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[Correspondence of the Balt. American, 11th inst .]
ARRIVAL FROM SANTA FE.
Surprise of some of Col,. Easton s Men — Their
Defeat —Another Conspiracy Discovered — De
feat of LA. Brown —Skirmish between Maj. Ed
mondson and the Mexicans —Defeat of the lat
ter.
Another party of volunteers has returned to
Eort Leavenworth from Santa Fe. They ar
rived on the 6th inst., and left Santa Fe on the
sth of last month. From Mr. Isaac McCarty,
•of the firm of Ballard, Hook & Co., traders to
New Mexico and Chihuahua, the following in
teresting information is derived.
When Mr. McCarty arrived at Bagos, 75
miles this side of Santa Fe, he learned that in
formation had been received there on the sth,
that Lt. Brown, attached te Capt. Horine’s
company of volunteers, with several of his men
had been killed at a small place about 15 miles
from Bagos. On receiving this intelligence,
Maj. Edmondson, with a party of his men
pursued the Mexicans, overtook them, fought
with, and killed live or six of them, and cap
tured between 30 and 40, whom he threatened
to hang.
By this energetic conduct, Major E. induced
a, confession from some of them, that there was
another conspiracy on foot to bring about a
massacre and revolution at Taos and Bagos.—
A letter was found upon one of the prisoners,
purporting, though not signed, to come from
the ringleader of the former conspiracy, in
which he desired to be informed of the precise
time when Fischer’s company of artillery would
leave Santa Fe, as that was necessary to the
maturity of his plans. He declared, in this
letter, his determination never to rest while
there was an American alive in New Mexico.
Os the disposition of the prisoners, we have no
further information.
Mr. McCarty met the first train of Govern
ment wagons about one hundred miles from
Santa Fe.—Lieut. Love, who has charge of the
Government money, amounting to more than
$300,000, was met at the upper Semirons
Springs, and Col. Easton’s battalion of infan
try on the Arkansas. A few days previous to
his meeting Col. Easton’s command, while some
of his men were employed in getting wood on
the opposite side of the river, they were com
pletely surprised by o party of the Camanche
Indians, by whom, eight of the number were
1 il id and three -wounded.
One of the wounded was scalped alive, and
was found in this situation by those who were
sent to relieve them. He stated, that he was
scalpel by a white man; that he beggedfor his
life, telling him that he had a family dependent
upon him for support, but that the only reply
received from his assailant was, that he did not
care a d—n. We regret our not being able to
state the names of the persons killed and
wounded, or the company to which they be
longed. It may be two or three days before
we have this information.
Lieut Simpson, of Major Clark’s Artillery
Battalion, was left at Council Grove, on his
way home.
Since the above was written, we have learned
that J. McClenahan and C. Quisenberry were
among the number of persons killed at the time
of the attack upon Lieut, Brown. One account
states the whole number killed at fourteen.
John Avery, Martin, and Douglass,
of Capt. Dent’s company, were landed from the
Tamerlane, at St. Charles, yesterday.
[From an Extra of the same paper, Aug. IHJ't.J
Later.
Mr. Coulter, who arrived in the Bertrand,
from the Missouri, furnishes later and some
what different details in regard to the death
of Lieut. Brown and his men. That officer,
with McClenahan and Quisenberry, left camp
in pursuit of persons who had stolen horses
from them. They did not return, and on the
oth July information was received from a Mex
ican woman, that they had been murdered and
their bodies burnt.
Maj. Edmondston on receiving this news,
took measures to avenge their death. He
marched with some sixty men, and a howitzer,
against the town where the enormities were
committed, and discovered that the inhabi
tants were flying to the mountains. He com
manded them to stop, but as they did not do
so, he fired upon them, killing six, wounding
several others, and taking forty or fifty prison
ers. From some of the prisoners, it was as
certained that the bodies of two of the Amer
icans were burnt, but that the body of Lieut.
Brown, who had the emblem of the cross on
his neck, and was supposed, from this circum
stance, to be a Catholic, was hid in the moun
tains, where it was afterwards found. All the
houses of persons concerned in the murder
were burned to the ground, by order of the
Major. Some of the articles of property lost
in the engagement at the Red River canon
were found at this place, showing that some of
the inhabitants, at least, were participants in
that affair.
Lieut. Larkin, and privates Owens, Wright,
Mason and Wilkinson, belonging to a grazing
party of Lieut Col. Willock’s battalion, were
surprised about daylight on the morning of the
6th July, and killed. Lieut. Brown, whose
murder by the Mexicans we have announced
above, was a son of Robert T. Brown, of Per
ry county, in this State. Young McClenahan
was from St. Genevieve; and young Quisen
bei*ry was a volunteer from this county, the
eon of Mr. J. T. Quisenberry.
The news will fall with a crushing weight
upon his parents —for he was a young man of
excellent qualities, and greatly loved by those
who knew him. His return was looked for,
for some time, and, trusting that he had es
caped from all the dangers of the service in
which he had been engaged, we learn that his
mother, with all a mother’s care for her chil
dren, had prepared his room for him, even in
the most minute particulars necessary for his
comfort.
[From the Washington Union, 17 th
The Madness of the Whig-s.
It is a bad sign for any party when a little
temporary success completely turns the heads
of its most staid and experienced leaders. That
this is now the case with the whigs, to a
. laughable extent, is clearly proved by the gen
eral tone of the federal prints, and especially
by the laxxguagc of the Intelligencer of this
morning, in reference to the result of the Au
gust elections. By the most reckless and ruth
less gerrymandering in the arrangement of con
gressional- districts, as in North Carolina —by
wholly irrelevant and Jesuitical issues, as in j
Owen’s district in Indiana —by splits among
the democrats, as in Davis’s district in the |
same State—by the overweening confidence of
the dembcracy in Tennessee—and by extrane
ous personal influences in the Mobile district
of Alabama—the whigs, notwithstanding their
lass in Kentucky, have probably succeeded in
gaining perhaps some five or six congressmen
in all, in the i - econt elections of nearly as many
States. And thereupon, even the sblcmn and
wary Intelligencer—with its spirit sobered,
and, as one might suppose, instructed„ by the
long exile of its party from power dui*irg a
period almost commensurate with that of its
own apostacy from democratic pxanciples—even
the Intelligencer, in its article of this morning,
addresses its readers in a spirit absolutely
phrenzied with the madness of the hour. Not
content with insisting, as it does, that, in view
of the late elections, the President ought at
once to abandon the just and manly stand
which his administration has heretofore taken,
both in nxaintenance of his own well known
and long-cherished principles, and in support
of the rights and honor of the country against
foreign outrage and perfidy,—not content with
this ludicrous ari-ogance of dictation, the fede
ral organ is audacious enough, in its exulta
tion, to bring forward the shameless and scan
dalous suggestion that its friends (claimed
now to be a very small majority in the next
House of Representatives) should go to the
mad length of even “stopping the wheels of
the government, by withholding the necessary ap
propriations for the support of it!” The Intelli
gencer does not quite venture to advocate such
a measure. That is not its usual style in re
spect to the more desperate and ham-brained
expedients of its party. It docs not even pro
fess to “ expect ” its friends to vote against the
usual appropriation bills for the support ot the
government! Yet it plainly throws out the
idea that they may see fit to do so, in the fol
lowing most extraordinary and unprecedented
terms:
“Let no one understand us, when exulting
at the certainty of a whig majority in the
House of Representatives, as expecting that
majority to make any attempt to 'stop the
wheels of the government ’ by withholding either
the necessary appropriations for the support of it,
or refusing to provide the means for meeting any
expenditures which have been already authorized
by law.”
h e need make Uo lengthened comment upon
so atrocious a suggestion as this. It shows
how far the profligacy of whig faction can go,
in its hour of fancied triumph. But such an
outbreak from such a quarter must put the
people on their guard. How can the whigs
hope to obtain or to hold for any length of
time the confidence of the country, when the
prospect of getting the power of only one house
of Congress thus makes even the "old man”
among them as crazy as Bedlamites! If the
cool heads among them can talk in this way
now, what will not the hot heads of their party
do, or attempt to do, if the people should ever
put the power of the country into their hands:
But if the above language of the whig organ
is fitted to astonish the country, what follows
in the same article must excite yet deeper in
dignation and alarm. Hear the following di
rect and positive promise of federal help and suc
cour to our public enemy by the whigs of the next
Congress, if she can only hold out in refusing us
all terms of peace until the next session commences.
The promise is made by the central whig organ
in the following naked and unqualified terms :
“The whigs will, we hope and trust, do every
thing they can to bring this odious war with Mex
ico to an honorable close. * * * They will
doubtless hold the administration, in every
department of it, to a rigid accountability;
they may refuse to lay taxes on the necessa
ries of life, as proposed at the last session, that
foreign luxuries may come into the country
free of duty; but should the war with Mexico be
pi-ufariyvii mute the meeting oj L’ongress, (which
Heaven forbid,) other means not incompatible
with national honor and dignity, than stop
ping the supplies will be found to put a stop to
the war."
Can the force of traitorous rancor against
our country axrd her cause, and air open sup
port and encouragement of our perfidious and
ruthless enemy, go farther than this: Mexico
—even while her hands are red with the blood
of our brave soldiers murdered and mutilated
by her savage guerillas, iu utter outrage of all
the laws of civilized warfare —even, too, while
she yet refuses to hear and consider our prof
fered terms of peace —Mexico is told plainly
and openly, that if she can only hold on to
her work of murder until the “meeting of our
Congress,” her friends (the whigs) will surely
find means “ to put a stop ” to the war! But the
“close” to* which the war is to be brought, is
forsooth to be “honorable.” The “means” to
“'put a stop” to it are to be “not incompatible with
national dignity and honor” The significance
of these terms in the whig dictionary was
shown to us at the last session of Coxxgress.
Mr. Berrien in the Senate, and Mr. Schenek in
the House, each speaking for his own section
of party, told what means the whigs judged
to be “honorable” and “ compatible with our nation
al dignity ” in the case, when they moved reso
lutions to give up all the objects of the war,
and at once withdraw our troops in discomfiture
and disgrace ! These are the “otlfbr means”
of closing the war —this is the “honorable
stop” of the war which the whig organ now
promises the Mexicans that they shall re
ceive from their whig friends in the next
Congress. Will the people of this coun
try bear such language as this addressed to our ‘
public foe? Will they— can they— trust the
party whose leading organs can be prompted
openly to hold such language because they
have elected a few more members of Congress
than they had ventured to hope! Yet it is by
such language as this we suppose that the
whigs (as the Intelligencer boasts) are striv
ing “to bring this odious war with Mexico to
a close !” These axe the tactics of the self
styled party of peace. Bring the war to a close!
Why such a course is the very one (in the stern
language of Doniphan, who had been on the
spot and had seen what he spoke) “to protract
the war to all eternity.” Be the vigor axxd
success of our arms what they may, how can
we hope to force an honorable peace from
Mexico, when every blow that she strikes is
thus in practical concert with the whole action
of the whig leaders here?
Nor is it oxxly by intimations about “stop
ping the wheels of the Government,” and
promises of aid to Mexico, that the Intelli
gencer signifies its intoxication in view of its
unhoped-for success in some of the August
elections. It is well known what a “talent, tor
silence” that journal has heretofore shown in
relation to the support of General Taylor by
the whigs. In reference to this matter, the
whig journals generally have been,and still are,
ixi utter confusion and uncertainty. Some are
in favor of trusting him as a full-blooded whig.
Others have sore doubts on this point, but
feel still more sorely the need of what they j
call his “availability.” While others again
hope, plainly enough, to bend him to their par
ty purposes, though he should be taken up as
a “no-party man."- In general, however, the
whig press in many parts of the country cer
tainly has shown some disposition to take up
General Taylor— always provided that there
should be no chance of electing some more
undoubted party candidate—some whig of
deep and unmistakable dye. Among all these
diverse demonstrations of its friends, the In
telligencer (doubtless mindful of its position
as the metropolitan party organ) has main
tained a gruff and somewhat ungracious si
lence. But now it seems to fancy that the
cloud upon its partj- is rising; and, according-
I 9 hastens in its urticlo to-day to give tlxc
cue to its federal compeers, that they are at
last in a position to maintain their own party
platform, and can do better than to take any
'“no-party man” —be he Gen. Taylor or any one
else. Shell, as we understand it, is the inti
mation contained in the following passage:
“ The friends of the constitution , all over the
land, must be re-assured by the events of this
month. They constitute the majority of the I
people. We have always believed it: they
note know it, and, /mowing it, they must main
tain thcrtnsclvcs accordingly. No one can now
doubt, that if true to itself, the whig conservative
party has the power to bring hack the government
to the republican track, and put an end to all these ,
hankerings after conquest , dominion, and other
royal pastimes, vyhieh seem to have possessed,
not the President merely, and his dependants,
but also many other 'people- from whom Wiser
things ought to have been expected.’’
This is just what we expected. Y r e have
i seen all along that Gen. Taylor has nothing to
hope from the leaders of the whig party, if
they can see any reasonable hope of success ill
181*8 without him. We have always believed
that many of the whig journals have taken
him up merely to use his name for a season,
and then, if possible, to desert and betray him.
We have no doubt that every move in any con
gressional district in the country which the
whigs have made, or may yet make, will in
just so far constitute an additional, obstacle to
the selection of Gen. Taylor by the Whig Na
tional Convention. And in precise confirma
tion of this view, we have now the Intelli
gencer’sne w demonstration —the accidental, yet
very exactly-timed pilgrimage of the “sage of
Ashland” to the East —and the loud whig re
joicings over his arrival at Philadelphia.
We watch this mingled exultation and va
cillation among the whig leaders with some
curiosity and interest. We are not sorry that a
little temporary success should bring out in
bolder relief, both in Congress and out of Con
gress, their spirit, their preferences, and their
real plans. The more the country can learn of
them, the better it will be for the democracy ,
and the more sure will be the eventual tri
umph of the democratic cause.
The National Intelligencer is true to its vo
cation. It points exultingly to the results of
; the recent elections as irresistible signs of the
change of public sentiment in relation to the
administration and the war. The whole tone
of its article is calculated to cheer up the spirits
I of the public enemy, and give them “aid and
comfort” in the prosecution of the war. It
substantially tells them to go on; that the
peace party arc now in power in the House of
Representatives, and that they may stop the
supplies. It even goes so far us to tell the
President that the people have decided against
him, and that it now behooves him to “retract
or modify his acts” —that is to say, to with
draw our troops, and patch up a dishonorable
: peace, without “indemnity for the past dr se
curity for the future.” . t
And what are these unmistakable signs of
revolution in public sentiment? We have lost
two members in Indiana, without any change
of public opinion as to the wir. Mr. Owen
has been defeated, partly because he and his
friends were not sufficiently active, from an
over-weening confidence in success, and partly
I because he was attacked on very different
I grounds from political opinion. The New Al -
bany Democrat of the 12th says :
i "We have no evidence that politics had much
: to do in the defeat of Mr. Owen —no evidence
; that the war is unpopular, that the people of
1 the first district consider it unjust, or are op
i posed to its vigorous prosecution to an horiora
' ble peace; no evidence that they desire a na
tional bank to control the monetary affairs of
; the country, which were never £m a more
; healthy and prosperous condition than they
, now are: rfo pvidencefhat.it is the
sire to return to a system of high duties, which
j has proved so burdensome to the producing
j classes, and which is now repudiated by the
| most enlightened statesmen of all nations.—
I These questions the federal candidate endea
| vored to keep entirely out of the public view
! —so far as he is concerned, they were hidden
| from the public eye. The opponents of Mr.
Owen do not pretend that he was defeated on
political question ; on the contrary, it is as
cribed to the peculiar religious opinions which
he once entertained. His defeat is claimed as
j the triumph of religion over infidelity.”
We have lost the district of Mr. Speaker Da
vis by a meagre majority, (Dunn beating Dob
son by 17 votes only,) because that district
was unfortunately torn to pieces by our own
party —the popular Speaker being put aside,,
and two conventions serving only to distract
j us the more, and to alichate more votes from
the ultimate nominee.
We have lost three members in North Caro
lina from the most shameless sjestem of gerry
mandering that was ever practised by a despe
rate party. Our able correspondent explain
ed this whole matter in the last evening’s
“Union;” and asserts that the administration
is stronger there than ever.
In Alabama, we have lost one member in the
Mobile district, which was two years ago rep
resented by a federalist. We have lost it un
der circumstances which do no credit to the
opposition,
In Kentucky, we have gained, not lost, a
member; and so far, our increase in Kentucky
offsets our loss in Alabama.
Tennessee alone remains; and loudly does
, the National Intelligencer crow over the whig
gain in that excited State—a gain that elects
the whig governor by a majority, perhaps, not
exceeding 1,000. A correspondent in Ten
nessee, in this evening’s paper, explains the
causes of this (Ave confess to us unexpected
I and unwelcome) defeat.
Virginia, too, has just finished her last con
gressional election, and the result is every
thing we could have desired. There is no
change against us there, since the last election.
The voters of the district are more decided and
active. Instead of the 17 majority by which
Dromgoole was elected, Meade has carried off
I the palm by a solid majority of 360.
The people have not changed—so, at least,
is the best information we have received. —
They will never turn against their country in
the midst of a foreign war. They will never
i refuse supplies—never place our honor at the
; feet of a foreign enemy—and never excuse the
j party who does not cling to the patriotic max
im, “May our country be always right; but
right or wrong, our country.”
The National Intelligencer, indeed, hints
significantly at the course which it expects
from the whigs of the next Congress. How
different is its calculation from that of the
Washington correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce, which we received this
morning:
“The whigs here are confident of a majority
of eight or ten in the next House, and are dis
cussing the course of action which they will
take as a party. I cannot find that, as a party,
they are yet prepared to resist appropriations
for the prosecution of the war. But, having a
majority —having the Speaker, and the organ
ization of all the committees—the whig mem
bers are necessarily responsible for the amount
and objects of the appropriations. If they are
not, then what is the use of having a whig
House? If the whigs, then, grant the appro
priations called for by the Executive for the
purpose of a vigorous prosecution of the war,
they will adopt and approve his policy. To
: avoid the dilemma in which they will be placed,
they will, I think, issue an edict from the first
| caucus, declaring that the war question is not
I a party question, and that the members may
hold what opinions and give what votes they
i please, as to the war, without affecting party
obligations. They will have to extend the
same lenity to some other questions. In fact,
the party bonds will be found to be very lax.”
[From the Savannah Georgian .]
‘‘Truth is Wligrhty and it will Prevail.”
Every day must tend, more and more, to
convince the friends of liberal principles that
their triumph is sure; and the distinguished in
dividual, who now occupies the Presidential
chair, and has been the object, for the past
three years, of unmitigated abuse from the
Whigs, on account of his unflinching advocacy
of them, can already see that the day is dawn
ing when even the tongue of Federal detrac
-1 ion will be paralyzed. While it is undoubted
ly true that from their two strong holds, the
United States Bank and the Protective Tarjff,
the W big party have been compelled to beat a
retreat, it is equally true that they will soon
be forced to change their tune in reference to
the Mexican war. Already the universal har
mony of calumny against Mr. Polk, and sym
pathy for the poor, oppressed, insulted Mexi
can, which pervaded the entire Federal press,
has been broken in upon by a few discordant
notes. Hear them!—The New York Courier
says:. .
“We fiave proclaimed, on all occasions, that
wc had abundant cause of war with Mexico:
and that therefore the war is just, although it
might have been deferred, and possibly defer
red altogether, if the administration* had so
| desired. ,
“M e hold that with half the provocation
from either England or France, the whole na.
tion would have demanded war, but Mexico
being a weaker poAver, we could with honor
have made another effort to avoid the collision,
by abs a n ng from the Rio Grande, although in
our opinion, we had a perfect right to go there
whenever we pleased.” And the Commercial:
“As to Mexico herself, we do not agree that,
so far as she alone has any right to speak in
the matter, the war is unjust. Along course
of insult and injuries committed by her against
the U. S. as a nation, and against the citizens
of the L. S. as individuals, sufficient to justify,
■ according to the theory and practice of other
nations, a soAre measure of punishment, was
demonstrated; we think by Mr. Ingersoll’s re
port a Chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs * * France had not a tithe
of the same good ground for her Avar against
Algeria; or England for hers against the Aff
ghans. Even against China. England, had
not so much valid cause of complaint and re
sentment or any thing like it. With reference
to the justice or injustice of the war, then, we
are of opinion that Mexico has not a word to
say.”
This is language coming from Northern I
Whig prints, and speaks volumes. It is
, evident that the Ncav York Courier considers
the line of the Rio Grande as the Western
boundary of Texas. It says : “We had a per
fect right to go there Avhen avg pleased.” Now
when Ave recollect that Gen. Taylor advised
the movement to the Rio Grande in case the
Government should regard that river as the
J Western boundary of Texas, and advised it as
; a meails, riot of bringing on a Avar, but “of has
tening and facilitating a settlement of the
boundary question,” Ave perceive that the ad
ministration is freed from all reproach by the
voice of the Courier. It did not insist upon
more than Avas our right in claiming to the Rio
Grande, arid it followed the ad\dce of the dis
tinguished officer in command qf the army, in
relation to taking possession cf two or more
points upon that river.:
A still greater change of opinion is to be
found in the foiloAving extract front the Trov
Whig: t
“Some say he [Gen. Taylor] is opposed to
a National Bank. Suppose he is —so are seven
eighths of the Whig party. The present healthy
onnrlitirin of tlxo flnmiwtie «Vio«'R
that there is no absolute necessity for a regula
tor, and the Whigs, as a party, haA r e no dis
position to disturb the existing financial sys
tem of the country.” , .
Yet, says the Richmond Enquirer, it aa'rs for
refusing to violate his oath of office and sanc
tion a similar National Bank, that President
Tyler was threatened w.th impeachment, and
the cry Avas “crucify him—crucify him !” as
a “traitor” to his party—though it Avas avcll
known he had ever been opposed to a Bank !
[From the Savannah Georgian, \lthinst .]
Mr Towns' Qualifications.
The Republican, after discoursing at length
upon the fact,.that Mr. Towns has not been
i in a battle “even as a private,” and is not
among the Orators, (Tooebs, SteA r cns, and
Berrien,') concludes as folloAA's :
“As it Avas reserved for the Baltimore Con
vention to unearth a Polk, so Avas it left to
1 the Democratic Convention in this State to
blaze out Avith this light so long ‘hidden un
der a bushel.’ ” [Republican, 14th inst.
We willingly adopt the greater part of this
idea and the prestige it conveys. Even so,
Messrs. Republican ! And as the people of
the United States elected Mr. Polk, and Mr.
Polk has made a most admirable President,
so Avill the people of Georgia elect Mr. Towns,
{ and Mr. Towns, will make a most excellent
Governor.
There is a strong similarity between the
cases. Mr. Polk was not brought forward be
i fore the country because he had glittered in the
: regimentals of a general, or had set the Avorld
on fire by the magnificence of his declamation,
or the might of his invective. He was brought
forward as an unostentatious Democrat ; sim
ple in. his manners,unpretending in his charac
ter, not puffed up into consequence by over
weening adulation, but of sterling integrity,
sound judgment, an intellect of high order, a
decisive character, but abo\'c all, of pure,
undoubted Republlcan pkinciple. The same
is the case Avith Mr. Towns; and although as
a matter of course,our opponents Avill continue
to deny the fact, yet they knoav it is true.
Mr. Polk was abused, ridiculed, denounced,
called Jimmy Polk, ect. etc, contrasted with
Mr. Clay, and pronounced a molehill by the
side of a mountain,and our opponents blinked,
and Aviuked, and smirked, and tittered, and
thought that the sport was all on their side.
The same “Jimmy Polk” was elected to the
highest office in the world, by the A-otes of his
countrymen, and has filled the position Avith
an ability Avhich will leave his name indelibly
impressed upon the brightest pages of his
country’s history, and a dignity Avhich the
truth loving portion of the Whig party already
admit. In “unearthing” Mr. Polk, the Bal
timore Convention “unearthed” as pure a piece
of golden ore as ever was dug from the mines
of Peru. The Federalists have pulled, and
tugged, and hammered Iris character in vain;
their efforts have only lent it a brighter lustre
and a higher A r alue.
As in the case of Mr. Polk, so in the case of
Mr. Towns, —the candidate has not been nom
‘ inated because of the adoration Avhich it
I Avas supposed would be paid to the man.—
Each of these gentlemen Avas deemed fully ca
pable of discharging the duties of the office
for which he Avas named; —but the true quali
ty which has rallied the Democracy around
them is their undoubted, unquestioned devo
tion to the great principles of the Republican
faith. Their principles Avere knoAv to the
country ; freely, fully, fearlessly expressed.—
The Democratic party in supporting them,
were simply supporting their principles ; it
has not been necessary for them to endeavor
to make Caesars or Ciceros of their candidates,
since those candidates stand upon the firm
foundations of principles which they feel can
not be shaken.
It was left for the Whigs to bring forward
men, and to support them,not upon the ground
of principle, but on account of honors suppos
ed to due to themselves. He is a splendid
orator therefore, he deserve to be President
of the United States; ho fought the battle (f
Withlacoochertherefore he deserves to be Gov
ernor of Georgia. We are yet to learn that
any military service, or any splendid gifts, of
themselves, entitle a man to office. Office
should be given, not as a reward to the man,
but for the good of the people. In supporting
Mr. Towns, avg do not support the man, —we
support the principles he advocates, and fear
lessly challenge our opponents to attack them.
But, no ! they dare not make an attack upon
the great principles of the Democratic party,
declaring that they are not in issue ; nor do
they advance any of their own. Their whole
effort is to elect Gen. Clinch by blowing up
soap bubbles out of Withlacoochee to tickle
the popular eye, and by imputing a weakness
to Mr. Toavus which they cannot and do not
prove. Were Gen. Clinch, in truth, a Caesar,
lie would not be fit to be supported by the peo
ple of Georgia, and avo can tell our neigh
bors that a man infinitely inferior in every intel
lectual gift to Mr. Towns, nay, even Gen.
Clinch himself, might make a good Governor,
provided he was sustained by fixed, well de
fined, and unquestionable Republican princi
ples. But he has not given us reason to be
lieve that he ever had an idea of a principle in
his life, and avg are left to infer that he \vi 11 be
nothing but putty in the hands of the orators,
“Toombs, Stevens, and Berrien,” Avho in their
turn are nothing but putty in the hands of
Clay, Webster and the Federal Avirc-pullers.
• # ... The Federal Party.
This party emerged from a chrysalis state,
and come out a many-coloured fly and flutter
ed about durirg the canvass between Jefferson
and Adam —laid its eggs, and died on the
election of Jefferson. It appeared in the Avorm
state during the days vt the embargo, fed on
opposition to the administration of Jefferson,
and became a mighty Avorm about 1812, and
gnaAvcd on the Republican Avar party —spun
its cocoon, and wound itself up in 1815. It
cut out in 1822, and again appeared as a Clay
coloured fly, and Avas very active during the
administration of John Quindy Adams, and
was called the National Republican fly— laid
its eggs of a Protective Tariff, National Bank,
cocooned, entered upon the worm state, and
fed upon the U. S. Bank, Tariff, &c. during
the administrations of Jackson andYanßuren,
aided by Western Clay, Odelism, &c., and be
come a mighty worm, and during the can
v ss between Harrison and Van Buren, spun a
monstrous cocoon of mixed stuff, cut out and
again was a brilliant fly of another colour under
I the charmed name of Whig—changed under
Harrison, a monster Whig worm. Under Tyler
its food was taken from it; its bank Avas vetoe ’;
it feasted once on illfood called the Bankrupt
LaAV—gorged itself upon a protective Tariff —
became sick at the Tyler physic of veto and
annexation, spun a small bale cocoon, mixed
with coon fur, and plastered Avith Clay —cut
out a fierce warlike worm—in favor of all its j
former food, and opposed to annexation, Bal
timore Conventions, and all Democratic doc
trines, and Mr. Polk—wound itself up again in
a dark coloured cocoon, on the election of Mr. !
Polk. This little worm has noAv cut a small
hole in the end of that little dark cocoon, and
again has shown one of its wings—oppose I to
the Mexican war, and in favor of the Wilmot
Proviso. When called out it retires into its
little dark cocoon, and says through its Geor
gia Whig Convention, “7 believe it unnecessary
to reiterate my often declared principles , which
havt been so faithfully carried out , and so tri
umphantly indicated in the adm n stration of the
Government.” „ Clinch that small hole in that
f mall cocoon, for mum is the watchword. What
kind of a fly w 11 come out noxt.Ave shall see.—
Clarksville . A-a>. s J Q th inst.
t mrQi^i,y Oilisers.
The Cincinnati Advertiser gives the follow
ing record ris to the closing scenes of life and
resting places of §pme of that gallant,band of
officers Avho figured in our revolutionary strug
gle ;,. o ■ ./ ■ .
Gen. Mercer is usually said £o lla\’e been
killed at the battle of Princeton, but really
died of an epileptic fit, in that neighborhood,
a week after that affajr. The popular notion
is derived from the fact that he received. a
bloAv on the head from the butt end of a mus
ket, in the hands of a British soldier, in full re
treat Avith his comrades. He was knocked
down and stunned fur some time, as the con
sequence. Mercer was buried in Christ
Church Philadelphia.
Putnam Avas disabled from active service in
the very middle of the strife, 1779, by a para
lytic stroke, but surviA r ed till 1790, being 72
years of age at his death. He Avas lu ied at
Brooklyn, Conn.
Wayne died at Erie, Pa., Avhere he Avas bu
ried. At a later date the body was transport
ed to Chester county. Pa. Although nearly a
quarter of a century had elapsed, the linea
ments of the deceased hero Avere distinctly
Afisible, and the features recognized by persons
present; of course, the corpse crumbled to dust
on exposux-e to the atmosphere.
Schuyler, who dcserA r es all the credit of the
capture of Burgoyne, of which he Avas de
prived by Gen. Gates assuming the command,
just as all the arrangements for the battle had
been made at Saratoga, died at New York 1804.
Steuben, the Chevalier Bayard of our revo
lution, sans puer et sans reproche, after A r ainly
endeavoring to obtain the fulfilment by Con
gress of their engagements to him, returned to
Utica, Ngav York; the Legislature of which
State voted him a township (six miles square)
of land in that neighborhood. Herein a hum
ble log house he died, and was buried adja
cent in 1797.
St. Clair’s last resting place is at Greensburg,
Westmoreland county. Pa. A neat marble
pyramid being erected over his remains by his
Masonic brethren.
Mifflin, the idol of Pennsylvania, died in
La icaster, Pa., and Avas buried there.
Maxwell, Avho commenced the battle of
BrandyAvine, by opposing Knyphdusen’s
troops, in their attempts to cross Chadd’s Ford,
died at Flemington, N. J.
Montgomery and McDougal are buried in
Ngav York.
Alexander—Lords Sterling, at Albany.
Parsons, at Marietta, Ohio.
Morgan, the hero of CoAvpens, at Winches
ter. Ya.
SulliA’an, at Exeter, N. 11.
Scott, in Kentucky.
Knox, at Thomaston, Maine.
Henry Lee, in Virginia.
Charles Lee lies at the foot of Gen. Mercer’s
tomb, in Christ Church, Philadelphia.
Mortality of Cities. —The deaths in New
York for the week ending August 14, Avere
394 ; of those Avere by Cholera Infantum, 54 ;
Convulsions, 33 ; Dysentery, 40 ; DiarriKßa,
20 ; Marasmus, 29 ; Consumption, 26 ; Typhous
Fever, 31; Debility, 16. Os the whole num
ber, 193 were under 5 years of age.
The deaths in Philadelphia for the same
period Avere 189 ; of these Avere by Cholera In
fantum, 29 ; Diarrhoea, 7 ; Dysentery, 8 ; Debi
lity, 5\ Consumption, 5. Os the Avhole num
ber, 116 were under 5 years of age.
The deaths in Baltimore for the same perio I
were 110 ; of which were by Cholera Infantum,
23 ; Consumption, 15 ; Infant le, unknoAvn,
15. Os the Avhole number, 75 Avere under 5
ye irs of age.
The deaths in Charleston for the week en
ding the 16th inst. AA'ere 5; of which were by
Apop l exy, 1; Whooping Cough, 2; S( rethroat,
1; unknown, 1; 4 between 1 and 5 years, and I
between 50 and 60 years. Whites, 3; blacks
; j n I colored 2.
h—i„m
Augusta, ocor gi a .
suaTday morningTaug! 22.
FOR GOVERNOR
HON. G. W. TOWNS.
°F TALBOT.
Democratic Nominations for Senators.
4th Dwt.—Camden and Wayne— Elias Fort
I sth Dist.—Lowndes and Ware-Gen. T. Hilliard.
7th “ Tattnall and Bulloch— John a. Mattox
Bth “ Seri vert, and Effingham—W. J. Lawton.
9th “ Burke and Emanuel—W. S. C Morris.
12th “ Thomas and Decatur—Wm. H. Rev molds.
13th “ Baker and Early—Dr. Wm. J, Johnson.
14th “ Randolph and Stewart—William Nelson,
17th “ Macon and Houston— John A. Hunter.
20th “ Twiggs and Bibb—W. W. Wiggins.
2oth “ Jones and Putnam—James M. Gray.
26th “ Munroe and Pike—Col. Allen Cochran,
28lh “ Merriwether and Coweta— Ore. Warner.
31st “ Fayette and Henry— Luther J. Glenn,
32d “ Jasper and Butts—Col. J. C. Waters.
38th “ Clark and Jackson— Samuel Bailee.
39th “ Gwinnett and DeKalb— Jas. P. Simmons.
40th ** Paulding and Cass— Francis Irwix.
41st “ Cobh and Cherokee— Wm. H. Hunt.
43d “ Habersham and Rabun—Edw’d Coffee.
44th “ Lumpkin and Union— Eli hi; S. B a 'aytom
New Cotton.
The Albany (Ga.) Patriot, of the 18th in
stant, says—“ Mr. A. S. Greenwood yesterday
received at his warehouse, a bale of new cc t
ton, grown by John S. Wilkinson, Esq., of
this county.
U. S- Senator—Executive Appointment.
The Jackson Mississippian, of the 13th Last.,
says—“ His Excellency, Governor Brown, has
appointed Col. Jefferson Davis, Senator for
the State of Mississippi, in the place of Mr.
Speight, deceased. No selection could have
given greater satisfaction to the tchole State
than this. The official term as Col. Davis,
uiider this appointment, will continue only
until the election of a Senator by the Legisla
ture, which will meet in January next.”
‘•Then gnaw'd his pen, then dash’d it on the ground,
Sinking, from thought to thought, a vast rofpound.”
The Washington U.nion, of 18th inst. says—
“TheXewYork Coin in sinks to “a lower depth
and yet a lower still,” in attempting to extri
cate” itself from its bul get of blunders; its
last effort “assumes” and asserts that Gen.
Scott must have received “peremptory orders”
from the War Department to suspend his
march upon the capital. We have only time
to say that thisfabrication, also, like its pre
decessors, has notthe shadow of foundation.”
[ From our Correspondent,]
COURIER OFFICE, J
Charleston, Aug. 19—12, M. )
Telegraph Office, }
Richmond, Aug. 19 —12, M. 5
Dear Sir :— By request, from the Baltimore
Sun Office, (the Telegraph line from tMs place
to beyond Baltimore not being in working order
to-day,) I forward you the following despatch, 4
! just by Telegraph from Baltimore:
J. F. HOWE, ’
j Telegraph Correspondent for the Philadel
phia, New York, Boston, &c., daily morning
press.
The Cambria arrived at Boston at 5 oV’nuk
yesterday, having sailed on the 4th inst.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 3. Corn Market. —
Bjst Western Canal Flour, 275. to 275. 6d. per
barrel. Philadelphia and Baltimore 2Gs. to
20s- Gd. Richmond and Alex mdria, 255. to
! 2Gs. New Orleans and Ohio, 235. to 255., W.
S. Wheat and mixed, Bs. to 95., two pence per
70 pounds. Red, 7s. Gd. to Bs. 9d. Rye per
480 lbs. 30s. to 34. Indian Corn, sound, 265.
to 30s. per quarter. Unsound and heated,
20s. to 245. Indian Com Meal, 14s. per bbl.
'1 he above is the result of yesterday’s mar
ket, and shews a serious decline in the price
of breadstuffs. A panic has decidedly taken
place, accelerated by the gradual downward
tendency of the late London markets, the
highly favorable state of the home crops, and
the stiffness of the money market.
In the London Corn market, on Monday, a
reduction upon Wheat of 8 shillings per quar
ter took place.
Cotton Market . — Fair Upland Cotton 7\
ponce per pound ; Mobile middling 64 to 6} ;
fine 75 to 8 ; Alabama and Tennessee middling
6& to 6| ; New Orleans middling 64 to 7 ;
good fair 74 to 8; fine 84 to 9‘; Bowed Georgia
1 middling 6| to 6£ ; good fair 71 to 74; fine
75 ; Sea Island, middling 10 to 13 ; good fair
15 to 17 ; fine 20 to 24.
The sales of the week ending the 23d ult.,
were 25,500 bales, of wlrich 2000 were taken
on speculation, and 2500 for export.
Those for the week ending 30th ult., were
18,130 bales, of which 2700 were for specula
tion, and 1000 for export.
The transactions for the last throe days
ending yesterday evening, were about 18,500
bales, 6000 of which were for speculation and
export.
The stock on hand, in part, is estimated at
460,000 bales, against 710,000 bales at same
period last year.
The market had been languid for ten days
preceding the arrival of the steamer of the 16 th
ult., with the decline 5 pence per pound; but
since then, the market has acquired more firm
ness, and the decline has been partially re
i covered.
The Crops, &c.
The Mobile Register, of the 17th inst., says,.
—The following letter is from a source entitled
to the highest credit. The writer is one of the
most respectable and experienced of our plan--
ters:
Perry county, Ala., Aug., 9. 18471
At your request I write to inform you that
up to the first of this month, we suffered but
little by the boll worm in the cotton. The fly
which we suppose produces the worm was
found in great numbers. In the early part of
last week, the worms made their appearance.
We find them now very numerous, from a liv
ing spec to the half grown, and in some in
stances the full grown worm. I have one field
of 130 acres that I think will be entirely des
troyed. I am now catching the worms, and
from the quantity wc take you would suppose, •
the squares and bolls not yet destroyed,
would be safe; but it is not so; wc pass by a
sufficiency (and indeed they are hatching eve
ry day) to destroy the cotton almost entire ,'.