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[From the N. O. Picayune , Dec. 4.J
LATER FROM TAMPICO.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP NEPTUNE.
The U. S. sloop of war St. Marys
sailed from Tampico on Saturday the 28th
ull. at 3 o’clock, P. M.» and arrived offlhe
Rio Grande ais A. M., on the 30th, where
she landed Adjutant Austin, ot the 3d
Artillery. Thence she sailed at 10o’-
clock, and made the light house at theS.
W. Pass.
Capt. Rollins*ofthesteamshipNeptune,
came passenger on the St. Mary’s, and
arrived in the city this morning; He
reports that the steamship Neptune ar
rived at Tampico on the 22d November,
wiih 450 regular troops under command
of Col. Gates, and the steamet Sea on the
23d with 200 more. [These are the same
troops whose departure from Brazos for
Tampico we announced on the 26th ult.]
On their arrival at Tdmjlico the city was
formally handed over by the Naval force
there to the Army. Fort Andoniga was
immediately garrisoned* tinder Ihe name
of Fort Conner, And armed With two long
8-pounders. A battery of two 42-pound
canonades (called Fort Ann. in honor of
Mrs. Chase, lady of the late American
Consul at Tampico.) commands the Alta
inira road. And besides these some field
pieces are mounted on the house lops.
The town of Tampico is already in a
good stale of defence and reinforcements
are arriving daily. The State of iMexico
is represented to be in a wese condition
than ever. Santa Anna lately addressed
his troops, apparently with the view to ex
tract from them an invitation to assume
the command of the Government. It was
understood that he was much disappointed
in his expectations as the Army received
his add rest* in profound silence. He im
mediately afterwards started with all his
cavaliy, it was stated, on a scouting ex
pedition. Some supposed it was to cut
off one of the divisions of the American
Army, but the better opinioti seemed to be
that lie had gone to theCiiv of Mexico to
o *
watch and direct the new Congress, which
was to convene about the Ist of Decem
ber.
The Saint Mary’s left off the bar of
Tampico the frigate Potomac, steamer
Princeton, sloop of war John Adams and
the smaller vessels of the fleet, unde r
command of Commodore Conner. The
steamer Sea was ashore abreast the town
on a rutjd bank. She would sail for Bra
zos Santiago as soon as she gels afloat.
Met the U. S. steamship Mississippi sixty
mil* s north of Tampico hound in. Officers
of the Saint Mary’s all well.
The Neptune sailed from Tampico on
the 24th ull. She encountered a norther,
was driven back and wrecked on the bar.
All hands saved—the vessel an entire
loss. The following statement of the loss
of his vessel has been furnished by Capt.
Rollins:
REPORT OF THE LOSS OF STEAMER NEPTUNE.
'Hie steamship Neptune departed from the
bar of Tampico on the 24th November, 1846,
with fine weather and light winds from the
south-east, bound direct lor the bar of Mata
nioras. At 9 o’clock, P. M., being about for
ty-five miles north of the bar of Tampico, the
wind suddenly shifted to the north and com
menced blowing a perfect hurricane, and in
spile ot ail the power of the machinery, the
vessel could not be kept head to sea. It was
soon discovered that she was drifting rapidly
to the leeward, and at. 3 o’clock, P. M.,sound
ings were made and found that she had drift
ed into eleven fathoms of water.
The best bower anchor was cleared away
and let go, when its chain was paid out to its
better end; but finding her still drilling, the
second anchor was let go, when she brought
tip and rode, head to the wind and sea, for
about an hour; when the wind increasing
and the sea rising, she again commenced
drifting and although the engine was con
stantly kept working she could not be kept
head to wind. Alter site had drifted into
seven fathoms water, and the sea making a
lair breach all over her, the chains were then
clipped to attempt to keep her off shore.
At day-break on the morning of the 26th
November, she was found to be off the bar of
Tampico, when the upper deck was cut away
together with the mainmast, when she was
got before the wind. Finding that the coal
had been nearly all expended, she was head
ed for Tampico bar, and at 8 o’clock, A. M.,
•he struck aground on the head of said bar,
where she remained four hours with the sea
making a complete breach all over her. At
meridian of same day, she bilged and com
menced breaking up. At 4 o’clock, P. M.,
the U. S. steamer Spitfire, Capt. Tat nail,
sent boats to her assistance and rescued the
captain and crew from their perilous situa
tion.
On the following morning (26th Novem
ber,) she was found to be a perfect wreck,
with nothing to be seen except her gallows
frame and engine. Had it not been for Capt.
Tatnali, officers and crew’s intrepid exer
tions, we should all have been lost before
morning; and their kind treatment to us after
we were on board of the Spitfire, entitles
them to our heart-fell gratitude. On the 26th
November we were lauded at Tampico at
about 9 o’clock, P. M., where I remained two
days, when Coin. Conner despatched the
idoop-of-war St. Mary’s for Pensacola, to
touch at Brazos Santiago,to land Mr. Austin,
bearer of despatches Irom Gen. Patterson, I
look passage for that place, but Capt. Hill
.boarded us and said that there was no vessel
at Brazos Santiago for New Orleans—so I
continued on board the sloop, and was by her
transferred to the steamer Hercules at the
8. W. P. on the 2d inst., at 3 o’clock, P, M.,
alter a passage of fifty hours from Brazos
Santiago—she being close hauled all the
P<t OnUjc arrival of the Neptune off Tampico
lru ,n Brazos Santiago, with 500 troops on
board, there was only eight feet water on the
bar, and the boat had to be lightened before
she could cross over, when Capt. Sanders, of
the sloop-of-war St. Mary’s, ordered all the
boats of the squadron to our assistance, and
landed all the troops on the beach inside,
when we got up steam and went in without
touching, and again took the troops on board
and reached the town comfortably at 9 o’-
clock, P. M., which could not have been done
without the assistance of Capt. Saunders,for
by his prompt exertions we escaped a squally
night outside. Before closing this unfortu
nate narrative of the loss of my vessel, 1 must
here lender my gratitude to the officers of
the navy, off Tampico, for their kindness and
hospitality extended to me.
VVM. ROLLINS,
Late Master U. S. steamer Neptune.
New Orleans, Dec. 4th, 1846.
LOSS OF SLOOP OF WAR BOSTON.
Capt. Thompson, of the ship James Til
comb, which arrived on Wednesday re
ports that on the 24th ult.,on the Bahama
hanks, bespoke a wrecker who reported
the United States sloop of war Boston lost,
on Harbour Islands, a few days previous.
No lives were lost, hut the vessel is said
to have been a total loss. — N. O. Pica
yune t DeC. 4.
Operations in Tampico dr Panned Riven
We have received from our Pensacola
correspondent the following items of in
telligence brought to that place by the
U. S. brig of war Porpoise. It contains
news of considerable Interest, apart from
the operations of the military, and ex
plains the reason of naming one of thfe
fortifications at Tampico after the lady of
the later American Consul at that place:
Pensacola, Dec. 3d, 1846.
Editors Pitayune —Last evening the U. S.
brig Porpoise, Lieut. Commanding Hunt,
came to anchor off this yard, 7 days from
Tampico, 1 have just seen one of the officers
who gave me the following information:
When the Porpoise left Tampico the fri
gates Raritan and Potomac, steamer Prince
ton, and sloop of war St. Mary’s, were ail
anchored outside of the bar, while all our
small craft were inside of the river. A de
tachment of 600 troops had arrived from Gen.
Patterson’s command, and many more ex
pected. The steamer Monmouth had been
at Tampico twice with troops from Brazos or
Point Isabel.
Capt. Tatnali, with the steamer Spitfire,
had gone up the river 60 or 70 miles from
Tampico, and taken possession of two towns,
at one of which he captured ten large can
non, and a heavy quantity of ammunition,
winch had been removed from Tampico when
the Mexicans retreated from that place.
The two regiments which evacuated Tam
pico revolted when they got to St. Louis Po
tosi, and were disbanded. They were op
posed to Santa Anna. Great dissentions
prevailed at St. Louis Polosi—army about
16.000, and in a stated starvation; four dif
ferent factions among them, as follows:
Santa Anna, Arista, Herrera and Paredes.
The recent election in Mexico was much
in favor of ex-President Herrera, who it was
generally believed at Tampico would he the
President.
Mrs. Chase, (the American Consul’s lady)
at Tampico, has behaved most nobly, and
shown to the world she was a patriot under
all circumstances. When our small vessels
were about to approach the town of Tampico,
she ran up our flag in defiance of the alcalde
and other civil officers, and told them they
had better he quiet; that our Government had
then on the march for that place an immense
force, &.c. &c. Some lime before Mrs.
Chase wrote to Commodore Conner, inform
ing him how the place could he taken, and at
the same lime gave him a draft of the town
and harbor.
The Porpoise will fill up with w'afer and
provision, and leave as soon as possible.
Yours, &lc, .
p, S. In the hotly of this letter I neglected
to notice that Com’r. Ingraham, formerly
of the Somers, came a passenger in the
Porpoise, and is bearer of despatches for
Washington. He is unwell, and may not be
able to proceed tor a day or two.
LATER FROM MONTEREY A MONCLOVA.
We are indebted to Capt. Baker, of the
steamer Monmouth, from Brazos Santi
ago, for the following memoranda. Our
correspondence is no doubt on board the
Telegraph which is hourly expected.
On the 26th November, the U. S. steam
frigate Mississippi arrived at Brazos San
tiago, from New Orleans and left the same
day. On the 28th, the schooner Arispa,
loaded with coal, stores, and two sixes, was
towed out, bound for Tampico. At 3, P. M.,
the U. S. steamer Telegraph left for New
Orleans, via Matagorda. At 5, P. M., the
U. S. iron steamer Mary Summers left for
Tampico, with about twenty men and stores
for the Army. The U. S. steamer Undine
also left the Rio Grande, with troops for Tam
pico. On the 291 b, the steamship Virginia,
nearly unloaded, came over the Brazos bar,
to take troops to Tampico. The schooner
Gertrude also taken up by the Quartermaster
to load for Tampico. On the 28th, the U.
S. steamer Col. Cross arrived at the mouth
of the Rio Grande, with a regiment of Ala
bamians, their destination Tampico. Re
quested to report the schooner Heroine, Capt.
Jarvis, cleared from the Rio Grande, on the
28th, for New York.
The brig Orleans, lying off and on at the
Brazos, ready to sail tor New Orleans on the
29th. On the 30th ult., at meredian, off Ma
tagorda Bar, saw two brigs going in, and the
U. S. steamer Telegraph inside. On the
Ist inst., met the high pressure U. S. steamer
Wm. R. McKee, between the Calcasieu and
Sabine, standing to the westward. On the
3d inst., passed the barque R. H. Douglass,
at anchor in the S. VV.Pass,
Mr. A. L. Daunoy, who came passenger
on hoard the U. IS. steamer Monmouth, gave
me the following items:
On the 6th November arrived at Monclova,
found Gen. Wool and army encamped, his
army in fine condition; remained at Monclova
until the 14th, then started with an escort
with despatches for Gen. Taylor; found the
road for 100 miles a perfect desert, destitute
of water, and arrived at Monterey on the 19th;
ascertained that Gen. Taylor had left tor
Saltillo, 70 miles. Lieuls, Franklin and
Deschields, with the despatches, left for Sal
tillo, with the same escort on the 19th. The
distance from Monclova to Monterey is 180
miles, thence to Saltillo 70 miles, whilst Irom
Monclova to Saltillo, it is but 180 miles,
water plenty and corn in abundance, and no
doubt Gen. Wool will advance direct Irom
Monclova to Saltillo.
Mr. Daunoy thinks that Gen. \\ 00l and
Army are now at Saltillo. He (Mr. D.) left
Monterey on the 19ili till. Eleven miles
from Monterey met a train of sixty wagons.
On the 21st, met another t rain of fifty wagons,
escorted hy four companies, having two long
18-pounders, Dr. Hawkins along with the
train.
Note —The Telegraph left the day before
the Monmouth, and had the mails on board,
and is expected to arrive to-day.
[From (he N. O. Picayune, Dec. 4.]
LITER FROM GALVESTON.
The steamship Galveston, Captain
Wright, arrived here yesterday from
Galvestonw, hich lelt on the Ist
inst. By this vessel we have Taxas pa
pers as late as due.
We find in some of our papers further
speculation as to the destination of Gen.
Wool’s army. We make the following
extract from the Victoria Advocate:
“We have conversed with an intelli
gent young gentleman connected with the
Quartermaster’s Department of Gen.
Wool’s division of the army, arrived at
this place on Monday evening last on his
way from San Antonio to Point Lavacca;
and from him we learn that an express
arrived at San Antonia on 1 Ith inst.,
healing despatches from Gen. Wool to
Capt. Irwin, Quartermaster at Point La
vacca. The express left Monclova on
the 4lh, at which time Monclova was in
possession of Gen. Wool, the place hav
ing made no other opposition than the al
calde protesting in the name of the Mexi
can Government against this entrance. —
Gen. Woo] understood on his arrival that
some 2500 volunteers or rancheros had
intended to defend the place, but in con
sequence of orders received from Santa
Anna, a few days before Wool’s arrival,
this force had left Monclova for tiie pur
pose of joining Santa Anna at Saltillo. It
is said Santa Anna's orders were to make
no resistance to Gen. Wool’s entrance,
hut to let him advance as far into the
heart of the country as he wished, and to
repair to him at Saltillo, where he, at the
head of 70,000 Mexican troops, expected
to meet the American army.
“So soon as the train of wagons with
Govermenl stores, now on the road from
San Antonio, shou d arrived at Monclo
va Gen. Wool designed to leave that
place for Chihuahua. He is not to join
Gen. Taylor as was rumored. Commu
nication has been opened with Gen. Tay
lor since he had been a-t Monclova.
The instructions to Capt. Irwin, we
understand, are to send what teams there
are now in the employment of the Govern
ment, loaded with provisions, to Monclova,
under the escort of Capt. Henry McCol
loch, (who has just raised a noble com
pany of rangers.) and then break up this
line of supply to the army. The Govern,
menl stores now at San Antonio, and most
of which are to remain there, are esli
timaled to he sufficient to maintain Gen.
Wool's entire division (30U0 men) fc r
five months. They will be of use, how.
ever, to the Texas volunteers, eleven
companies of whom are already or in pro
cess of being raised; but whether to act
in concert with Gen. Wool’s division, or
to be under Gen. Taylor, we know not.
Maj. Chevallie was engaged in re
cruiling at Galveston. He has been con
spicious in the border wars ol the Star
Republic.
A public dinner was recently given at
Austin to Gov. Henderson and the Texas
volunteers who took a part in the battles
of Monterey.
The remains of the Texas Navy, says
the Civilian, were sold at public auction
on Monday, and, like the independent
sovereignty of the country, went for about
nothing leaving Texas with a heavy debt
for the acquisition, and yielding but little
to the coffers of the Union by the transfer
of ownership.
The papers contain numerous notices
of the success of sugar cultivation in
Texas. From all accounts the experi
ment in sugar growing has proved emi
nently successful.
We copy the following from the Texas
Democrat:
Wild Cat.— lt is stated upon the au
thority of Col. McGarry, that the cele
brated Seminole chief, Wild Cat, is now in
Texas, at the head of 300 warriors; 150
of that number being Seminoles. He is
said to have expressed a determination to
do as he pleased. Several iarnilies who
settled in the upper Cross Timbers on the
Trinity, have deserted their homes, hav
ing suffered severe loss by the killing of
their working oxen, stealing their horses
and so on.
Capt. Smith lost fourteen of his horses
and started twenty men on the trail of
the thieves. They followed six or eight
miles and came to a spot where about
sixty Indians appeared to have encamped
the night before; they halted and sent
back lor reinforcements; Capt. Smith was
in the act of inarching when McGarry
left. This parly of Indians were thought
from the hoof marks to have had at least
forty shod or American horses with them,
as it was believed that they were a part
of Wild Cal’s hand.
The Chronicle & Sentinel has a
faculty peculiar to itself of “blowing hot
and cold” at I lie same lime. For months
it has been striving to shew that the new
tariff was spreading ruin among the man
ufacturers. It now rebukes us for inti
mating that it could have any effect before
it went into operation. Again it speaks
of the measures of the last Congress as
“inoperative enactments,” and yet pre
diets with as much confidence as it did
the election of Mr. Clay , that they will
occasion the overthrow of the party that
passed them. Our cotemporary is evi
dently sore under the failure of the fulfil
ment of Whig prophecies. It does not
look well for the prescience of his party
leaders, that even in anticipation of the
new tariff, manufactured goods should
fall, all kinds of produce advance, that
specie should he imported, and unprece
dented prosperity pervade the whole coun
try. Will not our cotemporary learn
wisdom by past experience? “Appear
ances” have decided it before. We have
no apprehensions but that they will again.
—Federal Union.
[From the Georgia Journal, Dec. 8 ]
BALDWIN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The proceedings of a meeting of this
Society will be found in another part of
our paper. It will be seen that a Com
mittee has been appointed to raise funds
for the purpose of offering premiums at
the next Annual Meeting ofthe Stale Ag
ricultural Society. We learn that al
ready, about S3OO has been subscribed.
We trust that our farmers in various
parts ofthe Slate, will pay more attention
than heretofore to the improvement of
their lands, their cattle, their horses, hogs,
and various other domestic produce and
manufactures, and that many of them
will he found here in November next,
vieiig with each oilier who shall prove
best in the exhibition then to be made.
While upon this subject, we will re
ma*k, that as our paper is of the largest
kind, and not crowed or filled with Quack
Medicines, we are enabled to furnish our
readers with a larger amount of news
and other reading matter, than any other
weekly paper in the Stale, save perhaps
one—and much more than any other pa
per at the seat of government. This be
ing the case—believing that we would
promote the cause of Agriculture by de
voting a portion of our paper to it, we
shall give the subscribers of the Journal
weekly, two or three columns, relative to
Agriculture. By this means, the Farm
ers and Subscribers of the Journal will
not only get the current news ol the day,
matters relating to the Government, &0.,
&c., but they will also gel about as much
information relating to Agriculture, as if
they subscribed for a Monthly Agricul
tural paper.
[From the Southern Recorder, Dec. B.]
We commence with this number of our
papei a Supplement to the Recorder, to he
issued monthly, and to be devoted to ag
riculture and the arts essential to human
comfort and happiness.
In prosecuting this work, we shall seek
chiefly the actual doings of our own peo
ple in the way of improvements—consci
ous that theagricultureof the South is in a
very essential measure a very different
thing from the agriculture of Europe or
even our own more wintry north. We
shall seek to lay before our readers the re
sults (as well as the process) of such agri
cultural experience as may have proved
practically beneficial at home. And
to this end, we earnestly call upon the
large body of subscribers to the Recorder,
who are mostly Farmers, to come up to
our help, by sending us whatever, in their
sound and practical experience, they may
deem of use to our general undertaking.
Let them give us the facts, and we will
do the work of spreading them before the
public.
We shall not dwell at present on what
we expect to do, nor waste time in empty
promises. We content ourselves by say
ing that we shall use our best endeavors
to mak3 this Monthly Agricultural a
useful and pleasant auxiliary of the
more political and miscellaneous old
Southern Recorder. Our additional pay
will consist in the gratification of our
numerous readers and friends.
The Southern Recorder has been al
ways most generously supported and sus
tained by the people of Georgia. Even
now, with all the competition in the line
of newspapers, our subscription list is
probably as large as any other paper this
side of Richmond or Washington, and
our advertising is about as large as is pro
bably compatible with a very extensive
circulation. For this long continued li
berality, we cannot be too grateful, or
make sufficient effort to repay it. We
shall do our best to increase its useful
ness and its interest, and we make our
present offering, as but the beginning of
our improvement.
[From the N. O. Picayune.]
PITHY AND TO THE POINT.
Who does not know “N. of Arkansas?”
For any lime these ten years his letters
in the N. Y. Spirit of the Times have
been welcomed as an antidote to Ihe dys
pepsia. Learned M. D.’shave presciibed
his lucrubations as more potent in expan
ding the chest than “dumb bells” or the
exercises ofthe gymnasium. He is full
of mirth, full of wit and full of heat t. In
looking over the Arkansas paper we found
his address to the people, announcing
himself a candidate for Congress. The
track is a leetle deep for one of his politi
cal principles, but we know many a good
democrat who will be glad to hear that
he has made a good run of it. We clip
his characteristic circular from the Tele
graph. It is short as pie crust, but con
tains quite as much of the ingredients as
political manifestoes of more formidable
dimensions:
To the People of Arkansas —I am a candi
date for Congress. If you should elect rne it
would only be for a period of about six weeks.
Too short in which to do either much good
or harm. All that I could expect to do would
be to attend to any private business you
might have, and to impress upon my whig
brethren in Congress the necessity of doing
something for Arkansas generally, and the
northern portion of it in particular.
In the recent contest between Col. Ashley
and Gov. Yell for a seat in the U. S. Senate,
I look no part. As a legislator I cast my
vote for that talented, consistent and un
flinching whig, Col. A. Fowler —a vote that
I now am, and ever shall be, proud of.
I have been a citizen of North Arkansas
upwards of twenty years. As to mv politics:
“Jim Spriggs once met a fellow on a race
course with a wolf in his arms. Says Spriggs,
where did you get that well? On the plains
ol Tippecanoe, was the reply. Then you
must be for Harrison. Yes, sir-ree, wolf
and all.” Them’s my sentiments.”
In conclusion, should you elect me. I will
be grateful; if you don’t, I have the consola
tion to know you leave me in no worse fix
than yon found me.
Your friend and fellow-citizen,
C. F. M. NOLAND.
Little Rock. Nov. 20, 1846.
AUGUSTA. GEU..
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 10, 1846.
ILTThe Northern Mail failed again last
evening.
O* We are called on to record the loss
of an esteemed fellow citizen in the person
of Mr. A. W. Smith, who died yesterday
morning after an illness of several weeks.
He was a native of Herkimer county, New
York, and for the last fourteen years a citi
izen of Augusta. He was a member of the
late firm of Scranton & Smith.
Mr. Smith was an intelligent, upright
man, of fine social qualities, a good citizen,
and will be regretted by a large circle of
friends in this community.
[TTIt will be perceived by our extracts
that the Journal and Recorder intend adding
to the interest and value of their papers by
devoting more of their space to agricultural
matter.
The Recorder announces its design to
issue a Supplement, monthly, devoted exclu
sively to this purpose. The first point of this
enterprise is the address of Governor Craw
ford before the State Agricultural Associa
tion, which, we received in a supplement
from the Recorder office, of the Bth inst.
We have not yet had time to read it care
fully, but have dipped into it sufficiently to
say that it promises to repay well the perusal.
HIT The citizens of Hamburg yesterday
afternoon with their characteristic public
spirit received the Edgefield Volunteers,
known as the 96 boys, with the warmest de
monstrations of hospitality and kindness.
That gallant hand arrived in the afternoon,
escorted by the Edgefield Hussars, on their
way to Charleston to join the rendezvous of
the Palmetto Regiment. Their approach
was notified to the expectant crowd by the
booming of cannon, and soon the martial
array made their appearance, moving into
the town by the upper road, preceded by a
fine Band of Music, and displaying to the
breeze the azure folds of the beautiful flags
presented to them by the hands of a fair
daughter of Edgefield, who bears a name
honored in Revolutionary history. The vo
lunteers were greeted by an address, beauti
fully and eloquently expressed, and delivered
in handsome style, by Dr. G.iffin, in behalf
of the citizens of Hamburg. The address
was responded to in a strain of noble and
manly sentiment by Preston S. Brooks, the
gallant Captain of the Company. The des
tinies of this spirited Corps are entrusted to
worthy hands, under the leadership of their
gallant Commander. He is known to be one
who will order them to no point of danger
where he is not willing to lead them.
After the addresses, the volunteers, their
escort and friends partook of a bountiful col
lation, prepared in compliment to them by
Mr. A. W. Roach, the hospitable proprietor
of the Hamburg Hotel, His kindness will
long be remembered by these young soldiers,
whose first toilsome inarch was thus allevi
ated by such considerate hospitality Fair
hands had erected arches and entwined them
with flowers at the head of the tables through
which the company passed. After refresh
ment,the procession moved through the town,
and after depositing their baggage at the Rail
Road Depot, the volunteers were dismissed
until 7 o’clock. At that hour they re-assem
bled anJ proceeded lo Shelton's Hotel, where
they sat down as the honored guests of the
citizens of Hamburg to a splendid supper.
Many of the first young men of old Edge
field are enrolled in this band. Among them
are the sons of her worthiest citizens, all of
them sound, young, robust, daring and full
of adventure. Many of them betokened by
their dress and deportment they were young
men who had been accustomed to good soci
ety and the refinements of social life. We
wish them honor and success, and a safe re
turn to their friends and firesides.
We noticed among others, as a private in
the ranks, Thomas G. Key, Esq., Editor of
the Hamburg Journal—a young gentleman
of fine talents and many estimable traits.
May he return from his honorable services
to enrich many a column with racy sketches
and glowing narratives of adventure in the
far off land to which he is now marching.
The volunteers were to lake their depar
ture in tiie cars this morning for Charles
ton.
IETBcIow we give the vole in Savannah
for Mayor:
H. R. Burroughs, Whig 730
11. M. Chariton, 585
Majority for Burroughs, 146
The vote for Aldermen was in favor of the
Whigs by about the same average majority.
The Georgian makes the following com
ments on the result:
“The Charter Election came off yesterday.
The Whig ticket was elected. It will be re
collected that the Whigs succeeded in Octo
ber last by a majority of 211. The result of
yesterday’s election is an earnest of what the
unsubdued Democracy of Chatham will do in
October next.”
The majority here spoken of, by the Geor
gian, of 211, was in the county of Chatham
on the vote for a member of Congress. We
cannot therefore infer whether in the city
there has been a gain for the Democrats,
but in the general election in October 1845,
we well recollect that the democrats had a
majority, both for Governor and Members of
tlie Legislature. We hope “the unsubdued
democracy” will do well in October 1847.
MR. YOUNG, ANTI-RENTISM, AND THE
CHRONICLE <fe SENTINEL
The undertaking of the Chronicle in de
fence of the Whig Governor elect against
the charge of Anti-Rentism, displays an ad
venturous Quixotism quite characteristic of
that journal. In his fiery zeal for parly, the
editor rushes heedless, with lance in rest,and
visor down, at any assailing force however
strongly sustained,though almost ceriiain to be
entangled amidst difficulties, and often borne
down not more by the force he comes in colli
sion with, than by the weight of cumbrous ar
mor and of arms assumed by him, unwieldy,
useless, and ill adapted for the contest, and
which often are turned against himself. Or if
a fierce assault is made upon Whig entrench
ments, the valiant editor, like a preux theta -
Her, throws himself into the breach and
erects his shield to receive the shock, wildly
asseverating, and perhaps believing that the
weapons hurled against him will tall point
less, or be turned aside by some kind Provi
dence, It must have been some such ro
mantic self delusion that prompted theChoni
cle to attempt to defend John Young from
Anti-Rentism. The Chronicle seems to
show in this matter, in his absorbing love
for everything and every body bearing the
name of Whig, a spirit akin to woman's
blind devotion;
“I know not, I ask not if guilt’s in that heart,
I know that you're a whig, whatever else thou art.’’
•Some of the more wary grand Sachems of
Whiggery however, showed a nicer sense of
right and wrong, and were neither blind to,
nor silent upon the discreditable position of
the aforesaid IVJr. Young. The Chronicle
might have imitated them, and sfi 1 have
been in no danger of being set down as a
Purist.
HEAR WHAT SOME OF THE WHIGS SAY
OF THEIR CANDIDATE.
The Lynchburg Virginian, an influential Whig
paper, says that John Young is so identified with
isms, that it "shall hear uj his success vrith no
pleasure.”
The Gazette and Times, a Clay and Webster
pa per, speaking of the account that We baler would
speak for Young, says:
“We think i| strange that Daniel Webster should
come here to support or recommend QO~a man with
the principles of John Young, and are triad to leara
that the announcement of the Tribune was alto
gether unauthorized.”
The Louisville Kentucky Journal of October
sth, the organ of Mr. Clay, published by his bi
ographerand friend, .Mr. Prentice, has the bil
lowing loud cry to the “ true v bigs” of New York:
“Some of the Whig papers in New York oppose
Mr. Voung, the vvliig nominee for the oflice of
Governor, on the ground that his past votes in the
New \ ork Legislature show a leaning toward anti
rentism. IJ this charge against him has any truth
in it, id 3 7 'he convention that nominated him de
serves the £X £ CHAT IONS of every true whig
in the State.
The Courier and Enquirer thus speaks out:—
“We verily believe that the election of John
Young would forever lake from our party all
claims to political honesty, and render it a
m*-re party of expediency
Now, as to what the Chronicle says is thj
issue il has made with us.
“The only material point of dispute immediate
ly before us ami the Constitutionalist is in refer
ence to its assertions about Mr. V oting’s connec
tion with anti-rentisrn.” —Chronicle Seatmel.'Jlh.
The Chronicle says moreover, “We have
seen it repeatedly stated that Mr. Young
made no pledges whatever to the Auli Rent
ers.” The Chronicle has no doubt seen a
good many strange statements, and that too
in the lace of facts most undeniable. The
following is what we have seen:
It is stated in the New York Evening
Post, that John J. Slingerland, the Whig
and Anti-Rent candidate fur Congress, from
the Albany district, had declared that he saw
a letter, written by John Young, declaring
that if elected he would pardon the Anli-
Rent prisoners. The fact is notorious in
New York. It is only such papers as the
Chronicle that could assume to doubt it.—
The name, place and date were given. The
declaration was publicly made by Mr. Sling
erland, at a political meeting in Berneville,
among his constituents. The letter was
then in the possession of a Mr. Harris, of
Delaware county.
We made no “random assertion” in this
mailer. Mr. Young was the avowed candi
date of the Anti-Renters. We have a few
more facts left “of the same sort,” with which
we may occasionally refresh the recollection
of Hie Chronicle.
SHERIFFS AND COUNTY OFFICERS.
For the information of Sheriffs ami County Offi
cers generally, we publish the following extract
from a law passed at the session of the Legislature
for the year 1840, which may he found at page 52
of the acts of that year.— Chronicle.
Be il enated, «Vc., '‘That from ami immediately
after 1 lie passage of this act, * * * *
♦ * * that the Sheriffs and other County
Officers of the several counties, be authorized to
publish their sales in any aewspaj«Mr of this State
which may have a general circulation in their res
pective counties—first giving thirty days’notice,
by advertising in a public Gazette, before any
change shall be made.”
Barnwell C. H., Doc. 7, 1846.
To the editors of the Charleston Courier.
At a meeting of the 11th and 43d Regi
ments of I nfitnt fy at this place, to-day, a cont
pany of 92 men volunteered for the Mexican
War, and elected the following officers:
Captain. —N. Jefferson Walker.
Ist Lieutenant.—A. B. O’Bankon.
2d Lieutenant.—C. Kirkland.
2d Liemenai.t.—Robert W Williams.
The company is called “The Hammond
Guards.”
From Columbia. —We learn from a frien
who arrived yesterday from Columbia, that
the Legislature had as yet perfected but lit
of the business of the session, and con
sequently nothing of importance had yet
been done.
'Plie election for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor was to have taken place yesterday.
It was generally believed that W. Gilmore
Simms, E>q. would be elected to the latter
office. The election for Chancellor, and
Superintendent of Public Works were also
to have come off yesterday. — Charleston Cou
rier, Dec. 9.
Jiank of Hamburg Stock. —We arc In
formed that a sale, amounting to SIO,OOO of
this Stock, was effected at Columbia ou
Saturday last, at SQI 50 per share.