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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
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AUGUSTA.
WEDNESL VY MORNING, APRIL 1.
gj* & ee >a &'
(Xj“ No Mail Sorfh of Richmond night.
The I oundary Questioa.
In this morning’s paper will be found the cor
respondence bet ween the English Minister, Mr.
Pox, and the Secretary of State, to which we al
luded yesterday, and winch has given rise to so
many rumours es of war between the two coun
tries. For ourselves, however, we entertain no
fears of a war, between England and America,
for this conlcmptabl; strip of poor forestland.
There is too great a community*<>f interests exist
ing between the people of the nations to counten
ance a resort to arms on the part of rheir rulers
Her Majesty’s Government has quite too much to
attend to at home, in the protection of her India
possessions, in watching the movements of the
Emperor of all the Knssias, and in her present re
lations with die Celestial Empire, to think for a
inmnent of jeopardising her possessions in North.
America,by art open rapture with this government.
Although we are quite satisfied that the admin
istration would not be at all displeased to get up
a difficulty, which would serve to direct the alten*
tion of the people, now being so genarally arous
ed, from its corruptions and intrigues.
The following very sensible article, on this
subject, is from Hell's Loudon Messenger:
The affair of siie American Boundary ques
tion, appears to a very insignificant affair; a
mere-case for commissioners, who, fertile sake
of keeping their respective salaries, and from that
unlucky quality which always characterises all
business to be settled by paper references, will
possibly keep the matter in dispute for another
twenty y< ars. The main point is, that both
countries are alke unwilling to quarrel for this
most worthless object; me whole province of
New Brunswick not being worth the cost of a
single British frigate,|so far us it filings any thing
into the English exchequer. No one will accuse
us of belonging to the utilitarian philosopy of
the day; hut things of this kind are really cases
of profit and loss, and are best decided by
ihe plain question put to ourselves—what
is this boundary really -worth, and what would
it cost us in the event of an American war
to maintain it I The boundary is nearly worth
less, and the average erst of a war of three
years would be at least ten millions a year,
or thirty millions in the whole. Upon this point,
therefore, we think the apprehension of war to
he utterly chimerical.
Franking Privilege.
The Van Buren presses are quite in ecstaciea
at one or two communications which have re
cently appeared in the Globe, from citizens who
have received circulars and news papers from
members of Congress, who were unknown to
them bearing their franks. These Editors have
forgotten that the practice of franking the Globe,
was adopted by Gen. Jackson, during his admin
istration, and m the excess of his anxiety, to give
currency to its depraved sentiments, he franked
one to the Hon. John W. Womack, of the Ala
bama Legislature, for which he received in return
one of the most scorching and indignant letters
we ever recollect to have read.
The following account of the recent Whig
victory in Mobile, we copy from tbe Advertiser
of that city;
Charter Election-Official Returns.
Fun XATOR,
E. Hall, (Whig) J. B. Hogan, (Loco)
North Ward 257 167
Middle “ H 4 53
South “ 2tß 285
West “ 241 2i7
9 lb 722
Whig maj. 1!|)
4|>n AT.-DEHMETT.
I North Ward,
Whigs. J Locofoco’e.
John R. Blockeri 2€l ft. L. Want ins, 162
James Baltic, f 256 Jeremiah Austfll, 161
•Middle Ward.
J.F. Mcßride, f 139 Charles Cullen, 71
Lewis Gueringey, 135
West Ward.
John Fowler , 263 Jo-eph Cain, 219
Dabney Palmer, 233 Percy Walker, 201
South Ward.
George Wragg, 257 Hugh Mu time, 290
Thomas Lobe, 240 J. W. Ashton, 286
Those in italics are elected.
The entire Vv hig ticket for Common Council
was elected as given yesterday, by an average
majority of 144 votes.
All that the lo; ofocos have saved out of seven
teen municipal o' leers, are, the two Aldermen
in the South Wo i d’ Is not this a Waterloo de
feat ! And whei we compare it with the result
last year, it seem almost incredible. One year
ago the Locofoco carried their Mayor, bv a ma
jority of 332—S i out of eight Aldermen, and
their entire tick i; for Common Council. The
average Whig in Ijorily in the North Ward for
Aldermen, was den three; this year average
Whig majority 9i ! In tbe Middle Ward, la-t
year, average Wig majority 40—this year 63.
Xu the West Wa 1, last year, the Locofoeos elect
ed both Aldorm ji, by an average majority of
197, this year this the tables are turned, and the
Whigs have bothtAldermtn, bv an average ma
jority of 38 votei! And in the South Ward,
the Locofoco njjorily of last year was 212,
which was redu pd on Monday* last to 40 !
Showing a clear Yhig gain in the city, during
the last twelve rr nfhs, of fits liusnnitD asd
twextt-five r rrs! If we take the Mayor’s
election as ate?t the Whig gain will be five
HCXDUEV IXD F HTT-THREE ! !
New York, March 26.
Bark Bcrli : otox Bcrxt at Sea.—On
the 17th inst. in it. 40J, lon. 3444, the packet
ship St. James, Cipt. Sebor, wb : ;h arrived here
yesterday from Lt-ndon, descried a sail to the W.
8. W. distant 6 *r 8 miles. The weather was
moderate and baz \:. At 1 o’clock, P. M. made
her out to be a bt rk, with signals of distress. —
Stood foi her irnr edialely, and at 3 30 spoke her.
She proved to be he Burlington, Capt. Hallet, of
Boston, 32 days rom New Orleans, for Havre,
then on fire, hav ig been struck by lightning on
the 10th inst. C it all hands, 15 in number, and
some provisions, on board, and made sale from
her with all poss’ 1c despatch. In 15 minutes af
ter, the fire burs , out, and she was all iu flames.
At 8 P. M. the r un and in zen masts fell, and
at 10 shesuddeo f disappeared. The bark had
1553 bales of cc ton on board.
Change.— W on the poet, or philosopher, or
moralist, or what ver he was. wrote the sentence
“This is a work of change,'' the banka had not
suspended.— Pit.
To the Sendie of Ike Vailed States.
I transmit to the Senate, herewith, copies of
official notes which have passed between the
Secretary of State and British Minister, since my
last message, on the subj ;ct of r -solutions of the
17lh of Januaiy. M. \ AN BUREN.
Washington, 26th March, 1840.
Mr, Fox to Mr. Forsyth.
Washington*, March 13, 1840.^5
The undersigned, her Brittannic Majesty’s
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary, has been instructed by his Government to |
make the following communication lolheSecre- j
tary of Stale of United Slates, in reference to the !
boundary negotiation, and the affairs of the !
disputed territory.
Her Majesty’s Government have had under |
their consideration the official note addressed to ;
the undersigned by the Secretary of Stale, <«i the
24th of last December, in reply to a note from the
undersigned of the 2d of November preceding, in !
which the undersigned protested, in the name of
ins Government, against l!*esystcm of aggression !
pursued by the people of the State©!' Maine within |
the disputed territory, to the prejudice of the rights :
of Great Britain, and in manifest, violation of the |
provisional agreement entered into between the |
authorities of the two countries at the beginning
of the l ist year.
Her Majesty’s Government have also had their
attention directed to the public message trasmilted
by the Governor of Maine to the Legislature of
the Stale, on the 3d of January of the present
year.
Upon a consideration es tbe statements con
tained in these two official documents, her Ma
jesty’s Government regret to find that the principal
acts ot encroach meal winch were denounced and
complained of on the part oi Great Britan, s© far
from being either disproved, or discontinued, or
satisfactorily explained by the authorities of 'the
State of Maine, are, on the contrary, persisted in,
and publicly avowed.
Her Majesty’s Government have consequently
instructed the undersigned once more formally to
protest against those acts of encroachment and
aggression.
Her Majesty’s Government claim and expert
from the good faith of the Government of the {
Untied States, that the people of Maine shall re
place themselves in the situation in which they
stood before the agreement of last year was .sign
ed—that they shall therefore retire from the val
ley of St. John, and confine themselves to the val
ley of the Aroostook; that they shall occupy that
valley in a temporary manner only, for the pur
pose, as agreed upon, of preventing depredations;
and they shall not construct fortifications, nor
make roads or permanent settlements.
Until this be done by the people of tlie Stale
of Maine, and so long as that people shall persist
in the present system of aggression, her Majesty’s
Government will feel it their duty to make such
military arrangements as may be required for the
protection of her Majesty’s rights. And her Ma
jesty’s Government deem it right to declare that
if the result of the unjustifiable proceedings of
the Slate of Maine should be collision between
her Majesty’s troops and the people of that State,
the responsibility of all the consequences that
may ensue therefrom, be they what they may,
well rest with the people and Government of the
United States.
‘The undersigned has been instructed to add to
this communication, that her Majesty’s Govern
ment are only waiting for the detailed report of
the British commissioners recently employed to
survey the disputed territory, wh'ch report, it was
believed, would be completed and delivered to her
Majesty’s Government by the end of the present
month, in order to transmit to the Government of
the United Slates a reply to their last proposal
upon the subject of the boundary negotiation.”
The undersigned avails himself of this occa
sion to renew to the Secretary of Stale of tbe
the United States tlie assurance of his distin
guished consideration, H. S. FOX.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Fox.
Department of State,
Washington,March2s, IS4O.
The undersigned. Secretary of State of the
United States, acknowledges to have received Mr,
Fox’s communication of the 13th instant, in re
i ferenre to the boundary negotiation and the as
, fairs of the disputed territory. The information
given in the closing part of it. that a reply to the
first proposition of the U. States upon the sub
ject of the boundary may be expected in a short
time, is highly gratifying to the President, who
has, however, given directions to the undersign
ed in making this acknowledgment, to accompa
; ny it with the expression of his profound regret
j that Mr. Fox’s note is Lu no other respect satis
i factory.
After the arrangements which, in the begin
j ning of lastyear, were entered into on the part
| of the two Governments with regard to the oc
cupation of the disputed territory, the President
had indulged the hope that the causes of irrita
tion which had grown out of this blanch of the
subject could have been removed. Relying on
the disposition of Maine to co-opc.ate with the
Federal Government in all that could lead to a .
pacific adjustment of the principal question, the
President felt confident that his determination to
! maintain order and peace on the border would be
j fully carried out. He looked u(w>n all appreuen
| sions of designs by the people of Maine to take
possession of the territory, as without adequate
foundation; deeming it improbable than on the
eve of an amicable adjustment of the question,
any portion of the American people would, with
out cause and without object, jeopard the success
of the negotiation and endanger the peace of tl«j
country. A troublesome, irritating, ami compar
atively unimportant, because subordinate, sul>-
ject, being thus disposed of, the President hoped
that the parties would be left free at once to dis
cuss and finally adjust the principal question. In
this he has been disappointed. While the pro
ceedings of her Majesty’s Government at home,
have been attended with unlocked for delays, its
attention has been diverted from the great su!>-
ject in controversy by repealed complaints, impu
ting to a portion of the people of the United
States designs to violate the engagements of their
Government; designs which have never been
entertained and which Mr. Fox knows would re
ceive no countenance from this Government.
It is to be regretted, that at this late hour, so
much misapprehension still exists on the side of
the British Government, as to the object and ob
vious meaiiing.of the existing arrangements res
pecting the disputed territory. The ill success
which appears to have attended the efforts made
by the undersigned to convey, through Mr. Fox
to her Majesty’s Government, more correct im
pressions respecting them, calls for a recurrence
to the subject, and a brief review of the corres- i
pondence which has grown out of it, may tend j
to remove the erroneous views which prevail, as j
to the manner which the terms of the arrange- I
rnents referred to have been observed.
As Mr. Fox had no authority to make any j
agreement respecting the exercise of jurisdiction !
over the disputed territory, that between him and
the undersigned, of the 27th of February, 1839.
had for its object some provisional arrangement
for the restoration and preservation of peace in
the Territory. To accomplish this object, it pro
vided that her Majesty’s officers should not seek
to expel, by military force, the armed party which
had been sent by Maine in the district bordering
on the Restook liver; and that, on the other
hand, the Government of Maine would volunta
rily, and without needless delay, withdraw beyond
the bounds of the disputed territory any armed
force thew within them. Besides this, the ar
rangement had other objects—the dispersion of
notorious trespassers, and the protection of public
property from depredation. In case future neces
sity should arise for this, the operation was to be
conducted by concert, jointly or separately, ac
cording to agreement between the Government of
Maine and .New Brunswick.
In ibis last mentioned respect, the agreement
looked to some further arrangement between
I Maine and New Brunswick. Through the agen-
I cy of Gen. Scott, one wa* agreed to. on the 23d
| and 2oth of March following, by which Sir John
I Harvey bound himself not to seek, without re*
j newed instructions to that effect from his Govern
| ment, to take military possession of the Terrilo
j ry, or to repel from it by military force the armed
| civil posse, or the troops of Maine. On the part
; of Maine, it was agrees.! by her Governor that no
{ attempt should be made without renewed instruc
j tions from the Legislature, to disturb by arms the
j province of New Brunswick in the possession
I of the Madawaska settlements, or interrupt the
> usual communications between that and tiie up
per provinces. As to possession and jurisdiction,
! they were to remain unchanged,each party hold
! ing, in fact, possession ot part oi the disputed
j Territory, but each denying the right of the oth
!erto do so. With that understanding. Maine
: was, without unnecessary delay, lo|withdraw her
military force, leaving only, under a land agent, a
! small civil posse, armed or unarmed, to protect
i b.e timber recently cut, and to prevent further
depre at ion s.
In the complaints of infractions of (he agree
ments of the state of Maine, addressed to the
undersigned, Mr. Fox has assumed two positions
which are not authorized by the terms of those
agreements: Ist. admit ing the right of Maine to
maintain a civil oosse in ibe disputed territory
for the purposes stated in the agreement, he does
so with the restriction that the action of the pos
se was to he confined within certain limits; and
2d, by unking the advance of the Maine posse
into the valley of the Upper St. John, the ground
of his complaint of encroachment upon the Mad
awaska settlement. he assumes to extend the lim
its of that settlement beyond these it occupied at
the date -of the agreement.
The United States cannot acquiesce in either
of these positions.
In the first place, nothing is found in the agree
ment subscribed to by Governor Fairfield and
S;r John Harvey, defining any limits in the dis
| puled territory within which the operations of the
‘ civil posse of Maine were to he circumsciibedL
The task of preserving the timber recently cut,
and of preventing Tardier d predations uvihin the
disputed territory . was assigned to the State of
Maine after her military force should have been
withdrawn from it; and it was to be accom
plished by a civil posse, armed or unarmed,which
was to continue in the territory, and to operate in
every part ot it where its agency might be re
quired to protect the timber already c ut, am. pre
vent further depredations, without any limitation
whatever, or any restrictions, except such as might
be construed into an attempt to disturb by arms
the Province of New' Brunswick in her posse s
sion ot the Madawaska settlement, or interrupt
the usual communication between the Piovinces.
It is thus in the exercise of a legitimate right,
and in the conscientious discharge of an obliga
tion imposed upon her bv a solemn compact, that
the State of Maine has done those acts which
have given rise to complaints no ade
quate cause is perceived. The undersigned feels
confident that when those acts shall ha' e been
considered by her Majesty’s Government at home
as explained in his note to Mr. Fox, of the 24th
of December last, and in connection with the
foregoing remarks, they will no longer be viewed
as calculated to excite the apprehensions of her
Maj sty’s Government that the faith of existing
arrangements is to be broken on the part of the
United States.
With regard to the second p.isition assumed
'by Mr. Fox. tnat the advance of the Maine posse
along tire val ey of (he Restook to the mouth of
Fish River, and into tire valley of the Upper St.
John, is at variance with the terms and spirit of
the agreements—the undersigned must observe
that if at variance with any of their provisions, it
could only he with those which secure her Ma
jesty’s Province of New Brunswick against any
attempt to disturb the possession of the Mada
waska settlement, and to interrupt the usual com
munications between N. Brunswick and the Up
per Provinces. The agreement couW only have
reference to the Madawaska settlements as con
futed within their actual limits at the time it was
subscribed. The und *rsinged. in liis note of the
24ih of December last, stated live reasons why
the mouth of Fish River and the valley of the
St. John through which it passes, could in no
proper sense be considered as embraced in the
Madawaska settlements. Were the U.States to ad
mit the pretension set up on the part of Great
Britain, to give to the Madawaska settlements
a degree of constructive extension that might,
at this ii me, suit the purposes of Iwer Majesty’s
colonial authorities,those settlements soon might
be made, with like justice, to embrace any por
tions of the disputed territory; and the right giv
en to the Province of New Brunswick to occupy
them temporarily and ( a special purpose might, by
inference quite as plausible, give the jurisdiction
exercised by her Majesty’s authorities an extent
which would render the present state of the ques
lio i. so long as ii could be maintained,equivalent
to a decison en the merits of the whole ci ntro
veisy in favor of Great Britain.
If the small settlements at Madawaska on (he
north side of the Su Joints means the whole val
ley of that river—if & boom across the Fish riv
er. and a station of a small posse on the south
side of the Sr. Johns at the mouth of Fish river
is a disturbance of that settlement, which is twen
ty-five miles below, within the meaning of the
agreeansent, it is difficult to conceive that there
are any limitations to the pretensions of her Ma
jesty’s Government under it, or how the State of
Maine could exercise the preventive power with
regard to trespassers, which was, on her part, the
great object of the temporary arrangements.—
The movements of British troops, lately witness
ed in the disputed territory, and the erection of
military works for their protection and accommo
dation. of which authentic information, recently
received at the Department of Stale, has been
communicated to Mr. Fox, impart a etill graver
aspect to the matter immediately under consider
ation. The fact of those military operations es
tablished beyond a doubt, left unexplained, or
unsatisfactorily accounted fur, by Mr, Fox's note
of the 7th instant, continues an abiding cause of
complaint on the part of the United States against
her Majesty’s colonia’ agents, as inconsistent wish
arrangements whose main object was to dives' a
question, already sufficiently perplexed and com
plicated, from such embarrassments as those with
which the proceedings of the British authorities
fail to surround it.
If, as Mr. Fox must admit, the objects of the
late agreements were the removal of ail military
force ami the preservation of the property from
further spoliations. leaving the possession and ju
risdiction as they stood before the State of Maine
found itself compelled to act against the trespas
sers. the President cannot but consider that the
conduct of the American local authorities strong
ly and most favorably contrasts with that of the
colonial authorities of her Majesty’s Government.
While the one, promptly withdrawing its milita
ry force, has confined itself to the use «f the
small posse, armed as agreed upon, and has
done no act not necessary to the accomplishment
of the conventional object, every measure taken
or indicated by the other parly, is essentially mil
itary in its character, and can be justified otdy by
a well founded apprehension that hostilities must
ensue.
With such feelings and convictions, the Presi
dent could not see, without painful surprise, the
attempt of Mr. Fox, under instructions from his
Government, to give to the existing state of things
a character not warrantee by the f'iendly dispo
sition of the United States or the conduct of the
authorities and people of Maine; much more u he
surprised to find it alleged as a ground for
strengthening a military force and preparing for
a hostile collision with the unarmed inhabitants
of a friendly State, pursuing, within their own
borders, their peaceful occupations, or exerting
themselves in compliance with their agreements
to protect the property in dispute from unauthor
ized spoliation.
The President wishes that he could dispel t’.ie
fear that these dark forebodings car; be realized.
Unless her Majesty’s Government shall forthwith
arrest all military interference in the question—
unless it shall apply to the subject mure deter
mined dibits than have hitherto been made to
bring the dispute to a certain and pacific adjust
ment, the misfortunes predicted by Mr. Fox in
the name of his Government, may most unfortu
nately happen. But no apprehension of the con
sequences alluded to by Mr. Fox can be permit
ted to divert the Government and people of the
United States from the performance of their duly
to the Stale of Maine. That duty is as simple
as it is imperative. The construction which is
given by her to the treaty of 1753 has been, again
and again, and in the most solemn manner, as
serted also by the Federal Government, and must
be maintained, unless Maine freely consents to a
new boundary, or unless that construction of the
treaty is found to be erroneous bv the decision of
a disinterested and independent tribunal, selected
by the parties for its final adjustment. The
President, cm assuming the duties of his station,
avowed his determination, ail other means of ne
gotiation failing, to submit a proposition to the
Government of Great Britain to refer the decis
ion of the question once more to a third party.
In all the sulisequent steps which have been ta
ken upon the subject by his direction, he has been
actuated by the same spirit. Neither Iris dispo
sition in the matter, nor bis opinion as to the pro
priety of that course, has undergone any change.
Should the fulfilment of his wishes he defeated
cither by an unwillingness on the part of her Ma
jesty’s Government to meet the offer of the Uni
ted Slates in the spirit in which it is made, or
from adverse circumstances of any description,
the President will, in any event, derive great sat
isfaction from the consciousness that no effort on
his part has been spared to bring the questien to
an amicable conclusion, and that there has been
nothing in the conduct either of the Governments
and people of the United States, or of the S ate
of Maine, to justify the employment of her Mu
jesty’s forces as indicated by Mr. Fox’s letter.
The President cannot under such circumstances,
apprehend that the responsibility for any conse
quences winch may unhappily ensue, will by the
just judgment of an impart.al world, be imputed
to the United States.
The undersigned avails himself, &c. &c. &c.
To the Hon. H. S. Fox, &c.
M>\ Fox to Mr. Forsyth.
Washington, March 26, 1840.
The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty’s En
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
has had the honor to receive the official note of
yesterday’s dale, addressed to him by Mr. For
syth, Secretary of rttate of the United States, in
reply to a note dated the 13th hist, wherein the
undersigned, in conformity with instructions re
ceived from his Government, had anew formally
protested against the acts of encroachment and
aggression which are still persisted in by armed
bands in the employment of the State of Maine
within certain portions of the disputed territory.
It will l»e the duty of the undersigned imme
diately totiansn.it Mr. Forsyth’s note to her Ma
jesty’s Government in England; and until the
statements and propositions which it contains
shall have received the due consideration of her
Majesty’s Government, the undersigned will not
deem it right to add any further reply thereto,
excepting to reier to, and to repeat, as he now
formally and distinctly does, the several declara
tions which it has from time to time been his duty
to make to the Government of the United Slates
with reference to the ex sling posture of affairs
in the disputed territory, and to record his opinion
that an inflexible adherence to the resolutions
that have been announced by her Majesty’s Gov
ernment,'for the defence of her Majesty’s Govern
ment the only means of protecting those rights
from being in a continually aggravated manner
encroached upon and violated,
The undersigned avails him*elf of this occa
sion to renew to the Secretary of State of the
United States, the assurance of his distinguished
consideration. H: S. FOX.
The Hon. John Forstth, <fec. &c.
After some discussion the correspondence was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
and 10,000 copies ordered to ba printed.
Mu. Van Bures and the late war.—A
paragraph is going the rounds, stating that at a
public meeting in Hudson, New York, in 1812,
Mr. Van Burenolfcred the following resolution :
“ Resolved . That the war is impolitic and disas
trous; and to employ the militia in an offensive
war is unconstitutional!”
Mississippi Legislature. —The Grand Gulf
Advertiser (Locofoco) speaks of the late L »cofo
co Legislature of Missis-ippi in the following
terms:
“We were present at the‘closing scene’ of the
labors of our ‘wise’ and ‘ancrgetic’ members of
the legislature of this Shale, and we must say
that a more disorderly, undignified, ignorant and
inefficient collection, with some few exceptions, it
was never our fate to witness congregtaled in
such a body, claiming tube of a deliberative char
acter,”
A passenger in the packet ship Cambridge, ar
rived at New York from Liverpool, has been
arrested by an order fr. m the Chancellor, charged
with having absconded from England with a large
amount of property belonging to his creditois.
His name is Thomas Cartwright.
From the last numberofthe“London Quarterly”
we extract the following particulars of tue illustri
ous Hungarian house ot the Esterhazys:
Magnificence of the Estf.rhazts. —The
house of Estei hazy is probably the most magni
ficent of nonrcgnanl houses in the world. That
jacket o'jackets, which is said to cost the Prince
a hundread pounds in wear and tear every time
it is put on. has already impressed the English
public with the extent of his pos-essions, but the
impression bills far short of Inc reality. His estate
contains 530 villages, 40 towns, and 34 castles.
He has four country houses, as big as Chatsworth,
within an hours ride of one another. One of
them, Esterhaz, contains 360 rooms for visitors,
and a theatre. The well-known story of the
Prince’s reply to the lord of Holkham, who, after
exhibiting a flock of 2000 sheep, inquired if he
could show as many—‘My shepherds are more nu
merous than your sheep”—turns out to lie literally
true—there are 25.000 shepherds on his estate.—
They have a regular grenadier guard in their
pay, and the right of life and death on their
estates.
The ruling passion strong in death, — Mr.
Watson ancle to the late Marquis of Rockingham,
j a man of immense fortune, finding himself at the
j point of death, desired a friend who was present
i to open a drawer, in which was an old shirt, that
jhe might put it on. Being asked why he wished
to change his linen when he was so ill, “Because
I'm told the shirt I die in must be the nurse’s
perquisite, and that is good enough for her !”
This was as bad as the woman, who with her
j last breath blew out an in h of candle “ Be
[ cause,” said she, “ I can see to die in the dark.”
Beivtt ix a Win;.— \ young man married
a wife, whose only claim upon his regard was her
personal beauty. She said to him, at the end of
one of their quarrels. “You don’t love me—you
cannot look me in the face, and sav that you love.”
“You mistake, my dear.” he cried ; “for it is only
when I look you in the face that I can sav I love
you.”
Irish Hospitality.—“WillJ you dine with
me to morrow, Mr. .”
“Faith, and I will, with all my heart.”
“ Remember,’tis only a family dinner I’m ask
in’ you to.”
“ And what for not; a family dinner’s a i -,lgh
ty pleasant tiling. What have ye got T’
“Och, nothing uncommon! .list an illcgant
paece of corned bcafand petalies.”
“By the powers that bates the world! Jist
my own dinner to a hair —barrin the beaf /”
“Go it while* you’re young,” as the old bache
lor said to the squalling child.
1 he Boston Post, speaking of our description
of a petticoat, says we “mistook the garment.”
Are not such garments generally mras-taken T
N. O Sail.
Locofoco Banking.— The Grand Gulf Ad
vertiser, a loco foco paper, says, that the locofoco
Legislature of Alabama, has conferred Banking
privileges upon the Penitentiary about to be erec
ted in that State.
Stha wherries. —The fruit season has com
menced. and we are ready to receive our share of
Pomona’s gifts. An anonymous friend has set
agood example by sending us a few fine and noble
sized strawberries (our favorite fruit),raised in an
open garden, in Meeting-street, near South Bay.
The verdant leaves, which enclosed them, exhib
it a beautifully indented or escaloped outline,
and are of a size which shew the great luxuri
ance of the parent plant.— Charleston Courier cf
yesterday.
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COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, March 2.
Latest dates from Havre Feb. 25
New Orleans, March 25.
Cotton —Arrived since the 20th instant, of Loui
siana and Mississippi 17921 bales, Tennessee and
North Alabama 727, Arkansas 627, Mobile 1601,
Florida 246; together 21122 bales. Cleared in the
same time; for Liverpool 12201, Havre 859, Bor
deaux 1' 65, Marseilles 416, Genoa 596, New York
181, Philadelphia 59, Baltimore 43; together 15460
bales —making an addition to stock of 5672 bales,
and leaving on hand, inclusive of ail on shipboard,
not cleared on the 24th instant, a stock of 156,484
bales
The Cotton market, which declined a little in
consequence of the news brought by the Great
Western, has, since our review of Saturday morn
ing last, become considerably more firm, and a bet
ter feeling seems generally to prevail. The de
mand on Saturday was pretty fair, and the sales,
which amounted to nearly 5000 bales, were gene
rally at fuller rate' than before prevailed. Chi
Monday there was al-o a fair business doing, ami
some of the sales, which reached in all to 4500
bales, were at rates exhibiting a slight upward ten
dency in the market. Yesterday the sales amount
ed to fully 4500 bales, and the maiket seemed to
have acquired additional firmness, as holders, in
almost every instance, were able to obtain foil
prices. This more buoyant slate of the market
arises from a belief, which appears to be pretty
genera! among dealets in Cotton, that the rates of
freight will, ere long, come down a little, and that,
as a consequence, prices for cotton will in all pro
bability be better sustained. We retain our for
mer quotations, observing that most of the sales
have been at the highest figures. The business of
the three days amounts to 14,000 bales.
Since making up the above report we have heard
of a sale of 3000 bales, which will make the sales
for the three days amount to 17,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS.
fvouisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary, 5 a 5| ;
Middling, 6a6s ; Fair, 7* a 72; Good fair, a9 ;
Good and fine, 9* a—. Tennessee and N. Alaba
ma—Ordinary, 5 a 54; Middling, 5j a 6; Fair, 6J a
Good fair,7 a 7c; Good and Fine, 8.
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
1539. Oct. 1, stock on hand, 15824
Receipts last three days 21122
“ previously, 665605 689727
705551
Exports last three days, 15450
do. previously. 533617 549067
Stock on hand 156451
Sugars — Louisiana —The Levee continues to be
| well supphed with ordinary to fair qualities, which
! still meet with but limited demand at a cts.
j Strictly prime sugars come in very sparingly, and
: readily command cents in small lots, some very
| choice parcels bringing as high as cents. The
rate on plantation is still 4 cents for fair crops, but
we have heard of no transaction of importance.
Havana Sugars —There have been some sales of
white within the range of our quotations, bat in
brown there is nothing doing.
Molasses —The supply of carrels on the Levee is
fully adequate lothe demand, which has been ra ti
er moderate during the last few days at 19 a 20
j cents per gallon, our last quotations. The rates on
plantation continue at 15 a 16 cents per gallon, but
the transactions are few and limited
Flour —At the time of closing our last report the
1 market was dull at $4 for superfine. Since then
there has been no improvement in the demand, the
transactions being confined almost exclusively to
the consumption of the city and the supply of pla
ices in our immediate neighborhood. The receipts,
in the mean time, have been rather large, amount
ing to about 14,00.) barrels; and though several par
| cels were originally destined for the north, the im
possibility of effecting their shipment at reasonable
rates of freight lias caused them, in many instan
ces to be thrown upon the maiket for sale. Thus
the scarcity of vessels operates with a twofold pow
er in the depression of the article, preventing ship
pers from purchasing and owners from shipping on
their own account. The consequences are an ex
tremely dUil market, an accumulating st »ck and a
further slight decline. Most of the transactions,
j during the last three days, have been at $4, but
| yesterday large parcels could be bought at a fraction
I less. and. indeed, we are advised of some few sales
at We therefore quote $3 87£ and $4 for
superfine.
Exchange —Rills on New York are rather dull.
We quote 6.) days sight 2 a 3 per ct prem; 30 do
do 3j a 4 do; 5t015d0 do 4 a5; Boston, at 60
days, 2 a 3 do; Philadelphia, do 1 a 2 perct dis.
Freights —We still quote
rates to Liver| 00l and Havre for cotton, in Ameri
can ships. We understand that a large British
bark has been taken at 1 l-16d —others are filling
up at l^d.
Mobile, March 2S.
, Cotton —Since our last report we have received
■ 19,849 bales; and shipped to iiverpool 10,575 bales,
to Greenock 12U5, to Havre 3291, to Antwerp 553,
to New \ ork 894, to Boston 420, to Providence 375,
to Baltimore 105, to Thomaston 229, to Portland
590. and to New Orleans (including some not here
tofore reported) 3,215; making in all 21,453 ba'es,
and leaving a sto. k not cleared of 185,987 bales!
At the corresponding period last season, the total
receipts were 222.401 bales, the Exports 146,601
and the stock 75,859.
1 he past week has been marked with consider
ab e activity, perhaps more so than any previous
week during the season—Our last report was issued
on the morning after receipts from Liverpool per
Great \\ estern—and we observe that on the day
previous purchasers had withdrawn from the mar
| ket in consequence of these advices. On Wednes
day buyers and sel ers having well considered their
bearing, were prepared to act; accordingly, a lively
and spirited business took place, and about 10,000
bales changed hands with a very little variation in
. rates, inclining however to a slight reduction.
; On Thursday there was a little more firmness on
the part of holders, induced by the continued de
mand. Friday and Saturday, the weather being
unfavorable for out door business, transactions
were limited. < n Monday and Tuesday, a very
respectable business was transacted, unmarked by
any excitement. We estimate the sales of the
week about 20,000 bales. Wc make a slight alter
ation in our quotations, basing them upon the tran
sactions of yesterday.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.
Good and fine • • . q a
Good Fair, - - - - —a
Fair-- - - 7sa7^
Middling - - - -
Inferior and Ordinary, - - 5 a 5$
Exchange —Since our last record of transactions
in this department, negotiations of an imposing
character aave beeneileected. In Eastern exchange
an immense business has been done. Should we
estimate the amount negotiated since our la-4 re
port, we would not think half a million dol ars 100
large a sum. A brisk business has been done aho
in New Orleans funds. Specie is in much request.
The figures in the table exhibit the ruling rates
since our last issue. Sterling bills, 10 all per ct
prem; 60 days sight bills on New York, 2 a do;
30 do do do 3 a 3£ do; 5 do do do a 5 do;
Specie (dollars) 5 do.
Money— Complaints of a (ontractcj cunenby are
still heard. The banks are discounting little or
nothing
Freights —The arrival of several vessels, and
the expectation of mure, has caused the firmness of
masters *o relax some; and s;nee our last re;ortea
gagements have been made for Liverpool at 1 id.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, .March 29.
Cleared —Ship Newark, Scullard, New York;
Ur barks 8a ah, Kenney, Liverpool; Clarance,
Betts, do; brigs Independence, Evans, Bo<uon; El
eanor, Sanners, Baltimore; schr Eagle, Wylly, Ha
vana.
Arrived —Brig Poland, Gardner, Havana
Sailed —Brigs C itizen, Thing, New York; Elea
nor, Sanners, Baltimore; Oglethorpe, Jones, Ha
vana.
Departed —Steamboat John Randolph, Lyon, Au
gusta.
Charleston, March 31.
Arrived yesterdiiy —Sw brig Preciosco, Asander,
Boston; schrs Ajax, Wheeler, St Jago de Cuba;
Helen Vlar, Munroe, Camden, Me.
Cleared —Br karque Prompt, Morton, Liverpool.
Went to sea yesterday —Schr Emma, Bancroft, N
York.
At Quarantine —Brig Baltimore, Jones, Boston;
line ship Lucas, Eldridgs, do; brig Action, Hunt,
do.
tfy We are authorized to announce the follow
ng gentlemen as candidates for men Lcrs of Coun
cil in Ward No. 2:
B. 11. WARREN. JOHN BONES ,
mar 31 JOHN G. DUNLAP.
Mr. Editor—Please annoum e the fol'owing
gentlemen as suitable persons to represent Ward
No. 2 in the next C ouncil:
B. H. WARREN, A. READ,
mar 31 S. M. THOMPSON.
Mr Editor, please announce the following
named gentlemen as candidates for election as
members of the city council fro n ward no 1 at the
approrching election in April next.
GAREY PARISH. WM. E. JACKSON
mar 18 PHILIP CRUMP. J
Mr. Editor —You will please announce Dr. F.
M ROBERTSON, JAMES B. BISHOP and F.
H. COOKE, as candidates for members of Council,
at the approaching election, in \\ ard No. 3. m 23
Mr. Editor —PETEß BENNOLII, Esq , is re
commended as a suitable person for Mayor, for the
enduing year, and the following named gentlemen
for Aldermen of Ward No 4: JAMES HARPER,
EDWARD THOMAS and ROBE3I' PHILIP,
who will be supported by
mar 21 ALL VP TOWN.
• We are authorised to announce JAMES B.
BISHOP,THOM\S RICH ARDS, aid Dr. F. M.
ROBERTSON, as candidates for Members of Coun
cil in Ward No. 3. mar 21
Mr. Editors —The following named gentlemen
are recommended as suitable persons for members
of Council, for the Upper Ward.—
JAMES HARPER, C. B. HITT.
They will be supported by Many Voters.
mar 20
Messrs. 1 ditors : —The following gentlemen
will be supported for Members of Council in Ward
No. 1, at tne approaching election:
G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSON,
mar IS
Q(jA|Messbs Editors —Seeing in your paper
of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cumuino declines
a re-electian for Mayor ol the city,at the approach
ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of sug
gesting the name of JOHN PiIINIZY, Esq., as a
person well calculated to fill the office, and he will
he supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.
Messrs. Editors: —Observing in yoor paper the
names of several gentlemen suggested as candi
! dates for Mayor at the approaching election, we
j take the liberty of proposing the name of Hr
; DANIEL HOOK, as one well qualifier to fill that
j office and who will be supported by
March 18 ts Many Voters.
Vlr. Editor :—Sir, I see a notice in your paper
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy Mayor
declines being a candidate for re-election to the of
fice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time the
citizens should fix on a suitable person, to repre
sent them as Mayor for the next year. Allow me
to recommend the name of MARTIN M. DYE, as
a suitable person, and who will serve if elected.
Many Voters.
(Fj' Dr. J. H. MURRAY' offers his professional
services to the citizens of Hamburg and the visin
ity. office at H It, Cooke’s Drugstore,
mar 17 lm
SYT W. G. NIMMO, General ( ommission Aler*
chant, office on Mclntosh street, rext door to the
Constitutionalist. n ov 7
I TCT BEN EVOLLN T SOCIETY. —For the bene
fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The visiting committees for the ensuing month,
are as follows:
Division No. I.—James Godby, J. \V. Meredith,
Mrs. Crump, Mrs N. Jones.
Division No. 2. —W. H. Crane, W. F. Pember
ton, Mrs. Talliafarro, Mrs. M. A. Holt.
Division No. 3.—C. E. Latimer, James Panton,
Mrs. B. McKinnie,Mr«. Julia Bnead.
J. W. WIGHTMAN, Secretary.
Dr. W. FLINT oilers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
I profession. He may be found at all hours at the
late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets,
nc v 29 1 y
J. W. TONES, is my authorised Agent for the
adjustment of my unfinished business,
mar 3 WILLIAM E. JONES.
NOTICE. — The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
follows:
upward.
Not to leave Charleston befoie 7 00 a m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m
‘ “ Blackville, - “ - 100 ,m
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DO WN WARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - 730
“ “ - . 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ B ranch vill “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, « - - 12 00 m.
* “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OOf. m-
Arrive at Charleston not before 3 l>o
Distance —136 miles. Fare Through— s lo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. Te remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than 5 minutes for wo- 1 and water at
station.
To stop for passenger's, wUea a white pg -
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also a
Sincaths, Woodstock, Inabfnet's, 41 mite i. •>
Hives’, Grahams, Willesson., Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O. .
Passengers uv will B*eak£asl at Woodstock ana
dine at Biackvnle, will orcakust ul A^ CB
and dine at Summerville. - I