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[From the St. Louis Reveille. J
The Lord’s Prayer.
We lay before our readers the Lord’s Prayer,
beautifully paraphrased into an acrostic, by Thom
as Sturtevant, Jr. u soldier of the 26th Regiment
IT. S. infantry, and a prisoner of war in the pro
vince of Upper Canada.
iOur Lord and King who reigns enthroned on high I
Father of light! mysterious Deity !
H7io art the great 1 AM, the last, the firs’t,
Art righteous, holy, merciful, and just,
In realms of glory, scenes where angels sing
Heaven is the dwelling place of God our King,
Hallowed thy name, which doth all names trans- ,
cent!,
Be thou adored our great Almighty Friend;
TkyXilory shines beyond creation’s space,
Named in the book of Justice and of Grace,
Thy kingdom towers beyond tire sl-ary skies -;
Kingdoms satanic fall but thine shall rise.
Came let thine empire, O thou Holy one,
Tlnj great and everlasting will be done !
Will God make known his will, his power display?
Be it the work of mortals to obey,
Bone in the great the wondrous works of love,
On Calvary's cross he died, but reigns above.
Farth bears the record in thy holy word.
,4a" heaven adores thy name, let earth. O Lord;
It shines transcendant in the eternal shies,
Js praised in Heaven, for men the savior dies.
Tn sons, immortol angels laud his name,
Heaven shouts with joy, and saints his love proclaim.
dive ns, O Lord, our food, nor cease to give
Us that food on which oar soul’s may live!
This be our boon to-day and days to come.
Bay without end in our eternal home;
Our needy soul’s supply from day to day,
Bailu assist ami aid »s when we pray.
Bread though we ask, yet Lord, thy blessings lend,
And make us grateful when thy gifts descend;
Forgive our sins, which in destructions place
Us the vile children of a rebel race;
Our lollies, faults and trespasses forgive,
Bebts which we ne’er can pay, or thou receive;
As we, O Lord, our neighbors faults o’erlook.
IVe beg thoud’st blot oat from thy memory’s book,
Forgive our enemies extend our grace
Our soul’s to save, e’en Adam’s guilty race,
Debtors to thee in Gratitude and Love,
And in that duty paid by Saints above.
Lead ns from sin, and in thy mercy raise
Us from the temptor and his hellish ways,
Not in our own, but in his name who bled,
Lito thine ear, we pour our every need.
Temptations fatal charms help us to shun.
But may we conquer through thy conquering Son!
Deliver us from all which can annoy
Us in this world, and may our souls destroy;
From all calamities which men betide
Evil and death, O turn our feet aside :
For we are mortal worms and cleave to clay;
Thine ’tis to rule and mortals to obey.
Js not thy mercy, Lord, forever free f
T>ie whole creation knows no God but thee!
Kingdom and empire in thy presence fall;
The King eternal reigns the King of all.
Power is with thee —to thee be glory given,
And be thy name adored by earth and Heaven;
The praise of saints and angels is thine own,
Glory to Thee, the everlasting One.
Forever be thy holy name adored,
Amen, Hosanna! blessed be the Lord.
[From the Federal Union.]
The Hero of Withlacoochic.
The only response that has yet been given
to the oft-repeated question, what are Gen.
Clinch’s qualificationsffor the office of Gov
ernor, is, that he is “the hero of Withla
coochie.” As then, in the estimation of his
friends, his military exploits at Withlacoohie,
constitute alike his claims and qualifications,
it is right and proper they should be distinct
ly understood. For our own information, we
have ransacked the records of the Seminole ;
campaign, and have carefully examined the
official report of the battle. It is signed by
the General himself. If it possessed the bre- j
vityof the despatches of Gen. Taylor, it would
afford us pleasure to lay it before our readers.
But it possesses neither that characteristic, nor
does it exhibit a scintilla of that talent or li
terary attainment that distinguish the reports
of the great captain of the war with Mexico.—
That report does not state whether the Indians
or our own troops obtained the victory, nor
does it say whether a single one of the enemy
was killed or wounded.
Those of our readers who have forgotten the
details of that Indian skirmish, will be amused,
now that the mole-hill, for political purposes,
has been magnified into a mountain, to learn
them. Why, whithin the past year, scores
almost, of battles have been fought by detach- !
ments of our gallant army, that are almost un- !
known to fame, that would throw the skirmish
at Withlacoochic into the deepest shade.— i
Such an affair as that, the gallant Doniphan
would scarcely have thought worth reporting.
Even the much abused Pillow, did not report
his engagement near the National Bridge —an
engagement evincing all the skill and bravery
that were exhibited at Withlacoochic, and
which was much more bloody and desperate.
Far be it from us to underrate, or in the slight- j
est degree disparage the conduct of Gen. (
Clinch and his gallant band in that engage
ment. Nobly did they sustain themselves.—
For it, the General deserves what he has re
ceived, the thanks of his country. If it made j
hiin a hero, and qualified him for the office of
Governor, however, the Mexican war has
made hundreds like him, and furnished the
country with any number of men fitted for the j
highest stations of civil life.
That the memory of our readers may be re- j
freshed, we lay before them the following ac
count of the battle at Withlacoochic:
Head-Quarters, >
Fort Crane, Jan. 3d, 1836. )
General Circular to all the good citizens of
Duval and Nassau- The army took up the line
of march on the 29 th ult. and on the morning
of the 3ist, at daybreak, arrived at the With
lacooche and found the river too high to ford,
commenced swimming horses, and sent one
man over for a canoe that was seen on the op
posite bank, and in it began to cross the regu
lars, and about fifty of the militia, when we
were soon informed that the Indians were com
ing, and but a moment elapsed before a furious |
fire was heard in our front; Col. Warren and
myself immediately formed and extended our
line from the river out through the swamp to
the pine barren, and saw the regular troops on
our right hotly engaged with at least SOO In
dians; we were ordered to remain stationary,
and prevent the Indians from entering our
lines. After repeated solicitations outlie part
of Col. Warren and myself, we took the res
ponsibility on ourselves, and Col. Warren, led
the right to the left of the regulars, and I was
stationed on the left of our own line, when a
charge was made, which, after about ten j
minutes more of sharp firing, forced them to
retreat, and the battle ended. We make out
forty Indians killed, and wounded we suppose
in proportion; the precise amount we cannot
tell, as they carried them off—the loss is severe
J
on our part. Gen. Clinch says, that in many, j
much greater battles, a much less number has i
been killed and wounded. Fxirtller particulars
will be told on Friday next, we will be at
Jacksonville. I can now write no more;
W. J. MILLS, Lt. Coi.
Return of killed Sf wounded in the battle of \Vilhta
coochie. .1
Regular troops—2 artificers arid i privates
killed —1 captain, 1 Ist lieutenant, 1 2nd lieu
tenant, 2 sergeants. 4 corporals, wounded —-4
killed, 52 wounded.
Militia, 4th Regiment—wounded. Col. War- i
ren, Maj. Cooper, severely, Lt. John \ oilmans,
privates James Tyson and John Higginbotham,
slightly.
Leon troops, 2 privates wounded slightly.
Militia, total, 7 wounded.
Aggregate, 4 killed, 59 wounded, out of
227 men in battle.
Many were shot through their clothes, and
some horses killed and wounded. Col. W ar- i
ren is wounded, Gen. Clinch, one ball through
his cap and had one through his jacket sleeve.
The firing was heavy, and the bushes literally ,
cut up around us: how it was that more were
not shot, I cannot tell.
J. W. MILLS, Lt. Col.
[ From the Baltimore Snn, July 23.]
California.— Interesting: Facts.
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce contains a
very interesting letter from a correspondent in
Monterey, California, from which we select a
few important facts, the relative value of
which may he hereafter more distinctly re
flected by our negotiations with Mexico. The I
writer says, that a friend requests him to let
“our American friends know, that we want
! some person here who knows how to make ,
blankets: the winters here are chilly and raw, !
and I caamdt find w here to buy a blanket.” — j
This fact is of additional weight in connection j
| with another, that sheep are abundant, and it !
i costs nothing to breed and raise them but “a
boy and a clog.” The blankets Used there are i
from Tepic, in Mexico, and are sold from ten
to ninety dollars each; a few ted and blue j
spots, and a -colored border, will make them |
sell for almost all}’ price. i
Common to second-best cloth has always I
been worth from twelve to fourteen dollars a
yard, and tailors charge eighteen dollars for
making a coat. Common wool hats are worth
eight dollars each, and the coarsest Woolen j
stockings a dollar and twenty-five cents per
pair. The writer says, “should any of yoilr
readers be weavers, who wish tn make an inde- ;
pendent fortune, I would advise them to fly to j
California, where there is little doubt of their
soon accumulating one to their satisfaction* 0
In a quarry which the w riter had employed
some men to open, he discovered a stratum of
i potter’s clay, of the very finest kind, without
a partical of grit in it, and with the smooth- I
ness of soap. All the crockery ware, how
ever, comes from the States, and that family
w hich can boast of a full set is a prodigy.
Two weeks before the date of the letter, a
new coal mine was discovered near San Luis
Obispo; there arc now three within three hun
dred miles of Monterey, yet coal was sold last
year, from an American whaler, at five dollars
a bushel*
Shoes are brought chiefly from the States;
yet ox-hides are sold for a dollar and fifty
cents each. They arc taken to America, tanned, j
dressed and made into shoes, the manufactured
article brought out round Cape Horn, and an
! importation duty of at least one dollar per pair
! paid upon them, and then sold at the same
1 price, and frequently from twenty-five to fifty
cents less than those manufactured in the
country. The cause of this is the want of in
dustry on the part of the people, and the want
i of encouragement on the part of the goveru
i ment. In view of these facts the writer re-
I marks, “should the Uniti d States retain Cali
| fomia, (which, is nut to t>e aouotea, } here is
| room and opportunity for thousands of me- '
i ehanics and artisans to enrich themselves.
*******
Whoever lives to see California in the hands
of the Americans for the space of ten years,
will be able to more than prove whatever I
have advanced in its favor.” And should Ca- j
lifornia pass into the hands of the Americans,
“what an amazing field for enterprise,” ex- :
claims the writer, “will it hold out. At pre- I
| sent there is not a yard of tape, a pin, or a
piece of domestic cotton, or even the thread it
; is sown with, that does not come from the
United States of America; and this in a coun
try where every thing necessary for their
manufacture can be procured with less trouble
and expense, on account of the superiority of j
the climate, than in an} r other part of the Am
erican continent.”
There seems to be some little difficulty in ,
California, however, as there is every where
else, in the matter of servants, in relation to
which we make an extract:
•‘There is not such a thing, all over Califor- |
nia, as a hired female servant. The only fe-
I male servant which the superior classes of the !
people have been able to procure, are Indians,
which have been brought wild from the moun- j
tains in their infancy. Those remain in some
houses until they arrive at the age of twelve j
or fourteen years, when they are almost sure
to run away; and as none have been brought ,
into the settlements for some time past, there i
are very few families now who have any ser
vants at all. A California woman, though
| she may be naked and cold, will not enter into
regular service. They think it a degradation, 1
and many of them will rather sacrifiice their
virtue than enter into any kind of regular ser- I
; vitude.”
Unhappily the latter fact is of too frequent j
occurence in this meridian, it is the result of
; a mistaken notion too often entertained by the ;
1 employed and enforced by the manner of the j
; employer. There is no degradation where a |
valuable service is rendered for an equivalent,
and there is scarcely any service that contri
| butes more in the comfort and general happi
ness of the household than that rendered by
faithful domestic aid. And it is a service en- i
titled to respect from those who enjoy it. If
this subject were better understood by the
; two parties, the relation would be far more
agreeable to both, and the result different to
w hat it is at present. Uniform kindness, and
not undue familiarity, is the secret of good
management, as between the housewife and
the servant.
In California there are no tradeswomen, but
, there are seamstresses, who rejoice in the op
portunity to charge most unreasonable prices
j for their labor. For making the coarsest shirts
they charge a dollar, and must then be found
in needles and thread. For washing they
charge twelve and a half cents for each piece,
but though they make money, they are very
extravagant. The washerwoman preserves her
dignity unimpaired by having as many and as
rich dresses as the persons she washes for.
The females are not given to idleness, as the
men are. “The women,” says the writer, “are
always occupied in some useful employment,
either in their houses or out of them, and do a
great deal more service in their families than
the men; and there are_ many women in all
j parts of this country who actually maintain
their husbands and their children by their own
personal Labor: the husband acting as a mere
cypher in the family, when he does not, by all
dishonorable means in Iris power, try to deprive
I his wife of her hard-earned dollar, to carry it
; to the gambling table or the tavern. This in a
| great measure is the reason, and has been for
years, that many women have sacrificed the
connubial bond, which is very rarely the case
where the husband behaves to his wife as all
husbands ought to behave.”
“Dcms Em.”
A pious old negro, while saying grace at
the table not only used to ask a blessing on
all he had upon his board,but would also peti
tion to have some deficient dish supplied.
One day it was known that Cato was out of
potatoes, and suspecting ho would pray lor the ■
same at dinner, a wag provided himself with a
Small measure of the vegetables, and stole un
der the window, near which stood the table ot
our colored Christian. Soon Cato drew up a (
chair arid commenced; O, massa Lord! wilt i
dow in dy provident kindness condecen to
bress ebery ting before Us; and be pleased to
stow' upon us a few tat era—and all de praise
—[Here the potatoes were dashed upon the ta
ble, breaking plates and upsetting the mustard j
; pet.] “Deni’s massa Lord,” said Cato, ,
| looking up with surprise, “only jist lull’ 'em
down a little easun
Extraordinary Statement
A comparison ot the registers ot mortality,
savs an English paper, will convince us that a
hero, placed in the trenches of a beleagured
fortress where he is exposed for weeks to a
continual shower of cannon shot, or placed on
a field of battla before the bravest and most
resolute of his enemies, has a much better |
ohance of life, runs less risk of a premature
death, than if he worked in an undrained street
and slept in a crowded room in Bristol or Liv- *
erpool. The chance of life was, at the.
Siege of Flushing 450 to 1 j
Siege of Antwerp <>o to 1 j
i Siege of Badajos St t 0 ,
Hattie of Waterloo to 1
Shopkeeping, Liverpool W to 1
Weaving, Manchester 1T to I
Saw-making, Sheffield Id to 1 j
Augusta, (Georgia.
SUNDAY 1.
FOR GOVERNOR
HON. Q. W. TOWNS.
OF TALBOT. i
Repeal of the Recent Tariff.
Wke arguments of the Chronicle against the
present tariff and in favor of the old tariff we
would allow to pass by. We do not fear their j
effect upon the cause of Free Trade. But its j
article of Friday morning last is so full of er
rors of fact, that it ought not to escape criti
cism. A few specimens will be found in the
following short extract:
The ConstitrdionaUst says that salt and bag
ging have not advanced in price because the
duties upon them were diminished! Why
have they advanced : According lo Demo
j cratic doctrine, that low duties make UttC prices,
they ought to have fallen in value.
“It remains to be seen whether they Will pay for
! bagging to pack their growing crop at the present
speculative prices.*’ fc
Speculative prices! How* comes it that such
prices exist ? Why, the truth of the matter is
just this. The tariff of ’46 has struck a dead
ly blow r at home-made bagging. Dealers in
the article see this. They see that it must
rise; indeed, according to the laws of trade, it
has already risen. We will now depend most
ly upon the foreign market; the home compe- i
tition being over, the article advances in price, j
“But prices do not go up as a consequence of duties
o-oing down.”
But they do in some cases, and this bag- |
ging case is one in proof. We might enlarge
upon this, but we have already become tedi
ous. ...
“Why the truth of the matter is just this.
The tariff of 1846 has struck a deadly blow at
home made bagging. » Dealers in the article
see this. They see that it must rise.”
inaeeci; is mis just me xnun. Tins act»ai 7 j
blow causes the home made bagging to rise,
f docs it: “Indeed, according to the laws of
trade, it has already risen.” This is what the |
Chronicle calls a deadly blow. We presume |
the home makers of bagging would sing out,
“Hit us again.” “Give us a few more deadly
blows of the same sort.” This is decidedly
the latest case of Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, that we
have seen in a whig paper. It ought to go
the rounds among the panic-makers.
“We will now depend mostly upon the for
■ eign market. The home competition being
over, the article advances in price."
Here are distinctly announced, in these two
short sentences, two very important facts—
novel ones to the dealers in cotton bagging, i
We hope our merchants will duly heed them. |
“We will now depend mostly upon the for- |
| eign market.” What, in the face of that dead- j
ly blow at the home-made. Will the domes
tic manufacturer stop his works—Mill the
grower of hemp change his pursuit in the face
;of a rising market: “The competition being
over.” Is it over in feet? Let us examine
this question. Take a years product of west- ;
ern hemp.
The product of hemp for 1845 for instance,
in the States of Kentucky, Missouri, Tennes
see, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, is estimated at
37.000 tons. Os this 22,000 tons was manu
factured into bagging and bale rope in the
I west. The manufacture of bagging alone a-
I mounted to 16,000,000 yards—enough to pack
2.500.000 bales. This is independent of what !
! was manufactured at the North. A large sur- !
plus was still left, aft eg supplying in addition
the demand for cordage, lines, twine, &c. The
■ extent of lands at the west for the growth of
hemp is almost illimitable, and constantly
opening. The market was glutted in 1846
i with the domestic article. This was the cause
of the low prices last fall and winter. They
sunk below remunerating prices, and this fact
1 checked the manufacture. It was not the
tariff of 1846. The Chronicle is misinformed.
We will snot) now depend mostly upon the
foreign market. All who are in the trade, and
are consequently posted up on this ques
tion of bagging, know that since 1842 very lit- |
tie foreign bagging has been imported. The
1 quantity annually diminishes, and now has |
almost ceased to be imported. It has gradu- :
ally fallen in the American market until it
cannot now be manufactured abroad and sent j
| here at remunerating prices. It can only be
! brought in when the domestic article ad
vances in price to that point. Then the for
eign article may be imported. The tariff of
1846 will therefore operate in favor of the cot- j
ton planter to keep dowti the price. That point
1 not being reached we do not depend on the
foreign market. “The home competition be
ing over, the article advances in price.” We
do not lyiow where the Chronicle gets this in- |
formation. But from our examination of
i Prices Current, importations and stocks, we i
■ are led to assert that the home competition is 1
not over —that it is not the foreign article in
the market enhancing prices. We do not find
, the foreign article monopolizing the market.
There is scarcely any foreign bagging for sale
in the American market. The homo compe
tition (not) being over,” that is not the reason
“the article advances in price.”
The true reasons, we think, are the follow
ing : The over production which reached its
acme in 1845, by which prices of hemp ceased
to be remunerative, induced a diminished pro
duction in 1846. This tended to equalize
the relative condition of supply and demand.
By reference to the last New Orleans Price
Current, July 24th, 1847, it will be perceived
that at that port alone was received from the
Western States,from Sept. Ist, 1846, to that date
only 51,202 pieces—against receipt for same
period the year previous, of 91,291 —a falling
off of nearly one-half. In the article of rope
there is also a falling off, though it is not so
great. At the same time, July 24th, 1847,
! the Price Current shows, that in that great
market for cotton bagging, there is no foreign
bagging for sale.
| But independent of this over production, the
demand for American breadstuff's induced a
I diversion of labor, and farmers devoted to the
1 raising of grain land previously occupied with
■ the growing of hemp. This may help to ac-
I count for the diminished production in 1846,
| and the consequent rise in price of bagging.
“But prices do not go up as a consequence of
duties going down.” — Constitutionalist.
\ “But they do in some cases, and this bag- |
ging ease is one in proof. We might enlarge
upon this, but we have already become tedi
ous.” Chronicle.
We leave the question of fact to be decid
jed by our readers. But we are sorry the ;
j Chronicle did not “ enlarge ” upon the subject |
without fear of becoming tedious* It would
have been really amusing.
“The liberal commercial policy of this coun
try and of Great Britain, must inevitably keep
I up an increased and mutually beneficial inter- 1
: course.” — Constitutionalist.
“How: If the very prospect of a good crop
in Europe, after a famine, too, utterly repuls- !
! es our corn and other grains and provisions, !
i what can we expect in the ordinary run of
crops: No, the foreign market is lost to us, i
till it be opened by another famine.” — Chroni- j
cle.
The prospect of a good crop in Europe does ,
not utterly repulse our corn and other grain
and provisions.
The foreign market is not lost to us. As to j
“other provisions,” beef, pork, bacon, butter,
cheese, &c., a market for these in Great Britain
we owe not to the famine, but to the liberal
commercial policy of that country, and will
continue to possess it irrespective of the
famine* As to the market for our corn and
| other grains, we have not lost it. Prices have
fallen, it is true* But oven at this time, we
have the authority of the New York Journal
j of Commerce that in the article of flour alone,
the foreign demand benefits the wheat grower
j and keeps up the price. From a recent edito
rial of tluit jouanal wc make the following ex
tract : v
“Every body knows that oilr--crops last year
were immensely large, and that without a for- !
eign demand flour could not have ruled higher
I than $4 or .f I 50 per barrel. But instead of
that, it went up to $9 and over. What cans
-1 ed it: The demand from abroad. And what
I nas now caused a decline of more than $3 per
barrel: The prospects of good crops on the j
I other side. The despised foreign market, then, j
;is the regulator of our own. It drives our
j flour up to $9, or lets it drop to half that rate.
Even now, the foreign market keeps the home
prices $1 °r $1 50 higher than it otherwise
would be.”
That our increased trade with Great Britain '
has been promoted by her liberal commercial
policy, is undeniable. That this increase is
not temporary, but will continue and will in
crease, is apparent. England led the way in
this enlighted policy. Her liberal tariff act of j
1846, preceded ours. She set us the example,
jin the noble cause of free trade. She will not ;
i return to her old system of high duties unless }
we force her, by taking a step backwards in
| the march of civilization by returning to the
I old Chinese system of prohibitions and restric-
I tions on trade. Unless this country commits
I
j this ineffable folly, her present prosperity must
| continue —her exchangeable commodities, the
| products of her industry and labor, must con
; tinue to increase, and thus give life, energy,
1 and prosperity to every department of busi
ness.
As to the breaking down domestic industry , i
manufactures, and all that sort of thing, these '
predictions have lost their potency to frighten !
even children. The predictions of high tariff
prophets have been sufficiently falsified to rob
them of plausibility. They do not disturb
the nerves of even the most timid protection- j
ists, judging from their outlay of capital con- j
| stantly going on all over the country for new !
manufacturing establishments. Even forty
millions per annum of additional imports do |
not capse the least trepidation among them.
, The reason is, that the exports of the country
: have exceeded the imports, drawing the differ
; ence back in specie. While this is continued,
; the country is in no danger of bankruptcy, |
I ' • ' * '
The Chronicle continues to make a big show
on that one article, Tobacco, on which Eng
land levies a heavy duty, in order to prove
! that she does not extend to us a liberal com- !
I .* ■
mercial policy. That article stands “solitary
and alone” in the long list of British imports.
There is, out of many hundred, scarcely one
I other article which bears a duty exceeding 20
per cent. The majority of them range from
10 to 15 per cent. Her tariff in the amount of
I # 1
duty, is more liberal than ours. Sir Robert Peel j
stated, in 1846, to Parliament, that 20 per cent.
I could not be safely exceeded. On most articles
j it was the highest revenue point. If the duty ex- !
ceeded that amount, imports, and consequent
|ly revenue fell off. This fact rendered direct
taxes and excises necessary. This fact was
his justification for his continuance of the
income tax, in a country where the in
genuity of her statesmen is tasked to find cut
modes of getting the greatest possible amount
true of revenue from imports. This is the
| cause in reference to Tobacco. Nor is Eng
land singular in this. It is an article fr uit-
I ful of revenue to the various nations of Eu
-1 rope, and is reserved in France, Spain, Portu
gal, Italy and the two Sicilies as monopolies
by their respective governments. It is an il
-1 lustration as striking as could be selected of !
» 1
the curse of restriction upon the true interests
of agriculture and commerce.
Were Tobacco admitted to the several coun
tries of Europe at a moderate duty, it is esti
mated by Mr. Dodge, the agent sent by our
government for the purpose of examining into
the subject, that 422,344 hogsheads of Tobac
co could be exported to Europe and consum
ed there annually. The beneficial effect of this
to our country may be estimated when it is
borne in mind that her present annual product
is only about 200,000 hogsheads. Yet this arti
cle languishes under the blighting influence of
these commercial restrictions. This is in rank
; the second agricultural interest in our coun
try with reference to the value of the export.
How conclusively does it illustrate the impolcy
of this country’s faltering in the noble
cause of Free Trade. Some of the German
States arc already relaxing their severe restric
tions on the Tobacco interest. We feel con
fident that the time is not very distant when
the same enlightened course will be adopted
by the other governments of Europe.
copy the following communication
from the Chronicle , and in reply to it would
say, that we should be sorry any statement we
may make should prove in any way injurious
to the retail trade of Augusta. In reference to
bagging Me deem it unnecessary to make any
explanation, as there is no real discrepancy be
tween us. Just one year ago it was selling at
j Uc. wholesale. But we would state in reply to
“Merchants’* that we had reference to the
wholesale prices of salt and bagging, as we quote
our in Prices Current only the wholesale prices.
| We referred to our files for the prices of 27th
July, 1846, in our statement,Avhcre we find that
' salt, was quoted $1,45 to 1,50 per sack. We
made no table on last Wednesday, as out letter
sheet Prices Current is issued during summer
only monthly, but on that day the retail price of
salt per sack was $1,62, from which we infer
red that the wholesale price was not more
than $1,50 per sack. We therefore felt justi
fied in putting down the price, meaning whole
sale. at $1,50. We still think it probable that
I a large quantity could not be sold in this mar
ket at a higher price. Had we been making
up a table of prices, instead of writing a politi
cal article we should not have been willing to
trust to inference. We should have made it
from actual sales in the market.
[From the Chronicle Sentinel of yesterday.]
Price of Salt and Bagrging-,
“Salt can be purchased in this market at
$1.50 per sack —it was not lower one year
ago. So with cotton bagging. *****
But bagging is only two cents per yard more
than it was just one year ago.”
The above is extracted from a recent editori
al in the Constitutionalist , in support of the ta
riff’of 1846. It contains several (unintention
al) mis-statements in reference to the prices of
two leading articles of consumption, which we
design to correct. Salt cannot now be “pur
chased at $1.50 per sack,” it readily com
mands 1.62 to $1.75. In July, 1846, the
price was $1.40 and $1.45. Bagging now
! sells at 19 cts., last year the price opened at
14 cts., but receded to 124 cts.,in a few
at which latter rate it continued throughout
the season. With the political tendency of
the article referred to, we have nought to do
—we art- alike indifferent, whether its effect
j be to satisfy the wavering, or confirm the
I skeptical. But giving, as it does, incorrect ;
quotations of otlr market, it is calculated to
excite suspicion among the planters and dea
lers of the State, and work great injustice* to |
j our city.
: * MBRCItAStS.-
Thc New York Journal of Commerce, 23th
ult. P. M. says—“A telegraphic despatch from
Boston announces the report of Capt. Gafdi- j
ncr, of the schr. Conservative, from Liverpool,
N. S., that at 6 P. M. Saturday, he saw a large
steamer ashore on the S. W. Ledge of Sea Is
land —vessel upright, with fore and mainmast !
No steamer bound from Europe to this port i
j could have been in that region, unless she had
put into Halifax; and there is no Briti sh mail
; steamer due at Boston. The Caledonia which
left Boston for Liverpool on the 16th reached
Halifax on the 18th.
Besides, sufficient time has elapsed for the
receipt of intelligence through other channels,
of any serious disaster in that quarter.
It is probable that if Capt. Gardiner was not
1 deceived in his observation, the steamer seen
ashore was a coaster.”
Some Pumpkins.
| The editor of the Caddo Gazette has receive
a watermelon which weighed forty-jive pounds'.
He had to erect a scaffold around, then cut on
one side, and walk around and cut the other.
It was cut and come again with him.
Catterpiliar.
The Tallahassee Journal of the 26th ult says
—We have it from unquestionable authority,
that both the Caterpillar Fly and Worm have
made their appearance in this neighborhood.
Naval Intelligence.
From the Pensacola Democrat we derive the
following intelligence:
The U. 8. ordnance bark Electra, comman
der T. A. Hunt, arrived in this port on the
1 18th hist., from the gulf squadron.
Passengers. —Com’r. Alex. Slidell Macken
zie, jr., charge oi ordnance stores; Purser Wm.
H. Kennon, U. S. ship Mississippi; Midship
man William Van Wycks.
The U. S. store-ship Supply, Lieut. Com’r.
John Calhoun, arrived on Monday morning
last, 19th inst., atYera Cruz. The U. S. store
ship Relief, sailed from Anton Lizardo on the
afternoon of the same day for Pensacola.
Passengers. —Lieut. John DeCamp; Passed
Midshipman E. 11. Calhoun.
The U. S. brig Perry, Lieut. Com’g. Barron,
sailed thence on the 22d for the Brazil station.
1 The U. S. brig Washington would sail same
day on a surveying excursion in the gulf
] stream.
The U. S. schooner On-ka-hy-e, Lieut.
Com’g Berryman, was to sail on the 23d for
Havana via Key West.
| The Electra and Supply will return to Vera
Cruz, the latter under command of Lieut. De-
Camp.
Mnstred in.
One company of Cavalry, under the new
requisition, was, on Monday last, mus tered in
to service by Lieut. Ward. On the same day |
en election of officers was held, which resulted
i as follows :
E. R. Gouldixc, Captain.
B. A. Hoxky, Ist Lieutenant.
J, O. F. Reeder, 2d Lieutenant.
L. W. Chandler, 2d Brevet Lieutenant.
This company is rapidly filling up to the
1 requisite number, mid will doubtless he the
i first reported full. —Muscogee Dcm. 30th ult.
i ' 1
A barber in Brooklyn N. Y. advertises to>
clean whigs for fifty cents.— * cheap .”
Special Notices.
Service may be expected on Sun
day next in the School Room attached to the Epis
copal Church, Morning and Evening , at the usual
hour s 2 July 31
STEAMBOAT COMPANY OF GEOR
GIA.
DHT’ This Company having been re-organized
and placed in an efficient state for service, are pre
• pared to send forwarded without delay all freight
that may offer.
Goods consigned to WM. P. WILLIAMS, Agent
at Savannah, will be forwarded free of Commis
sions.
The connection of R. M. Goodwin with this
Company has terminated.
JOHN B. GLTEL,
June 6 I—y Agent at Augusta.
ITT DR. J. A. S. MILLIGAN, Mill at
tend to the practice of Medicine and Surgery, in
Augusta and its vicinity.
Office in Metcalf's Range, up stairs. Entrance
one door below Mr. J. Marshall’s Drug Store.
June 13 6m 215
Asthma Cured by Jayne’s Expectorant.
Lambert v idle, N. J., April 27,1847.
Dr. Jayne—Dear Sir—By the blessing of God,
your Expectorant has effected a cure in me of
i the most distressing complaint. In December last,
was seized with great severity by a paroxysm of
ASTHMA; a disease with which I had been af
flicted for many years past. It was attended with
a hoarseness and soreness of the lungs and throat,
together with a laborious cough, and complete pros
tration of strength, and worn out with suffocation,
when a bottle of your Expectorant was sent to ray
house. At first I thought it was nothing hut quack
ery, but seeing it was so highly recommended by
Dr, Going, with whom I was well acquainted, I
was induced to try it, and in a few days it com
pletely cured me, nor bare I ever had any return
of the disease since, I hare n*rw formed so high
an opinion of your medicine, that if I had hut a
few bottles of it, and could obtain no more, I would
not part with them for ten dollars each.
Yours, most respectfully,
JOHN SEGER,
Pastor of the Baptist Church, at Lambertville, N. J,
No Excase for a Bat J Head.
[From the SumervUle, N. J. Whig.]
Sometime since I called uj»on Mr. P. Mason of
Somerville, for Ur. Jayne’s celebrated Hair To
nic, to restore my hair, which was the* falling out
daily I procured one bottle, and applied its con
tents accordingto the directions. When the bot
tle was exhausted, 1 discovered to my great sur
prise and satisfaction, that the Young Hair was
starting handsomly; I therefore purchased anoth
er, and soon till I had used three bottles, and now,as
a coni|H;nsation, my hair is as thick as ever.
And what is more surprising, my baldness was
not occasioned by sickness, in which case there I s
greater hope of restoration—hut was hereditary.
Jas. O. Rodgers, Methodist Minister.
Mount Horeb, Some rest Co. N. J.
Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, Philadelphia, and
sold on agency by
July 29 W. K. KITCHEN, Augusta.
(Commercial.
1 LATEST DATES FROM LIVEHI’OOI JUI-Y 1.
: LATEST DATES FROM HAVR3 JUNE 30.
stock OF COTTON
In. Augusta and Hamburg on the Ist instant .
1847 1846-
In Augusta 15,864 • 14,742
Hamburg 3*807 3,314
On Wharf, 32 00
Total 10,703 18,256
SHIPMENT OF COTTON
j From Atigilsta and Hamburg, to Savannah and Charles*
ton, from ist Sept, to Ist inst.
i * i4 l ti -t 1846-7. 1845-6.
! from Ist i o 3lst July,
j ToSavanual)..-.'.’.'.- 1,107 2,841
Charleston, by rail road ....... 9 r Off2 6,316
j 3,139 9.157
i Ship d front Ist Sept, to Ist July,-.178,981 102,599
182,120 111,756
RECEIPTS Os COTTON
At Augitsia dvd Hamburg , from Sept. L ’46, to Ist instant i f
j Stock on hand Ist inst. .... j.....s 19,703 18,256
Sent to Factories. 2,500 2,000
Shipped from Ist Sept, to Ist inst.. 182,120 117,757
304,323 132,012
Deduct stock on band Ist hist..., 9,900 5,919
Total Receipt* 194,417 126,093
CHARLESTOnTj (fans
i actions on the day preceding our last publication
) had been rather heavy than otherwise; and indeed
the business of the week had been marked with
more activity than that of any corresponding peri
-1 od for some time hack; the market, however,
j throughout the week just brought to a close has
been as quiet as the previous one was comparative
ly active; but so far as prices are concerned, wc
have no new feature to record. On Saturday last
the operations were limited to some 51 bales. Ob
Monday more activity prevailed, and upwards of
150 bales were soltf Tuesday the operations were
entirely suspended, as we did not hear of a single
transaction. During Wednesday the demand im
proved, as near 350 bales were taken by purchasers,
who.on Thursday, increased their purchases to near
350 hales. Yesterday the inquiry fell off somewhat,
as the sales were confined to about 250 hales. The
aggregate transactions of the week do uot exceed
1070 bales.
The trade have for some days been expecting
later advices from the other side, per the Washing
ton, and whether her non arrival has had any poai
| live influence in checking operations, we will not
i undertake to say; prices, however, are firm, and the
1 market closes at the quotations given in our report
of the 24tb inst., to which we would again with eon.
fidence refer for a fair criterion of the market. The
' actual sales since our last are as follows:—.100 bales
at 10|; 62 at 114;237 at 11£; 15? at 11|; 285 at 12; 63
at 124; and 140 bales at cents. From the fore
going transactions it will be seen that nothing has
been done in the inferior qualities. The receipts
of the week comprise 635 bales. We have no sales
to report in any of the descriptions of Long Cotton;
we would remark, however,that shipments continue
to be made on planters’s account.
Com. —The dealers are well supplied at present,
and transactions of the week have been confined to
small parcels at fluctuating prices, ranging from 65
to 75c. per bushel, with and without the hags. We
quote Country and Georgia, to which descriptions
j the sales have been limited, at 65 a 70c. Avith the ,
remark, however, that the former rate is [for large
parcels. The receipts by the Rail Road reach 10,-:
700 bushels, a portion of which was brought from
I Tennessee.
Flour -—There is very little inquiry for this ar
ticle, and some forced sales of country have been
made at prices ranging from or per hbl.
Salt. —We have no transactions to report in sack.
Salt. The stock, which is light is held at prices,
within the range of our quotations, 1,25 a 1,10.
Freights. —We quote to Liverpool 7-16th a £d.fpr
Cotton in square bags; and to Havre 1 a in
square and round bags. There is nothing up fo*
Boston. We quote Cotton in New York in square
j hags ac, and dull.
[ Correspondence of the Baltimore Swn.}
By Magnetic Telegraph. I
New YoitK, July 28, 6p. m, V
The flour market is steady, and moderatelj ac-: I
tive. The demand was principally lor good straight-4
brands, which are not very plenty. The sales to- »
day reach 6,000 barrels, at $5 50 for strict Michi- 1
gan, and $0 624 for Genesee. There were also \ -
sales of 1.000 barrels irregular and Ohio brands, at
So 374. s
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