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eijroiucU anU Sentinel.
AUGUSTA.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAA’ 30.
Astounding Rumor.
The N. O. Tropic of the 24th says :—For a
week past, it has been whispered .about in this
city, that a draft drawn by the Mexican Govern
ment in favor of Sam Houston, President of Tc..-
as, far twenty-five thousand dollars, has been paid
al the pountcrof one of the most prominent commo > ~
“ ' halites inNho Orleans!!
~ .We learn further, that by the steamship Nc *’
York, which sailed on Monday evening tor
■ • Galveston, information of such a character was
transmitted to Texas as will leave scarcely ti e
shadow of a doubt upon the minds of the people
there, of the truth of the rumor, which was only
whispered here. The next news from Texas
will be most anxiously expected, and may be
fraught with intense interest.
jCfThe Norwich Courier states that one of
the first acts of Mr. Catlin, member elect of
Congress from that district, was to write a letter
to President Tyler, urging the removal of Mr
Downer from the Norwich post office, and the
appointment ofEnochC.Chapmaninhisstead.
This he asked as a personal favor, and signed
himself "George S. Catlin, member of Congress
elect." The change was made immediately after.
Camden Races—The Great Day.—The
weather, on Thursday, was again fine, and the
attendance at the course large. The racing was
’ ’ good, but terminated briefly, as follows:
Result for purse of S4OO, three mile heats.
Col. Francis Thompson’s b h Pryor, by
Priam; dam by Eclipse, 5 years old, 2 2
’ Col. W. R. Johnson’s b h Regent, 4 y’s
. old, by Priam; dam byArchy, 11
Time—6,o-1-6,09.
The contest for the jockey club purse will be
great. Those celebrated horses Fashion, Regis
ter, and Blue Dick, have been entered.
■ President Tyler’s Northern Tour.
. . The following is quoted at the North as the
programme of President Tyler’s visit to that
region in June:
. * President Tyler’s Proposed Visit.—We
- understand, says the N. Y. Sun, that in proceed-
' ing to Boston to attend the Bunker Hill Cele
bration, on the 17th June, the President will re
’’ main a day or two in New York. From Bos
. ton he will take the Western Railroad, visit the
' • U.S. Armory at Springfield, Mass, and the Ar
senal at Watervliet, New York, stopping at Al
bany and Troy. Whether he will extend his
tour to Buffalo, around Lake Erie to Cleveland,
1 and thence by the valley of the Ohio and the
Baltimore Railroad back to Washington, we
have not been informed.
It may' not be amiss to quote in juxtaposi
tion with the above, a certain sentiment given
by President Tyler in 1839:
Travellino Presidents.—The whole nation
will respond with acclamation to the following,
in which Mr. Tyler himself must join, if he ad
heres to the principles laid down in his own
toast, on a former occasion. Hear him!
A Toast from John Tyler in 1839 “By
• John Tyler—Pilgrim Presidents and Travel
ling Cabinets: The fruitful offsprins of the se
cond Presidential term. One term and no re
election—the best interests of the country de
pend upon it—will not the popular suffrage de
cree it in 1840.”
The above is a clincher. It alluded to Mr.
Van Buren and his Cabinet, who were then on
a pilgrimage beating up for “a second Presiden
tial term.”
Has Tyler changed or have the people chan
ged?—Taunton Whig.
Terrible Disaster.
The New Orleans Tropic of the 24th says:—
We are pained to record another sad disaster,
attended with serious loss oflife, in our waters.
At about 12 o’clock yesterday, the towboat Phe
nix, Capt. Annable, having in tow the ship Fla
vius, from Liverpool, burst three of her boilers,
when just below Carrollton, scalding and other
wise injuring nearly every person on board.—
There were twenty-one persons on the Phenix
of whom three men, named Charles Davis, an
Irishman, John, a Portuguese, and George, an
American, were instantly knocked overboard
and drowned. John Clarite, the Pilot of the
Phenix, s . erely scalded, and not expected to
live. Janies Skinner, Second Engineer, is also
dangerously scalded, with but little hope of his
recovery. In addition to the above, five fire
men, names unknown, were scalded, one of
whom died last evening.
The Captain of the Flavius was slightly
bruised by a plank hurled against him, but
Capt. Annable escaped unhurt.
More of tile Treasury Notes.
The N. O. Tropic says:—Holliday, who was
’ * arrested at Cairo some days since, on suspicion
of having participated in the robbery of the
Customhouse in this city, was on Wednesday
last committed to jail in St. Louis. In his pos
session was found some $12,000 in specie.
The St. Louis New Era says:—The person
arrested was in this city some weeks ago, and it
is said that some of the cancelled Treasury
Notes have been traced to him as having pass
them. The case will come up for hearing be
fore Judge Manning, to-morrow morning, on
application for a writ of habeas corpus.
Locofocoism going fora Bank or the U"
States ! —The Knoxville (Tennessee) Post con
tains the following paragraph,
A Word to United States B ink Men.—
The greatpopularity of a United States Bank all
over the State of Tennessee, has induced many
, of the Democratic party (who are candidates)
tor seats in the next Legislature, to avow them
selves infavor of the establishment of such an insti
tution. In many counties where there is a nomi
nal democratic majority, the leaders of that party
, know that they can only make success certain by
falling into the current of popular opinion upon
thisimportant subject, endeavor to deceive the
people by declaring, that they entertain the same
views, and that they will use every' effort in their
power, if they should be honored with the c. n
fidence of the people, to promote the success of
this vital measure.
* • Escape of one of the Canadian Patriots
from New South Wales.—Mr. Louis Bour
don, (son-in-law of Major Papineau, so well
known in Canada,) who was one of the number
of the Canadian patriots of 1839, sent into exile
in New South Wales, made his escape from that
place, and arrived in this city on Wednesday',
bv the brig Russian, from Rio Janeiro; but de
’ clines to state the manner of his escape, as it
would implicate other persons. He immediate
ly proceeded to the frontier, where he expects
o meet his family.
He has been engaged as clerk for the govern
ment in New South Wales, and was closely con
fined for two years.— N. Y. T/wc Sun.
A Tyler Meeting in Maryland.—The
, . Somerset Herald of Tuesday gives an account
of a Tyler meeting held at Princess Anne, Md.,
L. D. Teaekle, Esq. was elected President, and
Messrs. Jones and Overly, Secretaries. The
Herald says—" But three votes were received in
favour of organization and these were given by
those gentlemen who officiated; consequently'
they appointed themselves." There was a large
attendance of Whigs and Democrats on the oc
casion who took no part in the proceedings ex
cept to vote down all the resolutionsand the mo
tion to adjourn.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
New York, Thursday, P. M.
The Great Western sailed to-day- punctually
at 2P. M. She takes out 130 passengers and a
full freight—making one of the best trips she has
had. The Packet ship Sheridan also takes out
40 cabin and upwards of 100 steerage passengers
Previous to their departure a moderate busi
ness was done in exchanges. The supply of
bills was large and the market closed heavy at
108 on London, and 5 30 on France.
The sales al the Stock Exchange were very
large, and prices continue to have an upward
tendency.
There appeal's to be much better feeling in the
cotton market; the sales to-day exceed one 1000
bales at yesterday’s quotations. Flour is in de
mand, and prices firm; sales of Gennessee were
made at $1 87}, Ohio 481 a l 75, Michigan 4-
68j a 4 75.
Suspicious Vessel.—Captain Roberts, of
the Br.brig Queen Victoria, ladaysfrom Turks
Island, saw, oft*Grand Key, a large clipper top
sail schooner, lull of men,’ supposed to be a pi
rate: she had been cruizing off Turks Island
several days. Tills is doubtless the same ves
sel seen off St. Thomas on the 20th ult., and
near Sail Rock on the 25th.
Jonathan Lawrence, Esq., having resigned as
President of the Merchants’ Fire Insurance Co.,
Nathaniel Richards, Esq., has been unanim
ously elected President in his place.
Receipts ofthe Western Railroad, week end
ing 20th inst., $11,836; being an increase of $3,-
194 above the corresponding week of 1842.
The New York Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence, now in session at New York, has decided
mot to divide that Conference.
Jjr’Heniy B. Holcombe, Esq., was elected
Cashier of the Branch Bank in Mobile, in plat e
atf B. Gayle, Esq., resigned.
Correspondence <f the Newark Sentinel.
Natchez, May Dili, 1843.
I cannot give you a very' flattering account ol
the prospects of trade or politics in this country.
As to the latter, the minds of the people appear
to be unsettled. There is no prevailing feeling
for any man or policy. The Whigs all look to
Clay as their representative, and the Locos are
divided between Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Cal
houn., Neither Cass nor Johnson, nor Buchan
an are ever thought of. But there is very little
excitement on the subject. The friends of Mr.
Calhoun are making strong efforts to secure the
vote of the south, and talk confidently of his
being the nominee ofthe Convention. Butthey
have stern prejudices to contend with here as
well as at the North. Mr. Tyler is universally
despised. During extensive lours through Lou
isiana, Alabama and Mississippi, within the
last sixty days, I have not met a man who en
tertains any respect for him. The Whigs call
him a traitor, and the Locos charge him with
an attempt to bribe them to support him for le
election. Between the two he falls to the ground.
Mr. Webster is every where spoken of respect
fully, but he has injured himselfbj' this connec
tion.
Business doesnot revive much, though Col.
Benton’s gMen dreams are realized., You
would be surprised to see how the southrons
have retrenched their expenses. Every- body
cries “Retrenchment and Reform,” and it is
safe to say- that the domestic expenses of this
whole section have been reduced one half. A
New England Yankee could not live nearer the
wind than those once prodigal planters. In this
way they are relieving themselves very- much.
One dollar goes as far with them now as five
did a few years ago.
Domestic economy is more studied too. I
attended the Agricultural Fair of this county
a few days ago at Washington (six miles from
Natchez,) and was surprised to see so many evi
dences of domestic and rural economy, and im
provement in all the arts of life. It would have
done credit to Massachusetts. There was a fine
display ol domestic manufactures cloths, wool
len and colon, silks, stockings, counterpanes,
&c.
The richest Counterpane I ever saw was ex
hibited by- Mrs. Julia Cashell, being wrought of
silk of her manufacture, from cocoons of her
own raising. 1 counted 30 specimens of female
industry and skill of various descriptions. The
products ofthe Dairy were very superior, quite
equal to Jersey butter. Numerous improved
agricultural instruments, some ofthe very finest
specimens of blood cattle, South-downs sheep,
and Berkshire Hogs, were on the ground giving
testimony of a wonderful change in the habits
and pursuits of lhe people here. The best cattle
were bred at Lexington, Ky., but Col. Wm. St.
John Elliot and Thomas Hall Esq. exhibited
some fine Durham cows, with hides as smooth
as a blooded horse, raised on their own planta
tions. There were several pens ol remarkably
fine sheep. With some few exceptions, the
horses were inferior.
1 have been the more particular because this
is a new scene at the South. It shews better
than words that the people are awaking to see
the true means of independence. The northern
virtues of Industry and Economy are becoming
domesticated here, and they will do more than
all the “southern chivalry” to redeem the south,
and preserve the balance of power. The Fair
was very numerously attended. Nearly all
Natchez was there the first day, and in the even
ing I attended a large party, which assembled
the fashion and beauty of Adams county.
Truly yours, J. R. B.
Important Decision in Missouri. —The
St. Louis Organ, of the 6th., say-s,
“We learn that Judge Mullanphy made a de
cision in court, y-esterday, which may be re
garded as very important, if the laws as laid
down by- him shall be confirmed by the Supreme
Court. The question rose upon an appeal taken
from the recorder’s court by a free negro, who
was apprehended and fined for living in the State
without a license. It will be recollected that the
statute ot 1835!requires certain free negroes to
obtain a license to live in the State, and compels
others to remove out ot the State if they- do not
come within lhe terms required for a license.
An exception is made in favor of ‘/Ac citizens’ of
any- other State who shall come here.
“Judge M. decided that the ‘citizen’ as used in
the Constitution of the United States and in our
laws is equivalent to ‘subject’ as used under the
British Constitution, and includes all persons
who were born in the United States. It will be
seen that if the decision stands, it strikes a death
blow at once to the contemplated effect of our
aws prohibiting free blacks from entering or
residing in the State, and grants free access into
our State to all persons who were born in the
United States, no-matter what their complexion.
The Judge may- be wrong, but we do not see
how it is possible to limit the signification ofthe
word to a more restricted sense than that given
it. Judge Mullanphy, we are told will publish
his opinion at length.”
Life and Death ofthe Sexes.
The laws of life and morality between the
sexes are very’ remarkable. They are stated
thus:
1. In the present condition of the white popu
lation of the United States, the number of fe
males born per annum is about 12,000 less than
the males. This determines of itself that polyg
amy is not a natural condition of man, and that
the laws of our religion and nature are the same
—that one man shall be the husband of one wo
man.
2. At 20 years of age, the females exceed the'
males. This proves that between birth and 20,
the mortality among lhe boys has been much
greater than that among the girls.
3. From 20 to 40, the men again much exceed
the women, which shews that this is the period
of greater mortality among women.
4. From 40 to 70, the difference rapidly di
minishes, the females, as in the early- part of
life, gaining on the males. This shews that
this is the period of greatest danger and expo
sure to men, the least to women.
5. From 70 onwards, the women outnumber
the men. This shews conclusively- that, rela
tively speaking, in comparison with men, the
healthiest period of female life is at the close of
it. Absolutely, however, no period to either
sex is so healthy as that of youth—the blooming
period ol boyhood and girlhood.
The above deductions of statistical tables cor
respond with every- day observations of human
life.
Women are exposed to peculiar hazards in
the middle of life; but in the long run, far the
largest part of this exposure, danger, and risk,
in civilized nations, fall on men in the active
periods oflife.
From lhe Picayune of Tuesday.
The Murdered Mier Prisoners.—O. C.
Phelps, a fortunate individual among the un
fortunate Mier prisoners, and one of those “deci
mated" and marked out as a victim to the
Molochiot Mexican vengeance, arrived in this
city yesterday- by the brig Architect, from Vera
Cruz. Happily for him, when Santa Anna was
a prisoner at Orasembo, Texas, his father, at
whose house he was, treated him with kindness,
in consideration of which the life of young
Phelps was spared. Santa Anna took him to
his palace, and after keeping him there some
time provided for his passage to this city. We
are pleased to have this act ol gratitude to re
cord ofSanta Anna. The bright spots in his
character are so few that it would be injustice to
screen or conceal them.
Although the names of the prisoners, who
were decimated and shot, were published on the
first receipt of the news, we give the list furnish
ed by Mr. Phelps, as many of the unfortunate
sufferers have friends in this country':
Capt. Win. M. Eastland, J. W. M. Thomp
son, J. D. Cocke, J. N. Torres, Thos. L. Jones,
J. L. Shephard, Hy. Whaling, W. H. Rowan,
C. H. Roberts. E. E. Esty, J. Turnbull, R. H.
Dunham, K. W. Harris, W. C. Winn, P.
Maher, J. L. Cash, J. M. Ogden and Capt.
Cameron.
From the same of Wednesday.
The Mier Prisoners.—We had the plea
sure of an interview yesterday with Mr. Phelps,
one ofthe Mier prisoners who arrived here on
Monday, in the schoonei Architect, from Vera
Cruz. His account of the. battle of Mier, in
which the Texans fought with such desperate
bravery, though so unequal in numbers to their
enemies—of their daring attack on, and victory
over, their guards at Salado—their escape, suf
fering and subsequent recapture —of the shoot
ing in cold blood of the decimated numbers, and
of their march in manacles to Mexico—is exci
tingly interesting. Their suffering, from the
time’they escaped trom their guard till they
were retaken, is inconceivable. For six days
they were without water or any kind of drink!
Some of them, to preserve life, had recourse to
an extremity to quench their thirst which here
we forbear to name!
The time of drawing the lots, too, which was
an act of life or death, must have been one of
the most anxious solicitude. One hundred and
four white beans and seventeen black ones
were deposited in a hat—the prisioners were
marched up to draw, every two handcuffed to
gether—the poor fellow whose evil fate it was
to draw a black bean was then separated from
his comrade, on whom he was never to look
again—he was put into a high walled yard, and
four hours afterwards a volley- of deliberately
aimed Mexican musketry separated his mortal
soul from his suffering body! Base was this
victory ci cowardly vengeance.
Nothing to do with you, Sir!—lt appears
that this, in effect, is the language to be used to
wards Mr. Tyler, as an aspirant for the “Dem
ocratic nomination to the Presidency,” so far
as the New York wing of that party is concern
ed. At a Convention held at Utica, last Fri
day, a resolution was adopted positively rcjvs
iii"'te rereg .tree John Tyler as a candidate for
the Presidential nomination, and declaring that
his “desertion and treachery to those who confi
ded in him form no recommendation to an hon
est democracy.” The Utica Observer accom
panies the publications of these proceedings
with the remark that they think very well of
Captain Tyler for removing Whigs' and ap
pointing locofocos, but that nevertnelqss they
“regard him merely as President for the residue
of his term, and not as a candidate for re-elec
tion.” This Utica resolution expresses undoubt
edly the sentiment of the whole Locofoce partv
—-V 1”. Express.
From the N. O. Picayune.
Occupation of the Sandwich Islands by
Great Britain.
By the arrival ofthe Architect, we received
the official announcement of the occupation of
the Sandwich Islands by the British. Differ
ences having arisen between the royal authori
ties of those islands and the British Consul, Mr.
Simpson, the Hon. Lord George Paulet, Cap
tain of H. B. M. frigate Carysfort, made a pe
remptory demand upon the Governor of Oanu
for a personal interview with the King of the Is
lands. This was done on the 11th of February
last, and the King was at once sent for. He de
clined a personal interview, but delegated a Dr.
Judd to negotiate. Upon this Lord George be
comes indignant, and on the 17th Feb. he sends
an ultimation to the King, threatening immedi
ate resort to force unless certain conditions pro
pounded by him, six in number were acceded to
by- the 19lh (Sunday.) The couditions com
prised: first indemnification to a Mr. Charlton
and his representatives, secondly a recognition
of a Mr. Simpson as Mr. Charlton’s deputy- as
H. B. M.’s Consul, and an apology- to her Majes
ty, by- saluting her flag and receiving her agent;
thirdly, a guarantee of British property; fourthly,
compliance with a previous promise of a fair
trial to one Skinner, which promise is said to
have been evaded; fifthly an immediate settle
ment of the difficulties between the two govern
ments by a reference; and lastly, a direct com
munication between the King ofthe Islands and
the British Consul. These terms were announc
ed to Capt. Long, of the U. S. ship Boston, as
well as to the authorities of the islands on the
17th.
in his reply on the 18th, the King accedes to
all of them, though under protest, and names on
his part Sir George Sampson and William Rich
ards to negotiate directly with the English gov
ernment, for the arrangement of all the points of
difference.
Lord George replies by naming 2 o’clock on
the same day for an interchange of salutes, and
demanding an hour to be named on Monday,
the 20th Feb. for receiving himself and H. B.
Majesty’s representative. The King named 11
o’clock, A. M.
The presentation was made, we presume, but
the next we hear of the affair is an appeal ofthe
King to his subjects, dated Feb. 25th, stating
that he is in difficulties, but that he hopes for the
best when justice can be done him in England.
Bearing the same date appears a formal cession
on the part of his majesty (named Kamehameha
III.) ofthe whole groupofthe Sandwich Islands
to Lord George Paulet, representing Great Bri
tain, which cession is stated to be made in (ton
sequence of the impossibility ot acceding to the
demands of Lord George. Terms are annexed
to the cesssion, guaranteeing the security of the
natives; a provisional government, mixed ofna
tives and the English; the enjoyment of their ex
isting legal rights; the continuance of the native
revenue service conditionally; astipulation that
the titles to lands in the islands shall remain in
the natives’ hands, until the receipt of notifica
tion from Great Britain of the arrangements
which may be made there; and lastly, the fulfil
ment of the existing engagements of the native
King and Premier.
This occupation of the Sandwich Islands would
appear to be a high-handed measure on the part
of Lord George Paulet. It shows, however, how
promptly the English Governmentever acts in a
case where the rights of its citizens are invaded
or are thought to be invaded. In some aspects,
it resembles our Com. Jones’ proceedings at
Monterey, but now having a hold upon these is
lands, we fear England will not readily let go
her grasp upon them. Our information upon
the subject is derived from bare official docu
ments, utterly without commentary. To give
the documents themselves, would uselessly cum
ber up our columns.
Supreme Court—lmportant Decision.
United Slates vs Bank of the United States of
Pennsylvania.
In this case Judge Watts, of the Commercial
Court, appointed C. Adams, jr., and W. W.
Frazier, receivers or registrators, with the con
sent of parties, to administer the assets, amount
ing to a very large amount, say a million and a
half of notes, bills, &c. One of the defendants,
in a suit instituted by Adams and Frazier in the
Commercial Court, where judgment was ren
dered in favor of plaintiffs, appealed to the Su
preme Court to reverse the judgment in the court
below.
The unanimous opinion of the Supreme
Court was delivered yesterday morning by his
honor Judge Garland, sustaining the decision
of the Commercial Court in all the numerous
points raised in the case, except one, and that
was in regard to the interest, the Judge of the
Commercial Court having curtailed the plain
tiffs’ claims for 10 per cent conventional inter
est to 6 per cent, which was overruled by the
Supreme Court, that court allowing the full
conventional interest of 10 per cent.
No cause has been decided by our courts for
many years which excited so much interest. It
involved a very large amount of money, and
presented many questions of law which have
been considered as unsettled in our courts —such
as the right of a corporation of another state to
loan money, purchase bills, &c., in our state;
-he power of such a corporation to take more
interest than that authorized in the charter to be
received in the state in which it is located; the
power of a court in Louisiana, with the assent
of the parties, to appoint registrators or receiv
ers to collect the fund in controversy.
In this case all these questions were present
ed by the defendants. They repudiated the debt
altogether, they pleaded usury, and denied the
capacity of the receivers to sue. None of these
grounds found any favor in the Supreme Court;
repudiation received a set ere rebuke in this o
pinion of the Court, which, we learn, was ex
tremely able and learned.
Counsel for plaintiffs, Balie Peyton, U. S.
District Attorney, Grymes and T. Slidell; for
defendants, Eustis, Stawbridge and Josephs.—
N. O. Picayune.
The Cincinnati Gazette, referring to a cur
rent report, that the Hon. John McLean, of
Ohio, is to be brought out as a Whig candidate
for President, decidedly observes :
“Who are the supposed projectors of this
mysterious plan, or what may be their views,
we cannot divine. But we do know from an
authority which cannot be questioned, that
Judge McLean has no knowledge of any such
design, and that he will not sanction any move
ment, come from what quarter it may, which
would make him a candidate for the Presidency
n opposition to Mr. Clay.”
What Is the Piratet
It has been positively asserted during the last
few weeks that the piratical craft that has seve
ral times been seen in the vicinity of the Isle
of Pines, is the missing Texian Schooner San
Antonio. Facts are daily accumulating that
go far towards a justification of the assertion.
In lhe New York Commercial Advertiser ol the
10th inst., we find the following:
Extract from a letter received from an officer of
the U. S. Brig Boxer, Lieut. Com. Oscar
Bullus.
The detailed account of our chase ot the pi
rate off the Isle of Pines was furnished you in
my last. In aN. York paper I observe that our
report of the character of the craft in question
(based on occular demonstration, viz: her build,
annament crew, her evident attempt to overhaul
us, and then bearing away when our disguise
was detected,) is objected to on the ground that
a slaver had arrived in Cuba, reporting she had
been chased by a U. S. brig.
Our belief as to the character of ‘the chase’
has been strengthened from various sources,
and recently confirmed by the relation of a de
serter from her, with whom I conversed, as also
by the Captain of a vessel who spoke to her in
a heavy gale of wind, and such a sea as render
ed it dangerous to float a boat. Their descrip
tion corrresponded in every particular with our
observations of her. The former stated that
when he shipped, he was led to believe he was
entering on board a Texan man of war; that
she is armed with a long 32 pounder amidships
on a pivot, six carronades, and a crew of 80 men
—appendages unusual for a slaver.
'I his evidence seems to be uncommonly strong
—the description of the armament of the San
Antonio is exact. We have been quite dispos
ed to believe, until recently, that the gallant
Seeger was lost in one of the disastrous hurri
canes of last autumn, but late information is
effecting a rapid change in our opinions. That
Seeger is alive, nothing can induce us to ima
gine. Il the San Antonio has been transformed
into a piratical vessel, the change was not ac
complished until her commander had sacrificed
his life. A braver officer, or a more irreproach
able gentleman never held command on the
ocean. We had a conversation yesterday, with
a brother of Capt. Seeger, now in this city. He
does not hesitate to declare it as his opinion
that the San Antonio is still afloat, an opinion
which, we find, is entertained by almost every
person in this city, acquainted with the peculiar
powers of that vessel. Circumstances that came
to the knowledge of Mr. Seeger, just before the
schooner sailed from Galveston, induced him to
warn his brother, her eommander, against cer
tain men on board, men, he was satisfied, capa
ble of any atrocity, one or two of them holding
offices of considerable importanee. His appre
hension is that the crew, led on by two or three
officers, mutinied, murdered the Captain and
such other persons as could not be made useful,
and entered upon their unholy enterprise.
We are informed that just before the depart
ure of the Texian squadron from this port, in
telligence was received that two seamen known
to have sailed from Galveston on the San Anto
nio, were in this city, and that one of them had
incautiously declared that the San Antonio was
in good hands, and that site could be heard ot on
application at St. Jago de Cuba. Search was
made for these men by some of the Texian offi
cers but they could not be found.
It is worthwhile taking into consideration the
fact that no acts of piracy have been reported
during the last few months. If Pirates have
been at work, they have managed to conduct
their depredations with extraordinary secrecy.—
It appears impossible that they can have been
very active in thair vocation, without subject
ing’themselves, through accident, to some de
gree of exposure. At all events, curiosity and
alarm are now so fully excited that we may an
ticipate speedy and important developements.—
-V. O. Tropic. i
From the New Orleans Picayune.
Later from Mexico.
By lhe arrival, i,t this port yesterday, of the
brig Architect, we have received late intelli
gence fi om Mexico. Our files of Mexican pa
pers and letters from our correspondents are
complete. They had received advices at Vera
Cruz, with the details ofthe action off Campea
chy, between Com. Moore and the steamships,
but with fewer particulars than reached us di
rect.
The $270,000, the first instalment of the in
demnity due the United States, has been paid to
our minister, Gen. Thompson, and were to have
been forwarded on the 20th inst. by the Dolphin.
The Government had great difficulty in raising
the sum. It addressed circulars dated the 17th
of April, to 280 citizens of Mexico, askingltheir
attendance at the office ofthe Minister lor For
eign Affairs. Some thirty attended the meet ing,
and the necessity of raising the $270,000 for
Uncle Sam, was laid before them in supplicato
ry terms, but only trom seven to fourteen thous
and could be so raised, in consequence of which
the Mexican papers talk in very despairing
tones of the situation of their government.
The domestic news which we receive from
Mexico, is ot little interest to this country. —
The forced loan by which the Secretary of the
Treasury raised the money to be paid to this
Government, was resisted in some cases, and
El Siglo Diez y Nucre contains the correspond
ence between the victims ofthe loan and the de
partment. The sufferers were arranged in
classes; the first was mulcted in three thousand
dollars each, and was not numerous; the sec
ond in twenty-five hundred dollars, and still but
a few; the third in two thousand, and their
number swelling, and so down to the thirteenth
class, who were made to pay but twenty-five
dollars a head. The names of individuals in
each class were promulgated in the papers.—
The whole affair looks a little audacious to a
bonafide republican. The complainants against
the arbitrary tax allege that the Government
placed its friends in lower classes and its ene
mies in higher ones than they were entitled to.
Intelligent men have become impressed with
the idea that the sway of Santa Anna is to be of
short duration ; that he will not enjoy his pres
ent power for another month, but that his down
fall will be maiked by atrocities characteristic
of the man. We understand that the Architect
brings over a Spanish gentleman named Ayala,
who has tfeen banished by the country on the
most frivolous and unworthy pretexts.’
Rumors were current of domesticMnsurrec
lions and qaKeaUMiSA
no more deti
individuals—all occurrence not unheard of in
the Mexican republic. Still we believe that
important events are about to transpire, which
will shake that Government to its centre.
The Architect brought over about $15,000 in
specie.
The yellow fever was raging in Vera Cruz
when she left that port.
The Courier of last evening gives details of
proceedings off Campeachy, which we do not
find in our own correspondence. It represents
Com. Moore as avoiding a meeting with the
Mexican fleet, and as being now blockaded by
it. We wait to hear this news confirmed.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
Philad. & Camden Race Course, )
Friday, May 26, 1} o’clock, J
There are a large number ot persons on the
course, all anxiously waiting the four mile heats
to come off at two o’clock. The horses entered
for the race are Fashion, Blue Dick, and Reg
ister. The first named carries 118 pounds, the
second 121 pounds, and Register but 104 pounds.
The betting at the present time is three and four
to one on Fashion, against the field, and but few
takers of these offers at that difference. The
day is delightful, and the track, as well as the
nags, are in the finest older.
At a quarter to 2 o’clock the bugle sounded,
and the horses were brought upon the ground—
Fashion first, the other two closely following.
Betting had by this lime almost entirely ceased
at every odds offered. Five minutes to two the
riders ivere called and prepared to mount.
At 5 minutes past 2, all being mounted and
read}', the horses were called up, and on a sec
ond attempt, they were let off, “Register” taking
the lead, which heh Id gallantly until the fourth
round was nea'ly half completed, when the
mare, which had closely pressed him from the
commencement ofthe heat, brushed up and pass
ed him with apparent ease, coming in more
than halt a distance ahead. Time 7:58. Blue
Dick run from one to three lengths behind.—
The running was beautiful, Register being as
pretty a runner as Fashion.
After the usual interval allowed between four
mile heats had elapsed, the horses were again
called and made a beautiful start, Fashion tak
ing the lead, which she maintained te the end of
the heat, Dick occasionally lapping her. The
heat was run in 7.53, beating Dick half a length
and distancing Register. Dick was hard push
ed particularly the last mile, Fashion running
easy the whole distance. She is a great animal,
and probably without a rival in the world.
Outrages at Philadelphia.
Outrage.—Ou Monday, the party of brick
makers now on a strike tor increase of wages,
committed an assault upon John S. Smith,
brickmaker, of the Northern Liberties, while ri
ding in a wagon with two friends, when one of
them was severely hurt. The same day they
committed an outrage upon Mr. Weekliam, of
Kensington, an employer, and rode him upon a
rail until he signed a paper yielding to their re
quisition of pt ices.— Phila. American.
Still Greater Outrages.—Yesterday a
large body ol the brickmakers, after parading in
various quarters of the county, proceeded to the
steam brickworks of James Harper and Sons,
on the Gray’s Ferry road near the United States
Arsenal, where, alter committing sundry out
rages upon the property and tearing out the ma
chinery, they set fire to the factory. The build
ings, which were of brick, with an adjoining
double brick dwelling, in which some of the
workmen lived, and the sheds and outbuildings,
were entirely destroyed.
Not content with setting lhe place on fire,
they carried out their purpose of destruction by
opposing the efforts of the firemen, and actually
stopped several companies on their way to lhe
scene of conflagration. We understand that the
Messrs. Harper were insured. The loss must
any how fall upon the county. They subse
quently left the ground in procession with drums
and fifes playing.
The value of property destroyed in the brick
yard of Messrs. Harper is, as we are informed,
about 915,000. The buildings, independently
of the press, cost about .$9,000. There was a
bout SI,OOO worth of wood on the premises,
which we believe was also destroyed. It is
stated on pretty good authority, that several of
the fire •ompaiiies, on learninglhenature ofthe
fire, refused to assist in extinguishing it. This
is another illustration of the necessity of a re
form in the fire department.
If men who assume the business of protecting
the city trom conflagration, who are periodically
assisted by the city government and oftentimes
by private donations, undertake to determine
when they will not, it is full time that a new
system was adopted, under which the agents
will enjoy no such discretion.
Several disgraceful fights took place among
some of lhe fire companies on their return from
the fire; one in Arch and another in Race-tree:,
in which stones and bludgeons were freely used.
—Phil. American.
Mail Robbery.—A letter was shown us last
evening, says the Mobile Advertiser of the 26th,
written by the Postmaster at Coffeeville in this
State the day before yesterday, to the Postmas
ter in this city, giving the details of a robbery ot
the Greensborough mail on Monday. The rob
bery appears to have been committed by the dri
ver, who has been arrested and examined before
a magistrate. Sufficient evidence has been eli
cited to warrant his committal. The driver’s
name is said to be Tarburton. A part of the
contents of the mail bag was found in a creek,
about 5 miles below Coffeeville. Several letters
were found brok -n. open and among them quite
a number addressed t > persi .ns in this city, a list
of which may be seen by calling at lhe Postoffice.
The Postmaster at Coffeeville states in his letter
that he was about making further search in the
creek and elsewhere for othermissingpackages.
Emigration to Texas.—Our readers, says
the Picayune of the 26th ult. may recollect the
presence in our city some weeks since of two
Geiman noblemen on their return from Texas,
where they had been to purchase large tracts of
land. We presume they are among the individ
uals alluded to in the following paragraph which
we met w’ith yesterday, received by the Great
Western, and credited to the Magdeburg Jour
nal, of the 13th of April:
Among the many projects for colonization
which have lately been brought forward, it is in
tereting to learn that twenty-four German prin
ces and noo'emen have subscribed several hun
dred thousand florins to a joint stock (the shares
al 5,000 florins,) and have purchased a consider
tract of landin the Republic of Texas. Two
of the shareholders have been sent to Texas,
who have concluded the purchase with the
President of the Republic, and are now on their
way home. Count C 1, in Mayence, who
was in the Austrian service has the whole direc
tion of the affair. The humane object of this
undertaking is to enable the shareholders to pro
cure fortheir subjects who emigrate a sure means
of subsistence in America. Should the plan
succeed, as it is to be expected, it will be mnch
enlarged by an increase of the funds.
When the body of Paine was taken from the
house where he died, in the city, to New Roch
elle, to be buried, a negro man, who had been
assisting, inquired, when the interment was
completed, if there was to be no prayer. “No!”
was the response. “What! noprayer?" “No,
unless you make one!” “Well," said he, “is
nothing to be said ?” “No, unless you say it!”
“Well!” said the negro, striking his spade into
the ground—
‘•P.aor Tom Paine ’ here he lies,
Nobody id nobo«y cries!
-Where he has gone, or how he
Nobody knows, and nobody cares!"
During a brief visit at New Rochelle last sum
mer, we found the old negra still living, and his
account of the funeral is an instructive com
mentary on the mournful effects of a long course
cf vice and intemperance upon one of the most
gifted men of his day .—Newark Advertiser.
I" - 1 -'
Y MORNING MAY 31.
ements IN Massachusetts.
Express says, “some o( the
rgingthe nomination of Dan
ivernorof the State.
jr., (Locofoco) declines run
in the 2d district, and J. C.
' Lynn, has been nominated
generally supposed that Ran
toul declines, inlexpectation of being appointed
Collector of Boston, in place of Levi Lincoln.”
IS-Thc General Assembly of the Presbyteri
an Church, School), now sitting in Phila
delphia, have resolved to meet next year at
Louisville. \
Bank Agenc^r.—The Apalachicola Journal
ofthe 20th saysi~“Ouragencies have all rtlosed
their business fol the season, with the exception
ofthe agency ofthe Bank of Brunswick, Win.
G. Porter, EsjjMtarnt. We trust their business
may have be)Was profitable as their conve
nience has beeOreat. We now boast a better
currency than aky part of Florida.
The river is reported very low, so that our
largest boats meet with difficulty in getting up
and down. The smaller class boats are yet
bringing good loads of cotton, ot which th ere is
quite a large quantity yet to come.
From the National Intelligencer.
The TWO Distributions.
In partial compliance with the request of some
friends at a distqace, we give below a table of
the distributive share ot the surplus revent le to
which the Secretarv ofthe Trea ury gave notice
that each State was entitled, on the Ist of Janua
ry, 1837, under the Jeposite act of June, 1836.
It must not be forgotten that ot this great sum
the entire payment, in fotirqu rterly instaln Kents
was legalized by a Jackson Congress, ami re
ceived the Presidential assent ot General J ack
son himself. Three-fourths of it—or above
twenty-eight milfcns of dollars—were accor. sing
ly paid over to in these proporti ons;
but the remainiffljhtiartef could not, in cimse
quence ol the explosion of that year,
be so paid. Van Buren recomm end
ed a postponement o f the
steadfast and strong friendss of the States, their
rights, finances, &c. Perhaps, however, it
was all for the best; for large as was the
excess of money in the Treasury when Mr.
Van Buren came to the Presidency, he had
spent it all before the end of his term, got
rid of a very large yeatly income, and been
obliged to borrow considerably—an operation
which, to say the truth, might have been rather
difficult, if he had been forced to raise by loan
an additional sum equal to what was thus w ith
held from the State treasuries—say nine and
three-eights millions of dollars.
Here, then, we have a grand measure ol ■dis
tribution, meant (every body knows) as stitch,
though taking the illusory name of a deposite
with lhe States. It was a loan made with no
sort ol intention or expectation, on either side,
that it would ever be paid. This is abundantly
shown in the single fact, that though all the ter
rible financial difficulties in which the govern
ment began within three years after to be plunged
not a single intimation or suggestion has ever
yet come from any quarter, public or private, of
such a deposite in the hands of the States, sub
jec. to the order of the Federal Government
whenever it should be needed—as it certainly
has now been most greivously, for several years.
Nay, what do we see and hear at this very mo
ment? The party whose wasteful career flung
the country into these difficulties, and which
nosv rails as it somebody besides themselves
were the criminals, constantly declares : hat the
Treasury is bankrupt, enumerates our deficient
resources, and never once alludes to this depos
ite w.th the States as lorming even a part ot
what, in the schedule of a broken man’s effects,
is usually set down as “bad debts on W’hich some
little may be collected.”
In a word it not meant to take effect as a mere
gift—which was really the sense in which the
thing was taken at the time through the country
at large—yet the deposite act has been clearly
rendered a gilt only by the common consent of
every body, people or politicians—they being in
cluded who so vocilerate against the illegality of
a distribution of the proceeds of lhe land sales.
We find, on recurring to the Congressional
Journals, that the deposite act passed in the Sen
ate by a vote of 40 to 6, and in the House by 155
to 39—majorities of more than six to one in lhe
former four to one in the latter. It would be
more difficult to point to any other great meas
ure adopted with the like unanimity.
Such a measure—except that it was to be sim
ply and directly what this (as we l.avesaid) was
only in purpose and effect —was originally re
commended by General Jackson in his two ear
liest messages. In conception, as a puhlic poli
cy, rests, we believe, entirely with him. He
ptop wed it as a regular expedient to keep down,
the yearly surplus likely to be accumulated in
the Treasury by the tariff act of 1828.
The direct paternity of the bill, however, is
Mr. Calhoun s. It was introduced by him de
fended and magnified with his utmost splendor
of falling enchantment
the visionary glories of a thousand high benefits,
such as never before were conferred by any Leg
islative or administrative act. To it he looked
as sufficient to cure nearly every vice, every
wrong tendency in the Government, as then ad
ministered. He spoke of it particularly, as pro
viding “the only efficient remedy tor the deep
seated disease which now afflicts the body politic,
and which threatens to terminate so fatally, un
less it be speedily and effectually arrested.”
That tendency (as he goes onto explain) is con
solidation.
Now, this bill so perfectly includes every con
stitutional objection ever urged by the ultra dem
ocratic party against the land sale distribution
bill, that it is easy to close every issue of escape
for the democracy from their own hot and clam
orous denunciations ofthe latter law.
First: They will, perhaps, attempt to say that
it was a Whig bill, because Mr. Calhoun (then
in the opposition) introduced it. But if both
parties coalesce (as was here the case) upon a
public measure, its accidental origin from a
man of this or that party is ol no consequence.
The body of both parties supported it in both
Houses. Besides, if it is constituted a party
measure by the fact of its casual authorship,
then Gen. Jackson, not Mr. Calhoun, is its ori
ginator, for he invented the plan and the princi
ple, and advised its adoption, not as a single and
temporary law, but as a regular and ordinary
resort of legislation.
Secondly: They aver it (and that istheirgreat
battle horse on the question) to be unconstitu
tional. So protests Mr. Calhoun, who now
treats it is a perfect crisis in unconstitutional le
gislation: he who considered a bill more com
prehensive—doing as to the whole revenue what
this does as to but the least objectionable part —
as “the only efficient remedy tor the deep-seated
disease which afflicts the body politic andthreat
ens to terminate so fatally.” The smallest and
most legitimate portion of that, the whole of
which was so blessed and healing, is now utter
ly accursed and fatal! So thunders President
Jackson, who originally proposed a measure as
much wider than Mr. Calhoun’s as that is wi
der than Whig distribution. So shouts the full
concert of harmonious democracy, they them
selves having sustained a distribution of twenty
eight millions, while this is of only one and a
half—a distribution of all ti e public moneys
from every source of income, while this was
confined to the land sales, of which they them
selves had again and again legislatively declar
ed the whole right to be in the States, not the
General Government, as soon as the public debt
was paid, to provide lor which they were origi
nally conveyed in trust to the Confederacy.
Bur, if according to the plan of Gen. Jack
son. (wiiom it is “glory enough to have follow
ed,”) it was both constitutional and expedient to
partition out at.:.u:.!ly among lhe Sta e.s the sur
plus r venue ot the year'trom all source , was
iL. Mr. Calhoun’s bill constitutional, which dis
tributed, by a singlediiiTthe surpb s accumula
ted during a succession of years? The letter
was the more j ustifiable, as a single act provid
ingfor a remarkable and a threatening conjunc
ture must be he’d more warantable than the do
ing the same thing systematically and ordinari
ly. But, besides, the former was intended to
keep up the tariff; while the latter was passed
when its gradual reduction to the wants of the
Government was provided for by the compromise
act. A future surplus being thus guarded against
the justifiable purpose of the deposite act was to
take out of the hands of the Go zernLient an
enormous balance, dangerous to have in the
Treasury, aud litt'e likely .-gain to occur there.
It is, then, incontrovertib e that the deposite
act stood on much beuer constitutional g ounds
than the measure twice brought before the nation
by President Jackson. So much for all who ac
knowledge that chieftain as the great expounder
of constitutions.
It is equally clear that the land sales distribu
tion bill (limited only to that part of the revenue
which arose from lands, of which the right had
been so often recognised as in the States) must
have been vastly more legitimate than either of
the other mods of distribution. If Gen. Jack
son’s distribution was positively constitutional,
Mr. Calhoun's was comparatively constitutional,
and Mr. Clay’s superlatively constitutional. So
much for the’Calhoun democraty.
All, then, that Locofocoism can say must at
last taper down to this; that the distribution,
though constitutional, was inexpedient; because
a part of the public revenues ought not to b« ali
enated, while the M are now inadequate to
the support of the Government.
To this there are several decisive answers;
first, that the fund in question being the proper
ty of the States, the Government (whatever is
lack of revenue) has no right to keep it from
the States, who are still more in want of it. Se
condly, if th-r reasons for withholding the land
fund are good for this, they are good for much
more. The sums placed ip the Stale Treasu
ries by the deposite act are much more clearly
the property of the General Government than is
the land fund. It wants this twenty-eight mil
lions: let the States therefore return it; and they
can talk both heroically and becomingly about
the lofty principles that forbid them to take the
pettv amounts distributable to them out of [he
land sales.
Theatre Burnt.—On Saturday night, 20th
inst. the City Theatre at Louisville, (Ky.) was
burnt to the ground, together with the adjoining
Coffeehouses, one «n each side. It is stated to
have been the work of an incendiary, fire hav
ing been communicated to’several places at_the
same time. The Theatre belonged to Mr. S.
Drake, and was not insured. The Journal
says—“We do not know wbat losses, if any,
were sustained by the several actors and actress
es in the burning of wardrobes, &c. We un
derstand that fifty or sixty dollars, the proceeds
Saturday night’s performances, were stolen from
the manager’s room during the fire.’’
From Havti.—The schooner McDonough,
Captain Small, arrived at New York in thirteen
days from Jeremie. Capt. Small reports that a
President had not yet been elected. Tranquility
prevailed throughout the Island.
Letter from Mr. Webster.
On the 28th of April, Messrs. David Sears,
H. G. Otis, T. H. Perkins, P. C. Brooks, and
a number ot other gentlemen of Boston, address
ed a letter to Mr. Webster, stating that they had
“unexpectedly feard" of his intention to retire
from the Cabinet, and hoping that it was not his
purpose to retire altogether from public life. —
They suggest that he is “the only individual to
whom the several interests of the North and
South can look with equal confidence for pro
tection, and with whom may be safely trusted,
fully and freely, the adjustment of preliminaries
in the important question of the settlement of
international trade, based upon free principles
and reciprocity of benefit, which is soon to agi
tate this country and Great Britain.”—And they
say that “nothing would give them greater plea
sure than to learn that some commission was
contemplated, by which these matters might
come under your (Mr. W.) management and
control, either at Washington or elsewhere.”—
Balt. Fatriot.
To this letter, Mr. Webster replied in the fol
lowing letter, we. copy from the Boston
May 3d, 1843.
Gentlemen, —I have received your letter of
the 28th of April. You look, gentlemen, with
a degree of solicitude, which I can well appre
ciate, to the probability, that an adjustment of
important questions ot international trade, be
tween the United Statesand other countries, es
pecially Great Britain, will be attempted. I
fear you estimate quite too highly my own abil
ity to render useful service to the public, in such
transactions; but, by whomsoever conducted, I
should feel the strongest interest in their suc
cess, should they take place. 1 contess, that,
being truly and sincerely devoted to the protec
tion of American labor and industry, I consider
it to be of the highest importance to give to that
labor, and that industry, a security, a steadiness
of support, ape ~ rneney of encouragement,
which they have not lately enjoyed, and which,
I fear, they are not likely to enjoy hereafter, un
less a more comprehensive policy be adopted
than that, which has hitherto been pursued.—
The question of protection has mingled itself, to
such a degree, with questions of supposed local
interests, with political questions, and struggles
lor political power, that it has not been suffered
to be at rest, on any basis. It has had no re
pose. This is evidently a great evil. All inte
rests demand a steady and settled policy, and a
conviction of this truth appears to be becoming
general and strong. Those who possess the
means of living, desire to feel secure in their
enjoyment; and those, who have such means to
earn, must wish, above all things, to know'
W'hat they may depend upon, when they devote
their capital and their labor to particular pur
suits or inodes of occupation.
It was thought that something was accom
plished, and certainly something was accom
plished, by the tariff act oi last year. Yet, it
hardly passed, before the events occurred, crea
ting the highest probability that the whole sub
ject would be agitated anew in the next Con
gress. Are we always to be in this fluctuating
state ? Are we never to be able to look for any
thing, but a succession of changes? Is there no
way ot bringing the whole country and all in
terests to an adjustment that may promise some
degree of quiet, and ot general satisfaction?—
No doubt the various pursuits of the people of
this country have really and truly in themselves
a strong mutuality of interest. The grain and
com producing States must always find the best
market tor the surplus of their products in the
manufacturing and commercial population of
the east; as they will always find the price of
manufactured articles, such as they need, kept
low, and the quality good, by the productions ot
eastern labor. But so rich and abundant is the
grain crop of the country, that beyond what may
be demanded for the consumption of manufac
turing and commercial districts, there is still a
surplus, for which, or a pan of which, a foreign
market is desirable. The cotton crop, too, tho’
it finds a market at home, the value of which, I
think, has never been sufficiently appreciated,
requires, nevertheless, free exportation and a
large consumption abroad. Cannot those who.
are concerned in these inu rests be brought into
a harmony and concert of action, proportioned
to the real harmony, and mutuality, which sub
sist between the interests themselves ? For my
part, I think the experiment worth trying, and
should have great hopes of its success, it there
were no tear of opposition, from collateral or ex
trinsic causes.
My inquiries at the North, and through the
centre, and at the South and West, have been
extensive; and the result has led to the conclu
sion which 1 have expressed. I would not speak
with confidence, upon a matter yet untried, and
which, 1 know, may encounter a variety of ob
jections; but I repeat that, in my opinion, the ex
periment is worth a fair trial. We may well
make one earnest endeavor, even upon slight
encouragement, to give permanent support to
the industry of the country, and stability to the
business and pursuits of lite.
As to myself, gentlemen, I have no expecta
tion ot being concerned, in any manner, in ne
gotiations connected with this subject; and am
happy to know that the country has many hands,
abler than mine, that wieldsuch concerns. The
Government has eminent ability at its command,
both at home and abroad. 1 have no wish lo
go abroad, on public service. If negotiations
should be entered into, there are reasons for de
siring that they should be undertaken at Wash
ington; in which case, according to the usual
course, they would be conducted by the Head ot
the Department of Stale, under the direction of
the President.;
With unfeigned thanks for your manifesta
tion ot friendly sentiments, respect and confi
dence, I remain, gentlemen, your
Obliged friend and obd'l serv’t,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
To the Hon. David Sears, H. G. Otis, Wra.
Prescott, and the other Gentlemen.
Effects of Perpetual Day.—Nothing made
so deep an impression on our senses as the change
from alternate day and night, to which we had
been habituated from our infancy, to the contin
ued daylight to which we were subjected
as soon as we have crossed the arctic circle.
Where toe ground is but little trodden, even
trifles arc interesting; and Ido not, therefore hes
itate to describe the feelings with which we re
garded this change. Tiie novelty, it must be ad
mitted, was very agreerble; and the advantage
of constant daylight, in an unexplored and nat
urally' bmsterous sea. was too great to allow us
even to v> ish (lira return of the alternations above
alluded to; but the reluctance we felt to leave
the deck when the sun was shining bright upon
oar sails and to retire to our cabins to sleep, of
ten deprived ns of many hoursot necessary rest;
and wh ii ne returned to the deck to keep our
night w .u -1.. .1 it may lie io called, and still founu
the sun gilding the sky, it seemed as if the day
would never finish. What, therefore, at first
proir ised to be gratifying, soon threatened to be
c me extremely' irksome; and would, indeed
have become a serious inconvenience, had we
not followed the example ot the feathery tribe,
which we daily observed winging their way to
roost, with a clack work regularity, and retired
to our cabin at the proper hour, where, shutting
out the rays ot the sun, we obtained that repose
which the exercise of our duties required. At
first sight it will no doubt, appear to many per
sons that constant daylight must be a valuable
acquisition in every’ country; but a little reflec
tion will, I think, be sufficient to show that the
reverse is really the case, and to satisfy a reflect
ing n ind, that we cannot overrate the blessings
we derive from the wholesome alternations of
Labor and rest, which is in a mannerfozced upon
us by the succession of day and night. It is im
possible, by' removing to a high latitude, to wit
ness the difficulty there is in the regulation of
time, the proaeness that is felt by the indefatiga
ble and zealous to rivet themselves to their oc
cupations, and by the indolent and procrastina
ting to postpone their duties, without being truly’
thankful for that all-wise and mt ’tful provision
with which nature has endowed the more habita
ble portions of the globe.— Beechy’s Narrative of
Buchan’s Expedition towards the North Pole.
Fire.—A destructive fire occurred at East
Cambridge near Boston, on Wednesday last.
It broke out in the livery stable of N. J. Daly,
which was destroyed together with a large brick
hotel with its stabjss, the block of brick buildings
opposite occupied by Messrs. Wheeler, Perry «
Co., merchants, by the Middlesex Bank, and by
several others as dwellings, and an adjoining
wooden building. The hotel and stables were
owned by George Wheatfield of Salem who
was insured. Mr. Wheeler one of the mer
chants was also insured tor S3OOO.— N. Y. Tri
bune.
Cotton Manufacturep in Mexico.—There
are in the Republic of Mexico 53 cotton manu
factories, with an aggregate of!35,000 spindles.
They work up daily on an average, 48,622 lbs.
of cotton, and produce 43,760 lbs. ot thread,
which whep woven ipto cjpth, &c. is worth S4B,- ,
037. These facts we derive from a printed .
statement by the Directors General of Mexican !
industry, dated city of Mexico. March 28. 1843. *
From the Rome (Ga.) Courier.
Life of J. C. Calhoun.
We have had the pleasure of a perusal of the
Biography of this distinguished individual, re
cently published. Although written by one oi
his warm friends and admirers, we do not think
it presents the character of the great Nullifierin
too favorable alight. In some particulars, it
does not do him justice. The prejudices of the
writer have induced him to pass hastily over a
few of the “crises” in Mr. Calhoun’s life with
out awarding to him the sum of praise to which
he is j ustly entitled, for the very efficient man
ner in which he served his country. For exam
ple, the able and Statesman-like effort by which
he sustained the Protective tariff bill, introduc
ed by his lamented colleague from South Caro
lina, Mr. Lowndes, is slurred over as a short
“off-hand spaech.” Now, that his biographer
may be opposed to the system which Mr. Cal
houn so appropriately called “American,” is but
a lame excuse for presenting a character which
has become national property in an unfavorable
light besot e posterity. Our opinion of the mer
it of Mr. Calhoun’s effort upon this occasion,
differs widely from that of his biogropher, and
that our jud ment may not be entirely without
support, we appeal for its correctness to the
short extracts from it, tor which we, this week,
have space.
In speaking of Commerce and Manufactures,
he remarks:
“Taken in its most enlarged sense, without
commerce, industry would have no stimulus;
without manufactures, it would be without the
means of production, and without agriculture,
neitherof the otherscould exist. VV hensepara
ted entirely and permanently, they must perish.
War in this country produces to a great extent,
that separation, and lienee the great embarrass
ments that follow in its train. The failure of
the wealih and resources of the nation, necessa
rily involves the ruin of its finances and its cur
rency. It is admitted by the most strenuous ad
vocates on the other side, that no country ought
to be dependant on another for its means of de
fence—that at least our musket and bayonet,
our cannon ball, ought to be domestic manufac
ture., is moremecessary to tfie, deg
fence of a country, than its currency and fi
nance ? Circumscribed as our country is, can
these stand the shock of war ? Behold the ef
fect of the late war on them I When our man
ufaclures ate grown to a certain perfection as
they soon will, under the fostering care of the
Government, we will no longer experience these
evils. The farmer will find a read}’ market for
his surplus produce, and what isof almost equal
importance, a certain and cheap supply for all
his wants. His prosperity will difl use itself to
every class of the community.”
After portraying the ruin which the war had
brought upon all our leading interests, he con
tinues—
“To this distressing state of things there are
two remedies, and only two, one in our power
immediately, the other requiring much time and
exertion, but both constituting in his opinion,
the essential policy of this country. He meant
the navy and domestic manufacture. By the
former, we could open the way to our markets ;
by the latter, bring them from beyond the ocean
and naturalize them in our own soil.”
He answers the objections which the Feder
alists urged against the protection of manufac
tures, in this manner—
“ But it will, no doubt, be said, if they (the
manufacturers) ate so far established, and if the
situation of the country is favorable to theii*
growth, where is the necessity ot affording them
protection ? It is to put them beyond the reach
of contingencies. It has been further asserted
that manufactures arethe fruitful causes of pau
perism, and England has been referred to as fur
nishing conclusive evidence of the fact. For
his part, he could see no such tendency in them,
but the exact contrary, as they furnish new stim
uli to industry, and means of subsistence to the
laboring classes of the community We ought
not to look to the cotton and wool establishments
of England for the prodigious number of poor
with which her population is disgraced, causes
much more efficient exist. Her poor laws and
statutes, regulating the price of labor, with her
heavy taxes, are the real cause.”
In replying to the objection, that Manufac
tures caused the dependence of labor on capi
tal, he said—
“He did not think it was a decisive objection
to the system, especially when it had incidental
political advantages which, in his opinion, were
more than a counterpoise to it. It produced an
interest strictly American, as much so as agri
culture. In this it had the decided advantage of
commerce or navigation. Again (said Mr. C.)
it is calculated to bind together more closely our
wide spread republic. It will greatly increase
our mutual dependence and intercourse, and
will as a necessary consequence excite an in
creased attention to internal improvement, a
subject every way intimately connected with the
ultimate attainment of national strength, and
the perfection of our political institutions.”
In relating the conduct of Mr. Calhoun in
another ‘momentous crisis’ of his history, we
think the work before us has done him signal
injustice. We allude to his course as Chair
man of the Finance Committee ot the House of
Representatives, when he reported the Charter
of the United States Bank, and advocated its
passage in such manner as to have well deserv
ed the honor which he claims, of being ‘the
father of a National Bank.’ This portion of his
life has been so much better written by Mr.
Morehead of Kentucky, that we shall be par
doned for transferring his account of it to our
columns. It will be remembered that the bank
as well as the tariff were the favorite measures
of the Republican or true Democratic party,
were passed by a Republican Congress, and
sanctioned by a Republican President, and as
zealously and uniformly opposed by the Feder
alists. Mr. Morehead remarks:
“Among the foremost in the ranks of the Re
publican party oi that day, in talent, in zeal, in
knowledge of the public embarrassments, in
sympathy for the wants of the Government and
the condition of the People, stood the then mas
ter spirit of the South in the House of Repre
sentatives—the honorable Senator from South
Carolina, (Mr. Calhoun.) Seldom has it been
the fortune oi any statesman to occupy an emi
nence so enviable and commanding. Through
out this extended country —in all the departments
of its labor and trade—in every Stale and terri
tory and neighborhood—wherever a depreciated
paper dollar circulated or a bank had stopped
payments every where the sei vies of the honor
able gentleman were requited by the well earn
ed plaudits of his countrymen.
“On the occasion of taking up the bank bill
in Committee of the Whole in February, 1810,
the Senator from South Carolina openeu the de
bate, withan argument of distinguished ability.
He proposed to discuss general principles only
without reference to the details of the bill. ‘The
constitutional question had already been so free
ly and frequently discussed, that all made up
their mind on it;' and that also he declined to
consider. As to the question whether a nation
a! ban!; would tie favorable to the administra
tion of the finances of the Goveernment, it was
one on which there was so little doubt, that gen
tlemen would excuse him, if he did not enter in
to it’ Leaving these questions, he proposed
to examine the cause and state of the disorders
of the currency, and whether it was in the pow
er ol Congress, by establishing a national bank,
to remove those disorders.”
I "As t > the ."State ol the currency of the nation,”
the Senator proceeded to remark, “that it was
extremely depreciated and in degrees varying
according to the different sections of the corn
try;” that it was “a stain on the public and pri
vate credit, and injurious to the morals of the
community;” that it “was opposed to the princi
ples of the Federal Constitution;” that “the
power was gi en to Congress by that instrument,
in express terms, to regulate the currency of the
United States;” that “in point of fact, that pow
er was not in their hands” but was “exercised by
banking institutions, no longer responsible lor
the correctness with which they managed it;”
that “in lieu ot gold and silver the ■ had a me
dium, unequally but gererally depreciated,
which affects,’ he said, “ibe trade and industry
of the nation; which paralyzes the national arm;
which sullies the laith, both public and private,
of the U. States;” “the right,” he continued, “of
making money—an attribute ot sovereign pow
er—a sacred a.id important righ —was exercis
ed by two hundred and sixty b..nks, scattered
over every part of the United States, not respon
sible to any power whatever for their issues of
paper.”
He next alluded to the excess of those paper
issues—that “there were not in the vaults of
all the banks,morethanfifteen millionsol specie
with a capital amounting to about eighty'-two
millions ot dollars; and “this,”he argued, “was
the true and only cause of the depreciation of
the currency.” He then turned his attention to
“the manner in which that excess has been pro
duced—it was intimately connected with sus
pension of specie payments; and advantage had
beeu taken of that suspension to issue still grea-
Wrflofidaot it.’ Bosides, he said, “the banks
had undertaken to do a new business; to make
loans to the Government, not as brokers but as
stockholders; and practice wholly inconsistent
with the system of specie payments.” He con
tended, “that the existing state of things would
not cure itself—that it rested with Congress to
make them return to specie payments;” and
“that introduced the subject of the national
bank.”
“A national bank,” he said, “paying specie
itself, would have a tendency to make specie
payments general, as well by its influence as
its example.” Such an institution with capital
of thirty-five millions of dollars, “with the aid
of the state banks that were ready to pay specie,
would produce a powerful efieot over the un ion.”
“The restoration of specie payments would re
move the embarrassments on the industry of the
country, and the stains from its private and pub
lic faith." “It remained to see whether the
House, without whose aid it was in vain to ex
pect success in the object, would have the forti
tude to apply the remedy.”
Such, Mr. President, were the views of the
Senator from South Carolina in 1816; such his
account of the state of the currency; such his
opinion of the efficacy of a bank as a remedy
for the national embarrassments. Sir, after the
lapse of nearly twenty years, and after ample
opportunity had been afforded to test the accu
racy of his views in 1816, what in 1834 were
the opinions of the distinguished Senator? Had
it disappointed the expectations of the people
or his expectations? No ; it had indeed been
revolutionary: but it revolutionized the curren
cy. It had been sadly destructive of liberty ;
but it was the liberty of state banking corpora
tions to flood the country with depreciated pa
per, and embarrass all the operations ol com
merce and trade. It is proper, however, that
the Senator should speak tor himself. In his
speech on the removal of the deposites on the
13th January, 1834, the honorable gentleman
said;
“I am no partisan of the bank. lam connec
ted with it in no way by moneyed or political
ties. I might say, with truth, that the bank
owes as much to me as to any other individual
in the country, and I might even add, that had
it not been tor my efforts, ii would not have been
chartered.”
“It is said that the bank had no agency, at
least no efficient agency, in ihe restoration of
specie payments in 1817; and that it had failed
to furnish the country with a uniform and sound
currency, as had been promised at its creation.
Both of these allegations I pronounce to be with
out just foundation. To enter into a minute
examination of them would carry me too far
from the subject; and I must content myself
with saying, that, having been on the political
stage, without interruption from that day to this
—having been an attentive observer of the
question of the currency throughout the whole
period —the bank has been an indispensable agent
in the restoration of specie payments; that with
out it the restoration could not have been effect
ed, short of an utter prostration of all the mo
neyed institutions of the country and an entire
depreciation of bank paper; and that it has not
only restored specie payments, but lias given a
currency far more uniform between the extremes
of the country, than was anticipated or even
dreamed of at the time of its creation.”
Not satisfied wffh trying to wrest from Mr.
Cdlhoun’s brow the brighrest flowers of his
chaplet, his biographer tries still further to de
preciate his services by falsely stigmatizing the
republican measures in support of which he
gained his renown as a statesman, as “federal.”
>‘The majority,” says he, speaking of the Extra
Session of 1841, “ assumes the old federal posi
tion upon the bank, the tariff,” &c. Truly, if
the ex-Senator from South Carolina has much
regard tor his reputation, lie should utter the
prayer of the ancient, “O that mine enemy
would write the book.”
Ta the Editor of the Chronicle and Sentinel :
Below 1 hand you the list of the names of
those who have not granted their lands, and
who resided or gave in their names in Colum
bia county. If ungranted on the first day of July
next, the lands revert to the State.
Drawers' names in Lotteries oj 1821 and 1827, in
Columbia County, ungranted.
Richard Derby, Alfred Few, Isaac Willing
ham, Mitchell 'Wilkins, Phebe Seay, Arthur
Slaton, John Bynanm, Nancy Brown, Elvy
Langston, Le > Maddox’s orphans, Mary White,
James Rowland, Larkin Edmonds, Isaiah W
Madduck, James Wright’s orphans, J Green’s
illegitimates, William Hall, Humphrey Evans,
Henry Harrison, Joice, Enoch and Jas Craw
ford, illegitimates, Stephen Phillips, Winefred
Duvne, Win G Hughes, dumb, Dorson Cash,
E Holliman’s orphans, John Langston, Bath
sheba Liles, Thomas Burnsides, John Roberts,
Susan Daniel, Elizabeth Flynn, Hugh Rees sr,
Elizabeth Flynn, Moses Wade's orphans, Dor
othy Lassiter, Tfios Cartledge, Elizabeth Har
rison, James Whittaker, Holt Clanton senior,
Archibald Offutt, Baldwin Tankersley, Wm
Jones, Lettice Grinnage, Wm Palmer, Philip
H Dunn, Samuel Bolton, Benjamin Grubbs,
Sam'l Cartledge, John Derdin’s orphans, Sam’l
W Harrison, Jona’n Tindell’s orphans, Powel
Benton, James Uuizenberry, Margaret Holmes,
Ignatius Moore’s orphans, Chas Nelson, Benj
Watson’s orphans, Zach Roberts, Dorothy C
Jones, Henry Sikes, James Walker, R Wil
lingham, James Stewart, Thos Short's orphans,
Capt Wm Payne, William E Offutt, Randolph
Gerald, Henry B Porter, John W Maddock,
Martha Allbritton. Roda Foye, John Roberts,
senior, Mitchell Carrell, Thos Bailey, Archi
bald Offutt, Wm Tindell, Wike Ivy, Samuel
Phillips, Peter H Collins, Wm Adams, Alex
H Allison, John B Collins, William Wiley,
Augustus Dozier, Mary Ann Clay, Levy Guy,
Dossey Howard’s orphans, Rach Powell' Mary
G Pearre, Isaac Stallings, B E Winfrey’s or
phans, Aletha Flinn, Greaf Grammer Twuel,
Richard Meriwether.
Drawers, in Land Lottery of 1832, in Columbia
County, ungranted.
Wm S Fuller, Samuel May, Isaac Ramsey,
Joseph Prince, Elizabeth Reese, Wm Bacon,
Daniel Stantord, Evan T Davis, David Wil
kins, James W Pearre, Theo E Massengale,
Benj McDonald, Catharine Burnside, Simon
Roberts’ orphans, Elizabeth Lawrence, Lav
Richardson’s orphans, Francis Darsey, John
Brooks, Win Trammell, Nancy Farrar, Perry
man May, William Harrison’s orphans, Pliney
Wheeler, David Walker’s orphans, George G
Tankersley, John H Hatcher, Evan Davis, Lit
tleton B Story, John Reynolds, Jeremiah Dar
by, Elizabeth Porter, Elizabeth Watson, Mary-
Ann Crawford, William Carrel, Wm Tindal’s
orphans, John Lucky, Jeremiah Darby, James
J Dooly, Thos Kendrick, Wm Germany, Jas
Langston junior, John Day, Stephen G Reeves,
D C Massengale, Thos Reeves, Leonard Steed
senior, David Megahee, Thos Malone senior,
John T Blunt, Farley Adams’ orphans, Robert
Culpepper’s orphans, Wm Prescott’s orphans.
Drawers in Gold Lottery of 1832, in Columbia
County, ungranlcd.
Dan'i Sullivan, Zebedee Ivey, John C Smith,
Wm Stapler, Wm J Evans, VV m J Gartrill,
George Gray, James Germany, Henry Maddox,
John Moore’s orphans, Isaac Von, Oadiah S
Morris, Lain Flbming, VV illiam M Williams,
Thos Malone senior, James J Morris, William
Yarborough, E P Ivey, Elam Finch, Isaac W
Jones, Wm Offutt, Joseph Phillips, Emberson
Davis, George Hill’s orphans, Robert Culpep
per's orphans, Ellis Jones, Aaron Weaver, W m
Carrell, Stephen T Phillips, Wm M Williams,
Alex Brown, Vincent Rees, Eli Holley, George
W Barker, Nancy H Tindille, JasG Hutchin
son, Wm New-som, Elizabeth Laurence, Jos
Mote, Elizabeth Jones, ThosChrosbey, Tilmon
Moore, James Langston senior, John Jones jr,
Wm Zachry, Jas Jones, W m Tindall’s orphans,
Jas Draper, Daniel Massengale, Richard W
Jones, Elisha Slaten, Jonathan Pearce, Sarah
Cliette, Nich V Prather, James Simons, Craw
ford Johnson, Thomas Culbreth, Benjamin B
Hardin, Henry Burnley, Ichabod Phillips, El
bert Ramsey, John W Bealle, Thos Reeves,
Georze Lasseter, Hardy Powell’s orphans, Wm
Bastian, Edw'd Bowdry, Elvira Wright, David
B Hobbs, Pliney Wheeler, Wm Benton’s or
phans, James Ramsey, Wm Stapler, John Bol
ton, Charles Liles, Thomas W Jones, George
Gunby, Hezekiah Boyd, Owen Baldwin’s or
phans, Elias Lazenby, Gorge W Toole, Chas
T Bealle senior, Jesse Watson, orphans ofD
Pace junior, Richard Tillman’s orphans, James
Boyd, Jane Foies, Rufus Ray, Wm S Jones jr,
Na h H Clanton, Thos B Reese, John Dorman,
Wm Newman, Pliney Wheeler, Wm Binion’s
orphans, David Seay, Francis Blackston, Lit.
Mxilkey, Hugh S Cremer, Jeremiah Darley,
Evereti Bonner, Charles T Bealle junior, John
Jones senior, Wm Scott, Sam’l Rice’s orphans,
Reuben Sanford, Ferd Luke, William Thomas,
Jane Fluff, Aug A Paschall, Robert W Bell, H
W Massengale, Wm L Blunt, James Pearce,
Luvana Powell, Covington Brooks, Thomas
Watson, junior, Micajah Von, James Holden,
Wm Palmer’s orphans, William Yarbo.ougb,
ThosNapie", Rachael Tindal, Michael Dick
son, Burrell Richards, James Guy s-nior, Jas
Holliman’s orphans, Jeremiah Darby, John E
Moore, John Langston, James Ross, Georg
Lasseter, Gun: way Martin, Nancy M Cox,
Evan T Davis, Thos Bumside, Colours Bene
field, Leonard C Steed, Reuben Sanders, Wm
Germany, Thos W Westboy, Dorothy C Jones,
Wm Lawrence’s orphans, Walter Jones, Sam’l
Coulter, Thos J ivey, Obadiah S Morris, Wm
Watson, Sarah Sikes, Stephen Drane, Zach.
Pollard, John T Blunt, Joseph Phillips, Isaac
Lucas, Nancy Morris, Charles Evans, Lewis
Spence, James G Hutchisoon, Jas Southerland,
Aug M Sanders, Wmßarnett, Wiley H Binion,
Elizabeth Hill.
1 will remain in Milledgeville until the first
of Julv next, and attend promptly to taking out
grants, and affording information in relation to
the situation and probable value of lots.
Grant tees for land lots including commission
$5. Grant fees for gold lots, and commission
$3. For information of situation, value, &c.,
extra, sl. Specie funds. Postage must be paid
a insure attention.
Many of the above individuals are drawers
of valuable lots, which if ungranted on the first
of July, the lots revert to the State.
Where drawers and owners liave fbrgouan
the number, district and section of their lots, an
affidavit, with those parts left blank, can readily
be filled up by me.
WM. H. PRITCHARD.
Delightful Amusement.—The editor of the
Grand Gulf Advertiser says that “the most de
lightful amusement he ever experienced was.
‘days o’ auld lang syne,’ hen he held the calves
by the ears, until some pretty dimpled cheek girl
milked the cows!”
To this the editor of the Picayune replies:
Our most interesting reminiscence in that way
is, when we used to hold a skein of thread ch
our hands whilst a pretty, blue-eyed cousin
wound it off. The thread would get tangled,—
but it was no fault ol ours!
From the New Orleans Picayune..
Late from Texas.
By the arrival of the steamship Neptune yes
terday from Galveston, we have dales from that
■ity to the 23d inst., and from Houston to the
20th. We do not find the news ot any great
importance. The papers are filled with the de
tails of the naval engagement off Campeacby,
copied from the press of this city. The con
duct of Col. Morgan and Com. Moore is laud
ed to the echo as brave and gallant, while the
editors express their regret that there should be
any difference between the President and the
Commodore. But they not only rejoice over
the success which has thus far crowned the ex
pedition under Com. Moore, but give us some
slight reason to hope that Gen. Houston will
jet reconsider his ilt-advised, his infamous pro
clamation, denouncing the Commodore as a pi
rate. The Houston Morning Star of the 20th
lias these remarks on this point, which we trast
may turn out to be well founded:
We have received private letters from Cam
peachy containing intelligence that induces us
to believe that Gen. Houston himself, when he
learns the lull details of the transaction will
freely acquit Corn. Moore of all blame and ap
prove the conduct of Col. Morgan. It’appears
that when Gen. Houston gave instructions to
Col. Morgan io take possession of the vessels
and bring them to Galveston, he believed that
the vessels were almost dismantled, without men,
without provisions, and rapidly decaying for
want of necessary repairs. He therefore thought
itadvisable to require Col. Morgan to obtain
men and return with them to Galveston imme
dialely—at the same time intimating that if
they were in a fit condition to contend with the
fleet of Mexico he would permit them to go
forth and enforce his pfevious orders, to cruise
on.the coast of Mexico and harass the enemy.
Col. Morgan acco.dingly proceeded to New Or
leans; but when he arrived, to his surprise he
found the vessels well manned, well provision
ed, well armed and all ready to goto sea. The
officers and seamen were all eager for battle,
and were looking forward with joyful anticipa
tions that they would soon have an opportunity
to distinguish themselves in the service of their
adopted country. The wages of the men and
all the provisions and stores on board the ves
sels had been paid and furnished by the Yucata
nese, and our gallant tars were bound in honor
to make some return for the advances thus made,*
by our allies. Under these circumstances Col.
Morgan, believing that the President never con
templated laying the vessels up to rot, if well
manned and fit for sea, concluded to give his
tree consent to Com. Moore “to visit Yucatan
on his way to Galveston.” This permission,
however, was not granted until they reached the
Balize, and there met a vessel direct from Cam
peachy, with intelligence that the Mexican fleet
was dispersed and in a wretched condition. He
believed that if President Houston had been on
board at the time he would have done the same. t
By the arrival of one of the Campeachy gun
boats at Galveston on the 17th inst. with des
patches from the Government, the Civilian has
been put in possession of private letters from
both Col. Morgan and the Commodore, dated
the 10th inst.; although no later than hare been
received here, we make extracts from each. In
justification of the course pursued by Com.
Moore the Colonel writes as follows:
If 1 have swerved from my orders ar duty in
any way, by taking the Mexican coast on our
way to Galveston, it was for the benefit of my
adopted country—for which I have risked my
life and am perfectly willing to lose it, provided
1 can only see her tree and at peace with the
world. Com. Moore could not and would not
have proceeded to this coast without my sanc
tion; indeed, we were bound direct to Galveston,
but tor the information we received at the Ba
lize on our way out, which was of such a char
acter as to cause me to believe that the Govern
ment would have reflected upon me, under all
the circumstances, if I had not done so.
It willthus be seen that Col. Morgan assumes
fully the responsibility ot proceeding at once to
Campeachy, and the following extract from the
Commodore’s letter of the same date, is to the
same purpose:
It was my firm determination to have appear
ed off Galveston and reported the condition of
the ve-sels to the department, and the reason of
my not having done so is, that Col. Morgan,
who is one ot the Commissioners to carry out
the secret act of Congress, (not erne section or
word of which have I yet seen,) informed me
that he had the power, as Commissioner, to take
the responsibility, and that he would not only
advise me to proceed to Galveston by the way
of the coast of Yucatan, but that he would ac
company me and risk his life and reputation in
order to save Texas from the charge, by Y'uea
tan, ol bad faith, and to see justice done to me.
This was generous in Col. Morgan,
and I hope it will be appreciated by the people
of Texas. We accordingly sailed the same
day (April 19) forTeichac, where I had learned
the Montezuma was alone.
The citizens of Galveston celebrated the
achievements of the Texan navy on the 17th
inst. Salutes were fired, a procession formed
and every demonstration of public joy was
made as for a national jubilee. The citizens
of . ouston also celebrated the event by firing a
national salute.
A public meeting was held at Galveston on
the 2Uih, over which his honor, the Mayor ot
the city presided, to express the sense ot the
community upon the actions ol Col. Morgan and
Com. Moore.
In our paper of the 19th inst. we gave an ac
count of a second expedition to Santa Fe, lor
purposes of war, not trade, which set forth in
the spring. The Morning Star of the 20th,
throws some doubt over the statement, and at
tempts to discredit the number and character of
those engaged in it, but alleges nothing definite
or positive, so that we have no grounds upon
which to modify the account we gare of it from
the Civilian.
We find in several papers a statement made
by the Indian traders, that some three or four
w-eeks ago a skirmish occurred above the Waco
village, between a party of Wacoes and Kea
chies; and a party of Tonkewas and Lipans.—
It appears that the latter attempted to steal a
number of horses belonging to the former, but
were driven oft' with the loss of one or two war
riors. The Wacoes are exceedingly hostile,
and desire to prosecute a war of extermination
against the Tonkewas. The Waco Chief, when
at Washington requested the President to per
mit his warriors to attack the Tonkewas. He
said they were cannibals, and he would never
make peace with any “Indians who eat In
dians.’ The President, of course, refused the
request; but the recent attack of the Tonkewas
upon his camp will probably not pass unaveng
ed.
In regal'd to the truth of the report hitherto
mentioned by us of Capt. Cameron’s retreat a
mong ihe Apaches, we al first expressed our
doubts: by the following from the Star, it ap
pears that we were in the right:
We i egret io mention lhatthe person who styl
ed him elf Walker, and recently reported in tbe
western settlements that he had left Capt. Cam
eron and his party with the Apaches, is an im
poster. His real name, we understand, is Ir
win; he had stolen some horses from tha Gua
deloupe, and endeavored to escape with his bam
tv und -r the feigned name of Walker. He
was pursued and arrested by a party from tbe
Guada.oupe, and has been taken back to expi
ate his crim s. The wretch who could thus
make the sufferings and misfortunes of those
gallant men a cloak toconceal his own villainy,
deserves not only to suffer the utmost penal
ty of the law, but should be banished beyond the
tli.’ pal of civilized society
The . nly other item of interest which we find
in the papers brought by the Neptnne, is the Hal
low ing, which we cut from the Star of the 16th
inst:
Successful Foray.—A party of Western vol
unteers lately went to the Mexican settlements
near Matamoras; and captured about a hundred
horses, which they brought into our western set
tlements. Another party intercepted a band of
Mexican smugglers, and took from them about
S4OOO in specie. These partial successes hav
induced many young men to join the bands of
volunteers that are scattered along the Neuces;
and it is not improbable that bands of one or two
hundred men will soon be congregated in the
territory west of the Neuces, and at length em
boldened by success make far forays beyond tbe
Rio Grande.
A Frolic no Joke.—A fetter from Berlin
of the 10th ultimo, says:—
The celebrated pianist, Doehler, while at the
ball given at the Opera on Shrove Tuesday,
had his pocket picked of his purse and pocket
book. The next morning he published an ad
vertisement, that if the thief would restore him
his pocket-book and contents and the purse, he
might keep the money and rely upon no further
inquiries being made. After a lapse of tew
days, M. Doehler recci ved a box, carefully seal
ed, containing the money which was in the
purse, accompanied by an anonymous letter,
evidently written by two different female hands,
on perfumed paper, saying, “i lere are the 35-
thalers (130 f. which your purse contained.—
The purse itself, the pocket-book and its con
tents —being a lock of hair, a wedding-ring aa<t
a biUcl-dMc— l keap, beeaus® I prefer them tc
the money. This ought not to.surprise you, be
cause I am one of the greatest admirers of your
talent, with which I have become acquainted
by attending all your concerts, which have, I
assure you, aflordedmeadivineentertainment.”
M. Doehler, enraged by not recovering what he
most desired, immediately took the letter to tbe
police, whose officers soon discovered that the
theft was committed by two sisters—Anastasia
and Mathilda L- The two young melo-
maniac ladies were arrested as they were com
ing out of the concert given at the ftoyal Sing
ing School. On being brought before the crim
inal tribunal, they pretended that they had act
ed out of a mere frolic, and meant to return what
they had taken.—They were, however, sentenc
ed to a twelve-month’s confinement in the House
of Correction at Potsdam, to which they have
already been sent.