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DAILY PIC Ail! NE-EXTRA, )
Thursday morning, March 18—12, M. J
Lair from Tampico.
Departure of Troops from l'a/npico — Garri- I
son of the City—Retreat of Gen. Taylor \
vpon Monterey — Mulliplir.ily of Mexican
Rumors —Re volution in Mexico—Expul
sion of Gomez Faria*.
The schooner Home, Cap?. Kenney, ar
rived early this morning from Tampico,
having left there on the 8111 inst. She
went outside the bar a day or twoeailier, j
but brings out letters to the morning of
the 7th.
Lieut. G. Carry, of the Ist Infantry,
came passenger on the Home. We learn
from him that all the troops intended for
the South had sailed from Tampico. A
force of about 2000 men has been left to
garrison Tampico, namely, the Baltimore
battalion, the Louisiana volunteers under
Col. Do Hussy, and one company of the
3d Artillery under F O. Wyse. The
whole force is under the command of
Col. Gales, 3d Artillery.
The two most important features of the
news bv this arrival are, the retreat |
ot Gen. Taylor upon Saltillo and Monte
rev without a general action; and second
ly, a revolution in Mexico, with the ex
pulsion of Gomez Farias from power.
The news of the retreat of Gen. Tay
lor rests entirely upon Mexican reports.
Tampico lias been overrun with rumors '
ofall kinds in regard to a collision l>e.
tween the forces of Santa Anna and Gen. ;
Taylor. Mr. Kendall, in the several brief 1
letters from which we now publish, scans 1
these rumors. In the postscript to his j
letter of the Gilt—the postscript being i
written early on the morning of the 7th—
he announces that Gen. Taylor has fallen
back, and without an action, in si confi
dent a manner that we place very great
reliance upon his news.
The Mexican papers, however, say
that Santa Anna had cut off iiis retreat by
interposing the forces of Gen. Minon and |
Torrejon.
The revolution in Mexico rests upon
much stronger grounds, and there can be i
no doubt about it.
Tampico, March 5, 1847.
Not a line of anything new stirring.
The New Orleans is still outside the bar, j
but an endeavor will be made to bring her j
over this afternoon. It is said the horses
now on hoard are to be landed here, the
stalls broken up, and some 5 )0 men he- j
longing to the brigades of Gens, Shields
and Quitman, with those officers and staffs
accompanying them, will he placed on !
hoard, and then the steamer will proceed
with all speed to Anton Lizardo. Such
at least is now the talk here.
It is said that a schooner, with ninety
volunteers on hoard and no fresh water, |
was blown off in the last norther, and lias
not yet returned. I hope it is not so.
The Home is about hoisting sail, so I
must close. Yours, G w. K.
Tampico, March 6,1 SIT—IO o’clock A. M.
1 wrote you a few lines in haste this |
morning, enclosing a number of the Tam
pico Sentinel of to-day.
I heard it stated this moment that the
English steam packet, for the safety of j
which fears have been entertained, is |
known to have left Havana on the 9ih of s
February, and had not arrived at Vera
Cruz on the 20lh. You probably know j
more about her than we do. There is a
rumor here Jo the effect that she has posi
tively been lost on the coast.
There are tiio.se here, well posted up in
Mexican affairs, who think the report of
Gen. Taylor’s defeat by Santa Anna has
been got up to cover a complete victory |
over the forces of t lie latter by the A me- j
ricans near Agua Nueva. There is no
coming at the truth of anything at pre- \
sent, but a few days will tell the story.
Yours, &C., &□., G. W. K.
Tampico, March 6, 1817.
Rumcr follows rumor here in such
quick succession, that before we have
time to digest one, another crowds it aside
and both prove eventually untrue. Yes
terday the city was agog with the start
ling intelligence that Santa Anna had at
tacked and defeated Gen. Taylor at Agna
Nueva, and even the names of some of
the officers killed were given. I don’t
believe a word of it, although that we may
soon expect to hear of bailies in that sec
tion is reasonable. Santa Anna really
intends either to hazard an action at Agua
Nueva or near that place, or else is ma
king a feint with a large force to distract
attention from certain designs of Ids upon
other points.
I enclose the Tampico Sentinel of to
day, in which yon will sec all the news
us well as rumors.
In haste, g. w. k.
Tampico, March 6, 1847—4 P. M.
♦ * * ♦ * *
It is said that a report reached here
this morning from the city of Mexico to
the effect that a pronunciamenl or revolu
tion, headed hv the clergy, had occurred.;
that Gomez Faiias, the Vice President,
had been deposed; that an editor of one
of the papers had been placed in his stead,
and that the object of the revolution had
been carried out in every particular. Con
sidering the power of the clergy, and their
well known hostility to Gomez Farias,
there is some reason in this.
Trie Mexican army is reported to by
suffering to an incredible extent, not onle
for clothing but for the absolute neces
sities of life. In the mean time agents
are riding though the country, exacting
contributions in every town. At Altamira,
only a few days since, S3OO dollars were
raised in this way.
By the looks and actions of the Mexi
can population I know that there can be
no truth in the report that Santa Anna
has beaten Gen. Taylor in a pitched bat- j
lie; on the contrary, their whole appear- j
ance would, if any thing, indicate the
j reverse. Good news shows too plainly
I in the faces of these people to he mistaken.
The New Orleans will not get off until
| to-morrow morning. In addition to Gen.
Jesup, Surgeon Gen. Lawson, Capt.
Gravsnn, and other.-, of the regular army,
she takes do« n to Vera Cruz Gens.
Quitman and Shields, with a portion of
their brigades. Col. H. L. Kinney ac
j companies Gen. Jesup. There will be
! Got) troops in all on board, composed
principally of Alabamians and Georgians.
*’+♦ * ♦ * *
P. S.—March 7.—The report of the
revolution in Mexico i* correct—the
National Guards joined the clergy. Salas
is President. Santa Anna at the head of
the army. Papers by next vessel.
Gen. Taylor lias had no fight, but has
fallen ba k upon Saltillo and Monterey.
G. W.K.
Tampico, March 5, 1847—3 P. M.
*******
I send von a file of El Republicano, a
paper printed at the city of Mexico, dated
as late as the 24th nit. For these I am
indebted to a gentleman resident in this
place. 1 have not time to glance at their
contents. A Mexican paper of the 25th
—one day later—is in town. Ii contains
I what is said to be Santa Anna’s plan of
attack on Gen. Taylor’s position- I have
not seen this paper, hut know it is here,
j The plan of Santa Anna, according to this
paper, was to attack Gen. T. on the \‘2lh
' of this month, with four division®, each led
by a general officer; one to approach him
t on the north, one on the south, one on the
cast and one on the west! This is terribly
; frightful, is it not? If it were only true
j it would be. But 1 have my doubts.
Mexicans don’t always let us know,
| through newspapers, what they intend
1 doing. Falsehood and duplicity are their
weapons. But if this all be true—which
1 say I doubt—Gen. Taylor is about being
j In a “tight place,” as it is stated that the
Mexican force issevetal thousand stronger
j than Gen. T.’s. [The paper alluded to in
this letter we have received and made
! use of in another column. No such plan
I of attack is indicated, but enough to show
| the origin of the rumors.]
Wp are just on the eve of a great battle
at Vera Cruz. If the Mexicans make the
stand there it is expected they will, and of
; course it would he the po'icy of Santa
Anna to distract, as much as possible, our
opeiations. Hence this fictitious publica
i tion of intended operations. But I tell you
it comes too late. Our forces are already
gone—with I lie exception of Gen. Quit
; man’s and Gen. Shields’s brigades— —to
: batter down the walls and defences of
| Vera Cruz. The«e brigades — Quitman’s
and Shields’s—will sail in the course of
;to morrow and the next day. Look out
I for news of the fall of the castle city in a
few days.
* * * ♦ ♦ ♦ •
Yours, in haste, F. A. L.
In one of the letters above allusion is
made loan article in the Tampico Sen
tinel of the 6th inst. We copy it, though
the editors themselves, as will be seen,
attach little importance to the tenor of the
I rumors contained in it:
Rumored Baltic—Santa Anna — Gen.
j Taylor, SpC. —Our city was thrown into!
I quite a fever yesterday evening by the
I receipt of some rumors of a battle between
Gen. Taylor and the Mexican forces un
der Santa Anna. That there has been an
engagement is probable, but that any
positive information lias been received
I in this city, as regards the result, we very
much doubt. Asa matter of course, we
assert this after the most dilligent inquiry,
and our resources for information on such
points are of such a character that full
confidence may be placed upon what we
assert.
From all we can learn, the resultsofa
baftle which has probably been fought
between the American and Mexican for
ces, is founded in anticipation upnn a letter
from Santa Anna, dated the 17lh nil. and
published in El Iris Espaiiol, of the 24th
ulf., and printed in the city of Mexico.
From it we learn that Gen. Taylor had
encamped at a place called Agua Nueva,
(New Water.) about twenty leagues from
San Salvador, from which Santa Anna
dates his letter to the Minister of War.
Me also states it as his opinion, that Gen-
Taylor had entrenched himself there for
the purpose of giving him battle; that he
had forces under him amounting to about
8000 men, with twenty pieces ofartilley,
[both estimates universally known to he
false.] and advises his Government of his
intention to give Gen. 'Baylor battle on
the 12th, [we presume the 21st ult.,
though it is printed tiie J2th.] and antici
pates the most decided success.
We have no doubt of the rumors afloat
being based upon the above facts. Now
hv wav of the Brazos we have infor
mation from the forces under Gen. Tay
lor to the 19ih ult., and lie was (hen on
his way to Monterey, having determined
to abandon his intrenchinents at Agua
Nueva, and it is possible that Santa Anna
was in pursuit and may have come up
with the American forces in time to en
gage them before they reach Monterey.
Later from 7lcxlco.
Ry the way of Tampico we have dates from
the city of Mexico to (lie 27tb February.
These are fourteen days later than any pa
pers from that city we have seen.
On the night of the 26th February a select
portion of The National Guards* made its first
essay at a pronunciamento. The regiments
known as liit “Independence’" and “Hidalgo,’
the battalion of “Victoria,” and a part of the
bodies of “Alina,” of “Zapadores,” a>’d
“Chalchicomula,” under the orders of Gen.
D. Manias Pena y Barragan, proclaimed a
“Plan,” the details of which we give below.
The Government had at in disposition to
oppose this revolutionary attempt 800 troops
in the citadel, the 6th Permanent Infantry,
the squadron of Pajaca a id those bodies oi
’ the National Guard n«»l in favor ot lire pro
j nunciamento. Gen. Canalizo, aa command
er-hi-chief, was preparing to attack the re
volutionary forces with a column of 1000
men.
We know not the issue of the revolu
tionary attempt, but incline to the opin
ion that it will be successful. Mr. Ken
Hal! writes that it has succeeded and that
Gen. Salas is in power, lie founds his
statement on reports at Tampico. Our
papers are not late enough to verify them.
The administration of Farrias has long
been tottering and has in ail probability
succumbed.
The latest movement ofSanta Anna’s
force is indicated in a number of El R?~
puhlicano of the 25th ult. It is publish*
ed a.s very important. It is a letter from
San Luis Potosi dated February 20th,
which announces the receipt ct informa
tion by a captain who had just arrived,
that “the Yankees had abandoned Agua
Nueva, which point they had fortified, re
treating upon Saltillo. Our active Gen.
Santa Anna had cut off their retreat upon
Monterey, by interposing between Mon
terey and Saltillo Gens. Alinon and Tor- I
rejon.
A letter is published from Santa Anna, j
dated the 1 Tth February, from San Sal
vador, at 10 o’clock, A. M. In this he
says that Gen. Taylor was in force
at Agua Nueva —twenty leagues distant
—and preparing f*r a general action,
with seven or eight thousand troops, and
with more than twenty pieces of artillery,
lie announces his own intention to fight
him on tiie 2lst, and adds ‘By the time
this loiter reaches you, there will have
been a great action fought, the result of
which will be of incalculable conse
quence to the country.” lie represents
his ow n troops to he full of enthusiasm.
In regard to the advance of Santa
Anna, «e find two letters dated fiom Ala
tehula, February 10*h. They announce
that the army would move on the 12th j
for Saltillo. A postscript to one of the
letters, written the evening of that day,
adds that orders had been issued for the
whole army to move at daylight the so!
lowing morning, and Santa Anna with |
it. The reason for thus hastening the
march, the writer says he does not know. |
The success of Canales in cutting off
trains of supplies are chronicled with in
finite delight. The Mexican army, it is
said are in great need of them.
The Mexican Government has learned
through its consul at Havana of the ex
pedition of Gen. Scott upon Vera Cruz
Troops were accordingly ordered by the
Government to march at once from the
capital to Vera Cruz, but, as it chances,
the body designated for ibis duly and
which was to have moved on the 2fiih un
der Canalizo and La Vega, was involved
to a great extent in the revolt which
broke out the following day.
Vera Cruz has been fortified by dig
ging a cl itch around it, and under the cli
rection of Gov. Soto families have aban
donedlhe city and moved into the interior.
I). Antonio Vizcayno has been ap
pointed Secretary of War—Canalizo re
suming an active military command.
The regiment of Jalisco is said to have
deserted in a body, and other signs of
military insubordination are mentioned
in the papers.
[From the Savannah Itepubhcun , 22 J mSf.]
From IHreclt
Since writing our article headed *•Opinions
on the War,” we have received through a
friend direct accounts going far In confirm
many of the opinions there advanced. Our
informant came down in the cars on Friday
evening, with an officer of the Regular Army,
(Lieut. F.,) who was going post haste to
Washington.
This otficer left Monterey about the 20th
or 2ht, our informant is not certain which.
He had an escort of nine men, and was be
sieged in a stone house for 24 hours by ran
clieros, whom they beat off. It is a fart, i.e
says, that the communications are cut off, and
the enemy’s cavalry and rancheros were
swarming in all directions. It is true also,
that orders bad been transmitted to send no
supplies without a very strong escort. It is
feared that Captain James Irwin of the Regu
lar Army, a most accomplished officer, known
personahv to many of the citizens of Savan
nah, has been cut off. Rut at the posts, all
wa* going on well, all were in good spirits,
and there was no ratiFC for alarm or appre
hension. Lieut. F. bad seen, since he left
Monterey, a letter from Gen. Taylor to bis
son-in-law, Dr. Wood, in which he says that
lie was sixteen miles from Saltillo, will) Lis
own and Wool’s command, amounting to 5,-
800 effective men, and he was retiring quietly
on Monterey.
His out posts were constantly retreating
before the enemy’s advanced guard or what
i is presumed to be an advanced guard of some
20.000 men, commanded by Suita Anna. —
The men under Taylor were all in the highest
spirits and ready for a conflict. The Gen
et* 8f himself, in the letter alluded to, says he
wants to gel a fair field for his artillery, and
that if Santa Anna wants to distinguish him
self, ' he'll be d—d if he don't give him a
chance .” The batteries of the regular artil
lery with Taylor, are Washington’s, Web
ster’s, Sherman’s and Bragg’s—24 pieces.
Each of these four batteries, in common par
lance of the army, are held to be equal to a
regiment and a iialfol men. Os course thi.->
remark is not to be understood as made
seriously, but it shows how much reliance is
placed upon them by the army. The troops
at Comargo were actively engaged m throw
in" up intrenchments.
Thus, we have yet to learn whether there
has been a genera! engagement or a partial
one—or whether Taylor Lad reached Monte
rey without encountering lire enemy. 1 here
were at Monterey, our informant says, full
MUons for 6,000 men for 130 days, which
could be made to hold out nearly six months
incase of necessity. Such is the substance
of the verbal statementments made to us, |
which may no doubt be confidently relied ,
upou.
ENQUIRER-EXTRA, )
Columbus. Ga... March2o, 1847. $
Another Destructive Fire.
We tue again under the painful ne
cessity of recording the occurrence of
I another destructive fire which took place
in this city on this morning,the 2l)lh insi.
It broke out in the large wooden Ware
house, known as Harden’s Ware-house, j
but latterly occupied by Messrs. Hall Az
Deblois, Agents for the Lowell Factory
Companies, and was owned by ibe Bank
of Milledgeville.
The fire was first discovered about 5
o’clock, and had then made such progress
that all efforts to save the ware house, or
cotton and goods stored therein, were
found unavailing.
By the well directed and untiring ef
forts of the Fire Company, assisted by the
citizens generally, the adjacent three
story brick building, known as the Ly
ceum Hall, and occupied by Messrs.
Redd Ar Co. and Adams, merchants, and
hv several others for law offices, &c.,was i
saved, though lor a considerable time it
was in imminent danger, and it was
feared their efforts would be fruitless;
the roof was on fire for some minutes, and
at times the flames almost covered the
entire roof.
The Ware house was burned to the
ground in an incredibly short pace of time.
It contained about 1,281 bales Colton,
i owned as follows:
* 120 bales belonging to Gen. Lowe, of
Harrisco , a portion of his ctop —no in
surance.
25 bales belonging to T. B. Howard,
. Esq. a portion of his crop—no insurance.
The remainder was owned by the Low.
ell Factory Companies, and we arc in
formed was insured in Boston.
'Flie warehouse contained 000
sacks Salt, 125 bids. Molasses, and 75
bids. Whisky, owned by Messrs. Bar
's nard Ac Schley, which was insured by
the Hartford Agency in this place.
T he rear building of Messrs. Redd Ac
Co’s, store was also burned, with its con
tents—about 200 sacks Saif, a large lot
of Bacon, and some other goods.
Also, the kitchen in the rear of the
large building occupied Airs. Hodges,
owned bv Col, Banks.
p The w hole loss may he estimated, in
rtund number.*, at abou' SBO,OOO.
The fire was beyond doubt the woik
(of an incendiary, as there had been no
! fire in or about the w-are-bouse for the
i dav. Messrs, Hall Ac Deblois bad em
-1 ployed, at their own expense, a private
j watchman, who left the ware house but a
I short time before the fire was discovered, j
jaww——l< 11 ■mi i weaMwimini—f
“AUGUSTA. GEO..
J WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 21, 1847.
TO CLUBS.
Wc call particular attention to the following terms
of our paper:
To Clubs, remitting $lO in advance. FIVE
COPIES are sent. This will put our weekly pa
per in the reach of new subscribers at
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
£2rThe Constitutionalist Letter Sheet Prices
Current, will be ready for delivery This Morn-
I ing, at 9 o'cloc k.
j In addiiion to the review nf the Augusta market, !
j receipts and stocks of cotton at the various ports,
<tr., it will contain the telegraphic accounts
brought by the Steamer. It will also he in time
for the next Steamer for Europe. Extra copies.can
be procured if early application is made.
itlon 1C utii.
We find the following paragraph figuring
in the papers, which we copy as a practical j
commentary upon the panic and ruin jererni- j
ads with which the whig journals were wont ;
in days not ‘Mang syne” to indulge;
“It appears from the annual statement of
Lowell manufactures that there are 13 manu
facturing corporations in the city, embrac
ing a capital stock of $11,405,000 and limn- j
bering 45 mills. These mills employ 7.915 j
female and 3.340 male operatives. There
are oilier manufacturing establishments in
the city not incorporated, employing a capi- j
tal of $310,750, and about 1000 hands. Ti e
new cotton mills are nearly ready for opera
tion. One built by flic Merrimack Co., to
contain 23 424 spindles and 640 looms; and
one built by the Hamilton Co., of sufficient
capacity for 20,000 spindles and 400 looms.
“The Lawrence Co., divides six per cent,
for the last six months.”
What whig in the United States who al
lowed himself to be so far bamboozled as to
believe one tithe of what bis polhical lead
ers and editors would pour forih on the sub
ject, could as late as six months ago have
dreamed of such results. Nearly twelve
millions of dollars engaged in manufacturing
in one town, and yielding magnificent divi
dends on the investment 1 new factories go
ing up, to run over 20,000 spindles each, and
from four hundred to six hundred and forty
looms!! All this too notwithstanding that |
awful British tariff which the Locos would
insist on imposing—a tariff that was to pros- 1
Irate American industry—to blight tiie hopes ;
of the American laborer, and desolate the
happy homes of our once thriving and pros
perous people. It would be really enough
now to give a patriotic man a fit of the hor
rors, to pick up a file of any energetic whig
journal going back to last summer, and read
its lugubrious articles on the impending ruin
of our country. That is, if he could believe
in their ridiculous rhndomontade, and frantic
ravings about the destruction of every lead
ing interest in the country that was to ensue ;
from the effect of the tariff of 1846. Strange
result of a law that reduced the taxation up
on so many articles of prime necessity used i
by our people!
But if such croaking could have made any |
one miserable, the antidote was always at
hand in the confident predictions of demo
cratic statesmen and journals. They never
regarded these gloomy pictures of whig pro
| phcey, but as the distempered visions of
i phrenzied partizans, or the cunning tales of
interested monopolists whose interest it was
to put on as high a rate of taxation as possi
ble, in order to drive away foreign competi
tion, and leave the home market to their un
merciful exactions. To secure them the
koine market for the benefit of home industry
j was one of the ad capitandum phrases adroit
ly used to obtain the exclusive privilege of
selling to their fellow citizens, by cutting
them off from all trade with foreign countries.
The magnificent profits they would have
I made can be judged by past results, under the
lariffof 1842, and more recently, even un
der the tariff of 1846, against which t hey so
insincerely raised so loud a hue and cry.
The letiers of Abbot Lawrence on the sub
ject are 100 recent to be soon forgotten. He
is a man of distinguished sagacity and intel
ligence. He predicted a state of wide spread
ruin,and that in a few months from the com
mencement of the new tariff—that the coun
try would be drained of specie, the banks
would all suspend payment, the credit of the
government prostrated, and our merchants
overwhelmed in bankruptcy. How different
the result, let every avocation and pursuit
testify. Behold the activity of every branch
of business—behold the busy scenes in
every commercial mart —look at the crowded j
1 wharves and the mass of produce pressing j
to the sea board for shipment. Look at the ■
prices current, and let each farmer and plan- j
ter ask a whig where is tiie ruin, where this
wide spread desolation that was to come upon
ns. Even the manufacturer —the staunch
advocate of monopoly, and contemner of free j
trade—the enemv of the doctrine that man ;
should be allowed to sell where lie can sell |
fur the highest price, and buy where he can j
buy cheapest, will, as he pockets his large |
dividends, be compelled, with all hiseffronte- |
rv to acknowledge that he has been a false
prophet. The influx of specie into this coun
try, in ibe last few months has been im
mense. Very recently two millions and a
half of dollars in foreign coin were sent by
the Collector at Nesv York to the mint at
Philadelphia to be converted into American
coin. This seems to indicate something like j
solid and substantial prosperity. The facts
cannot well be gainsaid. The whigs are
left only to ponder on these strange results, j
go contrary to their predictions, and wonder |
why it is the country is not ruined. Accord- j
ing to all received whig theories, it ought to ;
1 have been. But on the contrary, it will and
does go on, under democratic rule, prosper
j ing and to prosper—whig panics and whig
predictions to the contrary notwithstanding.
|?v I?ln£i>clic Trlrjjrnph.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.]
I ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
28 Days Later from England.
The following intelligence was received by tele
graph, from our New Vork correspondent:
London Money Market. —We have had an
unsteady market since our hist publication, but
tending generally towards a decline in the price
I of Consuls. It appears to he generally conceded
| that the course the government lias resolved upon,
namely, to take a loan of X 8,010,000 is the very
I best that could have been adopted.
The bidding for the Loan took place on the Ist
i March at the treasury, when, as the Messrs. Roths
child and Baring & Brothers were tlie only bid
ders on terms that were satisfactory to the govern
-1 tnent, the loan was divided between them as offer
i ed, viz: eighty-nine pounds ten shillings for each
; Xlon. Three per cent consol scrip of the new
loan, has borne H to U premium, since the fall in
i consols was about 1 to i per cent, for the nest ar
! count, consol scrip. The new loan If to li prem,
3* percent, 921 to 931 nnd the three percents 901
to9l{. Exchequer hills 3s to 5s prem.
Cotton. —There has been some revival in the
demand from the trade, with a considerable in
| quiry from exporters and on speculation, and the
I prices generally have been in favor of hold era.—
The market, however, closes quietly, and no
1 change can be made in the quotations oflast week.
At a public sale, 160 hales Sea Island were offer
| ed. but only 20 sold at 951. to 10ld, taken by specu
lators; 6500 American, &r. for export. 120,) Ame
rican, 50 Egyptian, and 150 Surat. The sales for
j the last w eek are 26,140 hales. Report from Feb
ruary 27 to Alarch 3 —The proceedings during this
p riod have been rather more active than for some
! time past. The total sales are about 19,500 bales,
a portion of w hich was taken by speculators and
exporters. There is not the least change in prices
since the 26th ult. so that the quotations then cur
rent stand unaltered: Bowed Georgia 6i to 6|d;
Mobile 61 to 7; New Orleans 7id.
The Corn trade ha> been in u very fluctuating
condition during the month of February. At the
time of the sailing of the Cambria the price of
IMeal continued to give way occasionally until
from the commencement of the reaction, the re
duction amounted altogether to about 8 to 10 shil
lings per quarter and Flour 7 or 8 shillings per bar
j rel.
It might be that this decline under the actual
j position of supply and demand was too rapid or
commenced too earlv, or that the nature of the
_
I discussion in Parliament revived the confidence
| of holders and warned the fears of buyers. To
wards the middle of the last month, renewed con
fidence was observable, and buyers again came
forward for Ireland, to purchase heavily, in confi
dence.
Since the upward move in grain commenced,
there has been an advance on wheat of 4 to 6
pence per 70 lbs., and in flour of about 3 shillings
0 pence per bhl. Oats ami Oat Meal remained
steady, but do not sell freely. Indian Corn has of
late given way 1 shilling to *2 shillings per 48 lbs.,
and Beans 2 to 3 shillings per quarter.
At our last market the prices paying here for
general runs of American Meal were 11 shillings
to 12 shillings per 79 pounds.
For American flour, sweet, 39 shillings to 42
1 shillings; sourdo. 35t. 6d. to 36 shillings 6d. per
j barrel.
Indian Corn, while 69 a 70 shillings per qr. and
I yellow do. 72 t 073 shilling* per 480 ibs
As to stocks, we make no comments. No du
ties are now payable, so that they are not so well
ascertained; but as far as regards demand, the last
market closed steady, although with less inquiry
than might have been expected.
Various reasons and opinions are afloat as to the
probable supply of breadstuff's, which we can pro
cure, during the p r esent season of famine and dis
tress. From the most recent intelligence from
America,we believe that there is reason to expect
that, with the opening, the last eight or ten days
the receipts of corn, Acc. have been light; and this,
added to the continuance of considerable export*
to Ireland, has caused the market to have a very
firm aspect, and prices have since returned, as re
-1 gards wheal and flour.
Indian Corn still continuing in great requisition,
and commands rlie high price of 6'J to 72 shillings
perqr. White and other kinds of Corn are cheaper.
Tlir rtlajor Grncrul.
It is rumored here, (says the Washington
American, of the 20ih hist.) and generally
believed, that Franklin Pearce, of Ne' v
Httnpshire, fortnely in the United State*
Senate, to whom the office of Attorney Gen
eral of the United States was tendered last
year by the President, and respectfully de«
dined, has accepted the appointment of Ma
jor General in the Army, and, it is said, ha*
gone home to make the necessary arrange
ments for his departure to Mexico.
!>evr Jflampnliii-c.
In the whole State except eleven township* and
plantation-!, all in Coos county, Jared VV . Wil
liams, Deni., for Governor, has a maj irity over nil
others, according to the Concord Patriot, of 870.
I The remaining townships and plantations will
j increase it to about I*2oo, The vote is the largest
t ever polled in the State, amounting to more than
| 60,000.
Eight Democrats and one Whig have been
elected to the Senate, and the three vacancos will
be filled with Democrats, The Senate will there
i fore stand, 1 Whig to eleven Democrats,
i To the House, as far as heard from, 145 Demo*
! crats, and 13S Waigs, Abolitionists, Ac., havo
been elected, giving the Democrats a majority of
seven, which will be increased by the towns yet
to be heard from.
In the 2 i 1 district, Charlc* TI. Peaslcc, Dem.,
is elected to Congress by 2231 majority over al|
others; and in the 4th. Jas. H. Johnson, Dem.,
by about 1300 over all others. In the Ist Jistricti
Jenness, Dem. has 627 votes morethau’Goodwin,
Whig, and in the 3rd, Moulton, Dem., has 960
more than Wilson, Whig. In the two lavt
mentionnd districts, there is no choice,—-a major*
I it v of all the votes being necessary to an election
Tl«e Turin' uud the •• Kuio/*
We extract the following from the money
article of the New York Tribune— a violent
| federal pa fie r :
The bn-iness of the custom-house, from
j the Ist to the 9th March, inclusive, present*
. the follow ill" results, as compared w ith the
I same period last year:
Is 16. 1847. Increase.
Free, 181,452 528,218 346,765
Specie, 38.866 114,861 74,895
! Dutiable, 1,722,804 3,493,373 J,770.569
Cash received, 509,614 904.088 394,475
Total imports. 2,453,736 5,040,541 2,586,805
\From our Correspondent.]
GEORGIAN OFFICE. }
Savannah. March 22, 1847, 7, P. M.
An inque-t was hold on Saturday last, by
Thus. Eden, E-q,, Coroner, over tlie body of
Josiaii Lloyd, a free boy of color, aged 19
years, who it was supposed bad come to hi*
death by violent means. A number of wit*
i nesses were examined, but there was noth
! ing elicited to prove that such was the case,
: and the jury gave a verdict “that the deceas
ed came to his death from some cause un
known. 5 ’
I The brig Excel, Capt. Macy, in endeavor
j ing to gel in sea on Sunday, parted her haw
; ser attached to the wharf, and ran into ihe
j brig Augusta, lying at the wharf, carrying
| away the A’s trysail boom and gaff, stove in
j her pantry and did other damage. The Ex
cel received no damage of consequence.
Large and Valuable Cargo.
The Hr. ship Tu.-kar, Capt. Chapman,
cleared yesterday by Eras. Wood, has a cargo
i of 3200 bales Cotton,weighing 1,231,958 lb*.
• valued at $131,154, and 157 casks Rice,
weighing 101.933 lb<. valued at §3,599.
Total value of cargo $134,753.
On Tuesday night an individual con
i fined in the county jail at Decatur on the
| charge of horse stealing, effected his es
i cape by cutting his way through the wail
! of the prison; his companion, a runaway
j negro, says that some six men assisted,
and hy their threats prevenied the negro
! from giving the alarm. From personal
| examination we are convinced that the
jail is very insecure, and it seems to ns
j had policy to erect so strong and service
! able a building as is the Court Motive to
try rogues, and so frail and weak an one
ito confine them in. If one must be of
i wood, hy all means let it he the Court
! Mouse rather than the jail. —Atlanta Lu
• minary , 20 th inst.
j _
j During a stroll over town on Tluirs.
! day, we counted no less than 40 build
j ings in process of erection manv of them
j two stories in height. We undrrsood
I that many more are under contract
though not vet commenced; and we doubt
no! thatthere will be double the number
of good, substantial buildings erected hy
the first of January next, than there were
previous to Jan. Ist of the present year.
Atlanta Luminary.
AUGUSTA FIKE COM PAN V.
A general meeting of this Company for practice
and insertion, will be held next Saturday after
noon (the 29th instant,) at half past 3 o’clock, in
front of the Methodist Church on Green-street.
A regular quarterly meeting will be held the
same evening at 8 o’clock at the City Hall.
By order of F. LAMBACK,
Ist Assistant Engineer.
William Phillips, Secretary.
March 24 ll5
We are authorized to announce TrlO WAS
HOPKINS, as a candidate for Council, from
Ward No. 2. March 12
{Kr Mr. Editor —Please announce the follow
ing named gentlemen as candidate* for Member*
of Council forWard No. 1, at the coming election
in April next:—JAS. GOD BY, A. P. SCHULTZ.
Feb. 18 *—
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