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chrom’cle A nI) sentinel. * - » 0 AUG V:& T A. >.ui I. —'* 1 ■ ' TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 14. (jj’No mail North ojf Philadelphia. City Election. The following is the result of the election which took place yesterday for Mayor and Al dermen : fob maH:ob. Hook. ; Phinizy. Dye. Ist Ward, 34 5 44 40 2d .. 33 81 69 3d « 104 65 39 4th •* 134 19 31 305 . 209 179 tor ald«h;«en. Ist Ward. I 3d Ward. W. E. Jackson, 102 'P. M.Robertson, 139 G. F. Parish, 90 -J.B. Bishop, 141 Philip Crump, 82 jThos. Richards 125 J. M. Turner, 60 IF. H. Cooke, 114 2d Ward. 4th Ward. James Harper, 163 B. H. 'Warren, 104 |T. W. Miller. 124 John Bones, 95 ?P. Fleming, 65 J. G. Dunlap. 86 pleasant Stovall, 62 S. M. Thompson, 79 p, Blome, 37 A. Read. 70 Robert Philip, 35 u «» United Statj;i Bank* We invite the attention of our readers to an article in this day’s paper,: from the Charleston Courier, on the subject of jijNational Bank, and we would request them to' ; peruse with that de liberation its importance |di?mands the letter of Ker Boyce to Governor MpDuffie, written many years since. Mr. Boyce h| well versed in the ex change operations of the ciWitry, and has shown by this letter that his opin|Gas are entitled to the highest respect. | ■ I Death of Governor Noble. —His Excel lency Patrick Noble. Goveijao? of South Caroli na, died at his residence in| ’Abbeville, on Tues day the 7th inst., after a short but severe illness. Coleman Rush, was tfbund guilty of pas sing counterfeit money, at |Ue recent session of the court in Greenville distnet S. C. and sen* tenced to be hung on the 2tills May next. ]- The Hon. W. C. Dawson has politely fur nished us a copy of the b|| introduced by Mr. Webster to establish a uniform System ox Bank ruptcy throughout the United States. lf The Dublin Register stabD that the national church of Great Britain and: {lreland produces a revenue of .£8,896,000. ’’i'itfc revenues of all other established churches iiifEurope and South America is £8,852,000 —thipchurch of England exceeding all others put together by £44,000 a year. ? I * \ . |; The value of cattle implied into Liverpool from Ireland in the first elet’i" months of f last year amounted to £2,900 OCp, and the value of the insignificant article of fevers imported into England from that country isH;timated to amount annually to £500,000. Failures in New Yor|r;. —A letter from New York says—lam sorry!jo add that some large dry goods houses have -been protested on \ 4 Saturday and to-day. Amc’rfg them are Hall, Johnson & Co.; Fearing, Sw,ji & Co.; Addams, Cunningham & Co., &c. I afraid that Pearl street will go, for there is no firing business do ing. _ For the Chronicle entinel. The present period exhibits^,i anomaly in the history of governments. All kfpions have been divided more or less into parish, and frequently of the most bitter character. , ? nas been usual for panics to maintain a course dunng the continuance of atn* administration ; approving or disapproving, changing, only, with the change of rulers am?! measures. But it belongs exclusively to our |.y untry, and of a very recent date, for the leaders of a party dis tinguished for the violence of* ;ts opposition, to throw a complete sommerset; and to change without a change of rulers, or l|is policy pursued by those rulers. In monarchical governments, in dividuals of influence are somejAjies bought over by higher offices, or otherwise-1| it they arc de nounced by the party to which they belonged, and seldom have the confidetj|i3 of either the government, or party of which‘tl cy were a com ponent part. t The reason assigned by ouiHieading men for going over to the Administratrix is, that they advocate Southern measures. * jN’ow what are these measures 1 Mr. Van Bur|i has said that he is not cleat that Congress lsi|; not a right to abolish slavery in the District c|H Columbia. Is this a Southern measure ? Mr. tjui Duren advo cated the high Tariff, and wheiffcbuth Carolina resisted it as unconstitutional,. Improved of the proclamation and force bill, threatening to cut our throats for standing on our preserved rights. Was this a Southern measure 1 'The Adrainis s ‘ tration made war against the United States Bank, injured its credit,* took from it ilhe Government dep isites, where the law had placM them : where by millions have been lost, and- individual con tracts impaired placed them ihtp irresponsible local banks, and finally made wajr against them, as unworthy of public confidence j musing an im mense depreciation of the currency of the coun try, with a general derangement cf its fiscal con cerns. to the uepression of Sou*tern staple, and o-her property, and throwing the people into the hands of stockjobbers and shavtre. Can these be called Southern measures'? * Lastly they attempt to foice the country into a specie currency, when it is well khown that there is not a sufficiency of coin in thijj world to carry on its ordinary business—cram|»jog individual enterprise—reducing commerce a> least one half, and putting the country back cei; (| bes in general ittprevtmtat. The revenue, lajiiiig chiefly col* i lected at'the North, k mtwtbe evident "that*spe cie will flow in that direction, hence when ex changes are against the South, as they must al ways be, it will be impossible to draw specie, ex cept by a large premium. How then can this be called a Southern measure which in its effect is calculated to depress the whole agricultural in terest of the South, and give to the North a com plete monopoly, controling our labour, making us wholly dependent on Northern capital, and thereby acknowledging the strongest Tariff that could be devised. To cap the climax of this rediculous scheme, the money collected by the Government, from the hard earnings of the people, is to be entrusted for safe keeping, into the hands of a few individuals, who are to be appointed by the President, gen erally, for some political services rendered; and ‘consequently under his complete control, con centrating his power, and giving a death-blow to all the checks of the States. If this can be called a Southern measure, then words have lost their meaning. What then can be this Southern policy so much boasted of? Is it giving offices, or making appropriations to the South ? Let the history of the Government for the last eight years decide. Multum in Paiiyo. From the Charleston Courier. A Bank of the United States. We are among those who believe that the evils of our disordered currency and exchanges will never be remedied until we re-establish a Bank of the United States. Until then, unless locofo coism shall sooner wave its ragamuffin banner in triumph over the ruined commerce and industry of the country, we will remain subject to periodi cal inflations and contractions of the currency, to the disastrous fluctuations of an ill-regulated banking system, to alternate seasons of wild spec ulation, and general bankruptcy and ruin. The commingling of finance with politics is the curse of the country —the late U. S. Bank fell a sacrifice to politics, and politics now threaten a very upas influence on the trade and monetary affairs of the country, in the establishment of the sub-treasury system, with its golden promises, but paper realities—with its affectation of a hard mo ney currency, but its certain substitution of gov ernment assignats, in all operations of the Feder al Treasury, and depreciated bank paper, in all mercantile transactions, for the sound and conver tible Bank paper of a well regulated credit sys tem. We regard our government, the present and late national administrations, as greatly to blame for the present monied embarrassments of the land, for their absurd and mischievous expe riments in finance —for their destruction of a long tried and successful regulator of our currency and exchanges—for the removal of the deposites into the vaults of State Banks, and both in this wav, and by express solicitation or urgency, tempting them to an unnatural inflation of their issues and discounts, the sure precursor and cause of the explosion which followed—for the impro per distribution of the surplus revenue, forcing specie from its natural reservoirs and channels, ami producing consequent disturbance and em barrassment in fiscal and commercial operations, and then adding to the mountain load of difficul ties. chiefly created by their own po icy and mea sures, piling Pclion upon Ossa, by discrediting bank paper, at the national treasury, and declaring open and ruthless and reckless war against the credit system of the country —a system, coeval in origin with ihe consolidation of our political U nion. and under the benignant influences and creative energies of which, we have risen, as a nation, from feeble infancy to vigorous manhood, and run a career of prosperity, greatness and glo ry, unsurpassed, if not unexampled, in the histo ry of the world. Ifthe present national adminis tration should be ejected from power, they will be the architects of their own ruin, and suffers a just retribution for their war upon the commerce, the credit, and the industry of the country. If ihey are wise they will hasten to retrace their steps, and escape the coining overthrow. A cloud no j bigger than a man’s hand, arising in the far west, is exerting its electrical affinities, and gathering about it, as a nucleus, the materials and elements of a storm, that threatens to sweep them from power, like chafl’ before the wind. Let them then be warned by the portents of the heavens, by the dark and boding shadows with which coming events announce or indicate their approach; let them give up their mischievous tampering with currency and finance; and if Mr. Van Buren wishes to insure his re-clection, let him abandon the specie feature of the Sub-Treasury scheme, send Mr. Woodbury to Russia or Kamshatka, and make Langdon Cheves or Nicholas Biddle, Secretary of the Treasury. We give this adv ice in all honesty of heart and purpose; for we verily believe; that unless the monied embarrassments of the country shall cease, before the election of Presidential Electors shall take place, the admin istration will be held responsible for even more than it® share of existing evils, and there is at least an even chance of its ejection from power. But the immediate occasion and chief intention of this article, was to disinter from its repose of years, and hold up for the benefit and instruc tion of our community, a precious Herculanean manuscript, long forgotten, but recently extracted in fine preservation from the buried ruins of the I. S. Bank. We allude to a letter, written by Ker Boyce, Esq., now President of the Bank of Charleston, the four million bank and money I monarch of our city, to the Hon. George McDuf fie, that able and eloquent champion of the U. S. Bank, and appended by him, as a valuable au thority, to his admirable and celebrated report of April, 1830, as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, in Congress, in favor of the constitutionality and expediency of the then ex isting U. S. Bank, and against ‘*a National Bank founded on the credit of the government and its revenues,’’the Sub-Treasury—as calculated to re produce “the paper money of our revolution, the assignats of revolutionary France, and the Treas ury Notes of the late war.” We invite attention to this letter as a well written and sagacious expo sition of the great commercial advantages of the late U. T Bank, in regulating and facilitating ex changes, and promoting trade, in preventing the over-issues of local banks and the ‘‘extortions of private dealers,” and in infusing soundness and health throughout all the veins and arteries of our monetary system, and building up and sustaining the prosperity of our country; and we especially j invite attention to it as a prophetic statement of the results likely to follow the insane destruction of that admirable institution —a prediction made ten years ago, and now in daily realization before our eyes. Local Banks have been multiplied to : an almost indefinite extent, in anticipation of the ! overthrow of the U. S. Bank, and since the actu al accomplishment of that event—they have flooded the land with their excessive issues and now depreciated paper, involving the country in extravagant speculations and ultimate ruin; sha ving shops are in operation all over the Union, 1 and the exchanges of the country are in the bands of speculators and speculating banks, and are made the source of inordinate profits, amidst the general commercial derangements and dis tresses of the country; and Mr. Ker Boyce may be said, if not individually, at least as President of the Bank of Charleston, to have carried out the project, indicated in the concluding passage of his letter —“lf J were sure the Bank would not be rechartered , I would convert my property in to money, with a view to dealing in exchange. 1 could make a vast fortune by it.” - Extract of a iethr from an intelhgentyntrchant in Charleston, South Carolina, f Ker Boyce Esq.J to the chairman of the committee of ways and means, illustrating the exchange operations of the hank of the United Stales. “ This effect of diminishing the vast difference of exchange between the various points of the country, was evidently produced by the bank. ‘ The advantages produced by this institution, in the intercourse beftveen the western and Atlan . tic slates, can be duly appreciated only by one who sees, passing before him, the actual opera tion of the system of exchange it has created. For example : Lexingtan, in Kentucky, annually accumulates a large surplus of funds to her credit in Charleston, derived from the sale of horses, hogs, and other livestock, driven to that as well as to other southern markets by her citizens. Philadelphia is indebted to Charleston for ex change rem tted, dividends on bank stock, &c., and Lexington is indebted to Philadelphia for merchandise. Without the transportion of a single piece of coin, Lexington draw's on Char leston, the check to Philadelphia in payment of her debt there; which operation ad justs the balance between the three points of the triangle, almost without expense or trouble. Could such facilities be obtained from any other institution having branches in different parts, of the union, acting as co-partners in one con cern 1 Local banks, whatever might be the ir willingness, could not accommodate in the same ‘ manner and to the like extent.” * * * “The discounting of bills, on the low terms established by the branch bank at this place, is n great benefit to the agricultural interest, particu - larly in enhancing the price of cotton and rice ; and were the bank to stop its operations, there i s no saying how far these staples would be depres sed. The private dealers in exchange would! take the place of the bank in that business, and. their profits on bills would be taken out of the pockets of the planters, as the merchants wouldl always regulate the price, they would give, for an agricultural production, by the high or low rate at which they could nogociate their bills.— On account of its connexion with all parts of the union, the bank affords this important advantage to the public ; it is alw’ays a purchaser and al ways a seller of exchange, at fixed and low rates, and thus prevents extortion by private dealers. “ Before this bank went into operation, ex change was from 8 to 10 per cent, either for or against Charleston, which was a loss to the plant er to that amount on all the produce of Georgia and South Carolina, and indeed you might say, all the produce of the southern and western states.” ****** “If the Bank of the United States were de stroyed, the local banks would again issue their paper to an excessive amount; and while a few adventurous spectators would be much benefit fed by such an issue, the honest and unsuspecting citizens of our country would , fnaily, be the losers. If we look back to what took place in New York, Pennsylvania, the western states, and, even in out state, we shall see the grossest impositions committed by banks, commencing with a few thousand dollars in specie, la ying up newspapers to puff them as specie-paying banks, in order to delude the public, and, alter getting their bills in circulation, blowing up, and It aving the unsuspecting planter and farmer victims of a fraud, by which they were deprived of the hard earnings of years of honest industry. But sir, I believe the bank owes a great deal of the op position which exists, and has existed, to the fact, that it has put down these fradulent insti tutions, got up by combinations and conspira cies of speculators „• and who, offer receiving large dividends, managed to destroy the credit of their own paper, and, by the agency of bro kers, bought it up at half its nominal value. “Since I last wrote you, I had a conversation with a gentleman in the confidence of some of the monied men of the north, and he rays they are determined to break up the United States' bank, to enable them to use their money to ad vantage ; as that institution gives so many fa cilities to the community, as to deprive them of their former prof is.” • * • • * “There is another consideration : the distress would be immense, which a refusal to renew the charter would produce among those who are in debted to the institution : for I find that to this branch, the planters owe upwards ot a million of a million of dollars; and I have no hesitation in saying, as safe a dent as is owing to any bank in the union. But if the bank should wind up its affairs, these planters could not get credit from other institutions ; and as the bank can sue in the United States’ court, where judgment is obtain ed almost at once, property would be greatly de pressed, and moneyed men would buy it up for half its value. Throughout the union, all clas ses would suffer, except those who should hold up their money to go into the brokerage busi ness, or buy property at a sacrifice. If I were sure the bank would not be re-chartered. I would convert my property into money, with a view to dealing in exchange. I could make a vast fortune by it.” The Sub-Treasury Scheme. Awiiterin the Connecticut Courant, under the signature of “ A Manufacturer,” places this hopeful scheme in a striking point of view in an article from which the following is extracted : “ After the cue given in Congress, a brother of the candidate for Governor of Connecticut, Mr. Richard Niles, took up the argument. More wise or more wary than Mr. Buchanan, he spake, not to the laborer, but to a ‘ manu acturer.’ Let us hear his own account of the matter, and as he and his brother, the candidate, consult much to gether, we doubtless here have the views of both. In his published statement, in the Hartford Times, Mr. Richard Niles says:” “ One manufacturer to whom I made this state ment, asked what would be the effect of the sub- Treasury 1 I replied, that I thought it might in some degree check the excessive expansion of the hanks, and give more stability to business, and that the price of labor would probably he some reduced : but that produce and the neces saries of life would be reduced in a much greater proportion, which would make it much better for the laboring man as well as for the manufac turer.” “ Here Mi. Niles evidently surpasses Mr. Buchanan. He foresaw that neither his ‘love,’ nor Mr. Buchanan’s ‘love for laboring men’ would be deemed an adequate cotnpensa>ion for reducing their wages. He therefore goes a step further,and, after tickling the manuficturer, tries to tickle the laborer also. He admits that by (he sub-Treasury, ‘the price of labor will, probably, be some reduced.’ But he tells him it will be much belter for him. How better] Because, says Mr. Niles, ‘ produce and the necessaries of life will be reduced in a much greater proportion.’ Who toils to raise produce, and supply us with the necessaries of life ] The farmer. Let Mr. Niles go one step further, and tell the farmer how 1 he is to be compensated by a suh-Treasury hill which reduces the frubs of his labor, and ‘in a 1 much greater proportion,’ too, than labor is to be reduced. “ The last step in making a law is to give it a title. Taking Mr. Buchanans and Mr. Niles’s statements together, I recommend that the sub -1 Treasury law be entitled, An act to rob the la borer of his wages, and to be’ter his condition by robbing the fanner ‘ much more ’ in the price of his produce. A Manufacturer.” Letis, the Cashier.— There is a rumor ■ current in Philadelphia that Levis, the absconding , Cashier of the Schuyifcili Bank, concerned in the fraudulent issues of Kentucky certificates.has been arrested in Liverpool, and will be brought back to this country by the next steam packet. From Hates.—A Postscript!© a letter re- l' ceived in Charleston, dated Liverpool 7th March, | says; u We have accounts from Havre to 6th in- i stant; the decline on Cotton since the 2d had i been have been arrivals owing to the strong easterly winds.” Jacksoxyii.ee, April 7. Indian Scalps—We have been shown a scalp taken from the head of an Indian recently killed by a volunteer, attached to Capt. Mason s com pany. The circumstances, so far as we have learned, are these: —A detachment of seven were ( on a scout, and had. pursued an Indian trail some i time, till it led to a corn field of about two acres. . Tffey found but two Indians in the field, who fled upon seeing the volunteers, to the shore of the Opapke lake on the margin of which the fleld was situated, and getting into a boat, at tempted to go to an island in the lake;-and when I about fifty yards from the shore, the volunteers 1 fired upon, and wounded them both. They im mediately took measures to get them; and on getting them, scalped them. One of them was a 1 squaw. They also saw several other corn fields. The corn was about eighteen inches high. They 1 supposed from the signs the Indians were in great 1 force. Capt. James Rilex, —Author of Riley’s Nar rative, died on the 15th March last, in the 63rd year of his age. The Rhode Island election will take place on the 15th inst. Pennsylvania Legislature. — The Harris burg correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes as follows, under date of 4th instant: The House of Representatives was this mor ning the scene of the most disgraceful outrage ever perpetrated within the Legislative halls of Pennsylvania. A hill, introduced by Mr. McEl wee to provide for the sale of public property, bank stock, &c., was pending, which was oppo sed by Mr. Higgins of Northumberland. During the discussion Mr. McElwee passed across the hall to where Mr H. sits, and after some conversation which was not attended to by those near.called him (Mr. H) “a d—d puppy and scoundrel,” and immediately spit in his face! Mr. Higgins immediately rose and struck him one or two blows, while McElwee retreated, and before he was arrested ; but of course a blow from Mr. H. is not very severe, as he is in person a gentleman quite small, and deformed in person by a spinal injury, and at this time is in very de licate health. Mr. McElwee crossed to his seat without resisting. All this occured in the presence of the House, and during the sesion. Mr. Penniman immedi ately offeied a resolution, as modified upon the suggestion « f Mr. Lmyser, for the appointment of a committee of three to inquire and report what steps should be taken by the House, to pre serve its dignity. There was no debate except a statement of the facts by several members, and the resolution carried without a division, though there was a motion made by Mr. Butler to get it postpon* d until Monday. The Speaker appointed Messers. Penniman, Coolhaugh and Burden the committee. Since the foregoing was in type, late intelli_ grnce has reached us by which we learn, that Mr. McElveee has been expelled from his seat by a vote of 58 yeas to 26 nays. British Fohce in the Canadas.—A para graph is going the rounds in the most of our ci ty papers, in which it is stated that the military force in the Canadas consists of twenty thousand men. It is not so; the calculation is based on the number of regiments stationed in provinces, as it is found in a late number of the United Ser vice Journal. To make up thetwen'y thousand, it is estimated that the three regiments of Guards “are one thousand strong,” and the foot eight hundred. Now such is not ’he fact. Not one of the regiments is full, and the entire force in the Canadas, we believe, is not more than thirteen thousand. The Philadelphia National Gazette, in repub lishing this paragraph, adds—ln this opinion of the New York Commercial Advertiser we fully coincide. Yesterday we published Gen. Scott’s report that there are 20,000 regular troops in the British provinces, doubting its correctness at the lime, but unwilling to raise a question on his positive assen ion. We have reasons for know ing that in the latter part of the year 1838, not more than 6000 troops were in the Canadas, and there is little reason to believe that 14,000 more have been brought over during the past year. Tiie cause of the error, if such, is explain ed in the paragraph quoted above. Specie. —The packet ship Baltimore, which sailed from New York for Havre on the 6lh inst., took out $320,000 in specie. The New York Journal of Commerce says— One of our Bunks has in its vaults, at this moment, $1,620,000 in specie, besides deposites. The other Banks have large amounts, generally more than they want, so that the market is quite overloaded with basis. The Mississippi Shipping Company of Natch ez has managed ingeniously to secure itself from consequences of a protest on its notes. It makes them at “three days after date,” and does not is sue them until after the three days are over. They are post notes in legal definitions, and yet escape the summary remedies given by law to the hol ders of protested post notes. Loss of a Steamboat. —The Cincinnati News announces, on the authority of a passenger from down tho river, that the elegant steamboat Selma, one of the largest class, in ascending the shute of Island 66, broke her tiller rope, and struck a log, when she immediately sunk. There were on board at the time 150 persons, the whole of whom were saved. Among the passengers were the Ravel family, who lost die whole of their pro perties and dresses. The Selma was bound from New Orleans to St. Louis, and had a full and valuable cargo; the boat and cargo are a perfect i loss. Disastrous Shipwreck. —The ship Mait land, of 700 tons burthen, belonging to St. John, N. 8., during a violent gale of wind on Tuesday morning last, while lying under the close-reefed | main-topsail, struck on Brownie’s Island reef, a i few miles west of Moose Peek Head. The mate j and two of the crew were instantly swept over- : board and drowned. The ship afterward beat over the reef, and drifted on some rocks nearer the shore—where she soon bilged, but the cap tain and the remaining part of the crew, 19 in number, we.e saved.— N. Y. Com. Adv. llh in stant. Ohio Banks. —The Legislature of Ohio,just before its adjournment, passed a most important and severe law in relation to the banks and cur rency of that Slate. The bill provides: Ist, That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any cor poration to issue or circulate any note under the denomination of five dollais, or not pavable on demand, or not payable at the Bank from which it is issued; and that all notes heretofore issued shall be held as p yable on demand, at the place where issued in gold and silver. 2nd, hat any bank which shall violate either of the above provision* shall be forthwith wound up. 3rd, That no broker shall in any way pay, circulate or redeem any notes under five dollars or which are not payable on demand in gold and silver, 4th. —That no person shall circulate or receive any note, not flsued by a bank in Ohio, under $5, or not payable on demand in gold and silver. sth, —That no such prohibited money shall be re ceived for state dues or paid out by the state. These provisions are all enforced by severe pen alties. The banks in Ohio, if they had no right to is sue post notes, will now be compelled to redeem such notes in specie as if payable on demand. We learn, that it is the opinion, that they will be able to redeem them, but not to furnish any ac commodation to the public. As to the banks the act is in force from its passage. —Louisville Journal. The brig Boxer, Capt. Hale, chartered by the American Colonzation Society, stopped at the Is land of Mayo (Cape de Yerds,) on her return from Cape Palmas, via Sierra Leone, and was detained by the authorities, on suspicion of being a slaver. His papers were taken from him, (says the Baltimore American,) and his passengers, officers and crew, with the exception of one man and cook, were brought on shore, and with him self committed to prison. They were detained there, without beds or provisions, until next day, when he was sent on board his vessel .a prisoner —a prze master and crew being put in charge, who proceeded to Port de Praya, St. Jago. He obtained the release of his vessel. His crew ar rived soon after, in open boat, from tne island of Mayo. The American complains of the transaction as a wanton outrage upon the American flag, for which immediate reparation ought to be dem anded. Messrst Rev Pinney, Canfield and Alward, Mis sionaries of Assembly’s Board of Missions, return ed in the Boxer. Elections. The following table will be found handy as a matter of reference. It has been compiled with great care, and is believed to be correct: State. State Election. Presiden. Elec. New Hampshire, March 10. November 2. Connecticut, April 6. “ 2. Rhode Island, “ 15. “ ]B. Virginia. “ 23. “ 2. •Louisiana, July, 6. “ 3. Alabama, August, 3. “ 9. Kentucky, “ 3. “ 2. Indiana, “ 3. “ 2. •Illinois, “ 3. “ 2. Missouri, “ 3. “ 2. Tennessee, “ 6. “ 18. North Carolina, in August. “ 19. •Vermont, Sept. 1. “ 10. •Maine, *• 14. “ 2. •Georgia, October 5. “ 2. Maryland, “ 7. “ 9. South Carolina, “ 12. by Legislature. •Pennsylvania, “ 13. November 6. •Ohio, “ 13. “ 6. •New York, Nov. 23 and 24. “ 23 & 24. •New Jersey, “ 3 and 4. “ 3 and 4. Mississippi, “ 2. “* 2. Michigan, “ 2. “ 2. Arkansas, “ 2. ** 2. •Massachusetts, “ 9. “ 9. •Delaware, “ 10. “ 10. Those Slates marked with a star, choose mem bers of Congress on the same day mat State offi cers are chosen. The Electors meet at the capitals of the respec tive States in which they are chosen, on the se cond day of December, and give in their nallots for President and Vice i resident.— Bust. Demo. Contents of the March No. of the Farmers’ Register. Original Communications. —On the necessi ty for proper instruction in the art of reeling silk ; Malaria and mill-ponds; llulleting for spaying; Practical results of silk-culture in Delaware, and opinions thence deduced ; Delighlfulness of the climate of Southern Florida. Governmental neg lect and abuses, and the means of remedy; Do mestic industry and products of Italy. Calcare ous soils for vines; Causes of the erroneous opinions generally entertained as to the unheal thiness and unproductiveness of the Florida Keys; Seeds from South Florida ; Remarks on the soils in general, and especially of the ridge-lands of lower Virginia ; Divers things ; The five-field ro tation and grazing; Separate agricultural publi cations at the Farmers’ Register Office ; Prepar ation of manure; Extracts of private correspon dence; A simple and cheap silk reel; Further remarks on the errors of the translators of Dan dolo; Correction of errata; To thaw frozen pumps; Monthly commercial report. Selections. —Essay on stall-feeding of cattle ; Pens for swine. Manure; Beet sugar in Eu rope; Treatment and food for young pigs; State ment of culture and product of sugar-beet, man gel wurtzel, field carrot, and parsnip crops ; Depth of ploughing ; Sketch » f the causes of the pre sent financial prostration of this country ; Win ter fallow. Greg’s and Beatson’s systems of cul tivation ; Report of the management of a Glou cestershire hill farm ; Speech of Dr C. T. Jack son on the application of geology to agricultural improvement; Report from the commissioner of patents, ami list of agricultural patents for 1839 ; Beet-sugar; Isabella grape-vines—wine; Notes on European agriculture; Value of birds; Ef fects of emancipation in Jamaica ; Cheap steam er for roots; Method of preserving celery through the winter for family use; Texan statistics; Grafting on the wild cherry; New York State Agricultural Convention ; The extirpation of weeds; Culture of mangel wurtzel and sugar beet for stock ; Calcareous soils of lower South Carolina and Georgia ; Red root in clover seed ; Carrots as food for horses; Agricultural excur sion into St. John’s Berkley; The curculio; Cultivation of the plum; An idea of the universe; Improvement of cotton lands by flowing with brackish water; Millet. Not Bad.—A bill concerning intermarriages between whites and blacks, being before the Massachusetts Legislature, one of the members rose and delivered himself as follows : •‘Mr. Speaker —I shall vote in favor of this bill, simply because I do not wish to see a law on the statute book regulating a mere matter of taste, for such I consider to be the whole question of intermarriage between persons of different color. It is purely a matter of taste, and if my friend from Nantucket wishes to marry a black, blue or green wife, I am content that he should have full liberty to indulge his preference for either color. All I request of him is, that when I happen to pay him a'frendly visit, at the island, he will not ask me to kiss his milk and molasses children /” Strange Phenomenon.— On the night of the 17th inst. the family of Mr. James Daniels, of Cook’s Manor, U. C, were awakened by a severe shock like that of an earthquake. In the morning it was discovered that a meteor, iudged to be about three times the size of an ordinary farm house, had struck the earth some eighty rods distant from Mr. D’s dwelling with a force which buried its entire bulk about eight inches below the surface.—Sand wich CU. C.J Herald. Slave Ship.—The schooner Butterfly, which, it will be remembered, was brought into port some time since, by a British 'essel of war, on a charge of having been engaged in the siave trade, was yesterday condemned in compliance with the act of Congress of May i Oth, 1800.— JV. Y. Pott. A man in New York says that times are so hard, that he can’t find a soft place to sleep on. Ta« Death or ah Editor— The Cmcinn. ' ti Gazette of Saturday last, is in mourning for death of its editor, Charles Hammond, Esq i 0 * recognised as one of the ablest and most i n j pendent writers of the West. He departed d life on the 3rd inst. in the 61st year of his age ** Wool.—This is a valuabll commoditw^ deed few persons are aware of its great value writer estimates the number of sheep t W() e ‘. \ ago in the United States, at 12,000 supposes that it is not less now than 15 Allowing the estimate of three pounds n l the clip of 1839 would be 45,000 000 r j wool. The average price of wool for a a^S past has been 45 cents a pound. At th * W ears last clip of wool is worth more thin * 3£ rate lions of dollars. twenty mil- Not Bad.—Mr. Silver has been l Philadelphia on the uses of iron. | l ecturin ? in been agreeable to hear a precious mtial"** 1 ave of an useful one— N. Y. Signal. Some of the South Carolinians seem totv that they must go for Van Buren because Harrison is not chivalrous" enough for them « Gen. Harrison, like Mr. V. J 3., had ev £r ’ 1 1 unresistingly in his seat whilst a small man g *V as Senator Young of New York, was ing his nose, his “chivalry” would no doubts * been exactly to their liking.— Louisville jJL® nal. The Philadelphia North American says -It appears that the story of General Harrison hand iug his letters to a committee to answer was fraud perpetrated for the occasion by some gr ace I less balers in Oswego. N. Y. The pretended corresponding secretary of the society is the ke* D J er of a bowling or ten-pi., alley of the Jow-st " character, and the association one of infidels alt followers of Fanny Wright. Pkecocttt.—A young girl at Buffalo, JV. y only 11 years, of age, made affidavit before J us .’ , j ties Mason, of that city, that she was lip e ty l 0 M become a mother; and naming her paramour > he was held to bail for his transgression. * An English Barber thus describes his profes sion—“ Heads ornamented and chins surveyed also a new invented rest for the head while’ the surveyor is operating.” Two sorts of Blessings.—“lt is a great ► blessing to possess what one wishes,’ said some one to an ancient philosopher, who replied, ‘it is ? b greater blessing still, not to desire what one does not possess.’ » MARRIED, • * t On Sunday evening, April 12th, at the h use of Lew s Leon, Esq. Mr. Benjamin Kdwards, of P Lexington countv. Geo., to >;iss Pamelia Ade line Sumner, of Burke county. COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liverpool March 7 ■ Latest dates from Havre March 3 a AUGUSTA MARKET. Cotton. —The operations «>n Saturday fully sus tained cur quotations of that morning, but yester- * day the elections pretty much engrossed the at tention of both buyers and sellers, and no sa lesoi moment transpired that we hear, the market there fore was very quiet, and although holders were firm in their demands for the prices of Saturday, buyers appeared unwilling to invest. We quote the market, nominal at Saturdays rates. Ordinary to middling, to 7 Fair, 7 to Good Bair, to 3 _ Prime and choice, to 8J- * The latter price for square bales only. Groceries. —The business in this deportment con tinues limited, and we have no changes to not* j since our report cn Thursday. Freights —To Savannah, 75 to 100 cts per bale; toCharleston, by rail road, 30c per 100 Jbs. for I square, and 40c per 100 lbs. for round bales. | Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 9 per cent, for current funds; Charleston at 6 pet cent; Savannah 2 per ct.; Philadelphia a 4 per rt.; Lexington, Ky. per ct,; Richmond 4 pe r 1 cent; specie commands 6 a S per cent, premium. Bank Notes. — Savannah hanks, per cent. prem. (‘olumbus Insurance B’k 2£ “ “ “ Commercial Bank, Macon, Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ *• Agency Brunswick, “ 6 ** “ tc Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus, 2J “ u dis. Central Bank, 4 “ “ “ Milledge' iile Bank, 4 “ “ “ Ocmulgee Bank, 4 “ “ • Monroe Hail Road Bank, 4 “ “ Hawkinsville Bank, 4 “ “ Chattahoochie R. R.& B’k Company, 6 “ “ “ Darien Bank, 16 “ “ “ Bank of Rome, 33 “ “ “ All other Banks now doing business, at par. Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bank of St, Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in his city. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, April 11- Cleared —Ship Minerva, Adams, Liverpool. Arrived —Br ship Homulus, Auld, Greenoch; ship George, Minot, Liverpool; Br ship Margaret, Kerr, Liverpool; brig- ijove, Ingersoll, Boston; Sa vannah, Sbapter, New \ork. Sailed —Brig Morea, Chapman, New York. Charleston, April 13. Arrived on Saturday —Line brig Cervantes, Tufts, Boston; U L brig Moses, Loveland. N. York. , Arrived yesterday —Ship Minerva Wadsworth, | London; Br barque Lady Paget, Allan, Charles town, (Eng.) schrs Ostrich, Ellis,Matanzas; Oneko Davis, New York; schr Daniel Webster, A very, Mobile. Cleared —Schr Helen Mar, Monroe, Norfolk- Went to sea yesterday —Ship Anson, Havre; schrs Elizabeth, Bell, Boston; Helen M ar > i* Munroe, Norfolk. TIIF. READING ROOM Attached to this office is open to subscribers, ana strangers introduced by them, every day and eve ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock. Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $W- " (Zj'PUBLIC NOTICE. — Dr. Munroe, Surged Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has remove his operating rooms to Washington street, neat Ellis. fe*> 10 _ J. W. TONES, is my authorised Agent for the adjustment of my unfinished business. mar 3 WILLIAM E JON'ES-^ ft'r W. G. NIMMO , General Commission M«- | chant, office on .Mclntosh street, next door to • ■ Constituliunali-l. oOV 1 Cy Dr. W. FLINT oners his the «- tizens of Augusta in the different > at the profession, lie may be found se cuud dooi | late residence of Mr. A. M- H* ’ streets, from the corner of Mclntosh iy nc v 29 : ~ ’ (T7 Dr - H imho rg* vTsiQ” | mar 17