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THE ADVOCATE.
BRUNSWICK, (Ga.) APRIL 2G, 1838.
State Rights Ticket for Congress.
ELECTION FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troupe.
WALTER T. COLQUITT, of Mueeogee.
RICHARD W. HABERSHAM,of Haber.ham
EDWARD J. BLACK, of Scriven.
MARK A. COOPER, of Hall.
EUGENIUS A. NESBIT, of Bibb.
LOT WARREN, ol Sumpter.
AGENTS FOR THE ADVOCATE.
Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq.
Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton.
Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq.
Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq.
Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq.
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The present state of this question seems to
occasion great difficulty and dispute. At the
date of the suspension, May 10th, 1837, the
New \ ork Legislature, being then in session,
legalized the suspension of the banks in that
State for one year; at the same time declaring
void the charters of those banks, which did not
resume at the expiration of the year, and for
bidding them to make any dividends of their
profits, while the suspension continued. We
have always had a high opinion of the wisdom
of this law. In consequence of it the New
York Banks have made every exertion for an
early resumption. Their stockholders, anxious
again to enjoy their dividends and for the pres
ervation of their charters, procured a Conven
tion of the Banks in the Union to be called at
New ork in October last. Their meeting
resulted only in the assertion of the principle,
that the payments of specie ought to be resum
ed as soon as possible, but the time had not
come for determining the day of resumption.
They adjourned until the present month, and
are now again in session. In the interval be
tween the two sessions of the Convention but
little has been done by any, except the New
York Banks, to prepare for a resumption on
the !oth of May. The circulation and the loan
of the really good and strong Banks have be
come yery small, but in general they have
not seriously increased their amount of
specie, and at the same time they have
made their dividends of their profits. The
Banks out of New York, therefore, do not con
sider themselves ina condition to resume, while
the New York Banks, a few weeks since pub
licly delared their intention of complying with
the law of their State, which requires them to
resume on the 10th of May. In consequence
of this declaration, the Philadelphia Banks
withdrew from the Convention on the ground,
that as far as New York was concerned, she
was pledged already, and ought not therefore,
to sit in a Convention, which professed to de
liberate upon the expediency and proper date
of a resumption. In reinforcement of the
views of the Philadelphia Banks, Mr. Biddle :
on the 4th inst. wrote a public letter recom- j
mending longer delay, and that the Banks
should still continue their preparations to re-1
sume, —that a sudden resumption, beside pro
ducing a more extreme distress in the mercan
tile community than has yet been felt would
probably occasion another suspension.
On the 31st of March the Directors of the
leading Bank in Boston instructed their dele- 1
gates to the Convention that they were not
prepared for a resumption unless both Phila
delphia and New York could co-operate with
them.
Thus the question stands. The New York
Banks seem determined to resume on the 10th
proximo. Gov. Marcy has ina message to the
Legislature, proposed to assist them by a loan
of three or four millions of newly created Can
al Funds, which, with the preparation they
have previously made to meet a resumption,
will sustain them in the stand they have
taken.
The banks of the other cities will not re
sume at present; but incited by the inherent
justice of the measure, by the example of New
York, and by the strong popular feeling in its
favor, no long delay can be expected in any
quarter. The action of Legislatures and loans
for Public Works will assist and maintain them '
in fulfilling their large obligations to the com-:
munity. Public confidence will soon be re- J
stored and the wheels of business will again j
begin to move in order.
And during all this period of trial and em
barrassment and consultation, what has the
National Government done to relieve the peo
ple. It must be confessed that our rulers have
remained true to themselves and to their prin
ciples. The Government, say they, is for the
office-holders, not for the people. The Gov
ernment has nothing to do with Banks. It does
not concern itself with the general prosperity.
The Administration must receive its debts in
specie, it must pay its liabilities in specie.
The business of the people is no affair of the
Government Acting upon these principles,
they have folded their hands and done nothing,
—nothing to express sympathy with the deep
suffering they have been so instrumental in
producing,—nothing to aid the restoration of a
sound and equal currency to the whole coun*
try.
Within a few days, however, the two seem
ing exceptions to the above remarks have oc
curred. The first is a letter of the Secretary
Woodbury to a New York broker as follotrr
Washinsto.n, March 18, 1838.
Dear Sir : In reply to yours of the 16th
inst. I hasten to remove any erroneous infer
ences from the rumor mentioned. The settled
policy of the Department, and one which it
makes known to all inquiries, is, to promote
the resumption of specie payments by the
banks, so far as its limited powers may permit.
Consequently, it has not, and will hereafter,
purchase specie beyond what may be needed
for immediate disbursement, and in that way
will neither hoard it nor compete with others
for its possession.
All we receive, in any way will immediate
ly be paid out again to defray the appropria
tions.
I make these statements explicitly and
promptly, and have forwarded similar ones to
Boston, in order that no injurious apprehen
sions need be entertained as to the financial
operations of the Government.
Respectfully, yours,
LEVI WOODBURY.
But the above, it will be seen, is no aban
donment of the severe doctrines, which have '
thus far been acted upon. It is only a further j
i enforcement of the monstrous principle.— !
“Rags for the people, Gold for the Govern-!
ment.” The Secretary does not yet propose |
to receive the currency of the people. He !
will not hoard the specie indeed! How can :
* he avoid hoarding it, if he must collect forty I
I millions of specie in a year? Ilow can the j
| Government payments be so rapid that if
| their designs are carried into effect, they 1
shall not have in possession from one third j
to one half the sixty millions of specie that l
are supposed to be in the country? and thus to
maintain a control over the interests and vote
of every man of business in the country.
The other exception alluded to is to be
found in a resolution offered by Mr. Hamer of
Ohio on the Bth inst. The circumstances at
tending the offering of this resolution, as well
as the resolution itself, being rather singular,
we reprint it.
“Considering that the business, commerce,
circulation, and exchanges of the country are
in a deranged and embarrassed condition; and
considering also, that some of the banks of the
United States have expressed a desire to re
sume specie payments, at an early day, Resolv
ed, by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States, that if the banks, or a
portion of them, do thus resume, it will be the
duty of the Government, within jhe limits of its
constitutional authority, to aid such banks [as ;
the present administration design to do,} in re- I
gaining public confidence, and to sustain them !
in their laudable efforts to fulfil their obliga- \
lions to relieve the wants of the community, J
and to restore to the public a sound circulating
medium.”
This resolution seemed to be as great a sur-!
° ,
prise to Mr. Hamer’s friends, as to the opposi
tion ; and it still remains to be seen how far
the Party will act up to it. It is also worthy j
of remark, that the words in italics “as the ad- \
ministration designs to do,'" were clandestinely
inserted by Mr. Hamer, after the resolution
was presented to the House.
A Again we say that the Administration have
done nothing to relieve the oppression of the
country, and with the exceptions above stated,
which, after all, amount but to the merest un
meaning words, they have not even said any-'
thing showing a sympathy with the genera! j
distress.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Latest dates llitli April. But very little of j
interest has occurred during the last week, of |
which we have intelligence from Washington,
Petitions against Duelling still pour in from
the Northern States, and in the abundance of
them the abolition memorials have disappeared, j
Mr. Wise urged upon the House the consider- i
alion of a proposition to recede the District of;
Columbia, to Virginia and Maryland, by whom |
it was granted to onr Government. But the ;
House resolutely refused to bear the proposi- j
tion or to inquire into it in any form. All mo-;
tions in relation to it were peremptorily laid j
upon the table, and in consequence Mr. Wise I
gave notice that he should when the question
arose, join the West in any proposal that might!
be made to Congress to remove the seat of
Government to their section of the country. — {
The appropriations for the Exploring expedi-;
tion arc made, and it may be considered as
determined that it will shortly sail.
With Mexico a crisis seems to be approach- \
ing. A Committee of the Senate have long
had under consideration the numerous insults
to our flag, which have been perpetrated by
the armed vessels of Mexico, and it is confi-'
dently reported, that Mr. Howard, the chair-;
man of the Committee, will report in favor of
immediate hostile proceedings against that
feeble and insolent Government, to avenge j
their repeated aggressions upon our commerce
and the rights of our citizens.
A bill has passed the Senate, the object of
which is to bring into market and sell the pub
! lie lands of inferior quality at reduced prices,
ilt provides that the price shall be reduced
! twenty-five cents per acre, for every five years
: the land shall remain unsold after December
1 next, till the price shall be reduced to fifty
cents, after which the reduction shall cease.—
This bill will probably pass the House of Rep
resentatives and become a law.
Mr. Ruggles has been exonerated from all
, reproach by the following resolution, which
j was reported by a select Committee of investi
i gation and adopted without debate,
i “ Resolved, That there is no satisfactory evi
dence to sustain the charge made by Henry
C. Jones against the Hon. John Ruggles, and
that it is inexpedient for the Senate to take
any further measures in relation thereto.”
The attention of the House has been attract
ed to the difference in the boundaries claimed
' between Arkansas and Texas. It is said that
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
the Texan Government have taken possdWion
of and sold some of our ppblic lands in that
quarter.
Mr. Cambreleng, the “Chancellor of the Ex
chequer,” has been obliged to ask for authority
to reissue the Treasury notes, that they have
been returned in payment of public dues.
No new member has appeared in the constel
lation of the eloquent at Washington, but Mr,
Petriken of Pennsylvania, by his petty objec
tions and continual and trifling interference
with the freedom of debate bids fair to rival
Mr. Previous Question Chushman, of New
Hampshire.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Montreal and Hibernia bring dates
from Europe, twelve days later than we have
before received. The following important in
telligence, as to the English cotton market, is
from the Liverpool Chronicle of 18th March:
1 “During the present week upwards of sixty
I vessels from the United States have arrived at
j this port alone, laden principally with cotton.
The depressed state of the market here, to
gether with this glut, have produced a consid
j erable effect on prices and caused them to re
cede. When this intelligence reaches the
United States it will of course re-act on the
market there with additional force.”
There seem to be several independent pro
jects for establishing a line of Steam Packets
from England to this country. The Sirius is
daily expected at New- York, as she probably
left Cork, Ireland, on the 2d instant The
Columbus, the Itoyal Victoria, and the Great
i Western will soon follow. The last magnifi
cent steamer is thus noticed:
“The new Bristol and New York steam-ship
the Great Western, the largest vessel of her
description ever built in England, seems like
ly to be the herald of anew era in the fine
arts as well as in steam. She is to be orna
mented with fifty splendid paintings prepared
by Mr. Paris, in the light, gay style of Wat
teau, or Boucher, the larger ones representing
parties engaged in all kinds of graceful sports
and amusements, the smaller being personifi
cations, by Cupids, of the various arts and sci
ences. Brother Jonathan, “we guess.” will be
pietty considerably nonplussed when the
Great Western arrives at her destination
across the Atlantic.”
A fine vessel doubtless! But we imagine
Brother Jonathan would cause a most stupen
dous stare 111 John Bull’s honest face, could he
shew him the floating palaces of the Western
Waters, with their magnificent saloons, 10 feet
in height, and 200 feet in length, (say the Sul
tuna and Ambassador for instance) or the fly
ing steamers of the North, racing over the
waters as rapidly as one of Johnny’s own lo
comotives over the land.
There is no other news of interest by these
arrivals, unless it be that great preparations
are making in London, to continue and in uease
the already large shipments of specie to this
country.
NEW YORK CITY ELECTION.
We rejoice to perceive that the Whigs have j
again carried the day in New York. They
have elected a Whig Mayor and a Whig Com
mon Council, but by a verv close vote, and a
very small majority, as appears by the returns
below:
VOTE KOR MAYOR.
Clark, (W.) Varian,(V. B.) Rikcr,(Con.)
13242 338
Clark’s maj. over Riker and Varian, 183. |
Why the vote was so close as to leave the
Whigs with less than 200 majority, is explained
in the fact, mentioned by one of the New York |
letter writers, that “all America and half Eu- j
rope were voting.” In fact the it*, st outrage- i
ous perjuries were perpetrated by the loco-so- j
cos many of them voting twice at different
Wards; and many of them, swearing to res
idence in a Wkrd, which had been secured i
only by a single night’s sleep, with the express 1
view of voting there. The loco-focos had j
abundance of money, and used it freely to j
procure voters and entertain them. But, with
all their most extraordinary efforts, they have
been beaten, and we presume, will now quiet- i
ly resign the City to the Whigs.
ffjTWVe are indebted to our friend of the '
Darien Telegraph, for refusing to publish an
anonymous communication against ourselves.
But, as we do not object to fault-finding, even 1
to a moderate degree of personality, we would
inform the writer of that communication,!
(whose name we neither know nor suspect)
that we would with pleasure publish it our-j
selves, provided it be not too long, and its
language moderate and respectful.
THE BANK CONVENTION.
The New York Courier of the 14th says :
“The Bank Convention met yesterday in pur
suance to adjournment, to receive the report
of their Committee of 18. The report desig
jiiated the Ist of October next as the day of
j general resumption; leaving it open to any
j State or any bank to resume before that peri- j
!od at its pleasure. The object of die report j
j was to name a day certain, by which all the
! banks should place themselves in a position to
j resume.
“On this report the votes in Committee were
13 to 5 viz: Ayes—Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Vir
ginia. North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Mis
souri. Nays—Massachusetts, Rhode Ldaml,
Delaware, Maryland and Mississippi. Tne ac
tion of the Convention on the report of the
Committee will probably be had this day.”
The Journal of Commerce, Saturday, 2 P.
M. says—“ The Bank Convention is still in
session, talking. No vote yet taken.”
[From the N- Y. American, Saturday evening.)
THE BANK CONVENTION.
The report of the Committee upon which this
body is to deliberate to-day recommends the
! first of October next as the day for general re
* sumption, in the faith that in so doing at that
time, the banks will have the co-operation of
the General Government
It is immaterial to New York what disposi
tion is made of the procrastinating expedient
for she must and will resume next month ; and
we hazard little in saying, that her resumption
will induce that of other cities long before the
first of October.
The following is an extract of a letter,
dated “Tallahassee, April 9, 1838:
“Tallahassee is becoming very dull,
strangers have thinned off, and business
is, and has been all the Spring, at a very
low ebb, and we already begin to feel the
approaching ennui of a long and tedious
Summer. We now and then have some
thing to stir us by the way of Indian dep
redations in onr neighborhood, and more
frequently false reports, and give the men
something to talk about. It is, however,
too true, that the neighboring country is
much annoyed, and live in great appre
hension. There have been several depre
dations committed recently, within from
15 to 30 miles of this place, in which two
or three persons have been killed, and
others wounded. On Saturday last, a
man was wounded between this and Mag
nolia, buc succeeded in making his es
cape, being on horse back.
“1 suppose you would like to hear
something of St. Joseph’s and lola; there
are several gentlemen here from that
quarter, among them Dr. , who all
appear to be very sanguine in the future
importance of those places. lola has
been surveyed in part, and about one half
of the lots were sold a few days since,
bringing a fraction undor #BO,OOO. —
Among these were included the most part
of the river lots, some bringing as high as
SSOOO. Dr. says that must un-1
doubtedly be the receiving place, and St.
Josephs the shipping place. They have
already shipped 20,000 bales this season.”
[Charleston Mercury.
East Florida. The Jacksonville
Courier, of the 12th instant, says: “Os
the thirteen* Indian murders, in our
neighborhood, within the last twenty days,
one was of an aged man nearly an hun
dred years of the name of Smith, in the i
neighborhood of Fort Mills. The alarm
was given by his grandson, who had been
wounded and left for dead by the Indians.
The old man urged the departure of the
family, but said he could not go. “If
they kill me, they kill me,” said lie, “but
I cannot run.” The wretches not only
murdered but mangled the venerable pa
triarch !”
(‘’lncreased by the editor of the Cour
ier to 19 or 20, after including the butch
ery of Mrs. Purifoy and part of her fami
ly.—Ed. Savannah Georgian.)
Latest from Florida. The steam
boat Charleston, Capt. llebbard, arrived
this morning from Black Creek. From a
passenger we have derived the following
information relative to the movements of
the army, »Scc. “Gen. *Jcsup, with his
forces, have gone to Tampa Bay. Colo
nel Bankhead, with the men under his
command, have left Key Baskein for
Black Creek. Recently Col. Bankhead’s
(lag was fired on by the Indians: they
were pursued for about fifteen miles, and
he succeeded in taking forty-seven of them
prisoners; one escaped. Col. 8., with
his command, were going into Black
Creek when the Charleston left. There
is but little doubt of tire termination of
the present campaign.— Savannah Hi pub
lican.
[From the American Monthly Magazine.]
Duelling. The real cause of the j
most violent quarrels is very often beyond !
the reach of evidence or explanation,!
and this it is which accounts for perma
nent ami mortal differences breaking out
on a trivial pretext, which scorns like no
thing; Imt is backed by old hatreds, inde
finable slights, rivalries, and hoarded an
imosities. The once notorious Baron
Von Hoffman challenged a man for not
inviting him to dinner, a cause not likely
to be avowed, hut certainly it was the
real one. The Baron had lost his trunk
in the river, with all his letters of intro
duction, and consequently, till more came,
his standing was not well ascertained.
Some persons received him, others dc- j
uounced him; but this latter class the Ba- \
ron, if he could get at them, was always!
ready to fight. lie knew very well that!
the ratio ultima regum, the logic of kings, I
was also the best logic lor impos- j
tors; and if any thought his crcden-[
tiuls were short weight; he was ready to
throw his pistol into the scale. In the
case in question, Mr. J** # * w hom
the Baron met in a certain set where he
had access, was famous for his good din
ners, from which the Baron was always
left out. Weary of this, he called one
day on Mr. R. and spread hi3 credentials,
such as they were, before him, by way ofj
removing supicious which, he said, he
had heard It**** had expressed, and
against which he made a labored argil* !
ment. He left bis papers and desired!
they might be returned with a note ex-j
pressive of the impression they produced,
but R**** returned them in a blank en-|
velope. The Baron thereupon sent a j
challenge, which was left at the door as 1
if it had been an invitation to dinner.'
M rs. It**** opened it, and immediately ;
replied to it as follows:—“Sir. Your note ■
is received. My husband will not have;
any thing to do with you under any cir
cumstances; but whenever you produce
official proof that you have been, aid-de
camp to Prince Blucher, as you say, I
will fight a duel with you myself.
Mary R****”
One story suggests another, and to sto-
ries about duels there is no end. We
will make an end of telling them, howev
er, with one from Boston, where, we are
told, there is a correspondence going on
■till, which began ten years ago with a
challenge. Mr. A. a bachelor, challenged
Mr. B. a married man with one child,
who replied that the conditions were not
equal, that he must necessarily put more
at risk with his life than the other, and he
declined. A year afterwards he received
another challenge from Mr. A., who stat
ed that he too had now a wife and child,
and he supposed therefore the objection
of Mr. B. was no longer valid. Mr. B.
replied that he now had two children,
consequently the inequality still subsisted.
The next year Mr. A. renewed his clial-j
lenge, having now two children also, but
i his adversary had three. This matter,
when last heard from, was '•till going on,
the numbers being six to seven, and the !
challenge yearly renewed.
PORK PACKING.
To one who has never been in the immense
packing whorehouse ot this city, it would he a j
novel, and instructive walk to visit the scene J
of pork operations near the intersection of Ca- I
nal unil Sycamore street. Most of the build- >’
ings are 50 by 150 feet in area, and the entire
space thrown into one room, supported by
great oaken pillars. Oft one side are fixed
the cauldrons and kettles for trying lard ; oil
another, great blocks and tackles, on which
are dissected the carcasses of hogs, prepara
tory to pickling them. Here lies sides, and
there hams; here jowls and there tallow for
trying. Yonder are barrels and piles of salt,
while all around you stand the sturdy cutters,
with cleaver, knife and saw; dirtv and greasy
in clothing—with bloody hands and dark
looks, they stand, a grim and grisly band. On
every side of you are the images of do.itruc- j
tion. In vain will you attempt to escape tin ;
scene, by gazing upon the street, there are;
loiig columns of porkers, covered with mud ; i
grunting and groaning, as they draw their;
wearied limbs along. The yards and spaces
are filled with wagons packing and unpacking,
while the sidewalks are filled with barrels,
rolling and unrolling, piling and unpiling. In
the little counting-room stands the man who
has occasioned ull this stir and din, entering
his weights, and measures and payments, with
the gravity of Solomon and the patience of
Socrates.
What a singular thing is the rationale of so
ciety. These are the last remains of that no
ble animal, who but yesterday careered in lib
erty upon the rich bottoms of the Miami, and
who is now about to be embalmed tor the ben
efit of mankind. Hoon he will float upon the
course ot' the Ohio, and swiftly bo borne, by
the stream, to the distant mart. Perhaps, di
vided in his embahnent; one part will go to
Boston, be snugly stowed in the hold of a fish
ing schooner, and gradually disappear in the
fogs ot Newfoundland. Another will go to
the smith, and a third will be found on the
coast of Cuba. Thus it is—the world is a
great manufactory, where one part works for
another. We eat the sugar of the West la
dies, and the fish of New England, and they
are right glad to get our hogs. Why should
we all quarrel and fret about north, sojith, east
and west? It is all in the family; and a fine
large family it is too. The porkers we slnll
send out, will scarcely make a luncheon for
them. Let us see fourteen millions of men,
women and children, and forty millions of
pounds of Bacon and Lard; it is not three
pounds apiece! Well, there is a plenty more
going from Illinois and Wabash, and Missou-;
ri, and the Des Moines and Salt River itself, j
And then there are lots of flour going to keep;
the porkers company, and upon the whole, if j
the grain is not used to make the people drunk, j
the people will get through this year without j
starving.—[Cincinnati Chronicle.
Pencil Sketch or a Night Scene
in London. “These young men,” said
my guide, “are from your side of the At
lantic, —Kciituckins, I believe: they have
lost large sums of money here, and sus
pecting foul play, are feigning drunken-j
ne.-s, in order to throw these fellows offi
their guard, and with full determination,
should their suspicion he verified to have
either restitution or revenge. Keep your i
eyes upon the dealer: you will sec sport
anon.”
Resolved to assist my countrymen
should their temerity expose them to dan
ger, I waited the elrnoumcnt of the affair
in silence. For some tune, all went on
smoothly and quietly, neither party winn
ing more than a mere trifle, and the pro
ceedings of the proprietors appearing to
be fair and honorable.
At length a very heavy stake was
thrown down by each of the brothers at
the same time, and on the same color—
namely, black. .
“Watch !” said my companion, and I
distinctly saw the dealer place part of the
cards lie had dealt, on the uncle alt pack in
his hand, as he pretended to throw the
former in the basket, in the centre of the
table. The coup proceeded, and black
lost. In an instant a grasp like that of a
blacksmith’s vice was on the throat of the
dealer. “Villain!” shouted the excited
Kentuckian, shaking him- as a terrier
would a weasel, “I’ve caught you at last!”
The croupier, who was vis-a-vis with
his colleague, was immediately seized by
the brother of the assailant, in a similar
delicate manner, and • thus resistance, or i
cry for succor, was rendered impossible.
But they did not attempt either, and!
seemed as much paralysed by fear, inen-J
tally, as they were bodily, by the unrelax- j
ing clinch of their opponents.
“Scoundrel 1” resumed the former
speaker,—“refund to us tho money you
have robbed us of, br it will go ill with
you. You will find the amount there, he
added, handing a small piece oi paper,
with his left har.d, still keeping his dexter
digits firmly twisted in the cravat of his
trembling captive.
“My—dear—Sir!” gasped the wretch,
deprecating, but unwilling to part with his
spoils though shaking like an aspen from
terror, and the choking, “my good—Sir
— we—have—lost so—immensely— late
ly,”
“Top it!’’ said his antagonist, sternly
I “But my” . -
“Tap it!’’ I say, or”
And the click produced by cocking a
pistol, filled up the pause more eloquently
i than words.
“Allow me to go—and fetch it — from
—my —bureau below, —then,” stammered
j the rascal, not forgetting his cunning,
even in his abject fear.
“What? and alarm all your coadjutors?
: No, no, my friend—it won’t suit," repli
ed tho young man: .
! “Fork up, and that instantly, or fake
. the contents of this,” he added fiercely,
jas he thrust the cold barrel of a pistol.
j against the supplicant’s cheek.
The argument was too cogent ttf be
trifled with. Notes to the required a
•iioiiiit were counted out with trembling
hands, by the ballled swindler, and qujetly
transferred to the pocket-books of the
brothers’; who, after giving to two partners
iui iniquity a brace of hearty shakes, by, *
\ way ol receipts, wished them a “w*ry good
j morning, ’’ w alked oft’, and left their unsat
• isfactorv meditators. ' - ,«
Land Office at St. Stephens
in iint! Tho Mobile Register of the
I* tli inst. says—“By a private letter from
that place, we learn that, in St. Stephens
on the 12th inst., the house of James Ma
goffin, Esq.; occupied as the Land Office
lor that District, was entirely destroyed
by fire, ns also was a store house adjoin
ing, the property of Mrs. Caskaden, of
Greensboro. Owing to the praiseworthy
and persevering efforts of the neighbors,
ami others present, the books, &,c. of the
Land Oflici* were entirely saved—not a
l‘oj so tar as can be discovered, being
lost.
Lake Erie.—We are every now and
then astounded by some fact before nevfr
to us, showing the great extent and rapid
growth of population, enterprise, and
wealth in the interior, and especially in the
great \\ estern region of our country.
Such a fact we find in the Cleveland Her
ald of the 4th instant, iri the form of a list
ol steamboats at present employed on Lake
Lrie. The number is more than forty, the
aggregate burden ol which is something
like ten thousand tons. In addition to
I I lose, fourteen others are enumerated that
are now building on that Lake. When
wo consider that twenty-five years ago a
leiv shallops constituted the whole marine
strength ol Lake Erie, we cannot but re
gard with wonder the vast extent of travel
and transportation which now passes over
its surface and along its border#.”
A certain physician at sea made great
oi sea-water among his patients. —
W hatever disease come on a dose of the
nauseating liquid was first thrown down.
In process ol time the doctor fell over
board. A great bustle consequently en
sued on board, in the midst of which the
captain came up and anxiously enquired
tne cause “Oh, nothing, sir,” answered a
tar,“only the doctor has fell into his med
icine-chest!”
livery Marriages. Miss Landon
says, “The only happy niarriges I ever
heard of are those in some Eastern story I
once read, where the King marries anew
wife every night, and cuts off her head in
the morning.”
Enlargement of the Erie Canal.
The hill for the Enlargement of the Erie
Canal passed the Assembly on Saturday.
It appropriates four millions of dollars,
and contemplates the completion of the
work in five years. * 1
I never (said Walter Scott) could eal
the flesh of a creature I had known
while alive. I had once a noble yoke of
oxen, which, with the usual agricultural
gratitude, we killed for the table; they said
it was tho finest beef in the four counties,
hut 1 never could taste Gog or Magog,
whom I used to admire in the plough.
Forck of Habit. The late Lord Tenter
din, while on the bench had contracted «o
strict and inevitable a habit of keeping him
self and everybody else to the precise matter
ill hand, that once during a circuit dinner, hav
ing asked a country magistrate if he would
take venison, and receiving what he deemed
a'n evasive reply, somewhat to the following
effect:—“l thank you, iny lord, Pm going to
take some boiled chickenhis lordship sharp
ly retorted, “That, sir, is no answer to my ques
tion : I ask you again if you will take Venison,
and I vtill trouble you to say yes or no,without
further prevarication.”
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
POUT OF BRUNSWICK.
ARRIVED.
y:td. Steamer J Stone, Mendall, Savannah,
to .1. Bancroft. 4
Steamer Florida, Nock, St.-Mary a,'for
van nah.
SAILED. '
Schr. Nile, Bell, Jefferson.
For Boston.
» The fast sailing sefidon#*
NILE, Bell, will sail on 4* •-
k° ut >t -b April. f Tat freight erf'
passage, having superior irotm
modationt. apply to C. DA.VIS, AdvocstrW
*«•<■■■ ‘ April s.
For Sale
1 \ A A(tA BRICKS, in lot.to •»»
X ‘‘4l./}"/purchasers. If required
they will be carried to any landing on Ogle
thorpe Bay, at .moderate price. Apply lo
HENRY A. BREEO-
Brunswick, Jan. 11,1d38.