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WILLIAM E. JOAKS. AUGUSTA, GEO., MOADAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1837. * [Semi-weekly.J-y o|. 0 |. I>-No 64 43nbIts|)Ct) OAW.It SEMI-WEEKLY A\P WEEKLY, At A'o. 261 Brian? Street. TERMS—DaiIy papet, Ton Dollar* per annum n advance. Semi-weekly paper, ai Five Uullani lAhereluture i.i ailvnnce, or Six si the end of the *r. Weekly paper, Throe Dollar* in advance or our at the eiid of the year. CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. ’ AUGUSTA. Saturday Evening. August 12. 1637. FOR GUVEK.NOR. GBOKGE R, GILMER. • ala|^ma~ electiox-fojt gov. Uaghy, Oliver. Mobile counjy, 753 674 Montgomery, 718 735 Baldwin. 333 58 i 1693 1517 MISSISSIPPI ELECTION, y In 26 counties, llio following is the result for vo members of Congress. There is no.jjouht of le Elcetion of Claiborn and Gholson, the Van luren candidates. Mississippi inglonously licks he hands that has smitten her. Cfftiborn, 0051 Gholson, 5304 Pibnliss, 6130 Acce, 5043 [fen. THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.] CELEBRATION AT fSUORTVILLE. At 11 o’clock A. M. on the Fourth of July last, the citizens of Shortsville assemble at the Meeting House of the village, where alter the isual introductory exercises the of independence was read by Mr. Long and the fol owing oration was delivered by Mr. Short. Pjsends and Fellow Citizens: never hear that declaration of Independence read vithout the most thrilling emolions—Never, with >ut mutually exclaiming. “How wonderful the ace of men who framed and sustained it! Was t passible that thirteen separate independent 1 it •le coloni-s s altered over an immense territory, surrounded by savage foes, without money, with- JUt arms, without ships—was it possible they would peril so much, rather than pay a few taxes. Would they burst all the cords that bound them to their parent land, war against their mother country, take up arms against their brethren, and through a seven years’ conflict of the se verest hardships, to establish a single political principle! Sutclysuch men never lived before. Nor was their wisdom, surpassed by their chi valry. Absolved from the shackles of despotism, they formed that beautiful system of Government \under which we live. A higher compliment, rould not be passed upon their political sagacity. And got fellow citizens, how they dwindle into insignificance when compared with the , heroes and stalemen of modern times.—Placed by the side of the divine Jackson, the immortal Van Bu ren, the immaculate Benton, the profound Ken dall, and the sagacious Blair, they arc but as stars, in at system of suns. With all their wis dom, integrity and forecast, many were their er rors, which would probably have been entailed upon the nation to the latest posterity, had they not been exposed, by the great and good men ‘whom] I have just enumerated. You cannot read the Declaration of Independence, without per ceiving, that those who fronted it,understood it to be the voice of thirteen free, sovereign and inde- V’ndent states; hence they ventured the rush avowal (hut “these United Colonics are,id of right ought to be free, sovereign, & Independent 1 States.” Thanks to our Solon of the Hermi tage, this dangerous heresy has been repudiated; and we now know, that they are not “now,” and never were, & never “ought” they have been free> sovereign, or independent Stales. Read the con stitution of the United Stales, and you will per ceive, that its framers ignorantly believed, that it committed the purse of the nation, to the exclu ■ivekeeping of the people’s immediate reptesenta. lives. | Marvellous delusion! Did they suppose that the people of the subject colonies, would bleed at every pore, rather than be taxed by any but their own representatives, and then suffer their tribute to be kept by their own representa tives! Our Jackson saw the error, and kindly cook the nation’s tieasuie into bis own keeping. Blessed old mao! unborn millions, will read the rewards of yout aceute discernment, and daring independence. To the same immortal patriotdo we owe the discovery, that to the first officer of the nation belongs the prerogative, of nominating his suc cessor; and of winning by persuasive epistles, the Slate Legislatures to the support of his nomina tions.’", ’|jpme have dared to call these patarichal notes of affection, vile tampering with the organs ofStalasovereignty. Infamous insinuation! What, have tge some to this!—that the hero of Orleans cannot Write a few love-notes, without being charged with tampering with legislatures!— What are Legislatures! What are conven tions! other than Baltimore Conventions.— Read the Proclamation! I remember that one Womack, indignantly hurled hack one of the good old Presidents amatory epistles in his teeth. Unparalleled insolence! If this is to be tolerated, in a little time we shall see the Gover nors ofStates, the Congress of the United Stales, and all subordinate officers, rebelling against the President’s authority. Let them remember Or leans, and beware—let them remember Duane and tremble. Our forefathers blindly supposed, that the peo ple at large were competent to choose, and elect their Presidentthrough the old and vulgar me dium of the ballot box. But the renowned and glorious Van Buren, has taught us a far more simple, easy and expeditious mode. Turn your eyes fellow citizens to Baltimore—sea that beau tiful harmonious piece of machinery yclep’d the Convention —see the divine Rucker breathe into it, the resistless efflatus of steam —see it move in all its grand proportions—and ere you can say “it moves,” —see a President and Vice President shelled out, precisely suited to the most fastidious taste—and tell me, can you ever he willing to re turn to the ignoble ballot box—Ah no! I read in yonr kindled eye, and animated countenances, the magnanimous sentiment “away with the an tiquated notions of Washington, Jelferson, Ad am* and Madison! Give us Van Buren, Ruck er, end Steam forever!!! Exalted people! Lib (ertycan never suffer in your keeping ! InoMen time it was thought advisable to make eaetHWoso of Congress keep a record of its pio cecdinf*; but thanks to the spotless Be nlnn, ilia useless ceremony is now exploded ; and should either House he dissatisfied with it* plDceedihgs, jl may- expunge (hem from the - recon/, and thus save the people the trouble of prying into-the conduct of their servants. What responsibilities will not this remove—what labor will it not Save to posterity I Noble Benton ! Let the invidi ous and the vindictive revile thee—let them point to thy cravat, and say “ behold the graduate of Chapel Hill,” but when the miserable infatuation which has now seized upon the people shall have passed away—posterity will do you justice.— May you live to receive your appropriate reward; Under the old notions of things, the people of these United States, had got in the habit of trad ing in their own way. They ignorantly received bank notes, bills of exchange, and other paper securities for money, and while this state of things continued, they madly lelieved themselves rich, prosperous, and happy. The generous Benton pitied their delusion, and kindly undertook to give them a better currency. Like all magnani mous reformers he had to encounter opposition. The silly, captious, shorl-sighte-Calhoun, Clay, and Webster, had the temerity to predict, that this expciiment would ruin the country ; but here •he god like Blair, stepped into the aid of the meek and pious reformer, and through the instru mentality of a free and veracious press, taught us better things. He told us that in a little lime gold and silver would deluge the country—that the honest yeomanry of the land would be seen with silken purses, teaming with glittering treas ure—that commercial credit would be placed up on a solid basis—that banks would be prostrated, and general prosperity reign through the whole length and breadth of our glorious republic. And is it not so —^Here the orator was interrupted by an honest backwoodsman with — “A'o, 1 han't *ecn a thbip for two months—and when I want a little change they offer me little thumb papers for shaves, punch, drinks, aud rail road rides. And I hear em say every body is broke, and the banks wont pay no then, and the Legisla ture won't let 'em pay nothen nither. How they gwine to be fostated then ?" This inter ruption. gave occasion to Mr. Short to introduce the following extemporaneous episode, which was received with unbounded applause.) Ah my honest friend, your error springs from seeing 100 much, and reading to little—from mis understanding the melapltoiio language ol the prophesies—anil from misapprehending the true evidences of national prosperity. Read Colonel Benton’s dinner speeches, and you will find that the country is actually deluged with gold aqd sil ver; and, sir, if you will not pick it up. and put it in your purse, that is your own fault. And suppose there was not a dollar of specie in the land, can there be a more ‘solid basis’ for tbe cur rency, than ‘shaves, punch, dinners, and rail road rides!’ Gold and silver may be sent outof the coun try, but who can octal your heard out of the coun try—and your riding places, and your punch,and your dinners! “You hear every body’s broke.” Not so; there is not a city in the United States in which there is not two or three sound houses still. True, neatly all our merchants, mechan ics and manufacturers me broke; but ask those very merchants, mechanics and manufacturers, whether they would give up the present healthful state of the currency, to bo restored to all heir lost possessions; and if they do nut answer you promptly in the negative, I will forfe t forevc; all my respect for the noble Benton. But “the banks are not prostrated.” No, not actually, but virtually, prostrated. Who wants (heir bills now! We can get bills enough without their help; and that, too, without asking for them, or offering security. With nothing too to support their cicdit—no razors, no ; unch, no victuals, no cars—they must inevitably expire from indolence and starvation. Yes fellow citizens, (as I was proceeding to show when I was interrupted,)by the grand dis coveries and improvements of the deathless Jack son, Van Buren, Benton, Kendall, Blair and their colleagues, the country has been raised to its pre sent unexampled prosperity and happiness. Thro, all our cities aud villages, Jthe peace, the quiet, the rest, the ease, the gravity of a Sabbath reigns. No longer does the noisy stage-horn announce the coming of thronged coaches. Men stay ol home and take care of their own affairs. That restless spirit of enterprise which drove trade all over the world, and drew down upon us the envy of all nations, is now restrained to the confines of the counties, and is disciplined to a monthly tta fic.al your court house steps. All can attend thh maiket, and none arc troubled to expose their own wares to sale. Would you buy land! .You can get that for a dollar, which six months ago would have commanded ten. Would you btly cotton! You can get for six cents, what a little while ago would have cost you egblcon. And, if it were not lor the infamous Nltk Biddle, you could get it cheaper still. Pul this vilo wretch, who b'as been straining every nerve to put down the belter currency, has now rushed to the south ern market, and is buying cotton to pay our for eign debts, instead of sending off the useless spe cie to do it. But for this competition you could get cotton for three cents. Have you debts to pay? You have only to mak; bills and pay them. Hitherto we have had but one session of Con gress, and one session of the Legislature, in a year: now we have two, and disregard the ex pense. It is needless, fellow citizens, to recount the blessings which we enjoy. Turn your eyes to any quarter of the Uni on,and you see the signs of them. Venerable father, whose boa y locks proclaim you a contemporary of Washington, did you eve; see such times, during the adminis tration of that great and good man! Ah no! Washington was a good man, but he was no Roman. He was too much afraid o ( “responsi bilities." Had ho taken the public money into his keeping, had ho assumed the guardianship of legislatures, had he reduced his cabinet to a "unit," had he regulated the currency, had he called conventions, had he ruled Congress, hoard ed the Senate,rewarded his favorites,dislodged his opponents, put down banks, and build up theo ries, he would have had all the glory of the pie sent state of things: but as it is, it alt belongs to Jackson and his auxiliaries. Long may you, fellow citizens, who have contributed to produce the present unexampled prosperity, long may you enjoy it. Let tbe vile whigs and nullifiers, who have been foreboding ruin, see in the conflagra tion of glory which surrounds you, the refutation of their gloomy predictions. If they like the an cient order of things belter than the present, let them go shed tears and strew flowers over the graves of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madi- J- diVthd Mumoe.' But you, ye Champions of our i, glorio'us reformation, will fill heaven’s concave s with your declarations, “-Long live Jackson, \an t Buren, Uentoft, Blair, Kendall & Company!” * --After the exercise* of the day were ended, the ! company adjourned to a grove near the Poplar Spring, w here they regaled themselves upon a t sptendud dinner prepared for thorn by Mr. Dunn; f after which the following toasts were drunk in i cold water. The day we celebrate —So bright and glorious it hurts our eyes to look upon it. Music—The Dead March. r 1 The Baltimore Convention —A Rucker’s nest for hatching Presidents and Vice Presidents by steam. A great improvement on the ballot box. Music—“ Double, double, toil and trouble.” The President of the United Stales. Dr. Rucker’s No 6. A powerful sweat. Music— •• Tell me my soul, can this bo Death.” The Vice President of the United Slates. Doctor Rucker’s i/oef'-drop—-excellent for qualms, „ Music—“ Johnson’s wife of Obi Kentucky*” The Honorable Thomas H. Benton.* | The dirt in - ® UIS *’ firau " of Chap pel Hill. Music.—"l saw hint softly stealing." The Cabinet —To these the President may point and say, “behold my jewels.” All bright but Georgia’s son the brightest of them all. Spir it of Rochester, what an encouragement to vir tue!—Music—Love’s Ritorncllo. - Agriculture, Commerce and. Manufactures, —II well supported by specie circulars, they must r flourish. Ecce Signum !—Music—Jackson's March. ■ The Governor of Georgia —What ts he did rejoice at our cm'iariassmenis, and refuse to illu minate for our victories, during the last war!— Has ho not made amends for all this by patroni zing Bisln p.-j- and swearing allegiance to Van Buren! "Music—‘Wha would he a traitor knave!’ George li. Gilmer.— Let him not suppose, that because he was a companion in arms with Appling and Tattnall, he can dissolve the firm of Schley & Bishop as easily as he thinks to.— Music—Gilmer’s March, The Standard of Union. —The palladium of Schley’s liberty. If you want a free press, give it to a public officer; his honor will he sure to control his interest, Hence the purity of the Standard’s columns. Music—“ Buy a broom.” The American Fair —Be not dispirited, yo loveliest of creation. If the Vice President has deserted you, the whigs will befr end you. Mu sic—“ Come haste to the wedding.” "TlorcMr. Short has a form ol a short corpulent man, with a bell-crowned hit, and a prodigious cravat. On tho hat is a cockade, through which slicks a pen of godly length like a plume. Wo Lave no cut to represent the form, and the above is tho best our office affords —[Ed. Cur, <St Sent.] f For the benefit of our distant renders wo would remark, that this man Bishop is remarkable lor no thing but his utter contempt of .the laws of tho Slate, and the peace of tbe community; and yet, through all his outrages, Gov. Scliloy has sustained hint.—[lbid.], From the Charleston Mercury, of yesterday. FROM HAVANA. By the arrival of the IJrig John C. Calhoun, from Havana, we are indebted to a commercial friend fb'r the following extracts of a letter:— “Havana, Ang. 4. “The shipment of Rice you made to our ad dress per present vessel, was sold, part at 14J, and part of 14 j rs. per airoba. Had we kept it on hand, it would have fetched now 15 rs. per arro ba; but in so fluctuating a market as ours, we only have the alternative of selling on the wharf, on such terms, since storing provisions is attended only with loss, “In our sugar market the demand is net so brisk; with all prices are firm our quotations, say assorted 711 a 8 12, prime 913a9£ 13 J; whites 12 a browns and yellows, (I a 8. ‘in Coffee nothing doing nominal rates arc 5J a 8. as to quality. “Exchange on London, 8 a 10 per cent prem; on the U. States 5 per cent discount, —no la kers.” Anecdote.—The Inflowing anecdote having never seen in print, we give to our readers. While mu goodly city was in possession of the British during tao war of the revolution, an En glish officer of rank gave an entertainment, to to which'several American officers who were prisoners were invited. Among them was a 1 L’spt. —, distinguished as a brave officer, but uncouth iu his manners, little conversant with tbe refinements of society, and not much given to any “set phrase of speech.” The English officer cer who was the Host on the festive occasion t« which wc aflude, hud two daughters—one cflhem distinguished liir beauty and a great belle ; the other was remarkably plain .by reason of a defect in one of hcreyfep. After the removal of llie cloth, many sentiments were drunk, and among them several highly complinlentary to llie beauti ful daughter of “mine host.” Cap’. .with that devotion far the sex which n brave man ever entertains, feeling that the other daughter had been neglected, when called on by the host, gave as his sentiment—“Vourdaugtcr Sir !” Which one sir, asked the hospitable entertainer ! The cork eyed one, sir responded the well meaning but plain spoken Captain, From the Charleston Mcr, of yesterday Shipwrecks.—Capl.Henry of the sclir. Med iterranean, arrived yekerday morning, from Jack sonville, slates that a severe gale ol wind com menced on Tuesday the Ist inst., which contin ued until Sunday last, whcnilblewa hurricane from N. B. to B,’VV. and did considerable injury to the shipping. The sehr George & -Mary, was off St. John’s Bar, Ist insl. and drifted ashore 10 miles N. of St. Augustine, vessel and cargo total ly lost. The brig Favorite was also off St. John’s Bar, was compelled to slip her cables and run in, she sunk immediately on her arrival at Jackson ville. The steamer Charleston was driven into the marsh, but was got off without material injury. Two of the government ware-houses at Jack sonville were blown down,and all the crops of cotton and provisions are totally destroyed. From the Charleston Mercury. The Globe and Mu. Bibdi.es Cotton.— The Administration Organ is much horified at the a trocious conduct of Mr. Biddle in buying up Southern Cotton (to the amount of $3,000,000, the Globe says) to ship to Europe in discharge of the debt to our foreign customers. Tho Globe calls it a monstrous monopoly. The Planters of the South will not thank the Globe for the denun ciation while in the improved price of our staple they are realizing the benefit of the operation.— Mr. Biddle is ooly acting upon the truth which we declared when the pressure came, that the agriculture of the South was the very sap and lifeblood of American credit and prosperity, and that the Cotton then in these Stales, stood us 1 in the stead of so much specie. Wo rejoice that the credit and resources of Mr Biddle’s . Bank’bas enabled him thus to come into our ' market and relievo our Planters from the pres -1 sure, by taking their produce off their hands. Wc • wish that the Party’s Pets could come and do r I likewise, l»ut al.isl they arc on their beam ends, 0 am) ran do nothing for us. If Mr. Middle in. stead of sending Gotlon to meet the liuliililies and lake up (ho paper of hi* bank in England, were sending gold and silver, (he Globe would yelp 1 and howl at him for (training the country of r specie. What must Mr. Biddle do to please the Globed Nothing but break rnd die. * Who are in any wise injured by this Colton ; operation! Certainly not the Planters—certainly i not the Merchants who had aerumlated a heavy j stock; a temporary check is indeed given to those lew merchants who are in funds and without a t stock of Cotton, and who wish to speculate on , the low price of Cotten. Even they must bene fit by Mr Biddle's reducing tho rate of Ex change now against this country. But is it on • their account the Globe Clamors? No! This AJ ministraiion7m(i*r .Merchants and to malign and persecute them has boon tho leading feature of "my Administration.” We would object to baying another Tariff tax upon the Plan ers for the beneilt of Merchants, by prohibiting Mr Biddle from giving good prices for Cotton as much as we objected to a Tariff tax on the Planters for the protection of the Manufacturers. But above all, do we object to a lax on the Planters for no other earthly pur pose hut to help tho Administration to kill Mr. Biddle. From the AT. Y. Daily Express, Aug. 3. The Canadas,—We copy freely into our col umns what is done in the Canadas, because these British Provinces border upon us, and because the movements there aro to effect us materially before they end. Wo do not covet tho Canadas, assume suppose. Wo sock tostirup no involu tion there, as the Canadian (Loyal) papers charge us with attempting. If Texas, however, knocks earnestly at the door of Congress, it is hut natural that some of the northern statesmen should ngek to checkmate it with a proposed purchase of (he Canadas, but more to keep Texas out of the Union than to bring the Canadas in. It is idle, though, and it is blindness to suppose that the Canadas will many years longer rest (jui cily under British sway. It is unnatural to sup pose that a great people will consent to bo gov erned by rulers 4000 miles off—their officers ex ported upon them—a large standing army to back them—their laws, their social regulations, every thing“rcgulat d by an Imperial Parliament, or court customs, with which they have nothing to do. Os the grievances of which the Canadas have to complain it is not for us to enlarge upon if grievances they really arc, nor do we undertake to say a change will give them better men, or a better government ; but such a change, we do say, of a colony to a government of itself is natu ral, —a law of nature as it were, a thing to bo ex pected as of course, which lime will assuredly bring about. The soil will create, if we may use the expression, too many men of nerve on.l ambi tion to rest quiet under a colonial government, all, or almost all officers coming fiom oversea, — the scat of honors and rewards being in a foreign, and not in the home land. Again, our example is in fecting the Canadas, for infection it is called. That the Canadians would suffer something from the effervescence of freedom, and pay more tuxes than under that best of monorchia! devices, the monarchy of Eng land, is highly probable,—but the Provinces would doubly, (reply, aye, in a ccntreple ratio, make up for all that in the new vigor andcnlhiisi asm which every thing would feel under the elec tric touch of a well organized, constitutional de mocracy. pervading and infusing all classes of so ciety, and working like magic to bring the hum b!e up. Two kinds of a government there are, that make devils, or demons, or lions of men,— one like that of Napolean’s, a fierce, fiery, abso lute despotism,— or the other, like that of Greece or Rome, or Venice, Florence, or Pisa, in their healthy days,—a valiant soundly constituted de mocracy, acting in concert and in a mass, where the energies of the whole mass, as in despotisms, are the energies of One. If the Canadas had a little of the elements of either, how they would leap to life! Thus much we have thought proper to say, to put our press reclno in curia on these matters. All we seek to do is to record events as they hap pen, audio express opinions upon them. If we wished, as We are charged, to make out a rase for (he sympathy ofthe 11. S., we could appeal to all the cupidity of the northern, eastern, and western Stales, —for what a magnificent port Now York would he for the vast trade of the Canadas—how important is the absolute possession of the lakes! the settlement of our disputed territory!—the fisheries!—the important strip of land between Lakes Huron, Eric, and Ontario!—the mines of Nova Scotia!—and what a field for enterprise,rail roads steamboats; and the like!—hut we make no such appeals. We neither preach tieuson fir Canada not cupidity /or the United States. We exercise the same right in discussing Canada of airs, as dors the press of London when it speaks of the politics in Paris. From the N. T. Com. Ado. bug 9. Wall-street .—One o'clock.—The transac tions at the hoard were rather more heavy this morning than they were yesterday, hut without any very material alteration in the prices. Uni ted Slates and Delaware & Hudson, however, declined } per cent. Specie —The sales at the hoard this morning were 100 sovereigns at $5,35. We notice Amer ican gold and hall dollars at 8] a 9 prom; Mexi can dollars 10 a 10$ do; Spanish do. 10} a 12; live franc pieces —a $1,(135; Napoleons $1,12}; Spanish doubloons $17,20 a 17,40. A treasury draft for SIOO sold at 3} premium. From the N. Y. Daily Hxyre.at, Xug. 8. MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS. Tuesday, P. M.—There was but little done in Bills of Exchange £>r the packets leaiing to day. Some sales were made on England at 18} a 19} per cent premium; on France at 4f 85 a 4f 90; on Hamburg, at 38$ a !19c. The amount ot specie going out in this day’s Liverpool and Havre packets is unimportant, probably not ex ceeding SIOO,OOO. The prices were chivfiy for sovereigns, $5,24 a 26; American gold and’ half dollars, 8} a 9 per cent; Mexican dollars, 9} a 10 percent, Spanish doutdoons, sl4 30; Patriots, sl6 75; Five franc pieces $1,02} a 1,03; Napo- Icons $4,10 a 4,12, Os Specie there is very little in the street, the late packet having nearly drained us. The de mand for the packets to-day has fortunately been light, compared with that of last week. The Editor of Bicknell’s Philadelphia Repor ter, who has lately visited New York and Mas sachuselts, under the head of “Moneys Market,” says:—“ln Boston the embarrassment and pres sure arc experienced to about the same extent as in Philadelphia; while in New York, the calami - ty is, in its effects, Rightful indeed. The greatest sufferets in Boston, are the manufacturers, and those connected with the various establish menu at Lynn, Weymouth, Hingharn,Lowell and other manufacturing towns. Many of the mills, as they are called, arc entirely lifeless, while others are kept going by the proprietors, merely in mer cy to the workmen. All have saved a little dur ing prosperous times, and it is upon this little they are now depending. In the commercial walks, the aspect of affairs is somewhat better; hut still it is had enough, and most continue to grow worse, unless a speedy remedy is provided by Congress,” Ddeadeul Accident on the Danube.—A dreadful disaster lock place on the Danube on the 221 of June, attended by the loss ot nearly thirty lives. A large barque of about one hundred lons left Rugcnsherg for Vienna on that day with a number of passengers, upwanls of one hundred. On the vessel teaching Shauf, a small place about six miles from Rugensbcrg, she ran foul of a bridge, which struck her nearly amidships with a most tremendous shock, which sjdit her in two parts. A large portion of the bridge fell upon the passengers. An English gentleman, an officer in the Austrian army, named Westbrook Michael to whom we are indebted for our information, wgs Standing aheftd,. aq_J the shock (throw him sev'e-. s, a! yards into (he river, with ti portion of.thcwrcc I i- upon flint. Being an ax pin swimmer, he sue- J needed in reaching the shore, c The scene was of lb* most frightful description, p and the cues for assistance were heart rending.— f Men Women and children were home down the e rapid torrent. The scene at this moment it would be impossible to describe. Between twenty and i thirty people perished in the river, and the loss of r property waft very considerable. The officer I above mentioned ws* die only Englishman on s hoard. Too much praise cannot he given to the i rinhle Prince lax is, whose lnuise*und purse weic t open to alf those who escaped with their lives, • but in many instances lost all that I hey possessed, ■ The exertions he made in person to save the lives i of the passengers, reflect the highest honor up on this nobleman. One poor woman, who had I clung to the barque, had her head compete! v se r vered from her ly, and a man had one of his legs cut asunder. A neighboring hospital is al most filled with the wounded. The loss of prop , ery is estimated at fifteen millions of florins bar. 1 London paper. Touch of the sublime. —A Western wiiter who has just begun to acquire celebrity, thus de scribes his entrance into a room where there was a great cry, little blood, any no murder. “I burst through the door, I throw off my coat and solem nly, exclaimed— lVhat is the matter?'’ From the Correspondence of the N Y Star Baltimore, July 28lh, 1837. “Well, we have got through with our election. It was a regular “knock down and drag out” bu siness—your favourite son Van Buren, gave us a neat sample of New York tactics. Talk of your fight in 1834—0 f the battle ol the Five Points— (ho assault on the arsenal, and the leader in the dared colored coat, it was no touch in corruption and bold effrontciy to ours. Howard and Me- Kim, the Tory candidates, shelled out liberally— there was no concealment—it was an open Eng lish hustings affair, where every fellow who could lake an oath could tell you huw much his vote was worth. Imagine to yoursolf about seven hundred votes more than there are legal electors, being [lolled. Cars came down from Washing ton loaded with voters —every man in tho pay of the Government was on the spot —hundreds of Irishmen from the surrounding rail roads were bought up and brought to the polls, and in roiiio instances they could not tell the names by which they were to vote, contained in the borrowed and simulated papers, which were pr. settled and pro nounced good by the Van Boren inspectors— many whigs were absent from tho city; ns high as thirteen dollars were paid for a vole, not. withstandingjwhielijlho administration only obtain ed a small majority. 'They talk of contesting tbe election, and can shew a decided whig majority in the District, but it will be of no use. A mighty uilbrt, infamous and degrading to tbe eliarctor of Americans, was made by Van Buren to curry this election, in order to make an impression on elections in other stales. li the Whigs resolve lo light the administration with its own weapons, anil pay as high us they do for a vote, Van Buren will tell you that ho holds the purse strings of the nation —that he lias the management of llie surplus revenue and defies competiiiun of that kind. Our only plan is an amendment to our Naturalization Laws—a Registry act or Revolu. (ion, and lo be frank with you I prefer Revolu tion at once to allowing the pauper population of Ireland, brought here by tbe administration in countless thousands,to hold the balance of power and govern the country immediately on selling font into it. , We have desperadoes lo deal with at Washington, and they must be dealt with us such; they will not give up power while they can steal a dollar of the public money to buy a vote with, or Instigate a foreign pauper tokuock down free born Americans at the Po Is. I am satisfied by wball saw ntlhis election,that the Van Ilmen parly must be pnl down by vio lence—they will not allow a fair and honest ap peal to the Ballot Box —they have made the Government bankrupt and impoverished the peo ple, and now Intend lu_figli( it out. For one I tin ready for them. I Was born in tills City— lave worked hard to accumulates little property and bring up honestly a family of children. I am fairly entitled to a vote, and yet a ragged f ireigner, who probably came here by the late at rivals, actually pushed me from the polls just be, fore they closed, and 1 lost my vole. So we go, and the barefaced fellows set up a i shout of triumph and have barbecues and proces sions for a victory achieved by the grea'est cor ruption and by foreign emissaries. We must rally under the American Banner, and go for the American party against the Tory administration and this foreign influence, or the Republic is gone." ANOTHER LETTER FROM J. Q. ADAMS. Letters ore the orders of thn day, and Mr Adams appears with another inure curious than the first; econtric ns usual, nnd indica ting that he will make “the fur fly” when ho reaches the Capitol in SeplC mber! This let ter was (trough nut by a call from the 1 lon. William Foster of Boston (a Van Buren man) under dale of June 21, and llie answer was dated July Ist. We quote all of the letter which wou.il interest our readers. The cor respondence first, appeared in the Beston Ad vocate, a Van Buren iintimusonic, abolition, high tariff paper. Mr. Adams, it is cent, intends “to go lor humbug.” with Benton, rfiherllmnlotclioiiihiiuo.nl vvitli ILves the Albany Regency & Co. j “We are now in the midst of a natonal bftkruptcy, occasioned by the insolvency ol multitudes of individuals. We are now told Dial all the banks in Hie United Elates have suspended specie payments —and what is Die suspension of specie payments but selling the laws of properly at defiance! IfihePres- t ideiit and Directors of a bank have issued a million of fills promising to pay live dollars la the holder ol each and every one of them , the suspension ol specie payments is, by one act the breach of one million of promises.— What is it but fraud upon evoy bolder of tlie.r bills! And what difference is there between Die President and Directors of such a bank, and the skillu! artist who engraves a bank bill a sac-smile of Die bill signed by Die President and Directors and saves them tee trouble of signing it by doing it for them! The only difference that 1 can see in the two operutiions is that tho artist gives evidence of superior skill and modesty. It requires more talent to sign another man's ; mine than one’s own; and the counterfeiter does at least his work in llio dark while the sjspenden of specie payments brazen it in Die fxce of day and laugh at the victims and tupea who have put faith in their promises. "Yon ask, what is to he the remedy of this stale of things! There are two remedies, bolli ts which may be practicable. (Joe is, that the Congress of Die United Elates should ex ercise its powers to re ulate Die currency; lint they must do this (which they will not,) without consulting banks, the presidents and directors. The Legislatures of New York and Virginia have already shown wnat Die presidents and directors of hanks will advise And the proposal of Die President nfa broken bank in Charleston, S. Carolina, to begin qyisDi an amendment to the Const lotion granting powers to Congress, which hate already.hieo , granted to them, and which they have twice exercised to the great benefit ol the nation, is an insult at once to our understanding and upon our misfortunes. As little do I relish his other porposal of a general convention of broken bank presidents and Directors lo enlighten Congress with their advice —a convention of bankrupts to teach Congress reverence lor llie obligation of otfntMclH, and huw to make nothing but! gold and silver a tender tor tbe payment of deWts ! —of all remedies for existing evils, tint! k l«-t I would »y«orl to would be a «per.uu*ci c * !" front ilin mnt of nulUlicution. Tlie other remedy which I believu pracli •> cable is flint of Hulun —a sponge upon lhe nc ~ count of debior and creditor—wipe out all.il " scored ami npnu. Tins ix the imnl-tnu ney system, and so fur ns 1 can Judge, it i .. the fisxijriiinl-system of the present aclrn.nix 1 tratioi)—il is to detach llio goVerninem Iron t all banking and .leal in nullnpg but the pie B cions metals. I! Mr. Van B i.cn is tunic o e stuff to go thrpiigii vblfli tins operation,! win! him well out oI it, but lie vVill want other co operators t huu the Legislatures of New Yorl . and Virwinia ; nnd other advisers tiian pres; dents or directors of broken hanks, or land-job bers upon loans (rom deposit banks. I think of this as 1 thought of the dry dock ffim-bout, restrictive, anti-navy system of Mr, Jefferson. It. cost tlie nation a terrible wai to be delivered of that, but the nation was ef fectually cured of its hydrophobia. Tho wa> was a drastic purge, but it effectually worked its cure. I (ear that our present bankruptcy will need a still more violent course of alter natives, hut the cure will come when the peo ple are prepared to receive it. They are cer tainly not so now—they will in ist probablv not be so during the remnant m my term ol life. I hope you will live to witness ami en joy t! o cmiVH.escencc. Fo-give the freedom with which I have answered your letter, and believe me to be with great respect, Your friend and servant, J. Q.. ADAMS. A Mistake.—One Sunday when that eminent Christian the Rev. Sir H. Maseru;lf was mimsiei of Uakford, the precentor came to church with the buck part of a large curled wig turned to the fore part of his head. The Minister gave the 71st psalm to he snug, beginning at the 7th verse.— When the precentor stood op to sing the first line, which iuns“To many 1 a wonder am,” the people could not hi-Ip looking and laughing at him. Sir Henry, observing the point to which the people’s eyes were directed, looked over the pul pit, and seeing the mistake, giavely said, “Ami so, Sir,you are a wonder to many; turn the right side of your wig foremost.”—f>'/o»,»ove Courier. ~v XmJt k iuji aV,T NEW YORK COTTON MARKET, AUU. 7. O'.r advices from 'i'curies,sen are up to the 28th ol July. They represent 'he coming . r°pns inferi or lu the lasi. 1 eorresnondent estimates Ihe fall ing off as eipiallu 8 percent A large quantity of tho old cr,t| is mill on hand. The exportation h (entirely ceased, in consequence ol iho lowness of ilie livers In New Orleans, the (ins [’amt Ims been buying largely 1 1 remit to Knglaml to men' protested bills. The ( anal ami Louisiana Hanks will have 10 do the same or send specie, il wo may judge from ilioolli eialnotice of Ibe Wilsons. liiey i.uvo u large u mount ol protested bills. I'p lo June 2d, h, it was estimated that upwards of 12,0 0 bales had arrived nt Liverpool on nceauatof the Bank of llio United Mates; It had the dibi tlo increase confidence in Mr liiddlo's imluutioii. dales in tho city this day were small, and nt pre vious rales. Imparls since the Ist lust. IStiJ bales. J uropean It) (n Arts—SfecL on hand. Havre,Jeno22,lß37, 72,7 1 0 Ameneliii “ “ “ 115,410 olh cotton 88,102 * IG3P, 45,881 American “ •* “ 7,802 oth coiioa «U,7M Liverpool, June 24,1327, 848,000 A meiicnn “ “ 180,000 otli cotton 3-»B,<UO “ “ « 183 G, 104,001) American “ “ “ 76,000 otlur cotton 880,000 _ Imports into Great itrilam. Juno 24, 1837. June 24, 1030. A merienn cottons, 600,8M1 460,000 Other cottons, 166,200 180,000 7(52,000 080,000 Liverpool classification— -June 24, 1887. Ord lo mil Ir ir lo good fr Good tn fine Uplntii] UaOid 6ii.(i,'d oln7ld Orleans, 41u6*d h.'uOid T.adid Mobile, 4;u6id 6.uO|d 7 u7ld Tennessee, 1 slid O.'aOM 0 e—d The cjiiotnlionn in ibis market remain without chnnpo —Herald. «SMss,i>'s i i ■■—tn nm—l ?v3arizi«* Intdligcncr. < Hahi.eston, Aug. IJ.—Arrived yesterday, brig Opulence, burden, Now York 20 days; brig John (J. Calhoun, Boss, Havana 3 days; sclir Medtlerra iieun, Henry, Jacksonville 21 hours. Cleared, -chr Sarah Aim, Patch, Mobile. Went to sea yostor.lay. ship Jflssoro, Jauvrin, Li verpool; selir Vuloeiiy, K.-l'y, Huston; steam pack et Columbia, Wright, JV4 ork. i(iMiw»win——b—— A 'BVachcr Warn led. AGICiVTIeICM AN of ateftily habits, nho Mould bo disposed to (uko clinrgo of a mnall school, can find employment by applying lo llio JVustiMH n I Oak fJi il Arndomy, Columbia cuuty, Go no - r Kiil)ank’« Pont Ollico. Tho number ofst i.u 1 . 'v l hofuwntihc fommenromenl, uni! an Mien I . :■■ vs lets v\ill make ilia rompmiHHlion worn. or SIOO per annum. Fho Acadomy in tilnae im a healthy neighborhood. The |ronp ctol ihe st h oi's increasing nre flarering, and induces the Trustees to hope »h;u ihey will again, ere long, have a perma nent and flourishing school, liy order of the True* tecs. A PICAUWK, tSoc’y. nug 9 J 8. r > 2uni3m Fifty Wollar* ISctvnnl. j** KANAWA > f from the sub- Jf , seriber, on ibe 21st Septembei, I'iykJ 1835, a Negro man, by tlie “VfJTI name of OEOllUfii 83 or 4 / years old. abont 6 lect high, qiYiß!j/(_ / dark complex, large prominent ryes, had lust two nt Ins uppei front teeth,one of his knees a little crooked, Slender bulk, quite slim round the waist, speaks coarse ami positive, bad when he ran away 818(1 in money, nnd wore a watch. He in by trade a Carpenter, a loi entitle Cabinet maker, and a Hoot nnd Shoe maker; and 1 can read pretty well. 326 will be given lo any one who will apprehend said negro and plant hint in any jail nod give such information ns will enable me lo get him ; $25 far the discovery of any villinn who may harbor him; or ssll for tits discovery of any person wits may have given hint a free pass.— (lie formerly belonged to Lssail Harbour, Franklin county Ga, and once ran away horn him, bating such a pass, and wont to Savannah where he worked 0 months undiscovered,) JOB HAMMOND, Franklin Co. Ga. The editors of the Savannah Georgian and the Charleston Observer will give the above 3 insertions nnd forward their accounts to tins ulfiea for pay ment. attg 7 184 w3t Kaces. rr IT K Annual Fal' Meeting over the Newberry •L Jockey Club Course, near tVewbcrry Court House, will commence on the first Tuesday (7th) of Noveroberiiexi, and continue (our days. On Mon day preoe ing, a Sweepstakes will ho run, two mile heats, lor colts and fillies three years old spring 1887. And on Wednesday, immediately after the regular race, a sweepstakes will be run, mile heals, Ky-eolls and .fillies, then 2 years eld To both (lie abovesdikes there are some fine colls t utored, and therefore gooA sport may he exported. There is al so two ether sweepstakes ti ho run at the full meet ing 1838, already made up, but not closed. July 31 173 Im It bTKWAIt'I, Sec'v. Oh.OliG/A, Burke county: gSAOLLKU before me, in the 58th DptG lit, by .B. William C Bates, a large Black //rune, suppos ed fo'he leu years old, five feet fivetipe.hes high.no ntarks nr brands, appraised nt ftffv .xjollara. July 122. 1-37. IHA-iG J mATtLJ V. A true extract from the crime book. y.VTII'L L STURGH.S m i c. ‘ s f tg 5 183' m’3w «• I GEORGIA, Scnirri 4 County HERE AS, Andrews «i>t>liN to# ▼J "I “>liuiiil.-trotiun.>ith the will in. • oir the-estate of Efim,or Swuinc, lip, .."a |(J C .unty, deceased . . " ,u ii. . I l'e<f lire, tjcref-ire.iu che nridndmotlivK ,fi tn4 i ■ singular Clici kindred -and credit!in of mid deeenurd in no iind.app. nr.ru my office within the time tin,. "• m'lbahy law to shew cattse (Jf any they hive) in why httiii lettaft tfhonld not bo jjiuriif-d. e ■ 'mtfer my liarid it office in Jarksonfioro.' „ J«». >bi7. - JUSHDA PcRRY, Clerk. ,1, ,• wWd IMS ... J"»l receiveJyml/»*• iule 6y k B*. Fleming & co f> ground Flour, (extra brand) )- ftt/htigs prime Grenn Coffee —■* LSD— j. A fresh supply of Siijjur, Molartos, Iroh, .Neils: Bagging, See. dsc., all of which is offered low tor r ' caal >. ■ , fJuly 13 JOS 4tdAw r * A }er,,c,nA doniumlH n#uin«i the laitf \r Flulmn.s It. Wrll's, tfi J effort on county dor'dj a * r(% w*qn«it«l lo preterit ihrtn nru? lbo*e indebted to vaid d-.i d will make pnvmont to >' J"'lN R. WELLS, or ) P _ . r lIOIiI.VSOjY, Jr! I Execulor*, '• July 25 • 173 !■;xcoitor’si Sale. ‘ ' A GREEABLV l« nn order of the Honorable In : it - “ Ihrinr Cotrl ot l.iihuln county will be wild nt . Lincolnion, on the first Tuesday in September next; tho oegroee belonging to tho estate of L. H. (trover, , deceased, tends oisale will be mad* known-on the ■ day. ‘ JOSHUA DANIEL, 1 Si KI.BMI.Vm, [ freemen: ELIJAH ALEXANDER; ) Jdl> 155 „ Waynesboro’ Academy. ‘r S 11 K Rectorship of this Academy being voca -0 by lli« resignation of the liev Theodor* .. Dwight, implications to fill the same will here cci veil until the first of October next, at which lime the schooldstic year will commence. All appli cants must conic well recommended for iiiumi at t well ns mental attainments, mid must also possess e n thorough knowledge of (he Greek and Latin Inn -1 gu.ig-s. Ify order of the hoard e „ J. W. JONES, Secy . au 8 2 __ ]Bo w2m i Columbia Sheriff Sales; " t ILL be sold at Columbia Court House on lha v v first Tuesday in Sepiember negi, between , the usual hours ot sale, two impr.ived lots in the, village of Wnghlshorougli, on the mrth aide of liron l street, jomiag Henry IV. Md.rental, and oth ers, being the hits Whereon /’dlierl Wade now lives, levied on as the property of said Robert Wade, tr sa'isfy sundry fi las irom the Jnsrice's Court, James .Voire and others, ngnislsaid Wade, Joseph Walker and John L inhere levied on and relumed lo me by a constable RICHARD H JONES, I) Sh'ff. ang i • ISO Wid £lO lie irani. RANAWAY from the subscriber, on the ?9tH jd/ny last, my negro man land; He is about five feet five or six inches high, yellow complected; when spoken lo looks wild, Ins felt hand has been harm, and his thumb ami loro finger grows togeth er lo tho last joint of the tfiurtib. ,apd I think the end ol his (lire finger is otf The above) reward will be paid, il delivered to the Hiihserilti'r, or lodged ill any Jail so 1 gel him, and nil leatimiihln expenreS paid. I'HEM’OiN HALEY. Barnwell, S C., Juneli 130 w3m GEORGIA, Cntiimbiarcrunty: POLLED before James Eurnside.n Justice of JB. Ihe Peace (hr said county, a bnv horse, snip nose, left eya out: appraised, by E T Williams and Walter.! Jones at leu dollars. Sn .posed to ha iO yoarsold. JAMES ROR/VSiDE, J P. Aim extract from theestiny hook, nug 2-IBow3l D.V Vll> HARKINS, Cferk. LaiayvJU* Hall. Till'. inirioVsioned respectfully inform* hid friends nml the public generally, that he Ka» taken jl.ofayeite I tall,in Mtll.dgevillc, tormeHy kept by lien 1) H. Mitchell. This huilssi' ns well cal culated to render comfort as any other hatnh'iih mont in the city; and every exertion on in} paid will he made lo accommodate those who fnay favor me . wiih a call. The subscriber w ill give his personal attention Id. his patrons,and will hate the entire management of the house. WM. ROtJKKL. VrT ho Stage Office of the People's l.lne It kept at this house. The stages dally leaving for Mont mgoery mid Augusta. A/illedgeville. Aug. I J«0 fl* S®«s IS i* wni’d. IOKT, on Tuesday evening Initt, either iff sib|iis -A In, or on the Wriglltthoro' road, within 4 iajlaa of Angnafa.a Red Morocco POCKET BhOK,con mining 310 or 5315, in bills, the barks not recollect ed. Tim name ol'llie subscriber hi Written ineidethd Pocket Book. The above reward Will be given for lliedelively of the Pocket Book and Money lo Mr; At. Lillie, in the (Jloho Hotel, or to the subscriber (Towfordville, TIIOS. J. WEBORNL. uue 3U 153 if JrlfVrwon i ’* Snle. Wild, he sold nt the Market House, in the tawd of iamisiville, within the hours of wail, art the first Tuesday in Pcpt next two hundred Acred more or less of Pine I .ami, lying on the warlers o Roekev Creek, adjoining land of E. Wllla, John Pokes, and others levied on as the property of Hah ry I). Spivey, to satisfy a fi fa issued from a justi e •’* conn in favor of Joseph Marshall. Pro|s>riy pointed out by plnimiff, levy ma le and returned me by a cunstahlb, this 2(lth of July 1537 IVY W. GREGORY. July 32 - 17A BROUGHT tollib Jnllof Rhmmuild county on the 2 llh msl ,n negro man wdm calls his name JACK or JAfiKSON, and say* that he belongs to John Sparks of Jasper county. He is about 5 loci 51 im has high, thick set, mid muscular; has quite a fierce look w han spoken to; his left hand has been considerably burnt, the thumb still' amlveiy inucty crooked. lld is admit 35 or 40 years of age. jmgd-TO ELI MORGAN, Jailor. Administrator’* Sale. Wild, he rold, by oni. r o r the Inferior Court of Buike county, sitting for ordinary purpo ses, within the usual hours ol saloon the first Tims' day in October next, at til* court house in Cte* comity, lot Nd Six hundred mid seventy eight, (67(1)' in the twenty-second (2‘2nd) District second (Slid) sectillh, now Cass enemy, he'onging 10 the estate of Thonta* Mallor", dec. Terms on dnv of Sale. JOHN B. KOHENSOiV; Adtn'r. Angii.-i 3 lm tail;irdinn’s Sale. WILL bn sold, before the Court llditsc door iii Wayneslmro', Burke cotiniy, bn ilie first Tuesday in October next, all the land* lying in said county belonging lo the orphans us Thomas Bell, deei used; lu be sold fur the Ihuh fit of said orphans Terms made known on the day. jnly 4,1837 HUGH ALLEN, Guard'n. july 7 wid 154 CJoliiiiihin Klwriff Sales. Wild, he sold at Columbia Court Hamr,aul the first Tuesday in September next, between' the usual hours of sale, A lot of ladies and goritlomen’s shoes and boo I*/ a lot of boy's and men s wool ned tur hate, lu satisfy threo fi. Ins.; one from Columbia Inferior Court, at tho suit ol J D Price & Co against James Burnside; two from Columbia Superior Court, James Cert ledge ami Joseph Poilorick, (urollieors of th* e jurt; against the same. - *t.»o>= Ti n patent axes, aiutrass and 1 l>riMi'«td,fci) Wan-' kets, kitcln n and Itonseliold furniture, and threb trunks, lo satisly a fi fa from Colombia Superior Court, Edward M Crawfoid aguinsi Richard Haws.' Property pointed out by p.'nintiH. —xx.so— One hundred acres of pme kind, oh tb# Hebe* Crcok, joining land* of Morries' heirs,(Richard W. Jones and others, lo satisfy three fi lok f*oM a jus- . iiees C mu ol Columbiaeounly,.at the saitb oLioMf' Olivo, Join. Parish,and Pace <St V* Sinn Elkina, defendtusV. kavvied on sni returned to l me by a constable. RICHARD H JONES, O Sh'tt. july 26, 1837 172 *■** Executor's .Votice. SIX mouths after date, I will make appheatiKm' to till) Honorable the Inferior Court .if CultMl.' hiu county, whenslltmgasa Court ol onlinory or Letters disnufsory. fioiu tlielutihor Admlmsiratioa' ol the Estate of John Dozier late of Hid County Den used, I hereby, r. quiro all and singular thf» kimlred ami creditors of said deceased, to fife their objections if any they have, in the office of»*id' court, within the lime preseribsd by Law, to show •ausc why said Letter* rhould not He granted. JAMES F DoJIKU Kxr. j»mc 5* 1837 131 J«|s^P!fttv* > 'Jde’d.