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FRIDAY MORNING.. AUGUST 29.
“ This unfavorable view ofthe affairs ci the
Bank, is in strict conformity with that
already promulgated by Gov. Crawlord, and if
true, ought to have shielded it from his rapa
cious hand. Hut not so. It hasjiot teen many
months since, without authority of law, as we
think, he took trom it a large portion of its
tors, and wholly useless in meeting its outstand
ing liabilities. And tor what purpose and what
end has this great sum been withdrawn from
the Central Bank, except it be to verity the pre
dictions contained in his celebrated “Supple
mentary Report ?"
In a lengthy article on the affairs ot the Cen
tral Bank in reply to the Southern Recorder,
(says the Georgia Journal ol the 26th instant.,)
we find in the Federal Union ot last week, the
above extract. The grave charge made by the
present Editor against Gov. Crawford, that
"without aulhority of law" he took from the
Bank " alarge portion of Us capital, amounting to
3262,1500, and placed it in the Treasury, where it
remains out of the power of the Directors, and use
less tn meeting its outstanding liabilities"— we
teel bound to notice. A misrepresentation so
gross, whether ignorantly or designedly made,
coming from the Democratic organ in this
place, will no doubt be extensively read, and
it behcoves the Whig press everywhere to
notice it as promptly as possible, so that the
antidote may check the effects of the poison. It
is for this reason, and that justice may be done
the Governor, that we presume to interfere with
the Recorder and Federal Union, in a contest
between the two, and not that we have any de
sire to snatch a laurel from the brow of the for
mer, or to thrust ourselves forward where we
have no business
The charge above made, is indeed a grave
one. Not only is it a grave one, but it is one
made by a prominent individual ot his party,
who, under peculiar circumstances, is tem
porarily editing the leading organ of his
party. It is made too by a lawyer, con
sidered by many as one eminent in his pro
fession; and it is made by the identical indi
vidual who was employed to index the laws of
the last session, and who must have examined
those laws, ere he could have discharged bis
duty. In addition to all this, the serious nature
of the charge must strike every individual at
one.*. Were Gov. Crawford guilty of such
conduct, deservedly would he lose the confidence
of the people. Such maladministration would
meet with common condemnation. The editor
must have been conscious of all this, when he
penned his article. It was a great responsibili
ty for him to assume, but he has assumed it,
and he must abide the verdict ot a truth loving
people. We shall state the case, produce the
law under which the Governor acted, and close
for the defence.
“ Without authority ot law” Gov. Crawford
is charged with taking from the Central Bank
“ some $262,300, of the stocks ofthe Bank of
Augusta and ot the State of Georgia”—and this
too for the purpose ot putting it out of the power
of the Directots of the Central Bank to use that
sum in meeting the outstanding liabilities.
In answer to the above, we state, upon the
authority ot the record, that it is not true. The
stocks owned by the State in the Bank of Au
gusta, and the Bank of the Stale of Georgia,
are set apart by law as a Poor School Fund— and
bylaw it was directed to be delivered over to the
Treasurer of the State— which law, Gov. Craw
ford saw waspromplly executed. In proof of our
position we refer the reader to the following ex
tract. It will be found on pages 43 and 41 of
the laws ot 1813, in the "Ad for the Education
of the poor:"
“Sec. 3. il further ordained by the au
thority aforesaid, That fir the purpose of aiding
in the EDUCATION OF THE POOR, as
hereinbefore provided, seventeen hundred and
thirty-three shares of the capital stock of the
Bank ot the State of Georgia, eight hundred
and ninety shares of the Bank of Augusta, and
all the available a-selsol the Central Bank alter
the payment of its debts, be and the same are
hereby set apart and appropriated as a perma
nent education fund, the annual income whereol
shall be distributed to the several cotgkies of
this State, and paid tothe Justices of Ihe^Ber ior
Courts thereof rateably, in proportion™ the
number of poor children therein, as herein set
forth. AND THE SCRIP FOR THE BANK
STOCK AFORESAID SHALL BE DE
LIVERED TO THE TREASURER OF
THE STATE. AND SaID STOCK SHALL
HENCEFORTH BE UNDER HIS MAN-.
AGEMENT AND CONTROL FOR THE
PURPOSES AFORESAID.”
Here is the law under which Gov. Crawford
acted! Here is the authority! Promptly did
Gov. Crawford see that this last pittance for the
poor was taken from the Central Bank, antj
placed where their children could reap, and
have already reaped, some benefit from it. But
the editor of the Federal Union, like the leaders
ot his party generally, would have given il all to
the Central Bank! He indexed the laws, and
did not see this section, or ventures to make at
random a charge against Gov. Crawford, which,
if true, would have been violative of His Ex
cellency’s most solemn obligations.
But enough! The Editor of the Federal
Union is bound to retract the charge; though
whether he does so or not, let the people be
warned by this and efforts from other sources,
of the daring attempts made to deceive them !
There is not an editor in the Stale, nor a leader
of the Democratic party, but is well awareot the
Meant benefits which the people have derived
from Gov. Crawford’s administration. When,
therefore, ffirv detract from it, they Unow it, and
do it wilfully; and when they assail him, they
know that they are malicicuslypcrscctßing one,
of whose ability and patriotism, every man in
Georgia should bg_proud.
Monroe Rail Road.—The Macon Tel graph
of the 261 h inst. says:—We are gratified
in being able to state that the purchasers
of the road will take early steps for the
energetic prosecution of such repairs, &id
the supply of such equipments as may
be required to put the road in a condition
equal to that ot any other in the State. We
learn from good authority that Mr. Tyler, who
has been for a number of years President of the
Morris Canal Company, and who is the repre
sentative, and will be the agent here of the par
ties who have taken stock in this company in
New-York, will be out in the early part ol next
month to superintend the work. Mr. Tyler’s
distinguished reputation as a scientific and prac
tical engineer, as well as his high reputation ;:s
an energetic btt’iness man, together with the
favorable auspices tinder which the new com
pany will commence operations, give ample
assurances that the road will hereafter operate
beneficiallv upon the interests of the country
over which il passes as well as our own citi
zens.
j3-A“kiss-ute-quick-belbre-rnolher-sees-you ’
bonnet is coining into lashion in Lynn, Mass.
The ladies all say—particularly the misses in
their teens—that it’s “adackpf a banner !” —
Picayune.
The War—The Whigs.
v The Charleston Courier of the 21st inst., afte
expressiuglhe opinion that war must ensue be
, tween this country and Mexico, proceeds will
I the following wjJl-tiSed remarks; “We hai
sufficient experience during the progress of thi
> Florida war to learn that a temporising am
changeful policy is but a wastelul expenditun
I of blood and treasure, while it perils the repu
tation of the country. The Mexican war onct
begun, the most energetic and certain meas
ures should lie adopted to bring it to a speedy
; and successful close. An army should be raised
i and the services of the most efficient officers
called into requisition, to proceed at once to the
scene ot action in sufficient force to conquer
any annv that Mexico can possibly bring into
the field. A strong naval force should be put
in immediate commission to act in concert with
the land troops, and within ninety days we have
little doubt that Mexico will sue for peace, as
the only means of preventing her territory from
becoming a dependancy of these United States."
These sentiments (say s the Savannah Repub-
Zfcan) are right and proper— they are American
I sentiments, worthy ol oUraueient character nnd
p■ ■■ -'t.C.. A v tv vv-Aliat tfieyaie
(•confined to no patjy—no class of. our people.
The'annektncernent made in the annexed para
graph, from the Columbus Enquirer, we know
will meet with a hearty response in Georgia;
and we now predict that popular vengeance will
fall upon the political tricksters who propose to
give a parly direction to the matter, for the pur
pose of making political capital for Mr. McAl
lister and his friends. The proposition to get
up an “Annexation Jubilee” at this late hour,
on the eve of an important electicn, and when
the country may be in an actual state of war, is
as shallow as it is in bad taste. It will be con
strued into an attempt to drive the Whigs into a
position hostile to their country, when that
country is in conflict with a foreign foe; and
will be scorned as a political trick by all true
patriots of both parties. It is pleasant, there
fore, to find the Whig presses alive to the im
portance of the proposed movement, and prompt
in defining their position. We adopt the senti
ments of the Enquirer, when it says :
“ Be it remembered that our motto, the motto
ol the Whig part}', is the echo of the sentiment
of our own gallant Tattnall, “always right if
possible, but always for our country, whether
right or wrong.” Without pretending to claim
for the Whig party, all the patriotism and pub
lic spirit of the country, we willsny, they are ol
the blood ot the old Whigs of the Revolution,
who achieved liberty for their children, and
came at the clarion call ol Henry Clay of Ken
tucky, to the rescue ot the nation's honor, in the
second war ot independence.
“ They have inherited, it is true, their fathers’
hatred of all national wrong and injustice; but
as the paramount sense of duty, obedience to
the voice ol their country, when she summons
her sons to strife with their foes—we ask not,
we care not whether the grandson of a Polk or
a descendant of Washington sits in the place of
authority, our country, our country, “with all
thy faults, we love thee still;” and when the
drum beats to arms, no matter whether it be to
seal the iniquitous “annexation” of a disputed
territory of a friend and neighbor, by the shed
ding of her blood, or to resent the insults of our
ancient and twice beaten enemy, the Whigs
will come with true American hearts and hands,
foremost to the fight.”
The Acquisition of Louisiana.—The Paris
Correspondent of the National Intelligencer,
Robert Walsh, Esq /notices in his la«l letter I he
fourth volume of Thiers’ History of the Consu
late and the Empire, just published. The fol
lowing passage is quoted trom it:
“When a renewal of the war with England
seemed no longer doubtful, all the colonizing
dreams of lhe First Consul vanished. His
resolution in respect to Louisiana was instant
ly formed. I will not attempt to keep (said he
to one of bis Ministers) a province which
would not be secure in our hands, which per
haps, would embroil me with the Americans,
or create a coolness on their side. On the
contrary, I will turn it to account to attach them
to me, to create a quarrel between them and the
English, and I will raise up for England ene
mies who will one day revenge us, if we should
not be able to revenge ourselves. My resolu
tion is settled. As the Americans have no terri
tory to give me in exchange for Louisiana, 1
will sell il to them for a sum that may pay the
expenses ot an extraordinary armament against
Great Britian herself."
“Thus,” adds the historian, “did the Ameri
cans acquire trom France that vast region
which has completed their sway over North
America, and rendered them masters of the
Gulf of Mexico for the present and all lhe
future. Thus, they owe their birth and great
ness as a nation to the long struggle of France
against England; their independence, to the
first period of that struggle, their territorial ex
pansion to the second.”
Mr. Walsh suggests that we should ultimate
ly have achieved our independence and posses
sed ourselves of Louisiana without French co
operation ; yet adds, “but we should acknow
ledge the benefit of earlier and more certain re
sults.”
Loss of the Schooner Swallow.—The
Picayune of the23d inst. says:—Letters were
received in town yesterday by the U. S. Quar
termaster, Col. Hunt, from Aransas, via Pen
sacola, announcing the loss of the schooner
Swallow, Capt. Miner, on the 12th inst. As
she was going in, over the bar of Aransas, she
struck, and on the following day was fast going
to pieces. Capt. Miner, with his crew, reach
ed the land in safety, saving his papers, a part
ofthe clothing ol the crew, and some of the
rigging. The Swallow cleared trom this port
for the Bay of Aransas on the 7th instant,
having been chartered by the U.S. Government.
Her cargo consisted of 600 barrels ot coals,
soujf stores, and clothing belonging to the 3d
regiment of Infantry, of which latter only a
portion was saved. The vessel herself is a
total loss.
Movement of Troops-—The Charleston
Courierol yesterday says:—Company A., 3rd
Artillery, arrived at this port yesterday morning
in the steamer Gladiator, trom Smithville, N.
C., on their way to Aransas Bay, Texas, under
command of the following officers :
Capt. Geo. Taylor, Comd’g.
Asst. Surgeon A. F. Sluter, (U. S. A.)
Ist. Lieut. William Gilham.
2.1 Lieut. G. W. Ayres.
We understand that the steamer Cincinnati,
Capt. Smith, has been chartered tolake’the two
companies, A and 1, ofthe 3d Regt. Aitillery,
to Aransas Bay, Texas.
Fire in Wilminoton.N. C.—The Chronicle
of Wednesday the 27th inst. says:—Between
10 and II o’clock on Monday night, a blaze was
discovered among a pile ot shavings in the car
penter’s shop of Messrs. Ferguson & Haines,
on Wilkerson’s Alley, in the old ten-pin alley
(wooden) building. This building was soon
destroyed; extending thence to the two story
brick house on Front-street occupied by A. V.
W. Hewlett as a dwelling, and the lower floor
by John M. Caz iux as a grocery, that was short
ly in ruins, with the exception ofthe outer walls.
A considerable part of Mr. Hewlett’s fur
niture was also burnt. He and his family are
away. Crossing Wilkerson's Alley, the flames
took hold ot the double brick tenement next
South, occupied in part by Joseph A. Sintas
as a Grocery, and of the bake-house in the
Year, belonging to the same. The bake-house
was destroyed, and the wood part of the large
tenement from the second story up. Mr. Sin
tas likewise lost much ot his stock.
The aggregate loss by the fire will probably
amount to 7or $8,(03. Insurance will cover
nearly or quite halt ofthe loss. The fire com
panies did surprisingly well in arresting the
dam's, for in several directions from the build
ings destroyed, standing in close proximity to
them, are others of wood, easy to take fire. It
r tact, three or four of them were on fire at out
time. There is scarcely a room lor doubt that
' this fire had itsorigin in villanous incediarism.
( Whilst the fjre was in progress, Mr. Daniel
W. Wood fell from a ladder placed against the
I side of one of the burning buildings, in conse
quence of the breaking ot lhe ladder, and was
\ very much injured, though not dangerously we
, understand.
A large scythe manufactory is now in course
! oferection at Dayton, Ohio. The building will
be 150 feet long, will contain eight trip ham
mers, and give employment to a large number
ot hands. This is the first attempt at manu
lacturing this article, to any considerable ex
tent, west ofthe mountains. There is a small
establishment in Miami county, which sup
plies the neighborhood in part, but its sales ex
tend no farther. . ...
Snakes.—The Fort Gaines (Ga.) “ Whig” of
the 23d says:—A couple ot rattlesnakes,
measuring between, six and seven feet in length,
were killed recently in this.vicinijy. One was
| alive. h measured 7 leef’in length, and lift
inches in circumference.
A very extensive rolling mill is to be erected
at Pittsburgh. The Gazette says that people
abroad who heard such dismal accounts of the
ravages by the great fire, wonder where the mo
ney comes from to build all these new mills. It
informs them that capital is created by labor,
and that Pittsburgh has plenty more which will
be invested in mills, factories and workshops
ere long. The manufacturing interest ot Pitts
burg is in its infancy as to magnitude.
Democracy in Mississippi.—Some of the
candidates for the United Slates Senate in Mis
sissippi have resorted to the novel mode of ma
king stump speeches throughout the State. A.
G. McNutt, the great Repudiator, announces
appointments to address the people at no less
than sixty-eiglit places between the 27th of July
and the4th of November! This discreditable
movement is in perfect keeping with the majo
rity of the political acts ofthe Repudiators of
the. Repudiating State.
Correspondence 0/ lhe North American.
New York, Aug. 24 P. M.
The day has passed without anything worthy
of remark, except the weather. This is the
fourth day in succession of an extreme sultry
heat. As much rain tails every night as can
be converted into vapor by the sun in the course
ofthe day. The mercury ranges over 99, and
the comfort of a vapor bath from 9 A. M. to 3
P. M., at this temperature you can imagine.
In the absence ot Local news, I give you a
sketch of a row at Union Hall, Saratoga, on
the 22d. At tea time, Mr. Boykin, his cousin
Miss Ross, with her aunt, from Charleston,
South Carolina, were prevented from taking
their seats at table assigned them, by a ne
gro servant, who said they were engaged.—
This however, was not the case, as the party
who had previously used them had left town.
The negro refusing to give up the seats, the
“ Chivalry” seized a chair, and made a runnjng
attack on the negro. The ladies threw them
selves into the breach, and all ot cuffee’s black
friends came to the rescue, when they seized
a knife trom the table, made a few flour
ishes, concluding by drawing it across the
nose and cheek of one ot the servants, who
retired spouting blood like a whale. By this
lime, with lhe screams of ladies, many ot
whom tainted, and the clamor of gentlemen
to know the cause of the trouble, the di
ming room was in anything but a quiet state.
The Southerner was given into custody, and
"alter - nliCli trouble got otruy ■pifytng-TOO’fctttnw
tothe negro and 5 dollars to the State of New
York; all for the want ot a little knowledge of
the world.
Anti Renters are picked up in great numbers;
their arrests now are 67 in all. The State
government is moving efficiently in the mat
ter, and the Delhi murdererswill get justice
done them, and nothing less.
From the N. O. Picayune, of the 23d. inst.
Naval and Military Operations.
We learned yesterday morning, through the
attention of our correspondent at Pensacola, of
the arrival at that place on the 18lh inst. of the
U. S. steamship Princeton, and of the steam
frigate Mississippi on the following day. On
the 20th, the sloop of war Falmouth arrived
there in company with another sloop of war,
supposed to be either the Saratoga or lhe St.
Mary’s. There are, therefore, now concentra
ted in that harbor, belonging to the American
Navy, two steam frigates, the Mississippi and
Princeton, the frigate Potomac, the sloops ol
war John Adams, Falmouth, and Saratoga or
St. Mary’s, and the brigs of war Somers and
Porpoise. (The French brigs Griffon and La
Mercure are lying in the same port.) On the
Western coast of Mexico, there are, or shortly
will be, eight of our vessels of war, and this
force will be increased by the vessels of the
East India squadron, now on their way home.
The Mexican Navy and Mexican privateers
will not want, therefore, for something upon
which to wreak their vengeance for fancied
wrongs.
The U. S. Quarter Master, stationed here,
has received a letter from the Bay ot Aransas,
dated the 14th inst., supposed to have been con
veyed by the Falmouth to Pensacola. The let
ter also mentions a rumor which prevailed at
Aransas, that Mexico had declared war upon
this country. The presumption is, however,
that this rumor reached Aransas from this city,
and was founded upon lhe communications of
the Mexican Ministers to the Chamber ol
Deputies on the 81st ult. This presumption is
strengthened by a letter received here from an
officer under Gen. Taylor, dated Corpus
Christi, the 15th instant. According to the
Courier, this letter states that our troops had
left St. Joseph’s Island and were encamped on
the main land—all in good health and fine
spirits—no enemy near—none expected. A
courier has been despatched to Matamoros and
returned, who reports only 400 men at or near
that place.
This does not indicate that Gen. Taylor is in
any immediate danger, nor is there any thing
very warlike in the intelligence otherwise.—
The camp of General T. is very pleasantly
situated, and a fine breeze almost constantly
prevailed.
We copy trom the Courier of last evening
an extract of a letter just received from an
officer ofthe U. S. Dragoons, which gives some
particulars of the march of the seven compa
nies of 2d Dragoons from Fort Jesup into
Texas:
Nacogdoches, July 31, 1845.
The seven companies of Dragoons arrived
here to-day, after a very warm march of six
days from Fort Jesup.
We shall leave on the Ist of August for the
Trinity, and thence for the San Antonio, where
you shall again hear from me. The command
stood the march very well, and hope to do good
service when we reach the disputed boundary.
Mastodon.—The Newburgh Courier says that
almost the entire skeleton of a Mastodon was
exhumed upon the farm of Mr. N. Brewster,
in Coldenham, six miles east of Newburgh, on
Wednesday last. Al) the bones were in their
proper places; the joints were properly arranged
and the animal seemed evidently to have (alien
upon his haunches, his hind legs projecting
and his head thrown upon his side. The fol
lowing are the dimensions of the bones found:
Length of skull 3 feet 10 inches, between the
eye-sockets 2 feet 1 inch, width of occiput 2 feet
7 inches, length of tusksfl feet 4 inches, circum
ference of tusks 9 feet flhs of an inch, between
the middle of tusks 8 leet, between the ends of
tusks 2 feet, length of shoulder blade 2 feet 3
inches, width ot shoulder blade 2 feet 4 inches,
length of humerus, 3 feet 1 inch, diameter ot
head of humerus 1 footj length of spinous pro
cess of backbone 2 feet, whole diameter of
pelvis 6 feet 4 inches, both diameters of pelvic
orifice 1 foot 11 inches, diameter of acetabulum
8 inches, weight of thigh bone 55 lbs.
A front tooth is lost in each row—the remain
der were in a state of perfect preservation.
The tusk began to crumble as soon as exposed
to the air and soon fell to pieces. The two
bones ot the fore leg when set up with the
shoulder blade, were 8 feet high. The length
ofthe animal is 33 feet; the weight ol the head
and tusks 692 lbs.—of all the bones found, 1995
lbs. The whole number of pieces of bones
found is 220.
From the description given it seems to be by
far the most perfect skeleton of the mastodon
ever found in this country. It is further stated
that about two feet lower than these bones was
found the tooth of a Walrus.— Cour. <(- Enq.
A Greek maid, being asked what fortune she
should bring her husband, answered, “1 will
bring him what is more valuable than any
treasure—a heatt unspotted, and virtue without
a stain, which is all that descended to me from
my parents." How beautifully expressed.
_L—i.LLJhl!*!* B—l- -1 U -
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY MOOING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1845.
i Tns Foreign Journals received by th<
Hibernia abound in comments on the annexa
t lion of Texas. However varied in phraseolog}
. the remarks of the English papers may be
1 there is, throughout all of them, says the Bal
• timore American, a predominant tone of morli
. fication at the ill success of British interlerenct
i in that business. The Courier Francois re
. marks that “ now the Texas question has been
resolved there still remains that of Oregon, and
we shall be much astonished," it adds, “if the
« British Government does not seize the occasion
to be avenged for this late defeat.” The Cour
rier makes the French Ministry an ally of the
United States Government in tbe work of an*
nexalion—which is rather a surprising intima
tion when put by the side of M. Guizot’s de
clarations and the movements of the French
envoy in Texas.
No doubt the French people are very well
pleased to see Great Britain foiled in her efforts
so actively prosecuted to defeat annex-ation;
nor can any devices of any Ministry in France
prevail with lhe public mind of France to in
duce a cordial co-operation with British
schemes of policy on either side ol the Atlantic.
The commercial supremacy of England has
been held so long and has been swayed so ario
. eantly, that no Power in Chriyendom
■WWftainy witn ber projects'ofaggrandtehment.
On the other hand it would gratify the nations
who have endured her haughty domination, be
cause incapable of overthrowing it, to see her
humbled.
The London Times takes to itself what con
solation it can—under the circumstances.
“A century or two (it says) might possibly
have proved that Texas ought to have been an
independent empire. It may, possibly still turn
out that the singular mixture of government
and anarchy, of responsibility and irresponsi
bility, miscalled Federalism, is not lhe safest
political absorbent. The boasted vortex may
possibly not lie found in the end the smoothest
current’or the plainest sailing. The internal
dissensions ot the States, as well as their exter
nal aggressions, undoubtedly suggest The
thought, that an independent, and even a power
ful empire midway between the States and
Mexico and the West Indies, might be the best
fbr all parties. - Such may or may not be the
discoveries or the conclusions ot a future age.
It is the part of wisdom, however, to provide
for the barest contingencies. Historians and
statesmen, and nations also, might some day
deplore that the humane and provident Powers
of Europe, so familiar as they are with the vir
tues of independence and the vices of dominion,
should have overlooked the weakness of an
infant stale, and not made one effort to procure
it the leisure and liberty to choose its part.”
As to the establishment of an independent
empire between the States and Mexico and the
West Indies, we were of those whofthought that
such an arrangement would have been best, if
the intermediate empire could have been really
independent. In due course of lime probably it
would have been, il there had been forbearance
and a wise policy on our part. That new em
pire would have been republican; it would
have been peopled by lhe Anglo Saxon race, it
might have been a new starting point for the
onward progress of free institutions and vigor
ous self-government in lhe direction ol the
South-west. But cir cumstances have decreed
otherwise, and nothing remainsbut to acquiesce
inghings as they are. The question of annexa
tion assumed the form of an issue between our
country and Great Britain, whose designs made
it quite apparent that" it she could have her
will, Texan independence would be nominal
only. It seemed inevitable that it we would be
come the guardians of Texas we must make
her a part of our own body politic.
It is important, however, to ascertain where
we are slop. California must doubtless follow
Texas, sooner or later. It lies between Texas
and the Pacific, and it will not do to allow a
foreign power to occupy there. A defenceless
frontier, open to invasion, would be something
more than a pretext, in that case. Shall we be
content with lhe Rio Grande and the Southern
line of California to the Pacific, as ourbounda
ry on the South and South-west'? We cannot
transcend that limit without running in the face
of geographical affinities and facts—to say
nothing ofthe extermination ofan existent non
uTair<?fiWgmtirise^iii7 ~wtnrwn6m h witiTe '
impossible that we could harmonize. These
speculations, however, belong to the future.
’ The opposition journals in London taunt
the Minis>ry most unmercifully for their weak
ness and pusillanimity, as they term it, in al
lowing annexation to be consummated. ■“The
American papers add,” says the Morning
Chronicle, “that the Oregon difference is set
tled, as well as that of Texas, and that this set
tlement consists iu our giving up the Columbia,
and the territory north of it tothe 49th degree
of latitude. It would not at all surprise us.
Nothing that our foreign office could do in the
way of cession would surprise us. And we
are lhe more inclined to credit lhe disgraceful
intelligence, because of the peremptory bravado
in words with which Sir Robert Peel met Mr.
Polk’s assertion of his country’s right. For
your weak statesmen always affect the pendu
lum movement. They love to oscillate and
alternate—be humble to-day because they were
brave yesterday—to excite hopes one day, in
order to dash them the next—and make a bold
claim, in order to reap the full disgrace of
weakly abandoning it.”
The following passage from the Morning
Chronicle, which will conclude our quotations,
shows the tender point in which England is
touched by the addition ot Texas to the Ameri
can Republic:
“The die is now cast, and we must resign
ourselves to lhe annexation of Texas and all its
consequences—to the extension of a rival and
a naval power round the shore of the Mexican
Gulf—to lhe approximation ol the same power
to an immense region and coast on the Pacific
—to an incalculable impulse'given to slavery
and slave-breeding, as well as, we firmly be
lieve, to slave-trading. Whilst we see France
and her prohibitive tariff yearly advancing
round the Mediterranean, and closing region
after region and port after poet to our com
merce; so in the New World we find the Uni
ted States, whose prohibitive tariff is of our
creation, spread that tariff with its flag over
shores the most open to our influence, the most
favorable to our trade. If it was empty honor
we lost, or the balance of power, or any of those
superannuated (though to us good) motives,
which this age has obliterated, we should sav
nothing; but we are losing trade, profits, pow
er. shipping and substance, wanting alike the
skill to keep or the spirit to defend them.”
The Lexington (Ky.) Excitement. —The
excitement in Lexington nas entirely subsided
alter the removal ot the printing materials.—
The Louisville Ledger stales that the illness
under which Cassius M. Clay is suffering, is
likely to terminate in his death.
Theexcitement in Lexington and vicinity, has
compelled the suspension of the “Christian In
telligencer,” a Methodist paper published in
Georgetown, Scott county, Ky. The editor of
the Intelligencer, though accused of Abolition
ism, pertinaciously disavowed such senti
ments.
The British Navy.—The “ Paris Revue”
states the whole number ol vessels of war be
longing to the British Navy at 581 afloat, and
87 now on the stocks, being built. Total 671
vessels of all classes.
Os this number, there are 88 ships ofthe line,
carrying from 72 to 120 guns.
85 frigates of the first and secotfif’class, carry
ing from 42 to 60 guns.
102 steam ships, 8 heavy frigates, 3Ocorvettes,
and 64 smaller thitd class steamers, carry
ing from 4 to 8 guns.
309 heavy sloops of war, of 24 guns, and
brigs of from 14 to 10 guns.
60 other vessels, schooners, &c.
Ot the 87 being built, there are 23 ships ofthe ,
Zine, (100 gun ships,) 27 s'earn frigates, 7 fri
gtUes of the first class, (60 guns,) 3ot the se
cond class, (42 guns,) 4 sloops of the first class,
(26 guns,) 22 sloops, brigs, and schooners, of
from 20 to 3 guns, the schooners and brigs of 3
guns carrying one long 21 or 18 pounder, and
two 32 pound short guns, for service on the
Coast of Africa, and the West Indies.
The present condition, and gradual progres
sive increase of the British Navy, (remarks lhe
Philadelphia U. S. Gazette, in republishing the
foregoing facts) is a matter that we should not
lose sight of, and increase our action in getting
our naval establishment, though small, in the
highest possible state of efficiency. We com
mend the subject to the watchful care of Mr.
Bancroft, who, we believe, has the ability and
industry to do much towards the efficiency and
well-being of our Navy.
California.—The Louisville Journal no.
tiees the proposition of some ot the democratic
journals to annex California, and adds:
“We see no necessity of acting in a con
temptible, narrow, picayunish way in this great
business of annexation. We are utterly op
posed to the United States taking any more of
the Mexican possessions in a homccopathstic
manner. Let us do it in a style correspondingto
the grandeur of our territorial notions. Let us
bolt the whole of the Mexican Empire at a swal
low, just as a boa-constrictor bolts a half-grown
sheep.”
Captain Fowler, of the schooner Sarah La
vinia, at New York in 16 days from Curacoa,
reports that on the 16th inst. a Haytien schooner
arrived at Curacoa from Jacmel, and brought
information that a civil war had broken out be
tween the blacks and the mulattoes.
. . LWJU. ....
'C SATURDAY MORNINQ, AtGUST 30.
I- , .(’-"■■•l-'.—L.
y Mr. Walker’s Northern
?, exchanges have recently ad-
I- dressed by Mr. Walker, Secret, -ywf tbe Trea
i- sury, to Manufacturers, forty ques
e lions designed to elicit intorrnaßSin reference
- to tbe present Tariff, with a'Hw.jt is said, to
n collect "fads” upon whicbj tkj&Ajetary will
d base his recommendation fqtits
e From the character of the quest; infl the itn
n portance ol the measure which. Xfa designed to
•- operate upon, we had supposed flit the cire u
e lar bad been addressed to the Manufacturers
- indiscriminately, and we are heretore quite
- astonished to find the following tatemem. in the
■ N. Y. Tribune.
1 » We are assured, by a gent, mail .who has
recently been engaged in visibn arktprocuring
1 information from the manutaen eraot Newark,
’ Paterson, &e., that these mainly
out to those Manufacturers ont-, :l M ,ar a likely to
return such answers as Mr. ' ir'rfesires/ Os
1 One Hundred WhigManula -ier» our infor
' whi!eL^^Ofc^*S f r !a be
been blessed with thefcecffitary’f inquiries, and
1 will doubtless answerlhem as per margin.”
If this statement ot the Tribune be true, and it
seems well authenticated, it is Indeed a remark
able evidence of that demagogueism, which dis
tinguishes the administration of public affairs
at Washington. The tariff question is one that
interests, to a greater or less extent, every class
of citizens, and it is of the highest importance
that any recommendation for a change in its
provisions, should be based upon correct and
fair data, elicited by a just and impartial com
parison of the views of intelligent, practical
men on both sides of the question. Otherwise,
the changes made, if any, will be characterised
by partizan legislation, which too often sacrifices
the great interests ofthe country at the shrine of
party. Certainly upon a question of such mag
nitude, a man occupying the dignified and ele
vated position before the world of Mr. Walker,
should rise superior to the mere behests of party,
and signalise himself by a course of policy,
which, distinguished for its enlarged patriotism
and philanthropy, seeks rather the promotion
of the great interests of the nation, than a mere
party triumph. Such a course would elevate
him above lhe groveling position of a dema
gogue, in which he is now placed by the direc
tion said to be given to his circulars, to the
more commanding one of a statesman, jealous
and watchful of the great interests ofthe nation.
It is an established custom in England, which
we would do well to imitate, when any very
grave and important question, affecting so gen
erally the interests of '.he whole people as our
tariff, is about to be acted upon by the Parlia
ment, to appoint a committee of practical men,
who represent both sides of the question, whose
duty it is to sit during lhe recess, for the purpose
ot collecting all the ficts and evidence in their
power, to lay before the succeeding parliament,
to enable the national council to act wisely and
advisedly upon the provisions of the bill. This
policy is founded in the soundest discretion and
prudence, and places it the command of parlia
ment an array of evidence in reference to the
’proposed measure of great importance to all
such as desire to form their opinions correctly.
Such a system, if adopted byjjur own Congress,
and carried out in that spirit of tru« patriotism
which should actuate men while legislating for
a nation of freemen, would secure to us a well
country, so a very great wrp' ■
tinued turmoil and exiitement conwqnent upon
the constant agitation ofthe subject, and the fear
and anticipation of change. Indeed, the want
of stability, and the anticipation ot frequent
changes in our revenue laws, operate materially
to the prejudice of the laws themselves, and
their beneficial influence, while at the same time
the same causes affect our prosperity as a na
tion, by preventing the transfer of capital and
labor to those pursuits, which it was, to some
extent, the design of those laws to foster and
encourage.
Mississippi.—The indomitable whigs of
Mississippi, in their determined resolve to relieve
their State from the stain of repudiation, have
entered the field with the following full list of
Candidates, which were nominated at a recent
convention:
For Governor—Gen. Patrick Henry, of
Madison.
For Attorney General—Hon. Daniel Mavs,
of Hinds.
For Auditor of Public Accounts—Dr. J. H.
Williams, of Octibbeha.
For Treasurer—Gen. J. P. Gray, of Jasper.
For Secretary of Stale—John L. Torry, of
Claiborne.
For Congress— P. W. Tompkins, of War
ren; P. B. Starke, of Lowndes; A. K. Binga
man, of Adams; Waller Brooke, of Holmes.
Mr. McLane’s Mission.—Mr. McLane's
mission to England is said to be conciliatory.
The London Economist says its object is to
submit “a peculiar proposition;” and the Mer
cury of lhe sth says: “Mr. McLane entertains
a confident hope ot bringing all the questions at
issue between Great Britain and America to an
amicable and satisfactory termination. He
spoke very cheerfully on lhe subject to one of
our first merchants, shortly after his arrival.
For the sake of humanity, and for the best in
terests of the two countries, united by so many
ties of blood, language, religion, and institu
tions, we hope that Mr. McLane may be right;
but we have our fears.”
Mr. McAllister is charged by the Macon
Messenger, with defending at the Indian Springs
the policy of the Democratic Legislature of 1839.
It was this Legislature, says lhe Georgia
Journal, that gave to the Central Bank the
power of issuing money upon the notes of its
debtors.
It was this Legislature vft.it repealed the
clause in its charter, which provided that for
every dollar issued there should be a specie one,
or its equivalent, in the vaults of the Bank, to
redeem it.
It was this Legislature that took trom the
POOR, the Poor School Fund!
It was this Legislature that forced the Treas
ury into its non-specie payment position, and
authorised the Central Bank to refuse specie
payment for its bills !
It was against the ruinous financial policy of
‘this Legislatute that Governor Crawford pro
tested!
Think of these things, people of Georgia!
The Rice Crop.—The Savannah Republican,
upon information which it regards entitled to
credence, estimates that the Rice crop of Geor
gia and South Carolina will be a short one, and
prices rule correspondingly high.
Flour in New York. —The New York Ex
press says that the sales of flour in that city last
week, for the English market, were full 20,000
barrels, establishing an advance of from 18J to
25 cents per barrel. The sales of provisions
were also large, and at an improvement.
Specie.—The amount of specie exported
from New York from the Ist to 21st inst. is
3329,820.
Revenues.—The amount received at lhe N.
Y. Custom House for the week ending 23d inst.
wa55560,680
Same week last year 442,999
Excess in!B4s 3117,681
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says:—
We learn that at a meeting of the Board of Di
rectors of the South Carolina Rail Road Com
pany, a resolution was adopted to reduce the
rate of freight on corn fromß to 5 cents per bushel
the next twelve months. This measures was
adopted in consequence of the anticipated
scarcity of the article in this State.
The Anti-Rent Rioters.—The New-York
correspondent ofthe Philadelphia U. S. Gazette,
says: " The anti-renters in Delhi are likely to
meet with their deserts. Richard Morse, a Jus
tice of the Peace ofthe town of Andes, has been
arrested and after examination fully com
mitted on the charge of aiding, abetting and
assembling with armeci bodies of men, to resist
the execution ot process. John Bsedle and
Dr. Jonathan Alabun have also been arrested.
The whole number of arrests made are 67, of
whfch 12 have been committed on their own
confession. A gentleman who has visited that
quarter of the country says it is melancholy to
witness the loss of property consequent on this
outbreak. Great numbers of farmers who have
not completed their haying and harvesting, fled
before they were pursued, save by a guilty.con
science, and have left their crops unprotected.”
The Anti-Rent Excitement.—This extra
ordinary excitement seems to be prevailing and
increasing in various counties of New York.
Eight or ten counties are now infected by this
insurrectionary spirit, and the population of
these counties amount to probably more than
4Latn«nd ferrous. . ■
The Coinage.—We are indebted, says the
Washington Union, to the Treasury Depart
ment for the following abstract of the total
amount of coinage at the Mint and Branch
Mints for the month of July, viz:
In eagles, $55,000; in half eagles, $131,000;
in quarter eagles. 35,737 50—total in gold, 3191 ,-
737 50.
In half dollars, $71,000; in quarter dollars,
$15,000; in dimes, $129,000; in half dimes,
349,000—t0tal in silver, $264,000.
In cents, $3,343 67.
Total value ot the coinage of the month of
July last, $459,081 17.
Total number of pieces of gold coined, 34,015.
Total number of pieces of silver, 2,472,000.
Total number of cents coined, 334,367.
Total number of pieces coined, 2,840,382.
The citizens of Rochester, N. Y. have held
a public meeting with a view to the establish
ment of cotton, woollen and other factories in
that city.
The Richmond Whig says that large quanti
ties of wool are brought to that market from the
counties West of the Blue Ridge, and the
article meets with ready sale. A house in that
city made sales one day last week amounting
in value to 31000, at 28 cents per pound.—
Woollen manufacturers are about to commence
operations in Virginia on a liberal scale, and
the editor of the Whig remarks that every
year will multiply them.
Dr. E. K. Kane, of Philadelphia, who left
this country about two years since, as Physi
cian to the Chinese Embassy, has returned
home in the steamer Great Britain, having in
tbe meantime travelled between fifty and sixty
thousand miles. He made the overland journey
from India; passed up the valley of the Nile to
Thebes, at times in company with the distin
guished Prussian archoeist, Dr. Lepsius, and
paia visit to Greece and other regions hal
lowed in our recollections by their classic asso
ciations.
Georgia Tobacco.—The Savannah Repub
lican of Thursday says:—We have received
from Major Wm.P. Bowen, some specimens
of Leaf Tobacco, raised on his place, known
as Fair Lawn, near this city. It was grown
from seed imported directly from Cuba, by
Messrs. Lama & Barie, and will compare ad
mirably as to strength, color and texture, with
any article of the Rjpzi which we have ever
to about 890 lbs. per acre, and the result of the
experiment dispels all doubt as to lhe practica
bility ot producing the article in this climate,
and of the test quality.
Major B. has, during the past season, culti
vated another specimen of the plant known as
the "low-pear-tree," which in size of leaf and
quality, promises very fairly. The seed of this
was obtained through the kindness of Judge
Berrien, at the Patent Office in Washington.
It is regarded as a very superior article, and
appears to be less infested with the worm than
the plants grown from the Cuba seed.
Electro-culture. —At a meeting of the New
York Farmer’s Club last week, a drawing was
exhibited in fttvor of electro-culture, of a grape
vine of a year’s growth, one branch of whose
tendrils, clinging to a galvanic iron wire, has
grown to the height of sixteen feet, while the
other branch, not thus connected, has only reach
ed an altitude of four feet.
New Sort op Musket.—A newly invented
musket has recently been tried at Potsdam,
Prussia, with perfect success. It will carry
from 1000 to 1200 paces, and will fire fifteen
times a minute.
American Missionaries in Canton.—Rev.
1. J. Roberts, Rev. J. L. Schuck, and Mr.
Devan, are now laboring as missionaries in the
city of Canton, China. Air. Roberts says, “I
have not seen so much promise of usefulness
elsewhere since I have been in China.” Until
recently, not only missionaries, but all foreign
ers, were excluded from Canton. Dr. Schuck
writes, “With ten native preachers, we are
laying plans for lhe most vigorous operations
—it is indeed and in truth a glorious field.
The late American treaty renders us and our
converts secure—the people eagerly receive our
books, receive us politely, crowd our chapels,
and listen with attention to our message.”
Longevity.—The Wilmington (Delaware)
Journal says there are eight persons living
within eighty yards of the Friends’ meeting
house, in that city, whose united ages count six
hundred years; six ot them live in three ad
joiug houses, and the other two live directly
across the street. They reside within fifty yards
of each other. Three are brothers and sisters,
and two live in the house they were born in,
and have resided there until this time.
O’The Lexington (Ky.) Inquirer of the
22d inst. says that the report that the Christian
Intelligencer, published in Georgetown, Ky.,
by Rev. Evan Stevenson, had been destroyed, is
without any foundation whatever.
Dancing Dogs.—The N. Y. Courier and
Enquirer says:
The organ grinders, tamborine players, and
hurdy-gurdy professors, et id omne genus, are
completely thrown in the shade by a new im
portation of dancing dogs. Some patient Ital
ian, has managed to train some half dozen dogs
to dance, and they waltz, dance the Polka, reels,
jigs, &c., to the most execrable music ofa hurdy
gurdy. The dogs, who are very tastefully at
tired, are carried about in a vehicle especially
provided for them, and appear to take great
pleasure in the applause which their perfor
mances invariably excites. The owner we
should say, was doing a thriving business.
The New-York Courier states, on what it
deems to be good authority, that the steamer
Acadia, which left Boston on 16th of July, took
out extensive orders (and other conveyances
will no doubt take out similar orders) to Eng
land to purchase and ship to Texas foreign
merchandize, to arrive and enter there at the
existing reduced rate of duties, and there await
tbe action of Congress on annexation; when
that act is thus completed, all these goods be
come ipso facto, entered merchandize— as much
so as il in New-York, Charleston, New-Oleans
or any other American port, and can be trans
ported coastwise or interior to any of our other
States. We simply state the fact— leaving the
remedy to those whose duty it is to see that ex
isting laws are faithfully executed. It no pre
ventive be adopted, then the fair dealer is in
jured and the revenue defrauded—the whole na
tion is made to suffer fbr the benefit ot a few,
who are more shrewd than honest.
Commerce of France.—The total value of
the commerce ot France, during the year 1844,
as appears by a return published in the Moni
teur, was 2,347,090,000 francs, being two-thirds
that ot England, double that ot the United
States, and double that ot the German Customs
’ Union.
From lhe Journal of Commerce.
Position of the United States Ji avy.
A good many movements of various ships
have recently been noticed in the papers, some
of them very correctly, and some very incor
rectly. Our Secretaries of War and the Navy
are pursuing a very different policy from the
Ministers ot Mexico. While the latter are
proclaiming their intention to declare war, our
Ministers are noiselessly but efficiently draw
ing all their forces to the points ot danger, and
putting everything in order. We trust their
movements will result in no noise at all. But
if the case should prove otherwise, the noise
will not be that of proclamations. Mexico has
said enough to require thorough attention, and
she will very shortly be lined with our navy on
the Atlantic and the Pacific, and by our army
on the frontier between us, for war or peace as
she may determine. We shall be ready for ei
ther alternative, or at least as ready as any na
tion can be tor so dire a calamity as war. We
shall be in a position to pievent any action on
the part of Mexico, and it consequences can be
counted from causes, to settle the whole matter
in a very short time. Under the circumstances,
we have though tit Worth while to get together,
at considerable labor, a statement showing the
precise position of our naval force:
U. S. Squadron in the Gulf of Mexico.
1. Frigate Potomac, Com. Conner’s flag ship-
2. Steamer Mississippi.
3. Do. Princeton. ,
4. Sloop-of-war Saratoga. ’ * '
5. Do. Falmouth.
6. Do. John Adams.
7. Do. St. Mary’s.
8. Brig Somers.
9. Do. Lawrence.
10. Do. Porpoise.
11. Schooner On-ka-hy-e, mail boat.
U. S. Squadron m the Pacific Ocean.
1. Frigate Savannah, Com. Sloat’s flag ship.
2. Sloop-of-war Warren.
3. Do. Portsmouth.
4. Do. Levant.
5. Do- Cyane.
6. Schooner Shark.
U. S. East Indus Squadron, about being relieved,
and intended, as is supposed, to rendezvous in
the Pacific.
1. Frigate Brandywine, Com. Parker’s flag
ship.
2. Sloop-of-war St. Louis.
3. Brig Perry.
4. Frigate Constitution, Capt. Percival, on
her return from an independent cruise.
The last four named ships may be considered
in case of emergency, as a pan of the Pacific
squadron.
U. S. Squadron in the Mediterranean.
1. Frigate Cumberland, Com. Smith’s flag
ship.
2. Sloop-of-war Plymouth.
U. S. Squadron, Brazil station.
1. Frigate Raritan, Com. Turner’s flag ship.
2. Sloop-of-war Boston.
3. Brig Bainbridge.
East India Squadron, on its way out.
1. Columbus, 74, Com. Biddle’s flagship.
2. Sloop-of-war Vincennes.
U. S. Squadron on the Coast of Africa.
1. Sloop-of-war Jamestown, Com. Skinner’s
flag.
2. Sloop-of-war Yorktown.
3. Do. Preble.
4. Brig Truxton.
Fitting out, (precise destination unknown.')
Norfolkl. Frigate Congress, Captain
Stockton.
2. Frigate Columbia.
3. Brig Dolphin.
Boston 4. Frigate United States.
5. Sloop-of-war Marion.
6. Brig Boxer.
New York.. .7. Sloop-of-war Dale.
The following ships, in port, require repairs,
and have been examined with that view, pre
paratory to being fitted tor service in case of
emergency :
Norfolkl. Frigate Constellation.
2. Sloop-of-war Vandalia.
3. Do. Fairfield.
Boston 4. Razee Independence.
New York..s. Frigate Macedonian.
Gttifof Mexico....lt
Pacific Oceanlo
Brazil 3
Coast of Africa 4
East Indies 2
Mediterranean 2
Fitting for sea 7
Under examinations
Total 44
The aggregatl of guns carried by these ves
sels is at least 1,100.
Imports and Exports.—Weare indebted to
the Washington correspondent of the N. York
Courier <f- Enquirer, for the following statement
of the imports and exports of the United States
for the year ending 30th June last:
“ I have obtained from the Treasury Depart
ment an account of the amount of Imports and
Exports lor the year ending June 30,1845. All
the quarterly returns not having been received
at the Treasury, the statements of the amounts
imported and exported in the first nine months,
up to 31st March last, are exact. The state
ments of the last three months, I have taken
from monthly returns which are sent by the
Collectors to' the Secretary of the Treasury for
his information, and which are not so exact as
the quarterly returns, butare only approximated
to exactness. The totals however, will be suf
ficiently exact to give a good idea ot the amount
of imports and exports, and the official returns
when made and published, will probably not
vary more than a few hundred dollars from
these statements.
Value of Imports for the year ending 30th June,
1845.
Value imported in 9 months, to 31st March,lß4s:
Free of duty 515,082,394
Paying duty 75,798,376
Value imported in 3 months, to 30th June, 1845:
Free of dutys 7,943,376
Paying duty 20,688 440
— $28,631,816
Total imports in 18455119,512,606
Os which there was paying duty.. 96,486,836
“ “ Free of duty.. 23,025,770
Value of exports for the year ending 30th June,
1845.
Value exported in 9 months to 31 st March, 1845:
Foreign Merchandize $12,224,333
D imestic Produce... 65,080,728
Value exported in 3 months to 30th June, 1845 :
Foreign Merchandize. .$2,753,124
Domestic Produce.... 27,833,437 $30,586,561
Total exports in 18455107,891,622
Os which there was, Domestic
Produce... 92,914,165
“ “ Foreign Mdze... 14,977,457
The proportions of foreign goods which were
imported free ot duty and paying duty, and re
exported in the last three months, are:
Free of duty 51,121,852
Subject to duty 1,631,272
T0ta152,753,124
The imports of Specie during the year ending
30th June, 1845, were:
Imports in 9 months, end-
ing 31st March, 1845. .$3,187,123
imports in 3 months, end-
ing 30th June, 1845... 764,910
Total imp0rt553,952,233
The exports of Specie during the year end
ing 30th June, 1845, were:
Exported in 9 months, end
ing3lstMarcb, 1845.. $7,727,718
Exports in 3 months, end-
ing 30th June, 1845... 749,933
Total Exp0rt558,477,651
The total value ot imports for the
year,ending3oth June, 1845 is. .$119,512,606
The total value of exnorts tor the
year, ending 30th June, 1845.... 107,891,522
Excess ot 1mp0rt5511,620,984
The total exports ot Specie for the
year, ending 30lh June, 1845 is.. $8,477,651
The total imports of Specie for the
year, ending 30th June, 1845 3,952,233
Excess of Exports of Species4,sls,4lß
Recent accounts from Caraccas state that
Hon. B. G. Shields, the new U. S. Charge
d’Affaires to Venezuela, had arrived in that
city and presented his credentials. Vespasian
Ellis, Esq., presented on the Ist instant his letter
of recall, and took official leave ot the Govern
ment. He arrived at Philadelphia on Saturday
last in the barque Venezuela. Mr. E. has prov
ed himsell a faithful and efficient representative
ot the interests ot his country in all his official
intercourse with the Government of Venezuela.
The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette says that lh e
U. S. frigate Congress, now fitting out at Nor
folk, preparatory to sailing for the northwest
coast ofthe Pacific, under commmand of R. F.
Stockton, is to have a steam propeller attached,
and she will then take on board the large guns
1 originally intended for the steamer Princeton.
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1.
Missibbipfi.—We learn from the “South
ron” of the 20th inst., that Gen. Patrick Henry,
who was nominated by the Whigs as their can
didate for Governor, declines in the most posi
tive manner to accept the nomination.
Hon. J. M. Berrien.—The following well
dkected and well'pointed satire at lhe smaZZ fry
,'fn Georgia who are daily seeking to defame our
distinguished Senator, is from the Macon Mes
senger:
Berrien must die, if truth can be taught by
fables, tor we learn from a fable that when the
Lion was attacked by all the beasts of the field,
he continued to resist until the Asses joined in
the assauk—that indignity was too degrading to
be borne. The noble creature made no further
resistance—he..could not contend in reason with
Asses.
Moral.—A cap for any scribbler whom it fits.
Cotton, Grots, Sec.— The Montgomery
(Ala.) Journal of the 27th ult. says: We have
taken some pains, during the last week, to gather
correct information in relation to the eoming
crop; and from all we can learn, the cotton crops
ol this part of the State, probably of the whole
fait s&or?’, at feast one-fifth,'and 1 ’ jpS'p
haps one-fourth of an average one.
The com crop is likely to be even werse than
that. We have had some fine showers within
the last week, but they came too late to be of
much service to the Planters. In Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Red River particularly, the pros
pects are represented as good. But except these,
we know ot no part of the country where the
crop will be an average one.
Cotton is beginning to come in very freely.
About fifty bales were received at the Ware
house of Messrs. John H. Murphy & Co. on
Monday. What was the amount received at
the other three Warehouses we have not
learned. But it is evident the crop is coming
in earlier than usual.
Military Movements.—The N. O, Bee of
Monday the 25th ult., says: Yesterday morn
ing, five companies of Colonel Dakin’s new
Regiment of Volunteers fbr Texas were review
ed in Lafayette Square by General Gaines, ac
companied by his Staff. The Lone Star Guard,
which organized in the Third Municipality on
Saturday evening, mustered at the same time,
together with several companies of the Irish
Brigade, under the command ot Lieutenant
Carrigan. After the review, General Gaines
briefly addressed the gallant fellows, and com
plimented them highly on theirefficiency in their
new duties. Colonel Dakin responded in a few
words, after which the whole body, comprising
257 men, all told, marched down St. Charles
street to Poydras, thence through to Camp,
down to Canal, passing down to St. Charles,
and up again to Lafayette Square, where the
companies separated. The majority of the
men, though unaided by the outward display of
military uniform, yet appeared made of such
“ stuff” as will prove them to be no easy foe to
conquer.
Later from Aransas Bay.—TheN. O. Tro
pic of the 25th ult., says: The ship Suviah,
Captain Gibbons, arrived below yesterday from
Aransas Bay. Captain G. reports that he left
the anchorage off the Bay on the 16th instant,
and that just before he left, the steamboat Mon
mouth, came off and reported that war had b«en
declared by Mexico, but he supposes it was on
ly rumor—(doubtless founded on the news re
ceived here from Mexico— Ed Tropic.) Gen-
Captain G. confirms the report of the loss of
the schooner Swallow. He reports that on the
20th ultimo, 100 miles W. of the S. W. Pass,
saw the schr Mary Wilkes, Capt. Decker, from
this port with Government horses bound to
Aransas. On tho 18th instant, saw schr. Ed. S.
Lamdin, from this port lor Aransas, with Go
vernment stores.
The steam schooner Augusta, Capt. Gillett,
we understand, has been chartered by the Go
vernment agent here, by the month, but on what
terms we cannot learn. She is to take horses to
Aransas Bay in a few days, tor the use ofthe
Dragoons and Flying Artillery.
We understand the steamboat Neva, which
arrived here on Saturday, was purchased at
Cairo, by an agent of government, tor $7,500.
The Neva is nearly new, of very light draught
and is intended to go to Aransas Bay, where she
will be used as a lighter.
O’Blennis.—We learn from the Plaquemine
Planters’ Gazette ot Saturday, that this man,
who was accused ot the murder of Frank
Combs, at Point Coupee, and who it will be re
collected was tried some months ago, when the
jury could not agree on their verdict, has been
admitted to bail by Judge Deblieux in the sum
0f515,000.
Revival.—The religious excitement in Mont
gomery, Ala., says the Journal, seems to con
tinue without abatement. Daily and nightly
meetings have been kept up, and well attended
in lhe Methodist Episcopal Church, for nearly
six weeks; about one hundred and twenty per
sons have professed a change ot heart and life,
some ninety ol whom have connected them
selves with the Church. Instead of flagging,
tbe work seems to gather new interest as it pro
gresses .
O’ The St. Louis Era says that Marble has
been discovered in large quantities near Rock
Island, Illinois. It is jet black, takes a fine po
lish, and presents a beautiful brilliant appear
ance. The resources of the great West are
just beginning to be developed.
The Richmond Whig states that the recent
moist and warm weather has had a most bene
ficial effect on vegetation of all kinds. It says
lhe Tobacco is, in very many cases, the largest
ever known or seen, and by its unusual size will
bring up the crop to an approach to average far
beyond anticipation. There will be plenty of
Corn; not plenty in every neighborhood, but
magnificent plenty in the collective State.
A letter from Lake Superior says:—Native
copper continues to be found—the best speci
men of which is that recently discovered near
the lake shore by Maj. Campbell, Sub. Agent,
This specimen weighs about sixteen hundred, is
purer than the copperot commerce, and is alto
gether the most beautiful specimen ever seen.
Statistics of Calomel.—One house in Phi
ladelphia, says the U. S. Gazette, has prepared
and sold within the last thieeyears, 17,000 pounds
of Calomel. The consumer pays the apothe
cary for the medicine, at prices varying from
SSO to SSOO per pound. Putting the above at
only 360, it would appear that the price paid for
it exceeded a million of dollars. Il is supposed
that the quantity manufactuerd by other houses
is at least six times as much. Ifso, the cost
calomel in three years, has been $6,000,000, o r
an average of two million per annum.
Correspondence of the Phila. North American.
New York, Aug. 27—P. M.
The weather has moderated a little, but re
mains very oppressive. The mercury still
ranges at9o at noon, without a breath of air
stirring.
Another cargo sale of teas was made this
morning at which prices were fully sustained,
the market closing firmly, and all the lots sold
except a few low grades.
A forgery was detected yesterday ot the name
of Messrs Rawdon & Groesbeck, brokers of
this city, who do a large business with your
city, from whence a draft was obtained to order,
which was settled by a check bearer. From
this signature the forgeries were made, by which
the Union Bank has lost $3,000, the whole
amount of the forgery, although rumor has
magnified the sum two hundred per cent
VOL. IX.—NO. 36.
Health of Vicksburg.—We are happy to
inform our friends in the country and abroad,
says the Whig of the 19th inst., that the health
of Vicksburg remains, up tq|hTalime, remark
ably good, only two deaths la»t*week, both in
fants. No patlfnts in the city hospital—nothing
for tbe Doctors to do; weather very warm and
dry. ;>
Gfderswere received al the Brooklyn Navy
Yard on Monday, to prepare the store ship
Lexington for sea. She will taka a cargo of
provisions on board; and proceed to the Gulf of
Mexico without delay.
.Money Matters—ln New York on Wed
nesday loans were making on good stock
securities at 5 per cent.
Bicknell’s Reporter says: “Money is still
abundant in Philadelphia. The war fevar
which prevailed when our last paper was put
to press, was by no means so high last week,
and, as a consequence, capitalist, were not so
timid.”
At Boston, the Banks are getting as much
business paper as they want, a(6 per cent, and
forcedon to the market for sale, by weak par-
few, with stronger names’ and longer purses, fl
The Courier says: fl
We are led to believe that the present ad- jfl
verse condition of financial affairs will be bat
temporary. The true wealth of lhe country
consists in its harvests, which are abundant
and near at hand. Commerce, manufactures
and the fisheries are daily reaping their reward,
and the general prosperity of the nation is such
that the evils consequent upon temporary and
local fluctuations sink into comparative insig
nificance.
The fall trade has commenced in good ear
nest. The dry goods dealers, particularly, say
they were never before doing so well nt this sea
son of the year. Our streets are full of loaded
teams; and there appears to be great activity
in all branches ot business.
Anti-Rent Disturbances in Scoharie. —A
correspondent of the Albany Argus, writing
from Blenheim states that great excitement ex
ists there in consequence ot the conduct of the
Anti-Renters. He says one constable has been
taken from his bed at midnight, dragged some
four or five miles from home, and tarred, lor
having served civil process; another intercept
ed, and his papers taken from him; the sheriff
and his deputy taken and insulted, and open
threats made to shoot the sheriff and his depu
ties, insomuch that process could no longer be
served by any officer, whether lor rent or other
wise, and open resistance to any force that
could be sent against them, also threatened—
until the consummation ot like threats in lhe
county|of Delaware. A posse numbering in
all 500 men, including those under Gen. Griffin
and Col. Wooster (who were in pursuit ot the
murderers of Steele,) had marched from Blen
heim in search of the disaffected, but they ma
naged to keep out of the way. Several suspect
ed persons had been captured, and a large num
ber ot Indian dresses and masks were found,
also a flag bearing for an inscription the motto
“ Victory or Death.”
On Tuesday night of last week a party of in
surgents were prowling about North Blenheim
to intercept the Sheriff and bis guard and take
the public arms, which he was conveying to
Schoharie. The Sheriff however did not come
through the place where they were watching,
until after day light, and was thus saved from
the threatened attack. Terms of amnesty and
peace had been sent in by some of the prominent
anti-renters of Blenheim; but a general Barren,
der and disclosure ot .their terms ot association,
their Indian oaths, &c., and a satisfactory assu
rance ot no further opposition to the authorities
only, would be accepted. Should such terms
be complied with, the settlement will probably
be effected as far as it can be legally and ad
visedly done.
A man named Kilmer was arrested, and by
some it was supposed that he was Scudder, who
it was said was concealed in Blenheim. No
person however had as yet been seen to identify J
on Blenheim Heights about 450 armed citizens, j
who, under their several commanders, spent I
that and the succeeding day in calling at the I
habitations of the anti-renters in that county; |
but no one, except women and children, was at
home. The women of course, would not tell
where their husbands had gone, or when they
expected them to return. The posse, however,
succeeded in finding some twenty or more per
sons, whom on Thursday, they marched to
Gilboa, where they will be examined as to their
participation in the violation of the laws oftheir
country.
The Twbntt-Ninth Congress.—The New-
York Journal of Commerce gives a list ot the
29th Congress, from which we have prepared
the following analysis:
There will be (including Florida) fifty-four
members of the Senate, of whom four have yet
to be appointed. Os the fifty actual members
at this day, twenty-four are Whigs and twenty
six are Democrats. The four to be appointed—
viz: one each from Virginia, Mississippi, In
diana and Tennessee—will most probably be
Democrats, making the Senate, when full, to
consist of twenty-four Whigs and thirty Demo
crats.
The term of service of twelve Whigs and five
Democrats expires in 1847; of fourWhigsand
thirteen Democrats in 1849; of eight Whigs and
six Democrats in 1851.
Three of the four to be elected «ill hold office
until 1851; the fourth, from Mississippi, (in
place ol Mr. Walker,) until 1847. The Sena
tors trom Florida have not yet been classed.
The House ot Representatives has all been
elected with the exception of the six members
from Maryland and the four from Mississippi
and tour vacancies, one each from Florida,
Massachusetts, Maine, and New-Hampshire.
There are also two vacancies from death—one
in New Jersey and one in Louisiana. We give
a statement of the political character ot the
House so far as elected, and a comparison in the
same point of view with the former Congress.
The States are arranged in the order in which
the elections took place:—
29th Congress. 29th Cengress.
States. W. L. F. W. Nat. L. F.
Louisiana* - 4 1-2
Illinois 16 1-6
Missouri - 5 - - 5
Vermont 3 1 3-1
Maine* 2 4 1-5
Georgia 2 6 4 -4
Pennsylvania 12 12 10 2 12
Ohio 9 12 8-l»
S. Carolina -7 - - 7
Arkansas -1 - - I
New-York 10 24 9 4 21
New-Jersey* 14 3 - •
Michigan -3 - - 3
Massachusetts* 8 1 9
Delaware 11- -
Rhode Island 2 - 2 - -
N. Hampshire*- 3 ~ ~
Virginia 3 12 i - 14
Connecticut -4 4 - -
Indiana 2 8 2 -8
Kentucky 5 5 7 ~ c
Tennessee 5 6 ;> - ®
N. Carolina 4 o 7 “ «
Alabama 1 o 1-
Totals. 71 139 75 6 127
♦ Vacancies.
Showing a Whig gain of five, and a Demo
cratic loss of twelve. Os the members who
voted for Mr. McKay’s bill for the alteration ot
the Tariff at the last session of Congress, and
were candidates for re-election, thirteen have
been superseded, of whom twelve have been suc
ceeded by Whigs and Natives. Os those who
voted against it, and were candidates for re-elec
tion, sixteen are superseded, ot whom nine have
been succeeded by Whigs and Natives.—Na
tional Intelligencer.
THE HEART.
The human heart—that reaileu thing!
The templerand the tried;
The joyoite yet lhe offering—
The source of pain and pride ;
The gorgeoue thronged—the deaolate,
The seal of love, lhe lair ot hate—
hieil-atrong and sell-defied !
Yet do we bless thee as thou at t,
Thou restless thing, the human heart.
Singular Fact.—The Pittsfield, Mava, Eagle
slates that a girl in that town was struck dumb
by the firing of a cannon, on the 4th of July.
She recovered the power of speech, however, in
two or three weeks afterwards.
£> One of the most prosperous and profita
ble railroads in the United States is the Miae
Hill and Schuylkill Haven Rail Road. It ex
tends from Schuylkill Haven, on the Scuylkill
River, to the Broad Mountain, a distance of 10
miles. It has three branches—one of which ex
tends up the West Branch of the Schuylkill a
distance of 4J miles—another up Mudlsy
Branch 3 miles, and another up Wolfe Creek
about 2 miles—making the total length of the
Road at present 19ft miles. The aapital invest
ed in this work is within a traction of $400,000.
The dividends have exceeded 12 per cent, par
annum, and this too whilst lhe rails were being
replaced and other improvements making out
ot the profits of the Company,— Balt. Amer.