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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. | JAM ES GARDNER, JR. TERMS. Daily, per annum ......58 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum... .................6 00 If paidin adrance .........5 00 Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance.... 2 00 These terms are offered to new subscribers and mil old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. In no case will the weekly paper be sent at 5-» unless the money accompanies the order . In no case will it be sent at §2,00 to an old sub scriber in arrears, Qjr»\Vhen the year paid for at §2,00 expires, the paper, if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the o4d terms, §2,50 if paid at the office within the year, or §3,00 if paid after the expiration of the year. TJT’ostage must be paid on all communications and letters of business. [From the New York lie-aid, 27 1 h insl.] HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS FROM EUROPE. G.\E WEEK EATER. ARRIVAL OF TIIE HIBERNIA! By the arrival of the steamship Hibernia, at this port, we are placed in possession of high ly important intelligence from Europe, of a later date by one week, than wchad previous ly received. Its details are extremely inter esting and important in m commercial, politi cal, and social point of view, as will be seen by the extracts which we publish below. The latest accounts from Liverpool and Lon don are of the i3th inst., noon. The news from France is very important.— An order had been received at Boulogne, from Paris, to put the whole line of coast in a state , of defence, and to mount guns on the detached forts, which are built a little way out at sea. The gates of the upper town are also to be re paired and lortilied. This looks like a prepa ration for war. There was an election In France for aPresi- 1 dent and Vice President of the Republic, and i a proclamation has been issued. The triumph of the liberal party is com plete, and Louis Blanc and Albert have re tired. Several bloody conflicts have taken place be tween the Poles and Russians. One of the most important points of this news is the declaration of war by Pope Pius 1 the Ninth, against Austria, and* that at, the ! last account* the situation of the Austrian ar- I nry in Italy was very perilous. After this, the ele trie telegraph reported the imprisonment of the Pope for backing out of the war. Serious skirmishes have taken place between the Hungarians and the Jews. The Danes, it appears, have completely blockaded the German ports. There is nothing important from Ireland. Lord Palmerston has officially announced, under date Foreign office, May 9th, the Dan ish blockade of Stettin, Halsound, Nortuch, and Wismar, from the 2d ; Pillau and Dant zic from the 3d, and the Elbe from the 4th inst. Also, the blockade by Austria of the port of Venice, from the 23d ult. There had been a decline in the middling and lower grades of cotton of one-eighth of a penny per lb- The corn market was inactive, and prices feebly supported. There had been a decline in Hour. THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE. By Electric Telegraph [From the London Times, May 13.] A military insurrection took place at Madrid on the 7th inst., at 4 o'clock in the morning, which was suppressed after a sanguinary con flict which lasted several hours. The number of the dead was not known, but it was considerably greater than in the in surrection of the 26th ot March. Among the killed was the Captain General Fulgosio, brother-in-law of Maria Christina. | Thirty-four of the prisoners taken —one- ; half of them civilians, the other half military j men —were tried and sentenced to death by a i court-martial, and were about to be shot when the post left. The Paris papers of yesterday announce the formation of the new Ministry for France; | it consists of Messrs. Bastide Kecurt, Cre- ; mieux, Carnot, Chanas, FJocon, Duclerc, Beth mont, Frelat, and Admiral Casy. It was apprehended that an armed demon stration in favor of the Poles would take place , in Paris this day. Some of the journals announced that the j Pope had been deposed, and the republic proclaim ed at Home, but the news seams premature. Imprisonment of the Pope. A report prevailed in Paris, yesterday, that the Pope, repenting his late hostility to Aus tria, had revoked his declaration of war; that in consequence, the people had risen en masse and deposed him from his temporal authority —placing him under restraint in the Castle of St Angelo. The Journal des Dehais confirms the above. It appears that Rome has regularly rebelled against him, and the probability is that his Holiness will be deposed as a temporal price. In fact, the entire executive authority appears to be exercised by the new ministry, without any control on the part of the Pontiff. We learn from Borne under date of the Bth inst., that M. Ochsenbein had resigned the presidency of the directory of the diet and his other offices. This resolution was adopted by him in consequence of the question of the in tervention of Switzerland in the affairs of Italy, which he opposed. On the 9th it was to be decided if his resigna tion should be accepted; if it were, it would eettie the question of intervention in the affir mative. France. Paris, May 11, 10 o'clock. The following named gentlemen embraca the new French ministry : Foreign Affairs, M. Bastide. War M. Charras. Finance - M. Duclerc. Justice M. Cremieux. Public Instruction M. Carnot. Commerce M. Flocon. Public Worship M. Bethmont. Public Works-- . M. Trelat. >1 arine M. Case)’. Interior M. Recurt. The appointment of M. Bastide is consider ed as unobjectionable. He was the Under secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under M. de Lamartine, and gave satisfaction. There was a report at Paris that Ledru Rolliu had tendered his resignation. Liverpool Cotton Market- LIVERPOOL, May 12.—Last week closed and the present opened with a good demand from the trade, and for export. Prices were low ; and the supply held by consumers is small. As the week advanced political events, full of inconvenience at the present time, and pregnant with injury to the trade in future, shook confidence, and induced the spinners to limit their purchases. The hostile measures rs retalliation adopted by Denmark a gainst Prussia and the German States, are calcu lated to interrupt the trade of Great Britain with those countries] materially to limit her exports of tnanufftctnres, and thereby to augment the obsta cles already existing throughout the continental 1 markets, to the disposal of her goods. At such a movement, the import of cotton during the present week, has been very large, and this has further tended to limit the demand; the total sales of the week have not exceeded 24,120. To-day the trade are buying steadily; the sales are 6,000 bales at yesterday's prices. American descriptions are only in limited request, and are dull of sale ; the authorised quotations of fair qualities are the same as last week ;in the lower and middle qualities a de~line, scarcely amounting to Jd per lb. has gene rally been submitted to Bra/.ile and Egyptains are dull of sale, but they are without material change in value. Surat are only in limited re quest, but they remain at former rates. 1,366 bales of American, and 90of Egyptains hare been taken for export. BY OUR PONY EXPRESS. 24 HOUR? IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIL. [ From the X. O. Picayune, of the 26th inst.] Five Days Later from Mexico. The Steamship New Orleans arrived from Vera Cruz this morning at an early hour,hav ing left that port on the 22d inst., with im portant intelligence from the City of Mexico to the 18th inst. Extract of a letter from the City of Mexico dated. May, 17th. The sentence in relation to the parties ac cused of the murder and burglary in the battle de la Palma, is that Lieuts. Hare, Dutton. T 1- den and Laverty shall be hung. Sergeant Wragg and Stewart,and private Wall,are sen tenced to be kept in irons until the war is closed, and Lieut. Madison, the Court ordered to be turned over to his regiment to be tried by a Court Martial. The Court has appoint ed a day f r the execution. The treaty is still under discussion in the Mexican Congress at Queretaro, and the last intelligence we have from them is as doubtful of ratification as ever. Deplorable Catastrophe- Com’rs. Haukis and Pinckney, of the Na vy, and three others Drowned. —On the 15th inst., two boats belonging to the U. S. steamers Vixen and Iris were swamped on the Bar of Tuspan. Com’rs. Harris, of the Iris, and Pinckney, of the Vixen, M. Duvall, a French resident at Tuspan, and two seamen were drowned. Three other officers, Lieut. Ward, of the Cumberland, Lieut. Doughty, commanding officer of Marines in the squad ron. Dr. Bell, of the Vixen, and nine seamen, were saved by the boats of the U. S. schooner Mahoncse, in charge of Acting Master Dyer and Passed Midshipman, N. C. '' cst. We are indebted to an officer of the Iris for the following account of this melancholy event ; U. S. Steamer Iris, off Vera Cruz, ) May 17th, 1843. ) Gentlemen —I send you the above notice ‘ which you will please give a place in your ■ valuable paper, and request the Louisville, I Frankfort, Baltimore and Ph ladelplua papers | to copy : as Com’r. W. S. Harris is from Frank ; fort, and Com’r. Henry Pinckney is from Bal timore. Too much cannot be said concerning | the gallant conduct of Act. Master C. Dyer, and Passed Midshipman N. C. West, who risk ed their lives in two small boats to save their fellow-officers and seamen. As it may be of some service to you, to know how’ this sad and truly melancholy ac cident occurred, I will give you a brief ac count. Two whale-boats belonging to the a bove steamers, with the aforementioned officers and seamen, left this steamer, at about half pa-it 5 P. M, to cross the Bar, which to all ap pearances was very smooth. There having been a heavy rain the night before, the cur rent was very strong from the river, making the undertow very great; the accident may be partiaTy attribute Ito this. Ca it. Pinckney took the lead, as he had crossed the Uar seve ral times before, Capt. Harris followed at about 30 yards. Whilst in the midst of the breakers, the Vixen’s boat became unmanageable and broached to, filling immediately. Capt. Har ris’s went over beautifully, not having taking in a drop. As soon as he was inside, he or dered the boat to be pulled back to the assis tance of the other boat; at the same time, all prepared themselves for the dangerous under taking, by pulling off their coats, &c. The boat soon filled, and the above disaster was 1 the consequence. 1 remain yours, &c., FRED. B. BRAND, Acting Master, U. S. N. P. S.—The health of the squadron is very i good so far. The commodore has placed all American men-of-war in quaratine that came : to Vera Cruz. I The crowded state of our columns compels 1 us <0 omit some interesting portions of the | news. We make room, however, for the fol lowing interesting items : Quf.retaro. May 16, 1848. Chamber or Deputies. —The Chamber met l at a quarter to 1. The debates on the treaty I were more and more boisterous. Several dep ; uties talk of withdrawing from the Chamber. Fears are increasing that this plan will be ex ecuted by the opposition. The Chamber ad journed at a quarter before 6, to meet again at noon to-morrow’. If nothing unforseen should occur, on Sat urday you will have the solution of the pro blem. Our readers may be interested in seeing a more particular account of the of Pre sident than is given in our letters. We copy the whole of the leading article from the Star of the 18th : Queretaro —Election of a President ad Intfjum. — We have already stated that the two Houses of the Mexican Congress had de termined to go into the election of a President of the Republic on Sunday last, the 14th inst. This was rendered necessary by the constitu tion, which provides that a President shall be chosen within eight days from the opening of the session. It appeared, however, upon open ing the votes Irom the States, that one State (Morelia) wms not represented in the Cham bers, in consequence of the elections in that State not having taken place. It became ne cessary, therefore, to choose a President ad interim —or until by a full representation from every State a successor to Pena y Pena for the constitutional period could be elected. (The election in Morelia commenced on the 14th and ended yesterday, the 17th.) The election of a President ad interim result ed as follows. The vote is by States. Eleven votes for Pena y Pena, viz: Coahuila, Durango, Mexico, Puebla, Queretaro, Tobasco, Tamaulipas, Vera Cruz; Jalisco, Zacatecas and the Federal District. Four votes for Herrera, viz: Chihuahua, Oajaca, San Luis and Guana)uto. The votes ot the members from Guanajuato, Mexico and Puebla, were divided between the two candidates, though the majority, controll ing the vole of the State, was given as above. Pena y Pena was, therefore, declared elected President ad iiiterim of the Mexican Republic. When the delegation is full, Herrera will be chosen—or raeher his election by a majority of the States, will be ratified by Congress—for the term of years prescribed by the constitu tion. There is no further intelligence in regard to the treaty. The report of the Committee of Relations recommending its adoption, was dis cussed in secret session on Monday and Sun day, but nothing is said, however, concerning the character of the debates. The Monitor’* correspondent think* the subject will be dis posed of on the part of the Chamber of Depu ties in five or six day*—by the doe* of the week at the farthest. The Monitor’s letters adds that the only op ponents of the treaty and the report recom mending its adoption in its modified form, are those who have nothing to lose, the revolu tionists and office-seekers—in a word, those who would be the first to run upon the appear ance of an enemy. We regret to learn, by our Vera Crm cor respondent that the vomito is raging in that port. Mr. W. F. Beebee, Sutler of the port, died on the 16th of the disease, Capts. Masten, I Jordan and Clendenin —all the quartermasters ! at that place—were down with it on the 20th, | as well as Mr. Scott, the chief clerk of the de- j partment. Capts. Masten, and Jordan and ! Mr. Scott, were convalescent on the 20th and ; Capt. Clendenin was doing well. Capt. Pat rick, the Commissary had temporary charge of the Quartermaster’s Department. Gen. Lane left Vera Cruz on the 19th for the city of Mexico, with an escort of about I twenty men. He intended to go through in ! ; five or six days. lie was escorted out of Vera Cruz by a large concourse of his friends. By Telegraph- New Orleans, May 26, 85 P. M. Crf'on.-— Sales this day amount to 1,500 bales. Middlings steady ; higher orjades firm at outside prices. Pork, Mess per gallon and in demand. Bacon, firm. Flour, drooping. iVo change in other articles. Georgia. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 31 FOR PRESIDENT LEWIS CASS, OF MICHIGAN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT WM. O. BUTLER. OP KENTUCKY. Proprietors of Warehouses in this city and Hamburg will oblige us by having the Cotton on hand in their respective warehouses counted for us by three o’clock this afternoon. The Foreign News- After our telegraphic despatches came to hand we received in advance of the mail New York papers of Saturday, afternoon editions, containing copious accounts of the foreign news. We have made some extracts front the New York Herald which w ill be found highly interesting. Whig Tactics in Georgia- In case of the nomination of Mr. Clay by ! the Philadelphia Convention, (a very impro bable event) it is intended bv the Taylor I _ ' Whigs of Georgia to run an independent Tay lor ticket. In this contingency, three tickets will be before the people of Georgia—a Cass Ticket —a Clay ticket, being the regular nomi nation, and a Taylor ticket, being independent of and in defiance of the Philadelphia conven tion. The Taylor Whigs thus play a strong game. It is the old game of “heads I win; tails you lose. If they can get the nomina tion at Phil adclphiu for Old Hough and Rca day, well and good. If they cannot they will not abide by the nomination, but run him any how. This course they conceive to be the only practicable one to get out the full Whig strength in Georgia, and the only chance for beating the Democratic ticket. A Clay ticket, i they think, would be very badly beat in Geor gia. It was beat in 1814, by a man the Whigs ; affected not to know, and therefore, inquir i ed very cuiiou-ly, “Who is James K: Polk:” How then could they expect in 1818 to beat j General Lewis Cass whom they do know r The Whigs calculate that in the event above stated, the votes for the'two tickets—the Clay ticket and the Tayior ticket, added together would be a majority of the voters of Georgia —that the Democratic ticket, though getting a plurality, would not get a majority of all 5 the votes. The State would therefore be | thrown on the act of the Legislature of 1843, to make an electoral ticket. That act, or so much as applies to the point in question, reads as follows ; Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority afore said, That in the event that a majority of the number of Electors to which this State may be entitled at any election for President and Vice President, shall not have received a majority of the votes polled as aforesaid, and there being no General Assembly in session, it shall be the duty of the Governor to convene the General Assembly, which when assembled, shall proceed by joint ballot to the election of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States; but in the event that at least a majority of the whole number of Elec tors to which this State may be entitled, shall be elected in manner aforesaid, then and in that case, it shall be the duty of the Electors ; so elected, or a number of them amounting at i least to a majority of the whole number to ! which this State may be entitled, to fill by ballot, at the time and place appointed by law for the meeting of Electors, any vacancy that may exist in their body, either by non election of the full number, resignation, failure j to attend, refusal to act, or from any other | cause whatever. We have only deemed it necessary thus ear ly to call the attention of the Democrats of j Georgia to this scheme of the Whigs, in order that they may feel the necessity of nerving themselves for the contest and of giving to Cass and Butler that triumphant majority of all the votes in Georgia which the Democrats can give when they poll their entire strength- Gen Scott in New York- It seems that the vanity of “ The greatest Captain of the age ” could not resist the temptations held out for a great glorification. He has, therefore, receded from his very cor rect and truly dignified position, assumed originally in his letter to tr.e authorities of New- Orleans, and has consented to have a glorification in the city of New York. By the j last accounts, “old Fuss and Feathers” was ] starring it and being stared at, in the great ! emporium of the New world. This exhibition of “ pruriency ” of eclat du ring the pendency of the questions before the Court of Inquiry,and in the teeth of his own ad missions of the impropriety of his courting any such [ üblic demonstrations,it is thought by po liticians at the North, will affect injuriously the prospects of General Scott for a nomination for the Presidency, by the Philadelphia Con vention. SAVANNAH. May 29.— Cotton. —There was a better demand for Cotton on Saturday, and sale* were effected' at an advance of about an sc. above Friday’s prices, The sales reached 650 bales from ty to cent*. BY TELEGRAPH. [ Correspondence of the Constitutionalist . ] SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. First Despatch. By Telegraph from Charleston, dated twen ty-five minutes past one o’clock, we learn that the steamer Southerner, from N.Y. had arrived w-ith intelligence, announceing that advices from England wore pregnant, with commo | tions on the Continent, and other matters in | jurious to trade. The sales of Cotton during S the week ending 13th last., was only twenty four thousand five hundred bales, at a Jd. de cline on the lower and middling grades, while I fair quality maintained the quotations of the I previous week. Sales mostly to Spinners.— The Imports have been large. Second Despatch. Five persons have been appointed to admin ister temporarily the French Government.— Lamartine is the fourth on the list. This Go vernment has issued a Proclamation, autho rizing an election of a President, and Vice Pre sident. It is said Lamartine has injured his popularity by defending Rollin. The Pope declared war against Austria. lie afterwards withdrew the declaration ; and inconsequence was deposed and imprisoned. A treaty of of fence and defence is agreed upon between Austria and Prussia. All Germany is in com motion and agitation; several bloody battles have been fought between the Prussians and Poles, in which the Prussians were beaten. A battle was expected near Verona, between the troops commanded by Charles Albert and the Austrians. The Austrians are said to be critically situated. The Danes are blockad- , ing the Northern ports, [From the N. O. Keening Mercu/ y, 23th in si.] In I” au War in Oregon. TO Days Uater from Wallah Wallah I Massacre at Presbyterian Mission- Proclamation of the Governor. Bv the fine steam boat Josiah Lawrence, ar rived this morning from St. Louis, we have re ceived papers of the 18th inst., containing late and important news from Oregon. We take the following from the Union : Yesterday we had the pleasure of a few- mo ment’s conversation with Maj. J. L. Meek, who arrived from St. Joseph on the Mundan, and immediately took passage on the Genesee for the Ohio river, being bearer of despatches from the authorities of Oregon to the Govern ment at Washington. Major Meek left Oregon City on the 4th of January, in company with General Gilliam and 500 troops, who w« re marching into the mountain districts to put down insurrection ary movements among the Indians. At Wallah Wallah, 300 miles east of Oregon City, Maj. Meek, Lieut. Bowman and eight others, part ed from General Gilliam’s command and bent their way towards the United States. In the Blue Mountains they found the snow very deep. For thirty miles the party passed through snow- four feet deep, suffering very much from cold and fatigue. On Snake river they fell in with five villages of Snake and Po nark Indians. These Indians manifested hos tility, and declared their intention of march ing against the Oregon settlers early in the Spring. The cause of their enmity towards the whites they alleged to be the introduction of the measles among them. This disease has been very prevalent in Oregon, as well a mong the white settlers as the Indians. Ow ing to the peculiar habits of the red men. the malady among them proved fearfully fatal, causing death n almost every instance of its visitation. When the eruptive fever made its appearance, the afflicted would use the cold bath, or roll themselves in the snow, which would almost certainly cause a retrocession of the disease and sudden death. From Fort Hall, Major Meek and pa-tv crossed through the South Pass to Ik ar river, suffering very much from the severity of the weather and want of provisions. For two hundred miles they passed through the enow three feet deep. Many of their mules died, and as the animals thus perished, they were used as food, the meat being “jirked” and saved for a dreaded emergency. From the South Pass to the head waters of the Plate, there was very little snow. Over , this vast extent of country the party travelled without meeting game, subsisting almost en tirely upon the flesh of the animals they had with them. Sixty-six days after leaving Gen. G lliarn’s command, at Wallah Wallah, they arrived at St. Joseph, on the western frontier of Missouri. When within one hundred and fifty miles of the United States boundary, a party of Ore . gon emigrants were met. They consisted of 244 wagons. From these emigrants the party obtained food—the first they had eaten in four days. The emigrants were getting along well. The saddest news brought by Maj. Meek, is the death of the philanthropic Dr. Whitman and lady. They were mui tiered, with eigh teen others, at their settlements in the plaines of Wallah Wallah, some time in November, by the Cayutes and Wallah Wallah Indians who have always heretofore manifested the most profound friendship for the whites. When the troops airived at the scene of the murder, they found the whole settlement laid waste, presenting an appearance dreadful in the extreme. The bodies of the murdered I settlers were scattered around unburied. The heads of Dr. Whitman and his amiable lady j were lying in the yard of their late residence, near the threshold. Most of the houses had been burned, and everything wore the aspect of desolation. In the march from Oregon City to Wallah i Wallah, the troops had four engagements with the enemy. In two there was a spirited re sistance on the part of the Indians, and many were supposed to have been killed. The Ame rican forces lost but two men in their skir mishes— James Jackson and James Packwood, killed at the Dalles of the Columbia while on guard. From all we can gather, it seems that a spirit of hostility has gradually been engendering • among the Indians of Oregon for several years. ! They have taken up the idea that a great chief was coming from the United States to buy their 1 land, and render them independent. Finding, however, the whites settling round there, with out furnishing for the lands what they con sidered an equivalent, they have at last de termined to drive out the invaders, and possess themselves of such implements of husbandry and the arts that might fall into their hands in , the way of spoils. It is the opinion of those conversant with the affairs of Oregon, that the Hudson Bay ! Company is at the bottom of all these distur bances. At any rate it is singular that the Americans only should be the subjects of In dian malice. Major Meek will return speedily to Oregon. We ore pleased to learn that he is the bearer of an application for the U. States Marshalship for himself, signed by five hundred citizens of Oregon. He is an old resident of the “moun tain and plain” country, and withal, very : much of a gentleman. Additional- Since the foregoing was placed in type, we have seen a copy of the St. Joseph Adventure of the 12th instant, from which we derive some additional items of information, relative ter af fairs in Oregon. The last battle fought with the Indians was on the Big Plains, in Fcbruaiy last. Gen. Gil liam’s forces maintained their position man fully against four times their number. The bat tle commenced in the morning, and continued till night put an end to the conflict. Both par ties remained on the field till morning, but the Indians were indisposed to renew the en gagement. and retired. No whites were killed, but very many wounded by Indian ar rows. At the time of the massacre ofDr. Whitman and companions, sixty or seventy persons were taken prisoners but afterwards, through the intervention of Peter Skeen Ogden, princi pal Factor of the Hudson Bay Company, they were ransomed. The massacre, it seems, took place on the 29th of November. Maj. Meek bears a message asking for imme diate aid from the Government of the United States. The latest date from Oregon City is to the 20lh January. The mail carrier who left there since for Wallah, was killed, and the mail lost. The following proclamation is from the Ore gon Spectator of the 20th January: PROCLAMATION. By George Abernethy, Governor of the Territory, of Oregon. In consequence of the low state of the fin an cos of this country, and the general impression being that the Indians in the upper country j were not united, a small force was thought sufficient to proceed to Wallah to punish the 1 I Capuse Indians, and a Proclamation was issued by me for one hundred men, since which, in : formation has been received here, which leads to the belief that the Indians have united, and the force ordered out in that case being insuf ficient — 1 therefore ca lon the citizens of this Territory, to furnish five hundred men, and appoint the following persons Brevet Captains, to enrol such citizens as may wish to enlist, viz: Wesley Shannon, John Ford, Thos. McKay Champoeg county. John Owens, Wm. Williams, John Stewart--Polk county, Philip Thompson, Geo. Nelson, Felix Scott—Yam Hill county. Isaac W. Smith, Benjamin Q. j Tucker—Tuolatin county. James Officer— Clackamas county. The enlistments to be for six months, unless j sooner discharge by proclamation. Each man will furnish his own horse, arms, clothing and blankets. The companies will bring all the ammunition, percussion caps,and I camp equippage they can, for which they will 1 receive a receipts from the Commissary Gene | ral. Col. Cornelius Gilliam will remain at Ore ; gon city until the first companies arrived at Portland, when he will take command and ! proceed forthwith to Wallah Wallah. Lieut. Col, James Waters will remain until j the rear companies arrive at or near Portland, when he will take the command, and proceed ; to Wallah Wallah. Companies will rendezvous at Portland, or opposite Portland, on or before the Bth of | January, 1848. Whenever a sufficient num- j her of volunteers arrive on the ground, at Portland, they will organize and proceed to | elect officers, viz : one Captain, one Ist Lieut- i cmnt, one 2d Lieutenant, one Orderly Ser- j geant, and four duty Sergeants. Companies will consist of 8-5 men, rank and file. If any company should he formed in the ! companies smaller or larger, they will be re gulated after they arrive on the ground. As the Commissionary General will not be able to furnish a sufficient quantity of provi : sions for the army, the citizens of the territory are required to deliver to his agents all the 1 provisions they can, that the operations of the i troops may not be impeded for want- of pro- 1 visions. Agents will he appointed by him at j Salem, Yam Hill Ferry, Champeog, Bute, and | j Portland. In witness whereof I have signed my [l. s.J name, and affixei the sealed of the Territory at Oregon City, this 25th I day of December, 1817. GEO. ABERNATHY. [Reported for the Baltimore Nun.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN TION. FIFTH DAY. Friday Mornino, May 26. Udie Convention as-embled this morning, pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Humphrey, of Kentucky. Mr. Cone, of Georgia, from the committee on resolutions, stated that the committee were now ready to report, and the resolutions re ported were read by- Mr. Hallett, of Boston, as follows : Resolved, That the American democracy place their trust in the intelligence, the patri j otism, and the discriminating justice of the j American people. Resolved, That we regard this as a distinc tive feature of our political creed, which we are proud to maintain before the world, as the great moral element in a form of government, springing from and upheld by’ the popular will; and we contrast it with the creed and practice of federalism, under whatever name or form, which seeks to palsy the will of the constituent, and which conceives no impos ; ture too monstrous for the popular credulity. Resolved, therefore. That, entertaining these i views,the democratic party of this Union, through their delegates assembled in a gene ral convention of the States, coming together in a spirit of concord, of devotion to the doc trines and faith of a free representative gov ■ eminent, and appealing to their fellow citizens for the rectitude of their intentions, renew and rc-as»ert, before the American people, the declarations of principles avowed by’ them when, on a former occasion, in general con vention, they presented their candidates for the popular suffrages. 1. That the federal government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the con stitution, and the grants of power shown therein; ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and agents of the govern ment ; and that it is inexpedient and danger ous to exercise doubtful constitutional pow ers. 2. That the constitution docs not confer upon the general government the power to commence and carry on a general system of internal improvements. 3. That the constitution docs not confer au thority upon the federal government, directly or indirectly, to assume the debts of the seve ral States, contracted for local internal im provements, or other State purposes; nor would such assumption be just and expedient. 4. That justice and sound policy forbid tire federal government to foster one branch of in dustry to the detriment of another, or to che f rish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country ; that every citizen, and every section of the country, has a right to demand and insist upon an equality of rights and privileges, and to complete and ample protection of persons and property from domestic violence or foreign aggression. 5. That it is the duty of every branch of the government to enforce and practise the most rigid, economy in conducting our public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised tkan is required to defray the necessary expenses of the government, and for the grad- fl ual but certain extinction of the debt created by the prosecution of a just and necessary war, after peaceful relations shall have been restored. 6. 'Fhat Congrcsshas no power to charter a national bank ; that we believe such an insti tution one of deadly hostility to the best inte rests of the country, dangerous to our repub lican institutions and the liberties of the peo ple, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the laws and the will of the people; and that the results of demo cratic legislation, in this and all other finan cial measures upon which issues have been made between the two political parties of the country, have demonstrated to candid and practical men of all parties, their soundness, safety ami utility in all business pursuits. 7. That Congress has no power under the constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the solo and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution; J that ail efforts of the abolitionists or others " made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, arc calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangeroxis consequen ces ; and that all such efforts have an ble tendency to diminish the happiness of Pie people, and endanger the stability and perma nency of the X'nion, and ought not to be coun tenanced by any friend of our political insti tutions. 8. That the separation, of the moneys of the government from banking institutions is in dispensable for the safety of the funds of the government and the rights of the people. 9. That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty, and the asy lum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democrat ic faith; and every attempt to abridge the present privilege of becoming citizens and the M owners of soil among ns, ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute b oks. Resolved, That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the na tional objects specified in the constitution; and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy, and repugnant to the constitution. Resolved , That we are decidedly opposed to taking from the President the qualified veto power, by which be is enabled, under restric tions and responsibilities, amply sufficient to guard the public interest, to suspend the pas sage of a hill whose merits cannot secure the approval of two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives until the judgment of the people can be obtained thereon, and which has saved the American people from the corrupt and tyrannical domination of the Bank of the United States, and from a cor rupting system of general internal imurove ments. A Resolved, That the war with Mexico provo- " kod on her part, by years of insult and injury, was commenced by her army crossing the Rio Grande, attacking the American troops, and invading our si-ter State of Texas—and that upon all the principles of patriotism and the laws of nations, it is a just and necessary war i on our part, in which every American citizen ! should have shown himself on the side of his country, an 1 neither morally nor physically, 1 by word or deed, have given “ aid and com i for to the enemy.” Resolved, That we would be rejoiced at the I assurances of a peace with Mexico, founded on the just principles of indemnity for the past and security for the future; but that while the ratification of the liberal treaty of | sered to Mexico remains in doubt, it is the du ty of the country to sustain the aclministra | tion in every measure necessary to provide for the vigorous prosecution of the war, should ! that treaty be rejecter?. Resolved, That the officers and soldiers who have carried the arms of their country into g I Mexico, have crowned it with imperishable | 1 glory. Their tin conquer able courage, their daring enterprise, their unfaltering persever ance and fortitude when assailed on all sides by innumerable foes, and that more formida ble enemy—t ie diseases of the climate— exalt their devoted patriotism into the highest he roism. and give them a right to the profound gratitude of their country and the admiration of the world. Resolved, That the Democratic National Convention of the thirty St <tes composing the American Republic, tender their fraternal con gratulations to the National Convention of the Kcoublic of France, now assembled as the free suffrage representatives of the sovereignty of thirty-five millions of Republicans, to estab lish government on these eternal principles of equal rights, for which their Lafayette and our Washington fought side by side, in the strug gle for our own National Independence; and we would especially convey to them and to the whole people of France, our earnest wish es for the consolidation of their liberties, through the wisdom that shall guide their councils, on the basis of a Democratic Consti tution, not derived from the grants or conces- a sions of kings or dynasties, but originating * f.ora the only true source of political poxver recognized in the St.atcs of this Union : the inherent and inalienable right of the people, in their sovereign capacity, to make and to a mend their forms of government in such man ner as the w elfare of the community may re quire. Resolved, That in the recent developement of this grand political truth, of the sovereignty of the people and their capacity and pow'er for self-government, which is prostrating thrones and erecting republics on the ruins of despo tism in the old world, wc feel that a high and sacred duty is devolved, with increased respon sibility upon the Democratic party of this country, as the party of the people , to sustain and advance among us constitutional liberty, equality and fraternity, by continuing to re sist all monopolies and exclusive legislation I for the benefit of the few at the expense oftjic, many, and by a vigilant and constant adhe- * rence to those principles and compromises of the constitution which are broad enough and strong enough to embrace and uphold the Union as it was, the Union as it is, and the Union as it shall be in the full expansion of the energies and capacities of this great and pro gressive people. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded through the American Minister at Paris to the National Convention of the Re public of France. Resolved , That the fruits of the great politi cal triumph of 1841, which elected James K- Polk and George M. Dallas President and Vice President of the United States, have ful- { filled the hopes of the Democracy of the Union, in defeating the declared purposes of their opponents to create a National Bank, in pre venting the corrupt and unconstitutional dis tribution of the land proceeds, from the com mon treasury of the- Union, for local purposes, in protecting the currency and the labor of the country from ruinous fluctuations, and guard ing the money of the people for the use'of the people, by the establishment of the Constitu tional 1 reasury; in the noble impulse given to the cause of Free Trade, by the repeal of the lariffof 18i2, and the creation of the more equal, honest and productive Tariff of 1846; and, that, in our opinion, it would be a fatal error to weaken the bands of political organi zation by which these great reforms have been M
