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Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued uutil ordered out and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. 117 The following gentlemnen are announced by their friends as candidates for the Office of Tax Collector. at the ensuing election: Col. JOHN QUATTLEBUM, GEORGE J. SHEPPARD, EDMUND MORRIS, SAMPSON B, MAYS, Lieut.JAMES B. HARRIS, Maj. S. C. SCOTT, LEVI R. WILSON. JAMES SPANN. Fromthe Charleston Evcning Nwers. JOHN VAN BUREN. John Van But en is beginning to make a noise and a name for himself in the political world. We have seen the re, port in the Albany Journal, of his late speech, of which so much has been said. It has some share of small wit, and a good deal snore of piquancy, passion, and we are bound to add, of demago gueism; but its prevailing spirit is neith er earnest, thoughtful nor statesmanlike. The personalities and invectives that form the'great staple of the effort will not suffer it to rise above the level of a clever stump speech. True, it is fre quently interspersed with editorial inter jections of "laughter," "great laughter," "excessive laughter," but many of these seem by some accident or other to have got into the wvrong places, and we all know how easily these tributes may be wo~n when a crowd-happen to -be in-good unior wit.eiinselves h ~with -thle ~ f a-quizzical expresidr6of iontenance, will sometimes convulsea - popular as sembly; and yet do not know- that there is any great wit or merit in the achieve -tent. If our readers ale in the vein, let us regale them with a specimen or two of the wit that drew such laughter and cheers from "one of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings" ever held in Albany : The man, said Mr. Van Buren, who tries to make a Whig of me, will end in making an ass of himself. [Laughter.] le was not baby enough to run when ever any one ct ied out "spook." He would as soon think of runnmg away from the Mexirans because'a reinforce ment of Whigs were coining up to the rescue, as to run away from the support of the proviso because the Whigs we!re in favor of it. [Prolonged cheering.] Mr. Van Buren has been told that lie was giving Crosswell too much con consequence. But this was a mistake. You could not give a man too mtuchi con sequence who has thme power to xhrtust from the Executive chair, if not into his - gtave, such a man as Silas WVrighmt, It was true, he had no respect for his inte~g rity, veracity or patriotism; but he had respect for his~ zeal, talents, and energy. He is brains for the whole conservative party. [Cheers]. -Where would your Peckhams, your Roses, your Gutlhtps, yotur S.'ymdums, andI your WVat sons be, if it were not for Edwin Cros wvell ? They would'nt knnwv enough to go home in a dark night. [Laughter.] And this is the sort of stuff that sonic influential papers at the North are com - paring to the fine, subdle and classical wvit, and the searching, excoriating sar castm of John Randolph. The conipari son is ridiculous, un.alessm it be in the way that small things are sometimes compared or (more properly) contrasted with great. So muc~h for the wvit, nowv for a glance at the principles of the orator. We have, continued Mr. Van Buren, followed Southern lights to the very vorge of freedom. We have followed thieir wilt-o-the-wvisps so far, that if wye go farther, there is danger that wec may be mired. Hereafter. he for oune, should be guided by the light of liberty-lie shouild be guided by the light ol true patriotisnm-by the light of humatn fiee, dom-in short, by the Northerni lights. [Tremendous cheering' and great ap So, the son and hteir of the Ex-Presi dent has publicly cast off the mantle of .SSouthiern prtinciples" that has so long coveted thte backs of the fatmily. The h garment has grown somewhat thread. hure. andi "a newer and a finer may be had at less cost" thinks:tle ydung aspi rant, as thought and said the Duchess of Buckingham when old Sarah of Marl borough refused her, for the funeral of her son, the use of the state bier that had borne the dead body of the great duke. The Southern principles that could not save the father, will hardly serve the purposes of the son. New lights are to be seen in the N'orth-and a sharp corner must be soddenly turned. The "Will o' the Wisps" of the South are too apt to lead astray from the path of preferment; wherefore a new and a steadier guide to the spoils must be found for the friends of "progress." A preju dice is to be worked up, by the low and insiduous processes of demagogucism, to the dignity of a principle.-a morbid feeling of fanaticism is to be armed with all the powers of a conscsientious sense of duty; and, in lulfilment of the grand design, a wicked and most unrighteous crusade against (ie feelings and institu tions of the South is to be preached up and set on foot, for the purpose of hum bling and punishing those who would not obsequiously bow themselves down at the footstools of Mat tin Van. Buren arid Silas Wright, as the acknowledged Ga maliels of Denocracy. Mr. Van Buren speaks of their deter, initation "to plant the standard of li[A erty upon allfree soil conquered by t' treasure and blood of freemen." Whose blood and treasure have been most lav ishly poured out upon the fields of Mex ico ? Did the free State of Indiana, with her delinquent regiment, do more ai Buena Vista to uphold the honor of the country or to win territory for the Union, than did the slave-h din Staes of Kentucky and Tenne.. law of justice as well as t they who win shall wear. H astl done less than the Nordi to s6* e conquest of this suil, touching c I it now proposed to place the people of tie rurmer under restrictions and disqualifi ations that do not apply to the people )f the latter? New York and South Carolina stood together in glorious rivalI ry under the walls of Mexico! but the ,reat Empire State has riot :n o irighter laurels upon tie field Alf u Ac !qual.participation with herself in the 'ruits of. the ente prise. If freedom be ndeed an object, and not a mere catch ,vord and a cry of party, let the territory f the Ution beifiee and open to all the itizens of the ccuntry, without diserim nation of propeity and institutions Ind when the territory shall be ready for admission as a State, let the citizeis thereof determine for themselves under what form of domestic polity 'they choose to live. This is a sort of freedoim -ititelligible, unsellish, equal and con Ititutioual-that we can both understand ind appreciate. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. IN SENA TE. TUESDAY, No. 9, 1847. Mr. Dunnagan laid on the table the rollowing Resolution; 50 copies of which Lvere ordered to be printed for the use )f the Senute. As the representativesuf Georgia, one o~f the nmmers of this confederacy-it is right and proper to give an e,:pression of opinion and sentiment in referencre of measures and policy of the General Government. Therefore Be it Resolved, by the Senate and H ouse of Representatives. T hat t he General Government of the Uniited States ouight to raise no more revenue in time of peace, thtan is necessary to deftay the expense of its economical ad justing a tariff on imiports for this subject the duties should bn assessed upon the ad valoremn principle. 2. Be it Resolved, That the Tariff lawv of 1846 approximates as neatly to these re'quisties as is pr-acti~cable, in a country of such diversified and conflict ing interests as ours, and the prosperity of the comnlercial, agricultural arnd nmanufacturtmg pursuits 'of the United States under its benign operation, die monistrates the justice and wvisdonm of its provisions, as well as the folly of. its r peal. S. Be it Resolved, That if, i.n conse quience of the existing war with MIexico, it becotnes necessary to increase the nevenue upon imports, there should be no departure from thme ad valorem prin ciplet nor ought it to fmi;nish any pretext for unjust discriminations for the mere sake of protection, but that such increase of revenmue should be raised by duties on articles now free of duty under the exist ing tariff lawv. 4. Beit Resolved, That the Congress of the United States has no Constitution al power to itncon poratei a National Bank, and the successful operation of thec In dependent Treasury, proves conclusive ly that unch nn institution is not neCes sary, as ; fiscal agent for the receipt, custody and disbursement of tlie public funds. 5. Be it Res2Ioed, That the Congress of the United States, has no constitution al power to appropriate public money fur the construction of works of intet nal improvement, except such as are strictly of a national character. 6. Be it Resolved, That the distribu tion of the sale of the public lands is in expedient and unwise, because it would create a necessity for an increase of tariff duties, to the extent that such -proceeds add to the annual revenue of the Gov ernment. 7. Be it Resolced, That the judi cious exercise of the Veto power by tho Executive of ile .United States, is the only protection of the minority against the rash, foolish or unconstitutional ac tion of the majority, und therefore any modification of that clause of the consti tution of the United States, which- vests that power 'n the President, would be unwise and peculiarly dangerous to the Soulthern portion of dhis confederacy. 8. Be it Resolved, That lamertable as are the evils of war, they are prefera ble to an unjust and dishonorable peace, and (that as by the act of ,the Republic of Mexico, a state of warexists between i Government and th ited States) s09' Republic is out res ible.for its consequences. . 9. Be it 1?csolncd, Thathk istinc war with Me:ico ought to be prosnaied with tie utmost vigor, until thaf .6v ernment shall agree to pay all demaznds Jue to our Government ontyccount of spoilations done to our c .as well a just indemnity for srtin c:rrd by the Governi rose auiion of the war, whicl cod upon us, and that if sh :10 so in money, ite United d insist upon her ceding trriot t in value to satisfy so just and Ule i demand. 10. Be it Resolved, That in view of the possible acquisition of territory by Ihe United States fotthe purpose afore mid, we adopt I ifollowing rSeO utions passed, G-neal Assen *ectly or indirectly, mediately or imme iately, over the institution of slavery, nd that in taking any such control, it ratscenIds the limits of its legitimate 'unctions by destroying the internal or paniztion of the sovereignties which lormed it. 12. Be it Rcsolvcd, That tnder no ircunstances, will this body recngnize is binding, any eiactimenit of the Fede ral Go vernment, which has for its object the prohibition of Slavery in any territo ry to he aicqaired, either by conquest )r itety, South of the line of the Miss ouri Compromise, holding it to be the untural and iudependent -ight of each ritizen of eaich and every State of the Confederacy, to reside with his property, al whatever description, in any territory whikci may he ac quired by the Arms of Ie United States, or yielded by treaty with any foreign power. 13. Be it Resolned, That this As sen,bly holds it to be tite duty of every man, in every section of the Confe'dera cy, if the Un ion is dear to himn to oppose the passage of any hew for whatever purpose, by whiichi ter itory to be ;ac, quired may be subject to such a r estric tion. 14. De it Resolved, That the patssage of the Wilnmot Proviso by the Houise of Representatives of the United States, mtakes it :hto duty of every slaveholding State, and the citizens thecreof, 's they value their deatrest privileges, their sov reigaity, t heir indepetndeniciettind their rights of property, to take firm, united and concenrtedi action in this emergency. 15. 1e it Resolved, That the fim ness, justice and wisdlom with which .James K. Polk has conduicted the ad ministration of this Government, both foreign and domestic, entitle hinm to the confidence anid gratitude of. the People. 16. Be it Resolvcd, Thiat the thaenks of the whole country atre due to the gal lant oflicers and nent of our Army, Navy and Volunteer seivice, for the glory wvith wvhicli they have covered our Arms, anid the heroic valor wideh which they have sustained their country's cause ON the battle field. The Sugar Crop-lu is estimated by competet judges that the crop of sugaer in this State will exceed the crop of last year by at it least one Ihund red thousand hogshcads. The quantity of miolasses, of this crop, will even exceed that of the sugaer, as compared with the product of Iast year. Owing to the lateness of alhe summer, and the con tinuance of warm weatthter, the yield of he canc wvill not, for some time, be as great as was to be expected from the appearanco of the crops, tend consequent ly t antity of molasses will be very s - 'e present weallier is unpro- h i being too warm, but still :hose tl I i boiling make a good yield, but ofor y quality. 0 h4itanding, however, the un- F favo ness of the weautlier, the exten- V sive cter of the crops and fullness e nfti o, throughout the State, will g full v the calculation of the pro- e duc Isseason. Two hundred and fort sand hogsheads is an estimate b whic one regaid as extravagant. tI [N. 0. Delta, Nov 5. o , P . N. 0. Picayune. 11ht inst. L t~ FROM VERA CRUZ. T tvamship James L. Day, Capt. Ia Voo rrived last evening froim Vera C Cruz ving left there the evening of in the 5t hst. She stopped at the Brazos, ol but di of communicate with the shore. cc Ai. a the passenuers on the Day-a C list of' orm will be found in the nppro- v priate luin-were M1jor Iturbide, ar plison f war, and Lieut.-Sears, 2d e< At till. bearer of desptcf3es to Wash- T ington he Th' . ews Srought by the Canton is pr entire onfirned. Gen. Scott's des- tht patch It Mexico between the 12(h D mnd 1 .of October, escorted by a spy P comm of Mexican lancers, 100 de strongg der the command of Col. Do- P mingud The company left Puebla the ev of the 19th and were attack- W rd the. !e-night by a strong force un- ar der G orrejon. Shoi ly after they be were ked by Col. Vamos. In the of two en iements they lost fifteen of foi their n ber. They returned to Pue. wi bla an .Lane placed the despatch- ic< es in t. nds. of his adjutant general, Lieut , who came down . with his no Mexic cort to Vera Cruz, but ac- a I conmp: as far as Pl.an del Rio by the ha Ist Pe lvania Regiment, under Col. 0. Wynk Captain Loyall's Georgia an nmunte en, and three companies of ar4 artille The American portion uf the bu scort d at Plan del Rio and were Ei to rem ith Gen. Patterson. Lieut. ici Sears ted Vera Cruz. insh pight of rei cth a cconpinied by Capt. Geo. ho TJ . tillery, Lieuit. Lear. 41h en ,. plCl .vi Furledu-h.- ,ieut.4Henderson, Louisiana D Volunteers, cane down to join his con- sui pany. About eighty discharged soldiers an also canie down. i ie Mexican spy cnmpany is des- wi cribed as a rough-looking set of men. M They fight with ropes round their necks, sy as tie saving is, and theriefore fight gal- M lantly. Col. Dominguez is thought to R< know the road intimliately, from long Pt experience upon the line in a different pa capacity. We nnderstand that we have to altogether about 450 of this description w; of force in our pay. Of the detachment an which came down with them, told our coirespondent that they fought niost V, gatl'asntly. -w Gen. Lane remains at Pn. bla, re- th taining all the command he took up with B1 him. A circular order from General G Scoto directs a garrison of 750 men to ed he station'd at the National Bridge, 4t 1,200 at Jalapa and 2,000 at Puebla- gi the last two points under command of om generdl oflicers. Gen. Cushing has h been assigned by Gen. Patterson to the m c-ommiand at .Jalapa. G en. Patterson 'i had reached the National Bridge on the of morning of the 4th inst., wvith all his to force, have been entirely unmolested G Upon the route. pt Gen. Lane's command is quartered in il inhe heart of Putebla, the General occu, tre pying the Palace. n Santa Anna was at Tepaucan on the 26th ult. He had given up the idea of R going to Orizaba as noe had proposed. L We hasve the Genius ol Liberty of C the 5th inst., and r'egret to see by it that a< one of the editors, Dr. Quinn, is serious- a: lv indlisponsed. th Theo guerrillas are quarrelling among p themselves. Thue Rainbowv says: ' It til appears that Jarauta's band have de- sl la~red Col. Cenobio to be a traitor to b< hsis country ; that lhe is leane~d with the er Americans, and oven supplied by them in with arms and ammounuitions for the pur- ni pose of destroying his brother bandits. mx After much hatd talking they have at pl length proceeded to blows; and in one eogagpmengtiR said1 that Jarauta was k vict -' that thirty of Cenobio's F me d' b Lrt T6ints confirm the abovo, ai buts . ly twenty were killed and w that Jntrautaa.was shot thtrough the leg. h Papers of Jalapa of a prior date had P said that Jarauta had withdrawn fr-om the field to attend to his religions du- v ties. b~ The Arc'iTris of the 5th inst, speamks a ofan expedition of 1,500 men as about ft to start freoi the camp at Vergara a- ( gainst Orizaba. Our corresporndent p makes no mention of it.b Thn sunn -naer avs on tie Engrlish t ide that the unbmied body of the late imented Capt. Walker remained on ic field two days after his death. Bv this arrival we have two numbers f a new American paper published at uebla and called the Flag of 1k reedom. Ve learn from it that Col. Chiles was nertained o'n the 21st ilt. at a dinner iven by a number of officers who serv : under him during the siege of Puebla. This paper furnishes a report of the ittles of Huiraiantla and of Atilixico, e results of which are already before ir readers. VERA CRUz, Nov. 5, 1847. Ede. Della-I reached this place st evening, five days from Petote asile, having left on Sunday morning, company with Lieut. Seats, bearer despatches ; the Mexican Spy Lan rs, under Col. Domingo, the Georgia avalry, Capt. Loyal, the 1st Pennsyl nia Regiment, under Col. Wynkoop, id about 80 dischargedsoldiets, mount, I, under command of Captain George aylor, of Co. A 3d Art., who goes me on furlough. Maj. Iturbide, taken isoner at Huamavantla, accompanie I D train, and leaves in the James L iy to-day for Philadelphia. The nnsylvania Regiment halted at Plan I Rio, to await the approach of Gen. iterson's train. The remains of the lamented Capi. alker, and his faithful servant David, a now in the Castle of Perute, having on brought fiom ilumantila, by order Col. Wynkoop. They will be -warded to U. S. by a large train iich is shortly expected from Mex Of Santa Anna and his whereabouts thing more is known, except that he is irisoner by his own people, and will ve to undergo the ordeal of a trial. ie thing is certain-lie will not wage other fight with our troops. There various. rhmors of a speedy peace, t in them I place but little confidence. ery thing was quiet at Puebla at lasti counts. )The two La. Vegas still nati-ed at Peroteon their patole of nor. Lieut. Jcob Sgerry,of the.Phila4el .partinent, and while out in the pur t of sor..e guerrillas, was attacked, d lanced to death in the most shock r manner. The affair occurred thin a few miles of Puebla. Lieut, ontgomery P1. Young, of the 1st Pen Ivania Regiment, and Lieut. James cKeon, of Co. K, 21 Pennsylvania .gimen, died a few weeks since at iebla. The former, for several years 3t, had been one of the regular repor s of the Philadelphia Ledger, and is much esteemed. He leaves a wife d family to mourn his loss. In our progress from Perote Castle to ara Cruz, we met with no obstacle iatever, only a few w "greasers" showing !nselves this side of the National -idge, having followed in the rear of en. Patterson's fine train,which reach the bridge on the morning of the hi, where it halted for the night. The rriso i at the National Bridge is a good e, everything presenting a neat and ndsome appearance. San Juan, 15 iles fronm Vera Cruz, is also gartrisoned th about 300 men, tinder command M~aj. Nelson, so that the entire road Jalapa is now perfecdly safe. It is en. Paitterson's intention to leave a irtion of his command in Jalapa, di is a most pruident one, for a more yacherous set thtan its inahabitatnts are it to be found. Surgeon Reynolds of the 1st l'ennl, eg't, is a passenger on board the Jas. .Day; 'aying been ordered -to New rleans t& Gen. Patterson. Dr. R. :companied the train from Perote, td it is mtainly owing to his praisewvor .y exertions that the discharged men, .incipially Pennsylvanians, are nowv otn eir route home. HeI took theinir re, aective case, into considleration, Ia >rintg day and night until every inan titled to his dischatrge, by amaasont of ability, lad received it. Dr. R. is >t only an excellent officer, hut a hrave lan, as his conduct ont sevet al occasions roves. The reported death of Ce'l. WVyn nop, I am pleased to state, is untrue. enever wvas in the entjoym'.nt of~ otter health ; and a mm cle'ver, ~reeable officer, we htave not, I p)arw.d ith him at the National Bridge, wvhere e was awaiting the arrival uf Gen. 'at terson. The natnre of the despatchtes, of baichi Lt. Sears is the bearer, I have een unable to Ieain, but presume they re of no great importance from the act that they might have been in New )rleans sotme days since. The des atches, for some reason unknown, were, y order of Gen. Patterson, placed in to mail at Vera Crus. ff can arrange matters here, I hope to leave in the Jamies L. Day. From the N. 0. Delta. 1-Ilk inal. From the "klag of Freedom' of thte: 23d of Octobb,, We copy the following items Poisoned Lanccs.- ome. of the. Mexican Cavalry pridt! thimselves in the title of L-incers of Poison,.,or Ran-. cheos of the Poisoned Lance. The use of such weapons as they say they car ry is foi bidden by the rules of civiliz ed warfare, and places those who use them beyond al I cliin t) espect'or quar, ter. They must be very careful never to be taken prisontr. Gen. Rea has dismissed a large por tion of his foice, nut having the funds rwcessary to pay and sUppoit them. Many of the disbanded troops have al realy gone home, and others are foI owing in iho same direction with all iossible haste. At the battle of luamantla there was in exciting and interesting struggle be ween the Indiana Volunteers and the letachment of the 1st Pennsylvania legiment from Perote, as to who sh6uld irst reach the town and plant the Amer can flag upon its walls. The Indiana ioys wvere coming up in fine style with shout and a bound, and were near vinning the honor, when Lieut. Denny, if Co. H. and Private Thos. Stubbins, tandard-bearer of the 1st Pbnnsylvani, as, took their colors ahead, and, after i hard race, arrived a few minutes in .dvance of their gallant rivals, and lanted their flag upon the walls-of Hu mantla. The colors of this regiment vere the first upon the sand hills overn Doking Vera Cruz in the seige and apture of that city. Col. Domingo's Spy Compaiy left his city on Wednesday' evening, on a mission to the eastward, but.encouptering number of their hostile countrymen at ight, they engaged them successfully, - ?ok several prisoners and k number of orses,. and teturned to the .city./.o rhursday morning. They mide agal. int appearance aalhey passed througk, he.streeis, nitid are,dodbiless a baive, etof fellows. - illing and wounding nearly onehun. red. Had his force been-a little sitroan er he would have been enabled'to take bout 200 of them prisoners, as he had riven them into such a.position as to ender their escape from a large force mpossible. Capt. Walker.-This distinguished iartisan chief fell mortally wounded at lie battle of Huamantla on the 9th ult. nd expired in a few minutes. His last words were worthy of his heroic charac er. "I have run my race, lads," said te to his gallant troops, "but never mind hat, Maintain your ground firmly. and lo not yield an inch-the infantry wilt non be here." The infantry did come p in a few minutes, the cavalry was ustained, and the shouts of victory was lie last sound which saluted the ears of he beloved and lamented Walker. A Patriotic Suggestion.-The New fork Courier says: "We call upon those vhose duty it is-now that time has >een given to enable us to analyze the ulh extent of the glory won for threma elves and our country by General scott and his band of heroes-to take he necessary measures to celebrate, in becoming ma nner, the e'vents, wihich nve made glad a whiole people, and at he same ilme to testily their respect or the memory of the gallant dead, and is far as possibLe, solace the bereaved and afilicted who mourn over the lossof mar and derar relartives fallen in defence >f the nation's honor. Let es not forget hat the renown wvon for our coutrmy exalte'd ats it is-hris not been wvitbout a rearful sacrifice of gallant spirits ; arad while wve honor thre memory of those who havur fallen on the battle, field and in t he arms of victory-where soldiers love to fail-h-.: us not be trnmindful of rof those sorro'w-st ricken relatives who have given so mutch, to their country" Our Militia System.-The Alabama Plrnter, in directing attention to an .order for R review of the Alabama Miiufi, afuer speaking of the imperhection or their lanws, saysa : -"The best system on this enn-innat is that now in force in South Carotina. There every man is fitted for the fiel. and which it imparts the neces samry dieree of initary edueation to the people, it is a sonree of pride to the State, instead of being, a mark for jeers and' ridicule. Some of irs effecis have been seen in the Palmetto Regiment now in Mexico-a regimnent wttnse valor- and discipline have been a subject of admira tion to the whole country." Freaks of Politic,.-Three States-have-. at the recent elections, chosen Democratic Governors, aud a majority of Whigs to each branch of their Legislature, viz: New Jcrsey. Marylnmd. nmd eora.