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[From Graham's Muganne, 131Q.J |
S?irit-Yearamg r s for Love,
r» ur.i. h. Mvßio.s >t*rd.
Leva mo, darling, lova me, for my wild and wayward i
heart.
Like Noah’s dove in searsh of rest, will hover where
thou art;
Will linger round tfaaa, like a spoil, till by thy hand ca
ressed.
It fold* it* weary, sare-worn wings, to nestis on thy
brea.t.
I
Love me, dvlinf, Gve me J When my sou! was sick
with strife,
Tby soothing words have beon tho sun that warmed it
into life ;
Thy breath called forth the passion-flowers, that slum
bered ’neath the ice
Os «slf distrust, and now their balm ntakos earth a Para
dise.
Love me, darling, love mo Let tby dreams be all of me ; |
Let waking thoughts bo round my pa h, as mine vv.ll
cling to thee !
Bat if -oh. Gad 1 U cannot be—but if thou shouldsl grow '
cold
And weary of my joalou* love, or think it ovar-boid—
Or If, perchance, some fairer lornt should charm thy ;
truant eye,
Thou’lt find me woman—proud and calm, so leave me— i
let me die.
I’d not reclaim a wavering heart whoso pulse has one.
grown cold,
To writ* my name in princely halls, with diamonds and
gold
So love me, only love me, for I have no world but thee,
And darksome cloud* are in my sky-—’tt* a wuman’*
destiny ,
Bet let them frown —l heed them not—no fear can they '
impart,
If thou art near, with smile* to bend hope’s rainbow
round my heart.
BY OLR PONY EXPRESS.
M HOURS IN ADVANCE OF THE MATE. I
I
Maj. AV. AV. S. Bliss, the accomplished Ad- i
Jutant and Inspector General of the Army ol I
Occupation under Gen. Taylo , passed through I
Mobile on the 11th last., on his way to Wash- j
ington. A public dinner was tendered to him ’
by the cit zens of Mobile, which he declined
on account of the limited time allowed him to j
• ▼isithis family and friends at the north, from :
whom he had been absent soma time.
[ From tho -V. O. Picayune, 11 th inst.]
Prom the Rio Grande-
AVo have before us the American Flag of the
SOlh ult. The most important affair wc find
In it are the measures of Capt. Chapman, the !
U. S. Quartermaster at Matamoros, for the en
forcement of the new financial policy of our [
Government in Mexico. The following are !
the orders issued:
Matamoros, Mexico, Dec. 27. 1317.
Sir —I have the honor to enclose herewith
f.»rthe informition and guidance of tho Msxi- 1
can civil authorities of Matamoros the follow- I
ing papers:
1. A letter from the Secretary of War of the
fnited States upon the subject of military |
contributions.
2. An order from Col. Davenport, civil and
military governor of this city, appointing me
collector of internal customs.
3. My circular of this date on the same sub
ject.
You will percciva from these documents
that the revenue must not only be collected,
but all disbursements made by me.
All the customary expenses of the city—for
the support of public schools, for cleaning the
streets, for an efficient police, for maintaining
the prisons,&c., Sec. will be promptly and cheer
fully paid.
I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient
servant,
AV.AV. CHAPMAN, Capt. XL S. Army.
Licenciado Don. Francisco Valdez, President
Ayuntaraicnto de Matamoros.
War Department, }
Washington, Nov. 17, 1347. $
<si r herewith, transmit to you an order!
made by the President, dated the 26th inst., j
requiring the collection of an export duty on j
gold and silver, and, whenever it is practicable, |
all internal taxes of every description, whether
upon persons or property, exacted by the Gov
ernment of Mexico, or by’ any Department,
town, or city thereof, to be collected by our
military officers in possession, except transit
duty referred to in said order.
You will take proper measures and give the
necessary directions to carry this order into
«tDct to the utmost practical extent.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
W. L. MAROY, Secretary of War.
Major Gen. W. Scon.
UtADavAETT-RS, Matamoros, Dec. 24, 1347.
ORDERS NO. 173.
1. Cant. AT. W. Chapman, assistant quar
termaster of the L. S. Army, is hereby ap
pointed collector, to carry into c.Tect at Mata- j
moros the order of the President of the united .
States of tho 16th November inst., respecting i
military contributions. These instructions, of I
which due notice will be given for the infor
mation of all concerned, will bo put in force
on the Ist of January next.
2. Capt. Chapman will collect “all internal
taxes of every description, whether upon per
•ons or property, enacted by the Government !
of Mexico, or by any Department, town, or
city thereof,” according to tho Mexican tariff
as it existed before the war. That tariff and
the schedule of the Secretary of the Treasury '
of the 16th ult., approved by the President,!
will be his guide in the performance of the I
duties imposed by this order. By order of j
Col. Davenport.
EUG. E. McLEAN, A. A. A. G.
(circular.)
Matamoros, Dec. 27, 1547.
1. All internal taxes of every description,
whether upon persons or property, which were
collected by the authorities of Matamoros be
fore the \var between the United States j
and Mexico, either for the revenue of the Mex- '
ican Government, for the State ofTamaulipas,
of the city of Matamoros, will from and after
the first day of January, IS4B, be paid to the
undersigned, at the Quartermaster’s Olfice,
corner of Bravo and Morelos streets.
2. All owners of manufactures or produce of
the country, of every kind, coming from the
interior, will immediately on their arrival at
Matamoros report at the Quartermaster's Of
fice, that their goods or produce may be exam
ined and the taxes on.the same collected. •
3. Anv person failing to report as above, or
, ~.g^ SS rr ; rr lf:
refusing to pay the taxes, shall not only for- •
felt his goods or produce, but shall be liable to j
fine and imprisonment.
4. Any sale of the right to use the ferries
in the jurisdiction of Matamoros, or the pri- j
vileges of renting out the market, which may !
have been made by the city council, will be
annulled on the 31st day of this month, and a
new sale will take place on that day, at 11
o’clock, A. M., in the principal plaza.
5. The owners of all stores, groceries, bil
liard tables, hotels, c-atiag houses, gambling
houses, bakeries, brick yards, cock pits, man
ufactories of liquors, whether Americans, Mex
icans or foreigners, will pay, at mv oifice, be
tween the Ist and sih of each month, the taxes
on their respective establishments.
G. The taxes on real estate, and the poll tax
and all other taxes and fines not mentioned
above, will be collected by my agents, whose
names will be made public as soon as thei aie
appointed.
W. W. CHAPMAN, Capt. U. S. A.
Collector of Internal Customs.
Prom Central America
The schooner Exit, Capt. Ifalny, arrived at
this port yesterday from Belize, Honduras,
having sailed thence on the 12th of December.
By her we hare letters and papers to her dav !
of sailing. The Exit left no American vessel !
in port.
From the Honduras Observer wc copy the
following passage.
AVe have received letters and papers from
the interior down to the 3d inst., and are
pleased to find that the country ia in a pacific
state and that prosperity generally prevails.
Commissioners have been nominated to meet
at the diet of Nacaome, for the regulation of j
foreign affairs.
In Honduras thcAsscmbly had been install
ed, and a special one had been decreed for !
the consideration of the same subject that will '
occupy the diet. As we expected, all the
proclamations and protestations of assisting :
Mexico against the United States have ended
in—doing nothing.
There had been some differences between
Leon and Grenada, but they were immediately
suppressed.
There had been some riots in San Salvador,
in tho district of Sacatccoluca, about the plant
ing of tobacco. The election for the new Prc- ■
aident is spoken of and there appears to be
several candidates.
The following circular to the States of Nica
ragua and Honduras, has been addressed to
the principal Secretary of the Supreme Gov- I
eminent of tho»c States respectively, hv H.
B. M. Consul General, resident in Gusto- '
; mala:
British Consulate General, )
Guatemala, Nov, 15, 1847. )
Sir— The note which you addressed to me '
l on the —of October last, shall be laid before I
j Her Britannic Majesty's Government.
Having at different times explained the er
: ror, which the Supreme Government of
! entertains, respecting the rights and position of
Mosquito, as an independent Nation, I should
1 not have deemed it necessary to recur to the
| subject, except for the importance of remind
| ing your Supreme Government, that no iutel
i ligible ground has at any time been stated by i
I the Central American Slates, for denying the I
I existence of the Musquito Territory.
The position assumed by your Government
1 rests on a supposed hereditary right derived
i from Spain, to whom it is alleged, as I under
stand, the Musquito Territory formerly be- |
| longed, as a part of the Spanish possessions in
; America, it being assumed that the act of ex- i
j polling Spain from this continent has confer- ;
| red upon the States who expelled her all the
i sovereignty and rights which Spain is consid
! erect to have enjoyed in it.
On an impartial consideration of this ques- ;
' tion, I am convinced that your Supreme G jv
| eminent will perceive the fallacy of such rea
| zoning, and admit that no State can justlv
I claim to inherit rights or territories from a ua- !
i tion, which does not even recognise its polici-
I cal existence. I have, &c.
(Signed) FREDK. CHATFIELD.
AVe append a letter fram our correspondent
at the Belize;
[Special Correspondence of the Picayune J
Belize, Honduras, Dec. 12, 1547.
Gentlemen —In accordance with my promise
when in your city, I now wish to inform vou
of our state and condition in Belize. Fast,
the sickly season has nearly passed, and wc
have as yet entirely escaped our usual epidem
ics. Trade is unusually dull, owing to the
low price of our staple commodity ( mahoga
ny) in England. Money is exceedingly scarce,
and until mahogany rises in England,is likely
to continue so. I refer you to a portion of a j
treaty made by the Belgian Minister at Gua
temala on the part of the King of tho Belgians :
and the Secretary of State and the President :
of the Republic of Guatemala, which, it rati- :
tied and carried into effect on the part of the !
Belgians, will completely revolutionize the ■
business arrangements between Guatemala .
■ and this port. All English and American i
i merchandise for Guatemala are shipped to this '
port, and sent in small vessels from tuis to
Yazabcl and so across the country. Should
this treaty go into operation, and bo properly
conducted by competent persons, it will com- i
pletcly use up Beiizo and be the making of
the settlement of Santa Tomos, in the Guif of I
Dulce. Much anxiety is felt among the En
glish and Scotch houses here, who are all look
ing to and fearing the result. Things remain
peaceable and quiet in Guatemala. The pre
sent administration seems to grow in favor
and strength daily.
The extensive failures in England will se
riously aifect the indigo and cochineal mer
chants of Guatemala; they ship their crops to
England and draw the proceeds. Many of
these drafts arc now coming back unaccepted
and unpaid when accepted. This state of as-
I fairs has caused wide spread and great alarm
among all parties interested in those articles.
I must break off, as the captain is at my elbow,
and 13 bidding me good-bye. Yours, &c.
MOBILE, Jan. 11, P. M. —Cotton . — To-day we
received telegraphic despatches of The foreign
news per Caledonia, advising of a decline of £ a
per lb. in the Liverpool market, with light sales.
This caused prices here to sink about £c, leaving
middling cottons at G.j a —c. —sales of tiie day 1500
bales, a small portion taken before the arrival of
the mail. There was a continued good demand
throughout the day, but factors generally were
not willing to sell under old rates, preferring to
await fuller account*. A fair badness was done
on the two previous days at our last quotations.
Sales the three days about 5500 bales—£soo on
Saturday, 1500 on Monday, and 1500 to-day.
Exchange. —Within the past few days there has
been an increase of business, embracing all descrip
tions. We quote bills on London 7ah prem , and
on Baris 5,15 ; New York GO days 2 a 24 dis., and
sight A a 1 prera.
Freights. —The engagements since our last re
port have been a ship tor Liverpool at <Jd, one for
Hamburg at £d, one tor Trieste at 15-I6c, and one
for Havre at ic. To New York the rate is firm at
A cent.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10. P. M.~ Cotton. Al
though there was time for the Caledonia’s news to
hare been in town, though it has not arri- j
red, there was an active inquiry for Cotton, which
tesulted in the sale as 6,000 bales at very full pri
ce* —say middling to good middling at Gi| a '
The purchasers were chiefly for the North, Spaiu
and the Continent.
Sugar. —The demand has been active, and the
sales amount to 800 hods taken principally for the
West. The prices have been stiff at 3£ a 4£c for
fair.
Molasses. — A.n active demand has nearly clear
ed the Levee at 17| a Idc for a prime article.
?*ales 2000 bblv ' -
'''«!»'■ rv. r.vr; t '.._*-»TWSgT~ ig vr v. .a
Flour. —Tie _ayrket^ki§Jfee«n. Iw*uet, 1 w*uet, y«i we (
have io noiice the »aie ol 800 bbis. Ohio at £5 50 ; |
3100 bids. pt *5 55, deliverable alongside die ship ;
at Laffiveae. and 580 bbis. also deliverable along- j
Isi Je at 55
Co-71— -Saie* 3000 sacks White at 55c ; 1,-100
sacks Yellow stole, and 1000 While at 58c.
La^d. —There is a heavy stock oa the market,
a id purchasers have succeeded in establishing a
decline ol • a ijc. We notice the sale of 122 bbls.
! strictly prime at 6|c; 2?y at 6£cj 40 tierces Steam
1 Lard at fv|c and 333 hbls. at cqc.
Wilts*a. —so b bis. Rectified 8 per cent, prool, 1
were sold at 1 L*c.
Freight. —A -ship was laid on for Liverpool with
half a cargo at Ad for Colton.
[ Fron (he Washington Cnlon li'i i s.' ]
Mr. Calhoun’s Policy—A Defensive Line.
We have now, in Mr. Calhoun's late speech,
(pubihhfd in yesterday’s Union, and which
appears in our country paper of to-day,) the
whole philosophy of this plan of Mexican
policy,in so far as it is yet matured in the mind
us its author and advocate. Wc say of its author
and advocate, because, in his view of the sub
ject, Mr Calhoun stands,as we suppose, almost,
; if not altogether alone. Os all bur statesmen ’
most familiar with our affairs in Mexico, and 1
especially of aU our most distinguished u;ticors I
now there or recently returned, not one, so far
| as .ve can learn,apnroves of Mr. Calhoun’s sug
gestion. Indeed, though Mr. Calhoun scorns
to have said all that he now has to say upon
j the subject, his suggestion is not yet in a shops
definite enough safety to command the approval
of anybody. Avowing that our people are ir
revocably resolved upon having indemnity
t’lom Mexico, he wants a line to be taken and
I held, not by treaty, but by armed force, and
vet subject to negotiation. lie carefully avoids
intimating what line. He declines to describe
the process, the expense, the practicability, or
the peril of holding it. He declines even to
predict that his plan will ever bring, much less
hasten, the negotiations, w hich, at great cost,
he would yet sit down, and await! He gives
• no heed to the great probability that the “old
■ Gothic” obstinancy of Mexico; feeling that she
has us every way at an. advantage when we
thus sit do ton, far from home, to bandy frowns
and show clenched fists with her across a line,
may, instead of negotiating, elect (fin congres
sional parlance) "to at us out!” Yet such .
considerations, amid a thousand other practical
j difficulties, must come up in the “committee” .
| of senators which Mr. Calhoun proposes to j
raise, when they assemble, maps and compasses
I hi hand, to draw the line of indemnity along
which our bayonets are to bristle till they
I rust!
To that committee must go the further and
; capital consideration that Mr. Calhoun’s policy ,
■ »n neither peace nor tear. It has not the essential
element of peace, which is security. It has not
the essential element of war, which is action, i
! It is a sort of half-breed, hybrid hostility , in
i volving the danger and cost of war, without
i its force or its glory. It is a perpetual challenge
to concentrate hostile attack, put forth to secure |
peace and possession, by a force which must be
weak, because it must straggle along an enemy
line of a thousand miles! As a means of com
| polling negotiations, this line-policy is the
presence in an enemy's country of an army
\ chained by the foot! In Air. Calhoun’s repeated
j phrase,(now qualified by an additional epithet.) ,
i it is "idle” as well as "masterly inactivity” ap
! plied to the prosecution of a demand, and to ;
: the enforcement of a claim. So applied, “in
activity,” however “masterly” in its way, is
indeed "idle,” in more senses than one. When
Sir Janies Mackintosh first used this too famous
phrase of "wise an 1 masterly inactivity—"as
lie did in his "Vindicice Gallicce, in defending,
against Burke’s declamation, the obstinate re
fusal of the French representatives of the Tiers
Etat to enter upon tiie work of legislation till
thev could be organized in o/»<: and the same
| legislative body with the Nobles and the Clergy 1
—wc venture to say that that distinguished
! statesman would have heard, with utter aston
ishment, even of the possibility of any such
I mistaken application of his words, as now and
heretofore has been introduced into the interna
tional politics of America. Mr. Calhoun would
! now raise a committee to apply this his (may
wc £ot say:) fixed idea to the conduct of an In- '
visive war! Why limit his committee to the
j difficult doing of so bad a business? Why not
j en’argc their instructions to comprehend the
■ whole question, of the best mode of securing
through war a dual, active, an I honorable, and
not a mere dumb show of war —the attainment
; of a just and honorable peace—based, as the
peace of nations only can properly be based,
upon the faith of treaty stipulations? Such a |
! course, we have no doubt, will be the counsel ;
! of the high military experience and skill which
Mr. Calhoun would have his committee con-
I suit.
j With these impressions of the nature of Mr.
Calhoun’s plan to meet the present emergency,
we come next to his most extraordinary state- i
ment of the particular object and result, which
he is sure it must accomplished, and in view
of which he mainly commends and urges it.
That result is our "disentanglement” from our
present dhtmbed and hostile relations with
; Mexico. In the closing lines of his speech,
! repeating and emphasising the point which
: runs through the entire scope of his argument,
| he says:
•Tt it (the defensive line) should be for
j innately adopted, we may not get peace imtnc
i diatelg. The war may continue for some years;
* but wc will accomplish that all-important consider
\ at ion, xur. extrication of owns elves and the
COUNTRY FROM ENTANOLENCNT WITH MEXICO.”
Disentanglement ! We are to run a long
| line right,thorugh the enemy’s country, no- i
body yet knows where—we are to hold that ]
i line by an armed force, against her consent
and without a treaty, nobody knows how '
long —we arc to put an adequate force upon
it, nobody knows how large—we are to repel
ail her attacks to be made, nobody knows on
what points, or with what power, or how of
ten; and in this posture of affairs, looking to
permanency certainly, and perhaps to perpetui
ty—while we thus stand sword in hand stretch
ed along this line in the enemy’s country,with
j the enemy m
I and near to assail us,and we ah me time Md”’! - •
ing still, avowedly awaiting, as tnO case may
be, either his negotiations or his onset, — we are j
to be told that ail this is, forsooth, a DISEN
TANGLEMENT of our difficult n-lations with
Mexico! A claim for indemnity not liqui- i
1 dated—a seizure of territory in satisf action of
that claim —the expense of its armed occupa
tion constantly accruing and entering into
| the same outstanding account of indemnity—
a guerrilla war, or some greater war, raging
1 along the frontier —new attacks, and insults, ;
I and wrath arising every day—no treaty made ;
—and hostilities and negotiations all the time i
I and at the same time waited for, in the same i
obstinate inaction; —if this be international ■
j “disentanglement,” then we humbly submit
: that civilized nations ought to entangle their
relations in some form or other without de
i lay ! And yet —mark the fact—this state of
things is the very kind of ‘ 1 disentanglement'
j which Mr. Calhoun’s policy seeks as its pro
fessed object —coolly contemplates 2? almost
certain to last "for some years” —and finally
felicitates itself upon achieving, a* an “ all im
-1 portant consideration” —as the best thing, in
j fact, that the favorite line-policy can come to I
All this is surely very new and strange as a
method of policy between nations, either in
; peace or in war. Yet Mr. Calhoun claims to
speak in the spirit of the “old associations” !
which surrounded the outset of his public life.
The editor of this journal can go back with j
• him to that time, and has, perhaps, in view of
all that has past within* the last few months,
jut 1*63 reason than Mx. Calhoun himself to (
fWirrrrT-iTT- —wgjac.ajarirarrsi.itag*-
invoke the charm and power of those “old as
sociations” to soften down the asperity which
present political differences may have caused,
and well-known proceedings of recent date
have recorded. Yet, among the “old as- :
sociations” which belong to the period to
which Mr. Calhoun refers —the period of “Mr.
Madison’s war,” in the policy of which Mr. !
Calhoun bore so distinguished a part —we find
,no plan of an indemnity line. We had then a
| claim upon England for indemnity—we had
even an invasion of her territory—we had de
lay aa 1 difficulty in our negotiations. But we
did by no means think it worth our while at
! that time to have any “idle and masterly in
activity.” And we never dreamed of standing
stock still, with arms in our hands, to wait
for a treaty ! The mode of “disentanglement”
had not }ct come into vogue.
But, besides this, his peculiar notion of
i disentanglement, Mr. Calhoun urges us now u>
betake ourselves to inaction, t;n the ground
that if wc go on with the war, ue shall cer
tainly conquer our enemy, and liave her pow
erless on our hands ! This, again, belongs to
a new school of argumentation as to the con
duct of international controversies on the bat
! tle-iield. It is success which we must dread,
and which our arms are to avoid—and this
because success adequate to enforce an ac
knowledgment and satisfaction of our claim
must ho says) lead to the extinction of
Mexican nationality, and her incorporation
m so i.e form into our Union, against our ex
pressed policy and design. Is there any proof
of this ? lias Mexico shown herself so w ill
ing to extinguish her nationality ? Is any
such facility 01 self-annihilation a characteris
tic. of her “old Gothic” blood r W hen a war,
of which tier nation lias as yet felt only the
shame of defeat, and not its burdens, has al
ready constrained her to the nagotiations had
with Mr. Trist, is it so clear that war, in ics
full pressure upon her, will not yet incline her
to negotiate justly, and so keep her nationali
ty ! With no better alternative than Mr.
Calhoun’s plan before us, is not the chance of
this worth the trial to u people convinced of
the justice of their cause, and so “irrevocably
resolved” on obtaining indemnity !
'J , •
But suppose it otherwise, and that our war
prostrates the nationality of Mexico, and thus
(as the phrase is) throws her on our hands.
r l his is 110 purpose of our government —which,
; indeed, entertains and avows a directly op
posite purpose. Yet, if it should so turn out,
here is Mr. Calhoun’s own views of the con
sequences, painted, we are bound of course to
i believe, in the darkest colors which to his
judgement the case admits:
“I come now to the proposition of incorpo
rating her into our Union. Well, as far as
1 law is concerned, that is easy. You can es
j tablished a Territorial government for every'
State in Mexico, and there are some twenty of
them. You can appoint governors, judges,
and magistrates. You can give the people a
i subordinate government allowing them to le
gislate for themselves, whilst you defray the
cost. So far as law goes, the thing is done.”
Why, in the case here supposed, (a case the
occurrence of which our government neither
expects nor desires,) wc should defray the ex
pense of governing Mexico, docs not appear,
and cannot be made to appear, unless it be
shown that Mexico has iv*t and cannot pro
: duce enough to defray that expense. But ta
king the above statement, with this exception,
just ns it stands —and remembering that our
work in the premises is the government or
regulation of the governing class, which alone
has any* share in the politics of Mexico, and
which, the country through, does not amount
to more than onc-tcnth of her population—
and remembering, too, that this is, on Mr.
Calhoun’s own showing, the very worst that
can come of a successful war on our part —wo
ask our readers to compare the above state
ment of what is Mr. Calhoun’s horror, with
the view' wc have just given of that permanent
“ disentanglement ” of the two nations which he
proposes as his most cherished object. In the
dire necessity which he supposes —our indem
nity stubbornly and to the last refused —out-
rights, and interests, and character, alike staked
■ on its enforcement—and no alternative left us
but the government of Mexico, or a fierce and
murderous border war permanently raging along
the whole length of a defensive line—wc leave
our readers to determine which course of the
two i» the safest, the most statesmanlike, the
most worthy of our national character, the
most in harmony with the progress of civili
zation. In our judgment, however, we arc not
to be forced, if wc prosecute the war as the
President proposes, to the .adoption of either
of these extreme and objectionable alterna
tives.
But the money—Mr. Calhoun says we can
not get the money to carry on the war. We
have already noticed that he said so in the
! last Congress. Wc have also stated that our
information of the prospects of the govern
j ment in this matter is .as much at variance
with Mr. Calhoun’s present convictions as it
was when, in his former speech, he placed
policy and his advice on the same ground.—
Bur, passing by all this, wc reply to Mr. Cal
houn’s financial doubt and despondency, in
hia own emphatic language—that the Ameri
can people arc "irrevocably resolved ” upon ob
taining indemnity from Mexico. This settles
the doubt both as to money and as to men, if
the representatives of the people carry out the
will of their constituents. We do not even
insist, in relation to this point, upon the very
‘ considerable contributions for the support of
the war which its vigorous prosecution may
procure from Mexico herself, while the Ine,
policy must fail to procure the first dollar.—
! To re-state, in other terms, the argument on
this branch of the case, as presented in the
Message, in the report from the War Depart
ment, and in the report from the Treasury,
would only impair its force. This argument
Mr. Calhoun has wisely left, not unanswered
only, but absolutely untouched.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
As Clear as Mud
We publish below two letters from General
Taylor, written on the same day., in reply to
‘ an q Democratic Presidential nomina
; lions T‘- is ia re P l , v to »
I nomination by tno wiup. G- cene count.,
| Pennsylvania, and is as follows :
Headquarters, Army or Occupation, )
Brazos Island, Texas, Nor. £5, ISI7. j
Dear Sir ; I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your favor of the 3th October,
conveying to me a copy of the proceedings of
a meeting of my Whig friends at Waynes
| burg, Pa.
I have road the resolutions adopted by the
meeting with great pride and pleasure, and I
beg you to convey to the members of the meet
: ing, on a suitable occasion, my thanks for the
distinguished honor they have so flatteringly
bestowed upon me, and my assurance that I
have no wish or intention of changing the po
sition in which I stand towards the people of
the country in relation to the Presidency, or the
course w'hich I have felt it my duty to pursue.
I remain, derasir. with the highest respect,
Your most obedient servant,
Z . TAYLOR,
Maj. Gen. U, S. Army,
Hon. Andrew* Stewart, Uniontown, Pa.
We follow it up with the old General’s re
ply to a Democratic nomination in the same
State :
Headquarters, Army o f Occupation, )
Brazos Island, Texas, Not. 25, 1847. >
Dear Sir: I take great pleasure in acknow
ledging the receipt of your favor of the 9th
October, enclosing to me a copy of the pro
ceedings of the Democratic Taylor State Con
vention, winch assembled at Harrisburg, Perm
gylvania. j ,
The resolutions of the meeting have given me
great pleasure and satisfaction, as the expression
of high respect and consideration, from the
i people of Pennsylvania; and I embrace the j
earliest moment to acknowledge my warm apprs- j
1 elation of the high honor thus bestowed upon me
by their nomination of me for the Presidency.
To yourself, I w ould not fail to express my }
thankfulness for the very courteous and ac- |
ceptabln manner in which you have conveyed j
to me the proceedings of the Convention.
! 1 remain, dear sir, with high respect.
Your most obedient Servant,
Z. TAYLOR.
Major General U. S. Army-
Henry .V. Muhlenberg, Esq., President Tay
lor State Convention. Reading, Pennsylvania.
This last letter lias been assailed bv some of
the Whig press as smacking too much of “Lo
coiocoism.” Indeed, if the first letter were not
known to be in existence, the last might be
interpreted, without much violence of con
struction, as almost an acceptance of the Dem
ocratic nomination for President. In one re
spect, it is stronger than the reply to the
Whig letter. It is not qualified by any refe
rence to his “ position.”
We make no comment® upon these d< rel
ope//tents of the old General’s position as to the
! two great parties in the country. If the
Whigs are satisfied that he is a Henry Clay
i Whig—if, with the bitter fruits oi “ Tyler
ism” before their eyes, they are willing to sa
crifice lire great “preferred” Henry Clay, and,
blindfold, to encounter ths risks of being
“ Tavlorized,” so be it. Wc see enough to |
satisfy us that the Democratic party are not
to be seduced into the support of a man who :
carefully conceals his opinions and whose let- •
tors may be made to mean anything or no- :
thing. The Whigs, conscious that their prin
ciples (?) are repudiated by the people, look to j
availability as the only nmaus of gaining “the j
spoils.” The Democrats, on the contrary, j
convinced that the popular sentiment is in fa- j
vor of their policy, roly upon ch'; moral force i
of tla o ir position, and will sustain no man, un
less they know him to be sound on all the
great questions.
The Whigs may succeed in making General
Taylor the Whig candidate, but it cannot be ‘
denied, that a very strong section of their
party at the North shrinks back from this
new form of “Tylerism,”aud will have nothing
t© do with the “diptheng” “no-party ’ party.
The New York Courier (Taylor Whig) re
commend:. that a meeting of all parties be held
lin the Park on the 23d February, to nominate
Gen. Taylor as a \vhig candidate lor the Presi
dency. The silly trick cannot succeed. Will
Democrats unite with Whigs to nominate u
Whig candidate ? The N. York Mirror
Trade Taylor) approves of the call “most
heartily,” but adds:
“If it is to be a general meeting, nothing
should be said about the Whigs or any other j
party', which will tend to give it a partizan |
| complexion.”
Whereupon the New Y’ork Express, a “rear
guard Whig,” speaks out in the following
sneering and bitterly sarcastic tone:
“Spontaneous combustion’ once more ! A
hustle of the odds and ends of parties I
• 1
‘•i.ye of newt and toe nt frog,
Tongue of cat , ami wool of dog.
Mingle, mingle, mingle—ye that mingle may !
Wc have yet to see, in this country, the ex
periment tried of electing a tongue-tied, spot
ted camel-lcooard candidate fur the Presiden
cy 1
Tt ar,us t a, (D torg i a .
SUNDAY MORNING. JAN. 16.
UZNAU the mails due, three in number, came
to hail I last evening. No tidings had been
received at New York up to our latest dates of ,
the Steamer Washington.
Spirit-Yearning's for Love-
Th« lines under the above title which ap- :
pear in our paper to-day are from the pen of a
lady, who for a few evenings has been playing
upon our boards. Wc find them iu the Janu
ary No. of Graham's Magazine and consider
them quite a poetical gem. This is not the
only specimen we have seen in print of the
1 graceful pen of Mrs. Ward.
Mr- Collins-
This showy and talented Comedian has play
; c l here a short engagement of three nights
with decided success. His fine figure, graceful
action,and flexible and expressive countenance
give him great physical advantages. These,
with his rich brogue, and irresistibly comic
leer, and roguish eye constitute him the very
impersonation of “A nale Irish man.” He
well understands how to act out on the boards
the idea conveyed in one of his songs
** Oh love is the soul of a nate Irish man;
He loves ali me while, and lie loves all he can.’’
In the higher walks of Comedy he is no less
' successful and accomplished. This he illus
trates in the favorite character of Sir Patrick
O’Picnipo, in the play of “The Irish Arabas
. sador.”
! Mr. Collins has a powerful, rich and well
managed voice, a correct car, and. bings true
ito time and in good taste. His songs are all
Irish and those that we have hoard are of the
comic order. But we doubt not that the pa
j thetic ballads of Lover, and Haynes Bailey,
and the exqusite melodies of Moore, can be
sung by him in a style that would plate him
high on the list of popular vocalists.
We wish Mr. Collin? a successful engage
ment in New Orleans,and troops of friends.—
In private society, he is said to be very agreca
-1 ble and quite the gentleman.
' | Destruction of two Steamers
I The steamcM Walcott and Jewess,
Merc injured by lire an Baltimore on the
night of the 11 tt inst. The Walcott was to
tally'destroyed—the Jewess, although serious
ly burnt, it was thought could be repaired
for 5 or 6,000 dollars. Her machinery and
hull escaped uninjured. The promenade deck,
saloon and upper works were all destroyed.
The steamer Herald would take her place on
the line in a day or two.
Official—Army Appointment.
First Lieutenant Stewart Van Vliet, of the
, , third regiment of artillery, to be assistant
, | quartermaster, with the rank of captain, June
4, 1547, vice Chilton, captain in the first regi
ment of dragoons, who vacates his staff com
mission.
Money Matters-
The New York Courier of Tuesday says—
> | “Money is freely loaned (returnable on de
: mand) at 6 per for paper, however (
unquestion tblc, the rate cont inues at from 2 to
i“4 P er cent, per month. This facility' of bor-
L 1 mowing on demand, on the hypothecation for
instance of Treasury Notes, may explain in
j port the good prices which these securities
ggßlif-iii i I ■■■"ggUfJ .mm (
maintain, in despitie of & new loan impcndir g
over the market, of at least seventeen militant of
dollars, and the unsatisfactory prospects as to
a peace with Mexico.”
G-ildcrslceve—The Foot I!acc.
There was quite an attendance at the Hamp
ton Course, yesterday, to witness the contest
between Gildersleeve and Mr. Lovell's pony,
ten miles within the hour. Before the start,
various opinions were expressed as to which
would come out first; some thought the Four,
others that he would break down. About half
past 3 o'clock they started,Gildersleeve leading
—the poney in a short canter close up with him.
In thi-> position they continued up to the last
mile, when reaching the quarter stretch the
pony was let out to his speed, and came in
like a quarter horse, about one hundred yards
in advance. By the time given below, it w ill
be seen that Gildersleeve was sixty one min- *
uter and 12 seconds in accomplishing the ten
miles. On the fourth round he complained of
a pain iu the side, which was so painful that at
one time he thought of giving up the contest,
but before the sixth mile was accomplished ha
got over it.
Tim c. M. S.
Ist mile 5 15
2d •• ..6 00
3d “ 5 45
4th “ 6 00
6th •* 6 20
6th “ 3 17
7th - 6 15
Sch “ 6 25
9th “ 3 35
10th “ 6 20
Total 61 12
By Telegraph.
[Reported for the Constitutionalist.]
CONG-IECSSIONAL.
Washington, Jan, 13.
IX SENATE,
Mr. Hunter introduced a bill supplementa
ry to the act retroceding Alexandria to the
State of Virginia, which was read twice.
Mr. Brodhead, from the Printing Commit
tee, recommended that 5,000 copies of the
llsitorv of the Expedition of Col. Doniphan
be printed, which was agreed to.
Mr. Mangum submitted a resolution, which
lies over requesting the President to commu
nicate all suggestions and opinions transmit
ted by (Jen. Seott, on the subject of the prose
cution of the war, its objects and the force re
quisite to carry them out.
Mr. Johnson of La., submitted a resolution,
calling for a statement of the losses by express
to and from New Orleans, which was agreed
to.
The resolutions offered by Mr. Dayton, call
-1 ing foi information relative to forced contri
' buttons in Mexico, and by Mr. Baldwin, ask
ing for correspondence between Mr. Trist and
the Mexican Commissioners, were adopted.
Mr. 11. Johnson called up his resolution re
gulating passenger emigrant vessels to Liberia,
which was taken up and passed.
The Ten Regiment Bill was then taken up,
and Mr. Pierce addressed the Senate in oppo
sition to the war and in ait examination of
some of the positions of his colleague, dissent
i.ig in many particulars. When he conclud
ed, the subject was further discussed by other
Senators.
The Senate then adjourned over to Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Ou motion of Mr. Evans, th; vote of yester
day, laying on the tabic the resolution instruc
ting the Naval Committee to enquire into the
legality of the order of the Secretary of the
Navy, giving assimilated rank to Surgeons and
Pursers in the Navy, w as reconsidered, and the
resolution passed—aves S 3, navs 79.
A . .
| After some unimporrant business, on mo
\ tion of Mr. Chase, the President’s message,
received yesterday, was opened by the Speak
er, and proved to be in reply to a call for the
instructions given to Mr. Slidell, and relative
to the return of Santa Anna and Paredes to
Mexico. The President referred to the re
ports of the Secretaries of War and the Navy,
accompanying his annual message, for all the
ieformation relative to the return of Santa.
Anna and Paredes —tne return of the former
was without an understanding with him, and
the latter evaded the authorities at Vera Cruz.
The instructions to Mr. Slidell he could not
communicate without detriment to the public
interest, and lie declined complying with tho
mandatory call of the House, citing in support
of his refusal, Gen. Washington in 1796, to
furnish correspondence relative to the Jay
Treaty.
Mr. Truman Smith moved a reference to the
committee on Foreign Relations, and that it be
printed. An exciting and protracted debate a
rose on this motion, in which Messrs. J. Q,
Adams, Schenck, Houston of Ala. Holmes of
So. Ca. Toombs and C. J. Ingcrsoil participa
ted.
| On motion of Mr. Tompkins, the further con
sideration of the motion was finally postponed
until Tuesday next —made the special order
for that day, and ordered to be printed.
The House then adjourned.
Washington Union of 7th instant
says: “Accounts arc pouring in upon us from
the army, respecting the opinion of the officers
i”' on the best mode of carrying on the war,
and obtaining a prompt and honorable peace,
Wc have conversed with some of the officers
who have arrived in this city. There seems
be very little diversity of opinion upon this
question. Wc understand from an intelligent
officer, who has arrived this week from the
city of Mexico, that he does not know an offi
j cer, who, whatever may be his desire to return
to the United States, hesitates to say that to
withdraw' the Mexico, or to occu
py a defensive line, would be the most direct
means of prolonging tho war. The only plan
for obtaining an early peace is a vigorous pro
secution cf the war. We further learn, that
the officers of the army, of whatever party,
i with great unanimity, attribute the prolonga
tion of the war to our party feuds; that th®
sentiments of the opposition press and leaders
arc greedily promulgated by fke Mexicans
among the people there; and the impression
prevails among them, that a majority of the
people of the United States are opposed to
the war, and determined to bring it to a closed
I The officer further remarked, that, if Congress