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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-
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forward their accounts to MARMA
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rn m , . NOTICE
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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.
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H % , U . Uai|Ce of patronage from his friends
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rk t August Ith , 1828.
SOLOMON ALLEN.
MOSES ALLEN.
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“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.
