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Wednesday, July 22c1, 10, A. M. 3
LATEST FROM MEXICO.
ARRIVAL OF THE NEW ORLEANS.
Latest from Vera Cruz.
Important News from the Interior —Arrival of an
Express from. Puebla — Gen. Scott at that place
—Appointment o f Commissioners, by the Mexi
can Government, to confer with Mr. Trist-
Generals Cadwallader and Pilloib at Perote —
Defeat of the Mexicans atLaHoya — Gen. Santa
Anna supposed to be in favor o f Peace — Cap*- !
lure and supposed Murder of Ls. Whipple * j
The Sun of Anahuac, of the 13th inst., says
—“A private express arrived here night before
last from Puebla, bringing very interesting in
telligence from that place, from Mexico, and
from Generals Cadwallader and Pillow’s trains.
The express left Puebla on the 3d inst., and
brought private letters dated the same day.—
News had been received the previous day, from |
Mexico, that three Commissioners had been
appointed by the Mexican Government to con
fer with Mr. Trist, at San Martin Tesmelucan,
8 leagues from Puebla, and it was supposed
they would meet him on the 4th of July. The
express rider met with Generals Cadwallader
and Pillow, and their respective commands at
Perote. They had been attacked at La Hoya, I
and had completely routed the enemy, having !
sustained but little loss. No property was !
lost, and both trains had arrived at Perote;
which place, a correspondent says, they were
to leave on the 9th inst.
“We have seen a letter dated Mexico, July 1
2d. The writter says that ho does not doubt
that a treaty of peace would be concluded at
once by the commissioners. He also says that
the Peace party has become so considerable in
the Capitol, that he thinks that Santa Anna |
(who is always on the side of the strongest)
will soon pronounce himself in favor of peace.
The Mexicans were still fortifying the City of
Mexico, but the means of the government were I
so limited, that we do not doubt that it will j
not be more than a day’s work for Gen. Scott
to demolish all the Mexicans have done in
three months, in case they should show rcsis- |
tmcc.
“A letter from Puebla, which was written i
several days before the express left that place, j
states that there had been some sickness among
our troops. We do not give our readers the
whole contents of this letter because it is full
of rumors which had not been realised at the
latest dates.”
According to information from the City of
Mexico, received at Puebla on the 2d inst., the |
day before the departure of the express,
the government had determined to appoint
three Commissioners, and that Don Manuel
Edward dc Gorostiza, Don Manuel Baranda,
and Jose Maria Tornel, had been appointed to
open a conference with Gen. Scott, who, on 1
lus part, had commissioned Mr. Trist to the j
same effect.
Lieut. Whipple —His Capture and Supposed
Murder . —Extract from a letter from one of our j
correspondents, dated “Vera Cruz, July 13,
1847” :
As to news, there are so many different
rumors constantly afloat here, that it is almost ;
impossible to get the right end of anything, i
On our arrival on Sunday evening, I learned
from the Quartermaster, that on the previous
evening, an officer of the U. S. A., Lieut.
Whipple, (who was also Adjutant) of the 9th
Infantry, had walked out in the evening to
wards the Cemetery, a short distance from tire :
Walls of the town, accompanied by a servant, i
and in presence of the attendant, he was lasso
ed by one of the guerrilas, made prisoner, and
carried away, the Lord knows where! A party,
under the command of Capt. A. M. Duperu,
(who is yet in camp.) were despatched on the
following morning; hut they were unable to
discover any traces of the guerrillas, or any
thing whatever connected with the fate of the
unfortunate Lieutenant. The general belief
here is, that he has been murdered —and from
what I hear myself, about, I Lave no doubt
that he has.
In regard to Lieut. Whipple, an account of
wffiose capture will be found in the letter of
our Vera Cruz correspondent, the Sun of
Anahuac of the 13th inst. says: “It is rumored
that Lieut. Whipple, Adjutant of the 9th In
fantry, who was carried off on Saturday evening
last, by a guerrila party, was met at a place
named San Miguel de Medellin, and that he
w.'is considered and a prisoner of war.
This, however, does not appear to us very
likely. When this was hear d of, a detachment
of cavalry was immediately sent in that direc
tion, but we fear that he will not be found.
Much excitement still prevails here on his ac
count. At every hour of the day rumors of dif
ferent kinds are put in circulation in this city,
and we are sorry to see that too much faith is
put in them —especially by the Mexicans, who
are always anxious to start and listen to any
thing that might be unpleasant to the Ameri
cans. They boast too, of the boldness of the
guerrilleros, and some of them pretend that
guerrilla parties are every day seen within half
a mile of the city. And there is some truth
in this. Lieut. Whipple’s disappearance is a
proof of it. He h:is been carried off while he
was within three or four hundred yards of the
walls of the city.”
Highly Important from Tampico.
Col. Dcßussy's command attacked at Huejntla, by
Gen. Garay wit-ha force of 1200 men — Deßusstfs
command surrounded and placed in great peril—tic
tends for reinforcements —Requisition sent to Vera
Cruz-—Arrival of the New Orleans — Gen. Pierce
is opposed on his march by a large Mexican force —
Deßussy is reinforced , and cuts his way through
the enemy , with a loss of 20 killed and 10 wounded.
The steamship New Orleans, Captain Auld,
arrived this morning, having left Vera Cruz on
the 17th, Tampico on the 18th, and Brazos St.
Jago on the 20th inst. Captain Auld reports
that Gen. Pierce left Vera Cruz on the morn
ing of the 14th inst., with 2500 men, and a
train of 150 baggage wagons. The N. O. ar
rived at Tampico on the morning of the loth
inst., and the captain was informed by Col.
Gates, that Col. Deßussy, with a detachment
of Louisiana Volunteers, and part of Capt.
Wise’s company of artillery, Capt. Boyd, w ith
one company of infantry, amounting in all to
115 or 120 men and officers, left by the way of
the river on the Bth inst., for the purpose ot
relieving the American prisoners, and landed
69 miles up the river, from the steamers 1 n
dfnc and Mary Summers, without seeing an
anemy, and the boats returned to Tampico at
2 o'clock, P. M. on the 15th instant.
An express arrived at Tampico from Col.
Deßussy, stating that they had been permit
ted to move on uninterruptedly until they got [
into a narrow piss near Hhcjutlag when they
were surrounded by 1200 or 1400 men, under
Gen. Garay. Coi. DeßAsfcy’s command had
suffered considerable \mt with the assis
tance of Capt. Wise’s artillery-, they had cut
their way to the river, and there waited for rc
forccments.
Col. Gates despatched the New Orleans
back to Vera Cruz with a requisition on Cob
Wilson for four companies of infantry. He
had also sent the steamboats Undine and Mary
Somers up the river with 150 men, to Col. Dc J
Hussy’s assistance.
The New Orleans arrived at Vera Cruz on ;
the Kith, at 2 o’clock, P. M., and found the i
city in a state of excitement. Gen. Pierce had I
marched out as above stated, and encamped ■
about ten miles from the city, when the ad- |
vance guard came in and reported a heavy ■
force of Mexicans at the National Bridge, who
were marching towards the city. Everything j
was got ready for action. The shipping was j
| removed from between the castle and the city,
i Gen. Pierce reinforced his command with 700 ;
men, making in all 3200. In consequence of
this difficulty, the requisition from Col. Gates i
on Col. Wilson could not be complied with.— ,
| The New Orleans took on board 25 mariners,
1 from the U. S. sloop Saratoga, on the morning
of the 17th inst., and sailed for Tampico, pro- |
vious to which Gen. Pierce had inarched out |
to meet the enemy. The New Orleans arrived
at Tampico on the morning of the 18th. A
detachment, which had gone up the river had
returned, and reported as follows, as near as
we could ascertain:
The troops under Col. Deßussy had march
ed within seven miles of Huajutla, on the
morning of the 12th, when the Mexicans com
menced a heavy fire on them from all dircc- !
tions, Capt* Wise got his piece of artillery to ;
bear on them, when, after receiving six or
eight rounds of grape, which cut a lane through
their line, they gave way and fled to the chap
arral. The Americans continued fighting their
way back along the road towards the river at
intervals until the morning of the loth, when
they were relieved by a reinforcement of 150
men. They returned to Tampico at a late hour
on the 16th, with a loss of 20 killed, 10 wound
ed, and 2 missing. Among the number Was
Capt. Boyd, who fell in the first charge, with
three balls through his body; also, his First
Lieutenant, who fell mortally wounded and
was left dying on the field-.
Col. Deßussy had several balls through his :
coat, Capt. Wise had his horse shot from under i
him. The men and officers fought bravely, j
The names of the officers from Louisiana who j
accompanied Col. Deßussy are not recollected. |
The Mexican loss is reported by a Licutenadt to
be 150 killed, and 120 wounded. The Ameri
cans also, lost 12 or 1-5 horses and 60 pack
mules.
[Fro/a the New Orleans Picayune, L 22d ins/.]
A Monstrous Big 1 Moccasin.
Gentle reader, we do not intend to write a
bout a big moccasin, such as might have fitted
to a charm the broad instep and large, yellow
toes of some brawny Indian maid, but about a
monstrous big Moccasin Snake that “shuffled
off’ its mortal coil” on Sunday last. Snakes |
have been banned ever since the old sarpint i
spoke so feelingly to grand-mama Eve, in the
garden of Eden, and dwelt with such particu
lar pathos on the flavor of certain pippins that
she ha I been ordered not to touch. But, alas !
.-he was fund of apples, and ever since her fatal
disobedience, her unfortunate children have
been afflicted with the gripes, and all sorts of
diseases which have their origin through eating |
sour fruit. St. Patrick immortalized himself
by driving from the Emerald shores of the
•Tale of the Ocean” every description of those
crawling, legless reptiles, that we are taught to
believe arc; the particular, pets of the ancient
gentleman, whose health will not allow him to
i remove from an intensely topical climate.
Some of the snakes so uncerimoniously ex- |
i iled by St. Patrick, undoubtedly wriggled
themselves across the ocean, to this beautiful i
| land, and they have since multiplied and be
come so strong that nothing milder than a
crow-bar will have the lea-t effect upon them. ;
i On Sunday last, some persons observed a snake,
more than six feet long, extended at full
length on a block of granite, in one of the new
buildings on Poydra* street, just opposite the
store of Messrs. Peters & Rotchford. His
■ suakeship was taking it very coolly, and oc
j casionally waggled his' tail with evident satis- j
faction. * A rash young man, who was eager to 1
I fulfil the prophecy in regard to “bruising the |
j serpent’s head,” armed himself with a ragged
piece of stone, and—missed the “baste.”—
Cocking up his head, and poking out a tongue
that looked very much like a small bolt of j
lightning, split in two, his snakcsliip turned
tail and ignominiously took shelter under a
pile of loose rubbish and plank.
At about eight o’clock on Sunday evening,
two gentlemen, who had been indulging their
respective tastes in frequent bumpers of Holl
and gin and Irish whisky, sat down on the
rubbish where the snake had concealed him
self.
“John,” said a little, red-faced son of the
Green Isle, “have ye any snakes in that beauti
ful counthry where they live on could cabbige,
and dhrink that illigant wine called schnapsr”
“Schnakcsr ycase, we have sehaakes in Yar
many, and vurms more as long as bean-boles.”
“Oh, what asit ov haythins ye must have
bin, that St. Patrick didn’t cross over to give |
ye a charm to dhrive “away the varmints! Be ;
me sowl he’d given ye a vermifuge that would
have bin pison to the slippery divils! He’d
—Oh! mother ov Heaven; what’s that.”
“Where upoutr” inquired the phlegmatic
Dutchman.
“There, undthcr ycr feet! Its an annycou
dy, or a bear’s constrictor!” cried the horror
struck Irishman, as he jumped at least ten
feet from the snake who was wending his way
towards the purling waters of the gutter.
“Well you dalk to him in Irish apout Zaint
Badtrick, while I gets a sthdone to preak his
pack.”
Arming himself with two or three brickbats
the Dutchman approached his victim, who
showed some fight until he got a rap on the
head, at which he squirmed considerably, and
then laid himself on his back. Another lick
settled the monster, who actually measured
six feet in length, and was as thick as the calf
of a man’s leg. Some of his remains are still
to be seen in the middle of the street, just op
posite the spot where he wriggled liis dorsal
appendage for the last time
important Document.
It is known to a few persons, says the Phila
delphia Saturday Courier, that five days be
fore Gen. Jackson closed his earthly career, he
signed a document which he had carefully
written during his retirement at the Hermit
age, in which is given his opinion of the mili
tary character of all the generals who served
or commanded in Florida during the seven
years war with the Seminoles, which must in
clude Generals Scott, Jessup , Taylor, Worth,
Gaines and Clinch. It is to be published im
mediately preceding the next Presidential
election.
An officer, returned from the wars, who
was at a social party last evening, was boast
ing excessively of his own personal valor and
prowess. Just as the wine-bottle came round
to him, ho entered on rather a tedious narra
tive of an attack made on him at Buana Vista
by some Mexican soldiers, three of whom he
left dead at his feet, two of whom fell wounded,
and the remaining two of whom, as an Irish
man would say, run away. He was so intent
on blowing his own trumpet, that he never
thought of passing the wine which stood be
fore him. Half an hour having elapsed, and
the tale not being half told, his friend on his
right, impatient for the wine and of his boast
full story, stretching for the bottle, coolly call
ed out—“A little more grape, Captain Bragg.”
— N. (}. Picayune.
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(Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 28.
FORGOVERNOR
HON. G. W. TOWNS.
OF TALCor.
are indebted to the Now Orleans
Delta for a slip containing the interesting news
from Mexico, which will be found in our col
umns this morning.
White’s Statistics of Georgia.
We take pleasure in announcing that the
Rev. George White,of Savannah, is in our city
with a view to engage copies of his forthcom
ing work, Statistics of Georgia. We sfiall sub
mit, through our columns, a Prospectus of this
valuable work, from which it will bo perceived
that it will be very thorough and complete in
every department of useful and scientific know
ledge.
We doubt not that it will prove most useful
and instructive to our citizens, and creditable
to the literary enterprise of our State.
It will be a work of 700 pages, octavo, price
$3. We commend it to the patronage of our
citizens.
The Southern Cultivator, for August, is on our
table. It is, as usual, specimen of
typography, and is stored with many choice
articles on Agriculture, with superior illustra
tions.
The publishers announce that Dr. Daniel
Lee, a distinguished Agricultural writer, and
formerly editor of the New Genessee Farmer,
is engaged as the future editor of The Culti
vator in the place of the lamented Air. Comak.
Col. Towns’ Letter.
We cordially invite the attention of our
readers to the vigorous, patriotic and manly
letter of our candidate. It appeared in our
daily paper of yesterday. It is just such a let
ter as the circumstances of the case call for.
We like its sentiments—*we like its spirit. It
breathes a hearty enthusiasm for the cause of
republican principles,characteristic of the writ
er. and expresses in language explicit and de
cided, the opinions which have heretofore, and
are still maintained by him, in and out of Con
gress, on the great questions which, divide the
the parties of our country.
We feel renewed energy and zeal in the
groat and good cause of Democracy, after read
ing the spirited letter of one of its gallant
champions. He is worthy the suffrages of the
people of Georgia—worthy the honorable of
fice for which his friends have urged his claims
and he will be found loyal to the pledge con
tained in his declaration:
“In consenting to be the candidate of the
Republican party, I can only offer what I feel
will be acceptable, an unalterable purpose to
the utmost of my ability, under all circum
stances, to prove true to Georgia, and the in
terest of her people.”
To Correspondents.
V e find that “Cousonus” is mistaken in
one important point of political history, which
destroys much of the force of his piece. We
therefore suppress it.
We will publish “Justice” with pleasure, if
furnished with the name of the writer.
Our correspondent “Subscriber” was cor
rectly informed upon the constitutional ques-
I tiou about drifted men. He Is mistaken, an I
1 “the opinions of Lawyers” quoted to him are
correct. By reference to the Constitution he
will see that Congress has power to call forth
1 the militia for three purposes, to wit—“to ex
! ecute the laws of the Union, suppress insur
rections, and repel invasions.” This does
| not authorize their being sent beyond the
limits of the United States.
The Governors of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, during the last war,
took the position, that the militia could not be
scut out of the State to which they belonged,
or be officered by the President of the United
States.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts after
wards affirmed this view.
The Chicago Convention and the Central
Rail Road.
When we made our comments on the part
j Savannah had taken in this grand scheme for
boundless appropriations of the national trea
i sury by preconcerted organization out of Con
gress, we were not aware that its monied cor
j porations had also embarked in this political
; adventure. We have since ascertained that
the Central Rail Road and Banking Com
i pany took stock in it to the amount of five
i hundred dollars. This investment was made
I
in the shape of an appropriation of that sum
to pay the expenses of the Hon. Thomas But
lkr King to and from the Convention. We
are not surprized that this Company has paid
i so few dividends to its stockholders, if this is
a specimen of the manner in which it votes
away the funds of the Company to advance
the schemes of politicians. It had better ap
propriate those funds to the increase of means
of transporting produce to Savannah from the
Cherokee country, than to be paying thus the
expenses of travelling politicians to Conven
tions, organized to manufacture public opinion
j to overawe Congress and overlde the Presi
i deutial veto. Mr. King goes to the Couvcn-
I tiou the paid delegate of a monied corporation,
| and, in his speech before that body, speaks ol
the “free and independent” people of Georgia
whom he represented. “The free and indepen
dent” people of Georgia have not yet surreu
j dered their rights and opinions into the hands
of any moneyed corporation or its representa
, five. We are sorry that the Convention did
not call for the credentials of the honorable
representative of
Central Rail Road and Banking
Company.
This Company which has thus embarked in
a species of enterprize not contemplated in its
charter, may, perhaps, takeamox-e “enlarged
view” than even Daniel Webster, of the
Constitutional question, lie seemed by hi:
letter, to restrict the powres of Congress simply j
I to oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and rivulets,
and all harbors thereon, which man might de- !
sire and which art could construct, and to the '
clearing of obstructions in every stream where
a vessel could float, of whatever size. All :
this he claimed under the clause “to regulate
: commerce.”
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Perhaps the Central Rail Road and Bank
i ing Company desires to impress the “general
, welfare” clause into service, with a view to j
rail road extension for the better regulation of
°
the commerce with Savannah and the Valley
of the Mississippi. Glorious era in internal
improvements ! All hail! ! Is this among
the first fruits of the visit to Savannah of the ■
great expounder of the Constitution—or as he \
prefers the ternt, “defender of the Constitution,” j
which is the epitaph he wishes engraven on
his tombstone ! Or Is this Constitutional dis
covery to be patented for the benefit of the
Central Rail Road and Banking Company/
We hope the Company may get its money
back. But we rather think their five hundred
debars was a bad investment.
Repeal of the Preseat Tariff
While many of the whig presses of Georgia
; are striving hard to lose their identity with
I whig principles and to convert themselves into
the “no party ” party , we are pleased to see that
j rtie Chronicle .V Sentinel holds fast to its integ
' rity. It does not give into the bobbery that its
whig cotemporaries are endeavoring to get up
j about the Hero of Buena Vista, in order to
j blink the odium of advocating whig principles I
and whig measures as in days of yore. But it
| comes up manfully to the scratch nothing
dauutpd by the past, and still proclaims the
glories of a protective tariff. We began to en
tertain serious doubts whether we would again
see a real genuine worshipper at the shrine of
the restrictive system. The glorious sun of com- ■
mercial freedom has risen above the horizon— ,
it is yet in its morning career of benificcace j
and splendour, but every civilized nation on
j earth looks on in pleased astonishment at its
brilliant progress, and as it culminates to its I
zenith it will be hailed by the acclamations of
, a disenthralled world.
But the Chronicle $ Sentinel can see no beau- |
ty in the Free Trade system. It cannot sym- |
pathize with the shouts of joy that have gone j
up from the famine stricken lands which hailed \
j the American flag as it waved over hundreds of j
I vessels sailing into their free ports laden with j
breadstuff's for their starving millions —ports i
| made free by a divine injunction, which told 1
to monopolists with the terrible truth of de-
I monstration that restrictions on trade were an
oppression and a wrong to mankind.
But the Chronicle & Sentinel is true to those po
| liticul instincts which look to the interests of
: the moneyed few, rather than the rights of the
oppressed many/ It sees no beauty and no boni
ficerice in the Free Trade system. It sees only
that the speculators in breadstuff's have now
1 heavy stocks on hand with a falling market and |
must lose money/ It overlooks the millions that j
have poured into the country and have gone into |
the farmers’ pockets in the last twelve months ;
by means of the opening of F/Uropean ports to ;
American grain. It overlooks the vast nmouiit
°• • j
j of human suffering that tills grain has relieved.
I It only perceives that “corn a fid flotfr hate fell- !
j len immensely, and many of our people will
be compelled to submit to heavy losses upon 1
; them.” But should it not perceive that the
previous inflation of prices must have benefit- !
j ed the farmer, though the speculator docs now !
| submit to loss? Should it not perceive that i
had these articles been excluded from the for- i
' eign market by a stringent restrictive system, I
that inflation would not have taken place— i
i that the fanning interest would have remain- 1
iedin a state of uniform depression? The tar
| iif of 1816 is not the primary cau-e of a de
mand for breadstuff's in Europe. Nor did it
directly enhance their price. But it is unde
| niable that its liberal provisions, gave encour- |
1 agement to trade, since it promised a fair in- ;
terchange of the products of labor in place of |
; the unreasonable restrictions of the protective j
tariff. This will continue to benefit the pro
ducer on this side the Atlantic by securing
and enlarging his market in Europe. lie j
will thus be better enabled to purchase at
cheap prices articles sent to pay for his pro
ducts. The liberal commercial policy of this
; country and of Great Britain must inevitably
! keep up an increased and mutually beneficial
intercourse. There is no danger that this
country will buy more than it can pay for, or
than England can afford to spare- If this
country imports one hundred and forty mil
lions worth of foreign goods where it formerly
took only one hundred millions, it indicates
an increased prosperity and ability to consume.
| It indicates that they can be obtained cheaper
abroad than they can be manufactured at
home, and the consumers do a good business
in going to a cheaper market. It indicates
; that this country can afford to pay for them. |
In fact the importations of so much specie in
dicate that these goods are already paid for.
As to sending specie to pay for them, it is no
torious that nothing of the kind has been done. ;
Specie has been constantly flowing into this j
■ country in immense quantities. It was never
more abundant. The money market was nev
er more easy. The country never before ex
hibited such extraordinary prosperity. There j
is no room for croaking, repining, or finding
fault. He must be the veriest grumbler and
fault-finder who is not satisfied with the pre
sent happy condition of the country. It is j
certainly not due to whig legislation—it is :
certainly not in accordance with whig prophe- !
cy. It certainly would not be enhanced could
I whig politicians seize the reins of government, I
and legislate according to their narrow notions j
of political economy and equal rights.
As to the effect of a continuance of this
state of things, the patriot need not be alarm
ed for the revenue or the manufacturing in
terests. The former shows a clear increase
under a system of low duties, which certainly
jdo not injure the consumer. The latter ex
hibit no signs of depression or diminution,
and are therefore not likely to change their
pursuits. The Whig panic cry in 1846, of ru
in, ruin, ruin, is not likely to be realized,
j Let not the Southern friends of the Northern
manufacturing millionaires be causelessly a- ;
larmed. They can still enjoy their iced chain -
paigne and boiled lobster in peace —they can
still clothe themselves in fine linen, and fare
sumptuouslv every dav.
But the Chronicle affects to have its sympa
thies somewhat moved in favor of the consum
ers of salt and bagging. It is generous to
spare a moment of sympathy from the “high
duties moke low prices” party of the North, to I
the agricultural interests near home. It asks,
as if for information, “How is it with salt and :
bagging? Why have they advanced so much in
price? The tariff is still in full operation.” We i
will give one answer. They have certainly not
advanced in pr ice by reason of a reduction of 1
duty on salt from about 80 per cent, under the ;
Whig or manufacturers’ tariff of 1842, to about
|
20 per cent, under the Democratic or people’s i
tariff of 1846. Let the Chronicle reserve its sym
pathy for a more afflictive occasion. Salt can
now be purchased in this market at $1,50 per
sack. It was not lower one year ago. So with
cotton bagging.. The planters have not yet
felt the affliction of high prices very sorely.
It remains to bo seen whether they will pay
for the bagging to pack their growing crop at
tho present speculative price*. But bagging
is now 1 only two cents per yard more than it
was just one year ago. If the crop is a very
large one, the great demand would keep up
prices. If the crop fall down to or below an
average, aS is probable, the price must fall.—
But at any rate, the tariff of 1848, now in full
operation, which reduced the duty on bagging
from 60 per cent, to 20 per cent, certainly did j
not thereby put up the price. The planters
would not be better off as to either the arti
cle of salt or of b igging if the old tariff were
in operation. We will not insult their com
mon sense by an argument on this point.—
The laws of demand and supply will cause
j fluctuation in prices. But prices do not go up
\ as a consequence of duties going down.
We will, in conclusion, introduce to our
readers one of the two recent editorials of
the Chronicle in favor of its old friend, a pro
| tcctive tariff.
It is somewhat of a novelty now a days,
i and looks strangely out of place. An edi
: torial now, in 1847, in a Southern paper,
1 in favor of the old tariff, and against the |
I present revenue tariff, seems as somewhat
i of au ante diluvian —decidedly behind the
times. It seems not less out of place than
J would an essay in favor of the Ptolemei
i an system addressed to a college of modern
■ r
astronomer*, and in the very presence of Lord
Rosse’s telescope. Free Trade is demonstrat
ed to be a true and wise principle in practice,
as it is a just and philanthropic one in theo
| ry. The protective system of monopolists
which discriminates for the few who are rich
against the many who are not, has lost in pop- |
ularity, in power, and in respectability which j
it can never regain in this age and country.
[From the Chronicle Jp Sentinel.}
Tariff of 184(5.
The Democratic press is boasting very much
over the operations of the tariff of 1846. This |
i it does because there is a prospect of a greater
: amount of revenue under it, than that of 1842, I
When the present tariff was passed, there was !
a difference of opinion an the Whigs as to j
; its probable effects. Some believed that the \
j revenue would fait short several millions; i
others, that for the first year it would equal 1
| that of 1842- These opinions were founded 1
upon the supposed rcstrlt? which each antici- j
! pated would flow from the new tariff. If the !
j importations of foreign, goods had remained the j
sante as before, of course the revenue under i
! diminished duties would have been less. But |
I the probabilities are, according to democratic \
! statements, that the importations will be from j
j thirty to forty millions greater this year than
f the preceding one.' This proves the correct- i
| ness of the opinions of one portion of the !
Wings. We don’t care how this matter re
sults, it will be found that the Whig opinion ;
was correct/
If the importations had remained as before, t
the revenue would have been diminished, and
i the country, of course, involved in debt arid j
I embarrassment. If the importations exceed .
those of previous years by thirty or forty mil- !
lions, so as to make the revemre under lighter
duties equal to those before, the consequences
will be injurious to home industry and inter- ;
csts. For a number of years tiro foreign goods
j and merchandise brought into the United States
have averaged but a little over one hundred
millions of dollars. This year, it is said, they
will reach one hundred and thirty or forty
millions. This excess of thirty odd millions !
will have to be paid for. W ill not this excess j
also displace an equal amount previously man- j
j ufactured at home? Will it not take away
our specie, and drive many to agricultural pur
suits, who are now engaged in manufacturing?
Will not this lesson the home market for our
breadstuff's, and increase their production?—
Have w© not already lost the foreign market i
for them?
The silly statement that the tariff of 134 G (
produced the rise in breadstuff’s, has been
proven false by the first prospect of a good crop
in Europe.
Lorn and flour have fallen immensely, and
many of our people will he compelled to sub- ;
mit to heavy losses upon them. We were told,
! that the new tariff would keep down prices,
i and benefit every interest in the land. How
is it with regard to salt and bagging? Why
have they advanced so much in price? The j
tariff is still in full operation.
These are a few facts, worthy of being at
tentively considered. But the troublous times
I are yet to come.
There is no safety upon this question of a |
tariff but in the establishment of one that will i
furnish the necessary revenue, with a wise check j
upon undue importations . This the country j
will sec and eventually acknowledge.
Newspaper Enterprise,
The New York Express states that Dr,
Houston has completed his arrangements for j
the establishment of a morning paper at Wash
| ington, which will furnish reports of the Con
! gressional debates on a plan precisely similar
to that of the London press, together with
early and reliable intelligence of the move
ments of the varioirs departments of goveru
! ment, to be called the “L nited States Re
porter.”
At a recent Fair held at Saratoga Springs i
a couple of Oxen were exhibited that
were really remarkable. They are said to weigh
upwards of 8000 pounds,more than 4000 pounds
each, and their appearance did not belie their
reputation. They measure, one 10 feet in
length, 94 feet girth, and 94 feet in hight, the
other is the same height and girth, and 10
feet G inches in length.
! The Savannah Republican of the 26th inst.
: says—“ The barque Exact, from New York,
i which we noticed as being ashore on Friday,
I has since been abandoned by the Captain.
| Three lighters have arrived from the vessel
with goods very badiy damaged. It is not pro
bable that she will be got off. She was insured,
we understand, in New-York.”
NavaL
The TJ. S. sloop of war Jamestown, Lieut.
Thatcher, sailed on Thursday morning from
Boston for Norfolk, from which her ultimate
destination is the coast of Africa.
Oil Fellowship.
We presume most of our readers know the
motto of this excellent and benevolent Order.
It is “ Friendship , L toe and Truth ” —a gloriou*
trio indeed. 'ldle Iris presents the following
charming poem, composed on this expressive
motto, and very properly asks—“ Who can fail
to admire them:* ’
“FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND TRUTH."
Three sunny islets on life’s river;
Three golden arrows in life’s quiver;
Three, stars that never fade or dim;
Three notes that angels love to hymn;
Three charms that gui.nl the heart from sorrawj
Three whispers of a brighter morrow;
Three links that hind with silken bunds;
Three watchwords on life’s stormy strand;
Three harbors ‘midst the heart’s commotion;
Three fragrant Hewers most fair to see;
Three garlands twining round life’s tree;
Three gems ot pure ethereal light;
Three paths, all lovely, pure, and bright;
Three rays of light from Heaven’s throne,
Where naught but happiness is known!
Custom House Detection.
n o are requested to state that a larg • mirn
j ber of empty pipes and half pipes, which con
| tained foreign liquors, and bearing the Custom
I House brands of New York and Norfolk, were
j detected yesterday, on board one of the New
I York packets. They were intended for ship
; meat to New York, either for sale or to bo
i tilled with domestic spirits and returned here.
This practice has been for a long time carried
I on between New York and this city, and has
tended to prevent the importation of genuine
liquors. So much so that it is stated by our
informant, that but one cargo (now in port)has
been imported within the past fifteen months;
thereby depriving the Customs of a large
amount of revenue.— Charleston Courier, 27 ih
insti
“There must be a strange deficiency,either of
head or heart, in the man who cun look on a
child with iildiffcrentea dr contempt. There
is a poetry, a purity, a beauty about child
hood, which is, in this world, perfectly u
nique; and he who cannot appreciate it, proves
that his mental and moral tastes arc by no
means pure and elevated. Truly has the poet,
said: “Heaven lies about us in our infancy!”
and no one can have observed the exuberance
of life in a healthy arid cheerful child, its
eloquent earnestuess,the intense emotion beam
ing from its sparkling eyes, care-tin wrinkled
bow, its happy to-day find hopeful to morrow,
without feeling the jruth of the assertion.”
I £fpcciat Notices;
STEAMBOAT COMPANY OF GEOR
GIA.
[Up This Company having been re-Organixed
i wui placed in an efficient state for service, are pre
i pared to send forwarded without delay all freight
j that may Oiler.
Goods consigned to W M. F. W ILLIAMS, Agent
| at Bavaimah, will le forwarded free of Counnia
j sions.
The connection of K. 31. Goodwin with I hi*
Company has terminated.
JOHN B. GUI EC,
June G Agent at Augusta
[O* Doctors EVE and CAMPBELLS will at
| teirftomy Professional Business during my absence
! for the summer from the State.
: July n PAUL F. EVE.
I iIJ Dlt. J. A, y. Ml LLI G AN f will at
tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery, in
; AUgusta and its Vicinity.
[ Office in Metcalfs Range, up stairs. Entrance
one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store.
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i Commercial.
! LA*£s r DATES i ROJf LIVERPOOL..../.‘.Ofr, If 4V
DA IKS FKOBT JfAVU’J.V. ...... .JtNE 30.*
Awg'nsta Bffarkot. July 20.
COTTON.—Our market opened on Wednesday
last with the telegraphic advices brought by the
. Britannia at band, and being favorable to Cotton, s
good enquiry sprung up, and the few buyers in mar
ket showing more disposition to meet the views of
holders, even at an advance of a $ cent on lust
week’s prices, a fair business has been done this?
week, the sales summing up about 1200 bales, of
which 17 brought 10§, 21 at 10J, 152 at 10J, 218 at
j 11, Id at lIJ, 70 at llj, 78 at 111 236 at 11$, ami
132 at 11}. Yesterday, however, the demand slack
ened, and but little business was transacted. Hold
ers are firm in their demands, and show no disposi
tion to give way in their asking rates. The advices
per steamer Washington are daily expected, and
until they are received we look for a quiet roarket-
Prices having assumed a settled character, wc re
sume our quotations, which are as follow ;
Inferior 9} alO Mid. Fair 11$ a 11}
Ordinary 10 a 10$ Fair 11$ a—
j Middling 103 all Good Fair.... 11} a—
RECEIPTS OF COTTON,
Trom Out Ist Sept. 181-6, to Vie latest dates received.
1846-7, 1815-6.
: Savannah. Julv 22, 231.7-18 177.831
I Charleston, July 23, 342,109..,,. .242,903
I Mobile, July 20, 318,771 .117,363
i New Orleans, July 17, 700.412,.. ~1,031,775
Texas, June 16........ 8,409 00
Florida, July 10, 126,486 134,116
Virginia, July 1,,........... 10,830.,,,., 12,125
; North Carolina, July 9, 6,070..,,.. 9.245
Total 1,744.835... .2,025,393
STOCK OP COTTON
Remaining on hand at the latest dates received.
i Savannah, July 22,..,,,,.... 8,506 5,095
| Charleston, July 23,. 33.745, 17,262
I Mobile, July 20,.,,... 51.895 30.849
New Orleans, July 17, 108,5-13 60,01 t,
Texas June 16,. 600...... 00
Florida. July 10, 11,774 10,039
Augusta «Sc Hamburg, Jqiy 1, 23,635.,,,,, 26,276
Macon, July 1, 4,775 4,671
Virginia, July 1,. 40Q,.,,., 200
North Carolina, July 9, Hfi0....,, 2.000
New York, July 20, 116,598 57,675
Philadelphia, July 17,....,,. 4,164 7,432
Total 367,425 ~221,516
GROCERIES.—-For the season of the year, we
had a fair demand for Groceries, much better than
at the same period last season, for which our Mer
i chants are well prepared, having oq hand good and
well selected stocks, which have been purchased
low, and will be disposed ol on good terms. Our
country friends would do well to stop and examin
our market before going further; by so doing tl}c>
may find it to their interest to purchase, on their
return the hulk of their stocks.
CORN.—The unfavorable advices per Britannia,
and the flattering prospects of the growing crop of
j Corn, has caused this article to decline, not only