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JUST RECEIVED,
TWENTY FIVE HHDS. very prime St.
Croix Sugars _
10 boxes rehnjed.do.
10 do second quality do do
75 bags prime green Rio Coffee
100 bbls fresh Howard street Flour
100 do Whiskey, Tull proof
50 do White’s Gin
24 do Connecticut Brandy
50 do Boston and Portland Rum
JO halfpipes Seignettes Brandy
10 boxes Bacqp, Jowls ana Chinee
10 do Ohio Hams, in bags
10 bales bagging Twine
20 kegs Bar Lead
50 bbls No. Mackerel
10 boxes Sperm Candles
40 coils bale Rope
JO boxes Starch
5 hhds Jamaica Rum
10 qr casks sweet Malaga Wine
10 do do Marseilles Madeira
5 pipes “ Swan’ Gin
HALL, SHAPTER & TUPPER.
may 26
PORK AND BEEF.
*1 TM I BARRELS Prime Pork
*25 do Mess do
75 bbls Prime Beef
40 do Mess do
175 do Pilot and Navy Bread
50 do Canal Flour
75 half bbls do do
20 bbls Beans
1200 gallons Sperm Oil
20 bbls Holt’s Crackers
20 kegs No 1 Tobacco
10 bbls Hams
8 do Smoked Tongues
25 bags Coffee
1000 gallons Mone Ware
8 tons Cordage, all sizes
3 do Manilla Rope
100 kegs White Lead
Together with a general assortment of Liquors,
Groceries and Ship Chandlery for sale at low
Tates.
BRADLEY, CLAGIIORN & W’OOD
may 26 1
COHEN & MILLER
OFFER for Sale, 100 bbls N. E. Rum
60 do Apple Brandy
Northern Gin in pipes and bbls
10 pipes “Seignett’s 1 ’ Brandy
1 pipe Otard. Bupuy & co. do
8 8 pipes don estic do.
10 do Holland Gin
10 hhds Jamaica Rum
2° or casks Sweet & Dry Malaga Wines
20 do do Teneriffe do do
20 Indian bhls French Madeira do
50 kegs Tobacco, various brands
50 boxes Negro Pipes
I do ‘Doolittle” Soap
200 reams large and small size wrapping
Paper
Letter and Foolscap Paper
Whittemore’s Cotton Cards, and
■ 20 tons Grindstones, assorted sizes
■ may 26 1
FLOUR, PORK, 4’c.
HOn BARRELS fresh Family Flour
50 do Prime Pork
20 do Mess d6
50 do Pickled Herrings
Mackerel No’s 1 & 2 in whole and
half barrels
100 Ohio Hams, in bags
200 Baltimore do do
30 kegs fresh Lard
40 bbls Ncrthern Gin
50 do Whiskey
3” do N E Rum
80 bags Prime Green
25 bbL do do
boxes white Havana Sugar
For sale by
M JOHN B. GAUDRY.
may 26 - !
L J-RANDY, rum, gin. &c.
■ k o j proof Seignett's Brandy
V a ,<io Holland Gin
I <r l ‘Yhito’s <lo
lii l s Boston Rum
1 in f, e ? s Co rdial
I 6(Yiiis* s J Mackerel
I 10.1 / X *t 8 Georgia Candles, 4s, ss, sis, &8s
150 c ntthern . du 4s ss, 6s, & lGs
I 200 ,i° Spermaceti do 4s and 5s
I t hoa P= S °’s 1, 2 and 3
v r app:ng Paper of allluzef
I 200 iL°V ca P an d Letter Paper
I fathers. Playing Cards, &c.
*or sale by
L. BALDWIN & CO.
I 4?io Corn
400 do Oats ;
llin j° £ ow Pe “
Son j° &? u ft h Rice
25 Flour
150 8 Elt ™ Canal Flour
I
t W. I .rd
2oon v es ® oa P
* or sale by
I PALMES & LEE,
I 26 Exchange Dock.
WMM AlttOTa*
MONDAY MORNING , JUNE 9, 1828.
We learnt by a paragraph which we republish
ed from the Augusta Courier, a few days since,
that the friends of Mr. Adams were to have had a
meeting at Wrightsboro, on the first Saturday of
this month, for the purpose of nominating an Elec
toral Ticket; and the last Darien Gazette con
tains an extract of a letter, from a gentleman in
the up-cojintry, which declares that u a reaction
is rapidly gaining ground in this State, in favor of
the present administration.”
Now from recent and extensive intercourse with ;
our fellow citizens in almost every section of the
State, of all classes and all parties, we profess to
be nearly as well acquainted with public opinion
throughout the State, at this time, as the most of
our brother editors; and have no hesitation in
giving it as our opinion, that although the friends •
of Mr. Adams are very numerous—more so per- j
haps than is generally supposed—yet they form ‘
but a small proportion of our whole population.— I
The friends of the present administration of the
general government,are respectable for their num
bers, their intelligence, their wealth and general
standing ; but they are not that kind of men who |
are efficient partizans in electioneering con
tests ; and there is no concert, no communi- ,
cation between ; and their efforts, should they !
deem it prudent to make any, must bo disjointed ;
and ineffectual. We most sincerely hope that no i
additional ticket will be formed ; it can answer no •
other purpose than to give additional bitterness to ‘
the strife of parties, and prevent a return of those
feelings of mutual respect and good will, which is
an object so desirable among all true friends of the
Union. An effort to elect an Adain9 electoral
ticket, must end in mortification and defeat—Mr. !
Adams has numerous, intelligent,warm and active ;
friends—but they cannot control the votes of the
State. The people are for Jackson —they are
! grateful for his past services—they admire his
splendid achievements—they revere his upright
i and unyielding character—he is decidedly their
j favorite, and they will vote for him. There may
be a reaction in public sentiment, to a partial ex
tent —but it will not turn the course of the Sa
vannah, the Oconee, the Ocmulgee, the Flint or
Chatohoochy. All these streams will continue to
roll their congregated multitude of waters.through
sunshine and storm, through tumult and quiet, to
their great and final deposit, as heretofore.
Our politicians were equally clamorous against
the Tariff of 1824, as they are now, against that
of 1828. It was asserted that the price of all
articles upon which it operated, would be enhan
ced ; that the planter would be oppressed by its
operation, and that Southern interests, would be
entirely destroyed, &c. Now time and experience,
those infallible tests of truth, have proved the fal
lacy of those assertions in the one case, as we pre
sume they will in the other. The price of foreign
goods has not advanced in our market, but rather
fallen since 1824 W T hat becomes of the proposi
tion then, that “ a protective duty is a tax on the
consumer, for the benefit of the manufacturer? It
is proved to have no foundation in fact. For it
has appeared that domestic competition has been
fully sufficient to keep down the price of the arti
cle ; that the protective duty has had no other
effect than to keep the prices more nearly steady
at their former rates. Then wherein has the
southern planter been injured by the Tariff? His
fears have been excited, but his purse has not
been affected.
If we had no manufactories in our own coun
try—if we depended solely and entirely upon for
eign supply, then a duty on any article would raise
its price in market, and consequently be a tax on
the consumer. But while we have home manu
factories, nearly adequate to the supply of all our
wants, the foreigner cannot raise on his articles,
because in that case, the domestic manufacturer
would undersell him. Consequently the duty
comes out of the foreign manufacturer, and not
out of the consumer. That such has been the o
peration of the Tariff of 1824, we appeal to the
experience of the last four years.
A large bundle of counterfeit bills and coins
has lately been discovered in New York, at the
house of John Mariner, a convict of the Peniten
tiary, consisting of counterfeits of the several
banks of New York and other cities, and among
the rest S2O bills of the Bank of the State of Geor
gia.
Fires in New York. —Since the extensive Fire
at the Bowery Theatre, the citizens of New York
have been alarmed with repeated attempts to fire
the city. The Evening Post of the 28th re
marks—Our city appears to be the sport of in
cendiaries ; the success of the villains who set
fire to the buildings in Bayard-street, on Monday
evening, the extensive conflagration occasioned,
and the opportunities afforded for depradation,
amidst the confusion and the crowd, have surpris
ingly encouraged other attempts of the same
kind.” A fire without doubt the work of an in*
cendiary, broke out about two o'clock on the
morning of the 28th, in the rear of Cbarlton
street, between Yarick and M‘Dougal-streets.—
Six two-story houses iu Charlton-street were en
tirely destroyed, and two others much damaged.
Two new brick dwelling houses, in King-street,
were much damaged, several stables were con
sumed, in which were seven horses, which were
burnt to death. About the the same time of the
fire in Charlton-street, an attempt was made to
fire a house in Carmine-street. The Insurance
Companies had offered a reward of one thousand
dollars for the apprehension and conviction of any
person who shall have been guilty of setting fire
to any of these buildings,
THE A * H.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY JUNE 14, 1828.
The civil authorities of this State and City, are
great sticklers for the doctrine of free trade ; yet
in one or two instances, they legislate in direct
violation of it, and compromise their own princi
ples in the most glaring manner. According to
the doctrines contended for by this set of politi
cians, government has no right to levy contribu
tions upon one class of the community for the be
nefit of another. Now compare this principle with
the tax imposed on the auctioneers of this city.
The auctioneers of this city pay S2OO for their
commission, and an assessment of 2 per cent on
the whole amount of sales. And this heavy con
tribution is not intended for the purposes of reve
nue,but for the benefit of the importing merchant, t
the regular trader ! We do not intend to say,that
this assessment is either unjust or impolitic—lt
may or may not be neither. But we do say that
certain politicians, for the purpose of producing
an excitement, are very apt to exclaim against
principles whicb they have all along allowed to be
correct, and still continue to act upon.
More signs of hostility to the Union. —The Mil- .
ledge ville Southron, one of the leading journals in
this State, advocating the high toned Virginia
doctrines in regard to State Rights, and certainly
conducted with more industry and ability than
most of the other publications on that side, holds
the following language in regard to the late mea
sures of the general Government.
“ We, of the South, also, have not failed in our
duty to our sister states We have reasoned with
them on the injustice of their designs. We have
entreated them by every tie which men hold sa
cred, not to ingulph us and our children in wretch
edness and ruin. We have warned them not to
create in us, towards them, that spirit which pro
duced the Revolution , by exercising towards us
those acts of tyranny and oppression which kin
dled its flame We have, in order to divert them
from their nefarious projects, exhausted every
constitutional means, consistent with an associa
tion with them in regard to commercial inter
course or otherwise. TVc must now turn ourselves
to other means and other defences , constitutional
indeed, but at the same time with spirit pushing
resistance to the very bounds of the constitution.
Let there be a wall raised between them and us.”
“ And for this purpose we would recommend
that a Congress assemble, from all the states op
posed to a protecting tariff, in order to revise and
recommend to the different Legislatures and peo
ple, such measures, consistent with the Constitu
tion, as may seem best calculated to protect them
from the operation of the Tariff Bill, and prevent
the introduction and use of the tariffed articles in
their respective States.”
This proposition of a Southern Congress smells
strongly of the Hartford Convention. To be sure,
the editors recommend doing every thing consti
tutionally.—So did Caleb Strong. The advisers
of the Hartford convention pretended the utmost
veneration for the Constitution ; they, indeed, re
commended opposition to government —a combi
nation among states to thwart its measures—
planned a separate confederation and dismember
ment of the Union ! But it was all to be done Consti
tutionally ; not a breath,not a whisper against the
Constitution ! Why, this paragraph might well be
mistaken for an extract from the very manifesto
of the Hartford Convention itself:—“ We hare
warned them not to create in us that spirit which
produced the Revolution.” The very sentiments
of the sticklers for state rights—the sovereignty of
the states in 1814 !
We repeat it, there is a spirit abroad active and
sleepless in this country, which threatens the sub
version of our happy government.
A writer in the Charleston Courier, in com
menting on the spirit of hostility evinced tow
ards the General Government, and the determin
ation which it seems many have formed to dis
member the Union—has the following remarks:
“ There was a time when the public sensibility
on the subject of disunion was such, that we would
not even nave tolerated the suggestion of its pos
sibility. Little did any one imagine that the time
was so nigh when it should be publicly proclaim- i
ed in our streets. Nay more, when unquestiona- !
ble proof should be afforded that this was no idle ‘
talk ; that the promoters of it were prepared to
act; and to involve the country in all the folly and
madness of their designs. It is known that ap
plication has been made to the Governor to convene <
the Legislature. A memorial, indicating its ob- f
ject, has been circulated for signatures, and if it ;
has not succeeded, it is because it has been re- ,
pelled by the sound sense of a virtuous commu- i
nity.
For what end convene the Legislatnre, if not to ;
cloak and sanction the violent designs of individu
als ? It is too late for remonstrance —that has
been tried ; and no aid of the State authority
could be necessary to give efficiency to any legal
purposes. No— Revolutionary purposes alone were
in contemplation ; and we can look back and un
derstand the long course of preparation through ;
which they have been passing us, that we might *
welcome this “ Crisis.” Every passion, every
prejudice has been assailed, that could make us
dread or hate the General Government, and all
things connected with it.”
These views and these feelings are not confined j
to South Carolina—they are extensively dissemi- j
nated in Georgia. The advise to the people of this 1
State “ to stand by their arms,” and the Report in ;
favor of “ a Potomac bounded empire”—were not |
the idle ravings of uninstructed politicians, but !
a deliberate disclosure of the settle d policy of a •
party. Though the patriotism of the people, their (
affection for the laws, and attachment to the Uni
on, rendered at that time unavailing such appeals,
and cautioned those wily politicians to pursue a
more covert and insinuating policy ; yet their de
signs have neither been changed nor given over:
and now, when the hostility of the people of the
South, is raised to the highest against the Gene
ral Government, in consequence of the supposed
oppression of the Tariff, is the chosen time for
making another effort to carry those designs into
execution.
We do believe that the great mass of the peo
ple of Georgia, are as warmly attached to the
Union, as those of any other section of our coun
try ; and consequently all that is necessary to
defeat the schemes of these politicians, is to ex
pose their object,
Punishment by death. —On the last day of the
session Mr. Livingston, of La. introduced a reso
lution providing that the punishment of death,
under any law of the United States, be forever a
bolished. This resolution will be resumed at the
next session of Congress.— Char. City Gazette.
The Hon. James Hamilton, Jr. is proposed, by a
writer ( in the Columbia State Gazette, as a candi
date for the office of Governor of this Stato at the
ensuing election in Docerobor. —lk 1
Mr. Editor,
Sir, —Will you be good enough to inform us,
whether your correspondent “ C. W ” was in his
sober senses when the wonderful vision, related in
your last, came over him; or whether, as some
are rather inclined to believe, he was in a mist,
and that his communication, which he would pass
off as an emanation from the spirit of prophecy,
and the revealment of high destiny, may not ra
ther be ascribed to the strength of his potations ?
Others, again, imagine that he is a real prophet,
and that his vision has an awful at the
Presidential election. Your attention to this will
oblige,
MANY SUBSCRIBERS.
We don’t pretend to know any thing at all of
the matter. It is not for us to be too inqusitive in
regard to the outgoings of our correspondents.
Whether “ C. W.” be a prophet or politician, or
plain dreamer , we don’t care a straw ; let our
readers settle the question among themselves.
Editor.
The following well merited notice of Judge
Schley, is taken from the Augusta Courier of the
26 th ult.
“ The Superior Court of Richmond county com
menced its session to-day His Honor, Judge
Schley, as usual, was prompt at his post.
“We cannot let the present opportunity pass
without expressing, we believe, nearly the univer
sal sentiment of approbation, which has attended
the judicial administration of Judge Schley.—
Placed on the Bench in a stormy period of party
excitement, and over the head of a popular rival,
he has won his way to his present reputation by
the sole force of his own character and talents.
So violent was the opposition of his political ad
versaries at the period of his election, that he was
allowed no merit in his profession; and we have
understood this hostility was even carried so far,
that a committee of the Grand Jury of this coun
ty, in the plenitude of its assuming powers, had
actually penned a presentment against the Legis
lature, who advanced him to his present dignity.
We now hear nothing but remarks of approba
tion ; and even so decided a change have his dig
nified deportment, industrious attention to busi
ness, impartiality, and sound legal decisions,
wrought in the opinion of that portion of the com
munity lately opposed to him, that we are credibly
informed, that two gentlemen, influential in the
elections of this county, but who have always
stood in the opp jsite political ranks, have declared,
that they will not support any candidate for the
Legislature, who will not vote for the re-election
of Judge Schley.
“ Os the soundness of his legal decisions we
have the strongest evidence in the general acqui
escence of an intelligent Bar, and in their having
been frequently copied from the Georgia Courier
into some of the most respectable papers of tlia
Union.”
The Cherokee Constitution has produced a ve
ry mistaken idea in the minds of many persons,
especially such as endeavor to take every advan
tage oft! lndians. To say that the Cherokees
have declared themselves independent cf the
United States, and violated, in their Constitution;
t.heir connection with the General Government,
would be doing them very great injustice ; for the
I nought of such independence lias never entered
• nto their minds, as we already have nad occasion
to declare and we hope to the wise and candid
will be suiheient. This Constitation was adopted
for the good of the Cherokee People, as their con
dition made it evident that they could not improve
otherwise in legislation. It did not originate in
any desire of such independence as our treaties
with the United States would not warrant. We
do not claim rightg which do not belong to ua,
much less are so blinded as to suppose that \\|e
can within ourselves change our relation with
the General Government. Rights, however, we
have, secured to us by treaties, and will the peo
ple of this enlightened land, emphatically called
the land of freedomdeprive us of theso few
rights ?•—Cherokee Phoenix,
North Eastern Boundary. —The editor of the
Boston Centinel, in noticing the recent appointing
of Commissioners to settle the North Eastern
Boundary Line, says, the selection has been pre
eminently judicious, and adds, it is stated in let
ters on this subject, that in the reciprocal ap
pointment of new agents to fix the boundary line,
an understanding exists between the United
States and Great Britain, that it can now be per
manently and satisfactorily run, without inter
vention of a third power; and likewise, the un
derstanding extends to the employment of a small
force on each side of the disputed territory, for
the sole purpose of preventing the repetition of
transactions on either part which might embar
rass the negociation. There will be a wide space
between the posts of the two nations ; but, we
hope, that a friendly and hospitable intercourse :
will be kept up between the officers of both while
the negociations are on foot. The subject, it is
known, has been an object of solicitude to the
President for many months ; and all who know
any thing respecting it, will readily perceive that ,
arrangements for an amicable settlement of such
a controversy could not be made without the in
tervention of a long term of time ; but it is now t
Htlieved that the arrangements are in a fair way
of an early and satisfactory issue. If the above be
the facts, and they are said to be such, our bre
thren of the East will perceive that no necessity
can exist for any undue excitement on the sub
ject.
The New York Evening Post announces that a
gentleman of literary reputation is engaged in an
abridgement of Irving’s Life of Columbus We
hope that the gentleman has obtained the assent
of those who possess the copy-right of the large
work. An abridgement must be meant to sup
plant the other, in a degree; and the injury is
likely to be the greater, so soon after its appear
ance. An author, or the bookseller who buys
from him, is entitled to the fair fruits of the labors
of genius and industry. An abridgement of Sir
Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon was attempted
in like manner. We know not what fate it has
had, but we regard the works of such writers as
Scott and Irving, with reference to their chief and
peculiar merits,as really incomprehensible. There
is a fine untransferable essence diffused through
the whole:—the vesture is integral; the charac
teristic faculties and habits of the mind, and dis
tinctive turns and hues of expression, belong to
almost every page of the original.
National Gazette.
Remarking upon the recent appointment of a
Minister to England, a correspondent in Balti
more, makes the following very just observations:
“ This mark of the President’s confidence is the
more appreciated by his friends, as the support
given by Governor Barbour to his administration,
has been unwavering and genuine, from first to
last. Living in affluence, yet leading an active
life ; enjoying the confidence of his state, and
filling the highest offices in its gift, few had less
temptation than he to encounter the sedentary
labors of a Department, and the violence of un
ceasing opposition. The sphere to which he has
been translated, if more agreeable, is also more
important, and must be viewed as an appropriate
theatre tor his talents, and a suitable tribute to
the cause of the country in the worst, and in all
times.”— Nat. Intel.
The personal property of the late Gov. Clinton,
was advertised by the Sheriff of Albany, to htteold
on the \4u!
NE VV YORK, May 26. —From the Gulf of Cal
ifornia. —The editors of tho Gazette have re
ceived the annexed communication from their cor
respondent at Mazallan, dated the Ist ult. which
cannot but prove interesting to merchants and
underwriters. The principiv object of the visit of
a Spanish privateer in the Gulf is, no doubt, the
capture of Mexican vessels, which there will be
but little difficulty in effecting, as there are no
Mexican men of war in that quarter. But from
the well known character of privateersmen, and
the absence of all American vessels of war from
that quarter, they may be tempted to commit de
predations on American property:
“ NATANZAS, April I.—We have all been
thrown into great consternation here, by the ap
pearance of a Spanish privateer off the port,
mounting eighteen guns, with a crew of one hun
dred and thirty men. We saw her a few days
since take a small coasting craft close to the beach.
She stripped her of every thing, but gave the ves
sel back to the Captain, and let him go. The
craft came in here without even an anchor. The
privateer is called the Grecian. She is gone up
to Guaymas, where, no doubt, she will get some
rich prizes, as there are large remittances expect
ed down here from that quarter.
“ Two Frenchmen lately started from this place
for San Bias, across the land, and there formed a
party which attacked in the time. t)ie Ame
rican brig Lancaster, Captaiu Jenniug', [of thia
port] which was lying in the Roads, with money
on board, with the intention of carrying her off.
The assailants were overcome and all taken pri
soners, and are now in the jail of San Bias. •
“ The American ship Courier, Capt. Cunning
ham, of Boston, lately came in here, but informa
tion having been lodged against her, that she f*4
been f>r the last two years carry idg on i; Jg
with the Californias, and thoreby transgressing ; .a
coasting law, she was not admitted to entry and
obliged to leave the port. She sailed, it is be
lieved, for the Sandwich Islands about a week
a S O -” [We understand that the brig Banian,
Hersev, of Boston, which arrived at Mazallan on,
the 27th of February, was obliged to leave there
for the same reason, and accordingly proceeded
immediately for Guayamas.]— Gazette.
New-York, May 28.—The brig Herald. Cant,
Paige, freighted with tho contributions f r he
Greeks, sailed this morning for Pores, • She ’ ill
touch at Malta on the way, and on arriving at hap
place of destination, the agents will adopt such
measures as may be judged most advisable, mi con
sultation with the proper persons there. The va
lue of her cargo, including insurance, is sho,ooo,
at a low estimation. Seventy thousand garments
are on board.b elides clothand dry goods not made
up.
Mr. Stuyvesant, who went out as an agent of
the Committee before, in distributing the cloths
and provisions, has again sailed in the me rapa
city. He is accompanied by Jude Wood*off. of
Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution, wi.u was
present at Burgoyno's surrender, and favoured us
last fall with some historical reminiscences of that
affair, which our readers, perhaps, a av leo hm ;t.
The Rev. Mr. King, formerly a. missionary to
Palestine, also sails ir> this ship. Hi* object is to
establish schools in Greece, the funds for which
purpose have been subscribed by the ladies of thia
city. He is likewise’ commissioned by the Greek
Committee to assist in the labour of distribution,
This vessel departs with the hopes of tiae good,
and the prayers of the pious breathed for her safe
arrival. May the elements be propitious *o her
voyage, and the expectations of the friends of li
berty and humanity b? realised.
As the time for holding the Presendontia! elec
tion is rapidly approaching, the annexed tr- e
ment, from the Boston Centinel, of the number
of Electors in the several stm ;s, together wnh
the mode of choosing them, v ill be found not un
interesting to many of our readers. We recom
mend them to preserve it for future reference.
The tenth Presidential term expiring with the
20th Congress, on the 3d of March ensuing, a
choice of the Electors, and of President and
President, must be made in the passing year,
The law of Congress (of 1802) provides, i-hat tha
choice of Electors of President, must be made
within thirty-four days preceding the first Wed
nesday of December. And the Constitution re
quires of the Electors to meet in December, to
vote by ballot separately for a President ana Vice
President of the United States, one of whom
at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state
with themselves.
This year, the Ist Wednesday of December fella
on the third day of the month, consequently the
choice of Electors must be made on or after tha
31st of October, and before the first Wednesday
of December.
According to the laws now in force (. t
present there is no probability of thoir boc
changed) the ensuing choice of the doctors . i
be made in the several states of the Union, in the
following manner :
BY GENERAL TICKET, (18 STATES.)
New Hampshire 8 votes North Carmina 45 votes
Massachusetts 15 do Georgia 9 do
Rhode lslaud 4 do Ohio 10 do
Connecticut 8 do Indiana 5 do
Vermont 7 do Mississippi 3 do
New Jersey 8 do Illinois 3 do
Pennsylvania 2d do Alabama 5 do
i Virginia 24 do Missouri 4 do
Louisiana 5 do Kentucky 14 he
I BY THE LEGISLHTUKE, (2 STATES.)
Delaware 9 votes J South Carolina 11 do
BY DISTRICTS, (4 STATES.)
Maine 9 votes I Maryland 11 do
New York SO do j Tennessee 11 do
Total votes 201
Os those 132 are necessary to constitute a choice
by the Electoral Colleges.
Extract of a letter received at Boston.
AMSTERDAM, Bth April, 1828.
The amendments lately made to our Transit
laws are not likely to prove beneficial and conve
nient to foreign shipping.
Henceforth goods imported by sea and deposited
in entrepot, or kept on board, may be exported by
sea, with being subjected to any revenue charges,
excepting the cost of the documents prescribed,
and a moderate storage in the former event.—.
The King has, however, reserved a few excep
tions in this otherwise general measure, for him
self; we are led to believe that they will be con
fined to Teas and foreign manufactures onlv. The
purport of this measure is demonstrated by the
law itself, in plain terms, and is intended to facili
tate establishmens or depots of Swedish or Rus
sian produce, from which tho Americans and
others may the hotter assort themselves for their
return cargoes, and save them tho trouble of
a double voyage ; we hope the application? will
answer the intention fully. The most essential
advantage thi# measure presents to American
shippers is, that vessels bound for return cargoes
from the North, may try and avail themselves if
practicable of the Netherland markets, with such
part ot their outward cargoes as was originally
intended for their ultimate destination, without
incurring any additional expenses.
KARTfIAUS, HASENCLEVER, & CO.
Stage Occident. The Winyaw Intelligencer
states, that on 2stlx ult. about three miles from
Georgetown, the horses in the Northern Stage
took fright, and ran as far as the six mile Bridge
before tiioy were stopped. The driver was tlxrowi*
from the boxyaifd seriously injured by tv/o of the
; wheel* passing aver file head. *
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