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tjfym I ‘■nssvjßlUKrs'•. ... —t->ii 'T TWt^g:3U3gs.j3grw« TH E COXSTIT UTION ALI ST, JAMES GARDNER, JR. T E il ill S . Daily, per annum, 00 Tri*Weekly, per annum, 6 00 IfpaiJ in advance, 0 U( ' Weekly, per annum, *> VJ If paid in advance 2 50 T'J Clubs of five, remitting $lO in advance. 200 £j~Ail new subscriplipni; must be paid in advance. £3”Pr>stage must he paid on all Communications and LePensof business. [From the N. O Picayune Ifyh insl ] The Army ’Vows. Perilous Condition of ike Valley of the Rio Grande —Necessity of Rein forcing Gen. Tay lor's Column — Probab'c Position of the Amer ican and Mexican tfrets. The letters received by the Cinderella, which were only sent to the post office Yesterday morning, do not impart any gienter degree of authenticity to the re ports wine!) have been in circulation in regard to I lie battles said to have been fongfi.t at and near Saltillo on the 22u and 23d nil These letters are founded upon the some statements upon which the ru mors were put in circulation. They, however, give more point to the news and a better direction to speculati ms in regard to the present position of affairs in the valley of 'he Rio Grande. What is certainly known is this: Ist. | The Mexicans have succeeded in entering the valley ot the Rio Grande in largo ; bodies, either byway or Victoria or some other pass, hitherto considered unavaila- j hie in a military point of view. Shortly | after the armislic of Monterey was broken up, Gen. Taylor ordered Gens. Patterson and Quitman to take possession of and i fortify Victoria, lie marched thither himself, subsequently, leaving Gen. But ler at Monterey and Gen. Worth at Sal tillo with forces strong enough to guard those points. In a military sense the possession of Victoria was as important, or nearly so, to the American army as that of Saltillo, for through tiiat town a i practicable military road connected the j valley of the Rio Grande with the sources of Mexican strength, (inn. Taylor, seeing this, had Victoria invested and captured. The safety of the operations at Saltillo required it, inasmuch as the loss of Victoria would expose his flank and rear to the whole Mexican army. Gen. Pat terson, Gen. Worth, Gen. Quitman, with all their troops, were latterly ordered to ; join Gen. Scott’s movements against Vera Cruz. This reduction of the army of the Rio Grande rendered it necessary for Gen Taylor to concentrate his strength on one position and Victoria was con sequently abandoned. Santa Anna, per ceiving the exposed situation of Gen. Taylor’s flank and rear, pushed in large forces upon Victoria under Gen. Urrea, and thus turned the American flank. From this point detachments have been thrown upon the unprotected portions and the valley and at the last dates threatened the whole length of the river. The com munications between the army and the auppliss at Comargo were completely broken up, and such was the danger of passage between those points that orders were received from Gen. Taylor that no detachments under a full regiment were ; to be sent forward, as the road was im pissable to a loss force. Whilst these operations are going on in Gen. Taylor’s rear and flank, Santa Anr a is known, in the second place, to have advanced more than half way from San Luis Potosi, with an army of 21.000 n en of all arms, and Gen. Minon has been hovering near the American line with a will appointed troop of horse between 2000 ! and 3000 strong. The purport of the late news is, that Santa Anna has actually encountered Gen. Taylor, and that an ; action which lasted two days has taken place, during the progress of which Gen. i Taylor succeeded in falling back in good j order, and with his baggage, upon the Ilinconada, where he can make good his | position. If this be true, the defence lias been a gallant one, and is in effect a victory. Though there is not any infor mation of these engagements of a charac- 1 ter to defy doubt, there is none upon which the news can he contradicted with con- j fidence. We still think an engagement ! of some kind has occurred, the extent and j results of which are yet to he ascertained, ' We have no doubt that Gen. Taylor has fallen hack from his position at Agua Nueva upon Saltillo, or perhaps Monterey. I Agua Nueva is some twenty odd miles in ; advance of Saltillo. Now, whether San’a Anna was in force before him or not, military prudence would dictate a retro grade movement as soon as Gen. Taylor ascertained that a formidable troop was betw’een Monterey and Comargo. With out taking into account the probability of Santa Anna having approached the Am erican lines in the direction of Saltillo, or weighing the possibility of his having driven Gen, Taylor back upon the Rin conada, it is safe to assume that be has endeavored to put himself in communi cation with his supplies, which was com pletely broken up by the advance of Urrea. The defence of the w hole valley nvghi require him to fall back; it mav be, j therefore, that what is reported to have been done under a fire from the enemy ! was suggested by military forecast and accomplished without molestation. It is not, however, at all improbable that the movement was accompanied by skirmish, es with Santa Anna’s advance, nor is it impossible that a general engagement I may have been brought on. However the reports of battles may or i may not be confirmed, of one thing there ; is no question, and that is, that tjie whole valley of the Rio Grande is in a most critical state, and all the results of the last campaign are threatened. It is cer tain that Gen. Taylor has an army in front of him and one in his rear, each Jarger than his whole command; that ! there is not an adequate force in the I valley ofthe Rio Grande to render the American positions safe there; and that j it requires the utmost energy and gon ! eral.ship to prevent the loss of the Ameri i can army and the possession of territory already conquered. We are of those who repose the utmost confidence in the courage and resources of old Rough and Ready. A brave, sturdy officer—coo! in the hottest fight, and boldest when danger is most imnii I nent, of that temperament winch sacri flees nothing for show, and that determi- I nation that omits nothing from a sense of ; fear. Yet he cannot be every where; ' and surrounded as he is with armies in every direction larger than his own, and i cut off from Isis supplies through a long line of defenceless communication, it must he confessed that he is in a situation i to tax to the uttermost his military .skill and experience. Whose fault it is that such a crisis has arrived, is not so much the question now as how it is to be met. Ortamly every nerve of the Government should he exerted to reinforce the army, j and every resource put forth to cover the defenceless depots in its rear. Disaster j now would involve all that has been done in that direction, and make it needful to be done over again. It mav be the strale j gy of Santa Anna to leave the yellow | fever to fight the battle of Mexico upon j the seaboard, while lie puts his whole j power in’motion to drive us across the ; Rio Grande. Such a contingency should I have been provided against. But, some how or other, the eyes of the whole na • lion have been turned towards Vera : Cruz, where deeds of surpassing echil are expected to occur, while the more ex | posed and extensive line of defence has been left to Providence and ‘-Old Zack.” P. S. Since the above was written, , the schooner Arispe brings one day’s later | dales from the mouth of the Rio Grande, i The news by her gives a graver aspect to the intelligence received before. There ! are, in point of fact, no later advices from General Taylor’s camp, but the reports have assumed a more consistent form, and the opinion that a battle has been fought has become conviction. We give in another column ample details of the authentic information received from Mon terey, and such specifications as scarce ly ! leave room for doubt as to the fact that a i battle lias occurred. The reports thus far are favorable to American arms; but I it must be borne in mind that five thou | sand men cannot copo with twenty thou | sand for ever. We must confess that much of the confidence we have in the i success of the American troops is based upon the abilities of their commander and j the prestige of a name that has never yet ; been coupled with defeat. The Laics! from she stoat of War. Arrival of the Arispe—The Latest Authentic Accounts from (i n. Taylor—The Sum mons of Santa Anna and Reply <f Gen. Taylor—Latest Despatches from Monterey —Fortifications of Los Aluertos—Aban don merit of Cerralvo—Occupation of Ala tin, etc., by the Mexicans—Contradiction j of McCulloch's capture, etc., etc. 'l’iio U. S. schooner Arispe, Captain ; West, arrived in port yesterday afternoon from the mouth of the Rio Grande, hav. ‘ inn- sailed thence on the Gth inst. Dr. r» Jarvis, of the D. S. Army, came passen ger on her. lie is the bearer of des patches from Col. Curtis, in command at ; Comargo, to the Government at Wash : ington. Dr. Jarvis left Comargo on the 2 J inst. There had been nothing received there j from Gen. Taylor in several days. The rumors which prevailed were brought by Mexicans, and were of the most contra i dictorv character. To enable us to dis tinguish what is known to be true from j what is merely rumored, and thus to cor. j rect as far as possible the exaggerated reports in circulation, Dr. Jarvis has at I our request furnished us with the follow’- t ing memoranda of events during the | month of February of which he was per : son ally cognizant : Memoranda of Dr. Jarvis. Left Monterey on the morning of the |3d of February for Malamoros At that I time no apprehension or expectation of the approach of Santa Anna towards Sal | tillo was entertained either by ns or the ! Mexicans, so far as we could learn from : the latter. A large force ofcavalry was I known, however, to be in front of Gen. j Tavlor, w Inch ofcour.se was made know n ! by theircaptnre of the detachment of Ar kansas and Kentucky cavalry advanced beyond San Incarnacion. The force of cavalry on this side ofthe Sierra Madre under command of Gen. Urrea, estimated at from six to eight thousand, was said to he at Victoria, and part as far towards Monterey as Mont Morales, when I left the former place. I hey were, in fact, in Victoria at the lime our troops marched to that place in January last and return ed to Tula as an advance brigade under Gen. Quitman entered the town. They were supposed to be actmg as a corps ot observation, and a belief was entertained that thev would soize the first favorable opoort unity to strike on our line ot com munication between Comargo and Mon- | I terev and capture such trains as should : ■ happen to he on the road at the time.— Gen. Taylor must have apprehended some* intentions of this kind, for on my ar ; rival at Matamoros I found them fortify- I ing the plaza of that place in consequence | ol orders just received from Gen. Taylor to guard against the sudden attack ofthe : i whole or part of this lorce. I left Comargo on the morning of the 2Sth February to return to Monterey; in company with a train of TO w agons laden with supplies and escorted by a company of Kentucky cavalry, under command ot Capt. T. F. Marshall, and a detachment of 20 men belonging to the 2d Dragoons. We had not proceeded five miles when an orderarrived for cur return in cnnse i quence of instructions just received by express, which passed us on the road, di rected to the quartermaster at Comargo from the quartermaster at Monterey, i which were received from Col. Whiting, assistant quartermaster general at the headquarters of Gen. Taylor, directing, for the future, that all trains be stopped, as certain information had been received that a large force ofthe enemy’s cavalry, say four or five thousand, was in or near China, and that Caidereyta was already occupied hy thorn. These last particu lars are contained in a hasty note from the quartermaster at Monterey, dated j February 23d, and terminating it with the remark ‘-look out.” With Col. Whit ing s instructions also came the order of Gen. Tavlor dated Agua Nueva, Febru- CD 1 ary ’2l, the last one received up to the time of my leaving Comargo, March 2d. Tuis order is doubtless the despatch of Gen. Taylor calling for reinforcements, j alluded to by Capt. Montgomery in bis no:e,as mentioned tohim bv Col. Whiting. On the morning of the 27th another ex press arrived at Comargo from the quar termaster at Monterey, station- in a note, j . r* 1 that he had sent one off the day before, but apprehended that he may have been cut off, and, as ha understood from Col. Whiling that there were important des patches from Gen. Taylor calling for re inforcements, he had sent another to ad i vise of tins fact. About2 o’clock the same day another express arrived,with a note from the same officer, dated Monterey, 11 o’clock A, M., February 23d, saying an express had just arrived from Saltillo bringing information that Santa Anna sent a sum mons to Gen. Taylor demanding his sur render. The general told him to come (nil take him. Santa Anna stated that he had twenty thousand men and that if Taylor did not surrender he would cut him to pieces. The note concludes: “The ! express which left after dark last night says that Taylor was giving the Mexi cans hell.' 7 This may bo considered the last official communication received, all the subse quent information being derived from the Mexicans. I might here remark that a i note was received from the postmaster at Monterey, at I he same time with the com munication of Capt. Montgomery, which gives the additional paticulars that Gen. Taylor had fallen back from Agua Nuc va to Saltillo, which 1 should infer also from the notes of Capt. M., although he does not distinctly state so. The Mexi cans say he lost six pieces of cannon at the former place, fie moreover states j that Gen. Marshall had gone to the pass of | Los Muertos with a view of fortifying it, and large quantities of ammunition had been despatched from Monterey to Saltil i 10. The detachments of the 3J Ohio Re gimen! under Col. Morgan ami Lieut. Col. Irving—the former having seven companies at Cerralvo, and the latter three at Marin—it was great!v feared at ; Comargo. Lad been cut off hy a large force of 3000 men who are said to have occupied the latter place on the afternoon of the 23d. LiuetCol. Irving, in obedi ence to general order No. 11, is said to have left Marin the morning ofthe same day it was occupied by the enemy, march ing towards Cerralvo, with a view of forming a junction with Col. Morgan and then proceeding to Monterey. Col. Morgan left Cerralvo on the 24th, having destroyed, in obedience lo the endorse ment on the same general order, all such provisions and supplies as fie could not I carry with him. He must of consequence have encountered the enemy in his route, as they had already, as we* have seen ■ above, occupied in force Marin, lying between him and Monterey. Moreover, a train of 120 wagons, which left Comargo about the 1 Gth or 17lh,laden with provisions, clothing, &c., is said to have been attacked on the 21th, at or n-ar Ramos,lying between Cerralvo and 1 Marin, and, with the escort, captured.— ' This intelligence was brought in by an American or Mexican mule-driver, who was with the train and escaped at the I time of its capture. Ho say's the Mexi i cans charged at the same lime lioth the i front and rear of the train. After the ! firing, " hich was ofshort duration, ceased | i he cautiously ventured from out the chap- j j arral, with a view of finding some of his comrades. He discovered the Mexicans busily engaged in unharnessing the mules from the wagons, and seeing none of his party, made his way back,carefully | avoiding the road to Comargo. A hundred Mexican stories were in cir culation at Camargo when I left,in refer- | ence to the battle going on between Gen. j Taylor and Santa Anna. They say it j had already continued three days with j considerable loss on our side, but much ! greater on that of the Mexicans. Subse quent accounts represent Gen. T. as having fallen back on Monterey. The day I left Comargo a letter was received from the alcaide of Mier, saying that the Mexicans troops had entered that town twenty-four miles distant from the former i place,and had made him prisoner in con- I sequence of his endeavoring to secrete stores left behind in his charge when Lieut. Col. McCook evacuated the place. CM. Curtis inleded lo march with his regiment for Monterey the moment Col. Drake, with the 3d Indiana Regiment, ar rived from Matamoros to relieve him.— The latter officer was awaiting the ar ! rival of the Mississippi regiment, which I met on the river a short distance below ! Matamoros on its way up. This regiment and six companiesoftheVirginia regiment, under Lieut. Col. Randolph, which ar rived at Comargo the day I left that place, arc the only volunteer regiments arrived on the Rio Grande, and all the other re giments that had arrived having been ex. nifcwn n —i nr sent below to Lobos. From what source Gen. Taylor is to expect relief it is impossi ble to say. Every soldier, and in fact I double or thrice the number that now constitute the garrisons at the different depots, are actually necessary for their defence and not one can he spared. Infor mation can hardly reach Gen. Scott in time for him to march a division to his re lief. In addition fn the above, which reduces to some order and certainty our information j from the Rio Grande, we learn further from j Dr. Jarvis that a hearer of despatches had j left Comargo for Tampico, and sailed from | the mouth of the Rio Grande on the 6th inst. i on the McKirn. If the information we give ! in another column from Tampico he entirely j authentic, the messenger would not reach ! his destination till the departure of all the | troops which can be spared from that point. | It would seem, however, (hat from Tampico, I by the way of Victoria, Gen. Taylor must | look for his reinforcements. The Mexican citizens in the valley of the i Rio Grande are abandoning their homes in j crowds. Matamoros and Cornargn are strip- i i ped oftheir native inhabitants. They dread ; the approach of their own army more than j the presence of ours. : No fears are expressed f>r the safety of i Comargo, where we have a vast amount, of stores. There are 1500 fighting men in the i place, includ ng all classes. They are well i armed, and the* place so strongly fortified that j j it will not probably be attempted. ; We are mod happy to say that the report -1 ed capture of McCulloch and his command is I unfounded. If harm has occurred to him, it ( must have been somewhere beyond Mon i terey. We have an abundant supply of reported ■ | incidents by this arrival, many of which are i | interesting, and would be important were j j they authenf ic; but enough is known with ‘ certainty of the position of affairs on the Rio | Grande and at Saltillo to excite alarm, with- | j out aggravating it bv Mexican rumors. We cannot be silent when the public vir- { lue and honor is assailed from so lofty an | eminence, and an accelerated power is given I it, by a party vote in the Senate of the Unit- : ed Stales. Corruption is festering the lie- ( 1 public, and the people are called upon to ap- | | ply the caustic or Lite knife, to save it from : | dissolution. —Augusta Chronicle cjf* Sentinel. | We never knew the “Chronicle & Senti nel” to he “silent” at any time, when a par ty “cry” was to be raised—a party victim to be hunted down, or a party point to be gain- , ed. It is with that paper “corruption” “im becility,” “rascality,’’“wolf ” “wolf,” all the lime. And tiie everlasting remedy is always 1 at hand—-“the caustic or the knife,” which i means turn them out, and put vs in! It is quite ridiculous for a paper (hat is forever on tfie stilts of horror at this “wicked” adminis tration, lo pretend that now, note it “can not ; be silent.” As if it were not always fault finding, sneering at, underrating, belittling and lampooning everything on the earth that smells of Democracy, The truth L, nothing can or will ever go right with the vinegar constitution of the “Chronicle & Sentinel” until Whigism is in power—and then all things will be as sweet roses, and fair as a summer morning. The “Chronicle’s” last fit of the “horrors” j is produced by the nomination of Charles J. j Ingersoll to the Court of France, and his j support bv the Democrats of the (Senate.— , This is the “corruption'’—the support of a man who dares to think and say that, Daniel ; Webster is not an angel of light and purify I ; j —Columbus Times. <#hl tflaids. Blessings on them! We love to converse with a lady who has been denounced as an old maid, by the ignorant and the thought j less. She is kind, substantial, intelligent ; and correct. We know of but few maiden , ladies who have notsuperior intellects; beau -1 tiful to gaze upon they may not be; but they ; have a mental beauty that cannot fade, that I will glow with more freshness, as lime dims the rosy flush of youth. What ladies set up ; business for themselves and make money? The unmarried. Who are cur best female authors? Old maids. Few men appreciate ' them; few study their characters, and conse quently, the most talented of the female sox remain in a single stale. They have more respect for themselves than to flatter or re ceive flattery. They will not put themselves i forward to catch a boau, or do any moan thing; hut they silence the ill-bred and the foppish, who denounce them as old ma dish, when, for sparkling wit, for mental accomp lishments and real worth, they fair, far out strip and butterfly belles, that hang so lan guidly on the arms of simple fops. We repeat—blessings on the head of old maids. If there are women we should res pect and love, they are these. Von will find | them beside the couch of pain, and in the haunts of distress. They are moved by pity, and never withhold their sympathies and their aid. But for them, how many a hearth i would be made cheerless —how rnanyanach : ing head remain unsoothed. They go forth | like God’s ministering angels, wherever the ; toot-prints of poverty can be found, or con sumptions fatal arrow has been sent, and ; light with joy the heavy heart and carry peace and consolation to the abode ol sor row. Never speak a word of disrespect against j an old maid. She is an honor to her sex. i We could not spare her from our sin-polluted j and afflicted world. Think of tier virtues j in your hearr, and ever have a cheerful word ! and a pleasan i smile fur her. CircnmiilaiicM of stir kitlin^Glr. We obtained the following fads con cerning this melancholy tragedy' from a gentleman who was present at the late sitting ot the Superior Court of Laurens County, where the subject was investi gated by the Grand Jury. In ooing from this section to Dublin, i Laurens county, Mr. Hussy overtook a lad hv the name of Gi bs, whom he had perhaps previously known, and invited him to ride with him in his buggy. The invitation was accepted, and they arrived together at the tavern in Dublin. The eve ning had been [tartly spent in relating “"host stories,” which evidently excited cD 1 _ *' the fears of the hoy. To increase this ef fect and add to the criminal mirth of the company, the hoy was informed that one of the negro waiters was subject to fits, ac companied with insanity, and that he fee- | quently went into the rooms of lodgers, tearing their clothes from them,and some times inflicting severe bodilv injury.— { The boy retired lo bed believing these statements, and impressed with fear, slept | lUP JiHii Tianr nmr c ~ ararrr m -T I with an open knife in his hand. He oc copied a Led near the door, and Mr. Hussy another bed in the same room.— i Early the next morning a servant knook | ed at the door, and it is supposed that Mr. Hussy in going to open the door, shook the lad with the intention of carrying out the joke of the previous evening. The bov sprang from Ids sleep, screaming with fear, and it is supposed cut Mr. Hus. ; sy’s throat the fi; st blow, and afterwards . stabbed him several times in the body, i ■ He called lor help, and said some one ; was trying to kill him (Mr. Hussy hav ing fallen upon him.) The boy succeed- I ed in pushing him elf, and escaped from i a window', and told the tavern keeper | and others, that someone had tried to kill him, and that he had killed or cut him very badly, and urged him to go and see. They did so, and found Mr. n * Hussy expiring, covered with wounds. The blood on the boy’s bed, the situation of the body, and other circumstances, 1 | went to confirm the truth of the hoy’s i statement of his acts and his fears, and the Grand Jury, after a full investiga ; tion, returned •'■no bill. 77 — Albany (Geor gia) Patriot. ° _ | AItUSTAI SATUUDAV iMOiI.MNG, IflAlU lI 20, 1847. Gcu. Taylor and I»i* Army. The difficulties that encompassed this j gallant veteran List May. on the Rio Grande, ; through which he fought his way so glori ously on the B'h and 9th, did not excite more i intense anxiety among us than that which ; now pervades the whole country. The tenor i of the last accounts is such as to convince I us that great events have happened. But | while anxious to hear the result, our people i are not trembling with fear of defeat and I , v ! disaster to our arms. Tiie prestige of Gene i 1 ° j ; ra! Taylor’s military fame assures the pub -1 lie mind of victory. It is felt that the hero j i of so many brilliant battles cannot be defeat : ed by Mexican prowess, or circumvented by Mexican skill. Tiie country has a pledge ton, of u hat volunteer troops will do when brought into action, by (lie result of the glo rious three days of Monterey. When Gen. Taylor was on the marchfrom Corpus Chrisli to Fort Brown, it was feared j that possibly the banner of the stars and ! stripes might be trampled down by an attack ing force of double the number of those who were marching under it. The result dissi i pated all those fears. Since then our troops ; have attacked a well armed and well fortified | force of the same numerical superiority, and driven them from a walled city w hich seem ed to defv courage the ino.-t lofty and reck less. We have thus been led to believe that our gallant countrymen are invincible. The I word defeat is never to be hereafter coupled ; with them —more especially when led on by j so able, judicious and heroic a commander, : who is well described in the following com- I prehensive sentence from the Picayune : 1 “A brave, sturdy officer—cool in the hot ; fpst fight and bolded when danger is most imminent, of that temperament which sacri- | I flees nothing for show, and that dclennina ; tion that omits nothing from a sense of tear.'’ ; We look with confidence to hear of at least ! one—perhaps many brilliant actions fought ! 1 by him, Against the self-styled “Napoleon of : i the Western world.” They will be laurels I worth wearing and weean conceive the feel* j ings of each chieftain going into battle, SB “vViih such stern joy as warriors feel, For foe men worthy of their steel.’’ But whatever be the result, and it is pro l babie that victory cannot he won without considerable loss, a heavy responsibility rests somewhere , for so critical a stale of things. General Taylor is left to encounter four | times his number. V» itb a lorce entirely ot j { volunteers, mostly untried, lie is left to meet | the shock of battle from the picked troops j of Mexico —the flower of her army. He wdl be compelled, even if he regain Monte rev, to remain in that stronghold until rein forcements arc sent lo him; or perhaps to fight his way hack through other armies that intercept him, to Camargo and Matamoros lo save those pi arcs. We will not assume the province of a mili tary critic with a view to arraign the skill of Gen. Scott, who is immediately responsible ; for the present position of General 'Faylor. j { It will he for him to vindicate himself, and ! we shall take our soup at our leisure, until 1 i we have something which may seem tojus ! tify the present disposition of the forces. It is understood that G en. Ta\ !nr is where be is, against his judgment, and with a force ! inadequate in his estimation for the purposes designed. Bui we do not hesitate now to o say, that a deep and stern condemnation awaits those representatives (miscalled) of the people, in the session of Congress just | closed, who frittered away their precious time in profitless discussions and unworthy bick erings about the causes of the war, while the President with praiseworthy earnestness was assiduously pressing upon their atten tion the necessity of prompt action. They have been grossly derelict in their duty, | and we hope an indignant constituency will | remember the delinquents in all time here after. Had the legislative branch of the government possessed half tiie energy.prompt ness and efficiency of the Executive, those ten regiments which are still existing only i on paper, would long since have been in the I field. The peace we have so long talked of i conquering, whether upon the air line of Mr. ! Calhoun, or on the banks of the Rio Grande, : or in the Halls of the Monlezumas, and which 1 like the mirage in the desert is now perhaps j farther off ever while we seemed to approach it, might ere this have been consummated. When the news of the commencement c( j hostilities by Mexico reached Washington last spring,Congress with great unanimity, and at a day’s notice, voted fifty thousand vol- i i ■■ an, m m pi—nmr unteers and ten millions of dollars for ii ie ! prosecution of the war. Why have the same members, this winter, taken three months to pass bills for much smaller amounts of men and money for the same purpose? £5“ No Mail received last evening from office* north of Charleston. ITSr. Wallack’tf Kniertalumen*. We hope our citizens will bear in mind 1 the entertainment offered by Mr. Wa'lack at ! the Masonic Hall this evening. [U’The foreign trade of France is much | more extensive linn is generally supposed. I jn the year IS 15, according to the recent of ficial returns, it amounted to .$180,000,000, nearly equally divided between imparts and exports. Relief to Ireland.—The whole amount received by the Treasurer of the Relief Fund at New Orleans up to 12lh hist, was $19,- 367 30. rpj* The Hibernia Society of Savannah , I having resolved to appropriate the amount, ; usually expended for their anniversary din ! net, to the relief of the suffering poor of Ireland, the sum of one hundred and fifty | dollars was on the 17ih ir.st. ordered to bo i paid by the Treasurer of the Society to the Mayor of the City, to be disbursed with the fund raised in that City for this benevolent purpose. The Steamship*. The United Slates, the first of the line of the four between New York and New Or leans, is already under way in New York. She is 24 4 feel long on deck, 40 feet beam, 23 feet hold, and 1900 tons burthen. The engines will be about 1000 horse power.— The floor and a great portion of the frame is now up. The Lafayette, the second in the Bremen and New York line of steam packets, to run in connection with the Washington, is also on the stocks. She will measure 2500 ton* burthen, 255 feet long, 40 feet beam, 2 4 feet six inches hold. The engines will be simi lar to those in the Washington. She is to ! be commanded by Captain Crabtree. It is the intention of the company to have her ready in August next. lowa. At the latest dates the Legislature of lowa was still in session, but there was no proba bility that there would be an election of U. States Senators, as the Democrats were un willing to enter into the election. From Santa Ft. A letter from Santa Fe, dated January 6th, published in the St. Louis Republican, states that Major M. Lewis Clarke marched that mort ing with six pieces of artillery and 120 men to the support of Col. Doniphan. • Arrest* A man who calls himself Win. White, was yesterday committed to jail to await his trial on the charge of having in lus possession goods'stolen from the house of Mr. Day, which was recently sot on lire. I He has, we are informed, for sometime ! been suspected, and the authorities have J been on lire alert to discover some clue/ which would justify them in testing Ufle truth of their suspicions. The at tempting to fire the city have led th&*o!ice to the < xerci.se of even more tbfan their * usual vigilance, and we understand that several more persons will epre long bo “cribbed,” unless they ejWicr leave the place or obtain some ostensible means of subsistence. The law /p regard to va grancy is sufficiently/stringent, and ue have not a doubt fTuit His Honor, the Mayor, will endeavour to have it rigidly j enforced. It retrains to he seen whether his efforts will be properly seconded by the Judiciary, and by the members of the bar.- Sitannah Republican,lSLh inst. murder [iu Orangeburg; District. ; Mr. Benjamin Plumb, a native of Po land, but for the past two or three years a resident of this city, was most brutally' murdered in Orangeburg District last week, under the following circumstances: Mr. Plumb has for seveial months been peddling goods throughout several of the upfier districts, and while on one of these | expedilionsin the neighborhood of Orange j burg, he was hailed by 2or 3 negroes from a field, who staled that they desired j to make some purchases. He immediately j stopped his horse and sulkey, opened one I of his trunks, and while in the act of taking our the goods one of the negroes j struck him a severe blow across the head with an axe. The wounded man offered j (hem all he possessed to spare his life, i but deaf to his cries, they despatched him i ina few seconds by splitting his skull with the axe. They then buried the body and divided the booty. The sulkey was concealed in the woods and the horse allowed to go astray. One of the negroes acquainted his wife with all the circumstances relating to the murder, and place in her possession sever al arlicles of value under the strictest injunctions of secresy. The woman im mediately acquainted her mistress with the facts, and the principal and his ac complices were soon captured and placed in confinement, where they have since made a full confession. Mr. P. we understand, was quite a young man, and had been married about ! 8 or 10 months, in this city. Since the : receipt of this intelligence, his wife has been lying in a critical and dangerous situation.— Charleston Eveninn News. —KMBaßßPWßgcom'.TmkniA»raß—MaMnMasnßßapggCT—aßapeaa Died, on the 17th inst., in full preparedness for a blessed immortality, Mrs. MARY ELIZABETH TURNER, a native of Savannah, daughter of Isaac Young, frequently a member of the Assem bly of the Province of Georgia for Christ Church Parish, and relict of Richard Turner, of White marsh Island, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”