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From Iht Southern Cultivator,
Guinn and Bermuda CSrns*.
With groat trouble, and at some expense, I
procured fiva acres of Gama grass, which I
found neither horses nor cattle would eat, and
I consider it as utterly worthless, Tho Ber
muda grass is the best for pasture in the world.
It is (Ire doob grass of Central India, and among
other things was brought to Georgia by Gover
nor Ellis. You will find it figured and de
scribed in vol. v. of Sir William Jones's works,
London, octavo edition. It was carried to
tho Bahamas, from Savannah, by Col. TatiraU,
and 1 suppose found its way to Cuba with the
cattle traders of that Island. The Hindoos
worship this grass as the best food for the sa
cred bull, and as being sent down from India
by Bruina for his use.
I speak very positively of the Bermuda
grns*, being the doub grass of India, and I do so,
becanao Mr. William H. Crawford, when Sec
retary of the Treasury, procured from India
this grass, and the acorns of tho teack tree,
and sent me. I was struck (although a dry
specimen) with the identity, and having Sir
William Jones’s work, in which this grass was
figureed, and my yard and lawn filled with it
in flower, 1 compared them, and found thoy
oerfeoily ncrtnr.Ied in all pninto. But it re
quires a microscope to discover the beauties,
which he (Sir Will am Jones) so rapturously
describes, in its flowers. I do not know wheth
er I s ated that the Marquis of Hastings intro
duced this grass into England, but it failed, as
London states, from choosing an improper situ
ation for it. It would grow well in your lands,
that are warm, and not flooded ; the roots pene
trate loo deep to be destroyed in a gcod and
warm soil. Its grazing powers exceed oredi
bilit y in proper situations ; nor is there any
grass equal in quality for horses, cattie, or
aheep. THOS. SPALDING.
Sapelo Island, Ga., Sept. 24, 1S44.
In addition to the above from Mr. Spalding,
we have had a communication for some time
tin hand from Mr, Affleck of Mississippi, who
■also forwarded us specimens of the Bermuda
grans. We also recollect seeing it growing on
bis lawn and in other parts of the South. Ho
say*:
I find by actual experiment, weighing the
BermuJa grass newly cut, and the same when
<iry, that it loses exactly 50 per cent., or 100
lbs. df grass make 50 lbs. of perfectly dry hay.
It is the hardest grass to cut, however, that I
have ever seen tried, and the easiest cared. I
house all at night, which has been cut at noon.
It would not, in my opinion, bear the cold of
your wi.tiers—the first frost kills it to the
ground. The Musketc, or as Kendall calls it,
Mcsouit grass, I presume would suit your cli
mate better. It is yet a mooted question wheth
er tho Bermuda ripens its seed in this latitude.
1 will examino it carefully this season, and if I
find matured seed, will send you some. I know
not where Mcsquit grass c m be obtained. I
send you three samples of Bermuda—one of
long grass, of Upright growth from the mead
ow, just comingin blossom—the other from an
upland pasture—and the third, a stalk that I
pulled off tho surface of the ground, to show
you how it spread, and how ndmirably it is
adapted for embankments. On a piece of
good meadow land, this grass stands in a solid
mat—so close arc the stalks, and so thickly in
ter voven are the leaves, that when cut with
tho scythe it very frequently stands erect. I
fiel very confident that it is (Ac most highly nu
tritious grass known to us. From the speci
mens I send you, you will readily understand
how such enormous crops of hay are cut from ;
meadows of this sort—observe the great solidi-
ty and weight of the stem. In curing, it loses •
less weight than any grass I ever saw—and af- j
fotds throe cuttings, yielding an aggregate of !
from five to eight tons of liny, from a moderate- j
ly gooJ meadow. ,
I httVO said enough, however, to convince
any planter who wishes to form pastures for his
almost starved stock, or to do uway with the i
necessity of pulling fodder, work so destruc
tive to the health of his negroes, that lie ought
at least to make the experiment. And ns a
proof that I am willing to aid in spreading this |
treasure over ihe nuked hills ol the South,
will willingly forward to tiny planter, who is a
subscriber to two agricultural journals, one of
which is published in the State in which he
resides, on his applying to me post-paid, a bar
rel of roots of this grass, which would, in one
season, cover a large extent of ground. To
tho river planter it is absolutely invaluable—
there is not a levee on the hanks of the .Missis
sippi could resist, (or one hour, the pressure
and attrition of the fearfui flood now rolling
along, but for their being bound together by
this glass.
From Soah's Scic York Times «J- Messenger.
ITIectiug of U’mherw«uieii I* consider Che Iaao-
ratioii of Stem*.
On Thursday night another meeting of
Washerwomen was held in Laundress’s Hall.
The first business was the consideration of a
communication from the colored Washerwo
men of the city and County, asking permission
to be allowed to participate in the movements
of the then present meeting.
Susan Soapsuds moved to lay the communi
cation on the table. The motion was lost.
Mrs. Alkali then rose. She hoped those
present would vote against granting the privi
lege demanded. She could not advocate any
measure approximating to amalgamation. She
had heard of the expulsion of one Mr. Hoar
ftom a slave stale. Should they entertain the
colored Washerwoman request favorably, they
might expect similar treatment at the bands of
their anli-abolition patrons. She did not want
to introduce politics into that assemblage.—
Women had no business to meddle with such
matters, except when they waved ’kerchiefs
from their windows upon processions of rngged
partisans ; she advocated that custom because
the ’kerchiefs had to be washed afterwards.—
She moved to reject tho communication of tho
colored Washerwomen. Let them conduct
their own business. Her motto was “let eve
ry tub stand upon its own bottom.”
Tho communication was rejected and the
motto quoted by Mrs. Alkali was considered
so appropriate that an appropriation of twelve
shillings was at once voted to have tlj£ sentence
painted on a transparency.
When the decision was announced, the
committee of colored Washerwomen indulged
in some very insulting remarks, and were, «on-
sequcntly, kicked down stairs.
Mrs. Soffsoap then addressed the meeting.
She had visited the steam washing machine
twice since the first meeting, and she had de
termined, upon the most scientific principles
that that machine would eventually work their
ruin. Tho only way by which to destroy this
monstrous monopoly wns to-take their wash
boards or their sauce-pans and batter the steam
engine in pieces.
Here several nervous ladies shrieked.
Mrs. Soft-oap continued. She knew that
suck measures were harsh and unfeminiee, but
they were proper measures to be adopted.—
The oppressed laborers of Europe—she had
read the fact in the penny papers—always de
stroyed labor-saving machines. They broke
down mill-dams, razed factories, flogged mo-
nopolzing overseers, and murdered close-fist
ed proprietors.—Certainly these transactions
were unprofitable; but they were palateable to
revenge. They starved the perpetrators; but
they also annoyed the capitalists. She would
without trespassing further upon their limo
and attention put the question—“should they
go in a body and forcibly burst the boilers of
the steam engines of the Washing Society.”
The uproar created by this question was
great—so great that no satisfactory reply could
be got.
Mrs. Roughdried obtained a hearing. She
wanted to know if they were a pack of savages
—a community of cannibals? Should they
foolishly go to war with a superior force, and
consequently go to Blackwell’s Island!
Shouts of "No—not as you knows on.”
What should they do! continued Mrs. Rough-
dried. Meet the enemy by craft—that was
the ticket. Undermine ’em—that was the
system. It suited the age.
Cries of “Fes.”
They must wash cheaper!
Great sensation.
They mast cut down their scale of prices !!
Smothered enquiries of'■‘How are you off
for Soap ?”
They must use more ley and Icsssoapl!!
“Oh, Ah l” in tones evincing great satis
faction. *
They must use more flour and less starch!!!!
A shout of delight.
They must make both ends meet by—she
looked cautiously around—by: excusable fraud !
The necessity of the case would rinse their
consciences of all unpleasant sensations.—
Were the honorable Washerwomen present
prepared to adopt a reduced scale of prices ?
Chits of "Just what ice want” “ IVe won't
'do any thing else.”
Mrs. Roughdried produced her scale, and
read it as follows:—
FOR WAS HI.NO AND IRONING
One doz. small pieces - - - -
“ “ large “ - - - -
“ “ very common “ - -
“ “ where stockings preponde
rated
“ where drawers *'
“ “ laco pit ces . - . -
Buttons token off when they conveniently
could be.
Wash'ng without Ironing, half price.
It was approved of—only three nocs voting.
Immediately after this a commotion was heard
in the lower end of the Hall, and upon inves
tigation, it was ascertained that Mrs. Soap
suds had challenged Mrs. Roughdried to fight
a duel, with pop guns and soft soap, for throw.
_ over her measure.
An old lady doubted the right of the mem
bers of their body to fight duels, but she was
speedily silenced by Mrs. Roughdried, who
said that the Hon. Members of the House of
Representatives met in battle, and other old
women possessed and were entitled to use the
same privilege. This argument was a clincher,
and the duel was accordingly decided'on. A
meek old washerwoman asked if the combal-
anis were to go to Baltimore—when the color
ed Washerwomen rushed in, put out the lights,
and ended the proceedings for that evening.
still from their own mouths continue tS issue
counterfeit truth—in fact to do nothing but
speak pocket-pieces. Yes, sir, I have known
them to do this and never blush nor stammer
when their eyes have fallen on the copper
countenance of the false half-crown gleaming
reproachfully upon them. But then to pass bad
money is a statutable offence—whilst to pass
lies for truths, if adroitly uttered from behind
a counter, is nothing more than do a clever
stroke of business." The one practice has led
men to the gallows—the other has taken them
to the Bank of England.
“ All in the way of trade” is, I know, a phrase
that covers great hypocracy, great practical de
ceit, great injustice between man and man. It
is a convenient phrase, that from long custom
has become an allowed apology for the tricke
ries ofdoalers. But a highwayman, who takes
a purse might as well believe that the black
erupc which hides bis face from the knowledge
of the despoiled, does also hide from his own
soul the knowledge of his iniquity.’ How often
is the “way of trade” no other than so much
black crape worn behind the counter: A man
may be as completely robbed by means of
false protestation, as though the lie were a load
ed pistol.
There is, I know a tenderness in the law
towards the trippings of trade, that seems to
show a positive sympathy between law and
roguery. Men, it wouid almost seem, by gen
eral understanding, allow the necessity of
wrongs as a proper alloy to keep society to
gether. Pure, unmixed gold is too good for
coin, that is to suffer the wear and tear of
passing from hand to hand; and so, that it may
endure the longer, it is mingled with a little
wholesome copper. In the like way, law
seems to think pure honesty as altogether too
refined for the hardworking day purposes of
trade, and therefore looks indulgently upon its
little shifts—its winning ways. Let me furth
er explain myself.
My opposite neighbor is a chandler and
green-grocer; he makes his gains out of the
veriest poor. Rags and keenest hunger are his
miserable customers. You would tlunk, sir,
that when a tradesman held the scales for such
buyers, justice would be to him a high religi
on. "Well, sir, it was only yesterday that
this very man was found to use false weights.
It was his third offence; and he was fined by
the compassionate law ten pounds ?
This same man has, at the present moment,
a boy in gaol, doomed for six months, for steal
ing from his shop, when very hungry one red
herring. Thus, the tradesman may rob by
means of scales and measures, merely paying
for a sort of license to cheat, when detected:
the very gains of his iniquity, too, go to lessen
the fine; he can, in fact, with tolerable luck,
afford to rob. Now, does not law that makes
such robbery only fincable, look, most tender
ly upon the evil doing ?—Docs it not give mar
ked preference to the thief behind the counter,
above the picker and stealer before it! Hence
—use light weights, and pay money for the
theft; filch with your five fingers, and to do
hard labor in goal. Besides, the tradesman is
sweetened—purified by the fine; the stain up
on his reputation is blotted up by blank paper;
now the vulgar thief always bears about him
the foul order of u prison. The keen nostrils
of a police continually smell in him his first
iniquity.
Now Sir, it will be my endeavor as a trades
man. to acknowledge no “ways of trade,”—to
consider truth as truth in the smallest as in the
greatest affairs of life. With this belief,! shall
take my daily stand behind the counter, and
cheerfully leave to Providence tho rest. Tell
me, dear sir, ifl am not right.
And believe me, yours sincerely.
Jon.v Balance.
CONGRESSIONAL.
50
62*
56
53
60
75
FromtlbC London Tunch.
“Pnucli” on liectitucle in Tradeimea*
The following letter, from a young man en
tering business, to a retired tradesman, we
extract from our witty contemporary:
Respected Sir,—When we last met, you
were kind enough to say that the benefit of
your long experience in business should be al
ways at my service ; and that us the friend of
my poor Lie father, it would always be a plea
sure to you to udviso his son. At the same
time you desired me to give you my notiouu of
tho duties of a tradesman to tlie world und to
himself, that you might at the onset correct
my errors and strengthen my judgment. I
therefore hasten to comply with your request.
Of course, sir, 1 consider the old school-boy
copy that “Honesty is the best Policy,’’ to be
L ; the golden rule of life, and that the shortest
way from one point to another is always in the
siruighiest line. Hence, it will ever be iny
pride to let my practice illustrate this beautiful
sentiment. Ido not s ee why a shop may not
be made a temple of truth— and cunnot under
stand why a falsehood “in the way of business”
is not, after all, a falsehood in all its bearings.
Lies are lies, and no outside, skin-deep gild
ing will give to tho base metal the vulus of the
precious ore. I have, I am sorry to say,
known tradesmen with great wrathful ness nail
a proffered pocket-piece to tbeir counter, »nd |
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
The following remarks, written in a spirit of
good feeling and liberality, we copy from the
Pennsylvanian.
NMIhara and Southern.
These terms, as applied generally by many
speakers in Congress, and political newspapers
in relation to political measures, are rarely or
never correct, and are only calculated to create
unkind sectional feelings which otherwise
would not exist. The annexation of Texas,
for instance, at present is generally spoken of
by opponents at the north as a southern meas
ure, while its friends at the soulh too often de
signate the anti-Texas movements as a north
ern measure; both of which are alike contrary
to fact. To be for or against Texian annexa
tion does not belong to one portion of the U
nion—North, South, or West—more than an
other. It has as violent opponents in the South
as in the'North. In Louisiana it has many and
strong opponents, while in Maine it has many
and strong friends. Nor is there any more
justice in applying to the Abolition movement
the term Northern. There are, it is true, more
who advocate it in the North than in the South,
but it has many' friends in the South who do
not, because they dare not, speak out their
sentiments, while the large body of the people
of the North are openly and avowedly opposed
to the whole course of the abolition party.—
We might also refer to the Protective policy’.
In the South this is generally denounced by
its opponents as the northern policy, and anti
protection is again called by many at tlie North
the Southern policy. But the people of the
South are nearly as much divided on this sub-
jeci as those of the North, and all know that
the North is any thing else than united. Loui
siana has usually been in favor of the strong
est protection, while Maine is as decidedly
against it. In short, we know of no one mea
sure of government that ever has divided the
people of the North or their representatives
in Congress from those of the South. Some
measures, it is true, have met with more favor
or opposition among the people of one than of
the oilier sections of the Union ; but not one
that we recollect ever divided them into two
distinct bodies, nor will such ever be the case
if politicians will but rise above mere passion
and prejudice, and look only to promoting the
great truths of enlightened freedom, and the
great interests of our common country.
It is too much the fashion with some South,
ern newspapers and politicians, to consider
Mr. Adams and his band of agitators as the ex
ponents of all that is Northern, as it was too
long the case with the Northern newspapers
and politicians to consider the nullifiers of
South Carolina as the exponents of all that was
Southern.. It is time all true friends of the
country should look over all suen little combi
nations of politicians or parties to the mass—to
the body of the people, who are swayed less
by prejudices, and passions, who have no per
sonal political interests to serve. They will
always be found to have true American hearts,
that know the American family only as breth
ren, and the Union of the States as the charter
of their liberty.
Mr. Polk, President elect. left his home in Columbia on
the 25th olt.. and arrived at Nashville the next day. He
was to leave the latter city in a few days for Washington
by way of the Cumberland and Ohio rivers. The Colum
bia Observer says it is understood that Col. J.K Walker,
a nephew of the President, will bekia private Secretary
WASHINGTON, Feu. 6, 1S45.
Tlie Post-Office bill occupied the attention
of the Semite to-day. The only important
amendments made were the following: The
yth section, granting five franks or free envel
opes to each member of Congress, in lieu of
their present franking privilege, was stricken
out, as agreed upon in committee of the whole
—yeas 35, nays 2. On motion of Mr. Benton,
on amendment was adopted which makes every
half-ounce weight subject to a single postage,
no matter how many pieces of paper inclosed,
and so on for every additional haif ounce. On
motion of Mr. Simmons, the rate of 10 cents for
distances over 100 miles wns stricken out, and
one uniform rate of 5 cents for all distances
was adopted—yeas 33, nays 14. The other
amendments were not important. The bill re
mains yet subject to amendment. At 4 o’clock,
the Senate went into executive session, and
soon after adjourned.
The House was occupied all day in Com
mittee of the whole on the state of the Union,
on the bill making appropriations for the Indian
Department for the fiscal year ending 30th
June, 1846. Several amendments were made
which were fully discussed, when the bill being
reported to the House as amended, was order
ed to be engrossed fora third reading. It was
then read tlie third time and passed.
Febrtjary 7.
A message was received from the President
of the United Slates in reply to a resolution of
the Senate, transmitting a copyofthe proceed
ings in the case of Silas Reed, surveyor gene-
ral of Missouri and Illinois.
Also a message, communicating further cor
respondence touching the relations between
the United States arid the Mexican Republic.
After the presentation of a number of memo
rials, the Senate, as in committee of the whole,
resumed the consideration of the bill reducing
the rates of postage, &c.; and a long discus
sion ensued- An amendment was adopted,—
granting the franking privilege to members of
Congress, allowing them to send and receive,
free of postage during the sessions of Congress,
and lor thirty days previous and subsequent
thereto, all packages under the weight of two
ounces; and, throughout the year, all letters
written by themselves, and all documents print
ed by order of Congress. The per centuge of
postmasters, whose compensation is less than
fifty dollars, to be increased to fifty per cent.
The bill was reported to the Senate, and order
ed to be engrossed for a third reading.
The Senate then adjourned.
The House resolved itself into the Commit
tee of the Whole, Mr. Wbller in the chair,
and took up the calendar of private bills, of
which a large number were considered, and
laid aside to be reported.
The House concurred in the Senate’s reso
lutions appointing a joint Committee for the
purpose of devising a proper mode of counting
the votes for President and Vice President of
the United States.
The following is the joint committee:
Mr. Walker,
Mr. Woodeuky, and
Mr. Dayton, of the Senate;
Mr. Burke, and
Mr. J. R. Insersoll, of the House.
The House then adjourned.
February 8.
The Chairman presented a petition for the
reduction of postage, which was laid on the
tabic.
A communication was received from the
Post Office Department in reference to the fail
ure of the mails, between New Yotk and New
Orleans.
Mr. Buchanan presented a petition from
Wayne county, Pa. asking Congress to reject
all propositions for the annexation of Texas.
Mr. Bates asked that a petition and paper of
David Ames be withdrawn from the files, and
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary,
which was ordered.
Mr. Archer presented a memorial from ma
ny citizens of Pennsylvania, asking a reform
in the Naturalization Laws.
On motion of Mr. Dickenson, the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill providing for ap.
peals in cases of Bankruptcy.
Mr. Berrien explained the propriety of pass
ing such a bill. Under the decisions of the
courts, parties having a lien upon property of
the purty in bankruptcy, have been forced to
come in with others who have proved their
debts; although such creditor may have sup
posed his lien was good, and could not be dis
turbed.
Besides this, the distant Courts have under
the Bankrupt law, exercised a summary juris
diction over cases, greater than rightfully be
longed to them.
Mr. Haywood objected to the bill as open
ing the whole machinery of the Bankrupt law
again, under what was supposed by the com
munity, the summary and final disposition of
suits at law, vested rights have grown up;
property has been purchased, and now this pro
position under this proposed appeal may be ta
ken away from innocent purchasers. Is this
rigid ? he believed that when one error was
cured by the bill, ten thousand cases of injus
tice would spring up.
Mr. Berrien again explained. The bill only
operated upon parties whose previous rights
were seriously interfered with by the law, and
who were not parties in fact in the bankrupt-
cy case.
The joint resolution in reference to the Mem
phis Depot was taken up, and passed as it came
from the Senate.
On motion of Mr. Vance, of Ohio, the rules
were suspended and the House proceeded to
pass the various private Bills, which were yes
terday reported by the Committee of the Whole.
Congress still in session.
February 10.
The Senate, to-day, passed the bills from
the House, making appropriation for the pay
ment of revolutionary and other pensioners, for
the service of the Post Office Department,
and for repairing and building fortifications,
for the year ending 30th June, 1846. Several
other bills were considered, and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading, among which
was the bill for the ascertainment of the claims
for French spoliations prior (o 1800. This
was ordered for engrossment, by a vote on
yeas and nays of 26 to 15.
The House was occupied to-day on business
relating to the Territories, as a special order,
and several business bills, providing for terri
torial improvements, were favorably acted on
and laid aside to be reported. The comm ttee
took up the bill providing for the admission of
Iowa and Florida into the Union on an equal
footing with the other States; and, after some
time spent iiijdebate thereon, tho committee
rose and reported progress. The House then
adjourned.
In our report of Frday last, we omitted to
state that a report was made by Mr. Labranche,
from the Committee on Commerce, upon the
petition of Clerks employed in the Custom-
hous at N. Orleans, for arrears of salaries, re
commending an amendment for the benefit of
said Clerks be made to the bill making an ap
propriation for the civil and diplomatic expense
of Government for the year 1845. It was or
dered to be printed, and committed to the Com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union.
February 11.
The Senate, to-day, postponed the conside
ration of the Texas question till Thursday next,
when Mr. Morehead, on the part of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, will open the de
bate. Several bills, not of general importance,
were passed ; among which was that making a
free bridge across the eastern branch of the
Potomac in this city, and the bill for the orga
nization of a company of miners, sappers, and
pontoniers. The bill regulating postages be
tween the United States and foreign countries
was corsidered, and ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading. The Dubuque claim was
discussed, and, on the motion of Mr. Phelps,
indefinitely postponed. The bill for the ap
pointment of assistant pursers and assistant
surgeons was rejected.
The business of the House of Representa
tives, in the early part of the day, was of a
miscellaneous character. The post-office bill
from the Senate was passed through its early
stages, and referred to the appropriate stand
ing committee. Resolutions of the Legisla
tures of Maine, Illinois, and Indiana, were pre
sented on various topics; and also of the Le
gislature of the Territory of Florida, on the
subject of its admission into the Union. Many
territorial bills, which were yesterday acted
upon in Committee of the Whole, were passed
through their final stages, and one which was
designed to pay the Iowa militia for their ser
vices when called out during the dispute be-
tween that Territory and Missouri, in 1839,
was laid on the table by a large majority.—
The bill for the admission of Iowa and Florida
into the Union as States occupied the residue of
the day to a late hour. It was debated by
Messrs. Vinton, Belser, Levy, Aaron V.
Brown, and some others. The proviso to
tlie second section, which was intended to
make provision for the erection of a second
State in Fust Florida, when that portion of the
Territory should have a population of 35,000,
was stricken out by a majority of 86 to 57.—
And a motion made by Mr. Morse for the addi
tion of a proviso to prescribe certain terms
which should be complied with before this bill,
when passed, should so operate as to admit
Florida into the Union, gave rise to a warm
discussion. The terms were, that the people
of Florida should hold a convention and erase
from the Constitution of the proposed State
certain sections in relation to negroes and ne
gro slavey.
Iowa and Florida.
These twin stars of our constellation rose up
on the House to-day. We trust they are not,
like the lost Pleiad, to disappear. Mexico, we
hope, can set up no claim to them; and we
hope the federal party in this country will not
think it wise to exclude two States, unqestion-
ably entitled to admission into the Union, un
der circumstances which can leave no doubt
that^they are disfranchised for the present,
merely to serve their party purposes. It is ve
ry bud to exclude individuals from the right of
suffrage, 1 because it may operate against the su
premacy of a particular party; but, when the
people of large States are deprived of their
dearest constitutional rights, witn an eye to
such objects, we thiuk it will nowhere find in
the public sense an affirmation of the feelings
and principles of the excommunicating party.
Wash. Globe, 10/A inst.
I.ntrr from Hcxic*.
By the arrival at Havana on Wednesday
last of the British steam ship Tray.Capt. Sharp,
dates to the 31st ult. from Vera Cruz have
been received.
Santa Anna still remained a prisoner at the
Castle of Perote—the same cold, dreary and
dismal place in which he so long held the unfor
tunate Texans in captivity. It is stated that the
Grand Jury appointed to try the fallen tyrant,
was furious against him, while the present Ex
ecutive of Mexico manifested a feeling of clem
ency and at tlie same lime of regret that he aid
not escape out of the country and thus save the
Government further trouble. A letter dated
Vera Cruz, Jan. 31st, expresses the belief that
the life of the tyrant would not be taken. His
young wife was in prison with him, as was also
an old friend of his, Senor Lazaro Villamil.
Among the passengers by the Tay was Se
nor Antonio Haro, Santa Anna’s former Min
ister of Finance; who had made out to reach
the coast in safety from Mexico. One of the
editors of this paper, who came passenger in
the Alabama, was informed at Havana that Se
nor U. had escaped through the assistance of
tho English Consu! at Vera Cruz, and that he
came on board the Tay under an assumed name.
Rejon was still at large and his whereabouts
not known.
Every thing was said to be quiet in Mexico.
It was reported that the Republic was to be
divided into three militury departments, Arista
to have command of the Northern, Paredes of
the Centre, and some other General of the
Southern section.
An extra of the Diana de la Marina of Ha
vana, issued on the evening of the 5th instant,
contains a synopsis of the intelligence brought
by the Tay. The principal part of the news
has already been published in this city ; we
give the substance of a more important item,
which appears in El Siglo Diez y Nevve of
Mexico of the 24th ult., and which is as follows:
Santa Anna has sent, from Perote, a new com
munication to the Chambers, requesting that
the passport for which he had already asked
rnighc be granted him, in which case he would
banish himself perpetually from the country.—
He also stated that he would appoint an agent
fully empowered and qualified to x-espond to
any charges or claims made against him, leav
ing his landed estates and property as a guar
anty for the satisfaction of all, and moreover
speaks of the responsibility of his Ministers.—
This communication the Grand Jury were act
ing upon in secret session on the night of the
33d ult., and the result of their deliberations
was not known.
Florida a Slat*.
Advices from Washington lead us to antici-
pate that Florida will be admitted a State this
session. Wc have seen a copy of the report
ed bill. It provides for the ultimate division of
Florida into two States—the dividing line the
Suwannee. This is an unnatural boundary—
one State should own the whole river, and the
land tributary to it. But this can be regulated
hereafter. Mr. Levy’s course on this subject
has been such as should commend him to all
parties. The whigs seem to think that Capt.
Lancaster could do better. We ask his friends
to point to one act of his long legislative career
which betrays his great ability, and all the
high qualities his friends claim for him. Name
it.—Floridian.
MACON, GA.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 18, 1845.
V. B. PALJIEB
Is tho Agent for the Telegraph in New
York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Bostou.
His office in New York is 160 Nassau strt,
“ “ Philadelphia is 59 Pine strt.
H “ Baltimore, S. E. corner of Bal
timore and Calvert sir s.
“ “ Boston is 16 State street.
COTTON MARKET.
Since our last the market has not bsen so
animated as in the previous week ; and prices
have receded a shade on some descriptions.-—
There is no occasion, however, to vary our
figures much. We quote to-day extremes 8J
a 5. Choice lots in square packages would
probably command 5J.
TEXAS AND OREGON.
It would be cowardly as well as faithless in
us to disguise the fact from the people of tho
South, that in the present agitation of theso
great national measures—the annexation of
Texas and the occupation of Oregon—the
question of slavery, as connected with the for-
mer territory, is the chief and real obstacle with
by far the largest number of those who oppose
it, both in and out of Congress.
That we may be fully understood in the re
marks we intend to make, we will state that
we are satisfied that the annexation of Texas
has as warmiy-aUached, and as ardent friends
in Maine and New Hampshire as it has in Mis
sissippi or Louisiana; and that there are men in
the two latter states who oppose it as bitterly
and as zealously as any that can be found in
Veimont or Massachusetts. We will go fur
ther ; we believe that there is n feeling among
the patriotic at tho North, even under her heart
of snow and ribs of ice, that would welcome the
annexation of Texas to-morrow with as much
enthusiastic exultation as that which would ,
mark the approbation and fervour of the peoplo
of our own sunny clime.
But admitting all this—it cannot be disguised
that the stubborn opposition which has been,
and is still arrayed against Texas throughout
the north and north west, has its foundation in
the fact that the people of that territory are
slaveholders. While we ourselves, in common
with our Democratic fellow-citizens of the
South, have regarded, and still regard the oc
cupation of Oregon, as well as the annexation of
Texas, as a great national, and not as a sectional
question. Indeed, we have always looked upon
both of these measures as great questions, arrang
ed as it were by the hand of an all-wise Provi*
deuce itself in a moment, when a new order of af
fairs was to burst into existence upon our union
and the world, and when ourcountrymen as well
esour brethren of the human race, the oppressed
and unfortunate of other lands should be better
secured in the blessings enjoyed by ourselves,
by the extension of our institutions and limits to
those vast and fertile regions on, our bordec*
where they might live to advance in knowledge,
in freedom, in social happiness, and in all the
arts and pursuits which embellish or ennoble
civilized man ! and we cannot but condemn the
anti-American and unpatriotic course of a por
tion of the northern wing of the Democratic
party, as well as the Whigs in Congress, when
we contrast their course on these two questions.
We coadenm it, because they are in honor and
good faith to us as well as in duty to their con
stituents and their country, bound equally to the
support of both these parallel measures—-or if
not a parallel where the parallel ends, it is
in favor of Texas. It will be remembered that
one of the principal objections urged against
the annexation of Texas by a certain school of
politicians at the north, Democrats as well as
Whigs, was tbal its admission under the cir
cumstances would involve this country in a war
with Great Britain. Now to show the hypoc
risy of these men, and to prove their ineonsis.
tency, look at their course on the Oregon ques
tion. For if by the annexation of Texas a pre
text would be given to England for a war with
this country—which no man in his senses has
ever for a moment believed—in the case of Or
egon, the pretext would be doubly as great, for
it is well known that by the joint treaty of occu-
pation England has claimed to be in the right
ful possession of a portion of the north west, or
Oregon territory, ever since the ratification by
the two governments, of that treaty. Yet these
very men voted for the organization of Oregon
territory, and at the same lime voted supplies
for defending its occupation in case it might be
necessary; but they could not venture to involve
the country in a war with Englaod by voting
for the admission of Texas.
We are no alarmists, but we appeal to the
candid of all parties to bear us out in \rhnt we
state when we say, that we of the South dream
if we view the rejection of the Texas treaty-
should it be rejected by the present Congress
—in any other light than as a triumph of Abo
litionism. In such a crisis will Southern Sen
ators abandon us ? will they leave the South to
her fate or will they, like the absent Spartans
of old, at the call of their country march up
boldly and manfully, faithful sentinels at the
post of duty. But if the worst comes to the
worst—if an effort to throttle the South is to
be made in the very capitol itself and a few of
her sons, by their baae recusancy to her inte
rests will lend themselves to the conspiracy, why
let it come! We have yet the most undoubt
ing confidence in the heart and spirit of herpeo-
ple, and her strength and her ability :o main
tain all her rights in a just and patriotic cause;
and let the day come whenever it will, the
impulses of her people are irresistible whene
ver they are precipitated in such a cause.
By the arrival of the Northern Mail of the
8th iust., we learn that the New York Tribune
Printing Establishment and several other hou.
ses had been entirely consumed by fire.