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rn <Hr Sr,r OrUam Tropic.
Till: SI BIBBS OF MAT.UIOROS.
,, t oVe r ihc furry, you have an
SORNRS r
After you a -
open and picturesque road before you of near
ly A half mile to the city of iMatamoros. Muc i
i > interest present# itself, for every thing, to
American eye#, is unlike, “the familiar road
.side.*' The hedge of a small cotton field, now
broken down in places, is worthy of aitenlion,
fir it is characteristic of the Fence# of the coun
try. There being no timber to split into ‘rails,’
the Mexican cunuotdisfigure the landscape with
ihoso awful “worm fences,” that so mar our
own field#; on the contrary, he plants with
Bomo care tho thorn bushes and delicate brush
that every where grow spontaneously, strength
ening them with the trunks of the palnr tree.—
A thousand vines and wild flowers soon tresscl
over tins “breastwork," binding it together in
n solid mass; tropical birds with gay plumage,
bury themselves in its interstices. A Mexican
hedge, therefore, soon becomes a formidable
defence against a for, defies the most viciously
disposed cattle ii.tr iders„ offers a shade at
•toon, nnl is the place presort for all the gay,
the musical, and the beautiful of the feathered
tribe. A laigo species of blackbird will much
attract attention. It seems very tame and fa
miliar: a pair would generally boseon togeth
er mounted on some high limb, and performing
n series of bowings and contortions truly won
derful to bohold, throwing their heads into the
" nir, burying them under their wings, then
turning their (bathers up with all imaginable
roughness, and giving utterance to the strung-
»?st varied scream ever heard, the conclusion of
which is I ke the whizzing, crashing sounds
made by the breaking off and falling of a heavy
limb of a tree. Birds with a pale ashy plum
age, nnd tails resembling those denominated
"of Pdridise," flitted about, and u miniature
doro, not larger in its body than a robin, peck
ed mod-stly in the dust—the most beautiful and
loveable bird wo ever saw.
This hedge led to a poor Mexican farmer’s
cottage, that was facing close upon the road,
and as it represents its class, it is worth exam
ination. The walls of it are made of reed,
aliotil three or four inches thick, nnd ingeni
ously field together by others running cross
wise, not unlike rude basket work. The raf
ters of the house arc made of gigantic reed,
ilmichcd most securely from admitting tho rain,
by long salt marsh grass, cut about the mouth
of the Rio Grande. There were no windows
—two doors, situa'ed on either side, admit all
tho light and air its inhabitants indulge in.—It
was a mere lodging room after all in rainy
weather, for the Mexicans of the poorer class
es live out of doors, sleep under tho shade of
their stunted trees, or upon the door steps of
their rude houses. The house is “a mere form”
equally enjoyed by liens and chickens, pigs,
goats,* flees, nnd other domestic animals.—
Tho “kitchen garden" looked inviting, though
in waste,—splendid figs were ripening upon a
wilderness of luxuriant trees,—pomegranates,
u ith their rnssetl sides, met the eye,—tall green
cron, of the best quality, waved in the con
slant breeze,—and, on the ground, there ri
pi nod in modest obscurity, good looking
squashes that in size seemed to slio\y a near
relationship to the succulent pumpkin. In
from of the house I noticed u large hole, occa
sioned by a shot thrown in the bombardment,—
in ilie inside of it one of our own troops was
sitting very comfortably on n bench, eating
. hot corn, evidently set before him by a Mex*-
' can woman, who, although she did no credit to
bci sex hi the way cf personal beauty seemed
to honor jt by her hospitably.
• Just beyond this thatched bouse, you arc
turned oil*the road by tho “Sand bag foil bat-
rery,” a rough work, that afforded protection
to three or four pieces of artillery in tho boim
>bliniment of Fort Brown. The ruin hod al
ready washed down somo parts of the walls,
and two or three big-headed mules seemed to
hold it in full possession
The road every where is pleasant, and cot
tages were filling up with“cakcand bcorshops;’’
tho Americans, like their progenitors ‘cross the
waters,’ must be well fod to fight well, and
this characteristic is taken advantage of to the
great profit of innumerable bangers on of the
camp. In one of these Hula shops, I found the
stock to consist of an empty claret box, a jug
of whiskey, two tin cups, a few pounds of
maple sugar, a pad of Rio Grande water, and
a Mexican saddle worth one hundred nnd fifty
dollars. You now get out of the fields, and
come into the suburbs of the city, the road
takes a sudden turn to the right, and gives you
mi (x’endeJ view down ono of the streets that
leads “ way back to Monterey.” On your
left you perceive the torturous winding of the
river reaching away towards its mouth, and
upon the rolling laud, are the thousand tents
belonging to our army. The tents stretch out
before you for miles, until they grow into see
ming while spots, looking like snow balls rest
ing on tha bluish sward. Nearer to you is an
unfinished powder magazine, the workmen ha
ving abandoned it after 1 airing its thick square
walls—the ruins of l.ousos arc hidden away
among the long weeds—a ranchero wends his
wny across tho broken field, and two or three
soldiers off duty stop him, to hold a long con
versation in Irish, and English and Spanish,
and although they are entirely unacquainted
with each others language, thoy seem vc
i y familiar and agreeable companions. Are
ry thick-set, farmer looking old gentleman, in
a linen round about, aud remarkable for short
legs and long body, mounted on a snow-white
charger, followed by a mounted dragoon, most
perpendicular in his saddle and covered with
trappings, passes by. If you inquire who that
•j, you will bo laughed at, for its tho Moj. Gene
ret C’omiHonderdii-Cliief of tho army oi occu
pation, and lie is going over “to consult with
several officers,” about something he made up
liis miud should be done ‘•noles votens," a month
“/fare is dc Hrpublica de Jlio Grande y
amiga de lospueblo, m-u papier, one beet.’ —
A newspaper boy for the first time in the Re
public of Mexico. He was looked upon by
the inhabitants in favor of the old dynasty, as
Indians look upon tho appearance of bees, it
showed that the white man was coming. IIo
was an old boy, though joung in newspapers,
being full sixty years of age, but be does brave
ly. “Hare is de Republica.” “Hold on there,”
cries a “volunteer,” let us have a number.—
All sad reflections upon tho condition of Mexi
co suggested by tho prison-like appearance of
the Mexican Colonel’s house passes away, for
intellicence had found wings, nnd those even
in Mexico who run, can in future read ; a new
order of things had commenced, and sudden
nnd singular improvements for the better were
bound to follow in Mntamoros.
<Efje CUovflfa
MACON’, TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 14, 1S16*
ago.
Turning tip the road into the city, you pass
over a very handsomely constructed bridge laid
in water proof cement, it was a public work
of the better days of the Mexican republic;
oh tho other si !c ; ' tall trees for the coun-
iry ; giving to it a picturesque nnd rural op-
. i ii Mice, cleverly over it, und you arc in the
.. On your right is u large brick house of
.. ' !; i.\ - eiiizi'ii, who vmii Colonel of Mili-
i mi tin- "mIi and 9th, you are struck with its
. i a:^ iiont, it l as not a window or door
. : U i i !c forcomfi >rt or ornament, and those
latpresont thcnis-lves, are protected by thick
heavy hattau doors and blinds. Up high in
one corner of the front, is something that looks
much like n large cage. The cogo is the bal
cony whereon at eve, steal forth the females
of the family to enjoy tho evening air, they
aro out of the reach of stolen kisses, or Iclteis
of love, und Mexican jealousy is somewhat ap
peased by tli s iiiicngcmcnt, \\(iilethe lower
p »t of the I. ai >• presenting a hare wall, pro
tects Imtlr male.n:;d female Iron the assaults
f* Mid n re* pinion of lawless robbers, of
plunderingsoldtei v, arid (heftsof hungry offi-
t i ■>; that I ion e sjuaks a volume of melancho-
*' '• ‘ I e! tlie s " ial and political condition of
WARE HOUSE SYSTEM.
A bill has been reported in the Senate of the
United States to amend the Ware-house system.
Mr. Dix, of New York, who stands deservedly
high, introduced it with a clear, lucid speech,
giving tho objects, history and workings of the-
system since it was first adopted in this country
and showed wherctn the present law is deficient
and needs amendment,
Wo extract the following from the speech
of the Now York Senator on this bill:
The first nnd greatest benefit to the commer
cial interest is the relief it will afford from the
present system of exacting the payment of du
ties in cash, on the completion of the entry of
merchandize. In one sense it may be contend
ed, when compared with the present system,
that it is an extension ofa credit to the importer
for the duties until he can effect n sale of his
goods. Strictly speaking, it is but abstaining
from an unreasonable exaction; and it is di
vested of all risk to the public, as the goods will
never be permitted to go into the possession of
the owner until the duties are paid. Ii will re
lieve him from the great hardship, which is com
mon under the preseut system, of being forced
to sell a portion of bis goods, and sometimes in
an overstocked maikct, for the purpose of rais
ing tho money to pay the duties. It will enable
him to pay the duties as he has an opportunity
of disposing of his goods for consumption, in
stead of being compelled to borrow money, or
sell his merchandize at a loss, to raise it, and it
will enable men of moderate means to cuter in
to competition with large capitalists, who, as I
have already said, monopolize to a great extent
the business of importation, through their abili
ty to command mon«y to meet the payment of
duties in cash. The proposed change is en
tirely consistent with the principle and the ob
ject of cash payments ; and by preventing
forced*sales of goods to raise money for the
payment of duties, it will avoid an overstock of
the domestic market with foreign merchandize,
to the prejudice of the importer, by compelling
him to sacrifice his property, and of the produ
cer of domestic goods of like character, by de
pressing prices. If we consider also that it
will be likely to enlarge the circle of competi
tion in the business of importation—not to aug
ment the aggregate amount of imports for con-
sumptioqjiut to divide it among u greater num-
her of persons—it will not be difficult to per
ceive that the mercantile interest must be great
ly benefilted by the change.
The second benefit, though perhaps not se-
coud in importance, to be anticipated from the
proposed measure, is the stimulus it will be
likely to give to the currying trade, by making
our ports of entry entre-pot* for the product
ions of nil countries. Under the present sys
tem, if imported merchandise is entered for ex
portation, the duties are not refunded until after
the exportation, has actually taken place.—
Thus, if an importer, having brought merchan
dize into the country for the domestic market,
and having paid the duties, finds at the end of
one, two or three years no demand for it at
home, and is compelled to re-export it, be will
have lost, during that period, the use of the
money he had paid for tho duties, and he is
taxed in addition two and a half per cent, on
the whole amount so paid as a premium to the
Government for the privilege of sending his
goods ton foreign market. No better scheme
Could be devised, cither to glut the domestic
market by forcing the importer to throw his
merchandize into it at any price it will com
mand, or, on tho other hand, to discourage na
vigation by taxing the re-exportation of foreign
merchandize, whicli is not wanted a*, home.
Under the proposed plan, foreign merchandise
will bo allowed to be freely deposited in store,
and to be re-exported as freely, with no other
imposition than the payment of actual expen
ses of storage, &c. One of the certain conse
quences of such a system must be to accumulate
in our maralime towns a vuricty of the products
of other countries, where our vessels can make
up assorted cargoes for foreign markets. This
facility has led to the deposite in British ports
of merchandise designed for re-sliipment to the
Southern portions of this continent, and, in
deed, to all quarters of the globe. The valuo
of foreign merchandise deposited in the ware
houses of Great Britain is estimated a< two hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars. The pro
posed plan would have the same result here, if
like effects ate to be expected from like causes.
The deposite of even a considerable portion
of such a quantity in value, made up, as much
of it doubtless would be, of goods suitable to
the South American and Pacific markets could
not fail to benefit and extend our navigating
interest—one of tho most valuable in peace,
and tho most important of all others to so com
mercial a community as tho United States as a
means of defence'in war. That our carrying
trade would bo vastly increased; that ship
building would be^stimulatcd; that many foreign
markets would be supplied, wholly or in part,
by ti3 with merchandise now furnished from the
warehouses of Europe; that the industry of our
ssaports would be pul in greaer activity ; that
the commercial transactions of tho country
would be facilitated ; aud that a healthier com
petition would be created in the business of im
portation, can hardly be doubted. Such, at
east, is the opinion of the mercantile commu
nity ; and, so believing, it is natural that they
should look with great interest to the concur
rence of the Senate in a measure which ap
pears to them so intimately connected with the
prosperity of the country.
And, finally, if uniform prices and steady
markets arc, as wo are taught to believe, ad-
vnniageons to the producing classes, the manu
facturing interest, next to the commercial, is
ikely to be most benefitted by the proposed
measure, through supplies of merchandize near
at hand, ready to meet sudden and unusual de
mands, thus preventing a transient scarcity
from becoming the basis of speculation, and fur.
nishing an additional safeguard against those
derangements which are always file most inju
rious to steudy industry. •.
The animal Commencement Sermon of the
Wesleyan Female College was delivered in the
Methodist Episcopal Church in this city, on
Sunday, by the Rev. J. O- Andiiew, D. D.
The College exercises commenced yesterday.
An Address will be delivered at the College,
on Thursday, by tbe.Rev.'GrroHaE F. Piehce,
d. d: ■ |
The Georgia regiment arrived at Mobile on
Sunday, the 5th instant. The Herald and
Tribune of Tuesday last, has tho following:
The steamboats Bradstreet, Amaranth, Lowndes, and
Eureka brought down the Georgia volunteer regiment on
Sunday. The companies are designated as follows:
The Macon Guards, Capt. Holmes.
The Columbus Guards, Capt. Davis.
The Richmond Blues, Capt. Dill.
The Jaspar Greens, Capt.McMahon,
The Crawford Guards, Capt. Jones.
The Fannin Avengers, Capt. Sargent.
The Canton Volunteers, Cape Gramhle.
The Georgia Light Infantry, Capt. Calhoun.
The Kennesaw Rangers, Cape Nelson.
The Sumpter Volunteers, Capt. Turner.
The regiment, until it embarks for the seal of war, will
be quartered at the Independent Press in the lower part of
the city.
Since the above was in type, we have received the Her.
•Id of Friday last, from which we clip the following:—“ The
steamer James L. Day left last night for the Rio Grand*
with three companies of the Georgia Regiment, as fol
lows! The Macon Guards, Capt. Holmes; the Columbus
Guards, Capt. Davis, awl the Richmond Blues, Cspt. Hill*
TAMPICO.
The Washington Union of the 7th lest, says:—•• The gal*
Unt captain of the St. Mary’s has failed to carry, according
to a letter in the Norfolk Herald, three Mexican gunboats
in the port of Tampico. He would probably have succeed
ed, if the channel had been previously buoyed out. We
trust that Capt. Conner has already been there, to Carry the
boats, if pot the town. It isonething, however, to take Tam
pieo, and another to hold it at this season, when the vomito
threatens our people.
We should not be surprised to bear, at nodistant day, that
Commodore Sloat bad carried the ports of California.”
Our advertising friends will hereafter
please hand in their favors by 10 o’clock, Mon
day morning.
Gen. La Vega, says the New Orleans Bulletin of Tues
day last, has permission from the war department, to make
his residence, daring the summer months, either at Lexing.
ton or three other specified places in Kentucky, or at Cin
cinnati, or other places mentioned in the State of Ohio ; and
daring the winter, either at Baton Rouge or this city j with
directions to report once a month to the Department. He
is also informed that should he wish to visit any other part
of the United Slates, any application from him wilt be favo
rably considered.
this season of the year, anti unuer the circum
stances—void of excitement, and for a few
hours of the day exposed to the broiling sun—
for we have been informed that the thin Low
ells of which their tents are composed, is but
little impediment to its scorching rays. Yet,
notwithstanding this, there are few or no cases
of fevers, or any malignant disorders, prevalent;
and this too, in a large body of men, for the first
summer on this .river, and many nnacclimated
even in the south. Were it not lor the diar
rhoea, of all diseases most preealent, which pro
duces such general debility, the troops may l»e
reckoned as healthy at this point as they would
be on the Alleghany mountains.
Tho following paragraphs are from the same
journal.*
Matamoras.—Our town is becoming daily
more Americanized, and the old citizens are
showing much desire to assimilate with the new
comers. The greater part of that shyness and
lukewarmness whicli was wont to characterize
them, has given place to familiarity and amity,
and they t ilk together, eat together, rnd laugh
together, as though the line of enmity had been
completely erased or coyored over With the link
offriendship that seems hourly cementing.
Carrabajal, with about two hundred men, we
have from undoubted authority, was in San Fer
nando four days ago, seizing upon all the horses
he could find, and keeping a strict watch over
movements in Matamoras, overhauling all on
their way to or coming from this place. San
Fernando is distant about ninety miles from
here, and tho population gre hourly looking for
the march of the Americans upon the town.
The Archives and all the public property , have
been carried off or cencea'ed.
(£?*Owing to the failure of the Mail beyond
Charleston we did not receive the letter of out
Washington correspondent, of the 2d inst., in
time for our last week’s issue. The informa
tion contained in it will however be interesting to
many of our readers, and we publish it this
morning.
Tho steamer Frontier has been fosf on the
Ilio Grande, She was laden with government
stores, a largo part of which was lost.
LATER FROM THE ARMY.
Yesterday’s Southern mail brings U3 N. Or
leans and Mobile papers containing advices
from Brasos Santiago to the 3J inst., brought
to New Orleans by tho steamship Alabama.—
The news is not of much importance. The
Mexican forces were supposed to be concentra
ted in tho vicinity of Monterey under the im
mediate command of the President. The
American army it is said appeared to be on the
point of taking up its lino of march towards
Monterey.
Point Isabel, July 3d, 1846.
Editors Picayune :
Gentlemen*—I left Matamoras last evening,
and started from Gen. Smith’s camp on this side
of tho Rio Grande, at 9 o’clock, with a volun
teer officer, to ride across the prairie. I saw
"Old Rough ana Ready” just before leaving.
He was riding out hunting for newspapers.—
The old gentleman hardly ever is seen attended
by any of his officers or men in his rides, but
goes “poking about," as I heard a volunteer re
mark the oilier day, "just like other folks.’’—
Gen. Smith was to begin to move his camp to
day some 12 or 15 miles up the riveron the Mex
ican side. The General looks remarkably well
arid is in fine spirits. The musquitoes showed
themselves in numbers for ihc first time at head
quarters last evening. The volunteer camp
was perfectly shrouded by smoke, raised by the
men to keep off the intruders. A rumor ob
tains in camp that a portion of Louisiana volun
teers arc to be disbanded, and, though they have
been assured that such will not probably be the
case, they are quite uneasy about it—a few be
cause they want to go home and fear the rumor
is not well founded, but most of them because
they desire to stay and ‘‘see the thing out."
"When can we move ? Can we get a fight out
of them?” are questions constantly put to per
sons coming from Gen. Taylor’s quarters.
That a portion of tho army will soon move
towards Monterey can no longer be doubted, as
bonis enough of light draft have arrived to war
rant Gen. Taylor in taking possession of the
country between the mouth of the river and
that place.
The road we enmn over last night—I mean
the wagon road between Point Isabel and Mat
amoras—is still impassable for loaded wagons,
and it is a wonder to mo how a light "wagon can
be dragged over it. From the river to the Palo
Alto, some nine miles, there is net, altogether,
half a mile of head road. The mud is generally
a foot deep-*and there is at least four miles of
water, in many places hardly fordable for hor
ses. Tho gentleman who accompanied me
down captured agar-fish on ‘‘six miio prairie,"
between tho battle fields the other day, nearly
three feet long. I passed over the same placo
four or five times when it was perfectly dry
with no appearance of having ever been ovei>
flown. At the Resaca dc la Palma where, as
you will observe on the map, a road passes be
tween the ponds, there is now but one pond,
and that is deep enough anywhere fur a res-
pcctable sized steamboat to pass through it.—
The Palo Alto buttle field is two-thirds cover
ed with water.
A Mexican prisoner of war, Lt. Ruix, whose
arrest I mentioned sometime age, will go out
to New Orleans in the Alabama. You will re
collect that lie was caught in Matamoras in the
act of trying to gather recruits from among the
citizens and the convalescent of the wounded
soldiery. A Mexican also goes out in chains
accused ofbeing one of the murderers of the
Rogers family. I am not lawyer enough to
know exactly how lie will be tried, or before
what tribunal, but lie has an ugly phiz to bring
before a jury. Mrs. Page, tho wife of the
Capt. Page who behaved so gallantly in the re
cent battles; and was so dreadfully wounded,
will go out in the Alabama. . She came to this
place to meet her husband, but found, on her ar
rival, that the captain had already sailed for
New Orleans, expecting to meet her there.
From the Matamoras paper, the Republic, of
the 20th, we clip the following in relation to the
health of the army :
The Army.—The health of the volunteers
is as good if not better than can be expected at
The new revenue bill, it will be seen by ex
tracts from our Washington files, has passed
the House by a vote of 114 to 95. The bill as
passed is substantially the same as reported
somo weeks since by Gen. McKay, the Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means.—
Wo have no room to-day to dwell upon the sig
nal triumph achieved for our principles in the
passage of this great measure, over tho startling
obstacles thrown in its way in the House, by
the opponents of the bill.
We regret that our limits will not allow us
to spread before our readers to-day the bill in
detail, as it passed the House. As the most
important matter wo can give them, we will
publish it entire next week.
The act is to go into operation on the first of
December next.
From present appearances we cannot doubt
that the bill will pass the Senate. The clerk
ofthcllouso brought in the Tariff bill to the
Senate on Monday last. After some discus
sion and a division of the Senate on a motion of
reference it Was made the special order of the
day for yesterday and each day thereafter, un
til disposed of, The following views in regard
to its fate in the Senate wo borrow from the
Charleston Mercury:
Tue Tariff in tbe Senate.—The fol
lowing are tho yeas and nays on Mr. Sevier’s
motion, to make the Tariff bill the special or
der for Monday next, and everyday thereafter
till Anally acted on.
Yeas—Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison,
Bagby. Benton, Brcese, Bright, Calhoun, Cuss,
Chalmers, Colquitt, Dickinson, Fairfield, Han-
I negan, Houston, Lewis, McDuffie, Pcnnyback
or, Rusk, Semple, Sevier, Turney, Westcott,
Yulee—24.
Nays—Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Cilley, John
M. Clayton, Thomas Clayton, Corwin, Crit
tenden, Davis, Evans, Huntington, Jarnagin,
Johnson of Louisiana, Johnson of Maryland,
Mangum, Morehcad, Niles, Pearce, Phelps,
Simmons, Sturgeon, Upliam.Woodbridge—22.
With the e* ception of two names in italics,
the division is a strictly party one, and it is con
sidered a test vote.
The following is a list of those who were ab-
sent, classed as it is supposed they would have
voted:
YEAS—Messrs. Atherton, Dix, Haywood,
Speight—4.
NAYS.—Messrs. Berrien, Cameron, Day
ton, Greene, Miller, Webster—6.
Thus in a full Senate, there would be a tie
vote, and the fate of the bill would depend on
the Vice President. It is not a ltogethcr certain
that there will be a full Senate, and it is not
absolutely certain that Mr. Berrien would voto
against the bill. He voted against the present
Tariff, and unless ho has changed his mind,
may bo very willing to see it go down.
Our correspondent seems to think the Vice
Prcsidcut will do his duty in the event of a tie
vote, and judging by tho desponding tone of
the principal Tariff organs, we are not without
hopes that he will.
MONROE RAIL-ROAD CLAIMS.
These claims have be#Q so long a source of
litigation in our Courts, and have so ofton prac
tically illustrated the glorious uncertainty of
the law, that we had almost ceased to keep tho
run of thenr There has, however, been so
much enquiry lately in relation to the recent
decision of Judge Floyd, on the subject of tho
Monroe Rail Road fund, now in Court, and as
there appears to be much diversity of opinion
even among legal gentlemen on the subject—
we have taken somo pains to ascertain the facts
of the case as nearly as possible, and find that
the Judge’s decision rests entirely upon a clause
in the charter—Sect. II, page 372, Prince's
Digest.
By this decision, the whole assets of the Road
will be absorbed by the present bill-holders, and
judgments founded upon bills, rejecting—or
what is the same thing—postponing, without tho
least prospect of there ever being paid, all cer-
tificates for Bank bills deposited—and all bonds,
notes, or claims whatsoever for work done, or
materials furnished on the road. This decision
has been excepted to, and the whole matter
carried up to tho Supreme Court, where we hope
all parties may have justice done them.
Among other reasons for excepting to this
decision, it was contended by Counsel—and
with much force—that many of the present
bill-holdcis puichased them at a great discount*
and that a Court of Equity would not lend its
aid to give to speculators one dollar for a bi 1 ^
that only cost them ten cents, and tliat too, to
the utter rejection of other dreditors, equally
worthy, some of whom had earned their claims
“ by the sweat of their brow.”
For the following statement of the assets of
the Bank, and the claims allowed by the gen
tlemen appointed to audit them, we are indebt
ed to the Messenger:
The amount of assets after deducting all ex
penses, was $144,308 S5.
The amount of Bank Bills filed and Judg
ment on Bills, which according to the decision,
will be paid in full, S141,000 00.
To bo paid lor auditing, tec., $1500 00.
Leaving to be distributed to other claims,
$1,808 85.
Other claims were allowed in their order to
the amount of $362,225 20.
Claims rejectod for want of evidence to al
low them, $81,3GS 64.
Claims rejected as paid, &c., $1 780 00.
Entire amount of claims allowed, $586,400 00,
tion comes to be put as I anticipate it will-.
" The Bill reported by the Committee of Wav,
and Means, or the Tat iff of 1842.”
It would be useless for me to recanitni
the names of the members who have spok e i 3 "
this tariff question during the debate. The 71
arguments which have heretofore been d
vanced in support of the protective alias rob
bing system have been reiterated, and it | J
been solemnly asserted, as of old, that “ if*
higher the duty, the lower the price,” *.*,7
other absurdities shewing
equal
c °nlempt
people.-
The Washington Union of last week, pays
the following handsome compliments to Mr,
McKay of N. C. and the Hon. Howell Cobb
of this State. These gentlemen deserve well of
their constituants and the nation, for their un
tiring zeal in behalf of this great measure.'
Speaking of the tariff bill, the Union says:
"It was relieved from its thraldom in Com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union,
this day at half-past 12 o’clock; the long space
of seven hours having been occupied exclusive
ly in voting on'amendments. During the de
bate, the committee have had the services ofa
gentleman as chairman, (My. Cobb, of Geor
gia,) who, uniting a competent knowledge of
the rules of order with the firmness requisite
to enforce them, has exercised the almost om
nipotent authority with which he was invest
ed in a manner that has elicited the good will
of every unprejudiced observer. On no occa
sion within our recollection has the floor been
awarded with a more liberal and comprehen
sive impartiality. It is not too much to say
that this gentleman has deserved well of the
House and of his constituents for the fidelity
and fairness with which he has discharged the
responsible trust reposed in him.
" We have also to congratulate the Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means,
General McKay, of N. C., on the successful ter
mination this day of tho most laborious portion
ofhis onerous duties. The vote by which the
bill was finally passed may be some compen
sation to him, not only for the labor it has cost,
but for the doubts and suspicions which have
sometimes, unjustly as we have always be
lieved, been thrown upon him in relation to the
time at which tho bill should be taken up.—
Possessing a perfect knowledge of the chances
which attend on legislation, and deeply versed
in the caprices of that most subtle thing—the
temper of the House—we have not doubted
that he was more competent than any other
man to judge of the order in which he would
call up his business, and that whatever course
he thought best to adopt in tliat respect, would
turn out finally to be the safest and best. The
result has justified the calculation."
We regret to see it stated tliat the Hon. Wm
L. Yancy has resigned his scat as a member of
Congress from Alabama, to take effect at the
end oi the present session.
There are in both parties numbers to bo
found who would gladly embark in any scheme
that would bring “grist to the mill”—men
“Who, for a grot a year
Would sell their soul aud sell it dear.”
Prominent among these is a portion of the
present Democratic delegation in Congress
from Ohio. For a brief history of the shame
less treachery of these Swiss mendicants during
the progress the other day of tho tariff bill in
the house, and before the final vote was taken,
we refer the reader to tho letter of our corres
pondent Ta'nall.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TELEGRAPH.
Washington City, 2d July, 1846.
Doubt and distrust, as to the fate of the pro.
posed reform of the Tariff of 1842, has again
resumed its sway. When I wrote last week,
it was considered almost as certain, that the Bill
reported by the Committee of Ways and
Means, would pass both Houses, without any
very material modification for the worse.—
Since then, however, events hove occurred
which have caused the most ardent friends of
Free trade, almost to despair of obtaining jus
tice from the present House of Representatives.
Yesterday morning, Mr. Brinkerhoff, a Dem
ocrat from Ohio, obtained the floor, to speak
on the TarilPquestion. He assumed to soeak
on behalf of the Ohio delegation—the Demo
cratic part of it—as to what they would do, and
what they would not do. He declared most
positively and explicitly, that they would not in
any case whatever, vote for the imposition of a
tax on Tea and Coffee—neither immediate nor
prospective,—neither as a war measure nor
as a peace measure. Tliat, he said, they would
not do. He then went on to declare formal
war-—it amounted to that—-against the admin
istration on this Tariff question. The Bill re
ported by the Committee of Ways and Means
was the administration measure, therefore, tho
Ohio delegation would not vote for it. Ohio
had not got her share of “ the spoils." She
had not a single Minister Plenipotentiary—she
had but one solitary Charge des’Aflaires—she
hud not a single first, second, or third rate, for
eign Consulate—she had only a solitary Bureau
at Washington (the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs,) &c. &c.—tlio remonstrances and pe
titions of her representatives had been scorned
and spurned, and Mr. BrinkerhofT asked
they thought they were like whipped hounds to
lick the hand tliat chastised them, and crouch-
at the foot that spurned them ? No, said he,
and therefore they will vote against the Bill
reported by tho Committee of Ways and
Means, and will vote fot the substitute offered
by Mr. Hungerford. which taxes salt some 60
or 70 percent, for the benefit of the New Yor
kers, and to the injury of the farmers of*tbe
West, besides laying high specific duties on
iron and sugar, and high duties on cotton and
woollen manufactures, &c. Such is the sub
stance of Mr. Brinkerhoff’s declarations. Is
it surprising that doubt and distrust, as to the
fate of the Tariff reform, should again have re-
sumed their sway ?
These arc circumstances, however, which
still lead mo to look for a favorable resuit to
terminate the controversy so long pending.—
I cannot place much confidence for instance,
in the declarations of pm pose, ofa man, who,
like Mr. Brinkerhoff, offers himself and his del
egation for salo. Nor can 1 believe, until I
sec it, that the Ohio Democrats will dare to go
before their constituents, to answer for a vote
in favor of the Tariff of 1842, wlirn the ques-
for the understandings of the
These arguments of the protectionists'have
been triumphantly refuted by facts and ar eu
ments over and over again, but theyare repeat*
ed with a boldness and audacity worthy of
better cause. ^ a
I confess I can see but one mode of solvinr
this question. It must be solved as General
Jackson solved tho Bank question, which th
politicians maintained then, (as they do now of
the Tariff,) was a favorite with thepeoplo and
was no party question, until the oid Gcneral-1
Old Hickory—who never forsook his friends
nor betrayed his principles—put the quesiion
before the people, plainly and palpably. || a
would have no ono in office under him, who
maintained principles in opposition to his own
and when the question was put to the people—
Bank or r.o Bank—they triumphantly respond,
ed, to the discomfiture and destruction of th 0 "
interested politicians—‘‘No Bank”—and im
proved his action. So it will he with the Tar
iff. Whenever it is made the plain palpable*
question uefore the people—Protection alias a
robbing tariff against a tariff for Revenue alone
then will there be' a shaking among the dry
bones, and the thousands who are now inac.
live, or vote with the Whigs, because of iho
want of confidence in Democrats ; professing
Democrats I shoulJ say ; who talk about Free
trade, and vote for protective tariffs; ‘these*
thousands will at once rally under the banner
of Free Trade, and the question will be set at
rest as was the Bank question, to sink into tho
catalogue of obsolete ideas.
“Coming events cast their shadows before"
and therefore, we may expect very shortly the
retirement of Mr. Buchanan from the State
Department. It was but the day before yes-
terday that a message was sent to the Senate
which bad no sooner been delivered, than it
was busily reported that it contained the nom
ination of Mr. Buchanan as Judge of the Su.
preme Court of the United States. I ascer
tained that although the report was in advance
of the fact, yet it is not altogether improbable
that I may have the fact to announce of the no-
mination having taken place, in my letter next
week.
During the last week, a great number of no
minations have been made in the Military line
—boili of regulars and volunteers. The follow
ing nominations have been made and confirm
ed for the Major Generalships, and t»o Briga
dier Generalships in the army, created by the
first supplemantei war Bill.
General Taylor lias been nominated and
confirmed as Major General in the army.
Col. Twiggs and Col. Harney have been al
so nominated and confirmed as Brigadier Gen
erals in the army.
In addition to the nominations in the army,
sundry uominations have been made for Gene
ral officers of volunteers, under the 2J supple
mental war bill, as fol'ows :
Col.W. O, Butler of Ky., as Maj. Gen. (con
firms!.)
Gen. Patterson, of Pa., do.
Gen. Pillow, of Tenn. as Brigadier General.
Air. Thos. Marshall, of Ky., do.
Mr. T. L. Hamer, of Ohio, do.
Col. Jos. Lane, oflnd., do.
Mr. Shields, of III., do. (now
Commissioner of General Law Office.)
Gen. Quitman, of Miss., do.
Quite a number of nominations as Commis
sioners and Quarter Masters, with the rank of
Major and Assistant Commissaries and Quar
ter Masters, with the rank of Captain, have al
so been made and confirmed by the Senate.—
As they have been published however, I shall
not repeat their names.
1 must not conclude this letter, without men
tioning the speeches of Messrs. Towns and
Toombs on the Tariff. - ..
Mr. Town’s speech was, ns might be expect
ed, an able and convincing argument, in favor
of freedom of trade from restrictive bands, and
the establishment of a just and equal system of
taxation.
Mr. Toombs—what shall I say of his speech t
He puffed out his checks, and spluttered and
shouted, until the reverberation of his voice,
and the quantity of wind cmited, caused one
half of what he said, to be unintelligible. From
what I did hear, however, I inferred that he
was not altogether satisfied with the Tariff of
1842, but that lie would keep that as a protect
ive or robbing measure, rather than have tho
Bill reported by the Committee of Ways and
Means
And I shall wind up this letter by stating that
Congress wiil not, in my opinion, adjourn be
fore the 10th of August—if even they do tlien.
TATNALl*.
P. S. As there will doubtless be much anxi
ety at the South to know the courso which will
be pursued with reference to Gen. Gaines, and
as 1 perceive statements tliat a Court Mattel
has been ordered for his trial, I have made en
quiries, and learn that such is nut the case.—
The old Gen. demanded a Court Martial, but
the War Department has not granted the i*“
quest, but lias ordered a Court of Enquiry, t0
assemble to investigate the case and report-
James A. Nisbet, Esq. was elected Mejor
of this city on Saturday last, in place of Oaf *
Holmes resigned, to go to the wars.
It is stated in our exchanges that Thomas J*
Marshall has recently made a very narrow es
cape with his life at the camp near Loukvil e«
Several volunteers it seems with whom l' 3 ,u
a difficulty, drew their pistols and pointed 'beni
full at his breast; three pulled triggers,
strange as fortunate the caps on all cxp° c
without discharging the deadly content* "
which their pistols were charged. It l'P*®’-
bio the heavy rain of tliat evening, to 1,113
volunteers were exposod, dampened the p°^
der and thus prevented an explosion. To
fact was he indebted for his life. d‘ ,c 0 en
ing volunteers were promptly placed under ai
rest. • ,
Ex-Governor P. M. Butler, has been eW
Colonel. J. P. Dickinson of Charleston, Lie 11 ’
Colonel; and A. H. Gladden of Cul-J^
Major of the Palmetto regiment of South ^
lina volunteers, made up for the .-lexica 0
paign* _____ ..
In another column will be found a g ra P^
and interesting letter from Col. 'Thorpe o
N. O. Tropic, giving a sketch of ■ ■ 11!
and its suburbs.