position in which he has thus placed him j self before the public. He must not forget, that in making this sweeping charge against Gen. Clinch, he assails the reputation of many of tiie purest and best inen of his own party upon the seaboard—men who, iike “ Old Withlncuo chee,” have been t(K> long in the public service, and have too d* ep a hold upon the uiTcclnms of the people, | to lx* injured by assaults from the “ mushroons of yes- * terday”—the de-permlos of |wrty, wlio seek to bring ■ honorable gentlemen to th fir own level by despoiling 1 them of their good name. Fa'se Charge Refuted. It will be recollected, that the Federal Union nnd ! CunstJntmntilitti hnvc F <<', • pcivlng publicity to sundry'charge- against General Clinch, | in consequence of a certain plea filed by his Attorney, J W. Preston Esq. in nn action then pending on a note oi General C’s . found among the assets of the St Mary's Bank, when they were transferred to John G Winter, Esq. The plea was published, and Ims called for th from Mr Preston the following triumph ant vindication of General Clinch Savannah, Aug 13, 1847. Dear St u—As you have seen fit to publish the de fence which was made in the case of “A J. Bcssent for the use of the Bank oi St. Mary ’s vs. J) L Clinch,” and to insinuate charges against the character oi that gentleman, baaed upon the Pleas which 1, as one of his Attorneys, thought proper to make, | owe it to him and to the public to request that you will also publish the following statement. It m not necessary, I presume, for me to enter into a detail of all the fuel* connected with that case. It will Ik* suf lie .cm to mm y that Gen, Clinch i*an uo-wg re j sponsible for tire defence wii.ch was set up. He neither ; Httggeuied the pniutso! dele no* nor did he ever s*e the ! pfo** before they were filed, nor do 1 remember that I the substance of them wire ever made known to him J The Pleas were* made rather as a matter of form than with the expectation of contesting the suit, and I have but little hesitation in Faying that but tor Gen. C ’a absence from the State on public eervic *, during the greater part ol the lime wuilethe action was pending, it would scarce.y have made its appearance on the docket •! the Couit, but w.eim li-i'ti en s, ul< Jby amicalitc • onjtreiivre belAecii the | n i.*s, is w.is eventually the result. Every oi. wn. ttier lawyer ot not, who is at nil convcr„.nt with leg tl p.n eduigs, k iuw.* tli.it attor neys habitually nle pieas w.iic.i Urey navi no exp. ela tion oi makmg runner u*o 0.. hut wh.ch u s :ts* ol pro fessional duty piompts and ju**n.: n attorneys, und through them their c* nu ore* to be held to the airict, literal meaning oi their pu as, th *r<* is n t a lawyer nor a client m tit * State wno re not ity of liownnght talsehiMKl, ii*ii. I) ns oiten n he pleads the •* U neral Issue” 1 repeat, then, that Gen. Clinch had nothing tod** with the pleas filed in tire case ret* i red to, irer is n re sponsible for ilieu merits or dcmcAta, wfutevi r they may be It is not my intention, nor i. it ssary.to defend Geu. Cuucn’s c.uructei tor uprignt und honorable deal ing. It is too well know n ana too flighty esteemed by ms K*uow-€iU***ii, ms a unit of i-crupuious honor, tor citsig. * fcgueiM ire- p'lmuai mi* g ity to any hot • th *v* wl.w v *mi.. ui in k die,,i. 1 tun, sir, rcKp. c ratty yours, J. VV. FJU&TON. NpCY.t'U 41 tklu {• Th *k whoa .vocate the claims of Col Towns Xo J tire executive chair bee rase of hi* jiower tomakea|‘cch **sw*m<lJ do well to re tl tn * i itiowtng from a dt*tin ! ; HF.ed author ‘l’nccommon rtuv'Hty of sp** ch ir many men, ane moat women, is owing to >e ucuy (U mstter and sea relt> I of wools, 10. whoever is a in ister ol language and ItatL ■i mind full of ideas, writ be upt. in ’•peaking, to hesitat l •t|Hin lire choice of both; whereas cuunnon aptraker l ive only one set of ideas, on 1 ora* set ol words !• j lothv them in, and t*. • arc always ready a tit ■ mouth, j So people thi fist sir out of a tfi irc.i wh a a j.i ai I meat empt’ tlisn •• hen a r.re* sis a’ ffie fi r i*itic D aming. * Our tH- g'-.bor of fire Tc ,-"r iph, m a- tniytg the pus oi Georgia Out to vote ior G irerai Clinetor rensofi? 1 Vonnectod with t’.ie n.T.iating question ol Slavery, has j certainly forgotten ..e\--ta. very important fuels connect ed with that liiibj. cl He seems to have forgotten that the Wilmot Proviso is of Democratic Origin, nnd, that it has now become a sectional question and will be supported by Democrats as w**l! f- V t K 1,1 1 e* North. *d>l. He seeiiis t lia\’’ forgetien that even the annex ation of Texas was advocated by Chariot J. Ingersol and other niembere of Tlie Democratic party, nvow.-dly because ft would secure the cuthanaey, or easy death of Slavery ! 3.1. He seems to hnv* forgotten thnt Mr. Polk, who is supported ly him and his party, has conferred office upon the most notorious Abolitionists in New England, in preference to the personal friends of John C. Calhoun 4th He seems to have forgotten that in making up oil emigrant Regiment for California, Mr Polk was particular to designate northern men; and thnt it has been declared by some of his friends, that Ins purpose waste insure the exclusion of Slavery from the territo- j ry which he expects to acquire. sth. He seems u> have fb; gotten the vote of his po litical friends, Mcsriia Conn, Lr.*'PKi\, nnd Seaborn Jones, in lavra* of the Giegon Territorial Bill with the. Wilmot Frori-o included! full. He .veins, finally, to h-:v for-gotten the r cent ! memorable (l ciuraiionoi the New York Ew-uing Post. one of his good Democratic co-la lioreis, that ‘if ever SLAVERY !S ABOLISIIM ,IT MUST HE OW ‘ 0 TO THE JN ELUEM EOF THE NORTHERN tl M*H RATS ” Had out neighbor remembered a few even of these tilings he certniuly would not o i that ground, have warned the people ngnii,*u voting for such a man n** General Clinch for Governor oft. orgin. The next House of Rojirpscnfifives. The result of the late Congressional election* leave:-* the House of Representatives ns follows, viz Whigs 112, Democrats 97, with tour vacancies in Maine and i in Rhode Island. Elections arc also yet to he held in the States of Maryland, Mississippi and Louisiana The following will probably be the result, viz: Whigs. Democrats Maine 1 3 Maryland 5 2 Mississippi 1 3 Louisiana 2 2 Rhode Island 1 0 9 10 Already chosen 112 J 7 Total 121 iu7 So that allowing for the two Democrats; W.scon- I *in, and lor all accidents, the probability is that th;* Whig majority will not b** less than 8 votes. Dreadful Shipwreck—one Hundred and Se venty-t wo Lives Lost* lire New York Herald has a Telegraphic despatch, from Boston stating that the ship Cheiungn, Patten, fiom Liverpool, 13th ult. bound to that port, reports 1 that on Monday morning, ‘Jth instant, at one o’clock the weather foggy, he caine in contact with the Swe dish bark Idutia, fiom Hamburg for New York, with 206 persons on board, and that the bark sunk in thirty minutes after the collision. Capt. Patten itnmedinieiy ***nt his Iwiats to the rescue, nnd with one boat from the baik picked up 31 persons—l 72 perished. NEW BOOKS. Mr Coardmax h.-is ngnin pinned us under obli s n tions, I y replenishing our Book table with the following new woikMrom the prolific press of the Harpers: The son! and the Body This is both a physical and metaphysical tiratise, intended to show the jow- I er of the soul* ver the body, in relation to both health ond more If We have read several of the chapters With more th in ordinary care, and unhesitatingly pro nounce it one of th * most ii g *r.ious and b st reasoned Books waich we have read for years. It ought espe ci illy to Ik* stu fed 1 y all phys cians and divines , and without enuorrfog, in to'.‘>, tlie tlieories of the writer* we may safely say th**t hi sugge'tions are lik**!y to in- , jure neither the piety nor the practice of either profes sion. Louis the Fourteenth and the Court of France. — This is the second of a series of six part*, of one of the very best works which hoa ever issued from tfre pen ot Mias Pareloe. It if creditably embellished with a series ol’ wood engravings, and is altogether a most en tertaining and instructive book The Good Genius that turned Everything into Gold. —This is one of the series of works published under the ; general title of the Fireside Library,” arid which are well calculated to amuse the young, at the same tune that they impress upon them those great moral and domestic obligations which -re* too often wholly neg lected by parents. These works are g> ireralv well writ ten, and the one now before us is especially so—as the story is not only well conceived, but narrated with much simplicity and in a stan ofpure English which for elegance would not suffer fron a comparison with the best papers in the Spectator Mi n, Women and Btoh. —Two elegant volum s from the pen oi L egh Emit which contain some o. the most amusing essays that w ever wrote. We need only remark, thnt these volin .se, tm,in his celebrated criticuns upon Female Beauty non the writings of La dy Mary Montague, •Madm.if dc Sevtgnc, and Ben Johnson, and his treatises on lying Love Tetter*,&c. Slc , iu order to mike them unv.-rsally sought niter in this truth loving, love beg.*ttit,g and slander despising age. EDITOR IAL CORREBPONDENCE Rowland’s Si-rings, Aug. 15, HIT Gentlemen: —ln my last I l**ft Col. Towv-* in Cuss ville. It was finally decided, I shall not my fyw, that h - hail better not mike a sjieech. an 1 li * c vis? 41irly de parted for the Springs, leaving his Democrats- brethren of ( ass under the full impression that a candidate who 1 can speak and dodge* is no better than one yho makes no pretensions to oratory. The truth is puhlie speaking is rather a bore, and the“facde gem Irma 11” has discovered that the people are not ready lornfti innova tion upon the good old customs of the respected fathers of the commonwealth. In other words, thav will not consent to measure the capacities of a can ltd ite byth-’ lens th o f his tongue A wag of a Whigderl;i*-1 in (’ass ville, that if Col. Towns did attempt to mat* 1 speech lie w'ould not be able to conclude it before tin- election 1 as he intended to call upon him tor a separate and dis liiictexcose for each of the three hundred and serenleen times which he dotmied during the last Congress 1 Only think of that It do* s r* aiiy seem that a gentleman who could be so’ - facile,” so careless of die interests ot his constituents—so careful to lie any win-re else than ut the fmst of duty, would not Is- anxious to meet the peo ple bice to face in the presence of any one having a cor rect catalogue u! his sms of omission The Democracy have made a great mistake in selecting Mr. T as their standard bearer in this sort ot warfare. The business is not congenial to his taste* or his habits lie seldom gives battle in tlie open Hel l but in iy be appropriately {crundn bush-/ightrr ot the Van Huron % <hy smooth, cuuiiing. smnewhnt of a subterma.-an, always prdering to move underground rather thin upon tm surthcc Ido not mention this wi'h any feelings of dis respect, but*'in sorrow ratberthan in ang-rbecause it is uie ieflult ol Ins principles and associations rat in r than ot hs gentlemanly instincts I only allude t> it for the purpose ol nnpiess.iig upon your readers t ie marked ditb lence in the characters of the two cQiulidates. ‘ Ci.inch is hold, open, fearless, in speaking to friend or ( fik* you never see him looking cautiously around to notice it there he atiy one within “ ear shot.” f|e wenrs his “heart upon hut sleeve,” open to the inspectim of nil; thu nun.l etmg hiscid ir an 1 In- hoiicity oy a com mendable relt-u Ua.ic* Too oi l hero leit tilts alter* j not 11 in company wall a c ij !c <>i irn-nda tor Cassvilb where he propt - to ire et 11* V\ i;./ of the e unity who i may desut’ to are him and to sat sjy c 4 < .nscivv-s that so ! far trooi being cither a '* aw.-ited u u ornn” aristocrat” J he in a plain oUt fashioned gentle man ol the Washington j and Tuyior stamp 1 have only had n few rnomen - to fflan*'*- over th** j |Mmses*iousaihi impiov**m* nis of vur poute and aec<nn intHinting host, Major Rowland. The situation is cer* tsitily an exceedingly pit n* nt one. The surrounding ! country in high, dry, delightfully undulating and must necessarily be |K*ft efty healthy. Tin* locality ini mediately Wound the is bii- •eptible of a high d* gr*c cd improvement. Th* Hint, uiul lll* - nine! impor tant step, has already becu tak< n by the Major, win* has appropriated the water of s fi.i* spring fioms neighbor mj; height, and is u-ing it not on!) to supply tits pieini •es, hot also ab* aiitilu! fountain in Ibt* adjacent lawn There * urich labor yet to be done upon the premises The undergrowth ha* yet to be removed frnn amidst ti narmuiiding loreet, plcnnm walks hsv* tube laid of! and constructed, atid m i 1 nous selection of shrubl** ry will dtwibdc e b* planted on nous parts of the premi se* The beautiful valley m w hich the various ►pringi •t* i* ut* J a i, K pttble yf br mg mad’ a charmed spot —n drlightfb) retreat. especially luring the hot and sultry .summer muiith*. Tnc Major has just commenced his 1 improvements, and I am happy to learn has ample ; menus to carry them out successfully. At pr he 1 is prepared to accommodate only about one hundred , but so great i the popularity of his House, and so agree able the company that he has at present over tiro him i dred persons in and around his premises—many of them ! preferring to revive the memory of the celebrated scene enacted by Bores and Tyler, rather than leave so • : agreeable a resort. By the way this whole region of country is alive with visitors from the middle und lower counties Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Athens, Macon, Buikr, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Greene, are nil rep resontedby their beauty and th*ir manhood. The com pany here is universally pronounced to be one of the most genteel and respectable ever assembled at any Southern Watering place, indeed it reminds one of a s l. ct city circle rather than of n promiscuous oasein -1 blage. The great mass are quiet, unpretending, unob trusive. while only a few sprigs seem to think that their standard of pretension should Ik’ inversely in proportion |to the humility of their origin. Well, perhaps it is a ; wise provision of Providence that the human mind should be so constituted that men,and women too, may c;t ;i!y forget the “pit whence they were digged.'’ C. Rowland’s Springs, Aug. 16, 18-17. Gentlemen: —Yesterday, only a few visitors left while tlieir places were supplied by n score or more of arrivals, so that the company is increased to about 225. Tht table accommodations are very good, and the rooms j mid beds, as tar csthey go, are comfortable ; but if gen- : tletneu nnd ladies will persist in remaining at a place 1 where they arc told there are no accommodations they ‘ of course ought not to comp'ain, when they are invited to trike the “.-sort *.Je of a plank” lor a bed, nnd a ‘•carpet- ! bag for a pillow.” This may not have been literally the ■ case ; but incidents are related here of rather an amus ing character, in regard to some of those unfortunate wights who have been tarrying in this region. There j is one consolation, however. The ‘‘old saw” has proved to be perfectly correct in regard to the Springs. “ The more the merrier,” is the word, and what bachelor j would not consider himself amply remunerated for any seeming privations by the pleasuies of the done** an I the smiles of a host of the most beautiful and charming la dies in the State \ There is but one draw back at the Springs, nnd that is the scarcity of conveyances. To-day I was anxious to visa the Iron Works, hut to my surprise found that the only conveyance to be had was already chartered by the Democratic nominee and his friends. This 1 re gretted the more as I was compelled to forego the visff entirely. I imve, however, procured tiie following in teresting facts in regard to the enterprise now so sue. cessfully progressing under Messrs. Cooper, Stroup &l Cos. They have already two blast furnaces, undone air furnace in operation, which produce from five to six tons of metal per day, and consume between 13(H) and 1500 bushels ol coal The ore is procured readily nnd in great abundance m the surrounding hills, and is of a rich quality The product of it is finely adopted for all kin -< f machmeiy, stoves, and hollow ware, and for plantation nnd nil other purposes where m a lea hie iron is Ire jre J Thefr * furnaces are located between five and six iui.es from the Railroad on a beautiful stream known as Stro ip creek. Two miles below the Furnaces on the Etowah River, the company are erecting an immense Rolling mill, which is to lie completed by the first day of December The building is 160 feet by 80 and will make merchant able and Railroad irmi equal to that produced in any similar establishment in the world. The Flouring Mill alluded to in a former letter, is a | much more extensive and substantial establishment than I then supposed and w.ll be equal to any in the Union. It is built of rock with door und window frames, &c. Su\ i of cast iron—will be four stories high—plastered w.th three coats, and will grind about C JOO bushels of wheat per day—equal to 180 barrels ol flour ! 1 look upon this establishment as the young Lowell of the South. Here are the first gatherings of a mighty city Already the company employ something like Jour kundied hands. They have their machine shops, their : smith shops, their broom factory, their tailor shops, their tinnery, their saddle and harness shop, and in fine | every thing calculated to convince the visitor that the South in yet destined to rival even New England in in dustry and enterprise. The location is perfectly healthy and being in the midst of the beautiful and productive valley of the Etowah has advantages unparallelled.— The moment the State Road reaches the Tennessee, other Rolling Mills and Nail Factories will spring up at tliis point, and thousands of tons of Fig Iron and blooms will be brought here from the numerous Furna ces of East Tennessee and manufactured for home and foreign consumption. The mind utterly fails in its efforts to contemplate the destinies of this Cherokee country. We of the older counties have hitherto been most profoundly ignorant of its resources and people, and what is more we are in debted mainly to our railroads for the enlarged views which we are al*>ut to entertain in regard to the power und pospecta of the people residing west of the Chatta hoochee. (>ne word upon politics before I close Mr. Towns, i am informed did not accomplish much at the Works. H • pa |M)t>eß were understood by the hard fisted, hon est heaited workmen. They remembered the course of his party in discriminating in favor of British and against American labor, and w.ule they treated him po- Lteiy ail agree he didn't look like a Governor If old Withiachoochie should walk round among them they will then sec a man that will “ hit their eye to a charm.” It is sa.J he will give them a call next week , Yours, C. Dalton, Murray County, Ga t August 17th, 1847. * Gentlemen : —The great Railroad Celebration which came off to-day, was very largely attended by the peo ple ot this and the surrounding counties of Georgia und Tennessee. Delegations were present from ; Charleston and Chattanooga, but none from Savannah or M icon. The arrangements were not exactly th -1 l***t imaginable, as the company were not assembled nt the stand until after three o’clock F M , and the ad dresses were necessarily very short, un i rather declam ntoiy than instructive. Very extensive preparations were made hy the liberal hearted c.uzensof l)aiton hn j the Barbecue, but the eating was p<stpoi)ed by the Com -1 imttee until after the addresses were eo icladed, and then a violent thunder storm dispersed the co.ii|tuny be fore much execution hud been done. The orators seemed, with a single exception, to favo rite extension of the road to Chattanooga, an J tins ol course did not very especially gran y some of those win. were the prime movers in the affair. By the way, a majority ol the citizens here with whom I have oon vrsed, confess that it would be extreme folly in the Suite to cease operations at this point. It is estimated that the income of the Road the present year will be something like §75,000, and a gentleman who is fami liar with the trade of the Tennessee river, informs me ilirfi lie can prove that dim income will reach ftkft 1,000 the fi st y -ar ulier th Road is completed to the River, wlutber at or any other puiig. He has re • eiitly lei non a tour through middle Tennessee, and has conversed extensively with the capita lists there, and nosurea me thataliere will be tin difficulty in raising the $3,000,000 necessary for the completion of the Road to Nashville Roads are also in contemplation from Nash ville to Louisville, Ky.,from Nashville to the mouth of the Ohio, and from Nashville north to a |iointat or near , the mouth of the VValmHli river; thus connecting our great work w irii the princ f*l improvements in the Slate* of TV lint aw iv, k*‘ tu< Ky, In harma, lllin.i * and MiHHouri, and opening th enure valley of the Minus ■- ppi to ttie Southern Atlantic |Mrts!! But even admitting that the Road should never ex , tend a loot 1* youd the TVuneaaee, what may we not 1 expect from rite outlay ot a few thousand dollars for its I edustructiou to that point l In the first place, ihe Tennessee below Chatuitu ogs, , a dlfotance of 175 mile*, o* navigable to the n nuth o| th* i Elk. From this point steamboats ran aaccnd the Elk 1 * iver suty-right miles in the direction of Nashville.— The country bordering these river* prod nee* from frd.hou to 75,(MH) ba!- of cotton, two thirds of which would pass to the Atlantic markets. Above Chuttanooga wr have the Little Tuuucoace, th” Uolatnn. the Uhnch, the French Broad, the lliwasaso, the Nolechucky, the Big Ftg on. and th** Emory river*, which combined, have 1 navigation of over I,OUU miles The country bordering tie *v rivers i* rich in agricultural and mineral products On the border* of the stream* are some twenty-seven Furnaces, the iron from winch has hitherto been trails ;*orted all the way to Fittdiurg a* an immense co"t.— The trade from all tin* region, m ca*:* the road were e..nipl**t*d, wouid at once force it* way to the Atlnntie ;*)rt* Under such cirmtnatances, who can doubt tie viirrfctn* I *-* and ill” estimate iri regard to thcprobßbla in one of the work, or who would hesitate to urge Ibr vard it# early cotU|d< tion f i'be Htate B ‘a*l, I am happy tg a id, u* a uvo-t a Imi rable structure —a noble monument of our f*r. *, and at present one of the fr t c u.lu i.-d i. a ,s w tin i its •„ r ders. Os the mu.titude ui travellers with whom 1 have met, all aeem with one accord to give the palm to the , State and to the Macon &. Western Roads, as being superior to all others, not only in regard to the accom modali<ns, but on account of the g -nthunanly deport inent of the otfie rs. The people til Georgia will soon : have an opportunity of knowing how much they are indebted to Governor Crawford and to the benign in- ! iluence of Whig principles. May they profit fry their past experience. By the way, Col. Towns has been dodging a > usual lie failed to be present on this great occasion, tearing, probably, that he would have to commit himself in re gard to the extension of the Staff Road, and thus lose the vote of upper Cherokee. Ii is reported here that there are some rare bargains b *ing driven in this region. The probability is that the great midland nnd • u*t in terests will be secretly sacrificed. McDonald nnd the Coon Killer are to be the Demo cratic U. S. Senators, while McAllister,Colquitt &, Cos. are to he cast overboard. This is all arranged—depend upon it—unless some of the parties should he bought off before the election Yours, Slc. C. [correspondence of tiik journal and messenger.] MILEEDGEVILLE, August 21, HIT Gentlemen :—The course pursued by the ( oustna tionalist towards Gen. Clinch, has been tome n matter of surprise. 1 have suspected that its talented editor ! must have been absent from his post when some of the absurd publications against (Jen. C. recently made tlieir j appearance in his paper. In the opening of the present | campaign he rend the Cassville Pioneer a lecture on ed- I itorial ethics. That lecture was certainly from the pen of the editor himself. i More recently, however, in his paper, lungungc has b *en almost ex 1 ’ u i. and . 1 efforts to belittle the seivices I of Gen. C. up • i the battle fi. Id— <> bring into contempt his abilities for the discharge oft,; dun sol the office | for which he is a candidal tnd at last to destroy ins I character as an honest man. Astotli Cmstitutwnal ists’ estiinnD of Gc.i (’ s mil uny seiv.ccs, 1 d;•••in it sufficient lertlje occasion to rebut it by Gen. Jackson's estimate of them : and here state that G *n. Jackson, (and not Mr. Van Buren.as has been bmp: ted) ic.ii-vd, in the most complimentary manner, the resignation of Gen. Clinch duiing the Florida War. G. i. C. tend, i - ills resignation in 1636 lor reason growing out ol the exceptionable mannei in wh.ch Mr. S c etaty Cass h id conducted anti was conducting the affairs otthe War Department. But to resume. The editor rebukes the Cassville Pioneer for speaking ot Gen. C. in an unbecoming manner, and encourages the Jeffeisoninn ii c uiduel not a whit less objeclionabl Tfiat the Cunstuntwn alist should show such partiality between Ins little brothers—:hat lie should chastise one and give sugar plums to the other, both being guilty of a like fault, is b) no means the orthodox method of inar.egirg bail boys Had I control of their education, I stioui.l appoint th .n another tutor. The ( onstilutionalist condescends, forgetful ofth difference la-tween precept and example, to follow the Jeffersonian in publishing “ Gen. C.’s speeches,” under different hearfo, m tlonk. Well, happy is the man who lias never seen his speeches in a form more difficult to explain or contradict! Many a man has sighed loi the some blank “ oblivious antidote.” And lam sure they look much better than would Col. Towns’ votes under various heads; for in Gen. C.’s case there was neither a violation nor a neglect owl uiy! Gen. Clinch never dodged a responsibility. Speaking of morality , some of the democratic presses, the L'uiiStiiutwnalist and Times par*, ilmiy, are in clined to excuse orjustify the vauk c unuicufr with j whicn Gen. C. has been assailed and pursued, bee use I in a former campaign Mr. McAUistci wa.-n.uiei luusil ly treated by the \V lug press, Smell bald-faced sophis try can lead to but one icsult, and that ;s simply tins. — A wrong committed two years ago against” Mac tiie candidate,” ergo, a wrong must now be committed a gamst Gen. Clinch the candidate ; the two wrongs, thns placed one against the other, will constitute a ngut! Now m regard to the “ swelled-head” ariiur, as applied to Ms M two years ago, IJo not think it was ever pulished m any Whig paper save the one in which l, originated. The ease was different in relation to the badinage which appeared in doggrel originally in the Southern Recorder The” broken top barouche,” was generally republished. Little, 1 ween, did the writer of that play ful satire anticipate that it would be transformed into a barbed shaft to pieice the heart of” Mac the candidate” and rankle there to this day. Little did the writer sus pect that the drops oi blood wluch flowed from his wounded heart would, like the blood of Briareus, spring into hissing serpeuts to vent their spite on Gen. Clinch. But let us take a glance at the differences between Mr. McAllister and Gen. Clinch, in respect to tlieir sus ceptibilities to ridicule. Hitherto, whether at home or abroad, whether at tus elegant leisure in Broadway or in the midst of his daily pursuits at Savannah, Mr. VI was always regarded a gentleman somewhat starch ami spruce, or, in other words, considerably imbued with what is called ” Savannah aristocracy.” In 1845, being ! a candidate for Governor, he suddenly cast off his cus tomary apparel and assumed a rustic appearance more suitable, us he supposed, to his novitiate in an election eering campaign m the “up-country.** In this, it is thought, lie overacted his jmrt. The unchanged and unchangeable manner was not well adapted to the change ol apparel, when the obvious occasion for his ad vent among the ” Wool Huts” was taken into consider ation. The striking contiust thus presented between the candidate on his tour ami the man in ordinary, could not rail to ait met attention, wustiie very thing to pro voke suicasiu, u..d ivhdt'ie.dthecmididuie “luirgame” for raillery. 1 legrel at tins time tiut occasion has oecn given to make even this hriei auus*ui to vir .Uc \ lis ter ; but it has been furnished by h.s friends, who hair exhumeJ mes .emciuscenci soi past tun, >, ior no p ;c ----tica. purpose t util 1 can peic tv. , except peiciunicc to sootne liicii “ compunctious vis.ui g- ‘ 1 w.ll now o;iiy ask where is me point in General Clinch s ciiaiaci rwhichiuriiislitsfr.il game lor lidi cule f Hus Htps. s, nleduny contiust beiw u the mail, the soldier aim the candidate lfc lie not in his tent a.a. on the highwuy, at home and abroad, the same Lank, gallant, open-hcurU and gcmfriiibii ? Is he not the same old s Idler wheiever you meet him, flee from pteienston, 1 untiuiniiielled by hfiectation { it lie have un acqimm tance or an enemy who will answer tie *.’ questions in ttu n gative, let him speak now or forever alter hunt h.ft peace. The people w ill render their verdict on the assumed superiority of Col. Towns over Gen. Clinch tome what alter the laslmm ol the buds in the .able. Our old friend Esop tells us that the birds were once assembled to hold an election lor Governor The Magpie opened the meeting with a speech—the Peacock opened lua uni .or admiration—the Cock struted and crowed— the pninper eJ Goose paraded pompously—and even the little \v fell put in Ins clam* us a chatur-bux of no ordinary abili ties. Meanwhile the Magpie ciiattered iru* ssat.Uy.a ni lus friends conlmued touige h.s election in behalf of his fluency of tongue, hi* command ol words, mid tiie go at um- he could make of those qualifications m diplomacy. But the Jackdaw answered with some w*w old saw—the aspirant crow shook hw head gravely, and the owl hoot ed ominously. The birds finally determined to elect the Engle for then governor—though he had etivm< ‘d no d>.i ior the !!. —1 eau* he had atu ngthann courage to pro tect their pmperty—:hs \ ibl i Tn*asu giimat th** ravages ol the tribes ol mL and tee -kind whch Uiiesled all the buJets louud übout. V ou.s,&c. A tORRL.srONDEN(E <‘F TIIK JOURNAL it MESSENUER. NEW YORK. Aiuisr IJ, 1417. Gentlemen 'l he How of mrangeis uito the city lor some day* past, ha* been uncommonly large for th< or a*on, consisting mainly of ineirhanta from the West and Houth, who have come hither to replenish tlieir stock*. 1 di> i.of icn.imber ev rto have *on *o nmcfi business done in the nudat of August before. The ini portations here have been immense, and ih- quautiiic of new gofod* and new styles present an attractive dis play to the inland traders. Before the fall dom an im mense buein ss will have been done. The gtaih crops of the North aud North W est have far exceeded the expectations•( nearly every body, und tht fruit* generally turnout very well. The peach’ *. which begui to come freely to this maiket, look well, and are U.ili better and nmrr abundant than we bud been led to expect. The steam *inp Washington will not again pm to a m ! before the middle ot Hcpteinber. tab*- i* Milder going very con*i<lersble alterations xml improvement", which ‘ w ill add materially to her speed. The French steamer, Ph ladvipltia, *lle.l on HnnJay | w ith 1 re and alsrg*- mail of general remark It a!,nws u!,r>, ‘‘ u M munity think ot the j :cspr Tt ( ,f 1 -' 1 * , fiction that the gov mumt will yqi . ‘ 1 ■ % borrower or arcom ti the wi. : ,| 4 ‘’ . I 11 re notoriously net iessihm n* p.( 9Cit rime. The CO,dil utions levioT- ° ?*’ port* i:i our a,e hut n sop v ’ e'” V *>H : expense. • io ‘l'lu- arrival of Mr. Cr.tYnt Phf|„, lp , .. 1‘ ‘ l oi intion that lit- w ,11 pnsa I,n, roused all die old 11,1 “li-i li that name ami former day*. A au-auier has he, n „h'l' "” |..iny of g, UII-IIX'II Imre, m I ,r.:ce,.,| r ''' ,! •: le- now is. and firing Idm an l,i,|„. r ," r ii donlittul wheilior he tvill TI,o lin.zd.an .lavra who T* 1 V |irif..n, aided l,y the Ab,.|ni„ n j SI , B from. The .-hrril!’ lias very )>rope’rb 1,0 will !■ li. |d reruns hie i,. r th,.j r ) ne. I, is a poor com, liment whirh'aTn' I '*® f,a> the laws, wla-n they arc- Wlillll • u and tlieir operation. - to| aai,j^U Truly yours, [eorarmeTEo,] K Crofitinß bv your hint in the p a .,„ r . , ■ will endeavor to treat Col. Town’s vie construction nnd the Mexican war - btT * copying t |,e L ,0:.t,.i... and in the article on the written naT 8 co.iriititlion published in U*. j u , y ~ concluaive reply t./al, sc, up by Col. Towns anti his school, ,“ that there is much peculiar in these viewT That he professes strict construction no tlia* he practices it no candid 8, , B and the vc,y letter undr teview erooi of the position I liny.- as blluu . d Towns un.lcrstand by stric t construction , Tra “> ‘•'in I>’ n adherence to the v,. r¥ |. u ‘ “'‘IB etitulinn ; docs he assert that every act ,f p mm not expnssly wnrraited hytha ; . ; „ K ’ stoic, mis in comi.otw.th it . ltAs, „J* , ii, is laboring ualerthe h Inc I l U.ig -Mill, who unit’s and nthhej dec ir | “x di I net w.sh to be buried in VVusluj, ,, Wl r \ 144 ■ i‘mi'.e expens•, as lie feared th • act w u 1 1, ,* t. I.oiKil, ior after the most diligent s a eV . innfle to find a word, syil ihic or loti j a t ...!’ tio.i authorizing i„e appropriation oiioo.i yhw ** lor iliat pti”poß ■. Bui tii m - arc not t! •i ----strict consti uction. 1 ini r from h s support o. L s.^ 1.1 i:ti ;! portion of th- M.-xicnu war t.at b- is,,-, 1 oin aiul o.t i J nn I Mi-vc* : ;, aI lt . ‘ f I foinjvtent .or -It ■ (. cmil (iovenanent 1” w.r not expressly proluoind to n by u,. | wh.,i y disregarding ihat elans • w licit ,|. y ” ‘ln’ poweis n, I delegated t, the Unite I Const.tut on, 1101 pmliib.t vI l.y it lo th; I rescued ,01 |. 1-hut s r veiy or to th ■ p„e • i po:: v.-li it oth-r sopiHisdn.il cm w reconc.py !'• uOl inn ad.icx Ittoii ol 1’ xasnpoti cu;ai„.nlt I g minis to h.s Ideas Oi strict cunsiiuci.ua, h % | . juiit ol tii. wi.tten Constitiilioii docs he ,i:ul sm I ciaus,- as lius, that “Long, css shall I lave pu WWB *B corpotate the Uu.tc.i .Slat s with any other pet*. ■ cm it y. on s ml. tc.i.isan Ic cidiUon, as mayhylL U on! ” B/w.mtrul o o. sn.et coast,notion d05i,,.,.,. I tract such a sentenc • as ties In in the I or aniendmcnts 01 that i:istriunnt . We p ,u* M I reply But again, accrJingui h.s alms ui ti ie I struct..lll as exempt lied in h.s admiral 0.1 U | I ncroi bringing on and c m.lncmig Ivs ean w ‘ I seems that th-President h:,s“ rn.tu.ir.ly totuv* *.. I on any ioreig 1 n,.t:.m i.y umhltug ns r Vi.lcd only t.nit this be done under prctextwaanH can I 01 title to l u s.. possessions ’ Now tn the sunpi. tof I ol on Sica,is, w•hu . supposed „ ttd di-id ua aauwd■ tins progressive ag- eiu.giitened Ulu , u w ,, , k ■ business and duly ot Congiess m “di e.uic war"l 11 can be demonstrated by some rule of au.c:auw*. I tion ot winch the uninitiated ate ig .oram, Uu, tie I President and Congress aiu 011 c aud tiie -wuir U t I must be pardoned ior expressing a piciercncc ior the * I smd dogmas of sucii ntu.qmt Jninnies as Jetferson ird I Madison, and believing that they were come, B I invoking the authority ot th.- S mate and House m K.p- I resentatives lor putting the anny in motion, i&uiou l 01 our tale is yet untold, tne beauties of modem Mitt I construction arc no wh re so happily exemplified t u I the actings and doings of the President by his agjnuit I Santa he and California, and m i!i>‘ government behu I by bis new ijat dixit established over those co.’i.|ueW I territories Can we lie mistaken 111 supposing tin I there is no clause in the Constitution giving auilmraj I to the executive of tiie nation,” to govern in coiupkie j sovereignty any territory, province or piace, taken and 1 occupied by the military forces of the United .Suiw, I aud ill such manner as lie may see fit ?” So, ii iskij I true, there are no such words contained in Ute Consti- I tuiion. but tiie simpletons who framed that iustniiMi, I intended to pul them there, and only faded of carrying I out tins intention for want ol knowledge to exprew liieu ] Views ; they enjoyed some of the advantages ot the present age, but then they had a presentiment, awn 1 ol contused notion llwt a wiser generation wouifln vent rules oi strict conatmetion by which all their de sigus w.iuld ik* hiltilird, and by the sublime virtues at w ilieii 11 could and would lie made as clear as day from the very letter of the Constitution that they dnagiwd to confer this power and did really do so!! In view oi such a state ot tilings it may well be said that if Gov ermiient be really a science, it mint be denominauf the science of experiment. Bom • statesmen at I M hvve luily acted out tiiis notion, and we are sur. ifial dw I resident wh-n he by his own mere mot on esu,Wished a taritl oi revenu ■ Ibr the Mexican Ports, vuijecung die propriety ol nil nations, our own iuem.l.-d.totaii lio.i, must have deemed the act an admissible upea m 111 tailing within the above defee,ion ol Uosenuumt, Li no wii io-in the post laws or pr c * k*nH t!i.s or any other civj:zc,lc uit y do-s li • nil truth.) iv wr Ui s mtrst 1 iwarriiL- 1 an 1 lyiuii.cu t.vr .s ‘ulp v, r h ri fuoUli euou,:t to Mippos-ifeti tasrt v >UiJ only b • imijh s J fry tfr consent ui tli s * who fi*’ bu.th-n.anJ u •! ss w • are g;\ al!jr .ault v. • hnv • soni *w!i,*.e rca.l th it tli.s was tlargiinJ rensnn lor s. paiau i- tlr. s ■ ctflonu-s ir,>,n the pirviii K > nmi *nt ond in.ik th in tree and ni.lep nknt si-l , 6utra.es tor st c. c>. <!iueu<n haJ net th n ot.tamevl and the urn tl s ,t t .fr, ~H J; .j p u j. c , .vai * .ui IjurUnou.-. ih‘ written Constitution and dint C ongjesH nail fruvv power to levy no I cvJ ct t*s s, luii s, impost* und exets --*” and fioai this H is p-rfett* ly ui an lies t, that “ m any port or plac tak :i aiJ wni* p.< J fry tfr • loic. uoi in • United duties, luc Pi-9. i it any * Hiatl;s.i coiiiim re al regalntioiiH (real y w • list 1 aiwuya been under th • impr-H9io;i tint it was ilu* Jaijf ol CoLtf • i “to regulate commence with i* uig* ** a ’ tiu.i-i, un i among th • several at u s, aaJ w.th ttw lnli* aa triDOH,”) aud u unll of and juea on nipj.U ior the pur pxs- tl rutSitig an in.fr pendent rev- ini *, to be uv'Jiy iim lor iiiiittaiy pn pos mlO h.s sole difitu* t.on, and Cr wi ch h** slinli not he h *l.l to any accountability.” Tlienc are Col, I'own’s views i at not conatracLon, originate ! fry the K teheu Cahiaet at Waalnnuieiiii amt adopt and uni rally npprov-1 by him TV Colon I accorliag t > to ” F lend Uinoti I*o great constautionul lawyer,” and laupiatse it would fr- u*hl treuson in any ol un to dthpiu,- to..— n tile cvclUoDm* election, th. 11 our ownC oiistnutn n.mto be aubjicteJt* tii-same rules ot < oHMt.uctioii, aa<l otn* thing iscp ts. lliutat the end ol his term veiy l< w 1!’ i!e or.g ni i*- tu sol tht* inairtiin ut wit remain Wrslm.l h* 8 new t on*titmu)ii,un i w wltb■ri I ft •: *“it p * •’ sb-dl walk upo'iii 11. w 1 erth uudh 1 nil) a 11 wa • veil* w!iee th • I git tli .t uluncs 1* such a light • “ ‘ v,,r aliotie on land or sc. ” But l-rt thnt p'or oi l *.ii*| r lurmer, (I.inch, mi l things \. ili go on p- u.y raaturi* ter the old tort—.• i. an dlit iute limn 1, wall; • ,l * sk liei 111 r-ceot c mstitiitional hv. - -j. t • nm* f at ‘*f any k.wwletlgeo! F.iS.deiit Folk’s tii*iiK uJ- ntai 1 ik* oi Bluet constiuction, and wal make no piogreiw. o’* iinht exp-ct to receive our Constitution tiom h.s band* at the tiui 01 liii let in just m it was when it wa*c , '*u* milt’ and to his guardiunahip, uninipntred il not iinpfev*'k FATrfALIUA Mr, Towns and the DatyaaMlH* The Secretary ofth • TrMtuiy, in Ins Report on tb* subject ol the Tariff, say* ” Stilt is a necessary oj hj’ • and should be ns free from tax ns mr or rater It u*ed in large quantile* by the tanner ai*d p'nnter, •’ to the poor this tux acta 1110*1 oppressive?) On the 3d July the Tariff bill Isung hefrrre th the |(llowing u* 1111 extract from the Journal ” The que-iiai sgaili r.curt*d, oil ngr. **iig to lie 8 meiHliijeut ot the Comiuift--. Iy insertiDH Hah oil fi’ schedule of art fries tree ot duty, nnd tHiiqt I *•* • decided in th- negativ* Yeas, 101 hh>-. 105 *‘ Ho the Mid aineinliii- nt was rejected.” Aiaotig the uame* of thce* who vt • ! ggainst ||,H mg Soli frrr, (.isfi.t* that **l Gi •i, * \\* U ' NS vp HrpulJitan