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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. A u G'U'.slt a • FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 6. - ' i (Xj’. Sce fi r6t P a S c - 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. i F Portrait of Robert;Y. Hayne. We perceive by an advertisement in the Charleston Courier of yesterlay, that subscrip' i 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. [ ~ \ 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! **»»»** 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 A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. DR W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHING t SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.- TMi infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chil- j dren, when thought past recovery, from convul- | sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the I gums, the child will recover. The preparation is a so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that ao I child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed withit I When infants are at the age of four months,though 1 there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the 1 Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup in the nursery where there are young children; for if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums, t the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the | pores and healing the gums ; thereby preventiag I convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. 1 Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, New I York, where the Doctor may be consulted on ill I I diseases of children, i PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACYOF I Dr. EVANS' SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Aged I of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syr. p: Dear Sir —flu *1 great benefit afforded to my suffering infant by I raur Soothing Syrup, in a case of prulracted and i •ainful dentition, must convince every feeling pa ent how essential an early application of such an rvaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery am! orture. My infant, when teething, experience' iuch acute sufferings, that it was attacked with .-onvulsions, and my wife and family supposed that death would soon release the babe from anguish till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp; whi ha* soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change was produced, and after a few applications (he child displayed obvious relief, and by continuing® its use,! am glad to inform you the child has com pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful complaint has since occurred; the teeth are ema- | nating daily and the child enjoy-s perfect health. I give you my cheerful permission to make th# acknow!edgment public, andwill gladly give an s information on this circiimsfc nee. WM. JOHNSON. . TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans' Conomih Pills are such, that the palpitating heart,the trem ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mini ] vanish before their effects like noxious vapors It fore the benign influence of the morning sun - They have long been successfully used for thecmc of in tesmittents,together with fevers of the irreaji lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral in structions. This tonic medicine is for nervous complaint eneral debility, indigestion and its consequewffi or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, at' l '’ ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling m H in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, 1 the mind becomes irritable,desponding,though^ 1 ’ melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriacismff 1 ’ 1 ' J sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all ol * nervous affections, I|hese pills will produce a ' ,ll and permanent cure. j Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced i l,l America in 1835. EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILL* “J purely vegetable, composed with the strictest j M cision of science and of art; they never ? wl “ , | nausea, and are warranted to cure the foil®*' 1 J v diseases which arise from impurities of the j’ 1, ' | viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, M Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever. Adhnm, . ■ leva. Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidny I Bladder , Affections pf :uliar to females, an ■ those diseases of whatsoever kind to which W | nature is subject, where the stomach is affects Mare conclusive proof sos the extraordinary I caey of Dr. Wm. Evans' celebrated CVwom' . • B Aperient Anti-Bihous J*ills, in alleviating W ' a mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 I Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Blood} n Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the ho« j (||t B vere griping, frequent inclination to go ti ' ‘ ■ nusraus, loss of appetite, nausea, vom ; n 'f’, j-o- I quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge K cuhar foetid matter mixed with blood giea 1 S sense of burning heat, with an intolerable K down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is ect health, and returns his sincere thanK extraordinary benefits he has received. ; | Sold by ANTONY & HAINES, M Sole agents' n * f amxSi \\ !■ J. M. & T. M. ■ P. M. COH EN & Co., CWJ ■ Uc , SHARP & ELLS, C. A. ELLS, Macon, A; w - MARTIN ,W.h c#l 1 1 H. E. W £-iibs, Drags ’ MARK A. LANE.Washin c J 3 juiy 23