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'the constitutionalism n JAMCS GARDNER, .j TEK M s • ~ $S 00 . Daily, per annum, r> )() j i Tri-Weekly, per annum, j i If paid in advance, ® ! Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance i P TO CLUBS. - I IVc call particular attention to the following terms of our paper: To Clubs, remitting S ! 0 in advance. FIVE COPIES are sent. This will put our weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. All new subscriptions must be paid in advance. Postage must be paid on aii Communications and Letters of business. 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- O # ... 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. -a Jk. v> V- .*■ * A. » » -*■ 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