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Lore’ll Victim.
Ob, list to me, Lizzy,
You sweet lump of candy!
Love makes me feel dizzy,
Like sugar and brandy;
My vision is reeling—
My hiainsare all burning—
And the sweet cream of feeling
Is curdled by churning;
For my heart ’nealh my jacket
Is up and down jumping*
And keeps up a racket
With its thumping and bumping;
O, ohow me one smile—’ns my last supplication!
1 crave nothing further—*tw ill be my salvation!
Ob, Lizzy, I’m worsted—
I feel its all over;
I’m done up and bursled
A broken down lover!
The joys of my bosom
Have cut slick and vani.-h’d;
I know’d I should lose ’em,
When my true love you banish’d,
The world has grown dreary,
In i.s sackcloth of sorrow;
Os life I am weary.
And wish that to-morrow
Would dawn on my grave, in that peace giving
valley.
Where I’d care not for you, nor for Susan, nor
Sally!
I know 'tis a sin too—
But I’m bent on the notion—
I’ll throw myself into
The deep briny ocean.
Where mud-eels and cat-fish
On my body shall riot.
And flounders and.fl it fish
Select me fur diet;
There soundly I'll slumber
Beneath the rough billow,
And crabs without number
Shall crawl o’er my pillow:
But my spirit shall wander through gay coral
bowers.
And frisk with the mermaids—it shall, by the
powers!
[ From the London Chronicle, Jan. 2.J
Mpirit of the British Jourfiulm
MR. WALKER’S REPORT.
The financial statement set forth in
Mr. Walker’s masterly report, is not the
only persuasive which it contains to a
peaceful policy. Rarely have the mu
tual advantages of free and friendly com
mercial intercourse between two great
nations been explained with more clear
ness and power than in the remarks of;
lire American Secretary on the relations 1
between his own countty and Great '
Jlritain. He inspires us with new hopes
that the great example set by England in
her corn bill, late though it was, will not
fail of its effect upon foreign countries.
For generations England was the mis
sionary of the doctrines of protection.
Who could withstand the commercial
teachings of the most successful of com
mercial nations? Who was an authority
in matters of economy and finance, if not
England? In following her example, the
chief divisions ot the human family have
shut themselves out from the main benefits
which the diversities of soil, and climate,
and productions were intended to confer
upon mankind. But England has grown
wiser; and already her people, and the
great nation which has sprung from the
same slock, are imparting to each other
out of their abundance. The mutuality
of interest becomes daily clearer; and the
commercial wisdom of an arrangement
winch had common sense in its favor be
fore, is now enforced by the authority of
England. The example is working, and
will work. The blow struck at the corn
laws is shaking all commercial harriers.
The report of the American Secretary is
a document that must tell throughout the
Union, and if any commentary upon it
be needed in the great agricultural Slates,
it will be supplied by the advices from
t he corn markets of New Uork.
[ From the Times, Jan. 2.]
The report of the Secretary of the
United States Treasury is now before us,
and is a document as interesting in its
composition as it is instructive in its dis
closures. Nothing can surpass the lucid
clearness with which it describes the true
commercial policy of the Union. It is
most gratifying, not to our national pride,
but to our fraternal yearnings, to find
that in the universe of intelligence, a
people so long and abruptly alienated can
still feel the attraciion of our goodness,
and reflect the splendor of our example,
—The more enlightened party in the
Union now clings for support to a noble
and successful British precedent. Let
us not rouse any lurking jealousy by
touching this chord. In England, vve have
long been willing to learn from our re
publican cousins, and we hail in them
the same wise docility which we have
ourselves long practised.
[From (he London Times, Dec. 29.]
mr. Webster's Philadelphia speech.
Among the various articles of Trans
atlantic production brought over by the
last packet, another monster harangue
delivered by Mr. Webster to his clique
of New England manufacturers must, we
should think, hear the palm, at least in
respect ot dimensions. Mr. Webster
seems determined to cap not only himself,
but the Congress. We should imagine
his speech, if stretched to its linear ex
tent, would go several times round the
world, or at least as far as from Baffin’s
Bay to Cape Horn. Its columnar length
suggests the sea serpent. By the Baker
street test, it is a prize speech. We
never saw so boundless a continuity of
stuff. Everything is lugged in to aug
ment its bulk and prolong its tail. Strings
of Massachusetts resolutions, catenas of
Presidential authorities, General Jack
soniana, newspaper accounts of trades’
processions, without an atom of the tom
foolery left out, financial returns, ab
stracts of legislative acts, and other un
speakable,indescribable,in numerable rub
bish, are arranged together into as gro
tesque and worthless a series as those
singular collections of old iron locks,
keys, rings, tools, hinges, &c., or rags
under their multitudinous van# * cs, which
one may see in a continental market
place. The speech looks rather like a J
Presidential address gone offal half cock.
We have no doubt, however, that tlie
worthy conjuror himself is perfectly satis
fied with the time, place, and circum
stances under which he has pulled out
his half mile of thetorical tape. The
speech was deliveied at Philadelphia,
and of course went down unctou-Iy
enough with ihe inhabitants of that cele
hrated city.
Now a iong t speech is a very fine thing,
particularly when the speaker believers it
shins pedc in uno. This of course was Mr.
Webster’s position, when lie took his
ground on the protection of manufactures,
avowedly to the discouragement of agri
culture, and on the intersts of a cotnpar
atively crowded region, avowedly against
a new settled and almost new discovered
continent. But the exhibition, barring
its longitude, is hv no means successful,
O 1 *
In fact, the uniped statesman breaks
down. In the enormous ami almost
trackless interval between the beginning
and the end of his speech, he has forgotten
somewhat of his orignal purpose. We
defy any ingenuity to reconcile these
passages, the latter spoken, of course,
when the first was forgotten. We are
not going to comment on the vulgar tone
ot the address—that shall speak for itself,
to almost any English reader.
Whether “protection for labor” has
any more plausibility in the United States
than in England, we should think does not
admit of very much question. Consid
er for a moment what tho new States,
taking such gigantic strides in ihe far
West, on llie shores of those unparallel
ed livers and lakes, Understand by “a
law which shall induce capitalists to cm
ploy their money in such a manner as
shall occupy and employ American la
bor?*’ Will they think these lair pomises
fulfilled by a tariff which, as far as it can,
shall pievent the increasing population of
Britain from exchanging the work of
their hands with the produce of the Ame
rican soil? There is no region in the
whole world where labor and capital are to
he seen on so vast a scale and with such
rapid and brilliant results as iu the new
j Slates—for example, Michigan, which in
I twenty years has progressed from a for
i est to an almost well peopled, well-citied,
well ported country; that in some res
j poets, could sland a favorable compari
son with central Europe. Canals, rail
ways, fleets of steamers, carry here and
the re a population and an amount ot pro
perty which, even in the sanguine
thoughts of the last generation, could not
have been conceived. Is not this ‘-capi
tal and labor?” Yet tiiis is what Mr.
Webster professes to benefit by a tariff
which forbids it to interchange its super
flous fruits with manufacturing England.
[From the London Times, December 17.]
Mr. WEBSTER AND MR. DALLAS.
As for the comparative consistency of
the two men, as “a Stales,-man” reminds
us, it has been the fortune of both to
change. “Mr. Dallas was a protectionist,
and is now a free-trader; Mr. Webster
was a federalist, and is now a democratic
“whig.”—Mr. Dallas has enlarged his j
sympathies to the breadth of the Union;
Mr. Webster has contracted them to the
proverbial prejudice and narrowness of a j
New England manufacturer. Mr. Web
ster is the more remarkable man. He
has long been distinguished for informa
tion, astuteness, eloquence, versatility,
and, above all, for his intimate acquaint
ance with the law and institutions of the
mother country. He has been called the
Brougham of America. Whether such
qualities are the most favorable to the
growth of political honesty, candor, and
self-sacrifice, we will leave to ethical
writers. It is a vulgar opinion that they
are very compatible with selfishness and
prejudice. Mr. Dallas has not been so
distinguished—that is till his recent
elevation. If, however, his recent reply
to the Washington Committee is to he the
test, .lie notonly possesses great talents,
but heis pree-mineatly a man to he trusted
and believed.
f From the .V. O. Picayune , 31sf ull.]
The Volunteers Again.
The Excitement of Last Night.—
The town was full of excitement last
night, reports being in every man’s mouth
of alleged outrages committed by the Mis
sissippi volunteers. It was currently as
serted and believed that a portion of them
had refused to embark unless a comrade,
who had been arrested for murder, was
released and permitted to accompany
them; that a portion of them had cut
away a mast of one of the vessels to pre
vent her sailing; that Lieut. Col. Kilpat
rick, on ordering a company to charge
with the bayonet upon some of the more
refractory, had been shot down; that a
regular battle ensued, in which several
officers and many of the men were killed;
and finally that the rioters had fired upon
a train of cars on the Mexican Gulf Rail
road, and were falling upon the planta
lions below the city, bent upon fresh mis
chief. Such were the alarming reports
received and believed by many, and the
excitement, especially in the lower part
of the city, was intense. People armed
themselves and turned out in numbers,
and had the city been beleaguered by
thousands, the bustle and agitation could
not have been greater. The Legion un
der Maj. Gaily was called out and mus
tered in the Place d'Armes, the up town
troops were also called upon, and a]l the
pomp and circumstance cf real war were
enacted incur usually quiet city. Thou
sands of citizens congregated around the
r> o
cathedral, all anxious to see and learn
something positive and tangible, while the '
flittering uniforms of the members of the 1
! Legion, as they paraded in !he square,
shone brightly under the broad, full moon.
So much tor the excitement thus far.
By 9 o’clock it began to bo evident that
the whole affair was a false alarm, but
; how got up or started we could not learn.
The Governor had called out the Legion,
j lo act as circumstances might warrant;
many thought they were to be marched
directly to the old battle ground of 1915, |
there to attack the unruly malcontents;
but at 10 o’clack the excitement passed
off, news came that the regiments had
embarked and w ere on their way to Mexi
| co, the different reports of bloody doings j
below the city proved lo be unfounded, |
the military were ordered to disperse, and
quiet once more reigned.
We cannot, amid the thousand and one
rumors, come at the real cause of all this
I excitement, but it is probable that the at
tempt lo arrest some of the volunteers,
and resistance on the part of Ids comrades,
caused the whole of it. The lawless acts
of some of them, especially in the lower
part of the city, and the fears of the in
; habitants in that section of further and
j even more high-handed outrages, helped I
| to fan and increase the alarm, until final- ;
i ly our citizens were ready to receive and j
| believe any rumor that reached them.
The volunteers, or the larger part of
them, have gohe, and for ourselves we arc j
heartily glad of it. That they have had
but indifferent treatment While here is
granted by all; that the elements have
; conspired to add lo their discomfort is
; equally true; and furthermore a portion of
them, few in number but reckless and
abandoned men, have conspired toaddlhe
mortification of an ill name to the many
misfortunes that beset them. They are
now gone, and w e hope that u hen we next
hear of them, they will have done such
valorous things as will purge the memo- :
ries of the past of their bitterness. What
havoc a few misguided men can make of
the reputat ion of many with which they
are Associated, they have^severely proved.
May their gallantry redeem even these I
fiom the ways of crime.
r ßeported for the Baltimore Sun.]
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Washington, Feb. 1, 1847.
SENATE.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
a communication from the Secretary of the
Treasury, in answer lo a resolution offered
| by Mr. Cameron, and adopted on the 7th of ;
; January, in relation to the means of increas
| ing the revenue by increased or diminished
i duties upon articles now dutiable, and by lay- j
ing a duty upon articles now free.
The Secretary recommends an increased
duty of 10 per cent, on coal and iron, coths
| and casimeres, costing Over $4 per square
vard, and white and red lead; Os 20 per cent, on
brown, white and refined sugars; and of 5
! per cent, on cotton prints, costing over 30 '
cents per square yard, and cottons, not print
ed, costing over 20 cents per square yard.— j
This increase of duty, he says, will produce t
j in the aggregate $1,418,000.
He recommends a decrease of 5 percent. I
! in the duty now levied upon axes, hammers !
j cliissels, plough-shares, &.C., and on cotton i
[ goods not costing over 8 cents per square I
I yard, and not weighing over one-third lb. to
J the square yard. This decrease of duty is |
’ estimated to produce $05,000.
A duty is again recommended upon tea I
| and ffee—but if the foregoing suggestions |
are adopted, he recommends that it should
ibe 16 per cent instead 0f25. as before recom
i mended.
The House resolution of thanks to Gen.
Taylor, was passed by informally.
Air. Sevier gave notice that he should call
up the three million bill to-morrow, at one
o’clock.
The army bill was taken up. and the ques
tion being on its passage, Mr. Houston
moved to recommit it lo the committee on
military affairs, with instructions to report it
comformably to his amendment (offered last
week and rejected) changing the character
j of the troops from regulars to volunteers.
Mr. Houston defended the motion in a
speech of much ability, in the course of which 1
he maintained that volunteers were every
way more expedient than regulars in the pro
bent instance.
Mr. Huntington said that as longas a mo- |
lion to recommit the bill had been made, he j
would move to amend the instructions pro- ;
posed by Mr. Houston, be striking them out, ,
and inserting instructions to the committee I
to strike out the proviso in the bill which ,
gives the soldier the option of taking SIOO |
of 6 per cent, loan, instead of IGO acres of
land.
Mr, Huntington made a brief speech in
| support of the amendment to the instructions |
1 proposed by him.
After some remarks from Messrs. Sim
mons, Jarnagin and Crittenden, tiie amend*
; rnent was negatived—yeas IS, nays 28.
The question then recurring upon the mo
tion of Mr. Houston, it was negatived with
! out a divison.
The bill was then passed—yeas 29, nays
■ 3, [Gilley, Corwin and Davis.)
The Senate then went into Executive ses
i sion, and after sometime spent therein, ad
i journd.
! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The consideration of Mr. Thompson's
resolution of inquiry, under consideration
; when the House adjourned on Saturday, was
| resumed, the question being on the amend
ment offered by Mr. Ashmun, including a
I call for ail information relative to the return j
; of Santa Anna lo Mexico, with which the i
Executive of this country was in any way
connected.
The amendment of Mr. Ashman was re
jected, 76 to 99, and the resolution, as offered
by Mr. Thompson, vvasadopted, 101 to 63.
* The bill from the committee on foreign
relations, reported by Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll
on the 20lh January, and made the special
order of the day for the first Monday in Feb
! ruary, making further provision for the ex
penses attending the intercourse between the
United States and foreign nations—the three
million bill to enable the President to con
| elude a treaty of peace with Mexico —was
then taken up, and Air. Ingersoll moved a
postponement of its consideration until Mon
day next.
Mr. Preston King proposed an amendment
prohibiting slavery in new territiry to be ac
quired, but the motion was declared not to be
i in order while the question of postponement
was pending. Mr. IngcrsoU’s motion prevail
-1 td, 97 to 83.
A message from ttie President, and comma •
nications from the Treasury Department,
were read and ordered to be printed—the
former enclosing a report from the War
Department, in reply to resolution of inquiry
as to the number of members of Congress
bolding commissions in Mexico, and by
whom commissioned. That from the Tres- |
ury Department giving a statement of the ;
quantities of unsold public lands within 30 j
miles of the Mississippi, and how long they
have been in the market.
The ten regiment bill, with the amendment
of the Senate, was referred lo the military
committee, and the amendment ordered lo be
printed.
The bill to enable the Secretary of the
Treasury to dispose of the stock of the gov
ernment in the Chesapeake and Delaware
canal company, was read and referred to the
committee of the whole on the state of the
Union. Adjourned.
Washington, Feb. 2, 1847.
SENATE.
After the reception of a message from the
President, the Vice President laid before the
Senate a report of tiie Secretars of War,
giving the militia returns of ail tiie Slates. It
wasordered to be printed.
The resolutions heretofore offered by Air.
Xilcs relative to tiie tariff, coming up, were,
on motion of Mr. Sevier, postponed til! to-mor
row.
The House joint resolutions of thanks to
General Trylor, were read a second time and
postponed till to-morrow.
Tiie bill appropriating three millions of dol
lars to be placed at the disposal of I fie Presi
dent, to be used in case Alexico shall agree
to treat, was then taken up
Air. Sevier explained that the object of the
bill was to enable the President to conclude
a peace with Alexico. The President was of
opinion, from communications he had receiv
ed rom Alexico; that peace could be had,
and he was willing to assent to it, provided
Mexico would cede to us New Alexico and
Upper California.
Air. Berrien spoke in opposition to the hill.
Mr. Berrien moved to postpone the bill until
Thursday, which motion prevailed; yeas 28,
nays 18.
Air. Berrien then submitted an amendment,
which he said he would offer to the bill at the
proper time, to the effect that it is the true
meaning and intent of this appropriation that
the war with Mexico ought not to be prose
cuted by this government with any view to
the dismemberment of that republic; that this
government will always be ready to enter
upon negotiations with a view of terminating
the present unhappy conflict, upon terms that 1
shall secure the just rights and preserve in
violate the national honor of both nations, and
that it is indispensably desirable that the na
tional boundary of the Sate of Texas shall be (
definitely settled, and provision made by
Alexico for the prompt adjustment of the
claims of our citizens.
After a short executive session, the Senate
then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The committee of the whole. Mr. Hamlin
in the chair, then took up the bill making ap
propriations for the support of the military 1
academy for the year ending 30th J one, 1848. i
Considered the same and ordered it lu be
laid aside, to be reported to the House.
The same committee had under considera
tion the civil and diplomatic appropriation
bill.
Air. Wentworth, of Illinois, addressed the
committee, in opposition to a tax on lea and
coffee, which he denounced as a project to
tax old women and children, for the support
of the war with Mexico.
Air. Johnson followed, also on the ques
tion taxing tea and coffee, and endeavored lo
i prove that neither the President nor the Se
| crelary of the Treasury were in favor of a
lax on tea and coffee.
Air. Delano, of Ohio* next addressed the
Committee.
Air. Wick, of Indiana; closed the debate
to-day, when the Committed rose and report
ed progress of the bill under consideration, |
and the bill making appropriations for the
Military Academy, without amendment.—
The latter was read the third time and pass- |
ed, and then the Hou-e adjourned.
J Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington, Feb. 1. 1847.
To-morrow will commence the real battle j
of the session in the Senate. The three mil- |
1 lion appropriation bill is made the special or
! der of the day, and will be seized upon as the ;
i proper vehicle for conveying all the accumu- i
lated wrath and disappointment of Senators :
' lo the door of the executive mansion. It will ;
j be an assorted cargo; containing many things j
i curious as well as instructive, and some that j
; have for a long time been altogether out of
i the market. Mr. Webster, who has thus far
but seldom made his appearance in the Sen
ate during this session, will define his posi- i
| tion in regard to the War; showing what dis- |
i ference there is between voting the supplies j
j and approving the principles of tiie war. Mr. I
i Calhoun will be induced to break his longat
-1 lenlive silence, and give his views on the
manner of closing the war. Gen. Cass will
| go for Vera Cruz and Mexico, and Col. Ben- !
i ton for tiie Lieut. General, to give unity and
! strength to the prosecution of the war. No
! one can defend that measure, with half the j
| warmth or half the nobility.
There is an increasing disposition on the j
part of northern members to drop the Wil*
j mot proviso, and it is more than likely that
no proviso about slavery will be attached to
the bill in the .Senate. As theexample ofthe
Servile is always regarded with great defer- !
ence by the House, the latter has postponed
the consideration of the bill till Monday, so as
to give the Senate, in the mean lime, a
chance of expressing its opinion on so impor
tant a subject. There is no doubt that the
different fractions of the democratic party in
both houses, who had left Washington on the
! close of the la=t session “in a huff*,” and who,
on that account, were not disposed to work
! harmoniously together at lire commencement
1 of this session, are gradually coming to a
belter understanding, so as to present a fair
prospect of union toward the dose of the pre
sent session. But this union appears, after
all, to be produced by the pressure from with
out more than by the cohesive attraction with
in, and resemble the parts of a pudding that
are merely kept together by thebag.
The report of Mr. Walker, in reply to the
inquiries of Gen. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
on what articles the duties might be increased
within the revenue principle, has gone up lo
the Senate this morning.
As I intimated a day or two ago, he recom
mends an increase of 10 per cent, ad valorem
of the duty on coal and iron, and 30 per cent.
cd valorem on refined sugar. Tiie duty on
tiie remaining articles remains pretty much
the same. The report is very able. It will
now depend on the opposition to grant or de
ny Pennsylvania the desired boon.
The difficulties with Brazil arc, I believe,
honorably adjusted. Brazil has reason to con
sider us'lier friends, and I believe Mr. Bu
chanan has convinced her of it. With less
calmness and statesmanship on his part, a
drunken frolic might have been the means of
interrupting, for a lime at least, our friendly j
and important commercial relations with that l
power. Q-- j
AUGUSTA-GEO7 I
| SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6, 1847. I
ICTWe are requested to call special atten
tion to the City Ordinance published in this
I day’s paper.
Nrvr York AdrcrliKmenf*.
We present to-day another long list ot ad
vertisements from New York, and invite at
tention to them. We hope our readers hav- j
ing purchases to make will bear them in
mind. We always wish well to our adver
tising patrons, and take pleasure in saving j
a word in their favour where the opportuni
ty offers.
-llrs. Tlci.t aiiN iSrurfil.
This lady deserves a bumper to-night, on
which occasion she takes her benefit. She i
has contributed much to the success of every
piece in which she has played this season,
and has proved herself m >re than adequate
to any part in which she has been cast.
Dan Marble appears in two of the three
pieces performed this e.ening.
iMrs. M. will deliver an address to the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellow - , during an
interval of the performances.
Money tl d ial,
The Philadelphia money market has been
comparatively easy since the arrival of the
steamer. The Banks have discounted with
more freedom, and ffrsl class paper could be
negotiated without difficulty at six per cent.
'Flie feeling in the Money and Stock market
was remarkably buoyant last week, and
slocks of almost every description advanced.
The Three ITlilliou
'J’lie bill appropriating three millions of
dollars, to be used by the President in nego
tiating a peace with Mexico, was on the 2d
inst. taken up in the Senate. Mr. Sevier,
i in opening the debate, staled that the Presi
dent was satisfied, by information he had re- :
ceived from Mexico, that a peace could be
negotiated, and that he was ready to enter
into such a negotiation, based on the ccs- j
si mi of New Mexico and California to the
United States.
Treasury Notes Outstanding.
The Register of the Treasury announces
the amount of treasury notes outstanding on
the Ist inst., to have been $4,375,180 97.
l.alcst from .South America.
The ship Courier, Capt. Wolf, arrived at
New York on the 29th ult. from Rio Janeiro,
which place she left on the 20th December.
The transports with the California Regi
ment sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 29th
November. The troops were all in good
health and spirits. There had been a few
desertions.
Nothing had transpired of the difficulties j
between Mr. Wise and the Brazilian Govern
ment. The U. frigate Columbia sailed
for Montevideo on the 3d December.
From Montevideo news had been received j
to the Ist December. Gen. Rivera was at
Victoras on the 26th November, and having
i collected his forces, amounting to 1*250 in
fantry and 2750 cavalry, was soon to con
tinue operations.
Every thing was quiet at, Para, Maran
j ham, Pernambuco, and Bahia.
j *
Late advices from the Canaries, give ac- j
counts of great ravages by the yellow fever
1 in those islands.
(torrrunicot Loan.
The Xew York Tribune says, that a gov- I
ernment officer of high standing has written to !
; the Secretary of llie Treasury to say that i
should he issue proposals for a twenty year
6 per cent loan for .$10,000,000 it would be \
; taken at once. It is supposed that this course !
will be adopted instead of an isslie of Trea
j sury notes.
Later from Haraaa.
By the arrival of the brig 'J'. Street, Capt.
McConnell, at New Orleans on the 31st ult.
• which sailed on the 241 h from Havana, the
! editors of the Picayune are place in posses
sion of files up to the 23d.
By a decree of the authorities of the island,
dated the IGlh ult., Indian corn and meal,
imported either in foreign or national vessels,
are admitted free of duty for six months ino
the ports of Mariel, Havana and Matanzas.—
1 Also, by a decree of the same date, the port
1 charges on vessels putting into Havana and
; clearing in ballast have been taken off.
The festivities ordered to commemorate
the nuptials of the Queen of Spain firm the
burden of the Havana papers for several days.
Not an incident on the occasion is worth
transcribing, save as evincing the loyalty of
feeiing existing among the IJabaneros.
A letter from an occasional correspondent
at Havana says that M r. Galquet, late French
1 Consul at Monterey—the same reported to i
have been placed under arrest by Com.
Stockton fur improper behavior at the hoisting
of our flag a - that place—has been appointed
French Consul at Tampico.
Provisions for Ireland.
One house in New York city lias orders
for fifteen hundred lons of provisions, such
as beef, bacon, pork, &c., for Ireland. The
British Government have also sent out dis.
cretionary orders to agents in all the Ameri
can cities for Indian corn.
lAeutuckf IJ. S. Senator.
Both Houses of the Kentucky Legislature
proceeded on Wednesday, the 27th ult. at
12 o’clock, to ballot again for United States
Senator, to succeed the Hon. Janies T.
.Morehcad. The same gentlemen were in
nomination as on the day previous. Tho
balloting resulted without a choice, the 7th
ballot leaving each of (lie candidates in about
the same position as the first, as follows: Un
derwood, 42; Letcher, 40; Metcalf, 12; Hawes,
, 41. They then adjourned to Thursday, at
1 12 o’clock, and up to an hour of that time no
1 compromise had taken place.
ITTThc New York Sun ot the 30th ult,
j says—“ Monroe Edwards died yesterday
1 morning in the Prison Hospital at Sing Sing,
| of consumption, after an illness of only about
! iree weeks. Jims has ended (he career of
a man endowed by nature with talents that
might have fitted him for eminent useful
ness, but which were prostituted to the in
jury of his fellow men and the destruction of
his own peace and happiness. No relations
or friends, save his companions in punish
ment, were present to mitigatethe sufferings
of his last hours, and lie will sleep in the
prison burial ground with no memorial of
his name or fate. Is not the way of the
transgressor hard.”
£.ci:« r* far Ujj Volunteers.
ll.s Excellency Gov. Johnson lias handed
the Editors of the South Carolinian the fol
lowing instruction from Col. Butler, for the
direction of letters to the Volunteers from
this State.
“All communications from the relatives or
friends, to any member of the Palmetto Re
giment, sliou'd be addressed thus;
Care of James Cantev, of the Palmetto Regiment
South Carolina I olunteers, in , via .Veto
Orleans, care of A. T. Burnley A: Co.
Note Giving the title Colonel, Lieutenant
Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Ser
geant, Corporal, or Private, as the case may
be, and always paying the postage as far as
New Orleans.”
P. M. BUTLER, Colonel Com’dg. S. C. V.
CITY ORDINANCES
Extract from the tieneral Ordinance of the City of
Augusta, passed Dtcembir bth, JBIG.-
Section Twenty-Seventh.—No person, not
belonging to a family occupying a lot into which
Hydrant water is taken,'or who is not one of his or
her dependants or guests, shall take or cause to bo
taken Hydrant water from such premises, Under
the penally, if a white person, of being fined not
exceeding twenty dollars for each and every of
fence, and if a slave or fiee person of color, of re
ceiving twenty-five lashes, w hich may be commu
ted by a fine.
Section Thirty-Fifth.—Slaves may live se
parate and apart from their owners, line (heir time,
or work for themselves, provided that the owner
or owners, or some person, for him, her or them,
shall pay to tile Collector and Treasurer, annually;
thirty dollars for each slave whose owner resides
in the city, and sixty dollars for ea«h slave whose
owner resides out of the city, for each and every
slave above the age of ten years; and it shall he
the duty of the Collector and Treasurer, upon the
receipt of said sum, to register the name of tlie
slave, and t he name of his or her owner, in a book
to be kepi for llie purpose, and give a certificate of
such registry; and it shall be the duly of the Col
lector .and Treasurer, to make out and deliver to
the Marshal a list of all slaves registered by him
as aforesaid; and each and every slave within thd
ages aforesaid, who may be found living separate
and apart from bis or her owner, or working sos
himself or herself, or hiring his or her own time,
shall be arrested by the City Marshal, or any other
officer of Council, and brought before the Mayor
or any Member of Council, who shall commit such
slave or slaves to jail until such lax, together wiih
the jail fees, are paid, or said slave or slaves be
otherwise discharged.
The permission of Council w ill he granted sos
any slave to live separate, and apart from bis or
her owner, or hirer, without payment of the ta<
aforesaid, if such slave be in the actual service of
lijs or her oh ner, or hirer.
Feb. 6 2 107
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SAVANNAH IMPORTS, FEB 3.
Havana—Bchr. Gen. Washington, 90 lilids.-j
3t) tierces and 26 bids. Molasses, and 1,590 Bc i
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[Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.]
Kv IVlagaciic Ti l<gra|»!».
NEW YORK, Feb. I, 8 p. m—Flour continues
j w ithout much change. The demand is not quite
I so active, hut prices have nut varied. Sales of
60DO bbis. Genesee and Michigan brands soli! at
j $6,374 a $7. Southern brands 56,00 u $6,874. —-
1 Cornmeal $5.
There is still an active inquiry for corn. Sales
of not less than 50,000 bushels at 101 a lu6c.,somo
' choice parcels brought 110 c.
i Whiskey is in fait - demand at 2t4 a 28c. per gal-
I lon in bids.
Colton continues firm at the advance which it
! has already obtained under the steamer’s news;
I sales to a fair extent.
FEB. 2, 8 F M. —The flour market is without
! any special change, prices if anything are a little
lower: Dealers are generally holding off for the
next steamer’s news now almost momentarily look
ed for. I quote Genesee brands at $6,874, mostly
held at $7. No change in Southern brands.
Corn, white and yellow, lU4 a 105 cents; prime
is held higher.
! Wi dskey 274 a 28c. pergallon.
The Cotton market continues firm at yesterday’s
prices.
I learn from Boston that the extensive jewelrv
store of Mr. Trott, in that city, has been rubbed of
jewelry and money to the value of ten thousand
dollars. Rubbers not caught at the last account*.
CAMDEN, Feb. 3.— Cotton. —The transactions
in this article hav- been comparatively limited , tho
receipts having fallen oft' for the past week. We
now quote 9 to 11.
CHER AW, Feb, 2.— Cotton. —The late favora
ble ail vices have caused a further ad vance of fully
i a ic. on previous quotations. A fine article could
be readily disposed of at 114. Sales last week,
previous to the receipt of the Hibernia’s accounts,
at 10 a He. Since that time, but very little Cot
ton has been received. The receipts amount to
1 about 800 or 1000 bales.
MONTGOMERY, (Ala.) Feh’ry. i l.~Cotion.. -
The accounts from New Orleans on Friday last,
produced great excitement in the market and pri
ces rose rapidly. As high us 13c was asked, but
we have not heard of any sellimrat that. Yester
day there was nothing doing. The accounts that
had reached Baltimore by Telegraph, were receiv
ed by letter, and from some apparent discrepancy
« between them and those from New Orleans, and
from lite failure of the mail Sunday evening, busi
ness came to a stand still, all being afraid to med
dle with the market until they had received the
steamer’s news complete.
APALACHICOLA, JAN. 30th.— Cotton.— On
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the inquiry
for cotton was very moderate, the sales of the
three days amounting to 1000 to 1200 bales, with
out any change in prices. Yesterday, after tho
mail was distributed, an active inquiry sprung up,
which resulted in the sale of about 1000 bales. In
consequence of the very favorable accounts from
other markets, factors in most cases were enabled
to realize full 4e. advance—the sales, however,
were very irregular, some lots changing bands at
about old rates. To-day the market has been qui
et —the few sales made exhibit an advance of 4 to
4c on the quotations in our price current of Tues
day. The market being unsettled we omit quota
tions altoge.ber. Slock on hand and on shipboard
not cleared, 33,751.
CIAMPHINE OlL.—This article is to be bad
/ fresh,at J. E. MARSHALL’S.
Dec. 11 SI