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«* « =--™ND SENTINI L. * CHRONICLE — * A. } .i'ItORNING, FEBRUARY | I RATIJf . --7=^=l— North of Chefiestc.i last night i Nr y ll : I the absence of any thing later from VV as I ng ,n, we copy the correspondence of the Balti; on Patriot, giving an account of the debate oi the report of Mr. Gmndy, from the Commute to whom was referred the rcsolations of Mr. Be >on in relation to the Governments assuming th„ debt* ofthe States. | •, Tanners’ Register. Right glad are we to acknowledge our in sht ednesa to the editor of the Farraers’ Registe for his politeness in forwarding to our Res ing Room the January number of the eighth vo! me of this most excclleat agricultural work. A e welcome it as we would an old and inti ate friend, for it lyings fresh to our recollection by gone days, when we were wont, after the to 9 of the day, to retire to our sanctum, illumine by the solt light of an astral, (for in those day; we supported an -astral,) and feast upon the ric re past which the indefatigable editor served in iich handsome style, every month for his numf yus readers. We welcome it the more cordial I; be cause the ruthless hand of time has not furre fed its familiar face, but it appears rather to imp |>ve as it advances. May it ever be thus. The January number may lie seen on th [ta ble in our Reading Room. And to those of our friends who desire an agricultural work, we an cheerfully recommend the Register as every f ay worthy of theit patronage. The War upon the Currency. | The following graphic sketch of the eflec |i of Locofocoisra upon the country, wc copy .ron the New York Times. It is indeed a gloomy pic ture, and we fear it is not overdrawn. E ery mail, aye, almost every breeze wafts upon uSthe unwelcome intelligence of the utter prostnM-on of all classes of business, and the contiiwed downward tendency of the products of the c<lin. try. The poor pittance of the mechanic andfihe laborer is curtailed, until he is scarcely abb to afford a competency for those dependent t on his exertions for succor, while the agriculturi in common with the whole commercial int est throughout this vast republic are writhing u Jer the greatest possible depression. To what, sks the enquiring mind, can this deplorable sta i of "Hungs be attributed? The answer is at h id : it is the unceasing war made upon the curr icy by the Locofocos, which was commence*.* by General Jackson upon the National Bank, nd has been continued by the “followers in the »ot steps,” with his trained hand of plunderers, irst upon the local Banks and finally waged ag nst the whole credit system of the country, unti the nation from one extreme to the other is groa ing under the accumulated burthens of a corruj ad ministration of the government. Let us not however, despair, but hope that the time c de liverance is at hand, when the country wil free itself from the desolating influence of co upt men, and return again to that state of prosp -ity in which they found it. Effects of Locofocohm lpo.v the F^ar- IHG INTERESTS OF THE COCSTRT. The cago American says; “We learn from an |iu theutic source that iflfteen thousand bushel • of wheat were sold at Marshall, Calhoun Cot ity, Michigan, at thirty cents per bushel.” The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald states that “< >me farmers of Stark County who wanted mon< ;• to pay their taxes falling due in a few days, re mt ly visited Massillon, carrying their wheat for ialc. After uawking it through town for someritnr ;the best offer they could get was 43 cents a bnsd il in barter for goods which would not pay taxei ! but could not get a cash offer at all, and were ol Iged to return as they oame.” > Pork, in Ohio, is worth from two and ah if to three cents per pound. At Pittsburg, flo r is quoted at $3,50, and a little farther West a* $3,- 25 and $3, per barrel. A proportionate reduction in the prices of -cad stuffs and of all agricultural products used as food has taken place throughout the country, and heir tendency is still downward. T.) what is this state of things to be attributed T We answ. -, to the universal distress among ihe consuming < ass es. Business is stagnant and thousand to which its activity would give all the comfo; s of slife, are starving. The mechanic, who i few years ago could maintain his family in lu ury upon his ample earnings, must now restrict |iem and himself to the necessaries of life, while til* la borer whg was content with these, feels the ]ings of absolute want. If either have acquired aiittle property, and desire to turn it into cash to neet present exigencies, he is compelled to sacri be it at a moiety of its value, to seme capitalist who so far from seizing upon it as a cheap bai rain, considers the purchase, in the present depi ssed state ol the country, a hazardous speculatio, Under these circumstances, can it be a n uter of surprise to the farmer that he is unable tt ob tain a remunerating price for his produce, and that the poverty which he has seen overw elm his best customers, should be approachinc his own door 1 He is as yet only tasting the first fruits ot disaster ; he is merely in the nov iatc ut rum. And what has brought these calamities t non the community ? What hac diminished th de mand tor labor, and the prices of all the on iuc- Uons of labor! What, but a vindictive, ong continued, incessant warfare upon the curre re presentative of their value! The trained I >od hounds which have just been imported into ) ori da, cannot follow on the track of the savage vith a more relentless, persevering fidelity, tha the Administration pack have displayed'in hu tin~ down the commerce, the credit, and the cur ncy of this impoverished knd. Late News at H ax n.—Tbc packet shi ; Pa trick Henry, Capt. Delano, from Liverpool was below at New-York, 31st ult., her regular . iy ot sailing the 25 of December, consequently si ■ will bring at least 8 days later advices from Lor on. iTennessee United Stales Senate . The Nashville Republican Banner of tlx 28th ult says .—that General Alexander A o.h of Knox county, was vccrdtj elf cd . Senator m the Congre» th. United Sus, to fill the vacancy occasioned b, , he of the Hon. Hrou L. Whit.. The vote , follows : Alexander Anderson 1Q Hugh L. White Wil latu Trousdale, of Sumner, 3 Judm F«kon, of Lincoln, 3 Correspondence of the Baltimore tat riot. Washisgtox, Jan. 29. INTERESTING DKBiTE IN THE SENATE. THE ASSUMPTION OF STATE DEBTS. A good day’s work has just been finished by the Senate. The idle and mischievous resolutions of Mr. Benton, against a straw of his own crea tjcn against a proposition which has never yet been submitted to the Senate ! —for the assump tion by the Federal Government of the debts of States, were referred, it will be remembered, about three weeks ago, after a long and swelling har angue from their author The Committee,*rffter taking all this time for examination and study, sent in a report to-day, by the hands ®f their chairman, Mr. Grundy, who, to give greater em phasis to its doctrines and arguments and decla- j mation, read it himself from the Secretary’s desk. A debate arose upon it instantly, which, for animation, interest and importance, has not been surpassed by any thing that has occurred during the present session. The scope and tendency of the resolutions and the report were attacked with great power by Messrs. Crittenden, Preston, Southard, Webster, and Smith of Indiana; and so heavy and effective were their blows, that after a feeble defence by the chairman of the Commit tee, and by the author of the resolution*, the re port was sent buck to the Committee for correc tion and emendation ! The report appeared to be, for the most part, a rlfacimento or hash of Colonel Benton’s speech es on the subject; and that remarkable Senator seemed to be actuated by some of the pride and jealousy of paternity respecting it, for he took upon himself a great deal of the care and burden 1 of explaining certain parts, as well as of its gen eral support and defence. As soon as the reading was finished, Mr. Crit tenden rose, and commented on the extraordinary character this whole proceeding. I greatly regret that, owing to engagements in the House, I did not hear the first part and the best of this speech ; but it is represented as being distinguish ed, in an eminent degice, by force of argument and felicity of illustration, and that inimitable wit and sarcasm which give so much spirit and point to his style. He made an able and eloquent defence of the course and conduct of the States, | and protested against the unwarrantable interfer ence of the Senate in their domestic concerns. — In this connection he alluded to certain famous resolutions, drawn up by Mr. Calhoun, immedi ately with reference to the design and movements of the Abolitionists, but containing strong decla rations of a general and comprehensive character against the right of one State, or a combination i of States, or the General Government, to inter meddle with the internal policy and domestic concerns of any Stale of this Union. He quoted J the language of Mr. Calhoun, and called upon him to say whether the resolutions of Mr. Benton and this report of the committee were not “inter meddling” palpable and direct—whether every word of animadversion and censure contained in them was not “interference at once unwarrantable 1 and insulting to the Stales.” I hoped this allusion would bring Mr. Calhoun j out—but he kept his seat; and Mr. Grundy took \ the floor. He said (I doubt not with peifect sincerity) ' that he had hoped the discussion of the report would have been delayed for some time, until the committee should be prepared for it. There can ! be no question at all that the authors and friends of the report were not ready to meet the argu ments with which the distinguished gentleman of the Opposition assailed it on the very spur of the occasion. Mr. Grundy, however, went so far in the defence as to disclaim most emphatically any design to injure the States, or to rebuke or insult them. But what signify all these disclaimers, when the whole tendency and end of the acts of the committee is to do this injury and give this offence 1 With regard to a gross error in the report, in stating the amount of the debt of Louisiana, Mr. Grundy virtually admitted that he had taken the report of a New York Comptroller, (Mr. Flagg) for his authority. In a brief but pungent rejoinder, Mr. Critten den re-inforced, what I understood were his ter mer objections to the report. The States of this Union are held up in it invidiously, as being in debt to the amount of Two Hcxdred Millions of Dollars ; and lest any of the evils of such a state of indebtedness should escape the notice of the world, they are commented on with all the prodigality of language and illustration, and when the committee are asked for the grounds of their statement, they can show none ! But the Chairman tells the Senate of a calcu lation that has glanced faintly on his memory— and it was the basis of this structure ! How, Mr. Crittenden asked, could a Statesman come into the Senate and venture to announce to the world a “ calculation” on this most important and deli cate subject without besng sure of his grounds 1 He repeated, all disclaimers to the contrary notwithstanding, that this report was in substance, tone—its whole aim and object, a gross indignity to the States. Suppose a man were to go on ’change and proi laim to every body he met that one of his neighbors was immensely in debt, (and that too without knowiag any thing certain about his condition,) and that neighbor had better not come to him for security, for he should not get ft -would that not be regarded as offensive I This is a similar case. Have the States asked this Government to become their security ? i Whence! Where’ What State 1 They have not asked it. \et they are brought up here in view of the whole world— not for punishment oh no !—they are not caught by the head and shaken, or by the throat and constrained—but they receh e lectures and animadversions in a most circumlocutory manner, and the whole world is told to mark well that they ar* greatly in debt, and that the Government w’ill not become their security! Mr. ( rittenden made no motion, hut he expressed his hope that the majority would see the propriety of recommitting this report, with instructions to inquire into the facts, and ascer tain how ranch was the amount of the whole debt ot the states, and how much was the part of each, and state these things, not with ambiguous ver bosity, but plainly and specifically, so that if the Committee were determined to enact the charac ter ol Mentors, the country might have correct information. Mr. Benton, though not a member of the com mittee. had, I dare say, much to do with its work. He now rose, and, alter a few explanations, pro posed the printing of the largest number of copies that had ever been printed of any document; no less than thirty thousand! He farther moved ; that the Report should be made the order of the i day for next Monday. Mr. Southard next got the floor, and asked the ! Chairman of the Committee where he found the proposition for assuming the State debts, which I he had been combating so industriously 1 , Mr - Grundy replied that notice had been given by a member of the House of Representatives, of his intention to bring forward a measure of the kind. Mr. Southard, “ And that is the gentleman’s ground for action by us in the Senate! To an ticipate and counteract a proceeding in the other branch of Congress.” After commenting ,„y properly on this inde c rum ot e House of Representatives, Mr. South ard proceeded to show the inevitably injurious ef fects ol the promulgation of this report with the sanction of the Senate. r Mr. Smith, of Indiana followed with some ju dicious and forcible remarks against the whole pro ceeding. ” Mr. Brown, of N. C. spoke a short time,but he added little or nothing to what had been said by his abler friends, Messrs. Benton and Grundy. ” Mr. Preston then rose, and followed up the at tack on this poor report, with a speech of great j ability and eloquence. He denied ibe junsdic- | I tion of Congress over the States, on this matter, and condemned this proceeding as an attempt at little else than issuing a commission of bankrupt cy against them. He exposed very clearly the detrimental effect it must have on the interests ot his own State of South Carolina particularly, and of all, and of the General Government itself. For i he reminded the authors, that large sumsbelong -1 ing to the Government, and for which it wastrus i tee, were invested in these State stocks. He reprobated strongly the magnifying of the debts of the States by the committee, and adduced sev eral flagrant instances of this mischievous exag geration. Mr. Preston asked what right they had to im agine that the States were coming to ask this i boon 1 Who says that South Carolina is corn i ingl Who says that every State is soliciting your favors'? What would they come so I What hope would bring them to your exhausted Treasury ? Do they not know that every accu j sation of imprudence, of prodigality, ot culpable extravagance, with which you have vituperated them, is true respecting yourselves? Are they coming to your iron chest for that which they 1 know is not there ? He objected most strenuously to the Senate giving any sanction to this report. Let it be printed, and it will in twenty-five days be on every banker’s table in London. Every broker there will forthwith try to hedge himself. It will i be another violent blow against Ameirican cred it and bring down all our stocks in the Europe an market. After Mr. Preston finished, there was some conversation about striking out certain parts of the report before printing it, and especially that which stated the indebtedness of Louisiana. Mr. King, of Ala., then rose, and moved to recommit the report, with instructions to strike out the statements concerning the debts of partic ular States. On this proposition, Mr. Webster took the floor, and by a speech, of uncommon force, gave a settler to the re port for the present, at least. He said, he was certainly for sending it back to r the committee, and keeping it there—for, in his ] opinion, it was the most extraordinary document j ever put forth by wise and reflecting men. — j 1 When he looked at the time of its introduction , —the circumstances—the absolute absence of any ; j necessity for it, he could not but regard it as the j most gratuitous, uncalled for, and indiscreet pa per he had ever seen in his life. Very many of the States have heavy amounts in foreign markets—his own State, Massachu j setts had—and shall the world be told by this Sen- I ate that the Legisleture of that State had over ( I burthened itself with debt? Sir, (continued Mr. Webster,) I renounce entirely and absolutely the legislation of that gentleman, or of any body else, on this matter. I protest against their putting arguments into i the mouths of others to use against the States of | this Union—their insinuations that there is dan ger of the States of this Union not fulfilling their obligations. It is admitted they can pay. Why then do gentlemen go out of their road to say the | Stales will not do their duty. Why touch these I concerns at all 1 Who brought the subject here ? Wherefore do gentlemen stand up in the Senate and read us long arguments against cases which no man has brought forward, and which no man in the country is weak enough to maintain?— What is the object of these swelling and inflam matory resolutions, arrayed in gaudy and flimsy rhetoric, put forth and supported—and to be quo ted in every foreign country ? He could conceive nothing more detrimental to the interests of the States and the country. He instanced the case of Louisiana, about which the committee had so signally blundered. What, he asked, was there of justice or statesman-like conduct in magnifying and showing up the amount of its debt ? He was glad to see that the majority themselves had become alarmed at their own work in this instance. But why, if any thing of this kind was to be done, had not the committee put their inquiries to the State au thorities ? Would they have dared to do that ! No: they knew the impropriety of it. Yet, if any thing was to be dene on the subject, that un questionably was the proper method. Mr. Webster delivered his remarks with great animation and earnestness of manner; and he was listened to with deep attention. He conclu ded by suggesting to the committee that if they did make e. report, it should be in five lines, and simply declare that the resolution of the Senator from Missouri, had no application to any case be fore the Senate. By this time the Administration members had become pretty well satisfied that their committee had blundered sadly. Mr. Grundy, rather humbled apparently, saiu? something about the importance of looking to danger at a distance; and, in an apologetic strain, admitted that in so long a report some things might have crept, which were not altogether accurate, &c. and so, he would assent to the re-commit ment ! But, he added, he could assure the Sena tor from Massachusetts, that the report would consist of more than five lines, for the subjects were, in his opinion, of grave moment. ‘ Very well” (rejoined Mr. Webster) “and I ; hope the honorable gentleman will give us one thing; and whether he does it in five, or in Jive hundred lines, I care not. Let him state the particular amount which each state is indebted. After some conversation between Mr. Critten den and Mr. Grundy, the question was taken on the re-cornmittent and carried in the affirmative without a division. Mr. Calhoun did not open his lips on the sub ject. Among the petitions and memorials presented to the Senate this morning, was one by Mr. Web ster, from a large number of the citizens of Bos ton, praying for such an alteration of the law as would allow a drawback on coal exported from England to this country for the purpose of being used by the steam ships. Mr Phelps presented the resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, instructing their Sena tors and requesting their Representatives to use their exertions to procure the passage of a law au thorizing the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands among the States. The Senate adjourned after the debate on Mr. urundy s report. Governor Morton’s Message excites unquali- j I fied admiration among the Loco Focos It is | ma(3e U P af ? e r the best fashion for the market- J Wlt h all the necessary common-places on the sub i ject of banks and the credit system, and with the ■ due exhibition of alarm and indignation, touching : internal improvements and State indebtedness. 1 rhe Governor thinks, however, that it will -ot be I worth to touch the banks of Massachusetts i until the Sub-Treasury shall get into full opera tion, except it be to the end of restricting the i, sue of small bills. The Governor’s recommenda tions, with all their merit in the eyes of Loco Fo coism, are unfortunately of no moVe interest or in' fluerice than those of any other private individual m the State, and therefore we do not think it worth while to transfer any portion of them tn our columns. The Governor's position on ,he Bench has not enabled him to pursue financial studies to any great advantage; as we believed all his knowledge on the subject has been derived from his connection as director with one or more banking institutions He merelv palms off the thrice sodden absurdities of Ne* York Loco Fo coism tor the results of his own reflection and ex perience. We have said that the recommendations of Governor Morton possess no more public inter est than those of any private individual in th- State. This is sufficiently indicated by the feet thai, with a Whig majority i n both branches o f the Legislature, and in hi* own Council, there w no reason to fear that any of his theories on the subject of Banking, will be reduced to practice among his constituents. —New 4 ork Enquirer. Treasury Department, February 1, 1840. Amount of Treasury notes issued under the provisions of the acts of Congress ot 12th Octo ber, 1837, 21st of May, 1838, and 2d March, 1839, $19,567,086 22 Os this amount there has been redeemed - 17,358,822 55 Leaving outstanding the sum of $2,208,263 67 LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury . Mr. Buckingham, so well known in this coun try as a public Lecturer, appears in the last New York Observer of this city with very serious com plaints against the Editors of that Paper, for first garbling and misrepresenting his Lectures on Palestine, and then admitting a series of comments from the pen of the Rev. Eli Smith of Boston, founded on these errors, and consequently doing him great injury. The letters from Mr. Buck ingham shows most clearly that he has been most grossly traduced and injured. He has thus far made a most triumphant vindication of all he has said, and proved most conclusively that he has just cause of charging the Editors of that Paper with a system of duplicity and double dealing— most disreputable as men, to say nothing of per sons who are professors of religion, and who are conductors of a Journal devoted to the Chr*stian cause, which is so much reveied and loved.—A. Y. Eve. Express. The Hawkinsville Bank.—Numerous re ports having been in circulation, in reference to the sale of a majority of the Stock, and the trans fer of this institution, injurious to its credit and standing, we are authorized most distinctly to state that no such sale or transfer has been made, and that no change whatever is contemplated, either in the directory or the officers of this Bank.—That a portion of Stock has been sold to : some gentlemen residing at or near Fort Gaines, -for the purpose of establishing an agency at that point, which is to be under the entire control of the mother Bank. A list of the new Stockhold ers will be published at an early day.— Macon Telegraph of the \lh. The Valley Forge Steamer.— We observe in the Southwestern papers coming from towns on the Mississippi, notices of this vessel as she proceeded on her voyage downwards to New Or leans. The Memphis Enquirer says she touched at that place and seemed crowded with passen gers. She drew about four feet water—no more than any ordinary boat of her tonnage. Her passage down the river, adds that paper, forms a new era in the steamboat navigation of the Mis sissippi. A Natchez paper speaks of the appearance of the “ Valley Forge’ at that city, and gives an ac count of her dimensions, tonnage, &c. All ac counts go to show that she works well. In point of speed she falls short of the best wooden steam ers, although, no doubt, subsequent improve ments in the construction or iron vessels will do away with the obstacles which cause this sort of j inferiority. The superior safety of iron steam ers in regard to fire will recommend them strong ly to the public favor.— Balt. Anier. The American Silk Society will meet in Wash , ington city on the 19th of Feb. inst. Amongst other business, it is expected that the Society will then osier the following premiums for the pro duction of silk, viz:—Five premiums of SI,OOO each; five of §SOO each; fifty of SIOO each; fifty ot £SO each; and SI,OOO in premiums on manufactured silks. All persons disposed to con tribute to the premium fund, are requested to ad dress their favor to Gidoon B. Smith, Esq. Se cretary ofthe American Silk Society, Baltimore. Philadelphia hxq. The New York Courier stales that a man who was formerly barber on hoard the Lexington, will appear and testify that during the past summer, while she was on her trip through the sound, she took fare, and so far had the flames progressed that for the safety of the passengers they were all taken into the small boats; that part of the freight was thrown overboard, and after great exertions the fire was subdued, and the passengers taken on board again and the trip resumed. The Providence Courier publishes the follow ing puzzler: “ A widow, two children, a man and his wife and their two children, four cousins, an uncle and aunt and two grand children slept in two’ beds—Quere ? How many persons were there, and in what relationship were they to each oth- In the Illinois Legislature, a series of resolu passed firing the Finance Lommittee to report a bill providing for the total ST” ? f a " ™Han/,he dismal of the operatives and engineers. Ihe New Y °rk Evening Star states, as the reason why Miss Shirreff and Mr. Wilsok did not shat “ t t ?j NeW * orleans in their late Southern trip, that the ignorance of the London Life Insur- CO nslrucSd an t rt ha K CaUS6d theif P ° licies to be 80 constructed, that they could not visit lhat citv which, in winter, is the healthiest, pleasan t place in the world.” mesi PRomxcE of Copt Right.—Sir Walter Scott s Life of Napoleon, sold with the printed books, for £I,BOO sterling. The net recess of £IOS: ,1S ’° n tW ° firSt edhlons exceed Moore’s Life of Lord Byron, £4,000. £12 h 500 t Ir fi Wa,ter ScOU ’ by Lockhart, r 00lb ® t T° first - vears of the copy-right accordins 10 ,he „f Moore s Lalla Lookh, £3,000 snnp lW h r,S r No J elsaVerage f «>m JEI.2OG to £l . 500 each, for Kienzi he obtained £1 600 \f ’ j Hyatt’s from £I,OOO t0£1,200 ’ Ma>> Sir Walter Scott’s Wavprfr „ Lockhart. 22,500 copies were <snd’ aC(^ ordin S to sale of the current P re ™“> •<> the which would realize above 000 amJ .1“ " me ’ but one, out of twenly-two bv th. *IT } The oreat V- by the sa me author. -L.hed~^-- b^ to £IOO non n. r . YUlume > Would amount -t 1-0,000 over and above that on former ouh hcations, on each novel. The copyright ofThe edS7wall<■ r Scott & gained K “■£ 3o r 7fJung ght - v voium -—a Mr. Lockhart, editor ofthe p • -Professor Wilson, of BlackwlpJ Professor Jtapter, ofthe Edinburgh RevS Theodore Hook, of the New Monthlv i ’ d ceive less than £I,OOO per annum n ° l re * erage. F annum, each, on av- Dr. Macauley, Dr. Southy. Mr other eminent men, receive one hund ™ W ’. and for a single article, in the burgh Reviews. ** ter,y and Edin “ Nicholas NickelbV” by Bo* o writer, sold for £3,000 N. K ExpreL y ° U “ 8 From the Nitti York Star. | To be read by the Ladies* We invite the attention of our fair leaders to the following explanation of the “principal causcs of the decrease of marriages.” We regret that candor requires us to bear testimony to the fidel ity of the picture sketched. It however exhib ts another evidence of the oft repeated fact that the present generation, by pride, luxuries, and false delicacy, have heedlessly trampled under foot the excellent precepts and example of that Spartan band of mothers who flourished in the “days of auld lang svne.” An inordinate thirst for wealth, show and distinction, has perhaps entailed more misery upon the human family, than all the vices which flesh is heir to. The softer sex, whose peculiar province it is to amend the manners and improve the heart, should be pioneers in reform ing the follies of the day. They should con stantly bear in mind, under every temptation, “that worth makes the man ; the want ot it, the fellow.” Principal causes of the decrease of marriages.— I’ll tell you why young ladies do not gooff so fre quently as formerly :—Tney are too nice and too proud, &c. &c. T know a young lady—not very young now in deed, who to my certain knowledge, has refused 15 offers! One because the gentleman could not keep a carriage. Another because he could not speak the French language. A third, because he knew nothing of the Ital ian operas. A fourth, because he stooped in the shoulders. A fifth, because he had not fortune enough. A sixth, because he was a tradesman. A seventh, because he was a tobacco chewer. The eighth, was too bashful in company. The ninth, because he wore spectacles. The tenth was a politician, and did not bestow on her sufficient attention. The eleventh could not dance, and consequent ly was a fool in our lady’s opinion, &c. The lady’s own fortune is as follows : In bank stock, SOO,OOO In permanent bridges, 00,000 Turnpike roads, 00,000 Insurance company, 00,000 Money at interest, 00,000 Lottery tickets, 20 Houses, 00,000 To which, in cash, diamonds, &c. may be added, 00,000 With a fortune, like this, you may judge with what propriety a lady rejects a tradesman or in sists on keeping a carriage. Legal Pleasantries. —They originate more than half the current wit of the day, in the Great West. There is a racy freshness, moreover, about the pleasantries of that region, that is quite delightful. From a late Missouri journal we have clipped the following anecdote of an emi nent legal gentleman ot that State. If it be as new to the reader as it is to us, we will guarantee his favorable sufferage; being once opposed to Mr. S , late Member of Congress, he remarked as follows to the jury, upon a point of disagreement between them: “Here my brother S and I differ. Now this is very natural. Men seldom see things in the same light, and they may disa -1 gree in opinion upon the simplest principles ol the law, and that very honestly; while, at the same time, neither can see any earthly reason • why they should. And this merely, because they look at different sides of the subject, and do not view it in all its bearings. Suppose, for illustra . tion, a man should come in here, and boldly as t sert that my brother S ’s head (here he laid I his hand very familiarly upon the large chuckle . head of his opponent) is a squash! I, on the i other hand, should maintain, and perhaps with . equal confidence, that is a head. Now, here | L would be a difference, undoubtedly an honest . difference—of opinion. We might argue about . it till doomsday, and never agree. You often , see men arguing upon subjects as empty and tri fling as this ! But a third person coming in, and looking at the neck and shoulders that support it, would say at once, that I had reason on my side ; for if it was not a head, it at leat occupied the place of one, and stood where a head ought to be.” All this was uttered in the gravest and most solemn manner imaginable, and the effect was irresistably ludicrous.— Knickerbocker . 1 rr , i i The following scene occurred in the office of I a county justice. A boy brought forward as the evidence of the ill-treatment of his master. Justice —Do you swear or affirm 1 Boy —Swear. Justice —Did you ever swear 1 Boy —Oh yes, many a lime. Justice —Then you may swear. Boy seizing the book and kissingJ —l’ll be d d of‘boss’ didn’t whip me with a bridle. Accident.—A line litlle boy, about three years old, was run over, by the carelessness of the driver of a two horse carriage, at the corner of Drayton street, to-day about 10 minutes past two o clock. He was in charge of a servant who nar rowly escaped with her life. Two wheels passed over him, yet the litlle hero bore it manfully, and we hope is not hurt materially. The careless ness of diivers is becoming evey day more mani fest.—Savannah Telegraph , A Gem.—T.S. Shreeve,Esq., of Louisville, in a late recture on intellectual superiority, in speak ing of the achievement of the married poet, said : “ After he has woven his web of thought and gazed on it till his heart is drunk with delight he wil! return to her even as the eagle returns from his far off wanderings —where he has been play ing with the billow and the beam—back to the nest where his lordly affections dwell.” Look out, Farmers.-A few days since four men were taken up in Randolph county, in this tetate, who hau in their possession six negroes which they had stolen from the county of Glynn! They had travelled quite a circuitous route, du ring which time they kept the negroes in carts covered—three negro men and three women, de luciing their pursuers until within a few miles of he Chattahoochee. Three of the men went by the name of bummerlin, two of them from the county of Glynn and one from Hawkinsville— one by the name of Standley; all having chang ed their names, also the names of the negroes Theger.Uemea who pursued them were a Mr 0 Neal and Mi. Ratcriff, who certainly deserve much credit in their active perseverance. The thieves and the negroes were well chained together and placed on their back track, and it is hoped will be landed safe in the county where ymVer was perpetrated.-C 0 / Mm L s En bas been spent in war and I ‘*7 ra ° n t y ' haS foot of land upon the dob/ I eVCry " , , er y s, de and in every vallev sebo u Wh ° 6 . hal)itable earth; I will supply that chool house with a competent teacher; / w iu mild an academy in every town, and endow if a college in every state, and fill it with able pro fessors; I will crown every hill with a church con secrated to the promulgation of the gospel ofpeace -1 will support in its pulpit an able teacher ofri<ffi!’ eousness, so that on every Sabbath morningffie chime on one hill should answer to the c him! on another around the earth’s broad circuit ence; and the voice of prayer and th ‘ CUmfer “ praise, should ascend like an , m iJ f°J s ° f I aaust to Heaven. —Stebbins al holo ‘ Religioc* Excitement in Cincinnat Since the early part of December the N. Maffilt has been preaching in the Wesle •'" Chapel of this city. He delivers four or fi Vo *' an mons in each week and the chape!, one O fT largest buildings of the kind in the west, i s • formly filled to overflowing by the crowds flock to hear him. We are informed that } 700 persons have been added to the Meth church of this city, since the time of Mr. M 'f* arrival among us.— Republican. 5 By the annual report of the Comptroller 0 f State of New York, it appears that, the rec ' from all sources, including the balance i/ treasury, was $3,810,871 05, and the tIn(1 ~e tures $3,747,786 90, leaving a balance 0 f 084 15.—The whole debt of the stale is 941,616 32. ' I)l V Beet Sugar.— lt is estimated that theanioi of Beet Root Sugar, manufactured in Fra during the last year, was 100,000,000 lbs Prussia and Germany 30,000,000 lbs. The T ° Whig states that in the Western part'of Michi. 240,000 lbs. were manufactured the last sc That is rather better than morns multicaulhT 8011, Dorothy Ramsbottom’s CouMFvn., of Railroad Riding We mem t *? 5 ralerod which is the only wav oftnv r • r . . r . , . ' oi traveling now ,f U was not for not bemg able , 0 ’ want, and the being locked m, an d the noise of the hinges, and the smell of the stnoek from th chimley, and the ile and the raltlin, and the rj being hable to see nothing of the country, hand the danger of being blowed up or knocked off f rales, I do think hit would be perfect. Croton Aqueduct. —The report of the Wa ter Commissioners on this subject, up to the Ist of January, 1840, states that 54 sections out of the 970 are completed, and several others nearly so. The work is two-thirds done; and there been expended in nine halfyears, just $3,924 650 08. The last hall year there has been expended $1,243,827 13. The bridge over Harlem Riv cr is to be completed Aug. 1, 1843, and is to cost $755,130. The estimated sum required for the year 1840 is about $2,071,000; and the whole work is now estimated to cost $8,907,465. Y«r York Herald. It is stated that about $50,000 have been col lected in the Georgia Conference on the centen nary occasion, and some $60,000 in the South Carolina conferrence. These sums are to be ap. plied to strictly charitable and philanthropic ob jects, and are noble examples of Christian benevo lence and munificence. Greatness, —The great Zimmerman justly observes that there is always something great in that man against whom the world exclaims, at whom every one throws a stone, and on whose character all attempt to fix a thousand crimes without being able to prove one. Slander.— Look on slanderers as direct ene mies to civil society; as persons without honor, honesty, or humanity. Whoever entertains yon with the faults of others, designs to serve you in a similar manner. e Paris and New York. —While New is annually mulcted with losses by fire to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and sometimes millions, Paris, wi»h a population three times as large, loses comparatively nothing. A late Paris papersavs, —“lt appears from an authentic statement that j during last July August, and September, the Hum -1 ber of fires which caused any damage worthy of : notice in the capita! was only eight. The total j amount of the loss occasioned by these accident! is estimated at 91,000 fr., [about $17,000] where as the total amount for which the properties so in jured was insured, is known to have been more than 900,000 fr/'— N. York Journal Com. Upper, up-tick.—The intermittent custom among the dandies of New York, of wearing moustaches, imperials, &c v is designated as up per-lip-tick fits. __ COMMERCIAL. Latest dates from Liver , Dec. 17 Latest dates from Havre Dec. 11 AUGUSTA MARKET. Cotton. We have to note rather an improve ment in the market since ©ur report on Thursday This is owing probably to the fact, that there wa. less offering for the last two days ; holders cot tinue firm, and all descriptions are a shade bclte: We quote to day from sto cents as extremes*: the market, though there is but little sold solo* as Ih® greater portion of the sales range from" j to 8, at which prices they are taken hold of pretty freely. The following is the state of the market for round bales, while the same article in square bigs always commands from an eighth to a quarter of * 1 cent more: Ordinary, 6 to 7 I Fair , 7 to7j Go °d, 7$ to 8 A lot of prime in square bags would comman; : mand yesterday 8£ readily. Our river continues in good boating order,id . freights to Savannah are $1 50 per bale. Groceries. —Since our last we have had to | change to note in the market. The demand is fe I and a tolerable fair business is doing. The stock, I however, is generally light. Exchange. —On New-York at sight, Si a 9 I cent, for current funds; Charleston at 4 a4jpt I cent, and Savannah 1 per cent.; specie comm-wi I 5 a 6 per cent, premium. Bank Notes. —Savannah Bank, 1 per cent. pH' mium; Mechanics’, (Augusta,) 5 per ct.; Agec i Brunswick, (Augusta,) 5 do ; Planters’and Mechar ics’, Columbus, discount; Monroe Rail RoadJ do.; Ocmulgee, 25 do.; Darien, 18 do.; Rome,sodo.i Milledgeville, 2s. All other Banks at par. Specie Paying Banks.— Mechanics Bank, Ban* of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com mercial Bank of Macon, and principal Bank -- Branch of the Brunswick Bank in this city. Macon, February 4 Since our last, owing to the p rospects of a boa-* ble river, and the probability of immediately ting the article off, at a reduced price of freight advanced the price of Cotton in this market fullf of a cent. Prices range at present from s to cents. Principal sales 6| a7. . , Below will be found a comparative statem® I ',. the receipts, stock, and price, on the first ol c f of the present and two preceeding years: , 1838. 1839 ' 1840 ; h ,les Rec pts to Ist Feb. 75,824 53,038 75,407 baj-- Stock “ 17,787 15,500 44,477 bal® • ■ Do. at the wharf and at warehouses not reported, supposed, 4,500 Total stock at Feb. 184 0 48,977 bale* Price Ist Feb. 8 a 10* 12 a155 a7i « en (; | i reights —to Savannah, by boats, per bale, , do. by boxes, do. Insurance —to Savannah, a per cent. Cincinnati, January -- Flour —From wagon, $3 75 a 3 SO per bbl- . I Whiskey —From wagons, 24 ft 24$ et». P* f • lon, are the prices quoted.