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CHRONICLE ANOf SENTINEL.
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AUGI'S I|A.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12.
The following is of an election held
on Monday, for kftendant Warden* of Ham
burg :
W. H. Grkettc, |i tendant.
J. F. BIJIJOJ, Jr' •
J. W. Heard, 1 *
T. Kernaoha*. I \\irdms.
Jos. Woo ns, i I
M. R. Smith, j 1
B. F. Goran*, J f
The New York Times cl the sth say*:—Bu
* siness generally continuesu very languid. Os
Cotton there are some salel making at a decline
of about i of a cent per pwund on last week’s
rate*. In Flour there i* noiiing of consequence
doing, and Wheat and Floe* remain as before
noticed. k
*
The brig Atalartta, at Phjtadtffphia from Tam
pico, brings $112,000 in specie.
The General Agent ofth? American Coloniza
tion Society acknowledges %>e receipt of five hun
dred dollars in aid of the c» se, from a benevo
ent individual of-Oeorgia.
U. S. Bark.—lt is iui jored, says the New
York Star, that the V. S. B rik is willing to sur
render it* charter and windup business provided
the State of Pennsylvania \, v ill refund the bonus
of $2,900,000 paid. reasonable enough;
but, as the Stale is end earring to borrow Two
million* for indispensible purposes, the ; dea of
paying back two millions ‘j rather a difficult pro
position. t
Expenses or the R«beleion ih Upper
Canada. —" From the doe>»ncnts laid before th e
Provincial Parliament, it alpears that the expen
ses attending the trial of the
men taken at Prescott, £were $9,206. The
House of Assembly has Appropriated $160,000
for the indemnification of parties whose property
was destroyed during the i.lbell ion.
In the General Assembly of .the State of
Rhode Island, (says the N iional Intelligencer of
the 4th inst.) now in scssk|i,a set of Resolutions,
approving and apptaudiil; the Sub-Treasury
scheme, were introduced big some member of the
Administration party. Oil Wednesday last they
came up for consideration,find were indefinitely
postponed by 44 votes to i|;, not more than half
of the friends of the Admir |stration being willing
to lend them so much courisnance as to let them
be entertained for a day ledger.
Correspondence of the iVrJiona/ Intelligencer.
N ewsYork, February 4.
The fact that Pennsylvania had dishonored her
faith, went to Europe in packets yesterday.
The fact that the wrong is oitoned for. will go out
in a transient ship to-day. * hich may reach there
with the packets. The cojnse of the Legislature
fcss been most deplorable, end such a result would
be most disastrous, if unsigned for.
We are approaching a specie currency in this
State with ihe*nature! resuls, poverty, pecuniary
affliction, hunger, beggary * a low price for labor,
and no demand for it; low prices for the products
of the farmer, and inability! to raise money on
them. Many of our city ‘inks have much more
specie in their vaults hau »iey have circulation.
Ihe report ot the Safety A and Bank Commis
sioners, Just published, s£ows a reduction of
about $20,000,000 in thei circulation in about
ninety days. The conlrJrtion by the country
banks since June, 1839, it $6,465,000, and by
the city banks about $9,0(f),000. The circula
tion of our 22 city Safely Banks, is $4,-
028,737, «d the specie i.f their vaults is $4,-
495,137. Thus our city i\nks have more than
dollar for dollar in specie (f redeem their circula
tion.
This report, I presume, |/ill shew to »he advo
cates of a specie currency fit Congress a satisfac
tory approach to that so-cfeled desideratum. It
becomes nay duty, hovre/eija* a chronicler, to say
that, while the very rich Jere nevei better off,
the poor were seldom or n.ler in so bad a condi
tion. Our Alms-house if overwhelmed. Beg
gars throng our streets. |ome, in a Christian
city! are in actual dange of starvatioh. Me
chanics have little or not ing to do. Men of
small means have exhaust* that means of sup
port. There is distress w are there was abun
dance, if not affluence; *» i, while the city, as a
whole live* in the most ecfomical way, and cur
tails almost all exlranoosjt .expenditures, even
abandoning its cherished eViusements, yet econo
my cannot save hundreds Avm want, if*not of the
necessaries, yet ot the m ustomed comforts of
life. More of the specie c rrency will bring us a
lazzarom ; for rowdies, md “soap locks,” so
called, and Butt-endere (h on force and theft at
fires, and by burglary, am if the .lespotism of
a law comes to restrain th, >n, they will but de
generate into a lazzaroni. , Ay, we can be made
Chinese of, perhaps, and have Mandarin sub
treasurers. with rats and c is for ordinary food,
and rice alone for luxury; mt, if a Government
has any love for such a J ird-money spectacle. I
Tn h / T ‘" du,g * ,te tastes Pekin, win Japan,
and why harrass our .vigor - l 8 industry ! j
' Un t T of re- i
ee«t movements in Pennsy*. ania , have advanc-
nited States Bank «J»ened at 70 and closed
The Pennsylvania rc.rvjnents have imparted
new life to the stock mar*#!. There is consider
able vivacity them now. a*i ail stocks are on the
nse. L b. Bank to-day Sent up to 77. The
. Locofocos here betnoa-i wi'ully over the Message
as the Governor of Penus-J vania, and are vefy
much shocked that the rmfister and its hundred
heart* should hav* - boUvht” him up. as they
aver. The capacity of U '-i monster, even dead
and deprived of its daws, Surprise* them yet.
Exchange on London :|IOS to 108^—which
is a rise perhaps caused b lthe demand to pav the
interest on the Pennsylvania loan. The river is
•o obstructed with ice, alsi that there are but few
shipments. |
The revenue in this citA in January. 1839
Was $1,300,800 ;it is $3(1),000 in this January.
h oo s a « if Treasury Jiotes would be neces
sary .or something else. I
partl h os f ° r Bk)res ia 1116 b “*
“nT ß r«r ra tv.°7e;.^^“ f -
Hand money times ate ** fj* iet ~
ordinary and evan ratioJßj th '
property. I lues Axed upon real
Our Legislature is daiifr h ut , ..
little of aiot much Ude ’ and lhat
Sam Slick ay. tl, , fc, ,L er knew bulw>c
d,e of a broken heart, a,.die brought on th“
tion by lilting a big anvil.|
-1 Fire \bo«l one o’clock, A. M., yesterday,
a fire broke out on the West side of East Bay
I street, between Pinckney and Hasell streets, in a
small or e story wooden building, owned by Mr.
! George Kinloch. and occupied by a Mr. W arren-
I ton, as n shoe shop, which together with a two
I and'a half story Wooden House, on the South,
owned by Mr. Edward Harvey, and unoccupied,
and a sraall tenement on the North, also the pro
perty of Mr. Kidloch, fell a prey to the destroying
element. A two and a half story wooden build
ing, South of Mr. Harvey’s, owned by J. M. Jan
drell, ard occupied by Mr. Sweegan, as a groce
ry; and a small dwelling in the rear were blown
up; and the fire was thus arrested in that direction
The mansion of Mr. Kinloch to the North, was
almost miraculously saved. Composed of wood
and presenting a piazza to the flames, its South
ern side, (and even that portion of it protected by
the piazza) was several times on fire, and is now.
completely charred.— Charleston Courier of
yesterday.
The debt of the State of Alabama, according
to the State Treasurer’s report, is $15,400,060.
It is comprised in two classes of bonds, called
long and short bonds. The latter are issued at
two. four, and six years, amount to $5,000,000,
and bear an annual interest of $300,000. The
other class of bonds amount to $10,406,000. fall
due at different periods between the year 1850
and 1886, and bear a semi annual interestof $260,*
500.
In the House of Representatives of Massachu
setts, a vote was taken upon appointing a Spe
cial Committee, with instructions to report a bil®
repealing the license law of 1838, the great sub
ject of contest at the late election in that State.
The vote upon the order to appoint a committe®
stood a-s follows: Yeas 285, nays 172.
St. Joseph, January 29.
IvntAJfs !—An express has just arrived (Tues
day norning,) from lola, with a letter from Mr.
J, L. Smallwood, merchant of that place, «tating
that on Monday night the family of Mr. Harlen,
about six miles from lola were all murdered and
premises burnt, by a party of Indians supposed to
be about twenty in number. The citizens of that
neighborhood, were without arms or ammunition
and call for assistance. The Indians, will either
remain in the Apalachicola swamps or make for
the eastern arm of St. Andrew’s Bay. A compa
ny hence, under the command of Colonel Fitzpat
rick, has gone in pursuit of them.
Shipwreck.—The Charleston Courier of
yesterday says:—The brig Edwin, Fitzgerald,
from New Orleans for Savannah, with a cargo of
Sugar and Molasses, during a gale of wind from
N. E. struck on a shoal off Jekyl Island, at 6 A.
M.on the sth inst. Her deck load was imme
diately started to lighten her—a very heavy sea
running, unshipped her rudder and started the
counter. She bilged in a short time with the
sea making a complete breach over her. The
officers and crew took to the boats and succeeded
in reaching Little Cumberland Island, through
the bieakers. Capt. F. dispatched a boat to St.
Marys for assistance. The wind continuing to
blow, she went to pieces during the night of the
sih inst. Vessel and cargo totally lost. The
above information was furnished by Capt. Free
land, who obtained it from the master of the
steamer Florida.
From the New York Times.
Locofocoism--How It Works.
Under this bead we have already given publi
city to some startling examples of the efflcts of
Mr. Van Buren’s policy upon the farming and
manufacturing interests, and from time to time
as nevr facts come to our knowledge we shall
publish them for the information of our readers,
believing that practical illustrations of the evils of
misgovernment are th' most effective means of
securing a consitutional remedy at the next elec
tion.
In New Jersey —a state doomed to groan be
neath the blasting effects of federal misrule with
out being permitted to have a fair hearing on the
floor of Congress—the distress in the manufac
turing districts is unprecedented. Twenty-four
manufacturing establishments at Paterson, we are
informed have entirely suspended their opera
tions, and the men, women and children who
were lately employed in them, are entirely idle,
and very mar v of them literally dependent upon
charity, for their very scanty allowance of daily
food.
“T its,” the Poughkeepsie Journal truly re
marks; in referring to the circumstance “is but a
sample of the state of things among the Manu
facturers throughout this great country. A large
portion of them have entirely suspended, while
most Df the others are working but half or a
quarter of the time.
Is it a wonder that business generally is at a
stand, or that farmers produce is dull and falling,
when so very large a portion of the labor of the
country is without employment 1
In Ohio the pressure of the times is no Jess se
verely felt, as the following letter which we re
publish flora the Newark Daily Advertiser, will
testify.
Chatham, Ohio, January 12th, 1840.
Times here are very much changed for the
worse. Money is so scarce that it can hardly be
procu-ed at any price. Wheat is down to fifty
cents, Corn twenty five, Pork $2,50 to $4,25, in
trade or trust;/eu> will pay cash at any price.
All kinds of business are brought to a stand still:
with the most fearful apprehensions for the lu
lu re.
Can it be a matter of surprise that a complete
revolution in public opinion has taken place in
Ohio ?
In Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Pennsyl-
the same causes are producing the same
effect. All the people want is a knowledge of the
universality of the distress. The inhabitants ofa
particular section of country pressed to the earth
i b J disaster, are apt to suppose that they are worse
off than the inhabitants of any other section
that the distress is local , local causes but let the
people only once leel and know that the suffer
ing is uniform and universal, and the remedy will
be universally applied. That knowledge it shall
be our care to disseminate, We shall take pains
to obtain authentic information from all quarters
cn the subject, and upon what we publish our
readers may rely.
From the Richmond Whig.
1 Th v e so an extract of a letter from a
of Congress-one of the most sagacious
politicians in Virginia. We have never vet '
known his predictions of the popular sentiment 1
of tht State to prove untrue; and from the intel 1
ligeuce, W h, c h daily greets us from all quarters 1
that he wiH again rove a
le . “Washington, Feb. 1. I
If am not grossly deceived, the signs of the
timer, indicate that Centrat h “ ine
only be a very formidable bo, , “""VT 1,01 i
pelitor of Mr. Van Boren so, theP ? °° m ‘ 1
The fact that he has done so mur h reß,denc - v ~ 1
field, and in ibe council, an”hel d T'"
sponoible place of ,rn«.
imputation upon his integrity, will
him very strongly to the peV®, and
ol the purest and most patriotic of our citizen' * !
his support. Your neighbor, Mr. R.tchie n l °
flutter and flounder like a duck in a mud puddle
H c may talk of his ten thousand majority; tnd
affect the most perfect confidence; but lam per
fectly satisfied Virginia is lost to Mr. Van Buren.
She cannot, consistently with her principles, sus
tain the lalitudinous and monarchist measures of
this Administration, and bind herself to the car of
Executive power forever. Mark my prediction,
Van Buren cannot get the electoral vote of ir
ginia.”
Locofocoism is Ohio. —'I he locofocos in
the Legislature of Ohio says the N. Y. Times,
“swore most terribly” that they would cut up,
root and branch, every “chartered monopoly” in
the State. A preamble and resolution passed
both houses, asserting the right of the Legislature
to alter, amend, or repeal any act of incorpora
tion. This, it is true, is the genuine locofoco
doctrine, and we did suppose it would be carried
out, but it is all swagger. The Cincinnati Ga
zette says:
These blusterers for hank reform, upon which
they rode into office, are frightened at their own
shadow; they have seemed to act on the sub
ject, for the purpose of keeping up that system of
humbuggery, which runs through all the ramifi
cations of the party ; and they have gone just as
far towards reforming our banking institutions,
as they intend or dare go. The bank stockhold
ers, bank directors, and bank borrowers of the
Van Buren party are perfectly willing that their
leaders should raise the hue and cry, and thus
subserve party ends; but when the work is to be
done, the principle of interest—that peculiar sen
sitiveness that lies in the pocket—begins to cry
aloud, and entirely overcomes that love for the
dear people, and that overwhelming patriotism,
of which so much is said by, and so little seen, in
this straightforward and consistent democratic
Party-
From the National Intelligencer.
The late Election of Printer to the House
ot Representatives.
Wc certainly had no design or wish to recur to
this subject, and we do so now only in conse
quence of an article which we find in the Govern
ment paper of Friday night, in reference to the
choice of the firm by which that paper is pub
lished to be Printers to the House of Representa
tives.
Before proceeding to our main purpose in no
ticing that article, we take occasion to state our
impression of what would have been the result of
the election of Printer, had every recognised
Member of the House been present, and been re
duced to the alternative of choosing between the
two leading candidates. We believe that in that
event the result would have been the same as it
was, but that the majority for the Executive can
didate would have been reduced to a number not
greater than that of the Republican members from
New Jersey, who have been unrighteously ex
cluded from participation in the proceedings of
the House of which they are constitutionally a
constituent part.
We believe, further, that if those Georgia Mem
bers, whose names the Globe has the indelicacy
to parade in its columns as having distinguished
themselves over their colleagues by giving their
votes to the Administration candidate for the
Printing, (with the other Georgia Members to
whom it alludes,) had voted with the majority of
their colleagues, and every recognised member of
the House had voted for one or the other of the
candidates, the result of the election would have
been different from what it was.
We trust it will be distinctly understood that
we make no complaint of the votes of those Mem
bers, or of any other Member, in that election, it
being a matter in which it would be unbecoming
in us either to praise or blame the conduct of any
one. We only state what is our impression,
from the facts before us. .
Nor should we have ever troubled our readers
with any further allusion to the late vote of the
House, if the Editor of the Government paper
had not, in justification of the minority of the
Georgia representation (who, we can very well
imagine, would willingly have dispensed with his
eulogy) in voting for him, wantonly and falsely
calumniated the National Intelligencer, for the
purpose of disparaging those gentleman from the
South who did its publishers the honor by their
votes to show a preference for them over the pub
lishers of the Globe.
The particular passage in the Globe’s article to
which we here refer is as follows:
“ In the present crisis, too, when Federalism
has allied itself with Abolitionism, to bring new
and still more dangerous elements into the strife,
to overthrow not only the political principles, but
the domestic institutions of Georgia, and the
whole South, the Globe has been found contend
ing aga;nst the rival press, for which the majority
of the Georgia delegatu n voted—a press which
has not maintained the cause of any party in the
South at any time within the last ten years. In I
the course which the minority of the delegation i
have thought fit to take in choosing between the I
Globe and the Intelligencer, we should think they
could hardly fail to meet the approbation of all r
parties in Georgia.”
Now', if there be one thing which more than
another has ever distinguished the character of
the National Intelligencer, it is its steady unwa
vering conscientious support of the real rights of
all the States, and of none more zealously than
those peculiar rights of the South of which the
Executive organ has, in the passage which we
quote, the effrontery to represent it as an oppo
nent. We challenge any member of the domi
nant party, from Mr. Van Buren downwards, to
produce from the files of the National Intelligen
cer one line which can show any disposition in
this press “to overthrow not only the political
principles, but the domestic institutions of Geor
gia, and of the whole South,” or any thing that
can afford the least shadow of ground for such an
imputation.
There exists, in fact, no such “strife,” as is re
erred to in this quotation. The assertion of it»
existence is a mere party trick, still more detes
table however, than it is contemptible, because it
is a device of cunning knavery intended, by the
aid of honest preiudice, to deceive and mislead.
We repeat the defiance, to the Editor of the
Globe, or any of his allies or confederates, old or
new to produce one line from our pen to justify
the base imputation which he attempts to fasten
upon the majority of the Georgia Delegation
through the sides of the National Intelligencer.
We do not make this challenge or defiance on
our own account, the reader will well understand
but we cannot pass by in silence this attempt to
injure honorable and high-minded men for no
other reason than that they have not chosen to
“ let the Administration elect their own officers
including the Printer to the House.”
From the Madisonian.
The Scb Treasury.—' “ Our whole expe
rience, there, furnishes the strongest evidence that
the desired legislation of Congress is alone want
ing to insure in these operations the highest de
gree of security and facility. Such also*appears
to have been the experience of other nations, from
insults of inquiries made by the Secretary of the
Treasury in regard to the p-aclice among them I
am enabled to state that, in twenty-two out of
twenty seven foreign governments, iron which
undoubted information has been obtained, the
public moneys are kept in charge of public off
cer - Message of the President , 1839
Can the people of Ihi. country 1* | on ™ r decei
,lhe Presid '"' has unblush
ing ' aa h n, ' U % d . • h,, J!“ sought among the
monarch.es of the old world. probably , hi * „„„
John, for a financial policy f„ r ,h is r , ?u b| ic; and
he tehs us that he has ascertained that twenty-two
out of twenty-seven of these power, have adopted
his sub-treasury scheme-and, to cap the climax,
he recommends and prowes, as suitable to this re-
public, a policy that, like the feudel system, is
found by the monarchies of the old world indis
pensible to their existence. They must have the
money within their own control; and, by keep
ing it by their officers, it is always ready to prop
the power ol the crown when assaulted by the
people. The truth is, Mr. Van Buren is wholly
destitute of republican feeling. He has been too
long in Europe—he has been charmed by royal
ty—he must have his English carriage, his Eng
lish servants in livery—he must live in royal style
—and yet, strange to tell, he assumes the name
of a Democrat. well say, “Oh, people
how I love you—for I can play the Ring, while
you still think I am a democrat.”
“A system of credit, acted on with caution and
sound judgment, is not only wise and judicious,
but indispensable to an enlightened business com
munity. The honesty, industry, and capacity of
a poor man is his only capital, and unless it gives
him credit where he is known, there is little
practical difference between the condition of the
honest and the dishonest, the capable and the ig
norant man. The station of men in society, on
the opposite principle, w'ould be fixed by their
birth, and merit would be regarded as a bootless
qualification. This is not thedoctine of Nature,
or of our Declaration of Independence and Amer
ican system of government. ’
The above beautiful as well as just sentiment
we extract from Gov. Porter’s Message. Who
does not feel the truth of every syllable which is
here uttered ? Credit is, emphatically, the hon
est poor man’s capita!; and they who assail
credit, and seek its overthrow, assail one of the
strongest motives to virtue. Freemen of Michi
gan! The men at present in power at Wash
ington seek to uproot credit, and, by so doing, to
place the honest poor man upon the same foot
ing with the worthless knave. Can you give
such men your support 1 Or will you not rather
cast your votes for Harrison, who is himself poor,
and wl o can, therefore, sympathize with those
who are poor with him I —Detroit Daily Adver
tiser.
From the Baltimore American.
Mr. Webster’s Plan in regard to Steam
Boats.
The following is a summary of Mr. Webster’s
plan for preventing steamboat accidents and pun
ishing carelessness,
1. That the owners or masters of all steam
boats, or vessels propelled in whole or in part by
steam, employed in the transportation of passen
sengers or of goods, wares or merchandise, or of
both, shall be deemed to all intents and purposes
common carriers thereof, and shall be liable to all
the duties and responsibilities imposed upon such
common carriers by the common law. And
every restriction, limitation, or qualification shall
be considered utterly void.
2. That whenever any damage or injury shall
occur to any passenger, or to any goods, wares or
merchandise on board of any such steamboat or
other vessel, propelled in whole or in part by
steam, from fire or steam or collission with any
other vessel, the same shall be deemed full prima
facie evidence of negligence sufficient to charge
the proprietor or proprietors of such steamboat or
other vessel propelled by steam, and those in
their employment, with the full amount of such
loss, damage or injury until they shall show, be
yond any reasonable doubt, that no negligence
whatever had occurred on their part.
3. That if any inspector or inspectors ap
pointed under the law to which this is a supple
ment, shall carelessly or negligently perform the
duties required of them by law, or shall make or
sign any certificate required by the same act,
knowing the same to contain any false statement,
he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high mis
demeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be
punished by fine not exceeding SSOO, and by im
prisonment not exceeding 90 days, according to
the aggravation of the offence, and shall also be
liable in a civil action to all damages which shall
be occasioned thereby to any person or persons
whatever.
The select committee is instructed further to
enquire and report to the Senate what judicial
decisions have been made under the co-existing
law, and especially whether it has been the effect
of any such decision to render the law inopera
tive in all parts of the country.
“Pickets, the pink of Chivalry !”—Now
that Pickens and Calhoun have been promoted to
the turn spit, (says the Philadelphia Herald and
Sentinel.) we suppose we shall hear no more
about “the kitchen.” They have aprons on them
selves—their heads shaved and hound in white
muslin turbans—and are allowed to soak their
bread in the pan !
John C. Calhoun, chief clerk.
| F. W. Pickens, stew ard of the cellar.
Printer to the House. —So Blair is elec
ted printer to the House at last. His splendid
soiree has accomplished its purpose nearly. Mr.
Gales has given no parties this season—of course
how could he expect to be printer 1 The readiest
way to get the vote of a locofoco, is down his
throat in liberal currents of whiskey—the strong
er the liquor and the more of it, the surer is the
vote. N. B. If the U. S. Bank wants to stop the
resumption hill in the Pennsylvania Senate, they
can buy as many locofocos as they want, as cheap
as Blair — New York Herald,
Mobile and JVew Orleans Railroad.—
we are glad to perceive by the New Orleans pa
pers that public attention in that city is being
called to the little work which this company pro
poses, at the termination of their road. Its im
portance becomes of great magnitude, when con
sidered in connection with the mails between the
two cities; and we trust the capitalists of that city,
to whom it is of so much consequence, will f.ir
nish some enterprising young man with the means,
by which he may not only be enabled to forwa:d
a great public convenience, but also subserve his
personal interests. —Mobile Adv.
A large family— Mr. Thomas Nelson and
his worthy wife, of Lower Annamassec, Somerset
county, Maryland, are the living ancestors of near
ly, if not more than one hundred industrious and
thriving descendants; and what is more remarkable
the whole of this prosperous progeny are happily
settled within the sound of their sire's, grandsife’s
or great grandsire’s voice. His voice, however, is
stentorian, and he is yet vigorous and active in
mind and body, and has some twenty or more
captains in his family.
An Indian Doctor—During the time of the
assemblage of the delegates of various Indian
tribes at Washington recently, a circumstance
which went to prove that the course of treatment
pursued by the savage physicians, in certain ca
ses, if severe, was at least founded on philosophy
Amongst our most intelligent medical men it is
believed that it a stubborn disease can be eradi
cated by the creating of a more available one'
then a cure is certain. ’
The Hon. Mr. , a Member of Congress
T S C ', e T* " n U,cer in of his legs’
which had baffled the skill of the best physicians’
and annoyed him excessively. Hearing that
there was a skilful doctor amongst the Indian del
egation, he determined to try him. Th«» j
Indian was therefore called "in, and luj^
some time to the patient’s account of the treat
mem he had received ;in reply which he only
shook his head and gave an expressive grunt in.
length S h nt; o ed° Mr “ f «
what the complaint was, he couhl ctire^lf.
— would do exactly as he told him* The
patient consented, and was stretched upon the
floor in front of the fire, the ulcer laid bare, and
his hands tied down close to his body. The doc
tor then walked several times around him, mut
tering what he considered magic words. After
this ceremony, his legs were bound tightly, and
again the Indian proceeded with the incantation,
carrying in his right hand a shovel full of burn
ing coals; ever and anon he passed zig zag over
the patient’s body. All at once, and before Mr.
was aware of his danger, he threw the
burning coals upon the sore, and with a fiendish
grin, danced wildly around his suffering victim.
Mr. shrieked, raved and swore, but all to
no purpose; the fire gnawed away, and not un
til the coals had blackened was he relieved from
his bondage by the savage doctor. His first im
pulse when he got the use of bis limbs, was to
kick the doctor down stairs; but a grunt of ap
probation from the Indian, arrested his attention,
and he sternly asked him why he had burnt him
in that cruel manner. The doctor replied in
substance in the following manner:
Your sore worried all your learned doctors;
it worried me too. I have made a common burn
of it; any body can cure a burn.”
It is almost needless to say that Mr.
was a well man in the course of two weeks.—
Baltimore Clipper.
California. —The Editor of the Arkansas
Star, at Little Rock, strongly urges the purchase
of California by our Government, and gives good
reasons for so doing as an act of policy and expe
diency. He says,
The rapidly roiling tide of western emigration,
by which the beautiful plains and fertile valleys
of the west'are filling up with a tree and enlighten
ed population, wains the government ot the U.
States of the importance of possessing itself of the
westetn frontier of the Pacific ocean, while it can
be obtained at small cost of purchase. If the op
portunity is much longer delayed, a firm foot hold
will be taken by European nations. Russia has
already extended her grasping arms to the fron
tiers of the north-west, and Great Britain has
given us much trouble, and probably will give
us more, on the northwest.
The Peninsula of Calafornia affords the best
harbors on the Pacific. The climate is delight
ful—the country inviting. The possession of
this valuable country by the Mexican govern
ment is almost nominal. There is no doubt that
it might be acquired for a small consideration. —
The Russian governmet have shown by a series
of systematic efforts, a settled desire to extend
their possession southward. Mexico finds diffi
culty in payiiig her bonds for various loans from
individuals and companies in England. The
English Government is strongly pressed to re
ceive from Mexico, Califonia in liquidation of
those loans. The opportunity is now open for
us to acquire this country, rich in itself, happy in
its climate, and most valuable from its natural
position, by purchase at a moderate rate. Should
this opportunity be now neglected, Calafornia
will fall into the hands of a foreign and a rival
government, from which if it should ever be ac
quired, it must|be at the cost of war, or of count
less treasure.
We shall take occasion in our next to resume
this interesting subject which we have now bare
ly introduced, and to exhibit with more particu
larity the great natural advantages enjoyed by
the peninsula of California.
Oriental supestition on the origin of
Tea.— Darma, a very religious prince, and third
son of an Indian king named Kosjusvo, is said to
have landed in the year 510 of the Christian ear
He employed all his thought and care to diffuse
throughout the country a knowledge of God and
religion; and being desirous to excite men by his
example, imposed on himself privations and morti
fications of every kind; living in the open air, and
devoting the days and n ghts to prayer and con
templation. After several years, however, being
worn out with fatigue, he fell asleep against his
will; and that he might faithfully observe his oath,
which he thought he had violated, he cut off his
eye-lids and threw them on the ground. Next
I day, having returned to the same spot, he found
them changed into a shrub, which the earth had
never before produced. Having eaten some of
the leaves of it, he found his spirits greatly ex
hilerated, and his former vigor restored. He re
commended this essence to his disciples and fol
lowers. The reputation of tea increased, and af
ter that time it continued to be generally used.
Kaompfer, in his “Amaenitotes Eroticae,” gives
the life with the portrait of this saint, so celebra
ted in China and Japan. There is seen at the
feet of Darma a reed, which indicates that he had
traversed the seas and rivers.
From the Augusta Mirror.
New-England.
Land of my birth, I love thee !
Though far from thee I roam ;
Still burns the star of memory
Above my boyhood’s home.
I love thy streams and mountains,
I love thy hills and vales,
I love thy gushing fountains.
Thy woodlands, and thy gales.
I love thee, that my mother’s tomb.
Is ’neath thy green and flowery breast;
0, let the turf that shrouds the gloom,
Press lightly where her ashes rest.
There’s joy upon thy mountain floods,
In gladness leaping to the vale ;
Each leaf that quivers in thy woods,
Is fanned alone by freedom’s gale.
Thy hills are bleak, thy rocks are rude,
And cold thy wintry snows ;
Yet, o’er their distant solitude
The “ sun of glory” glows.
I love thee for the stor ed name,
That clings around thy wave wash’d shore;
Time cannot rob thee of thy fame,
’1 is thine till Time shall be no more.
’Tis blazoned on thy own green hills,
Firm rooted ’mid the lightning’s shock ;
’Tis sung by all thy gladden’d rills,
’Graved deep on Plymouth’s sacred rock.
Where came the few, a gallant band—
Bearing the standard of the free—
To find within a distant land,
A home—a shrine for liberty.
It was not gold that lured them,
’Twas not the breath of fame,
’Twas freedom’s soul that fired them,
Oppression could not tame.
Then bowed the woods before them
Then rose Religion’s sane *
Bright freedom’s skies shone o’er the n
Beneath them smiled her plain. *
Their fame is thine, proud land, and thine
The soil where tread the free •
Thy Plymouth’s rock, the pilgrim’s shrine
fhy proudest page of history.
Augusta,Geo. J. E R
Matthew Vi pond, the celebrated swimmer, died
recently at Liverpool, aged 48. In July 1827, Mr.
V. swam on the river Mersey from the Rock Point
to Runcorn, a distance of 22 miles, and exceeding
the former distance by 4 or 5 miles, in 5 hours and
a half—a feat probably unequalled and unap
proached by any swimmer, when all the circum
stances re taken into account, in ancient or mo
dern times.
Punctuation.—A Southern paper advertises
a black runaway by the following description •
“ H v» “'““ l ? 5 > ‘ ars of »ge- hit note lurntun
tixful high, had on, &c.” What a noialc that
must be 1
Extraordinary Munificence.— The I
ell Institute in Boston, was established bv
acy of near $300,000 in the will of th e j
Mr. Lowell, the interest of which is to be a
ally expended in free public lectures. p rof ” nu *
Silliman has been engaged for five years, to 1 CSS ° r
at an annual salary of $2,000. It is said 601 ?* 5
upwards of 15,000 persons attended the 340
ferent literary lectures in Boston last vea. dl **
cost 0f512,000. 7 ’ ata
“ Queer Chaps.”—lt is said that ihesunj
of Harrison is so universal in some of the n •
of Indiana, that a Van Buren man, r* )
passes along the streets, is pointed out as /
thing queer. orne *
Buenos Ayres papers to the 12ih Novemho
have been received by the editors of the New V ?
Journal of Commerce. An insurrection had tt
place in one of the Southern Provinces, but,?
rebels had been completely routed bv the G
ment troops. . ' v Vern *
Beautiful Extract.—The .
tiful extract is from Gallagher’s Hesperi£? U ' *
monthly publication, issued m Cincinnati, Ohio’
-‘young womanhood I the sweet moon „„ ,J e
horizon a verge, a thought matured, but not
terred-a conception warm and glowing, nol “
embodied: the rich halo which precedes Ihe rt
smg aun-the rosy down that bespeaks the ripen
mg peach—a flower— 1 1
‘A flower which is not quite a flower
Yet is no more a bud.’ ”
Solemcholt.—ln some English grave
the following old epitaph : 3 * rd “
“The wedding day appointed was
And wedding clothes provided,
But ere that day did come, alas !
He sickened, and he die-did.”J
_
From the Bangor Whig $ Courier.
The Arostook war, while it has wreathed with
unfading laurels the brows of its sapient project
ors, has also indirectly furnished occasion fO
- into exercise the latent talent of several
literary geniuses, whose prod actions# may be read
by posterity, when even the sage wisdom of a
Fairfield, or the heroic bravery of a Strickland
shall, in the lapse of ages, have ceased to excite
its admiration.
I send you a specimen, which, I think, ought
to lie preserved, not only for its intrinsic beautv
and merit, but also to show the nature of many
of the communications and despatches, the trans
mission of which furnished such constant em
ployment for the corps of videttes whose services
were required during the aforesaid war. It is an *
extract from a poetical epistle from a languishing
young lady suffering the tortures of anxiety and
suspense for the fate of her true lovyer, who was
at that time fighting the battles of his country,
and is as follows ;
I have my time a mourning spent,
That to the Roostick you have went;
But hope whilst I am sick with great*,
You’ll soon return to bring releaf.
But oh ! if it should be your fate,
To git a bullit in your pate,
I think the pain that I should feel,
No other man on earth could heefi
The little peace of mourning crape,
Exackly like aharte in shape,
This lock of hair my teers have wet,
I’ll send them both by the videt.
When on these lines you gently look,
Think from whose head this lock was took;
This lock of hair was mine this morn.
But soon I trust it will be yourn,
COMMERCIAL. •* |
Latest dates from Liverpool Dec, 25
Latest dates from Havre Dec. 19
New-Yohk, February 5,
Cotton has been in fair demand during the last
three days, the lower qualities, however, declined
about per lb, whilst the finer descriptions have >
remained firm—the transactions embrace about 3,-
000 bales, of which 1150 were Upland, at 7$ a 9|; ,
1200 New Orleans, at a 10£ ; 250 Florida, at 8*
9£, and 100 bales Mobile at a 10£c per lb.
Flour , fyc. —The transactions since our last have
been extremely limited Western Canal may be
quoted at $6 374 a $6 50; Ohio Canal, $6 375:
Ohio, via New Orleans, $6 12£ a $6 25 ; andWeorge
town at $6 50. Rye Flour and Indian Meal are
steady at our former quotations. In Wheat and
Rye very little has been done, and we do not alter
our rates. Corn is in demand at 60 a 68c per 58 lbs.
Coffee —The market still remains inactive, and -
very little alteration has taken place in rates. A ft
cargo of new crop Laguayra has been taken 'or ex- 1
port, on terms which have not transpired, but for 1
which 12 cents had been asked; 500 bags of Bran I
were sold at 9 a 11 cents; 350 St. Domingo Sji
S£c; 100 old Government Java, at and 30C
Sumatra, at cts per pound, on the usual credit-
Sugar No sales of importance have been made
since our last review. 400 boxes brown Havana 1
were taken at a cents; SO do of white,at lOj;
and 70 barrels of white Brazil at S| cts—2soo bags
of Slam were also sold on terfns which have not
been made public.
The market is now bare of new crop .Molasses, |
the recent importations consisting of 1310 finds — I
98 tierces of Havana and Matanzas having been dis- I
posed of at 22 a 23c., 4 months, and 200 bbi«. New [
Orleans at 27 a cts., 4 months.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, February 11.
Arrived yesterday —Fr brigPensee, Rabot, Point
Pctre, (Guad.); brig Uncas, Ruesell, Boston; set:
Abba Thula, Hopkins, Attakapas, (Lou.)
In the Offing —Ship Victoria, Lennox, Liverpool;
also, a schooner.
Cleared —Ship Benj. Morgan, Johnson, Liverpool- I
Savannah, February 9-
Cleared —Br ship Alexander Grant, Thornton.
Liverpool; ship Newark, Soullard,New York; Br a
bark Clio, Smith, Liverpool; bark Turbo, Beau- \
champ, Liverpool; brig Augusta, Sherwood, Nevf
York.
Arrived —Schr Franklin Green, Smith, Havana,
steam nacket William Seabrook, King,Charleston;
steamboat Oglethorpe, Williams, Augusta; steam
boat Chatham, Wray, Augusta; steamboat Lamar-
Crosswell, Augusta!
Went to sea—Ship Newark,Soullard, New A ork. f
brigs Augusta, Sherwood, New York ; Woodstock, p
Bragdon, West Indies : J Cohen, Jr., Moore, Jack*
sonville; schrs Emerald, Morgan, W Indies; Azo
r;a, Lament, W Indies. _
GO* EXCHANGE ONNEWYORK- At slgM» :
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
»ov 23 GARDELLE & RHD^
CO’C. M. CURTIS, House, Sign and Oman* *
tal Painter, 187 Broad street. —Sign
tal work done at short notice, deej^,-
(Cy-Dr- B. HARRIS offers his services in **
practice of his profession to the citizens of Am, -
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive
attention if left at his drug store in Broad s } ree ‘’ f !
at his residence in Ellis street, below Washes
ton. novJ_ 1
CO" Dr. W. FLINT offers his to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches o
profession. He may be found at all hours v-f
■ late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second m
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold street’-
nc v 29
(O' TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARI ' S r f. |
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academ |
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to v |
tors , every Saturday afternoon and I
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At nightther
will be well lighted. deeff, I
krw. G. NIMMO, General Commission
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to
Constitutionalist. D ° v ‘