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CO SAM EMIR BARTLETT— EDITOR.]
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OF PENNSYLVANIA,
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11 *AS drawn at Philadelphia on Monday the
a- 4th inst. —the drawing is expected on the
vttV-6 drawn ballots.
SCHEME:
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2 do 1000
2 do 500
4 do ( 250
10 do 100, &c.
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Halves 1 50
Quarters, 75
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2 do 1,000
2 do 500
10 do 100
&c. &c. &c.
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Halves, 1 50
Quarters, 75
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LUTHER'S
august 6
ICF A MAIL STAGE has commenced running
direct from Savannah, by the way of Dublin and
Marion, to Macon, once a week, leaving Savan
nah for Macon every Friday morning, at 4 o’clock.
Persons wishing to go by the same, will apply at
the Mansion House for seats.
THE PROPRIETOR,
august 6 n* 32
NOTICE.
/|>HE subscribers offer for sale their STONE
4a SHOP and STOCK, consisting of Marble
Monuments, Tombs. Head and Foot Stones,
Hearthes, Fire Facings, &.c. &c.—which they will
sell low for cash, or on a credit for good indorsed
P 3 P<?r. J.&H. MOORE.
Stone Cutters will find it an object to call,
ts the articles are well assorted of the first quali
ty white Marble, and selected with an especial
view to this market.
Savannah, August 4, 1828. 31
V The Charleston Courier and the Augusta
Chronicle will insert the above once a week for
two months, and forward their bills to this office.
NOTICE.
THE Co-Partnership heretofore existing under
the firm of WILTBEIIGER & GREENE,
j s dissolved, in consequence of the death of the
, AH demands against the concern will be settled
L 7 the undersigned, who will continue the busi
on his own account.
P. WII TBERGER Jun.
. . Surviving Co-partner.
July 23 (it—26
T fresh MEDICINES, &c.
HE subscriber has just received a fresh sup
, f’y of Seidiitz and Soda Powders, calcined
‘-agnosia, French Sulphate of Quinine-, English
a nd white Mustard Seed,Salt of Lemon,
„ 1 Boxes, Vegetable Cerate, Prentisses’ Ra
straps, Mead’s Pills, &c. and a general assort
ment of °
v MEDICINE S,
e U j *?Hie season, all of which have been selec
particularly for retail. For sale by
A. PARSONS,
j u j Druggist, No. 8 Gibbons’ buildings.
cO M JYIE NCEM EN T.
Tt . FRANKLIN COLLEGE, \
Tfir niversity eor S’ a - 23d June, 1828. \
ci* • T al Examination of the present Senior
(lav Institution, will take place on Mon
rar-i /Jj'HiJuly. The examination of the Fresh-
Si 1 lss > r> n Wednesday the 30th, and of the
tem° m ° re C'lass, on Thursday the 31st of the
^ n Friday, the Ist of August, the
the *1 s w il.l 1 50 examined, and on Saturday
On S'hi ♦ can didates for admission into College.
the third, a commencement Sermon
Ather 6 de IVere< * * n Hie Presbyterian Church in
m ee } . iS ’ orn 0 r n Monday the board of Trustees will
°f the j n - rues<la y> sth, a part of the members
mCo 1 ] UlUor . Class attached to the two Societies
deliver Orations of their own com-
Will be t| VVednosda y Hie Gthday of August,
©c<. as ;„ anßua ! commencement. During the
t-’avto” ’ an , ° ra Hnn will be delivered by Judge
s o/ by Jud = e Rorrien, as Repre
liocictie/ ‘ ue J^eino sthenian and Phi Kappa
ASBURY HULL,
July 4 ‘ cr, rotary of University of Georgia.
Id
THE ARV§.
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WEDNESDAY MOR.XLXG, AUGUST 6.
“ We were tenfold more insulted, more disgrac
ed and contemned, by the majority of Congress,
than our forefathers were by the ministers of
Great Britain, at the breaking out of the Revolu
tionary war .’ —M'DuJfles speech.
“ The memorable scones of our revolution have
again to be acted over.” —Milledgeville Journal.
The most wilfully blind can no longer shut their
eyes to the ominous signs of the times. Men,
who have heretofore, to a great extent, enjoyed
the confidence of the people ; who have been con
spicuous for their talents, and eminent for their
professions, at least, of patriotism; who have
acted as the leaders -of political parties—have ?
within a late period, simultaneously thrown off
even the semblance of a regard for the Union ofthe
States, and openly, emphatically advised resis
tance to our Government, and by bold assertions
and artful insinuations, endeavored to excite the
passions of the people, and stimulate them to overt
acts of treason.
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Mr. M’Duffie in his dinner speech declares, that
we at this day, have greater cause of complaint
against the Government ofthe Union, than our
forefathers had against the Crown of Great Bri
tain, at the breaking out of the Revolutiona-y
war ; and the Georgia Journal, pouring forth its
wishes in the language of prophecy, pronounces
that the bloody scenes of that awful period must
soon be again acted over !
Has Mr. M’Duffie forgotten the long train of
causes which led to the revolutionary war ; the
grinding oppressions, the cutting injuries which
stung to madness the long-suffering patience of
our fathers, and finally arrayed them in hostile at
titude against an arbitrary and a tyrannic govern
ment ? Has Mr. MDuffie forgotten all this, or
does he suppose that the people to whom he ad
dresses himself have forgotten it? Has the Do.
claration of Independence, like the Farewell Ad
dress of Washington, become an obsolete thing ;
and is it hung in our public halls and in our pri
vate studies, merely to become food for worms,
and to moulder away and be forgotten, like the
relics of an old song ?
If not, how can Mr. M’Duffie expect to impose
upon the people with the dogmatical assertion,
that we have greater cause of resistance than our
forefathers had, at the commencement of the Re
volution ? Has the President prohibited the pass
ing any state law required by the public good ?
Has he called together the State Legislatures, at
places unusual and inconvenient, or has he dis
solved any legislative body, for opposing his en
croachments on the rights of the people; has he
obstructed the administration of justice ; has he
affected to render the military independent of, and
superior to, the civil power: has he protected per
sons from punishment for murders committed
on the inhabitants of States ? have we been de
prived of the benefits of a trial by jury ; have our
citizens been transported beyond seas to bo tried
for pretended offences ; have our seas been plun
dered ; our coasts ravaged ; our towns burnt, and
the lives of our people destroyed ; has govern
ment excited domestic insurrection, and let loose
the savages to murder our women and children ?
Docs Mr. M’Duffie mean to assert that we are
now suffering all this, or that all this sinks into
insignificance when compared to the tax on Bri
tish Broadcloth ? If he does, if such be his inten
tions—whatever his own impressions may he, he
will find to his mortification, thal it will be hard to
convince the people of either. The intelligent
people of this country are not to be humbugged
with unsupported averments, or suffer their at
tachment to the institutions of Washington,
Franklin and Jefferson, to be dissipated by frothy
and idle declamation.
When the Editors ofthe Journal invite the peo
ple to act oxer again the scenes of the Revolution ,
do they realize the awful calamities which they
are calling down upon their country ? If they do
not, let them pause and consider what these ca
lamities wore. Surely there are some grey
headed memorials of the by-gone day who can
paint for them the scenes of that dreadful period
A period when our coasts were ravaged by a fo
reign foe, and our towns were divided in civil
strife ; when the hand of neighbor was raised
against neighbor, and that of Jhe son against his
father ; when brother contended with brother, and
the hearth-stone was made slippery with the blood
of those who had recently knelt beside it! Who
is it that calls on us to act over the scenes of
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the Revolution ? And why is the call made ? Is it
for a pound of Cotton or a yard of Broadcloth ?
Mr. M‘Duffie’s Whiskey Speeches, multiply on
our hands. At a late meeting in Edgefield Dis
trict, S. C. “ which was called to consider the
crisis relative to the Tariff,” and “ to eat a din
i ner,” the “ only passport to which, being a suit of
homespun,” Mr. M*Duflie made a speech of “ an
( hour and a halfin which according to his re
-1 porter, he pourtrayed the “ odious, unjust, une
qual and monopolising spirit of the w hole prohib
, iting system, and the degradation and ruin to
| which the South w T ould be reduced by submission
to the present laic In the course of his speech,
ification, his friend, the reporter, says Mr. M‘Duf
fle took occasion to “ advert in terms of severe re
probation, to the hollow hearted and invidious
attempts of the editorial lohipstcrs in our towns,
to create divisions among ourselves, and extin
guish the indignant spirit of our oppressed and in
sulted people, by raising the cry of treason, and
audacious!y applying infamous epithets to those
who are actuated by feelings of patriotism, how
ever those feelings may have hurried them into
imprudent measures of resistance /”
We do not wonder at all, at Mr. M‘Duffies feel
ings of irritation against the press, and its con
ductors, in South Carolina ; for with few excep
tions, its voice has been strongly and effectually
raised against him, and his disorganizing schemes ;
| and the cry of Treason, which has been so auda
| ciously uttered has appalled the stoutest of his
SAVANNAH , SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1828.
adherents. The term, how ;er, of “ whipsters”
which he lias applied to the editorial corps, seems
to have a most sinister allusion. He may well
call them ichipsters, for he has been pretty “ es
sentially lashed .”
We can place no other construction upon Mr.
M’Duffie’s language and conduct of late, than as
an indirect avowal that he is seriousiy disposed
to get up in the South a spirit of resistance to the
Union, and that he would like nothing better than
to see South Carolina set up for herself.
The following toast, given by him at the Egde
field dinner, where “ homespun was the only pass
port” to western hog-meat and eastern whiskey,
is strongly tinged with the jacobinical sentiments
of the day.
“By Mr M Duffie— I The Stamp Act of 17G5,
and the Tariff Act of 1828—kindred acts of des
potism : when our oppressors trace the parallel,
lot them remember that we are the descendants of
a noble ancestry, and profit by the admonitions of
history,”
If this is not another call on the pbople of the
South “ to take an attitude of resistance to the
laws of the Union,” it has no meaning.
Mr. Bartlett: I have been much pleased with
your remarks upon the measures of certain poli
tical leaders and empiricks, and with your general
views of the tariff law. I have thought the mea
sures of opposition which have been adopted ; the
high threats of resistance which have been thrown
out, and the terms o£ rep-oach and reprobation
which have been lavished upon the friends of the
law by these men, are all pre-nature and ill-limed.
Let the law be brought to the test of experience,
andtnen, if found a pernicious one, it may be re
pealed in a pacific and legal manner. Or, if the
friends of the bill shall in the meantime gather
strength and hardihood to enforce it, at any rate,
then will be the time for honest men and freemen
to gird on the panoply of the constitution, and no
other, and meet them with * Aool, energetic, and
I manly resistance—any other armor, even then,
• would be powerless, and would recoil upon those
who wielded it. The conduct of the political doctors
of the party, savors more of the sallies ofunphilo
sophical anger and petulancy, than of the dictates
of enlightened reason and honest conviction.—
. The truth is, all this bluster is not opposition to
the tariff; but the tariff is only seized upon as
an instrument to accomplish other political pur
poses. However honest, and however able, those
purposes may be, this is certainly a disengenuous
j and unworthy way to effect them. They call the
bill an Eastern bill, and thus deceive the people,
| and bring the odium of the bill upon those who
i should not bear it; in this they are dishonest.—
j Some of the Eastern States were entirely opposed
j to the bill, and yet they load them with execra
i tions and every odious epithet, as its supporters;
; in this, too, they are wickedly, meanly dishonest.
: It surely is unmanly, and ali beneath the high,
frank, and chivalrous spirit of Carolinians, to re
sort, to such means to compass their designs.—
i They talk of a dissolution ofthe Union ; but such
madness is in the hearts of very few, and God
i grant that few may not kindle a flame to consume
I themselves. The friends of their country ha..ve
! no reason to bo alarmed at the loud and bluster
* ing declamation of these furious partizans. Their
rhodomantade will, I trust, die away, and leave
no impression but of their folly and temerity.—
They make too much display, and assume too
much the air of the braggadocio, to accomplish
! any great design.
j I hope you, Mr. Editor, standing, as you do,
j upon the vantage ground of a free press, and
i holding an unshackled pen, the scourge of despo
tism and vice, will make frequent and earnest ap
! peals to the great mass of honest citizens, before
they are excited by the spurious zeal and specious
declamation of these political desperadoes. To
honest and enlightened eitieens, I ask you to ad
dress yourself—to men who are neither power
proud, nor ambition-mad. Upon the heads of
I such men as Giles and Cooper, and M’Duflie, you
might pour words of truth, which would be words
to burn ; but they may as well be left to render
account, first at the bar of conscience ; then to
their country ; and then to their God, for prosti
tuting the influence which talent and office may
have given them, to the base and guilty purposes
of disturbing their country’s peace, and tarnishing
her glory. Let them go and view the ruins of the
character and reputation, and intellect of Burr,
and learn there a lesson which shall make them
tremble, and hear a voice which shall cause both
their ears to tingle, and come to them with the
weight of an unearthly and startling admonition.
CAROLINIAN.
An extract of a letter, dated Leghorn, May
7th, published in the Boston Evening Bulletin,
says:—
“Hostilities in the Levant up to this time have
produced littie effect upon our prices of Merchan
dises or on our exchange. The American vessels
in port, are the Bordeaux, loading for New York,
and Syren, undetermined.”
SUMMAR Y.
Appointment by the President. —John N. Sher
burne, to be Navy Agent, at Portsmouth, (N. H.)
in place of Enoch G. Parrot, deceased.
The Boston Courier, is again under the solo di
rection of its original editor and proprietor, Mr
Joseph T. Buckingham,—his son having relin
quished, as the notice observes, to engage in pur
suits more congenial to his health and feelings.
Mr. Cooper, the tragedian, is performing in
Providence, R. I.
Mr. Cooper’s New Work—The Travelling Ba
chelor—will be issued by Messrs. Carey, Lea and
Carey, about the Ist of August. The London
New Monthly Magazine, for last month, says of
it—“ In this work, a genuine picture of American
life and manners will be given, which it is sup
posed, will have the effect of counteracting some
of the superficial and erroneous accounts of re
cent English travellers.”
The friends of the administration, at a meeting
held at Utica, on the 24th inst, recommended
the lion. Smith Thompson, and Francis Grang
er, Lsq. as the most suitable persons to be voted
for as Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the
state of New York, at the approaching election
The friends of Gen. Jackson had previously recom
mended the Hon. Martin Van Buren, as their
candidate for Governer.
A suspicions individual named Pratt, who gave
different aocounts of his place of residence, was
convicted at Saratoga before a Special Session on
the 16th inst. of stealing $ 14 in cash from a trunk.
While in custody on the succeeding Sunday
night, he had the temerity to pass out ofthe win
dow of his room, to that of the adjoining, which
he succeeded in entering, though at the immi
nent hazard of his life. Here he was repulsed by
a person sleeping within ; but knocking him down
Pratt descended to a room below, where an effort
was made to arrest him by the landlord. Eluding
the vigilance of the latter, however, Pratt dash
ed through a window, cutting himself severely,
and made his escape, nearly naked. He was
traced to an adjoining forest, and retaken on Mon
day evening. He was sentenced to six months’
imprisonment in the county jail.
The monument erecting at Quebec for Wolfe
and Montcalm is in progress ; the pedestal has
been nearly completed. £ 1300 have been stfb
scribed for a Merchant’s Exchange in that city
and the excavations are to be immediately com
menced.
T lie St. Lawrence is much higher this season
than usual, in consequence of the extraordinary
quantity of rain It is said that the Ottawa has
not been as high in thirty years. Most of the
crops in lower Canada will suffer severely.
The Hon. H. Clay arrived at Meysville, in Ken
tucky, on the 14th ult. and was expected to be in
Lexington, on the 16th. His health is said to
have considerably improved.
A man named Charles Williams was committed
in New York on the 25th ult.for presenting a forg
ed check, purporting to be signed by commodore
Chauncey.
The Rev. Mr. Irving is giving great offence, it
appears, to part of the population of Edinburg, by
some extraordinary lectures on prophecy. His
admirers, however, pronounce him inspired. He
announced lately to one of the crowded congrega
tions which his ministry at Edinburg had attrac
ted, that the planets were not yet inhabited, but
tha t , after the dissolution of this, our globe, they
would be possessed ofthe souls of just men made
perfect.
By the China, at Salem, from Callao, an ac
count is received of a great Earthquake in Peru
on the 30th of March, vvltich did much damage.
On the authority of the Boston Courier, it is
stated, that when the intelligence of the passag
of the Tariff reached some of the West India Isl
ands, an immediate advance on the price of Lum
ber, depression equal to the extra duty oi
Molasses, was the consequence.—[So much for
the Tariff, the evils of which fall on the British
and not on us.j
The Weather. —On Saturday afternoon, says the
Baltimore Patriot of the 28th ult. tlie mercury
stood, in some places in this city, at 96 deg. in
doors, and yesterday it could not have been much
lower. The New York papers speak of hot weath
er when the mercury rises to 88 or 89 in doors, at
which it ranged in that city on Friday. It is not
uncommon for the mercury to rise to 93 in Ne\
York —it was that high last summer. But ninety ■
ty-siz degrees , in doors , not “in the sha.de,” as
they say in Philadelphia, which exposes the ther
mometer to the effects of refraction from light or
red substances and absorption by green and other
dark colors, but in the house , ninety-six degrees,
we say, is a height of temperature for which we
can find no parallel. In Philadelphia, on Satur
day, at twelve o’clock, the mercury stood at 88 in
doors—in our office at the same time, it stood at
94. It is more moderate to-day. At one P. M.
the mercury stood at 89.
Accident. —At Dover, N. H. on Saturday after
noon, a boy of the name of Hill being employed in
putting in order some ofthe machinery at the up
per factory, was caught between the band and
the shaft of the Picker, and carried round with
great rapidity some seconds before the machine
ry could be stopped. One arm was broken in
three places, and one leg considerably wounded.
It is surprising that he escaped instant death.
It is stated in the Dublin Evening Post, on the
authority of a gentlemann just arrived from the
United States, that the United States Govern
ment has the largest vessel on the stocks ever
heard of—she is to carry not less than one hundred
and eighty guns, most of them ninety pounders,
and would be able to cope with several frigates at
a time.
Captain Kennedy, arrived at New York, left at
St. Petersburg, May 25th a Russian squadron of
14 vessels, mostly ships of the line, fitting for sea
with all expedition, and was nearly ready to sail.
Yale College. —The examination of the Senior
Class in this Institution closed on Wednesday
last. w r hen about eighty young gentlemen were
announced as candidates for the degree of Bach
elor of Arts. A farewell address was delivered in
the Chapel on the same day, by Mr. W. W. I
Hoppin, and also a poem by Mr J. T. Case, both ‘
of which were listened to with attention and are ;
highly spoken of.
The New York City Inspector reports the death •
of 101 persons during the week ending on Satur- .
day r , the 10th ult. viz : 22 men, 20 women, 30 boys,
and 20 girls. Os w hom 42 were of or under the
age of 1 year. — Diea.BCß, Consumption, 15, <Sl*,c. ,
A case of crim. con was tried lately in London, ‘
in wßich the offender was a clergyman. His con
duct was marked by the most abominable hypocri
sy, having administered the sacrament to tne hus
band the morning before he eloped with the wife.
A tobacco box is now in the possession of Mr.
Van Zandt, made in the year 1751, and w’hich has
never since that time been altered or repaired.— i
It has been in use 25,315 days, been used in open- ,
ing and shutting 1,002,G00 times, and the tobacco
used out of it during that time cost upwards of
$346. So much for tobacco chewers.
Boston Harbor. —The extensive works autho
rised by Congress to be erected at Deer Island,
near the entrance of Boston Harbor, are shortly
to be commenced under the superintendance of
Col. Totten, of the Engineer department, whose
arrival is mentioned in the papers.
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” The name of
Burkhampstead Post Office in Connecticut has
been changed to Ilitchcocksville. A paper in Pro
vidence says that this change was done with an
especial eye to “ shortness .”
The following changes, w r e learn, have been
ordered by the Navy Department:
Captain John D. Henley, commanding at Balti
more, to take command of the Navy Yard at Ports
mouth, N. 11. vice Captain Creighton, appointed
to the command of the Hudson frigate.
Master Comdt. Robert M. Rose, late Lieut, of
the Gosport Navy Yard, to be second in command
at that place ; vice Master Comdt. E. P. Kenne
dy, promoted. Lieut. Smoot takes the place oi
Capt. Rose.
Purser Charles O. Handy is ordered to the
Portsmouth station, to supply the vacancy there
occasioned by the death of Purser Lyde.
We have from time to time, published extracts
from North Carolina papers, stating the amount
of gold found in particular sections of that state—
we now add another piece of information:
“The Wilmington, (N. C.) Recorder, of the 9th
inst. says—‘Our town is suffering from the scarci
ty of corn, incal and bacon.”
Extreme Heat. —The Thermometer ranged as
high as 95 degrees of Farenheit, at Baltimore, on
the 24th inst. in an open elevated room, from 1 to
6 o’clock, P. M.—A young man, belonging to the
schr. Adams, of Portsmouth, N. 11. died sudden
ly in the course of the afternoon, supposed from
drinking cold water.
Governor Butler, ofVermont, having declined
being a candidate for re-election, the honorable
Samuel C. Crafts. (Member in Congress from
Vermont, from 1817 to 1825) has been nominated
by a convention of the freemen.
A subscription has been set on foot in Boston,
to purchase the portrait of Washington, by the
late Gilbert Stuart, which it is believed that
distinguished artist refused to part with during
his life time. It is said to be the most finished
head of that illustrious man ever painted.
Thomas 11. Smith, the great Tea dealer in
New-York. has failed for upwards of two million
of dollars ; the heaviest failure that ever occurred
in this country. It is supposed that he also owes
the Government for duties on Teas, one million
of dollars.
It is stated in the New-York papers, that on
Saturday, the 19th ult. Mr. Patch leaped from the
highest point at Patterson fills into the chasm be
low, a distance of 90 feet ; for which he received
$ 15. On the 4th he earned sl3 by thus risking
hi3 neck.
Haifa dozen villains who recently escaped from
the Kentucky Penitentiary, have been pursued
across the trackless wilds of Michigan, into Up
per Canada, and captured. There was some
fighting, and a rescue of one or two of the fellows
but they were re-rescued, and we presume by this
time they are safely in “ old Kentuck” again.
Well leathered. —A gentleman in New-Ycrk,
complained the other day, at the Police, of a re
fractory apprentice, whom he was accustomed to
flog hy the hour, when having exhausted his
strength he found that the rogue had three leather
aprons wrapped around his Jack under his cloak.
Blacklegs. —Mrs. Jane Shaw, of Boston, wao
recently delivered of a fine boy and girl at a birth,
what renders the circumstance remarkable is, that
the right leg of each, is of a hue very nearly ap
proaching to black.
Strong Beef —James Bier, a laborer in Oxford
County, Me. lately lifted a young heifer belong
ingto Mr. Sherman, over a five rail fence, on a
wager— Small Beer. —Thomas Behr, of Shutek
bury, aged 23 measures but 37 inches in height
He is a proficient in oriental literature.
Corn-sumptive Croics. —The cornfield of Mr.
Ives, in Berkshire County, Ms. was attacked by
an army of crows, which in a few minutes de
stroyed 2400 hills of corn.
Tariff.— An Irish drayman asked his compan
ion, a few days since, after they had lounged idly
the whole morning, at the corner of a street up
town, “ and Pat, dear, can you tell us why thero
:s so little doing in our line, this month back ?”
“ Och, bother, and don’t you know, child,” an
swered the other, “"Why, the marchants, God
oless ’em, are all tarrifed, and can't employ ua
for fear af ruination.”
The Crops. —We learn with pleasure, from all
parts of the country, that the provision crops are
likely to be very plentiful—that the cotton plan
rations indicate abundant gathering ; and that
the sugar cane will this year, be a source of great
profit to all who are engaged in the produce of that
wticle. While the cotton planters of the states
are quarrelling about the Tariff, th<3 3ugar planter
of Florida will surely be able to report progress.
So much for the Tariff. — St. Augustine Herald ,
IG th ult.
Defaulter. —As various reports are in circula
tion respecting some recent disclosures of a fraud
in the Hartford Bank, we have obtained from an
officer in the Bank, the following particulars.—
Mr. D. Hinsdale, book keeper, has been in the
Hartford Bank, as we are informed, 29 years ;
during the last 13 years he has defrauded the
bank to the amount of $ 31,020 23, overdrawing
his account for moderate sums, from time to time
and balancing it at the end of every six months
falsifying his entries ; and by making false foot
ings in his trial balance, of the same amount, the
fraud was not discovered. Property valued at
$ 9,053 67 has been conveyed to the bank by Mr.
Hinsdale—making the loss of the bank, $22,366
56.— Connecticut Observer.
Extract of a letter from Manchester, Eng. dated
12 th June, from a highly respectable house.
“We have heard, with great regret, of the dis
astrous result of the spring shipments. Ail who
did any thing, appear to have suffered alike, just
in proportion to the extent of their operations—
neither skill nor judgment availing any thing.—-
The house of Hutchinson & Cos. who shipped so
largely, and who did so much injury to the others,
by their forced sales in America, have just stop
ped payment. They bought chiefly for their own
acceptances, and several of the printers are in from
3 to £5,000, and one house they say about 8,000.
“Business is extremely dull here, and the Ame
ricans are doing little or nothing. All appear
disheartened and afraid to touch any thing.”
We learn that on Monday last, there was a gen
eral turn out for higher wages, among the weav
ers, spinners, &c. at Patterson. They became very
tumultuous ; and the local authorities, that place
not being an incorporated village, were at a los3
what measures to pursue. It w T as proposed to ask
the assistance of the militia of Newark, and the
neighboring towns. On Thursday the people had
not yet returned to their work ; and the proprie
tors of the several factories had come to a fixed
resolution not to employ the ringleaders again,
though they are among the best workmen. The
result of such a determination, to, will
be, that a nnmher of idle families will wander to
the Hudson, and disembogue into, the City of New
York, to swell the number of paupers here.
JVew York Com Adcer.
South Carolina Independent. —Avery neat touch
at the recent proceedings in that State was given
by one of the subordinate officers on Fort Wolcot,
in Newport harbor. The commandant directed
him to cause a national salute to be fired on the
4th of July. The officer hesitated, and very re
spectfully inquired how many guns should be dis
charged ? His commander, with something of a
sneer, “a national salute, sir ; are you ignorant of
the number of guns that constitute a national sa
lute ?” The answer to this severe rebuke of his
apparant ignorance, was, that twenty-four guns
used to be the number of a national salute, but ha
was in some doubt whether South Carolina was at
present a member of the Confederation ! The 24
guns, however, were fired, and we trust that a less
compliment will never form the national salute of
this republic.— Rhode Island American.
Acw Orleans . — Ihe following note was
endorsed on ihe New Orleans Post Bill,
ot July 4, tor the office of tins c ity, receiv
ed yesterday. The newspapers of the
third were silent on the subject.
“The Postmaster and every one of his
assistants ate sick with a raging fever,
called Spanish Fever Half of the citi
zens in town are laid up with the same
sickness, it is considered the greatest epi
demic ever experienced in Louisiana*’ 1
[No. 11.—Vol. I.