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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 21.
“The Occident, and American Jewish
Advocate,” is the title of a new and very neat
monthly periodical of sixty pages, edited by
Isaac Lesser, of Philadelphia; the receipt cf
the firstnumber of which, weacknowledge from
one of its patrons. As its title imports, it is de
voted to the promulgation of the religious teiiels
and faith of the Jews, and has been commenced
■with the two-fold purpose of sustaining a me
dium of communication among the Israelites of
new and old world, and disseminating light
and truth with regard to their religion. To the
Jews, particularly, it must become a work of
great interest; and to those who desire to be
made familiar with their tenets, it cann Jt rail to
impart much and valuable information, if the
future numbers of the wotk are sustained with
the same mi Idness and ability, that mark the first,
an ability which will commend it to the lavora
ble consideration of both Jews and Christians. —
Terms, $3 per annum. Mrs. Rebecca C.
Moise has been appointed agent for Augusta.
Pennsylvania Bans Charters. —Bills have
passed both Houses of the Legislature and arc
now in the hands of the Governor lor his signa
ture to re-charter the follow ing banks.
The Southwark Bank.
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank,
The Bank of the Northern Liberties,
The Farmers Bank of Reading,
The Fanners Bank of Bucks county,
The Bank of Montgomery county.
What a Daguerreotype sketch of Locofocoism
does these facts present! Before the people they
are the exclusive friends ‘of a hard currency,
and when in power no party is so unscrupulous
in their support of Banks and Bank charters,
or so ready to charter new Banks. How long
will honest, thinking men be gulled by such a
party?
A Desperate Case—Ourexchanges all tell
about Parson Miller “lying desperately ill.”
Desperately ill, or desperately well he has been
ZyrngitesperafcZy this longtime.
Glynn County Court.—The Savannah Re
publican of Monday says:—Our readers are 11-
ware that no Superior Court has been held in
Glynn for sometime past. At the assemblingof
the bar at the Court House on Monday last, it
was found that the newly elected Sheriff, Mr.
Piles, had not yet received his commission. In
this emergency his honor Judge Henry stated the
ease and called upon any citizen who was so dis
posed to stand forth and be qualified to serve pro
tempore in obedience to a late act ofthe Legisla
ture. James Hamilton Couper, Esq. came for
ward in answer to the call, was constituted Sher
iff, dnd the court proceeded to such business as
it was enabled to transact.
This voluntary act of Mr. Coupers. strikes us
as being one of the handsomest things, one ofthe
the most noted instances of self sacrifice tor the
public zoo rfhnt we have heanl of tn these de
generate times. Such profound respect and sub
mission to the supremacy of the laws, can only
be entertained by the lofty and generous in soul
and it requires some knowledge of the condition
of affairs in Glynn county, to beable to appreci
ate fully the painful and delicate duly which Mr.
Couper has thus assumed, It is refreshing while
our ears are filled with daily instances of gross
misconduct to witness such elevation of princi
ple.
Prom the N. O. Pirayur.e.
A Count in Trouble.
The fellow who calls himself Count Barato,
and who has been delivering lectures at the
Athenaeum on Greece, received a most unmer
ciful but well-merited dogging on Thursday
night last.
ft seems that the scoundrel, while boarding
at a highly respectable house in the city, com
mitted a gross outrage upon a family residing
at the same place. The circumstances were
kept unknown to the father of the family uni
day before yesterday, when thinking the Count
had lett town, the wife disclosed the tacts to her
husband.
But it would tippear that the rascal had not
as yet taken his departure. On the contrary,
he had advertised a lecture at the Athenaeum lor
Thursday evening, and hearing of this circum
stance, the husband, accompanied by a friend,
waited upon him at that establishment. He
had no sooner concluded a hurried address to
some dozen individuals, than he was politely
requested by the two gentlemen above mention
ed to accompany them. They escorted him to
the house where he had committed the outrage,
and after threatening him with the severest pun
ishment, made him confess his guilt and ask
pardon of the! offended family on his knees.—
They next compelled him to take off both coat
and vest, and then telling him to throw his arms
round a bed-post, a colored servant was ordered
to lash him with a cowhide. This castigation
was continued until the fellow fairly cried aloud
from agony. He was then released, after being
told to leave the city the next morning, unless
he was desirous of receiving even a worse
dose.
The outrage this Barato perpetrated was of
the most gross description, and really entitled
him to a punishment far more severe than he
received. He is doubtless an impostor, and the
statements of Byron having died in his arms,
and of his being a Count, have all been made by
himself. We yesterday heard it stated that he
was the servant of some real foreign Count who
died in Havana a short time since, and after the
death of nis master, he is said to have stolen his
clothes, money and jewels, and “cut a swell"
with them as long as they lasted, at New York.
We have never heard the fellow’ lecture, but
have been told he gives a piteous recital of the
sufferings of the Greeks in their struggle for in
dependence. He now has capital materials for
a lecture upon the sufferings of a Greek in N.
Orleans.
Ct'S. A. Holmes has laid on our table,
"Pietre Landais, or the Tailor of Brittany,” an
historical tale of the fifteenth century; translat
ed from the French. Also, Lectures on Mod
em History, by Thomas Arnold, D. D.
Correspondence of the Picayune.
Havana, April 6th, 1843.
Accompanying this you will receive the
"Faro” of the same date, containing the trial,
sentence and execution of the negroes taken as
participants in the recent revolt at Carnes, in
this island. You will perceive that eight of
them have been beheaded ! I learn from a gen
tleman who arrived from there yesterday, that
tlie loss and destruction of life are immense.—
Negroes who took no part in the insurrection,
and who had no knowledge ot its contemplation,
became alarmed when they saw the hurrying,
in “hot haste,” to and fro, of the soldiers and the
armed white civilians; they fled to the woods
with the actual conspirators, and were with them
indiscriminately put to death. Independently
of those who have been or are to be executed,
in compliance with the sentence of the court
martial, not less than five hundred of them have
been shot in the melee or have hung themselves.
You will find among lhe papers I send the
Mexican official account of the escape ot the
Texan prisoners, and of the recapture, alas! of
the greater portion of them. Mr. Packenham,
the English ex-minister at Mexico, is now here,
on his way to England. The Magtera, in which
was his successor, Mr. Doyle, was wrecked on
Bare Bush Key, near Port Royal Jamaica —one
boy lost; her crew have been brought here by the
British man of war Warspite, Lord Hav : they
are about to proceed to England in the Thames
steamer, which has arrived from Vera Cruz
with $381,000 in specie on board.
TberurercMc by the Alabama arrived here
in “good order and condition," as the invoice
reported; and thermometer of tjie public mind,
in relation to the approaching races, is rising
daily. To the Habaneros the racing will be a
novel feature in their catalogue ol amusements,
and to the Americans who come over, the Valdes
Course will present attractions, independent of
the mere-sports of tbeturt, which they little
dream, ot in. their plilosopby D 0
number ot votes taken in the city of
New York at the late eleetion for Mayor was
nearly 45,000, being a much larger vote than
ever before given. The majority of Mr. Mor
ris over Mr. Smith was 5,917.
TheCabinet.—The last rumor from Wash
ington is that Judge Upshur is to take the De
partment of State, which is shortly to be vacated
by Mr. Webster, and that Mr. Cushing is to be
appointed Secretary of the Navy.
Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Milledgeville, April 12, 1843.
Tb the Editor of the Chronicle <f- Se dinel:
Below I hand you the names of the drawers
of land and gold lots, who reside in Burke coun
ty, and who have not taken out their grants. If
not granted by the first of July next, the lands'
revert to the State.
cold lots in lottery or 1832— drawers in
BURKE COUNTY, INGRANTED.
Isaiah Barrer, Absalom Kinsey,
John Owens, Elizabeth Sumner,
Stephen Blount, Jesse Night,
David Hall, Janies Cross,
Margaret Ronaldson, Wm Proctor,
Charles M Hill, Richard Ohoin,
Charles Sapp, Henry A Paris,
Uriah Skinner, sr. John Naisworth,
Elizabeth T Wanton, Green B Red,
Wm Byne, Charles F Segur,
Lewis Whitfield, sr. Arthur Royall,
James Chance, John Watts,
Nath L Sturgess, J Reddick’s orphans,
Elizabeth Hodges, Robert W Daniel,
Joab T Rowell, Luvisy Williams,
Sherrod Tomlin, Jeremiah W Burke,
Hurias Liptrot, Eliz M Whitehead,
W Sconyer’s orphans, Dempsey, Barnes, sr.
John Bates, Jesse Coleman,
E Kersey’s orphans, Hurst’s orphans,
B Warnock’s orphans, Simeon Hutchins,
Mack Wimberly, Andrew Scott,
Elizabeth Ussery, Benjamin Oliver,
Collin Barfield, Henry S Jones,
Wm R West, Hardy V Wot ten,
Ezekiel Deal, Jane Williams,
Peter Matthews, Matthew' Jones,
Abraham Walker, Thomas J Dickson,
Jesse H Lively, Wm B Douglass,
Wm Rollins, James Royt, sr.
John Cates, R Ratliff’s orphans,
Elisha Hayman, Celia Barley,
Lewis Wimberly, sr. John Dillarii,
John T Clements, Elizabeth Long,
Reb & Thos Sorsbee, Wilson J Burch,
Wm Dixon, Thos Burke, sr.
James W Taylor, Herv P Jones,
Thos S Bourkc, H Eulgem's orphans,
Benjamin Oliver, Johua S Treadwell,
James Ward, John S Mitchell,
W Umnhrey’s orphans,Wm Owen,
Amos Sanderford, Hezekiah Ponder,
John Brinson, jr. James Liptrot,
Daniel Oglesby, John Conner,
Wm Sanderford, Sarah Ann Stephens,
Emily E Few, Thos Skinner, jr.
Wm W Hughes, John Roberts,
James Patterson, Patrick G Dickey,
James Harrell, John Monroe,
Richard Foales, Bartley Sconyerj,
Powell Godby, Isaac Holton,
Charles McCan, E Farmer’s orphans,
Jefferson Roberts, John McCoy,
David Taylor, Jeremiah Vinson,
Seaborn H Peterson, Jos Robinson,
Henry Chance, James Me Nair,
Alex J Lawson, Stephen Mills,
Matilda Hatcher, Catharine Audutor,
WmWS Knight, Sol Godbey,
E Thomas’ orphans, M Cox’s orphans,
Mary Lamb, J Goulding’s orphans,
Richard Thomas, John Farmer,
Charles A Burton, John Watkins,
Jonathan Johns, Adam Wallace, sr.
Moses T Proctor, Morrise Nicolas,
John R Leverett, Wm Dixon,
Edward Luke, Lawson Clinton,
Patrick McCan, Christian Shults,
Thos Wood, Wm Gillstrap,
Benj E Mobley, Fielding J Brown,
Henry Nicholas, David Barnes,
Mourning Moore, Enoch Byne,
Peter Matthews, Geo Tilly’s orphans,
Peter Allday, John Pemall,
Putney Georg®, Benj Lightfoot,
Robert Skinner, Thos Cosnahan,
John Mallard, Hezekiah Young,
James Clarke. Thomas Wise,
Peter J Gordy, Thomas Ward,
E G Kirkland, Rhesa McCroan,
Wm Jones, S Tarber’s orphans,
Letha Baxter, Mary Allen,
Holden Barber, Wm W Maund,
Hamilton Watson, Abram Proctor,
Henry Bird, Chas Waters,
Daniel M Farrow, Robert Tarver,
Adam Brinson, Samuel Dowse,
Famell’s children, Jessy Hardwick,
Charles M Hill, Wm Vann,
David Dixon, John S Gregory,
Peter J Gordy, Godbey’s orphans,
Francis Ward, John Watts,
Alaiff Gaines, Mary Ann Cook,
Richard Foales, Jacob Collins,
Elizabeth Stone, Turner Scarborough,
Ralsman Hill, Evan Lewis,
Geo W Pierce, sr. Jeremiah Allen,
Charles Baxter, John Elliott,
Brannon Cole. Henry F Farmer,
Joh Elliott, John Moxley,
Reuben Duke, Amos Wiggins,
Jos Cates, J McCroan’s orphans,
Wm B Ballard, Moses Hanbury,
Isaiah Sapp, Reason Lindsey,
John Sapp, Benj Buxton,
William Mulkey, Wesley W Reese,
Z L F Tomlin, James Cross, jr.
John Duke, • Ephraim Noles,
John Hines, sr. Benj Moxley,
Nicholas Reddick, Stephen Haymans,
Dempsey Murray. Mary Ballard,
Lewis P Tipier, Perrin Scarborough.
Henry McNorrill,
Grant fees and commissions for land lots S 3.
“ “ “ “ “ gold “ $3.
In all cases specie funds
Fee for giving information about value and
situation of lots, otic dollar.
Letters must be post paid.
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD.
From the N. O. 'Tropic.
Logic.—“l have corn and want pork, my
neighbor has pork and wants corn: we exchange:
that is FVee 'Trade." A correspondent informs
us that this incontrovertible piece of logic illu
minates the pages of Kendall’s Expositor. Adam
Smith would wince under it, and Jean Baptiste
Say would say no more on political economy.
It is clear reasoning—almost tangible. There
is all the wisdom of Bacon in the thought, and
the precision of Locke in (he expression. But
however we must praise the vivid conception
and the terse conveyance of the same to the
breasts of unenlightened Democrats, yet there is
an error, more by implication than really appa
rent on its face. Suppose Farmer A. has corn,
and Farmer B. pork. B. wants the corn and
A. the pork, but the latter, though willing to “ex
change”—perfectly willing to exchange, says:
“B. you must let hie have your corn delivered,
flee ot expense, but you must pay a kind of turn
pike toll tor my pork.” Could tl;e legal cranium
of Mr. Kendall distort this transaction into an
“exchange?” But absurdity is the badge of all
their tribe. “We do not want your‘filthy’ to
bacco,” says France, “and if you want to send
it to our ports you must pay more duties on it
than you can sell your staple for. We’ll shut it
out ot our ports.” Johnny Bull roars the same
at our bread stuffs, and his" cry has ever been in
accordance with the following Cabinet song by
the Tory editor North, in his Nodes Ambro
siance:
“Ye that honor the laws that our forefathers made,
And would not see the laurels they twined for us fade,
Nor would yield up your ureoth for the amt of free trade, 1
Join join in our chorus, and let lhe world ring;
With our commerce and glory—and ‘God save the
King!”
From the Roman (Oneida County') Citizen.
Horrible—a mother and childstarved to
death.—On Saturday last a gentleman brought
toour village the following heart rending account.
An Irishman with his family some time since
took up his residence in Florence, in this county,
4 or 5 miles from the village, and a mile from any
neighbor. Last summer the man was killed by
the falling of a tree, leaving a wife and three
small children. Left thus alone, the poor woman
managed to sustain herself and Ijttle ones com
fortably, till winter With its severity came upon
her. The deep snow shut her up within her lit
tle shanty, and she was soon forgotten by the
world without. One of her near neighbors chanc
ing lo call her to mind, put on snow shoes, and
proceeded to her house nearly bit ried in the snow.
With much difficulty he succeeded in entering,,
and then, what a scene!
In one corner lay the lifeless, emaciated body
of the mother. The suffering spirit had fled.
By the side of the mother’s corpse lay the three
children, just gasping in the last stage of starva
tion. They were immediately taken to the neigh
bor's house and supplied with food. But in oae,
life was toofarspent. It soon joined its mother.
The others have recovered.
Not a mouthful of food was found in the house
the poor, faithful to the impulses of a mother’s
heart, had for days borne the keen pains of hun
ger, without tasting food, that she might give all
of her scanty store to herstarving children. She
lived to see them devour the last crumb, then laid
herself down and yielded to the agonies of death
by starvation.
Prom. Bicknell's Reporter.
The Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain.
From a new work recentlypublished in Dublin,
by W. C. Taylor, D. D. Received at the
office of Bicknell’s Reporter.
The history of the Cotton manufacture in
England is without a parallel in the annals of
any age or country. In the beginning of the
reign of George HI., it gave employment to for
ty thousand persons, and the value of the goods
produced was £600,000; it now employs not less
than fifteen hundred thousand persons, and the
value of the goods produced exceeds thirty-one
millions. It is difficult to form a conception of
the extent of such a manufacture; but the fol
lowing calculations may help our readers to an
intelligible idea of its' vastness. The Cotton
yam annually spun in England would, in a sin
gle thread, girdle the globe 203,755 times—it
would reach 51 times from the earth to the sun;
and it would encircle the earth’s orbit eight
times and a half. The wrought fabrics of cot
ton exported in one year would girdle the equa
torial circumference of the globe eleven limes.
The cotton manufacture furnishes one half of
British employs ane-eleventh of our
population, and supplies almost every nation
in the world with some part of its clothing.—
The receipts of the merchants and manufactur
ers from this single branch of industry equal
two-thirds of the public revenue of the king
dom.
The folly of the opposition to machinery was
never so forcibly displayed as in the history of
the cotton trade; at this moment, when machines
have been invented which enable one man to
produce as much yam as three hundred men
could have produced at*the accessWn
HI., which enable one man and one boy to print
as mhny goods as a hundred men and a hundred
boys could have produced then—when steam
engines perform the work of 33,000 horses, and
water mills of 11,000 horses —so far is manual
labor from being superseded, that the number of
operatives has increased from forty thousand to
one million and a half. Nor has this 'increase
been accompanied by diminution of comfort to
the families of the operatives; the amount paid
in wages among the whole of the old operatives
(40,000 in number) was but £22o,ooo—that is,
little more than 2s a week each. Let this state
of things be compared with the following esti
mate of the annual expenditure for cotton man
ufacture, which was made in the year 1838 :
Value.
Consumption of cotton in 1838.... £19,604,166
Wages paid—operatives in spinning
factories 8,659,593
Po wet-loom weavers 2,946,000
In bobinet and hosiery trade 1,650,000
Printers 9,360,000
Hand-loom weavers 280,000,12 s gross 8,596,000
Replacing machinery, 8 years taken
at the rate of increased capital.... 4,312,500
Interest on increased capital, £62,-
000,000 3,100,000
Add for all other charges, oil, gas,
flour, clerks, counting-houses, &?.,
say 4,000,000
9000 capitalists or masters, at wages,
chief workmen, say £'7s per annum,
yearly.. 675,000
Yearly expenditures£62,9o3,2s9
There is too much uncertainty in the data
which we possess to hazard a conjecture res
pecting the number of operatives between whom
these eight millions and a half of wages were
divided; but in 1835 we calculated, from docu
ments no longer in our possession, that the num
ber of operatives had been increased thirty-sev
en fold, since the commencement of the reign
of George 111., and the rate paid to
each individual workman more than quadrupled.
The author thus sums up the argument on
this interesting question:
The operations described in the preceding
chapter are conducted in factories or mills,
which may be defined “buildings in which ma
chines of great power are at work to facilitate
and abridge human labor.” The first great er
ror vulgarly committed respecting factories, is
the supposition that the abridgment of physical
labor is in any way identical with diminution of
employment: wherever there is any use made
ot mechanical contrivance, a necessity is crea
ted for mental superintendence—a demand is
produced for intelligence rather than physical
strength, and, consequently, employment is va
ried, but not diminished. It is an undeniable
fact, that the number of persons employed in
the, cotton rnanulacture has been increased in
the exact proportion that machinery has been
improved, and that the general rate of wages,
on an average of years, has increased, while the
cost of production has been diminished.
The Madisonian in Distress!
The following letter, from the Editor of Capt.
Tyler’s organ at Washington, was addressed to
A. M. Barber, Esq., who had been removed from
the Cooperstown Post Office several months be
fore the letter was received:—
Washington City, j
Madisonian Office, March 5, 1843. [
Dear Sir:—Trusting that you are friendly to
the Administration, and disposed to aid in giv
ing circulation to the organ which is devoted to
a defence of its principles and measures, I have
presuuted to solicit your assistance.
The President, in taking the position so suc
cessfully maintained by Jefferson and Madison
in better days, has been vilified and calumniat
ed without measure, while but few presses were
found to utter a word in his defence. Such be
ing the case, 1 did not hesitate to expend my pri
vate fortune in the cause. I did it cheerfully,
and shall be compensated to see his cause tri
umphant in the end.
But I have also been compelled to contract
many heavy debts, which will be the source of
much embarrassment, without other friends of
the Administration are willing to step forward
in the hour of need, and contribute to sustain
the Press.
It 10 weekly subscribers can be secured in
your vicinity during the nejt lew weeks, it will
be a sure indication that the call upon the friends
of Republican principles at this time has not
been made in vain.
Respectfully, your ob’t servant,
J. R. JONES,
Editor Madisonian.
P. S. The terms of the paper are: Daily, 810;
Semi-weekly, $5; Weekly, $2, in advance.
If you are satisfied the number of subscribers
mentioned can be procured, and can oblige me
by advancing the amount by return mail, it will
aid much in discharging the present pressing
demands on me. For such service, I shall al
ways hold myself in readiness to manifest my
gratitude by any means in my power.
Yours, J. R. J.
A. M. Barber, P. M., Cooperstown, N. Y.
Thus Mr. John Jones of the Madisonian,
goes about with his hat begging advances from
Postma.-ters for the support of a Tyler newspa
per at Washington ! — Albany Eve. Jour.
Suipman—The Cincinnati Message of Thurs
day last says:—“A New York police officer
passed through this city in pursuit of him on
Tuesday, and on Wednesday morning another
from Philadelphia got along. It will be along
chase before they catch him, as he had twodays
start of them', and will use all possible speed ta
reach “ e’
Duel.—A duel was fought yesterday morning
between two young Creole gentlemen of Louisi
ana, Mr. Auguste Brusle and Mr. Eugene Mus
son. The weapons used were small swords. Ear
ly inthe,encounterMr. Bntsle received the weap
on of his antagonist in the rightbreast, the wound
being so severe that it was at once pronounced
fatal, and a report of his death was generally cur
rent. Happily, at a later hour yesterday after
noon he still survived, and hopes were entertain
ed that hemightrecover. A former meeting had
taken place between these gentlemen, in which
Mr. Musson was wounded, and the result of the
meeting yesterday was the more deplorable, as
the friends of the parties bad induced them to
consent that upon the first blood the affair should
end. Mr. M. received a slight wound yesterday
in the forehead, as we learn from the Courier of
last evening.—A" O. Picayune.
Guns and Gunpowder.—The power accumu
lated within a small space of gunpowder, is well
known; yet some of its effects under peculiar
circumstances are so singular, that an attempt to
explain them may perhaps be excused. If a gun
is loaded with a ball, it will not k.ck so much
as w-hen loaded with small shot: and amongst
different kinds of shot, that which is the small
est causes the greatest recoil against the skonlddr.
A gun loaded with a quantity of sand, equal in
weight to a charge of snipe-shot, kicks still more.
If, in loading, a space is left between the wadding
and the charge, the gun either recoils violently, or
bursts. If the muzzle of a gun has been acciden
tally stopped with clay, or even with snow, or it
it be fired with its muzzle plunged into the water
the most certain result is that it bursts. The ul
timate cause of these apparently inconsistent ef
fects is. that every force requires time to produce
its effect; and it the time requisite for the elastic
vapor w ithin to force out the sides of the barrel,
is less than that in the condensation of the air
near the wadding is conveyed in sufficient force
to drive the impediment from the muzzle, then
the barrel must burst and sometimes happens
that the barrel only swells, the obstacle giving
way before the gun is actually burst. Amer.
. Curious Charge.—The Madisonian says:—
“TheGlobejuntoroanagecapitallv. Thev man
age to obtain jobs of printing from the present
administration by means of bribery."
Which member of the administration has ac
t cepted of the bribe!— Phil. U.S. Gazette
AUGUSTA, GA THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1843.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 22.
Gen. James C. Watson, long a resident of
Columbus, Ga., died at Mount Meigs, Mont
gomery county, Ala., at the residence of his
son-in-law, Mr. Walker, on Friday night, 1401
instant.
Steam Packets. —The Britannia was to
leave Liver; 00l for Boston on the 4th instant,
and may be daily expected.
The Great Western was to leave Liverpool
for New Y’ork on the 15th instant, and will be
in about the 30th.
The Hibernia, (new) the packet of the 19th,
to be commanded by Capt. Judkins, will leave
Liverpool on Wednesday, the 19th, thus mak
ing three steam packets during the month of
April.
Jj- The Merchants’ Exchange, of N. York,
one of the finest buildings in the country, was
sold, at auction on Monday for $5,600, under an
execution for that sum. The property is sub
ject to incumbrances to the amount of $890,000
to $900,000. The rights of the stockholders to
the extent of $1,000,000 are thus cut off, unless
redeemed within 15 months. The entire cost
ot the property' was about $2,000,000.
The Jay Map Meetly;.
fife Philadelphia tli'at'a large ’
meeting was held in New Yoik on Saturday
evening, when Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Webster
delivered addresses. The meeting was held un
der the auspices of the New York Historical
Society, and in the Chapel of the University.—
The Jay Map, which was suspended over the
head of the chairman, was explained at length
by Mr. Gallatin. It seems, from the account,
that this map was one of those laid before the
Commissioners whp drew up the treaty of Pa
ris in 1783, and on it the disputed boundary is
represented by a red line marked “Mr. Oswald’s
line,” in the hand writingofMr. Jay.
Mr. Webster, on being called upon, “deliver
ed a speech of great interest and importance, m
which he reviewed the whole subject of negotia
tions which terminated in the Washington treaty,
and pointed out the inferences to which the new
ly discovered map led, and the additional light
which it shed on the questions connected with
the controversy setiled by the treaty.”
Xj” The suit cf the U. States against Jesse
Hoyt—formerly Collector of the Port of New
York, and now charged with being a defaulter
to the amount of s2oo,ooo—is before the Circuit
Court sitting in New York. The Herald says
that in the course of the trial twenty cart-loads
of books have to be examined, and about 70,-
000,000 of entries or items to be overhauled.—
During his Collectoi ship $80,000,000 of revenue
passed through Hoyt’s hands.
Sing Sing Prison.—lt is stated that this Insti
tution has been badly managed during the last
three years, and that it is in debt to the amount
ol 860,000. The state of its treasury is exposed
by the new Inspectors. There may be exagge
ration in the report, as political interests are at
the bottom of the matter.
Columbus, April 18th, 18*13
Hon. J. I. Moses, Mayor—
Sit: Since my last report, three patients have
recovered of Small-pox, two others are conva
lescent, and the remaining one is doing well.—
These constitute the whole number ol cases in
the city. No new case has occurred within the
last ten days, and I do nut doubt but we will be
able to confine the disease to the points where it
is now located. Respectfully,
Wm. S. CHIPLEY,
City Physician.
Sleep no More.—Mr. Robert Fleming Gour
lay announces through a Boston paper, that h
will deliver lectures on the art of living without
sleep. He asserts that he has not slept for the
last fifty-two months, and desires that a commit
tee be appointed to watch him night and day, to
convince themselves of the truth of his asser
tions. He proposes also to enliven his discourses,
which is to be divided into five parts, with songs
between each part.— North American.
Loss op the Buenos Ayrean Brig of War
San Martin.—Advices from Montevideo, re
ceived by the Boston Daily Advertiser, state
that on the morning of February 2d, the brig
San Martin, of 18 guns, belonging to the Bue
nos Ayres squadron, was wrecked on the rocks
at the entrance of the Montevideo harbor.
£~;The Cincinnati Gazette of the 13th says:
“Our Banks are doing nothing but receiving
and payingdeposites and renewing notes—the
sluggish remainder of their discount lines.—
The circulation is made up of Indiana .notes,
and those of a few of the more distant of the
Ohio Banks. Il is meagre, but what there is
of it is good, and we are glad that the spirit of
dcstructionism, which has closed our manufac
tories, wound up our Banks, and crippled our
tiade, has left us even this little remnant of our
prosperity.”
Alexander H. Stevens, M. D., has been
unanimously elected President of the College
of Physiciansand Surgeons in the city of New
York, in place of J. Augustine Smith, M. D.,
resigned.
Killing two birds with one stone.—lt is
said, that for a political salute of one hundred
guns, fired at Albany on Thursday, the Whigs
furnished the guns in honor of their success in
Albany, and the Democrats the powder, in hon
or of their victory in New York. This was
both good natured and economical.
Jj* The collections made in the city of New
York for the relief of the Guadaloupe sufferers,
already exceed S4OOO. The French Consul
General states that the number of persons kill
ed, wounded and crippled by the earthquake
exceeds 10,000.
The Rates of Postage.—lnstructions have
been received at the New York Post Ossie from
Washington. to charge pamphlet postage on all
the cheap j üblications of the day, issued as ex
tras. The postage on the weekly papers re
mains the same—the new regulation only af
fects the extras.
Prom the Richmond Compiler of the 17 th.
Great Rise in James River.
Saturday morning we stated the river had ris
en the evening before very high. It continued
to rise until a very late hour Saturday night,
when it was higher than at any former period
since 1795. It was22inches highei at Rocketts
than the great June Fresh of last year, which de
stroyed so much wheat and did so much injury
to the James River Canal. Yesterday, at dark,
it had fallen about three feet and a halt and was
retiring very gradually. The late heavy rains,
which have been very general, caused this fresh’
The destruction must be great. The packet
boat on the Canal, which left this place on Fri
day morning, only got as far as Maiden’s Ad
venture, and that due Saturday has not been
heard from. Nothing is yet known of the dam
age done the Canal, though we have reason to
hope that it is not so extensive as last June, the
river having risen, on the present occasion,’with
less rapidity. . . . .
A large portion of the wheat crop is hopelessly
destroyed—the deposite upon it bein'g so deep’as
to prevehf it Irom ever appearing. ' !
As far as could be ascertained last evening,
the Dock had suffered very little injury.-
Much plank wassweptaway irom the wharves
and considerable damage was sustained by the
stores in Rocketts, which were all more or less
inundated. Messrs. Haskins & Libby’s base
ment was between tour and five feet deep in wa
ter
The cellars at Market Bridge were ven’deep
in water, though little injury was sustained, ex
cept by Mr. Strecker, who had a considerable
amount of articles liable to injury from water,
inundated.
We hope for the best; but fear discouraging
reports of destruction from this great flood of wa
ters.
The same paper of the 18th says:
How far the great rise in the waters has pre
vailed, we do not know yet. Ot course, along
the entire James and most of its tributaries.—
We learn that Tye River and Hardware River
were very high, and suppose the Rivanna must
have been also very high. All these lie in
. wheat growing regions.
From* Nassau.
By the arrival at4®jihnah, on the 19th, of
the Br. schooner Jami me editors of the Repub
lican, have received riles of the Royal Gazette
to the 12th inst., from which they extract the
following items:
There is very intelligence in the
papers worth extracting. The schr. Jo/m Spof
ford, Capt. Spofford; bound for New Orleans,
with a cargo of Rice, went ashore on a reef off'
Umbrella Key, Abacfc, on the night ofthe 2d
inst. The cargo was saved in a damaged state,
and disposed of at Green Turtle Cay, on ac
count ol all concerned. .The vessel was a total
loss.
The steamer Capt? Hart, arrived al
Nassau on the Bth inst. from Havana, bringing
the missing mails ofUie 15th February and 18th
of March. Mr. PaCXf.nuam, the British Min
ister for Mexico, was it passenger, on his way
to England.
The Giizetteof the 15th ult. says: “Yesterdaj
the United States artpsd vessel Boxer, Lipjtt.
Bullus, commandint’iJkrived iron, a cruise, she
has, we understand, jieen in the neighborhood
ofthe Isle of Pines, (hat well known den for pi
ratical desparadoes. ft'e learn, that during the
Boxer’s short absence from this, that they had
fallen in with a vessel'fully answering the des
cription ofthe SanAfttomo, the vessel reported
to be in connection with the late conspirators on
board the Swim, aucUhat they were in chase
of her off and on iorjtwo days. On their first
noticing her, she close in with the
land, under li drew more near,
ded with men, when after getting within a
gun shot, immediately hauled to on a wind,
when the Boxer, proceeded in chase, and fired
two shots at her, but from light weather and
calms, she at length by sweeps, escaped from
them, by getting in among the intricate creeks
on that coast, where the Boxer could not ven
ture.
Nassau, Aprilß.
It would appear by the following extract,
from a letter just received from Capt. Silliman
of the American brig Rebecca, which vessel
was lying at anchor at Heneaugua, addressed
to the United States Consul here, that a pirati
cal cruizer, was lurking about between Santa
Cruz and Trinidad.
From the knowledge we have of the Master
of the Rebecca, we feel assured that he would
not state any thing but w hat was strictly correct.
We wish one ot our cruisers were within reach;
they would soon be able to give a flaming ac
count of her.
On board brig Rebecca, j
Heneaugua, March 27th, 1843. (
Timothy Darling, Esq.,
U. S. Consul, Nassau, N. P.
Dear Sir, —I am at anchor, waiting for even
ing, to make mv run from Crooked Island Pas
sage, bound to New York from Santa Cruz de
Cuba, six days out. I was informed by the
Pilot on leaving port, that a small coasting
schooner which arrived the evening previous to
my leaving-, had been boarded by a piratical
schooner, fore and aft rigged, with about fifty
men on board. I could not exactly understand
the place from the Pilot, but somewhere among
the Keys, to the westward of Sania Cruz to
wards Trinidad. This report determined me to
come to windward. I feel certain that this re
port can be relied upon. I came here th is more -
ing about 111 o’clock, A. M. Please make this
publie.
i am Sir. vour obedient servant,
J. A. SILLIMAN.
From the. Richmond Whig.
Tylerism.
The “Guillotine" is actively at work —besides
the old soldier, Gen. Van Rensselaer, at Alba
ny, whom even Jackson spared through respect
for his services and the blood he hail shert for
his country, removed from lhe Post Office with
out cause ailedged, to make room for Mr. Was
son, a Van Buren partizan—besides Gen. Van
Rensselaer, Sam’l W. Dotener, a Whig, has
been removed from the Post Office at Norwich,
Connecticut, no cause pretended. In Kentucky,
Mr. Redd has been removed from the Post Of
fice at Lexington, (put in by Gen. Harrison,)
and Mr. Ficklen, a violent Locofbco partizan,
put out for that reason by Gep. Harrison, re
stored. The especial object, no doubt, in this
case, was to spite Mr. Clay, Lexington being
his Post Office.—We published, on Saturday,
the removal of the Collector ot the Port of
Wilmington, N. C., put in office by Gen. Har
rison, to make room lor a brother-in-law of Mr.
Reircber who has rer-eptjj. v»li-*wl in theguard.
Every mail brings intelligence of some similar
event in some one or other of the quarters of
the Union. No cause is in any case ailedged.
No public reason is even pretended. Sicvolo,
siejubes, thus I wish, thus I order, is the form of
lhe Presidential edict. No notice is even vouch
safed. The public officer, in the faithful per
formance of his duties, is not even apprised of
his approaching fate, until be is waited upon
by his successor with his commission in his
pocket!
If this be not Despotism, what is? There is,
however, no remedy ibr it. Mr. Tyler has the
country “in Chancery,” as the pugilists say—
under nis arm—and can inflict upon its charac
ter, honor and interests, what blows he pleases.
There is no mode of escape left open. Submis
sion to his Royal pleasure, is all that is left to
.the boasted freedom of the U. States, until his
term expires I
The spectacle now exhibited in this country,
has no resemblance in the history of any other.
A f ree —the only really free people of the Globe,
ruled despotically, by one not appointed by them
to rule: their will disobeyed, their interests
trampled under foot: their Government and of
ces appropriated to the ambitious uses of one
man, (and that man utterly insignificant in his
talents and character,) arid converted literally
into a trading and electioneering personal fund'!
—and all these enormities beyond legal remedy
or redress !
Patience, however, good people: “Patience,
and shuffle the cards," as the sage said in the
Cave of Montesinos.—Time is on the wing, and
deliverance is not distant. The hour when it
comes, and these disgraceful fetters shall be
knocked off, will recompense the American peo
ple for the unspeakable humiliation of having
been made, by destiny, the play-thing of John
Tyler.
Freshet in the Potomac. — Great Apprehen
ded Injury to the Canal.— We learn that during
the last week a great and almost unpreceden'ed
rise has taken place in the Potomac river and
its tributaries, which has occasioned a great a
mount of damage. At Cumberland, a number
of cellars were tilled, occasioning much 'oss—
many people had to be removed from their
houses in boats. An estimation ot the loss has
not been made. On the whole valley through
which the river traverses great loss has been ex
perienced. A gentleman who came down the
line of rail road on tne river, on Saturday, in
forms us that the road was under water for some
eight or ten miles, but that, so far as known, no
material damage has occurred. The cars on
Saturday were detained some three or tour hours,
owing to the depth of water and the sliding of
ground and rocks on the road. At one place it
became necessary to blast the rock on the road,
and three differerit blasts were made before the
cars could proceed „n their way.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal, which bor
ders on the Potomac, has beyond doubt suffered
immensely; in many plachs the tow-path is en
tirely gone, and for miles it is under water, and
there is no knowing what the result will be.—
At Harper’s Ferry, the outlet lock is entirely
gone, and several canal boats which were in
tie canal at that place have been swept away and
lost. It will be some days before the full extent
of the injury is known.
At Harper’s Ferry the water was within a
few’ inches of the flooring of the railroad bridge,
and nothing but the constant attention of the
agent there, in removing the drift wood, saved
the structure. The town of Harper’s Ferry has
suffered much by the freshet, a portion of it be
ing under water.
Our informant states that it is truly distress
ing to observe along the line of the railroad the
condition of the Irish laborers who have been
employed upon the road. Their little shanties
are literally flooded and swept away, and the in
mates have been driven lo the hills, in the open
air, to obtain a resting place. Their little all
has been swept away, as ivith the besom of des
truction.
At Georgetown, on Saturday, the river was
full, and the wharves generally overflowed, and
merchants were removing good from cellars Jn
anticipation of a heavyfreshet. At Alexandria,
also, considerable damage ensued. Many cel
lars, were filled with water.
P. S. The train of cars from the West arrived
at the usual time last evening. We learn that
at Harper’s Ferry the water had fallen about
four feet, thus doing away with any further ap
prehensions for the railroad bridge there. Had
not the superstructure ot the railroad been stone,
instead of earth, the whole road for miles must
have been carried away.
The Williamsport Banner of Saturday, which
town is located immediately on the river, under
date of 11 o’clock, says: “At the time of going
to press the river is as high as the June, freshet
of 1836, which then caused serious and exten
sive injuiry to the Canal. The water has over
flowed the banks in many places, and we rear
will cause considerable damage."— Balt. Sun of
th.'. Titk.
Ninety cotton bales floated gloriously past our
town this week, tn form of a raft; the bales protect
ed in gum elastic coverings, were borne upon the
' bosom of the stream to the ocean. The bags, it
is said, cost five dollars, and will probably last
i I five years—a grea; saving in. freight.— Brazos
I Farmer,
Money in N. York.—The Express of Mon
day says:—The money market was never more
abundant than at present. The offerings at
bank have fallen down to a very trifling sum.
Good paper is taken in the street at five per ct.
premium.
HrThree packet ships from Liverpool ard
. three from Havre were below at New York on
Monday, detained by the fog. The British fri
gate Warspite was also below at New York.
Massachusetts Congressional Districts.
The first Monday in June has been fixed by the
Governor of Massachusetts, for another trial to
elect Members of Congress in those districts
where vacancies exist.
O' The foreign news has had no effect upon
the New York markets. In consequence ofthe
weather being so dark and gloomy, very little
has been done in flour or cotton; both markets,
however ate quite firm.
Bishop of Rhode Island. —We learn that
the Rev. J. P. K- Henshaw, Rector of St. Peter’s
Church in this city, has accepted the appoint
ment of Bishop, which lias recently been unani
mously conferred on him by the Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of Rhode Is
laYav’dittf mat lie tHfUentef upon the duties of
'he office in the month cf June.— Balt. Am.
Compte de Misles, w’ho had 12,-
000 men under his command in the arm.v ol Na
poleon, and who was at one time commander in
chief of the garrison of the city of Rome, is no w
in Nashville, Tenn., teaching school.
HrThe. British Government is taking active
measures to prevent the illegal introduction of
manufactured silks from France. It is said
that the cost value of silks, annually smuggled
into Great Britain, is about $5,000,000; and the
regular silk dealer finds it impossible to com
pete t with the illicit trader.
Marrying a Wife’s Sister.—Attheregular
meeting ofthe classis of New Brunswick, to
whom the subject has been referred by the Gen
eral Synod of the Dutch Church, it was decid
ed by ayes 17, Does 11, doubtful 1, “that the
word of God does not prohibit the marriage of a
deceased wife's sister, and the canon of the Dutch
Church, assuming the contrary, ought to be re
pealed.”
Who would not be a Congressman ?—The
last Congress sat 450 days. The wages of
every man came to $3,600. Add thereto the
mileage, and the average amount received bv
the members, would come to about four thou
sand five h tindred dollas each. Deduct $2 a day
for expenses, and there is left a profit or surplus
of three thousand five hundred dollars for a year
and a quarter’s services—besides the honor !
It has been decided by Judge Scott, one of
the Judges of the General Court of Virginia,
that the talcing the proper steps to procu re relief un
der the late act of Congress presenting a uniform
rule of Bankruptcy, privileges an individual
from arrest in civil cases, who has thus taken
the proper steps to procure reliefunder the law.
The Judge, therefore, on habeas corpus, dis
charged from confinement a person who had
been confined under a case, he coming within
this rule.—Ater. Gaz.
The Canals of Ohio.—The season is so
backward in ail partsof the country, that it is
only within a lew days that the water has been
let into the canals in this region. The Cincin
nati Gazette states that at the commencement of
this spring’s business, the following works will
be finished and navigable, to wit:
Ohio Canal and its navigable side-cuts 334 miles.
Miami Canal6s “
Extension of Miami Canal, in pari 7Q “
Warren county Canal 22 “
Sidney Feeder 13 “
Wabash and Erie Canal and side-cuts 91 “
Walhondivc Canal2s “
Hocking Cana! 56 “
Muskingum Improvement 91 “
Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal 74 “
Making aggregate length of navigation&ll miles.
Ot the above, the Miami, the Miami Exten
sion, Warren -Count), and Sidney Feeder, 170
miles navigation, connect directly with Cincin
nati. The Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal,
not enumerated above, is also neariy ready for
navigation, and will extend from Cincinnati
'some 70 or 80 miles into theheart of Indiana.
Naval.—We learn from the Philadelphia U.
States Gazetie that the Secretary of the Navy
contemplates despatching the frigate Brandy
urine, three sloops of war, and two gun brigs to
the China seas as soon as they can be got ready.
The same paper states that Commodore War
rington will relieve Commodore Stewart in the
command of the Coast Squadron, that Capt.
McKeever is to relieve Capt. Stringham on the
arrival of the Independence, and that the steam
er Missouri will leave Washington soon for Cha
gres. '
The Louisville Journal says:—This Tyler
Administration has appointed a fellow postmas
ter at Dayton, Ohio, who was charged ivith pass
ing counterfeit money, several years ago, in
Pennsylvania; and the appointee admits, in a
card to the public, that the popular feeling was so
strong against him in that State, that he was in
duced by the advice of a friend, to leave sudden
ly. He made his way to Tennessee, resided
there ten years, and in 1835 removed to Day
ton. This appointment has so incensed the
people of that city, that, at a public meetingthey
resolved to take the sense ol the community in
reference to this outrage, by endorsing on their
tickets, at the spring election, “satisfied” or “dis
satisfied.”
To us there is nothing surprising in Mr. Wick
lifl’s appointment of such a miscreant to office.
A man, who but recently made it his business to
counterfeit Whig principles, may well be expect
ed to sympathize with fellows charged with coun
terfeiting bank notes.
Horrid Murder. —On Friday morning last,
between ten and eleven o’clock, a murder of a
most atrocious character was committed near
Harrisburg, Pa. The dwelling of John Parthe
more, sen., was entered by some person or per
sons unknown, and he, aged 7’2 years, and his
wife, aged 52, were killed, their brains being lit
erally beaten out with clubs. A small sum of
money, amounting to about S2O in relief notes,
was stolen. Two men were suspected, one of
whom was arrested and examined. Nothing ap
pearing against him, he was released. Suspi
cion has also been excited against a near relative
of the old people, but no arrest had been made
up to the last account.
Gallant Capture of a Slaver.—The Per
sian, 16, sloop, commander T. N. Eden, appears
to be very fortunate in her cruises agains pirates
and slavers. Another gallant exploit of an offi
cer belonging to this sloop is narrated in a let
ter brought to this port by a vessel from the
coast ol Africa. The Persian was off Whyuah,
in the Bight of Benin, when early in the morn
ing of the 17th December, a large suspicious
looking vessel was descried at some distance.
The master of the Persian, Mr. Birdwood, who
was in command ot two boats with a crew of
six men each, immediate!}- pushed toward her,
and finding that she was desirous to avoid com
munication, Mr. B. although with so small a
force, determined to board her, and after four
hours chase—tugging at the oars under a broil
ing sun—the Persian’s boats got alongside.—
The vessel in the meantime used every effort to
escape. As the boats advanced, she endeavor
ed to retard them by using the guns with which
she was armed; and when the boats closed she
was inclined to make a stout resistance. But
the boats’ crews, headed by lhe master, grappled
the vessel, fearlessly dashed on board, and in a
few- seconds, although their opponents were tre
ble in number, and armed with muskets, cut
lasses and pistols, drove them below, and estab
lished themselves in possession without the loss
of a man. They found their prize to be a Por
tuguese slaver, a fine brig of 240 tons. She had
mounted two long guns, which were, loajlqd
with cannister shot, and had a compliment of
■36'men. The prisoners w’ere put on shore at
Whydah, and their valuable prize was sent into
Sierra Leone for adjudication.— London Times
March 13.
How to choose a Wife.—The “Patriarch,"
a magazine just published, offers the following
receipt for the selection of a wife :
“A place for every thing, and every tiling in
its place,” said a patriarch to his daughter.—
“ Select a wife, my son, who will never step
over a broomstick. ’ ihe son was obedient to
the lesson. “Now,” said he, pleasantly, one gay
May day, to one of his companions, “I appoint
this broomstick to choose me a wife. The
young lady who will not step over it shall have
the offer 4>f my hand." They passed from a
splendid, saloon to lhe grove; same stumbled
over the broomstick, and others jumped it. At
length a young lady stooped and put it in its
place. The promise was fulfilled. Shebecame
the wife of an educated and wealthy man, and
he the husband of a prudent, industrious’ and
lovely wife. He brought a fortune to her, and
she knew how to save one. It is not easy to
decide which was '.miet the the greatast obliga
tions.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 24.
Accident.
The Madison Miscellany of Saturday says:-
A very distressingaccidentoccurredinourtowi
cn Monday morning last. As the boarders o
the American Hotel were about passing on
from the breakfast table, one of the guards, wbt
had arrived from Milledgeville, for the purpost
of conveying the convicts to the Penitentiary,
took up a pistol in the bar to examine it previous
to going to the jail. While in the act of letting
down the hammer upon the cap, the pistol wa»
discharged, and a young gentleman from Greeni
county, Mr. William K. Daniel, received th<
entire charge of twenty-one buckshot in hit
breast and neck, at a distance ol about five paces.
The pistol was a large horse pistol and was
heavily charged.
Drs. Ogilby and Jones were in immediate at
tendance, and though it was at first thought im
passible for him to survive, we are happy to state
that he is now doing well, with every prospect
of a speedy recovery.
CjT We have received from S. A. Holmes an
extra New World, containing Bulwer’s Pilgrims
of the Rhine; also an extra double sheet Broth
er Jonathan, containing the adventures of Tom
Stapleton, The walks are for sale at the later
ary Depot.
Steamboat Lost.—The Mobile Herald ofthe
18th inst. says:—lnformation was received in
town on Sunday, of the loss of the steamboat
Gen. Gaines. She was on her upward trip, and
when about two miles below' Selma struck a
snag at about 6 o’clock on Friday morning, and
sunk in about 10 minutes, to herboiler deck.
The boat is a total loss.
Up The freshet in the Connecticut, is almost
beyond precedent—at least for a number of years.
The Hartford Courant of Monday, says the riv
er, the evening before, had risen tieenty-onc feet,
and was still rising, Commerce street was cover
ed with water, and the upper part of Front street
was in the same condition. The Courant has a
postscript, which says—“ The river has risen a
toot and a ha If during thenight, and is still rising.’
Flood in the Hudson.—The Albany Even
ing Journal and the Troy Whig state that the
water ofthe Hudson at each of those places, had
on Monday covered the wharves and dock, and
that the river was still rising. At Albany goods
had to be moved to the 2d loft of stores upon the
river.
Mr. Van Buren and the One Term Princi
ple.—The Washington Spectator, a Calhoun
paper, publishes the following extract from a let
ter irom Mr. Van Buren to Mr. Reynolds, of Illi
nois, dated March 6th, 1841. Tempora. mutan
tu.r, et nos, <f-c.
“No tme can expect, or should desire to be always
in office under a government and instil idioms like
ours, and have I enjoyed that privilege long enough
to satisfy my utmost ambilion."
Punishment for Seduction.—A case'ofsome
interest last week occupied the Circuif Court
now in session in Newark, N. J., Chief Justice
Hornblotver presiding. It was a suit brought
by David Morehouse, a respectable farmer of
Morris county, against William Kendall a me
chanic ol New Providence in Essex county, for
the seduction of his daughter under false preten
ces. After a patient trial, during which the de
fendants estate was estimated at SI2OO, the jury
rendered a verdict of SISOO, which will more
than take the whole estate, and leave a balance
to be paid by his future earnings.
■Kr The New York Courier intimates that
Commander Mackenzie has sued the evlitors of
the Journal of Commerce for a libel, it t stating
that seven of the Court Martial had beien in fa
vor of convicting him of the charge oif murder
on the high seas.
Steamboat Sunk.—The steamer Douglas, ar
rived at New Orleans on the 15th, reports the
steamer Bogue Homa sunkin Bayou de Glaize,
ten miles above the mouth. She had a full
cargo of cotton, most of which will be saved, but
the boat will be a total loss.
Another Bloody PrizeFight!—There was
a brutal prize fight, ot the bloodiest charact-w,
on 15th, near Goose Tavern, 15 miles from Phil
adelphia, between Freeman, an English bully,
and a young brick-maker of the >city named
Rusk. They fought 175 rounds, in presence of
several hundred persons, who started from a ta
vern in Library street. In the 50t) i round, the
Philadelphian’s eyes were completely closed,
but through the interference of ft-lends, he con
tinued to fight, and eventually pi oved victorious.
The bet, between thebelligeren tsalone, is stated
at SSOO. —.V. Y. Plebian.
A Curiosity.—“ Where are: you going?” ask
ed Jack of an acquaintance. “To see a friend.”
“Well, I’ll go with you, for I never saw one
yet.”
A Battle Cry.—J. G. Battle, editor of the
Caddo Gazette, lately cair,e across a copy of the
“Midnight Cry,” upon w hich he was converted
to Millerism, and comm enced crying as follows:
“The Lord deliver us from wallops and trol
lops, tour-footed beas'zs that era wl over lhe
mountains, and long-J.egged blue things that fly
up and down the creek and holler pyouk!"
O” A new motive power has be.tn invented
and patented by Mr Baggs, of Cheltenham, Eng
land. It consists in the substitution of carbonic
acid gas for steam. The Cheltenham Journal
speaks of it as qeingof “equal force and im
mensely cheapc than steam.”
O’ The English Racing Calendar
of 602 proprietors of race horses, an d states tha t
the number of horses actually narr.ed for stakes
and plates in England lor 1843 is J. 484, exclusive
of yearlings.
A Wreck Found.—The Wreck of lhe Erie,
lhe steamboat burnt a year and a h «ls ago, on
Ltkc Erie, has been found. The discovery was
made by meansofa compass., invented by Capt.
Chapin, of New York, constructed so that the
needle will indicate when a large body of iron
or other metallic substance is in the vicinity,
and its direction from the compass.
The Death of Mrs. Shelton.—?fhe Vicks
burg Sentinel announces the death of Mrs. Shel
ton, whose husband lately committo 1 suicide.—
The Sentinel says, that she had • suffered the
most acute mental torment from the moment
she was informed of the melanchol; y end of her
husband, and she was never per in itted tobea
lone. Her physical organizatit >u . sunk under
the moral torture, and she expii ei I in spasms.
From the N. O. Tropic q f If th inst.
Departure of the Texia a-squadron.
On Saturday evening, at 9. /clock the Texian
squadron, comprising the slo O p of war .Atetfin,
and rhe bng Wharlcfiy leti tl port under the
command of Gothmodore E. W.'Moore Thev
were towed from their mot trings to the Baltrc
by towboat Lion. We are pleased to stafie be th
vessels were well manned and amply furnished
with provisions and muniti »;ns fora long cruise.
The officers and men were i; x high spirits and
we trust it will be in our row er, when next we
hear from them, to record a t rilliant victo rv up
on the deep sea, over the sub :le and tread terous
foes they seek. We cannot state positive lv,but
we are informed that the sqo adron will to dch at
Galveston on its voy age to Campeachy. The
The fate of the San Antonio mutineers wi 11 not
be disclosed until the squadron sets sail up on the
Gulf of Mexico. We are truly rejoiced that
Com. Moore, alter his protracted delay it t this
port, has embarked, under the most flat; ering
auspices. The sloop and the brig bear upon
their decks a band of brave and gallant si tirits,
who will doubtless make vip in active and bold
exploits for the long period of inactivity at id re
pose forced upon them by circumstances. May
success attend their path, and a halo of 1 taval
glory encircle the lone star of Texas.
Sloop of war Austin, bearingthe broad p< ®ant
of Com. E. W. Moore— mounts 29 gun: l 24
pounders.
The Texas brig o f war Wharton, mouxo.- * 16
, guns—lß poutidevs
Excellent.—At a tirenien’s celtbiaucn, in
Massachusetts, the subjoined toast was drunk:
“Firemen—A privileged class, who always
ind a warm reception and a welcome at every
fireside."
Hr We are indebted to S. A. Holmes, the
Agent for this city, for the two first Nos. ot the
New Mirror, edited byG. P. Morris and N. P.
Willis. The Mirror is published in an octavo
form, on an entirely novel plan, each No.
embellished with an original design on steel,
and at the reduced price of $3 per annum.
Specimen numbers may be seen at the Lite
rary Depot.
The Cholera.—The cholera broke out on
board the British war steamer Zenobia, which
left Bombay for Kurrachee on the 34 Septem
ber. Eighteen deaths occurred the first day the
vessel was at sea, and on reaching Kurrachee,
it appeared that 54 persons had died, 25 remain
ing alarmingly ill. The crew also suffered se
verely—ten seamen andj one engineer having
died. The scenes on board are said to have
been heart-rending—women in a slate of ex
treme sickness clinging to their dead husbands,
and children grasping the bodies of their moth
ers. So many shot were expended in sinking
the corpses, that pieces of coal were al last
made use of. *
Cotton Goods.—The Boston Mail states
that 14,000,000 yards of cotton goods were sold
in that city on the 14tb, in consequence of the
late China news.
HrWashington Irving has prepared for the
press an extensive view of the expulsion of the
Moors from Spain.
Arrest of the Britisb Consul at Mobile.
—A personal altercation occurred a few days
ago in Mobile between Col. Fitzgerald, the Brit
ish Consul at that port, and Thos. Stringer, Esq.,
Justice of the Peace, relative to certa.in legal
proceedings against a man charged with steal
ing a boat irom the British ship Elizabeth.
Thereupon a warrant was issued on complaint
of Mr. Stringer, and the Consul was summoned
to answer before the Mayor to the charge of
“riotous and disorderly conduct." Col. Fitzger
ald tvas atrested ou Thursday and incarcerated
in the same cell with a British sailor accused of
mutiny and confined there by order ofthe Con
sul. His pockets were searched and he was
treated in every respect like a common culprit.
Protesting against this treatment, he was told he
would be admitted to bail, which, however, he
declined, and after an hour’s confinement, he
was brought before the Mayor, wh® imposed a
fine of S2O on him, which was immediately dis
charged by several respectable citizens.
It is said that a full statement of the case has
been transmitted to Mr. Fox at Washington.—
Tlie Herald speaks ofthe utter lack of courtesy
which distinguished the enlire proceeding in be
coming terms of reprobation.— N. O. Bee.
Loss of ship Cornubia.—By the Acadia
steamer, accounts were brought over respecting
the total wreck of the splendid first class packet
ship the Cornubia, Commander Bell, belonging
to Liverpool, during a heavy gale of wind, while
on her outward passage io the United States.
The passage, after leaving Liverpool, appears
to have been exceedingly severe, the ship en
countering a series or terrific, gales, and neing
more than once, in crossingthe Atlantic, nearly
crashed to pieces by immense ice bergs. At a
bout 2 o’clock on the morning of the 11th of Feb
ruary, she became a wreck, about 17 miles west
of Atacalema Lighthouse. Directly the ship
struck, the crew exerted every nerve to get her
off, but the sea and wind, which were tremen
dous at the time, prevented them, and she soon
commenced to break up. The commander re
mained on board as long as he possibly eould.
He had previously had the ship’s boats hoisted
overboard, and finding there were no hopes of
preventing the destruction of the vessel, he left
her tc the mercy of the tempest. In making for
the shore, the boat which he was in capsized,
and the whole of those in her would have in
evitably perished, but for the promptness dis
played bv the rest of the ship’s crew in the other
Coats. By the time'they were picked up they
were almost exhausted. Upon the British Con
sul being apprised of the disaster, he forthwith
directed Her Majesty’s steam frigate Ardent to
proceed to the wreck, in order, if possible, to save
a portion of the materials; but on her arrival,
such was the position in which the ship lay that
it was dangerous to go near her. Since then, it
is said, the vessel has has gone to pieces and dis
appeared. Her cargo was a most valuable one,
consisting of merchandise and goods of every
description, and is stated to have been worth
from £12,000 to £15,000. The total loss is not
far short ot twenty thousand pounds.— Liverpool
paper.
The Great Valley of the Mississippi.
In the Report made by Mr. Barrow of Lou
isiana from the Committee on Commerce, in
the Senate of the United States, during the past 1
session; some statistics are given relative to the
trade and resources of the Mississippi River
and Valley. We avail ourselves of a digest of .
this Report, prepared by the Baltimore Ameri- j
can, believing with it, that the recapitulation ,
will be useful, since it is altogether probable
that many of us in the Atlantic States arc really '
unacquainted with the actual extent and grow- j
ing greatness of that vast region whose produc- .
tiveness, yet in its early stages, is now supply- J
ing, and must continue in still greater degrees (
to supply the materials of a commerce already .
gre at arid likely to become unequalled in rich
ness, variety and amount.
The area of the Mississippi Valley includes
sonne five or six hundred thousand square miles,
watered by about twenty great tributaries of its i
chief stream. The soil of this immense region |
is fertile; and stretching from the twenty-ninth
degree of latitude up to the forty-seventh, it
yields in lavish abundance almost every varie
ty of p reduction necessary to human wants.
The .extent of practicable steam navigation
within t.hese limits is not less than twenty thou
sand mikes. Fifty years ago the mighty streams
affording these facilities, glided through unbro
ken foreste, or wild prairies. Painted savages
stood upon the banks and saw their grim fea
tures in the water; the only vessel that skimmed
their surface was the bark canoe. At present
the re gion comprises nine States and two Ter
ritories,. with a population of near seven mil
lions. , . .
Before the introduction of steam navigation,
which dal“ s upon the waters of the Mississippi
about 1817, the trade of the upper Mississippi
and Missouri scarcely existed; and lhe whole
upward comi nerve of New Orleans was con
veyed in about twenty barges, carrying each
about on hundr ?d tons, and making but one trip
a year. Each v.iyage in those days was about
equivalent to an t «st India or China voyage
now. On the uppt’r Ohio about one hundred
and fifty keel boats tvere employed, each about
thirty tons burden; thiT made the trip to and iro
between Pittsburg an<* Ltruisville, about three
times a year. The entire tonnage of the boats
moving in the Ohio and lower Mississippi was
then about 6,500 tons, in 1834 the steam navi
gation of the Misssissipni had risen lo 230
boats, and a tonnage of 39,000, while about
90,000 persons were estimated to be employed
in the trade, either as crews, builders, woodcut
ters, or loaders of the vessels.
In 1842 the navigation was as follows. There
were 450 steamers, averaging each 200 tons,
and making an agregatc tonnage of 90,0110; so
that it has a good deal more than doubled in
eightyears. Valued at SBO the ton, they cost
above $7,000,000 and are navigated by nearly
16,000 persons, at thirty-five to each. Besides
these steamers there are about 4,000 flatboats,
which cost each SIOO, are managed by five
hands apiece, (or 20,000 persons,) and make an
annual expense of $1,38u,000. Tne estimated
annual expense of the steam navigation, inclu
ding 15 per cent for insurance and 20 per cent
for wear and tear, is $13,618,000. If in 1834
they employed an agregate of 90.000 persons,
they must now pccupy.at least 18O.OQ0.
The steamers running from New Orleans to
the more distant points in the great valley make
from eight to fifteen trips a year; while those
carrying the fade from Pittsburgh, Cine nnati
and Louisville t 0 St. Louis perform some thir
ty annual trips Others run between still near
er ports, and make more frequent voyages. At
I an average of twenty voyages a year, the col
: lec’ive aunual freight ot this; steamers on thr
Western waters would be 1,800,000 tons. If
> 4.000 flat boats, each of seventy-five tons, be
added, it will apjiear that the total annual freight
i o f the navigation on these waters exceeds two
• millions of tons. 1
t The value of the downward trade to New Or
; leans is estimated at $120,000,000 annually; the
t upward or return trade is reckoned at about
, $100,000,000. Thus the entire value of th<
; commodities conveyed on the waters of thi
i Mississippi amounts upon the best estimates t<
:, the enormous sum of two hundred and twenti
d millions of dollars per annum. This amouri
:- is but thirty millions less than the entire value
y of the foreign trade of the United States, ex
il ports and imports, in 1841.
This vast trade has grown up and expanded
H at little or no expense lo the nation in the waj
14 of facilitating or protecting it. In behalf o'
our foreign commerce the Government build:
.6 light botuee and forttfioartona; prepares harbors;
maintalnr a navy: reganb* it in the fiegetiatkm*
VOLIVn.-NO. 17.
ot treaties. The report pievats strongly the
claims of our eternal Western trade to Use at
tention of the Government. At its prodigious
rate of growth it must soon outstrip utterly our
foreign commarce. Not one-tenth of the Anile
lands ol t ie great Mississippi Valley is yet
cupied; the resources of that immense region are
comparatively untouched. W hat will not the
next ten years exhibit in new developments of
national wealth in that quarter?
An appropriation of one million of dollars is
asked by the committee for the improvement of
the navigation of the Mississippi and its princi
pal tributaries. The annual losses oil these riv
ers average as much as the amoun' here called
tor. It is further stated that the amount paid
for insurance on the Westerea steamboats alone,
without including their cafroes, is equal to the
proposed appropriation; and a great part ot the •-
mount thus paid is required on aecouni of the
dangers ofthe navigation.
It was not in vain that these forcible represen
tations were made to Congress. An appropria
tion was voted for removing obstructions firem
the Western rivers; but the amount, ire believe,
was less than the sum asked for by the Senate’s
committee. It will no doubt henceforth be a part
of the policy of the Government to take due eare
of the vast inland trade of the country, as well as
of our foreign commerce.
Iff Owt fair readers will no doubt read with
interest the following which is copied from a pa
per edited and published by the Lowell Factory
girls.
“From whence originated the idea that it
was derogatory to a lady’s dignity, or a blot upon
the female character, to labor'! and who was the
first to say, sneeringly, “Oh, she works far a
living?” Surely such ideas and expreaaioue
ought not to grow on Republican soil. Th®
time has been, when ladies of the first rank were
accustomed to busy themselves in domestic em
ployment. Homer tells us of princeceee who
usea to draw water from the spnngs, and wash
with their own hands the finest of the linen ot
their families. The famous Lucretia used to
spin in the midst of her attendants; and the wife
of Ulysese, after the siege of Troy, employed her
self in weaving until her husband returned to Ith
ica. And in latter times, the wife of George 111,
of England, has been represented as spending an
evening in hemming pocket handkerchiefs,
while her daughter Mary aat in a corner darn
ing her stockings. Few American fortunes will
support a woman who is above the calls of her
family; and a man of sense, in choosing a com
panion to jog with him thiough all the up-hilis
of life, would sooner choose one who thought it
beneath her to soil her pretty hands with manual
labor, although she possessed her thousands. To
be able to earn one’s living by laboring with her
own hands, should be reckoned among female
accomplishments: and I hope the time is not far
distant when none of my countrywomen will be
ashamed to have it known that they are batter
versed in usefulness, than they are in mental ac
complishments.”
Charity begins at Hama.
“The celebrated John Randolph, on a visit to
a female triend, found her surrounded with bar
seamstresses, making up a quantity of clothing.
“What w®rk have you on hand ?" “Ob,»ir3
am preparing this clothing to sand to Um poor
Greeks. ’ On taking leave, at the steps ot the
mansion, he saw some of her servants in need
of the very clothing which their tender-hearted
mistress was sending abroad. He exclaimsd,
“Madam, madam, the GfeeJtsareatytwdoer f
Upon which, the Savannah Republican re
marks :
Here was administered a delicate, yet well
merited rebuke to that long-sighted benevolsaee
which sweeps the distant horizon for objects of
compassion, but is blind as a bat to the wretch
edness and destitution abounding at its ewt
doors. How spurious is that philanthropy of
modern days, which requires a grand stage ®i
fect before it can be brought into exercise, that
gad-about benevolence, which some one has li
kened to that sort ®f pitiful ostentation whfrh
induces an Irish gentleman to ask every body
he meets to dinner, when he has not dinner
enough for his own family at home.
It is to this excursive humanity—this trans
marine benevolence, that we owe the industri
ous efforts of so many is this country and across
the water, who take into their select sympathies
the miseries of our colored population, and who,
while the severest distress remains unrelieved
at their own doors—while their fellow-cotuxry
men are starving at their very gales, walk to
the other end nf the earth in search nt focaign
wretchedness.
Os these people’s charity, it cannot be alleged
like that of “Joseph Surface,” in the "School
for Scandal,” “that it is of that domestic nature
that it never stirs abroad,” it is never any where
seen but abroad, it demands “a kingdom tor a
stage.” To it we are indebted for “World
Convention Societies,” and “Timbuctoo Asso
ciations,” and all that expansive philanthropy
which casts about for exotics, to the utter neg
lect of its own indigenous sufferers.
Extensive benevolence is the last and most
perfect fruit of charity at home, so that to ex
pect to reap the former from disdain of the Ut
ter, is to oppose the means to the end, and is as
futile as to nope to arrive at the summit of sci
ence by neglecting the elemenls of knowledge.
A Nice Law Point.—ln publishing the death
ofWiliiam Ayres, ofthe borough of Butler, Uie
Pittsburgh American says:
“A nice legal question, and one ol much ife
portance. will arise from the circumstance of
this gentleman’s death taking place at the lime
it did. Gen. Ayres was never married, but left
an illegitimate son, who was to heir his estate;
and neglecting to make any will, he applied to
the Legislature to have his son legitimatized,
and an act to that effect was passed and approv
ed on the 4th inst. at about 12 o’clock. Gen. A.
died at 4 o’clock in the morningof the same day.
The question naturally arises is the son legiti
matized ? The property left is about $200,000.
There are numerous collaterate heirs.”
Drunkenness Defined. —As the efforts of the
temperance societies have well nigh banished
drunkennes from the land, we preserve the fol
lowing definition, from an old magazine, for the
benefit of posterity:
Drunk, a. [from drink.]— Over lhe bay, half
seas over, hot, high, comed, cut, cocked, h«M'
cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, sleepy, dam
aged, tired, snuffy, whipped, just so, breesy,
smoky, poopy, topheavy, high fuddled, grugg,’,
tipsey, smashed, swipy, slewed, crank, sailed
down, how fare ye, on the lee lurch, all sails sei,
three sheets in the wind, well under way, sproo
ing, battered, blowing, boozy, sawed, snubbed,
braised, screwed, stewed, soaked, comfortable, t
stimulated, jug-steamed, tangle-legged, hawk
eyed, phlegm-cut, fogmatic, blue-eyed, a passen
ger in the Cape Ann stage, striped, boozy, all
over the bay.iaint, shot in the neck, bamboozled,
week-jointed, sick.
Another Wonder. —The “People’s Friend”
of April Ist, published at Covington, Ind., says;
We have been credibly infirmed that a lady
in this place, ot unimpeachable character, saw
“a bloody sickle" suspended in the heavens om
night this week. Having occasion to getup
out ot her bed to attend to her children, who
were indisposed, about the hour of midnight,
she looked up and was viewing the planetary
region, and behold this extraordinary phenome
non riveted her attention. This year has eer
tainly been one of the most remarkable that lhe
history of lhe world has on record.
If one of these sight seeing people should
happen one of these days to glance at a looking
glass and discover a perfect representation of a
jackass, it may safely be concluded that lhe
world is near its end, and no mistake.— Tropic.
State of the AUGUSTA INSURANCE AND
RANKING COMPANY, on Monday, M
Apnl, 1843.
DR.
Capital stocks37s,ooo 00
Deposiies22,B2o 96
Notes pay able2,Bol 78
Dividend unpaid3oo 00
Surplus and gross profits39,97s 38
Time checks * .. 36,000 00
Due to Banksand Agents.. ... 14,497 16
Bills issuedre.. . .712,723 W
On band- and in hands
of agentssl9,426 00
In circulation2oo,297 00
691,192 28
CR.
No’es di’counted and City 80nd... 107,817 42
Bibs and no.es lying 0ver31,572 28
do in 5uit40,206 36
do receivable 39,6B9 23
Steamboatsl,o4s 00
- locks owneu by the bankßl,B47 24
Protest account43s 50
iteal estate in Augusta and M0bi1e..31,595 83
Exchange in N. York, Charleston
and Savannahloo,9s7 83
Insurance dues .3,876 28
Due by banks and agents22,7l2 48
Advances on cottonlol,3B6 XI
Central Bank notes, valued at 1,058 99
Bills of other b’ks (spe-
cie pay in?)64,531 00
Gold and sil
ver in vault 59,299 17
Do in transitu.3,l6l 34-62,460 51-126.991 51
691,192 22
Estimate al ifoubtfnj debts not rbarged to two
1 and tare 92.566 33.