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t ri'M tht Feu, tltulle A', C. Ol,server. ■
Intercepted C«>rie»piinde>sce.
Ii is by no means inciunhrnl upon us to men
tion liow the following lellct crime in um posses
firm : but tu'ing in our possession, »« have an
undoubted right to u-c it. Wo base an illustri 1
ous nuiliorily in iho “tltohc,” ssho-e editor once
intercepted and published a letter from llio New
York eimr-pendent u( lire Intelligencer, to lliC
Editor oClhal paper ; and the an lon i 1 y i- i ndorv il
by Iho Standard, f.r Mr, 1, ojng not only re pule
lislnni thi' tenor, but indulged in some billot .nsee
tiio upon tin; writer.
JFrom /,♦<•<• in I" •** r.U •••*.
Mr I)i;ah Sin : 'l'bo balllo has boon (might.
The smoke has disperse I. Wo mo now onahleil
to rotkon our Im to, anti In penclratu tins depths
of out disaster.
I snalt h the l*irt-1 opportunity sineo lurrying our
dead, ami attending iti our noiiiuV.l, lo inf irm
yon o! Iho ro-nll. Vou will not ho disappointed.
I 1.0 ilisoomllturn of our advanced guards in Pill
unil Craven, was ominous -»1 total tlofoal.
My tloar sir. out II ag is trailing the dust. Our
routed loreos nro hurrying into wintor nuurlors,
and even (he chreks of , nnr om o. valiant
loader, mo of tin ii.eh-eiil.e huo. (Strange, uho r, !;
unit tho whole in in i< changi tl.
“,J/r ,/miuhtm tnulnlus uh i In //ct/nc.
Hnl In ihop iho r.iolaplmr—wo out ton had a
figure jii“t n.w In vonluro on I Ins figurative,— ",o
aie ilul llr.l! A olo.tr limjniiiy in hnlli lioiimm
for those rascally Foderul Hank-Whig.Arisloera: .
In vain did I ho. Stand.ml hoi o'V 1 1 m lit anathema
upon mnithoiiia, in sain, vomit lorlli gill mid
wormwood, in vain halloo irinriopoly, bank rag',
uiislocniis, lodonilisls, no pmly, lluldb', llm Hank,
and lint Devil!—all would mil do; evon tires lusi
named allay could not sulfite us.
As lo poor Hi am h
“ Hut oh breathe not his immo, lot it ulcep,' ne■
W hat a ninny! liu aiiswoiod nil our ends in 11 sir
f ir. Vou managed that matter niooly with yon.
Yon would lias ii boon amused to have willi,ssed
tho rapidity of his inosoinonM i'l'iv.ilu wan/.--
Ho would lint Imry iho iomili. I’nt oreatod a
nausea, and Craven raiisod a vomit. 11 11 r to iho
point—wo am in a ..llonillia ; wo mneh tear lirosvn
and Strange will receive a gentle hint. Wu had
tickled ourselves with iho liolion that lliee ii.-
cally Whigs did not belli ve in lie right id nisiino.
lion, lint find on reel ven sadly mistaken. On looks
ing ha k lo lire Commons vole, when M nigmii
was “spoken lo," sve a .ecr tain I hut Ini “s per: mis
denie d the duo rino, not all id svirom worn Whigs
anil id these (Siolnilii o( Orange ulnno altos a m at
in tho nort Innse, and ho donhilos.s will ho in
tho t 'hair. Now ii, lo liodfonl, wo would willing
ly giro him tiro tfo !>y, could ono of “iho parly”
lake Ins place. Im od not toll ynu ho has born
much nr tho way. Wo mo sadly commirlcd.—
Strange inshly plodged dial 1.0 and his oolloaguo
would obey die slightest Din', big till ! here is hint
enough already. Now tho object of this episilo
is to ads iso with yon on lire mailer. Vou have,
dear souls, ul Washington, sueh nil easy way In
Kinonth things ns or,—w o mo not yet up In all your
tricks in tho "old North.’' Han't you, or A***
K*• •»»• got up tin argument In prove the uhsnr
tlily of iho doctrine'! It would serve valuable J
purposes hero, and in Now Jersey, Nosy \oik,
Coimcelient and olsowhme. I tidy persuade the
■lour people that Hamilton,or old John Adams, or ,
Johnny believed in tho doclrino, anil dm thing {
is fixed. This suggestion occurred in ns immo- I
dialely allcr our defeat, and svo forthwith issued I
circulars to onr Mllmllorns, with orders to “lin k j
about,” as per ropy Indow. Observe the style— I
bow dlrliilorial we are gelling. The rogues swab,
low every thing—wo have loariloil them to draw
well in tho traces.
[('inciil.ut |
Sin: I labile bus been bm niiich (nr im.— ,
Ills agents Invo been nhrmid in lint upon day j
I ribing i)nt faitlil'id, and hy moans ot Ins irro- i
ilcernabloslrin plasters, »ml pend.eiiliary notes, ,
be bus cun Ujd i(Il be whole Indy id tiro lie- ji
publican parly, mid retlu.eil Not - ' lt fiuoliini ,
In his swiiy.
It in currently reporled llml, be win pre
vent, in person, at an election precinct in Stir- ' 1
ry, and by bin nieiins we Imve.'o.sl tlml. wbolo ; i
(-'minty. More ol ibis bereallei! We have 1
sent mi In Washington lor r.llulavits. Tbu (
Federal Whigs having new recured a innjnnly, I
we fetrr for tbo tenure by wlticli Drown and [t
Strange hold llunr sms. 11, becomes our t
homtikm duly, l.horelore, to ebnitoeonr princi' 1
pies. Von will, tlierefore, hold the opinion I
llml the right of inslrnction is ninimndiieal, '
urielnoruiicnl, kingly, foilornl, and Diddle like. 1 I
Vou will nut hesitate to express lit s opinion '
at the Court J lonso, the X road-', the muster ,
grounds nml lux gatherings. Vou will oiulcn- '
vor lo propagate these opinions am mg the I
masses. — Herein bail not. 1
Raleigh, August 14, 18.T3. |t
VVlmt do you I bulk ol'ii/ I.el ns hear from ’
you soon. Dy the bye, wind. put. ii in vour | i
lieittl lo send I) .1 to Florida. Thai >
came near using us up. I'or certain;as Hope
toys, “Vou have grasp'd an empty Jordan for \
n John.”
Vours, faithfully, —— .
Raleigh, August .0, IhDJ.
I’. S. Tho exact Federal majority is 11.
II is among the “.signs ni'lhe Times*’that [
Mr. Van Daren's partisans in \ ermont, have ,
concludctl not to have a Convention this sea
son. livery day brings with it fresh evidence,
(bat (he more discreet of Iris old political
friends ssdll not follow on in bis “(outsteps’’
to public and individual ruin, llis pertinaci
ty in urging forward the new measures, tend- ,
ing In a consolidation of all power in the fed
eral government, will ho (eaisied by all men
of whatever parts ulfmity, who bas ea spark
of public spirit left. The best possible esi
deuce of this is the fact that his party is now
in a minority in nearly every slate in the Union,
and in at least one, it appears, tires have re
solved lo throw up altogether. Men who
have been taught in die schools of the fath
ers to regard with jealousy tho progress of
Executive power, look with alarm upon his
actual and attempted encroachments.
They begirt to sec that in the progress of
violent and unscrupulous partisan erm'es's,
the ancient land-marks have been Inst sight of,
and that has actually crime to pass which was
so confidently predicted by Mr. \an Ibiren
biinsell when opposing Mr. Adams in the 8,--
nate ol 1826. Tire report then made on rbe
Kubject of F, vccirt'rvis encroachments b\ Messrs
Hentun and \ an Horen is so much to lire pur
pose tbit we arc templed to revive the follow
ing passages. They were never so applica
ble as at this moment—
" The power of patronage unless chocked
by the vigorous interposbiun of Congress must
go on increasing, until Federal inllnenee, in
many parts of tins confederal ion will prod,mi
mate in elections, as completely as Hellish in
fluence predominates in the elections of Scot
land uml Ireland, in rotten borough towns,
and in lire great naval stations of I’vrtsmouth
and Plymouth.”
“The King of England is the ‘fountain of
honor;' the President of the United stales is
the source ol patronage. He presides over
the entire system of Federal appointin' nts
jobs, ami contracts; In* has ‘power’ os. r the
‘support’ of the individuals who adiuiniste«
the system. He chooses from the circle
his f iends and supporters, ami mey dismi
them, ami, upon all the principles ol human
action, wilt dismiss them as often at. they disap
point his expectations . Hi, spirit will animate
then itrtiona in all tho electrons to Slut,- I
r •«/ olllcos. There may be exceptions, but thri
truth i>f .1 gi nri j| mlf n fumed by lilt! exception. I
I lif intfii,lni rluick and control ol (be Senate
wU/iout :ii lun.ililnliuntil or flalulerii /irovin
inn v,i HI r,n -la oJli'Yale. J’nlreiinire w, II pin
clrn/f tlu.i iiui/r. subdue ili capacity i 1 rc.-iM.tncc,
ch illi it l i the cur of povvw, mid fiiihlc llio Pres
ident in rule :i< easily and much more vrcnrely
with ihaii without the Senate '”—Whal la thin i
i hnl ilu* (muniment of one mm i ! and what i
S the •iiivfrniiH’iil of onaman hula Mo.nmnr 1
Principles mu immutable, liowi n r men may
change. if nil iliio wan line in 1820, how much :
in ■ c emphatically to in ISIJB > Ami men ere I
i fvc.y whore beginning to no it, mid lo feel it 100, 1
\\ o m'c untiling of itii! onlbnsinim ol pa t year*. ‘
--Dingo-led mid ili.i.itiifnil, hundreds and tlioU
-1 simile nil over the find, hue inaidully (liiown oil
, mile |i fitly tr iiiiiiieli, an I hundred* more, mill in .
die r.ink«, are lojlung on with silent dooms* and
• misgivings, pinte-ling mid inpostulating in sc
, rn i, Inn irii'Milntii mid undetermined between
unconditional -iibinis'dim or ingenuous, open op- ,
poMiion. Many douhtle a will he coCHtriiiin d
through 11 to lone ol old mc-i ,c ill ioi n, lo hold on,
t and malio i oniiiion cnune with die leaders in a
i min <lie t lo curry on die experiment. Hot lin y
I will ruo it at 1 1 I. Killing aside priiiriple, linn
I or, and p Mrioli in, they will find lo their cost, as
many have found before, that there is nothing lo |
ga n horn n fclloW'liip which has no bond id
i Union hnl die hist ol power. lake the (aided
. div.nl, they may light (he bullies of die alliance,
i but Ihe giant will hear aa ay the spoils (d victory
, | —if, noli id, success should perchance crown the I
, u 11 1 1 all •v id enlrrpnse. —-V. ./. Sent, «/ I'l-eeduin.
I
’ A.n I ’.VDitvitt.oi'ia) (Jr.Nlun.-—The dfli
' cull, f s* in i he way of an “undeveloped genius”
are liin.i Kiildoijuiz;d in Nettl'd "Charcoal
Skeid.es.”
“II iw,” said lie,‘‘how is it, 1 tan'l level
down my expic sinus In the comprcln Tin on nt j
the iulnar, or level up the vulgar, lo a coin
’ prehension of my expressions! limy is it I
ean'l, get I lie spigot mil, so my versos will rim
deal! I know what, 1 mean myself, hnl no- |
body else does, mid die impudent editors say i
| it’s winding room to print w hut nobody tinders j
I stands. I’ve plenty of genius—lnis of it, lor
I ollen want In cut my throat, and would have
done it long ago, only if hull.'. I'm chock 101 l 1
. of genius und miming over; for I halo ail ,
i ! soils of work tny>elf, and all sorts ol peop e j
, mean enough to do it. I hate jciuilo hod,
i j and I halo getting up. My conduct is very
i 1 eccenlric and singular. I h ivo the miserable
i melanchidics all the lime, und I'm pielly ntar
- , ly always as cross as thunder, which is a sure
sign, (jeniua is nr tender as a skinned cal,
i j and then ndoii passion whenever yon touch ;
■ld. When I condescend lo iiiiliiiz/.nin myself,
1 : (nr a little sympathy, in folks of ornery inlel— i
led—und caparisoned In mo. J know very
; lew people flint ur’nt ornery us lo brains—and
j pour lonJi the feelings indigguins lo a poetic
J soul, winch hi always Idling/ they Indicinlo
iiny si! la I inn, and say they don’t know what
I the dense I'm driving at. Isn't genius always
served o’ this fashion in the earth, as Hamlet,
; the hoy idler my own heart,says! And when
the slights ol' the world, and of the prndt'iH,
set me in a line frenzy, and my soul swells and
swells, tdi it almost tears (he shirt oil' my hint- i
znm, mid even fractures my dickey; when n I |
exjmisnales and elevates me above the com- 1 ,
moii herd, lhey laugh again, and tell mo not to t
lie pomnioos. The poor plelnnians are worse ‘
than Russian scurfs! It is Iho Cal eof genius; j *
j dps Ii h'ii, or lallier 1 should say, her’n, lo go t
I Ihroiigh life with little; sympath zation and less a
I cpsh, Ado’s a field of blackberry and rasp- t
berry hushes. Mean | "nplo stpiat down and
pick I In; fruit, no matter how they black their
lingers; while genius, proud and porpeiulicn ■ I'
lar, s'rides fiercely on, and gols nothing hut h
scratches and holes tore in its trousers;” a
~ . _ si
The Peoria (lllionis) (Jazello, a paper
which takes no part in politics, states, mi the T
authority of “mi eye-witness,” that when gen- w
oral Jaekson was about l<> leave the palace
for the llerniilngo, Inking Air. Van Huron's
hand to hnl him Inrewe'l, he said, in Ids most
earnest manner, “Don't repeal the specie cir
cular!” < >n reaching the door, Ifu turned, look
ed Air. Van Huron full in the lace, and, raising .
his finger with great solemnity, said “Re, *
member my last words!” On being seated m s '
Ins carriage, ho said In those whoaccompuni- in
ed him lo the avenue, “(Jo back lo Mr Van to
jJmen. and tell him never In forgot my hist p 0
words!” If this statement ho correct, it shows
that general Jackson had very little confi
dence in the firmness of his illustrious succes
sor; and it accounts lor the pertinacity with gII
which Van stuck to the specie circular, even ..
alter it had been nugatory, as h s own friends
assert, by the suspension of specie payments. v
il
II is stated in a late Unglish paper that in lit- °
tie nine 1 Inni sixty years, 1 1 le inanul.iiTure of Iron a
in (heal Hrituin has increased from twenty live p
ihmisatul tons In tihnnt one million of ions per an
num ! In the United Slates a new eia is dawn
ing on the iron manufacture. The inteiiur of
Pennsylvania, abounding in inexhaustible beds ,
of iron ore and bituminous coal, is now the seat of
experiments eondueled by some of her most eiis
teiprising and iniellignnl citizens, the successful
issue of which is very | remising, and if complete- l
ly realised will lie llio means of increasing the ,
maiiuhiciura of this important material many (old.
Hullimure . Im -riruu,
A number of Americans left town in llio Prin
cess Viv"otin lor llio United Knili-s, among wlioin
we observed Mr. Forsyth the (Secretary of the
American ISovcrnment. Mi. 10. lOlliee, M. 1*
late Pnvale Secretary lo the Karl of Durham,
has proceeded to Albany, I’m the purpose, it is
staled, of coming lo some arrangement with llio
government of die Slate ol New Vork regarding
the arrest ol I'apl. Davidson by an American na
med Paddock, at Uualeutguny lour corners.
Uernhl, . Ing. 2d.
Mtuxni.ni's row nit or nonet,tv. —The I
New Vork Morning News gives llio following ■
as the reported testimony of a witness In u
| trial for manslaughter by the inj idicious use
' «>f lobelia. Thu witness was called for the
defence. “I know mi important (act. A man
' was blown up In a powder mill. Two and
twenty fragmenis weie cullectod in a basket;
one leasponnlnl of tho seeds of lobelia was
shaken n*to llio basket with them; this united |
the stray particles, mid “roused up a healthy I
action in the basket; the basket in fifteen mi- I
miles, vomited out the man in one entire mass j
i and he stood on bis logs; the third restored I
j him to consciousness and motion, and a |
i cup ot compos"ion enabled him to talk. He j
: has been well over since.”
, I Lord Di ukri.y.— Doctor, bow does my
j Dick come on in Ins lurnin !
Doctor Pa mi loss. —Apt, very apt; defi,
! ciont in nolhingbut words, phrases and gram,
mar.— ll ir ill haw.
The aptness o! the Doctor's pupil was for.
cible brought to our minds on reading a hand
hill printed in New Orleans, announcing a
ball, and concluding thus;
“(lentlcinon will found to ibis establishment
an ollieo for deposit their cloks, panes and
weapons No person will not lie admitted in
' tho hall room with any anus."
V ■ •;■-• 'iT^x
CHRONIC!,E AND SENTINEL.
AliwifsaTA.
, .. ... - - I
B»tnrdar Mnruluga Bej*tetu)»or I.
STATJ-; RIGHTS TICK HT
roil coyciusi,
\VM. G. DAWSON,
K. \V 11ABBR3HAM,
J. <;, ALI UKIJ,
w. r. golquitt,
U. A, NISBBT,
M \UK A. (.’DOPER,
THOMAS BUTLER KING,
ROW AHD .1. BLAGK,
LOTT WARREN.
After an absence of near two months, the
Editor Inn returned to assume itie duties nt his
office. During tfiat period our paper lias licen
rather barren of editorial articles, hut we hope
our patrons have heeu supplied with ad the news
of the <1 ly and such other interesting matter, us
to la nder the-iihrence of editorial paragraphs hut
a trilling loss. Indeed, we have long been of
opinion, that to a majority of the readers of
newspapers, good selections, political and miscel
laneous, were more interesting than long and
! fieoucnt harangues from the editorial chair.
During our absence, wo have made arrange
ments to pi hit the Chronicle dt Sentinel on en
tirely new type, and have also purchased a new
power press, which wi 1 he Ihc first ever brought
to lliir city, and which will enable as to work
old’ the paper more easily, more rapidly, and in a
handsomer style than heretofore.
Health of Augusta.
The number of deaths in this city doting the
month of August, as reported by the city Sexton,
‘isSO whiles IS, blacks 8. No contagious dis
j ease reported.
! Thu first bale of new cotton received by the
Georgia Kail Hoad, this season, and the first from
Hancock county, was yesterday received from
! the plantation ofUol. John Bishop, of that county,
: and stored at the warehouse of Stovall, Simmons
«Sc Co. Tie iptality is fine. Sold to Truvor
Cuveii, Rsip at lit els.
The firs t hml of tiexv cotton received in lhi s
city, t liis season, was brought in yesterday from
the plantation of Col. Samuel Dowse, of Burke
county. Quality prime.
I'm the Chronicle A Sentinel.
Aildnt.su of Hit! Southern Convention.
There is a singular mistake in the address of
the Southern Convention, which so far as I know,
has entirely escaped a public notice, but which
lor better reasons than the rcatb t wiJ perceive,
J would have corrected. The aggregate amount
of the revenues received from tho customs and
pnfi|i c land.-, are slated, upon the authority of the
Committee of Ways and Means, to have boon
£1,053,000,000 ; that is, •me thousand andffty
threc millions. So it is considered throughout
tho address, and the items that con-d' ,u,u 'bis
amount are given ; and yet, tho gross sum is
tw ice referred to, ns being one billion and fifty
three millions. Tho cause of the mistake is
plain enough. The sum total appearing first and
n figures, was carelessly and erroneously read ;
mil the writer being entirely occupied with re
mils, did not notice the plain correction of his
irst impression, which the details presented.—
['hose papers that have published the address,
vill please publish this correction.
TUB WHITER.
Athens, 27th August, 1838.
from England.
The packet ship Sheridan, arrived at, New
fork on the UVlh tilt, from Liverpool, whence
ho sailed on tho 21st July. The only item of
Merest is the complete account ot Col:on sales
or tho week closing on the 20lh, which will he
ound under its proper head.
Health «1 Charleston.
The Charleston Mercury of Thursday lust,
ays;—“From cases which wo have seen, and
Vo in all wo can learn, we believe that the pre.
railing fever has assumed a much milder typo
ban when it commenced—and is more under the
ronlrol ot medicine. If tho weather continues
us pleasant as it was yesterday, we may hope for
its gradual disappearance.”
Texas.
The National Banner, published at Houston,
contains the official annunciation of the conclu
sion of a commercial arrangement between
Texas and limit Britain, from which it appears
that vessels and goods under thuToxian llag, and
with Tevian papers, are to ho admitted into the
ports of the former, in the same manner as the
vessels and goods ol .Mexico, under the scope and
stipulations of the Treaty with that Government
and the vessels and goods of Great Britain to he
admitted into ports of Texas upon the basis of
the same Treaty.
Illinois Elections.
Tho St. Louis Republican of tho I'ith ult.',
gives returns (mode up from such sources, it says,
; as may ho relied on) from all the counties, hut
four in the third Congressional District of Illinois,
which exhibit a majority of about 300 for istuari
the Whig candidate. Tho Republican says, tho
majority for Douglass in tho lour counties to ho
hoard from will be very small, if any. The
chances ate, therefore, that Stuart is elected.
Tho Republican further remarks—“ Thus far
there is every indication that there will ho a de
cided Whig majority in both branches of tiie
Illinois Legislature.
Ohio Hunks.
The resumption of specie payments by tho
Banks ot Ohio, took place simultaneously on the
13th ult., and appears to have been effected with
out any unusual demand for coin. On the con
trary, in various cases, the deposiles of specie
since the resumption have keen larger than the
calls for it. The Cleveland Heiald remarks—
" The resumption has done much to restore con
fidence, and to lessen the demand for specie. It
woiks well thus fur, and will continue to do so if
the people tv cl the hanks sustain each other.”
An extract of a letter, dated Beaufort, ft. C,
August 3'Jlh, slates that the Cotton crops on the
strong and low lands are tolerably good—but
those on the high and sandy lands, are almost
destroyed by the drought.
Missouri.
The Whigs in Missouri have itiiuccd lU' N on
' Buren majority severai thousand in that fc»:ate
| and have gained double tin* number of Kepioscn
j lative-i in ibc Legislature that they bad las* year,
land slid the Loco Focus hail the result as a
gicul v ictory.
| _ _
! The last Army arid Navy Chronicle fH'jit:
We a nnouneed us a rumor, a weekor two since,
that tlie Ohio ship of t lie line was to be tilted out |
las (lie Hag ship on the Mediterranean station* j
under the command ol Commodore Hull. We ;
i have since learned, hut give it as a rumor only,
; that the frigate Constitution was to be immedi
ately prepared for sea, to return to the Mcditer’
■ runean, and thut the command of her had been
tsndcrcd to Commodore Hull, and declined. It
> : ’
is rather a poor compliment to oiler to a veteran
, like Commodore 11. the same ship he commanded
. twenty-six years ago, with no higher tank than
i lie then enjoyed; while his then conquered ad
versary is now enjoying the rank of Hear Ad
p njiral.”
f For the Chronicle <y Sentinel.
An Jlnigtua.
1 / dm composed of Sixteen Letters,
Mj l 3 4 11 38, name of a liver in Europe.
■ 3 10 t) 1 3 10 4 8, name of a Cape.
10 7 0 5 8 0 4, name of a city in the
/ United States.
t 11 13 10 H 15 13, an article much used
t hy ladies.
i 17 0 5 8 1, a month in the year.
8 5 0 10 10, an article much used in
Hotels.
'■> 3 10, a pleasant beverage.
13 15 11 3, an ancient city.
10 5 8 I 14 13 4, a kingdom in Europe'
0 3 3 10 1 3 13, u place of amusement.
3 15 9, is often found wild in the woods.
14 3 13 14, one of the United States.
1 j 8511 9 3 14, is a county in Georgia.
1 j 3 10 13 3, name of a Lake in the U. Slates.
’ 9 13 3 3, namo of a distinguished Actiess.
8 I 19 11, is often used hy Seamen.
3 15 13 8 3, an animal easily lamed.
My whole is the name of a Literary Journal
now published in the United States. A solution
t!,
is requested.
> limn the Tullahaatsec Watchman July 25.
More Indian Murders.
We learn that on Sunday evening, 19l!t inst.,
a parly ul Indians attacked the house of a .Mr.
Maker, on the East side of the Oscilla river, and
I murdered three out of a family of seven. Mr.
, (hiker was quite aged, and on attempting to client
( his escape from the hourv, with two of his grand
children in his arms, and while crossing the yard,
’ he was shot down. Early I lie next morning a
1 parly of volunteers from San Pedro, went to the
1 place, and found Mr. linker, lying dead, also one
, of the children, the other was lying asleep on his
arm unhurt. Air. Maker’s wife, was the third
1 j person killed. The others made their escape to
' a stockade about a mile and a half distant. Two
L of them, daughters of Mr. Maker, were badly
. wounded. Mr. Maker's house was burnt to the
ground.
Another party also made their appearance
sopjo days since near the Apalachicola river,
where a family named Ihivvan, resided. They
met a negro, belonging to Mr. Rowan, and en.
quire,! of him, for Iris master; on being answered
that ho was at home, they immediately pursued j
their way towards tl.o house; the negro, taking j
another and nearer direction, and on arriving at ■
the house, told his master the Indians were com- ■
ing. and hud enquired for him ; Mr. Rowan ini- \
mediately put bis family on hoard a canoe, and
pushed across the river—ho hud just crossed,
when the Indians made their appearance at the
house and hailed him ; he held some conversation
with them, they being disappointed at the negro’s
giving information of their approach, liicd the
house.
We also learn, that (wo houses on the Apalach
icola river, have been burnt I y Indians.
Col. C. 11. Dupont, in command of four line
companies, from I.con and Gadsden counties,
left on Friday of last week, since which lime no
intelligence has been received from hint. From
his well known charactci, as an able and effii
cient officer, we hope, and are inclined to believe
that some good oiled will arise fiom this expedi
tion.
Gen. Taylor, with a force of 350 men, is ma- I
king active operations for tho defence of residents 1
on the frontier.
Extracts fiom tho correspondence of the j
I Chat lesion Courier :
“W.uim Sen in os, (N. C.) Aug. 18.
“While at Asheville, I witnessed a practical (
exhibition of die operation of tbo much boasted
sub-treasury system. The North Carolina troops, i
who had been engaged in removing the Chero
kecs from the Stale, were assembled, at that
place, to receive pay for their services; and in- !
stead of being paid oil in gold and silver, in the
constitulioiuil currency, which they had a right !
to expect from a hard money government, with t
the sub-treasury in actual operation, or even in
treasury notes, they were put elf with drabs on I
the Manhattan Mank of New York, doubtless '
much to the profit of such speculators as know
how to turn things to advantage. In this all.dr.
, I learn that the U. 18. Paymaster was wholly
f blameless. He received the necessary amount
in treasury notes, in sums too large lor transfer in
tho way of payment. Tbo North Carolina
banks refused to receive the notes on deposit,
to bo cheeked on by the Paymaster, and be was
■ obliged to make bis arrangements with a bank in
, New York. This is a practical commentary on
t the sub-treasury policy, tending to shew its
impracticability, and that the government cannot
’ evert pry its troops without tiro aid arid agency
> of banks.
t I am on the cvc of departure for Lev ingtou, ICy.,
5 to be present at the meeting of the Directors of
| tho great Mail Road, at that place, on the 37tb inst.
; There is now u fair prospect of a quorum of Di
j rectors. Gen. Hay no will be there, via New
r York, the four Kentucky Directors are on the spot
. Mr. Humes of Tennessee is said to be there al
ready, Messrs. Ma.ing and King went on ibis
morning, Dr. Hardy and Gol. Elmore are here,
on their way, and Mr U. G. Mills and Dr. Dutto
vant, (the latter appointed to till a vacancy) arc
! also on tbo toad.
3 Several gentlemen, not directors, who feel
an interest in the great enterprize, are also go
ing on from this place. During the session
• ofthe Hoard of Directors, the great stock fair,
j it is said, will he held at Lexington, and form
, a spectacle of no common interest to the stran
. £ cr -
A very intelligent gentleman who has trav
elled through a consider.hie portion of the
upper part of South Carolina, informs me
f that tit.'promise of a corn crop is ir.ostabun.
1 dant, but that the Cotton is even less advanced
! than it wast’d this time last year, and nothing
but a very late winter is likely to prevent a
• : very short crop.
M o are told that it is so hot in New Orleans
j that, standing at tiny corner, von can sec whole
' suits of clothes walking along, the occupants hav
i ing incited entirely gtvov.
Opium trade of India.
The Liverpool Mailed' t Lie ~0l ii July, extracts
from a Scraoapore paper of lire I‘Jih of April ihc
following able ai tide oil iho Opium Trade.
Thn accounts which aie received from China
hy every fresh arrival, regarding the prospects of
| the opium trade, arc of so gloomy a east as to take
1 away uhnisl every hope of auieiuiineirt, 'J'lio
i opposition of tiro Chineso to iho trade begins now
. to assume so permanent a character, through the
steady vigilance of the local authorities, to con
vince the most incredulous, that the measures
I which theyJiave adopted, do not spring from arty
i avaricious desire to throw obstructions m the way
| of this trade, in order to draw laigct profits from
] connivances at it; hut from a settled detcrmnra
■ lion in the court of Pekin, altogether to prevent
the introduction ol rhe drug. The exertions ot
the Chinese police—one of them so efficient in
lh<‘ world, —have hrekrn i.p the establishment of
: native smuggling vessels, and dispersed the opium
! brokers. Thn pons on llio north east coast, into
which tbe drug had been clandestinely introdu
! ccd, tiro now watched with the greatest jealousy,
and all access to them has been rendered piccu
rious. liy these stern measures, the prospects ot
. | this commerce are reduced to so low an ehh, that
in iho apprehension of many, the price of the ar
ticle will probably full to 500 rupees u cheat, a
price which must infallibly dissipate (heir golden
: dreams of an opium revenue, on whic h the public
| authorities of India havu been accustomed to
dwell so fondly. s
As a last desperate resort, in this unprecedented
crisis, it appears to have been determined to in
troduce the drug into tbe empire by the force of
arms The efforts which have been already made
by moic ( ihan one armed vessel in the port of (Jan*
ton, have been rewarded with partial success; and
we now learn from die Uurkarn that several other
vessels arc lilting out. at the ptesenl moment in
Calcutta, which will bo manned by Europeans,
and so completely armed as to bo able to resist
the vessels employed on the preventive service by
the Chinese government at Canton. The Eng
lish arc, therefore, about to enter into hostilities
: with the Chinese Custom house, for Iho purpose
\ of finding, under the protection of their cannon,
| tin article of which the introduction is strictly
prohibited by the laws of the empire.
Such a procedure is unprecedented in the an
nals of commerce. In fact, tdl the circumstances
connected with the opium trade, are so strange
■ ami anomalous as to stagger belief. Wo see tbe
. civilized, the enlightened Christian government
of If riluiti in the east, straining every nerve to
increase the cultivation of opium in India, for
the express purpose of drugging the Chinese urns
1 pire. Un iho other hand, we see the half civilU
1 | zed government of China directing all its efforts
1 to the exclusion of an article whicli cannot fail to
sap the foundation ot all social, political, and
manly virtue in its subjects. We see these ef
forts crowned with success to a certain degree,
and the price of thediug reduced 30,40 and 50
per cent. And we are now to seo vessels, bus
-1 j fling with cannon, and loaded with the intoxica-
I ling drug, traversing the port of Canton under
[ : lirili-h colors, resisting the local authorities, and
I i discharging their cargoes at whatever sacrifice of
fives. Whatever vve consider rhe poisonous na
ture of the article which it is intended to force on
the Chinese, or the agents in the trade, at the
hear) of which stands Iho liiitish government of
India, iho mainspring of this enterprise, or the
means by which it is now proposed to carry it on,
by overawing the Chinese ofltecrs, there is no
thing Comparable to these transactions in any
other quarter of the globe. 13ut tho most inconio
I prelien.-.ihle circumstances connuctcJ with them
is that those who are embarked in an under igk'ng
destructive in its dice's beyond every trade, in
which men have embarked since the abolition of
tho slave trade, and who are prepared to pursue it
by the most violent means, should deny that the
Chinese are warranted in treating them as tho
outside “barbarians.”
The. employ merit of these vessels cannot he
i viewed with indifference by a government so jcal-
I ouaofits independence as the Chinese. This
I squadron of armed smugglers, will, therefore,
Ining matters to a point. In vain will the If i iiish
superintendent disclaim all connection with these
guiliy enterprises, or deny his power to interdict
them. The Chinese government wielding as it
does so despotic a police, will never believe that
lire vessels of the English barbarians could not
put down the smugglers which ‘ sail under his
national flag,” if he had an inclination to do so.
And his disposition they will guess by tho (act,
that Iho IJntish government obtains the lion’s
share of Iho profits upon every chest which cun
bo smuggled into China. Tho Chinese govern,
merit will admit of no delicate distinctions, hut
lake up tin" question as one between China and
Eiilain. Unable to resist the armed smugglers,
they will adopt the only remedy in their power ;
they will slop the supplies of lea, and proceed to
lay a general c.’.uhargo on all firilish commerce.
They have already threatened to adopt this
i sharp but efficacious remedy ; and llio war estab
lishment upon which the .merchants arc about lo
place the opium trade, will probably lead lo its
immediate adoption. If this calamity supervene,
'wo shall have only ourselves to Maine. It will
have been brought on by Iho unbridled cupidity
which has pushed the supply of opium (torn four
to forty thousand chests a year, an J by the san
guinary measures lo which wo shall have resor
ted, in order to force the diog on tho country- —
The stoppage of die tea trade will decide the opi
um question. The interests of tho Indian revt'-
i nue will then he put into tho scales with those of
i the English exchequer, and they will be found as
I light as a (rather. Tho company will ho called
| on to sacrifice the opium profits lo preserve the
revenues ol England; and the morals of China
may yet Is, preserved through the ten drinking
propel.shies of England. When tho Chinese
1 shall have once discovered that the most effectual
’ mode of preventing the import of opium is to pro
j vent the export ol ten, tiro they likely soon to
! foigct tho lesson !
I
i Accidkkt.—One of the operatives working
j on the railway near town, was unfortunately
I killed yesterday morning, in attempting to pass
, lire road, whilst the train was passing. Jli.s body
was brought up on the passenger ears last, even
i ing, to abide the Coronet’s inquest.—■ Charleston
1 Mercury, 31 sf nil.
Storm.
On Tuesday evening lust, a storm of wind and
rain, accompanied by hail, passed over uur chy.
j —Tho brig Falcon, at Telfair's wharf, broke from
! her mooring- and drified into tho stream. Her
i anchors were thrown out, these she dragged and
I was brought up upon her beam ends on the op
. j positc side of the river. She was righted yester
j day, with little or no injury. Wo fear some itr
, lo tho crops in Iho vicinity, as tho storm,
. | though brief in duration, was violent.— Savannah
1 Uvorginn.
Ey toe recent arrival from Canton, wo learn
that tho exports of Teas lo the United States,
from the 10th of July, 1837, to the Ist of April,
, 1838, were 212 piculs Congo, 23,122 do. Souch
ong, 1,718 Pouchong, 1,100 Pccco, 3.756 Hyson,
34.U05 Young Hyson, 4,770 Hyson Skin, 171
Twankoy, 5,103 Gunpowder, and 3,530 piculs
Imperial. The exports lo Great Eiilain for the
same period, were 171i.42t( peeuls, or 23,523,733
lbs. of Elock Tea--, and 40,835 peeuls, or 0 214,
Clio lbs. ol Green Teas.
1 vttixti it Coouv.—On the occasion of
ll.e recent earthquake in Missouri a eonp:e
who were qniftly sk-cpiiio in their bed were
somewhat disturbed. “What's thai?” said
the wife. “Only an earthquake,’ returned
the husband, as he drowsily turned over, and
resigned himself iigam to the army of M,, r .
( idrcii 1 ;, I‘utri■ '.
New Cottofu
J lie lust !.u!o ol new cotton was receive,l
this city oil Tuesday last, by Messrs. R, jP
King & Co., from the plantation of Mrs M, r
Porcher, of Bt. Peter’s Parish, S. C. ’f ile V '
is eald to 1.0 good. — Savannah Georgian}
Business ol the City.
our wharves. The recent winds from the v^p 1
have brought ho.o several ‘-rich laden a l?Use ,'.
an. (he discharge of their cargoes simul.anel;
ly, h.ue converted our late quiet wharves i„,
scene „t hustle and activi y. % far the g, e l“
jHtrttun ol the goods are for the up country
One tiling wo were struck with particularly 1
and that was, that most of the goods were dire, tal
■j to new houses, whose names were heretofa, 9
' 1 f nknmv ""*• This (act is to he accounted f,!
I hy one ol two reasons; either the number of j n
I tenor merchants have increased, or the places of
, 'hose who havo been driven out of the trade l,„
recent cml.arrassinet.ts, arc followed up l.v o th«,.
I 01 this fart, we ha ;.o duubt.it having particul
larly struck us.—.
train the /#,/, tun.irc American.
The J’lilnsbi.
V.'e published a few days ago the communi-*
tiou ol the owner and male of the schooner Mer
cliant, ot Elizabeth City, JV. C. denying in n o sj.
uye n.rtMs the statement originally published at
I Inladelphia, that the said schooner had fallen in
with the wreck of the Pulaski, and had refused to
render the passengers any assistance. Wo are
now called o;i to publish,—which we do below
the affidavit of the master of tho schooner 'j,,
which he denies in equally explicit terms the truth
ol the Philadelphia statement.
Llizaiictie Cri’Y, JV, (J. A tig. 21st, IS2B
To the T.di lavs of the Ualtimove American-
GESTt.BMB.x-I have just seen the publication
m year paper ol tho Bth August, relative to Hu,
schr. Merchant, of Elizabeth City, N. (J,, then
under my command, which publication demands
of me a reply, which reply I herewith annex, im,
dcr the sanctity of an oath:
State of S. Carolina, / D ,
Pasquo auk Co., S Pott of Elizabeth City,
Personally appeared before me, James M. Pool,
a justice ot the peace in and for the County of
Pasquotank, Samuel T. Gaylord, late master of
the schr. Merchant, of Elizabeth City, on her
voyage from Elizabeth City to Wilmington, N.
U-, who being first duly sworn, deposes and says,
1 that he, with the said sohr. Merchant, on the lBlh
. day of Juno, ’3B, made sail from Ocracock Har,
i and at about 1 I o’clock crossed said liar—Wind
1 N. W. —Steering our course to clear Cape Look
Out shore—at 6 P. M. IS miles S. by W. from
Ocracock wq saw a wreck or something like one
—lacked ship and stood to the E- tor her, endea
voring to fetch her, byt it being rough and calm,
night came on before we could.get to her, bein '
about ten miles from her. We continued
ding oil until 7 o'clock, that we might, if possi?
bio. I.iing her, when we found tbe schr. Union
within 200 yards of the wreck—which wreck as
the Captain of the Union told me, proved to bo
the schr. Allas, which vessel had dragged to sea
the day before with no person on board. And
the said Gaylord docs further depose and say,
that ho never came within sight of the wreck of i
tho Pulaski, neither was he distinctly or other
-wise hailed by any one during the said voyage
lor assistance, and further this deponent faith not.
S. T. GAYLORD.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 21st
day of August, 1838. JAMES M. POOL, J. J*.
I am compelled hero to say that I do not be
lieve {.ho Captain of tho Henry Camerdon of
Philadelphia ever received the communication ns
ho stales fram his pilot —if so why not give tho
-name of the pilof, and I now demand of ({apt.
Davis his name. L believe the whole statement
is a vile fabrication of the Captain of the Henry
Camerdon. Dy publishing the above in yuor
valuable paper you will confer a favor on your
obd’.t. ser’vt. S. T. GAYLORD.
1 at-. Set oi.it A Puck Otuut.—Them are
many wonderful (ales related of the sagacity of
the spider in providing itself with food, hut there
arc none that we ever read or heard of, that equals
tho following which look place at a pork house,
on the canal in this city the day before yesterday,
and was witnessed by a number ol persons from
one of whom we received tho account. A small
common domestic spider, had extended his web
from the floor up about fifteen inches, it
was made fast. It was wove thick and strong at
the bottom, when a luckless MOUSE, for whose
destruction it had been purposely prepared, got.
entangled in it, and to work went the spider with
the greatest activity, and soon succeeded in lamL
ini' fast the legs of his victim. When the gentle
man our informant was called to look at tho ex
tiaordinary scene, the mouse was alive and ma
king every effort his forlorn situation permitted
to tree himself from his bonds, hut without the
least prospect of success, JIo was laying with his
head and tail a little elevated in the web, which
his tormentor had succeeded in raising about four
inches from the floor, and was then busily enga
ged, near one of Ins oars, in bleeding him.—Soon
after as vye are informed, some one who had more
compassion for a mouse in distress, than curiosity '
to see the entire dovelopemcnt of one of tho most
wonderful phenomena in natural history, severed
tho weh and liberated the miserable (quadruped
fn-.'u the merciless fangs of his insect enemy.
Whctiii‘ r 'he mouse recovered or not, we did noV
learn — -Post.
i in: ki nst law os’ Nature.—The Leving'
ton Observer says, it is tilts Undoubted right ol
postmasters to destroy ilond’s speech. Self-pres
ervation is the first law of nature, and if they
can t destroy it, it will destroy them.
Jefferson Improved.—A Yankee school
master m Canada set a copy tor his writing
| scholars, thus: -‘All tnon aru created equal—
except niggers.”— Picayune.
y - -rn-d-Wrrw—
COMMERCIAL.
NEW ORLEANS MARKET, AUGUST 27.
-Since our review of tho 20lh hist, the market lias
imt been sip Jed to tiny material change, and so low
transactions have come to our knowledge, that our
qnotati ms must be considered nominal. The low
stage of llie ri\t-rs above prevents arrivals of hoars
uuh produce, which has caused u reduction in the
slock of some articles, nrid holders are in cease
ijueuce asking an advance. Oar accounts from tho
Interior of tho growing crops are Haltering Thu
weather continuespleasant and I he city remarkably
healthy.
Colton —Deceived from the I'Jih to 25; h instant,
■l5l bales—exported IGS7 bales—slock on band, in
cluding all on shipboard not cleared, 21,019 bales.
I la* past week was a dull one fortho article, with
a tendency downward on qualities under fiiirjitoso
above being scarce and wanted, are held for mir
t"l> quotations,—the sales do not exceed 500 hales
ot all kinds at about former rates to 'complete ship
ments to Ibo no'Ltu-rii nod continental mark- ts- —
The steamboat Natchez, from Natchez for New
Vork, lias on board three bales of the new crop,
reported of good quality, we look lor several small
lots tbio week, the weather having been fine fur
picking. Fair, Mississippi and Louisiana, 11 ict-s
-lair North Alabama UJets.
Liverpool ('lasaifieations.—Louisiana and Mis
sissippi—ordinary 7 a 8, middling U a 9i, lair Hi.
good mir 121 a 13, good and fine 131 ; Tennessee
and Alabama—-ordinary 6 a Os middling 8 a 81,
lair '.lf, good fair I Os.
Sneer.- Louisiana*—the market remains will:-
out any particular change : holders of the stock an
firm at ourqnutatlons, transactions are confined en
tirely i - Iry ns e . Havana Sugars - the supply has