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agents for the advocate.
Bxtb County. Alexander Richards, Esq.
Telfair u Rev. Charles,J. Shelton.
Mclntosh “ James Clue, Esq
Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq.
Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq.
THE ADVOCATE.
BRUNSWICK, (Ga.).._ MAY 31, J€3B.
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 Muscogee.
RICHARD W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham
EDWARD J. BLACK, of Scriven.
MARK A. COOLER, of Hall.
EUGENICS A NESBIT, of Bibb.
LOT WARREN, of Sumpter.
CHEROKEE REMOVAL—LATE AND
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
It seems from the following, which we ex
tract from the correspondence of the Charles
ton Mercury, that on the 22(1 inst., the very day
before the Treaty of New Echota was to have
been carried into effect, a message was receiv
ed from the President, in both Houses of Con
gress, which announced that propositions had
been made to the Cherokees to allow them two
years more to effect tiicir removal, and to
grant them a large sum as a further compen
sation and indemnity. We can easily imag
ine the astonishment and indignation of the
Georgia delegation at this course, for which
they do not seein by any previous consultation
to have been prepared. We can only account
for this late and pusillanimous proposition
on the part of the Government upon one of
two grounds. Either the real difficulties of
effecting a removal arc more serious than we
have vet had reason to believe, or there are in
fluential Government Agents “pulling the
right strings” to induce larger appropriations,
out of which they may reap a more abundant
harvest of “spoils.” Wo incline to tbe latter
opinion.
“At an early hour a Message was received
from the President transmitting a letter from
Mr. Poinsett, Secretary of War, to John Ross
and others of the Cherokee Delegation, now
in this City. This Delegation had laid before
the President a project for anew Treaty bond
on removal and cession. The letter gives the
Delegation their final reply. It offers them con
cessions of a very liberal nature,in the hope and
w ith the understanding that it will reconcile
the w hole tribe to removal. It does not grant
all that Ross requires, but it proposes, with the
assent of the States of Georgia, Alabama,
and Tennessee, to prolong the time allowed
for the removal fortwo years, and to give the
Indians all the necessary protection, mean
while, and even to suffer them to manage their
own removal in their own way, under certain
restrictions. It offers to grant the Cherokees
a patent, in perpetuity, for their new country
West of the Mississippi, which the Govern
ment always contemplated granting to the em
igrant tribes, and agrees that no territorial or
other Government shall be enforced over the
Cherokees without their assent. It considers
a further sum for the expense of removal, and
the payment of arrearages and annuities un
der former treaties, and the continuance of an
nuities granted by the Treaty of 181!*, for two
years, provided Congress shall assent thereto,
but it refuses to allow a sum for the Cherokee
county in addition to the 3 million fund stipu
lated in the Treaty.
Messrs. Clay aud King, of Alabama, Cuth
bert, of Georgia, and others, expressed the
greatest surprise, regret, and indignation at
this movement on the part of the Executive.
They said they had not been consulted in it,
and utterly condemned it, as injurious to the
interests of their States, and well calculated
to provoke a protracted and bloody war with
the Cherokees. They said events had been
brought about in this matter, of which the
Government had no knowledge, by the mur
ders lately committed by tbe Cherokees, at the
instigation of the pretended chief of that na
tion, with whom this negotiation had been
opened; and they moved the Senate that the
States concerned would go on forthwith to ex
ecute the treaty, whatever might be the course
of the Government in regard to it. They
said that the States immediately concerned
would never assent to any delay; and but for
this treaty, Georgia would not have waited so
long for their removal. They spurned and re
pudiated the documents, and would not agree
that it should ever be referred.
(£?“We observe that, under date of May
10th, Gen. Scott issued an address to the Cher
okees, urging their instant removal, and in
forming them that he had come among them
with a large array to enforce it, if necessary.—
Thus it seems, that so late as the 10th inst. he
had not received any notice from Washington
that the treaty would be delayed or suspended,
a fact which renders the present movement at
Washington in relation to Cherokee affairs
yet more abrupt and remarkable.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Latest date, 23d inst. The Treasury note
bill has at last passed, having been violently
forced through the House by main strength,
and escaping very narrowly by the Speaker’s
casting vote only. On the third reading there
was a tie, decided by the Speaker’s vote. The
question of reconsideration too tvas saved only
by the Speaker’s vote, the vote standing 109
to 110.
The rapidity with which this bill was urged
through is worthy of note. It was finally dis
posed of in the House on the 17th. On the
18th it was reported to the Senate in the great
est haste, by the Finance Committee, and on
the 2lst, it was signed by the President and
became a law. Thus lias our Treasury De
partment, being impowered to re-issue its
notes, become itself invested with those Bank
ing powers, against which it haa so often and
so formally declared an eternal war. The
last dollar in the Treasury was issued, and
this bill provides a timdly supply of six mil
lions—‘a supply, which the opposition were
j willing to vote, but not in the objectionable
I form in which it was asked.
I This passage of the Treasury note bill has
| been the most important business of the week,
jif we except the remarkable and astonishing
negotiations with the Cherokees, of which we
have given an account above.
Three millions of dollars are demanded for
the appropriations of the Florida war, and will
probably be granted. Tire occupation of the
| Oregon territory, now in the hands of British
Fur Companies, has been proposed and strong
ly advocated by Mr. Adams, who savs we have
twenty eight degrees of sea coast on Pa
cific ocean, for which we must one day light,
and we may as well tjike possession of it now.
This eccentric gentleman presented a petition
lor his own expulsion from the House, and
moved a reference of it to a select committee.
Mr. Wright, in the Senate, made a long ar
gumentative report against the receipt by the
Government of the currency of the people,
which his loco-foco friends admire so much,
that they have ordered thirty thousand copies
to be printed.
Congress will probably adjourn in four or
five weeks with an immense amount of busi
ness unfinished. They have now before them
one hundred and fifteen bills relating to mat
ters of public concern, and more than seven
hundred private bills. It is impossible that
they can finish more than one fourth of this
number.
SOUTHERN COMMERCE.
07" We last week copied from the Savan
nah Georgian, a communication signed “ A
Georgian,” at the moment supposing it written
for the Savannah print. We since observe
our error, and perceive that it was copied from
the Milledgeville Recorder. It was however,
evidently written by an inhabitant of Savan
nah, with the very laudable intent to build up
that city, and forwarded for publication to
Milledgeville, that it may fall upon the public
with the greater weight, as proceeding from a
more central and elevated point. We have
no fault to find with such a course, but we
trust the writer will confine himself to ascer
tained ficts and not attempt to enhance the lo
cation of Savannah by depreciating others.—
As to his mistateinents in regard to Bruns
wick they happened most opportunely to ar
rive here at the time the Revenue schooner
Madison was about to make soundings of the
Bay and of the Bar. As he appealed to the
authority of officers of the Revenue service,
wo make no doubt that he will defer to it, and
acknowledge his error. We have now the
pleasure to present to “A Georgian” and to
the public the following letter:
U. S. Schoonfr Madison, }
Off’ Brunswick, May 26, 18138. j
Ms. Lyman,
Sir:—At your request, I send you an ex
tract from the “Log” of this vessel on the 25th
inst. At nine o’clock, A. M.—tide 13-4 Hood—
wind N. W. blowing fresh, —stood down tbe
Bay, two men in the chains sounding. The
low est water opposite the City was l(i feet—
soil muddy bottom—the highest3o feet. At
11 o’clock, came to anchor off’ St. Simon’s in
10 fathoms. Just before low water, got un
der way, and stood for the Bar, sounding iti
both chains. The lowest soundings on the
bar at dead low water, spring tides, were 17
feet, the deepest, 4 1-2 fathoms. These sound
ings, l believe, correspond w ith those taken by
Capt. Stockton in 1828, and the Commission
ers appointed bv the lion. Secretary of the
Navy in 18*3(1. Allow me to add, from my
knowledge of this Bar and Harbor, that I con
sider it one of the best on the Southern Coast,
and easy of access and egress for merchant
ships of any class, which also corresponds with
the report of the Commissioners in 18*36. The
anchorage I find to be perfectly good, and if
the bar was properly buoyed out, a ship could
enter without a Pilot.
I am respectfully, yours,
W. A. HOWARD,
Commanding U. S. R. S. Madison.
THE CHEROKEES.
i As men arc ever morn prone to believe the j
| monstrous and uncharitable, rather than the :
J true, the opinion seems to have gained ground
i that in the treaty of New E.chota, which is
nowin course of execution, the Indians were |
! overreached and abused, and that it was in
fact negotiated by those who had no title to
! represent the nation. We are happy to find ;
the proper contradiction to this improbable rep-
I resentation under the hand of John Ridge, a
I full blooded Cherokee Chief, who in all the
j early controversies with the Cberokees, op
l posed as warmly as any one the jurisdiction of
j Georgia over the Indian Country. He now
j sees the impossibility’, that the Cherokees
I should maintain any degree of independence,
j or make the least advance in civilization, ex- j
I cept they remove to the West and execute
the treaty of New Echota. In the true spirit
| of patriotism, he therefore urges the execution
; of the treaty', on the ground that it is condu
' cive to their independence and prosperity, that
I fourteen thousand of his people have already
gone and established themselves in a beauti
ful and fertile country. Ridge has himself
1 visited them, and witnessed their prosperity,
j and the commencement among them of the
i arts of agriculture and civilization. He writes
as follows from New York under date of 28th
ult:
I “It has been asserted that a few vagabond
Indians executed the late Treaty, and that the
Nation is unanimously opposed to it. Is this
' credible? A few make a treaty intJie heart of
BRUTS S WICK ADVOCATE.
the Nation, and live! Unless powerfully sus
tained by their people, and upheld by justice
and the usages of their country, they could
not have stood one year; nay, one month! It
has also been asserted that fourteen thousand
protest against the Treaty. This is impossi
ble, —unless the children and suckling babes
could sign a protest,—when we reflect that
great bodies of the Indians are in course of
removal. JOHN RIDGE.”
SOUTHERN COMMERCE,
j We have placed on our second page the spe
cial report of the Tallahassee delegation to
i their constituents, and we would attract the
j attention of our readers to that able document
! We are happy to observe in the request of the
1 citizens of Tallahassee to their delegation to
j make them a special report, that they feel a
| becoming interest in a subject, so important to
| the independence and welfare of the South,
i The tax which the South now pays for the
j very indirect and circuitous transportation.
| both of the staples she produces, and of the
\ imports which she consumes, is indeed im
-1 mense. It is impossible that it should long
; continue after public attention is attracted to
; it. But beside the interest with which the
j South regards its own immense commerce,
! the amount of that which must flow in upon
her from the West, as soon as her communica
tions with it are complete, is beyond estiina
j tinmtion.
GREAT FIRE AT PADUCAH.
Paducah is a very flourishing and rapidly
increasing town on the Ohio, at the mouth of
the Tencssee river. 'The largo and increas
ing trade of this river makes it a point of great
importance and the approaching connexion of
the Rail roads of Georgia with the valley of
the Tennessee will tend to enhance its impor
tance yet inoio. It will be seen that its loss
by this extensive conflagration is estimated at
nearly two hundred thousand dollars—a calam
ity to the place in proportion to its size as
great as that of Charleston or New York:
Office or the Western Banner, ?
Friday, May 4, 18*38. <>
We issue our extra to announce that our
beautiful aqd onee flourishing town him been
visited by a most afflictive providence. A lire
broke out in Custleman & Co’s, boot store, on
Thursday morning, the 3d inst. between the
hours of twelve and one o’clock, which has en
tirely consumed all the buildings on Water
and Cross streets, west of Main street, togeth
er with most of the contained valuable store
and household goods, and some large sums of
money. All the elegant and substantial brick
buildings on Cross street, west of Main street,
are in ruins.
The buildings on Water street were mostly
of wooden materials, which greatly favored the
spreading of the fiames. A brisk breeze of
wind from the north, too, added much to their
fury, and it was found impossible to prevent
the firing of the buildings back on Cross street.
These being brick, formed a barrier to the
further progress of the fire. The loss is esti
mated at 8185,000. Indeed, the best part of
the town is gone and numbers of our most en
terprising citizens have sustained great losses.
Though the destruction of property is great,
it should be noticed with gratitude that no
lives have been lost. Some of the property,
we hear, was insured—how much we know
not. We were destitute of engines and fire
regulations.
GEN. FLOYD’S COMMAND.
We understand that the Georgia force in
the Cherokee Country, under the command of
Gen. Charles Floyd, amounts to thirty one
companies; in all about throe thousand men.
Os this force about eleven hundred are mount
ed gnnsmen. Gen. Floyd promptly proceeded
to this command,within twelve hours after re
ceiving his commission, and tms ere this es
tablished his head quarters at New Echota.—
He will report to Gen. Scott whose head quar
ters we believe are at Athens.
GENERAL CLINCH.
W e are happy to learn from the People’s j
Press of Augusta that a portrait of this dis-'
tinguished soldier and citizen, now residing in
our neighborhood at St. Mary’s, lias been
painted by Mr. 13. Hcadden of Augusta, and .
by him presented to the City Council. The
correspondent of the Press justly observes as
follows:
“The subject is one which cannot fail to
awaken the most lively emotions in the bos- i
otns of those who are familiar with the char
acter of this good, generous and gallant offic
er. In no way could Mr. Hcadden have con
tribute?) more, to tho perpetuation of those
ties, which will ever bind, tbe subject of liis 1
pencil, to the hearts of our citizens and more
particularly, to the Volunteers in the Florida;
Campaign of ’36, who had the pleasure of wit
nessing his brave and gallant bearing in the
field, and of experiencing his mild and urbane
deportment in the less active duties of the
camp and garrison. Few men of otir acquaint- 1
ance, have those traits, which should ever char- j
acterizc a gallant and good officer, so happily
blended as Gen. Clinch. No one could have
witnessed his conduct in the field and around
the fireside, without feeling the truth of this
remark.’ While he possesses all the inflexible i
fixedness, in the execution of the duties of his
station, which is necessary for a military chief
tain, yet his authority is graced with that
strict regard to the feelings of his subordinates,
! which robs the usages ot the service of much
of that harshness, which almost necessarily
I exists.
“Since retiring from tho Army of the U. S.,
I Gen. Clinch has become a resident of Geor-
I gia. We feel proud to be able to call such
a man a Georgian, and we hope the day will
‘ come when our State will appreciate the vir
tue, the integrity and sterling worth of this ex
i cellent man.
The following very handsome acknowledg
ment of the presentation of the portrait is
; from the City Council of Augusta:
Augusta, May 14.
Sir—The undersigned have been appointed,
: by the City Council ot Augusta, a Committee
j to acknow ledge the receipt of your note of the
12th inst, with the accompanying portrait of
: General Clinch, painted by you, and presented
j to the City of Augusta. ~
W e take great pleasure in announcing to
i von its aceptance, and present the thanks of
Council for such a manifestation of your re
gard; and to assure you sir, of the high esti
mation in which the subject of your pencil is
held, and the respect which the representatives
jof the city are desirous of extending to the
j donor, it has been placed in the Conned Cham-
I ber, in company with the portraits of the ll
| lustrious Washington and La Fayette.
In conclusion, sir, we beg leave to tender
j you our best wishes for your success in a pro-
I session in which you have exhibited talents of
. tbe first order on more than the present occa
j sion. Very respectfully, your fellow citizens,
*C. 13. HITT.
13. B. KIRTLAND,
W. G. NIMMO.
j Committee.
| 07“ We have'-receivcd the: following copy
! of the record of the examination of Charles
L. Barritt, from Darien, with y request that it
* should be published, and this, as it seems to
be an official document, vve willingly do, with
' out however taking any part or expressing any
opinion upon the merits of the controversy,
; which seerns to be going on there }u relation to
1 the melancholy and fatal affray in which these
proceedings originated. Os the facts or cir
cumstancea ot the case we have no knowledge
whaluver.
At Chambers, ICth M iv, 18*38.
■Present Justices Wood, Powell, Palmer and
Cbartier.
The State J ... , r . ..
f Committed tor murder ol
| Charles L Barrit. ) Joseph 1 ag...
| Upon a full investigation of this case, the
examination of all the affidavits filed, and hear
ing of Counsel for the prisoner, the Justices j
unanimously decided that this case was Mnu-
I slaughter, and of course bailable. It is there
fore ordered, that the Prisoner be bailed in tbe
| sum of $2500 himself, and securities named'
to the Court, and admitted in $2500 for hisap- j
| pcarance at the next Superior Court, to an-:
swer to the above charge; and when the same .
I is done, he is discharged on payment of costs ;
1 each security to be liuble to the amount of
I SSOO, and that the prosecutor, Thomas Mc-
Guire, give bond and security in the sum of
| SIOOO.
STEAM BOAT RACING.
We are happy to observe tint the owners of
the Pulaski Steamboat have ordered their boat j
under no circumstances to be drawn into a i
race with the rival boat, the Georgia. The ■
course pursued by the Georgia is deserving of'
public reprobation. She insists upon starting ,
the same day and hour with the Pulaski, and '
lias given notice that should the Pulaski j
change her dates of leaving Baltimore and !
Charleston, she will make tin* same change. j
with the avowed intention or’ driving her rival,
by a ruinous competition, from the line. Under j
these circumstances, we trust the Pulaski re
ceives the reward due to her magnanimity,
and that the public will prefer the prudence of
her management, her thorough build, fast j
model, and copper boilers to the murderous
recklessness of a race boat.
07”Some Western paper in its zeal to sup
ply the world with news and to announce the
commencement of Cherokee hostilities, report
ed tiiat Dr. Brewster, late surveyor general of
the State, had been killed by the Indians. —
This report which we copied in our last, ocea
! sioned great anxiety among the numerous
; friends of that gentleman in all parts of the
j Stale. We arc happy now to be able to con
tradict this false rurnor as it is now announced
.that Dr. Brewster is alive and well at his plan
tation in Floyd county.
THE WEATHER.
The spring still continues cold and back
■ ward. On tbe evening of tbe 25th inst. it was
| so cold at this place that frost was upprehend
* ed, and the cotton throughout the vicinity is
jso backward that a full crop cannot be ex
pected. The same cold and late spring seems
| to prevail throughout the whole country, from
Maine to Louisiana, ns may be seen from the
| following extracts, the one from a Boston and
the other from a Natchez paper:
j A correspondent of the Boston Transcript
j shows, by a comparison of the mean tempera
ture of the month of April from 181!* to 1838
1 inclusive, tli.it the temperature of April 1838.
; was colder than any of those which proceeded
it, the mean range of the thermometer being
40 degrees.”
( “They had frost at Natchez on Tuesday, the
| Bth of May.”
i V. e regret to observe the decease of the
I Hon. Ja mks Govj.ii, of Littlefield, Connecticut,
| the founder of the first and most numerously
| attended Law School that was ever establish
ed in America. Every State in the Union
I numbers among her most eminent citizens
more than one of his pupils, and many men of
professional distinction, throughout the whole
country, will regret his decease, as the loss of
|an able instrnctor in an intricate science, to
' whom they are in no small degree indebted
for their present fame and usefulness.
NORTH WEST PASSAGE.
As will be seen below, this question, to de
-1 cide which so many expeditions have been fit
ted out, and so many Jives lost, has at last
solved, and that too, by a private expedition of
' the Hudson’s Bay Company. It appears then,
; that there is a passage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific to the Northward of our continent; but
that it is, too far in the region of perpetual frost
! to be of any practical commercial use :
j Thf. Great Arctic Problem Solved.—
• One of the most important geographical dis
j coveries of the age (says the Journal of Com
merce) is made known to us through the Lon
don Morning Chronicle of April 19th. It is
no less than a solution of the long pending
problem whether* or not there is a communica-
tion by water from the Atlantic to the-Pacific I
Ocean, around the northern portion of the A- I
merican continent. It is now ascertained that
there is such a communication. The narrative .
of its discovery is published in the Morning I
Chronicle.
j The following abbreviation of the contents
of this interesting narrative is copied from the
! New York Evening Post of Monday:
j “The scientific expedition undertaken at the,
! expense of the Hudson’s Bay Company, to sur
i vey the extreme northern coast of America,
I has, in part, fulfilled its object. Messrs. Dease
and Simpson, with ten attendants, reached
Fort Good Hope, the northermost settlement i
;of the Company, on the 4th of July last, and j
j descended the Mackenzie river in boats. They 1
' reached the ocean on the oth of July, and, 1
| proceeding westerly, followed the line of coast
Ito Point Barrow. They thus completed the
I survey of the coast bet ween the extreme points
laid down by Capt. Ilcechey and Capt. Frank
lin.
“They passed a few days with the Esqui
maux at the Point, and. setting out on their
i return, reached Fort Norman on the 4th of
September, having been sixty-four days ab
sent. From Fort Norman, they were, at the
time the despatches were «cnt, preparing to
proceed to a settlement which had been got j
ready for them at the east end of Great Bear j
Lake, lldre they were to winter, and in July I
j next to resume their labors. Proceeding to !
the eastward, they hope to connect the dis- |
1 coveries of Franklin and Back, and then com
| pletc the survey of the whole coast Os North
America.”
1 Connecticut .Senator. Gen. Kimhcrlv
of New Haven ins been elected .Senator from
Connecticut after 4th March next, in place of
John M. Niles, whose term then expires. By
tliis election the Administration have lost a
ncther vote in the Senate.
07® We observe that Gen. Jesup and suite
passed through Charleston last wee!; c:i their
wuv to Washington.
Mississippi Election. This election, so
long agitated, and which has excited so
much interest, having been twice contested in
the House of Representatives, has at last been
decided by the victory of the Whigs. Messrs. I
Prentiss and Word are elected by a majority i
of about 1000.'
ABOLITION.
From the following may be seen in what
manner the Abolitionists are received in Phil
adelphia:
Correspond cnee of the Southern Patriot.
Philadelphia, May 18. 18*38. |
Abolitionism is forever prostrated in Pbila-1
delphia! and the scenes for the last two or
three days will nuUsomi be forgotten.
For nearly a year past, a very large and )
handsome building lias been erecting in sixth i
street below Racestreet, whose objects appear- 1
cd unknown to all, while its size and quality j
plainly showed it to be for public purposes.—
On Monday last it was announced tint Penn-!
sylvauiu Ilall, (for such it was called) would I
bo opened the next day mid public lectures and |
addresses would be delivered: it was accor-'
dingly opened on Tuesday and during the dav '
and evening übolil'on addresses were deliver
ed ! v the ! '.wittcil lecturers; the audience
was;. pro miser avs assemblage of whites and
blacks : the saloon was very large, unequalled
in the Union in beauty or size, and was filled ;
with the motley assembly. No molestation !
v;.s offered to them on tint day; on the next i
day (Wednesday) the exercises were repeated, i
and the notorious Garrison delivered one of'
his exciting addresses, and after the afternoon ;
meeting, the females and males, black and i
w hite, walking together arm in arm, left the j
I building—tins fired the populace, and in the i
' evening, every pane of glass in the building !
was broken hut no further injury was done : j
, the building was built in the most substantial j
. and durable manner, and resisted the ordinary
j attacks, and it was hoped the demonstration of
j public opinion on Wednesday evening w ould I
j have restrained them for a time; but the de- i
j luded fanatics were determined to go the j
1 length of their tether and announced that the !
; exercises would again be had on Thursday.— j
Universal indignation was now aroused and !
they were warned by the police, that the con- j
sequences would be as they were, if they met!
again on Thursday. On Thursday they met,:
, and had the usual addresses, and on the eve-1
: ning immediately after dusk, there Was col
lected in front of the building a very large as
semblage and prudence overcame valor and
i induced the fanatics to absent themselves for
j the night. But the spirit was aroused ; and
the mob broke into the building with battering- 1
rams and iron ban-, piled together the bench- 1
es, shavings, books, (for the building was an
I Anti-Slavery Book shop) and lighted them and
the building, in a dozen different places. The)
| gas was turned on into the building to make
i the conflagration more vivid aud total destruc
: tion certain—the alarm hell was rung, and at
i half past nine o’clock, upwards of *30,000 peo
-1 pie had assembled ; e ■c 1 1 knew, upon hearing
the alarm bell, what was the matter, it was
\ only a realization of anticipation, an 1 the firc
| men, (to their credit be it said) ah stained from
; putting a drop of water on the accursed build
i >»*&
i The neighboring, the adjoining and the op-
I po3ite houses wore carefully protected, and
! the Herculean, efforts of the firemen suffered
to preyont the destruction of any other proper
ty; the fiames were intense and immense and
frame buildings immediately adjoined it. It
' continued actively to burn till midnight, and
! even now a flame is smoldering in its ruins,
j No noise, no riot, no blow struck, all peacea
| blc and orderly and the building consumed
i without injury to any one or to any other pro
| perty ; no restraint was laid upon the firemen,
| but their feelings justified the measure and
| public opinion unanimously approves it. The
i wretched fanatics boast that they will build
another, if this were dear, itrivouW meet a sim
j ilar doo.n ; hut it ccmnot 6? ; the building can
! not be erected and each clays work would bo
j as promptly destroyed on each corresponding
| night.
. Nothing now is left but the blackened and
| decaying walls, to tell the folly of its projcct
( ors; but I fear we will have to pay for it, as
| there is a law making the County liable for
i damages done by a mob or in a riot. This'is
a small matter compared with the good we
have derived—for two or three years past it
j has been essayed to make Philadelphia the na
tional head quarters of Abolition; last night
! shows that attempt to be useless, and as I be
tore said, no such hall can ever be built in
Philadelphia. Our decent blaeks are qppoaed
to this curse; it tends to injure them and
causes them to receive worse treatment than
| otherwise they would. A black, a few min.
! utes since, remarked to me that “the blacks in
I Pennsylvania are very well satisfied; let the
j Abolitionists go to the places of dissatisfao-)
tion and not come here throwing a fire brand’
among us.” .
A trip to the South would, we think, im
j prove the health of Garrison, Scott, Buffum
| and some others, and unless they use more pru
j dence than they have heretofore done, they
| will find Philadelphia as hot as a Southern'
* clime. Your ob’t serv’t, A. B. C.
I " r
The Baltimore Forgery. Mr. Bromwell
had been long engaged in business, and had‘
heretofore borne a high character for probity '
and fair dealing as a man and a merchant.
For some time past, however, his business'af
fairs had been in an unprosperous condition;
and it appears that lie had been in the habit of
fortifying his applications for funds and mer
chandise, with tho paper of country customers,
lodged as collateral security. In an evil hour,
and no doubt in the vain hope of beiilg able
ultimately to retire such paper without detec
tiuii or wrong to any party, he resorted, it ap
| pears, to the criminal act of forging those se
j curdies. When once commenced, the
jto ruin was swift and sure! In such a career
j there is r.o stopping place, and nothing scarcely
j short of a miracle can enable the unhappy ac
tor to escape detection; and detection in such
an act, with whatever motive or delusive hopeN
of repairing the wrong, is, to a sensitive mind,'
the most grevious and heavy punishment Oh!
then, let men beware of swerving even for atf*
S instant, and on any pretence of necessity, or
allurement of hope, from the straight line o£
rectitude; and let them be sure that once to
depart lrotn this is to lament it forever! The
amount of the forgeries, in this case, are not
perhaps yet accurately known, but are report
ed as being upwards of sixty thousand dollars. “
[Baltimore Patriot.
The following account of the mad reckless
ness of the Captain of tho Moselle is contain
ed in a letter from one of the survivors, pub
lished in the Philadelphia Ilerald and Senti
nel:
“When the boat caino alongside the raft,
the Captain told the engipeer not to let off an
inch of steam or he would blow hifubrains out.
It seems that there w*as no water in the boil
ers, —nothing but red hot gas. One of the 1 "
engineers lived until tbe next day and stated
this.”
Beacon Course, Hoboken. The following-;
is the result of tho two mile race May 16th,
over this course : *
R. F. Stockton’s hr. h. Ijongford 211
Wm. R. Johnston’s b. h. Suffolk l 2 ?
J. 11. Coster’s ch. h. Ajax *3 dint.
W. McCoon’s br. h. Emilftis 4 do.-'
Time, *3 50, 3 46,3 56.
APPOINTMENTS BY TIIE PRESIDENT.
By and with the advice and consent of the
.Senate.
COLLECTORS of the customs.
Archibald Clark, St. Mary’s, Ga. from Gth
May, 18*38.
John P. Osborne, Sagharbor, New York,
from 10th May, 1838.
¥
Petrifactions Extraordinary. Agfra-'
nine Jonathan, sojourning on the banks of
Lough Neagh, says, in proof of tho petrifying
properties of its waters, that an old fielierman
in that neighborhood, known by the' sobriquet
ol Hugo Trout, has immersed his legs so long
and so often in the Lake, that they have pet
rified, and he now always drones his razors up
o.i what used to be his shin bones.
Do not the loco focos shake in their shoes?
[Fred. Arena.
They would if they had any shoes to shake
in. [Prentice.
A \ ifginia factor wrote to his correspond
ent—“./Joicn freights are at this time very high;
hut lain in hopes they will fall both up and
doirn." * *
Never marry a widow, unless her first hus
band was bung, or she will always be drawing
unpleasant coinparifhns.
A cautious Widower. In a village of
Picardy, after a long sickness, a farmer’s wife
fell into a lethargy. Her husband was willing
good man, to believe ber out of pain, and so,
according to the custom of that country, she
was wrapped in a sheet, and carried out to be
buried. But, as ill luck would have it; the
bearers carried her so near a hedge, that the
thorns pierced the sheet, and ivaked the wo
man from her trance. Some years after, she
died in reality; and, as. the funeral passed
along, the husband would ever}' now and then
call out—“ Not too near the hedge, neighbors!
—not too near tbe hedge.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
PO It T OF 15 It UNSW IC K .
ARRIVE!'. . 9
G; br Betsey .Maria, Urockinton, Savannah.
Sloops Argo, Taylor, and T. B. King, Law
rence, do.
s a i r. i: and .
U. S. Revenue Cutter Madison, Howard, St.
Mary's.
Ar at Charleston 22d, schr Isabella, Crow
ell. hence.
Police.
\ TAX of three-eighths per cent, lias been
- assessed upon ail property in the city of
Brunswick. Owners of lots are requested to
make returns to the subscriber, and pay their
taxes to Doct. Gee Dlprel, City Collector.
A. L. KING, Mayor.
Brunswick, May 24. 1838. , .
N. B. The Savannah Republican and GeqjpF
gia Journal, are requested to give the ab©re
four insertions aco forward their accounts t©'
the subscriber.
JOSHUA GRIFFITH, t^T
PAINTER, Glazier, and Paper '
Sign and Ornamental Fainting executed,'
and orders lroin the country punctually attend-’
<,d to Brunswiek, April H
lßlacksiaitli.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the'
citizens of Glynn County, that he has
established himself in Brunswick, and would
be pleased to receivo-ahy orders for work in
his line. From bis knowledge of the businetw
be flatters himself he shall be able to give sat
isfaction to all who may favor him with their
patronage. JONATHAN R. DOW,
May 17.