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Notes of a cmwicai. journey in thf.
uniter states. Boston Revisited. Trav
eling in this country, lean to myself very
rea dTly account for the sour description
of particular scenes and minute occurren
ces, which |omc Europeans.give. This
is just the most heterogeneous country in
the world, and strangers often think and
act in regard to it, as if it were all of a
piece It is a perfect kaleidoscope of men
and manners—>ail kinds of men, pious and
profane, gifted and stupid, cultivated and
uncultivated, polite and surley, together
enclosed. In the picture presented In
that ingenious instrument, every thing de
pends on the slight turns of your own
hand. The colors combined in the differ
ent pieces of spar are houndless, hut there
is just confinement enough of them with
in the sides of the instrument to jostle
them into any variety of light and shade,
any beautiful or ugly combinations you
can imagine. So here, while the varieties
of human character are endless, they are
combined enough and confined enough to
by personal necessities to certain positions
so as strikingly to act on one another.—
Yet are they loose, disengaged from each
other, independent enough to he, ever
turning up in new combinations. All de
pends as to your satisfaction and pleasure,
on the turnings of your own hand. 1 can
go-from one end of a Steamboat Saloon
to another, and find the manners and the
men; the religion and irreligion; the
sound information and demagogical har
ranguing—all that I like and dislike, hud
dled together or starting apart —just in
relation to me as I choose to move and
conduct myself. The whole country will
support the analogy. . . . If is in breadth
and length largely unappropriated. Man
kind, from the more settled countries, will
rush into it, as surely as air into a vac
uum, for a generation or two to come.—
The only wonder is, with so much width
of sphere and action, sucli endless diver
sities of character, they do in fact at all
combine, and sustain the semblance of
one people. Thank God, I cannot hut
say, when *1 consider what they may he
held together to accomplish—and, under
Him chiefly, thank our common Mother
English tongue!
Thqrc cannot he a country, of course,
in which more of a traveler’s happiness
and usefulness depends on his own car
riage and temper. If he he worth calling
an unit %C makes all the unity he will!
find. If what l)r. Johnson calls ‘ a good
hater,’ he may quickly combine around
him fire and storms, frowns and scowls
and threats, to his heart’s content, on any
subject. If fond, like ‘poor Goldy,’ (l)r.
Goldsmith) of thrusting himself in the
way of offence, because nothing is so dis
agreeable to him as to he unnoticed, plen
ty of kindred spirits will appear at his i
oiily let him niakiTuji’Yiis'iuuitl as to "wli'at |
dish of character he will order, and here
is the amplest hill of fare on the earth.—
He may be sure of fihding it.
It was in the Portland Steamer, on my
way to an Ecclesiastical Convention, a
bout a year ago, that I found a gay young
man making some remarks about the
roasting of beef in England—when I ask
ed him if he were lately from that coun
try? ‘O yes!’ he replied, ‘and I am the
only Englishman on hoard.’ Indeed, 1
said; and (aside to some American cler
gymen) that I must at that time have A
lnericanized pretty fast. My young conn
flyman, seeing me,3 suppose, a little du
bious, repeated his remark, that though
there were lot) passengers, he could as
sure pie he was the only Englishman. In
the course of the afternoon he began to
exaggerate the difference between the rur
al life and great comforts of ‘home’ and
those of ibis country. I saw where the
young calf was thrusting his nose.—
lie pressed these points among some
young Americans, to whom lie found
them disagreeable, and, bees or hornets,
they had a natural propensity to defend
their hive. The Englishman was not
spared.; nor did he spare folly or falsehood
in some of his descriptive reiurts. 1 would
have interfered for him had he fairly de
served or permitted it: but he went
‘ahead,’ as warm in the strife as any
around. In the morning the Captain in
terfered to preserve the peace. Just be
fore our leaving the boat, I took aside
this young gentleman and said, ‘You ob
served yesterday that you were the only
Englishman on hoard,’ ‘Yes, and so I
am, and shamefully they have treated me
all the way. It is a blackguard country.’
1 replied ‘You are not the only English
man on board. lam an Englishman, ami
was so some twenty-five years before you
were horn. As you were mistaken in this
matter, of which you were so confident,
perhaps you are not so well informed as
you suppose in some others. Os one
thing, allow me to say, you are not—how
to travel in a foreign country. You car
rJ'-.7eur elbows out-square, and expert
every body to make room for you. Ex
cuse the hint, to carry them by your side
and you will fare better.’
On voyage, a political orator
was addressing a group of passengers in
one of the avenues of the Saloon, and us
ed some oaths. Passing quicklv through,
I gently said to him—‘Try, mv friend,
whetheryou cannot make as good impres
sion without swearing so much.’ A friend
told me this was doubly taken in good
part. The orator paused, said he suppos
ed the gentleman was a clergyman, and
was right —forbore to swear, and soon
•closed.
I
of the White Mountains, the loftiest of
the United States, east of the Mississippi.
; At sea, they seemed to lay like a noble
tleece 'cast on the margin of the ethereal
j canopy. It was sodifficult, indeed, to dis
: tinguish them from a white cloud, that
had not the captain pointed to them, they
' would have escaped me. Washington and
'Lafayette were, 1 understand, the worthies
in sight, each rising 5000 feet above the
level of the surrounding country. To
what meditations might these positions,
commanding the noblest view of the East
ern States, give rise! Re-named by the
revolution one man could take no other
prospect from them, however than his
school of Political Economy, or the green
glasses of party spirit would permit him.
Another would more naturally survey the
landscape in its natural resources ; its for
ests, wondrously pierced and subdued in
a generation, and still tempting labor and
capital; its.unexplored geology and min
erals; its agriculture strangely neglected.
A third would weep with more personal
and creditable feeling than Xerxes, at the
perishable, vexed condition of the existing
lords of the soil, and read in the scattered
remnants of the wandering native races,
a beacon and a token of what their con
querors may become, lint I forget that I
am connected with yet more transient
prospects. The boat in nearing Boston,
just avoided those central rocks on which
we actually struck in coming in, 1834.*
[Bangor Journal.
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Ei.ectko Magnetism.— YVe do not
profess to know any thing about this mat
ter, hut give the annexed extracts from a
contemporary print, in order to give our
readers an idea of the matter:
‘lt is now a decided point that the mys
terious principle of electricity—galvan
ism—magnetism—for they are hut modi
fications of the same principle, can be
applied to machienery, made to propel j
steamboats; can be applied to railroad
cars, in short, every purpose to which j
stern is now applied; and to thousands ol'
others.
Franklin proved that electricity is light
ning ; it has since been demonstrated
that galvanism is a modification of the
same principle. Since then, every year |
has brought to light some new principle j
connected with this mysterious agent, j
that has astonished the philosophic world.
The effects of galvanism upon the dead
bodies ot animals, imparting to them
muscular and nervous energy, served to
indicate that it was nothing less than the
principle of life itself. It was next dis
covered that magnetism was dependant
upon this principle ; and that the polarity
oi the earth—which is called the princi
ple ol gravitation, according to the New
tonian theory—the principle which moves
the planets ; and keeps all creation in or
but the effect ot the same sublime discov
ery. *
Every thing in nature is simple when it
is once understood. Every body has seen
the magnet or loadstone, and witnessed
the force with which it attracts iron or
another, magnet. Every one knows, or
ought to know, that every magnet has a
North and South pole—a positive end,
and a negative. We wish those to know
who do not already, that the most power
ful magnets in the world, magnets ca
pable of raising a weight of fifteen hun
dred pounds, are produced by the action
of a galvanic battery. It should he
known that when two magnets are put
together, the North and South poles of
each attract the other, but the North pole
repels the North, and the South the South,
though both attract iron. Now we come
to the point. Galvanism, applied to
pieces of iron in a certain way, gives
them a high magnetic power. By means
ol this power, ahd the powerful attrac
tions and repulsions, a magnetic wheel is
made to revolve within a magnetic circle,
with the rapidity ot lightning, and the
force of a thunderbolt—yet it can he set
in motion and managed by a child, and
the direction changed instantly.
The power can he increased indefinite
ly, can he applied in any situation, or to
any purpose, to wind silk, or raise a frig
j ate, and while the machine is so simple
| as never to get out of order, so free from
j friction as never to wear out, it will cost
at first, less than a steam engine, and af
j terwards, less than it would take to oil
: the greasy, smoky, noisy machines, that
: have blown so many poor creatures into
eternity.’
Waste ok i.ikk in tiie Army.—An
other source of decrease of the popula
tion of England, is the maintenance of
the army and navy in foreign countries,
which requires a large number of recruits
|to supply the vacancies by death. A
| force of 30,000 men in the East Indies,
7,000 in the West Indies, and 13,000 in
lonian isles, Canada, <!kc. will suffer 3.-
000 yearly deaths in time of peace, ad
ding to which 100 yearly deaths from
shipwreck, we shall 'have 4000 as the
number ol soldiers and sailors quitting
England every yea* and never returning.
London and Birmingham Railroad.
The cost of this road, whic(j is about
112 miles in length, is estimated at .4'4,-
500,000, or about 4f40,000 a mile. It is!
built of rails weighing 75 lbs. per yard,
resting on granite blocks, and yet the cost
per mile does not exceed that of the Liv- j
erpool and Manchester road, of which
the rails weigh but 30 lbs. per yard, and
are placed on blocks of red sandstone.
1 here are now on the road between Lon
don and Binning!)-!:!), and on parrallel
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
routes, sixty five coaches daily, and the
daily number of passengers is computed
to be about fifteen hundred, *r three times
the number between Liverpool and Man
chester before Jhe railroad was opened.
The quantity of goods transported daily
between London and Birmingham is com
puted to be not less than 500 ton# The
Liverpool and Manchester railroad now
pays a net prophet of ten per cent per
annum.—There can be no doubt that the
London and Birmingham will afford an
ample income.
The following nut for printers, is copi
ed from the Police Reports of tlnj Baaton
M orning ivt. Professor Gill Ims away
of doing such things up peculiar tq him
self :
Christopher P , a typo of the old
school was in the .habit of wetting his
mutter till he sqabblcd his form. It was
notUong since, in consequence of an ac
cident of this kind, he was locked up in
a stofie chase, and sent over ft) that po
tential proof reader, Charles Robbins,
Esq., to be revised and corrected ; but not
withstanding the Captain’s best efforts,
Chris had been noticed toVinng very much
ever since. The night last the
Watch undertook to plane him down, hut
his foot-sticks tlew out, and befell into a
heap of pi, and was thrown into the old
shoe. Yesterday morning, the devil, whose
duty it was to sort the sweepings distrib
uted Chris into the and box, of the Court
House Italic case and he would have been
set up in the first despatch to the House
of Correction, if word had not been re
ceived that Uncle Sam wanted to increase
his murum fount for the Navy, and so
Chris was sent down to sec if he could
pass master either as a capital or lower
rase for the service.
Red River Raft. A correspondent of
the N. O .Bulletin, gives the following in
relation to the raft :
‘The raft presents a body of timber,
wedged and piled together in a singular
chaotic state; trees of the largest stature
stand erect, buried to a great depth in the
alluvial ; in many places, masses of tim
ber thirty and forty feet deep, the accu
mulation of ages with large trees grown
up, firmly rooted in the discomposing
mass. The enormous quantity of timber
cut out in the distance of five miles, ex
ceeds credibility. The body of logs
floated, hauled, and piled to form a dam
over one outlet only, would have reqiured,
without the aid of steam, the labor of an
army for years : dead trees of solid tim
ber, ten to fifteen feet in circumference,
are torn out of the beds in which they
have been resting for ages, sawed up, and
disposed of as if they were but walking
sticky. It is supposed that the raft will
a°¥4° s M L
the work is engaged in, next fall. This
however, I much doubt—the great fresh
et of 1833 will be found to have knit the
accumulation of the last ten or twen
ty years, into an exceedingly compact
body.”
Death-bed Confession. —John R.
Buzzel, who was indicted and tried some
two years and a half ago, for having been
engaged in the celebrated Convent°Riot,
and was acquitted upon liis trial, has,
says the Boston Atlas, since died, and on
his death bed confessed himself to have
been one of those who set tire to the
Convent.
Gold. The mines are still sending
in their weekly products. W e saw three
beautiful bars from the \V alton mine-yes
terday, containing seven or eight hundred
dollars, and a day or two previous a lump
containing somewhat over that amount.
Other mines are making their deposites
with great regularity.—[Richmond Com
piler.
Lvkf. Sii'Eiuon Fti. lino Ui*. There
are one thousand streams which empty
themselves into this Lake, sweeping in
sand, stones and drift wood, from which
case the lake, it is said, is gradually filling
up. The same is the case with Lake
Lrie. Long Point has, within the last
three years, extended itself three miles
into water. The water near the shore is
gradually becoming shallow.
Reform. One of the best instances
of reform, of which we have heard, is
one going on in Belfast, Me. The Dis
tillery in that place-is to be turned into a
Grist Mill, and thus will be instrumental
iu sending forth true nourishment for the
people, instead of that which has proved
a poison and the source of discord, un
happpiness, poverty and crime.—[Prov.
Jour.
The time to Blush. “Blush not
now,” said a distinguised Italian to his
young relative, whom he met issuing from
a haunt of vice; “you should have flush
ed when you went in.” The heart alone
is safe which shrinks from the sUghest
contract or conception of evil, and waits
not to enquire, what will the world say.
A Short Account of the Whole
Trouble. Ihe Boston Advertiser says:
“All the world owes all the world more
than all the world are worth, and all the
world call upon all the world to pay. All
the world, therefore, are in reality worth
just as much actual wealth as they were
before the world failed.
The passions are the pairs of life, and
it is religion only that can prevent them
from rising into a Tempest.
THE ADVOCATE.
BRUNSWICK, (Ga.) AUGUST 10, 1837.
Mr. King’s fust letter, we are happy to see,
has been copied into many of the Georgia pa
jiers. This week wc publish the extract to
which he alluded in the letter to the Athens
Student, which appeared in the last number of
the Advocate. This extract is not only inter
esting to the friends of Brunswick, but must
be valuable for the information it furnishes in
regard to the various works either under con
struction or projected in the South Western
States. If by any means, the course of trade
can be turned from New Orleans to the Atlan
tic, there must be an immense saving of wealth
and life. The difference in the time of the
voyages to and from Europe between a port on
the Atlantic and a town on the Mississippi,
would be the saving of great sums yearly, and
the greater security for the lives of those en
gaged in commerce is another most important
item. It is a well known fact too, that the
channel of the Mississippi is rapidly filling up,
and an examination of the valley through
which this river flows, clearly proves that most
stupendous changes constantly occur in its for
mation. The alluvial deposite which has thus
far formed this immense valley is still adding
to its extent The solid earth is encroaching
Upon the Gulf slowly, though surely, and the
city of New Orleans must yield up the com
merce of the West The fact is well known
to commercial rnen that ships employed at
present in the New Orleans trade are of much
lqss burthen than those used twenty or even
ten years ago, and they must constantly dimin
ish to enable them to ascend the river. Should
the same natural causes continue in active op
-eration, ere many years New Orleans must be
completely shut out Mobile and Pensacola
will take the business of the lower section of
the Valley, while Baltimore and Charleston,
if they carry through their rail road, will com
mand that of the North—the cotton'will find a
market on the Gulf—the wheat and other pro
ductions go to the Atlantic.
Whether the operation of natural causes
and the channel of the Mississippi re
tain its present depth and New Orleans all its
facilities, very much of the trade which it now
monopolizes must be turned aside by the dif
ferent rail roads of which we have spoken.—
For instance the products of the Tennessee
River will pass through Georgia whenever the
Great Western Rail Road is completed. So
the Ohio will pour out its fullness on Baltimore
or Charleston, and the riches of the lower Mis
sissippi will reach the Atlantic by means of
the Brunswick and Florida Road. Is it not
then of the utmost importance to Georgia that
this rail road should be constructed and a conj
will be able to claim a portion of the tradft of
the West ?
Absentees. Rambling about town the oth
er day, having nothing better to do,we number
ed seventy one of our finest dwelling houses
closed, their owners having taken w'ing for the
Summer. The smallest among them would
yield a yearly rent of from $450 to SSOO, and
many double the amount—Suppose each of
these families to spend SISOO during their ab
sence, and we have the aggregate of SIOB,OOO,
the interest at 5 per cent ofupwards 0f2,000.-
000! This is exclusive of the thousands carried
“but of our State by hundreds of others of our fel
low citizens, the item being confined to a few
heads of families, whose absence is indicated
by their deserted mansions so conspiciously
situated as to attract the attention of the pass
ers by.—Go ahead with your Rail Road friend
Gordon, for if our City must send annually from
her limits, large masses of money, let her have
an opportunity of spending them among our
bret 1 iron in the interior of this State, w hore a
climate and a country may be found equal to
any in the world. *
The above is from the Savannah Georgian,
and is good evidence of the truth of the state-
ment so often contradicted, that there is no
healthy Port on the Southern Coast. Why
should all these families desert Savannah dur
ing the Summer if it is so very healthy ? Why
should they year after year, leave their pala
ces and all the luxuries they afford, for the in
conveniences and discomforts of traveling in
the North ? It must be, because health is en
dangered by remaining at home. Brunswick,
Situated on the ocean, with no fresh water in
her neighborhood, will be able to retain her
population during the year; and instead of her
citizens departing every Summer to spend at
the North the proceeds of their labor during
the Winter, they will keep it at home to add
to the productive capital of the State.
We join with the Georgian how ever in wish
ing success to their Rail Road. We wish
well to every enterprise of the kind, for every
new work must add to the friends of Internal
Improvement, and on this feeling must Bruns
wick depend for her future importance.
In the Macon Carrier w e notice a call to
the young men of that city to form an associa
tion “ for the benefit and comfort of the sick
stranger and all others that may need the hands
of charity or the kind attentions of friends.”—
.Such a generous call we sincerely trust met
a-synipathetic response from the young men
of Macon. They could join in no holier con
cert—in none which can afford them more
pure satisfaction—on which they can look
back with so much true pride. “May"you die
among your kindred,” is a beautiful saying of
the Arabs, but only the stranger can jj*
full beauty and force. It is hard to die among
one’s kindred, where every want is supplied—
where the pillow is smbothed by the hand of
affection—where loving eyes watch the un
quiet slumbers, and kind voices speak words |
of hope or of preparation For the awful change.
But how mlich keener must be the anguish of
death when it comes to one in a strange land,
dependent on attentions and services bought
with money and reluctantly bestowed. With
“No voice well known through many a day,
To speak the last, the parting word
Which when all other sounds decay,
Is still like distant music heard.
The tender farewell on the shore,
Os stormy lilt- when all is o’er,
To cheer the spirit ere its bark
Puts off into the unknown dark.”
Extract of a letter from Thomas Butler
Kino, President of the Florida Rail Road
Company, to Thomas Lamb, Secretary of the
Company. 1
*
Monticello, Wayne County, Ga. ? ®
(itli January,' 1837. ) '
“The Rail Road project, from Brunswick to
the Gulf of Mexico or Appalachicola river, is
daily attracting more and more notice and
admiration. The inhabitants of this State be
gin to realize its vast importance to the most
fertile cotton districts east of the Valley of the
Mississippi—the Southern counties of Georgia,
and the lands on theChattahoochie—that river
is now navigable to Columbus a great portion of
the year, and can be rendered so all the year at
small expense. From Columbus, there is a Rail
Road to be constructed shortly to West Point,
along the rapids—from whence the river is
for two hundred miles into the rich
farming districts in the Northwestern counties
of the State. The produce from which and
the supplies for which must pass over our
Rail Road.' There is a Rail Road now being
constructed from Montgomery in Alabama to
West Point of Columbus, to us it is,not mate
rial which—all communication over it with the
Atlantic must pass over our road. Georgia is
now pledged to construct a Rail Road from the
Steamboat waters of the Tennessee to the nav
igable points on our own rivers;—the main
trunk to descend to Forsyth, from whence there
is a Rail Road now being constructed to Ma
con, —and by a glance at the map of Georgia,
you will perceive that a Rail Road can easily
be constructed from Macon to join the Florida
road somewhere in Ware or Lounds counties ;
thus directing the travel and freight which
will pass to and from the “mighty West,” over
near one hundred miles of the Brunswick and
Florida Rail Road. I have obtained the pas
sage of a law granting to the Brunswick and
Florida Rail Road Company the privilege of
constructing a branch road to the city of Colum
bus on the Cliattahoochie, with all the privi
leges secured by law to the main road. From
this branch near Pindertown on Flint river, it
would not be more than sixty miles to Macon
- iaJoin.rthfl ac JiQSI&HW Tennessee,
which is to lie construePtnto.
My opinion is thatthe Brunswick and Flor
ida Rail Road ought to extend from the junc
tion of the Flint and Cliattahoochie, direct to
Pensacola—the distance is not over fitly miles
further than to St. Andrews or Choctahachy—
which is not more than four hours run for a
loaded car, and about three for passengers.—
All freight and passengers could then pass to
and from Mobile, New Orleans, and towns in
the interior, without being to the
storms and dangers of the Gulf, or to sea-sick
ness, and last but not least, to an enemy in
time of war. There is a Rail Road now be
ing constructed from Pensacola to Mobile!
When the Brunswick and Florida Road shall
be completed, the line of communication to the
Mississippi will be perfect
There is not a port on flie coast of Texas
deep enough for a ship to enter. All the trade
of that fertile region must therefore be carried
oil in coasting vessels—and of course come to
the terminus of our road, as well as a great
portion of the produce of the Valley of the
Mississippi. Safety and celerity, control the
commercial exchanges of the present day.—
Our Rail Road will secure those advantages
in a greater degree than any other line, or
means of communication with the Y r alley of the
Mississippi, and the borders of the Gulf.—
There are several Rail Road projects from
Pensacola, and Mobile, to various places in
Alabama, and some of the most important will
I undoubtedly be constructed. All the freight
j and passengers on those roads destined for
; places beyond Cape Florida, and all supplies
, tor that wealthy State, must of course pass
over our road if we carry it to Pensacola. And
it will make no difference to the Brunswick
Company, whether the roads in Alabama ter
minate at Mobile or Pensacola, as there is, as
I have observed, a road now being construct
ed between those places. In fact by extending
the Brunswick road to Pensacola, it must and
will receive the passengers and freight from
the interior of the country and the borders of
the Gulf.
The political condition of the West Indies,
is annually becoming more precarious. When
ever the present Governor of Cuba, shall be
removed, that Island will probably be revolu
tionized. The distracted state of Spain, is
rapidly promoting such a result. It is at pres
ent impossible to {form an opinion how long
the contest will continue between Texas and
Mexico, It is not improbable that our com
naeire to the Gulf will suffer more or loss
whetror die United States become involved in
Avar with Mexico or not. It therefore appears
evident to my mind that the unsettled and un
certain state of the political communities on the
borders of the Gulf, to the West and South of
the United States, and the increasing wants
and importance of the Southern portions of the
Valley of the Mississippi, Florida, and the
Western part of Georgia, the dangers and de
lays of the navigation round Cape Florida and
among the Keys of the West Indies, infested
as they ever have been, and ever will be by
Pirates, and Wreckers,—render the construc
tion of the Brunswick and Florida Rail Road
a work of vast importance not only to Georgia,
but the whole Southwest, and that it ought to
extend to Pensacola; the harbor of which is
already fortified, and unquestionably the best
on the Gulf, within the limits of the United
States—a Naval Depot is established there.—
It is perfectly safe for seamen in Summer, and
the town is considered one of the most health
ful in the Southern country. I am therefore
of opinion, that it is better suited to the great
purposes of a terminus of our Rail Road on the
Gulf, than any other place.”
Foreign. By the Roscoe arrived in New
York, intelligence from England has been re
ceived up to June 23. The extracts from the
English papers refer mostly to the death of
the King,* and the proceedings subsequent
thereto, and are not particularly interesting.
It is very gravely said, the People cheered
when Victoira was prononneed Queen. They
tlid the same thing when William the Fourth
was proclaimed,—and so will they, when the
successor of Victoria ascends the throne.
Cotton was on the rise. The Times contains
the follow ing paragraph: “We learn that an
idea prevails among the leading mercantile
men and capitalists in the city, that lliat the fi
nancial difficulties which have existed for so
many months past are now nearly at an end,
and that a public declaration to that effect is in
contemplation. The late events in America
have evidently tended much to restore confi
dence.”
Nothing of interest in France; and in Spain
the Carlists have the better of the game.
London, June IG. The stock of bullion in
the Bank, we arc glad to say, is progressively
accumulating; and amounts at present we be
lieve to about 5,300,000?. It is a fact, that
while bullion is being imported generally
from the Continent, from 10,000/, to 15,000/. a
week goes to Holland, as paymenthy the gulls
who have bought Dutch Stock.
Some of our contemporaries seem to be sur
prised that gold should come here from Russia
but is quite as much in the natural course of
things as that sugar should come from Jamai
ca. Russia bids fair to be the Mexico of the
Old World. Last year the produce of the
silver mines amounted to about (108,000/., and
that of her gold mines to about 335,000/. Not
having, notwithstanding the rapid increase of
wealth and civilization, a demand for so large
an amount of bullion, the supply necessarily
finds its way to the best market, which at this
moment happens to be England.
LgxppN, June ID. The accounts froi«Ahe
nMpftajflhring districts generally arc very fiat,
buTwe no]>e scion to see an improvement, as
the most serious cause of uneasiness has been
removed; however, it cannot be denied that
the early prospect of a general mourning
tends to aggravate the stagnation of trade,
which originated with the suspension of the
American orders, and the discrediy-esulting
from the embarrassments of that Wanch of
commerce. In Liverpool there was a much
better feeling in all departments on Saturday.
Liverpool, June 24.— Cotton. There has
been a very decided improvement in the cot
ten market sine the worst has been known rel
ative to the expectations from the United
States. It is some satisfaction to be assured
even of the worst. When that is known,
doubt ceases, and the springs of enterprise ob
tain anew elasticity. Trade is a tiling gov
erned by fixed principles mid of these the
leading one is a certainty orthe grounds on
which it acts. In this place, the assurance
that commercial affairs in America have pass
ed their crisis, has caused the reaction—has
created the rebound which, wfith ordinary
care, will probably in a wholesome and, at the
same time, an extended renewal of the enter
piise which, discreetly worked, causes general
prosperity and individual success.
The improvement in the cotton market has
been followed, of course, by a like improve
ment in other produce, for as the chief staple
sinks or rises in price, there is a corresponding
decline or increase in others. This improve”
ment will extend itself, of course, beyond Liv
erpool, because what causes the advance here,
must produce.good effects elsewhere. The
increased demand for cotton here, leads to the
conclusion that the manufacturers of Man
chester, Stockport, &c. will resume their full
tide of work ; —and, indeed, the latest reports
from the manufacturing districts already show
some of the favorable results we mention.
But it is not alone from what we may call “the
cotton districts” that such reports may be anti
cipated. Trade, although a much extended
and delicate complication, has its various de
tails mutually dependent upon each other.
The same cause which gives life and spirit
to the cotton market of Liverpool leads to an
improvement in the demand for hardware from
Birmingham, for cutlery from Sheffield, wool
len cloths from Yorkshire and the west of En
gland, printed calicoes from Manchester, and
China from the potteries of Staffordshire, Wor
cester and Derby.
Let us hope that with the reviving energies
ofiltrade, the spirit of over speculation may not
revive also. It is a wild and delusive sport.
It has led to many, if not most of the evils
under which the country has for some months
been suffering, and from which it only now be
gins to show symptoms of recovery. An aw
ful lesson has been taught—may the merchants
and manufacturers of England profit by it
America. The article with this title on
our first page, we think will be read Rath
much interest. The graphic and highly fin
ished description of Dr.. Channing appeared
originally, as editorial in the American Month
ly Magazine, conducted by N. P. Willis, sev
eral years since; and from this circumstance
we conclude the entire article is from the pen
of that writer. Setting aside his foppery, Mr.
Willis is one of the pleasantest writers in A
merica, and excels in description. His letters
from Europe have been extensively" published