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Til !■: roNSTITI TlUNalistT JAMES QA R D N ER, JR. TE3US. Daily,, per annum $8 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum 6 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 are sent. This will put our Weekly pa per in the reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. (LF’Subscribers who will pay up arrearages, and send four new subscribers, with the money, can get the paper at $2 00. (CP All new subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. {PjPPostage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. [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 ,'.