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Correspondence between the Hon.
George *M. Dallas and ids Consti- ■
tuents on the subject of his Casting :
Vote.
Wf* copv the following from the Philadel
phia Pennsylvanian:—
Philadelphia, July 29th, 1846.
To the Honorable George M. i>u I las,
Vice President of the United States;
Sir: The fate of the new Tariff'bill being
decided by your casting vote yesterday,in the
Senate of the United States, we seize the
earliest moment, as your personal and polit
ical friends, and as the fCrroxh ol the toiling
millions of great Republic, Jo jc°ngratu
lale you on your unflinching adherei ce to
Democratic principles—especially to that car
dinal point: ‘-the greatest good lo the
number”—at a moment too, when every eye
was directed towards you—when a large mass
of intelligence and local interest was enlisted
and everted in the antagonist cause, and
when it required a desertion even of two Sen- i
ators to throw the whole responsibility upon
vour single vote. Assuring you that vve are i
certain the majority*bf the American people
will thank and honor you fir this noble act of
Roman firmness, so seldom known in these
modern times of “principle in proportion to
interest,” and which act aids in creating a
law for the equal benefit of the whole people,
whilst it sustains a President and his Admin
istration, whose every deed ha- been designed
for the honor, prosperity, and happiness of
the whole nation.
It is true, the workings of your political
foes may create a momentary agitation
against you, but remember it is not the first
time that you have withstood their harmless
missiles and fruitless assaults; and now we
confidently predict, that the great agricultural
interest —the paramount interest of ilie land
—will have reason to rejoiceat the firmness ■
of your course, and the independence with
which it was exercised, and place you, by
acclamation, on the list with Jefferson and
Jackson, who outlived every breath ot slander,
and whose memories are cherished in the
hearts of millions of freemen.
We have the honor to be, with great res
pectyour friends and fellow-citizens.
[The above is signed by nearly two hun
dred citizens of Philadelphia; and the follow
ing is the Vice President’s reply.]
Washington, Ist August, 1846.
Gentlemen;—Your letter dated the 20th of
July, numerously signed by my neighbors and
friends, is entitled to the expression of my
grateful acknowledgments.
The casting vole given by the Vice Presi
dent, in the Senate of the United Stales, on
the 271 h of July, in favor of the act of Con
gress to reduce the duties on imports, and of
which you speak in terms of warm approba
tion, was a simple and unavoidable act of of
ficial duty. Every principle of public con
duct upon which from early youth I have ever
acted, every moral dictate of a calmly con
sulted conscience, and every view my mind
could take of the best and broadest interests
of my whole country, as they were to be af
fected by the question submitted for decision,
demanded that vote. Not to have been called
upon to give it would have gratified me; but
when exacted by the constitution, in the of
fice whose functions were assigned to me by
the American people, to have cowered and
hesitated before the statesmen and patriots i
in whose presence i stood, or any where, j
would have been a sort of self-debasement I
and degradation to which no earthly consid- |
eration can allure me. J gave that vote, be- 1
cause not to have given it would wound my '
conscience, wound my self-respect, wound my
Principles, and incurably wound my country. |
claim no praise for it; the fact that it had
an appearance of unkindness towards many
of the community among whom I was born j
and have long toiled, made it painful; but it
belonged to the place, was evoked by cir- '
cumstauces, and became inevitable.
It was inevitable, iffor no oilier reason, be
cause I had openly, in the face and to the i
knowledge of the whole country, at tin? mo- j
ment I consented to be a candidate for the
Vice Presidenc3’,«promised it to the majority
of the people who should elect me. i had i
assented to the conditions or instructions of i
the canvass of 1844—assented in writing—
and that assent had been disseminated vvhei
ever the democratic press could penetrate. 1
did so more than once; and having done so, ;
scrupulously and rigorously abstained from
participating in the election. On no public
occasion did it become necessary or proper
for me even to allude to the topic of a Tariff’.
The Presidential candidate, Mr. Polk, in his
letter lo our townsman, Mr. Kane, very pro
perfy took his own particular course. I had
no course to take about it, having given a
comprehensive pledge to abide by the sense
of a majority, and the matter of a Tariff be
ing expressly apd emphatically involved in
the binding resolutions of those w ho, w ithout
the slightest knowledge, or expectation, or
desire on my part, proffered the nomination
for my acceptance. As good faith in public ;
men cannot be dispensed with, and is not to
be evaded by sophistries, the people, as welt |
eouth as north, west as east, having taken
me at my word and elected me, 1 have fit!- 1
filled the pledge. I should have felt covered i
with dishonor as with a garment, bad 1 done
otherwise.
Tiie two interests of Pennsylvania, about
which much anxiety was manifested, the iron
and coal interests, will not, 1 sincerely hope
and believe, experience the injuries foretold.
But, is it possible that our upright common
wealth can for one moment demand that an
officer, elected by the suffrages of the people j
of all the twenty-eight States, and bound by
his oath and every constitutional obligation
faithfully and fairly to represent; in the exe
cution of his high trust, all the citizens of all |
the Union, should narrow Ins great f-phere and
act with reference only to her peculiar wish
es? To inculcate such a doctrine to Penn
sylvania is something more than useless; it is
derogatory to her. The pages of her history
are crowded with proofs that she perfectly
understands the Federal Constitution, from
i iwia'jJHaiiw 11m Tir'L .■-i-u.—'lerufA
1 which and through which she claims to de
rive no benefit which she is not willing lo
share equally with any member of the con
federacy. To bind or bend a President nr
Vice President to disregard the general will,
and the objects of a national policy, in order
)<» subserve exclusively her special will and
her local policy, would manifest, in my hum
ble judgment, a degeneracy of sentiment to
wh.eh Pennsylvania never has descended and
never can descend.
It is hare justice to the feelings of ?nme of
yon, and of many much esteemed neighbors
and political opponents, to say, without ctim
ing for it the slightest merit, that in the pow
erless position pre-cribed by the Constitution
to the Vice President, as regard* matters of
legislation, I omitted no effort which person
al intercourse and conversation cnahei me
to make, with a view to bring about such
changes and modifications in the* bill as would,
compatibly with the paramount purpose of
the people, soften its apparent rigors. These
| efforts tailed—tailed from causes over which
1 had no control, and of which I have no
right to complain; and having failed, it would
he useless, if not wrong, lo detail them
They are adverted to only as an assurance
that, f.ctsunnily, I would do anv thing honor
| able and lair to shield a friend or associate
from unnecessary harm, while officially , I
must and will do in\ daily with uudi.se mnuia
• ling inflexibility.
it is not my desire, in tins letter < facknovv- •
i ledgmenf, lo vindicate the new and enlarged j
| system of commercial intercourse which the
I American people have determined to enter
upon. Towards that system, however, no ob
. serving man can avoid seeing that Uhristen
| dorn, as if by simultaneous impulse, is rapid- i
j ly tending. Jt is the offspring of expanding
liberty and prolonged Peace, and 1 feel such •
unwavering confidence in theenlerprise, skill, I
spirit, hardihood and perseverance of my
, countrymen, that 1 cannot doubt, however j
severe the sacrifice involved in a beginning I
may he, that the end of a gei>erous and uni
versal competition must he their triumph !
over all the rest of the world.
1 am, truly and respectfully, your fellow
citizen and friend, G. M. DALLAS. j
To Anathasius Ford. George Guier, Richard
Peltz, John Ilentz, William W. Weeks, '
Esquires, and others, Philadelphia.
AUGUSTA. (lEO.. i
j
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 18-16.
O' We solicit the attention of our read
ers to the correspondence between the Hon.
George M. Dallas and his constituents, which i
. t
will be found in other columns.
o*We have received the first number of
another new paper published at Atlanta,
Ga., called the “ Enterprize .”
O' The correspondent of the Colnrnbns
Times, writing from Philadelphia, 29th July,
i says;
“Now look out for changes—capital in ;
manufacturing will be wor h double as much i
in the South as in the north. It will pour 1
down into your city like an avalanche in the
course of the ensuing twelve months, and
along with it the Yankee skill to give it el- ;
feel. Already they begin to talk here of pull- 1
ing up stakes.”
GEORGIA MANUFACTURES.
We had an opportunity, a few days since, :
of witnessing a few drawing-knives, manu
factured by Mr. Allen Cleveland, of Me Do- |
i nough, Henry county. The finish and temper
i of the blades appeared good, and so far as we f
! are capable of judging, we think these spcci- !
| mens of work would bear a fair comparison
: with any similar article imported from
abroad.
Mr. Cleveland authorizes ns tn say that he
warrants every article made at his establish- |
ment—and that lie intends devoting much of
: his time and means to the general mannfac
! lure of edge-tools and guns. We wish him ;
i all the success that his industry, enterprise I
j or merit entitles him to expect or receive.
i These drawing-knives arc for sale at our
! °
j hardware stores, and we hope persons in want
I of such articles will examine and give them
a trial.
DorDr. E. Roberts and John Jacobs, the persons
i upon whom suspicion rested, of having committed |
several daring robberies in Hancock, Harris and
: other counties in this state, were arrested near j
, Fort Gaines, on the Alabama side of the river,
! on the 23th ult. Jacobs in attempting lo make
his escape was killed. Money, to tlie amount of
j about $5,000 was found and secured. Their sad- j
j die bags, likewise contained, all the tools and im- j
’ plements necessary for entering houses. We learn j
that Dr. Roberts has been brought back and lodged i
j in the jail of Hancock county.
GATHERINGS FROM THE PRESS.
[Ur' Ex-Governor Thomas is dead.
j 83" The mother of Wm. C. Preston died re
| cently in Virginia.
jtJ*There had been 263 deaths in New York, j
daring the week ending August Ist.
83" U. Falvy Williams, a Comedian, died at i
Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 2nd July—he was widely i
known as an excellent actor and a worthy man.
83" Forty wrought nail makers in Albany. New
York, have lately been jKinicleed. What has be- I
come of the thousand men who have been out of
work in that city for several years past? Good i.
capital for panics: let them be worked up.
83" A motion was made by a member of the Le
gislature of a Western State to lay a tax on horses, •
cows, a--ses. and other domestic animals. A mem- I
; bermoved |p strike out the word asses or to amend
the reso utfon by inserting the word “quadruped”
i after animals, else, ite argued, the law might ope
rate onerously on the merer of the resolution and
i other honorable members of the House.
A Bank Closed. —The -Bank of Williamsport,
i Md.. was moved into its new building a few days
: since, and the money locked up in its'new vault. I
! Next day on attempting to open the vault every
1 effort appeared abortive, and the officers were ;
finally compelled to send to Baltimore for the man- i
ufaclurer ot the lock, with w hose assistance alone ;
j an entrance could be effected.
Fanny Blister's Shoes. — An American paper as
i sorts, says an English editor, “that an oid pair of
satin shoes of this celebrated dunseues were lately
: sold for one hundred dollars, and that one of the
; s'reets of New York is now named after her!”
A child ofMr. Warren Partridge of South Bos- ;
ton. about ten months old, died in its mother’s
arms in the cars of the Providence railroad on j
Saturday. The conductor says this is the first
i natural death that has occurred on that road.
Numerous persons are preparing to emigrate
I from Sweden to North America, under the guid
-1 am e of Erich Jansou, a fanatic, who has set him
self up as a prophet, and who has thousands of fol
lowers.
Singular Sheriff's Sale. —The bell on the Uni
versahst t hureh m Petersham was sold on execu
tion on Monday, to satisfy the debt of a formermin
isterufthe parish. —Barra Gazette.
B-xtA. ugAvmw m ——■ mam* m
A Ifeitry Loss. —The editor of tTi*» Trenton, N.
J.. New* rKoeiiiij* lust his pocket book. x\lii< - b con
tained a vast quantity of bills—tailor's bills, un
paid.
The trail of Judge Oorge f>. Shnrtridge. nt the
recent special terra of the Circuit Court for Talla
dega county, on a charge of Perjury, resalted in
tus etitire and unqualified acquittal.
(ant ion. —A citizen of New York is about tnsne
the corporation for his health, having lost it though
lire filthiness c-f the streets.
Destitution. — \ man stole a pair of l*oots in Pos
ton, on Fridayjind accused himself so that he could
gel a home in prison.
I'he liihle. —The hible has h»*en translated into, !
and now i- printed or written in, one hundred and I
Ji■ ly languages.
A Ilntstm for Drafting the Wen. —The Lynn j
News says s ime of tli— Lynn girls were anxious io
have the young men drafted, because they would
learn to present arms and salute.
Remarkable Discovery. —Professor Auckland, at
a meeting of the Royal Society hi London, read a
paper upon a discovery he lias recently made, s
llis exjieriinents were made upon vvleal Linneus
terms 11te Oisean Noir. (The black bird.) He
took several of these brids (which were hatched i
in the spring) immediately from the shell —kept
them in a well warmed apartment and fed them
three times-a day. upon different kinds of flower
seed, from which the husks had been carefully
picked; the result was, each bird had the plumage j
of the fl ivver that would have grown from the seed,
i if planted in the ground.
WASHINGTON CITY, )
August 3, 1846. tj
Mr. Editor. —Being now comfortably lo
cated at Gadsby’s, “I take up my pen,” to
address you a long epistle. Indeed, having j
nothing else to do, “1 won’t do any thing
| else.”
I spent (wo days at Baltimore —the city of
i monuments, and mobs, as it has been called. ;
You may add, and of grey horses. That
seems to be the favorite colour for the hacks |
and omnibuses. So it is with I lie four-in- !
: hand teams that draw the Kail Road Cars,
■ in and out of tiie city. It may be a fashion;
or it may be that it just happened so. But 1 I
noticed that three-fourths were of that col- (
our. Perhaps it has some remote connection |
with the savinjj that the grav mare is the
; better horse—a truth in natural history some- :
| times applied figuratively to bipeds.
1 One of the first acquaintances I met in Balti- j
! more, was our former fellow citizen, W. T. T., !
i better known in some regions as Major'Junes, \
! whose courtship and adventures have attract- ,
l 1
: ed no small attention in the literary world. ;
1 inquired at once, as did the editor of “The
Spirit,” after “Mary and the baby.” In fact
| 1 had the pleasure of seeing the lady indica
ted, looking remarkably well, and one of her
boys, looking very much like “the old one,” j
j only more so; with ruddy cheeks and bright I
intelligent eyes. The Major is now some
| pumpkins in Baltimore. His paper, '■•The
j Western Continent ,” erf which he is now sole
j editor, has taken a high rank, a very high |
' rank, among the literary papers of the day. '
j Its popularity is rapidly extending, and of
! course its circulation also. Do remind your !
1 readers that The Western Continent is, erni- j
1 nently, and avowedly a southern paper, and ;
: an organ of southern sentiment in Baltimore. '
' It looks to the south for support, and there it i
1 must look. The north never thinks of pat
ronizing any thing southern. Baltimore it- ;
; self, lam sorry to say it, is becoming every
year less of a southern city, though geo
-1 graphically it is so. It is a thriving, growing
: city, but it is not from southern trade. Its !
first great impulse was from the carrying |
trade. But now that all commercial nations j
i are at peace, it derives its chief prosperity
from its coasting trade, the extensive manu
i • • •
; factoring and mining works in its vicinity,
and connected with it by canals and rail i
roads, and from its trade with the great west, i
j Southern merchants do not deal here, except
: for two or three leading articles of western
produce.
| Baltimore has other attraction? besides its ;
j monuments, for the eye of a stranger. The
; latter have often been sufficiently described. -
1 In fact, I am not sure tiiat I saw any j
. thing that your readers have not seen an
hundred times in print, unless I except the
new German Church, a Catholic Church, :
but recently, finished. It is in Gothic style, j
stained glass, fluted columns inside, cornices j
gilded, the whole interior Salmon colour, in !
admirable proportion, and fine taste, while j
the altar glitters with the most rnagnficent j
ornaments. A Priest was holding forth, in I
German, when I arrived, to a crowded and
devoutly attentive auditor}'. I could scarcely
make my way among the kneeling figures
far enough in to get a good survey. 1 have
often been struck in Catholic Churches, and i
,
particularly noticed here, and also at the i
Cathedra! the same day, which I visited to j
see its magnificent paintings, the expression i
of devout and unpretending piety stamped on
each and every countenance, whether hum
ble or elevated, in social life. It seems uni- j
versally the case in Catholic congregations.
At the Cathedral, the crowd was not so great.
65 i
’This is attended by most of the haul ton
of that denomination, which embraces a
large portion of the wealth and social aris
tocracy of the city. These are off for the
summer season at the fashionable resorts—
chielly at Cape May, and Old Point Comfort,
and Fauquier Springs, Virginia, some also !
are at Newport and Saratoga.
This may in part, account for my not see
ing as much of the vaunted beauty of the
ladies, which has so Jong been the theme of
Balliraorians and their visitors. I did see, i
however, many who would be called beauti
ful, even in Georgia.
There is one great deficiency in the ap
pearance of Baltimore, which occurred tome
more sensibly, because I was just from Au- ,
gusta and Charleston, where there are so
much of verdure and floral cultivation to
charm the eye. Tins was the almost entire
want of shade trees and shrubbery, and the ;
entire want of public squares and green !
plats. It was acre upon acre of brick and
mortar, and stone. The Baltimore brick are
I famous, and they are put up in fine houses,
i and faced and capped with door facings ard
window sills of beautiful white marble. 1
Sometimes you see a fine painted
white, or straw, or slate colour. But this, in
an August sun, is glare and glitter, and daz
zling brightness to tl*=e eye, which would fain
turn its aching gaze to some friendly spot of |
refreshing green. Addison must have been
thinking of the soothing eflect of Hyde Park
and St. James’, in contrast with the stately j
edifices of Regent and Oxford sireets, or the .
dingy pries of London proper, when he spoke j
of the soft green the soul in depicting men
tal serenity.
I The rich meadows, and luxuriant cornfields, j
and waving woodlands, which I gazed upon
after leaving Baltimore, for this city, were
doubly refreshing. The green leaves looked
more green, the sun glittered upon them
without seeming to scorch, and the breeze
appeared to dally among them a phtyful and
• welcome visitor, and io snatch coolness Irom
them and waft it to the passer by. The \
| clover fields were on each side of me, and I
j too, figuratively, was "in clover. ' Seated in
a locomoli e parlour, on a velvet cushioned
spring sofa, I was whirled along, with gen
tle motion, through a beautiful country, in
°- . i
company with many others, travelling like
myself for pleasure; or apparently on that
errand. I should rather say, that lor once ;
i their countenances indicated not the pursuit j
j of that fleeting phantom, but its fruition. 1
i They looked cheerful and happy. j
| have caught the infection from the inspiring j
| notes of a band of music on the steam boat |
Pocahontas, near the depot, whose decks
I were thronged with a gay party about to
i start when we left, on a pleasure excursion
down the bay.* But I must mention one ex
; cqption among the many happy faces in the
j car in which I was seated. A noticed two,
| that wore a different expression. They sat
I apart, and uninterested in all save each
j oilier.
“Both were young, and one was beautiful.”
| The lady was petite , well formed, graceful,
i Her travelling dress lilted like a new glove,
and her gipsey bonnet sat jauntily upon a
; h£ad decked with ringlets which fanned a
| cheek glowing with health, and rendered
more lovely by dimples that Cupid would de
light to nestle in.
“Her eye's dark charm '(were vain to tell,
But gaze on that of the gazelle,
It will assist your fancy well.”
| By her side was a youth of eighteen. His
i forehead pale, his eyes languid, and yet hav
i ing a diseased lustre,"his cheek betraying
i that undeniable hectic which tells that “the
i insatiate archer” had marked him for Ids own.
j He seemed 100 feeble to hold up Ids head and
i it drooped upon Ids sister’s shoulder, (I knew
; by the resemblance, independent of the at- j
] titude, that she was his sister.) while her i
j arm was thrown around it with unutterable
; tenderness.
j 'l'he sight made me feel sentimental, and
j the expression of her countenance was such
as Byron must have imagined when he de
scribed one ofhis heroines:
“Hers was that Asiatic eye,
as above us is die sky,
Half love, half langour and all fire.
Like >aints who at the. stake expire
Ami deem it were a joy to die.”
But just as 1 was moralizing on this suh
i ject, and commenced repeating the lines of
j Campbell,
“Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease;”
&,c., the train stopped, and I found myself in
“the city of magnificent distances.”
RAMBLER.
*High tariffs, low tariffs, ruin, panics, and all '
these sort of things were to them, but as “airy vis
ions.” ;
Washington City, August 4. 1846.
Mr. Editor :—l believe that the world is ;
indebted to • liochefopicaidt , for the profoundly
; true remark, “No man is a hero to Iris valet
j de chamhre There is a volume of philoso
phy contained in this short sentence, and will
| bear a wider signification than is usually a‘-
j tached to it. Exaggerated notions are al
-1 ways entertained of all objects, animate and
inanimate, about which we have heard much,
but which we have never seen. Imagination
; supplies bounteously all absences of observa
i tion and knowledge. Closer contact and oc
cular demonstration soon put to flight all such
j crude conceptions. I experienced this in re
gard not to men only, but to houses and
! grounds, and paintings, and statues, of which
I heard, and read, and thought so much,
i I had depicted in advance, the effect to be pro
! duced,and the reality of the impressions fell
; farshortof the anticipation. The imagina
tion is a wonderful enchanter, and needs but
a subject. It asks but little other aid from
j reality 7 . It is to each person an Aladin’s
lamp. But its unsubstantial creations are of
ten as deceptive and useless. lam not quite
| as susceptible to the power of physiognomy
as most disciples of Lavator, and the impres
sions made by seeing most «f the great men
here, did not correspond with the impressions
previously derived from description. At a
distance, we have them before “the mind’s
| eye,” as if they were sitting for their por
; traits—looking their best, and looking the
J character assigned them by fame. But be
holding them, bodily, either when quietly
seated, disengaged, or cozily conversing with
i friends, they seemed like ordinary folks.
The Senate is quite as gentlemanly a body
as I expected to see, but not as august in ap
; pearance, or as venerable in years. Some ;
are comparatively young looking men, and ■
with two or three exceptions, they seemed
practical, business men, in the full vigor of
mind and body. The house is less mnbocratic
in appearance than 1 expected to find. Pro
ceedings are conducted with more decorum, j
*. , *
| and although considerable excitement, and j
j some confusion occur in struggles for the
floor, and in questions of order, it seems to be
j checked and controlled by the speaker, with
; cut any great difficulty. *
Most of the great measures of Congress
are now finally disposed of. whether for weal
or woe to the'country, it remains to be seen r
and members are now busy in their prepara
tions to leave. The administration has been i
verv fortunate in carrying all its measures, in
spite of the vigorous opposition of opponents,
and the open defection, or secret treachery, of
professed triends. Tlve clouds tiiat lowered
around it.and threatened disaster, are happiiy
dispersed, and its path ‘is now apparently !
clear and bright. The Southern school ol
politicians, the strict constructionists, “that.
most straightest sect.” have especial reason
° . .
to rejoice. The principles of the V irgmia
and Kentucky resolutions of 179 S and 1799,
are again undeniably and firmly in the as
cendant. The President capped the climax
of republican firmness and consistency by
the river and harbor bill veto. M'une ol the
; Brinkerlioffs, in and out of Ohio, fumed and
; flourished in tones of indignation, because it
' defeated some local interest of their constitu
ents. But men who wear their democracy
as loose garments, to he defied and donned us
convenience dictates, have but hide weight
: in national councils, Mr. Wilmot, though a
| Pennsylvanian, stood up like a man to his
j principles, as he has done throughout the
i session. I was pleased to see Mr. Rhettand
Mr. Holmes come out warmly in support ot
\ the veto. South Carolina lias been looked
j upon as rather lukewarm in sustaining the
i President, though voting for tixe measures of
| Ids administration! Perhaps her delegation
| shared the doubts and suspicions of the
: Charleston Mercury, But those doubts must
vanish now. Ehe has nothing to complain
of. The South has nothing to complain of.
; She should, and doubtless will, rally to sup
i port an administration .which has redeemed
every pledge, and come up to the full cxpec
j tations of the Southern democracy. 'The de
mocratic candidates in the South for Con
giess, will now go before the people for re
election with a moral torce, extremely auspi
cious lor success,
i The great event of the session, the passage
of the tariff bill, must give the democratic
| party in Georgia, an accession to its strength
I of at least two thousand votes.
Mr. Dallas has won golden opinions among
; the great anti-tariff party, and in fact among
: all high-minded men, who can admire great
I moral heroism, by his noble adherence to
; principle, and his discharge of duty in his
1 casting vote. Let the rule or ruin party of
i Pennsylvania, the panic makers, who are
: seeking to bring distress upon tiie laioring
| classes for the sake of political capital, take
heed, or thev will abuse Mr. Dallas into the
j next Presidency. Men cannot make their
j party popular, or manufacturers gain friends,
j who avail themselves of the pretext of a law
i which docs not go into effect for near four
! months to come, to reduce the wages of their
poor operatives, and to bully them with the
I threat of turning them oiit of employ, if they
j complain. This too, Irom men who boast that
I they can sell as cheap as any foreign mann
j facturer.
I am pleased to announce the passage
1 through the house, of the French spoliation
bill. There is no danger of a re-considera
tion, and it will become a iaw. . I think these
i are meritorious claims, and tiiat the govern
j ment does no more than perform incumbent
obligations in paying them. 1 would rather
! have seen it. paid in money, instead of land,
j after deciding that they should be paid. To
| pay in any tiling else, is too much like com
; promising a just debt.
I have reason to believe that the Mexican
| war will not be of much longer continuance,
i and that no insuperable difficulties exist to a
| treaty at no distant date, which will embrace
terms fully satisfactory to this country. 1
doubt whether much more hiood will he shed.
The weather here is now clear, cool and
pleasant. The dust of Pennsylvania avenue
however, is as fine as usual, and is somewhat
of a drawback to a residence on this thorough
fare. A part of it, however, that before the
principal hotels, is watered daily by private
enterprize. The number of strangers visiting
Irere is daily diminishing, and the rolling of
hacks 'through the streets not so incessant,
I arn pleased to find the hacks here generally
clean and neat —in many cases quite showev,
and the horses in good condition, notwith
standing they have had a long and arduous
j session. No doubt they would vote always,
if they could, for the earliest day named for
an adjournment.
I have seen The Linns , but have not time
i now to speak of them. I have not yet had
time to make an exploration of the public
I edifices, and the curiosities they contain. I
I shall visit the Patent office and Institute to
i morrow. RAMBLER.
CAMP. AT BRAZOS SANTIAGO, }
July 23d, 1846. }
Dear Gjmdner. —Our passage across the
Gulf was of the most pleasant ever per
formed ; scarcely a wave agitated the bosom
I of the mighty waters. During the route, no
; incident worthy of note occurred upon the
trip, except one : 1 wa? lying on the prome-
I nade-deck of the Steamer, when I was aroused
!by the cry of “ a man over-board I imme
diately hastened a-batt, and I could discern
bv the uncertain light of the moon, a man
i struggling strenuously against tiie waves
j made by the paddles, ihe boat was imme-
I diately thrown a-back, and the Captain, with
j praiseworthy despatch, let go the yawl, and
I after some difficulty lie was rescued from a
i dreadful fate. Had he not been a very expert
swimmer, he must have inevitably been
| drowned. Leander might have swam the
j Hellespont, and Foster Blodgett theOuith
; lacoochee, but the glory passed from their
laurels when Bob Bridges attempted to swim
the Mexican Gulf,
i This island, situate on the Atlantic sea
coast, is a barren sand-bed about one mile
wide, and eight or nine miles long, formed
by the counter currents of the Rio del Norte T
and as far as I have wandered over it, I could
not discover tree or shrub of any kind to
; cheer the eye, nor is there grass enough on
the whole island to feed a goat —water is not
over abundant, and what we do obtain is got
hv digging a hole in the ground some three
feet deep, and by a process of filtration the
wafer rises iu it to a level with the ocean ; it
is highly impregnated with saline matter and
. operates quickly upon the system, so that dys
entery is almost epidemic among the volun
teers. The tlies abound here in immense
numbers, and are the greatest annoyance we
have. It is said however to be caused by
the number of troops stationed here, there be
ing one regiment from Alabama, one fron#
Tennessee, one from Ohio, one from Georgia,
besides companies belonging to other regi
ments making in ail about five thousand
men. Tins seems to he the rendezvous for
the volunteers, for they arc eontimially ar-’
riving and departing from this point. I wat
at Point Isabel on yesterday, which is about
(our miles from this place, separated by &
shallow channel. It is nothing more than a
mere military depot, about a mile in circum
ference, having a breast-work of sand thrower
up on the lai d side. There I saw piles of
the copper shells, lances, and guns, taken at
the battles ol the eighth and ninth. At that
place, there is also a military hospital, and
although hut a temporary affiir, affords the
sick every comfort that is necessary. In it aro
many of the heroes of Palo Alto, recovering
1 from their wounds. I saw a youth apparent
ly about eighteen, of handsome proportions,
who lud his leg shot away by a shell; lie was
| walking about on crutches, and excited the
sympathy of all who beheld him. The most
j interesting object at that place, is the grave
ol the lamented Ringgold. It is a simple af
fair. j 7 et quite unique, and military; a square
j frame such as is usually placed over a grave,
yet instead of a wooden paling, gnu barrels,
with fixed bayonets serve iu their stead.
General Taylor has left Matamoros for
i Camargo, having sent all the troops on before
i him. The most active preparations are taking
place, to prosecute the war with vigor, and
it is the general opinion here, that the .Mexi
cans will make a final eflort at Monterey.
There is a constant train of wagons going and
coming from this point to the mouth of the
| Rio Grande, from whence their loads are ta
ken by the government steamers up the
river. The Georgia Regiment is under march
ing orders, and we leave this place in two
days, for some point on the Rio Grande, pro
■ bably Btrita. 1 had the pleasure of an intro
duction to Capt. May, when at Point Isabel.
; 1 think he is one of the noblest looking men
I ever saw. being over six fee' h git, and of
1 symmetrical proportions; lie wears his hair
; about six inches below his coat collar, and
were it not for a tremendous heard and mus
tache, liis face would have a gentle, and be
nevolent expression.
The troops are in fine spirits and eager for
, the fray, and ‘‘Old Rough and Ready,” s;ivn,
j we shall have an opportunity of displaying
I our courage ere long. Still in the hour of trial
i lie shall not. find us recreant to the trust
; which Georgia has reposed in us, hut with
| hearts true as the steel which we hold, we
i shall welcome Mexico to the shock.
I shall not, write again until we take up
our line of march for Camargo, of which you
! shall bo advised by
THE POOR SOLDIER.
DIED, in Monroe county, on the goth ultimo,
ZACH.ARIAH HAKM AN. Ben. Esq.,aged about
j (>j years. He was a native of .North Carolina, but
j removed to tins Stale many years since.
Jn Harris county, on the 28th ultimo, in the 42d
I year o her age, Mrs. MARY W. SUTTON, con
j sort of .VI r. James N. Button.
Departed this life at. hi# residence in Cassvihe,
j on Bahbath the 2nd last. Dr. BEN J AMI v B.
GAINE-S, after a lingering illness of many weeks
! —aged 4j years. The deceased was a Minister of
I the Gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
SOUTH-CAROL.INA KAIC-KOAD.
Consignees hy Kail Road, Aug. 7.—S- D. Smith,
11. M.. A. P. D-aring, <Packard, J. C. lister,
; J. Carter, Smith & A., Hoke At A., VV. P. Turner,
W. Chandler, J. J. Howard, 1,. W. B. Suiners, A,
J. Brady, W. JJoiighetry, T. .Barrett, C. E. Gren
ville, K. C. Taylor, I. Henry, Matcalf, J. J. Rich
ards, R. 8. Roberts, Calhoun & H., P..A. Mitchell,
A. & P. Michael. Hungorford, VV. Johnson, H.
Johnson, W. C. Graves, C Rabe, T. P. Stovall,
B As R., VV. At J. Nelson, J. E. T., F. J. Kudler,
: Cook As C., Mallory & Co., E. Muslin, A- Freder
• ick, G. Vulgar, <•'. J.Cook, Clark As K., Dunham,
& 8., Hand Ac VV., Hand Ac F-, Haviland, R. At
Co., Gould At 8., Dawson Ac VV., {Smith Ac. 8.,
King A: M., G. Parrott, H. L Jeffers, V\ aiker A: P.
Consignees per Rail Road, August B. A. J,
Brady, Pitner As E., P. A. M., Johnson At B.,\V.
Dearing, 11. 8. Hoailley, Wright, Nichols At C<*.,
VV’. C. Graves, 8. D. Venter, Kenrivk At T.,C. 11.
Roberts, D- Ilodge, G. T. Dorik-, Grerrlll e, J. J.
Richards, VV. At J. Nelson, J. T. ilungerford, T. C.
: I,ester, Georgia Kail Koad,C.J Cook, C. A. At M-
Jl. Williams, Cook At Clayton, Force, Brothers At
(jo.. Dawson At VV’., H. Risley Ac Co., Gould At
Bulklev. Baker At Hart, Adams At tl., J. VV. Wilde,
J. Ac 8. Bones, J K. Dow ,T. J. Pannelee, G.'Par
r lit, J. F. Griffin, 11. Hutchison. Smith At 8.,
Walker & P.,H. L. Jeflfers, llenkili & K.
a wiriwpiwriiia a———
Academy of Richmond County,
AUGUST 3, 1846.
i At a meeting of the Board, held on the twenty
seventh of June hist, the following Resolutions
were adopted:
Resolved, That the Rector and Teachers in
each Department of the Academy, have the privi
lege of using their respective rooms, between the
termination of the present term and the commence
ment of the next, that is from the 15th of August
to i-st of October, for the purpose of teaching such
private classes as they may form, for that time:
their rates of tuition to conform to those now es
tablished.
That the Trustees will not be responsible for the
management of said classes, and that this reeolu
j tioh be published.
Aug 5 3 HENRY BOBERT, Clerk.
DCTAt a Meeting of the City Coun
cil of Augusta, held on the fnh August mst., tha
following Resolution was passed:
Resolved, That the Superinlendant of Water-
Works may put down Tinned Leaden Pipes, pro
vided that Council may at any lime order ihe same
to be removed, should they prove injurious to the
public health, and at the expense of the person
having said pipes so pul down.
[Extract from th° minutes.]
» W MILO OLIN, Clerk Council.