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r— *4 THE TELEGRAPH, 13 PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY O. II. PRINCE, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, 1 y VA 111 ABLY JN AD V A NCE. ADVERTISEMENTS are inserte.l ni $1 OO per •ipjare for the firat im-rliou, au<l 30 cent* per square for each Insertion llicrealier. A reaaonabl* deduction will be marie to those who adver tise by the year. CZFS. R. Sales of LANDS, by Administrators. Escctt- tars.or Guardians, sre required by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon, and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house, in the county in which the land is situated. Notice of these • sics must he given in a public gazette SIXT^ DA^ S pre vious to the day of sale. Sales of NEGROES must be made at a public auction on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual It jura of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters of testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving SIXTh DAI £> notice thereof, in one ofthe public goaeltes of this State, and ot the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to beheld. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner.'FORTY days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditor# of an eata'e must be published FORTY days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or dinary fur leave to sell LAND, must be published for FOUR MONTHS. Notice for leave to sell NEGROES must be published for FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute shall be utade thereon by the Court. Citations for letters of Administration, must be publish ed thirty days—for dismission from administration, month ly ax mouth*—for dismission from Guardianship, forty tlu ys. Hulk* fur the foreclosure ofMortgage must be published monthly for Jour months—lor establishing lost papers .for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrator*, where a llond has been given by the deceased, the full Space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. REMITTANCES BY MAIL.— ‘A postmaster may en close nioney in a letter to the publisher of n newspaper, to pay the subscription of a third person, and frank the letter if written by !tiinaci£"—Amos Kendall, P. jV. O, SlflrfcuUural. is .... . 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.