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‘the c6xstituti()n.\list. "jAMEG GARDNER, JR. “ T JEK M S . Daily, per annum ? ' 00 Tri-VVi ekly, per annum 6 00 If paid in advance, J u 0 Weekly, per annum, If paid in advance, 2 50 Ta Clubs of five, remitting $lO in advance. 200 tf'-y postage most be paid on all Communicatk ns und Lerersof business. rSLL—! ■ n " ! ■' u ” Xiic OiJicc U^parl.iieat. We ius:cri to lay before o.ir readers the ne<v refill inmswhich have been a dopted by the Postmaster General, under the laws passed at the close nf the last session of Congress. 'They embrace a va rh tv of new and interesting provisions, which ought to !)C thoroughly understood bv the people themselves, as well as bv all the postmasters. The attention 0 ( this last and important class of officers throuirhoul the country is specially invil ed to them. gnlat inns of tar Post OJice Depart meat for the enforcement nf the nets of Congress nf the 1 si. '2d, and '3d of March, 1847. 1. All deputy postmasters arc author, izeci to send free, through the mails, all letters and packages not weighing over two ounces, which they may have occa sion to write or send, relating to the hu - B :ness o( their offices or ofilie Post Office Department, endorsing thereon ‘-post of fice business,” and signing their names thereon. And those whose compensation did not exceed 8200 for the year ending th» 34th June, may also send free, though the mails, letters written by them selves, and receive free ail written com- ; rnunications. on (heir own private bnsi- j ness, mt weighing over one-half ounce. 2. Members of Congress and deleg ties from Territories mav s-nd ami receive j tree, through the mails, from thirty' days before the commencement of each Con- j gress, until the meeting of the next Con- I gress, letters aed packages not exceeding two ounces in weight, ami public docu ments not exceeding three pounds in weight. Public documents are those printed by the order ofeither bouse of Congress, and publications or hooks tiro cured or purchased by Congress or either house, for the use of the members. 3. The same privilege allowed to members of Congress, is extended to the Secratnru of the Senate and the Clerk of the Hans ’ of It present dives r.u ing ti eir official terms, which terminate with the j elections of their succossois. 4. '(’he privilege of the Vice President is enlarged so that he may sen ! and re ceive free, pub ic documents, duiiag his official term. 5. Persons entitled to the privilage of franking should endorse on all letters or packages weighing under two ounces, “Free,” and sign the same, designating the office they fill; and all public docu ments which exceed two ounces in weight should be designated by writing the words “pubi c d icuments” on them, an i signing them official) vas above, The character of public documents issued from the pub lic offices in the city of Washington and directed to persons authorized to receive them free, may he designated by a stamp specifying the office from which they issue and the words “public documents,” or such other evidence of the character as may be agreed upon between them and the postmaster of the city of Washington. Any documents folded and sealed, not h iving such evidence of its character on the envelope, will he rated with postage, which will be remitted by the delivering postmaster, upon satisfactory evidence that it is a public document, transmissi ble fn e through the mails to the person add ressed. 0. All letters and packages from and to the heads of the departments, or the other public officers who were entitled to the franking privlege j rior to (he passage of the act ofthe Slot .March. 13 4-3, in relation to the business of their respective offices, will be delivered to the persons addressed, without any charge of postage, as an appropi iatlon lias been made by Congress for their payment. All let- | tens and packages issuing from Ihe de partments, should be n arked on ti.een- j velope “official business,” and signed by the heads of the departments, or, under their direction, by their chief clerks, arid by the others who were entitled to the franking privilege prior to lire act of 1845, designating their official capacity. Rut such officers have not the right to U'nd or receive, free, their private letters or papers. 7. All newspapers transmitted through the mails will he hereafter rated with j postage, exchange papers betw-een tire • publishers of newspapers, and those franked by persons enjoying the privilege; and contractors may take newspapers out of the mails, for sale or distribution among subset ihers. 8, Transient newspapers, or those not sent from the office of publication to sub- | scribers, hand-bills or circular letters, 1 printed or lithographed, not exceeding one sheet in size, will pav 3 cents, upon delivery at the office and before they are |ut in the mails, and all such will be charged hv deputy postmasters, a- pro- j paid matter in lie wav bill and upon their accounts of mails sent, and stamped or marked “paid” with the name of the of- ; fice ftom which sent. 9 Transient newspapers, handbills,or circulars, cannot be received free by deputy postmasters under their privilege. Ifsuch be addressed to them, it is thoir duty to return them to the sender under a new cover, charged with letter postage. It deposited m a post office unsealed, ad dressed to deputy postmasters or others, 1 they will not in any case be forwarded 1 Wy mP’l without prepayment of the post turni'w imiaiiiiiar, »■ mom* I age. It sealed they will he rated with letter postage and forwarded in the mails. 10. Letters addressed to different per son- cannot be enclosed in the same en velope or package under a penally of ten dollars, unless addressed to foreign coun tries. 11. Letters, newspapers, and packages not exceeding one ounce in w eight, ad | dressed to any officer, musician, or pri vate hi the armv of the L ulled States in I Mexico, nr at anv post or place on toe | frontier ofthe United States bordering on Mexico, will puss tree in the mails. Lacn ietier so ad i ressed should -nrciiy afier the name < { ihe prison, “belonging to the army.” The law w ill continue in force dm iug the war with Mexico, and lor three months after hs termination. 12. Lvtra commissions allowed deputy postmasters by the order ol the 9th of July, IS 13. a n superceded by the act of the 31 of Mil rcb, ISJ7. 13. The commissions allowed by the 24th section of the act ofthe 3d of Mar h, 1 84 b. are repealed, an ! other rales allow. cd bv the Ist section of the act ot die Ist of March, 1347, in lien of them, as fol- I lows: 1 On the amount of letter postage not exceeding 8100 in any one year, 40 per cent. 2 On anv sum between 8100 and S4OO in any year, 33J per cent. 3. On any sum between 6100 and j*j>2, 400 in a year, 30 per cent. 4. On any sum over 82,400 in a year, j 121 per cent. 5. On the amount ofletters and packets received fir distribution at offices do ~i r nrd bv the Postmaster General for lout p urro-e. 7 per cent. i)g/- The term ie‘ter postage includes all postages received, except those which a rise from new spapers, sent fiom the of (ices of the publishers to subscribers, and from pamphlets and magazines—so that i r * all prepaid po-tage upon transient paners, I band hills, and circulars, printed ui’ lith ; ographed, will hs treated as letter postage In the settlement of accounts of postmas ters. 0. On all stuns arising from the post age on newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, 59 per cent. 7. As the accounts of postmasters have to be se'tled quarterly, and tiieir commis s ons allowed for that time, the postmas. tors will credit themselves with 40 per emit, upon fiist twentv five dollars receiv ed in the qu uter. and for any >um between twenty five dollars and one hundred i dollars in the quarter, at the rate of 33.} ! per cent.; and upon any sum between one hundeed an I six hundred dollars received j in the quarter, 30 per centum; and on any i sum over six hundred dollars received in the quarter, at the rate of 12} per cent. 8. The commission accounts will he settled as heretofore, except that the annual compensation to which postmasters are limited, will lie computed for the fiscal year commencing the Ist of July, and ending the 30th of June, and in duo proportion tor anv period less than a year. 9. No other allowance can bo made 1 to posimasiers except box rents to an ' amount not exceeding 82.000 per annum, ; and the surplus < f sue!) receipts may be applied to the expenses r t llie office, un !er the direction of the Postmaster General. The emolument or box-rent account must bs accounted lor regularly in the quartet ■ ly returns, a I for the same quitter a 1 ; other proceeds of the office. 10. Postmasters in their returns for the present quarter ending the 3lstot March, 1817, will adjust their accounts accord ing to I! i° above allowances. C JOHNSON. Postmaster General. March 12, 1817. [Prom the A ew Orleans Delta, 12 th ins/."] Very Interesting fro m .11 exi c o. Lalrst t'jc !Jr»z w-ISi jhtr Smpor* taut from <*cn. Taylor's DivKiosi —22ti- mo:-s of Mauta Anna’* Advance (oa is rciicd. 15v the schr. John Howell, Capt. War rm, w hich arrived here last night from the Brazos, we were put in possession of several davs later in'eliigence from Mon tetcy and Saltillo. Our correspondence is very full, but the late hour at w hich wo received our letters precludes the pos sibilitv of our giving it entire this morn J O inu • | A letter of the o'h ult., from General | Taylor, at Aguu Nueva, thirty miles he- | yond Saltillo, states that he found the I volunteers on ids arrival at Saltillo some- | what disheartened, and having soon dis. covered the principal cause, inaction, he : applied the remedy for its removal. lie ! pushed ids camp thirty miles neuter the | enemy, confidence was restored, and the utmost enthusiasm took leth argy and inactivity—the volunteer's "ere anxious to meet the enemy, and as the old General says in his letter,’ “/ wont disappoint them.” The reports in circulation, as to the advance of the enemy, 15.000 strong, on Saltillo, are, beyond a doubt, true; and Gen. Tavlor has by this time, either fought and whipped the Mexicans again, at Agua Neuva, or has fallen back on Monterey. The great fear entertained bv Gen/Taylor’s friends is, that should he fall back on Monterey, and a force of 13.000 should advance upon that place, that being obliged ‘° keep his w hole fmee (.7000) at Monterey, the enemy would he strong enough to detach a portion,* I 7)000?) to act on his base of operations, and bv uniting with the force known to hn under LJtrea, (some 3500 or 4000 men.) effectually break up in detail, Ga margi, Matamoros and the Brazos S.. Jago, thereby cutting nlTall supplies t-om Gen. Tavlor, and obliging him to subsist ; in a country even now drained by the de ! mands of so large a force, as w e have I maintained, iu the country utounJ don i terry. The Black Foil at Monterey may bo { made impregnable, and with even the I small force under his command, Gen. I Tavlor could hold it against any force the Mexicans might biing a<rain.--t it, should he be compelled to retire on that position. Camatgo is tolerably well for tified, and Matarnoros has recently been fortified under the direction and superin tendence of that able Engineer, Col L’oyd ! Tiigiiman, who, at the request of Col. ! Drake, the commanding olricer. 1 ai• I out I and superintended the construc'ion of the i defences, This Col. Tilghman was en abled to do while remaining in that place awaiting the means of 1 ransportalion to the United States, Resides the large force advancing un der Santa Anna from St. Louis Potosi, and that of Urea by tlie way of Victoria, there is another force of the enemy under the hvdia-hpaded monger Canales, who. though a hragadocia, has a force under his command well calculated to give great annoyance along the whole line of the Rio (I rande. This is the force referred to hy Col. Morgan, as acting between Monterey and Camargo. A portion of it is under Carahajal, engaged in levying a lax on all the goods brought into, and carried out of, Matarnoros, hy traders, Carahajal, with his ban lit rancheros, has establish ed a cordon of posts for 30 miles around Matarnoros, and in the absence of Cns. tomhouse buildings, -holds. Ids revenue eon ll under some convenient tree. Such is Iris audacity, that on the loth nit, he slept with his command of ]OO men, at Puerla Verdes, only one league from Matarnoros, awaiting a stock of goods supposed to he coming from Doca d*d Rio, hv way of Burrita. Tite command ing officer at Matarnoros lias no cavalrv at his disposal,and thisofCarahaj.il is per fect! v aware, and can levy his conlirhn lions with impunity, even within a mile of the city. Gen Worth loft tire Bazosnn the 25ih ult. on hoard the steamer Edith. All the troops had left the Brazos except six : companies of Dragoons. The <hip New Oi lcans w-as to sail in a few days. j Correspondence of tint Doily D< If a.] Arrival, of Mississippi Tronjis at the Brazos (Jreal Sickness and Lass of Life — De parture if Gen. Worth and Staff for Tam pico, <V-c. Brazos Island. Feh. 25, IS IT. Eds. Delta —The steamphip New (V --lnan> his jij't arrived offthe Bar She ship Prentice, with ticee c mi 'aides of ihe 2 1 Mississippi Regiment, under the com maud of Ma jn* Price, Cupts. Daniels, McWillis, and Clarke, repored to tin's post la>t evening. It appeam that their j orders from New Orleans destined them ; to join the expedition rendezvousing off j j Lol.os. Th p v reported at Tampico, and were ordered hv Gen. Patterson, and | subsequent v l>v Gen. Scott, to this point i and* report to Gen. Pavlor. f I Ids will throw them into the column to move short. lv on to San Luis Poto.-d. I regret to learn, from some of the of ficers, that there L a vast amount of sick I HP'S on board of die vessel, and lhatthev | have lost nine by death since they left ! Now Oi leans. I endeavored to ascertain | their names, but could only learn those of the following: Messrs, Lucky, Lamp, Scott, Philips. Ellis and Lord. Co n. Wordi and S aisles his morning , in the steamer E ihh, for Tampico. The I J whole of the rear of the expedition will sail in the course of two nr three days. I under the command of Lieut. Deas. ; Contrary w inds and had weather for the list ten davs have very much retarded 1 the operations hut through the energy and great exertions of Ca; Is. Dili an 1 fletsell. ; and their assistants, the tioops and muni ! Rons will he shipped as soon as could j have boon expected. MUSTANG. Arrival of an Express at Brazos Island— Mexican force in the [f ar of Gen. 'Taylor — Report of Gen. Tnifor fatting back on Monterey Prospect of an Engagement — Dears for Tie Loss of a 'Train, etc. Brazos Island, March 1. Eds . Delta —Great interest isat present | felt hete in reference to the situation of | affairs in Gen. Taylor’s column. An express arrived last evening from Colonel Morgan, at Corral vo, together with one | from Coi. Curtiso, at Camargn. to C<d. ! Tavlor, (brother to Gen. Taylor.) who immediately set out post.haste for the ! country above intending to go to Maia moros last night. 1 give you the informa tion just as it has been received, slating what is positive and what is based upon rumor. By the express of Col. Morgan, we learn that a large Mexican force has made its appearance in the vicinity of Cerralvo, between that town and Monterey, and that a large number of marauding Mexicans | are ranging the country between Camargo j and ihe latter place. Gen. Pay lor had f j ordered all the train; of wagons from Co- I rnaP r f>going forward to he stopped—thus youill see there can be but little doubt ! o r there bMng a considerable body of the enemv in the rear of G‘*n. i aylor s main | body, ami 1 have no doubt their emissaries i are in Matarnoros, and every post on the ; river, every night. There is also a rumor from Cerralvo, from three sources, all corroborating, that ! Gen. Tavlor had fallen hack upon Mon. | jprpy with his main body, and that Santa * Anna was within about 30 leagues of him, i and advancing. This rumor is also re- I far red to in a letter from Comargo to a gentleman on the island, the w riter of which is a person who has resided in the country for sometime, and is intimately acquainted with Iho Mexican character. In the course of Ids remarks upon the news received there, he attaches much importance to if, and says ‘there is no mistake this time—ice shall he certain to have a brush with the enemy." It was reported at Comargo, and generally believed, that one of the trains had been cut off and captured by the Mexicans, between that [dace and Mon terey. The opinion was sustained by the fact that it had not arrived at its dis tillation after the proper time had elapsed. The only portion of tins news which is | questioned here, is that in reference to Gen. Tavlor falling hack on Monterey. | The times arc certainly getting exciting, and in casp of an engagement with either column of bur armv, yon may depend i upon receiving, with the fust despatches, a correct an 1 detailed account of it. Cols. Muchelland UVller and Dr. | Chamberlain, of the Ohio Volunteers, ar. { rived in the steamer New Orleans, and j will leave tor the purpose of j doing their | commands this morning. MUSTANG, i T AUQUSTAMtEOd _ TIITRSDAY MOllXl.N’fi. MARCH IS. 1817. .fir. Wallack, the Tragedian, Our citizens have a rich treat in store for 1 them. By a card published in another rol- | timn it will he seen that Mr. Wallack, the | celebrated Tragedian, proposes giving a Dra : 1 matin Olio in ttiis ritv, -nine evening this j week, probably Friday, when he will intro- j duce sundry serious and comic readings, re- i citations from Siiak'peare and other poets, | with remarks and criticisms and a variety of j original stories and anecdotes. Those who I have seen Mr. Wallack on the stage, will not stiffen this opportunity to pass, and to such as have not, we can only say, that a like opportunity mav not occur for some years ; to come, for he stands at the head of his pro fession. J3«r«* A3. At the recent t onnucuci im’nt of the Medi cal College of the State of South Carolina, the degree of M. i). was conferred on only seventy-four voting gentlemen. Among the number we find the following from this State: John Ij. Cheeney, of Upson county; Charles j Ganaid, of Savannah, and Sidney B. Untie, 1 of Meriwether county. Ctiausc i:i i’ls JSai!*, The Baltimore bun of the 15th inst. nays— ! “On ami after to-day, the summer arrangement ; for the arrival and departure of the Southern j mail goes into effect. I lie train ot cars from j Philadelphia, which lias heretofore brought the j | great Southern mail, will leave Philadelphia at I j 10 o’clock at night, and arrive here at five o’clock ! j in the morning, just in time to take the Wash- ; ! ington cars (under the new arrangement) at half j past six o'clock in the morning. Heretofore the | train to Washington, carrying the Southern ■ mail, andconnecting with the Southern boat, has left here at half past eleven o’clock at night, hut I j under the new arrangement, does not leave un- j j til halfpast six in the morning. The Southern i ; boat from Washington, has also changed its | hour, from three to nine o’clock in the morning, !sous to make tlie connexion through complete.” Xrw llautpMiirr Liecfioa. Hill’s Patriot of Thursday last, contains returns of the vo’es for Governor, indicating the election of Williams, Dem. by a m Jonty | of at, least 1000. From appearances, the Democratic majori ty in the House of Representatives will be about 18. Peaslee and Johnson, Dem., are elected to i Congress ••• the 2nd and 4ih Districts. In i n , j the Ist and 3 !, no choice. j The North River was open to Poughkeepsie ! A steamboat .has been up and returned. Boats wore running so that point on tlie 13ih inst. t nun shi' Army. The schooner John Howard, Capt. Warren, which arrived at Now Orleans on the night of ! the 13th inst., from Brazos Santiago, brings ac- j counts from the scat of war confirming the pro- 1 vious reports of Santa Anna’s advance fn m San I Luis Potosi, in the direction of Saltillo, ihe j force with which he was advancing is said to be i 15,000 men, and Gen. Taylor was preparing for his reception. He had pushed forward his force | from his former position beyond Saltillo, sfiil nearer to the enemy by thir'y miles, and the vol- j unteers, of which his army is enfin ly composed, with the exception of the artillery from the regu lar service, were in line s| hits in anticipation of meeting the enemy. Besides the large force ad vancing under Santa Anna, Oon. XJrroa is j ush • rur forward with a considerable toree hy way of Vi -toria, and Ca-iales i- between tlie Rio Grande and the mountains with a considerable body of rancher s. A portion of these arc under the command of Carahajal, and he has so complete ly surrounded Matarnoros that he is enabled to levy duties from all the traders who take goods from that place. The enemy seems to have been fairly aroused into activity, and we may soon cx pect to hear of m >re deeds of valor by our aimy. I.atcr iVo.n liinnas Santiago. The New Orleans Mercury of the J 2 h inst, (evening) says—“We learn from Capt. Somers, of the schooner James and Samuel, which arriv ed to day from Brazos Santiago, that an express came into that place on the Ith inst., stating that a Mexican force had passed Matarnoros on the , opposite ( Texas) side of the river on the morn -lof the 4th. Capt. Somers could net learn the j number of men, or who commanded them. This 1 arrival brought no letters or papers for this city.” j We learn from the Boston Transcript that Col. Cushing took his departure for the seat of war, on the 'Jlh inst., via Washington. The Alai-Ucl Ycstcnlay, The New Orleans Delta of the 12th inst, says—“ The Cotton market continues quite active, and prices have been gradually ad vancing till they are fully one cent higher than immediately after the Cambria’s news was received. Sales yesterday, 4500 biles, - at to II cents per pound for Middling and Good Middling. Flour is firm. About 5000 barrels were sold, mostly at S 5 75 for Ohio and Illinois brands. Cora is in steady demand, at 80 to 85 cents per bushel. A lot of upper-mine Lead, 881 fold from 1 Levee at $4 12 j per 100 pounds. Hemp is in demand. A &ale yesterday of 400 bales good dew-rotted at SIOO per ton."’ From Ilarntn. I3v the arrival of the barque Catharine, Capi. Swift, at New Orleans, from Havana, the editors of the Delta have dates from that cit v to the ol'i inst. —one day later than pre viously received. The English steamer Arab had been char- | : tereJ by the English Consul at Havana, to I take correspondence to some point; hot, j i whether it was to Europe or to Vera Cruz | was not known. The Duirio tie la Marina states that on a perusal of (he Yucatan papers, received by the Spanish br:g Emelin, it could net gather 1 anv political news of impoi tance. In tiie same paper, we see an account of the loss ol the brig Cumberland, Capt. Evans, ] from Falmouth bound to Cieufugos, which ! i was wrecked <>n Key Breton on the morning j ; of the 10th Feb. Capt. Evans arrived at C isilda on the U:h in a boat, with 4 men of j j ihe crew—the mate, cook and one man bav i in r been lost at the time of the wreck. The ; Spanish lighter Union sailed immediately ! from Casiida, taking Capt. Evans arid the | four men to Key Breton, in order to save what could he got from the wreck; the ves- j sei is a total 10-s. lUililury Ajjjioiiiijucaii. Among ilie appointmeuts published in ?lio Union of the 11th inst. we notice the follow- | ing from Georgia: Walter Ector, Alexander j : JScott and Joseph A. White, to be Captains of Infantry; 1). L. Clinch, Jr to be hr->t Lieu tenant of Infantry; S. 11. Crump, Robert C. Forsyth, O. H. Prince, E. E. Crocker, J. C. Mangiiam, Jr. and G G. Wild, to be Second Lieutenants of Infantry. ’•B.’eitgraph. The Alexandria Gazelle states that the workmen were on Thursday busily engaged in putting up the wires for the magnetic tele : graph between Georgetown and that, place, i The buttery will be put up at the station in Alexandria in a few days, when there will be a direct communication with the northern cities. [communicatk d . j Mr. Editor—lt. pains me much to inform you that our worthy citizen Mr. Wm. C'ag i get, 11io piper of Clinch No. 2, met with one 1 of the worst consequences of being a good i piper at the fire on Tuesday afternoon. His | face is badly burnt, even to blisters—yet in | opposition to the flames he still would not : yield until the devouring element was sub- | dued. It was his indomitable spirit that ! i ' sfa : d its progress so soon. How canthocili- j zens pav the debt of gratitude due bin? Yours, &c. INDIAN EUNNEiI. [COMMUNICATED 1 A rrreat deal of mischief is done, at fires, ! from a commendable anxiety to do good. | Windows are broken to pieces, door mutilat ed. mantel pieces shivered, am! so on. /o save | ilum from being burn/! Persons working j , themselves to death for this purpose onglit to r'collect that they labor worse than in | vain. When a house is on fire, past being saved, every tiling got out of it is clear gain. I Bat w hen only in danger, it is [ erfect folly, and even madness, to pull it to pieces. Its burning may be doubtful—the injury done by violence is certain. At, the fire on Tues day, the house which was saved, had its doors, mantel pieces and window* sashes more j injured, than the parts saved would have been worth, had (he house been burnt. Now in ; saving furniture, we never expect any exer- ■ cise of common sense. Feather beds wilt | bo carefully carried down stairs, and looking ; glasses thrown out of the windows, by the ; j-ame people: but why it should he thought ! necessary to break up and ruin the building j itself, to pr -vent the parts broken fr m bu -;i ing with the rest, is past my compreiiension. AN OLD FIREMAN. o*Tbe quantify of rain which has fallen during tiie week just past has been immense. Our little water courses have been greatly swollen, and the Gnattalmchee. we under- | st.imi, lias reached a height nearly, if not i (piite, equal to that ot ISiO. —MuricUci Ad vocate, loth inst. o"The following are the earnings of the j : Macon and Western Rail Road for February, | 1847; Through travel, Si-138 21 Local do. 3.252 95 Mail, 383 (it) Freight, 5.719 29 Total, 819 493 15 Ship Bniliin j iu .\ctr York —73arc !>uin. • '1 he Herald iks - ribcs nearly twenty sailing an 1 steam ships now being budti.i New York, and so nc fi teen nr twenty additional contracts i a,.d many more refused bv tiie builders. Among them is a.ship for the Charleston trade, measuring ; about 750 tons. Also that the keel of the steam j ship Northerner, to run in conjunction with the i Southerner, is about being loin. fcl trv t’ttsc £>et ision. Tito Supreme C urt ol Lie U. Stales, in the O iio slave cu e, have confirmed the decision ol the Circuit Court. The > case was argued by ex-Govcrnors More head, of Kentucky, and Seward, of Now York. A citizen of Ken’uckv brought this action against a citizen of Ohio to ro cever a penalty of SSOO for harboring I and concealing the slave of the former. | The Circuit Court decided t'ne case in favor ofthn plaintiff. It was appealed chiefly on the ground that the act of Con gress of 1793 under which the penalty was claimed, was unconstitutional. The final decision goes to estuhli-h the con stitutionality of the act. —Alexandria Ga zette. Axeman Actor Dead.—Thomas Faulkner, long a deservedly favorite comedian of Philadel phi.i, well known in former years in t'ds city, and perhaps the oidc=-t veteran of the stage, died on Monday week in the former city, in the 73d year of his a je.--Charleston Courier. Died, in Washington C ity, <>n Saturday morn ing last, .Mr-. Ekfik M'Arthur Allen, wife of the firm. Wm. Allen, Senator from Ohio, and ! daughter of the late Gov. M’Arthur of tint same i State i - 22rJ. PARMLY, Den list, may be expected in Augusta in the course of the ensuing month, March 13 __ J— Dj_ " DC? Statement of the business on i the Georgia Rail Road during the week ending I f,7 Freights, 6 Jr Mai!, ' (,J 46 Amonnh Sy,3GJ Co Gf.o. K. R. <fe Rk’g Co., ) Trnnsp. Off. March 13, 1847. $ March IB i 141 £C7~ We are authorized to announce THOMAS HOPKINS, as a candidate for Council, from Ward No. S. March 12 05“BENJ. CON LBV will be supported for re election. as a Member of Council in the Third Ward, at the ensuing election. March if s3r We are authorized to annottuce Dr. L. D. FORD, as a candidate for re-election to the. May i orally of this city. [March 6 I.U i 05“ We are authorized to announce Dr. L. A. i DUGAS,as a candidate for re-election to C ouncil j from the second Ward, at tiie election to he held in April next. March 5 05” We are authorized to announce Dr. J. G. ■ McWIIORTER as a candidate for Mayor of iho i the City of Augusta, at the election on the second | Monday in April next. _ Feh. J 6 rpj- 3/ r . Editor —Please announce the follow ing named gentlemen as candidates for Members of Council fur Ward No. 1, at the coming election j in April next: —)AB. GODIH , A. I’. SCIILLIZ. Fe!>. 13 _ *— Mr. Editor —Please announce- Dr. I. P. GARVIN as a candidate for Member of Council for Ward No. 1, and oblige Many ' orrrts. IVh. 2 1 —' 1 ■ - %Cr Mr. Editor —Please announce the. name of CHARLES E. GRENVILLE, E<q., as a candi i date for Council in Ward No. 1, And oblige | Feh l7 *_ MANY VOTERS. 05“ DR. j. A. CLEVELAND, has returned to this city, and may be consulted at the office of Cleveland 4: Spear, over the store of Messrs. Al drich &, Green. Feb 23 05” We ire requested to announce JL D. BELL, as a suitable candidate for Council in Ward No. 2. *— Feb. 17 05” We are authorised to announce Co!. G. F. PARI Silas a candidate so re-election as Member of the City Council from Ward No. l.,at the en suing election in April next. [Feh. 17 * — NEAPO LIT AN BO NNE TS . PATTISON, NOE & CO., ; Patentees and Alanuf-icturers, 23 Delaney Street, New York. j Feh. 23 3 m— _ _ 121 D AGIJERR LOTYPP MIMATURIN. 05“ Mr. C. E. JOHNSON returns his sincere 1 thanks to tin; citizens of Augusta, for their very • liberal patronage, and would inform those who ; have not already availed them-cl vesTf his service* j —that he leaves for New York on tins Ist of April. Feh. 23 —lra 126 JX~p* It. S. Jackson , Teacher on ■ the Piano Forte, Flute and Violin, respectfully | tenders his services to the citizens of Augusta. ! Reference* —Henry Parsons, Thus. Richards | and T. 8. Metcalf. INq’rs. j N. B—For terms, Arc., inquire at 11. Parson’s Mii-ic* store. lira Dec. 1 DEMOCR ATIC H CVItAV. i This splendid and popular Monthly Periodical I is now published at S 3 per annum—every number j containing a likeness of some prominent man. March It A. G. WILLIS. Agent. CONSUMPTION*. There is. perhaps, no disease with which onr country is a Reefed, w Incdi sweeps off annually so many victims, as that fell destroyer of the human race—Consumption. What a vast amount of mis ; ferine might he saved the human family if they would but avail themselves in season of the reme dies which nature has provided fur her ehildern, | and which science lias reduced to such a form as to I he within the reach of all. Far he it from us to ! tamper with those who are suffering with »Isis* ! painful disease. In offering you a remedy, we do 1 not a-k you to rely upon the representation of thoso who might he actuated by selfisl and pecuniary | motives, hut we give you the deliberate testimony j ofsome of the mo-t respectable Physicians, that Wistar's Balsam or Wild Cherry has estah, lis.hed for itself a reputation that cannot he assail ed. Dr. Wm. A. Shaw, of Washington, N. C. writes, under date of May 1, 1314. as follows: ‘■J have heard of many cases < f decided benefi cial effects from its use, especially in Asthma and : chronic cough of spasmodic character. I have, i used the \N ild Cherry a great deal in practice, and | w ith marked good results, in those causes of great ; nervous mobility, and irritability, to w hich phthis ' ical patients are subject. 1 have no doubt it is tho la st form in which the effects of Prussic acid may i he had as a sedative on the constitution without danger to the patient. Every one knows the rep utation of the Turpentine and Balsam constituents in protracted coughs. The combination of these principles in Wistar’s Balsam of W iid Cherry is in pen ions and juduinus. Medical men are justly distrustful of Patent Me dicines in general, but candor must discriminate i between outrageous humbugs and nostrums and | tho-e medicines which have proved salutary, and in many well attested cases curative. For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, by HAVILAN 1), RISLF.V & CO., and also by THOMAS BARRETT & CO., and Dealers in i Medicines generally in Georgia. | March 13 13— 137 | Commercials j ii! * —— " * XX ~ i latest dates from LIVERPOOL,o. latest dates from havre,:::::::::::::::::feb. i. CHARLESTON, March 17 —Cotton.—On Sat urday la>t near 1100 bales changed hands at the 1 quotations given incur report of that morning.— i o.i Moiidav, some activity prevailed, and during j the day holders obtained very full prices, purlieu j larly for the belter classifications, which were in ! nvUt request—sales* 3000 hales. Yesterday the tie- I mand fell off, and the transactions were confined 1 to I2OJ bales. We have no positive advance to notice, but wmild remark that when we closedmur : inquiries there was a buoyancy in prices, which, I to say the least, certainly denoted an upward ten j dency. lie ate sales in the three da ysin ay ! be put down at 55 <0 bales as follows; 23 hales at , 10. 18 at U!f, 21 at 101, 30 at 10 7-lfi, 812 at 10}, I 155 at !oj, 901 at I Os. 99 at Br, 1715 at 11. H 4 at i 11L 909 at 11 s, J 35 at Hi,‘3uGat ill, and a few ' flags at 12c. Auction Sales.—There was a good company i i in attendance yesterday at the sales of M. C. Mor ' decai. which went off with some spirit. V\e sub join the result: . . ('ntfee. —Tliere was a rarao <>f Rio, consisting of [ 2175 liags and 33 casks, which was sold at prices ( ranging from 8 to B|c, averaging B’c. Sugars. — About 290 hhds Louisianajjescriptioa were taken at prices ruling from <» a »»c; 4l hlids Muscovados, of the "El Destino brand, at 3s, and 3! hhds Muscovados, of common quality, from , 71 to Tic. 30 boxes new crop white Sugar brought 8 13-Ifi to 8 11-16.