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MISCELLANY.
THE FREAK® OF FORTUNE.
FROM Tit VHESCH.
. Nothing ran l*c done without money,” said Georg*
pctlubily ; l had a splendid project in my head, but
uobnly will listen to such a poor fellow <i 1/
We were three tricnd# met together, bewailing the
Tigouta of fortune : our lamentation*, however, look the
turn they usually take among companion* whoa* age
doe* not exceed twenty years.
• Audi,’ said Albert, ‘have finished a work which
would create mv reputation, coulJ a publisher only be
mat with willing'to utiJertuk* Ibe expense* of print
Ing.’
• flute aske l our principal,* added I, ‘to increase ,
my silary, ifer four year* of assiduous service ; and
iie answered, that us auch clerks he could 5 4 as many
as he wished for six hundred tranks a yen*.’
•My dear fellow*/ interrupted George, •although we
hive, neither the one nm the other, any hope of mak
ing a fortune, could w* nut get the credit of being
rich *
•To what grog V cl cd l.
•It gives one a position >n the work! ; a large inheri
tance augments lh< (onsuferation in which *■ are held;
everything becomes easy.’
•1 remember,* was my an-wer, ‘bavin* heard in mv
childhood of a coua.n who went to Jamais* or Martin
ique, and never returnfc k*
• That is just wist i\c want: w will briny this
four; to l.le. or rstherl we wdikill him. \oa, J iq*ns
Meran died at Martii.que, leaving a sugar plantation,
fifiy slaves, in short, fortune valued at two millions
of (ranee. Vu to his and • ir cousin Louis Muran, from at
tachment to the name.’
We laughed heart y at the j ike, of which I thought
no oioro: but my two reckless friend*, George and
Albert. *prr ‘1 uWro.d the tale wbc i w* biwko up, with
ail the seriousness imaginable.
The nexi Jay people came to complim nl me. It
will of course be understood that l disavowed ali cau>e;
but no one wou'd believe me; my two friends had af
firmed iro truth of lha report. In vain did I u-sert
it.it it was ail a joke: many remembered my cousin
Juques ; some h id actually seen him cm >ark at Nantes
in MBO. Among the lumber of these vfiii# wua oie
of net ibe mo*?! agreeuble. \\ ith the whim of • young
man, I had some lime previously ordered a frock coat
in tic new far inn, w ithout having Hie means of pay
ment ; the garment was worn on*, hi and I yet owed hull
< f it. There hud been far some time a c lolness be
tween ny creditor and myself, whose irupnituiiities I
wi-bed to avoid, i lie rum >r < l ike legacy made him
hasten to.find me, such was the penalty l paid f>r the
f olLb plea army of my fund-. *(j md day Monsieur
M itihieu said 1 with lrne ein > as he enter
ed ; *Y u are come tor me fi'iy I a.ir* ?’
‘1) es m • isieu iiiiigirn* ih*i I am thinking of auch
n tiifie I N>; i whs i>r the mourning.’
• Vt hit rnou niug V
•The nmu mug fr your cousin, mons'eur—the
mourning of an heii-a -.'aw ! \\ a-mut doubt you want
n complete suit V
•At this tun •, Mnnsicui Matthieu, it would be irn- I
pnasible.*
•I hope monrMiv doa no’ think of withdrawing his
f i vo r s Ir mi mat Coat, vest, and pantaloons bitek ;
fro kof daik bronze f u the niorniqg.’
•1 teil you again I nave mil received
•I entreat runi.n or not to speak of money ; it will ‘
come soon enough/ ud led the Hail *r. who had already j
taken out his sussots, and parsed his measure round
my waist.
I was in truth in great want of clo'hs, and permit
rd him to continue. No sooner was he gme than an* |
other in ividual entered, who iinu.ediately began, *My
clear m msieur, you must do me a g eat service.— Buy j
lny h.*use. You are rich, very rich you want
real estate. Fifty thousand I auca art notliii g f>r you:
only half of your i nome: and at present Ia nin ur
genlw .nl of money. I expected Monsieur Felix to
buy it; but he doe* not d-r.de, ami 1 have some press
ing engijp men is to ‘pit!.’.*
•I buy your house 7 what folly !’
•It is no folly. I is a safe investment.—After some
repairs m two \cais it will be worth dou I•. 1 have
your woid ; and he left Without giving me time to re
ply. So well did he propagate a report ol my purchase
that in two hours ul:erwsio< Monsieur Keli came to
mein a great hurry, appar.uily out of humor. •You
have cut the gross foul im lei u> fret monsieur,* said
he on entering : I cminot do without that h. u e and
thought it was already m n \ a* l Uad nude an offer of
forty-nine thou-and l anes, bi heving that li e ow ner
would purely come to my i-.vma. 13ji to re is in* hope
of staging you into*-; . . . :ient; so without further
preamble, 1 come to ll*r yu advance of fifteen
thousand francs upon your bargiu.’
Fif cen thousand francs coming. I knew not how, to
me, who hi I st* much trouble in earning my eight
hundred francs of salary as clerk to the >•*• stry of the
courts of law. Although hut little acqo tinted w ith
business, 1 sav the advantage to be derived from my
position, and replied, h impossible, mm* eur, for
ine to give you uu answer ai Hus in mi nl : return at
five o’clock : meantime l will consider the matter.*
At a quarter before the appointed hour Monsieur
Felix was again .*t m door.—•M onsieur,’ sidl, *1
had no wish t>r that house and did not even think
about it, when l e proprietor came to beg mo to pur
chase it ; and it appears Use house is now nun*. —As
it u ts you, Hnd any o.kei w i I do as well fur rue, 1 ac
cept your offer/
•You shall he patd in a fortni*ht, i;i paper on Pari*/
exclaimed the purchaser, delighted with my prompt.-
lude in bus oess.
Paper on Pa is ! 1 wis sv> little accustomed to th^t
curr ncy, as to imagine that it would t*e necessary to
send it to thd capital for payment, ami therefore wrote
to a commercial houe, the only one whose add ess I
knew, ns from that I received regularly an annuity of
five hundicd ban left me by one of my uncle*, and
which formed a welcome portion of my income.
With what impatience 1 wailed the expntilion if the
time, when 1 wiote t Mes-rg. UugQe and Bergeret
t.at, having certain funds t.> invest, l begged their ad
vice as to Ibe saf. t mode. It appeared that Hie words
certain funds have very difT .nt acceptations in com
nierce. according to the name and portion of him who
uses them. J i.e nc of my inheritance must have
leached Paris.— ( ertain funds, situated a>l was, was
a modest marine, o! specifying a vor.s.derabla m n ; at
I aupp*<d so, • n receiving a:i iruj > from the
firm that my l.uier h nt-en received ju*t b fore the
clo#e *l t\ * ('ll* ts Ion), iii which they had purchased
to Iho amount ol twenty thou* ud d.dhr#; that, if 1
thought aUi ir.ue! a l n f p j>n tit might be realised, as
the <’ .ok had • ic lip. A j osc; . t in the ha’d of Ike
pi. .r. t a!, *v. < i.a -I i: ion my accession of fortune.
Twenty ihiMia” ! dot *:ra! I’be teller tell from my
h rid#—lm •r.mui: !i. i*pnr(l me I wren* instantly
to my correspondents, iiiiormnig them iim * • large a
sum went beyond my mean#; ad 1104 that no remit
tances having kern received i urn Martinique, us they
supposed, Ia unable to saticfy their claims.
Tne answer earn** in a day <>r tr * itmg lhat. as
I dut rot appear t > have confi icncs in the Cortes loan,
they had sold out my stock at a profit of eighty thou
sand francs; jnd luv-ied me not to foil uneasy, as re
mitt me*# wt e always slow in earning from the dist
ant plantations; i,i the interim, my sin iture would
furnish me with I the money 1 ceuld want. ‘I ho
p-r>*p ctoa ot s tinman hank was iucioud, in wbith
fi.ty shares hl been secured for me.
JT gl •’ tbousarid francs! Either I understand
nothing ®f commercial mutters, or thccleik has written
one or two noughts too many. My situ at ion became
embarrassing.—l wn overwhelmed with congratula
t ms, especially when I put on my n*w suit of black.
r J he. editor ol the newspaper thought himself obliged
to give a biography of my cousin Jaques,and asked me
for additional particular*. I teas besieged with annoy
ing questions. In what way would i lurm-h my house?
—what would Ido for public establishments t ISoine I
benevolent ladies wrote lo recommend to my notice
Iho institutions under their guardianship. J wi ruin
ed in postsgos , for in the mi Ist of all my riches, wheth
er real or imag 1 ary, 1 hud no money. Fortunately,
from the moment i w* b Id to be ri.dr, no one would I
lake a sou from no?, and tradesmen courted the honor f
of giving me credit.
At list I decided on going to Paris. Immediately 1
on arrival, I went to my bankers, who received me ■
the inheritor of g cat wealth. I regret/asid M. Bcrg
eret, ‘that you mi*trus ed the Spanish loan, for the stock
has again gone up. IS’o matter, however; you have
some lift,
•Wil! you hav. the gnerinr.., mon.ieup,’ ni<J I <io
Ull me pifcie.lv ho* much all Hie.c fuiidj are woith
wliieb you h. bought for me !’ ,
•I'ka oalculalion is easy. Twanly tbanaand dollars,
at so much the dollar—and tho sum already paid. It
you sell to day, you will put about two hundred and
twenty thousand franca into your pocket/
1 opened both my ears. You say, monsieur two
hundred ami twenty thousand ! —Are you quite cer
tain r
•As certain as any mail can be within a few hun
dred francs.’
1 did not wish to appear too much the novice, an
replied,‘That is well: you spoke also of bank ?
•Yes; tho establishment of this bunk has met with
some difficulties; but the the nfldr is not le*v g ‘od ; |
we arc on the eve of lermiiiaUiig it, *.id the scrip is i
well up.’
•Could that scrip also he §<dd V I inquired.
•You hold fifty ai •area/ replied jhe banker, •which]
have advanced four hundred and fihv fl nna, waking
I ultigrther marly sixty thousand f a..cs.‘
•Although as yet 1 have paid t.jfthinj P
•Without a doubt/ was ti.e niisacr.
•This is singular; but •mice vuu say an, I submit.
I should lika to nuke a sale i iv s;m at of thu whole :
will you he so good as t specify fine!’
•Our fivo per cents, monsieur—our five per cents:
l know of nothing safer. At the present ryte. the giin
will he six. 1 can easily understand that ail the-# little
mailt * worry you. koj will soon have to deal with
larger sums.’
•I3y plating oil that I ho’d in the five par cent*.. I
should have an income 4 ’
•That is soon icrkoned. Three hundred thousand
or thereabouts : the quotation at eighty makes eighteen
thou* ti.d franca.—£>ay went/ thousand, to make
round sum.’
•Ah twenty thousand francs of income/ said I; •ehen
could I receive iit*
•Oh to-moriow, if you conflie the transaction to our
house-’
•That of course/ waa my rej indcr, • What other
coul I in/ir* me wi h > gust j degrse of confidelicti
The hanker bowed.
Will it be believed ? in the midst of all these treas
ures, I felt a certain einl’ r rae-inent m asking for a smal
sum, us which l stood in the greatest n cd , for afier
paying the expenses of my journey, l hnd hut fivt
Irenes left. S*cli bow*ter, wh* the f >rce of habit, that
I coulJ ftarctly believe myself legitimately possessed
of more then my litlie annuity, which was not yet due
•Dare I i>k/ 1 inquired, wiih • blush almAht of shame
on my clsceks—‘can I, without indiscretion, kt*g you
to advance me tor the moment a small sum, which 1
want on ariivul ;u a otrange city ]’
•Kh. my dear monsieur, my chest is rntirrly at youi
Jinposal. How much do you want —three, four—ten
thousand francs V
‘I do not to>k so much ; a thousand will lie sufficient/
• Will you liiv it in gold or iiwtr’B ? Call the cashier.
May 1 beg you,’ sad the banker, leading the wav as 1
rose to depaii—‘may 1 b.g you to continue your good
will I* our house V
•Certainly, monsieur; you well deserve it,’ I replied
with a confidence which the certainly of posses ing
an income of twenty thousand francs began to give me,
•There is yet one favor which l wish to ask.’ said
M. Bcigcret; *you are not acquainted with Paris ; you
have perhaps hut few relatives here j come and lake a
f.mi y diruur with us to-day ; my wife w ill b* delight
ed to in .ke your acquaintance.’
•With th* greatest pleasure/
•We dme at six: if you have no engagement for
the evening, we ahull have a fi.w friend*.and hope you
will *t ,y.’
There *re but ft w moments which I remember with
more satisfaction than those of my leaving M. liergeret's
hnu# -. I to believe in icality in my fortune,
snd had a thousand francs in my pocket—a pleasure
which had sever before happened to me. The fifty
golden Napoleons give me an extraordinary impulse;
in fact 1 stead in great need of them. Possessor of
twenty thousand francs of income, I was obliged, on
my arrival in Palis, to leave my trunk at the office ol
the dilligence, not having the means of paying for a
lodging.
I now hastened to redeem it, and afterwards took a
coach to the first hotel pointed out to me, whore 1 es
tablished myself in a handsome apparimcnt uad put on
my suit of mourning. I arrived with ■ rnu h punc
tuality at M. Bergereps, that he had scarcely had time
to finish telling my history to his wifi*. e*h • had heard
I enough to cause me to be received a* a friend of the
j house. Every on* did tho amiable to me. I met
: beautiful women; and over heard whispeiei! reinraks j
made upon rr.e— modest tearing ; great shill; splen- i
and and business talents. Thus when M. Bergeit l lutreat j
ed me to legird Ins house ns my own, I promised will
ingly .although I could profit but little by the invitation.
Vfadam Hugues would have me to dine, “ hen I met
with other introductions and invitations. Now ih'tt I
was rich, I could almost have confiu and mv expenses to
l so iie lew presents and tee*.
* Meant nv* my two f.iends, (ieorgo and Albeit, had
heard wih alarm of the success of their report, the tiuth
of which they dared no longer deny They had been
t ightened by my departure for Paris, which all the
world attributed to difiieuliiea in the liquidation oi my
debts ; and (cured that I lud sufibied my-ell I o fie do
-1 ceivrd by what was conceited between us merely as a
joke.
‘i’hree days nfisr my return from Paris my servant
announced theii names. ‘Let them come in,’ was my
n ply ; for I did not receive ai! the world. On seeing
my handsome timepiece and gilt candelabra, and the
ih*w furniture with which l had decorated my appart
ment, they opened their eyes in consternation.
! ‘There is much difficulty in gaining admission lu re,’
said Albert.
•Yes; I am liesi’ged by persona vvilh all sorts ol so-
I.citations and projects; but you my ifeir fiiende—
you will be always welcome. Vou are c rue just in
time lo accompany me to an citato which 1 have some
thought, of purchasing. It is not a large aflair—one
hundred thousand hams.’
•1 tike it to he some distance ml',’ said George, with
a significant jerk of Ins head.
• Two leagues only ; but 1 will lake you in my car
riage’
•Your carriage !’
•My carriage!’
•You have a carriage!’
•Yes, arid two dapple-gray horses; which 1 broueht
from l*atis ;as yet I have no saudie-horsc, that being
more difficult lo find.’
M v two friends retired to one rs the window*, where
they ht.pered to one unuthrr, looking all the lime
very lugubrious.
•Dear Louis,’ they said, ‘you know that your cousin
ia not dead V
•I don’t know if he be dead, for 1 am not certain that
he ever lived !’
•You know that this alory about your inheritance is
all a joke V
•1 ain persuaded that only you and I believe so,’ was
uiy answer.
•We have done great wrong.’ rejoined my friends,—
•great wrong, in what was intended only as fun. It
causes us much sorrow.’
•On the contraiy, 1 thank you for it.’
•It is our duly to disavow il ; we are going in public
to deelaie out-elves guilty. *
•1 entreat you to leave things just as they are ; a few
| days more of credit will prevent the necessity of dis
j rj'acing my funds.’
Uemge and Albeit regarded me as completely dc
j ranged. • Come,’ (aid I, ‘let us lose no time ; the car
nage is ready ; I will tell you all as wo go along. 1
J have epuken lo a bookseller, Albeit, who will print your
| ninnusciipt.’
Troth, however, always comes out. —Some who were
; on tha w atch, were surprised lhat nothing arrived from
| Martinique; well adviaod people shook their hesds,
j when .peaking of me. The edifice to ijuickly raised,
> tumbled down with equal rapidity.
• The best of it is,’ said someone, die lias ended by
falling into the an.iro which he laid lor others. Tor
I my part 1 never did believe in it.’
i I comprehended that the storm had broken out. on
finding one day a dozen notes on my table. They
1 were all nearly in the alyl, of the fir-t I opened.
•M. (iiignon presenla his respectful compliments lo
| M. M ’lan, and having an urgent need of money, beg*
j ihat he will he so good us to pay, in the day, tue little
1 account whnh ha has the honor lo i m lose.’
_ % answers wire all alike-M. Meran thanks M.
Giigaon for the bill whi.h has been so lung aked for,
an I sends the amount.
(dot* letter contained no request for money ; it was
from a friend whom I lid almost forgotten. Fearing
llul I might have been doped, lie wiule, offering to lend
me QuO trance, should I wish to remove fioni a place
where so many rumors were ciiculaied prejudicial to i
my chsiacler. My reply gava tha neers-aiy eiplana-1
tun, which I concluded, T am rich, not by uii mhtri
sanes la which I nsvar believed, but because it was de
termined, in spite of protestations, that I should be rick:
and I have in reality been made very rich, I scarcely
know how. This is what I would wish you to *y to
those w ho talk of me/
I owe more than fin tune to my singular situation,
since it lihs u-sured me of h friend upon whom l may
count in adversity, bhoulJ it ever visit me. For an
other week I was the subject of conversation. ‘He has
been fortunate/said some; others replied, ‘Fortunate
if you will; hut I say fie is a cl*ver fellow, who bus
known bow to lake the advantage of circumstance*;
it is not every body who cou! 1 rnanuauver in this way.’
For my part, I was fur h moment templed to appUud
mv own genius ; but a li tie reflection convinced me
that l dent had noth nx to do with it. I quie ly took
my place in society a* tin* possessor of twenty thousand
francs of income, and l !! keep it.
Moralising upon my sudden change of position, I
can only look up n it as one of those strange beaks of
fo’ture which nil the worlihdlows to be so unaccounta
ble,-—A'. Y. Spirit of the Times.
The “ Gigantic Fossil Man.' 9 From the last num
ber of JSillimm * Journal, we copy the following, writ
ten by Hr. William M. Carpenter, Professor in the
Medical Collage of Louisiana :
Much intereat has been lecenlly excited by the an
nouncement of the discovery inTennees c of the re
mains of man eighteen f.*et high. The p.ipeis teem
ed with accounts of the prodigy and public confidence
was secured by the assertion th.it the distinguished
plm/ciins of the West had testified that they ‘verc
human rcrn iins. About tlie ld*t of December these
remain* reached this city ; and on the first of January
I wasiequPHleu by a distinguished surgeon here, to go
with him on the invitation of the proprietor to exam
ine them, ami give an opinion. They had been erect
ed in a high room ; the skeleton was sustain'd in it*;
erect position by a Urge upright beam of timber. At
h glance it was apparent, that it was nothing more
than the skeleton of a young mastodon, (ones! God
man’s Tetracaulodons, with sockets for four tusks.)
The bones of the leg and ankle were complete, the
metatarsal bones wanting. The bone* of the anterior
extremities complete to the metacarpal bones, which
were present in one leg ; the phalanges wanting. Most
of the vntebrjß were prevent ; the ribs mostly of wood
Hie pelvic arrangement was entirely of wood; the
scapula were present, but somewhat broken, and were
rigged oti with a most human.like elevation; pieces of
ribs supplying the want of clavicles. The osseous
purls of tlie heid were portions, nearly complete, of
the upper and lower jaws. Some of the niulsrg were
quite complete ; of the tusks, only one little stump re
mained, but the four alveoli of the upper j iw had large
incisive looking wooden teeth fitted into them, and
the lower jaw supplied to correspond. The cranium
was entirely wanting from the lower rnv'gin of the or
bits, back ; hut a raw-hide cranium vva- fitteJ ou, which
was much more becoming to the animal in his new
capacity th in the old one have been.
The artificial construction was principally in the
pelvis and head; and take it as thus built up, with its
half huimn, half beast-like look, and its great hooked
incisive teeth, it certa ; n!y must have conveyed to the
ignorant spectator a most horrible idea of a hideous
diabolical giant, of which he no doubt dreamed for
months. To one informed in such matters it really
presented a most ludicrous figure.
The person who had it foi exhibition was honest, I
believe, in his convictions as to its being the remsins
of a man, and having been confirmed in them by nu
merous physicians, whose certificates he had in his
possession ; and having asked and received mv opin
ion, he determined to box it up, never to be exhibited
again as the teuiainsof a human being.
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
The following note of the eclipse of the sun which
will take place in April next, is copied from Sdliman’s
Journal:
On Saturday, the 25th of April, there will he an e
clipse of the Min, which, although but partial, even
where largest, in the United Slutes, will without doubt
be carefully observed by e very astronomer, as it will
also he visible in Great Britain, sod therefore of great
value fur the determination of his longitude from
Greenwich, and as it will le the last Urge eclipse that
will be visible to us f >r upw arils of eight year*, and that
will he tot 1 1 in our vicinity until August 7di, 1809.
In the English Nautical Almanac and the French
J Cumuhfiin. e dr* Terns, the approaching eclipse is
j called cential and annular, it having escaped die no
j lice of ibe computu s *f those works that although the
tabular d'umei. r of the moon L less than that us the
i-un, it is so nearly tqual theieto, that a few degress
of a litudo will lender it, apparently, the gieater, and
consequently, the eclipse, where centre!, total ; hut
even where longest, (near the island of Eleuthera) the
duration of total darknes* will n >t exceed 01 seconds,
or the diameter of the moon’s shadow, 22 miles.
By the I dlowmg table it nppea r s that the Jura'ion
j of the central eclipse on the earth will be 3b. 34 j in.
and tbe length of its path about 9090 miles. For
: thirteen minutes after the beginning and about seven
: teen minutes before tbe end, of Hie central eclipse, or
] for about halt an hour only, it will be annular; during
j tbe remainder us tbe time, or for upwards of ihree
bou r s, it will b.e total, but so small is the extent o
land to which the eclipse will lie central, and so nar
row the shadow ot the moon, that tSsgna ii Grande, a
town on the north side of the island of Cubs, appears
to be tbe only place of note or importance on the earth
1 that wdl see a total eclipse.
During the remainder of the present century there
will be but five eclips* 8 central in any part of the At
lantic Stair*, viz: those of May 2G, 1854, and Sep
tember 29. 1874, annular in Massachusetts, and that
of October 19. 1865, in the
August 7, 1869, and M.ty 28, 1900, will be total in
North Carolina and Virginia.
The Journal, m the article from whence we take
the above, gives an elaborate table of the path of tbe
I central rclij so over the earth, and tables of the phases
of ibe eclipse at a number of places in the U. Mtates
und Cuba.
POMESTIC,
THE NEW-HAMPSHIKB ELECTION.
Later news from the recent election in Ncw-llamp
eli Ire slums that the debut of Lncofocuiain in that
State ia most complete. The lladicsl Democrats have
lost their candidates, both fir Governor and for Con
gress, by majorities against them ranging fiom twelve
tolifeen hundred vines. The same paily has circled
only two of Ihe five Executive Councillors, and but
three or four of the twelve Senators.
The House of Representatives, on whom will de
volve llio doty of electing u Governor md U. Stales
Senator, and tiling all the vacancies in the State Sen
ate an i Hoard of Councillors, ii safe beyond all doubt.
The Huston Atlas has returns ol the election of 11C
V\ lugs and 27 Independent Denmcrals, making an
“allied force” in the House of U3. The Radicals
have bul 97. T o towns and distncta remaining lo
he heard from, which gaveannjoriiie* against Lncofoco
ism in November, aie vntill. dlo eleven lepieacntatives,
and those which gave majorities hi its favor aie culi
lled to fifteen mrinhere. If these do no worse, the
House will stand IM Whigs and Independent* to 112
Radicals,— Rational Int.ltgenctr.
W asuivoTow, March 16.
. UNITED SPATES SENATE.
The Chair was taken by Mr. ScviEH of Aikansaa,
at the request of Mr. Dallas, 10-day absent hum ihe
city.
Mr. Camkrok presented the memorial of the Har
risburg Military Convention askiag lor a reorganiza
tion of Ihe Militia ol Ihe Stales,
Memorials weie prescnlrd adversely to the Scnrea
treaty.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Mr. DatTotv's resolution, ofivisd ten days since,
calling up in Ihe l'reaideiil of the L. States lo inform
the Menaie whether the stale of out foreign relations
demand any increase of the Navy, and if ao, what Ihe
slate of lliose relations are, came up.
Mr. iSpziour said ho d*s:roi| lint the resolution
should ho laid o*ei until to-morrow.
Mr. Dattov consented, but said he should ssk that
ihe resolultn • be ueled upon (e-morrow.
REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE.
Mr. lti vTux made llio Report from the Select Com*
mince chosen on Thursday to investigate the charges
°f Hte Washington Times against tho U. B. Senate,
The Comm tlre made then examinations with ihe in
lenliun not of punishing the l.bellere, but of obtaining
their authority. Ihe Committee say they have found,
upon eisniinalion, the chaigea mads lo be utterly and ■
entirely fjlse.
Tbs examination lea vs* no doubt in iL wmJi rs
the Committee that the charge was a false and con
temptible libel.
The whole story in regard to the Whig meeting, the
Commit tee further say, is falss und unfounded, and an
absurd fabrication.
in regard to the dinner table story, the Committee
nay that upon examination it turned out to be a despi
cable, filse and corrupt charge.
The editor of the Times stale* in his testimony that
he was the writer of nil ihe articles in the paper, and
that he knew nothing personally of t e charges pre
ferred. They were the coinage of his own brain.
The repoit was rVad by Mr. lien ton at ihe Cloik'a
desk, when Mr. B. relumed to his aval aud moved the
printing of the Report.
Mr. Ti'itar.Y of Turn, said he concurred heartily
in every wold of the Report. In li's judgment there
never was a moie unfounded calumny,and lie concur-
rod chreifully in the ivpurt which hud been read by
Mr. Benton.
Mr. Dickinson said tint he concurred in the Re
port. There was no evidence, near or remote, of the
truth of the charges made. It was un unfounded cal
umny, but he did not concur in the proposed expulsion
of the Editors and Reporters of the Times, unless such
was the judgment of the Senate. He thought nothing
would be gained by tins. He regard- d the Time* men
as the victims of calumnies.
Mr. Jahnloan referred to some of the additi nil
wrongs in Ibis article of the Times by pointing out
the atrocities ic .Mr. U jbinson’s hi tide. Tne principal
editor siid he expected to prove his charges by such
•Senators as Webster, Evans, Man gum and other whig*,
and by Messrs Calhoun, liagby, McDuffie, Colquitt,
and other democrat*.
Mr. J a itn kuan showed that the libel had been most
w ill ui.
Mr. Ukkriex expirssyd his amnz°ment t the rc
ms its of the Senator f.om N. V. He had assured the
• s ena'e that bo concurred iu ihe Report emiie.'y, and
yet pronounced the authors the victims of calumny in
ot he rs.
Mr, Dickinson said he did not stand here to vin
dicate ihe authors t.f the calumny, and he had done no
more thou suggest that they should not be expelled
from tin* Senate, These men h-d most most
wrongfully, wuhotn just.fn'uU'Ui, Hspeised this body,
and he th. u_ht tluir piiin-hoKiil vv. uld be sulhcient
in the wrung they hail done.
Mr. Bknton f>a;d the Hepoitersol the Times occu
pied the privileged seats in the v. alloy, and to-mor ow
he should move for the expul-im ol all persons con
nected with the Times newspaper. The K*port was
then ordeu J lo he u inled.
THE OREGON QUESTION.
This subject now came up, when Mi. Calhoun
rose and aid
The question was whether notice should he given at
the cud of the year. Having b< en connected vvnh ihe
negotiation he mould huy nov .ing of t ile, a* it would
b i exceedingly indelicate I t him to do so. lie should
say nothing either calculated to offend any one.
Ali-*nust perceive that the aspect ot this ques'ion
had changed since ihe meeting of Congress Tne
President’s messige declared that “no compromise
which might be made” ought to be accepted. The
President further siiJ that at the end of one year the
time would come when we must either usserl or aban
don our claims to the whole ol Oregon. He was
obliged to admit, however, that there was a fair infer
ence to he drawn that if ihe BmUh Government would
renew the offer of 49°, Hit eel or substantially, it would
he accepted.
Mr. Calhoun *a and he *as opposed lo notice, because
it would not produce compromise, while otheis were
ready to oppose the notice if it would produce com
promise. between war sod compromise, up
on the one side cl.ot-e the former, while he and hi*
friends were in fvor of compromise because they did
not regard our title to the whole of Oiegon as dear and
unquestionable, lit* thought the subject was a proper
one lor comptomise and for a f-ir adjustment of the
territory in dispute.
Mr. Calhoun thought the construction of the Mes
sage did not warrant any conclusion of n pacific char
acter. The President in bis Mes age had directed that
wc should vindicate our claim to the whole of Oregon
by an appeal to 'ms and not in any other form what
ever. lie did not believe that the President intended
to intimidate England by recommending the notice,
for his own good sense must have taught hint that it
would have produced a directly different effect.
Nor did he concur with the Senators who thought
it unwise that the Convention should ever have been
entered into at all. That Convention was to be mane
or war would have ensued. England would not com
promise the question upon 49, and were obliged, theie
fore, to make I fie offer.
lie bazirded nothing in saying that there wav a
large majority in this body who were for compromise
honorable compromise—upon this question;
Fite British Government and the Fiime Mini.-terof
England were undoubtedly in favor ofcomprornis , and
upon the basis of the line which had been once pro
posed by us and declined by England. Tho declara
tion of Sir Robert Pet I ought to produce its effect upon
uur Government aid |ad lo a tencwal tf negotiations
which was now the great obstacle in the way of an am
ic.ible settlement of this question. He trusted indeed
that information had gone to Europe, though he had
no official information ot thefft,u t, which would lead to
an omicuble compromise of this question.
When the Message was deliveied there wa-; no hope
of compromise, but there was now hope. All must see
it—all must feel it. It was the highest consistency
now to compromise this quotion. There were differ
ent idea* of consistency. Some gentlemen would ad
here to one thing a!wys, no matter whit the circum
stances, borne would adhere to men whether their
principle* changed or not. But what would >• u think
of the physician who would proscribe calomel and
nothing else through a!l stage* of the disease* You
would pronounce him a quack, as you mud those men
who would not moderate their action by the circum
stances that time had brought.
He hoped that hi* frn nds who went for the whole
of Oregon had themselves changed these opinions
since the meeting of CungrcFS. They saw a divided
pa-ty. and u divjjtd people, und a dm h-d opinion.—
Did it then become them to give the notice, to refuse
compromise, and to claim the whole of Oregon ? He
appealed to his friend* a* patriots to decide tiv iv ques
tion. In regard to notice lie should oj pose it unless
given im a mod fn and form.
The House Resolution ho could not vote for, becsu e
it was eijuivoc-.il in its character. If notice was gi*-n,
let it be given in a | l tin and meaning manner, so that
the President and the world could understand what
was meant by it. lie was inclined to give the nsticc
in such a form us was rrcommindrd by the Resolu
tion* of tin* Senator from Uenrgia. —but lie held his
vote t-übordmnte to another question, which was that
the question should be sen led peaceably and without
an appeal to arms, lie was resolved to do nothing
which would prevent art amicable adjustment of the
whole question.
Mr. Calhoun then vindicated his consistency end the
position lie took in 1843. He was then for adhering
to Ihe c invention and thought the time iiad come for
abiding by it. Oregon was easy lor us to colonize,
and difficult for England to colonize. To Eng*
, land the territory was of comparatively no value, not
I so much as New Z -aland, while the colony itself was
f 2O 000 miles oil, m neatly the ctrcuinfeiencu of the
‘globe. We cun g rat id Ike tho I urtara, by families,
i and nt compaiatively no expense.
All was going on well, but the timer had changed,
‘i'll# people of Oregon went there to avoid high duties,
and would Iv* alienated from us by any other princi
ple* than free (rude. Our liws should be most cuu- ‘
liou-ly extended over tin* people. They had an m- !
finite capacity to govern themselves, and it wa< highly !
propei that * hey should J. • so.
It had eoine now to • point that we must have com
promise upon tin* question. The time had come, in
a word, when the haste of this compromise must bo
forty-nine. He trid to resist tint in 1813. and to pur
sue the American policy that every man must ace now
ought to have been pursued. Jli fiiencU who were
for extreme measures hail been forced into this ques
tion without due h fi chon.
lam for compromise ar.d against war, I have no
unmanly fear* upon tho question, and I may appeal
with confidence to my past history tlist I am governed
by no such fears now.
Though w.tr* are ncc*s*ary, I regard peace as a pos
itive good, and war a positive evil. As n good I de
fend peace, and will oppose war as long n* it would he
honorable. If we went to war for the whole of (be
gun, or all or none, the end might be that we should
come out with none.
If we went to war foi Oregon it would be a contest
far empire, sad Oregon would bo lost sight of. No]
good would coroe of war to the people of Oregon or
to any body else. Should vve lose the territory the ‘
people in Oregon would sutler beyond calculation. If
we compromised upon 49, uut one ul our people would !
lose their properly.
Hut as a national mra-urc he was for compromise.
Though war fhoulJ give us Canada und ali of Ore
gon, t-till he should be oppo cd to war. ’I he work of
wai would accomplish a mighty social and political
change. ‘J here was rio power which could dt us so
much good in peace and so much harm iu war a* Eng
land, and the good and evil were every way recipro
cal.
He bcliev.d that a war would plunge us deeply in
debt. Seven hundnd and fifty miliums of db r*.
would he its cost ui least, Mid *ll to meet Ihe cost of
this useless war. We should he overwhelmed wit.i ■
debt as we were in the Revolution.
A war would be the death of State right*, aud for- \
ever ostabli -h a m litary despotism. Losses of proper
ty and losses of life would come al-o from war, —hut
t icre were nothing, for time could irmedy all this. —
As the fiiend of humanity, civilization and progress,
he was for peace. How ‘then could men who were
Democrats par excellence be in favor of it, when banks
and paper money were its smallest consequence* 1
IS run and Electricity were tho modern inventions
not before applied to war. The U fc*. and England
were now, through their mighty commerce, d.(fusing
blessings over the world. The world as ivell us we
were to be sufferers from war. Let peace continue,
and the time would come predicted by poets and phi
losophers when there should be war no more.
Fence was pre eminently our policy ; other nations
might resort to war to obtain gieatne*s, hut we were
great already—-a nation covering twenty-three degrees
of latitude. Our great mis-iou was to occupy this
wide domain with u virtuous population—to Fprcad
tow ns and cities over the whole surface. War was but
an impediment in this great wotk. Establish Peace,
und time under the guidance of wise and cautious pol
i icy would effe ct all.
A **wLe and masterly inactivity” would prove pro
found wisdom with us. Time would effect every thing,
We had a growing population ot 000,000 a year, and
it would be a million soon. Before some of the young
Senators were as gray as he was we should have a pop
ulation of 45.000,000. Before another generation we
should have eighty millions extending from ocean to
ocean.
Mi. Calhoun closed with tome remark* personal to
himself alout Texas. He contended ihat Texas was
imt a Southern question in any respect. But if he
lud pursued a policy different in the one case than the
other, he had acteJ with a view of seeming the great
est good of both. In both cases be desired to avoid
war. Time would have lost T exas to us, while it
would have given in Oregon.
Mr. Bi riiikn of Gt. now obtained the Hour and
moved an adjournment.
Mr. Dm glass (if J Hindis) as a Commentator. — In
the (oui.se of ihe debile in the House of Representa
tives on Friday, allusions were made lo tin* Oregon
question, allhough that >ubjxt was not before the
House. We quote the following pussages :
Mi. Seddon inter post and, and inquired if he unders*ood
I ihe gcullemsn to say that the democratic party were
committed, by the resolution of the Bui imo e conven
j lion, to go for 54° 40'. und never yield any thing south
jof that under any circumstances! Did he hold the
! democratic party pledged to that line?
Mr. Douglass replied that he did understand the dem
ocratic party to he solemnly pledged, at ihe Baltimore
; convention, by a unanimous resolution of the demo
’ craticic party, to stai dby 54° 4O', and never to yield
one inch.
Mr. Sedd n. Does the gentleman, then, understand
I tho President of the United States, nominated by that
convention, and representing that to have viola
i ted the democratic creed in offering ihe | aialltlof 49°?
I Mr. Douglass’ hour bore expired.
Mr. J. W. Houston obtained the door, and yielded
in compliance with what seemed to be the very gener
al desire of the House, for the purpose of reply, to
Mr. Dougliss, who again reforird to the speech of
Mr. Folk in the House of Representative# iri !B'2B, in
, favor ol our title to 51° 4G', and who traced die unity
I of position occupied by him from that period down to
his inaugural addreess, in which he had declared our
1 title to Ihe whole of Oregon “ clear und unquesliona-
I hie.” But when Mr. Polk came into office he found
a protocol signed, pledging bis government to the prio
• ciple of comptomise pending that negotiation; hut for
ih.it fact, which committed him during dial one nego
tiation, Mr. D. would before this have pronounced that
proposition f 49 degreis a (reasonable propos tion, as
he pronounced the same off-r on the part of Mr, Clay,
lie did understand Mr. Folk, iu his inaugural address,
as standing up eri ct to the pledge of the Baltimore
convention ; and he now said that, come what may,
let who in iy do it, whenever tho proposition of
should again be offered, he would never take back the
: decimation be bad made, that it was a treasonable pro
i position. The negotiation which Mr. Folk fntr.d in
! progress when be came into office, and by w hich he
whs embarrassed, was now ended; nnd if it ever was
. commenced again upon that principle, in violation of
j the pledge* given by the democratic party to the Atnc
i rii\iu people, sooner let his lon. ue cleave lo the roof
of his mouth than he would defend that parly which
j should yield ono inch of Oregon.
[From the Richmond Whig.
“WHERE IS HENRY CLAY!’
The U. 8. Gazette, in answer to the question flippant
ly put by some opponents of Harry of ihe West, makes
an excellent reply, which wc regret to have mislaid.
Tho Gazette thinks they will have occasion to ask. here
after in many an anxious crisis, as w ell a* n >w, in the
distuibed condition of our foreign affairs, •* \\ here is
Henry Clay If any thing more is necessary to an
i swer the question, we will try to gratify the curiosity
j of the inquirer,
“\\ here is Henry Clay V 9 At present, sir. he is
iin New Orleans, pursuing with that *y.stem and energy
| for whith he is distinguished, the duties of his proses
; smn. You will bo glad to learn that, though an old
man, time deal* kindly with hisc nslitutinn, and that
the w inter of advancing years, while i*. scat'ers snow
flakes upon his brow, lu* not chilled the genial fount
ain of hi* generous heart. Ill* frame is stilt erect, his
footstep firm, and that same frank, noble and expres
sive face continues still the faithful image ol his fear
less soul.
A few days since, the people of New* Orleans were
assembled in a spacious church, to w triers the inaugu
ration of their new Democratic Governor. There was
;i great crowd. Statesmen, oratmf and men in office ,
allendpd. There was beauty, wealth and fashion;
military pomp, and civic display, congregated to do
honor to the Governor elect. In the midst of tin* gor
geous scone, a door i* gently opened. An aged citizen,
in a plain garb, unattended and alone, quietly enters. 1
Instantly, and us if by some electric impulse, the whole
au lienee start to their feel ! Tie rafters ring with
(heir enthusiastic shout*. The old nun become* the
center of a thousand burning eyes. There was llkkut
Clai !
•• \\ here is Henry Clay ?** We *ail he wav in New
Orleans —but no, that is a mistake. He is not there
; alone. In the frozen mountains of the North, in the
| vast p?tinea of the Wot, in the crowded cities of ihe
Hast, hi iho sunny plains of the South, go ask the ques
tion, “ Where is JKnry Clay ?” and a million bunds
will be i la-pod upon warm hearts, an J a million voices
answer, HERE ! Tell us not that ho is out of office ,
that h is a detested candidate; lint he can never at
tain the imperial purple. It may nil he true, hut here,
deep in tlie breast of a patriotic people, he has un ern
pirn more powerful and enduring than nny office on
| earth Could give. We love the mait, und in loving
him, we terl lint wo love our country, truth, honor,
’ courage—all that can enoble the human race,— We
loved him in the bright noontide of his lame. We love
him now even more, n his glorious sun, every cloud
of calumny vanishing from before it* face, goes down
in calm and majestic beauty. Alas farthe country,
when that great luminary descend*, and Ihe shadows
of n.ght close upon ihe scene, w ith nothing to irradiate
it* gloom, but the felde light ol glow worm politicians!
•• Where i* llerny day !** Above and beyond the
reach of his unforgiving foes.—His history is identifi- j
ed with that of hi* country. She will point with piide j
to the statesman who bus twice saved the Republic
from ihe yawning vortex of civil discord.—Future pat
riots. when assailed by persecution, and tempted to des
pair, w ill remember the unshrinking fortitude of Henry
Clay, in the fare of desperate opposition—how, in the
fore front of the fight, trod th-it man of mark, his lund ■
towering above the conflicting hosts, hi* broad breast
(lie target for every foe, while the poisoned arrows es j
TV? ,V d,er T'** raWl * J in “ in P'> th.bn.hl
-liicU of hi* spoil.** f*me. The Republic will po l a .
her young men to hi. example. l*oor, Iriendle,* „ nJ
unknown, they will recall hi* etnlv career—how in ob
scurity his young day. were pissed; like some g em
hidden deep under Ihe ocean waves, and tossed and
bulleted by in my an ungry Irllnw, but brought ai | a „
from its concealment, and after being p,,|ched and
made more brilliant by t o -ude assaults of advereii,
pl.l ed * ihe cro suing peail 1.1 Hie diadem of his C uun-
Irv ’* glory. - W her. i, Henry Clay !” Future age.
will give ihe an-. r, pointing to (be liighe*! name up.
on the Vt roll of Amen, m statesmen. V\ here then will
belli* traducersT Where (he petty politician* who
now fume and f.et upon the ulage of pui lic sff.jrs.en
deavoring to rairy a . ..ollm nl upon their J,i;|jj„
shoulders? Ei ho will answer, “ U'tf rt ?” Their
very names will have passed irno oblivion, or if they
are remembered, it will only be to crimson the cheek
us posterity will) the thought that for them, and such
as them, an immortal patriot, world-renowned for hi.
wisdom and virtue, was ostracised and condemned
From the Mibilc Ilcrnlrl nrui Tribuur
LATER FROM TEXAS,
‘I he steamship Alabama arrived at .New Orleans on
Monday, with advice* from Galveston of ihe 14ii
instant.
Gen. Houston, the United Stale. Senator from Tex
as, was a passenger. He it on hi* way to \\ asbinc
ton. *’
The captain (sav Ihe Picayune—a* we reported
yesterday.) repnris ihe American Consul ai .Vatamor
a*. J. F. Schalzcll, Esq , in prison at that place, aecos
erl by the authorities of corresponding with General
T'aylo- at Corpus Uhrisli. In addition lo this, we learn
verbally that a Mexican who was the bearer of de
spatcliea from Mr. S. al MnUmoraa, to Gen. Taylor at
Corpus C Irish, hud been shol by the authorities al tho
former p'see on Ins return. Il is also said that 8,000
Mexican troops a.e staliomd there.
There was a rumor in town yesterday, (continue*
the Picayune.) to the effect that Mr.Slid.il himself
had been thrown into piisun, but thi* undoubtedly took
i * lire from the above. Should it luin out that Mr.
Schalz II has been really incnrcereied al Matsmoraa)
(ho. Taylor cannot reach the vicinity of ihe city with
too great Speed. Wc hare have beard of several oveit
acts committed by the Mexicans of late—one of which
was ihe shooting of a young American trader named
Du nev, at Perole. on the principal ground that he
was in Texas during her early shugglo for liberty—
and now ilia stale and that one of our Consuls has been
throwri into prison on no oilier plea than that he has
been in coricspondence wiili Gen. Taylor.
in reference to Gen. J ay lot’s advance, the editor of
the Galveston Gazelle remarks: •• Gen. Taylor, we
understand, his now neady 7 000 troops under his
commanand
efficient character —well drilled, organized, and sp.
pointed, and capable if acting with the inmost readi
ness and in concert in an emergency. We have no
idea that they w ill be opposed in their present move
| merit by the Mexican forces; nor do we think any ex-
J peetatiori of such an event is entertained by well ia
j formed persons on the frontier,”
Totincil <'Si;jnsjvs', )
March 20tli, 1840. (
REGDI.VR MEETINU.
Present— Tho Mayor.
Ah). I! Old, Collins, Demon, Ayres, Sparks, Stubbs
Absent—Dean, Nesbit.
*! be ininules of the Inst rejolnr meeting were read
\\ hen Aid. Demon moved for u consideration oft|,at
pait of the resolutions repairing no Imlf us the taxes (or
thi* y ear lo bo paid in turn- ill funds, .Vc, ibe motion
lor reconsidering was lost bptlie following vote : yeas—
i ollios, Demon, Sparks-0. INuys—lioud, Ayres,
: Sluhti.*,nnd the Major—4.
The bridge-keeper reported tolls for the wecl; ending
1 this dav, $97 90. b
REPORT.
1 The special committee appointed In examine ihe huiid
ill? lit u I solds range on Cntlmi Avenue, immediaielv
above the store house of Air VV. A. Chrrrv, and now
on up led by W. W. Hum, reaper Ifu II v report—
They have carefully examined ilie'buibling referred
! to. and find il in an extremely dangerous slate; and if
I the vvallsare not secured in some way,must inevitably
, fall down, which would cause great ‘destruction to Id.
mol properly. Jbe adjoining bouse being a woodin
I building, would be crushed bv ilie full.
The cnm.niuee recommend that noliee be immediate.
Iv given to the owners of said bouse and lot. or to ibeir
age at or agents, lo repair und seeme the walls,and if
i not attended : within Iweuti day* after notice, the walls
will be taken down at the expense of the owners ol the
I property. J. R. AVUF.S, )
T. P. STL BBS, t„
CIIA.S COLLINS, > o.
E. BOND, j
The above report was received end adopted.
! A/t Ordinance supplemental laj the Tax Ordinance.
I. Be it ordained by the Mayor und I ‘oun il of ilm
| city ot .Macoi, und it i* hereby enacted by the authority
ol the same, -I hat from und immedia clv after ihe pn*
SMgc ot thi- ordinance, a tux of five dollar* Hi,ill he, and
i- berehv imposed on each and every slave exposed t< r
sale within ihe corporate limits of the city of Macon.—
Frovidud the owner ol such slave or slaves dues not re
lide within the Innils of said city.
9. Bait tin (her ordumed, that no person or persan*
not beiny; iv*:dem* ol this city, shall he permiited to of
frr f. r vale within the city any slave or slaves without
iiist obtaining a permit hum ti e Clerk ol Council.
and. in- il furthersrdaineu, l hui anv person or perror*
wishing to ol.tain rucli permit, shall make oath kefoie
the CJi.v ol Council, ot the number ol slaves intended
by him or them to be so offered for sale within tlie city,
giving a Huh - tui.tiul description of them, and each ol
(hem, und pay the tax imposed by the firr-t se lion of
thi* ordinance, w hen it shall be the duty ol die C lerk lo
; grant su ii permit to the applicant fi applicants,
i 4. Be it tuithfr ordained, That if any person or per
] sliiil! viuluto riilirr ot the ulnresaid ordinance*,
upon pruul made bf hue the Mayor, be or they shall be
fined lor the liist olfuiee in a sum imi exceeding ten
dollurs for curb and every slave offered for sale, und h r
the se ond citeuce, shall lie fm- and in a sum not rxced
ing twenty do'iars lor each and t verv slave *o < ff red
lor sale; und and the tine or fine* are not paid, it shall I e
the duty ot the or lo i*sue execution lor the umouut
, ugai'.h-t any and ail persons so otiemiing.
<. Beil further uidained, T hat all peismi* residing
iu tho city who buy and soil shivesa* merchandize, (lor
gain or profit as u business,) shall pay a lux id two dol
lars on each and every *1 tic actually sold by l:im or
them within thecorpointe limits ol this city. Aid lie
owner or owner* shall he required to make on oath,
quarterly reports on th * first day of Apiil, July, I’rto*
her and Jamiary, of the numberof slaves sold by him
or them, and pay the tox of two dollars lor each tluvft
sold, as required by this ordinance. And in default of
making quarterly returns, and paying the lax hereby
imjioaed, it shall he the day of his honor the Mayor, up
on proof made of u violation ol this ordinance, to issue
execution for the sum of fifty dollurs for each and cteiy
violation of this ordinance against any and all person*
v joining the same.
(J. Be it further otdainod, Tint the Clerk shall *•
ccive for each permit granted by him, and for each quor
tei l v return made to him, the sum of one dollar.
‘l'lte foregoing ordinance was rend, when on motion,
the rules were auspeued, und the ordinance putaed in *
mediate) v.
Council then ndiournrd to meet on Fridav next, at 8
o’clock, P. M Attest. A. R. FREEMAN, <. t.
rJtUJYTS o.yl y:
SPRING KrSTLES. IB4C.
I.KI-: iH RUOWS I UK, -u Clr Ht.wt,
| > EG leave to inform dealers in Dry Honda, that tliev
fi M have received nml me now rxhibitin; nt the Ware
House exclusively for Printed Calicoes, #OO FtiM'l
comprising all the New Spring .Styfea of BRI TISH
FRENCH and AMERICAN manufacture; which, in
addition to their ii*iihl stock, render* their assortment
one of the most henutdul nnd attractive in the city ;
having just been purchased for
CD-Jill iiutl Short Crrdlft
are offered by the piece (*r package mi the same terms,
at and below manufacturers’* prices.
ttr Catalog ties of price* (coirectt and daily) are placed
in the hands of buyers.
(Ijf* Purchasers will inform themaclve* es the state
of th* murker, nnd be well repaid for un examination,
even if they do not purchase.
New York, March 1, 1846 y 4
ICE! ICE! ICE!
PIIIIF. avbseribrr Ims just received u large snppl.v of
il theuhoio nitivle, whicl) he intends to sell at lh*
following rates :
11 y takiinr one hundred pounds at oner, -J cents.
Over 20 lb*, and less than 100, - - -3
Over one pound and less than 20, - - 4 “
One pound, i **.
The above piiees will bo rigidly kept in every >*
stance ncc oiling to quantity; and tho cash will be re
quired fiom fvrrv one, before delivery, withryn Hi-tin*:*
lion of persons. * J. if. DAM OUR;
Macon, March 11, -* lll v_
Iron: It iMOVI ICS ofWd.te ■ppliMiion will
, be mad* to the honorable Inferior Court nf W°n
roe county, wen silling for ordinary purposes, !oi
to sell the Hand and Negion* belonging to die estate eJ
Josiuli Hor ton, lute of said county, dt ceased.
UOUDKICK RUTLAND, Admr.
Mar.il 17,18411.
A UVANCIvS mud. mi Culluii hi|>|>ril to S.*ot.l*i
itt or in WnrHimj*. in thia lilac*. Xpplv lo
Ainri It 4 3 bUOf TANARUS, CARHART & CO.