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OLD SERIES, VOL. LVII.
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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15.
jj*Hon. R. L. Caruthers. —In this morn
ing’s paper we conclude the very able defence
made by this gentleman of the Whig party and
their measures, to which we invite the attention
of every Whig.
Which is the Bank Party t
Which is the BankParty?—Let the record
answer. During the twelve years of the Mon
roe and Adams administrations, when the
"Bankparty" had the control, there were char
tered in the'United States ta banks with an ag
gregate capital of S3,OtH>,ooo. —Daring the 12
years of the administration of the “Afo Bank
party" was in power, two hundred and eighty
six banks were chartered in the Union, with an
aggregate capital of $363,000,000. So much
for the sincerity of the party that p'ofess to be
opposed to all banks.
People of Georgia, have you any recollec
tion which party was in power in Georgia when
the host of Banks which sprung into existence
from 1832 to 1838 were incorporated? What
party was in power when the Monroe Rail
Road Bank—when the Bank of Rome—when
the Merchants & Planters’ Bank of Columbus
—when the Chattahoochee Rail Road Bank,
and many others, were chartered. Was the
Whig partyof Georgia in power? or was the
self-styled democratic, hard money, anti-Bank
party in power? If the “democrats” were in
power it should be a lesson to you—it should
teach you what reliance was to be placed in
their professions, and you should administer to
them such a wholesome tebuke as will learn
them to act out what they profess before the
people—in short, that "honesty is the best policy."
Vermont Election.
The N. Y. Express of Monday says:—The
returns to-day, though not yet perfect, are enough
so to enable us to state with confidence that the
Whig candidate for Governor, Mr. Matlocks,
has received a handsome majority, and is elect
ed.
The Senate and House are both safe by
handsome majorities. The elections of mem
bers of legislature come in nobly—three to one.
The abolition vote is much heavier than it was
last year. Vermont is a staunch Whig State.
The Congressional Delegation will stand 3
Whig, and 1 Loco—or more probably, no
choice.
Bunker Hill Anecdote.
The editor of Hill’s Patriot states the follow,
ing anecdote of two old soldiers, Mr. Beil, of
Gofistown, and Mr. Burns, of Whitfield, both
aged 88 years. The latter was a member of
the last Legislature ot New Hampshire. They
attended the late celebration On the 17th ol
June.
"Both of these old veterans, it will be recol
lected by their fellow-citizens in New Hamp
shire, went to Bunker Hill in each other’s com
pany, under the escort of the Stark Guards ol
Manchester. In personal appearance, they ve
ry much resemble each other. —Upon their arri
val at Boston, they were taken in a barouche
drawn by a splendid pair of horses, and conduct
ed under escort ol the Stark Guards and Wash
ington Phalanx, lo lodgings which had been
provided lor them at Concert Hall. Here they
were almost lost in the crowd. On the morning
of the 17h, the old sold ers—both of them were
“as spry as cats”—got up early and “fooledit”
all the way over to Bunker Hill and back, (be
tween three am. four miles,) to “see if it looked
as it used to,” as Burns expressed himself to us
in giving a description ot the celebration when
we met him at Lowell. “But it hits been consid
erably built up since 1 was there" continued the
old gentleman, (he had not visited Bunker Hill
between the day of the battle and ihe morning in
question.) “1 could see but one placethat look
ed as it used to, and that was where the British
ers landed.”
From the Courier and Enquirer of Monday,
we have the following particulars:
The Saunders’ Forgery.—All of our read
ers are well acquainted with the circumstances
connected with me forgeries perpetrated on sev
eral of the banks in tuts city, tn the name of
Messrs. Austin, W ilmerding & Co., and we are
pleased now to be able to state that all of the
money thus fraudulently obtained has been re
covered, except about two thousand dollars.
It will be remembered that Saunders was ar
rested in Boston on Thursday, and Mr. Clapp,
the officer who made the arrest, reached this ci
ty on Friday morning. On the aftei noon ot that
day. Mr. Wilmerding started for Boston, and
immediately on arriving there, he had an inter
view with young Saauders. On that occasion,
the youth made a full confession, acknowledg
ed hisown guilt, and giving up the name of his
accomplice, who turns out to be a dashing for
eigner named Ragie, whoresided in Canal street.
He stated that having formerly boarded in the
same house with Ragie and his wile, a hand
some young woman, he kept up his intimacy af
ter they parted, and the plan of forging the
names ot A. W. & Co., was first suggested and
finally carried out by Ragie, with Saunder’s as
sistance. The intention of the parties was, hav
ing secured a sufficiency of money to escape to
Europe, having first divided it equally, and then
to purchase an estate and settle down near Ra
gie’s native town in Germany. Every thing be
ing arranged, Saunders ascertained the balanc
es in the various banks on the day the forgeries
were committed, which he mtde known to Ra
gie, who forged the checks. These Saunders
presented at the banks and received the money
for them.
Having exchanged as much as he thought
prudent, he gave the rest to Ragie, which was
to be divided, when they' met again. Mr.
Wilmerding having ascertained the above par
ticulars started at once for this city, arrived in
time to learn, that by a chain of fortunate cir
cumstances all had been discovered and the
money recovered.
The circumstances which led to the recovery
of the money are briefly these: When the news
that Saunders had been arrested reached this
city, Mrs. Ragie, who had the 524,01)0 in her
possession, fearing the possibility of having it
traced to her, secured it in a small trunk, and
sent it to her washer woman, a black woman
named Augustine Orleans, living at 81,
Mulberry street, bidding her to be very care
ful of it, as it contained much valuable pro
perty. The black woman not liking the idea
of keeping any thing so very' valuable in her
possession, went to Mrs. Hunter, the wife of a
cooper in Division street, for whom she also
washed, and relating the circumstances to her,
requested that she would take charge of it. Mrs.
Hunter very properly reproved her tor taking
charge of what she had been told was valuable
property, as an extensive robbery and forgery
had both been recently perpetrated, but she took
the care of it herself, and opening it ascertained
that it contained a roll ofb.llsand gold.
As soon as the black woman was gone she
sent word to Justice Matseil, that a trunk con
taining valuable property was in her possession
under suspicious circumstances, and he at once
despatched two officers to secure it—on opening
it at the Police office it was found to contain
5'24,000 in bills and gold coin, which being
counted and sealed u p was placed in the Mer
chants bank tor safety.
Mr. & Mrs. Ragie were at once arrested and
committed to close confinement, and the black
woman was also committed, in default of giv
ing security to appear and testify against them.
And thus by a chain of most extraordinary coin
cidences nearly the whole of the money crimin
ally obtained will be restored to the rightful own
ers. Ragie and his wife will be examined as
soon as Saunders reaches this city.
Maxims. —Never expect your lands to give
you m'uc/i if you give them litilc; nor to make
you rich if you make them poor
To ’save at the spigot and let out at the bung,’
will soon empty' the largest hogshead , so will
economy' in small matters and waste in large
ones, speedily squander the largest estate.
The Anti-American Party.
In 1840, the epithet of “Bnlish Whig" wasap
lied daily and hourly by the Locofocos, as t
term of reproach to the Whigs. Now, the Lo
cos and the British ministry are both loud it
their denunciations of jhe American Tariff—
I iat bill which gives employment to America!
labor and capital—which feeds and clothes th.
laborer—which secures a home market for tin
products of the American soil:—that is the bil.
against which the British ministry have thuu
dered with all ti.e powers of their eloquence,
in the British Parliament, and whose speeche
are quoted by the Locos, to support andsustail
them in their opposition to the American Tariff
Which, then, is the. British? and which thi
American party in this country ? Let those an
swer with whom the term “British Whig" was
so familial in 1840.
J-’rom the Constitutionalist.
Spirit Creek Water-Melons.
Mr. Editor:— Before entering on the subject
in hand, allow me to thank you forgiving my
former communication a place in yo ir paper,
and for the flattering manner you noiice the
writer. You say lam stubborn when I express
an opinion. 1 freely acknowledge this; but if
I know myself I advance no opinion whieh 1 do
not firmly believe to be right, and for this rea
son, 1 need no ingenuity or plausible arguments
to maintain it. 1 have no interest to serve—l
seek no office of honor or profit—and, I assure
you, 1 would go for no tna’i or no party farther
than 1 believe it to be tor the inteiest of the
country. If I have other aim in view, before
God, lam unconscious of it. Having said this
much about my motives, allow me thank you
again lor the friendly feelings you express to
wards me; and be assured, sir, that 1 shall not
knowingly do anything to change them.
You ask me then to explain the meaning of
the phrase “all other tilings being equal,” in my
former communication. I will put the whole
question in more precise terms. Would you
rather encourage British manufacturers, than
American, if you could be shewn that a given
amount of the products of American labor em
ployed in raising raw materials and bread stuffs,
can be exchanged for as large a quantity of A
merican manulacturesas of British, and ol equal
quality? And as 1 anticipate, from the nature
of Jour remarks, that you will answer that you
would rather encourage American manufactures
under such circumstances, 1 will proceed to shew
you the use I mean to make of the admission ;
confining myself at this time to cotton and its
manufactures. And first, I refer you to thefol
lowing extract:
AMERICAN COTTONS.
The New York True Sun, of the 11th inst.,
says: “There seems to be little doubt that we
shall soon drive a profitable export trade with
England in home manufactured cotton sheetings
and shirtings. Orders from London for upwards
of a thousand bales of hue priced cottons have recent
ly been received in Boston. W ith China,too, there
is every prospect of a brisk trade in the same
articles
117/A the material, comparatively speaking at
our own doors, and all the new improvements in
machinery at command, we see no reason why we
should not break up the monopoly which England
and, France have so long enjoyed in supplying the
western market with cotton fabrics. The inference
in wages here anil in Europe is not of the sain : con
sequence now that it was fifteen years ago. Man
ual labor has been to a great, extent, superseded by
machinery, and. all that is so be done by machinery
can be accomplished as cheaply here as in Eng
land.”
1 think this will prove conclusively that we
can buy American cotton goods ol the above
descriptions lower than we could English.
The following extract is from the Georgian
of the 9th instant, which paper should be good
authority:
“We would urge upon ourcountry fiiends the
expediency of getting their crops as early as pos
sible to market, to avail themselves of the open
ing demand lor new cotton from the northern
manufacturers; and would also impress upon
them the important benefit of packing in square
bales.
“The demand from the north generally in
sures full prices during the first few weeks of
new receipts.”
This proves that better prices can be got for
the first of the c op from our own manufacturers
than from the British; and he might have added
that the competition produced by the purchases
of our own spinners keeps up the price above
what it otherwise would be, during the whole
year. This is in strict accordance with the laws
ol trade; they can afford to pay more for the raw
material, and for our bread stuffs, than the Brit
ish can; because the cost of transportation, as
well as the time and risk are less; and the near
er we bring manufactures to our own doors, the
greater will be this difference.
If free trade be the object, here is a fairchance,
for a fair discussion of the question, by produ
cing tacts against the theories, and I have abun
dance of them in store. Being unwilling, how
ever to trespass too long on your time at one
sitting, I shall defer the introduction of any' oth
er article till 1 hear what you have to say to this.
CRAWFORD.
Mr. Clay in Ohio.
The following highly satisfactory information,
otthe current of opinion among the Whigs ol
the Stale of Ohio, is copied from the Ohio State
Journal of the 29th Ultimo:
“It must have been observed that every decla
ration of mass and delegate Conventions
throughout this State have been in favor of the
great American statesman of Ashland. We do
not remember having seen an expression, in a
township, county, or district meeting, or meet
ing ot delegates, (and nearly every one has spo
ken,) but what lias been a clear and explicit
commendation of Henry Clay, and an express
ion of confidence in the'election of this favorite
of all who are advocating a complete restora
tion and establishmenl ot ihe policy of Wash
ington and the fathers of the Republic—the A
n.erican policy and Republican principles.—
There is but one feeling among us in Ohio;
and for this reason we have neglected to copy
all the ex; ressions of public feeling, but have
been content with recording those of Congress
ional Conventions. Our friends in other States
may rest assured that Henry Clay will carry this
State against Van Buren, or any other by a single
Locofoco, majority as overwhelming as did Gen.
Harrison in 1810.”
Hon. A. H. Chappell.
The Savannah Republican, in announcing
the nomination of this gentleman as the Whig
candidate for the vacancy in Congress, payshim
the following well merited compliment.
“We place t'e name of Absalom H.Chappel,
ol Macon, on the list of our candidates for Con
gress, this morning. In doing so, we place be-
Ibre our Whig tellow citizens a man who is well
known and universally esteemed. Mr. Chap
pel has long been a public man in Georgia, and
we believe that he has the esteem and confidence
of both his political friends and opponents. e
is as sound a Whig as there is in the United
States, a Hue Republican, a tervent lover of free
institutions, and just the man to argue the point
before any' body in the land, with any antagon
ist who can be opposed to him. He is known
by a large number of our fellow citizens who
know that he is a man of clear and acute judg
ment, of extensive and various acquirements,
and what is more important than all else, of
sound American principles, such principles as
our ancestors contended for. Mr. Chappel is of
that class of men, who think established laws
better than eternal change, and prefers .being
found in the broad, and straight national path
ot “sate precedents” to the sinuosiliesof modern
innovators.
We are then most happy in recommending
Mr. Chappel to the support of our whig friends.
His claims have all been thoroughly investiga
ted before, and let us give to him and that little
war horse Stephens, our undivided and cordial
support.”
The Empire State.
An article in Hunt’s Magazine for the present
month, furnishes an interesting account of the
onward progress of the Empire Slate. The first
idea of a Canal in New Y. rk, was started in
1768, and now the Canal navigation from N. Y.
extends in length, 713 miles, at an aggregate cost
of $13,414,523. The Erie Cana! cost upwards
of $7,000,000. The average cost per mile for
repairs, from 1826 to 1813, was $572 21c. In
1799, the population of the State was 310,120;
and of the city, 33,121. In 1810 the State 2,-
429,196; the city 312,932. In 1811, the real and
personal estate of the Commonwealth was
valued at $281,838,057. In 1840, $341,359,818.
In the city’in 1814, the real an* personal e-tate
was valued at $77,388,243; in 1840, $292,135,-
The State of New Y'ork, says the Magazine,
has completed, up to the present year, an ag
gregate length of canals, navigable feeders, and
slackwater navigation, ot aeeen hundred and
twenty-eight miles. The Erie Canal is the main
artery to which all the other Canals, owned by
the State are tributary, except the Champlain
Canal.
New Caricature.—Robinson, 142 Nassau
street, has produced in all its ric ness the scene
at the meeting of the Irish Repeal Association
lin Dublin, in which O’Cotmel lefused to suffer
Bennet, of the Herald, to be presented to him.
The likenesses of the principal figures are excel
lent and the grouping is very effective. —N. Y.
Courier <J* Enquirer.
SATURDAY MORNING, sEP’IEMBER lb
Mr. Weeds’ Letters.
We commence this morning the publication
of a very interesting series of letters from Eu
rope, f rom Thurlow Weed, Esq. To those who
iesire to see his impressions of men and thing'
in the old world, we commend them.
JjpHas any one heard whether Mr. McKin
ney the contractor for that “free Democratic
barbecue” and “several of the leading members
if the party” are convalescent to-day. They
were reported yesteiday to be seriously indispos
ed—and fears were doubtless entertained by then
anxious “Democratic” friends for their recovery.
Our River.—The late lainshave swelled out
river, so that we think it quite probable it will
remain in fine boating order the remainder of the
season.
Cheap and Valuable Literature. —S. A.
Holmes has laid on our table No. 13 of Alison’s
History of Europe—Nos. 2 and 3 ot McCulloch’s
Gazetteer, a most valuable work —and Change
for the American Notes in letters from London
by an American Lady.
What, another New Hat t
“My dear sir,” said a friend, who yesterday
gave us a very cordial greetin-:, “I am rejoiced to
see you looking so well’—Confused and blushing,
we directed our fingers toward our hat, while
we assumed an attitude to lay the flattering unc
tion to our soul, when we were quite shocked
to hear him exclaim in the most enthusiastic
admiration, as if suddenly divining the cause,
“What another new hat?” “Aye sir, “an
other new hat,” and allow meto inform you that,
I am indebted to the courtesy (these dealers in
hats are very courteous gentlemen,) of my friend
E. L. Ferry, whose compliments this morning
were very appropriately' accompanied with this
beautiful specimen ot American manufacture,
the latest, the very latest fashion, alike credit
able to the acknowledged good taste of Mr. F.
and to American enterprise and industry.”—
“Pardon me sir, spare me if you please a dis- I
quisition. on taste, American manufactures and
enterprise, altho’ I delight to sustain both the
latter, and allow me to renew my admiration of
your hat and to assure you I will forthwith give
Mr. F. the most tangible evidence of how much
I approve the “latest—the very latest" style of
Hat—Good morning.
A Clear Back-Out 1!
That GREAT FREE DEMOCRATIC
BARBECUE, which was to have been served up
at the LaFayette Race Course to-day, has been,
as is generally understood, indefinitely' postpon
ed 1 For more than a week past, the BARBE
CUE has been the talk of all talkers, the hope
of the hungry, and the joy of the loversol politi
cal excitement. What is to become of them ?
How can their disappointment be reconciled ?
How many, this day, will seek the Race Course
as their “land of promise,” and, with watering
mouths, congratulate their empty stomachs that
the dinner hour is near at hand, when they shall
be lined with savory lamb and youthful porkers—
ginuine Berkshires 1 Some, perchance, in an
ticipation of the promised feas’, had lost their
appetites for breakfast, or refrained from grati
fying them, lest they should disqualify them
selves for the full fruition of democratic cheer.
Alas! poor bellies! you can do nothing but
complain. The watering mouths, and the dem
ocratic hand-bill, have admonished you never
again to give yourselves over to promises like
theirs. You will never again believe their
HAND-BILLS without a WHIG ENDORSEMENT.
Q.
We «opy the following annunciation from
the Washington Globe. The friends of Science
every where will receive with unleigned sor
row the intelligence of the death of one of her
most devoted sons. To Mr. Nicolet justly be
longs the honor of having ascertained the true
sources of the Mississippi river:
DIED this morning, 11th September, at a
quarter past 6 o’clock, after a lingering illness,
Mr. J. N Nicolet, the eminent mathematiciaii
and astronomer.
Mr. Nicolet was a native of Savoy' and a cit
izen of France but passed the last ten years ol
his lite in this country, engaged in important re
searches, chiefly under the auspices and in the
employment if ihe government of the United
Stales.
The WalkinifMatch.—Ellworth and Fogg'
completed their grand pedestrian tour ol one
thousand miles in one thousand hours, at Chel
sea, on Friday afternoon, and received the one
a silver pitcher, and the other his wages cf $5
per day. Fogg has rathergained in flesh by the
journey, and Ellworth has lost but very little.
Wooden buckets are now manufactured
to a large extent at Milford, in Maine. Hereto,
fore the leading source ol the supply of this ar
ticle was al Hingham, but the Bangor Whig
says that Maine isnowable “toiurnishasupply
for half creation.”
Correspondence of the Baltimore Fatriot.
New York, Wednesday, 4 P. M.
The weather is now clear and sufficiently
warm for the season—this appears to give ad
ditional buoyancy lo business. The cargo of
Teas per ship Coromando, was sold this morn
ing by L. M. Hoffman & Co. This was the
most spirited sale which has taken place this
season, and full prices were obtained for the 7,-
839 packages sole.
Cotton is active and prices continue to have
an upward tendency. The sales to day amount
to2ooo bales New Orleans ordinary to middling
6J ® 7f cts.; fair and good fair 8 J ia 10) cts.
Upland, ordinary and middling 6J®7; lair
and good fair B{®9icts. Alabama 6) ®ll
cts per lb.
4 lour is improving; considerable sales were;
made fur the Eastern pons and British Provinces
at $4,50 ® $4,56f for Ohio and Michigan, and
$4,62J for Genesee; Southern kinds are dull—
Georgetown, $4,874 ® S -
The trial of Shipman was commenced in the
Court of Sessions this morning. Mr. E. H.
Anthon, the First Teller of the Union Bank
was examined on the part ot the prosecution,
and testified to the delivery of the amount ol
gold entrusted to Shipman, to deposite in the
Mint in your city, and also to a confession made
by Shipman to him while the former was in
Moyamensing Prison.
Tne prosecution examined no other witness,
and the counsel for the defence, Messrs. Gra
ham and J. T. Brady, raised a question as to the
jurisdiction of the Court in the matter, staling
tnat the proof of an intent to embezzle in the I
State of New York, could not place the embez
zlement when actually committed in another
State, within its jurisdiction.
Money at interest. —The Tax Collector,
R. A. Watkins informs us that the amount of
money at interest returned by the citizens of
Richmond as subject to taxation is $644,000.
Marriage.—l look upon a man’s attachment
to a woman who deserves it, as the greatest pos
sible saleguard to him in his dealings with the
world; it keeps him from all those vices whieh
unfettered youth t links little, of yet which cer
tainly though slowly undermine the foundations
ot better things, till’in the end, the whole fabric
of right and wrong gives way under the assault
ot temptation.
Who would be a Tylerite?—The Phila
delphia Chronicle asks a suspension of public
opinion against the celebrated bigamist Dr. Ap
pleton, and expresses the opinion that the
Doctor will disprove many of the charges mad<.
against him. The editor of the Chattanooga
Gazette expresses his credulity and adds:
“We have the papers to show that he has a
living wife in one of the New England States;
, anoth’r inone of the Western States, and he
had a third, picked up in Charleston, S. C. when
he passed through here. It is also in proof that
he was a Temperance lecturer andreligious ex-
L horter in some places, and a common street
drunkard and blasphemer in others. If these
! are not offences enough to make a decent pub
lic kick him well, he will have to turn Tylerite
, > i render him sufficiently odious.”
Steel Pens. —One hundred and twenty tons
of iron are made up into pens in England,
and three millions of the article produced from
the iron used. This is the iron age revived.
AUGUSTA, GA ; THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1843.
No Barbacue—Democracy in a Stew.
We have been requested to state that “in con
sequence of the inclemency of the weath
-:r” !! I (reader, little as you may think of it, thi'
weather is very inclement, very inclement in
deed,) that the “ Free Democratic Barba
cue” 111! which was to be given to-day at the
Lafayette Course has been indtfinitely postpon
edllll!
Well, well, was there ever a more thorough
and entire back-out on the part ol any part}
who expressed a willingness to canvass theii
principles in open, free discussion before the
people? Ever since the meeting at Windsoi
the Locos have been promising to give a splen
did Barbacue, and invite free discussion—the)
threatened the Whigs with their champions—
Colquitt, Black, Johnson, and even their new
light McKinly, (not a word though about Ora
tor Lawson, fearing perhaps the Orator would
not have time to “touch the subject f) was to be
brought down from Oglethorpe, and the poor un
fortunate Whigs were to be effectually demol
ished. About Sunday last it began to be whis
pered about (very softly however,) that they
had actually determined lo “come up to the
scratch”—that the contract was already made
lo give a splendid Barbacue on Saturday, this
day, and invite the Whigs to a discussion—that
so extensive were the arrangements that the
contractor would be compelled to commence op
erations on Monday morning—five days before
the feast—at first the Whigs seemed incredu
lous, and some ot the more anxious determined
to enquire of the “democrats” themselves—the
equity was made and although some evaded the
question as to the lime, yet others less discreet,
who were verdant enough to suppose that their
leaders were really in earnest in their professed
anxiety for a jree and fair discussion, disclosed
the fact that Saturday was determined upon as
the day—they should be backed by the champi
ons, we have mentioned (Orator Lawson ex
cepted,) and should challenge discussion. The
Whigs eager fbr the conflict, determined not to
be unprepared, and forthwith resolved upon
bringing to the post seme of their best, tried
nags. It was however whispered by some of
the more incredulous, “better wait till you have
the information in a more authentic form—wait
till to-morrow, (Tuesday) and you will have a
notice in the Constitutionalist.” Tuesday came
—the Constitutionalist came, but 10, and behold,
no notice of the great feast.—Whereupon, some
ot the Whigs suspecting some trick, some un
derhanded game, expressed the opinion that it
was the purpose of the Locos, to keep back
iheirnotice until the latest possible hour, and
then when the Whigs were unprepared, challenge
a discussion—this declaration reached them, and
on Wednesday, the hand-bill which we copied
in our paper of Thursday, was permitted to be
exposed tb Whig view. This hand-bill was ve
ry cautiously worded—it was a “Barbacue for
every body," and they woulit “beglad to see all
their fellow citizens of both town and country.—
Not a word about discussion however, oh no,
but some of their leaders, more learned in the
construction of language than the mass explain
ed that the words “for every body" meant discus
sion. It was therefore as plain to us as the
noon day sun, that discussion was designed and
invited, and we felt quite ashamed of the
want of sufficient perception to have discov
ered it before this learned expose.
The Whigs, as we have remarked, had de
terminednotto be unprepared, and had invited
those sterling Whigs, Dougherty, Toombs
and Dawson, to be on hand; and, by Thursday
night, it was generally understood that they
jwould bn here This news
lion in the “Democratic” ranks; and yesterday,
bright and beautiful as was the day, we were re
quested to announce that the “Barbecue was
postponed in consequence of the inclcmeucy of the
weather'.'.” Not the least amusing part of the
affair, however, was the desperate resorts to
which the various head men and high pritests
were driven to excuse their back-out—one swore
most lustily the weather was or had been incle
ment —another that there was some misunder.
standing, the famous hand-bill had not been
written right—and that “a barbecue for every
body” didnot mean free discussion ; another that
the contractor was violently ill, having been ta
ken suddenly—and so on till excuses weie as
numerous and various as those who offered
them. But the most plausible and probable
reason g'ven, was that offered by one of the
leaders, that “it wouldn’t do to give a Demo
cratic Barbecue, and let that d d fellow
Toombs speak,”
Thus has terminated the great “Free Demo
cratic Barbecue ;” it is like most <. f their prom
ises to the people, but to deceive. We. really
pity the hungry portion of the Democrats, who
may come up to the great Democratic feed to
day—luckless souls, we fear they will return
fjomthe feast importunate for more lamb, more
pig—heaping curses upon the weather—with
the unwelcome knowledge that the promise of a
“Democratic Barbecue” by “ Democrats," does
not satiate hunger.
Postscript.
Since the foregoing was in type, we have re
ceived, just at night, the following notice, which
we presume is the latesl excuse—and the result
ol the day’s deliberations, finding that the peo
ple would not countenance such a flat, unquali
fied back-out. There is not, however, in
this Card, as there was not, in the other, any in
timation that discussion will be allowed; and,
as there is said to have been various interpreta
tions among the “Democrats” themselves, what
“every body” meant in the ether card—some as
serting that it meant discussion, and others that
no such thing was designed or intended—the
Whigs desire, on this occasion, to have a dis
tinct and unequivocal avowal of their determin
ation from head quarters.
DEMOCRATICB IRBECUE,
Postponed.
Owing to the sickness of several of the lead
ingmembers ot the party, and the late bad state
ot the weather, rendering proper preparations
impossible, the Barbecue intended to have been
given to-day, at the LaFayette Course, has been
unavoidably postponed to this day week, being
Saturday, 23a inst.
Hon. Mr. Niles’s insanity, it is said, is of
a religious cast, and his mind, upon othertopics
is rational and sound. He voluntarily placed
himself with Dr. Brigham. Rightly treated,
this malady, we belie ,'e, is not difficult of man
agement, and we may therefore anticipate his
ultimate recovery.
that Mr. Miller, another mem
ber of the Tyler family, the editor of the Co
lumbus (Ohio) Old School Republican, is to
take the place of Mr. Whittlesey, who has late
ly resigned the Auditorship of the Post Office
Department.
Illinois Democrats.
A South Carolina Democrat travelling In the
west furnishes the following sketch ot the demo
crat' of that State, as seen by him at a public
meeting in Chicago.
“On Saturday night previous to the late elec
tion 1 attended a Democratic Meeting, and heard
Wentworth advocate hisclaims. He spoke a
bont two hours, appealing to the lowest and ba
sest feelings ot the mob around him, making
free use of the vulgar cant ol the day, and en
deavoring to impress upon every Democrat the
necessity ot “going the wnole hog, bristles ant;
all, and putting the tail in his pocket.” His
language shows' him to be a man of coarse m m
ners, low habits, no education, and but little
natural talent, except for humbuggery, but he i
the “great gun” here, and 1 have no doubt suits
the people he represents to a nicety, anil suet
an audience!! ot all the mobs I have ever seen
this exceeds any—the “subterraneans” of Nev
York are gentlemen in comparison. I had wel
nigh become disgusted with my democraticbreth
reu and assumed the garb of Whiggery until 1
returned home.”
MONDAY MORNINfggEPTEMBER 18.
Hon. R. H, Wilde.
The letter of our R. H. W ilde,
to a committee of the *fSpnklin Society, by
whom he had been invited t<|'deliver a course o.
lectures beiore the Society, ,will be found in our
columns this morning, id-'Which he makes
known his intention to remove at an early day
from the State, (his we believe is
New Orleans,) intelligent which his numer
ous friends and will learn
with unfeigned regret, j®. career in Georgia
may be truly said to have teen a long and bril
liant one, and while he caries with him whith
ersoever he may go the giSi wishes of hosts of
friends, he cannot —in OEj-vast republic go,
where his well merited iaflSe as a statesman and
jurist has not preceded hiME
Money in New Yo'i^;— The Express of
Monday says : There is«B»provement what
ever in the rate of inter Mun this city. The
Banks loan freely at 3 at® per cent per an
num, and large sums hal#t<teen loaned within
a few days at the ol 3 per cent per
annum. Persons money on
bond and mortgage, are MMk ® P er cent on c *'
ty property, but they cantteoblain it, and very
large sums belonging toF3&i s h capitalists, as
well as to our owp. seeking in-
vestment. Formeny, was'oneand
two per cent a month, it could always be had at
7 per cent on mortgage, as that security was
preferred. Now, when money is obtained on
notes at 4 per cent, 6 and 7 per cent is asked on
mortgage. A change will no doubt take place-
Five per cent on bond and mortgage, is a large
interest in the present state of the money mar
ket.
Dreadful Rail Road Accident.
The Baltimore American of Wednesday says:
We regret to be compelled to record the occur
rence of a very disastrous accident yesterday
on the Susquehanna Railroad. When the first
train from Baltimore, which left at 7A. M.,
with a large party of Defenders, Mili’ary and
Citizens, on their way to the celebration at York,
had reached a point about eight miles from
York, the front axle-tree ot the first passenger
car broke, throwing that car and thetwo follow
ing it off the track and splintering all three cars,
the first one being almost entiiely demolished.
Ihe cars being crowded with people, a scene of
confusion and dismay ensued which may be
readily conceived.
A number of persons who were imprudently
standing on the platform in front of the cars,
were thrown off, some ot them being caught be
tween the cars, and others forced under them.
Many, we are happy to say, escaped unhurt,
but the following persons were found to have
been more or less inj ured: —
Michael Grubb, member of the Junior Artil
lerists, a leg broken.
Samuel Child, coachmaker, his left thigh
broken, and so badly bruised that he is not ex
pected to survive.
David Pugh, agent for the Gas Company,
both thighs broken.
Peter MeKaid, employed on the Railroad,
had both legs broken.
Thomas Wilson, a j'oung lad, had his left
knee fractured, and was otherwise much bruis
ed.
Ephraim Collet, a man whoresides about 25
miles from Baltimore, hurt, but not seriously.
John Guver, Junior Artillerist, much bruised.
David Letever, Junior Artillerist, severely
bruised.
Win. Allen, Sergeant of Junior Artillerists,
much bruised.
u. of j oxal n
member of the Association of Defenders, very
severely bruised and lacerated. He was taken
irom under the car where he remained for near
ly thirty minutes, although every effort was
made to release him.
Christian Meyer, a member of the German
Yagers, slightly injured.
All the persons injured were on the platform.
As soon as the wounded persons could begot
out, medical assistance was instantly rendered
to them by Doctors Dunbar, Miller, Martin,
Maguire, Hall and Ringgold, and, as soon as
he could reach the spot, by Dr. McClellan of
York.
The wounded persons were soon after con
veyed to York, and thence taken to the Hospi
tal where they were well provided lor. At five
o’clock their wounds were dressed, and they all
seemed to be as comfortable as their condition
would admit of.
The Susquehanna Railroad Company have
liberally tendered a free passage to York this
morning to the families and friends of the inju
red persons.
More Forgeries.—An attempt has been
made by a person of the name of Whitmore,
of New Haven, Con., to obtain money at the
office of Mr. Wetmore, Naval Agent in New
York, upon bills for pretended supplies to the
government of friction caps for fire arms. The
names of officers at Brooklyn were attached to
the papers, and banks to the eastward had ad
vanced money on the bills. Amount of the
forgeries $4,000.
The perpetrator is J. C. Whitmore, the inven
orand patentee of the “friction primers,” which
are used for exploding charges of artillery, and
who had a contract with Government forsup
plying the article. The forgeries were com
mitted by counterfeiting the signatures ot Col
Craven and Capt. Stringham to receipts for
“primers” purporting to have been delivered at
the Brooklyn navy yard, which forgeries were
cashed by the City Bank ot New Haven to the
amount of $2,425. The presentation lor pay
ment of one of these receipts at the office ot
the Navy Agent in New York blew np the whole
affair. Whitmore is among the missing, and
the Bank has offered a reward of two hundred
dollars tor his apprehension.
The Cherokee Advocate of the 15th instant
says:—G. F. M. Garnett, Esq., Chief Engineer
oi the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, has
just returned from the North, where, we under
stand, he has made arrangements for iron to
complete the 52 miles of the Road that is grad
ed. He is also making active preparations for
rebuilding the Vining Creek Bridge.
Jj-The New York Courier & Enquirer of the
13th inst. says : “The auction sales of Dry-
Goods and Hardware have been well attended
this week, and the catalogues cleared off at full
prices. The influx of strangers into the city is
greater than has been known for some years,
and an active business is going on in all depart
ments of trade.
To the Advocates of Free Trade.
The following is an extract ol a speech de
livered by John C. Calhoun, on the Tariff of
1816.
Mr. Calhoun said:
‘That he was no manufacturer; that coming
from the South, he and hrs constituents Siad no
interest but in the cultivation of the soil?
‘That to afford manufacturers ample protec
tion. would enable the farmer to sell his products
iigh, and buv all his wants andconvenienciesoi
lue cheap.'
‘That a Tariff of protection was of vital im
portance to the security and permanent prosper
ity of the Union?
‘That it would produce an interest, strictly A
merican, as much as agriculture, and far more
so than commerce and navigation?
‘That it would produce a new and most power
ful cement, tar out weighing any objections that
might be urged against the system,’
‘ That it u ould preserve us irom a new and
terrible danger -DlSUNlONagainst which we
ought to be perpetually guarded.
‘And that it w-ould afford to the cotton and
woollen manufacturers protection which icbul
place them beyond the reach of contingency. 1
This same Calhoun is now opposed to all
rotection, and is one of the leaders ofwhicjjh'
■nee said—“ The only cement which unitec
diem was the cohesive powers of public plunder
—Boston Atlas.
Letter from the Hon. R. H. Wilde.
Gentlemen:— l am bound gratefully to ac
knowledge the honor done me by your commu
nication, in behalf of the “Franklin Society o
Augusta,” advising me, that they purpose to in
rite the delivery or Public Lectures, by severa.
Literary and Scientific gentlemen, and request
ing me to be one of the number.
Not having the least pretensions to science,
and very slight ones indeed to literature, I rnigh
well excuse myself upon those grounds, as on<
filter to learn than to teach. But as you havi
been kind enough to adopt a contrary opinion,
this apology might not be satisfactory, and
would certainly come with a bad grace, from
one to whom a compliment was intended. lam
compelled to otter you an excuse, however, bui
one which you will hold sufficiently valid.
It is my purpose, early in November, to re
move from the city of my boyhood, and to re
sume upon a new and distant theatre, the cares
and labors of my profession. I shall, of course,
be inevitably absent, during the season of your
contemplated lectures, and however great the
pleasure it would otherwise afford me, to com
ply with the request of any portion of my fel
low-citizens, especially at the moment of sepa
ration—it will be manifestly out of my pow
er.
Entertaining the best wishes towards your
praiseworthy enterprise, its prosecution will
give me the liveliest satisfaction.
Whatever withdraws lor a moment, the
minds ol our people, from the harassing cares
and absorbing material interests of common lite,
is a means of health and happiness, far from
undeserving the time and thought of a good citi
zqn. Its claim to indulgence is undoubtedly in-*
creased, if Desiaeaftonnhg' 1 raftonal entertain
ment, its object is to extend the influence ol arts
and letters.
Generally speaking, communities advance in
prosperity and greatness, as long as civilization
and refinement can be carried forward, without
corrupting public er private morals, and with
out impairing the military spirit ot the people.
But barbarians are often as dissolute and selfish
as the most cultivated and luxurious societies,
and it by no means follows that men retain the
arts of war, by neglecting those of peace. This
is eminently worth remarking in Commercial
and Agricultural Commonwealths, where the
chief or only objects ot vanity and ambition are
wealth and office How far the eager puisuits
ol these, by the means generally in use lor their
attainment, is calculated to exalt the character
of a nation, or to preserve the purity efits insti
tutions, you are as capable ol judging as I am.
War, even foreign war, which Lord Bacon con
siders the healthful exercise of States, is too
great a scourge ol humanity, to be frequently
employed, even as a means of corroborating
patriotism, or of overshadowing with its lau
rels the baser pretensions of money. Besides,
its frequency would create a thirst for conquest,
augment unreasonably the public burthens, and
in the end, overturn our prt sent form ol govern
ment. Estaolished rank is incompatible with
Democracy. But though all are equal in rights
before the law, a practical equality of ricnes,
talents, and acquirements, is evidently impossi
ble. W hat would be thought, for instance, ol
a proposition that no man should enjoy more
property or be better educated than another ?
And yet whocan deity that wealth, talents, and
education, do create a diversity in the conditions
of men, not to be prevented except by equalizing
their advantages. This again could be at
tempted only by levelling downwards, lor as it
is impossible to exalt all men to the highest
point ol intellectual, moral, and material wealth
and worth, in or.ierto obtain equality, you must
reduce ah to a veiy low standard. This would
be the equality of universal poverty and barba
rism. Education among other things, lending
to raise some above others, if any prove too in
dolent or stu id to learn the multiplication ta
ble, no one should be allowed to teach any thing
more. Supposing it possible to carry out such
extravagant schemes, u here would they end ?.
Certainly not in exalting but in degrading out
species. What is our just boast ? The spring
and impulse given by liberty to individual ex
ertion. And yet weneed only open our eyes to
remark, that while all praise Equality, the great
struggle of each individual is lo rise above his
neighbor. This impulse is indeed the motive
power of our Republic. Every mother expects
her son may be President. It is plain then, that
by Equality we only mean a fair start—a clear
course —and a like chance for the same prizes,
or allot' which is inscribed “To skill and la
bor.”
But if you were to declare, and as far as pos
stUfe pien'G'r; uratno one nlionlde.XL'et Ottiers,
you would destroy that very emulation which
nas made us great. And it, by constitutions,
laws, and public opinion, above all. you say, in
effect, that no one shall attain superiority, ex
cept by wealth or office, doy.m not unwisely
increase the fierceness of the strife, whieh is al
ready demoralizing our population? #
1 have come, then, somewhat circuitously
perhaps, but as it seems to me, not the less clear
ly, to the conviction, that additional excite
ments, besides the mere pursuit of riches and
power, are wanting. This analytical deduc
tion is greatly strengthened by looking at prac
tical tacts. Os these 1 will note only one- -
namely, the vast extent given in our country,
to the principle of voluntary association for pub
lic purposes, and the amount of wholesome or
harmless fondness, lor distinction thus gratified.
It is not lo be doubted that these Societies have
been sometimes perverted to evil ends, as what
has t ot? There are but modifications of Hu
man Power, and all the fruits cfiliat tree are
Good and Evil according to their use. Expe
rience teaches, however, that a power gained is
never abandoned except for a higher or a better
one. While it lasts, it will be used, or abused.
The province of wisdom, therefore, is to era
pl y it beneficially.
For these reasons, we should cherish every in
stitution whose object it is to honor and exalt
science, literature, tne arts, and every other no
ble end and aim of human aspiration, so as to
set them in counterpoise to the present over
whelming influences of avarice and ambition.
Bj' doing so, we shall engage some superior
minds in a struggle tor true and permanent glo
ry, and though irom the nature of things, some
must outstrip others in this career, winning il
lustration as the rewardot their genius—let not
lheir fame be envied, since the tendency of their
labors is to xall the intellectual character ofall
their fellow citizens. 1 hey are—they must be
in advance it is true—but they go forward only
as pioneers to facilitate the match of the main
body. They ascend higher than their compeers,
but it is onk to help others up. How much
more laudable and patriotic is the effort thus to
exalt, though unequally and by degress, tne sol
id and graceful fabric of Civilization, and how
much more worthy of freemen, than the Gothic
fury, which w'ouldsttew all its materials, equal
ly, upon the ground!
While the World continues little more than
semi-barbarous, military glory will ol course
hold the first place in its esteem. Mankind, as
the misanthrope would say, have, in the aggre
gate, a just and lively sense ot their own mer
its—they worship those who slaughter them.
But next undoubtedly te the fame ot a conquer
or, is that ot a great Philosopher, Historian,
Poet, or Artist. One nun.ired i ears hence, not
one man in an hundred, will be able to tell who
was Chief Magistrate of the United States .at
this moment, and who that has a just appreeia
t on of renown, would not rattier sleep beside
Michael Angelo, in the church of Santa Croce,
with a fame worthy of the spot, than enjoy the
honors of all our politicians since Washington.
This, however, is by no means a general feel
ing. Few carry their minds forward to that re
mote and visionary existence, which consists
merely in a name when the original is dust,
and with the million the present will always
predominate over the future.
So long, therelore, as individuals find the
mere acquirement oi wealth the easiest and
speediest road to respect—so long as they per
ceive that flattery of the Sovereign, whether he
be one or many, is the most certain means of
favor—so long we must expect that compara
tively a small number of persons, will sacrifice
to public virtue—philosophy, or the Muses,
whose tattered garments have, in all time, been
the theme ot pleasantry to the worldly wise.
“Apparel virtus arguiturque malis,’ howev
er, and “the fewer men the greater share ol hon-
Nor let it be thought by sloth or scorn, that an
undue importance is given to a slight move
ment, in the village-city of a region remote
from the great capitals. There is but one cause
for all things.—Whenever in HIS wisdom an
end is to be effected, and the time approaches,
the place and the instruments of its beginning
are nothing—nothing in opposition to them, the
wit of sages and the strength of empires.
Whether we have yet arrived at the proper
period maj' well be doubted, but it may not be
doubted that every one is bound to exert his best
abilities towards opening the way for such an
era. Andas none sharethe secretsol that coun
cil where the seeds ot the future are prepared, it
behooves all who have learne I tneir own ignor
ance, to discourage no good deed.
In this work the humblest maj- have his mis
sion. That 1 cannot be one of those to join you,
in promoting to the extent of my capacity, a
more wholesome public taste, is a matter of sin
cere regret, but since imperious private duties
deny me that satisfaction, nothing remains but
:o assure you of my best wishes, and ol the re
spect and regard, with which
I am, vervfaithfullv, yours,
RICHARD HENRY WILDE.
Summerville, August 19th, 1843.
To Messrs. Alexander McKenzie, Jr., John
Phinizy, Jr., Geo. W. Morgan, Wm. A
I Walton, and James L. Houston, committee
Mr. Weed’s Leiters from Europe.
Correspondence of the Albany Evening Journal.
NUMBER 1.
Prcket Ship George Washington, I
At Sea, June 21, 1843. J
Having paid the Landsman's tribute (sea
sickness) to Neptune, I am now sufficiently re
covered to get on deck in pleasant weather anu
enjoy fresh air and sea-views.
We have been ‘afloat’ fourteen days, with
light but favorable winds. We are about 2,400
miles from New York, and only some 800 miles
from Live pool! This enumeration of mik-s
seems formidable to one who has been accus
tomed to run either to New York with Captains
McLean or Brainard, ot to Utica, Auburn or
Rochester upon the Railroad.
The passage so tar has been auspicious. The
-hip has been headed d.rectly to Liverpool from
ttie moment she was put upon her course, anu
except lor two or three hours, in what threaten
ed to be a gale, the large sails have not been ta
ken in.
When the kind and beloved friends who ac
companied us down the Bay had, on their re
turn to the city, passed out of the reach of my
strained vision, we fixed our eyes upon the re
ceding shores, until object after object grew first
indistinct and then disappeared. Long belore
twilight all the traces of land had faded away.
We continued to east long, lingering, last looks
homeward until Night lei down her curtain. —
And then, separated lor the firm lime, by a li
quid element, from Family, Friends, Home,
anu Country, came a sense of loneliness to
whieh my soul had been a stranger. Anxious
to be alone to indulge “thick coming fancies,” 1
lighted my segar, went forward and seated my
self upon the wirdlass, lor a long, quiet sei
communion, which, however, was almost ab
rubtly terminated by a wave that, dashing over
the bows, gave me. ttie ill-timed luxury of a
shower-batn, and drove me, dripping wet, back
to the quarter-deck.
During the night the wind lulled, and soon af
ter sun-rise, when 1 came on deck, the Captain
pointed me to the land-shade of Montauk Point,
within about twelve miles of which we could
see. Our course had been parallel with Long
Island, keeping about twenty-five miles irom
the shore. We were torty-five miles from San
dy Hook at sun-set he first day.
1 happened to be forward when the Mates
were dividing the Crew into ‘watches,’the First
and Second Mates choosing (as we choose sides
in ball-play) the best sailors for their respective
Watches. It was a novel and amusing scene.
I’he sailors gave tpeir names ‘Dick,’ ‘Bob,’
‘Bill,’ ‘Charlie,’ ‘Tom,’ ‘JacK,’ as they were
asked. One gave the name ol ‘Howard? The
Alate replied:—‘Your other name?’ ‘Zeb, sir,’
vas tne response. The Mate, shaking his
hand, said:—‘Zeb is not a ship-name; let it be
Howard.' Another gave the name of Van
Schoonhoven. ‘Ohl’says the Mate,’ ‘belay that
name and unship yourshort one? I’he boy then
gave ‘George,’ wnich proved more salistactory.
Aller a brief outline of duty, announced in a
seaman’s manner and language, from the Chiel
Mate, (Mr. Gibbs,) the second Mate’s Watch
was sent below. Among the duties enjoined
upon tne crew were ‘strict obedience to orders,
a origin look-out, no swearing in the tops, and
no bawdy songs when Ladies and Gentlemen
are on deck? i
The s ap’s crew consists of the Captain, 3
Mates, 17 able seamen, a Carpen er, 3 boys, a
Steward, Look and 3 Walters, and a Steward
ess. Our crew seems an excellent one. Two i
of the jailors have been former Mates of ves
sels; but, tor want of such situations, and rather .
than be idle, ship on board the Liverpool Pack
ets. These Lines ol Packets, by tne way, are i
nurseries tor Ship-Masters. I’he Captains ol i
all these noble vessels, like Bonaparte’s best I
Generals, have risen by merit from before the :
mast to the quarter-deck. C a pt. Burrows, who i
commands our snip, first came on board the Si- i
las Richards, Capt. Hoidridge, as a ‘boy,’ and i
passed ft oin sep to step through the grades of i
ordinary seaman,able seaman, third, second and
first Mate, to the high and responsible station he ;
now occupies, so honorably lo himself and use- t
tul to the owners ol bis ship. His predecessor, i
Capt. Holdridge, who came from the same '
town (Groton) in Connecticut, rose in the same <
way, and is now fitting out the, ‘Victoria,’ a i
magnificent new ship, to be placed in the same i
line. Capt. Burrows succeeds in turn, to the i
next new ship,though he will leave with regret, i
as did Capt. H., his favorite ‘George Washing
ton,’a snip that has done her work so tar, faith
fully and gallantly, and that has been the scene
of sb many of their trials and achievements.
It is a very remarkable fact, and one of which
Connecticut and Massachusetts may be justly i
proud, that almost all the packet-ships belonging
to the several lines running between New York i
and Liverpool and New York and London, are ;
commanded by natives ot those States. Indeed, ;
most of the Captains of the London ‘Liners’ ;
are natives of the same town (Lyme) in Con- i
necticut! This fact shows that, withtne advan- i
tages of a Common School Education, fortified :
by ‘steady habits,’ a New England boy will <
carve out liis fortune even in a profession where |
humble merit encounters the most formidable i
obstacles to advancement. t
For the first ten days our ship bounded gaily t
over the bihows with lair and lies winds. But i
we have been becalmed for two days; and at <
this moment the mighty elements, that may be i
so soon lashed into terrific rage, sleep as sweetly i
and breathe as gentty as an infant or a zephyr.
Yesterday large schools of Porpoises disport- i
ed themselves around us tor hours. To-day :
the marine visitors of yesterday are succeeded ;
by whales, real whale', though 1 cannot voucn i
lor their being ‘right sperm? The first one
‘spouted’ within a bundled yards of the ship, i
passing along lazily astern. Another soon ap
peared on tne starboard side of the ship, amt ,
still nearer, which was followed by two others,
all continuing spouting and spouting for two
houis. 1 his display ol Neptune’s curiosities
was crowned, after tea, by the appe ranee of a
huge Shark in the ship’s wake and but a lew
leet astern.
We are a large, but exceedingly harmonious
community. Ine steerage passengers number
over 150, most of whom are disappointed emi
grants returning to tne Old World, without hav
ing lound in the New me “ready uug” gold mat
seduced them across the Atlantic In talking
with some of these people, I find that they re
turn more because they cannot reconcile them
selves to our‘social leiorm,’ than lor the want
ol employment. Some, it is true, are unfortu
nate, assume always must be in a world of vi
cissitudes. The returning English emigrants
go home in g eat disgus. with Brother Jonathan,
they concentrated atl their hatred of our coun
try by saying that “.very thing in America
snnks, but Hie Vinegar, and that is swee<." But
even this picture has its bright hues as well as
its dark shades. There are, among the steerage
passengers, an old Irish lady anil gentleman of
the name of l obin, from Cincinnati, who go
back to the Green Isle to die where they were
born, that their dust may rest where rests the
dust of their Fathers, i’hey have lived pros
perously in America, but they could uie happy
only in Ireland. Six children are leit in Amer
ica; and one daughter, with that filial devotion
which hallows a daughter’s affection, accompa
nies her parents on this sepulchral pilgrimage.
Noticing an intelligent looking Scotchman
forward, 1 inquired it he too was tired ol Amer
ica? ‘Na, na, friend. Its no that way wi’ me.
I’m but running o’er on a matter o’ business,
and to make a short visit. From the first day 1
set loot in Oneida coumy, Mr. Wolcott—a vara
nice man he is—(perhaps you ken something ol
the Wolcott’s—they are Manulacturers at York
Mills,) gave c e employment, and 1 have not
seen an idle hour, or lacKed any of the enjoy
ments of life since. The last win.er 1 purchas
ed a farm in Clinton. The crops a’ in and
growing, and wi’ God’s blessin’ 1 will be back
to harvesting o’ them. 1 have help enough in
my own family to work my farm. Three sons
are well grown lad', and others are coming up
after them. Thegude wife nas fourteen bairns?
Much agreeable conversation passed with this
industrious, thriving, cheerful Scotchman, (Mr.
Brydan) who represents a numerous and valua
ble class of our emigrant citizens. With the
habits, principlesand temperament of the Bai
lie Nicol Jarvies wnoare to be met in our ‘Saul
Markets,’and the‘Dandie Dimnonts’ who fer
tilize our soil, no stranger need turn hungry or
naked from our shores.
There are, by the way, two classes of steerage
passengers. My Scotch friend and several oth
ers have large rooms partitioned off from the
steerage proper, with the benefit of good air and
light. They however ‘eat themselves,’ as Pat
says, and paj - SSO lor their passage. A second
class steerage is but $lO.
Among the Ist class steerage passengers 1
was net a little surprised to find the ‘Columbian
Minstrels,’ for whose high vocal powers our
triend Meech of the Museum, has so often
made the Evening Journal voucher. They are
on a professional visit to England where Mr.
Rice, the original ‘Wiiginny Nigger’ was emi
nently successful. As these Vocalists can ou.
‘jump Jim Crow,’ and give ten songs to his one
1 hope their success may be in We
are indebted largely to Europe lor her Fannj
Ellslers, Mad. Celestes, Mons. Adrents, &c. &c
It is a pleasure, therefore, to send abroad, in re
’ turn, these‘Columbian Minstrels,’ whose sue
cess, if there is taste and sentiment in Englan
to enjoy the music of nature, will be more that
triumphant. , , ,
Nor are these Yankee Minstrels theoMyna
tional novelty the ship George Washington i
watting to England. We have two thousa«
) ir»*» Clo:ks on board! These ‘notions are 0
Massachusetts fabrication, and find, I am in
lormed, a ready market with John Bull The
urchasers are among the humblest of the mid
•ling classes, who iorm clubs of 12, 15 or 20,
>aying sixpence a week into a purfor the pur
■hase of clocks, which are drawn for by Lotle
ery, the contribution and the drawing continu
ng until each member of the Club rejoices in
t wooden Clock. This is one of the triumphs
jf American Manufactures.
Wednesday, June 28.
Our good ship George Washington has al*
»vays been a lavorite packet. On her June
passage of last year, Charles Dickens returnee
in her to England. Capt. Burrows informs me
that he made himself extremely popular with all
n board. In his ‘Notes’ he speaks in highly
complimentary terms of the ship and her com
mander.
Grant Thorburn, the well known Seedsman
and Florist, returned to America in this ship,
and I make the following extract irom his Book
tor the purpose of saying that every word of it
is as applicable io her presenL captain and crew
as to her former excellent commander:
“If you have a friend in the world to whom you wish
well, and that friend wants to cross the Atlantic, tell
him to wait for the George Washington, Capt. Ho!d
ridge and crew. We have been nine days out, and
have not heaid an o from an officer oi a sailor; some
times making twelve knots an hour, with the waves as
high as Hnake Hill in Jersey, and neither a sigh nor a
groan has escaped the ship’s timbers. Her sneets ot
canvass swelling lo the breeze, are moved by her sturdy
and willing crew, without noise or confusion —as if
impelled by the god of order.”
The same spirit of order and the same pro
prieties of language and temper reigned through
out the vessel during the 21 days we were on
board of her. But enough for this writing. So
adieu for the present.
NUMBER 11.
Packet Ship George Washington, )
At S«a, June 23, 1843. J
Our noble ship has been reposing, for three
days, upon the unruffled bosom of a slumbering
Ocean; and although we number more than 200
souls, all is quietness and tranquility on board.
I he Captain and Mates pace the quarter-deck,
looking anu whistling, rather impatiently for
wind. The passengers at their books, shuffle
ooard, back-gammon, chess or checkers, seem
alike content with wind or calm. Much of->ur
conversation, however, consists in discussing
the probabilities of our arrival at Liverpool be
fore the steamer that left Boston nine days after
us, and the ‘Akbar,’ a fast sailing snip that left
New York thirty hours before us. The first
predictions of taose who ha ve ‘crossed before’
werelora passage ofl'Jdays, butsince the calm
they are willing to compound for a 21, 22, or 23
days’ run. Our ship has passed every thing she
nasencountered solar; but without wind, the
steamer will pass us the day after to-morrow.
The Sea, like politics, makes ‘strange bed
lelluws? Our cabin passengers have been
diawn from nearly all the different points of the
compass on the globe, and are as diverse in cha
racter and pursuit, as in birth and language.—
But we all affiliate and harmonize wonderfully.
1 here is not an ill-natured or querulous spirit
among us. This, lam told, is unusual, and
my own slight experience in travelling has
•huwn ‘a black sheep’ in almost every flock.—
In addition to our own party of tour, we have a
quiet iLiiglishman who is returning from a visit
lo a sister in Canada, surprisM and gratified to
nave tound a large and flourishing town (New
York) Between Loudon and Montreat! Tuere
is an affable, talkative old gentleman from Shel
ffeld (a Razer manufacturer, 1 believe,) return
ing from a visit to Ne v York. He went out in
the Racket ship North America last spring, and
was beacued near San. y Hook. There are
two young officers ot the British Army return
ing home witn chilling recollections of a Cana
dian winter; a Scotch man and his niece, from
tiaute, Indiana; a Pennsylvanian and his sister,
.loin the good VV hig county of Somerset, going
to Ireland, after a legacy, I inter, their lather
having been an Irishman and their mother
scotch; an Englishman from Boston; a partner
in an extensive Merchant Tailor’s establish
ment tn Park Place who goes t r London and
Paris to purchase clothes and ‘catch the fash
ions as they change;’ a Dry Goods dealer in
Broadway, who, though born in Holland, per
sists in claiming America as his native country;
a young gentleman, who, though born in Balti
more, gives himself out as an Englishman. He
was left with a fortune, partly on this and partly
on the other side of the Atlantic. His habits,
in some respects, are most thoroughly English,
lor he sits up until 4 o’clock in tne morning, ris
es at 1 P. M., breakfasts and drinks porter inor
dinately. But he is intelligent and agreeable.
We have a gentlemanly English merchant and
his accomplished lady,changing their residence
irom New York to Liverpool, the Tariff hav
ing destroyed his business in America; a com
panionable, frank, honest Yorkshire man, con
nected witn a Cloth house in New York, and re
siding in Brooklyn, who is going to Leeds fw
his wile and child! a retiring Partner in the
great Iron house ot Sanderson & Brothers,
Sheffield, who, alter a residence in New York,
goes lo the Island ot Jersey to enjoy the fruits
ol his enterprise and industry. This gentle
man is one of Jotin Bull’s legitimate sons. His
aversion for Brother Jonathan is purely nation
al. His most formidable charge ag inst Re
publican Institutions, is their relaxing influence
upon domestic discipline. He attributed the
recusancy of a son and tne elo, ementof a daugh
ter wholly to these causes, and will never learn
that the “iron rule,” in the government of chil
dren, is quite likely to have occasioned the dis
appointment ol his parental hopes. This gen
tleman is, however, an agreeable companion,
with kindly feelings, and, 1 doubt not, a worthy
man. He has an inexhaustible fund of cheer
;ul conversation. We have a young German
gentleman, who has passed four years in the
commercial cities of England, France and A
meriea, and is now returning to Hamburgh, to
commence his own commercial career. He is
very generally inlormed, and has, in the broad
est sense of the term, completed his education,
We hare also a Catholic Priest, (a native ot
Bavaria,) who was some time at Detroit, but
now irom Cincinnati, reluming home out ot
health.
Fatuer Sme, a native of Belgium, and a
Missionary of the Jesuits, is returning from a
four years’ re-idence among the Indians beyond
the Rocky Mountains. His errand was one of
Christian benevolence; and in searching the
wide woild, few men could be found so richly
endowid with tile qualities and so deeply imbu
ed wnh the principles of that Divine Missiona
ry, who wa" sent to proclaim peace and good
will to man. Father De Smet belongs to
a family possessing rank and wealth. He gave
his loilutie to his brothers, (reserving only what
was necessary to defray his expenses,) and de
parted for the New World audits wilderness,
giving up the remainder of his life to the im
provement and the amelioration of the condition
of the pour Indian. He went among tne most
savageol the tribes, with no defence but th
cross, and though constantly passing thro’scenes
ol violence anu outrage, and living amid slaugh
ter and rapin**, nut a hair ol his head has been
injured. We have been delighted, during the
passage, with his recitals ol Indian habits, cus
toms, wars, worship, &c. &c. On his recent
return to St. Louis, where he contributed large
ly, by his efforts in Europe, to endow a College,
Father De Smet traveled, with an Indian com
panion, 3,900 miles through the wilderness by a
pocket compass. His Letters to the Superior oi
ids Order, recently published, make a volume
of exceeding interest. He is laboring, with in
telligence and zeal, to introduce the virtues ol
civilization, without its vices, among the In
dians. He first impresses the truths or Revela
tion upon their minds lhen instructs them in the
pursuits of Agriculture. His present visit to
the Old World is connected with his philan
thropic duties. He returns to the Rocky Moun
tains in Novembei by ttie way of the Colum
bia River. My travelling companions have
made a donation to the good Father for the ben
efit ol his voyage.
We have also as companions duvoyage, Bish
op Hughes, of New York, and Bishop Purcell,
of Ohio, two eminent and excellent tcclesias
lics of the Catholic Chuich. As educated and
enlightened men, they have been conversed with
and listened to by us all with pleasure and ad
vantage. But as Ministers ol the Gospel, the
presence has imparled a still higher interest. —
On the first Sabbath out, Bishop Hughes preach
ed a sermon, standing at the step of the mizen
mast, which was most attentively listened to by
a congregation of over two hundred. The sub
ject (St. Paul’s epistle tothe Romans, mh
chap, from 22d to the last verse.) was appro
priate, and his commentary truly impressive.—
He made the ocean a witness in tavor of the
Revelation. He spoke of it, too, as a glorious
page in the great book of Nature, which could
not be contemplated without exciting more ot
aomiration than of awe. Man, he said, may
boastof his power and wisdom as displayed in
,he construction of this strong and beautiful
-hip, but hyw impotent is man s power and how
fruitless his wisdom, until God in his abound
ing goodness fills our canvass with his winds!
On the following Sabbath the same community
■ e-assembled for Divine Worship. Bishop
Puicell officiated. His sermon was designed as
i vindication of the truths of Revelation, and
o enforce the duties of faith and obedience.—
dis language and manner were fervent and af
ectionate. He ntered upon a train of argtt
nent, to show how reason and philosophy ex
lose and confound their teachers, in which he
was truly impressive and conclusive. Not a
vord was uttered by either of these good Bish
ips to which all Christians would not heartily
espond.
I had often heard of Bishop Purcell of Cin
i.nnati, as a man much beloved by his own
wn people, and as much respected by all oth
■s. He is worthy of affection and regard, loi
II the kindliest elements are mixed up in hi*
character.
VOL. vn-NO 38. a
Ol Bishop Hughes, to whose enlightened
conversation upon various subjects 1 derive
much instruction, I shall speak in another Let
ter.
Sunday Afternoon, June2s.
The calm was broken yesterday by a fresh
south-easterly wind, which compelled us about
3 o'clock, P M. to shorten sail. I laid on deck
—it blew rather too hard tor landsmen tostand—
while the sailors were taking in, first the light
sails, and then resting the larger sheets, and caa
now sympathise understandingly with those
who admire and celebrate the sailor’s enthusi
asm and gallantry. The wind seem their ele
ment. The men who had been lounging lazily
about the ship during the calm, when a young
tempest came, sprang lightly in o the tops, some
laying out upon the yards, and others ascending
higher to furl the main-top-gallant sail; the ship,
in the mean time bounding over billows that
made her bow and s .ern alternately describe an
gles of 45 degrees.
The easterly wind is driving us off our course.
The Captain’s observation and reckoning at 12
o’clock to-day, brought us within an hundred
miles of land, and about 30 miles northward of
Cape Fear, the entrance to the British Channel.
With the wind as it is now, we expect to make
the land to-morrow morning, and lhen to decide
whether it is best to attempt the South, or take
the North Channel.
I have been struck with the variations in time
as we have been running down from a longi
tude of 59 59 into ne of 14. Bishop Hughes,
who has a truth-telling watch has kept his New
York time. Bv his watch it is now 9 o’clock,
P. M. And yet you at Albany are just coming
from the afternoon Churches at 5. Wen we
were at breakfast this morning, at 8, tew if any
of you had opened your eyes, and before the
sentinel in Sheriff Adam’s belfry sings ‘past
eleven o’clock, and all is well,’ it will be day
light here.
Monday Morning, June 26.
We went on dock this morning, expecting to
be greeted with the view of land, but were sad
ly disappointed. The wind came off dead
ahead about midnight, since which time we
have been heading to windward, and are yet
some forty miles from land, without any hope
of getting into the Channel until i he wind chang
es. 12 o’clock, M.
The Captain, who was intent yesterday and
to-day upon his charts, &c., has just taken an
observation. His reckoning shows us about
25 miles from land, and about 35 from Valentia,
a small port on the North West coast of Ire
land, whence he has concluded to run, and where
many of us intend lo land, anti make an excur
sion through the Green Isle.
4 o’clock, P. M.
The wind has baffled us. By drawing round
two points to the north and east, we are defeated
in our intention of making the harbor of Valen
tia. She has been put aboutand is now running
south along the Coast, with the hope of such a
change of wind as will enable us to get into the
British Channel.
7 o’clock, P. M.
We are just called on deck from the tea table
to see land. The outline ot what seems a high
mount in was first discovered. High, bald
head-lands in the County Kerry were soon
distinctly seen. Then came the Sk> lligrocks
looming up like‘Butter Hill,’at the mouth of
our own Highlands. One ot these high pro
montories, in the distance we are viewing it, as
sumes the form ot a majestic mansion of fine
architectural proportions, with roof, chim
neys, &c.
Tuesday Morning, JuneS7.
We have been all night struggling with a head
wind, and find ourselves, tnis morning, more
than seventy miles from Cape Fear. Tne Irish
shore is but ten miles off, and its mountains ot
rocks, with their Druidical towers, are in full
viow. The coast is barren and frowning.
5 o’clock, P. M.
We have been all day ‘dragging our slow
length along’ the coast ol Ireland, and though
most of our passengers have been restless and
impatient, to me it has been a day of interest
anti enjoyment. We have passed the Bay ot
Bantry, and several bold head lands of which
the steerage passengers, who are going back to
■sweet Ireland,’ have been giving me iradirions
and legends. A bright sun and balmy atmos
phere have enabled me to remain all day on deck
enjoying these nigged views. At 3 o'clock the
steamer Acadia, from Boston, came in sight,
pushing directly for Cape Clear, the point at
which we are aiming. Her appearance was
indicated lung belore the vessel could be seen,
by a black column of smoke streaking the hori
zon. She passed within 7 milesof us and push
ed up the Channel. The Acadia left Boston on
the 16th inst. She will therelore make a 12
days’passage. But for head winds and calms
we should have been in Liverpool on Saturday
last.
6 o’clock, P. M.
We are are at last opposite Cape Clear, with
the ship’s head to the Channel, but there is only
a breath wind. This comes, however, Irom the
right quarter. If we should get becalmed off
the Cove of Cork, which is some 60 miles Irom
here, we go ashore there with the Bishops.
Wednesday Morning, June 28.
We have been three weeks at sea, and are
still becalmed in the British Channel, 290 miles
irom Livei pool. Last evening, an hour before
sunset, a small boat Crook-Haven Harbor came
along side us, with fresh fisn, as we supoused,
bu: as it turned out with potatoes only. They
offered to take passengers ashore, and Mr. To
bin, the old gentleman referred to in another
letter, together with his wife and daughter, find
ng themselves within a few miles ol their na
tive town, left the ship. In reply to our ques
tions lor news, they said that troops had arrived
at Dublin, and that O’Connell was at Bkibbe
reen, his place in the mountains, where he had
made a speech to 300,000 people.
12 o’clock, M.
An Irish ‘Hooker’ came along-'ide after
breaklast, with whom 15 emigrauts concluded
to land. The Captain in the 'Hooker’ informed
us that there was a tremendous and destructive
gale here on the 7th of J une, the day we left
New York. Much shipping was lust, and a
nong other vessels one American; bm ol all
this you will have accounts. Ihe Captain of
the‘Hooker’ informed us that O’Connell was
.u address a mass meeting at Kinsale on Mon
day. My desire to see him is so great that I
went below to pack a few changes in my carpet
bag nd go ashore, but while we were getting rea
dy, the ‘Hooker’ was cas off, at the instance ot
•ume friends, who were unwillingtu let us go
off with ‘wild Irishmen’ in a crazy craft. V e
intend, however, to avail ourselves of the next
opportunity of landing.
5 c’clock, P. M.
A row boat has just come alongsiue, and I
close this fetter to get a few “ traps” ready for a
descent upon Beland. The boattnt n are to row
nine ol us ashore lor ten shillings sterling each.
So good-by lo the George W ashington.
NUMBER 111.
Courtmasherhy, (Ireland) June 28,1843.
I am here, my loot upon tue Green isle—-the
land ol my admiration and sympathy from boy
hood to trie maturity ol hie.
I felt our good snip beatin; up the Channel
against an ousnnate i.ead wind at 5 o'clock, P>
M. yesterday, in a small boat that came off to
us; and, alter a pull ol tbiee hours, made this
port before sun-set. It is a delightful spot, lue
village is situated in the elbow of a deep bay,
and consists of a row ot continuons block of
stone cottages, all on one side ol the street la
cing the w ater, while the terraces rising back of
the village are dotted with cabins, anti pauJud,
with fields clothed in verdure and Iruitlulness.
The arrival at an obscure town upon th*
coast, ol nine strangers, with a formidable ar
ray of trunks, &c. created quite a stir; but wliet*.
it came to be known that two Catholic Bishopt
from America and two Priests from trance,
(though une ol the latter is from Belgium ant
the other from Bavaria,) were among us, th
sensation was truly amusing. Ihe ‘Repeal
ers’ gathered about us in swarms. The Goas •
Officer and the Constabulary Guard appeare I
embarrassed and excited. 1 called upon tb •
Excise Officerand invited him to examine ot ?
luggage. In walking with me over to the H< •
tel, ne remarked that, as our landing there 11
ihe somewhat excited state of the countty, wuul I
occasion inquiry and remark, it would be h »
duty to make his examination more rigid tha ■
under ordinary circumstances. He then pn •
ceededtotake our names, places of resident t
and vocation, and to examine whether we ha 1
arms or munitions concealed. He then inqui •
ed the object ol our visit and the length of tin »
we intended to remain in trek nd. All this wi «
cone in the utmost delicacy and propriety on tl ■
pan of the officer. We informed him that w«
took advantage of calms and head winds U>
leave our ship and run through Ireland to Liv
erpool, hoping that we sboulu be so fortunate as
to hear O’Connell, and to sec Father Maihew.
The Custom-House examination over, we
were sealed to our first supper in Ireland. It
consisted of bacon and eggs, fried in the bar
room, (a small 7 by 9) where twenty men were
smoking their pip es; served, however, upon a
clean linen table-cloth, with a fresh roll ol but
ter and a strongly malted loal of bread.
Alter supper, the Bishops went with the resi
dent Catholic Clergyman, others were sent to a
neighboring house, (two only lodged at the Ho
tel,) and 1 accepted the invitation of the Com
man tant of the Coast Guard to take abed at
liis house, where 1 passed the evening and night
very pleasantly.
The only mode of conveyance, in the morn
ing, was ah Irish ‘Jaunting Car’ with one horse.
Nor could a second vehicle be raised to th* vU
lage 1 A messenger was therefore daepMchaA