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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 6.
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Farmers 9 « ? 3gister.
For the contents of the \ February No. of this
valuable Agricultural periodical, our readers are
referred to another column.
Hungarian Singers
By an advertisement in tikis day’s paper, it will
be seen that these Vocalics give Concerts on
Monday and Tuesday Everfngs next, at the Ma
sonic Hall. Os their extiaoijlinary powers, which
have been so much lauded ?incc their arrival in
this country, of course w« jrannot speak know
ingly, as we have never witnessed their exhibi
tion. We however feel luunred that the lovers
of song may confidently rel • upon a rare speci
men of Vocal Music, as sa prising as it is capti
vating.
The Malls.
Scarcely a day pusses the % we do not receive
a complaint from some qua ter or other, of the
non arrival of our paper at ts destination. And
not unfrequently we loose a subscriber because of
this neglect on the part of I ost Masters.
We can assure our lirend;i the fault is not ours
that they do not get their Lapers regularly, for
they are regularly put up ar| placed in the office
in this city, after which we c|nnot possibly con
trol them. And we hope th|t no Post Master is
so insensible of the moral obligations of his oath,
as to detain or intentionally {turn them from the
direct route. 1
We yesterday received a lletter of which the
following is an extract. His* paper is placed in
the office daily, before the departure of the mail
from the city.
—— , 3d March, 1840.
GE!fTLiM*sr: —I ara a subscriber for the Dai
ly Chronicle & Sentinel, but for the last three
weeks have not received it as often as the sub
scribers for the Tri-weekly paper. There is cer
tainly neglect some where, which, if continued,
will compel me, too reluctantly, to discontinue
my subscription. |
Your obedient servant.
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Portrait of Robert;Y. Hayne.
We perceive by an advertisement in the
Charleston Courier of yesterlay, that subscrip'
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tions are opened in that city, fc>r taking an engra*
ving, from a portrait, by Loijgacre, of this dis
tinguished patriot and son of Carolina.
The portrait by Longacre i ras taken in 1830,
and is represented by the frit ids of Gen. H. as
the best likeness extant. Th< engraving will be
on a royal folio sheet, and deli ered to subscribers
at two dollars.
Boston and Wt gner. j
The last Spirit of the Tim « contains a chal
lenge from the owner of Bust nto the owner of
Wagr.er, to run a match race, m the 27th day
of October next, four mile hejlu, for $ 25,000 a
side, half forfeit, over any course, which Col.
Wade Hampton and a gentler, an to be selected
by the owner of Wagner, sbaM designate as the
Southern Middle course, between N. Orleans
and Washington City. I
From this, it would seem thih the amateurs of
the turf may confidently anticipate a match be
tween these two celebrated hotses, as the owner
of Wagner had in a prevjoul number of the
“Spirit,” announced himself nktly to hear from
Boston. [
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Our Condition and lisc Causes.
The following graphic skf ;ch of the gloom
which pervades all classes of bu uness throughout
this vast republic, we, ex tract fr|m the late speech
delivered by Mr. Clay, in the sinate.on the Sub-
Treasury bill. We commend it most cordially
to the careful perusal of our rea ers.
It is with no pleasure, but t ith pi ofound re
gret, that I survey the present condition of our
country, I have rarely, I thin! never, known a
period of such universal and ii tense distress
The General Government is in Oebt, and its exis
ting revenue is inadequate to aleet its ordinary
expenditure. The States are L debt, some of
them largely in debt, insomucf that they have
been compelled to resort to the * incus expedient
of contracting new loans to n eet the interest
upon prior leans; and the peopl • arc surrounded
with difficulties, greatly emharn ssed,and involv
ed in debt. Whilst this is, u (fortunately, the
general state of the country, the means of extin
guishing this vast mass of deblare inconstant
diminution. Property is fallingin value—all the
great staples of the country ale declining in
price, and destined, I fear, to fjrther decline.—
The certain tendency of this vejy measure is to
reduce prices. The banks are jrapidly decreas
ing the amount of their cixcuJaUftn. About one
half of them, extending from Pi* w Jersey to the
extreme Southwest, have suspei ded specie pay
ments, presenting an image of i paralytic, one
moiety of whose body is stride a with palsy.
The banks are without a bead; and, instead of •
union, concert and co-operation between them
we behold jealousy, distrust an 1 enmity. W’e'
have no currency whatever pc s essing uniform
value throughout the whole coun ry. That which
we have, consisting almost entir ly of the issues
of banks, is in a state of the utrr )st disorder, in
somuch that it varies, in coir.p rison with the
specie standard, from par to sis y per cent dis
count. Exchanges too, are in t « greatest pos- '
siWe confusion, n t merely betwt in distant parts
of the Union, but between cit.e i and places in
the same neighborhood. That between our
great commercial marts of New fork and Phil
adelphia, within five or six hourfof each other,
vacillating between seven and tenjper cent. The’
products of our agricultural industry are unable
their way to market 3&n the want of
means in the hands of traders to i lurchase them,
or from the want of confidence in| the stability of
things. Many of our manufactc rics stopped or
stopping, especially in the irapo tant branch of
woollens; and a vast accumulatio.|of their fabrics
on hand, owing to the destruction of confidence
and the wretched state of ex chain 3 Jietween dif
ferent sections of the Union.
Such is the unexaggerated piet t e of our
doudThat 1110 "’ ‘V* 1 amidßt the 1 ‘ rk and dense
of h! surrounds us, I perceive iot one gleam
of light. It gives me nothing but win to sketch
»he picture. But duty and truth r quire that ex
isting diseases should be fearlesslyfexaroined and
probed to the bottom. We shall otherwise be
utterly incapable of conceiving or applying ap-
propriate remedies. It the present unhappy slate
•f our country had been brought upon the-peo
ple by their folly and extravagance, it ought to be
borne with fortitude, and without complaint, and
without reproach. But it is my deliberate judg
ment that it has not been—that the people are
not to be blamed—and that the principal causes
of existing embarrassments are not to be traced
to them. Sir, it is not my purpose to waste the
time or excite the feelings of members of the Se
nate by dwelling long on what I suppose to lie
those causes. My object is a better, a higher,
and I hope a more acceptable one—to consider
the remedies proposed for the present exigency.
Still, I should not fulfil my whole duty if I did
not briefly say that, in rny conscience. I believe
our pecuniary distresses have mainly sprung
from the refusal to re-charter the late Bank of the
United States; the removal of the public depo
sitee from that institution; the multiplication of
State Banks in consequence; and the Treasury
stimulus given to them to extend their operations;
the bungling manner in which the law, deposit
ing the surplus treasure with the States, was ex
ecuted; the Treasury Circular; and last, perhaps
not least, the exercise of the power of the veto
on the bill for distributing, among the States, the
net proceeds of the sales of the public lands.
What, Mr. President, is needed, at the present
crisis, to restore the prosperity of the people? A
sound local currency, mixed with a currency
possessing uniform value throughout the whole
country; a re-establishment of regular exchan
ges between different parts of the Union; and a
revival of general confidence. The people want,
in short, good government at Washington; the
abandonment ol rash and ruinous experiments;
the practice here of economy; and the pursuit of
the safe lights of experience. Give us these,
and the growth of our population, the enterprise
of our people, and the abundance, variety and
richness of the productions of our soil and of
our industry, with the blessing of Providence,
will carry us triumphantly through all our com
plicated embarrassments. Deny these—perse
vere in a mal-administration of government—and
it is in vain that the bounties of Heaven are pro
fusely scattered around us.
There is one man—and I lament to say, from
the current of events and the progress of Execu
tive and party power—hut one man, at present
in the country, who can bring relief to it, and
bind up the bleeding wounds of the People. He,
of all mew in the nation, ought to feel as a parent
should feel, most sensibly, the distresses and suf
ferings of his family. But, looking to his public
course and his official acts, I am constrained to
say that he surveys unconcerned the wide-spread
ruin and bankruptcy and wretchedness before
him, without emotion and without sympathy.
Whilst all the elements of destruction are at
work, and the storm is raging, the Chief Magis
trate, standing in the midst of his unprotected
fellow citizens, on the distinguished position of
honor and confidence to which their suffrages
have devoted him, deliberately wraps around him
selt the folds of his india-rubber cloak, and, lift
ing his umbrella over his head, tells them, dren
ched and shivering as they are under the beating
rain and hail and snow falling upon them, that
1 he means to take care of himself and the official
corps, and that they are in the habit of expecting
too much from Government, and must look out
for their own sheltei, and security, and salvation!
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Mr. President, for ten long years we have been
warring against the alarming growth ofExecutive
power : but, although we have been occasionally
cheered, it has been constantly advancing and
never receding. You may talk as you please
about bank expansions. There has been no per
nicious expansions in this country like that of
Executive power: and, unlike the operations of
banks, this power never has any periods of con
traction. You may denounce as you please the
usurpations of Congress. There has been no
usurpation but that of the Executive, which has
been upon both of the powers of other co-ordinate
departments of this Government and upon the
States. There scarcely remains any power in
this Government but that of the President. He
suggests, originates, controls, checks every thing.
The insatiable spirit of the Stuarts, for power and
prerogative, was brought upon our American
throne on the 4th of March 4329. It came un
der all the usual false and hypocritical pretences
and disguises of love of the People, desire of re
form, and diffidence of power. The Scotch dy
nasty still continue*-. We have had -Charles the
First, and now have Charles the Second. But I
again thank God that our deliverance is not dis
tant; and that, on the 4th of March, 1841, a
great and glorious revolution, without blood and
without convulsion, will be achieved.
From the Savannah Georgian.
From Florida.
We have advices to 20th ult. from the Camp
near the Gulf of Mexico, and South-East of the
Suwannee. Gen. Taylor on the 30th January
last wrote to Adj. Gen. Jones, at Washington,
that “an examination of the Wacasassa country
by four companies of the 2d Infantry, will im
mediately be commenced.” Their operations are
detailed by a correspondent, whose letter enables
us to state, that the campaign ordered by Gen.
Taylor, in the Order No. B—which appears in
our columns, commenced on the 3d uIL and has
been steadily persevered in ; the troops encoun
tering every species of hardship without a mur
mur. The scouts are generally absent five days,
officers as well as men carrying their provisions
upon their backs.
South of the Camp and between the mouths of
the Suwannee and Wacasassa the country is very
low and marshy. The troops in many instances
have marched four miles, almost knee deep in
mud. They have frequently encamped, through
necessity, in the salt marsh, which borders the
Gulf of Mexico, and been obliged to use salt
water.
The duty assigned to the Battalion cannot be
completed before the end of March. The dogs
from St. Marks did not reach the Camp until
within a few days previous to our advices, and as
yet no opportunity had been afforded of testing
them upon fresh trails.
Previous to their arrival the troops flushed
three different camps, taking from the enemy,
who escaped into the swamps, large quantities of
plunder, to wit; deer and other skins, bearskins
bed clothes, garden seeds, adzes..axes, hatchets,’
&c. &c ; the latter articles having, it is believed!
been carried off by them, while on some marau
ding expedition in Middle Florida.
°n the Bth ult. Company B. under the com- !
mand of Capt. omith, Company C. under ('apt
Casey, Company K. under Lieut. Alburtis, and '
Company E. under Lieut. Westcott, started from
Camp Kingsbury, 16 miles from Fort Fannin
on the Suwannee nver, on a scout of five days
down to the Gulf, officers and men carrying their 1
provisions on their backs; the Companies Taking 1
different directions. The same morning Lieut I
J- McKmstry started with an escort of ten vol- !
unteers to make a recon nuisance of the ham
mock, east of the camp. Dr. Maxwell and Capt.
Kingsbury accompanied Lieut. McK. They
penetrated but a short distance into the ham
moc s, w en they flushed a large party of In
dians, and t a piu red their packs, &c. the game
not proving true game. Towards evening Capt.
K. directed the volunteers to return to the camp
they flushed in the morning, and conceal them
selves, hoping that the Indians would return for
their packs. While endeavoring to execute the
order, the Indians made their appearance on the
edge of the hammocks, yelling and inviting the
volunteers to a fight, who being weak in numbers
declined and retreated to camp. They estimated
the Indians to be thirty in number.
The same day Lt. Westcott came unexpected
ly Upon a camp of Indians near the Gulf. They
'fired npon him, but on his returning the fire, im
mediately retreated, leaving behind them all their
plunder, which was very considerable. The same
day Capt. Smith also flushed a party and captur
ed their packs.
Our correspondent believes that if the troops
had had the dogs on these occasions, they would
have captured the Indians.
The following officers are attached to this
command:—Major Loomis, Captains Kingsbury,
Smith and Casey ; Lieut. Allen, Top. Eng’s.;
Lieuts. Albuilis, McKinstry, Westcolt and Ma
rion ; and Surgeon Maxwell.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New York, Feb. 29, 1840.
From Rio Janeiro we have dates to January
14, with later dates from Montevideo. The
French blockade on the River Plate was not raised
and the expected battle bad not taken place near
Montevideo. Flour was on the rise at Rio. The
French Admiral, Dupotet, with his squadron,
reached Montevideo Dec. 22.
Letters from England indicate that the British
Government was concentrating a powerful naval
force toward Canton. This preparation looks as
if England intended to have a brush with the
Chinese.
Exchanges on England from the packets of
Monday ranges from 107$ to 108$. There is
no change of consequence in stocks. There is no
city news of importance. Flour is going down.
Southern is held at $5 50 to $5 75. The de
mand, however, is very limited.
A correspondent of the New York Courier &
Enquirer, (the Spy in Washington.) in a letter
of the 26th ult. has the following remarks:
“During the first week in January, I gave you
a sketch of parties here. In my letters on that
subject I refered to the collisions which were likely
to ensue among the loco focos, on the subject of
the Vice Presidency. I stated that Mr. Polk from
the then aspect of affairs, would present the
strongest force in the field, as he was the choice
of General Jackson. You have probably seen
the movement in Virginia on the subject. The
party in that State go for Mr. Polk, and yet his
prospects within the last four weeks have not im
proved, The friends of Col. R. M. Johnson
evince symotoms of discontent at the pre-deter
mination to set aside that gallant Colonel.| This
fact, combined with the pertinacity of other aspi
rants, has caused some fluttering in the loco foco
camp,
“The fast gathering storm has produced a new
movement on the political Chess Board. Toe
Hon. the Secretary of War enters the arena as
candidate for the Vice Presidency. This is
rather unexpected. A pamphlet has been written
and in circulation among the faithful in Pennsyl
vania. It is highly complimentary to Mr. Poin
sett, and if the hints which I have received, are
well founded, it is written by a gentleman perfect
ly competent to delineate the true character of
the Secretary. But why this secrecy in the dis
tribution of the pamphlet? why confine its circu
lation to a select few ?
“ It is whispered here, in Court circles and a
mong Courtiers, that the pamphlet is a pulse feel
er. That there are those in the ranks of the
administration party, who apprehend that they
cannot unite on a candidate for the Vice Presi
dency, and that it will be the better policy to let
each Slate make its own selection for that office.
In this view of the queston, the greater number
of the candidates in the field, the more certain to
effect the object.”
A Good Illustration. —Mr. Smith, of In
diana, while discoursing, in the Senate, against
the everlasting theorizing of members, and their
indifference to practical results, thus enforced his
own views :
Mr. S. said he was sick, heart-sick, of hearing
speeches—speeches, and no relief—no prospect
of relief to the People. The course of gentlemen
(Mr. S. said) reminded him of one of the most
affecting incidents of his life. He was sent for to
the sick bed of a valued friend, he found his friend
near his dissolution; his whole appearance indi
cated speedy departure. Mr. S. asked the atten
ding physician if there could be no remedy—if
there was no relief! The Doctor shook his
head, and replied. None, I fear; the case is fe
ver; I have given him -calomel, dose after dose,
from twenty to fifty grains, but it seems to have
no effect upon him. But, Doctor, will not you
try something else ? No, sir; the case is fever,
and the books say ealomcl is the remedy; we
must follow the books. But do you not see the
patient is dying ? Your remedy is certainly not
the correct one, or you would not kill your pa
tients with it. His friend died, and Mr. S. had
the poor consolation of knowing that he had ta
ken calomel in doses prescribed by the books; but
all were not so well satisfied that it was the best
remedy for the disease as applied to that particu
lar patient, although it nright have been judicious
in some ca«es. So, said Mr. S. you have been
giving calomel, calomel, calomel, possibly as pre
scribed by some of your books; but do you not
see your patient is dying. Do you not see you
will ruin the country by your policy ? Will you
persist ?
Mississippi Banks.— I The Mississippi Bank
BiH has passed the Legislature in its most obnox
ious form—The original bill, as it passed the
House, was amended in the Senate, and sent
back to the House for concurrence. The House
disagreed to the amendments—the Senate adher
ed; and the House adhered to its disagreement.
Ihe Senate then resolved the House out of or
der, and the House refused to receive the mes
sage. Afterwards, the Senate reconsidered its
resolution declaring the House out of order, and
respectfully requested the House to reconsider its
adherence to the disagreement that a conference
might be had. The House reconsidered and ap
pointed a committee of conference—the Senate
another. After two sittings, the conferees agreed
unanimously to the main principles of the bill, as
reported by the chairman of the committee on
bantts and the currency.—The report was agreed
to by both houses, and has been approved by the
Governor, and is now a law of the land.
The bill provides that the Banks, generally,
shall resume specie payments by the first day of
April next; and upon their failing so to do, that
the Governoi shall issue his proclamation, declar
ing the charter of the Banks, so failing, forfeited.
The Union Bank is exempted from the provis
ions of the bill, it being deemed by the legisla
ture best that separate action be had in regard to
it.— Mobile Chronicle.
From the Baltimore American , Is* in .
From Caicttta. —The ship Active, arrived
here last evening, in 106 days from Calcutta, via
St. Helena, and 34 days from the latter port, with
Saltpetre, Silks and Hides, to George Beatty
left Calcutta on the 15th of November, and Sand
Heads on the 10th at noon.
While at St. Helena, learnt from the officers of
the ships Talbot and Apthorp, American ships
both bound to New York, that the Chinese had
attacked an American frigate between Whompoa
and Lintin, in the night,—taken probably for an
English ship—when an action commenced be
tween the junks and the'lA mericans, in which it
is supposed that 500 natives were killed. The
town of Wompoa was blockaded by the English
and Americans conjointly.
Important suit— The Second Municipality
of New Orleans has gained an important law-suit
by which its right is established to the baiture in
front of the Cotton Press Company, and claimed
by the latter. Ihe batture at the present time is
supposed to be worth $5,000,000.
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
Court of Nations*
The suggestion has oftimes been made by the
humane and enlightened, that there is a better
mode of settling the disputes of nations than by
the sword. All must acknowledge the uncertain
and inadequate remedy afforded by an appeal to
arms. How often do nations go to war for the
recovery of what has been unjustly taken, and
by the issue of the strife, lose what they contend
ed for, and a great deal more to boot. The cost
of war is enormous, and if the winner in the
game has to pay his own expenses, the prize is
seldom worth the expense of its attainment—
Hostilities commenced from motives oi retalia
tion, very generally end in the infliction of inju
ries tenfold greater than those sought to be re
venged. Os all remedies, however, it is the
worst for settling controverted claims. The is
sues of battles can never be, except by chance,
the decisions of equity and justice. Our barba
rous ancestors are frequently ridiculed for the
practice of judiciary duels, decidingcivil suits by
wager of battle. Have not the civilized nations
of modern times laid themselves under a like im
putation of weakness and folly, by appealing to
the God of battles for the trial of controversies,
under the vague apprehension or hope, that hea
ven would give the victory to the side which had
the right? We are glad to see that notions
more correct and humane are beginning to gain
ground on this subject. Mankind have had their
eyes opened to the havoc and insanity of war,
and one of the most encouraging signs of the
times is, the formation of associations to put a
stop to this scourge of nations.
We noticed that not long since two petitions
were presented by Mr. (day to the U. b. Senate
the one from Massachusetts the other from Penn
sylvania. praying that a movement, should be
made by the Government of the United States,
with a view to the establishment of a Congress
of nations for the adjustment of international
questions and difficulties.—The petitions came
from socities formed to promote this pacific and
great object. There is much force and plausibili
ty in the suggestion. The pan of establishing
a grand court where nations might implead each
other, presents certainly a prospect of adjudica
ting upon international controversies, in a man
ner at once equitable, peaceable, and satisfactory
to all parties. The Judges of so august a Tri
bunal would be exalted above all suspicion of
partiality and corruption.—Their adjudications
would carry with them the highest authority, as
well from the exalted character of the court, as
from the power with which it would be invested,
for the execution of its mandates. Should the
judgements of the Tribunal be resisted by any re
fractorey nation, the whole world would rise up in
arms to enforce them. For every nation that
agrees to the establishment of the Tribunal, must
do so under the obligation of sustaining its de
cisions and carrying its executions into effect.
The more the scheme is contemplated, the more
eligible and feasible does it appear. The accom
plishment of the plan we are persuaded would
be attended with results the most salutary. That
it will soon be consumated; and the petition pre
sented by Mr. Clay to the U. S. Senate, may be
hailed as the first movement towards the grand
result—the harbinger of the day predicted by the
Prophet, when “swoids shall be beat into plough
shares, and spears into pruning-hooks—and wars
shall cease to the end of the Earth.”
From the New England Farmer.
Great Wau of China. —Even when un
der one Emperor, China trembled at the Tartars
of the desert. About two hundred centuries be
fore the birth of Christ, She-hwang-le (the brook
burner,) constructed the of China, to
prevent their incursions. The wall, which has
always been considered one of the world’s, won
ders, is 1500 miles in length, of great height and
thickness, furnished with fortresses and towers
innumerable, and is carried with singular skill
over mountains and rivers, as wall as across the
plains and valleys. Lord Macartney exclaimed
on seeing it that it was certainly the most stupen
dous work of human hands, and he rationally
concluded that at the remote period of its build
ing. China must have been a very powerful and
civilized empire. Dr. Johnson was accustomed
to say. of it, that it would be an honor to any
man to say that his grandfather had seen the
great wall of China. Mr. Baxrow, who saw, it
with Macartney, went into some amusing calcu
lations as to the quantity of the materials it con
tains. According to his account, ail the materials
of the dwelling houses of England and Scott
land, supposing them at that period (at the end of
the last century) to amount to 1,800,000, and to
average 2,000 cubic feet of brick work or mason
ry, would be barely equivalent to the bulk of the
walk, without taking in its fortresses or towers,
which he calculated contained as much masonry
and brick work as London did at that time. Stu
pendous as was the work, it failed in its object.
Reduction in the price of Passage to
England. —The owners of the steamship Great
Western have reduced the price of passage to
$120; the steward’s fees are fixed at $5. Here
tofore the price was $l7O, including the steward’s
fees.
The Scale Turning. —Delaware county,
New York, has come out for Harrison and re
form. At the town elections on Tuesday, the
Harrison men carried ten out of the eighteen
towns by handsome majorities. This county
gave 2,023 majority for Van Buren over Harri
son in 1836.
Pineries of the Northwest.—A gentle
man writing from St. Louis 1 thus speaks of the
pineries on the St. Croix and Chippewa rivers:
“The country above us on the Upper Missis
sippi is chiefly inhabited by the Sioux and Chip
pewas—tribes both powerful and numerous—
and in good weather one can have no more de
lightful jaunt than a sail or row up the river, and
through the country occupied by the two last
mentioned tribes. The resources of this upper
country, though yet an Indian domain, are being
rapidly developed. It is here upon the Chippe
wa and St. Croix rivers, and the country watered
by them, that the immense pine forests which in
extent and valuable quality of timber, can be
surpassed by none in the known world. Alrea
dy there are many mills in operation and doing a
good business, and supplying the western and
northwestern towns with immense rafts of the fin
est timbers. When we conceive how great is the
demand for lumber of this nature in the rapidly
increasing west, and see that all must be supplied
from these, the only pineries on the western wa
ters; none can doubt the ultimate increase and
richness of the country, were these its only re
sources; but besides this there arc undoubted
evidences of minerals daily developing themselves,
with a rich soil, and susceptible of high improve
ment.”
A Speech worthu hearing. —The Quincy
(Illinois) Whig of the Ist February, contains
the following leport of a recent speech in the
Senate of that State, on the bill for repealing in
ternal improvements:
“ Mr. Speaker, I rise Sir, not to make a speech
—speech making is not my trade ; but to tell the
friends of repeal, that I am foment them al
though I hate railroads as bad as any man onthis
yearth, prehaps, and I have a good reason to hate
them, yet I shall vote agin repealing them be
kasc all my constituents on this side of the river
bodashiously are for them, and a good many on
he other etde too—„ ere a fact, Mr. Speaker
I know eery little about fatheads, but 1 ‘ ,
know a. much aa wme other folk. do. W e 7.
had a railroad m Chnton for eome year,. a cro «
the bottom there at Carlisle and one over Crook
ed Creek bottom, in Marion,' and of all infernal
roads in creation, for roughness, they bangs the
beater, —gentlemen may laugh—but it’s no joke,
m y constituents have lost, in the single item
of breakage of eggs, sir, a handsome fortune.
Scott who keeps tavern in Carlisle, and a rale
tavern too, not one of your Springfield greaseycs,
but a right jam up chicken fixin tavern, told me
that no mortal man could tell the eggs that had
been broken, in bringing them to market, across
that infernal railroad, and Tully told me the same
thing exactly about (’rooked Creek railroad—
some smashing of eggs. You know Huey, Mr.
Speaker? I wish you could have hearn Huey
curse, the time his carnage was jolted up into
eternal smash, crossing this same railroad.—
[Here the Speaker, unable any longer to control
his risible faculties, laughingly observed, ‘ the
gentleman must confine himself to the question,
and to the rules of the Senate.] Well, sir, as
was saying, be cust and he swore, and fairly
snorted agin, but still, he’s for railroads. These
are my notions, Mr. Speaker, and I could not sit
here without belching it out; [Here the orator
turned his head and in an audible voice addressed
a senator to his right—‘Uncle Peter, what’s the
name of your wolf bill ? but receiving no answer,
he then, straightening himself up, again address
ed the Speaker.]
As I am now up, Mr. Speaker, I will give you
my notions on Uncle Peter’s wolf bill—[Here
the Speaker interrupted him again, by reminding
him that the wolf questions was not before the
Senate, and therefore its merits could not be dis
cussed.] —You’re mistaken in your man, Mr.
Speaker; I’m not a cussing character, and if I
was, I should be very far from cussing U ncle
Peter’s wolf bill. No, sir; I want you and all
this here Senate to understand that I am no Ju
piter Iscariot, in this or any other matter. I’m
for that bill head and ears, no mistake in shave
tail, —I go it, sir, on the loud.
One more thing. Mr. Speaker, and Pm done,
the gentleman from Shamrock county —I don’t
think that’s the name exactly cither—but the two
headed gentleman over there, said the other day—
[Here the Speaker assuming as much gravity as
possible, called the gentleman to order, and re
quested him to take his seat! After looking the
Speaker steadfastly in the eye for at least twenty
seconds, with a wince of askance, he said—Are
■ you in rale yearnest, Mr. Speaker ? if so be you
are, you’re into me about a feet, I s’pose you
think, but sir—look out —I warn you, sir, to keep
a skin’d eye for terrapin traps and moccasin
tracks, —I have rights, sir, as the two headed gen
tleman over theie, (pointing to the gentleman i
from Hancock) said the other day, that shall not
be trodden on nor treated with discorn—l’m
done, sir,—l would however, before I sot down,
say to my friend from Union, not to look so se
rious, when he tells his funny stories, in his
speech, but to give us a sort of a smile, as I do,
when he comes to the nub, or laughing part, so
that we may know when to laugh too. I have
now gOv all I was arter, Mr. Speaker, and I will
conclude this speech.
The Match Made.—The New Orleans Pica
yune says that the match race spoken of in that
paper of the 25th ult, has been concluded, Maria
Black, Altorf, Billy Townes and Ralph come to
gether on the 17th inst., at the Eclipse Course—
sl,ooo aside, half forfeit, the proprietor to give
SI,OOO to the winner. This will be a hard race,
and it is already occasioning a stir among the lo
vers of fine lacing in New Orleans.
Contents of the February No. ol the Far
mers’ Register.
Original Communications. —National im
portance of agriculture; Number of silk worms’
eggs, of several kinds, to the ounce ; Miscellane
ous remarks on root culture. Experiment in
| feeding mangel wurtzel to milch cows; Spaces
for silk worms. Mistakes of Dandolo’s meaning
by his translators ; Injury to corn from stripping
the Idhves for fodder. Remarkable fertility and
chemical composition of Scioto bottom land;
Remarks on Mr. Carter’s proposed change of ro
tation. Insects and weeds ; Suggestions to ex
perimenters on silk culture. Requisites for suc
cess. Necessity for healthy eggs and the means
of obtaining them; Cultivation of irish and
sweet potatoes; On tl e profits of silk culture in
Virginia; Premiums awarded by the Agricultu
ral Society of Charlotte ; Remarks on different
■ schemes of rotations; The five-shift rotation;
, Remittances by mail to publishers, may be free
of postage; Farmyards. Meadow. Manuring.
Preseivation of timber. Flesh converted to ma
’ | nure ; Monthly commercial report.
Selections. —Description of several Scotch
I farms, and the management thereon ; General
description of D’A reel’s system and apparatus for
ventilating and heating cocooneries; Expenses
and proceeds of crops; Cranberries; Culture and
consumption of mangel wurtzel; Cotton seed;
Wonders of cultivation; Allowance of water to
horses; Witch (or wire) grass; Artesian well
at Crenelle; Review of Dr. Richardson’s account
of florin grass ; Observations on the cultivation
, of the sugar beet; Sale of flowers; Value of
. cotten seed as manure; Poisoned cheese ; Cheap
manuring; The domestic cocoonery; Rocky
mountnin flax ; Large seedling grape, raised by
Vans Mons; Short-horned cattle; Capture of a
bear; Working cows; Hay-tea for swine; Best
form for a cocoonery ; Great wall of China; On
making good bacon; Barn cellars; Magnificent
conservatory; Notes on European agriculture;
Peach trees; Agricultural excursion into St.
John’s Berkley (8. C.) ; Jerusalem artichoke;
Treatment and food of growing stores; Nitrate
of soda as a manure.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Jan. 7
Latest dates from Havre Jnn. 10
Macon, March 3.
Cotton —No material variation in the market
since our last. We quote 6a 7$ cts. In Augusta.
27th ult., 6 a Bs, dull. Our stock on hand on the
Ist inst. exceeded that of toe previous year 12927
bales.
The following is a statement of the amount of
cotton received in Macon during the last six years,
ending Ist .uarch in each year, together with the
stock remaining on hand for the same time,
March Ist, 1840, 93,181, Stock, 23,823
1839, 59,881, 10,896
1838, 86,209, 12,589
1837, 68,663, 20.005
1836, 68,123, 13,434
1835, 52,225, 6.614
MARINE INTELLIGENCE*
Savannah, March 3
Cleared.— Ferguson, Trinidad ;
Seaboard, Dennis, Providence; Exit, Sisson, Charles
ton; Br brig Jane Haddow, Suttie, Greenock; schr.
Gen. Warren, Baker, Boston; schr Herald. White
Boston. ’ ’
Arrived— Ship> Ocraulgee, Leavitt, New York :
ship Aurelius, Crowell, Boston; brig Ooelouras
August ltim ° re; Steamboat La ™> Cre swell*
Went to sea —Ship Sabina, Mattieson, Liverpool-
Br bark Spartan, Tarbot, Halifax; schrs Franklin’
Green, Smith, Providence; Herald, White, Boston;
Gen. Warren, Baker, Boston,
. . J < harleston, March 5.
Arrived yesterday- Schr Ajax, Wheelor, St Jaeo
deCuba; steam packet Southerner, Budd, St An.
gustine, via Brunswick.
1 A I bri S Paul T. Jones, Ire
land, Philadelphia.
Cleared— Br ship Helena, Drenning, Livemool.
bng Frederick Pearl, S,afford, Marseilles; Spanish
steamer Almendares, De Soto, Havana p n
Went to sea yesterday —Ship Robin Hood Prnr
tor, Liverpool; Fr brig Pensee. Rabot, Nantz brie
Ajax, Bowers, New Orleans; U States Mail
Thames, Axworthy, Key West. Mail schr
MARRIED,
On Wednesday evening last, by tr.e R ev M
Suer, Mr. John Bridges to Miss Laur a n
FORTH, both of this city. AR -
Consignees per South Carolina Kail HorT !
Hamburg. March 5, * j
Rees & Beall; S Kneeland & Son; Hudson & T
Sandford &L; Baily & G; Credille & p. T *
Harwell; T Dawson; C Brooks & Co; R u ’ SeU
Hutchinson; D N Judson; G Winter; G Murieli I
G Winter; Haviland, Risley & Co; A Cuir.miJ!
Carre; JW& W S Jones; G Parrott; J p o ’ s ’
. 1... ..ins— "Cason.
«r THE FARMERS’
publication, devoted to the improvement
practice, and support of the interest of \° ■ tlie
ture; published at Richmond, Va , at ■ ,Cu '*
Edbund Ruffin, editor and proprietm* per year -
r. —m 6
(jyDr. C. W. WEST offers hi* D m
services to the citizens of Augusta and . essionj l
His office is in Mein tosh-street, opposj t „' t ! JCID %'
of the Constitutionalist: residence at thni' °^ ce
Phoenix Hotel. feb
Doctor J. J. WILSON T~
sional services to the citizens of Auemti * ro ..
vicinity. He will be found at his tv!
first brick building above Guedron’s stable onVir
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams U
*»g l7 * ts
(TT EXCHANGE ON NEW '
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale bv ’
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHlxp
J. W. JONES, is my j
adjustment of ray unfinished business. ia j
n| ar 3 WILLIAM E. Jo NEs i
dj* NOTICE. —From this date freight on I
per 8. C. C. & Rail Road Co. is reduced to forty aril
cents per hundred for square bales, and fifty if 1
cents per hundred pounds for round. 3 ' 1
A 13. S1 URGES, Agent
Hamburg, March 4,1840.
(O RAIL ROAD FREIGHT
artic'es usually carried by weight to Hamburg
be charged at 40 cents per 100 pounds v instead o
50 cents, as customary,) till further notice
mar 2 JOHN KING, J r ., Agent.
Kr BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.— For the beT I
fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity I
The visiting committees for the ensuing month I
are as follows: 0 “ I
Division No. I.—James Godbv, J. W. Merlin, I
Mrs. Crump, Mrs N. Jones. Ul ’ ■
Division No. 2. —W. H. Crane, W. F. Pember- 1
ton, Mrs. Taliiafarro, Mrs. M. A. Holt. I
Division No. 3.—C. E. Latimer, James Pantm I
Mrs. B. McKinnie, Mrs. Julia Snead. j
J. W. WIGH FMAN, Secretary I
zyPUBLIC NOTICE.— Dr. I
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed 1
his operating rooms to one door below Martin Fred- I
click's Confectionary, and opposite the Brd»e ?
Bank Building. s et) jq° j
C y Dr. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci. I
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of hi« I
profession. He may be found at all hours at the |
late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second door *
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets,
nc v 29 iy
LAW NOTICE. —The undersigned practi- !
ces in the Superior Courts of Columbia, Washing 1
ton, Scriven, Burke, and Jefferson counties. 3
feb 19 2w CHARLES J. JENKINS.
TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.- \
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy, i
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visi- I
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from A
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms i
will be well lighted. dec 19
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