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Weekhi & Sentinel.
OLD SERIES, VOL. LVIII.
THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
IS FVIUBHID DAILY, TBI-WEBKLV, AND WEEKLY,
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FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2.
No mail north of Richmond, Va., last night
There will be five mails due Irom New York
this evening.
“Was not that Thunder I”—What a terrible
condition the American people are in I—as we
have just learned from the New York Evening
Post and Washington Globe. We have been
at the very gates of ruin, and knew it not i
“ Look,” says the formerof these prints, “ at the
rates of duty. Duties ol filly per cent! dutiesof
a hundred and fitly per cent! duties of a hun
dred and eighty per eent! and more. See how
prodigiously the price of goods manufactured at
American mills [ah, those American mills!] has
risen since the tariff was laid: in some cases
nearly sixty per cent.” And again, says the
British Post—“see what a manufactory-ridden
people we are—[every one with a cotton facto
ry, at least, on his poor back!] and how, be
tween the knaves of the mills on the one hand,
and the knaves of the halls of Congress on the
other, we arc fleeced as mercilessly as if we had
a conquering army, [say an uncontrolled pha
lanx of Spittaifield weavers!] in the land, laying
us under forced contributions!”
Alas! how mercilessly we are trodden down,
true enough: and yet how happy are we that
the Daniel of the Post, this Julius Casar of
English spinning jennies, has come to our re
lief, and made known the grievances under
which the people of America are suffering!
Only think how cheap we could have goods
from England, were it hot for the tariff! The
best of them we should get for nothing—and
eighty per cent, besides for the favor done in ta
king them —and this, too, notwithstanding arise
in price, in England, of the inanulactured arti
cle, and a great increase in the price of t ie raw
material in America. Ob, that wicked, wicked
tariff! Who does not recollect how cheap we
had everything when QW England did all our
manufacturing tor us? What now costs us ten
cents, she only charged us twenty for !
No wonder, under such a state of things, that
the editor of the Post finds his old love for Eng
land revived. No wonder his wrath burns so
fiercely against those rascally “American
millsl” They ought, of course, to be burned up
at once, for daring to compete with those of
“dear Old England.” The impudent things!
how dare they uprear their rebellious walls on
this side of the great salt pond 1 Are not the
“dearpeople”—those trodden-down ofitie Post’s
fancy-ready to rise up and crush them ?
And the amiable and honest Blair, how gently
he slides in to the aid of his brother advocate of
English, mills, English capital, English subjects,
at New York! Does he, too, hear the pleasing
jingle of the English gold, so kindly scattered
~c commercial
houses, in the “Commercial Emporium i
Hath the golden angel also loosened his tongue
in praise of transatlantic workshops 7 “No one
can doubt,” says this lover of truth and worship
per of honesty, “that for all the various neces
saries of life, taxed by the tariff of the Clay
Congress, the people pay two prices: the one the
cost ot manufacture, the other resulting from
impost.” “Oh, not the least doubt of that!”
chimes in, from the belfry of a cotton mill ai
Manchester, the worthy coadjutor of Mr. Blaii
in relieving the Americansfromthose “two pri
ces” ot the accursed “ knaves of the American
mills” ot his brother Bryant! See the black
mail which they levy 1 “On cotton yarn, a du
ty of one hundred and seventeen per cent,” cries
Mr. Blair: and “thg American knaves selling
it at an advance of nearly a penny a pound on
the cost of the raw material”—says his double
of the Manchester spinning jenny! “On cut
nails three cents a pound!” cries the Globe
. man. “ And the Vankee nailer charging from
a penny three farthings to two pence per pound,
for the article at his American works!” screams
the English adjunct of the American free trader,
from his iron palace at Birmingham. And so
on, through the whole chapter of grievances got
up by a paid agent of British manufacturers a t
New York, a - d his second at Washington: and
for what ? Oh, of course, out of love for “ the
dear people”—nothing less. Are there any
gudgeons to nibble at such bait’
g~>Mr. Ritchie is decidedly of the opinion,
that no person will, at the coming Presidential
Election, vote against Mr. Van Buren, who was
not either “ a Harrison Whig or a faltering
Democrat in the campaign of 1840!” This is
the first evidence we have seen of returning san
ity on the part of our venerable cotemporary,
since the first publication ot Mr. Rives’s let
ter. The fate of Mr. Van Buren may be ga
thered, however, from the little fact, that there
was a majority of nearly 150,000 against him
in 1840, and we have not heard of his getting
much stronger since that time. Mr. R., we
think, has confessed too much.
“ Coonery, on coming in, reversed the order
of things. It doubled the expenditures and re
duced the resources one hall. Hence our na
tional debt and deficit.”
W nen a laiseuouo i.««- v-. wia, .-—a «*«
to a fellow who will go the whole figure,and
not stop half way! The editor of the Baltimore
Republican—from which paper we clip the sen
tence at the head of this article—is just such a
person. The extract we have given is Irom a
laboured article by the gentleman, in which he
undertakes to show that the late Whig Congress
was extravagant, and that the jacobins, past,
present, and to come, are very economical crea
tures! The fellow should have a premium for
leasing-making! . He is among the sachems of
his tribe—a very cacique of falsehood mongers!
Whig Club House.—We learn from the
Richmond Whig of Wednesday last, that the
■» “Whig Club House,” in that city, will be dedi
cated on Wednesday next, and asthe(so called)
Democratic Convention is to meet in Richmond
on the following day, that “ it is the wish of the
Whigs generally to tender it to them as the most
convenient place for them to meet in.” This is
very neighborly, certainly—and we doubt not
the jacobins will accept the offer; particularly,
as the editor of the Whig promises, " en passant,"
that, “it our Democratic brethren will agree to
consult their comfort by accepting the House,
Whigs enough will attend to hide the nakedness
ts the land; and we think we can undertake
for the Whig Building Committee that there
shall be no coon or coon skin about the House.”
Mr. Clay in South Carolina.—The Whigs
of South Carolina seem to be disposed to pul the
ball fairly in motion, and to unfurl their banner
to the breeze. A Clay Club has j ust been form
ad in Cheraw, in a notice of which the Columbia
Chronicle remarks:
“ The Officers of the Club are among the
ablest and most respectable men in I hat District,
or indeed in the State It is cheering io be back
ed by such men. We hear, moreover, from all
quarters of the State, that the Whigs are prepar
ing for an effective organization. The Cabbage
Sulk can’t flourish in the region where the Pal
metto grows.”
“Men and Manners" at Washinoton.-
.’rom the Washington correspondence of that
■lever Whig journal, the Newark Advertiser,
ve clip the paragraphs which follow. Th<
performances of the two gentlemen whom the
writer particularly passes round, are in a fait
way, xe think, ot being pretty essentially
“ damned to everlasting tame,” and their con
stituents with them, we hope, if they again elect
those fellows.
“ Almost every Congress has an incubus up
on it, in the person of one or more wrangling
and debauched members. It may with truth be
said that the present House can boast of two in
Jividuals not excelled, in their peculiar voca
tion, by any previous members of that body.
“Ol Mr. Weller, from Ohio, the remark is
true that his course becomes the wrangling po
litical disputaht of a pothouse cabal. No one
can doubt this since his conduct on Friday last,
which, for personal abuse and gross black
guardism, I have never known exceeded in the
the House.
“ The debauched member, to whom allusion
is mad rove, is a Mr. McConnell, of Alaba
ma, wi* .could actually bring disgrace upon a
New York Five Points subterranean tavern.
No evil spirit, emerging from those dismal
abodes ot Sepravity, ever more clearly hnani
fest*d utter blackguatdism, than does this pro
fane inebriate from the State of Alabama, when
he appears in tile House, to disgrace, by his
loathsome person and demeanor, the constitu
ency he represents.”
The writer thinks that “to maintain a proper
dignity and self-respect,” the House ought at
once to expel the Alabama man, because “ it is
an insult to the nation that he should thus be
oar milted to disgrace the proceedings of that
body, by his blasphemy, blackguardism and
most disgusting person.”
We fully agree with the writer: but there is
one obstacle, we fear, in the way of carrying
out his plan. We have some how imbibed the
idea, that the notions of the majority of the pre
sent House of Representatives, in reference to
“dignity and self-respect,” differ a little from
those of the writer!
The following paragraphs strike out a new
plan for shortening the session :
“ Among other numerous expedients that here
occur to my mind, for the more prompt and effi
cient despatch of public business in the House,
is that of assigning specific subjects of debate
to certain members, and basing all final action
upon the merits of the debate, putting out of the
question the merits of the subject in debate. For
instance, why not assign them as follows, viz:
Mr. Kennedy, of Ind., on the Judiciary.
“ Jameson, of Mo., on Rules and Orders.
“ Reding, of N. H., on the Previous Ques
tion.
“ Cave Johnson, of Tenn., on Objections.
“ Bidfeck, of Penn ,on Suggestions.
“ Black, of Geo., on Bombast.
Holmes, of S. C., on the Flowers of
Rhetoric.
“ Dean, ot Ohio, on the Virtues of the
Hyena.
“ Dawson, of La.,on Southern Chivalry.
“ Pettit, of Ind* on Church and State.
“ Douglass, of ill., on Martial Lavr.
“ Seymour, of Conn., on Soilloquising.
“ Weller, of Ohio, on Every Thing.
“Undersuch a judicious distribution of the
various subjects for debate, Congress, and the
people of the country, would be greatly enlight
ened, and the public business would progress
with ease, satisfaction and despatch.”
The above selection is evidently a very fair
one; and so far as it goes, the people of Geor
gia ought to be very thankful to the writer for
assigning so distinguished a post to one of their
delgalion— (not representatives, mark!) But
judging trom the general puffs that are finding
their way into so many papers, in different sec
lions of the Union, we should think that one or
two others of the Locofoco delegates from this
State were fast becoming famous for something
—we can’t discover exactly what
. —_ 'Lg.u ...HUfcJIS" -
tidnal obligations, by assigning some particular
subject, for the elucidation of which he may be
peculiarly qualified, to each one of the remain
ing “distinguished” gentlemen above alluded
to! Or it that should be too much to ask of a
stranger, on short acquaintance, he will, per
haps, do an equal favor by conveying our re
quest to the Puff-Maslcr-General of that notable
concern, by a misnomer designated as the Geor
gia “ Democ atic” Delegation, that he may at
tend to it. We would ask one of the said dele
gation to attend to this matter himself—but be
ing well advised of their modesty, we forbear do
ing so!
%~>The following notice of an adventure of a
citizen of this place has been for some time wait
ing iis turn. Though late in appearing in our
columns it loses nothing of its piquancy. Our
New York correspondent however, it will be
seen, confounds the Hon. John P. King with
the Hon. Thos. Butler King. Ii is the latter
gentleman whose name was used, in connexion
with the Secretaryship of the Navy.
A Considerate and Civil Thief,—The
Hon. J. P. King, of Georgia, while on a visit
to this city some days ago, having laid his over
coat do,m in the entry ot the American Hotel,
while he stepped into the reading room, on his
return —to utter an Irishism—found it missing.
At a subsequent day he received the cool and
civil note of which we annex a copy :
Hon. J. P. King.
Sir—l herewith transmit your address the let
ters found in your coat last evening, presuming
they are of personal consequence to you.
Thanking you kindly for the loan of your
coat, allow me to assure you of my high con
sideration, and personal esteem. Resp’y your
ob’t serv’t, A'on est inventus.
Compliments to friend Cozzens.
We have called this considerate; and was it
not measureably honest loo"! For suppose this
Latin thief had chosen, with the coat and letters
in his possession, topass himself off for the real
owner, where, although known, the mere casual
display of these letters might have borrowed mo
ney, made purchases—perhaps even accepted
the office of Secretary of the Navy, for w.iich
Mr. King’s name has been mentioned, and done
other mischievous and wicked things on the
strength of his theft—all which having forborne
to do, is he not measurably honest?— N. York
American.
A Particular notice!—ln the New Orleans
Picayune, which contained a notice of the ac
quittal of the Cashierofthe Citizens’ Bank, who
confessed, under his own hand, that he had un
lawfully taken, and used for his own private
purposes, the I unds of that institution, we find
the following very significant paragraph. We
hope the honorable corps to which the appeal is
made will hasten home as fast as possible. No
doubt they can be spared from their present res
idences—unless they may be in Mississippi,
and we doubt not the bond payers there would
be happy to partwith them!
“All delinquents, defaulters, embezzlers and
absquatulators are respec'fully invited to return
to this city. They shall be pronounced honest,
virtuous and moral men—and no questions ask
ed. Come home, all ye bank-swindlers, sloping
sub-treasurers and defaulting office-holders—
come home! come home!!
y,An English gentleman, who had but re
cently arrived in the country, while standing at
the window of the New York Post Office, as
we learn from the papers of that city, had his
pocket picked, a few days since, of some £3OO,
in Bank of England notes. The loss is a heavy
one, and the perpetrator of the theft may not be
detecte 1. It he is, however, we will hazard a
wager that he proves to be a countryman of the
gentleman robbed—perhaps, came over in the
same ship with him. Old England sends us
over many a “Chevalier d’lndustrie”—rogues
of every degree of comparison—and then very
gravely charges to American account their ras
cally doings! When this Englishman goes
u home," he, too, beyond a question, will rave
at the Yankees for this knavery’, as it doubtless
is, of a regularly trained London pick-pocket.
“The Mississippian says that 86,000 coun
terfeit warrants have been paid into the Slate
Treasury.”
All very natural! Those who would repu
diate, certainly’ would not hesitate to counter
feit.
The new Constitution of the Haylien Re
public provides that all modes ol worship -hall
be equally free, and declares that no white per
son shaH become a citizen or hold real estate.
“ What we propose to do is, to convince thi
eventeen millions of industrious laboring peo
ple of this country, that it is not wise or expe
dient for them to pay to the American manufac
turers of cutton or woollen goods, $13,409,486
per annum, mare than they could purchase them
for if the tariff were properly modified.” — Dujj
Green.
The “seventeen millions of industrious labor
ing people of this country,” (we never before
knew there were so many of them!) already
know that it would be “unwise” to pay such a
bounty to American manufacturers as is named
above, without any aid from Gen. Green, or any
other free trade “ convincer.” But the General
will find it quite a different matter to “ con
vince” those “ industrious persons” that they do
pay any such increase of price on the manufac
tured articles they use, because ot the protec
tive features of the tariff. The fine spun theo
ries of the speculative writer do not always
stand the test of practice and experience, as this
new free trade expositor will find out in the
course of his labors. But if he does succeed in
proving his absurdities, to the satisfaction of a
five hundredth part of the millions he is about
undertaking to “convince,” we will concede to
him one other power—to wit, miracle working.
The Ladies moving!—A late number of the
Philadelphia Ledger contains the following
notice of a concentrated movement of the ladies
ot that city against intemperance—or rather the
great causes thereof, Tippling Houses.
On I’uesday'morning, Wm. D. Kelley, Esq.,
presented to the Quarter Sessions a petition,
signed by 13,000 ladies ot the city and county of
Philadelphia, pray ing that no more places for
selling spirituous liquors be licensed; that the
number now permitted to deal in this article be
further reduced; and that more effectual mea
sure- be takei. to prevent tavern-keepers from
keeping open and vending liquors on the Sab
bath. Judge Parsons received it and said the
prayer should be attended to, so far as it lay in
the power ot the Court. There are none so
deeply interested in this matter as the women of
our country, tor the woes which result from
drunkenness fall almost exclusively upon them
and their children. It is not therefore a matter
of surprise that, upon a subject which so deeply
involves their* temporal welfare, they should
begin to be solicitous, and should appeal to the
proper authorities for protection. This is a
movement by the injured parties as it were, and
it is peculiarly recommended to the favorable
regards of the philanthropist and the lawgiver.
This is right: and not only in Philadelphia,
but in all other sections of our country where
the mind-debasing and brutalising practice of in
temperance prevails, do we hope to see the bet
ter halt of creation moving in solid phalanx
against that deadly enemy to social comfort and
happiness.
Pretty good!—“Oliver Oldschool,” the
Washington correspondent of the United States
Gazette, tells the following capital anecdote:
“ A good anecdote was related in the house,
today. The story goes that a colored man, who
tends the fires in some part of the building, was
informed that, as a Loco wanted his olace, he
must go down one story and take charge of an
other department. The man refused, with
some manifestation of indignation, to accept
the charge assigned him, and taking off his hat,
replied, “Sir. I came in with gentlemen, and I
wish to go out with gentlemen; my place is,
therefore, at the service of the Loco who desires
it;” and making a low bow, walked away with
an air of dignity and self-respect.”
Small Pox communicated by Bank Notes
—Mr. Duble, Teller of the Clinton Bank, Co
lumbus, Ohio, recently died el small pox; the
infection having been communicated by the
Bank Notes which he was compelled to handle
in his official capacity.— Sun.
It may be so—but we should like to know
how it was ascertained that the bank notes com-
s—th-have
."‘bed Kin, ,gh. irpvnU■ .<• ,u^. -1
its article on the PilgrKnage 'X.,
New Speculation!—A bookseller in Boston
offers a copy of an engraved likeness of Washing
ton, as a premium for subscriptions to Harper’s
Pietorial Bible!
Jj-The Washington correspondent of the
Newark Daily Advertiser thus alludes to a ru
mor that we hope may be true :—“ I hear the
name of the Hon. John Taliaferro, for many
years a member of Congress from Virginia!
named in connection with the office of chief of
the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, vacated
by the rejection of Hon. Isaae Hill.
Late from Florida.—By the arrival of the
steamer Wm. Gaston, Capl. Freeland, we have
the St. Augustine News, and the Jacksonville
Tropical Plant, of the 27th inst.— Savannah Ret
publican.
Lieut. Alexander T. Hoffman, of the 2d regi
ment U. S. Infantry, (a native of New York,)
died in St. Augustine on Thursday last.
The News has the following: “Ourcorrespon
dent at Key West writes us under date of 16th
inst. as follows: —“ Indian Key, which was un
der mortgage to Joseph C. Lawton, Esq. of
Charleston, was sold yesterday for $355, and
bought in for mortgages. Business dull, and
the town quite lively. The barracks here are
in rapid progress of completion, and will, when
finished, afford as comfortable ones as any in the
Southern country.”
The cold weather, it appears, has extended to
Florida. The Jacksonville Tropical Plant says
the night of the 26th ult. was the coldest weath
er we ever experienced in Florida; ice was
formed to the thickness of a quarter of an inch
—in the fore part of the night we had a light
fall of snow.
The same paper says; “We have been
credibly informed that 150 Indian warriors have
been counted at many different times in making
their appearance at the military post at Tam
pa."
Thos. O. Holmes, Esq. has been appointed
Inspector of the Customs for the District of St.
Johns, vice, Judge Doggett, deceased.
The following article, which we clip from the
Tropical Plant, does not give a very favorable
account of the settlers who have recently taken
up their homes in the Territory.
From the interior.—By several gentlemen
recently from, and through the interior of the
country, we have a batch of interesting news
concerning the settlers and the settlements re
cently formed, and although there is much con
tradictory statement, what we shall give appears
to be generally concurred in and can be relied
on.
Ti e sickness last summer in the “ Promised
Land,” (all that region of country below a line
drawn Irom Matanzas inlet, due west, to Dead
man’s Bay,) has been more heavy than former
ly reported, and the settlers themselves have not
been the dnly sufferers; besides their slaves,
disease and death has beeg busy with their
brute creation; horses, cattle, hoes, have fallen
victims in this modern Upal. Os an aggregate
in the neighborhood of Camp King, ten out of
sixty have died, and from Orange Lake down,
but one man has escaped the fever.
Many ot the settlers who are able, are desert
ing the country and returning to their former,
homes, while those who are unable to get away,
are recruiting themselves lor another summer's
conflict with their terrible enemy, yet all in
hopesofa long life and comfortable independ
ence on the rich lands which thev so resolutely
and manfully are acquiring. The most un
healthy locations appearto be Annuttiliga ham
mock, Fort King neighborhood, the country bor
dering on the southern and western parts of
Grange Lake, and Silver Spring, near the Ock
law.ia. Much of the sickness in these places
however, is attributed to the rotten lime
stone water; in fact many of the settlers failed
to obtain water on their tracts after several trials
in digging wells, and were obliged to use the
water Irom sink holes and ponds; the scarcity
ot provisions and exposure to the hot sun of the
day and the drenching night dew’s, also contri
buted much to the bad health.
Another cause of dissatisfaction among the
settlers, is the carrying out by the surveyors the
recent instructions from Washington, to extend
their lines through their tracts, disregarding the
lines designated in their permits, thus making it
optional with them either to be content with one
quarter of the lands of their choice, or to relin
quish their tracts and allow them to revert to the
Government. Many have abandoned their lo
cations on this account.
Anti-rerudation.—The lower House of the
Legislature of Ohio have refused, by a unani
mous vote of all the members, to make any
change in the law whieh requires the Auditor
if the State to levy annually such tax as may
be requisite for the payment of the interest on
the public debt.
Death of Governor Kavannah.—The Hon.
Edward Kavannah, late acting Governor of
Maine, died on Saturday evening last, at his
residence in New-castle, in that State, in the
49th year ol his age. Mr, Kavannah was an
able and eatimabls man
AUGUSTA, GA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1844.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY X
The Mails—The late failures of the North
ern Mail are attributed, in a letter addressed to
he Postmaster at Charleston, to a severe snow
storm in North Carolina and Virginia, by which
the Railroad trains were very much impeded,
and to the freezing over of the Potomac river,
with the ice boat out of order! To meet which
latter emergency, there had been no arrange
ments made to earry the mails by land. Ol
course, it was not worth while to have the ice
boat in order, when there was no use for it—and
when there was need of it, there was no lime to
fix it! That’s foresight and energy with a ven
geance! We only know of one parallel: to
wit, the case of the man who lived in a house
with a leaky roof. When the weather was fair,
there was no necessity for mending the roof:
when it rained, he couldn’t do it!
The difference!—The Whigs, being Re
publicans, in word and in deed—and holding no
living man in reverence an iota beyond that
point of respect which is due to virtue, intelli
gence and patriotism, from those who can ap
preciate such qualities—hold their conventions,
when convenient, on the 22d of February: that
being the birth-day of a patriot indeed, whose
memory is dear to every American heart, and a
day on which freemen may well congregate, to
discuss matters having a bearing upon their
count.-y’s interests and happiness, without, in
the least, rendering them obnoxious to the charge
of man worship. The jacobins—being mere
partisans, the creatures of those scheming poli
ticians. whose efforts lend rather to the building
up ol h party or faction, than the establishment
of a principle rife with good to the country, and
redolent with happiness to man—meet on the
Bth of January, the anniversary of a local occur
rence, which only became a “day of jubilee" in
the land years afterwards, and because it then
suited the purposes of party to make it a political
saint’s day, and has since been continued, be
cause, in the spirit of man worship which gov
erns this latter party, it is still deemed necessa
ry, by a parasitic faction, to propitiate the living
“ hero”—who, but that his influence and popu
larity were supposed to be essential, heretofore
and at the present time, to bolster up a bad
cause, would never have been counted as “ hold
ing one sentiment in common with the Repub
lican party,” and been left in the comparative
obscurity in which faction found him.
In no one thing is the difference between
Whig independence and patriotism, and jaco- ,
binical partizanship and subserviency to men,
more striking, than in the peculiarity above
noticed. The Whigs meet onthe 22d0l Febru
ary, with the gravity and propriety becoming
men who feel an interest in all that may erure
to the prosperity of man, present and to come.
They meet in soberness, on a day, the chaste
remembrances ot which preclude the indulgence
in aught that would savor ol frivolity or riot
ousness, to “ reason together” concerning that
which is virtuous, solemn and patriotic. Their
assemblages are the gatherings ol men bent on
noble purposes. But how is it with their oppo
nents ? They meet on an idol day, and their do
ings come to us with all the sounds, accompani
ments, and similitudes of the Saturnalia! Their
acts are not those of rational men, met to discuss
vital principles with all the earnestness of wis
dom and reason. On the contrary, human pas
sions, partisan prejudices, and clannish zeal, are
lashed into a fury, that ih the blindness of party
Mge/ every thing that sounds of just scrutiny
jfrfSr"»heasb res, may be uuertyoverlookted, or
swallowed up in the phrenzy of jacobinical in
tolerance. Are not, indeed, the sounds of recent
celebrations ot these modern saturnalia, by the
zealots of party, yet ringing in our ears * Can
we mistake their object ? Who that has care
fully watched the progress ot things, will say,
that in the foregoing political limning, we have
not drawn a true picture 1
Family J arrino.—“The course of true love,”
we have often hear I and were fain to believe,
“ never did run smooth,” but we hardly expect
ed to hear of any jarring between those twin
brothers of Locofocoisn—the very Damon and
Pythias of jacobinism—the editors of the Rich
mond Enquirer and Albany Argus! But so
rugneth the world. Quarrels and squabbles
will take place in the best regulated families.
Even the fraternization of those upright editors
in the holy cause of Van Burenism, could not
prevent a small slice of clapper-clawing be
tween them! The caused quarrel is the com
placency with which Mr. Van Buren’sorgan in
New York regards the movements of the aboli
tionists in Congress and elsewhere: a compla
cency that has sadly _ruffled the temper, and
aroused th* choler, of the mild and amiable or
gan of Kinderhookism in Virginia. The way,
therefore, in which the disciple at Richmond
lectures the disciple at Albany, as a conse
quence, is edifying to see! The venerable Mr.
Ritchie really seems to be astonished that his
brother Radical should have any feelings in
common with the Abolitionists! Why, what a
child he must be, notwithstanding his years!
Let him watch the movements of his political
brother in New York closely, and he will find
that he can fellowship anything, provided it will
gain votes for “ the party”—or, what is the
same thing, for’Mr. Van Buren; and if Mr.
Ritchie continues to cruise in company with
such political freebooters, he also must fellow
ship those to whom the Argus man is so gra
cious. Without the aid ot the Abolitionists,
Mr. Van Buren can scarcely carry a non-slave
holding State. This, Mr. Van Buren himself
knows; and hence the graciousness of his
friends towards that class of politicians.
Locofoco Financiering.— The Banking
System and Banking Institutions of the State of
Alabama have been, strictly and exclusively,
under the eare of the Locofoco party. They
created the banks, and they managed them.—
The followirg exhibit will show wth how much
ability they have been conducted by those scien
tific financiers! It will also prove how very
sapable those men are to decide upon a banking
system for the entire Union—the jacobin legis
lators and bankers ot Alabama being a fair
specimen of the whole genus in the United
States. We copy from the Mobile Advertiser.
Debts Due the S ate Bank and Branches. —
From a report furnished the Legislature at its
late session, we have the following statement
showing the aggregate amount due to each of
the State institutions:
Due the Good Bad Doubtful
State flank at
Tu5ca1005a..81,064.325 45.. 753,560 17,, 1,065,110 61
Branch Bank
at Mob. 1e.... 2,205,726 02.. 2,315,386 37.. 876,969 56
Blanch Bank
at Decatur.. 1,396,571 60.. 1,162,044 28.. 204,378 60
Branch Bank
at Mnntg’ry. 1,771,735 32.. 861,675 17,. 327,707 45
Branch B’k at
Huntsville... 991.442 10.. 242,880 64.. 66,288 42
Total 37,429.800 52.35,336,638 627*2,559,454 64
Making a grand total of Dollars. .15,324,793 78
The annual statement last year showed the
account to stand; Good $8,852,135 00; Bad $5,-
501,433 16—Doubtful $2,648,214 81. An ag
gregate of $16,401,827 97.
A Bay State Sign !—At a Locofoco Con.
vention held in the third Congressional Dis
trict ol N f.ssachusetts, to elect a delegate to the
Baltimore Convention, and to nominate a can
didate for Congress, a resolution, declaring Mr.
Van Buren to be the choice of the meeting, was
promptly voted down. The jacobins of Massa
chusetts, and especially those in and about Low
ell, feel inclined to go for Cass. Van’s letter
about the tariff, published by his organ at Rich
mond, for effect on this side of the Potomac,
seems to be kicking the writer o e oth-
er side of the Potomac.
Jrtp The nomination of James M. Porter,
of Pennsylvania, as Secretary at War, has been
rejected ia the Senate, by a very large majority
Bear it in MtNttl—Mr. Clay and Mr. Van
: Buren, it is plain, are to be the only opposing
candidates at the coming Presidential election.
Now let the voters beat in mind, that when
Gen. Jackson left the executive chair, he declar
ed, in that parody of Washington’s Farewell
Address which was got up for him to sign, that
he “ left the country prosperous and happy I”
and his successor, Mr. Van Buren, endorsed the
declaration as true. The National Debt was
paid off also, and there was a large surplus in
the Treasury. Gen.* Jackson declared this to
be so: and Mr. Van Buren also swore that all
this was true. Now, with every thing in such
a prosperous state—such an overflowing treasu
ry—the debt paid off, and the countiy at peace
with all nations—how did Mr. Van Buren man
age the public affairs T He paid no debts ; he
improved no rivers; he constructed no harbors;
and yet he contrived to squander in four years
one hundred and forty millions of dollars! rob
bing the States of nine j, Wil ions ol dollars, the
balance of the surplus revenue; leaving the
treasury bankrupt and ’he government credit
less; the country cot with treasury
notes, much under pa^thecurrency vitiated;
and a debt of twelve or fifteen millions besides,
for his successors in office to take care of I And
while the government wan thus prostrated and
dishonored, how was it with the people, whom
he averred Gen. Jackson had “ left prosperous
and happy ?” It is not necessary that we should
answer that question! The response is written
on every man’s memory and heart so indelibly,
that time can scarce obliterate it!
With his handiwork thus staring him in the
face, what does the architect of ah this fuin ask
of the People? Why, simply that they shall
restore him to power I and with him, those who
aided l.im thus to beggar and dishonor the gov
ernment, and roll in the dust individual prosper
ity, wealth ind happiness! He would again
enjoy power, that he may again abuse it. The
country is slowly recovering from the effects of
his mis-government: he again covets the con
trol of the public purse, that he may once more
loose its strings for the • benefit of those who
fight with him “ for the spoils of the vanquish
ed!”
This is modest—is it not ? But are the feo
fle ready to grant the request ot this once repu
diated public servant? They found him unfaith
ful heretofore, and they indignantly drove him
from power. Are they prepared to restore the
unrepentant political profligate ? for he demands
his restoration as an act of justice, not of grace !
He requires it as one who has been injured.—
Matchless impudence—incorrigible effrontery!
Will not the People, instead thereof, again spurn
him ? Will they not rather call to the head ot the
public, affairs a statesman who has never abused
his trust—a public servant, who has ever proved
true to his country? For be it bprne in mind,
thatthey have but thischoice before them: Van
Buren, Extravagance end Corruption— or,Clay,
Retrenchment and Economy!
Mississippi Senator.—We perceive that
some of our cotemporaries, in announcing the
recent election of Mr. Speight, as a successor
to Mr. Henderson, Whig Senator from Missis
sippi, state that Mr. H.’s term expires on the
4th of March next. This, we believe, is a mis
take. If we remember correctly, the term ol this
Senator does not expire until 1845. By that
lime, the people generally will have become so
we l satisfied every where, and we hope in Mis
sissippi particularly, that there is safety and
profit only in adopting the principles andpolicy
son for opposing istration
which will then be in
£jrThe resolution introduced in the Senate
of Alabama, to do away with the white basis
principle in the bill by which that State was
laid off into Congressional districts, was lost by
a tie vote in that body, on the 15th ult. The
vote stood 16 to 16. There was one member
absent, who was in favor of repealing that pro
vision of the law. The Whig members all
voted in the affirmative.
Congressional Election.—The vote of
Dade county, at the late election, was lor
Clinch 17, and for Sanford 83. The whole
majority for Gen. Clinch, Whig, is therefore
4,148 —beinga gain of nearly a thousand votes
upon the Whig majority in October last.
Portrait of a Whig Statesman.—By the
annexed paragraph from the Louisville Jour
nal, it will be seen, that an excellent likeness
of Mr. Clay, is soon to be published by that
eminent artist, Mr. James Wise, ofPhiladel- I
phia, from a painting by himself, and engraved J
in mezzotint by Sartain. A prospeetus, we I
understand, is now in the hands of Mr. I. A. {
Hibler, ol this city; and we tsust that all who ,
admire the course of the patriotic Statesman of
the West, will take an early opportunity to se
cure for themselves proof impressions.
Portrait of Mr. Clay.—Mr. Wise, the dis
tinguished puniature painter, has rece- tly exe
cuted a portrait of Mr. Clay which is incompar
ably truer to nature than any other portrait of ‘
the great statesman we have seen. This por- '
trait is to be engraved in the highest style of ,
the art, and will afford those who wish a perfect
likeness of Mr. Clay an opportunity they have
long desired. Mr. Wise receives subscriptions
to this portrait, and we advise those of our
friends who want the. best likeness to subscribe
for it.
The Amsricam Journal thb Medical Sciences, i
Edited ’ y Isaac Hay*. M. D., ■ur£<uan to Willi,’
Hospital, &c. No. 13, New Seriee—lß44. Philedel
phie : Lea de Blanchard —pp. 266. Price, 36 per an- '
num. ]
The above number of this monthly Medical 1
Periodical, being the commencement of a new ’
volume, has been laid npop our desk, by Mr. |
T. Richards, the agent of the Publishers in this i
city. The high character which thisVork has
attained, renders it unnecessary for us to do
more than simply to remark, that this number ,
contains a great variety of matter, that must I
prove of great interesLagd value to medieal '
men ; and as it is the commencement of a new j
volume, we would suggest to those who are d«- 1
sirous of becoming subscribers, that it would be 1
well to begin with it.
John Brown Francis (Law and Order) has ‘
been elected by the Legislature of Rhode Island >
to the United States Senate, by forty-one ma- (
jority, over Christopher Spencer, (Van Buren 1
Dorr.te) in place ofthe Hon. Wm. Sprague re- !
signed.
Ohio.—The lower House of the Legislature
of Ohio have refused, by a unanimous vol* of
all the members, to make any change in the
law which requires the Auditor of the State to
levy annually such tax as may be requisite fbr
the payment of the interest on the public debt.
TV We see it stated in some of the New Or
leans papers, that the Locofoco members of the
Louisiana Legislature have agreed upon a cer
tain General Walker, as their candidate for
U. S. Senator, in place of Judge Porter.
“ In a word, ‘ Free Trade’ is doubtless a sound
principle, but w’hen a sermon with that text is
preached, all nations should be of the congrega
tion, and all alike receive and follow the doc
trine-otherwise it is labor lost—and its advo
cates, who attempt to enforce it on us, exclusive
ly, either are fools themselves, ot mistake ths
capacity of our people,”
There is more common sense in the foregoing
short paragraph from a communication which
appeared in the N.Y. Express, signed “Jacob
Swain—a Whig," than in any five columns ot
“free trade” speculations that we have been
compelled to read, trona time to time, tor the last
five years.
The Britannia brought over 60 passengers-
The cold in London wai severe on the night o(
the 2nd ins(., the mercury tailing to 12 degrees
below the freezing poijnt; per contra, it was so
mild on Christmas day, in Northumberland,
that boys were seen brtthing in the river, and
insects were observed tLe wing.
i War to the Knife.—The Van Buren Loci
; Foco leaders ot New York city have formallj
refused to allow the friends of General Cass to
i hold a public meeting in Tammany Hall! No
toleration of opinion upon the presidential que»
I tion, is the motto of the Loco Foco leaders.—
V an Buren must be thrust down the throats ol
' the party, nolens volens.
> Judge Gaston.—The Raleigh Register, in
announcing the death of this distinguished citi
zen, pronunces the following brief and eloquent
eulogium upon his character:
“ This afflicting dispensation of Providence
is yet too recent, to be fully realized; and the
feeling of gloom which pervades our communi
ty, is rather the stupor consequent upon sudden
and undefined calamity, than the calm and last
ing grief which succeeds an irreparable loss.—
It is doing no injustice tp the living to mourn
the dead, even if we mourn them as those whose
places may not soon be filled again; and who
may estimate the loss which has been sustained
in this sudden bereavement? We would not
intrude our sympathies upon those whose grief
is too sacred for human consolation; but there
is a public loss, which we share equally with
every citizen ofthe State. For forty years he
has been the omamen. of his profession-the
idol of his friends —the admiration of all who
knew him. The able jurist, the upright Jtldge,
the elegant and accomplished scholar, the ur
bane and polithed gentleman, the meek and dig
nified Christian, he has gone down from among
ns like the sun at sea, leaving the brightness ol
his noontide splendor to be equalled only by the
milder radiance which shall linger and play like
a hak> of beauty around his memory,”
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Latest from the Sandwich Islands.—We
have been favored by Captain Richardson, of
the American Seamen’s Friend Society, with
Sandwich Island papers to October 28th, being
about two months later than our previous ad
vices.
—The U. S. ship Erie arrived at Honolulu 1 1th
Sept, 31 days from Callao.
George Brown, Esq., U. S. Commissioner
for the Sandwich Islands, had arrived®! Oahu,
and sailed thonce on the 29th of October, in the
U. 8. ship Cyane, for the Island of Maui, to
meet the Sandwich Island government.
The officers aad crew ot th* Cyane, with a
generosity characteristic of seamen, made up a
purse of SIOO for the Rev. Dr. Damon, Amercan
Seamen's Chaplain, who had the mistorlUEe a
few months previous to lose S7O by theft, with
which he had intended to purchase a horse.
Mr. Hooper, acting Consul of the U. States at
the Sandwich Islands, stated, near the enJ ol
October last, that there had touched at the isl
ands within the previous nine months, upwards
ol 60,000 tons of American shipping, valued, in
cluding their cargoes, at 87,000,000.
Ship Harriot, Capt. Bunker.—ls we mistake
not, it has already been announced in thiseoun
try, that the ship Harriot, Capt. Bunker, was a
year or two ago captured and burnt by the na
tives at Strong’s Island, and her crew mas
sacred. At any rate tnese facte have been ascer- i
tained by Capt. Rounds, ot the brig Pacific, of
St. Johns, N. B. who visited Strong’s Island in
the course of the past year, and was windbound '
there nine weeks.
After he left the island, he learned from two
natives who had concealed themselves on board,
that the Harriot had been destroyed in a harbor
on the leeward side ot the island, as above stat'd.
Accordingly he steered for that harbor, and on
his arrival dragged for the Harriot, and obtaia
ed her anchor, chains, and figure bend.
From the N. V. Cbm. Adv., Saturday aftemoon.
The Wbather continued to grow still colder
after our paper went to press yesterday afternoon,
and several accidents were caused by ice is the
harbor. In the afternoon the steamboat Her
cules was caught between floating fragments in
the Narrows. Her wheels were broken to
pieces, and two holes stove in her bows, and
she was with difficulty kept from slaking. She
was towed up by the steamers Samson and Jacob
Bell, about 10 o’clock last night.
The steamer Orus, flora Shrewsbury, was
fast for several hours, near the Narrows. She
finally succeeded in getting out and came up af
r ' i; Me& «4'ten-strip reter Tim is, Worberg,’ i rom
Gefle, was i[i tow ofthe steamer Wave, and
both were carried ashore half a mile below Sta
pleton, Staten Island, where the ship still re
mains.
The brig Florida Blanco, trom Balize, Hon
duras, was carried ashore near Fort Richmond,
but was got off, and anchored in the Swash
Channel, South side of Staten Island.
Tne brig Tarquina, Scott, for St. Jagode Cu
ba, going out, with a steamer alongside, was
forced along the docks, carrying away short in
the slings the fore and mainyard of the brig
Franklin, Small; mizen topgallantmast, die., of
the ship Winnegance; jibboom, flying jibboom,
die., of ship Hopewell; and the foremast and
bowsprit of'a small schooner.
The South ferry boat made her last trip trom
this side at 7 o’clock last evening. Large fields '
of ice havin’ driven upon the Brooklyn shore
by the N. W. wind she was unable to return
Buttermilk channel was completely blocked up
with iee.
This morning the upper and lower bays and <
the rivers are lull ot ice, and it is with consid- ,
erable difficulty that the steam ferry boats keep i
up the communication between the city, Brook
lyn and the Jersey shore. 1
The ship Peter Innis, mentioned above is sti'l <
ashore on Staten Island, The brig Florida t
Blanco, and the schooner Samuel Coddington, .
have been towed up to the city by the steam
boat Samson. 1
The following table will show the range of the ,
thermometer kept at W. P. Morris’s, Wall
street: 1 '
7A. M. 12 M. 3 F. M. SP. M. 1
Jan. 24... 30 40 40 38
25.. 20 20 18 14 t
26.. 9 Z 15 18 15 ,
27.. 6 12
At Albahy, on Thursday, the thermometer at '
Apothecaries’ Hall indicated at 7A. M., 14 de- I
grees belo <v zero. t
At Quebec, on the 12th inst u ths thermeneter ,
was at ten below zero, and in some exposures
considerably (o\ver. ?
i
Philadelphia, January 27, A. M. •
The weather for the last twenty tour hours e
has been intensely cold: in fact, last night, it is t
said, was colder than any previous ope for the
past three years. The Delaware, that was neat- 1
ly free of floating ice in the early partofthe c
evening, was at eight o’clock this morning, com- t
pletely frozen over Iraqi shore to shore; the ac
tion qf(he Ice and Tow Boats, however, with a 1
strong tide, treed the main channel before noon;
since that time large fields of floating ice have
been borne along in front of the city with the 1
cutrent, caused by the rise and fall of the tide. i
e
New Vurk, Jan. 27. t
Money Market.—The inquiry tor money .
continues active, aqd (he rate ol discount by the
banks is generally fixed at five per cent. The •
imrfesafan is general that money will be more <
freely offered after the first ot February, when ,
tjte banks have made up their statements. This,
however, will depend materially upon Ifea fit
ture developments in the cotton speculations, ]
the course ot which thus far has been most ex
traordinary, and the result of which is looked
for with mnch anxiety. It is unquestionable !
that the inquiry for money now existing has i
been occasioned chiefly, it not entirely, by the ,
operations in cotton on American account, and
the withholding of the ordinary shipments. The 1
supply of sterling bills has been thus cut off, and '
the holders ol cotton have been compelled to ob- ,
tain facilities from the banks, to enable them to
carry forward the design of holding back a por
tion of the crop, and confirming the statements •
of a materially short supply. i
However correct these statements may ulti
mately prove, it must, we think, be conceded
that the operation is an unnatural one, and that
an undue stimulation ot prices will check the
demand for consumption. It is not for the inte
rest ol the cotton holders to array against them
the ieelings of the consumers. The large sales,
both in this and in the Southern ports, have
been chiefly speculative, a very small portion
having been purchased for English orders, and
the consequence has been an advance in our
market considerably beyond what would admit
of shipments at remunerating prices. Assum
ing the basis of 1,800,000 bales as the sxtent of
the crop, the large stock on hand in the English
ports on the 30th Dec. seems tq preclude the idea
of any deficiency in thy supply of 1844, especial
ly if the advance in price obtained here is fully
maintained, and the consequence ol a dimibish
td consumption is admitted.
The operations on this side of the water have
certainly stimulated speculators across the At
lantic, and are so far favorable to early ship,
menu and a removal to that extent of th,a strfi:-
t ire which they have produced ifi the money
market. Since the arrival of the Britannia
some considet able shipments have been engag
ed, and it appears probable that they will now
go forwam w more freedom.
A very large portion of the drafts drawe
from the South, against cotton, mature during
tne next thirty days, and if the shipments of cot
ton relieve the banks frotfi A® amount of dis
counted paper, the 'atas they are now obtaining
must again desirne, as the paper offering arising
from other branches of business is very limited.
The general aspect ot bnsiflesa is senad
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6.
I’~ " 1
b The Mails have become singularly derang
u ed. We received, last night, three letter mails.
, the 29th, 30th and 31st ult., from New York
but not a newspaper of any description beyont
1 Baltimore. From the Correspondence ol tht
Baltimore Patriot, we have'culled such item!
of the New York markets as we deemed of in
i terest to our readers, which will be found under
■ its appropriate head.
1 Clay and Van Buren. —During the pro
gress ofthe last war with Great Britain, Mr
Clay, as is well known, was ever found at his
- post in Congress, advocating a vigorous prose
-1 cution ot the contest, and the necessity of using l
every means to maintain the honor, interests
and safety of the country. Here is an extract
from one of his speeches, in which he gives his
views of the manner in which the war should
be prosecuted:
“ My plan would be to call out the ample re
sources of the country, give them a judicious
direction, strike wherever we can reach the ene
my, at sea or on land, and negotiate the terms
of a peace ><u Quebec or at Halifax. We are
told that England is a proud and lofty nation,
which, disdaining to wait tor danger, meets it
half way. Haughty as she is, we once triumph
ed over her, and, if we do not listen to the coun
sels of timidity and despair, we shall again pre
vail. In such a cause, with the aid of Provi
dence, we must come out crowned with suc
cess; but if we fail, let us fail like men—lash
ourselves to our gallant stars, and expire togeth
er in one struggle.”
Thus spoke and acted Henry Clay, during
an important crisis in the affairs of the country.
Now, will some one of Mr. Van Buren’s advo
cates tell us what he said or did during the same
period? Statements there are—and well au
thenticated ones, too!—that this latter gentle
man, about that time, was very busy in pushing
ahead the interests of the “ Peace Candidate”
for the Presidency, Mr. Clinton, against the
“Democratic Republican” candidate, Mr. Madi
son; besides doing many other things which were
not, at that time, considered as particularly “de
mocratic.” But perhaps those who now so stren
uously endorse his “democracy," and his pa
triotism, and demand for him the votes of the
“democrats,” can point us to something that
will disprove the rumors above alluded to.
True, Mr. Van Buren did figure a little in mili
tary matters during the war: but it was as a
sort of a supernumerary Judge Advocate, at
the trial of Gen. Wilkinson, or some other gen
eral officer, at Greenbush or Troy, in the State
of New York, and for which services, or no ser
vices—for we believe he did nothing—he pock
eted the inconsiderable sum of three thousand dol
lars ofthe people’s money, as might have been
expected! With this exception, we know of
nothing that he did to help on the war, or to
maintain the dignity and secure the success ot
the country. But perhaps his particular friends
can enlighten us on this bead. Will they let us
hear trom them ?
Give us the proof!—The New York Tri
bune, in commenting on an article in the Eve
ning Post, in which it is alledged that the Amer
ican Housewives now pay a tax of one hundred
and forty per cent, on the “ smoothing irons,”
&c., they purchase, because of the tariff, very
properly calls upon that zealous advocate of
British interests, to prove by the prices current,
that his charge is true. He dares him to the
test I But does the English advocate thus estab
lish his position? Not at all. Facts are not
what he is after- especially such facte as the
actual prices current will show. But these men
ir-'ist he held i>:the zirncf nL their tusrrUonc.
They declare’oundly that all the home manu
factured articles that are incidentally protected
by the tariff, are increased in price from fifty to
three hundred per cent. Now let them show
this to be the case, by giving the actual prices at
which they have been sold, before and after the
passage of the present tariff bill. If they speak
the truth, they can have no <lifficulty in proving
their words. Let us, therefore, have the proof.
Give us the proof, we repeat!
A HepELEss case ! —Father Ritchie is, evi
dently, of the opinion, that Mr. Van Buren’s
case has got into a very narrow pass. He un
doubtedly deems it to be pent up on all sides.
He hopes, however, that the movements against
his dapper little representative of the spoils
taking branch of the modern democracy, will
only have the effect of rousing up the party,
whom, in the confusion of his brain, he styles ‘
"Republicans!” “ They will not,” he cries in '
his extremity, “suffer our flag to be beaten 1
down—our cause to be defeated—a dim eclipse 1
to come over the destiny of the Republic, either 1
by the power of their enemy, or the folly of our 1
friends. They will resolve to eonquer, and, •
with the blessing of heaven, they will conquer 1
every opposition, and save the constitution.
We trust to God and the people.” t
Aha! only think ofthe veteran’sagony. He j
trusts to “ God and the People,” that the flag of (
Kinderhook will be kept flying! But a short ,
time ago, he held that “the people” were alone
potent enough to preserve the jacobins from an (
utter rout. Now he is driven into a prayerful
mood, like all other sinners on the approach of
great and immediate danger, and irreverently ’
invokes divine aid to save the guilty wreass of t
locotacoism from destruction. Father Ritchie t
evidently feels that his old “ stamping ground,” i
the “Ancient Dominion,” is fast slipping from ,
under his feet, or he would neverroar so outrage- i
ously for aid as he now does. We carry seven- <
teen votes, certain, to Mr. Clay’s column! 1
Mark that! i
The Hon. (?) Mr. Weller!! after mak- 1
ing a most brutal assault on Mr. Shriver in the 1
Representative Chamber, has skulked like a 1
contemptible poltroon from a demand for satisfac
tion, " without intending any thing disrespectful
to Mr. Shriver, or offensive tohis friend!!" We 1
are pleased to see that Mr. Shriver has publish- !
edhim “a coward,” and “as having forfeited |
ul) claim to the character of a gentleman." Hence- I
forth, the skulking braggart will descend to his 1
proper position.
The Locofocos in Virginia.—The Jacobin
State Convention of Virginia met in Richmond,
on the Ist inst. From an abstract of their pro
ceedings in the Whig, we inter that the harmo
ny ot the scene, on the first day and evening, (to
which period, only, we have an account of their
doings,) was not of the first order, notwithstand
ing the efforts of Mr. Van Buren’s bugleman
Mr. Ritchie, to get his “awkward squad” to
maureuvre handsomely. Efforts were made by
Mr. R. to get speeches out of Mr. R. M. T.
Hynter, and other friends of Mr. Calhoun ; bu
Mr. Hunter was reported “absent,” and the
other gentlemen begged to be excused! Perhaps
they bad “ shocking bad colds!”
A tender ofthe Log Cabin, for the use ofthe
Convention, was made. Mr. Ritchie proposed
that the offer be politely declined; but ultimate
ly the letter tendering the use of the Cabin, was
laid on the table, and a committee appointed to
procure a more convenient place than the State
House fbr the Convention to meet in.
Louisiana Senator.—The Legislature of
this State were to have elected a Senator in
Congress, in place of J udge Porter, on Monday
last; but as our latest dates are of the morning
of that day, we have not learned the result. On
joint ballot the Whigs have a small majority.
The Courier thinks, that as Louisiana, at the
last election, went for the Jacobins by a small
majority, the Legislature ought to choose a lo
eofoco’ Senator. What would Mr. Senator
Colquitt think of having this rule generally
adopted?
Rejection of Mr. Spencer.—The Senate
have rejected the nomination of J. C. Spencer
for the vacancy on the beach of the Supreme
Court.
Ma. Clay in Macon.— The Macon “ Messer
- ger" of the Ist rest, contains the annexed letu
of Mr. Clay to a committee of that eity.
New Orleans, Jan. 22,1844.
‘ Gentlemen— A temporary absence from thi
city, has delayed my transmission of an answ<
■-O your friendly letter, inviting me, during lb
progress of my journey through Georgia, to vtsi
Macon, situated directly in my route, and to pa r
ake of a public entertainment. 1 feel gentle
r men, highly honored by this invitation, an
highly honored and flattered by the sentiments it
which it is conveyed.
Without violating che restriction to which 1
found it necessary to subject myself on my in
tended journey, 1 take great pleasure in saying
( that I will so far accept your invitation to visii
Macon, and make the acquaintance of any <>
my friends and fellow citizens who may desin
to see me. In regard to the proposed Pubiii
i Entertainment, I request you to allow me re
spectfully to decline it.
I regret that 1 cannot fix the precise day ol
my arrival in Macon, depending as it will, upot.
casualties and contingencies beyond my control
I hope it will be between the 10th and 15th o
March, but from Montgomery or Columbus, 1
may probably be able to designate the ay
Meantime 1 request to present my grateful ac
knowledgements, and assurances of my being
r y uur friend and
-* ■ ’ Obedient servant,
H.CLAY.
Messrs. T. G. Holt, E. D. Tracy, and others,
Committee.
Monros Rail Roao CwavurrieN.—The
Macon Messenger ot the Ist instant says: The
annual meeting of Stockholders for the Election
of Directors, and other purposes, convened in
this city on Thursday last. The meeting was
large, and a large amount of the Stock was rep
resented, and the meeting characterized with
much harmony and good feeling—all seeming
anxious for the prosperity ofthe work, and elat
ed with the better prospects which now attend
it, and of its early completion. We have ob
tained the following extracts from the exhibits
ot its business last year; and with the means
of transportation now at the command of the
Company, the business has greatly increased
during the last month, and must continue to do
so hereafter.
Cash on hand, January Ist, 1843, 81,175 00
Receipts of the year 1843, 27,351 26
$28,506 26
Paid.
Cost of running the Road, $17,810 43
“ constructions ofi do. 484 S 3
" repairs ol do. 6,775 02
Expenses ot the Road, $25,069 68
Disbursements.
Paid on last year’s
debts, 4,559 33
Advanced M R R
Bank, 3,508 30
Adv’d on contract
with Gray, Col
lins & Co. 2,019 75 10,087 38
~ 35,157 06
Cash on hand, Dec. 31, 21 06 35,178 12
The Road owes $6,651 86
Steamboat Lost.— The Louisville papers
give an account of the loss of the Steamboat
Star of the West, on the 17th ult. She was
sunk near Cloverport, on the Ohio River, by
by being run into by the Steamboat Harkaway.
She sunk in five minutes after the collisiqn, in
15 feet water, about 200 yards from the Ken
tucky shore. It being early in the morning,
most of the passengers and crew of the Star
were in their berths. Three persons were
drowned; one deck hand, and two boys, deck
passengers. The cargo consisted of groceries,
dry goods, &c., and will principally be lost.—
Total loss, abeut 4000. There is an insuraiice
of about S2OOO on USB boat.
The Captain of the boat lost does not accuse
the pilot of the Harkaway with the intention of
injuring his boat. He imagines that the pilot
mistook the light on tile Star for a light at
Cloverport. He acknowledges the most active
exertions on the part of Capt. Anders, of the
Harkaway, to save the Star and her passengers.
Resignation or Mr. Choate.— The Boston
Atlas says—“ It is no w confidently reported in
this city, upon the authority of letters received
from the Hon. Rufus Choate, Senator in Con
gress from this State, that he will, ere long, re
sigh hi* seat in the Senate—the resignation to
take eflect on the Ist day of March next. Ex-
Governor Lincoln is talked of as his successor.'
Hon. R. H. Wilde. —The Columbus (Ga.)
Enquirer notices the departure of Mr. Wilde,
and says:—"Georgia has lost, in his removal, '
one of her most gifted sons; and Louisiana,
among all her acquisitions of talent and patriot
ism, has gained no loftier spirit, no more high
minded, eloquent and upright citizen. That his ;
success, in this new home of his choice, may
equal his merits', is all that his host of friends 1
in Georgia desire.”
Gen. Gordon, of Va., says the Mobile Regis- ’
ter, at a public meeting in Louisiana, declared t
his determination without qualification to go <
for the nominee of the Democratic Convention ■
“ to the death.” ,
The death of whom—the General, the Locofo- i
cos or the nominee?
A Bloody and a Fatal Rencounter. — j
The Dahlonega Times of the Ist inst., contains
the following particulars of a recent tragedy in
that vicinity. Verily, we think if the present
system ot administering onr penal laws be per
severed in much longer, the butchery of men
will ere long become almost as common and
excite as little astonishment as that of bullocks.
It is only a lew days since, that a worthy and re
spectable citizen of Green county, a man be
tween sixty and seventy years, was shot down a* .
noon day, while passing from the dwelling of
his neighbor to his own.
The “Times” says:*
“ It becomes our painful duty to record one of
the most bloody tragedies, with which the news
papers of. the present day are crowded. On
Friday last a difficulty occurred at a grocery
store belonging to a Mr. James R. Long, situ
ated on the road side, about half way between
this place and Auraria, in which Mr. Long,
Peter Trammell, James Helton and Laddawick
Dobbs, were engaged; and which resulted in the
stabbing of the three latter by the former, and the
death of Dobbs, which ensued the following eve
ning. The other two, Trammell and Helton,
are still alive, and it is supposed will recover
under proper treatment and attention.
“ It seems that Helton and Dobbs, with others,
whose names it is unnecessary to mention, had
called at Long’s about twelve or one o’clock of
that day, ana had purchased a small quantity of
spiritous liquur, with which they had been in
dulging their appetites for this beverage, for an
hour or more, when Trammell came in—That
soon after his arrival a quarrel ensued between
him and L.mg, in relation to some real or sup
posed injury, or indignity offered to Long or his
signboard on the previous evening, by Ti ammell
unAothers then with him. The quarrel ceased fur
a thort time, but again renewed when Tramell
attemped to strike Long with a stick, but the
blow was warded off by the joists of the house.
Long had a large buteher knife in the meantime,
with which he repelled the assault of Trammell
by stabbing him in the left side. Helton and
Dobbs were both in the house when the fight
took place, but what part they took in the affray
is not definitely known. Long it seems, how
ever, continued cutting with his knife until he
had inflicted a stab on all in the bouse. A pis
tol was fired during the fracas by Helton, as it
is supposed,the shot from which struck Long
near the eye brow on the left temple, and pene
trated to the back of the head, where it lodged
under the skin. This was the on y serious in
jury done to Long, who has been arrested and
recognized in a bond oftwo thousand dollats to
appear at our next Superior Court to answer
the charge of murder.
“We forbear any comment on this melan
choly and truly unfortunate occurrence, as it will
again have to undergo a judicial investiga
tion. But we cannot withhold the deep mortifi
cation we feel at the frequent occurrence of these
bloody scenes in our country. The newspapers
of the day are burdened with the recital of hor
rible deeds of this kind, which argue a bad state
of morals among our people, and a want of en
ergy and efficiency in the judicial arm of our
government to bring offenders to justice, which
can alone deter the vicious from the commission
of similar deedeof bls®d."
VOL. Vin.-NO. 6
Gen. Clinch.— Th® Savannah Republic*®
f Friday morning last, says:—G»n D- U
llinch, will be in town next week, on his way
o take his seat in the House of Represent*!! v®*,
Col. Johnsan, says the Alexandria Gaxett®,
m a letter dated January 15th, says “he ia sliM
in the hands ot his friends,” and has authorized
io one to withdraw his name as a candidate for
he Presidency.
Shot Factory burned.— The Eutaw Coxa
many’s shot works, in Baltimore, were destroyed
by fire oa the 30th ult.
Philadelphia, January 29, A. M.
Funeral or Commodore PoRTSB.-The funeral
honors of the Veteran Porter took place yester
lay, and were marked by all the • pomp and eir
■umMance’ befitting the occasion. At noon the
tong line of military ordered out as an eaooft,
formed ia line near the Navy Yard, aad shortly
tfter the coffin was borne out ot the yard by
ailors. and carried along the front of th® miiita-
S. The pall bearers were Brigadier Generals
übbell and Cadwallader, Commodate EUiou,
diddle and Barrow, and Major General Patter
son. In the rear of th® cofia, which was
wrapped in the American shrouded ia
' rape, was an aged seamet, bearing upMiMdC
the American jaek. The * offin being deposited
in a hearse, drawn by four black hones, the
military took their position as the escort, aad
moved slowly on through several of the princi
pal streets to St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church,
in Tenth et. near Market, where the Service was
read by the Rev. Dr. Ducbachet;— alter whieh
the coffin was borne to the grave yard and dm
posited in the vault—from which it is to be re
moved at some future day to the Marine Horn
tai a short distance trom the city.
Destructive Firs.— Between six and seven
o’clock this morning it was discovered that th®
new and extensive soap and candle manufac
tory ot Messrs. Coffin dt Sandell, situated in the
upper part of Kensington, was in flames. The
manufactory with most of its contents were con
sumed, and some injury was sustained by the
surrounding buildings. Loss estimated at from
$15,000 to 826,000; no insurance.
The brig Morosco, and two fore aad aft
schooners are said to be ashore at the mouth ot
Duck Creek with considerable iee around them.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
Nfw York, Sunday r. m., January 98.
The Cotton market was firm yesterday, and
between 3 and 4000 bales were sold; a fair por
tion of which was for shipment. In the early
part ot the day, Upland, ordinary to middling,
sold at 8j « 9); middling fair to tair9f • lOj;
good fair to fine 10fm II; Mobile and New
Orleans ordinary to middling 8t ; middling
fair to fair 10f m lot; good fair to fiar llj •
12f. At the close j cent Vlb advance was ob
tained on these quotations.
Monday, P. M.
The weather continues to be excessively cold
and onr rivers and bays are completely obstruct
ed by ice. The Revenue Cutter Ewing. Lieut.
Hunter, arrived at the public store, Staten Is
land, on Saturday, from a cruise in which she
had been boarding vessels and supplying them
with provisions and men. She hasexperiencod
very heavy weather, and has a number of h®r
crew frost bitten.
She was completely covered with iee, an it
is supposed that seven tons were cut off her bul
warks, Ac. While the ship Peter Ennis was
on shore at Staten island yesterday, the Captain
undertook to leave the vessel, and walk ashore
on the ice; he had not progressed far before he
fell into the water, and but for the exertions of
some gentlemen on shore, would have perished.
The cotton market has been pretty active to
day, at full prices. The sales of flour have
been to a moderate extent. Tennessee is firm
at $4,811 a $4,87j ; Ohio aad Michigan 4 87).
Tuesday, P.M.
The weather continues cold, with every indi
cation ot a snow storm. The steamboat with
the Eastern mail has not yet arrived, conse
quently no boat will go out this evening. Our
merchants have been busy with their correspond
ence today for the steamer, consequently but few
mercantile transactionshave taken place. The
sales of cotton have been quite limited, and pri
ces »re rather heavy.
The Flour market is firm at $4,81 ♦ a $4,87j
i 400 bbls Cushing A Martin were
taken for export at $5; and 300 bbls George
town at $4,87}. Nothing has been done in
Genesee.
Stocks have experienced a daeline today, as
a good many holders have been compelled to
realize in consequence ot the Banks refusing to
increase their loans on Stocks.
Money is now worth 4 a 5 per cent on call,
and 5 a 6 per cent is asked for the discounting
good business paper. The advance is caused
by the increased demand for loans on cotton,
Ac.
Exchange on London has been active at 109
a 109 j ; has been paid, but that cannot be
considered the market rate.
The Mails.— The Baltimore Patriotof Wed
nesday evening the 31st ult. says:—By the mail
from Washington this morning, we received
New Orl tans dates of the fourteenth, fifteenth,
sixteenth and seventeenth, insL Thdre are yet
due from N. Orleans dates of the 13th, 18th,
Wth, 20th, 21st and 22d. Receive from Mobile
this m* rning dates of the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th
and 18th inst. trom which port there areyet du®
dates ot the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d and 23d.
We have dates from Charleston to the 251 h
inst. from which place there are yet due three
scattering mails. There are also three mails
due from Petersburg, three from Augusta, four
irom Savannah and four from Columbus, Ga.
From several intermediate points on the South
ern rout® mails are also due. •
Cr The New York American ot Tuesday
says—The Stock market, after advancing
very rapidly for the last few days, has receded
to-day, and our quotations show a general de
cline of j to 1 per cent on the highest prices ol
yesterday.
The expectation, however, that money will
again be plenty on stock loans, induces many to
think that the present depression will only be
temporary; but we are inclined to think that the
demand for money for business purposes in the
Spring, will prevent any moderate rise, unless
the shipments of cotton again glut the market
JVom the Savannah Republican.
The Doctrines of Mr. Van Buren.—W®
notice in an exchange paper the following ex
tract from a late number of the Democratic Re
view:
“Mr. Van Buren is of opinion that it (the
Tarifl;] should have I®! 1 its main object the pub
lic revenue, and incidentally the protection ot
industry, lie believes that a mean of 20 per
cent, is sufficient for this object, but he would
consent to a maximum ot 25 per cent, in the
present circumstances. He would go for a sys
tem of direct taxation if the partizans of the
protective system should not find this duty of 20
per ent. sufficient.”
What a system ot compromises! Mr. Van
Buren is for revenue, and incidentally for pro
tection. So are the Whigs of Georgia. Uith
them, the all important and primary object ot
revenue goes hand in hand with discrimination.
Mr. Van Buren says a word however for the
satisfaction of the free trade men. He believe®
that* mean of 20 per cent, would be sufficient.
We thought that the experience ot 1841-42,
bad demonstrated that 20 per cent on dutiable
articles amounting to not more than seventy
or eighty millions of dollars would give a very
inadequate revenue ($14,000,000 or 816,000,-
000,) to defray the ordinary expenses of $20,-
000,000, and absorb the circulation of Treasury
notes issued under a much higher tariff. And
yet Mr. Van Buren bolds this language to his
intelligent countrymen. It is surprising how
excessively modest and moderate the estimate®
ot the Locos are when they are out of office, but
when they are in office, they change front in HO
time. Mr. CLArcould say with some propriety
that a horizontal tariff ol 30 or 33 p®t cent, oa
d unable articles, would suffice, in ail probability
lor the actual necessities of Government, but
that we should be told, and have it repeated
forever at this day, after the experience we have
just passed through, that a 20 per cent tariff
will suffice, is too preposterous, too absurd.
Still we cannot complain ot Mr. Van Burbn.
It is the impulse of his nature, instead ot taking
broad and national views like Mr. Clay, to make
the best compromise be can between both sides
ofthe question, and endeavor to serve both.
This is well for the man who voted for the “ Bill
of abominations,’’ in 1828. Mr. Van Buren’®
assurances are vastly different from his action
when engaged in hiding to pass laws. His party
now in Congress, are in just the same prwlioe
ment in relation to the tariff, while a western sec
tion of them get up and determine to pass a bill
through tor the improvement ot the great west
ern river on its own hook, without reference to any
other river or harbor. Internal improvement
on the Mississippi : s not internal improvement.
And Mr. Holmes, of South Carolina says—Go
ahead gentlemen, aid us in breaking down the
tariff and we will help you. Such are some of
the partial and local doctrines of expedience
entertained in the present Congress. One thing
our opponents ought to do in justice to their
professions. They ought to repeal the present
tariff—for it is in their power in the lower House.
Even if repeal does not pass the Senate, they can
pass it by an immense majority in the Hous®,
if they wHI but make good the assurances they
have made to the country eversinee the passage
ofthe" odious Whig tariff." Yfe have bad
frqfestims enough, for* “• •** * F****