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CHRONICLE ANOf SENTINEL. _ fc 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 ‘