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OLD SERIES, VOL. LIX.
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1845.
The I" ire in New York.
The demand upon our columns this morning
compels us to curtail our accounts of ibis dread
ful conflagration. We have availed ourselves
of the labors ot the Charleston Courier, from
which we condense the most important items of
intelligence
It is stated that the explosion ot gas pipes at
various points where the fire came in contact
. with them, sending forth vast masses ot living
The Mayor trad requested Gen. Sandford to I
order out a body of troops to protect the proper
ty of the citizens, which was promptly com
plied with,and with the aid of some U. S. troops,
and a body of sailors and marines, did efficient
service in that respect.
The Herald gives the following list of per
sons sent to the Hospital:
Peter Quinn, 27years old, fractured in the
arm,
R'becca Miles, 45 rears old, contusion in the
face bv powder. This woman lived opposite the
house where the explosion took place in New
street, which was blown up with two women
and one child— supposed to have been lost.
Rudolph Schmaltz 45 years old, burned in
the lace and both arms, from explosion ol bran
dy, passing basement of store 48 Broad street.
Jac-.b Banker, sailor, 45 yeais old, severely
wounded by powder in the lace.
Mr. Adolph Griming, importer, of Pearl-street,
was ins antly killed by the falling walls caused
by the explosion.
James Kelly, belonging to eneme No. 22.
was severely cut in the side tn passing through
a window at the time oftheexplosion. He was
sent home in a cab, by the other members ot the
company.
Mr. Johnson, a porter in a store in Broad
street, is lost in the ruins. »
We have been favored, says the Charleston
Courier, with the following extract of a private
letter, giving some particulars ot the kind of
property destroyed:
New-York. July 19.
We take the earliest opportunity ot infoim-
Ingyou that our city was this morning visited
wttn the most disastrous fire experienced since
the great criflagraiion ot 1835. About 200
buildings in the business part of the city, with
their valuable contents have been consumed,
and the loss of property variously estimated at
from sto 10 i lions ot dollars. About 3000
hbds. and 1000 boxes of sugar, 10.000 bales ot
cotton, 10,000 nags ol coffee, 2or 3 cargoes ol
tea, with large quantities ot wine, dry goods, &c.
are said to have been destroyed. This loss will
fail very heavily on our Insurance Companies,
and possibly ruin some, and cripple most if not
all ot them. The fire at on" time threatened to
sweep over the same ground as the memorable
cor flagration ol 1835, but a fortunate change of
wind drove it in another and less valuable
quarter, otherwise the loss would probably have
been five limes greater than it is. We are
happy to s y that the conflagration has been
checked.
“The destruction of so njuch valuable pro
perty must cause an inipr ement in prices of
articles destroyed, ai d »■ some we anticipate a
very material advance on ratescurrent lor some
time past.
our city tia*suspended all business/’ 1
The annexed statement of the buildings de
stroyed, is from the Commercial Advertiser,
and appears to be complete in its details:
Exchange Place.
The following ouildings are totally destroyed :
No 46, occupied by Franklin & Harris and
Henry Stevens.
No. 48. Starr & Co.
No. 50.
No 51. Andrew Mitchell & Co.
No. 52. Reiss, Brothers & Co., (books and
papers all saved,) Bird, Gillelan &Co. (remov
ed to 54 Pine «lteet,) and Hntchinsorf, Tiffany
& Co.
No. 54. Richards & Cronkhite—estimate
their loss at $100,060. Insured. Upper floors
occupied by A. P. Mutuant.
No. 56 Eli Goodwin & Co. This is the
corner ot Btoad and Exchange streets.
No. 58.
No 60.
No 62. Markoe, Wilbur & Scott. Most of
the books destroyed. They have removed their
office to No. 44 the same street.
No. 53. Post, Thomas & Dale, and Butter
field & Brothers.
No. 55. Feat ing & Hall.
No 57.
No. 59. Joseph Rhodes.
Nevv-street.
N 0.24. Corner building, a porterhouse, kept
by Van Dolan.
No 12 A carpenter's shop.
No 26 W. Darting, tailor.
No. 28. First Ward House.
South William-street.
No. 16. John Allen, cooper.
No. 18 A. Roker &. Co.'
No. 20. Caicas one & Gomez. Among their
goods destroyed were about 150 cases of essen
tial oils.
No. 22 P & E. Porier and G. Gmnett.
N > 22 and 24. Beth down.
N.i. 23. Dmitri and C. usinery, damaged and
■til 1 in rtan.er.
N i. 25 and 27. Sheldon & Phelps, on fire.
The above extend th.ough to Stone street.
Broad street.
17 Wilkins & R Ulins,
19 and 21 Davis & Brooks.
22 Bolri-n, Fox & Livingston ; much dam
ag>d, bui not destroyed.
23 E. H. Ludlow*Co.
24 Haven & Co. and L. Palmieri.
25 Eugene Grousset.
26 B irclay & Livingston, books all saved.
27 D.mscomb * Beckwith.
28 Coe & Anderson, and R Gracie.
29 C. Darbelullle and F. Echartre.
30 - her."an, A. water * Co.
32 Wilson &■ Brown.
33 Ernest Eredlcq
34 Schmidt * Vogel.—(Removed io 112
Wall-1 )
25 E. Blackburn; E. Lentilhon * Co.; J. C.
Hooker.
36 Amzi Cook, furniture; T. M. McFarland,
ci'y wei 'her.
38 Crocker & Warren.
40 J. R. Coddtngton.
The whole of Broad street to Exchange
Place between Beaver street
No. 41 Maitland,Comrie*Co.
No. 42 Oelrich & Kruger; Herckenrath *
Van Damme.
No. 44 A De Rham & Moore, (removed to
63 It all); Faber & Bierwirth.
No. 46 John J. Leger.
No. 50. E. C. Little, chair maker; Jonathan
Clark, cabinet maker.
57 Myers, Lawrence&Co.
62 W. Conklin, chair maker.
64 A. B. McAlpin.
67 McCracken & Livingston.
72 McFarland & Colhea).
Thence to No. 80 dwelling houses.
82 Asa Dow.
84 Gardner’s eating house.
86 Carpenti t’s shop.
88 Small grocery.
Broadway.
No. 30. JamesGtiffin, hairdresser and dwel
ling.
No. 32. Dwelling.
No. 34. Dwelling and silk manufactory of O.
R. Burnham, an extensive establishment where
from 200 to 300 hands are employed. Mr. B.
lost his whole establishment once' before, al the
great Fulton and Ann street tire. The Nor
wich and Boston Rail Road and the Steamboa
Co. office was in this building.
No. 36. Mrs G. B. Miller & Co.tobacco fac
tory.
No. 38. Dwelling.
No 10. P. Chouteau, Jr. iCo.
No. 42 Depot for plate glass.
No. 44. John Miller.
No. 46. Sevin * Brothers.
Nos. 48 and 50. Dwelling houses.
No. 52. W. L. Branch; R. C. Andrus
No 54. C. Boeram, Jr.
No. 56. Stanford * Smith; Siflkeo * Iron
sides.
No. 58. Mrs. Mary Wild.
Waverly House.
Broadway on the South-East from Market
field-treet to Exchange, all down ; and Nos. 1
and 3VV hitehall-street burning. On the oppo
site side ol Broad « ay dwelling houses Nos. 13 to
23, as far as the corner of Morris-street, all
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burned out, and the fire spreading down M u
is-stteet.
No. 23, a large private boarding house, for
merly occupied by Mr. David Hale, cor; er of
Morris-street.
No 21, a large private boarding house.
No. 17, the beautiful blue granite house, with
spacious porch defended by two cast iron lions
—was occupied by Mr. Ray, and was built by
Mr. Martin E. Thompson, it is completely gone,
except the massive walls.
No. 15, elegant three story marble dwelling
all destroyed but the walls. It was occupied by
Mr. Brev'oort.
No. 13, Mrs. Barker’s extensive boarding
house. Inside completely burnt—walls stand
ing.
The Atlantic Hotel, Broadway, opposite the
Bowling Green, is not injured by the fire.
Beaver-street
Both sides burned from Broadway to near
William-street.
10 A. C. Rossire * Co.
22 Merrien & Benard.
23 John Scott.
25 Breithaupt & Chun.
26. Joel Wolfe.
27 T. Derrtng. H. W.T. &H. Mali.
29. James W. Ingate.
33. Daniel Oakey * Sons, (removed to 51
William street)
37. Brinkerhoff; Fox & Polhemus (removed
to 75 Pine.)
40. D. L. Suydarn.
41. Barbier Brothers.
42 B. Babcock.
48. J. Robinson & Co.
50. H. Escher.
41. Wilmerdings, Priest * Mount.
63 Benkard & Hutton.
57. Draper, Dias ond Warren.
60. C. Bridge.
The following is the estimate made ot the
whole number of buildings destroyed by the
fire:
Broad-street, east side 35
“ west side 34
New-street, east side2o
“ west side 27
Broadway, east side 28
“ west side 6
Whitehall-street 2
Beaver street4B
Maiketfield-street 16
Stone-street, north side 7
Exchange Place, south side 13
“ north side 12
South William-street, west side 18
“ east side 2
268
It is estimated that the loss of merchandise is
$2,000,000; we think that it will prove much
greater. We heard of two firms who lost $300,-
OOOeach; very many loseslooooo. Wethink
the >oss in buildings and merchandise will be
not be less than $6,000000.
From the N. Y. Herald.
INSURANCES.
The following are the amount of insurances
effected in the different offices, together with
their amount of capital, as far as is known.
Am'! Insured. Capital
Firemen’sslso 000 300 000
North River 100,000 350000
Equitable 1500'0 390,000
Mutual Safety, 650,000
Contribution 125000 300 000
Trust Fire 30,000 150 000
National 28,000 150 000
Hartford Agency 60,000 150.000
Howard 150,000 300.000
New York 75,000 200.000
Williamsburg 15,000 105,000
Guardian...? 175000 300,000
United States 150 000 250 000
Columbus, Ohio 10 000 140 000
East River 150000 200 000
City 72 000 210,000
Merchants Mutual 100,600
Sun, between 200 000 and 400 000
American, “ 200,000 and 400,000
Croton 30 000
General Mutual 75 000
Jefferson 100.000 200,000
Alliance Mutual 75,000
Long Island not known.
Pelican 50 000 ■
Mercantile Mutua1....... 110,000
“ - no 000 200000
Eagle 356,000 500,060
Manhattan 250,000 250.000
North American 100 000 250,000
Bowery 60 000 300,000
Greenwich 460.000 200,000
Protection, Hartford 50,900 150,000
Total insureds4,2ls,ooo
There is an insurance effected in Europe on
the plate glass warehouse in Broadway, to the
amount of $400,000. There are others, we be
lieve, insured in offices in Boston, Hartford,
Philadelphia, Georgia, &c.
The fire could not possibly have occurred at
a more unfortunate period We under-land
tr- tn merchants in Exchange Place, Beaver
and Broad-streets, that a great many ware
houses had upwards ol $350,000 worth of goods
stored within them. This is an unusually large
amount fur this season; but it is a fact, thal all
‘he dry goods houses were overstocked with
merchandize. Many large establishments had
n>. insurance, and are, therefore, entirely ruined.
There is something appalling and startling in
this sudden destruction of property.
Something Sew.
Our readers, says the N. O. Bee, may remem
a statement published some weeks since of a
wild negro having been seen in the parish of
Caddo, in this State. The last number of the
Caddo Gazelle contains a long article from the
pen of Mr. J. M. Pierce of that Parish, descrip
tive of his successful attempt to catch this
nondescript, and of several ol his physical pecu
liarities. The Editor ot the Gazette declares
. that the creature possesses an appendage which
Dr. Pierce omit ed to mention, viz: a tail about
three inches long, withhiiron it. Ifthisbeso,
the idea of its belonging to the genus homo mu.-t
be abandoned, unless some acute phil sopher
should prove that Lord Menboddo’s theory ot
men being originally monkeys furnished with
tails, is true, and that the animal in question,
is a specimen of Lord Monboddo's idea ot
primitive humanity.
11 appears from the account given by Dr.
Pierce, thal he, in company with Mr. Perry,
proceeded towards the haunts ofthe creature,
which he tracked by means of a packed hounds.
After running some time they beheld a creature
coursing along at great speed, and resembling
a bear rather than a man. Dr. Pearce got with
in ten pa es ot him and commanded him to
stop, but instead ol pausing he took to a river.
He « as still pursued by the party, which finally
at rived ata very thick cane break, in the midst
of which was a large gum-tree, with a hole just
large enough tor a person to squeeze in, “ I
It oked in,” says Dr. Pierce, “and could see the
singular being squatted in one corner of the
h How and looking more like a bear than a hu
man being. ” It being alm >sl night, they con
cluded to wait until morning. At break of day,
they commenced cutting and succeed 'd in ma
king a hole large enough to get him out. He
was ferocious and indomitable, fighting with
fury, and was only subdued by a rope being
thrown around his neck and tightened until his
respiration was almost checked. He wasfinally
secured and taken to Dr. Pierce’s house, where
be can be seen.
No doubt, adds the Doctor, he is one ot those
negroes hat has by some meansstrayed off when
he was small, and it is the opinion of Mr.
Caffrey thathe came there when a child, or per
haps born there, as there were two skeletons in
the hollow ot the tree, supposed to be the father
and mother ot the man that we caught. He ap
pears to be fifty years old, weighs one hundred
and thirty pounds, and will eat nothing but raw
meat, and that which is tainted he likes best.
He will eat crawfish and frogs with avidity when
thev are left in his way at night, but will not
touch food in the presence of any person. His
hair and nails are very long. His body is well
sheltered from the cold ana rain by the long
hair that covers it When any ot the negro
women come near him he shows considerable
sex>*al desire, which must be from instinct, as
Ido m t think he ever saw one before he was
brought to my house.
His captor further states his intention totake
this negro, or monster, to the North and dispose
of him to the Abolitionists. He ha- become
extremely troublesome and ungovernable, and
Dr. Pierce declares that ifhe cannot dispose ot
him, he will be obliged to kill him in self-de
tence, or torn him loose.
To Cure a Couoh.— The editor of the Balti
more Farmer says the best remedy he ever tried
in his lamilv for a cough or cold, is a decoc
tion of the leaves of the pire tree, sweetened
with loaf sugar, to bs freely drank warm when
going to bed at night, and cold throughout the
day.
Death of Lord Vincent.— The English
“Nobleman,” Lord Vincent, who was before
the police, the other dav, in Boston, died in that
city, on Thursday, at theTremont House, from
the eflects of the extreme heat, iotemperance
and imprudence.
EULOGY ON THE DEATH OF GEN.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Delivered in the city of Augusta, July 12,
and published by request ot the Com
mittee of Arrangements.
BV MMtB GARDNER, 18.
We have assembled here, lellow-citizens, not
for the indulgence of an unreasoning sorrow for
an event which has fallen heavily upon a na
tion’s heart. Nor have we met for the aimless
purpose of listening to an indiscriminating eu
logiutn, upon the virtues and the deeds of the
illustrious dead.
When that mighty Ruler, without whose no
tice not a sparrow falls to the ground, sends his
dispensations upon the children of men, it is not
without a salutary purpose. Adversity has its
uses, and the propercontemplationolcalamities
is not unattended with benefit. The reflecting
mind, and rightly constituted heart, acquire new
essons ot wisdom and of humility, from every
imf ressive manifestation of the power of God
and the mortality of Man. Hwe apply the ad
monition and sanctify it to paiyknic purposes,
if the example ol him whom feir have assem
bled to honor, shall lurnish new, inceotiies to
love and serve our country,.the solemn pagean
try of this day will not have
dvtSfleffhistorical sketch of the life and
services and conspicuous events of the career,
civil and military, of the illustrious sulject of
our discourse might be trespassing beyond the
narrow limits of the humble duty assigned me.
An i npassionedstrain of boundless panegyric,
upon this inspiring theme, would be alike un
suited to the occasion, and to the due apprecia
tion ot the remarkable characteristics ot An
drew Jackson. To claim for him all the attri
butes of absolute mental and moral perfection,
would be a denial of that divine law which has
stamped imperfection on all that is human.—
But to withhold the ascription ot strong talents,
ot lofty virtues and pure motives, prompiir g
and controlling the prominent actions of his
eventful li'e, would outrage the affections of a
nation that delighted to honor him while living,
and that, now he is dead, embalms his memory
with her tears.
The voiceless emblems that deck this sacred
temple, and that, throughout this wide land,
have been spontaneously displayed by a sor
rowing people—that have been wreathed by
grateful hands around I he glorious banner of the
stripes and stars, which his brave arm so often
bore aloft to victory in his country’s battles—
speak a mute language, more eloquent than hu
man lips. Why these showy displays? these
gorgeous pageants'! They convey no incense
to him who now reposes in his silent tomb!
They speak the homage of a nation’s love,
and a nation’s gratitude lor him whom she must
ever fondly cherish in her heart of hearts ; for
him, who has illuminated, by his exploits, the
brightest pages of his country’s history, and has
left to the world “one of the lew, the immortal
names thal were not born to die:”
•' Yes, gallant soldier, thus enshrined
Tliy name, ihy fame, thy fall shall be,
And early valnr, glowing, find
A model in thy memory/’
It was an Egyptian custom of olden time,
when a monarch was laid low, and the power
no longer existed to reward adulation or to pun
ish censure, for the multitude assembled around
the funeral bier to pronounce that judgment on
he character of the dead they dared not speak
before, and to accord sepultural honors, or ig
noble burial, according to their estimate of
his life. But in our landol freedom, exalted sta
ling. exempts not Ms living occupant from the.
most searching scrutiny, and the most unflinch
ing judgment. During a long and eventful
career, no man in our country occupied more
exalted stations, no man enjoyed greater power,
social, moral or political, or exercised a mightier
influence than did Andrew Jackson ; and cer
tainly, never were the opinions, the actions and
the motives ot man more freely scanned, more
elosely watched, more thoroughly sifted.
I speak not now of his military career; though
no Georgian who bears in mind the exemption
ol our soil from ihe bloody tragedies ot the to
mahawk and scalping knife, which we owe to
his arduous and incessant toils, his sleepless
vigilance, his matchless energy and consum
mate generalship, in his Indian campaigns up
on our Western frontier, can withhold his tri
bute of gratitude—no American who loves the
honor and glory of his country, can read that
country’s history without a thrill Os artmiration
or his splendid achievements.
But I refer now to his civic administration
Amidst all the tumt It of unbounded popular
excitement, amidst the clash and din of conflict
ing opinions, and of great questions ol policy,
struggling tor the ascendancy, that stern old
man stood firm as adamantine rock to his con
victions of duly. And when the storms had
passed by, and quiet reigned upon the political
waters, the impartial judgment of his country
men was passed upon one who had been so se
verely tested.
What was that judgment? It was, that pow
er had not dimmed the lustre of his republican
virtues nor poisoned the fountains of a heart that
had ever beat true to a pure love of country —a
country to whose service the best years of his
lie had been devoted, from the day « hen, at the
early age of fourteen, he shouldered his musket
in defence ol her liberties.
He retired to the peaceful shades ol the Her
mitage from the exalted station to which his
countrymen had twice called him, as he entered
it, that noblest work of God, “ an honest man.”
It is this unquestioned feature in his charac
ter, which marked his whole life, that must con
tribute to make his lame enduring.
It was this which gave to him the thorough
confidence ol his fell< w-citizens, and made
steadfast that love and that admiration which
brilliant exploits in the field had won.
Ardent in his nature, vivid in his feelings,
impetuous in his temperament, and inflexl
ble in will, he often acted from impulse.—
But his impulses were always grand and as
piring, prompted by a love ot country, guided
by a sense of duty, and following the dictates
of an intellect vigorous and active, which sped
like lightning to its conclusions. Their wis
dom may not always have been vindicated by
universal assent. The most prominent mea
sures of his policy, at home, and in reference to
foreign nations, did meet with the approving
voice of his country. Whenever he was con
siaered to have erred, the liberal-minded of his
opponents attributed theerrortohis head and not
to his heart.
But he inspired a popular love and admira
tion that seemed independent ot his military
prowess, and his civic administration. It was
not the hero, it was not the statesman, that was
oven, so much as it was the character ot An
drew Jackson.
What was it, that so won upon the affections
of the nation ? It was his strong Americanism
of heart. It was the lofty frankness of bis na
ture, and the beaming ingenuousness ot his soul.
I' was his devoted and romantic love of repub
lican institutions, and of the noble Constitution
of his country.
Hedisplayed it in his refusal to give a seem
ing sanction to fraud and usurpation, and the
overthrow of republican liberty, by refusing the
tendered mission to Mexico’s Imperial Ruler.
He displayed it when, Iresh from the field of
his glory, and crowned with a conqueror’s lau
rels, he surrendered his victorious sword to
the judicial authority, after the exiger cy had
passed which required the declaration of mar
tial law, and bowed submissively to thal max
im declaring the supremacy of the civil over
the military power, which is one of the bul
warks ot our liberties. And when an enthusi
astic and madly excited populace were burning
to avenge what they believed an unrighteous
sentence upon their gallant defender, he exhort
’ ed them to forbear in strake ol manly patriot-
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1845.
ism, and he pledged himself to the obnoxious
Judge, that the judicial ermine should be sacred
from violence while he had an arm to defend it.
His sensitiveness to the charge of a violation
of the Constitution of his country, or the suspi
cion of even unintentional wrong, was illustra
ted a few months since at the Hermitage by the
following incident:
At the silting of the Nashville Convention in
August last, a large number of his fellow-citi
zens from various States paid him a visit of re
spect. Seated upon a sofa in the hall of his resi
dence, he received his visitors one by one as they
were introduced. When the name of Judge
Douglas was announced, the venerable pa
triot raised his still brilliant, eyes, and gazed for
a moment in the counten ince ot the judge, still
retaining his hand.—“ Are you the Mr. Douglas
of Illinois, who delivered a speech at the last
session of Congress, on the subject of a fine
imposed on me, tor declaring martial law
at the battle ofNew Orleans?” asked General
Jackson.
“ I have delivered a speech in the House of
Representatives upon that subject,” was the
modest reply,
.“Then *op ■, j ae w«n •'••♦r
me. I desire, sir, to return
you my thanks for that speech,—you are the
first man that has ever relieved my mind upon
a subject which has rested upon it for thirty
years. My enemies have always charged me
with violating the Constituticn of my country,
by declaring martial law at New Orleans,
and my friends have admitted the violation, but
have contended that circumstances lustified me
in that violation. I never could understand
how it was, that the performance of a solemn,
duty to my Country—a duty which, if I had
neglected to perform, would have made me a
traitor m the sight of God and man,—could
properly be pronounced a violation ot the Con
stitution.
“I felt convinced in my own mind that I was
not guilty of such a heinous offence. But I
never could make out a legal justification ot
my cause ; nor has it ever been done, sir, until
you, on the floor ot Congress al the late sessiom
established it btyond the possibility ot.cavil or
doubt.
“I thank you, sir. for that speech. It has
relieved my mind from the only circumstance
which painfully rested upon it. Throughout my
whole life, > never performed an official act
which 1 viewed as a violalion of t*ie Consti
tution of my country; and 1 can now go down
to my grave in peace, with the perfect con
sciousness that I have not broken, at any
period of my life,. the Constitution or laws of
my country.”
Another cause of that devoted affection for
this remarkable man, which inspired the A
mern an peop'e, may be ascribed to his own
warm and affectionate heart. Upon its altar,
the lambent flame ot friendship ever glowed
with a genial and undying light. It naled not
beneath the breath of calumny. It flickered
not beneath the storm of adverse fortune.—
When beloved, it was wi>h unswerving con
stancy and a boundless affluence of affection.
This endeared to him innumerable friends, who
loved him with a fervor and enthusiasm that
the cold-hearted, the selfish and t e unworthy,
can neither inspire or appreciate. His kind
ness to his soldiers, and his parental care ot
the sick and wounded, added gratitude to the
admiration which was excited by the extraor
dinary energies of his mind and character dis-
Dlayed in the field ot action. An energy so
marvellous, that Al seemed afiaost to control the
decrees of fate, and to lead Destiny eaptfve.
That he was faultless, the blindness ot
partiality has not asserted. Save Him “who
spake as never man spake,” who has snared
above the common destiny of fallen humanity?
But none save an ignoble spirit can take de
light in dwelling upon the imperfections of the
illustrious of earth. That is a pleasure confined
to those,
“ Delighting tn deprave,
Who track the steps of glory to the grave,
Watch every fault that d.trin .* geniu*owes
Half to the ardor which its buth bestows,
Distort the iruih. accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid of calumny.
But what magnanimous man, however bitter
ly he might have opposed him while living,
however grave he might have viewed his politi
cal errors, when he contemplates his many shi
ning virtues and noble qualities, the truthful
ness of his heart, the ardor of his patriotism, the
devotion of his love to liberty, ihe lofty cour ge
of his soul, so often displayed in fighting hi»
country’s battles, can resist exclaiming,—
“Jackson! with all thy faults, I love thee
still.”
Such is the irrepressible sentiment which
he has inspired,beneath whose maje-tic shadow,
prejudice and malignity have withered away.
Generations hence will look back to him as
one of the master-spirits of the age in which he
ived, and will venerate his memory as one of
the great benefactors of his race. From the
toils of active life, he retired to his rural home;
and in the calm evening of his declining years,
amidst the contemplative scenes of nature, his
soul in its coinmunings soared “liom Nature
up to Nature’s God.” Early in life be had lost
his nearest and his dearest kindred. After the
war of the Revolution, released from an im
prisonment beneath the privations and crueltiesof
which his only surviving brother had sunk a
victim, he returned to the domestic hearth to
find it desolate. (His widowed mother had
gone broken hearted to her last resting place.)
But in alter years, the pious teachings of that
sainted mossier came back as on an angei’s
wings, over the wide w’aste of memory, and
whispered to his spirit of a brighter and a better
world. We behold the sublime spectacle ofthe
war worn patriot meekly bowing his silvery
locks, and hischastened spirit, before a Saviour’s
cross, and entering the peaceful sanctuaiy of
the Christian church.
Thus did the dread messenger find this vene
rable man; with a body racked by disease, but
with a mind at peace with the world, and pre
pared, in the serenity of a Christian’s hope, to
meet the judgment of a merciful God.
“ How sleep the brave who sink to real
By all their coontiv’* wishes blest;
When spring returns with fingers cold,
T<» deck wnb Howers their hallowed mould.
She then shall dress a sweeter sod
Than fancy’.* feet have ever trod
By fairy hands tbeir knell is rung.
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
There honor ernnes a pilgrim gray
To bless the turf that wraps their clay.
And freedom shall awhile »epair
To dwell a weeping mourner there.”
Eulogy will soon have performed her humble
task. Her voice is feeble, her efforts ephemeral.
Her testimony is but little heeded, and will soon
be forgotten. But the potential voice ot History
must next be heard. Seated upon an eminence,
and clad in the panoply of truth, her uncloude.:
vision will behold beneath her the grand pano
rama of past events, unobscured by the fleeting
mists of the day. Then will be pronounced
her impartial and irrevocable judgment.
To Her sacred offices, “to men’s charitable
speeches, to foreign tongues, and to distant
ages," must now be commended the name and
the memory of Andrew Jackson.
Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone.—
At his residence in Mariun county, Ga., on
the morning ot the 2nd Joly inst. Capt. George
H. Buchanan, a Revolutionary Soldier, in the
87tf year ot his age. Capt. Buchanan was born
in the State of Virginia, and at an early age he
removed to the State of South Carolina, where he
entered the service in the war of the Revolution,
where he served as a Corporal and Sergeant
seven years; he resided in South Carolina be
tween 35 and 40 years, from thence he emigra
ted to Jasper county, Georgia, where he resided
until the year 1832, when tie removed to Marion
county, where be resided till his death. Capt.
Buchanan was a good citizen and was respect
ed by all who knew him; he had Bhen for the
last 17 years an acceptable member ofthe Bap
tist Church and died io the full triumph ol
Faith ia the Redeemer.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 26.
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Mauulaetures—'South Carolina
The last “ SinMcrn Review" contains an ar
ticle on the Prospects of South
Carolina, her ReWurevs, and her true policy,”
which is attributed io the pen of Dr. Reynolds
of that State, ih which the extension of manu
facturesis advocated with great force and ener
gy. He says- <'
“ Whoever has ttXpesienced the diflicultiesat
tendant on all effons fi.r the moral ad
vancement of a f t l ’ and scattered population,
and compares mem with the facilities afforded
by thriving towns and villages, inhabited and
surrounded hv aftiqilustrious and happy people,
will see at once, that whatever ten s toiinptove
the physicaTcotiMfin ol man, must, as it ren
ders him inure timflorigbie, conduce, in no small
degree, to the ilitpfovemeni of his morals.—
Let those, build up manufactories in
South Carolin|, b: assuted, that while tney are
extending a will bring pecuniary
profit to they are putting in opera
tion a moral ttiaebihc. which, in proportion as
it facilitates education and the means of subsis
tenee. tends ku»> effectually Ip pertect the civili
zxtion, and elev)»e : the moral character ol a
idea of estab
’a long pe
riod of lime, but particularly within the last
thirteen years. There are already, in this State,
fifteen cotton and three small woollen factories.
I'he cutton mills require the labor ol 570 opera
tives, snd consume near 7,000 bales if raw cot
ton. They are worked partly by while and
partly by negto or slave labor; and some ol
them, at least, are duing a very profitable bqsi
ness.
“It is somewhat surprising to find, al this
late day, men ol intelligence contending that
negroes are incapable of becoming u-eful opera
tives in cotton factories. This notion seems to
he based upon the idea, that, as the machinery
in cotton laclories is ot a complex arrangement,
and has required the highest powersof mechani
cal genius to invent it, superior skill is necessa
rily required tor its management. Such, how
ever, is not the tact. Experience has proved
that any negro of ordinary capacity may be
taught, in a tew weeks, to be expert in any part
of a cotton factory. There are several cotton
factories in Tennessee operated entirely by
slave labor—there not being a white man in
the mill but the superintendants ot these facto
ries; the blacks do their work in every respect
as well as could be expected from whites; in
deed, it is said, that all overseers who have ex
perience in the matter, give a decided preference
to blacks as operatives.
“There cannot be a doubt, that the spinning
of yarn, and the manufacture ot coarse cotton
cloth, is capable ol be"oming a nvst important
am 1 profitable business in South Carolina. Mr.
Gregg has shown, that 174 hands, in 12 months,
are capable of converting 4 329 bales of cotton,
345 lbs to the bale, into cloth—ibout 24} bales
to the hand; thus adding over $lO to the value
< f each bale. How obviously inconsistent with
our interest would it be for us to send our raw
cotton to England, to be returned as osnaburgs,
taxed fro ■> 6(>to SBO per bale, as was the case
'ormerly ; when the same can be converted into
cloth, in the immediate neighborhood ol the
place in which it grew, for one-fourth ol the
»um. How eq tally impolitic is it for us now,
while complaining thal capital employed in di
recting the labor of our State, will not pay more
than 3 per cent., to send our raw cott ’n to Eu
rope to be spun intn yarn, adding from S4O to
SSO to the valueot a bale, which yields the plan
ter ot the interior, after paying the expenses of
transportation, from 812 loSIS only; thus pay
ing, in a double trensportation, government
taxes and foreign labor, lour times me amount
that it would cost iodo the same thingbv the
labor ol our negroes. Two hundred thousand
hales of American cotton are every year
wrought into yarn in England, and thence ship
ped to Germany, at a gain of at least twenty
millions of dollars to England. Why cannot
«e gain some of those millions? Why should
we send raw cotton to England, to be there
wrought into yarn, and thence soldfo Germany?
Why shall we not work our cotton into yarn,
and sell it to the German? It will be cheaper
to them, without the cost of interm diate traus-
of Great Britain intercourse with
this country. The exports of cotton yarn from
England 11 Germany has increased, from 1832
to 1841—from one million two hundred thou
sand pounds sterling in value, or two milli-ms
and a half—nearly one hundred per cent. AH
this thirteen millions <>f dollars, like the other
twenty millions, is just so much English gain,
which ought to be American. The spinning
of yarn and the manufacturing of coarse cotton
cloth belong legitimately to the Southern States.
They can compete Mrith anv country in the
world, in the department of Manufactures, and
will possess a monopoly wherever the proper
efforts are made to acquire it."
The oration before the Alumni Society
of Franklin College, will be delivered on Tues
day of commenceme".l week, by the Rev. T-
F. Scott, of Marietta.
Honors to the late Gsn’l. Floyd.—The
Savannah Republican of Wednesday, says:
Yesterday evening at 5 o’clock, in accordance
with the orders ol Col. White, the several vol
unteer corps of ottr city paraded to do honor to
the memory of their late commander, General
Charles R. Floyd. We regret that the late
ness ofthe hour at which the display came off.
leaves us but little time to say much in regard
to this interesting part of the ceremonies ofthe
occasion.
The nrocession was formed in South Broad
street, near the Academy, and marched to the
Catholic Church, which had been kindly ten
dered for the purpose. After a brief and very
appropriate nraver by the Rev. J. F. O’Neil, a
eulogium was pronounced by Maj. William F.
Law.
To say that it was a chaste and ornate pro
duction, would he but faint praise. Maj. Law
is a spirited and tasteful writer—one, the chief
beauties of whose productions do not consist in
the mere graces of style, but in the higher quali
ties of thought and feeling. In this address we
regard him as having been particularly happy,
not only in general arrangement ot the subjects
hut in his application of the various incidents
alluded to in the histo’y of the deceased. His
delivery was graceful, his enunciation good
and his accent faultless, though we regret to say
that the entire address was delivered in a tone
of voice quite too I >w to be heard by his more
distant auditors. It is not our purpose to dwell
in detail upon the address. Its beauties were
such as would be marred by any attempt of ours
to transmit then’ tifpiiper.
JS’The Athens (Ga.) Banner ol the 24th
inst. says:—During the storm on Thursday
night last, the Episcopal church narrowly es
caped destruction. The electric fluid passed
down the lightning rod, sundering it at one
ot the joints, and then entered the earth, which
it tore up and sprinkled plentifully upon one
side of the house. Some 30 panes of glass
were broken by the shock. A lew days pre
viously, the lightning struck a tree in the Me
thodist Church yard, and broke some 30 or 40
panes of glass in the windows nearest to it.
The intense heat of the weather has probably
caused our frequent showers recently, to be ac
companied with more severe thunder and light
ning than usual; though we have heard of no
serious damage being done by it.
A Curious Wager.— A French paper states
thatat Brussels, on the 7th ot June, the idlers
on t:te French boulevard were gazing at a novel
equipage, consisting ot a charming little gig,
very low, drawn by eighteen Scotch lap dogs,
six abreast Soon after, four handsomely dress
ed gentleman descended Irom a splendid car
riage ; one of them entered the gig very gravely,
consulted his watch, set it by thatof one of his
companions, and armed with a small whip,
started off followed by vehicles and mounted
cavaliers of every description.
It was neither more nor less than a bet. The
nobleman had wagered that with this singular
equipage be would drive around the bouletiard
in thirty five minutes. The bet was won, and
the (eat accomplished io thirty-three minutes.
Without regard to the congratulations ot bis
friends and the applause ot the public, the gen
tleman had his coursers unharnessed, carefully
enveloped in woolen covers, and placed in his
own carriage. The nobleman’s valet took his
placed by the side oi the tired racers, and my
lord returned to his hotel on toot. The wager
was for the sum nt' 15,000 francs.
LATEST FROM ENGLANII.
Arbival 3FSXK or the
STEAMER BRITANNIA.
Fourteen Days Later from Europe,
The Hr. steamer Britannia, Capt. Hewett,
arrived at Boston at 6 o’clock on Saturday
morning last, bringing accounts to the 4th inst.
inclusive, from Liverpool.
The Britannia brought out one hundred and
three passengers.
The cotton market, it will be seen, had slight
ly improved, and a large business duing. Trade
in the manufacturing districts was also brisk.
American securities had improved.
The Great Western tram New-York, arrived
at Liverpool on the 27th alt., with American
papers to the 12th. The Cambria from Boston
arrived in the afternoon ol the same day, with
pa,>ers to the 16th ot June; having made the
shortest passage oa record—of ten days and six
teen hours
. ■The
westerly weather during almost the whole pas
sage, and stopped only three hours at Halifax.
She saw nothing ot the Acadia.
General Armstrong, the new American consul,
arrived in Liverpot. 1 on the 27th ult., by the
Great W stern.
The packet ship Cambridfge, carried out ths
news of the great fire at Quebec, which had
produced much sympathy and some contribu
tions in England.
There wjs every prospect of an abundant
harvest in England.
From Wilmer <f- Smith’s European Times, of
July 4.
The Sugar Duties—Cuba and Porto Rico.
The correspondence between Lord Aberdeen,
the Foreign Secretary, and the Spanish Ambas
sad r, the Duke de Sotomayor, relative to the
admission into England ot the slave grown su
gars of Cuba and Porto Rico, has been laid on
the tables of Parliament. When the ques
tion was first mooted, opinion seemed to be in
tavorofthe admission of the slave produce ot
Cuba and Porto Rice; but when the subject,
in all its bearings, had been analysed, this view
disappeared under the giowing conviction, that
however the treaties might be held to apply to
Spain, they did not extend to her colonies.
This result hasgreatly disappointed 'hr Free
Trade party, and has elated, In the same de
gree, the West India interest. By the ffiimer,
the question was held to involve the admission
ofthe produce of Brazil, an excellent English
tnitkei—for if the slave sugars ot the Htvana
were admitted, upon what ground of justice or
expediency could we exclude those ol our best
customers? By the latter, this decision is held
to have taken out of the field the most formida
ble competitor which the British tropical colo
nists could possibly encounter. No doubt exists
that West India Suga' - must have receded in
price if the two Spanish islands in question,
which produce more than all ot them put to
gether, were allowed to enter with a differential
duty ol only ten shillings per cwt. As it is, the
West Indians have little to fear from Louisiana
or Ven zuela, and considering the distance ol
the markets in the East, and the produce of those
markets, they seem likely to retain permanent
possession of the horns trade.
Domestic.
The social condition ol Ireland is at the pre
sent moment distressing -painful—most deplo
rable. The physical destitution ofthe people
impels them to crime. The disputes about
land give rise to assassination. A
a magistrate named Booth, in thecounty ot Ca
van while returning fromchurch'iu atrig with his
children, was shot by a man, who escaped with
impunity alter committing the murder. The
wret' h hardly accelerated bis muvem*nts when
his victim was no more, and yet all attempts to
arrest or trace him have been fruitless, owing
..to i.tig stra,ngeiaiid,.brutaj.p r or>ensity ol the Irish
"Si- ol their crimes. ’ roX/
While O'Connell is in Frrliament the pro
ceedings of the Renea! Association deserve and
excite little attention. He is the ruling spirit,
and in Ids absence the vacuum is painful. His
power is omnipotent; and while he boasts ot
possessing over countless myriads a moral
authority which is yielded to nuliving monarch,
the asserti jn is not an idle boast.
Parliamentary.
Symptoms of the session drawing to a close
are observable in the withdrawal ot a number
ofoills. There is no parliamentary ses-ion to
which the memory of man exlendeth, where
labor of a more severe and continuous kind has
exacted from the representatives of the people,
and the royal speech which dismisses them to
their respective districts, will be addressed ’o
weary frames, and it may be, impaired consti
tutions. This year, the pressure of railway
business has been unprecedented, and the worst
feature is, that it has not been halt disposed 01,
nor can it he, even it the session were to con
tinue until the end of the year.
There is every reason to believe that the Irish
Collegiate Bill will prove a failure in the work
ing. I'he Irish Members, headed by O’Con
nell, who have come over to Parliament incon
nexion with the measure, have not succeeded
in persuading the Government to accede to the
requirements of the Irish Catholic Bishops.
On Monday, when the House went into Com
mittee on the Bill, Mr O Connell read a strong
letter from the Archbishop ot Tuatn, Dr. Me
Hale, condemnatory ol the Bill. The Govern
meat has ma le some concessions, but not en >ugh
to satisfy the Insh Ecclesiastics. The bone oi
contention is the r- liaious education of the pu
pils. Mr. O’Connell requites th; presence ol
the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Catholic
Clergymen in the new Congress, so that the re
ligious equality of all may be unexcepticn
able.
The measure is thus opposed in the Hou e
ol Commons by the ultra-Protestants, heade
by Sir Robert Inglis, oh the one hand, and by
the ultra-Catholi s, led by Mr. O’Connell, and
his tail, on the other. Lord John Russell,
seeing that the measure will not be teganle
in Ireland as an “olive branch,” expressed his
doubts whether it ought to be withdrawn on the
third reading. But the bill, io all probability,
will pass— another | amtul record ot the futility
ot attempting, by acts of Parliament, to haim i
nize a people who are distracted t>v the diffe
rences of race and religion—whose organiza
tion is, as the phrase goes, “ wide as the plues
asunder."
The House of Commons, now that they
have brought the Irish Members within the
walls of St Stephen’s, threaten to make them
work on the railway committers, and pertorm
their portion of the drudgery of legislation, like
others. For this purpose, notes, requiring
their attendance next week, have been address
ed to Mr. Smith, O'Brien, Mr. John O’Con
nell, and others. These gentlemen have de
clared tneir determination not to sit on a>.y
committee whose duties are connected with, or
relate to England. The waiter will, probably,
engage the atten'ion of the House, when it is
sure to give rise to a “ scene."
CommercM.— For Cotton there has been an
active demand. The sales have been large,
but as the stock on hand, and earning, will be
more than sufficient to meet the utmost specu
lative inquiry, prices have not improved in the
ratio of the sales. Last week the sales amount
ed to upwards of 40.000 hags—an average ol
more than 6000 bags per day. In the manufac
turing districts the hands are all employed, and
so busy are the mills, thaladditional hands have
to be sought from the agricultural districts and
from the seaports. As the great staple trade ol
ihe country is Co'too, this is the best proof ot
the general prosperity ; - bile the activity con
tinues, every branch partakes of the improve
ment. On the contrary, a sudden depression
disorganizes the whole framework ot the social
slate, places the laboring classes within a day’s
reach of the poor-house, arrests the movements
ot the capitalist, and brings society to the verge
ol its first chaotic elements.
The business intelligence from the East by
the last and the preceding arrivals is satisfacto
ry. Tnat pan ofthe world is now'he great
man for British manufactured goods, and it
seems to absorb all the produce exported. The
recent accounts are encouraging.
The state nf the weather commands at the
present moment much attention. The general
character of the weather has been tavorabla to
the crops, and wheat is now in ear in the si uth
ern parts of 'he kingdom. The next six weeks
will decide the fate ot the coming harvest.
The produce tnarke.s, tor some time past,
have maintained a very firmappearanee. The
late improvement in sugars is supported, and
the deliveries from the warehouses, both here
and in London, have of late been considerable.
The iron trade is somewhat unsettled, but fair
rates are demanded and maintained. A large
failure has taken place in this town during the
week, and rumor, with her hundred tongues, is
making :ree with the names ot otheis. In such
a business, where the speculation has been so
enormous, it is impossible to say what a day
may bring torth.
The creditable exertions which the citizens
of Philadelphia are making to sustain—or,
mote strictly speaking, perhaps, to regain their
•reditin England—has had a tendency, not only
to iqpruve that description ol stock, but also
American securities in general. Pennsylvania
stock is now quoted at 67.
Large subscriptions have been made in Eng
land tor the sufferers by the fire at Quebec.
Mr. Everett, the American Minister, has been
delivering ao address before the British Agri
cultural Association at Cambridge.
The Great Western and Cambria.— The Great
Western arrived on the morning of the 27th ult.,
bringing American papers to the 12th; and the
Cambria arrived also in the afternoon ot the
same dav, bringing papers to the 26 h, four days
later. The t oyage of the Cambria is the short
est on record—ten davs, sixteen hours! includ
ing her running into Halitax, to land her mails
and passengers. The news r>v both these arri
vals reached London on the 27th.
Col. Tidd.— We have the pleasure of stating
that the American minister at St Petersburg,
so deservedly popular in the Russian capital,
has been appointed a member of the Imperial
Agricultural Society—an honor never before
conferred upon a foreigner.
Burning of :he Ship Virginia.— Advices had
reached Calcutta ot the total destruction, by
fire vs the American ship Virginia. All bands
were saved, excepting the supercargo.
France.
The general impression continues to be what
1 have before described it, viz: In spue of the
threatened war with Mexico—spiteofthe united
hostility ot England and France—and spite ot
the I'lke-warmneM rs Texar. authorities; the
great majority ot the Texan people are in tavor
ot the annexation, and that therefore it will take
place beyond a doubt. With respect to the
Oregon, it is said tnat Am rican citiz-ns are
pouring into the country —that the American
President is delaying as much as possible the
negotiations with England, and that these two
circumstances will, eventually, renderlhe pos
session of the whole of Oregon by the United
States a certainty.
Paris, June3o.— The Chamber of Deputies
has thrown over tor discussion in the next ses
sion the project tor establishing a regular steam
c< mmut ication between France and the United
States.
Hpalu.
The Carlists had confidently expected that the
promulgation of the act of abdication of Don
Carlos, and the manifesto of his son, would
have been most favorably received by the Span
ish people. But precisely the reverse has been
the case. Botn government and people seem
determined that on no consideration whatever
shall the young Queen marry the son of Don
Carlos.
India and Cbina.
The Overland Mail arrived in London on
the Ist inst. with inteltig.-nce from Bombay of
the 20lh May, and from China of the 20th
March.
The information conveyed by this arrival is
interesting but not important.
The Bhoogties have been at their old trade
again, plundering all around, just as if there
had never been an expedition amongst their
mountains, and Bejar Khan was still at their
head. In attacking the Murrees they appear
to have had the worst of it, having been defeat
ed wi h considerable slaughter, and the booty
they were bearing off re-taken. The robber
tribes destined tor permanent expatriation had
crossed the Indus at Sukkur, about the 24th
April, for then new location in the Khyrpore
territories.
The Ameer of Cabool is said openly to have
abandoned all idea of invading Peshawur. The
kingdom of Oude is fast approaching that state
of anarchy and contusion it will be
come imperative on our government to interlere
in its affairs.
Sweden,
Stockholm, June 25.—The laws lately passed
are very unpalitahle indeed to the aristobracy.
Not only do they extend to the political privi
leges ol the people, but on» of them provides
thal family successions shall be equaliy divided
among all the children, and not go, as hereto
fore, almost exclusively, to theeldest son. The
effect of this will be, that in the course ot time
there will be no aristocracy, for it is the law of
primogeniture alone that keeps up the aristo
cracy.
ARRIVAL OF THE G. WESTERN.
One Day Later.
The steamship Great vV estern, Captain Mat-
Lreerpool, whence sht
sailed on the sth instant, one day alter the Bri
tannia.
There is very little news, and none of a po
litical nature of any consequence.
It appears, however, that the improvement
in cotton, noticed or thearrivalofthe Britannia,
was fully sustained on the 4lh and sth inst.
A direct line of steam communication has
been opened between England and China.
On the anniversary of thedeclarationot Ame
rican Independence, the American ships at Li
verpool hoisted their flags, which presented a
very gay appearance in the sunshine. Flags
were also hoisted at Mr. Chas. Ware’s and
other American houses.
The Londonderry Journal gives a very grati
fying report of increased employment ift that
quarter, tn consequence of the weaving and
sewing ot articles of linen and cotton texture,
upon commission, tor Scotch and English
houses. Several new establishments for ihe
manufacture ol flax machinery are erecting in
Beltast.
The total revenue of France for 1846 is esti
mated al 1.302,622,134 francs, being 5,785,531
francs more than the presumed expenditure.—
From this amount, however, the large extra
credits granted, or to be granted, will have to be
deduced.
M. Guizot has declared, in the chamber of
deputies, that the French government is oppo
sed to the pretensions of the son ol Dun Carlos
to the band of the young queen.
The Rus-ian governm nt has thrown open
the markets ot that country for a twelvemonth,
and it is said that the E iglish refiners are pre
paring “ refined goods,” that is, sugars for that
narket, with so much vigor that they will be
ible to send in a supply fur two or three years.
This is one cause of the present activity in the
■tugar refining trade.
Inundation in Clair.— The Clair Journal
gives the following aceountof destructive floods
tn that county:
“ One ot the most dreadful and extensive ca
lamities with which it has pleased Providence
o afflict any portion ot this county lying be
iweeo Broadford and Glenomera, a distance of
nearly five miles, on Friday last. The morn
ing was particularly calm an I serene, but about
2 o’clock the rain fell with such violence, and
came in such impetuous torrents from the
mountain tops as to completely inundate the
lower parts ot the country. Such was the aw
ful violence of the deluge (it could be calledjby
no other name,) that it swept before it three
bridges, two of whose namesonly we could for
‘he present learn, viz: Kilbawn and Baliymac
tonnell. Flocks, herds, houses and tillage, in
cluding immense quantities of wheat and pota
toes, were alike victims to its ungovernable fu
ry. It swept by the old chapel of Kilbawn and
laid part of it prostrate. A nid the general ruin
we have vet heard ot only one loss of lite, that
»t Mary Kinneen, a girl about 14 years of age,
whose body, all bruised and disfigured, with ev
ery limb broken, was found at a distance of
about halt a mile from the place where her resi
dence sudd but a few hours previoos.y. An in
quest was held on her remains by Mr. Mar
tin, coroner, and a verdict returned according to
the circumstances. Over 703acresot meacow
ing have been completely ruined, the moun
tainous waters leaving tnud scattered upon
it so as to render it perfectly useless tor the pre
sent season. Os the amount of the damage sus
tained it would be difficult for the present to
form even a conjecture ; but we tear that years
must elapse before the inhabitants in the neigh
borhood can recover from the effects of this aw
ful calamity.
At a repeal meeting on the 23d, Mr. O'Con
nell read an address to the repealers dissuading
them from anv interference with the procession
which the Orange tnen intend to hold on the Ist
and 12th ot July.
The dinner to Mr. O’Connell in Galway, has
been fixed for the2Bth ot July inst. The Wex
ford Repeal demonstrations will take place
about the same time.
COMMERCIAL.
Extracts of letters received in this city dated.
Havre, June 30.
Cotton— During the past week our market has
not beer, distinguished by any great degree of
activity; although in the early part, owing to the
tenor ot th < advices to 2d inst, which were con
firmatoryof the moderate shipments coming for
ward to our port, aome symptoms of spirit were
displayed, and speculators also began to make
their appearance. Buyers aeemetf disposed to
operate rather f ee’y, hut not being met in a cor
responding feeling on the p.rt of holders, who of
fered but spa ingly. and inclined to higher prices:
the transactions, which would in all probat llty
have been to a good extent, had the desire to sell
kept pace with the willingness to purchas -. have
been comparatively lindtM, although they havs
lipon the whole been to a fair amount; about
1000 bales having on an average changed hands
daily. The firm atti'ude evinced by holders, has,
however, had the effect of creating a further im
proaementin prices, which heveagain advanced
fl on all American descriptionst and the last
accounts from the manufacturing departments
being of a moreenlivening nature, there is sub
stantial ground for anticipating » continuation of
the present favorable situation of thines. Much
will nevertheless depend on the nature of the
next intelligence from the United States, which
is Jallv looked fur by the Great Western and
Gambia Mesmers, via England, bearing dates to
12th and 15th inst, as until they have arrived
business is not likely to undergo any material al
teration.
P. S.— fuly L—Since writing the above, the
advices by the Great Western and the Cambria
have come to hand. There was a good deal of
animation in our market yesterday after the re
ceipt ofthe news, and 6000 balsa were sold at an
advance of fl to 2 : to-day the market is quiet,
the sales being about 1000 bales only.
Fales effected from the 23d to 30th June.
1922 Bales N. Orleans, duty paid, f 54 75
817 “ Mo He, “ 55.50 TO
2014 “ Upland, “ 56 68
48 “ B azil, “ 02.50 90
100 “ St. Domingo, “ 65
114 “ Cayenne, “ 80 82.50
229 “ Peruvian, “ 63 94
7244 bales.
Th* import* during th* *am* period amount to 2,796
Stork of Am«rican Cotton 30th June 1846, 73,400; to
tal, 76,500; do 1M4,129,500; total, 139,600.
LivsaraoL, July 3.
Colton— A steady good bonne** ha* been going on in
Cotton littee the departure of th* tut Menmar, and
pneeehav* adranced |d th chiefly in the leal few
dev* and m-rinly in quatilie*b«luw fair, at which ad
vattce the demand i* treaty eupptied The conaumer*
continue to purchau* freely, encouraged by the *atr*.
ordinary briskness of tbair trade, and -peculator* bare
also operated to aome extent. The -ales far the week
ended 20th oil. amounted to 47,870 bales, end tot that
ended 27th ult they were 40,77 ' batea, of which about
11.000 were taken an speculation in each week. The
bu.inee* for the last five day* to thia evening i* estima
ted at about 43.1100 batea, about 12,1)00 ol it en aneeula-
3| a 4|; and Island a I6d IT lb The latter de<
M.ripnnn ha* advanced jd lb The import of CMtton
into Li*et pool ainca Ist Jrtntiary amounle to 1,133.0’0
bale*, ageiintt 9UA.OOU to same period lant aeaeon. The
supply from the United State* i* 1.0U5.0U0. being an in>
crease nf 0<)0 bale*. The stock in this port is about
1,043,<00, against 901.000 last year at the same period.
The stock of American is about 823,U00, being m in
crease of 126,090.
July 4.
A gnoddemand prevailed during the early part of
the week, which has improved a* the week advanced
Holders have met it very freely, and the market affords
abundant choice ; the total sales have been 60,990ba1e*.
The lower and middle qualities of American have been
in general request, and are now cuirently selling at an
advance of bon last Friday’s prices The bet
ter qualities are in comparatively limited demand
The authorized quotation of fair Mobile is advanced jd
M*lb; those of Orleans and Uplands are not changed
19,001 bale* of American have been taken on specu
lation. and 1,530 of American and 550 Surat* for export.
The import during the past month ha* been 322,097
bales,against 3'1.774 bales in June, 1844 In the import
from rhe United S ates there has been an increase of
219.147 bales, and from Egypt ot 5,183 bales ; but from
the Brazil* there h«s been a decrease of 6,803 bales,
from the West Indies <*f3£3l bales, and fiom the East
Indies of 6,270 bales, as comptred with the import of
IW4 to the same period Thi« large import, ot which
222.000 bales were received during the first fortnight,
tended to depress ihe market; and. although the De
mand was giod, prices of the current qualities of Ame
rican. under its influence, receded |d lb As the
month advanced the demand improved ; and the total
sales have amounted to 176.50.) bales, including 36,000
of American, 300 ffurat* and 100 Egyptians taken on
speculation, and 6,6 0 of American, 1.100 Suratsand
86U Pernams for export. Both the trade and the »pecu
tors have purchased largely, and with confidence, the
first to cover the very profitable contract* for Yarn they
are now able to make, the other in the hope that the
prosperous state of the trade, the abundance ot money
and the uncertainty which overhangs the extent of the
next crop, may, one or all, act favorable for their views,
and render this a profitable investment. The quota
tions, according tn the standard now adopted by the
Broker's Association, are, fair Uplands 4|d ; fair Mo
bile 4(d and fair Orleans 4}d lb The import nf the
week i563,47l bales, exclusive of three vessels arrived,
but nut reported.
LiVKttpooL, July 4, P M.
Qtfton—There has been an upward tendency in our
market for a fortnight past lor American Cotton, which
has gradually resulted in an advance of jd 4? lb. Bra
zil* also must be quoted |d dearer Egyptian and Su
rat* are without chsnge in prices. Bea Islands com
mands extreme rates. There has been taken on specula
tion 19.0 W American, and for exportation 1.630 Ameri
can, 55U tSTurat. We close with a healthy demand
Forwarded into the country unsold during the past
month, 10,000 American and 250 Pernam.
The price* declared by the Committee nf Broker*
this week for fair Cotton are: Bowed 4fd, Mobile 4jd,
Orleans 4fd.
Senatorial Nomination.—The Whigs oi
Wilkes and Lincoln counties have nominated
Dr. William J. Andersen as their candidate
(or Senator from that district.
Warren aud Taliaferro Senatorial Conven
tion.
Double Wei ls, Ga., )
July 19, 1845. }
The Whigs ot the 23d Senatorial District,
composed ol the counties ot Warren and Talia
ferro, met this day in Convention at this place,
according to previous agreement, to nominate
■vheit ! 'on’:notiaOl Mr. T- 'F. F; Threewiis,' of
chosen President of the Convention, and Rohl.
8. Burch, Esq., requested to act as Secretary.
The names of the respective delegates from
each county being called, the tollowing gentle
men were present:
From Warren. From Taliaferro.
T. P. F. Threewits, Robt 8.. Burch, Esq.,
M H. Wellborn, W. W. Harrison,
Jeremiah Perryman, Henderson Henry,
John W. Barkesdale, John W. Harris,
James N. Brady, Gen A. W. Grier,
Reuben May, Dr. James W. Price,
W. W. Anderson, Wm. J. Overton,
I rederick Hathorn, Samuel Chapman,
Jethro Darden, A. H. Stephens,
B. P. Hubert, W. B. Moore,
Robert D. Cody, David C. Daniel,
Henry McKinnie, Benjamin B. Boles,
Col. A. N. Beall, John Evans,
Ezra McCrary, D intel Thompson,
Curtis G Lowe, Wm. Colclough,
Daniel Dennis, George G Morris,
Samuel Hall, A. R. Howell,
Septimus Torrence, Wm. H. Chapman.
Elias Wilson,
Elisha Burson.
On motion of A. H. Stephens, it was
Resolved, That the Convention proceed to
the nomination by ballot.
On counting the votes it appeared that John
Harris, of Warren county had received thirty
six, and was duly selected as the nominee ol the
Convention.
On motion of Daniel Dennis, Esq., of War
ren-
Resolved, Thai a Committee of five he ap
pointed by the President to wail as Mr. Harris,
and to inform him ot his nomination, and soli
cit his acceptance of the same.
Whereupon, the following gentlemen were
appointed by the President as that Committee,
to wit: Daniel Dennis, E«q., D. C. Daniel,
Elias Wilson, Abram R. Howell, Thomas
P. F. '1 hreewits.
On motion ot A. H. Stephens—
Resolved, That the nomination oi George
W. Crawford by the late Whig Convention in
this State, for the office oi Governor, meets the
hearty approbation of the members of this Con
vention, and we pledge our utmost exertions by
all pro-er and honorable means to secure his
election.
Which was unanimously passed amidst con
siderable applause.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That thethanksoi this Convention
be tendered to Je'.hro Darden, Esq., tor the use
of his house, and his kindness and hospitality
extended to the Convention.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That the President and Secretary
sign the proceedings ot the Convention, and
that a copy oi them be sent to the editors oi the
Chronicle and Sentinel, and they be requested
to publish the same.
On motion, the Convention adjonrnedstnetfte.
A. W. GRIER, President.
R. S. Burch, Secretary.
Laura Bridgman.—This remarkable case of
one born blind and deaf, has excited attention
throughout the world. Dickens devoted to it,
says the Picayune, one of the best chapters of
his work on the United States, Though de
prived ot the two most essential organs oi sense,
the humane efforts of Dr. Howe, of Connecticut,
have enabled her to communicate with her
fellow-beings to an extent most extraordinary.
An exhibition of blind children from some be
nevolent institution of Massachusetts was re
cently made before the New Hampshire Legis
lature. The Statesman makes the following
mention of the progress of mind indicated
by the examination of Laura Bridgman.
The result shows a wonderful triumph over de
privations which some years since were deemed
incurable:
The exercises by this young lady were pecu
liarly interesting, showing the astonishing pro
gress, which under modern discovery, a being
upon whose eyes no light has ever dawned, in
whose ears no sounds enter, and whose tongue
has never aided in speech, can make in the ac
quisition of knowledge, even under such afflic
tive circumstances as attended this individual.
She answered questions in geography, with
great readiness, rapidly plying her fingers over
a map of the world, designed lor the blind; and
read, with much apparent ease, irom the books
of raised letters. An elder female pupil, a sub
teacher, stood at theside of Laura, the left hand
of the latter resting upon the right hand of the
assistant pupil, and as Laura read, by running
her right handover the taised letters, with the
rapid motionsof her left she communicated the
words to her fellow pupil, who announced them
to the assembly.
VOL.IX.-NO*3l. t
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 28.
New Cotton.— A bale of new cotton, the first
of the season, was received at the warehouse at
Messrs. D’Anttgr.ac * Evans on Saturday, tb<t
26th inst.,fromThe plantation (In Burke couu -
ty)ofthe Rev. Juriah Harris.
Oregon Negotiation.—The Nashville W hig
recently slated, on what it regarded as sufficient
authority, 'hat in relation to the Oregon que*.
tion, "no correspondence had passed between
Mr. Bucl anan and Mr. Pakenham—not a line."
The Union says:
“As far as we have been advised, this etate
ment is not now true.”
It would seem, then, th«t it was true a short
time ago, and that the Oregon negotiation han
just commenced, so tar as Mr. Buchanan and.
Mr. Pakenham are concerned. '
— ■ 1 ■ ■ ’:ajEs
Mexico.- -The Washington Union says-.-
“We should consider the chances as against!
war; and yet we are not at liberty to assign our;
reasons lor this opinion.
Hon. AshbeFsmiffi, of Sate <
and France, arriveid atWeiir-Vorit In the Gtfeaf f ''"
Western.
More Taooea.—The N. O. Tropic ofthe2ls t
inst. says:—One company of U. 8. Artillery,
under the command of Lieut Bragg, arrived
here on Saturday, in the brig Hayne, Trescott,
from Charleston. They are quartered in the
Lower Cotton Press.
The stevedores were busily engaged yester
day in putt!' g the stores, etc., on board the ships
Queen Victoria and Suviab, which are to con
vey the U. S. troops to Texas. We learn that
in addition to these two vessels and the steam
ship Alabama, the steamboat Undine has been
chartered toga on the sane service, and more
particularly to land the troops, stores, etc., from
the ships on their arrival at the place ol destina
tion. We presume the Expedition will start
to-day or to-morrow.
A Case for Compassion.—A Washington
correspondent of the New York Express says the
President is very much worn down with busi
ness, and informed me, yesterday, that his
health is such that be shall be obliged to retire
tor a while from Washington. He is over
whelmed with applications for office. The pa
pers sent to him daily are sc numerous and vo
luminous, from office-seekers, that if he were to
employ his whole time in reading them, he
could not get through with more than one-tenth;
and one day this week there were so many sent
in, that it would take seven days to examine
them without reading.
Mesmerism and Surgery.— Successful sur
gical operations while in the magnetic slumber
are becoming ot almost weekly occurrence.—
The Kennebec (Me.) Journal stales that on the
3d inst. Miss Patty Brominett, well known as a
highly respectable milliner of Augusta, was put
into a mesmeric sleep by Dr. Josiah Dean, of
Bangor, when a tumor neighing 2 pounds 6
ounces, was taken out by Dr. H. I. Hill. Du*
ring the operation, which lasted about six min
utes, she was wholly insensible, and being awoke
stated that she knew nothing of what had been
passing. There was quite a number ot the
most eminent physicians of the State in atten
dance.
First Bale or Cotton.—The Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser of the 25th inst. saysA bale j
ol new cotton, from the plantation of Mr. Henry j
23d inst., at auction, by Mr, P. N. Madegan,' 1
auctioneer, to Mr. James Y. Brame. *The 1
bale weighed 450 lbs., and sold for 14 eents per
pound.
Governor Jones, of Tennessee, is now on a
visit to Mr. Clay. He arrived in Lexington on
the 14th inst and was received by an address
from General Coombs, and a military escort.
Explosion.—The Franklin (La.) Plant-rs’
Banner, of the 12th inst., says—“ This morning
the boiler of Mr. Charles Fleming's mi l !, in
this Parish, below Franklin, exploded, killing a
negro boy, aged eighteen or nineteen, belonging
to Mr. Hiram Anderson, scalding Mr. Flem
ing severely, and dangerously wounding a very
valuable servant, named Harrison, belonging
to Judze Baker. Mr, Anderson’s boy was kill
ed instantly—his skull having been severed by
a piece ol the boiler. It is said that he was
lying near the boiler asleep. Mr. Fleming is
severely scalded from head to toot, but be will
probably recover. Judge Baker’s boy Harrison,
was on a horse, beneath a shed, near the mill.
He was dashed from the horse, and severely in
jured about the head and shoulders. His re
covery is doubtful. The boiler was thrown
some distance, and the greater part ofthe build
ing was shattered.”
A Rare Meeting —A communication in the
New Hampshire Patriot states that there was
recently a meeting at Henniker, N. H. oi seven
brothers of the name of Wood, whose united
ages were a ll'tle more than 453 years—the
average bei»g 64| years. They had never all
been together before, even in childhood; and
now met fur the las’ as well as the first time.
A Fortunate City.—The U. 3. Gazette ot
Saturday thus briefly sketches the felicitous
condition ofthe city of brotherly love—
“ We have a very agreeable change of wea
ther, a delightful breeze to mitigate the heat ot
sun, a healthful citv, capital markets, good ap
petites, and more means of supply than any city
on the continent can afford."
So much for being always in good humor
with the world! Happy temperament!
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce of Tuesday
afternoon says—
The wind blew with great violence during
the shower ol this morning, tearing up trees,
breaking off their branches, and making sad
havoc with the awnings, both here and in Brook
lyn. At Throg’s Point, 16 miles N. E. of this
city, there was no wind atall. -
The Quebec Fires.—The last Montreal
Herald contained a map ot Quebec showing
the districts destroyed by the two great fires. It
is frightful to look at. Nearly three quarters of
a fine town are now a blackened he.-p of ruins.
The particulars ot the destruction caused by
the two fires are as follows:
Streets destroyed. Houses burnt. BUnen up
On 28th May3B .163112
On 28th June331302>3
T0ta171293215
The population rendered destitute by the two
fires is estimated at not less than 20,000 souls.
If compared with other calamities ot a like na
ture, says the Herald, we suspect that Quebec
has suffered more, proportionally, than any
other city of which we have any account.
In the great fire of London, in 1666, there
were 13,200 houses burnt and property amount
ing to £10,720,500 destroyed. In the fire in
Hamburg in May, 1842, the property destroyed
was estimated at about £4 000,000, the number
ot houses burnt we do not recollect, but it was
stated at the time that 30,000 persons out of a
population of 150,000 were rrni’ered houseless.
In Quebec the whole population did not ex
ceed 35,000 before the fire, and the loss ot pro
perty cannot be less than £1 ,250,000. — Nat. Int.
The Great Artesian Well.—lt was an
nounced in this paper the other day, that a com
pany was forming to sink a great Artesian
Well, in Boston—one that shall be equal in
capacity to that of Grenvlle. It is gratifying
to learn that the proposition meets with general
favor front all classes. The construction of
such a well would, indeed, be of the utmost im
portance to the city, and at the same time an
object ol nncommon interest to ihe neientific
world ami the public at large. The famous one
io France, it will be recollected, tarnishes an
incessant find vast supply, rising an hundred
feet abovethe earth—while the water which thus
springs from the bowels of the globe, is about
half boiling hot, and cf the softest and purest
description.— Boston Traveller of ths 7th inst.
Rewardof Merit.—“Sam,’’said one little
urchin to another, “doesyourschoolma«terever
give you any rewards of merit ?” “I s’pose he
does,” was the rejoinder, “he gives me a lick
ing regular every day, aud he says 1 merits
two J”