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15E CONSTITUTIONALIST 1 ' JAMES GARDNER, JR t e k .n n . J Daily, p**r annum, * §8 00 Tri-Wt-ekly, per annum, 6 00 If paid in advance, 5 00 | W eekly, p*r annum, a 11 paid in advance, T O C L L ns. }\c call particular attention to the following ttnas of our jxijier : To flubs, remitting $lO in advance. FIVE COI’IFS are sent. This will pm our weekly |Ht per in the reach of new subscribers at TW O DOLLARS V Y EAR. J£r All newsultscripliuns must be paid in advance. I jpy*Postage must be paid on all (Jummimicatu ns and LeDersof business. - ,'IT!.! '-Ve —— ■ "'"■■■■ __ DIVIDED LOVE. BV SAMUEL LOVER. When Love o’er ihe warm heart is stealing Ills mystic, his magical chain. How wild is the transport of feeling. We scarce can call pleasure or pain . Till 'midst the bright joy that surround us. Our bondage we tremble to see; Jluf so closely bis fetters have hound us. We struggle in vain to be free ! As vain is the hope of retreating From peril that lurks in the eyes, Wnen nl inc.es to • fluent, are meeting. And sighs are re-echoed by sighs; When thus, w ith two hearts that are lender. The folly so equal hath been, » J’„ med thatW/< should surrender, And share the suit bo iid age bt t,\een. ( j oin Atov .Tlcxico. IlEiDdt/ARTEKs Army in >ew Mexico, ) 6ant.i Fe, Feb. 15, lbl7. $ Sir: I have the honor to submit io you a short account of the recent revolution in \ litis Territory, and a detailed report of i Die operations of the forces under my com ruantf, consequent ujion the rebellion. About the loth of December last 1 re | ceived informal ion of an attempt to ex- | cite the people of litis Territory against the American government. This rebellion ' was headed by Thomas Ortiz and Diego Archuleta. An officer formerly in the Mexican service, was seized, and on his person was found a list of disbanded Mexi. can soldiers in the vicinity of Santa Fe. Many other persons, supposed to be itnpli- | caled, were arrested, and a full invesli- i gation proved that many of the most in fluential persons in the northern part ol ibis Territory were engaged in the rebel- j lion. AH attempts to arrest Ortiz and Archuleta proved unsuccessful, and these rebels have, without doubt, escaped in the • direction of Chihuahua. After the arrest above mentioned and the flight ofOrliz and Archuleta, the re- , hellion appeared to be suppressed; but i ibis appearance was deceptive. On the 14th of January, Gov. Bent : left this city for Taos. On the 19th nf the same month, this valuable officer, to gether with five other persons, were seized at Don Fernando tie Taos by the Pueblos and Mexicans, and murdered in the most inhuman manner the savages could de vise. On the same day, seven Amen, cans were murdered at the A nova Hon da, and two others on the Rio Colorado.— The names of the unfortunate persons thus brutally butchered are as follows: At Don Fernando de Taos. —Charles Bent, governor; Stephen Lee, sheriff; j James VV. Leal, circuit attorney ; Cor- i nelio Vigil, (a Mexican,) prefect; Nan cisus Bcaubien, (son oftho circuit judge;) Parbleau Harvimeab, (a Mexican.) At the Arroyo. Honda. —Simeon Tur- i Jedy, Albert Turbush, William Hatfield, j Louis Tolq tie, Peter Robert, Joseph Mar- j shall, William Austin. At the Rio Colorado. —Mark Head, William Harwood. It appeared to be the object of the in surrectionists to put to death every A me- i I'ican and every Mexican who bad accept ed office under llie American government. News of these events readied me on i the 20th of January ; and letters from the rebels, calling upon the inhabitants of the Rio Abajo lor aid, were intercepted. It was now ascertained that the eriemv was approaching this city, and that their force i|was continually being increased by the 1 inhabitants of the towns along their line j of march. In order lo prevent the enemy from re ceiving any further reinforcements in that manner, i determined to meet them as soon as possible. Supposing that the detachment of the necessary troops would weaken the garrison ofSanta Fe too much, I immediately ordered up from Albuqner- j que, Maj. Edmonson, 2d regiment Mis- | souri mounted volunteers,and Capt. Burg, win, with their respective commands, di recting Capt. Burgwin, to leave one com pany of dragoons at this post, and to join me with the other. Maj. Edmonson was directed lo remain in Santa Fe. Captain Giddings, company A 2d regi ment Missouri mounted volunteers, was also ordered to join me with tiis compa ny, upon the arrival of Capt Burgwin. j Leaving Lieutenant Colonel Willock in command of this post, on the 22d of Janu ary I inarched from this place at the head of Companies D. Captai/n McMillen, K, Captain Williams, L, Captain Slack, M, Captain Halley, and N, Captain Barber, of the 2d regiment Missouri mounted vol unteers, Captain Agney’s battalion of in fantry, and a company ofSanta Fe vol unteers,commanded by Captain St. Train. 1 aLo took with me four mountain howit- which I placed under the command of Lieutenant A. B. Dyer, of the ord nance. My whole force composed three hundred and fifty-three rank and file, and, M itb the exception of Captain St. Train's company, were all dismounted. On the march, Captain Williams was taken sick, and the command of Company K devolved upon Lieutenant B. F. White. On the 24th of January, at half past 1, p. m.our advance (Captain St. Train’s company) discovered the enemy in considerable' force near the town of Canada, their po sition at that time being in the valley bor dering the Rio del Norte. Preparations were immediately made by me to attack them; and it became necessary for the ttoops to march more rapidly titan the am munition and provision wagons could liavel, in older to prevent the escape of toe enemy, or to frustrate them in any at tempt they might make to occupy com manding positions. As I entered the val ley, 1 discovered them beyond the creek on which the town is situated, and in full possession of the heights commanding the toad to Canada, and of three strong houses at the base of the hills. My line of battle was immediately formed—the artillery, consisting of four 12 pounder mountain howitzers, being thrown for ward on the left flank and beyond the creek, the dismounted men occupying a position where they would he, in some de ] gree, protected by the high bluff bank of the stream from the fire ot the enetnv, un i til 'he wagon train could he brought up. i she artillery opened on the houses occu ; pied by the enemy, and on the more dis tant height, on which alone theguns could be brought to bear. The enemy, discov. eiiog the wagons to be more than a mile in the rear, sent a large patty to cut them off; and if became necessary to detach l Captain St. Train’s company for their protection. Phis service was tendered in 'be most satisfactory manner. So soon as the wagon train had been brought up, I ordered Captain Agney to charge with j his battalion of infantry and dislodge the enemy from the house opposite the right flank, and from w Inch a warm fire was 1 being poured on us. ’Phis was done in J the most gallant manner. A charge was then ordered to he made upon all the [> >ints occupied by the enemy in any force. Cap! ain Angney, with his command, sup- I ported by Lieutenant \Vbile’s eompany, charged up one hill, while Captain Si. j Train’s company turned the same, in order to cut of! the enemv, when in re treat. The artillery, supported bv Cap tains McMillen, Barber, and Slack, with their respective companies, at the same time took possession of some houses (en closed by a strong corial densely wooded j with fruit trees, from which a brisk fire : was kept np bv the eneriiv,) and of the heights bevond them. Captain Halley’s { company w as ordered to support Canfain j Agney. In a few minutes my troops ■ had dislodged the enemy at all [joints, and they were flying in every direction. The , nature of the ground rendered pursuit hopeless, and it being near night, I order ed the troops lo take up quarters in the town. The number of the enemv was about fifteen hundred. Lieut nant Irvine was wounded. In the charge rnv loss was Iwo killed and six wounded. Ofthe killed, one was a teamster, who volunteer i ed in Captain Angney’s company. 'The loss of the enemy was thirty-six killed; wounded not ascertained. The next morning the enemy -showed themselves in some force (I think not less than tour hundred) on the distant heights. Leav. ing a strong guard iti the town, I march ed in pursuit of them; hut they were so shy, and retreated so rapidly, that, find i ing it impossible to got near them, I return ed to town. While at Canada, a number of the horses belonging to Captain Slack’s com pany were brought in by Lieutenant Holcomb. On the 27th. I advanced up the Rio del Norte as far as Luceros, where, early on ' the 2Sih, I was joined by Captain Burgwin, commanding company G Ist dragoons, and company A 2d regiment Missouri mounted volunteers, commanded by Lieu j tenant Boone. Captain Burgwin’s com mand D as dismounted, and great credit is ; due to him and his officers and men for the rapidity with w hich a march so long and arduous was peiformed. Atlhesame time Lieutanant Wilson, Ist dragoons, who had volunteered bis services, came up with a 9-pounder, which had been sent I for from Canada. My whole force now comprised 479 | rank and file. On the 29;h. I marched ■ to La Joya, where I learned that a party of sixty or eighty of the enemy had posted themselves on the steep slopes of the mountains which rise on each side of the canon, or gorge, which leads to Embudo. Finding the road by Embndo impraticable for artillery or wagons, I detached Capt. Burgwin in that direction, with his own company of dragoons and the companies commanded by Captain St. Train and Lieut White. Thisdeffehment comprised 180 rank and file. By mv permission, Adjutant R. Walker, 2d regiment Missouri mounted volunteers accompanied Capt. Burgwin. Lieutenant Wilson, Ist dragoons, also volunteered his services as a private in Captain St. Train’s company. Captain Burgwin, pushing forward, discovered the enemy, to the number of between six and seven hundred, posted on the sides of the mountains, just w-itere the gorge becomes so contracted as scarcely lo admit ol the passage of three men mar ching abreast, r The rapid slopes of the mountains rendered the enemy’s position very strong, and its strength was increased by the dense masses of cedar and large frag menls of rock which everywhere offered them shelter. The action was comrnenc ed by Captain St. Train, who, dismount ing his men, ascended the mountain on the left, doing much execution. Flanking parties were thrown out on either side, commanded respectively by Lieutenant White, 2d regiment Missouri mounted volunteers, and by Lient. Mcllvaine and Taylor, Ist dragoons. These parlies ascended the hills rapidly, and the enemy soon began to retire in the direction of Embudo, bounding along the steep and rugged sides of the mountains with a that defied pursuit. The firing at the pass of Embudo had been beard at La Joya, and Captain Slack, with twenty five mounted men* had been immediately despatched thither. He now arrived and rendered excellent service by relieving Lieutenant White, whose men were much fatigued. Lieutenants Mcllvaine and Taylor were also recalled; and Lieuten ant Ingalls was directed to lead a flanking party on the right slope, while Captain Slack performed the same duty on the left. The enemy having by this time retreated beyond our reach. Capt. Burg win marched through the defile, and de bouching into the open valley in which Embudo is situated, recalled the flanking parties, and entered that town without opposition, several persons meeting him with a white flag. Our loss in ibis action was one man killed, and one severelv wounded, both belonging to Capt. St. Vrain’s company. The loss of the enemy was about twenty killed and sixty wounded. Thus ended the battle of the pass of Embudo. On the 30lh, Capt. Burgwin marched to Trampas, where he was directed to await the an ival of the main body, which, on account oflhe artillery and wagons, was forced to pursue a more southern route. On the 31st, I reached Trampas; and being joined by Capt. Burgwin, mar ched on to Chamisal with the whole com mand. On the Ist of February we reach ed the summit of the Taos mountain, which was covered with snow to the depth of two feet; and on the 2d. quartered at a small village called Rio Cliicito, in the | entrance of the valley of Taos. The | marches oflhe Ist and 2d were through j deep snow. Many of the men were frost- ! bitten, and all were very much jaded j with the exertions necessary to travel over unbeaten roads, being marched in front of the artillery and wagons in order i to break a road through the snow. The : constancy and patience with which the | troops bore these hardships, deserve all ! commenda'ion, and cannot be excelled ! by the most veteran soldiers. On the 3d, I marched through Don Fernando de i Taos, and finding that the enemy had 1 fortified themselves in the Pueblo de Taos, ! proceeded to that place I found it a place of great strength, being surrounded by adobe walls and strong pickets. Within the enclosure and near the northern and ! southern walls, arose two large buildings I f ■ ! of irregular pyramidal form, to the height j of seven or eight stories. Each of these buildings were capable of sheltering five or six hundred men. Besides these, there I were many smaller buildings, and the large church of the town was situated in the northeastern angle, a small passage being left between it and the outer wall, j j The exterior wall and all the enclosed j i buildings were pierced for rifles. The j town was admirably calculated for de j Fence, every point of'the exterior walls and pickets being flanked bv some project ing buildings as will be seen from the I enclosed drawing. After having reconnoitred the town, I ! selected the western flank of the church as the point of at'ack;and about 2 o’clock, p. m., Lieut Dyer was ordered looped Ids battery at the distace of about 250 yards. A fire was kepi up by tb« 6 pounder and the howitzers for about two hours and a half,when,as the ammunition ; wagon had not yet came up, and the | troops were suffering from cold and fa ; tigue, I returned to Don Fernando. Ear. j ly on the morning of the 4th, 1 again ad i vanced upon Pueblo. Posting the dra goons, under Capt. Burgwin about 200 yards from the western flank of the church, 1 ordered the mounted men under Captains St. Vrain and Slack to a position on the opposite side of the town, j whence they could discover and intercept any fugitives who might attempt to es- 1 cape towards the mountains, or in the di reclion of Don Fernando. The residue of the troops took ground about 300 yards from the northern wall. Here, too, Lieut. Dyer established himself with the 6- pounder and two howitzers, while Lieut. Hassandaubel, of Major Clark’s battal ion light artillery, remained with Capt. Burgwin, in command of two howitzers. By this arrangement a cross fire was ob tained, sweeping the front and eastern flank of the church. All these arrangements having been made, the batteries opened upon the town at nine o’clock a. in. At eleven o’clock, finding it impossible to breach the walls of the church with the 6 pounder and howitzers, I determined to storm that building. At a signal Capt. Burgwin, (Ist regiment United Stales dragoons,) at the head of his own company, and that of Capt. McMillin, (of volunteers,) charged the western flank of the church, while Capt. Angney, infantry battalion, and Capt. Barber, and Lieut. Boon, 2d regi ment Missouri moundte volunteers, charged the northern wall. As soon as the troops above mentioned had establish ed themselves under the western wall of the church, axes were used in the at- . tempt to breach it; and, a temporary lad der having been made, the roof was fired. About this time Capt, Burgwin, at the head of a small party, left the cover af forded by the flank of the church, and penetrating into the corral in front of that building, endeavored to force the door. In this exposed situation, Capt. Burgwin receiv ed a severe wound which deprived me of his valuable services, and of which he died on } the seventh inst. Lieutenants Mcllvaine Ist United States dragoons, and Royal! and Lackland, 2d regiment mounted volunteers, accompained Capt. Burgwin into the corral; but the attempt on the church door proved fruitless, and they were compelled to retire behind the wall. In the meantime small holes had been cut into the western wall, and shells were thrown in by hand, doing good execution. The 6-ponnder was now brought around by Lieut. Wilson, who at the distance of two hundred yards, poured a heavy fire of grape into the town. The ene my during all this time kept up a destructive fire upon our troops. About half-past three o’clock the 6 pounder was run up within sixty yards of the church,and after ten rounds —one of the holes which had been cut with ■ the axes was widened into a practicable ! breach. The gun was now run up within 1 ten yards of the wall—a shell was thrown in —thren rounds of grape were poured into the j breach. The storming party—among whom were Lieut. Dyer of the ordnance, and Lieu- 1 tenants Wilson and Taylor 1 -t dragoons,enter- t ed and took possession of the church with out apposition The interior was filled with dense smoke, but for which circumstance i our storming party would have suffered great loss. A few of the enemy were seen in the gallery where an open door admitted the air, but they retired without firinga gun. 'The troops left to support the battery on the ■ north were now ordered to charge on that j side. The enemy abandoned the western : part of the town. Many took refuge in the large houses on the east, while others endea vored to escape towards the mountains.— These were pursued by the mounted men under Captains Slack and St. Vrain, who killed fifty-one of them, only two or three | men escaping. It was night,and our troops ! were quietly quartered in the houses which j tfie enemy had abandoned. On the next j morning the enemy sued for peace,and think- i ingthe severe loss they had sustained would prove a salutary lesson, I granted their sup- j plication, on the condition that they should j deliver up to me Tomas—one of their prin- j cipal men, who had instigated and been ac tively engaged in the murder of governor Bent and others. The number of the enemy at the battle of Pueblo de Taos,were between : six and seven hundred. Os these about one hundred and fifty were killed—wounded not known. Our own loss was seven killed and ! forty-five wounded. Many of the wounded j have since died. The principal leaders in this insurrection ; ; were Tafoya, Pablo Chavis; Pablo Montoya, i Corteza, and Tomas, a Pueblo Indian. Os i these, Tafoyo was killed at Canada, Chavis I was killed at Pueblo; Montoya was hanged at Don Fernando on tfie seventh instant, and j Tomas was shot bv a private while in the guard room at the latter town. Cortez is still at j I large. This person was at the head of the j ! rebels in the valley of ti e Mora. For the : i operations in that quarter, I refer you to the I subjoined letters frurn Captains Henley.sep arate battalion Missouri mounted volunteers, i and Murphy, of the infantry, and Lieut. Mc | Ramey, second regiment Missouri mounted i volunteers. In the battles of Canada. Emdudo, and ; Pueblo de Taos, the officers and men behaved admirably. Where all conducted themselves | gallantly.l consider it improper to distinugish individuals, a- such discrimination might op erate prejudicially against the just claims of i others. j I have the honor to be, very respectfully, vour obedient servant, STERLING PRICE. Col. ccmmandingthe army in New Mexico. The Adjutant General oflhe Army, \\ ash inglon, D. C. AUGUSTA. (JECL SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1817. Tlie Xcxl I*residency* Various and conflicting causes are destin ed to save the honored name of General Zachary Taylor from that political rnire into which the more unscrupulous of the whig party Would have dragged it, could they have had their will. The sincere, genuine admir ers of that great man, while rejoicing in the , wholesome operation of that public opinion which interposes to defeat the desecration, have few thanks to bestow upon the whigs as a party. The effort to make party capital out of Genera! Taylor for electioneering pur* poses,looked 100 much like concert of action to acquit tho party of the disc,red it which must ! attach to it. Had General Taylor been defeat ed in any of the fields which It is skill and valor ; have immortalized, his very defeats Would j have been converted into political capital by j the same party. His steps have been traced : regularly, from Corpus Cliristi to Buena Vis- I ta, with a keen eye to the exact amount of ; stock for slump oral or y that could be obtain* j ed from his fortunes. If he had been defeat j ed in every battle, that would, according to whig calculation, have -secured the election of a whig President—an opponent of the war, in 1848. But, contrary to ichig ealeu * latum, General Taylor was every lime vic torious. Consequently the whig calculations had to be reversed—tiieir tactics changed— a new role of characters arranged for the political drama. Some one proclaims that General Taylor is a whig, and straight way the honest enthusiasm of the country, at the glorious results of a war advocated by but one party , is to be turned into an engine of political power to achieve a party triumph for the other parly. But this cold blooded speculation is doorn- to defeat and disappointment, not more from the disgust it has inspired among right minded people, than from the dissensions springing up among the speculators them selves. It has come to be doubted among portions of the whigs, whether General Tay lor is sufficiently orthodox in his opinions, or can be made so pliant in his political princi ples as to answer their purposes. Suspicion I is aroused, in the first place, by the fact that the only vote he had ever given for Presi dent was for General Jackson. This is cer tainly no recommendation to vvhigery any where. So *also, lie is known to be a (ree trade man. This is a dire enormity in the eyes of the protectionists. Then again it is flatly objected to him by Northern whigery that he is a slaveholder. This is an offence not to he forgiven. They declare that the time is past when a slaveholder shall again occupy the Presidential Chair. No services, how ever brilliant—no toil, however arduous—no devotion, however untiring, to its honor and glory, whether in the field or in the civil walks of life, can hereafter purchase exemp tion from that disfranchisement, which the whigs of the North have proclaimed as the punishment of all who shall dare to own a slave. Having to deal with these intrinsic difficulties among themselves, the whig par ly are doomed, as a party, to derive no “aid and comfort” from this war. Whether our = * arms win glory or meet with disaster, this war can not rescue them from that utter overthrow which previous events had prepar ed for them. Defeated on all the old issues, their predictions falsified—and democratic theories , pronounced visionary by their oppo | nents, all triumphantly vindicated by the test of successful experiment, the whigs are in i a truly hopeless plight. Their opposition to the war, tiieir unmeasured denunciations of i it, have brought the whig party still farther into disrepute. It seemed therefore that | there was no single issue upon which the } whigs could go before the people with any i reasonable prospect of success, in a general election. In this extremity, when their dis pairing eyes were turned for succour to i General Taylor, and they seek by clinging to the skirts of this honest old hero, to be rescued from their political ‘'slough of des pond,” portions of the Northern wing of their party proclaim that no slaveholder shall be their candidate. The signs of the times dis j tincllv.point to the fact that the Northern whigs will make the question involved in the Wilmot proviso, the lest question at the next Presidential election. No Southern man can be the candidate of that party. Were they willing to unite harmoniously, whigs, abolitionists, anti-renters and all, upon General Taylor, they could not get his con | sent thus to be made use of fur tiieir sinister I purposes. In view of all these difficulties, we were somewhat surprized to see the Chronicle cp I Sentinel out in all seriousness, in favor of the defeated candidate of 1844, for arc-nomi nation. We look upon the suggestion as most essentially behind the times. Mr. Clay could bring no support scarcely to the whig | cause from the South in 1844. Almost every Southern Slate went against him. Nothing has occurred since to strengthen his theo ries of national policy, or to recommend to the South his favorite measures. The great whig party, therefore, whose chief strength lies in the Northern and Middle Slates, will no longer seek to propitiate their Southern allies by such a nomination. We nust give credit to the Chronicle for great sincerity and straightforwardness in | thus unequivocally advocating the claims of Mr. Clay. There is an honest enthusiasm in its admiration of the great “Harry of the West,” which contrasts most refresh ingly with the calculating trickery which prompted the effort to nominate “Old Rough and Ready.” The latter was the move of the spoilsmen to get hold of the loaves and fishes of office by means of a military fame that has been won against their will, since ! it was won in a war they have denounced as infamous. But this move of the Chronicle | exhibits a romantic clinging to exploded i theories and obsolete ideas, that gives it re | spectability because it is so evidently sin cere. it exhibits an utidimmod love for na tional banks and protective tariffs and other antique idols of whig veneration. But we can hardly bring our mind to realize that any mah, of ordinary sagacity, can really ex pect to see these idols ever raised np from I the dust in which they have been trampled, 1 but it by the force of numbers and by the in ' telligence of the age. We Cannot allow a most stupendous flight | of fancy in the editorial of the Chronicle of the 21st inst. to pass without a compliment to the extravagant wildness ot its swoop. Our neighbour having got astride of an im perial eagle, while “towering in its pride of ; flight,” contemplates the glorious prosperity, and bright future of our country,and straight way imagines that he sees impressed upon it all, written in golden characters, the name of Henry Clay. Here is the aspiring sen tence— “ Has tl lat country rolled on upon a tide of prosperous fortune to wealth and greatness and renown? —has her imperial eagle in times of peace folded its wings in calm serenity and repose and looked abroad upon the while sails of her spreading and universal com merce—upon the fields of her agriculture waving with golden harvests—upon her sys tem of domestic industry, bringing employ ment and comfort and happiness to millions ! of her people? Memory, Truth and Justice point to Henry Clay as the father, or the most eloquent advocate of those measures by which these peaceful and happy results have been produced.” Now of all men in these United States of America, one would have supposed that Henry Clay —the Champion of “the Amcri can system”—would have been the very last I to be eulogized in connection with the pre sent prosperous state of our commerce, and our agriculture. “Memory, Truth and Jus- I lice” point to him as the untiring advocate of ! restrictions upon our commerce, and of mea ! sures inimical to our free and liberal inter course with the nations of the world, that were our best customers for the products of our agriculture. “Memory, Truth and Jus tice” will point to “the white sails of our spreading and universal commerce,” and to “the fields of our agriculture waving with golden harvests,” under the benificent and sublime principles of Free Trade. “Memory, Truth and Justice” will point to llenry Clay as the father and most eloquent advocate of those measures of commercial restriction which could they have been foisted upon our beloved country, would have cruelly fet tered her commerce, and laid a blighting hand upon her agriculture. Cherokee and the War. The Cassville Pioneer of the 23d inst-states that Capt. John Wafford’s company consists of one hundred men rank and file. Lieut. E. P. Howell, returned to Cassville from Lumpkin on the Wed nesday previous, with forty-one brave and healthy looking soldiers. The Pioneer speak sin the high est terms of the appearance of the men of this company- They were to leave Cassville on the 20tb inst. for the seat of war. ])r. X*Hiiuiiis’» liCdure. We have information from those who have I attended Dr. Banning’s Lectures, that they ! are in a high degree original, interesting and instructive. They have been attended by large numbers of the first people in every city where he has appeared, and the ladies have formed a considerable portion of his audiences. Jle has given very general plea sure, and imparled much useful instruction. His first lecture to-morrow evening is one which lie discusses with ability and gives to it much of the charm of novelty. It is on The Philosophy of the Human Voice.. IT In our advertising columns will be I ” j found a list of valuable new works to be pub | lished in the course of the present year, and which will be for sale shortly after their pub lication, by Thomas Richards. 'l'lic C'uuui. We are requested to correct a mistake which has been committed by Mr. H. Stallings, in his advertisement in the Chronicle and Sentinel, in reference to the Canal. 'J'here is no break in | the Canal , and the water lias not been let oil* from any such cause. Dot owing to an oozing ; through the banks at one or two points, which | is incident to all new and fresh embankments, 1 and a consequent depression at those points, it lias become expedient to draw oil' the water for a few days in order to apply the proper remedy. We take pleasure in adding, that the Canal stood most triumphantly the test of the high treshet of last month, and that the confidence of intelligent judges, in the strength and complete ness of the work is unlimited [From the Baltimore Sun, April 22.] By JTliigiiellc Telegraph, Arrival ot'the Steamer Cambria. 15 DAYS LATE It FKOItI KiUOPE, Important Commercial News, Decline of ail hinds of |{re > iul»liiir«. Great Decline in Indian Corn — llcceiliii" of I Prices oj all kinds of (train and Ftfmr — Cotton Market improved—Advance of |</. per lb. The steamship Cambria arrived at Boston about 1 4 o’clock on Tuesday aftermoon. She brings dates from Liverpool to the 4th in : slant, being sis ecu days later than the news re • ceived by the Washington Irvine. I . . We have received the following account of her | news by magnetic telegrayh. The New York packets Henry Clay, Virgi nia, Garrick, and Montezuma, ahd^the Minslnl of Boston, had arrived at Liverpool. The purchase of French stock by the Emperor of Russia and the Queen of Spain, has excited very great attention in the money market circle. The Cambria arrived at Liverpool on the Kith Ultimo. The proceedings of Parliament are principally in relation to Ireland. The poor laws arc still de bated in the House of Commons, The government measures met with much op position. The amendments proposed were vari ous, and most sharedly the same fate. LordMor- I peth has introduced his importation bill. The suffering by the famine in Ireland. Scot -1 land, and on the continent, continues unabated. There was a great fast in England, on the 24th ult., on account of the famine, w hich was rigidly kept. The distress in France wasalsogreat. In some departments carts and boats containing grain, re quire an escort of military to preserve them from pillage. O’Connell has quitted Paris for Italy'. He is not so ill as represented, but will doubtless never appear in public life again. The first French mail steamer will leave Ha vre on the Ist of Mat, for New York The total inhabitants of the town ofßgleshach, in Germany, fourteen hundred in number, have requested permission to emigrate to the United States. There was also extensive preparations throughout the country to emigrate to the States* Some districts were threatened with depopulation* from this cause alone. There was occasional disturbances-in Thcs- -- 1 mica, on account of the large exports of grain. The Pasha avoided outbreak by forbidding future ! exports. At Hamburg, wheat had declined three shil i lings per quarter. j We have also by magnetic telegraph the fol j lowing commercial information, some portion of i which we issued yesterday in an extra, but du : ring the evening other despatches arriving, we | were enabled to make up the markets more fully: Corn Market.—The corn markets are ree.«- : ding in every direction, and in some descriptions, | that of Indian corn for instance, the fall has been | astounding—the price has receded about 245. ’I be rapid rise in this species of food surprised many persons, and even in the judgment of the un initiated exceeded the necessities of the ease.— Flour, like Indian corn, has sustained a considera ble fall, and the existing depression can hardly fail to be increased by the spring weather we are now ! enjoying, which foreshadows an early and prolific harvest. Cohn Market, Liverpool.— There have been several changes in our corn market since the sailing of the Hibernia. Large imports of all des criptions of bread stuffs to all parts of the kingdom have bad the effec t of putting down prices of all descriptions of grain and flour. The fluctuations during the month amount to le. per TO lbs. on wheat, 6d. per 43 lbs. my oats, 6d. per 60 lbs. on barley, 4s per quarter os rye, peas and beans, 6s. per barrel,and Bs. per sack ou flout, 2s. j>er load on cornnie.al.24s to 23 . per 480 lbs. and 10s. per bbl. on Indian cornmeal. Within a few days past re-action had heeu cx | perienced in pease of 2 shillings perquarter; in bar ley. 2s. per sack; in. Indian corn 5s per 4HO pounds; in Indian corn meal, 2.s per barrel, and the trade , generally lias assumed more firmness, with some heavy transactions in floor at 37s to 38s per barrel for Western < anal; for Philadelphia and Baltimore 36s to 36s fid New Orleans 31a to 35s per barrel on ihe spot, ’ with the usual allowance*. American wheat rate* from 10s toJIOgSd for Southern, uptolls 3d to 1 Is 6d per 70 lbs. for Northern white; rytf 48s to sl>» per quarter; barley 6s 9d to~Tfi per flO lbs. Bean* i American white, 70s to Hf y urni btaek eyed peas 66s to 70s. per imperial quarter. APRIL 3d.—'J he trade to-day is again rather . firmer. There are buyeji qf wheat at lull prices. Flour supports the anieiiaSjscnt. Indian Corn in o2s per 430 lbs. for Northern yellow, and meal at 25sr per barrel. Cotton market good. Sea Island 15ld. to 18<i; Bowed Georgia Old to 6ld; New Orleans 6id to 7id. L Liverpool Cotton Market, week ending March 26th.—There was qyite a turn round in onr cotton market this week. Instead oftbe gloom and depression which had exisied since the com mencement of the present year, we have had a ’ stirring and active business on each succeeding day, both from the trade and on speculation. Exporters aFo have been purchasing tor some o the better qualities of Orleans, lit such a market, ‘ and afterso long a depression, it became a certain ty that an increase of demat’d would also give a *