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• _ DOMESTIC.
From th Hunt turn hlucellmng.
THE BltOTHE** Il'HlM JUDGE MERR4-
WBTHEK'S ADDRESS.
At tO >l*ck <w Thursday moiatug eucrwed iny, the
remliusit f (lie verier* (n (fee case of Krnclten P,
Boon, the brother* were tira-cgtit x the But, in the
presence of a Isrge •nd silent EeseailjJy. The eccue
was of Jeep snd imposing solemnity. After the pri
soners hJ finished (hear Mlervsew with (heir Counsel,
Jiii’ae Merri wether proceeded (it tJJrewi them.
-Yum Wmrren J. lluon and Kinchi n Hutu —By
June* of your Ctwtry, vau htv* (teen found guilty
C* Murder. Htwe yeti, er either of you, sny m
to show why theseutence of the Lew should not nine
be pionoonced 1
Both the prisoner* replied, tktt they did not wish
to sty any thing. His Honor proceeded :
••This is, with you. • enlemrt and sti awful hour.
By the verdicts which vmi h ive bend, voor iites have
been forfeited to the outraged l.ivi i4 your Country
and without this sentence shall he stayed hy tire hand
of Mercy, you must very shortly die! Dex‘h is, at
best, an appalling event. To linger on the tied of dis
ease—watched by the aolicilude of f'ternlsliip—cher
ished by the care and the prayers of affection—solaced
by the esteem, the so-row. and the regret of weeping
and admiring friends—with the bright scenes of a
blissful eternity before os even then, to the Chris
litn Heath is s soleain and interesting Mansion. But
to die the victim of the Law—to die in open viola
dun of the sacred command, 7'Aoii rA/f not A:•//■—to
die aa you must die, u|*on the Gallows—the Felon's
Death—is a thought most terrible to the immortal
aoul.
• But yet the Daw commands it. and its stern fate
must be obeyed ! And deeply painful, as ia to me
the duty to pronounce your sentence, still that duty,
infest he performed.
•■Bet him now who addresses you, and whose voice
you may never agtin heir, entreat you to seek, earn
e-lly and honestly, that forgiveness of srus which a
tone esn prepare you for the solemn hour.
•■With you, in all human probability, the active
scenea of life will soon pass away. The w atchfulness
of parental solicitude, which has guarded you from
your cradles, will soon cease its vigils; soon will
cease to hear the affectionate call of •husband’—soon
will the prattle of your innocent hub; ones fail to greet
the ear of parental hope and affection—soon will you
be separated from Wife and Mother, from Children
and from Friends—soon will you ceise, and forever,
to salute each other with the endearing name of
Brother, All these will soon have an end; and you,
brothers in nativity, and brothers in crime, will soon
breathe out together, upon the same gallows, the same
guihy felon's fate!
contemplation of such a ecene is truly awful:
‘Hope springs eternal in the human brent.’
and while life endures, it is natural lor us to hope that
we may escape such an ignommotis end. but let not
a groundless hope betray you from the necessary pre
paration to meet it. It would be unkmdness to you,
were I not to say that in your cases there ia nothing
on which to bases rational hope of ultimate escape
from the punishment of the Law. You have been
tried by dunes of your own selection—hy men of in
telligence and integrity. Every facility for a fair and
impailial trial has been enjoyed by you ; you have
been defended by able and ingenious and zealous Coun
sel, and yet, you, Warren J. Bonn, you have been
frund guilty ofthe fatal deed, and you, Ktnchen P.
Boon, have been found guilty of being present, ‘aid
ing and abetting’ therein. The Coutl and the Coun
try approve the vetdicts.
••The scene which ia befote us, is ono on which
our peaceful community is not accustomed to look.—
Perhaps it is not wiihin the recollection of the oldest
who hear me, that two brothers should be arraigned
at the same Bar, and at the same time, to receive the
sentence of death. The incident, foi the honor of hu
man nature, is very extraoidinaty. And why is it,
that you are made to form an isolated example in the
history of your country! It is because you gave to
your passions a reckless sway, and contemning alike
the precepts of Religion and Law, with a Murderer’s
phrenzy, you took the life of an unoffending youth.
Far from the land of his birth & his friends,the decea-ed
has fallen a victim to the fiend-like fury of your hearts.
With no just cause to exciteyout revenge, you sought
him in his peaceful and lawful employment, and with
a vengeance, equalled only by a Demon’s rage, you did
that fatal act which has mode a widowed mother weep
over the grave of a beloved child, and which will
soon cause your aged widowed mother, your friends
end relatives, to mourn in sorrow ovci your ignomin
ous end. See, then, what misery and sorrow your
conduct has brought upon an extended circle of rela
tives anJ friends ! Bee to what a death it has doom
ed you both !
••Your file is admonitory to all who shall survive
you, alike to young and aid. It speaks tin- solemn
language of truth to them, never to lake the first
etep in crimes, and never to violate the Laws of the
land, however trifling that violation may tie. The
first step taken—the barner leaped—no bunisn rye
can foresee the end. Moral suasion lose its influence,
legal iritraints their obligations, ar.d the Passions,
csreeung in uncontrolled violence, seek their gratifi
cation with no reference to propriety. Little did you
think, when fust you conceived the violation of the
public law, of wh ch you were guilty, that you were
laying the foundation of that late which awaits you,
But jone illegal act required another to protect it; and
from step to s:ep you have progressed until now you
stand before your Country, blood-slaned Murderers!
•■You determined, for avarice sake, to engage in
the illegal traffic with iSlaves. To that end, you pro
vided yourselves with a barrel of W hiskey, and while
your neighbora were quietly sleeping, you were en
gaged in enticing sway their negroes and gathering
them around you to carry on your unlawful trade.—
You knew the laws of the land forbade it; for you
must certainly have known that the consideration
which you received had been stolen iry the Slaves
from their masters. Your neighbors discovered your
conduct, and very naturally, became excited at it.—
They determined to suppress such a violation of the
law. A patrol was appuinlej, and the unfortunate
deceasrd was its Captain. He went forth, temperate
ly but firmly, to do his duty. You found that your
illegal traffic had bean detected, anJ you believed it
would be broken up. ’Him fired yuur revenge, und
you resolved to triumph over the law, hy the murder
of its officer. On Sunday you resolved to lake his
life. Early the noit morning you prepareJ your pis
tols, snd went in pursuit of the deceased. \ou found
him, sitting upon his horse, engaged in conversation
■s to his legitimate and every day business. Fearing
that his situation might afford facility of e-cape, if ap
prised of your intentions, you uttered not a word of
warning, until you pulled the fatul trigger, lie-knew
nothing of Ins danger, and lihU not even time to ut
ter that cry of Mercy, • Don't shoot me/’ before the
falsi hall had performed its deadly purpose ! A few
moments weie all that remained for him. ‘Goodbye
..they hate kill'd me !’ were his only words, and he
sunk into the icy arms of Death!—GoodGud! what
a feeling could have nerved your srin to do o foul a
deed—so eoldly, to deliberately, end for so small a
cause! But the died his been done—Alsop sleeps
among the dead, and the insulted majesty of your
Country’s Laws demands an atonement, bv the for
feiture of yotn lives, A retrospect cannot hem fit you;
but yuur fate may seise to warn the living against the
fiist step in crime—against a violation of the public
law, bow ever small. High crime has it beginning,
and it be nevei yet been perpeiratcd, unless previous
violation f minor lows, or neglect of mural or legal
duties, bad led to it.
••Your condilion is gloomy and awful. You are
standing upon the narrow isthmus of Time, with the
ocean of Elurnity in full view. A limited puilion of
hfe alone remains to you , hut remember that
‘Life is the time that God hath given,
To escape from Hell and fly to Ifoaven.’
Arid'may you faithfully improve if lor your soul’s sal
vation ! Whatever may he your crime, the Blood ol
Christie sufficient lo alone for it, and you have the
assurance that those who seek forgiveness in earnest
thill find it. Human laws command punishment for
crime lo deter from its perpetration ; but yet the guil
ty may find pardon in Divine Mercy. The Thief,
as he hung upon tbe Cross, found forgiveness, and
that you may obtain it through the same intererces
sion is rny sincere prayer. ;
“Look, however, to no human power for relief)
hut throw yourselves upon the mercy of Christ, trust
ing alone to his power arid disposition, and you will
£od ‘bat which no human agency can give, and which
et i alone radatfl you i* the dread hour of Death.—
! Farewell! may yea enjoy forgiveness in time, and
1 fiapfa in as beyond the grave!
I •It tmly it aw reruaiau toe me to juuuouncc the ecu
twice at the Law.”
The Court ilieu read the judgment, that tlie prison
ers lie hung on Friday, the 371 h dsy of Novemtisr.
1816, hetw.s-n the hiaars of Id o'clock, A. M. slid 3
o’clock, I*. M. widim or near, the corporate limits
of Greeaeaborough.
From the ("-t ii e i 'tu ) Constitutionalist.
ADDISON GARDINER 8 LETTER OF IS3L
We publish to-dav a teller from Addison Gardiner,
th# Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of
the State of New Yoik, lo an abolition society in I do'S
upon the question of negro suffersge. ft is not our
purpose to say a word upon the opinion itself, contained
in the lettc*, absurd and untenable as we take it to bo,
upon a fair discussion of ihe principles and Iscta in
volved. Abstractly, it can not tie denied, that a Cul
len of New York is clearly entitled to the exercise of
any right, in his own State, that does not inter!cio
wirh the tights of other*. All w* ask is laissstz nous
ftiirt —let us alone, and jou may p'ck your own com
pany to go lo the polls with, wherever you please.
Our object in this publication, is to show the South,
how little reliance, is to he placed upon our ••Noithein ,
Brethren” in this question, and to exhibit, the low i
huckstering of mean ambition, for the votes, snd sup
poll, of a set of f.inalics, cut-throats, and traitors, under
the name of Abolitionist. This vile pandering fats j
been carried on for years, by Whig ami Democrat
The balding has been kept uti actively by both parlies ,
The loosing party weeps over his defeat, ami damns
the other lor taking the bargain out of their hands.—
And thus have the abolitionists been dandled, abused
pelted and provoked hy turns until it has grown Into
strength and vigor, und now in seven Slates at least,
can dictate terms to Wnigs or Democrats.
If Mr. Addison Gardiner had lieen as he pretends, a
true Republican, who looked upon the constitution as
“one perfect and entire crysolite,"—as a charier not to
he touched hy construction or amendment, if he had
believed in his soul what he professes; that the safety
ot the Union—the safely or republican institutions lay
in pieserving il from the use of all doubtful power,—
his language lo this assembly of assassins,” would
have been eminently diffe ent. •- He would have told
Messrs. Reid and Shepard—that the foundation of their
creed, and every doctrine laised upon it, was destruct
ive of the guarantee* of the constitution, and subversive
of the organic law of his country. That whatever
might he his opinions upon the question propounded,
he woulil hold no terms with men whose touch was
contamination, whose support was disgrace.” He
ought in a word, to have set them at defiance,
We fear that these woids will never meet the obser
vation of the Democratic parly at the North ffor who
there caret a button for the South or Southern opinion
—except as stewards or their protective taxes!) —but
we may say it for the benefit of those whom it may
concern here; that we shall give our humble support
to no man for l’risidenl or Vice President, who may
chose lo keep his peace cn this subject. •• He must
come out from among them—touch not, taste not,
handle not the unclean thing”—he must be above sus
picion, and he must declare himself to he against them
suntphruze and without condition.
Rochester. Oct. IG, 1838.
• * * * Second question —‘Are you in favor
of extending the elective franchise to the colored man,
the same as to the white!
I answei, YES. I Bin sensible that the social con
dition of the blacks will naturally make them depend
ant on the wealthier class of citizens ; and this class,
with individual eiceptions, however respectable and
however honest in their views, are not the class by
whom the battle of popular rights is to be fought and
won. ***** Ido not deem their numbers
or their influence in this State sufficient to justify us
in withholding f-om them the right of sujferuge. —
There should he no exception to the doctrine of equal
rights, without a strong necessity ,- and that necessi
ty 1 do not conceive to exist in the present case.
Very respectfully, your fellow-citizen,
A. GARDINER.
To Messrs. W. \V. Reid, &c„ and C. O. Shepard,
Secretary of the Antl-Sluvery Society of Genese coun
'?•
DEMOCRATIC ABOUTtONtSTS.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Union of the 16th of October endeavors to Rx
upon the Whig party of Massachusetts the charge of
an attempted alliance with the Abolitionists. Would il
not be well for the Union first to clear the Adminis
tration from the charge ot courting the Abolitionist of
that State. ‘The official patronage of the Administra
tion lias been there given to Abolitionists. Marcus
Morton, appointed 00l lector of the port of Boston, with
a very large official patronage at his di-posul, is a
know n political Abolitionist. He voted in Congress
against the admission of Mi souri inlo tho Union, be
cause slavery w “ s not exdudeJ in the act admitting her.
He has always been in good fellowship with the Abo
litionists.and courted their votes to make him Govern
or. As Governor he approved the legislative seta of
Massachusetts legalizing marriages between whiles and
negroes, and the act punishing by fine or imprison
ment any officer of the State for aiding in the arrest
and imprisonment of fugitive slaves, snd forbiding the
use of the prisons of the State in which to confine them
when arrested. These facts were well known in the
Administration, and afforded no objections to Mr. Mor
ton's receiving the most lucrotive, important, and in
fluential appointment within New England. Mr. J’ar-1
menter, appointed Naval Officer at the same port, sup-1
ported the views of tho Abolitionist while he was a j
member of Congress, as his votes during his whole
term, until after his final defeat, will hear testimony.
Mr. Rantoul, appointed District Attorney, was an early
and wefl known Abolitionist. Isaac H. YVright, ap
point'd Navy Agent, in wbieh capacity ho officiated
for about a year, hut whose nomination the president
finally withdrew after very grave charges had been pre
[ ferred against him, was an Abolitionist; was a mem
ber of tho Senate of Massachusetts when Mr. Morton
was Governor, and voted for all the abolition laws and
measures of that year, and for the very strong resolu
tions against the adnii-sion of Texas into the Union.
‘This Mr laac 11. Wright, notwithstanding his aboli
tion votes for negro marriage laws, the law punishing
State officers for aiding in Ihe arrest offugative slaves,
Ihe Texas anti-annexation resolves; notwithstanding
the withdrawal of Mr. Wright’s name from before the 1
Senate, under circumstances leaving a very unfavora
ble impression as to hiacbaracter, yet he was, this same ’
Mr. Wright, was the chief director in the recrntDem
ncratic Convention in Massachusetts for nominsting n
rsndidate for Governor and Lieutenant Governor; and 1
this same Mr. Wright is tho Democratic candidate for 1
Congress in John Quinrv Adams’s district. He ia a 1
principle adviser, if not bosom friend of Marcus Mor
ton.
The Democratic candidates for Governor (Isaac Da- 1
via, Esq.) snd fur Lieutenant Governor (George Hood,
Eq.) were Imth members of the Senate of Msssachu- 1
setts during Mr. Morton’s term, and voted for all the 1
obnoxious abolition measures above named. In mL
dit ion. Isaac Davis agreed to attend ami set as Vice
President ot a meeting in Worecster, called in 1814
lo oppose the annexation of Texas, at which meeting
resolutions were offered against the integrity of the
Union. Some accident prevented the attendance of
Colonel Davis.
Frederick Robinson, the Democratic candidate for
Congress in Middlesex district, wa also a member of
the Senate of Massachusetts st the time spoken of. and
approved of the above named measures. Mr. Brut
wefl. Democratic candidate for Congress in district No.
3; ami Mr. Dike, Democratic candidate for Congress
in district No. 2, were both members of the House of
Representatives in Mr. Morton’s term, arid voted for
these negro measures. Mr. John A - Bolles, Mr. Mor
ton’s Secretary of State, and at present at tho head of
the Democratic organization of Massachusetts, was one
ol the advisers and supporters of these measures. Mr.
Franeis Howe, a Democratic candidate for the Senate
from V, nrcester district this year, is rank Abolition
ist, and it is also believed that die was a member of the ;
Morton Legislature that passed (he measures above
stated. Last year or the year before. Amass Walker
was the Democratic candidate (or tho Senate in the
same district. Mr. Walker had then jut returned from
Ohio, having been a professor in the Oberlin Institute,
a noted Abolition concern in thut State. Charles ]
Howard, who was one of Governor Morton’s Etecu- 1
live Council, snd Samuel C. Alhn, a member of the ’
Morton Legislature, both approving all these measures,! 1
have been appointed to lucrative posts in the Boston ! 1
Custom house by Mr. Collector Morton,
The patronage of the Adminidrstion and tin influ
ence o’the Administration have been devoted to aid
ttie-c Abolitionists in M i-sichaaett-, until the whole
Dam cialic orgamz rllon is in the. hands of these Dem
ocratic Abolitionists. The editor of the Union was well
apprized of these facts in regard to the ahuhlion opin
ions and conduct of M irons Morton and (saat H.
Wright, lint tint knowledge did not prevent his stren
uous efforts to secure, their confirm ilnm before the Sen
ate oi the United Stales.
Wliu will ihe gay old gentleman nl the Union say
to these Lets ! Let us sec him manihle this bane.
Correspondence of thr H dtimare ,S\n.
WiauiKurov, Nov. 1(1, 1846.
This alternnou experiments were nude in the office
of the Secretary of War with a quantity of prepared
cotton, brougut hy Mr. Robertson, our percent Con
sul to Bremen, lar the express parpen,* of securing a
patent lor the inventors, Messrs. Seine ilocus dt fl.itt
ger.
The whole cabinet—The President, Gen. Scott,
Col. Touch, and a variety of distinguished gentlemen
weie (111 sent, arid Ihe experiments succeeded beyond
the most sanguine expectation.
The preplied Cotton ignites more readily than pow
der, and cninbu-lum inoie perfect. A ball Was fired
with it from a common musket, from the window us |
the War Department against the wall of the Navy I
Dapartment, with immense force; an excuvatiou of
mu ly the depth of an inch being pr oil need in the
will, and the bill l> mg completely flattened.
The day after to-morrow, the expansive faculty of
prepared colton will he tried at the arsenal with the
musket pendulum, ft will undoubtedly succeed as
similar experiments have succeeded wnti it ill Germa
ny, bwileeiland atid England.
Prepared cotton ia nu lling else than gunpowder in
a purer slate and a more acceptable fomt. It contains
precisely the same ingredients—carbon, sulpher and
rmre, and is manufactured with great ease, and muv
be preserved even for months in water, All that is
necessary is to dry it before using it. When the pre
paration is on e made, twenty-four ImU'S would suf
fice to prepare a sufficient quantity of cotton, just ink
en Irom the carjing machine, to carry on uur whole
war with Mexico.
And yet the preparation is so simple, so dearly a
scientific reduction of the known property of each in
gredient part, that it is only a woilder that the same
discovery has not been made yeurs and years ago.—
The inventors being about lo take out a patent, it
would not lie propel to say more on the subject now,
a few days (when the patent will b secured) all will
he found so simple that every man may henceforth
make his own gunpowder as he makes his own bread,
or hulls his own potatoes.
THE BEGINNING OF TIIE END.
Under this significant caption, the National Intel
ligencer of Saturday r-ays :
We presume that our PhesiDknt arid his Cabinet
are by this time cunviaced that they have forfeited lire
public confidence—ihe contid nee, that is, of their
own party; that of the o:ber they never possessed. —
If, alter the elections in I’txs.sxLVA.vix, Ohio,
Maine and Ne v Hampshire, any doubt of this so
lemn fact was still lingering in their minds, the voice of
condemnation which has reached them from New
York must have dispelled it wilh a speed as prompt
as that ofthe electric agent winch transmitted to them
the fatal news This was the inevitable result of a
rash and ruinous policy, which thousands saw, hut
which those most deeply interested would not see.—
They were told that if they madly persisted in break
ing down the wise protective system given to the coun
try by the Whig party, and under which industry had
flourished and all interests had so greatly prospered ;
if they m idly persisted in deranging the business of
the nation hy reviving the edious and broken down
Subtreasury, their own party must abandon them.—
Those who could pretend to any unprejudiced knowl
edge of public sentiment foresaw and foielold this;
but they were unheeded. Somewhat observantof pub
lic affairs end of the public feeling, we ourselves ven
tured to predict the political consequences of the de
plorable policy which was then impending, and which
has since proved so disastrous. On the 4th of May
last we ventured the following opinion—not for any
purpose of effect, hut frum a firm conviction of its
truth: “Were we capable of being governed hy party
Considerations merely, without reference to the gene
ral interest of this great Csinmonwealth, we should
desire no more effective arms against the now domin
ant parly than the party itself would furnish us hy the
twin measures of the prostration us the Tariff and the
establishment of the Muhtreaiury system.”
What was then prediction is now history) but the
prediction was scorned and sjouted by the sycophants
whoj surrounded the Execltive, and who, like all
their tri e, w, re more intent on flittering than on sa
ving their master. The measures must lie right be
cause the Whigs opposed them ; thev were Democrat
ic measures ; they were uregciibeJ by the canons of
the Baltimore Convention, tud must he infallible. —
Bo they rushtd on, and are sow reaping their reward.
The jkit CoNottus.—The intelligent Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltanore f’alriot says:
“ All who had doubts aboutlhe succsss of the Whigs i
in electing a majority of the neinhers lo (he next pop
ular branch of Congress, may now give tho-e doubts :
to the winds. Thus stands thp account at present!
Next Congress Tresent Congress, j
W. I„ F. N. Vi’r. W. L. F. N. VacT. i
Maine. * • 1 2 011 50 1|
Vermont, -3 0 oi3 10 II
New York, 23 II 0 ) 9 21 h 0 i
j New Jersey, 4 1 0 ) 3 2 0 0 j
I Fenn’vania 16 7 1 D 10 12 2 0
| Ohio, - - II 10 0 D 8 13 0 0 j
Illinois, 1 6 0 1) 1 6 0 0 j
Missouri 0 5 000 6 0 oj
Georgia, -4 4 003 50 Oj
Florida, si 0 OKI 0 0 0 !
8. Carolina, O 7 0 I) 0 7 0 0
Arkansas, O l 0 4 0 10 0
63 64 1 fl 37 79 6 1
“There will he thirty Stales represented in lbs next
Congress, and the uuinbet of representatives they will
be entitled to, is two hundred and thirty. Os this num
ber, one hundred and sixteen cim-litutes a majority.
“ Giving to the I,oco-focos of the Stales yet to eluct,
the same number of Representatives they have iri the
present Congress ; that is, giving them fourteen of the
fifteen fur Virginia,six of (hu nine for North Carolina,
three of the four for Louisians, eight ofthe ten for In
diana, six of Ihe seven for Alabama—all in Michigan,
lowa, Wisconsin. Texas and Mississippi—all tn New-
H.impshire, which they can get —and allowing them
to fill the four vacancies ill Mam, which they esnnot
do —and then they will have, all told, one hundred and
fifteen members,just one-half!
“ But they will lose in Maryland, Virginia, North-
Carolina, Louisiana, Indians, Tennessee, New Hamp
shire, and Maine st least fourteen memheis, which will
bring their entire force in the House of Rcpiesentatives
dawn as low as one hundred members. This will give
the Wings tbiity majority—enough for all useful pur
poses.”
Hoerisl*.— A correspondent of tire St Louis Re
publican, writing from Camp I’atteison, near Burita,
mentions the following incident.’
“ A murmur of indignation was running through
our lines to-day, in consequence of s scene of unrivall
ed interest which transpired here this morning. An
old squaw, from an encampment of L'pan Indians a
huut two miles below us on the liver, came loth*
cimp of Texan volunteers, snd offered lor sale two
Spanish girls from thirteen lo fourteen years old.—
l'hey were dreadfully emaciated, and almost destitute
ofa single garment of clothing. The Texans seized
the girls and squaw snd carried (hem immediately to
headquarters, where upon examination il was ascer
tained that the fcipaiis had murdered a whole family
the parents and brothers of the two girls, in the vicin
ity of the Rio Grande, stolen all their pioperty, and led
the girls into captivity ; there they had treateJ them
wilh extreme cruv-lty. and nearly starved them lo death
and were now offering them for sale. The girls read
ily pointed out the ringleaders of the outrage, and some
fifteen or twenty of them were arrested for furlhei in
vestigation hy the order of Gen Wool.”
Truning Peach Trees. —The most suitable time for
pruning Ihe peach, aa well as for many other kinds of
stone fruit, is in autumn, just as the leaves begin to fall,
when the sap is in a downward motion. At this peri
od a more derided cicatrization lakes place, than when
the trees are pruned m winter or spring.
Shipments of Bread'!uj[ to England. —The Nt *
York lleralii of Te-sday has ih- following statement:
The shipment ot fljut anJ Krain to Liverpool, from
thin ait<l oilier porta, at preaunt price*, must pay a loss.
Very large shipments tiave been made at current rates;
and a *ery great advance upon quotations reported at
Liverpool at the latest dates, most tie realized, before
even costs and charges can be made. We annex a
statement ot actual sales of flour in Liverpool, shipped
Irum Philadelphia. It allows the cost, charges and net
receipts, at the rales then curicht, and it will serve ah
a guide for any variation :
ISmeMtsTs ur Foots to Liveufoox.
July. 1816.
200 bliU,flour sold, duty paid, at tls 6J £2ll 6 7
Charges.
To marine insurance on £2OO ,or
17s 9d per cent, arid stamp, I 17 0
To bond, dock and town dues 3 li 8
To landing, loading, Wa-ehousinz
und delivering 2 10 0
To cartage to store, £ I 17 6, coop
ering and sampling 35a 3 12 6
To warehouse rent I 19 4
To cartage allowed buyer by con
tract 10 II
To duty on 200 barrels *23 17 2
To insurance from lire in the
warehouse 1 14 3
To frietght on 200 barrels, at 3s
each, and primage 31 10 0
To bank commissions and inter
est on freights 1 6 6
To brokerage and guaranty, 2 per
cent 4 17 7
To commissions, 2 j percent 6 2 0
Total of all charges 84 4 11
Net proceeds due October 29, 1846 £l6O 1 8
Postage, rite, 0 11 8
£159 7 0
At 8£ per Cent $768 38
This Dour cost in Philadelphia aa foil,iwos : —March
12, 20(1 bbls. atsl 87 $975 00
Charges 12 00
$987 00
Loss of intehest five months 24 57
•Duty 2s. 4d. per barrel.
This exhibits a loss of $243 29, equal to nearly
twenty-five per cent., or about one dollar and twenty
five cents per barrel—the sales noting iiut about i 3
62J per bbl. When there is a very great speculalion,
and every one is pushing forward supplies, shipowners
advance the charges for freight, and Ihe expense of
getting stocks in foreign m irkeis is therefore increased
Uther charges, also, increase in a corresponding pro
poition. Flour exported at present prices, cannot pay
a profit, unless there proves to be a greater scarcity of
food in Europe than the most uufivotable accounts
yet warrant us In believing.
The Way the Money Goes.—Mr. Walker has pub
lished in the Union, says the Baltimore Patriot, an
official repoit of the receipts into nn 1 the expenditures
from the treasury, during ihe month of October. The
gross receipts were $8,735,950; of which, $1.953.950
were on account of Treasury notes. The expenditur
es in the month were $ 14,088,661 27, or $5,352,711-
27 beyond the receipts, and deducting the Treesury
notes, over six millions and a quarter of dollars. Os
the expenditures, $8,153,659 were on account of the
Army, and $1 969 9SO on account ol the N ivy. This
is over ten millions; and for a year would give more
than a hundred and twenty millions for the war! It
is certain that we are going to pay pretty well for all
we get of Mexico.
From the Savannah Fepublican.
Trit-vos to bk Remembered.— Which Is the Brit
sh party now 1 The Whig or Loeofoco 1 The fol
owmg items which we clip from Fore'gn Journals, and
put in proper form, plainly demunstiale which party
is entitled to the appellation:
Let it be remembered, that the London Times says:
“ Henceforth the principle ol duties for protection must
be considered as abandoned in the United Stales.”
Let it be remembered that the same paper says :
“ Ihe alteration of the American Tariff cannot but be
regarded as a gieat triumph gained by the principles
of free trade.”
Let it be remembered, that Wilmer & Smith’s Lon
don Times, in speaking of the passage of McKay’s bill,
says—-the reduction of duties on cotton and woolen
manufactures will give a great impulse to these branch
es, which, for some time pis', have been suffering to
| some extent for want of a remunerative foreign mar
ket for their surplus production. But the interest
which will be most materially benefitted is the iron
manufacture of this country, which will be apparent
: from a glance at the comparative duties under the old
! Tariff and the present. It is expected that the price of
| ptg iron Will rise ids, pet ton, and bar iron 20s per
I ton.”
j Let it be remembered, that the Liverpool Standard
says : “ that the new Tariff in the United Slates, is a
j measure which will be received with infinite satisfac
tion by the British merchant and manufacturer.”
Let it be remembered, that the same paper, in speak*
ingot the matter, says — the general eflect must be to
increase the value of the Amencan maiket to the Brit
ish manufacturer, whilst it may airest the progress of
i the people of the Eastern States in manufacturing skill.’
Ue it be remembered, that the Montreal Courier,
i Canada, referting to the passage of McKay’s bill, says :
“ As Englishmen, We ate of course pleased that the
j Tariff is abolished, as taken in conjunction with the
! abolition of our Corn Uaws, it will open an immense
| market ful us; but if we were Americans we should
certainly be Tariff men.”
Let it be lernemhered, then, we say, that no longer
doubt can exist, as to whic.i party is entitled to the
name of “British’ and which American, in its feelings
and views,
THE RESULT IN NEW YORK.—The Albany
A'gus of Monday sums up the result in this Slate, as
follows :
For Governor it will be seen that Mr. Young’s mi
jority is about 10,500.
In the Seriate the democrats elect in tbs Ist, 2,1. and
4th districts, and the whigs in the other five distiicts.
That body will consist of 21 demoeiuls, 10 wings and
1 native.
The House consists of 58 democrats and 70 whigs.
Possibly the official canvass may add another whig to
the Onondaga delegation.
In joint ballot, as the Legislature is now supposed
to stand, tbe whigs and natives show a majority of
two.
The democrats elect 11 to Congress, and the whigs
23, including Lawrence, whig, in the 26th district—
which is yet in doubt.
UstTin Stats Sesate.—The terms of service of j
the following Senators will expiro on the Ith ol March
next:
Maine, George Evans. New Hampshire, Joseph
Cillev. Massachusetts, John Davis, Rhode Island,
John F. Simmons. New Jentey, J. W. Miller, Del
aware. Thomas Clayton. Vngima, Wm. S. Archer.
North Carolina, Willie P. Mangiim,- (One vacancy.)
South Carolina, *John C. Calhoun. Georgia, John
M. Berrien. Alabama, * Diton H. Lewis. Mississip
pi, ’Joseph W. Chambers. Louisiana 1 , Alexander
Barrow, Tennessee, S. Javnugan. Kentucky, J. T.
Morelicad. Illinois, * James Semple. Arkansan, *Cher
tei Ashley. Michigan, Win. VVoodbridgo. Texas,
•Samuel Houston.
The places of aeveral Senators have already been
supplied as follows:
Maine—John W. Bradbury, dem. Louisiana,—S.
W. Downs, item. Mississippi Homy Stuart Foote,
dem. Rhode Island—John 11. Clark, Whig. New-
Harnpshire-*-John P. Hale.
The Senators who hold over on the 4th of .\faffch,
1847, ate 23 Democrats, 12 Whigs.-
•Democrats.
The ftiende of sound primspies throughout thn coun
try will rejoice at the signal triumph of the Whigs ol
Massachusetts, and especially in the great triumph of
those principles and ol high personal merit which has
attended the election in Boston. There, that sterling
W ing gentleman, R. C. Wm-u hup. has been chosen
by an unprecedented majority over the violent opposi
tion of both Loeofacos and Abolitionists. This taller
party, indeed, stem a to have been utterly prostrated in
the Btale notwithstanding the insidious assertion of the
Government organ here of a coalition between ihe
Whigs and Abolitionistst far out of the . tghly-eiaht
members of the Legislature whose election has hern
Uea'd of. only floe Abolitionists have been chosen, and
six I.ocdfocos to keep them in countenance; the re
ir.aiumg eighty are all constitutional Whigs. What
will “Mrs. Grundy” of the Union say now 1
We are happy to state also that the ninth district of
Massachusetts, which was represented in the last Con
gress by Williams, Locfoco, and has remained vacant
during the pressnt Congress, alier two or three ineffec
tual trials, lias now bren filled by the election of Arte
mas Hate, Whig; so that the entire representation of
the Stale Is now Whig.— Nat. Inlet.
All’Yunk'eedom Was represented in the cargo of ihe
packet ship Petersburgli, which sailed trom Boston, for
England, on Saturday, with 20,509 bushels Indian
Corn; 300 hhds. tallow, 1500 barrels (lour, 1200 do.
naval stores, 500 do. apples ; 400 do. sperm oil, 200
do. lard, 100 do. grease, 30 do. shoe pegs, 100 do.
Onions, 60 cases clocks, 150 rocking chairs, 15.000 lbs.
wool, besides sundry small lots of Yankee notions, and
50 steerage passengers.
The steamer Great Britain, says the Journal of Com
merce, was insured for £49,000, or about $250,000.
The Directors of the Company returned the passage
money to the passengers, amounting to upwards of
$30,000.
That the Evening Post and Journal or Commerce
should boast ol the re-electior. -by the skin of his teeth’
of David Wilmot in a District which gave Polk 2,252
majoiity, and tile election of Charles Biown in the
Northern Liberties with over lifleen hundred majority
against hitn, (hut divided between a Whig and a Native
candidate,) in a district Which gave Clay only 153
majority over Polk ! —these are the only two Members
of Congress elect from Pennsylvania who regard the
Tariff of 1846 With any sort of complacency, yet their
election is claimed as evidence of its popularity in that
State. The majority in Pennsylvania against the
New Taliff cahnot be plausibly rated lower than One
Hundred Thousand Freemen. — Tribune ,
Potatoes are received here in great quantities by ba
nal. They sell as they arrive at 25 cents a bushel,—
Thev are then selected, ami the choice lots forwarded I
to New York, where they bring a handsome profi’. 1 — |
Albany Argus, Thursday.
Adeertisng. — lf there is any bus-ness man Who j
doubts the Utility of of advertising, as a means of get- j
ting rich, let him read the following from the New
York Tribune ;
“The increased attention and unumall facilities for
advertising abroad, have strikingly changed the aspect
of business. The days for sitting quietly in well filled
stores, waiting for trade, have gone by—the old land
marks of business are removed, and new channels o
pened. He who clings to the custom of a by-gone age
may sit solitary and alone, while the dust shall accu
mulate upon his profitless wares. Now-a-days, if a
man wishes to increase his business, or in fact so do
business at all, he advertises. Shrewd men, of small
capital, long ago discovered the sure road to wealth )
and those who have been doing nearly all the HlsinesS
iri certain departments, after the roles followed by their
fathets. now see themselves suddenly distanced—their
new competitors taking the business in n their own
hands through the mighty influence and tremendous
powerof the Press of the country.”
A letter from a soldier in Col. Marshall's regiment
of Kentucky volunteers, is published in the Lexington
Observer. It is dated at the Camp, near Port LavacS,
Tel as. Sept. 23d. and gives a melaneholly account of
the condition of the fegiment. Itsavs—
Yesterday the surgeon reported 160 new cases in
the hospital. You ought lo see the boys. Their con
dition is a reproach to the Government. They ale
barefooted, and some of them literally without breech- i
es, many without hats and coats ; but they stand up
as proud as if they were dressed in imperial purple. |
The Government is in debt to this regiment $95,000 ;
it has received no pay whatever, and though paymas
ters pass and repass, it has seen no signs of payment.
Yeung men of edocation anti intelligence, used to the
luxuries of private life, are by this neglect absolutely
turned naked in a wild country, and exposed to the
Climate, and sufferirg front the weather, without any
care for their condition on the part of the Government t
they serve. They would raise a row pretty quieklv.
but that they respect too highly the feelings of their
own officers to place them in an awkward position, by
drawing down on them the displeasure of the War
Department.
I Cool —A man with whom we sire wholly unac
| qnainted, his addressed us a letter from Charlestort,
j asking us to insert an advertisement, enfitled “A SitO
i atioir Wanted,” <&c. He gives some very good names
I as references, hut he would have given more decided
proof of his business capacity, if he had either enclosed
(he money for the advertisement, or paid the postage
on his letter. Men have strange ideas about Editors
and Newspapers Publishers. They expect to pav ev
ery other class of men for their labor or their property,
but it is generally considered as sufficient honor to
patronize a fiewepnper by reading it dav after day, and
advertising in its columns, free gratis far nothing.
Although Editors rnay manage to “work for nothing,
and find themselves,'’ we do not think that they ought
to be taied with postage while doing so Sao.Krp.
The road from Mexico to vera Cftr;£.
A contemporary paper says ‘ that the city of Mexi
co is only a week's march from Vera Cruz.” He is
wrong. Seldom do soldiers march above 20 miles per
day. and as the city of Mexico is 280 miles from Ve
ra Cruz, they would he 14 dav in going that distance.
The diligonce which runs between Vera Cruz and
Mexico is 4 days on the road. The traffic between
the two cities is immense. Almost all the goods land
ed at Vera Cruz are conveyed to the city of Mexico on
the backs of mules. A mule wits carry 400 pounds
weight, the height of which is $24, during the rai
ny seasons, (that is, from April to September) the
mules aro 30 days in going to Mexico ; the owners
of the mrrfe* Bremen nf|honenty and substance; they
and their servants are well armed, and sometimes they
have fierce encounters with robbers.
The Worst part of the road to Meiico—particular
ly for foot-soldiers—is that which is contiguous to Ve
rs Cruz, for the soil is saml. and sand almost as hot
as that used by chemists to make a sand-bath. Here
the diligence, though drawn by eight powerful horses,
••drsgs its slow length along” at the rate of three miles
the hour. Our soldiers would find marching along
this paif of the toad extremely difficult and irksome.
And in this, as indeed in the other Mexican roads,
it is advisable to march at night. At some distance
from Vera Cruz the rankness of the vegetation is sur
prising. Cacti, which in Europe would bring a high
price, are here rotting on the road side, fn some pla
ces, where the road is rather narrow, a’ gigantic plunt
pushes its stem into the very diligence yon are seated
ill The birds ton, hereaboute. are as richly cofjreu
as the flowers. But there is a close, rank church
yard smell in the air, which is any thing hu>|pleasani,
and which reminds you that you are not yet out of the
reach of that scourge of tropical climates—the yellow
fever.
When you’ get to Jalapa, (which is about 60 mi lbs
from Vers CruZ.) you find that nature there wears a
more cheerful, if a less gaudy aspect. You have left
the tierra ealiente, or hot region, and are now in the
tierra temphda, or temperate district, ft is indeed
the Eden of the Western World. Fields yellow with
Indian corn-—groves of orange trees—of styrax and o
ther balsamic trees, are seen on every side. The ap
pearance of the town itself harmonises Well with that
of the country around 1 . It has a cleanly and whole
some look—so have its inhabitants, who number thir
teen thousand. The women of Jalaps are noted for
their beauty. Its elevation above the level of the sea
is 420f feet. When a north wind blows at Vera
CruZ the inhabitants of Jalaps are enveloped with a
fog, which Bometimes lasts two or three weeks. The
occurrence of these fogs may he said to bo the only
inconvenience of a residence in / ilapa. When Mexi
co was a Spanish colony a fair was held at Jalipa,
which used to he attended bv thousands of merchants,
from all parts of the country; anil at which were sntd
the goods brought to Vera Cruz, at slated periods, in
fleets of merchant men from Spain. At the present
day a | -initial fair is held at a paltry village in the in
terior of Mexico —called Han Juan, Almost depopulx
ted at other times, at the time of the fair fifty, sixty,
and even eighty thousand people are congregated ,i
Sin Juan.
The next place of importance on the road t 0 Maxi
co. Perole—the villages of Las Yigss, | ( , P) ‘
and St. Michael, mte-vene between u’and Jala ~ *
The road front Las V-gas to Penile is verv had and
strep. W hen you are in Perole, veu are in wi,i
called the titrra fria. or cold region. And cold
iiitugh it is, m all conscience! A day or two before
you were perspiring at every pnro—now, votir cloak
and comforter are in requisition. Perole is about 70
miles from Jalapo, and contains 2.500 inhabitant -
II is 7692 feet above the level of the sea. It s house”
ere one storied, very gloomy looking, hut very strong*
’The English legal maxi,t, -“every man’s home j. hi.”
castle, is equally true in Perole, though in a differ
enl sense. Near Perole is the famous castle of that
name. Thrice has Santa Anna been an inmate of
that castle—the lust time us a prisoner of Slate h
not impossible Unit ere long, he may ,g , ln be an in
voluntary guest ot the Governor of tha ci-tle „f I’e
rote. In the vicinity ,-f Perole there are several ,j||,’
ges, inhabited solely by banditti The spies ol whom
may he seen prowling about I'erote at the hour fl lv J
for Ihe arrival o! file diligence.
Tito third large town on the road to Mexico is P ue
Ida. The road here is uninteresting— sometimes lead
ing through deep gullies, at others along a dusiy plain
Puebla is about 60 miles from Perole, According (0
some authorities, it eonlains 50,000 inhabitants— ac
cording lo others, 90.000. At all events, there are
only two places in the republic more populous t| lan
Puebla i—they are Guanajuati and the capital iu r |f
The cathedral of Puebla is a very fine building. T|, e
lamps, hallustrrdes and principal ornaments of the al
tar are of massive sliver. Some estimate of the value
of the large chandelier may he formed from the fact
that four thousand dollars were paid fur cleaning it a
few vests ago ! There are many manufactories in
Puebla : those of cotton goods, hard soup, and swords
and bayonets are the principal. The people ol Pue
bla are very bigot, and. hut energetic and persevering.
They are braver than the generality of Mexicans. It
is at Puebla, and only at Puebla, that an irtvadmg ar
my Would meet with any thing like a vigorous oppo
sition. r
After leaving Puebla, you have ninety miles to go
before you reach Mexico. The road that leads there
to is ffell constructed, and kept in excellent condi
tion, Nine or ten miles per hour are done bv Ihe
diligence in the more letel parts of the road. Here
indeed the name of •‘diligerice” is not a misnomer.—
There is a shott cut to Mexico from Pluebla ; Santa
Anna took it When he nonfilled |Sgainst tbe President
Bust.mleiite in 1811. Who kndws but that au A
merifcan aimy will have to lake the aauie roule short
ly Stranger tilings than this have happened— and
will happen again.— N. Y. Cuitrier.
FOUKIhN.
I on Days Lite* From Europe,
Arrival ol tile M<':ihi>lii|> limama.
1 lie steamship DriUnia, Capl. Hewn, arrived in
Boston on the Bth Inst; having been 17j days on her
passage. The B. had a rough and tempestuous pas
saire. The dates arc ftom Liverpool to the morning of
the 20th and from London to the evening of the 19th
ultimo.
Mtt. BxNeiiorT.—The newly appointed Minister
frorii the United States, Mr. Bancroft, in the loom of
Mr. M’Lane, accompanied by his lady, has arrrved in
London frotn New York.
Meetings have been held in Manchester and other
towns, lor petiiioriing the Government to open the ports
for the tree admission of foreign grain.
I rade in the manufacturing districts continue? very
dull. In several places short lime is adopted.
w Money is plenty m London at 3 per cent.
‘The prices of iron are lully maintained.
I he lvo roval marriages were solemnized at Madtrid
on the 16th ult.
Another revolutionary movement has occurred in
Switzerland, which met with success.
In 1* ranee great complaints are made of the scarcity
of food and the distress of the peasantry.
In Portugal there is a political and financial crisis.
Ihe gold and silver bullion in the Bank of Eng&nd
amounted on the iUih October, to £15,078,135'.
Ihe official returns of the Bulled revenue, ending
; 10th of October, exhibited an increase on the veat of
! £88,264 and on the quarter £539,064.
1 he French ministry are said to have granted Mat
shal Bograud 30,600,0001. to make a trial ol'military
colonization.
On the 7tht inst., the tide of the riser Thornes rose
to an alla ming height, causing a serious destruction
. of property situate in all the low-lying cellars and ware
, houses near the waterside.
Anew comet was discovered at Rome abbut 8 in
the evening ot the 23J ult. It was advancing rapidly
! in a Western direction towards the equator, parallel
with- Jau in Ursa Major, it is nebulous, and throw*
j Very little light.
A vessel which arrived at one of the wliatfs near
London Bridge, from Bevilfe, had an entire cargo, com
prising the large quantity of .4000 flasks of quicksilver,
: consigned to the celebrated film of Rothschild-and'son.
The environs of Brussels, particularly some suburbs
have suilered much from a kind of cholera, which still
prevails in a great many parts of the country. The
number ot deaths almost always exceeds that of Ih*
j births in the monthly list.
, The grand council ot the Swiss canton of Berne bas
issued an 1 ordinance which emanctpati s the Jews from
several oppressive obligations previously imposed up
j on them, as to the mud-e of conducting their cummer
! cm! transactions.
j ‘There has been another skirmish at Aden. Abode
of 5000 Arabs attacked tbe loWn in broad davlight, hut
being repulsed they were soon compelled to retire with
a severe loss in killed and wounded.
The cotton manufacturer of Ghent, at a meeting
which took place a tew days since, appointed s conimtV
lee to make a report on the several questions which the
society ol the partisans of free-trade has just proposed.
I lie steamer Cambria encountered vety severs
weather on her homeward trip, Bhe arrived at Liver
pool at an early hour on the 14th ult. and her mail
was distributed on ihe same day. The political new*
which she took out had am eflect upon the stock ltfaik
els and Mexican bonds fell. ‘The commercial news
bad a greater effect. The cotton and grain markets
were much agitated.
Tut. rxMKH Ghia-f Burr*i.—All the attempts
to gel this steamer off the saodaat Dundrum Bay huve
foiled. Nre is now much higher up on the beach, and
all chance of getting tier off ais nearly at an end. She
is Insured in London for about £20.000, slid in Glas
gow mufoihvr places j but it is said that the wltole in
surances fall far eliurt of her cosl—that i*. above
£1,20,000. It is farther tested tlml the uiiderWiker* re
fuse to pay these insurances on Ihe ground that the
vessel was lost through gross negligence. On the FML
alt., a strung south wind shifted the vessel’s bows from
north-cast to direct west, and she wa*ut that dale haid
and last hi about ten feet of sand, wtih a basement of
hard ruck. If she moved lurther to Ihe north-west, she
would shift on a r dge of rucks ihsi would destroy her
botlom. Doles have been scullied in her hot turn, arid
the tide rises inside lo the height of the outside. The
ship s stores remain on board, and ibe custome* offi
cers huve sealed up alt the excisable alludes.
MiSItKTS.
LITER-POOL, OCT, 9 Colton.— Demand good,
and American and Murats $d higher than last Friday.
Sales for the week 52 800 bales.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 16.—Prices still moving up
wards. Ou Wednesday, alter the atrival of the Bos
ton vleamer, fully confirming the probability ol a short
erop, and the certainly of Iheu not being a large one,
nearly 20,000 bales changed bunds al an advance ol M
the main part of Ihe day’s business being tiansacicil
by speculators. Yesterday, demand, though not *”
extensive us on Wednesday, was kept up with much
spirit about 10,000 biles sold, confirming the raised
quotations of the previous dsy. This morning they
are following up these animated proceedings and rais
ed prices by considerable purchases. We close ihe
week with our geneial quotations, $d to |d, and Mta
Island Id or mote liiglict than on Fudsy la* l - re ”
gards Manchester and the Manufacturing Districts, we
cciliinly h ive no cue mragemen fiouv these quarters.
Bales ot the week 70.900,
LIVERPOOL, OCT 17.—T0-day demand less sc
tivo, but prices are firmly supported ; sales 9,000 hales,
of which 2.500 on speculation.
LIVERPOOL,OCT. 19-Sales to-day 12,000 bales
including 2,000 American and 2,000 Egypt'*” ° n
speculation ; market firm. Prices of American un
changed; Egyptian 4d higher; Brazils and bins
coinm-md extreme rates.