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“ the times.
Th* union of the states and the sovereignty ofthe states
COLUMBUS, JULY 8, 1841.
Fourth of July. —This day coming on
Sunday, ihe fifth was celebrated in an appro
priate manner. The’ volunteer companies
were out, and services were had at the Meth
odist Church. An Oration was delivered by
A. 11. Cooper, Esq. which is spoken of in high
terms. As no account of the proceedings on
the fifth has been furnished us, we are unable
to give a detailed and accurate statement of
the celebration.
Cheat axd expeditious travelling.—
The distance (590 miles) from Charleston to
Baltimore, by the way of Richmond and Pe
tersburg, is now travelled in two days, and the
*are, including meals, porterage, &c. is thirty
five dollars.
The Philadelphia Chronicle states, “ from
authentic sources,” that John Sergeant has
been offered, and has declined the acceptance
of the Mission to England.
Bankrupt Bill. —The Committee on the
Judiciary, in the Senate, has reported a Bank
rupt Bill, and the same committee in the
House has signified its readinesss to report a
Bill on the same subject in time for consider
ation at. the present session. The Acting
President, in transmitting a petition praying
the passage of a Bankrupt Law, accompanied
it by a Message recommending the passage of
such a law.
Mr Finn still continues his ingenious ex
hibition of Glass-blowing, &c* at his rooms in
the Granite Building, on Oglethorpe street.—
His exhibition is well worthy the attention of
the curious and inquiring.
Mr. Tyler and the Wincs.-The Charles
ton Courier and the Savannah Republican,
(decided Whig Journals) are out in undis
guised terms against the Acting President,
for his opposition to a National Bank, after the
form proposed by Mr, Clay. The latter print
(very unkindly to be sure, considering its
fulsome eulogies of Mr. Tyler, previous to
the election,) says that “ Mr. Tyler, although
a very honest and respectable man, lias no
strength of his own ; and should he pnadly
consent to take the field against Clay, he is
destined to a Waterloo defeat.”
The truth ;■ the Whig party is now un
dergoing a dissolution from the irreconcilea
bility of its materials. If it wished to carry
certain great and leading measures, the suc
cess of which it deemed essential to the wel
fare of the country, why did it not avow those
measures distinctly, and select men for office
whe believed in the propriety of those meas
ures, and not take a man here and another
there, regardless of his political tenets)
whose services or influence could be rendered
available at the moment in effecting the one
great end—-the defeat of the last Administra
tion 1
CHATTAHOOCHEE R. R. AND BANKING
COMPANY.
Since our last publication, the Cashier of
this Institution, who was absent at the time ol
its failure, has returned, and states, we under
stand, that the notes are worth over ninety
cents in the dollar. It has been suggested to
us to make this declaration public in order to
quiet the apprehensions of bill holders, in the
country adjacent, and at a distance, and prevent
them from to large sacrifices. In
this city, however, yesterday and the day be
fore, forty and forty-five cents in the dollar
was the highest price paid—fifty cents in the
dollar could not be obtained. ‘Phis being the
actual price of the paper in *tliis city, where
the Bank is located, and where its real situa
tion must necessarily be better known (how
ever imperfect that knowledge may be here)
than elsewhere, it seems to us to be great fol
ly to make statements for the use and informa
tion of the Public, founded on individual opin
ions and declarations, when the value of the
money squares so little with those opinions and
declarations.
There is, therefore, no alternative left to up
hold the true value of the money, and save it
from still greater depreciation, but the subniis.
sionof the concerns of the Bank directly 1o
the Public, or to competent and disinterested
parties, enjoying general confidence, and
whose representations and statements con
cerning its condition, and its immediate or ul
timate ability to cancel its debts, or a propor
tion of them, will be credited, and have their
just weight in’regulatingthe price of the notes
agreeably to their intrinsic value.
COUNTY POLITICS.
The Whig party of Muscogee county (or,
as it has chosen to designate itself in its recent
call of a public meeting, the Slate llighls par
ty,) seems to be organizing tor the tall cam*
paign. Is it dissatisfaction with the movements
at Washington City, and the avowed declara
tions of no inconsiderable or unimportant por
tion of the Whig party proper, of preference
for a Bank, Distribution and Tariff, and appre
hensions of the consummation of all these
measures in a brief period—or is it the disin
clination of leading and influential State Rights
men to be classed among the nigs, as tin ,
now understand the purposes and oojetls o.
that party —that -has caused this change ot
names—this abandonment of that glorious
term which distinguished the patriot from the
Tory of the Revolution—and that is now used
in England most properly to separate the lib
eral politician from the slave of the Aristocra
cy. The name of Whig in its ancient and
original acceptation, was a glorious name, as
sociated with the most endearing recollections
of extraordinary sacrifices in defence ot lib
ty—of devoted and untiring services in the
arduous conflicts of the Revolution and, loi
a long period in England, of sincere and paii *
otic adherence to the true principles of con
stitutional freedom. And for what reason this
name has been thus unceremoniously discard
ed we cannot imagine, unless indeed the dis
covery has been made that names and things
are different altogether. However this may
1)P the Whi‘ T party of Muscogee is, we sup-
ZIX high^iriiexpecting to passover the
course in October without being obliged to
use whip or spur. The Democracy, we be
lieve, are in equally good spirits, and intend to
show their opponents what can be done, u here
log cabins and hard cider arc aside,
aiid “reason is left tree to combat etror.
CONGRESS?.
For the proceedings in the Senate, we re
fer our readers to the Washington Corres
pondence of the Charleston Courier. It ap
pears that Mr. Clay will fail in his Hank pro
ject, to establish Branches without the assent
of the States, and that the plan finally adopted,
if one be adopted at ali, will be similar to the
“Fiscal Agent” recommended by the Secre
tary of the Treasury, a synopsis gs which we
published two or three weeks since. The
plan of Mr. Ewing, although unconstitutional
in the view of the Democracy, will, if adopted,
prove so utterly inefficient, to accomplish the
objects for which that portion of the Whig
party of which Mr- Clay is the exclusive lea
der, desire the establishment of a Bank, that
its existence cannot be otherwise than of
short duration. The assent of the States, too,
before Branches can be established within
their limits, is some concession to the consti
tutional scruples of the anti-Bank party —scru-
ples which the great Whig party with all their
boasted strength and vast power, have been
obliged to respect. Besides, this “ Fiscal A
gent,” with a head at Washington, jrrohibited
from doing any thing , and here and there a
branch, placed at‘magnificent distances’—un
able to do much mors, will soon be the laugh
i ig-stock of the whole country, and ultimately
be abandoned by general and universal con
sent; and the much abused Sub-Treasury will
again be revived as the only prac.icable and
constitutional mode of collecting, keeping and
disbursing the public money.
In the House of Representatives, a debate
has been progressing on the Bill to divide the
proceeds of the sales of the* Public Lands
among the States. Messrs. Merriwether and
Alford, of the Georgia Delegation, had, at the
last dates from Washington, participated in
the discussion. Bo h admit the constitution
ality of the scheme, although both are op
posed to the distribution at the present mo
ment: Mr. M. for the reason, that the Biij
reported makes an unequal and unfair divis.
ion: Mr. A. because the Government cannot
now spare the money, without resorting to a
protective tariff. The latter gentleman, in
the course of his speech, repudiated, in indig
nant terms, the idea that lie was disaffected
towards the Whig party, or intended to aban
don it, and yet, in the conclusion of the same
speech, he observed that he did not think the
Whig party would be able now, or at'this ses
sion, “to consummate their projects, the divis
ion of the Public Lands among the States,
and the imposition of a tariff.” Call you this
backing your friends, Mr. Clay 1 Mr. Alford
designed to convey the idea, we presume)
that the real object of the North and a portion
of the West, was to give away the lands, in
order to create the necessity for a protective ta
riff. And that this is the true object of the
Whig party, that portion of it north and west,
of which Mr. Clay is the exclusive leader, the
anti-tariff portion bf the same party will soon,
to their sorrow, fully discover. With this
intention and determination fully apparent,
and already proclaimed by Mr. Alford, in un
disguised terms, who boasts also of the exclu
siveness of his party predilections, how can the
measure be for a moment entertained by any
Southern man—we mean the measure of re
linquishing the revenue derivable from the
sales of the Public Lands. Suppose, however)
the plan be postponed, as Mr. Alford suggests,
until the present wants of the Government
are relieved, be they great or small, and then
adopted, is it certain that the revenue deriva
ble from imports will meet the expenses of
the Government, agreeably to the scale of
duties fixed by the compromise act. The
truth is, Mr. Clay and his friends know that it
will not, and he and they design to accomplish
the measure now, in a moment of political
excitement and of political triumph, when the
trammels of party are strong, held together
by the double motive of political hate, and the
• expectation of individual benefit, and before
the actual result, as it regards the imposition
of duties for the support of Government, after
the disposition of the Public Lands, can be
clearly and fully discerned. The proceeds of
, the Lands given away, without the possibility
of recovery, and the Government obliged to
have money to defray its necessary expenses,
or perchance to protect itself from foreign
aggressicn, how is this money to be had but
by the imposition of high protective duties l Is
there any other mode of raising means but by
direct taxation ? And with the public senti
ment against the latter mode, except in the
last resort, who can tell to what height it may
become necessary to raise the duties on im
ports 1 Docs not Mr. Clay see this result in
all its length and breadth, as clearly as he does
the sun in Heaven I And is it not a mode he
has adopted to accomplish indirectly, that
which lie has long labored to do directly —the
establishment of a steady and permanent pro
tective policy, and thus concentrate in particu
lar sections of the Union, a vast and irresisti
ble monied, and of course, political power, suf
ficient at all times and under any circumstan
ces, to regulate public opinion, and indicate
public measures ! And for a scheme so mon
strous, so unequal and unjust, is it not re
markable that he is able to delude and influ
ence men, who are hostile to the protective
policy; to the conversion of this great agricul
tural, into a miserable and sickly manufacturing
people; and to all the attendant and aggrava
ted ills and oppressions which encompass the
vast hordes of operatives in England, of which
we have daily such touching and heart rending
accounts] Aside from the unconstitutionality
and inequality of fostering, by protective duties)
large manufacturing establishments, it is
wrong on the score ot justice, of morality and
jeligion, so long as vacant and productive
lands abound within the limits of the Republic,
to incarcerate vast masses of human beings
in these miserable dens of pestilence and fam
ine. It is not the policy of our Government,
nor compatible with the objects of its Institu
tion, to prostitute the powers confided to it for
high and happy purposes, to the aggrandize
ments particular sections, and the promotion
and advancement of partial and exclusive in
terests, at the expense and sacrifice of indi
vidual means and of human life.
The correspondent of the Savannah Repu! -
Lican writes from Washington, under date of
June 27, as follows :
Mr. John Sergeant told an acquaintance this
day that he had the offer of an embassy to
England, but thought it doubtful whether he
should accept the appointment or not It is
understood that Mr. Jenifer of Md. has been
appointed Minister to Austria, and Mr. Pen
dleton of Va. to Russia.
WASHINGTON LETTER WRITERS.
The following is an extract from the
Washington correspondence of the Savannah
Republican. Whether the writer himself
will avoid the errors lie so justly condemns,
and that have rendered the Washington cor
respondence of almost every journal in the
country so little to be relied on, remains to
be seen. Those who have never been at
Washington during a Session of Congress)
and been eye witnesses of what has actually
transpired, have no conception of the gross
misrepresentations with which these letters
almost exclusively abound, and their outra
geous perversions of the occurrences transpi
ring at the metropolis. As the authors oj
them write for pay, and, in most instances, for
violent partisan journals, the tone and matter
of these letters are regulated accordingly—
that is, the higher the price paid for them,
and the more violent the character of the pa
per for which they are indited, just in that
proportion are they seasoned with absolute
misrepresentations, gross perversions of facts,
and the most unjustifiable and unwarrantable
personal denunciations. Peruse these letters,
and if, in the Whig Journals, they contain the
most astounding and sclosures of frauds com
mitted by the Democracy—there is no talent
or patriotism except in the Whig ranks—in
Congress the Democratic members are bent
alone on mischief-—thwarting every honorable
purpose, and defeating every patriotic meas
ure—in deb,ite, uninterrupted streams of elo
quence flow from every Whig member, and
the most awful and withering castigations are
inflicted upon Democratic members whenever
they have the temerity to open their mouths*
Such men as Buchanan, Wright, Benton,
Woodbury, Calhoun, Ingersoll, and Jones of
Virginia, are used in such manner as really to
excite compassion among those who are un
fortunate enough to witness the terrible dem
olition, and even to extract “the tear of pity”
frofn foes who discern their writhings and con
tortions under the lash of Clay, Rives, Pres
ton, Mangum, Tallmadge, Botts, Stanley and
Cushing. Mr. Webster’s letter to Mr. Fox
is “the ablest State paper of modern times”—
and Mr. Ewing, in financial ability, is far supe
rior to Dallas and Gallatin.
That the Washington letters in the Demo
cratic Journals, are much more unexceptiona
ble, we do not assert, although we think we
hazard nothing in saying that they are not so
exclusive in claiming all the talent and all the
patriotism, as the Washington correspondence
of the other side. The Democratic letter
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writers, however, have less to answer for in
this matter, and do v.ery little, comparatively,
in misleading public opinion, and thus indu
cing erroneous conclusions respecting public
men and public measures, from the pauci'y of
their numbers. Scarcely a prominent Whig
Journal in the country, but has its letter wri
ter at Washington City, and as their Journals
abound in the large cities, and are supported
by the mercantile community, they are able
to engage these mercenary scribblers. Not
so with the Democratic Journals. They are
too few in number, and too restricted in
means, to incur so large an expenditure.
Now-, to any one who has* witnessed the
proceedings of Congress, and listened to the
debates, detailed, or pretended to be detailed
by the letter writers, their statements appear
absolutely ridiculous, and were it not for the
identity of dates and names and subjects)
would scarcely be recognized as applicable to
one proceeding or debate more than another.
And yet these letter writers, mercenary as they
are, have much to do in forming public opin
ion as to the respective merits or demerits of
public men and public measures. They are
generally men of talents and education, who,
by age or misfortune, have been driven to the
necessity of earning a subsistence in this
manner, and to execute their work in a man
ner acceptable to their employers, is their
only aim —and determining this by the vio
lence or mildness of the Journal for which
they write—and by its adherence to, or disre
gard for truth—thus and in such form pre
cisely are their communications framed. Be
jng, as we have remarked, men of education
and talents, they are able to give life and in
terest to their communications, as well by the
beauty of their style, as by the marvellousness
of their stories, the magnitude of their discov
eries, and their accurate and remarkable de
lineations of public men and public events :
“The truth is that letters from Washington
are getting rather below par. With an occa
sional exception they are all of the same
stamp —all cut and shaped after the same pat
tern. The writers of them are generally hire 1
to write for pay, and they will write for that
side which pays them best.. Their character
is getting as low as the speeches of many of
the members, and God knows they are low
enough, whether they are considered as pieces
of literary composition, or as records of pas
sing events. Take up a paper of either side in
politics and you will find that the Washington
Correspondents reflect the opinions of the
members as closely as the water reflects the
sky. Occasionally it is true, as in the case of
our friend Bob Long, every thing is distorted,
turned and twisted one way, all the views are
on one side only of the canvass, while the
other is scrupulously concealed from observa
tion, but this results from a species of politico
individual idiosyncracy, from a peculiarly ran
corous venom and bile with which some sys
tems are charged. When an intelligent man
of e.ther parly gets hold of such subjects as
these, it is and should be his invariable custom
to deduct a certain per centage from the wri
ter’s statements in order to get at the truth,
very much as the merchant subtracts from the
gross weight of a hogshead of sugar or box
of candles the tare of the cask or box in order
to arrive at the net weight of the article itself.
It is proper to state, however, that it is not
with tho box of candles as it is with the
speeches and letters. There is more illumin
ation and brilliancy in the former than the lat
ter. In the one the real material far out
weighs the tare, in the other the tares far out
weigh the wheat. The best way then to ar
rive at the truth as regards Congressional pro
ceedings is to read the reports of those pro
ceedings or to present your readers with a
synopsis ot them, which will enable them to
get at the lacts by a much shorter route.
Girard College. —Over a million, two
hundred thousand dollars have been expended
on the Girard College for the education of or
phans. Had Mr. Girard been his own execu
tor, and built the college himself, it would
have cost, building and grounds, some three
hundred thousand dollars, and the balance
would have been expended in a library, phil
osophical apparatus, and establishing a fund
to pay professors aJiberal salary. We sacri
fice too much in this country to appearances. In
every branch, in e . ery object, we Jose the sub
stance in grasping at the shadow.—New York
Times.
Castor Oil is manufactured m large quanti
ties in Illinois.
Correspondeice of die Charleston Courier.
WASHINGTON, July 2. (
The proceeungs of the Senate, yesterday,
were full of iiterest. Mr. Rives brought for
ward his ameidmentto the Fiscal Bank bill,
-in the words of the Treasury project, requir
ing the assent of the States to the establish
ment of branches. He supported the motion
in a very earsest and eloquent speech, advo
cating it as a compromise between those who,
wishing for a bank, had constitutional scruples
as to the power of Congress on the subject,
and those whe had no such scruples. The
amendment neither asserted nor deniad the
power to establish branches, without the as
sent of the States. It left the disputed
ground untouched, and, in practical effect,
could produce no injury. He still preferred
the State Bank system himself, but as there
was no chance fur that, he would, for the sake
of peace, for the sake of giving shelter and
repose to the interests of the country, em
brace the plan which the administration, upon
its responsibility and after mature deliberation,
had given us.
Mr. Clay opposed the amendment in the
most decided manner, denouncing it as mis
chievious aid unnecessary, and as a sacrifice
of an imporUat settled question to prejudices
which he believed to be confined to a small and
decreasing party in Virginia. lie did not be
lieve the President had indicated any opposi
tion to the kill before the Senate. The Sen
ate must prepare its measure without refer
ence to anj opinion that the President might
be dispose* to entertain ; and, if there should
be a differeixe between the legislative and the
executhe branch upon the bill, we must then
devise some new expedient.
Mr. Preston spoke, at length, in support of
the amendment of Mr. Rives.
Air. Merrick will probably speak on the
same side to-day.
Several other Senators of the whig side will
vote for Mr. Rives’ amendment. With the
aid of the loco-foco Senators the amendment
must prevail. The bill cannot pass in the
form proposed by Mr. Clay.
In the flousej Mr. Barnard, in reply to a
question proposed to him as chairman of the
J udiciary Committee, stated that the commit
tee would report a general bankrupt bill in
time lor the action of Congress at this ses
sion.
.Fiom the Charleston Courier.
Washington, June 30.
Another project for a fiscal agent was pre*
sented to day by Mr. Adams* It is the plan
of Mr. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, for
an “exchequer of issues,” with a capital of
fifty millions, two-fifths to be taken by the
government. It was referred to the select
committee on the currency.
Some petitions for and against a National
Bank were presented and referred ; also
many petitions for a general bankrupt law.
The discussion of the bill for distributing
the proceeds of the sales ot the public lands
was continued in Committee of the Whole.—
Mr. W. Cost Johnson concluded his intro
ductory remarks in support of the bill. He
contended that the lands were the property of
the States tor whose benefit they were ceded
or acquired; that the States now needed and
ought to have the revenue arising from them;
that the general Government could do with
out it, and would benefit the tobacco interest
and grain growing interest of tho Union by
imposing duties on foreign luxuries.
Mr. Clifford, of Maine, who opposed the
bill, contended, on the other hand, that the
revenue for some time to come, including that
from the lands, would be but barely adequate
to the wants of an economical administration;
that the proposition of making up the loss of
the revenue from the lands by duties on luxu
ries, was delusive ; that the duty of twenty
per cent, on wines and silks would not amount
to half the sum proposed to be abstracted from
the revenue ; but tha‘, if this bill passed, the
deficiency must be made up in one of three
ways, viz: by a duty of-twenty percent, ad
valorem or. the necessaries of life—such as
tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, salt, &c. which
proposition was now before the Committee of
Ways and Means, by a permanent and annu
ally increasing national debt; or by a resort
to a high protective tariff lie also disputed
the constitutionality of the bill, as it was an
absolute grant of money in the Treasury to
the States, not the payment of a debt. The
lands were indebted to tire government some
ten millions over and above all the sums that
had been received from them, lie denied its
expediency, too, inasmuch as it would not
benelit the States —taking from them in taxes
more than it gave them.
The debate will be continued to-day. The
House is already weary of it. The two
speeches have presented all the arguments
pro and contra, and it is to be hoped the House
will act upon it speedily.
The Senate was engaged in maturing the
details of the bank bill. Mr. Clay offered a
number of amendments, which were discussed
and disposed of. He moved to strike out that
part of the 18th section which restricts the
bank from discounting when its circulation
shall exceed three times the amouqt of the
specie in its vaults. He thought the restric
tion useless. But Mr. Walker, Mr. Buchanan
and Mr. Woodbury opposed the motion on
the ground that it would tempt the bank to
expand the currency too much, and the mo
tion was modih’ed so as to leave the section
pretty much as it was.
Mr. Clay will offer other amendments to
day.
The weather has become excessively hot
again.
Quick transportation of Goods. — We
are mlormed that a gentleman leli tins city on
the afternoon of Thursday week, at 4 P. M.,
on one of the boats of the Steamboat Compa
ny ol Georgia, with Goods for Cass County,
and on Saturday liiglil lie had arrived at
Madison, in Morgan’ciunty, the end of the
Georgia Rail Road, with his goods, having
performed the distance, 850 miles (250 up
ilie Savannah river and 100 miles by rail
road) in about 50 hours —besides lauding and
trans-shiping the goods at Augusta.
Twenty live years ago a large portion of
Nortli Carolina and Tennessee received their
goods through tins place—subject then to 20
days passage up the river by pole boats, and
two weeks of delay in Augusta —besides a
wagon conveyance of upwards ol 390 miles
over the mountains, consuming over 20 days
a,ore. When the Rail Road shall have been
completed to the l.ne ol those Stales, who can
doubt that a much larger portion ol both
States will obtain their supplies through Sa
vannah—with the facilities now offered bv
steam, in preference to wagon conveyance
from Baltimore of 300 miles, by which they
are now supplied—tror will another advan
tage offered bv the Steam Boats from Savan
nah be overlookedwhen that time shall arrive,
viz: That whole lots of goods can be taken
at one time I v them to Augusta, to be shipped
thence by rail road in small parcels, where
necessity requires it—not being liable to the
delay which is inseparable trom rail roads,
caused by the necessity of -shipping in small
parcels, so that weeks sometimes elapse before
an entire lot of goons can be transported, as
must always t>e the case from Charleston to
Augusta—Savannah Georgian, June 29.
Boston, the Greatest Cotton Market.
—'The Daily Advertiser claims for Boston the
title of the Great Cotton Market of the Union,
as she imported in 1540, 136,000 bales, being
a larger quantity than was received at any oth
er nor t. The estimated receipt of 1841, is
150,000 halos.
Remedy for Kicking Cows.—-V bed cord
drawn tightly over the loins of cows, in front
of the udder, it is said, will cause them to give
down their nrdk, and also prevent their kick
ing.
Crops in Georgia. —We have noticed sev
eral publications in various parts of the coun
try respecting our crops. So far as we have
been able to learn from others, we think they
are in many respects incorrect—particularly
with regard to cotton.
The cotton plant generally presents a rea
sonable prospect (or a middle crop, nothing
favourable for a large one. Considerable in
jury has been sustained by the late and cold
spring, and sort'cliiing from lice. At ibis
time, the plant appears to be thriving,
tbrought ut the Slate, and the season is favor
able to its growth.
The corn crop generally presents a very
flattering prospect, Should the season prove
as lavorable lor it lor a month to come as at
present, it will be a large one.
The crop of oats has been but middling in
the aggregate —but in some places it is good.
What, in many parts has been good —in
others but moderate —but altogether it is suffi
cient to supply the demand for domestic con
sumption. It has been harvested generally in
good condition.
Fruits, such as apples peaches; &tc. will be
plenty.
If we could add that the hog crop was in as
good cond lion as the others, Georgia would
be quite independent in the provision line, tor
he next year. We, however, think it was on
the march ofimprovement, and that our plan
ters will shortly relieve us in that respect, Irorn
one of the most formidable and injurious
drains that has ever existed in our specie cap
tal. To their neglect ofduty to themselves and
their State, is-a great part ofour present dis
tress in money matters chargeable. Who
among us that docs not recollect the wolfish
looking set of customers about our taverns at
the time of the late resumption of specie pay
ment? They were mostly hog and mule dro
vers from otiier Slates, and a vast amount of
our specie was carried off by them to parts
with which we have no reciprocity in trade.
1 1 is with our farmers to correct this evil; and
the State will never prosper until they do
their duty.—Macon Messenger of Thursday.
FIEST VOLUME OF CHARLES O’MALLEY. —
We have printed in four Extra Quarto New
Worlds in style suitable for binding with the
volume which concludes next week, viz: the
present volume, the whole of the first volume
of Charles O’Malley. It is new ready for de
livery. All these numbers, together with an
other extra number, containing three parts of
the second volume and the number for Jan.
12, containing the fourth part, will be sent
gratui ottsly jt) all new subscribers who will
send us $3 for one year, or $0 for two years ;
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To preserve: hams from flies. —For a
score of hams, take about 3 quarts of salt 1
pint of molasses, l-4thofa pound of black
pepper, and 2 ounces of salt petre pulverized;
mix well together; lay the hams on a table
with the rind downwards; rub the mixture
over them with the hand, take care to apply it
to every part where there is no rind; let them
lay a week, and rub them over with clean salt,
which continue once a week for four or six
weeks, according to the size of the hams; and
they are ready to smoke; or if you choose af
ter the mixture is sufficiently struck in, put
them into brine for two or three weeks and
smoke; and when smoked, hang them in a dry
place. We hang ours in the garret, where
they will keep ail summer, secure from flies.
When a ham is cut for use, hang it or lay it
where you please, the flies will not touch it.—
We have practiced this method for several
years, and have no reason to abandon it.
We have fed our milch cows about a pcckof
carrots per day 7 each, through the winter,
and the butter is as yellow as that made in
summer, and equally good.
Great improvement have been made in swine
in this section by the introduction of the Berk
shires. We fatted 12 pigs last fall, (about nine
months old when killed;) average weight
200 lbs. of potatoes cooked in a cauldron ket
tle and meal mixed in—the right kind of food
for hogs now-a-days.—Farmers’ Cabinet.
D. G. MOSHER.
From the N. Orleans Bulletin.
By the Savannah, arrived yesterday, we
have Texas papers to the 19 th.
Accounts from all sections of the Republic
give favorable reports of the growing crops.
The produce of the year, says the Civilian,
will be immense, and we have nothing before
us but the prospect of peace, plenty, and in
creasing wealth. If the people would only
learn to depend upon their own l.bor, they
would have nothing to fear.
The same paper says it appears by letters
from Bexar that Arista is determined to resist
Santa Anna, should he be elected President of
Mexico, as is now probable. It is even report
ed that lie has sent commissioners to Bexar to
negotiate for opening a trade between North
ern Mexico and Texas, and to solicit the aid
of Texas in an expedition against the Cornan
ches.
The rumored failure of the Texas Ivan in
Paris created iess uneasiness than would have
been supposed. The papers generally do not
regret the failure. The Civilian thinks four
thousand men, u no would cultivate the soil,
would be of more advantage to the country
than ail the money hoped for from the French
loan ; and proposes, as an amendment to the
law, lhat the commissioners he authorized to
contract for 5,000 able bodied emigrants, who
will cultivate the soil, instead o! the 5.000,000
of dollars.
In Houston on the lGtJi the mercury rose to
92 degrees of Fahrenheit.
Come Back. — It is stated in the Western
(Tenn.) Review that several of the gentlemen
from the United States, employed by the Bri
tish government to instruct the natives of In
dia in the cultivation of cotton, have returned
home. They complain of the climate and its
diseases, and have nc faith in the enterprise ol
cotton growing in that region.
To take Ink out of Linen. —Take a piece
of mould candle, or common candle will do
nearly as well, melt it, and dip the spotted
part of the linen into the melted tallow, k
may then be washed, and the spots will disap
pear without injuring the linen.
The Washington correspondent of the Sa
vannah Georgian, under date of June 19th,
writes—
“ About three hundred nominations are now
before the Senate. Most ot them consist ol
those persons appointed to office previous to
the death of Gen. Harrison. Some tew addi
tions have been lately made, to tin up remo
vals ; among the latter, I may note the com
missioner ot Indian Affairs, 1. 11- Crawford,
Esq , who gives place to Mr. McKenney, ior
merlv in the same place; Mr. Whitcomb,
Commissioner ot tiie Land Office, who gives
way to Mr. Huntington, ot Indiana. Ine
city Post Master, Ur. GrenneiJ, is also to be
removed, and Ur. Vv . Jones, a lormer incum
bent, will be reinstated. Mr. Fendall is to be
the District Attorney, vice Mr. Key, removed.
Several changes are expected in ! oreign Con
sulships, for which offices there are hordes o!
applicants. Such are the inquisitorial proce
di ngs of the Whigs, however, that little or
nothing is suffered to he knownyii their move
ments.
The Madisonian says that a report was cur
rent in Washington that Gen- Scott was, on
Tuesday, nominated by the President to he
General in Chief ol the United States Army,
m place of General Macomb, deceased.
New \of.k City.— The number of buil
dings in the compact of the city of New York
is 32,116; of which there are used as brewe
ries, distilleries, tanneries, and the like, 49, as
dwelling houses exclusively, 16,453 ; as dwel
ling with shops, 6,614 ; as stores and offices
exclusively, 3,855, as taverns and private
boarding houses, 736 ; as baths, 9 ; as F?.cto
ries, with engines equal to 1,100 horsepower,
1 74 :as large factories with labor-saving power,
172 ; as private stables, 2,603 ; as livery sta
j hies. 57; miscellaneous, 1,355.
The valuation of the real estate in the city,
las corrected by the Board of Supervisors in
1 1840, $187,222,714;- and of personal estate,
$65,013,801. Aggregate, $252,235,515.
From 1810 to 1841, the Corporation has ex
pended, for o'pen mg, widening, and improving
streets, &c., $3,277,317.
The total amount derived from the city by
the state, from auction duties, from 1816 to
1810, inclusive, is $4,249 527.
From Lord Jacobyn’s ‘ Six Months with the Cli nese
Expedition.”
FIRST IMPRESSION OF A EUROPEAN ON
ENTERING TINGIIAI.
The ramparts were found strewed with
pikes, match-locks, and a species ot fire-rocket,
arrow-headed; and on the parapets, packets
of quic k-lime were packed up, to blind Ihe
eyes of the barbarians, had they endeavored
to mount the walls. The main street was
nearly deserted, except here and there, where
the frightened people were performing the
kow-tow as we passed. On most oi the hous
es was placarded “Spare our lives;’’ and on
entering the jos-houses were seen men, wo
men and children, on their knees, bunting in
cense to their gods; and, although protection
was promised them, their dread appeared in
no manner relieved. Many were posting
down the back lanes into the country with
their spoil, for we afterwards found the goads
principally carried away were taken by plun
dering natives, not by the legitimate owners.
At last we catne to the Chumpinls house ; the
gates leading to the entrance yard were paint
ed with huge ungainly figures denoting they
said, J ustice and Punishment. On one side
was the Room of Justice, and thumb screws
and rattans were seen lying abouL 1 lie path
to the inner apartment called the Hall of An
cestors. lay through an open court, round
which were the offices of the government
clerks. Home letters and pipers half finished,
showed the haste with which they had evacu
j ated the town, Passing through the court we
entered a guard house, which led again to a
trelised walk, at the south end of winch was
the hail. Here, on the couches, wore the
pipes half smoked, and the little cups filled
wj'h untasted tea; cloaks, mandaciii’s caps
and swords lay about in confusion. Following
up our research, we at last came to the apart
ments of the ladies ; these rooms were curi
ously furnished, and strewed with cloths of
all descriptions and for all purposes. Hilks,
fans, china, little shoes, crutches, and paint
pots, the articles of a Chinese lady’s toilette,
Jay tossed in a sad and telltale melee; and
many of these fairy shoes were appropriated
by us as lawful loot (plunder.) ‘The streets
are narrow, and many of the houses dry rubbed,
and polished outside, but the roofs are the most
picturesque part of the buildings. Many of
the respectable houses have pretty gardens
attached to them, with a high wall shutting
Them out entirely from the town. The interior
of some of the houses were found beautifully
furnished and carved ; one that is now inhab
ited by the Governor, and believed to be the
property of a literary character,was when first
opened, the wonder and admiration of all.
‘1 he different apartments open round the cen
tre court, which is neatly filled ; the doors,
window frames, and pillars that support the
pent roof are carved in the most chaste and
delicate styles, and the interior of the cei'ing
and wainscoat ; re lined with fret-work, which
it must have required the greatest nicety and
care to have executed.
The furniture was in the same keeping, dc
-1 noting a degree of taste the Chinese have not,
in general, credit for with its. The bed places,
in tiie sleeping apartments of the ladies, were
large dormitories, for they can hardly be called
bods ; at one.corner of the room is a separate
chamber, about eight feet square and the same
in height: the exterior of tins is usually paint
ed red, carved and gilt; the entrance is through
a circular aperture, three feet in diameter, with
sliding pamiels ; in the interior is a couch of
large propoitions covered with a soft mat and
lliick curtains of mandarin silk ; the inside ol
the beds is polished and painted, and a little
chair and table are the remaining furniture- of
this extraordinary dormitory.
Many of the public buildings excited great
astonishment among those wh ) fancied they
were in a half-barbarous country. Their pub
lic arsenals were found stocked with weapons
of every description, placed with the greatest
neatness and regularity in their d.fferent com
partments ; the clothes for the soldiers were ,
likewise tickettcd, labelled, and packed in j
large presses; and the arrows, which, from j
t e;rs;ze and strength, drew particular atten
tion, were carefully and separately arranged.
To each arsenal is attached a fire engine,
similar to those used in our own country.
The government pawnbroker’s shop was also
a source of m erest; in it were found dresses
and articles of every kind, evidently things
belonging to the upper as well as the lower
classes, lor many of the furs here taken were
of valuable descriptions; each article had the
owner’s name attached, and the date of its
being pawned; this is another of the plans of
the local government for raising their supplies.
At the outskirts of the town they have cs- !
tablished a bayaar, and built a jos-hou.se, or
temple, which at the time of our arrival was
scarcely finished. Home of the carving of the
wood work in and around the building is beau
tiful, and cut with great taste and care ; but
the huge, ungainly figures of devils and dra
gons, which stand in threatening attitudes
around the altars, give a grotesque appearance
to a place of worship that is found in no oilier J
religion but the Buddhs. Placed between a j
blue and red devil, standing upwards of six |
feet high, sits the figure of the Queen ol ’
Heaven, a gilded image richly drer sed in em-1
broidered China silks ; this seemed to be the !
real object of their adoration ; whilst, on a ;
high carved altar, in front were sticks of in- !
cense burning in little pots tided with earth.,
The exterior of the building was tiled with 1
green and blue porcelain, and the edges of!
the roof ornamented with carving in the shape !
of animals, mont ter:, and flowers ; each gable :
end curling upward.-, was deeply cut like the :
cornice work upon a Grecian pillar; and the j
whole, from the varied and guady coloring,;
and the high p-lisb, had a novel and pleasing
effect to the eye. Hince J have seen many of the ■
houses and temples of the Chinese, the paint
-011 the old china imported into England, struck 1
me as the best delineation of the buildings
and figures ol these extraordinary people; and
it is wonderful how correct they are in the j
main features.
7 he Ohio Decision.— The Kentucky Ob
server and Reporter makes the following ju
dicious and sensible remarks upon the late m
iarnous decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio
in the slave case :
‘ It seems to be ascertained that the frst
version ol the decision of the Supreme Court
of Ohio is correct. It is so pronounced by
the press of Ohio, and, as such, is praised and
vindicated. We ask our readers to bear it
in mind, and ponder upon its momentous re
sults. A cilizrti of Kentucky, by carrying
his slave to Ohio, 100-es him! He cannot
travel to Washington upon the National Road,
which he has been taxed to make, without
having the servant, who accompanies him,
taken from him!! His political vision must
be dull, indeed, who does not perceive, in this
most extraordinary decision, the germ of dis
solution. England, we admit, asserts this
principle, and she has a right to assert it; but
if Ohio means-to say that she stands in itid
same relation to us that Gicat Biitain does,
it is time to let us know it. It is time that
Kentucky should exert her own constitutional
energies lor her own preservation.”
From the Liberia [At'ncuJ Luminary.
’ Coffee Cultivation. —We lately visited
the colice lots of the Hon. S. Benedict of this
place, and were much pleased to find that
this gentleman is setting a praise worthy ex
ample to all Liberians, in his successful labors
at cultivating the coffee tree. The Judge
has in all seven and a fourth acres of la ml de
voted to coffee plantation, lie is the only
person in town or county, who has paid
much attention to the subject; and we are
heartily glad to find that he is likely to be
crowned with abundant success. On one lot
we counted seventy trees, averaging ten feet
i t height, on another, one hundred trees aver
aging six leet high ; and on another, lour
hundred trees averaging seven leet in height.
The above trees are all bearing at this time ;
many of them are literally loaded down with
collee. Ti.ere is also another lot of 5460
younger trees, averaging two years old,
which have recently been transplanted and
are doing well. These will commence to
produce in about two years. This last lot of
trees was not raised Irom the seed, but gath
ered from the surrounding woods, where they
grow wild (for the coflee tree is indigenous
here) at an average expense of one cent lor
every tree.
The coffee tree is long-lived, and grows to’
the height of twenty feet and tipwaid; and
the collee produced in Liberia is decidedly
superior to anv that we have ever known
produced in any other land. The climate
and soil is the finest in the world !i>r the cul
tivation of coffee. If others would go and do
likewise, in a few years Monrovia would ex
port annually her tens of thousands of coflee.
The Boston Times, a Whig paper, speak
ing of the Buckeye Blacksmith, says :
“We wer e exceeding serry to learn tin t
President Tyler had appointed this notorious
fellow to an Indian Agency in Sandusky, (>.
During the Presidential canvass he labored in*
his vile vocation, industriously enough, we
have no doubt ; but he received his wages as
lie went along , and when the party that used
him, had no further need of Ins services, lie
should have been consigned to his original
and merited obscurity. Such appointments’
as t hat of L>e!a Badger, of Philadelphia, ol this
Baer, and some half dozen others we could
mention, will not increase the popularity of
the Executive. We were promised a year
ago a different policy.
The N. York Herald speaking of the recent
travels of Mr. Stephens in Central America,-
remarks,
By the following acbount he must have been
repaid for all his troubles, when, from tlie ’
summit of the Volcano of Caitngo he had a 1
View of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at
the same moment.
The lofty point on wh ; ch we stood was per
fectly clear,-the atmosphere was of transparent
purity, and looking beyond the region of des
olation, below us, at a distance of perhaps ti\G*
thousand feet, the whole country was covered
with clouds, and the city at the foot of the
volcano was invisible. By degrees the more
distant clouds were lifted, and over the im-‘
tnense bed we saw at the same moment the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: Thffi was the’
grand spectacle we had hoped, hut scarcely
expected to behold: My companions had as
cended the volcano several times, - but on ac-*
count of the clouds had only seen the two’
seas once before. The points at which they
were visible were the gulf of Nicoya and the’
harbor of San Juan,-not directly opposite, but
nearly at right angles to each other, so that
we saw them without turning the body. In a’
right line over the tops’of the mountains nei
ther was more than twenty miles distant, and 1
from the great height at vihich wd stood they
seemed almost at our feet. • It is th'6 only
point in the world which commands a view of
the two seas ; and I ranked the sight, with 1
those most interesting occasions, - when from’
ihe top of Mount Sinai I looked out upon the’
Desert of Arabia, and from Mount Hor I saw
the Dead Sea-
Front the Savannah Republican, June 26.
FLORIDA.
The St. Augustine Herald states that the
whole party of Co-a-coo-chec, (Wild Cat,) 21
warriors, had only three ounces of powder iw
(heir horns. Among the IS taken by Col.
Childs, there was only one ounce.
The following items are extracted from the
St Augustine News of the 18th instant:
There is thought to be every security new
by some, in this neighborhood, because Whirl
Cat is out of the way. This may lead to at
neglect of proper caution. Sam Grass, the
sub-oltief of his party, is a bold and daring
lellow, and knows well the country; and
watchfulness on the part of the citizen and
traveller is still requisite as heretofore.
A man named Harrison, was bro. ght in yes
terday Morning from Pilatka, and lodged in
prison, for the nmrder of his wife, at that place.
A soldier of “K” Company, 3d Artillery,
named Hill, fell from the parapet of Fort Ma
rion, on the 15:h infit. and broke his leg, and
was otherwise severely injured.
Nathan Seargent, Esq , (J. S. Timber Ageu‘,
arrived here on Monday last, and has entered
on the duties of his office.
Commencement of the Randolph Macon
College. —This took place on the 6th ult.—
The exercises we learn, were of a highly in
teresting character, sustaining fully, the well
earned reputation of this Institution for sound
intellectual training and thorough scholarship.
The degree of A. I>. was conferred upon the
following gentlemen, who composed the grad,
uating class .
T. S. Arthur, of Cokesbury, S. C., W. 11.
Bass, of Powhatan, Va., T. If. Campbell, of
; Nottaway, Va.„ \V. Denton, of Laurens, H.
C., W. \V. Hereford, of Pontotoc, Miss., T.
B. Gordon, of Gwinnett, Ga, R. C. Gilliam, of
Abbeville, S. C.:. B.G. Jones, of Mecklenbuig,
Va.; ii. 1 • Jones, of Franklin, N. C, TANARUS, H.
Jones, of Gloucester, Va, M. Stanley, of La
Grange, Ga., S. B. Scott, of Prince Edward,
V a., E. VVadswcrt h, of the Virginia Conference
and O. P. W illiams, of Beaufort, S. C.
The degree of A. M. was conferred on the
following Alumni of the College. T. S. Stew
art.. M. D. of Ga., Rev. J. ‘J'. Brauie, of the
North Carolina Conference., J. M. Fitts, of N,
C ‘E. A. Blanche, of Va., JI. E. Lockett, of
Va., C. W. Beard, of S. C., Rev. E. 11. Myers,
of the Ga. Conference, and Rev. Prof. G. W.
Blain, of tho Female Collegiate Institute, Vir
ginia.
The Rev. Prof. Sitns, passed through ibis
city last week in good health, on his way la
New York.—Christain Advocate, 2d inst.
Lord Sydenham announces the determina
tion of the home Government to devote an
nually a large sum tor the military defence of
the province—and emphatically declares tho
fixed determination of the Queen to maintain
her North American possessions at all hazards.
Mitchell— The New York Express says :
Amonwst the bill* found are two against C. F.
Mitchell, late honorable, for forgery in the
third degree; one bill for a similar offence
| hiving been fjund at the former term of the
court —making thiee distinct indictments for
forgery against him. There is one other com
plaint still pending against this fallen dignita
ry, which will probably be laid beforo the next
grand jury.
“ What’s that you’ve got in your hand, mY
lore 1,” said an old lady to her daughter, the
other day.
“ It’s a billy-dux, ma”, lisped Miss Sophro
nia.
“ Daughter !” said the ancient matron,
drawing herself up with much dignity, “call
them things William-dux in future —Billy is
vulgar.”