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[From our Correspondent .]
DAILY PICAYUNE-EXTRA, )
New Orleans, June 14 —12 M. >
Arrival of tiie Steamship Telegraph.
From the Army of Gen. Scott.
The steamship Telegraph, Capt. Anld,
arrived Sunday evening, having left Vera
Cruz ou the 4th hist., Tampico on the
7lf> and Brazos Santiago on the 9ih inst.
The Telegraph brought over a num
ber of passengers, officers of the Ohio,
Indiana and Mississippi Regiments, and
about 500 volunteers and teamsters.
The Telegraph’s news from Vera Cruz
is not so late as the Fanny’s, but we
have received by her a letter from Mr.
Kendall not without interest, though not
so late as we have published from him.
Jalapa, Mexico, May 22, 1847.
There is nothing new of importance to
communicate, although after my.hurried
postscript to the letter 1 wrote:>yesterday
additional particulars in relation to Gen.
Worth’s movements were received.
It seems that the affair with Santa
Anna’s lancers look place at Amosoque,
a small place about three leagues this
side of Puebla. The number of the ene
my was variously estimated at from 1500
to 2000. They charged up within can
non range with great apparent resolution,
so much so that a regular movement was
made to receive them; but the three first
discharges of our artillery set them all
scampering off as fast as their animals
would carry them, leaving ten men and
seven horses dead on the field. What
a pity we have not a caval rv force sufficient
to attach a command to each division of the
armv. Col. Harney has been compelled
to remain here with the 2d Dragoons up
to this time, to give the horses rest; had
he been at Amosoque with only 500 men,
a great many of the 2000 Mexicans
would not have answered to the their
next roll-call.
The belter classes at Puebla appear
to be well enough disposed towards the
Americans, although they perhaps do not
altogether like the idea that a force of
3000 men should enter a city of near
100,000 souls and without resistance,—
The lower orders—the ladrones and Je
peros with which Puebla abounds—are
evidently but ill-disposed towards us.—
One of Gen. Worth’s men has already
been assassinated, but fortunately the
murderers were immediately arrested.—
On the alcade’s telling Gen. Worth that
according to their laws, a year and a half
would elapse before the case of the as
sassins could be settled in the courts of
Puebla, he was informed that an Ameri
can trial would render them full justice
in a day and a half! The miscreants
are now where they never will commit
another murder.
It is said that supplies of all kinds can
be readily obtained at Puebla. The
wheat crop has just ripened and is most
abundant.
The news now is that the Mexicans
have abandoned the idea of fortifying at
the Rio Frio, but intend constructing a
line of works at El Penol, a position about
nine miles this side of the city of Mexico.
Perhaps they only intend this as a show
of resistance, for the sake of saving their
credit; again, they may hope to raise
men enough to give a regular battle to
the Americans. They can collect noth
ing, however, but an undisciplined rabble,
and these our regulars can disperse like
chaff. The more they have to contend
with of this class the better—the quicker
a panic can be created among them.
Santa Anna, after the dispersion of
his cavarly, did not stop even at San
Martin or Rio Ft io, but kept on with all
speed to the city of Mexico. Our know
ledge of the state affairs at the capital,
since Santa Anna’s arrival, is limited,
but it was currently reported at Puebla
on Wednesday last, that on the previous
day the two parties—the Polkas and the
Paros —were fighting like cats and dogs.
Some new revolution has without doubt
broken out, but the leaders at present
are unknown.
Gen. Scott’s last proclamation has
been generally circulated at Puebla, and
it is said with most excellent effect. No
less than three editions of it had been print
ed, and still the inhabitants were call
ing for more. The demand for it alone
would show that its effects have been salu
tary. The numberless horde of military
drones, and all the employees and han
gers-on of the Government, are douhless
doing all they can to put down its circu
lation and deaden its influence upon the
masses; but they cannot keep it out of the
hands of the middle and Letter class of
citizens, the laborious and thinking arti
sans, nor prevent them from perusing and
pondering upon its contents.
In a tetter I sent you yesterday by
the diligencia, I believe that I stated that
Gen. Valencia was coming out with 14,-
000 men to meet the Americans. The
report is, that of this number 4000 are
Pintos, or Indians of the South, under
Gen. Alvarez. They are called Pintos
from the fact that after they come to man
hood their faces, from some cause or other
which I have not heard explained, be
come spotted—yellow and red. They
are of little account as soldiers, and it is
probale that Valencia’s men, if he has
the number given him by rumor, are
nothing but raw recruits. If they stop to
be fired at once they will not do it a
second lime.
There is much speculation in the army
as to what is to be the result—as to what
is to be the winding up of this war with
Mexico. I can see no other result than the
subjugation of the country entirely,—or
at least in bringing it under the protection
of ihe United States. As a nation Mexico
is blotted out of the list—the candle of her
independence is burnt down to the socket.
If left to herself she would in a few
months, from her utter inability to govern
herself, be torn and divided by intestine
commotions. No proteciion whatever
could be given either to life or properly,
there ate no men in the country who
could make headway against the torrent
of abuses that would at once creep into
every department, there is no money or
means with which to establish a new and
stable government. What then is she to
do? This is a question for wise heads to
answer. Too utterly helpless to he left
to herself, I repeat that the better plan
would be to take her at once under onr
protection. Let some honest and well
meaning man—there may be a few of
them left—lei some one of them be chosen
or selected as Piesident, and give him the
as-Ttance of a few thousand men to keep
down revolutions, and awe the hungry
horde of leeches, who have so long preyed
upon the country. 11 they raised a grilo
or pronunciamento, put them down by the
bayonet —pronunciamenlos would soon
become unfashionable if the precious
bio >d of tho>e who started litem was
brought in jeopardy. Give but one of their
revolutions a tragicturn—they have been
costly farces heretofore—and the people
would soon become sick ot them.
These remarks have been hastily
thrown together, but they may possibly
he as good as anv speculations that can
ho offered. He who thinks that a lasting
and beneficial peace can be made with
Mexico, or believes that the Anerican
troops are soon to he withdrawn, is some
one who has not been over the country —
he starts in his belie! from false premises,
and judges a race of people by the ordi
nary rules which govern human nature,
while it is notoriously a fact that they
have long since thrown all ordinary rules
at defiance. The Chinese, when they
painted hideous faces upon their walls to
frighten off'the English invaders, were
not a whit behind these people when they
gel up their tremendous proclamations,
and Matter themselves into the belief that
what thev say in them is all true, —that
they really are a great people, and able
to contend with those whom they profess
to despise.
Yours, Ac. G. W. K.
From the Army of Gen. Taylor.
From the Brazos, by the arrival of the
Telegraph, onr news is later.
From the Flag of the 7th insf, we learn
that Col. Doniphan, with a portion of his
command, passed down the Rio Grande
on the sth insl. The Flag thus speaks
of them.
The unshorn beards and goat and
deer skin clothes of many of them remind
ed us of descriptions we have read of the
inhabitants of some of the countries of the
Russian empire. They slopped in town
a couple of hours. Col. Doniphan is a
stout, rough featured, good-natured look
ing sort of a man. He brought along
with him Clark’s battery, and ten pieces
of cannon captured at Sacramento. The
sick, Ac., forty or fifty wagons, with
several bundled mules, were turned over
to the quartermaster.
A private belonging to this command
fell off the steamboat on the 4th inst. and
was drowned.
Capt. Garland’s company of Rangers
has been dismissed at Maiamoros, some
difficulty about mustering them into the
service having occurred.
The vol uniters are returning from Gen.
Taylor with great rapidity. Ere this he
is left without any of the volunteers who
fought under him at Buena Vista. The
letter we give below from our special cor
respondent contains the latest information
as to the probable movements of Gen.
Taylor.
The Massachusetts volunteer put in
prison for killing a man who refused him
whisky, has made his escape. One of
his companions has killed a woman in
Matamoros for the same offence. The
Flag loudly denounces these ou rages.
A private in the Ist Indiana Regiment
is also denounced for a brutal assault
upon a Mr. Slip, an aged French silver
smith, with whom he had a slight difficul
ty.
Brig. Gen. Hopping has arrived in
Matamoros, and occupies Gen. Cushing’s
former quarters there.
By Lieut. Tidball, of the 3d Ohio Re
gimeni, the editors of the Flag learn that
a short time since a party of about one
hundred Carnanches, in all the panoply
of war, came suddenly across a small
parly of volunteers, who were chopping
wood in the neighborhood of Parras. In
stead of a fight, as was naturally expect
ed, the Indians gave tokens of peace, and
stated that the game they were after were
Mexicans. They partially escorted the
volunteers into town, to whom they seem
ed much attached. Lieut. P. is on his
way home.
[Special Correspondence of the Picayune.]
Saltillo, Mexico, May 21, 1847.
A short time after my last letter closed,
the town was thrown into a fever of ex
citement by the arrival at Gen. Wool’s
camp of two Mexican officers from San
Luis Potosi, charged with despatches for
Gen. Taylor. They professed to be ig
norant of their contents, but to believe
that they had come from the city of Mexi
co and contained the intelligence that an
armistice had been granted, and that ne
gotiations for oeace were under discus
sion between Gen. Scotland Santa Anna,
Extactic was the joy of many who are ‘ in
for the war’’ and pine for the day when
they shall rejoin their friends and fami
lies. The despatches were immediately
forwarded to Gen. Taylor by Lieut.
Franklin, and the Mexican officers treat
ed with the most marked courtesy by our
officers at this post. They professed ig
noranceof the character of the despatches,
but believed that the above was their
purport. Singular to say, this idea was
generally believed; for myself, I have so
little confidence in anything Mexican that
1 believed it to he a paper from the De
partment of San Luis—a remonstrance
against the advance of Gen. Taylor, or
something ol that character. Private let
ters received from San Luis by citizens
here, brought by the Mexican officers,
announced that the inhabitants were in a
state of excitement from the expected ap
proach of our army from this quarter,
which was looked tor the 28ih hist. The
despatches arrived here on Tuesday and
were immediately forwarded, and lhe
protracted absence of the boater, Lieut.
Franklin, tended to excite the curiosity
felt to be apprised of their contents. —
About 1 o’clock to-day he returned, and
lo! the bubble burst! The impoitaat
despatch was a communication from the
Governor of San Luis Poiosi, announc
ini; that he had heard of the intended ap
proach of the American army, and beg
ging to inquire w hether it was the inten
tion of the commanding general to con
duct the war according to the usages of
civilized nations, or according to the man
ner adopted by the Camanches. What
reply Gen. Taylor will make to a ques
tion and communication ot so insulting a
character 1 cannot say, hut I am told his
usually even temper was considerably
rufHed upon reading it, and he is said to
have remarked that he should ihink the
Mexicans had become pretty well ac
quainted with our manner of conducing
war before this. If they have not, it is
certainly not his fault, for he has tried
hard enough to heat it into them. There is
no doubt that we shall march upon San
Luis at a very early period, as soon as a
sufficient number of troops arrive from
below, and from S.m Luis to the city of
Mexico. A communication received from
Gen. Scott by Gen. Taylor a few days
ago, giving a briet account of the battle
O'* O
near Jalapa directs Gen. T. to move at
once, or as early as possible, from San
Luis, where he expected the letter would
reach him, to the city of Mexico, So that
Gen. Taylor will not probably remain
any lime at San Luis, unless he receives
orders there, but leaving a garrison for
the place, will proceed with the residue
of his command to the city of Mexico.—
The command will probably never re.
trace its steps this way, as there will he
no occasion for it. I have therefore, a fair
prospect of “revelling in the halls of the
Montezurnas,” as well as some other peo
ple, and if I live through the campaign
and return via Vera Ciuz, I shall have
seen quite as much of the country as I
care about. As soon as my health will
permit my going lo Monterey, I shall ap
prise you more in detail of the plan of
operations, number of troops to be taken
and all other particulars likely to be in
leresliag.
Important from the City of Mexico.
VVe have received, by the way of Tam
plco, our files from the capital as late as
the 29th of May. This is a week later
than the papers received last week by the
Oregon, and full as late as the private ad
vices from the capital.
Santa Anna’s letter of resignation,
which we gave on Friday last, is publish
ed in the papers of the 29ih nil., but vve
know nothing of the action taken by Con
gress on the subject. We find also a long
manifesto addressed lo the nation by him
a few days earlier, which vve have not
time lo translate before the mail goes, if it
be worth a translation.
In the city of Mexico everything is
manifestly in a stale of confusion and al
most unlicensed anarchy. Gen, Bravo
has resigned not only his command of
general-in-chief, but also his commission
of general of division. Gen. Rincon is
said to have done the same thing. More
of the causes in our next.
It is true that Gen. Almonte is under
arrest, though the causes of imprisonment
are not avowed. He is confined in San
tiago Tlaltelolco.
The death of Gen. Scott was for seve
ral days reported in the city of Mexico,
and generally credited. The error was
discovered, however, prior to the latest
dates.
Gen. Ampudia has been directed to
await further orders at Cuernavaca.—
What suspicious thing he has done or
contemplated we are not informed.
Gen. Valencia and Gen. Salas were
ordered to leave the city of Mexico on
the 24th ult., for the city of San Luis Po
tosi, to take command of the army of the
North.
The accounts we find in the Mexican
papers of the disaffection in Zacatecas
confirm those we published a few days
since. The official paper of the State
publishes wrong representations made
against Santa Anna and in favor of the
Americans —Gen. Scott’s manifesto a
mong the latter. This latter document
is also given in all the papers of the capi
tal.
Gen. Arista has refused to re-assume
his military functions until his conduct
should be investigated by a military tri
bunal. He demands that his trial may
take place at once, in order that he may
take part in the defence of the country.
The Legislature ot Durango voted tor
Senor D- Francisco Eiloriaga for Presi
dent. Upon the first ballot Eiloriaga re
ceived six votes, Santa Anna four, Her
rera one, Pedraza one, and Angel Trias
one. Upon the second ballot, Eiloriaga
received eight voles and Santa Anna six.
Eiloriaga was the former Governor of the
State, and it will be recollected ran Santa
Anna hard for the Provisional Presi- j
dency, in the last election by Congress.
The Stale of Tamaulipas has voted for
Gen. Almonte for the Presidency, and
Zacatecas for Senor Jo-e Maria Lafrgua.
The Legislature of Oajaca (which has
been denounced by the revolutionary par
ty in that Slate.) voted for Gen. Herrera.
The new Legislature voted fur Gen. San
ta Anna for President.
If tfiis last vote he allowed to Gen Her.
rera, the result of the election so far will
stand thus: Gen. Herrera 4 votes, An
gel Trias 3 voles, Senor Ocampo I vole,
Senor Eiloriaga I vote, Gen. Almonte 1
vote, and Senor Lafragua 1 vote. Give
the vole of Oajaca to Gen. Santa Anna
and you have the seventh candidate for
the unenviable station of Piesident of
Mexico.
AUGUSTA, lihu..
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1847.
The Constitutionalist furnishes the follow
ing as the off-pring ot some Whig press:
“ The most adroit skull-breaker, throat-cut
ter, house burner and women and children
slayer of the age.”
We receive a great number of Whig pa
pers, from all sections of the Union, and we
have never seen any thing like this in any
Whig paper whatever We admit, however,
that some fanatical aUolit’on Whig pre.-s may
have used such language. We will fully
meet this extract by the following Ironr a De
mocratic abolition (taper:
“If there is in the United Slates a heart
worthy of American liberty, its impulse is to
JOIN THE MEXICANS, and hurl down
upon the base, slavish, mercenary invaders,
who, born in a Republic, go to play over the
accursed game of the Hessians, the lops ot
these Mexican volcanoes. It would be a sad
and woful joy, hut a joy nevertheless, to hear
that the hordes under Scott and Taylor were,
every man of them, sut.pt into the next
world. Wlial business has an invading ar
my in this!"
The Chronicle tf* Sentinel must have a
strange assortment of Whig exchanges, if it
dues not frequently meet with passages hav
ing a close family resmblance to the first
of the two quotations above given. Not on
ly is the first, but the second quotation which
the Chronicle would attribute to a Democrat
ic paper, is from a Whig paper. The first
is from the Xenia (Ohio) Torch Light—a
prominent Whig paper in the Congressional
district which Mr. Schenck.a very influential
whig.represents in Congress. That same gen
tleman attended recently a public meeting in
Graene co., Ohio,in which just such language
was used in reference to Gen. Taylor. Such
language is of common occurrence among the
whigs. Our whig exchange list is not devoid
of occasional specimens. The second quota
tion is also from a whig, and not a Democratic
paper. Such is not the language of democ
racy in reference to the war. It is the lan
guage of the Boston Chronotype. We do
not exchange with it, but we find it called a
Whig paper by Northern papers. The De
mocracy of Massachusetts has not in this
wise raised its voice against the war. It
was not the Dtmo racy in her legislati re
that refused a vole of thanks to Gen. Tay
lor and his brave army.— It was not the De
mocracy that refused to vote a dollar as an
outfit lo the gallant regiment of Massachu
setts volunteers, who are now serving their
country under the command of the hero of
Buena Vista. The ignominy and disgrace
of all this rest where they properly should—
with the Whigs alone.
We will not repeat the statements hereto
fore published by us, coming from those who
ought to know, and wiio do not speak from
mere conjecture, to show that Gen. Taylor
is a strict constructionist, an anti-tariff, and
anti-bank man. If he be such, as is alledg
ed by them, then he is a Democrat. We will
not argue such a point. No man holding
these views can, by possibility, be a Whig.
A Whig paper, published at Cleaveland,
Ohio, says very properly, “Calling him a
Whig, therefore, does not tell us his princi
ples.”
“It is said he is a whig. Well, say that he
is a Louisiana slaveholding whig. And what
is such a whig? Can the Herald tell us what
are his views on the subject of a laritf—the
annexation of Texas—the acquisition of ter
ritory —and the extension of slavery? One
would think, from the above article, the edi
tor knew all about him. Fray, give us light.
The simple fact of calling him a whig will
not do. In what does his being a whig con
sist? Johnson, of La. was a whig, at d voted
for Texas. Jarnigau was a whig, and voted
for the repeal of the tariff of ’42. All the
whigs of the slave States, voted for the ex
tension of slavery. All the northern whigs
against it. Calling him a whig, therefore,
dues not tell us his principles.”
We will, no doubt, in proper time, have
from General Taylor’s own pen, a full and
explicit avowal of his political opinions. We
will then see how much “aid and comfort”
the real true blue, Tariff, National Bank, In
ternal Improvement Whigs will derive from
the avowal.
As the Chronicle seems not to have as co- ;
pious a supply of Whig sentiments in refer
ence to General Taylor as is desirable for
correct information, as to what its Whig con
federates say and think of him, vve select
two or three for its special perusal. We
have a few more left of the same sort.
The Beaver, Pa., Argus, on the 27th of
May, thus speaks of him;
He (Gen. Taylor) is also the man who re
commended the Cuba blood hounds, that were
put upon the trails of the Indians, and which
brought the democratic parly into such bad
repute. He is undoubtedly a brave man, but
is thought to be not well qualified for the du
ties and responsibilities that rest upon him
as commander of the army of occupation.
The Trenton News, a decided and strong
whig paper, savs:
“But vve ask you who, according to your
own estimate, lias been the leader to kill,
where G>>d has commanded, Thou shale not
pill; Who, to plunder, when God has said.
Thou shall nut steal! To seize whole pro
vinces of farms, of houses, of towns and
cities, when G*>d has said, 7 hou shall not
Corel anything that is thy neighbor's ! Who
ha> snatched the charter from the hands ot
the Aimighty, wherewith to destroy the hu
man beings He has made? N\ ho has attempt
ed to make the cannons oui-tliunder the voice
of God from tSinai? There is but one an
swer to these questions. It the sentiments
advanced by tire Gazette are true, then is
Gen. Zachary Taylor guilty of all this ! He,
the chief, whose fame has sprouted from the
rich manure of human bodies, slaughtered in
defence of their wives and little ones—of
their God and their country ! He, the chief
tain, whose only claim to distinction is found
ed in the violation ol God’s charier ! He,
the statesman who should be elevated over
tiie heads of Clay and Webster, because he
has kuled, by wholesale, in violation ol God’s
law— Thou shall nut kill!"
In New Jersey the whig papers are lully as
fierce and uncompromising.
'l'he Monmouth Inquirer says
“This is a nomination growing out of a
military mama, and it is in effect proclaim
ing that the path to the Presidency ot this
Republic is through human blood. Is it not
so? Admit all the high qualities of Gen.
Taylor as a man, yet what is it hut the pres
litre, of his name as a bold and successful
General that has caused him to be taken up
as an available candidate?”
We asserted that the great distinguishing
feature of an orthodox whig in 1847, is oppo
sition to the war waged by our country
against Mexico. According lo this the
Chronicle would insist that Mr. Calhoun and
Mr. Benton are whigs. Not exactly. They
are not found in 1847, giving “aid and com
fort” to the Mexicans by their speeches.—
Their voices are not raised in loud anathe
mas upon the war, and calling down the im
precaiionsof heaven upon ourarmies. Their
opinions when the Tyler treaty was under
discussion may have been different from the
mass of the democratic parly, and prior to
the breaking out of hostilities they may have
advocated a policy which might in their
opinion have averted the war. These posi
tions they did assume. But since it com
menced, they have not been viewed by the
Mexicans as their friends. El liepuhlica
no, and EL Diario have not looked lo them
for succour,or quoted their speeches as proof
that they are favorable to the overthrow of
the party now in power in our country, and
will if Mexico will only prolong the war, lill
the opposition comes into office, make a trea
ty in conformity with Mexican desires. Thus
much cannot be said of all the distinguished
men in the country. Mr. Webster, and
Thomas Corwin inclusive, who are whigs.
We have one word in conclusion, to say
in reference to the Southern whig press and
General Taylor. If they intend iii good faith
to support him for the Presidency, they will
have to cut louse from their Northern allies.
They will have to abandon the ultra federal
doctrines of those all es—their protective tar
iff—national bank and internal improvement
n »tions, and come back to the State rights,
republican creed which distinguished the un
divided South in former days. It is very cer
tain that their Northern allies will not sup
port for the Presidency a Southern slavehold.
er, and an anti-Wilmot proviso man. They
deceive nobody therefore in talking of Gene
ral Taylor as the whig candidate. The North
ern whigs are all powerful in a party nomi
nation. They will nominate a Northern can
didate—and a Wihnot proviso man. South
ern whigs, and especially Georgia whigs
may get up a hurrah for the whig hero of
Buena Vista, in the hope of some temporary
party benefit,, in our local elections. But it
is the sheerest, most drivelling attempt at
humbug for them to la ! k of his being elected
lo the Presidency by the whig parly.
0“ The topics of inquiry contained in the
note of our correspondent “Enqu.rer,” are
worthy the attention of our City Council,
and worthy of a reply. To more citizens
than “Enquirer,” is the standing water in the
Canal a matter of great interest. There was
some sickness last summer in the upper part
of the city, caused, as many suppose, by the
Canal. We hope it may not recur this sum
mer. Both to this possible cause of sickness,
and the trash on the commons, we invite the
the especial attention of tiie City Council,
and that of its Committee on Health. It may>
perhaps, be necessary to add a Committee on
the best mode of propagating musquiloes.
Harps.
Those in want of fine instruments,are re
ferred to the advertisement of Mr. Browne, of
New York, in this day’s paper. His Harps
are highly spoken of.
Change of Trade.
The schooner Susan cleared at Charleston
on Thursday last for Baltimore , with 2500
bushels corn.
New Flour.
Three bbls. of the New Crop, of extra
quality, have been sold in Charleston at
per bbl.
The Suauicis.
No tidings of the steamers had reached
New York up to 6 P. M., 16th inst. We
may hear of the arrival of the British or
French steam er by to-night’s mail.
Third District.
Sampson W. Harris, Esq. of Wetumpka,
has been nominated as the democratic candi
date for Congress from the 2d district of Ala
bama.
Seduction and Murder.
Dr. S. S. Perry, of Gainesville, Ala. was
shot and killed at that place on the 6th in*t.
by Ci 1. J. A. Winston, of the same village.
The latter has been for many years Senator
from Sumter county in the State Legislature,
and Dr. Perry was a Representative, last
session. Col, Winston alter shooting Perrv,
shouted, “thank God. i have killed the sedu
cer of the wife of my bosom, and the destroy
er of my tiwn peace.”
The Muscogee Democrat says—“ The ex
amination of Col. J. A. Winston, took place
on the lllh inst. and resulted in the acquit
tal and discharged the accused. Mrs. Win
ston, whose maiden name was Mary W. Log
wood, leaves for the residence of her friends,
at Somerville, Tenn. Mrs. Perry has also
left Gainesville, satisfied of the guilt of her
husband. Col. Winston will seek a divorce
immediately. 'I bis case is a worse one than
that of Mrs, Myers and Mr. Hoyt, of Rich
mond, Va. inasmuch as the lives of Wm.-ti n
and Mrs. Perry w» re to have been sacrificed,
to make way for the intercourse between the
deceased and his victim.”
The Wheat Crop in Edgefield.
The Edgefield Advertiser ot toe 16iu inst.
says—“tSo tar as our knowledge extends, the
wheat crop hi Edgefield has been good, and
the grain is of excellent quality. The farm
ers, generally, had a favorable season lor har
vesting. The wheal crop in our district is
never large, but we believe, that an average
crop at least, will be made by our farmers
during the present year.”
Extract of a letter received in Charleston dated Sum
ter District, June 1847.
"The prospect tor a crop ot Cotton thic year
in this district is truly gloomy, i iiuvc iu-\ti seen
any thing like it belorc,”
The Charleston Courier ot’ihe 19th inst says
—The Br. barque Jane Glassen, F eek master,
cleared yesterday lor Liverpool by Jos. Battersbv,
Esq . with a cargo ot 293 bales >Bea Island and
2,710 bales Upland Colton, 1 tierce Bice, 2,237
bushels Corn and Wheat, and 9 casts and I
trunk of Clothing, valued at. £145 809.
New York.
The following totals comprise the votes of
all the counties in the State, except Broome,
Livingston and Oswego, lor Appeal Judges
and Clerk:
Whigs. Democrats.
Noxon 117.899 Bronson 138.635
Jordon 120.937 Ruggles 134,149
Reynolds 117.072 i Jewett 131.071
Whittlesey 121,382 I Gardiner 138,296
Clerk "J Appeals.
Lamport 124,479 | Bouton 131,738
Os county Judges, the democrats have
elected 36 and the whigs 24.
District Attorneys,democrats 32, whigs 24.
•Surrogates, democrats 32, whigs 25,
The Steamer Metamora.
A new boat, named as above, and recently
purchased in New Y'ork by Messrs. Brooks
&, Barden, to supply the place of the steamer
Jasper, in the line between Charleston and
Savannah, arrived at the latter city on Thurs
day lust in 70 hours trom wharf to whart, an
ticipating the mail six hours.
Complimentary.
The citizens of Macon have held a public
meeting, and tendered a dinner to the Macon
Guards, who have recently returned from the
service of their country in Mexico, yester
day, the 19th inst.,was the day fixed upon for
the entertainment.
A general meeting of the citizens of Ma
* con and Houston counties, has also been held
for the same purpose, and after the passage
of several complimentary resolutions, the 3d
of July was fixed upon as the day, for a pub
lic dinner to be given to the citizen soldiera of
Macon asd Houston counties, who have juat
returned.
Coltou Crop Statistics.
The Muscogee Democrat says—We have
been favored, by Col. Rutherford, with the
following table of growth, bloom, &c. of the
Colton Crop for ten years past, which may
be useful for reference and comparison, to
most of our readers. Co). R. obtained it
from a factor and commission merchant of
Apalachicola, a gentleman of extensive ex
perience and sound judgment in sucli matters,
who has taken some pains to keep a regular
statistical table of our great staple:—
Year. Dale of bloom. Killing Frost. Crops.
1836 June 4 Oct. 14 1,192,930
1837 May 28 Oct. 27 1,801,479
1833 June 14 Oct. 7 1,360 582
1839 Mav 24 Nov. 7 2,177,835
1840 June 6 Oct. 16 1.634 945
1841 June 10 Oct. 20 1,684,211
1843 May 20 Oct. 27 2,379,460
1843 June 9 Nov. 18 2,030,409
1844 May 31 Oct. 29 2,416,448
1845 May 30 Nov. 3 2,100,000
1846 June 10 Nov. 1 ,
Corn Meal for Queen Victoria.
We notice by the Cincinnati papers that
four barrels of kiln dried corn meal have juat
been despatched from that city, for Queen
Victoria. It is ground in the best style, from
selected corn, packed in polished cedar bar
rels, and neatly covered with Ohio bagging.
[COMMUN ICATED.]
As a citizen, enjoying the privilege of be
ing pretty liberally taxed, I wish respect
fully to ask those in authority (through your
columns) whether it is conducive lo the health
61 the city to permit the water lo remain in
the Canal during the s immer, while there is
no outlet at this end ? or to allow so large an
accumulation of “trash” as may be loutui
upon different portions of the city Commons?
Are not these matters of some consequence
to those who remember the “Trash NV harf
of ’3O? Respectfully,
ENQUIRER.