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AUGUSTA. ~
WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 10.
Rail Road Convention.
Tuesday, 9th Maj'.
The Convention met this morning, pursuant
to adjournment, the Hon. Jno. P. King in the
Chair. The reading of the minutes of the day
previous having been concluded, the several
committees were called on for reports, and not
being ready, the Convention was engaged tor a
short time upon a question not of general inter
est • which having been disposed of, the Con
vention, on motion of the Hon. Chas. Dough
erty f proceeded to elect a President and sixteen
Directors —which resulted in the election of the
following gentlemen:
J. P. Kino, Pres’t.
E. E. Jones, B. H. Warren,
A. G. Saffold, Jno. Cunningham,
W. D. Conyers, I. P. Garvin,
Jas. Camak, Jacob Phinizy,
Chas. Dougherty, Jno. Bones,
H. Bowdre, P. Stovall,
A. J. Miller, J. W. Graves.
J. W. Davies, Wm M. D’Antignac.
When the result was announced, the Hon. J.
P. King arose and expressed his acknowledge
ments to the Convention, for the honor which
they had, the third time, conferred upon him, in
a neat and appropriate address.
A. J. Miller, Esq., Chairman of the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, made a report, which
was read and received.
P. Clayton, Esq., Chairman of the Commit
tee on the Engineers report,(made a report in fa
vor of the extension of the Road to the State
Road; and concluded with a resolution that the
Directors be authorised to borrow $550,000, on
the best possible terms, provided it can be ob
tained at a rate of interest not exceeding 6 per
cent per annum.
On motion of Wm. M. Morton, the report
was taken up; who made a brief opposition to
the report of the Committee, urging the imprac
ticability of borrowing noney to carry the Road
beyond Covington, expressing his unqualified
disapprobation of any action at this time, con
templating such extension; and concluded bj'
offering a resolution embracing his views as a
substitute for that of the Committee.
This elicited some discussion in which sever
al gentlemen participated without coming to any
test, when a motion prevailed to lay the re
port and substitute on the table for the present.
And the Convention adjourned until 10 o’clock
this day.
& The New York Express of Saturday, in
its comments on the effects or the news bj- the
Hibernia, says—“ In relation to Cotton, the ac
counts are various, many of the holders here
consider the advices rather favorable, and that
the dullness in the market in Liverpool was ow
ing to Easter week, in w’hich it is well known
there is but very little doing.
The influence of the foreign news on this Cot
ton market, has been to produce an inaction.
Neither sellers nor buyers seem disposed to meet
each other—it will take a day for prices to be
come settled. There is no disposition to yield.
The Bill market is improved. Sterling is
selling at 1075 and 108 is asked. This is two
per cent above the rates two weeks ago, and the
advance must continue under the large arrivals
of specie.
Specie.—The New York Journal of Com
merce says:—The Hibernia brings about two
millions of dollars in gold; enough of which
will probablj' be added to the ten and a half
millions already in the vaults of our banks, to
make the unpreced med sum of twelve mil.
lions. At the latest dates specie was pour
ing into England from all parts ol Europe, and
passing on to the United Slates. The Bank of
England was constantly adding to her immense
treasure, notwithstanding the drain for this coun
try, which, it is estimated, will, from the Conti
nent and Great Britain, amount to twenty mil
lions. It was expected in England that the
drain would continue for some time to come,
but the price of exchange now current here,
will put • n end to all shipments when it is known
inEnglan l The.-Bank of England loses by its
advances to tri" three W.’s, £135,000, after nfi*-
j-.—rr-,.~-fr A< gtoie an a— —.eis iftltsy nds
Rail Road Accident. —The cars on the
Charlestown branch, from Boston, ran off the
track on the morning of the sth, near the State
Prison, and was precipitated twenty feet into
the water. The accident was occasioned by
one of the rails being loose. There wgre fifteen
or twenty passengers in the cars. Samuel H.
Brown, of Ipswich, was killed, and nine others
seriously wounded.
From the N. O. Tropic of 4th.
Later from Mexico—The Mier Prisoners*
We were shown, yesterday, a letter from an
American citizen at Mexico, to a gentleman of
this city, which confirms the melancholy intel
ligence of the fate of the Mier captives. The
inhuman barbarity of Santa Anna’s first order
for indiscriminate murder, was mitigated bj' a
sentence of decimation. The survivors of the
revolt of the prisoners at Saltillo, alter their cap
tare, were decimated and shot upon the very
spot of their heroic attempt to escape from an
infamous bondage, more painful than death.—
The following are the names of the unfortunate
men who fell victims to the cold-blooded and
atrocious edict of Santa Anna. Capt. Wm. M.
Eastland, J. N. McThompson, Privates E. D.
Cocke, formerly an editor at Houston, Texas;
J. N. Torrey, Thomas L. Jones, of Austin,
more recently of Houston; J. L. Shepperd,
Henrj' Whaling, W. H. Cowan, C. H. Roberts,
E. E. Etz, J. Tonbul, K.H. Dunham, K. W.
Harris, M. C. Winn, P. Maher, J. L. Cash and
N. J. Ogden. These men, with the others, were
compelled to draw lots, and were deliberately
shot on the 25th of March last.
In addition to the above statement, we had a
conversation, yesterday, with one of the youths
takenritf Mier and liberated at the city ol Mexi
co, who was present at Salado, and witnessed
the daring deed of the prisoners to escape from
ignominious thraldom. -Five Texians and twen
ty-three Mexicans fell in the struggle, Dr. Bren
ham, Fitzgerald, and three others. About 131
ot the survivors took the route for Texas, and
had travelled about three hundred miles, when,
forced by hunger and thirst, they stopped in the
mountains rear a spring, to which they had been
conducted by a shepherd, and where two other
shepherds were engaged in fattening flocks for
market. The Texians remained here three
days, preparing meats and provisions ibr their
journey. In the meantime the alarm was given
to a large force in pursuit. The Mexicans, in
large numbers, took possession ot the heights,
surrounded the Texians, and the latter sur
cendered without firing a gun. Those who
did not fall under the sentence of the decimation
are in Mexico, and their destin v may only be
conceived by the examples befove us.
From the Albany (Geo.} Courier.
Another Robbery.
We learn that a most daring robbery was
committed a few days since in Randolph county,
by three men whose names we have not yet
learned. An old gentleman who had just sold
a tract of land for about five hundred dollars in
eash, was broken in upon at night by three ruff
ians in disguise, two of whom seized and con
fined him, whilst the other robbed him of his
money. Fortunately, however, their disguise
was not sufficient to prevent their being recog
nised. They have since been arrested and the
money, we understand, been recovered. Two
of them are now in Jail, (one having escaped,)
where they will remain until the next Superior
Court of the county, unless they are turned out
by writ of habeas corpus which we regret to say
is no uncoMmon thing in South-vsestcrn. Georgia.
Unless our statutes arc more strictly enforced
and examples made of at least a few of those,
who plunder, steal and counterfeit, and commit
various other acts in violation of the good order
and well being of society, a man can hardly feel
himself safe in his own house, if there is even a
suspicion that he has money.
Freshet at the North.—The Sandy Hill
Herald states that at that place on Tuesday last
the river was still rising at a very rapid‘rate.
The mountains in that vicinity are covered wit li
a vast amount of snow, which must continue to
swell the sources of the Hudson for some time
to come. Two of Harris’s saw mills (probably
the best in the State) have been swept away, to
gether with Harris & Freeman’s pail factor..
The dam across the river at Sandy Hill was dis
appearing. Wick's large grist mill, and Beach s
extensive woolen factory, must inevitably l e
lost. Mr. Harris’s loss independent a large num
number of logs, is stated at not lessthan $15,000.
—N. Y. Tribune.
Remedy for Whooping Cough.—The Ten
nessee State Agriculturist says:—Take thr< e
cents worth ot liquorice, three of rock cand •,
three of gum arabic, put them in a pan of wi.- ■
ter, simmer them till nearly dissolved, then acd
three cents worth of paregoric and a like quant -
ty of antimon ial wine. Let it cool and sip whei -
ever the cough is troublesome, and the cure s
said to be certain.
Advices from Montevideo to the 25th Feb
ruary, received at Philadelphia, state that Gen.
Oribe, at the head of the invading army, was
within a mile of the city.
The Americans resident at Montevideo had
suffered :me alarm. Captain Shubrick, of the
U.S. Navy, who was in the port with the Co
lumbia and Enterprize, had been applied to by
Mr. Hamilton, the Consul, to send a force to
protect the persons and property of the Ameri
cans ashore. A similar application was made
bj’ Mr. Frazier, but in terms, we believe, not a
greeable to Capt. S. However a body of two
hundred men was sent by Captain Shubrick,
and remained in a position to afford assistance
if needed.
The Repudiators at Loggerheads.—The
Mississippian of the 16th ult. contains an address
of Gov. Tucker to the people of the State, which
fills up nearlj' two pages of that paper. The
first paragraph of the address reads as follows.
“In consequence of the nuintJous misrepre
sentations, slanders, and, I may add, wilful false
hoods, relative to my official conduct and private
character, which have been put in circulation,
partly by designing and unsCTupulous aspirants
and politicians, but principally by AlexanderG.
McNutt, my immediate predecessor in office, I
find mj'self under the painful necessity of appear
ing before you for the purpose of vindicating as
well my official conduct as for repelling impu
tations which, if left unnoticed, might affect my
private character.”
Freshet in Maine.—A great quantity ofrain
fell in Maine, during the late storm—and caused
an oveiflow of many of the streams, doingmuch
damage to property, and seriouslj' obstructing
the travel in everj' direction.
Tobacco.—The revenue derived by the
French Government, under the duty on the sin
gle article of tobacco, during the last year, was
sixteen millions of dollars.
The Presbyterians of England, Scotland
and Ireland, are preparing to celebrate the 2d
centennial anniversary of the Westminister As
sembly of Divines, in October next.
Mr. Everett has decided against accepting
the China mission, on the ground that it would
necessarily separate him from his familj'.
Rhode Island.—The returns for Governor at
the late election were counted bj' a committee of
the Legislature on the 2d inst. The result was
as follows.
For James Fenner,9,lo7
“Thomas F. Carpetner,7,392
“Scattering, 21
Majority for Fenner,l,69-1
The majority for Byron Diman, Lieut. Gov
ernor, was 1,812; Henry Bowen, Secretary of
State, 1,830; Josheph H. Blake, Attorney Gen
eral, 1,843; Stephen Cahoon, Treasurer, 1,832.
They were all Law and Order Canlidates.
Inspection of Flour.—The following is a
statement of the quantity and value of the Flour
and meal inspected in New York during the
years
18421,910,380510,033,553
1841,1.857,45610,359,971
1840,2,075,929 10,517,900
Foreign Items.
BY THE HIBERNIA.
Passengers lost in the Steamer Solway.—
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzjames and four children; Mr.
Haly; Mr. Montefiore; Miss Beadon; Rev.
Mr. Basoorn; Mr. Le Main; Mr. Blake, R. E.;
Mr. Burtchell, V. E. , Mr. Hunter; Mr. Ni
colle; Mr. Cartwright.—Seventeen of the crew
were also lost.
The Solway steamer entails a loss of £30,000
sterling, upon the London offices, and upon those
of Glasgow of £IO,OOO. Lloyd’s have escaped
with a trifling cost, most of the insurance offices
being her underwriters. The cost of the ship
was £60,000, so that the unfortunate company
to which she belonged will be minus £20,000.
This is the third steamer which has been lost
by the company in a few months. The Medi
na, it will be remembered, was wrecked off
Turks-head, and, more recently, the Isis, off
Bermuda.
The passengers arrived out in the packet ship
Montezuma, Capt. Lowber, before separating
presented a highly complimentaiy and eloquent
address and a piece of plate to Captain Lowber,
for his personal courtesy, and his humanity in
saving sixteen fellow creatures from perishing
on the wreck of a French brig called the St.
Bernard, of Fecamp, which he found sinking
at sea. The packet ship Hottinguer, Capt.
Bursley, arrived out on the Bth, and the Virgin
ia, Capt. Allen, on the 14th ult., and the day fol
lowing the Columbia made her appearance af
ter eleven days passage from Halilax, convey
ing the mails in safety.
The West India Royal Mail steam-ship Te
voit. Capt. Allen, arrived at Falmouth on the
2d ult. She brought 23 passengers, and on
freight.6oo,ooo dollars, and 170seroons of cochi
neal.
A»-_u>etim& approaches for the admission of
Canada - -n" 1 England at ,a Owed
duty, 'hopes on the ope hanfl. aM TetrrS'on the
other, are felt and expressed respecting the prob
able working of the new measure.
Amongst the novelties of the day may be no
ticed the speedy departure of Mr. O’Connell’s
eldest son ter the United States, accompanied by
Mr. Thomas Steele, to organize an agitation
there for the more speedy repeal ol the union.
Canova’s Magdalen, which formed part of
the gallery of the late wealthy Spanish capital
ist, M. Aguado, was sold by auction, at Paris,
on Tuesday week, for the sum 0f59,500 francs.
The purchaser is said te be the Duke de Sarra
glia, who, it is said, is about to remove the Mag
dalen to Italy. At the sale of the Marquis de
Sommariva’s gallery, four years ago, M. Agua
do had paid lor it 66,000 francs.
The trial of Mary Hunter for the murder of
her husband, and its extraordinary result, have
excited considerable surprise among all parties.
The trial took place before Sir James Parke,
and occupied two days last week. This woman
was charged with having administered arsenic
to her husband, and thereby wilfully and pre
meditatedly causing his death. She was ac
quitted by the Jury, actin' under the directions
of the Judge.
We are authorised to state, says the Court
Journal, that there is no foundation whatever
for the report circulated by the Herald, that a
separate establishment will shortly be formed
for the Prince of Wales.
Miss Moorhouse, a young and highly accom
plished young lady, daughter of a retired East
India merchant, residing near Romford, com
mitted suicide by drowning herself in a water
cistern.
Mrs. Wood, the Vocalist.—lt is with sin
cere and heartfelt pleasure that we are able to
announce that the wish expressed in our notice
of this celebrated lady’s removal to a convent at
York has been fulfilled. We are authorised to
state that, on Tuesday evening last, she arrived
at her husband’s residence, at Woolly Moor,
the pain and anxiety of being absent from her
husband and child being greater than her reli
gious enthusiasm. Maj' we hope that her ex
perience in this instance may prove a useful
lesson to many others, by showing that the nat
ural feelings and duties of wife and mother are
far superior to the gloomy and unnatural re
quirements of the Popish religion.— Wakc/ield
Journal.
There is some prospect that the Non-intru
sionists will be in a minority at the next meet
ing of the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland.
The number of Royal infants is still but two.
The Queen’s accouchement is looked for daily.
The amount of property destroj’ed by fire in
Liverpool during the last seven years, is £791 -
816.
The Thames Tunnel is now open for the pas
sage of the public. On Good Friday, the rush
was so great that the officers were obliged to
call in the Police. No less than 10,000 persons
are estimated to have passed through—many of
them without paying up to 12 o’clock of that
day.
Sudden Effects of the Mind upon the
Body.—Plato used to say, that all the diseases
of body proceeded from the soul. Mr. Weld,
in his famous report, says, “The expression of
the countenance is mind invisible. Bad news
weakens the action of the heart, destroys the ap
petite, oppresses the lungs, stops digestion and
partially suspends all the functions of the system.
An emotion of shame flushes the face, fear
blanches, joy illuminates it; an instant thrill
electrifies a million of nerves. Surprise spurs
the pulse into a gallop. Delirium infuses giant
energy; volition commands, and hundreds of
muscles spring to execute. Powerful emotion
often kills the body at a single stroke. The news
of a defeat killed Philip V. Muley Moloch was
carried upon the field of battle, in the last stages
of an incurable disease. Upon seeing his army
give way he leaped from his litter rallied his
panic stricken troops, rolled back the tide of bat
tle, shouted victory' and died. The door-keeper
of Congress of the U. S. expired upon heating of
the surrender of Cornwallis. Eminent publie
speakers have often died either in the midst of
an impassioned burst of eloquence, or when the
deep emotion to produce it had suddenly sub
sided.”
Tbe Legislature of Connecti
cut, in joint ballot, on Thursday, elected Chaun
cey F. Cleveland Goveraor of the State, bj- the
following vote;
Whole n umber of votes,2o3
Necessary to a ch0ice,,...102
9 1 ."'hich Chauncy F. Cleveland had. 125
William S. Holabird was elected Lieut Gov
ernor by the same number of votes; Jabez L.
White, Jr. Treasurer; Noah A. Phelps, Secre
tary, and Gideon Welles, Comptroller.
A pfetite—A relish bestowed upon the poor
er classes, that they may like what they- eat.
while it is seldom enjoved by the rich because
they may eat what they like.
Fatal Accident.—Mr. W. J. Bailey ofChe
raw, (a native of Anson county, N. C.) was kill
ed on the 1 9th ult. by being thrown from his sul
ky and dashed against a tree, in Darlington Dis
trict, S. C. ®
To the Editors of the Chronicle <f- Sentinel:
Below you will find the names of those fortu
nate drawers, who reside or resided in Greene
county, and who have not granted their lands.
If not granted by the first of July next, the lands
revert to the State.
DRAWERS IN LOTTERIES OF 1821 AND 1827, IN
GREENE COUNTY, WHOSE LANDS ARE UN
GRANTED.
W Houghton’s orphans Pleasant Baugh,
John Wright, Obadiah Thompson,
John M Simmons, Samuel WinsteU, sr.
Jacob B Hogue, Jane Hays,
Oliver Cromwell, Wootten Oneals,
James Freeman, W Coleman’s orphans,
John A Bates, . Montfort Strong,
Jas T Robertson, ■ Jas Turner, sf.
Edw Mitchell, Jesse White,
Rhesa Bostwick, George W Sanders,
Martha Atkinson, WmS Branch,
Wm Hammond, W Dickens’ orphans,
Wilie Haughton, Nancy Palmore,
Peggy Winslet, Cordelia Williams,
Lucy Colcut, Winny Ward,
Geo B Mitchell, Sterling Grimes,
John Hall, Henry Joyner,
Elizabeth Anders, T Greenwood’s orph’s,
John Lewis, Sterling Grimes,
Thos Brooks, Dickerson D Cosby,
David Mann, J Simington’s orphans,
Wm Hackney, Francis Cuming,
Henry Christmas, Thomas Crawford,
Wm Smith, Lawann Tippett,
Andrew Harris, Joseph Bird,
Peter Paugh, Wm Moore, jr.
Elihu L Terrell, Wm Hill,
Jonathan E Price, Mary Irving,
Fred H Williams, Henry Hodge,
Fred G Colbert, A B Wood,
Asa R Cone, Reuben Allison,
Wylie Wright, Phebe Cogbill’s illegiti-
John Hackney, mates,
Anderson Trillin, John Davis,
Wm P Wilson, Alfred P King,
J Cartwright’s orphans,! Caldwell’s orphans,
Harrison Haister, Mary Ann Chrismas,
Wm Aikens, Josiah Piron,
Amos Cooper, Wm Bostick,
Samuel Johnston, Jas W Godkin,
Milberry Withers, Susannah Hammons,
John Oliver, George G Floyd,
Dana Hungerford, Sarah Moore,
Littleberry Johnson, L Bethune’s orphans,
Elijah Haraldson, W Lawson’s orphans,
Nathan Allen, Wm L Strain,
John Bruce, Wm Allen,
Wm C Dawson, John Ray,
John H Howard, J T Sankey's orphans,
John Acree. Wm J Barnett,
F H Green, Mofield Owens,
Stewart Anderson, Rich Knight, sr.
Thos P Finley, Thos Jipson,
John Hodges, W Winstel’s orphans,
Isaac Mitchell, Abner Baker,
Wm Forister, Mary Oneall,
Austin Bunch, J Thompson’s orphans,
Wm Green, Littleberry Broach,
G Swanson’s orphans, Jos Fitzpatrick,
DRAWERS IN LAND LOTTERY OF 1832, IN GREENE
COUNTY, WHOSE LANDS ARE L'NGRANTED.
WmTAnsly, John Smith,
David Furlow, Samuel D Durham,
Bradley Kimbrough, Littleberry A Williams
Richard H Cocroft, Benj C Alfriend,
Francis Foster, Edward Crossley,
Samuel H Beman, D Town’s orphans,
Obediah Copeland, Thos Crawford, jr.
Judith Sanford, Benj E Harris,
Amelia Hom, J Fitzpatrick’s orph’s,
Abijah Catlin, Thos Miller,
Abraham Perkins, John B Cartwright,
Chas L Matthews, Little B Jacksori,
Biven Booles, John Smith,
Anderson Clents, Rachel Martin,
Littleberry McMillen, Oliver M Porter,
Elias Watson, James Cocroft,
Eleanor Coldwell, Mary Napp,
Lucinda Findley, George W Findley,
Alanson Clifton, Justus Bradshaw,
Wm Self, Young G Malone,
Wm McMillen, R Bennett’s orphans,
J D Kerr’s orphans, John Smith,
Pleasant Baugh, Wm Walker, sr.
Leonard Peek, idiot, John Jones,
Jeremiah Durham, David MeGaugh,
Wm A Hunter, Martha Allen,
Wm Bates, Polly Jenkins,
Henry P Lewis, Older Neall,
Robt Cruchfield, John Hunt’s orphans,
Jas Riley’s minors, Oliver M Porter,
Arch W Gentry, Willis Kirbee,
Johnson Clark’s orph’s,Edmund Knowles, sr.
T A Billup’s orphans, Marshall B Guill,
R Fendley’s 5 orphans, Lucy Gynn,
Samuel Hammons, Emanuel Parker,
J Thompson’s orphans, B H Bishop,
W Brunt’s orphans, Joel Forrester,
A Bunch’s 4 orphans, Wm L Alfriend,
Wiley Alford, Thos R Knowles,
John G Mitchell, C Baldwin’s orphans,
Martha Maddux, Wm M Hart,
F H Williams’ orph’s, Mary Mapp,
John Crossley, John Cartwright,
Young H Greer, James V Martin.
DRAWERS IN GOLD LOTTERY OF 1832, IN GREENE
COUNTY, UNGRANTED.
WmStaughton, Wm Hudnall,
Thomas Jones, Nancy Vincent,
Wm Fitzpatrick, John Palmer,
Jas Tigg’s orphans, James H King,
Flrwry King, : —— - Thomas slams.
Joseph Carter, srt Gwyji Allison.
Wnl.M Hart, J E Maddox’s orphans,
Abraham Littlejohn, Wm Slaughter,
Jesse Kenney, Henton Crawford,
Reuben Allison, James Briges, sr.
Wm Jackson, sr. Littleberry McMillen,
John Short, i Mary Peck,
Elijah Holtzeland, Thomas Cummins.
John West, jr. Russell Palmer,
Jos Wright, Thos Eidson,
Elizabeth Hunt, Jonathan Haralson,
Alldridge Bunn, Justus Bradshaw,
Mary Brook, Hugh Moore,
Mary Ann Palmer, Jonas Cartwright,
Creasy Harris, T Knowles’ orphans,
A Oliphant’s orphans, Rutha Jinkins,
Stephen Evans’ orph’s, Wilson Pope,
David Lindsey, Samuel Hogg,
H Baldwin’s orphans, Lazarus Atkinson, sr.
Nathan Eckales, L Benham’s orphans,
J Caldwell’s orphans, Wm H Blake,
Thos Downing, Wm Moore, sr.
Nehemiah Watson, Thos Jarrell,
Elisha Irby, Joshua A Cannon,
James Luckie, John R Watts,
Pleasant C Johnson, Wm D Sankey,
Adam Andrews, Zaccheus Wright,
Wm Burford, L B Jackson,
Charles S Lee, Abijah Catlin,
Robt Green’s orphans, Thompson Malone,
Wm Bradshaw, Thos Crawford,
Robt Crutchfield, John S Floyd,
John D Reed, Wm A Rhodes,
John Wells, John Brunt,
Thomas Crawford, Wm Clifton,
Wm Thomas, Lucy Gwinn,
Garrett Woodham, John C Durham,
James Wqpdham, Wm Rowland,
Jeremiah Thompson, John S Bowling,
Thomas Mallory, Michael Lawrence,
Jos Thompson, Nath G Parish,
John Orear, V Sanford, jr.
Peter Clark, Samuel D Durham,
Silas Burnes, Sanford Hargrove,
Wm Allen, John Short,
Tabitha Wright, Wm Smith,
Jesse Asburg, Richard T Sankey,
Wm Walker, Hugh C
J Fitzpatrick’s orphans,Samuel Thompson,
Jackson Booles, John G Mitchell,
George L Williams, Jesse Jenkins,
Leathan Rankin, J McClain’s orphans,
J acobus Gibson, Wm Self,
George F Heard, Curtis Parrott,
WraH Lewis, Elihu Hall,
T Greenwood’s orph’s, Simeon D Simmons,
Micajah B Dell, Jourdan Rowland,
Sol P Arnold. Ezekiel L Stanley,
Hugh Moore, Wm S Branch,
Eliza Velvin, F Nance’s orphans,
Peter Clark, J A Billup’s orphans.
John Walker, Wilson Pope,
Alex J Brooch, Wm Walker, sr.
Nancy Burran, Wm Jackson,
Farneford H Green, J Watts’orphans,
Britten C Knowles, Anderson Clements,
John Barker, Ezekiel Veazy,
Henry M Freeman, C Miller’s orphans,
James Durham, Jeptha V Davis,
Hampton B Watts, Frederick Hudson,
Samuel Baldwin, Henry Davenport,
John High, Emauuel Ray,
Nathan Eckales, Thomas Channel,
Stephen Mosely, John Tigs,
Thomas W Randall, F H Williams’orph’s,
Abram Perkins, H Ashton’s orphans,
Nancj' Walker, Wm Geer,
Marcellus Branch, Wm Gordy,
Thos Fambrough, John Hawk,
Henry Watson, Julius C Alford,
Wm Taggle, sr. Wm Duiham,
John W Kimbrough, Leonard Peek,
Thos J Parke, Mark Jackson,
Wm Bates, Wm Burford,
Wm W Palmer, Wm J Maddux,
Jeremiah Durham, Wm Westbrooks,
Henry P Lewis, pleasant J Allen,
Elijah Anderson, Abraham Irby,
John Stovall, Payjd Ferrill,
Wm L Alfriend. Sarah Forrester,
Mary Brewer, Wm H Blanks,
Thos C Winn, Ezalbon Seymour,
Thos Greer’s orphans, Wm N Morgan,
John Houghton, Nancj' English,
iryan Leonard, Arthur Slaten,
WoodaS Howell, J Marchmail’s orph’s,
D Town’s orphans, Douglass C Watson,
Pannenas Cochran, Peter Puckin,
James Carlton, jr, Jackson,
Wm Bell, John
Wm Asken, W McGee’s orphans,
J Stowers orphans, James A Jackson,
Wm Hammond, Erasmus McGib.bony. :
I earnestly call the attention of the individu
als above named, or their heirs, administrators,
guardians, judgment creditors, or their other
legal representatives or agents, to see to the
granting of their lands, and not suffer themselves
to bejockied out of thsir lots by speculators; or
by their inactivity allow their lands to revert to
the State.
A large number ol the above individuals are
drawers of as valuable and productive land, as
can be found in Georgia.
i will remain in Milledgeville until the fit st
of July, and will promptly take out grants, and
afford all desirable information in regard to the
situation, and] mbable value of lots.
Grant fees for land lots, $5 00
gold “ 2 50
Commission for granting each lot, 1 00
Affording information about lots, ther sit
uation and value, 1 00
An enclosure of Jive dollars, spe.:ie funds,
for land lots, and three dollars, specie funds, for
gold lots, will cover all expenses for granting
and cammissions.
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD,
Milledgeville, Ga.
From St. Croix.
By the arrival of the brig Cashier, at this
port, we have advices from St. Croix to the 11th
ult. Capt. A. states that a great number of the
people were daily arriving from Hayti, some ol
whom give the reason of their leaving to have
been that they considered their lives in danger
every moment they remained. The cruel, blood
thirsty deeds daily committed tn that place, they
state surpass all belief; people, according to
them, were assassinated in cold blood in the
streets, carried to the shore in carts and thrown
into the sea. [We have no such news direct.]
President Boyer carried with him to Kings
ton more than $300,000, and before he left Hay
ti, it is said that he sent $300,000 to England,
and as much more to the United States.—
[Doubtful.] He is now said to possess more
than a million of dollars.
The Cashier stopped at all the Windward
Islands, and noticed that not a single island has
escaped the earthquake. In some of the islands
he saw large chasms in the mountains, which
had been rent asunder by the earthquake, some
near 50 feet deep, and two or three wide, and
the enormous rock of St. Thomas, called the
Sail Rock, on account of its resemblance at a
distance to a ship under full sail, was entirely
split to pieces.
Business was very dull on account of there
being no vessels to carry away the freight, great
quantities of which lay ready for shipping.—
N. Y. Express.
Mr. Van Buren’s Manifesto.
The ex-President has sought to commend
himself to the ultra-democracy again by an in
terminable letter to an interrogating committee
in Indiana, in which he raises tile ghosr oTT[he
old U. S. Bank, apparently in order to frighten
the folks and show his valor in laying it again.
The letter would occupy some 12 columns of
this paper, and is an answer to interrogatories
concerning his views of a Bank, the Land Dis
tribution, Tariff, the Veto, and submission to a
Convention. These brief extracts will show
his drift. The letter itself is professedly put
forth as a manifesto to all enquirers:
1 am opposed to the establishmena
tional Bank in any form, or under any disguise,
both cn constitutional grounds and grounds of
expediency.
[On this fruitful topic he expatiates al great
length, recites in his own way the old stories
about the tremendous voracity of the poor dead
monster, shews how’ narrowly the whole people
escaped being swallowed in its maw, alarms
them with the supposed purpose of the deceptive
Whigs to revive it, denounces all Exchequer
schemes, and proclaims himself for the repudia
ted sub-treasury policy and currency.]
lam opposed to the distribution of the pro
ceeds of the public lands among the States.
The best evidence 1 can give you of my present
opinion, in regard to the proper disposition of
the public lands, is to reler you to those which
were avowed and acted upon by me whilst in
office, and hich were very fully slated in my
first message to Congress, in December, 1837.
My views in relation to the Protective Sys
tem, wete also called for by the Shocco Springs
meeting in 1832, and freely given. A convic
tion that the establishment of commercial regu
lations with a view to the encouragement of do
mestic interests, is within the constitutional
power of Congress, was on that occasion dis
tinctly avowed. But holding this opinion, lat
the same time denied the propriety of exercis
ing this power in a manner calculated to op
press any portion of my fellow citizens, or to
advance the interests of one section of tne Un
ion at the expense of another.
It is apparent that the manufacturing inter
ests derives an advantage from the collection
of the revenues of the Federal Government
throughjtfe custom houses, instead of their be
ing obtained by the mode of taxation adopted by
the states, incomparably greater than any other
of the important interests of the country—in
deed, than all of them put together. That this
advantage consists in a preference in the Amer
ican market over their foreign competitors, of
not less than 30 per cent, when the revenne
standard is reduced to an average of 20 percent,
and liable to be increased as before stated: That
it is enjoyed by virtue of a tariff, the collection
of the duties imposed by which, whilst it sub
jects all to taxation, invariably and almost ine
vitably bears with unequal severity upon a very
large, and unhappily in general, a necessitous
portion of the peqple—a protection, the indirect
: advantages of rvi'Jch.to 6>her
der a tariff lor prieciionyut’e a'sl muciJftie stfro-'
ject of doubt and disputation as they ever were,
but for which those concerned in other pursuits
have for a long series of years paid in advance,
and received their equivalent in promises, of the
performance of which they are not and do not
seem likely tr be soon satisfied. This advan
tage to the manufacturer is not, it is true, the
object of, but only incidental to, a tariff' for rev
enue. Still it is not, on that occasion, the less
beneficial to him.
The position assumed by your convention,
and in which 1 fully concur, is. that the inciden
tal protection thus derived, is all the legislative
favor which can at this day be conferred upon
the manufacturer without great injustice to oth
er interests. The expediency of the adoption
by Congress, at any time, of temporary meas
ures of retaliation, when likely to be effectual
in counteracting foreign legislation injurious to
American interests, is a question involving dif
ferent considerations.
When the convention speak of a discrimina
ting tariff ibr revenue, 1 understand them as re
ferring to discriminations below the maximum
rate of duties upon important articles, not de
signed to increase the protection already ati’ord
edto domestic manufacturers, but to carry out
views of policy different tn their character, and
which may probably be embraced in such a
measure.
Os the constitutional power to make discrim
inations, I have no doubt. Equally clear it is
that the practice of making them has existed
from the commencement of the government, and
constitutes a feature in every principal tariff'bill
which is to be found upon our statute book.—
They are indeed indispensable to the successful
operation of every teveniie bill, whether the de
sign be to guard against smuggling on the one
hand, where the natuic of the article is sueh as
to afford facilities for that practice, or on the
other to prevent loss to the treasury by the impo
sition of duties higher than the value of the ar
ticle will Ijar, and thus prohibiting its intro
duction into the country.
I am satisfied with the Veto Power as it ex
ists by the Constitution, and opposed to any
modification which shall materially change the
principle upon which it rests.
* ♦ » * v
No public man will be apt to place hitnselfin
a position so trying, unless he is influenced by
an irresistible conviction of right, and a firm
confidence in the ultimate rectitude of that pub
lic opinion by which he can alone hope to be
sustained. Our political system does not, there
fore, clothe any of the agents it employs with
authority, which is more likely to be exerted
from pure motives, and to patriotic ends.—We
have in these considerations, the best of human
securities, that this negative power will bo but
seldom exercised, ,n t nev.-r when llieie no: ;
good reas.m to . tlkve mat tae legi.-latuie has,
for the moment, through inadvertence, error ol
opinion, or other causes, placed itself in oppo
sition to the interests and wishesofthe people.—
This inference is sustained by experience.—
The administration of the elder Adams, of Mr.
Jefferson, and of that over which I have the ho
nor to preside, did not, I believe, produce a sin
gle veto. The whole number since the estab
lishment of the government is very small; and
those w’ho make war upon the principle, may
be safely chal'enged to produce a single instance
in which the Presidential veto failed to be sus
tained by the people.
To your last interrogatory, I unhesitatingly
answer, yes. The Democracy of the Union
will pot fail, as I am sure they ought not, to
adopt eyepy proper precaution to secure, through
the instrumentality flf the convention they pro
pose to hold, an honest and full expression of
the wishes and opinions of a majority ot their
political associates.
My name and pretensions, however subordi
nate in importance, shall never be at the dispo
sal of any person whatever, for the purpose of
creating distraction ordivision in the Democrat
ic party. Every attempt to use them for such a
purpose, whenever and wherever made, shall be
by an interference on my part, alike
prompt agd decisive. I regal'd the Presidency
as the highest aqd most honorable of political
distinctions—yet if is,only as the undoubted and
free will offering of the Demokfap y the Nation
that 1 could accept it, because it is in that aspect
only, that I could hope to rendar the discharge
of its high duties either useful to the country’ or
honorable to myself.
“With sentiments of high regard,
“Your obedient servant.
“M. VAN BUREN.
“To fihe Hon. E. A Brown, Chairman, &c.”
JJfHe is a public benefactor who, by the pru
dent and skilful outlay of bls .time ap’d money,
shall make a single field yield permanently a
double crop; and he who does this over a square
mile, virtually adds a square mile to the nation
al territory—nay, he does more: he doubles to
this extent the territorial resources of the country,
without giving the state any larger territory to
defend. All hail, then, to the improvers ot the
soil! Health and long life be their fortune—may
their dreams be few and pleasant, and their sleep
the sweet repose of the weary —may’ they see the
fruits of their own labor, and may their sons
reap still heavier harvests. — Black. Magazine.
THI IRSDAY MORNING, MAY 11.
Rail Road Cnnvcntlon.
This L jdy closed its session yesterday very
harmoniously, after adopting a resolution offer
ed by the Hon. R. L. Gamble, giving to the
Boardof Directors full power and discretion to
pursue whatever course they may deem fit for
the extension of the road and the protection of
the interest ol the Company.
Jj’A portion of the Whigs of Burke county
convened at the Court House, on Thursday the
4th of May, and elected four delegate to the
Convention, to be held in Milledgeville on the
3d MondW in June next.
indebted to S. A. Holmes for a
very neat pamphlet copy of O’Connell’s Me
moir on Ireland, Native and Saxon; also for
No. 5 of the New York Mirror.
The Bankrupt Law.—Judge McKinley, of
the U. S. Supreme Court, hasdecided in a Louis
iana case, that the act of Congress to establish a
uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the
United States, approved the 19th day of August,
1841, is a valid and binding law according to the
Constitution of the United States of America.
Proposed Revival of the U. S. Bank.—
The Philadelphia Sentinel has a statement that
a number of London capitalists are about reviv
ing the charter of the U. 8. Bank, and that they
are endeavoring to make arrangements to that
effect.
North Eastern Boundary.—Among the
passengers in the steamer Hibernia, at Boston,
from Liverpool, are Capts. Broughton and Ro
binson, and Lieut. Ripon of the British army,
who, in connexion with a deputation of Ameri
can engineers, are to lay down and mark the
boundary line between Maine and New Bruns
wick, avoiding to the recent treaty.
Giu^HD^DgNm—The Franklin Insurance
Washington, has’ declared’ a half
yearlydividend of 15 per cent.
Suicide of a Murderer.—James McLaugh
lin, who was to have been executed at Louisville
Ky., for murder, on Friday, the 28th ult., com
mitted suicide in prison on that morning, by cut
ting his throat with a razor.
The Georgia State Lottery draws this
day, at 4 o’clock, at the U. S. hotel.
I~*j*G. B. Lamar, Esq. has been elected Presi
dent of the Savannah Insurance and Trust
Company, vice, G. B. Cumming, Esq. resign
ed.
List of Delegates to the Whig Convention.
Chatham— Hon. J. M. Berrien, Judge Holt,
J. M.Clark, F. S. Bartow and Geo. A. Reed.
Furyd— Judge Hooper, J. W. M. Berrien, Dr.
Miller.
Cass — Win. E. Alexander, Warren Aikin,
Lowrey Williams.
Baldwin— Miller Grieve, Seaton Grantland,
Iverson L. Harris.
Bibb— A. H. Chappell, Washington Poe,
Thomas M. Ellis, Major Moore.
Junes — Isaac M. Moreland, James T. Furlow,
Bichard Blowe, F. S. Johnson.
Houston— Eli Warren, Levi Ezell, Samuel
Felder David O. Smith.
Morgan— Thomas D. Speer, Wm. O. Saffold,
Asaiiah Bostwick, Jno. Broughton.
Richmond— Geo. W. Crawford, Alexander
C. Walker, Porter Fleming, T. W. Miller.
Striven— Thomas H Burns Jr., Solomon C.
Bryan, Cuyler W. Young.
I Greene —Yf m. L. Alfriend, James M. Porter,
Y. P. King, Henry Sanford.
Clark— Charles Dougherty, James Camak,
James Hendon, Greene B. Haygood.
Newton— John Webb, Esq. Gen. John N.
Williamson, Manson Glass, Esq. and Thomas
F. Jones, Esq.
Wilkinson— Julius L. La Taste, Willis Allen
and Geo. A. Whipple, Esqrs.
Oglethorpe— Maj W. P. Rembert, Jos. H.
Echols, Wm. Blanton, Mail Smith, Esqrs.
Henry— Duncan McVicker, Wm. Kimbell,
H. G. R. McNeill, Esqrs., Dr. Francis E. Man
son.
“WhigJ, pick your flints and try your rifles again.”
Henry Clay.
Campbell County Clay Meeting.
At a large and respectable meeting of the
Whigs of Campbell county, convened at the
court house at Campbellton, according to pre
vious public notice, on Tuesday, the 2d day ol
May, on motion of Dr. Glentworth, Mr. Wil
liam Davenport was called to the Chair, and A.
WAWh£<rt, Esq. chosen Secretary.
.X ThfrtWflouing preamble the
ipjtoAu and unanimously adopted:
the Whig members of the Legis
lature, at a meeting held at Milledgeville, in
December last, appointed the 3d Monday in
June next, as the day which the party will meet
in Convention, for the purpose of selecting a
suitable candidate for Governor, and recom
mended to the several counties in lhe State, to
send delegates equal to-their number of mem
bers in the Legislature.
On motion, Resolved, That the Chairman ap
point a committee of five gentlemen, to select
suitable persons as delegates to represent the
county in said Convention.
The following gentlemen were named: John
H. Coryell, Esq., Dr. Wm. Bomar, Mr. Donald,
Frederick Alderholt, and S. T. Longino, Esq.,
who having retired, nominated as delegates, Dr.
William Bomar, Willis P. Mernifee, Esq.
and Dr. Edward H. Glentworth.
On motion, Resolved, That the Chairman ap
point a committee of three, to draft resolutions
expressive ot the sense ol this meeting.
The following committee was appointed—Dr.
Glentworth, J. G. Bullard and Henry Paulett,
Esqrs., who after retiring, returned and the fol
lowing resolutions were offered, and afterwards
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we congratulate the Whigs
throughout the country, on the nomination of
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, by the Convention
that met at Milledgeville in June last, and do
cheerfully respond to the rerrort of our Dele
gates in said Convention.
Resolved, That we are firmly attached to the
great principles which grovern the Whig party,
and that our confidence remains unshaken, and
we are convinced, that to carry them out in
their true spirit and meaning, is what alone can
relieve our country from its present embari assed
condition.
Resolved, That as American citizens we dis
approve and repudiate the doctrines and policy
of the acting Presidept of the United States,
John Ty ler, hjs abstraction, his conscience and
bis gtu i.l, and look to his retiiempnt as the first
g an I ■ i«p towards restoring the constitution and
run r:< . b-. :i; , wilii tl e Ji;-..-; e: j:y
happin—-s ol toe people.
Resolved, That the brightest luminary of the
west has gone down, his; voice and admonitions
have ceased tor the present to be heard in the
councils ot the nation, but we trust that his sun
has set to rise again, and when the hammer is
heard plying merrily on the anvil, the plough,
engine and shuttle performing their different of
fices, that Hehrv Clay, the farmer of Ashland,
the friend ol Madison and Monroe, and, above
all, the truly honest man, will be called to fill
the first office in the gift of a free people, for
which he is so preeminently qualified.
Resolved, That our thanks are due to the Se
nate of the United States, at their last session,
for their magnanimous course in not receiving
instructions from our worthy Legislature, censu
ring the conduct of our estimable Senator, Hon.
John McPherson Berrien.
Resolved, That we will leave our delegates,
as to what will come before them in Conven
tion, to their sound discretion, untiammeled by
instruction.
Resolved, That in case of any’ vacancy, the
delegates, or Chairman, are authorized to ap
point suitable persons to fill said vacancies.
fffsolted, That at the next general election lor
members of th? Legislature, we deem it the best
policy to have a candidate, or candidates, from
out of our own ranks, Clay, Bank Whigs, and
pledge ourselves to support no other.
On motion of Mr. Bullard, Resolved, That
the proceedings ot this meeting, after being
signed by the Chairman apd Secretary, be pub
lished in all the Whig papers in the State.
On motion, Resolved, That we now adjourn
to meet again up }.lie gist Tuesday in June
next, to organize a Clay CJub fop Campbell
county, and to receive the report of the commit
tee appointed to draft a constitution and bye
laws for the government of said association.
WM. DAVENPORT, Chairman.
Acolstvs W. Wheat, Sec’y.
Counterfeiters Arrested.
The following has been cotnm.inicated to us
by a friend from Sumter county.
“Fisher Brown and John D. Harrison, for
several years residents of our county, have been
arrested and are now in jail, for passing coun
terfeit Central Bank money. The jail is guard
ed, and 1 think there is no probability of their
escape. Both of these men have been strongly
suspected of participating in lhe outrage of
burning our county records, some time ago; and
one of them, there is pretty strong testimony to
prove, is of the notorious Murel gang. At any
rale, they have been turbulent cit’zens, and as
one of our citizens is now on a visit to your place,
to procure testimony to prosecute, 1 hope he
will succeed, and that they will be brought to
speedy justice.
If these men have passed any counterfeit
inonev elsewhere, lhe parties imposed upon
would do well to attend and aid in prosecuting
them to conviction. The friends of morality,
of law, and order, should promptly aid in put
ting a stop to such depredators'upon the public.”
—Georgia. Journal.
From the Georgia Courier.
Literary Notice.—-Mr. Black’s Review.
Influenced by his ardent desire to enlighten
his simple ignorant constituency, our fussy re
presentative in Congress, Edward J. Black, has
availed himself of his leisure time since his re
turn from Washington, and has turned author.
His last contribution to the literature of the age,
reached us a few days since in the shape of a
review of the report of the Commissioner of
Patents, and since the withdrawal of the famous
McGrawler from the office of reviewer, to the
more unctuous post of cook, we remember no
thing which surpasses the specimens before us,
in this peculiar style of composition. If we
might for a moment, however, assume the criti
cal vein, we should venture lhe opinion, that
Mr. Black has too closely copied the style and
manner of his great prototype. We find in his
production the same arrogance, verbosity, abor
tive efforts at wit, and carelessness whether the
opinions expressed accord with the truth. If he
had relied still more upon his own inventive
genius, he would most likely have succeeded
better. We would by no means be understood
as intending to discourage the young aspirant
for literary honors, he undoubtedly possesses
reviewing talents, and by perseverance, which
he promises, may accomplish much. The ease
with whieh he throws in-his Latin and French
commonplaces argues well lor his erudition—
“quid pro quo" “tiers elat”— why, we are almost
persuaded that we are reading the literary
speech of the “old Gineral,” as reported by Ma
jor Downing. In the selection of his subject,
too, the young reviewer evinces great judgment.
Capacity to comprehend the production of an
author, deprives a reviewer of the power to
“slash” with boldness and spirit, and letters his
genius, and hence the necessity to choose lor
his essay a work written upon a subject of
which he is profoundly ignorant, or can form
no conception of its importance and value.—
When Mr. Black shall have finished his inves
tigations with respect to “the productive indus
try of the country,” we hope he will favor the
world with his views upon some of the knotty
questions of Metaphysics and Theology. But
justice c mrels us io advert to one great error
into which he has fallen in the review before
us. He has incorporated into it a whole para
graph of good sense! it may possibly have es
caped his notice, or it may have been designed
for irony, but it is unquestionably there, an en
tire sentence of common sense in a review !
We are aware how much we detract from its
merits by this disclosure, and to show that we
have not done so wantonly, we will extract the
passage, and also the part of Mr. Ellsworth’s
report upon which the comment is made. The
latter in treating of the cotton interest of the U.
States, remarks:
“Although the experiment of raining cotton in India
has partially proved a failure; on account of the hot
weather, winds, &c., as in thu Bengal district, yet in
home of the trials it has furnished so great encourage
ment, that we have reason to believe it will not be a
bandoned. The comparison of the cotton imported in
to England and India from the United States shows a
steady advance on the amount received from the for
mer country. Thus in 1841 there was received from lhe
United States 902,191 bales, from India 274,984 bales—
being nearly equal to the entire consumption of cotton
in the United States in 1840 and 1841, and more than
one.fourth of the amount sent that year from this coun
try—being also 50,000 pounds more than in the preced
ing year, in which the increase was at least 39,000 lbs.
To show how this subject, is viewed abroad, and with
out pretending to say how far the reasoning is justified
by tnv iiaaumed facts, we may here quote an extract or
two from the letter of an intelligent writer from Liver
pool to his friend in Boston. He says: “When in the
cotton growing section of the States, I was induced to
think the India effort on the part oi the Government
would prove a failure. 1 based this calculation upon
these data, that the skill, machinery, fertility of soil,
cheapness of conveyance, and nearness to us, would
enable the Americans to put down any competition,—
Since my return. I have conversed with a friend from
India, who resided for a longtime in Charleston, and
was familiar with cotton-growing, and who is now en
gaged in its cultivation in the East, and from facts fur
nished to me by him, I am satisfied I was wrong.
The experiment in India will succeed, and the success
will be both rapid and permanent They will not only
grow the cotton, but they will manufacture it and supply
us, besides, with large quantities of ’.he raw material.
What effect, you may ask, will this have upon the
States? The first will be to drive the American out of
the South American markets. In India, they manufac
ture a coarse fabric (which just suits that market)
cheaper than the Americans possibly can, and conse
quently they will have in turn to yield. They <anno a
great deal more than most people, but they cannot com
pete with pauper labor, or the cheap work of India,
unless helped by home duties. The second effect must
be to change the cultivation of a large number of the
States engaged in thegiowth of cotton. The rich al
luvial bottoms of lhe Mississippi may enable the plan
ter u» cultivate «ott»u at & cents, with profit
—I suppose it will, but in Georgia and the Carolinas,
if lam any judge «>f soil, it cannot be done. If I re
member right, the average crops in those States would
not be more than 300 pounds to the acre; and so, cotton
growing there will be a losing business.”
In view ot' the facts here stated and in com
menting upon them, Mr. Black justly remarks:
“If we are driven from the cultivation of cotton, to
what can we devote our labor that will be productive
of money? We cannot successfully grow breadstuff or
live stock for export in competition with the farmers
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, or Michigan, who alone are
more than competent to glut the markets of the world.
Our seasons are too short and precarious to depend on
Sugar as a staple. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
many other sections of the Union, must always, from
the superior adaption of their soil and climate, outstrip
us in tne cultivation of Tobacco. Silk is a new and
uncertain business, and is even now dependant for its
support upon legislative bounties, paid in money to the
producers by several of the States. What then, if Mr.
Ellsworth and his Liverpool letter writer are correct in
their ‘’predictions,” is the prospect before the planters
of Georgia and South Carolina? Utter ruin and des
truction; unless indeed they are saved from the disas
trous effects of competition with “pauper labor” and
“the cheap work of India,” by adopting the suggestion
ofMr. Ellsworth’s correspondent.”
We heartily commend these extracts to the
serious consideration of the people of Georgia.
11 Mr. Black’s review shall excite curiosity
enough io induce in.elligent farmers throughout
the country’ to seek ibr and examine the report
of Mr. Ellsworth, it will be the most valuable
effort of his statesmanship. For whether he be
“the clerk of a mere bureau" or occupy a lower
station, he has embodied more information to
the whole country and of infinite value to the
agricultural portion of it, than has ever emana
ted from the reviewer since he has been a mem
ber ol a mere Congress. Mr. Black appears un
willing that his constituents shall have the ben
efit ol the knowledge disseminated at the pub
lic expense, and by the sanction of his vote,
without insulting their understanding by his pu
erile comments.
“But Air, I am notwillinc to see tbit poison insidious
ly administered to you and others of my constituents
without giving some notice of it.”
Alas, Mr. Guieu ! unfortunate dolts of con
stituents! poisoned secretly, without knowing
it! And how charitable and wise in Mr. Black
to inform them of it. “Is there nogra/i/We ex
tant?” How shall we repay our vigilant Rep
resentative for shielding our minds from the del
eterious influences of truth and knowledge?
Rar ovals in the Custom House.—There
have been several removals, from 15 to 20 in the
Custom-house within a day or two. Whigs of
course.—.V. V. Expt css.
Ma: ihag :.—Marriage is a mystery’. Marri
age is a lotteiy. Marriage is ‘very like a whale,’
very lik'ly to introduce you among a sea of
troubles. A ht| ected con'cmporary observes
th: t iii-•> •j* is i: ea silk purse, most agreeable
’«> bi'’ r 'i i ...... jj. uiym money in it.
Marriage is like a mouse Hap —once get in, and
you are caught, without the least prospect of re
covering your liberty. Marriage is like a rose
tree in full bearing’—how attractive are its
flowers! but the bright leaves fall after a season
and the thorns alone remain. Marriage among
fools is like a boiled call’s head without the ac
companiment of brains. Marriage is like a
roast leg of mutton on Sunday’—served cold on
Monday—ditto with pickles on Tuesday—and
hashed up op Wednesday. In short, marriage
is a mixture, andyoucan hardly taste the sweets
without imbibing some portion of the sour.
Molasses.—A great loss in this article is ex
perienced in hot weather by fermentation. An
intelligent friend communicated to us a few days
ago a mode of effectually stopping this, and in
asmuch as it may not be generally known, we
give it publicity.—lt is simply to introduce into
every hogshead that threatens to burst its bonds,
a tallow candle. In a short time, the process oi
fermentation will entirely cease. It needs to be
repeated as often as ocmsiop may require.—
One candle, however, will last forty-eight hours.
—-V. O. Paper.
A Sad Disappointment.—When it was an
nounced that the Hon. Henry Clay would ad
dress thecitizens of Fayette county, Ky., on the
16th inst., the Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, with
that vanity .which forms hisinost prominent char
acteristic took it into his wise head that Mr. Clay
was going to reply to some ol his speeches!!—
with this idea the great apostle of tetotalism was
vastly tickled—so much so that he perambulated
the streets of Lexington, boasting that he had “a
roused the old lion:” that to counteract his influ
ence it had been deemed necessary to bring Mr.
Clay himself into the arena!! Filled with such
notions of his own importance, he went to hear
Mr. Clay’s speech; and for two hours sat, sur
rounded by’ a crowd of his satellites, expecting
to hear himself attacked. At length Mr. Clay
commenced, proceeded and concluded his speech
without once having alluded in the most remote
degree to the Hon. T. F. Marshall! His sur
prise and mortification was complete, if it could
not be heightened by the fact, that Mr. Clay’s
conclusion was followed by a call for Marshall
from his friends. He rose confused, and stam
mered out some few remarks, and left the room
looking very much like a dog just deprived ofa
portion of that ornamental appendage known as
the tail!—Kentucky paper.
Office of the South Carolinian, I
Columbia, S. C., May 9, 1843. J
A firebioke out in this city, about 15 oi 20
minutes belbre 3 o’clock this morning, in the
two story wooden building owned by Mr. Jas.
McCaffrey, and occupied by him as a grocery
store, situated on the west side of Main street,
about 150 yards south of Maybin’s Hotel. Mr.
McCaffrey and the boarders in his house, who
were sleeping in the second story, were awoke
by lhe smoke, and unable to descend the stairs,
escaped through the window, by letting them
selves down by' a sheet. Mr. McCaffrey im
mediately discovered the fire breaking out at
the north corner of the store next the street, and
is uncertain whether it originated in the store
Or the cellar, but is confident it must have been
communicated to one or the other by an incen
diary, as he and the inmates of the building had
retired to ’est about 10 or 11 o,clock, and were
careful as usual, in extinguishing all light or
fire of any kind. They saved nothing beyond
barely enough clothing to scantily cover them.
Mr. McCaffrey estimates his loss, in the build
ing and its contents, at $2,500 to $4,000 —con-
stituting his all, except the bare lot, and no part
ol it insured.
From there it communicated northwardly to
the adjoining two-story dwelling of Mrs. Farr,
and the next adjoining partly wood and partly
brick store and dwelling if Mr. J. P. Norton, on
the corner of Main and Lady streets, opposite
Maybin’s Hotel—and Southwardly, to the ad
joining small wooden buildings owned by Mr.
James McAndrew, and occupied, one by him
self, and the other by Mr. Mills. The next
small wooden building, owned by James Flem
ing, was blown up anu lhe flames thereby arres
ted, or the next large two story wooden store
and dwelling owned and occupied by Messrs.
Isaac Lyons and Sons, extending io the next
corner, must have been destroyed. We regret
the painful duty of announcing that Professor
Twiss of South Carolina College, was severely
injured, and Mr. Joseph Shepheard and Mr.
Wheeler slightly, by the blowing up of Mr.
Fleming’s building. Prof. Twiss superintend
ed the arrangements for blowing up, and after
wailing some time without the explosion taking
place, he expected the match had gone out, and
re-entered the building to re-light it, followed by
Messrs. S. &W. Immediately after entering,
the explosion occurred; by which he was se
verely burned and bruised, (though we are grat
ified to learn, not dangerously,) and the others
slightly. But, considering how the building
was blow n, to pieces, it seems next to a miracle,
that all were not instantly killed.
Fortunately, the w ind was very light during
the fire, and the Firemen and citizens early on
the spot, considering the hour at which the fire
broke out; but there was some difficulty at the
start in getting water, owing to the nearest fire
plugs being somewhat out of order—a defect
which should be always most carefullj- guarded
against by the ci.y authorities. Fora time the
United Slates Hotel, opposite, seemed in much
danger, and Mabin’s Hotel and Mr. Sheill’s
Store also, in a less degree. But in saving
them, great credit isdue to the Firemen, for their
detet mined, energetic and persevering exertions,
as well as to many of the citizens, ineludingthe
Intendant, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Montieth, Mr. May
bin, Mr. Root, and others.
The entire loss is estimated at ten to twelve
thousand dollars—the buildings being mostly
very old, (about the oldest in the city,) and of
comparatively little value; insurance $3,300 —
$2,500 on Mrs. Parr’s building, in the dEtna In
surance Company of Hartford, Conn., and SBOO
on Mr. James McAndrew’s building, in the
Protection Insurance Company' of Hartford,
Conn. Mt. Norton’s loss is probably about
$3,000, Mr. McCaffrey’s about $3500 tos4ooo,
Mrs. Parr’s (over her insurance) about S7OO,
and the others about S2OO to S4OO each.
Cotton Mills. —There are 900 cotton mills
in the United States, with an aggregate capital
of $50,000,000 invested. In these mills are" 40,-
000 looms, and their p-oduct is about 250,000,-
000 of yards each year. The advantages in fa
vor oi the American manufactures on the score
of expense is so great, that there is every proba
bility of the American article being able to enter
into successful competition with the English ar
ticle upon their own ground.
New York Money Market, week ending
May 6.—Business is gradually assuming a
more healthy and satisfactory appearance. The
improvement which may be noted is not rapid,
and it ought not to be so if it is expected to be
permanent. Bitter and dear-bought experience
has taught the community that fortunes speedi
ly accumulated are as rapidly dissipated, and
for a time al least we may look for more mode
rate operations and more certain profits.— Com.
Adv.
From the N. O. Picayune of the Sth.
Late from Texas.
Thesteamship New York, Capt. Wright, ar
rived last night from Ttexas. she left Galves
ton at noon on Tuesday. To the politeness of
the clerk we are indebted for late Galveston,
Houston and Au-tin papers
Com. Moore did not touch at Galveston or
any other Texan port; that he would not was
known to us at the time of his departure.
What disposition Gen. Houston means to
make of Santa Anna’s proposal is not yet known;
but it isknown that the people of? exaswill sub
mit to no other conditions than those of independ
encejand freedom from Mexican connexion.
The Treasury of the Republic is to be closed
for sixty days and no payment is to be made to
any one w ithin that time.
The bandit Agaton appeared on the Neuces
a few w eeks since, and some traders state that
he and his party murdered the Lipan Chief,
Flacco.
A small patty of men recently sailed from
Matagorda fbrthe purpose of attacking the Mex
icans at Corpus Christi. They went in row
boats, whieh are ol light draught, and will be en
abled to sail throug the shallow inlets along the
coast and thus avoid discovery.
A public meeting has been held at La Grange,
Fayette county, in which resolutions of respect
for the memory of Dr. Brenham and of sympa
thy with his friends was passed.
The rumor that Gen. Houston had written to
Santa Anna, stating thatthe Mier prisoners had
entered Mexico contrary to his orders, is contra
dicted by the Galveston Civilian. The same
authority pronounces the report of British inter
ference with slavery in Texas apocryphal.
Arrest or an Absquatulator.—On the 13th
ult. Lieut. Sibley, ol the U.S. Army, arrested a
young man at Houston, just as he was about
leaving tor Havana. He was a Clerk in the
Commissary Department at Fort Jessup,
and decamped with $2,000 of the Commissa
ry’sfunds. He was immediately marched “bock
agin-"
From the Savannah Republican.
Sources of V> ealth.—Thoughts for the Peo
ple.
A new era has dawned upon the history’ of
the South. She is at present realising the fact
that an agricultural people is always in debt to
a manulacturing one. But she realizes the fact
no more now than she should have done for
years past. She has always been in arrearages
to the North, and to that section she occupies to
some extent, the same position that the improv
ident or unlortunale planter does to his factor.
Industry, economy, particularly manufacturing
industry with its in-door labor by machinery,
multiplied profits, and the astonishing diversity
oi employment, will always prevail over sim
ple agriculture. Where every one raises cot
ton, no one can cultivate wheat. The flour us
ed is brought from a distance at ruinous ex
pense,—hence, there are no flouring milts—
hence, there is no demand for mill-wrights, Ibr
the wood which enters into the construction of
mills, lor lhe iron-works and smithery, lor burr
or granite stones, lor the mason, who, in order
to erect darns and sluices, wants stone brought,
bricks made and lime-kilns burnt, &c. Such is
the nature ol diversity of industrial occupation
that one branch almost necessarily involves sev
eral others.—Above all, no community can ev
er gro . rien where it is thought more respecta
ble to lea ven eel loafer than to get an honest
living v ti. I ■or pt one’s tian>l-'.
Am...ei is clear —no nation can ever
grow rich without a good government. The
disorders which this country has suffered are,
in a great measure, owing to the wanton war
fare of Locofbcoism against the currency. In
other words, the hostility to theU. S. Bank, un
der the ostensible desire to "infuse a greater
amount of the precious metals into circulation,"
called into existence the nine hundred local
banks instead of the three hundred which pre
viously existed. Again, in 1832, a high protec
tive tariff was passed and signed by President
Jackson, for which Martin Van Buren and
some of the leading Democrats of Georgia vot
ed. That tariff as we saw in a comparative
statement published in the Republican some
time since, was higher than the one passed by
the late Whig Congress, and yet thosesame De
mocrats, who then approved of the act because
it was created in order to satisfy the exorbitant
demand of the Democratic system upon the
Treasury, now denounce it in the length and
breadth of the land. That Democratic govern
ment made war against the union of capital and
labor, ap alliance sanctioned by every tie that
holds society together. That Democratic gov
ernment from 1828 to 1840 raised the delusive,
treacherous cry of the “rich against the poor,”
as if from the dawn of creation the I uman race
has not been and ever will be divided into rich
and poor. Yet the Democratic distinction de
signed to pander to the bad passions ofhumani
ty, made but the two broad divisions, leaving
those who lived comfortably on small but re
spectable means, no where in the category.—
That same Democratic Government from 1828
to 1840, denounced the mercantile class as a
privileged few, cormorant-like, living upon the
gains which others had amassed. Such a poli
cy is worthy of neither confidence nor respect,
and it was tf>e inherent worthlessness and sacri
fice of public good to party hacks that charac
terised that brood which caused those who were
not deluded by' false hopes and deceitful promi
ses, and whose independence of action was not
controlled by the fear of the stoppage of treasu
ry supplies, to rise like a strong man and hurl
arrogance from its high place.
A good Government is one which is steady
in its policy. A bad Government continually
changes its measures of finance, of taxation,
annihilating millions of property at a blow
which were amassed under its own enactments.
A bad Government is one which is administer
ed by demagogues, to whom office-seeking and
polities become a profession.
For the Chronicle fy Sentinel.
HENRY CI.AY.
A PARODY.
“Hail to th. chief now in triumph advancing,"
Hark to the .hour from North, South and Weal—
See the bright banner., aa round ua they’re glancing,
Hail to America*, noblest and best I
Shout loud your welcome now—
Bind the wreath on his brow,
For he is coming to guide us and save—
Lift up your voices high,
Let your shout reach lhe sky,
For he is chosen the Chief of the brave •
On ! Freemen, on I for your foea are retreating,
The Sta» op THE West is first in the chase—
Soon shall we have the sweet pleasure of greeting,
Him who is always foremost in the race!
Soon in the Chair of Stale,
May we see him lhe great
Statesman who never yet faltered or flew—
O ! do not hold back now,
Soon you'll see him I trow,
Where sat the Hero of Tippecanoe!
Augusta, Ga. D.
HOW TO COOK POTATOES.
There is reason in roasting eggs, says the old
adage, and there is not one in a hundred who
knows how to roast them properly. Still fewer
know how to boil potatoes, simple as the pro
cess is deemed. We love a good, well cooired,
mealy potato, and all our readers, sensible men
as they are, no doubt like the same tuber, but
how often do we see the very best potatoes
brought on the table, heavy, drenched, saturated
with waler, and utterly unfit for eating. To
prevent such atrocities in future, we copy the
following from a poem of some length in the
Southern Literary Messenger, devoted to teach
ing the art of planting and cooking potatoes.
Army 4" Nary Chron.'cle.
Wash them clean and scrape the skin off,
One water never is enough,
Take the eyes and nubbins then off,
And every little speck that’s rough.
Do not let them lie In water,
(So the nice observers say,)
Not a minute, not a quarter,
That will take the taste away.
When the fire is burning brightly,
And the water's boiling hot,
Sprinkle table salt in lightly,
Then put the kidney in the pot.
Eighteen minutes, sometimes twenty,
Cooks them nicely to a turn,
Some say more, but that is plenty,
Every one must live and learn, &c.
Steamboat Accidents.—The Cincinnati Sun
states that not less than a quarter ofa million of
dollars’worth of property has been lost on our
Western waters within two months.
Remarkable Bankrupt Estate.—ln the case
of Messrs. James Read & Co. of Massachusetts,
who applied a year ago for the benefit of the
Bankrupt Act, George Morey, Esq. was ap
pointed assignee. The Boston Dailv Advertiser
states that at that time the nominal amount of
the debts was about SBOO,OOO. Os this amount
about the sum of $450,00.1 consisted of Custom
House Bonds, debts subject to offset accounts,
and notes for the payment ot which, bank, in
surance and manulacturing stocks, &c. were
held in pledge. This last named sum has been
liquidated and paid in full, and in addition there
to, there has been paid into Court for distribu
tion amongst the general creditors, more than
$200,000, a sum nearly equal to what has been
paid by the Assignees of all the other bankrupt
estates in the District of Massachusetts, making
the whole amount more than $650,000 which
has been liquidated and paid out of the assets of
this estate, (Jas. Read & Co.) within the short
period of one year.
American Stocks in London.—Barings’
Circular of the 18th ult. says:—“No change in
prices of transactions. The news of the Legis
lative proceedings of the different States, is not
oi a nature to restore confidence.”
Later from St. Domingo.—Capt. Stetson,
of the brig Maria, who arrived at this port yes
terday morning from Port au Prince, whence
she sailed the 18th April, reports that the affairs
of the new government were conducted by a
committee of five persons until a President was
elected, every thing was conducted in an orderly
manner, and confidence was being restored. —
Philadelphia Exchange Books.
Iron Palace. —Alate London journal states
that an entire residence ol iron has been con
structed for an African King. We wonder
whether it is the King we once saw on the coast
ol Africa. Our King had on a soldier’s red
coat, collar downward, a skirt brought over each
shoulder— a hat, minus the crown, was stuck up
op his head, rim upward—two pairs of trowsers,
a leg in each pair, and attendants a;'pointed to
bear the legs unoccupied. His shoes he carried
inbia (hind, having found it pain'ul to wear them.
But his carriage was upright, haughty and very
kinglike.— Neio Bedford Mercvm/.
The Landersin their narrative ofthe journey in
Africa in which they ascertained the true course
of the Niger, mentioned a King of one ofthe in
terior countries whose royal robe was a pair of
red veb'et breeches, obtained probably from
some trader or traveller; but his sable Majesty
wore it as a jacket, thrurting his arms where his
legs should be, and having the body of the gar
ment bagging about his neck and shoulders.—
Com. Adv. „
REFORMATION, OR BANKRUPTCY AMONGST
PLANTERS IN THE COTTON STATES.
It does not require the prescience ofa prophet
to determine that cotton planters must make
considerable retrenchmems of expenditures, or
submit to ruinous sacrifices ol property. At
the present prices of cotton, even his six bales
of cotton to lhe hand, with his supplies of stock
and provisions, will not more than save his ca
pital, without affording any surplus, or very lit
tle, for the support of his family. The hopes
of a better market have so long deluded the cot
ton planter, that further disappointments can
not be borne; while a revolution in the market,
lor the better, is very uncertain, at least for a
lew years yet. The most rigorous economy
must be submitted to, or bankruptcy. “A pru
dent man fbreseeth the evil, and hideth himself;
but the simple pass on and are punished.”—
When too late, many will learn that it,had been
wiser to live a lew years upon bread and water,
and wear sackcloth, than to cast their children,
unaccustomed to labor and hardships, upon the
world, to live bj' the sweat of their brow, or per
ish. I'wo or three years of rigid eeonomj' in
dress and equipage, with a double energy in the
increasing and saving productions of our plan
tations, (if not 100 late,) maj’ secure indepen
dence, when one j-ear more of usual extrava
gance would prove ruinous. Most planters
have, no doubt, taken the alarm, and have made
double effort to increase productions, raise all
their stocks and provisions, and have ceased
speculations. This might have .saved a wreck,
with a cotton market averaging 8 cents; but this
will not now do, the reformation must go fur
ther. Not 50 per cent must be cut oft' from the
expenses of high living, dress and equippage.
To human nature, this will be likepluijcingout
the right eye. It is pleasing to human nature
to climb to high stations ol life, but revolting to
dome down; yet it is better to walk down than
to fall. Parents personally' may submit to the
self-denial; but giddy sons and daughters will
not see or leel the necessity. For parents to
have the moral courage to enforce a law of ri
gorous retrenchment, against the murmurings,
entreaties, or haughty insinuations ot children,
will require almost the holy fortitude of Abra
ham tn offering up his son Isaac. It will not be
hard for you, parents, to return to your old-fash
ioned homespuns again, as in old times. But
what think you of reducing your sons’ cloth
from S 8 or 810 to 84 or $5 per yard, and other
expen litures in proportion! What think you
ot substituting for the piano the needle and
thimble ! Os encouraging the honest industry
of daug.'iteiy, instead of the extortion of tailors
and rn I.lua-.mikeis*; Os substituting a ] lough
and m...c i : y «ui* son’s hounds add Lumer!
Think as you may, reformation must be exten
ded in all of these classes of expenditures, more
or less, or suffer worse consequences, if cotton
planting is your only source of income. If
planters in general would commence with si
multaneous action in the work, the mountain
would be soon levelled to a plain. Custom
would remove the mortification of seeming in
feriority. Let those whose circumstances would
enable them to bear the pressure, as patriots,
set the example, and the victory is gained.—
Further,such a rigid course of makingaud saving
would inspire confidence in creditors, and there
by indulgence would be secured. The unfeel-
ing creditor who would grind and oppress the
honest debtor who was making every edge cut,
and even cutting off many of the common com
forts of life from his family, in order to pay his
debus, would bring down the indignation lit the
public mipd upon himself, and excite the sym
pathies and secure friends in behalf of the hon
est debtor, We have already witnessed a be
nevolent and noble disposition with creditors,
(with a few exceptions,) to indulge where there
is confidence of security, and especially among
our bank officers. Arid if the frugal, saving
and honest planter, after all his hard struggles
and sacrifices of comfort under a depressed mar
ket and distracted currency, beyond the calcula
tions of the most experienced commercial men
and wisest financiers, should tall by the hands
of his oppressor or some unfeeling speculator,
there will be a refuge for the oppressed, who has
fallen under honest struggles instead of extrava
gant living, which will enable him to go down
to his grave in peace. And if he leaves his fa
mily to inherit honorable poverty, it will prove
a better legacy than dishonorable wealth.
If the planters, however, will, in time,’with
determined purpose, carry into full effect the
doctrine of retrenchment; look well to their own
plantations, rather than trust too much to over
seers; raise all that can be raised for the use
and consumption of their plantations; put their
sons to the plough and daughters to the needle;
feed negroes and brutes well, and make all move
in their stations; bring overseers to the mark,
and make them bestir themselves, or dismiss
without ceremony. Let them also take an ag
ricultural paper, and believe nothing they read
there without good evidence; nor reject any dis
covery with evidence; and one article may af
ford them sufficient information to pay 500 per
rent on the cost of the paper. Let them look
well to their legislators, voteformenof sound
wisdom, of pure moral and patriotic principles,
who can and will speak and act when necessity
calls for it. Let them take care of weather
cocks and popinjays. Let creditors be patient
and merciful. Let debtors be honest and can
did, paying as last as possible, and avoid all low
devices towards their indulgent creditors; and,
above all, pray tor blessings upon their honest
labors, to Him who alone can give the increase,
and can make hard times prove bles'ings in dis
guise. But take warning, planters, and be at
[east as wise as the burnt child; risk 1.0 more
speculations or big debts, (even if cotton should
ever rise again to 20 cents per pound,) and if
you do, calculate to pay debts at the rate ofsix
cents, and you will be sure to make a saving
calculation, and not risk the ruin of your estate
again. If cotton rises, still raise your stock and
provisions; stock makes manure; too much cot
ton allows no time to make manure; a few acres
well manured makes more than treble worn out.
Seed your waste lands with valuable grasses,
which raises stock with the least expense, saves
or improves lands, and will not be in the way of
cultivating or picking out the cotton crop. The
Kentucky hemp-grass is thoroughly proven to
suit our soils and climate, and one sowing is for
life, easily killed when needed, and affords graz
tng all winter. The herds grass is also proven
and will grow best on marshes and branch
toms fit for little else, and grows in winter, and
in March covers the ground with verdue. We
have native summer-grasses plentilullv, and if
we secure winter pastures, Huie expense of
grain will be required to excel Kentucky in
stock, as our climate favors the winter growth
of grasses better, and our winters are milder,
and therefore favorable to raising stock. If the
depressed state of our cotton market should
drive planters to economy in living, to improv
ing lands, raising stock, diminishing the pro
duction of cotton in our own cotton States, and
driving the Indian cotton planter out of market,
all will work together for final good, (if not
wrecked in the storm,) and one year mere, per
haps, of atduous and prayerful {perseverance,
the danger may be over, arid Carolina planter*
in the harbor of safety. Monticello.
Planter.
TO FARMER’S DAUGHTERS.
I have talked to you so much about even* day
business, you will think it the only matter I con
sider any way important; 1 can assure you this
is a mistake. I look upon mental culture as o
equal moment, but as all the wise heads in crea
tion discuss this topic, I leave it with them, and
again take up the old theme of work, work.—
“Spring time of year is coming,” or to use the
language of the old poet Solomon, “the winter
is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers ap
pear on the earth, the time of singing of the
birds has coine, and the voice of the turtle is
heard in our land.” Nature will soon enrobe
herself in her rich green mantle, tastefully in
terwoven with flowers of every hue, from the
colourless lilly, to the deep dye of the rose and
peony. Now, you can assist the noble Dame in
the arrangement of her toilette. She is like
some other ladies, and loves to be decked with
bright ornaments.
You can embroider the hem of her garment,
put here a leaf and there a flower, in another
place a small tree, shiub or vine, and you may
finish off with an edging of Purple Shade, or
rows of White Fringe or Purple, as may suit
your taste. Should any parts of her mantle be
neglected, fill up with a rich border of straw
berries, and dot with the golden pear, snow
peach or blue plumb.
But to go on in a plain old fashioned way,
now is the time for gardening, and as it is a most
delightful employment, I want to spefk to you
of your taking an interest in it. There is none
more calculated to improve the minds, as well
as the physical powers of the young. It has a
more soothing and happy influence than almost
any other. Go into the garden when you are
listless and low spirited, (as you often find your
selves when you do nothing'useful) plant some
shrubs or flowers, set out a bed of strawberries,
use the rake or hoe industriously in finishing
off borders, form a plantation of raspberries or
any thing else necessary or pleasant, and by the
time you feel like resting, all your hyppo will
be gone, and you will wonder why you have not
found out before, that lhe garden is the place t»
frequent, if you wish to be vigorous and in good
spirits. The rage lor flowers ol all kinds is be
coming so fashionable now, that any one who is
not loud of them is almost wondered at. In this
part of the country you see ladies handling the
spade and other tools.
Spading, hoeing and raking are quite a la
move in our region. 1 was riding through town
some time since, and passing a garden where
everj’ thing was in a flourishing order, 1 noticed
a lady with her spade, and her manner of using
it could not have been excelled bj’ Gen Jackson
himself. The gentleman who was with me, has
not done praising her yet. You may say, I
have no taste for flowers. The right way to ob
tain this is to go to work. 1 knew a young lady
who had no lontlness at all tor flowers, and ne
ver thought of cultivating any. She received a
present ot a lose or some other little shrub in a
box. At first she eared but little for it, but alter
a time, when the buds began to expand, she was
attracted by its sweetness and lieauty, and by
degrees her love for it increased, uniil she won
dered she could care so much for a flower. She
began io collect slips of different plants, to tend
them with lhe most watchful care, and she soon
bad a very pretty collection. Now every little
bud that blows, every f resh leaf that puts forth,
seems to give her so much pleasure, and she
would not be deprived of the enjoyment their
cultivation aflorus, for any consideration.
If your homes are destitute of flowers and
shrubs, you could, in a short time, so much al
ter their appearance bj’ planting them out. You
can do it yourselves, and you will take more in
terest in them than if j’our patents were Io doit.
In travelling I have passed so many houses
where not the least flower might be seen, and
the thought always came over me, there is not
much cate taken at that place to render life
pleasant—tu throw around the inmates any of
its sweetnesses; to lead them to refinement and
love of home; and again, when 1 have passed a
cottage surrounded by trees, shrubs, vinesand
flowers, 1 have thought there is the alxxie of a
woman of delicacy and taste. It is really cheer
ing to the eye ol the weary traveller to meet
with these things, and he would rather stop to
rest, where pains had been taken to tend them,
than where it was desolate and bare.
1 speak of these ti ings, because it is peculiar
ly the province of woman to study whatever
riiakes life agreeable and divests it of what is
unpleasant. The more sources a woman has
of enjoyment, lhe better it is for her. It is her
lot, if she is domestic and discharges her duties
as she ought, to stay at home; it is her lot to be
often alone, and also to participate largely in
the cates and anxieties ot life. Active exertion
is often a reliel to many of these, and in no part
of her establishment can she make it with so
much pleasure, as in her garden. Girls should
learn more of these things, so that when settled,
they may seek for enjoyment at home, by per
forming their duties, and not make it their chief
enjoyment to visit and pass about from place to
place. I would say again to you, to go to work,
cultivate the useful and beautiful, and you will
not regret the time you have thus spent. You
will not look back and sa \, it was unprofitable
employed. Lucy.
TenneuMf. Agriculturist.
CONSUMPTION OF COTTON.
A series of articles in the course of publica
tion in the Boston Advertiser, addressed to the
cotton manufacturers ol Massachusetts, are re
plete with interest to that branch of industry,
and contain much that is useful to the merchant
and planter in reference to this great staple.—
Without concurring in the views of the writer
in reg. id to ju ices, which it is considered “will
decline below existing rates,” and for which va
rious teasons are assigned—most of them how
ever, <• mtingencies, which may or may not
happen, we extract the following remarks ujmn
the consumption ol cotton in Eurojie;
“If i lie gross products of the nations of Eu
rope wi re as great as in this country—taxation
as inc nsifferable, and property as equally dis
tribut t-inolig the masses ol the people >.s with
us—w ..j me consumption of cotton in Europe,
instead of being limited as it now is, to about
1,800,000 bales, would be extended to 4,166,666
bales. The truth of that assertion maj- be seen
by taking the consumption of this country at
260,000 or 270,000 bales—which perhaps is as
much as we now require, and adding to that the
consumption of imported cotton goods to the
extent of 36,000,000 or sß,ooo,ooo—and thus al
lowing the aggregate consumption 300,000 bales.
The population of Europe is about 250,000,-
000. If then our copulation of 18,000,000 con
sume 300,000 bales of cotton, it follows that a
population of 250,000,000, having an equal con
suming ability, would consume 4,166,666 bales.
The consumption of cotton in Europe is ra
pidly increasing under the increasing industry,
skill, economy, and the general prosperity inci
dent to a long continued peace. The average
of our crops in 1820 and 1821, was 136,000,000
pounds —and Mr. Clay, in one of his speeches
in favor of converting cotton growers into the
manufacturers of cotton and of other raw mate
rials, gave it as his opinion on which he found
ed his arguments, that the world was too full of
cotton —the consumption having reached its
“We have reached the maximum of foreign
demand for our three great staples, cotton, to
bacco, flour,” &c. Thus said Mr. Clay in 1820,
when our crops of that staple averaged for 1820
and 1821, 137,000,000 pounds. '1 he coming
crop will not fall short, as is gencrrflly suppos
ed, of 940,000,000 pounds, and may exceed one
thousand millions of pounds.
It is true, as we have contended, that produc
tion of cotton is in advance of its consumption,
but the extreme low prices to which it will pro
bably fall if the crop is as large as estimated—
will first discourage cultivation to some extent
in Asia, as far as European consumption is re
lied upon. Secondly, the fall in the yalp? of *o
important and useful a staply, to prices far be
low those of any other manufacturing materi
als which can be brought ipto competition with
it, cannot fail to augment its consumption to a
great extent. That, however, will not take
place in season to sustain existing prices of oie
present crop, because an increased consumption
greatly beyond what has ever before been expe
rienced, will still leave a heavy surplus at tbe
close of this year, far beyond that of any for w*
period. *
As to a “maximum of consumption,” it is an
absurdity—since it implies that mankind are