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[From the Southern Recorder.J
Messrs. Grieve Si. Orine:
Gentlemen: —Tlie Ist of May is ap
proaching, when it will be put to the test
whether Georgia shall remain saddled
with an overgrown Legislature, who have
for years been endeavoring (though per
haps unconsciously) to reduce this fine!
country to a state of poverty and degrada-J
non: incompatible with her station and
rank in the United States. This is no
ideal picture. Look at the state of our 1
finances, not a dollar in the treasury, but
the State deeply in debt; a government
obliged to borrow— yet the Legislature
neglecting or refusing to give the means
of doing so, by authorizing them to sell
State Scrip, the only kind ofstock that will
sell in the money market at present.
W lietner this was carelessness or done
with a view to embarrass the government,
is a question of doubt I'ul import. But in ei
ther case the Legislature have been high
ly culpable, especially at this time when
Georgia is struggling to maintain her
equality amongst her sister States, who are
using every means to go ahead of her in
securing the trade the Southwestern
States, which her geographical position
would have given her a decided advantage
in. But let us calmly and dispassionate
ly review the conduct of those who hare
been sent by the people to’ watch over
their interests, and to enact good and
wholesome laws for them. Have they
done so? Open the statute hook ol Geor
gia, and what do wo see? Why, the leg
islative halls the arena of political, or
rather parly discussions, which were bet
ter calculated to inflame the passions of
the multitude, than to he of any real good
to the State. Several Conventions have
been held with a view of rescuing us from
llie thraldom which our own supineness
and the preponderating power of the North
have been the means of entailing on us.
lias the Legislature responded to the voice
<d the public on this important question?
\ cs, they passed a lull authorizing limit
ed partnerships; but the most important
lull ever brought before them, was thrown
out. I allude to the bill which would
have relieved our suffering planters, by
encouraging the influx of foreign capit
al into the State, bv pledging its word for
the liquidation ol the debt: a course pur
sued by all those States that are solicitous
lor the welfare of their citizens. This 1
would also have enabled our merchants to:
c iinpnte w ith those of New York or
ChncJeston, in our own market at least, a
thing which they are unable to do under j
the existing state of affiirs.
I could easily prove the utter impossi
bility of Georgia’s reaping her full share)
<d the Western trade, without a great ex
tension of her banking capital, but will
reserve it for a separate article. We
could hardly have expected better from
the heterogeneous mass which annually as
sembled to legislate lor Georgia—so dis
proportions! to tin* population of the State
when compared with some ol the largest
and most populous States of the Union.•
W e shall see that those which have the
fewest legislators, are in general the most
prosperous. “One fact is worth a thou
sand assertions.”
We shall commence with our neighbor
South Carolina. Compare her situation
with ours, although she suffered so lately
by lire. But Ins that cramped her ener
gies? Far from it, “she is rising like a
jdinuiix from her asjics,” chit lly through
the wisdom and firmness of her Legisla
ture, and bills lair to leave us far behind
in the race for the Western trade. Her
population surpasses ours, yet she Ins on
ly 43 Senators, and 1*44 Representatives.
Next wc shall take a view of Kentucky
with a larger population than Georgia,
and only 3S Senators, whilst her repre
sentation is limited to 100 in tuture.
Vv ith tins limited number she is enabled
to pursue her career of internal improve
ments, w ithout embarrassing her govern
ment, or draining her treasury.
But wli.it shall we say of Ohio, who
outnumbers us in the ratio of4 to 1,
whilst she has hot hall t lie number of leg
islators? Survey her splendid canals, her
railroads, with other works of internal im
provement; with the ample means to car
ry them into execution mainly through
the wisdom and foresight of those she
chose to watch over her inletests.
Ma'ryland, with a population of 500,-
000, has 40 Senators, and SO Represen
tatives. She was the first State in the
world that placed mankind on an equal
looting, with regard to religion. Her
Legislature was at *o period of her histo
ry great, still she has enjoyed as much
contentment and prosperity as any in the
Union.
Louisiana lias only 17 Senators and)
B 4 Representatives, and until 1037, was
aery prosperous.
Lot us turn our attention to Virginia,!
the parent State of the South. She lias
more than double our population, yet sliej
continues to got along pretty well with)
only 24 Senators, ller Lower House is
composed of 2 from each comity in the
State.
Pennsylvania comes next in review.—;
Her representation is limited to 100, but
site does not send so many at present.— )
ller Senate cannot amount to more than)
33. Contemplate her vast resources; her
60,000,000 of banking capital; the pros
perous state of her finances; her stupendous
works of improvement, and say, was a nu
merous Legislature the cause of all these
advantages which she now possesses. No
man who is yersed in the history of his
country, but must acknowledge the re
verse to lie the fact Still she does not
possess the natural advantages Georgia
does.
Lastly, view the Empire State, New
ark; survey her works of internal im
provements, unparalleled in the history of
the United States, and perhaps Europe;
look at her gigantic canals, connecting in
a great measure the Eastern and Western
sections of the Union, contemplate her
immense hanking capital, both tinder tlvc
old and new banking systems, arid say,
what lias been the primary cause of all
this prosperity. Why, a wise and benefi
cent legislature, which first taught the
American people that to encourage foreign
capital to centre here, was the best way to
ensure prosperity. Her example lias been
followed by most of the States, who have
borrowed money in Europe, at low interest,
on the faith of the State. Why did not
our bloated legislature copy Ncw-York,
in this as well as in the Free Banking Law?
the only good measure passed the last
session. This State has thrice the number
of inhabitants that Georgia has, and not one
half the number of law-makers.
Enough has liecn written to prove, that
it is notlhe number of legislators that is
the cause of good laws being enacted; but
quite the contrary. But even if there was
no other cause for a reduction in our rep
resentation, the state of our finances, the
vast expense incurred by supporting such
a host of Representatives, hut above nil,
the voice of the people demand a reduc
tion. And no wonder they do, when they
hchold the Stale without funds or public
lands, paying live dollars per day to 800
persons, to make laws for them. The As
sembly generally sit seven weeks annually, |
at an expense of $63,000 for the session, >|
w ithout taking into account the contingent i
expenses, or the salaries of the different <
officers employed by both houses; which I
amounts to a large sum annually. j'
“This is paying pretty dear for our '
whistle, ’’ hut this is not tlie worst of it, 1 ;
for /Constituted as the law is at present I
there is a number of persons who are re- I
turned, for both houses, who would reu- I
dcr the State an essential service by stop- <
ping at home instead of being Marplots |
m the way of talented and patriotic men I
who would have enacted salutary laws for ;
the State, instead of the crude and indi- ;
ge.sted mass that disfigures the statute hook i
of Georgia from the time of the Yazoo i
speculation to the present day. It is said i
by some, if you lessen the numbers you t
increase the responsibility. Granted. It 1,
is the want of a proper responsibility that
has been the primary cause of our defoc- |
tive Legislation. It prevented talented '
and highminiled men from offering as 1
candidates when they saw so many jolter
heads returned annually. There are seri-!
ous objections to the law-which calls the
Convention. It leaves it to the people to
send members to that body, and yet pre
scribes laws to it. It tells the Convention,)
(aye and makes them swear too) that this
far thou shall go, and no further. Here;
they have placed the members between
the horns of a dilemma, for by their oath
they are prohibited from reducing the!
members to less than one in each countv.
Now such counties as Chatham, Rich
mond, Muscogee or Newton will think it
very hard that they will not have the privi
lege of sending more than Bulloch, Brvan,
Mclntosh or Emanuel. llcnco dissatis
faction will follow, except the numbers be
increased to such an amount as will not
satisfy the people. The consequence may
ho that they will not ratify', so there will
he an expense entailed on the State with
out any adequate benefit. The members
of the Convention should not have been
'trammelled in such a manner. They
j should have been left to the dictates of
their own judgements, or the wishes of
their constituents. That part of the act
relative to the reduction of the Senate is
singularly defective. It specifies that the
State shall be laid out into 40 senatorial
; districts with I Senator for each 4 coun
ties. Now we have 9B counties, and how
this will be devided into 40 Districts with!
only two counties to each, the collective
wisdom of the State can best explain. It
shows the careless manner in which things
have been done,•and calls loudlv for a re
form, and such a one as will satisfy the!
people. It is to be hoped that party spirit 1
will not prevent the citizens of Georgia
from sending to the convention the most
honest and patriotic of tluur number—men
who will not sell their hirtli-right, lint act
lor the good of the State to the best of
I their abilities, and as tlicir business is nar
rowed to one particular object, there is
j little room for debate. That they mav
settle this to the satisfaction of the people,
is the sincere wish of C.
Loafer Courtesy. —A gentleman re
ceived in change at the Baltimore Post
i Office, twelve and a half cents, when,
turning to a friend at his elbow, lie invited 1
1 him to Eterenan’s to take a glass of wine.
His friend declined, when lie pressed
the invitation by observing that he really
wanted a glass of wine but disliked to
drink alone.
At this moment an “individual” who)
5 carried the insignia of his class, at his el
bows and “all round his hat,” stepped up
and tipping his beaver, observed in the
j most obliging manner that as the genllc
| man objected to drinking alone, and the
other gentleman objected to drinking at
all, lie begged him who thirsted to com-!
maud his services, and he would be ex
tremely happy to taka a "horn” with him j
| then or at any other time, provided he al-;
lowed him to choose his own liquor, as lie
never liked to take any thing stronger:
than brandy.—[Balt. American.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
[From the New York American ]
Gen. Scott.— Again through the pa
cific and civil services of this distinguish
ed man, great and near danger of war lias
been averted from these United States.
His honorable services in the field, his
repeated triumphs of peaceful mediation,
his comprehensive patriotism, his intel
lectual attainments, and his pure and dis
interested character—lend a weight to his
agency and interposition, whicli attaches
in the same degree and kind to no other
name in our land.
And now what forbids, that having by
universal consent rendered inappreciable
services to his country, he should receive
the highest honor of that country? About
other prominent individuals there are con
flicting opinions concerning General
Scott, there is but one mind. If, then,
the palm is to be awarded to desert in va
ried fields of service—if merit, and nei
ther favor nor party, is to win the honors
and high trusts of the republic—where
shall we find more merit than in Scott?
The voice of party is hushed when he
is spoken of—the mercenary calculations
of intrigue live not in the same atmos
phere with his straight-forward and manly
nature. If the country is, with the bless
ing of God, destined to maintain its ca
reer of honorable and advantageous peace
—no one is more sensible of the benefits
of that condition, or would he more so
licitous to preserve them, than General
Scott. If the hydra of disunion, or nul
lification—whether at the South or at the
North—should attempt to rear its hideous
head, wo have, in the past, an ample
pledge of his energy and promptness to
put it down. The violent and proscrip
tive spirit of party, which now, in fact,
converts hretheren of the same hearth and
household, into rival and hitter factions,
would he measurably allayed by the ad
vancement of one, who has never known
any party but his country, and who. as
he is emphatically an American, is con
fided in alike by all Americans; and final
ly, if—following the path which has led
other republics to their fate—we will
plunge madly into war—in his arm and
heart, in his experience and science of that
art, superiority in which, because it blasts
and destroys, seems to fascinate the pop
ular gaze and favor—vve have assurance
that, what man can do, he would do, to
carry the nation on through victory, to
the accomplishment of the ends for which
war should he undertaken.
If these views be correct—why, vve re
peat, should not (iencral Scull —the sol
dier, the civiliian, and the true-hearted
American—he the next President of the
United States, by the voice and acclaim
of the pmple thereof?
We add the annexed paragraph which
vve have just noticed in the Courier of
this morning, in confirmation of our own
views respecting the character, services,
and destiny of Gen. Scott.
Referring to his recent civil successes,
the Courier says:
Imperishable ns are the military honors
won by the hero of Chippewa in the war
of ISI4, the civic wreath which he has
acquired during the last four years, is
destined to give him a still stronger claim
upon the gratitude of his fellow, citi
zens, and to his name, a brighter and
more elevated place on the page of histo
ry. Years ago, we pointed to him as one
vVlio, if his life was spared, would soon
er or later he elevated to the very station
from which General Jackson, at the in
stigation of Josup and Blair (pur nubile
frut rum) sought to cover him with dis
grace and contumely. Since then, the
North and the South—the Fast and the
West, have alike witnessed his devotion to
his country, and his rare combination of
great civic with the highest order of mil
itary talents: and the period is not far dis
tant, when he will he called upon to fill
the Chief Executive Chair of that coun
try to which his life has been devoted,
when it will be a difficult question for
casuists to determine, whether he will
owe his elevation to Ins long established
military reputation, or to his more recent
serv ices as a statesman and a diplomatist.
S.fvAXN.vii, April it, 1839.
Forty five suspicious persons were ex
amined yesterday, by his Honor Robert
M. Charlton, Mayor of this city, with
the view of ascertaining whether a clew
could be had to discover the authors of
the several incendiary attempts which have
hern recently made to lire the city.
The Mayor bestowed every attention on
the investigation, and the Marshal and
officers ot the City Guard, were in prompt
attendance.
Alter a most patient inquiry, three per
sons were committed to jail, not on ac
count of suspicion of arson, but because
they could not give a satisfactory account
of themselves.
The exertions of the Police is deserving
of much praise, and vve hope they will con
tinue their labors, until confidence is re
stored.—[Georgian.
At a reent ‘fancy ball’ in Washington
it was understood that every person was
to dress in character, and an usher was
stationed at the door of the saloon, to an
nounce to the company within the dif
ferent characters as they entered. Two
young ladies appeared at the entrance.
“Your characters,” asked the usher in a
whisper. “We do not intend troubling
ourselves to-night,” said the young ladies.
11 Tiro ladies without any character a,”
bawled out the usher at the top of his
voice.
i The Never-Failing Argument.—Toj
the charge recently made by Mr. Graves,!
member of Congress from Ky., that the
Post Master General kept in office “a
wretch who was guilty of forgery and
counterfeiting, and who escaped the fangs j
of the law only by turning States’ evidence,
1 and that these facts were known to the
Post Master General,” Mr. Kendall re
plies, denying the charge, and apologizes
for ignorance of the character of his sub
ordinate, because that, “In December 1
1830, the files of the Appointment Office
! were destroyed by the lire which con- )
sinned the Post Office building. On'
those files were probably papers then re-,
ccntly received, giving the character of,
Smith, and their destruction saved him
from removal at the time.”
This argument of the conflagration
stands the party in good stead in all its
straits and difficulties. If accounts can
not he balanced, if money is missing, if
this or that officer is suspected of criminal
remissnesa or malversation in office, the
ready response is the Fire! the Fire!
This everlasting argument of the Fire re
minds us of the memorable expedient of
honest Caleb Balderstone in burning Wolf s
Crag to preserve the credit of the family
of Ravensvvood. We copy the account of
the circumstance to which we allude, that
the reader may see liovv precisely parallel
the two cases are:
“Now this fire, said Caleb, for fire it
sail be, if I sniff burn the auld stable to
make it mair feasible—this fire, besides
that it will be an excuse for asking ony
thing we want through the country —this
lire will settle mony things on an honor
aide footing for the family’s credit, that
cost me telling twenty lees to a wheen idle
chaps and queans, and ivhot’s maur, with
out gaining credence.”
“That was hard indeed, Caleb, (said
Ravensvvood) but i do not sec how this
fire should help your veracity or your
credit.”
“There it is now, (said Caleb) —wasna
I saying that young folk had a green
judgment. How sold it help me, quotha?
it will he a creditable apology for the hon
or of the family for this score of years to
come, if it is vveel guided. Where’s the
family pictures? says ie meddling body—
the great fire at Wolfs Crag, answers I.
\\ here’s the family plate? says another—
the great fire says I: Who was to think
of plate when life and limb were in danger?
i Where’s the wardrobe and the linens?—
\\ here’s the tapestries and decorements?—
beds ot State, twills, pands and testers,
napery and hroidered wnrk? The fire—
the—lire—the fire! Guide tiie fire vveel.
, and it will serve ye for a’ that yesuldhave
and have not —and, in some sort, a gudr
1 excuse is better than the tiling themselves;
IBr they maun crack and wear out and be
consumed by time, whereas agude offcome,
prudently and creditably handled, may
| serve. Lord kens how long!”
\ crily, Mr. Amos Kendall and Mr. Levi
\\ oodbury have studied to some profit the
life and character of Caleb Balderstone
factotum at Wolfs Crag! [Richmond
Whig.
Mir. William Norris, formerly of Bal
timore but at present a resident of Phila
delphia, lias constructed a locomotive en
gine, in propelling which the bituminous
coal of Lycoming County, Penn, is used
to a great advantage. One of the most
unpleasant consequences of the use of
wood in locomotive engines is the annoy
ance experienced by passengers from
sparks, which it appears, is entirely obvi
ated by the adoption of coal. It affords
us much pleasure on tins and every proper
occasion to notice the success of a gentle
man who was once a fellow-townsman,
and whose exertions in the way of his call
ing entitle him to the highest honor.—,
Many of the engines constructed at Mr.
N.’s establishment have been sent to Eng
-1 land and other parts of Europe, where they
are highly esteemed for their simplicity
and efficiency. In these respects the en
gines which vve have seen from the work
shop of Mr. N. invaluable, as they
possess great power, and are not subject
to be put out of order by trivial causes.
[Baltimore American.
A “Business Transaction.” —- We
have rarely heard of a more adroit shave
than took place a day or two since in
Broadway. A vender of spurious watch
es met a country-man, ami offered him a
good gold lever watch. He had met vviih
sudden misfortunes, was entirely out of
money, and was willing, indeed under the
necessity of sacrificing a watch worth 100
dollars for a small sum; —lie would even
take seventeen dollars for the one he show
ed: and to be all fair and above board, he
told the countryman he might take it into
a highly respectable jeweller’s store, near
where they stood, and ascertain its value.
The watch was taken into the store ac
cordingly, and the holder told that it was
worth ninety dollars. The “gentleman
from the country,” of course, hit at such
a speculation, went back to the man in
distress, and counted him out his seven
teen dollars; during which process he put
the watch into the hands of the vender,
which was immediately hande'd back.—
The parties then separated, and the “par
ty of the second part,” beginning to have
a little suspicion as to the identity of his
purchase with the article bargained for,
be took it into the same store, and was
told at once, that this watch was worth a
bout a dollar and a half!—[N. Y\ Gaz.
j If young ladies did not become women
1 at 13, men would have better wives.
MEXICO.
The Louisianian of the 4th says:—Pri
vate letters from the most respectable
houses in Mexico, announce in positive
terms that the treaty of peace concluded
by Admiral Baudin and the Mexican plen
ipotentiaries, has been ratified by the Mex
ican government. One of those letters in
forms us that the army of General Cos was
routed near Tuspan by General Mexia,
with the loss of 300 prisoners. It further
appears that Bustamente was marching up
on T ampico. -.
We guarantee the accuracy of this in
telligence.
Since the above was committed to type,
.we have received by a schooner arrived
from Tampico a confirmation of the news
of the triumph of Gen. Mexia. The bat
tle was fought on the 15th March, near
I uspan, and the whole loss of the govern
ment troops was 000 prisoners and 400
killed.
Gen. Cos escaped in a wonderful man
ner by means of a disguise, in which he
clothed himself.
This victory gave rise to great rejoicings
at Tampico.
Aristo was about to depart from San
Luis Potosi for Tampico with 1000 men,
but it was supposed that the defeat of Cos
would make him retrace his steps. They
were well prepared to receive him atT.
Ihe schooner Sarah Ann arrived at
I ampico on the 18th, and the Creole was
off the bar on the same evening.
W kecked Goods.—For tl?e last two
or three weeks considerable quantities of
soft goods and hardware, of various des
criptions, have been brought from the
wrecks of the Pennsylvania, the Lock
wood, and the \ ictoria, and have, from
time to time, been disposed of by public
auction. The drapers, and hardware
dealers, who have been the principal pur
chasers, have exhibited their respective
lots in their windows, with (for the worst
part) the trilling reduced prices affixed to
each article; and by the addditional aid
of large bills, announcing “further arrivals
from the wrecks.” “More large lots of
goods.” “Just arrived, extensive lots of
linens, lawns, diapers, cambric handker
chiefs, table cloths, covers, &,c. from tlvc
wreck of the Pennsylvania,” and so forth,
—the parties, if we may judge from the.
crowds that beset their premises have,
since the fatal catastrophe that threw these
articles in their way, been driving a most
successful business, thus verifying the old
saying, that “it is an ill wind that blows
nobody good.” Certain it is the retail
sales have been extensive,whether from the
cheapness, or supposed cheapness of the
damaged goods, or from, in some instan
ces, (who knows!)an idea amongst intend
ed voyagers or emigrants, that in a shirt
or garment, fashioned out of materials
that had once been “wrecked,” they
would possess a charmed habiliment that
would serve them against all similar dis
asters, we shall nyt say. In one hard
ware shop in Dale street, we find “450
pair of wrecked fire irons advertised, be
sides fenders, tea trays, and finally, fish
hooks, in bundles of 500, for the small
sum of one penny! —for the articles com
prise literally from a best bower anchor
to a cambric needle.” And to crown the
whole, a quantity of “fire shovels, just
made out of wrecked iron.” The force
of wrecking could no further go. \\ hat
recommendation this will be to the shov
els wc are at some loss to conceive, but
il we mistake not, the mania that has
spread abroad to purchase the articles re
ceived from the ill fated vessels, superin
duces a shrewd suspicion that this is not
the only “manufactory of wrecked goods”
in the town. Who knows how many pie
ces of goods that have been “shopkeep
ers ’ for many years for lack ol purchas
ers, have been brought down from their
dusty shelves and being moistened and
outwardly smeared with sand and mud,
have been displayed amongst the “last lots
from the Pennsylvania,” before the eyes of
sympathizing customers as having verita
bly been “wrecked?”—[Liverpool paper.
1 low to get up a bank. —The Bank
Commissioners appointed by the Legisla
ture of Michigan, in their late report tell
a curious story of the manlier in which the
Bank of Oakland was established. It ap
pears that one W. S. Stevens, the princi
pal owner of the concern, borrowed SSOOO
of a neighboring bank, and sent it to the
Oakland institution, to be duly credited
by the Cashier as capital stock paid in.—
lie then immediately drew it out on his
own account, and afterwards s.ent a hired
man with it to be credited a second time
as paid capital. This manoeuvre lie again
repeated—thus enabling the cashier to
swear that fifteen thousand dollars in spe
cie had been paid in, and consequently to
set the Bank in operation. This accom
plished, the SSOOO was returned to its ori
ginal owner.—TN. Y. Sun.
French and English Travelling. —A
recent French writer, describing the state
of travelling in France and Ez/glafid;
says:—“ln France the postillions are fre
quently drunk, always dirty, and the most
eoarse, intractable people in the world.
In England, the contrast is most striking;
both men and cattle are always well dress
ed; the drivers with white cravats, good
rockets, and well napped great coats, their
horses harnessed as if for some grand cer
emony. In France, a postillion takes care
first of his own safety and then that of
his horses: to him the safety of the trav
eller is a matter of supererogation. In
England the traveller commands the dri
ver, in France he obeys him,
Editorial Convention. We dare
, say that the proposition we are about to
offer‘would come with abetter grace from
: one of the leading daily journals but we
make it in a spirit of due humility, and
trust that it will not be wholly overlook
ed because it emanates from a quiet heb
’domedal. Several of our brethren have,
in conversasion, coincided with us in the
opinion that it would be well to hold a
i convention in this city, in the course of
the next Autumn—the object of which
should be a general assembly of the con
ductors of the press from the principal
I cities of the Union, for the purpose ot
; mutual consultation and the recommen
dation of some universal plan of manag
ing newspaper establishments. It is well
known that a newspaper in England is,
with a circulation half as great as that of
one in the United States, twice as profit
able. Why is this? The reason is glar
ingly obvious: proprietors here are, in
most cases, swindled (that is the verb
neuter) out of their just dues. It is sur
prising that a man, who is rigidly honest
in other matters, will not hesitate to re
ceive a newspaper for months and even
years, without entertaining the remotest
intention of paying for it! The black
list system of exposing to shame delin
quent subscribers, is almost unavailing:
for if a man is scoundrel enough to run
the risk of such exposure he will care but
little for the exposure itself. The only
effectual plan that we know of is to
adopt a resolution to follow with undevi
ating exactness that of the London jour
nals. If subscribers’ names are taken at
all, payment should be required in ad
vance—and such names, without excep
tion, stricken lbm the lists, the moment;
the period to which they have paid shall
arrive. We might write on this subject
through many columns. Our object, in
setting down the head of this paragraph
was to throw out a general suggestion,
not to enter into particulars. Whatever
system is agreed upon must be universal.
[New Yorker.
Death of Hezekiah Nii.es. —We re*
gret to learn that this event, which his
friends have for some time anticipated,
took place at Wilmington, Delaware, yes
terday morning, lie had been, for sever
al years, in declining health, the result of
a life of great labor, as the publisher of
the “Register,” which lias rendered his
name immortal. Mr. Niles was a printer
by profession, a man of strong and ardent
feelings, of considerable talent and of ail
industry so untiring that he achieved re
sults which men of superior intellect, but
less capable of labour, would have failed
to accomplish. He was, besides, of a
frank, honorable, independent and truly
republican spirit, simple in his manners
and habits, affectionate to his family, lib
eral to those whom lie employed in the
prosecution of his business, disinterested
and public spirited. His life was one of
great usefulness, and few can in our coun
try have done more to connect their names
in an honorable manner, with the public
enterprises in which the welfare of socie
ty is concerned.—[Baltimore Chronicle,
3d inst.
We hardly know how to take the sub
joined paragraph, which we first read in
the American Sentinel (a Philadelphia
journal friendly to the Administration) of
Tuesdy morning. On first perusal of it,
we took it literally as a mere rumor, the
foundation of which might well be ques
tioned. Finding it transferred, however,,
and transferred, too, without comment,
to the columns of the official paper of last
evening, we must either conclude that it
has some foundation in fact or in proba
bility, or that it is a feeler put forth by
one or other of the gentlemen named, in
order to ascertain how the friends of the
Executive would relish the proposed “re
form” in the Cabinet. Considered in ei
ther of these lights, our readers are enti
tled to see the paragraph thus published
at Philadelphia* and officially endorsed
here; and we therefore give it, as follows:
[Nat. Intelligencer.
“It is rumored that several changes
will shortly take place in the Cabinet at
Washington. It is said that Messrs. For
syth and Woodbury will be sent on for
eign missions, that Mr. Poinsett will take
the place of the former, and Mr. Kendall*
of the latter; that Mr. Grundy will be ap
pointed Postmaster General, and Mr. Ste
venson, present Minister to England, will
take his place. We give the minor ns it
was received by letters from Washington,
without vouching for its accuracy, which
may be questioned.”—[Baltimore Amer
ican.
The fine ship, Gen. Parkhill, Capt.
Wilson, sailed for Liverpool, on Tuesday
last, with 1943 bales of cotton. This is
the third vessel direct from the port of
St. Marks to Liverpool, the present sea
son, carrying out about five thousand bales
of cotton, mostly shipped by our enterpris
ing fellow-citizen, R, H. Berry, Esq.-
The returns of these shipments we learn
will be made principally in foreign goods
expressly for a southern market. We
think this is a very fair commencement
of a direct European trade with our city,
and a worthy example to the people of the
South generally. Our merchants an 4
planters are not lacking in enterprize or
the means to carry their plans into
ful operation, and we hail this " a new
era in the commercial transac* :jl,s of Mid
dle Florida.—[Floridian.
If there were fewer Jve !s in the world
there would be few** nur ubsculls,