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' THE CONSTIT UTIGNALI ST. J A JVIJE S GARDNER, JR. T K ii gi s . Daily, per annum, «S 00 Tn-vV eekly, per unr.Gui, o ve If paid in advaiu-e j OO V\ tekiy, per annum, 0 Oj If paid in ailvance.... bJ new subscriptions ran»l he paid in advance. aiust ne paid on all Co.mnuiucau ns and Lecers of business. i rnmmmmmamtmmmmmmm am 11 ■ n -ajaat [From (he Home Journal j PKMlii Aioay llcadiug* of Aew l*ocTy. "My love is like the moon—'■eems now to j:ruw, And now to lessen; hm ’tisonlvso Because them cat.si not see it all at once.” '“Our lif- Is come ! y as a whole; vet mix’d. Like roii crown ringlets with o.ld hairs all gold. We women have four sea? . ■ \<» the year. Our tip a ng is in our !i ... girlish days. When the heart lane! - v n us fur sheer joy; Ere yet we know w or tins p.iia (if being loved h. th whom ue love not. MEH is ihrii we love and are beloved. And seems short; irom iis very splendour seems To pass the quickest; crowned uit It da we: s u flies. ABTCMS v\ hen some \' ,lj ng tiling with tiny bands, And rosy cheeks, and il ».■>.-y tendril! d locks, Is wantoning about os day and night. And Winter is when these we love have per ish’d; For the heart ices then.” “My life with thee la like a song, and the sweet auric thou, Vv I ich doth accompany it.” “Words are like sea->bells on 1 lie snore; they show Where the mind ends, and not how far u Inis been.” “lie shall come With light to which the lightning shall he shadow, And the sun sadness —borne upon a car. With wheels of burning worlds, within whose rims Whole hells burn, and beneath whose course the stars Dry up, like dew-drops.” ♦ * * * • * “The hard’s aim is to give its thoughts : his art Lieth in giving them as bright as may he. And even vv hen their looks are earthy, still Jf opened, like geodes, they may he found Full of all sparkling, sparry loveliness. They should he wrought, not cast; like temper’d steel, Burned ami cooled, burned and cooled again. Let every thought, too,soldier-like he stripp’d And roughly looked over. The dress of words, Like to the Roman girl’s enticing garb, Should let the play of limb be seen thro’ it, And the round, rising form. A mist of words. Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge The seeming size of thought, make the. light less, (ireat bards toil much and most, hut most at first. Ere they can learn to concentrate the soul For hours upon a thought.” * * * * * * “Write to tlie mind and heart, and let the ear Cilean after what it can. The voice of great Or graceful thoughts is sweeter far than all Word music. .Never he in haste in writing. Let that thou interest be of natures flow, Not art’s—a fountain’s, not a pump’s. But once Begun, work then all things unto thy work, And set thyself about it, as the sea About earth, lashing at it day and night. And leave the stamp of thine own soul in it, A« thorough as the fossil flower in clay. Believe thou art inspired, and thou art. The men of mind are mountains, and their heads Are sunn’d long ere the rest of earth. 1 would Be one such.” + ***♦* “I did not make myself, nor plan my soul How am I an«werahle for my heart ? !t is ray master and is free with me, Its laws tyrannic—l obedient. Fresh as a spouting spring upon the hills -My heart leapt out to life; —it little thought Os all the vile cares that would rill into n. Auo the low’ places it would have to thread ” ♦ ♦ ♦ * * • “Could we hut think with the intensity We love with, we might do great tilings, I think.” * * * * * * ‘‘ltissad sep otir light of beauty wane away; Feel odr eyes dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing t heir spring, and limbs their lily mnmlness; But it is worse M feel our heart-spring gone— To lose hope—car** mu for the coming thing— And feel all going to decay w t hin ns, A* ’ Ivvere our life’s eleventh month.” * * * It is no task for suns Toshine, ffe knew him-eifa hard ordained— Feeling himself, iike an electric rod, A lure tor lightning feelings. And he was, As are all hards, a being born of beauty; And with a nat ura I Illness to draw down All tones and shades mid beauty to his soul; E’en as the rainbow-tinted shell, which lies Miles deep at the bottom of the sea, ye.t hath Colours of skies and flowers.” [ From the Hamburg Republican, 20 th inst.] The l*alaictto Regiment again. Some weeks hack ahoul the lime when part or a potlion of this regiment were in Chat an accusation was made bv the Constitutionalist !hat the soldiers had to “lav the first night on tlie colt! ground, without even a blanket or even etraw. This was contradicted upon tlie testimony ol one .1. W. Nobles, who had just returned from Charleston “nil cov. pred with glory,” who sai 1 that “the diets wet re. treated with duo hospitality, &c. We now have the mod posi.ive ; proof, and of such character ihat wo can not doubt the staterooms made by the Constitutional it , and wo mud in justice to our brother relract what has boon said by us, and at the same time confirm what was stated by that p iper. We have seen several often officers and manyoflhe privates, n, ail concur in saying that ffey were dll v :rent ed by the liable, gt /<* rou « m<l citizens of the most ho''id table citv known. There a few iaoi-, which (from a little isiate pride we have kept v n: ,v:, C!e j j,) our own brea-t, un il now) should be made known in order . t ne patriots spit its ot Charleston known ii*o d isle rent man ner in which our gallant troops wore re ceived by the citizens of Hamburg and Augusta. When the first four companies landed in Charleston, they were suffered to re main in camp without anything to eat or »ny thing to lie upon for several days together, save what they could get on their own hook. There may lie some blame attached to the officers of the regi ment for permitting this want ofattenlion, on their own account. The people of Charleston, would tide out in their car riages and look at the men as though they were so many beeves to he slaught ered. We learn that a Mr. McGee, in Charleston did his share in rendering the i Chester company comfortable (we know him not, but may his shadow never be j less) and had it not been lor bun. that company would have actually sniff-red, —many of them were unable to help j themselves from sickness, which was j brought on by being exposed during the j bad weather through which they marched to Columbia. They being more exposed, . was the cause of more sickness in inis company than any other. To enumerate and particularize a 1 ! the circumstances connect J wnh tins shameful affair, we have no room—how ever, we will sum it up by saying it Lour own impression that there was a hide negligence on the part of the officers and 1 great want of generous feeling and bos i pitali:v Oil the part of the citizens ol Charleston, that exhibited a biutal indif ference which we are sorry lo have to chronicle against our Cbm lesion neigh bors. “Look upon that picture and then upon ;|,i s .‘ ’ W hile the regiment was stationed tour and a half miles from Hamburg, there were a large number sick from the { ill treatment they bad received in Charles ton; carriages and wagons were sen; io the campj and all those w ho w-ere upon the , sick list w-eie brought to the Hotels, w hich were thrown open by their generous and j high minded ptoprie'ors, an t every at- i tendon was (said them that was in tlie j power of men or money. A move was made (as there were so many) to have a part of th** sick earned over to Augusta and divide the burden; hut no, our c itizens would not suffer a sick soldier lo be car ried to a sister State to he taken care of, ! —yet all lent a generous hand to relieve the distresses of the sick. We did not visit bm one Hotel during j the tegimertlhs tarty here, which was Shelton’s and we are sure that no mother could have been more attentive than the landlady and her kind house.keeper. We can (without boasting) say, that every at- j tendon that could he, was freely bestowed ; on all who needed assistance. I When the different battalions were put upon tlie march, our chivalricand friendly neighbors of Augusta did themselves great credit bv the manner in which they received our gallant troops —every ex ertion being made to give them a hearty j Welcome, which was effectually done, I Nor did their w-ell wishes end in empty ! show, —such as the firing of cannons, the j flourishing of glittering swords, the loud j j huzzas, tlie waving of hats and hand- j ! kerchiefs and the friendly greeting of tlie I | citizens. No, no! When one of the poor ! 1 soldiers (who were left here) died, which i j was the case some four or five limes, the : gallant and ever to be-praised corps under ! the command of Capt. Adam, tendered j | their services to pay tlie last tribute of | respect (with military honors) to the brave young soldiers who had sacrificed their j lives in the service of their country. This j contrasts very greatly with the libatmenl I of the Charlestonians to our brave and I i* chivalrous army. As many (we say) as , five times did these kind neighbors assist 1 in consigning the poor soldier to Ins long ' home. f From the Boston Weekly Symbol] assessment* r». i»a vcor:nos, ay SftLUfIER. j During the bright ofllie Maine specu lating fever, a steady old Lantern farmer i was induced to purchase four shares of | the ‘Portland and Fog town Stctge Coni - | pany.* Dul the old gentleman having i always been a consistent Democrat, was not altogether sati-fied w ith the prospect \ ! of the result of his speculations in fancy stocks, until lie ascertained that a shrewd ‘ I Whig neighbor of his had been ‘dabbling in the same puddle.’ As misfortune is i fond of company, our hero congratulated ■ himself that, come what w ould, he would : be no worse olff than his neighbor, and 1 thenceforth‘breathed freer and deeper.’ Dot tho winter previous tlie old fellow i had been married to his second wife, and | in a honeymoon fit of generosity, had pnr j cased a guadiiv painted sleigh lo carry i his young wife to meeting on Sundays. being natu rally pa r.-n non ions, the sie’gh in the summer season was a source of j unfailing annoyance, and he neve.- cm | (,is eve to wn.-ro fbe aforesaid sleigh was sec te l. above tho big beams of his barn, j without feeling an irresistible desire to j throw his pitchfork at it. But the travelling season enrno on.— The * Pot land a •’ V town Stage,' with its fbnr prancing go - ' v after day dash- j led gaily by ihe old felloe ’s mansion, fill- | i ed with beauty and fashion and covered with hootv and boot-top trunks. ‘Twelve inside and nine out, without counting the ♦ ur babies and little niggers,’ muttered i the old man as lie re commenced pitching ; his hay; that stage must be doing a good business and no mistake. —As ho raised his fork the jaunty sleigh seemed to cm I j gp it s nose and lock down upon him w it h supreme contempt. Ti n that tluin- I fleriug old sleigh, I wish I f ad the woiih of it in Mage stock,’ he exclaimed. At tins moment his Whig ru -giffer rp. neared and after discu.i ing tiie crons, the j weather, vVc., he male some affusion to j I the size of ' e barn a : 1 'ire price of that ; sleigh.' The old man’s eyes bearrud with joy, but affecting indifference, lie adroitly transferred the conversation firm the sleigh to the stage, and ended bv oft j ferine to swap the sleigh for his neghhor’s ; stage stock, provided he would give him ! a Berkshire pig to boot. This the neigh hor would not agree to, hut as he wanted j the sleigii very much, although he had the highest opinion ot the stock, he would swep even. Our hero demurred, wanted | time to consider—would let him know j within a week, and the neighbor retired. The next day, a* he w-as mowing, a gentleman reigned in his horse by the side , of the wall, when the following conversa tion took place. ‘ls this Mr. Grimes.’ ‘Yes.’ I ‘Do you own any slock in the Portland and Fogtown Stage Company?’ •Yes.’ ‘Well, you’re a lucky man!’ ‘Why so?’ ‘There is an assessment on it. ‘The devil there is!’ 1 ‘Yes. An assessment of ten dollars 1 I l per share. ‘Who settles it?’ ‘The driver.* This was enough. Dropping hisscythe, our hero started without hal or coat for the residence of!.I t eighbor. ‘Mr. Brown, 5 sai i he, ’I guess you may have that a re sleigh.’ •Very well, Mr. Grimes, but you ap pear excited.’ ‘Never mind—just give me (hem skits, cause I’m a great hurry.’ The certificates were duly handed over, and Mr. Brown, by hi!!, pul in possession of the Heigh.—This accomplished, our hero, started down crooked alley, over Bnntin’s brook, up the great meadow into the street, where stood the tavern. lie was just in time, for at that moment the ‘Portland and Fogtown’ stage, the driver covered with dust, and the horses with foam, came dashing up to the door. How the old gentleman’s eyes sparkled! There never was such a stage, there never were such hor.-es; and the mhed r ive»! 'Phe old fellow would have made him a present of a new whipstock in a minute. Mr, Grimes had scarcely found words to express his admiration ere the horses w ere changed, the outsides had ignited their | ‘old sogers,’ and Sands the driver, easting ! his rve over his freight and cargo, (with : a glance that embraced every man, woman and baby, hand box and buckle, wheel, a\!e and pole—in fact, such a glance as none but your veteran stage men can give.) gathered up his reins, and was about to spring on his box. At this I moment a hand was placed on his shoul -1 der—■ I ‘Sand.-!’ | ‘Ah! Mr. Grimes, whet can we do for | you?’ ‘Sands, I've "bought Brown s stock.* Have vou! Well I hope you bought it : right.’ ‘Yes, yes—lot me alone for that—hut ■ Sands they say there’s a’sessmeilt on!’ ‘Well, so there is.’ ‘Ten dollars a share!’ j ‘No mistake!’ ‘Well,Sands, I guess I’ll take that nnwV I ‘Oh no. mv old Buck, the Boot is on 1 the other log—you have got to pay that!' 1 A roar of laughter f rom the insides and outsides at once explained to our hero the difference between assessments and divi. : dends, while he stood stiff and motionless \ as the figure head of Old 1 ronsidefe, watch- I r* 1 # * ing the stage until it receded ftnm his ! i view, and with it his last chance of specu j i iation.—‘Cnss your old baggage wagon, —-and cuss all cope rations, Brown Whigs , and thunderin’ obi sleighs! If ever 1 go | I to speculation again, rnav I be busted--- j that’s all!’ i ■ AUGUST,!. GEO.. j I SATTKDAY 3JOKM\(;. JANUARY 23, 1317. ! S r The northern mail failed again last evening from offices north off'liarleston. I'roM Xi Oi lcan.. I The New Orleans papers due yesterday, | failed again to mine to hand, Except the Evening Mercury of the 15th inst. which ; came through. The Mobile papers of the 18lh inst. however, contain advices from 1 New Orleans to the evening of Saturday, brought by the steamers Mobile and Mnnte zumro the latter vessel passed tfie steamers James jl- Bay and Creole, both mail boats, aground, the former at Point Aux Berks, and the latter at h’ass Christian. No h.ter iiilenigence from the army had been received at New Orleans. For market, we would refer to our commercial head. Hr. Toombs’ SpCidi. The oi'iections made by this genii cm an to the . i.ion by our country of Mexican Territory , >f arms are threefold. |'';i * because •‘it w. - . >: ihi* spirit or the purpose of nur gov ernor-tr co pier other nut* ■ -. a> i ’ring them unde ■ r ml dominion, h tterly con tra rv i . the sc ope and genius ofa U cm: institutions. Ir w a ■ against mir theory of free government 'j’li •' theory was based on the principle that all peep's were to be governed by their own freewill, and not by the c ompulsion of others We hud nothing to do with conquering other nations.” Second, became “Our rigid again-t Mexico was to obtain what was due us; and vve occupied her territory only as a means of coercing her to pay ns. We had not taken out execution against her land. Her soil was private property; and lire rights of private property were respected by all civilized nations. UV had tin right to lake her territory from her. To cover it over with the name of indemnity, made the thing no belter. It was nothing hut the strong taking advantage of the weak. 31 r. T. was op pose 1 it now and forever. The propriety of pur- . : 'he cour e ic* had pointed out, was strengthened ti"f only by every principle of justice and of national honor, hut by the present position of our own country.” Tins brought the Honorable member to the third ground of objection, w hich was in general terms I at the South won! 1 insist, in case of a further j accession of territory that her citizens should be I a’lowed to move to it with their slaves, and the North would not consent to grant them that privi lege, and that a dissolution of the Union might en sue in consequence. For fear of this he would op pose a further accession of territory—or as the speaker expressed himself, “lie would pul a check upon this lust of dominion.” To the first objection we would reply that the theory of the government lias nothing to do vviili the matter. The theory of our government con cerns our own citizens. It is a theory written down in tlm shape of a Constitution. It protects ami has control over their rights and privileges, social, civil and religious. That theory has noth ing to do with, and has no reference to the rights and privileges of other nations, nor does it pre scribe byway of extension or contraction, any belligerent rights or obligations attaching to us in case of war with another nation. So much as to the theory of our government. Now it would have been more relevant to the issue had the Honorable member discussed the practice of our government in acquiring territory. It is territory he it remera- ' bered —it is land which is the aim of our people. , From France and from Spain we acquired territo ry. bv purchase. The force and arms used in the Requisition were bags of money —to the tune of many millions, both in regard to Louisiana and • Florida. Firm the Indians thh government ha* I at various limes acquired territory, sometimes by 1 fair bargain and sale, for money or an exchange j of lands, or both —sometimes by the law of the sword—by force of the strong arm, and in either case on terms pretty much as our government chose to dictate or to persuade. In either case, what became of the theory of our government on j which Mr. Toombs dilates, and in a style pretty and appropriate enough for a 4th of July oration! How did the theory keep pace with the practice? Our government extendedher law s over these broad and fair lands. She made territories of them, and the people of the soil, while they remained, hail to submit to them. If they chose to remain, then, were they governed voluntarily by those laws If they chose to go away they were at liberty to do so. There was no compulsion upon them to remain. The, acquisition of new territory by conquest is not a novelty in the history of our government. In some of our States, a large portion of the soil is the fruit of conquest from ihe aboriginal ow n ers. There is nothing in the theory of our gov ernment to forbid the acquisition of territory pro videil it be lawfully acquired. Tins may be law fully a« qnired in two ways. First, by fair pur chase. it voluntary cession of the proprietors of the soil. Second, by conquest. The one is not more a legitimate mode in time of peace, than is the other, under those belligerent rights recognis ed by the law of nations. The title is as valid and in iisputable in the one case as in ilie other, j It is on this point therefore, which is his second objection, that we take issue with the Represeuta- | live of the Bth district. We contend that lid-gov ernment has the right to take from Mexico her ter j ritory. t-he has the right to continue to lake, province after province, and territory after terri tory, until henlemands are safisfied. There is no common arbiter in these matters. 'I ids govern ment must he ihe judge in adjusting her own claims. Mexico chose to seize an i confiscate the property of American citizens, and to imprison their bodies in loathsome dungeons, to treat them cruelly and ignomiidou-ly, am! finally in many ! instances to murder ilieni. She dal do all lids and obstinately refused all redress. Here was the might to do lids, but not Ihe right. The law of nations —ihe comity of nations, ihe municipal law of Mexico, and in very many instances the mi ! furled (lag of our country waving over our mer | chant ships should have protected them. Blit these furnished no protection* Least of all did the American flag, to our shame he it spoken, protect them. Fur so long had w e forborne to resent re peated outrage and gross wrong, in the plunder and missacre of our citizens, that we had become i an object of contempt to 3f deans. Our forbearance was misconstrued. We were viewed, in the lan guage of 3lr. Webster, “as a nation that never counted the justice of ourcause, hut always count ed the cost of a war;” as so w rapt up in devotion 1 to the almighty dollar, that rather than go to the expense of a spirited vindication by an appeal to arms, the great magnanimous .Mexican nation might rob and murder our countrymen among them w ith impunity. But these daring and long con ] tinned outrages gave us the right to appeal to arms. I In addition, the Mexican government refused to 1 adju.-t by negotiation another question of dispute, i and chose to appeal to arms in order to settle, by I the Jaw of the .strongest, the. rival claims to dis i pitted territory. This war is the deliberate choice of Mexico. Having chosen it, site is entitled to 1 all she can get by if. Ifshe can win renown, let i her annals be adorned by her brave deeds. If she I ran win territory and hd»l it, it is her right. So with this country. Whatever h?r arttiscanwin and hold is hers by rigiir—by a right ihe world | cannot question—it is the right of conquest. As so ihe distinction made by Mr. To ifi'bs be | tween seizing territory in payment of our dues, ! and his recommendation to *‘ lake possession of h> r country, :eize her ports, exercise the most rigorous (axing powers, cnllr t her revenue, and satisfy the ! debts," vve humbly conceive that it is a distinction with scarcely a difference. The morale of both operations is on a par. If the cause of quarrel sanction the one, it must the other. If the first he land piracy, (the favorite term of the Whigs in re ference to our acquiring Texas,) the other is piracy on the high seas—and on bind it is levying black mail, and highway robbery. The money seized in the latter case, is not the less the property of the | .Mexican citizen than his land. If I here he a dis tinction on the score of monlity and justice, it is in favor of the acquisition of territory. For in that ca«e, there vv ill he no confiscation and seizure i of (he property of peaceable Mex can citizens.— ! Their occupied lands will not, as in the Norman conquest of England, be apportioned out by mili tary leaders among the successful conquerors. 1/ they remain peaceful, they will remain undistur bed and respected. It is not a question of morality nr of justice. It is solely a question of policy for us to consider, in reference to the. further acquisition of territory. — .Mr. Toombs takes his stand in opposition to any such aequo it on. We consider bis position Quix otic, and it will ere very long hcisolated. He has talked some what about "the genius of our in.-titu tions.” We are surprised that in bis rhapsody, the genius for acquiring land, which is so re markable a feature of our people, w as not also sug gested to him. As naturally as wafer runs down hill, do our people emigrate to new countries, and extend their settlements West. The vast and desolate prairies, , and the rocky sides, the yawning ravines, and : bleak summits of the Rocky -Mountains, have not i deterred them. The voice alike of slaveholder j and non-slaveholder may lie raised in Congress against it—Congress may resolve that she will ac quire no more territory —but the decree of destiny is recorded. The American people vvi I spread over plain and valley atid mountain from the At iantic to the Pacific, w herever fair and bounte- ■ ons Nature shall tempt them to woo her favors. View ing this result as inevitable, it is the inter est of the South that she be not hemmed in—-that while her great and jealous rival, the tree labor of the North, which aims to crush her political pow er, is extending and strengthening on the West, site should take heed that she. he not strangled by the tightening folds of that cordon of States that will he established between her and the Pacific. —That territory so recently -Mexican is now American “by the grace of G>l, and gnnpow. der;” but in New Mexico and California, gun powder has played but a very insignificant part in the drama. It will remain American ter ritory. Already our people are settling it. it is not in their nature to be driven back or whipped out, or to slacken their emigrating slops. They are hurrying on, and will nut retrace their course. It becomes then true statemanship to provide for the emergency. It becomes Southern statesmen to see that the South is not forced back upon her self, or deprived of herjustand full rights under \ the Constitution—that each Southern State be se- | cured her claim*, as an equal partner in the com- | mon Union, to a portion of the common advanta- ! ges which the fortunes of war, or the ordinary | course of events may hasten. If the question of | slavery or no slavery is to be decided by numerical j votes in the new territory, then vve hope Southern I men will be there to assert their rights. Ifitisto j be regulated by the line of the Missouri compro- t mise, we are content to remain South of that line, although by that division the lion’s share will fall j to the North. The Theatre. On Thursday night we understand Placide i was greeted by an excellent house, and that j he performed“G rand father Whitehead” toad miration. 'Hie audience were highly delight* ! ed.and indicated it by most unequivocal symp toms. Placide was very well supported on the occasion. 'l'he ‘‘Double Bedded Room was also play- j ed with marked success, P acidc persona* nig in his own inimitatde style. Ins lavoriie char acter of Da cimer Pipes. To-night will be eei homed for the secotiu time lids week,‘"Uncle John.’ ‘"Sptv.i the Plough,” will also ho presented, Placide personating the character of Sir Abe! Han dy. We need only mention that it is the last appearance of Mr. Placide. and his Bene fit to bespeak an overflowing house. Quito a large number ot lad'es were pre sent, which under the circumstances was highly complimentary t>> Placide. The weather deterred many others who were anxious to attend", hut to-n ght we an t cij iile seeing the dress circle graced with their charming presence. We saw last night a part of the play of ‘"Napoleon’s Old Guard. We could not he otherwise than pleased when such an actor | as Placide performed ‘"Ex-Corporal Haver- j | suck.” The ladies were out in full force —the 1 house was crowded—the dress circle never looked more attractive, and the whole scene j • • ! reminded us ot the Augusta 1 healre in Us , most Ihmrishing days. StJJI I.alcr from l.ircrpool. The Charleston Courier,of the 22d. inst., i T .~ , , ! j says—Vesterday’s Savannah mail conlirmed j the Honors which have prevailed for two or three days past, that accounts from Liverpool hud reached that place to 13tii ult. Commercial friends have favored us with the following extract of letters: “SAVANNAH, Jan. 19,1347. ‘ The Hr. t-hip Tuscan, from Liverpool, ar rived here ve>tenlav. She sailed on the 10th December, 3 days before the Hr. ship Speed, which vessel arrived here this day week. — She sailed on the 13th December. Immedi atley on the arrival of the Tnscar. those in possession of the news bought 737 bales Cotton, at.d since then the same parties were again in the market, buying middling fair i round bales at IOJ; to-day for good mid- | dlittg fa.r whs off red and refused.” “SAVANNAH. Jan, 19, 1847. i “Accounts to the Bih, 10th and 13 ii nit. j reached hereon Saturday last, and kept se cret until yesterday. Large sales here at 4 cent advance. The accounts shew |d. ad vance, and heavy sales in Liverpool.” We had previously heard, from a source on which we had much reliance, lhat the ad vices of the 13:h ult. quoted middling fair Cotton at, h|d, but inquiries in various other quarters finally brought us to,the conclusion that there was nncertainlly in the matter, and did not, therefore that fact yesterday tnofnino. j The Savannah papers up to Wednesday morning, are prefcclly siient on the subject, and on reference to the notice of fherir arri val, n will be seen that the time of sailing | or number of days are not reported. The H gUncnf. The re-idue ot the South Carolina volun teers, the left wing, reached Mobile on the i 15th inst. and went into quarters at the lower Colton Press. Wo understand the company from New berry, under command of Caps. Williams. | I now in quarters at Hamburg, were yestcr- j day mustered into service, by 3Maj. Wade, and will la I; e their departure for Mexico via the Georgia Rail Road, on Sunday evening. | i !?2a;nrl:c Tclr^rapJi. Mr. IJovd, we see by Hie Savannah pa- 1 per, is in that city for the purpose of cstab : lishing a line of telegraph from this city, (in connexion with the great line from New York to New Orleans) via the 80 mile sta tion and the Central Rail Road. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held on the 20 ! h inst., to take the subject info con sideration, and a committee appointed to pro- j cure subscriptions, composed ot tie follow- ! ing gentlemen; Ale.-srs. B. L. Stiles, Junes i Hliind, Edward Padelford, Andrew L- w, Jr. j : and Vv. C. (/Driscoll, ’i he probable ex- 1 pense of erecting the wire is put down at one hundred and fifty dollars per mile. Naval. The Pensacola Gazette of Iho 17:!i inst., j says:—The U. S. Store ship Relief, Oscar j Dullus, Lieut. Com'dg. 12 days from Anton I L zardo, arrived liere yesterday. We are j indebted to an officer of the ship for the fol- j lowing item of news. The Relief oxperi- I i euced very heavy weather on her passage ! hi; 1 1 er—hove to 36 hours in a most violent Norther. On the morning the Relief sailed, a boat was discovered discharging cargo at | Anton Lizardo. Comtnmodore Conner irn- i mediately despatched two boats, under com- I command of Lieut. R. Semmes, (late com- 1 manderof the Somers) who did it in the most i handsome manner, the Mexicans keeping up | a heavy fire all the while. Commodore Con- | ner had the Squadron distributed along the coast, blockading the ports with unabated ; rigor and his usual vigilance. 'J'he U. S. Schr On-ka-hy-e, Lieut. Der ryman Com'dg. arrived at this port on Thurs day last from Key West.” 3lHliodi«t Churcb. The Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South Carolina closed its session at Charleston on th* 20th inst. Bishop Capers pre- I siding. Tho attendance of Preachers was good, ! and several interesting meetings were held during the w eek. The Philadelphia Commercial List publish es a table, exhibiting the amazing increase of the Pennsylvania Coal trade. From the I petty item of 365 tons in 1820, it reached in : 1846 the enormous amount of 2,312,.514 tons, i When Mr. Madison took possession o! Baton Rouge and Mobile, and extended oor jurisdiction to the Perdido, (here were men in Congress at that lime who opposed tho •act; and insisted that we were wrong and Spain was right, just as there are men now in Congress, who lake sides with Mexico, ngainst their own. Mr. Clay, on that occa sion remarked, sarcastically, of such mem bers. as follows: and we must say the remark applies with equal free, to the anli-Mexi ca„ war members of the present Congers*. ’Allow mo. sir, to express my adm ration ■it ti e more than An-uidean justice, which, in a "question of Teirtonai title, between Ihe United State.' and a .Wig i nation, in duces certain gentlemen to espouse the pre tensions of fiie foreign nation. Doubles-, mar,, fut ure negotiations, she vvid have too ' much magnanimity to ava d itersed (>t these spontaneous ciu'.ees-it'ns in her favor, tea tie on ihe flour of tho denude of the United Slates.” The IlcroiaeUf Tampico. The ladies of New Ur.cans wilt nopleaded to .see that a subscnpiion is on foot, tor procur ing a magnificent service of plate to be pre sented !o the actum; otd and heroic airs. Chase, of Tampico, w;o at the peril of her hfe, and under the ;-'-t frying circum s,i.l,ee, delivered into '• •• hands of the Uni ied States the city of iiiinpico—the key of j Mexico—t place the taking of which would | probably have cost onr Government the loan ! ~f many lives, and no trifling sum of money. ; The noble courage, sell-possession, intrepidi ty, and shrewd ness displayed by Mrs. Chase I ii;ive not been surpass, d in modern limes.— She lias gamed for hereeit an imperishable 1 lame, and"merits the highest reward that our Government can bestow. 1 lie General who altera hard-fought battle and the loss of many lives, had taken Tampico, would have j been* crowned with the highest honors, and have been the subject ofttie most enthusias tic praise. His name would have been on tiie lips of all throughout the country, and Congress wouid not have needed urging to express this high sense of the value of such services. But here is an accomplished and heroic lady, who by her masterly skill and in trepidity put lo flight an army of Mexican*, and captured the city of Tampico, without the loss ol a single life, or the extra expendi ture of a single dollar! Which oflhc.'lwo, wo ask,claims most ourjadmiralion? Which of the two deserves most the gratitude and hon ors of tin; nation!—A. O. Mercury, Tlio .tlajneiic Telegraph. The operations of the Telegraph between | New York and this city have been suspended j ( u r two or three weeks, for ihe purpose of re -1 moving the copper wire and substituting a I larger and stronger wire of iron. The new wire, so far as the change lias been made, has been put up without being insulated as the old wire was, in its connexion with llio I posts. 'The insulation was effected in put ting np the old wire, by placing a glass knob j mer the staples bv which it was secured lo the posts. Around this glass, at every post, the wire was several limes twi.-ted and bur ly held, without exposing tlie efectr c ,r t | interruption ' n ' f s passage. It was : : that this insulation would not he i e- -*v I in putting np the new wire, and ac /ding y i the experiment was made oi dispensing won it. We under.-taml, ho - ever, tiiat after 1 completing Jhe change on a considerable i portion of the route, the proprietors of tim Telegraph have become satisfied that it will ! be necessary lo insulate the w ire, ; ■ ;v-» ! determined to do go. Tbs .ii of c* a ; occasion a further suspension ~,r operation*. I Another month, at least, must transpire, be j hire communication can again lie opened • with New York. This line has h ■ -■teg-.j --i htrtv unfortunate ever since it was ; si put iin operation. There tee- always a n % : screw louse somewhere.— Boston Evening : Traveller. du. v/i.sr vu'N balsam or vvn i> CHERRY. The Wild Cherry tree will soon become lh» i emblem ofhealth. lis triumph over Consumption, Coughs, Cold, Asthma, Croup, raid Liver Coin | plaint, is now complete. Ii curestiiu.se disea- s ■ when all other remedies fail. Clergymen, physi ! cians and editors comm* ■ : a best reined/ ever before known. Dr. Skilbaau, ■ Boundbrook. N.J., uses the Balsam in his p., . u for ill and liver affections, when 100 ok uimi ieiii to other remedies. Dr. Hoffman, Hmitiogdua, l‘a. cured a child of Paul Schwe h’e of Asthma with it. after he declared he could do n » more witli hu i medicine, and the child mu.-t di *. Thomas Read. Esq., merchant, and Dr. IJof't.i-.n, both certify to j rids astonishing cure. AW s i.ams, Esij., Counss!- i lor at Law, 58 William'S, was cured of the \-th -1 ma of twenty-four year tending by only one bot ; tie of the Balsam. Hundreds ha ■ b n rest, red j to perfect health by ihe balsam, after the last pay of J hope from other medicines had fled. We publish 1 facts only—we state only true cure . and have no j accasiou to bolster nn ins medi • to by the custo mary array of forged certili ; t» s. For sale by HAVILAND, RiSLEV Ar CO., and THJMAS BARRETT & CD.,Augusta. • Jan. "23 —3t 94 LAW NOTICE. J. T. SHEWMAKE. ! ATTORNEY' AT LAW, W AYN ES BO ROUGH, G A. ; Jan. 23 ly S 5 GiP.SOX & lUJTT, A T T O 11 N K V S A T I J A 4V . WAR RENTON. (; • LAW COPARTNERS HIP.— I s. }^rriber» | have- entered into a Cu-Partuerslo;> . ", prac -1 tise in the Nortati r, Circuit. Any busiuesn entrua ) ted to their care will meet withprompt attention. WII.UAM GIBSON. Joseph ii. uurr. 1 Jan. 22 6m. 94 . cil of Augusta, held on tho Dili January, instant, j the following appointments were made: Assessor* of Real Estate. Thomas S. Metcalf, Robert A. Reid, Pleasant Stovall,!. P. Garvin, Benjumiu 11. Warren. Fire Wardens. ! G. F. Parish, C. J. Cooke, James Harper. Inspectors of Stoves and Scuttles. j Ward No. I —Chas. F. Jones, John B. Campbell, j M. M. Dye. Ward No. 2—B. F. Chew, Wm. H. Maharrey, John J. Clay toil. Ward No. 3.—Geo. M. Thew, Robt. Walton* Jas. U. Bishop, i Ward No. 4.—N. K. Butler, Win. 11. Goodrich* . J- T. Wooten. 1 True extract from the. minutes of Council. W. MILO Of,IN, Clerk i )ar ;t Sr— 9$