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AUGUSTA.
Friday morning, april 7.
Counterfeiter Arrested.
The Tallahassee Floridian of the Ist inst.
says:—A few days since a person by the name
of Greenup Arnold, was arrested in this city,
charged with passing counterfeit money, a con
siderable amount in S2O bills of the Central
Bank of Georgia, were found concealed about
his person. He was. fully emniifinwriff 'land
his trial at the next term of the Supreme Court.
Counterfeit S2O bills on the Central Bank oi
Georgia, dated 7th June, 1840, payable to C. C.
Bryan. A. M. Nesbet, Cashier; J. Fort, Pre
sident; are in circulation. Paper dark, and
may be easily detected.
The Madisonian of Monday evening, says:
—“A most absurd and ridiculous report is go
ing the rounds of the newspapersthatapersonal
conflict took place, at a recent Cabinet meeting,
between Secretaries Spencer and Upshur. We
assure the public that there is not the slightest
foundation for such a report. There was neither
a fight nor even an angry or unpleasant word be.
tween these Secretaries on that or any other oc
casion. The whole story is a naked fabrication.
New Books.
We have received from the Messrs. Harper
No. 6, of “Allisons History of Europe,” Part
4 of “Bbande’s Encyclopedia of Science,
Literature and Art.” and No. 1 of Harper s
“Family Library,” containing the first volume
of Millman’s History of the Jews. Os the two
first, we have heretofore spoken in such terms
as their great merits deserve; but the number of
the “Family Library" before us, is a new fea
ture in the enterprise of the Messis. Harper, in ■
affording a cheap literature to the American .
people, and deserves a more particular notice, i
It is a re-print, in a cheap, though handsome I
style of their valuable collection of works, in (
every department of Literature and Science, by ,
the ablest European and American writers, ;
which have been in the course of publication j
bv them for several years, and have now attain- (
ed 157 volumes of the choicest literature of the ■
day, to be increased to 290 as soon as works of '
sufficient high character can be obtained. Wc 1
refer the reader to the annexed Card of the j
Messrs. Harper, in relation to this valuable <
work, which is for sale at the Bookstores of <
Messrs. Richards and Grenville & Co.
The Family Library, already numbering 157
volumes, to be extended to 200, as works of a
high character can be obtained, will be issued .
entire, one volume weekly, at twenty-five
cents a volume ! just half the price they have ]
been sold at heretolore, and then decidedly the ,
cheapest books in the market. These volumes ,
will be illustrated and embellished with numer- ,
ous engravings, as in the previous editions,
printed cn paper equally good, and bound IB ,
. limey l-’xcrul. covers. {
The publishers feel that it is wholly unnect s- ■
sary to speak particularly of the merits of this
Library, so extensively known, and which has ,
obtained a circulalion’and a degree of public fa- ,
ror unequalled by any similar collection. It >
comprises works in every department of science
and general literature, by the ablest writers, ,
English and American, iti a popular style, and ;
designed for the instruction and entertainment
of all classes in the community.
Melancholy Suicide.—We regret to learn, ,
says the New York Tribune of Saturday, that
Passed Assistant Surgeon Richard W. Lea- >
cock, of the U. S. brig Somers, committed stti- '
cide at 6 o’clock last evening, in the gun-room
of his vessel, lying at the Navy- Yard, by shoot
ing himself through the head, just above the
eye, with a pistol.
Pretty women. —Green, of the Boston Post,
says:—Of all other views a man may in time
grow tired, but in the countenance of a woman
there is a variety which sets weariness at defi
ance. “The divine right of beauty,” says Ju
nius, “is the only divine right a man can ac
knowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant
lie isnot authorized to resist.”
Sudden Death. —The Savannah Republican
of Wednesday says: “We understand news was
received in town last evening, of the death of
Judge Andrews, of the Western Circuit. He
retired to bed on the evening of the Ist instant,
apparently in good health, and was found dead
next morning.”
This is doubtless a mistake of the editors, and
refers probably to the death of Judge Ander
son, of the Cherokee Circuit, who died at Spring
Place, Murray county, after having arrived
there for the purpose ot holding the Superior
Court.
More Miller ism—A gentleman of Balti
more recently wrote to a house in Providence
.on a matter of business. In reply, he received
along letter, stating that the individual to whom
he had written, had, in consequence of a belief
Jn the doctrine of Millerism, deemed it his duty I
do decline anvnew contracts, as under existing !
•circumstances, he felt bound to curtail rather I
Than extend his engagements.
The Sw; . i...i. inu.—i'ears are ent-rtaiueu j
for the safety of die tine p..ckei -hipriw.Merland
which left Liverpool on the 12th Jan. the day
previous to the great gale on the English eoast,
and has not since been heard from.
Later from Hayti.—The N. Y. Express
learns from Capt. Sherman, of the schooner Cor
dovia, arrived from Jaemel, that the inhabitants
of Jacmel, on the sth tilt declared in favor ofthe
in»urgents, and took peaceable possession of all
public property. The insurgents had taken
Aux Cayes and Jeremie, and weremarchingon
Port au Prince.
The New York Herald has letters from
Washington, stating “that, in the beginning of
May, Mr. Daniel Webster will retire from the
State Department, and immediately thereupon,
a new organization will take place in the Cabi
net. Mr. Webster has just signified this inten
tion to the President, and it is probable that he
will either take the mission to London, or that
to Paris, there to superintend a grand movement
of American diplomacy in Europe, having refer
ence to all the internal questions between the
two Continents.”
Touching case or conscience. —A man
lately went to his pastor with something heavy
on his mind; he said he drearier/he bought a
bbl of flour, and upon opening it, it turned out
to be crushed sugar, a much more valuable ar
ticle. While debating with himself whether he
should return it to the grocer, the good man a
woke —and the object of his confession was, to
obtain spiritual advice as to the amount of his
■ID.
The Boston Post told that.
Commerce of New York.—Total foreign
a"rivals in New York during March 1843, It 9
Clearances, 95 foreign, and 245 coastwise Ar
rivals at Boston 305 Clearances 228.
Cheap Literature.
Messrs. Carey & Hart of Philadelphia, have
favorbd us with their republication in a cheap
edition of Howitt’s “Rural and Domestic Life in
Germany," in two volumes, ot which the Lon
don Examiner thus speaks :
“There is a healthy love of nature in these
volumes, a quick manly observation, a sincere
and inquiring spirit, what we call an English
feeling lor old and homely associations, much
that pleases by its hearty good sense, and noth
ing that teases by its alarming profundity.”
From Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, we
have received Murray's, “Encyclcpe.Ua of G -
ography," part 2, a most valuable work, com.
bining as it does, whatever is interesting pei
taining to Geography. The works are for sale
by Messrs. C. E. Grenville &c.
War Steamer Union.
We find in lire Madisonian the following in
teresting notice of the new war steamer Union,
which is propelled by Lieut. Hunter’s submer
ged paddle wheel:
The arrival of the steam ship Missouri at the
Navy Yard, where the Union also lies, affords
a fine opportunity to those who have taste or
curiosity in such matters, to contrast the models,
modes of rigging, propelling, and fitting up of
these two very dinerent specimens of the war
steamer—-that'tremendous instrument of des
truction which is destined to revolutionize the
whole art of naval war, and to become of incal
culable importance to
-t-ix .mu iTrjnt ■. m.-rerf? defonce 61 its -xtended
coast.
The Union was built at the Navy Yard in
this city during the last season, upon a plan and
model entirely new, with the design to test, up
on a large scale, the usefulness of Lieut. Hun
ter’s submerged paddle wheel, which had been
successfully applied to a boat of small dimen
sions constructed for the experiment al his own
expense. The last trip of the Union from Nor
folk to this city, at an average speed of ten miles
the hour, having, in the opinion of the Naval
Constructor, who was on board, triumphantly
established the importance of Mr. Hunter's in
vention, we now purpose to state some ot the
advantages which its application exhibits in her
construction.
The Union is of 1080 tons burthen; 185 feet
in length with 30 feet breadth of beam on deck,
and 26 feet at the water line. She has no wheel
houses or any other visible fixtures ot a steamer
except the chimney; is propelled by means of
paddle-wheels acting horizontally a few feet a
bove her keel. These wheels are much smaller
than those made to act vertically upon the com
mon plan, and are let into the sides of the vessel,
so that, when revolving, each paddle or propeller
upon the circumference of the wheel extends—
at itsgreatest distance-only fourteen inches from
the side. The large portion of each wheel,
which revolves within the vessel, is enclosed
and covered by a box or case planked and caulk
ed so as to be entirely water tight. It was sup
posed by many that the large body of dead icatcr
in which these wheels must work—the boxes
being of course filled with water when the wheels
are ai rest —would prove an insuperable obstacle
to the success of the plan; but it is found, in
practice, that the rapid rotary motion given to
the propellers, tends to keep these boxes free
from dead water, as soon as the vessel gathers
headway. The propellers, requiring less pow
er than the vertical paddle wheel, are driven by
a compact high-pressure engine, placed as near
as possible to the keel of the vessel, and occupy
ing so little space that no part of it, or of’ its
boilers, t ises above the water line—being thus
entirely protected from the shot of an enemy.
The small space required for the whole propel
ling power, by this plan enables the construction
to diminish the breadth of beam, as compared
with the length of the vessel in an unusual pro
portion—as will le seen by comparingthe great
est breadth of the Union with her length—and to
dispense with the cumbrous wheel-houses and
other excrescences which destroy, in the common
model, the symmetry of the steam ship, and de
prive her if all the claims to beauty of form.
The Union sits low in the water, and when
seen broadside to, with her great length, her nar
row round stern and graceful stair, her three
light taper masts—schooner rigged—and that
genera! snake-like, rakish, appearance, which
associate with the “Baltimore Clipper," presents
the perfect bran ideal ot a “saucy looking craft."
A friend of ours, .who has inspected tier model
and rig with the eye of an amateur, says she
tullv realizes, upon a grand scale, the idea of
“the long low black schooner.”
Stepping on the deck ol the Union, one is
struck with the simplicity and warlike appear
ance of all her appointment. The view of the
Gush deck is; from stem to stern, unbroken by
roundhouses or tophamper of any kind: not even
the common bulwark rises from her sides to pre
sent a dangerous screen between her crew and
the enemy; but, in place of it a light iron rail—
so construe.ed as to be taken down in a few mo
ments when preparing for action—is alone seen
to enclose the deck. 'Her battery consists of 3
Paixhanguns—6B pounders—placed on pivots
amidship— one in each space between the masts,
and one on the quarter deck. The entire rig
ging and cordage, connected with the masts is so
fitted as to be come up with, or be removed from
the sides, in time of action, leaving each gun to
sweep the whole horizon without obstruction;
and as each gun can be pointed either forward
or ail, by presenting the stem or stern to an en
emy the smallest possible mark is exposed to his
fire, while the whole battery can be kept play
ing upon him. The hammocks of the crew,
and other moveable articles usually seen on the
deck of a man-of-war, aie in the Union, stowed
in appropriate places below, where the arrange
ments for the comfort of the crew, the economi
cal storage of the provisions, fuel, &c., seem ad
mirably adapted to the ends designed.
OI the efficiency of this vessel," we think none
can doubt, alter inspecting her and listening to
the explanations of the intelligent and courteous
officers in charge ot her; and when it is consid
ered that her entire cost, with armament on board
and fit for service does, not exceed #120,000 —
which, we understand, is about the sum paid for
the boilers of the Missouri—an adequate idea
may be formed of the importance to the nation
of this experiment, as connected with the defence
of our coast and with our naval strength gener
ally.
it should fee remembered, in connection with
this subject, that by the recent introduction of
explosive shot, the relative force of fleets and
single ships, as formerly calculated, has been
very much changed.—One welldirectedPaixhan
shot would cripple any steamer of ordinary con
struction more than a broadside from an old fash
ioned battery. It is clear, then, that future con
flicts must be decided rather by- precision ofairn
and presenting the least possible surface to the
shot of the enemy, than by number of guns and
weight of metal.
Mr. Calhoun, in his late speech on the Ore
gon Bill, related the following interesting facts:
“In the petiodof thirty-two yeats, which have
elapsed since I took my seal in the other house,
the Indian frontier has receded a thousand miles
to the west. At that time, our jiopulation was
much less than half what it is now. It wa-sthen
increasing : t the'ate of about a quarter of a
milli a an. tally ; it is now not less than six
bundle! tnmisi n.i; and still increasing at the
rate of sume uing more than three ; er cent com
pound annually. At tliat rate, it will soon reach
the yearly increase of a million. If to this be
added, that the region west of Arkansas and the
State of Missouri, and south of the Missouri
river, is occupied by half civilized tribes, who
have their lands secured to them by treaty, and
which will prevent the spread of population in
that direction, and that this tide will be forced
to take the comparatively narrow channel to the
north of that river and south of our northern
boundary, some conception may be formed of
the strength with which the current will run in
that direction, and how soon it will reach the
eastern gorges ofthe Rocky Mountains. I say
some conception, for 1 feel assured that the re
ality will outrun the anticipation. In illustra
tion, 1 will repeat what I stated when I first ad
dressed the Senate on this subject. As wise
and experienced as was President Monroe—as
much as he had witnessed of the growth ot our
country in his lime, so inadequate was his con
ception of its rapidity, that near the close of Iris
administration, in the year 1.824, he proposed to
colonize the Indians of New York, and those
north ofthe Ohio river and east of the Mississ
ippi, in what is now called the Wisconsin Ter
ritory, under the impression that it was a por
tion of our territory so remote that they wou'd
not be distorted by our increasing population
for a long time to come. It is but eighteen
years since, and already, in that short period it
is a great and flourismug territory, ready to
knock at our door for admission as one of the
sovereign members ol the Union. But what is
still more striking—what is really wonderful
and almost miraculous, is that anothei territory
(Iowa) still further west, beyond the Mississip
pi, has sprung up, as it by magic, and has al
ready- outstripped Wisconsin, and may knock
for entrance before she is prepared to do so I
Such is the wonderful growth of a population
which has attained the number ours has, and is
still yearly ineteasing at the compound rate il
is; and such the impetus with which it is forc
ing its way resistlessly westward. It will soon,
far sooner" than is anticipated, reach the Rocky
Mountains, and be ready to pour in the Oregon
Territory.
’ey- The packet ship Cambridge at N. York
from Liverpool, brought $140,1)01) in specie.—
She exchanged signals with the Great Western
on the 21st ult.
-SATURDAY MORNIMG, APRIL 8.
Bank of St. Mary’s.
We find the following notice in the Columbus
Enquirer of the sth instant :--
“We are officially informed, that the removal
of the BANK OF ST. MARY’S to this place
has been completed, and the bills which are pay
able on the face at st. Mary’s, will hereafter be
redeemed here in coin.”
Dublin University Magazine.
From the American publisher, Mr. Mason,
we have received the March number of this
popular Magazine, which opens with one of
those racy sketches from the pen of the accom
plished Editor, “The Loiterings of Arthur O'-
Leary,” which promises to be quite as rich in
incident as any of his firmer productions.— W e
notice, also, an article of considerable ability,
(not untnixed with severity upon the prophet,
and other religious denominations in this coun
try,) upon Mormonism or New Mahomedan
ism in England and America ;—and a rather
caustic ctitie upon “O'Connell's Ireland.”—
There are several other articles, to which, we
have not had leisure to devote any attention.
Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Milledgeville, April 4, 1843.
Th the Editor yf the Chronicle <p Senti tel:
I enclose you the list o. the names of the
i.i d- Chffr-kee
loltery ot 1839, who have not taken out lheir
grants, and who reside in Richmond county.
DRAAYERS OF COLD LOTS IN LOTTERY OF 1832,
WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN OUT THEIR GRANTS.
Edmund H Borum, Thomas G Casey,
Win and E Miller, J W E Reid,
Sarah Rhodes, Barna McKinnie,
Charlotte Bugg, Philip McCann,
Nancy Barrett, James Reason,
Wm Bryson, Pannel’s orphans,
Lewis Palmer, Major Daniel,
Thus 15 Danforth, Sqsaii Owens,
Walter Veitch, EHiot B Loyless,
Nelson Baird, Archibald Boggs,
Wm Mixon, Aug A Dill,
Mai ia Smith, Anderson’s orphans,
Wm Thompson, Benj Ansley,
Robert Clark, James D Haney,
Charity Maharry, John Guimarin,
Laurence Hoy, Wm F Pemberton,
James Longstreet, Ellen L Nesbitt,
David L Curtis, Benj F Dill,
Rev Allen Freeman, Livina James,
John Creeswell, Wm Robison,
James Mitchell, Dr C A Watkins,
Oswald E Cashin, Mary Hatcher,
Samuel CressYypJ), James L Coleman,
Elizabeth Tant, Wstrips’ orphans
Wm H Grimes, Thos P Grimes,
John Holmes, John J McGuire,
James W Welbem, David Galphin,
Jonathan Meigs. Andrew Stewart,
James Parnell, James D Rivers,
James Wells, Sarah Clarke,
•Samuel H Peck, Elisha S Hunter,
Mary Ann Kelly, Patrick H Smead,
Joseph Rivers, Elizabeth Marrah,
Benj tyye’s orphans, Rhodes’ orphans,
-Herbert Stallings, Thos Cormiek,
Jonathan Palmer, Otb° Weaver,
George Ixitt, jfosp Heary,
John Mitchell, Isaac T Walsh,
Benj Granger, Jesse A. Thos Heekle,
Elizabeth Patterson, Emelius J Bignon,
Mfliy E H Lark, Sazar Refo,
Cornelia Maharry, James Holten,
Wm Kibbe, ' Lyon’s orphans,
James P Stuart, Edw A Eve,
John Skinner, jr. Ann Beall,
John Pardee, Wm Shannon,
John B Guetirou, Geo Anderson,
Joseph Miranda, John Shaw,
James L Gardner, Andrew Fetv,
Bvrd’s orphans, Wm Allen,
Thos S Higginbotham, V P Anderson,
Elizabeth C Whit'-, John W Heard,
Martha Martin. Felix J McKinnie,
Ann Everick, John Guimarin,
Nally's orphans, Thos Beall, jr.
Emanuel Johnson, Aaron Aldridge,
WmP Beers, Judah Kennedy,
John C Snead, Wm Doyle,
James E Cashin, Isaac Hendricks,
Joseph Bignon, Jones’ orphans,
Raspberry Brovi-n, 1 8 Buers,
Mahalah Bird. Robert R Retd,
Paul F Eve, John A Walker,
Susan Miller, Hezekiah Williams,
Mary Ctimba, Al.ert W Jones,
Chris C Everett, George Barton,
David Vincent, Rachel McCullough,
Richard Briun, Joshua Danforth,
Cooper Gafobs, )Vm A Qampfield,
Vincendiere Dugas, John D ClaiK,
Ann A Moon, Clarke’s orphans,
Elizabeth Cannon, Wm J Whitlock,
Rev Jos L Moultrie, Ebenezer Siarnes,
Shannon’s orphans, Nicholas Delaigle,
Farard McLaughlin, Joel C Turman,
John Stuckie, James P Stuart,
Michael Clarke, Phineas Butler,
Barna McKinnie, Wiley Hargrove,
Sarah Gordon, R N R Bardwell,
Reynold’s orphans, Walker’s orphans,
Isaac Hendricks, Phereby Brown,
Albert O Parmelee, Warrington Haney,
Campfield's orphans, David Mealing,
John W Heard, Lewis McCormick,
Robert Lyon, George Boulineau,
Elijah Brewer, Martha A Coombs,
Agnes Buckum, Thos J Jennings,
David Reid, John B Rqwson,
Keith’s Qrphaas, Pqlly Jones,
Anna M Carter, John S Lott,
Robert Thomas, Wm W Lawrence,
Wm Gibbs, Isaac S Tuttle,
Abigail Stoy, Samuel McCullough,
Dr John Carter, Matthew Nelson,
Samuel K Talmage, James Armstrong,
Thad J Stoy, Daniel Ramsey,
John Morrison, Joseph Carrie,
Henry Lyons, • Wm J Bunce,
Tabitha Neighbours, Michael Fleek,
Thos S Metcalf, Robert J Greenwood,
James P Gardner, Savage's orphans,
Bartholomew Kevins, Henry Mills,
John Collins, Wm M D’Antignac,
Abigail Gregory, Ab Huggins,
Fred J Redfield, Jacob Pool,
U B Clarke, Washington Lawson,
Wm C Dillon, Lucy Meril,
John Ward, Jacob Inglett.
Joseph Carrie,
DRAWERS IN THE LAND LOTTERY OF 1832, WHO
RESIDE IN RICHMOND COUNTY, AND HAVE NOT
CRANTED THEIR LANDS.
Jas Bell's orphans, A Campfield’s orphans,
Dr John Carter, John R Gagahan,
Henry Bird, sr. N Ware’s orphans,
P A F Carrie, R A Hutchinson,
Elk C West, J Hutchins’ orphans,
Churchill’s orphans. Archibald Boggs,
John Mcßrvde, jr. J H Blalock’s orphans,
Solomon Walker, Hezekiah Bailey,
Amos Bullard, Reynold's orphans,
Roden Tant, Mary Ann Holten,
J Bateman's orphans, James Goodman,
Thornes Jerrnan, ' John W Heard,
Ander o", haps ( Wm Brysop,
Jno M J.-me; , (lunatic) Shannon’s orphans,
George W clarke, A G Pannqiee.
Wm Stringfellow, James L Coleman,
Robert Sanderlin, L Florence’s orphans,
Eli Morgan, John Finn,
Winchen Worrell, Sol R Vickers,
John J Cohen, Archibald J Smith,
Jones’ orphans, Zinn’s orphans,
Sarah Coleman, Nathaniel Beall, sr.
Win P Merriman, Nancy Hatcher,
Wm Mitchell, Mary Tavlor,
Harriet H Hannon, Dr John Carter,
Jos Ware, Jeremiah Smith,
Wm Housley, jr. Elisha T Hunter,
Adam Hutchins.ci, Patrick Rooney,
Dicy Washington, Judah Kennedy,
Bennett Craflcn, Charity Hand,
Porter’s orphans, D Clarke's orphans,
Wm J Howard, Robert S Dill,
Allen C Ramsev, Anthony Ladaveze,
R H Ramsey, ' Eliphalet S Barber,
E Knight’s orphans, Garev F Parish,
Wm H Dill, David S Boutet,
George Gorton, Eliza Lyons,
B Dye’s orphans, John Phelan.
It is highly important for drawers to see to
the granting of their lands. After tlie fit st of
July next, all ungranted lands revert to tlie State.
I will remain in Milledgeville until the time
for granting expires, and will be happy to at
tend to giving all necessary information about
lands.
The above individuals are drawers of lots in
as healthy, productive, and rapidly improving a
section as any in the South. The Cherokee
country is proverbial for its fine lands, salubri
ous climate, and healthy, prosperous, polite and
enterprising inhabitants.
Grants and commissions for land lots, five
dollars, specie fuiuls. For gold lots, three dollars.
The above charges include all expenses.
All letters must be post paid
Fee tor examining and giving information
about k>» of land, cm dollar.
WM. a PRITCHARD.
Seduction. —Heavy Damages.—The She
rifl’s Jury in the case ol Ross vs Delandorf, for
seduction of plaintiffs daughter, have assessed
the damages at ten thousand dollars, being the
full amount laid in the declaration.—A’.
Jour. Com
AUGUSTA, GA. THURSDAY MpRNING, APRIL 13, U 13.
Extract of a letter, dated
Milledgeville, Aptil 5, 1843.
“You have doubtless heard of the death of
Judge Anderson, of the Cherokee Circuit. John
A. Jones, Esq., brother to Seaborn, and com
monly known as Jack Jones, has been appoint
ed by the Govetnur, as the successor of Ander
son. He was the Senator from Paulding, in
1840. Politics here are in statu yvo. Hon.
John P. King, of your city, and Gen. J. W. A.
Sanford, the present Secretary of State, are the
most probable expectants of the next Guberna
torial chair, on the Democratic side. I have
heard the name of your neighbor, Dr. McWhor
ter, likewise often spoken of, but he is as yet
un-newspaj ered.
Planters are much alarmed at the dreary pros
pect for crops. Cattle and other stock arc dy
ing off in large numbers.
Ths old Standard, of Union printing office,
owned by P. L. Robinson, was sold by the
sheriff ot Baldwin county, on the 3d inst., for
one hundred and fifty dollars.
Aotuer Steamer sunk.—The Mobile Adver
tiser of the 3d says:—lntelligence has been re
ceived in town on Saturday, which has been con
firmed that the steamboats Gainesville and Nor
folk, both on their upward passage, same in col
lision at Short Bend, above Twenty-Seven Mile
Site went down, we learn with such rapidity that
the passengers were unable to save their baggage.
There is no insurance upon the boat. The pas
sengers returned to the citj’ on the steamer Ala
bama.
Specie.—The ship Gaston arrived al New
Orleans on the 30th ult., from New York, with
#239,454,06 in specie; the ship Sidney, from
Liverpool, with2s,ooosovereigns, and the Ly
ons, from Havre, with $2,000 in gold.
From the Baltimore Ameniaaa.
The Veto Power.
Is the question relative to the veto power one
of principle or of expediency ? Is there any
thing in the existence of that power repugnant
to the genius ol our institutions, or is it in har
mony therewith!
“Had there been no power to veto,” said Mr.
Clay, at Memphis, “there would have been no
prevention of the charter of a National Bank
no removal of the Deposites—no treasury cir
cular—no multiplication of State Banks--no
inflatit nos paper currency—no stimulating of
exeessiye eplerprizes and mad speculations—no
consequent explosion, collapse and the univer
sal ruin which overspreads our noble land.”
This is a forcible representation ot a series of
national evils starting from one definite point.
But the question still remains—did these evils
result from the injudicious use ot a power in it
self proper, or is there something in the nature
of the Veto itself, which, by its inevitable ten
dencies, must work disorder in our system of
government!
It is obvious that all parts ot an organization
should be in keeping; there should be an unity
of idea and a symmetry of construction through-
Qtjt. In suejj a Government as ours, but one
source qf pqwer is recoguizsd; and all tljat re
mains to be considered is that the structure of
the system should be adapted to the prompt and
free action of this sovereign principle. There
is one agency tor the exercise of Legislative
pgw?r; one for the Judicial; the sphere of each
is well defined.—There js also an Executive
function. All are subordinate to the C'opstitu
tion, and ail are designed to carry out the delib
erate will and matured judgment of the people
wilhin the limits defined by the Cop-titutiofi,
It is in the nature of the Judicial power, as
the interpreter of the Constitution and'the laws,
to hold such a supervision over legislation as to
keep it w ithin the Constitution. It has nothing
iodo with the policy or impolicy of laws; it
does not therefore infringe upon anyjiowerof
the Legislature; lor where it sets aside a law as
unconstitutional it does not do so by the inter
position ot its own will, but by introducing the
Constitution itself, to which all powers of the
Government arc subordinate. There is then no
fojljsjon between the Legislative and the Judi
cial authorities lb rn.tr sy.-.; ; mi.
It is th« distinctive function of the Executive
to enforce the laws enacted by the supreme Leg
islative power. What is there in the nature of
the Executive to give it a controlling power ov
er legislation? What is thereto give it any
power at all over legislation ! Is it in conson
ance ivitli duty to see t||at lie ugcon
stittitiohai laws be enaetM ? The'Judiciary is
the legitimate inteipreter of the Constitution,
and has it in charge to annul unconstitutional
laws. But the Veto power goes much farther
than this. The Executive may set aside the
laws of Congress without needing to allege un
constitutionality even as a pretext; nay, the
privilege is ot so arbitrary a kind that in efiect
it is equivalent to an absolute power without
the necessity of adducing any reasons. The for
mality of giving reasonsis indeed required—
but they may be as flimsy as inconsistency it
self. The veto, too, may be reversed by a ma
jority of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress
—Uit this is a provision ot little practical use.
Hs there cannot be two distinct sources of so
vereign [lower in a Government, so neither can
there be two several organs of sovereignty in
any one sphere. But in our system there are
two separate exponents oflegislative supremacy
—Congress, and the Executive—and they are so
constituted that on any occasion of difference
the predominance belongs to the Executive.—
This is pjainly an anomaly.
Between tfie veto power jp oqr Goyerptnent
and the same power m the British Constitution,
from which the feature was introduced into our
own, there is no real analogy whatever. Sove
reignty once belonged la the English King in
fact as well as in name. The veto power was
then a useful instrument to control the Parlia
ment. But now the Parliament possesses the
sovereignty. Yet in the theory of the British
Constitution, the monarch is still the supreme
lord to whom allegiance is due; be can do no
wrong; sovereignty runs in his name. Among
the other forms and fictions pertaining to the re
gal state in England, the veto power is one—a
power which the monarch holds nominally be
cause there was never any need of taking it
away by any formal act, its real force and spirit
being gone. It would be ridiculous in a British
King to use the Veto on any important meas
ure ; it is not expected that it .should be used;
the sovereignly ol Parliament, exhibited in put
ting one King to death, in exiling another, and
in calling a stranger to the thione, would smile
contemptuously at any such impotent aflecta
tionof power,
But in ths United Statps |ke veto power is a
reality, and a very serious one. The President,
elected by the people, exercises the Veto as the
representative of the People; Congress, elected
by the People, enacts laws in a like representa
tive capacity. Here then are two rival ex; ori
ents q| s<) .'ereignty in one sphere. The Execu
tive has r.ot only lite power of discomfiting the
Jesislativc bodj, but, by bringing into play all
the force of his position, as the leader of a par
ty and ths dispenser of patronage, he may draw
over the majority of the people to sanction his
course. The advantages in any struggle for le
gislative supremacy between Congress and the
Executive, are manifestly in favor of the latter,
and against the body distinctively recognised as
the depository of legislative functions under the
Constitution.
Why should the President have the power to
veto an act ot Congress any more than he should
possess the right to reverse a decision of the Su
preme Court? What is there in the nature of
Executive duties that should render it proper for
him to interfere in legislative proceedings ! The
function of executing the laws is quite distinct
from that of creating them.
It it were designed to make the Executive the
superior department ofthe Government, then it
would be quite right that the veto power should
belong to the Executive chief. Its effectual ex
ercise implies sovereignty. The power to for
bid what is displeasing to Executive pleasure
is in fact the power to decree that which is in
accordance with the Executive will. To say
what shall not bo done is equivalent to saying
that nothing shall be done save what the dicta
tor ptecribes. The progress of Executive usur
fiation in the United States has already given il
ustrations of the real nature and tendencies of
the veto power. Nor is it easy to discover what
limits can be set to this encroaching progress.
Gen. Jackson claimed it as his right to interpret
the Constitution and the laws for himself, anc to
enforce them as he understood them. There
was no power to say hi m nay. Possessed of en
tire control over legislative actizm, there was
nothing to protect the Judiciary from invasion.
And in truth it must be admitted that there is no
more incompatibility in the claim of an Execu
tive chief to expsund the meaning of a law than
m the power to control legislative action by the
veto. Both are entirely foretgtrfrofn the true
nature of the Executive function; but neither
one ot them is more repugnant thereto than the
other. It is for the Executive to enforce the
laws which the Legislature has enacted; it is
for the Judiciary to preserve in its bosom the
living spirit of the Constitution, that it may dif
fuse the same as an active principle, testing all
enactments thereby; and there seems to be no
reason why one department should be authoriz
ed to go out of its sphere to control anoth r
Pennsylvania.—CL'RlbP.4.T)F.VELorEMßNTs.
The Harrisburg which
has been up to this time the jstgan of Governor
Porter, has an editorial art jle which contains
some curious disclosures, ’i'commences with
with a compliment upon and dig
nity of Pennsylvania, and ti w it proceeds to
state that Mr. Tyler has attc&^edto corrupt the
State Government, and addsj
“We proclaim to the Dinijcracy ol Pennsyl
vania that a bargain has info, and
ths [lower and the seductiop V k the general gov
erun.ent with all the hopeg : j>i tears which it
can create, is being used gh - [>iess,
break down the elastic spirit\fthe li.-moeratie
party, and transii-r its | O S j ec [ : ,[
keeping of Capt. Tyler & CjS
The proof of this is in tly Set, that the Key
stone beittg the organ of die jfesent Executive of
the State was plied with CQMMitiic&tions in fa
vor of Mt. Tyler ItiefusetOo publish their;
and, as a consequence, thiififtnds of Mr. Tyler
refused to vote for Us publishes as State Prin
ters. The Keystone then ailtls:
“We have sacrificed tnuckin the honest con
viction that lie were doing JMht iu sustaining
the present state admiiustrjjlpn, and as proof,
that we have sustained it aubnlly and zealous
ly, we need but to refer to. jJ-S columns «f our
paper during the last fouip.&ais. We shall
continue to support that admaiisl ration in all its
democratic ineastues,. but repel all et
■ make the <..'ltimns^BiL'(Xw c tonc teem
"nA f T--' 1 1 p.-h' -
ma,'
glory of John Tyler, have been presented to us
in manuscript, directly from the hands of David
RiTTßNriovsß PoßTsn, which we felt called up
on, by every consideration of duty and of patri
otism, to reject from our columns."
The paper then says, that another communi
cation has been handed to the editor by Governor
Porter himself, though not in hie hand writing,
which is not published. It says that Pennsylva
nia stands pledged to Buchanan, bu if he is rot
in the field, it will go for Tyler, and proceeds to
give the reasons.— Baitiinore
From the Madisonian of the 4llt.
Oriiclal Correspondence.
Department or State,
Washington, March 2, 1843.
Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you the
copy ot a resolve of the Legislature of Maine,
recently addressed to the President by t'ae Exe
cutive of that State, relative to certain proceed
ings of the Government of New Brunswiok, sup
posed to be in contravention of the termsof the
treaty of 9th August last, between the United
Stales and Great Gritain.
Will you do me the favor to communicate to
this Department such infqrmatiop on the sub
ject as you may possess, or may be able hereaf
ter to obtain from the Provincial Government, in
explanation of the proceed ings referred to ’
I avail myself, &c. &c.
DANE WEBSTER.
Henry S. Fox, Esq. &c. &c. &c.
STATE OF MAINE.
llesolv. in relation to bonds or securities that were
lobe surrendered by Great Britain to the Stales
'J Maine and Massachusetts lender the late
Treaty.
Resolved, That the Governor be requested to
inform the President of the United States that the
Ggrrrnment of the Province ofiVeiy Brunswick
are attempting io collect from citizens of this
State and others, bonds belonging to the “dispu
ted territory fund,” socalled which were given
for lumber cut under permits from the States of
Maine and Massachusetts, in contravention of
the treaty of Washington; and request the Pres
ident to remonstrate with the British Mipistep
against said prucepdipg.trid to ijisist op thestipn
latiqn ijfthe ti eaty,whirh provides that any bonds
or securities appertaining thereto (the disputed
territory fund) shall be paid and delivered over
to the Government of the United States; and to
take such measures relating to the matter as to
him may seem fit to cause tlietreaty stipulations
to be eairic.l into ellecl, that die citizens of this
Stale may saved any further aggravation
from the same.
In the House ol Representatives, February
17. 1843. Mead and passed.
DAVID DUNN, Speaker.
<ln Senate, February 17, 18-13. Read and
passed. LDW. KA VA YA H_. Pt.cajießL...-
Februafy 17, !BX;i. appii-ksd.
JOHN FAIRFIELD.
.•true copy. Attest:
Philip C. Johnson, Sect clary of Stale.
Washington, March 4, 1813.
Sir:—l have the honor tq ackaqwfo.lgu the
receipt w" your letter of yesterday’s date, enclo
sing certain resolutions recently "passed by the
Legislature of the State of Maine, with respect
to the management ofthe disputed territory fund.
lam not al present in possession of any in
formation upon the subject to which these reso
lutions refer; but I shall irmaediati-l forward
your communication to the Lieutenant Govern
or of New Brunswick, and will acquaint you
with his Excellency’s reply. 1 shall also trans
mit the correspondence to’ her Majesty’s Gov
ernment tn England.
With regard to the form of the resolutions
■hemsclves, as you make no observation there
upon in your letter, I hope I am justified in be
lieving that you disapprove, equally with my
self, of the unbecoming aril disre jiectfiil lan
guage in which they ate drawn up.
I avail mvself, Bre. &c.
H. S. FOX.
The Hon. Daniel Webster. &c. &c.
Washington, March 31, 1843.
Sir.—With reference to your letter of 3d in
stant, eonveyipg to me certain resolutions pass,
ed by lire Legislature of the State of Maine,
upon the subject of bonds belonging to the dis
puted territory fund, which letter was referred
by me for information to the Lieutenant Govern
or of New Brunswick, I have now to acquaint
you that the Lieutenant Governor informs me
that, so long ago as October last, upon receiv
ing intelligence from Lord Ashburton of the
signature of the Treaty ol Washington, he had
issued orders to the Attorney General, of the
Province to suspend all proceedings upon the
bonds in question. The Attorney General re
ports officially that the above orders have been
duly obeyed. Ilappears, therefore,that the res
olutions of the Maine Legislature cannot have
been grounded upon an accurate statement of
facts. I avail tnyselfof thisveeasion to renew
to you the assurances of my distinguished con
sideration. ' H. S. FOX.
The Hon. Daniel Webster, Ac. &e.
tSmall Pox in Columbus*
The Enquirerol thesth inst.says:—Wehave
been requested to give place to the following
letter from the City Physician, in relation to the
Small Pox. We trust this report will banish
al! far from the minds of our country friends)
that there is the least danger to be apprehended
■ from l vi it to our city, for business purposes—
j and take l >< opportunity lb again assme them
tliat we v. :'.i not fail to give them timely warn
ing, whenever auy good cause exists for alarm;
Columbus, April 4th, 1843.
Hon. J. I. Moses,Mayor—
Sir: Since my report of last week, one other
case of Small-pox has occurred in the person of
a small boy, the grandson ofthe Superintendent
ot the Hospital. This and the negro alluded to
in my communication of last week, are the onlv
cases in the city—and both aye at the Hospital,
which, I repeat, is at least one mile from the
business part ot the town, and far removed from
any road travelled by persons who resort io this
place for business purposes.
I desire also to repeat the assurance to our
country friends, that they may rely implicitly
upon the statements made in m’y weekly report’s
and that should it ever be deemed necessary to
have any concealment upon this subject, I will
cease to be the organ of communication with
the public. Until then, they should give no
credit to the enormously exaggerated and false
reports daily circulated to the great injury ofthe
eitv. " Respectfully,
W. B."CHIPLEY,
City Physician.
Defining Positions. —The Savannah Re
publican says: —We understand several individ
uals in this'eity are defining their positions in
relation to the Presidential campaign. Our
neighbor of the Georgian, announced yesterday,
that he “is no Tyler man.” Can any one in
form us if there is an agent in town authorised
to receive subscriptions to the Alidisotiian ?
The present is an auspicious moment, we should
think, to increase the list of that paper. Those
now holding offices under the General Govern
ment, would no doubt subscribe, as wellas these
who are expecting shortly to receive favors at
the public crib.—But seriously, we do not be
lieve there are at heart three Tyler men in this
city. . We know of but one,' who is couscien
eidusly so, and the last time we conversed with
him, lie was wavering somewhat. He remark
ed, that he must wait future events, as recent de
velopements had staggered him a little.
Municipal Election.—The Columbia South
Carolinian says—On Monday last Wm. M.
Myers was re-elected Intendant of Columbia,
and Messrs. B. Rielly, Henry Lyons W. B.
Stanley, Wm. Cunningham, John'MsCnlh-and
Thomas Wade, WardeMS.
Death oft Bishop Roberts. —We regret to
learn by a <dip from the Cincinnati Western
Christi: n Advocate, that the venerable Bishop
Roberts ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church died
at his residence near Lawrenceport, Indiana, on
the 271 h March.
From Montevideo.—The Baltimore Amer
ican of the sth says:—(.’apt. Baker, of the br g
Lawrence Copeland, arrived yesterday, in 49
days from Montevideo, stales that when he
left that ;ot, the inhabitant-, were throwing up
breast-works around the town, and all the hous
es outside the works sot the distance of half a
mile were taken down, to leave the plain open.
Rosas, the Buenos Ayrean General, with an ar
my of 9000 men, was supposed to lie at the dis
tance of ten or twelve miles front Monteviden
preparing for an attack. No business was do
ing when Capt. Baker left, every otic being en
gaged in preparations lor the expected attack.
The vessels were all lying idle.
Temperance in Ireland.—There are fne
millions lien hundred Uunsfand tee-totallers in that
country.
Ey Ms. Kendall, while a prisoner in Mexi
co, receives! a letter from one of liiscompanions
from whom he had been separated, saying he
was at Santiago, and in chains, but that wearing
“the trinkets was nothing alter a pet son gut used
Coinage.—The Dahlonega Times says:—lt
is a source ofthe highest pleasure we have it in
our power to announce te our readers the steadj’
aad rapid increase of thixcoinago at the Mint at
this place, in these truly hard limes. Below we
give a statement of the amount coiaed at this
Mint, during the first quarter of the present year,
ending on the 31st ult.
No. of Pieces. Value.
32,672, Quarter Eagles $81,680
6,266, Half Do. 26,330
37,938 SIOB,OIO
No. of deposites, 320.
Melancholy Accident.—Two children, etie
a son ot Mr. Thomas Holliday, about six years
old, the other a son of Mr. James R. Elliott, a
bout eight years old, were drowned in attempt
ing to cress Upson’s Creek, in this county, on
Friday morning last. The tody of the last
mentioned has not yet lieen recovered.— WM
ington, (_Gn.) News of the Gth.
Ma. Clay.—The address of the Whig Con
vention of Virginia to the people of tliat state,
abounds in passages of rare elegance and pow
er., The following extract in relation to Mr.
Clay is replete with historical truths, presented
in the most sinking language. The address is
supposed to have been written by that sterling
whig, Benj. Watkins Leigh; a man of whom
any nation might well be ptoud. It is the error
o! the age that abilities like his are permitted to
languish in retirement, whilst the changeling
and the inti igiter occupy stations which they
neither merit nor adorn. '
■ It becomes us to indicate our preference as to
the candidate of the Whig party for the next
Presidency. Ipstructed by our Constituents, as
Weil as in accordance with our own feelings, we
proclaim that
HENRY ( LAY, of Kentucky,
Is the object of that preference, over all other
men—declaring, however, this avowal, we deem
it due ip Qnr brut|ier Whigs, in other Stat-cs,
who may prefer any other individual, il any such
there be, that we are willing to submit bis
claims to the consideration and decision of a
National Convention. We deem it unnecessary
lo sustain the nomination oi this distinguished
Statesman and Patri -t, by an enumeration of
his public services, or by an attempt to vindicate
Ids character from the aspersions ot his enemies.
1 Irese services are inscribed upon every j’ -ge
of iiis country’s Ilistoty—that charactei has
passed through the fiery ordeal ol numerous par
ty contests, without a spot or blemish resting
upon it. His bitterest enemies admit l.issuperi
loity to all selfish considerations; and (hey who
most Joudly condemn his oi.mioDs,zumf‘-ss foe
(n.tepe|ideqce with which they are avowed, and
the ability with which they aie maintained, A
native ot Virginia, whjle' he has always been
loyal to the Union, he has never beep an alien
to the land ol his Qirth, He has no military ex
ploits qf which to boast; but although be'was
never summoned to the field, his wise- councils
gave energy lo the arm that wielded the sword,
and his eloquent voire, like that oi Demosthenes,
when he aroused the Athenians against the
Macedonian invader, often enk indled the droop
ing courage of his countrymen, when imbecil
ity, and cowardice, and treachery had struck our
flag, am! shrouded the nation in gloom. Equal
to any emergency, he has twice, bv his n ise
moderation, thrown himself between' inftti iated
parties, and rescued the Union from impending
dissolution, in 1819, when the question of the
annexion of .Missouri to the Confederacy agita
ted the Halls of Congress, and in 1832, it hen
the friends of our free institutions trembled for
their safety. At each of these critical eras in
the history of our Government, Henry Clay
proved himself equal lo the emergencies that
arose, when feebler minds, or loss patriotic
spirits would have stink despairingly under the
trial, or rashly defied its consequences. At that
proud period of his brilliant career, he illustra
ted the beautiful sentiment, that
“PeMe hall; its victory well as H'..r
A >)>l laid his countrymen under obligations, the
force of which, even partv malignity cannot
wholly destroy, and which tlie highest honor in
their gift cannot more than repay.
JjrThe amount of Treasury Notes outstand
ing on the Ist of April, it is officially stated,
was $11,685,387 44.
jOThroughout the country the season has
been unparalleled in its inclemency. Here, as
every one knows, there are no more symptoms of
returning spring than there was in tiiemiddleot
January; those farmers who had planted theii
crops Lt the usual time have but thrown away
seed and will have to g.i over all the labor again.
The woods which are usually clothed in verdure
are as naked as in midwinter; tire same is the
ease every where. There seems to be no pros-,
peels oi amendment; tlie coldand wet weiitlu-r
still continue-, for every two hours of sunshine
we have ten of “ clouds and darkness.” Some
thing must be out of gear in the tipper regions;
but whether these comets, meteors and dancing
stars w hieh ate observed every clear night, have
any thing to do with the weather, may be doubt
ed, We do not, despair of having warm weath
er about midsummer, and if the Comet ap
proaches ns within 10,000 miles, as a northern
astronomer has predicted it soon will, it may
prove too warm for comfort. llfrs/u'ng/ea (6r«.)
A’ lrs o/V/; ■ 571.
The ttit.i.iim.tiistoau.boat "Enipire'L-th: long
est vessel at|oatr=w(H be ready for operation
between the cities oi New Yot k and Troy, on the
opening ot naviga ion. It is intended that she
shall make the passage both ways during each
twenty-four hours. The Tribune has the
lowing description of this leviathan:
Her length is 330 feet; her breadth of beam 30
feet, and her extreme breadth 63 feet. The depth
of her hold is ten feet, her burlhen 1400 tons, and
she will draw when complete for sailing, only 4
feet 6 inches water. Her engines are [.laced
u[ion each side of the boat, thus leaving an un
broken range of cabins three hundred feet in
length. The ladies saloon on the main deek is
eighty feet in length leaving the remainder full
two hundred and fifty feet. On her promenade
deck she has two tiers of state rooms two hun
dred feet it: length with a hall in the centre thir
teen feet in width. She will be able to accom
modate six hundred passengers wish births.
She will be fitted with two of W. A Lighthall’s
patent horizontal lever beam marine engines ot
forty-eight inch cylindersand twelve feet stroke
of piston, working on five feet cranks, which
with her shafts, likewise made of wrought iron,
weigh thirty-one thousand pounds. The diam
eter of her wheels thirty-one feet, with twelve
and a half feet face of buckets, and twenty-eight
inches dip. She has fbui boilers, each eighteen
feet in length and nine and a hall in width, with
double return flues, arranged in such a manner
as to use one or the whole, as the case may re
quire. The weight ot her'•oilers is one hun
dred and thirty thousand pounds. She has al
so two engines of which the cylinders are four
teen inches in diameter, with fourteen inches
stroke of piston, driving eight blowers, one to
each furnace.
These blowers are constructed so that their
whole force mav be applied to one or more ot
the furnaiies.—The Empire will be •ompfoted at
an expense ol $120,000.
gypOn Saturday week, “?«lilwood Mills,”
near Toronto, Upper Canada, were destroyed
by fire. They were owned by Thomas Fisher,
Esq. The cost of building the Mills was $14,-
000. Eight thousand bushels of wheat were de
stroyed—unfortunately Mr. Fisher had no Insu
rance en the building or stock.
Is, &13
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 10.
gj-Gen. John Armstrong died at his resi
dence, Redhook, Dutches Co., N. Y. on Satur
day the Ist inst., aged 8-1 years. He formerly
played an imp jrtant part on the Political stage,
and was Secretary of War during a great por
tion of our last contest with Great Britain-
Er The Mobile Advertiser of the 4th says:
We learn from Captain Post, of the schooner
Augusta, whose arrival from Havana we no
ticed yesterday, that just previous to his sailing
from that port, intelligence was received of a
daring robbery on the rail road near the city.—
The robbers, about fifty in number, laid pieces
ol timber across the track, so as to stop the train
of cars on its passage into town, and having ri
lled all the passengers of their money, watches,
and other valuables, allowed them to proceed
on their journey. A detachment ot a httrdred
soldiers was immediately sent out from the ci'y
to arrest the plunderers, and after an encounter
with them, in which several were killed on both
sides, a number ofthe gang were captured and
brought in for trial and punishment.
Important Suit.—The Pittsburg Post of the
Ist, says:—“We understand that Captain Col
lins, ofthe steamboat Cutter, was apprehended
yesterday, and held to bail in the sum of $5,000
The complaint was entered against him by a
Mr. Scanliti and wife, who ware deck nassen
gr-r-romtic .-vm, u.m
the explosion took place.”
EvTlie doctrine-of repudiation is so popular
in Mississippi, that it is regarded a most foul
accusation to call a man a bond payer! The
Locos ought certainly hold their National Con
vention there
Es-It is estimated that no less than eight thou
sand bales of cotton and three thousand bush
els of bian were lugged out by the ladies oi
Broadway, New York, on a pleasant day re
cently.
Specie.—The N. O. Tropic ofthe 3rd inst.
says:—The following amounts of specie were
received in our city yesterday, consigned as fol
lows:
Per Saratoga, from New Yoik, $139,000 to or
der.
Pet ship Taglioni, from Havre, 240,000 francs,
to A. Lanfear.
Per ship St. Louis, from Philadelphia, $93,000.
Per barque Parthian, from Norfolk, SB,OOO to
order.
Per ship Emily, from New York, —
$5,000 and 100 doubloons, tet 11. Bean & Co.
5,000 to Field & Co.
6,000 to Valentine & Williams.
5,700 to H. H. Goodman.
23,500 to L. Coming.
10,000 sovereigns, to Samuel Nicholson.
Absence of JHindf i t
We have to record a singular instance of ab
sence of mind which took place in our office this
week it may appear incredible to our readers,
but we can assure them, on the honor of an
Epitqr !11 that it is a positive fact, and if called
upon, we are ready to prove it. It is certainly
the only instance of that kind that has ever fall
en within the range of our experience, and we
doubt very much if any of our contemporaries
has evet had an opportunity of recording a simi
lar one. The instance to which we allude was
as follows:—A very punctual subscriber of ours,
anfra very gentlemanly man too, for he always
pays in advance for his paper, called upon us this
week for the purpose of paying in advance for
his paper, for this year. We received the mon
ey, not very reluctantly, handed a receipt in
return, and the gentleman left the office.—
But wnen we turned to our books, for the pur
pose of giving him credit for the amount, what
was our astonishment to find that he had already
paid in advance for this year. We tried to per
suade ourselfthat there must be some mistake
about the previous credit, but upon enquiry, we
found it all perfectly correct. What were weto
think ? Here was an evidence oI absence of
mind that no theory ol mental philosophy and
no experiments of Mesmerism, that wc" have
eveneadof, could snllicienlly explain. The gen
tleman was certainly not mad, though the
thought certainly crossed our mind at the time,
if he were, and would only bite some of our de
linquent subscribers, whalan advantage it would
lie to us.
The circumstance has certainly given rise to
serious reflection in our mind, and done more
than any other ofthe strange phenomena which
have taken place this year to excite within our
mi nds the question of tlie possibility ofthe truth of
Millerism. Coming events they say cast their
shadows before.
We have had the comet, the earthquakes and
the cold weather. But what of that: we have
had comets, earthquakes and cold weather before;
and these things, after all, arc but material eflects
which can easily be explained away upon natu
ral principles.— But this instance of absence of
mind which we have given above, we venture
to say, stands alone and unprecedented in these
times ; besides, it is the result of some causeop
eialing upon the mind, independent of all matter.
Cau it be that the coming of some strange won
derful and unnatural event could cast upon the
mind so deep a shadow as todarken all recollec
tion of a previous payment of money? It must
be so. We fear either that the anticipations of
Miller are about to be realized this year, or some
terrible catastrophe is to happen. We warn all
our fellow-citizens to look out, for something is
certainly going to happen this year.
The most melancholj' part ofthe whole trans
action was, that we had to refund the money.—
Montgomery Advertiser.
The foregoing case of what the Editor pleas
es to term “absence of mind," appears in the
Montgomery Advertiser; and, as the Editor
seems to doubt whether any cotemporary has
had an opportunity to record a similar occur
rence, we propose to compare notes, although
in the case to which we refer, we felt disposed
to regard it rather a manifestation of warm at
tachment and devoted lovefor sound Whig prin
ciples, than to any mental alienation. Some
short time alter the Ist January, 1842, when we
ad -pled the cash system, we were met in the
street one day by one ot those warm-hearted,
zealous Whigs, for which our old native coun
ty of Oglethorpe is so deservedly distinguished:
who, after giving us a most cordial shake ofthe
band, remarked, —“I must call and pay my sub
scription to the Chronicle and Sentinel, for I see
y.m have adopted the cash system, and I don’t
want my paper stopped.” We replied—“ You
have already paid some considerable time in ad
vance.” “I reckon not,” said he, “I have not
ent you any money for a year, and I must
be in arrears.” “ Very well,” we replied,
“call at the office, and we will examine.”—
I ll go now, he rejoined, and we stepped into
the office, and on examination of his account,
found that fie had actually paid to the Ist day
of April, 1846 —more than lour years in ad
vance. He expressed, his astonishment—ad
mitted that he recollected each remittance dis
tinctly, and that all was right—and aftergiv
ing us a short “good Whig talk" badc us good
morning and never hinted a word about refund
ing.
The truth was, in his zeal in the good cause,
he had not been unmindful of the printer, and
win never it occurred to him, he remitted us
some money, without ever stopping to inquire
alter the amount of his account. Do you “j>««”
brother Wal-h ?
In Bankruptcy.—A decision of much impor
tance was made by Judge Betts on the 25th ult.
A debtor oftliis city made an assignment of all
his effects, in trust ibr the pro-rata payment of all
his creditors. Two months afterward some of
his creditors commenced proceedings in bank
ruptcy again-t him, which passed to a decree;
and then the oflicial assignee filed his bill against
tlie assignees under the voluntary assignment,
claiming that the property should be transferred
l) him for distribution among the creditors.
Tliis claim was held to be sustained by the sec
ond section ofthe bankrupt law, which declares
that “all other payments,securities, conveyances
or transfers ot property made or given by the
bankrupt in contemplation of bankruptcy, to any
person nut being a bona tide creditoror purchas
er tor a valuable con-Jidcration and without no
tice shall be deemed utterly void; and the as
■signee shall be entitled to claim, sue tor, receive
the same as part of the assets of the bankrupt."
—A'. Y. Comriimial Advertiser.
OThe Mobile Advertiser says—We give
it its our decided op’nion, that ct'het the water
pedlars in this city put a little too much milk
in their water to sell it for the transparent ele
ment, or the milk merchants mingle too much
water wi h their merchandise, to pass it ofi for
the genuine lacteous fluid. Either way. it is
TUESbAY MORNING, APRIL il.
City Klcction.
The following is the result of the Election
held in this city yesterday for Mayor and Mem
bers of the City Council. We omit the votes
in the several Wards for the various candidates
for Council.
FOR MAYOR.
Al. M. Dye. G. M. Newton.
First Ward 67 87
Second Ward 106 117
Third Ward 108 62
Fourth Ward 117 68
388 334
MEMBERS Ol' COUNCIL.
FIRST WARD. THIRD W ARD.
J. G. McWhorter, John Hill,
I. P. Garvin. F. M. Robertson,
Philip Crump. J. .4. Uiblcr.
SECOND WARD. FOURTH WARD.
Henry Hora, T. W. Miller.
John Phinizy, jr. H". .4. Beall,
Charles A. Greiner, Alexander Philip,
O’ Those in italics are Whigs.
Release of Wm. E. Jones.
Our readers will receive with much pleasure
the intelligence contained in the late news from
Mexico, of the release of our friend and prede
cessor William E. Jones, from Mexican cap
ti. i« . ..
What Does this vnarleston '
Courier of the 24th inst. says:—“The Hon. R.
11. Wilde, formerly a member of Congress from
Georgia, was, on Saturday, on motion of Mr.
McMahan, admitted as a practitioner of the
Baltimore bar. Has Mr. Wilde left Georgia in
a huff!— Griffin Gazette.
To which the Dahlonega Times, in its own
classic vernacular, replies:
“Well hoss he did.”
It means nothing more or less than that in
consideration of the distinguished legal attain
ments ol Mr. Wilde, he has been employed in
some important cases in Baltimore, before he
eould appear in which such a motion whs ne
cessary.—Ed. Chron. 4 - . Sent.
Fire in Schenectady, N. Y. —On Wednes
day morning the sth, a fire broke out in the
large railroad car house, belonging to the Utica
Company, which spread with such astonishing
rapidity that the building, some 300 feet in
length, was entirely enveloped in flames before
any considerable alarm could be given. The
fire soon communicated to the large hotel of Mr.
Given, which is aheap of ruins. The build
ings on the west side of Canal street, belong
ing to Mr. Peter Banker, occupied as a tobacco
factory, &c., and the smith’s shop on the rear of
Given’s, on the comer of Canal and Liberty
streets are also destroyed.
Abdication of President Boyer. -By the
recent arrival from Hayti, says the New Or
leans Picayune, we learn that after getting on
board the British man of war Boyer formally
adicated the government of the island. The
following, although it may not be in his own
wolds, is the substance of his letter renouncing
the office of President:—
“Twenty-five years ago I was called to the
Chief Magistracy, then vacated by the immortal
Petion, founder of the republic.
“1 have since then endeavored to carry out
his views, which, above all other persons, lhad
the best means of being acquainted with.
“I have endeavored to administer the govern
ment economically, and as a proof of this, there
are $1,000,000 in reserve, besides a deposit in
Paris lo the credit of the Treasury.
“Recent events, which I will not characterize,
have brought upon me unexpectedly calamities
for which 1 am not ptepared.
“In this emergency my dignity and honor re
quire a personal abnegation of the [lowers con
ferred upon me.
“1 have pursued the policy of healing the do
mestic feuds and divisions which made this re
public weak and distracted, and in voluntarily
ostracising myself, I give another proof of my
desire to remove all cause of contention and in
ternal commotion.
“I have lived to see the independence of the
government recognized, and in leaving it 1 de
sire to see Hayti as happy as 1 strove to render
her. Boyer.”
AcavtTTAL of Mercer. —We learn from
the Philadelphia papers of Friday that the Jury
in the ease of Singleton Mercer, under trial for
the murder of Hebcrton, the seducer of his sis
ter—returned a verdict of not guilty. We copy
from the Inquirer’s report of the trial the fol
lowing notice of the closing scene.
Woodbury, N. J., April 6,5, r. M.
The Jury has just agreed upon a verdict af
ter being out about twenty minutes. The
Court Room is crowded in every part The ex
citement and confusion is so great that the
Judge has deemed it necessary’ to caution those
present against any outbreak of popular feeling,
let the verdict be what it may. Gov. Vroom
and Mr. Carpenter have also addressed the
crowd to the same effect anil order is restored.
Clerk — Gentlemen of the Jury, have you a
greed upon a verdict?
Jurors. — Wc have.
Clerk. — Who shall deliver your verdict?
Jurors. — The foreman.
Clerk.— How say you, Mr. Foreman, is
Singleton Mercer guilty, in manner and form as
laid in indictment, or nor guilty.
Foreman.— NOT GUILTY.
[ Here, there was an outbreak of applause.]
Mr. Jeffers then moved that Singleton Mercer
be discharged f rom custody, and he was dis
charged accordingly, and left the Court House
for the dwelling ofthe Sheriff. The crowd fol
lowed, and as he entered the apartments ot that
officer, gave “ Three C/u. rs for Singleion Mercer!"
JS- The Louisville Journal says :—" The J.
M. White, Capt. Converse, from New Orleans
to St. Louis, with a cargo principally of groce
ries, struck a snag and sunk on Wednesday, in
the Mississippi, about forty miles above the
mouth of the Ohio. Boat and cargo a total
loss. No lives lost.”
The Louisville Journal of the 3d inst. says—
“We have received from Capt. Coombs, of the
Rainbow, some particulars of ths loss ofthe J.
M. 'White. She was sunk on Tuesday evening
last, in the Mississippi, thirty-five miles above
the mouth of the Ohio, at what is called the
Chain. Boat and cargo a total loss. She went
down in two minutes after striking, and but for
a hull iu tow, many lives would have been lost.
Only one person was drowned, a female deck
passenger.”
Election in Rhode Island.—ln Providence
at 4| o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, Fenner,
the Whig or anti-Dorrite candidate, had receiv
ed 592 votes, and Carpenter, the opposition but
16ft. In six other towns Fenner had 665 and
Carpenter 129, giving an aggregate majority of
968 lor Fenner.
Result in Connecticut.—The election in
Connecticut has resulted as follows:—A demo
cratic Governor; three, and perchance four,
democratic members to Congress, and a demo
cratic Legislature.—A". Y. Herald.
Massachusetts Congressional Ei.ection.
—Annexed is the result in the several districts:
—Second district, no choice; Third, no choice;
Fifth, Hudson, whig, elected: Sixth, no choice;
Seventh, probably no choice. Abolition is the
cause ofthe non-success.— New York Herald.
The Whig City forever!
NEW ORLEANS RIGHT SIDE UP!
The Tropic says, the result ofthe Municipal
elections in New Orleans on the 3d instant, is
es a character calculated ts fill the heart of eve
ry Whig in the Union with pride and satisfac
tion. The Whigs have literally swept the city,
scatcely a vestige of Locofocoism or Tylerism
is remaining. The .Whigs-have signally tri
umphed in every Municipality—have glorious
ly carried ten of the thirteen wards in the
three Municipalities, and have elected ten of
the twelve members ot the General Council!
Tur. Reason.—A philosopher asserts that the
reason why ladies’ teeth decay sooner than
men’s, is because ofthe friction of the rongne
an-i the -irrr!os of tsr hi-.
VOL. VII.-.XO. 15.
From the National Inldligmctr.
A New Party Movement.
The following Proceedings, offieially paUM>
ed in the recognised Administration paper in the
city of Mew York are entitled to a place Ui ow
columns:
From the New York Aurora.
At a meeting of the Republican General Con
niittee friendly to the General Administration,
held at Military Hall on Monday evening, Apri
3, 1843, the following preamble and resolution
were adopted:
W heieas the great mass meeting, held i-n the
15th ot March last, ofthe Democratic Republic
an electors oftliis city friendly to John Tylut
have nominated him as a candidate tot the Pres
idency in 1811, subject to the decision of a Dem
ocratic National Convention:
And whereas this committee was organized
and continued for the purpose of rendering jus
tice to th: principles and measures of the Presi
dent, that his claims to the suffrages ol the wc
pie might be more fully appreciated;
And whereas the objects contemplated by tlie
organization ofthe committee being attained by
the nomination ot Air. Tyler and the incorpora
tion of his name with those ol the Democratic
candidates for the Presidency.
And whereas, it is belieted that the harmony
and unity of the Democratic party will be best
promoted by the dissolution of this committee,
and by directing all our efforts to increase the
numbers and extend the influence ul the Demo
cratic associations friendly to the President,
formed in most ot the wards, and by the organi
zation of such associations in the remainuig
wards: therefore
-wrffl" dtgti glSwiiHiitoirme Fumfr taken uy u
large and respectable number of their democrat
ic fellow citizens in placing John Tyler before
the country as a candidate for the Presidency,
subject to the decision of a National Conven
tion.
Resolved, That the recommendations of the
mass meeting, held on the 15th March last, on
the subject ofthe organization ofthe Democrat
ic National Convention, and the period at which
it should convene, are eminently judicious, and
meet with our decided concurrence.
Resolved, That we reciAmend to the Demo
cratic Republican friends ofthe Administration
in the several wards in which clubs or associa
tions friendly to the President ate now formed,
to use all honorable exertions to increase their
number and extend their efficiency, and trust
that the remaining wards will immediately or
ganize similar associations, the more effectually
to further the interests ofthe General Adminis
tration and the success of Mr. Tyler in the Pre
sidential contest of 1814.
Resolved, That the thanks oi this committee
arc due to M. M. Noah, Esq., the President, for
the satisfactory manner in which he has dis
charged the duties ofthe chair since the organi
zation ofthe Convention.
Resolved, That this committee be now dir
charged, and adjourn sine die.
M. M. NOAH, President.
Wm. Sinclair, Jr.. I
8. Sanxay, | Secretaries.
This account of the dissolution of the Third
Party, and its surrender to the Locofoco party
of its distinctive appellation, would be incom
plete and not very intelligible without the com
mentary ofthe “Aurora”—whose editorhasjusl
“returned from Washington”—which accompa
nies it, and which, therefore, without a word ol
comment, we append hereto as follows :
From the Aurora of April 4.
“The resolutions of the Administration Gen
eral Committee, last evening, speak for them
selves. It will not, therefore, be necessaty for
us further to explain the motives which have in
duced its voluntary dissolution. The Demo
cratic party will, we believe, regard this move
ment as a strong evidence of sincerity and
good faith on the part of our friends in coin
ing into their tanks. The President hav
ing decided to lend the weight of bis charac
ter, and the influence of his station, to the ad
vancement of the pure principles of democracy,
his friend-, throughout the country will best serve
his interests by uniting with anil swelling the
ranksof the great Democratic party, that tliat
party, ever just to its true friends, w ill see in the
present position of Mr. Tyler the soundest rea
sons for sustaining him in his republican meas
ures, and silencing the false and malicious idea
that the country is opposed'to his firm and de
cided and effectual opposition to the schemes ol'
federal whiggery”
“The friends of President Tyler, who have
uniformly treated evciy democratic candidate
with respect, will hereafter, as they did in the
last fall elections, unite indiscriminately with the
friends ot all the other democratic candidates
for the Presidency, and support the regular nomi
nations of the I'.cu vY throiighvidthecountry. The
President himself, being willing to trust his
case in the hands of the great Democratic party,
expects his supporters to enter its ranks in good
faith, with a determination to abide by its u
sages, observe its ancient landmarks, and battle
for its vital principles with all their might.”
In connexion with the above development, our
readers will take for what it is worth —and that
is more than most of what is written from Wash
ington for publication—the following extract of
a letter to the Journal ol Commerce at New-
York: i
“Demandshave been made, and are, at. this
moment, strongly urged upon the President, as
the conditions on which he is to be supported for
the next term Z-y the Democracy. He is required
immediatelj- to turn out the present collector,
the postmaster, and the district attorney oi the
city of New York.
“This is to conciliate the New York Democ
racy. It has been represented to, and urged
upon the President, that the present incumbents
ol those places do not exert thcms‘lvcs to promote
his popularity, and that the failure of the New
York Tyler meeting is owing to their indiffer
ence.”
Fashionable Dress.
The Crescent City, alluding to the fashiona
ble costume ofthe present day,remarks:—“We
are fast losing the land-marks of neat costume,
and in a tew years, a man who is seen in an
1837 black coat, will be called an eccentric, and
have it w hispered about t hat he is a “gentleman
of the old school.” The fashionable young
men of the present day, will possibly stop as
soon as they find that they are happy combina
tions of the wasp and the frog, and the ladies
may start when they come to the conclusion
that they .Tie more like .lune-bugs than human
beings ; but until both sexes arrive at this point
of belief, they will go on adorning themselves
with the cast off ornaments of the animal, the
vegetable and the mineral kingdoms.”
Intercourse with Foreign Nations—ln
1842, the United States had 178 Political and
Consular Agents in foreign countries:—B Min
isters Plenipotentiary, with salaries of #9,(XK)
each, besides $9,000 outfit, 4 Secretaries of Le
gation, with a salary each of $2,000; 1 Minis
ter Resident, (Commodore Potter, at Constan
tinople,) with a salary of $6,000; 1 Dragoman
to the Legation at Constantinople ; 11 Charge
d’Aflaires, with salaries each of $4,500; aid
154 Consuls and Commercial Agents.
France has 193 Political Rnd Consular agent-,
abroad; 10 Ambassadors, with salaries vanity
from $9,375 to $56,350 ; 21 Ministers Pleuipo
tentiary, with salaries varying from $4,688 to
$18,75(1; 2 Charge d’Afliiires ; 3 Sec etaries or
Embassies; 15 Attaches; 21 Consuls Generals,
with salaries varying from $2,800 to $6,750-,
and 87 Consuls of the first and second class,
whose salaries vary from $1,500 to #5,260. —
The salary of the French tJonsttl at Canton is
fixed at $7,500. — Jinir. of Com.
Latest from Yueatan.
The New Oilcans Tropic, of the 3d inst says
—The schoonet Margaret Ann left Ctuupcachy
five days ago; and brings the following item,, of
nc ws:
Left brig Fairy and schooners No 1 and Ro
sario.
The soldiers and citizens of Campeachy were
in high spirits, and wanted nothing so much a.-
Cornmodorc Moore.
The gunboats of Camt-eachy were seco
twenty miles at sea on the 26th ult.'
The Mexicans .still hel i the heights, and
bombarded Campeachy dailv without much in
jury.
The Mexican fleet was at anchor off point
D< sconceJa. They had landed a reinfot cement
<>l'36oo men on the 18th March, who marched
towards Merida. On the 18th, 2500 men left
Campeachy to give them battle. On the 27th
of March, the Campeachiatios meant to attack
Lerma by land and water.
The Mississippi Dei u.cation.—The New
Orleans Tropic of the 3d inst. says :—After all,
Mississippi is not likely to lose so much by her
Treasurer as was at first expected. We learn
verbally from Jackson, that soon after the de
parture" of Graves, his wifi- sent to Gov. Tucker,
requesting an interview. At first the Governor
declined, but on the lady’s sending a second time,
the Governor called on the lady in company
with Judge Buckner. Mrs. G. delivered to the
Governor a package containing $96,11011 in gokt
and treasury notes, also a parcel
state bonds, which bad nc.i examined n b<m
our informant left.