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appointed to important offices in the Central
Bank- and llle Executive department, men des
titute of private or moral worth ? But to the
extract.
In the Democratic Press of t Friday, June
sth 1807, the following paragraph was pub
lished -....Philadelphia Inquirer.
« A WOULD HAVE-BEEN TORY.
One of Governor M’Kean’s officers who sup
planted a democrat, and who officiates in the
Orphan’s Court, was heard to say, the other
day, that —‘ Had he been a man during the
American Revolution, he should ’have linen a
Tory ; that every man of hoxor was a Tory
during that time.’
On the 7th day of June, 1807, two days af
ter the publication of the paragraph jus» quo
ted, Mr. C. J. Ingersoll addressed a letter to
John Binns, Esq. editor of the Democratic
Press, which was published on Monday, June
8, 1807, from which the following extracts are
copied:
Some days ago on my way to the Sheriff’s
•office, where I had occasion to call, I found
'that gentleman and Judge Jonathan Smith on
the area in front of the State House. After
despatching my professional arrangements
with the Sheriff, we talked politics as we are in
the habit of doing often, and with perfect good
humor. Mr. Smith remained entirely neutral.
Genera! Barker was, I thought, unusually ani.
mated in reprobation of Tories : upo i " Inch
I said, as you have published, that had I been a
man during the Revolution, I SHOULD
HAVE BEEN A TORY-to many of
the best men in the country were so then."
******
“ I endeavor to niolest.no body with my po
litical sentiments, though I disdain to disguise
them, however heretical they may sound at
this time of the tide. If 1 had been capable
of reason and reflection when the American co.
lonies took up arms against the mother country,
1 SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TORY—
NOR CAN 1 EVER CONSIDER THAT
AN APPELLATION OF REPROACH.”
(Si-med) C. J. INGERSOLL.
No. IS9 Chesnut street.
£ fe b fe h fe fe
GfiV. SCHLE!'. |
As we noticed in our last the tour of the
Governor into the up country, we feel equally ■
disposed to chronicle his return, as ho has ]
admitted, “from his electioneering tour.”
Whether his Excellency was, as we sup
posed in our last, incapacitated for an Engin
eer, or whether be felt himself incapable of
reconciling that portion of his former suppot
ters, who have become so justly indignant
with his weak, imbecile administration; we
h>ve not been advised. We aie disposed,
however to think that both of these reasons
have operated to influence his return.
But we care not what were the inducements
that prompted this tour, whether ns his friends
alledged “ the great interest which be fee's in
the progress of the work,” or as we asserted,
and believed, an “electioneering tour.” If
• the former, we ask his friends to point out the
benefit w hich has resulted either to the road
or the commut.i y.
But as they seem so much disposed to make
this a hobby, upon which the Governor may
ride into office, we have a word or two to say
on the subject.
It is well known tv» our readers that his Ex
cellency, so far from supporting this measure
ofiutcrual improvement, did, in his last mes
sage, actually recommend the placing the
whole of the surplus revenue, which the State
acquired by Mr. Calhoun’s Bill, in the Central
Bank, to be loaned out by that institution. And
it was only when his Excellency discovered
the general favor with which this project had
been received by the people, that he became an
eleventh hour ccnvert. And hence the dispo"
sition manifested by himself as well as his sup
porters to make this his hobby.
In our columns fo-tjity will be found the
commencement of a Speech of the Hon. Ho
race Everett before the “ M hiir Associa
tion,” to which we would direct the attention ■
of our readers. Its length should not deter
any from a careful perusal; it will well repay ■
the attention bestowed upon it. The subject
treated of, is at all times one of the first mug->
nitude, and in the present disjointed state of
the currency, it presents to the mind of every j
reflecting reader a question of intense and pa- ]
ramount interest.
Fanner’s Kegistcr. |
The contents of the July No. of this work i
■will be found in another column.
Statement showing the condition of the Geo.
R. R. Ekg. Co. July 1. 1837. including
the state of the Office al Augusta, on 28th
Junel
This Bank owns property as follows :
Notes of Individuals, mid Bills of
Exchange, - 915,415 74
Am’t due by other Banks, - 8,263 45
Stocks, owned by the Company, 23,000 00
Due by Agents, &c. - - 17,370 75
Banking-house and lot in Augusta, 14,006 00
Gold & silver coin, 141.841 09
Notes of other B’ks, 31,630 00
Balance of ac’t cur. with the of-
fice at Augusta, . - 40,132 60
The Road, now beginning to
yield an income. - - 727,354 77
'Total am’t of assets, - - $1,919,014 49
This Bank owes as follows :
for its B’ls in cir’i’n, 365,355 00
For I udivid.Deposits, 69,086 09
ForDivi’ds No. 1& 2, 3,834 65
For am’t due oth. B’ks, 10,638 92
For R. R. Receipts, 1,157 00
450,071 66
Surplus—■
Nett Profits since
Jan. 19. 43,587 74
St’ck, 1,425,355 00
JAS. CAM AK, Cash.
From the Washington Globe.
Fkeasury Department, i
July 3, 1837. ’ $
In compliance with a resolution of the Sen
ate of 2d March last, notice is hereby given
that the receipts for the month of May last'were
as ascertained and estimated
For customs, about S9BO 650
For lands t-7<314
Total, $1.,633,964
The expenditures during the same month I
amount to $2,727,117 96.
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
FOR THE SOUTHERN WHIG.
46!a ofjfaly,
At Spring Place, Murray County.
The fourth of July was celebrated ia Spring
Place, Murray county,- with becoming spirit.
The Declaration of I ndepenance was read by
James Mclntire, and an appropriate Oration
delivered by Col. James Gaston, after which
the company partook of a Barbacue prepared ;
by William McGaughy, Esq. The cloth be- ]
ing removed, the following regular an I volun- |
teer Toasts were drank—Alfred M. Turner, I
Esq. acted as President of the day, and James I
McCasland Secretary.
REGULAR TOASTS.
Ist. The day we celebrate —The occasion I
calls forth the richest oblations of our hearts ■
to the Supreme dispenser of all good.
2nd. Gc.i’l. George Washington—The great- ]
cst monument of human perfection that ever !
lived; we revere his memory.
3rd. Lafayette, De Kalb, De Estang, and De
Grass—There is too much gratitude in the
American people, to forget the memory oi those
who from disinterested benevolence, left then
homes and firesides and crossed the watery
deep, to aid in the cause of our liberty.
4th. Ths officers and soldiers of the Revo
lution—
“ Immortal may their memory be,
Who fought and bled for liberty.”
sth. The spirit of’76 which animated the |
fathers—May it never slumber in their sons, I
6th. Thomas Jefferson —The Apostle ol
American liberty.
7th. The battle ofNew Orleans on the eighth <
of January—A true sample of American brave- j
Bth. The present Administration—Let it be ,
judged by its measures.
Dili. The Army and Navy of the United !
States.
10th. The State of Georgia.
11th. Murray county —lhe judiciary has j
heretofore been literally a dead letter within ]
its limits by faction for selfish purposes, but by 1
the upright Judge of the Cherokee Cirauil,‘and !
the virtue of the people, we hope ere long that
her character will be redeemed.
12th. The Union of the States and the rights ’
of the States.
13th- The Fair—Our companions in pros- !
perity, our solace in adversity.
VOLUNTEER TOAS TS.
By A. M. Turner, President of the day
Civil strife and party contention, end in no ,
good- even to the victors.
By Charles Powell—Success to the Union,'
hoping to find till true hearts and sound bottoms, j
By J- McCasland—The Heroines of the true j
republicans of Murray County; they deserve!
the honors of rising generations.
By James Buchannan—Free trade and sai- |
lor’s rights. j
By James M. Baxter—Texas, free and inde- ]
pendant may she ever be.
By Robert Reid—'The self-stiled Union par
ty; the only practical Nullifiers in the State.
By William McGaughy—The first'Monday j
of January, 1837; will ever be a stain on the
self named Union nartyof Murray county, Ga. !
By Alfred M. Turner—Judge Kenan; may !
he as impartially continue to administer the j
law in Murray county, as he has virtuously
b gun.
By Bailus Donaldson—George R. Gilmer,
the republican candidate for Governor; may
the republican party of Georgia, place him
again in the executive chair, in the place of
the federalist Schley, on the first Monday in
October next.
By Spencer Riley—Little Billy •Springer, I
and big Billy Bishop ; let a history of these !
two distinguished Indian Agents, bo but pub
lished, and Murell is out done.
By Beiij. Parks—The notorious Vv illiam N.
Bishop ; may justice yet overtake him iu de
spite of Schley and the Central Bank; and may
he be transfered from that institution to the
Central Cell of the Penitentiary of Georgia.
By R. T. Banks—Schley, Bishop, Fort, and
others of the Milledgeville junto, Grand Ma
naegerie, worth six and a quarter cents a sight.
By John D. Holbrooks—May it uevei be
exhibited in Murray county.
Sent by James Edmondson, Esq.—The pa
triot, the statesman and honest man; the people
of Georgia have been recently taught to know
the worth of such an individual to fill the ex- j
ecutive Chair. 1
By Wilson R. Young—'The three presiding
Justices of the Inferior Court of Murray coun
ty, made by Bishop, and commissioned by Gov,
Schley, contrary to the w ill of a large majori
ty of the free citizen voters of Murray county,
men devoid of all honest republican principle.-,
or they would resign their offices and let the
people’s will be done.
Col. Gaston, after this toast was drunk, arose
and addressed the meeting, stating the result
of his visit to Milledgeville, for lhe purpose of
o-etti :g Conqmissions for the County Officers
elected in June last. He slated that he had
been informed by Mr. Welborn, one of Gov
ernor Schley’s Secretaries, that a protest
against the Election had reached Milledgeville
previous to his arrival there, that the principal !
ground of the protest was that the Inferior ;
Court of Murray cou. ty, had revoked the or- ]
der for an Election, that the Governor was not |
in a situation to examine the election returns !
and protest from an iuflatnation ot the eyes, |
that so soon as he was well enough to attend '
to business, that the Commissions would be ]
forwarded if the election should be deemed le- ]
gal, or an order for a new Election if illegal—'
That the Commissions had not been forwarded i
that he could learn, nor an order tor a new ‘
Election.
By Joel Humphreys—William Schley ; may ]
he keep his eye-sight long enough to see >
George R. Gilmer in the Executive Chair.
By R. B. Midigby—May George R. Gil
mer be elected Governor, Ri‘d John 15. Muston,
the accomplished gentleman scholar, be
re-elected Clerk of the Superior Ccurt of Mur
ray county, then his Commission is ?ure, — ;
The veto of sore eyed Bill, to the contrary nc-*- \
\\ ithstauding.
Sent in by a Lady—Hands off, Billy Schley; I
the Coosa Land Company, Bishopites and SB9 ]
poneys have had two Governors, now let the i
republican people of Georgia have one.
By Robert Reid—Georgia s friciidiy to li
berty and the constitution, will on the first Men- I
day in October next, expunge from the Lxecu- I
tive Chair, the present iucu bent, by drawing ;
around him biack lines, signifying George IL ;
Gilmer.
By Spencer Riley—Z. B. Hargroves; the;
eight', dollar po ey, tbe would In Judge ot the
Cherokee Circuit. A small breed of dogs th* I
bark to set big dogs on.
By ILL. Bucha.iiae—George IL Gihn.or,
having the wisdom to discern, the firmness to
assert, and the courage to maintain t lie rights ,
of Georgia; the people will p-ove their estima- i
lion on the first Monday in October next.
By James Buchannan—The Inst January I
Election ; the officers were elected at the point (
of the bayonet contrary to the will of the pen- I
pie, and commissioned not withslandn g by Gov. j
Schley. , !
By Jesse Ellard—A Governor to serve (he I
pecrle and not a parly. I
I By Milton Tarrant—Spring Place, a 'Town
; i i Murray county, conceived in sin, and brought
I firth in iniquity—May the next Legislature
| change its name, since the anti Bishop party
have partially changed its character.
By J. W. I). McL’a..--land—Great God, of
what is the Inferior Court of Murray county
composed; of runaways from every other coun
try but this, and soon will have to leave here.
’ By James S. Crumweil—May the people
Georgia through the ballot box in October next,
saddle Billy Schley with Van Burenism, bri
dle him with Bishopism, martingale him with
Federalism, and mount George R. Gilmer with
' spur and whip, to ride him out of the cxecu
i tive chair of Georgia,.
By F. B. Morris—Fair daughters of Geor
| gia; w.ithered be the hearts that would not love
i and admire them, and palsied be the hand that
i would not protect them.
; By Jesse Wade—Lumnkin Unionism ; the
sworn enemy ot law, was never known to an
I honest man, born in a precinct of iniquity, in
' Spring Place, in the soring of 1834, died in
i Spring Place in the year eighteen hundred and
; thirty seven, on a tuneial pile of pine knots.
By William Mclntire—The patriots of Mur
i ray county; long may they remain stedtast in
I lhe spirit of’76.
By Isaac Brodrick—The Murray county
Bernado, William N. Bishop ; may justice yet
overtake him, and may he be removed from
the Central Bank as a sentinel over the peo
ple’s money, and placed under the sentinels of
the Penitentiary ofGeorgia.
By John W. Layinaueo—Our estimable ttnd
■ worthy Judge, Owen H. Kenan; so long as
!he conducts himself so well, and carries out
; the endsofjustice to the satisfaction of the peo
i pie of this Circuit as he has done, so long may
, he preside over us.
| By James McCasland—A republican gov
; ernmtnt can be maintained only by a virtuous
I and intelligent community.
; By N. Anderson—May the single get mar
, ried, and the married live happv.
! By J. W. D. F. McCasland—May the
: year eighteen hundred and thirty seven, be the
I beginning of peace, and end of strife in Mur
i ray county.
By M. Tarrant--The Murray Ladies; you
> are excelled by none, and equaled by few.
By James Donaldson—May she yet show to
i the world, that liberty has not forsaken her.
By J. W. L. Buchannan—The Reader of
i the Declaration and Orator of the day; men de
i voted to the republican cause.
By the Orator oftoe day—Maj. Gen. Wing.
I field Scott; a polished gentleman, a scientific
tactician, -i soldier and patriot.
! Sent in by a young Lady—To the young La
dies ofMurray county ; your republican spirits
shoul t never permit you to unite your hands or
j hearts with any of Bishop’s clan, for the sava-
I ges are too good for them.
By Little Berry Jackson—The old renubli
: can citizens ofMurray county, who have stoo-l
! Lumpkiiiism. Schleyism, Fortism, and Bishop.
J ism ; may they have nothing to stand after the
' first Monday in October, but true republicanism.
; By Ju+in G. Parks—Billy Schley, and Tem
| iinson Fort—the former of the blue light school
' —the latter of State selling memory ; may they
i be taught by the good people of Georgia, ou the ;
| first Monday in October next, how it is to han-
I die such dirty tools as William N. Bishop.
! By James Gaston—Gen’l. Woo!; the man- |
I tier iu which he has discharged lhe duties as-
I signed him in our Indian affairs, entitles him
I to the gratitude of the people of the Cherokee
I country.
By J. W. L. Buchannan—The Ladies who
have favored us with their sentiments upon
this occasion, are entitled to our warmest
thanks.
By William McGaughy—Little Billy Spring
er, old Billy Schley, and Big Billy Bishop ;
may they ail politically die, and their funeral
sermon be preached by Doctor Fort.
i By the Company—Our worthy Host, Wil. ,
\ McGaughy; his principles pure his dinner good.
FOR THE SOUTHERN WHIG.
Watkinsville. 4th July, 1837.
'The celebration of the day commenced with
a procession, formed at the ringing of the bell,
headed by a military band and music under the j
command of Capt. Isaac S. Vincent, Marshal
of the day. After marching to the Church,
where a respectable assemblage of Ladies had
already convened to aid by their presence in
the celebration, which added not a little of spi
rit and animation to the whole proceeding.
The citizens were saluted by plattoon firings,
! after which an appropriate prayer was offered
I by Rev. J. N. Glenn, followed by the reading
of the Declaration of Independence in a deli
berate and acceptable manner by Wm. G.
Haynes; parts of the Constitution of the U.
States were then read, in connexion with a
few explicit and appropriate remarks by G. B.
Havgood, Esq. Gen. Edward Harden having
been previously appointed, proceeded to ad
dress the State Rights Association at conside
rable length, illustrating and enforcing the
rights and sovereignty of the States in that
bold and energetic manner peculiar to himself.
The State Rights Association then adjourn
ed to the Court House, and was organiz' d by
calling Bedford Langford, Esq. Vice Presi
dent, to the Chair.
O.i motion of Philip Clayton, Esq.
Resolved, That the Association proceed <>w
I by ballot to nominate a Candidate for Senate,
| and two for Representatives, to be presented
j to the people of Clark county as suitable per
j sons to represent them iu them iu lhe next Le
' gislaturc ;
; When, upon counting out tho votes, it ap
' peered that Major Thomas Mitchell was da'y
j nominated Senator, and Col. N. C. Barnett,
i Wm. Stroud, and B. B. Moore, Esqrs. Repre
' sentatives; who respectively signified their
! their acceptance of their nominations.
I There being no further business before the
; Association, adjourned to the next regular
j meeting. BEDFORD LANGFORD, CA.
A. M. Jackson, Sec.
The Association having adjourned, a num
ber repaired to the Village Inn and sat down
to a sumptuous dinner prepared for the occa
sion, Maj. Thos. Mitchell acting as President.
I and Gen. Edward Harden as Vice President.
■ The cloth havii g been removed, the following
: ■ ul’c?" t>"d volunteer toasts were drunk with
I warm acplaqralions and repeated cheers:
REuL r TOASTS.
1. Tho Day. It was ones n proud diy for
' all the citizens oi' the tree repi,L’‘iC ol the L.
' States ; v. e celebrate its a miversary t6.‘‘ w'-“-6 ,
i it was, not for w hat it is—yet hope it is not
; extinct.
2. The Constitution of the United Slates;
! rery good for-nothing when administered by
j slaves io power ana panderers for office.
3. The States. 'They are lhe sovereigns ;
the Government of the United Stat< s is a crea
ture made by them—to be ruled by them, and ;
not to rule them.
4. The memory of the Patriots oi the Re
: volution.
5. Georg-" Washjngtot. ; take him all in all.
j he has few, if any equals.
j 6. The Union of the States ; muj it be per
petual.
! 7. State Rights mid State Remedies; mse-
t pat able, or useless.
I 8 Tbe memory of Lafayette; gratitude!
; his due—his fame imperishable.
| Q. ”be Sunth —our common home ; rich in '
S ® u t We r it giO H t $ ♦
soil, elevated in patriotism— to her our allegi
ance is due.
IP. V National Bank; tho only remedv to
restore specie payments, and to establish a
sound currency. Probatum est.
11. Clark County ; if true to herself, sho
has nothing to fear from internal political op
position—and she will betrue.
12. State Rights and Remedies; in theory
good, in practice better. Esto nerpetua.
13. The Ladies— J
Hail, ye fair dauguters of thia happy land !
I Whose radiant eyes the vanquished world commfcul,
Virtue is beauty.”
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By the I resident ot the Day. The era of
■ American Independence; may the same un
j daunted spirit that spurned a foreign yoke, still
l.live to repel every encroachment of our rights.
By the Vice President. John C. Calhoun ;
lhe. whole South should look to him for safety
I and for succour.
! By Wm. Stroud, Esq. The heroes es the
i late Indian War; not to be forgotten amidst
i lhe gratulations of the patriotic citizens of
I Clip k county.
By Thomas Woozencraft. The lion. A.
I S. L lay ton —whose talents, patriotism, virtue
j and urbanity, are the theme of all who know
him: havin ' past the meridian of his sojourn
here, may his declining years be tranquility and
pence.
Bv John Totty. State Rights and Reme
dies, the palladium of our liberties, the longer
tried the better proven ; may the doctrine soon
prevail throughout the union.
By Edward Lampkin. Dawson and Alford ,
both sons of the South, true to their mother—
I the highest compliment that can be paid.
I By E. R. Harden. The lion. A. S. Clay-
I ton ; the distinguished public services and the
| pure republican principles of the author of
; “Atticus,” will long be cherished and rernem
i bered by these who are disposed to admire vir.
I tue and to applaud | atriotism.
By N. C. Barnett. The Pressure; amid
the crash Georgia stands unshaken, and with
an enlightened Executive and an intelligent
and liberal Legislature, her march in the
; grand works of internal improvement will be
I onward.
I By J. D. Woozencraft. The lion. Wm.
j Schley; may the first Monday in October
( leave him in the rear.
! By Wm. Brightwell. The Day; bright in
( the annals of the past —let us preserve it spot
j less for tho future.
i By G. B. Haygood. Esq. I give you Geor-
I gia; not as she has been for five years past,
but. as sh • was in the days of her pride, whan
Berrien, Clayton, Wiki, Gilmer, et alia id ge
nus, were lur favorites, and as she is destined
to be again, when she shall proclaim that tho
latter is still her favorite.
By Walter A. Appling. ’! he principle of
Banking was '"ouceived in sm and brought
forth iu iniquity; it is at war with the genius
of lhe Government, unjust, aid cons 'quently
unconstitutional.
j By A. M. Jackson. Virtue and knowledge ;
* the strongest safeguards of republican liberty,
j protected by well conducted civil and religious
I institutions, our liberties shall be perpetual ;
I latest time shall hail America free and happv.
i Bv Edward Paine. Esq. The Constitution
j ot the United States; the pride of Ameri
' cans—the admiration of the world ; though
the administration has given plausibility to the
extravagant sentiment of lhe poet —
“ For forms of Government let fools contest,
That which is best administered is best.”
By Col. N C. Barnett. The two Readers
jof the Day.
By Captain Isaac S. Vincent, Internal Im
provement, the scion so recently planted on
the shores of Georgia: may it be nourished;
and brought forth until its branches shall ex
tend to the confines of the State ; may our sis
l ter St ites, Seeing its lofty bearings, haste to
: transplant <>n their own native soil.
Bv Wm. G. Haynes. The Vice President
1 of the Day.
! By John C. Johnson. Wm. C. Dawson;
i in Congress recognized as a true son of the
I South—we blush not to own him, but wish for
I many more like him
! By Stephen B. Jones. John C. Calhoun;
I he has wisdom to discern and courage to de
| fend the rights of Southern States.
Bv George M. Payne. The next Governor
of Georgia ;* may ho»be a man whose energies
and abilities are sufficient to guide in peace,
j and direct in war; may he never need the pa
I triotic Jarninghan to defend his frontiers;
i may he be more of a philanthropist than to re
! fuse assistance, when upon his alone depends '
! the lives ot his bravest countrymen.
i By N. A. Adams. Gen. David Brady j
! Mitchell; in his death the State Rights Party ■
i was dept ived of one ot its most talented and
' firm supporteis ; may Ins memory ever be h. Id
■ in grateful and heartfelt remembrance.
Bv Thos. Woozencraft. May the next ge
neration obsetve the good old maxim, that i -
dustrv and honesty are the best policy ; as for
the present, it is barely possible that some of
us niav reform ; last year we had all sail set to
the charming breeze of speculation, and al
j though we carried more sad than ballast, we
I mi rily spent the day, being all rich asCresus ;
| now, the wind having died away, we are in a
j dead calm—no laud in view, no soundings with
I the deep lead line, a dark and drears night '
'just set in! V\ hat can we do? Nothing, but i
live and learn; at any rate let us learn ; .;•> I
doubt we shall all live as 10. gas we can. Dis- j
tress we feel pervades the nation : brought on
by venal speculation ; with little hopes of re- !
novation. Reformation I! I
i By Wm. G. Hayues. The Soldiers of the '
I Revolution; the privileges we this day eiijov
j tell whut they have obtained for us; may we
be ever ready to maintain the rights secured
j to us by the seal of their blood.
By G. B. 1 laygood, Esq. (the President ha
lving retired.) The President of the Day;]
I the faithful sentinel who has watched over our |
I rights for a quarter of a century, and on w horn ]
I we are still proud to bestow our confidence
and our sulirsiges.
jFlertSra War*
From the Savannah Georgian, July 8.
FROM FLORIDA.
“Black. Creek,(Fa.) Jul;, 3, 1837.
“Sir: —The information published m your
paper of 29. h ult. is incorrect., i regret lo
find that vou entertain fears with regard to a
renewal o f hostil iti e s.
“'Micanopy has not been put to death, as re
ported.
“Clou I. Allioiu,.: - , &c. r i.ii their k.
and no L ilia, s have been sin-’i ‘-ar the - t i
tion of M< ssrs. Cl.dk & R a s.
“Is ;i asking too nun hto requ si 1 '
stain from publish! _ ilu m \ c.i ;.a:i:<'i
I accomits that are eurr. -t ?
•• 1 will erdeavor t-. ke- p . ■ i -ipri..
even thi i." which may ueear. «.>r h c minu.
nicatiiig.
“General Jesup reached Ilt ihis morning
from Tampa Bay, o.ia tour of reconnoisance. |
His object is to inspect the posts, to ascertain
the resources ot the country, &e. and to attend
to the comfort oi the Troops, whose health he
j considers paramoti t to (.‘very other coi.sider
i ation, at present; and he. is determined with
lull the means in his power, to protect and
I them fren; disease.”
ecmunercyd.
From the N. Y. Daily Express, July 6.
MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS.
Wednesday. P- M.—The Board of Brokers
met to day h’vinghad a recess since Saturday
Stocks are firm, and increased confidence that
money will become abundant. r I he United
States Bank had declared a dividend ol lour
per cent, for six months. 1 here is a pievail
i'i<r sentiment that the ba k wii! shortly resume
specie payments, that is,that tiny will redeem
all notes issued si ce the hank has been /'bat
tered by the State. The business of the weeK
has been very trifling ooing to the interruption
of a holliday. A large number of persons left
the city for'different places in the cou try. to
spend the 4th of July They are now retui -
ieg, but it will take a day or two for thi gs to
become settled.
Since our last we have bad an arrival from
Europe, via Boston, bring dates two days later
than before received. The news however, is
not important, and we are looking anxious v
for the London and Liverpool packets of the
Ist and Bth of June. The winds, during tn.
dav, have been favorable for their arrival, and
the packet of the Ist has been due for some
days. It will be seen by the articles which w<
copy from the London Times of the 23 h of
May, that there is an abundance of money at
the Stock Exchange which could be had upon
undoubted securities. The want of confidence
in the transaction of business ai d among brisi
ness men, is no doubt the cause of such requi
sition. The same cause in our own money
market has had a similar effect. There had
been no later news re( eived at London or Liv
erpool than the 2d of May. consequently the
news of the suspension of specie payment, by
the American banks had not arrived out. The
cotton maiket, it wil. be seen, was somewhat
embarrassed, or at least threatened with • m
barrassment in consequence of the large am<>u t
of cotton in the possession of the heaviest
the foreign cotton holders.
It is an extraordinart fact that millers are
in this city purchasing foreign wheat at about
160 cents a bushel, to be ground into flour at
Lockport, in this State. We are persuaded
that such a circumstance never before occurred
since the history of the country. That wheat
should be brought from the Black Sea and
transported to the centre of our.richest and
most abundant wheat growing districts is a.,
event we trust may never occur again.
To the Editor of the Southern Whig.
Dear Sir :
The curious theory of the i item.i .
inhabitable cavity of the Earth, broached bx
Captain Symmes some years agone, has h<.
equalled, if not surpassed by the ver, reci t
lectures of Professor Silhman at tho North, i.
culcating the idea of the internal liquid fire of
the Globe. This opinion is ot origi al with
Prof. Sillimaii. but was advocated by Phileso,
phers even before the time of Oliver Goldsmith,
ai d of whose ideas on the subj ct, Mr. G
smith has written in his History nf the Cr i
tio, ,orof “ .animated nature.” Dr. Ihuns
Cooper of South Carolina, himself, a disetpi"
of the French School of Philosophy that flour ;
ished about the end of the last Century, holds!
the same opinion. And there are certai >p< -
riodicals issueing from the great Norther
cities, that agree, implicitly, with the theory ol
an immense internal fire in the Earth. A li
quid fire that fills the whole internal circum
ference of the Earth, excepting an outer crust
of the thickness of thirty or few more miles, to
which thickness, it has cooled and hardened.
With due delerence, to the opinion of older
and perhaps more learned men, I must disa
gree with or dissent from th ir assumptions;
because I feel their tenubiiity will be shaken
upon a fair examination of their hypothesis,
upon the grounds of candor, and with the lights
of nature.
The Earth is said by Astronomers and Navi
gators to be 8900 miles in diameter. How
now could s<> immense a flame as, that of tho
diameter of 7970 miles, not dir efly. burst rhe
comparatively thi > and frail envelope .>f 30
miles thickness? Those who k ow the action
of fire, full well understand its force to b . it
constantly and intenselv burning-, to melt silex
and certain earths, or at least to impart a great
sense of warmth to lhe who! > furnace, that
covers that element. For instance, if a man
hold one end of a very Im g iron m a fiery fur
nace, he will, in the course of time, tee! the
heat thereof to have reached his hands. As
suming now, that what is true in one case, is
a tologically true in another, we might afliim
it with rensi u and philosophy as our guid s,
that the heat of so intense and so immense a body
of fire, as that reported under the Earth by Mr.
SilUman, and burning nnextinguished for four
or five thousand years, would have been enough,
past all doubt, to hare either melted the 30 miles
envelope, or to have at any i ate imparted a red
heat to the whole Earth, and to have rendered it
uninhabitable I H<>w, at least, to common
sense, can it appear that tbe whole Earth, il
Mr. Sillimati’s theory be true, is not still in lhe
state of fusion ? How could a must cool and
harden over a prodigious fiery stove? Besides
to those who know Chyrnistry arid Mi rology,
the fact is evident, that the nature of fire is
powerless withoai the admission to it of air—
for fire in a closed vessel quickly consumes the
air therein, an 1 i umediately goes out—What
air then, is there, iu the immense interior of
our Earth, to feed so vast a flame, that has not
been long consumed, and long expelled from
the heat? Air does not exist in hot ad clost d
chambers, or cavities, oi’a nature tilled to sus
tai . fire. If the gaseous substa.ee b" adverti d
to as a reason, I would de yth position upon
the sutnc grounds of inability of fire to sust .in
itself long without vital Mr. Or wh <i sub.
stance is there on which lhe liquid li ,■ i'
foritsfuel? Is t melted silex ? Wh ■ c h u
comes our argilia that the force of fire does ... -
ver melt? !!ou cool a d harde., from melted
silex, could argi laceous coinpoii ds b.‘deriv
ed ? Ai (I il G,s f tii a flam- to which pure
air cai.uot miv 'cc ss, u i.. >; • ... cmlie
birth, of . four or fit. th. um- d anim
als ago tor it lo 11 i c bee.; a:tog t her co.nsumed.
Or il th ctofib comp irativelv. minute Vl
ea ■■ sbe ii dd up <s lb aid ~ I), ehim
neys r flues of tin gr.i ,d ii m . 1 |). ,d ( | , s k
how so on .me ve..is as iti se volca .o< s. p i
odlCilly abatl gthen flam.. ; in th. irvmit ■<•<■,
could bi taken fir the outlets of flame a <
smoke ot the subter.m'an tire, which, liom its
vast mag. itud<, would require a chimn y oi
the circumtere s.cc of st m bu Mr s a 'mdes.
and ucvyr tu have periodical abatement.
naturalists think, the truth of the
existence the subteranean fire, settled by th<‘
fact, that deep dug wells are warmer the deep,
er su k ! How then does it appear that wells
dug on the Sea Shore, which is more towards
the ce tre ofih • Earth than those dug in high
er regions, are not warmer than those higher.
Why does not the Sea, so deep and much near
er the E. rth’s centre, boil, or emit bubbles’
which would indicate fire beneath ? Even
lake Ontario, which like the Ocean, is unfath
omable, is cool and placid on a calm day, ana
gives not the 1 uist sign of subteranean heat,
whereas the w.-ils dug on its shore, does not
amou t in depth to one thousandeth partofthat
of the Lake. It mav therefore be accounted
for, from the absence of the immediate cold of
the Atmosphere in deep wells, that the idea
was take" of the supposed influence of internal
h .it. If Philosophers wish to meet with hot
waters under tile Earth, th- v must bore the
Earth ol a depth surpass} g the Ocean—but
th. y ought not to suppose hot springs and vol
canoes indicate any thing except local fires in .
certain places, without throwing any real light
on a hypothesis so groundless as the one they
have given. But, if it be advanced, that lhe
reaso why the Earth docs not heat from the
int. rnl fire, is the acti’on of tho cold atmos
phere to suppress the heat—l would affirm this
supposition as entirely irrelevant, as the action
of th.- At mosphere is to support the heat of all
fires that have fuel enough to burn. And, even i
supposing the fact settled of the existence of i
the internal liquid fire, and that the volcanoes
be the chimneys ofthe great steam Boiler, how
can this presumed fact be supported, w hen an !
obj.'ctio.i is urged, considering the size of vol- j
cauo.-s—'They seem from tf»'ir size—f <>m I
their location on mountains—from n t bnrsti g j
out o; low grounds or valleys—aid from their :
occasional ibateme. tof cruptio s. to i diente |
subtt raneous fires—local, in th ? M>>u tai s.b.;t ,
certainly offer no tangible sign ot origitiati g I
from a liquid Are, so vast as to be sufficient to !
firm Volcanoes a thousand times the dimen- ;
sioas of the present ones! What would we i
think of an Iron House, filled with fire, and,
h vi g a few holes to evacuate smoke oftke
siz • of a stmtll pin wire, or of o ily half an
i .-h circumference ’ And yet the dimension
of a comrm n sized house with a few pin-holes']
through its one .Yet thick walls, may be com !
nar d to the dimension of this Earth with its ■
f w Volcanoes, of not many miles circutr.fer- I
encc. A d what holds good in the one case I
must, absolutely, in the others.
If I have now so far refuted Mr. Silliman’s |
sumptions, as to make it necessary for his
■ h. ory, before it can now find advocates to be
lieve or support it, to hav< some defender to
r ply to my arguments ; I request such an one,
if with! i the range of the reading of the Whig,
to o er his defence through the columns of]
that paper. I desire him to take, one, bv one, ]
mv positio s, separately, and account for the
iiffei-''; t phenomena that seem so potently to
deny the existence of the vas' fire that is sai l
to be. Men who advocate this hypothesis, a d
who also believe in the Mosaic records of
Creation, endeavor to reconcile their supposi- ]
tions with Genesis, by contorting the argument |
a d strai ,i; g the subject. They make it ap- !
pear, that, as “ one day is as a thousand years ]
to th : Lord, and a thousand y ars as one day,” I
He was many vears in creating the Earth,
and th it this fire at length gave out the earthy
incrustation around it. I believe notwithstan
ding that as Moses said “ in six days God made
the Earth,” and all, that these-six days stood
for duration to our ow i period of time, and
th:’ II were formed in the same length of time
as our own week. Shall we say in six thou
s.. I . -ars He made all ? and rested another
ih >it" • d ? It cannot be th it the Bible meant
a , >ther length than thgt o? our own week
d <vs —si ce if in the mysteries of God, the
length a ;d shortness of time are exactly alike,
it do s not follow of course that tho longest
time to us was taken up in cro.nti ;g lhe worlds,
which were pronounced into bwug by his
voic •. God spoke the Earth into being, and
md made all her accompaniments in six days
ccordiijg to our time—but the believers and
I advocates of the theory of i ;t r ial liquid fire,
would, i ; order to support their fallible pre
t isio is to unimpeachable credit, make the
t;:.n • lo iger than the present age of the world,
.s if th ■ Lord had begun to make the world
ib ut th ■ uate of Genesis h would not have
b . this time finished it! But as the Mosaic
rec >r I > creation is the tru ■ one, and as he
sai.i nothing about fire i i the Earth, or as being
the basis of tuis planet, it must be taken fir ]
gra. t .I, that the followers of Silliman, and of
the French school, are mistaken in their specu- ;
lation concerning what I have opposed suffi- I
cient argument to disprove. Except mv po- I
sitions be proved erroneous, or hav>- at all sign !
of i icorreci css, the theory of i it r il liquid ]
fire fill! g the whole Earth, must be do. e away |
with as untenable and unsubst.iutial.
JOHN J. FLOURNOY.
S»r H-'aroi ’ E-ieg-i-S.-r,
Vol. 5, No. 3.—July 1337.
Original communications.—Salt marshes I
and malaria. Remarks on marsh effluvia. !
Trenching on hili sides. Desultory onsetva
lioiiH on lhe Police of Health in Virginia, com-;
prising: No. 1. Action ot calcareous earths in
preserving putrescent matters No. 2. The ;
police ot tilth in towns, and its bearing on com- ;
fort, decency and health. French method of]
preparing poudrette and urate for manure. No I
3. Facts and opinions on the subject of town j
tilth from French authorities. No. 4. The i
waste and destruction of town-made stable i
manure, and ol other such materials. Imnor- ;
tance of grass crops—unsticcesslul experiments
Fhe use ol hand-rakes in cultivating com, list
ing corn land, &c. Horizontal ploughing—- !
hill-side trenches—hand-rakes—use of Gyp
sun*, <Scc. Important fact in regard to keeping ]
apples sound lor a longtime. Memoranda of
hasty visits to the country—Crops and farming |
at Shirley, Ate. Some of the common and gen- I
eral errors which serve to depress agriculture.'
Preventive oftlie blight in pear trees. Sapling
(or large) red clover. Extracts from private
corresponde .ee. Monthly commercial report.
Virginia Legislature—-. Stay-law, aid to agri-'
culture. Season and crops.
Selections. —Account ot the electro-mag
netic machine or motive power. Remarks on
silk culture and manufactures. Burnt clay as
manure—its preparation and application. The
law prescribing general regulations for manu
tacturing and mining companies. German
railroads. Observations in several voyages
.nd travels in America. On the manufacture i
of beet sugar in France, and the introduction
m the United States. American Flora. New
Zealand Flax fhormium tenax.) “Carrvmg i
I coals to Newcastle.” On procuring euwffes
.| of water for cities by boring. Account of ««
I eral borings through the plastic clay forti'atior
I near London. Notice of a new marnr* used
ii in France. Bone dust. Swedish turnips
&A inform his friends
• v v and the public, that be
HUffVTe is just received s ank
' Splendid Assortment
iU? 1 W’ATCHLF
WyNM - . and
i JFiWEtEBV,
Among which are every varietv of Gold and
- Silver Watches, Chains, Keys aiid Seals.
; Gold and Silver Pencils,
1 do do and steel spectacles,
j Gold Sleeve and Collar Buttons,
I I Ear-Rings and Pins,
r ! Ladies’ neck and fob Chains,'
| do Seals and Keys.
1 ■ ; •—ALSO—,
| A very handsome assortment of Finger Rirg?.
and all other articles usually called for in his
line of business.
and Clock repairingdone as usu
i al, and warranted,
Athens, July 15—11—ts. ? 4
FOR SAL.E.
npHAT Valuable Tract of Land where John
Puryear formerly lived, now owned by the
subscriber, lying immediately on the west line
ofthe incorporation ol the town of Athens, con,
taining near.
SOO AI RES,
one hundre d acres wood land, the balance under
i cultivation, and in good repair, with a comfort
able dwelling, and all other necessary out build,
i ings, u family mill, with an apple and peiich
. orchard of choise fruit.
If tin* above Land is not disposed of previous
to Commencement, it w ill be run out in Lots,
: from 4to 20 acres, or, to suit those wishing to
purchase ; and will be offered for sale during
! Commei cement week. The Lotei v. hieh the
dwelling stands, will be laid ofl’snffir < dy large
; to embrace the spring and all buildings con,
nected with it.
M. T. C. LUMPKIN
Athens, July—ls—ts.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. f
Athens, July 12, 1837. )
riYIIE Examination of Canidate,s for r d
5 sion into College, will take place ci. S' ;
day the 29th inst. On Sunday, the Coinnir
nient Sermon in tbe College Chapel. Ou M
day, the Board of Trustees will meet.
Ou Tuesday the Ist August, the Junior Ex
hibition, and Oration before the Alumni, and on
Wednesday the 2d, the Annual Commencement
On Thursday the Oration before the Demos,
thenian and Phi Kappa Societies will be deliv
ered by the Hon. H. L, Pinckney of Charleston,
A. HULL, Sec’y,
j July 15,—11—2t
NOTICE.
fIIHREE Months alter date I will apply at t
Rail Road Bank in Athens, Geo. for the pay
ment of a one Hundred Dollar Note of said
Bank, (the left half of which lias been lost in the
Mail) of the following discription, viz: Letter
A. No. 210, payable to Jacob Phimzy or bearer,
at the Principal Bank in Athens., on demand da
ted June 7th, 1837, —and signed by Win. Dear,
ing President, and Jas. Camak, Cashier of said
Bank.
SARAH A. WALLIS.
Athens, July 15, —11—3m
” ’notsce.
FSNHE Subscriber would respectfully inform
the public that he has taken charge of 1 nos
H. Lesters Saw-Mill, situate four miles above
Athens, on Sandy Creek, ar.d will be prepared
! to till any order for Lumber at the shortest no
! tice.
WALTER CARSON
July 15—11—3 t
nA. FRASER ct Co. respectfully annoit'ifr
. to the Citizens of Athens, and the s' r
roundinff Country, that they have taken MA
Brown’s New Store, where they have opens"’ ?
neat and entirely new Stock ai Fancy ami
mestic Dry Goods; which they ofl’or for Cas
the lowest possiole prices.
From the circumstance of one of the Part
ners being a resident in market, those favoring
I H. A. F. & Co. with their patronage may i ■-
pend on being supplied with the latest fasha. . ,
as they appear in New York..
Purchasers are respectfully invited to cull iu. '
examine their stock
Athens July 1,-9 —3t
i’U E. MARTIN,
DENTIST,
IS now in this place, and offers bis profes
siunal services to tbe citizens of Athens am?
its vicinity.
He mny be found at Mr. Jackson’s H'jtei.
Athens, June 24—8—tfl
For Sale or to Let.
A Large and extremely Commodious Store
, Za. in the very centre of business, which the
i flourishing condition and future pr spects of
Athens, render a very eligible situation for those
I wishing to locate themselves in the up country.
Possession will be given on the Ist January
I next. For further particulars, apply to lhe sub
; scribers on the premises.
J. CRITTENDEN, & Co.
Athens, Geo. July 8,-10 —ts
I The Augusta Constitutionalist, and Savannah
I Georgian, will give the above six weekly iaser
] tions, and forward their accounts to the Editor
j ofthe Banner.
A Ei»>t oi - Letters,
Remaining in the Post Office at Watkinsville,
Ga. 3Qth June. 1837.
i Smith Alexander, Joshua Hopping,
' Edmund Allen. Benj. F. Johnson,
Walter R. Branham. Edward Lochelt, 2
Allen NV. Brown, Cot. Wm. O. Lyman, u?
I La ury By rant, Eli Landers, v
W. J. Beggs, Esq, 2 Joel Morton, 2
i James Beall. Rowan Mcßce, 2
.l imes C Branch, B. B. Moore,
JohnT. Bilker, Sroud Melton,
’ John Curtis, ' Wd, Sarah Many, 2
Patience Caflin, Needham McLoroy
I Church Christ, Free-Theopilus Meriwct .
man’s /’reek, Phillip Stincbcomb,
George Clifton, Jesse Statham,
MaryS Deavenport, E. Sorrel,
Moses Dobbins, Albert Scars,
Wm. 11. Dabney, Elizabeth Talbot, 2
Henry S. Deavenport,Charles Thompson,
! Benjamin Easley, James L. Thomas,
Samuel G. Everett. Absaluni Duke®,
Jolla Feaster, John Wright, Esq.
j Capt. John Felton, Edward White,
! William Fullilovc, Owen Wood,
i John Gardner. Thomas H. Young, 2
; Charles Gregory,
WM. APPLING, P. M.
July B,—lo—3t
Y List of Letters,
Remaining in the Post Office at Danislsvdle, c,
the Is/ July, 1837.
I Janies Bartlett, John Jcrmany,
' Sanders W. Colbert, James A. McClane,
James Daniel, Jr. John Morgan
T homas Dean, James Maxwell,
Messrs. Berry Josiah Ezekiel Polk,
Drake. Abrani Simmons.
George W. Gin, Martin Streetman,
William Gardner, Jr. James Sartin.
Mr. Hightower, William Shields,
Samuel Higginbotham, Elisha Ware.
WM. MERONEY, P. M.
July Bt—lo—8 t —lo—