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(¥'BL!HBD BY nnjll-nr) From tke Christian Index. 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.