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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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LETTER FROM.
GEORGIA TO M ISSACHUSETTS.
AO. 11l
Dear Sister Mass:
In my last, I plainly showed you, how
utterly impossible it was for me to em
ancipate my slaves. Why, then, arn I
denounced and vilified by any one for not
doim r it? But why are yon among the
number who thus treat me? Does it be
come the Mother of Slavery to revile the
Heir ofSlaverv ? Every no,i slave h ilcling
Sister should sympathise —deeply sym- !
pathlse*—with me, seeing that none of rny
children now living had anything to do
with it in its inception. You all agree 1
that it is a "real evil—the direst curse I
that can befall a nation- how, then, should
you all act to an innocent Sister, or at
lest, to the innocent children of an on in" |
Sister, who is under the curse*? linbittor
it by harsh words and unkind treatment?
cut olf her rights?—withdraw from her
society? Will this militate its sorrows?
Will this remove it? Why, Sister, am I,
who am only your accessory in guilt, and
who became thus far implicated only un
der the sorest rernptat on—why am I treat
ed with less civility by you titan the Turk, 1
the Algerine, or the Russian? I hear
of no efforts made by you to emancipate j
the slaves of the-e people, nor have I ever
heard you speak harshly of them, upon
this score. This seems to be adding
cruelty—unnatural, ungrateful, wanton
cruelty— to your usual inconsistency.
Let us, in the next place, examine your
system of warfare against Slavery. I omit
your town-meetings, and the agencies used
in them, because they are all within your j
legitimate prerogative; they are good
schools for declamation, and excellent
things for abolishing the distinctions of ;
sex and color, while they are very harm
less to me. Your first plan is to disregard
all compromises entered into upon this
subject, and to twist the Constitution out
of joint as a part of this plan. Believe
me, Sister, a project thus begun, never
can succeed. Mow shall 1 address to you
the reasons for this opinion w ithout seem
ing to calumniate you? For myself, (
look upon a compromise, entered into for
the peace of the country, as involving a
sanctity which is exceded only by that j
which attaches to the communion and
matrimonial vow. I should instinctively j
recoil from the wretch who would ask me j
to violate it. I think I might defy you to |
produce a case in which a clear breach j
of faith has ever been productive of ulti
mate good to the party guilty of it. On
the other hand, I could produce hundreds, j
in which this conduct has been followed
bv the utter ruin of the perfidious pa'tv.
When a cabinet council was held in
France, in order to deliberate upon the I
propriety of violating a treaty, t he treaty, i
was read to the members in turn; all gave
their opinions to the Ivng, in w hich they
unfolded the great advantages that ho
would derive from violating it. After
hearing them all through, the Duke of
Burgundy closed the conference by sav
ing; “ Gentlemen , there is the 't reaty / ’
You must admire this sentiment, Bister,
keen as is its reproof to you, unless, for- I
Booth, you have worked in kitchens so long
that you have lost your relish fur the moral
sublime.
But what shall we say to a deliberate
Infraction of a to hind to- j
gether in peace and harmony, the several
members ofone great family! Surc’y, it j
is more sacred than a treaty between
distinct nations. Now, add to it the sanc
tion of an oath, which every member of i
the family who is called to the manage- I
ment of its local or general concerns, is
obliged to take; and then measure the ex
tent of its obligation if you can. To j
pervert its meaning, is to violate it in the
worst of all ways. To keep within the
letter and to \iolato its spirit, is to cover ;
perfidy with meanness. You a-k mo in- j
dignantly whether I charge you with
this vile conduct? Why no: not yet, j
at least, f am only speaking of your
clearly revealed plans, and it is possible
that you may repent of them before you
carry them into execution—or, which is
more probable, you may he prevented |
from executing them.
Your next device is to cons ract the area
of Slavery in the country. Ingenious as 1
you are, Sister, especially in the pursuit j
of money, if millions were staked an it, ;
you could find but one o’ cl in this
project, and it is this: to confine masters !
and servants to such a narrow territory,
that in a little time they both cannot live j
cn it. Thus far I can follow you; but what
you hope for, vs hen this point is reached,
God only knows. At that point the whites
must yield their territory to the blacks,
and move away; or the whites must put j
the blacks, or the blacks must put ihe |
whites, to the sword. There is no other
alternative; for, as you have seen, we
could not remove them now—much less
able will we be to do so then. Now, which j
of these issues do you yearn for, Sister?
When 1 find all your sympathies cu the
side of the blacks—when I sec them ad
mitted to your pulpits and communion
tables, and the whites excluded—when 1
witness your exasperation at the whites,
and hear vour ever streaming abuse of
them, I am constrained to believe that you
prefer the third alternative--that the
blacks cut the throats of the whites. Bui
when I hear you avowing that slave labor
shall not come in competition with nee
labor—that no territory shall be added to
the country, into which the free born jo os
of the North will have to commingle with
the slaves of the South —with much more,
which implies that the blacks, in your
estimation, are a degraded race, not to be
i | UJ t on a level with whites—( am led to
infer that when the throat-cutting tragedy
comes off, von hope to see the whites the
victors. Whatever you may desire, this
will certainly he the end of that drama;
and if you really sympathise w ith the
slaves, you cou’d not pursue a worse
policy than to contract the area upon
wl ich the two races are to live, until want
drives them to war. As to our giving the
slave-s our possessions and moving to the
free States, that, of course, w ill not be
done, and if it were done, they would
soon all perish. The only rational con
elusion that I can draw from your con
duct in this regard, is that vou care for
neither master nor slave, and that the
true aim of this circumscribing policy is
; to weaken the v.vcr ot slave holders in
' the councils oi the nation.
This conclusion is strengthened by
! many considerations :—your many corn-
I plaints of that power—your attempts to
reduce it during the last war—your op
position to the C denization Society—your
: refusal to give a dollar to free the slave
i from bondage—your contempt of him
when nut in comparison with Northern
I freemen—the little encouragement you
give him to come to your land—the cold
j ness with which you treat the black who !
| dors go there—and the few privileges you i
allow him when he gets there. To re- i
; concile such conduct, with either re'pect j
| for the master or humanity to the slave, !
jis beyond mv ingenuity. And yet to sup- i
: pose any being capable of such utter {
j abandonment, as this conclusion would j
imply, for the paltry purpose ofgaining a [
j little brief authority, is to suppose that
! Vice has yeaned anew, and brought forth
a moster that startles even Vice herself.
1 pray you, Sister, have mercy uj on your
I reputation for justice, truth or sanity.— \
i Do not speak, and so act as to bring them j
■ all in question; or to make them bring j
each other in question. If you really j
! would emancipate the slave, without af
i feeling the master, extend the area of
: slavery as widely as possible. Remem
ber, if vou please, (what I should be
ashamed to confess my ignorance of.) that j
to extend the arta of shivery, is not loin- |
crease the number of slaves. It is not to I
j increase their burdens. Just the reverse, j
! By as much as you widen the field of!
! slavery, by so much do you increase the ;
i proportion of whites to blacks within its ■
! limits. By as much a* this proportion is ■
! increased, hv so much is the divis'or of i
! ownership increased, and the fewer must j
he the number which each w hite man !
\ will own. The fewer that each owns, i
1 the better will ho treat them—the more !
i certainly will ho instruct them, an 1 the
; more ready will he he to emancipate
! them. Ist, because he will have a warm
er regard f»r them, from his closer inti
j nracy with them, and 2d, because he can
| do it at a less sacrifice. Surely, there is
no refinement or subtlety in this reasoning.
Every body knows that the man who
j owns hut three slaves, treats them better
; than does the man who owns fifty or a
; hundred. And if the whole number could
bo divided in the proportion of three to
one, every man in the country would lib
erate his slaves, and give thorn a start in
the world, the moment that he could sup
ply their places with white servants. For
verily, Sister, most of my children are
just as sick of them as you are of their
masters, and their masters are of you.—
! But the proportion must in a short time
! become even less than this. If no man in
tho country had more than one slave,
slavery must be soon abolished; aud while
the whiles increase faster than the slaves,
the tendency, under the common statutes
of distribution, must ever he to tin’s state
of things. As to the cry that vour free
born sons will not mingle with slaves, it
is like most of your crys—opposed to the
evidence of your senses. They do min
gle with them; and it is against them,
your ow n blood, as w r ell as mine, that you
are pouring out the vials of your wrath,
and meditating destruction. So much for
| your aims and the tendency of them. Lot
; us now look to ihe fruits of them, so far
as thev have been gathered.
First. —You have paralized the Colo
nizalion Society; an Institution which
united North and South, in the laudable
enterprise of abolishing slavery w ithout
periling freedom, of blessing the black
man without cursing the white, of sepa
r<iting master and servant by a power
which drew their hearts together as it
drew their bodies asunder, and of chang
ing the civil relations of the country, with
our violence to the constitution, or intru
si n either side- 1 have asked my
sell’, why did God permit m Institu mn
w! Ich promised so much goo-J, to be the
first victim of a fell spirit which threaten
ed so much evil? Am Ito t»ke it as an
indication of his favor, to these self infu
riated fanatics? And I have found conso
lation, if not truth in the answer; that on
this wise has he often permitted his own
most benevolent designs to be met by the
worms for whoso benefit they were in
tended. Even our holy religion began
witli the crucifixion of its great Head,and
the martyrdom of his disciples. IJo was
of the seed of Abraham? And who was
Abraham?—Be not alarmed Sister, I am
not going to speak of his household, but bis
progeny?—Who was Abraham? The
man to whom the second promise of the
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REFERENCES
G—American linn of entrenchment?, established B, D, E and F---Positions of ifie gunboats.
on the 13th- [Extending from Ft.de la Catita n-A Mexican redoubt, captured by our forces.
to a point opposite B ] Sloop of war John Adams was anchored on the
A and C— Positions ot steamers Spitfire ana _ .
y\ xc , south side of Sacrificios, opposite F.
Mosiah was made; (lie father of the peo
ple to whom the Old Testament dispen
sation was committed. But how strange ;
its beginning ! Its dawn found that very
people in the most abject slavery that ever
afflicted min—at least, so { understand j
the Scriptures. A slavery foreordained
by God himself, and continued forcentu- !
I ties. A strange precursor of the light
i which these people were to spread through
| the world ! From these things, and others
; to which 1 might advert, I infer that the
1 shock which the Colonization Society has
! received, is no proof that God does not
! mean to prosper it yet: or that he does
I mean to prosper the Vandalism which |
I laid violent hands upon it. May it rise .
| again with renewed vigor and strength, j
t and may the good of ail latitudes sustain
it and defend it, as the ark of our politi- |
cul covenant. 1 arn strengthened in the
opinion just advanced hv the fact that
Abolitionism, after nearly thirty years ;
i travail, has not yet produced oven a j
I mouse. Not a man has it liberated —not
| a blessing has it produced.
Secondly. You have severed the ;
Churches, and thus, at one blow, cut the j
nerves of Protestanism, and the strongest
bond of the Union. I speak ofthe first
consequence, not as a Sectarian, but to a
I Sectarian, a recruiting sergeant of the
| World’s Convention— ■(! have-this
i moment read the announcernt nt that the
! Wilmot proviso had passed the flouse —
! of course,* f am not in a frame of mind
ito write temperately. Excuse mo, until
| the re urn of belter feelings. There you
! are, Mass, first in the breach of the Con
i slituiion.) Nearly a day has rolled
! away, and I am again prepared to resume
my letter.
i You have sundt red the Churches, and
! thereby produced a state ot feeling as un-*
propitious to the cause of religion, as
vour political m ivements have been to the
stability ofthe Union. And here I find
great encouragement, in view of the rev
olution which your abolitionism is soon to
produce.
In every instance in which wo have
dissolved our associilion with you, our
peace and happiness have been greatly
promoted. Can you say as much. Sister?
Thirdly. —You have forced yourself al
most entirely from the affections of your
Southern Sisters, and led them to look
with a cold, suspicions eye upon all your
children who come hither. Many who
would have received a hearty welcome,
years ago, ami have bee n promptly intro
duced into a lucrative business, now
wander about among us, with their pock
ets full of flattering certificates, seeking
employment ami finding none. Some of
these are doubtless of that noble class, of
whom I spoke at the conclusion of my first
letter; but we do not know thern-and your
sins descends in penalties upon their
heads. Hut here I forget who [am talk
ing to. You who are plotting the ruin of
your own offspring, largely mixed with
mine, without feeling or remorse, would
rejoice at the discomfiture of those w ho
have ventured to oppose you at your own
doors. Would that I could know such !
They should receive my highest honors
and mv warmest affections. .
Fourthly. —You have really rendered
yourself contemptible to many of the
slaves themselves. Os this i could give
von some striking proofs. Forty years
ago anything looking to the emancipation
of our slaves, was spoken of only in whis
ers, and was printed only in asterisks;
now, we all talk as openly and freely
about the abolilionsts and their aims, as
we do of almost any other subject. The
truth is, they have heard so long, and so
much about abolitionism.and seen so little
good result from it—that they begin to ,
think that yon really care nothing for
them, or that vour fii mdship is not worth
having. The soundest philosophy hat
ever emanated from a negro’s brain.
Fifthly. —You have spraed your in- I
cendiarv principles abroad, and with them
the spirit which you breathed into them,
until your proselytes can overleapthe bar.
rips of the Constitution, with as little
scruple as you feel iu violating common
promises. You smile at their proficiency,
not perceiving that you are breaking
down the only safeguard which you have
from the fast growing power of the West,
and establishing precedents which will
come in vengeance upon you at no dis
tant day. Not perceiving that you are
♦ Georgia’s three first letters all came in quick
succession, consequently this has been on our |
files for some time. —EJ,
putting the scourge, of which you have
been complaining for forty years, into
hands from which you never can wrest
it again. B dieve mo, Sis, it will not he
long before von will want tiio help ofthe
much abused South, against whom you
have been practicing your political wiich
-1 craft and diabolical incantations with so
much success, \ou admit, do you, the
power of Congress to sav what must he
the character of the people, and what
their private relations, and whatcondi
-1 lions thov must have in their Constitution,
before they can he admitted in o the
Union. Very well. For the poor con
solution of being thought, hv and by
wiser, than mv very shrewd and self
j conceited Yankee Sister, permit me to
niter my solemn protect against this novel ,
1 startling, revolutionary doctrine. By the
| Shade of Hamilton, your Mentor in poll
! tics, and Madison, mine—joint architects
of the, splendid political febric under
; which ire live—l protest against it! I pro
nounce it an open, flagrant violation of a
\ double obligation—the Missouri Com
I promise and the Constitution
! What would have hreu thought of the
man who, when North Carolina consent
ed to come into the Union, should have
proposed to exclude her, on the ground
of her owning slaves? Nothing could
have saved him from universal execration,
but the [»lain indication in the proposition
itself, that the man was deranged. But
this is a legitimate point of abolitionism,
winch regards no law human or divine.
Os all the maladies that ever seized on
man, it is the most remarkable. It is a
disease in w hich there aie no stages—no
gradations. Its first symptoms arr, a
dethronement of the reason, a deadening
ofthe sympathies, an oblivion of friend
ships, and abandonment of shame, a for
getfulness of vows, an extinction of pa
ti holism, a recklessness of consequences,
and a rabid fury, which knows neither
bounds nor decency. Its victim is no
sooner seized then ho springs up like a
galvanized corpse—glares horribly upon
his guiltless friends—banishes them from
his heart —strikes down his compatriot—
raves at his Christian brother—snatches
the ucharisticelernents from his hand—
drives him from the [ ulpit—strips him of
his official robes —appropriates his con
tributions—spends them for weapons to
wound him—rushes to the arms of the
negro—then screams nut “that he is ruled
hv slaves”—and calls on Anarchy, in
the name of Justice, to absolve him from
their tyranny. Approach him kindly,
and ho insults you. Ask him what you
must do for him, and he is mute. Tell
him you know not what to do, and ho
gives you the lie direct. Administer to
his cravings, and he craves the more.—
Deny what he asks, and he usurps it. fie
seems to believe himselfclothed with the
prerogatives of Heaven and earth. lie
gives now versions of the Scriptures,
never before heard of, and changes old
ones, which have stood undoubted for
eighteen hundred and three thousand
years, lie stands at the door of the tern
pie, and says who may go in and who
may not. lie proclaims who are worthy
to mingle in the congrega'ions of I lie
Saints ami who are not. He anathema
lises whole nations, leagues and hundred
of leagues oft’ who are quietly pursuing
their own business and theiiv own devo
tions. lie calls fellowship.favor—cour
tesv, condescension —privileges— conces
sions; and with an arrogance, that despo
tism would blush to assume, he proclaims
what in Church and Slate he will tole
rate, and what he will never allow! He
feeds and faMens on what he professes to
abhor, and diives from his borders what
he professes to love. With the eye of
the eagle by day, and of the owl by night,
1 pries kitchens, quarters and shan
ties, for s' iCtiiing to snap a'; and when
driven lienee, he sets up a pilious howl
of persecution. He shrieks out at slavery,
and calls on the Catholic to help him
crush it. lie shrieks nut at Popery, and
calls on the slave holder to help him
crush it—then hurls a fire-brand into the
habitation of ihe one, and the Church of
the other. He begs, and abuses his gov
vernment —stretches its power and re
bels against it, receives its largesses, and
strikes at its pillars. And, what is not
tlie least remarkable circumstance attend
ing this unheard of malady, the world
seems to consider the name of it a J'uffl
cent apology for all its extravagances. —
“ He is an Abolitionist,” covers all guilt,
quiets all fear, excuses all insults, par-
dons all injuries. At home and abroad,
on sea ami on land,in peace anti in war,in
trade and in treaties, Abolitionism must
receive the first courtes, and then the in
leresis of the nation.
Such are the fruits of Abolitionism.and
such Abolitionism itself. Its promises
in mv next. In the meantime be it re
membered, th it the country owes it to
von, as it does mianly, the servitude
w liic'i it was intended to remove. Thus,
by your lust, you engendered a disease,
which, by your quackery, you have turn
ed into a cancer.
Your Outraged Sister,
GEORGIA.
AUGUSTA. GEO..
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1817.
j r We present to our readers a cut repre-
I the harbor of Vera Cruz, the Castle
I of San Juan de Ulloa, the Shoals and Islands,
I and the position of our lines beleagueing the
j city. This will enable our readers belter to
understand the operations which have recent
ly taken place, and will he useful fur future
reference. It is prepared for this paper from
a cut which was contained in the New Or
leans Delta, and has been pronounced cor
! reel by an officer of our N ivy, now here, ac
i quainted with the localities,
j Two unimportant clerical errors occur in
the rut. In Great Galiician one letter is left
; out, and in Sacrificius, one letter more than
necessary is put in. We write the names as
I ihe.y should be on the cut,
i
i Southern Alcdical anil Jourmit.
! This valuable periodical, tor April, is be-
I fore us. Jt is filled, as usual, with articles
original and selected, on a great variety of
1 toj ics, Surgical and Medical, which are well
i worthy the attention of the learned Faculty.
The Oiulcr of the Honn of Temperance.
The recent institution in this city of a
subordinate division of this order, has indu
ced ns to make some inquiry into its origin,
its aims and »ts progress. The subject will
cunmend itself to the consideration of every
lover of bis species, and no philanthropist
can read, without great satisfaction, the his
tory of its career in this country. Though
instituted but a few years ago, it has already
done much, very much, to mitigate one great
scourge of our race—the vice of inemper
ance, which annually hurries its tens of
thousands to untimely graves, and what is
wore, is unceasingly torturing, by the pains
ofmoverty, and file keener pangs of blighted
hope, the innocent and helpless dependants
on the degraded, brutalized drunkard. The
refoni a'ions accomplished by this Order are
thorough and permanent, as statistics will
show. They restore the reformed drunkard
to station —respectability—to industrious hub
|U», to a sense of self-respect, to the sympa
thies of his race; and secure to him, during
j his membership, the countenance and sup
port of firm and fast friends.
These remarks apply to thn?e, and there
j are many such, who have been snatched by
1 this institution from the lowest depth of de-
I gradation, where reform seemed utterly hnpe
! less, and the last stage of human misery had
been readied. But it would be an erroneous
j idea to suppose that it is of such chiefly that
J ;his society is composed. On the contrary,
the Sons of Temperance number in their or
| ,j er many of the highest position—the purest
character and brightest intellects oi the land
men whose whole lives have been unstain
! ed by a crime—unsullied by a vice. They
j add the influence of their associated exer-
I tions in this new Order, to the force of their
example in their life and conduct, w th a
view to slid greater usefulness. Having
premised this much, we now offer to public
attention a low facts winch may be cf in
-1 lerest.
The Order of the Sons of Temperance was
established in the City of New York on the
29th Sept., 1842. by sixteen Washingtonians.
The Order was instituted to consist of
Three Divisions.
1 First, A National Division, to meet annu-
I a.Uy-
Second, Grand or State Divisions—to meet
quarterly —one for each Stale.
Third. Subordinate Divisions of which
I there may be any number in each Stale that
the Grand Division of that State may see
; proper to organize.
The next Division in the United States
was established at Newark, N. J-, Dec. loth,
I 1842. Same evening another Division was
j established in New York.
The first Grand or Stale Division was es
tablished in New York city, January 9lh,
I 1343. Its first general meeting look place
! Oct. 10th, 1843.
Up to that lime, nineteen Subordinate Di
visions iiaci been established. Number of
members 1409.
January Blh, 1844, a Grand Division wss
established in New Jersey.
February sth, 1844, a Grand Division was
established in Maryland.
April 22d, 1844, a Grand Division was es
tablished in Pennsylvania.
June I Oil), 1844, a Grand Division was es
tablished in Massachusetts.
The National Division was established in
New York-City, June 17, 1844,
This Division is composed of the passed
officers of the Grand Divisions, and has juris
diction over the whole Order.
At this, its first meeting, there were then
in existence six Slate or Grand Divisions,
and seventy-one Subordinate Divisions, with
about six thousand members.
July 10th, 1844, a Grand Division was es
tablished in the District of Columbia.
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January 29ih, 1545, a Grand Division was
established in Virginia.
April loth, 1 Slo, a Grand Division was
established in Maine.
May 11th, 1815, a Grand Division was es
tablished in Ohio.’ 1
The second annual meeting of the Nation
al Division took place in Now York. J hero
were then ten Grand Divisions —one hun
dred and ninety-four Subordinates, and 17,.
000 members.
During 1846, charters fur Grand Divisions
were granted for Delaware, Indiana, Ten
nessee and Kentucky.
In June 1846, the order had increased to
fourteen Grand, six hundred and fifty fcJabor
dinates and over 40.000 members.
The Order is now supposed to number
about nine hundred Subordinate Divisions,
and about 70,000 members.
To give some idea of tlie usefulness of this
Order, we will state that though a secret or
der. it is organized on the useful principled
of benevolence, charity and friendship, which
characterize the orders of Masonry and Odd
Fellowship. It dispenses charities—it takes
care of the sick—-it provides burial for the
dead, and provides for the destitute widow
and orphan. The sums it annually disbursed
| is practical proof of its benificcnce.
In proof of the superior moral restraint the
! order exercises on its members, we state that
during the three months of the Presidential
campaign of IS4 I—a1 —a time of unprecedented
excitement, out of 4869 members in New
j York, there were but 45 violations of the
! pledge. Os these 19 rejoined the order and
continued exemplary members,
i Out of the whole number who are known
! to the National Devision in 1845 as having
once violated the pledge, 750 in a number of
36,000, but OS were known to have violated
the pledge a second time.
Oilier statistics of the same character will
corroborate these results, anJ show the great
efficacy of this order, in accomplishing refor
mations.
IVural.
| The U. »S. sloop-of-war Saratoga, Com
mander Farraguf, bound to the Gulf of Mexi
co, sailed from Norfolk on Monday last.
A Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun says:—Tthe U. S. Steamer Union,
j Commander Rudd, with 100 men and four 08
j pound Paixhans, would probably leave Wa.-h-
I ingfon on Saturday for the Gulf of Mexico,
I via Norfolk.
; Ilajli.
A letter in the Nsw-York Journal of Com
; merce, from J icmel, says the name o( the
| new Havtien President is Fauslin Soulouque.
lie is aged about 50 years, well esteemed hr
I the peop’e, a man of good and amiab’e rharac
! ter, am! distinguished for his firmness and
1
j courage.
Fcon) S7«'jil*a Tort.
The Sf. Louis Union of the 19'h Fays: —
I “A letter received in this city yesterday, from
Beni’s Fort, dated the Ist of February, writ
| ten by a man who had charge of the Govern
ment. stock near Taos, at the time of the re
i rent insurrection, confirms the report here
j tofore published by ns, of the ki ling of Gov
i ernor Charles Gent, Stephen and Elliott Lee,
ami the American citizens, and several Mox -
cans, at that place. The writer in a letter to
his relative, slates, that after the massacre,
the Mexicans commenced stealing the stock
he had in clurge, and having learned what
outrages they had committed in Taos,lie fled
to Bent's Fort. This letter puts an end to
the hope entertained here, that the repoit
! rnmbt have been exaggerated or unfounded.
, o ■ r’
The Itumora from Vera Cn;z.
The Washington Union of Monday eve
ning, in reference to the rumors from Vera
! Cruz, says:—•
The streets of ot;r city have tin’s day been
| inundated with rumors about Vera Cruz. It
: has been said, that the city had surrendered
| without firing a gun—and lit,at the ca-l!« of
i San Juan d’Uiloa was blown up. Neither of
these rumors is correct, as far at least as the
government is now advised. The facts are
these: —
A letter, which we have seen, has been
received this day from Havana, v. Inch states
that on the previous evening the steamer
Mississippi had arrived from Vera Cruz, hav
i mg taken the place of the unfortunate
| Tweed, which has been recently shipwreck
jed on the coast. From the reliable accounts
I brought, bv her, it would appear that Santa
Anna had ordered the troops to be w ilhdrawn
from the city, leaving the castle to defend it
self. According to an order issued bv Santa
Anna, it appears that tiis troops are to make
a stand at the Puente Nacional—the National
Bridge—about 23 miles from Vera Cn.z,
j We learn, also, through the channel of
j the same letter from Havana, that a new re
j volution has taken place in Yucatan—that
the Campeachy or independent parly have
been defeated—the party favorable to .Mexi
co, which lias been suspended since the 17tii
of January, has been restored—and all re
gulations adopted during this interval, have
been abolished.
The Apalachicola Advertiser of 27th ult.
' says—‘-The U. S. Steamer Ashland, Captain
| Watson, from Philadelphia bound to Tam
! pico, 54 days out, put iulo this port to repair
her machinery which broke at sea some 200
miles from this place, when she made the
rest of the way under canvass. She came to
anchor outside the bar, and (he steamer
Emily, Capi. Hail, went to her relief and
towed her up to town.”
The Injury to the telegraph line between
Wilmington and Philadelphia, and between
Philadelphia and New York, has been so great
from the recent storm, that they will not bo
repaired and in perfect order to resume busi
ness fur several days, probably a week or
more.
Nearly one-half the posts have been blown
down, and the wires broken in numerous
places. Large forces have been sent out in
all directions to make the necessary repairs.
When the lines are agaffi operating it will bo