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I BY T. H. BA V LEV. I turn to thee in time of need. And never turn in vain : I see tby fund and fearless smile. And hope revives again. It gives me strength to struggle on, Whate’er the strife may be — And if again rny courage fails, Again I turn to thee. Thy timid beauty c harmed me first— -1 breathed a lover’s vow— But little thought to find the friend Whose strength sustains me now : I deem’d thee made for summer skies— But in the stormy sea. Deserted by all other friends. Dear love, I turn to thee ! I Should e’r some keener sorrow throw A shadow o'er my mind—• And should I, thoughtless, breathe to thee One word that is unkind— Forgive it, love ! —thy smile will set My belter feelings free, And with a look of boundless love J still shall turn to thee. [From IheN. (). Courier, 3- 1\ ult. ) Mexican Wills;!*. There were British federalists in the last war with England, anffldrere jire Mexican whigs at present—Pind>»we say there are Mexican whigs, not all Hie vvhigs are Mexicans. VVe should have *- abstained from the discussion of this topic, but for the miserable and libellous trash in the Bulletin and Tropic, directed against Mr. Polk and the democratic /ad ministration. That there are whigs who take sides with the Mexicans against their own country, we do not only assert, but are prepared to prove with irresistible evidence. First, then, 11. Clay told the Tennes see Committee, that the war never would have occurred, had he been chosen Presi dent at the last election—and he affected to deplore the waste of life which accom ptnies its progress, as prodigal ar;d mel ancholy. Mr. Webster, in his Philadelphia speech, argued as elaborately as he would have done under a fee of fifty dollars, that the war is unnecessary, and ought not to have been entered upon—that Gen. Taylor in vaded the Mexican territory when he crossed the river Nueces; that, in fine, the whole affair, on the pa rt of this coun try,is rascally and disgraceful. Similar denunciations, in a louder tone of menace and calumny, have been liuti ed against the democratic administration, t on account of the Mexican war, by Davis, of Kentucky—Winthrop, of Massachu setts—Gentry, of Tennessee—(biddings, of Ohio—and other whig leaders in the present session of Congress. ‘‘lt is a cruel, unjust and damnable war,” cried one of these worthies. The New York Tribune, the most wi Jely circulated whig newspapers in the Union, goes stil 1 farther. Its language is an oveit of treason; and, if similar lan guage were published in the Mexican capitol, it would speedily introduce the author, with his eves bandaged, before a * XT' few files ofst Idiers, with muskets in their hands. If published in Britain, respect ing an enemy of Britain, it would entitle the auihor to a passage, at (he Queen’s j expense, to another hemisphere. The Tribune’s language is prefaced with this comment by the Courier & En quirer: modern patriotism. 'Plte Tri bune, after setting forth the lion tide usage which tiie honest and worthy Mexicans have received at the hands of that tin- ; principled government, the United States *—proceeds thus : “When we consider this long train of outrages, it does seem atrocious that we, in view of the unabashed infamy of our Repudiating Slates, and vast sums of which they have plundered their Foreign ! Creditors —in view of our repeated re fusals to pay our own citizens their claims | for French spoliation of fifty years’stand- i ing—should say one word about the mo- 1 ney due us from Mexico as an excuse tor * or palliation of this War. “As to ‘the enemy’ and all that, we j consider our own rapacity and injustice * our most perilous enemy, and the xvorst ’ possible calamity which could befall us, an easy triumj h to, and great apparent gains from, our Gave mm cut's irro.ngs and villanies towards Mexico. Better for that j the punishment of those crimes should he prompt and signal, so as to operate as a warning against such in future. Os the : novice who betakes himself to the gaming table and loses, there is hope; hut wo to him if he comes off the winner! His doom is sealed .” The Courier and Enquirer justly oh serves on this passage: “VVe greatly question whether any press in the United Slates, or any individual in it, during the war oflßl2, ever uttered such treasona ble sentiments as are contained in the foregoing, and yet, to this day, the people have never forgiven those who won for themselves the title of “Blue Light Fede ralists,” during that war. Thus speaks 1 tho New York Courier and Enquirer of this abominable sentiment, and the more abomina le expression of it. But w hat I an unkind cut, of that journal, to bring up to the nation’s recollection the “Blue Light Federalists” of the last war! What will the great Webster, the prince*‘and heir presumptive of Koondom, —what will ■ he think of this requital for great ahili’ies exerted in the Whig cause — r or laborious days and nights spirit in endeavors to prevent the protective tariff from being enacted, and then to keep the load on the shoulders of the American people —lo prolong the existence of the United States Bank, and then to render it unpopular, as “an obsolete idea;” to support the elec tion of Henry Clay to the Presidency, and then to write a series of invectives against him in the Madisonian! When news of the glorious action at M onterev reached New York—news j which caused every American bosom to thrill with delight, the Tribune, the lead- | ing whig paper in New York, coldly said i it would not rejoice at that victory! an 1, ; as the Courier and Enquirer expresses it, j put forth sentiments that made every man ! shudder who really possesses any love I for his country. The National Intelligencer, to which the universal whig party look up as the centra! source of light, is generally more guarded in its language than the Tri bune; —but its disaffection to this country is not the less apparent, and its support of the enemy’s pretensions, for that rea son, not the less effective. And yet for language savouring less strongly of trea- r> ~ s'* - son than that used by the Tribune on this j occasion, the National Intelligencer, in I the war of 1812, held up the name of men in New England to the scorn and detestation of the public, and denounced them as guilty of moral treason! Our readers, we trust, will weigh every word of the Tribune’s article, qnot ed above; and recollecting that journal possesses jja greater share of whig patron age tiian any other in the Union, ask themselves, if there is not too great an abundance of Mexican Whigs in the Uni .-ted States? * The editor ofthe Tropic affects to he- j lieve that had the editor of this journal read the Washington letter, which repeats | a sayi’ig of Daniel Webster, he would not have published it. We beg the edi tor’s pardon —we did read that letter— and.we believe Mr. Webster did say what our correspondent imputes to him, al though it has been frequently denied by Mr. VVesbster. We had often before heard that Mr. Webster expressed that sentiment in the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts, namely—“let the laws take care of the rich, and the rich will take care of the poor.” We have heard I this from other respectable sources be sides our Washington correspondent, and our belief in it is not shaken by the deni al of Daniel Webster and the whig newspapers. Mr. Webster declares, in his Philadel phia speech,that he was all his life in fa vor of high protective duties; hut here is i in Fanueil Hall, in which he j dtMtounces high protective duties as per- j nicious and unconstitutional. TheTiopic denied that Mr. Webster ; estimated the expenses of the Mexican j war at $500,000 a day, or $132,500,000 | a year; hut here is Mr. Webster’s decla- | ration to this effect in the National Intel ligencer and other whig papers, contained in a speech delivered by him in the U. S, Senate towards the close of the last session. We must he forgiven if we place not implicit faith, in a denial or assertion of Mr. Daniel Webster. [From (he Washington Union, 3lstult.] It is a melancholy truth, but a certain 1 one, that this country has never been en- t gaged in difficulties with a foreign nation in which some portion of our citizens hare j not taken part with our adversary. We shall not speculate upon the causes which lead to this moral treason. We barely adveit lothe fact. The well known reso lution of the legislature of Massachusetts — u that it did not become a moral and religious people to rejoice at victories gain ed in our fast war with England ” —is a | ; practical illustration of litis ami-palriotic j feeling. The Boston Courier of Decern- j- I her 23, which has just met onreye, fur- * nishes another which ought to meet the i indignant reprobation of every American. I A Mr. William Denton, it appears, had , been elected a member of a commitee to “solicit funds to aid the regiment of vol unteers for the Mexican war.” He de clines the office in terms that few, we hope, can read without indignation. Among these few, however, is the editor of the paper, Joseph T. Buckingham, who says “he honors the writer of the letter.” After reprobating lite war, and denouncing its origin and objects, this Mr. Denton savs; “If the Massachusetts regiment, | which is about to he raised, were going to Mexico for the purpose o fescorting our army back to the United States, I should feel very much inclined to serve on the committee. It would then be engaged in a good and noble cause, in promoting j the substantial ‘honor and glory’ ot Ihe i country, and subserving the highest prin- | ciples of humanity.” ■ ii. umr nw. We put this extract upon record to show how far men will be hurried, in the blind ness of party, to oppose the honor and interests of their country. [Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.] Washington, Jan. 2, 1847. The Senate did not sit to-day. The j House met, and the call of the States for i resolutions was continued. Mr. Cobb’s resolution, abolishing the rule which enables members to give rea sons for asking to be excused from voting on any question was adopted. Ihe rule had been perverted to purposes different from what it was intended for. Very manv private and local resolu tions were offered, and some of a public character. Those of importance were objected to and laid over for debate. Re solutions in favor of the prosecution of the war offered by members, as abstract propositions, and with a view to show their pa'riotism, were laid aside for debate. A proposition to assign a day for lak in<r up the bill for the reduction and gra dualion of the price of the public lands, and making it the special order for every day, until disposed of. was laid over.— There were many resolutions and notices of bills relating to the improvement of Rivers and Harbors. Mr. Wentworth, of Illinois, w-ho has formerly taken much interest in the sub ject of rivers and harbors, for the West, and was especially displeased by the veto of the harbor bill of the last session, brought forward a resolution, in the fol lowing words: Resolved , That it is inexpedient to im pose any duty on Tea and Coffee. Great sensation was created in the House, by this proposition, attempts were made, but in vain, to suppress it. A motion to lay it o.i the table was lost, yeas 49, nays 10G. The resolution, under the previous question, was adopted, yeas 115, nays 48. Though the House was thin, vet a majority of all the members voted in the affirmative. Thus, and so soon, is settled one great point in our financial questions. 'The loan cannot be procured on any reasonable terms, if this duty he not imposed. Mr. Sims, of Missouri, immediately I offered a resolution intended to commit those who had voted against this war duty. He moved a resolution declaring that the people were too patriotic to refuse I to be taxed in lime of war- Almost every I i one submitted to this general proposition, and it was carried. [ From the JW O. Della, Ist insl.] From Tampico. The brig Millaudon,Capt. Welch, and the brig C. H. Rogers, Capt. Wilson, ar rived last evening direct from Tampico, ‘ having left that place on the 25th ult. “ 1 t t r 0 I Thev report every thing quiet at Tampico. The brig Hallowell arrived from Brazos St. Jago, with the balance of the Alabama Regiment, on the 21st ult. The steamship Virginia sailed for the Brazos on the 23d, with one company of U. S: Artillery, and their guns. The Alabama Regiment and the Regu lar troops now stationed at Tampico, number nearly 1800 men. The brig Empresario \vas to sail for this port on the 26th ult. No Mexican troops had been seen or | heard of since the 16th, and our force felt i ! perfectly secure from any attack by the j enemy. The British sloop.of-war Endymion left i Tampico on the 23d ult., for Vera Cruz. The force at Tampico is deemed suf- | ficient to maintain it against a force of 20, 000 men. | The troops were healthy, and well j I pleased with their change of position. Important Report from llcxico. We have received, (says the Mercury ' i of last evening.) through the politeness 1 | of a commercial house in this city, the : I subjoined extract of a letter written by j an intelligent gentleman at Tampico, 1 i and received by an arrival yesterday [Wednesday] at Mobile: Tampico, Dec. 17. Advices, via Vera Cruz, were receiv ed last evening, of the action of the Mex ! ican Congress. They decreed that they will not think or treat of peace until every j i hostile foot has cleared Mexican soil, and j j every vessel that lines her coast is with- i i drawn. I consider the war now com menced in real earnest, and 1 prophecy j that Tampico will become an American town. - „ for France. Immense quantities of produce have i been lately purchased in this market for the French magazines. We heard of sales of 50,000 barrels of flour to an ; agent of the French Government. Thirty j thousand bushels of corn have been pur- j chased by the same agent. The proph- j ecy of the far-seeing Crozart, the father | I of the Colony of Louisiana, that mother j i France would, in the course of time, he | | nourished and supported by her daugh ter, whose fortunes were cast by the I great Father of Waters, has literally come to pass. Xli**i**ippi Elect ion*.—Something Rich. An election was held in Mississippi on 21st, 22d and 23d ult. for a member of Congress. The opposing candidates are Mr. Ellet, democrat, and P. B. Starke, whig. The returns are coming in from all parts of the State in a scattering man ner, hut in no case in a more singular, “mixed up” form than in the following postscript to a letter, published in the Mo bile Advertiser: P. S. Three o'clock. —Monroe county may be relied on for 50 majority ofStarke! We just hear that Starke fought a duel yesterday with Mr. Blewitt, ofColumbus. Starke did not fire. He is badly shot in the arm. They are somewhat afraid that amputation will he necessary; but that he is elected I think you may depend r upon; that will be some consolation. He r is a gallant, true man. G. M. H. [ We are certainly glad that it is no worse for Mr. Starke than to he wounded \ in the arm. As to the issue of the elec tion, we are unable to pronounce an opin- j ion. The vote is far from an average one, ( and it would he idle to spend lime in com- i ( paring returns. — N. O. Picayune , Ist. ( Marriage of a Volunteer and short , ' Honey moon.—Sunday afternoon, at East j 5 Boston, Henry Carney, one of Capt. Web- , ■ ster’s company, was married to Miss j , Almira Bent. Lieut, Kelley, officer of ih« i day, allowed an escort of thirteen men in | uniform, with side arms, under Sergeant , Steare, to accompany the bridegroom from > the quarters in Pitt street to East Boston, j and witness the wedding. A furlough of | 48 hours was also allowed the bridegroom ! _ _ AUGUSTA. GEO.. THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. |7. 1847*. Opposition to the War. The pressure of public opinion is so power ful, that tiie more wary and judicious Whigs are becoming alarmed at the jeopardy in which iheir party has been placed by the indiscreet zeal of the majority of its recog- j nized organs. 1 The tragical fate of the Federalists of i 1812, rises np like the ghost of Banqno to i eear the eye-balls of those Whigs not dead j to every principle of patriotism. They he- j gin to perceive that party zeal has carried \ the weight and influence of the Whig party ! against the honor and the character of their ; country. The greatest defamation against I American honor, American character and American justice, has been found issuing 1 from the Whig press of the country and from | Whig orators. Their denunciations of the conduct of their own government have been shameful—if words could constitute treason —we could say—treasonable. But though men confining themselves solely to words have managed to clear the halter, yet have they been guilty of moral treason, by their language and their conduct. They have . used language, which if used in the papers of a foreign country, or spoken in delibera- j live assemblies of foreign lands, would cause the blood of every American to boil with in dignation. Were foreign emissaries to use it in our midst, they would with difficulty escape from being victimized to the stern decrees of Lynch Law'. But the respect ac corded to freedom of opinion and freedom of speech tolerates much which shocks severe ly the national sentiment. There has been, and is now evidently a struggle in that great body of public opinion in this country—the Whig Party—between j advocacy of the war, and opposition to the war. That party in the outset of hostilities, proclaimed the w’ar, iniquitous and disgrace- ; ful. All that could be done, was done to pro- j judice popular opinion against it. It came in 1 the very breath which voted supplies of men ! and money for its prosecution. Systematic ! efforts have been made ever since to impress . the public mind with the idea that the war is iniquitous and disgraceful to our country, j If these efforts had succeeded, our country 1 w’ould have stood condemned before the I world, through popular opinion at home, as a ' nation disgraced by the spirit of aggression, ; of injustice and rapine. But the effort has : failed. The war is popular, notwithstanding i the outcry against it, and the conviction is i general, and gaining ground daily, that the ' war is just. The indications of this fact are too strong to admit a doubt. The voice of i the neutral and independent press denotes it, ' | The manly tone of approbation assumed by i some of the Whig press enlightened by truth, ! warmed by patriotism and unblinded by par ; ty confirms it—tiie alacrity exhibited by Con gress to respond to the appeal made by Col. I | Baker of Illinois demonstrates it. The De- ( mocratic party should notyield to desponden cy. Its patriotic and unflinching course is ! now responded to, by the sober second thought j of the nation. It responds not only to the j call for means to prosecute the war, but to the appeal made to the national spirit, as to ■ the causes of wrong and tiie necessity of re | dress, in the only way Mexican perfidy and i | obstinacy has left us. But there is still np j position, fierce, formidable and uncompromis ing, to the war. This opposition has caused a schism in the Whig ranks. It is destined ! to rend them into fragments. Opposition to ! this war, is destined to be a bye word and a ; reproach in after times as lasting and as dis- j I graceful as that which in 1812 branded Fede ralism with moral treason. It is the fore j shadowing of this result that has in some I quarters caused considerable moderation in I the tone of Whig opposition. It is this | which has caused some Whig papers, which j have no doubt a feeling recollection of the | consequences of Federalism in the late war, to deprecate the Anti American course of their more intemperate compeers. It. has ; provoked the most feeling expostulations from | the New York Courier & Enquirer- But the j tempest and the storm of party phrenzy have | been too strong for the warning voice. After the winds have lulled—the billows subdued and calmness restored to the surface of the political deep, there will be many wrecks, and but a few of the once gallant barks of Whigery afloat. We know that a distinction is sought lobe made between opposition to the grounds assumed by the Executive for the necessity of the war, and opposition to the war itself. Some few have saved themselves by pre serving in their own conduct that distinction. But the leaven is not sufficient to preserve the parly. The party must go down, be cause it has attempted to weaken the force> and to distract the energies of the govern ment by false clamour—by untrue state ments—and by unfair appeals to sectional prejudices. r If we are called upon for specifications, 1 we give them. 1 In the first place we refer to the course of r that arch Federalist. Daniel Webster—toast- ( ed recently at the Philadelphia Whig Bac- ( chanal, as the ‘personification of Whig prin- ; ] ciples. Tire speech of that great leader of a ' wing of the Whig party was looked upon as j a manifesto of Whig principles and policy— 1 as the counter manifesto to the President’s 1 message which it preceded a few days. j In order to produce, at as early a date as ! 1 possible, a!! the prejudice he could against the war, Mr. Webster, last session, declared that the cost of the war was half a million i of dollars per day. This gross and wilful misstatement exhibited alike a disregard of truth, and an insulting estimate upon the pa- j triotiemnf Hs countrymen. It showed that he considered the honor of his country would i be weighed by bis countrymen in the scale ! against dollars and cents, and forced by their - Sordidness to kick the beam. This was dis- , played in his declaration, in his late Fanenil Hall speech, that it was not the habit of his countrymen to investigate the justice of ; a war so much as the cost of it. This dec- , laration, though denied for him by fits admi rers, has lieen fixed upon him by the testimo ny of those present at the time, whose state- j ments will not be doubted by the public, no j matter how industriously interested parti- I zans may seek to screen him from the odium it has justly evoked. In the second place, the declarations of Mr. Denton of Massachusetts, and of the Boston Courier, a notice of which we copy from the Union, and the language of the New York Tribune, are additional specimens,- and only specimens, of the anti-war spirit in a portion of the Whig party, and proofs of the manner in which the efforts of the gov ernment have been thwarted, or sought to be, by the anti-war party. As the Whigs have two divisions in their ° . i ranks, we should think the war portion, at - least, ought not to object to the anti-war por- | lion, with Mr. Webster at their head, being j designated as the Federalists. It is the des- 1 liny of a very large portion of that party to be hereafter identified with that, party which, : as the anti-war party, flourished in the war j of 1812 as tiie Federal party, and to share the same disastrous fate. They will be con- 1 signed to the same ignominy for having ta ken sides against their country, by giving aid and comfort to the enemy, so far as they could do so by their sympathies, and their ar guments. That they have essentially aided the ene my by their course, cannot be doubted. They have given the Mexicans enthusiasm and unanimity, by encouraging the idea that we 1 were distracted and divided. They have made them more obstinate in pursuing the war, and in resisting all overtures for peace. They have thus caused the expenses of the i war to be greatly increased, and it may , be that this may be the c ause of its being in- i definitely protracted. The patriotism of the mass of the Whig i party is responding truly and nobly to the call of their country in this crisis, when she needs the aid and co-operation of all hercifi- i zens. She needs that aid which is most ef ficient, and without which no nation can pro secute a war vigorously and successfully. It is the aid derived from their hearty sym pathy and good wishes in the deadly struggle. The sagacity of some of the leaders of the j Whig party is displaying itself in their | change of position on this war question, and j , their advocacy now of the policy of sustain j ing the government in this war. It is a sa gacity akin to the instinct which induces rats j ; to desert falling houses. We give them full credit for their discernment and none for I , their patriotism. County Election*. i Burke County. — We have not the votes : given in Burke on Monday last for County ; Officers, but learn that R. 11. Gray lias been elected Receiver of Tax Returns; Isaac Mul key, Tax Collector, and Edmund Garlick, I Clerk of the Superior Court. | Richmond County. —John E. Davis has been elected Tax Collector, and Win. Herb, Receiver. Planter* 1 Rank. At an election held in Savannah on Mon day for Directors, the following gentlemen : were duly elected; G. W. Anderson, J G. Jones, G. Anderson, | J. C. Nicole, W. H. CUYLER, 1 F. SoRHEL. | I. Cohen, I i. Williamson. Central R. R. & Rankin;; to. of C!eor;;ia. At an election held on Monday last, for Directors, the following gentlemen were duly elected: Rich. H. Cutler, I Matthew Hopkins, John W. Anderson, | Henry McAlpin, Wm. Crabtree, *Jacob Waldbdrg, | Solomon Cohen, { *W. B. Johnson,Macon. j *New Directors. j A gentleman direct from Matamoros in ; forms the editor of the New Orleans Com mercial Times, that the demand for U. S. Treasury nofes.in that quarter is very great. Large sums are daily sought after, and one per cent, premium is readily obtained for them- The gentleman himself paid this rale fora round sum. Debt of Pennsylvania. On the 3()lh of November, 1833. the State debt of Pennsylvania was $21,627, 786 32. It is now, after a lapse of 13 vears, 840,706,576 00. The revenue of the past year has equalled the expendi tures, an event which has not before oc curred for a long period. There is no reasonable doubt that the February inter est will be punctually paid, Commerce of the I'niled Smtew. A writer in the New \ ork Journal of Com-' rnerce stales, that the exports of domestic produce from the Northern Sia’es, in the year 1846, are 43 per cent of the whole do mestic exports from the rormtry. r l he ex cess of exports from the Southern States, over those of the Pforthern Slates, in the year 1545, was .$31,000,000, in 1846, only $14.000.000. In 1845, the exports from the Southern Slates, wore 66 per cent of the whole—from the Northern States, 34 per cent. In 1346, from the Southern States 57 per cent —from the Northern States 43. In round numbers, the export of northern produce and manufactures in 1846, was greater than it was in 1846, by $1,260,00 0 The writer says that if the increase in 1347 be in proportion to that ot 1846, In all probability the exports of the Northern States will exceed those of the Southern. Our Jliliiary fore . The report of Adjutant Gen. Jones, ac companying that ol the Secretary ot War to Congress, shows that there are in service 24.084 regulars arid volunteers,distributed as follow.-: REGULARS. In the field, officers ami men, including gen eral staff, 6,613 Troops at sea, and under orders to join the army, 1,008 Recruits m route fur the seat of war, 762 Aggregate regulars in campaign, 8,473 VO-L.UNTKKRB. fn the field. 15,715 At sea, for California, 766 Aggregate volunteers in campaign, 16,514 Aggregate regulars and volunteers 21,484 Os this amount Gen. Taylor lias 18.332 under his command; Gen. Wool 2,660; and Gen. Kearney 3.992. If to these we add the nine additional regiments recently called into service, the whole will amount to more than 30,000-. [ From the Savannah Georgian. s th in.Uf.J Port of Savannah. • Statistics of the Coast wise and Foreign Trade with the District and Port of Sa vannah, as taken from the books in the j Collector’s Office. From the first of Obtober, 1814, to Ist 1 October, 1840, being a period of two years, the following number of vessels entered Coastwise, viz; 719 vesselsin all, aggregate of tonnage of which amounted to 190,791 tons. N. B. There are a great many ves i sels that come to. and sail from this Port, coastwise, that neither enter or clear, they having no foreign good-- on board. During the same period above speci fied there arrived at this port from For j eign Ports, viz : i American vessels—aggregate amount Tonnage 26.642 88 Foreign, “ “ “ 78,476 79 Total am’t Tonnage, Am. and For. 105,089 67 During the same period there cleared from this port for foreign ports, viz : American vessels—aggregate amount Tonnage, 53,952 76 Foreign, “ “ “ 79,962 6t | Total ain’t Tonnage, Am. and For. 133,915 37 j The value of Foreign Goods imported into this District for the, same period ! of two years, that were liable to duty, amounted to $310,255 39 j Value of tioudri not liable to duty 19.915 21 j .Specie 65,423 90 $395,594 50 Value of Domestic Produce exported iu same period $7,353,180 30. Spanish Ladies.—The dress of the Spanish ladies is remarkably elegant, and generally adorns a very perfect siiape. Black is the universal color, , and tlie robe is most tastefully worked i and Vandyked. A mantilla, or veil of : black silk or lace, and sometimes white lace, is thrown over the head, and lea v. ; ing the face uncovered, falls gracefully | over the head and shoulders, and is con fined at the waist by tiie arms of the i wearer. They are both expensive and | particular in dressing their feet with neatness, and their little shoes fit closely. The large black eye, the dark exp res ' sive glance, the soft blood tinged olive of I the glowing complexion, make the un willing Englishman confess the majesty of Spanish beauty, and he feels that though the soft blue eye, and delicate loveliness of his own country women awake more tender feelings of interest,, he would deny or dispute, in vain, the - commanding superiority of these daik eyed and finely formed damsels. A Grcnl Printing Machine. The Brooklyn Eaglesays; “the Messrs. Dryden, the celebrated English engineers, are employed in the construction of a printing machine for the London Times, to produce 12,000 impressions per hour, or the inconceivable number of upwards of three sheets per second!” and the New York Sun thinks that a machine will he produced in that city, capable of printing between fifteen and twenty thousand j copies an hour. Biini!! thr Port ! The last moments of the immortal Scots Bard have been thus described: lie had laid his head quietly on th& j pillow awaiting dissolution, when his at | tendant reminded him of his medicine, andheldthe cup to his lips. lie started suddenly up. drained the cup at a gulp,. threw his hands before him like a man, about to swim, and sprung fiornthe head to the foot of the bed, fell with his face down, and expired without a groan. Eioqurnt Pannage. The light of the lamp was dying away in the socket; the midnight clock swung heavily aloft, and its brazen lone sounded loudly on the frozen air; it was the hour when disembodied spirits walk, and wher* murderers, like the stealthy wolf, prowl for their prey; the lonely watcher shud> j dcred as he heard a slight poise al tfio