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ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.
n he .Steamer Cambria readied tlie wharf
at Boston at 7 o’clock yesterday , evening,
bringing dates from Liverpool to the 4th hist,
inclusive, fifteen days later than onr previous
advices. Through the Magnetic Telegraph
we are enabled, thus early, to lay before our
readers the following summary of news:
On the evening of the 25th of June the
House of Lords passed the Corn Bill on its
third reading, without a division. At 2 o’-
clock on the morning of the next day the
House of Commons left .Sir Robert Reel and
the Government in a minority ul 73 voles on
the Irish Coercion Bill.
On Saturday, 27th June, Sir Robert Peel
proceeded to the Isle of Wight for the purpose
of tendering his resignation, with that of his
colleagues, to the Queen, and on Monday
night, the 29th, he made a lengthy explanation
of his motives for resigning in the House of
Commons.
THE NEW CABINET.
Marquis of Landsdowne, Privy Seal.
Earl of Mar, Home Department.
Sir Geo. Graves, Foreign Department.
Viscount Palmerston, Colonial Secretary.
Earl Grey, Treasurer.
Lord John Russell, of the Exchequer.
Mr. C hari.es N. Wood, Board of Trade.
Earl oFClarenden, Chief Sec’rv for Ireland.
Mr. Latiouchf.ke, Secretary of War.
Hon. F. O. D. Maule, Attorney General.
Gen. Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.
The Duke of Wellington, Commander in
Chief.
The London Times regards the new .Minis
try favourably. Sir Robert Peel views it
without jealousy and with a friendly eye.—
The general impression is that tiie new
Premier will hastily wind up the business of
the session, and dissolve Parliament in the
course of the autumn.
The news of the amicable settlement of
the Oregon Question had reached England,
and great joy was* manifested at the result.
Sir Robert Peel in his speech, when re
signing as Premier, devoted an hour to the
subject of the Oregon and Mexican questions,
and congratulated the country that ail sources
of difficulty with that great nation, (the
United Stales) were settled, so far as that
side of ' the Atlantic was concerned. All
eyes are now turned to the American Con
gress on the subject of the tariff.
The Cotton Market is in a healthy, but not
very active slate. Prices have improved a
shade. The contemplated change in the
sugar duties lias had an injurious effect.
The Grain market remains without change.
Lord Francis Egerton has been raised to
the Peerage, and bis place in the House
of Commons tilled by an American merchant,
G. D. Brown, Esq.
Cardinal Pekkotte has been elected Pope
of Rome.
The ninth foreign delegate did not arrive
in time lo vote.
Tremendous riots have ore tyred in Ireland.
The trouble with the Caffre tribe continues.
Several fights have taken place with the colo
nists.
The Great Western arrived out on the 22d
of June.
It is rumored in England that the navigation
of the Columbia river is reserved in perpetuity,
and not for the Hudson ILiy Company's char
ter. Peel so understands it. Two columns
and a half of Peel’s speech are devoted to
the settlement of the Oregon question, the
relations of Mexico, and his resignation
He says: “I do rejoice that before surren
dering power at the feel of a ministry of this
House, I had the opportunity of giving them
the official assurance that every cause of
quarrel with that Great Country [America]
on th is side of the Atlantic, is terminated.—
(Loud cheers.) Sir, I feel that I have now
task which my public duty im
posed upon me. I trust I have sahl nothing
which can by possibility lead to the recur
rence of those controversies which have been
deprecated by all lovers of peace.”
The election of Pope was made with great
er despatch than was anticipated, having
been got over in 48 hours. None of the for- j
eign Cardinals had time to be present. The
choice of the conclave fell on Cardinal Mas- I
tuy Ferreti, who was accordingly proclaim
ed successor to St. Peter, under the name of
Pope Pius IX. His age is fifty-eight. As j
regards years, he is one of the youngest of
St. Peter’s successors, and if all "that Ts said
of him be correct, he cannot fail to make a
shrewd temporal ruler in addition to .the |
functions of his spiritual office. The pre
vious habits and character of this Pontiff do •
credit to the judgment and impartiality of the
Conclave which elected him.
The grain trade at Mark Lane, London,
has not changed since tiie sailing of the
Britannia.
Dr. Lardner is preparing a philosophical
work to be called “I 1 ive \ ears in America.”
We are indebted to Adams &. Co.’s Ex
press, and also Hamden Co.’s Express,
tor \V ilmer & Smith’s European Times of the
4th mst., which came to hand a little before
6 o’clock this morning. Except the few I
papers brought by these Expresses, none
have yet reached this city. We make the
following extracts:
i The Free Trade Corn Rill and the Free
Trade Customs Duties Bill having passed
the two Houses of Parliament and become
<aws, we should regret more than ever the
failure cf the new Tariff bill in Congress,
which, though far less liberal than Ihe bills
above mentioned, is still an advance in the
sanie direction. But we trust there is no
serious danger of such a disaster.
Ihe important fact is announced by Sir
Robert Peel’s which we stated at the time
of its occurrence, but which we Believe was
generally discredited in this country, thallhe
British government took the earliest oppor
tunity after the news of the out break on the
Rio Grande to offer its mediation for the
adjustment ofthe differences between the U.
Sta'es and Mex co.
Liverpool, July s. —The pasingof the Corn
Bid and of tiie itariff has caused the custom
' house authorities in London and Liverpool to j
j be more limn usually busy.
j Jo Liverpool, during four days of the pro- •
j sent week, nearly a quarter of a million steri- 1
ing was received for duties. The quantity
of w heat and tiour taken out of bond been
immense. The railroads, the canals and
other conveyances, have been loaded to re
pletion in transmitting this produce into the
interior of the country.
The object of this extraordinary pressure
was to secure the lowest rate of duty which
the shdmg scale that remains in force during
the next two years and a La if can reach. I
The duty up to Thursday per quarter
on wheal, : n 1 2s. 4(J. per on flour.
Vesterday the average of the six preceding
, weeks showed a decrease in the price and in
crease in the duty. A shilling higher on
( w heat was exacted, w ith a corresponding in
ciease on flour,
1 This immense quantity of produce being
throw n simultaneously on the market, must,
in the nature of tilings, bring down prices.
The harvest, too, which promises to be prolific
and early, may, we fear, produce something
approaching to an agricultural panic.
But the release from bond of this immense
] quantity of provisions has not been confined
to bread stuffs. Large quantities of Ameri
• can beef and pork, which now' come in duty
free, have also been freed from the Queen’s
Jock. With abundance of employment for
the laboring population, and a comparative
low scale ot prices for provisions, not only
great domestic comfort, but an extensive
amount of business and a corresponding de
gree of prosperity must await on all—from
the operative to tiie merchant.
The weather continues beautiful.
London Money Market.—July 3. —The
news ofthe settlement of the Oregon question
with the United States Government, w hich
■ readied London on Monday, caused Consols
j to rise about A per cent, and gave a consider
ably brisker lone to the market than existed
| last week; and the prospect of peace and ex
tended commerce have further advanced pri
-1 ces to-day to a trifling extent, which, how
ever, has not been very steadily maintained.
There has been no change in the rates of dis
count; but the brokers complain of a slack
ened demand for money, though now we an
ticipate that since the Corn law and Tariff
: Bills are passed there will be a better demand
1 for cash.
! Tiie gross amount of revenue, from the
( British Post-office is four-fifths of what it was
under the old system; the increase in the
number of letters is already four fold. When
this is increased to four-and-a-haif fold the
I revenue will be equal to the Post-office reve
i nue under the old system.
A detachment of royal sappers and miners,
i consisting of se en non-commissioned offi
cers and men, embarked at Liverpool for
North America, by tlie last steamers; to be
employed in the survey of the country be
i tween Quebec and Nova Scotia, with a view
to forming a line of railway between these
! two places.
The troops for the Hudson’s Bay embark
ed at Cork, on the 251 h ult., in the Blenheim
. and Crocodile.—The vessels are to proceed
to Resolution Island if they separate, and
i there the two store ships from the Orkneys
are lo await their arrival. They proceed in
company through Hudson’s Straits and to
Fort York.
The Sugar Duties. —Whatever uncertain
| ty may yet be fell as lo the ultimate settle
ment of tiie sugar duties, there need be none
as to the course a new ministry will adopt,
j The notice placed by Lord John Russell up
j on the books of I fie House of Commons
1 early in (lie present session, of his intention
| to propose the equalization of the sugar du-
I t eson free and slave labor sugar, sufficiently
[ marks his course on the most important point
; to be considered. We do not doubt that
I the immediate and total abolition of the dis
i tinclion against the produce of slave labor
will form an essential part of bis scheme,
| whatever may be its oilier features.
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
r IRST SESSION.
Washington, Julv 17, 1846.
SENATE.
After the presentation of petitions, a long
dismission arose upon motion that the daily
hour of meeting be ten instead ot eleven o’-
1 clock.
Several Senators preferred sitting late in
the evening, but the motion to meet at ten
I was finally agreed to.
i Mr. Benton, from the military committee,
reported a bill providing for the erection and
completion of certain fortifications on the
Coast of Texas.
Mr. Allen submitted a resolution, which
lies over, to the effect that tiie sub-treasury
bill shall be taken up as the special order im- ;
! mediately after the passage of the tariff bill. |
The House bill authorising tiie issue of
treasury notes or a loan was then taken up.
Mr. Evans said he would vote for tiie bill
; because lie knew the Treasury demanded the
! supply, but what he wished to know was,
how these notes were to he met. He then
went on to contend that the present bill to
l modify the tariff will reduce, instead of in
crease the revenue, and that consequently
i the notes never can be paid until the restora
tion of the tariff of 1842.
• Mr, Benton next took the floor, and ex
pressed his willingness to vote for the bill, j
although he dissented from some of its pro
visions. He moved to amend by striking out ;
that poit on of it which provides for the re
issue of Treasury Notes.
\\ hen he concluded, by general consent,
the further consideration of the bill was post
poned till to-morrow.
Some unimportant m liters having been
disposed of, the Senate resumed the consid
eration of the tariff bill.
Mr. Davis having the floor, spoke at great
length in continuation of his remarks from
yesterday.
When he concluded, Mr. McDuffie called
for the question, but Mr. R. Johnson intima
ted that ho desired to speak to-morrow.
Some d scussion of a conversational char
acter ensued, in which, on the whig side of
the Senate, it was promised that the question
should be fairly met. The bill was men laid
aside till to-morrow.
Mr. Dix gave notice that lie will call uo
the river and harbor bill immediately after the
passage of the Treasury note bill.
A ter the disposal of some private business,
the Senate held an executive session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTS! IVES.
The whole day was devoted to the consi
deration of private bills.
[From the "Washington Union, July IS.]
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, to-day, after a brief but
interesting discussion, the treasury note bill
was passed.
1 lie consideration of the tariff bill was then
• r-zrr.'zirr'*.. awwa—a— —*tSSSßSSS
: resume.!, and Mr. R. J ihnson spoke for three
; hours in opposition to it.
Mr. Niles has the floor for Monday.
The House spent the day in the consitler
ulion of private bills. 1
[From the .V. O. Picayune Extra, July 16 J
FURTHER FROM THE ARMY.
The mail received by the New York having
I been distiibuted, we are placed in possession
of our correspondence from the army, a por
tion of which w ill be found below. Every
thing indicates that Gen. Taylor will soon
make, if he Iras not already made, a general
movement towards Camargo, and thence upon
Monterey.
The following Is from the American Flag:
We understand that there is a project on
foot here to raise a body of men —lilty nr
more—logo to Chihuahua and search for an
immense treasure which is said to have been
secreted previous to the destruction of a large
i city, which was besieged by the Indians many
years ago, and ail the inhabitants massacred
with the exception of two. These two, it
would seem, made several attempts to return
■ and get the treasure, hut died before it was
| accomplished. The mines in the neighbor
| hood of w here the treasure was buried, are
i said to have been the richest in tiie world and
have never been worked since that time.
j
[Editorial Correspondence of the Picayune.]
Matamoros, Mexico, July 3, 18-lb.
1 Did lor did I not, in one of my former let
i ters, say there were no musquitoes in Mata
inoros? If I asserted there were none I was
1 entirely and most distinctly in the wrong; for
' within a night or two they have made their
j appearance in myriads, adding another item
; to the catalogue of discomforts attendant up
j on life hereaway. The camp on both sides
the river, after two or three fair days, has
; dried up, however, so that all can get about
I without incurring the annoyance and dan
| ger of being stalled or drowned in (he mud.
The river is within a few inches of coming
| over the banks, yet it is nearly at a stand,
and the hopes now are that there will be no
1 overflow.
Salutes will be fired to-morrow, the anni
versary of our independence, ami th&. glori
| ous -Ith will doubtless be celebrated in be
j coming style. A strange story has got
abroad among the Mexican residents, and is
j firmly believed by many, to the effect that the
i city is to be given up by Gen. Taylor to be
: sacked as a part of the celebration, that tiie
! women are to be violated, and the children
carried off as slaves. How such a (ale could
gel wind and obtain credence 1 know not,
but that there will be hiding and skulking
; away during to-morrow is as certain as the j
1 day comes.
j Independent of the news published in the
Matamoros Reveille of this morning, we
have any quantity of rumors from the interior
of Mexico. A majority of them are probably
entirely destitute of found .lion, yet it may
not be amiss to give them a place in print. \
One account has it that Herrera is again at !
; the head of the Government, while Paredes
| continues in command of the army. Another
; report is to the effect that in the west ofMex
i icn there has been a pronunciamento in favor 1
! of Santa Anna, calling for the immediate re
-1 turn of the tyrant to the country, while there
i is still another announcing that the inhabl
, lants of Zacatecas, heretofore the fiercest
l and holest-lieaded of all in favorof war with
i the United Slates—have now risen in favor
j of immediate peace. Such are some of the
i rumors. I might give you a hundred afloat
; here. You, in New Orleans, have perhaps
; a better opportunity of ascertaining the truth
or falsity of the reports than we have.
*'** * * * *
Let mo revert once more to the great want
of transportation felt here. Had Gen. Tay
lor received the number of volunteers he cai -
ed for in the first instance, with a sufficiency
i of steamers with which to move them and
; their subsistence, it is thought by those best
acquainted, that the 4th of July would have
■ been celebrated to-morrow in Monterey in
stead of Matamoros. The Mexicans certainly
i could not have recovered from the panic with
i which the}* started from Resaca de la Palma
i in season to make a formidable stand this
; side the mountains, so that Monterey could
| have been taken almost without firing a <nin.
It is too late now. A tardiness in forward
ing steamers lias deprived the commanding
General of a most glorious opportunity of oc
| copying one of tiie strongest holds of the
! enemy.
A good Story is told of the manner in
which Arista’s officers were tre; (.■•! after
. their hurried return to 1•• A ball
was given to a large party o! officers who had
just arrived from Eati Luis, or some point ip
; that direction, and at this ball Arita’s defeat
ed and disgraced (Sterlings appeared, in uni
j forms fresh brushed and With all theirappoint-.
j merits scoured up to tiie brightest. The or
; cheslra struck up, and among the first to pay I
their respects to the ladies and ask their hand |
for the waltz or cotillion, were the fellows j
who had danced so nimbly to a different tune |
at the Resaca. The answer of tiie ladies
was noble, and at the same time cutting to
a degree: lUe do not dunce icilh our own sex’ ”
********
The health of the volunteer camp is but
indifferent, although bowel complaints are i
almost the only diseases prevalent, and they I
| are generally of a mild type. In Col. Marks’
Rpgimerit the meazles have made their ap
i pearance, several men being now down with ;
the complaint. I.trust it will not spread.
They areto have quite a celebration to-mnr
row in the volunteer camp, when a speech is
ito be made by Captain Ogden, of Ranides.— !
Company D. of the Andrew Jackson regi- |
ment is also to give a grand dinner, to which j
a large portion of the principal officers, both
Texan and American, if 1 can now make .
such a distinction, have been invited. The
company is in the main composed of prin- i
ters, and they will carry the thing out in
capital style. G. W. K.
P. S. It is said that several Mexicans were
killed in rows last night—some sav five or ;
six—by drunken brawlers who bang about I
the camp ot tfie Texans. There were seve- •
ral disgraceful scenes enacted during the j
night, but I do not believe so many were killed !
as Js stated. The misfortune is, that a large
portion of the Texans are obliged to sutler !
: fur the faults of a few.
[Correspondence of the Picayune.]
Fort Folk, July 7th, 1346.
Gentlemen—tor tiie last week we have
been indulged with a little sunshine. This
we are grateful for, and hope it will last suf
ficiently long to dry the roads, and enable
the train to return which has been detained
here fur the last week or ten days. Owing ;
j to the iate arrival of several light draught j
i steamers, and the rise in the river, which
I enables those that were in it to ascend, sup- j
pile- are now being rapid!}’ thrown forward, j
; and transportation by land between this and r
I Matamoros will no doubt hereafter tn a great j
measure be abandoned, as the train will be
required on the other side of that city.
Things begin to look now somewhat like a
move forward, toward, if not upon Monterey. ;
Volunteers and regulars may be said to be i
’ almost daily arriving. 1 have before spoken
of the mobocratic state us some of the former,
but 1 understand the palm lias been cairnu
ufl‘ bv the “Baltimore boys,” who destroyed
!tic sutler’s store at the Brazos. Some troops
from Fori Monroe, 1 believe, are the latest
arrival.
i No news from above. Some of the camps
have been moved on account of the inunda
tion bv rain, anti expected overflow of the
river. McCullough is off’on another scout
in tiie in’erior, and your friend Kendall,
who accompanies him, writes that his warn
ing was hardly sttflic ent to allow him to
; take a hasty p'afe of soup.”
The sick and wounded are doing remark
; ably well. The last few deaths have been
among the volunteers This you will not
wonder at when I tel! you there are men
among them GO and SO years ot age. 1 need
not tell yon it is wrong to bring out such
men, or permit them to come. The general
health of the army remains good, but a little
! appreiiension is felt when the waters sub
side. Yours, &.c. b>.
Fort Folk. July 9, 1546.
Gentlemen:—The New \ork having just
arrived, I do not lose a moment in-preparing
! this short epistle, knowing iier ways ot put
ting off*so soon and unexpectedly, that with
) out the mail, and almost as otlen without
passengers.
Nothing particularly new from above.
The 4th of July came off* in town with con
siderable noise and jollification, and was
quite a “big skare” for the Mexicans, who
' did not understand the firing of the usual Na
tional salutes, but fled from town, whilst
others took refuge with our citizens.
The river still continues very high, the
bank in many places being overflown. Most
all of the camps have bad to be moved—that
of the Ist Brigade is on an Island, being sur
rounded by water. Gen. Smith's has moved
10 or 12 miles up the river.
The 7th Regiment of Infantry, which
started up the river a few days ago, it is
thought had to return on account of high
water.
Everything indicates a move soon into the
interior. No little anxiety is felt to learn
the news from the States respecting media
tion, &.C. Yours, &c. S.
[From the Federal Union.]
MR. STEPHENS’ MEXICAN WAR SPEECH,
j With the unequivocal marks of vanity for
which that gentleman is known to be re
markable, Mr. Stephens .lias inundated the
country with his Mexican War speech, all
dressed in fancy tinted coverings and inter
spersed with beautiful gems of poetry.—
Whether these embellLhments, which are not
| wont to deck the productions of grave, dig
i nified and high-minded statesmen, are de
j signed to blind the reader to the sophistry of
his arguments, and the unmanliness of his
temper, or whether they are the effervescence
: of a sophornoric pedantry which delights to
| revel in the gaudy flowers of rhetoric and
vent a torrent of unmeaning bombast, it is not
I the object of the writer to discuss. One
tiling however is certain: by his own confes
: sion, it was not his design to debate the sub
ject before the House. For lie declares in the
; outset that he would say “no‘ one word upon
; the subject properly before the committee.”
i The motive of the gentleman, therefore is
, manifest, and it is worthy of him. So pruri
ent was he to have a fling at the administra
: tion, and proveto tiie world that his country
is wrong in her present hostile relation to
Mexico—that she is waging a war of plunder
upon an unoffending neighbor Republic, (hat
lie \ iolates all parliamentary rules, abandons j
. tiie real question for debate, and consumes I
1 his hour in a regular tirade against the course ;
pursued by the President, is it injustice to j
the gentleman to assert, that he represents
Mexico as occupying an unoffending altitude i
towards the United Slates? True, he does ;
I not say so, in so many words. But what I
' other construction can be placed upon the i
| whole tenor of his argument to show that 1
we are the aggressor? —that we have invaded,
i territory improperly and in violation of law,
and that we have thereby unnecessarily pro
: voked hostilities. What else does (he gen
tleman mean by his language on- page 7,
’ where he adopts the very expression of the
Mexican Secretary, and says “from this it
| appears (that is from the quotations from the
i Correspondence of the Mexican Secretary
of foretg i HlTtirs with ?*Jr. Slide'll) that even
up to ’Jit; 12th of March last, it was not the
: intention or wish of Mexico to make war
against us; and that in the actual state of
: things then, to say that Mexico maintained,”
a position of quasi hostility with respect to
I the Untied Stales, “was “to add a new of
! fence to her previous injuries?” Let the
question be repeated—if Mr. Stephens did not
intend to throw our government wholly in
the wrong, and to convey the idea that Mex
-1 ico did not even occupy a position of “ quasi
1 hostility u'ith resperd to the United Slates,”
* why does he adopt the language of the Mex
ican Secretary and say. that to assign her
; such an attitude, "teas to add a neic offence to
i her previous injuries ?” What “ previous in
juries?” Does tied the gentleman countenance
the idea that Mexico has sustained injuries
| at the hands of the United States? Injuries
| previous to the 12ih of March last? Such
then is the patriotic motive of the R°presen
; talive of the 7lli Congressional District; lie
j is willing to heap dishonor upon his country,
! for the sake of venting his pent-up malignity
i against her highest functionary. Verily Mr.
Polk may well*adopt the language which Mr.
I Stephens employed in compliment to Mr.
j Webster.
“And he, who transcends or excels mankind
Must lockdown on the hate of those below.”
It seems that Mr. Stephens has changed
his mind, in relation to the effect of Annexa
; tion. On the 2d page of his speech, he re
■ pudiatcs the idea that “some seem to con
sider it a necessary result from the annex
j ation of Texas, or, in other words, a war that
1 Mexico is waging agaiir-t ns on account of
that measure.” Has Mr. Stephens forgotten
; that in the Presidential compaign of 1844.
| none was louder or more bitter than him
| seit, in denouncing annexation on this very
. ground? Does he suppose that the people of
the 7th Congressional District have forgotten
his position—That they vvili faii to remember
the contempt and odium, which he sought j
by ridicule, abuse and vulgar anecdote to
heap upon the democratic party, in conse
quence of their advocacy of this measure?
Tuat he accused them with having no prin
cip'es and tauntingly said, that as soon as
they were pressed for a declaration of them,
“they immediately cut out for Texas?” But
| it seems now, tuat “a change has come o’er
; the spirit of iiis dream.” He was elected in
i that campaign to his present seal in Congress,
with his avowed hostility to annexation, on |
the ground smong others, that it would be
the adaption of a war with .Mexico. And
yet he voted for annexat ion !! It were useless
to discuss whether this change was wrought
’ by the power of honest conviction, or wheih- j
> er he was lashed into the annexation ranks,
bv the scorpion thong of popular sentiment. |
Charity, however, would accredit the change
to the former cause, if he had not with most |
impudent temerity, have accompanied his
annexation vote with the absurd avowal, that ,
lie never was opposed tit that measure. But j
having voted for that measure, he can now
deny what the democrats always denied, that ;
annexation would not necessarily produce ;
; war with Mexico.—This position is true, and
Mr. Stephens is obliged, however reluctantly,
to assume it. And why? Because having
l voted for if, if he admitted that it was the
cause of the war, he would convict hnnsell
; of voting for a measure which he believed
1 (as lie declared during the canvass of 44) j
1 would involve us in war with Mexico. Hence, |
his change on this point doubtless.
But there is another mode of accounting
for the new revelations which have enlight
i ened the mind of Mr. Stephens, in relation
to the effects of the annexation of Texas.—
He is exceedingly sensitive to public opinion,
lie courts the popular favor with as much
ardour as ever a lover wooed his dulcinea.
, He is emphatically a surface, man, and uflers j
no mere resilience to N:e popular current, |
] than does a cork to the angry surge. He j
1 would not openly censure the people’s will, I
j even though its mandate he in the teeth of ,
j all his principles and preconceived notions of |
! sound policy. Annexation is emphatically a |
| measure of the people. Mr. Stephens though j
| late,saw it—sees it now, and to assign that ,
■ as the cause of the Mexican war would be |
i to condemn the action of the people. But j
! this is 100 dangerous an experiment, for the !
j demagogue, the political weathercock. He i
I yields, though lie denounced it, until he des
i cried the course of the wind. And yet true
I to his whig propensities, he must find fault
I with something; he refuses to he satisfied,
j In order to strengthen his hostility to the
1 President, he very kindly withdraws all cen- |
[ sure from the people—exonerates the conn- ;
i try from all blame for the existence of the ;
1 Mexican war, declares that the annexation 1
jof 'Texas of itself did no h inn, and with a
j venom, wholly incompatable with the spirit
I by which lie professes to be animated, he di
| reefs his missile against the President. It
; shall be seen in the progress of this review, |
! by an array of facts incontrovertible, how ;
i indefensible, unnatural and unpatriotic is the i
| position which he has thought proper to as
sume before the country.
'The democrats, now as they ever have
, done, deny with Mr. Stephens, that rlie pre
; sent war with Mexico is the Ji-cssury result
I of annexation. But. yet it is true ihat the war !
i has become necessary to maintain and de- ;
! fend the rights which the United Stales ac- i
qnired by virtue of that measure. Annexa- j
tion was effected in obedience to the man
date of the people, with the free acqnies- j
cence of the independent Republic of Texas ,
and without violation of any of the rights of \
Mexico. And therefore, that popular mandate J
involved the exercise of every power on the i
part of the constituted authorities of the gen- i
eral government, which might be necessary to |
i carry it into perfect and successful consutn
t mation. If therefore, in consequence of the
exercise of these powers and the enntuma-
I cions obstinacy of Mexico, war has ensued,
; that war, with annexation, is equally a mea
j sure of the people, and censure can rest no
j where, but in the madness and folly ofMexi
j co herself.—And it is evident that this is the
; light in which it is regarded by the country.
It is evinced by the thunders of universal ap
! probation by which the carpings and growl- !
i ings of such wliiglings as Air. Stephens, are I
! overwhelmed; by the enthusiasm with which ;
the yeomanry of the country rush bv thou- j
; sands to the banks of the Rio Grande, to de- j
j fetid our soil from invasion, and our flag from ;
i disgrace, and by the general shout through- i
j out the length and breadth of the land, with j
i which, are hailed the tidings of the victories 1
! won by our gallant and intrepid army.
1 BALDWIN. I
i [Correspondence of the Charleston Courier ]
! New’ Yoke, July 15, 1816. j
j
By the way, I will mention to you a very cn- |
j rictus illustration of the nice distinctions of the law, |
; which has recently occurred in ihis vicinity. A |
Mr. Huestis and a Mr. Unison, ran away with a {
Airs. Flowers, and a Mrs. Jones, from Hempstead
Branch, L. I. 'The fugitives were pursued to
Rochester, where they were arrested—Hut what \
could be done? 'They had committed no crime |
under our laws. Rut upon their arrival at Albany, |
a magistrate, to whom the case was referred, dis- |
j charged the gentlemen on the complaint of rim
i niog away with the women, but commuted them
! for larceny in carrying off Ihe clothes in which
j they escaped—these being the property of the hus
■ bands! So you see that, under the laws of New
York, seducing a man’s wife, and stealing her
j away from his bed and house at dead of night (as
, was the case here,! is no crime, provided she is !
dressed in clothes which the seducer may procure
for her before hand—but if she goes away with
1 only a stocking on which has been purchased by i
; her busoand’s money, then the seducer can lie com- |
milled for larceny!
The weather is still delightfully cool and plea- I
sant. Business of every kind is without change.
New York, July 16, 1846.
The city has been somewhat excited by the. hor
rid murder of a woman by her husband in Jersey
City. The particulars you will find, in disgusting j
detail, in the horrid accident papers. The victim !
was an extremely beautiful woman—all “victims” j
are so, and this one was really—and only twenty- |
i four years old—Spencer being her fourth husband- i
' Spencer is said to be a cousin of the young Spencer i
hung on the Somers hy Mackenzie. He has been i
i advised by Mr. Graham, his counsel, to answer no ;
questions, and his trial will probably come off at 1
the n*’.xt term of the Court. He will scarcely be j
convicted as well founded jealousy is held hy ju- |
rles in modern times to be an excuse for almost any |
I tldr.g.
j The steamer Neptune, which got herself into a i
; fix by running over a schooner on Tuesday night )
j and was put back by order of the passengers and j
; returned to the city yesterday morning, it seems
! had no captain or male on hoard, and was in
j charge of a casual pilot, engaged only for the night!
! This statement, made !>y the passengers, is still itn
j contradicted, and if true, will deservedly injure
j the reputation of the boat among the traveling pub
! lie.
The great Yacht Regatta between the Boston,
I New York and Philadelphia Yachts came off this
I morning—the whole sixteen vessels having started
i and being still on the way, a great many people ac
companied them in steam boats.
The stock market improved a little to-day, al
though the transactions w’ere. very small. In the
Aloney and Cotton markets there is no change.—
Freights are nominal, and Flour is very dull.
The weather is cool and bright. The city' is
■ quite dull and insipid—every body being in an ill
humor at being obliged to stay here.
Crops. —’The prospect of an abundant crop j
of grain throughout the entire West, and in- ;
; deed the whole wheat growing region, was ■
1 never better than the present.
! The prospect of the growing crop through- 1
i out the entire Cotton region, is anything but
I satisfactory.—.V. O. Jeffersonian. July 15. i
AUGUSTA, GEO..
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 22, J3t(T
ttJ'The news (’nun England, by the Cam-
I bria, is of the most interesting character lo
all classes in this country. But the leading
and most momentous event is the passage of
the Corn Law Bill. It is surely destined not
only to be a great blessing to the British pco
; pie, but must have a favorab’e influence upon
! the agricultural and commercial interests of
this country. Sir Robert Reel has filled the
measure of his fame. He could not have re
’ tired upon an achievement more honorable to
his reputation as a patriot and a statesman.
O"We have examined some specimens of
Penmanship, exhibiting the improvement of
pupils under the tuition of Mr. G. R. Gib-ou,
j whose card appears in this day’s paper,
j They exhibit such decided proofs of the ad
i vantages of his system, that we do nm hesff
tate to recommend him to the community.
We wish some of our correspondents would*
t ike a course of lessons.
O'The Chronicle &. Sentinel seems to be’
in a state of painful apprehension for the
| morals of the members of Congress at Wash
i ingfon city. In an article of the 21st, it
i quotes a statement by the correspondent of
| the United States Gazette, that when the
! land graduation hill was under discussion in
i the house, Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Buchanan, Mr.
j Marcy, and Air. Johnson, were present, and
■ in close conversation with members of Con
i gress. The Chronicle seems to regard the
j presence on such occasions of members of
the cabinet, as almost as bad as a hand of
soldiers stationed in the capitol to overcome
the representatives ot the people. It speaks
of the circumstance in this wise.
“The disgraceful scene alluded to is enough
j to excite the indignation of the honest of all
I parties, and alarm them at the rapid progress
| of corruption.”
The best remedy we can recommend the
whigs, who should share in the apprehension*
ot the Chronicle, is to send members to Con
gress that they can trust. 'The only other
suggestion that occurs to us, would he to pass
i a law, that the fascinating presence of the
cabinet officers should be abolished from the
halls of Congress. This’would be showing
rather too great solicitude for the morals of
the members. But in such a case, we would
1 suggest byway of amendment, that the hordes
i of manu'kctnrers who infest the lobbies with
a view to cajole, or to overawe members, or
j to get up panics, should also be excluded.
| They should not he forgotten, when currup
■ lion is the topic.
j 37” We have received tiie following letter
! from the Hon. R. A. Toombs, referring foot o
' of our recent editorials. He says nothing
about publishing it, but we presume that ho
desires that it should appear in onr column*.
We therefore give it to the public, forbearing
much comment at this time. We wiM wait for
his promised speech. We derived nnr informa
tion of what ho did say, from the reporters for
tlie newspapers. If they misrepresented
him, if. is no fault of ours.
We have now before us the sketch of the
: debate reported for the New York Journal of
| Commerce, from which we make the follow
: ing extract ;
“Cotton, he (Mr. Toombs) went on to show
i was never so low as during the last three
1 years of the compromise. It had been twenty
| or thirty per cent, higher under the tariff of
; 1842. The three years preceding this tariff
1 of 1842 were the most disastrous that were
| ever known lo the cotton planters,”
i The tables we published showed that this
i assertion was unsustained by the facts. If
i Mr. Toombs did not make if, tlie injustice did
i not originate with us.
j We will be prepared to discuss the prnpe
j sition at the proper time, and at a'l times, that
: “the encouragement of the manufacture of
j cotton in this country is beneficial to the cut-
I ton planter,” and to argue byway of reply,
that special legislation fur the direct benefit
of those so engaged, irrespective of revenue
principles, is unjust and injurious to the cot
ton planters.
The injury is indirect, and though not so
■ palpable, is as sure in its effects, as any tem
porary benefit it bestows by a momentary en
; hancomcnl of prices of raw cotton. But the
, great injury is, that it is a pattof a vast sys
| tern of protection to various pursuits not lo
cated in the South, which renders the whole
country tributary, cripples its commerce, and
which bestows not even a momentary benefit
! on the cotton planter.
House of Representatives, )
Washington, July ]7, 1816. (
James Gardner, Jr., Esq :
! Sir—ln your paper of the 13th inst., you
■ say “Air. Toombs in his speech on the Tariff
j in reply to Air. Hunter, of Virginia, is rep-
J resented as stating that cotton under the com
-1 promise bill was lower than at any subse-
I qnent period. That three years prior to the
I passage of the bill of 1842 it was lower than
it ever has been since, and that after the
tariff of 18 42, and owing to the tariff of 1842,
cotton went up in price.”
/ never made one of the statements attributed
to me in the above extract. They are all uf
terly incorrect in each and every particular.
Mr. Hunter, of \ irginia, in attempting to en
force and sustain the favorite theory of his
particular school of politics, that low duties
increased tl e price of agricultural products,
referred to tables showing that the average
price of cotton during the compromise bill
was greater than under the act of 1843. In
reply lo that argument, I showed that in tlie
first four years of the compromise, when the
duties were high, and higher than at any sub
sequent period of that bill, that cotton was
highest, and that during the last three year*
when the duties were lowest, cotton was lower
than at any other period of the compromise