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To ihr Krialllax *1 Wpiri-
I nous Liquor*.
To m:a nuow cmino or Ueo#ai*. —The
undersigned were appointed a committee at a
meeting of a respectable number of the people
of Putnam county to address you upon the
subject of the evil* which afflict our # whole
community, originating from the practice of
retailing intoxicating lupiora in our Mute. We
know that in coming forwurd to address you,
we aland exposed to all the prejudicea, winch
tiaually assail attempts at the reformation of
great and prominent evila. The advocates and
the victims, alike rally to their perpetuation,
and proscription place* its hand upon all who
dare to raise, or assemble around the new
standard. The imagination is set most ac
tively U) work, to hum up spectres to alarm
the inconsiderate and lo hia* and influence
their Judgements. The ever active vigilenco
of Liberty and Freedom is aroused, leas! sortie
great constitutional right shall he invaded.
The “Union of Church and .State,” Ibe right
of the poor to do as they phase, their subjec
tion to the dominion of the rich, some trick of
a political party, a sectarian measure, and ma
ny such other cam phrases, are the notable
arguments which are ever and anon, opposed j
lo the march of reformation. Hut, fellow cit
izens, we feel that you have ton long known
the crying evils, to which the retail of intoxica
ting drinks has given birth, to listen for a mo
ment to such aspersions upon motives. Wc
represent upon this occasion, a constituency
composed of the Christian and the sinner, the
Methodist, /faptist & Presbyterian, the Union
and the State Mights man, the Lawyer and the
[►olitician, the Doctor ami the Divine, the rich,
the. poor, and those of competency, the tempe
rate, the retailer and the purchaser, the fanner
and the merchant; all these compose that por
tion of our fellow citizens, who lately assemb
led at Estonian, and prepared mid signed a
memorial to the next Legislature of our Htate,
to prohibit the Iralir by retailing ardent spirits,
and appointed us their committee, to invite you
to co-operate with them, in the great and the
good work. We approach the task with un
feigned pleasure, fortifled by the conviction of
otrr rectitude, mid the unanimity of those in
the midst of whom we reside, we can hut be
lieve that the same moral sense, which has a
wakened here the energies of thisgreut reform,
will not slumber in the bosom of other com
munities ns respectable for their virtue, intel
ligence, ami moral worth. On Sunday the 2-lth
ihiy of February u portion of the citizens of
Katouton assembled at the church; for the pur
itan: of considering upon the subject, and out
of a congregation of about 130 persons, 10H
signed the memorial. Another meeting in a
nother part of our county has been held, and
w ith corresponding success and equal unani
mity. Upon a subject so vitally interesting to
all, could there he otherwise than unanimity I
AAe invite you fellow citizens, individually,to
look to the neigborhuod of a retail grocery, to
•ho condition of those who frequent it mid sat
isfy yourselves, whether the retail there ear
ned on, has produced most good or harm. If
the quantity of harm prevails over the good
ought not the oul to be suppressed, and will
vou not lend us your aid in its suppression 1
Look to your courts of Justice, and see how
many of the affrays and riots, which engage
the time of the country, happened in, or at a
grog shop. Iwiok lo the many murders at.d
manslaughters which are almost every where
to be met with, uml see how many arise from
feuds engendered while the purlieu were at the
grocery 7 Against the influences of these re
tail shops, the law frowns with indignation.
The keeping of a tiplmg house for the encour
agement of drinking, is an offence against our
laws, and punishable with loss of liberty or
properly, and yet these sume laws license the
community to retail the intoxicating spirits
which are there drank. Drunkenness is made
no excuse for crime, and yet we make it law
ful to retail the intoxicating draught, which
turns reawm from her throne and while in that
overthow crime is perpetrated, (.bold we ask
a stronger argument for our cause than that
which vour own laws furnish I Look around
you fellow citizens and see how tnuny objects
of charity have been made so, by frequeting
these retailing shops. Ilmv many widows and
orphans, mnnyless, and helpless, whose hus
bands ami fathers, were the 100 frequent visi
tors of litem. Look at these things, ami answer
candidly to yourselves, whether the evil ought
not to be exterminated. Massachusetts and
other Hlatcs at the North and Hast, have adop
ted u similar course. Our sister ami adjoining
State Tennessee has acted likewise. Other
Southern States are now ntovcing in the mat
ter. The hall is rolling onward, and gaining
at every turn, and though we cannot claim the
high gratification of having first put it into mo
tion, let us fellow citizens, participate in the
pleasure as well ns the honor of having added
to its revolutions uml its magnitude.
Your fellow citizens,
MYI.BS GREENE, v
JOHN E. DAW.VON
JOSIAH FLOURNOY,
THOMAS COOPER, Committee.
JOHN C. MASON,
J. A. MERIWETHER,
The following ist he form of a Petition which
has already been signed by near 300 persons
in Putnam, and no subject can present more
immunity.
Stale of Georgia: To the Senate and House
of Representatives ofthis State for 1839. The
undersigned citizens of this State believing
that the retail of spirttous liquors, is an evil of
great magnitude among ns, come into the Le
gislature by Petition and it>k you in your wis
dom to pass such a law ns will effectually put
a stop to it. We do not here attempt to name
the mischief that has been done in the State
by quartering upon our towns, cities, villages
and High wav •*, retail shops. They are so man
ifold as not to have escaped the painful notice
of every member of your Honorable body.
Your Petitioners come with the more confi
dence because several States in this Union
have already passed such a law as to make
penal the retailing of intoxicating drinks.
Surely a trnfic which is full of evil, and only
evil, should be banished by law, if it cannot be
done otherwise. Let it be done, and your p"-
titioners as in duty bound will ever pray, 4c.
The Committee ask that sonic doten of active
citizens of each county, will pn sent it to the
citizens of them counties, (both male and fe
male,) for signatures. We ask especially that
the Clergy would get some active man to pre
sent it in every religious meeting, that the same
l>e carefully kept until the session of the next
Legislature, when it shall be presented by the
members from the several counties they rep
resent
Coal Mine on Fihe. —The coal mine of Mr
Dougherty, near Pottsville, which caught fire
in January last, still eon unties to burn, the
exertions to extinguish having proved unsuc
cessful. The Pottsvile Einporeuni says that
the mouth of the draft lias been closed tip and
every airhole slopped. This is the largest vein
of coal in Broad Mountain, and from its altitude
cannot be Hooded by turning the course of
some stream into it. At first it was thought
‘hat oaiy the proppings and loose coal were on
‘firs, but from vtve length of time elapsed since
u commenced, it is bow believed that the solid
**% of coal is burning.
[From nir.ColcmschKnodiem.]
FHKF, BANKING.
Messrs. Kditors The Free Banking I-aw,
as it ta commonly called, has caused no little
excitement in the Htate. Many a brain that
has been exercised only in the simple persons
af agriculture, has lately been racked and tor
■ lured in stumping to ascertain the crooked
I windings, and ferret out the hidden mysteries
lof the hawking system. A/en who never bad
! the most remote idea of liviug any ways con
nected with “monied corporations.” ami who
even held them m abhorreuee, have suddenly
yielded their long cherished prejudices, and
And themselves upon Ihe eve of becoming
etc indie re, us the most uncharatable seem to
consider all persons connected with banks. I
would advise plain farmers, like myself, who
have been captivated by this law, to pause and
examine closely and minutely its provisions,
before they join or form any associations under
it. It has a very imposing name; but arc not
its requisitions too severe 7—ls not the securi
ty required 100 great 7 f banking so profita
ble that men may aflord to encumber their lan-
ded estates for twenty years, to the amount,
say, of two hundred tfuttutowi dollars, for the
purpose of tmuking on twentu-Jhr thousand I
This is the law in a few words. 1 know there
are a great many who do not thus interpret
it: they believe that where they subscribe for
a certain amount of stock, all they have to do
is to mortgage laud to double that amount, pay
ing one forth only in gold and silver, and re
ceive dividends upon the whole amount sub
scribed ! This is anew idea in finance—l
should be pleased to see it reduced to practice
in farming. It would certainly las very con
venient for a farmer to put his land in prepar
ation for a crop, and by planting one fourth,
reap a full harvest upon the whole ! ! A far
mer might do this woh the same jirospeCf nf
success, ns to subscribe for a thousand dollars
worth of stock under the Frets Bunking Law ;
mortgage his land for two thousand, pay in but
two hundred and fifty, and expect u dividend
upon the whole amount subscribed. It is a
pity the banks in Georgia, that have the poor
privilege of issuing but three dollars for eve
ry one paid in, never discovered this “Philos
opher’s Stone. Instead of paying the whole
of their stock, they should have called ill but
one forth, and their protits would have been
still the same ! ! Hut associations under this
law, it is contended, would have the right of
issuing few fir one. This is not denied ; but
huviug to redeem their issues in gold mid silver,
v. hat proportion could they keep uicirculation,
and at the same time sustain their credit 7 This
is the true question. Now it must be admitted
that no hank in Georgia, ever did keep in eir
eolation hills to treble the amount of its stock
paid in.—How, then, can a free bank expect to
do it 7 The magic of a name may induce it
to make the effort, but steam reality will putt
jnsh the folly. The thing is impossible. Let
no man be deceived on this subject. There is
no bank now in operation in the Htate, that
would give n fig for the right of issuing four
for one ; when all experience testifies it is ut
terly impossible to keep three for one in circu
lation. If this privilege he worth less to other
banks, of what value can it be to a Free Hank 7
It would he over a fair calculation to suppose
that a Hank under this luw, could keep in cir
culation two and a half to one paid in. This
is more than any bank in Georgia ts now doing.
Let us see the what would be the profits of a
Free Hank, with a capital stock of one hundred
thousand dollars. The stockholders would
mortgage their property to ihe amount of two
hundred thousand dollars, receive front the
hank commissioners one hundred thousand
dollars in blank hills, and pay in twenty-five
thousand in specie. They could circulate but
sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; this
at eight percent, would yeld five thousand dol
lars. Deduct from this sum the salaries of its
officers, the rent of a suitable banking house,
and all other expenses incident to an institu
tion of the kind, and the remainder would be
the dividend declared upon the capitul slock .
of a hundred thousand dollars ! It could not
exceed two-thousand dollars I don’l think a
hard shelled Loco-foeo could say ought against
such a “monied aristocracy.” It is further
contended by the friends of the free banking
law, that the bills issued by companies formed
under it, will be deemed by the community so
sound Hint they will seldom if ever be presen
ted at their counters for payment—that mon
ied men will hoard them. This is a most for
lorn home. Who is now keeping money idle
by hint 7 No one within iny knowledge : on
the other hand, 1 know a great many who could
keep it busy if they could command its servi
ces. Il will not be pretended that the bills of
a free bunk eotdd be better than silver: yet
the persons who heard the precious metals
will yield them up occasionally to the circu
lation of the country, in Ihe purchase of pro
perly, and the relict of their own, add the ne
cessities of their ncigbors. And such will be
the inevitable fate of bank bill, no matter how
much silver ami gold the bank that issues them
may have for their immediate payment, or how
much property, real it personal, may be mort
gaged to secure their final redemption. The
profits of banking, are too generally overesti
mated. Home persons suppose it impossible
for the dividends of a bank to be blit eight per.
cent, and its stock twenty percent, above par!
Such has been, and is now the case. At one
time, the slock of the old United States Hank
commanded a premium of fifty-six per cent,
and that institution never did declare a greater
dividend than seven per cent.; in fact its divi
dends averaged hut six per cent, during the
twenty years of its existence. It is easy to ac
count for the apparent inconsistency of the
dividends of a bank being small, and its slock
above pur. When an institution lias been faith
fully’ and honestly’ conducted and by degrees
established a sure and permanent credit; when
its directors, by prudent ami discreet manage
ment. have secured for it the confidence of the
stockholders and the public, is it strange or
wonderful that those who own its stock, should
be unwilling to part with it, and those who
wish to purchase, anxious to procure it 7 Be
cause banks sometimes declare a bonus, it is
supposed by some, that they are vastly profit
able. The only way a bonus can accrue to a
hank is when its stock commands a premium,
and it lias some unsold, or the legislative in
creases its capital: this stock when sold yields
the bonus, flow a bonus can accumulate in a
bank, by any other process, ! am at a loss to
discover. A bonus signifies a premium given
for a charter or other privilege. These per
sons who buy the stock, pay for whatever it
sells at above par, for the “privilege” of joining
Ihe company, and banking with it, &c. That
banks are very profitable to some men, 1 will
not deny. The man who is in debt, or the
speculator who can get control of a bank, can
souse it as to be of service to himself: but the
legitimate object of the institution must be
perverted, before lie is successful. The pre
sent great scarcity of money may induce some
persons to embark in the business of hanking
under the lale law. If they believe it will make
good money more abundant they are deceived.
The creation of a thousand banks, would not
give us more money, if they kept the curren
cy sound at the same time. Hanks should ou-
Iv spring up where there is surplus capital.
If the farmers of Western Georgia would lay
out no more money for land and negroes, set
tle themselves for life, determined to improve
the landed estates they now own, in a few years
they would not only be out of debt, but have
surplus funds which they could vest in works
of Internal Improvements, or in Free Hanlrs,
if they would be. willing to encumber their
THX2 MOINTOSH COUNT* HBRALD,
property, and make, but a moderate profit. Hut
until the effects of such determination are felt,
I would say Acep aloof from Free BanAing.
A FARMER.
Tit* Fi.oaiD* Wa*—lts Cost and Its
Results thus tar. —The picture of this
war is thus drawn by Hen a lor Benton in his
speech on the bill—which was lost in the
House—for the establishment of a soitof
Military Colonies in Florida.
“Troops have been tried, and have failed
in accomplishing the object, Every spe
| riea of troops have been tried—regulars,
militia and volunteers, horse and foot.
They have inadecampaigns-andTougbt bat--
tics for three years, and have done all that
men could do under such circumstances,
and they have suffered more than meu ought
to he required to suffer in such a war ; and
all without accomplishing the object.—
Three years have been consumed in milita
ry operation; and at what cost and with
what results ; At the cost, iu money, of
nearly twenty million of dollars : in lives,
of nearly forty officers, killed or died of
wounds, or of the climate; of many woun
ded ; of nearly four hundred soldiers killed
and wounded of the regular Army ; besides
heavy losses among the militia and volun
teers. This is ihe cost! and what arc the
results ! The results are, four counties of
Florida depopulated—the Indians ravaging
the country from Cape Hahle to the Okefe
noke swamp—the frontiers of Georgia at
tacked —depredations carried to the sub
urbs of Ml. Augustine and Tallahassee —the
lighl-lionsc at Florida Point burnt and de
stroyed—rhiptVreCltCt! mariners on th?
coast of Florida massacred—and all culti
vation suspended over a large district of
country, part of which was settled and cul
tivated under the dominion of Spain, when
Florida was a province of that kingdom.
These arc the results, alter three years of
military operations—after this great cost in
money and in lites.”
Bells.—llark ! that sound—it is the
bell—the church-going bell! Hebdoma
dally it breaks upon the quiet stillness of
the village—noting the time for stated wor
ship, ana catling up emotions and remini
scences, grateful and improving to the
heart—though perhaps mournful. There
is much that is agreeable to every car in
the “church-going hell.” To the traveller
it calls up the same ideas in every land;
when he feels lost by the strangeness and
novelty of every thing around him, wheth
er in the solitude of woods or city—its tones
sweeping upon the gale, eallup well known
and friendly ideas, and thoughts of home
and happiness, and things near anti dear to
the heart.
For ottr part, we have felt its sounds in
other places : and never but with thrilling
emotions, difficult to he suppressed : in
the north, almost within in the sound of
the roar of the mighty Niagara—in New-
York, the busy mart of mercantile life, that
looks proudly upon the ocean ; in the mon
umental city, iu Cincinnati, in Louisville,
the rival queens, in the wood-girt hamlet
of the “far west;” in the city of Ht. Louis,
rising like a river god from the Mississip
pi ; and in our snildeat moments its magic
tones have called up the same feelings of
joy, of home—of friends—of those near and
dear. It spoke the some language to the
soul—and excited the same feelings ; elo
quent to the ear, and touching to the heart.
—The sentiments of the poet are beautiful
and just.
“How soft ill* musir ofihe village bells,
Falling al intervals upon the ear,
In cadence tweet! now dying nil away.
Now pasting loud again and louder still,
Clear nod sonorous as the gale coma on
Willi easy force il opeu.t sll the cells,
Where memory slept, Wherever I hove liesnt.
A kindred melody, the scene recurs,
And with it nil its pleasures and its pains.”
Village Record.
Truth. —Adhere rigidly ami undevea
tingly to truth ; but while you express
what is true, express it in a pleasing man
ner. Truth is the picture, the manner is
the frame that displays it to advantage. If
a man blends his angry passions with his
search after truth, become his superior by
suppressing yours, and attend only to the
justness and force of his reasoning. Truth,
conveyed in austere and acrimonious lan
guage, seldom has a salutary effect, since
wc reject the truth, because vve are preju
diced against the mode of communication.
The heart must be won before the intellect
can be informed. A man may betray the
cause of truth by his unseasonable zeal, as
he destroys its salutary effect bv the nc
crimoney of his manner. ‘Vhocver would
be a successful instructor must first become
a mild and affectionate friend. He who
gives way to an angry invective, furnishes
a strong presumption that his cause is bad,
since truth is best supported by dispassion
ate argument. The love of truth, refusing
to associate itself with the selfish and disso
cial passions, is gentle, dignified and per
suasive. The understanding may not be
long able to withstand demonstrative evi
dence : but the heart which is guarded bv
prejudice and passion, is generally proof
against the argumentative reasoning ; for
no person will perceive truth when he is
unwilling to find it. Many of our specula
tive opinions, even those which are the re
sult of laborious research, and the least li
able to disputation, resemble vareities in
the cabinet of the curious, which may be
interesting to the possessor, and to a few
congenial minds, but which are of no use
to the world. Many of our speculative o
pinions cease to engage attention, not be
cause we are agreed about their truth or
talluey, but because we are tired of the con
troveisy. They sunk into neglect, and, in
a future age, their futility or absurdity is
acknowledged, when they retain a hold no
longer on the prejudices and passions of
mankind.
MackenzVs Literary Varieties.
It will be seen by the proceedings of
Council at an extra meeting held on Satur
day last, that Rohkrt M. Charlton, Esq.
was unanimously elected Mayor of the Ci
ty, in the place of M. 11. McAllister.
resigned. This is an appointment highly
creditable, and without doubt generally
satisfactory to the citizens. M r . Charlton
is a gentleman of industrious habits, ener
getic and prompt. The people wc feel as
sured will not be disappointed in him, or
regret the change.
Savannah Republican.
Female Imelvence and Emeeov.
I have observed tlinta married man falling
into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his
situation in the world than a single one;
rhiefly because his spirits arc soothed and
retrieved by domestic endearments, and his
self respect kept alive by finding that, al
though all abroad be darkness anil humilia
tion, yet there is still a little world of love
of which he is monarch. Whereas a single
man is apt to run to waste and self-neglect ;
to fancy himself lonely and abandoned, and
his heart to fall to ruins, like some deser
ted mansion, for want off an inhabitant. I
have often hail occasion to mark the forti
tude with which women sustain the most
overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those
disasters which break down the spirit of a
man and prostrate him in the dust, seem to
call forth all the energies of the softer sex,
arid give such intrepidity and elevation to
their character, that, at times, it approach
es to sublimity. Nothing esn be more
touching than to behold a soft and tender
female, who had been all meekness and de
pendence, and alive to every trivial rough
ness, while treading the prosperousspath
of life, suddenly rising in mental force to
be the eornfortor and supporter of her hus
band under misfortune, abiding with un
shrinking firmness, the bittereslblast of ad
versity. As the vine which has long twined
its graceful foliage about the oak, and been
lifted by its sunshine, will, when the hardy
plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling
round it with caressing tendrils, and bind
up its shattered boughs; so is it beautiful
ly ordered by Providence that woman, who
is the ornament ami dependant of man in
his happier hours, should be his stay and
solaee when smitten with sudden calamity,
winding herself into the rugged recesses of
his nature, tenderly supporting the droop
ing head, and binding up the broken heart.
Washington Irving.
Texas. —The Indians of the frontier of
Texas are said to be all hostile to the whites.
Our papers from Houston represent the
settlers on the borders as in a most deplo
rable condition, requiring the immediate
aid of those removed from the scenes of
danger. Among the depredations commit
ted by the Comanche Indians, was an at
tack on the house of Mrs. Coleman, who
was killed with two of her children. Sev
eral negroes were also either killed or ta
ken off. President Lamar lias issued an
address to the citizens of Texas, railing
upon them to volunteer for six months, for
the frontier service. He asks for three
hundred only, in addition to those already
in progress of equipment. The citizens of
Houston subscribed SO,OOO for the equip
ment of two companies from that city, des
tined for the settlements on the Colorado.
The arrival of the English barque Ambas
sador, from Liverpool, in the harbor of
Houston, has marked anew era in the his
tory of the commercial relations of Texas.
This vessel is soon to be followed by anoth
er with an assorted eargo for the Texan
market. Heretofore foreign importations
were made through New-York, thence to
New-Qrleans, and thence to Texas.
* The markets in Texas continue high. In
Houston, on the Ist of March, Flour was
$33 a36 per barrel; Bacon, 10 aSO cents
per lb. ; Coffee, 37 a 10 ; Sugar, 35 a 30;
Molasses, S3 it 3 35 peV gallon ; Corn, per
bushel, $4 ; Mess Beef, per barrel, 810 a
SSO; Mess Pork, SOS a S7O; Hhirtings,
per yard, 50 a 70 cents ; Calicoes, 50cents
to sl,
Reported for the U. H. Gazette.
Insolvent Cooht, March 19, 1N39.
CASE OF T. A\ DYOTT.
Present, Judges King, Randall and Jones.
The Court per King, President announced
that the Judges had come to the conclusion
to reject the petition ofT. VV. Dyott, and or
dered him to give, bail to appear at the next
Court of Criminal Sessions, to answer the
ehurge of fraudulent insolvency. Judge King
stated that it was their uniform rule, in such
judgments, not to enter into any detailed review
of the case, in regard to the right of the peti
tioner, to go before a Jury, unaffected by the
weight of judicial opinion; and it was only
necessary to say, in this, as in every Other case,
that the facts in proof indicated that strong
presumption of fraud contemplated by the
constitution, which bars the claim of a peti
tioner to discharge until the verdict of a jury
shall acquit him. The Court ordered bail lii
SIO,OOO.
Mr. Hirst, for the creditors moved the Court
to order a larger amount of bail, in order to se
cure the presence of the petitioner.
The Court suggested that a larger amount,
would be oppressive;—that ten thousand dol
lars, was their highest requisition of bail in
cases of murder in the second degree, and that
the creditors could hold him to bail, on civil
process. The petitioner waa committed.
Dr. Dvott’.s Case. —Dr. Dyott having failed
to give the necessary security, has been com
muted to Moyameusing prison, to aw it his tri
al at the Criminal Sessions, on a charge of frau
dulent insolvency. The punishment of w hich,
according to the statute, is from one to seven
years confinment at hard labor in the peniten
tiary, at the discretion of the Court. The
creditors each enjoy, a clear right to exact
bail for double the amount of their respective
debt; and in this ease, they have resorted to
that right, and already hold Dr. D. to a large
aggregate of bail.—Sent.
.AIR. BIDDLE.
This gentleman who has occupied so pro-,
miuent a position in the public eye as a finan
cier, it w ill be seen has resigned his office of
President of the U. S. Bank of Peilsyl vania,
and Thomas Dunlap, Esq. late 2nd Assistant
Cashier has been unanimously elected Presi
dent o; said Institution. The Philadelphia
Inquirer of Saturday remarks—
“ The face of his voluntary retirement is, to
our minds, conclusive testimony as to the pros
perous condition of the Bank; for Mr. Biddle
is not the man to ahandon an old and tried
friend or institution, in a period of dillieulty
or danger. It is therefore, we argue, that
there is not the slightest couse for alarm, al
though it will be observed, stocks of every
description fell considerably yesterday.
The new President, Thomas Dunlap, Esq.
who was unanimously elected yesterday, has
long been recognised as one of “the first com
mercial lawyers of Philadelphia, and for some
time past, has been engaged in the Bank as a
Cashier. A more estimable, or perhaps, a
more popular citizen than Mr. D, could not
have been chosen in any walk of our commu
nity. As is usual in such cases, there are nu
merous rumors in in circulation in our city—
one assigning Mr. Biddle a place in the Cabinet;
another the Special Mission to Europe. Ail
that wc can say upon the subject is. that if tried,
he w ill be found adequate to any station.”
The stoical scheme of supplying our
wants by lopping oft’ our desires, is like
cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
HavaknAit, Vyril 3, 1830.
FIRE —AGAIN.
About half past seven o’clock, last eve
ning, the cry of lire was again sounded. It
proceeded from the HteamHaw Mi)j Build
ing, on Scudder’s A AN illiimrou’s NVharf,
near the Canal, which being of wood was
in a blaze. The building, and its contents
were totally consumed. It was the pro
perty of Mr. James 11. AN ude, who owned
all but an eighth, which was owned by Mr.
Samuel Griffin. AVe sincerely sympathize
with these enterprising citizens, who have
sustained a heavy loss, the Mill being
valued by Mr. AV. at SIO,OOO, and we leant
not insured. Mr. Griffin has been a suf-j
serer before from a similar calamity. The
fire was arrested by the energy of our Fire
Companies ami some of or citizens, after
communicating to a quantity of lumber and
timber, the property of Mr. John Cant, ]
(whose loss is from S7OO to $000.) and
some lumber of Mr. Hugh AAalts, on the
adjoining wharf, (whose loss isat least S3OO.
perhaps move,) and whose losses though
less in comparison, ur much felt by these
industrious mechanics. The afitiigted roof
of an adjoining brick building, the property
of the estate of the late Joseph Stiles was
■ literally rescued from the flame, while the
late dwelling of Mr. Stiles, (300 or 300
yards distant from the scene) and the build
ings of Mr. Keebler, in the vicinity, w ere
repeatedly on fire. AVe understand that a
few moments before this lire broke out, a
new building, being erected on west Broad
street, but not yet finished, was on fire,
but the flames were extinguished, before
much damage was done.
Fellow-citizens, there are incenduiries
among you. Let Council meet and have
all idle fellows (who are filling our streets
as vagrants,) arrested. Much measures have
I cleared our city before, of vagabonds, and
1 a worthless population.
Let our corporate authorities also pro
vide abundant new hose. Home of the
hose in use is very defective. AA'ith pre
paration we ran subdue the most threaten
ing fire. AVith a false security we may
I again witness the scenes of 1830.
The wind though strong, had fortunately
shifted from the N. AVcst to the North, or
the city would would have been in greater
danger.—Georgian.
From a New Orleans paper.
FREE NEGROES.
The legislature of Albany have passed
an act prescribing that every free person of
colour arriving in that slaw, on board a
vessel as cook, steward, mariner, or in any
other employment, shall be immediately
lodged iu prison, and detained until the
departure of the said vessel, when the
captain thereof shall be bound under a
heavy penalty, to take him away. If any
free person of colour thus sent away, shall
return, he or she shall receive
lashes, and if found w ithin tl*e state twenty
days after such punishment, he or she shall
be sold as a slave for any term not exceed
ing one year. The captain of any vessel
in which such free person of colour shall
arrive, shall give security in the sum of
two thousand dollars, that he will take
away the said free person of colour. The
(ith section makes it lawful for ant person
to seize and make a slave for life, to his
own use, any free person of colour, who
may have come into the state of Albany,
uftcr the Ist day of February, 1833, pro
vided this section shall not take effect until
the Ist day of August next. The 7th section
makes it lawful for any person to seize
upon and make a slave for life, any free
person of colour who may be found iu the
state of Alabama, after the passage of this
act, and who shail have come into the state
since its passage. Approved Fed. 3. 1839-
1 nmanlv. —There is a heartless and
shameful practice frequently resorted to
among those who assume to themselves the
name of men, for the indulgence of spleen
occasioned by petty domestic quarrels.
AVe allude to that of the husband adver
tising his wife, and forbidden all persons
to repose any confidence in her whom he
has sworn to love and protect while life
shall warm his bosom. AVe should think
it quite sufficient pain and degradation that
a woman should be compelled to leave her
husband without the distressing circum
stance being announced in the public prints,
with all the malignant features of revenge
and hatred arcompanaing the commu
nication. AA e think it duty of every con
ductor cf a public print to refuse the inser
tion of such advertisements. Nine times
out of ten-it is the woman's unhappy lot
to be compelled to the pursuit of this dread
ful course by the maltreatment of him who
has vowed to support and cherish her, and
never should an editor he instrumental in
holding her up to the animadversions and
slander of the tailing and evil disposed.
.A. O. Picayune.
Boston Aristocracy. ..AVe publish the
follow ing extract of a letter from Boston,
dated the 36th Jan. to show they do tilings
among the aristocracy iu that city. AA ond
er whether the “Double-Refined Exclusives,
about whom the Post says so much are not
the same people as those spoken of be-
I low :
“Home of the gentlemen of the high
; aristocracy have been getting up a number
ot select bulls, to which none are admitted
! unless by unanimous vote, none is to pre
sume to signify his wish to attend unless
through a member of the managers.—He is
j then to be ballolted for, and if one black
ball is thrown he is rejected. There is
much excitement in Boston about it. The
fashionable world are divided into the so
licited and unsolicited. The latter have
dignified the balls with the name of • Ai
maks It is said, they arc refined until few
are left. One young spring of the favored
i few is said to hare remarked to his partner
| that it was really quite refreshing to be in
a place which did not smell of the shop. It
is said that one ol his near ancestors. I
think his grand father, formerly kept an
essence shop. Something like the same
objection was made by the father of a
young man who was in love w ith
to his, marrying into a family of such low
origin, and upon tracingback theirancestrv
for a short distance it was found that the
head of each was at one time employed bv
the same person one as coachman and the
other as boot black.”—_A r . O. Picayune.
Gen. Hamilton; ex-Govemor Butler, of South Ca
rolina, and Col. White of Florida, are among the
distinguished strangers recently arrived in Texas.
Important from Europe.
By the arrival at New York of the Roscoe,
English papers to Feb. 28th have been receiv
ed, from which iv s make the following ex
tracts :
The news from England and France is be
coming more and more interesting by every
arrival. The approaching contest in the
British Parliament, between Durham and Min
istry on the other, will probably decide the
fate’ of the Cabinet. The Boundary Ques
tion, it will be seen, began to create an excite
ment iu England, before the news of any
. hostile movement here had reached the Brit
ih ministry. The money market in both
countries is in a very unsettled stats, and the
news by the Great Western, undoubtedly will
bn of a Mill more unfavorable character as
regards financial affairs. In France excitement
is tin order of the day, and will be, until the
contest between Louis Philippe and the coali
tion (so called) Wtwecn Messrs, Guizot, Thiers,
(lormenin, is decided. We shall, therefore,
look with great anxiety for news from Kurope
by every packet until the result of the present
exciting topics reach ns, for until then business
will be in an utmost stagnant state.
The Columbus arrived out in 19 days.
The Queen had a violent quarrel with one
ofl icr maids of honor, the Dean of Chester’s
daughter—high words passed—the maid was
pious and rebuked the Queen for going to the
; theatre too much. She was dismissed.
There was an upword movement in* the
money market on the 37th of Feb. and stocks
were confidently expected lo rise gradually j
( Consols closed at 93 for the account. This
wa* caused by the peaceable news from Belg
i turn.
In Cotton, prices remain perfectly steady,
j the demand was small for right days before,
• the Roscoe left—w here sales were forced, a
j decline of an eighth took place.
The English wool and flannel markets arc
getting worse every week.
No improvement in wheat; 150 quarters
iiad arrived at Liverpool from New A'ork.
The House of Commons decided, by 351 to
173. not to hear evidence at the bar of the
House against the Corn Laws.
Lord Brougham’ll motion in the House of
j Lords, to refer the Corn Law petitions ton
committee of the whole House, was negatived
1 w ithout a division.
The subject of the Corn Laws is to be
brought before parliament in a dfllnite shape
on the 23d of March.
The case of Mr. Turtoncamc before parlia
ment Feb. 2olh, and Lord Durham attacked
Lord Melbourne with severity.
The subject of an outrage on the British
flag by the French, m the Gulf of Mexico, was
brought before parliament FoMPU2d.
The Duke of’Welling lay dangerously ill of
daisy on the 26th of Fetuary.
Mr.’ Wakley is official declared Coronor for
Middlesex,
The Karl of Stilling has been arrested for
forgery. %
The following vessels from the United
States have arrived out: Ri pfffciic,St. Clair.
Bengal. Neve, Medra, St James’ Elio Pow hat
tan. Henry, Mars, Mozars. Colossus, Virginia,
and Alexander Edmond.
The King and Couut Mole seem to be gaining
ground in France.
French funds are firm.
One of the first houses in France has had to
borrow two millionsol franco from the Bank
of France.
The Belgian Ministry have said before the
Chamber of Deputies at Brussels, a resolution
to empower the King to accede to the treaty of
Holland.
The Spanish Cortes is prorogued —ministers
were in u minority.
Com. Elliott. — A Court of Inquiry
upon Commodore Elliott, is ordered by the
Navy Department. It is to convene at the
Navy Yard in Philadelphia, on the 22<l of
next month.— Paulson's Adc. of Satur
day.
Anti Abolition Meeting. —The anti-aboli
tion meeting at the Court House,on Satur
day night last, was one of the largest and
most respectable meetings ever assembled
in this city. The large Court Room was
perfectly crammed in all its parts, and a
number were compelled to remain outside
of the doors, for want of space within. The
VYhigs were there in masses, as well as
the Locofocos. The entreaties of the Ga
zette that the Whigs should not attend, had
about as much effect as the idle wind, and
the result shows to the editor of that paper,
the extent of his influence, especially when
he attempts to run couuter to the public
sentiments. The preamble and resolutions
of Gen. Lytle were adopted by acclamation.
They arc strong and to the point, and will
convince our Southern friends that Cincin
nati utterly rejects abolitionism and all its
supporters. The meeting was addressed
by Gen. Lytle, F. W. Thomas, Esq., M. N.
M’Loan, Esq , Mr. J. Graham, and others.
Every thing proceeded in the best order,
and with unusual unanimity of feeling, and
the meeting adjourned at about 10 o’clock.
Cincinnati Whig.
Extraordinary Suicide. —ln the ab
i sence of the coroner, an inquest was held
i yesterday afternoon, by Win. Doty, Esq.,
on the body of Mr. Thomas J. Carmichael,
! of the firm of Carmichael &. Jewett, card
manufacturers on Walnut street. The
| deceased, it appears, was last seen on the
previous morning. The door of the office
being found locked on the inside, when it
was known that his partner was confined
by sickness, induced suspision that all was
not right. The door was in consequence
forced, when the unfortunate Mr. C. was
discovered in au erect position, leaning on
his desk, yet quite dead, and from appear,
ance had been so from the previous day,
A tumbler, —containing a mixture of laud
anum and arsenic was found before him.
A balance sheet of his affairs, appearently
drawn up with much care, showing a bal.
ance of 82189 in his favor, with his will,
was also found before him with a note stat
ing that a copy of the same had been sent
to a solicitor in Framingham, Mass. No
document was found nor reason guessed at,
which might show any inducement to the
dreadful act.
A legacy of fifty dollars, was especially
marked in the will, for a young lady to
whom the deceased had been paying his
addresses.
The jury returned a verdict, “that the
deceased came to his death by takeing pois
on, —arsenic and laudanum, which, it
appeared, he administered to himself.”—
Cincinnnati Bun.
As universal a practice as lying- is, and
as easy a one as it seems, Ido not remember
to have heard three good lies in all my
conversation, even from those who were
most celebrated in that faculty-
DeanSvift.