Mobile register and journal., 1846-12-11

CTS, being posted the " modification" platform. while Clay goes w h Clayton for '' repeal and tue unconditional restoration ofihe la,iif of lsao 2" As you ~ill perceive. Webster stands abour as he stood when proposing llari winer) n campronise'' on reduction of tweafy five per oentum uf all du- ties which by snch eduction would nut be brought below thirty per cenfum For one, l do not believe at the manufacturing capitalists. or hrlr feed at- oraey in e Senlte, over anxious for any alter aton in the biII of 1916 II appears .hat they ony cry out " modification" that they may not seem loo To have abandoned their brother feds not ppcu. parily interested iu the question of protection who, a the present writing are certaialy making al ex. isting opposition To the new tariff. IT Clay does come into the Senate. he will soon clash violently against his yankee rival and bitter enemy; so vo- Ienly as al'nost to mpAe he great political contest nt the session between the two wings of federalism, rather than hetWeen the democrats and federaisis The opposition stou'y arguing thai sending Scott to the war is evidence that ibe administration are indeed in quandary to what Ihey shall do As il happenI that ever since Taylor took post west of the Naeces, the fedeaisls have twisted all mat. 'ers transpirng in Mexico, as proof that the Pre.i-
 
 theirs) Of inc fact. will have little weight Men of common judgment will argue that the orders of Scott g. lo show that he has somewhat recovered his senses, of which he certainly was bereft when wri ng the ''soup" lsuer 1 have no doubt that the Presieei has at all tunes been anxious to place hin, in his proper position al the head of our roops, and that he has beea retained Washington until so re. csny onli because his late frame of mind would have we'll nigh ensured disaster to military enterprises under hi, direction. His hopes cenlersd on the next presidential campaign. rnther than on the cam paign is Mexico. Al present the impression al Washington x, that he IS To await, at New Orleans the arrival oi the troops recently called oui. This ! believe unfounded. He will either proceed 10 Tampirn or Monterey direct and with despatch The new troops from the north will be formed into sep. arate brigade, while those from the south will re. penish the brigades of Taylo's army as now com SIhued. You recollect that he latter have been very much reduced In strength by the heavy number of discharges
 The iederaiisis of Massachusetts are treating the acquisition as anticipated m lste letter to you. ihe'hio"ng announcement of the acquisition take from a late number of [" The Massachusetts Spy," tho federal organ in Worcester. Mass, where "honesi" John Davis lives, and forward 10 you as fair sample of ihe manner in which the northern al lies Of your Alabama feds sustain their country's cause in these trying times
 "VoLUETEERs AHoI!-The government have called for oae regiment of volunteers from Massa chusetis, 10 perish and on the nesiferous Dains or Io he slaughtered in the mountain passes and for liied towns of Mexico. The accounts Of snner,ngs and prlvaiinns of troops in that country as nor trhyeo m numerous letters which have been nublish ed in the southern papers, are truly painful and dis tresslng. We doubt whether one half those who go wI return: and most of those who do will probybly come back with constitutions broken down or much biy reach the Mexican provinces, so as to he there impaired. The volunteers called out now, will proba. just at the most sickly season of the year We have some curiosity 10 who is disposed to volun ieer m such cause and with such prospects ahead Will be those who petit,onsd in this town for the annexailon oi Texasi And will our postmaster be one oi inc numberl We wait to sec"
 | Fremont has been recalled 10 take hs place as field officer in the rife regiment and the news of his operations with those of Stockton and Sloat in the Pacific, have superinduced orders to Kearny to return 10 Santa Fe, and il may be, 10 his late duties on our own Indian Tronier.> indeed, without orders. Fremont and Stockton have accomplished
 
 l ny in California. Col. Mason, who went out some time since, via MazatIan, with the five hundred regular artilleriss, Stevenson's regiment and the two hundred American rfemen collected bv Fremont in California, will he all sufficient 10 guard our in- terests Tn that quarter, of Mexico. The recall of Fremont and Kearny will doubtless relieve the singular anxiety ol the federal newspapers, least the Go 'ernment should ''pro consul' out the whole of the best territory of Mexico to the great danger Of the integrity of the constitution of the United States. Stockton, by the bye, appointed Fremont ''ml'ary Governor of Cafornia" without the knowledge of any one m Washington. This fact blows the Roorback that his appointment was de signed by the President peace offering To Col | Benton, to the four winds.
 1T troops are wanted (n addition to those called une, the asr reqnisilion) il is more than pr ba ble that ihe, will be called from Wesiern Texas.- l'ol S. II. Walker has exerted himself la in,iuce the Pr"sidrn io accept ,igade of lhe 'b'ho, .," and from hai learn there is some prospect that their wishes will be acceded to There is a well founded impression at inc department that accIima 'et ci'izens oi Texas are best fitted 10 serye in Hexico. Nothing bui desire to accommodate those States from which no volunteers have as vet been acceptesl. prevented d brigade rather lhan regimen, of Tsxians from being asked for under the late re. qnisition.
 | The whole Atlantic country is in n fever .bout this Col. Walker. In Washington he is badgered rather than onzed The President, on his first ar. rival, had no crowded levees ina, are those of this gallant young Wa'hingtonian who left home-a carpenters apprenticeship ihirly-six, to take hand in ih" Flor'da war, and returns in orysix the hero of the Mexican War. He IS now al lhe north almos, compelled to travel incog to avoid the fuss endea. vored to be made over him
 There are not more than thirty or forty member, ol Congress as yet on the ground.
 More curiosity appears exist with reference to Webster's speech in Philadelphia ito nght) than to the Presidents message; tue former is 10 treat of things to come, to fore. shadow the plans of the opposition for the while the latter Is but to reylew the public history of the last year
 JOHN TAYLOR. OF CAROLINE.
 Correspondence Of ihe Register & JoutnaL
 Camp near Caulargo, Nov. l6, lS46.
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