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OLD FRIENDS TOGETHER.
ft Oh. time is sweet, when roses meet,
VV ith e prinif’s sweet breath around them;
And sweet the time when hearrs are lost.
It those who love have found them;
And sweet the mind that.still can find
A star in the darkest weather —
But nought can he so sweet to see
As old friends met together.
Those <lays of old, when youth was bold.
And time stole wmgfc to speed i ;
And youth ne’er knew how fast time flew,
Or knowing, did not heed it—
Though grey each brow that meets us nuw,
(Forage brings wintry weather.)
Yet nought can he so sweet to see
As those old friends together.
The few long known whom vearshave shown
With hearts that friendship blesses;
A hand to cheer, perchance a tear
To soothe a friend’s distresses.
Who helped and tried, still side by side,
A friend to face, bad weather—
Oh, tlius may we yet joy to see
And meet old friends tow-ether.
A French Valentine.
A Messieurs Field el Keende, edileurs , pro
prieleurs, tl tons ce qui cen suit, <>J de Re
v die:
Messieurs:—l ask you,en honneur, if my
case be nut too much annoying. \ raiment,
it will drive me mad—distracted—crazy
like vat you call vun March air; but 1 cannot
help it; it be my destinee—always (ruble—
always some dilemme—always in some Go
detn peekle or oder. But listen to de pre
sent treble novv on de record. De day of St.
Valentine (vun glorious saint!) come to pass
—tres bleu; it be my devoir, like vun true
Fran as, to make de leetlo valentines—de
itille billets, you understand—for de ladies.—
Veil, i sit down full of brillanles ideas—
write; scratch him out; put him back again;
read him over six or tirteen times; burn him
up; try noder sheet; go ahead; never stop;
full of energie—full ol courage. It vas like
de last effort of Mozart —dam interesting. 1
thought it vould take me vun day—it lake
me tree, four, five days. At last, ven I have
'it all finished, grand, poetique, diablement
.sublime, 1 vent to de Empire to get de opin
ion of my fren Monsieur Jean Jacquede Go
ronflat, President of de “seex beet hick’ and
a ash” fraternity; and as I begin to read, my j
fren begin to smile and nod, w:z a great deal
of approbation on his figure. As I finish de
last verse, Monsieur de 'Goronfl.it smile vunce
more, wiz more approval den never, and re
mark: “Dat is all very good, Comte, and
would have done excellament on St. Valen
tine’s Day; but, as it happens dat dis sacred day
does not.last all de year round, you have had
your pains all for nozing. It be too long now
after de Valentine day to send your note to
ze ladie, and you vould be laughed at for
your trouble.” Ah, mon Diett! Monsieur
Field et Keemle, etc., it came down on me
7ike vun thunder bolt!—vun shock of electric!
Zee note dropped out of ray hand; zee arms
dropped after -it; zee jaw inferieur dropped
‘opefc Viz astonishment; zee moustache fo’-
low de example; zee eyelid superieur dropped
up in vender, and I would have drop in a
‘•cock bat,” only Monsieur Fuller, wiz great
tenderness, support me wiz a stout “cock tail.”
Ah ! I sail nevair fail in gratitude to dal gen
tleman—so kind and philanthropic. Vun
cock tail have an effect magique,in restoring
me a leelle; so two or tree more must have
de effect a leelle more magique; and it did,
Messieurs Edileurs; de last one give me vun
good notion—suppose I write him in de pa
paire? It will be needless to say. Messieurs,
dat de last idee swept cveryting before it.
TO FANNY.
Ah! could dis leetle valentine
Tell her de (oughts dat roam
Trough dis love-streeken heart of mine,
’Twould speak of her alone.
I've seen her fairest ’mongst the fair—
I’ve sought for her where weetiest were;
A grace ’niongst muses was she dere—
The syrens paused to to list to her !
(What you link of dat, heiu, Monsieur
Editeur? Pretty fair, n’es ce pas? Ah,
pardieu ! I Jet him speak fur itself :)
’T be no use talking dus so free,
VVidin de precints of a note;
JVJais, vraiment, I’m in love wid thee,
A dat’sde raison vy I w rote.
Dere vas someting I did vish to say,
Ven 1 caught up my villing pen;
Mais, really, I’ll not write to-day
De brilliant touglu vich struck rae den.
(You understand de idee ?—vun passion
—vun sacred flame—vun holy fire—which
hasdevoured my heart, and vich, 1 link, be
consuming my liver also, fur I have lose all
my appetite.)
Howevair, you yourself may guess.
De secret reignent in ray breast,
And of me, Fanny, link not less.
Because by it I be distressed.
De leelle pocket book can tell
Vale’er you’d vish to know;
S’pose you don’t likede billets—well,
I’ve only spent one dime or so!
(Vun dollaire, Monsieur Editeur, vun
dollaire, I put van dime for de mesure, but
zee eacre leelle lings cost like zee diable!)
An revolt.
Lx Comte Gustaae llonore de Pipolet.
Rank iu the Army.
OR, A DARKEY’S DIGNITY.
After a portion of the troops had landed on
the beach near Vera Crnz, on the night of the
9lh of March, a body of the enemy commenced j
a brisk fire of small-anas into the encamp
ment. Ofcourse, all hands were on the qui !
l ive, expecting the Mexicans would make j
Borne demonstration upon our lines during the
night, and when the firing commenced, con- I
eluded there was about to he a general attack. |
The lines were scon formed, and not a word
could be heard from ihe soldiery, but there i
was a negro who kept running from one '
jittle point of hill to another, apparently iu a 1
state of great excitement. He finally laid
himself fl it on his face, at full-length, and
.commenced working himself into the soft
«and with a good deal of energy. On being
asked what was lie about; he replied, “I is
I’raid some ob dem’ere copper bulls will put
rwaiin rrT r nrnag.Tiiwvf.r>ife imm-wn ii ■ i.rtraewpg
a stop to me drawin’ my ra.-hnn.-.” ‘ Why, !
in the devil, asked the parly speaking to him,
“don’t you get up and fight them?” No,
sir-ee!" he said,‘Mat’s my nnssa’s part ob
de ui-zuess; he done been to Wes-pint, where
dey ma kes tight in’ people to learn dat, and
you d‘*n’t keirh dis nigger meddlin’ lie-set
wid odder peoples’ bizness. My niassa does
de fightin’ an’ f waits on him, an’ misses him.
Ifhe gets wounded we gets promoted.” “You
get promoted! What good will his promotion
i do you?” inquired the individual. “Oh’ Lor’
hab marev! dal question is been settled long
| time ago in de«e parts down here; a colored
I gemmen what wails on a kurncl always
outranks one dal wails on a capton, an’ de
1 way we colored gemrnen reg'lurs makes dese
volunteer niggers squat is a caution to while
! folks.”
Ah Gcuiiii.
i (’apt. Tobin, of the Louisiana Volunteers,
writing to flie New Orleans Delta, from Sal
tillo, give- the following account of an odd
j fish he met with on Ids way up the country.
“We left Gonzales, 30 in number, on the
; 11th ult., for Monterey, via San Antonio, and
j near a pretty village, called ISeguiti, a few of
’ us fell in with an odd fLlt enjoying a Colo
i nei’s commission. lie has a strange lialit 1
| ot using the longest words, and invariably j
i misapplying them; for instance, (he wished
| to sell us some lots.) —“Bur, gentlemen, if
i you wish to make fortunes: here is the lora-
I lion for a magnanimous city, vvere’re at the
1 foot of'navigation. Next year I'll put up a
, lawyer’s fixins, a potiiecary’s doings, and a
i blacksmith’s institution, and afterwards a reg
ular cimetary, where ail the folks from the
i circum jasper counties will send in their boys
| and girls of both sexes to be Mc.Adarnized
• into a college edication. Then I'll instruct
! a meetin-house, and the stores and taverns
1 will spring up in course. 1 can’t do lids till i
| next year,’cos I hav’nt got hard cash enough !
I yet, and I’ll have nothing to do with the !
i darned blank bills; let a man offer me one |
j and if I don't make sacrement of him, d—n
j me. Do you see that well? I’ll put a pump
j handle into it, and fix an anecdote to fetch
the water through all the meandering and
turpentine walks in my sassgarding, and the
effects of the arrogation will be such., thattfie
very air will be polluted, with the ordnrife
j runs execrations protruding from the flow
| ers—(if I’m an flcroncher in any tiling
1 it’s iu flowers.) I'll put up a diarrhoea in the
middle of’em, for my women folk to store the
1 milk and butter, &c.; and then run a condi
| tion through the house and provision it off,
j but I’ll run up a real edifice next year, and
clap a chronology on the top, so that the la-
I dies and gentlemen may look at the stars and
j milky-vvey through a horoscope tint I’ll ex
| port from Galveston. I can’t do it all at once,
as my women folks are growing up and get
ting more and more costive and expensive on
! me every year. Come in gentlemen—let us
j liquor.”
An Artificial Paraili.c.
tuk duke of Devonshire's conservatory.
Os this grand conservatory no belter idea
| can be given than by telling you that it is a
glass structure, which covers an acre of
I ground—that it is seventy feet high—and
; that the carrage road is continued directly
! through if, so that the duke and his guests
1 can drive through with a coach and four!—
j The whole duilding is heated by hot water,
the pipes to convey which measure miles
Tlie temperature of various climates is imi
i tated, and the Collection of trees and plants
embraces all that is fairest and loveliest in the
j vegetable world. Here is a whole avenue
of bananas and plantains lining one of the
: grand walks, and among them the Musa
■ Caieneisoii, full of flowers,' and laden with
I heavy masses of fruit. There, in an ap
propriate climate, is a charming grove of
i oranges and lemons. An aquarium, or pond
of water, is the site for all ? tie curious water
j 1 illies, and other aquatic plants of the tropics.
And near by is a wild mass of rock-work, or
Derbyshire spar, looking like a rich bulk by
a) forest stream, where rare exotic ferns,
i lichens and air plants enjoy themselves as
! near as possible to their natural homes,
j Over tltis hill ol rock work is conducted a
| flight of steps; this leads you to a light gai-
I lery carried quite around the conservatory,
I whence, as you imagine, the eye of the spec
tator revels in the strangeness and novelty
of the masses of oriental vegetation, not
i plants half starved and dwarfed in pots, but
I trees nearly Jfull grown, and luxuriant with
i their roots in the warm soil— palms, dates
! and bananas, developing almost all their na
i live Grandeur and oriental wildness!
j =»
Ylilc. Lola 31oute*.
This woman, (a Spanish dancer) is the one
| that has bewitched the King of Bavaria, who
! is sixty years old and a considerable poet,
j In a recent sonnet, the king compared htm
i selfto a high mountain, covered with snow,
j and the lady to the sun that has melted the
i frost from its top. She was born at Seville,
i and after perfecting herself as a dancer, start
ed forth in quest of adventures. At Berlin
site horsewhipped a gendarme, who endeav
ored to keep her from riding before the king
at a review. At Warsaw, she dared the Mayor
! to a duel from the stage. At Baris she was
I the cause-of an affairof honor, in which a
| talented editor, Dujarrier, was shoi; after
running the flower of the aristocracy of these
three cities, she left for Munich.
There she cut up such capers that, on the
| 16th ofFebruary, the people began to gather
around her hotel, threatening to burn her for
j having bewitched the king. So great was
1 the excitement, that the commandant of a
I garrison sent a regiment of dragoons to
i escort her from the city to one of the king’s
country seals, where he followed her I Ik?
i next morning. It would not bo strange if his
majesty’s love should lose him a crown. t
A Noble Recruit.
The New York correspondent of the Bos
ton Post, tells the following story:
“About a year ago, the Baron Van Winck
!er, a captain of artillery in the service of
the King of Saxony, arrived in this country
in (he ship Brarens, Capt. Flore, from Ham
burgh; he was an accomplished officer, and
an accomplished man. At the lime of (he |
Ronge riots in Leipsic, lie was in command
: of the citadel, and was instructed to summon
the Rongeites to disperse, and if they declin
! ed to do so, he was ordered to fire upon them.
| They refused to abide by bis summons, when
; he fired, and some two hundred defenceless
i people were killed. For this act of obedi
! ence he was censured by many people, and
i by some of his associates was insulted. For
j these insults he sought redress; challenged
' several of his companions in arms to mortal 1
1 combat, and killed two of them. Finding
himself in this unfavorable position, and act
ing in accordance with the advice of the
minister of war, he took shipping for the 1
United Slates, and with the intention of re- ■
inainiiig here till the excitement of Leipsic
growing out of the Rouge riots should sub-
side. He arrived here in March; was un
happy and discontented, because of flie ab
sence of active life, and had resolved to mi
crate to the copper mines of Like Superior.
While waiting here, the war with Mexico
broke out. lie immediately proceeded to a
rend< zcous, enlisted in the army as a private,
was despatched forih villi to Texas, and at
toe battle of I*a!o A'to was the first man
killed in the gallant charge made on the ene
my, He bad powerful and influential friends
iii the city, but be sought no other place in
our army than that of a private soldier.”
[From the Savannah Republican. 21 si inst.]
luicmting I.rUer from Mexico.
One of the editors has received from a
frien l on board the U. S. steamer Scourge, a
letter giving an account of the faking of Al
rarado and the city of Fra Ca Talpan. It is
from a Georgia boy. and though not intended
lor the public eye, we cannot refrain from
taking the liberty of laying a portion of it be
fore our readers. 'The letter is dated “Anton
Lizardo, April 4tb, 1847.”
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“ The morning after, we were ordered by
our Commodore to proceed to Alvarado to
blockade that port. We got oiT the harbor
1 about sunset, and began to fire into the fort,
I when it became dark, and the surf being very
heavy on the bar, with indications of a norlh
i or, we were compelled to stand off and on,
j which we daJ during the night. The next
morning wo stood in near the shore again,
and began firing a second time into the Fort,
when several horsemen were seen coining
down the beach, at full gallop and bearing a
white flag. We hove to, to see what they
wanted, when a boat was seen coming out of
(lie harbor, bearing a flag of the same kind,
and commanded by the Captain of the port,
who invited ns to take possession o' tfie town.
| We stood up to the town and anchored run
j out and pointed the guns, sent two officers
! with eight men ashore with, a summons of
! unrauditional surrender, (the bearer of which
w as your humble servant.) with but 30 min
utes lime for doing it, —all of which was ac
ceded to, —and thus was taken by one little
vessel of three guns and a bold captain, the
town of Alvarado, the bugbear of the Navy.
Hearing that the Mexican General with
four hundred men," had gone up the river
| with several vessels, and munitions of war,
| we immediately pursued him, capturing on
i our way up, four schooners, one loaded with
| powder, &c.,which they had run upon a shoal
i and scuttled, which burned; two we
brought down to Alvarado, and the other we
let them keep as being worthless. About 2
o’clock in Mie morning,we arrived at the city
of Fra Ca Talpan, fired a gun and sent three
officers, (one of which was “this child,”)
with six men to summon the Alcalde of the
city to surrender. We woke the old fellow
up out of a sound sleep, and had our ideas of
modesty very much shocked in seeing his
wife dress him in the parlour. However, we
put our hands before our eyes, (seamen and
all you know,) to show how much our‘Teel
ins” were outraged. I •have no doubt that
you will be much gratified at seemgtiiat I
l have lost none of the lessons ofyouih, in tire
wav of modesty at least.
We gave tins town thiriy minutes also—
terms, “unconditional surrender,” which were
acceded to. There were but nine of us ashore,
with about three hundred Mexicans, inhabit
ants ol the town, around us, with their sallow
faces and black eyes, looking the very per
sonification of treachery and deceit; I assure
you that it looked rather had. I believe we
could have made our way to the slior r, and
have been able to kill many of them, but some
or os would no doubt have been hurt, as the
rascals can use a knife exceedingly well.
Their cowardice is proverbial, however, and
that accounts for our not being attacked. Our
Captain was so impatient in his disposition,
and was so determined as to the time for
surrender, that I had to go from the Council
House to the beach several times to tell him
that we would soon be on board with the
articles of surrender. I had a body guard of
one men, to walk through these people, and
these cowardly wretches did not dare touch
us.
After the surrender of this place, which is
a very pretty town, containing some seven
thousand inhabitants, we returned to Alvara
do, getting there about sunset. That night
the Captain took Passed-. Midshipman Temple
and myself in his boat, and went up the river
to assist in bringing down one of the prize
schooners. On our way up we saw a large
boat which we ran aboard of and captured,
and found her to contain ninety hales of cot
ton, with a quantity of dry goods and hides,
worth three or four thousand dollars. You
can tell my creditors I expect prize money
enough to settle with them fully, and trust
in a shdtf time to do so. Fra Ca Talpan is
about six or seven leagues up a river of the
same name—the river is the most beautiful
that I ever saw. In some places the banks
are one hundred feet high, covered with the
richest verdure, with here and there a pal
metto-roofed cottage, looking as primitive as
need he. For the most part, there are miles
of level plain running back from the river as
far as the eye can reach, which are abruptly
terminated by high hills and mountains.—
These plains are covered with immense num
bers of cattle. 1 think I saw upon one of
them something like ten thousand cattle,
horses, fee. The alligators upon the banks
of the river, with a number of the same spe
cies of birds that we have at home, reminded
me much of it. ]
1 have given yon the pleasant part of our
cruise; now comes the worst. The Comtno- '
(lore has arrested our Captain and taken his
command from him. It is thus that the
young officers of our Navy are encouraged
in “well-doing.” For a dashing action, in
faking a place hv which our Navy has been
twice repulsed, and for pursuing into the in- I
terior a Mexican General, with 400 troops,
(nearly eight times his number on board the
Scourge,) who by the by we just missed
catching by an hour or two, having captured
the very boat he had gone in to Fra Ca
Talpan—for this has our gallant Captain
been arrested. His orders were not to cross ;
the bar, it is true, but circumstances render- 1
ed him justifiable in going up to the town, ’
as the Mexicans were burning and running j
away with all the public property they could <
lay their hands upon.
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Xlic Canvass in Tennessee.
The ball has opened in this state. The
candidates for governor have taken the field.
They addressed a large assemblage at Nash
ville on the 3d instant. The Nashville Union
gives the heads of the address of the whig
candidate, and if he be correctly reported, a
more suicidal exposition and avowal of opin
ion, at the present moment and under exist
ing circumstances,never tell from the lips of a
man. We repeal what we often asked before
—will the wings necer leant wisdom? — Alius.
The Union says:
Mr. Neill S. Brown, ('he whig nominee,)
declared himself in favor of “an old fashioned
National bank;"of“a modification of the tariff
i of 1846, that it may discriminate still more
for protection; “for a distribution of the pm
ceeds of the sales of the public lands, and
against the independent treasury. He de
clared that “the war was unnecessary, and
that it was brought on by the executive in
moving the troops to the liio Grande.” But
the war having been thus unnecessarily
\ brought on by ike president, he was in favor
of its prosecution until Mexico should pay
the expenses, should tey (he indemnity mo
ney she owes our citizens, and should agree
on a boundary line! ! He was willing to (alee
a mortgage on California to secure the pay
ment of all this money! hut was opposed to
tiie acquisition of territory by conquest! He
denounced the administration for its picayune
manner of conducting the war, and in the
same breath tried to alarm the crowd at the
enormous expense attending it, and dwelt
upon the reckless expenditures of the public
money with which it was prosecuted.
Casca. —“O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:
And that, which would appear offence in
us.
His countenance, like richest alchymy.
Will change to virtue, and to worthiness,
Cassius. —-Him and his worth, and our great need
of him.
You have right well conceited.”
The above linos which Shakespeare has put
in the mouth of the conspirators, when they
desired to win Brutus to their cause in order
that his great worth and popularity might
| redeem the grossness of the deed of blood
which thev perpetrated in the home of liberty,
might well he used by the whigs of this day
who seek the coifcilehiance of general Taylor,
to gild their worthlessness. They love not
him; care for his hafcl-earned laurels, nothing;
i his virtues they won hi he the last to imitate.
I and only use as masks to liieir designs. They
! prate of justice, honor, public gratitude, as
j though they ever felt, or cared to 1 eel one j
generous emotion. What are these things to :
I them? JSpokes in the ladder by which they j
, hope to clunh. And what to them are heroes? I
Imposing names by which to lead the people; I
and compass their own ends. 'J'hey have j
“great need of him,” but we imagine, the old ,
general will think he has small use lor them,
and give them little thanks and less support
for the lip-service they now offer him.—[*V.
O, Allas.
A Belgian journal relates that about a dozen
poor persons, driven from their huts by a fire,
went to seek for shelter from a chateau near
A’ost. In the absence of the proprietor, the
j iniendafit consented to lodge them in a grana
| ry filled with sacks of wheat, on the condi
tion that they would not touch it. They re- j
mained there three weeks, going out to beg
I in the neighborhood in the morning, and re- j
turning at evening, often without bringing j
back any thing, lint faithful to thier pro
mise, they suffered hunger rather than touch
the grain that surrounded them, and when i
the proprietor returned at the end of-the
time,he found all his sacks untouched. Moved
1 hv such noble forbearance, he promised them
j that tie would himself have their dwellings
refill ilt.
AUGUSTA, GEO."
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1847.
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03= For our share in the handsome com- j
plimerit paid by the Oglethorpe meeting to a j
; portion of the Democratic press of Georgia, |
i we tender our very sincere acknowledge- j
i moots. We hope their suggestions of the
urgent propriety of a very general patronage
of the Democratic papers of our Slate, will !
bo fully appreciated and acted upon. No
party can effectually sustain itself, however
correct its principles, without extending a
liberal support to the presses which advocate
i those principles and defend them Irom the
; untiring assaults of their opponents.
The Democratic party of Georgia can
i hoa.-?t of several journals of distinguished
ability besides those enumerated, and which
j we presume were omitted only because they
1 are published at points remote from Lex
-1 ington. • 1 • -d, .i
o
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Funeral of Mr. IVafew.
The funeral obsequies of this lamented
citizen were attended by the Mi’ler and
Washington Lodges of the Independent Or-
I derof Odd Fellows. Os the former, he was
a member in good standing. His remains
were conveyed in the country for interment,
to the family cemetery of hia connections by
marriage, and were preceeded by a proces
sion of the Odd Fellows, to the corporate
* limits of the city. The cortege there passed
through the lines formed on each sale of the
road by the brethren of this mystic Order,
who threw into the hearse their badges of
evergreen which they wore on the occasion,
as a token that his memory will he cherished
fresh and bright in their hearts. After this
touching ceremony, the Odd Fellows return
j cd in procession to their respective Lodges.
I
j We can pity the folly that will believe in
I such absurd lies, even in defiance of the
flood of light which the recent experience,
arising from the enlightened free trade policy
| of the two most commercial nations in tiie !
world, has poured upon the stubborn preju
| dices of protectionists.
The above sentence appears in the Geor
| gia Jeffersonian of the 2lst inst.. as a part
of an editorial of the Georgia Constitutional
ist which that paper pays us the compliment
of copying entire. It is the article devoted j
to “Messrs. Berrien, Stephens, Toombs and i
' Kinrr, and their Northern Allies.” The sen- i
' lencc quoted or rather mis-quoted succeeds
j the following, which will explain the folly
| on which vve were commenting:
j We can pity the folly and fanatical dog
-1 matism that would cling to the absurd theory
that Free Trade is an injury to a country,
and prohibitions, restrictions, monopolies and
the thousand fetters that class legislation
throws around the energies of a nation,would
he fruitful of blessings.
We call attention to this simply to make
a correction. The Jeffersonian has made a
mis-print. It should have printed, absurdi
ties for absurd lies. The latter is an expres
sion vve did not use. It is not in character
with us to use such phrases in our editorials.
The Columbus Times which also dopied
* -- ;
t!ie article, publisiied it absurdities, which is
a term correct in itself as applied, and is the
one we did use in our editorial.
The Steamer Cumbria.
We have no tidings of this steamer, due
at, 13 isfon at our latest dates. 1 lie ( aledo
nia, last vear, did n• >t reach Boston until the
20lii April. The telegraph between Phila
delphia ai d Baltimore was not in operation
on the 21st and 23d in.-t. We may hear of
her arrival by this evening’s mail.
Official Despatch©* from Gta, Taylor and
Col. Pile©.
The Washington Union of the 19th inst.
contains the official despatches of Gen. Tay
lor, giving lull particulars of the bailie of
Buena Vi-ta. It is the most lengthy docu
ment that has emanated from the pen of the
valiant old hero, occupying over three col
umns in the Union, \\ e will give it in our
next.
The letter of Col. Price sheds much light
upon the transactions in New Mexico.
Troops lor New
The St. Louis Republican of the 18Kh
instant, says:—We understand that a report
has gained currency in this city, that Gov
ernor Edwards has received orders from the
War Department to raise two regiments of
volunteers to march to the relief oftho e now
in New Mexico. A gentleman who came
passenger yesterday on the Tamerlane, from
Jefferson city, is said to have derived the
same information from tiie Governor.
| The Philadelphia North American of the
; 19lh inst., says—We hear that a requisition
has been made upon this State for more troops
i —to what amount we do not learn. As soon
' as mustered they will be ordered to reinforce
both the commands of Gens.‘Scott and Tav-
I lor. This will be pleasing news to some of
i our companies who were disappointed in re
j ceiving orders under the last requisition.
A New York letter published in the Phila
delphia Inquirer says—
One of our best silk and dry good houses,
in Pearl street, failed a day or Iw-o since, after
a career of ten years. The amount of their
indebtedness is estimated at four hundred
thousand dollars. The large auction houses,
it is said, are the principal lookers.
Arrival of lb© Diiucclon.
The Ba timore Sun of the 2<i li inst. say?. —
We learn from passengers on board the
Philadelphia boat hist night, that the steamer
Princeton, from Vera Cruz, via Pensacola
and Havana, arrived at Philadelphia with
Com. Conner on board, at -4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
The New-York Journal of Commerce says
—The Dry Dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
is making rapid progress. The new steam
pile-driver recently set up there, has been
tested, and is competent to make sixty blows
i in a minute. About 400 men are now em
ployed at the Dock. The Sabine, a frigate
I of the largest class, is ready for launching,
I and it is expected will soon be afloat.
t a;>l, Vinton.
Several typographical errors having occurred
i i the following extract of a letter from the late
Capt. Vinton, we republish it, corrected. ,
“1 have hit herto lived mostly for others—but
my children will reap some of the fruits of my
sell denial, in’ the means I shall leave them of
living independently, and securing a good educa
tion. I commit them in full reliance to the care
of their Heavenly Father, and I hope their trust
in Him will ever be at least as firm and unceasing
us has been my own. My confidence in the
overruling Providence of God is unqualified; so
that I go toihe field of action fully assured that
whatever may befall me will be for the best. 1
feel proud to serve my country in this her appeal:
and should even the worst—death itself—be my
lot, I shall meet it cheerfully, concurring fully in
the beautiful Roman sentiment, “Duke el de
corum cat ]>ro Palria mori ”
Democratic Electing in Oglethorpe.
Pursuant to previous notice, a large and
respectable portion of the democratic party
of Oglethorpe convened at Lexington, on
Monday the 19th inst.
When on motion, Hon. Sarnl. Lumpkin
was called to the Chair,and Hiram L. French
requested to act as Secretary.
On motion. Col. Win. McKinley stated the
object of the meeting, viz; to appoint Dele
gates from this county, to attend the Demo
cratic Convention soon to he held in Mil
ledgeville—for the purpose of nominating a
suitable candidate for Governor.
On motion of Col. McKinley the Chairman
appointed the following Committee to nomi
nate three suitable persons as Delegates, viz:
Isaac W. Johnson, Richd. Winfrey, F Phin
izy, Chs. S. Merriweather and Marshall
Jackson,—who after retiring, reported the
names of the following gentlemen, to wit:
Col. Win. McKinley, F. Piiinizy and Hiram
L. French, —which nomination was unani
mously received and power given them to
fill any vacancy which may occur.
On motion, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved , That whereas the influence of
the Press is universally acknowledged—it is
j therefore of the highest importance that
j sound Democratic principles should be dis-
I geminated amongst the people.
To this end ue urge the Democracy of this
j county to subscribe to and circulate freely the
able Democratic journals of onr State—of
which we mention the Federal Union, South
ern Banner.and GeorgiaConsfifutionaiist— the
last mentioned being particularly desirable—
not only on account of the soundness of its
principles—the ability and energy of its edi
tor—but also on account of the general in-*
telligence of the paper—being published in
Augusta—our market.
Resolved, That the Secretary furnish co
pies of these proceedings to. the Editors of
the Federal Union, Southern Banner and
Georgia Constitutionalist, with a request to
give them publicity.
After which the meeting adjourned.
SAML. LUMPKIN, Chairman.
H. L. French, Sec’ry.
Lexington, Ga„ April 19, 1547,
* m. <,
Important to Mlnreliuldcrs.
Columbia, April 15.
i The following case winch came up before
I his Honor, Judge Wardlavv, at the recent
term of the Court for Kershaw district, and
the action taken therein, involve considera
tions of vital interest to every slaveholder iu
South < ’a rolinia:
South Carolina, > Iu the Court of Common Pleas,
Kershaw District. > March 1 criu, I3E.
Juliu Harrison ) .
t-g. > Case—for selling Whisky to a
Jefferson Berkley. ) Slave.
The evidence as given in tins case, was
substantially and briefly as follows:
It appeared that on the 21th of December,
1 845, the defendant. Jefferson Berkley, kept
a urog shop in Camden, and sMcl the plain
tiff's slave, Bob, a gallon and a quart of whis
ky—-that on tiie road home. Bod drank ot the
whinky, became very drunk, fell down seve
ral times, and once in a creek, and would
probab y have been drowned, it he had not
been assisted out —that he lay out all night,
and was found dead near the road next morn
ing—that his death was caused by the intoxi
cation, and exposure to tiie inclemency ot
the weatner.
Tue Jury, (Dr. William Carlisle being
Foreman.) under the charge ,of his Honor,
Judge Ward’aw, found a verdict for tlie plain
tiff lor Six Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
SMAII T «!U GR.EGG.Ior Plaintiff,
J. M. DESAUStSURE, for Defendant.
The Cotton Crop in Alabama.
A gentleman, arrived from Mobile to day,
informs us that such have been the ravages
i of tiie worms in Alabama that till the young
cotton lias been completely destroyed by them
on all the plantations between .Mobile and
Demopolis; and that the work of destruction
is so complete that the planters have coun
| tertnanded their orders fur rope and bagging.
—A. O. Mercury
Lnrjie fa iaou.
The editor of the Natchez Free Trader has
been presented by Mrs. James Tooley of that
citv,vvitb a lemon grown in tier garden, mea.--
I nring eleven inches and a half in circumfer
ence. It was grown on a tree ot her own
raising, and this is the second year it has
borne. 'The lemons, the Free Trader says,
are as fine ;n flavor asjthey are large in size.
—lb.
ALEXANDER McKENZIE, Jig
ATT OR Xi : V AT, LV W .
Wavnescoro’, Burke Cou.vrv, Ga.
April 29 ly 163
IX~P Dividend Xo. I'd. —Georgia
Rail Road and Banking Company.—A Dividend
1 of •32 per share on the capita! stock of lias compa
ny, will be paid to the stockholders on and after
the J'.'th inst. J. W. WILDE, Cashier.
1 April 16 6—lc 165
£o‘ DUST CLEVELAND A: SPEAR having
purchased a license to administer Dr. Morton’s
Letheon, for the alleviation of pain iu surgical ope
rations, are the only persons now authorized to
| use it in Richmond county, Georgia.
They are also authorized to act in the sale of
j licence for places unsold.
D. G. TEMPLE,
April 13 dtf Agent for I >r Morton.
DR. J. A. CLEVELAND, has returned
I to this city, and may he consulted at the office of
Cleveland As .Spear, over the store of Messrs. Al
driclt A: <lreeu. Feb. 28
VEAI*O LIT A \ If ON\E TS .
PATTI SON, NOE & CO.,
Patentees and Manufacturers, 23 Delaney Street,
New York.
Feb. 23 3m— 121
rO 3 /v. S. Jackson , Teacher on
the Piano Forte, Flute and Violin, respectfully
tenders ius services to the citizens of Augusta.
References—Henry Parsons, Thus. Richards
and T. S. Metcalf, Iv-q'rs.
B.—For terras, Ac., inquire at If. Parson’s
Music store. (on Dec. 1
W. WILSON^
rOR TR A I T I* A I N T U R .
| Studio—L niturian Church, corner of Greene and
Jackson-streets.
April 9 160
DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.
This splendid and popular Monthly Periodical
is now published at $3 per annum—ev* ry number
containing a likeness of some prominent man.
March 14 A. G. WILLIS, Agent.
•Uli «EZi AJi-VPA if XT 'ZTSDMt A rgiT*ll —H ■! . THBLgrsrWBCVVSSrta*' '
. COMMERCIA I.
latest dates krom liveiifooL,:::::;:.mar.cn 19-
f LATEST OATES PROM M vvnK.::::;:;;;:•: M \K( u 15
CHARLESTON IMPORTS. APRIL 21-
T.tverpool—Ship Franklin—lsoo sacks 3-dc,.
to the master.
NEW YORK, April 19—24 P. 31.—Colton,
nothing doing.
Floor, Western is .$7.53 aB. Sales tywxf brand*
at 83; 10,000 bn. Rye at 100 ets.; 20,000 f>«. yellow
I Corn at 100 <ts.; 1000 white at US to distillers.
Meal, 15 0 bbh. at 4.75.
Sterlimg is still tharer, sojne drawers ask G.
prem.; francs 5,40 a 424.
MOBILE, April In — Codon. —The arrivals thi*
week amount to 6,333 bales, and the exiK>rts an*;
; 911 hales. Ihe stock on hand and on ship hoard
not cleared is 149,641 hales, agahisi 131,323 same
time last season.
Onr last review left the market somewhat firm
but quiet—sales on Friday readied 1501) hales, ami
j middling cottons at lOic. A good inquiry prevail
ed on Saturday, and 1500 bales changed hands at
j the. rates current the preceding day, but on Mon
day the market exhibited a marked want of anima
j lion, w hich was continued uu Tuesday, ami dur
ing the two days, although some better disposition
to sell was exhibited on the part of a few holders,
only I‘iOO hales were disposed of and at rates slight
ly reduced, especially the lower grades. There
was a revival In the demand on VVendesrfay, and
2000 bales were sold at the rates of the previous*
: days, hut on Tuesday the market was again almost
i at a stand—factors holding out for softer prices,
and purchasers refusing to go on unless at a reduc
tion. In this condition of things, wjiich continued
up to Friday evening, only J9LKJ hales were do -
' posed of in two days. The principal holders are
! firm and indifferent about offering their stocks, and
i the business of the week, which sums up only 6900
j bales, has been chiefly done by picking up small
lots werefplanters had ordered sales. Onr quotations
. I show a slight falling off in the lower descriptions,
and the week closes on a very dull market. The
j principal purchases have been on Northern and
• 1 English account.
. i LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.
Ordinary, 91 a—
Middling
Middling fair, lOJa 1 t
Fair, 114a 111
Good fair, nominal.
Guc,d and fine, nominal.
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 17— Colton.—Ar
rived since Die 13ih instant, 75 tG hales. Cleared
in the same time 6756 bales—making an addition
! in stock of7UO bales,and leaving on hand, inclu
sive of all on shipboard not cleared on the loth in
stant, a stock of 2 .‘6,560 bales.
Our last report left the Cotton market with but
a moderate supply offering, and we had occasion
i to remark that rather more full prices were paid for
the better grades, which were in considerable re
| quest for the Continent and the North. Since then