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M ** Hm ** mmmmm !*^*T* Jm * m ' mmtl *- a * m '** *' * r ' XtrV *. THE CON STIT UTI ON ALI ST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. TER M N . Daily, per annum, $8 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum, 0 00 If paid in advance A 00 Weekly, per annum, 0 00 If paid in advance, 2 50 To Clubs, remitting $lO in advance, FIVE COPIES are sent. This will put our weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. JCrAI! new subscriptions must be paid in advance. ■XT’Postage must be paid on ail Cuiumumcaliuns and Letters of business. 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. •» « AKm.rmrr-g7-.r-" :r.r.T ■ m as'"mrmiedj*9e rag: --r,m ~ ~ -4 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