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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.