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TDE CONSTITIJTION ALI ST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. TERNSo T>aily, per Annum,. ,M> Tn-Weekly, per annum,....... 6 00 If paid in advance, • • •* Weekly, per annum, ** w If paid in advance, ** §£yAll new subscriptions must h® paid in advance. must be paid on all (Jorninuniraii ns a id Letters of business. iFrom the New Orleans Picayune, 9 th inst. j Later from the Uulf Squadron. TAKING OF LAGVNa. By the arrival of the prize schooner Amalio, taken off Alvarado on the 27th nit., by the U. S. steamer Mississippi, out neighbors of the Mercury yesterday re ceived later news from the squadron and an account of the taking of Laguna by Com. Perry. It seems that Com. P. arrived off that i.lace on the 20th ult., with the steamers Mississippi, Petrel, Vixen and Bonita, and the same day took possession of the place without opposition Fifteen can non were destroyed, some 900 lbs. of powder taken, and fifty soldiers disarm, ed, although the latter affected to be fa vorably disposed to the cause of the Campeachians. The latter had declar ed themselves entirely independent of Mexico, and had sent their Commission e s on the schooner Sisalnio to Corn. Conner, at Anton Lizardo, to request him to desist from any hostile measures against Yucatan, until Commissioners could be sent to the Government of the United Stales to obtain the recognition of the independence of the State. These c mmi'sioners left Anton Lizardo on the 20th, to return but the result of their | conference with Com. Conner is not : known. We happen to he among those ■ who do not altogether believe in the sin- j cerity of these Yucatanese. A double game has been played on that coast all ! summer and the inhabitants require the closest kind of watching. Our readers may recollect that we mentioned, a few days since, that a boat fiom the John Adams had made a thorough night examination of the castle of San Juan de Uloa. The officer who I bad charge of the boat, as we learn from the Mercury, was Passed Midshipman j Fitzgerald. He had eight men in his boat, with muffled oars, and in the dark- ! ness of the night rowed round and round j the castle, went under the drawbridge, entered the water battery, and made a thoiough reconnoisance of every part. — i This gallant exploit has proved that men j may be landed fiom boats at night, and that the water batteries may easily be 1 ta’cen. Com. Perry, on his return to Anton : Lizardo from Laguna, looked in at Al varado and Tabasco, and found that the fortifications of both places have been re paired and much strengthened since they 1 were attacked by the squadron. At Ta- j basco there were about three thousand . troops, and at Alvarado about four thou- ( sand. Notwithstanding these formidable j preparations, the general impression is j that Com. Conner will soon attack these places. On the arrival of Gen. La Vega at Vera Cruz on ihe 15lh, all the prisoners from the squadron in the hands of the en emy were released. If is now ascertain ed that but eleven of the crew of the Somers drifted to the main land when she was wrecked, and not sixteen, as was first stated. Midshipman Rogers was at Vera Cruz. He had been tried by the civil and military tribunals as a spy, and had been acquitted by the latter, but found guilty by the former. It was be lieved, however, that the more favorable verdict would prevail, and that lie would i be liberated. Purser Andrew I). Crosby, of the Mississippi, was accidentally killed while I entering Laguna. He was in the rig- | ging of the Vixen at the lime, assisting in piloting the vessel, says tfie Mercury, as the fidelity of the pilot (the same Mex ican who was pilot on board the Truxfon when she was lost at Tuspan,) was sus- j peeled. The vessel giving a heavy lurch j Mr. C. lost his hold and fell on the deck, | and was instantly killed. He was buried with military honors in the cemetery of I the British Consul at Laguna. The Amalio came up in charge of Passed Midshipman Barbot and a prize crew. Passed Midshipman Barbour and Chief Engineer Wood were also on board. She sailed from Anton Lizardo on the 291 h ult., and left the following vessels there T frigate Raritan (flag ship), store ship Relief, steamer Princeton, schooners Petrita, Mohonesa and La Puebla, and the following merchant vessels: bark John Barnes, brigs Albrasia, Garnet, Chinchilla, sehr. Petria, and a schooner, name unknown. The Mississippi, wiih Com. Perry on board, sailed at the same lime for Norfolk, via Havana. She goes to Norfolk to repair, and will return in a short time to the Gulf. .The John Adams was blockading Vera Cruz; the McLane and Bonita, Tabasco; and at Laguna the Vixen and Petrel were left blockadiug. A*nexlcas Proclamation I The following gasconading proclama tion of the Governor of Chihuahua, the puissant Senor Gen. Don Angel Frias, is the same of which we made mention two or three days since, but for which, until now, we could not find room. This fel low Trias, however much he pretends to burn, and however eager his zeal to en counter the “iniquitous invaders” of his sacred soil, is one of the greatest brag garts in all Mexico, a country that pro duces rare specimens. Gregg, who wrote that interesting work the “Commerce of the Prairies/ 1 had an adventure with him, in 1539, at his own hacienda, and with a force not one tenth as large as that of his illustrious excellency, frightened him en tirely out of the little wit that has been vouchsafed him. It may be looked upon as a little singular that all these Mexican generals start out burning and boiling over to meet barba'rlan invaders, yet never gel within even cannon shot of them; we can only account for it on the plea that they fire up so strongly that their zeal burns entirely out before they get in harm’s way. The very last man in all Mexico that cares about seeing Gen, Kearny is Senor General Don Angel Trias, however much desire he may man ifest, on paper, to come to buffets when afar off. We give his proclamation en tire —not for any inrqortance it may pos sess, hut as an admirable illustration of Mexican character generally, and of that of the Governor of Chihuahua in particu lar. The Governor of Chihuahua to the Van guard which is mar dung to the Fron tier of the North of the Slate: Soldiers—The iniquitous invaders of Mexico are approaching the town of El Paso, an important portion of this State, where the enemy designs to establish his quarters for the winter, or till such time as mav best subserve his ulteror designs. It is necessary that you should go forward, defenders of the glories of Mexico, to give a lesson to these pirates. The Slate had relied with confidence upon the valiant and hardy inhabitants about El Paso; but treason has succeeded in diffusing distrust among them, and the patriotic peasentry. dismayed by a con ternptible revolt, threw down their arms when they were within thirty leagues of iheenernv, who were in small force, and thus, beyond all question, the opoortuni | ty was lost of compelling Gen. Kearney j to surrender at discretion. Suhordina : lion and discipline were alone wanting t > ! our troops. It is for you to advance and re-estah lish confidence among these Mexicans, and to chastise the enemy if lie should have the audacity to set fool upon the soil of this State, enohied as it is hy the blood of the father of our independence. 1 confide in your valor, and I have only to j impress upon yon the. neceesily ot ohe- I dience to your officers and the most per j feet dL'chdine. AH the people of Chihuahua burn with | eager desire to accompany you, because i thev are all good Mexicans and are aui | mated by the highest enthusiasm and the purest patriotism. Like you, they are j eager to march at the firs' signal. Should the circumstances of the war demand it, I be as«ured that you will be supported, at ( whatever cost, by great reinforcements, j For the people of Chihuahua no sacriche ; is felt as costly w hen demanded by the honor of the Republic. The enthusiasm with which you march and the sanctity of our noble cause are | the sure presages of victory. Yes! under the guidance of the God of battles, your arms shall be crowned with success, t Thus hones your friend and companion. ANGEL TRIAS. Chihuahua, Nov. 19, ld4fl. [From the Charleston Mercury, 13/A intt.] The North and Mouth, i The recent movements of the North in Congress to ostracise the slave-holding States and’deprive them, hy law, of all share in the territory acquired by the war with Mexico, have been met on the part of the Southern members w ith a fir mness deserving the grateful appreciation of their constituents, and w ith a harmony of sentiment and determination that augurs well for the cause. Let them be assured they will he sustained hv Ihe people.— The Union of the South in this emergen, cv will save the Federal Union from a great danger. On Friday, Mr. Toombs, a VVhig Representative from Georgia, touched this question, and with ability. We quote that portion of his speech and commend it to the attention ofour readers. “And this brought him to speak for a few minutes of the pro; osition introduced bv the gentleman from New York, (Mr. Preston King.) Mr. T. did not feel that degree ot excitement on this subject which appeared toinftuence hisSouthem friends. He was prepared to meet the crisis when if should come. His own course and that of the people of the South were fixed and determined. There was no differ ence of opinion there; and he felt that, w hen united, they had nothing to fear from any quarter. Mr. T. Lad seen no thing since he had the honor of a seat on the floor of Congress so well ca’culated to disturb the peace of the country as the bill attempted to be introduced by the gentleman from New York. Had he not known that the gentleman had introduced it, he would have supposed that it might have been the work of some desperate political gamester, the webb of whose pow er was crumbling under his feet; in whose ears the triumphant shou’s of vic torious foes were yet ringing; whose friends were treacherously undermining him; and who, being determined to make one last desperate struggle for lost pow. er, was endeavoring to recruit his broken columns from the ranks of a desperate fanatical faction, whom, in the day of his power and prosperity, he had scorned and despised; in short, one who had deter mined to fire the temple of liberty, if he was not allowed to minister at its altar. But, as the gentleman from New York fathered the bill, he supposed he must dismiss from his mind these suppositions. At all events, the question had come, and Mr. T. was not certain that it had come inopportunely, if it must come at all, though he believed that the Executive and his organist, and his echoes here, might think it a very bad time. If the question was to breed mischief to the peace and safety of the country, it were belter to understand ii now, while it was capable of control. But if this element of discord and discontentment was to take a differ ent direction, it only remained that those against whom it was to be di r ected should lo< k first to the preservation of the Union, and next to their own rights. “Mr. T. was actuated in this matter by no intemperate zeal. He should indulge in no denunciations against gentlemen who were situated amidst circumstances wholly different from his own. and who clung to what they believed, however er roneonsly, to be the interest of those ter ritories to which the bill related. He pretended to no such sort of philanthropy. He did not much believe in this diffusive patriotism. He believed that the man whose love for his race did not begin at his own hearth stone, and then spread into his own neighborhood, his own State, his own section of the Union, did not love any of them half as well as himself. Mr. T. stood up first for the rights of all who in habited bis own section of this broad Union. He went for the Union as it was. If gentlemen were tired of it unless they could carry a measure which was incon sistent with the equal rights of all, let them say so. “The gentleman from Indiana, (Mr. C. B. Smi'h,) who addressed the committee some da vs since, and to whom he had listened with unmingled pleasure and satisfaction, had, in Mr, T’s. judgment, taken the ground of justice and of right. But to the gentleman who had exhibited such a newborn zeal for the acquisition of free territory, (he called it newborn, for he well remembered the time when their ‘natural allies’ in New York were pointed to as the ark of safety for South ern institutions) he might well say ‘Et fu Brute.' An attack from that quarter was, he confessed, most unexpected.— The South had once relied on these New York ‘natural allies:’ no Northern men with Southern principles; but he now perceived that, in their zeal in behalf of Southern interests, they had been actu ated only bv a desire for power and spoils. 'Then fhev could make what were now found to have been but bare and hollow, hearted concessions to those who stood firm on the of the constitution. “Rut Mr. T. would tell gentlemen, not under excitement, but as his candid opin ion, if the policy of that faction was to be adopted bv the House—lie meant it as no threat, for he scorned to threaten—the spoke it as the calm and settled conviction ol his own mind—that the men whom he represented here would take measures to provide ‘new safeguards for their future seen riiy The gentleman from New York (Mr. | Grover) asked how the South could com plain ofthe proposed proviso to accompany the admission of new territory, wh enlhe arrangement was so perfectly fair, and put the North and the South on a footing of perfect equality. The north would go there without slaves, and so could the South. Well, Mr. T. would try the prin ciple the other w f ay. Suppose the ter. ritory to be open to all: then the south could go there and carry slaves with them, and so could the North. Would not this be just as equal? [Much laugh ter, j Mr. T. said he would not answer j for the strength of the argument, but it vas as good as vvhal he got. [Renewed laughter] “The .south would remain in the Union on a ground of perfect equality with the rest of the Union, or they would not stay in it at all. They asked for honesty and honorable union; more thev did not ask, nor would they put up with less. To ask them to be content with a position of in feriority, would degrade those who made such a proposition as much as it would those who cnld accept of it. The South hsked only for even-handed justice. “Mr. T. had listened attentively to the gentlemen from Virginia and from Ala hamia, and he endorsed it all. They had faithfully represented the opinions and feelings of all who lived at the South, with fewer exceptions than there had been Tories in the days of the Revolution. Then let us put a check upon this lust of dominion. We had territory enough, Heaven knows* Why should we seek to bring in more by force of arms? Let us imorove what we had; let us cover it with an industrious, enterprising population, who should spread over its mountains and its valleys, till the widerness was subdued and covered with waving harvests. Then might we safelv defy the world in arms, and then should we at the same time exert a moral force which would spread its control over surrounding nations. But he was against this fraternizing pobev. It was too much like that pursued by the French in (he days of the Directory, whose armies came into all the weaker countries of Europe with the proposal— ‘Let us be brethren—or we’ll cut your throats.* If this was the policy to be pursued here, Mr. T. warned gentlemen that he should resist it to the uttermost. He would call upon all the people to resist it. Such a policy destroyed the Republic of Rome, and we might follow in the same path. Let us then, provide beforehand against such a fate. “The Missouri question, which to the great joy and satisfaction of the whole country had slept for a quarter of a cen tury, bad hpen raised again by the gentle man from New York. A gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Vinton) had said that the Mis. souri compromise applied only to the ter ritory we had obtained from France. This might be true. But it was the uni versal belief of the South that in that compromise she had sacrificed her right for the sake of the peace and harmony of the Union; for that territory had been open to all—as open to the men ofthe South as of the North. The North yielded nothing: it was the South which yielded that equal right which her citizens pos sessed under ihe constitution, of going wherever the laws of the Union went— wherever the American flag waved over American soil: logo with their flocks and their herds, their maid servants and their man servants. “The territory we got fromFance ran up as high as 40 deg. north; but much of the country over which their equal right extended was nnsnited to a slave popula tion, and they had been willing to make the concession for the sake of peace and of union. They yielded it to the memo, ries and associations of the past, and to brighter hopes of a glorious future; not to craven fear. That compromise grew out of no desire for Northern aid. They had no fears on the score of their ow n in stitutions. They claimed a right to slavery not under the constitution; their right was long anterior to the constitu tion, they held it under their own sover eign right. Lei gentlemen who sought to destroy it tear the constitution to atoms, and how much nearer would thev be to their object? Destroy the constitution, still the South held her slavery bv her own municipal r'~'.t Their institutions were not i:t L'S s ; itest danger—none in the world. Tnecnlv benefit the South had got from the constitution (the right to have fugitives from labor delivered up) had been lost and frittered away by men who were not able to stand up against the pressure from without, and who shrank from and evaded their duty to satisfy a faction. In some of the largest Slates, that right had been refused and fritted away against the express provision of the constitution. “But gentlemen contended that the compromise had done its work, and was now over— -functus officii. If so, then the South were entitled equally with the north to a shareof tho<e fair lands of which the gentleman from N. Y. had spoken with so much unction; and so gentlemen would find it if they should attempt to car rv out what they now proposed. Thev would find the men who had won that territory by their arms, a little harder to drive out than the Mexicans, if this Government retained it. Much of the blood hv which these territories hail been won, had flowed in Southern veins.— The volunteers of the South had been first called out. and had first marched, not because they were braver or more ready than their brethren of the North, hut merely because they were nearer to the scene of action. He knew, he chreer fnlly admitted, that men ofthe North and of the South were all equally ready, and, he would add, Whigs and Democrats too. Rut the South first marched and first bled. That was the way they had given aid and comfort to the enemy These men were there, numbers of them in California, slave-holders themselves and the sons of slave-holders; and they would not he very likely to assent to have all who held salves excluded from the soil they had won. “If gentlemen objected (o the compro mise, w hat ground had they to stand upon when thev pretended that all of the States were put upon an equal footing?— How could that be a state of equality in which the States of one-half the Union undertook successfully to say to the States of the other half, you and your people shall be driven from territory which is the property of all? Let that policy succeed, and few indeed would he found who could say that the States w ere in the Union on an equal fooling. .No, the people of the South claim the right to carry their institutions with them where ver they went; into all parts of the Re public; that they had a right to make their own laws while organized as terri lories, and when they become States, to choose for themselves whether they would have slavery or not. It was as much as the gentleman from New York would be able to do to legislate for the people im mediately around him, and for his own times, without busying himself with he people of California, and providing for future ages.’ Leave these people to act for themselves. The South claimed to stand on an equal platform with the other States. This they demanfdcd as their right, and they intended lo have it. It was only fair play, and there was no use in blinking the question. They would be degraded, and unworthy of the name of American freemen, could they con sent to remain, for a day or an hour, in a Union where they must stand no ground of inferiority, and he denied the rights and privileges which were exten ded to all others.” [From the Chronicle fy Sentinel, IDA inst.] \V ill the territory be valuable, and ought it to be acquired now? We ask this question upon the supposition that all doubts of the justice of our cause, of our right to seize and bold it, are dissipated and overthrown. Do not our readers recollect the resolution of Mr. Wilmot, which passed the House of Representatives as an amendment to Mr. Polk’s two million bill? Did not the Repre sentatives from the free States show, by pass ing that resolution, that they were opposed to any further annexation of new territory, unless slavery should be prohibited within its limits? Our readers saw,in out paper of Fri day, the substance of resolutions which were introduced into the House, on the 4th instant, having the same object in view—the rejection of any more new territory for the extension of slavery. Mr. King, of New York, moved that the special order of the day be postponed to take up his resolutions, and his motion was lost by only a single vote, yeas 88, nays 89. Is not this indicaTive that they will certainly pass when called up in regular order. There are many now living who recollect how the stormy passions of sectional inter ests were aroused to fury in 1819, on the question of the admission of Missouri into the Union. The Union then rocked to its centre. But the earthquake violence of this new discord, if the question of annexation is pressed and urged, will more than rock it— it will rend into fragments. This Union was founded upon compromise. The Constitution was the work of compro mise and patriotic forbearance. God grant that all the States of the Union, and their re spective people, may ever be prepared to listen to each other’s wants, arguments and wishes. No one section can disregard ano ther section, and treat its views with con tent t, without the danger of internal con vulsions, and perhaps civil war. Is there not reason lo believe that all of the free States, that an overwhelming majority of the people there, are utterly and irreconcileablv opposed to the acquisition of New Mexico and California, for the purpose of enlarging the area of slavery? Can l fie South ever con sent to their annexation as free States? — What then shall be done? If the justice qf our cause, if the wrongs of Mexico authorize ns to dismember her territory, ami seize and occupy it, will good policy, and the safely of the Union justify it? Will we act wisely to acquire if at an expense of from fifty to one hundred millions of dollars? Will that not he an extravagant price to pav for a political fire-brand to light up the flames of furious discord, and perhaps dissolve the Union, which all should love and cherish as the great ark of our security and freedom? Would a gracious and priceless offer of it all from Mexico, make it cheap to ns at such a sacrifice? Oh! that the people of this coun try would learn from the lessons of history the dangers of extended dominion? W ould to Heaven, that thev would reason together, harken to each others words, mutually res pect the feelings of one another, and harmon ize upon the great principles of the Constitu tion, reason and justice, before they thall be deprived of the opportunity by the vortex of National dissolution and ruin. W I o doubts that Ihe war could be closed in a few weeks, if our Government would give up the known and avowed purpose of seiz ing and keeping possession of New Mexico and California? With that object in view and persisted in, the Mexicans will not lay down their arms, till exhausted for want of means to wield them upon the field of battle. We will be waging a war, spending millions of treasure, and sacrificing thousands of lives— for what, in the name of reason? For a fiery serpent lo sting us to death? For an apple of discord to create sectional hale at home. ; and a violent disruption of all the sacred I bonds of our happv Union. Let that fatal idea be abandoned, and in a I few week peace would be restored between : tlie two belligerent Republics, and harmony, S so desirable and essential, could be preserved i between the already agitated and contend ing sections of our own. __ AUGUSTA. CEO.. i FRIDAY .MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1847. Truckliug lo Ab«lilioni»in. It is a startling position for any Southern paper, I published in a slave-holding State, to assume that this country should yield up to the enemy her ter ritorial conquests, because the non-slave-holding Slates may dissolve the Union, rather than sub mit to a further extension of slave territory. That ! such is the position taken by the Chronicle & Sen tinel, we have asserted, and we have styled it Truckling to Abolitionism. Lest unr readers should suppose that we have done injustice by that assertion, we publish entire, the remarks of 1 the Chronicle on that subject. Our readers can ! thus better judge of the propriety of the teims by j which we have characterized that position. Such an entire surrender at discretion of Southern rights | to the fell spirit of Abolitionism vve believe is un paralleled. If ilie term, Anti-Slavery prejudices, be more agreeable, we substitute it, and insist I that the Southern States w ill never submit thus | tamely to be controlled and dictated to by those Stales, which certainly have only an equal right with them in our government, its present proper ty, and its future acquisitions. The Free States bully us, and threaten to dissolve the Union, if any more slave territory he added to the Union- In other words, if all future acquisitions of territo ry, whether by conquest or by purchase, be not surrendered up to the free laborers of I lie North and West, thus excluding the Southern Stales from al participation in it, then the North and West will dissolve the Union—yea, in the panic stricken language of the Chronicle, “will rend it into frag ments.” For one, we are free to admit that the Union is valuable —is very valuahle,and should he cherished by the South. She has paid enough for it in all conscience, both in blood and treasure, to I place a high price upon it. The battle fields of the revolution, every spot by land and by sea hal- I lowed by recollections of American valour, will attest the blood it hascost the South. The heavy . i tariffs w hich have been imposed our people, j to fetter the commerce of the South with foreign 1 countries, and to build up Northern Cities at the expense of Southern labour, will furnish data to estimate the amount of money the South has paid toenjoy the privileges and blessings of the Union. Slie has paid her quota in blood and treasure for an equal share in the common property ami ac quisitions, as well as the common fame and glory of that Union. She will not abandon it for light cause. But while she remains, ir will not he on sufferance —by the gracious permission of her as sociates —as an integial, but an inferior portion of the Union. On this question the South will he united, and act as one Stale. If the free States are opposed to the institution of slavery, and re gret its recognition by the Constitution, be it so. They are entitled to their opinion. But if they assume a paramount right to prescribe to it bounds within the terri orial limits of the Union, and to say, it shall not extend into certain territory which is common property both of the free ami of the slave States, the South will submit to no such dictation. It will allow no such usurpation and ap propriation of a joint domain, to the sole use of the free Stales. If the free States threaten lo dissolve the Union, because not allowed lo dictate terms, let them do so. Let them go out of the copartner ship, and welcome. But in going they will even then have to submit to an equitable division of the public domain. In either event, whether they stay in or go out, the South will not give up her fair share of “the spoils of the vanquished.” New Mexico and California are now, by the fortunes of war American domain. They are, or are to be permanent acquisitions. No body can seriously believe that the Anglo-Saxon race vvhii h has now planted its foot there will abandon them. The Southern States have contributed their proportion, at least to obtain them- Their population will in gist on the right of settling them, in common with their fellow-citizens of other States,and will carry their institutions along with them. The Mexicans can never drive them out, even if inclined to do go. They will not allow their own countrymen to do it, who go there with no greater rights than themselves. It may in time become a matter of compromise as to a fair division of the territory between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States. But the South will not be bullied into an abandonment of the country, by the threats of the free States. The Soath yielded more than she should have done in the Missouri Compromise. She then went to the very extremity of concession. It was a grave concession, that slavery should not, under any circumstances extend North of a prescribed line; instead of that being left as it should ; have been to be governed by the option of the j citizens of the soil. The opinion of the Chronicle in favor of aban doning our newly acquired territories is harmless I only, so far as any such opinion can conduce to that result. But it is pernicious, coming as it does from a Southern print, on account of the reason assigned. The reason is that the Southern States will insist upon the right of occupying portions of those countries with their slaves, and that the Northern States threaten a dissolution of the Union, if not allowed to exclude Southern institutions, and hem the South in by a cordon of new' non slave-holding States. We ho;»e no other Southern print will shrink from the maintainance of South ern rights on this question, or cower beneath the I gasconading threats of the Anti-Slavery men and I the Abolitionists,whether they be Whigs or Demo crats. Judge (<umbioi The numerous friends of this distinguish ed and highly esteemed gentleman will re gret to learn that his physicians have advised him that his health is such as to render his resignation imperative. He will therefore, to-day, announce to the Bar his intention, forthwith to resign It is office of Judge of the Middle Circuit. Ably, impartially and with entire satisfaction to the Bar and ti e coun i try, has he discharged the duties of that high and responsible office. Many and hearilelt i will be the regrets that hts health will not i permit fhs fulfilling those duties throughout ! the entire term for which he was elected. | But his best friends cannot but feel that his 1 resignation is proper, under the circum ! stances, since it is the price nature exacts ; for the restoration of bis health. May it be the means of prolonging for many, many years, his valuable life, and of enabling him again to be as useful to his fellow-citizen 8 i as in fiis palmiest days. We have taken the liberty of announcing j in advance, the intention ot the Judge, that none who would wish to be present should lose the opporiunity of hearing his parting words on retiring from iiis present honorable position. 1 The Augusta tlannfac uriug Company— Tttir Police. j We are requested to state that the sub ! scription list to the iStock of the above Com pany, is to be found at tiie Store of Mr. John Bmies. Those desirous of subscribing have now an opportunity of doing so. This notice is given because it is under stood that this company being the first to go info operation will have various privileges accorded to it, and very properly, as to the purchase of lots, the terms of lease of the water power, and other advantages which must make this stock more valuable than iliat of other companies hereafter to be formed. | As all are now offered the opportunity of i participalmg in these advantages, by means I of this public notice, no exceptions can I fairly be taken by those declining to sub scribe, if similar privileges and facilities are not hereafter accorded to companies of ! which they may become members, it is i right and proper that the most enterprizing ! —the pioneers in tins haziness, should be most favored. S louid more Stork be subscribed for than the amount needed to complete the company, | which from the large amount, already taken ; is probable, the shares will be apportioned pro rata, to the subscribers. Theatre. We shall be pleased to welcome to Au gusta Mr. W. C. Forbes, lessee of the Au gusta Theatre, whose card appears in this day’s paper. The patrons of the drama may rely upon having an efficient dramatic corps while the theatre is under Mr. F.’s auspices. He has always conducted theatrical atfiirs here in a proper and respectable manner. He has gone to much expense hitherto to gratify public taste here, by l lie presentation of good pieces, performed by competent actors, for which he has deserved a generous support from our community. We hope it will not be withheld next week, for the past is a guar anty that it will be merited. Under Mr. Forbes’ management the thea tre lias always been an orderly place, and i the performances of a character to meet the approbation of the most refined. We hope i to see the dress circle frequently graced by tiie presence of the ladies during the season. 0“ The news from the Gulf Squadron which we publish to-day from the Picayune j of the 9th, would have been submitted to our j readers one day earlier, as it was contained in the N. O. Evening Mercury of the Bth.—. But that number of the Mercury did not j come to hand. We shall always regret the non arrival of j that enterprising sh£et, for it contains usual j ly the latest news from Mexico, It is a new paper, published by (J. W. Jones and C. R. Sessions. j Mr. Jones was formerly one of the con ductors of the N. O. Bulletin. Col. Bankhead, Commander of the 2d Regi ment of Artillery, passed through our city on Wed nesday evening last, on his way to Mexico, to take command of his Regiment. to your Store*. An attempt was made, on Wednesday night, to break into the store of Messrs. Turpin & Barnes, by boring the hark window and removing the J bolls; but the burgler failed after two attempts, . both brought to a stand by the iron plating inside, and being evidently alarmed, dropped his auger and decamped. Oar citizens should be on the look out. The Massachusetts Regiment of Volun teers for service in*Mexico was complete on Saturday with the exception of one company, and it was to be mustered into service on that day.