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AUULRTA.
TUESDAyIiORNING, OCTOBER 24.
rex raseiexar,
HEN'RY clay,
OF KENTUCKY:
•Tie Farmer of Ashland—the Patriot and Philan -
tbropiat—the American Statesman, and
anrivaled Orator of the age.”
"Lit vu not be misunderstood —and I entreat
ttud I max not be misrepresented. fam NOT
advocating tie revival of a HIGH PROTEC
TIVE TARIFF. I AM FOR ABIDING
BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COM
PROMISE ACT. I am for ioing what no
Southern man es fair candid mind ever yet de
nied—giving to the country a revenue which may
omide forthe economical wants of the Govern
ment, and at the same time giving incidental pro
tection to our home industry."— Speech of Henry
Clay in the U. S. Senate, March 1, 1842.
Agricultural Fair.
The “ Planters’ Club of Hancock" hold their
Annual Fair at Sparta, on Friday and Satur
day, the 3d and 4th of November, to which we
wish to invite the attention of planters generally.
We hope it may be attended by the planters in
the adjacent counties, and we shall rejoice if it
succeed in infusing into them a spirit lor agri
cultural improvement.
Pennsylvania and Ohio.—ln Pennsylvania
the Whigs have elected 13 Congressmen and
the Locofocos 11—the Locos have majorities
in both branches of the Legislature. In Ohio
the Congressional ticket stands, 9 Whigs, 11
Locos—the complexion of the Legislature not
positively ascertained.
Judge Colquitt.
A writer over the signature of “Bacon,” in
the Macon Messengei, "proposes the name of
Charles Dougherty, as a suitable person to
fill the vacancy that may occur by the resigna
tion of the Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, Senator
in Congress. I presume Mr. C. will resign, as
his party believe in the right of instruction.”
The Alexandria Gazeue says,—We should
like to know what Judge Colquitt, the newly
elected United States Senator, and who is a
great stickler for the Locofoco doctrine of in
struction to Senators, thinks of the mighty up
rising of the people of Georgia, who seem to
have spoken with one voice “from the moun
tains to the seaboard." He has not yet been
sworn in as Senator, and we should think he
had better tender his resignation to the Legisla
• ture, and not hurt his conscience by taking his
seat.
Profitable Business.—The Sun Mutual
Insurance Company, of New York, have just
declared a dividend of thirty-four per cent lor
the year ending 4th October inst. The Direc
tors also state, in their published exhibit, that
during the past year the Company received the
enormous amount of 8688,550 75 for premiums,
paid losses to the amount of $301,541 08; and
actually earned after paying all losses and ex
penses, the nett profit of $171,637 29. This
may be called a large and profitable business.
Democratic Triumphs come to us on eve
ry breeze.—Joseph Genois, Esq., (Democrat)
has been elected Recorder of the First Munici
pality in New Orleans, by a majority of 188
over Gustave Cruzat, (Whig.)— Mississippian.
What think you of that zephyr from Tennes
see—that “breeze” from Maryland—that threat
ening of a storm from Ohio and Pennsylvania—
and last, though not least, that tornado from
Georgia? Is there any odour of “Democracy”
in them ?
Fashion and Blue Dick.—The Baltimore
Patriot of the 19th inst., says:—“ To-morrow,
at two o’clock p. m., the grand race, four miles
and repeat, for the purse of SBOO, will be con
tested by the celebrated mare Fashion and the
well known horse Blue Dick, over the Kendall
course. We learn that both nags are in fine
condition, and that a well contested and beauti
ful race may be anticipated."
Another Great Fine at Jamaica.—The
Wilmington (Delaware) Republican has late
dates from Jamaica, brought by the schooner
Crescent, at that city. A great fire has taken
place in Kingston, destroying James's foundry,
Maxwell & Decastc’s steam mills, and 1,340
houses, independent of out-houses attached to
the dwellings. Besides which one hundred
houses were pulled down to arrest the progress
of the flames, making in all say 1,400. The
Gazette says over seven thousand individuals
are left destitute and dependent upon public sym
pathy for shelter. Several persons were inj ured.
The Whig Jubilee.
On the evening of the 20th instant the Whigs
of Augusta celebrated the glorious triumph of
heir principles and party, achieved on the first
Monday in October inst. It was a victory,
whether viewed in anticipation of its future re
sults, or as an overthrow of the misrule of Lc
cofbcoism in Georgia, well calculated to kindle
the warmest emotions of gratitude and thanks
giving in the bosom of every patriotic Whig
and cause his heart to overflow with a generous
and manly exultation. As a great civil triumph,
won at the ballot box by the votes of patriots
and freemen, it was celebrated by a procession,
a cheerful illumination, and the congratulatory
addresses of Whig orators. Not designing to
taunt a defeated opposition, or to annoy any por
tion of our citizens, particularly the ladies, those
entrusted with the getting up of the celebration,
conceived the firing of artillery pinnecessary, if
not inappropriate to the occasion. The “deep
mouthed cannon” was not waked from its re
pose, and no martial notes but the trumpet and
the drum proclaimed the joy of the Whigs, that
Georgia is once more “redeemed and disen
thralled."
The utmost harmony and good order prevail
ed throughout the evening, which could possi
bly be expected this side of New England, in
such an assemblage collected for the purposes
of congratulation. A slight interruption took
place about 9 o'clock while Mr. Jenkins was
addressing the meeting, extraneous in its origin
from the assemblage itself. We regret to state
that circumstances too clearly proved that a
false alarm of “fire” was designedly started and
reiterated near the Masonic Hall and under its
windows, tor the purpose of interrupting the
meeting. It seemed to be instantly so well un
derstood, however, by the major part of the as
semblage, that but a momentary disturbance
was effected. The vile authors of this petty and
contemptible move have not yet been discover
ed, although no pains have been spared by the
city authorities to ferret thm out.
About half past 6 o’clock the fronts of the Ma
sonic Hall, the Globe Hotel, the U. S. Hotel
and Mr. Lamback’s, were splendidly ‘.illumina
ted, and bonfires, at distances from each other,
kindled in Broad street from the upper to the
lower market house. About 7 o’clock the pro
cession, preceded by a band of music, passed
down the south side of Broad street, accumula
ting as it went, to the lower market, and inarch
ed up on the north side of Broad street opposite
the Masonic Hall, where three such enthusiastic
•heers were given for Henry Clay as we have
rarely heard. The door of the Hall was then
opened, and in rushed the crowd. After each
bad stowed himself as chance or force directed,
the assemblage wascalled to order, and the Hon.
Bichard H. Wilue appointed Chairman.—
Mr. W ilde in explaining the objects of the meet
ing consumed something more than an hour.
Mis speech was fraught .with beauty and in
struction. From his ripe experience was to be
derived the latter, from his highly cultivated
mind, the former. He literally strewed the path
of rhetoric with flowers.
After Mr. W. had sat down, the assemblage
was addressed by Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Miller and
Mr. Crawford—our Representative, Senator
and Governor elect. 1 need not comment upon
their speeches. I could add nothing to their
tame and abilities. Each in his turn was
greeted with the most enthusiastic attestations
of regard.
About 10 o’clock the speech of Mr. Crawford
Closed, and the meeting adjourned from their in
tellectual repast to partake ot the cheer prepared
tor them by‘ ‘mine host” Kenrick of the Globe,
and “judging from appearances,” their enjoy
ments for the night were soon complete. *
I reverence a young main because he may b«
ireful when I atp in the dust— Wesley.
Whig Meeting.
At a meeting of the Whigs of Richmond
county, held at the Masonic Hall, in the city of
Augusta, on Friday evening, the 20th instant,
On motion of Dr. F. M. Robertson, the Hon.
R.H. Wilde was called to the chair by accla
mation.
It was then moved by Charles J. Jenkins,
Esq., that Wm. M. D'Antignac be requested to
act as Secretary, which was unanimously car
ried.
The meeting being thus organized, the Chair
man, after briefly but emphatically returning
thanks, proceeded to explain the object of the
assemblage, and to congratulate the Whig par
ty' on their recent success in Georgia, and the
advantages that might result from it to our
common country, both in the better manage
ment of our State affairs and the greater pros
pect of recalling the National Government to a
wise, honest, and prudent administration.
Charles J. Jenkins, Esq., one of our Repre
sentatives elect, then offered the following reso
lutions, which he prefaced with a sound, pat
riotic, and eloquent address, entirely in the spirit
of the resolutions themselves, insisting upon the
great duty and leadingobjeets of the Whig party
—that of regarding the possession ot power
solely as a means to advance the PUBLIC
GOOD —the happiness and prosperity of the
country at large.
Resolved, That in the recent canvass, the Peo
pie of Georgia have calmly coasidered and sol
emnly decided the issues presented by our oppo
nents, between a Sub-Treasury and a National
Bank —between a Tariff’for revenue, incidental
ly affording fair and just protection to indispen
sable branches of national industry, and a tariff
mainly distinguished by a preference of foreign
over domestic fabrics —bet ween a distribution of
the proceeds of the public lands among the
States, to whom they rightfully belong—and
their appropriation by the General Government,
whose very claim involves a breach of trust—
between a limitation of the Chief Magistrate to
one official term, and his re-eligibility with its
inseparable corrupting tendencies—and finally,
between the Northern man professing Southern
principles, or his alternate, the Southern man,
with ever changing principles—and the Wes
tern man with Republican principles.
Resolved, That we do now present Georgia,
redeemed, regenerate and disenthralled from
Democratic heresies, and claim tor her a name
and a place among the good and true Whig
States of this Union.
Resolved, That we value political ascendancy
only for the power it confers to do good.
Resolved, That to the completion, in 1844, of
the reform so gloriously commenced, we do
pledge our time, our talents, and our influence.
Resolved, That the Hon. George W. Craw
ford carries with him into the executive office,
the unqualified confidence of his Whig brethren
ot Richmond, and their earnest solicitude that
his Administration may redound to his own
honor and the enduring benefit of his native
State.
The resolutions were seconded by Andrew J.
Miller, Esq , our Senator elect, who sustained
them in his happiest manner, reminding the
Whig party of much that yet remained to be
done in performance of their civil duties, espe
cially in the approaching Presidential canvass,
and in that impending to fill another vacancy in
Congress, with regard to which, he suggested to
his fellow citizens and fellow Whigs, the name
of General Duncan L. Clinch, a suggestion re
ceived with the warmest and loudest applause-
Whereupon, the resolutions being putto vote,
were passed unanimously r|ith the strongest
marks ot commendation.
George W. Crawford, our Governor elect, be
ing called for upon all sides, came forward and
was greeted with long continued and reiterated
cheering.—He addressed the meeting with all
his accustomed energy and eloquence, and while
expressing to the Whig party his gratitude for
this recent and signal mark of their confidence,
afforded them, by his sentiments, the strongest
assurance that it was well deserved, and that his
future, like his past official duties, would be
ably, zealously and honestly discharged. Mr.
Crawford having concluded amid demonstra
tions of the most enthusiastic approbation from
his audience,
Mr. Jenkins moved that the proceedings of
the meeting be signed by the Chairman and
Secretary, and published in the Chronicle and
Sentinel.
And then, upon motion of Dr. Robertson, the
meeting adjourned.
RICHARD H. WILDE, Chairman.
Wm. M. D’Antignac, Secretary.
The Tariff—Clay and Van Buren.
It is the common practice of Locofocoism to
charge upon Mr. Clay the advocacy of high
Tariff measures, while, in the same breath, they
proclaim Mr. Van Buren thesupporter of a low
Tariff—or, in Locofoco parlance, "free trade."
Assuming, then, that Mr. Clay understands
what his own principles are, and that, like a true
patriot, he proclaims those principles to the
American people—and that the immediate per
sonal and political friends of Mr. Van Buren
understand and know what are his views on
this important question, and have promulged
the same through the late Syracuse Convention,
—we propose to place the opinion of Mr. Clay
as expressed inhis letter to the Editor of the La-
Grange (Ga.) Herald, in juxta-position with
the opinions of the Syracuse Convention, the
exclusive and immediate friends of Mr. Van
Buren, and we ask an impartial decision as to
the difference.
By the Syracuse Con- Mr. Clay’s Letter to Dr.
vention. Bronson, VM. Seplem-
“We are opposed to ber, 1813. Extract.
a protective system of “The sum and sub
duties.” stance of what I con-
“Whilst we approve, ceive to be the true pol
and will support, a ta- icy of the United States,
nff founded on revenue in respect to a Tariff,
principles, and wisely may be briefly stated,
discriminating, for the In conformity with the
encouragement of labor, principle announced in
in agriculture, com- the compromise act, I
merce, and manufac- think, that whatever
tures.” revenue is necessary’ to
an economical and hon-
, est administration of
the General Govern
ment, ought to be deri
ved from duties, impo
sed on foreign imports.
And I believe that, in
establishing a Tariff of
those duties, such a dis
crimination ought to
be made, as will inci
dentally afford reason
able protection to our
national interests.”
Frost.—The Mobile Herald of Thursday,
the 19th instant, says: There appears to be no
doubt that on Monday and Tuesday nights,
there was frost, although very slight. We are
rejoiced at this—but still it appears to be the
general opinion that it would not show the height
of prudence for absentees to return yet. For
our part, however, we are free to confess that
we think the fever has now so much subsided
that, with the additional preventive of frost,
there can be but little danger in a return to the
city. We know of several families who will
return from the adjacent country during this
week.
Foreign News—Further Extracts.
Cape of Good Hope papers, to July 2, state
that Col. Cloete has announced to the Boors, in
the vicinity of Port Natal, the determination of
the British Government to adopt Natal as a
British colony, and to place it under British
laws and rule. Every demonstration of aver
sion and hostility was shown upon this commu
nication, and militaty precautions have there
fore been adopted. ,
Perhaps the most remarkable political event
which has taken place at home since our
last, is the new attitude assumed by the Anti-
Corn-Law League This body held a meeting
at Covent-Gardeu Theatre on Thursday’ last, to
report their last year’s proceedings, and promul
gate their plans for the year ensuing. The the
atre was crowded by an enthusiastic audience,
chiefly of the middle classes, and was addressed
by Mr. Cobden, M. P., Mr. Bright, M. P-, and
Mr. W. J. Fox. The report stated that last
year's subscription to the League fund amounted
to £SO, 290145; the expenditure had been jC47,-
814 3s. 9d., balance in hand, £2,476 Ills. 3d.
The League had distributed 9,000,000 tracts,
weighing upwards of 100 tons, to 237,000 electors
in 24 counties, and 259,226 electors in 187 bor
oughs, in all to 496,226 electors; and the dis
tribution has yet to be made in 47 jeounties and
23 boroughs.
The report was adopted. The plan ot pro
ceeding lor next year proposes—lst. To deposit
a copy of every registration ot all counties and
boroughs in the United Kingdom at a central
office in London. 2d. To open a weekly cor
respondence with 800,000 electors in doubtful
boroughs, at a weekly expense of .£2,500. 3d.
To visit, not by their agents, but by a deputa
tion of the Council of the League, every bor
ough in the kingdom. 4th. To contest all fu
ture borough elections, and provide free trade
candidates for such boroughs as are at a loss
for them. sth. To bring before a common jury
every advocate of protection who shall be report
ed, by a committee of the House of Commons
to be guilly of bribery at any future election.
6th. As soon as such a step shall be judged
expedient, to recommend the election to memo
rialize the Queen to dissolve the present House
of Commons, on the plea that it was chosen by
corrupt means, and is not therefore possessed of
the public confidence. 7th. To raise a sum of
£IOO,OOO to be applied to the before mentioned
purposes. In the course of his speech Mr. Cob
den said that the League did not intend recom
mending any more petitions to the present House
of Commons, an announcement which was re
ceived with the most tumultuous cheers. — Wil
mer’s News Letter.
F’m Wilmer <f- Smith’s European Times, Ist. inst.
Geueral Summary.
Mr. O’Connell continues to furnish food for
conversation and alarm. His monster meetings
continue; his denunciation of the “Saxon” ap
pears to increase in intensity, and his influence
over the minds of his countrymen knows no a
batement. His Court of Arbitrators have met,
and the system appears to work well, and, while
it sets aside the machinery of the executive gov
ernment, it is cleverly contrived to bind the ap
plicantsfor justice, on the one hand, and to a
void, on the other, the meshes of the statute law,
which it insults. If “cheap” justice is a virtue,
it is to had in abundance in these new courts of
conscience. His recent speeches have shown
that his boldness is on the increase, and fears
are entertained that the peace of Ireland cannot
be preserved until the meeting of Parliament.
A grave responsibility rests upon a Ministry
which looks with folded arms upon a state of
society which threatens the foundation of social
order. Sir Robert Peel continues to be an ob
ject of attack on the part of the Conservatives
for his lethargy. The Times is most bitter in
its denunciations of the do-nothing policy. Mr.
O’Counell, since his return from the provinces,
has figured once or twice at his old quarters, the
Com Exchange, Dublin, where he has poured
out his indignation upon thedevoted head of Mr.
Conner, the gentleman who proposed in tne As
sociation, during the absence of the agitator, the
suspension of the payment of rents until the Re
peal was forthcoming. The last great demon
stration took place on Sunday last at the Rath
of Mullaghmast, in Leinster. It appears to
have been an immense gathering. He denounc
ed the slavery of the United States in vehement
terms, with the request "letthat go to America 1”
It is hinted that the Government are about to
bring these exhibitions to a premature close.
The Times, of Monday, gives currency to the
hint as a “rumor.” To put down the agitation
in Ireland now, when no attempt has been made
to remove the acknowledged evils under which
the people labour, would be a dangerous experi
ment with the peace of the country.
The Anti Corn Law League, having ex
hausted the counties, has appeared in London
again with undiminished force. They have
taken Covent Garden Theatre, where meetings
will be regularly held, at short intervals, until
Parliament assembles. The first great meeting
was held on Thursday. The crack orators in
that national temple of the drama were Messrs.
Cobden, Bright, and Fox. The practical—the
financial part of the exposition, fell upon Mr.
Cobden, who traced the present revival of trade
to the result of two good harvests, this year and
the last; and shewed that when the necessaries
of life were cheap, people had more money to
spend upon other subjects. The manufacturers,
he contended, found this in the improved demand
for clothing, and every branch partook more or
less of the general benefit.
The £50,000 raised last year for carrying out
the object ot the League has, it appears, been all
spent, with the exception of a balance short of
£3,000. The free trade leader is about to make
a bold experiment upon his disciples. This
year he proposes to raise £IOO,OOO ! This im
mense sum is to be appropriated to the estab
lishment of machinery in London for working
the electoral registries throughout the kingdom.
Considering the public enthusiasm which the
League has called into being, there seems little
doubt that the sum named will be speedily rais
ed. Cobden spoke of its realization as a mat
ter of certainty. The great manufacturers in
the north of England will take the lead with
handsome subscriptions, and all the great towns
in the empire will be again put under contribu
tion. The English people are not readily exci
ted: indeed, they are generally obnoxious to the
charge of apathy; but when their sympathies
are brought into play, they allow no considera
tions of economy to stand in the way ot their
gratification. The League has found a new ad
vocate in the person ot Mr. Fox a dissenting
clergyman of London, whose eloquence is so
charming—transcendant, is the term—as to de
light the ear, while it inflames and captivates
the passions. Free trade, in his hands, has a
poetic beauty thrown around it which no pre
vious speaker ever communicated. The rami
fications of the League throughout the country
are most minute and extensive. The manner
in which the proposition has been received in
various parts of the country shows that the pecu
niary part of thequestion will not be shirked. A
great meeting is to be held in Liverpool this
evening, which will be addressed by Mr. Fox,
the eloquent representativeof the league already
referred to, and where means will be taken to
raise the “sinews of war.” It will be a coup de
main for monopoly, which, as regards England,
is now on its last legs. Now that the head
quarters arc in the metropolis, this species oi
machinery will be brought to bear with telling
effect upon the new gigantic movements.
France.
The French are about to send an ambassador
to China. The French papers are creating a
great sensation throughout France, by the agita
tion of the question relative to the fortification
of Paris. Reports were rife throughout Paris
that it was the intern ion of the Government to
proceed with the armament, without reference
to the question of necessity, and which is sup
posed meant, in case of invasion, reserved by
the Chamber of Deputies. Louis Philippe is
too cunning a statesman not to prepare for w r ar
during peace.
Senor Olozaga has arrived at Paris from Ma
drid. At present he is only accredited as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
Spain to the Court of the Tuileries: but shou d
the French government come to the resolution of
sending an ambassador to Spain, Senor Olozaga
will hold a similar post in the French capital,
being provided with letters ot credence as am
bassaaor from Queen Isabella to Louis Philippe.
Commercial Summary.—The revival of trade
is the theme ot general congratulation. Every
branch of business feels its nourishing glow. In
the manufacturing districts all is bustle and ac
tivity. The demand, too, is principally confin
ed to the home market. Orders for the East,
more particularly for China, haye come pour
ing in of late. But the other great foreign mar
kets, the United States and Brazil —are in a state
ot comparative, it not actual, stagnation. The
Cotton market, that unerring barometer of the
commercial temperature —continues active end
ing the 30th ult. (Saturday.) have not been
quite so great as previously, but the demand has
subsided a little, but the present feeling is at
once healthy and encouraging. The same re
mark applies to the markets for Colonial pro
duce. Sugar has improved, especially the bet
ter Qualities. B. P. is steady, while Bengal and
Mauritius have realized higher prices. The
foreign market for this indispensable necessary
of lite is inactive. The grain market has ex
perienced the effects of the general revival. The
increasing supplies of new grain keep the mar
ket from rising, albeit it exhibits an upward ten
dency. Flour has advanced 1 shilling per sack,
and Canadian wheat and flour are a good deal
inquired for.
The accounts respecting the new cotton crop,
which came to hand by the Britannia, are deem
ed favorable to holders. The sales on Saturday
exceeded 6000 bags, of which 2000 were taken
on speculation. But Monday last was one of
the most stirring days w’hich has ever occurred
in the market. The sales amounted to 20,000
bags, ot which enormous quantity speculators
took one half. Yesterday being Tuesday, the
great Manchester market day, there was com
paratively less doing; but the sales, notwith
standing, reached 12,000 bags, of which specu
lators took nearly the half. The market to-day
(Wednesday) is still in a state oi great excite
ment, and remained so at the time we put our
paper to press. An advance of a farthing per
pound has taken place on most descriptions of
cotton since the arrival of the Britannia. The
darkest hour is generally the precursor of the
dawn; and the intermittent fever through which
we have passed, seems to promise for the future
a career ot healthy and invigorating action.
Commercial affairs still continued to improve,
and all branches of trade wore an active appear
ance. In the manufacturing districts it is said
alllis bustle and activity. The Cotton market
had improved since the last accounts fully >d
on American descriptions.
The Fever. —The New Orleans Tropic of
the 18th says: We regret to say that the warm
weather for the last few days has tended mate
rially to increase the number ol cases of yellow
fever. The admissions into the Charity Hos
pital yesterday ran up to 12, while lor the three
previous days the total number ot admissions
did not reach that figure. It is yet imprudent
for strangers and unacclimated absentees to
come into the city, and we hope, that for their
own good, as well as that of those now here,
they will keep off a while longer. In two
weeks more, if we are not inundated with fresh
subject*, we may confidently expect to be free
from the desolating scourge.
£j>S. A. Holmes has laid on our table the
“New Mirror” of the 21st inst., and the first
number, an “Extra New World,” of “The
Mysteries of Paris,” by that popular French
Novelist, Eugene Sue, a work which is said to
have produced a greater sensation in Paris than
any work of fiction ever issued in the Metropo
-1 lis.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25.
Central Rail Road.—The Macon Tele
graph of the 24th inst., says of this road, it "i s
but a poor and uncertain dependence for forward
ing produce-, it cannot, or at least does not, carry
off half the cotton that is in readiness for it."
The Charleston Mercury of yesterday says:—
The news by the Acadia gave life to our cotton
market yesterday. About 1800 bales sold at an
advance ot Jto J cent. Some holders.preferred
waiting for the letters.
Snow fell to the depth of five inches at Buf
falo, New York, on Tuesday, the 17th instant.
Fashion and Blue Dick.—The race between
these two distinguished animals, over the Ken
dall course, terminated in one heat, which was
won by Fashion in 7m. 35s.—said to be equal
to 7m. 28s. on the Long Island course. After
the first heat Blue Dick was withdrawn.
interments in New Orleans for the
week ending the 14th instant, were 158, of which
105 were yellow fever patients.
Fire iu Monticello, Ga.
From private letters received in '.his city, we
have accountsofa most destructive fire in Mon
ticello. The following extract of a letter from
Joshua Hill, Esq., to his brother in this city,
contains a more detailed account than any we
have seen. From another letter, we learn there
was no insurance on the goods destroyed.
Monticello, October 22d, 1843.
Dear Brother— A most destructive fire occur
red in this town this morning, about 4 o’clock,
which we have just succeeded in subduing. The
whole range, from Mr. Dyer’s old corner to my
house, embracing the stores of Messrs. Loyall,
Edmondson, T. J. Smith, (formerly Pearon’s,)
Mansfield’s grocery, and Charles Norton’s new
store, (late Holland & Kirkpatrick’s,) with large
and new stocks, are completely consumed.—
My house escaped most narrowly, by great ex
ertions of the citizens; the furniture is much in
jured. The Court House, new and beautiful
as it is, took fire, and alter much injury to the
upper stories, was saved. There is no doubt
but the fire was the work of an incendiary, as
four houses were discovered to be on fire at the
same time. There was no insurance on the
buildings or stocks of goods burned. The loss
eannot be less than sixty thousand dollars. But
tor the exertions of Mr. Stephen Talmadge,
Mr. Doolittle, and one of my negro boys, my
house must have gone, and with it Simonton’s
and others.
“Bennett’s Money Articles.”
We have been frequently astonished at the
gullibilty ot some persons, and theease with
which they gulped down, what are universally
denominated "Bennett's Money articles." We
have long known that the grossest errors were
committed in facts, and figures in these arti
cles, and have regarded them as valueless—and
we are therefore pleased to observe the follow
ng notice by the New York Express of a call
by the Richmond Enquirer on the writer of
those articles "for help."
The editor of the Richmond Enquirer has
brought down a shower of fun upon his head by
calling upon “Mr. Ketteli” for “help”. The
Whig pelts him for some unmerciful truths for
thus quoting from “Bennett, the worst of all the
infamous characters, connected with the most
infamous press in the world—who has lived lor
years by slandering the honest citizens of New
York—by finding out family secrets, and taking
bribes not to publish them in his filthy sheet—by
receiving in pay, money, for kicks, horse-whip
pings, &c.” A Virginian in N. York writes too
that he “blushes for his native State when he
reads in the Enquirer, edited by Thomas Ritchie,
a Virginia gentleman, a call upon somebody by
the name of Ketteli, of the New York Herald,
for “the best estimate it can obtain, ot the re
ceipts of the Custom Houses, as well as ol the
general condition of the resources of the Trea
sury!!” Can it be, (he asks,) that he is in his
second childhood? * * * In regard to the
Tariff question, (he adds,) it is well known, he
(Bennet) will take any side of the question fur
pay, especially will he take the side that pays most.
Foreigners not wanting to see us prosper at their
expense, are prepared to pay large sums to break
down the Tariff; and I dare say, Bennett, though
denounced by O’Connell, in the most appropri
ate terms, (and glad I was he told the world he
was not an American,) has been driving very
profitable bargains with foreigners engaged in
manufactories, during his sojourn in England
and France.”
Mr. Ritchie “has never seen any statistics in
the Express equal to the money articles in the
Herald.” (No indeed, he never will.) “He
(an Editor ot the Express) does not display that
bold and superior spirit which is so necessary
to unveil the mysteries of a bloated paper cred
it, and the oppressions ot the Tariff system.”
No, indeed. No Press (here) equals the Herald
in such things; for no Foreign g >ld touches the
fingers of other Editors in New York. The
Evening Post and the Journal of Commerce are
high and anti-Tariff, strong Free Trade, but
they cannot forge figures, make tacts, nor utter
lies as does the Herald. The editors are Amer
icans. They have a character to lose. Their
remarks have weight with their friends. They
are answerable men. Not so, the Herald in
New York. No Press here of any pat ty holds
any connexion with it. Nobody cares lor wt.at
it says. It has no weight of mettle nor weight
of opinion. It can’t touch an interest in the
street, or in politics, it is the Charivari of the
city—such as all large cities have. Shrewd fo
reigners observing that influential Journals, like
the Richmond Enquirer, are duped by these mo
ney articles try all they can to keep them up.
Such are the reasons that the Whig Press here,
which so readily responds to the Free Trade ar
ticles in the Journal ot Commerce or evening
Post, say nothing of the Herald, and such too
is the reason that no Free Trade Press here ever
quotes these articles.
Thus for five or six days past, the money ar
ticle of the “Herald has been full of figures, all
proving that the Tariff is ruining the country,
that Commerce is going to ruin—that the reve
nue is ruinously falling off, &c. Now this is
all unanswerable in New York. We have not a
friend in the street who would not laugh at us,
if we were to gravely set about contradicting it.
We would appear as ridiculous as it we were
to go to the Olympic Theatre and gravely write
a lengthened critique or a travestic of Macbeth,
as upon Macready at the Park. Every body
who sees the Herald sees through this travestie.
It is a play got up for the Ritchies, the Cros
wells, and the Blairs of the country to go to. It
is not intended for us behind the scenes. John
Bull sees that these gentlemen gulp down these
figures as facts, or use them in “Politics,” and
John gives them as much as they want. Mr.
Ritchie, however, takes them down as solemn
truths! Credulous as he was in Mesmerism,
he seems really to believe them all! Not so,
however, with men of the Crossweil school.—
They never bring down a shout ot laughter up
on their heads by publicly calling lor such
“help.” They use the articles politically, but
Mr. Ritchie, as in a Court of Law! It was,
therefore, that we rebuked him for administer
ing the stuff got up to amuse a populace, to the
agriculturists of Virginia. We see that he is
disposed to continue the fraud even now, that
he is informed of it! What was credulity thus
becomes something more. Let the Whig
Press of the South then keep up this fact, that
the Richmond Enquirer passes by two respecta
ble Free Trade papers in New York (the Even
ing Post and the Journal of Commerce) to quote
from a paper so low in public estimation in the
city where it is printed, that no respectable jour
nalist of any party (Free Trade or anti-Free
Trade) will have any thing to do with it, and
that so much beneath’contempt are the articles
the Enquirer quotes, in the city where they ate
made, that neither Whig will answer them, nor
Loco Foco indorse them. If they are good
enough then to dupe Southern planters with, let
it be understood they dupe nobody in New York.
Copper Rock.—We cop}’, says the N. Y.
Courier & Enquirer, the following papagraph
from the Detroit Daily Advertiser. The miner
alogical specimen of which it speaks, is un
questionably the noblest in the world, if it be
properly described, and ought by all means to go
into some of the great cabinets of the country.
It would bring a “mint of money” from any of
the national collections in Europe; but it shonld
never go out of the United States:
Great Curiosity.— Our readers have all heard
ol the famous Copper rock of Lake Superior.
It is now in this city, in the possession of Julius
Eldred, Esq., who after much expense and sev
eral months of hard labor has succeeded in re
moving it. It is certainly one ot the greatest
mineral curiosities in the world, and every one
will be anxious to see it. It is supposed to
weigh about four tons, and is nearly pure copper
—about 95 per cent. Its location was in the
bed of the Ontonahon river in the Upper Penin
sula, about three hundred miles abovo the Saut
de Ste Marie.
CfThe firm of Rick & Co., of Iserlohn, iu
Prussia, one of the largest hardware manufac
turers on the Continent, has declared itself bank
rupt. Its liabilities amount to about lour mil
lions ofthalers (15,000,000 fr. The commercial
citiesotGermany, particularly BerlinandHam
burgh, will be sufferers by this event.
It is more prudent to pass by trivial offences
than to quarrel tor them; by the last you are
even with your adversary, but by the first above
him.
Notice ExtraordinaryA Freak of Tyler-
Um.
The N. O. Tropic of the 18th inst. says■
Greeilbury Dorsey, the recently appointed Col
lector of this Port, has issued his edict, and those
interested may read and tremble. At the Cus
tomhouse, yesterday morning, the following in
terestiiisfpiacard was posted up for the inspection
of the public generally, and the clerks and offi
cers engaged in that concern particularly:
§ NOTICE.
Granbury Dorsey, Collector for the Port of
New Orleans painfully regrets that any gentlemen
should be deprived of their situations at the Custom
house ; but having laid down certain rules to govern
him in his appointments, will render some removals
imperiously necessary.
New Orleans, Oct. 17th, 1843.
We do not know, nor are we particularly in
terested in knowing, whose heads are to be
brought Uribe block by this new official of John
Tyler, but we are not much at fault, we are sure,
in saying that every “Clay Whig” will be turn
ed out at very short not ice. Mr. Dorsey has, we
suppose, a right to make a clean sweep ot all who
dare to differ from him and his royal master;
it is expected of him, and no one will be aston
ished at the exercise of his “brief authority.”
Let him do it. Let him proscribe faithful, com
petent and honest men, for speaking and voting
as every free citizen of this Republic has aright
to speak! s-The instrument and the victims will
each meet their appropriate reward. The men
who have faithfully discharged their duties and
behaved as becomes American citizens, will be
abundantly rewarded in the proud consciousness
ol their integrity, and the approbation of their
fellowmen, whi’lekhe instrument ofa petty tyrant,
ty will meet his in the indignant rebuke of'he
American Senate, at its next meeting.
But it seems it is not enongh merely to dis
charge froth the public employment, every man
who looks with contempt and loathing unuttera
ble upon John Tyler, but they must be insulted
with a notice, written and stuck up for the pub
lic to gaze at, informing them that it will be “im
periously necessary” for some of them to leave!
Out upon such contemptible, unmanly trickery
—such open and unblushing baits lor servile
sycophancy and personal adulation! —it is wor
thy only of--—Tylerism!
From the Louisville Whig.
The Batik Party.
This name given to the whigs by the
democracy. If we we're to
judg* oWWWSwS dfthe democratic party, in
relation to banks and banking, by their present
professions, we should believe that all the banks
that have disgraced our country for the last thir
teen years, were the creatures of the whigparty;
that the whigs and the whigs alone, brought
them into existence, and are therefore accounta
ble for all the damage resulting from that ex
istence.
The history of these institutions, however,
shows a different state ot affairs'—shows a dif
ferent accountability—and places the responsi
bility ot the evils resulting from a large majori
ty, and in fact from nearly all the rotten and
broken banks, on the democratic party.
In the bi ight and palmy days oi this party,
when they were in full power, under the admin
istration of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van
Buren, more banks were chartered, and more
bank capital created than in any period in the
history of our Government, of tne same dura
tion.
From 1820 to 1830, there were only 22 banks
chartered in the United States, with a capital of
$8,000,000 only. During this period, our coun
try prospered in every department; our agricul
tural, commercial and manufacturing interests
were promoted and built up, and we had a cur
rency, regulated and furnished by the U. States
Bank, that was justly the pride and boast ot ev
ery true American. But at this period the dem
ocratic party came fully into power, and a dif
ferent policy was adopted and pursued, which
involved the country in all the evils of a worth
less and irredeemable currency. The U. States
Bank was by this party destroyed and utterly
broken down in order that they might introduce
what they then termed the belter currency—the
State or pct bank system.
These banks, under the express authority of
the great chief of democracy, “increased their
circulation so as to fill the vacuum created by
the withdrawal of the notes of the Bank cf the
United States,” and flooded the country with a
paper currency that would at the time of its is
sue have been irredeemable, had not the Gov
ernment deposites been at the command and tin
der the control of those banks. Money became
abundant—the system was approved by the
Government, and we were called upon, in Hie
most exulting terms, to ‘see how the experiment’
worked. The Stale bank fever, that had com
pletely taken hold of the chief of democracy,
was contagious, and spread throughout the
whole rank and file of the party ; and, during
the administration ol Andrew Jackson and Mar
tin Van Buren, these bank-hating democrats,
there were 367 banks charterd, with an increase
of capital oi 8213,000,000.
During one single year of Jackson’s adminis
tration, upwards of 300 banks were chartered ;
and it was then considered the purest democra
cy to provide plenty of State banks in order to
save the “dear people” from the jawsof the “de
structive monster,” the United States Bank'.
The following statement is fr..mgood author
ity, and we presume will be found substantial
ly correct, and shows that of the whole number
ol banks chartered since 1830, a vast majority
were chartered hy the democratic party.
States. Chartered by dem. By whigs.
Maine 41 6
N. Hampshire 5 0
Massachusetts 0 71
Rhode Island ..0 9
Vermont 0 9
Connecticut 9 9
New York 61 : 0
Pennsylvania 17 0
New Jersey 8 0
Maryland 3 12
Georgia 5 0
Florida 8 1)
Louisiana 41 0
Mississippi 10* 0
Alabama 1 0
Tennessee 2 0
Illinois .2 0
Michigan 16 0
Ohio 12 0
Arkansas .3 0
South Carolina 2 0
Kentucky 0 4
Indiana 0 1
246 121
Here we see that the democratic party, when
they were in full power, chartered 246 banks,
and the whigs only 121.
But this is not all: Os the 246 banks char
tered by the democrats, more than hall have
failed, 43 others have been blown “sky high,”
and thirteeen others are now in a state of sus
pension : While of the 121 banks chartered by
the whigs, all except eight aie now paying spe
cie !
And yet, with unblushing impudence, these
same democrats call us “the bank party,” and
foreigners and strangers are made to believe that
these “hard money” democrats never had any
hand in creating those worthless rag insti.utions.
“O shame ! where is thy blush ?”
'According to Becan con’s Mississippi Register for the
year 1838, ti»«re were 24 chartered banks in this State,
with a capital of 862.512.000. The amount of this capi
tal set down as having been paid in, is $>8,884,350 —in
this is not included the #5,000,003 afterwards paid into
the Union Bank.which makes the amount paid in $23,-
884,840. All these banks were chartered by Legisla
tures having a majority of democrats.— Editor Vicks
bwrg Whig.
America VespcCci. -The N. Y. Tribune
says:—We have met the following paragtaph in
many of our recent exchanges:
“The Countess Vespucci, who was received
into the best families here as a virtuous w oman,
and asked a grant of land of Congress, is repre
sented in Noah’s Weekly Messenger to be now,
living in a state of most immoral intimacy, at
Ogdensburgh, N. York with a nephew of Van
Rensselaer, son of the late patroon of Albany.
He has built a huge wall round his place to keep
out prying visitors.”
We would scarcely take trouble to correct the
error but for the injustice done Mr. Van Rens
selaer, who is a most worthy and upright man
The man with whom the ‘Countess’ America
Vespucci lives at Ogdensburgh, is a Mr. Par
rish, a foreigner of great wealth and of such
character as this connection implies. It was
commenced, by the way, before her first visit to
this country. After she had left the U. S. on
the defeat of her scheme of begging land, he sent
to Paris for her and conveyed her from Platts
burgh to his residence at Ogdensburgh in a
splendid coach and six, he himself riding on
horseback behind the establishment. This in
cident is every way characteristic.
“Our Sat’ASH.-—Wc have raised a squash
this year, measuring three feet and ten inches in
circumference, and weighing thirty-eight lbs.”
—Dahlonega Times.
Ah—umph—yes: you also raised some fine
pigs and chickens this year; but your way of
raising produce is not very popular with hon
est people. There’s a number of your soit of
farmers in Milledgeville.— Sandersville Tel.
Ths “Great Democratic Party.”—The
Pathfinder, a Democratic journal in New York,
has the following paragraph:
“It sometimes happens that political parties,
like individuals, expend their sentiments in
mere professions. They talk of their principles,
until those principles become a dead letter,
when they cease to have any lite in all their
members. Now this is emphatically the case
with the Democratic party. It has talked, until
it has not only exhausted its breath, but its life.
What is it doing to carryout its piinciples?
What real vitality is there in any of its promin
ent measures? what genuine manhood many
of its prominent men?
%~TThe Charleston Mercury says, “There is
scarcely a Southern State which Mr. Claycould
not carry against Mr, Van Buren.”
From the Forum.
Autumn.
“The melancholy days are come,
“The eaddeel of the year.*’
This is to us the saddest, sweetest season of
the year. “Summer’s gone.” How much mel
ancholy meaning is there in this single expres
sion; especially when looking abroad up< n the
fields bereft of their golden harvests, its truth is
every where seen in the change ol nature’s ves
ture.' It requires not the language of poetry to
tell us that “the harvest .s passed, the summer
is ended,” and winter approacheth; the lonely
flower, “the last rose of summer,” and the de
clining rays of the sun, all tell us in language
stronger than poetry, that the “summer’s gone.”
There is a kind ol pleasing melancholy, says
a beautiful writer, that comes over the mind in
its contemplations of autumn, which may be li
kened to the feelings of the faithful Christian
when about to enter upon the dark valley of the
shadow of death. He has passed the seed-time
and summer of life, and is standing amidst the
shadowsand glooms of that last autumn which
brings the harvest of all his toils, and the reward
of all his labors.
The killing frost of autumn falls not alone
upon the green and beautiful vegetation of the
earth: “man too has his autumn.” Wien he
arrives at the evening of his existence, those
beauties which adorned the spring of his youih
and the summer ol manhood, begin to discover
the autumnal tint—here and there a leaf has for
saken its parent branch; his joys and delights
all have emigrated Io another country—winged
their way over the sea of time, and taken pos
session of a more benignant region.
The youthful prospect is bedecked with the
ever-green verdure of spring. But the advanc
ed in years discover only the brown tints of au
tumn, harbingers ol the dieary winter that is
fast approaching.
The young, however, see nothing melancholy
m autumn. They may well ask,
“Whal is there saddening in the autumn leavel”
When they look abroad upon our rich and va
riegated forest scenery,
“ When lirst the frost
Turns into beauty all October’s charms”—
To their young eyes only the bright colors are
visible,, or if they see the darker hues, they on
ly behold them as so many shades to give relief
to the beautiful painting upon nature’s canvas.
Peculiar to this country, we believe, is that
delicious, but melancholy season, which we de
nominate the “Indian Summer,” and which,
like the last blaze of the lamp previous to its ex
tinguishment, usually ushers in “November’s
cold and chilling blast.” This peculiar season
has been beautifully depicted by one of Ameri
ca’s sweeiest poets, Brainard, in the following
lines:
INDIAN SUMMER.
What is there saddening in the autum leaves'!
Have they that green and yellow melancholy
That the sweet poet speaks of? Had he seen
Our variegated woods, when first the frost
Turns into beauty all October’s charms—
When the dread lever quits us—when the storm
Os the wild Equinox, with all its wet
Has left the land, as the first deluge left it,
With a bright bow of many colors hung
Upon the forest lops—lie had not sighed.
The moon slays longest for the hunter now;
The trees cast down their fruitage, and the blithe
And busy squirrel hoards his winter store;
While man enjoys the breeze thalsweep.‘ay'ong
The bright Ifitie sky above him, and that bends
Magnificently all the the forest’s pride,
Or whispers through the ever-greens, and asks,
What is there saddening in the autumn leaves!
From the N. Y. Tribune of Oct. 20th.
Eighteen Days Later from Canton.
By the arrival of the ship Paul Jones at this
port last evening, we are in possession of Can
ton papers of the date of 17th J une, which is con
siderably later than previous advices. W e learn
from the Canton Press that the Imperial Com
missioner, Keing, was to have met the English
Commissioner at Hong Kong, on the 10th day
of June, 1813, lor the exchanging of the ratifica
tion! of the Treaty, but that he tailed to meet at
lhe time appointed; and it was rumored that
Keing was about to insist upon meeting Her
Majesty’s Plenipotentiary some where mid-way
between Hong Kong and Canton. He was at
Canton on the Ith. In Hong Kong every thing
was pi epated lor the reception of the Imperial
Commissioner. A spacious hall had been erected
for the exchange ol the important documents;
and preparations for a splendid entertainment
were in progress.
On the llth of June the Roman Catholic
church of Hong Kong was opened for public
worship, and the ceremony of’consecrating the
church was performed by the Perfect Apostolic
of the Reman Catholic mission; and donations
were received to the amount ol ®6012 from En
glish, Portuguese and Spanish gentlemen.
The export ol tea from China to England in
lhe month of May, 18-13, was—Of Green, 1,891,-
131 lbs.; andot Black, 4,961,956 lbs. And the
total amount from the Ist July, 1842, Io the 31st
of May, 1813, was 46,201,251 lbs.
There was considerable sickness at Hong
Kong, particularly in the Garrison and among
the shipping in the harbor.
The deaths by cholera al Manilla, were dimin
ishing. The natives believed that the disease
was caused by the waters being poisoned by the
whiles, and two Englishmen had nearly fallen
victims of the superstitious belief, having been
caught and severely beaten. One ofthe Indians
engaged in the assault was shot down by the
police.
The U. S. Frigate Constellation, Com. Kear
ney, was at Amoy.
State of Trade in England.
Bolton.—Muslins, quillings, and fine and
fancy goods generally, are in excellent request,
in so much that manufacturers cannot produce
sufficient to meet the demand. Cotton yarns
were scarcely ever known to meet so great an
inquiry, and several new mills are about to be
erected. Counterpanes have brought full prices.
Bradford.—There was a numerous attend
ance of buyers at our market on Thursday last,
and the transactions in piece goods and yarns
were extensive; but it was understood that the
fmrehasers for foreign account were rather more
imitedthan of late, the buyers for Foreign pre
ferring to wait the result ofthe Leipsic and oth
er German fairs before making further bargains
of any extent. For goods prices were very firm,
and yarns could only be had at improved rates.
Halifax.—Castings and camblets were less
inquired tor at our last market, but there was
an active demand for mixture cloths, at rather
higher rates. The wool trade was also tolerably
brisk.
Huddersfield.—Considering the advanced
state ofthe season, there is still a very extensive
inquiry for fancy goods—the transactions in
plain cloths and kerseys have also been on a
large scale for some time past, and continue so
at present. Prices, thoughfirm, are notdecided
ly higher.
Leeds.—All kinds of manufactured woollens
are in brisk request; both in the warehouses and
cloth halls there is much activity, and prices are
firm with an upward tendency. We had a very
numerous attendance ol metropolitan and pro
vincial buyers. Business altogether has had a
healthy tone, and there is every appearance of
the improvements being of a perman nt na
ture.
Leicester.—The demand for goods has so
much increased that the frame-work knitters,
after a long agitation, have at last got their
wages advanced by nearly the whole hosiers,
though last week there were but faint hopes that
it would become general. The cut up hose
branch is so brisk that some of the hoisiers are
holdingout inducements to the master stocking
ers to cause them to complete their orders before
those of their rivals. Never was this branch
known to be so brisk as at this time. The glove
branch is equally, in as good condition as it has
been in for the last six weeks.
Manchester.—Our market within the past
week has displayed more quietness than for
some time previous; the non-arrival of the India
mail has, doubtless, tended to produce this ef
fect, as many parties are anxious to ascertain
the state of commercial affairs in the East, be
fore entering into further contracts; prices, not
withstanding, continue very firm. The home
trade has exhibited a further improvement, and
in the printed and plain velvet branches all the
manufacturers are busily engaged, and will re
main in full work, at least, for a considerable
period hence. Some Russian houses have ceas
ed to purchase for the season, but the demand
for twist is fully equal to the production, and no
change'has taken place in the prices. The mar
ket is not likely to feel even any transient ef
fects from the revolution in Greece. The ex
tensive demand for, and advanced price ol cot
ton, at Liverpool, on Saturday and Monday, op
erated as a serious check tc business in our
market yesterday. Spinners and manufactur
ers demanded higher prices, proportionate to
the advance in cotton; but the buyers, though
willing in some cases, to give slightly increased
rates, were generally unwilling to accede to the
demands made, and, consequently, very little
business was done.
Nottingham.—We have to notice some fur
ther improvement in the drawer, pantaloon, and
shirt branch. The cut up cotton hose branch
continues brisk, but there is very little inquiry
tor fancy hose, more especially as regards the
silk manufacture, and the wrought cotton hose
trade is in a most depressed state.
Rochdale.—Our last market was brisk, and
a fair quantity of goods was sold at prices quite
equal to those previously obtained. In wool
there is no change; manufacturers buy sparing
ly and there is no prospect of immediate im
provement in value.
Absent-minded.—The last instance of ab
sent-mindedness occurred at Canandaigua a few
nights since, which is related as follows:
Asa party of ladies and gentlemen were
waiting for the western train for Rochester, i
being then past midnight, they observed a gen
teel looking fellow’ who had for some time been
asleep on one of the settees ih the eating house
at Canandaigua, get up and proceed towards
the door with a large spit-box m his hand, which
he had taken up from the floor, thinking it was
his hat. When at the door, he made several
unsuccessful attempts to fit it on his head; but
finding it not suited to his head, he rubbed his
forehead, with an exclamation of “d —n it,” and
went back and deposited it on the floor, took his
hat and sneaked out of the room, to the no small
amusement of the spectators.
Early Snow!—Between Buffalo and Roch
ester the snow lies to the depth of from Ito 14
feet, At Buffalo it fell to the depth of two feet |
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26.
Mr. J. S. Peterson, will remain during the
session of the Legislature in Milledgeville, and
will act as the agent of the “Chronicle &
Sentinel.” and “Southern Cultivator.”
Those of our friends who may be in Milledge
ville during the Session, and itave husilies with
the office, will please call on him.
Ohio.—The returns from this State are now
complete. The Congressional delegation, as
before stated, consists of 9 Whigs and 12 Loco
Focos.
Legislature.—The Senate stands 17 Whigs
and 19 Loco Focos. The House consists of 39
Whigs and 33 Loeo Focos. The Whig major
ity on joint ballot is 4. Two independent can
didates who were elected from Fairfield over the
regular Loco Foco candidates, have been put
down as Locofocos. They are claimed, how
ever, as Whigs, and are pledged for a State Bank
and the Tariff
New Orleans.—The Picayune of the 20th
inst. says:—The report of the Charity Hospital,
considered a fair criterion, shows that the epi
demic is very much on the decline—only two
patients admitted yesterday.. We trust nothing
will occur to revive or increase again its influ
ence.
Mobile.—The Herald of Saturday the 21st
inst. says:—Having now no Board of Health
reports for a criterion, we cannot judge so readi
ly as formerly ol the progress of the fever—but
if common report is to be believed, backed by
the list of interments, we are sorry to say that
the prospect for a speedy release from the dan
ger of our unwelcome visitor, has not been so
good for the last day or two as we could wish.
On Wednesday there were five inteiments, on
Thursday eight, and on yesterday six—showing
somewhat an increase over the previous three
days. It is supposed that the present warm
weather is very deleterious to health —anti it
would not be in the least a matter of surprise,
should it continue without change, were the fe
ver to recommence its ravages with a fresh im
petusjiut which, we hope and trust, cannot be
so fatal as when it first made its appearance in
our city. In any event, we again say to absen
tees to keep away from Mobile until they’ hear
of a lulling frost; and then, but not till then—
will it be safe for them to return.
Our Triumph.
Prentice of the Louisville Journal, introdu
ces the news of our victory in Georgia to his
readers in the following strain:
Tremendous Whig Victory in Georgia.—
The defeat ot the Locofocos in Georgia is com
plete. The overthrow of the giants of old, who
attempted to scale Heaven and dethrone Jupi
ter, was not more terrific. The glorious Whigs
ot that State are making her valleys and moun
tains ring with their victorious shouts and wiih
the roar of artillery’, and their signal fires are
blazing from all her hills, lighting up the air as
with the flash of a hundred suns.
Fire on the Central Kail Koad.
The Savannah Republican of Tuesday’, the
24th instant, says: We learn from a passenger
who came down on the road yesterday, that the
three freight cars, containing about 100 bales of
cotton and a quantity of furniture, were burnt
with lheir contents, standing on the turn-out at
the 70 mile station. We are informed that a
fire had been built near the cars, but whether it
was communicated in this or some other man
lier, we have not been able to ascertain. We
doubt not that an investigation will be institu
ted, and that in due time lhe neglect or mischief
which led to this calamitous result, will be
known.
We have received some statements from trusit
worthy sources, to the effect that considerable
intemperance exists among some ot the engi
neers and conductors on the road. The obser
vation ol several of those gentlemen who lately
went to the Macon celebration, or we might
rather say their information, went to establish
this fact.
Since the above was in type, we have learned
that on Saturday night, another car attached to
the same train was burnt, containing about 20
bales of cotton. This accident took place some
where above the 80 mile station, but wc have
been unable to ascertain the particulars.
imporumt from Mexico.
The New Orleans Bee says: We alluded,
some days since, to a misunderstanding which
had arisen between the diplomatic agents of
Great Britain and the Mexican Government,
but had not deemed it a subject ot serious con
sequence, until yesterday, when we were kind
ly’ allowed to copy’ an extract of a letter received
in this city, dated Mexico, September 29th, and
forwarded via Havana, by the British steam
ship Severn. It communicates the following
intelligence ot startling import:
“Mexico, September 29th, 1843.
“P. S.—We regret to inform you that from
some misimdeistanding which has arisen be
tween H. 11. M’s. Mission and the Government,
Mr. Doyle, H. B. M’s. Charge d’Affaires, has
suspended all diplomatic intercourse with Mex
ico, until he receives instructions from his Gov
ernment.”
A Chance for Printers.
The “Fort Gaines Whig” contains lhe follow
ing Card of the proprietors, Messrs. Dill &
Harris : —“As Mr. Hardman, our present Edi
tor, is about engaging in other business, we de
sire to secure the services of some competent
person to take charge of the “Fort Gaines
Whig,” and either become interested in the Press
or to conduct it on our account. Immediate at
tention to this proposition is desirable.
Shocking Affair.—The Brooklyn News
says that Mr. Woodman married Miss Tree,
and notwithstanding the advice of the poet,
“Woodman spare’that Tree,” brutally whipped
her the third day after marriage !
Van Buren and Clay.—We are struck, says
the Savannah Republican, with one thing in th e
course of these distinguished citizensbelore the
public. Van Buren succeeded Gen. Jackson in
a splendid career of popularity, and during the
whole canvass suaceeding there was nothing
heard but hurra for Jackson! Olay succeeded
Gen. Harrison in a still more brilliant popular
career, and yet no one ever hears hurras tor
Gen. Harrison in order to raise a Clay meeting,
i'll is old Harry himself,” and “gallant old U ar
ry,” and the like. He has a popularity of his
own, and no one thinks of foisting him into the
Presidency upon the popularity of another.
Trial or Cassius M. Clay.—Our retders
will recollect the affray that took pbee in Ken
tucky some lime since, between Mr. Cassius M.
Clay and a Mr. Brown, a Post Office Agent, on
which occasion Mr. Clay cut Mr. Brown des
perately with a bowie knife. For the crime ol
assault and battery, with intent to kill, Mr. C’lay
was put upon trial at Lexington on the 10th in
stant. In course of the trial it was shown that
Brown was the aggressor, and that Mr. Clay
only acted in self-defence; he was therefore ac
quitted. Mr. Henry Clay, the great Kentucky
statesman, who has returned to his place at the
bar, defended his namesake.
Look Out for Villains.
The Georgia Journal of Tuesday says:—
There are a number of men prowling through
the country stealing negroes, not only from
plantations, &c. t but even from jails. A few
days since two of these worthies came to this
place, professing to have one or two negroes in
jail. One of our citizens thinking all was not
right, went to the jail on the morning after their
arrival and lound one of them conversing with
a negro belonging to Mr. Howard of Alabama.
His master’s relatives being near this place, and
our citizen having mentioned the fact to the jail
or in the hearing of the scoundrel, he immediately
left lhe Jail, and a few rods off, upon meeting with
his friend who wascoming up to prove the proper
ty, they passed a few words, put whip to their
horses, and have not been heard of since.
One ol them is a man by the name ot John
son, who was sent from Bibb, we are informed,
and has served one term in the Penitentiary—
and the other is supposed to be au individual,
with red hair and whiskers, tall, stout made,
with sandy’ complexion—and professes to hai
trom Alabama or South Carolina.
I 'A large number ol the members of lhe
Tennessee Legislature and of the citizensol
Nashville, tendered the Hon. J. J. Crittenden
a public dinner during his late sojourn in that
city. Mr. C. declined the honor, as business rel
q aired few immediate return to Kentucky.
New York Courier <p Enquirer says,
the accounts from Georgia have had an unfortu
nate effect upon the eyesight of lhe Editor of the
Boston Post. He can’t see into them. He says
they are “confused,” and look “all up in a heap.”
They seem in fact to have produced the same
sort of obfuscation in the optics of several other
“gentlemen of his family,” asNick Bottom said
to Monsieur Mustard Seed. The vision will
be more distinct after the Presidential election.
The Whig majorities will be larger and more
distinct after that event, and matters will be a
great deal less “confused.”
Predictioii Verified.
In a speech delivered by the lamented Hugh
L. White, at a public dinner given him by the
citizens of Knoxville, Tenn., on lhe Ist of Au
gust, 1838, the following remarkable prediction
in relation to Mr. Van Buren occurs:
“He did not come into office upon any’ char
acter of his own; and no man is fit for the sta
tion Ac now occupies, unless heattainit upon
lhe strength of his own principlesand charac
ter. He is nothing but a mhre lull ol political
misletoc, having no root of his own, adhering to
and supported by the limb of a distant trunk,
altogether, and must as infallibly perish when
ever that trunk ceases to nourish him, as the tuft
on y’onder oak, whenever that oak shall have
decayed and fallen.
The Beauties of Tylerisin.
The Hon. John M. Botts recently addressed
the Clay Club of Richmond, and in the course
of his speech often recited divers cases of the
disgusting favoritism which characterises this
administration.—He proceeded as follows:
Another case was that of a you'h who had
committed a felony in one of the Western
States, and fled to the City of Washington, a
fugitive from justice, to seek his fortune. He
then sought out and invoked the kindness and
aid of lhe member of the district from which he
had fled, who, without knowing of his crimes,
took him under his protection. The youth was
sprightly and bent upon obtaining a midship
man’s warrant in the Navy. But this grade
was filled to overflowing, beside some hundreds
of applicants each strongly recommended by
friends, who preceded him. Not daunted by
these difficulties, he reconnoitered the scenes a
round for a few days, and resorting to that sa
gacity which nature had conferred upon him
rather liberally, he resolved upon his measures
and commenced operations. In the Madisonian
of the next morning, was a card saying that
“The first edition of ‘Ahasuerus’ having been
exhausted in the market, an admiring and anx
ious and public were waiting with deep im
patience the appearance of a further sup
ply-”
On seeing the card “Bob” hastened to the of
fice to ascertain the author, and on tracing him
out, introduced him to the palace as a youth of
uncommon promise, and on learning that he had
a strong predilection to enter the Navy, assuring
him by all the Gods and Muses upon Olympus
and Helicon, that his wishes should be gratified.
But it happened that the House ol Representa
tives had just passed a bill providing for the re
duction ofthe middies to the standard of Janu
ary, 1840, and it was then before the Senate,
wJiich constituted no slight impediment to the
attainment of our hero’s wishes, notwithstand
ing “Bob’s” especial aid and favor. While he
was pausing over this obstacle, fortune came to
his assistance and pointed out the avenue to suc
cess. It chanced that a most timely rumor got
afloat in the city that Prince John had had an
altercation with a lady of lhe paw, and that the
latter had made some declarations highly offen
sive to the Prince Royal. Our hero catching
these rumors in the street, at once sought out
tiie abode of Miss Frailty; upbraided her lor as
persing the character of the Prince Royal, and
slapped her in the face. A paiamour came to
her rescue—a melee ensued—which finally ter
minated in a fight in the public street in the open
day. The j’oung man’s tbnune was made. The
news of his chivalry reached the palace; and in
asmucn as be had puffed Bob’s poem and fought
John’s battles, the Captain surmounted all scru
ples and sent ihe young fugitive a midshipman’s
warrant the next morning!
These statements of Mr. Botts are strictly true;
they were notoriously so in Washington at the
lime the appointment was made, and the fact of
any appoiontment being given Io the young ras
cal alluded to, was matter of universal surprise.
We know the youngster well. He is connected
■with <?ne of the most respectable families in
Kentucky, is a great scamp, and smart enough
to bamboozle all the Tyler family, from lhe im
mortal Wat down to the. illustrious Bob. We
have known him a long while, never knew any
good of him, never expect to, and il looking for
a tnan likely to find favor with John Tyler and
lhe “boys,” we should select him from among
a thousand.
s-tom me rsanimore American.
American Manufactures.
Improvements in the process and style of al
most every article of American manufacture
have been going on steadily, and lhe degree of
skill and perfection which has been attained
leaves no room for doubt that under the sound
and wise policy recognised by the existing Ta
riff, the U. States will in some few years time
become entirely independent of Europe lor the
large mass of articles required for the necessaries
and comforts ol our people. We have the firm
est reliance that the industry, skill and persever
ance of our countrymen, if reasonably aided,
will accomplish these results, and we find that
our respected contemporary of the New York
American holds the same opinion. In the
“Money Article” of that journal, prepared to go
by the Boston steamer of the loth, the editor
says—
“We had here a few weeks since a pretty gen
eral revival of trade in nearly all its branches,
; and coming at an earlier period than usual in
the season, it Jed to the belief that a heavy busi
ness would continue to be done through lhe au
tumn. The supplies of foreign manufactured
goods being limned at the time, the market was
scon nearly swept, and orders to a considerable
amount were consequently sent to Europe lor a
fresh supply. The demand, however, that seem
ed to spring up unexpectedly early in the sea
! son, as unexpectedly diminished, and it is sup
posed that the imports now coming forward will
, meet a fess ready sale than was promised, and
, pay a less profit lhan was anticipated. Tiiis
, may be accounted for partly by the (act, that the
, demand alluded to was measurably overrated
in consequence ol so little having been done for
• so long a lime previods, and partly by the fact
that those more exclusively engaged in import
ing goods did not measure the extent of the home
supply, which has been increasing, and is now
very large, and embraces almost every article of
large consumption manulactured of cotton,
worsted, and wool, and so successfully haveour
own manufactures progressed, that possibly the
period is not distant when this country will be
entirely supplied at home with all such articles,
except, peihaps, a limited list of the finest and
rarest fabrics.
The Iron Trade has also been and continues
to be largely affected by the increase of our
home supplies, which has limited the amountof
import ol bar and bolt iron, and reduced the
price to so low a figure as to leave little if any
inducement to the importer.”
The following paragraph, copied from anoth
er New York paper’s description of the articles
exhibited at the great Fair ol the American In
stitute, bears testimony to the superior manufac
ture of those which are here specified:
“Let any one look at the cloths in this wing of
the Institute, and learn a lesson. He will there
see broad cloths from the Middlesex Mihs which
cannot be surpassed, literally and truly c.mnut
be surpassed. But mark the mark of the cloth.
Ills “Drap de Satin,” a French mark. Thus,
all our good cloths, s>lks, cotton, lamps, and ev
ery thing else, aie sold under ibreign marks. A
large house told General Tallmadge al this fair,
that their best lamps, made at Boston, are sold
throughout the country as foreign lamps. The
anecdotes told in relation to this mailer at the
Silk Convention are curious, and Iraught with
instruction. Let the ladies and those fond of
using foreign fashions, recollect, that in nine
cases out of ten, articles they paid a hi ’h price
cn for importation and tariff, were made at heme,
and that the dealer laughs at their gullibility
while he pockets his extra profits, lhe broad
cloths here ought to be examined by every A
mencan. There are line beaver cloths, and sati
nets, and cassimeres, of the very finest patterns
ever sold, all made at home. The French, cassi
meres, made by the Yankees are a cuiiosity.
Silks—What we have said of the cloths is true
ofthe silks. The specimens exhibited are ot
the first quality. The Northampton Associa
tion, the Patterson Association, and Dr. Gill of
Ohio, have some rich samples on exhibition. It
is demonstrated that the raw silk raisedin this
country is superior to that of other nations and
we can manufacture fully as cheap if not cheap
er. Foreign nations cannot compete with us in
the great staples of manufactures of iron, of cot
ton, of wollen, and silk goods, and many’ other
articles.”
Money Market.—The N.York Commercia
Advertiser ot Saturday evening 21st instsays:--
The removal of the apprehensions which were
entertained a short time since, that money would
be more in demand and an advance obtain in the
rates of interest, seems to have given increased
confidence to capitalists and caused more active
inquiry for sound and substantial investments.
The improvement in business,great as it hasbeen,
has still not been sufficient to call into requisi
tion the capital available for such purposes, and
the question now beiiijj considered settled tiiut
no foreign demand for specie will arise during
the present season, hankers and private capital
ists are desirous of employing their funds, at
rates quite as low as those which were current
during the Summer.
y l ,-There is a stave-cutting and ban el-making
machine in operation in Vermont, which is ca
pable ol culling from lhe rough timber, staves
and heading sufficient for 500 barrels in a day,
and can fit and prepare for retting up and finish
ing about 200 barrels in the same time.
B 111 they Resign t
We are constantly asked, says the Savannah
Republican, “will Mr. Colquitt and those others
who we e in favor of the instructions to Senator
Beirien, resign?” We answer that it depends
altcgelher on their consistency. Assuming that
they are not totally destitute of this virtue, and
that on gtave public questions, they would not
deliberately avow opinions of cardinal value
one year, which they disavow the next, we may
infer that their resignations will follow as a
matter of positive certainty. The school to
which Messrs. Colquitt Sc Co. belong, is claim
ed to be essentially democratic. A nice regard
tor the rights and liberties of the people, and'
even a sensitiveness which is disposed to ac
commodate itself to the wishes of that people,
whose servants they arc, has ever been among
the profusions al least of that section. The ter
ror and apparent sincerity of the party leaders,
of whom Mr. Colquitt is one, have been so con
stant and so ardent, that their opponents might
well hall on the threshold of accusation. If they
were nut sincere in their professions of regard for
the people’s rights and lor constitutional rights
then are they in a very unfortunate situation.
The best hypothesis on which they can be ac
quitted ol gross selfishness, ol a total absence of
regard lor the Constitution, and, in short, sf the
most envenomed rancour, is to concede that they
were sincere, when they urged last year in the
case of Senator Berrien, that the delicate nature
of the connection between the representative and
his constituents inipcrimislii demands that as soon
as he aasrs to subserve the objects of his appointment
he should resign. Applying further their own
test, the expression of lhe public will at lhe bal
lot box, they cannot well avoid resigning. The
"expressed will” of the people and the "wishes of
the Legislature” can leave tiietn in no doubt how
to act These sources of power are as omnipo-
tent this year as they were last, and those who
proclaim their omnipotence should bow in sub
mission.
To lhe question—Will they resign 2 Who
can answer? No one but themselves. It de
pends on the men themselves, and they will be
krown by their fruits, by the concordance be
tween their public professions and public con
duct. Perhaps they wait for instructions from
a Whig Legislature. If so, we tell them once
for all, that they need not wait. Let them go
ahead on their own grounds. We are confident
that they will have no instructions from the
Whigs; who view with a most righteous aver
sion the inlamous doctrine of instruction, a doc
trine which, if followed out, would change the
form olthis government. The Whigs did not
instruct Mr. Cuthbert, though they mignt per
haps instruct out with some propriety, (pardon
the contradiction in terms,) a member who was
hardly ever i» his seal. The Legislature of
last year left our Senator to the “isolation” he
had chosen for himself, —and now they are left
to the “isolation” they have chosen for them
selves.
Later from Campeachy.—By the arrival of
the brig Empressaria, Capt. Collins, we have
received dates from Campeachy to the Bth inst.
The commissioners on the part of the Yuca
tan government to conclude a treaty with Mexi
ico, had not yet returned, and this delay in com
ing to terms occasioned great dissatisfaction at
Campeachy. It was confidently anticipated
there, that an early outbreak ol hostilities would
ensue. This feeling is greatly strengthened by
the closing of the port of Laguna by Santa
Anna, which was looked upon with extreme re
pugnance by the Yttcatanese.—Picayune.
The following anecdote exhibiting aspect
men of sharp practice in a lawyer, illustrates
forcibly the advantage of employing a member
of the profession who is wide awake:
Some weeks ago a sailor was arrested by the
United States authorities on a charge of larceny
at sea, and as usual when lhe next Grand Jury
was empannelled, this case came before them.
That body had one witness uuder examination,
atid while thus engaged the officer in attendance
upon them left his post for a single moment.
During his absence another witness was called
for, and the lawyer engaged by the culprit, who
was close at hand with his client, opened the
door ol the Grand Jury room and pushed him
in, as the witness whose examination had just
conelui edpa-sed out, said with imperturbable
gravity, “This is the next witness, gentlemen.”
With such testimony the Grand Jury of course
ignored the bill, much to the astonishment of
the complaining party, for it was a gross and
palpable case of larceny; but his astonishment
was increased when he found himself sued tor
false imprisonment. The tr al came on in the
Court ot Common Pleas, and then the mystery
which enshrouded the ptoceedings of lhe Grand
Jury was unravelled amid the uproarious laugh
ter ol the bench, bar, jury and audience. The
plaintiff lost his suit, but he had the satisfaction
ot putting his captain toa round sunt of expense
in costs, instead of going, as he richly deserved,
to Blackwell’s Island tor theft.— N. Y. Cour. If-
Enq.
A Noble Dog.—A Halifax paper stales that
a child was playing with a Newfoundland dog,
on Roach’s wharf, (Halifax,).! short time since,
a.id by some accident, slipped over the end of
old) and seizing the waist of his little frock,
brought him into the dock, where there was a
stage, and by which the child held on, but was
unable to get on top. The dog, seeing that it
was unable to pull lhe little fellow out of the
water, tun up to a yard adjoining, and where a
little girl of nine years ot age was spreading out
clothes. He seized the girl by her frock, and
notwithstanding her exertions to get away, he
succeeded in dragging her to the spot, where the
child was still hanging bj’ the hands to the stage.
On the girl’s taking hold ol the chjld, the dog
assisted her in rescuing the little fellow Iromhis
perilous situation, and after licking the face of
the infant, that it had thus saved, it took a leap
off the stage, and swam round to the end of the
wharf, and immediately after returned with his
hat in its mouth. It is said that the father ot the
child—to whom the dog belongs—when leaving
the country where he formerly resided, rescued
it from lhe hands of some persons, who were a
bout to execute the poor animal, for killing a
sheep.
The Popular Vote in Maryi.and Some of
the Locofbco papers t.rerepuhlishinga spurious
table from their organ in Baltimore, in which a
bald attempt is made to cipher out a Locofoco
majority on the popular vole at the recent Mary
land election. The Baltimore Patriot effectual
ly exposes this shallow artifice. A single fact
will serve to illustrate the accuracy of these
Locofoco figures. Worcester county is put
down as having given 1,000 Locofoco and 808
Whig votes in the late contest, when, in fact,
this county elected the entire Whig ticket. The
Patriot characterizes the table as a miserable at
tempt to bolster up a fallen cause by false asser
tions.—Nat. lot.
The National Intelligence says:—We under
stand that the the Hon. Abraham Renchcr, late a
Representative in Congress from the State of
North Carolina, lias been appointed Charge
d’Aflaires of the United States to Portugal, in
the place of Mr. Barrow, who has applied for
permission to return home.
Magnanimity-
Adversity in her iron tread of desolation, pays
no respect to names or persons. Thesamecloud
that showers its fury upon the trembling earth,
obscures the noblest names, or carries dismay
into the purest, bravest bosoms. How many
noble-hearted men of lofty purpose, generous
spirit, and patriotic aim, have been levelled to
the promiscuous herd of grovelling vice, by the
social tempests that haverocked the land, in their
financial ccnvulsions! Interests crushed—or
speculations baffled, have awakened a thousand
scorpion prejudices; tooverwhelm misfortune,
t.y adding reproach to adversity. But the storm
has passed away. The clouds no longer pour
their desolating fury upon meritorious heads.
As prosperity returns, the spirit of kin'ness
warms the bosom, and mercy seated on a hea
ven-kissing hill, extends the hand of clemency,
to raise the urooping penirnt from despondency,
to hope and joy. As the land sings with re
turning wealth—as the hum of virtuous plea
sure fills and overflows the bosom of honest toil
—let us strive to bury in oblivion lhe frailties of
those, who may have erred in times past, when
protecting fortunes to come. Even honest in
dignation-even virtuous resentment—even the
stern bosom of offended justice, ought to burn
out, and give place to the noble and magnani
mous feeling of forgiveness. Let us yield to
others what we ourselves invoke as a boon from
Heaven. “Forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive those who trespass against us.” What
a beautiful condition ol Divine mercy! Who
can be insensible to so plaintive a supplication?
The nature ot man, when not wrought on by
wicked influences, inclines him to liberality,
generositv, and a manly forgiveness es injuries.
Let us cultivate these holy promptings of na
ture, and extend to our erring brother, the hand
ot friendship, peace and good will.
A Gem.—Give us such boys as have been
blessed with the instructions of a pious mother.
It is a qualification for which no substitute can
be lound on earth. Never would we despair of
the child who has been used, in his infancy, to
hear the precepts of heavenly truth inculcated
in the accents of maternal love. Truths thus
distilled live forever in the memory. They are
interwoven with all the sensibilities of the soul.
They are the fortress of conscience, not impreg
nable, it is true, but indestructible. They furnish
the mind with chords which, in after life, seldom
fail to vibrate to lhe touch of faithful expostu
lation. They arc inextinguishable spams,
which being seemingly smothered under a heap
ol corruption, may be fanned by the breath of
friendly and spiritual counsel into the pure and
genial flame ol piety.
The Georgetown Advocate of Saturday says--
There seems to be no doubt that Messrs.
Everett, Jenifer, Barrow, and Todd, have been
recalled from their respective missions, and are
to be shortly replaced by as many of Mr. Ty
ler’s dear friends. There is a sound of John C.
Spencer’s succeeding Col. Todd at the Russian
Court.
ICrTiine is a rapid, gliding stream, and we
are floating in its current, unconscious how
swiftly we are waited alohg.