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Arrival of the Janies L- Day-
Five Days Later News frou Vera Crnz.
Santa Anna's Summons to Col. Childs — Co/. Childs'
Reply—Bombardment of Puebla and Discomfiture
of the Mexicans—lnsubordination of Santa Anna’s
droops—Desertion o f him—His \Vlhereabouts un- i
certain—Difficulty in the .Massachusetts Regiment, j
l V r -
The steamship Jas. L. Day, Capt. O’Grady,
arrived at a late hour last night from V era i
Cruz, having sailed theuce oti the 10th inst., i
with a number of invalid soldiers. Two died
on the passage, viz: Richard Beamish, 12th
Infantry, ou the 20th inst., and Wm. Miller,
of company 3), Yoltigeurs, on the 23d,
There had been no later arrivals direct from
the city of Mexico at Vera Cruz, when the
James L. Day left. We have not even a well
authorized rumor touching Gen. Scott and his
army.
The Arco-Trls publishes communications
which have passed between Santa Anna and
Col. Childs at Puebla and they are translated
by the Genuis of Liberty. We subjoin the
correspondence*
Communications between Gen. Santa Anna and
Col Childs, at Puebla.
Headquarters—Mexican Army.
I have taken possession of this city with the
army under my command, for the purpose of
operating upon the several points fortified, and
occupied by your Excellency, and also with
the view liberating its inhabitants from the
domination of the forces of the United States
from whom they have already suffered too
much. But before commencing any operations
of a military character, I have considered it
my duty to act in obedience to the impulses
of humanity, and consequently request that
your Excellency will please evacuate this city
within a certain and peremptory space of time,
it being known to you at the same time that
you can depart with all the honors of war,
either to form a junction with Gen Scott, or
the forces of your country at Perotc, according
as it best suits your pleasure. But should this
courteous request of mine be unheeded by
your Excellency, then, although to me it is a
painful alternative, I shall commence to as
sault your positions, the consequences of which
act will be felt by your garrison, because there
exists in the vicinity of your Excellency, an
army of 8,000 men, who arc determined that
the rights of their nation shall bo maintained
and respected.
God and liberty, headquarters in Puebla,
September 25th, 1847.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE NT A ANNA.
To Senor Col. D. Thomas Childs, commander
of the U. S. Army, situated in Loreto.
Headquarters, City of Puebla, Mexico, )
September 25, 1817. 3
To his Excellency. D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, \
General-in-Chief of the Mexican Army infroul of j
this city:
Sir —I had the honor ofrecoiving, at 2 o’clock
this afternoon, your Excellency’s letter of this j
date. In it you were pleased to notify me of
the fact that you had taken possession of this |
city, for the purpose, as you declare, of res- j
toriug to the full enjoyment of their liberty its
citizens who have hitherto suffered so much
from the U. S. army. You likewise were
pleased to offer certain stipulations to this gar
rison, provided that it would, within a fixed
time, abandon the point of defence which it
now occupies. With regard to the assertion
of your Excellency, which implies that the
inhabitants of Puebla have been maltreated by
the ts. S, troops, I wholly deny it. On the
contrary, I assure you that the property and
privileges of all have been maintained, and
respected with the greatest scrupulousness,
indeed so much so has it been done, that its
parallel cannot be found in the annals of war.
And I would most willingly leave, it to the
most intelligent and impartial portion of the
population of the city to decide, from which of
the two contending parties they have received
the most injury and molestation; whether it
is from thoxr own countrymen or the troops of
the U. S.
With regard to that particular part of your
Excellency's letter w ! Icli demands the sur
render, within a fixed time, of all the positions
now occupied by the troops under my com
mand, lean only say in reply, that having
been honored with the duty of guarding and
protecting them, it is equally ray greatest wish
and paramount obligation to preserve them to
the last; and I am fully satisfied that I shall
be able to defend them successfully, inasmuch
as I have at my disposal all the resources
essential to its full and complete accomplish
ment.
With considerations in the highest degree
respectful, I have the honor to be your Ex
cellency's most obedient servant,
THOMAS CHILDS, Col. U. S. Army,
Civil and Military Governor. 1
The Arco Iris of the 13th inst. furnishes in
teresting news from Puebla, which is transla
ted to our hand by the Genius of Liberty. It
is a'fitting sequel to the above correspondence :
Puebla, 28th.—At 5 o’clock on the even
ing of yesterday, the points of San Juan de
Dios, S mta Rosa and Santa Monica com
menced a heavy cannonade upon the Ameri
can works. The latter immediately began to
throw cannon-shot, bombs and grenades into
the centre of the city, which suffered in con
sequence some considerable injury.
Don Marino del Rio, whilst standing with
his wife on the back balcony of his house, was
struck dead by a cannon ball. At about 8
o’clock, P. M. the cannonade ceased, but com
menced again at the dawn of the following
day.
Puebla, 29th. —By order of Santa Anna, a
body of troops was yesterday postted in the j
Convent of Santa Teresa, at one of the comers
of which a breastwork of cotton bales was erec
ted. Four hundred cotton bales have already
been demanded of the house of Yelasco for the
defence of the city. To prevent the comple
tion of this work the Americans from the fort
of San Jose kept up a continual fire upon the (
workmen, which being stoutly returned by j
the Mexicans, the discharge of bombs and
greuados from the American lines greatly in
creased. At this moment a considerable num
ber of private citizens went to Santa Anna,
who was at Carmen, and requested ot him a
piece of artillery,which being granted, togeth
er with a small body of men for its manage
ment, they quickly marched for the Convent
-of Santa liosa and ope no I a well directed fire
•upon the American works. Vv e were in the
greatest consternation, but night at last super- j
Veiling* everything became quiet. j
The nuns of Santa liosa were transferred in |
litters to Santa Catalina, and it is said that
the same thing will be done with those of ,
Santa Monica, although the latter are strong- I
iy opposed to leaving their monastic asylum.
Puebla, 30th. —To-day partial tranquillity
reigns in the city. Now and then can be
heard the report of a cannon, and the explo
sion of some grenades thrown in the direction
of San J nan del liio, in the rear of whose
church, Gen. Ilea last night concluded a bat
tery, with which he intends to open upon San
Jose.
Our soldiers are complaining very much,and
say that they are ready to die of hunger, not
having received anything in the shape of I
provisions for some considerable time.
The greatest enthusiasm against the Ameri- |
cans prevails throughout the entire city.
Puebla, Get. 3d.—Since Santa Anna’s de- ,
parture, the cannonading has totally slackened
off. The cotton store-house of Yclasco took
tire last night, and was 1 burnt to the ground;
and 209 bales of the same article were totally
consumed in the convent of Santo Domingo,
without any one’s being able to account tor
the mode in which they were fired. The in
habitants, hearing the ringing of bells which
announced the incendiarism, wore very much
alarmed, believeing that the Americans had
left their entrenchments, and were storming
the city.
From the same source we derive the follow
ing narrative of events subsequent to those
above detailed. Santa Anna is evidently re
duced to great straits:
The Genius of Liberty of the 13th inst., an
nounces the return of Capt. G. White, of the
Louisiana battalion and his gallant company,
from the National Bridge, whither they had !
been escorting a train of supplies for the troops
stationed at that post. He reports that all was
quiet in that neighborhood, and that the Ame
rican force was strongly fortified and well pre
pared to repel all attacks. He encountered
no guerrillas on the route. Two cr three guer
rilla scouts occasionally appeared upon the
hill tops, who, on the approach of the Ameri
cans, would quickly scamper; in pursuit of
them some few mustangs and lariats were
| taken, which arc the only trophies that can
be expected from a marauding party of guer
rillas.
The Yoz do la Patria repels with much in
dignation, the charges of treason, cowardice,
and incapacity, which have been brought
against Gen. Santa Anna. He says that cer
tain officers, unworthy of the nunc of a sol
dier, have originated and fomented discord
and disunion for their own private and selfish
ends, and finally, have consummated their
career of baseness by abandoning in the hour
of peril, that country in which they first drew
breath, and whose bread they so long had eaten.
Sqch are the Individuals, says La Yoz, who
now attribute to Gen. Santa Anna’s trason,
that want of success, a thing which is alone
due to their own cowardice and insubordina
tion.
Men of sound discrimination and correct
judgment, who have witnessed events as they
occurred, emphatically assure us, says the
editors of Lc Yoz, that the commander-in-chief
ever displayed the most heroic valor and in
domitable resolution, offering in every part in
which he presented himself a most obstinate
and sanguinary resistance to the enemy. To
every impartial mind it must be self-evident
that a man who has done so much —who has
suffered so many privations and encountered
so many perils—can be neither a trator nor a
coward.
On the Ist of the present month, Gen. Santa
Anna, at the head of 2000 cavalry and infantry
j and three pieces of artillery, sallied out of Pue-
I bla,r intending to attack the American train
: which left Jalapa on the Ist inst., and reached
I Perote on the 4th. But before arriving at
Tepeyahualco the designs of the commander
| in-chief of the Mexican forc es were wholly
frustrated, all his men, with the exception 130
hussars of his personal guard, having pro
nounced against him. As an excuse for this
| proceeding, the officers and privates alleged
that they were firmly convinced that their
further continuance at the disposal and under
1 the orders of the ex-President would only be
followed by their complete sacrilice; and that
withal, their country would not derive the
slightest benefit from it.
, They attributed the unfortunate events of
; the war, and their want of success in their bat
j ties against the invaders, to his incapacity and
unskilfulness. Even some of them loundly
j declared him :o be a trator, and consequently
to be unworthy of holding any command in
j the Mexican army.
i The greater part of these transactions trans
pired at Nopalucan.
Santa Anna having got to Tepeyahualco
with his 130 hussars, he received an order
from the Government at Queretaro directing
him to proceed thither at once with all the
troops which were at his orders. But the
general did not deem it convenient to comply
with the mandate of his government, and took
up his line of march for Oaxaca, whither by
the latest accounts he was wending his way.
He publicly declared that his intentions in go
ing to Oaxaca were to see whether he could
raise there another army, with which he might
return to renew the combat with the enemies
of the Republic.
All the letters from the interior coincide in
saying that Gen. Santa Anna, conscious of his
impotency to effect anything more either in
carrying on the war, or of adjusting the terms
of peace, is making his way towards Guate
mala, for the purpose of leaving the Republic
of Mexico forever,and that his march to Oaxaca
is only a pretext to the quiet accomplishment
of his designs.
The reports that Gen. Santa Anna was en
deavoring to reach Guatemala, and that Gen.
Scott had given him a passport to embark from
Vera Cruz if he should think it best, is denied
; by La Yoz de la Patria, a Mexican paper which
wc find extensively copied in the Arco Iris. —
He is resolved, says La Yoz, not to abandon
the cause of the country', and to continue the
war without respite upon the enemies ol Mexi
can independence and religion.
The Genius of Liberty says that Senor Pena
y Pena is discharging the duties ot President
at Queretaro. He has refused to recognize as
his associates in power, the individuals nomi
nated and appointed by Santa Anna.—
He proposes that Congress shall take upon it
self the office of electing men to- that important
and high office.
The following brief note from onr Yora Cruz
correspondent leaves us in doubt in regard to
the safety of a detachment of Texans, but we
are inclined to think they will take care of
themselves:
Yera Cruz, Oct. 18, 1847.
Great excitement was created this morning
by a number o£ reports that were put in circu
lation occasioned by the arrival of an express
from a company of Texas Rangers, announc
ing that they had been attacked about twelve
miles from this place by a large body of guer
rilla force, that they had lost one man killed
and about eighteen were missing, ffhe report
was current that the whole command, except
ing two, had been cut off, and the immediate
departure of the Rangers at full speed induced
the citizens to believe that the report was
true. Ido not apprehend that anything seri
ous will occur to this command, and I have
no doubt that the missing eighteen are safe
with their comrades ere this.
There appears to have been some difficulty
in the Massachusetts Regiment, judging from
the following order issued hy Gen. Cushing.
Wc have letters in the mail (which was not
.a.ujafflaagaaa
distributed last night,)which we presume will '
throw some light on the affair:
Headquarters, Vera Cruz. Oct. Ij, 1817.
ORDERS No. 32.
The following named men of companies —, |
—, —, Ist Regiment Massachusetts Infantry,
being inconigibly mutinous and insubordinate,
will, of course prove cowards in the hour of
danger, and they cannot be permitted to march J
with this column of the army. They are dis- j
armed and detached from the regiment, and
j will report to Brevet Major Radius for such i
; duty in the Castle of San Juan de Ulna, as may j
1 be performed by soldiers who are found un
worthy to carry arms, and are a disgrace and a
; nuisiance to the army.
Bv order of Brig. Gen. Cushing.
W. W. 11. DAVIS, A. A. D. C. I
Here follows a list of sixty-five names of the |
1 men above referred to.
Our readers will recollect the expedition un
der Capt. Wells, to the National Bridge, of j
which we published a minute account. Im
mediate-y upon returning to Vera Cruz, Capt. \
Wells demanded a court of inquiry. Thefol- !
lowing is the opinion of the court, rendered on 1
the Ist September:
Opinion of the Court. —The court are of i
opinion that Capt. AVells, 12th Infantry, could j
not have saved one ambulance and six wagons, ]
or destroyed them without a great sacrifice of
life —perhaps the destruction of his whole com
mand.
That his conduct was ofiicer-likc and ener- !
getie, and that he is not to blame for the loss
of the wagons or package of despatches.
The court of inquiry of which Lieut. Col.
Miles is president, is hereby dissolved.
By order of Col. Wilson.
(Signed,) 8.11. Arthur, Adj. Ist Inf.,
A. A. A. Gen’l. Dcp. of Vera Cruz.
The James L. Day arrived at Vera Cruz on
the 17th inst. from the Brazos. Col. Jack Hays
went over on her with the company of Capt.
Roberts of his regiment.
The Alabama had arrived at Vera Cruz from
this port.
The steamship New Orleans was at Tampi
co at last accounts, but could not get out over
tiro bar without lightering. Lighters hud been
sent from Vera Cruz to her assistance.
We find no other mention of Gen. Lane and
his command than is given incidentally in the
! narrative of affairs at Puebla. He was at Pc
j rote on the 4th inst., and wo have now no
| doubt whatever entered Puebla a very few days
j thereafter.
The Arco-Iris of the IGth inst., speaks of
the extensive preparations making at Volgara
ito despatch a train. It says there arc more
| than 4000 troops there of all arms. Their
; number leads the editor to conjecture that
! General Patterson has in view an expedition
against some State not hitherto invaded by
American arms, instead of reinforcing Gcu.
■ Scott.
| The same paper has same speculations upon
I the probable a- tion of the Congress at Quere
taro, but mentions no facts. Among other
! things it mentions that there arc those who pre
tend that the minds of the people of the interi
or have undergone a change since our occupa
tion of the city of Mexico, and that they are
dispose 1 for peace upon any terms. We have
| little faith in this.
i The Genius of Liberty of the 17th inst., gives
the following account of an expedition against
the guerrillas :
Guerrilla Expedition. —The Guerrillas
; have of late become so troublesome and dar
ing, and have gathere I in such swarms in the
chaparral and other places of ambush in the
vicinity of this city, that even the Mexican
■ farmers would not venture in to supply our
! market. In consequence of this state of affairs
| Capt. Truett with 200 mounted volunteers
; and Capt. Armstrong with 160, went out on
the morning of the 13th inst., by order of Maj.
Gen. Patterson, to scour the country and rid
it of these marauding robbers, who under the
guise of patriotism, infest it to the detriment
of the Mexicans as well as the Americans.—
According to the orders of Maj. Gen. Patter
son, Capt. Truett was to proceed to tire right
of the city in a north-westerly direction until
ho struck the Orizaba road, which he was to
follow turning to the left, while Capt. Arm
strong Avas to proceed to the left of the city in
a south-westerly direction until it struck the
same road, which he was to follow turning to
the right. The two detachments were to march
with Hankers until they met, and it will he
seen, by the arrangement, that any party, flee
ing from either of them would run a risk of
being encountered by the other.
Capt. Truett marched by Santa Fc and Ma
tagordera; he found in various places Large
quantities of arms and ammunition which he
either destroyed or carried away, and succeed
ed in killing six guerrilleros. Capt. Armstrong
went to Medelin, where there was a great num
ber of guerrilleros, but they all made their
escape, with the exception of one, who was
killed. Hc/c he found a large lot of arms and
ammunition, with some of the clothing of the
American soldiers, of which he destroyed the
greater part and carried the remainder away.
He remained at Medelin all night, rccrosscd
the river early next morning, and marched in
the direction of the Orizaba road. He pro
ceeded, however, but a short distance in that
direction when he came across the trail of a
number of shod horses; he imineniately turn
ed in the direction of the trail, and following
the tracks, soon arrived at a number of ran
chos which were all crowded with guerrilleros.
The volunteers charged upon them with their
usual impetuosity, driving them away from
every rancho with much slaughter. Six bodies
were counted lying dead in one yard. In these
ranchos were found arms in abundance, among
which were those worn by the army and navy
officers of the IT. States, but mostly Mexican
sabres and British muskets. Capts. Truett and
Armstrong returned yesterday, and the man
ner in which they conducted the expedition
was highly approved of by Maj. Gen. Patter
son.
IVe have received the above information from
an unquestionable source and the facts may be
relied upon.
A New Jersey paper thus contrasts the two
candidates for Governor in that State. “Mr.
Harris, (Dcm.) is but a second or third rate
lawyer —Mr. Wright, (Whig) is the most dis
tinguished saddler in the State.”
We begin to think the people arc raving
mad after “third rate lawyers.” Mr. Polk
was one —he was elected President over the
farmer of Ashland ! Col. Towns was another, ;
and he has defeated Duncan L. Clinch, “the
hero ofWithlacoochie,” and the ‘farmer” of
Camden or Habersham we know, not which j
perhaps both ! The people are not to be
caught by names. Give them a farmer with a I
head on his shoulders —well filled with good
Democratic principles, and his heart in the
right place, and he is their man.
The same may be said of the saddler. If he
is stuffed with good principles, heTI do- as- well t
as any body else, if he is able to ride-the Pe
gasus of State. As to Mr. Wright, inparticu- |
lar, we think some of his saddles are rather j
heavy for the southern market. —Athens Ban- j
ner.
The Weather. — We have to record the first
weather which heralds the approach of winter.
During the night before the last, there was a |
prodigious change in the thermometer—from
summer’s heat to almost winter’s cold. —Yes-
terday we had a cold leaden sky, with a wind
that seemed to come straight from Nova Scotia.
That this change may soon eventuate in a |
downfall of rain enough to moisten our streets ,
wc sincerely wish, as do those we imagine,
who have been afflicted with influenzas and 1
kindred complaints brought on by the exces- j
i sively dry and dusty weather. —Savannah lle
i publican, 28 th inst.
i
Ship Eli Whitney, Dyer, master, bound for i
this port, struck on the North end of the Hun- i
ting Island, off Beaufort, on the evening of the
26th inst., at about 10 o’clock. Capt. Dyer i
j made the light-boat off Beaufort, and mistaking
I it for the one on Martin’s Industry, ran for it,
having a look-out at the mast-head. The
: moment before the ship Struck, she was iu ten
fathoms of water, it being dead low water at
j the time. She was among the breakers not
more than ten minutes, striking heavily. Ilap
-1 pily she was got off without serious damage,
j though she leaked sufficiently to require ail
j hands at the pumps.
We are assured that Blunt’s Coast Pilot for
| 1847 takes no notice of the light-boat off Beau
j fort. Another ship-master coming to this port
I not long since, made a similar mistake, which
might have been attended with serious consc
i quences.— lb.
Ci u gust a, CD catq I a .
SATURDAY MORNDTG, OCT. 30.
I lip*Proprietors of Warehouses in this city
and Hamburg, will confer a favor on us if they
j will have the Cotton remaining on hand in
| their respective warehouses counted for us at
the close of business this afternoon.
Dcßow's Commercial Kcvicw for No
vember-
Our November Number of this valuable
j publication has not come to hand although it
j has been received in Charleston. The News of
1 that city,speaking of this Number, says—This
is one of the best of the series of this commer
cial periodical, which is rapidly increasing in
popularity. The present number contains
several valuable articles. The following is a
list of the contents :
Statistics of Southern Slave Population.
Physical and Moral Condition of the Blacks.
American Native Wines.
Resources and Progress of Texas.
Progress of American and Foreign Com
merce, Agriculture and Manufactures.
Direct Trade of Southern States with Europe,
i The Civil Law.
Illinois.
Pi’oduction and Manufacture of Wool.
Operations of the American Government
since 1789.
Sugar—Culture and Manufacture of Louisi
ana and West Indies.
The American Lakes.
Theatre.
The Company arrived last evening via
Charleston, and the Theatre will open on Mon
day Evening, with the Play of “The Hunch
back,” in which Mr. Forbes will sustain the
character of Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. Ward
that of Master Walter, Mr. Fuller as Fathom,
j Miss Clara Ellis as Julia, and Mrs. Forbes as
Helen. The after piece will be “State Secrets,”
in which Fuller, Ward, Wolfe, Miss Mitchell,
j and Miss Smith will appear. The popular
Danscuso, Miss Amclic, will make her first
appearance in a favorite Pas Soul.
The Company is said to be a good one, and
we hope Mr. Forbes will meet with a warm
greeting.
“Pay as You Cro•”
“We expect to see some honest supporter of
the Administrtion, who has a horror of na
tional debt, move early on the floor of Con
gress, to meet hereafter the expenses of the
war by a direct tax. This saddling posterity
with an enormous Debt to pay lor the amuse
j ment of those that now rejoice in the existing
| war with Mexico, is a wrong which is not to
ibe tolerated. Those that dunce should bo will
! ing to pay the music.
Mr. Polk doubtless regards a national debt
as a public blessing. Will our neighbor in
form us whether such is the creed of “the
party.” —Chronicle * Sentinel.
Wo would infer from the second and third
sentences of the above paragraph in yes
terday morning’s Chronicle , that it would be
as reasonable to expect that some honest op
: poser of the Administration would make the
proposition for a direct tax. lie would have in
| the above, good honest Whig support for it.
We understand the above to be a very clear
declaration of the Chronicle in favor of the next
| Congress enacting a bill for direct taxation.
We arc asked if the doctrine that a national
debt is a public blessing is the creed of the
democratic party. We believe that the dis
tinguished federalist and monarchist, Alex
ander Hamilton openly proclaimed that doc-
I trine. As the whiggery of 1847 espouses al
| most all, if not quite all the federal views of
I Hamilton, we arc not sure but that the whigs
■ advocate this doctrine, among others of their
extravaganzas. One thing is certain —that in
fluential whig journal, the N. Y. Courier S En
quirer, did within the last twelve months, pro
claim in its columns, that among the incidental
benefits of this Mexican war would be a na
tional debt of one hundred and fifty millions,
1 which would be a pretext for further high pro
i tective duties for the benefit of the manufac
turing interests. Yfe know of no democratic
| °
presses assuming any such ground, nor do we
know of any democrat maintaining the ab
. stract proposition that “a national debt is a
national blessing.” Those however do advo
| cate this doctrine who believe, as do the fa
j vored classes for whom protective tariffs are
j passed, that they will not called on to pay
j the debt —that it will coqic out of the pockets
of the masses of the people—and that while
■ the people will be directly paying the revenue
to the government which is to pay the nation-
I al debt, these very favored classes Avill be
i levying another tax of peril aps treble the
i amount, on the people, by means of enhanced
prices for their manufactured articles.
The national debt, patriotically incurred by
this country to defend national rights and
! honor in the last war with Great Britain, was
a very great blessing to the manufacturers of j
I this country. But this load of debt was not ,
in itself a national blessing. It proved only a j
| sectional one. The South paid three-fourths
jof it without any corresponding benefit. Still
that Avar, was, in its moral upon the
: world and its ennobling influences upon our
OAA'n people, what the present will proA r o to bo,
a great national blessing. The only portion
i of the people Avho Avere umvilling to incur the
expense of treasure and blood Averc the blue
I light federalists of Neav England and a
! fcAV kindred spirits in other States.
1 1
" iPWe like the tone and spirit of the fol- f
lowing remarks in the last Columbus Times.
They me a portion of an editorial commenting
on the recent war tidings, and upon the im
pression which the splendid victories of our
army must make upon the world. After |
touching upon the influence these great events
must have upon the European mind, and the ;
security from insult and aggression, the re
spect and honor that must accrue to us as per
manent fruits of this war, the Times gives ex
pression to the following truly American and 1
patriotic sentiments. They correspond so en
tirely with our own views that we take great
j pleasure in copying them :
“In Mexico, too, how salutary will be the i ■
effect, and how sadly has it been wanted for 1
twenty-live years past. A country whore an ,
American citizen has received no protection i
from his country’s flag, and where to travel *
securely with life and property, he has for a 1
quarter of a century, been obliged to obtain a
British passport. Will any groveling mind 1
think of the expenses of a war for such objects
as this ? Will any tail to feel taller and proud
er, at the glorious, aye,and bloody victories of
American arms, over a race that has for years
despised, insulted, contemned, and in all pos
sible ways injured us, in the persons and pro- j
perty of our citizens, and in the honor of our j
nation ?
Martial law is now proclaimed in Mexico. |
Gen. Scott has already levied a contribution \
of $150,000 on that city. This is right. Thank ■
; God, the olive branch is withdrawn —no more j
overtures to be flaunted back in our faces; no
more armistices to bo made the masks of more
than savage treachery—No more moderation j
and forbearance thrown away upon fiends, i
who after a battle is over, open their batteries |
; upon ambulances tilled with the dead and dy- j
j ing, and the surgeons and soldiers performing |
| the sad offices of humanity. The Iron heel of
| war, is to be pressed upon this unprincipled
i and faithless people, as the only argument to !
; their reasons, the solitary appeal likely to reach I
i their hearts.
We call upon the Government to pursue
the new course they have marked out with j
unrelenting energy and firmness —to cater no |
longer to the morbid sensibilities of the peace
party —to turn no ear to the complaints of
j party opposition; to-day cursing the cruelty
i of the war, to-morrow, reviling the spirit of i
i lenienc y and forbearance in which it has been
! conducted. The Government has a great Na- |
tional duty to perform. Let it do it in spite 1
1 of the maledictions of traitors or the murmers ]
and complaints of factionists and fanatics. — i
The American people will sustain the Govcm
: ment, in any degree of necessary expenditure
or preparation. They will as in N. Orleans,
| offer their “persons and their private fortunes”
to the cause if necessary; and they will crush
the men and the factious, whoever and what
ever they arc, that dare stand out in opposi
tion to the full chastisement and complete Lu
| miliation of the insolent and perfidious race
that calls Itself, the “magnanimous nation.” —
| Public honor and justice, and every conside
ration of future National well-being, demand
that at this moment, the war should be push
ed with renewed and redoubled vigor. We
say wage the war, not to “conquer a peace;
but to Conquer Mexico. When we have
j done it, we can give her that peace which her
present rulers have denied her, and which has
always been a stranger to her soul. We must
subdue, subjugate, humble her in the dust.—
The linger of Providence marks out this des
tiny. This people is chosen to do it; and that
same Providence will shape out the future to
hi? own wise and bonifleent purposes and ends. ■
“The Conquest of Mexico, is the only road ;
to peace.”
! '/'The French steamship Missouri left
New York for Havre, at 11 o’clock on Mon- j
day morning. She carries out $75,000 in spe
cie, several passengers and a considerable j
quantity of freight.
from, Suropo-
The French steamship Philadelphia, Capt.
Besson, was to have left Cherbourg, France,
on the 10th inst. for New Y’ork. She will
bring one week’s later intelligence, and was j
due on Monday.
State Agricultural Pair-
The annual meeting and fair of the State
.
Agricultural Society, will be held at Milledge
ville on Wednesday, the 17th day of Novem
| her, to which officers and delegates of the
1 country Societies and the public generally are !
invited. We subjoin a list of the committees 1
! appointed to award premiums and for other j
1 purposes:
| Committee on Staple Products —Richard
Rowell, Harper Tucker, Win. A. Jarratt.
Committee on Stock —A. A. Kenan, S. P.
Myrick, N. Hawkins.
) Committee on best Treaties for making man- |
ure, of Georgia Materials —T. Fort, 1 L. Har
| ris, Daniel R. Tucker.
: Committee on best treaties for planting and j
tilling Cotton —A. Jarratt, Sam. Buffington, '
Jr., James Dickson.
I Committee for best treatise on planting and
1 cultivating Corn —S. Grantland, Benj. S.
Jordon, H. V. Johnson.
ladies’ department.
Committee for making the awards to the
manufactures of the Ladies—Green H. Jordan, j
John 11. Brown, George Murph.
Committee on Manufactures and Agricuku- i
| ral Improvements —John S. Thomas, O. 11. P. j
Bonner, George D. Case.
Committee of Arrangements, whoso duty it
will be to select and have prepared a suitable 1
site for the exhibition of the Fair, &c., &c. —M. ;
J. Kenan, R. 11. Ramsay, Wm. 11. Scott,
i Committee to confer with the authorities of
the State Association, to secure the services of
a suitable orator on the occasion—M. Grieve, |
Dr. John R. Cotting, Rev. S. K. Talmagc.
Persons competing for the premiums on
Treatises, arc requested to hand their produc
tions to the first named committeeman in the
' respective departments for which they con- i
tend, at least eight days previous to the Fair, |
; that the committee may have time to bestow
that attention upon them it is believed their
importance will merit, and that they may be
prepared to report at the time the other awards j
are made. A. W. REDDING,
R. M. ORME,
M. GRIEVE,
I. L. HARRIS,
Committee of Arrangements.
Departure of Troops-
The Mobile Advertiser of 25th inst., says—
“ThcU. S. steamers Fashion, and Col. Stanton,
! arrived at this port on. Saturday evening from
| New Orleans, and sailed again yesterday for
Vera Cruz, with ninety four men. and horses
on hoard, being a portion of the Georgia bat
talion of Cavalry.
“The remainder of the battalion we learn,
will leave during the present week. The
New Orleans papers state that the Beaufort
District and the Galveston steamers, have been
| chartered by the Government, for the purpose,
and mav be expected here in a day or two.”
i
The Chrand Lodjc
The Macon Journal & Messenger of tho 27th
inst. says—“ The Grand Lodge of Georgia
opened its annual communication yesterday in
this city, R. W. John Hunter and A. Benton,
Deputy Grand Masters, presiding. M. W,
Grand Master W. C. Dawson was detained by
important business at Jasper Superior Court,
but is expected to arrive to-day. There is
present, we learn, a very general representa
tion of Subordinate Lodges, now numbering
over sixty in the State.
“To-morrow at 11 o’clock, A. M. an address
will be delivered before the Grand Lodge at
the Presbyterian Church, by R, D. Arnold,
M. D. of Savannah, a gentleman of decided
talent and deserved reputation. In the after
noon, it is expected that a monument will be
erected with the usual Masonic ceremonies by
tho order to, the memory of our late and la
mented fellow-citizen, Dr. Ambrose Baber.—
ibe procession will probably move from the
Masonic Hall, to the Cemetery about half-past
2 o’clock.”
New York and New Jersey-
The New York election takes place on Mon
day next, tho Ist proximo. It is the first
election for State officers under the new con
stitution and possesses unusual interest. The
democrats, whigs, anti-renters, national re
formers, and all parties, except natives, are in
the field with separate tickets. In the great
democratic party there is a rupture.
The New Jersey election takes place, under
the new constitution, on Tuesday next, and
lasts, wc believe, but one day. Daniel Haines
is the democratic and Wm. Wright the whig
cauuidate for Governor.
Mr. Louis F. Tasistro, who left Washington
yesterday morning in the Southern mail-boat,
has, it is said, carried but important despatch
es from the State Department to General Scott
—probably in reference to the course to be
pursued by the latter in the event of any offer
of peace being made by Mexico. —Alexandria
Gazette.
Manifest Destiny.—Tho Rev. Geo. White,
who it will be recollected is engaged in com
piling the Statistics of Georgia, in a recent
| discourse in Savannah, relates the following
remarkable and beautiful incident in regard to
; the old ship Constitution, which boro our flag
1 so proudly in the last war with Great, Britain.
“The timbers of this vessel were cut out in
! the woods of Georgia, and it can be vouched
for by the most satisfactory evidence, that at
tho time when the people of tho United States
wore rejoicing over the victories of the Consti
tution, a laurrel (emblem of victory) was seen
to spring up in the crevice of a stump, the re
mains of a tree from which some of her tim
bers were cut, and which finally grew to the
height of 14 feet !”
We should like to know of the Reverend
gentleman, if the laurel is “still there?” Or
I did it wither and die when “old Iron Sides’’
was cut up into barouches and wa king sticks ?
—Athens Banner.
WBjarar ' i tnii nn' 11 m u n iiti i■i wn
MARRIED.
At Charleston, on the evening of the 26th
inst., by the Rev. Dr. Smyth, Dr. J. W.
| Spear, of this city, to Miss M. A., eldest
daughter of James Stillman, Esq., of Charles
-1 ton, S. C.
DIED,
In this city, on the 21st inst., Mrs. Ellen Har
riet Bull, wife of A. G. Bull, and daughter of
| William and Martha Micou, in the 34th year of
! her age.
In tiie death rs this intelligent, amiable and
Christian lady, a numerous circle of relatives and
friends are called to mourn the loss of one whoso
; generosity and noble disinterestedness excited, at
| ail times, their warmest affection and most devot
j ed love—and the Episcopal Church, of which she
was for many years a devout communicant, parts
with a bright and shining light.
The pleasing recollection of the sweet compo
sure. and calm resignation with which she viewed
the King of Terrors in his approach, and the Chris
| tian faith and hope which cheered her, even when
i entering the gloomy vale, affords solid and substan
tial comfort to those who mourn her untimely end,
for
“Sweet is the scene where virtue dies.
Where sinks the pious soul to rest.”
Co in m e r t ia I.
CHARLESTON,Oct.29. — Cotton. —The Upland
market yesterday continued in a languid state,
I buyers evincing no disposition to operate freely.
1 The sales amounted to 532 bates at prices ranging
, from 8 a {R, principally
1 qualities.
Rice. —A free demand, with firm prices, continue
to rule the market. A prime lot of 1509 bids, wai
taken yesterday for the French market at $4.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
! Sy Magnetic Telegraph-
NEW YORK, Oct. 26—8 P. M.
The flour market is firm, with a good Eastern
! and home demand—sales of Genesee at $6.56 a
i $6,62, and Southern $5,68 a $6.75. Corn meal
i quiet. The general feeling in flour is rather bet
i ter. Receipts comparatively light.
Holders of wheat are firm, but buyers do not
! seem much disposed to meet them. A sale 012500-
bushels prime Genesee at 147 cts; red is worth 130
a 135 cts; mixed 140 cents.
Sales of mixed Corn at 73 cts. and yellow do. 75c.
—about 20,000 bushels taken, and in steady de
mand. Oats 48 a49 cts., and in good request; Rye
| 93 a 91 cts.
The Cotton market remains heavy and prices
i in favor of buyers. About 1200 bales sold.
WETUMPKA, (A laT)Oc t? 26.— Cotton.—Bj the
arrival of the steamer Cambria, 16 days later
from Liverpool, news of a decline of I} cent has
been received here, which consequently caused a
sudden depression in this market. Some few
bales have been disposed of by planters in this
market since this arrival, and we would not be
jus titled in giving quotations higher than from to
71 cents.
Slipping Jutelligntcf.
ARRIVAL FROM SAVANNAH.
Brig Savannah, Dixon, New York.
MEMORANDA.
The ship Europe, Mercier, for Charleston, old
at New York 26th iust.
The ship Sutton, Galloway, for Charleston, sail
ed from New York 26th inst.
The line ships South Carolina, Hamilton, to clear
30th; Columbia,Galloway,to clear 26th. for Charles
ton. were advertised at New York on the 25th inst.
The ship Ontario, from New York, for Charles
ton, was spoken 23d inst. 60 miles from the Hook.
2 days out.
The brigs Emma. Dickinsoa. to-sail 26fh inst., for
Charleston, and the Thomas Walter, Marsbrnan,
with despatch, were up at Philadelphia 25th inst-
CHARLESTON, Oct. 29.—Arc. ship Sullivan,
N. York; brig Souther, Mayo, Boston; schr. Choc
taw,Blake well, New Bedford; schr. Three Sisters,
Sanders, Newport, (R. 1.;) schr. Orion, \\ ass,New
London.
In the Roads—ship llaidee, Soule, Boston.
Cld, ship 11. Allen, Campbell. New York; bm«
Emily, Robinson, New \ork; Emma, Hughes, Li* l
timore. .
SAVANNAH. Oct. 28.—Arr. ship Eh Vi hitney,
Dver. Boston; brig Macon, Hoey, New York, a
G. J. Jones, Look, New York, 4 day?
steamer Jno. Randolph, Phil pot, Augusta.
Departed, steamer John Randolph, Philpot. -
gusta.