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nii<l Atlantic Knilruait.
Marietta, July 14 h, l s:, “='
T°H h Kxcnllcucy U ireorMi ,
Sir;— l ll common-'ice OHii .
.orVJLI Crawford. Indent el the Boirtl.lrom
S <i:i mportanl hn-m'-s* cnnncc ed
Wilh the inli ro 1 1-' ol llm I»»i 1 r<»a<l the dt'y ha,
devolved unon me, ol making a quarterly he
.1.,, tod rrcofthc work, and Hr non
.lition ol the Hond.intrus'r.l to Urn run* n,"d j
direction of the H-Jttrd of Con.rn.es oners, lor,
the second quarter of the current year.
In the . ..nv par. of April, contract- wore
ordered into lor tin 1 gr.idmo ol npvuirne o. h -
I v unit*? . d Road, and the worn ol coital rue
tioti has been progressing at incnasod ia.
l,o up to the present month ; and Iron. I.m U- (
purl of I ho Siipermtcndanl ol construction, and ,
!ho cliariicP.r and competency ot tlm cmiH.m- .
tors employed on the work, tl • Comnimsmiu
rrs hue the hod assurance that Urn grading ' ■
that part oft ho Read now under conlrac .will
I« completed by the flirt of July next. Ihe
pearedy ot prov.eu.ns ... H o H’Ctmn o conn- j
try throngit ia hid. '>'o I' 1 "' 1i,,; R ;‘' ,lo,< j
I .asses, ti ltd the difficulty ol prncnr.ng efficient I
I,l. nnos at thm ne.nm:i of the y ii,r * h m necc.-
lardy re. .rde.l the operations ot the cmdrac
,,,rH and .he anoint .d work dune on Iho va- I
nuns sect'ons under contract, has laden short
ofthc anticipations of Il.c « nid.hoi d is con-
UJer.tly lid.cvcd, thcl after the lalmra huclh.
rur.lv bestowed upon the grow,..;; crops are |
completed, the services ol laborers will h
procured on ua,enable terms, and .„ Hid.
numbers as will answer all re
.....red, lor the completion d the .work within
rMe lime specified in the contract*.
The iiiiioo,,' of expeiitliinrcs during Ilia no
eond quarter of the current year, on account
of e,Kilt me lions for road formation, lononry,
bridge i.mln-rs, cross lies, right J.l way, and
pav'd' Kng ns engaged '•> "‘ l! coos roc.
11vo depurlnielli of the service, ag'eeii dy to
the |.RV roll.as exhibited in the return and
abstract, id work done in the ...ol„h o April,
May. a,id June, will, the vo,id.es (or iho sev
ernl ninoun'c paid, is herewith sohmilted, to.
ncllier will, the vouches lor expend,lures in*
eurred .10r,..01i0, first .ptarterul the y.ar; and
nisi ihe (piarierly Uepo.l ol the Cl,id Lugo.
,>or, lo winch 1 respectfully beg leave to rdcr
vnur Kxcnllency, lor « 101 l nod comprehensive
View of ilie condition and progress ol the
work, ami foi other important inilornmlion
connected with this great work ol inletnal
improvement.
Tl.e ('oiiiniissioiierß have been untiring in
their t Doris lo procure the right ol way, on
the rente of the Railroad, and have succeeded
mohl.n nine deeds of concession from nearly
fl || i|,e resident land holders n. tin: counties
of I). Kalb and Cobh, on terms deemed reas
onable, and in oases where exhorbitant dam
ages have been demanded, recourse has been
taken lo arbitrations, or the Dual award ol tipo
oial juries will ho restore 1 to. In the prose
entioo of tins delicate mid unplensaiil business
the ('oniHiissioiiers have met wilh (iillicnUies
ami .di,Stacies little to have been anticipated
in the commencement ol the cnlcrpiiso. As
the ceiistrnclmn of ihia great work was obvi
ously intended lor the special benefit ol Dial
portion ol the Cherokee counties through 11
which i' rims, n was confidently believed that. 11
Ihe ciliz mis of those counties would have vied 11
with ea Di other, m Bettingttil example ol liber- 11
kIII y and -/i'lll, m forwarding the progress ol
the work ; mid us the hinds on the line ol Die 1
Road were enhanced ;n value by reason of the "
contemplated structure ol the road ; the land l
owners would have considered Unit 01)11111101.'* *•
incut ol value, an ample compensation for Die e
concession of the right ol way, occupied by
Iho space of the read, and any other inconve
nience they might he subject to, in conse- v
ijucncc of Hie slrneUne ol the road lonmition ; 1
hot It has four a - * *
1 lie land-holding, who now demand enmpen- '■
uat 1011 for the land lo he occupied by the road 1
and damages, at, a rule proportioned lo the *
increased value of the land. They are, bow- 11
ever, some lieiunable exceptions, and as wo
advance upon the line, some are found who 1
are disposed load the nobler pail, mid con- 1
eider tin: benefits licit themselves and their !l
neighbors will derive from the road ; ample
compensation for the sacrifice of a small por- 1
lion ol land and materials employed in its (
construction ; instances of this high minded K
and generous bearing, may he found at the p
lhiatialiooche river, Marietta, Kuwait river, *
a ;il at several other places.
The Hoard have resolved lo offer an midi- 1
tiuinil portion ot about fifty miles of the road I
for contract, from the eighth lo the IKlh ol 1
October next, beginning nt the sixth section
of the third division, and extending to the
.alley ol the Couasmigo river, us induated in 1
the Chief Knginecr’s quarterly report, above
referred to. Hv the adoption of this measure I
a larger field of enterprise will he opened lo ,
our citiv.ens, and 11 greater point ot attraction
he given lo industry and enterprise; mid as the
time of letting will take place at a season ol
the year, when the great business ol ngncul.
ture will have been completed lor the year,
slaveholders nod ol hers engaged in 1 lie tann
ing interests, will have an opportunity ot ma
king their arrangements, ho as to employ a 1
l uge portion of laborers in the Railroad ser
vice during the fall and winter months, a ho- j
smess deemed much more prolilahle than the I
growing ol cotton, at the present low prices .
of that staple article of the Southern Slates,
The route of that portion of the Road, I
about Icing e lie red for contract, traverses j
such a level .eg,on of country, ami the work ,
ot construction will bo so light, that the gra- j
ding will doubtless ho completed nearly as j
soon as that-port ion of liie road now under
contract. ami will enable the duel Kngineer |
lo employ to advantage the services el that |
portion of the corps ol Kngtmiers new about
Ur engage 10 the survey and local. ml, to the 1
Tennessee river, alter that work shall have
been completed, which is intended to be
eilccie Iby the lime of (he next felling. The
residue ol the lead, about forty miles, can be
placed under conlrac'; in lime lo he complet
ed before a supply ol iron can lie procured ;
from Kurope, or at least put in such a slate
ot forwardness as to oiler lo the commission- !
ers the option ol omnieneing the laying of |
the railing at tin. terminus in IK K dh county,
or at the Tennessee river, us future exigencies
may dictate, or a sound and economical policy !
may require.
It is believed ih.vt cam bn Iran-ported horn i
New Orleans lo Russ hording, on terms much 1
more I iv,liable Dun can p,usably l,e »Horded Irom
iSnuim.'.h, to the terminus in IMx.dh county,'
havin'* to uncuunler the heavy expense ~l Inins
pdrlnlion in wagons over a eoiisiderahle portion j
ol lire route. The roinntissionors will, however.
Hive lo ilns subject dial m.nme con.-idorulion its
importance demands, and adopt (he course I
which may seem uro.-l conducive lo die public
interest, Tire gening of sleepers, or cross lies •
tu ihe Railroad hu- been im'a-uraldy stispeiide.l, 1
■ v epi ,m die immediate line, or spare occupied j
fry Hie road, ihe season ol the year hr niu’ uopt 1
porous fur the culling of timber to he used in
conlacl with lb" j>ioui d , and us the prncc>s ol
Kyaniaing linduM t.,, lailroad pmp's.s, e- ,oir,,e-
public altenUon, lire coininissionci ; arc do- i
isinius of pivmg lli« subject a thorougli inve-d*
gallon, and il (he te.-01l <■( (heir enquirers should
Ik. as favorable us has been represented, and ihe
coal of the process not he gren'er than r igid or
lc:i cents a picco for lit s of eight feel long and
six inches square, good economy would dictate
the adoption of the process, n. timber can he
sawed wilh ;;reut neatness and accuracy by sicam
saw-bids pinetl on the line ol the road, nod
cos! less. Die Ryanizing pne 1 in include I, lli-m
the old method ol .-1 -feeling and hewing heart
j limber; as any description ol limber answers
j the putpose, the process alluded to, leuderilig il
impervious to pulnfaclinn or de ay.
It nlbirds ,ne great pleasure lo state to your
: Kxeelleory. that Irom information denvcl bom
inn authr'iiOc sourr e, the most peril ci good I, cl
ing picvinls on the psrl ol Die Stoel-,lmhlets ot 'lie
! IliwasHce Railroad idoitqiany, lowoid Die author
| Dies of I icorgi.r, and that ihey are pressing fir
' ward llreir weik with a /.cal and energy c.niimen
I so aie wilh Dio importance of the, undertaking
Regarding tins Road as a valuable uuxilaiy to
I our great Kinle etllr rpri-e, 1 r.aooot iidraifi Irom
! i xptessmg to you my deep solicitude lor the
prosperity and final success ol the Jliwassec
Road. Running' from Knoxville, a distance id
, nit cly-fivo lines, to Die Red (’lay Kotmcil
' (in ond, on the • ieor, .a boundary line, 11 juncli.pl
with the Stale Road can lie cllccied by a brunch
‘ id not mute Ilian til een miles in lengih, and tan
-1 not fill In be as advantageous lo (ioorgia, ns il
will he prol'i able In the Siockhoblers id the I ein-
I p'iny. 'J'his T,ranch rhonld he r oiistruclej by
the Pilule, ns il will he wilhili lire liodis ol (ieor
-1 gia, and eann il full lo eiihaiice Iho value and 1111*
| porluiiee ol hn'h roads, and lend Irr unite the in*
leresls nl the people nl each Hlale, and lo slrellgDl
en (he bond sol union and good neighborship.’
I would beg leave to remark, I hut should Die
Legislature ol Ileorgia, at their ni'Xt icssion,con
tinue lo pursue the w j e anil patriotic policy, (hat
has ado iinl Die r cuuncils for the hisl two years,
in regard lo works of internal improvement, and
alfnd tlnr necessary f,,mines lor carrying 011 tills
great work, to 11 speedy and sutfesslol nmsum
illation, two vears more will not < lapse before the
fatale will begin to realize the hem tils ol lids pol
itic and enlightened legislation. In estimating
the future advantages ol this Road, allowance
should be made lor the constant advance ol Dm
count 1 y through which il pusses in population
and business. The fertile regions ol the Wcslcrn
counties are rapidly tilling wilh a wealthy and
enterprising population, and increasing in then
business, wants, and capacities. Thu Western
11ml Atlantic Railroad will form the main link of
the great chain ol Railway communication, Irom
the ISoulhcrn Atlantic cities to the populous re
gions of Tennessee and North Alabama; and (or
njsli a thoroughfare travel and freight, uncquall
cd in the Southern ISlalvs. TIIO consequence
must lie, Dial when the several Hrunch Railroads,
(now in a train of execution, me completed, the
amount, of business that will be dime on the Road,
will liir exceed any calculations that have been
made upon the facts, as they have hetclofore ex
isted; and this Railroad will naturally become the
main thoroughfare between Iho Western Stales,
and the commercial cities of Georgia and Soulll 1
Carolina.
Very respectfully,
i our ohi'dicnl servant.
('HAS. 1,. HOLTON.
Jt’ri's'/. (/iro. tein.J Uuih il rj' Cum’rs,
«t*
The (Holers assault upon tins Navy excites 1
1111 vernal disgust. Tim National Inti lligenccr 1
iiilinmltH that Iho oll'eiisivo articles in 1 lie ud- 1
ministration paper were written lay ollicers in 1
the Government, ami adopted by the editor as 1
editorial. The new Secretary, however, it. in 1
Iml her said, probably has had no participation I
m them. The last Army and Navy Glironi. 1
cle, which may bo supposed to represent Iho
true feelings ofthc service, thus notices the
subject,—•
‘•The Globe of Wednesday and Thursday
Inst contains under its editorial head the most
virulent, wanton, and uncalled for attack upon
the character of our Navy that we have seen
ir..,., 11...1 ~ cud 111 a Hrit
ish publication, it would have created little or
no surprise, hut, coming from the oD'iciid or
gan of the Administration, it will he looked
upon abroad as expressing the views of the
K.xeculive respecting the eilieieney ot a most,
important branch ol our military defence; and,
unless disavowed, it will soon huso considered
at home.
“That the Government should undertake to
decry Us own servico is a pa malax that we
can scarcely credit; and yet the frequent allu
sion 111 those articles to ''iindonhted ant lionty"
stumps them with the semblance ol official
sanction.—Whatever particles ol truth may
ho mixed up with the grosser ingredients of
iho preparation, the pill will not lie the more
pula'able for its invidious exceptions in favor
of a few.”
Among its other disparaging statements the '
official paper explicitly declares that the abu
ses and evils ot which il complains in lln* Na
vy, commenced under Mr. Adam's udininis.-
InUion, and have h eh increasing up to the
present tone. Is it not very extraordinary
that neither (Sen, Jackson nor any nl Ins Secs
rotaries should have nv,.r intimated so impor.
taut a fact to
should have repenledly spoken of ns condition
us 'satisfactory ’ mid‘prosperous! ’ Mr. Dick
erson's report of 18, Tj suggests an increase of
the Naval loiee, and columns this passage—
-1 'la presenting lor your eonsiileriilion (he
1 condition el out navy for the past veur, il us
; for.ls mu great satislaclion to statu that all the
i available means for its ilnproveinunl have been
I mico .sfiiil.li/ upwind, and that its operations in
| protecting em commerce, although inadequate
jlo the exigencies of that great ami growing
j interest, havi hern highly honorable to the ojjj.
| revs siritno ,m our mi nil suit ions at haiiu inul
abroad."
So the .Message ot 181)1! speaks ef*‘t!ie
satisfactory view el the Department derived
| liointlio amiutil report and adds, •*th s hrunch
1"I our service has been actively and usefully
employed. The committee appointed 111
! iM.I, by the House ol Representatives lo en
quire into llm eoinhi,on and management of
Hie several Kxeculive Departments were irea
led very superciliously hv the Tresidenl and
; the Navy Secretary, and were told that the
Departments had been conducted with ability
j R,, 'l integrity —that, lliere was no just canseoT
j complaint- no iriegiilanlies that requirctl its
i all cut ion, ami that they vveie in a 'prosjierous
condition." 'l'ho couinntteo accordingly re
polled tint! '//i is h 1 ,ust cans.'of cotn/dainl
|./rmm ani/ quarter"—-in these very words.
I " hat then are we to think of those late char
ges of Mr. Van Huron's Globe/ Clearly
j either that they are slanderous and false, or
\ that Gi'ii. Jackson, Mr. Secretary Dickerson,
j and the committee are guilty of col lision and
1 perjury. The present man ig ns a 1 Wasbing-
I ton ais welcome to either horn ofthc dilem
ma.— V ,1. Sen!. I■/ I’m loin,
1 he I yncldmra \ iigininn has this fmcible rc
ncek nl the sub tica-uiy scheme—“ll comes
| I'clma us now. itulee-l, ;n', - I,die in swaddling
| clailic.-, —mailc tn wear n liamdcss npprarunce,
: and linked mil 111 tin teiucious lim iv to win the
I public's litvor ; but let it 0110 1,., taken to our
bosoms, and the smiling infant u i'i soon assume
'be Grin and propmtions of a Hercules and its
llrst essay w ill be lo pull dovv 11 the ptjitirs of their
j I c.nple who gave him .1 foothold within il .
. I wall-
The Federal prest-.na, winch sMppoil ihe aclntiu
istration, deem 10 consider it nil important that
the* people « l the South should he made to mi
deratand, that the administration ol Martin \an
JJnreii i.i essentially a Southern administration,
i’he Loeat measure which idenJifie' this wiley j. *
lilician with the inter* • la of the Suudi, in the S' ! >
Treasury. There has been a vast rjuantity of
h'd.-e and rant on iljih subject, »nd the federal
prr v-es, ha\e uhi>r i the oppo‘;iion roundly
rauso they refuse to snpfmrt Mr. \an Horen in
this Now it would he. w«dl to enquire
whut is this Suh d
cm/irlen'ly to the whole Van Uurun under
whatsoever pennotMif ihc* adminir<trrtn ,, n I any
i tin y msy range thetuselvcs. from the WuMung
. | ton Chronicle down; what n this Huh Treasury?
Hroe they a dear expl.rit on>werl To judi»e
t from their pa I editorials, they have no intention
to instruct, hut rather to mislead their readers. *
I his very measure lias assumed no fewer thin
four Miveral distinct lorms, in one sivsion •>( Con- !
i greas. A session where the administration hail (
i an avowed majority, and where if they had been
a hie ns a party to impress a distinct ninl decided I
■ feature on their darling scheme, tlicy would no
1 doubt have done so. They failed to do dim rery
1 important thing. They did nut present !■» that |
i body n scheme no decided that it could nut he mi*- j
i taken. It was ony thing, nothing. They did nni j
know their own minds.
I First, Mr. Wiiglit the organ ol the parly in
the Beimte, introduced the scheme. ’I he great
t champion ol the measure from the South, found
- it defective, and he added a provision, containing
• what had long been a hobby willia portion of the
- .iackson parly. Mr. (’idluiuu’s amendment pro.
vided that die Government dues should be paid
in specie, gradually reducing lire quantity of pa .
!• per, until (be whole collection, of the Govern merit, i
- should lie in specie, now we would ask the fedr- j
1 ml J’resses, is thia the Sub Treasury s,hanr\ |
i, They cannot answer in the aliinnalivr. Mr. .
I Cutlilierl, a prominent ineinber ol the fldniinii- ,
h trillion party, moved to strike out thia specie ,
clause, and Jo! it was carried! Now, if there ho
■ any truth in logic, it is a fair inference, that What
Mr. Wright the administration leader proposed
? in the Senate, what Mr. Culltbeit another promi
• neiil administration member, moved in the same
■ body, and what was supported by tiie whole parly, |
i winy justly lie considered as presenting the views
I of the puny. The administration were in favor i
I of receiving (he lulls of lire Hanks hi payment of ,
tiie dues to the (ioverninenl, in oilier words, they )
were opposed (o a divorce nj Jitiuh anil Stull 1
And yet their presses have assumed ibis v.iy po*
aition, ns the starling point ol the Sub Treasury
scheme! Certainly it must lie a very complica ed
measure which cannot bs set birth in words sufii- i
ciently plain to be understood, even by its own
fautors and projectors. Vet lids is the second
form in which tiie Sub Treasury is presented by
its advocates.
This favorite scheme of the administration, 1
the test of its wisdom, was fated to undergo arm- (
liter metamorphosis. Mr. Camhrcleng, the lea
ding member of the administration in the House
of Representatives, introduces this selfsame moa.
' sure in a hill differing in many essential particu
lars from ‘he bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Wright. The whole measure was rejected by
that body: unu now comes the last and most odt- i
ous shape it assume J. Mr. Wright introduces a .
bill to repeal the lirsl Iwpjvo sections of the depo
sit act ol 1836, which if do.'’®* would leave the
funds of the Government in the absolute control
of Ihc I‘resident. Ho the Federal Trusses doubt
this’! Hues the Washington Chronicle io'sHate
to lend it belief! Mr. Calhoun expressly decid
ed in Ins place as a Senator, that it was so; he
denounced the measure as "a surrender of the
public treasure to the discretion of the execu
tive,” and voted against it. This was the fourth
form in which the Sub Treasury was presented.
Now gentlemen of the Federal Press or Admin
istration Press, which of these four forms of the
Sub Treasury do you advocate. Von pride your
selves on your frankness and candor, which of
the four phases of this ebamolion scheme elicits j
your approbation, all or one! That which Mr. :
Calhoun repudiated, and Mr. Cnlhbert approved;
that which Mr. Wright proposed, and Mr, Cal
houn denounced; that which Mr. Calhoun uno
pened and (lie whole administration paily re
jectodl
“ Under which King, Hezoninn? Speak ordio.”
This is the But) Treasury, which is to distract
and divide the Stale Kij. his party! the lasi gallant 1
remnant of the ({(•publicans of ’i)B. Perish the
thought. The State Rights parly of Georgia, are
100 wise; too politic; too intelligent, to lie turned
astray by tins will u’tlio wisp, which Mr. Van Ho
ren inis set up us the beacon of pnrlizan zeal.
While lie himself and his followers, either do not
know what they intend, or dare not avow their
designs, it is not our province to array our streng'h
under their banner, nr to determine the position
they pretend to occupy. J<et them flounder in
the swamp and quagmire if they will. In all
their nianieuvering, the welfare of the country is
the lust object they seek to attain, first their own
aggrandizement; last their country’s good.
Bneli then is the character of lids great mea
sure, which is vaunted as exclusively a Southern
measure! Thia is a course pursued by an ad
ndnislration, prolessirig itself a Boulliem admin
istration! Hot the Bomb he warned in lime. As
’ sumo no ground in support of these pretended
triends, ihc termination of !ho compromise
•' Kirill approaches, and he warned in lime, lest
i when that period arrives, it shall he forever too
- lute to resist with success —Ocorgiu Jourutil*
A hoard of army officers, Gen. Scott as Presi
dent, are to devise a plan in detail to reorganize
llu* dillerent branches ot (lie service, to make a
thorough examination of the condition of each
i corps and regiment, to create absolute and un
i changeable rules respecting seniority, brevet rank,
i- promotion, transfer, furlough, extra service, eve.,
; all so much needed.— Fredericksburg . Irena.
Brier nr.s in liivnci.—A very curious state*
nieni and calculation lias been published in I’aris,
I by M. Fairel, a medical professor, relative to the i
nuinbet ol suicides committed in France In thirty
1 years, from 17114. From the records of the po
' lice it appears, that the total number of suicides
1 attempted, were 0,783, and y'liis of the irulividu
uls were unmarried. MV subjoin the table fnr
• uisbed by him to tile police:
. Men. Women.
I Grossed in love 97 J 57
■ Jealousy 99 53
Mortified pride 97 07
1 Galumny and loss of reputation U7 2S
3 Remorse 97 I.>
1 Disappointed ambition 11(1 13
. Reverse of fortune lsi;t 99
I Darning Jill 14
Ollier species of misconduct 108 70
. Domestic chagrins 931 394
,■ Misery (misere) 611 901
r Fanalieisui 1 19
Misanthropy 9 n
J It would, therefore, seem to follow tlint there
were about five women died from love lor three
men; that the ladies have considerably the advan
tage, or rather, the disadvantage, in Jealously:
that in pride they are on 11 par with the lords of]
creation; that calumny and loss of reputation, I
they hear with three times the forntudo that men' i
s ev.nce; tii it they leel only about one third of (in- I
1 remorse which the other six experience; and that
'• 10 the sorrows which How from di-appointed am- i
e hition. reverses ol fortune and gaining, they arc
I exposed in a verv slight degree in comparison]
e "nit their yoka lellovvs. This calculation, it e i,| 1
-j he remembered, applies but to French ladies J,, j
r wl.at lie.hl a dmilar cal nlation, would exhibit
• mu own tail eimnliy women, we pre-urn,■ noi 1.. '
•■onjeetmc .V. } /;>/it
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1 HRONIOLB ANI) SEN FINBL.
a w&tisT i.
Tliinulay Morning, AtigH'l 30'
STATE RIGHTS TICKET
rou congress,
VVM. C. DAWSON,
R, W. HABERSHAM,
J (J ALFORD.
W. T. COLQUITT,
B. A. NISBET,
MARK A. COOPER,
THOMAS CUTLER KING,
EDWARD .1- BLACK,
LOTT WARREN.
' g-j-No Blips from tiie North yesterday.
df The number of deaths in Charleston du
j r i, lf , Iho week ending oil the 2Glh, wassl—
whims 37, blacks 17. Os ihe above number 32
white-, die i • 1 the 1 rovailing fever.
Tiie cotton crops throughout Louk-iana are in j
j a favorable condition, according to tho ihlfurcnt |
j papers. _
'J'he population of the city of Columbus, aceor- '
ding to the census recently taken, is, whiles 3380, |
Macks 1779. Total 4166.
At Cincinnati, on the I7ih, pork was quoted !
at $19 —prime sloj—convassed hams 11 cts. — 1
; sides !l els —shoulders 0j a CJ —lard 0 a 9f—
i iijur 551 75 a $5 —whiskey 36, cents quick.
A letter received at New York, from Bermuda, j
J dated the Ist of August, mentions Ihe death of
j Bir Stephen Chapman, Governor of the Island, I
on die 31 st ult,
_ __
The lolls collected on the New York Canals,
from tho 15th April to the 16th August, amount j
to $747,796 18. Excess beyond the lulls to I lac j
same time in 1837, $167,813 00, The quantity j
of Flour winch arrived at lido water during the j
second week in August was 18,183 hrls:
Steam Ship Natchez.
The steam packet ship Natchez arrived at New
Orleans on the 34tb, in twenty-one hours from
Natchez, including stopages, with thirty-six pas
sengers and thirty-five hales of cotton, three of
which were of the new crop. Bhe left N. Orleans
on (lie 30lh, for New York, with 0 large number
of passengers.
A (ire broke out in New Orleans on the morn
ing of the 2&tb, in the clothing store of John
Bellow, jr. in Ihe row of brick buildings opposite
the meat market. The upper part of the house
in which it originated, was destroyed, and those
adjoining considerably damaged.
From Florida.
Tito steamer Santee, from Black creek, arrived
at Savannah on Monday last, by which the edi
tors of tiie Georgian received the following letter
flu'n their correspondent, dated
Newxassviue, E. F., Aug. 10, 1838.
Dear Sn -—An express lias this moment reached
here, bringing .> intelligence of an attack made
upon the train be. 'eon l.aders Hill, Go., and
Kellie Creek. The w.., < H» lii wure retur mi.g Horn
1 lie latter place, and when •‘■'■out /oorieeo rude*
from the hill, they were attacked h_Y the Indians.
One corporal of dragoons and one private were
killed; five mules killed, and three wagons car
ned olf the field. The escort to this train c■in
sisted only of eight men, and easily accounts lor
the occurrence.
Last year th..r® ,uaj a positive order from the
general commanding, that at least one mounted
company should accompany every train leving
the depots. It has been a matter of surprise to
all, that the train between Fort Hcilctnan and
Fort Mtcanopy has not been cut olf during the
summer, as it regularly leaves without a single
man for an escort. This requires looking into,
and is, in rny humble opinion, an unpardonable
piece of neglect.
The expedition under Lt. Col. Harney return-,
ed two or three days ago, Tho officers with him
were Captains Fulton, Tompkins and Bullock,
and Lt. Hlake of the 3d Dragoons, and Adj.
Gen. Hardin. Capt. Bryant and his whole com
pany were left sick at Micanopy. Capt. Tomp
kins and Lt. Blake, dangerously sick at Fort
White. The expedition suffered severely, anil
penetrated places where none hut savages have
ever before gone; destroyed two considerable
towns, all the corn, pumpkins, <S:c. &c. and sur
prised a camp which had but an instant before
been abandoned. They found meat cooking, &c.
Great dissatisfaction exists among tho officers
of the stall - , and particularly among the medical
officers. The order recently published prescri
bing the mode of selecting medical ollieers lor du
ly in Florida, is extremely partial and unjust, and
operates unfavorably upon some, who have the
strongest claims to an indulgence. I am acquain
ted with one surgeon whe has been more yeais in
this territory than any five other surgeons or as
sistants in the army, and performed more actual
hard service than the whole five together ; yet he
is 111a e to remain in Florida, while some who
have been here one ■winter have been permitted
to go home. This surgeon has accompanied sev
eral of the expeditions west of the Mississippi, and
last year came on with the 3d Regt. of Dragoons
from Bt. Louis by land, a journey of 1400 miles—
the severest and most unpleasant duly to which
one can be assigned. They do not censute Ihe
surgeon general or the secretary, but presume, the
arrangement was the otfspring of an ml interim
personage.
Steamboats «u Ihc Savannah.
Vi e have taken the trouble to ascertain the
number of steamers belonging to this port, their
amount of towage and power of engine. The fol
lowing is the result;
There are twenty-two steamboats, whose aggre |
gale tonage is 3704 51-95, with engines of 1031
horses power, of which were built
j In Savannah 13
“ Baltimore 1
“ Liverpool 9
“ N >rlh Carolina 3 j
“ Charleston 3 I
“ New York |
“ Hartford | j
OO
Besides the ah we, there are many who ply on j
onr waters and trade lu re, which had from other |
places, as Charleston and Darien. —Savannah j
iieorgnm.
Mon:; PnoscuirTiow.—Mr. R. C. William*. |
j post master, at Dresden, Term., has been turned
■nil ol office because he said that he erred in vo
ting fur Mr. \ an 13men !
'J'he Philadelphia Gazette acknowledges the
receipt ot a rabid loco toco communication, \
| fl 1 f or th*' f" - I'ii the orthography
■I which is only equalled by an advertisement
: once sent to that paper, of 'Six Hr in cattail■ |
( ’mt.i hrtrht on T’rt : , m 'iituinr
[rein the Mew Oder us Courier nj the 31 (A (
From Havana.
Vesterday there was no less than three arrivals
in this port from Havan. All vxas quiet in Luba.
There were then thirty or foity American vessels
in port, and the yellow fever prevailed among
persons not acclimated. We are told that five
or six vessels, from Ihe coast ot Africa, arrived
within the lust fortnight at Havana, and that they
1 had previously succeeded in landing their slaves
jon Ihe coast of Gulm. A report was current that
the partisans of D m Carlos had succeeded it)
making themselves masters of the island of Fono
1 and that a frigate, which had sailed from Havana
with troops, to maintain the Queen’s autlionty,
had been fired on and driven oil".
, S. Since the above lias been put in type, wc
] have seen Havana papers as late as the 13lfi hist,
which runlio no mention of the iivpulsc of the
frigate. Former accounts received at Havana
had left tho i-lund of Porto Rico in possession of
the insurgents, excepting the fort at St. Johns, in
which the Queen’s Governor hail taken refuge.
It will bn seen tint the necessities of the Queen
1 have led to the imposition of additional burdens
on Ihe island of Cuba. As this lax will more or
less affect every man’s means of existence, it mte,
j possibly lead the people to count the cost of thei
allegiance. We have already heard of dislur
I liances among the troops; we should not lie
greatly surprised to hear of the, people of tlie
i iiland manifesting their discontent also.
Indian Hostilities.— I’he Nashville Ban
| ner of the 18th lust, gives information, “from an
I authentic source,” of a grand council of Indians
j that the Cherokees have suggested to be held
about the 14th of September, in the Cherokee
; country —all the principal tribes to he represented
! except the Gsagcs and Kansas. It is believed
j that their object is to make a simultaneous ut
j tempt upon the settlements of Missouri and
j Arlene sag.
| In connexion with this matter vvo would stale
that a rumor was in this city yesterday morning,
I said to have been brought by tiie Teche just from
i Red River, that Ihc Indians in the Eastern part
of Texas bad risen and were slaughtering the
j whiles—and that tho military at Natchitoches
I wore required io bn in readiness to march at a
I moment’s warning to protect the frontier. This
I is mere rumor however; but, whether altogether
| false or not, it behooves the Government to
watch the Indians now living West of us.— jY,
j U. Picayune,
Cold Water for Children.
We copy the following front the New York
Commercial Advertiser. It is said to he from
a physician ot standing. The information, it
correct and well founded, is indeed, valuable.
“During the prevalence of the hot weather
there is nothing so grateful to infants as cold
water; these little creatures suffer equally with
adults from thirst, especially at night; yet
strange to say, the mother either neglects or
lours to ofler cold water. In my practice, in
several instances J have been called to sec
children laboring und r fever from the effects
of thirst, and upon giving cold water have had
tho pleasure ot seeing' the ch Id recover in a
* ra
very short time, a free perspiration following
the use of this natural remedy. Real thirst
cannot be al ayed hy any tiling as well as by
water; when n, child is luverish at night, it.
will in a maj-irity of cases, he cured by freely
sponging its face and limbs with tepid water,
and allowing it to drink cold water. Let
parents who have sickly children (of any age)
try this plan; if it does no good.il will produce
no evil; but I am certain it will arrest much
suffering by a very simple and grateful reme
dy;” ...
Another Sub-Treasukbr Absconded.
Tijcjast, Lvxington Observer bring us the
following :
“Wc learn from the Tennessee Review,
that Liltlobury Hawkins, one of Mr. Van Bn
roll’s “constitutional Sub-Treasurers,” receiv
er of public money at Helena, Ark., has ab
sconded proving a defaulter to the amount of
ft 115,4(3-3,9-1. The amount for which he had
given bond (O iti l : On v 11 0 tnon t -von only l£i“t),-
j 000, leaving a balance of ftt)5,402,94, to pay
lor liis loud huzzas in favor of “Van Huron and
democracy.’
We must lake it for granted, as there was no
protest on the part of the Boitlhern Delegation,
that by tho formal creed lately set forth hy the
Van Buren party, even the southern portion of
that party in Congress has at length formally ac
quiesced m the right ol Congress over the subject
ot slavery in the district of Columbia. Wc are
now to take it for settled, that wc have no consti
tutional safeguard, in reference to this matter, hut
I are hereafter wholly to depend on the good will,
] kindness, or courtesy of the majority in Congress,
whether this deadly right to Ihc domestic institu
tions ot the South shall he exercised or not.
'l’he Democratic address will not, on the whole
be without its important use. It shows the South
{ era people distinctly where they stand, on the
most important question which has been or can
bo agitated. We are now plainly informed,
should the views of this address be generally adop
ted, that we are henceforth to throw ourselves and
ihe vital southern question, on (ho tender mer
cies of a majority ol Congress, having no consti
tutional safeguard to shield us from the assaults
which wc may always expect from this quar or.
hi yielding tins question, it is for the constitu
ents ol our soulhei n members, partners to the in
strument, to say how far, in so doing, they have
spoken Hie voice, or maintained their ligh.s ; they
will determine tire question. We doubt not, right*
1 *' u|| y-
But what shall we say, in regard to ibis all im
portant point, of some who have hitherto acted
j with the Stale Rights parly, and still claim to rev
eronce Biule Lights principles, who have joined
j in most unqualified laudation of this document!
j They have characterized this paper as “resting
j mi the ground of State Rights and the Constitu
j lotion. ’ We would ask such, do Stale Rights
| and the Constitution yield the subject of slavery
i al the seat of the Government of the United Stales,
to ihe mere will and pleasure ol Congress!
What a sad dilemma docs such an acknow,
j lodgement as this place those of whom we speak,
l-'ar worse than even the members ol the Union
party themselves. It will he remembered, that
l ie State Lights parly in Congress, have ever
J warred against the constitutionality of any such
action. On this ground and on this ground alone,
could they assume the position which they did, to
resist Hi c reception ol petitions for abolition in
the District, i’lrey urged, that the petitioners
! prayed lor the action ol Congress on a subject
) which it had tio constitutional right to act on.
That petitions might ns well he presented, that
; Congress should convert the Republic into a Mo.
n irchy J that neither was within their sphere of
action, and ought ol right and propriety to bo
j instantly rejected. J’hey even went further than
j this, on the subject ol abolition p. iilions, They
j maintained, that not only was tin- subject beyond
| the action o( Congress, by having no constitution
jal right In act on I hern, hut that moreover, in
Hieir view, the Constitution actually prohibited
I its action on the subject, at all.
These views of the State Rights members of
j Congress, were hailed as the true Southern doe
j n ines, by those who arc now lauding a document,
yielding, without a scruple, the very mailer in
| question. How do these “• nlleraen explain their
: past conduct with their present views, m lauding
, the Stale Rights members of Congress for refu
sing to receive these petitions, and condemning
the I 'nion members for their vote to receive them ’
If Congress has all undoubted constitutional
1 fight over tire subject, the right ol petition, w s
1 suppose, accrues as a mailer ol' course. We only
i deny to tlic citizen (lie right ol petition, when he
I invades, hy that petition, the Constitution of the
country. The State Nights members then, ac.
1 cording to the present views of these gentlemen,
! had no right to insist upon the rejection of those
1 abolition petitions, as they were, according to
their present way of thinking, clearly constitu
tional; and, in aiteinp tng such rejection, tho
Southern Stale Nights members were themselves
the invaders of tho Constitution, hy denying the
constitutional right of petition. Such indeed
have been tho views hitherto of the Union mem
bers of Congress; but when they became those
ol the Stale flights gentlemen now lauding the
Democratic address, they must themselves tell
us, us wo 1 us the reasons ol such a radical change.
W e know, hut a very short time ago, none were
louder in their expression of approbation of tho
action of the State Nights members on this point,
as opposed to the action of tho Southern Union
members.— Sunt hern I tec order.
horn the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser.
c y lllu report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
tbere had been issued, up to the lirst day of
"osl, 10,086,082 dollars in Treasury Notes.
'■ this amount tbeic had been returned upon
■he Treasury, in payments of duties and public
I..nds, the sum of 7,100,000 dollars—leaving
about 8,000,000 id these Government shin plus
ters still outstanding. Now, we would ask the
poor man the plain, simple question, how much
of tins fifteen millions eighty-six thousand live
hundred and eighty-two dollars of Government
currency he has even put his eyes upon, much
less handled ! What amount ol it has come
into the possession of, and been used hy, tlitf
hard-fisted Democracy I If the truth be spoken,
the answer will he, not one dollar ! Here is a*
etnreney, then, that the laboring classes receive
no kind of benefit from, and yet the makers ol
: ri| g money have the impudence to call it the
“Democratic currency.”
I _ In the prosperous days of the country, before
(Jen. Jackson and his disciples discovered that
: tbe Eank of the United States was a ‘monster,’
i lllu ‘‘■pfoao eagle” notes of that institution were
m the hands of all classes of the communi'y
1 the poor as well as the rich—and ninety-nine
men in a hundred preferred them to cither gold
, or stl .er. When the poor man got one of these
monster notes, ho knew then as now, that ho had
| real money and no mistake—something that he
could go into the market with and buy a dinner
as cheaply as lie could with hard money, and if
he wished to remit or travel to the most distant
I P arls ol ' tlie country, the “monster-money,” of
, all money, was the very best money he could do'
_i 11 wilh - Eut hy some art of hocus pocus or
legerdemain, the olfico holders have succeeded in
convincing numbers of the laboring class, that
the “Democratic Treasury money,” which’ they
1 never lay eyes upon, is much safer and more
■ useful to them than United Ktatcs Bank notes,
r which, before they were declared the progeny
i of a monster, the poorest man might obtain with
) out having to pay seventeen per cent premium
t lor them. Is it not astonishing that there is in
1 this enlightened country, any considerable nuur.
i her of men who will fuller themselves to be.so
outrageously humbugged,
t . Eut it may he said that the Government.has a
' "S' l ' 110 uuike a currency lor its own convenience
, and the convenience of its debtors, office-holddr*
, and shavers. This may be modern Democracy—
, spoils Democracy— but it seems to us that it
would he a little more consonant with old sash-
I ioned Democracy, it the convenience of ilia
, people at largo were consulted in the experiments
, of the currency-tinkers. Now that they have
their own money in circulation, which the good
people never so much as get a sight of, what oh*
jection have they to giving those who do not
come under tho heads of government debtors,
, office-holders or shavers, a currency that will
! promote their convenience! The people ate
sick of the hard money humbug, so that it will
. ! 1C «» protcU that nonsense any
longer, vy hen gold and silver was plenty, they
prelorred U. Slates Bank notes to it, because the
latter answered their purpose better. They still
I- "• ?. lalos bnn k notes, and it docs seem to
I us that _ n Government claiming to be purely and
exclusively Democratic, and, as we trust, fast
; a V in S rr, "n its intense! love for the dear people,
' ought to do something more substantial than it
has ever yet done for the people’s accommoda
dun.
> The Van Buren party pretend to console them-t
--, selves under their bite defeat, with the idea that*
some ot the \\ lugs are Sub. Treasury men, atuU
I will act wilh the Administration party in-the
Legislature. J’liis is sheer pretence. There
I never was a contest in which the opinions of cant
didales were more fully expressed, and if there
- he such Sub-Treasury men among the Whigs,
t lot our opponents point the n out. The only one
, they have as yet named, is Dr. Holt, the Senator
, trom Davidson. We have tpiito sufficient au
thority for saying, that such at; imputation on
this gentleman is totally unfounded, and that it
would he rather a hazardous experiment far any
- one to make such a charge to himself.
B These assertions have an object. It is hoped’-
i that Messrs. Sirangc and Brown may he induced
, to believe them, ur d thus decline a compliance
' w | tb pledges to resign as soon as they-ascer*
lainctl that lire people of North Uarolina were
again t them. This compliance with solemn
pledges would give the finishing blow to the
s party, and hence the anxiety of the loaders to
'• avert it. But it is impossible that Messrs. Strange
- and Brown can pretend that their party is now
- the majority. With eight nut of thirteen mem,
e tiers ot Congress; with a Whig Governor and a
i Whig Legislature, it is worse than idle to pre
tend that North Carolina is any longer an Ad
ministration Slate, or approves of the course of
{ lu;r Senators.— Fayetteville, jV. C. Observer.
In 1834, tho administration majority in ouv
1 i Legislature on joint ballot, was aa.out 2Q. In
i ! 1836, it was icrluced to 3, and now the Whigs
, I have 13 and perhaps 14 majority.
f'onr of the Van Buren members are elected
i ( 'his y° ar hy an aggregate of 14 votes, viz : Whit
, j aker over Moore in Halifax, hy I vote; McNeill
( j over Murchison in Moore, hy i vote ; Sims over
Mangum in Orange, hy 6 votes, and Boggr over
| Harris in Cabarrus, by 0 voles, ft is said that
j in Halifax the whole Whig ticket might have
been carried with the utmost ease, and that tho
d ly was only lost through 100 great confidence in
the Whig strength. This is unpardonable.— lb.
To mark Native Tea.—The infusion of
good well made meadow hay in boiling water, in
the manner ol tea, about three quarters of an
ounce for two or three persons, is a beverage for
'he lasting and evening refection, as much supe
rior to the dried leaves of china, as gold and sil
ver me superior to copper and lead.
I'his native tea is as healthful as it is grateful,
to the palaiiy it is .saccharine and arromatic, in
, s'vai! .4 hitter, stimulating to the spirits in the
morning, and composing the nerves at night, pro
motes digestion and increases the appetite.
.Me Uenzic’s Universal Receipt Honk.
N is said that Major Brant, an officer in the
, Arn, .V. and a relative of cravat Benton of
the Senate, has been furnished hy the govern
ment with about thirty thousand dollars in gold
halt eagles, to he disbursed in .Missouri at the
election !
Inn -Sl’ll-I’lU isfll l IN- Oxeida Couwtt.—
A \ an l Buren delegate from Rome to the Oneida
V ■ l, i .Bure") Convention, stoutly opposed the
8a.ll) -1 reasury, mid the committal of his party to
its destiny. If the party would go to the polls
I upon it, defeat, he said, was certain.—.V, T. Ej -,
1 1"™-