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** * AUGUSTA CONVENTION.
'VTh«*select Committee raised for the
purpose of ascertaining and reporting,
w h.it measures will, of their opinion, most
effectually contribute to the accomplish
ment of the great object of this Conven
tion, ask leave to submit the following.
REPORT 1
The Committee arc deeply improv'd
with the importance of the duty assigned
them, and have bo .-towed upon it all the
attention their limited time would per
mit.
They regard the present derangement
>of the currency and exchanges of tin*
country, however we may deprecate its
causes and deplore its immediate effects,
as furnishing an occasion, which, if wise
ly improved, will relieve the staple-grow
ing States from a state of commercial
dependence,, scarcely less reproachful to
their industry and enterprise, than it is
■ Incompatible with their substantial pros
perity.
The staple-growing States, while they
province two-thirds of the domestic ex-;
ports of the U. States, import scarcely,)
o»e4e«lh of the foreign mercandi/e i
which is received in exchange for it. Al
most the whoin of' the foreign commerce
which is founded upon the productions
of our industry, is carried on by the cit
izens ol other States, causing their cities
to flourish, w hile o.irs have been sinking
into decay.
In the -opinion of the (’oiiituitlo, 1 1 h•
p*T,ioU has arrived, when our citizens are
invoked by-the unit'd voice of interest
and patriotism, to put an end to this vol
untary tribute, amounting annually to
some tiling like ten millions of dollars.
It is believed that the quota of Georgia
and 8, Carolina alone, amounts to not
less than three millions of dollars. It
may not he disguised however, that this
extraordinary and unequal state of our
commercial relations, lmd its origin, more
in the fiscal operations of the federal gov
ernment than in any supposed delicienrv
in the industry and enterprise of our cit
izens. The high dutes imposed by the
tarhr of l>l9 upon the productions of
Soul hern industy, and the- still more en
ormous duties imposed by those of 1*24
and 1828, combined with the unequal
system of depositing and disbursing the
revenue tints collected, almost exclusively
in the Nothern cities, operated as a boun
ty to the commerc of those cities, which
tlie most persevering industry and enter
prise on our part, could not have o\ er
mine. (ireat and obvious as were the
natural advantages of our Southern cities,
they were more than counterbalanced i>v
those operation* of the government. And
while we stood amidst the ruins thus
produced by lms-goverm^eut,ninny of our
own citizens were utterly unable to ac
count for the plietiomouoii, and some of
our charitable neighbors supposed it to be
owing to the curse of Heaven upon our
domestic institutions.
Every practical man, however, will at
once perceive, that the deposite of almost
the whole of the government funds, in
the hanks of the \othern cities, was e
quivalent to a loan of a like sum fvitliouf
interest, and that tlie immense sums dis
bursed hy the government r.t the same
points, operated even more decidedly t<>
give those cities an undue ascendancy.
tine ol the most obvious and salutary con
sequences which we may confidently an
ticipate from the reduction of the duties
and the withdrawal of the government
depositcs from the banks, will be the res
toration of the Southern cities, to a con
dition of comparative equality in the bu
siness o| foreign commerce. In a fair
and equal competition, it cannot he doubt
ed that they will be able to exchange our
domestic productions for the manufac
tures ol Europe, In u direct trade, more
advantageously, than the Not hern cities
can do it, by a circuitous process invol
ving intermediate transfers and agencies,
ail increasing the risk and expense of the
operation.
never was presentted to the cap
italists of the South West such an open
ing for profitable enterprise, and they are
invited by the rno-t powerful considera
tions to improve it. Now that the fiscal
operations of tire federal government
have been so greatly reduced, and the
field of competition lYnly opened, if they
should still look on with listless apathy,
while the mighty current of our own pe
culiar commerce is flowing literally by
"thenl, to nouri-h dist ant cities and fertil
ize the barren lulls of distant communi
ties, wc must then acquiesce in the judg
ment which the world will pronounce,
that we deserve our destiny. But the
Committee indulge the confident belief
that such a reproach will no longer rest
upon us. The public spirit of our peo
ple lias been roused into action ; they
have been awakened to a sense of their
condition, and all prepared to co-operate
in their respective spheres, in the great
work, of throwing off the shackles of our
present colonial condition and establish
ing our commercial independence upon
a lasting foundation.
The stiqdc growing states never can
be practically independent and enjoy the
full measure of the bounties which Prov
idence ha* so abundantly provided for
them, until th? commerce which is foun
ded upon tbeir valuable productions shall
be carried on by our own merchants, per
manently resident amongst us, whcthei
they be native or adopted/ Tim pursuits
of commerce must be liberalised ; tin
commercial class must be elevated ir
paVr - op vt to fh.o rank in society
which properly belongs to if. The av
■ ocation of the merchant requires as much
, character and talent and is of as much
1 1 dignity and usefulness ns any other pur
• suit or profession ; ami the senseless pre
■ judice which would assign to it an interi
or rank, lias been blindly borrowed from
those ancient republics and modern des
potisms, whose policy it was to regard
war as the only honorable pursuit. As
agricultural productions which find their
market principally in foreigu countries
ooustitutc the almost exclusive source of
our wealth, the mercantile class is as in
dispensable to our prosperity as tiie agri
cultural. Their interests are inseparably
identified, and whatever effects the pros
perity of the one, must have a correspond
ing influence on the other, flow much,
then does the general welfare ol' the sta
ple-growing States depend upon divering
' into the pursuits of commerce, a large
j portion of the cajufal, the character and
I the talent which have been intlierto, di
rected too exclusively to agriculture and
the learned professions ? It is the delib
erate opinion of the committee that no
k one change could be made in our pursuits,
that would so largely contribute to the
public prosperity ; and that those public
spirited citizens who shall take the lead
in this new career of useful enterprise,
w ill deserve to be regarded us public ben
efactors.
The prevailing habit of imesting*>al
-1 most the whole proceeds of our cotton
crops in land and negroes, lias produced
a constant tendency to over-production
in this great staple : and nothing but the j
extraordinary increase of its consumption i
in the great markets of the world, has!
prevented us from experiencing the ruin- ;
ous consequences ot our mistaken policy, j
In this viewot the subject every dollar 1
that shall he diverted from the production]
ol cotton, to some other profitable pur-j
suit, will he so much clear gain to the!
planter and to the country.
It is a well established principle in po
litical economy, that an excess of supply
beyond the efficient demand, diminishes*
the price ol an article more than in pro
portion to tin; excess, and that a delicien-]
<’V of supply increases the price in a cor-!
responding degree. For example, it is
believed that if the present cotton crop
ol the United States should he only 1,-1
290,009 hales, it would produce* a larger!
aggregate sum to the planters, than if it
should prove to he I ~500,000 hales, the
price being more enhanced than the quail- j
tity would he diminished. It was upon
this principle that the Dutch East India I
Company, actually burnt one lull’of their!
spices, that they might obtain more for
the remaining half than they could have!
obtained lor the whole. Let us pursue I
a still wiser policy. Instead of burning
our surplus, let us direct the capital and
industry that produce it, to other profit a-;
hie pursuits, which w ill open new sources
ol wealth, and at the same time increase
the value of those already in existence.—
In connexion with this view oft he subject,
the policy of raising every supply which
the soil will produce,cannot be too strong- 1
ly recommended. By whatever specious
reasons a contrary policy muv he countc- 1
nanced, experience proves them to be
fallacious. If every planter would raise!
his own supplies of the various produo!
vions of the soil, and ofthe annuals which
feed upon those productions, it would
tend greatly to limit the excessive pro
duction of our great staples, and increase]
at the same time the independence and 1
the income of the agricultural class.
The committee will now proceed to ex
amine, a little in detail, the relative ad
vantages of the Southern Cities for the
business of foreign importation, compar
ed with those <>f the Nothern cities. In
the first place, house rent is much higher
in the latter than in the former, a very
important element in the calculation, hi
the second place, freight is habitually
higher from Europe to the Nothern than
to the Southern Cities, for the plain rea
son that ships coming to the South for
cotton, would have to come in ballast if
thrv were not freighted with merchandise.
All 11 io oilier elements that constitute the
cost of importation, are believed to lie as
cheap in the Southern ns the Nothern;
Cities. It is thus demonstrable that for
eign merchandise can be actually impor-:
led and sold in the former at cheaper
rates than in the latter places. When to
this we add the expenses of tranship
ment at N. York or Philadelphia, the loss
iof interest, the* freight and insurance to
the Southern Cities, and tho expenses
]of landing ami storing there, it w ill he
apparent tint the merchants of the South
ami South-West will lindit greatly to tlidir
advantage, to make their purchases of
I foreign merchandize in our own cities in
preference to New York or Philadelphia,
j The same course ol reasoning will show
that our cotton can be exported directly
j from our own sea-ports, with similar ad
vantages over the more circuitous route
of the Nothern Cities,
j It seems, therefore, perfectly clear
.to the Committee, that our capitalists who
[shall enter into the business of importing
! foreign merchandize, cannot fail t'o re il
-1 ize ample profits, and yet supply the mer
chants of the interior on terms more ad
i vautageous than they can obtain from
1 the Nothern importers. They have eve
-Iry natural advantage tin the competition,
i and are invited bv every motive, public
| and private, to embark in the business
and reap the rich harvest that lies before
them. It cannot be doubted that the
merchants of the interior will give them
a preference since, to the motives of in
BRUNSWICK ADVOCAE.
terest, those of patriotism will be super
added. •
Among the measures which will most
effectually promote the great object which
has brought this Convention together,
none arc more prominent, in the cstima
( mation of the committee than the com
pletion of the great works of internal im
provement, by which the Southern Atlan
tic cities are to be connected with the
Valley of the Mississippi. In aid of the
individual capital and enterprise engaged
in these works, it is believed that the pat
ronage of the States interested, might be
wisely and beneficially bestowed. Their
completion would greatly promote the
system of direct importations through
our own sea ports, and these importations
would equally promote the completion
of the works in question. They are parts
of one great system, and will mutually
sustain each other. If Georgia and South
Carolina, with that harmony and concert
ol action which the ( inseparable identity
ot their interest so strongly recommends,
would bring their individual energies and
resources to the completion of those lines
ot communication connecting their at
lantic cities w ith the navigable waters ol
the W est, the day would not be distant
" hen our most ardent hopes and sangu
ine anticipations would be realized.
1 be committee beg leave to suggest to
the convention, another measure which
in their opinion, would be eminently con
ducive to the great object we have in
v iew. One of the obstacles in the wav
ot establishing a system of direct impor
tations, is the want of the requisite capi
tal applicable to that object. The coun
try, it is believed, contains a sufficiency
ot capital, it motives could be presented
to give it a proper direction. To effect
this, the committes can suggest no meas
ure, which in their opinion would he so
affectual, as a law limiting the responsi
bility of co-partners to the sums which
they shall put into the co-partnership. A
large portion of the capital to which we
must look tor carrying on the business of
direct importations, is in the hands of
planters, and men of fortune who have
retired from business, who would he wil
ling to put a portion of their surplus cap
ital into importing co-partnerships under
the management of men of character and
capacity, but would never consent to
make their w hole fortunes responsible for
the success of the undertaking. If thev
actually contribute a certain amount of
capital, and the public is apprized that
their responsibility extends no further, is
is obvious that the credit of the concern
will rest upon the substantial foundation
<>t the capital paid in.—Nothing can he
more fair as it regards the public, and
nothing would so effectually direct the
capital and enterprizc our citizens into
channels where it is so much wanted.
The commute think it would he expedi
ent to memorialize the Legislatures of
the Southern and South-Western States
on this subject, and recommend to the
Convention the appointment of commit
tees for that purpose.
Another measure which would greatly
facilitate the establishment of a system of
direct importations, would he the forma
tion, of a connection and correspondence
between some of our hanks and some
ot those in England, hy which each
should have a standing credit with the
other. 'Ellis would enable the banks
here to furnish the merchants who might
wish t® purchase goods in England with
letters of credit, upon receiving adequate
security. The hearer of such a letter
would have to pay interest only from the
time he actually drew the money to pay
for his purchases. This would prevent
the loss of interest which he would incur
il compelled to provide himselfwith mon
ey before lie set out on his adventure.
Cotton purchasers from England would
derive iho same benefit bv obtaining sim
ilar letters, from the hanks there; upon
those of our banks, with which they should
have an established credit.
If in addition to these facilities, our
banks would establish agencies in Eu
rope, and advance a limited amount, up
on Cotton consigned to them, it would
greatly contribute to accomplish our com
mon object, by enabling our citizens to
to export their own cotton, as well as to
import their own merchandize, without
the intervention of any Nothern agency.
In concluding their report, the Com
mittee cannot but express their strong
conviction that the success of this great
movement towards the emancipation of
the staple growing states from their com
mercial trammels, will depend more upon
individual enterprise, sustained and sup
ported by an enlightened public opinion,
than upon auv measures of legislation,
however important these mav be. The
business of direct importations, must he
commenced at once: for if the present
occasion is permitted to pass away unim
proved, one equally propitious tnay never
occur. The Committee recommend the
Convention to adopt the following reso
lutions in furtherance of the views ex
pressed in the foregoing report :
1. lit sulcal, That in the opinion of
| this Convention, the present conjuncture
iin our commercial affairs is eminently
; propitious for the establishment of a sys
tem of direct importations, through our
Southern and South-western Cities, and
that wc are called upon by every consid
eration of interest and of patriotism, to
throw off the degrading shackles of bur
commercial dependence.
2. Resolved, That with a view to in
duce public spirited capitalists to embark,
in this business, the people of the staple-
1 growing States be recommended to give
public manifestations of their determina
tion to encourage and sustaia importations
l through their own sea-ports.
*!• Resolved, that two Committees be
, appointed by the President of this Con
i volition to memorialize respectively the
legislatures of Georgia and South Caroli
on the snbject of limited copartnerships.
4. Resolved, That a Committee be aj>-
pointed to prepare an address to the peo
ple of the Southern and South-western
; States, setting forth the advantages and
practicability of carrying on a direct!
trade with foreign nations—exhibiting in j
detail the extent of their resources.
o. Resolved, That said Committee, in
j preparing such address, embody and con
form to the views of tlie Convention as
! expressed in the Preamble and Resolu
j tions adopted.
Congress. Both Houses adjourned
lon the 1 tit Ii inst. at 10 o’clock, A. M. We
j learn (says the Baltimore Ameruan of
the 17 tli inst.)Uhat the, only business trans
acted in the lower House was the final
i passage ot th£ Bill to adjust the balances
due by the late Deposite Banks.”
, From the Baltimore Merchant.
List <>k Acts. Passed at the First Ses
sion of the Twenty-Fifth Congress.
An act to postpone the fourth instalment
of deposites with the States.
An act authorizing a further postpone
ment of payment upon duty bonds.
An act for adjusting the remaining
claims upon the late deposite Banks
An act to regulate the fees of District
Attorneys in certain cases.
An act forthe relief of Dolly P. Mad
ison.
A hill to authorize the issueing of
Treasury notes.
A hill making additional appropriations
for the suppression of Indian hostilities
for the year 1837
A bill making additional appropriations
for the year 1837.
A bill to continue in force certain laws
to the close of the next session of Con
gress.
A bill to amend an act entitled “An
act to provide for the payment of horses
lost or destroyed in the military service
of the United States,” approved January
IS, 1837.
Resolution directing the postage on let
ters sent hy the Express Mail to be paid
in advance.
From the Charleston papers.
Tiie llume. At a meeting of the Un
dersigned, passengers, saved from the
wreck of the Hume, held, at Shelton’s
Hotel, at the request of William ‘Patton,
the agent, we agree—
That wc believe the boat was unsea
wortliv, and that the captain became in
competent from intoxication.
That we bear united testimony to the
good conduct of the engineers, and mate
particularly, and men generally.
JOHN SALTER.
ANDREW A. LOVEREEN.
CYRIL C. CADY.
DARIUS CLOCK.
B. B. HUSSEY.
CHARLES DRAYTON, Jr.
HENRY VANDERZEE.
JAMES JOHNSON, Jr.
JOHN BISHOP.
ALFRED 111 iff.,
WM. S. READ.
From the N. York Mercantile Advertiser,
Nine days later from Liverpool.
By the arrival of the fust sailing packet
ship ludependeitre. Captain Nye, from
Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 2-stli
ult., the Editor of the Mercantile Adver
tiser, h;is received Liverpool papers of the
2-jtli September, with corresponding dates
from London.
Phe Cotton Market was tolerably qui
et in Liverpoll.
The Money Market was easy in Lon
don, ami the Directors of the Bank of
England had declared a dividend of 4
per ct. for the last six months.
The American M blister transacted bu
siness, on the 2-sth Sept, with the Minis
ter for Foreign Affairs.
The news from Spain is unfavorable to
the cause of the Christions.
The United States frigate Indepen
dence, Com. Nicholson, from St. Peters
burg!) for New York, arrived at the
Downes on the 13th September.
From Mexico. By the arrival of schr.
Lodi, from Matamoras, yesterday, (says
the Louisiana Advertiser of the 17th inst.)
we learned that there are nearly 3900
troops assembled there,under the command
of Gen. Fii.osola, represented as being
in a most wretched condition, entirely un
provided with rations, clothes,&,c. ; many
of them nearly in a state of nudity.—
There were numerous desertions daily.
The intended object of this force is not
known, it being kept in the greatest se
crecy ; but they are said to have a most
decided aversion to being led against
Texas. S6me of them go so far as to o
penly state that they would not be prevail
ed upon to march against her at any
price.
“The Government had ordered, 4,000
troops to be assembled at a place called
Peznrote, about 27 leagues from Vera
Cruz; for the purpose it was said, ofl at
tacking Gen. Santa Anna at his palace,
which is situated between Pznrote and
Vera Cruz, and strongly fortified by him,
he having a force of 000 men under his
immediate command.
“The cause of sending those troops a-.
| gainst Santa Anna is said his having or
! dered or participated in the robbery of a
: Conducta, and committed other acts e
qually unlicensed.
The Dead Monarch and his Beer.
The following amusing anecdote is extract
ed from a paper by Burton, in the last
number of the gentleman’s Magazine :
“Grant’s last engagement was at the
Surry Theatre, when that establishment
was managed by that glorious compound !
i°f talent and eccentricity, Elliston. j
[Grant was selected hy that worthy to play !
j King Henry in his curious version ofl
King Richard the Third. By the mana
ger’s direction, the ghosts were not to up- j
pear in the usual orthodox manner at a
chasm in the back drapery of the raoii
arch’s tent, but were to stud the front of !
the stage, by popping up their heads from
the various traps and sliding pannels that
arc scattered about the scenic floor.
Grant, who knew that King Henry has
long wait,as it is technically termed, from
the end of the first act to the middle of
the fifth, had removed his black and king
ly robes for his citizen’s attire, and with
a pipe of mild tobacco and a pint of por
ter, sat at the back door of the Theatre,
puffing sorrow away, and awaiting the 1
prompter’s call to the scene of action. 1
\\ hen he received it, his white wig was 1
hastily put on ; his coat and vest remo-
ved ; and the black-Jucke of well-splash-I
ed white trovvsers, because, having only |
to poke liis bust above the level of the i
stage, there wasyio necessity for any fur-j
ther change. knew that all stage ;
carpenters have a propensity for porter ;
he was aware that while he was breaking !
the ghostly warning to the naughty tyrant, j
the carpenter employed to turn the wind-j
lass of the trap would demolish there-!
maindcr of his pint; so like a prudent I
and a canny Scot, he placed the pewter j
vessel on the two feet square that sustain- I
ed his ghostly corpus, and laid the am- i
brosial pipe lengthways across the top — ■
the trap was not to come within sight of
the audience, therefore his precaution
could not interfere with the scenic effect (
—but the carpenter, saw his motive, and I
in revenge, pretended to misunderstand
his instructions, and rolled poor Grant
completely up till the top of the trap at
tained the level of the stage. The audi
icnce burst into convulsions of laughter—-
there was “the buried majesty” of Eng
land, the spirit of the murdered Henry,
in a black jacket, and dirty white trow
sers of modern cut, gloriously splashed ]
with London mnd. A pewter pot and
tobacco pipe stood by the side Qf his dir-
ty Wellington. The bothered actor look
ed confusedly at his brother and sister
ghosts, who were peeping from their ap
propriate holds. To complete the joke,
which, by the way, is strictly true, Ellis
ton, who enacted the crooked-back ty
rant, opened his eyes when he heard the
shouts of the audience, and perceiving
the situation of the actor, started from his
couch, and ran furiously at Grant, brand
ishing his drawn sword. Grant knew
that it was useless to ‘chafe the lion in
his mood,’ and ‘with his pipe in one hand
and his pot in the the other,’ as the old
song says, the royal ghost vanished at the
wing. Enthusiastic peals of approbation
crowned his exit—the remaining ghosts
iver e rung down. Catcshy was beckoned
on, but the audience clamored loudly for
the reappearance of the monarch and his
beer, and continued their uproar till the j
Fall of the curtain.”
Anew Esculent Sea-weed has been
lately brought to England from Calcutta.
It is said to possess nutritious properties
to a much greater extent than the Ice
land moss, without the principle contain
ed in that weed. A jelly made from it
contains wax, gum, sulphate and muriate
of soda, with .54 parts of starch in the
100, and is quite equal to blanr munge.
Large quantities of this fucus grow in the
neighborhood of Ceylon, where it is cal
led the Ceylon moss. It has been much
employed hy the profession in Calcutta.
[M edical Journal.
The magnificent gambling club house
in St. James street, London—the greatest
“Hell” in that great city—took fire on
the 9th of September, but was soon ex
tinguished. The papers do not state
whether there was any smell of brimstone
about the premises during the fire.—[Bos
ton Herald.
Quick Work. On Sunday week,
Bailie Clarkson, Selkirk, sat down to
dinner in a pair of inexpressibles made of
wool, which that very same morning was
growing on the back of tho,sheep. In
the brief space of eleven hours and a half,
the fleece was shorn from the animal,
scoured, dyed, carded, spun, woven, and
made into a pair of breeches for a bailie!
—[Glasgow paper.
Whiskers. ‘I cannot imagine. ’ said
an alderman, ‘why my whiskers should
turn gray, so much sooner than the hair i
on my head.’ ‘Because you have wor-1
ked so much more with your jaws than
your brains,’ observed a wag.
Anecdote. The late Dr. West hav
ing married a very tall lady whose name]
was Experience, was asked his opinion of
matrimony ; to which he replied, ‘that
by long Experience he found it a very
comfortable thing.’
Love never stands upon ceremony, but
vanity can never dispense with it. |
THJE ADVOCATE.
BRUNSWICK, (Ga.). —NOV. 2~lfjCfr7^
The Report adopted by the Augusta Con
: vention is a practical paper, containing many
i soun d opinions, and offering hints worthy the
| consideration of the Southern Ranters.
The importance of not depending too, en
1 1 rely, on a staple crop, is enforced with much
ability, and the recommendation of raising the
necessary subsistence in preference to crops
of cotton exclusively, is such as must strike
every one as correct There is a certainty
that the cultivation of cotton is becomino
more extended than the wants of the world
demand; and unless a portion of the capital
now flowing in that channel be diverted, it
must soon cease to be profitable. Commercial
pursuits offer the greatest inducements at pres-'
ent, and while affording ample returns for the
use ot capital, will also be of peculiar advan
tage to the South. The ease, too, with which
such a change can be made is also greater than
is generally supposed. In illustration, we will
allude to the effect ofthe Tariff system in New
England. The people of those States had
been commercial ever since the settlement of
the country, and as far back ns the days of
Burke, had drawn from him one of the most
eloquent eulogiums pronounced in the House of
Commons. The jealousy felt towards their
| growing commerce by the mother country, and
a determination to crush it, led to those op
pressive measures which drove New England
to rebellion, and brought the South to her aid.
\\ ith the close of the war, freed from all
shackles, Northern industry and enterprise
found a richer harvest on the ocean, than the
barren soil could offer. New England was
known by her shipping—not her farms,—com
merce and not agriculture was her staple.
But the policy adopted by the Federal Govern
ment in 1819, checked very materially the
growth, and for a time paralyzed the business
ofthe merchants. But they conformed to cir
cumstances. and turned part of their capital to
the erection of Factories. By a timely change
and vigorous pursuit of the new business, they
have derived advantage from w hat they at first
considered a misfortune.
The South from an over production of her
staple, is in a position very similar to that of
New England in 1819. By pursuing a like
policy, the same results will follow. The
South has, to say the least, equal facilities for
becoming a commercial, that theNoith had to
become a manufacturing people. We hope to
see the time when Southern ships will be en
gaged in transacting the business ofthe South.
A portion of that wealth and industry now be
stowed on the cultivation of cotton,will bo spee
dily create amarine, fully capable of supplying
the w ants of the Southern States.
The importance of legalizing limited part
nerships is another topic discussed in the re
i port- Laws permitting such associations un
der suitable restrictions have been enacted in
: Pensylvania, New York, and Massachusetts.
: The consequence has been the investment of
• much capital in active business which would
otherwise have been partially dormant: Indi
viduals are often willing to embark a certain
amount in hazardous ventures, and untried ex
periments, but are prevented from a fear of
becoming inextricably involved. A law per
initting them to risk what sums they please
and no more, would give an impulse to busi
ness beneficial to the general welfare. We
conceive of no injury which can possibly arise
from such a law, and trust the Legislature of
this State will consider tiie subject attentively.
The Climate of Brunswick. In one of
our earliest numbers, we spoke very decidedly
on this subject and did not hesitate to predict
that. Brunswick would be healthy through the
Summer. This has proved to be tiie fact—the
ponds being thoroughly drained, there was no
stagnant water or vegetable matter to create
miasma and with ordinary care, health can as
well be preserved here as in any other section
ot the Union. We consider the question as
settled in the most satisfactory manner by the
condition of those who have spent the Summer
here; and this result must be gratifying to
every individual who has the good of the State
at heart.
| We would however, call the attention of
! Northern invalids to our Winter climate. At
j this season they are about seeking retreats from
i the rigors of the New England Winter. Many
1 goto Charleston, Savannah and St. Augustine.
The climate of the latter is undoubtedly the
mildest and most agreeable, but it does not dif
] fer sensibly from that oFßruns wick. It is only
about'Seventy miles distant and the very slight
i advantage it has in point of latitude is lost by
its exp'.sod situation, being immediately on
the k- v cli and open to the full force ofthe
winds. A gentleman who has spent the Win
i ter at both places, gives Brunswick the decid
ed preference. In addition to this, persons in
delicate health will find here accommodations
of the hest order and have much more society
than at Augustine. Vessels will ply during
the season between this port and Boston, and
means will he thus afforded of going to and fro
direct.
The Ruling Passion Strong in Death-
Scott in his Autobiography, speaks of In®
school master, the famous Dr. Adam, who be
came delirious a few days previous to his death
and imagined himself in his school room. R* 3
last words were, “But it grows dark—the b o) s
may dismiss,” and instantly expired.