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Tv 11 be piiWishf'l every day, in Savannah, Geo.
” ■ xr the business season, and three times a
during ie summer months, at Eight Dollars
payable in advance.
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t 75 cents per square of 14 lines for the first
f rrs '* na nd 37 r, cents for each continuation.
Communications respecting the business
ff/if Oft™, must be * ddrtssed t 0 the Editor,post
of land and nejroes by Administrators,
tiecutois or Guardians, are required by law, to
r/u the first Tuesday in the month, between
* is of ten o'clock in the forenoon and three
the hours ot ten Cmirt .House of the Coun
in the is aituated . Notice of
m a public Gaaette
—ho
riven to like manner, forty days previous to the
Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate,
must be published for forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court
f Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be pub
hshed jW months.
The Scotch Bailies and the Cigars . —ln
the course of the evening his lordship whis
pered to one of the fluukies to bring in some
things,they could nt hear what, as the com
pany might like them. The wise ones
thought within themselves that the best aye
come hindmost; so in brushed the valet
with three dishes on his arm of twisted
black things just like sticks of Gibraltar
rock, but different in the color. Bailie
Bow ie helped himself to a jargonelle, and
Deacon Purvis to a wheen raisins, and my
uncle, to show that he was not frighted, and
kent what he was about, helped himself to
one of the black things, which without
much ceremony, he shoved into his mouth
and begun to chew Two or three more,
seeing that my uncle was up to trap, fol
lowed his example, and chewed away like
nine year olds. Instead of this curious
looking black thing being sweet as honey,
f.>r so they expected, they soon found they
had catclied a Tartar, for it had a con
founded bitter tobacco taste. Manners,
however, forbade (hem laying them down
again, more especially as his lordship, like
a man duinfoundered, was aye keeping his
eye on them.
Su away they chewed, and better chew
ed, and whammelled them round in then
mouths first in ono cheek, and then in tin
other, taking now and then a mouthful to
driuk to wash the trash down, then chew
ing away again, and syne another whammei
from one cheek to the other, and syne ano
ther mouthful, while the whole time theii
een were starting in their heads like mad,
and the faces they made may imagined bw
cannot be described. His lordship gave
his eyes a rub, and thought he was dream
iug; but no, they were bodily, chewing and
whammelling and making faces, so no won
der that in keeping in his laugh, he sprung
a button from his waistcoat, and was like to
drop down from his chair, through the floor
iaauecstacv of astonishment, seeing they
were all growing seasick, and pale as stucco
images.
Frightened out of his wits at last, that
he would be the death of the whole coun
cil, and that more of them would pushion
themselves, he took up one of the cigars,
every one Knows cigars now, for they are
fashiona.de among the sweeps, which he
lighted at the caudle, and commenced puf
fing like a tobacco pipe. My uncle and
the rest, if they w’ere ill befoie, were
worse now ; so when they got to the open
air, instead of growing better, they grew
sicker and sicker, till they were wagging
from side to side, like a ship in a storm,
aud, no keening whether their heels or their
heads were uppermost, went spinning round
like pieries.— Autobiography of AJansie
’ auch.
Detroit, June 19.
Melancholy Event. — During a severe
gust ot wind, which arose between four and
five o’clock, last Sunday evening, a boat,
containing eight persons, was upset, and
!V e of them were drowned. They were
SR iliug,w hen the squall reached them, some
where between Hog and Pearl Islands
near the mouth of Lake Si Clair, and a-
W thirty rods from (he American shore.
In endeavouring to make the shore, the
w >nd struck the sail with such violence,
fi'*t the boat was nearly thrown on her
heani ends, and partly filled with water.—
hen she righted, some who could not
B *tm, being much alarmed, thought she was
sinking and began climbing the mast; and
j e h°t being small, their weight caused
, lei to upset The survivors do not recol*
ert seeing any of the persons who are
rowned, rise to the top of the water after
, le J fell from the boat—their hats were all
*t whs seen. The three who succeeded
upon ihe boat, drifted until they
*re nearly opposite the house of Victor
* or ais, a short distance below the Grand
* rais when the people on shore heard
’I “ cries, and hastened to their rr lief.—
*y were taker, from the boat after an ex
d ‘ re a bout four hours. The persons
Jo S eni! a nd p W t re Mica j ah Burton, of Ohio;
E?r and , kaventure, of Lower Canada ;
of c ar^er °f N. York ; Rufus Chapin,
ens 6 T n 7 a ’ N York 5 a,,d E - Lo
jo ’ u , I ,IS city. All of ihem were
and i. 6n \ c ?k>net makers,) of industrious
enterprising characters.
ter ® u PP° s ®d melancholy disas
ia the J :,tcasio,le and from the want of ski!
l^,e boat the gale.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 9,IB2B
We learn by the Maeon Telegraph that JOHN
A. CUTHBERT, Esq. now of Monroe county,
and formerly of Chatham, will be a candidate for
Congress at the next election.
There are few gentlemen more intimately ac
i quainted with the various interests of Georgia,
and better qualified to sustain them in the coun
cils of the nation, than Mr. Cuthbert. His long
residence in the low country,his extensive knowl
, edge of mercantile affairs,—the interests of com
merce, and all the bearings of trade, —will strong
ly recommend him to the support of his old friends
in this section of the State ; while his general
knowledge of the agricultural concerns of his fel-
I low citizens in the interior, will,in a peculiar man
ner, qualify him to uphold their rights, and pro
test their interests in Congress.
Asa public speaker Mr. Cuthbert possesses un
common talents. His manner is peculiarly pleas
lng, mild, dignified, and respectful; his reasoning
; clear and distinct; and his range of argument
embraces the whole subject in all its views and
bearings. Asa politician, his course has been to*
lerant and conciliating ; frank in the expression
of his own opinions ; firm in the support of princi
ples ; yet he has ever treated with respect and
tenderness the opinions and prejudices of others.
Asa citizen, a neighbor, and a Christian, his char
acter stands in the fairest light; and he possesses
those qualities of the heart, which bind his friends
to him in ties of strong and enduring affection.
The Editors of the Georgia Journal disagree
with us in several of our positions in regard to the
Tariff; they have arrayed against us some ten or
a dozen admiration points, and quotations from
the works of Ricardo and Say. Now, doubtless,
these quotations are very pertinent and very in
teresting—bid they cannot avail against the plain
facts of the case.
W e stated in the article which has been found
fault with, that the price of woollens had not ad
vanced in our market in consequence of the Tariff
of 1824. Has this been controverted ? No, it
cannot be. It is evident to all; the proof is within
every one's reach; and the theoretical specula
tions of Ricardo or Say, as respectable as they
may be, cannot make that untrue, which is not so
in reality. The notion, therefore, that the consu
mer pays the duty, when the article is furnished
to him as cheap as before the duty was imposed,
is all a delusion. And if the manufacturer sends
his goods to our market at the same price after
the duty, as before, it is evident that he pays that
duty and not the consumer.
The Editors of the Journal are rather disinge
nuous, when they refer observations which were
based expressly upon the operations of, the Tariff
of 1824, in regard to ‘ woollens—to the opera
tions of the Tariff of 1828 upon iron. Our posi
tion was, that domestic competition had kept
down the price of woollens, notwithstanding the
duty of 1824. r
With regard to the future, the contingencies of
which are veiled in doubt and obscurity, we did
not attempt to speak with certainty. In truth,
those prophetic dreams of speculative and theo
retical writers, whose range of vision is often
confined to the boundaries of their own closets,
are oftep found to be unreal, w hen brought to the
test of sober experience. The past only, is within
our reach ; its history has passed in review before
us, it is a matter of record, and we may form our
estimates with accuracy and precision. Judging
of the future by the past however, we intimated
an opinion, that the Tariff of 1828 might give
such a stimulous to domestie manufacturers, as to
enable them to supply the market; counteract the
apparent effect of the Tariff in raising the price,
& keep it steady at old rates. Our opinion that such
would be the effect was strengthened by the fact,
that no rise has yet taken place : and our best in
formed importing merchants do not apprehend
any—they continue to sell at the old rates.
The Editors of the Journal ask, “ why in the
name of common sense, did the Tariffites pass
the bill, if it was not to advance the price of
goods ?” We answer, that there can be no
doubt but that many of the friends of the measure
did hope that such would he its effect. But they
need not be told that in regard to all our calcula
tions of the future, we are liable to error and dis
appointment. The friends of the bill might have
hoped for an advance in price, and they may be
! deceived. But there were others who supported
the measure, not so much with a view to raise
the prices, as to keep them steady at their old
rates. They wished to afford a stimulous to the
domestic manufacturers, to encourage them to
i continue and extend their business, without sub
’ jecting them to the loss of a reduction in prices,
which would result from au active competition
between the domestic and foreign manufacturer.
It is a w ell known principle in trade, that an ar
ticle becomes cheap in market in proportion as it
becomes plenty. Now, in our market, already
stocked with British goods, a great reduction in
price would inevitably follow any considerable in
crease of our own manufacture. It was with a view
to obviate this evil, to afford the American, man
ufacturer a vent for his fabrics, by an attempt to
diminish the activity of British competition, that
the Tariff was brought forward It cannot be be
lieved, by any one at all conversant in these mat
ters, that the importation of British goods will
entirely cease in consequence of the Tariff; or
that the price of them will advance to the exact
extent of the duty. If they should so advance,
the American manufacturer would undersell, and
the foreigner lose his market. That they may ad
vance to a certain extent, is not altogether im
probable. But we think it just as likely that the
British manufacturer will learn to work cheaper,
content himself with less profit, and still continue
to send a great amount of goods to our market at
the same rates as formerly. If he does this, the.
duty will come out of him, and not the consumer.
The quotations from Say and Ricardo, and the
ten notes of admiration, to the contrary notwith
standing.
Now, wo do not here dispute the correctness of
le position laid down in the quotations from Say
and Ricardo, nor deny their authority when con-
THE arc;l S.
SAVANNAH SATURDAY MORN/NG, JULY 12, 1828.
fined to the examples which adduce, and
others strictly similar. But, if the editors of the
Journal will throw off die influence of precon
! ccived notions, and view the subject with their
usual good sense and clear discrimination, they
will perceive a vast difference between the case
cited where “ an absolute prohibition establishes
a monopoly in favor of those who produce home
commodities,” and the operations of a Tariff which
neither prohibits foreign goods, nor establishes a
monopoly. The Tariff does not,—it cannot—es
tablish a monopoly ; because the clashing interests
of the thousand rival establishments, scattered
throughout the country, stimulate an active,never
, ceasing competition. And competition tends to
I the same result, viz. a gradual decrease of price,
whether it exists between foreign manufacturers,
foreign and domestic, or entirely between do
! mestic manufacturers. It is the neglect of attend
ing to this simple circumstance, which has occa
sioned those dreadful alarms in thdfyiuids of certain
politicians,on applying the theories of speculative
writers to the actual circumstances of our, own
country. They have perceived that the obvious
tendency of a duty on articles, was to
1 raise the price of those articles in the market; but
; they have entirely overlooked that strong coun
teracting influence—viz. domestic competition,
which is constantly operating, and which effectu
ally prevents any excessive rise.
We do not, as some of our Up-country friends
would say, 11 go the whole hog ” for the Tariff. We
are not among those who recommended the mea
sure—there are many of its provisions of doubtful
policy—some which bear peculiarly hard upon one
section of the country, and some upon another.
But it has become a law—it was made so by the
majority of the Representatives of the People.—
Let us then lay hold of the advantages which it
presents to us, and submit as becomes good citi-
I zens—sound republicans, in practice as well as
thery—to the expressed will of a majority of the
nation.
In Virginia, the tide of public opinion has al
! ready begun to set strongly in favor of internal
improvements and domestic manufactures. In
that State, as well as Georgia, the politicians
have been talking instead of doing, until the peo
ple have discovered that Poverty , with his gaunt
visage and hungry aspect, is dogging their heels,
and that they must either change their policy or
starve. They have already begun to turn their
attention to the subjects of internal improvement
and domestic manufacture. They have deter
mined to improve the natural advantages of the
country—to improve their plantations and make
them more productive—and, instead of sending
their money out of the country /©-purchase fo
reign cloathing. they* have determined to manu
facture for themselves The following is from an
Editorial article of a paper lately established at
Williamsburg.
“ Another great object of our vigilant attention
will be the opening prospect of Virginia’s inter
nal improvement by means of canals, rail-roads,
and domestic manufactures. If we mistake not
the times, we are on the eve of a great and hap
py combination of public spirit and social enter
prise in relation to these subjects The light of
truth iti at last dawning upon Virginia; her high
ly gifled sons are beginning to concentrate their
intelligence, and zeal, and with the natural ad
vantages of the state before their eyes, and the
successful example of our neighbours to the north
in full view, we cannot but anticipate a sudden
and rapid developement of resources and improve
ments. No part of the state has more to expect
from these exertions than the tide-water-country.”
SUMMARY.
Notwithstanding the exceeding warmth, (says
the Philadelphia Aurora of July 6) and the occa- ;
sional moisture, we believe our city is unusually
healthy. We enquired, a few days since, of a
Physician as to the effect which this state of the
weather had caused among our citizens ; and he
assured us, that it w r as “ miserably healthy,” with
little prospect of change.
During the last few days, the heat in this city
(says the Nat. Journal of the Ist inst.) has been
very oppressive. In situations the most secluded
from the sun, the thermometer has risen to 02;
while in other shady places it has risen, we be
lieve, to 95. Durii\g the night, it has seldom fal
len below 80. On Sunday and yesterday, we were
visited with some refreshing showers, which have
produced a ternporarv abatement of the heat. At
this season it is the duty of everyone to avoid any
unnecessary exposure to the sun between the
hours of 11 and 4 ; and, with equal care, to shun
whatever has a tendency to check the freedom of
perspiration. Among the practices which aro most
injurious, we would only specify the habit of
throwing off the coat and sitting where there is a
thorough current of air, while in a state of extra
ordinary heat, and of endeavoring to allay the
thirst then produced by agreeable, but most per
nicious, draughts of cold water. We perceive by
the papers that some deaths have already ensued
from drinking cold water in Philadelphia and N
York.
Fraud. —The Hartford Review says, that notes
of the Eagle Bank, with the word “ Eagle ’ ex
tracted, so as to read “ Bank of New Haven,” are
in circulation.
“ Oh Love ! what may thine emhlem be ?”
A skein of yarn across a tree. - , r .
Two young ladies recently divided a skein of
yarn and hung themselves on a tree near Pal
myra, Ohio, and u all for love.” Before life be
came extinct they were discovered and restored.
The editor of the Reading Journal says that he
has tried the experiment of pouring boiling water
upon the roots of a Peach tree, the leaves of which
had become sear and dry, and the limbs in a rapid
state of decay—“ in one week it began to revive,
and in three weeks it was covered with anew foli
age, and new vigorous shoots are putting out, in
all directions-*’
From Africa. —The brig Hope, Captain Wood
bury, arrived at Boston, 43 days from Monravia,
Coast f Africa, and reports the Colony in good
health, and in a remarkably prosperous condition.
It is given in the papers Os the day, as a matter
worthy of notice, that gold to the value of ten
thousand dollars, has been taken out of the mines
in one county, in North Carolina, since Septem
ber last. During the same period, there has been
taken out of the mines of one county m Pennsyl
vania, gold (or what is the same thing, that
which produced gold,) to the value of upwards of
! hundred thousand dollars. We allude to the coal
taken out of the Schuylkill coal mines.— Philad.
j Aurora.
New Hampshire State Prison. —The receipts of
the New Hampshire prison, for the last year, ex
ceeded the disbursements, by the sum of $145,C0.
The amount of sales in the year was a little more
than $12,000, of which $9,351 were from the stone
shop, $2,452 from the .smith’s shop, and $524
from the tailor ‘s shop. The amount of earnings
above the ordinary expenses of the year, includ
ing the increased value of stock on hand, and ex
traordinary repairs and improvements, is estimat
ed to be $2,779.
for the mercury.
Mr. Editor,
I was met, unexpectedly, by u Baldwin ” at the
very outset, with doubts of expediency and broad
surmises, of what he was pleased to imagine my
motive for calling the attention of the public of
Savannah, to the long and arduous struggle of the
Catholic Association of Ireland. 1 have not found
leisure to reply until now, or I should have at
tended to his communication sooner. Let me as
sure “ Baldwin ” that 1 do not intend to make the
subject, nor occasion, “ a hobby on which to ride
into public notice since, in all probability, Mr.
Editor, I shall remain unknown to every one but
yourself.
It is an easy matter to start objections to al
most any proposition, that requires an answer at
some length, if attended to at all.
In reply to “ Baldwin’s ” demand, “ What have
w r e to do with it,” (the Catholic Question), I an
swer, that although Great Britain and Ireland are
distinct from the United States, yet, in the exten
sion of civil and religious freedom throughout the ‘
world, w T e have a direct interest.
It will not be denied by any who have attended
to the subject, that the character of this country,
with regard to liberal principles, stands on an en- j
viable eminence. In fact, our institutions have
shed more light on the true principles of govern- ]
ment, than all others together, which have pre
ceded them. It was from this country liberal
principles took their first impetus, and still move
around it as a common centre, constantly enlarg
ing their circles ; and, if true to the principles
ourselves, the whole world is likely to be benefited.
For, in proportion as our institutions have been
learned and understood by the politicians of other
nations, so have ignorance, bigotry, and oppres
sion, which time nad sanctified for reason, reli
gion, and good government, disappeared. To this
country are all enquiring eyes turned, and satis
fied in seeing religious freedom for every de
nomination, in the full tide of successful experi
ment. And shall I add, that whilst I write, thou
sands and millions in Ireland and elsewhere, de
prived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping
God fVeely according to the dictates of their con
sciences, bless us in their fields, and pray in their
churches to the giver of every perfect gift, that he
would continue to this country, as the light and
last hope of the world, his blessings. With a
mighty and almost vast Empire, which the fa
vourable disposition of mankind gives us over the
moral word, will “ Baldwin ” deny that we have
advantages in peace, or should derive benefits in
war from our influence, or that it is our interest
to maintain the ascendancy ?—I think not. Let
“ Baldwin ” be assured that our present standing
has not been obtained by the narrow policy he
advocates.
But there is another view of the subject which
appeals as much to our sympathies as men, as to
our interests as citizens. For centuries, the Bri
tish Government has, in vain, been endeavouring
to proselyte the Catholics of Ireland to Protestant
ism : Generation after generation have passed
away, and, as might have been foreseen, nothing
but hatred has followed the oppressive measures
taken for the purpose. There are few parallel
instances in the history of the world, where an
attempt has been made to force more than five j
millions of people to renounce their religion ; nor j
would it be easy to say whether the attempt at
any time, be most absurd or wicked. Such, how
ever, has been the attempt in Ireland. Among
the measures taken for this purpose, has been the
extension of the Episcopal Church establishment
to Ireland. Not to the Protestants there only, but
to the Catholics also, by which the latter have
been compelled to pay a tenth of all the increase
of their flocks and fields, for the support of men
as the curators of their souls, whom, perhaps, they
never saw nor heard of. And when no tenth re
mains, after the first necessities of nature are sa
tisfied, then, as is often the case, the only cow,
the support of otherwise starving children, is dri
ven away to make good the deficiency, whilst the
mother’s tears are ridiculed, and the father’s de
spair menaced.—Gracious heavens ! is it in Ire
land only that Mammon may of right plunder the
poor, the orphan, and the widow, of their only
sustenance, and in the name of him too, who
went about doing good, and taking no man’s cloait
nor money in return ! Can there be found for
officers, men cruel enough to enforce such mea
sures ; and why are not its inhabitants mad, mad
beyond endurance ? We may tell the wretch to
lie passive beneath the scourge, but nature
has its limits, and can suffer no more. This pic
ture is not an ideal one of human misery, but of
every days’ occurrence; and if it were denied,
could be proved beyond doubt; but it is a disgust
ing one to the CbristUn world, and I dismiss it.
The Church establishment has long afforded, in
addition to the Army and Navy, an asylum to the
younger members of noble families. Thus, whilst
men of abandoned principles and dissolute morals,
are often imposed on Ireland as Clergymen, all
change for the better has been resisted by an aris
tocracy interested to keep up the establishment
as ai resource to their own families. .•
The many severe penalties and disabilities to
which Catholics are, by law, obnoxious, and
wMeb operate mostly on the Irish, is another
source es grievance. No one of that religion can
fill the lowest office under Government. Thus,
by a systenl of laws, operating at all times, and
more cruel in their effects than the worst devas
tations of war, Great Britain presses down with
an iron hand Catholic Ireland, and, at the same
time, holds out the hope of office to the ambitious
as the price for forsaking the sufferer.
The British Government, feeling the absurdity
of former measures for changing the religion of
Ireland, and ashamed of their effects on its wretch
ed inhabitants, established free schools in many
places with Protestant teachers. These were not
frequented by Catholic children, because their
parents preferred that they Should remain igno
rant, rather thah renounce a religion on which
they believed their eternal salvaUbn depended.-
And, as Catholic instructors may ohly teach by
stealth, the children grow up in ignorance. This
class emigrate by thousands, yearly, whilst young,
and in middle life, to this countrf, and are mostly
destined to be heads of families ambng Us.
If we have any interest (and who will deny
that we have) in the moral character of our citi
zens, have we not an interest in the Catholic
Question of Ireland, which is likely to affect the
character of so many of our fdture citizens ? The
answer must be affirmatively. And the interest
is increased by the certainty, that the straitened
limits of Ireland will never, under the most favor
able change of Government, be equal to its inha
bitants ; and, therefore, that her sons will conti
nue to emigrate hither. So much for our interest.
Whether “ Baldwin ” possesses information of
the movements of the British Government, at the
time to which he has alluded, is questionable.
Nor do I know that the death of Mr. Emmett was
evidence of the captiousness of government. The
sacrifice of such a man w r as rather evidence, I
should think, ofthe reckless temper ofits ministry.
It is but justice to say, that his fate excited tho
sympathy of the brave and generous in England,
as well as in this country. We may not now
speak of the virtues of that great man and martyr
of freedom, for he has forbid his epitaph to be
• written until his coulitry be tree.—Rest, mighty
| shade ! thy enemies cannot now mar thy fame—
thy friends respect thy command and are silent.
Nor may we dwell upon the history of the event
; fill period to which u Baldwin ” has alluded,—it
’ could but open anew wounds which time is heal
j in £- the argument of “ Baldwin,” drawn from
; the captiousness of the British Government a
* bout the time of Mr. Emmett's death, would have
been unsatisfactory to himself, had he reflected,
that, not only is the policy of our Government
better understood now than then; but that a great
change of opinion has taken place in Great Bri
tain ; and recently & majority appeared in the
House of Commons in &vour of the Question.
The difficulty in the Catholics is now in
i *hc House ot Lords, and nothing but the united
voice of the Commons of England will remove it.
The expression of public sentiment in this coun
try will quicken that of England. For it is from
us British politicians have, and must borrow tlieir
ideas ot religious freedom, as necessarily as their
merchants import such of out produce to which
their climate is unadapted for its growth,
j “Emmett” has so ably replied (for whibh I
thank him) to “ Baldwin,” that it is unnecessary
to further notice that writer.
The South American cause drew sympathy and
support from our citizens, and, at the present
time, the Greeks are receiving aid ; yet neither
South Americans, nor Greeks, will ever make an
integral part of our population, but Ireland is
daily sending from her bosom her sons, by thou
sands, into this country, who amalgamate and aro
lost in the mass of our citizens. These emigrants
may have their vices, but none will deny that they
have their virtues : their vices have sprung from
the Government under which they lived, their
virtues belong to their nature. The story of their
country’s wrongs, so often told here, has ceased
to be novel, and no longer excites sympathy.
Well, then, I appeal to the j udgments of our citi
zens, whether a people without any fault, other
than the misfortune to differ from their rulers on
some religious joints, should be oppressed, im
poverished, and watched with suspicion for cen
turies ?
* MONTGOMERY.
Mad Dogs. —A mad dbg was killed on the 24th
ult. in Warren street, (New York) the animal had
been shut up in a yard and had not bitten arty per
son.
It is stated in the Baltimore papers of the 2Cth,
that two persons had died suddenly in that city
the previous day. in consequence of drinking cold
water. One of them had left a wife and six chil
dren.
James Monroe, Ex-President of the U. States
arrived at Renshaw's U. S. Hotel, from N. York’
on the evening of tke 26th.
The Paris West Tennessean advertises the
lands ordered to be sold for taxes. Attached to
the description of the respective tracts are remarks
similar to the following—“ Taxes eighty-seven,
and a half cents , clerk’s fee four dollars twenty
cents, sheriff ‘s fee three dollars, printer’s fee four
dollars.” Here are eleven dollars and twenty cents
to be paid for the collection of 87 1-2 cents.
General Lafayette, on the 13th Maypresented a
proposition to the Chamber of Deputies, the ob
ject of which was to request the King to restore
the National Guard. The proposition excited
much conversation among various groups of the
deputies, which had formed in the Chamber.
The Springs. —The Saratoga Sentinel of the
24tii June, says that no less than 250 or 300 stran
gers arriyed in that village during the past week ;
a drit was estimated there were between 3 and
4 W at the Congress fountain last Monday morn
ing.
A man cut his throat and jumped overboard
from one of the ships at the Navy Y’ard in Charles
town, (Mass ) on the morning of the 19th ult. He
was taken up before life was extinct, and it is said
is likely to recover.
Cotton Canvass. —Captains Warrington, Wool
sey and Wilkinson, of the U. S. Navy, Messrs.
Mezick, E. Tyson, and Wm. Wilson & sons, mer
chants of Baltimore, Capts Curtis and Be van and
five other shipmasters of that cLy, have given their
testimony in favor of Cotton Canvass for the sails
of vessels, more especially for square sails, as
cheaper than Russian Duck, in holding the wind
better and wearing longer: without being more
liable to mildew than other duck. The exten
sive establishment of Mr. Cook in Baltimore is
capable of supplying 200,000 yards annually.
[No. 7 —Vol. 1.