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throniat—the American Statesman, and
:< i unrivaled Oran* of the age.”
”Zxi me not be misuniierslood —and I entreat
that Imawnotbe misbepresentsd. Jam NOT
the revival of a HIGH PROTEC
TIVE TARIFF. I AM FOR ABIDING
BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COM
PROMISE ACT. 1 am for loing wrtat no
Southern man of fair candid mind ever y® de
aied—giving to the country a revenue which may
provide for the economical wants of the Ggvm
meiit, and al the same time giving incidentil pro
tection .to our home industry."— Speech of Henry
Clay in the U. S. Senate, March 1, 1842.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6.
The Mails.—The oi l story—nothing north
ot Charleston by last night’s mail.
Election or a Senatob.—The Legislature
of Louisiana, on Monday last, went into an
election, on joint ballot, of a Senator in Con
gress in place of the Hon. Alexander Porter,
deceased. On the second ballot, the Hon. Hen
ry Johnson was elected, by a majority ol three
votes over Gen. Walker. Theßeesays: “Mr.
Johnson is a staunch Whig, has been to the
Senate before, was once a Representative, and
afterwards G vemor of the State. His election
secures our ascendancy in the Senate, and -et
the aspirations of some dozen ambitious lo
cotocos, whose eyes have been strained by look
ing too strongly in the direction of Washington
. city."
Tas Tariff.—The Washington correspon
dent ol the Charleston Courier says—“ The
opinion gains ground that nothing will be dune
with the present tariff.”
Maine. —By the accounts, thus far, from the
Seventh Congressional District in Maine, oi
the recent trial therein to elect a member of Con
gress, it wouldseem that Robinson, Whig, has
been elected. All the counties in the district,
except Aroostook, have been heard from. The
changes in favor of the Whigs, since the last
trial, have been very great. In the Third Dis
trict, eight candidates had been voted tor. and ol
course there was no hope of a choice.
Every trial that is had in this State, furnishes
additional evidence that the Whigs Will carry it
at the Presidential election,
A new bauble wanted! —What will the
jacobin leaders do for a political shut’lecock, al
ter “ Jackson’s Fine” shall be worn eut 1 They
have kept this poor device of desperate political
gamblers flying from hand to hand so constant
ly—it has tor so long a time been the theme lor
an extra display of legislative wisdom, on or
about the “ eighth of January”—that the rank
and file of the party have become as lamiliai
With it as were the frogs with their King Log
and they can now hardly “create a sen-ation”
with it, notwithstanding the “ hero” is still liv.
ing. In a few short years, at most, the bones oi
the old man of the Hermitage will be put undei
the sod—and with them the hypocritical profes
sions of devotion to his interests of the locofoco
leaders—and what, then, shall these Masters
Merryman and Clowns ot the political circus do
for a trinket with which to amuse the “ mole
eyed million?” Had they not better adveitise,
in season, lor a new one 1
rr In the third Congressional District ol
Massachusetts, a seventh trial to elect a mem
ber was to have been made yesterday. Mr. A
bbot, is still the Whig candidate. The jacobins
have put up Mr. Gayton P. Osgood, in plact
of Mr. Mansur; and their adies, the Abolition
ists, a Mr. Russ. At the first trial, the Whig
candidate was considerably behind his locofoci
competitor; but at every subsequent trial the
Whigs gained, so that at the last attempt to elect
a representative, Mr. Abbott only lacked ICB
votes ol an election over both fits opponents.
We trust the Whigs yesterday succeeded in ef
fectually .putting to rout the piebald concern
opposed to them.
TTr“ The tendency of public opinion in the de
mocratic party [the jacobin party meant] is
to shake off the shackles ot dictation I” says
some one of the locofoco papers, we forget
which one. But no matter. After taking tl.e
above dose of party ipetacuanha, every pei
son will feel qualmish enough, without asking
what shop itcame from. The writer, we believe,
was urging some measure by which bis delect
able party could be “re-organized on an inde
pendent and pure basis!” Most exquisite, this!
Progress of Morals In Nashville. —At
Nashville, on the 2d ult., Judge Turley, one oi
the Judges of the Supreme Court ol the State,
offered a wanton insult to a highly respectabh
and amiable lady of Nashville. /The t ct being
communicated to Major Turner, who was a
relative of the lady, be met the Judge on thi
Court House steps, and gave him a very severe
caning. Served him right.
r On the same day, Mr. Maxey, the Mayor ol
Nashville, was handled very roug ily by a Mr.
Payne.
On Saturday week, a quarrel took place be
tween Mr. Wm. Ramsey and Dr. Patterson, in
that city, when the latter discharged a pistol at
the former, wounding him in the side severely,
but not dangerously.
fir From the Washington correspondence of
the Charleston Courier, we learn that Mr. Spen
cer only received six votes in the Senate, when
before them as a nominee ol the President for
the vacantjudgeshiponthebenchofthe Supreme
Court. This, in Western parlance, might be
called a “sockdolager.”
Cost of a Navy.—From certain official re.
ports, which have recently been made, it ap
pears that the whole cost for building and re
pairing vessels for the British N vy, from 1801
to 1820, was about $148,000,000: of which
sum, about two-thirds were for building vessel',
and the remaining third for repairs.
From 1826 to 1841, a period ol fifteen years,
the expenditures for building and repairing ves
sels for the Navy of the United States, were
810,791,708: of which sum, nearly five millions
were used for building vessels, and very neatly
six millions for repairs.
The following are given as estimates of the
quantity of timber, of all sorts, necessary tor the
construction of-vessels of w ar of the following
rates:
For a ship of 120 guns, 294.000 cubic feet.
“ 80 “ 217,000 “ “
“ 74 “ 180,000 “ “
“ 52 “ 137,000 “ “
•< 40 “ 90,000 “ “
« 32 " 49,000 “ “
This reduced to cords, would be, say, for a
190 gun ship, 2,350 cords, for an 80 gun ship,
1,730 cords, for a 74,1,430 cords, for a 52 gun
frigate, 1,110 cords, fora 40gun frigate, 720
cords, and for a 32 gun irigate or corvette, 390
; cords. '
Worth sendino round!—lt will be remem
bered that the Eton. Henry A. Wise, once
“ thanked God,” in his way, that there was no
newspaper published in his District! A corres
pondent of the Baltimore Patriot, alluding to the
statement of Mr. W.’s, and losome recent boasts
by the same gentleman, on the floorof Congress,
touching the “ intelligence” of the people in this
same district, discourses as follows:
“ Hast ever been, gentle reader of newspapers
in Accomac county of Virginia? If you had
been there one day in the year 1840, you would
have seen how good it is to have no newspaper
to announce coming events Mr. W ise was
expected to speak in a tavern porch in Drum
mond Town,and Whigs and Locos were notified
ot it by a man riding through the town on horse
back, who lifted up-nis voice, and thus proclaim
ed: ‘ O vase, O yaw, this here is fur to give notis
that the honorable Henry A. Wise is fur to be
delivered of a speech this afternoon at 4 o'clock
right into misty Waddy’s pe-az, and I want you
all tur to cum/
“ What a blessing, to have no newspapers!
What a saving .of fok and P a per! Down with
editors— they carry an ink horn about them, and
they write about nouns and verbs.
“Old Clay—long life to him I—loves primi
tive manners antfrepablican simplicity, and he
is going to Accomac they say, and it is hoped
that some herald will announce his approach,
but he need not ask the people 1 fur to cum,’ be
cause we suppose thev are i reparing to receive
him now. Vive la Henry Clay and Accomac!
vive la Mr. Wise and the blessings of having
no newspapers!"
CrSSdpt S&BRioftol the
nomiaiited, asM con&rtned byjthe Senate, a*
hiefif the Bureau pt Clothing and Provision!
in the Navfijepartmiat, in place of Isaac Hill,
The trial ot Marsh, at Newark. N. J., charg
ed Mrs, Cheddick and her
children, was closed on Monday. The jury'
rendered a verdict of guilty ot murder in the
first degree.
-SjTA letter in the Boston Mercantile Journal
ot Saturday even ng, announces the desti uction
>y fit e of a considerable part of the New Hamp
shire State Prison, at Concord.
Russia and Circassia—Notwithstanding the
great military strength of Russia, it seems that
she is unable to put down entirely, the Circas
sian tribes in the great Caucasian range, who
have torso many years set her power and au
thority at defiance. The natural defences ol
the country, it is true, are very great; but at the
same time, they are maintained with a courage,
constancy and skill, that the dogged bravery oi
lhe Russian cannot overcome, and which cannot
but exeite general admiration. Although the
European newspapers contain but few accounts
ot the transactions in that quarter of the woild,
it would seem that lhe contest is still waged there
—and that in the beginning of September last,
there was a desperate action between the Rus
sian troops and the Avares, a tribe of Circassian
mountaineers, on the left flank ot the Russian
line of operations. A varia, near the west coast
<»i the Caspian, forms the northern part of Das
ghestan. The Avares and Lesghis are among’
,he most cruel and preda'ory of these moun
taineers. About the time mentioned they had
surprised a large village of the peaceable moun
taineers in alliance with Russia. Col. Wese
lowsy, with hi? detachment hastened to its re
lief, but he found a very superior force of the
enemy, led by Dschamel in person, who is now
the commander in chief of the mountaineers,
>nd a man distinguished by his extraordinary
oravery. The number of the enemy is stated at
8000 to 10,000 men. Though the Russians
tought with their accustbmed bravery, Wese
iowsky and his small band were forced to give
way to the superior torce opposed to them. His
loss is stated at 1000 men killed and taken pris
oners. It is even believed that Col. Weselow
ky himself is among the killed or prisoners, no
recount having since been heard of him.
If the following statement, which is made
»y the Pittsburgh Chronicle is but half true, the
discovery which it announces may, indeed, be
set down as “highly important.” But we are
-omewhat incredulous touching it.
Highly Important Discovery,—We have
>een informed on good authority that an inhabi
tant ol the Key Stone State has discovered the
secret ol manufacturing artificial marble on na
ural principles. The discoverer is a Yankee by
oil th, and nas devoted many years to the theo
retical and practical architecture.
We have been shown a specimen of lime
tone prepared by the above method, and un
aesitatingly pronounce it superior to any artifi
cial stone or marble that we have ever seen.
L’he discoverer feels assured that his prepara
ion has only to be publicly iniroduced in order
o supercede the use ol lime mortar, in the va
ied processes oi plastering, and will be exten
sively used for stucco-woik, mosaic, statuary,
uantle pieces, table slabs, atmospheric and by-
Iraulic cement, roofing of houses and paving of
■treets, &c. It will set or harden in six hours
when applied in plastering houses. It will re
ist the action ol atmospheric heat, damp, frost,
kc., and it is susceptible of a high polish. This
omposition will answer better than Roman ce
il nt for aqueducts, locks of canals, &c. Ils
est recommendation, however, is its cheapness,
is it can be manufactured ata cost little exceed
ing ordinary lime mortar. Werecommendthis
naterial io Congress and hope that all the pub
ic buildings that may hereafter be erected will
e so constructed as to rival the Pyramids in
mrability.
From the N. O Picayune, Jan. 30th.
Latest from Texas.
By the arrival yesterday morning of lhe steam
■hip Neptune, Capt. Rollins, we have dates
iom Galveston of last Saturday. The most
inporiant rstt.mgvM-*—r.,. nu,<. n,.
nat ollhe shipwreck ol lhe schooner Galveston,
Japl. Rickets, and the probable loss of all on
board.
l he schooner sailed from Galveston for this
tort, on the 15th inst., in ballast. On the 25tn,
tews reached Galveston that a portion ot the
uck and other parts of the vessel, which had
een identified, had drifted ashore on Pelican
island and Point Bolivar. On the night of her
le, arture a norther came up, which it is sup
osed may have struck her while unprepared
tnd capsized her. There was on board, besides
he captain, the mate and tnree or four hands,
whose names were not known; young Bryant,
t midshipman who distinguished himself and
was wounded in the naval action between the
I'exan and Mexican vessels ofl Campeaclty;
dr. Degurs, wife and child; Mr. Klein; a Ger
nan female, name unknown, and pethaps one
ir two other persons.
The revenue collected at the Galveston Cus
tom House, from Ist Nov. to 25;h inst., was
851,839 42, and will probably reach $55,000 for
ite quarter, which expires with the month.—
l’he amount collected last year for the corres
ponding quarter was $26,459 11, or less by one
lalf than that of the present. “At this rale,”
ays the Civilian, “ the duties collected at Gal
veston the coming year will equal those of the
whole Republic for the past.”
The Secret Act.— The injunction of secrecy
taving been removed by the present Congress
itom the famous act of the last, for the disposi
tion of the Navy, we give the same below, as
we find it published from the seat ot Govern
ment:—
Sec. I. Be it enacted, &c., That the President
oe, and is hereby authorized and required, so
soon as practicable, consistent with lhe public
interest, to dispose of the vessels composing the
navy ot Texas, to wit: the ship Austin, the
nrigs Wharton and Archer, and the schooner
San Bernard, at the highest price which can be
obtained, either by sale,•or in exch’nge for and
redemption ot the entire liabilities ot the Gov
ernment, contracted in the purchase ot all the
vessels.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Pre
sident be, and that he is hereby authorised to
appoint some trust worthy and suitable per
son or persons, to act as agent in effecting, at
as early a period as practicable, the object of
this act.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act
take effect from and after its passage.
The Galveston Civilian ot the 27th inst.,
gives the following item:
We learn that an American vessel has been
seized at Sabine, and, with her cargo, retained
for adjudication, lor an attempt to evade the
revenue laws by carrying a cargo of 300 bales
ol’Texascotton to New Orleans without having
cleared at the Custom House—the object of the
attempt being to smuggle the cotton into New
Orleans, as the product of the U. States.
Another vessel, we learn, succeeded in get
ting off without a clearance, with a cargo ot
coton; but inlormation has been forwarded to
New Orleans which will lead to the seizure ol
both the vessel and the cargo, and the forfeiture
ot both for this attempt to evade the revenue
laws.
The fate of the Navy is explained by the an
nexed very brief and pithy correspondence:
Executive Department, I
Jan. 8,1844. (
To the Hon. the House of Representatives.
I herewith transmit, in addition to the infor
mation heretofore laid before Congress, on the
same subject, the accompanying note from the
Secretary of V ar, enclosing an extract from a
recent letter of the commander t of the Naval
Station at Galves on. The facts need no «om
menl; lhe Navy is abandoned.
SAM. HOUSTON.
Extract of a letter from the commander of the
naval station at Galveston:
To the Hon. Secretary of War and Manne.
Sir—l am very sorry to make known to the
Department, that after today I shall have only
two men on board, in consequence ot not having
the necessary provisions and money to pay
ti em off. 1 have given the officers permission
to go ashore and live with their friends, not
being able to obtain the means of supporting
them.
Signed, W. A. TENNISON, Lt. Com.
The Houston Telegraph of the 20th, in a let
er from Washington says:
Com. Moore arrived here on Friday last, and
presented his petition to both Houses, accom
panied with a book, praying the honorable Con
gress to give his conduct, touching the navy, the
most rigid investigation. Nothing has yet been
done on his case.
If Congress takes upon itself to organize into
a court martial upon his case, it will necessari
ly be kept here some weeks longer than it oth
erwise would have been. It was expected before
he arrived, that Congress would have adjourn
ed on the 23d inst., or so soon as the appropria
tion bill passed. rr r
On the 17th inst. Congress passed a bill re
quiring the Executive and beads ot Departments
to return to the seat ol Government at Austin
The President vetoed the bill.
Last Saturday’s Civilian says.—“We are
without further advices of the sayings ordoings
of Congress. At the last accounts it was
thought that an adjournment would be had at
the close of the present, or early in the com
ing month. Very littlß important business is
pending.”
FEBRUARY 7.
The ' Mails.—The’ mails are still behind
Sand. We have nothing K beyond Richmond;
find frojjjsibat pldbe qnlytdlh»3d inst. There
is a screw foose somewhere.
Maryland.—The Congressional election
Takds'placeTn ffiis State ’on Thursday of next
week. The Whig nominations have been made.
In all the districts good and true men have been
put up; and from each the notesofa warm con
test reach ns.
As the result of the election can have no 1 ma
terial bearing upou the political complexion of
the present House ol Representatives, we feel
little interest in it on that account; but we nev
ertheless feel a great desire that the Whigs may
be successful. Great principles are to be de
finitely settled this year—principles having an
important influence on the interests of the Union
—and every election that is held has some bear
ing upon them. For this reason we would have
the Whig cause triumphant in each. Georgia
has led off in the good work, and we would
have every State follow herexample. Sincere
ly do we hope, therefore, that our Maryland
brethren will work as men should do who love
their country. The " Maryland Line” was ever
famous for its gallantry during the days of the
Revolution. Wetrust the spirit ot thetatheis
has descended'to the sons! Four, at least, of
the districts should be ours. We hope we shall
have them—and more!
In Baltimore we find the right spirit at work;
though we regret to learn that our candidate,
Mr. Kennedy, is 100 unwell to take the stump,
io which he was invited by hid gentlemanly op
ponent, Mr. Le Grand. He has, however, is
sued an able address to the voters, which he has
requested his opponent to cause to be read at the
meeting called by him; and this he has promis
ed to do. The concluding paragraphs of the let
ter ot Mr. K., stating his inability to attend this
meeting, are so much to the point, and have such
general application, that we copy them.
“ You will find me (says Mr. K.) avowing
my opinions very clearly and explicitly on the
following points:
1. In favor oi a decided Protective Tariff; ad
vocating Protection—when necessary to any in
terest of home, here in the United States—/or
the sake of Protection; and, as an illustration of
this, that lam altogether friendly to the Tariff
of 1842, which I would, by no means, vote to
repeal.
2. In favor of lhe Distribution of the proceeds
of the Public Lands, both on the score of Policy
and of Right.
3. In favor of a well constructed National
Bank, —believing it possible,—as I do believe,
—to construct one capable of rendering great
good to the country, and, and at the same time,
but little liable to abuse.
4. Oppcsed to the Independent Treasury, as
altogether insufficient lor the wants of the na
tion.
These I conceive to be the chief questions in
the present canvass. I am aware that, on all
these points, you occupy a position directly op
posed to mine. lam content to submit the is
sue to the judgment of the voters of Baltimore,
on the arguments I have heretofore published,
and on those which you may offer on the other
side.”
This is straight ahead, and we trust his oppo
nent will meet these propositions squarely and
plainly—indulging in no claptrap declamation
or delusive abstrusities to blind and mislead the
voters. If he can controvert those positions of
Mr. K. by fair argument—if any person can do
so—we should like to see it done. If not, then
let those principles prevail; not in Baltimore or
Maryland alone, but throughout all the twenty
six members ot the confederacy—for those
principles would come, with healing on their
wings, to every interest of the people.
J3”The jacobin editors and leaders are strenu
ous in preaching up “ union and harmony” to
their rank and file. “ The device of the Whigs,”
they say, “is to divide and conquer us!” The
device of the Whigs to divide them 1 Capital,
that. There is such a cohesion of the various
factions, it would be a pity to “divide” them!
They unite with each other as naturally as oil
and water! What has been more striking than
lheL’ “ uni ol ' “rut ——K-t
past? /
Public Lands. —The number of acres oi
public lands sold last year, was about 1,750,000.
Os this quantity, only about 10,000 acres were
sold at prices above the minimum rate, owing
to the operation of the pre-emption, or as they
are better known, the “ squatter” laws. Under
these, the best lands, including mill sites, &c.,
are secured by settlers, or ostensibly sc; and
though they may be worth ten or twelve dollars
per acre, the government gets but one dollar
and a quarter for them. If the squatters, gen
erally, were benefitted by these laws, there
w’ould be little objection to them. But this is
not the case. Speculators are the greatgainers
When the lands are put up for sale, the squatter
has no money, in nineteen out of twenty cases,
to pay for them. What then is the operaticn 2
A speculator steps forward, advances the mon
ey, gets the squatter’s right for a mere song, and
comes into possession of the best lands of Ihe
government at the minimum rate; and all this
under laws designed to benefit the poor man,
but which, in their general results, only make
“the rich richer.” It is time, we think, that
these laws should be amended—so that while
the poor, hardy and industrious pioneer is bene
fitted and protected, the rich capitalist may be
made to pay for the choice lands all that they arc
really worth, and which others would pay for
them, were they not precluded from bidding, as
they now are, not so much by the laws of the
United States, as by “squatter regulations,”
against which it would be far more dangerous
and unpleasant to offend, than against the others.
Why not?—The N. O. Tropic states that a
“ poor, heaven deserted” female, for many years
“ a miserable drunkard and vagrant,” has been
committed to jail in that city on a charge of
arson. A boy, awakened by a noise, found the
poor wretch poking burning sticks under a
table, and the house in a light blaze—showing,
conclusively, that she knew not what she was
doing. “ The prisoner,” adds the Tropic, “ did
not seem to be aware of the extent of her crime,
nor of the jeopardy in which her life was placed,
but kept jabbering to the Recorder about the
bad character of the boy, and her own careful
conduct as a house-keeper. The unfortunate
old woman was sent to the Criminal Court, and
heaven knows but she may have to pay her life
pr a drunken fro'ic.”
And why should she not, friend Tropic?—
Could there be anything more just and proper—
in New Orleans? A Cashier of a bank, highly
trusted—having in his care the property of hun
dreds who confide in his honor and honesty—robs
and swindles his employers of thousands, runs
off and avows his crime, subsequently is put on
trial, and a jury, notwithstanding his confession
of guilt, acquits him.' Now, is it not manifest
ly proper, that a poor, degraded female, drunk
crazy, who in her delirium sets fire to a build
ing, should be hung, under a verdict of the same
jury ? The “ majesty of the laws” must be vin
dicated ! And how better can this be done, than
by hanging a poor devil, like the one in ques
tion? To punish the high-minded, honorable,
and greatly trusted bank Cashier, who only rob
bed and stole, would have been persecution ! The
other will be sublime justice !
Land.—lt is stated that presumptive right to
a quarter section of land in Illinois sells for a
bout 75 cents, cash! Land can hardly be much
cheap :r than this in Oregon.—Picayune.
We do not know how cheap land may be in
Oregon-and not to talk uncivilly to Pic, we don’t
care. But certainly a “presumptive” title to
land in Illinois, or anywhere else, according to
our notion,would be quite dear enough at seven
ty-five cents. If we could sell for that sum all
the pieces of land to which we could presume
ourselvea entitled, we should soon be as “rich
as a king.” It Pic meant to speak of “pre-emp
tion rights,” however, we should say with the
judge in Webster’s spelling book, “ that alters
the case.”
Statue of Columbus.—Among the slatua
ry, ordered by Government, and now on board
the ship of the line Delaware, shortly expected
to arrive from the Mediterranean, is a colossal
statue of Columbus, executed by Persico. We
should have thought, however, that the Govern
ment had enough of “colossal” statues in the
one already at Washington !
Our character'abroad.—The f Anderson I
(S. C.) G-f rl'\' in noticing the increase ofthe
reward offered fbf B urns, say s:
“He had better give himself up to some friend
and divide with him the reward. A few hun
dred dollars would, (judging from the pa.it,) in
Augusta, save his neck from a halter which it
so well merits.”
Is there a single man in this city who values
his reputation for truth, who will dare gainsay
this?
Rbv. John L. Dago, D. D.—The Tuscaloosa
"Monitor’’ ofthe 31st Jan. says:- On the after
noon oi last Sabbath, Dr. Dagg delivered his
farewell address at the Baptist Church in this
city. He has been elected Professor of The
ology, and President of the Mercer Institute, at
Penfield, Georgia, and left, with bis family, on
Tuesday, for his new field of labor.
Steam Shits.—By a report submittedtoCon
gress by the Secretary of the Navy, during the
present session, it appears thht to keep the fol"
lowing steam ships under way, by steam power
alone, would require, each 24 hours, the amount
of fuel annexed to each:
Mississippi, 32 tons per day cost $192,00
Princeton, 16 “ “ <> 96,00
Fulton, 28 “ “ “ 168,00
Michigan (iron) 16 “ “ “ 95,C0
Union, 16 “ “ “ 96,00
-J ll <1 ll
108 >648,00
The Mississippi, Fulton and Michigan, (the
iron steam ship recently launched on Lake
Erie,) are built on the old plan of paddle wheels;
the Princeton on Ericsson's propeller plan, and
the Union on Lieut. Hunter’s plan of submerged
wheels.
There is little difference, comparatively speak
ing, in the size or force ofthe Mississippi, Union
and Princeton, though in the consumption of
fuel between the first and two last, there is a vast
disproportion. The Michigan and Fulton are
about oi equal size; but the last named yessel
is considered a failure. In time of war, how
ever, she might do to crawl about.a harbor. But
it is plain, that vessels built on the plan of the
Princeton and Union are decidedly the best, in
all respects.
Mr. Clay in North Carolina.—The citi
zens ot Newbern, N. C., without distinction of
party, assembled on the 20th ult., and adopted
the/ollowing preamble and resolutions by ac
clamation:
Whereas the Hon. Henr*y Clay has accept
ed an invitaiion to visit the Stale of North Car
olina in the course of the ensuing spring, and
the citizens ot Newbern, without distinction of
party, are desirous of testifying their respect for
nis character as a man, and their high estimation
of his services as a statesman:
Therefore, Resolved, That we heartily rejoi«e
that this distinguished American citizen has
consented to come among its; and as a public
manifestation of ourt.ig'i regard and affectionate
feelings for him, do cordially unite in tendering
to him the hospitalities of our town.
Resolutions for carrying into effect the objects
ofthe meeting were also ®lopted and the neces
sary committees appointed.
Flour.—From carefully collected tables, pre
pared by a house in New Y’ork, largely engaged
as Flour Factors, that although the arrivals of
flour at tide water, during the past year, have
exceeded those of the previous year by 512,000
barrels, and the exports have not equalled those
ol last year, still the stock on hand does not ex
ceed that of the previous fall more than 200,000
barrels. This shows that the home consump
tion has amounted to upwards of 300,000 bar
rels more than in the former year. The in
creased consumption is attributed to the pros
perity prevalent among lhe manufacturers, by
which the means for purchasing on the part oi
the operatives have been greatly added to, while
numbers have been withdrawn from the ranks
of producers, and added to those of consumers.
Manufacturing Establishments.—ln the
New England papers, we find notices of sundry
new manufacturing establishments, which aie
going up in various quarters. From the Bos
ton Post we gather the statements which will be
-Rroxra toeiw. v—■ 4.. ■ 4'sim.
change in the policy of the. government, Os “a
character to check the increase of these estab
lishments, thej' will be greatly multiplied in the
United States, and vast quantities of manufac
tured goods be shipped abroad. In this case,
the growers ofthe raw material will have less
cause to await the arrival of foreign steamships
to know what they are to receive for their pro
ducts.
The Post says:
“The Dwight Co. are increasing their capi
tal, and the new mills at Lowell, just incorpo
rated, will come into the manufacture ol cotton
twist lor exportation.
“A company has been formed in this city
with a capital of one million dollars, and have
purchased a privilege which, in the course of
another year, will set in motion two mills of
15,000 spindles each, to manufacture de laines,
&c.
The Amoskeag manufacturing company have
already laid the foundation of a new mill at that
place, which will be one ot the largest in our
couniry for the manufacture of cotton goods.
They are to run 18,000 spindles, and with oth
ers now in operation by that company, will be
one of the leading manufacturing companies
here. This firm are about starting a large mill
at Southbridge, in this State, to manufacture
mousselin de laines.”
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says :
A letter from Paris, dated last of December, and
written by a person well informed, to his corres
pondent in this city,says that it is probable that
the continuation of the Rail Road from Paris,
by Orleans, to Tours, will be suspended, until
the experiments, which are now making ot the
atmospheric mode of propelling cars, shall have
been fully tested.
Virginia.— The Locofocos, at their State
Convention, noticed yesterday, nominated the
following electoral ticket:
1. Arthur Smith, of Isle of Wight.
2. Thomas Wallace, of Petersburg.
3. Wm. O. Goode, of Mecklenburg.
4. Wm. Daniel, ofLynchburg.
5. Arch’d Stuart, of Patrick.
6. Thos. J. Randolph, ot Alberraarle.
7. Wm. Smith, of Culpeper.
8. Wm. P. Taylor, of Caroline.
9. Wm. H. Roane, of Henrico.
10. Robt. J. Poulson, of Accomac.
11. Henry Bedinger, of Jefferson.
12. Green B. Samuels, ot Shenandoah.
13. James Hoge, of Pulaski.
14. Henry S. Kane, of Scott.
15. Robt. A. Thompson, ot Kanawha.
16. Joseph Johnson, ot Harrison.
17. Wm. S. Morgan, of Marion.
Goon News !—“ John Smith” has been
caught atlast! The rascal was sent to jail in
New Orleans, on lhe 31st ult., by Recorder Bald
win, for playing off there one «f the tricks which
he has practised so often elsewhere. John hap
pened to get a wrong pair of legs— videlicit, his
own—into a pair of boots that had been borrow
ed without leave. He vamped up a story, al
most without end, as to how he came to “ step
into other people’s shoes”— quarters, he said,
that his pedestals were not at all used to—but
Mr. Recorder thought the faux pas to be rather
lamely accounted foi, and Mr. Smith was com
pelled to toot it to the Calaboose in double quick
time. Proper bad for John, certainly; but he
was always a swl-less scamp, and we are glad
he has been laid by the heels at last!
rMSeneral Jackson is described by a cones
pondent ofthe Plebeian, writing from the Her
mitage, on the 14th inst., as being in an exceed
ingly precarious state of health. The writer
says:
“He is very feeble; appetite poor; cough
distressing, attended with severe paroxysms on
accouat of the pain in his side. At times he
suffers from a degree of tightness about the
chest, attended with much difficulty of respira
tion ; at other times a more free expectoration
greatly relieves him. He thinks one of his
lungs is nearly gone; his eye-sight has failed
him very much ; he can converse but a little at
a time, even when the most comfortable; has
had several hajinorrhages of the lungs, and is
frequently obliged to resort to bleeding and cup
ping to prevent its return. He has been gradu
ally failing for the last year, but more rapidly
for the last seven months.”
Naval.—We understand (says the Norfolk
Beacon'), that orders have been received for the
Falmouth to be laid up in ordinary, and nearly
all of her officers have three months leave of ab
sence granted them.
£3° The Mechanics’ Association of Chicago,
ill., have acquired a library of one thousand
volumes, and are about to bui'd a hall at a cost
of SSOOO.
Gambling in Kentucky.—A bill has been
introduced by Mr. Hardin into the Senate of
Kentucky, making it a penitentiary offence to
deal faro in that State, or to manufacture mark
ed car Is, It is ex;>ected to pass without much
opposition.
Fam the Courier df Enquirer.
One-Sided Free Trade. —British merchants,
and those who back them here, are very boister
ous in urging upon the United States the adop
tion of Free Trade principles—of that policy
which makes open ports, in each nation, io the
produce or manufactures of the other. There
would be some sense in this demand, ifthe par
ties who are so extremely anxious that our ports
should be open to British goods, manifested an
equal alacrity to remove the restrictions which
embarrass tlie admission to British ports ot
American productions. Universal Free Trade,
or perfect Free Trade between Great Britain
and the United States, is something that may be
innocently dreamed 01, but never hoped. Both
nations, so long as tbey exist, will, without
doubt, impose some duties upon the importation
of their mutual productions. A great reduction
Hn the rates of their tariffs is all sane men can
ask or desire; and in pressing their claim upon
the United States, with such fervid and voluble
expostulations as they use, the British mer
chants, it seems to us, should beespecially care
ful to remove from tb< ir own skirts all marks of
the sin they so earnestly counsel us to abandon.
We may appropriately call their attention to
the expediency ol removing the beam irom their
own tariff, before they ofler their clamorous as
sist* ice in plucking the mote from ours. The
loud wailings which reach us from these gentle
men, would quite persuade an unconcerned spec
tator that, in imposing duties upon British im
portations, the Government of the United Stales
was acting the part of a remorseless freebooter,
seizing, without the slightest provocation, the
goods and wares of those who bring them hith
er, and subjecnngMisummary coi fiscation eve
ry thing us from England. Tiae ;
Evening Post is especially unreserved and ex;,
plicit in its condemnation of our tariff policv.
“ Between the knaves ot the mills on the one
hand, and the .kliaves of the Halls of Congress
on the otner,” that moderate print represents our
•xisting customs’ regulations as working more
enormous atrocities than human nature can
contemplate without infinite horror. The ‘most
infamous act that ever disgraced our statute
book;’ a ‘foul combination of selfish cunning on
the.one hand, and of corrupt connivance on the
other;’ an act for which every one who voted
‘deserves to be an object ot public contempt,
and to walk the streets amid the hisses of his
countrymen for the rest of his life;’ a ‘nefa
rious and pestilent monopoly;’—these are a lew
ofthe choice phrases by which it endeavors to
express its deliberate opinion of lhe American
Tariff, which incurs all this foreign and domes
tic odium simply on account of the pretence that
it is extravagantly high. *
Now it is no part of our purpose to defend all
the provisions ofthe existing tariff; lor we have
often expressed our decided opinion that many
articles of importation are by it taxed too much
lor our own interests, —not only for lhe interest
of those who purchase lhe imported, but for that
of those who manufacture the rival, article.
Though firm in the support ot a discriminating,
we are equally firm in opposing prohibitory,
duties. And, though we have no confidence in
the tables prepared for our edification by foreign
traders, setting forth the extravagant duties of
our tariff, we deem many of these duties actual
ly too high. But our object now is to say, and
to show, that an appeal to us for a reduction ot
our duties, high as they are, grounded upou the
professed desirableness ot Free Trade, or, as
the next best resource, ot fair Reciprocity—of
trade/ree on both sides alike, so far as it may be
free at all, comes with a remarkably ill grace
from British merchants, their consignees or
their presses here.
A committee ol the American Institute has
been engaged for some lime in preparing with
great care tables of the duties imposed by Great
Britain on sundry' articles of American expor
tation and corresponding statements of the du
ties impbsed by our existing Tariff on British
goods. The experience and disinterestedness
of the gentlemen composing the committee, give
us good ground forconfidence in the accuracy
ot the sta ements they have made. We have
room only for the following extraci from their
report, giving the rates per cent under the old
and the new Tariff of duties imposed on a few
articles of export:
Article O.d. N.d. Articles. O d. Nd.
Apples, dried4B 48 Snuff.l9oo 1800
Baconloo 50 Soap 321 ,07
Beef.loo 67 Spirits, from
Butler 36 36 “ inolasses.2ooo 5.000
Cheese... 43 45 Brown Sugar22s 215
Ciderß4o 840 Loaf d 0327 327
Indian Corn, arg. .67 33 Tobacco, 10af... .2036 2036
Flour, av’gso 33 do manuPd.. .2400 2400
H..ps-...523 275 Twine, Kentucky..3l 33
Molasses2ss 255 Vinegar2s2 252
Rosin2s3 107 Whgat,av’g.Bo 32
. a portion of the statement eiven
k.'itU tlffte'
aviooge she principal articles ol
American neporrwas 359 per rent on their value
in this market: and that under the existing
British Tariff the rate is 289 per cent. The
average duty per celit. actually coUecled on Ame
rican importations is much less than this ol
course, ranging from 46 to 50 per cent.: and this
is owing to the fact that some of the duties ab
solutely prohibit American products and that
nine-teuths of our exports are of Cotton, on
which the duty is comparatively low.
On thirty-three articles a discrimination is
made in favor of the British colonies; the ave
rage rate imposed upon them is 64 per cent.;
whereas on the same articles coming from the
United States the average rate is 166 per cent.
In comparison with a statement is given of the
rate of duty per cent, imposed on British im
ports into the United Stars, by the existing
American'Tariff: and the average is not quite
thirty-two per cent.
These statements, we are aware, prove noth
ing absolutely in favor of our Tariff; but they
show that if our duties are so enormously and
infamously high as they are said to’ be by the
English merchants, then their duties on our ex
portations are far higher; and that they are not
in a position to justify or warrant their peremp
tory demands for a great reduct’on of our duties
on their importations. If they desire to impeach
the justice and equity otour Tariff, let them first
see that their own is free from all objection; lor
they who appeal to the public judgment should
be careful to enter this as well as other courts,
“ with clean hands.”
Population of the Principal Towns of
Great Britain.—The following is tbe popula
tion ol the principal cities and towns of Great
Britain, by the census of 1841, Compiled from
the recently published
Males. Females. Persons.
London, including
Westminster &
Southwark 876,956 996,720 1,873,676
Manchester 141,857 154,336 296,183
Li'ierpool 137,758 148,728 286,487
Glasgow 130,478 143,846 274,324
Birmingham 88,752 94.350 182,929
Leeds 73,765 78,289 152,054
Edinburgh 61,313 76.869 138.182
Bristol 55,392 66,904 122,206
Sheffield 54,884 56,207 111,081
The above are the only nine cities ortowns in
Great Britain having a population respectively
exceeding 100,000 by the census of 1841,
“Congressional Statistics.—A down East
man, a relative no doubt of Major Jack Down
ing, or Sam Slick, in writing to his friend of
tha'New Qrleans Republican, gives the follow
ing unique division of the House of Represen
tatives:
Members talkin’ sassy 5
“ tryin’tu skeerfolkes 3
“ wantin’ tu know whether the
honorable gestfenan meant what he said 2
“ callin tu order 64
“ would’nt come tu order 51
“ boilerin out ‘set down’ 12
“ wantin tu come a strong game
over the rules of the House 37
“ could’nt doit, no how 25
“ fist fights 0
‘ gougin 0
“ pullln noses 0
“ The above ‘ statistics,’ says the Richmond
Whig, will not answer (nor do we suppose.they
could be intended) for the past week of the ses
sion. The two first items, particularly, have
been largely increased, but to no purpose. And
as to the ‘ fist fights,’ they are especially ‘ on the
rise,’ as some of the majority seem to prefer that
mode of enforcing their arguments.”
Boat-building in Louisville.—From an
official statement of Mr. N. P. Porter, Collector
of the port of Louisville, it appears that there
have been built in the year 1843, in tnat city
thirty-five steamboats, with an aggregate of 7406
tons. The average cost of each is 820,000—to
tal cost $700,000. The hulls and cabins ol the
Concordiaand Ambassador were built at Cincin
nati, and the engines were built and the bous
finished in Louisville.
Cold Weather. —At Albany, N. Y., on the
25th ult. the mercury stood at 14 deg. below zero.
At Berthier, about4s miles below Montreal, in
Canada, on the 6th ult. the thermometer stood
thirty six deg. below zero. At Sorrel about the
same distance trom Montreal, on the south side
of the St. Lawrence, the Mercury stood a shade
below forty.
A Legislative Speech.—A correspondent
ol the Boston Journal furnishes the following
copy of a speech once made by a member ot the-
Massachusetts Legislature. It was taken down
at the time, and tnaj’ be relied upon as correct.
It may serve as a model to unfledged orators.
Imagine the speaker to be two inches over six
teel high, erect and stiff, the words coming from
his mouth in as' ady stream? with*tita pause®:-
a change of tontt:
“Mr Speaker)the honorable gentlemen that
has just set dowik 1 think it was the honorable
member from Biiston in his speech was truly
eloquent even Clicero and DotnosMens would
not compare with' him his words were as smooth
as butter he tool? the fiery sarpent in his hande
he rob-bed him or his forked tongue he gave un
to him beautiful .vings and drop-ped’htm from
his hands a can-n ery bird.”
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8.
THJE WHIG BAAt\EK.
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The Proprietors oi the Chronicle & Sentinel
beg leave to announce to their Whig friends,
that they will, on the first of April, commence
the publication of a Cheap Weekly Paper, un
the above title, to be continued till the Presi
dential Election. It will be devoted exclusively
to the discussion of the Political Topics of lhe
Day, and be of the same size as the Daily and
Tri-Weakly Chronicle & Sentinel.
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Prospectus will be issued in a few days
and sent among our Whig friends, who are re
quested to interest themselves in obtaining sub
scribers.
Augusta, February 1, 1844.
The Mails.—Yesterday there was rather a
“fetching up” in the mails irom the North.—
From New York we received five newspaper
mails, and two letter mails, bring.ng both up to
Friday morning, the 2d instant. The papers,
such as we h .ve been enabled to glance at, are
/singularly barren of news. We ha-.ve, howev
er, culled such items from the great mass as we
deem of interest.
There is great tribulation in the Jacobin
camp! The apparent unpopularity of Van
Buten, in all quarters, comes over the leaders
like a North Carolina ague fit. They are shak
ing in their shoes in contemplation of the defeat
that awaits them in the Presidential contest—
The rank and file are catching the tremor, and
loud are becoming the mutterings against the
nomination of the “ fox of Kinderhook.” Many,
counselled by their "fears, are beginning to ad
vance opinions that it would have been better to
have taken some one of the other candidates.
Eut we will come to their aid! We assure
them, as we hate heretofore our own friends,
that Van Buren is as strong a candidate as they
they can put up. The blows of the Whigs are
not so much aimed at the men, as at the princi
ples, of the locofoco party. The policy and the
practice of this faction, are deemed 17 them to
be at war with the best interests of the republic.
They look upon the political tactics of the
jacobips as a conspiracy against true republican
ism. With such a spirit and such opinions to
influence the Whigs, what difference would it
make with them, who heads the opposing force?
Let who will be the nominal commander, they
know full well that i.he same policy will be pur
sued—that the same subordinates will come in
to control of the public affairs. The heads of com
panies, who now shout for Van Buren, would
as readily toss uptheir caps foranj' other leader.
All they ask is, that they, may come in tor a
share of the plunder. And if successful, most
assuredly would these men divide among them
selves tlie people’s patrimony! The defaulter
and plunderer under Jackson and Van Buren,
would be a defaulter and plunderer under Cass
or Buchanan or Wright! The leopard never
changes his spots! Knowing all this, there is
Their sttfety, their peace and their'pfoSpSt’ffy
requires, that they should be successful in the
coming contest. This they have resolved shall
be 1 he case—and they must carry out their reso
lution. Why then should the rank and file of
our opponents be concerned as to the man they
set up? We can readily conceive Why their
chiefs should be shaken with fear. The squab
ole with them is, as to which of them shall have
Benjamin’s share of “the spoils.” They there
fore tremble at the prospect which is before
them of being debarred front their enjoyment.
But the poor under strata of “ the party”—those
who have so long borne, upon their necks these
“ old men ofthe sea:”--why should they worry
themselves, we. again ask? All their leaders
expect of them is their votes —and these they
will have without any grumbling! The peo
ple are “dear” to them, only just before aneli ;c
--tion. After that their spirit moves in anotl ter
direction! It has a wonderful penchant for ta
king care of things about home!
But our object was to administer comfort to
those of our opponents who are floundering; in
the sloughs of uncertainty and fear—to those,
we mean, who are troubled as to the policy and
propriety of enlisting under the Kinderhook, ban
ner. Rest ye easy, gentlemen, on that score!
You will be relieved of your troubles abo ut the
“ ides of November,” whatever device yo ur flag
may bear. Your standard bearers will be the
same, let their armorial bearings he what they
may : and none of these will the Whi-?s admit
within thegovernftwneal ramparts. Be content,
then, with your leader—the “Sage of Linden
wold !”
The game of the Jacobins. —Tbe New Or
leans Courier, contains the proceedingsot a Lo
cofoco meeting in one o( the Wards of the First
Municipality, at which the nomination of two
candidates for the City Council was “unani
mously responded to,” because they stepped for
ward, and “signified their determination, to car
ry out, if elected, the great principles of tjie party,
and always vote tor, or employ, or support a
Democrat, in preference to a Whig!”
So, then, it is set down as among “• the great
principles” ol the jacobin combinat ion only to
“ employ or support" members of the party!
Who can sufficiently admire this e. ccess of lib
erality’ on the part of those who cla itn to be lhe
exclusive f. iends of all mankind ? But what
would these liberal-minded men have said, if
such a decfaiation as the foregoing had come
from Whigs ? The air would have been filled
with their angry liellowings. But such is jaco
binism! and those poor creatures of party in
New Orleans, are only openly preach ing and
practising upon the “greatprinciples” tha.thave
secretly influenced this political fraternity for
years.
But have the demagogue-leaders of these un
thinking men, calculated what might b(: the re
sult ot their selfish doctrines? Suppose the
Whigs should be provoked by their into lerance
to take care only ot themselves? On w hom, in
such a case, would the heaviest blo'xisfall?
Have they reflected upon all the evils tha l would
flow from making party predilections the test
by which employment should be reg ulated?
Would the Whigs, in such a contest ,be the
greatest suflerers ? Before they push tl ieir fa
naticism and proscription to the extren: e verge
oi endurance, let them first calculate its cost 1
ijj’The jacobin editors seem to have ;an in i
mate know ledge of each other; and their love
quite equals their knowlecge! Penn, of the
Louisville Advertiser, went to Washingt on to
get tbe printingofthelowerHouseofCongress;
but the honest Mr. Blair “put his nor<: out of
joint.” Whereupon, Shadrach thus deli vers
himself, touching his brother jacobin. It is- an
ugly picture 1
“To draw by all possible means the la rgest
amount from the treasury, Blair seems to have
been willing to sacrifice himself—his whole self
—for, shorn of his impudence, vindictiveness,
and vulgarity, there -would not be enough of the
unsightly walking skeleton left to constitute a
whip-poor-will.”
Election in Massachusetts.—lt is now
supposed, that there has been a choice in the
Third Congressional District. Abbott, whig,
has gained 257 in a dozen towns, which is about
the number he lacked of a choice at tbe last
trial.
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JJ-In reply to a correspondent, in Alabama,
who advocated the annexation ot Texas to lhe
United States, on the score of sympathy for the ,
people of Texas, on account ol their having em- 1
igrated from the United States, the editor of the <
Louisville Journal, in declining to publish the ]
communication, very justly and properly says: 1
“ The people of Texas abandoned their country 1
voluntarily, and we do not think the country is
bound to extend its borders for the sake of get
ting them back again. At this rate our bounda
ry would be migrating for ever.”
Jj-Next in the order of Fun, to the threat
of Mr. C. J. Ingersoll to make Mr. J. Q. Adams
“ fear him,” comes a eulogy ol Mr. Van Buren
in lhe Mobile Register, in which “ the magnan
imous sentiment that has guided him through
life!” isspoken of. The “sentiment” thatcalls
forth lhe admiration ofthe Regis‘er, is, in sub
stance, that “ his democratic friends” may elect
him to the Presidency, just as often as they
please, and he’ll— sene!
g3”The Louisville Journal, in notic'ng the
fact, that McConnell, the rowdy member of
Congress from Alabama, had been expelled
from the theatre for his indecency and black
guardism, while he is still allow.-d to retain his
seat in Congress, says thai “this shows that the
theatre is a more decent establishment than the
House.” We agree with the Journal.
Jj-The friends of Gen. Cass had a meeting
on Tuesday evening, at Faneuil Hail, Boston
to nominate him for the Presidency—Aaron
Hobart, President
accounts received of the election in
the third Congressional district of Massachu
setts, indicate that Mr. Abbott, Whig, has been
elected.
Text and comment.—During the past month,
the friends of Van Buren and Johnson held a
meeting at Harrisburgh. Amftng the resolu
tions passed, at an early stage of the proceed
ings. was the following:
Resolved, That we are in favor of a proper
and judicious tariff, such as will advance the
interests of the whole people of the United
States.
So far, Mr. Van Buren’s system of“securing
the like to all men,” was pretty cunningly fol
lowed ; but at a later period of the meeting, the
■‘proper and judicious tariff” was explained by
the following resolution:
Resolved, As the sense of this meeting, that
the existing Tariff nothing more nor less than
sufficiently protects the manufacturing, mining,
agricultural and laboring interests oi Pennsyl
vania ; and that for its passage, we are mainly
indebted to the Hon. James Buchanan, and for
its permanency, we must rely chiefly on his
w ell known consistency and unchangeable de
vot ion to his native state and its vital interests.
[Communicated.]
Mr, Editor—lt is generally allowed that
our prices for Cotton are above the Liverpool
rates—but it is not generally known how much
they are above. The Cotton tables published
three or /our years ago by Entz are acknowledg
ed to be accurate by the shippers generally, and
being base d on actual shipments, must doubt
less give results vflry nearly exact.
The quotations brought over by the last
steamer wire, for Up.'ands, inferior 4{d, mid
dling sld, fair sjd, go od fair sjd, good and
fine 6jd. ,
Turning these into Charleston prices accord
ing to Entz tables, will give t'he amounts that
the Cotton buyers could afford to give so as to
sell in Liverpool at the present prices without
any profit. Comparing these with the present
rates, will give the advance in our n?arkets be
yond what the Liverpool prices authorize.
Cl-arleston Authorised
current rates. rates. Excess.
Inferiorß4 cents. 6| 15
Middling 9 7f 1J
Fair9} H 2
Good Fairlo 8J If
Good and Fine..lof 9f If
Average advanceif
Turning the Liverpool rates into New York
prices .according to the same tables, thefollow
, appq“ T ' - -
rates; .luthoiise<l>
/ rates. Excess.
8f 6f if
Middling9f 7| 2J
Fairlof 7f 2f
Good. Fairlo| 8j 2|
Good and Fine. Ilf 91 2
Average advance2J
•Tl tese reductions are made, supposing freights
to be fd> and exchange to be at 9 per cent,
which are very nearly the present rates. C.
l-'rom the N. O. Picayune.
The Gonaives Prisoners.—Capt. Samuel
S. Thomas and Joseph R Curtis, master and
mate ofthe brig Ze! ra, brought to Pensacoia in
the U. S. brig Bainbridge, from Gonaives, St.
Domingo, were surrendered to the proper au
thorities by commander Mattison, and immedi
ately released trom custody by a writ of habeas
corpus, on the statement of Commander Matti
son, and a petition ofthe parties, to the presiding
judge ofthe County Court.
This affair has excited attention so universal
that we find place for a state ment of the original
facts ot the case, which the Pensacola Gazette
believes to be perfectly authentic. Itis made by
Capt. Mattison, bearing a commission from the
United States.
Commander J. Mattison, being duly sworn,
says, that upon his arrival at Gonaives he had
an interview with Mr. McGuffie, the British
Vice-Consul, and with several other British
subjects, residents ofthe place, all of whom ap
peared to be well acquainted with the circum
stances of the case. From their narrative, as
well as from what he heard from other sources,
he had every reason to believe the following
statement to be correct, to wit:
The commander of lhe British vessel had lost
nearly all his men by desertion. Being ready
to sail and unable to procure seamen on shore,
he endeavored to entice on a promise of higher
wages, the crew ofthe Zebra to desert from their
own ship and enlist wit h him Tbe crew ofthe
Zebra had shipped tor t he voyage, but, seduced
by the ofler made them, were now in a state ot
mutiny, and promised th? English captain, that
if he would come alongside in the night, they
would return with him to his vessel. Capt.
Thomas learning the attemp t that was on foot
to entice away his men, remonstrated with the
English captain, in the presence of Mr. McGul
lie/and told him if he persisted in his determin
ation, he (Capt Thomas) would most certain
ly shoot him. The Vice-Consul furthermore
pointed out to him the fiilly of his course, de
clared to him solemnly that it was Capt.
Thomas’ duty to defend hisship by every means
in his power, and ended by saying that if his
blood was shed, the responsibility would rest on
bis own shoulders. Unfortunately, however,
he remained obstinate in his intention, and the
same evening pulled off in his boat to the Zebra,
when he was warned off by Capt. Thomas, and
again (old that if he persisted he woußke shoU-
At the same time the crew ofthe Zebra beckon
ed to him in mutinous gestures to come on board
■ and they ttould stand by him. Persisting in lhe
attempt to board, Capt. Thomas gave the order
to fire the oltly musket he had, which was done
by a Haytian employed to guard the brig, and
who happened to be the nearest to it when the
order was given. The result was the deatn of
the English captain, out of which has grown the
imprisonment of the two American citizens in
question, together with their subsequent diffi
culties.
One object of my call on Mr. McGuffiie was
to ascertain if he had any charges to prefer
against the prisoners. I was pleased to be in
formed he had not. Indeed, so far from this, he
repeated to me that he considered Capt. Thomas
perfectly justifiable in acting as he had done,
and exnressed the hope of their speedy libera
tion.
The cold weather.—The New York Ex
press of the 2d inst. says:—This topic is the
first on the tapis. Every body speaks feelingly
upon it. Here it has moderated considerably,
and seems growing qujte tolerable. All arourd
us we have accounts which, if true, cor.firm the
opinion that this is the severest winter experi
enced in the United States for a great number of
years.
A Defalcation Disclosed.—The Third
Teller of the Merchants’Bank, considering him
self on his death bed, sent for the cashier of the
Bank on Monday evening, and in anticipation
of the discovery ofhis defalcation, at the exami
nation ofthe bank accounts, acknowledged that
he had defrauded the bank to the amount of
twenty thousand dollars; which deficiency is now
ascertained to be exactly the sum abstracted.—
The name ofthe third Teller is Mr. Kissam.—
N. Y- Com. Adv.
We learn from Capt. Marshall, of the steamer
Vanderbilt, that Potter & Wade’s Rice Mill at
Wilmington, (N. C.) was destroyed by fire on
Friday morning last, together with upwards of
12,000 bushels of Rice, in the rough. The pro
perty, a short time since wss valued at $14,000,
on which there was but S3OOO insurance at the
time of its destruction.— Charleston Cour. Feb. 5.
Missouri Coal —The St. Louis Republican
states that coal of excellent quality is brought
therefrom St. Ferdinand township.
We love women a little for what do we know
of them, and a great deal more for what we do
not.
Correopondence qf the Charleston Courier.
New York, Feb. 2.
In consequence of the interruption ol Sound
navigation, the letters of the Liverpool steamer
which leaves Boston today, were forwarded
overland by express, and w ill arrive in time
One Post Office express was despatched, and
three private expresses, viz: one by Harnden* |
Co., with fburhorses, one byAdams&Co., and (
one by Hale. Hamden’s coach, in addition to ;
letters, papers, &c., took four passengers, who
intend to go out in the steamer.” 1
The Norwalk Gazette says tne harbor of that 1
place is closed up to lhe Sound, as tight as a
drum.—Stages had commenced running to New
York for the con zeyance of passengers. Ther
mometer on Sunday morning, 8 deg. below
zero.
The Hudson Gazette of Tuesday says:-»
“We seldom, if ever, exprienced colder
weather than we have had for the last five days
in succession. The thermometer has been to
fifteen degreesbelow zero at daylight, and has
scarcely risen above zero lhe warmest of the
five days.”
At Watervliet, on Saturday, the mercury
sunk to 18 below zero.
The statement, made in some of the Balti
more papers, that one ot the Carriers of the
“American Letter Mail Company,” had been
stopped by an Agent ofthe Camden and Amboy
Railroad, is said by the Journal of Commerce,
to be r rroneous. The Carriers have passed be
tween New York and Philadelphia four times
every day, except Sundaj*; and have not been,
in any way, interfered with.
Many of the hydrants of the Croton Water
Works in New York, are said to be frozen, and
thereby rendered useless, and fears are express
ed that in case of fire, a sufficient supply ol wa
ter could not be obtained.
Correspondence of the United Stales Gazette.
Nfw York, Thursday p. m., Feb. 1.
The Sound is now completely blockaded by
ce, and navigation totally suspended. A herm.
“rig, name not known, has been frozen in the
1 e since Monda", about half a'milefrom Crane
Neck Point. A number of schooners are also
embedded in different parts of the route. The
Boston Expresses now go by land, and it is pro
bable that the mail will be forwarded in the
same manner before long.
There has been more animation in the Cot
ton market todaj', the sales reach 3000 hales at
full prices. Nothing has been done in Flour ol
any moment; holders are firm at former rales.
The very Coldest—we should think.—
The thermometer at Montpelier, Vt., on Sun
day, the 21st ult., was at forty below zero—Mercu
ry frozen. The Montpelier Watchman says
this is the coldest weather sines ’35. We should
think so in good sooth, the coldest since the cre
ation, since thep dotit know how cold it would
heve been if th; Mercury hadn’t got frozen! the
very climax, or perhaps anti-climax of Fahren
heit’s thermometer.
Robbery of a Bank Carrier.—The Phila
delphia Gazette says that the runner of the
Farmers’and Mechanics’ Bank, while making
his way to the bank, through the crowd in Ches
nut sireet, during the procession (Com. Porter’s
funeral) qp Saturday, was rob ed of 84,500.
Death of Maj.ir Rutledge—The Nashville
Banner announces the death ot Major Henry M.
Rutledge, the only son ofthe Hon. Edward Rut
ledge, one ofthe signers of the Declaration ol
Independence, and formerly Governor ot South
Carolina. Major Rutlege was born in Charles
ton, South Carolina, in April 1774. At the age
ot twenty-two, in 1797, he joined at Paris, Gen.
C. C. Pinckney, in the embassy sent to France,
as his private Secretary, and on his return to the
United States, in 1799, he received a commis
sion as Major in the United States Army, and
became also the Aid ot Gen. Pinckney. Major
R. removed to Tennessee in — Ch. Cour.
From the Savannah Republican.
Mr. McDuffie and the Tariff.—The
speech of Mr. McDuffie in the U. S. Senate,
nolfong since, is one which cannot fail to ue
detract, in some degree, from the statesmanlike
attitude which he l»s hitherto preiended to. In
deed a dis.inct avowal which he made during
the course ofhis remarks, to the effect that for
several years past, he had ceased to take any inter
, est in general, oldies, except so far as they concern
ed his own Stale, is insufficient of itsell to throw
1 a strong shade ff distrust upon any statements
1 he might make. Thes>-are days oi'unmitigat
. ed selfishness it is true, but the fact is well
known to the world at large, that they are so,
and happily it follows from this that lhe most
transcendant talents cannot extend their influ
ence beyond a limited sphere, unless substan
tial evidence is afforded that their possessor is
endowed with Americanism lilieral enough to
entbrace within its scope something more than
the vt'elfare of a single State. This South Car
olina doctrine will not do, be it expounded by
Mr. Mc.’Juffie, or by one more powerful. Thai
patriotism which asks every thing for a single
Stale, and cares nothing for us "aulei barba
rians," is too narrow, too contracted to suit this
or any other country. It is an unfortunate con
‘B“sion that a man who has been so much in the
tively indifferent for so many years, to every
thing in which his own State was not interest
ed.
Among Mr. McDuffie’s statements was one
of just this import as nearly as we can recol
lectit, to wit: that coarse calicoes which can
be bought in England for five cents a yard, pay
nine cents a yard duty, and therefore cost here
fourteen cents a yard, independent of the cost of
transportation—ol course, says Mr. McD.—the
duties go into tl.e pockets of the manufacturers.
Now, it would be well, before making such
broad assertions as these, to inquire into the
facts. Coarse calicoes can be bought in this
country, in any quantity, for six cents a yard
and even less. Nay, they have been bought, to
our personal knowledge, in limited quantities
too, this very' winter in Savannah, for six cents
a yard.
In the face of such evidence, what becomes of
the nine cents a yard in the pocketsof the man
; ufacturers ? We opine that it would require
nicer opiics than those of the South Carolina
Statesman to find them there. Above all—
what shall we say ofthe merit of such careless,
: such worse than stupid declarations ? Unfor
tunately for Mr. McDuffie, he has pitched upon
: the very article which, as well as any other,
shows the actual effect ol domestic competition
, with foreign manufacturers; a competition
I which has reduced fabrics ol th is nature to some
-1 thing like one-fourth of the price ol the English
1 article not many years since. We do not asset t
this without qualification, for we know that the
• increase of manufactures in England and the
> diminished price of cotton enter into the calcula
, tion, but we know full well that were it not for
; American competition, we should not fare so
well as we do now.
t If Mr. McDuffie had said that under the tariff
' the English manufacturer could not import these
, calicoes without an immense loss to himself, he
• would have stated a fact—and he would not
r have been far from the truth, if be had added
: that they could not be impo ted under any tariff,
I for American cotton prints have several years
since, supplanted the British ones, and even un
t der the 20 per cent tariff of 1842, they did not
' yield the ground, and there is no earthly reason
. why they should yield it, and the tariffmight, so
1 far as they are concerned, and so far as the reve-
> nue is concerned, be as well ofi as on them.
This is not all. We could exhaust pages in
showing other facts that would astonish some of
• our Southern readers. In the articleof flannels,
: the same effects have been observed from Amer
- ican comp tition. An English manufacturer
. sent to New York a very heavy invoice of them
i in 1842, just before the tariff reached the mini
i mum 0! 20 per cent ad valorem. These flan
-1 nels could not compete under that tariff with
, American ones, and were reshipped and return-
• ed. We state this on the testimony of Charles
Rockwell, Esq., a gentleman well known in Sa
vannah, who gave us the names of the parties.
Bui cvirfv-ncx-M ttfJTK’Vr
how loose are the statements of the free trade
men.
The following quotation from Mr. McDuf-
■ tie’s remarks is worthy of insertion :
■ “He characterised the system of supplying
the revenues of the country by duties upon im-
; portations as lhe most unjust and iniquitous
[’ that had ever been resorted to, and he suggesl-
■ ed, as a plan infinitely preferable, that'the du
ties upon importations should be reduced to 20
. per cent ad valorem, and that 10 per cent should
be levied upon all domestic manufactures that
1 came into competition with a similar foreign arti
• de. By such a course, the South would be able
to export twice the quantity of cotton that it
now does, and at an increased price ; in conse-
: quence of which it would be able to purchase
to an equally increased extent the agricultural
. products of the West, and with the low ratesof
duties, would be able to supply the. West in return
with foreign monufact .res at a cheaper rate than
could be done from the North. After establish
ing, satisfactorily to himself, these propositions,
he a;rpealed to the interest of the West, to aid him
in breaking down the present ‘ iniquitous tariff,’
and in building up commercial marts in the plant
ing Shies."
We regard the whole of that paragraph as
evincing the most shameless absurdity. The
idea of taxing Northern manufactures 10 per
cent, is perfectly original, and how the South
could export twice as much cotton as she now
does, must ever remain a mystery with our pre
sent crops. If the whole of 350,000 bales now
consumed in this country were exported, it
would be farenough from doubling the quanti
ty, while on the other hand the very opposite ol
Mr. McDuffie’s assertion can be proved as
plainly as a sun-beam, viz: that "if you take
away the domestic market, we are at the mercy of
foreigners, and the value of the cotton crop of the
South would be greatly diminished.'
PENNSTLVANIA.-The Committee on Ways
and Means in the Pennsylvania Legislature
have reported a bill providing for the payment
of interest on the State debt falling due on the
first day ot Febuary next.
The bill provides for the payment of all sums
under S2O in cash ; requiring, however, ofthe
applicant an affidavit selling forth that the said
stock is the bona fide property of the person in
whose name it stands, and that he is not the
owner of other certificates, and has not divided
his stock for the purpose of receiving such pay
ment.
All larger sums payable in 6 per cent certifi
cates ol state stock, reimbursable in August,
IM6.
Carr upondence ofthe Baltimore American.
"I WENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Washington, Jan. 27.
IN SENA I E.
The SeiTate did not sit today.
In the House, Mr Wise made_a 'special re
port from the Committee on Rules and Orders,
(understood 10 be in answer to that ol Mt. Ad
ams.)
Mr. Black of Georgia, introduced a resolu
tion proposing that a committee of five persons
should be appointed, whose business it should
be to report some plan for the dissemination of
the proceedings of the House of Representa
tives.
The resolution was objected to, and therefore
was not received.
The Rules aud Orders.— Mr. Adams, at an
early hour, called for the orders of 'he day,
which were, for the morning hour, the Report of
the Select Committee proposing the rescinding
oi the 21st or2s:h rule.
Mr. Wright, ot Indiana, a democratic mem
ber, had the floor, and addressed the House ear
nestly tn Telia 11 of ttie Kight ol Petition, and in
favor of resc.ndinK the 25th rule ot the House.
Mr. W. defended the tight of petition as a Con
stitutional and inalienable right. The freedom
ol the Press was vindicated and opposition made
to lhe effort to suppress it. The speeoh oi Mr
W. was very brief but pointed, and excited con
siderable interest by its frankness and ability.
Mr. Styles of Geo., continued the debate, and
at first commented with much earnestness upon
the spread of Abolttiun sentiments in the coun
uy. They had bounded over country and party,
ai d were spreading more and more every day.
The question of the Right of Petition in its 01 i
gin and progress wasalsodiscussed. The Rule
of the House, he argued, aimed only to reject
such Petitions as were against lhe Constitution
ofthe United Slates.
The Speaker here announced that the morn
ing hour had expired.
A communication from the Chevalier d’Ar
gais, in relation to the schooner L’Amistad, was
referred to the Committ ie on Foreign Relations.
This was the schooner taken off Rhode Island,
with several Africans on board.
Mr. Thompson of Miss., reminded the House
that thus far during the present sesafon the
House had not entered upon the consideration
of Private Bills.
Mr. Parmenter of Mass., was anxious that
the House should go into Committee of the
Whole and dispose ot the bill to transfer the
funds in the Navy Department from one bureau
to another.
The House declined to go into Committee
upon this bill, when
Mr. Black ofGeo., again offered his resolu
tion proposing a corps of Reporters. Mr. Black
asked that the resolutions might be again read.
The House refused to hear the resolutions.
Mr. Black then moved a sus ension of the ,
Rules in order that the House might receive
them.
■ The House refused to suspend the rules to re
; ceive the resolution, and the subject passed from
the House.
i Private Bills.— The House then acted upon
a motion submitted by Mr. Thompson of Miss.,
and went into Committee of the Whole, (not
! upon the State of the Union,) but for the pur
pose of acting upon the Private Calendar.
Several private bills were acted upon when a
1 bill was reached proposing a pension to the wid-
1 owsand orphans oi officers and seamen of the
‘ United States schooner Grampus. This bill
! gave rise to an extended discussion. The bill
• was both opposed.and warmly advocated.
• Mr. Wise defended the bill, and made a
5 speech of a geneial character complimentary to
’ the Navy. He asked from whence hostility to
‘ the Na vy had sprung and what was the cause of
r it. This hostility was growing from day today.
When trade and commerce were the spirit of
the age, lie would ask it it was not necessary to
3 keep our ships. It was a miserable, miserly,
contemptible economy to oppose our Navy; we
[ knew not when war might be declared, and it
. was the policy of the country to be prepared for
’ it whenever it came. In the Chinese war we
, had but a single vessel in the China seas, while
r the waters were covered with British ships.
The bill was under discussion until lhe Com
. mittee rose. Il was subsequently ordqjcd to be
t engrossed by the House. The House then ad
s journed. ' •
| Correspondence 0/ the Badimore Patriot.
Washington, January 29,1844.
i IN SENATE.
Mr. Foster presented the memorial ol the Le
gislature of Tennessee, asking the establish
s ment of a naval depot on the Western waters.
’ Mr. Merrick presented the petition ol J.H.
1 Pennington, asking for an appropriation by
’ Congress to test his flying machine.
Several reports from Committees, ol a pn-
J vate character, were presented by Messrs.
1 Wright, Jarnegan and Pearce.
Senate bill No. 33, for improving the naviga
s tion of Fox and Wisconsin rivers, was taken
’ up, an the amendments heretofore passed were
insisted tnat tne
grant of lands was nothing more nor less than »
donation, a smothered cession ot 4 to 600,000
acres of land for the benefit of land specula
tors.
After -some remarks by Messrs. King and
Tallmadge, the-bill was again postponed, in
order to get some information from the Land
Office.
A message in writing was received from the
President.
The Senate then passed to the consideration
of the special order of the day, Mr. McDuffie’s
bill.
Mr. McDuffie then rose and made a long ar
gumentative reply to Mr. Evans, of Maine.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Resolutions being in order, a great number
calling lor information on various subjects,
were adopted.
A joint resolution was introduced, authoriz
ing ah appropriation of $50,000, to be placed at
the disposal of the Secreiary of the Navy for
the purchase of waler toned hemp. Debate
arising, the resolution was laid over.
Mr. Brown, of Indiana, introduced a joint
resolution, providing lor an adjournment of the
present Congress cn lhe 20th of May next.
This was amem ed by inserting “the Ist of
Mav.” After some conversational remarks,
the Speaker decided that the resolution must lie
over.
A motion was then made to suspend the rules,
that the resolution might be disposed < 1 at this
time. The motion failed, yeas 115, nays 67
not two-thirds.
At a subsequent stage of the proceedings
, Mr. Davis, of Indiana, moved a reconsideration
ot the vote, so that motion was laid on the table
f by acclamation.
, A resolution was offered, providing that after
L the Ist of February, the daily hour of meeting
{ shall be eleven a. m.
] Mr Black moved to amend by inserting “3
■ r. m.
5 Debate arising, the whole matter was laid
. ov-r.
t Mr. Black then introduced his resolution,
, providing tor the appointment of a committee
, to consider the expediency of employing a
Corps of Reporters, to be paid by the House.
Objections being made to the consideration of
the resolution at this time, it was withdrawn.
A joint resolution was passed by a large ma
jority, providing that tbe postage to the Senate
shall be paid at lhe same rate as the postage to
■ the House. At present the prices paid to the
former are 15 per cent higher than that paid to
the latter. ,
A great number ot other resolutions were of
fered, but of no genera) importance.
Mr. Adams asked leave to introduce the re
solution he attempted to ’'resent last week, Irom
the Legislature of Massachusetts, providing lor
«« a,,,... r .1 . 0»... iukwh, r«-
presentativn shall be based on free persons i.my
Leave w:.s not granted.
Washington. Jan. 30, 1844.
IN SENATE.
Mr. Pearce, ot Maryland, presented the me-
1 morial ol the Baltimore and Philacelphia Rail
road Company, asking a remission of duties on
700 tons ot railroad iron.
) Cancelled Treasury Notes.— Mr. Buchanan
I presented a memorial from the publishers of the
1 Ledger, in Philadelphia, who say that in the
course of their business they received a Treasury
; note of SSO0 —that afterwards they received a
L circular from the Secretary of the Treasury,
which contained a list of notes said to have been
• returned by mail to the Department by the col
lector of New Orleans, and marked as cancelled.
Upon this note there was no mark ol cancel-
i lation. Mr. Buchanan said he himself had
I seen some of these notes, which presented no
. sign of cancellation. He thought that if the
collector of New Orleans had neglected to mark
these notes as cancelled, and they were now in
' the hands of bona fide holders, the Government
ought to redeem them. Mr. B. also presented a
like memorial from the Savings Fund Society
of Philadelphia, who had received one note of
SIOOO and anoihey of SSO, under like circum
stances. These memorials were referred to the
Committee on Finance.
Mr. Wright presented the memorial of the
Legislature of New York, calling on Congress
to take measures for retrenchment and reform
Jackson Fine. — Mr. Berrien, from the Ju
diciary Committee, reported the act to refund
this fine, with an amendment providing that no
censure is to be implied to Judge Hall.
Resolutions.— Mr. Semple submitted a resol
utfon that the Secreiary ofthe Navy stale what
would be the additional cost or having one of
thn ships oi the Home Squadron visit a variety
of ports every month.
Mr. Benton submitted two resolntio's, one in
reference to Oregon, and the other calling for
any information in the Department of Slate re
lative to slaves that have escaped into theßritish
dominions since the Treaty ot 1842.
The special order, (being the debate on Mr.
McDuffie’s bill,) was called up, but Mr. Evans
gave way to a motion to go into executive ses
sion.
HOUSE.
The House met as usual, and after pra’,
and the reading of the journal, the older c
day, which was the report on the rule
taken up.
Mr. Stiles, of Georgia, addresse'’ '
in support of the 21st rule. '