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TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 14.
(jj’No mail North ojf Philadelphia.
City Election.
The following is the result of the election
which took place yesterday for Mayor and Al
dermen :
fob maH:ob.
Hook. ; Phinizy. Dye.
Ist Ward, 34 5 44 40
2d .. 33 81 69
3d « 104 65 39
4th •* 134 19 31
305 . 209 179
tor ald«h;«en.
Ist Ward. I 3d Ward.
W. E. Jackson, 102 'P. M.Robertson, 139
G. F. Parish, 90 -J.B. Bishop, 141
Philip Crump, 82 jThos. Richards 125
J. M. Turner, 60 IF. H. Cooke, 114
2d Ward. 4th Ward.
James Harper, 163
B. H. 'Warren, 104 |T. W. Miller. 124
John Bones, 95 ?P. Fleming, 65
J. G. Dunlap. 86 pleasant Stovall, 62
S. M. Thompson, 79 p, Blome, 37
A. Read. 70 Robert Philip, 35
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United Statj;i Bank*
We invite the attention of our readers to an
article in this day’s paper,: from the Charleston
Courier, on the subject of jijNational Bank, and
we would request them to' ; peruse with that de
liberation its importance |di?mands the letter of
Ker Boyce to Governor MpDuffie, written many
years since. Mr. Boyce h| well versed in the ex
change operations of the ciWitry, and has shown
by this letter that his opin|Gas are entitled to the
highest respect. | ■
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Death of Governor Noble. —His Excel
lency Patrick Noble. Goveijao? of South Caroli
na, died at his residence in| ’Abbeville, on Tues
day the 7th inst., after a short but severe illness.
Coleman Rush, was tfbund guilty of pas
sing counterfeit money, at |Ue recent session of
the court in Greenville distnet S. C. and sen*
tenced to be hung on the 2tills May next.
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The Hon. W. C. Dawson has politely fur
nished us a copy of the b|| introduced by Mr.
Webster to establish a uniform System ox Bank
ruptcy throughout the United States.
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The Dublin Register stabD that the national
church of Great Britain and: {lreland produces a
revenue of .£8,896,000. ’’i'itfc revenues of all
other established churches iiifEurope and South
America is £8,852,000 —thipchurch of England
exceeding all others put together by £44,000 a
year. ? I
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The value of cattle implied into Liverpool
from Ireland in the first elet’i" months of f last
year amounted to £2,900 OCp, and the value of
the insignificant article of fevers imported into
England from that country isH;timated to amount
annually to £500,000.
Failures in New Yor|r;. —A letter from
New York says—lam sorry!jo add that some
large dry goods houses have -been protested on
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Saturday and to-day. Amc’rfg them are Hall,
Johnson & Co.; Fearing, Sw,ji & Co.; Addams,
Cunningham & Co., &c. I afraid that Pearl
street will go, for there is no firing business do
ing. _
For the Chronicle entinel.
The present period exhibits^,i anomaly in the
history of governments. All kfpions have been
divided more or less into parish, and frequently
of the most bitter character. , ? nas been usual
for panics to maintain a course
dunng the continuance of atn* administration ;
approving or disapproving, changing, only,
with the change of rulers am?! measures. But
it belongs exclusively to our |.y untry, and of a
very recent date, for the leaders of a party dis
tinguished for the violence of* ;ts opposition, to
throw a complete sommerset; and to change
without a change of rulers, or l|is policy pursued
by those rulers. In monarchical governments, in
dividuals of influence are somejAjies bought over
by higher offices, or otherwise-1| it they arc de
nounced by the party to which they belonged,
and seldom have the confidetj|i3 of either the
government, or party of which‘tl cy were a com
ponent part. t
The reason assigned by ouiHieading men for
going over to the Administratrix is, that they
advocate Southern measures. * jN’ow what are
these measures 1 Mr. Van Bur|i has said that
he is not cleat that Congress lsi|; not a right to
abolish slavery in the District c|H Columbia. Is
this a Southern measure ? Mr. tjui Duren advo
cated the high Tariff, and wheiffcbuth Carolina
resisted it as unconstitutional,. Improved of the
proclamation and force bill, threatening to cut
our throats for standing on our preserved rights.
Was this a Southern measure 1 'The Adrainis
s ‘
tration made war against the United States Bank,
injured its credit,* took from it ilhe Government
dep isites, where the law had placM them : where
by millions have been lost, and- individual con
tracts impaired placed them ihtp irresponsible
local banks, and finally made wajr against them,
as unworthy of public confidence j musing an im
mense depreciation of the currency of the coun
try, with a general derangement cf its fiscal con
cerns. to the uepression of Sou*tern staple, and
o-her property, and throwing the people into the
hands of stockjobbers and shavtre. Can these
be called Southern measures'? *
Lastly they attempt to foice the country into a
specie currency, when it is well khown that there
is not a sufficiency of coin in thijj world to carry
on its ordinary business—cram|»jog individual
enterprise—reducing commerce a> least one half,
and putting the country back cei; (| bes in general
ittprevtmtat. The revenue, lajiiiig chiefly col*
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lected at'the North, k mtwtbe evident "that*spe
cie will flow in that direction, hence when ex
changes are against the South, as they must al
ways be, it will be impossible to draw specie, ex
cept by a large premium. How then can this be
called a Southern measure which in its effect is
calculated to depress the whole agricultural in
terest of the South, and give to the North a com
plete monopoly, controling our labour, making
us wholly dependent on Northern capital, and
thereby acknowledging the strongest Tariff that
could be devised.
To cap the climax of this rediculous scheme,
the money collected by the Government, from the
hard earnings of the people, is to be entrusted for
safe keeping, into the hands of a few individuals,
who are to be appointed by the President, gen
erally, for some political services rendered; and
‘consequently under his complete control, con
centrating his power, and giving a death-blow to
all the checks of the States. If this can be called
a Southern measure, then words have lost their
meaning.
What then can be this Southern policy so
much boasted of? Is it giving offices, or making
appropriations to the South ? Let the history of
the Government for the last eight years decide.
Multum in Paiiyo.
From the Charleston Courier.
A Bank of the United States.
We are among those who believe that the evils
of our disordered currency and exchanges will
never be remedied until we re-establish a Bank
of the United States. Until then, unless locofo
coism shall sooner wave its ragamuffin banner in
triumph over the ruined commerce and industry
of the country, we will remain subject to periodi
cal inflations and contractions of the currency, to
the disastrous fluctuations of an ill-regulated
banking system, to alternate seasons of wild spec
ulation, and general bankruptcy and ruin.
The commingling of finance with politics is
the curse of the country —the late U. S. Bank fell
a sacrifice to politics, and politics now threaten
a very upas influence on the trade and monetary
affairs of the country, in the establishment of the
sub-treasury system, with its golden promises, but
paper realities—with its affectation of a hard mo
ney currency, but its certain substitution of gov
ernment assignats, in all operations of the Feder
al Treasury, and depreciated bank paper, in all
mercantile transactions, for the sound and conver
tible Bank paper of a well regulated credit sys
tem. We regard our government, the present
and late national administrations, as greatly to
blame for the present monied embarrassments of
the land, for their absurd and mischievous expe
riments in finance —for their destruction of a long
tried and successful regulator of our currency
and exchanges—for the removal of the deposites
into the vaults of State Banks, and both in this
wav, and by express solicitation or urgency,
tempting them to an unnatural inflation of their
issues and discounts, the sure precursor and cause
of the explosion which followed—for the impro
per distribution of the surplus revenue, forcing
specie from its natural reservoirs and channels,
ami producing consequent disturbance and em
barrassment in fiscal and commercial operations,
and then adding to the mountain load of difficul
ties. chiefly created by their own po icy and mea
sures, piling Pclion upon Ossa, by discrediting
bank paper, at the national treasury, and declaring
open and ruthless and reckless war against the
credit system of the country —a system, coeval in
origin with ihe consolidation of our political U
nion. and under the benignant influences and
creative energies of which, we have risen, as a
nation, from feeble infancy to vigorous manhood,
and run a career of prosperity, greatness and glo
ry, unsurpassed, if not unexampled, in the histo
ry of the world. Ifthe present national adminis
tration should be ejected from power, they will be
the architects of their own ruin, and suffers a just
retribution for their war upon the commerce, the
credit, and the industry of the country. If ihey
are wise they will hasten to retrace their steps,
and escape the coining overthrow. A cloud no
j bigger than a man’s hand, arising in the far west,
is exerting its electrical affinities, and gathering
about it, as a nucleus, the materials and elements
of a storm, that threatens to sweep them from
power, like chafl’ before the wind. Let them then
be warned by the portents of the heavens, by the
dark and boding shadows with which coming
events announce or indicate their approach; let
them give up their mischievous tampering with
currency and finance; and if Mr. Van Buren
wishes to insure his re-clection, let him abandon
the specie feature of the Sub-Treasury scheme,
send Mr. Woodbury to Russia or Kamshatka,
and make Langdon Cheves or Nicholas Biddle,
Secretary of the Treasury. We give this adv ice
in all honesty of heart and purpose; for we verily
believe; that unless the monied embarrassments
of the country shall cease, before the election of
Presidential Electors shall take place, the admin
istration will be held responsible for even more
than it® share of existing evils, and there is at
least an even chance of its ejection from power.
But the immediate occasion and chief intention
of this article, was to disinter from its repose of
years, and hold up for the benefit and instruc
tion of our community, a precious Herculanean
manuscript, long forgotten, but recently extracted
in fine preservation from the buried ruins of the
I. S. Bank. We allude to a letter, written by
Ker Boyce, Esq., now President of the Bank of
Charleston, the four million bank and money I
monarch of our city, to the Hon. George McDuf
fie, that able and eloquent champion of the U. S.
Bank, and appended by him, as a valuable au
thority, to his admirable and celebrated report of
April, 1830, as Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means, in Congress, in favor of the
constitutionality and expediency of the then ex
isting U. S. Bank, and against ‘*a National Bank
founded on the credit of the government and its
revenues,’’the Sub-Treasury—as calculated to re
produce “the paper money of our revolution, the
assignats of revolutionary France, and the Treas
ury Notes of the late war.” We invite attention
to this letter as a well written and sagacious expo
sition of the great commercial advantages of the
late U. T Bank, in regulating and facilitating ex
changes, and promoting trade, in preventing the
over-issues of local banks and the ‘‘extortions of
private dealers,” and in infusing soundness and
health throughout all the veins and arteries of our
monetary system, and building up and sustaining
the prosperity of our country; and we especially
j invite attention to it as a prophetic statement of
the results likely to follow the insane destruction
of that admirable institution —a prediction made
ten years ago, and now in daily realization before
our eyes. Local Banks have been multiplied to
: an almost indefinite extent, in anticipation of the
! overthrow of the U. S. Bank, and since the actu
al accomplishment of that event—they have
flooded the land with their excessive issues and
now depreciated paper, involving the country in
extravagant speculations and ultimate ruin; sha
ving shops are in operation all over the Union,
1 and the exchanges of the country are in the
bands of speculators and speculating banks, and
are made the source of inordinate profits, amidst
the general commercial derangements and dis
tresses of the country; and Mr. Ker Boyce may
be said, if not individually, at least as President
of the Bank of Charleston, to have carried out
the project, indicated in the concluding passage of
his letter —“lf J were sure the Bank would not
be rechartered , I would convert my property in
to money, with a view to dealing in exchange.
1 could make a vast fortune by it.”
- Extract of a iethr from an intelhgentyntrchant
in Charleston, South Carolina, f Ker Boyce
Esq.J to the chairman of the committee of
ways and means, illustrating the exchange
operations of the hank of the United Stales.
“ This effect of diminishing the vast difference
of exchange between the various points of the
country, was evidently produced by the bank.
‘ The advantages produced by this institution, in
the intercourse beftveen the western and Atlan
. tic slates, can be duly appreciated only by one
who sees, passing before him, the actual opera
tion of the system of exchange it has created.
For example : Lexingtan, in Kentucky, annually
accumulates a large surplus of funds to her credit
in Charleston, derived from the sale of horses,
hogs, and other livestock, driven to that as well
as to other southern markets by her citizens.
Philadelphia is indebted to Charleston for ex
change rem tted, dividends on bank stock, &c.,
and Lexington is indebted to Philadelphia for
merchandise. Without the transportion of a
single piece of coin, Lexington draw's on Char
leston, the check to Philadelphia in
payment of her debt there; which operation ad
justs the balance between the three points of the
triangle, almost without expense or trouble.
Could such facilities be obtained from any other
institution having branches in different parts,
of the union, acting as co-partners in one con
cern 1 Local banks, whatever might be the ir
willingness, could not accommodate in the same
‘ manner and to the like extent.” * * *
“The discounting of bills, on the low terms
established by the branch bank at this place, is n
great benefit to the agricultural interest, particu -
larly in enhancing the price of cotton and rice ;
and were the bank to stop its operations, there i s
no saying how far these staples would be depres
sed. The private dealers in exchange would!
take the place of the bank in that business, and.
their profits on bills would be taken out of the
pockets of the planters, as the merchants wouldl
always regulate the price, they would give, for
an agricultural production, by the high or low
rate at which they could nogociate their bills.—
On account of its connexion with all parts of the
union, the bank affords this important advantage
to the public ; it is alw’ays a purchaser and al
ways a seller of exchange, at fixed and low rates,
and thus prevents extortion by private dealers.
“ Before this bank went into operation, ex
change was from 8 to 10 per cent, either for or
against Charleston, which was a loss to the plant
er to that amount on all the produce of Georgia
and South Carolina, and indeed you might say,
all the produce of the southern and western
states.” ******
“If the Bank of the United States were de
stroyed, the local banks would again issue their
paper to an excessive amount; and while a few
adventurous spectators would be much benefit fed
by such an issue, the honest and unsuspecting
citizens of our country would , fnaily, be the
losers. If we look back to what took place in
New York, Pennsylvania, the western states,
and, even in out state, we shall see the grossest
impositions committed by banks, commencing
with a few thousand dollars in specie, la ying up
newspapers to puff them as specie-paying banks,
in order to delude the public, and, alter getting
their bills in circulation, blowing up, and It aving
the unsuspecting planter and farmer victims of a
fraud, by which they were deprived of the hard
earnings of years of honest industry. But sir,
I believe the bank owes a great deal of the op
position which exists, and has existed, to the
fact, that it has put down these fradulent insti
tutions, got up by combinations and conspira
cies of speculators „• and who, offer receiving
large dividends, managed to destroy the credit
of their own paper, and, by the agency of bro
kers, bought it up at half its nominal value.
“Since I last wrote you, I had a conversation
with a gentleman in the confidence of some of
the monied men of the north, and he rays they
are determined to break up the United States'
bank, to enable them to use their money to ad
vantage ; as that institution gives so many fa
cilities to the community, as to deprive them of
their former prof is.”
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“There is another consideration : the distress
would be immense, which a refusal to renew the
charter would produce among those who are in
debted to the institution : for I find that to this
branch, the planters owe upwards ot a million
of a million of dollars; and I have no hesitation
in saying, as safe a dent as is owing to any bank
in the union. But if the bank should wind up
its affairs, these planters could not get credit from
other institutions ; and as the bank can sue in the
United States’ court, where judgment is obtain
ed almost at once, property would be greatly de
pressed, and moneyed men would buy it up for
half its value. Throughout the union, all clas
ses would suffer, except those who should hold
up their money to go into the brokerage busi
ness, or buy property at a sacrifice. If I were
sure the bank would not be re-chartered. I would
convert my property into money, with a view
to dealing in exchange. I could make a vast
fortune by it.”
The Sub-Treasury Scheme.
Awiiterin the Connecticut Courant, under
the signature of “ A Manufacturer,” places this
hopeful scheme in a striking point of view in an
article from which the following is extracted :
“ After the cue given in Congress, a brother
of the candidate for Governor of Connecticut, Mr.
Richard Niles, took up the argument. More wise
or more wary than Mr. Buchanan, he spake, not
to the laborer, but to a ‘ manu acturer.’ Let us
hear his own account of the matter, and as he
and his brother, the candidate, consult much to
gether, we doubtless here have the views of both.
In his published statement, in the Hartford Times,
Mr. Richard Niles says:”
“ One manufacturer to whom I made this state
ment, asked what would be the effect of the sub-
Treasury 1 I replied, that I thought it might in
some degree check the excessive expansion of
the hanks, and give more stability to business,
and that the price of labor would probably he
some reduced : but that produce and the neces
saries of life would be reduced in a much greater
proportion, which would make it much better for
the laboring man as well as for the manufac
turer.”
“ Here Mi. Niles evidently surpasses Mr.
Buchanan. He foresaw that neither his ‘love,’
nor Mr. Buchanan’s ‘love for laboring men’
would be deemed an adequate cotnpensa>ion for
reducing their wages. He therefore goes a step
further,and, after tickling the manuficturer, tries
to tickle the laborer also. He admits that by (he
sub-Treasury, ‘the price of labor will, probably,
be some reduced.’ But he tells him it will be
much belter for him. How better] Because,
says Mr. Niles, ‘ produce and the necessaries of
life will be reduced in a much greater proportion.’
Who toils to raise produce, and supply us with
the necessaries of life ] The farmer. Let Mr.
Niles go one step further, and tell the farmer how
1 he is to be compensated by a suh-Treasury hill
which reduces the frubs of his labor, and ‘in a
1 much greater proportion,’ too, than labor is to be
reduced.
“ The last step in making a law is to give it a
title. Taking Mr. Buchanans and Mr. Niles’s
statements together, I recommend that the sub
-1 Treasury law be entitled, An act to rob the la
borer of his wages, and to be’ter his condition
by robbing the fanner ‘ much more ’ in the price
of his produce. A Manufacturer.”
Letis, the Cashier.— There is a rumor
■ current in Philadelphia that Levis, the absconding
, Cashier of the Schuyifcili Bank, concerned in the
fraudulent issues of Kentucky certificates.has been
arrested in Liverpool, and will be brought back to
this country by the next steam packet.
From Hates.—A Postscript!© a letter re- l'
ceived in Charleston, dated Liverpool 7th March, |
says; u We have accounts from Havre to 6th in- i
stant; the decline on Cotton since the 2d had i
been
have been arrivals owing to the strong easterly
winds.”
Jacksoxyii.ee, April 7.
Indian Scalps—We have been shown a scalp
taken from the head of an Indian recently killed
by a volunteer, attached to Capt. Mason s com
pany. The circumstances, so far as we have
learned, are these: —A detachment of seven were (
on a scout, and had. pursued an Indian trail some i
time, till it led to a corn field of about two acres. .
Tffey found but two Indians in the field, who
fled upon seeing the volunteers, to the shore of
the Opapke lake on the margin of which the
fleld was situated, and getting into a boat, at
tempted to go to an island in the lake;-and when I
about fifty yards from the shore, the volunteers 1
fired upon, and wounded them both. They im
mediately took measures to get them; and on
getting them, scalped them. One of them was a 1
squaw. They also saw several other corn fields.
The corn was about eighteen inches high. They 1
supposed from the signs the Indians were in great 1
force.
Capt. James Rilex, —Author of Riley’s Nar
rative, died on the 15th March last, in the 63rd
year of his age.
The Rhode Island election will take place on
the 15th inst.
Pennsylvania Legislature. — The Harris
burg correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
writes as follows, under date of 4th instant:
The House of Representatives was this mor
ning the scene of the most disgraceful outrage
ever perpetrated within the Legislative halls of
Pennsylvania. A hill, introduced by Mr. McEl
wee to provide for the sale of public property,
bank stock, &c., was pending, which was oppo
sed by Mr. Higgins of Northumberland.
During the discussion Mr. McElwee passed
across the hall to where Mr H. sits, and after some
conversation which was not attended to by those
near.called him (Mr. H) “a d—d puppy and
scoundrel,” and immediately spit in his face!
Mr. Higgins immediately rose and struck him
one or two blows, while McElwee retreated, and
before he was arrested ; but of course a blow from
Mr. H. is not very severe, as he is in person a
gentleman quite small, and deformed in person
by a spinal injury, and at this time is in very de
licate health. Mr. McElwee crossed to his seat
without resisting.
All this occured in the presence of the House,
and during the sesion. Mr. Penniman immedi
ately offeied a resolution, as modified upon the
suggestion « f Mr. Lmyser, for the appointment
of a committee of three to inquire and report
what steps should be taken by the House, to pre
serve its dignity. There was no debate except
a statement of the facts by several members, and
the resolution carried without a division, though
there was a motion made by Mr. Butler to get it
postpon* d until Monday.
The Speaker appointed Messers. Penniman,
Coolhaugh and Burden the committee.
Since the foregoing was in type, late intelli_
grnce has reached us by which we learn, that Mr.
McElveee has been expelled from his seat by a
vote of 58 yeas to 26 nays.
British Fohce in the Canadas.—A para
graph is going the rounds in the most of our ci
ty papers, in which it is stated that the military
force in the Canadas consists of twenty thousand
men. It is not so; the calculation is based on
the number of regiments stationed in provinces,
as it is found in a late number of the United Ser
vice Journal. To make up thetwen'y thousand,
it is estimated that the three regiments of Guards
“are one thousand strong,” and the foot eight
hundred. Now such is not ’he fact. Not one of
the regiments is full, and the entire force in the
Canadas, we believe, is not more than thirteen
thousand.
The Philadelphia National Gazette, in repub
lishing this paragraph, adds—ln this opinion of
the New York Commercial Advertiser we fully
coincide. Yesterday we published Gen. Scott’s
report that there are 20,000 regular troops in the
British provinces, doubting its correctness at the
lime, but unwilling to raise a question on his
positive assen ion. We have reasons for know
ing that in the latter part of the year 1838, not
more than 6000 troops were in the Canadas,
and there is little reason to believe that 14,000
more have been brought over during the past
year. Tiie cause of the error, if such, is explain
ed in the paragraph quoted above.
Specie. —The packet ship Baltimore, which
sailed from New York for Havre on the 6lh inst.,
took out $320,000 in specie.
The New York Journal of Commerce says—
One of our Bunks has in its vaults, at this
moment, $1,620,000 in specie, besides deposites.
The other Banks have large amounts, generally
more than they want, so that the market is quite
overloaded with basis.
The Mississippi Shipping Company of Natch
ez has managed ingeniously to secure itself from
consequences of a protest on its notes. It makes
them at “three days after date,” and does not is
sue them until after the three days are over. They
are post notes in legal definitions, and yet escape
the summary remedies given by law to the hol
ders of protested post notes.
Loss of a Steamboat. —The Cincinnati
News announces, on the authority of a passenger
from down tho river, that the elegant steamboat
Selma, one of the largest class, in ascending the
shute of Island 66, broke her tiller rope, and struck
a log, when she immediately sunk. There were
on board at the time 150 persons, the whole of
whom were saved. Among the passengers were
the Ravel family, who lost die whole of their pro
perties and dresses. The Selma was bound from
New Orleans to St. Louis, and had a full and
valuable cargo; the boat and cargo are a perfect i
loss.
Disastrous Shipwreck. —The ship Mait
land, of 700 tons burthen, belonging to St. John,
N. 8., during a violent gale of wind on Tuesday
morning last, while lying under the close-reefed |
main-topsail, struck on Brownie’s Island reef, a i
few miles west of Moose Peek Head. The mate j
and two of the crew were instantly swept over- :
board and drowned. The ship afterward beat
over the reef, and drifted on some rocks nearer
the shore—where she soon bilged, but the cap
tain and the remaining part of the crew, 19 in
number, we.e saved.— N. Y. Com. Adv. llh in
stant.
Ohio Banks. —The Legislature of Ohio,just
before its adjournment, passed a most important
and severe law in relation to the banks and cur
rency of that Slate. The bill provides: Ist,
That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any cor
poration to issue or circulate any note under the
denomination of five dollais, or not pavable on
demand, or not payable at the Bank from which
it is issued; and that all notes heretofore issued
shall be held as p yable on demand, at the place
where issued in gold and silver. 2nd, hat
any bank which shall violate either of the above
provision* shall be forthwith wound up. 3rd,
That no broker shall in any way pay, circulate
or redeem any notes under five dollars or which
are not payable on demand in gold and silver,
4th. —That no person shall circulate or receive
any note, not flsued by a bank in Ohio, under
$5, or not payable on demand in gold and silver.
sth, —That no such prohibited money shall be re
ceived for state dues or paid out by the state.
These provisions are all enforced by severe pen
alties.
The banks in Ohio, if they had no right to is
sue post notes, will now be compelled to redeem
such notes in specie as if payable on demand.
We learn, that it is the opinion, that they will be
able to redeem them, but not to furnish any ac
commodation to the public. As to the banks
the act is in force from its passage. —Louisville
Journal.
The brig Boxer, Capt. Hale, chartered by the
American Colonzation Society, stopped at the Is
land of Mayo (Cape de Yerds,) on her return
from Cape Palmas, via Sierra Leone, and was
detained by the authorities, on suspicion of being
a slaver. His papers were taken from him, (says
the Baltimore American,) and his passengers,
officers and crew, with the exception of one man
and cook, were brought on shore, and with him
self committed to prison. They were detained
there, without beds or provisions, until next day,
when he was sent on board his vessel .a prisoner
—a prze master and crew being put in charge,
who proceeded to Port de Praya, St. Jago. He
obtained the release of his vessel. His crew ar
rived soon after, in open boat, from tne island of
Mayo.
The American complains of the transaction as
a wanton outrage upon the American flag, for
which immediate reparation ought to be dem
anded.
Messrst Rev Pinney, Canfield and Alward, Mis
sionaries of Assembly’s Board of Missions, return
ed in the Boxer.
Elections.
The following table will be found handy as a
matter of reference. It has been compiled with
great care, and is believed to be correct:
State. State Election. Presiden. Elec.
New Hampshire, March 10. November 2.
Connecticut, April 6. “ 2.
Rhode Island, “ 15. “ ]B.
Virginia. “ 23. “ 2.
•Louisiana, July, 6. “ 3.
Alabama, August, 3. “ 9.
Kentucky, “ 3. “ 2.
Indiana, “ 3. “ 2.
•Illinois, “ 3. “ 2.
Missouri, “ 3. “ 2.
Tennessee, “ 6. “ 18.
North Carolina, in August. “ 19.
•Vermont, Sept. 1. “ 10.
•Maine, *• 14. “ 2.
•Georgia, October 5. “ 2.
Maryland, “ 7. “ 9.
South Carolina, “ 12. by Legislature.
•Pennsylvania, “ 13. November 6.
•Ohio, “ 13. “ 6.
•New York, Nov. 23 and 24. “ 23 & 24.
•New Jersey, “ 3 and 4. “ 3 and 4.
Mississippi, “ 2. “* 2.
Michigan, “ 2. “ 2.
Arkansas, “ 2. ** 2.
•Massachusetts, “ 9. “ 9.
•Delaware, “ 10. “ 10.
Those Slates marked with a star, choose mem
bers of Congress on the same day mat State offi
cers are chosen.
The Electors meet at the capitals of the respec
tive States in which they are chosen, on the se
cond day of December, and give in their nallots
for President and Vice i resident.— Bust. Demo.
Contents of the March No. of the Farmers’
Register.
Original Communications. —On the necessi
ty for proper instruction in the art of reeling silk ;
Malaria and mill-ponds; llulleting for spaying;
Practical results of silk-culture in Delaware, and
opinions thence deduced ; Delighlfulness of the
climate of Southern Florida. Governmental neg
lect and abuses, and the means of remedy; Do
mestic industry and products of Italy. Calcare
ous soils for vines; Causes of the erroneous
opinions generally entertained as to the unheal
thiness and unproductiveness of the Florida Keys;
Seeds from South Florida ; Remarks on the soils
in general, and especially of the ridge-lands of
lower Virginia ; Divers things ; The five-field ro
tation and grazing; Separate agricultural publi
cations at the Farmers’ Register Office ; Prepar
ation of manure; Extracts of private correspon
dence; A simple and cheap silk reel; Further
remarks on the errors of the translators of Dan
dolo; Correction of errata; To thaw frozen
pumps; Monthly commercial report.
Selections. —Essay on stall-feeding of cattle ;
Pens for swine. Manure; Beet sugar in Eu
rope; Treatment and food for young pigs; State
ment of culture and product of sugar-beet, man
gel wurtzel, field carrot, and parsnip crops ; Depth
of ploughing ; Sketch » f the causes of the pre
sent financial prostration of this country ; Win
ter fallow. Greg’s and Beatson’s systems of cul
tivation ; Report of the management of a Glou
cestershire hill farm ; Speech of Dr C. T. Jack
son on the application of geology to agricultural
improvement; Report from the commissioner of
patents, ami list of agricultural patents for 1839 ;
Beet-sugar; Isabella grape-vines—wine; Notes
on European agriculture; Value of birds; Ef
fects of emancipation in Jamaica ; Cheap steam
er for roots; Method of preserving celery through
the winter for family use; Texan statistics;
Grafting on the wild cherry; New York State
Agricultural Convention ; The extirpation of
weeds; Culture of mangel wurtzel and sugar
beet for stock ; Calcareous soils of lower South
Carolina and Georgia ; Red root in clover seed ;
Carrots as food for horses; Agricultural excur
sion into St. John’s Berkley; The curculio;
Cultivation of the plum; An idea of the universe;
Improvement of cotton lands by flowing with
brackish water; Millet.
Not Bad.—A bill concerning intermarriages
between whites and blacks, being before the
Massachusetts Legislature, one of the members
rose and delivered himself as follows :
•‘Mr. Speaker —I shall vote in favor of this bill,
simply because I do not wish to see a law on the
statute book regulating a mere matter of taste, for
such I consider to be the whole question of
intermarriage between persons of different color.
It is purely a matter of taste, and if my friend from
Nantucket wishes to marry a black, blue or green
wife, I am content that he should have full liberty
to indulge his preference for either color. All I
request of him is, that when I happen to pay him
a'frendly visit, at the island, he will not ask me to
kiss his milk and molasses children /”
Strange Phenomenon.— On the night of the
17th inst. the family of Mr. James Daniels, of
Cook’s Manor, U. C, were awakened by a severe
shock like that of an earthquake. In the morning
it was discovered that a meteor, iudged to be about
three times the size of an ordinary farm house, had
struck the earth some eighty rods distant from Mr.
D’s dwelling with a force which buried its entire
bulk about eight inches below the surface.—Sand
wich CU. C.J Herald.
Slave Ship.—The schooner Butterfly, which,
it will be remembered, was brought into port some
time since, by a British 'essel of war, on a charge
of having been engaged in the siave trade, was
yesterday condemned in compliance with the act
of Congress of May i Oth, 1800.— JV. Y. Pott.
A man in New York says that times are so hard,
that he can’t find a soft place to sleep on.
Ta« Death or ah Editor— The Cmcinn. '
ti Gazette of Saturday last, is in mourning for
death of its editor, Charles Hammond, Esq i 0 *
recognised as one of the ablest and most i n j
pendent writers of the West. He departed d
life on the 3rd inst. in the 61st year of his age **
Wool.—This is a valuabll commoditw^
deed few persons are aware of its great value
writer estimates the number of sheep t W() e ‘. \
ago in the United States, at 12,000
supposes that it is not less now than 15
Allowing the estimate of three pounds n l
the clip of 1839 would be 45,000 000 r j
wool. The average price of wool for a a^S
past has been 45 cents a pound. At th * W ears
last clip of wool is worth more thin * 3£ rate
lions of dollars. twenty mil-
Not Bad.—Mr. Silver has been l
Philadelphia on the uses of iron. | l ecturin ? in
been agreeable to hear a precious mtial"** 1 ave
of an useful one— N. Y. Signal.
Some of the South Carolinians seem totv
that they must go for Van Buren because
Harrison is not chivalrous" enough for them «
Gen. Harrison, like Mr. V. J 3., had ev £r ’ 1 1
unresistingly in his seat whilst a small man g *V
as Senator Young of New York, was
ing his nose, his “chivalry” would no doubts *
been exactly to their liking.— Louisville jJL®
nal.
The Philadelphia North American says -It
appears that the story of General Harrison hand
iug his letters to a committee to answer was
fraud perpetrated for the occasion by some gr ace I
less balers in Oswego. N. Y. The pretended
corresponding secretary of the society is the ke* D J
er of a bowling or ten-pi., alley of the Jow-st "
character, and the association one of infidels alt
followers of Fanny Wright.
Pkecocttt.—A young girl at Buffalo, JV. y
only 11 years, of age, made affidavit before J us .’ , j
ties Mason, of that city, that she was lip e ty l 0 M
become a mother; and naming her paramour >
he was held to bail for his transgression. *
An English Barber thus describes his profes
sion—“ Heads ornamented and chins surveyed
also a new invented rest for the head while’ the
surveyor is operating.”
Two sorts of Blessings.—“lt is a great ►
blessing to possess what one wishes,’ said some
one to an ancient philosopher, who replied, ‘it is ?
b greater blessing still, not to desire what one does
not possess.’ »
MARRIED,
• * t
On Sunday evening, April 12th, at the h use of
Lew s Leon, Esq. Mr. Benjamin Kdwards, of P
Lexington countv. Geo., to >;iss Pamelia Ade
line Sumner, of Burke county.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool March 7 ■
Latest dates from Havre March 3 a
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton. —The operations «>n Saturday fully sus
tained cur quotations of that morning, but yester- *
day the elections pretty much engrossed the at
tention of both buyers and sellers, and no sa lesoi
moment transpired that we hear, the market there
fore was very quiet, and although holders were
firm in their demands for the prices of Saturday,
buyers appeared unwilling to invest. We quote
the market, nominal at Saturdays rates.
Ordinary to middling, to 7
Fair, 7 to
Good Bair, to 3 _
Prime and choice, to 8J- *
The latter price for square bales only.
Groceries. —The business in this deportment con
tinues limited, and we have no changes to not* j
since our report cn Thursday.
Freights —To Savannah, 75 to 100 cts per bale;
toCharleston, by rail road, 30c per 100 Jbs. for I
square, and 40c per 100 lbs. for round bales. |
Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 9 per
cent, for current funds; Charleston at 6 pet
cent; Savannah 2 per ct.; Philadelphia a 4 per
rt.; Lexington, Ky. per ct,; Richmond 4 pe r 1
cent; specie commands 6 a S per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah hanks, per cent. prem.
(‘olumbus Insurance B’k 2£ “ “ “
Commercial Bank, Macon,
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ *•
Agency Brunswick, “ 6 ** “ tc
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2J “ u dis.
Central Bank, 4 “ “ “
Milledge' iile Bank, 4 “ “ “
Ocmulgee Bank, 4 “ “ •
Monroe Hail Road Bank, 4 “ “
Hawkinsville Bank, 4 “ “
Chattahoochie R. R.& B’k
Company, 6 “ “ “
Darien Bank, 16 “ “ “
Bank of Rome, 33 “ “ “
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bank
of St, Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com
mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in
his city.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 11-
Cleared —Ship Minerva, Adams, Liverpool.
Arrived —Br ship Homulus, Auld, Greenoch;
ship George, Minot, Liverpool; Br ship Margaret,
Kerr, Liverpool; brig- ijove, Ingersoll, Boston; Sa
vannah, Sbapter, New \ork.
Sailed —Brig Morea, Chapman, New York.
Charleston, April 13.
Arrived on Saturday —Line brig Cervantes,
Tufts, Boston; U L brig Moses, Loveland. N. York. ,
Arrived yesterday —Ship Minerva Wadsworth, |
London; Br barque Lady Paget, Allan, Charles
town, (Eng.) schrs Ostrich, Ellis,Matanzas; Oneko
Davis, New York; schr Daniel Webster, A very,
Mobile.
Cleared —Schr Helen Mar, Monroe, Norfolk-
Went to sea yesterday —Ship Anson,
Havre; schrs Elizabeth, Bell, Boston; Helen M ar > i*
Munroe, Norfolk.
TIIF. READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, ana
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $W- "
(Zj'PUBLIC NOTICE. — Dr. Munroe, Surged
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has remove
his operating rooms to Washington street, neat
Ellis. fe*> 10 _
J. W. TONES, is my authorised Agent for the
adjustment of my unfinished business.
mar 3 WILLIAM E JON'ES-^
ft'r W. G. NIMMO , General Commission M«- |
chant, office on .Mclntosh street, next door to • ■
Constituliunali-l. oOV 1
Cy Dr. W. FLINT oners his the «-
tizens of Augusta in the different > at the
profession, lie may be found se cuud dooi |
late residence of Mr. A. M- H* ’ streets,
from the corner of Mclntosh iy
nc v 29 : ~ ’
(T7 Dr - H imho rg* vTsiQ” |
mar 17