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\From the N. O. Picayune 30th ult.]
The News 'from Mexico.
The news by the New Orleans, which
will be found in detail in our columns to
day, is the most serious and consistent
that we have received for many weeks.
It is now no longer doubtful that Gen.
Scott’s march upon the capital will be
'disputed with no inconsiderable determi
naton —for Mexicans. It is supposed
that he will he resisted, in force, at three
several points between Puebla and Mexi
co.
Santa Anna has succeeded in gelling
to the windward of his enemies, lie has
collected a force, formidable at bast in
numbers, and it is said, contrived to have
himself made Dictator—upon the condi
tion that he will refuse.to makepeace.
Those generals and dignitaries who were
opposed to him, or were suspected of
lukewarmness in his cause, have been
imprisoned or sent to distant provinces in
exile. Mis sway, it would seem, is es
tablished upon as firm a basis as the pow.
er to get rid of his enemies w ith u restraint
can furnish.
All accounts agree in stating that the
utmost activity prevails in the different
armories and foundries in Mexico —that
cannons are being cast with rapidhy—
that shells, round shot and other missiles
are turning out in abundance, and that
men are collecting in large bodies to fill
tip the rank and file of the army. The
people, it is said, have been aroused and
Santa Anna employs the intervals between
the composition of high-sounding procla
mations in the more soldier likeand serious
business of preparing substantial dofen
fees of the seal of government. As a
means of keeping in power, despite the
foreboding complexion of such returns of
the voles of the States as have been re
■ ceived, Congress, no doubt through I n
procurement, have passed a law to the
-effect that their successors chall meet on
the Ist of January next, and the vole for
President shaft be counted on the 15 th of
that month. Whatever may be said of
Santa Anna’s conduct in battle, he has
certainly a wondeiful knack of raising
armies and recovering from apparently
boneless reverses.
The complaints in the army of the
tardiness in receiving reinforcements and
necessary transportation are univeisal.
Had these needful supplies of men and
means been forwarded with becoming
despatch, it is conceded on all hands that
Gen. Scott would ere this have taken
possession of the Mexican capital without
meeting serious resistance. Now' it is
doubtful when he will again make a for
ward movement. Tne lff:h inst. was
the day appointed to advance from Pue
bla, hut such w ere the prepa rations of the
enemy to receive him, that he was com
pelled to delay his march until reinforce
ments arrived.
The guerrillas, 100, are becoming
bolder in their attacks upon bodies of men
moving along the road. Indications of
obstinate resistance are rife from every
quarter, nor can any presage of peace he
drawn from any source unless there be
comforts in the adage, “the darkest hour
of the night is just before day.”
[From the N. O. Courier, 30 th ult.]
The Army.
It appears that General Scott had not
advanced from Puebla toward of the city
of Mexico, as late as the 14th instant,
which is the date of the last letter re
ceived by the editors of the Picayune.—
The General was waiting for reinforce
ments, which were rapidly approaching
under Generals Pillow and Cadwallader,
whose united force will number about
3200 men.
Many troops are in Vera Cruz, and
on the way thither, and it is probable
that Scott will soon have abundance of
force for whatever operation he may
think proper to undertake.
General Cadwallader had a smart
affair with the guerrillas a few miles he
yond Jalapa, in which the enemy had
some 30 killed.
There was also a skirmish between
the guerrillas and General Pillow’s de
tachmen’, a few miles beyond the Na
tional Bridge, in which the General, with
characteristic a'nbty and vigor, roted
the enemy and dispersed them. This
seems to have been a se ions affair, al
though the Picayune, in its unreasonable
hostility to the brave and patriotic Pillow’,
makes light of it.
The road between Vera Cruz and Ja
lapa are full of banditti who call them
selves guerrillas. There is need of a
strong and active force of mounted men
in that region.
VVe are sorry to hear of the death of
Mr. Thom as G. Banks, who fell a \ic
lim to the vomilo at Vera Cruz—he was
a native of one of the interior counties of
the State of New York, a man of great
energy of character, and remarkable for
heiculean strength. He was attached to
the Quartermaster’s Department, and had
distinguished himself by the address with
which lie surprised and captured a party
of Mexican robbers in the vicinity of
Vera £ruz; he also made himself conspi ,
cuous for courage and activity in defend
ing the wagons in the train ol Colonel
Mclntosh, when it was attacked by the
guerrillas. The loss of such a man can
not be easily supplied.
The guerrillas are' so bold that they
commit their murders and robberies un
der the walls of Vera Cruz.
In a le'fer received in this city, brought
by the New Orleans, it is stated that
Santa Anna had been appointed Dicta
tor, and was pul in command oi thirty
thousand men.
[ From ike N. O. Picayune , Ist inst )
Later from the A*my of Gen. Taylor.
The steamship James L. Day, Capt. Wood,
arrived last evening from Brazos Santiago,
whence she sailed on the 28th uh.
By this arrival we have unr correspondence
to tlie 1 6Ti Jme from Monterey, bm the news
is'of no great importance. Nothing has occur
red to change the disposition of Gen. Taylor’s
forces in any material point, and there is no
hope of an advance upon San Luis.
Capt. Bankhead, commanding a company
in the Virginia regiment, arrived at Monterey
on the 14'h ult. from China. He reported
that after the departure of the main body of
the battalion for Monterey he despatched a
Mexican for Cornargo with a communication
for Col. Belknap. A feXv days after he learned
that the messenger had been captured hy a
body of armed Mexicans near Faso Z tcata
and sentenced to be shot.
News had reached Monterey from China,
of the death of Lieut. Mahan, who was shot
in the recent duel with Lieut. Miunlord—
b thofthe Virginia regiment.
Three companies of Texas Rangers had re
cently come in to Monterey alter having been
out scouring the roads in the direction of Oo
margo. They failed to fall m with Unrest or
any of his men, although minor frequently
had him in the neighborhood in force. Our
correspondent thinks he is still the other side
of the mountains.
The rangers ca pt ured one or Iwo “robbers,’
and it is said, shot one of them. Upon their
return they were at cnee ordered up to Saliil
lo.
The Mexicans are said to be organ : £ : ng
small guerrilla parties, and the roads are
somewhat beset w ith robbers, but we do not
!e . rn of anv barm done by them.
A iram from below arrived at Monterey on
the 15th, escorted by several companies of
the North Carolina regiment.
The health of the'troops at Monterey was
improving, and only one man had recently
died, lie was attached to the Virgina regi
ment.
The Mexican? are beginning to return to
their residences in Monterey in considerable
numbers.
A man named James Mays, a Virginian
by birth but a long resident of Texas, was
shot recently at Monterey by the guard, while
attempting to escape from the guard house.
A Texan Banger lead also been shot on the
plaza hy a fellow soldier and died. Notwith
standing these untoward events. Monterey
is now much more quiet than it had been.
The troops are under severe discipline and
preserve admirable order.
The Massachusetts regiment Lad not
reached Monterey at last accounts, hut a
rumor had been received that it was ordered
to Vera Cruz. The rumor was probably un
founded, but ft would excite no surprise were
it true.
f From the N. O. Delta, l.iZ inti.]
GEN. SCOTT’S ADVANCE.
The Preparations to Oppose Him.
i We do not share ilte apprehensions of those
of our cotemporaries, who think Gen. Scliti’s
position a very perilous and embarrassed one.
We have passed through severer crises, leap
ed Higher barriers, and escaped more danger
ous precipices, than those which lie in the
path of our army from Puebla to the city of
Mexico. When several of our papers, last
winter were filled with the most gloomy fore
bodings, and the most utter despair, on ac
count of Santa Anna’s advance with a large
armv, against Gen. Taylor’s little Spartan
band, and our conquests on the Rio Grande
were given up as lost, we held firmly and con
fidently to the hope and belief that American
courage would prove superior to the crisis.—
And are we now to he frightened at such old
women’s stories as those detailed, respecting
the ardor and enthusiasm of a people who,
witli a population of 200 000, are compelled
to send off hundreds of miles for naked In
dians, to tight their bailies ? And, forsooth,
they are casting cannon and making balls—
they are throwing up entrenchments and dg
ging ditches—but what of all that ? These
preparations will give spice and incentive to
the valor of our men. Mexican prowess is no
more to be dreaded in the defence of the Capi
tal, than it was on the field of Buena Vista,
and on the heights of Cerro G*»rdo. Indeed,
the men who fought those battles, w T ere of far
better material ihan those which can be ral
lied in their effeminate Capital. They fought,
too, under the most favorable circumstances
—in tbe one case with greatly superior num
bers, and in tbe oilier with great advantages
of position. But now they have to defend a
city which lies on a level and exposed pla
teau—a city embracing a large area—and
which could not be successfully defended
with less than two hundred cannon. Where
are the cannon? VVe hear of melting of
church bells into cannon, but we believe this
is all Mexican gasconade. If the Church has
made this sacrifice —in Mexico a very seri
ous one—it is certa nly Ihe first they have
made for this war. But if the cannon are
there, where are the soldiers to man them ?
Where are their artillerists—their experi
enced officers? They are nearly all exiled
from the Capital, or under arrest. The ja
trio ic and honest Bravo has been sent north
ward; the chivalrous and able Almonte is in
pn.-on; the cunning and capable Ampudia
lias been sent, under guard, to Cuernavaca;
Pinzon is on parole; Lombardjni is nursing
his wounds and his ire against Santa Anna,
at San Luis Potosi; Minon moves within pri
son bounds; Valencia lives in quiet at lee ha
cienda, cultivating the arts of peace; Canaii
zo satLfies his valor by writing magnani
mous and high-swelling letters and orders.—
Nearly all the prominent military men of
Mexico have retired,or have been driven from
the service. They have lost all confidence
in the generalship of Santa Anna. He was
never considered by the professional soldiers
of Hie country, as a very capable soldier in
the field. His late operations have given such
strong confirmation to these opinions, that
they openly and publicly declare • heir con
tempt fur his military qualifications. Re
duced to a few inexperienced officers, and a
rabble army of militia and wild Indians, he
expects to prevent the entrance of Gen. Scoll
into the Capital; and some of our own people
think that there is ground for apprehension
, and fear on account of our army, in march*
inor against a city thus defended. Never were
feari more baseless. Bcoit will leave i’ue
bia with 12.000 of Ihe best troops that ever
went forth to battle; he will have veteran,
experienced officers, complete and effective,
artillery, abundant supplies, and, what is more
than all, he will have men “in whose vocab
ulary there is no such word as /at/.”
The Mexicans will, no doubt, make a stand
before they yield up their Capital, but it will
; be a weak one. Tin ir dreaded Pintos , with
| their wild look-, long knives and hows and
arrows, will carry no terror to the souls of
j our men. Their barbarous arms and war
| tare will prove of little avail against the big
I gnus of our artillery; the long bayone's ofour
| i. fantrv, and (he resistless charges of our
■ cavalry. Gen. Scott will enter their Capi
| tal with less difficulty than Cortez experi
i cnced three hundred vears ago.
j '
[ From the N. O Delta Ist ins I ]
The Picayune of yesterday contains another
attack upon General Pillow, based upon lire
statements of a gentleman just arrived from
Vera Cruz. The substance of t tie charge i- - ,
that Gen. Pillow commenced his march in
the midille of the day, and the rays of the sun
being terrific, and the sand ankle-deep, the
so'dters suffered dreadfully. We cannot
presume that the General is held blameabie
tor his inability to restrain the ardor of the
sun, and to cause the sand to grow hard and
firm—Rancorous and unjust as the persecu
tion of this officer has been, we cannot pre
sume that even malignity can he so blind as
to attach to him the responsibility for impe
diments of this nature. The gravamen of
his offence we presume, is the commence
ment of his march in mid-day. To decide
upon the propriety of this act, it would be ne
cessary to know some things which we think
are not in ttie cognizance of the Picayune’s
informant.—For instance: vce should have to
know what were General Pillow’s orders. If
those required him to move immediately—
within two hours notice, and to start in mid
day—then, those who, in ignorance of his i
orders, blame him for so doing, would feel j
rather cheap when they ascertained the I null. |
From what we can gather, we think it j
highly probable that Gen. Pillow commenced
his march in mul-day under express orders :
from Gsn. Scot'.
But, supposing he received no orders to j
that rff’Ct, we are not prepared to jump so '
hastily to the conclusion of the Picayune’s
informant, that it Was an unwise and utipre- i
cedenled course to commence the march of a
long train at mid-day. It is well known, that I
the country swarms with gherrillerps, who ;
have lately succeeded in capturing !20 out of
200 of our wagons, guarded by a large force.
These attacks of the guerrilla parties were
made chiefly at night. A long tram, extend
ing for miles along the road, would certainly
be very much exposed on a night march
through the country infested by luese numer
ous and daring bands. The late part.es of
Col. Mclntosh and Cipt. Bainhndge were
subject to constant attack at night. Thus
much for the reasons of Gen. Pillow’s march.
As to its being an experiment,the Picayune’s
informant is again at fault. 'The two large
trains that preceded Gen. Cadwallader’.
the one, we believe, under the direction of i
Mhj. Grayson, and the other under Col. Mc-
Intosh—left Vera Cruz in the middle of the
day Gen. Cadwallader marched, we be I eve,
late in the evening, bn, experienced so much
difficulty, from the confusion of a long train
of wagons moving at night, that when tie ar
rived at Santa Fe, he changed his lime of
marching, and thereafter always marched in
the daytime. The eneuron of Gen. Pillow
will h-Ave to hunt up oihor and better sub
stantiated charges than those which have
already been given to the public to succeed
in the ignoble undertaking of dismaying the
reputation of a meritorious officer now engag
ed in the service of his country.
[From the N. O. Bee.]
Fiom Texas,
By the arrival of the steam ship Yacht,
Capt. Crane, we have received our files of
Galveston papers to I lie 27ih ultimo. They
contain Intie of particular moment.
The News of the 26th says ;—“We expect
in a few da vs to have the exact population of
this city, which, it is ascertained, will not
varv much from 6000, In this population, it
will be seen by the Hospital and City Sex
ton’s Reports, there has not been ‘a single
death the past week. This is worthy ol note
as evidence of remarkable health!illness.—
The present war and the loss of onr last year’s
j crop have combined temporarily to draw
away our citizens fill the present number is
probably nearly 2000 below the actual popu
lation of last winter.
Texas Sugar - Last year 213 hhdsofTex
as sugar and 327 bbls of Molasses, were re
ceived at Galveston. From the best evidence
that can be obtained, if is believed that the
quantity of sugar that will be made in Bra
zoria county alone tins year, will not fall
much short of 3000 hhds.
The Austin Democrat states that all the
volunteers, recently on tneir inarch from
Texas to Mexico, under Col. Hays, returned,
with the exception of one company, who, we
presume, determined to enlist for the war.—
The Democrat says the returning companies
have been passing through Austin in squads;
that they appear crest-fallen on their back
ward march, and many of them say they
would rather have met 5000 armed Mexicans,
than Major fc’mith with his orders to “ad
vance backward ”
The prospects of the harvest in Texas have
greatly improved since the refreshing rains
that have recently fallen.
[Front the N- Y. Globe, 2 d inst ]
Gen, Taylor Repudiates the Ofllcioustess
of the aai Declines a Party No
mination*
The following important letter from Old
Rough and Ready will fall, like a wet blan
ket, upon the aspirations of those Whig
demagogues, who, after abusing him, indi
rectly, for the part lie has taken in »o nobly
fighting tbe battles of his countiy, have
sought to appropriate his fame and name to
the advancement of their political schemes.
Gen. Taylor says, distinctly, that lO*“tN no
case can I permit myself to be the lUT candidate
o/ any party or yield myself to O’ party
SCHEMES.”
We shall be much mistaken if the Whigs
do not now drop Old Rough and Ready, like
a hot potatoe. For a man who will not yield
Iwmselfto “party schemes,” is not the man
for the political schemers of the Wing party.
The letter is written to the editor of the Cin
cinnati Signal,and is a frank and manly ex
pression of the writer’s independence of Whig
influences. We have taken the liberty to
italicize one or two sentences, to which we
wish the reader’s attention particularly di
rected. The Signal thus explains the cir
cumstances which drew forth the letter:
“The circumstances under which the fol-
I AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, JULY 7, 1847.
ARTICLES i Per. j Wholesale
BAGGING—Gunny IS a 20
Kentucky 15 a i 8
BALE ROPE—ALinilia ib \z
Kentucky 1 7ia 9
BACON—Haras. i Sa 9
SsiUes.. 6 a 9
feiiuiilders ... da 8
BUTTER—Gushed, prime lb a 25
Cuuniry 12 a 15
CANDLES —fepenaaceUi .......... 32 a35
Geurgiurtia.de..... I3su 15
Northern do 15 a 16
CHEESE—Northern 9 a io
C U FF E E—Cu ba .... none.
Rio .... 8f a 10
Java . 12 ? a 15
Laguayra 9 a 11
f Shirtings, brown, 3-4 ..... yd. ba 64
j ** “ 7-8 .....i..., 74a 8
§ j “ “yd.wide Did 10
| Sheetings, brown, 5-4 ......... 12 a 15
2 <( ** bieacheu, 5- L 18 a 20
11 Checks 10 a 16
g j Bed Tick 12 a 18
( Oznaburgs, Boz j JO a 11?
LVarn Ots.-oried) lb 17 al9
Floii —Mackerel, No. i bbl.i 14 a
Do. No. 2 j.... 9 ka 10
Do. No. 3 j.... 7a 74
FLOUR —New Orleans .... none.
Canal .... 8 50a9 00 i
Georgia 5 5 i«6 50 j
GRAIN—C orn bus.! 70 a
Oats 37 a 40
GUNPOWDER keg. 6 a
HAY —Eastern 100.
North River
IRON—Pig 100.
Swedes, assorted jlon.| 41a 5
Hoop 100,1 7 a
Sheet Ilb ! 8a 10
Nail Rods i.... | 6 a 7 j
LEAD —Pig and Bar 1100. 6 a
Sheet 6 ka 8
White Lead 1....! 74a 9
Exports of Cotton to Foreign ami Coastwise Forts, commencing Ist September, 1816.
r ~ " ii Saraituali. ('auiii'stou. IWohilc. IV. Qvleimw. > iVcw lotit. Other I’orts, Jutal.
whither exported. 1 IM7. 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847.11 fS4o. (1847.) 1846. 1847. flB 46.1184771840, 184771846,
rTV.VV.Hd 7777T77fi 961047 533021102828;
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Glasgow ami Greenock 8767, 3147 3738 4208 4815 10.15; 9541 15322 612' 2032
> Cork and a Market I \ *945 _4020
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I H :i vre ~TUSO " «393;i 47766 ( 4j“.u4 31623 6u9d2| 756014 1290. l 24837. 4344aj 3u17 6-407 V
*.** 7777 7 7.77.7’777* 4201 locsl 326 1714 3934 5998 31721 8737 1
; Nautei !777.....‘ 573; 1317 1229, | 1963 __4 254 4041 iVili . I
j * Total to t rance 11150 8313 5 JOUI 46777|j 31623 63845 J4Q979 28463 53899 3d IT 5i07 205986 3*>720
| Amsterdam j | 4896! 3202 3877) s 9 :j
| Rotterdam ! i 590 ~0.;. ~ :y V 1956
Antwerp 361 W 1978 -2013: 2720 22W1 6*o 7302 ,7B?
Hainbu 6638 2351 6100. 8,72
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Genoa Trieste, &c 944 1922 6433 5731 6645 j 4573 25952 43071 7639 9103 2873 2823
Ghent’&c I ‘2680 16/9
Oliver Ports 2013 1429 | _234 11 _9650'_16930! _B36*_ 2316
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New York ‘ 54*04- 51753 94*07) 47662 36290; 38850 4.293 68033 ' j; " J 8747 ' 3,59 V ~
Boston 21931{ i 7881 29117 18294 27855, 32188; 7u380 107483 15i07 12880
Providence.. 3217 J 1031 4069 3298 i 9821; 11995 ! 5569 6976 6965
Philadelphia.. 2749 5302 16587 8782 2639 2338 9947, 13079 667 932
Baltimore j 20771 1524 5678 ‘3243; 3758 53621] 6854. 579 2660 2494
Other Forts ; 18961 17665 599} 104 166711 11684 j 4162! 3350 18322 4114
Total Coastwise..! j 103042 95156 150457 JW3S3 _97037 102117 1329361 202693 ' 62479 59276 V3*s9si| 5^5
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lowing letter was received by the editor, are
regarded as a warrant for its publication.—
We fell it our duty, when the first demon
strations were made in favor of General
Tavlor for the Presidency, to dwell tipon the
subject at considerable length. We were
desirous that some of the suggestions con
tained in our article should meet Die eye of
Getteral Taylor, and therefore enclosed it to
bis address, with a few words of reference
la our position as a journalist. In reply to
that communication, we have received the
udinirabie and significant letter, which we
lake pleasure in laying before our readers.”
Headquarters Army of Occupation, )
Camp near Monterey, May 18, 1847. )
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge tHe
receipt of your letter with the enclosure of
your editorial, extracts from the Signal of
the 1 3ih April.
At this time, my public duties cotnmam.
so fully my attention, that it is impossible to
answer your letter in the terms demanded by
its courtesy, and the importance of the sen
timents to which it alludes; neither, indeed,
have I the time, should I leel myself at liber
ty, to enter into the lew and most general*
subjects of public policy suggested by the
article in question. Mv own personal views
were better withheld (ill the end of the war.
when my usefulness as a military chief,
serving tn the field against the common ene
my, shall no longer be compromised by their
expression or di-cnssion in any matter.
From many sources I have been addressed
on the subject of the Presidency, and 1 do
violence neither to myself nor to my
position as an officer of the army, bv
acknowledging to you, as I have done to
all that have alluded to the use of my name
in this exalted connexion, that my services
are ever at the will and cal! of the country,
arid that I am not prepared to say that 1 shall
refuse if the country calls me to the Presi
t i ; il office; but that I can and shall yield
to no call that does not come from the sponta
neous action and free will of the nation at large
and void, of ike slightest agency of my own.
For the high honor and resposibilities of
such an offic e, I take this occasion to say,,
that I have not the slightest aspiration: a
much more tranquil and satisfactory life,
after she termination of my present duties,
awaits me, I trust, in the society of my fami
ly and particular friends, and in the occupa
tions most congenial to my wishes. In no
case can I permit myself to be the candidate
of any party , nr yield myself tn parly schemes.
With these remarks, I trust you will par
don me for thus briefly replying to you, which
I do with a high opinion and approval of the
sentiments and views embraced in your
editorial.
With many wishes for your prosperity in
life, and great usefulness in the sphere in
which your talents and exertions are embark-
beg to acknowledge myself,
Most truly and respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Z. TAYLOR.
Maj. General U. IS. Army,
Jas. W. Taylor, E<q , Cincinnati, U.
A postscript to a letter from Montgomery,
(Ala.) to the Editors of the Charleston Cou
rier dated Ist inst. says: “There have been
a series of very heavy rains here, and up the
country. We are now having a heavy freshet
in the Alabama River from the Coosa and
Tallapoosa Rivers;great damage has already
been sustained by the Planters, and never
before have their cotton crops been so poor
on the Ist of July; the grass will ruin what
little they have growing from the poor
“stands” which they oau to depend on, whilst
the prospects for a large corn crop never was
better.”
ARTICLES. Per. | V•Me.nl
LIME bbl. Job a 250
MOLASSES —Cuba gal. 28 a3O
N. Orleans 40 a 43
NAILS—Cut, 40 to 20tl sfa 5s
OlLS—Sperm, W. strained j 130 a
Pali strained d 125 a
Summer do/ WO a 112
Linseed jbbl. 874a
'1 aimers 55 a
Lard ....... IUU a
POTATOES ...bbl.| 1
PORTER •... doz.i 225 a 250
PEPPER —Black Ib 10 a 12
PIMENTO ) 144a
RAISIN’S —Malaga, ouucli box. 225 a 250
Muscatel j 2 a
RlCE—Ordinary 100. 475 « 5
Fair ;... j 525 i 550
Good and Prune 575 a 6
'French Brandies ltd a 2
Eeger Freres 275 a 3
X Holland Gin 125 a 150
15 American Gin ....! 43 u 45
\ Jamaica Rum 150 a 2
12 iN.E.Rum,inis.and brls.k 37 a3B
f Whiskey, Phil. & Balt ...J 33 a35
Di>. New Orleans 33 a 35
U Peach Brandy 75 a 100
SUGAR—Cuba Muscovado R 8 a 10
P.R. Ai St. Croix.... ... . 9a II
Havana,white....... .. !l‘ all
New Orleans... | ... 8 a 9
L' f.................... . 13 al4
Lump ......... t Jl al2
SALT—Liverpool - sack 155 u 162
Loose bus. a 45
SOAP—American, yellow. j lb 5a 6
SHOT—AII sizes.... L. j......... ,j 162 a 175
SEGARS —Spanish .M. 20 a3O
Americ tn 8 a 10
TALLOW—American 84 a 9
TOBACCO —Georgia IB 4 a
Cavendish 15 a 15
TWlNE—Bagging 20 a (7
Seine ... 30 a oj
AUGUSTA. GEO..
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1«17.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. G. W. TOWNS.
OF TALBOT.
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of Borders, one of them but little used. An early
application w ill ensure a goo 1 bargain.
General Taylor’s Letter.
In another column will be found a letter
of Genera! Taylor, in connection with the
Presidency, which comes like a cruel trosi
to nip untimely the budding hopes of the
Georgia whigs. Oh, ye cunning schemers
for palry triumphs—ye of the Convention,
who would impress the military fame of the
old hero into the ranks of par v, to fight for
party power and spoil—ye must be contem
with the hero of Withlacoochee,, and repose
all your hopes beneath the mighty shadows
of his great fame. The splendors of iiis
military achievements are alone left you to
gild your political horizon. There is to the
whigs a frightful positivenes's in this sen
tence of the Nation’s Hero:
“7a no case can I permit myself to be the
candidate of any party , to yield myself to party
schemes .”
If the whigs of Georgia therefore aim to
elect (heir Governor and a majority of the
legislature, by the aid of the cry of hurra
for old Rough and Ready , they aim to ac
complish their purpo>e under false pretences.
The Southern Cultivat >r.
The July Number is on our desk, and is
filled with useful and interesting matter to
the planter,accompanied by numerous appro
priate engravings. It is a work that should
meet with liberal encouragement from South
ern planters, as it is devoted to their interests
and published at so low a price that it is
within the reach of a!!. The present num
ber comes to us clothed in she g irb of mourn
ing for its late talented editor, James Camak,
Esq. From the following it wiil be seen that
the publishers are in correspondence with an
eminent, scientific and practical agricultural
ist, whose services tlmy wish to secure as
the future editor of this work:
A Word to our Friends. —The demise
of the late Editor, necessarily excites within
the minds of our numerous friends some anxi
ety as to the future conduct of the Southern
Cultivator, and the inquiry naturally enough
presents itself to the mind of every reader,
who is to succeed the lamented Camak?—
This is a rational anxiety and a very natural
inquiry, the existence of which satisfies us
of the deep interest which is fell in the ulti
mate success of the work.
We will endeavor to answer that inquiry
partially now, and we hope definitely ere
long. A correspondence has already been
opened with one of the most eminent scienti
fic and practical Agriculturalists in the coun
try, whose services we hope to be able to
secure as the future Editor of the work. The
result of our negotiations will be known (we
trust.) in all this month, and when known,
shall be communicated to our friends. Till
then we must ask their indulgence for the
imperfect manner in which the duties of Edi
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friends of the work, that no effort shall be
warning on the part of the Publishers, to se
cure its triumphant success. Ail we ask,
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*nd aid us to rear high and plant firmly in
Southern soil the noble standard of Agricul
tural improvement.
, The Whig Convention.
Ihe proceedings ol both Convention? as
sembled last week at Millcdgeviile, are now
before the public. Comparisons will be made
between them, of course, and we take great
pleasure in contemplating the verv superior
tone of manly frankness—of bold annuncia
tion of principle on the part of the Demo
cratic convention, compared with the timid,
non-committal and feeble resolutions of the
! Whigs.
1 hey set out with the declaration fit t
their principles have been too often reiterat
ed to need being again set forth. Very satis
factory ilfi-, when it is fconsidof &d that t $
Whig party, and of course we mean the
Whig party of Oeofgia, has often shifted i(«*
position—that it has boxed the political com
pass—that it has been exceedingly difficult
to keep them two successive canvasses to
identically the same creed—that they would
not. allow themselves to be pinned down to al
principle an hour after it ceased to ft availa
ble or proved lobe untenable—and that there
were differences of opinion on cardinal points
among their leaders. We need only go back
to the last legislature and remember the cau
cus among the Wings, in reference to a
United Stales Senator, which resulted in the
nomination of Judge Dougherty, for proof of
serious division among them. That proved
that the party did not then, consider, Judge
Berrien the exponent of their opinions.—
After deliberate consideration, however, the
party receded from their position by electing
him to fill his own vacancy. This practi
cally indorsed his opinions, and we may now
consider him as the exponent of Whig prin
ciples. He is a candidate for re-election to
the Senate, and if the Legislature be carried
by the Whigs, it mty be set down as a tri
umph of Judge Berrien, and a sanction of
his course by the people.
Since the last session of our Legislature no
change of opinion,has been formally announc
ed by the whig party, and as their convention
declines reiterating them, on the ground that
they are sufficiently known, we -accept the is
sues thus tendered, and shall go into the can
vass accordingly. Bin new issues have since
sprung up. it was due to candour and to the
committals which their public press have made>
that the convention should not have remain
ed silent upon them. Is the Whig party with
our government, or is it with Mexico, on the
question of the justice and the expediency of
the war? If with the government, it was
due themselves that the convention should
have so declared, and thus patriotically giv
en “aid and comfort” to the nation, and to
our brave troops in the field, by this cheering
evidence of sympathy. It they are against
our government, and consider that Mexico
has been ill-used and imposed upon—w in-
I tonly invaded and outraged, and that the