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Ornctot m \V. ash A. Rxvu.omi, j Cassvilhe, Oct. Islh, 1838 3 1 o the of Commissioners, of the Western nml Atlantic Railroad. ntntlemen ; In obedience to your instruction da'ed on the 11th of July !a»t a n comio.ssancc on ! curt y were instituted for the purp ol ascertaining the most favorable route lor the extension of the 3V extern ami Atlantic R lilroad, from Lite Tennes see line to the easterly inarg n of the Tonnes-ee river. In ortlcrto accomplish these object* in the most effectual nml conclusive in inner, nml with n degree of expedition deemed requisite to their timely performance, Mr. Whit well was directed to a careful examinition of nil routes hav ing ant’ claim to consideration on account of the finalities nil irdod by them, for the desired exten sion. and Brigailes No. 1. and Ko, 3, under the direction ot Vr. Brown, and the latter under the direction of Mr. Williams, assist ml engineer in the Railroad service, were assigned to the execu tion of all surveys necessary to n clear ilcvolopc ment ol the reintivc merits of the several routes in question, fa further explanation of the nature and object of the duties assigned those gentlemen, I take ioevc to refer to the instructions given them, a ropy of which, marked A. is appended to this paper. In accordance with the instructions just refer red to, the reconnaissance and surveys were com menced at an early date in August, ami prosecu ted with energy and ability, and with a direct view to the attainment of nil the information culled for. Mr. Whitwell's report on the reconnoissance face document marked 11. herewith submitted) is so lucid and replete with all appropriate intelli gence in reference to the aspect of the country, the general position, bearings, and relations of nil routes having any claim to consideration, and so conclusive, with respect to the several localities traversed by the route most favorable for an ex tension of the road from the Tennessee line to the Tennessee river, that I forbear to enlarge, upon these topics, except by signifying mv concurrence with the views therein presented. Agreeable to surveys heretofore made, which have been suHiciently discussed in former reports the point of which it has been deemed advisable to strike the Tennessee line, is siMiatnl in that line at the distance of about eight miles eastwardly of R oust I lie. Accordingly this point was selected as the place at which the surveys under considcr ation should lie commenced. From this point to •he Tennessee following routes, in addi tion to numerous other experimental lines, have been deemed worthy of an instrumental survey, viz,: a route loading thence northwardly to Van’s Ferry—a route loading wealw.irdly to the mouth of the Chickamaugoe, and three rentes leading was! ward ly and southwardly, two of them to Ross’ Landing, and tho olh-r to Card naliire’s Landing ; the distances on which rcspeetivly, as measured from the us mined point to the Eastern margin of the Tennessee river, have been found as follows : From the Tennessee line to Van's Ferry, the distance is 12 miles 11120 feet. From the Tennessee line to mouth of Ohicka maugec, is 12 miles 432 feel. From the Tennessee line to Gardenshire’s Landing, 14 miles 3362 loot. Do. via Kenan's mill to Russ’ Landing, 15 miles 4632 feet Do. via. tunnel through Mission Ridge to Ross’ Landing, II miles 3720 miles. The foregoing are the re.sulls derived from careful surveys, and exhibits in copious details in the reports of Messrs. W illiams ft Brown, which I herewith submit, and to which 1 beg leave rc spoctfully to refer. (JS'ce docamenls marked C and I>.) The drawings a.-eeinp mving those documents, which have been executed with a degree of skill, n Mtnoss, and precision, highly credible to the •draftsmen employed thereon, exhibit with snfli clearness, the characters of several routes travers ed by them, and tho relations existing between them a id various important points on the Ten nessee river, and in its vicinity. To those 1 also take leave to refer for a correct view of tho several Tho chart executed under the direction of Mr. "VVhitwell, as an accompaniment of his report. (S:e drawing marked IS.) has been prepared from tho return, made in reference to the surveys of the Cherokee lauds, within the State of Ten nessee, an 1 exhibits not only a synoptical view of 'be several routes surveyed for the Railroad, but rhows the positions and number of the Lots tra versed by each route. Special care has been taken to render this document as correct as rir cum -lances would permit, especially in so far ns it relate; to the route deemed most favorable. In further explanation of the relative merits of •the several routes under consideration, I subjoin the following tabular exhibit in which are pre cenlcd tho designation of each route, beginning at the assumed point on the Tennessee line, viz: a point on the north side, and about midway of Lot N'o. 5, District SB and Section 3, of Chero kee land District, in Georgia; the distance on each route from the Tennessee river, and the estimated probable cost of constructing a Railroad on the several routes respectively, which is as fol ' lows : Beginning at the assumed point and running thence to— Distance Cost miles feel dolls, els. 1 Northwardly, to Van’s Ferry 13 1330 123,151 95 2 Wesnvardly. to mouth of Chickttinaugee, 12 423 158,623 70 3 Via Chickamaugoe Gap to Gondcnhirc’s, 14 3302 192,544 50 4 Via Chickamaugee, di rect to Ross’landing, 16 4633 256,503 05 5 Via Chickamaugoe by detour to Ross’ land ing, 17 1913 221,215 00 6 Via Tunnel in Mission Ridge to Ross’ land ing, 11 3720 654,773 05 From the foregoing statements, which have been derived from tho results presented in tho documents already cited, it is manifest that route No. 1, leading northwardly to Van’s Ferry, is only a few Icet longer than route No. 2, and that the cost of construction on the former, is very considerably less than on any other route, even less than ou the route leading wcstwardly to the mouth of the Chickamaugce, which is about 900 feel shorter. But in consideration of the pledge implicitly given that the Railroad should reach the Tennessee River at a point as low down as practicable, shortness of distance, facility of trans portation, and cheapness ot construction, being regarded as governing principles of the location; and in view of the obstructions opposed to the navigation of tho ronnessee, which occur in shat river, between Van’s Ferry and the mouth of the Chickamaugce—in consideration of striking the Tennessee at a paint most lavorablc for a prolon gation of the route beyond this river, and in a direction towards Nashville, &c. Ido not hesi tate to recommend the route to the mouth of the Chickamaugce as preferable to that leading to Van's Ferry ; while the comparison exhibited in toe above table shows its decided preference over every other route presented in the table. In accordance with the provisions of the laws of Georgia, under which I have acted, in prose cu iug the survey and location of the Railroad, 1 have deemed it my duly to designate a point on the Eastern margin of ‘the Tennessee, at which the shortest and best route from the Chattahoochee to that river should have its northerly terminus. Iho trace of the route pursued by llic Railroad, from the Chatlahoochoe river to the Tennessee line, which, with the exception of a few devia tnn ’.fwvl by subsequent survey; te be advisable iu. ,iln .ul\ Lc« nde ..cn i-mI in u lornivr report to Ills Excellency, tin late Governoi of < > -o.g ■< u i dcr dale of Nov. 7th, 18 ; >7. The route thun tc vised mill amended is still regarded as the shortest an 1 h •■>l that run hr found, leailin g in an appro ; priute dire■•tion across the broken and diversified . region that must hr traversed by the Railroad. The distan r on the revise I route, from the t.'bat tahoorhcc to the Tetmessze Linn, is 113 miles 1 47 foci. Accordingly, th : « dutl inm. added to , the extent of route No. 2, which his been deemed , as ahovn, the shortest an 1 liest r iutc from the Tennessr.' line to the Tennessee river, gives for . the aggregate extent of the shortest and best I route from the Chattahoochee to the Tennessee river, 127 miles 589 fee'-. . The propriety of designating a single point only, ns the northerly terminus of the Railroad, in , inferred from a literal construction of the lawn , cnaete lin reference to the Railroad. Wlicreas the spirit of the law and the exigencies of the case, seem to call, not merely for a point, but for mi extensive area or Held, for the display of al| t the abilities, capacities, and energies of (lie Rail , road which must hereafter be had in requisition fir the accommodation of the divers! lid and wide ly extended business transactions that will sooner ( or Is'er, in all human probability, be concentrated at this place. In such an event, an area of many miles, instead of a single point, will he required as the site of (lie extensive emporium which we have in anticipation ; an area which will embrace the entire district, bounded northwardly by the L'hickamaugce, westwardly by the Mission Ridge, , and extending downward in the valley of the Tennessee nearly to the Lookout Mountain. In anticipation of such an emporium, I venture to suggest the method of affording it all the accom modation that will be required, as far as they re late to the W. and A. Railroad. by extending the route onward from lire Ten nessee line about St l , miles, which carries on the route selected through Mission Ridge, we arrive at the point in the valley of the ( hiekamiuigee, and near Kenan’s mills, from which divergent router may proceed in various directions, leading to the month of the (Jhiekatnaugee, Oardenhire's Lauding, Russ' Landing, and to almost every oili er point on the margin ofTcnnossee river between the mouth of the Chickarnnugeo and Lookout Mountain. The point of divergence above designated, is situated in the route selected, within a few hun dred feet of tile Chickamaugee, is said to he nav igable for Steamboats in all stages, at which the Tumbling shoals, Lookout and Ross' Island shoals, ore passable for the same craft. Accordingly, hut for the letter of the law, which calls for an exten sion of the nmd. to the margin of Tennessee river this point might he assumed as the northerly ter minus of the Railroad, The choice of such a terminus, however, should he "predicated on the extension of the several embranchments above contemplated, to the margin of the river, the ex tent of the several branches varying from ten and three-fourths to eight miles according to the par ticular points on the river to which they respec tively lend. The subjoined table will exhibit the position, relative extent, and cost of the several routes al ready surveyed from the point of divergence to the Tennessee river, which are as follows, viz; beginning at the point of divergence mid running thence to— Distance. Prob. cost. No. miles, feet dolls, els. 1. Mouth of Chickamaugee, 3 3440 23,12130 3. Oardenhire’s Lauding, f) 1100 (53,302 73 3. Via Deep Cutto Rross’ Landing, 6 2370 120,700 30 4. Via Detour to Ross’ Landing 7 4921 90,063 25 It should be further observed in reference to route No. 1, as exhibited in the above table, that it pusses on very favorable ground, and by a re markably direct course, which it pursues along the margin of the Chickarnnugeo valley, and in the vicinity of the stream itself quite to the margin of Tennessee river, which it reaches at an eleva tion beyond the reach of the highest I'rrnhri*. w/th nmpcct to the business connexions that may he found between the Railroad and the Ten nessee river, at the several points above designa ted, us also at numerous other points, both on the bank of the Tennessee and those of the Chicka nmugee, conveniences and facilities on a scale commensurate wi.h any demand that may here after be made for such accommodations, are un doubtedly to bo found. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, very respectfully, Your most ob’t. serv’t. [■signed] M. 11. LONG, Chief Eng'r. From the N. O, Picayune, Nov. 29. Latest from Western Texas. by n passenger arrived yesterday in the schr. Messenger from Galveston, wo gain the following particulars in relation to the Indian disturbances which at present agitate the Western portion ol Texas. Our informant states, that while at Houston he received « letter treat San Antonio, dated the 14th inst., which mentioned that the inhabitants in that place, both Tcxians and Americans, were in the greatest alarm in consequence of a threat ened attack from the Comanche Indians, who had openly avowed their intention of exterminating them, in case Man Antonio was not given up peaceably; if they made any resistance, neither age, sex, or country was to be spared from massacre. Many of the merchants and traders were leav ing for the Colorado and brasos, fearing that those threats would he carried into execution before a force could be raised sufficiently large to repel them. The conduct of the land surveyors is as signed us the principal reason why the Indians are placing themselves in this hostile attitude ; while many of the Cumanches think that it is the intention of the whites to drive them beyond tho San Sabo mountains, w here is situated their “Grand Council Room,” around which, for many hundred miles, they have for years hunted the butfalo without interruption or molestation. Large drafts were being made throughout Tex as to repel this new attack, and every individual ot the proper age, who had applied for the rights of citizenship although he might not have been in the country a week, was compelled to shoul der his musket, and hold himself in readiness to march against the Rod men, who appear to be threatening the young Republic on all sides, and who are much more formidable enemies than any they need expect from Mexico. The gentleman who brings this information has been some four months a prisoner among the Cu manches, and states that although they number in oil something like 10,000 fighting men not more than 1000 are able to concentrate at any one par ticular point on account of the great difficulty of procuring provisions. He states that buffalo have become extremely scarce among them, and that this circumstance will materially help the Tex iaus in repelling any attack they may threaten. The next arrival will probably bring us full par ticulars. Goon N>:ws.—One of the most agreeable items of intelligence that we have met with, states that a loiter has been received in this city from Liverpool, stating that it is intended to establish a Imo of British steamers to this port. Rejoiced as wo are to hear that this ardently desired good is likely to ho realized at last, we cannot but feel regret that our citizens continue so supine—so dead to their own interests, that they permit them i sc,ves to bc outdone in energy even in that which moBt concerns their own advantage. .V»it* Or /•a,n T' c American, I • CHUuNKJJ.H AND SENTJNgL. A II G IJ S T A . I J I “• - ~ - ■■ I TV EMUV morning; DHCKMBEB 1. .-> I Our remarks in reply to the strictures of tho 1 0 People’s Press to-morrow or next day, as wo ( may find time. ,1 We regret to learn from Miilcdgevillo, that on c Saturday last, the Dill for the organization of the Supreme Court, was finally lost. It had beenre s jeeted on the day previous and came up again » on a motion to reconsider, which the House rc -8 fused to sustain. /i >■ < 1 In our remarks a few days since upon the re - cent nomination of Mr. Forsyth for the Vice 11 Presidency, hy the Union meeting at Millcdgc r 'ilk, as “ the candidate of the South,” we put d the question, “if the South is to he benefited and y honored by a nomination, why not nominate a southern candidate for President V’ To this the ~ Constitutionalist replies, that the South cannot c find a candidate that stands any chance of sue- « ceoding, better fitted to fill the office of President | than Mr. Van Burcn. 0 Wo have not objected to the nomination of Mr - Forsyth, or the score of qualification, or as the candidate of the Van Burcn party. If they . choose to support him, they are free to do so—for e whatever reasons may urge them to it; but we K shall not stand by passively, and witness our own j degradation in making a mockery of southern r rights and interests, by putting them in the market, s to buy votes for the Vice Presidency—an office o* but little responsibility, and power, and from j which the South can derive no benefit. Much has been said of lute about the paramount impor * tunce of southern rights, and southern interests* and the necessity of supporting men devoted to 3 them, and now we arc called upon to enact the , poor force of staking them all upon the election of 1 an officer, scarcely secondary in power and im" r portuncc. We object not to Aan Buren merd.y . because he is northern or to Mr. Forsyth because 1 he is southern, but every southern man sho aid reject with scorn, the proffered flattery of elect J g . (he latter as u southern man to the second office,. I while the same vote elects the former, a northern man, to the first office. If it is necessary and important that the South should unite and rally in a body, in the approaching election, for tint benefit as southern interests, is it nut folly, con temptible,servile, and disgusting folly, to talk about rallying upon the Vice Presidential elec lion, and at the same time supporting « northern, man for the Presidency ? W c feel ashamed that any Georgian, could so far debase himself, by thus debasing the South, by offering to purchase the vain flattery of electing a southern Vice Presi dent, by selling his vote fora northern President. If the offer had come from the northern friends of Van Buren, to put Mr. Forsyth upon the Vice Presidential ticket on the ground of his being a , southern man, it would then have bcenbadenough to have accepted the proffered bid upon that con sideration, but to offer ourselves the voluntary sub jects of sale in tbe market, with the label on our ' foreheads, “ six-pence for our votes," is sinking ourselves to a point in the pit of degradation, at which every southern man should hide his face for very shame. If we con elect a candidate /of the. south, to the Vice Presidency, wo arc equally able to elect a candidate for the Presidency; and if . there is any benefit derivable from having a south- 1 cm President, we would be foolishly throwing ; ; away the opportunity, and staking the whole i value of our strength as a people, upon a profitless contest for an office, the incumbent of which has not the official power to do us any good in a struggle for our peculiar rights and in terests. But the South has not the power to elect either a President or Vice President, ami Mr. Forsyth must get votes from other sections in order to secure his election; if so, he will be ns much the candidate of those sections as of the South. That he would make a good Vice Pres ident wc do not doubt—but if his sensibility i» equal to his capacity, we should feel sorry to sup>- pose that lie will not be mortified with the roller tion that his own friends held up his election to the Vice Presidency, as the consideration and , purchase price which the Van Buren party elsc • where must pay for their votes ns Southern men. 1 The Constitutionalist is right in supposing that we desire to see the administration of Van Bu , ren broken down. Opposed to him from the be i ginning, we have seen nothing to induce a change ' in our opinion, and we are sure that the opportu , nity of supporting a Southern man for Vice Pres. ; idenl, is not a sufficient inducement for us to do 1 so, when that support will enure to the benefit of ; Van Buren. The object of this nomination of f Mr. Forsyth, is 100 plain to be misapprehended. ! ■ It was not that they thought to honor him, or tha t his election could be of any advantage to the j South ; but it was intended solely to influence , Southern votes for Van Buren—to buy them up with the idle delusion of supporting a “candidate |of the South”—as a sugar plumb for the people . of Georgia to take at the same time with the bit -1 ter pill of Van Burcnism to deprive it of its native nausea and to render it sweet and palatable. It is wrong to support or oppose any man for . the Presidency purely upon sectional grounds— r nothing short of extraordinary circumstances can ; justify such a step. We know not how soon such t - circumstances may make it a duty of the South to t l ' as t l>er electoral votesonly for southern men, but t how infinitely ridiculous and contemptible shall wo look in the eyes of the Union and the world, . to support a candidate for the Presidency upon general or party grounds, and at the same time make a sectional question of the Vice Presidency 1 3 So bright an idea is certainly well worthy of the s source from which it emanates—from a party 1 whose sole object is power, state and federal, and [ who hesitate not to put up in market overt, the I highest rights and interests of the South to pur -1 chase it.—The Constitutionalist may, if it chooses, * become the herald and advocate of this humiliating | proposition—but as for ourselves, our flag has . long since been floating at the mast-head with the 1 motto “ Anti-Van Burnt,"and we now add “For ' - vlli or not Fon.y th, Mill, Ant.- 1 an Bitrtn !. ! We lime no confidence in the man or his incus- j i arcs—the people of Georgia have none, and an | ■ they have ore e already put the seal of their rep robation upon him, we do not doubt that they are ready and will do it again, even at the expense df i sacrificing John Forsyth. \ / Terrible Steamboat jr ’/’he steamer Tiber, which arrived at New Or j leans on the 29th reports that she passed the 1 week of the steamboat (Jen. Brown at St. Helena ' where the latter had collapsed a flue. Ihe eapt iin I pilot, one of the engineers, and tiuktt other ! persons on board the Gen. Brown, lost their lives by the calamity. Wo have not, says the Bee, learned any further details, nor the time at wdiich i he accident occurred. I The Tiber also reports the Cummanche to be sunk below Salt Kiver, and the Ozark aground at Cumberland Island. j I More Indian .Hinders. «•» On Monday 17th ult. a family of twelve per , son, of the name of Zippar, were murdered twen- I ly-onc miles from Black Grie'c, in a northwests 'Wiroction. / 1 Cotton Yarns, manufactured atLebanon, Ten nessee, by Messrs. Muirhead, Mastnrson & Co., are ottered for sale at Nashville. The progress of the cotton manufacture in the South and West, although comparatively slow, is nevertheless steady and sure. The Nashville Banner of the 21st instant states that the steamboat Native, while on her way up the river to that city, exploded her boiler, by which two negro men were killed, and several other per sons were severely scalded. A number of horses and cattle on board were blown into the river and lost. Notes of the U. S. Bank, altered from §5 to J2O, with great skill, have been put into circula tion. The schooner Potomac was capsized in Long Island sound on Sunday last, and all on board perished. The N. Y. Express says—“A letter from the United States’ Legation at Bogota, dated 20th September, to a gentleman in this City, gives no tice that all claims against the late Colombian Government must be presented on or before the 22d February, 1839, to the Commissioners ap pointed to liquidate claims, now sitting at Bogota - The Commission consists of Commissioners ap pointed by the respective Governments of New Grenada, Venezuela, and Equator.” Communicated. Mu. Joxks.—By means of some imprudent, not to say foolish scribbling in the newspapers, between two writers who signed their effusions ‘ Caution” and “ Augusta,” you and your read ers have been troubled with complaints on the part of myself and the Richmond Blues, whils 1 1 some of the members of volunteer corps in the city, have been by those effusions, drawn into a state of excitement and unpleasant feeling which may suit boys, but which men must deprecate, f have regretted that it was necessary for me to appear before the public in this matter, but from ihc circumstance of my having recently been a member of the Blues, having left that corps by n isignatlon, and joined another volunteer com p any in the city, and being frequently asked by my aequaintaucesaflerthc publication of “Augusta’s’’ communication, if I was not alluded to—l thought with many others, that the offensive expressions used by “Augusta,” might be intended to apply in part to me. As you was not in possession of the name of the author, I could not obtain it in the usual way of application to you, and, therefore was obliged to apply to him through the columns of your paper. He has responded to that call, and stated in your paper the meaning of those expressions, which I thought, might be intended to apply to me; he has besides, in an interview which I have had with him, in which I stated my reasons for believing that he alluded to mo—he disclaimed any such allusion. A reply by me now, therefore to the uncalled for invitation which the Blues through your paper have given me, or “my friends,” (I say uncalled for, because I did not charge the Blues with the authorship,) to> state my reasons for believing I was alluded to by “Augusta,” is unnecessary, and in conclusion I take pleasure in confirming their certificate that he is not a member of their corps, and regret the injustice that has been done them by a supposi. I tion on the part of any one, that he was so. / E. BARKER. Communicated. Mb. Editor —ln the Augusta Mirror, of last i Saturday, a small error in the signature to one of its articles has escaped detection. It was ow ing, probably, to the bleared state of the man us. cript copy, being written in lead pencil mark. The signature was mistaken—a circumstance, in itself, indeed, too trifling to be noticed, but from the belief that, as it now stands, it infringes upon ground previously occupied. It will, therefore, doubtless, by the Editor of the Mirror, be es teemed no unneighborly act to give it as early a correction as may be ; while, by the writer of the article in question, it will be regarded as a special favor, if, through the medium of your useful paper, you will simply state, that, to the article “ Random Hint, &c„ page 125, of the Mirror instead of Amicus, the original signature is, ANIMUS. Frontier Movements. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of the 22d, mentions the seizure of a “long, suspicious-look ing box, marked “mill-saws,” which came up from the F alls, by the rail-road, the evening be fore, and which the deputy collector took the lib erty of opening. It was found to contain muskets, bayonets, shovels, pick-axes, &c. The deputy seized the articles, but was immediately assailed by a gait"- of ruffians who had collected round, and while they kept him employed, the munitions of war were earned off. On the same night there was a gathering of he roes, about 150 in number, who had a captain. 1 and weur intending to go up (u I.'elif.ii, borw> i bout left Buffalo, on account of llic and they dispersed. | They appeared to he Canadians, and carried | no weapons. John G. Parker.-—' The Kingston U. C. Her- | aid states that this gentleman has at length been sent oil’to V r an Diemnn’s Land, for having writ ten and spoken against the Colonial Government. The Montreal Transcript says that two of the Patriot prisoners in that city have been already hung. [The Montreal Courier of the 32nd makes no j mention of the fact, and we are inclined to think it is premature.] From ihc X. Y. Herald, Nov, 2D. Important I’rcisn the Canadas. We have received some very important private intelligence from Kingston and Montreal, in the canadas, affecting to an extraordinary degree, the reputation of -certain parties in this country, and throwing a shade on the honesty of the re cent Proclamation of the President. It is well known that a number of the persons taken by the British and Canadian troops in the recent outbreaks at Prescott, and in L’Acadic,are \ native born Americans, young men, from the in terior and border counties ot this State. Soon after their capture they were examined privately by the British authorities. In their examination, .’some facts of a very extraordinary nature came forth. The leading points arc now given, hut wo pre sume the. details will not be revealed till the state trials are held in Canada. Among the prisoners captured at Prescott, ■ there were forty or fifty young Americans, na tives of this State. They assert positively in their examinations that they were engaged to in -1 vede Canada, by certain respectable and influen tial citizens of this State, residing in Cayuga, Onondaga, Oswego and Jefferson counties. They 1 were promised $3O per month, a supply of arms 1 and ammunition, and one hundred acres of good j land, when the conquest of these two provinces were completed. It also appears in evidence that the funds to fit out the expedition, to seige t Prescott and overrun L’Acadie, were procured [ by discounts at certain banks in Ncw-York, and on the borders. Persons standing high in the confidence of Mr. Van Burcn, and his party, j were the indorsers of that paper, discounted by the banks. It is now well known that not three Upper Canadians joined the expedition, and but few of those in the Lower Province. The whole affair was planned in this State, by a hand of the I same land speculators, connected with our Gov -1 eminent, who have been ruining their country and destroying its commerce during the last five years. We are even persuaded that the Presi . dent knew very well the existence of their dan gerous intrigue, in all its details. It is true he 1 came out with his Proclamation of neutrality, hut ■ not the slightest symptom of this document ap i peared, till both the expeditions against Canada , had failed entirely. The rascally refugees, such as Kelson, Cote, M’Kenzie, and others, wore used merely to forward a land speculation, similar to ’’ ■ that by which Ex-Collector Swartwout, used the . funds of his office to forward his speculations in Texas lands. Even Col. Ming, Rioll, and others in our Custom House, wore in part of the same manoeuvre. It. was also connected with the boun dary question, about which so great a fuss has been made in Maine. A revolution, leading to 1 the Independence of the Canadas, would settle , at once the disputed boundary, and leave the land ; speculators a fine field for their operations. What a dangerous precipice the country has been standing on! In order to destroy the re membrance of his foolish measures, the President has been intriguing to create a war feeling in the country, and thus to put in jeopardy nil our com merce and foreign trade. The trials about to take place in Montreal and Kingston will reveal matters that will astonish the people of this coun try. How came the “ poor patriots” to collect to gether three or four pieces of artillery, 20,000 rounds of ball cartridge, more than a dozen barrels of powder,seven hundred muskets, rifles, &c., under the very eyes and nose of Van Burcn’s in defatigable office without their cognizance! If this was not done, without their knowledge, why was it not prevented. Let Van Burcn choose which horn of the dilemma he pleases to rest upon till wc take him off.— lb. From Buenos Ayres and Montevideo. By the brig Edwin, Capt. Varney, at NV A ork. Buenos Ayres papers to Sept. 29th, at. a Montevideo letter of Oct. sth have been receiver i The posture of affairs in that quarter had n , materially changed since the date of the previoi . advices. The city of Montevideo still held oi against the outside or revolutionary party, Tli blockade of Buenos Ayres continued, and it wi • supposed would result in war. The probabilii , is that a French expedition, consisting of tl , Diadcme razee 74, and two corvette transport with an aggregate of IGOO men on board besidi * the crews, is now on its way to Buenos Ayr. . from France. The Buenos Ayrcans were ah making preparations for war. The blockading squadron off Buenos Ayres ha sent seven prizes into Montevideo, five of thei > Buenos Ayrean, and the other two bearing the fla . of the Oriental Republic. The French Const. [ at Montevideo having made arrangements for tb sale of those vessels by auction, the Oriental go' 1 ernment interposed objections, and a sharp cone. . pondence ensued. There was also a sharp co. . respondcnce between the French and British Con suls, in consequence of the latter having cxpressc. an opinion (in answer to inquiries from a pcrsoi who expressed a disposition to bid for some of thi prizes) that they would not be safe from subse quent attachment by the original owners. Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. Montevideo, Oct. sth, 183 S. There is no change in the political state of th< Banda Oriental. This city is effectually besiege by the Revolutionary party, and provisions ha' become enormously dear. ‘ The Government ai ■ determined to sustain themselves to (he last nn i ment. We have received accounts from Buen< i A . vres announcing the intelligence that the diffc j encas between that Government and France wi in all probability result in a war, (the Buen. ’ Ayreans are busy in building fortifications,) ti effect of which I am of opinion will be, to haste a settlement of the disturbances and troubles whici agitate the tranquility of these provinces. The brig Ames, Nash, master, of New Vorl was totally lost at Bahia Blanco, Coast of Pats gonia, in July last. Crew all saved, and lande. hero in a destitute condition on the 3d inst., 19 i. number. The American Consul here has pr. vided the necessary relief for these unfortunate and will send them to the U. S. as opportunity may otter. This vessel was a “ Whaler,” belont ing to Silas E. Burrows, Esq. of New York. , 'Buenos Avbes, Nov. 29th We have n ccivcd the Montevideo journal Universal to 25t' instant. Affairs were much in the same state s it regards the civil war in the Oriental territon . hose in arras against the government were sti in considerable force in the vicinity of Monte vide but no fresh encounters had taken place. Pr. visions (especially beef,) were scarce and dear i that capital. We give the following reports from Montevidi without vouching for their authenticity. Tha Admiral Brown, having by permission of the gov ernment of Buenos Ayres, entered into the se vice of the Oriental Republic, was employed , Montevideo in fitting out three vessels'to a. against those of the rebellious.—’That the Frencl Admiral Leblanc, has given notice to the goven ment at Montevideo, that ho shall not suffer tl other light than ;y c have heard other particulars upon this subject, but forbear to mention them until we have more po sitive information. “ From Uio dc .lunciro. The. following extracts of a letter, furnished the Editor’s of the Baltimore American, dated ‘•Uio m; J.tMiiun, Sept 30, 183 ft. | The market has been very dull this month as | regards imports—heavy supplies have arrived, and prices generally have given way. For the most part they may bo now considered nominal. Owing to the Government taking up large sums monthly on interest, in preference to selling stock, i money is unprecedcntly scarce in the business ■ market, anil while the necessities of the Govern ! ment seem daily to augment, and require legisla -1 tive authority for further issues of stock, the .Min ister of Fazenda gives a preference to temporary loans, while at the same time he exposes his wants; I and as every body sees ho must ultimately resort j to a sale ol stack, holders have pushed it on the | market, and thus added to his embarrassments by reducing the prices to 76 per cent, from 87 u 88 per cent at which he once refused to sell that au thorized last year. This necessarily impeded the current of bust ness, and these difficulties have suggested expedi ents to increase the revenue by augmenting the duty on imports, which will soon be fixed on ar ticles under the name of duty, storage, &0., to 20 per cent. On the other hand, a revision of the Tariff is going on, by which the valuation on ma ny articles will be raised. On Flour, I understand it is proposed to make it equal to a duty of 21 |j 500 instead of 10||872 per barrel, as it is now to be carried into immediate operation. The imports of Flour this month are 14.760 barrels from the United States, and 3,633 bid?, from Europe and coastwise. From the La Plata or Uio Grande we have nothing lute or interesting. Things at last dates were in disorder and confusion at both places. The Blockading Squadron had prohibited the ship ment of hides, &e. previously carried c a from Buenos Ayres to Montevideo. From the A "to Orleans Bee, Nov. 28. Attempt to Rob the Post Office. Yesterday morning an individual named Smith appeared at the Post Office, and asked the clerk for a letter which he had thrown into the box, an he wanted to pay the postage and correct a mis take. The clerk ns is customary, requested him to write his address which he did, and imitated the s uperscription of the letter so artfully that, the counterfeit was not at first detected, The letter being handed to him, he altered the address and opened the letter, abstracting a hundred dollar note 1 which it contained. He then pretended to wri.V something in the inside, folded and returned it. He was about to leave the. office when the clerk having observed his couefestand suspecting some f one before, that the enclosure had been removed and that it must be returned. The clerk added \ that he could not permit him either to take away the enclosure or to alter the letter, as he could rea dily perceive that he was not the writer.—Smith upon this, left the office saying that he would re turn in half an hour. The suspicions of the Post master being confirmed by this equivocal conduct, he ascertained by examination of the letter, the real name of its author, sent for him and learned that Smith was a hoarder in 1 lie house, and that having some previous knowledge of the epistle and its valuable contents, he had watched the young man who had brought it to the office, and had shortly after made the attempt we have rela ted. A statement of the affair being made to the District Attorney, Smith was arrested and is now safely lodged in prison. Latkst from Tampa Bat.—By Express, at Black Cn-cekon the 20th inst. from Tampa Bay, J we IcaPTfthm MRlMMlui; with/ his family, in nil about fifteen persons, were es corted into camp. This number, it is said, con stitute the whole amount of those disposed now to emigrate. ' mauriedT”~ On Sunday morning, Dec. 2d, in the Presbyterian Church, by the l!cv. Mr. Cunningham,Mr. Charles J<OS3 - formerly of Rahw ay, New Jersey, to Mrs. Moore, formerly of New York, both now of this city. COMMERCIAL. Savannah, December 1. Cotton. —Arrived since the 23d inst. 47 16 bales. Upland and 13bales S. I. Cotton, and cleared at the saruc-time, 5260 bales Upland Colton; leaving a stock on Trsnd, inclusive of all on ship board hot cleared on tile 20th inst. of 16446 bales Upland and 64 bales Ska Island. The desire of holders to effect sales of Upland adverted to in our last report, continued until Wed-, nesday, enabling buyers to purchase at i a j cents decline in the middling qualities, yesterday there was an improved feeling and sales were effected at I cent, advance on the previous offering prices, at tributable to intelligence brought by the steamer Liverpool. The sales of the week amount to 4352 bales, at from llj-to 13J , cents. In Sea Island we hear of no transactions of any importance. " "* -i i. i 11 marine intelligent e. Savannah, December 1. Arrived —Ship Potomac, Gorham, New York; ship Chatham, Gorham, Boston ; Bark R H Doug lass, Collins, Baltimore ; steamboat Oglethorpe, Dillon, Augusta. Charleston, November 3. Arrived on Saturday —Schr. Ursula, Davis, St. Augustine; steam packet North Carolina, Davis, Wilmington. Arrived^yesterday —BrJbarque Enterprize, Deme raia, via Antigua; Br. brig Fame, Figgett, Barba does. Cleared —French ship Nouvelle Deux Nanette, Reboyer, Africa; brig Delaware, Ross, Havana; brig Washington, Bishop, Philadelphia; schr. Co tone. Brooks, Mobile ; steam packet Gov. Dudley, Marshall, Wilmington. Went to sea on Saturday —Line brig Cervantes, Kendrick, Boston ; U. L. brig Tybee, Herbert,New \ ork ; brig Washington, Bishop, Philadelphia; schr. State Rights, Phillips, Wilmington; steam packet L Y Gov. Dudley, Marshall, Wilmington. Went to sea yesterday —Brig John C. Calhoun, | | Smith, St. Jago and a market; brig Levant, Nick erson, Boston ; brig Borodino, Cooper, Boston; Line ja brig Solon, Forrest, Baltimore; brig Christiana, Cox, W ilmington ; schr. Patrick Henry, Hudgins, Norfolk. CT Tuesday the 6th inst.,having been set apart by the Mayor of our city, in conformity to a lieso lution of the City Council, as a day ofPublie Thanks- jg giving and Prayer, and praise to Almighty God for »jf the numerous manifestations ofhis kindr.essand j mercy towards our citizens the past season, there I will he Divine service in the Presbyterian Churc’.i ,’S on that dav, commencing at half past 10 o’clock, A. M. ' dcifo, (fj 51 We are authorized to announce COSBY DICKINSON as a candidate for re-election to the office of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond county, at the election on tire first Monday in ' uary next. deed td* RE, MARTIN, DENTIST, has returned to • this city—Room No. 45,in the private part j of the U. S. Hotel. ts nov_27__ RICHMOND ACADEMY'.—The Trustees ft this institution will, on the loth day of De cember next, pi-orc c-d to the election of a Rector, and first and second English Teacher ; also, for 1 Teacher fur the Branch at Summerville. App l1 * cants for either of these situations will please ad dress the Prcsidcntof the Board of Trustees. AL EX. CU NNI NO HAM. nov 20 td President.