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executor to his will, and he bequeathed the sum
of £50,000 to my cousin Maria. Ho# woo
ed and won this beloved being, and the extra
ordinary crosses which came between us and
otir affection, I shall relate in some future pa
per.
THE ADVOCATE.
(Ga.) FEB. B,T*». ~
State Rights 'Picket for Congress.
ELECTION FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
WILLIAM C DAWSON, of Greene.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Trodpe.
WALTER T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee.
RICHARD W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham
EDWARD J BLACK, of Seriven.
MARK A COOPER, of Hall.
EUGENICS A NESBIT, of Bibb.
LOT WARREN, of Sumpter
Ts I ELAT ESTIUJ M BUG.
Animal MaC.nitism. How many of us are
there who arc not only credulous, but who in
sist upon being deceived! Animal Magnet
ism, though the latest, is by no means a new
humbug. Os the many w hich have at different
times engaged the attention of tiie world, few
can claim more warm or enthusiastic advocates
than this, or to have maintained its ground for
a longer period. Since it originated with
Mesucco, ora date we think, a little later than
the middle of the last century, it has chamelion
like, many times changed its colors. At that
time the magnetism was not supposed to be
merely animal and spiritual—but magnets ac
tually metallic, called tractors were used.—
Then the end proposed by this, so called,
science was to cure diseases. Os course, what
within the influence of the imagination in some
cases, and of chicanery and confederacy in
others, a most respectable array of precedents
was procurred. In later times the miracles of
Prince llohenlohe, or the existence of the Sea
Serpent, have not been better or more formal
ly attested. This overwhelming mass of evi
dence had its effect to produce a strong faction
of partizans from among those who are ever
Tcady to adopt extraordinary opinions, or to
maintain stoutly what they are determined to
believe. The advance of science! and
human life exte.nded! cried this party. —
Down with the humbug! quietly answer
ed the sensible world. Persecution! —
We will die martyrs in this cause! —
furiously replied the scientific faction. So you
may, rejoined the world, very moderately : and
there the argument ended, —for nobody caine
to raise the zealots to the dignity of martyrdom.
In the process of a very short time the fire died
out for want of fuel, and beside there was no
body to stir it up.
Thus closed act the first, we have neither
time nor patience to detail its particular scenes,
nor should we expect the most indulgent read
er to bear w ith us if we did. Suffice it to say,
that they were many and various. The delu
sion broke out —as we say of contagious diseas
es—in many different places, and under a di-
versity of forms.
Now it appears on the stage again. Mr.
P oven’s lectures aud Col. Stone’s letters, and
divers other able and certainly most sincere
advocates take it by the hand, vouch for its
good character, and propose to introduce it in
to society. What shall we do about it? Shall
we receive it? It comes under a different
form from that it first assumed. Now it dis
cards the metallic magnets. A professor of
the science is himself the magnet What this
supposed science proposes to effect, it is diffi
cult to say. It beats the Tree of Life alto
gether. That would only communicate know
ledge of good and evil ; but this proposes to
impart information upon the most indifferent
subjects. Already hundreds are persuaded of
of a mysterious influence of a class of men,
calling themselves magnetizers. Their sub
jects are thrown in a trance, or, as it is called,
magnetic sleep, and during its continuance
.are said to be possessed of powers of a most
miraculous character. Tlie feats of reading
sealed letters and describing locations, utterly
unknown to tiie patient when awake, and sup
posed never to have been described to him—
we will not repeat, having no personal know
ledge of them. We refer the curious to Col.
Stone and Dr. Poyen. We remark, merely
that we find no difficulty in believing many of
these wonderful stories as they do not differ
materially from tlie common casss reported
of the remarkable pow ers of somnambulists
who labor under Dervous disease, but of whom
it is not pretended that they have been expos
ed to any magnetic influence.
Again, the practical question recurs—what
shall we do about.it? and shall 'r? Tceeive
these doctrines thus maintained, attested and
believed. We confess we have not as yeti
seen any evidence that compels belief It is
not pretended that tlie robust and healthy can
be subjected to this magic influence, but only j
the infirm and diseased—most commonly wo-'
men who are suffering from, or most liable to ,
serious complaints. All that can be said is;
that very curious and remarkable phenomena
attendant upon a state of nervous disease are
presented and are as yet unexplained. But wc
do not feel called upon to adopt this mysterious I
and visionary theories that are urged because
we can offer no better. We class this with
the many delusions that have had their day.
We do not wish to stifle enquiry, and only fear
that there may not be enough of opposition to
it Exciting and interesting. Alchemy
waa the foundation of chemistry. Astronomy
was built upon astrology. Phrenology has
somewhat developed the organization of the
brain. And if no better effect is produced by
enquiry into Animal Magnetism than a more
thorough knowledge of diseases of the nerves,
it will not be without its use.
THE GLOBE AND THE COMMON
WEALTH BANK.
The New York correspondent of the Wash
ington Globe says:
“The Commonwealth Bank of Boston has
closed its doors; another example and warning
to our working classes how they sbffer them
selves to be cheated out of their labor by these
fraudulent institutions.”
Now this is a little too impudent even for so
reckless and unprincipled a print as the
Globe.
The Commonwealth Bauk denounced as a
fraudulent institution by the Globe!! That
Bank which was got up and owned, and from
first to last controlled by Ilenshaw and Simp
son, the very principal purveyors and scaven
gers of the famous Kitchen of the White
House!! That Bank which was among the
very first selected as a depository for the pub
lic money because the UrS. Bank was unsafe!!
“ Tin pleasant to see the Enquirer,
Hoist with his own petard ”
And yet there is so much of sadness and mel
ancholy in the situation of these political spec
ulators and profligates, of late soaring on ea
gle’s w ings, now grovelling in the mire of de
spond, that we forbear to exult.
The Globe need not hope by its prompt and
dastardly denunciation of its late allies to es
cape the merited infamy which overwhelms
their acts. The only effect of its lato course
will be that the responsibility which it assum
ed in guiding public opinion at the time of re
moving the deposites will be the better re
membered against it; while the treachery and
cowardice which shrinks from the defence of
friends in distress will only bring its declin
ing influence the more into contempt.
We refer our readers to the following inter
esting articles in relation to the affairs of the
Commonwealth Bank, from the Boston Atlas.
The Commonweal tit Bank of Boston, the
failure of which announced on Saturday, has
been ever since the seizure of the public mon
ies, the great government bank of N. England.
Around it have clustered the immediate coun
sellors and confidants of the Federal adminis
tration in this quarter of the country. Its man
agement has been exclusively controlled by
agents friendly to the administration, and we
may say has been conducted immediately un
der the eyes of the President and his cabinet.
Those who have partaken of its facilities have
been, almost without exception, the zealous
partizans or official stipendiaries of the admin
istration. Isaac Hill, F. O. J. Smith, David
Ilenshaw, William Pannenter, Amos Kendall,
and a few more of the original contrivers
and abettors of the removal of the public
money from the U. S. Bank, are the
men, who have been immediately aggrandized
bv that foul deed of violence and plunder.
The developments of every successive day
prove this assertion beyond a cavil or a doubt.
But there are two or three facts in relation
to the explosion of this Jackson and Van Bu
ren banking institution, which we would lay
before our readers before indulging in further
comments.
The capital of the Commonwealth Bank
was $500,000. Its president was John K.
Simpson; Cashier, Charles Hood. The fol
lowing is a list of its directors:—J K. Simpson
(pension ngent,) Adams Bailey, John Mills,
Oliver Fletcher, 11. J. How, Wm. Freeman,
Elisha Parks, Samuel S. Lewis, F. S. Carruth,
Otis Rich, Charles Hood.
We would now direct the particular atten
tion of our readers to the following extracts
from the revised statues of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, Chap. 35:
Sec. ft. Tlie total amount of debts, which
any bank shall at any time owe, shall not ex
ceed twice the anumnt of its capital stock, actual
ly paid in, exclusive of sums due on account
of deposites not bearing interest; nor shall
there be due to such bank, at any time, more j
than double the amount of its capital stock ac- j
tuallv paid in.
Sec. 11. If any bank shall become indebted j
beyond t!«e amount allowed by the two precod- J
ing sections, the directors, under whose ad- J
ministration it shall happen, shall be liable, for j
the excess, in their private capacities; and an I
action of debt may be brought against them or |
any of them, their or any of their heirs, exec- j
utors or administrators, by any creditor of such
corporation, and may be prosecuted to final
judgment and execution; or such creditor may
have a remedy by a bill in equity against them
in the supreme judicial court.
Sec. 12. Any directors, w ho may have been
absent w hen such excess of debts was con
tracted, or who may have dissented from the
resolution or-net whereby the same was con- j
traded, may exonerate themselves from being j
so liable, by forthwith giving notice of the j
fact and of their absence or dissent, to the j
governor and council, and to the stockholders, !
at any general meeting: which meeting they
shall have power to call for that purpose.
It will be seen from the above extracts, that 1
there is a provision in our statutes expressly j
prohibiting any bank from becoming indebted j
! more than double tlie amount of its capital I
j stock, and holding tlie directors personally rc- j
.sponsible for the excess, except in case of ab
j sence or dissent, which be forthwith!
* made known to the governor and council. In i
j direct violation of tiie statute, we loam that j
\ the Commonwealth Bank, w ith a capital of
j $500,000, has extended its liabilities to the'
( amount of sl,4oo,ooo—leaving an excess of
' four hundred thousand dollars, for which the
! directors become responsible. It is under
j stood thut only one of tlie directors, Elisha
j Parks, Esq., has been enabled to avail himself
'of tlie means of exemption presented in the
statute, thereby exonerating himself from the
i guilt of participating in this infraction of the
j iaw.
j Among the remaining directors, who are im
• mediately implicated, we find the name of
John Mills, the prosecuting attorney of the
U nited States for this district The officer,
whose express duty it is to prosecute all offen
i ces against the general government, is here
! «e«B lending hie countenance aid authority to
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
the corrupt management of an institution, in
which large deposites of the public money are
made, ana which has violated its faith to the
community and the government in & manner
that called for the severest application of the
law. The man, who by his official oaths was
bound to observe the laws of the land and to
watch over the public interest in the discharge
of his function of prosecuting attorney, has
acquiesced in the violation of the law he
should have revered, and betrayed the inter
ests, whicli it was his duty guard.
In the Morning Post of Thursday last, We
find the following advertisement, bearing the
date of its first api»earance:—
Notice. Persons holding checks Rgainst
the Custom House, are requested to present
them either at the bank, or this office for pay
ment, immediately. DAVID HENSIIAW,
Jan. 11. lw. is. Collector.
Is it not most remarkable that this notice,
calling upon the holders of checks to present
them at
the office, where we may fairly presume they
would have received the bills of the bank,
should have been published just thirty-six
hours before the failure of the bank was made
public, and on the very day the directors de
termined to stop payment Why should the
holders of checks against the Custom House
have been called upon at that particular and
most suspicious time, to change them, for the
hills of a bank on the verge of bankruptcy?
What need was there of a public, imperative
call upon the holders of checks at that time?
Did the Collector wish to save further losses
to the government at the expense of the com
munity, or did he wish to rid himself in the
easiest way of his own personal responsibili
ties? The transaction wears a bad aspect.
The public may be wrong in their suspicions;
but immediate and ample explanations must be
made to the public before those suspicions can
be removed.
This explosion of the great administra
tion bank of New England naturally calls to
mind an incident, to which we may trace the
origin of the financial disasters, which have
harrassed the people of this country for the
last three or four years. It was in this city,
while enjoying the hospitalities of our munici
pal authorities, that General Jackson, at a
time when his physicians had despaired of his
recovery from a prostrating illness, signed,
in obedience to the solicitous instigations of
Van Buren, Ilenshaw &. Cos. the order for the
removal of the public money from its author
ised place of deposite. It was in this city
that the plan of partizan aggrandizement and
plunder was carried into elfect—and it is in
this city that the fruits of that detestable sys
tem have been developed in the overthrow of
the bank, whicli was the first to solicit and
contract for its portion of the spoils. “We
still have justice here !” The bloody instruc
tions have returned “to plague the inventor!”
The spoilers have been spoiled! The plun
derers plundered!
We can now understand why Mr. Wood
bury refused so pertinaciously, to publish the
returns of the pet banks. We can now under
stand why the gagging system was adopted by
the administration in respect to these institu
tions. Day after day—for months together—
the Whig presses called on Mr. Woodbury for
the returns of the banks under his supervision.
Still he refused to publish them. A mys
terious silence was the only reply to the reit
erated demands of the public. When Mr.
Wise attempted his investigation—what was
the reply ? The President has vouched for
.Mr. Woodbury's integrity and ability, and all at
tempt at investigation was denounced as an issue
with the hero of ,\’ew Orleans. Inquiry was
repelled—investigation was baffled—the just
demands of the public were evaded or treated
with contumely and neglect Mr. Woodbury
knew that the system must explode, and he
was atraid to let the public know it
We are no longer left to wonder why the
leading men of the administration—those who
have enjoyed the facilities based upon the pub
lic deposits—those, who have expanded to an
unnatural degree the banking capital of the
country on that basis—-who were the first to
seize the public money, and then to squander
and misapply it converting it into an instm
inentfor their own aggrandizement and the re
ward of faithful coadjutors—we can no longer
wonder why these men were so strenuously
and anxiously opposed to any investigation in
to the concerns of the de|K>sitories of the na
tional treasury. Their corruptions were too
hideous for the light The event has proved
it One of the circumstances made public by
the explosion of the Boston pet bank is the fact
that six of the immediate friends of the admin
istration in New England, namely John K.
Simpson, Hall J. How, Charles Hood, S. S.
Lew is, Wm. l’armenter, and Isaac Hill, are
collectively indebted to the Commomvcalth
Hank in a sum exceeding the w hole amount of
its capital of §500,000.
Let it be borne in mind that these tremen
dous abuses and corruptions have been perpe
trated and countenanced by men professedly
hostile to the credit system. Had they not
been manifestly laboring l for their own aggran
dizement without regard to popular interests,
we might almost believe that they had origi
nated and provoked these abuses and corrup
tions merely to prejudice the public mind a
gainstthe system to which they were opposed.
We do not doubt that the Globe will pretend
to urge this flagrant instance as an argument
against well conducted banks. Fortunately
the facts in connection with the affair are too
notorious and too recent to operate to the pre
judice ot any but the administration, w hich o
riginatedthe Plunder System.
Who originally selected the Pets, ns places
of deposit for the public money ? The Execti
tive.
Who vouched for their solvency, and guar
! anteed the safety of the public funds ? The
\ Executive.
Who opposed all investigation into the con
| dition of the public revenue, and the connec
! tion of the Deposite Banks with the Treasury ?
I Tio .lljiixntive.
Who was the father and patron of the whole
I scheme—from the first theft of the public mon
eys—down to the final explosion of the Pet
Bank system, and the ignominious failure of
the Commonwealth Bank of Boston ?—The
Executive.
Who denounced the system as w holly un
safe, unsound, corrupt and rotten at the out
set ! The H'higs.
I Who told the people that their money was
!in the hands of a set of banditti, who would
\ soon convert it into “unavailable funds,” thro’
' the instrumentality of the pet Danks ? The
H'higs.
On whom ought all the responsibility of the
selection of depositories—their treachery and
mismanagement—the squandering of the pub
lic money—the explosion* of the Pet Bank
jof New England, and the consequent loss to
i the community, to rest ? The Executive.
Let any one read the labored reports of Mr.
| Woodbtlry, in which he attemps to refute the
j objections of Adams, Clay, Webster, Binney
and Calhoun to the pet banks—to show that
the government would never lose any thing by
i employing them—and to prove their entire
I competency to furnish a “better system of ex
; change, a more sound, uniform, safe (!!!) and
j convenient currency,”—and their ability to an-
I ewer all tlie fiscal purposes of the Treasury
i and of then say on whom the
| responsibility of their explosion should rest—
J on whom, but the Executive and his support
ers !
If the calamities that now oppress the peo
ple had not opened their eyes to the miscon
duct of their public servants, then would they
be deservedly abused and plundered. The
retrenchment of the administratiou has trebled
and quardmpled our annual expenses ; and
their improvement of the circulating medium
lias destroyed the best and soundest currency
that any nation ever possessed—and lias given
us in exchange for millions on millions of a
cres of the public domain—nothing but reams
of paper and bushels of rags !
One word to those who have been induced
by the advertisement of the Collector to ex
change their custom house checks for bills of
this broken pet bank, or who have been paid
their demands against the government within
a few days in the same currency. Let them
appeal to Congress for indemnity and redress.
It is the administration that they should hold
immediately responsible for their losses. Let
the fishermen of Gloucester and Marble
head, wffio a few days since were paid off by
the Collector some thirty-five thousand dollars
in bills of this broken pet bank, petition to j
Congress for relief. Let them claim to be in- j
demnified in the amount of the depreciation j
of the bills, which have been palmed off upon
them,—bills of the administration bank palm- \
ed off by the principal official partizans of the
administration in this city. Their claim is a
good one, and if it is not admitted by a Con
gress, in which the plunder party appear to
have a majority, let them be assured that it
will be udmitted in the next Congress, which
the people will make a Whig Congress.
By those who instigated General Jackson to
the prosecution of that scheme of plunder and
usurpation^of which the explosion of the
Commonwealth Bank is one of the develop
ments, the Hero of New Orleans has been al
most apotheosised as the second Washington
the second saviour of his country. The sa
viour of his country ! ! Let her prostrated
commerce—her desolated marts of business—
her ruined currency—her bankrupt treasury—
her labor unemployed—the loss, the distress,
the despondency, the despair pervading the
community—all the legitimate fruits of the
Experiment—bear witness to the merited dis
tinction !
The Spoils system and the Com
monwealth Bank. It it understood that
the three hundred and seventy thousand
dollars of the public money deposited in
the Boston Pet Bank, which has recently
exploded, will prove a dead loss. This
chosen depository, which was to keep its
proportion of the public treasury more
faithfully and safely than theU. S. Bank—
which was the favored instrument employ
ed by the President in his “humble en
deavors” to improve the currency—has
now nothing to offer for the amount of
the people’s money consigned to it but
worthless rags. Truly the “experiment”
works to admiration.
The excitement in this community, in
relation to the failure of this administra
tion bank, appears to increase as further
facts in relation to it became developed.
The indignation is general and irrepressi
ble. The holders of a large proportion of
the bills are among the poorer classes, and
a considerable amount of the depreciated
paper lias been put into circulation in the
country by the fishermen who were paid
off by the collector in the bills of this
tottering, corrupt, profligate, Van Buren
ized institution, a week or two only be
fore its bankruptcy was made public.
It is reported, that among the list of
debtors to the Commonwealth Bank, the
following names are conspicuous, in ad
dition to those we mentioned yesterday.
Simpson &. Hood (President &,
Cashier) £170,000
Hall J. How 150,000
Alt. Washington Association 100,000
Parmenter’s Glass Company 120,000
We have good reason now to believe
that the directors of the Bauk determined
upon its failure on Thursday, without
giving notice of their intention to the As
sociated Banks of the city. That this is
the fact, we have a right to infer from the
course they pursued. A gentleman was
advised of what had taken place in the
hanking room on Thursday at a late hour
that night, and being assured he could re
ly on the correctness of what had been
told him, he forthwith hastened to the
houses of the officers of the other banks
and communicated the information. As
tonished at the intelligence, and even in
credulous, they promptly decided to take
immediate measures to ascertain the truth
of the report. They succeeded after a
while in finding one of the directors, and
learned to their consternation, that it had
been decided by the Bank to fail.
Anxious to prevent a public calamity of
so overwhelming a magnitude, the officers
of tire associated banks enquired how
much assistance was needed by the Com
monwealth Bank to enable it to liquidate
its pressing demands. The answer was
three hundred thousand dollars.
It was concluded to furnish the sum
asked, hut when a majority of the board
of directors of the broken bank were as
sembled to act upon the proposition, they
declined accepting the assistance. The
motives which led to that determination may
be imagined —we shall not undertake to
j explain them.
Failure of the Middlesex Bank.—
j The Middlesex Bank of East Cambridge,
i which has been a sort of tender to the ex-
ploded Government Bank in this city, and
of which the Hon. Wm. Parmenter, the
Loco Foco member of Congress from that
district, was President until his election
to Congress, has closed its doors and
stopped payment. The capital stock of
this institution is $150,000. Amount of
bills in circulation is said to be 68,000, and
and the probability is that they will event
ually be redeemed. It is understood that
an equal amount of the public money is in
its possession. How does this public
money seem to have contaminated every
one, individual or body corporate, who
ha3 handled the unclean thing ! Like the
wages of sin, it has proved a plague and a
curse to the holder. If it be true that the
receiver is as criminal as the thief, the
retribution, both for the seizure and ac
ceptance of the public money, cannot be
regarded as unmerited. We trust that a
searching operation into the management
and concerns of the Middlesex Bank, will
be made by a Legislative committee, and
that they will let us know to whom its
funds have been loaned, or how the money
has been disposed of.—[Atlas.
A couple of our cotemporaries are engaged
in a profitless issue—to which of the two polit
cal parties of the State is to be ascribed to the
failure of the Internal Improvement Bill. We
have before singled out the friends and enemies
of the bill without any regard to party lines of
distinction, and bestowed upon them accord
ingly, praise and censure unqualifiedly.
We do not ourselves think, that there was
any party identity in the matter. The friends
of the bill lost it by their culpable, their unpar
donable neglect, and dereliction of duty. We
have chronicled their names, and we trust their
constituents will hold them in remembrance.
There are some of whom both parties should
be ashamed.
For ourselves, in future, we will be govern
ed in our choice of those who claim our suf
frages by considerations such as these—The
candidate must be a friend of Internal Improve
ments, and of Education—if he is not —he is
none of us—whatever may be his other qualifi
cations, if he lacks in these essentials, we shall
denounce him as hostile to the interests of the
State, and as no friend of the people.
The press has a controlling influence, let
it be exercised boldly, and the consequences
will be of the most salutary kind. Denounce
every one, without regard to party, who offers
himself as a candidate for the Legislature who
is opposed to Internal Improvements—Extend
the scrutiny to every country in the State,
where the influence of the press can be felt,
and the result will be —a reformed Legislature.
We entirely concur in the above, which we
extract from the Macon Messenger of the 25th
ult, just arrived.
Our dates are three days later from New
York, which is distant one thousand miles than
from Macon, which is but two hundred. This
fact exhibits the excellent arrangement of the
General Post Office.
From the N. Y. Daily Express, Friday Jan, 2(5.
Further extracts from Europe. The
packet ships England, Capt Waite, and Gar
rick, Capt Palmer, arrived yesterday morning
in company, but on account of the dense fog
in the harbor, the England was not reported at
so early an hour as the Garrick, though she
was off tlie Hook the night before. The sail
ing of these two ships across the ocean is very
remarkable. They sailed from this port in
company, the England arriving oft* Liverpool
about half a day in advance, and the passen
gers and the captains going up to the city to
gether. They arrived here in company, and
the ships and passengers came up to this city
in company, which is close sailing for 3000
miles out, and .3000 miles in.
These ships bring no foreign news of inter
est with tlie exception of the fact which they
announce, that there is in the London market
more confidence in American stocks and se
curities, and an improvement in their prices.
New York, Jan. 27.
Eight bats latf.r from Europe. The
London packet ship Philadelphia, is below,
and our papers have been brought up by ex
press across Ixmg Island. The ship sailed
from Portsmouth, Dec. 27, and brings Lon
don papers to the 23d.
The accounts from Florida had created much
sensation in England, and the two parties were
hard at war about it In truth, there is more
like to be war in the mother country than in
Canada. The London morning Herald, a
Tory paper, says, “We have no doubt the
Canadian insurgents have the sympathies of
the democrats of the United States, and that
their ranks will be recruited by American ri
flemen, if they are not already.”
The French chambers were opened on Mon
day, Dec. 17. Louis Phillippe delivered a
speech of usual length. More precautions
were taken than ever before, to secure the per
son of the King from danger. At particular
points the crowd were kept two hundred yards
off.
The cotton market looks better again.
Money affairs have not varied much. Good
mercantile paper was discounted at 4 per cent
per annum.
Liverpool, Thursday Evening, Dec. 21st
half past six. The Shakspeare New York
packet of the Ist instant, (but which left New
York on the 2d) has just arrived. The intelli
gence she brings from Canada is all important.
The country is in a state of rebellion. The
Queen’s troops have been boaton and compel
led to retreat with some loss at St Denis,
where the rebel army is stated by some ac
counts to be 6,000 strong, by others otv’v
2,000.
On the 20th of December, London was vis
ited by a gale of wind, much more severe than
any that had taken place during the season.
In many of the streets almost all tlie public
lamps were extinguished. Several houses in
the western and north-western suburbs were
partially unroofed, and in two instances, large
portions of buildings in the course of erection
were blown down. The gale was highest
about 1 o’clock on the morning of the 21st,
after which it fell considerably.
By subsequent papers we learn that this
storm was productive of disastrous results in
many of the provincial towns. The Mersey
and several other streams overflowed their
banks, houses were blown down, bridges car
ried away, and several lives lost. In Brad
ford the water was six feet feet deep in the
street*
Awful Conflagration Canton papers
received by a recent arrival, contain accounts
or an awful conflagration at Surat, which com
menced in the afternoon of the 24th of April
last, in the house of a Pafsee, by the accident
al setting on fire of boiling pitch. The wind
was high, and the flames spread rapidly, but
the conflagration did not reach its height until
noon the next day, and continued throughout
the night, destroying 6000 houses and 500
lives.
The above account is no dtmbt authentic,—
but what are called houses were probably but
little more than hovels of bamboo cane. The
extreme dryness and combustibility of the ma
terial, accounts for the immense extent of the
fire. [ Ed. Advocate.
In pursuance of an act incorporating the
city of Brunswick, an election was held atthis
place on Monday, sth inst The following
gentlemen were elected to the City Council:
Urbanus Dart, John Franklin, Jr, Andrew L.
King, Charles Davis, James Moore, Henry A.
Breed and George Harrington.
[From the Savannah Republican.]
Another Plot against the Live of
Louis Phillippe. Paris papers received at
New York, are full of the details of a plot to
contrive anew “infernal machine.” A man by
the name of Hubert, who dropped his pocket
book, by which a clue was given to his project,
was arrested at Boulogne. It appears that
Hubert had obtained in he had
apparently gone to consult some skilful me
chanics of London and Birmingham, the plan
of an infernal machine of a very complicated
nature, but whether it was to be constructed in
France or England was not ascertained, nor
was there any thing to show when it was to be
brought into execution. It was thought that
the attempt was not to be made at the opening
of the Chambers. Hubert travelled under the
assumed named of Steigler. Several persons
are said to be implicated, and among them a
permanent magistrate, appointed to his office
about the end of the year 1830.
London was visited by one of its peculiar
fogs on the 2d of December, which continued
from 7 A. M. to IP. M. The street lamps
were lighted, notwithstanding which, the ob
scurity was so great, that vehicles ran against
each other, and pedestrians were sorely puz
zled to grope their way. Among other acci
dents, a stage-coach went bang into the shop
window of Mr. Hoby, the famous boot-maker,
demolishing forty squares of glass. The
coaches leaving town were compelled to have
persons at the horses’ heads leading them.—
Ihe omnibusses were forced to stop running.
Several accidents of a serious nature occurred.
One man was killed by a phmton running
against him, the horse having been frightened.
The thieves and pickpockets took large advan
tage of the fog. It extended over a large cir
cuit.
[1 rom tlie New Orleans Southerner, Jan. 22.}
Destruction of the Steamers Marmora.
Chickasaw and Cumberland , by fre! —
We stop the press to announce an unfor
tunate calamity. This morning at about
half past one o’clock, a fire broke out in
the steamer Marmora, lying at the wharf,
opposite the foot of Girod street, and in a
few minutes she was completely envelop
ed in flames. It was impossible even to
save a portion of the cargo or furniture.
The fire communicated with two other
boats before they could be removed. At
a quarter past 2 o’clock, the Marmora’s
upper works were destroyed and the
flames were raging furiously in the Chick
asaw and Cumberland. Attention was
chiefly directed to the surrounding steam
ers and flat boats, many of which were in
imminent danger. The Alarmora had
arrived only yesterday from Natchitoches,
with a cargo, principally cotton.
Tiiree o’clock—The fire engines, it ap
pears, have arrested the flames in the
Chickasaw, and her hull will probably be
saved.
Another Mail Robbery. The following
letter was received at the Post office in
this city yesterday morning :
“Mobile Jan. 21, 1838.
“Dear Sir.—On the evening ofthe 19tl»
instant, the great mail hence eastward!
was robbed about a mile and a half front
Stockton, and the driver murdered. Your
mails eastward, of the 17th and 18th,.
were in the bags. No description or
trace of the villains has as yet been dis
covered. Yours respectfully.
SAML. L. ERY, Ast. P. M.
W. H. Kkr, Esq. P. M., N. Orleans."
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 24 . The
Mail Robbery. The bags of the great
mail which was robbed on the 19th were
found on Saturday last rilled of their con
tents. Two men who had been lurking
about Stockton, are suspected. The Mo
bile Examiner mentions the arrival in that
city of the mail bags, cut open and spot
ted with the blood of the murdered dri
ver.
Mail Recovered. Extract of a letter re
ceived from George Plitt, Esq. Agent of the
Post Office Department, dated
“Colvmbcs. Ohio, Jan. G, 1838.
We have just returned with the mails robbed
on the 19th September. We found them pre
cisely :r. the epet? pointed out * * * lam
happy to say that nearly one-half of the letter *
mails are yet in a sound condition, and were
not violated by the robbers. Many valuable
letters are among them, and what I most re
joice at is, that Uie letter and money (8518,)
which was sent from Cincinnati to Mrs. Phoebe
Hopkins, the poor widow of a Revolutionary
pensioner, living at Sunbury, O. is one of those
recovered. I have given it to Mr. Brown, who
will deliver it in person to the good old lady
to-morrow, as he passes through that town on
his way to Cleveland. All the letters will be
carefully assorted and sent to their destination
as speedily as possible, with explanations to
the postmasters where sent”
Death of Oseola. The Charleston
Courier of Feb. 1 says “This celebrated
Indian War Chief departed this life at Fort
Moultrie, Sullivan’s Island, on Tuesday even-