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MONDAY MORNI? G, FEBRUARY 17.
Four or five mail* wyre received last nighti
and we understand then were about seventy mail
bags brought here by th ;■ Northern route. VV e»
of course, have a flood f papers, but we do not
find much of interest in hem.
The Hon Walter T. .'olquitt, one of our Rep.
re»ent..tive« in Congre* passed through this city
last evening on his way o his residence, whither
he is drawn in consequent of sickness in his fam
ily- :
Con; ress-
There is nothing of m ch interest from Wash
ington city. We are u able to bring up the de
tails of proceedings rec ived last night, for the
four or five days in arret by the failures ct the
mail. t
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On Saturday last, Lt. Co’. Samuel C. Wilson
was elected Colonel of|the 10th Regiment of
Georgia Militia, embrac ig the city of Augusta;
'and M. A. Stovall was 'ected Major of the up
per Batlallion of the cit .
The Columbus Argm ; takes us somewhat to
task about eur remarks rn the vote of Messrs.
Black and Cooper for Winter to the House of
Representatives. We applauded the course of all
our members on the Nelr Jersey question, be
cause we thought they acted out sound principles
•in voting as they did. V e have an equal right
to censure, when any of them vote against our
wishes and what we belli fe to be the feelings and
wishes of those who elec id them, and we shall
always take the liberty to do so. We do not
support or countenance he present administra
tion, because we believe its policy has brought
upon the country the wb i spread ruin and mise
ry which meet our eyes in every direction we
look The Globe is the . 'gan of this administra
tion, and is a greater di>g ice toil than any thing
else connected with it. 1 igh minded men who
support the measures of tl ; administration are of
ten made to blush for ha' mg such an organ. It
ia the very last thing con ected with or attached
to the administration, lo\ hichweever could give
support, and we believe tvas to be the feeling of
the great body of our partr in Georgia. We arc
mortified, therefore, to s te any of our members
supporting it, and while we conduct a free press,
■we shall not hesitate to expresa our opinions
frankly and independently.
The fifteen gallon law of Massachusetts has
been repealed.
Virginia Election or Governor.
The Richmond of Wednesday last,
says;—
“The General Assembly yesterday,after a pro*
traded session of 11 hours and much speaking,
succeeded in making an election of Governor.—
Thomas W. Gilmer, the Speaker of the House,
was elected on the Bth ballot. We congratulate
the Whig party on this auspicious result—indeed
we may extend the congratulation to the whole
people of the State, for, in Mr. Gilmer, they have
obtained a Chief Magistrate of high public and
private worth, and zealoutdy devoted to the true
and substantial interests of the Commonwealth.
We never saw a contestj waged more gallantly
on all sides. The spirit displayed would have
gone far to redeem even a worse cause than that,
which (according to our intimate) some gentle
men were supporting. |
We shall have something to say upon this sub
ject in a few days If ths tide-water people do
not roast some of their d« legates for attempting
to put into the Gubernato ial Chair one who has
gone as far as Arthur Tapi >an ever went in favor
of abolition, we will give ip our judgment.”
from the New Yo k Star, Feb. 8.
Two Days Eater From England.
By the packet ship Ph; ladelphia, Capt. Mor
gan, from London, we ha' 1 j Portsmouth dates to
Dec. 28.
The London Times of t >.e 27th says that mon
ey, without being in any g eat request, still com
mands interest at the rate t six per cent p>er an
num at the stock exchange
Ihe Herald says that the Chartists have
again commenced holding secret meetings in
London.
France.— -The Journa du Havre of the 23d,
announces that the MinUt rof Marine had order
ed a general levy of seam n throughout the fifth
maritime district, includi g all the seamen em
ployed on laud and in the ,irsenals. This meas
ure was to complete the i anning of the squad
ron in reset e, of which tl minister ordered the
preparation with ail possiL s despatch.
Espartero has come nut! with a published dec
laration ot his principles, jiostile to the ministry
ami rattier tavurmg the exi tados. It is thought
the cabinet w 11 he dissolve .
Y t gluing is going on wit , great activity at Al-
and ttie results seem! d rather disastrous to
the I rench, as no private jrrespondence came
by the steamer which reac ied Toulon.
Foe passengers who an vad in her, however,
staled that hostilities com jued incessantly from
the 14th to the Itilh. all a jug the line between
Koleah and Foudouk. OS the I4th the Maison
Carree was vigorously au eked by 3000 o. 4000
Arabs, but without succes. i The French, how
ever, lost 60 men in Hie llfair. In the mean
time. General Uultnreres diteatedthe Arabs, near
Douera. with considerabll slaughter. On ibe
14th the Amazon frigate i nded 550 men of the
3d Regiment of Light Into my, who were imme
diately sent to the Maiso Carree, and on the
15th the two battalions ot die 58th. landed from
the ships of ihe lint, proce Jed in the same direc
tion. The next day the f rench army took the
offensive aloug the whole line, and beat the ene
my in every direction.
Los not, Friday. Decern trr 27 half past twelve.
Now that those comraer ially connected with
the L nited States have bad nne to compare notes,
the feeling is pretty genera that the accounts re
ceived per tjie B-iush Qye t< are much more fa
vorable,
Iwo o clock. The moi ay market is in a ve
ry tranquil * tie. and the o, y occurrence likely to
disturb it for the present is he occurrence of the
4th January, which, wheuiommercial affairs are
in a thriving con htion. is t Mieratly what is term
ed ••« heavy day.” Ahh.M gh the payments to be
made at tae beginning of [rext month »ai be
comparatively iiisigiulican we must recollect
thst the resources of the c ercantile community
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have *l*o been materially curtailed, that Co ? n j
sequenlly they may have as much difficulty in
Sw meeting ~ mall engagements m they _ hadl fojv
merly in borrowing large .ones. Ihe ftimls are
not affected to any extent by those temporary
pressures, which only proves the abundance of
wealth in the midst of a scarcity of money.
The news carried out by the British Queen
wai considered favorable. .
M. Sauzet is elected President of the French
Chamber of Deputies, by 172 votes over Odillon j
Barrnt, who received 94. |
The bureaus or committees chosen, are gener
allv favorable to the Ministry.
The Moniteur states that by the last reports
from Africa the numbers of sick in the various
hospitals had diminished. The number, which
was on the Ist Nov. 2,390, had been reduced to
1,778 on the Ist inst.
Correspondence of the North American.
New York, Feb. 7, 3 P.M.
We have a quiet sunny day. The chief move
ment is in the snow Banks. Ihe packets have,
however, gone to sta. The George Washington,
for Liverpool, takes over $50,000 in specie. The
rates of Exchange on England remain high, say
8 a 9 prem. Bills on Philadelphia, 6J a 6|;
Baltimore, 6± a 6* ; Richmond. 7 a 7$ ; Charles
ton. a4; Savannah, 6$ a 7s; Augusta, 8$
Macon, 11 al2 ; Mobile, 7 a 7} ; New Orleans
4 a 4 j •
q he sales of Cotton so far to-day, are reported
at 300 bales. In bread stuffs nothing is doing.
There is a very heavy feeling in the market.
People are beginning to look out earnestly for
the steamer Liverpool. The day of sailing was
January 20th. But whether she comes, is some
what doubted, though the agents expect her.
p, S. I have just seen Boston papers, brought
by Hamden, of yesterday morning. They seem
to be short for flour in Boston, for the Atlas says
the market has further improved; 1200 barrels
common Genesse have been sold at $7 26, and
$7 | a i are generally asked ; $7 cash is offered
for Ho ward-street, and refused.
New York, Feb. 10, 3 P. M.
The talk about the Manhattan Bank grows
louder and louder, and the difficulties in the bank
are found to be somewhat greater tha.. was at
first supposed. The trouble is, that for years
past, Mr. White, the cashier, has been in the
practice of making loans on stocks, which stocks
jn these Lw times look, are insufficient secu ity-
Many of the loans are said to have been more or ■
less influenoeu by personal friendship, ihe direc
tors say they have not known of these loans at all,
though some of them are of several years standing.
The whole amount is said to approach a million of
dollars, tho’ the loss will be but a small percentage
on this amount. The affair has made a quarrel
between the Cashier and the President and Di*
rectors, about who shall bear the responsibility
The Bank has during the last summer erected an
elegant granite house on Wall street. The stock
has fallen from 113 to 100, and at the close of the
Brokers’ Board to day, 80 was the best offer.
Oar stock of Cotton is so low that very little
business can be done until we get more. In
Flour there is nothing doing. Domestic Exchan*
ges are just about as they stood at the close of last
week.
Flour.—The Zanesville (Ohio) Republican
of the Bth inst. contains the following doubtful
item :
“ We hear from good authority that proposi
| tions have been made to an extensive mercantile
house in New York, for delivering in that city in
June next, ten thousand barrels of flour, at fair
dollars sevent y-Jive cents per barrel, which have
not been acceded to.”
Notice or the British respecting Ame
rican Slave Property.—Lord Palmerston,
in a letter of the 2d May, announcing the pur
pose of the Cabinet to recommend an appropria
tion for the payment of the slaves liberated at
Bermuda, refers Mr. Stevenson “to thecorrespon
deuce which has already passed between them on
this subject for the reasons which will prevent
the BiitishGovernmcnt from admitting either now
or hereafter, any claim for compensation in re
spect to slaves thrown within Briiish jurisdiction,
after the period when slavery was abolished in
| the British dominions.”
Letters from Portsmouth, N. H state that Se
cretary Woodbury, has given directions for the
sale of stocks held by him in the Eastern Banks.
He is said to be one of the largest holders in that
quaaterof the county !
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Maine.—The Portland Daily Advertiser con
tains the following extract of a letter from the
capital of that State, where its Legislature is now
in session. It must be borne in mind, while
reading it, that the Government of Maine is tho
roughly Sub-Treasury—its theoretical belief be
ing for hard-money, and nothing else. This let
ter shows what is the practice :
“ I have some very gratifying intelligence for
your readers. The p ospecl begins to brighten
that money will soon flow in abundance up and
down the Kennebec. The Treasurer of the State
has just received four reams of beautifully engrav
ed blank notes, with a spread eagle upon them.
They run as low as $5 and up to SSO, and noth- j
ing is wanting but the name of the Treasurer, and i
then the • aching void’ in our circulating medium
will be filled. They are ‘in hscc verba.’
i “ ‘ The Slate of M line promises to pay, at the
! Treasury office in Augusta, in one year afterdate,
! or sooner, it notice be given, to the holder of this
note, Five Dollars in current Bank Bills, of said j
State, with interest at the rate of six per cent. j
per annum.
. Treasurer of the State of Maine.’
“ It is to l>e hoped that the memiiers will now
i go about business in righ, good earnest, as there j
is a prospect of their gelling their pay fur their j
j services. It is true they will not receive it in the
j * cons itutional currency.’ hut they must not he
; particular these ha;d times. Neither will they
receive it in current hank bills of the Slate, but
in ihe Treasurer's promise to pay them such.
This seems to be a great way off from the vel
-1 low boys.”
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From the New Orleans Bulletin of the 6th.
Texas.
Through the politeness of Captain Wright, of
the steam packet New York, which arrived yes
terday in 32 hours from Galveston, we are in
j P™* 6 * B *™ of P«P° rs of that city the 3d instant.
They contain little of interest. Letters received
from Mexico, make mention of an expedition he
: ing fitted out, destined for Texas, to be headed
Iby Bustamente. The objest of the expedition is
i no doubt, to protect Matamoras from the assault
of the Federalists. Both Houses of Congre-s
have voted for the adoption of the Common L w
of England, as the ba-is of the system of jmi*.
prudence to be reared in Texas. A British sloop
of war had appeared at Velasco, supposed to be
| the bcarei of despatches from the Britiah Gov
ernment. The papers announce the election of
General Folix Houston as Major General of
j Texas. The state ©I business and trade in Texas
remained without alteration since previous advi
ces.
From, the New Orleans Bulletin, 6th inst.
By the schr. Ulysses, arrived yesterday, we
i have received our Havana papers to the 29th ult,
| An extract from a Vera Cruz journal of the 28th
December, gives an account of the lormal land
i ing from a Spanish ship of war, ot Don Angel
de la Barca, Minister Plenipotentiary of her Most
Catholic Majesty, near the government of the
Mexican Republic; and of his subsequent arrival
at the capitol. A terrible conflagrate n occurred
in the city of Mexico, on the night of the 27th,
and the editor complains loudly that the authori
ties take no steps to prevent their frequency. —
The Mexican editor of the Diario, informs his
readers that the New Orleans Bulletin openly
expresses its sympathies in favor of the Texians,
and makes odious comparisons unfavorable to the
Mexicans, without distinction of descent ot color.
Tampico, Dec. 22.—Huzzah for the great
Tenoxtitlan, from Acapuica to the Sabine, from
Vera Cruz to California !
From Met amor as. — Last evening about 100
artisans and people from the neighborhood pre
sented themselves at the state house, and formed
a company of infantry to defend their property
and the integrity of the soil, against the united
Federal and Texian anarchists.”
From the New Orleans Bee of the 8 th.
From Texas.
Bv an arrival from Texas we have received
Galveston papers to the 3d instant inclusive. A
letter from our officeis engaged in running the
boundary line between the United States and
Texas, states that the commissioners have been
unwillingly detained by the want of instruments
and the absence of some who are connected with
its operations; but that the line will be run in a
very few wetks.
The bill to delect fraudulent land certificates
has passed both houses of congress. It provides
fur the appointment of commissioners to examine
all certificates, that no titles shall be issued upon
any certificates not approved by the board, and
that no title shall be issued to any assignee.
G. W. Horton, esq. has been appointed recor
der of the supreme court.
The Pilot, a British sloop of war of 18 guns
has reached Texas bringing an agent of that gov
ernment from one of the West India Islands,
who demands a surrender of certain black subjects
of Great Britain, said to have been inveigled into
the country and sold for slaves.
Congress is expected to adjourn about the mid
dle of the month.
A letter from Austin, dated January 19th, says:
“Judge Robinson was tried for murder before
judge Shelby—committed for trial—taken before
Jones, Rusk and Mills, on habeas corpus and dis
charged,—He has re>igned, and John Hemphill,
esq. by an almost unanimous vote elected to fill
the vacancy.
Correspondence
Between the Governor of New Jersey and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives U. S.
STATE OF SEW JERSEY.
Executive Department,
T kexton, Jan. 24.
Sir: I herewith transmit a copy of a preamble
and resolutions passed by the Legislature of the
Slate of New Jersey at their present session, and
request that you will lay the same before the Rep
resentatives to the 26th Congress from the several
States, now assembled at Washington.
I have the honor to Ire, with great respect, your
obedient servant, WM. PENNINGTON,
Governor of New Jersey.
Hon. R. M. T. Hunter,
A Representative from Virginia.
House of Representatives of the U. S. >
Washington, Jan. 30. 5
To His Excellency. Gov. Pennington.
Sir: I huve received, through you, the resolu
tions ot the Council and General Assembly of
New Jersey, a copy of which was ordered to be
transmitted to “the Hon. R. M. T, Hunter, a
Representative from the State of Virginia,” with
a “request that he will lay the same before the
other Representatives from the several States,
now assembled at Washington.” As an individ
ual. or as a member from the State ot Virginia,
I should always esteem it a distinguished honor
to be selected as the oigan through whom the
sovereign State of New Jersey might be pleased
to express its wishes and opinions. But as I
have no right to suppose that the Council and
General Assembly ot New Jersey have designed
thus to distinguish me individually and to the
exclusion of the honorable member from that
State who with others constitute the present
House of Representatives. I feel bound to con
clude, upon tins consideration and from the gen
eral tenor of the resolutions themselves, that they
were sent to me on account of the station which
I at present occupy.
Under these circumstances, I beg leave most
respectfully to decline to lay these resolutions
before the House over which I have the honor to
preside, as virtually they seem to deny my title
to the otFice of Speaker, and the right of those
who have invest d me with that trust.
The H. use of Representatives of the United
States ot Amenta, having elected a Speaker, has
a right to expect that all communications made
to it through its organ, should he addresssed to
him in his official capacity'. Under this view of
the case, it would seem that I cannot comply with
the request ot the Council and the General As
sembly ot New Jersey, with a due regard to the
dignity of the House, or without admitting by
inference that it had conferred upon me authority
which it had no right to give, and that I my-elf
am discharging the functions of an office to which
I have no title. I hese are admissions which I
am not prepared to make.
In thus slating my views in reference to the
request made of me. I raise no question as to the
propriety ot the resolutions themselves, or as to
the of the Council and General Assembly
ot New Jersey to adopt them. 1 only refer to
them as they relate to my official station, to show
that I am influenced by no want of respect for
I l ‘ lß constituted authorities of the State of New
Jersey, but g iverned mirely by a sense of duty
i to Uie House, of which I am the organ, and
' which may expect that I shall not lay before
| them communications which refuse to accredit
ime as such. lam not disp s'd to cavil about
mere matters of form, nor do I imagine that a
personal disrespect was intended to be offered to
me by those whose station and dignity alike for
bid su-h a supposition. But when an omission
of form seems designed as a mode of deny ing the
rights and privileges of the House es Represent
atives. of which I am the organ, it becomes my
duty to do nothing which may recognize the pro
priety of such an omission.
I have retained the copy of the resolutions
transmitted to me, until I shall be further advised
by your Excellency of any other deposition
w hich it may be proposed to make of them.
In conclusion, 1 beg leave to express my regret
that I should lie unable to comply with any re
quest made of me by the Council and General
Assembly of New Jersey.
I have the honor to be. with great respect,
your obedient servant, R. M. T. HUNTER,
At a meeting of the Board of Direr'or* of the
Bank «f South Ca-olna, on Wednesday last.
J»»hx S. Cog dell, Esq. was unanimously re
elected President.
Savannah, Feb. 13.
Melancholy Accident. —Four horses were
returning with the omnibus trom the railroac. depot
with five pas: engers, (two ladies and three gen
tlemen inside.) vesterday afternoon, wuen the
horses, neat the store of Mr. A. Champion, Mar
ket Square, became frightened and unmanageable,
and we regret to .-tate that while a*, full speed near
the store oi Messrs. Hamilton & Houston, Mr. B.
Childes, of Burke County, a contractor on the
railroad, in attempting to get out was thrown
against a tree, and received a very serious wound
on the right temple, from the effects of which he
nied last evening. The other passengers left the
omnibus in safety. The horses proceeded with
the vehicle through several streets, until ap
proaching Judge Berrien’s residence, one of his
men servants nobly attempted to stop therm but
he was run over and serious»y injured. Ihe
omnibus was soon after upset and the driver
thrown from his box, but escaped uninjured.—
Some bales of cotton, it is thought, alarmed the
horses and caused them to start.
Rorbert and an Attempt to set Fire.
The store of Messrs. McCartney & Gordon,
in Broad-st, was entered last evening, by some
person or persons unknown, anti after ran rack
ing the draws, and abstracting five hundred d< 1-
lars therefrom, the villain or villains set fire
the desk, which commenced burning rapidly,
when it was fortunately discovered in time to pre
vent any serious damage. Information was im
mediately lodged at the Guard House, when
search was made, but nod le could be had, to the
robbers.— Charleston Courier of Saturday.
The Secretary of the Navy estimates the num
ber of steam vessels of war requisite properly to
defend our sea ports at forty, the cost ot which
would be 13 and a half millions of dollars—tne
completion of the requisite number of docks and
navy yards 24 millions, and to put the navy
proper, on a war footing, would cost 19 millions
m_re, being a grand total of fifty-six and a half
millions of dollars.
Elf.ction of Bts iop,—We learn that the
Rev. Dr. C. E. Gadsden, long the pious and es
tee fed Rector of St. Paul’s Church, in this city,
wa* yesterday elected, by the Episcopalian Con
vention. in session in this city, B.shop of the Dio
cese of South Carolina, by a majority of one vote
among the Clergy, and of seven votes among the
lay delegates, who were members of the Convei
' tion. Dr. Gadsden’s competitor for the office was
the Rev. Stephen Elliott, the gifted, admired and
pious Professor of sacred literature in the South
Carolina College.— Char. Cour. of Saturday.
Printer’s error. —A rather green village ed
itor of a country paper was desirous of gaining the
good graces of the new parson, and in describing
his first entrance into the church the other Sun
day wrote—“He is a most venerable sample of
antiquity.” To his astonishment, however, ami
to the amazement of the inhabitants, it came out
the next morning in the paper—“ He is a most
venerable sample of iniquity."
Jonathan.Slick's ideas oi Love and Ladies.
[From Jonathan's New Year's calls in New York. j
Getting in love is somewhat like getting drunk,
the more a feller loves the r.iore he wants to, —
and when the heart gets a going, pity put, pity j
pat, there is such a swell, that it busts up all
the strings, so that it can’t hold the grit real at all. |
When Judy White fust took hold a my arm I
give the coat sleeve a real hearty smack, where
her hand took h and that coat I leally did love
belter than any otm*r I e\er had on; but I never
think the better of my yaller gloves for shaking
the hands of all the gals in York. I’ve only got
Miss Miles out of my head, to get a thousand new
shining faces in. Lord knows what’ll become
of me, if I g » on to be bedivilled arter the women,
as I have been this new year’s day. When a
feller is made any thing on by ’em he must have
been brought up under good preaching in Weath
ersfield to stand it here in New Yoik. I feel as
: f I shouldn't be good for much afore long, myself,
the way I am going on, but to skoot up and
down Broadway like that ere Count, and to
hang round gat's windows with fifes, and bas
soons. and drums and gitars at night. When
they heigh ho me so there’s no help to feeling.
I can’t look lull into a purty girl’s face ail a
flushing so, without being kind a dazz ed and
scorched. It wakens me up in this cold weather
and kindles such a pulse in my heait, that the
blood runs through it as hot as if it had run
through a steam-boat pipe. And then all-fired,
the things have so many sly ways of coming
over a teller with them are crinkum crankums of
them, that I don t think much of their purty
months work, and not feel his work too. It they
sidle up, I cant help sidling too if I died : and
when them black eyes fall flash on me. I wilt right
down under ’em as cut grass in Weathersfield on
a hot summer day. It is natur all this, and I,
can’t help it no how.
If women do snarl up a feller’s heart strings. j
though, they keep him out of other scrapes; any
b.wlv will tell you that. A man that is in love a
leetle is not always a running into rum holes and j
other such places. He don’t go a gambling, and
isn’t a-sneaking round nights.
Love, according to my notion on it, is a good
anchor for us on this ’ere voyage of life ! it
brings up so all standing when we put on 100
much sail. It puts me in mind, no v I think on
it, of our cruise through Hell Gate in Captin
Doolittle’s sloop: forjist as the tide and the wind
was a carrying us on the rocks, we dropt anchor i
and kept off. I 1 >ok on the uses of women purty
much as I look on the freshet that in the spiing
brings down the Connecticut the raal rich soil
for the meadows in Weathersfield. They make
a great deal of splutter and fuss in their spring I
time, with their rustles and their ribbons, and
their flotillas, 1 know; but when they light on a
feller for good, they are the raal onion patches of
his existence. Pul us together and the soil will ,
giow any thing; but keep us apart, and we are all I
thistles and nettles.— New York Express.
We do not recollect that we have seen any il
lustration of the extravagant more transcendency I
ludicrous than the following, (a mere invention I
evidently) copied from a Buff do paper, said to !
have been uttered by a live Hoosier:
Stranger—l expect you are about the tallest |
kind of a coon there is in these diggins. Your lit- !
tie Bulla lonian walks straight into things, like a i
squash vine in a potato patch.
I come down the other day in the steamboat !
Cleveland. She s a pretty fixin; golly! ain’t she a
smasher? Once comig down a streak of lightning
f.dlow-d three miles and better. The Captain see
it was gaining on us a linle. so he told the man
to starboard the helm and let it go by. It did 1
i go like a horse, and vve were so near it that the
deck passengers smelt brimstone.
The Captain feit a little cheap, at first, about
letting it be..t him. and said the steam wasn’t up,
but I told him he did perfectly right to turn out]
as there wa-: so many women on board, and then
there was so much iron that it drew the lightning
and helped it along, so it warn’t fair play. You
should have heard the thunder that come a long
after it. It wouid have given you a new idea for
one of your articles.
Perhaps you don’t know where I came from
G.ve ns your fist now. and I’ll tell you all about'
it. W hen I m home I stops in the Chuckahokee
diggins, in the State of Indiana we raised a „ a j
mighty crop of wheatihis year [ reckon nigh upon
four thousand bushels, and a sprinkling of corn
oats, potato-., and garden sass. ' You could hc»;
the earth groan all round our settlement; the crons
were so heavy, and thal'e what gives rise to the
stones about the earthquake*, it was enough to
make a young earthquake to near corn grow as it
did. and asto the potatoes, I’ll be skinned alive if
ever I saw any thing like it. W.*y. any one o.
tnem warm u;ghts, you just go out into a lit’lc
patch of fifty acres, close to the house, and hold
vour ear down, you could hear the young pota
toes quarrelling, and the old ones swearing at
them because they didn't lay along and stop
crowding. I calculate you didn’t raise such
crops in these parts. ■
Why, one dav, one of our squash vines chased !
a drove of hogs better than half a mile, and they j
ran and squealed as if the old boy was after them, j
Pill Advertisements. —, r n common with
most other papers in this Slate, (and out of the .
State too.) the Patriot admits into its columns j
advertisements of patent medicines. Some of
our readers make complaints, which no doubt are j
well founded, that too much ot a good tiling, in
the line of pill advertising, makes them sick.
What would be their situation, if instead of the j
advertisements, they 7 should be compelled to take
the actual pills 1
To tell the truth, we ourselves nauseate some- ;
what at the f requent sight of these pill puffs, and
should utterly refuse to take them, were it not
that we are thoroughly convinced of their excel
lent effect upon our wholesome. It requires no j
Esculapius to convince us of this, our lean and
consumptive pocket-book testifieth to the fact ; i
they impart life, and health, ami strength. And
the secret of their virtue is, that the pill dactors
pat us for advertising—thus making a contribu
tion to our siender stock of the main chance,
which is by no means to be sneezed at ! Is not
this satisfactory, all round I —Greensborough >
Patriot.
“Arrah, Teddy, an’ was’nl your name Teddy
O’Byrne before you left old Ireland 1” “Sure
it was, my darlint.” “But, my jcwcll, why then
do you add the s, and call it Teddy O’Byrnes
now 1” “ Why, yespaleen! haven’t I got marri
ed since I kem to Anieriky '! an’ ar you so igne
rant of grammatics, that you don’t know that when
one thing is added to another, it becomes plural!”
Two citizens courting the daughter of Themis
todes. he preferred the worthy man to the rich
one, and assigned this reason : “ I hail rather
she should have a man without money, than
money without a man.”
Advantages of ax f.mptt Purse —People
may talk as they please about independence.—
Your only independtnt man is he of an empty
purse. What is the rise or fa lof stocks to him 1
What cares he for commercial failures? What
for high or low prices ? What for taxation or
national debt ? What for commotions or revolu
tions. the decline and fall of empires 1 Nothing.
He smiles at the robber by night, and the tax
gatherer by day, and regards the exciseman and
pickpocket wit.i equal indifference. He is your
free philosopher, worthy the eye of Jove, one
who stands
“Unhurt amid the war of elements.
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.”
Shixplastkhs.—A law has been made in Mis
sissippi, which will be a death blow to small notes.
It imposes a tine of £2,000, and several months
■ imprisonment in the penitentiary, upon all indi
viduals issuing “sltiuplasiers,” or notes for a
; small amount. p
. ,
A New Project. —Some wag recommends
as every other project has failed to subdue the
Seminoles, that Government plant the mums
mullicaulis ail over Florid i, as it has been ascer
taned that every branch contains two hundred and
forty two shoots!
We see it stated that oh can be procured from
Indian corn in tire proportion of half a gallon to
the bushel, which burns as well in a lamp as sper
maceiy, and emits no Lad odour. The same corn
will yield toe same quantity of whiskey.
j Two of a Trams.— A Physician being sum
moned to a vestry to reprimand the sexton for
drunkenness, dwelt so long on the sexton s mis
conduct. that the latter indignantly replied :—“Sir,
I was in hopes you would Lave treated my failings
with more gentleness, or thatyou would have been
the last man alive to appear against me, as / have
covered so many blunders of yours!”
“ Well stranger, where are you out’n?” said a
landlady of Arkansas to her guest. “VV hy, madam,
I am iiuw from Baltimore, Maryland, but I was
1 born and brought up in Massachusetts, near Bos
ton,” said the gentleman. “ Aint that whar the
Yankees live,” said the lady. “ Yes ma’am,” re
plied tile gentleman. “ Law me ! you are the
very man 1 have been looking arter this long
| time— my dock is out of fix," ejaculated the lady
I in ecstacies ot j >y. — Arkansas pap.
COMMERCIAL.
!
Latest dates from Liverpool Dec. 26
Latest dates from, Havre Dec. ly
Liverpool, December 26
k’ Cotton. —There has teen a good business done in
the Colton market to-day ; about 4000 bales, prin
i cipal y American descriptions, have been sold —no
change in prices Ihe transactions are whody to
j the trade.
I London, De ember 27.
The latest advices from Havre give the review
j of the week ending the 21st instant, from which it
I appears that business had not been very active of
1 Lte, and that there had been but very little altera
j tion in prices.
Charleston, February 15.
Cotton The unfavorable anticipations which
are now generally entertained respecting the forth
j coming «tdvicos Loin Europe, together with the ad
vanced tales ot height, have tended materia lv to
j aepie.'S the operations on Uplands, and t» exche
j cauuon and distrust in buyers. In many instances
, holders were compelled to yield their ground ; and
i operators tnis week iiave tlie advantage, which
I they wid probably maintain, until a decline is es
] tablished, or amo o favorable state of thin »s on
erates to ihe contrary. Cur stock of a 1 descriptions
j is amp e, and the receipts from different quarters
| continue abundant. The transactions comprise
; a Q OUtSOOO l ags, vi z: 30 at 6c; 28 a 6£; 25 a6L
I b9 J a r l ; a a 7 * ; 6J a ~s'’ 2:j 549
,a8;6o a 8 1 -8; 221 a 85 ; 75 a 8f; 98J a8; • 176
j a 8g; 989 a 8J; 31 a 8j; 490 a9; 68 a 95;‘107 a
9|; and „C Lags a H e per lb.
Long Cotton about IS7 bags were disposed of
since our last, at from 20 to 25 cts per ib, and 20
bagsstamed at 7 to lOcts. ’
j Rice A considerable depression has existed for
I S ™ e T P a « tn this staple. We notice a decline
ol 2o cts per cwt. on interior and middling qualities
whnst very prime is not to be had. Lit?e or no
shipping m haibor are now taking Rice and to this
cause, is the decl ne mainly attributed
laige proportion ol the sales were taken for
doaiMUcuse. The stock in hrst hnndMs "rnaH
J” * "» h ' i °P era t>ons embrace 1821
tie ices as follows: 136 at s2| ; 433 2*; 118, 2
per cwt 495 ’ 30 ’ 2 15 " 16; 396 > 3 5 and 223, 3i
Rough Rice —5900 bushels sold at 79 to 80 cts
per bushel. '
flrur —350 barrels Baltimore, sold at $6 J , a6}
per bbi; and 100 at s6s a 63. *
Grain - 2 cargo, s torn arrived this week, and
were deposed ot at 55 cts per bushel. No Oats or
Peas came to hand.
c Way—A cargo arrived and brought 81 cents per
Groceries Few sales to any extent were made
timing the week at private sale, busi .ess -enerallv
remains a.t 80 bim Altakapas Classes",. .on/t
28 cts per gallon, and 40 do at secret prices. 'The
following sales were made at auction, 152 G \
prime green Coffee, at 10$ to 10£ per lb; inn ,
Orleans Mo’asses at 27 cts, 212 tihds \(> s u ,,
a 4|; 13 bbls N O Molasses at 27 cts V’ ■
lon. gal ' I
Lard —Is worth from 10 to 11 cts per ib
Bacon —There is a large stock of old Ba C o
maining on hand, and very dull pri. es of w!ii c u re *
nearly nomihal. Little or no new has arrived th*'*
season. *
Halt —I2OO sacks sold at prices not w*
and 1000 at $1 40 to 1 41 per sack. 'Phed,
Spirits —25 hhds Balt Whiskey sold at 21 ,» ...
i bbi Monongahela 37 at 37.
1 Exchange- —On England 83a9p Crct
i France, of 15c aof 25c, 1 lum .
i New York and Boston, Sight are taken at Or,*
premium, 30 days, time off. ~ per c ?
Richmond, 60 days, 1 percent.
| Bank of Charleston rates of Exchange
! North. 8 ’ ° n s th «
New York, 3 per ct premium.
Phil idelphia, 2 per ct discount.
Columbia and Camden, 1$ p C i ct
Savannah Bank notes, 4 per ot discocnt
Spanish Doubloons, sl6s; Mexican 16 ’
Sovereigns, $4 85; Spcie, 1$ per ctprem
Freights —To Liverpool, to Id per lb r
I ton; to Havre, 1 £ cts per Ib; f., r Bice. sls per L\°''
j New York, lor o Cotton, 7 cts and $T per #
STATEMENT OF COTTON,
; Stock on hand Ist Oct. pq-3 UO-s
--j Received this week, 007 gl.;
j *>• previously, ££ ,»*
12493 13U623
Exported this week, 500
do. previously. 4395 104406 # I
Cn ship board, , 00 4^5
499.3 115489
Savannah, February 14.
Cotton —Arrived since the 7thinst 14931 bales
Upland and 951 bales S 1 cotton, and cleared at thp
same time 1 *5286 bales Upland ami 405 bales Si
cotton; leaving a stock on hand, inclusive of all on
shipboard not cleared on the 14th inrt, of 3669 s
bales I pland and 2039 bales S 1 cotton. The c on
tinned scarcity of vessels his doubt ess curtailed
operations in Upland this week, the transactions
have however been larger than any previous one
this season, but the market being well -applied i s
without animation, and prices are again lower v ■
will oe perceived by reference to our quotations
The sales comprise 669’’ Dales, viz: 21 at o- lOat
s‘; 126 at 6; 112 at - 129
7; 124 at :j; 181 at 7j ; 212 at 7£ ; 406 at if; 203
750 at 7g; 1052 at «; 164 at 8|; 1262 at Si
-863 at Sg; 46 at 8 7-16; 7.91 at 8$; 271 at 222
at 8|; 112 at
Sea Island considerable sales have been effected
without material \ariation in price viz- lat IS
-55 a, 20; 48 at 21, 76 a, 22; 39 at 22>; 9 '« »
12 at
47 at 26; 10 at 27.
Receipts of Cotton at the fol'owing places since
October Ist. 1839 1838
Georgia, February 14, 11377 3 129 72
South > arolina,February 7, 139310 li 1363
Mobile, February 1, 61470 1’9326
New Orleans, February 1, 444677 , 233618
Florida, February 1, 147.82 31767
North Carolina, January IS, 3668 3477
Virginia, December 4, 6000 4250
783080 66i577
The following is a statement of the stock of cot
ton on hand at the lespective places named.
Savannah, February 14, 33438 31562
South Carolina, February 7, 24241 34413
Mobile, February 1, 31486 75391
New Orleans, February 1, 114798 07443
Virginia, December 4, 1500 1500
North Carolina, January IS, 1500 1000
Augusta & Hamburg, Jan. 1, 35000 28945
Macon, February 1, 44477 16500
Florida,January IS, 3300 6500
Philadelphia, February 1, 1050 kfeo
New York, January 31, 10000 35000
305792 330539
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Upl’ds. S.I.
Stock on hand, Ist Oct. 1523 118
Received this week, 14931 951
do. previously 93825 3040 j
110279 41(9
Exported this week, 10256 405
Do. previously, 63*95 1665 73581 2070
j Stock on hand, including all on ship
board not cleared on 14th inst. 36698 2G39
Rice —There has been more enquiry tor this ar
ticle, and at our quotations holders continue firm.
The sales of the week amoun to 1000 casks, viz:
150 at 2s; 200 at 2 13-16; 650 at 2§; 100 at $3.
Flour —Continues extremely dull and piit es are
without change. Sales of Howard st at £7; Canal
at $8 a 8$
Corn —ls retailing from store at 65 a7O cts, ac
coiding to quantity.
Groceries —In Coffee, Sugar and Molasses, a fair
retail business doing at all prices within the range
of our quotations.
Bacon —Sales of 15,000 lbs old Shoulders ani I
Middlings at a 8 cts.
Salt —?>ales of 20,000 bushe T s L verpool loose
afloat at 23 a 25; 500 bags at sls.
Hay— ln selling from store at £ls a If.
Spirits— In domestic liquors, small sales of N
E Ruin at 37 a 38; Whiskey at 34 a 36; Gin at 43
a 58.
Exchange —Cn Eng’and, 10a 11 per ctprem.
Drafts on New York, at sight, 6 a 6; per ct prem;
5 days sigyt, 5 a per ct prem.
Freignts —To Liverpool, If a lsd; to
York, i ct.
New Orleans FebruaryS
Cotton —Arrived since the 4th instant: of Lou
isiana and jississippi 8127 bales, Tennessee and
North Alabama 1173, Arkansas 229. Mobile 50,Ki0- I
rida 16j, Texas 120, together 9885 bales;—cleared
in the same time: for Liverpool 1494.Havre 2271,
Trieste 1-134, Baltimore 378, together 5177 bales- |
making an additi >n to stock of 4584 bales, and leav
ing on hand, inclusive of ail on shipboard not in
cluded on the 7lh inst, a stock of 111 ,S9B ba es.
S nee our report of last Wednesday morning, the
cotton market has remained in a quiet state, and
transactions have been rather limited for this peri
od of the season. The sales of Wednesday amount
ed to only 2 'OO ba es, and they were generally e ‘"
fected at a small reduction on previous rates; hold
ers being compelled to rnaue some concessions, in
order to draw buyers out, most of wnum seemed
to prefer waiting the arrival of the news by tne
British Queen, daily expected, be fore opera ting fur
ther to any extent. On Thursday, owing to the
lower rrtes which the market, and the sales reach
el to fully 3500 bales, although the weather
very wet and inclement thr mghJJt the day. The
transitions of yesterday amounted U> > il tle over
3 iO.J bales without any further material alteration
in the market. Our quol itions have been reduce!
asof a cent on all descriptions. We must observe, L
however, that they do not embrace tbe extreme 1
range of prices, as sales of very inferior co.tou have
been made as low as sc, while, on tne other hand,
very choice parcels have commanded T
scarcity of tne liner sorts renders them, as hereto
fore, much more saleab'e than the lower qua!iu* s »
which continue abundant.
1 he sales for the week amount to 20,509 bate s *
and for the lart three days to 8500.
LIVEBPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS. .
lymisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary, 6 a of;
Midd.ing, 7 a 7 ; Fair, 8| aS ; Good fair, 9| ab :
Good and line, 11 a—. Tennessee and S. Aim* 1 '
ma —Ordinary, middling, fair, good fair, good
line, 5| a 9£, extre mes,
STATEMENT OF COTTON. .... I
1839. Oct. I,stock on hand, [
Receipts last three days 9561
“ previously, 454939 464'tu
“ 480624
Exports last three days, 5177 , ,
** previously 7 , 363549 368'-
Slock on hand lll»9*
Sugar — Louisiana —The Levee is well supp *
and lew transactions have taken place since o Jt
la- t. owing, in some degree, to the unfavorable state
ol the weather Prices remain the same as I* s
quoted—say 3 j a 4f with an occasional small pa*'
cel of very choice at oc. We aie not ad vised of au.'
sales on Plantation since our report of Wednesday
last. The current price for fair crops is 4c.
