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FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9.
Gf.n. Clinch.—The Savannah Republican
of Wednesday, says: “ Our dislinguished Rep
resentative elect, arrived in town yesterday
morning, and left in the evening for W ashing
ton, to take his seat in Congress.
A Suit —Suit has been brought by the Uni
ted States against T. C. Morgan, late Collector
of New Orleans, and his securities, for the
amount of their bond, 8120,000, the sum defi
cient being $274,000, the U nited States reserv
ing the right of recovering the balance from
Mr. Morgan. The suit is said to be an amica
i«si tinted for the purpose of settling a
of the Cbllectdf'to certain Com
missions.
The above we copy from the Philadelphia
Inquirer. But we are at a loss to know what
services Mr. Morgan could have rendered the
Government, to entitle him to “ commissions”
to the enormous amount of $274,000. Can any
of our New Orleans cotemporaries explain this
matter ?
And here we would remark, that this charg
ing of commissions, tor the performance of du
ties incidental to offices, for which fixed sala
ries are provided, is to us a somewhat strange
proceeding. We can neither comprehend the
legality nor the expediency of the practice; and
the sooner it is provided against by law, the
better. It is the convenient cloak by which too
manj' defalcations are covered up, and the per
petrators screened from punishment —to say no
thing of the short-comings of the Treasury. It
is also one of the blessings which came in with
the “ Reform administrations” of Jackson and
Van Buren, and cannot too soon be “ repudia
ted.”
Locofocoism saved!—We yesterday allud
ed to the doings of the radicals in the First Mu
nicipality of New Orleans. Little did we think
then, that we were commenting on acts of inspi
red men, who were engaged in working out the
salvation of jacobinism! But so it was—ac
cording to tiie New Orleans Courier, which
thus, on a subsequent day, speaks of the works
of inspiration enacted in the enlightened anil pa
triotic fourth Ward !
“In spite of our sloth and carelessness, a
strong arm appears to be employed in turning
from us the disasters which we deserve. The
true democrats of the fourth ward seem to have
been moved by the inspiration of Providence. —
We are become acquainted with the dangers
that surround us—we know how to avert them.
Now that we are awake, let us prove that our
sleep was the repose of the lion.”
Mr. Webster—The New York Express
says:—“The letter from Mr. Webster to his
New Hampshire friends has left Washington
to be published in New Hampshire. Mr. Web
ster comes out there ‘ right side up,’ clear, un
equivocal and emphatic. He defers his own
romotion to that Mr. Clay.”
Central Bank Bills.—The Southern Re.
confer of Tuesday says, “there were burnt of
the bills of this institution, last week, three hun
dred and sixty-six thousand four hundred and
forty-five dollars. There is in the Treasury,
which will not be issued, the further amount o f
one hundred thousand dollars, which leaves in
circulation about two hundred thousand dol
lars.”
“Legion op Honor.”—The King of the
French, according to the New York Evening
Post, has conferred the order of the Legion of
Honor upon Mr. Galliardet, the editor of the
, Courier des Etats Unis, printed in that city.
All this is very proper, certainly, on the part
of King Louis Phillippe.and the editor inques
tion has, no doubt, richly earned this expression
of kingly approbation, for a more bitter and im
pudent revile rof the United States, her people
and her institutions, is not to be found any
where.
Can it be so?—The New Orleans Bee, of
the 2d inst., says, that on the preceding evening
a man by the name of Ransom was committed
to the guard house, on suspicion of being one of
a gang of burglars, who had robbed a segar
store some nights previous—and that about a
half an hour subsequently, the Captain of the
Watch, on going to his cell, found him hanging
to thqiloor by his suspenders, nearly dead. He
was cut down, and medical attendance sent for.
But none could be obtained in season, and the
man perished. Two physicians, first applied
to, refused to attend, for the reason, as stated by
the Bee, “ that they were not the physicians of
the Municipality!”
Can this be so ? Is not the Bee in error ? If
not, what sort of physicians could those have
been, who refused to attend on such an occasion
because they happened not to be “the physi
cians of the Municipality?” Were they men!
U’Three English pickpockets, who were
following in the train of Bull, the Norwegian
fiddler, for the purpose of levying contributions,
in their line, from the pockets of those whom
the fiddler was draining of a little of their surplus
cash in his way, have been arrested at Mobile,
for picking the pockets of the Mayor and oth
ers, in the Theatre, where they had kicked up a
row to facilitate their operations. We hope a
few more of her majesty’s subjects, of a like
character, may be in like manner provided for.
We should then hear less of robberies, burgla
ries, and the like.
Late Publications.—We are indebted to
Messrs. C. E. Grenville & Co., for copies of
the following recent publications:
“Arabella Stewart. A Romance; by G.
P. R. James, author of Morley Ernstein, &c.”
From the Press of Harper & Brothers. We
have not yet read this new work by Mr. James,
but will venture to recommend it on the strength
of what we have heretofore read, coming from
the same pen.
“ New Sketches of Every-DayLLisae — a Diary,
&c., by Frederika Bremer; translated by
Mary Howitt.” From the same press. Ex
cellent, like all the works of the same author
that have preceded it,
“ A Christmas Carol, in prose; being a Ghost
Story for Christmas." By Charles Dickens.
Harper & Brothers’ press—pp. 31. We have
notread this pamphlet, and therefore refrain
from passing any opinion on it. It is, however,
spoken of as a lively essay.
A Mail Robber Arrested.—From a letter
from the Post Master at Jefferson, Ashe county,
N. C., to L. G. Alexander, special agent of the
Post Office Department, we learn that Sheets,
who robbed the mail near Double Wells in this
State, in December last, has been arrested, and
is now confined in the jail of Ashe county. —
The Post Master also states that he is in pos
session of sufficient evidence to convict him of
the robbery.
Mr. Cushing—The Baltimore Patriot of the
4lh inst. makes the following remark:—A letter
from Washington says:—“ The President with
holds the nomination of Mr. Cushing from the
Senate, well knowing that he would be rejected
on account of the illegality ot his appointment,
to say nothing else of other objections. At the
cluse ot the session, or by ths lime his mission
is about concluded, he will then be sent in.
Foreign Calumny.—lt generally happens
, that those who wickedly and maliciously ca
lumniate their fellows, reap in some shape, and
in no small degree, the bitter fruits of the vile
I seeds they sow. Their calumnies,, as was said
of. curses, “are like stones thrown upwar.is,
, which as often fall on the head of him that cast
eth them, as on others.” Os this fact, that poor
puffed up creature, Dickens, is by this time ba
ginning seriously and inconveniently to realize
the truth. His stupid and witless, and at tne
same lime ungrateful, abuse of the people of
this country, has robbed him ot a profitable and
extensive market for his imaginative wares
here; while on the other side of the Atlantic,
his efforts to belittle a country and a people, in
which and by whom he was treated as a friend
and a brother, have not added a great deal to his
standing as a man, or his fame as an author.
As an evidence of the light in which he appears
al home, we quote the following paragraph from
‘the Dublin Evening Post. Tire low-bred, but
yet not untalented, Grub-street writer, will yet
find, to his cost, that he lias “ missed a figure”
in publishing his late attacks on this country.
“ Mr. Dickens, it is quite evident, has made
a failure in his new ‘Serial.’ American rogues
and vagabonds are quite as bad as the same
class in the Old World; but really there are
some high-spirited, ami pure-hearted iiy.Ni in
America. Mr. Dickens, hoWeVe’, infeosv erl
to the unboundeel and foolish hospitality, we
must say, whicn he received in the cities of
the United States, has laid himself down, for
eight or nine months, to vilify the whole people,
by ebnning himself to the showing up of certain
blackguards, and presenting of these as the on
ly specimens he could find in America of the
state of society in that great continent. Much
as the rdjjuery of the repudiating States has dis
gusted the people of England, and low as they
consider the morale ot the Americans, they still
cannot tolerate the garbage of a penny-a-liner
turned into a shilling pamphlet. They looked
for something else from Mr. Dickens.”
As a fit accompaniment to this criticism of
Dickens’s fancy picturesof “rogues” and “man
ners in America’,—and the frequent charges he
makes of deference here to wealth, no matter
what may be the character of the individual
who possessed it, we will add the following ex
tracts from a late English work entitled “ Eng
land Sixty Years Ago,” and designed to prove
that however degraded that country may be, and
the manners and bearing of the people debased,
their case is not really worse than it was some
few years back!
“To those who lament the increasing deprav
ity of the age, 1 will just point out a few speci
mens, not so much of. the depravity of the past,
for perhaps such things exist at all times, but of
the public estimation Ot the value of character.
In a large country village, with which I am well
acquainted, not fifty miles from London, the
parish clerk was twice publicly flogged for steal
ing money subscribed for the poor, yet he did
not lose his situation 1 but continued losing to
the praise and glory of God every Sunday, while
bis back was yet sore with stripes. No oqg
thought ot dismissing him. He had expiated
his offences, and was a new man again. A
clergyman, a neighbor of ours, was not only
frequently drunk in the pulpit, hut having de
bauched several of his servant women, at last
attempted a more atrocious seduction, and to
facilitate his purpose, procured the seizure of
the brother of his intended victim by a press
gang; the young man was carried off to sea for
five years, and the vile father-in-law very nearly
got his neck in the halter for the attempted vil
lany. Ido not say that the conduct was not de
tested, and regarded with digust, but he still
wore his gown—he still preached! 1 know the
imperfections of ecclesiastical law. The Bishop
did not—perhaps could not—interfere.
Two “gentlemen”—London merchants,whose
names I will not give, lest some ot their respect
able descendants should be still alive to feel
the revival of the forgotten degradation—these
two men were contractors with Government for
corn and rum. They were detected in the
grossest frauds, and were condemned to stand in
the pillory, where showers of rotten eggs, mud,
and every kind of filth very nearly killed them
—the ultimate appeal as to the magnitude ofthe
punishment depending entirely on the people,
who sympathized with the sufferers and encour
aged them with cheers and plaudits, thus turn
ing the punishment into a sort ot triumph, or
maimed (and, indeed, sometimes murdered)
them by missiles of the most frightful descrip
tion, justaccording to their opinions of the jus
tice ot the inflictien. These gentlemen became
the subjects of a doggrel epigram—
“To cheat the public tw® contractors come,
Ono cheats in corn, the other cheats in rum :
Which is the greater rogue now of the twain,
The rogue inspirit or the rogue in grain?”
So far so good. The culprits changed their
names by act of grace, and, when a few, a very
few, years had passed, they were both visited
again by persons of station and fortune, who af
fected not to recognize them under their new
appellations, although every one knew the facts,
and that the men had only one redeeming virtue,
but as Looney MacTwolter says, ‘ that was a
thumper’— they were rich!»
More of the Weller Affair.—The Uni
ted States Gazette of the 3d inst. says:—
“ A private letter now before us, dated at
Washington very early yesterday morning,
says: ‘ There will probably be a duel between
Edward W. Johnston, the friend of Mt. Shriver,
an 1 Mr. Dawson, the friend of Mr. Weller. I
have reason to believe a correspondence is now
going on, which I fear will result in that.’ ”
Messrs. Berrien and Colquitt.—A gen
tleman sojourning in Washington, who happen
ed to witness the rude attack made on Senator
Berrien, by the Reverend author of the “ un
varnished tale," thus describes the scene in a let
ter to the Baltimore Patriot.
The Senate chamber today exhibited the
singular, or rather the uncommon, spectacle of 1
a Senator attacking his colleague, and that,
too, with a degree of ferocity which could hard- ■
ly have been expected among gentlemen any
where—certainly, not in a grave and reverend 1
Senate. The present Wing Legislature of !
Georgia, it seems, passed resolutions expressive '■
of approbation and confidence in their Senator,
Mr. Berrien—probably as an offset to pie harsh
and condemnatory resolutions of a'preceding '
Loco Foco Legislature—and these which were
directed to both the Senators, were presented, as
was most proper, by Mr. Senator Colquitt—
who, by-the-by, besides the office of Senator in
the Congress of the United States, enjoys also >
that of justice of the peace at hoipe, the profes
sion ot a lawyer, and a preacher of the Gospel; ‘
how many other avocations 1 know not. But
Mr. Colquitt was not content to oflerthe resolu
tions, and let them repose as a silent make
weight against the violent condemnatory ones
of the former Legislature, but he must have
these read, byway of refreshing the memory
of the Senate, and then launches out into a
coarse personal attack against his colleague, for
political inconsistency and almost all manner
of offences against the Democracy ot Georgia.
The Senate seemed to me amazed at the ve
hemence, and, as 1 must call it, the rudeness of
the assault, heightened, no doubt, by the pecu
liar character ot the reverend aggressor, as well
as that of the courteous, high-minded and ac
complished gentleman, who was the object ot
the unprovoked aggression. His reply was ad
mirable. Calm, but energetic—dignified, elo
quent, and convincing—without the slightest
discourtesy of language: it was the finest and
most successful specimen of vindicatory elo
quence I almost ever heard. 1 should presume
that the reverend gentleman, it he consulted pru
dence, would let this be his last assault in’.hat
quarter.
Truth.—The Washington correspondent o!
the New York American, in noticing the recent
proceedings in Congress, on the part oi eller,
and others, in reference to the reporters —and
more especially the attack upon Mr. Sargent by
Messrs. Ingersoll and Wise—ven’ truthfully
speaks as follows:
“ If does not happen that decent, orderly, well
behaved and well-spoken men, complain of the
press or of reporters, or of letter writers; but
they precisely who take most liberties with the
House, and with their colleagues, and who are
intemperate in habit or in language, and some
times in both, are the persons who complain of
those chroniclers, who
‘ nothing extenuate.
Not set down aught in malice.’ ”
New York Money Market, week ending
Feb. .3.—The money market continues without
any material change since our last notice. A
disposition is evinced by the.,banks to advance
the rates of interest, five per cent, being at pre
sent the minimum. The quantity of paper ma
turing during the current month is very large,
and unless the shipments of cotton go forward
very rapidly, the new paper which will be
made will be ample to fill the place oi that run
ning to maturity; and consequently the advance
in the rates of discount will b« likely to be
uiaiutaiued.— Cm. Adv.
Large Steamboat.—A large steamboat, to
be called the Empire, is now in course of being
built at Cleveland, Ohio, and intended for the
lake trade. Her dimensions are thus given in
the Herald : —“ Her keel is 254 feet long. On
deck she will be 265 feet, with a diningroom
on the hurricane deck two hundred feet long, on
each side of which will be spacious state rooms
furnished in conformity with the usual style
which cbaracterises work on lake steam vassels.
She is to have a powerful engine, (450 horse
power,) and wheels thirty feet in diameter,
with 12 feet buckets. The Ist August next is
named as the period of her advent.”
Lake Erie can boast some of the best boats
now afloat in the United States—sevet al of
them having cost over SIOO,OO0 —and there are
to be added the coming season, as we learn from
the press in that region, three as fine steam craft,
including the above vessel, as have yet been
launched on that important inland sea.
West Point Academy.—From a report of
the War Department, in reply toa resolution of
inquiry relative to this establishment, which
was transmitted to Congress this morning, we
make the following abstract:
The number admitted into the institution
since its establishment, 2,942
Os whicfo4ave graduated,- l ,206
je -rfadii.-itK“
Declined receiving commissions, 6
Resigned after receiving commissions, 323
Disbanded, dropped, or dismissed, 33
Killed in service, 11
Died in service, 14 7
Now in service, 542
Os .hose now in service, there are 4 cok mels,
6 lieutenant colonels, 13 majors, 173 captains,
170 first lieutenants, 131 second lieutenant :, 70
brevet second lieutenants, 5 paymasters, air'd 1
military storekeeper.
The amount appropriated for the institut ion
since its establishment, for buildings, libra,ry,
apparatus, &c., is— $711,399 .88
For salaries, pay, subsistence, etc. $3,291,501 !?7
$4,002,901 15
Washington Spectator, til st ult.
O’ An English paper, published at Notting
ham, contains the following paragraph. What
ahnear.dcry would be raised in England, if
such a beastly occurrence should take place in
the United States—and even though English
men should be the actors. All would have
been set down to the credit ot “Yankee cus
toms.”
Sale of a Wife. — On Saturday last, a brute in
human shape, from West Hallam, named Hart,
sold his wile in Nottingham market-place, for
one shilling, to a fellow named Smith, with
whom tlie woman had been living for several
years. A rope was tied round the woman’s
waist, and on the bargain being completed and
the money paid, it was given to the purchaser,
who carried off his prize. All parties seemed
satisfied.
O’From the Address of Hon. J. P. Kenne
dy, Whig candidate for Congress in Baltimore,
we extract the pa ragraph below. Who can find
fault with the sentiments therein expressed ?
“We contend tor the rights of industry; for
the rights and the success of American work
men; before the workmen of all the world be
side : for our o'wn country before all other coun
tries. We contend for the prosperity of trade—
trade founded upon the products of our domestic
toil, upon the expansion and perfection ot our
own mechanic arts, upon the abundance and
thriving condition of our own home market—in
comparison with which the markets of all the
world abroad, that are open to us, sink into in
significance. We contend for the success ot
our own .navigation, the welfare of our own
shipwrights, our seamen, and all the thousand
connections that belong to that important con
cern. We coptend for the prosperity of agricul
ture, and the importance of rearing' up for its
use, a large and prosperous community of do
mestic consumers of its products. We contend
for the great interests of commerce —a com
merce that shall thrive upon the affluence of
our own people, and which shall be enjoyed by
the American merchant, in preference to the
merchant of any other land. We contend for
the interests ot a sound national currency, as in
dispensable to the operation ot that vast traffic
and exchange, bv which th'e business of the na
tion is alone diffused and rendered productive.
In standing forth as the advocates ot these inter
ests, we defend and maintain the dearest rights
of free government itself.”
From Florida.—By the steamer Win. Gas
ton, Capt. Freeland, we have the Jacksonville
Tropical Plant, and the St. Augustine News,
of tne 3d inst.
We are glad to learn from the following arti
cle, which we extract from the News, that the
recent intelligence of the Indians having killed
some whites near Pensacola, is without founda
tion.
. The News says:
“ We have recent intelligence in relation to a
supposed assault of a party of Indians, consist
ing of two men, two women and three children,
upon the passengers of a small vessel, ran ashore
near the Choctawalchee Bay, about fifty miles
East of Pensacola. The belief is prevalent that
some difficulty occurred between the whitesand
Indians, but the murders said to be committed
are without foundation. It isnot believed that
there are Indians in any number m that quarter.
Pascofer, with his band, who occupied that
country, and was emigrated in the summer of
1842, named one family as living not far from
Pensacola—the only Indians he knew or had
heard of in that section of country. These oc
currences should not alarm our settlers, as the
communication between the inhabitants andthe
Indians south, gives every assurance of harmo
ny and friendship.
From Tampa Bay, we learn that Col. Bel
knap is in daily intercourse with the principal
Indians south, who come in and evince the most
amicable feelings. Halpatter, with his band,
ten men, who occupied the country in the vicin
ity of the Eastern Hatchee River, west of the
Suwannee, is now moving South with his wo
men and children, satisfied, as he expressed
himself, that he had better be removed from
amidst the numerous whites who were coming
so near his old haunts, and join his friends and
relatives in the South.
Our citizens should have no apprehensions,
but cherish with these remnants of bands a kind
ly feeling: when concentrated South, they are
more satisfactorily within our reach, either for
peace or war.
P. S.—Since the above was in type, we learn
that letters have been received from Col. Bel
knap, commanding at Tampa, as late as the
29th ult. He says: “Within the last two
months, a number of Indians have come into
this pq^t; they are gradually growing tamer;
we encourage the most friendly intercourse
with them—meantime not the slightest act of
hostility on their part is to be apprehended.”
1':. -m Buenos Ayres.—The Rosabella, at
Salem, brings dates to Nov. 18. The papers
contain bulletins of live battles—the principal
one of which gives an account ot a decisive vic
toiy achieved by the Buenos Ayrean, General
Gomez, over the Montevidean Gen. Silvia, with
1200 men at Cerro del Palado. The latter is
reported to have lost 300 killed, with seventy
prisoners. Gomez reports only 8 killed, 10
wounded.
The other bulletins are accounts of small vic
tories and massacres. The latest intelligence
represents Rivera as having been driven nearly
to the Brazilian frontier, closely pursued by
Gen. Urquiza.
The Bueynos Ayrean papers, entirely in the
interest of Rosas, speak in bitter terms of the
course of the British Com. Purvis, with regard
to the blockade, as having been the means of
prolonging the war ; and among the intercept
ed letters to Rivera, from his fellow rulers
within the walls of Montevideo, which they
continue to publish, are some showing that the
Montevideans looked on the Commodore as a
friend.
Rosas, by a lecree of November 9th, re
quires the consignees and shippers of vessels,
exporting any articles of provisions, to give
bonds that those articles shall not reach Mon
tevideo.
Fire in Wilmington, N. C.—The Chroni
cle of the 7th inst. says—About daylight on
Friday morning last, a fire broke out from the
roof ot the Steam Rice Mill at the lower end ot
the town, owned by Capt. Samuel Potter and
Mr. J. A. Wade. The main building was en
tirely destroyed, together with several thousand
bushels of rough rice. By the extraordinary
exertions of the firemen, a shed building, at
tached to the main one, was saved from being
burnt—a teat worthy of special notice, as show
ing the present efficiency of our fire depart
ment. The loss to the owners of the Mill is
probably five or six thousand dollars, exclusive
of three thousand insurance. Some planters
who had rice waiting its turn to be cleaned lose
several hundred dollars each.
O’Prentice, ofthe Louisville Journal, savs:
“The Plebeian rejoices at the fact dial the dis
tinguished Virginia Senator ‘is elite.’ He is
not only alive, but kicking f*
AUGUSTA, GA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1844.
o SATURDAY MORNIWG, FEBRUARY 10.
j
e week comes on in Maryland an im
tr portant election; and from this time forth until
» the great final straggle in November, almos*
i every month will bring with it a renewal of the
i civil contest, In one or more ofthe States.
s That the victory, in these political contests,
> may not always rest with the right, we are fully
. aware. But of the general result, we have
i no fears. Never was the Whigs in a belter
, humour for the fight: never had they stronger in
s centives to urge them on, or brighter pros
pects of success to sustain their spirits. Con
i vinced that they must make a mighty effort to
f regenerate the political affairs of the country, and
• to bring back the administration of the govern
ment to those constitutional limits, within which
alone it can move with safety to the people, they
have suffered no minor matters to divide their
attention, orto weaken their array. The conse
quence is, that they this day present an unbroken
•rent; and the fruits of their union and harmony
are seen in the success which has almost invaria
bly followed their recent labors at the polls,
whether at. the north or at the South.
Furthermore—where is there a Whig, who
has carefully calculated the chances, that expres
ses a ffiiubi el qjy- final triuiiipliintL’jPresyen
traTcoiftest? *J s not this feefifig—this almost as
surance of victory—worth something? Does it
not speak trumpet-tongued of a triumph that
willbe secured? Is it not a moral strength that
will be found irresistible, when the trial of its
power shall be made ?
But, with all this confidence of success, the
Whigs well know that they must neither be idle
nor asleep. They know that they have an in
defatigable and an insidious enemy to contend
with. They know that they must wrestle skil
fully, warmly, and with their whole strength.
Each man, indeed, ofthe party, must be watch
ful, and ready tor action, “in season and out ot
season.” There must be no laggards—none
who put their hands tenderly to the work. —
Each one, be his situation in life or opportuni
ties what they may, must strike promptly, stead
ily, and hard. A country is not stayed in its
downward course without a united and a vigor
ous effort. Each freeman must bare his shoul
ders to the work, and labor as though the whole
task were imposed upon him alone. Acting
under such impulses, what but success would
be the result ? And is not this the spirit—these
the motives—which animate and excite to ac
tion the great Whig Brotherhood? Before
God and rnan, we believe the cause of the
Whigs to be just, and their aspirations as a par
ty pure and patriotic 1 And as unbounded as
is our trust in their honesty, so is our confidence
in their success, if they falter not or weary not
in the good cause.
Q-The N. Y. Journal of Commerce, an up
to the hub free trade press, and noted for its
fierce denunciations of the “ black tariff,” as pro
hibitory in its provisions, utterly destructive of
commerce, and inimical to the interests of the
government in the matter of revenue, on the 2d
inst. contained the following paragraph:
A Great Revenue. — The receipts at the New
York Custom’House for the month of January,
amounted to the very great sum of $1,876,(MX),
or three and a halt times the amount collected
in the same month of last year.
We should like to be informedhow atarifl'
can be prohibitory, and destructive of commerce
and revenue, and at the same time nearly two
millions of dollars be collected in one month at
a simgleport! Do the foreign manufacturers
send their articles to the United States—where,
according to the veracious advocates of tree
trade, they are taxed to twice and thrice their
value—simply because they wish to pay money
into the government coffers, out of their own
pockets ? for we do not find that goods, as a
whole, are selling at higher prices than wiien
the foreign workmanhad the market to himself.
One ot two things must therefore be certain:
either the assertions of the free traders are un
true, o- the home manufacturers are perverse,
and will not raise their prices to make true the
hypotheses of their enemies.
There are those to whom the occurrence
of a murder is a very god-send—a terrible acci
dent, a rich dessert. We find that the falling in
of ihe Whig Club House at Richmond, accom
panied, as it was, with loss of life and breaking
of limbs, is greedily caught np by the minor jaco
bin papers, following the head of the great oracles
of the Globe and Richmond Enquirer, and pass
ed round to their credulous readers as “an
omen!” —an omen-ot the fall of the Whig cause.
It is a very pretty truly: but why should
Father Ritchie’s tragico-politico cry of “ an
omen! an omen!” be more rational than the
suggestion of the Richmond Whig, that the
painful occurrence was rather a “coincidence.”
Os the hundred and fifty persons on the roof
when it fell, butene was not a Whig. This one
was Mr. Baker—a carpenter, hired to work on
the building—and he atone lost his life. But if
“the party” is to be sustained by omens, why not
have the old Roman order of Augures restored,
that its fate might be regularly calculated in the
true ancient style? The potent number “three,”
could be happily obtained in the persons of the
editorsof the Enquirer, Globe and Albany Argus
—with Father Ritchie as “ Magister Collegii!"
All would then go on happily! No danger that
either of these worthies would lean to anything
Sinister.
Deaths in New York.—From the Annual
Report of the Inspector we learn, that the deaths
in the city of New York, during the past year,
were 8,693; of which 4,619 were males, and
4,074 females. The deaths by consumption w ere
1,50.3, or more than a sixth part of the whole
number; and of these, nearly two thirds were
foreign born. The number of males and females
were nearly equal.
people of Trenton, N.J., were re
cently glorifying themselves not a tittle, upon a
certain earthquake that had occurred there. It
turns out, however, that it was not one ofthe
ordinary kind, but was occasioned by th? opera
tion ot the frost, during the extraordinary cold
weather which so suddenly succeeded a mild
and damp spell.
Who pays?—The Princeton Steamship, for
the purpose of trying her capacity for getting
through the ice, was, a few days since, got un
der way from the Navy Yard in the Delaware,
and passed up the river, at nearly the top of her
ordinary speed, notwithstanding the great thick
ness of the ice. When opposite the city, Capt.
Stockton caused her largest gun—very foolishly
styled the “Peacemaker”—to be fired off, by
which large quantities,of glass in the windows
of the warehouses and dwellings, along the
wharves and elsewhere, were broken, as might
well have been expected. Now, who ought to be
made to pay the damages ? The truth is, there
is an extra quantity of tom-foolery played off,
concerning this same steamship, her big gun,
and Captain Stockton, and it is pretty near time
that an end were put to it. She is a fine vessel,
her guns extra large and efficient, and her Com
mander a very capable one, and withal a good
deal of a gentleman: but why render ourselves
ridiculous by keeping them constantly before
the world, as though there was nothing else to
speak or write about ? .
g g~*f The receipts at the Custom House in
New York, last month were very
huge—beingsl,B72,3os 43
The receipts ot the first quarter of
last year, viz: Jan. Feb. and
March, were 1,876,874 77
Difference $4,569 34
Lafayette Junior.—Geo. Lafayette, son of
the General, has been chosen a»uieinber ol the
French Chamber »f Deputies.
Politics in South Carolina. —Every day
new lights are burstingtorth which show most
conclusively the tendency ol things in Caroli
na. The last has the fol
lowing:
“On the Fence.”—The withdrawal ofMr.
Calhoun from the cwfest for the Presidency,
and the recent action dOte Locofoco majority
in Congress on the suq®s ofthe Tariff, Abo
ition, &c., have forceq&t to take no active part
in the present contest IMF the advancement of
men, and induced us t d climb to the lop rail of
Uncle Sam’s fence, anally look on during the
approaching crisis.” fl
The same paper takisfiie following notice of
the elevated stand take®jt our neighbor ofthe
Hamburg Journal. Frien I Yarborough is,
however, too good a patriot lo
enviable position in contest:
“ The Hamburg Jou^L,, strong
Calhoun paper, is now et|*for Clay! This is
the first change we of in this State, but
we fear it will not be ‘An open ene-
my in preference to a treSiherous friend,’ is a
common expression times. ‘ Out of
the frying pan and inti, ihe fire,’ gentlemen.
Betier crawl up on the fence, and keep clear of
the mud, you will only-fel your garments soil
ed, and be hooted at arr- egades."
Joe Smith, the Motleader, taking a hint
from the course pursue other polili
cL.ns, lias been '7? ho<>k, a
of questions candidate ■?
Among the rest, he wrixe to Mr. Calhoun, sta
ting that the “ Latter Day Saints" had been dri
ven out of Missouri under circumstances of
great outrage; that having appealed in vain for
redress to all the legal and constitutional tribu
nals, they had petitioned Congress; and winding
up with an inquiry as to what Mr. C. would do
foj the saintly followers of his interrogator, in
case he were elected President. Mr. C. replied,
in substance, that, in such event, he should en
deavor to administer the laws impartially, with
out regard to religious sects; but that the case
referred to, did not, in his opinion, come w ith
in the jurisdiction of the Federal Govern
ment.
This answer did not suit the leader of the
saints, and accordingly he anathematised Mr.
C. in regular Nauvoo style.
Mr. Calhoun being thus disposed of, we should
like very much to see Mr. Van Buren’s an
swer, on the same subjeet, to his Mormon friend.
As that cunning little man has in Missouri a .
great leader ol “ saints” of another order—<o
wit, of the Jacobin stamp—whom it would be
unwise to offend, at the same time that be who
holds the balance of power in Illinois must be
kept in good humor, we doubt not he communi
cated his views to the prophet in his usual frank
and lucid style! but if Joe made anything out
them, it must have been by diving to the bottom
of his hat after the meaning, as he did in the
•
case ot his golden plates ofthe Book ol Mormon
—tor if there ale any two things that bear a close
resemblance to each other, they must be Mr.
Van Buren’s letters, “defining ha position,”
and Joe’s curious bible plates, written in an un
known tongue, ivlnch are best deciphered in the
dark!
The Vice-Presidency.—The Columbus
Enquirer says:—A paper in Cincinnati nomi
nates Mr. Duncan, asa candidate for Vice Pre
sident, on the Van Buren ticket. Whois this
M. D., and‘from what region does he bail?
We have heard of a silly blackguard m Con- ‘
gress, bearing this euphoneous name, who for ,
years past has attempted to degrade his high
station and make himself ridiculous; is this !
the fellow designated tor the second office in
the gift ofthe people? If so, notwithstanding
he might make a worthy adj'nnct to the Prince
of Kinderhook, it strikes us that such a team
would be unaeceptaMe to the tastes ofthe great
body of the constituency. From recent indica
tions, we are led to supposi that Van Buren and
Dick Johnson will again be upon the field ; if
so, we will again knock he black propensities
out of these worthy coadjttors, and stamp their
respective pretensions with l ie condemnation of
the third “ sober thought of thi people.”
What has become of Gov. Dorr, will nobody
couple his great name with hs illustrious friend
of Lindenwold? That swori of his might work
wonders it wielded in conjunction with the cun
ning ot Van. And Polh, vhere is he? Did
Jones use him utterly up in taeirlast campaign,
in Tennessee ? But last of all, and least of all,
where and who is Dr. Dunctn ?
Friday morning last, ve believe, was the
day of sailingof the Britannic steam packet from
Boston. The harbor, however, was frozen up
for many miles, and it becaue necessary to cut
a channel, sixty feet wide, toadmil of her pass
ing out. This the Fresh Pond Ice Company
contracted to do for $1,500. The Mercantile
Journal thus describes their mode of operation :
“ A channel of 60 feet in width is first marked
out, which is then divided into blocks of 30 feet
square. The sections marked are then ploughed,
by which the ice is cut nearly down to the water.
The plough is formed of seven different plough
shares, perfectly flat and very sharp, which are
arranged in a row, nearly similar td what is
called a cultivator. After ploughing, the ice is
sawed so ( as to detach the cakes from each other,
which two grapnels are attached to the cakes, '
and they are hauled uoderthe stationery ice by
a gang of 150 men, some 15 standing on the
cake to sink it. The iee is near 8 inches in
thickness. A number of ladies aic present,
which gives the scene a very animated appear
ance.”
Massacre of the Nestorian Christians. —
A correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial Ad
vertiser, writing from Constantinople, under
date of Nov. 20, contradicts all the statements
which were put forth, that the dissentions and
intrigues of the Missionaries caused the late
massacre ot this Christian people. He shows
conclusively that the matter originated in the
fanatic ism, jealousy and cruel policy of the Tur
kish government, and was planned at least a year
before the arrival of any of the missionaries— I
American, English or Catholic.
Ibe following are the concluding paragraphs (
ul iris letter:
“Witliout going into ihe proofs, I will add j
a lew words to explain the real and, so far as
evidence goes, the sole cause of the massacre. '
The Turkish government has long intended to 1
bring the independent Nestorians into subjec- !
tion. Living within the borders ol Turke}’,
they have maintained from the earliest ages a 1
perfect independence both of Turks and Kurds. 1
The assault made upon the Patriarch in 1841 !
was executed by a combined force of these two
people. It arose irom a secret understanding ■
between the Kurdish chiefs and the Pasha of ,
Erzroum, and was doubtless sanctioned by the
Porte. The design was to effect the long desir- 1
ed object of subjugating the Nestorian tribes, 1
and for a time it was thought to ha/e been ac
complished. But the Nestorians soon appeared
as independent as ever, and it was found neces- •'
sary to accomplish something more than an at- 1
tack upon their Patriarch. Hence the recent 1
invasion and the awful massacre. It arose 1
wholly from Mohammedan ambition. There, !
and there alone, does the guilt rest ■ and the af
dieted Nestorians will probably find no repose 1
until they consent to wear the yoke of Turk
ish domination.
I am. Messrs. Editors, yonrs truly.
“P. S.—Since writing this letter, 1 have re- ‘
ceived a formal declaration from Mar Shimon, '
the Patriarch of the Nestorians, that the mas
sacre of his people is not to be attributed in any
degree to the causes stated in the article upon
which 1 have been commenting, but solely to '
the cupidity ot the Mahommedans. This is ,
enough, 1 trust, to set 'he matter at rest.”
s ’ ’ i
Whig Convention in Richmonnd, Va. —
The “Richmond Whig” of Wednesday morn
ing the 7th inst. says:—Notwithstanding the in
clemency of the weather, the members of the
Convention poured in town yesterday evening,
like a storm. Two separate bodies of twenty
each, passed the Toll-gate on Mayo’s Bridge on
horseback. The Northern cars, we are inibnn
by a gentleman who came in them, brought a
bout two hundred. All the Taverns and Board
ing Houses are full to overflowing. The most
distant Counties, some which have never sent
a delegation directly here, have done so now.—
There is an animation and zeal in our ranks
which must prove fatal to “ Old Hunkerism.”
Thia will a great day for the Whig eeese
£> From a long article in the National Intel
ligencer we extract the following information in
relation to the settlement of the differences be
tween Mexico and Yucatan:
Mexican Ai fairs.—The current information
oi the day has already put the public in posses
sion of the re union ol Yucatan to the body of
the Mexican Republic. The adjustment of their
late differences was, as out readers know, con
fided some time since io Commissioners on both
• sides. Those on the part of Yucatan, it will
be recollected, after a negotiation not conclusive,
returned home to consult, or to seek new powers;
and, lately returning to Mexico, entered into
. fresh conferences, which were crowned with the
happyjresull already know n. As, however, the
particularsof this national arrangementare very
vaguely conveyed in the notices oi the matter
which our press has spread, and as
we now possess the details in our files of Mexi
can journals, received by the Anahuac at New
York, we proceed to give the distinct features of
this important pacification.
[The chief items ot this convention are, that
Yucatan retains the territory that she possessed
in 1840; has the regulation of’her own internal
affairs; submits to the general authority of the
Republic in matters ecclesiastical; has the
power of regulating duties on foreign goods,
but must conform therein to the provisions of
treaties "made by the republic; and a general
amnesty is secured to all political offenders ast
jrersons and property.)
ft will thus be seen, (says the Intelligencer,)
efoj
local concessions of independence. In pedee
she is exempt from aH taxes but for the support
of her domestic Government. She obtains a
proportionate representation in the National
Councils. In war only is she bound to aid the
Confederacy, except with her naval forces. Her
Governor is appointed from abroad;.but the
nomination of all other administrative officers
must come from herself. The terms granted
bespeak great liberality, in the main, and are a
fresh pledge ofthe wisdom and moderation w hich
Santa Anna appears to us now so much to em
ploy in restoring to his tong-distracted country a
system of public order.
Pram the N. Orleans Bee, I’ob. ‘id.
Mexico.—By the arrival ot the schooner
John Barr, which left Vera Cruz on ihe 26th
ult., we have received full files of papers from
the city of Mexico. They contain, however,
but liule news that would interest our readers.
The U. S. ship Vincennes was at Sacrificios,
awaiting the arrival of our Minister, General
Waddy Thompson, who was to embark in her
for the United Slates.
They were expecting momentarily, at Vera
Cruz, the arrival ofthe new Minister from the
Court ol St. Janies. The British Charge d’At
•faires at Mexico, had expressed a wish, which
we must construe as almost implying a com
mand, that the minister should be received on
his landing, with all the honors due to his rank.
It was even stated that that functionary had de
sired that the English colors should, on this oc
casion, be hoisted on the Fort of San Juan de
Ulloa.
It appears that the Santa Fe prisoners, de
tained at the Castle ol Perote, are in the most
wretched state ; sixteen of the number had died
during the month precedit g, and only eighteen
remained who were capable of performing 1
labor.
Congress was in session, and seemed inclined
lodo justice to the nation at large. A resolu
tion had been brought up to examine into the 1
official conduct oi the provisional government.
This is braving the lion in his den.
The steamer Guadaloupe and a schooner of
War arrived at Vera Cruz from Tobasco on
the 21st uh., with troops on board. Two Brit
ish brigs and two French sloops of War were <
also lying at Sacrificios.
ore a strong
! This is
s State, but
fVorn thf Savannah Republican, Peb. 8.
Late from Havana.—By the arrival at this
port yesterday morning, of the schooner Mary
Shields, Captain Worthington, we have our
files of ihe Diario de la Habana, from the 21st to
the 27tli January inclusive.
Capt. W. reports having seen, 30miles South
of Cape Florida light, a large ship ashore.
There wore two wreckers along side.
We observe scarcely any thing in the Diario
worth translating. .
The new Goverrior, O’Donnell, seems to em
ulate Tacon in his administration of justice.—
We notice an official order imposing heavy fines
‘and imprisonment upon certain inhabitants oi*
Havana, whose npmes are given, tvho were
caught in playing a piohibited game of chance
“ mauled*
Accounts from Port Principe, to the 15th ult.,
represent the excessive drought as still continu
ing unabated. In Santiago, and all the ports
ofCuba 7'e Deum has been sung, in commemo
ration ot the young Queen arriving at her ma
jority.
Havana, Jan. 30.—There is no change in our
produce market; the demand for Coffee contin-,
ues, and our stick is moderate. Molasses
scarce at 2rs. here and at l}rs. on the coast.
Since our last advices, the schooner Atlantic
has arrived from your port with a small cargo
of Rice, two tots of which have changed hands,
vizf 38 casks at 9Jrs. and 50 casks at 9}rs; the
balance, about 100 casks, has been stored in ab
sence of an acceptable offer. Coffee, 5 a 7}
rials.
Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.
Boston, Saturday, Feb. 3—3 P. M.
The Britannia has gone at last. She left this
morning at about half past 10 o’clock, making
her way slowly through the canal which had
been cut through the ice about 7 or Smiles; she
was 5 miles at the outside the light at noon. It
is thought to be very doubtful it she will be en
abled to gel into Halifax harbor, on account of
the ice.
The Expresses which left New York on
Thursday afternoon arrived here to-day q little
after noon. Consequently, if any letters or
packages were forwarded intended for the Bri
tannia, those sending them are informed that they
were rather late.
The Southern mails fortunately arrived here
about three o’clock this morning, and the Post
Office clerks were all sent for, and were busily
employed making up the bags untilthe time the
steamer left.
The weather is getting milder, and we are in
rojiesof a speedy thaw outat Throg’s Neck.
The cost ot culling the canal through the ice
has been about $21)00. Mr. S. S. Lewis, agent
of the British steamers, informed the Mayor
that he was ready to contribute any proportion
ofthe expense, but his offer was positively de
clined by the Mayor.
One gentleman, understood from the
West Indies, arrived alongside the Britannia on
a sled, after she was underway, and took pas
sage in her. W hole number of passengers from
here 58, and 40 berths engaged at Halifax.
Iler mail is the largest ever carried across the
Atlantic, combining over thirty thousand letters.
Correspondence of the V. S. Gazette.
New YoSk, Sunday p. m.
The weather continues clear and pleasant—
thermometer 20deg. at noon in the shade. The
navigation is open through Hurl Gate and be
yond Throg’s Point, so that the Mohegan start
ed and passed those places with the Eastern
m; il yesterday afternoon.
i. 11 the Southern Mails which were past due
have arrived, and but few bills ot exchange
have been received. This has given a greater
degree of firmness to the market, and no ster
ling bills could be had yesterday at less than
109}; should a demand spring up, large pur
chases could not be made at this rate, therefore
it is not at all improbable that specie will be
shipped. Francs are steady at 5f 30 a 5 32}.
Quite a moderate business was done at the
Stock Exchange.
The cotton market presents no new feature.
The sales were to the extent of 1500 bales at
former prices. Flour was in fair demand; sales
of Western were made at $4 81; a $4 871.
rr The Charleston Courier of yesterday I
says.—The Br. ship Enterprise, Capt. Mathews,
from Liverpool, previously reported in the of
fing, in attempting to cross the bar, yesterday
morning, in tow of the steamer Anson, grounded
in the channel. The steamer Beaufort District
left last evening, for her assistance, and she will
no doubt be got off without injury.
The Army and Navy Chronicle: “ Lieut.
Gillis has received a letter from the artists at
Munich, inlorming him that the great telescope
for the Observatory at Washington was moun
ted for regulation on the sth December last, and
that as soon as the brass work was polished it
would be packed and sent to Bremen for ship
ment to the United States. The Magnetic Ob
servatory built under the direction ot Lieut. G.
has been completed, and the instruments moun
ted tor use.”
Maine.—Returns have been received from all
the towns ot the Vllth Congressional District
except 18, and strong hopes are entertained of
the election oi the Whig candidate. The vote
stands tor Robinson, Whig, 3,362 ; Cary, Loco,
3,178; scattering, 118; Robinson over all, 66.
At the last election the vote stood in the same
towns, for Robinson, 1,922; Cary, 2,057; scat
tering, 330. Majority against Robinson, 465.
A gain of 39 votes in the towns to be heard from
will secure the election.— Tribune.
T>The Treasury Notes outstanding on Feb
ruary Ist, amount to $3,657,473 —as appears
irom the official notice of the Register of tbe
Treasury.
I- MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12.
n ■’■ ■ ■■ * -
. yV Sundry of the Locofoco editors, who are
not yet fully impressed with the propriety and
tt wisdom of again running Mr. Van Buren,
- are exceedingly pathetic on the occasion.- -
They humbly entreat their brethren to be a little
cautious, and before nominating the Sage of
i Lindenwold, to inquire whether the “ union of
I the democracy” would not be better promoted
by taking some one of the other aspirants to the
J tavorof thejradicals! But they preach to closed
s ears. The friends of the man of the Defaulters
' are inexorable. They will hear of no other
r J
i- candidate. The restoration of the old regime
) must be “a unit!” The brotherhood is one—
it cannot be divided into parcels! “Have not
C the party decided for Mr. Van Buren, almostto
a man?” is their peremptory answer. “ Have
not a majority of every Convention designated
1 him as their favorite ? has he not now pledged
to him almost a majority ofthe delegates ? and
will not the number be more than completed
from those that are yet to be appointed ? What
greater union and harmony therefore could there
be? Have not the democracy clearly expressed
their wishes ? What further would you have ?’
True, “what would you have?” oh most
I •'m<-G>fe.and mild “the jtarty,”
r who like not the Fox eT j’a:
hardly dare to whisper your dissent! W hat is
left for you, but to “hear, tremble and obey?”
“A restoration!” is the cry of those whose eye
is upon the treasury—whose palms itch to bear
off “the spoils!” With such politicians of what
avail is it to use the honeyed words of remon
strance ? To be heard, you must command, and
net whimper! If you would be fell and feared,
something more than mere requests are necessa
ry. Where then is all that boasted “chivalry”
and independence, of which, in times past, and
on all occasions, we have heard so much ? Is
it now all vapor ? Is it all gone? Does it va
nish at the waving of the wand of a little ma
gician, who, from within his magic circle on the
banks ofthe Hudson, works wonders by the aid
of— packed conventions! Oh it is most edifying
to witness the tameness —aye, tameness!— with
which “tie Chivalry," who almost brave with
drawn blades the whole Whig phalanx, succumb
to the management of a contemptible cabal of
mercenary and selfish politicians at the north,
and dance like puppets as the masterof theshow
pulls the wires! Chivalry, indeed!
“ Oh a little civet, sweet apothecary t”
Clay Clubs.—We observe with much plea- 1
sure that the Whigs are preparing in various (
parts of the State for the approaching contest ■
by the formation of Clay Clubs. This 1
is all well, and we hope that the Whigs in ev- |
ery county will follow the good example. t
A Clay Club has been formed at Milledge- 1
ville, of which the Hon. Seaton Grantland was ’
chosen President, and A. J. Paine, M. Grieve, ’
J. H. Washington, L. L. Harris, Jeremiah ■
Beall, N. C. Barnet, and Daniel R. Tucker, 1
Vice Presidents. « j
In Macon the Whigs have had a most spirit
ed meeting, at which, a Club to be styled “ The 1
Georgia Central Clay Club,” was organized,
of which Washington Poe, Esq., was elected \
President, and Gen. Elias Beall, Erastus 1
Graves, Cadwell W. Raines, Dr. Thomas R. c
Lamar, Rollin Bivins, Thomas M. Ellis.jPeter
Stubbs, Eugenius A. Nisbet, J. Cowles, Thad- (
deus G. Holt, James H. Hardaway, Briggs *
H. Moultrie, William Melrose, George W.
Moore, and Anderson Rice, Vice Presidents.
Ohio.—Jacobinical love of law and jus- J
tice ! —Matters are assuming a queer shape in
this State at the present moment. Every ten
years, by constitutional requirement, the repre-
sentation in both branches of the legislation is
to be apportioned, according to the number of
taxable inhabitants in each county. Ten years
ago, the jacobins, having the power in both
houses, so arranged matters, as virtually to dis
franchise, every other year, the large Whig
counties, and secure a large Locofoco majority
whenever a United States Senator, or the im
portant State officers to be elected by them, were
to be chosen. Under this disability, the Whigs
have been laboring ever since, although largely
in the majority in the State.
At present, the Senate has a jacobin majority,
while the lower House is Whig—and sufficient
ly so, to overcome, in joint ballot, the majority
of the upper house. But this avails nothing in
legislating. Accordingly, the radicals of the
Senate, determined to secure their political pow
er for fen years to come, have passed a bill which,
as parties now stand, would give them, indispu
tably, a majority of two votes in the upper
House, and at best only allow the Whigs but
two in the other House, with the chances strong
ly in favor of the ascendancy of the jacobins
even in that body! This bill the Whig House
refuses, and very properly, to adopt; while the
radicals as peremptorily reject all compromises.
Unless, therefore, one of the parties gives way,
Ohio will be without the power cf electing a le
gislature next year.
Such a state of things, occur in what State it
may, is sadly to be deplored, as the enemies of
popular government are provided thereby with
a strong argument in favor ol their theory, that
all such governments inevitably tend to anarchy.
But notwithstanding this, we trust the Whig le
gislators in Ohio, will stand up manfully tor
their rights—for the maintenance of that truly
republican principle that the majority, of right,
ought to rule. This they are required to do,
not only in justice to their own constituents, but
to the whole people of the United States—for by
the action ot a Senator of the United States,
chosen by a corrupt or factious minority in Ohio,
may the honor, interests and prosperity of the
entire'republic be injuriously affected. And.
moreover, it is highly necessary that jacobinical
demagogues and anarchists should be promptly
put down every where : and further still, kept
down.
It may not be travelling out of the record here
to add, that both the present Senators from Ohio
owe their seats in Congress to the unfair alter
nate location of nineteen “ floating” members of
the State Legislature, under the apportionment
law above alluded to.
Patterson Manufactories.—We learn
from the Tribune, that all the manufactories at
the above important manufacturing town, are
now in full operation, and that others are about
to be erected and put in operation forthwith
And further, that two Scotch capitalists have
purchased a site, and are about erecting a large
establishment for the manufacture of w hat is
called Dundee goods—viz -, a coarse fabric for
bagging and bales, an article which England
has heretofore principally furnished us. Suc
cess to the undertaking—and to all such —isour
cry! With an increasing revenue, increasing
home manufactures, increasing consumption of
the raw home-grown material, and lessened debt
to, and dependence upon, foreign countries—
what can America hope for that is better ? or
what can a change ol policy offer, sufficient to
warrant a trying of further “experiments?”
“ Old Ironsides.”—The Norfolk Herald
says ot this favorite frigate, orders to fit out
which, for the Mediterranean service, have
been received at the Gosport Navy Yard, “ tha
she will never reach her destination, without
such a renovation of her timbers as was not
contemplated in the order.”
Ohio.—A bill is before the Legislature of
Ohio, providing for taxing watches, piano fortes,
furniture, coaches, the stocks employed in vari
ous eccupations, &c.
the Superior court county, last
week, Walter L. Warren, Esq., of this city,
was admitted to tbe Bar.
Virginia.—The Whig Convention held
- Richmond, on the Bth inst., was a glorious rally
—worthy, in all respects, ot the “Ancient Di-
I minion”—notwithstanding the great inclemency
> of the weather. Upwards of five hundred del< -
" gates were in attendance. The Hon. B. W •
“ Leigh was chosen President of the Convention.
1 The best feeling prevailed in the meeting—
-1 all was life, and spirit, and animation. The
1 Whig Club House resounded with the cheering
3 addresses of many of Virginia’s ablest and mo-t
1 ardent Whigs. ,
s All our accounts from this State, public and
r private, assure us, that the Whig ticket will
- succeed by a triumphant majority in this an
’ cient and impoilant commonwealth.
1 Delegates to the National Whig Convention
’ were appointed ; and the following Electoral
'■ Ticket nominated:
1 Dist. I. Robert H. Whitfield, of Isle of Wight.
I “2. John E. Shell, of Brunswick.
“ 3. Henty P. Irving, of Cumberland.
“ 4. Joseph K. Irving, of Amherst.
“ 5. George H. Gilmer, of Pitsylvania.
“ 6. Valentine W. Southall, of Albemarle.
“ 7. John Janney, of Loudon.
“ 8. Edward T. Tayloe, of K ing George.
“ 9. Raleigh T. Daniel, of Richmond.
“ 10. Moreau Bowers, of Williamsburg.
“11. Andrew Hunter, of Jefferson.
“ 12. A. H. H. Stuart, of Augusta.
“ 15. Allen T. Caperion, of Monroe.
“ 16. Augustine J. Smith, of Harrison.
“ 17. James M. Stephenson, of Tyler.
Burns Arrested.—The New Orleans Bee
of the 3d instant, has the following :
“We understand that Robert Burns, who
murdered a gentleman in the city of Augusta,
Ga., a short time since, and for whose apprehen
sion a reward of SIOOO rvas offered by the mayor
and citizens of Augusta, was arrested a few days
since in the State of Tennessee. Bums passed
through this city about two weeks since, and
only slipped through the clutches of the officers
of the polioe by the skin of his teeth."
Later dates Irom New Orleans do not furnish
us any further information relative to the re
ported arrest of Bums.
Four Days Later from England.
The packet ship Montezuma, at New York
from Liverpool, brings advices to the Bth ult.,
inclusive.
The Liverpool cotton Market without any
fall in prices closed somewhat more heavily in
the week ending 6th January.
The British lunds continue to advance. The
London Spectator of the 6th quotes discount
upon first rate bills at 1J to 2 per cent., and as
dividends to a large amount would be paid the
following week, even this low rate, it was
thought, would be tower.
The great abundance of money renders it cer
tain, adds the Spectator, that the 3} per cent,
stocks would be paid off, as bearing ton high in
terest.
The revenue, says the Times of 6th, upon
the whole, is satisfactory. That for the quar
terjust ended exhibited ah increase over that of
the corresponding quarter in 1843, of .£725,670,
while on the year just ended, as compared with
the preceding one, there is an increase ot £5,-
742,078—the whole revenue for the year being
£50,07f,943, (equal to two hundred and fifty
millions of dollars!!)
All but about half a million of this increase,
however, results from the income tax.
The Post Office, though exhibiting a trifling
increase on the quarter, exhibits a decrease on
the year of £13,000.
Bank of England.—Quarterly average ofthe
weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of
England, from the 7th day ofOctobertothe 30ih
ot December, 1843, both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
Liabilities.
Circulation£l9,o9B,ooo
Deposits t . 11,751,000
£30,849,000
Assets.
Securities £21,067,000
8u11i0n12,855,000
$133,912,000
Downing street, Jan 5,1844.
In the case ol O’Connell, the special jury
were drawn on the 4th ult.—4B in number, of
whom 24 were t o be fixed on next day—among
those cognizant of the political feeling, the ju
rors thus rank: 37 Conservative, 11 Radical.
Ireland.—Ae process ot striking a Special
Jury for the trial of Daniel O’Connell, com
menced on the 3d ult. On the sth the process
was complete.
Great complaints are made that the Crown
should have struck off every Catholic that turn
ed up from the ballot box, which is considered
equivalent to packing a jury, as the traversers
will now be tried by a jury composed entirely
ot Protestants.
Mr. Steele has given instructions to have Sir
James Graham, the Duke of Wellington, Sir
Robert Peel, and Lord Lynhurst, immediately
summoned to give evidence on his trial.
There is no further intelligence ot any import
from the Continent.
From Spain there are no additional accounts.
The prorogation consequent upon the adjourn
ment of the Cortes, was momentarily expected
The Marquis of Westminster has made a
donation of £SOO to funds of‘the anti-corn-law
league, accompanied by a letler in which he
takes strong ground for free trade and the aboli
tion of protection monopolies, and the opinions
expressed in which are thought likely to have
much weight with the landed interest. We
believe, however, that the property of the Mar
quis lies chiefly if not wholly in London—that
he is not a large agricultural proprietor.
The weather in England had been very
changeable and produced severe and general
prevalent influenzas.. t
No reduction is contemplated by Government
in the duty on tobacco, but it is said that some
alteration in the excise law affecting it wilt be
made.
Queen Victoria had been upsetin her carriage
by her coachman, but received no damage
whatever.
Howqua, the Chinese Mandarin, is dead.
He leaves $15,000,000 worth ol property.
The Hon. Mr. Cushing had left India for
Canton.
A Real Mandarin coming.—lt is now posi
tively stated, that a Chinese Ambassador, “ a
real live China mandarin,” deputed by his Ce
lestial Majesty, the imperial brother to the sub
and cousin-german to the moon, is about forth
with to exhibit his pigtail and five clawed dra
gon, his peacock's feather and red button, among
the blue ribbands, black rods, while sticks, and
garters ofthe court of her Majesty Queen Vic
toria.
Prom the London Times.
China.—The news from China extends to
the beginning of October. The most important
intelligence was the arrangement of a supple
mentary treaty between the Chinese and the
British government; one clause of which is
for the purpose of guaranteeing to all foreign
nations the same privileges of trade as to the
British themselves. This will have the effect
of rendering unneceseary all negotiations be
tween the Chinese Emperor and the other pow
ers. The Chinesegovarnment is said lobe sin
cere now in its determination to abide by the
regulations of the treaty, which will prevent all
discussions with other foreigners.
The treaty is looked upon in the East as the
most signal triumph ofthe British plenipoten
tiary, for it renders nugatoiy all the attempts of ,
the French and American diplomatic missions
lately sent with such pomp to the Chinese coast.
Laughter has already begun at the appearance
of two ambassadors sent thither before it was
known that they would be received, in order to
gain a purpose which was granted before they
appeared. They now have no grounds for ne
gotiation, and must return to their own country,
in order to be laughed at at home and abroad.
The American frigate Brandywine stopped
for some weeks at Bombay, to wait for Mr.
Cushing, the Minister, who was going to see
the sea frontiers of the south of the Celestial
Empire. He had sailed for Macao on the 271 h
ofNovember. It isa curiosily toknow how he.
and the French Minister will act on their arri
val, tor tMtey will have nothing to demand and
nothing to complain of.
Sir Henry Pottinger who had gone to Macao
to attend the funeral of Mr. Morrison, is stated
to have regarded the supplementary treaty with
such importance as to have a steamer sent spe
cially with it lo Suez.
Thestateof trade at Canton was not satis
factory, owing to the} tricks of the old hong
merchants, and their adherents, the linguists.
The state of trade along the coast is said to be
satisfactory. The celebrated mandarin Lin has
paid the debt ot nature. The Rev. Mr. Gutz
laff has been, appointed Chinese secretaiy, in
the room of Mr. Morrison.
Among the deaths in China are mentioned F.
R. Foote, deputy commissary general, ami Cap
tain Haviland, of her Majesty’s 56th foot.
A Sly Hit. A Whig County Convention
recently passed the following resolution
Resolved, That we approve of Gen. Jackson’s
declaration, contained in his veto message ol
1832, that a " National Bank is convenient to the
government and useful to the people, and might be
so constituted at to obviate sonslituttonal ob
jections.”
VOL. VIII.—NO. 7
C</rr«apon<&»UM of the Baltimore Balrial.
CONGRESS.—Feb. 3.
The Senate was not in session to-day, having
adjourned over from Friday afternoon until
Monday next.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House was called to order by the Speaker
al 12 o’clock, and alter prayer, the journal was
read.
Mr. Belser, of Ala., rose and called the atten
tion of the House to an article in the Boston At
las, giving an accbunt ofthe encounter between
Messrs. Si riverand Weller. Hereadthecom
munication in which it stated that Mr. B. took a
conspicuous part in the affair.
Mr. B. related some of the circumstances of
the affair, and stated that the article in the Atlas
was untrue. He then denounced the author of
it, and made many severe threats against him.
Mr. Payne, of Ala., who was also alluded to
in the same article, stated that it was a misre
presentation ofthe whole affair, and particular
ly so oi the part he bore in it.
Mr. Hammitt, of Mississippi, being appealed
to bj’ the gentlemen to corroborate their state
ments, rose and also related some of the particu
lars ofthe affair between Mr. Shriver and Mr.
Weller, and remarked that the representations
ot Messrs. Payne and Belser were correct. He
was near the parties at the time, and had ob
served what occured.
The > übject was then dropped.
Mr. Levy, of Fa. moved to suspend the Rule*
to enable him to offer a resolution instructing
the Committee on Foreign Affairs to enquire in
to the expediency ot directing the President to
terminate the 10th aaicle of the Treaty oi Wash
’Wun. Tiiefoole-lwetonmsu.q.' o.trf
rhe Chair annottne«RlMlMPflßHflflmflH
which was the report on the rales.
A motion was made to postpone the further
consideration of the rules until Tuesday ne«,
and on this motion the yeas and nays were or
dered. The motion was carried by the follow
ing vote—yeas 132, nays 40.
After some other unimportant business, on
motion of Mr. Vance, the House resolved itseli
into a Committee ol the Whole, and took up the
private calendar—Mr. Gilmer in the chair.
The Committee took up the bill providing for
the reliel ot the widows and orphans ofthe offi
cers and seamen of the U. S. schooner Grampus.
It was discussed by Messrs. Belser, Patterson,
Morris, Barnard, Holmes and others. An
amendment was rejected, and the bill was then
passed over.
After the transaction of some further business
of a private nature, the Committee rose and re
ported.
The hour tor closing this report arrived, and
left the House in session.
Corrupondsnee of the Baltimore American
Washington, February 5, 1844.
IN SENATE.
Mr. Hanegan presented Resolutions from the
Legislature of Indiana, which were said to have
been passed unanimously, asserting the ua
. qualified right of the United States to the Ter
ritory of the Oregon, and recommending that
the United States take immediate possession
ofthe Territore, peaceably if we can, forcibly
if ne must. The Resolutions were read and
laid upon the table.
An adverse report was made by Mr. Jarnegin
from the Committee on Claims, in answer to
the memorial ol the Count de Grasse for a
grant of land. On motion of Mr.
the report was laid upon the table.
Two bills from the House of Representatives
regulating the transfer of Naval Appropria
tions, and explaining a treaty with the Chicka
saw and,Saginaw Indians, were read twice and
referred.
The Bill of Mr. McDuffie was then called
for as the special order of the day.
Mr. Evan- addressed the Senate at length in
reply to the second speech of Mr. McDuffie and
in general discussion of the merits ot the tariff.
Mr. Evans discussed again the question of
the diversified interests of the country, contend
ing that while they were diversified they were
of that mutual character which made the Union
mutually beneficial to all.
The South could not live by its production
alune, and if separated from the Union would
find its entire dependence upon England any
thing but beneficial. There was no principle
better established than that an unequal advan
tage would accrue to the foreign manufacturer
from receiving the entire produce ot the coun
try. Large production ot a raw material sent
abroad brought in but a small comparative val
ue in. manufacturer. It was putting, too, the
labor of the country dependent upon production
in competition with the machinery of the man
ufacturer. The machine manufacture labor of
England was equivalent to the employment of
8,000,000 of prisons.
Mr. E. should conclusively wherein a par
tial reliance upon each other would be better
than an entire reliance upon England for the
South. Adam Smith was quoted largely in re
ply to the quotations of Mr. McDuffie, in order
to show’ that the Senator from S. C. had taken
an ex parte view of the case when he supposed
it would be best lor the South to rely upon Eu
rope for a market for cotton.
Before Mr. Evans had finished his remarks,
he gave way to a motion for adjournment;
which motion prevailed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Levy, of Florida, asked a suspension of
the Rules in order to submit a resolution, (pre
sented by him on Saturday last,) proposing that
the President ol the United States give notice,
to the Government of Great Britain of the sus
pension of the 10th article of the treaty ot
Washington. The House refused to suspend
the Rules to receive this Resolution.
The Speaker announced the regular order of
business to the reception of Petitions, and that
the unfinished business ot the last Petition day
was a memorial presented by Mr. Beardsley, of
N. Y., Irom cilizens of Oneida county, New
York, who ask Congress to repeal the law of
1793 in reference to fugitives from justice.
Mr. Beardslev said he had no desire to de
bate this Resolution. He wished for a full vote
and moved for a call ol the House which was
refused.
The question pending was to lay the motion
to receive this memorial upon the table.
A member from Georgia had submitted this
motion to prevent a motion made by Mr. Beards
ley to refer the memorial to the Committee on
the Judiciary.
The Speaker stated that if the motion to lay
upon the table prevailed the memorial would
not be received.
The yeas and nays were then taken, and with
the following result : Ayes 97, noes 70, and the
House refused to receive the Petition.
Mr. Beardsley presented two other memorials,
one of which the Speaker declined to receive
as coming under the 25th Rule, and the second
was laid upon the table. •
A memorial was presented by Mr. Hunt, of
N. Y., praying Congress to exercise the princi
ples ofthe ordinance of 1787 upon all the territo
ry west ofthe Mississippi, by passing a declara
tory act. Mr. Hunt felt sure the memorial did
not come within the 25th Rule, and he mover,
that it be referred to the Committee on the Ter
ritories.
The Speaker, after a long examination of
the memorial, decided that it did not come With
in the 25th Rule.
Mr. Campbell, of S. C., contended that it did,
and raised the question of reception because the
memorial proposed to abolish Slavery in our
Texan territory, at which remark there was a
smile. Mr. C. was going on to argue this sub
ject briefly, when
Mr. Hunt asked him to point-out the authori
ty for holding Slaves West of the Mississippi,
and wherein the memorial interfered with Slave
ry. Mr. Hunt was called to order for debating
the memorial.
i Mr. Campbell withdrew his motion raising
tbe question ot reception, to enable Mr. Payne
of Ala., to move that the memorial itself belaid
upon the table.
Mr. Hudson ot Mass., demanded the yeas and
nays, and the memorial was then Iftid upon the
tables Ayes 118, noes 56. *
Mr. Seymour of Conn., presented a memorial
preferring charges against certain Military offi
cers, and asking for a Judicial investigation of
the same. Mr. S. moved a reference of the pe
tition tq a Select Committee of five members. A
debate arose upon the proper reference, which
resulted in die appointment of a Select Commit
tee.
Mr. Adams presented again, and for the third
time 1 believe, the resolutions ofthe Massachu
setts Legislature, (adopted at the present session
and a corrected copy of those presented at the
last session,) asking for an amendment of the
Constitution so as to prevent the Representation
of three-fifths of the Slave population in Con
gress. Mr. A'lams asked that the subjectshould
be considered at this time.
A member flora S. C., gave notice that he de
signed to debate the resolutions, and claimed un
der the rules that they should go over.
Mr. Adams insisted on his right to have the
question taken-whether the resolutions should
be considered at this time.
The Speaker put the question, and the House
decided, by yeas and nays, not to debate the mo
tion orconsider it in any way. The yeas and
nays were called. aHd the vote was 91 to 74.
Mr. Adams presented a memorial Irom citi
zens of Maryland, who represent that ihe slaves
are in the habit of running away, and encour
aged in doing so, until the value of Slave pro
perty has become greatly impaired and the rights
oi Slaveholders neglected.
Mr. Adams moved the reference of the memo
rial to the Committee on tne Judiciary, and
without objection it was referred.
Mr. Adams presented a memorial from «iti-