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FRIDAY MORNLNt*, MAY 15.
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lion. Walter T.j( olqoitt.
c have received a Circu|ar from tnis gentle
man. addressed ** to the peopfs of Georgia and es
pecially to the Stale Rights in which he
declares himself a thorough jfguing Van Buren
man, and determined “ to u*e every honorable
means for the defeat of Ge|i. Harrison.” He
winds up a good long haraijguii! of devotion to
his principles <kc., replete with the slang copied
from the Van Buren press,; by saying be has
endeavored to follow the *idr;se of Cicero
“ ,Ve quid falsi dicert ne quid veri au
deat. ' “Neither to dare ad vance what is false,
nor to suppress what, is true.: We cannot pre
tend to say how great an eiJort the honorable
gentleman made to follow' th«| advise, but we will
say that his effort has certain|y bpen a very un
successful one. for though ht» may not have ad
vanced any thing positively f*,lse| we know that
he has suppressed the truths Whether he was
conscious of it or not, we not “ from the
light before us” pretend to sajr, but we certainly
think he was. As an evidence of the correct
ness of our position we wilt nc:w only refer to
two instances in this document.!
In the first instance he chpg-qs Gen. Harrison
wi.h Federalism, and to susliln t| tat charge intro
duces as evidence, jthe del a t t i*i the Senate of
the United States l»etween Toljn Randolph, of
V a., and Gen. Harrison, and?suppresses one half
of the reply of Gen. HarriaLnJand that too the
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particular portion in reply u» th|a charge of Fed
eralism—Again on the sub;ectj of abolition, he
charges Gen Harrison with l|ein|g an abolilionisti
and to sustain this charge, iJnnj's to his aid the
paragraph of an address of (Jlenj Harrison to his
constituents, in whieh he |aiijhe had been a
member of an abolition society in Richmond,Vir
gin; a. What kind of an- Abolition Society,
reader, do you suppose eiistfd in Richmond,
Virginia, in the year 182-? (And Judge Col
quitt in his great struggle t<f present “ truth
un-varnished,” and supprcs| nothing, has
suppressed the most importanjt portion of the
letter of Genera! Harrisoi find excluded it
from his circular. Had Jtidgjs Colquitt desir
ed to present an “ unvarri ilhca) tale,” or to fol
low up the precept of the greiat Cicero, it was
due to truth and to candour, ijo less than to his
professions in the beginning ajnd conclusion of
his circular, to have given ‘j thr truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the thitlt,’’ and then his
constituents.and particularly|tbe!statc Rights par
ty'for whom he affects so tsii'bh ijegard, could have
come to the investigation ?of jhe subject, with
as would enable Haem to do justice
to Gen. Harrison. Instead if such a course,
however, he has introducld snto his circular,
garbled extracts from the s|*e|h and address of
General Harrison, which iiaccompanied with
the other portions of those! d r uments, ore ca’-
culated to lead the mind i*f t ic honest enquir
er after truth, to the mo*; erroneous decision.
In short he UecomesYhe rjpo pgist of the acts
arid principles of Mr. \ an n, while the same
principles on the suhjec. of the Proclamation and
Force Bill are odious in |a-e|;eral Harrison.—
He has no evidence, he sals, |hat Mr. Van Bu
ren ever approved of thej fierce Bill and Pro
clamation, yet, he will iiol * assert we hope;
that he is ignorant of the f;*ct . oat Mr. Van Bu
ren came into power undej ihji pledge to carry
out the principles of lhos«i documents. There
are still further evidences cT file suppression of
truth in this Circular, as g : -an*ig as these, which
we may hereafter notice. * |
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re hunts’ 3;jag£izine.
In another part of this da j’s iper will be found
the contents of the May of this excel
lent periodical, which has lyeen on our table a few
days. Like all that we seen, its contents
are highly* interesting am! instructive, to every
citizen who feels an intt Jest; n the commercial
interests and statistics of (lie |ountry. The arti
cles are well and ably writleo,jentirely free from
politics, and abound with t!ie tjaost sound and lib
eral views of commercial jiuWlure. We cheer
.fully recommend the Mag:fzh& to the mercantile
interest of the country, fojr whose immediate in
terest it has been got up. I '
The editors of the Charleston Courier state,
that they have been informed by a gentleman
direct from Neva A ork, t|ml he came on in the
cars to Richmond with; Dabny, the Virginia
Bank Defaulter. It appears 1 that Dabney had
gone as far as Canada, &nd whilst in that pro
>ince, met with the appeal rniade to him through
the papers to return, which > fie finally concluded
to do. He then retraced; hh| steps advising his
friends of the fact, who proceeded to New-York
to meet him at the Astor Horise. He was found
to be entirely destitute of jnoiiey, and his friends
had to lurnish the means’of fettling his bill, and
pay his expenses from there ;to Richmond. His
name and identity were sedulously concealed, to
prevent his being arrested b| any one, with the
object of obtaining the large reward offered for
his apprehension. It was Vis intention on the
following morning to deliver himself up to the
civil authorities.
Fall of a Building.— The Charleston Cou
rier of yesterday says —But a few days since we
noticed the fall of a portion of the Hibernian Hall,
in Meeting street, and we have now to record the
like occurrence to a building almost completed,
in the same street. About 4 o’clock yesterday
morning, the entire fronjt and Northern wall, and
about two-thirds of the -outhern and a portion of
the western wall of a stcre in the progress of erec
tion, on the west side oi‘ Meeting street, one door
south of Hazal-street, fell to the ground wit i a
loud crash. It is providential that this occur
rence (lor we can hardly term it an accident)
took place at the hour it did, for had it fallen when
the workmen were employed, it could hardly have
resulted otherwise than in the death of several of
them.
A New SocietC— A young lady recom
mends to the clerks the formation of a society to
l»e called the antigetting-out-of— patience-with-the
pretty-young-ladies-who-return-their-calls-in-the-
inorning-and-inok-over-the-goods-while-they-chat
and-sometimes-buv-whit-they dont-want-Societv.
— N. York Chronicle. ;
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Trom the New Orleans Picayune of the 9th.
ASTONISHING and UNPARALLELED
IVSASTER.
Natchez in Rnins—City and Steamboats
Destroyed by a Tanmdo—Destruction
of Lite and Property almost incredible.
Last evening we received the news of one
the mast astoni>hing and extraordiary disasters
that we remember to have met with or read of
during our brief experience. The city of Natchez,
at 2 o’clock, P. M. on the 7th inst., was visited
by a tornado which swept complete destruction
over the communi y; human beings and frag
ments of buildings were blown through the air
to the distance of one and two hundred yards. |
the citv is in ruins and desolation howls through
the streets. Flat boats were overwhelmed and
their crews entirely lost. The steamltoal Prairie
had her cabin blown away and many of her pas
sengers are missing. In Natchez 20 bodies have j
been extricated from the ruins, but what further
destruction of life has occurred it is impossible to
determine.
The destructive Mast followed the course of
the river, and it is estimated that not less than
two hundred lives were lost. The Parish JuJge |
of Concordia is known to have been killed.
This is the brief announcement of misfortune
received last evening. To-morrow it will be our
painful duly to relate the further particulars j
which are to be received to-day.
Fro 7i the New Orleans Bee of the 9th.
Awful Tornado—Natchez Destroyed.
VV are indebted to the captain of Steamer
Vicksburg for the following melancholy intelli
gence of the destruction of Natchez ;
The devoted city of Natchez was visited with j
one of the most awful and distressing calamities ;
which it has been our fate to witness. On
Wednesday, about 2 o’clock, P. M., a dark cloud j
made its appearance in the South \\ est, pre- i
ceded by a loud and continued roaring of the
winds; as it came on swiftly and with the speed
of the wind, it was met by another, which was
w-afled from directly the opposite point of com
pass. A description of the sublime spectacle •
which ensued is beyond the power of language to ;
convey. At the moment of the concussion large
masses of seeming white spray was precipitated j
to ihe earth, followed by a roaring of the wind
as if old Eolus was there guiding and directing _
the storm. Houses were dismantled of their
roofs and then almost immediately leveled to the
earth. The air was filled with bricks and large
pieces of timber, and even large ox carts were
uplifted and thrown hundreds of yards from their
origimi position.
About sixty flat boats lyingin port weredrrien
from the shore and sunk. The ferry boat ply
ing between Natchez and the opposite shore, was
capsized and sunk, and every one on board is
supposed to have perished. The steam boat ■
Hinds was capsised and sunk —crew all lost.—
The steamer Prairie had her cabin entirely taken
off; crew nearly all lost. The two hotels in the
city were shook, one partly, the other entirely to
the ground. Almost every house was more or
less injured. It is impossible to tell how many
were killed, as the steeets were filled with large
piles of timber, rendering them impassable, and
the work of extracting the bodies from the fallen
houses were not completed when the Vickburg
left; some fifteen or twenty bodies had been
found. It was very difficult to find a landing, as
everv house under the Hill, except five or six, i
was blown down, and the river filled with floating
fragments of houses and boats.
The tornado in leaving Natchez, followed the
course of the river about eight miles down the
coast. The court house at Vidalia was leveled
to the ground and the Parish judge killed. Tbe
trees on the opposite side of tbe river, as wc’.l as
those of Natchez Island were all torn up by the
roots or deprived of ffieir branches. The damage
done to the crops was very severe ; some planta
tions were deprived of all their fences and others
had every cabin taken away by the slornl*
Bhandon Bank.—The Vicksburg Sentinel,
says, that Wm. H. Shelton, President of the
Brandon Bank, and Samuel M. Puckett and
Richard Hobson, Directors of that institution,
have left Mississippi for Texas. They took with
them 300 negroes. Shelton armed fifty of his
negroes, and procured ten armed white men, to
enable them to force their way out of the State.
The others withdrew in the Marshal
went in pursuit but could not overtake them.
From, the Pittsburg Gazette , May 4.
General Jackson axd Martin Vaxßcrex. j
Willis Silliman, Esq., of Wooster, Ohio, the
brother-in-law ot Lewis Cass. Secretary of War j
under Jackson, and now American Minister at
Paris, has lately abandoned Van Buren and come I
out boldly and manfully for Harrison. In a late
speech he gave some interesting anecdotes of his
experience as a \ an Buren man.
He mentioned among other matters, that some
time after the issuing of the Specie Circu'ar, he
went on to Washington city, called on Mr. Van
Buren, and stated to him that, as an American
citizen, be claimed an hour’s conversation with
him, to which he acceded.
In the course of the conversation, Mr. Silli
man condemned the specie Circular most emphat
ically, and told the President that if it was not
recalled the Stale of Ohio would certainly go
against him at the ensuing election.
Much conversation took place, and. in the
course of it, Mr. A an Buren took occasion to re
peat distinctly, Jive times, that Ac was not influ
enced by Gen. Jackion.
The annexed extract of a letter from a distin
guished gentleman in Dublin, to a friend in this
city, gives the most recent intelligence we have
of the doings of Father Matthews :—New York
American.
Dublin, April 13, 1840.
“We are at this moment undergoing one of
the most extraordinary moral revolutions which
the annals of the world narrate. I allude of
course to the great temperance reformation effec
ted by the Rev. Mr. Matthews, a Franciscan friar
of the city of Cork, now justly styled the apos
tle of temperance. Already have one and a half
millions of pe-sons received the temperance
pledge from his hands, and scarcely a defaulter
has been found ; persons of all religions flock to
him. He spent the week before last in Dublin,
and there administered the pledge to 70,000 in
dividuals. I have with my own eyes witnessed
the most confirmed drunkards completely reform
ed. I could not believe the accounts with which
ihe newspapers teemed until I myself became a
witness. He has visited the cities of the South
and West with equally wonderful success. The
police and militia are obliged to attend to prevent
his being crushed to death by the multitudes who
flock to pledge themselves to total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors before him. Many,
(even Protestants.) floe v to him, thinking he pos
sesses miraculous powers to cure diseases, and he
has the greatest difficulty in persuading them
that he assumes or possesses no such power.
Carl Stanhope and the London Temperance So
ciety have invited him over to preach the cause
of temperance there.”
All the loco focos. says the St. Louis Bullitine,
are disappearing from Indiana. There is hardly
enough now left there for seed.
ExTRAOHni.VAnx Speed. —A speed of fifty
six miles an hour has been attained by a locomo
tive on the Great Western Railway, England, in
consequence of the wheels having been altered
from ten to seven feet dianu ter.
From the Geneva (Hew York) Courier.
What has he Done |
When any candidate f->r preferment was pre
sented to Napoleon, the first question asked by
the Em{»eror was, QuVt il fait? What has he
done? The principle, I, bt thkib fruit tk
■ BHU.IKSBW them,” is not more a precept of
scripture, than a safe maxim of worldlv policy ;
. nor is its application in any case more proper
than where a candidate for popular favor presents
himself to the nation, and claims the highest of
fice in their gift. Let us for a moment apply the
principle to Mr. Van Buren. Let us ask the
question, and read its answer from the records of
history. What has he done ?
He has increased the annual expenses of the
government from $ 13,000,000, to $39,0t!0.000 !
He has spent m the ordinary revenue* of the
people, though out of those ordinary revenues ,
his three immediate predecessors paid off $210,-
000.000 of the National Debt;
He has spent, in addition thereto, the follow
| ing sums, which belonged to the people, and
which, under a righteous government, would
| have been distributed among the people, to wit:
I In the Treasury when became into
I office. $6,670,000
Withheld from the State®, the 4th
instalment, 9,367,000
Paid to government by the Bank of
the U. States for stock of U. S. 6,000,000
| Received on merchants I onds due in
'35 and '36, but postponed to ’3B
| and ’39, 7,000,000
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Making an aggregate of $29 037,000
i He has. in addition to these enormous expen
ditures, run nhe people in DEBT, bv the issue
j of Treasury notes to the amount of $15,000,000,
; whereof $7,750,000 are still due:
j He has been instrumental in creating more
i banks than any other man in the nation, and yet
! he is now engaged in a fierce crusade, not against
hanks only, but against the CREDIT SYSTEM
of the country;
He has brought forward the Sub-Treasury,
and recommended its adoption by the example of
the HARD MONEY DESPOTISMS of Eu
rope; and, though that measure has been three
times REJECTED by the PEOPLE, he is now
upon the eve of FORCING IT by PARTY
DISCIPLINE through Congress;
He has, in violation of established precedents,
and every principle of justice, deprived a sover
eign State of her REPRESENTATION in the
National Councils ;
He has. through his friends in the Senate, ad
vocated a REDUCTION IN THE WAGES OF
LABOR, and THE PRICE OF PRODUCE,
as one of the blest results of his Sub-treasury'
scheme, and as the strongest argument in its fa
vor.
He has, through John C. Calhoun, introduced
a bill to DEPRIVE THE OLD STATES of
their RIGHTS in the PUBLIC DOMAIN,
though those rights are expressly reserved iu
their several deeds of cession, and it is not within
the constitutional powers of Congress to take
them away;
He has LOST more public money by the DE
FALCATIONS of his agents in three yeiirs,
than any previous president has done in eight.
He has, through Mr. Grundy’s report, endea
vored to blast the credit of independent commu
nities, by falsely insinuating to this nation and
to the world, that the American Stales had peti
tioned the general government to assume their
debts:
He has strongly recommended the adoption of
a military system, which raises and places at his
exclusive disposal, an effective STANDING
ARMY of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
men, with a reserve of one hundred thousbnd
more;
He has practiced the most shamelest corrup
tion in every department ol his government ; ap
pointed men to, and removed them from office,
solely in reference to their political sentiments;
: continued known defaulters in office; prostituted
honor, the interests and the dignity of the na
‘♦on to parly purposes; and. in fine, proved theft,
in sou?® rnen, the virtues are like garments to he
put on ana at pl easure * w kile intrigue and cor
ruption constitute body of their political char
acter.
Amid the disastrous influences of his malign
administration, it may l>e some con eolation to
reflect that his example has inculcated S* 1® 951
one truth, important for every people to kno ’ v
:o wit : that HIGH station does not secure
man from low arts; that it is possible to pos
sess all the subtlety of a serpent', without any
of its wisdom—all the apparent simplicity of a
dove, without any of its innocence—to be a
DEMOCRAT in NOTHING but profession,
and a FEDERALIST in every thing but NAME.
Sisrulah ccsto* in regard to Crimin
als. — We extract the following from a new work
recently published, entitled “Pilgrimage to Jeru
salem and Mount Sinai,” by Baron Gerambs.
There prevails at Lucerne a very extraordinary
custom, a custom that makes one shudder, and
that exists nowhere else. The law directs that
sentence of death shall not be pronounced upon
any who have not confessed their crime. Con
victed criminals, from whom no confession can
be obtained, are punished with hard labor only.
But what a horrible condition is tacked to the mis
erable life which is left them! At the next
execution, the last condemned criminal is com
pelled to repair to the spot where the scaffold is
erected, to catch the head as it falls, and to carry
it to the grave, in the presence of the whole pop
ulation. Some months ago. an unfortunate
young woman was convicted of infanticide, and
executed. Her wretched accomplice, condemned
only to forced labor, because he would not con
fess his crime, was therefore obliged, as the last
person condemed, to lake the head of her whom
he had loved, whom he had seduced, whom he
had ruined. At the sight of that pale end lived
head, of that blood-stained hair he started back
in horor and affright. In vain he refused to
obey ; the application of the whip forced him to
perform rhe task.
“Four Bears, the last op the Masdaxs,’ ’
is the title of one of the best Indian tales we re
member to have read, in the May Knickerbocker.
It is a fitting tribute to the last of a noble race
of aborigines ; a people
“ To whom nor relative nor blood remain ;
No,not a kiudied drop that runs in human veins!”
They were swept from the face of the earth,
three years ago by the small-pox. They knew
not the disease, nor its remedies ; and the terror it
created was in proportion to their ignorance.—
The mother forsook her child, the wife her hus
band, when smitten, as they conceived, by the
hi nd of the Great Spirit: and the men of the
last seven surviving families, after having slain
their women and children, slabbed themselves
upon their dead bodies, in the frenzy of utter des
pair. So perished a tribe who could muster
four thousand warriors; the most gentle, the most
civilized, and most chivahous of the North-west.
The following picturesque description of a
mounted Mandan warrior, would make an admi
rable subject for the pencil of Chapman, or some
other of our talented artists:
* * “The Mandans were uniformly well
and even gorgeously clad. The fops of our cities
would have made a pitiable figure among their
flowing robes, and fringed tuaics and leggings.
The men killed the buflalo, the deer, the elk, and
the antelope, and the women converted the skins
into garments goiter, finer, and much more dura
ble than cloth. The white clay of tho prairies
them the whiteness of snow. There could
not be a nobler or more picturesque figure than
a Mandan on horseback, in his gala dress. \Ve
have him before our mind’s eye now. From the
I crown of his head to the cr ipper of his horse
streams a long tissue of swans’ feathers. The
steed wears a coronal of the same material, and
prances proudly l»enealh his rider. He de
serves the distinction, for he is of the best blood
of Barbary ; in no wise deteriorated by its trans
mission through Andalusia and Mexico. His
saddle is a cushion of the softest doe-skin, his
crupper of the same; both as well the reins, cu
riously inwrought with porcupine quills. A hun
‘ Jrcd hawk bells jingle from the bridle. From
each corner ol his mouth depends the scalp of a
slain foeman. The rider wears a loose, white
tunic, which leaves the arms bear, and over it is
a rope, which rather graces than hides his per
son. In bis head are the feathers of the war
eagle, denoting the number of the enemies he has
slain, otherwise he wo.ild not dare to wear them.
The women of the village would pluck them
from his head. Certain small painted sticks, af
fixed in like manner to his lop knot, indicate the
number and manner of his woo ids. A necklace of
grizzly bears’ claws encirclts his neck. His robe
is covered with hieroglyphics, and tells the his
s tory of his life. His leggings are fringed with
J scalp-locks each of which is the price of a horse.
• On his left arm is his shield, of tough bull-hide,
r which will stop an arrow, or turn a bullet. At
3 his back hangs his bow, which will bury every
? one of the sixty shafts in the quiver beside it, to
] the feather; and his right hand grasps his quiv
} ering lance, twenty feet long; its head an entire
sword-blade, rusty with Hood. Such is the cos
:} tume of the‘poor Indian.’
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Contents of No. V. of the Merchant’s
Magazine.
j Original pavers. —Domestic Industry, by
n James H. Lanman. Esq; Moral and Political
Freedom, by Rev. Henry VV. Bellows of New i
j York; Causes of Unsteadiness of the Currency,
and the remedy therefor, by H. C. Carey, Esq.
of Philadelphia ; Rate of Interest—Usury ; The
Opium Trade—Englanl and China, by E. W.
f ’ Stoughton, Esq., of New York; Mercantile Bi- |
| ography ; Laws relative to Debtor and Creditor, |
No. 2,; (Missouri.) 1. Suits on bonds, bills,
and no‘es; 2. Suits by capias; 3. ‘ i uils by at
tachment; 4, Proving endowments and partner- j
1 ships; to which is appended a list of places of
h holding the courts in that Slate.
( Mercantile Law Reports. —Fire insurance—
l! extent of the powers of insurance agents to bind
L their principals; Important decision on a fire poli
|| cy ; Insurance—general average—technical total
• ; loss—} artial loss—abandonment—sale of vessel
by the master—valuation—marine interest.
Commercial Regulations. —An ordinance con
ceming the levee duries in and for the port of
New Orleans; Hospital Money.
Commercial Statistics. — Commerce of Con-I
necticut, trom 1791 to 1838; Commerce of the
L nited States; Bankruptcies in France; Value
of j xportsfrom the United States; Commercial
Progress of France; Cotton Trade.
1 Rank Statistics. —Condensed View of the
- Condition of the several Banks of the City of
I Baltimore, on the 6th January, 1840; Bank of
I England.
Insurance.— Annals of Insurance in the West.
Statistics of Navigation. —Steam Navigation;
(■ French Steam Navigation ; Light-house at the i
Peninsula of Jutland.
Miscellaneous Statistics. — Table of Revenue, 1
Expenditure, and Public Debt of France; Ca
nals of Ntw \ ork; Extent of the Fishing Inter- ‘
estin Massachusetts;Silk Manufacture in France.
Mercantile Miscellanies. —Foreign Importa
tions; Commercial Relations with Foreign Coun
tries; Importance of African Commerce; Duty
on Saltpetre; A Bushel of Grain; Donations to ;
the Mercantile Library Association.
A Town Desthotld bt Fihe.—We learn
from the Hero, published at Shippensburg, Cum
berland County, Pa., that the town of Spring
field about 7 miles from this borough, was visited
i 001 Saturday last, by a most destructive fire 13
houses, 1 store, and S stables and barns, togeth
-ler with all the furniture were totally destroyed.
The fire commenced in a stable about I o’clock in
j afternoon, and the wind being strong, it was
1 found impossible to extinguish the flames.
A Turkish Apartment.
From Miss Fordoes “Beauties of the Bosphorus
“ The moveables were prodigally rich ;
Sofas ’twas half a sin to sit upon,
So costly were they; carpets everv stitch
Os w? rkrna nship so rare, that made you wish
You coulu o’er them like a golden fish.”
Byron.
Nothing can exceed the beautiful cleanliness
of a Turkish harem, save its order: not a grain
of dust, not a footmark, sullies the surface of the
Indian matting that covers the large halls whence
the several apartments branch off in every direc- j
tion, while the furniture of the rooms themselves !
is always fresh, and scrupulously arranged. The
ceilings are elaborately ornamented ; and in the
houses of the rich, where the apartments are of
great size, a curtain of tapestry is frequently used
as a raeaus of reducing their extent. The win
dows are always closely set together, and very
numerous; and when the room chances to be sit
uated in an angle of the building the three un
connected sides have very much the appearance
of a lantern.
At the lower end of each apartment are large
closets for the reception of the bedding (for none
are appropriated exclusively as sleeping cham
bers,) and the slaves of the household no sooner
ascertain that the visiter has risen, than half a
dozen of them commence r moving every vestige
of the couch, and ..epositing within the closet the
mattrasses of embroidered satin, the sheet of gauze
or worked muslin, the half-dozen pillows of bro
caded silk, and the wadded coverlets, rich with
silver fringe, and gay with party coloured nee
dle-work, which have formed the bed. A low
sofa or divan runs round the other three sides of
the apartment, luxuriously supplied with cush
ion;, and richly covered with cut velvet or em
broidered satin; and the floor is invariably spread
with soft and handsome caipets.
■ It is an amusing fact, that an idea of impro
priety is attached by Europeans who have never
visited the East, to the very- name of a harem :
while it is not less laughable, that they can never
give a reason for the prejudice! How little foun
dation exists for so unaccountable a fancy must
: be evident at once, when it is Elated that the ha
• rem, or women’s apartments, are held so sacred
\ h y the Turks themselves, that they remain invi
i °latc even in cases of popular disturbance, or in
dividual delinquency; the mob never suffering
j their violence to betray them into an intrusion
' on the wives of their victims: and the search after
a lugitive ceasing the moment that the door of
j the harem separates him from his pursuers.
• It is also a tact, that although a Turk has an
: undoubted right to enter the apartment of his
wives at all hours, it is a privilege of which he
i raf ely, if ever, avails himself. One room in the
j harem is appropriated to the master of the house,
; and therein he awaits the appearance of the indi
| vidual with whom he wishes to converse, and
who is summoned to his presence by a slave.
Should be, on passing to this apartment, see slip
pers at the foot of the stairs (a token that a fe
male visitor is in the harem) he cannot, under
; any pretence whatever, intrude himself into her
presence; it is a liberty- which every woman in
the empire would resent; and when guests are 1
on a visit of some days, he sends a slave forward ;
to announce his approach, and thus gives them
time and opportunity to withdraw.
Every- good harem has a commodious bath
and a garden gay- with flowers and fountains at’
tached to it. where the women may wander a 1
will among the leaves and birds, or dream ihe
sultry hours in their pretty kiosques overhanging
tl • Dosphorus; wherefrom behind the shad*
of their latticed casements they cm breathe tHe
cool air from the water, and mark the arrowy
speed of the graceful caiques, as they fly along
the channel.
The amusements of the harem are few and
simple;—the path is the greatest luxury, the re
mainder of the d<y being spent in lounging on
the di van, listening to the music of the xebec, play
ed by one of slaves, and accompanied by the
voictsof others; in the arrangemant of the jew
els worn upon the turban ; in playing with the
birds whose gilded cages glitter upon the walls;
in spoiling all the children within reach; in eat
ing sweetmeats and drinking water; or amid the
cool shadows of the garden, hearing to the fall
of the fountains and the whisperings of the _
leaves, or listening to the wondrous tales of the
Massaldjhe, ever a welcome guest in the harem,
where her marvellous narrations are icceived
with a deep attention and a perfect faith eminent
ly inspiring.—Then then* is the namaz or pray
er, five times a day, never neglected by Tuikisb
women ; when deeply veiled, as unworthy to ap
pear before Allah with a bare brow they spread
their prayer carpet, and turning their faces Mecca
ward, they humbly and earnestly perform their
devotions. These are their home occupations;
but it is a great fallacy to imagine that Turkish
females are like birds in a cage, or captives in a
cell; —far from it; there is not a public festival,
be it Turk, Frank, Armenian, or Greek, where
they are not to be seen in numbers, setting upon
their carpets, or in their carriages, surrounded by
slaves and attendants, eager and delighted spec
tators of the revel. They have their gilded and
glittering caiques on the Bosphorus, where, pro
tected by their veils, their ample mantles, and
their negro guard, they spend long hours visiting
acquaintances, and gathering and dispensing the
gossip of the city.
All this may, and indeed must appear startling
to persons who have accustomed themselves to
believe that Turkish wives were morally man
acled slaves. There are probably, no women so
little trammelled in the world ; so free to come
and go unquestioned, provided they are suitably
attended ; while it is equally certain that they
enjoy this piiviledge like innocent and happy
children, making their pleasures of the flowers
and sunshine; and revelling like the birds and
bees amid the summer orightness. profitting by the
enjoyment of the passing hour, and reckless or
thoughtless of the future.
Correspondence of the Nation'll Intelligencer.
New York. May 9.
The anniversary of the battle of Fort Meigs
was celebrated by the Tippecanoe Clubs last
night in an appropriate and imposing manner.
; A procession was formed, composed of the clubs
j for each ward, with banners and music, and. after
marching up Broadway, entered the great Sa
loon of Xi bio's garden, where an immense
| crowd was already assembled. I never saw such
a gathering before. The extensive garden was
j fiNed in every part, and thousands in the street
could not obtain admittance. The spirit and en
thusiasm exhibited was unbounded. Among
1 other speakers were Governor Pope and R. Wick-
Hffe.jr., of Kentucky, Mr. Humes, of Tennes
see. Mr. J. X". Reynolds and Mr. E. G. Austin,
of Massachusetts. Mr. Slade and D. E. Warnej,
i of \ irginia, and Mr. Eldridge, of Connecticut.
.There is an arrival irom Panama to-dav,
which brings news of the breaking out ofa revo
lution in the Southern provinces of X~ew Grena
da. The city of Popyan had been attacked by
about 400 men, but they were repulsed by a su-
I perior force.
Slippery Woxex,-The aborigines of Hay
ti, believed that men were a long time destitute
1 ot women, but happening to wander near a small
lake they saw certain animals among the bran
ches of the trees, which proved to be women.
They attempted to catch them, but found it im
possible to get any hold of them, as they were as
slippery as eels. At last, they employtnl a num
ber of men whose hands had been rendered rough
j b >' a klnd of leprosy, and who succeeded in catch
ing four of them from whom the world was peo
pled. There seems to be an idea, as well amon~
savage as civilized men, that woman is rather a
slippery animal.
We asked a gentleman who leans toward Van
Burenisiti a little, on his return from Ohio how
j lhe P ar, y flourished there. His repl y was “Dont
talk to me of the party in Ohio, I have seen but
three Van Buren men since I left home.” We
have since learned that two of them held office
and the other was so sick be could not stand ex
cept by bidding to a lamp poet.— Wheeling
Times.
A coon JOKE.—Prentice says The office
holders are actually calling the log cabin boys
“Me ruffle-shirt gentry.” Isn’t that laughable I
T£IE_READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
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 $lO.
Doctor J. J. WILSON oilers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
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CCT CXJH iNGE ON NE W YORK— Vt sigh
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by °
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHLVD.
Kr THE FARMERS' REGIS TER, a men th ly
publication, devoted to the improvement of the
practice, and support of the interest, of Agricul
ure; published at Richmond, \ a , at $.3 per year.
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m 6
DR. MONROE, Surgeon Dentist.
Office on Washington street, near Ellis, residence
at the house late'y occupied by Mrs. Savage
april 20 °
Qff During my absence in the interior of the
State, Force, Brothers & Co. are mv duly author
ised attorneys. ENOCH W.SPOFFORD.
april 21
GARDNER, formerly resident surgeon
n the New York Hospital, and physician at Belle
vue Hospital, New York, tenders to the public his
professional services.
Office in Washington street, between Broad and
Eilis streets. Residence, United Slates Hotel,
ap 2
iff* NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Tram
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
follows:
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 am,
“ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchviile, “ - 11 00
‘ “ Blackville, - “ - loop. M
“ “ Aiken, - - « - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 4 lyj
downward.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a «
“ “ Aiken, - “ . 7 30
* “ Black ville, «* - . 915
“ “ Midway. « . .1030
Branchvill “ - _ 11 00
“ Georges’, “ - -11 4.3 m.
“ Summerville," - - l 15 P . M .
Arrive at Charleston not before 2 1.3
Distance—l36miles. FareThrough—slo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
i minutes each, for breakfast ami dinner, and not
1 longer than 5 minutes for wo 1 and water at any
1 station. J
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also
Sioeaths, Woodstock, luabinet’s, 41 mile T. ()
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons’
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers nv will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackvuie ; aown, will DicaKlast at \,ken
1 and dmc at Charleston. may 4
MEETING.
The friends of Harrison nnd Tvi*.
tier, u
Richmond county, are requested to n, eet
at the MASONIC .HALL, oa SaiQ
next, at three o’clock, P, M., to
the Report of the Delegation to the ) at
Baltimore Convention, and to
such other business as may be
desirable.
From the Bridgeport Seniinei"
Whig .Song.
Tune — Marseillais' Hymn.
Rise ! rise 1 ye freemen, once ’twas gi orv
For man to oppose a tyrant’s power
And who resisted, lived in story ;
Oh ! seize then seize, the present hour 1
Say, shall we slumber, while around us
A)ppression’s galling chains are ca 1 5
Say, will they lighter hang at last,
To call them gold when they have
No, no 1 no, no ! then rise
For our forefathers’ laws ;
March on, march on ! resolved to wm
Uur favorite hero’s cause .'
Will flatt’ring tales of coming pleasure
When plenteousness and peace shall rein
And all be rich in glitt’ring treasures, * ’
The poor man’s present wishes gain 5
Will’t slay the tide of desolation,
'That sweeps so strongly o’er our land,
To gorge an office-holding band.
And rob the pockets of the nation 5
No, no ! no, no ! then rise, fcc.
Ob ! freemen, up ! let widely flowing
Your banners to the breeze be thrown.
Your love of worth and valor showing:
Your scorn for tyrant-knaves make known 1
Shall men believe their voices telling
In syren tones, your ship of state
Is safe, when all around, dark fate
Frowns out in ev’ry wave that’s swelling s
No, no ! no, no ! then rise, Sac.
The statesman-chief who led undaunted,
And cheered in strife his warlike band,
Whose praise a grateful nation chanted,
Who ti*ls, a farmer bold, his land,
Shall we neglect for one, who seeming
Our rights, the people's cause.
Who dares to trance on our laws,
' Nor lists their prayer, their threats, nor waning s
No, no ! no, no then rise, &c.
Da Capo Chorus.
Then rise, rise all for one
Who ev’ry sufferage claims,
Huzza ! for him a loud huzza !
Who conquer'd at the Thames.
j C.F.S.
j Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, May 14,1840.
L M Wiley; G L Cannon; W E Jackson; Havi
land, Risley, & Co ; Rankin, Boggs, & Co.; J M i
W Adams; T Richa.ds; Stovall, Simmons,&Co;
J A H Horn; T Dawson; I S Beers, k Co.;WJ
Vincent; D H Silcox; Pomeroy; T N Poullain;J
Davidson; Rees A Beall; J F Benson; Holiing&Gg
D Plunkett.
; —■!»
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, April 14
| Latest dales from Havre April 13
New Orleans, May 9.
| Cotton —Arrived since the sth inst.of Louisiani
and Mississippi 1646 bales, and N. Ala
bama 714, Arkansas 216. Mobile 231, Florida 65,
1 together 2872 bales. Cleared in the same time lor
j Liverpool, 4467 bales, Havre 2657, New YorksS,
Philadelphia 45, together 7288 bales —making 1
reduction in stock of 4416 bales, and leaving on
hand, inclusive of all on shipboard not cleared#
the blh inst. a stock of 199067 bales.
In our report of last Wednesday morning we ob
served that the market for inferior and iniJdlh
cottons was remarkably dull, and that prices for
those sorts seemed to have rather a down war! tec
dency. During that day, however, a more attn;
■ and general demand sprung up and about 5000biifl
! were disposed of, including parcels of every descra
[ tion, though principally of qualities above middlffi
j fair, not differing in any material degree from th»
| current for three days previous. On Thursday tlx
market was again quite active, sales having
j made during the day to the extent of fully 450 C
‘ bales, and, in most instances at rather fuller prices •
( than prevailed on Wednesday. Yesterday tier*
i was only a moderate demand, and holders of ordi
nary parcels appeared rather more solicitous ofoi
, taining offers, while for the finer grades they coc
tinued extremely firm, those being still
j also in good request. The sales at the time ■
closing o ir inquiries, only amounted to 2530 bales.
Our quotations, it will be perceived, remaintix
same as previously. The sales during the wrt*
amount to 16700 bales, and for the last three da«
to 12000 bales.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS.
Louisiana and Mis<issippi —Ordinary. 5| a 5;
Middling, 6i a7; Fair, a Good fair, 9i »?;■
j Good and fine, 10 j a—. Tennessee and N. AI&
; ma —Ordinary, —a 5; Middling, 5$ a 6; Fair,6s>
7; Good fair, 7j a 7s; Good and Fine,
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
1539. Oct. 1, stock on hand, I^*’
Receipts last three days 2572
“ previously, 541770 544642
5604»
Exports last three days, 7283
do. previously, 654111 6’l*
Stock on hand
Comparative Arrivals , Exports and Stocks ojW
ton , at New Orleans, for the last nine ye irSr
from October 1, to date.
Years. Arrivals. Exports. Stocks.
1840 844642 661399 1D9067
1839 526287 407 823
1838 629911 5 2 4 399 103103
1537 539125 473723 " 4|t .
1836 442161 3.3U660 953 b
1835 498790 415675 SIJJJ
1834 426078 346210
1833 372147 329983 4 * 93 :
1832 288308 206.70
Sugar — Louisiana —A better demand and a s
ing off in the receipts within the last three
have again caused a reduction in the stock ot- J
Levee, which is now diminished to a veiy
ate quantity, and, as has been the case for 50
time past, consists principally of inferior to ,
qualities. The higher grades continue sc jrcf , j ,
when brought to market they readily eo® m3 ®“ j
a cents, in limited parcels, for the city trade \ f
Several lots have been taken fur shipment to
northern markets, besides a tolerably fair de» “
for the upper country. Most of the transa'
have been at 3 a We. however, re *-
our former extremes, remarking that though ta
are no sales higher than our highest, occasion* 1
ot very inferior are disposed of at rates lower
our lowest figures. We notice a sale of 3t*
on plantation at 4 cents. In Havana Sugar 5 ■
is very little doing. Some limited sa | es
White and Brown have been made within the
of our quotations . yt t
Molasses — The rates for barrels from
continue the same as before quoted —say
per gallon, with a f.iir demand. J#v «,
Flour —The market, during the past
has been less animated than for some time
there having been very little enquiry foi