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From the Federal Union.
TIIE CENTRAL BANK.
The opinions long since entertained and
expressed by us, in relation to this Institution
mill the currency of its bills; we are “ratified
to find are beginning to be sanctioned by pub
lic sentiment pretty generally throughout the
State. Even those who doubted and opposed
the credit of her issues are convinced and feel
the necessity of sustaining the Central Bank
bills as superior to any others in circulation.
We have always believed and contended
that the Central Bank was the safest and best
Institution in the Stale, and the only one in
which t he people of every county are interest
ed in sustaining its credit. It is now the only
ouc in the Stale which ihe people have entire
confidence in the solvency of, and of the per
fect security of the holder of Bank bills.
The late failures, frauds and mismanage
ment of the chartered monopolies have called
the attention of the people more immediately
and interestedly to the security they have in
the bills of banks ; this with the great scarci
ty of money of any kind and their necessities
for a sound circulating medium suited to the
circumstances which surround them and an
swering the purpose of discharging their do
mestic liabilities make every one anxious to
obtain and support the credit of the bills of
this State. No bills go so well in every part
of the State, none answer a better purpose—
(the bills of specie paying banks excepted and
of which there are now comparatively none in
circulation.) Not an individual now can be
found scarcely who does not consider Central
Bank hills the best to be had in the country.
Why is it so; It is BECAUSE THERE
CAN BE NO SUCH THING AS A FAIL
URE (> •’ THE CENTRAL BANK TO
REDEEM ITS CIRCULATION. Its hills
are always good and there can lie no danger
ol insolvency. They are issued by the State.
While there exists a government in Georg ia
and the lands and rivers and mountains re
mains,- with a population to support and main
tain that government by their taxes or other
sources of revenue the holder of the bills of
the Central Bank is safe, and he can rest con
fident of the redemption of his debt. The
bills are now good and will continue good and
current as long as Georgia is a State, and they
are in circulation. Unlike the bills of oilier
Banks the time never can come when they
need be folded and lain closely away, to wait
the resurrection of the credit and repairs of
the property of broken insolvent stockholders
and officers. Their channels for circulation
to be paid or passed at par value, are open and
and will always afford under any circumstan
ces a medium by which they may be kept a
going and in credit.
When a chartered bank fails either by mis
management or fraud there are but few of its
stockholders or debtors interested in paying its
liabilities, and the bill holders prospect is a
slim one ; if be gets any thing tit ail it is only
that which lie is compelled to take* or nothing,
at the option of those who buy iu their liabili
ties for thousands by the payment of a few
cents. Not so with the Central Bank, she
can neither fail anil become insolvent,- irre
deemably by traud, or mismanagement. Her
stock holder is the Stale, and her debtors the
people of the State, neither of whom are in
tcrested or can so redeem their liabilities at
the expense of the holder ot her bills. The
resources of the Central Bank arc and will
over be as available as any haul; we have, now
a days, for the redemption ot its bills. Not
withstanding the clamor and bustle made by
its enemies some short time back when the
other banks were in better credit, over their
ability to pay and the convertibility ot their
funds'into specie, and the itke with denuncia
tions against this Institution as being insolvent
and holding nothing but notes on “Bom, Dick
and Harry?’ ail over the State with which to
redeem her issues. How stands the case
now ! why just as we said ; and believed be
fore, that these boasted chartered corporations
whose hills were proclaimed to be so much
better and so much more readily and promptly
convertible into specie because of their sol
vency and available assets have really neither
the notes of the people, other than of then
own stockholders, directors and a lew lavontes
among the broken cotton speculators, or any
other means to redeem their bills in the hands
of the community. But tne Central Bank still
has her same kind ot assets and notes on the
people of every county, well endorsed, and
t he revenues of the State of every description
w ith which to pay her bills and furnish the
holders of them ample security lor their re
demption at par value.
How many are there in the State who wore
opposed to the Central Bank, misled by party
prejudice, or deceived by the cunningly de
vised falsehoods of its enemies and designing
politicians, who are now convinced of their
error, and satisfied of the deceptions practised
upon them ? Will they still let such teelmgs
ami such men govern their future course and
suppress an open avowal of their preference
Gr tit s Institution. W iiy should an\ man
, i Kt . interest, his patriotism, his judgment
pad ifis s > i-e of honor, to a blind zeal in the
?;:i?iort <> a party or faction who war against
r -.Uon a i against truth—and the character
and imp -V o. ,-f b S ate. Is not the Central
jj, ,g a >; ... * 1,-, pui ion, does she not own its
vi ido , :.i.t,i: ! ;;>■■■ - not all men of Georgia’
w;io her V one pu'v or the other, alike inter
ce-i l. ami ii u t" : < i, directly responsible for
the honor c the 8 a e and the credit of her
Institution •’ d-as it not perform its otiices for
t:ic wind • iomiie n cii u: distinction of party 1
l) >e- not .orV countv have dealt out to it the
ea me benefit u ih o hers in like manner and
Mjpt -r *bp 3j:ii r “C* r i'o’- -pa and regulations,
THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
VOLUME I.]
independent of, and unconnected with any
party interests or feelings either local or gen
eral ? The troth is : there has l>een and will
continue to be a struggle with the chartered
hanks and the aristocratic portion of the peo
ple to prostrate the Central Bank as being an
obstacle an l a great barrier to their power
and influence in the State. And for these
reasons we may expect every effort to be made
to make the bank objectionable to the people.
\\ ith those who are led and prejudiced against
it by the feelings and mists which party en
genders, the dupes of the more designing, for
getful or ignorant of their own interests, not
much hope may be entertained that they wifi
now long remain opposed and blinded by par
tisans.
Pay day has arrived in some of the coun
ties, and every week brings due anew set
of notes which were discounted at the Cen
tral Bank last year. No money can now be
loaned by the bank for the accommodation of
those who are needy in every county, and did
not then get it, though great relief was afford
ed and the benefit is yet felt from the bills
then put in circulation. They are now in
demand every where because they will an
swer to pay “ Torn, Dick and Harry’s ” notes
which the bank holds as ‘.veil as the others
she took when she leaned the SEVEN HUN
DRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS, twelve months ago—the bills of other
banks will not do. They are also the ready
every where now, that the Tax Collectors are
flying around an’- 1 , pouncing upon every one
lor the heavy DOUBLE TAX imposed by
the act of the last session. These Collectors
must have specie or bills of specie paying
banks, either of them just now equally scarce
—or else they must be paid in Central Bank
notes, which, wi*h them, are made equal to
specie in payment of Taxes. The debtors to
the bank and others holding dues to be set
tled at the State Treasury, in any shape,
whether friends or enemies of the bank, and
of such there are not a few in every county,
all find it very convenient to have Central
Bank bills to pay with, and are not particular
to refuse receiving them just now lest they
be troubled for the want of such funds—and
this will be the case as long, from year to
year, as these debts are to settle and tlieso
dues are to be collected. When will the time
come that the people will not be required to
pay taxes ? Never !
What would be the condition of the people
had the Central Bank no bills in circulation,
and had she not loaned’ the money she did
last year? What bank notes could they get
-—or where would they procure the specie to
pay their taxes and the debts due by them to
the State and to each other. Do not, all these
facts show that this is the best, the safest
bank in the State, and the only one which has
benefitted the whole people—the one which
is beer calculated to promote the interest and
happiness of all, and to supply a circulating
medium in which confidence can be placed in
times like these, when distress and scarcity
of money overshadows every section with
alarm and dread of ruin at the hands of credi
tors. ]u it there can be no want of confidence
with any, and now it is that the people want
the bills of such an institution. Where cre
dit and confidence alone can enable a bank to
keep out a circulation to relieve, and discharge
debt upon debt, and perform all the offices of
money.
Where art tbe hundreds of persons who
opposed the Central Bank’s making a loan
last year, who were its bitter enemies, yet
who came forward, borrowed its money and
were relieved, many of them, from the sher
iff's hammer. Those who cursed and abused
tiie bank, yet manifested their confidence liy
borrowing its bills, are they still to be found
abusing and censuring it, in order to keep
pace with their party and lend aid to the op
ponents of relief and the advocates of meas
ures calculated to aid the people in their dis
tress. Their efibrts to depreciate the Central
Bank bills and the credit of the State, have
failed; whether it was for party purposes, or
from a hope to buy themselves out of debt.
Its notes are above par with most of the other
banks, and the payments making to the State
are already diminishing its circulation so
much as to be felt in every county. It will
soon be tbe best and the only currency the
people of Georgia will have in circulation
among them. How times change and things
vary. This time last year, the whole cry of
our opponents was made up of abuse and de
nunciation against the Central Bank, the
State’s debt of three hundred thousand dol
lars, &c. &c. The bills of the Bank are in
circulation, their credit improving, and the
people glad to get them—tiie State debt ar
ranged for—nil curses cease. The tongues
of its enemies cleaved to the roofs of their
mouths—they are silent as a clock without a
1 pendulum, but their venom is of the most
bitter and rancorous kind. They swell, but
fear to burst, lest it may poison themselves.
They have not yet shed off their tattered
scales and skins, and fear to move lest they
be killed and prevented from thrusting their
vitupr'ous fangs secretly into the vitals, and
thereby destroy the institution.
The friends of relief, and the supporters of
McDonald for Governor are the advocates of
the relief message and of the Central Btnk
It is for his proposition to relieve th 6 people,
that his enemies attempt to defeat the re
election of Governor McDonald. lie is de
clared by them to be in favor of the Central
Bank, iiis enemies oppose this institution,
and they condemn his relief message. His
j friends are proud to claim him as tiie candi
j date of the advocates of relief and of the Cen
i tral Bank, while they solicit the support of
’ Central Bank men and relief men every
; where, in opposition to the candidate of tiie
’ Whigs, Mr. Dawson, who, and his warmest
j advocates, are alike opposed to this instituiion.
j and have said, “they would not if they could
! relieve the people.” Let the people look to
j their interest. Let no man be deceived.
The question in the coming contest for Go
! vernor and the Legislature is, Vv ill you elect
j Dawson for Governor, who is opposed to the
j bank, and his friends to the Legislature who
’ tire opposed to the relief of the people, and
j desire to destroy this institution and put out
your notes to be sued by chartered bank A: or
; will you rather choose McDonald, who is
I your friend, the advocate of relief, as well as
1 the supporter of tiie bank, and will with his
! friends go for your interest in relation to both
these important measures.
From the Charleston Mcrcurv.
TO “A CHARLESTONIAN.”
Sir —l have noticed with tee hugs of min
gled pride and hope, the patriotic efforts that
you are making to draw public attention to
the advantages of a direct communication with
Great Britain by steam navigation. I hope
that the day is not distant when your sound
and patriotic views will meet a full fruition,
and the city of Charleston and the whole
South reap from their practical developement,
a rich harvest of Commercial and Agricultu
ral prosperity. 1 would say God speed to the
good work, and 1 hope one day to see your
name identified with it, as the greatest South
ern and Anti-Tariff work that has ever been
undertaken.
Will the South submit to a Tariff of pro
tection, when by the aid of steam hulls and
rail roads, her plantations will be brought
nearer to those who pay most tor our cotton,
and expect least fur their manufactures ?
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1811.
Look at the following facts—tliev were writ
ten some months ago, but principles are not
changed by time. At the present moment the
highest price of upland cotton in the Liver
pool market is 7if per lb. or ISc oo
I’d which must be added 8 per cent
for the difference between our ar
bitrary par of 4-G and the real par 104
This will make the price 14 04
Making 14c. per lb. At this same
moment the highest price of Cot
ton in Columbus, Georgia, is 7
3-4 c. per lb. from which must be
deducted 10 per cent for the de
preciated character of that cur
rency as compared with the cur
rency of Liverpool, this will a
mount ic 3.4 00
And leaves at the true price at Co
lumbus 7c. per lb.
It follows then that while the Manchester
consumer of cotton pa) r s from 12 to 1 4e. for
the raw cotton, in the precise state in which
it leaves the hand of the planter, the grower
ot this same cotton, if he reside in the neigh
borhood of Columbus, gets but 0 to 7c. pet
lb. out of the 12 or 11c. thus paid by the con
sumer. On the other hand a yard of printed
cotton calico (which weighs by the bye only
2 oz.) sells in Manchester for Gd. to which
must be added Bd. for exchange, so that the
actual cost in the currency of this country is
G l-2d. or J2c. per yard. This identical arti
cle sells in Columbus to the planter who
raised the Cotton that produced it at 36c. per
yard.
Now if we deduct from the price of cotton
in Liverpool (11) tiie price received by the
planter iu Columbus (7c.) the difference
which is Bc. per lb. or 100 per cent, on the
Columbus price, shews what the planter pays
in the shape of charges to get his cotton car
ried to Liverpool and sold lor him—and if we
deduct from the price paid for calico in Co
lumbus, the price received by the printer in
Manchester, the difference of 24c. per yard
or 200 per cent, upon the price in Manchester,
there is what the planter has to pay, in the
shape of charges, to get a yard of calico
brought to him from Manchester.
1 lb. of cotton will make 8 yards of calico
supposing that there be no dirt or trash in the
cotton; if we allow 12 l-2d. for trash, it will
leave 7 yards, and 7 yards at 36c. (the Co
lumbus price) is 2 52
Cost of the same cottou iu Columbus 7
The difference, which is 2 43
Shows what the planter lias to pay to have a
pound of cotton carried to Manchester, manu
factured into cloth, and returned to him at
Columbus, (the federal duty, of course, in
cluded.)
After stating these facts, it will be apparent’
to every one what an immense gain it would
be to the planter, if Manchester were placed
suddenly alongside of Columbus, so that cot
ton might be sold at Gd. per lb. and calico
bought at Gd. per yard ; for whereas it takes
now 5 lbs. of cotton to buy 1 yard of calico,
then 1 ib. of cotton would suffice for the pur
chase. It will be objected in reply, that tiie
planters do not invest all the proceeds of their
cotton in calico, and that if it were profitable
to bring Manchester alongside of Columbus,
other articles of equal or greater necessity,
would stiil be equally remote and equally
dear. This is a valid objection, and forms in
connection with the hypothesis of bringing
Manchester alongside of Columbus, an unan
swerable argument in favor of adopting such
change or improvement, that instead of bring
ing Manchester to Columbus, should carry
Columbus and bring other inland towns at the
South, nearer to those customers who buy
our cotton, and from whom we purchase in
return manufactures and other commodities.
What is the secret of the enormous tax of
100 per cent, paid by the planter for exporting
his cotton f
Ist. There is an Agent in Columbus
who gets in charges of storage and
commission, perhaps, 1-2
2. There are the expenses down to
Apalachicola of freights, insurance
and commission at Apalachicola, 1
3. The freight to New York, insurance
again, loss in weight, commission
there, storage, fire insurance, &c. 2 1-2
4. The commission of the foreign
merchant in New York, who buys
it for export. 1-2
5. The freight to Liverpool, 1
G. The expenses in Liverpool of com
mission, brokerage, bank commis
sion duty, time duty, dock duty,
insurance, marine and lire, storage,
postage, sampling, &.C., 2 1-2
7 1-2
Thus again on the calico we have
shown the first cost to be 12
Now Ist is the protective duty, about
00 per cent 7 20
2. Freight, insurance, commission in
Europe, and shipping charges, 10, 120
20 40
3. Importing merchants’ profit in New
. York, 10, 2
32 40
4. Jobbers’ profit in New York or
Charleston, 23, 5 36
28
5. The country storekeepers’ profit,
25, 7
35
Now when we reflect that these details
can be carried out so as to show results nearly
similar, as regards most of the articles ob
tained by Lite planter from abroad, the depres
■ sed and embarrassed condition of the Seuthern :
country will be abundantly and mournfully
accounted for. But what is to be done ? We
have had conventions, and committees, and
reports, and addresses ; we have agitated the j
public mind on the subject of internal im-!
provement, and direct trade, and still we are
borne down with the same burdens and ex
actions. Perhaps it is that we have talked
too much and worked too little—there is no
question that we are in the right road. To
bring Columbus nearer to Manchester is still
the great object; and when! say Columbus, 1
mean Madison, DeKalb, the Valiev of the
Tennessee, and all that immense country that
is bursting with productions and straining for
a market. The first thing to be done, (and it
is an object of equal importance to every man
between Charleston and the Tennessee Val
iev,) is to build the Georgia Railroad from
Madison to DeKalb and form a junction with
the Western and Atlantic Railroad. The
next to have a line of steamboats direct from
Charleston to Great Britain.
MERCATOR.
Muskets and Pistols in tiie Naval Ser
vice.—U appears, by a report from the Navy
Department, that there are now belonging to
the Navy 5,253 muskets, 7,026 pistols. Os
these there are in store 2.993 muskets, and
5,356 pistols, and on board ships and vessels,
2,260 muskets, and 2.2 A pistols.
Colt’s carbine- and pistols are considered
weapons es the most approved construction
for future service. These cost, •843 94 for
the former, and §23 93 lor the latter.—Lav.
Republican.
“THE UNION OT THE STATES, AXD THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
Eloquent extract from the Speech of Mr.
Marshall, of Kentucky, on e Distribution
Bill.
But, sir, itjf, provision tor resuming th"s
lund in I, ! me of war is a bribe to peace. Sure
ly.s,nt\jne desires to convert this in'n a
military republic, to infuse into the States or
the people a thirst ibr wars of ambition an 1
of conquest. The meaning of the objection
must be, that the pecuniary consideration in
the bill—the distributive shire of the Statts
being limited to the time of peace—wiii
emasculate the Spirit of the Stales, will tempt
them to bear with wrongs and indignities, to
shrink from just and necessary wars, wars of
defence—will, in a word, make staves and
cowards of us all. In this sense, this odious
sense, is the Dili nsidereci as a bribe to peace.
Mr. Chairma* nve shown, I think, that the
necessary efl 4 avowed object of this bill
is to increase the strength, enlarge the resour
ces, establish the credit, and relieve the finan
ces of the States, at the same time that it
multiplies the means and instruments of mil
itary operations, and extends the sources of
national revenue. It is anew philosophy
which teaches that in proportion as you en
large the objects for which men are most apt
to fight, and improve the force with which
they are to be defended, you destroy the
courage which makes that ibice efficient.—
Peace, sir, is emphatically the policy of this
country; peace is the true policy of the
world—a policy into which religion and the
most enlarged philosophy may yet indoctri
nate mankind.
“ Oh! monarch*, did ye taste the peace ye mar,
“ The hoarse dull drum might sleep, and man be hap
py yet.”
In one sense industry and commerce are
bribes to peace. The peculiar industry of
the South is emphatically a bribe to peace.—
War, which would interrupt, if not destroy,
our foreign commerce, and cut off the plan
ting interest from their best customers, their
most profitable markets —war would fall with
aggravated hardships upon the agriculture
of the South. Shall we inhibit the growth
of cotton? Shall we break up all industry
which has foreign consumption lor its object ?
Shall vve sunder the chain which binds the
civilized nations of the world into one great
commercial republic ? Shall we undoall that
art, science, reason, and religion, have
achieved to change the direction of human
genius, to soften and beautify the face of mod
ern society? Shall vve teach nations again to
look to war, spoils, and conquest, for the
means of subsistence, and the only true foun
dations of glory and of empire ?
The gentleman from Virginia, in the pros
ecution of this objection, warns New \ork
and Maine against the consequences of the
bill. He exhorts New York, in an especial
manner, to stand by her rights ; to maintain
inviolate her territory by her own authority.—
Try McLeod by your own laws and courts
and if you find him guiityhang him, said the
gentleman, [Mr. Wise,] bang him upon tbe
border, hang him high and within lull view of
the Canadian fortresses, that his dangling
corse may liout the British cannon. Sir, 1 un
derstood the gentleman [Mr. Wise] the other
day to approve the ground taken by tiie A
tnerican Secretary [Mr. Webster] in that most
dignified correspondence which lie iieid with
the British niiniste> iti 1 elation to the case ot
McLeod. I understood that ground to be, that
the course of the British Government on this
subject haih rendered it a national question.
The such belongs exclusively
to the national Government. If wrong has
been done, New York has surer remedy in
the united frce and.constitutional guaran
tee of twenty-six States than site could find
in her own arm, potent as iiis. The soil of
New York is the soil of the United States;
the citizens of New York are citizens of the
United States ; the right of the power, con
stitutional and physical, has been surrendered
to this Government to settle ail questions
touching the safety of either, iu their collision
with other countries, whether by negotiation
or the sterner arbitraments of the sword.—
Surely the Slate ot New York feels no diffi
dence in that Government of which she forms
so important a part. Surely she means not to
answer the gentleman’s appeal, ami, throwing
off the national authority, to draw questions ol
peace St war from the American Government
iu her own State courts. She means not to treat
or war with England or any other country
upon her own separate account. The duty
to carry on war is surely in reason, as it is un
doubtedly, iu our fundamental law, intimate
ly and inseparably connected with the power
to declare it, and to decide all questions with
foreign countries which may involve such a
result. That the rights and the honor of
New York are secure from violation or insult
in me hands where the constitution has placed
tiiem, 1 should deem it akm to treason to
doubt. Her rights, her honor, her territory,
tire the rights, the honor, the territory ol the
United States. She is part of my country. —
She is covered by the imperial flag, overshad
owed every inch of her by the wings of the
imperial eagle protected by his beak and ta
lons. For “these sentiments 1 may be per
mitted to answer here for at least one Slate in
the Union. Kentucky is placed securely in
the centre. So long as this Government lasts
her soil is virgin and sate from the impress ol
a hostile foot. Her fields, thanks to the wis
dom of our ancestors, the goodness of God,
and the guardian power of this imperial Re
public —her fields can never be wasted by
ravage, her hearths can never tasie of milita
ry violation. She knows fuli well the source
of her security, the shield of her liberties.
The exterior States, are the bulwarks o(
her safety—the impregnable fortresses which
break the storm of war, and keep lar distant
from her borders its ravage and its horrors.
She views them as such, and regards their j
rights, their safety and their liberty as her j
own. She is one of a system'of nerves which
vibrate at the least touch from tbe remotest
extremity to the centre. The frontier ol
New \ ork is her frontier r the Atlantic sea
board is her seaboard and the millions ex
pended in fortifying the one or the other,
she regards as expended for her delence. —
A blow aimed at New York is a How aimed
at herself: an indignity or an outrage inflic
ted upon any State in this Union, is indic
ted upon the whole and iq on each. To sub
mit to such were to sacrifice her independence
and her freedom —to make all other biessings
valueless, all other property insecure. Not
ail the unsettled domain of the U ll.Oll, in lull
property and jurisdiction, could bribe her to
such a sacrifice. 1 tie biood she has shed on
the snows of Canada and in the swamps ol
Louisiana, give ample testimony to her read
iness to meet danger at a distance. She
seeks no separate destiny , she feels no inter
est alien (rom the common Sue
wants this money to strengthen hersell, and,
strengthening, to make the whole country
stronger and better able to maintain any fu
ture conflict in which its interests or its salety
may invoke it.
Westward Ho!—The St. Lotus Bulletin
of June 28 sn\>, that throe In nos had just arriv
ed there, bringing nine hundred and sixty-four
passengers, among them, on one boat, were
one hundred and twenty-nine children under
four years of age. These are ipialiy times
indeed.
From the New York Herald.
THE DUEL BETWEEN WRIGHT AND
OAKEY.
WrAfht and Oakey came from nothing, arc
thoy ea; h gained the object of their heart’s
content —wealth and standing in society—
\rri-bt w JSatannah and Oakey in New Or
leans.
There is a machine called the wheel of
fortune, invented by some dreaming ancient
who had nothing else to do, I suppose. Wright
suddenly found himself on the descending
side, and with a view to get back again came
to New Orleans, where he managed very
well for some time, acting as the agent of
Wilde, Pickersgill &, Cos , a large European
mercantile concern. His old habits, however,
did not leave him, and Jus friends began to
desert him. Revenge seized liis soul, and
forthwith he set out with a view to expose the
mode ot doing business by bis principals, by
the merchants generally, of whom he was a
large one, once upon a time.
lie wrote articles for the New Orleans
Times and killed it and its good natured silly
editor and proprietor, a Mr. Branch. lie then
took the New Orleans Democrat, and soon
put an end to that concern. The next victim
of his spear was the New Orleans Intelligen
cer.
About this time the Vicksburg Sentinel took
up the subject of the list system, and Dr. Ha
gan, with his usual daring, made no hesitation
in using names, and bringing home his charges,
wholesale and retail. It was thought that
Wright, soured by the fall he had from the
wheel of fortune, and aggravated against the
merchants” because lie saw every day less
merit than his owti rolling in wealth, contri
buted facts or statements of what were called
facts, to Hagan. Everybody admitted that
the list system could be abused as well as any
other system, but nobody could be found to
say that he had cheated the planter under it,
or that he knew his neighbor did.
In the course of time Oakey became an im
mensely rich man, but the reverses of 1537
shocked him considerably. With that activity
for which he is so well known here, he bore
up against the shock upon the general credit
of the nation, arid he is again afloat with fair
breezes to waft, him alc r ng. It was in the em
barrassments occasioned by the difficulties,
that he, Caldwell and Pritchard united to pur
chase a dormant lottery right, and to propose
the sale of their immense inactive property
under that privilege. The scheme you well
remember. The sales of tickets were carried
on with activity until the drawing approached,
when they found that they liad not sold: more
than enough to pay expenses. What was to
be done 1 Draw the lottery like houest men,
and run the chance of being ruined by the loss
of their groat prizes. In: the presence of well
known citizens the drawing was carried
through, and the lots of the concern in prizes
were nearly $100,090 ; but nearly every cent
has been paid, and if there be any prizes out
unpaid they are ready to redeem litem at any
moment.
In the midst of the continued and galling
fire ftoin the columns of the Vicksburg Sen
tinel upon the character of New Orleans and
its merchants, Mr. Oakey saw, with concern,
the confusion it was producing among the
subscribers in the Merchants’ Exchange read
ing room, of which he was president. The
proof that Wright furnished the particulars to
Dr. Ilagru began to multiply, and it was with
no little chagtin that I saw, as an individual,
the people attacked venting their spleen on
Mr. Wright (not to his face) instead of calling
1 Dr. J lagan to account. Conversation, nick
, names anu incidents appeared in the Sentinel,
I and the parties concerned were satisfied they
could r;*4 have been reported by auv one but
L Wright.
But to return. One evening while the war
was at its height, and shortly after the arrival
of a Sentinel ridiculing Mr. Howell L. Wil
liams, anew merchant of your city,- Williams
and Wrigl t had an altercation in the reading
room, an account of vv.Sch was published at
the time. After this occurrence, Oakey being
annoyed, ah the President of tiie Exchange,
took Wright aside and expostulated in a
friendly way with bjin upon his course of con
duct, in assailing tiie merchants as a body,
and in bringing charges against them before
the public as a tribunal, where both sides
could not be heard. Oakey proceeded, upon
what he deemed his knowledge of the fact,
that Wright did furnish Hagan with this in
formation, and Wright did not deny it. liis
defence was, that he knew what he said to be
true, and if any man felt aggrieved, he was
ready to give him such satisfaction as might be
demanded. After a friendly reasoning to
gether, the two friends parted.
Some days after this conversation there ap
peared in the Sentinel a violent article against
Mr. Oakey, denouncing him as a thief, a
swindler in lotteries, &c. Mr. Oakey forth
with sent a friend to Wright, reminding him
of his declaration sometime previous, and of
course demanded satisfaction for the insult,
and previous banter to fight. Mr. 5V right at
once, and without parley, admitted the charge,
and promised to meet Air. Oakey in due time.
Matters being arranged very quietly, cacli
party avoided the least appearance of misun
derstanding, lest the law might take hold of
them; and so adroitly was the thing done that,
though people expected trouble, from Oakey’s
well known pvomtitude in resenting an injury,
they came to the conclusion that Oakey had
determined to let the matter pass, as unwor
thy of his attention.
Several days elapsed, and Mr. Oakey was
not informed of the weapons chosen by Mr.
Wright. It has since been ascertained that
Mr. Wright was in the continual practice of
the rifle. It was his favorite weapon, When
living in Savannah he belonged to a club
which used to shoot for their dinners once a
week or once a month, and the worst shot nev
er varied an hick from the centre or bull’s eye
of the target. The time came, however, and
Oakey was told that he must fight with rifles,
at forty paces distance. This was one day
before the meeting, but Oakey consented at
once.
They went over Lake Pontchartrain on t he
evening of the first of .1 une, and on the morn
ing of the second, before the sun rose, the
ground was measured off. At ihe first go off,
Oakey drew Wright’s fire by his superior
quickness. While the guns were loading for
tbe second round Wright walked about, but
• lakov stood as still and as firm as a post. On
the signal being given for the second fire,
Wright fired before tbe word one, and Oakey
before the word two. Oakev’s ball struck
Wright in tiie region of the heart, going
through the body and one arm. lie died in a
few seconds.
When the news arrived in town the feeling
was quite the reverse of that represented by
some papers 1 have seen. Eveiy body was
satisfied. Even tho-e who had been most se
vereiv handled by Mr. Wright up in
their bosoms all animosity, and said that he
had fallen honorably in a duel, and even his
friends had no complaint to make. ‘There
were a few, it is true, who wished to make
capital out of the affair, but public opinion
was so much against them that they did not
dare express their notions in conversation,
much less through the prints.
The affair between Oakey and W right, was
a personal one. Wiight called him a thief,
and Oakey met him on the square l.ke a man.
[NUMBER 27.
Wright accepted the challenge and tell. —
What more J The personal quarrel is ended,
and Air. Wright has lorl'eited Ins liio in making
such u charge against ho follow lie -
ery body here, friend and enemy to Mr. Oakev,
hoots at the idea that lie is capable of
ing any one. And is not the opinion of a
community among whom a man lives for a
score of years, to be regarded as worth some
thing'? Besides, Mr. Oakey perilled his life
in defence of his fame, and that proves how
dearly he estimated his reputation.
Vekitas.
Recipe for the cure of Sweeny in Horses,
which is also excellent for wounds, bruises and
sprains in Horses. —To 1 pint of unboiled
flaxseed oil, add half a pint of spirits turpen.
tine, 12 1-2 cents worth of oil of amber, 1 |
1-2 cents worth of oil of spike 12 1-2 do. oi
of stone, 12 1-2 do. camphor—mix them al|
together—anoint the diseased part of vour
horse with the liniment made as above stated
nine days, observing to anoint three days in
succession, and then miss three days. Imme
diately alter anointing, heat the liniment in
well with a hot iron. The several three
days that you omit anointing vour horse with
the liniment, his diseased part should be well
anointed with fresh butter; though this may
be dispensed with. Previous to anointing
your horse with the liniment the second and
third times of three days, the whole mass of
accumulated grease should be washed oil
with warm soap suds, and then dried before
applying the liniment, is intended particularly
for the sweeny. For bruises, sprains and
wounds, it may be applied in the same man
ner that you would use other liniments in
like cases. The above mentioned liniment
lias effectually cured every case of the swee
ny in which 1 have known it applied.
PicJding—general directions. —Brass should
be used for vessels iu the process, thoroughly
cleansed before using, and no vinegar al
lowed to cool in them. This precaution is
necessary to prevent the formation of verdi
gris, an active poison. Boil alum and salt
in the vinegar, in proportion of half a tea
cup of salt and a table spoonful of alum to
the three gallons cf vinegar. Vessels that
have any gresae about them will not do for
pickles. Stone and wood arc- the only pro
per materials in which to keep pickles when
made. All pickles should be stirred ftp occa
sionally. When any scum rises, the vinegar
needs scalding. Pickles may be spiced or
not at pleasure; and when the vinegar be
comes weak from use ; it may be thrown
away and fresh vinegar substituted. Good,
but not the sharpest vinegar best for pickles.
Cabbages. —Quarter the firm head of the
cabbage ; put the parts in a keg, sprinkle on
them a good quantity of salt, and let them
remain five or six days. To a gallon of vin
egar put an ounce of mace, and one of pep
per corns and cinnamon. Cloves and alspice
may be added, hut they darken the color of
the cabbage. Heat the vinegar scalding
hot, add a little alum, and turn it while hot
on the cabbage, the salt remaining. It is
necessary to turn the vinegar from ihe cab
ha gejsevera I times, return it again while hot.
This makes them tender. Purple cabbage,
the heads not targe, but fine and firm, are
best lor pickles.
OFFICIAL.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Burgess S. Caither, Superintendents of the
Branch Mint at Charlotte, N. C.
U. S. ATTOHNIES.
Cornelius Darrah, Western District of
Pennsylvania.
Return J. Meigs, Middle District of
Tennessee.
Charles Chapman, District of Connecticut.
John Holmes, District of Maine.
Charles Davis, District of Vermont.
Balie Peyton, Eastern District of La.
Joshua A. Spencer, Northern District of
New York.
Justin Butterfield, District of Illinois,
Franklin Dexter, District of Mass.
Thomas W. Sutherland, District of Wis
consin.
U S. MARSHALS.
Israel W. Kelley, District of New Hamp
shire.
Sylvester Hartshorn, District of Rhode
Island.
Thomas B. Johnson, District of lowa.
John D. Kinsman, District of Maine.
Wm. 11. Russell, District of M issouri.
Silas M. Stilweil, Southern District of New
York.
Anderson Miller, Southern District of Mis
sissippi.
Thomas W. Newton, District of Arkansas.
John B. Eldredgp, District of Connecticut.
John G. Camp, Middle District of Florida.
POSTMAsiebb.
Geo. Cox, Huntsville, Alabama.
Thomas S. Redd, Lexington, Kentucky.
Geo. W. E. Bedell, Columbus, Georgia.
U. S. Census — Population Statistics. - ,
In 1790, the total population of the thirteen
old States was 0,629,003. It is now in 1840
including the District of Columbia, 9,836,743.
The 13 new States and 3 Territories.now
contain a population of 7 226,364 , in 1790,
the same States ant* Territories did not
contain o”er 400,000,’ exclusive of Indians.
It therefore appears that the 13 old States
have increased in population in 50 years 6,-
197,733, and the new States and Territories
have increased about 0,823,304. The total
population of the valley of the Mississippi in
1840, was 6,377,083. —Savannah Republican.
Saratoga. —From the first to the tenth of
July, there were more than fifteen hundred
arrivals at Saratoga Springs.
Savannah Georgian.
ft is reported at Washington, that Waddy
Thompson, late a member of Congress from |
South Carolina, is to be appointed Minister to
Mexico.—Sav. Georgian.
European Creditors.- —The resolution ;
of Congress, railing for information from the
President respecting any application winch
may have been made to the Government at
Washington for the payment of Slate debts,
lias been answered by the Executive. Com
munications have been addressed to the T rea
sury and State Department by Messrs, Roths
child of London, Hope & Cos. of Amsterdam,
Gowan and Mark, and others, respecting the
bonds of Indiana, Mississippi ana Florida.—
Sav. Georgian.
A good j >ke happened in the House of
Representatives,a few days since. Several
wings were lamenting the differences which I
prevailed in their party, and the couse- j
quenoes which must result from sueh diseor-!
dant action. Mr. Proifil, a whig member:
from Indiana, and quite a wag withal con
curred with Ins friends in the gloomy pros-1
peels of the party, and remarked, that he
“did not s;e hot we vhould have to go back •
to first prine ples.” Being asked what iliev’
were, be replied, after a short hesitation-- j
“ Tippceamteand Tyler too,” and burst into’
laughter, in which he was joined by ail pie- i
sent. —Charleston Mercury.
From the Cilobe.
We cannot find tiiat the report of the
Globe attributed any such remarks to Mr.
Meriwether, as he quotes in his letter. Ne
vertheless, we think it proper to publish his
letter, that l.is position may he correctly un
derstood.
House of Representatives, )
July 2d, 1841. f
To the Editor of the Globe :
1 perceive by the report of the debate on
the “Home Squadron'’ bill, you say that
“Mr. Meriwether of Georgia went against
the bill. ’ In this, the Reporter has assigned
to me a wrong position. In the remarks
which \ made, I confined myself exclusively
to me statement v biili hrrn made, that
the appropriation under consideration, was
provided lor in the estimates of the Secretary
of the Treasury, upon which had been based
the loan ol $12,000,000. 1 expressed no
opinion whatever against the bill under dis
cussion ; I was the advocate oi’ the measure,
and voted for it.
Respectfully, vour obedient servant,
■j.’ A. MERIWETHER.
House of Representatives, >
July 24, 1841. ‘ <
Gentlemen: The Reporters for the Globe
in their sketch of Mr. Rhetl’s rentalks on
yesterday, say “ Mr. Rheti asked Mr. Nesbit
if a tariff for protection was constitutional.
■Mr. Nesbit said it was. Mr. Rhett denied
that it was constitutional.”
In this report of my answer io Mr. Rlietl’s
interrogatory, they have, I am sure, uninten
tionally, misrepresented me, on a matter of
serious moment. My answer was, that the
courts of the country, would be compelled to
declare the tariff law constitutional, because
they were revenue laws; Congress having
the unquestionable power to impose duties
lor revenue. But that the imposition of a
tariff for protection, was a perversion of the
revenue power, and therefore not contempla
ted in the Constitution, and in my opinion
wholly unjustifiable.
Allow me to ask the publication of tin’s
note, to correct the error of the Reporters.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. A. NESBIT.
Messrs. Blair & Rives, Washington.
From the Savannah Republican, July 31.
FROM FLORIDA.
By the IT. S. steamer Gen. Taylor, Captain
Peck arrived yesterday from Florida, we re
ceived the following letters from our attentive
correspondents in Florida. It will he observ
ed that the writers differ in their opinions in
relation to the close of tlie war.
We regret to learn from Capt. Peck, that
L)r. Noyes, of the U. S. Army, died at St.
Angustine, on the 26lhth inst. from a fever
contracted while on duty at New Smyrna.
Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
East Florida, July 2G, 18-11.
Gentlemen :—I have the pleasure of in
forming you that things go bravely on at Tam
pa Bay. On the 13th inst. seventeen Indians
came in to that post from Sain June’s camp.
On the 21st two of the party were allowed to
return and communicate with Sam, who they
say is in the Big Cypress’ near the Okeecho
bee Lake with 150 warriors, These Indians
state that many of Saurs party are anxious to
come in : and will do so., provided they can get
a chance. Col. Worth has sent a big talk to
them,, and with many strong inducements to
prevail on them to come in.
-of Coacoochee’s (Wild
Cats) party came into Tampa on the 19th inst.
They stale that all his people are now on the
way to that post. The prospects of ending
this apparently interminable war, are much
brighter than they have ever been since its
commencement.
This favorable state of affairs may be justly
ascribed to the abilities and sound judgment of
that meiitorious and distinguished officer now
in command of the Army of Florida, and to
the troops under his command, who have ac,
lively been employed in the field during the?
last two months.
Yours, &c.
Correspondensa of the Savannah Republican.
Florida, Ju y 28,1841. ‘
Gentlemen: —The grand scouta iiavo re
turned and the Indians are at large, and hos
tile as ever. Some of their corn fields have
been destroyed, and it may now be expected,
as it occurred last rummer that the enemy
will revenge himself upon the troops, by way
laying solitary wagons, and unoffending trav
ellers. From the circumstance of Coacoo
cliee having been taken gome few citizens
are about moving to their plantations in the
vicinity of St. Augustine , The result of this
measure, 1 fear, may prove unfortunate. Co
acoocliee’s people irave promised to come in—
but, ah ! Indian premises are as the song goes,
“hollow, hollow, hollow !"’ I “fear me much,
that the war is not ended—and I predict that
force will never do it. A great portion of tho
troops are sick. White men cannot inarch
with the thermometer at 102 a , where it now
ranges, through bog and mire, bivouac at night
the deleterious vapours of the swamp, and es
cape impunity. Man in Florida as elsewhere,
is of human nature, and although the contra
ry seems to he supposed, is still subject to the
“ills which flesh is heir to.” However as
tounding the promulgation r.f the fact, it is
nevertheless true, that a soldier of the United
States in Florida, can no more contend with
fu-’r-v fllQri can a sick Alderman at the North.
Let him who ignorantly units c A>out mops
being in summer quartern.” mme down to
Florida at this season and try the field, and it
ho does not soon call “give me some drink Ti
tius, like a sick girl,” it is because his “dura
■mala'’ is impervious to the rays of a Florida
sun, Yours, B.
From the Savannah Georgian Juvl 31.
By tjie U. States steamer General Taylor,
Capt Peck, arrived yesterday afternoon from
Pilatka, the editor of the Georgian lias re
ceded the following from his attentive cor
respondents :
Florida, July 24.
1 am happy to have it in my power to an
nounce to you that a delegation of fifteen r
and women have reached Tampa l’nii j|
Jones. This is looked upon as a r . oo( j oj lie n
to be followed by the entire ew'bender Q f } U3
whole clan, which will reliev p'Jorida, of a
disagreeable and obstinate rascal whose
influence has been mark .J an( ] severely felt
in the procrastination Q f hostilities. Alleck
Tustenuggee has, as you are aware, Hen se
verely bunded and aring the past spring and sum
mer, ’and I have no doubt that he will surren
der ;ifso t V;e war is over. My health having
■ )f?en i n measure restored, I will keep you
advised, of the efforts made by our troops,
j Florida, July 28, i'll.
Dear Sir—There is nothing particularly
] newer interesting,- from the interior or west
: side of Florida. About the 18th July, 2d Lt.
j Henry Ward well, Bth Infantry, died at. Key
Biscayne, of fever, caught at Tampa Bay.—
lie was on sick leave, and on his way North.
;1 )n the 23th it;sr. Ass’t. Surgeon C. Noyes
died with fever at St. Augustine, contracted
at Smyrna. In haste, truly yours.
A glorious Trio cf Veteran Demo
crats There are living in Dutchess coun
ty, and within a few miles of each other,
three of the reJicits of the revolutionary times
whose united ages are about 200 years. —
Governor Morgan Lewis, no less distinguish
ed by hts civil acquirements than by his ser
vices during our two wars, 87 years of age;
General John Armstrong, the celebrated au
thor of the Newburgh Jitters,” and the his
torian of the war of I'l2. nearly of the same
age ; and John R. Livingston, only one or two
years younger. It is singular that tim two
first both married sisters of the last. I hes
venerable pa trims are aji Democrat?