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[From the Louisville Journal. J
To n Mtep-C'hiltl .
Thou art not mine—the golden locks that cluster
Round thy broad brow—
Thy Line eyes with their soft and liquid lustre,
And cheek of snow—
E'fenthe stiange sadness or; thy infant features
Blending with love—
Are hers w hose‘mournful eyes seem sadly bending
On her lost dove.
Thou art not mine—upon thy sweet dtp lingers
Thy mother’s smile—
And while 1 press thy soft and baby fingers.
In mine the w hile—
tn the d -ep eyes so trust fully upraising
Their light to mine—
-4 deem the spirit of thy mother gazing
To my soul’s shrine.
They ask me with their meek and soft beseeching
A mother’s care —
They ask a mother’s kind and patient teaching—
A mother’s prayer.
Not mine—yet dear to me; fair fragrant blossom
Ot a fair tree.
Crushed to the earth in life’s first glorious summer.
Thou art dear to we.
Child of the lost, llte buried, and the sainted,
I call thee. mttlC—
Till fairer still with tearsand sin untainted.
Her home he thifie.
[From the New Orleans Fu nyune, Bth ins’ l.J
Tampico.
Everything relating to Tampico, and
indeed Tamaulipas, must be interesting
to the public. VV« have the means of
furnishing much statistical intelligence
concerning the country, vvitfeb we shall
publish at an early day. The resources,
soil, climate, productions and prospects
ot this new acquisition, art? matters of
general interest in themselves, and will
become more so in case the country
should remain permanently in the pos
session of the United Slates.
At present we must content ourselves
with publishing the following letter from
a foreigner, resident at Tampico, of the
’highest respectability. It will be seen
that ho discusses the annexation question
with freedom and without prejudice. As
an indication of the wishes of the foreign
residents in this regard, the opinions of
the writer might be a safer criterion than
they are of the disposition of the native
and Mexican population. He predicts a
destiny for the Mexican nation which
many profess to foresee. His observa
tions on this head must pass for what they
are worth. We repeat that the writer is
a man of character—a European who
has long resided in Tampico.
[Correspondence of the Picayune.]
Tampico, Dec. 2sth, 1846.
]\lessrs. Editors .---This city, occu
pied hut a few weeks by the American
forces, has already changed its aspect.
Theie prevails an unusual activity nev
er dreamed of before. Public order and
t ranquillity urc every where visible. Pro.
visions are abundant, ami at low prices;
such articles as the inhabitants were for
ruerly deprived of, now daily arrive from
New Orleans, and those that the country
affords come into market with the same
regularity and as plentifully as hereto
fore.
The Mexican people, in spite of their
natural indolence—in spite of their blind
haired to all that is foreign—cannot in a
short time fail to acknowledge the advan
tages which they will derive from the
civilization and liberal institutions of the
United States, although these be trans
mitted by an armed invasion offensive to
their national feelings and pride. Pub
lie officers, civil and military, may com
plain, but they no doubt will he the only
Mexicans that will not be benefited by a
change of nationality. The laboring
class will always have employment and
lair salaries, joined to cheap food and
cheap clothing. House rent will prove
a good income to proprietors; hut above
all the land proprietor, almost reduced
under the Mexican administration to
starvation, will find himself opulent and
wealthy.
How could they have been so long
blind to these blessings? The people
tremble at the idea of the return of Mex
ican power here, and it is only when they
perceive that the Government of the Uni
ted States has firmly established its do
minion over their territory that they will
venture to breathe their real feelings.
This the Government at Washington
should do at once : declare that the terri
tory occupied by the American troops be
longs to the American nation, and im
plant, inasmuch as it can safely be done
for the present, the laws and institutions
of the United States, and so prepare tfie
Mexican population to become American
citizens. Is it not in the human destiny
that at some future period Mexico will be
invaded by the Anglo-Saxon race? Why,
Ihen, since a proper conjunction offers,
not avail ourselves of it, and anticipate
the work of posterity, sparing further
bloodshed and heavy expenditures, to at
tain an object which is just at the point
of their bayonets? Now that the war
has been pushed so far, the Sierra Mad re
should be the limits of the two Republics
—Tampico, in the Gulf of Mexico, Ma
zatlan, ou the Pacific, must be the bul
warks of American dominion. Let the
rest of the country belong to Mexico.
Let its Government be ever so obstinate,
let it be ever so vain or boasting, it must
call (or peace, de[ rived of its riciiest pro
vinces and of all pecuniary resource; but
let it be at once curtailed of the northern
part of the country, as far as the line we
have just discribed, ami let that part be
from this very moment an integral one ot
American Union. 1 have gone far fiom
my previous object; my intention was
solely to speak of Tamaulipas and more
particularly of the city of Tampico.
'Phis Slate of Tamaulipas, bordering
upon Texas, is, of the Mexican territory,
ihat which mostdeservesthealtentionofthe
American statesman. Its possession will
complete that of Texas,and to say the truth
Tamaulipas cannot exUt unless annexed
to the United Slates. Its greatest extent
is on the sea shore, or little in the inte
rior; its ground is level, and easy culti
vated. At both of its extremities is a
beautiful river, the Rio Bravo and the
Panuco, which American industry would
render navivable to a great distance. It
might, perhaps, contain two millions of
inhabitants, although in our days it is re
duced to fifty or sixty thousand. The
different produce which might be cultiva
ted in its fertile soil—such as tobacco,
cotton, sugar cane, coffee, &c.—would
render it one of the richest State, of the
Confederation, and under all circum
stances it is a possession worthy of envy.
Tampico is i's principal port and its
principal city. This is where all foreign
goods consumed in the inferior of the
country must arrive, and with a liberal
law of customs this place would in a few
years count ten times the number of its
present inhabitants. Its population is
mostly foreign, and of all Mexican cities
tliis is the most ready lo ieceive American
institutions.
It would he desirable that from this
very moment the United States should not
he satisfied with its military possession;
doubtless there is an anomaly in tbe ex
istence of two such ditferent powers—
hostile, we may say, one 10 the other.
Authority, under all its shapes, should he
American- —municipal and judicial, as
well as military—and it is only then that
the benefits of in vasion will be felt by all
parties. All this bears, a wonderful in
terest. Tampico, during the war, is des
tined bv its position to be the depot and
general quarters of aggression; in peace,
let its solution be what it may, it is a key
to Mexic‘o, afid a security which it might
he imprudent to give away—it is, or might
become, the Gibraltar of the Gulf of Mexi
co! Let the people and the Government
of the United Slates reflect over this.
[From the Mobile Advertiser. ]
Celebration of New V. ai’» JEve.
As usual in this City, New Year’s Eve
was a stirring season. At as early an
hour as eight o’clock the streets, especially
Royal and those in the vicinity, began
lo be thronged by citizens and strangers.
Bv nine o’clock the assemblage must have
numbered thousands—and all these m ihe
open streets, apart from those who were
looking forth from the houses and build
ings adjacent. It was a warm and a
moonlight night, thus affording additional
inducements and facililes for wondcr
seeking—and all this vast throng were
out, seeking the expected wonders of the
season. Os these strange sights we will
proceed to give a brief sketch, which shall
be truthful as far as our observation at
the lime of their appearance will enable
us to draw the picture.
The Cow-Bell ion De Bakin Society , a
secret and mysterious brotherhood, that
makes its advent publicly but once in a
twelvemonth, and that ou New Year’s
Eve, is the first to claim notice. This
fraternity is of quite an ancient origin. It
can be traced back, we are told, some
fifty or sixty years, to old Spanish times,
though probably then it had not been
brought into any very exact order or dis
cipline. In its present form, we infer, it
has existed for sixteen years, as we ob
served on one of the banners the inserp.
lion, “16f/t Anniversary .” The members
are unknown, always appearing in public
in masks, and under such disguises as to
defy all efforts at recognition. As these
anniversaries approach, there are, as
might be expected, a thousand prying
eyes about, seeking to fix an individuality
ujxni this one or that, or to discover the
mystic den from which this legion of
masquers will issue forth; but generally,
all scrutiny of this sort, we believe, has
been fruitless. This year, we are well
assured, public expectation, as to the spot
where they would first be discovered, was
entirely in the dark. While curious eyes
were fleering, now up or down this street
or that, now around this square or that,
a strange cavalcade, a ghostly looking
multitude, mounted on milk white steeds,
came prancing into the city, from the
direction of Choctaw Point or the Bay
Road. They were preceded by a fine
band of music, seated in an open carriage,
drawn by four milk white horses. The
procession, extending some two squares
in length, numbering some 70 horsemen,
riding three abreast, hud ambled its way
so noiselessly that it reached almost to
the heart of the city, before discovered,
when the apparition was made public by
a burst of music from its full and efficient
band.
Often as tin's fraternity has appeared, it
would be supposed a difficult matter to
have something new on each occasion.
Yet such has been the case for at least
sixteen years. It was a novel sight to see
them mounted —and then lo see such a
multitude all bestriding white steeds. The
wonder was, where could such a number
of horses all of one color be obtained, and
then congregated without attracting notice,
or exciting suspicion. It was truly an
imposing spectacle—the most so, taking it
in all its accompaniments, its illuminated
banner and other unique appointments,
that the society ever yet made.
The fraternity represented this year
some of the most distinguished warriors
of ancient and modern times. Each war
rior had his group of attendants, all clad
and armed in the style of the age and na
tions they prefigured. These characters
and their followers were attempted to be
represented in statuary, and the attempt
was as completely successful as it was
possible lo triage animated forms appear
like inanimate. Hence the dresses of the
masquers were of snowy whiteness from
head to fi>ot, and even in their counte
nances there wasthevery look of chiselled
marble itself. The silence, maintained
with scrupulous care wherever the throng
moved, aided the illusion, and it needed
no great stretch o t the imagination to
fancy the pageant, as it passed in review
before us, to be a legion of mounted sta
tuary.
The first warrior in the retinue was
Cyrus the Persian—the last was Bolivar
of our own times. Cyrus and his follow,
ers appeared in a chariot drawn by while
horses. The banners designated the
principal acts and battles in which the
characters represented were conspicuous
—and were disposed as follows; (1) 'Pa
king of Babylon 560 before Christ—Cy
rus, the Persian. (2) Battle of Grani
cus, 320 B. C. Alexander, the Macedo
nian. (3) Battle of Cannae, 190 B. C.
Hannibal, the Carlhageinian. (4) Rattle
of Capha rsolarna, 160 B.C. Judas Mac
cabees, the Judea n. (5) Homan Consul,
44 B.C. Cccsar. (6) Siegeof Aqniliea,
A. D. 462. Attila, the Hun. (7) 'Fa
king of Jerusalem, A D. 1139. Sala
din. the Saracen. (3) Battle of A sea lon,
A I). 1192. Richard, “Couerde Lion.”
(9) Rattle of Tangut, A. D. 1225. Gong
his Khan, the Mongul. (10) Battle of
Stirling, A- D. 1297. Wallace, the Scot,
. (11) Battle of (Jtnrnha, A. H. 1521.
Cortez, the Spaniard. (12) Battle of'[’or
gan, A. D. 1753. Frederic the Prussian.
(13) Battle of Yorktown, A. I). 1781.
Washington, the North American. (14)
Battle of Aiisterlitz, A. D. 1805. Napo
leon, the Frenchman. (15) Battle of
Cara hobo, A. I). 1322. IGlivar, the
South American.
Such Was this most formidable array,
and it was a spectacle of brilliancy and
grandeur exceeding any exhibition of the
kind ever witnessed in the city. We did
not follow the mystic groups to their places
of feasting, cr the halls of reception and
merriment, but we learn everything went
off pleasantly and orderly, till a late hour
in the night, w the company vanished
as magically as it had appeared.
The Strikers, is another association of
masquers of more recent origin, this be
ing, if we mistake not, only its third An
niversary in its present organized form.
Us appearance was really excellent, and
there w as so much of history in its repre
sentations that we feel disposed to give
them more than a passing notice; but as
we have already filled a large space with
the history of the Cow-Bells, we must de
fer the description till to morrow. They
deserve a niche in the gallery, and them
selves and the public shall be gratified.
[From the Charleston Mercury, 12 th inst. J
Tlic War and Wur-Taxe*.
We known of nothing more extraordi
nary, in the way of Slatemanship, than
the course of the great body of the De
mocratic Party from the North and West,
with respect to the Mexican w ar. They
were furious for a war with England on
the Oregon question; and then when a
collision w ith Mexico occnrred, —with a
precipitancy, never before heard of or
witnessed, as if afraid to trust themselves
with reflection,—they plunged headlong
into a war. Well, the war has certainly
gone on as successfully as could reasona
| bly have been anticipated. Our army
j has not needed soldiers; our treasury has
not needed money. An empire has fall
en into our possession, after a series of
military exploits on land and sea, which
must add to our reputation among all
I the nation of the earth. Surely now, ac
cording to all priciples which govern
men, furious war makers, who
pushed on the war, will sustain the Ad
ministration, and the measures it recom
mends, to enable it to continue the pro
secution of the war. Yes—certainly,
they sustain it—in one way. They chide
the Whigs for being, as they assert, op.
posed to it. Yet in action, they agree
entirely with the Whigs as to the means
of carrying it on. They will not vote
the tax on 'Pea and Coffee, which the Se
cretary of the Treasury says is necessa
ry to negotiate a loan. They refuse,
with the Whigs, to alter or modify the
Independent Treasury Act, very proper
it its arrangements, when the Govern
ments is merely receiving the taxes
through the customs and paying it out
again in its ordinary operation, but entire
ly, unsuited without modification, to the
emergency of war, when the Government
is to he a large borrower. By ibis means
they render it impossible for the Govern
ment to obtain money on loan, except at
an usurious interest, which Congress
will never authorize. If this is the case,
as is distinctly set forth by the Secretary
of the Treasury, we should like to know
how these Democrats differ from the
Whigs, in their opposition to the war. In
words they differ a little—hut in policy
they are identical. Both are working to
bring the war to an end, and that in the |
most disgraceful way. The army is to
be left a prey to the enemy or to disease,
without supplies or munitions of war.—
They must move ors, under such circum
stances, to fall ingloriously; or they must
retreat to this side the Rio Grande, and
surrender all the country we have ac- ,
quired. If such is to he the result, we
think while pursuing such a line of poli
cy, these Democrats might spare the
Whigs, and the Whigs might spare the
Democrats, the further discussion of that
nice point of political casuistry—which
of them do most “give aid and comfort”
to the enemy. They are all opposers of
the war—opposers of the Administration
—and the very best friends of the Mexi
cans.
As to the contemptible argument
against taxing lea and coffee—because
the poor consume it as well as the rich
—we would ask these sticklers for the
interests of the poor, where was your hu
mane zeal, when in the late Tariff Bill
the sugar which sweetens the tea and col
fee, was taxed thirty per cent? Where
were you, when salt was taxed? W here
was vnur tender consideration for the
poor, when his flannel, his blanket, his
woollen—his coarse cotton shirting—all
of which the rich never consume at all,
was taxed twenty-five and thirty percent?
And how much more iron and coal does
the millionaire use, than the poorest of
the poor. He does not handle axes and
ploughs. A single fire-place warms his
richly carpetted and curtained saloons. —
Yet all these taxes you have voted for—
nav! denounced them as entirely too low; |
vet when a tax by no means as exclusive
ly operating on the poor, —in the midst
of war, —a war of your creation —a war
you affect to approve of and support, —
is asked for by the Administration, you
talk about the poor! The truth is, there
are no poor properly speaking, who con
sume tea and coffee. These are to all in
tents and purposes luxuries, which the
poor cannot consume. The great bulk
of the people who drink tea and coffee,
can just as well allbrd to pay a lax on
them, as on any other article ofconsump
lion. Taxes to support Government,
must be upon those things which the peo
ple generally consume. The rich are
few. The only way they can he reached,
is to abolish the Tariff altogether, and
raise the revenue to support the Govern
ment by direct taxes on property and
incomes. If these men, Democrats or
Whigs, will and vote for such
taxes, we shall better understand their
patriotism —and better appreciate their
lender solicitude for the poor.
[ From the N. I'. Globe, Jan. 9. j
The Imlepcu.leut Treasury—How il Ope
rates.
The clause of the Independent Treasury
law which provides fur the collection and dis
bursement of Government funds in specie,
took effect on the first day of January inst.—
As the Whigs predicted that all kinds of em
barrassments and difficulties were to attend
its operation, and as some of the Whig pa
pers of this city have seen fit to misrepresent
its operation in New York, and who are
charged with its administration here, we have
taken pains to ascertain the actual condition
of matters, so far as relates to the Assistant
Treasurer’s department.
It appears that from Monday to Thursday
of last week, (the la-d four days before the
specie clause took effect,) the amount paid
into the Assistant Treasurer’s office in this
city, was $30,000. From Monday to Thurs
day of this week, in the same number of days,
under the specie regulation, the amount re
ceived in goid and silver com, was $123,000,
being an increase of over three hundred per
cent.
There have been already, as wo are in
formed, several unmanly attempts made to
embarrass the Treasurer, by making pay
ments in the kinds of coin that will lake liie
most time or give the most trouble in count
ing. For example, in one day $74 were paid
in with half dimes, by a single individual; in
other Cases, agents of some of the Wall si reel
brokers, have brought large quantities of the
smallest denomination of specie, and foreign
coin of almost every description. On Thurs
day about $50,000 were received in various
kinds of com; and yet the Treasurer has had
no difficulty, as he assures us, in getting
along with these receipts, and the legitimate
business, with the aid of two clerks.
Masouic,
We understand that the Grand Master of
Freemasons of South Carolina, has just grant
ed a dispensation to some 61 the officers, of
the Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers, to
hold a travelling lodge in that regiment, dur
ing its time of service in Mexico, the great
number of Freemasons in the regiment ma
kin«- such a measure highly convenient to
these patriotic brethern ot the “mystic lye.”
Lodges ot this kind are, we are informed,
by no means uusual in the Masonic family.
Many regiments in the British and other
Europeon armies are supplied with them,
and such was also the case during the revo
lutionary war among the American troops.—
It has also been stated to us upon good author
ity, and it may interest our Masonic readers to
know, that one of the lodges working in this
city, derives its existence from a travelling
warrant granted to a regiment in the army of
the Duke of Marlborough in Flanders, a cen
tury and a half ago. Some of the officers hold
ing the warrant came over to this country
and permanently located the lodge in this
city, where it has ever since remained.—
Charleston News.
Both the Northern and Western Mails due
came through yesterday.
The steamer Gladiator brought the regu
lar Northern Mail, and from passengers we
learn the cause of the failure yesterday. It
appears that tfie steamer Vanderbilt left W il
mington at 5 P. M. on Sunday, came down
to Smilhville, and as the tide was too low to
admit of her crossing the bar, remained there
until 11 o’clock, when she started, but en
countering a log, put back, and left again at
6 o’clock on Monday morning, a strong S.
W. breeze blowing. At half past 10 it was
found that she had sprung a leak u*ider her
guards, and made so much water that she
could not be kept free by the pumps. This
being the case, the Captain most judiciously,
determined to put back, and the boat was
soon after freed by the pumps, the change of
course altering the position of tlie boat, and
consequently preventing her from making so
much water. About 4 o’clock in the after
noon the Vanderbilt met the Gladiator com
ing down the river, and placed the passen
gers and mail on board her, and the latter
boat reached here early yesterday morning.
The steamer Gov, Dudley boing, as we
learn, repairing at some Northern port, the
Wilmington undergoing repairs at VVihning
■ ton, and the Vanderbilit certainly unseaworlhy
unless thoroughly overhauled, the Gladiator
is the only boat in service. With tiiese tacts
before us, we can expect no mail this day.
We trust that the Company will at once
charter boats to keep up the connexion, and
not suffer any interruption of the mail beyond
what must naturally occur from uncontrol
lable circumstances. — Charleston Courier
31 th ull
Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of tfie Sate of Georgia
—present, Judges Lumpkin, Nesbit and
Warner, yesterday commenced their first sit
ting in Savannah. There are, we understand
buTfevv cases for the Court 4 to decide at the
present term, and these not being fully pro
pared for argument yesterday, the Court ad
journed to meet again this forenoon at ten
o’clock. Uuc of the cases brought before it
from the county of Bulloch, we understand,
involves an interesting question as to the
admissibility of a paper writing, conveying
certain real and personal estate. The ques
tion i s —whether the instrument is a deed or
will?|and whether the same caiqbe admitted
in evidence without probate? We retrain
from any remarks in relation to so in
teresting a question. The following gentle
men were yesterday admitted as Attorneys
and Counsellors of said Court:
Joseph W Jackson, Ilobt. 11. Griffin,
Andrew M. Webster, Win. F. Law, Alex'r R
Lawton, Chas. S. Henry. John W. Owens,
John M. Clark, Edward J. Harden, Henry
Williams, Francis S. Marlow, Jas. H. Mc-
Henry.— Savannah ( » eorgian , \'2th ins/.
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AUGUSTA. GEO
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 14, 1847.
iLi We keep back until to-morrow an edi
torial which we bad written (or to-day, on
ibe subject of extension of slavery into the
conquered territories of New Mexico and
California, We shall then have the plea
sure of submitting so much of the Hon. Ro
bert Toombs’ recent speech as relates to ,
that subject. We are pleased to hud him
standing up so firmly and manfully for South
ern rights. He exhibits no inclination 'o
abandon those rights because Northern fa
natics threaten disunion.
(CrThe Can phi.' has been in keen pursuit
for some time past, intervals of re.spite,
to find out inconsistences with which to con
vict the Constitutionalist, It seems to think
it has discovered one, or would at least have
its readers think so, judging from an edito
rial in its columns of the 12ih inst. headed
i ‘‘lnconsistencies of the Constitutionalist.”
| We have but a few words in reply. When
j the Chronicle will point out any act or acts
: of General Kearney approved by us in Octo
ber last, as being in accordance with the law
of nations, and now disapproved by us be
cause they are not in accordance with the
law of nations, then it may charge us with
inconsistency on this subject—it it please,
with contradiction. But our subsequent stric-
I tures upon acts oT Kearney which
we in October upheld, was grounded, not dti
{ his having violated international law, but on
| his having transcended his instructions.
We are asked, how do we know the fact
| that he did transcend his instructions? We
> answer that we have the authority of the
President of the United (Stales, for the as
sumption. Until Gen, Kearney takes issue
on that point, we will assume that to be a
fact.
The contest in October last, between the
Chronicle and ourself, which w'e have no
reason to regret, relative to the acts of Gen
eral Kearney was to the point, did he assume
authority and exercise acts ot dominion over
New^Mcxico, that eid not appertain to a cou-
•according to the law of nations?
The’(Chronicle asserted that he did. We
contended that lie did not. That was the
issue. We have not committed the incon
sistency of asserting, since then, that .he did
exercise authority over that conquered pro-
Iviuce not authorized by tiie Law of Nations
We think the Chronicle may again be fairly
I considered as having found “a mare’s nest.”
i 1 ’s researches alter inconsistencies are about
equal to its efforts to show that the Editor of
this paper holds political opinions now, differ
ent from those he entertained in 1840. We
presume that success would have been doubly
gratifying, upon the principle that misery
loves company.
O’A letter received in this city from a
1 member o( the Richmond Blues,“dated Camp
Allen, Dec. 13th, slates that the company
I and regiment were in high spirits, and rnak
| ing preparations to leave the next day for
1 Victoria. The regiment would start with
about 510 men —13 of the Blues would be
left behind under Corporal Guidron, with
light chills and lever. The writer mentions
i »*
that Ringgold, Wheeler, Wright and Conk
! 1 iii have recovered, but were still too feeble
to bear arms. He also mentions Gapt. Dill,
! Lieuts. Phinizy and McLaws, William and
| Alexander Philip, David McMurphy, and Ro
bert Musgrove, as well, and in fine spirits.
O’ The following from a tri-w'eekly sub
scriber, is a specimen of many similar
complaints which vve are in the habit from
time to time of receiving. We shall adopt
the plan of publishing every such letter
where the w ? iiter does not object to it, in
the hope that this will have more effect than
editorial paragraphs on the subject.
Whoever holds an office should consider
himself bound to discharge its duties with
equal fidelity, whether he be w>ell or ill paid
i for his trouble. The paper is regularly mail
ed from this office.
THOMASTON, GA. Jan. 12,1817.
To James Gardner, Jr., Esq.
Dear (Sir: As the editor >of the Conslitu- 1
tionalist, 1 address you to complain of the
non-reception of the Constitutionalist I have
received but two papers since the 29th of
December. Where the fault is I know not,
but many fiere believe it to be at Barnesville.
It is said the Post .Master at Barnesville has
too much to do for the compensation he re
ceives and consequently much is neglected.
Very respectfully.
Kr It gives us great pleasure to present to our
readers the communication signed “A Union
Man.” It is from the pen of a gentleman in one
of the interior counties of our State. This tribute
to the gallantry of the officers of the army from the
Northern States, w ill meet a hearty response front
every generous mind, and from none more warmly
than from the people of Georgia. We do not be
lieve that they could ever stop to inquire the birth
place of any of those heroic men whose deeds have
reflected new lustre upon the American name,
before they awarded their meed ofpnise to their
conduct. Admiration of gallant actions is the in
stinctive impulse of every heart not dead to
pubic tmoiUous. ft never pauses to listen to mi.
worthy jealousies before paying the tribute, and
will promptly discard an after thought that would
mar the force of that tribute. e do not believe
that the author of the letter vve published, fora mo
ment contemplated individual injustice, to a single
brother officer, who bail won laurels in our present
contest. We know him well, and know him to
he incapable of a thought that could impugn his
own honorable nature. Our correspondent proba
bly places the true, as it is the liberal construction
upon the exceptionable expression in a letter,
which vve will remark, was not written for publi
cation. It was the expression, in the course of a
frank communion with one near and dear to the
writer, of a feeling that great injustice had been
done to distinguished Southern chivalry, when
circumstances had recently placed it in the power
of the South to exhibit a very remarkable number
of individual instances of gallantry. It was a
natural pride that induced the writer to speak of
the fact. It was no evidence of a disposition to
do injustice to the few Northern {officers who had
also distinguished themselves, that the writer al
luded to the disproportion in nu nbers. He would
not withhold fur a moment due credit for gallant
actions whether performed by a brother officer,
from any section of the Union. Nor did he insin
uate that a want of gallantry had been exhibited
1 by any portion of them. The insinuations and
I charges against Southern valour, and against dis
tinguished Southern officers had come from the
North, it was a natural suggestion to answer the
imputation by contrasting the number of conspi
cuous instances of gallantry from the two sections,
and if a little chagrin was to be seen peeping out,
arising from a sense of injustice done, the South
by Northern papers, it will not be severely criti
cised when it is remembered that iHe letter writer
was not the aggressor.
Our correspondent does ns no more than justice
in acquitting us of all desire to foment sectional
jealousies, or to widen the breach between the
North and the South. It is very certain that no
one is more ready to honor the great and the gallant
men of our country with an enthusiasm wholly re
gardless of sectional limits. Their fame is the
common property oftlie wtiols Country, and every
citizen should feel licit lie is a recipient of its ben
efit, and lias Ins share in the duty of defending it.
However widely vve may differ in opinion from
those whose fame is historical, ami has shed lustre
upon our country’s annals in thi-ir civil career, vv©
should be among tiie last to wish that that. lustre
might have been le j -°. bright. However proud vve
may be of the gallantry of our southern soldiery,
we can never forget that in every war, and upon
every battle plain, northern valor also has been
conspicuous, and has thrown around the American
nameahalo that must be immortal.
IfijT The Savannah papers * .be 12th inst.,
announce the death of John \V. Long, Esq ,
one uUlhe oldest merchants of that city.
Tiie Nfcvv Vork i*rcN».
The eleventh edition of a pamphlet called
ihe “Rich Men of New York City.” has been
published in New York. Jl has a charming
title. The following newspaper proprietors
and editors make a figure in this fascinating
brochure:—
Beach, M. Y., of the Sun, $300,000
Bennett, J. G., of the Herald, 100,000
Hale, David, of the Jour, of Com., 150.000
Hall, Francis, of the Com. Adv., 155,000
Halleck, Girard, <>f tlie Jour, of Com., 150,000
Morse, S. E , of the Observer, lUO.OOO
Proprietor of the Evangelist, 100,000
Me El rath, T., of tiie Tribune, 100,000
Finding the press so well represented
among the hundred thousand men, we next
looked for the authors, ami find but two, viz:—
Stephens,J. L., author of Incidents of
Travel, SIOO,OOO
Verplanck, Gillian C., editor of Shak
speare, 200,000
But, according to the authority of the N.
Y. Mirror, the newspaper men made lheir
own fortunes, w hile the am hors inherited
theirs—from which we conclude that news
paper publishing is more profitable than writ
ing books.
The publishers of books are not much
more numerous in this list than the authors
— the following are all that we could find: —
Appleton, L>. $10».000
Wiley, John, lOOjKK)
Huntington, F. J., IUO,OOO
Paine, John, 200,000
Harpers, 500,000
There are numerous paper sellers, and
type makers, but these are not exactly litera
ry men, although their profits are chiefly de
rived (rum tiie labors of iitcratcurs.
Mr. M’Kuy. from the Committee of Ways
and Means, reported to the House of Repres
entatives on Saturday, the following bills,
which were read twice, and referred to the
Committee of the Whole on the state of the
Union. For the support of the Army—(or
the supply ol 1 ndian appropriations and Indian
annuities—for the support of the Navy fur the
year ending J une 3d, 1817.
The sums appropriated by these bills are
as follows:
Army proper $fi,813,373 217
Volunteers 22,725,131 00
Navy 8,920,204 49
Indians 1,179,324 00
$39,038,232 74
Seven companies of the Massachusetts
regiment of volunteers have been already
organized. The remaining companies are
in a stale of forwardness.
[COMMI’N ICATKI* ]
PUTNAM COUNTY, Jan. li, 1847.
Mr. Editor— Knowing, from your reputation,
that you are not the man wilfully to do injustice to
any one, and especially to {any one who may
have left bis home, and is now in an enemy's land
fighting the battles of his country, I make bold to
address yon a few lines, calling your attention to
some remarks of your own in an editorial, just
preceding the publication of a letter from tha Ar
my, in your paper of the filh inst., in which you
speak of the manly style of that letter, and the
justness of many of its views, and saying that you
were reluctant to suppress any portion of it.
Now what I complain of is this:—ln that letter
such a statement as the following is to be found
‘“Our memory has to he taxed w here we are called
to name the heroes of the North, either regimen
tally or personally;” and that your remarks might
lead many of your renders to suppose that you
sanctioned it, which, I believe, was very far from
your intention. Nor do 1 believe the gallant sol
dier who penned that letter, spoke in that state
ment the feelings of ids heart when freed from a
sense of indignation aroused by the base and false
reports in circulation against the brave Rntler.—
No mailer who put those reports in circulation, no
, one belived them,and no where are the merits of
Taylor, Butler, Quitman, Davis, McClupg,
f