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About The Argus. (Savannah, Ga.) 1828-1829 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1828)
COS AM EMIR BARTLETT— EDITOR.] THE MERCURY. , be published every day, in SavannalL Geo. ”T business seas >ll, aud three tunes a ‘ n(T the summer months, at Eight. Dollars wf °’ gi a pavable in advance. * £KE AB.COTS spiled from the Daily Papers, and pah- i verv Saturday morning, at Four Dollars fc heJ e *■ or Three if paid in advance. Mrertiscvicnts tciil be published in both pa- ID a Stints per square of 14 lines for the first ptTSj} cents for each continuation. Communications respecting the business must be addressed to the Editor,post of land and negroes by Administrators, v /'liters or Guardians, are required by law, to j - Id on the first Tuesday m the month, between * *k‘, rs often o’clock in the forenoon and three . th *G at the Court-House of the Coun !! hi which the property is situated Notice of Lse sales must be given m a public Gazette ££ days previous to the day of sale. Notice of the sale of personal property must be rfven in like manner, forty days previous to the “ a '\&f ; ee to the debtors and creditors of an estate, mU'be published f>r forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be pub ’’siied four months. MACON SALES OF TIIE RESERVE LANDS, THE TOWN ‘ LOTS, AND TH E BRIDG E, TT’ ILL commence on Wednesday the first day Vl of next October, and will continue from day to dav, with the exception of the first Mon day and Tuesday of* that month. We shall then expose to sale in Maco'n, to the highest bidder, in conformity with a late act of the G eneral Assem bly : All the town lots not heretofore disposed of; being upwards of one hundred in number; on the western side of the river: among them are twelve adjoining the river, and a few other choice lots for business. The residue are in more retired situa tions, ar.d generally afford good building sites in a pleasant and growing part of the town. Forty-two gardening lots of 10 and 20 acres each; laid out from 1 to 1 1-2 miles distant from the town in two ranges around the Western Com mon. Also, twenty eight lots on the Eastern side: that is to say, 4 of twenty, 8 of ten acres, and 10 of one acre each These last include the place some times known as Newtown ; and will be sold, sub ject to certain leases from the United States, to expire next January. The residue of the lands in the two reserves, are laid out in tracts ot LHJ acres, and fractional parts of such tracts. Os these, the uplands will be next offered ; the last numbers first; beginning with those on the western side. • On Wednesday the 2,id of October next, at 11 o'clock A M. will be offered at the place of the other sales, the BRIDGE AT MAC OX, Together with one acre of land on the eastern side of the Ocmulgee river, as one of the hutments, and the privilege of using so much of Fifth or Budge street on the western bank as may be ne cessary for the other hutment of the Bridge. On 1 hursday the 23d of October, we shall pro ceed to sell the swamp and'bottom lands within the Reserves, those on the Western side first; and continue from day to day until completed. . The particular numbers that will be sold on each day cannot be specified ; but it is intended to put up the several kmds and descriptions in the order here mentioned. The Reserves are generally well watered and contain several good mill seats. The area of the whole cannot be exactly known until the platting is completed ; but ticenty-one thousand acres is the estimated quantity contained in both Reserves tad the adjoining fractions, exclusive of the town surveys, Perhaps no body of land of the same extent can be found that embraces a greater va riety in its surface, soil and timber. Situated just in that region where the pine of the lower country changes to the oak and hickory of the upper : it mciudesboth these growths, and soils in most of their varieties; in some portions entire, in others interspersed or blended. Tracts of very hilly land, or that which is quite level, or gently undulating, maybe had of almost every quality ;’ either of oak ijid hickory, or pine, or river lands; and several cf these,, kinds occasionally united ; m tracts of ljfj acr9s p nd fractions of various sizes, adapted tomostef the purposes for which land is wanted. from the pressure of the times ; and more es- Fcnllv from the quantity of lands and town lots, that will have been lately in the market, these oust unavoidedly sell low. And, lying at the bead of navigation, immediately around the third town of the State in population and trade, thera ? ev , er )’ reasonable prospect of their soon rising a value. 6 Purchasers have now an opportunity, and appa rently the last that will soon offer, of obtaining ‘"•cheap and very indulgent terms of pay ment, choice situations for residence, for trule or for arming. TERMS OF SALE. Purchasers of lands and lots arc to pay the Com missioners on the day of the purchase, one fifth part ol the purchase money in Cash or current s r^c^ a rtered banks of this State ; and the re- IJ em four equal annual instalments JYo sccu- Wyvnll be j tquired. cr Mt,^ l^>e he sold on the same terms; ex • -l le P ur chaser will be required to give oru- lv W 0 or more approved sureties for the £ i . eni c: f -he four subsequent annual instal- W.N HARMON, ) C. B. STRONG, ? Comm'rs. lr OH. PRINCE, S iW July $, ]£2B. tett , 119 Editors of the Charleston City Ga ‘\ e * usealoosa Mirror, and of the several go:nJ JaZ ui ttes *i n state, will publish the fore- nine weeks, in their respective pa forward their accounts to MARMA *•'S. in Esq. Clerk of the Commission er! tlme a-3 to reac h him by the Ist of No rn m , . NOTICE A \V * ii |' eres f ; which Jno. C. Holcombe and foe Cr •^• ETUf ' SON had with the subscriber, la utafi/ ,1,1n ‘ SR * on business, expired, by its own n > on the 20th day of June last. CHARLES LIPPITT. V ln , CI MRLES 1.1 PPITT !I °-Nhr factorage! and commis- Us acf . hNESSon his own account, and soli- H % , U . Uai|Ce of patronage from his friends ~J| ,uU ‘ c £c , .eraU / . ’ *' U 38—c THE r NOTICE. , tw e /T rtnershi .P heretofore existing be- M. subscribers, under the firm of S. X at Savannah and Mobile, is this Mr. c b y mutual consent . dni-r . W£ET ’ upf innah, is authorised to Li t UUe l * ie c °ncem. rk t August Ith , 1828. SOLOMON ALLEN. MOSES ALLEN. lr> GUARESA HIGGINS. 30 THE AR Cr IT S. ’' 4 - T ’* r4 - 1 A# II % “ft EDXESDJiY MORNING, AUGUST 20. -- -The Editors of the Journal, in endeavoring to satisfy their readers that the planter pays sixty bales of Cotton out of every hundred, on account of the 1 arift, make the following calculation, viz : ‘•Suppose cotton sells for ten cents a pound in Miiledgeville:—and that sugar is also sold for ten cents a pound, pnder the present Tariff’. In this case the planter can with ten pounds of cotton buy ten pounds of sugar. But the merchant who imports the sugar has to pay, because of the Tariff, say, six cents a pound, as a tax upon it, before he can retail it to his cus tomers. Then it is plain, that if there were no Tariff, and consequently no tax to be paid on the sugar, he could sell for four cents a pound “ In that case the planter could with only four pounds of his cotton, at ten cents, buy his ten pounds of sugar. Because 4 lbs. of cotton at 10 cents is 40 cents: —and 10 lbs. of sugar at 4 cents is 40 cents.’’ 3 Now, the Journal is as unfortunate in the selec tion ot his assumed facts, as he is unsound in his reasonings from them. Because, in the first place, the duty on brown sugars is not six cents per pound, but, in truth, only three cents per pound, and consequently, even if his principle were cor rect, viz—tiiat a duty on any article raised the price of that article in the exact ratio of the duty —yet, even then, his facts would destroy his as sertions ; the example which he has adduced, proves the statement that the planter pays sixty per cent, on account of the Tariff’to be unfounded. In the second place, sugars would not sell for four cents , were there no Tariff. Neither the Ta riff of 1824, nor that of 1828, lias raised the price of sugar. From an examination of the prices cur rent during the last ten years, it w ill be deen that sugar is now as cheap as it has been at any time previous to the Tariff. And that it has fallen 50 per cent, since January, 1819. About that time, the domestic article, viz. New Orleans sugar, be gan to be found in our markets in considerable quantities ; and the competition between the do mestic and foreign growth, lowered the price of the latter from 15 to 9 cents. But the Journal says, that if the duty were re moved, the price would fall by so much as the amount of the duty. Now, it might or it might not if it did fall to any thing near lour cents, the cul tivation of the cane in Louisiana, Florida, Geor gia, &c. would be discontinued ; and the foreign er being left without competition, would advance again on his sugar to the amount it bore before that competition was felt. But, as the Journal is fond of suppositions, we will also suppose a case. The duty on foreign su gar is repealed ; the price sinks to Gi ceqts; w hich is as low', on the average, as it could be imported at the present West India prices; the American sugar planters are ruined, and give up the Lusi ness; the West India planters have the whole command of the market; the Americans are en tirely dependent on them; the West liiAia autlio lities perceiving this, immediately lay an export duty on sugar of ten instead of three cents ; the price raises again to fifteen cents, the same as it stood in 1819. Now, what do the Americans gain by this course of policy. They grumble to pay nine cents; they repeal the duty ; ruin thou sands of their fellow-citizens ; break down an im portant branch of national industry, and pay fif teen cents a pound fir their sugar, instead of nine. Can any one doubt that the Biitish government would hesitate a moment to lay an export duty on the productions of their Islands, if they deemed it for their interests to do so ? No reasonable per son can do it. And we therefore deem it better policy to pay a dut y of three cents to our own go vernment, for the protection of the industry of a large class of our fellow-citizens, than to pay a tax of ten cents on the same article for the benefit of the British government. The professors of the Colleton creed, and the lovino-friends of Kino ’ C 5 O I George, may think differently. The Editors of the Journal select*an article from the Boston Gazette, wherein it is stated that ’ at a particular factory, a particular kind of woolen ’ goods had advanced in price, to discredit our ar ( gument as to the operations of the Tariff. If the Editors of the Journal recollect our paragraph, to which that article refers, they will perceive, that the assertion that “woolens had not advanced one farthing,’’ was not intended as a broad and gener al proposition, as the Boston Gazette affects to take it; but that it referred exclusively to the I particular state of the Savannah Market at the j time the article appeared, viz. on the 4th of July. , On publishing our weekly price current, we stated that although the Tariff had been in operation some weeks, yet the price of woolens had not ad vanced one farthing. This was strictly correct.— And, from the best information we can now ob- Itain on the subject, from importing dry goods merchants, we*bclicve it is so yet. All kinds of | woolen goods can be purchased in this market as i cheap as they could have been six months or twelve ’ months ago. Yet we do not pretend to doubt the respectable authority of tire Boston Gazette, that the Ame&bury factory has raised the price of par ticular kinds of their goods. And that flannels art now held 20 per cent, higher than they were before the T ariff. \et we all know that it is one to hold goods at a certain price, and another thing to find purchasers to any extent at that price. The Boston Gazette does not pretend to affirm that goods are selling 20 per cent, higher thajj be s re the Tariff. The simple fact that a particular factory had raised the asking price of their goods, is easily explained. Many of the manufacturers believed that the operation of the Tariff would be to raise the price of gooijs, and immediately on its passage, they put on an advance of 10, 15 or 25 per cent. But other holders of the same kinds of goods, more anxious to sell at present prices than to hold on for the uncertain prospect of a small ad vance, continued to sell at old rates. This deter mination on the part of some manufacturers and toiders, must, it is evident, force others into the ame course, or exclude them entirely from the market. And thus the Amesbury factory, altho’ >n the passage of the Tariff, they rose on the price t flannels, may now, or within a short time, when mey find it impossible to sell on those advance SAVANNAH , SATURDAY koRNING, AUGUST 23, 1823. terms, be willing to put off their ‘■** at the olti rates. / ‘ This, however, is but speculation. We would not b e understood as making the broad and unqualified assertion that woolens will not advance one farthing in consequence of the Tariff. We deem it altogether probable,that some kinds of woolens will rise, to a small extent; but not in the exact ratio of the amount of the duty. As domestic competition is more or less active in the different brandies of the business, so will the price be kept down. The manufacture oT some kinds of woolen goods is carried on to greater ex tent, and to greater perfection, than others.— While, therefore, these kinds of goods may be kept down to the old prices, other kinds, the ma nufacture of which has been more neglected, may, for a while, advance in price. But this advance, we think, will be temporary ; because that very advance will tend to stimulate competition; by means of which the market will be soon supplied, and the price sink again, of course. If the great Jefferson was not the fether of the American system, he was certainly disposed to go farther in support of it than almost any other of our Presidents. The following extract from his O message shews that he had no doubts at all about % > the constitutionality of protective duties; on du ties imposed, not with a view to revenue, but the protection of American industry! • “The suspension of our foreign commerce, pro duced by the injustice of the belligerent powers, and the consequent losses and sacrifices of our ci tizens, are subjects of just concern The situa tion into which we thus have been forced, has im pelled us to apply a portion of our industry and capital to internal manufactures and improve ments. The extent of this conversion is daily in creasing, and little doubt remains that the estab lishments formed and forming will, under the auspices of cheaper materials and subsistence, the freedom of labor from taxation with us, and of pro tecting duties and prohibitions, become perma nent.”— Vide Jefferson's Message to Congress, Nov. 8, 1808. It will be seen that these doctrines are quite different from those taught in the modern “State Rights” school. President Jefferson here recom mends protecting duties and prohibitions, for the purpose of rendering our manufacturing establish ments permanent. And yet the politicians of our day, who profess to have received their principles from Jefferson, who boast of being Republicans of the Jefferson school, assert duties so imposed to be unconstitutional, and meriting open resistance. Demagogues always carry on their schemes of ambition under the pretence of serving the pub lic. It is recorded of Dionysius the tyrant of Syra cuse, that when lie robbed the statue of Jupiter of the golden robe, which the piety of the people had hung around their idol, lie feigned for his conduct the most pious and reverential motives. “ This golden robe, said he, i3 too warm for the god in summer, and too cold in winler; we will substi tute a garment of wool —it behoves a s to take care of Jupiter .” So the demagogues of our time , would fain have the people believe, that their schemes of disunion, their exertions to involve the country in a civil war, and overthrow the general government, all spring from a regard to the Constitution. “ Believing, as I do, (says Gilmer) that it is all important to the people of this country, that the di vision of power between the U. States and the States, as made by the Constitution, should not be altered, it becomes my duty to resist any attempt at such alteration” —it behoves us to care of the Constitution. “ If (say the people of have the common pride of men, or the determination of freemen, ice must resist the impositions of tlm ta riff’ —it behoves us to lake care of the Constitu tion. “ The people of one portion of the Union (says M’Duffie) were corrupted, bought and sold,by the money of another part, with a desperation and de pravity never before exhibited in any times : it was insufferable ;” “ it was for the Southern peo ple and not their representatives in Congress, to determine how long they Would bear this’’— it be hoves us to take care of the Constitution. “ We will stand by our arms,” (says Governor Troup)— it behoves us to take care of the Consti tution. 11 We will have a Potomac bounded Empire” (says Mr. Lumpkin)— it behoves us to take care of the Constitution. Thus we see the dissolution of the Union threa tened—open resistance to the laws of the general government proposed—and all, out of a pretended regard to the Constitution ! We learn from Athens, that the premeditated attempt to dictate to the people :i who should be Suffered to solicit their suffrages had in a great measure failed: Several of the subjects of the ‘legitimate King Caucus'’ having proved contuma nous and refractory, and shown a disposition to set up for themselves. In other words, several individuals who felt a confidence in the strength of their popularity with the people, did not feel disposed to give way, merely because A. B. or C. possessed sufficient art and intrigue to procure a nomination in Caucus. Give us honest and inde pendent candidates, and we will pledge them the support of an honest and free people. Let there be no “corruption”—no “bargain and salo”—no “log-rolling,” to sully the purity of the People’s Ticket. The proceedings of the Anti-TarifFmeeting in Athens, although the sentiments of the Address and Resolutions are warm and decided against the Tariff, yet they partake of a mild and dignified character, and evince a feeling of attachment to the Union, widely different from the inflammato ry sentiments which have been expressed at some other meetings that have been held on the same subject. A correspondent attributes the dignified tone and temper, and spirit of moderation, which pervaded the meeting, in a great measure to the influence of our fellow-citizen, James M. Wayne, Eso -whose attachment to the Union of the {States is not to be shaken by the “calculations” of Dr. Cooper, or the tax on Broadcloth. FOR THE SAVANNAH MERCURY Mr. Bartlett: It may be presumed, from the conduct of some political men among us of hiirh name and higher pretentions, that ‘"they are but imperfectly acquainted with the writings of the great VV asliington, and but partially endowed with his wisdom, and graced with few of his virtuous principles, and auimafed by none, of his deep and pervading spirit ot patriotism. If they were not ignorant of tlie writings of W ashington, they could never, as Americans, have adopted such a politi cal creed as they have. They have little of his wisdom, else they would know that their present course is injurious to their country, dishonorable and ruinous to themselves. They must have lit tle ot his virtue, otherwise they never could have taken the first step in such a course. They have absolutely none oi his patriotism, else they could not be so willing to stain the bright escutcheon of their country s glory, and so anxious to lay their impious and desecrating hand upon the ark of her liberties, and so determined to sacrifice her upon the altar oi a selfish and unhallowed ambition.— 1 wish you, therefore, Mr. Editor, to insert the following extract from the writings of that groat and gotl-iike mail, for the especial instruction and reproof of all faetionists and “moral traitors.” “ ihe unity ot government,” said ho, “which constitutes you one people, is dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence ; the support of your tran quility at home ; ot your peace abroad ; of your safety ; ot your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes, and from dif ferent quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken, in your minds, the conviction of this truth. As this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of your enemies will be most constantly and ac tively (though often covertly and insidiously) di rected, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your na tional union to your collective and individual hap piness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitu al, and immoveable attachment to it; accustom ing yourselves to think and speak of it as the pal ladium of your political prosperity and teafety; watching for its preservation with zealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can on any account be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our coun try from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.” i This is the language of Washington upon the unity of government. And shall his language be unheeded t Bhall his wisdom cease to be admired, and ins solemn injunctions cease to be obeyed ? Never, while America is free. But what is the injunction contained in the weighty words T have quoted ? Why, it is “to discountenance whatever l may suggest even a suspicion that union of gov ernment can, in any event, be abandoned, and to , frown indignantly upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate one portion of the country from the rest.” To-day there are men among us who, for these very reasons, deserve the indignant, withering frown of all good men and freemen—men, . against whom should be directed the ovcrwhelm- I ing* power of public reproof and reprobation—men, j who should stand before the spirit of Washington, ! to hear his language, and go away reproved, asham ed, condemned—men, who should hear, let them go where they will, the reproachful and stinging ac cusation, “there go the infamous wretches who plotted against the liberty and happiness of their country —men, who should be followed, let them go where they may, by “the slow-moving finger of scorn, ’ and, as they skulk away in disgrace and infamy, should hear the prayer of freemen—“let them find shelter, if they can, from the bursting storm of public odium and abhorrence ; but may they never find rest from an accusing spirit with in their own bosoms—from conscience, wielding a scourge of a hundred scorpions, until they re pent them of their doings, and return from their political apostacy, and seek forgiveness of their injured country.” They have had the temerity and egregious folly to throw 7 themselves into the focus of public contempt, and it shall wither and blight them to the core. They should now be de nounced as dangerous and traitorous men ; and I hope the day is near when patriotism shall assume its stern majesty, and visit upon their heads the punishment they deserve—first, by making them feel the scourge of public reprobation and reproof, and then, by leaving them to the severer and more cutting mortification of a cold and studied neglect. CAROLINIAN. A committee of fifteen gentlemen in Portsmouth, N. 11. invited Capt. Creighton to partake of a pub lic dinner, as a mark of their respect, on the eve of his departure from that station. The engage ments of Capt. Creighton were such as to oblige him to decline the invitation. M. de Negris, a Greek, nephew of the princes Alexander and Demetrious Ypsilanti, advertises to teach the Modern Greek language in Boston. On board the ship Samuel RobertsoA, Captain Choate, arrived at New 7 York, from Havre, there are a Royal Lion,. Tyger, and a White Beaver, with several other beasts of the forest. Four of the men engaged in the riot on board of the steam boat Henry Eckford, an account of which was published in last evening’s paper, were examined at Albany on Saturday, and committed for further examination. They were foreigners. A valuable and extensive bed of iron ore was discovered a few weeks ago, near the edge of township number twelve, of the town of Duane, in Franklin county, N. J. on land belonging to Jas. Duane, Esq. The Franklin Telegraph states that the ore is of the kind denominated specular; inclining, however, somewhat to the variety call ed short ore, which is considered the best. Exeter Bank. —We understand (says the Boston Gazette) that the specie stolen from the vault of the Exeter Bank, a few weeks since, amounting to Bor 10,000 dollars, has been recovered. It was fosnd on Saturday last in a field bordering on the Newburyport turnpike, where it had been deposit ed by the robbers. Our informant states that “it measured about five or six pecks.” A female servant, in England, was recently charged with stealing a L2O note from her mas ter ; and on a constable being sent for, she ac knowledged that she had rolled it up and swallow ed it. An emetic being administered, the note w r as recovered uninjured. Georgetown, Aug. 12. The Rice Crops. — The apprehensions entertained as to the effect of the cool mornings upon the Rice, are, in a measure realized. From the Pee Dee River w 7 e learn that in some fields the blight is very perceptible, and the damage is believed to extend to plantations on the other rivers. Although however the late extraordinary prospects may not be realized, the planters may indulge the hope of unusually abun dant crops. * We are informed by overseers from Black River and Bampit, that the rice there had been assailed by a worm large as a caterpillar, which continues to commit considerable ravages. The worm enters the stem, and where the rice is young, the whole plant sickens and droops; where it is mature, fc*e luxuriant color is retained, but the head will not fill, the vital sap being destroy ed.—Harvest. A disorder called the fire-blight threatens to de stroy all the peach trees in the vicinity of Wor cester, Mass. The true cause of the disease has not been discovered. Quince trees are also de stroyed by it. [No. 13.—VoL. J. President Adams arrived at New York on the Bth inst. on his way to the East, and was to ha ve set out on his journey’ the next day. The lion. Stephen Van Rensselaer has been elected an Honorary Member of the Grand Due A Mineralogical Society of Jena, in the Duchy of Saxe Weimar. Some cargoes of U. States lumber, transhipped from American to British vessels at St. Thomas, carried to Jamaica, were seized there. So that no cargoes must be entirely landed at St. Thomas, to make the process legal. *Porous Hats —A London Ilatter advertises Patent Ventilating Hats. He says the Water- Proof Hats have been complained of, as prevent ing the escape of perspiration and causing head ache, and he has therefore invented a Porous llat. Ri'ssia and Turkey. —A letter received at the Baltimore Exchange News Room, dated Constan tinople, 10th of May, states that the utmost tran quility prevailed there and at Smyrna, and that it was the general impression the Sultan would ac cede to the demands of Russia. The ? few York Daily Advertiser of the 9th inst. says—“ Notwithstanding the weather continues oppressively warm, there begins to be some symp toms of a revival in trade. Ashes, Flour, Grain, Sugars, and some other articles, have been in de mand during the past week, and an advance in prices lias been realized. The money market is also greatly relieved, and specie not only bears little or no premium, but is coming in, in large sums, and none going out. The panic which was caused by recent failures has subsided, and busi ness begins to resume its accustomed course. Incendiaries in JVew York. —The papers receiv ed from New York, for nearly the whole of the present week, have daily contained accounts of fires in that place, <lnd all supposed to be caused by incendiaries. We have to add another to those already noticed, taken from the Commercial Ad vertiser of the Bth inst. “/Vre/—Last evening about 10 o’clock, a fire was discovered in the rear work shop of Mr. Geo. Wilkes, a wooden building in the rear of No. 57 Elm street, but by the timely assistance of Mr.- Smith’s family, and a few of the neighbors, the fire was happily subdued in a short time. The adjoining buildings are all of wood. No light or fire had been used for several weeks in the build ing. This gives the strongest suspicion of its be ing the work of design.” Fortunate Escape.—The schooner Felicity, cap tain Armistead, arrived at this port last Friday night from Norfolk. On her passage up, off Point Lookout, on Monday, fell in with the schooner Valoral, Tyler, of Vienna, bottom upwards, hav ing but a very short time before been upset by a sudden squall. Fortunately, capt. T. and the per sons who were with him (7 in number) had suc ceeded in getting into their boat, and were stand ing towards the shore when the Felicity fell in with them and received them all on board. Cap tain A. very kindly contributed to their comfort, for they were entirely destitute, not having saved an article except what they had on, and stood for the vessel; and before he‘left her, with the assis tance received from another vessel, which after wards lell in with them, succeeded in getting the Valorel righted, and when he left her, she° was free of water. The V .was from Nanticckebound up the Potomac, and had a swept-hdd when she capsized. This is the vessel reported bottom up by the steam boat Norfolk, in Friday’s Chronicle. Balt. Chronicle. The schooner Seceder, Atkins, arrived at Bos ton 7th inst. in 51 days from Laguira. We learn that a Mexican schooner arrived at Laguira, from Tobasco, the day previous to Capt. A’s. sailing, Captain of which reported that he left three Ame rican vessels at that place, one belonging to Bos ton, and another to New 7 York; that it was very sickly there, and that one of the American vessels had lost her mate and three of the crew. Capt. Atkins passed in sight of Campeachy Julj 7 6, and saw a barque and two brigs at anchor in the oif ing, one of them appeared to be an American ves sel, but showed no colors. July 8, saw 7 a very handsome American ship at anchor outside, had bright sides, figure head, with considerable gilt work about it, and carved w 7 ork upon the stern; hoisted an American flag, but shewed no private signal; supposed ner to be a New 7 York vessel. ib. Seizure of Pirates. —The following paragraph, abstracted by the Editors of the Journal of’Com merce from their Gibraltar files, will afford satis faction to the reader : About the first of May, a Brazilian brig called the Defender of Peter, was run ashore on~the Isl and of Cadiz. A part of the crew remained in Cadiz for some days, but happened to drop certain expressions which awakened suspicion, when they were immediately arrested and put into confine ment. They had no books or papers, and the ac counts they gave w 7 ere not satisfactory. About the end of June, they were brought to confess that they were pirates. The brig sailed from Rio Ja neiro, and lay off the Coast some days, as the can tain was sick oil shore. While lying heie the crew concluded to take possession of the vessel, though a number of them who could not consent to it, left the vessel in a boat and were drown ed before they reached the shore, as it was a boisterous time. Still they could not agree among themselves who should take the command, and four more were murdered. They then set sail and fell in with a Boston ship, returning from China, and richly laden. They murdered every soul on board, took possession of the most valua ble articles, set fire to, and left her. The name of the ship they never learned or did not recollect. The Topaz, of Boston, we understand, is missing. Their second prize was an English ship called the Morning Star. The shocking barbarities com mitted on board this ship have already transpired through the English papers. They also confessed that they had robbed eight more vessels, mostly English, and murdered all on board. The brio then discharged her cargo, mostly composed of specie and silk, at Corona. The specie alone is said to have amounted to $140,000. They con fess that they run the brig on shore at Cadiz on purpose, it being the only way they could dispose of her without exciting suspicion. When the Fabius left Cadiz they were in chains, waiting for justice. % Nexv York. August 9. The President of the United States visited the Navy Yard this morning, at 8 o’clock. He was received on board the frigate Hudson, now ready for sea, by Com. Chauncey, with a salute of 21 guns and the manning of the yards. He subse quently visited the yard, the ships under cover, the receiving ship, and other vessels in the stream, and appeared to view the whole with great inter est. The Union Jack was hoisted attue main— a compliment in our service wdiicli knows (ahd pity it is that it is so) no admirals, due to the Pre sident alone as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. At 10 o'clock, the President was conveyed by the Commedore's barge to the Linnaeus steam boat, then lying off the yard—in her he proceeded to Flushing. As the President left the yard, upon a signal from the flag ship, all the vessels in commission manned their yards, and fired salutes of *2t gun* each. The President proceeds at 3 o’clock’ in the Chancellor Livingston.— American.
