IlPOnf ART FilOR MEXICO. A t.ian ofEifkt Millionn Demanded by flan lit Annn Congress in Secret Session Chvrch Property to be Confiscated Tke Cltrgy Threatening Ercommnnicmtion. The following itemt of intelligence f.-om Met )' bevs been received at the office of tbt New Voik Sua, by en arrival from Havana : The Congre wee io eecret session debating the measures necessary to be taken in the I present stated affairs : An express hid beea received from Santa Anna, demanding eight mil lion of money, or the country wss lost. It vii understood that the confiscation of the flmeeli property wu conteaHplateJ in order to , procure funis to carry en the war. The clergy vwre, ofeoitrss, violently epposej to this mea sure, and wr tbreafin sseommnniration t tha Government, ConfreM and the army if it was carried into effect. The Now Vork Sun of the ST.tfi furnishes id Jcionai particulars of the late news from Mexi pi, received by it 9 Havana letters. Wc copy die Sun's fuller account : At tho moment the Dilligence was leaving ttrecHy of Mexico with the mail for the Bri tish Mcamrr ('J8tli or29ih ul'.) an express orri ed front Santa Anna, stating that the Ameri can army was pressing rspiilly upon bin, in P'!t furce, and that tig kt millions of dollars must be raised for the army in torn uay. This a positive threat of the forcible aeiture of tV- Church property, and it was so understood in Mexico, iranta Anna declared that the mo-n-y rnuft be raided immediately, or the country Ibat. The despatches were at once sent to ?njrcf. As the mails left, Congress wss fill in eecret session on the subject. The fiergy declared that they would resist the -wholesale spoliation hinted at by the President General. They had even threatened to ex pointunnifute, heretics, every member of ing;rpp, ofT.cer nt Government and soldier vtio would dare to lay violent hands on the t im.r.h property orcountensnce its coufiscation. !. from tha Armjr- The U. S. echr F.udora, from the Brsxos, arri ved at New Orleans on the 17th instant left itrazo on the 12th. Amongst the passengers w.-re O. Hammond, bearer ot dispatches Irom General S;ott, Colonel Croghan, and Doctor Finley, of tho Army, and 75 sick and diachar prd enljiers. No intelligence had been recei ved f'om t'i arrcy. Gen. Scott wa at Brazes t.rr "f l'J-h, where it was tuppoeed he would remain vernl days. He had sent on an ex- ( .-! intnmimi Gen. Taylor that he would mit-t him at Tampieo or Victoria. The ex ;iri Imd not returned when the Endure ll"t The t-tfMmer Giraffe was lot in a heavy gale t :rn m -uth of the Rio Grande, 7th inst. Four ;.ve were luM in the wreck. Later from tha Beat of War, Reported Batti.b between Gen. Quitman a-w Gi-.yj. Urrca- New Orleans papers to the Hit. inet., contain full particulars of the reports from the army, among' which we find the follow in? let:er addressed to the editor of the Flsg, aid published on the 8th instant; our readers wi'l judie for themselves as to the correctness nf the writer's conjectures. The same report t.sa readied Washington, but the battle is said to have been fought with Cansles. Camaroo, Jsn. X 18-17. Dear Friend: I came down from Monterey yesterday with Col. Croghan who is en route to Austin, Tens, authorized to raise a regitrent i-f Texan Rangers to serve during tho war. From the mot authentic mforraation I have IverTi able to gather, from Mexicans, lam strong ly in the belief that a battle was fought yeeter d:iy t'vo leagues this aide of Victoria between Hon. Q'litmun, with 200(1 volunteers and Gen. tTrrea with 12,000 regular troops. Col. Crog ban is not inclined to credit the report, but I consider the authority pretty good, having con versed with tho Mexican Who brought the ex pres to Mter. Gen. Taylor is some six dsys i t the rear of Gen. Q;iitman, with 3000 rrgu Urtrooiwi. Sj, if the Gen. should find things too warm fur comfort, he can fall back on Gen. Taylor, and their united forces can repel sny attack which Urrea may make. Gen. U'orih tawtill at Sh'I.Mo, havinjf been reinforced by three regiments of volunteers, from Ohio, Ken tucky snd Indiana. Gen. Wool is in camp fif teen miles from Saltillo, en the road to San Lu- ia Potosi, watting orders. Santa Anmk can, if deemed expedient, ro in force Urrea (by the Tu la Paw) with a large force. Mexicans inform me that such Santa Anna's intention, think Hg to draw Generals Worth and Wool from Saltillo, when he would immediately occupy that place! Fifteen hundred lancers aro now hovering around Gen. Wool's encampment, wai ting a favorable, i pportunity to strike. Our troops mill continue to suffer from chills bud tev ra at every p(t. The ..latau.oraa Flag aay; Mr. Gillespie, a Ttxin priavu.er, releaaetf ty by Santa Anns, at S in Luis, hss just returned to Mala mora. The number of troops al Saq Luis, Mr. Gil lespie statu t b 27 000 at the time of his de f.urture, with an additional force of 10 000 some where in the vicinity. This force wss under Constant drill, and many foreign officers were said to be engaged in the service. Groat en thusiairn, and the wont perfect subordination prevailed ic thu Mexican lines. A Ts4vc.lli.vcj Msoic Looos. It is stated in a lata Savannah paper, tht tbe Grand Master M lb i Grand Lodge of South Carolina, Uaa just i 'ed a i!...n3tion to some uf the oflieera of Ir'i.'i.eiio Ue'.vnient of Volunteers, tu held a t. jv l. i'i !.'. !; in . reguiier.t, during it tun of service ir, Metire, the great number of Freemason in the regiment making such a mea snrs highly eonvrnient o tbess patriotic bretb ran of tb nr. stir ty." From the Boston Herald, Jan. 93. Great FlrelOO Bialldlaca Barns. A dreadful fire broke oat ia Boston at half pttt 10 o'clock last night, it commenced ia the Bowling Salion attached to the Neptune House, kept by Mr. Leonard Allen, in Haver hill etrcet, north rkie; and owing to a strong westerly wind, blowing hard at tha time, one of the most extensive confi.igratijn ensued, which has been knowo theri tur many year. The Neptune Houe was wh.illy destroyed. The following are among the sufferers, who owned nd occupied buildings on Haverliiil street, add are arranged in nearly the order in which thry Were consumed. The carpunter tliop ol SV P. Wat eon; bui'O inif and atock burned. Cuchinz It Boom's carpenter shop ; a vety small portion of atock and tool saved. The s hop of J. A. Sntithwark, etair builder, with a large qucnt i ty of atock and tool. The free Hone, monu ment, and grave atone maniifnctnty of Mr. Henry Warren. Frrm this, tl.n tire had rea died through In Beverly s'reet, on the north, whore several buildinps were burned. The large atore houc on the south siiler.f Havrrhi 1 street, and nearly opposite Mr. Wnpe.i's mar ble manufactory, waa next on fve, and was much damaged. Next came i)h mw manure- tory of Mr. Wm. Mousley, entirely burned, to. (ether wild a considerable portion nf liia atock. Marble manufactory of Mr. J. Vbb, whobc Iota ia very considerable. The next building occupi.-d by C Traverer, carpenter, and E. T. Kent, iron and junk dea ler. The ehnpof J. C. Hackett; then the ex- . tenaive coach manufactory of Mr. Roberts, a large quantity of atock wa removed from thi establishment; the thopol Mr. Jitn.fi Marat. all, stair builder; Gerald's looking glass and pic- ' lure Ira me manufactory. Un Beverly e'.,Choe- . vur'a sawing and planing mill, the dwelling ! houee of Mrs. Hazi-ltine, the carpenter shop of; S. Oockham, and nearly every building on the. street, easterly from the planing mill, and up to Thatcher street, were destroyed. On M'-dford ftreet, the carpenter shop of B-ijimin Abbot,' the dwelling )i..use and stabln ol John Dyer, to- j gclher with several other buildings ot compara tively small value. , 15 minutes past 5 o'clock, A. M. Wn have j jjst returned from the scene ot destruction, . which beggsrs all dercription. The rago and j fury of the devouring elements seems to be al-1 most unrontrullulile. Haverhill street, Beverly i street and Med ford street sre nearly la;d waf'r the lire raping furiously when we left - On the westerly side of Thatcher street, the large block t.f wooden dwellings belonging lo Messrs John II. fc Gen. W. Collamore, was entirely destroyed, and many families mule-red house less. Their loss is about 415.0(H) on which they were insuied at the Firemen's office for SsiOOO. O.i the same street, another block of wooden buildings, belonging to David Fisher, was totally consumed. His loss is cnnsiderbly leas than that of the Messrs. Fisher, and we learn he was partially insured. Several small buildings in the rear of these blocks were alto burned. 2) clock, P. M. The fire lias crossed Tha- cher street, where it haa burned the houre- wrilit and carpenter shops of Messrs. Patch and J. Ridlon, and 7 or B other buildings. II re our gallant firemen, who have battled the ra ging element for nearly four hours have con- quered, and victory ia about to crown their ef forts. I.nKt nirhl waa the cohieat we have hnd thus year, the vcrv worst for the firemen. F.n- gines from Roxbury. Csn.brtdge, Chsrlestown, llou,r of "mo I-'gslature to amend tt.e laws Chelsea and other neighboring towns, wero ear- of ,h s,1,e " ,0 '''"P""" w'' P"'- ly on the gn und. A young man named Wil- ment of ,1'",b in c" U rrP to substi- des, a member of l.ymsn Engine Company.No 'u,e rnpriaonme.nt for life for all case, of mur- , i , . , . . , der in the first degree, in which are included de. 5, was eerKitiely injured by the beam of the en- ... .... ., . ,. " . , , . , liberate and premeditated murder, and killing in gme striking him on tho head. Another man , .... , ,, . , . . , . the perpetration of the crime of arson, robbery was carried to his home in Prince etrcet, who , .. . . ... ,, . , , and rape. I he prisoner to be kept from all in hador.eofh,alegsbrokcnl.ya.ien2:ne. The ttrrourg, wllh oth,, nt being permitted to men worked tike heroes. or POnvM with any p,MP(li oth).r ,h,n the The fire was stopped at the east corner of officers of the prison. Murder in the second de Traverse and Chsrlestown sts.. tho lew small gree, without malice or deliberation, to be pun. wooden buildings on the corner be nj iujun-d ,- ,hed with from ten to twenty year' imprison- but the firvproof walls of the stable of I'arkm Dtiynton checked the prdgruaa of the conflsj'ra- tton, and enabled the Fiie Dcpartnient to got it under subjection. About eight years ago, a de tractive fire took place in the same neighbor hood, which waa stopped in iuprogreta by the brick walls ut Bcyr.tan's stable. The Post i ti s ot the Wrtr The popu lation of the I'nited Stales is very nearly equ alized on the Atlantic border snd the central ba sin, or what ia usually called the west. Mr. Darly, the t'eojfUjihor, in an interesting paper to the Union, estimates, on certain data, twenty-one million as the existing aggregate of the population of the United States, at tha present time, or year. The entire population by the censuses respectively of 1700 snd 1840, the rs tin for 5(1 years, routes out 4,412 or the popu lation diMihlea in a little less than twenty Jive years. The Western population, he shows, has stigmented sctenfuld in the thirty years, 1510, IS40, iuclusivu. If the increase of the first lor- ty years uf the century was continued during the Isst five yea re, the Western population, now smounts to eleven and half millions. Impro ved mesne of transportation, relative prices of land, and other circumalances, muat combine to rather aeeelernte than retard this course of '.biogs; ami if so, Western will double in about two third thu time of thst of the general popu la I ion of the Union. With but partial excep tion, the Weatem population stsuds on about oue million ut -quaru unXtm, or about twelve to the Kjuure milu. Naw Mexico Lettere have been received by the editor of tha Missouri Tribune, that "tba a tutatory lava for the Government of th Ttrri Wry air r.e v 1.1 ficrrts ef publication." e SWISS l-HITMggJJ-U'. W'll-I fcw THE AMERICAN. Saturday, Jmnuarg SO, 1847. u. r.i in r, Kq., t m hci k. Me and CVaf OtRee, tenter of fid and Cttrent t Ntrtets, I'ktlmdftftlkfa, Is authorttrd to act ns .Ifrnt, arH rtretid fur alt mnntes lue this nice, for wubstrijtttnn r advertMnf, .lit at his OMIct . ir,U ,tuisu S'reet, .Wte IV.. mind 8. B. Cmmtr sf ttalttmrrs mttd i'alrert sts , Hattimore. Qj Pctxii.vt: A frefb supply of superior printing ink ju't received, and lui al al Piiilu dvlphiu prices. C7" We refer our readeis to a letter, in aim ther column. In, ill the editor, ul.u is now at llarrisburg y On our firt pae will be seen the second and third days' proceedings uf the Sunbuiy and T.iie T.uil Unsd Cunvtlitioii. C?" The late new s Irum I'liflarid is logl.ly lavoiabl tu this country (iiain has greatly ad vanced in price Our lartne.-s will, no doubt, receive a good pi ire fur their fiain clops in the spring, when navigation opens. A Court martial wa to assemble in Nor folk on Monday last, for the trial nf the coin inaii'lir.g olfici'ia ol the several vessels that have recently been loat ir, the Gulf. C7" We understand that Mr. John IUnm. the newly elected State Treasurer, has not yet en tered hi security for the faithful pel lui manre of hi duty as Treasurer. Nkw Jtr.'tv The New Jersey Assembly has adopted resolution, requesting their representa tives in Congress to vote men and money to pro aecute the war with Mexico, which were wriuri mourly adopted. Srsi ia. Nearly three millions of Specie ($2.- 900.UCO) were brought to the United States by the Hibernia units last trip. The steamship' ,.M i..v- l.r..ul.r f.,,r. I. ..t f lv. It un..l,l m! 1 . j... insure it. Naval PaaPABATioaa We learn, from the New Orleans Picayune, that order were issued from the Navy Department, on the -Ith inst , for the purchase of fotr brig or schooner, to be converted into bomb vessels, to carry each a gun ten fret in length and ten inch calibre. They ure to be from 2.0 to 330 ton burthen. The purchase is to be made without delay, and the necessary alterationa and arrangements to be ef fected with the utmost despatch. The destina tion of these vessels is evident enough A ship of 500 tons is to be procured to carry stares and munitiona for tbe use of these bomb vessels Two steamships, the Bangor and Aurora, have been purchased, and will tail for the Gulf under tbe name of tbe Scourge and Scorpion, aa soon a acme alterations are made in them. Event of great moment are brewing. Tna Pisisuatsr or Dxatii in Ohio. A bill ,1" b"n "pm-ted by s select committee of th ment, subject to the rules and discipline of the J ( Penitentiary, end aoon, down to the lesser de j gree of killing. Cwitip Status Senator Ki.r.r-Tr.n. The Vir ginia Legislature on the 2 1st inst , elected Jamea M. Maaon, F.sq , T', S. Senator, nn the ninth bal lot, in tha place of the late Hon. J. S- rnc.yV. ker. Whole number of vote east 150 necessa ry to a choice 0 ; of which there were, for Ma son 07, McDowell 19, Samuels 19. scattering C4 Mr. Mason, the Journal ef Commerce ssys, re aides st Winchester. Though not of lste promi- honor and tru.t with d.Mingui.bed ab.lity-a. a member of IK. Vireini. Hou.e of nelre.tr.. ol lb Constitutional Convention of 1830, and of th Congress of the United States. He is now President of the Farmers' Bsuk at Winchester, and, a visiter of tha Univeraity of Virginia. He ia a democrat in politics, but voted against the Sub-Treasury at ita first introduction. For the office to which hs is now called, he received the votes of 43 whig and 43 democrats, snd a major ity given for any individual as United Stat Sen ator from Virginia. Tbe Richmond Inquirer ay : "Mr. Maaon will give xealoui, cordial and hearty support to the measure of th Adminis tration, and he approve ef, and will abide by, th decision of a National Convention, should one b hold by tbe party, to nominate a Demo cratic eandidat for President ia 1848. He was presented to lbs Legislature of Virginia for slsc tion a a distinguished member of the democra tic party and, as such elected. On all tba great questions wbicb divide th parties ia this country ws bavs no doubt bs will b found where b hs always been, in the rarks of lbs Rep.bKran party Ltttrr fraa tbt Editor. Ha.aisai'fto, Jan 97, 187. There is less doing here In tbe ihapa of legis lative boring, this session, than baa been the caas for some years pait. This, some of the mem bers say, makea legislation more dull tbaa usual. There Dave been quite a number of applications for divorce, wbicb, however, do not meet the aama favor they formerly received at the hands of the legislature. In almost every case the com mittee have reported against granting the prayer of the petitioner. A sprightly, intelligent, and ' wealthy yout.g lady from Albany, ia now hi-re 1 for the purpose of severing the tie that binds hrr . unwilling heart to her "lirge lord " She is de cioVtlly hamlaomr, and winning in her nmi.nera, and I am much mistaken if she does not gain her point ; for how ran man, young ut old, grave or vay, resist the nersiiuuve eloquence of a beaut iltil woman, who (unit's nut on'y with horned words ' on her lips, but with language in her eye, a pecies of eloquence more n resistible than that' ol Demosthenes or t'irero. She is now twenty- j one, and ha been married about six years, with two little ieHnkibilities I There is a creat deal of interest manif sted here by the vt hig. in regard to the nomination of their randi.lato for Governor The rbanres are, however, decidedly in favor of Gen. Irwin, al though nme of Cooper's friends still hope agjunt hope. The news, todjy, that Chester rounty had gone for Irwin, was however quite a djuiper . The delegates, thus far, stand as follows : ' ' Instiucted for Gen Irwin, HI; recommended' ' for Irwin, H ; uninstriicted, but wlioe choice it Irwin, 22 total, M'.t. Instructed lor Mr. Cooper, ; U ; recommended foi Cooper, V ; uniustructvd, ( but for Cooper, 10 total, 'il. . I!y the above it will be seen, that lien. Irwin ' has already two more than nereaaaiy to nominate J him on the first ballot. j In regard to the democratic nomination fur (io- ' i vernor, thirgi are not so positive. Gov. Sliuiik I will, I am inclined to think, have a majority of ; legates ; but the impression is general and most ' decided, that it would be niot impolitic to put him in nominal .on. He stands now in tbe same relation to tbe d. niocracy of Pennsylvania, that i Van Rtireri did to the democracy of tbe I'nited States, and the convention may find it neressa , ty, aa was done at the lUItimore convention, and ' apply the two-thirds rule. It is well Lnown that many of the delegates instructed fur Guv. Shunk 1 i are in favor of a new n.an. ' Tbe State Temperance convention convened ,hi place to day. The cars from Philadelphia, j last night and this mornin. brought on about j 1 10 delegates. John It. Guiieti, the celebrated - ........ Methodist Church. He will no doubt attract an immense crowd to bear him. The aupplement to the Central Rail Road bill, allowing municipal corojiorationt to subscribe to the stock of railroad company, wa Io?t, yester. day, but waa reconsidered this morning and post poned. This is intended to legalise tbe subscrip tion of Philadelphia to the Central Rail Road. The Sunbury and F.rie Rail Road Convention, at Philadelphia, ha created quite a commotion among me menus ounecenrrai rome. . ne ,-rr- pression is becoming almost general, that the -s a f . I . t'l ; i route uy me est hrancn oi me ausquen.nn. is the proper one. 1 he citizens of Philadelphia, with a few exceptions, had no idea of the rela tive merit of the two routes; and many of the subscribers, and some among the heaviest, have entirely changed their view, and come out for th Sunbury and Kris route. Ga. Scott at tiis Ssat or Was A corres pondent of the New Orlesns Time, writing from Matamorat, says : "It will be gratifying to the frienda of Gen. Scott to learn he i very well re ceived by the troops. Hi commanding and mili tary appearance, combined with the suavity of his manner, ba dispelled the prejudice and o- pinion of many who have never seen him." Gas. Woot A letter from an officers in Gen. Wool' command, Pec. 27, mention the extra ordinary march which that division bad made to join Gen. Worth the infantry marching ou one day nearly 40 miles. "It is believed that the enemy meditated an attack upon our forces in de tail, but was deterred from strikisg the blow by the rspid concentration of our troops, making our army (at Saltillo) fully 4000 strong." Respecting the rumors recently published in the Wsshington Fountain, the "Union" has the following equivocal contradiction: A ftudget of Blunders. Several misstate ments, which appesr to have originated in this city, are now in circulation in the newspapers. R,,eh . it,. r Henorat Tmvlor h.i kern rrl led from the army of Mexico, and thst lie lis been ordered to Washington. Such too, ia the rumor I said to be founded on the authority of Commo dore Perry, "that the Castle of San Juan de Ul j lo not 10 -krd, and also that Commo doro ?"7 Wl1 no 'elurl lhe Gulf of McXI- ( co.'' Such loo, ia the rumor thai "gorvrrnmenl is in possession of the ultimate conditions on which Mexico will consent to make a peace with the United (States, and that it baa deter mined to acerde to them, it Cungre wil! ena ble the Executive to meet the views ot Mexico." We know not upon what authority these things hsve been reported t but certsin it is we do not believo there is any adequate authority or foun dation for either of these statements. Indian PeputPATiova i Flobida A let ter in the TsilahnaM Sentinel, dated at Mellon ville, C F. Dec. 19th, makes mention of a num ber of deprecations which have recently been made in Florida by the Indiana. Large stocks ot cattle had been driven off, and oilier depreda tions committed, which usually forerun an out break. The editor of the Sentinel remarks that "the government should not suffer itself to be misled by official reports that the Indisns keep within their bounds! unless something effectu al is done to insure t'ervciili' v, there is rreat i reascn to spr't head roub.t to the frouner." Correspondence of the Public Ledger J from waam.xoTos. Waioto, Jan. 83, 1847. Depend on it, a desperate efTort will be made to resuseitata the Lieutenant General. The Senate ia not in aesaion to day, for the sol pur pose of giving the committee on military affairs in the Senate an opportunity of investigating tha errora of judgemeut and other mistakes of con duct and military inactivity directly or indirect ly charged upon Gen. Taylor by way of a pre lude to the Lieutenant General. 1 think tba move decidedly a bad one, and one which will not advance the end of Col. Denton. Too much time haa already been consumed on the creation of Ihi lfiee The matter ia plain, and reduces itself to this Is Gen Taylor or Gen. Scott guilty of some military crime, neglect of duty, disobedience of orders, or anything else, that justifies their I era 1 1 f ll so. let the charge be mad" out and the offender recalled. Instead of ovcit.uiiglilng him by the appointment of a aope. ' nor General, let him be auperseeded and be done with it. These inuei.iWs skillully or rather, unskillully, given out through subordinates and flunkies reiterated in Congress, and than explain ed away again mill not answer. They rather than injure, create an impression in favor of those w ho are arraigned w bile absent, doing the havy woik in the field, and without a chance of defen ding thennelves, while their accusers, far from sharing either their hardships or resHinsib.lit ies do Ihrir work with comparative security, The attack on Tavlor is in bad taste. Let us hear both wrties -let us know what instructions be received what private 'etters were written him, ,Ve. . i But a few d.iys ago, when rumors were rif' that Gen. Wool, or Gen Worth, or both r( o(n,y ,,,, ,cmy un,,r Satil An(Ui T,vor n charged in the lobbies with having trans rended hi positive instructions not to advance beyond Saltillo ; to day we learn that he is alto gether inactive and "wholly incompetent to com mand tbe ai my." The public ia interested in uscei tainiug the truth of these statement, an) has a ribt to claim an otficial explanation uf tbe Sllhjec t. As to tbe new plan of attack, and the hererne. tical blockade of all tbe ports of Mexico, I fancy that the administration have not vet come to a positive ronclusion on the subject : although Commodore Perry may have communicated b.s , plans to that effect. I believe Vera Cruz will . be attacked and taken In the spare of the next i six weeks ; but it will depend, in a measure, on I the action of this Congress whether the aJminis- . tration will attempt to invest the Mexican Cap ital. It is said that Gov. Marcy and Silas Wright have buried the hatchet. I don't believe it. Gov. Marcy may have been sincere in his prolTer of peace ; but Silaa Wright and Gen. Dix and Col. Kenton have formed a triumvirate for tha total extinction of Gen. Cast and all his friends Gov. Marcy among the number. Mr. Calhoun i determined to make hia ipeerh against the causes of the war, and for the pur- ' pose of showing bow an honorable peace may be outained- j Jo not link ,nat thi is th, momtnX (of mtV fUch m s,Btement We msf f , , ,hrMh ie Mexicans Mott we can ,k of to them; and an excursion to Mexico will be found necessary to secure a permanent peace. The affairs between Brazil and the United State or better, between an officer of the St. Hermandall of Rio Janerio and a drunken aailor from on board of one of our men of war, i too puerile to lead to any thing serious. The Treaty with the Zalivere'n is up before the Senate. I will endeavor to give yon a syn opsis of it at an early day. The duty on tea and coffee will again be up in the House; but 1 doubt whether, in the present state of slavery and anti slavery feeling, it will ever pass that body. The article from the New Vork Evening Post, commented upon in last night'a Union, has pro duced considerable sensatioa here. Such an at tack upon the President and hi organ waa not expected, and least of all at thi time. The election of Jamea M. Maaon a IT. S. Sen ator from Virginia, in place of Judge Pennyba ker, baa give great satisfaction to the opposition, as he was elected in th came manner as Mr. Hunter affording a strong proof of the conser vative tendency of "the Old Dominion." Omkca. Correspondence of the Thila. Ledger Mtsllajr of ! KllleraHestSjnaltsn of Captain Hill. Niw Ori.kans, Jan. 16, 1817. Captain Hill's company, 'th Killers,' hsve , gn broken nut in a mutinous and disorderly j "" The.e fellow, are the pest of the c.mp ana;ns curie or the neighborhood, ihey nave " " - 1 ... given us trouble from the beginning, bsve dis- j ,rit of tbe inhabitanta in the great town of I'ng graced themselves and tbe regiment, and will j ,,n'- never be quiet. I am assured, until some of j Tbe sntTering population in the Highlands ar.d '.hern are shot or hung. j Island of Scotland is estimated at 100, 000. A Capt Hill has offered his resignation, snd left ; ronsiderabls supply of potatoes has arrived in hia company in charge of hia first lieutenant, Mr. I London Horn Holland. Krutcbmar. Lieut. Moore has gone with him, j A Taris paper asserts that th French Govern and as Lieut. Brown, Capt. Hill's other second . ment intends to propose to the Chambers a eon lieutenant, ia Adjutant of the regiment, the com- , sidrrsble reduction inth duties on foreign rorn. pany ia left with but on commissioned officer, j Sevral slight shocks of earthquake have late Ths reason assigned for this movement is that j ly been felt in the neighborhood ci' Marseilles tha Killera, or someof them, surrounded Captain j Tbe inhabitants of Berlin hsvs presented sn Hill's tent Isst night, with tbe design of asaassi- address to th municipal authorities, praying nating him, and that h cannot bold hia post a mong them, either with honor or aafety any lon ger. I know all th commissioned officers left in camp last night were under arme until nearly dsylight, in eonsequenca of ths alsrm caused by this suspicion. Tbe Colonel, of course, refused, and hid no authority to sccapt ths resignation or rsleas Capt. Hill, and baa snt up to th city after him. Major Bowman, who commands and accompanies ths detachment on board tha Statesman, ia now waiting ths rsturn of ths messenger If Capt Hill is brought bsrk, ther will ba nw trouble n board, as bis corps received the announcement of hi resignation witk tares cbsers, followed by as maay groan ARRIVAL. OP TII1C MiaKItNlAi Ttntjrltvn Days t,slsr frsst Karspri Boston, Jan. 257 o'clock, A. M. The steamship Hibernia, Capt. Ryrie, arrived in our harbor about 7-20 A. M., after a passage 1 of 19 days. Sba had a rough passage, and was detained over tha usual time at Halifax to take in a supply of coal ; and also, to land his Excel lency, tbe Covernor General of Canada, and suits. From Liverpool wa have papers of tbe 5th, London of tba evening of the tb, Paris and Hav re of the 2d, and Dublin of tbe 3d inst. The intelligent is nearly a month later than previous advices. The news you herewith re ceive is ol considerable importance. The money market has bean quiet, with little fluctuation. It is said that about .200,000 to 300,000 in I specie came out to Boston by the Hibernia. The price of Corn has advanced. The b'-st quality of Corn is quoted at CS and It shillings. The price of flour has advanced. Flour in bond, best quality, is quoted at 'il an.) ;h shillings per barrel. Tbe Cotton Market has been more animated during tbe past month, so that there has been con siderable business transacted. Ordinary Orleana and Mobile Cotton is quoted at C 3 8 to 7d ; fair do at 7 I 2 to 7 3 1 ; good, do at 8 I I to S I -2.1. The quotations at Liverpool on the 4th Dec. last were aa follows : Cotton Upland. a CJu , lair f,i ; Orleans 4? a 7. fuir : ; Mobile, S a ti, fair Of ; Alabama s.i 1 I em esse I a t,-l Flour Weern Car.al. ';ls Cd to a sale able ty,, f-mf price, gr.erally held at the latter; Ph Jad-I-Aia are! F:!timore, 1 per bbl lo'Aer Ir, :,io Co-r, .',; o 7s pr qr, 1X0 bbl; at tbe do sr.all parrels .'is Corn rr.eal, -7 a !i bbWof Ie5 lb V.'h', free white ji a 'js Id ; red a : ; rri.xd S C! a is IQ.J per 70 lis. I.d. of Jour, ol Com. American Lard has ben very largely dca't in ; kegs s!lir.g at 1 fa 'o sbi'.lirigs Amr;can Heefar. i Pork continue in eel!nt demand and althoujS supplies are eominj in free, verystirf ra are paid. An American ship, which had jost arrived in I.ondoa, from New Vork. has. brought thirty barrels of pork sat. Tbe President's Mesaje give a hopef'i! as suran ce that the American Tariff so far as re gards Uritish goods will be maintained, and has given the Knctinh manufacturers a cheerful pros pect for their trade for the coming spring Tbe last message of President Polk, wh.ca was received in this country a few days aj.j. has been assailed by the whole of the press, ar.d n ly names have been given to the process of rea soning in wbicb the President accounts far the Mexican war. One passage has been strong' commented upon, that in which he states the war was not undertaken with tbe view ut che ques!. We can call to mind no similar document du ring our time which has been leas favorably re ceived in F.ngland ; from this it rosy be inferred that the annexation of California of w hich Com modore Stockton haa taken possession as a ter ritory of the United Statea, is even less popular in F.ngland than was the annexation of Texas. Arrived at Liverpool, Dee. 10th, the packet ship New World, Capt. Skiddy ; Dec. 12th the steamer Great Western ; 17th, the packet skips Nicholas Middle, Waterloo, and Montexuma, aii from N. Vork. The Cali.lonia arrived out on tbe night of the 30th. Mr. O'Connell is looking feeble, and is said to be faat assuming the character of extreme old age. It is said that Government intends to shorten the term of the soldier' enlistment to ten year. The tiegotiationa for a commercial treaty be tween Craxil and the Zollverein are stated to have failed. The Pope has redsced th duty on tbe export and import nf grain into the Roman dominion Rome has beeu visited by terrible inundations, the distress is great ; tha amount of property destroyed is serious. The new Pope has mitiga ted the hardships of the people by hi purse snd hi personal esertiona. The Jew have been the gteatest safTerer by the overflowing of the Tiber. The condition of Ireland continues to be tba absorbing object of attention. Day after day th distress continues to increase, and famine ia do ing the work of death in various part of the country. Immense numbers ef peer, ball-starved rrea j .y acroa. the Channel and beg - , them to petition for the promised constitution It i announced the King uf Prussia ha signi fied to F.ngland that he dees not intend to cen tinn th navigation treaty mad between them in 1811. From thi resolution, connected with ths augmentation of duties recently imposed by the 7-ollverein en vsrious manufactured articlss, and particularly on cotton and linen threads, it may bs concluded that th German Customs Union is sntsring into s new commercial phasia. Thia treaty, wbicb might have been favorably received by Germany had she confined her ambi tion to an exchange of hrr agricultural products for ths manufactured good of England, bs aiers rrat with retains but rrnua-naacs Views I rbsstd wjth circuntsUnc.
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