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TH E CONSTITUTIONALI ST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. T £ ll M a . Daily, per Tn-Weekly, per annum 6 OU If paid in advance, 5 00 Weekly, per annum, * o 00 If paid in advance,.. 2 50 ToClubs of live, remitting ?10 tn advance. 2 00 £7* All uewtiuhw.Tipnoßfc must be paid in advance. 33T Postage mini l, c paid on all Comma ucalione and Lettersofbirint- as. warn —f— [From our Correspondent.] 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 *— i