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THURSDAY MORAIXG y OCTOBER 1, \&\
On Monday next, the people throughout the
State will be called on to give their votes for Go
vernor and Representative to Congress. The fol
lowing candidates are before them.
TOR GOVERNOR.
JOEL CRAWFORD,
GEORGE R. GILMER.
TOR CONGRESS.
T U P. CHARLTON,
HENRY G. LAMAR
The people of this County-will elect at the
same time a Senator and three Representatives
to the Legislature of the State. Tho following
are the Candidates: —
Ten senator.
‘JR. W. HABERSHAM.
[JVo opposition ]
REPRESENTATIVES.
R. M. CHARLTON,
L. S. D’LYON,
G. HOUSTON,
M. MYERS, *
R. WAYNE. ,
The people will also be called pon, at the same
time, to express thoir opinion in regard to an al
teration of the Constitution of the State, propo
sing biennial, instead of annual sessions of the
Legislature. Those who are in favor of the
•change, will vote for such individuals to repre
sent them, as will endeavor to effect their object.
Those who are opposed to the change, will be
careful to make known their sentiments through
tiie medium of toe ballot box.
, a - 1 - ■
’ communicated.
INDIAN RIGHTS—NQ. IIL
In the first branch es my subject, I endeavored
to show that the Indians, before corrupted by the
sxantple and the exotic vices of Europeans, were
% kind, benevolent, and simple race of beings, with
whom crime was almost a stranger, and treachery
and deceit utterly unknown. In the next place,
.juy object was to direct the attention of the pub- :
1:C to the course of conduct which has been pur
sued towards them by those who style themselyes
a civilized people. And with this view, I quoted
in my last number, such extracts from unques
tioned history,as tended to elucidate the policy of
the Spaniards in iheir early settlement of their
- American colonies. ‘English and American wri
ters have not been sparing of their, i
sions on the cruelty and-injustice of this conduct,
and they have claimed for themselves the credit
.of pursuing a more just, generous and merciful
policy. But how does history support thoir pre
hensions ? I have taken up the 4th vol. of Robert
son’s History of America, and will make a few ex -
tracts, for tho purpose of thie pohtf in &
proper light.
JThc fust.attempt at settlement on this conti
nent ay the English, was made in Virginia. A
squadron, fitted out under the patronage of Sir
Walter Raleigh, and commaodod-by Sir Richard
’Grenville, left a colony of one hundred and eighty
persons on the Roan ike. Here the aborigines
first came in contact with tho English, and here
the intercourse between tho different races ‘of
people commenced. In what spirit was it kept
. up ? Tfie JnrtidDs, on their part, generously sup
plied the atrangers with food, and assisted them
in their search for gold,, a-pursuit which engross
ed the whole attention of the whites. But their
success did not equal their expectation*, arid the
English accused the Indians with being the au
thors of theu disappointment; they accused them
cl'flittering their prevailing passion, of holding
out to them the prospect of a rich harvest of gold*
which they knew must prove illusory. This grave.
Charge was considered, a sufficient cause of war.
The benefits which they had received from the „ !
natives were forgotten, and they proceeded to
acts of open hostility. This colony, however, was
too weak to bear up under the pressing difficulties
-cf their situation* and* they returned to England -
The Indians had, in the mean time, been furnish- ;
ed with an opportunity of acquiring a knowledge
. of the character of their white neighbors, and of
.receiving from tbem several important lessons in
„ civilization.
The next colony came out.in jGB7, under Capt.
Newport. To this colony, also, was attacked the
celebrated Capt. Smith, The origin of-their dif
-ficultics with the Indians, is thus related by Ro
ibettson: * ’ *X
44 Soon after they began to settle, the English
It ere involved in a war. with the natives, partly
•• by lheir-o\vn indiscretion, apd .partly by the sus
picions and ferocity of these harhasiaue.”
The “ suspicions” here-spoken of by the hi3to4
rian. may naturally enough, have been awakened
•. by the conduct jpf the preceding colony; and the “
* indiscretions” on the part of the English, allu
. ded to, will appear by the following extracts.
♦.The .Indians having withheld their usual supply
„ of provisions, the colony, was AhreaJteped with ruin
from-famine. : In this extremity, Csspt Smith is
called to command, and the historian says—
- “ Ho instantly adopted tho only plan which
- could save them from destruction. He marched
at the head of a small detachment in quest of their
. eoemies. Su;e tribes Jie gained by caresses and
Mid procured from .them a supply of pro-,
visions. Others he attacked with ripen force, and
com Polled-the* rr taußjpax.t. come portion pf their
winter stores.” \
’ It certainly cannot be surprising that such ** in
'discretionsespecially when of frequent occur
fence, should, have aroused the hostility of the
•Indiana. But there were others of a more extra- <
ordinary nature. “By tbeineon&iderate waste of
the culomes, they were again reduced to such ex*- ’
tremities of famine, as not only .to eat the most
oausebus and unwholesome roots and berries, but
to feed on the bodies of the Indians rchpm they
slew /*-~See vol. 4, p. 190.
Gas. -f iw wunderfill, If inch u indiscretions' ’
?h *uld have aroused the latent sparks of ferocity
.n the most gentle peaceful bosom? To be
- plundered of iheir stores es previsions, and then to
-bn h u ithd by their civdizsd enemies, dike game,
tor tire purpose of feeding Am their carcasses! —
r r<*?sed oq all ssues by war, pestilence and famine,
-tm- simple natives were driven to frenzied mad
• *2-, 5, jmdjirey retorted pn their enemies the inju-
to provoke
still further the hostility of the English.
“ A bloody war (says Robertson, p. 210,) was,
commenced against the Indians, and bent on ex
terminating the whole race* neither old nor young
were spared; and regardless of the piinciples of
faith, honor and humanity, the English deemei
everything allowable, which tended to accomplish
their design. They hunted the Indians like wild’
beasts; and a s the pursuit of them 4o their places
of retreat in the woods, was both difficult and dan
gerous, they endeavored to allure them from tiieir
fastnesses, by offers of peace and oblivion, and in
duced many of them to return to their peaceful
avocations. The Indians confided in tho recon
ciliation, and lived in absolute security, without
suspicion of danger. Bat the English, on the ap- >
proach of harvest, when they knew an -hostile at
tack would be most formidable and falal, fell sud
denly upon all the Indian plantations, murdered
ewery person upon whom they could lay hold, and
drove the rest to the woods, where so many pe
rished wiith hunger, that some of the tribes near
, est to the English were totally extirpated.”
After a few such examples as this, of the vir
tues of civilizaiion, it is not surprising that the
ndians should be content to be styled Barbarians.
TOMOCHICBL
From the Augusta Chronicle , Sept. 26. 1829.
FIRE !—This destructive element has again
laid waste another large and valuable part or our
unfortunate and seemingly devoted City. A boat
3 o’clock, on Thursday morning last the alarm
was given, and tiie fire, as is generally supposed,
originated iu the upper story of the house adjoin
ing the western wing of the City Hotel. At first
the flames proceeded but slowly, in consequence
of the calmness of the morning—but as soon as
they reaehed the main body of the Hotel, the at
mosphere became agitated, and the fire rushed
with uncontrolable rapidity, until every building
on Broad Street, from Mr. Alexandr Spencer’s
corner inclusive, to Messrs. Hall <fc Hardin’s Al
ley and on Washington street, from the corner of
Broad and Washington streets, as far as the
Dwelling house of Mr. Win. Micou, was laid in.-i
ashes.
The amount of property destroyed must, we’
think, exceed SIOO,OHO. The Offices, it is un
derstood, will bo the principal losers, as we are
informed that insurance was effected in almost
every, if not in every instance.
The following is a statement of the number of
front buildings destroyed, accompanied by the
names of the owners and occupants :
BROAD STREET.
No. .151, owned and occupied by Har
den, whole salp grocers. •- • -r
151 2, occupied by Mr. Hood, tailor, and owned
by -Hall & Hardin” *
• • dtoned and occupied-by Rail & HarcHiO
dry goods merchants. -- ‘ * i
155, owned hy E. Lary, and occupied Moses’:
Rojff’as. a Shoe store.
157, owned by P. Lary, and occupied by W
A Mitchell, grocer.
159, owned by P. Lary. and occupied by C.
smith. . *
161, owned by P. Lary’, leased by J. Jewort &,
Cq. and occupied by J. Leverich, druggist.
163, (lower wing City Hotel) owned by G. It.
Rountree, and occupied by Wrn. Robinson, as a
cornpting room.
165, City Hotel owned by G. R. Rountree, and
occupied by Warren & McGar.
167, (upper wing Cily Hotel) owned by G. R
-Rountree, and occupied by E. W Couch, grocer >
169, owned by Mrs. L. L Woolfolk, and occu
pied by Dr Robertson.
171, ownod by Mrs. L. L. Woolfolk, and occu
pied by J. Guimarin, watch maker.
r* 7 ?/, r ? and ! T S ( < J ouble tenements) owned by John
Woolfolk, the former occupied by J Airey,and
tire latter by M. W. Warren, bah <frv W>d ß
stores. . i
177, owned by tho heirs of Mrs. Egaa, and oc
cupied by James Bones, crockery ware merchant.
179, owned by A. Spencer, vacant.
owned by A. Spencer, and occupied by
Wen. Bones, Cos hard ware merchant*.
WASHINGTON STREET.
2 out stores, owned by A. Spencer and occupi
ed hy Wm. Bones & Cos
2 one story .dwelling house, one owned by A.
Spexcer and occupied by Mrs. Titus, and the
other owned and occupied by Jack Smith; and a
large and commodious two story dwelling house,
owned and occupied by Wm. Micou.
HALL & HARDIN’S ALLEY.
Ad welling house, owned by Hall Harden and
occupied by John Rees.
Commorfere Porter. -—Letters were re*<
ccjved in town yesterday from - Doctor
Boardman, who is the surgeon, friend, ancj
companion of Com. Porter, in Mexico, and
no mention is made of his (C nni, P orierV)
arrest— *ns was stated in the accounts rtf’
ceived yesterday from. Vkra Crust
are residing in the family of Air. Poinsett.*
the American Minister, and their detention
results from the embarrassments. in re
sources of the government, which they have
every reason to expect will be speedily re
moved.—N. Y. Eve. Post.
About 12 o’clock last nighs, a
resident in Second above Atch street, be
lieved to he partially deranged, left his
chamber unperceived, mounted on the roof
and made bis way along the tops of tha
neighbouring houses until he reached Arch
street. He then turned the corner, and
proceeded down Arch street in the same
manner, for a considerable distance; when
arriving at an alley which he found impos
sible to pass, he slid down the roof till his
feet rested in the trough attached to the
oves. In this position he was discovered
by some members of his family, who had
missed him, and had commenced a search
w ith the assistance of several friends. It
was not safe <0 venture oat on the roof,
which was yet, very slippery inconsequence
of the tain. Two ladders were procured,
and spliced together, by the aid of which
ihe wanderer was securely brought down.
PAiL Chronicle.
The Tacha of Egypt has now at work
in his capital an extensive printing press,
for which an improved Arabic type has
lately been cut. With this press* all the
etails which tend-to illustrate the system
borrowed by Ali from Europeans, areiree
ly and widely disseminated through his army
and navy. Jn aid of his military views,
works have been printed for the instinct ion
of she troop, their conduct in war, and 1 (or
the regnlation of the infantry. . v A ,work im
praistt of war has also appeared this year
from the same press The Pacha heslike
wi*e ordered the publication of work* on
scientific and commercial subjects. Several
hooks on geometry, astronomy, surgery,
and grammar, have made their appearance
atGairo within the Inst few months. Thf
great work of Malcrizi, illustrative of thr
history and statistics of the country which
he so *bly governs, is the last book which
bis Highness baa ordered.to be printed.
fliat the Tlev. Josiah Brewer,
late a Missionary to Palestine, with his
lady, and Mias Hotchkiss, a highly osteem
ed teacher in New Haven, are a bout to em
bark in October or November for Greece*
ft is their object to establish a school in
some of the Grecian Islands, or at Athens;
they wiJl be assisted and supported mainly
in tliis philanthropic undertaking, by an as
sociation of ladies and gentlemen in. New
Haven. Two Greek youths, members of
the Class in Yale College which has just
been graduated, are already on their way
back to their native land. They have left
behind them a high reputation for learning,
talents and worth.— Connecticut Courant.
Melancholy Accident.—Or\ Monday a
bout 2 o’clock, a man,- who was gunning
near the Point House, was shot by another
gunner, in the neck,-just below the ear.—
He died in a few minutes. The person
who shot the deceased was bis intimate
friend, was in the boat with him, and on
the same party. It is expected that by
some accident the lock of the gun struck
against the thwarts of the boat, and that it
was thus fired off; some however say, that
the owner was elevating the piece to fire
at some birds when by some fatal accident,
it went off, and killed the young man.
We learn that his name was Benjamin
Wythe; that he was 22 years of age ; a re
sident ttf the Northern Liberties ; a comb
i maker by trade, and the only stay of a wi
| dowed mother. His body was brought up
to tho city last afternoon, and a Coronet’s
Inquest held, which brought in a verdict of
“accidental death.’* The young man who
had the misfortune to shoot Mr. Wythe, had
been his fellow apprentice, was much at
tached to him, and is in deep affliction.
Phil. Dem. Press .
Washington, Sept. 22, 1829.
The Now York Courier, received yes
terday, in justification es the removal of
that most respectable gentleman Abraham
Bradley from the General Post-office,
makes the following statement .*
“Mr. Bradley has been in the Post-of.
fine ever since its establishment, and has,
we understand*.amassed a fortune of about
SIOO,OOO while in it. Aside from the sal
-olqry principle of “rotation in offiice,’’ this
is a sufficient reason for bis giving way to
a EueceGsor,” &c.
So far from this .statement being true, it
is known to every one who knows the fam-
By, that, although having ever lived with
the most abstemious frugality, and perform
ed more useful labor than any officer in the
Government, Abraham Bradley is poor.
He has, it is true, a bouse over his head, to
shelter himself & a dependent family, from
the storm of proscription ; but, having no
means of getting bread in his old age, turn
ed adrift by an establishment, which it is
not too much to say he has built up there
is no knowing.how long he will have ashed
to protect him. The Editors of the Cour
ier, we are sure, wiil do justice so far, on
being informed of their error, as to retract
it. Mr Bradley has ever hardly earned a
seamy subsistence l>y services almost inap
preciable to the Government.
As for the Post-office Department, the
Editors of the Courier, and the public gen
erally, will soon have unequivocal evidence,
or we are mistaken, of the improvement
which has been effected by the late revolu
tion in if. We do not deny either talents
or character to Col. Gakpncr , but if his,
watch was our of order, we think lie would
hardly undertake, himself, to repair its del
icate and complex machinery: he would’
carry H to pne who had made such work
the business of his life. Nor do we think
that he will be much more successful in his’
attempts’ to regulate the equally intricate 1
concerns of that, great machine the General
tPost-office. Already, we fear, its wheels
are disordered : for, besides the removal of
jibe Jfjrsf Assistant Postmaster Genera), we
*a*re sorry.to learn that his brother, the Se-
Assistant Postmaster General, is se
riously indisposed ; and (he Postmastei
General himself has not, we understand,
been at his office for .several days.
With regard to the reasons for the remo
val of so useful an officer as Mr. Bhadlby,
to make room for Col. Gardner, we be
lieve we could satisfy tbe Editors of the
Courier that, neither in ihe eulogized tal
ents of the latter, nor in the supposed for
tune or long service of the former, is to be
found the true reason of the change which
has taken place. It is attributable, we ap
prehend, entirely to political considerations,
which are at least as well understood on the
Exchange of New York as they are hero.
Nat. Inteligcnccr -
The Post Office.—ll has been the evi
dent polit y of those now in power to make
-the Post Office Department, as far as prac
ticable, a political engine. For the first
time, under this government, presidential
preferences liaveieen made the test, in se
lecting its innumerable list of subordinates ;
and hundreds of these subordinates have
been ejected from office, for no other cause
than that they had opposed, or not support
ed% the present executive of the United
States. It is easy to foresee the conse
quences of such a state of things. The
fact that private and confidential letters
are beginning to find their way into parti
zan newspapers, without the knowledge or
consent ,of the writer or receiver—is not
calculated to restore public confidence.-!-
Thi9 is a sign of tintm, of pregnant im
port* The public have no\ forgotten that
a partizan print of this city lately honoured
its readers by serving up, for party purpo
ses, what purported to be a letter surrepti
tiously obtained, do Delaware, a few
‘fays ago, a fetter written by Mr J. H.
Harris to Kensey Johns,.Esq. and trans
mitted through the post office, ibund its way
into a parlizan print at -Wilmington;; yet
noth tbe writer aud the receiver affirm that
♦lO third person saw it to their knowlodge.
4 *lt is not obvious, says a writer in the Dti
ware Journal, that this letter has been cop
ied iiiith* post office? 1 ’ Let the people
ponder on these reforms. — Jialt. Pat.
Baltimore, Sept. 21.
From Brazil.— The ship Covicgtong,
Holbrook, at this port yesterday from the
Pacific, and 46 days from Rio do Janeiro,
bring advices fiom the latter port to the 3<i
August. A'letter to the editors of the A
merican, .under date of
4 Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2, s*vs —We are !
selling the Hope’s cargo of Flour, being
very good, at 21|( a 22j| per barrel; Hams,
300 rs per ib ; Wax,6oois per lb ; Gn.,920
rs per gal. being free from colour ; Whis
key will answer Ihe same purpose, provid- j
ep it be strong, free from colour, and in old !
and perfectly seasoned pipe*. The secu
rities of the Ameiican ship Sperme, and
English brig Rob Roy, taken off Fernand
buco in 1824, are now compelled topiy
tbe amount of the bonds the vesels being
declared lawful prizes. 4 ’
The United States ship Vandalia had
sailed tor the Pacific. The frigate Hud
son., Commodore Creighton, was still at
Rio de Janeiro.
Extract of another letter dated
Rio de Janeiro, 2d Aug.—Our last re
spects on the .3d ult. pei brig Hunter, since
when has arrived the brig Hope from B d
timore, 2009 barrels Flour. Sales are ma
king at quotations, but at this nominal high
rate aro very limited, and confined to re
tail ; the stock may he estimated at 2200
barrels. There is no wheat in market; a
cargo of prime quality would readily com
mand sj|Boo alqr.
Dealers are generally well supplied with
Russia Cordage, heavy Duck, salt Beef and
Lumber; and sales are heavy. Salt has
arrived freely for a few days past; the de
mand is decreasing and mare expected. Os
other imports the stocks are light and sale
able at quotations. Os exports the stocks
of Sugar, Hides and Horns are small, and
qualities and inferior. Coffee, of the new
crop, arrives freely at market, but the ex
tensive shipments making keep the market
bare ; the crop will equal that of last year,
and the quality will rule much the
more firmness has been latterly experienc
ed in and extensive negotiations
have been effected. We have no later ad
vices from the Pacific or River la Plata.
Coffee, Ist qualify, 3||4oou 3)j500; Hides,
26*32 lbs 260 a 270 rs v ; do 16*22 lbs 230
240 rs ; Horns, Rio Grande, 16 24||000;
Exchange, London, 60 days, 2626jd per
;!Q0 rs; Doubloons, Spanish, 29j|’29jj500
each ; Dollars, do J 950 rs each.
From Montevideo and Buenos Ayrts
The schooner iMexican, Brotherton,
came up yesterday, in 70 days from Mon
tevideo, bringing advices to the 12 h July. ;
The editors of the American are indebted
to the politeness of commercial friends for
the annexed extracts of letters ?from first
rate sources, containing the latest accounts
as well from that port as from Buonos Ayres. •
“ Montevideo July 3d, 1829
In Buenos Ayres they have at last found
:it convenient to make peace, andvl am hap
py to have it in my power to say that tran
quility and order again bless that city aud
province. My advices from that place are
to the Ist inst. and from these it would ap
pear that the restoration of order had not
given that impulse to trade which sanguine
merchants had anticipated. They quote
few alterations in the prices of imports for
the better, and no decline whatever in the
productions of the country. Hides contin
ued at from S2O a $22 ; Doubloons S7O;
Exchange ou England 10£d. Flour was
not abundant, nominal $75 ; 20 in. domes* i
tics, 4a 4 1-2 rls There was no large
supply of dry goods of any country, yet the
demand was still less. Ehina silks, as in
this place, were unsaleable,; they quote
Wine and Spirits at nominal high prices,
and in short they say there was no (or very
little) business doing at all. They may
thank their government, (if so it is worthy
of being termed) their rotten bank, and still
more rotten paper.
We are all quiet here for the prpsent.—■
The last sale of Flour was al $22 but for
the Tuscaloosa’s cargo, of 2700 barrels, no
more than sl3 has been offered, and for 500
barrels sls. For 30 inch domestics of
good quality, 8 12 cents nett and good mo
ney. Soap was sold yesterday at $2, this
currency ; Rice 13 rls per ar. At foot you
have annexed a ante of sales of goods at
auction, and which have paid a duty af 62
1 2 per cent on the market prices. Cata
lonia Wine is today worths6o; Brazil aud
Havana Kum SBO, Holland proof; Hava
na Sugar aaay be quoted at 30 rls and is
.scarce and asked for. About 5000 qtls oi
excellent jerked Beef were sold last week
at from $4 a $5 per q I; it pays no duty.;
Hides are scarce, 54 a 57 rls, and Horse
Hides are still more so, 11 a 13 rls; we
have no Horns nor Horse Hair in the mar
ket ; Doubloons $22 ; Exchange on Eng
land S4d.
Note of sales at Auction. —loo bbls flour
$22 ; 30 bales shirtings, 20 in at if rls ; 20
bales of 36 in at 1 1-2 rls ; 360 boxes soap
a! sl2 per qtl ; 80 drums codfish at $6 6;
130 M Amer cigars at $3 6 ; 50 doz shoes
at $24 doz; 5 bales blue stripes at X 1-2
rls ; 100 pr boots at $5; 20 kegs negro
heed tobacco at 1 1-2 rls per lb; £0 bbls
navy bread at $8 per bb!; 50 qtls cordage
Amsls4; 60 boxes sperm candles 3 1-4
ris per lb ;35 tea rice 12 rls arro; IO tes
linseed oil at,6 rls per gal ;30 bbls pitch,
tar and rosin at $4; 1000 feet oara at 3-8
per-foot; spirits turpentine.s rls per gak’*
Extract of another letter dated
xMonteyideo, sth July.
I have this moment received fromj&ueno*
Ayres letters to the 3d .inst —they quote
Flour at $77 ; Doubloons were up again
to $76 ; Hides $24 ; Nutrias $0 ; Exchange
on Erigland lOd.”
Extract” of another letter dated
“ July 41th.
My lettersfrom Buenos Ayres are down
to the 9th. Flour had declined a little,
but it was thought that both the Two Marys
ami the fu.tcc ‘oosa’s cargoes would be.pla--’
ced et or over S7O. A pari of the latter
had been Jold on barter, and J have no
doubt th it both cargoes are sold .ere this
Jlides are up to $25 per pesada of 25 lbs.
“* ‘l w
mf9 4 per d< 2>?n Thov r. •V;J|
After lire r.,reg o j„ g | etfers
ihe editors of the A’.i-rirnn „
*;>red by cspt.,i„ ll, o ,|,J re
1.1 Universal of Montevideo t„ ,l
•July inclusive. I, cootai h
cumenu rclaiive to thet,..*,; W J
rilities between the contend;," f hI J
Buenos Ayres,which w, h some*,,,?.’ *'* ’■
hastily extracted, are subjoined
GOVERNMENT BULLETIN I
Buenos AvRES,2SihJ„„ P ’ - 1
. T ' ,b w;,r concluded ||
the Provisional Governor bavin, V ‘ C 1
returned io the capital, has de, n J S'tl
sume the government < f ih P p lf , . “ ,0 r
Prid iy, 26th instant, next appro*!!?* * ru, J
consequence of which the rich * To*'’ 1
nor has ordered and decreed, *
I From the 26. h instant the and. 1
tl.e 4lh of May of the present yetuJT'i
of non effect. * r •‘U H
71. Let this be published,
RODRIGC EZ
Salvador Maria dtl cJig
S'iH Later, and Direct f, m n
Ayres—The fast sailing scl.ooner t"*
Marys, Captain Kennedy, c,n, e , *
day in a few hours after the Mexiuo -
advices are noted above. She la!*
short passage of 45 days from Buenos'*! r *
smd brings intelligence from that c ,v”l
down the sth August. It , p 1 •;
m conformity to the provisions of the tre 1
of peace agreed on by the contending J
ttes (which is given in full above) the 5 , ,
t.ons had been held, and that Gen. LavalU
had been chosen Governor, and undertake
the administration of affairs. This result
had caused much excitement both in and
out of Buenos Ayres, and when capt Keo
nedy sa.led the city was quite in a distuiU
ed state- General Lopez with his troop,
tbe Montoneros, was encamped outside of
the city. The latter were sq jn I]c h dissa
tisned with the election af Lavalle, that an
attack upon the city was seriously appre
hended. This information the editurs ts
the American derive verbally from captain
Kennedy. *
A letter dated 3 J August states upwards
of 5000 bbis Flour had been received sinca
June. Flour was selling at |7g
per bbl paper money ; Domestics 9 1.3 cl|
specie ; Hides §23 a 24 per pesadu.
From tho New York Evening Post.
The following report of the prosecution
of the keeper of an intelligence office ii|
; this city is from the Journal of Commerce.
We give it a place in our columns that it
may put on their guard young men frimi
the country who have come hither in search
of occupations, aud also, that it may serve
as an admonition to those who would take
advantage of heir situation to extort mo
ney from them. Tile cruelty of the irnpc*
sit ion does not, however, by any mean!
consist wholly in defrauding them of thei;
money ; the anxieties of suspense and de
lay, and the disappointment of the hupes
excited constitute a still severer injury.—
The situation of a young man without oc
cupation, needy and friendless, is, of itself,
miserable enough without iiaving its dis
tresses aggravated under colour of lending
it assistance. Such persons afford an easy
opportunity for imposition from their un
acquaintance with mankind, their timidity
and their ignorance of the proper mode of
procuriagredress of their wrongs, and those
who plunder their scanty means and trifle
with their hopes deserve the severest pun
ishment.
We copied on Wednesday a report of a
case in the Court of Sessions, in which it
appeared that a keeper of an intelligence
office in this city, of the name of Palmer,
had made an extraordinary attempt to
screen himself from a legal investigation of
his practices, by procuring the arrestoflbi
witnesses against him.
Jeremiah Schuremaa was put on trial,
charged with having obtaiurd money from
William H. Hall by false pretencos.
William H. Hall testified, that having
seen an advertisement in a newspaper fora
young man to go south, he was induced to *
apply at the office designated in the adver
tisement to make inquiry. Mr. Schure*
man, the defendant, who kept the office,
told him he was employed to get a number
of young men to go south, as overseers cr
superintendents of an indigo plantation, and
that he could make his fortune iu a tbort
time. He paid Mr. S. one dollar, and re*
ceived from him a line to No 25, Leonard
street, which he delivered. Ho then wa*
informed by Or. Seps, to whom he was rqg
ferred, that no young man like him war
wanted, but laboring men, wood choppers*
who could clear op a plantation in Ha>>u
When he returned to Schuremao’s rffi cr i
before he had time to speak, Schuremaa
said, 11 How did you make out —and now
would yon like a Grocery V After he *
told his disappointment, he was referr*
Prince #tret 4 and requested not to p r€|f J
the line, if a young man, who was descry*
ed to him, should happen to be present,
finding the person there he returned , up*
pon which Scbureman asked him ho*
would like a lottery office, saying l " at .
cleric had just informed him oi sucb a s’ 1
ation. He went to the place named *
he was told they only wanted a boy to p c
up chips and run errands. iFeebng himse
imposed oo and defiauded of his mone.i
he expressed his indignation very stroi f •
for which.he was arrested, tried before <■ ll
of the ward Justices, and fined three do *
wirh costs* In his cross examiaa!’ J
‘Mr. MeEwin, counsel for the defen 31 •
•Witness repeated the same story. p
Mr. MoEwin read the affidavit I
Seps. slating that he had requested be
man to procure for him a number oi a
ing, industrious men, to go to
work on a plantation. v ,
Thomas ‘Hale was thea called* ‘
swore that Dr Seps was a rospectftl> |e n
and health officer at Port an Prio^e.
By ihe District Attorney. Did the 1
tor want hard working laboring