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'the constitutionalist. J A IVIES GAR D N E J B. xcnras. Daily, per annum go 00 Tri* W eekiy, per annum 6 00 If paid in advance 5 00 Weekly, per annum 3 00 If paid in advance 5U To Clubs/remitting $lO in advance. FIVE COPIES are sent. Tiiis will put our \\ eckly pa per in tlie reach of new subscribers at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR* tCTSubscribers who will pay up arrearages, and rend four new subscribers, with the money, can gel , Ihe paper at $2 00. [C? All new subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. (Hr Postage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. FURTHER FOREIGN EXTRACTS. The news from the South of Europe conti nues to be highly interesting, and would seem to indicate the near approach of actual war.— The Paris correspondent of the Times avers, on unquestionable authority, that the Austrian Government has notified an intention to march troops into every Italian town or city in which the National Guards have been organized.— Meanwhile, Lord Normamhy visited M. Guizot early on Thursday, to inform him, it is said, that the British Government will not permit foreign intervention in Italy. 13itt though there appears to be no doubt that some communica tion of the kind was made, its precise terms are evidently unknown. The Kmu of Sardinia is believed to be staunch; indeed he is said to display an unexpected degree of firmness. At a coherence Avith a popular deputation 4 ‘the Grand Duke of Tuscany has thrown off the Austrian cockade, which as an Archduke Ke has been required to wear, and has adopted the national colors.'* There are rUmors of an insurrection in the city of Naples on the 9th instant. Letters from Boogra state that the Duke of Modena had retired with his family to Parma, in order, as is supposed, to the oc cupation of his territory by Austria* Extrart of a letter from, London, Within five weeks avg have had failures to the amount of £7,000,000, and what is Averse, do not think we are at the bottom yet. The London Times of September i Sth, says “that as far as the real stability of commercial credit is concerned, nothing has yet Occurred to beget terror u on the part of those houses who may thus far have conducted their busi ness upon sound and recognized principles. All the evils Avhich have yet taken place have (with some small exceptions) either had their origin in direct speculation, or been the natu ral climax of along continued state of weakness, which, to those acquainted Avith it, could have left nothing but the actual date at which sus pension would occur, a matter of much uncer tainty. Even if the surrounding evils were ten times worse than they are at this moment, avc do not believe that any house which could clearly show that it had pursued a course of business steadily confined within the fair limits of its means Avould experience any difficulty in ob taining every aid that Avould be essential to avert the consequences of anv merely acciden tal pressure. For the true and rational trader, come Avhat may we ‘have therefore no fear. Our only apprehension for the future is, that the number of those, especially among the community at large, who have been tempted to depart from the straight road, is far greater than has yet in any quarter been anticipated.” The recent advices from the U. S. respecting the probable crop of cotton there are, so much more favorable than Avas anticipated, that hopes are entertained of a far better supply than had previously been expected. As a proof of the exaggerated statements Avhich have been pub lished respecting the lateness of the crop, and its consequent liabilities to injury, it has been noticed that 131 hales of noAv cotton had been re -eived at Ncav Orleans up to the 20th August ultimo ag unst five bales to the corresponding period of last year. —London Morning Chronicle. Important fleeting- of the Bank of Eng land. ° A general court of the proprietors of the Bank of England av is held on the 10th instant, in the Court-room of the Corporation, pursuant to the terms of the charter, to receive the declaration of the direction as to the divided. Owing to the state of the money market, the large failures that have occurred, and the an ticipation of further disasters —for it is feared there will he more yet —the attendance of proprietietors was unusually largo. At twelve o’clock precisely the business of the meeting commenced. The Governor said, I have to acquaint the court that this is ond of our half-yearly courts for the purpose of declaring a dividend, and one of the quarterly courts appointed by the char ter; and I have the pleasure to inform vou that the Court of Directors, upon a review of the state of the affairs of the Bank, have re solved that a dividend of 4£ per cent, interest and xvrofits, be paid for the half year ending on the 10th of October next [great cheering], without deduction of the income-tax; ancf it gives me groat satisfaction to be able to state that after the payment of the dividend there will be a sum of £20,412 to be added to the rest [cheers]. It is necessary that I should inform you that this is not a dividend of il, per cent, but a dividend of per cent., and a bonus of 1 per cent., that the proprietors Avho have a life interest only might participate in the profits of the half year. Although, there fore, I now call it a dividend of per cent., it is only one of per cent., Avitli a bonus of 1 per cent. I mention this lest you might sup pose that we are to go on permanently with a dividend of 4£ per cent. We have no such intention, unless the affairs of the Bank should be in such a prosperous petition as to justigfy that dividend. The announcement seemed to give :;reat sat isfaction to the proprietors; but some apparent ly came prepared for even greater liberality from the court, for they asked to have a bonus as well as increased dividend. The proposal of the directors, however, was considered by the majority of the meeting as liberal as the state of the “rest” justified, and it was accord ingly adopted, subject to confirmation at a ballot, to take place on the 22d last., which the governor considered desirable, in conse quence of the importance of the alteration. After the subject of the dividend had been disposed of, a discussion ensued on the motion of a proprietor that the present method of electing the governor and directors should be changed. The reasons urged for the altera tion were of course the recent failures of the late governor and of one of the directors; and the proprietor referred to wished to elect a j governor “from amongst one of the great num ber of the mercantile men in the city to whom such a calamity as insolvency could never hap pen.” This remark occasioned much laugh ter, and the discussion was concluded by Mr. Jones Loyd making some very judicious ob servations on the impolicy and folly of a pro posal which at the present time would lead the public to think that the directors did not pos sess the confidence of the proprietors. State of Trade in the Manufacturing Dis tricts.—The reports which we have received from the several manufacturing districts throughout England during the past fortnight are still unsatisfactory. Advices from Man chester inform us that the demand there for oil descriptions of yarn and manufactured : f ‘•" ■ -‘A ■~t j L a mm mnrruM: awm f goods is on the very loAvest scale, and in some cases, especially in sales ot yarn, rather loavor prices are submitted to by the spinners. Still, considering the unfavorable state of trade, the failures are quite insignificant in number and j amovnt. Our Rochdale correspondent, in a letter dated Sept. 13, says, we have had a very j good demand for flannels to-day, and consid erable business has been transacted at last j week’s prices. ScA'eral of the large manufac turers have been in the market to-day, and bought very freely. The demand for avool is ■ somewhat better, and prices are firm. From Halifax avg arc informed that although pro- j A’isions are so much lower than they were, I trade does not yet revive there,nor can we learn, | from the attendance in the piece hall, that there is any prospect of a speedy change for ) j the better. There is very little doing, either in plain or fancy goods; and prices are exceed ingly low. In yarn, the same extreme flatness | prevails, which prevents any rally in price. The stock of long wool is sloavlv moving off', i at easier rates, though little is coming to mar- j ket to replace the sales. Short wools are dull, j of sale, at previous prices. There is a pretty i steady trade doing at Leeds, and at the mar kets held there since our last report, the at tendance at the cloth halls has been good, and I a Very fair amount of business transacted, chiefly in suitable winter articles for home con- j sumptioh. The disastrous news from London i appears little to affect, directly, the mannfac- | turers there; but, of course, its tendency to wards circumscribing general credit will be 1 more or less felt. At Huddersfield there is an i inclination to do business in all kinds of goods j > that have the character of newness of style j and good quality. Considerably more business is doing in wool than for some time past. The I warehouses have not had many visitors during i i the week'. At Rome, all continued tranquil. The ac counts are to the sth iust. They mention the j arrival of an envoy from the United States of America, Mr. Cox well, for the purpose of concluding a treaty Os amity and commerce with the Pontifical Government. It was be lieved that the latter Avould shortly accredit a Nuncio to Washington. Cardinal Lambrus chini had arrived in the city, and in a rather I suffering state. The Cardinal Secretary of State rode before him, to protect him front any popular demonstration,arid no disturbance took place. Cardinal Ferretti has established a corps of policemen in uniform; a measure j which has much pleased the populace, as itde ! prives the local police of its secret and inquis - torial character-. Fkvxcc. —Our Paris despatches state that i the utmost disquietude has been created in the French cabinet, by the intelligence Avhich arrives daily from the Alps and the Pyrenees. 1 Reinforcements are to be immediately sent to i the Spanish, Italian and Swiss frontiers. The i intelligence from Algeria is not more tran j quiliz.ng. Ten thousand men are under or ders to reiilforce the African army, Recent advices from Algiers confirm the statement made last week, that Abd-el-Kader had possession of Taza in Morocco. The Em peror Abd-er-Rahman has applied to France : for assistance. M. Durand, the responsible editor of the Gazette de France, Avho was condemned for articles respecting the murder of the Duchess of Parslin, Avas sentenced to three months im prisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs. Liverpool Cotton Market. Report for the week ending September 10. The business throughout the Aveek has been i exceedingly limited, and the market continues to present an appearance of much heaviness; there is. ' however, but little alteration in prices.the change, if any, being in the common and middling qualities of American, which in some cases have given wav per lb. Speculators hare taken 350 American, and 350 Surat; and Exporters 3120 American,soo Maranham, 50 Pernam, and 140 Surat. The sales of the Aveek amount to 18.510 bales.— United Bro kers. Report of the ic°ek ending September 17. The demand from the trade continuing very mo derate, with an increased desire to sell, arising in a great measure from the disturbed state of the money market, consequent upon the heavy com mercial disasters in London, prices have been very irregular. A decline ot fully per lb. has been : submitted to on American descriptions, whilst Brazil, Egyptian, and Surat are heavy of sale at j per lb. below the last quotations. Speculators have taken 130 American, and exporters 3000 American and Surat. Sales for the week, bales. — United Brokers. Report for September 13. The market to-day has been in a most unsatis factory position. The sales are limited to 2000 bales, j and prices are anything but firm. In fact, holders i being willing sellers, buyers could purchase on easier terras. Major Andre’s Defence. A correspondent of the Newark Daily Ad- , vertiser, who seems to be fortunate in the pos session of sundry curious old papers and other | memorials of the past, as well as of corrospond ing knowledge and memory, has furnished for * the columns of that paper a document which i we do not remember to have ever seen before —the defence read by Major Andre before the Court which condemned him to death as a spy. We have no doubt that it will be read with lively interest by many: “I came,” he said, “to hold a commtmica , tion with a general officer of the American army, ;by the order of my commander. I entered the | | American lines by an unqestionable authority | —when I passed from them it avas by the | same authority. I used no deception. I had { heard that a provincial officer had repented of the course he had taken, and that he aA’OAved that he never meant to go so far as he had I gone, in resisting the authority of his King. The British commander was willing to ex tend to him the King’s clemency—yea, his i bounty, in hopes to allure others to do the i same. I made no plans. I examined no works. I only received his communications, and was on my way to return to the army, and to i make known all that I had learned from a gene ral officer in your camp. Is this the office of a | j spy? I never should haA'e acted in that light, j and what I have done is not in the nature of a spy. I have n*ted neither your strength nor weakness. If there be Avrong in the tran saction, is it miner a spy a sol dier has a right to refuse; but, to carry and j fetch communications with another army, I never heard was criminal. The circumstances which followed, after my interview with Gen. Arnold, were not in my power to con trol- He alone had the management of them. It is said that 1 rode in disguise. I rode j for security incog, as far as I was able, but J other than criminal deeds induce one to do this. I was not bound to wear my uniform any longer than it was expedient or polite. I scorn the name of a spy; brand my offence with some other title, if it change not my punish ment, I beseech you. It is not death I fear. I am buoyed above it by a consciousness of hav ing intended to discharge my duty in an hono rable manner. Plans, it is said, were found with me. This | |is true; but they were not mine. Yet I must tell you honestly that they would have been communicated if I had not been taken. They wore sent by General Arnold to the British ! commander, and I should have delivered them. From the bottom of my heart I spurn the thought of attempting to screenmysclf by crimi nating another; but so far as lam concerned the truth shall be told, whoever suffers. It j j was the allegiance of General Arnold I came out to secure. It was fair to presume that i many a brave officer would be glad at this i time to be able to retrace his steps, at least iwe have been so informed. Shall I, who came out to negociate this allegiance only, be treated j as one who came to spy out the weakness of a r camp? If these actions are alike, I have to i learn my moral code anew. Gentlemen, officers, be it understood that I am no supplicant for mercy; that I ask only from Omnipotence—not from human beings. Justice is all I claim—that justice which is neither swayed by prejudice, nor distorted by passion, but that which flows from honorable minds directed by virtuous determinations. I hear, gentlemen, that mv case is likened to that of Capt. Hale, in 177<5. 1 have heard of him and his misfortunes. I wish that in all that dignifies men, that adorns and elevates I human nature, I could be named with that accomplished but unfortunate officer. His fate was wayward, an I untimely was he cut off, yet younger than I now am. He went out knowing that he was assuming the char acter of a spy. He took all its liabilities into his hand, at the request of his great command er. lie was ready to meet what he assumed and all its consequences. His death the law of I nations sanctioned. It may be complimentary | to compare me with him, still it would be un just. He took his life in bis hand when he assumed the character and the disguise. I assumed no disguise, nor took upon myself any other character than that of a British officer I who had business to transact with an Ameri can officer. In fine, I ask not even for justice; if you I want a victim to the manes of those fallen un timely. I may as well be that victim as anoth i er. I have in the most undisguised manner ; given you every fact in the case. I only rely on the proper construction of those facts. Let me be called any thing but a spy. lam not a | spy. I have examined nothing, learned noth ing, communicated nothing, hut my detention, i to Arnold, that he might escape if he thought proper so to do. This was, as I conceived, my duty. I hope the gallant officer who was then Unsuspicious of his general will not be condemned for the military error he committed. I farther state that Smith, who was the medium of communication, did not know any part of our conference, except that there was some necessity for secrecy. He was counsel | in various matters for General Arnold, and from all the interviews I had with him; and it was Smith -who lent me this dress-coat of Crimson, on being told that I did not wish to be known by English or Americans. Ido not believe that he had even a supposition of my errand. On me your wrath should fall, if on any one. I know your affairs look gloomy; but that is no reason why I should be sacri ficed; My death can do yoUr cause no good. Millions of friends to your struggle in England, you will lose if yoii condemn me. 1 say not this byway of threat; for I know brave men | are not awed by them —nor will brave men be vindictive because they are desponding. I should not have said a word had it not been j for the opinion of others, which I am bound i to respect. I The sentence you this day pronounce will go I down to posterity with exceeding great dis tinctness on the page of history; and if huni anitr and honor mark this day’s decision, your names, each and all ofjyou, will be remember ed by both nations when they have grown greater and more powerful than they flow are. But, if misfbrtfliio befals me, I shall in time have all due honors paid to my memory. The martyr is kept in remembrance wheti the tri bunal that condemed him is forgotten. I trust this honorable Court will believe me when I say that what 1 have spoken was from no idle j fears of a coward. I have done. f Front the N&b Orleans Picayune, 2d tnsf.] From the Rio Grands. i By the arrival of the! .S. transport schoon er Heroine, yesterday, from Brazos Santiago, which place she left on the 23d ult.> we j hare the Matamoras Flag of the 2id ult., from I which wc obtain the following intelligence. Since CoL Hays arrived, says the Flag, ho has learned, that the portion of his regiment constituting the late command of Major Chc valie, and now at Saltillo, is not to join him, but remain with Gen. Wool. It is also inti mated that Lieut. Col. Bell’s present command, two companies, left at San Antonio, will not be withdrawn from Texas. If so. Col. Hays will have only five companies of his regiment under his immediate command. Major Che valie, who it was supposed had resigned in order to join Col. Hays, as the presumption was that there would be more active service on Gen. Scott’s line, it will be prcccivcd is a passenger on the Heroine, The whole of Gen. Cushing’s brigade, also ordered to Gen. Scott’s line, had arrived from above, and was encamped at Palo Alto. The brigade was reported in good health. Trans ports were looked for daily at the Brazos, and : as soon as they arrived, the brigade would move down and embark. The battalion of the 3d Dragoons, under | command of Col. Butler, of this State, had left for above. The Flag has the following handsome notice of the brigade: The 3d Dragoons, are wending their way to Monterey. The battalion, about four hundred and fifty strong, left here on Wednesday eve ning last. As the several companies filed through our streets, the noble and gallant bearing of officers and men, and fine appear ance of the steeds, attracted universal admi ration—the whole population of the city,Mexi can and American, were drawn out to view them, and every voice spoke in praise. Murat, | at the head of his choicest troops,never looked or felt prouder of his followers, than did Col, j Butler, in front of his gallant command. The bearing of every officer was unexceptionable —that of several peculiar but striking, but we will not particularize. CoL Butler lias given his whole attention, for several months, to the drill and discipline of his command, and hav ing been ably seconded, by his officers, his efforts have been crowned with complete success. Persons fully competent to judge, who have witnessed the exercises of the bat talion, with sword, carbine and pistol, say ! they equal, if not excel, the drill of any troops i in our service. Mrs. Ferguson, who it was reported was not dangerously injured by the explosion of the steamer Lama, died on the ITthinst. of in ternal injuries caused by inhaling the scalding steam at the time of the explosion. AVe copy the subjoined paragraph from the Flag of the 22d ult: Wanton Murder. —On Monday last two Mex icans were shot in the public street by a cow ardly ruffian named Thomas McLaughlin, of the Texas cavalry. AVe have not heard the full particulars, but it is said to have been a most wanton act, and without the slightest provocation. It caused the greatest indigna tion in the regiment to which he was attach ed, and wc are gratified to hear that they ren ( dered prompt aid in having the murderer ar | rested. lie is now in custody, and we hope that his punishment may be such as the na ture of his crime calls for. It is time for the strong arm of the law to be put forth —pun- ishment must follow crime. It sickens us to record such acts, and we trust that the autho rities will show that they cannot be commit ted with impunity. Let it not be urged in paliatiou that the man was drunk. Drunken ness is no excuse for crime—it should rather make the offence greater. The Weather. —A north wind has been blow ing for the past week, and the weather is quite cool —cool enough to make warm clothing not only, comfortable but necessary to those who have a regard for their health. This sudden change in the weather has produced some lit tle sickness; but wo have the authority of physicians for saying that no city in the South ern country, equal in population to Afatamo ros, is more free from disease of any kind. AVe attended last evening the funeral of Major Charles C. Mcßae, aged about seventy, a native of the parish of East Feliciana, La., but for the last twenty-five years a resident of Alexico. The deceased came to this city in June last, from Chihuahua, where he has re sided for many years. In his illness he was watched by kind and sympathizing friends, and although cut ofi’ by death in a city where he was an apparent stranger, a large proces sion of our citizens followed him to the grave. He has several children residing in his native parish in Louisiana, and one son residing in Memphis, Tenn, to whom the intelligence of j his death will be sorrowful tidings. AVe ask , the New Orleans and Memphis papers to be the heralds of the mournful news. Additional Items of Mexican News. In the absence of a later arrival from the seat of war, we have again glanced over our I files of Mexican papers received by the James i L. Day, and have gleaned from them several items of interest which we had before over looked. They are chiefly taken from the Di ' ario del Gobierno, a broken file of which to the i 7 ! 11 th ult. was received in A r era Cruz by the I Arco Iris, and we received a complete file from i I the 30th of August to the oth ult., inclusive, i | ourselves. Santa Anna’s efforts, after notice had been ! I given of the termination of the armistice, to ! prepare for the defence of the capital, are rep resented as having truly prodigious. It ; is stated that he purchased from his private I purse all the arms he could find, and the edi tor of the Diario, in his paper of the 10th, adds, that he had seen the day before a receipt for a very large sum of money paid by the gen eral-in-chief, himself, for a number of mus kets, and 61,000 flints, for the army. “Add j this,” says the Diario, evidently considering it I : a triumphant vindication of Santa Anna’s fi- j delity to his country, “to the treasons of which ! lie is accused by the notorious I). Ramon 1 ; Gamboa.” The Diario of the 10th, speaking of the de- I monstrations made by our army on thatmorn i ing, says that at the alarm the troops in the | i capital marched out to defend the point threat- \ i ened with the greatest alacrity, and displayed i an ardor that promised the best results. It I | was impossible, it is added, to describe the en thusiasm of the people, all shouting “Liberty and Independence!” and declaring their in tention never to succumb to the ruthless foe. AA'e find translated in the Diario an iuter- I cepted letter from our army, describing the j battles of Contreras qpd Chumbusco. In the i letter it is stated that our loss was about 1000, i while that of the enemy was not less than 2000 killed and wounded. The editor cites this letter as an evidence of the proneness of the Americans to exaggerate the Mexican loss and underrate their own. In these two bat tles, he adds, “our loss does not exceed 1000, and that of the enemy cannot be less than 2000.” AVe know that the letter was at least correct in its statement of our loss. In an editorial in the Diario of the ith, F. M. de Olaqflibel, at Toluca, the Governor of the State of Alexico, if not positively accused of treason is at least charged with being favorable to the Americans. The only evidence we find adduced to support this accusation is that he sold corn to our troops at his hacienda of San Nicolas Peralta, in the vicinity of the capital. As this, however, took place during the armi stice, which provided that the American forces should be allowed to obtain s Applies in and | about the capital, it is difficult to see how it 1 could be swelled into the charge that is made, i Reference is made, though, to an address issued by him to the people of the State, as Governor, j which, it is intimated, wax of a character that 1 forbade its publication. It is to this address then, we suppose, he owes his disgrace in the eyes of the Government editor; and the willing ness of the Governor to exchange his corn for American dollars might have been overlooked by a Mexican if the address had been palatable food. His groat crime consisted in defending Addenda, and in alleging that if Santa Anna had gone to the assistance of that general at j Contreras the result might have been different. ! Speaking of the battle at the Mill del Key, I on the Sth ult., the Government paper is ex- i travagant in its laudations of the characters of | Ge x. Antonio do Leon and Col, Lucas Balderas of the Battalion of Indepcndencia,both of whom wore mortally wounded in the engagement. Gen. Leon, it is stated, was several times Gover nor and Military Commandant of the State of Oaxaca, to which he had rendered eminent services. He was also a veteran of the war of independence. CoL Balderas is spoken of in a manner that few Mexicans deserve. “He never,” it is said, “was a charge upon the treasury, and was always in the front ranks op- j posing the enemies of his country, to which he consecrated all that man can give, his life. The I teats of all good Mexicans will water his grave.” It will be remembered that immediately upon the armistice being agreed upon, the Mexican Secretary of State issued a proclamation call ing upon Congress to meet, to consider with | the President the proposition of Mr. Trist. This proclamation was dated the 21st August, but, although some few met every day up to the Ith ult., in no instance over thirty could be induc ed to attend the sittings, and a quorum there fore was never assembled. None of the seventy members who declared they v ould not delibe rate in the capital while it was threatened by our army and retired to Toluca appeared at any ! of the meetings. A great ado is made in the Diario about , some voluntary donations transmitted to the treasury by the inhabitants of the mining dis tricts of Chico, to assist the Government in posecuting the war, and no less than a page of the paper is filled with the official correspon ence on the subject. The whole amount trans mitted was $304 1 AVe have before us a fierce reply from Ara lencia to the report of Gen. Salas, of the bat tle of Contreras. The part of the report that roused the ire of Ahilencia was the statement i that he disappeared from among his troops as j soon as the battle commenced on the morning of the 20th of August, and was never seen ' after, lie claims in this reply to have been present during the whole battle, and that he only left when he found it impossible to rally his troops. Salas, \ r alcncia says, saw all his efforts, and in return for his unkind insinua tions, charges him with an attempt to cover his own disgrace in being taken prisoner by traducing his commander. Valencia says, “If this gentleman has allowed himself to fall into inactivity, it was owing to his feeding his ap prehensions at the moment of danger, or to his little skill in horsemanship, and valor to leap a little ditch by which he could have reached the village of San Geronimo.” This is a hard hit to a Mexican, for to touch his horsemanship is like touching the sweeps’ honor — death were preferable. It will be remembered that during the ne gotiations, the Mexican commissioners, in a communication to Air. Trist, giving as area- I sou for their refusal to consent to the cession ' of New Alexico, said: “Sentiments of honor and delicacy, which the noble character of I your excellency will know howto appreciate, as well as motives of interest, prevent our Gov ernment from consenting to tie dismember ment of New Alexico,” and it was intimated that Air. Trist had been made acquainted with the specific character of those sentiments and motives. AVe find them related in the instruc tions of the Alexican Secretary of State, on which the ultimatum of the Commissioners was based, and translate them ; “The Government could not, even with the approbation of Congress, agree to give up New ( Alexioo, whose inhabitants have manifested a ' wish to make a part of the Mexican family, with more enthusiasm than any other portion of the republic. These well deserving Mexi cans, abandoned to their fate by several ad ministrations; frequently without any protec i tion, even against the incursions of the Indi ans, have been truly patriotic Mexicans; be cause, forgetting their domestic grievances, they Lave remembered on this occasion that they are and wish to be a part of our family. They exposed and sacrificed themselves to the vengeance of the invaders: they have risen j against them, and, though their conspiracies have been frustrated, they still continue to j conspire. And can a government sell those Mexicans like a Hock of sheep? Never. Let | on their account the nationality of the repub -1 lie be lost. We will perish together.” #rraßHmai:«g3«gM—«mb——bb———— Augusta, (Georgia. FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 8, 1847. igig'Tn the absence of the Editor of this pa per, a friend performs the painful duty of an nouncing the death of his father, James Gakd- ; nek, Esqr., who departed this life, at three o’clock yesterday morning, in the 81st year of | i his age. Mr, GAimxEli was the last survivor of our merchants of the old school. He was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, but had resided iu Au gusta about sixty years—thus becoming one of our oldest inhabitants. A long life of in tegrity and honorable dealing with his fellow' men, closed without struggle or pain—age having worn out his bodily energies, and his life ebbing gently away, like the flame of an expiring lamp. The friends of the family are invited to at | tend his Funeral, from his late dwelling to the : Sand Hills This Morning, at nine o’clock. ■ —— HI Hi 'Trmh nmjaxinr WT ■» fl— II ■■■>lll Election Returns. KOII GOVIKSOR. 1847. 1845. Towns. Clinch. McAllister. Crawford Baker. loOmaj. 351 ‘204 Baldwin, 315 317 > 268 315 Bibb, 667 598 724 651 Bryan, 69 112* 85 102 Burke 370 590 * 332 549 i Cass, 700maj. 941 641 Chattooga, 426 350 • 330 300 Chatham, 582 776 • 715 700 Cherokee, 952 580 • <4O 533 Clarke, 437 615 * 398 538 Cobb, 978 713 i 835 637 Columbia, 282 489 277 522 Coweta, 114maj. 689 808 DeKalb, 990 759 762 577 Effingham, 110 175 110 226 Emanuel, 269 195 217 206 Fayette, 230maj. 651 428 Floyd, 600 569 446 380 Forsyth, IBsmaj. 621 4G3 Franklin, 1032 354 922 354 | Greene, 131 767 115 <B6 : Gwinnett, 706 735 680 757 Habersham, 770 430 785 388 I Hall, 687 527 599 529 Hancock, 321 456 307 507 Henry, oOmaj. 815 884 Houston, 686 625 654 637 Jackson, 664 513 644 517 Lumpkin, 969 530 946 556 Meriwether, 792 739 833 695 Monroe, 665 686 644 « 33 Morgan, 281 393 299 415 Murray, 947 502 624 403 Muscogee, 853 1039 851 lo< 1 Newton, 442, 913 471 896 ; Oglethorpe, 152 4<o 172 576 Pike, lo9maj. 783 642 Putnam, lOOmaj. 381 425 Richmond, 488 681 474 747 i Scriven, 222 195 225 241 Taliaferro, 67 362 54 412 Troup, 429 999 440 1005 Twiggs 144maj. 403 321 i Upson, 356 611 385 646 ! Walker, loOmaj, 581 537 i Walton. 721 526 741 505 j Warren, 2oomaj, 372 607 1 Washington, 54maj. 508 629 Wilkes, BOmaj. 354 439 Senators. Burke and Emanuel —McLeod. Coweta and Meriwether —Parks, Whig gain, Chatham —Snider, Whig gain, Cherokee and Cobb — Hunt, Clarke and Jackson —Clayton, Whig gain, Columbia and Richmond—Miller. DeKalb and Gwinnett — Simmons. Floyd and Chattooga —Montgomery, Whig gain. Green and Morgan—Reese, Hancock and Baldwin —Terrell. Hall and Forsyth— Dunaynn. Houston abd Macon — Hunter. Jefferson and Washington—Stapleton, Muscogee and Harris —Marks. Newton and Walton —Williamson, Whig gain. Oglethorpe and Madison —Willingham, Scriven and Effingham—lU. J. Lawton, Dem. gain. Troup and Heard —Johnson. Warren and Taliaferro —Darden, Wilkes and Lincoln—Moore, | Walker and Dade — Farris . Representatives Baker— Tiff. B aid win—Harris, Bibb—Nisbet and Atkinson. Whig gain. Bryan—Bird, Burke —Brown and Gresham. Cass — Smith and MoConnelL Chatham —Bartow and Clark,(2 Whig gain.) Chattooga — Heard. Cherokee —Field and Williamson. Coweta —Ferrell, Robertson. Clarke —Harris and Jackson. Cobb — Maloney and McConnell. Columbia —Fleming and Shockley. DeKalb —Darnal and Wilson* Effi n gham —M organ. Emanuel — Sumner. Floyd —Price, Whig gain. Forsy th— Strickland. Green—Sanford and Ward. Gwinnett—Brandon and I Vhilworth. Habersham— Phillips and Cabiness. *i Flail— Baugh, Hancock—Lewis, j Henry—Moseley, and a Democrat. Houston— Bryan and Holmes. J efferson —Todd. I Jones— Glover. I Jackson— Penticosf. Liberty—Quarterman. i Lincoln—Neal. Lumpkin— Barnes and Keith , Mclntosh—Townsend, Whig gain. Monroe—Battle and Pinkard, Dcm. gain. Morgan—^Harris. Meriwether —, Wimbish and Wcnxhsnan, Murray— pennon , Muscogee —Howard apd Bethune. Newton—Reynolds and Pace, Oglethorpe —Smith and Glenn. Putnam —Calaway "nd Reid, Dcm, gain. Scriven — Pollock. Taliaferro—J. W. Harris. Troup—Cameron and Beasely, Walker— Harden, Dem, gain. Walton —Jackson and Kilgore. Warren —Anderson and Bacon. Washington —Bullard and Franklin t Dcm, gain. Wilkes—Anderson and Gartrcll, Reported Death of the President It is with great satisfaction that we arc able to announce to our readers, that there was no truth in the rumor published by us yesterday ot the death of the President. We see no mention made even of his illness in the papers received by last evening's mail, and learn by a passenger that he was up and about iu Wash ington on Tuesday last. This will be welcome news to our citizens, and will remove that gloom depicted on the countenances of many vesterday, for whigs and democrats appeared to feel that in his death the country had ex perienced a great loss. Ried, Irving - & Co. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce of 4th iust, says—The correspondent of this house inform* us that it is only the London house which has suspended payment, and that they will have a large surplus after paying all liabilities. The Liverpool house is composed of distinct per -1 sons, and not implicated in the affairs of the London firm, whose name was used for the sake ; of its well-known character. The Savannah Georgian of sth inst. says— It is with unfeigned sorrow that we notice the death of one of our most prominent merchants and estimable citizens, L. Baldwin, Esq., who died in Brighton, Mass., on the 27th ult.— Identified, as he had been for many years with Savannah, actively engaged in business, dis tinguished at once for his energy of character and honesty of purpose, estimable in all tho relations of life, his death is a public loss, and should be lamented as such. We feel that these few words are but a poor offering to his j memory. The Telegraph- The Columbus Times, of the oth iust. says— “ The posts for the Telegraph wires, have reached Columbus from the East, and are up on Oglethorpe street, to the Telegraph of fice in the corner room of the Oglethorpellotel. “Mr. Crews, the superintendent of the work between this place and Montgomery arrived here last week, and informs us, that 35 miles of the route is ready for the wires. The post* are all up from New Orleans to Montgomery, and from Savannah to Macon. The entire line was to be finished by contract, on the first of January. It is now believed that it will be in oxicratiou a month earlier.” The amount of specie imported into Boston during the month of September was $322,712, and the amount exported $11,585, showing an excess of import for the mouth of $311,127* [From the Hamburg Journal, Ith m.tt.J Extract of a letter received from Capt. Braxton Bragg, of the Army, to a friend in this Dis rict: “Camp near Monterey, > August 26, 1847. 5 “ * * * An attempt was made about 2 AM., night before last, to assassinate me in i my bed. T have no clue to the perpetrator, and j can suggest no reason for the act. My escape i without injury, is regarded as almost mi* I raculous. As exaggerated accounts will pro bably reach the press, the truth may interest i you. A twelve-pound shell, heavily charged* was placed within two feet of my bed; just out* ; side of my tout, and exploded by a slow match; the fragments literally riddling my tent, arul bedding, pieces passing above and below me* some through a blanket spread over me-, and yet I was not touched. I was not awarfedhat i had an enemy in the world, and attunes* feel disposed to believe now, that it may k*vc been intended as a practical joke-, h* fool ignorant of the effect of shclL thuts csvpkv ded. Be that as it may, my esccqie* a!* most miraculous, and I prefer caps, repeating the joke. Special Notices* AUGUST V MANUFACTURING COM PANY. By order of the Board of l>ire-ctors, notice i# hereby given, that an installnkeot «C 10 per cent is required to be paid in by the Stockholders on M ed nesday, the 10th of November next. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Sec y a. m.c. Sept. 30 t ~TAXES! TAXES I POSITIVELY THE LAST NOTICE, I will attend on Tuesday the sth inst., at the Market Housej on Wednesday the 6th inst., at my Stables, on Ellis street; on Thursday the 7th inst., at U.S. Hotel,and on Friday the Bth iust.,at .& J. Nelson’s Store, to close the Digest for the present year. Hours from 11 to 1 o’clock, P. M. . * Oct. 5 R. A. WATKINS, t. r. n. c. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. CAUTION—.In setting forth the virtues of Dr. Wistar’s Balsam, we have no desire to deceive those who are laboring under affliction, nor do we wish to eulogize it more than it justly deserves. Vet when we look around and see the vast amount of suffering and distress occasioned by many of the diseases in which this medicine has proved so high ly successful, we feel that we cannot urge it* claims too strongly, or say too much in its favor. Let the public be on their guard. Other“ Balsams * and mixtures are sometimes imposed on (he unsus pecting for the genuine Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. Some for the purpose of succeeding better in their schemes,have used a part of the name of the genuine, as “Phoenix Balsam of Wild (’her- * ry,” “Balsam of,Wild Cherry, Comfrey,” Ac.’’ ‘•Syrup of Wild Cherry.” None genuine unless signed I. BUTT'S on tb« wrapper. For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail, by ! H A VILA ND. RISLEY A CO„and also by THOM | AS BARRETT & CO., and Dealer* in Medicine* j generally in Augusta. Oct. 6 3—* Lightning.’’ j During the warm Summer nights lightning may sometimes he seen to flash for hours almost with out intermission, unaccompanied by thunder. We gre also frequently conscious of the presenc* of dis i ease unattendedby its usually starting symptoms. < But there is no telling how soon the diffused elec tricity may be concentrated in a fatal flash, or the Incipient malady may reach a deadly crisis. It i* pot well to neglect eruptions, ulcers, swellings, swelling in the glands, Ac. Ac., on the ground that they are trifles. They end in agony anct death; : and as Sands’ Sarsaparilla is an acknowlc dged wto j edy for these symptoms, and for all sangqinou* di»- i eases, it is little less than sporting with danger to I neglect its early use in all such cases. For further particulars and conclusive evidence i of its superior value and efficacy, see pamphlet*, which may be obtained of agents, gratis, Prej ared and sold, wholesale and retail. A. B. A I). SAN DS, Wholesale Druggists, 100 Fulton, cor ner of William-street, New Fork. Sold also by HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO 55. ° ct *