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AIGIST A.
ERIDAY MORXI>‘ } , APRIL 14. I
savannah Change Bills. ’ B "||
The "real increase in the circulation
Script or change bills of the City Cotmc»|
Savannah, in this city demands some
action on the part of our citizens and
to exclude them. They arenm
of our Banking institutions, either in
~r oil uepost e. ..fit a.'.Cis It.' "t.”
tionable as a ■ ircnlating medium, and i<M|
cerely hope.therefore, that oiiieitizens utllM|||
to some gen -lai eeterminatiuii to reject
together. The Banks ate authorised to ■■
and have issued change bills, which are
ed in payment and on deposin' at all the
in the city, and we think it is quite time
ery friend of a sound currency t>. set his W :
against any circulating medium which i.
convertible into specie funds in the city-. And
notwithstanding, the bills of our own City Coun
cil are redeemed promptly' in specie or specie
funds whenever demanded, we hope the day is
not far distant when the authorities will with
draw every dollar of it from circulation.
The Bo™VT«EATv;-The Journal of
Commerce says :-“We are happy to announce
that evidence of an important and conclusive
character in regard to the views of the Com
missioners «ho negotiated the Treaty of 1783,
on the subject of the Northeastern Boundary,
has recently been discovered, and will soon be
made known to the public. At present we are
only at liberty to say that it/W sustains the
American ciaim. The question of Boundary
being now settled by treaty, it would be of little
consequence what views have heretofore exist
ed concerning it, had not the British journalists
labored to produce erroneous impressions in
Europe on the subject. Even now, it appears
-• to us o be a matter more of curiosity than of
consequence.”
The New York Commercial copies the above,
and adds:— “According to our understanding of
the arrangements on foot, the Journal ol Com
merce ought not to have had liberty even to say
thus much at present. At least we have had it
in in our power for several days to g ive lhe P al “
ticulars of the important discovery referred to,
in detail, but have desisted, in pursuance of an
understanding, as we had supposed, which was
to be observed lor the present allround. We
will now merely add, that the discovery has
been made among the papers of the Peter A.
Jay, whose illustrious father was one of the ne
gociators of the treaty of peace in 1782-’B3; and
that THE RED LINE maps, so much discussed of
late, both in England and the United States, will
be shown to be oi no-account. ’
Tut; Border Trouble—Arrest or Chav > n.
~s “ ' fl JUHU Vid-lai, .'V|
uty Sheriff ot Woodstock, causes considerable
commotion in N. Brunswick. The editor ol the
Fredericton Sentinel speaks ot the receipt of a
letter which states that Craven was kept at Fish
river instead ot being sent to Fredericton ; and
that the Queen's writs continue to be served on
that side of the St. John, and the inhabitants
voted at the last election ; but that it is impor
tant tor the peace of the border population that
some definite arrangement take place.
Another Alleged Defaulter.—Henry R.
Schoolcraft was arrested in New A ork on sh urs
day in a civil suit instituted against him by the
United States, to recover $16,972, the atnountol
the alleged defalcation in his capacity of Indian
agent in Michigan. The Court ordered him to
give bail in $20,000 to abide the issue of the
suit.
More, TvLEßi.sM.—Mordecai Myers has been
appointed, by the President, Collector of the Cus
toms at, Savannah, Georgia, vice Jas. Hunter
removed.
Disgraceful Scene.
The Legislative Hall ot Pennsylvania was
the theatre of a most disgraceful scene a Jew
days since, occasioned by a fight between tw o
Locofocos, one a member and the other an edi
tor, during the progress of business. And by
way of preserving the dignity of the House the
worthy Legislators appointed a committee to
send for persons and papers. Oh Shame!
Shame 1
American Cottons for London. —The Bos
ton Journal of Saturday says, Barque Niagara,
which cleared to-day for London, takes out 400
bales of cottons of American manufacture.
Jacob Shipman.—The mysterious disappear
ance of this person excites much speculation in
New York. The N. Y. American says:
“The money in his possession does not —un-
less helhas some funds of which nothing is know®
' here—exceed $30,000. Os thissls,ooo in French
gold belonged to the Union Bank oi this city,
and was sent on bv Shipmanto be recoined at
the Mint. This he exchanged for Treasury
Notes and has taken; but in a number ot other
cases ’but especially with the house of Beebee
& Parshall, who were in the habit of sending
small amounts by him, the mint certificates have
been regularly relumed, and letters containing
money duly forwarded to those whom they were
addressed. The brokers ot the city do not, as
far as we can hear, suffer by Shipman’s disap
pearance, nor is there any serious loss beyond
that oi the Unfon Bank. The Bank of Com-
merce, it was stated in a morning paper, was
a heavy loser. This, we are requested to say, i
is incorrect, as the Bank never happened to em
ploy Shipman either to transport money or for
any other purpose. The story respecting the
Bank at America is equally
The Madisonian of Monday,publishes, offi
cially the ratified treaty made’with the Sac and
Fox Indians on the 11th of October last by John
Chambers Esq. United States Commission
er Bv this treaty the tribes of Sacs and
Foxes ..ede to the United States, forever, all the
lands west ofthe Mississippi river to which they
have any claim or title, or which they have any
interest whatever—reserving a right to occupy a
portion of the land ceded tor a term of three
vears from the time of signing the treaty. In
consideration of this cession the United States
agree to pav annually to the Sacs and boxes an
interest ot five per centum upon the sum ot eight
hundred thousand dollars, and to pay their debts
mentioned in a schedule annexed to the 1 reaty,
amounting to the sum of two hundred and fifty
eight thousand, five hundred and sixty-six dol
lars and thirty-four cents
It is made the duty ot the President ol t.-.e U
nited States, as soon after the ratification ot the
treaty asmav be convenient, to assign a tract ot
land' suitable for Indian purposes, to the Sacs
and Foxes for a permanent and perpetual, resi
dence tor them and their descendants, which
tract of land shall be upon the Missouri river,
or its waters.
The imports ot sperm and whale oil and
whalebone into the United States during the
month of March past, according to the M hale
men’s Shipping List, amounts to 11 12 barrels
Xrrn *>.'*«• barrels whale ml, and 268.029 lbs.
hone. Last year the imports ot oil during the
same month amounted to 9.296 barrels whale.
New Orleans Postmaster.—Gen. J. B
Dawson at present one of our Representatives
in Congress, has been appointed Postmaster for
this citv, and entered upon the discharge of his
duties iesterdav. The appointment will be a
much more popular onetLan lylercond have
been expected to make.—-V O Tropic fl/ tte
11 th inst
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HWrii hi ffiixoilitlx & ScutltlM*
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Kimball,
Elizabeth Rawlins,
T J inken’s orphans,
flßTCaruthers, John Sikes, jr.
Matilda Hatcher, Robert Knight,
Thos Grace’s orphans, Harley Attaway, sr.
Enoch Rogers, Enoch W Wamble,
Ann Bryan, Matthew Burke,
James Martin, U Dillard’s orphans,
Jas Tindall, sr. Mary W Ledbetter,
S W Blount, jr. Jesse P Green,
Jeremiah Vinson, Archibald Bell,
Adam Wallace, Wright Griffin,
Charles Sapp, Henry P Pipkin,
Win W Leverett, G Royal’s orphans,
Hardy Perry, Abram Boyt,
Alex F Harris, J Ressee s orphans,
Jas Hines orphans, Jos A Johnson,
Matthew E Slain, Wm Warmuek,
Josiah H Hatcher, Thos Broxton,
John J Skinner, Sumner Sumner,
Benj Grubbs, Wm Rawlins,
Alex J Linn, George Phillips,
Peter Mathis, Math Hall’s orphans,
Arthur Royall, John Walton,
Sarah M Marsh, Thomas Lane,
Wm Poytress, sr. John Heath, sr.
Leason Sneed, Amos P Whitehead,
Moses Heath, Stephen Murray,
LAND LOTTERY OF 1832 DRAWERS IN BURKE
COUNTY UNGRANTED.
Robert Barrow, Wtn Kee’s orphans,
Jefferson Roberts, Jesse Skinner,
Geo Tilley’s orphans, James F Godbey,
Reuben Duke, Thos S Burke,
James Moore, Mary Ann Cook,
Sarah Dubose, H Fulgem’s orphans,
Juda Garlick, Jacob Collins,
Edmund Tabb, Geo F Sheppard,
Sumner’s orphans, Henry Byne,
Jane &Wm Bryant, James Prescott,
Wm AV Davies, Wm AV S Knight,
John J Almond, Leverett’s orphans,
J Jackson’s orphans, Etheldred Tarver,
Hurt’s orphans, L Dunn’s orphans,
Chandler’s orphan’s, Uriah Skinner, sr.
John Bass, Holland Skinner,
AVm H Neyland, Jos Tilly’s orphans,
Jesse H Lively, James Roberts,
Elizabeth Sumner, C Davis’s orphans,
Sarah Dubose, Robert Tuttle,
E Drake’s orphans, Thos J Murdoch,
John Mingledorf, Celia Stringer,
Azariah Cowart, Chandler’s orphans,
Bedy Sharp, Moses Cox’s orphans,
G Harvey's orphans, Jordon Bell’s orphans,
Ann H Dunn, T AV Davis’s orphans,
Taylor.’
S Jenkins’s orphans, James Robinson,
Gibson AVest, Edmund Pior,
Elijah Boyed, Sarah Ann Stephens,
Tas Farmer’s orphans, Wesley AV Reese,
Benj E Mobley, Elias Sconyers,
S Sturges’s orphans, Johnathan Johns,
Eliz M Whitehead, W Humphrey’s orphs,
James Farmer, John Vaughn, jr.
Margaret Lindsay, Benj Brooks’ orphans,
J Reddick’s orphans, S Garlick’s orphans.
John Owen,
Grant fees and commissions for land lots 85.
.< o « “ “ gold “ $3.
In all cases specie funds.
Fee for giving information about value and
situation of lots, one Mlar.
' Letters must be post paid.
; WILLIAM 11. PRITCHARD.
Prom the Jonesborough Whig.
Whig and Democratic Predictions.
WHIG PROPHECY.
The Hon. Mr. Binney, of the House of Rep
resentatives, in the Congressional debates which
occurred in 1834, only nine years ago, and in
reply to James K. Polk of Tennessee, uttered
the following memorable prediction, which,
though disregarded then, has since been fulfilled
to a letter. . , . . r
“It the Secretary’s plan was carried into et
fect there would be a hundred banks starting up
to take the place of the proscribed United Stales
Bank. They would have them shooting out
their paper missiles in all directions.
would come front the tour quarters of the Un-
Again: Mr. McDuffie, of the House of Rep
resentatives, at page 27 ot his able report, made
on the 13th of April, and thirteen years ago,
“If the Bank ot the U. S. were destroyed,
and the local institutions left without its res
training influence, the currency would almost
certainly relapse into a state of unsoundness.
The very pressure which the present Bank, in
winding up of its concerns, would make upon
the local institutions, would compel them eiMcr
to curtail their discounts when most needed, or to
suspend specie payments. It is not difficult to pre
dict which ot these alternatives they would a
dopt under the circumstances in which they
would be placed. The imperious wants oi a
suffering community would call for discounts
in language which could not be disregarded.—
The public necessities would demand and public
opinion wouldsanclum the suspension or al least an
evasion, of specie payments."
Now we ask the candid reader, if this pre
diction has not also been fulfilled, and with an
e ractncss, only surpassed by the fulfillment of
prophecy in Holy Writ? llasiiot the currency
relapsed into a state of unsoundness, since the
i Jackson di nasty prostrated the I . W. Bank.
Did not th,-. State Banks curtail their discounts
when they were most needed. Did they not
suspend specie payments again and again .
Have not the Locofocos proved to be false pro-
phets in predicting that gold and silver would
supply the place of Bank issue? And have
they not proved to be false prophets in saying
that we could get along without a U. S. Bank,
and that the State Banks would supply its place.
AVe next select Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, and Mr.
Clayton, ot Delaware, not as more clearly pre
dicting than those already named what was to
follow the destruction oithe U. S. Bank, but
as more condensed. Mr. Ewing was then a Se
nator in Congress, (1834) and has since been
President Harrison’s Secretary ofthe Treasury.
He said, onthe floor of the Senate:
“But this is not all. You sap the morals at
the same time you thus rudely snake the prosper
ity of the people. Their first resort will be to
legislative aid, and RELIEF LAWS follow,
or, in other words, laws to prevent the collection
ot debts, (tor what Legislature can withstand
the appeals ot a whole people suffering under a
general visitation!) or, if not that, the creation
of a host of banks with fictitious capital, which
may seem tor a time to suspend the blow, but
will make it fall the heavier at last. And then,
instead of the sate and sound currency which
we now enjoy, we shall again have a deprecia-
ted and worthless mass of trash, which will
pass into the hands of the people, and there sink
into nothing, leaving them to bear the loss.”
Mr Clayton, then as now, an able senator in
Congress, held language prophetic and impres
sive. He said:
“The farmer must again sell his gram to the
country merchant for State bank paper at a dis
count from ten to twenty or thirty permit m the
nearest commercial city, <xc. "Ihe loss of
confidence among men, th: total dcrangcinent of I
that admirable system °f ClC > u,n S es .'
acknowledged to be better than exists m any oth
er country on the Globe, overtrading and specul
ation on ialsecapit.il in every part Mat rapid
flurtralion in the standard of ralue /" r “J”' “d<
ichiihAilce the unseen pestilence, vnlhersaUriM ej
forts of industry, while the sufferer is in utter tg
noranceof the cause of his destruction; bankrupt
cies and ruin, at the anticipation ot which the
heart sickens, must follow in the long train ot
evils which are assuredly before us.'
Thus the readci will see, what was M htg
Prop hern nine and a dozen years ago, is History i
now. And never did the “facts of real lite ’ t
more triumphantly demonstrate the. sagacity of i
any set of men, than do the existing evils ot the <
cjuntry demonstrate the sagacity of these enii- 1
nent Statesmen. Inspiration from on high, i
could scarcely have more luminously foretold, t
the miserable future, than did the sagacity ot (
these Statesmen foresee and predict the ruinous i
tendency' of Gen. Jackson’s war upon a Nation- 1
al Bank.
LoCOFOCO PROPHECY VS. AVIIIO PROPAECY. ]
We now propose, byway of contrast, to show 1
what contemporaneously was Locofoeo Proph- i
ecy! Listen to its great expounder The IDis/i- i
ington Globe, which, torso manyyears hascotn- ]
manded the confidence of the entire Jackson Van ;
Buren Benton Locofoeo party, and which is still
the acknowledged organ of that party : I
“AVhile every pan of America rejoices- i
while even'heart not enslaved to the scrub-ar- <
istocraey of the paper system —while every in-
I dependent and patriotic citizen exults in the re- i
I covery and restoration of the long-lost gold cur- <
rency —the West, and all western citizens have j
the deepest and greatest cause for proud exulta- ]
| tion and manly rejoicing at this propitious <
| event. For, ol all America, the West is, the :
I part which needed most, and will profit most, I
I ironi the circulation of gold. Happily, they <
have but few banks in the west, and therefore 1
need gold to carry about and to travel upon. I
Happily, again the greatest supply' of gold will <
go to the AVest. The emigrants removing to <
I that great region, will all carry gold in prefer
lence to either silver or paper, for it is lighter :
(than silver, and safer than paper. The land of- I
Mees will become receptacles and reservoirs ol I
told: whence it will lie distributed to the couu- :
■►-ilirougli he Government dfsbursi ments,
Through the military’, the surveying, and the In
dian departments; and wo to the officer, who, ;
having received gold from the Government,
shall presume or dare to oiler paper to the sol
diers or citizens. Then a great stream of gobi
millfiam up the Mississippi J rum New Orleans, and
diffuse itself aU ovet the great IFesf. Nearly all
gold coinage of the New AVorldwill come to
the United States; for, all the coinage of the
new Governments of Mexico and South Ameri
ca, being the coinage of rebel provinces, cannot
go to old Spain, or to any of her dependencies,
and, therefore, will come to the United States as
its natural and best market. This will fill the
West with doubloons BXid. half joes ; and, in eight
or nine months from this time, every' substan
tial citizen will have a long silken purse, of fine
open net work, through the interstices of which
the yellow gold will shine and glitter. Then
travellers will be free from the pestilence oi
ragged, filthy, and counterfeit notes. Every
substantial man, and every substantial man’s
wife and daughter, will travel upon gold. The
satellites of the bank alone, to show their sur
vile subjection to their leige monarch, will re
pine at the loss of paper.”— Globe of July HiW,
1834.
From the Jonesborough If hig.
In 1835, Mr. Clay, in the Senate of the U. S.,
uttered the iollowing memorable warning. Tell
us, ye Locofocos, was not this prophecy, and
has not the prediction been fulfilled to the very
letter 1
“There being no longer any sentinel at the
head of our banking establishments, to vyarn
them by its information and operations of ap
proaching danger, the load institutions, already
multiplied to an alarming extent, and almost
daily multiplying in seasons of prosperity, will
make free awl unrestrained emission! All the
channels o circulation will be gorged ! Prop
erty will rise extravagantly high, and constant
stantly looking up—the temptation will be irre
sistible ! Inordinate -speculation will ensue,
debts will be freely contracted, and when the
season of adversity comes, as come it must, the
Banks, acting without concert, and without
guide, obeying the law of self-preservation, will
all,.'it the same time, call in their issues; the
vast number will exaggerate the alarm, and
general distress, wide-spread ruin, and an ex
plosion ofthe general banking system, or thees
ablishment of a new Bank ofthe U. S., will be
the ultimate eflects.”
AVe add one more extract, and that is from a
speech delivered in the Senate ol the U. States,
by Judge Porter, the present able Whig Sena
tor from on Tuesday, the 22d ol
March, 1836. This speech was in opposition
to the motion made by Mr. Benton, to expunge
from the Journal ofthe Senate, the Resolution
of the 24th of March,’34, disapproving ot the
Removal of theDeposiles bv President Jackson,
-iwki.-c mi the ueiUKTcm.s ui uie-nijir-ur
JarJsmiism, in 1836, it will be seen, that this sa
gacious Statesman, from the proud eminence
on which lie stood, looked at the full extent ot
the evils which were to befall this country in
1842-’3. He drew from the past, and the then
present, salutary lessons lor the future, which
we are now realizing the truth of. Only look
at what he predicted would accompany and fol
low the destruction ofthe U. States Bank! —
Will not his prediction be found complete ?
He says:
In 1830, our circulation was sixty-one mil
lions of dollars. In January, 1835, or rather in
June, 1834, it was one hundred and three mil-
I lions. In 1836, it cannot be less than one hun
dred and twenty millions. An increase of six
ty millions of dollars in six years! I give the
tachs from the official returns made by the Sec
retary of the Treasury. They come, sir, it is
true, no lower down than 1834. But if we take
the average increase for two or three years be
fore that time, and reflect on the enormous rise
of property since, (a sure indication ot an un
healthy circulation,) we must be satisfied that
* there has been more than seventeen millions
’ added to the circulation within the last sixteen
1 months, and that one hundred and twenty mil
j lions is below rather than above the real esti
mate.
You see sir, therefore, at a glance, the caus
es ofthe present state of things, and who can
not also, sir, see at a glance how it is to end ?
If the evil should be checked now', and the re
duction be slow and gradual, we might escape
the consequences which time has inevitably in
store for us under another policy. But, sir, far
from expecting this, I look to ah increase ofthe
decease. It appears to me inevitable. A uni
versal madness has taken possession of the pub
lic mind. Within the last four months, I have
heard of augmentations ol banking capital, pro
posed or passed, to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars, and more I am told are projecting; so
that we may expect to see this system continu
ing until it breaks and falls front its own weight
and magnitude. In the present state of things,
the States are all interested to increase the cir
culation ot their own banks, and prevent that of
their neighbors. Indeed, we already see symp
toms of a war of legislation, the result ot jeal
ousy, by v. hich they are attempting to restrain
the notes of banks in other States from passing
within their limits.
This deplorable state of things must yet get
worse ; and well might the Senator from Mis
souri depict it in the colors he did a tew days
ago. He could not overcharge this picture—a
picture, sir, rendered more painful to contem
plate, by ti e recollection of our condition before
the war w'aswagedonthe Bank oithe U. States.
For sixteen years it regulated the currency ot
the country witha wisdom and success of which
there is no parallel. AVe threw it away, and
we seewh t we have got in its place. Sir, all
the project of regulating and checking the ex
cess of bank emissions by law, refusing to re
ceive at your Treasury their notes of a less sum
than S2O, will have no more effect than would
have a bucket lull of earth thrown into the Mis
sissippi river to stop its current. And as to
pushing gold and silver into circulation when
you have five hundred and fifty banks interest
ed in gathering it all up, and supplying its
place with their notes, that is equally impracti
cable ; a cheap and a dear currency never can
exist together; the former always destroys the
latter. Having no power by the Constitution to
interfere directly with State Legislation in this
matter, I see that the country is destined to go
through the same scenes of agitation and suffer
ing which it did previous to the ruin ot the late
Bank ot the United States. Alter the evils
have come to a height when they can no longer
be endured, we shall have another National
Bank, and not until then. But I submit it it
would not have been as well to have prevented
this state of things two years ago? 1 enquire,
what good has been, or can be attained, by put
ting the People through this fearful trial?—
, Five or six years hence will be the time to get
, an answer to these questions."
The President.
Proscription is to be the order of the day.
Wide-spread, undisguised, tyrannical proscrip
tion will be practised by the President whenever
any Federal officer repels his wish, or denies
fealty to his will. The livery of office in our
free land is to be made synonymous with the
livery of servitude.
Ofthe terrible evils which must How from the
conduct, if tolerated, we need not speak. It
will mud the fountain of power, and corrupt all
who come in contact with it. AVhenever, there
fore, any President, be he Whig or Democrat,
[ inflicts upon us so deep a wrong, the country
should at once, and indignantly, repel it. No
toleration should be shown to the crime; no
terms made with him who commits it.
That Mr. Tyler means to proscribe—that he
is proscribing—all know. His past construc
tions of the law, and his solemn pledges to the
people, on this subject, he laughs at, as being a
political toy, which was convenient to dupe in
nocent or ignorant people with, and which men
out of offiee use always to break when they get
AUGUSTA, GA THURSDA
in. He plants himselfopenly upon the doctrine,
that the Executive must have a party; that his
power and patronage were conferred lor that
end; and, therefore, that he may dismiss and ap
point when he pleases, and direct whomsoever
subsists through his will. Hence his Postmas
ter General, and other Heads ot Departments,
(save one,) following the President’s example,
remove all who are not deemed faithful; hence
his partizans build up presses by levying taxes
upon the incomes of office holders, a refusal to
pay' which subjects the parties to instant dis
missal; so that the proscription of Mr. Tyler is
in the most offensive and oppressive form; a di
rect tyranny over the minds of those who hold
place under him, and a subsidizing of the Press
so tar as he can do it 1
And what a picture does this man’s course
present! Discarding old friends, and his proler
ed alliance with the Democracy spumed, fallen
as a man, degraded as a magistrate, an object
hardly worthy of pity or insult, Mr. Tyler has
the vanity to believe that he can be the scourge
of both. Marching straight forward to his ob
ject, regardless of the solemn admonitions ofthe
past, or the perils of the present, unappalled by
any violation of the spirit of the law, he will
spare no means, f air or foul, which he dare use,
to accomplish this end. Wldle the country was
overwhelmed with distress—her commerce, her
manufactures, her agriculture, herlaborall pros
trate —States dishonored, and the Nation’s cre
dit shaken—he could plot with Democratic lead
ers to secure for himself a countenance of office,
w ithout lifting a finger to remove that distress;
and now, when all hope from that quarter is
broken, he is imbecile and mean enough to seek
to build up a party for this end, by a tyrannical
and corrupt use ot his patronage and power!—
Nor will he stop tit anything. lle W ill disavow
whatever he has heretofore sanctioned, even to
a denial of the treaty—the only bright spot in
his administration—or disown any man, deep as
he may' be indebted to him—even it it be the
great mind who made that treaty —if he can
only gain, from any quarter, the promise—for
that is all he will get —of strength enough to grat
ify this, his mad ambition.
And as such is his mood, let him indulge his
tyranny to the full! It is time the question were
settled whether proscription and usurpation are
virtues. The freemen of our country, not long
since, spoke what they thought on this subject,
and, we mistake if they do not utter saon a stern
er rebuke against vices as hideous to all honesty
of purpose, as they are destructive to all free
dom of opinion.— Cincinnati Paper.
Commander Mackenzie and the Somers.
AVe give below (from the Philadelphia U. S.
Gdzette) the charges and specifications brought
against Commander Mackenzie, on account ot
the execution of the mutineers on board the U.
S. brig Somers, and we add the finding of the
Court Martial in all. It will be observed that
the result is an entire acquittal on every speci
fication. The Gazette adds that the President
of the United States has approved of the action
of the Court.
AVe have not for a moment, entertained a
doubt of the result, notwithstanding the exertions
made to disturb the proceedings, and to poison
the public mind in this affair, and therefore we
have oiily pleasure, not surprise, to express at
the decision of the Court:
CHARGE I.
Murder on the high seas on board a United States
vessel.
Specifications first alledged, that Commodore
Mackenzie, then commanding U. S. brig Som
ers, did, on the Ist of December, 1842, and on
the high seas, in latitude 17°, 34 min., 28 sec.,
and longitude 57°, 57 min., 45 sec., without form
of law, wilfully, deliberately, and with malice
aforethought, hang, and caused to be hanged, by
the neck, at the y ard arm of said brig, until he
was dead, Philip Spencer, Midshipman, then
serving on board, thereby violating the 21st art.
of the Ist sec. of the ac: of Congress, entitled
an act for the better government of the Navy of
the United States. Approved April 22d, 1800.
Specification 2d alleges—same thing in re
gard to Sam’l Cromwell, Boatswain’s mate, and
Specification 3d, in relation to Elisha Small,
seaman.
charge it.
Op/rression.
Under three specifications, the same as the
others, except that they’ allege he did without
form of law, and w’ithout good and sufficient
’cause oppressively kill by hanging, &c. &e.
Illegal Pnnishwciit.
Three specifications as above, except that
they charge that he did, ot his own authority,
and contrary to the act of Congress in such ea
ses made and provided, kill, &c. &c.
CHARGE IV.
Conduct unbecoming an Officer.
Specification—ln that he used taunting, and
insulting language to Spencer, at the moment of
his execution.
CHARGE v.
Cruelty and Oppression.
Specification —ln that the habitually' inflicted
cruel and unnecessary punishment upon his
crew.
Finding of the Court in the case of Comman
der Alexander S. Mackenzie.
Onthe/rslctogeand its specifications, the
Court finds:
That the Ist specification is not proven;
That the 2d specification is not proven;
That the 3d specification is not proven;
That the Ist charge is not proven;
On the 2d charge, and its specifications;
That the Ist specification is not proven:
That the 2d specification is not proven:
That the 3d specification is not proven;
That the 2d charge is not proven:
On the 3d charge and its specifications;
That the Ist specification is not proven;
That the 2d specification is not proven;
That the 3d specification is not proven;
That the 3d charge is not proven.
Thatthe/eurtA charge being waived by the
J udge Advocate and no testimony or evidence be
ing offered to sustain it, the Court took no action
upon it.
The specification of the stli charge being
deemed by the'Judge Advocate too vague, was
waived by him. No one having complained to
the Department of specific ill treatment, if could
not be made more specific, as the Department
had no particular information. The court there
fore took no action.
As far as evidence was offered under the
sth charge, the Court do find no proof of mis
treatment ofthe crew ofthe Sotners, generally,
by Commander Mackenzie, nor of individual
maltreatment, and therefore find it not proved.
The Court therefore do acquit Commander A
lexander S. Mackenzie, of the charges and spec
ifications preferred against him by the Secretary'
ot the Navy.
Another Tax Levied.
Extract from a letter, dated
AVashington, March 31, 1843.
“There is, besides, nothing worthy of note. —
All is still, excepting, indeed, the clamor of cer
tain ones, who demand pay either in advance
or for services performed. The editor of the
Madisonian has issued a circular to the post
masters. supposed of the true faith, marked con
fidential, in which, after a long preface about
the virtues ot the administration, and the ex
penses In- has incurred to sustain It, he asks tile
postmaster io procure, it possible, number
ol subscribers to the Madisonian. The blank
in the circular, I saw, was filled up with “ten
semi-weekly” subscribers at $5 a year. In a
postscript, the editor tells the postmaster that if
he feels confident of his ability to procure the
subscribers, it would be a great favor for him to
advance the money by return of mail. This,
you see, is but a tax levied on the poor office
holders, who are expected to make this contri
bution at once to the cause. The matter about
subscribers is pretty much all gammon. The
faithful will be, in this way, tried by the best of
tests —willingness to pay to keep office.— U. S.
Gazette.
If this statement is true, and the Editor ofthe
Madisonian is not forthwith dismissed as the
Executive organ ot communication with the
people, the President himself must be held re
sponsible. And what is the proposition ? If
not in so many words, it is in substance a man
date for every postmaster in the Union to remit
fifty dollars to the editor of the Executive jour
nal, on pain of removal. AVell: corruption
wins more than honesty now-a-days, and the as
sessment will doubtless be submitted to in ma
ny cases. Let us see : There are twelve thous-
and postmasters in the United States. Twelve
times fifty are six hundred. Six hundred thous
and dollars is a very comfortable sum in these
hard times.—-V Y Com.
Something fob the Ladies. —In the Provi
dence Chronicle we find the following new’mode
of preserving flowers and keeping them fresh.
Suppose some of our fair readers in this delight
ful land of flowers try it
Procure a flat dish of porcelain, into which
pour water; place a vase of flowers, and over the
vase place a bell glass, with its rim in the water.
The air that surrounds the flowerbeingconfined
beneath the bell glass, is constantly moist with
water, that rises into it in the form of vapor.
As fast as the water becomes condensed it runs
down the side of the bell glass into the dish, and
if means be taken to inclose the water on the
outside of the bell glass so as to prevent it evap
orating into the air of the sitting room, the atmos
phere around the flowers is continually damp.
The plan is designated the “Hopean Apparatus.”
The experiment may be tried on a small scale,
by inserting a tumbler over a rose bud, in a sail
cer of water.
SATURDAY MORPfIWf. APRIL 15.
~ Caut lotre-Trcr^^ Notes.
AVe noticed, yestarddoß acl 8? a ttl>e State
Treasurer of Mississippi had Bonded, carry
ing with him a large sufr‘of money belonging
to the State Among ami securities
embezzled by him, were a lumber of U. Slates
Treasury notes, payable to him »r his order, re
specting which, the following caition has been
published by the U. S. Treas V yDeparment :
NOTICE.
Treasury Dehrtment, >
ApnllO, 1813. J
The Governor of the St*ttltf Mssissippi hay
ing issued his proc4auiatioiys^ a mg that Kwh
aid S. Graves, State Treasurer ol that State,
had embezzled the money, Junies and prop
erty of that State, and had<!&apd while under
ariest upon the charge of such enbezzlement;
and the said Governor ol the bute of Mississ
ippi having, in his proclamation cautioned all
persons against receiving tie said Graves
any United States Treasury-froes which are
made payable to him or ord^C; the becreta
rv of State ofthe said Stated Mssissippi hav
ing requested this DepartnWt t(give notice of
the Treasury notes delivered to uesaid Giaves,
in order to prevent their and protect ■
the State of Mississippi frogl ijlirnate loss, and -
deeming it proper to compW w ’ a such request,
the subjoined 4 the Treasury
notes delivered to the said as Treasurer
of the State of M s “th day of
October, 1812, arm him or or
der, has been prepared, published
for die irifi‘l illation ,
All receivers and deposiliMies mpublic mon
eys, to whom any of the said notes mar be pre
sented, under suspicious circumstanes, will
decline receiving them, and, if praeticade, will
take a note of the name ot the personuflering
them, and transmit it to his Excellncy, T.
Tucker, Governor of the State ot Misissippi,
at the city of Jackson, in that Stale.
And all officers and agents of the 'teasury
Department, will assist, by all lasviulmeans,
in the recovery and restoring to the state of
Mississippi the notes declared to have ten em
bezzled.
J. C. SPENCR,
Secretary ofthe Treiury.
List of Treasury notes referred to in tl above
notice, drawn in favor of Richard S. Gives or
order, dated severally on the 6th Octob’, 1842,
and delivered the same day, signed by Z. Sel
den, Treasurer ofthe. United States, ai coun
tersigned by Michael Nourse, acting egister
ofthe Treasury, viz:
On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito N< 100—
100 notes of SI,OOO each.
On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito Ncßo—Bo
notes of SSOO each.
On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito NolO—3o
notes of SIOO each.
On warrant No. 3014. No. Ito Noi3—23
notes of SSO each.
On warrant No. 3014. No. I—one ate of
$64.
On warrant No. 3013. No. 31 to No>0 —20
notes of SIOO each.
On warrant No. 3013. No. 2—l notnfs92
92.
On warrant No. 3013. No. 24-—1 nobfsso.
Jj'Aii unsuccessful attempt was rde at
Buffalo, N. Y., on Thursday week, to bw up
the ice in that harbor by the explosion gun
powder. Twenty pounds of powder, ith a
suitable fusee attached, were placedupoa pole
which, upon being fired, exploded and exvated
only a place of about twenty feet in diieter,
the fragments rising several feet in the ail The
Advertiser says: “The surrounding ice about
18 inches thick, and appeared to resist thixplo
sive force of ‘the villainous compeum with
great tenacity.
JjfThe Millerites attempted to lecturn St.
Louis on the evening oi the 29th. Thewas
a tremendous assemblage, which became tre
mendous mob. The lecturers were hoo| at,
pelted, and dragged from the stage on ich
they stood. They finally however made eir
escape. Such proceedings deserve to be in
sured under any circumstances.
—rT— 'zwfouMi—
cessful in their railroad operations, thithard
as the times are, they' are about cotnnieing
another road to run from Boston to Ftourg,
a large manufacturing town in the norfis par t
of AVorcester county. This road will to bout
fifty miles in length, running midway tween
the Boston and AVorcester and Boh and
Lowell roads.
Remarkable Phenomenon.—A let from
an officer in the U. S. Army, dated at vt Lea
ven worth, Missouri, March 20th, statshat on
the 14th oi February, at 3 A. M. “simoon,
which had been obscured by a cloud h some
hours, burst forth of a deep blood-red .yi - , with
a'black cross of equal proportions <va'te face,
extending beyond the run; while *’ thc&o sides
small pieces of rainbow were 'isibe After
continuing in this way for aboutn hoirthe col
or of the moon changed to its otoary hie, and
the cross became a silvery whi' with tte edges
extending beyond the rim, anduching he rain
bows. It continued so for an hair, and
heavy clouds then istervertf. obscued the
moon, which set unseen. Ms phenomenon
was seen by the hospital attznnts, who were
up at that hour, some of thetvery intelligent
nien, by the guards and sentir on post, and by
several citizens of Weston, ittle town five
miles off The next morning sun rose accom
panied by two sun dogs, as tlare comntonly
called, nearly equal in brillia to the sun, and
resembling two other suns, is latter scene
was witnessed by numbersn addition for
about two weeks past, every;ht at seven to
eight o’clock, a bright streakight has appear
ed in the heavens, coming ft the west, and
beating about E. S. E., assembling very
much what it is believed to te tail of a comet.
I have thought it my duty to e these things,
even at the expense of beiitgcredited, in the
hope of eliciting a compatisof observations
elsewhere.”
Although the phensmehof the apparent
cross on the tnoon can no bt be explained
from natural causes, yet itvbe seized upon
bv some persons as confirm' ol the prophecy
of father Miller; andbevie'b.v others with
superstitious dread.
Monroe Edwards Fi,oca-The New’ York
Herald says that the day aftlonroe Edwards
was found, he was placed a whipping post,
his back bared, and a stronjletic keeper se
lected, whe applied some fitshes with a cat
o’-nine tails to his quiverinp that made him
wince again.
The Central Rail RotWe understand,
says the Si:ndersville Telje, that the cars
will run to Gordon, eignjiiiuk from Macon,
by the first of next niorjnd that there is no
mistake but that the wljne from Savannah
to ’ Macon will be conr by the Ist day of
August. [
A Pedestrian FeatP the afternoon of
Thursday last, bet west nd 3 o’clock, Col.
Elworth performed the of walking round
the Common, at Bostatside the railing, a
distance of one mile aneighth, in 7 minutes
58 seconds, for a purse 100. Time allowed
8J minutes.
Great Britain bunually ofthe United
States $60,000,000 woiproduce, two thirds
of which is cotton. Mhusetts buys of the
other States $42,000,00th annually.
A Counterfeit.—.ooo counterfeit on
the Leather Manufact Bank of N. York,
was offered at Clevelahio, onthe 29th ult.,
which is described as Nov. 4th, 1838, Let
ter A. No. 19, pavablJ- AV. Goodson 30
days after date—F. Awards, Cashier, F.
C. Tucker, Presidenhe engraving very
well done, but indisin some parts—pur
porting to be engraV Messrs. Rawdon,
Wright, Hatch & Cot York—the officers’
names and filling upt ently of the same
hand-writing, and ratfl-
jy-f-ln the New Yoterior Court on Wed
nesday, a non-suit wlered in the case of
Lawrence et. al. vs. The action
was for the value of destroyed in one of
the warehouses blow* stay the progress ot
the great fire in 1835. Court held that the
blowing up was an necessity for which
the Corporation is nte in damages.
More Tyi.EßisM.-K edfiel<l has beendis
missed from office ofa s 'er of Lexington.
• Mr Ficklin, who w* ed fr ° m that office
■ bv Mr Tyler’s Adrr-tion when Mr. Tyler
- called himself aWF been restored to it
by the same Mr. Tf d >n>nistration, now
’ that Mr. Tyler calldf a. Locofoco. And
Charles A. Wickli# miserable tool of all
- I this imbecility, treated vengeance ot the
I Great Calamity!— Journal.
G, APRIL 20, 1843.
The June Convention.
It is desirable that a lull representation from
this portion ofthe State should be in attendance
at the AVhig Convention which is to meet on the
3d Monday m June at Milledgeville; ourfriends
therefore would do well to make early prepara
tion, by holding meetings in the course ot next
month, for the choice ot Delegates.
Several candidates for Governor have been
suggested by the papers in various sections ol
the State—all of whom are sound whigs and ol
talents and ability to do honor to the office, and
any of whom, it is probable, the whole AA hig
party would zealously support. For ourselves
we would prefer CHARLES J. JENKINS, ol
Augusta, before any other whose name has been
announced, and we think the people of this and
the surrounding counties hat e the same prefer
ence : they however will cheerfully Unite in sup
port of the candidate chosen by the Convention,
not doubting that that body will make such a
selection as will most conduce to the harmony
ofthe party, the honor ot the State, and the as
cendancy of AVhig principles.
In a fair fight and no humbug, any one of the
AVhigs proposed as candidates by the various
papers can be elected, the only difficulty seems
to be in selection among so many good men.
That no contest may arise in the Convention
between different nominees; that emulation may
not degenerate into enmity, and thus divide the
party, the opinions and preferences ofthe Dele
gates should be known before they ate entrusted
to express the sentiments of their constituents
in the Convention. There will of necessity be
some difference of opinion in the Convention
relative to the claims, character and abilities ol
the various nominees, but it is highly desirable
that the candidate qhosen should have a large
majority“of the vr-ttes—if chosen by a meagre <
plurality or majority, dissatisfaction is cer
tain to ensue. Unanimity in the Convention
will produce union and zeal among the party,
and our friends in their choice of Delegates
agreed as to men and measures, can do much to
produce unanimity.— Washington News.
Prom the N. Commercial Advertiser.
General Van Rensselaer’s Statement.
We invite the public attention to the state
ment of the veteran Solomon Van Rensselaer,
touching his removal as Postmaster at Albany.
It will be seen that the General threatens a dis
closure as to the views of Mr. Tyler, on the
bank question, as expressed by him subsequent
to the decease of the lamented Harrison. Capt.
Tyler and his guard must look out, or they will
get a worse cutting up than he gave to the dusky
forces of Little Turtle, at the battle of the Mia
mis, in 1794. The old General never draw's his
sabre but with effect.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Albany, April 7th, 1843.
My recent removal from the office of Post
Master in this city constrains me, in justice to
myself, my family and friends, to publish a
plain and concise statement of facts.
For the present I shall not notice the vile at
tack of the Madisonian, and much less the
Journal of Commerce; but 1 call the particular
attention of the public to the following letter.—
Had I complied with their wishes, I should
have escaped the animadversion of those papers
and kept my office.
I, who have never been an agent for any
newspaper, and have refrained from politics
during my present and former appointment, to
be asked to force twenty-three postmasters in
this county to the support of a newspaper in fav
or of John Tyler—and report those who would
not comply—for removal! These postmasters
my friends, who aided to elect me twice to Con
gress; the first time without opposition, the sec
ond, (when opposed,) by an overwhelming ma
jority. They ought to have known me better.
I treated the fetter with contempt, and never an
swered it.
I may as well state in this place that I never
had any notice from the Post Office Department
that I was to be or was removed. The first in
timation I had was from Mr. AVasson, who call
ed about a week before the close of the quarter,
and showed me a communication from the Post
Master General, informing him that he was ap
pointed postmaster in this city, and directing
him to send on the necessary bonds, when his
commission should issue. 1 told Mr. AV. that
I should not give up the office unless I had di
rections so to do, and advised him to apprise
the Post Master General to that effect. Late in
the afternoon of the 31st March, the last day
<ijia»uus■»- • -HT aaii'nn- > ■ •*»
mission, which he showed to me. lal once de
termined to give up ihe office, and did so that
night, although the Post Master General had not
condescended to write me on the subject. When
removed by Mr. Van Buren I had fourteen days
notice to call in my accounts and close the busi
ness ol my office; but on this occasion I had
not four hours.
(copy—private.)
New York, Feb. 15,1843.
Df.ar Sir:—We take the liberty of addressing
you on a subject ol some importance to the friends
ofthe Administration, in which we sincerely
trust you are disposed to aid us to the extent in
yourpower. You have nodoubt received acopy
ofthe “Flag ofthe Union,” (which we have for
warded you) our weekly paper published every
Saturday, embracing the entire contents of the
week ofthe Daily Union, making twenty-eight
columns close reading matter for the low price
“one dollar” per annum in advance, and careful
ly mailed to subscribers. Our Journal is devot
ed to the Administration of John Tyler whose
name is at its head for the next Presidency, sub
ject to the decision of a Democratic national
convention. We are desirous of enlisting you
in the cause, to enable us to give our weekly a
good and extensive circulation, in order to spread
before the people the principles and policy of
the Administration.
There are twenty-three postmasters in your
county, with whom you are either acquainted,
or can communicate better than ourselves. With
these twenty-three and such Iriends as they doubt
less could influence; one hundred subscribers
ought easily be obtained lor us in your county,
and to accomplish this we earnestly solicit your
aid and exertion; of the twenty-three postmasters,
on your application in a private friendly manner
we do not believe one would retuse, but if we
are not mistaken, would be glad to know who it
is.—You being master of the most important of
fice in your county, we have taken the liberty to
select you to do this much for us and the good
cause in which we are actively engaged.
One hundred subscribers in your county at the
low price of one dollar a year, for a paper of
twenty-eight columns of interesting matter; is cer
tainly moderate enough, and we hope you will
so far aid us by endeavoring to procure them.
If, however, you have not the time or inclina
tion to comply with the favor we solicit, please
write us frankly to that effect, in order that we
may endeavor to accomplish our earnest desire
through some other channel.
Trusting for any early reply, we remain,
Your friends and ob’t serv’ts,
ISAAC PHILLIPS & CO.
Pub’r. Flag of Union.
S. Van Rensselaer, Esq., Postmaster, of
Albany.
When John C. Spencer visited the city last
fall, and before he went on to Rochester to pro
claim hi- own political infamy, he offered my
office, unasked lor, to Mr. Wasson. On his re
turn to the city of New York, he again met, Mr.
Wasson and renewed the offer; letters too, frank
ed by him, to the latter, have passed through the
Albany post office.
It was my intention to treat Mr. Spencer with
the utmost severity, but the public will not be
edified by such a course. His insolent and ar
bitrary conduct will soon bring him down to his
own level, and they will be as happy to get rid
of him at Washington, as they were rejoiced in
: he public offices of this city'.
At a proper time I will show', without the fear
of contradiction, that Mr. Tyler, when he first
arrived at Washington to assume the reins ot
government, was decidedly and unequivocally in
favor of the charter of a United States Bank,
the proofs of which are in my hands; a state
ment of the remarks of Mr. Tyler on that sub*
ject was drawn up by a gentleman now abroad.
It was left with me to defend myself, if assailed,
as I have been, by the acting President. But it
it was not to be made public on any other occa
sion. Yin support of that statement my oath will
be affixed.
I shall further show who nominated him at
Harrisburgh.
SOL. VAN RENSSELAER.
Unusual Lights in the Heavens.—Last
evening, between 7 and 8 o’clock, the attention
of those abroad was directed to several remark
able and very beautiful streaks of light, which
appeared in the south-eastern and north-western
parts of the sky. The former were longer and
more brilliant than the others. The stream of
light seemed to radiate from a nucleus below
the horizon, extending nearly to the vertical
point in the firmament. Those to the southward
which were more particularly noticed, gradual
ly descended in that direction, and soon after 8
o’clock the last of them had mingled with the
hazy obscurity on the end ot the sky, and disap
peared. Innumerable fine and delicate lines of
light extending like fibres from the main lumin
ous bodies, were beautifully relieved against
the clearblue of the heavens beyond, and the
precision of the outline did not seem to be les
sened by the brilliancy with which the moon
was shining at the time.—-V. Y. E. Post of Sat
urday.
The same beautiful phenomena were observ
edhere on both Friday and Saturday evenings.
—Philadelphia Sentinel.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 17.
The New York Elestion.—The Whigs
have been thrashed to their heart's content in
New York. The majority for the Democratic
candidate for Mayor, R. H. Morris, is accord
ing to 'he Courier, 5921, to the Journal of Com
merce 5755. Either of them large enough.—
The Whigs have elected 5 Aldermen and 3
Assistants. The Democrats 12 Aldermen and
14 Assistants. In the city of Brooklyn the
Whigs lost the Mayor by from 150 to 300, tut
earned a majority of the Council.
Election ia Albany, N. Y.—The N. York
Tribune of the 13th says:—“The Whigs have
carried the Capitol City by a majority of nearly
300—although at the last spring election the
Locofoeo May'or was elected by six hundred
majority. Friend Humphrey, the Whig can
didate, has now a majority of 263! The Whigs
have, also, a decided majority in the Common
Council I’J®
Neyv.ark.—Mr. AVright was re-elected Mayor
of Newark on the 10th without opposition. The
Common Council was not contested on party
grounds, but in most of the wards union and
mixed tickets were run. Os the Aidermen elec
ted eight are Whigs, and eight Locos.
The Bank of Pensnylvania, at Philadelphia,
gives notice that it will resume specie payments
and its regular business.
Counterfeiters Arrested.—The Albany
(Ga.) Courier, or the 4th instant sayi:—“ Two
men were arrested in town late last night, lor
passing counterfeit Central Bank bills. The
trial for commitment is now progressing. These
worthies seem to be in possession of a large a
mount of this money, and have scattered it a
bout our city pretty freely, at a discount of 40,
50 and 60 per cent. They represent themselves
to be stock-drovers, one of them a Kentuckian,
by the name of James B. Pigg, the other a Tea
nessean, by the name of Samuel Overby. The
Kentuckian, Mr. Pigg, is a well dressed, gen
teel looking man. The other is something on
the hoosier order. The bills are all S2O, appa
rently engraved on wood, the impression dim,
the paper of coarse texture, and of a dingy <eol
or. There is no doubt of its being a genuine
counterfeit. We have seen the iollowing No»s:
1107, 1108, 1132, 1151, 1164, 1141,1174,1139,
1124, 1125, 1148, and 1203; dated June 7, 1840.
A Relic Gone.—We see it statedin the New
Jersey State Gazette, that the old True Ameri
can Inn, on Mill Hill, near Trenton, N. J., just
over the Assanapink Bridge, known in the his
tory of the country as the head quarters of Gen- :
eral Washington, on the 2d of January, 1777;
being the place where the council ot war was
held which decided upon the march upon Prince
ton, was destroyed by fire, between one and two
o’clock on the 28th ult.
Disappearance of the Small Pox at Ham
ilton. —We are gratified to learn from the fet
ter of the Village Physician, in another col
umn that this terrible malady has been by great
caution and prudence prevented from spread
ing in that place, and has now entirely disap
peared.—Columbus Enquirer.
Prom the Columbus Enquirer.
The Small Pox.
The letter of the City Physician below, will
furnish our readers all the information within
our knowledge, concerning the state of the dis
ease in our city. It will be seen that it has ad
vanced beyend the limits of the house in which
it first appeared, and our hopes that it would be
effectually checked at that point are disappoint
ed. We are not without serious apprehensions
that as the weather becomes warm, it may yet
spread to some extent. So far, however, the dis
ease is confined to a retired section of the city,
...... pollute Unngei ill ;Visiting
the business part of the town.
Our townsmen will do well to adopt at once
the valuable suggestions of the City Physician,
in regard to vaccination and the cleanlineiss of
their lots.
Columbus, April 11th, 1843.
Hon. J. I. Moses, Mayor—
Sir: The Small-pox is still confined bo the
lower part of the city. Since my last r eport,
four cases have occured—two of them we re im
mediately conveyed to the Hospital, and 'the re
maining two are permitted to continue at their
respective houses, as they are contiguo'as. to no
other buildings, and remote from the business
part of the city. There has been no instance of
the communication of the disease to strangers
or countrymen, nor need such persons ripprehcnd
any danger while pursuing the ordin; try chan
nels of business.
A red flag is placed at eash of these houses, to
give warning ot the existence of the d iseass— so
that strangers, as well as our own cit izeas, may
avoid the neighborhood.
I would take occasion at this time: again to
urge our citizens to|universal vaccination. It is
the only effectual means of arresth ,g the pro
gress of this truly terrible disorder. With an
ample supply of genuine vaccine vir us, the dis
ease ought to be promptly arrested—and those
who suffer after such timely warning, will
but meet the reward ot their own c ulpable neg
lect.
I desire to call the attention of owr citizens to
another matter of vast importance to their com
fort and welfare. Cleanliness willnotonly pro
mote general health, but is often found essential
in arresting the march of diseases strictly of a
contagieus character. Let every citizen then
exame his premises, thoroughly clear, se his back
yard, whitewash his cellar, out housr-sand fences,
and carefully remove from his vicinity every
thing which may be calculated the slightest
degree to impair the health of the neighborhood,
or promote the spread of ccntagi on.
1 helieve that it is only necessary to suggest
to our citizens what is right awl proper, and that
their prompt action in the premises will prove
that any argument in support of the course re
commended, would be a work of supererogation.
Respectfully,
W. S. CHIPLEY,
City Physician.
Late from Campeachy.—By the schooner
Isabel, Capt. Powell, we have dates from Cam- I
peachy up to the 3d inst. The captain was
obliged to leave his letters and papers, having
been blown off in a gale. The news by the
Octavia is fully confirmed by this arrival.
The Mexicans are still in possession of the
heights, and throw a few shells into the eity every
evening. No engagement of any consequence
had taken place since last accounts. The Mexi
can fleet had not returned.
Capt. Boylan has been appointed to the com
mand of the gun-boats. He had heard that a.
schooner from New Orleans had been capturedl
by the Mexican fleet, and sent into Lerma un
der charge of an officer and a few men. He im
mediately proceeded there with three gun-boat#
and recaptured her without any loss, the officer
in charge being ashore at the time. He also cap*-
tured a Spanish schooner from Havana whkft
had anchored near Campeachy.
The report of the capture of the brig Coral by
the Mexican fleet is incorrect. She had been de
tained by them for some time, but arrived at
Campeachy' on the night of 2d instant.
They are looking out anxiously for Com.
Moore"at Campeachy.— New Orleans Pieonyune.
The Texian Squadron. —We are glad to
learn that the Texian Squadron, under the com
mand of Commodore Moore, is upon the eve of
sailing from this port on a cruise in the Gulf.—
The vessels are the Austin, the Commodore’s
flag-ship, and the Wharton, Capt. Lothrop, both
strongly manned and fully equipped, for any
warm and hearty contest that may demand their
efforts. They will certainly depart in the course
of the next tew days. They would have sailed
last night but for the necessity that existed of
disposing of the mutineers now before the
Court Martial on the Austin. We may soon
hear ot stirring events on the Gulf.— N. O. Tro
pic of 11th inst.
Mr. Webster.—The Philadelphia United i
States Gazette has the following paragraph re* I
specting the Secretary of State:
We learn that the Hon. Daniel Webster ill
with the President of the United States, a® his
departure from Washington, his resignation: of
the office of Secretary of State, to take eSfet on '
the first day of May, previous to which he will
return to Washington. We have season to
believe that our information is correct:, and that
the President is looking toward* Virginia fora
successor. Mr. Tazewell or Mr Stevenson is
thought of; but probably some circumstances
must be regarded before a decision is made be
tween these two gentlewa, or among the nu
merous aspirants to departmental honors.
Curious Fact.—Sunday is the Christian's
day of publie worship, Monday is the Grecian's,
Tuesday is ffie Persians’, Wednesday is the As
syrian’s, Thursday is the Egyptian’s, Friday is
the Turk’s, and on Saturday is the Jew’s. 1
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18.
Robbery Extraordinary.
By yesterday morning's mail from Col umbus,
Georgia, a handbill, of which the following is ■
a copy, was received in this city, besides some
fetters, from one ot which xve make the extract <
subjoined. This is certainly, from present ap
pearances, one of the most extraordinary rob
beries that has ever transpired in this country,
and we shall await further developemenls with
considerable anxiety, tor we confess ourself
wholly unable to conceive how "three or more
men," could, in a dark room, in the centre of a
populous town, immediately on a principal
thoroughfare, at eight o'clock in the evening of
a bright, beautilul night, seize aud gag two offi
cers of an institution before they could give the
alarm to the inmates overhead, or the passen
gers on the street.
$5,000 Reward.—The office of the Western
Insurance and Trust Company, of the city of
Columbus, was entered on the evening ofthe
14th inst., while the officers were closing the
vault for the day, by three or more men, dis
guised, who securing the officers, robbed the
Institution oi the fbllowting Bank notes, and
property as far as can be determined at this
time, viz:
American and Georgia Gold, abouts9,ooo
Notes on Augusta Insurance and Bank-
ing Company, Brunswick Bank, Me
chanics' Bank of Augusta, and Bank
of Charleston, aboutl2,soo
Central Bank notes'4,7oo
Notes of Columbus B’k and other claims
'on said Bank. . 1 »175
A package containing various memoran
da of moneys in the hands of agents,
&c., amounting to about2,4oo
$29,775
In addition to the above, there was taken
various packages held as special depo
sites, some containing Bank notes, a
mong which were the following, viz:
Package containing Bank <4 Charleston
notes SIB,OOO
do do do Darien taxesl4,ooo
The packages of special depositee not enu
merated, contained probably 10 or $15,000.
The above rewani will be given for th* re
covery of the lost money or property, or a pro
portionate part for any portion thereof, or for
information that will lead to the recovery of it.
ROBERT B. MURDOCK, Sec’y.
April 15,1843.
The following is an extract of a fetter, dated
•‘Columbus, April 15,1843.
“The office of the Western Insurance and
Trust Company, was entered last night by arm
ed men, disguised, at 8 o’clock, while the offi
cers, Murdock and Bass, were closing the
vault; the light extinguished, the officers gagged
and held down in the vault by main force, and
left lacked up in the vault.
“A reward of $5,000 is offered. A part of
the funds were found this morning.—There is
much excitement: the officers were released
from the vault about 11 o’clock ai night, much
■exhausted.”
Straw Bonnets, Palm Hate, <Scc.
We take gr eat pleasure in calling the attention
•stf city and country merchants to the card ot W.
Birch, of New York. To those, who like
t&e writer, have known Mr. B. for a series of
years, no commendation of his sterling charac
ter, his strict honesty, and his devoted business
habits would be necessary; but there are many
who do not know him, and to such we commend
him and his establishment as every way worthy
of their confidence and patronage. We know
him well and intimately, and have for years,
and we repeat, it affqrds us great pleasure to
icommend such a man to the kind regards of the
mercantile community.
Mr. Schoolcraft. —It was stated the other
<itay, says the Journal of Commerce, that this
gentleman, who has for eighteen years been
acti»g as Indian Agent, had been sued as a de
faulter in the sum of about seventeen thousand
■doUacs. That is true still Mr. S. should iiot
be set down as a defaulter, for the question be
tween him and the Government is only one of
the allowance of certain sums of money, which
it is not disputed have been actually paid. The
suit, therefore is to settle principles, and deter
mine whether any, and if any, what balance is
due.
In other words, the object of the suit is to as
certain whether the ccart will decrae that Mr.
Schoolcraft shall rob the Government to the ex
tent he contends he has a right to do.—En.
Chkon.
Jj-The follcrwing gentlemen were yesterday
elected Director’s of the Georgia Insurance &
Trust Company, for the ensuing year.
Edward Thoma*, G. T. Dortic,*
Andrew J. Miller,. Geo. M. Newton,
Wm. E. Jackson, Lemuel Dwelle,
Thos. Barrett, David L. Adam*.
Pleasant Stovall,
At a subsequent meeting of the Board, Ed
ward Themas was re-elected President, and the
following gentlemen appointed Directors ot the
Bank of Brunswick, (owned by said Company,
and removed to Augusta under an act of the
last Legislature,) for the ensuing year:
Edward Thomas, President.
A. J. Miller.
William E. Jackson,
Thomas Barrett,
G. T. Dortic.
Shipman, the Absconding Messenger.—
The Pittsburg Sun of the 11th says .in a Post
script: “Shipman arrived in this city on Sun
day morning last, and immediately started on
ths steamboat Express, for Cincinnati. Me re
gistered his name as “Mr. Johnson, of New
York." Nothing was known of the fraud,
while he was in the city. The police got the
first intimation of the matter yesterday, twenty
four hours toolate. He is doubtless on his way
to Texas.”
The Hon. Richard M. Johnson is a candidate
for Congress from the Lexington, Ky., district,
in opposition to the Hon. Garret Davis.
Threatened Removal ofthe Post Master
at Cincinnati.—The report has been here,
says the Cincinnati Correspondent of the Bal
timore Patriot of tha 10th inst., for some time,
that Col. W. H. A. Taylor, son-in-law of the
late President Harrison, is to be turned out of
office as Postmaster in this cityl This I assure
you is not an idle rumor, for I know that the in.
cumbent has been expecting to reeeiwe from the
Department an official notice oi his removal
by every eastern mail that has arrived within
the last two weeks. Col. T. is an efficient offi
cer, and is deservedly held in universal respect
by our citizens. A better man could rsot fill the
office he now holds. His fate is considered
sealed, even by himself.
Shipwruck.—The brig Glide, Capt. Pray, of
Mount Desert, Maine, left Barbadoes on the
14th of January for Laguna. On the: 26th Jan
uary, being thick the brig went ashore on a reef
7 miles, from the Island of Carikum, <»n the East
coast at Yucatan. Captain P. and c rew saved
nothing but the chronometer, and prut of their
clothing, only a barrel of bread, and one barrel
of water, and went along the coast 8 0 miles in
their boat, before they could find aniy inhabi
tants, some days having only one biscuit to sub
sist upon.
£5” An editor out West in speaking of tire
miserable policy pursued by newspaperpu blish
ers in giving their patrons so long a eredit, says
it is a uniform system of Bankruptcy w itluut
the sanction of Congress.
£s= The Washington correspondent -of the
Philadelphia U. S. Gazette states that Mr.
Proffit has been appointed lull Minis ’.er to
Brazil.
5> It is announced in the Lexington .(Ky.)
Observer ofthe sth instant that Mr. Clay w ould
address the people at the next Fayette co unty
Court, (Monday, the 10th instant,) at 12o’cl ock,
in vindication ofthe Whig party and binise. If >n
support of certain meosurfai which have b
recently assailed.
VOL. VII.—NO. 16.
Two Day* Later from Hiiglaud.
The packet ship South America, at New
York arrived from Liverpool on the 7th March.
The packet ship George Washington arrived
at Liverpool on the sth—making the passegr
from New York in 24 days.
In the manufacturing districts, for the week
ending 4th, there had been very little doing. Em
ployers were reducing wages, and some deserip*
lions of coarse goods were in demand.
McNaughten, the man who deliberately shot
Mr. Drummond, the Secretary of Sir Robert
Peel, has been acquitted on the ground ol iasaa
ity. The trial excited a great deal of interaM,
and the Morning Post of the sth, expresses its
opinion in lavor of the verdict, as being a very
proper one under the circumstances.
The debates in the French Chaamber of
Deputies had been unusually animated, and had
resulted in favor of the Soult-Guizot Miaiatxy.
Upon the bill appropriating secret service moa
ey, a test vote had been had, and the Ministry
were triumphant. An amendment was to ths
effect, that the additional million of fran«s re
quired for detecting conspiraeies, and paving
spies and journalists, be reduced to nine hun
dred and fifty thousand. Upon the grant or de
nial of fifty thousand francs, the fate of the ad
ministration depended. The amendment was
rejected by a vote of 212 to 197; a majority which
created the utmost sensation. The bill after
wards passed by a vote 244 to 155.
At Dublin on the 3rd the great Repeal debate
in the Chamber of the Town Council was
brought to a close. On the house being divided
on the question the vote stood. C
For O’Connell’s motion f4l
Against it, including the Lord Mayor’s vote. 4$
Majority in tavor of ‘separation’ 2C
On llie numbers being announced, the Liber
ator assured the ‘lwemy ; j|jx' that liicir names
should be inscribed upon a column in CoUeges
gieen, and handed down to posterity in the im
perishable record of Irish History. He then
moved that a committee should be appointed
from the majority, to prepare the draught of a
petition to Parliament for a repeal of the Union.
H. B. M. frigate Modeste had arrived with
$1,000,000, of the China treaty money, and also
the Columbine with $750,000 on the same ac
count.
A Belfast paper states that th* Rev. Joseph
Dickey, Minister of the Third Presbyterian
Congregation, while preaching at Rathfrilandi
was shot in the pulpit by some assassin who
fired a gun through a window.
The Gazette of last night contains the Quar
terly average of the weekly liabilities and assets
of the Bank of England, from Dec. 3d to Feb.
25th; which shows the following results—
Liabilities. Assets.
Circulation.£l9,739,oo6 Securities. .£22,695,000
Deposites ... 11,205,000 8u11i0n10,945,000
£30,305,000 £38,640 008
Compared to the last published of the 2d Feb. it
appears that the circulation has increased £397,-
000—the deposits £7BB,ooo—the securities £l,-
023,000—the bullion £240,000.
Liverpool Cotton Market, March 4—We
had improved demand for Cotton this morning,
and a good extent of business was done at steady
prices. The sales, inclusive of 2000 American,
taken on speculation, amounted to 6000 bale.
Bunker Hill Monument.—The completion
of this edifice will be celebrated in Charlestown
on the 17th of June next. The Boston Times
states that the work on the Square, such as gra
ding, fencing, and laying four flights of stone
steps, one on each side of the square, will be re"
sumed in a few days.
Correspondence qf the BalUmore American.
“Cumberland, April 14, 7 A. M.
“Gentlemen— This town is overflowed by one
ofthe greatest freshets we ever experienced, aud
the Potomac River is still rising, caused by the
melting ofthe large quantities of snow on the
mountains, brought down upon us suddenly by
a heavy fall of rain. All is in confusion—peo
ple are being taken out ot their houses by boats."
g-j- George Cruikshank, caricaturing the Lou
don Post Office, says: “A gentleman in London
having received a newspaper enveloped, with
the inscription ‘■time flies' on the seal, was charg
ed full fetter postage on account of information
contained on the wrapper!' ’
Interesting to Girls.—When a boat ar
rives at any *£ the landings in lowa, having
young ladies on board, the bachelors crowd and
hover about, after the manner of New York or
Charleston cabmen, and sing out “Have a hus
band Miss'!—have a husband!"
The Mutineers or the San Antonio.—ll
will be remembered by most of our readers, that
in February 1842, a mutiny broke out on the
Texian Schooner San Antonio, lying at New
Orleans, in which Lieut. Fuller was killed, and
two other officers wounded. —The mutiny was
quelled, and nine of .'he ring-leaders confined in
the parish jail of New Orleans, where the most
of them have been kept until the last few days,
when they where delivered up to Commodore
Moore, upon the requisition of the President oi
Texas. A court martial is now being held on
board the flag ship Austin, for the purpose ot Hy
ing them, and from the testimony given on the
first day, the Tropic thinks there is but little doubt
that they will be condemned. One of the pris
oners named Sheppard has volunteered himsell a
witness on the part of the prosecution, and as his
testimony is quite interesting, we subjoin a por
tion of it. It appears that Oswald the'Sergeaut
of Marines, was the principal instigator and
leader. The plot was first broached at the. Island
ofMugeres, or Woman’s Island, on the eastern
shore Yf Yucatan, where the San Antonio and
the San Bernard had gone to take in water. The
attempt u'.is to be made by the crews of both
vessels acting in conjunction to capture both
schooners, take them to Vera Cruz and dispone
of them to the Mexicans.
In this first obvetthe mutineers were frustra
ted by an occurre «ce of circumstances, and in a
few weeks the San .Antonio reached N. Orleans.
The second night aft er h* r arrival, when Capt.
Seeger and most of th<? officers were on shore,
the crew mutinied, in a ccurdance with previous
determination. The fatal results are already
known to our readers. li‘ appears from the tes
timony of Sheppard, who was .the attendant oj
Pumpelly at the time of his death in prison, that
the latter was the murderer of Lijut. Fuller.
But a few hours before hus death he Coasted ol
the deed, and declared he shot him in icvenge,
because he had ‘given him a dozen,’ when he
thought he did not deserve it.— Mobile Herald.
Packet Ship Switzerland Safe.—lt affords
us much pleasure to report the safe arrival of
the missing packet ship Switzerland, Captain
Chadwick, from London, for wliose safety fears'
were entertained. The Switzerland put into
Newport, R. 1., on Sunday last, and left again
yesterday for this port. She left Portsmouth oa
ihe 12th of December, and put back to Deal ei
ther on the 14th or 15th; sailed again on the2oth,
ai.xl was off the Isle of Wight late in theeveu
ing'of that day; since which nothing had been
hea; ti h er until l he arrival of the steamboat
this morning from Newport. Our Newport
corres pendent reports that the Switzerland was
eleven days >“ the Channel, and was short of
provisio when she reached Newport; and had
been on s bort allowance for forty days. The 8.
has had a boisterous passage. From February
3d to 17th ?ight Easterly winds, ship in latitude
40 30 N lon titude 54 W.; it then blew a perfect
gale from W N. W. to W. S. W. till March
4th ship in lat itude 40 58, longitude 50 W. it
commenced bio wing heavy from the W. which
lasted till April Uh. The S. has two cabin and
eighteen steerage passengers,— N. Y. Com.
Later From Ml ’Xico.—By the schooner Vir
ginia Antoinette, t-'apl Delvaille, which left
Tampieo on the 29th ult., we have intelligence
somewhat later than (Hir last. One thousand
troops arrive! at Tamp*® o on the 24th ult., and
an embargo was laid on the vessels in port for
the purpose of cohveying' soldiers to Yuca
tan, to assist in the operau’ons against Gain pea
chy, &c. This embargo, .however, after stand
ing for tour day®, was withd.*®wn,ai>d the troops
were ordered back to Mataim Has.
It is anticipated that large atuonnts of specie
will be coming now from Mex ico to the United
States, an account of the (iper cent tax which
is to go into effect npon the first oV June.— N. Q.
Picayune of l'2tk.
Most Distressino Occurrence. —We are
just informed of a most melancholy accident
that took place on one of the prariee in the
western part of the State. A family <»f emigrant*
eleven in number, while on their way to lowa
were frozen to death in their wagon. The hors
es stopped at a house when the inmates not see
ing any one alight from the wagon, were induced
by mere curiosity to make acloser examination.
Upon looking into the wagon they were horror
stricken at the appalling spectacle which pre
sented itself to their view. The father and nine
children were lying dead in the bottom ci the
wagon, the mother, probably the last stuvWl*,
was sitting up and holding the reins as if diiwlt*.
We did not learn the name of this unfortUMJe
family, or from what [>ait of the country ftaiy
removing.”— Pekin (JU.) Pollad., 224 uU.
Whole Soles vs. Hole Soles.— There is
much truth in the following pleasant little wrup
which wc find in an exchange:
“It often happens in the world that tlio-w who
go wholc-uiUd nave leas soul, than those who *-
Mesoled, having >M their sfeik solely to fcoep
their sefes whole.”