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FUKTiIEU FOBLIGN EXTBAC'TS.
Spain.—The young Queen, thorough
ly disgusted with the marriage and the
husband forced on lier hy her mother and
King Louis Philippe, has ever since her
wedding day manifested a strong inclina
tion to rid herself of the Cabinet through
whose co-operation or agency the objects
of those two arch intriguers were effected.
Rumor says that in this she was encour
aged by the English Minister, Mr. Bui
wer, and it is not all improbable; though
we doubt whether Mr. Bulwer lias at any
time gone beyond a giving of advice, or
encouraging assurances, when he was
asked for such hy the Queen. A mar
riage with the other brother, Dun Enri
que, or with a son ol Don Carlos, would
have been more agreeable to England,
because more agreeable to the Queen and
more servicahle to the Spanish nation. —
But »he intrigues of the Queen Mother
and her uncle prevailed.
The Queen a regrets and dislike to her
husband induced a coolness if not a quar
rel between her and her mother which,
together with some uncomfortable move-
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merits in the Cortes, looking to a rigid
investigation of the Queen Mother's do
ings as guardian to her daughters, par
ticularly with reference to the fortunes
left them by their father, induced that
very profligate personage to make a sud
den vLit to Paris; and her absence or
something else inspired the young Queen
with courage to make a clear house ot the
Ministers by whom her wishes had been
so little regarded in the disposition of lier
hand.
Don Enrique, the Queen’s brother in- j
law, was travelling in France, having ;
been ordered into a sort of exile by the late |
Ministry, and had just arrived at Marseil
les, when suddenly to the astonishment cf
all, a telegraphic despatch came down
from Paris, ordering him to depatt at
once for Nice; an order w hich he obeyed ■
of course, because he could not help it.
The civil war in Ponugal was yet at a
stand still.
France —The Union Monarchive slates
that the Duchess do Montpensier is to
Pa ri< in \1 u v lot’ iVJ ■! d <I m TTiip.r
that her accoucnment, as heiress presump
tive, may take place in that city, and
, , (> ;|| n notMrA of StpAlll. 1 tlO
Duchess will visit Span in her character
of heiress presumptive, rather than as the
w ife of the Duke de Montpensier, who
savs the Journal, is to content himself
with the position of Consort, and lo appear
as a Spanish Prince. T his is all very
propable, and agrees with other tokens in
indicating Louis Philippe’s fixed idea that
his grandson is to he King of Spain.
Death of a Diplomatist.— The Journal
des Debats announces the death at Mu
nich, on the 23d ult. of Baron Alexander
de Cetto, one ot the most distinguished
diplomatists of the present century, in the
72d year of his age.
Russia and Circassia.—The Russian
Government has officially declared to the
Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, that for
the future, no foreign officer will be al
lowed to take part in the campaigns of the
Russian troops in the Caucusus, unless he
will consent lo be naturalized, and lake
an oath of fidelity to the Czar,
Poland.—The Rhenish Observer men
tions from Warsaw a report that I lie
Emperor of Russia intends to make his
brother, the Grand Duke Michael, i
Viceroy of Poland. It is also rumored j
that Gallicia is to be made a Vice-royalty
under the Archduke Albert.
The Emperor ot Rnssa has issued a
ukase interdicting the circulation < fffolish !
coin, even in any part of Poland, and
forbidden all the public officers, from May {
1, to receive any such coin in payment of ,
public dues.
Greece. —Accounts from Athens of the
20th ult. state that the misunderstanding !
with the Pore still continued the Sultan
having very properly refused to gratify
King Olho, by recalling M. Marsurus,
and appointing another Minister.
The Parliamentary inquiry into the
conduct of the Greek Ministry was con
cluded, and very grave charges arc made
in the documents published by order of |
the committee against the Minister of
Finance.
Saxony.—Theexfraortlinary session of the |
Chambers of Saxony was closed on the 24th. |
This session was the first which has been
held since Saxony obtained a constitution.—
It was exclusively occupied in discussing
the measures proposed by the Government
for the relief of the misery of the poorer
classes, and in the consideration of the qnes- 1
tion of the construction by the State ot the :
Saxo-Bavarian Railway.
From the East.—ln India and the East
everything also is safe and tranquil. The
victorious wars with the Affghans,t he Seikhs
the Chiefs of Scinde, the Mahratta Chief'of
Gwalior, and the Emperor of China, have
swept away every cloud of danger from the
political horizon. Already from forty to fifty
throusand men are about to be disbanded t
from the Indian armies, and great reductions, )
will be effected in a tew years. Thus ifie
whole energies of the Government may be j
directed to develop the immense resources of |
these vast regions, by an improved system of
taxation, and by the introduction ot steam
boats, railways, canals, macadamized roads,
bridges, aqueducts, water tanks, and other i
conveniences for intercourse and cultivation. ,
It appears, by the last accounts from India
that the commercial position ot that country
is already improving, with the restoration of
Peace; and there is every reason to believe
that the continuance of Peace, together with
a steady persverance in the course of public
improvement, w ill soon raise India lo a state
of prosperity, sucli as it has never experienc
cn since the davs of its first Mahomedan
conqueror. Maliommed ol'Ghuzrtee, and such
as it probably never enjoyed under any of the
native Princes whom the Mahomedans sup
planted .Ij i l erpouL 'I 'unes*
Calcutta. —The accounts from Calcutta
are said to be favorable to the sale and re
turns of manufactures already in that mar
ket, considerable purchases, principally of
yarn, having been made on speculation, which
though momentarily beneficial, may be inju
rious to the market, as tending to the accu
mulation of stock. In consequence of the
closing of the 5 per cent loan, money was
very light.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ikitllh ol’ ihc iviug of Holland.
The Hague, April I.— The luiluwmg bul
letin of the King’s health lias been published
tLis morning:
“ The symptoms of fever which his Majes- j
ty felt yesterday lasted only some hours. His
Majesty sat up a great part of the day, yes
terday, and enjoyed several hours good sleep
during the night. If his Majesty continues
in Lite same favorable state, it is not intend
ed to publish any bulletin to-morrow.
(Signed) “P. F. (J. Everhard, M. D,
■— Beckers, M. D.
“The Hague, March 31.”
The Hague, April 2.—As we hoped yes
terday, bis Majesty’s health continues to im
prove, so that no fresh bulletin lias been is
sued to-day.
[From (he Livcrjwol Time*, April 6.J
The condition ui the trade and com
merce of die country during the first
quarter of the present year, has been far
from favorable; and though the last ar
rivals bring ihe gratifying news of a
very decided improvement in the Ameri
can and Eastern maikets, yet we fear
that the progress of amelioration w ill be
slow', until the result of the next harvest
is ascertained. Should it realize the
hopes that we are justified in founding 1
on the great increase in the quantity of
wheat and spring corn sown in this coun
try; on the fineness of the seed lime, LotSt
in the autumn of the last year and the
spring of the present, and on the present
appearance of the young wheal in many
districts, we shall then obtain effectual
relief.
We are not, indeed, of the number of
j those who believe that one good harvest
j will give us low prices, and still less ol
; those who believe that wc shall see low
prices previous to that harvest; but still
we are convinced that the high prices
which our farmers have obtained for
their last year’s grains, joined to that
thorough frightening which they got du
ring the great corn law’ battle, have
aroused them to exertions such as they
have never made before, and that they
have already produced a great improve
English agriculture, the effects
If we may judge from what we have our
selves seen, during a late tour through
Lancashire, Cheshire, the West Riding
* * r*
of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cum
berland, we should say there is this year
a great increase in the extent of lillag -
and draining, and great improvements in
the mode of laying our fields, and of per
forming all manner ot farm operations.
The quantity of land sown with wheat
appears lo us lo he greater than we ever
knew it to he before, there is a sufficient
plant in the ground; and it presents every
appearance of health. Should this pro
mise ol increase in the home supply be
realized, a good harvest would give us a
return of moderate, though not of low
prices.
Further supplies of foreign grain are
absolutely necessary for the sustenance
of live people, and as they can only be
obtained by further exportations of specie,
it is clear that the pressure must continue
Whatever may be the merits of the pres
ent monetary system in other respects
and at other times, it is clear that just
now it is adding commercial ruin to want
of food.
j During the last week the corn trade
I has passed through a severe ordeal. Early
in the week a panic prevailed in the Lon
j don market, which extended to most of
| country markets, but on Thursday and
Saturday a reaction look place in public
opinion. Indian corn has risen again lo
j about 525. having been down to 4d. We
i understand that this excellent description
! of food is beginning to be consumed ex
j tensively in the North of England, as
1 well as in Ireland.
After several months of cessation,
buyers of wheat and flour from the interior
have again begun to show themselves in
the Liverpool markets, and to purchase
American flour freely. We see from the
last circular of Messrs. Sturge, of Bir
mingham, that the supply of Foreign
wheat at Gloucester, at the present time,
is 2,000 quarters against 70,000 quarters
i at this time last year.
The supply’ of wheat and flour in
Liverpool, on the 31st March, 1846, were,
in bond, 218,113 quarters of wheat, and
433,627 barrels of flour; free, (about.)
150,000 quarters of wheat, and 200,000
barrels of flour. The stock of wheat at
present is supposed to be from 00 to 70,
000 quarters, and that of flour about 500,-
000 barrels.
SingulaigDiscovery.
The Louisville Journal, in a recent
article says: ‘ln the south-western part
ot Franklin county, Miss., there is a
platform, or floor, composed of hewn stone
neatly polished, some three feet under
ground. It is about cne hundred and
eight feet long, and eighty feel wide. It
extends due north and south, and its sur.
face is perfectly level. The masonry is
said to be equal, if not superior, to any
work of modern times. The land above
7 I
it is cultivated; but thirty years ago it was
covered with oak and pine trees, measur
ing from tv\o to three feet in diameter. It ’
is evidently of very remote antiquity, as
the Indians who reside in the neighbor
hood had no knowledge of its existence
previous to its recent discovery. Nor is
there any tradition among them by w hich
may form any idea of the object of the
work, or of the people who were its buil
ders. There is also a canal and well
connected with it, but they have never
been explored, A subterranean passage
may be underneath. Farther explorations j
may throw some light upon its origin.
AUGUSTA, GEO..
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1817.
IkTThe Constitutionalist • etter Sheet Prices |
Current, will he ready for delivery This .Morn
ing, at 9 o’clock.
Dr. Hovinon.
We listened with the highest delight to
the luc id and instructive lecture of Dr. Toyn
-1 ton last evening. A large audience were in i
attendance and yielded a profound and rapt |
attention to every word that fell from the i
able lecturers lipe. We recommend every |
one in our community to patronize this inter- |
estingand instructive course. In matter and i
manner, Dr. B. is every thing a lecturer
should be.
i'mti' Uay’s dialing.
We understand a Four Day’s Meeting
will commence at the Methodist Church, this
evening, at half past seven o’clock. We fur
ther learn that Bishops Andrews and Capers, j
and the Rev. George F. Fierce will officiate i
during the meeting.
The Sonlhcm Quaiicrly Itrrifw.
This able periodical has lost none of its |
high reputation by its recent change of edi
j tors. The distinguished abilities which its
j present editor displayed at the head of tfie
1 Charleston Mercury, shine conspicuously in
the pages of the Review. It is an able ex
ponent of Southern opinions, views and in
terests, and deserves the warm and zealous
support of the entire South.
We have received the April No. and find
in it some very able articles belli politifc.il
ahd literary.
It opens with Mr. Clapp’s address, (which
is well written.) to the Patrons of the Re
view and to the people of the South.
The following is the table of Contents*
Ist. Athens and the Athenians.
2nd. The Life and Correspondence of John
Foster.
3rd. The Election of Electors of President
and Vice-President oftiie United Slates^
4th. The Wilmot Proviso.
sth. Pond's Plato.
6th. The Auto-Biography of Goethe—-
Truth and Poetry.
7ih. The Revolutionary History of South
Carolina.
Rtl. P-*: •' T •
ItTvVe publish Mr. Benton’s Oregon let ,
ter more as a specimen of the man than for !
its practical importance. It is characteristic
of him. Dogmatic, pompdus and egotistical.
Next to an over weaning love of himself and
conceit of bis own consequence and influence,
is his fierce hatred of Mr. Calhoun, lie lets
slip no occasion to manifest it. Ilis seif
glorification is disgusting, and his ceaseless
assaults upon Mr. Calhoun, are both in bad
temper and the worst possible taste.
OJThe0 J The following communication is sent
ns by a friend. It is as keen and caus
tic a piece of irony as we have met with in
many a clay. We notice that very many
whig papers Imve opposed the President’s
I lan of military contributions, but with
out assigning any very potent objections.
We commend the following view of the
case to their consideration, it is in keep
ing with thc.’r own theory of protection.
The Mexicans will not pay the duty at all.
The high duties will make low prices. The
Lowell manufacturers must make contribu
tion, and thus even Federal Massachusetts,
who refused to vote money for her own vol
unteers, will be called on to bear her portion
of the revenue to be raised in Mexican ports.
Aid and Comfort to the faciiuTrra
suu hr .tlr, Colli.
Isn't it outrageous in the Federal Govern
ment to be blessing Mexico with a tariff?
We have demonstrated long ago, that noth
ing is so well calculated to enrich a nation
as the restrictive system; and behold this Mr.
James K Polk no sooner perceives the ad
vantages of it, than he discards it from his
own country, and extends all its aid and
comfort to the enemy. Why is the whig |
press silent, when they see our blessings
thus transferred from us?
Many Whigs.
IT The following will be interesting to
our readers having correspondents in the
Army. We copy from the New Orleans
Southerner, of the 27 h nil..
Army Letters.
Complaints have been made that letters
| sent to the Army are not received, and the
Post Office Department is censured therefor.
This should not be—for in almost every in
stance the fault lies alone in the want of
proper direction on the letters.
Let rrs intended for persons in the Army
should distinctly bear the name and number
of tbe Regiment to which the person belongs,
and also, if practicable, the division of the
Army to which the Regiment belongs.
By thus stating the name and number of
the Regiment, the letters, in addition to tire
greater probability of reaching their destina
tion, will be entitled to go free of postage.
It is unnecessary now to direct letters to
the care of the Quartermaster in tins city.
The Postmaster here has received orders to
transmit, by all Government as well as pri
vate vessels, letters (or the armies in Mexi
co.
A very large number of Letters have been re-
~ ALL IBTTMTiOLEB A4 .EPR ICES CURR ENT, MAY 5, 1847.
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ARTICLES Ter. Wholesale.
BAGGING—Gunny IS n “20
Kentucky 15 a 00
BALE ROPE—.Manilla lb 10 a 12
Kentucky 7 a 8
BACON—Hams 8 a 94
Sides 8 a y
Shoulders 74a 8
BUTTER—Go-heii, prime ft 23 a23
Country 12 a 15
CANDLES—Spermaceti! 32 a 35 |
Georgia made ....: 134a lo |
Northern do la a 16
CHEESE—Northern '....| 9a 10
COFFEE—Cuba none.
Rio BJa 10
Java ...; 124a 15 :
Laguayra . ..j 9a 11
f Shirtings, broun, 3-4 yd. 3 a 64
-2 j “ “ 7-8 ‘.... I 74a 8
“ “yd. wide Gia 10
23 I Sheetings, brown, 5-4 12 a 15
•i \ *“ bleached, 5-4 18 «20
£ 1 Checks 10 a 16
| | Bed Tick I*2 a 18 j
C, | Oznabargs, Boz -••• 10 a 11»
(Yarn (assorted) ft Ga 19
FISJLI —Mackerel, No. i bbl. 14 a
Do. No. 2 • u 10
Do. No. 3 1 7a 74
FLOUR —New Orleans i none.
(.'anal j 8 50a9 00
Georgia ... . 5 50a6 50
GRAIN—Corn...# bus. 70 a75
Oats 37 a 40
GUNPOWDER keg. 6 a
HAY—Eastern 100.|
North River
IRON—Pig 100.1
Swedes, assorted ton.] 41a 5
Hoop ilOO.’ 7 a
Sheet ft 8 a 10
Nail Rods .... 6 a 7
LEAD— Pig ami Bar 100. 6 a
Sheet '■ ..64a 8
White Lead i.-.d 74a 9
Exports ol Colton to Foreign and Coastwise Ports, commencing Ist September, IS IC.
' ■ ~ j SavamiiiSi- Charleston. 9JoJ.il/-. >. Arlean«> ,\ctv Vork. <MhiT I*orl*. Total.
WHITHER EXPORTER. I*. 17. I 8 18. 1847.11846; 1847. 1840.| 1847. 184(5. 1847.? 1840. 1847.1840. 1847. 1840.
Liverp001...' ■.'..7..,777... ....r.Tfi~~UJ93si 53343 91969 58044i~70139, H 4072 221 m 351435i:~37225 4WTB 17077 26750
i dull i 1400 384 1
I Glasgow and Greenock 8767 314/ 3733; 2631 4815 9382 8131 111?)! 612 158)
i Cork and a Market _ i *691 4020 1444 5962 19531 _ 173 94 _ r
Total to Great Britain 1n0705. " 36490 I 4398 64695'|-76428 124354 233721 335417 3- 121 435;) 1 17677 2675,) 573353 681 HOP
; Havre "lii3U OUT 43961 3jT18;t~274l 1 44455 63141 85650 240907 32398 425 3-12
! H,.rv j j 229 322 50
! ’.!!!!!.”.! 420 ice.vi 326! nn 2971 2951 3062 4132
Nantes... j 573 599 1963 2156 404 798 __
Total to France'....!.*.*..* 11150, 6526 16199 31334 27411; 16)69 711304 96082 27606 377173 425 342 186095 212831
Amsterdam ' 564 4896 2801 2858 526 724
Rotterdam 50:> 1905 1317 490
. Antwerp ! ; 2993 1161 636 1832 3621, 6772 3088
Hurnhu--. j ij 1377 2193 515 6301 3735
1J remen ...... a .....'» Ij j; ji 3014: <GJ ; 8~7
Uure.-l.ma . M i " 6762 I o I 1
i Havana Ac ! ,11 . 6203 22609' 18158., 82;
Omu Trieste die ’ 914 4829 5731 4618 1953 25874 254531 7639 6121, 2318, 1433
Ghent,’ &c....’ 1 2680 1000 f
Other Ports I 1854 I 12- 2541 _ 2191 13554 177 11 ‘3
Total to othsr foreign Ports ' 944 ' 9626 8884 14696 18170 61709 67125 25615 16508 2818 1432 115403 H2l 9
, New York 44732 '‘42467 < 1265 38525 ~2085 I 2.M.M 33807 57654 10646 25693
Boston ii 19613 17429ji 26193 16905 17538 29904 50397. 91778 j. 9510, 11321;
Providence 3207 1035: 343 7 j 2619 8016 8463 4 126; 5u52 6227,,
Philadelphia * 2210: 4621 ; 12681 7175 1438 1706 6559 9771; 440
I Baltimore 2026; 1389: 4532 1155 2734 474" 5382 4904! • 2001; 16621
; Qtlier Pom 17152. 1628( 5991 _ 791 • 10178 3107 3258 • 16110 3980 *
j Total Coastwise; i 893>K>j 83217 126.7 0 6*7679 58548 84182 99252 171791 43319 4'.’323 417129 455192
Grand Total 2020991126235 283393 171592 1770T1 273375 4729-T 715115 9:6.6', 97t-u 6i239 77-M7 1291985 1461942
I
: ceived at the PostOlnce iiere—directed mere- |
Iv with the name of the person, ‘‘Army in ;
; .Mexico.” It. will readily be perceived that
j with such direction only, our Postmaster is
! unable to designate the proper point to which
i such letters should be sent.
Ample arrangements have been made by
the !*• si Office Department for the transmis
! sion of letters to the Army. But it is ahsn
-1 ...... tf.ut iciters should be pro
perly superscribed.
A Letter from ?1 r, Fenton,
Lcltei from Senator litnton to Me people of Ore
son.
Washington City, March, 1817.
, My Friends —For such 1 may call
; many of you from personal acquaintance,
! ami all of you from my thirty years de
' volion to the interests of vour country—l
| think it right to make this communication
I to vou at the present moment, when the
I adjournment of Congress, without pass
i ing '.he bill for your government and pro
! teefion, seems to have left you in a state
| of abandonment by your mother country.
| But such is not the case. You are not
: abandoned! nor will you be denied
1 protection for not agreeing to admit sla
i very, f, a man of the South, and a slave
holder, tell you this.
File House ot Representatives, as early
as the middle of January, had passed the
bill to give you a Territorial Government,
and in (hat bill had sanctioned and le
galized your Provisional Organic Act,
one of the clauses of which forever pro
hibits the introduction of slavery in Ore
gon. An amendment from fhelSenate’s
committee, to which this bill was referred,
proposed to abrogate that prohibition;
and in tlie delays and vexation to which
j that amendment gave rise, the whole bill
; was laid on the table and lost for the
| session. This will be a great disappoint
| mem to you, and a real calamity; already
five years without law, or legal institu
tion for the protection of life, liberty and
i property! and now doomed to wait a year
longer.
Phis is a strange and anomalous con
dition! almost incredible to contemplate,
j and most critical to endure! a colony of
; free men 4000 miles from the metropoli
tan government, and without laws or
government to preserve them! But do not
be alarmed or desperate, you will not be
outlawed for not admitting slavery. Your
fundamental act against that institution,
copied from the ordinance of 1787 —(the
work cf the great men of the South,in the
gteat day of the South, prohibiting slave
ry in a territory far less northern than
yours)—will not be abrogated! nor is
that the miention of the prime mover of Ihe
amendment. Upon the record, the Judi
ciary Com nittee of the Senate is the
author of that amendment, but not so the
! fact! That committee is only midwife 1
to it. Its author is the same mind that
generated the “fireband resolution,” of
which 1 send you a copy, and of which
the amendment is the legitimate deri
vat’on. Oregon is not the object—
The most rabid propagandist of slaver}’
cannot expect to plant it on the shores of
the Pacific in the latilude of Wisconsin
and the Lake of the Woods. A home
agitation, for election and disunion purpo
ses, is all that is intended by thrusting
this firebrand question into your bill! and,
at the next session, when it is thrust in
again, we will scourge it out!—and pass
ARTICLES. j Per. Wholesale |
LIME bbl. 150 a 250
MOLASSES —Cuba gal. 28 a3O
N. Orleans 40 a 43
N VlLS—Cut,4d to 2Ud 54 a 54
OILS —Sperm, \V. strained 130 a
Fall strained d 1-5 a
Summer do.*. 100 a 112
Linseed bbl 874a
Tanners 53 a
Lard l‘*'» «
I POTATOES bbl. 2vo a 300
: PORTER doz. 223 a 200
I PEPPER—BIack lb 10 al2
1 PIMENTO ‘Da
! RAISINS —Malaga, bunch box. 22a a
Muscatel 2 a
I RlCE—Ordinary 100. 425 a 150
Fair G 5 a 5 \\
Good and Prune 525 a 550
(French Brandies gal. Ipj a 2
l.eger Fre res 2/5 a 3
7/ Holland Gin 125 a 150
_r American Gin a4O
| Jamaica Rum 150 a 2
N. E. Rum,lids, and brls 37 a3B
/- Whiskey, Phil. & Ball j 33 a 35
Do. New Orleans 30 a 33 ;
Peach Brandy 75 a DO
SUGAR—Cuba Muscovado ft I 8a 10
I*.R. & St. Croix • •- 1 9all j
Havana,white 10 a 11
New Orleans ....i 8 a 9
Loaf. : 13 a I t
Lump 11 a 12
SALT—Liverpool sack 150 «
Loose bus.| 40 als
SOAP—American, yellow ft 5 a 6
SHOT—AII sizes « ( 162 a 175
SUGARS —Spanish j.M . 20 «30
American J. .. . 8 ulO
TALLOW—American ...j 84 a 9
TOBACCO—Georgia 1 ft 4 a
Cavendisli |.,. .| 15 als
TWlNE—Bagging 20 a 17
Seine J . .. .* 30 a oO \
1 yc Ur bill as it ought to be- 1 promise you
! this in tl e name of the South, as well as
of the North, and the event will not de
ceive me. In the meantime the President
will give you all (he protection which ex
isiing laws, and detachments of the army
and navv, cat Tenable him to extend to
yon. and, until Congress has time to act,
your friends must rely upon you to con
tinue to govern yourselves, as you have
heretofore done, under the provisions o r
your own voluntary compact, and with
the justice, harmony and moderation
which is due to your own character and
to the honor of the American name.
1 send you by Mr. Shindy a copy of
the bill of the late session, both as it pas
sed the House of Representatives, and as
proposed to be amended m the Senate, with
the Senate’s vote upon laving it on the
table and a copy of.Mr. Calhoun’s res
olutions—(posterior in date to the amend
ment, but, nevertheless, father to it) —also
a copy of your own provisional organic
act, as printed by order of the Senate: all
w Inch will put you completely in posses
sion of the proceedings of Congress on
your petition for a Terriloriel Govern
ment, and for the protection and security
of your rights.
in conclusion, 1 have to assure you
that the same spirit which has made me
the friend of Oregon for thirty years—
which led me to denounce the joint oc
cupation treaty the day it was made, and
to oppose its renewal in 1828 and to labor
for its abrogation until it was terminated;
the same spirit which led me to reveal
the grand destiny ot Oregon, in articles
written in 1818, and to support every
measure for her benefit since—this same
spirit still animates me, and will continue
to do so while I live, which, I hope, will
be long enough to see an emporium of
Asiatic commerce at the mouth of your
river, and a stream of Asiatic trade pour,
ing into the valley of the Mississippi
through the channel of Oregon Your
friend and fellow citfzen.
THOMAS 11. BENTON.
[From the Union of Wednesday night.]
Tlic ITiited Slates and Great ISi-itain.
it affords us sincere pleasure to give pub
licity to the following despatch from Lord
Palmerston to Mr. Packenliam, (a copy of
which was communicated by the latter to Mr.
Buchanan,) conveying the thanks of the Brit
ish Government and the British nation to the
citizens of the United States for their liberal
contributions to relieve the sufferings of the
Irish people. The sentiments contained in
this despatch do honor to his lordship, and
he possesses a warm Irish heart.
They will, in his own emphatic language,
“tend to draw clo-er and to render stronger
and more lasting those ties of friendship and
mutual esteem” which now so happily bind
the kindred nations together; a consumtna
tion calculated to promote the highest inter
ests of both countries, and Ip extend the
blessings of liberty and Jaw over the whole
earth:
Foreign Office, March 31, 1847.
“Sir: 1 have received your despatch, No.
8, of the 12th ultimo, stating that measures
ha\e been taken for the purpose of raising a
subscription in the United States for the ‘re
del ot the destitute Irish poor; and I have to
instruct you to fake every opportunity of say
iug how grateful her Majesty’s Government
and the British Nation at large feel for this
kind and honorable manifestation of sympa
thy by the citizens of the United .States for 1
the sufferings of the Irish people. It might, 1
EXCHANGE.
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company,.. par
Bank of Augusta,
Branch Stale of Georgia, Augusta, ‘‘
Bank of Brunswick,
Georgia Ifai! Road,
Mechanics’ Bank,
Bank ut St. Mary’s, “
Bank of Mi Hedge ville, “
Bank otthe. State of Georgia, at Savannah,... “
Branches of ditto, •• “
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Savannah,. “
Branch of ditto, at Macon, “
Planters’ Bank, Savannah, “
Central Bank ol Georgia, “
Central ii. 11. A: B’k’g. Co., Savannah “
Charleston Banks, “
Bank of Camden,
| Bank ot Georgetown, “
Commercial,Columbia, “
Merchants’, at Cheraw, . “
Bank o( Hamburg, “
Alabama Notes,... - (a) di».
Merchants’ Bank of Macon, 5 (a) 0 “
Coiuinercial Bank, at Macon, failed
NO SALE O It UNCURTAIN.
Bank of Darien ami Branches.
Ba k of Coluitibus.
j Chattahoochee Bail Hoad and BankingCampanf
Monroe Kail Koad and Banking Company.
Planters and Mechanics’Bank, Columbus.
Western Bank ol Georgia,at Rome.
! ! Exchange Bank, Brunswick.
Ins. Bank.of Columhns.at Bacon .. no circulation,
Pkoenix Bank oi Columbus.
CHECKS.
• On Vew Vork, par.
J’hila lelphia,
805t0n,...
Charleston and Savannah,
I,exington,Kentucky*... “
Nashville, Tennessee,
STOCKS*
( .corgi a, S per cents ■ 100 a 101
; Georgia, 0 per cents - *J7 a Ofi
r~T- scspg~-«aa jKm.^jrai~jfX.Wi ■ imiwaMßneawa.
indeed, have been expected that a generous
and high-minded nation would deeply com
miserate the sufferings which an awful Visi
tation of Providence has inflicted upon so
large a population, descended from the same
ancestors as themselves. Hut the active and
energetic assistance which the people of the
United States are thus affording to the pour
Irish, while it reflects the highest honor upon
our Tran.-atlantic brethren, must tend to
draw closer and to render stionger and more
lasting those ties of friendship and mutual
esteem which her Majesty’s Government
trusts will long continue to exist between
the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon
family—separated, indeed, from each other
by geographical position, hut united together
by common interests, to which every suc
ceeding year must add increasing extension
and force. I am, &c. PaldiekstOK.
To the flight Hon. Richard PakeshaHj&c.’*
Gen. Lanjar,
In regard to the rumor we mentioned yes
terday, that Gen. Lamar and his small com*
mand had b ‘en surrounded and cut to pieces,
we are glad to see that the Houston Telegraph
of the 5 h insl. totally discredits the story.
The Telegraph thinks it but a new edition
of the old story, that lien McCulloch and his
command had been cut off.— S. O. Picayune
2d Ik insl.
ItKcapf from f>ri«on.
Alexandre Legendre, a French nobleman
with the title of Viscount Letty Breiul, who
has been sometime imprisoned in the parish
jail,accused by Mr. Amie Roger, the French
Consul at this port, of being a refugee from
justice, escaped last night, and has thus far
succeeded in eluding the search of the police.
He was placed in the parish jail to await
transportation to France, whence, it is stated,
he hod to this country to avoid the penalty of
defrauding the Bank of France of a large
sum of money. It is somewhat singular that
he escaped from the same cell that New
comhe, who had been found guilty of several
charges of having defrauded the'U. States,
while he was Surveyor General of Louisiana,
escaped from.—A'. O. Mercury , 2S/A ult.
Hornble Massacre.
The following statement is copied from
Saunders’s News Letter of Dublin:
CORK, March, 21, 1817. I send you
a most appalling account of a massacre
recently perpetrated on the coast of Afri
ca, which, for cold-blooded and horrible
barbarity,*has perhaps never been equall
ed even in the abominable annals of
slave traffic. Os Ihe authenticity of the
accout there cannot be the slighest doubt,
as it is contained in a letter from a very
intelligent naval officer, stationed at the
island of Ascension, not very far from
the scene of the occurrence, and is as fol
lows;
“ASCENSION, January 1, 1847.
“Wehave just received news of a most
horrible massacre on the coast of Africa.
A slave depot called Gallineos, known
to have 2,000 sljves ready for shipping,
was so strictly blockaded by our cruisers
that the slave-owners, finding it impossL
ble to embark, actually in cold blood
beheaded the whole number, placing their
heads on poles stuck in the beach, say
ing, ‘lf you will not allow us to make
profit of prisoners we take in war, we
will kill all.’ ”
. \ Genoese lady was questionin gone of
I uscany on the nubrner of her lovers.
‘Just at present,’ replied the Tuscan’ ‘I
have but one!’
‘What solitude! what ennui!’ejaculated
the fair Genoese— ‘ Why it’s just /ike one’s
husband! 1