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II elision—Whtit is it?
Is it to go to church to-day,
To look devout and seem to pray.
And ere to-morrow’s sun goes down.
He dealing slander through the town!
Does ■every sanctimonious face.
Denote the certain reign ol grace?
Does every phiz that scowls at sin,
Veil not hypocrisy within !
I s it to make our daily walk,
And of our own good deeds to talk!
Yet often practise secret crime,
And thus misspend our precious lime?
In it for sect or creed to fight.
To call o r zeal the rule of right.
When what we wish is, at the best.
To see our Church excel the rest!
is it to wear the Christian’s dress.
And to mankind good will profess.
To treat with scorn the humble poor.
And baragamsl them every dour!
Oh no! Religion means not this.
The fruitit bears much fairer is—
Its precept is, to others do.
As you would have t .em do to you.
It grieves to learn an ill report.
And scorns with human woes to sport,
Os other deeds it speaks no ill.
Hut tells of good—or else keeps still.
Alt! does religion this impart.
Then may its influence HU my heart!
Oh haste the blissful, joyful day,
W hen all the earth shall own its sway.
[Fiom the Washington Union, 2lih inst.]
Affairs iu Mexico.
The French journal at New York, she
“Courrier des Etats Uhls,” of Saturday
last, gives a very interesting letter fh-ont
the city of Mexico, under date of 30th
April last, which we transfer at length to
our columns. The‘•Courrier” stares that
the letter comes from a source worthy of
all credit, and capable of an impartial
view of the whole question between the
two countries. The view’s of the writer
appear, indeed, to be quite implicitly
adapted by the “Courrier,” which, as our
readers know, has in general kept itself
very well informed as to the condition of
affairs in Mexico;
(Private correspondence of the CourrierdcsEtats Unis.)
Mexico, 30th April, ISI7.
The battle of Cerro Gordo has paralyz
ed the partisansof the war, w ho were re
posing in a delusive security tfpon Santa
Anna’s assurance that that stronghold
could not be passed. The battle took
place on Sunday, tlie 18th of the present
month. On Monday, the 3Otfi, the Ameri
cans entered Jalapa; and intelligence of
the capture of that place was received
here on the Wednesday following.—
Every one then supposed that Gen. Scott
would halt at Jalapa, and thus give time
to the remnants of the Mexican army to
reunite and make a stand at the defile of
La Moya. But on the next Saturday we
learned that the American forces had not
only passed La Iloya, hut had taken Be
rote and its castle, while their vanguard
had advanced to Tepeyagualco, eight
leagues beyond Perote, where it had es
fected a junction with the advanced guard
of a corps moving on frem Tampico in
the same direction. It was then proposed
to fortify the city of Mexico, and two en
trenchments were commenced on both
sides of tbe road from Vera Cruz, at the
barrier of Saint Lazarus. On the repre
sentations of the council, that to fortify
the city without having sufficient means
of defence, (there \Vere only twenty-two
cannon,) was to expose it uselessly to a
bombardment, the fortifications were sus
pended, and it was decided to fortify the
gorges of the mountains at the distance of
ten leagues from the city, and to throw up
another line of entrenchments on the
Yera Cruz road, at the distance of three
leagues.
Seeing that regular warfare was un
propitious to the Mexicans, notwithstand
ing the public prayers and processions
got up to ensure its success, nothing has
been talked of for the last few days but
the formation of guerrillas. Gen. Salas,
who figured in the last revolution, and
who is colonel of the Hidalgo regiment of
the National Guard, had made a fine
speech (which all the j nirnals have pub
lished) to persuade his fellow-citizens to
enter the guerrilla party, which is to be
called La Venganza , (Vengeance,) and
was to leave the city last week. Last
Friday only ten men had enlisted, though
his regiment is composed almost exclu
sively of young people. Senor Huenros
tro has taken the same steps to get up a
guerilla party,called La Muerte,{ Death,)
which was to make no prisoners, and no
body has enlisted.
This may he considered as the thermome
ter of the public feeling, which every pos
sible method has been tried to stimulate.
The crimes committed by the« Americans
in the towns which they have captured
have been related with much amplifica
tion, but then the rumor is circulated
that everywhere the alcabalas , or interior
custom-houses, have been suppressed by
the Americans, as well "as the monopoly
ol tobacco and other commodities; that
commerce and enterprise have increased
tenfold; that money circulates every
where; that great gains are made, and
that everything is cheap. These rumors
have great force in producing the ration
al coolness which prevails.
Whether the American administration
promises more security to the clergy
than that which exists, or not, the fact is,
the clergy does not give its money as it
was to have done, on condiiion of the an
nulmcnt of the famous law concerning
I the sale of ecclesiastical property. The
clergy was to have furnished the govern
ment with accented bills of exchange; but
the stewards of the convents have placed
so many difficulties and restrictions in
the way, that hitherto no use has been
made of these bills. The clergy, how
ever have given some bells to be caA in
ti . n . t
to cannon, and a quantity o. iron ue
forged into small arms.
As to cannon, a month ago three were
cast at Capiiltepac. As they had no
boring machine, they attempted to make
one, which could not be finished for want
> of funds. The journals circulated a sub
scription to taisc the requisite sum
(83,000) to finish the machine; but as
yet they hate been able to collect only eleven
hundred piastres. Last Sunday, at eight
o’clock in the morning, three other can
non had been cast, and some woiainen
were endeavoring to bare out one by
hand, his greatly to be doubted wheth
er this artillery will ever be served
against the Americans.
General Santa Anna, it is sai l, lias as
sembled two thousand infantry and two
housand cavalry at Orizaba. He ex
pects recruits from Oajaca, which will
raise his force to seven thousand men. —
He also looks to receive twenty-one pieces
of artillery from Alvarado, With this
force he would be able to harrass the
rear of General Scott on his march to
Mexico, where he would be met in front
by six thousand men of the national guard,
added to three 1 housand to be sent by the
department of .Mexico from Toluca, and
four thousand who are to come from San
Luis, with ten pieces of artillery. So
much for the current rumor’s. ! believe
it certain, however, that Gen. Scott u ill
arrive without striking a blow; the gene
ral opinion ol the effi deucy of the Mexi
can army is greatly lowered, and the in
capacity of its commanders has become
so manifest that many persons only de
sired a continuance of ilie war to ruin
these prictorians altogether in the public
estimation, with a view of getting rid of
tthem afterwards. Under these circum
stances, commerce here is entirely at an
end; the first families arc beginning to
leave the city; the government, which at
first thought ot going only to Queretaro,
I is thinking, it is said, of pushing on to
! Zrcatecas. All communication between
i Mexico and V era Cruz is suspended—
! the diligences having been stopped by the
order of General Bravo, lire commandant
iof Puebla. The journals are heaping
coals on the head of one Mr. Iku-ina,
who has discounted for General Scott a
bill for two hundred thousand piastres,
after having some days before refused
ten thousand piastres to Sauia Anna.
'i'he propositions of mediation, made
three days ago to the government by the
minister of England, have been commu
nicated to Congress, which has returned
them to the government; v. hence it is con
ciudcd that they will not be accepted.
The minister Baranda has directed that
all persons engaged in cultivation shall
withdraw their grain and cattle from all
[joints occujd d by the Americans; and
some journals have undertaken the de
fence of the cultivators, who carry their
produce, as before, to the Americans, and
are well paid for it.
We have here some officers who have
themselves by oath to the Americans not
io take up arms against them again.—
Those who propose lo keep their oath are
threatened with the loss of I heir employ,
ment, and treated as foreigners. The
journals are discussing the position of
these men, and the manner in which an
oath, taken under such circumstances,
should be regaid< j d.
The journals of this evening announce
that two thousand Americans had march
ed upon Orizaba, where Santa Anna was,
and that he ha 1 left ihe place for Tehua
can byway of Grenada.
It would he difficult to frame a more
complete and triumphant vindication of
the whole Mexican policy of the admin
istration than is presented in the above
statement ot facts, from the impartial pen
of a foreigner, who has evidently observed
tiie course of events in Mexico with close
attention and great intelligence. Con
trast the state of things here presented,
with the aspect of the same country to
wards us twelve months ago. Then, all
parties in Mexico were united in the pur
pose of w aging against us a war of inva
sion, to recover “the whole of Texas up to
the Sabine.” A large and boatful Mexi
can army was in the field, flushed with
the hope of victory. All the resources of
money, were freely placed at the disposal
of the fierce war spirit which raged among
the Mexican rulers. Negotiation on any
terms, while Texas remained ours, was
announced by the Mexican government
obe “out of the Question.” The real ob
stacles which our armies have found in
their way and have overcome—the dis
tance to be traversed in their line ot ope
rations, and the difficulty ofsubsistence in
the heart of an enemy’s country —these
obstacles were not then thought of by
Mexico. Our armies were to be swept
down on the open field, bv the Mexican
invader as he advanced from the Rio
Grande to the Sabine. Our commerce
was to become the prey cf privateers.—
Neither peace nor a petty guerrilla sys
tem of warfare was dreamed of.
One year has passed, and at comparative
ly a small sacrifice of life on either side
Mexico now stands before us utterly disabled
fur the future proseciution of regular war
fare. Her towns have not been sacked. Her
1 fields have not been laid waste. She has
hardly felt the horrors ol invasive war, as it
has within our own day been waged in the
most civilized countries of Europe. Yet she
cannot place an army in the field which can
hope to encounter, with success, even, the
’ few thousand of our soldiers who are now
wiiitin a few leagues of her capital. Her
military ardor is utterly quenched. Her
boasts have become no ridiculous that they
1 are no longer headed. Her whole commerici
j all revenue and an immense portion of her
j territory are in our bands. Her bankers, if
the above statement is true, are eager to
loan to our officers, to sustain oar armies,
; the funds\?hich liiey withhold from their own
government. The leaders of the military
caste, who rule her government, and whose
trade is war, find they have now no other j
resource than the formation of guerilla com
| panics—and in these companies men are be
sought in vain to enlist! What more, on our
part, could be dune to bring about a just and
honorable peace? We are told that the war
has been waged with feebleness and imbecili
ty. Does this state of facts show it? We
ate told that Mexico has been goaded and
stung into a tierce and blind desperation
against our aggressions, and that this effect
has been produced by the manner in which
the war has been carried on. if this be so,
how happens it that ISalas could obtain only
ten men to rally in his band of “ y'engeance /’
and that I!uenrustro could find no one to enlist
j under his colors in the gang of **D ■ilk!
These facts,” says the writer whom we have
quoted,"are to be re r o'deti as toe thermome
ter of the public mind.” 'The public mind
! of a people injured, insulted, outraged, and
stung to madness by the horrors of an unjust
war,waged in an aggressive policy, presents,
in genetal, we think, a very u.&ercnt iutlica
calioa in its ‘•therm under. ”
In commenting upon this same letter, the
Courrier explains lit s slate of things with
much clearness. “This justice,” it says,
■•must be rendered to the Americans, that
lin y have admirably understood tin* p-icitic
I siuv in this war, and that liiey have shown the
greatest of all talents—that of mak.ng the
intelligent among their enemies understand
’ at once the advantages which their victories
have brought to the vanquished. Commerce
has followed the army step by step, and the
| Press has come forward with almost magical
: activity to plant its iibeial Hag side by side
with the banner of the Union. The Ameri
cans have tints made the conquests of thought
and the coiKj tests of the bailie fit*id to ad
vance together.”
The obstacles to peace which still remain,
are obstacles which no course of policy on
I our part could remove. They grow out of
(he desperate infatuation and the utterly sel
fish ambition ot the military rulers of Mexi
co. These men arc now striving to incite
1 the people to arms. How far they can suc-
I ceed in an attempt so hopeless, and which
i can rely fur success upon the ignorance of
: the people alone, yet remains to be seen.—
The guerilla" system, if attempted by .Mexico*,
; will meet with no belter success against our
j arms, titan has attended her regular warfare.
The most edicient bands of partisan soldiers
in the world the iangers ot Texas, and men
of similar ;c oarage and vigor—.vi l be sent
forth to meet the Mexico guenllias. 'The
i same energy on the pari Os our govern men
which lias been displayed against the em
battled armies of Mexico, will be put forth
against her predatory i.ordes. -Vs a means
j ot continuing the war eifiectivoly/ui the part
of Mexico, the gueialla system will tail.
Our government earnestly desires peace.—
It has ever been willing, and is now wilting,
to open negotiations lor peace. Bat there
can be, in its view, no permanent peace
i which is not founded on indemnity and reci
• procal justice. >To the end that such a
peace may be secured to os, the prosecution
of our war will know no abatement until ;
sucii a peace be gained.
[ Correspondence (J the Baltimore San.
Wasiiinu ton, Muy 2‘5, 1847.
That most indefatigable and cfllci. ..t officer of
the Post-office Dipaitui, nt, Major Hobbic, is
1 about to io-vc Lis passports and instruct! >ns pre
• pared, previous to his leaving here lor i\i w i oik,
from w .rich poll he will sail m the asMagtcn
i to Bremen.
• Major obbie does not take a pleasure trip,
| but piopust.'s in ine three months that the Depart- i
i meat can, but with great difficulty, spare him, to
per feet a post- chi v arrangement with England
unci the continental Stales of France, the Uan
setu.v i. B •Igir.m. Hanover and toe States of the
; Zollverein, by which loltois may henceforth be
sent from any town or place in the interior of any
ot those countries, to any town or place in the j
inter; >r of the U. St at ?s; and vice versa, either by
[’re-paymg the whole postage from the pLcc of
departure in Europe to that of its destiny in Ain
i erica, or lea ving the w hole to be paid by the re
ceiver of tlie missive.
! The advantage of such an arrangement would
i be incalculable,and the Major, if successful, as
we have no doubt he will be, will deserve the
1 Blanks of thousands who cannot correspond with j
I l ;eir friends and relation'- across the water at all, i
from the i.npoaMiuUiy of pre-paying their Utters
\ or receiving and sending theirs otherwise than t
1 through a commercial house, to whom they must j
■ be enclosed, and which has to pay the inland
postage to the frontier olthe B.ate to which the j
letter is directed. fc>up|*»siug a man wanted to
s tv: a lettfTjtrom New Vork to any town in Italy, I
; Sp.tia or Portugal, by steamer; then ho would j
have to eu nose it to a house in England, and that
douse would have to pay the postage from Loa
hon or Liverpool to Cadiz, or Lisbon, as the case
may be; the receive r only paying tue inland
Spanish or Portuguese postage. Between France
and England, England and Belgium, France and 1
Belgium, France and lae Northern States ot \
j Germany, England and Germany, there exist j
| already so called “ Post office Conventions," by j
which loiters pass from one of those countries into j
any of the others, as if liiey never crossed a Iron- {
tier; there Gang Bureaus on tat* frontier, or dis- ;
tributing offices, in sum ; of the principal places,
where the postage is adjusted anti accounted for,
and carried to the credit of the respective State
through which it passed.
Such an arrangement Major Hobble proposes
to make with all the powers above named; the
distributing offices in New York and Boston j
carrying to the credit of each of them what is j
respectively due, and each of these keeping a I
separate account with the United States, and ;
settling once every six or twelve months.
There are thousands of emigrant families who 1
arc deprived of the means of communicating with ,
their relatives, simply because they kno w no house I
in the European seaport to which they could ad
dress a letter, to be by it francked to the next j
frontier town; or, not knowing the necessity of |
this arrangement, they drop their letters in the
post-office, and wonder if they never receive a :
reply. Ami it also occurs, hundreds of times, that j
people in Europe knowing the necessity of pro- |
paving their letters and enclosing them to a house i
in "the*seaport, whence it is to depart for the U. i
| States, entrust them with the postage mon- y to
unfaithful servants, who drop the letters in the
box, and pocket the money. It is the custom ot
the European post-offices to expose these letters
afterwards in public, under the head of ußebuk
ed letters” {letters dc rebus.) and each post office
contains at all times letters addressed to people in
the U. States,{as every AmericanlraveUer abroad
will himself have witnessed.
A post office arrangement such as it now cen
te my luted to perfect with Europe through the
j agency of Major Hobbie, will be the crowning
work of our increased means of communication
with that continent. The necessity of such an
arrangement has been fill long ago, and Con
gress nas, as fur back as 24 tears ago, given the
Postmaster-General the power to enter upon it;
but no adequate opportunity oifered. Ju 1840,
Lieut. Col, Mabcrly, of the British Post-office
Department, in London, made eome overtures m
regard to the exchange of the mails, which were
communicated to Mr. Everett through Lord Ab
| erdeen. Air. Everett wrote for details to Mr i
Wickline, who declined to accept the proposition i
in the shape of a t reaty; and there the matter rest
ed. Gen. Cass, while in Paris, tried to perfect a
similar Arrangement, but tailed from want ot |
familiarity with the details of the business. The
negotiations will now be conducted by the second |
officer in tlie Post-office Department of the U.
| Elutes, whose long practice and experience, as
Well as amiable disposition, business tact and
great sagacity, qualify him admirably for bis mor- ;
itorious undertaking.
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GEO..
si :n w ■ a\ 30,1847.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
The Democrats of Richmond coanty are
requested to meet at the CiDv Hall on Tue.s
t.av .tcmooti ..c*.. a*. ..*.c c c.0i.., .ci .Ire
pur pose of appointing delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention, to he held at
AlilieJgevltle on the sou th ISonduy in
J tine.
We have 1 n Hu • - £
| Brothers, New York, through .Mr. 'Thomas
Richards, the following interesting books:
The Lawyer’s Daughter, by Joseph A idem
D. D.
■ The Life of John Wesley, and rise and
progress of Methodism, by Southey, A vols.,
: duodecimo.
Orators of the Age, by G. If. Francis.
This comprises sketches of Sir Hubert Peel,
Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Lyndiiurst,
Earl Grey, Mwcauley, Roebuck and others,
among the living Statesmen of England.
This work is in one volume, and contains i
j much agreeable and useful reading.
j
Our attention has been especially called
by tiic Chronicle to the opinions of Air. Benton
on the Mexican war question, and more especi
ally to tlie following remarks attributed to him.
“They (the President and his Secretary of Stale) i
■ made tin war themselves, and made it r.vcoxsTi-
TUTIOXAI-Y, I‘KRFIDIOUSLY, CUMJKSTINiiLY AND
i*i uatl ca 1. ! v. Tue secret orders to our army, ami
j navy were TlßAtical, fur they were without law,
to waylay ami attack a friendly power, wuh whom
w<* have had a treaty of amity; and as a member
of a Court Martial, / would sentence to be shot am/
officer of the army or nary who should dare to attack
Mexican troops, or ships or dies, under that order. >
Wo have never met with these remarks before, j
We are not aware that Mr Benton ever used !
them, and think it likely that the Chronicle
has been misled on this subject. We would
be glad to know on what occasion this language
was used. If used at all, it seems more likely
that it has reference to Mr. Tyler and Mr. Cal
houn, sis we find that Air. Benton in bis recent
speech in the Senate distinctly charged Air. Cal
houn with the authorship of the war. lie then
an 1 there said that Mr. Polk came into the Presi
dency with this war ready made to his
h aids. The intemperate denunciations by Air.
Benton ol those whom he sees lit to differ Iro.m,
an i to dislike, are of little weight or authority in j
tills p■rt of the world. His judgment and sagacity :
are but little to be trusted where his temper, or j
i his vanity is enlisted.
In reference to the opinions of Air. C. J. Inger- |
soil, on tlie question of bound.irv, wr mi-ffit also i
- - . r
siy that prior to the war, and while the boundary j
was an open rjue.-tion, men might well tJiflVr.— |
The opinions of Mr. ingersoli may be quoted by
the W higs in favor of the Nieces. We may
quote the declarations of Mr. Clay, and of Mr.
chater w.-nc Eecrctaiv oi Elate, m la'- 01 of tae
i Bio Grande.
But w hen Mexico ordered our army off t!;e di. -
puled territory, an 1 made war upon us for ear re
fusing to obey the order —when she closed the
question by refusing scornfully to negotiate, and
insultingly drove Mr. Slidell away from the Capi
tal, it became no longer a matter of practical con
i sequen *c winch of the two rivers was the bound
ary. The only practical question now is. which
is to be the boundary.
The ‘‘Rough and Ready” fever seems to be
getting pretty high among the coons, and it is
thought that if something is not speedily done for
them that they will explode. “Oh! fora thousand
i tongues” to say that rough and ready will never
deceive us, say the coons. It is thought by many
' of the whig prints, tlt at they had better have
I some expression of opinion from old Zack, before
I jhey commit themselves—others, again, declare
■ that they will support him, let the consequences
be what they may. Do you believe they would,
reader! No; if old Zack was to say that he was a
whole soul democrat, you never saw such a hack
j in" of water us they Would have. So writes the
j Cassvillc Pioneer, and their is much truth in
j what it says.
‘ I
Central Slaii lt«r>tl Tight pe r cent
The Savannah Republican 28lh inst. says
‘Ten Thousand Dollars of this Stock was ,
yesterday sold at one per cent premium, and
the same premium has been offered for as
much more.”
Col. Baker and Etaff, and companies F and
D, of the 4ih regiment Illinois volunteers,
arrived at New Orleans on tlie 23 1 inst., from
| Vera Cruz, in the brig Harriet.
i The Mobile Register of the 25th inst. says
—“We understand that it is tlie expectation
of Mr. Lloyd, the agent of the Magnetic Tele
; graph Company, that a communication will
I be opened between this city and New Orleans j
before the first of August.”
j
The Cassvilie Pioneer of the 28th instant,
says—“We were informed a few days since,
by a gentleman residing in Ootbcalooga val
! ley, that they were visited with a severe hail
storm about the 14tli inst., which destroyed j
the crops in that section, almost entirely.—
I The wheat on some plantations,has been lit- ■
erally ruinpd.”
Convicted.
The Aluscngee Democrat of the 271 b inst.
says—“ Jones Butler, who was on trial when
our last paper went to press, for the murder j
i of Alary Ann Coursie, has been convicted of
the crime-charged, and will be sentenced to
death at the meeting of the Court, on Mon
day next. The prisoner was defended by
Col. Frederic H. Sanford, Judge Colquitt
and Col. Holt, with much ability, but so
: strong was the evidence m the case, and so
| plain and insurmountable the law, as laid
down by his Honor Judge Alexander, that
| there was no possibility of tiie acquittal of
1 the accused, of the higher grade of the of
fence charged. \Ve understand that the
jni«r have recommended 13ulier to mercy, but
we doubt whether there is any chance of his
■ rescue from-the doom that a .vails nim upon
the gallows."’
The ‘’Chain! ersburg (Fa.) Sentinel” con
firms the statements of other democratic
presses about the prospects of the next elec
tion in I‘eiinsylvania. It declares ih tl “the
democracy of the Union may confidently cal
culate upon tiie success ot our ticket in the
Keystone State. That paper says—"We are
the dominant party, ami when uni ltd have
never been defeated. Vv e are lor ether n.:c,
' ami the landmarks of our parly are drawn as
[ distinctly as they were in the, reign if terror.'
i An into ligent citizen of Philadelphia staled
his thorouMi convection of the result, and
i O
would have authorize d us on Saturday last
' to wager £>l,ooo on 10,000 majority for
Mr. Simnk; but we declined ail agency in the
transaction.”
Oar an
A late letter from Naples, written by a
lady, says—
" Mr. Polk is verv much liked here as am
bassador, and is considered quite an accom
plished and gentlemanly man, as every per
son v\ In* knows him must acknowledge. He
is very attentive to Americans who come
here, and thinks there is no place like lire
; United Slates. You will agree with hnn in
l that. He is called the handsome uiubussa
| dor.”
Captain Cor has.
I The Bush n Post, in publishing the pro
ceedings of a dinner recently given in that j
city, and at which this gentleman was j re
sent, accomp mies them with an exhaus
tion by Mr. Curtis (i friend n os Captain
Forbes) as to the manner in which the letter
of Mr. Phillips came to be printed in the
Irish papers. The statement certainly alters
the whole aspect of tiie case, and exonerates
Capi. F. from censure as it regards tiie ori
| gina! publication. JMr. Curtis-said:
; “The only portion of Mr. Phillips’s letter
read at tiie Cove festival, was that referring
to Mr. P.’s offer to fray the expense of tmi
ploying a seaman to as.-ist in navigating the i
Jamestown. The other parts of the letter,
being considered of a private nature, were
carefully covered by pieces of paper watered j
over them. Fume of the reporters asked
Capt. F. the privilege of looking at ins papers
to faciiiiate them in preparing an account of
the dinner, and he handed them nil lie had
before him. The next day, much to as
, tonishment, he saw published what was not
i read, u hat he esteemed private, and v. iiat I
i the reporters must have been aware was no
part o* his address.”
AiJ and Combo*t,”
Capt. [Landing, of the F, (3. Regiment, ,
j has written a letter from Jahtpa to ins math- !
! e , which we find copied into the Charleston j
j Courier.
We find in it. the following remarkable pas
s’. ges:— Columbus Tunes.
4 Gen. Fco t will remain hero with the rest,
of the army lor some time, lie is waiting
i for the result of tins last battle to show it
| self. He believes, Col. Butler tells me, that
it will have a tendency to mike peace. I
doubt it. He has been busy in correcting
some errors which possessed the popular
mind here, and even the minds of the leaders
—errors which were utterly subversive o!
all chances of peace. They bli vs (hat a'
this Mine I wet parlies exist in our conn fry, di •
viJ fl upon the question if the. Jurtker prose
cution of ike. tear or not. Thai the party new
carrying; on the war are to he overthrown, and
(hat when the oilier party <pt into power, they
will withdraw the army tu the Rio Grande. —
Tiie peovle, than whom there is none more
I proud , are waiting for that moment. 'Tarn
; believe that the peace parly oj the United States
will wilhold means to carry on military opera
tions. V, on our divisions at home h ycount
to arrest. Jurtker invasion. Gm. iScutl has
taken active measures to correct an error so
; fated to our purpose of “conquering a peace.”
- Hernias to hi them and their leaders that hovv
i ever we differ about the policy of the war,
millions are voted freely to carry it on vigor-
I ously.
It our officers can succeed in spreading cor
rect ideas on this subject, a revolution in
public feeling may be expected.”
i’ is an important enquary to make—what
i are the sources of these errors in the Mexi
can mind that are so hostile to peace? The
answer is furnished by the .Mexican Jour
; nals, which are tilled with speeches and edi
i forials of the opposition to tiie administration
and the war in this country. Mr, Webster
declaration that the war was costing this
I country “half a million of dollars a dry.”—
j Corw in’s infamous Mexican and anti-Ameri
can speech in the Senate, the editorials of the
New York Tribune and the National intelli
gencer, damning the war as off naive, unjust
and atrocious on our side, and of course, as
just and righteous and defensive on the Mexi I
can side, are the immediate sources of the j
Mexican “errors” which Gen. Scott is striv
ing to eradicate; and are tiie true causes why j
tiie war is pro’onged and American Food and
treasure continue to be poured out in Mexi
co. These are stern truths, but they require
1 to be told and to be kept before tiie public,
! in order that the tribunal of the American peo
; pie rat hold to a just and stern accountablility
j those wiio are responsible for their cxistance.
If the crime of the opposition party, in pro
| during this fatal state of things, is deep and
dark, what shall wo say of the brass of some
of its advocates, when in the face of these
j facts, they put forth such sentiments as the
I following:
| “Fuit what Purtose is the War Con-
I TiKUED?—We believe that the moral sense
1 of the whole Union is shocked at the contin
uance of the war between this Republic and
the Republic of Mexico. What obstacle, so
insuperable, exists, to subject the* p<3«ple of
tiie two countries to the heavy burdens of
j debt which it is bringing upon them, and to
( the public loss and p ivale wretchedness
which it continues to produce. Who has
the power to stop it? Upon whom rests the
responsibility of its further prosecution? Is
this country to blame, or is Mexico to blame?
Are our rulers or the rulers of Mexico most
obstinate, blind and rclctiilcca?”
It is the Augusta ‘‘Chronicle Feniinel”
that asks these questions—a paper that has
gone as far as tiie farthest, in condemning
ihe Government of the country at every step
of the war. The Mexican Journals answer
i s questions —Capt. [Handing answers them
Gen. Scott and all our officers in .Mexico,
w!m find it more difficult to remove "errors ’
of Wing propagation from the Mexican mind,
than to defeat Mexican General—all answer
these questions. And the answer, is that the
V» nig opposition is to blame for Hie continu
ance of tiie war; and that while it continues
to “give awl and eoiniorl to the enemy,
there is no “rowmu to stop it.”
Santa i’e tiud Cahlbmiu.
The last advices are brought to Ft. Louis
bv several gentlemen directiy from these two
places. Lieu;. Win. G. Feck, of (tie topo
graphical corps, is one of Hie party from Fan
ta F . A r tiie time he leil, Col. I’rice was
.-.id there, and all was quiet, but it was be
loved to ha that sullen and stubborn qua t
winch supeiitu’ force alone compels. Al
though tiie tnsurrei turn, which w-’e have here
tofore noticed, i»a- been put down, it was tna
general opinion tit.it they only needed the aid
of a competent leader to raise again. Tiie
civil government was going on trying liu* in
surgents. Judge lieuubicn presiding. The
court of Taos nad condemned a number of
the insurgents to be hung, and eleven Imd
been executed, and a large number whipped.
Fix were hung u:i one day.
1 hose executions excited toe Mcx.cans
verv much, and at Faga- they were en
deavoring to raise volunteers tor another in
surrection. The Alcaide and other influen
tial men wore opposing the effiori, but '.Vila
what success remains to be seen.
Bieut. Coi. Fremont, on the doth Februa
ry, was at.Ciudad de Angelos, acting as gov
ernor of the territory, under an appointment
from Commodore Flocklou. ihe Commo
dore had returned on board fits ship, and had
left that part of the coast.
Gen. K -arney was jmned about the 9tli of
Jan iary, at Fan Dago, by Lieut. Cob Cooke,
with the battalion ol Alorun ns m d>*r h s com
nialid, soon after which, with Mormon- and
1 dragoons, he proceeded to Monterey. Tim re
lie was joiiied by the two artifiery companies
| from Baltimore,and bv Commodore Fhum u k,
bu v\e are unable to learn what their opera
tions w ould be. 4*J was uiider-lood that Gen.
Kearney intended setting out on bis return
about tne Ist of JtiiV. bui. the state of a flairs,
it was supposed, might delay his depart ure.
.V correspondent of the Ft. Louis Republi
can, writing fn m .Santa Fe under date of the
i 7th ot April, says :
“We hear that Col. Doniphan intends to
i return to Missouri, through Texas. If ho
does so lie fore other troops arrive to rei.eve
j him. Chihuahua will fall again into the bauds
i of tlie Mexicans.”
A letter in the Republican, dated City of
; Angels, Mexico, J muury Etj. speaking ot the
arrival of Col. Fremont's foiec at that place,
says :
We found Gen. Kearney here with instruc
tions fro in tiie Secretary ot War in conquer
the country, and institute a civil government,
but (Join. Stockton, who was also here, main
tained that the conquest had been made by him
! and Col. Fremont, and as an incident to it,
1 toe right of forming a civil government be
j longed to him; and that Gen. Kearney’s or
! de fa were now obsolete, because the business
; for which fie had come, had been anticipated
i by oihers. '
j The question of governorship was Ft ill in
j dispute h .Tween tiie Commodore and Gnue
| rai. Among tin* parly arrived at .Ft. Louis
| was 1/. Theodore I albot, who went out w ith
| Colonel Fremont; Lt. F Bead, U. F. Navv,
and G. 'f ophn, U. F. Army, some of whom
were understood to be bearers of de.-patche-.
They had two or three difficulties with the
Camanche aud Pawnee Indians on the route.
The MUaiKcr VI .•*!:!«
A csterday morning the splendid steamer Wash
ington. (he first of tiie now line of mail steamcis
ot the Ocean Strain Navigation C<. sailed < u
an expei imeotal trip. the vV a.-aingtou is the
pioneer idT'anrlun. mail Simmers now in pro
gress of bu.idi ng. About lialf-pa.si b o’clock the
gallant ship, for the first time, Was unmoor* o.
I’iie steam w; s up, and the noble vi ssi i m eimd
eager for the start. Some difficulty, which is m
cidentai to all new undertakings, occurred. Th s
deia e I her about an hour. .When fairly Feed,she
steamed it in gallantsivie down the H;st. rived
through the bay and up the North river. Un
fortunately, the whole day was stormy, and when
the rain ceased, a dense fog frustrated their de
sign, which was to go out to sea. The accomp ir-fl
ea commander, Captain Fredeiick Hewitt, and
the enterprising contractor and agent, Mr. E.
Mills, were ia-rapiures with the vessel, as were
also tiie visitors, and the board of directors, nearly
ail of whom were on board. As the Washington
went up the river, the smaruhoass Muted heron
passing, while sSie, with a small brass cannon,
gave raply. Her tvvoengincs worked like a charm.
Notwithstanding the want of sea room and the
dense fog, with an unfavoving tide, the Wash
ington ma le at times sixlc a k'o'; on hour.
This, for a steamship, is a great velocity. Indeed,
it was the belief of those onboard that she will
attain a speed unapp.io.-t’hed bv any other
Adamic steamer. After sailing about through
the day, we left her at the Quarantine. Os the
I enterprise manifested in getting up this line, it is
impossible to speak in terms of suitable praise.
Every one with us must feel proud of the Wash
ington. Flu* is a model of naval art, and vvi!!, in
speed, neatness and comfort, completely eclipse
tiie trans-Atlantic steamers. To-day, should the
weather prove line, she will take a trip to sea,
after which she will moor at pier N ». 1, north of
the Battery. We are glad to hear that her com
plement of passengers is last filling up— .V. V.
Sun, 'doth lust.
II”: r.; ■»-ii me. *-<.*. >tiTT;.afiP": 1 .eaK^rrrrr.TWjc.•» i rsnai-wi
Democratic Meeting in Moreau.
The Democratic party of the County of Morgan *
j are requested to meet in Madison, on the first Mon
| day in June, for the purpose of appointing delegates
' to the Gubernatorial Convention in Milledgeviile.
I May 27 2UO
Democratic fleeting iu Curke C < uni) .
7'he Democrats of Burke county are requested
to meet at Waynesboro, on the first Tuesdaydn
June, to appoint Delegates to attend the Conven
tion, to be held at Milledgeville, on the fourth
.Monday in June. May 22
Dem ocratic Meeting in Columbia county.
A meeting of the Democratic p;. rty of Columbia
county will be held at Appling, on the first Tues
day in June, fur the purpose of appointing Dele
gates to the Convention to be held in Milledgeville.
City Taxes.
COLLECTOR <fc TREASURER’S NOTICE.
The Citizens of Augusta, and all concerned,
are hereby notified that 1 am prepared to re
ceive their City and Canal Taxes for the present
year, and hope that ail who are ready to pay, will
not wait fur me to call on them, but will forthwith
honor me with a v i-it at my office, which will be
kept open for the purpose from 2 to 6 o’clock, B. -M.
daily, for the next two weeks.
The forenoons, 1 expect to employ in making
culls, us I am bound to do. unles- my fellow-citizens
make ii unr.ecv'ssarv by first calling on me.
'JOHN HILL, c. & t. g a.
may 19 13- 103