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Sndci- which you are still laboring; but ou ae-
bunl of mv official engagements at tins par-
ocular juncture, and not wishing to protract
• correspondence, which can end in no prac-
i\ good, I have changed my purpose, prefer-
_g to point out those misapprehensions in a
srsonal interview, if you should so desire it.
Your communications have all been laid be-
ire the President, but I have received no in
structions to change or modify the directions
intaincd in the closing paragraph of my letter
25th ultimo.
Very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
W. L. MARCY.
Major Gen, W. Scott.
The mesjago and docurnciits were then* on
I motion, laid on tlio tnblo and ordered to bp
printed for the use of the Senate, with the ex-
[ccption of that portion of the correspondence
relating to the plan of tho campaign.
Then, on motion,
The Senato adjourned.
For its sterling merits, rs well ns in com
pliment to its [tact and spirit, we ask atten*
•.ion to the following lucid and manly articlo
which tve find transferred to tho columns of
the Washington Union from the Boston Cour
ier on tho subject of our present relations with
Mexico.
Wo arc not in tho habit we confess, of look-
ing to that quarter for much that is either truly
American in aonliment, or genuine in patriot
ism. Tho Boston Courier we hnvo always re
garded as the nucleus or New England fedor-
alsm—a hot bed of all impurities, as the or
gan Per se of all that was worst in the school
of tho Hartford Convention. This article,
however, is a bright green spot in that cheer
less waste of frailty and error. The writer
handles tho subject with a free pen, and what
ever difference of opinion may prevail as to the
results of the war, or of the best mode of pro
secuting tho campaign to a speedy, as well a*
successful closo—every one will be struck with
tho vigor o( tho arguments and the force of the
facts adduced in tho communication o( the
tUUIICI but I
OUR RELATIONS WITH MEXICO. .
To the Editor of the Courier.
What is the policy of tho United States in
relation to Mexico 7 .
Wu are now at sea, embarked in a war, and
at this moment at least twenty thousand volun-
leers have responded to tho call of Gon. Tay.
lor and tho government, and assembled at New
Orleans, or on the frontier of Missouri, Arkan
sas, or Texas; and an efficient nnd well arm
ed force of at least twenty-four thousand men
will be ready early in tho present month to act
upon the oft" nsivc*
It is true theso troops are not veterans, nnd
have soon but little service; but they arc har
dy and courageous, full of enthusiasm; nnd
in muscle, nerve, spirit, and other requisites
ns a soldier, and in all the equipments and mu
nitions of war, they arc altogether superior to
their opponents. At New Orleans, too, the
principal point of embarkation, wc have a vast
store-house of supplies of every description for
an army, and a commercial marine ready to
receive our volunteers ns they arrive in un-
numhored steamers from the new-born- cities
and villages ou tho arms of the Father of'Wa
ters. Napoleon, in all his campaigns, never
had a depot of provisions, stores and ships—
to «ay nothing of steamers, then unknown—
which could for a moment compare, either in
position with reference to such a contest, in
magnitude, with New Orleans.
As respects tho munitions of war, too, wo
have been for years accumulating muskets,
cannon, and swords, sulphur and saltpetre, in
the arsenals of the United States.
The muskets, all of superior quality, ex-
coed 800,000, and the sulphur and saltpetre are
sufficient for a three year’s war. In less than
a week one-fifth of theso can be concentrated
at New Orleans.
As respects a navy, also, wc have more
than four hundred cunnip afloat on the two
coasts of Mexico soon to bo joined by others,
while the whole marine of Mexico is not com
dose of June her ports will be all under block
ade, and her revenue dependent on customs
almost annihilated. Her imports and exports
must bo by Santa Fe, nnd our troops, nowon
llinip nifi mil f.M> lii’it ■ .A. ♦ mill coo lltaf nn one.
their match for that post, wiilseo that no cus
tom duties thereon will find their way into tho
Mexican treasury
With nothing but the tobncco monopoly and
direct taxes, and an unsettled nnd t< tiering go
vernment, it will be most difficult for Mexico
to bring into the (kid any considerable force to
oppose the advance of our troops. The brav.
’ est troops of Mexico nnd her best officers were
at the mouth of the Rio Grande. In this rc
gion is the cotton district of Mexico, and here
tho pi inter, who holds tho monopoly of Mexi
co, and commands twenty-five cents a pound
for an article worth but six on tho other side of
the line, has had motives to resist invasion;
nnd here, too, repeated contests witli Texas
have enured the people to war, and embittered
thorn against the United Stores.
ii-;. it is otherwise. California, Soro-
ra, Durango, and Now Mexico are more than
half disposed to break from tho despotism of
Mexico, which they linve never favored, and
seek a settled form of government under the
constitution of the United States, and tho pop
ular rote would doubtless sanction the conquest
of the sword.
liul, it may be urged, the war in which wc
ate embarked is unjust end aggtessive; and
Mexico, if conquered, will be o burden and
dead weight to the Uuitod States'.
As respects tho first position, it may be an
swered, we are now involved in tho war, and
tho question is, how shall it bo hast conducted 7
It is not now whether wo shall annex Texas,
but how shall wo terminate the war; and if we
would have peace for the future, and inspire
respect in foreign princes, we should throw
our whole energies into the prosecution of tho
war.
And, in justice to ourselves, wc should not
forget that we have grr.vo causes of war against
Mexico. It tho pigieclof France to pay mo
ney duo under u treaty was, a few years since,
a cause of war, the neglect of Mexico for years
to pay five millions, under her treaty with us,
was a breach of treaty, and cause of war.—
Our Slates arc not nations, and by our con
stitution have no powor to contract with na
tions, and in poglecttng to pay debts to individ
uals, furnish in, precedent to Mexico for viola
ting treaties with foreign powers. Again:
l he I nitcJ States and Texas have united.—
By this union, two independent powers, recog
nised as such by the great fraternity of nations,
have combined into one nation. What follows?
xjco threatens to invade the Union, under
the pretext of reconquering a revolted province.
Paredes comes into power, and enrols troops
for this avowed purpose, and sends to Englnnd
to raise funds, doubtless to prosecute the war.
By the laws of nations this also is cause of war
in itself. Again: Mexico rejects minister of
the United Slates, after a protracted stay on
her borders, and closes all negotiation. These
are all legitimate causes of war, and- will be
recognized as such by the intelligent and en
lightened journalists of Europe. But in oddi-
lion to this, Mexico has oppressed our citizens,
and so shaped her tariff, under British influen
ces, as to exclude our goods and destroy our
commerce. Under these circumstances, a
collision has occurred upon our frontier, attd
the nations ate at war.
'Hie government, with an energy almost
without a parallel in the history of nations, is
now assembling its troops, in passing the
Rio Grande, and moving uj»on Santa Fe. It
is not difficult to predict what movements should
be adopted, and it is appaiant that many of
them are already in progress. The first step
will be, of course, the blockade of evory Mex
ican seaport. On the Gulf, this was, doubt
less effected by the 5th of June, and on the Pa
cific, must be occontplishcd by the 30th, as
our despatches will reach Panama by the 5th
of June.
Two thousand mounted riflemen, moving
from Missouri, may, by the 10th July, occupy
Santa Fe, and ns many more, moving from
Fulton, on tho Red River, and from Texas,
may, by tho same period, occupy El Pusseo del
Norte, and control the lower valley of the Rio
del Norte.
With five thousand men, a movement may
be made from Matamoras across Sonora by
Montfiro and Durango, to Mazatlan, in Cali
fornia ; the distance is less than 700 miles, or
thirty-five day’s march, and the same troops
may successively occupy St. Bias and St. Fran
cisco. Tho whole of northern Mexico will
then be in our power. Meanwhile Gen. Tay
lor will doubtless move on Tampico, the true
gate of Mexico from the United States. This
K irt is half way from Matamoras to the city of
cxico, and by a measurement on the map,
is less than 300 miles from each. Along the
river Tampico he can march for Mexico, draw
ing his supplies from Tampico, and by the 10th
of July, it would not be surprising, with the
onoray he has displayed, and with the enthu-
si ism onus troops, were iictu rnciure -peace
in the capital.
The terms, it may bo presumed, will be lib
erty to Sonora, California, Durango, Coahuila,
New Leon, and New Mexico, to unite their
destinies with the United States, and the ac
ecptance of tho same ta satisfaction of claims
of our government and the expenses of the
war.
This it may be presumed, would he the leat
England wojld require, were she in our posi
lion, and driven to resort to the ultima ratio
regum, her Indian ami Chinese treaties are
ample precedents for the United States.
The Southern boundary of the Union woulJ
then extend from tho mouth of the Rio del
Norte to the southern bounds of California, on
the Pacific. A vast teiritory would thus be
acquired, competent to maintain hundreds of
of millions, and to furnish all the productions
both of tho termperato and totrid zones, aboun
diug in mines and minerals, and with a free
population of neaily ono million more than
enough to balance, the slave population of
Texas. -
But the great object of the Union remain to
be presented; vast benefits to commerce; a mail
route of 700 miles only will connect the Gulf
with the Pacific and Mazatlan; and tho mails
from Boston may in fifteen days, by tail-road,
steamers, and stages, be delivered at Mazat
lan, and bv a steam line, in six weeks more,
in China. *0 ir whole ships may refit and seek
protection in the noble harbor of St. Francisco,
With such an acquisition, we could afford to
be generous in conceding our claims to the
barren nnd snow-clad bills of Oregon, north of
49, to England.
I might proceed to demonstrate that the ad
justment 1 propose would promote the com
mcrce and happiness of tho world; but it can
require no demonstration. It may, however,
be urged that these plans are visionary ; the
yellow fever will destroy our troops; wagons
must be collected, and great delays and vast
expenses be incurred. To this let me answer:
~ • **i — -.4 ; •• *1 .
besieging the strong fortress of Vera Cruz, and
wasting its troops before it. It will seek Tam
pico. Tho hills come down within fifty miles
of that port, and the yellow fever docs not
prevail among them. In the mild climate of
Mexico the troops will, like tho Mexican, bi
vouac in the open .air, and like them, live in
grentpart upon tho cattle which they will drive
before them, and the biscuit they will pack
upon mules; and as respects expenses, with
the energy thus far displayed, the war may be
closed during the present season—while it will
be difficult to spend two millions per month
upon the troops required.
With one wordjmore let mo close. Whatev
er may be the result of this war—and no fo.
reign interposition need bo feared —it will bo
the policy of our government, like England
with ilie Chinese, to dictate a commercial trea
ty, which shall secure permanently, to oor
merchants, a fair participation in the Mexican
trade. ‘ STATE STREET.
Boston, June 9.
mje erarflta arettaraii!)-
MACON. TUESDAY MOBNINoTjUNE 30. 1S4G
Wo give to-day the balance ol tho corres
pondence between Gencrul Scott and the Se
cretory of War.
Note.—In 1637, the population of the Californiat was
3*000. Honors, 300,000, Durango 150,0(10, New Mexico
60.000. Coahuila 00,000. New Leon 100,000, Chihuahua
190000, aggregate *69.000. Durango, New Mexico, So
nora, and Chihuahua abound in mines of great richness.
THE PRESIDENTESS.
Wo copy the following sketch of Mrs. Polk
from the Boston Traveller. Tho Correspon
dent of this paiier, speaks from personal kuowl.
edge. lie says:
“ i ho ‘White House’ has been almost unin
terruptedly for fifteen years without the wife of
the Presidents’ residing. Soon wo were joined
by the porter, and were conducted to Mrs.
Polk’s room. The reception room of the Pre
sident’s lady was every way worthy ofthe man
sion. It was superbly furnished, the who|e
furniture being now, and the style unique and
elegant. Tho arrangement was in elegant taste,
showing at once the presiding influence there,
»«• refined nnd elevated. I had hoard much
of Mrs. Polk; much of her elegance of man
ners and superior beauty. Soon Mrs. Polk en
tered the room, and with on ease and grace
hade us welcome to tho mansion. She is truly
uu elegant Indy. No repou of her appearance
or manners that I have ever seen, has done her
justice. She is tall, finely formed, dark hair,
dark eyes nnd of great personal beauty, ijer
manners are easy, yet dignified. No one can
sec her and not feel that site is a fit representa
tive of the beauty, intelligence and refinement
of our American ladies. Mrs. Polk is decided
ly religious. She doea-net hesitate to acknowl
edge her dependence upon God. Yet is her
piety -hoi obtr.isive; nor Iter regard for.ri'Jigious
things made offensive or prominent. 1 ’’
It will be seen by an announcement in ano
ther column, that Dr. William Gbeen is no
more. He died in this city on Thursday even
ing 25th mst., at the advanced age of 79.—Al
though the state of his health for some time post,
indicated that such a result might be daily ex
pected, still the announcement of the fact will
cause a thrill of sorrow to pass through the
hearts of many friends, not only in this com
munity but throughout the State,
We shall not attempt a full sketch of the IFo,
character, or services rendered his adopted
State and country by this aged and good man.
The deep affection with which his memory will
be cherished in the hearts of all that knew him,
is a more honorable tribute to his stern, pri
vate and public virtues, and unshakeu devotion
to his country and her institutions than any that
could be offered by our pen. His whole soul
was given to his country, and that which he
thought would tend to its prosperity, was ur
ged with a zeal and disinterestedness that truth
alone can impart. He had a nature that would
not connive at abuses or juggle with his own
reason and integrity. Espousing early in life
across the sea, the great truths of republican
ism on which our government is founded, he
clung to them throughout his long career with
a devotion as sacred and holy as the child feels
in its mother’s arms. In ninny of the political
contests of this State since his emigration hith
er, Dr. Green exerted no ordinary influence.
Nature had poured out her gifts upon him with
no stinted hand, endowing him with an intel
lect of extraordinary vigor, which education
had cultivated and strengthened to a degree that
would have made him a man of mark and influ
cnee in any community. As a ready political
-mariutr, fow men excelled him. Iiis thoughts
stood forth{like strong, well armed men battling
in deft nee of truth, bold and dauntless, and
without a blemish upon their glittering, shields.
Many of his cotemporaries in the heated con
tests ofthe past, no matter how much they may
have differed with him since—in whatever part
of the couutry they may be when they hear of
the death of their old companion, a feeling of
sadness will involuntarily spring up in their
hearts—and their busy thoughts will make a
pilgrimage back to the stirring events and
scenes through which they passed together.
Dr. Green was born in Dublin, Ireland, in
17G7,and was therefore at the time of his death
in the 79lh year of his age. He was educated
at Trinity College in that city, and emigrated
to this country in 1800.
As his life had been bright, so was h's end,
tranquil arvl Loppy. He died in ihn Jull pat,
session of all his faculties, and with the conso;
lation of religion, for whose holy offices he
had for many years cherished a sincere and
consistent veneration.
We published Inst week ilic proceedings of
a meeting of the republicans of Upson county,
held at Thoinaston, on the 13lh instant. We
omitted then to state, that we heartily concur
with the proceedings had on that occasion by
our republican brethren of that county. They
breatho a spirit of union and harmony which
wo trust will be imitated throughout tho district.
The meeting in Upson recommended Tho
inaston as an appropriate place, and the fourth
Monday in July a suitable time for the delegates
of the third district to assemble and nominate
a candidate to represent them in the next Con
gress. In this wo also concur, and recomr
* 4 •*** - *— J- 'll!#
district. Let each county appoint its delegates
at once.
he is capable of, plunged his country into this
most flagitious war. The evils which must
result from it, flow straight from the Democrat
ic institutions of the United States, from the
popular vices which those institutions liavo fos
tered when they most needed to be checked,
and from the character of tho political Emped
ocles whom they have raised to office. To the
calamities caused by such incendiaries, there
'is no Temedy but a firm resistance, a severe
retaliation, and cvenuully a popular reaction;
but theseresults arc distant, and in the mean
while, Mr. Folk has got possession of the pa
tronage ofan increased army and navy, and of
the resources of a war expenditure.
America herself, however, may learn a les
son. She may see from a foretaste of its evils
what war .really is. Sho may know how far
a little of it can go. Iler money market has
fallen already. Already the fiends of her fame
but the enemies of her Executive, have denouu
ced the conduct of the President
The LotidonjShipping Gazette says:
“All that we can hope, from this wanton ag
gressxon on the part of the United States on a
neighboring State, is, that the Americans may
learn moderation and integrity in their futuro
dealings with tho nations around them; and
gather the conviction, that republican cupidity
is no more tolerable in the world than the law.
less rapacity of the most truculent tyrant,”
The Georgia Regiment is doubtless, before
tills time enroule for Mexico—on Monday last
the election of Lieutenant Colonel and Major
washeld, and resulted in the election of Thos
Y. Redd, and Charles J. Williams, both of
Columbus, we give the vote below.
For Lieut. Col.—Thos. Y. Redd, 231
Capt. D. W. Dill, 180
For Major—Lieut. Charles J. Williams, 320
" Capt. A. Nelson, 107
The following officers compose the staff of
Col. Jackson.
Adjutant—John Forsyth.
Sergeant Major—S. M. McConnoll.
Quarter-Master Serg’t.—B. F. McDonald.
Secretary—Janies Kellogg.
Money is
Wall street is all sunshine again,
abundant in New York. Capitalists are offer
ing, to make, loans at 5 per centum, without
finding customers. The papers say that stocks
of all descriptions, solids as well as fancies have
advanced as if buoyed up by an electrical shock^
Col. Withers’ Regiment of Volunteers, (says
tho Mobile Advertiser,) raised and mustered in
to service by order of Gen. Gaines, have all
been disbanded, and most of them aro returning
to their homes. These ten companies have
made heavy sacrifices and been most grievous
iy disappointed in their hopes and calculations.
Should the Government need volunteers again,
the probability is, that it will bo compelled to
seek them somewhere else than in Alabama.
We are requested to state that there will bo
a Temperance celebration at Fort Valley, on
Saturday next, the 4lh of July. An address
will bo delivered by A. S. Wingfield, Esq. of
this ciiy.
•A Temperance Pic Nic will bo provided.—
Tiie friends of temperance and the public gen-
eraily arc invited to attend.
The National Intelligencer denounced the
war with Mexico as “the President’s war.”—.
The republican party wero charged with ma
king it a war of conquest and plunder.
" The President’s war—a war of conquest
and plunder” echoes almost the entire Whig
press, parrotriike throughout the country.
To chow the sympathy between a porlion of
tho Whig press of this country, and the Eng
lish press in relation to the Mexican war we
subjoin the following extracts from articles
which appeared in the lending organs of Brit
ish opinion received by the last steamer.
The inconvenience and expense to which
merchants and others are subjected, in conse
quence of tho d'seount on some of the South
Carolina Bank notes, is an evil whicii has in*
Jqtfip&d, and is increasing, and should be aba
ted. This community has borne this Bank
shaving long and patiently, and it is time such
operations wore checked. Money is rather
scarce here, anyhow, without those who are so
fortunate as to obtain it, being shaved to the
tune of one or two per cent., in order to procure
what is called bankable paper, on bills which
are really and intrinsically better than any ofthe
bills issued by the Georgia Banks. Why can
not tltc Banks of this city so arrange it as to
receive the bills of such Banks in South Carolina
*s are solvent (and they are all so,) in order to
accommodate the community, and collect them*
instead ofsuffcring the people to be shaved when
there is no reason why they should be 7 Or why
ire not some arrangements made by the South
Carolina Batiks, through (bo agents in this
State who have put these bills in circulation*
redeem them 7 In the present state of things*
the grievance we complain ofts a crying one
and should be abated.
twice declared his desire to make an honora
ble peace. But we must recollect, os we said
in our articcle of last evening :
“Mexico has a prodigious turn for big, and
swelling, and pompous words. Their pro-
nunciamentos are terrible. Their rhodoman-
tade is ridiculously extravagant. They try to
keey up the spirit of their peoplo by such bom
bast ; and if we were to suffet ourselves, ev
ery time she even pretends to ask an armis
tice, or to offer a dilatory negotiation, to siojk
the march of our troops, and waste all this ex
pense of arrangement, with our .enthusiastic
and ardent mass of volunteers, impatient of
long delay, we should permit Mexico first to
deceive, and then to laugh at tho trick she had
played upon ns. If Mexico wishes to negoti
ate, sho must do it in good faith, and in few
words. Meantime, wo must continue to ad
vance with all possible alacrity, press on with
the greatest vigor, strike at her strongholds,
strike down her troops—and negotiate with a
minister backed by our triumphant army.”
FROM TIIE CAMP.
Front the Bul'etin of Wednesday last, wo
clip the following:
The steamer “James L. Day,” arrived yes
terday from the Brazos St. Jago, 20th inst.,
Col Fealherston’s regiment of Louisiana Vol
unteers marched on the 19tn for Burita; thence,
no doubt, to pjoceed to Matamoras, where
Gen. Taylor seems to be concentrating his com
mand. It is understood that Generals Ampu-
dia and Arista have both been summoned to the
capital, to answer for the loss of their army.
Col. Wilson’s command of infantry, artillery,
and Texan rangers, continued in quiet posses
sion of Reynoso.
The “Day” brought mails from the “Rari
tan,” “Princeton” and “St. Mary’s,” the brig
“Ranger” having brought them to the Brazos
from those vessels.
The following officers of the U. 8. Army ar
rived on the “Day”: Col. Payne; Majors Er-
wine nnd Fowler; Captains Smith, Stocton,
and Page, and Lieutenant Sturges.
Col. Payne brought with him the standards
taken from the Mexicans in the battles of the
8th and 9th of May.
[A ridiculous rejiort, said to prevail in camp,
was brought by this arrival, to the effect that
Herrera had deplaced Paredes as President of
Mexico, and had sent proposals for an armistice
to Gen. Taylor. We only notice the report, to
sajtlmt ifla entirety an Idle Tumor.j
The very crowded state of our columns last
week, prevented us from giving even tho heads
ofthe intelligence brought out by the Caledonia.
Wc regret we cannot yet make room for any
extracts'. We compile from the New York
Sun, the following important items.
“The coton market has been reduced again to a slate of
comparative quietude. Prince Louis Napoleon has arrived
* Bitr'- ... “
The London Times of ihoOOth ult. says;—
“ When u nation like the United States of
America forsook a]| the maxims of its estab
lished policy, and violated tho laws of good
faith ami international duty, to gratify the pop
ular passion of territorial aggrandizement, at
the expense of uu inoffensive neighbor, and at
the instigation of the audacious leader of tfie
Democratic Party, it was vain to hope that an
act like the annexation of Texas could be con
summated without giving birth to a formidable
and uncontrollable series of those events which
interrupt the pacific progress of nations, and
eonvulse the world.. No State ever endured
m rre injuries from another than Mexico has re
ceived from the Cabinet of Washington, for
no State was over vvorse prepnred to resent
them; but, after all these provocations and
wrongs, the war declared by tfco U. States is
now imputed to Mexico, because she lias refu
sed to receive nn Ameiieau emissary to dic
tate terms in her capital, and has ordered her
scanty forces to assemble on a disputed fron
tier.
‘•T|iis combination of measures, following
closely upon tho extraordinary language of i) ( o
President in his public addresses upon several
occasions, nnd viewed in connexion with the
c\eclioncfring interests of Mr. Polk's party,
leave no doubt that the head of the American
Government lias, with as much deliberation as
nglaiui tjreoy., and ii about lo leave for Floren ;e,
there to jut his invalid felher. It would appear from what
O’Connell Mated on Monday, that Sir Robert Peel is de
termined tj pres, forward the Irish Coercion bill, when
P.rli.mentreassembles after the Whitsuntide holyd.ys.
The Oregon question has now ceased lo jive any unea
siness.
Freights at Liverpool—The warlike tidings per
Cambria hive tended to check shipments in some degree
and a. few boose, having determined not to .bip in the
American bottoms, has caused some little enquiry for Brit
ish vessels. There is not, however, a single American
ship in tie port anfreigbted. The amount of freight going
forward is alilliimited. In the absence of much demand,
for passenger*, ship business must be considered dull
notwithstanding the unusual scarcity of tonnage.
The Paris paper, L« Presse, of Monday, reached our
offiCfe latt night, which announces that orders bad been sent,
by the Minister of Marine, to Brest, and the other military
harbors, in despatch a number of ships to the Qulf of Mex
ico,* to reinforce the squadron stationed there, in conse
quence of the war between the U. State, and Mexico.
Th. ovtrland mail of May 1st reached London yester
day. It fossesaesno political, and little commercial' Inte
rest. The seeds of another contest in the Sikh country
were sown at the termination of the late war.
Portugtl has been the scene of another attempt at revo
lution. ca<iequrnt upon a change of the ministry. It ap
pears thK, for the Portuguese, it would have been a inoie
than ordharilv energetic affair.
OREGOtf—THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
Mr. Hume asked whether the government had been offi
cially inWrnpd that thp Prc.idpnt of the Uuitod States had
given.
Sir Robert Peel : f‘f can have no objection to answer the
questwn the honorable gentleman baa put to me by stating
{ll&t tV« Im.iinan Prnai/lont 1... —...n't. tl t *_
the Amsiican President has given to her Majesty's go.
vernmeni the formal notice necessary tq the termination .of
Ihe existing convention at the termination of the year. And
in doing so, the President lias adopted the terms which
were assented to by both houses of tho lagisg.ture of the
United Slate* that the notice wa. given with the view of
leading to the amicable adjustment ot the difference between
the twooonnlries on this subject. [Hear, hear ]
England lias offered her mediation between the United
Slates and Mexico. Mr. Pakenham has received instruc-
lions to that.effect from the British government by the Cal
edonia,"
Glancing at the above rumor, that jthe British
Minister lint! received instructions from his go.
vernment to offer the mediation of England be
tween Mexico tfnt) iho D. States, the Wash
ington Union of Inst wepk make the following
comments:
“If Mexiptj offers to receive q minister from
the United Sjtajes tg settle all our differences,
whether it be owing lo the appeal.of tiie British’
minister to Mexico or not, it can scarcely clash
with the seiHinieqts qf the President, who has
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TELEGRAPH.
Washington City, June 24th, 1846.
Two weeks ago I had the gratification of sta.
ting that an offer had been made by Mr. Pa-
kenham for the settlement of the Oregon con
troversy, which had been submitted by Mr-
Polk to the Senate for-its advice whether he
should make a treaty on the terms offered. One
week passed and I had the further pleasure of
informing you that the Senate had advised the
President by a vote of 3S to 12 to conclude the
treaty, and that accordingly the treaty hud
been concluded and sent in lo the Senate for
ratification ; and 1 accompanied this by a brief
outline of the terms of the treaty. Another
week has passed, and I have the gratification of
conveying the news that the treaty has berm
ratified by tiie Senate by a vole of 41 to 14 —
one Senator only not voting, Mr. Jarnagin of
Tennessee.
For myself I cannot but express my great
gratification at this result, terminating us it does
in what I conceive to 1>3 a highly honorable
manner difficulties and controversies of so long
standing and so aggravated a chantctei, and
giving additional assurances that the pence of
the world will not be disturbed on slight causes
but that we may look forward to a continued
progress in a state of p^ace and prosperity.-
The prospects of war between the United States
and Great Britain having been thus banished,
let us hope that tho war of tariffs which has so
long been waged will also bo terminated. That
the true principles of commercial science will
triumph. That the bonds of relationship and
intercourse between the two countries will bo
strengthened and increased. And that both
Will run a race of emulation for tho superiority
over ilm other in arts, science, and learning—
in those matters which contribute mist to the
happiness and welfare, as well as the glory, of
nations.
Tho Oregon Treaty which has been thus
confirmed by the Senate goes out to Great Bri
tain for the exchange of ratifications in the
steamer Great Western from New York to
morrow, General Armstrong our consul at Liv
erpool, being the bearer.
It was confirmed by a vote of 41 to 14. It
may be interesting to gives the noes: those who
voted against this treat}’. They were;
Mr. Fairfield of Maine; AJessrs. Atherton
and Jenness of New Hampshire; Mr. Dickin
son of New York ; Messrs. Cameron and Stur
geon of Pennsylvania; Mr. Allen of Ohio;
Messrs. Ilannegnn nnd Bright of Iadiana;
Messrs. Semple, and Rreese of Illinois; Mr.
Cass of Michigan; Air. Atchison of Missouri;
Mr. Westcolt of Florida.
The matter of next importance to this Ore
gon treaty which has been before Congress du
ring the past wtjek has been the tariff—that
question which has been delayed so lqng--and
to approach which so much diffidence has been
shown by certain politicians that it was a mat
ter of serious doubt whether it would be touch-
cd at nlj during the present session, cyen wheth
er jt would be taken up for tjisciissjpn. ft has
however been the question tinder discussion
mends the reduction, accompanied by a repor t
from Mr. Walker, tho Sec’y of the Treasury,
showing how such a reduction will create addi
tional revenue, and I cannot bring myself to be
lieve that in the circumstances in which the
country is placed, that Congress will adjourn,
without making a. great reduction in the Tariff,
It is true that Mr. Hungerford, a so-called Dem
ocrat, from the State of New York, lias offered
a bill as a substitute for the ono reported by tho
Committee of Ways nnd Means, of which he is
a member, nnd which in various features is a
highly protective one, being in fact a bill to
suit New York and Pennsylvania, and some
persons have apprehensions that if the Demo
cratic party will not consent to take this bill*
many of the New York Democrats will voto
against the Committee’s bill, and peihaps suffi.
cient to defeat it. I do not however entertain
this opinion myself. I think the New York pol.
iticians are mean enough to do anything almost^
but I hardly think they will dare to prove so
recreant ta the principles of the party. I cer-.
tainly hope not, and my present anticipations
are favorable to the passage of the bill reported
by the Committee of Ways and Means which
although not strictly a tariff for revenue alone,
yet makes a much nearer approach to it that*
does the present one.
The speeches which have been made since
the tariff has been taken up, have many of them,
been on anything but the tariff. I suppose ono-
lialf at Last have been on the Mexican war.
One has been mads by a member from your
Stale, Mr. Seaborn Jones who in the absence
of General McKay, the Chairman of the Com-,
mitteeof Ways and Means explained in a very
masterly manner the views and objects of the
bill reported by the Committee. Another of
your members, Mr. Cobb, is Chairman of the
Committee of the Whole, and presides over tho
discussions on this all important subject with
acknowledged impartiality and urbanity. The
speeches however, which up to the prescot
time have been made in favor of the protective
tariff, hav e been exceeding! y tiresome ; and the
crudest and most absurd fallacies which have
been exploded a thousand times, are reproduced
for the one thousand and first time, and iterated
and reiterated just as if they were acknowledged
truths. I must confess that I take little interest
in the debate,—my attention is directed to the
votes !
You will have perceived, ere thl«, that Mr.
McDuffie itasbeen chosen chairman of the Com
mittee of Foreign Affairs, ofthe S nttte, in place
of Mr. Allen, resigned. This was done by ihq
“Fifty-four-Forties” and the Whigs. The.
choice of the majority of tiie Democrats wax
Mr. Sevier; but the “ Fifty-tbur Forty” men
would not voto fur him, because lie becanre con
vinced that our just title did not extend beyond
49o and therefore, like sin honorable man, cave
his vote in accordance with his convictions.—
After a great many ballotings, the Whigs and
“ Fifiy-four-Fotlies” united upon Mr. McDuf
fie, and chose him. J think they made a very
good and wise selection.
Two days past—Monday and Tuesday—,
have dies non in consequence of the death <>fn
member of the House—Mr. Herrick, of New
York, who died after only three days sickness.
Mr. Calhoun, 1 leant, will make Ids report
from the Select Senate Committee during tho
present week, on the subject of internal improve
ment—the report being on tiie Memphis con
vention memorial, which, it will be remembered*
was referred some time ago to a select commit
tee, of which Mr. Calhoun was chairman..
I generally leave “ Cabinet-making” to. oth
ers, but I am inclined to iry my hand now. I
think Mr. Buclnnau, since the peace with Eng
land, will shortly retire from the State Depart
ment, and go on the bench of the Supreme
Court. I think he will be succeeded in the,
State Department by Mr. McLane, our present
Alinister to England.
I think tho Mexican war will not last many
months longer. The Government is, however,
shipping a detachment of artillery with their,
guns, to go to California, round Cape Horn—
a sign that it expects that rich and fertile region
to belong to Uncle Sam. TATNALL.
Si ic by side with the beauties of a flowering
pqritdise, sleep unnoijoed, the seeds' of death;
In most of the seaboard prov inces of Mexico,
in the same wind that beuve lh$ fpgrance of the
orange, the geranium, the lemon, the cactus,
tho promegrnnitCj with untold varieties of wild
flowers, |url;s not only the deadly malaria, but
QO OYOry haqd ai« swarms of insects and rep-
tileg as poisonous us the fabled aspen itself-
A letter writer in the Tropic describes very
graphically some of the pleasant matters en;
countered in Mexico:
Lest I should seem only to sec the favorable
side of the p’eture, I must inform you that tins
country lias a greater number and greater vari-
etj’ of insects of all kinds, than l eyer saw in all
my life before—ant9, lizards, worms, and black
spiders, said to be as pbisonmjs ns the rattle-
snake. I killed one in my tent last night- Buf
worst of all arc the flies that swarm about us.--
For the first time in my life I have seen frcsli
iqe^t fly-blown in a f«w minutes. Ofit Chap;
jJL,.. ,i,_ „ i • tusajpn | a ; n » 5 ^ ol . 8C Wil3 Jelled on his side yesteruay
during the past jypek, a»d 5 ,gas arc row shpwn morn - lhe poor creature was on the injure^
of an intenttqn on the part o,f Congress to apt j s ij e a mass 0 f mngots '
upon it before they adjourn. Ah. McKay the
Chairman of the Committee of Wavs and
Aleaiis to-dqy offered a resolution to terminate
the debate on this question on Thursday the 2d
of July next, and after an ineffectual attempt on
the part of the Whigs to get rid of jt by laying
it on the table, it was adopted by a vole of 101
yens to 69 nayg. Still this is nq tpst qf what
will be tho final action of the House on the bill
before it, for many; voted to end debate who
will not support tho bill reported by the Com
mittee of ays and Means. I have however
much stronger uud better hopes of tho pussage
of llje bill now, than I have had qt any olhgr
period of the session. The Presiden; in an
swer lo a resolution of thp Semite last week
sent in p message in tvltjch lie strongly t;ecpm-
... s A man of the comp
Went a hunting, lie returned almost crazy, he
vyns fly-blo\vn in the ear. Another soldier has
suffered in the same way.’-* ’
The New York Journal of Commerce offl* 0
22d inst., has :he foliowing:
“Com. Aloxnnner Slidell Mackenzie, ’ybe
sailed front Norfolk for Havana on tho .
inst., in tho U. S. brig Truxtun, was cl><tfS £ 1
it js said, with u mission to Santa Anna.
Ages oy the Generals.—General Gaifie-i
says the Georgian, is 69 years of ago, & cr '
Scott 64, and Gen. Taylor 56.
Cassius M. Clay has been elected Ca P‘^ : ’
of a company called the Guards, in
Mexico. Among the privates ofthe same vo
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