Mobile register and journal., 1846-12-29

face of imminent and appalling danger 10 save the crew of the U. s. brig somars, capsized in sudden squall off the city ofYera Cruz The names of the officers thus To he gratefully distinguished by our fe- ow citizens are Mir. Wood, first lieutenant of the British frgate Endymion, and Midshipman Sails O the French brig Pylade The Courier tells us iha all but twenty dollars of the sum needed was sub scribed on Saturday.
 The accounts from Vera Cruz bring the generous testimony of the British officers to the pre-emlnent activity and daring of the French in this gallant work.
 The Rev. Mir PUTNAM, q whig successor of the preachers of federal poliliss in 1874, delivered on thanksgiving day an anrtwar roMexioan whig sermon in Boston, which he has since published-
 He particularly cautions his bearers against thanks- giving for any successesbf alr country in ihis war. He says: "The sanctuary must not be pretdmsd by any thanksgvng for the glory the gain got or 10 be got" on that field
 He is of opinion with that party of Massachu setls who thought it 'nnbecommg A moral and reli- Oous people, rejoice in The victories of our navy The very spirit of Hartford convenonism has descend, d from the polca federal preachers to po- litical whlg preachers, and from the New England federal press oflhat day to large part of the whig press of this.
 NAvAt.-The U. S so0p of war Albany, com mander Breeze, arrived at Pensacola last week from Havana
 The St. Marys' sloop of war, commander Sands sailed from Pensacola to join the squadron in the Gulf.
 0o- The returns of the Iowa election, made off, cially, give the democratic candidate for Governor only 16l majority, and the democratic Congressman only about 300. But number of courlies were left out. The whole vote stands 6ls majority only in Governor, and about 800 average in Congressman.
 0g- The ship Europe, Capt. Barker, which arriv- ed at New Orleans on Monday asI, from Bath, Me. fell in with, the 24h ult. in lat 39, longitude 69, the wreck of the brig Si. Smons, Capt David Fl. dridge, from Boston, bound to Mobile, took from her he captain, part of the crew and two passengers, and brought them 10 that port. Elyin Addnglon, 2d mate, and seaman named James Sauden, were washed oyerbJard and drowned, on the 23d ult.
 Correspondence of the Register and Journal. WAsHING1oN CITY, Dec. 20, 1846.
 The President is said yesterday to have given his consent that lhe regular mounted rifle regiment lately organized shall be armed ~iththe light and highly finished rifles warmly recommended by Hays, Mccullough and Walker Some time ago, by his direction two thousand of Cos' revolving holster pistols were ordered for the same corps. They are therefore 10 he armed all respects (save ihe Bowie Knife) like the famous Rangers of Western Texas. During the last session bill was before Congress organize another similar corps, but it fai led in the House. The project has already been revived in committee with more promise of success. This Reg iuent if authorized. will in time of peace be eml Joy. ed principally on the Mexican and Indian borders o Texas. and will also be armed in the manner l have d 'scribed above; and as il appears 10 be strong wish at the Department that il shall be composed almost entirely of experienced frontiermen il is more than probable that ihe law will be so framed as to take all It's officers to ill vacancies (alter its first or- ganization) from ihe regmena rank and file. Il this innovation. for such il is. upon the established military custom, be sanctioned by Congress, the regiment will be superior to any otherI am almost tempted to wIte-in the world. At the iinia being,
 
 look forward certain promotion as the reward of either long service good conduct in ranks An individual of proper ambition will therefore hardly ever enlist But with the innovation to which have referred, fixed by law, inducement will be held out which must result in filing the regiments with lhe finest and most efficient body of young be found in western country.
 We look for the appearance of the message m re. ply 10 the resolution of Garret Davis on to kearny s(if the newspapers to be belieyed has acted lnconsideratey in some respects in New Mexico, which will of course be disavowed by the executive. who will not shrnk from responsibility the point really ut the bottom of the made by the iederalists in this connection This is 0T- Have we the right on taking possession of territory c ,nquered m the of the war 10 govern il whis subject arms 2 If so: has the President the rIght while il may be thus subject 10 tempo rary government, to order that civil as well as m- ,ary law shall be administered there in. These are simple points, and yet the lederaIisls, denying them with perverseness of judgment and oblquity Of perception unaccountable even m their party, so prone 10 unenabe posilions on public affairs, have made almost as much noise the subject matter as they might have made had the executive, ov pro- clamatlon, abiogaed Ihe functions of every State Goyernent in the union. They have grown less vocerous, only after realizing that some of Their present followers had commenced to understand how far they had ahead of their reckoning They already dread the appearance of the informa- ton for which they ask. because they know that while exonerating the President from censure, it will m all probability place in conspicuous view their inconsistency and determination to find fault, for the wake of finding fault.
 The Cambria's gnews received yesterday has not served 10 inspirii the whigs upon he tariff question: They had hoped that the ale fall in the price of pro- duce (generaed by the price of freights and prof gate publication n the London Times, together) would have been permanent. The adsiaes by this steamer, however, have undeceIyed them; and if they ,piH fight the tariff of 1916. as they lhreaten they must fight II Me great cause of the increased value of American agricultural produce. believe wrote you short time since that all the democrats Ia taS r~"n-sir ,haiese.ion stand prepared to sustain the tariff of l84s as against that of l542 The subsequent vote of Messrs Broadhead and Thomp. (alone of that delegation) if left unexplained may lead to the impi esson that l am mIstaken on this subject. l hardly lhink it possible, however; for though these two gentlemen may have lately been disposed. unwtlingy, to play ino the hands of the federalisls, finding every other democratic member from the state now standing side by side with the party large Pollocks resolution, they can hard. y continue to remain longer at the backs of the fed eralists.