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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER. JR. TERRIS. Daily, per annum.. $8 Qq Tri-Weekly, per annum G 00 If paid in advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum ‘1 00 If paid in advance 2 50 To Clubs, remitting £lO IN ADVANCE, FIVE COPIES arc sent. This will put our Weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. 3 who will pay up arrearages, and send four new subscribers, with the money, can get ■ the paper at £2 00. jETT"AII new' subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. [FUPostage mu9 * he paid on all communications and letters of business. ——PMn—Mmi uu .ewwwßwiwwwßMWwwi ~ KELT A-EXTK A T~ 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. - ——— w (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.” - 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. ■MewwiiLaMaaHHMHBajMIMaMHMBMMHnMMHI 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