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£l)vcmidc aufc Sentinel.
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MONDAY MORNING, MAY 3.
Coals to Newcastle.—Some of the Boston
Coasters, says the Mercantile Journal, are taking
hay to the Eastern ports. The crops were abund
ant generally in Maine last year, but a considera
ble quantity was expelled tosounthern ports, and
the season being unusually backward and inclem
ent, slock is sutleriiig much in some places.
Tun Steam Frigate.—All the machinery
that cun bo placed on board of the largo steam
frigate, now on the slocks at the Philadelphia Na
vy Yard, previous toher being launched, has
been put on her. It is said she will he launched!
on the sth day of May next.
Taxation in Boston.—By a list of names
published in Boston, we learn that 125 individu.
h)s in that city, arc assessed over SSOO annually
—4l pay upwards of SIOOO each—22, $l5O0 —
10, s3ooo—o, $2500—3, SSOOO, amJ I, S7OOO.
The N'ew-Orlcans Bee, ot the 26th says;—
Daring the last two days rumor hais been rife re
specting certain over drafts tit the Louisiana
Stale Bank. We have heard Hoe sums variously
stated—from SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO, but we have
been unable to obtain information of the exact
amount, ku connection with these overdrafts is
the disappearance of one of the principal book
keepers of the institution, other individuals arc
implicated in this Iransuctiou.—We trust that
the bank for its interests as well as those of the
stockholders, will notdelay a prompt exposition
of all the circumstances connected with the aHkir.
('ape of Good Hope papers of the 17th Janus,
ry announce the destruction by fire, of the brig
Australis, from Dundee, about 600 miles to the
westward of the Cape. The captain and crew
escaped in the boats.
Wesleyan Methodists.—A late English pa
per says that the Wesleyan Methodists have no
less than 100 foreign missionary stations, they
employ 220 missionaries, and in the schools un
der the supervision of those missionaries there are
40,000 children. The contributions to the mis
/
•ionary funds within the last year were nearly
J1‘90,000.
Washington Gossip —that the British Minis
ter (Mr. Fox,) aged GO, is about to marry the sis
ter of the wife ot the Russian Minister, (Mis*
Williams,) a little girl of 16.
Education Statistics.—We have in the
United States, 88 colleges, 12 law schools, 95
medical seminaries, 20 divinity schools, and more
than 1000 classical academies.
St. Augustine, April 33.
The Indian vvaii not exited.—The follow
ing extract of a letter, from an authentic source,
intimates that there is, as yet no prospect of n
termination ofour Indian difficulties;
“Tampa Bay, (E. F.) April 12, 1841,
“ Cnsa-Tustenuggec has just started out after
Halcck-Tustenuggee. He soys if lie cannot bring
him in the game is up.—The last of the month
will test it. Coa-cnu-hee is also to report progress
about the same time. If he backs out, a new
operation will commence. So stand the affaire;
and no person can judge until the time ar
rives. I only believe tilings when I see them.
A 'ties.
Census ul’lß4o.
Complete Census of the United States
for 1840.—We have the pleasure of presenting
our readers with the complete aggregate result of
the Census for 1810, and wo believe wo arc the
lirst to give it entire. The Secretary of Statu
furnished all the returns he had to the House of
Representatives. By the politeness of Mr. Cist,
we are furnished with these. They lack howev
er three Stales and part of the detective returns
from local papers. We shall first give the totals,
with the ratio of increase for each, and hereafter
furnish some camparativc tables.
1830. 1840, Ratio of ine
Maine 399,462 401,790 26 pci cent,
Massachusetts. 610,011 737,438 21 «
N. Hampshire. 269,533 384,481 5A «
Vermont 280,679 291,848 4 “
R. Island 99,216 108,827 12 “
Connecticut. • • 297,711 310,023 IJ,1 J , “
New York -.,. 1,913,508 2,432,835 27 "
N. Jersey 320,779 372,252 16
•Penn 1,347,6"2 1,7011,000 2? “
Delaware 76,730 78,121) 2 “
Maryland...., 446,913 467,577 li “
Virginia 1,211,272 1,231,434 2 «
N. Carolina... 738,470 753,110 2 “
S. Carolina..,. 584,458 594,439 2 “
t Georgia 516,267 618,160 20 «
Alabama 308,997 479,444 05 “
Mississippi.... 136,806 386,099 192 “
iLouisiana.... 215,272 249,638 «
Tennessee 684 822 823,007 20,1 «
Kentucky 388,884 777,359 13’ • <
Ailijo 937,6791,515,696 63£ «
Indiana 311,582 683,314 100 «
111in0i5,,..,... 157,575 445,475 183 “
Michigan...... 31,620 311,705 590 "
Missouri....... 110,074 363,761 160 «
Arkansas 30,383 95,642 220 “
Wisconsin 30,692 “
lowa 43,036 -- “
Florida 31,729 no returns ll
D. of Columbia 99,858 43,612 1(1 “
Totals 12,856,171 16521004 33 percent
• One county and part of another in Pennsyl
vania were wanting lor which, however, we have
gdded their proportions.
( Some small counties were wanting in Geor
gia, hut probably contain but few inhabitants.
1 ’The Western District of Louisiana is omitted.
This, with Florida, also omitted, will make up
about 150,000 to be added to tire sum total.
The Census now taken is lire sixth since the
adoption of the Constitution, and shows conclu
sively that the population of the United States,
moves on w-ith the same uniform law of progres
sion, without reference to emigration, disease or
any other cause. This law is an increase of une
third of the existing population for each period
of ten years.— Cin. Chronicle.
Dsfbauiiing UvDiyiwiiiTKUH.—A late num
ber of tbe London Shipping Gazette says, that
circumstances render it likely that the ship York,
from London for Sydney would bo intentionally
cast away on the passage—and considerable
excitement had been the consequence. The same
paper says—“should the suspicion in the case Os
the York unfortunately turn out to be well placed,
she will make the fifth ship that within these
eight months has been unfairly disposed of. The
shipping interest display that manifest disposition
to discover, expose and punish offences of this na
ture, that might have been expected from them,
and it is probable a few days may bring more of
thir matter to light.”
The Cuiicill V.
No. rti.
The currency of the country is now abundantly
large for all its wants. It lias been so for the last
five years. Every new bank in that period has
put out its circulation only by forcing back the bills
of its neighbours. This is evident from the reports
of the batSks tbcmsolvev. Tiro net circulatiorrof
bills by all the bank?, nn January Ist
1836 was $83,000,000
1836 “ 108,000,000
1537 “ 113,000,600
IS3S •• 91,000,000
1839 « 108.000.000
184'j •• 86,000,000
Average $98,000,000
Although in this period of six years, tire bank
'capital was increased 55 per cent, from 231 mil
lions to 358, the circulation has been stationary.—
This has been remarkably true in tbe establish
ment of the free hanks in New York. The circu
lation of
96 banks in 1839, was $19,373,000
159 << 1840 14,320,000
all banks at both periods, specie yaying banks.
It would appear from this, that it is desirable to
leave tire circulation untouched by the new I*. 8.
Dank. Instead of the mixed circulation wo now
have, of good and depreciated paper,we should have
cue all good, but not a dollar larger than the present
amount. Whatever sum is kept out in If. 8. Bank
bills, it should ouly take the place of a like sum of
state hank hills withdrawn from circulation. Would
it nut he practicable to effect this substitution
by making loans to rlic State banks at a low rate
of interest, say at 2 per cent, per annum? Wuuld
not many, very many of the State banks be per
fectly willing to give up their privilege of making
paper money by the oiler of the U. S. Bank to fur
nish their usual circulation at this interest ? Does
it not cost them more than this to keep a sufficient
amount of specie to meet the probable demand
from their circulation? If they have specie amount
ing to SIOO,OOO ai d a circulation of $300,000, —
would it not be better to receive a loan of $300,000
at 2 per cent, redeem their entire circulation with
this loan, and put out the SIOO,OOO specie at 8 per
cent? Would not the interest on the specie, now
retained unproductive in their vaults, enable them
to meet 2 percent on their usual circulation, to say
nothing of the expense of paper, plates, signing,
the risk of suspension, and various other expenses
incident to the manufacture of paper money.
On the oilier hand, the U. 8. Bank and branches
will occupy the place of a redeemer of the bills for
i the whole Union, and by keeping out a circula
tion equal to that of all the State banks, the 2 per
cent on that amount loaned to the banks would
compensate them for tire unproductive specie kept
in their vaults to redeem their circulation. Thus
without lost to either the general or the local
banks, immense benefits would accrue to the com
munity. Smith.
i
No. rv.
The thousand currencies that now flood all the
! channels of circulation, may be supplanted by one
> without injury to the Stale banks or to the new U.
i S. Rank, and to the great advantage »f the people.
By an examination of the returns of the Banks for
the last six years, this may be shown to be true
with regard to the State banks. The average for
this period of
, Net circulation has been $.98,000,000
i If loaned to them by the U. States
Bank at 2 per cent, they would have
r to pay the bank i ,960,000
, Their specie and specie funds have
, for the same time averaged 43,000,000
r And this loaned at only 6 per cen'.
' would return them 2,580,000
’ which is nearly one-third morrfthan all the gain de
rived from their circulation.
Such is the genera! result with regard to all the
banks in the Union. Its advantage to the banks
of each State, considered separately, is of course
, in the same ratio. Our Georgia banks, even from
p the reports made last October, when they were at..
b most all in a state of suspension, would exhibit a
J similar advantage. According to the last reports
I from 21 banks,
’ The nominal circulation was $4,363,000
The bank notes on hand were 2,064,000
j Net circulation 2,299,000
r! .Specie and specie funds 1,448,000
j Their payments therefore to the Na
■ | tional Bank for circulation wuuld be 15,980
Their receipts for loaning their specie
and specie funds would, at 8 per cent, be 117,810
j the profit being more than double the loss. If
there should be any doubt whether this method of
1 calculation is right or nut, let it be made on any
other principles and the result will be about the
same. Let it be considered as follows:
The (liabilities of the Georgia Banks
! on tire Ist of October last, were fop
j circulation $1,363,000
The amount in the vaults, of both
specie and bank notes to meet this, was 3,510,000
Suppose that of the amount retained,
proportionate parts were lor the depo
sites and the circulation. That would
give as retained fop the deposits*.,.. 1,053,000
For circulation 2,457,000
8 per cent on this gives 196,560
j And 2 per cent on the entire circula
tation, would be 87,260
Much lire same as before, the gain being more
than twice the loss.
To continue the illustration farther, apply it to
the Bank of the State of Georgia.
Its circulation was $696,000
Us oeposilcs 346,000
Amount in vaults 807,000
Retained for deposite, say 269,000
Retained fur the circulation 538,000
1 8 per cent on the one, is 43,040
2 per cent on the other, is,.. 13,920
\ The gain being more than 3 times the loss. It
would appear throughout, that such an arrange*
.’ merit would he greatly lo the advantage of Hie
r State Banks. Smith.
e .
I Pennsylvania Legislature Italic House
of Representatives, on Wednesday, the vole w as
taken on the final passage of the hill providing
. for the repayment of the money borrowed from
I the United (Stales Bank, and the Harrisburg
, Bank, for the repair ol the Huntingdon breach,
f the same having been vetoed by the Governor,
j and the bill was lost for want of the constitutional
i majority of two-thirds. The yeas were 59, the
f nays 39. The hill passed originally, almost by a
, unanimous vote.
b A- hill for leasing the Columbia Rail Road
! passed a second reading. It provides that the
i said road, motive power, <Scc., may bo leased to
• the highest and best bidder, for a term of live
, years, provided the same shall not be leased for a
f less sum than $150,000 per annum.
The hill to authorize a loan at six psr ont. lo
meet tire stock loan which lulls duo in June next,
and to meet any deficit which muy be in the in
ternal improvement fund appropriated to the
payment of the interest falling duo in August
next, passed committee of the whole.
On Thursday the adjournment resolution was
rescinded by a vote of 50 to 40.— N. Y. Com
mercial Advertiser,
From the Phil, National Gazette.
HANK OF THE UNITED (STATES.
Fifth Letter from Nicholas Uiddlu, Esq. to
the Hon. John ill. Clayton.
Andalusia, Bucks County, (
April 19, 1841. S
Hon. John M. Clayton, Dover,Delaware:
Mr DeaiiSih;—l shall devote an hour this
morning to a short notice of the attack of the
Committee on Samuel Jaudon, the agent of the
Bank in London.
I defend Jaudon, I am his friend, and I deem
it my duly to stand up for an absent friend when
ho is assailed. I have long known him and es
teemed him. 1 know few men who unite so ma
ny fine qualities. He has won the confidence of
men of alt descriptions in Europe—and he has
used that reputation for the common benefit of
his countrymen. How many of them run bear
witness to the zeal and kidness ami urbanity with
which he has assisted them—how many owe to
him the success of their negociations, whilst all
these talents he has devoted and is at this moment
devoting to the service of the Bank. It was but
the other day that I had a letter from him express
ing his anxiety to return homo, but that he could
not leave England before the 15th of April, be
cause he had some important negociation for the
Bunk, and hoping that as the publication by the
Bank in January had produced so much mischief,
the Committee of Investigation would not make
tilings worse by “any unnecessary and irritating
report.” He little thought what was preparing
for him. Tu see such a man denounced and vil
lifted by those professing to leprescnt the institu
tion which he had served and saved—to see such
a man stabbed behind his back at the moment
when he was laboring tu protect the Bank, and
when all his talents and character wore needed in
its service, is an act not merely of injustice to
him, but of insanity as respects the Bank itself.
Doubtless he will hcafter defend himself—but in
the meantime he shall not want my aid, incompe
tent though it be.
“Os his account with the Bank I know noth
ing and never did know any, thing, and it is quite
probable that the statement of it made by the
Committee may be just as inaccurate as that they
have made of mine. But taking it for granted
and believing every word the Committee have
stated about it, what after all does it amount to 1
Let us examine.
1. When Mr. Jaudon was sent to London “the
Bank paid the lose on the sale of his furniture
$5074.”
And why not! The Bank wished his servi
ces in England; ho could not carry his furniture
with him, and as he hud to sell it, was it not na
tural that he ought not to bear the loss. Besides
when he went away, nobody could toll whether
he would make any thing, for his whole com
pensation was contingent on the business he was
to do in London, which, if it were small would
not pay his expenses. At any rate it was no ex
tortion of his. “ The Bank paid” the loss, say
the committee, and if the Bank thought proper
to pay it was that his fault 1
2. The Bank paid “ the passageofhimself and
family to London a further sum of $1015.”
Well, is not that a tery common thing if you
send an agent abroad to pay his passage there.
Besides it was part of the inducement offered to
him to go.
3. So the “ expenses of the agency were allow
ed him including a salary of SIOOO to his broth
i cr Mr. Charles B. Jaudon, as his principal clerk.”
Well what of all that! What is there ex
traordinary in allowing office rent to an agent,
and then is it not pitiable to see tho name of his
1 brother thus invidiously introduced. iMr.Jaudon
was going alone into a world of strangers, it was
i extremely desirable to make him independent of
those around him—to have some one who during
his absence would attend *o his engagements on
account of the Bank ; and in case of his death,
take charge of all tho property of the Agency—
all these advantages happened to be united in his
own brother, which was deemed a fortunate co
incidence, and a salary of a thousand pound for
a person so qualified and so situated, fai from be
ing extravagant, was much below what similar
services are paid for in London. But whether it
was or was not, the Directors made the allowance,
and of course Mr. Jaudon is not to be reproached
with it.
4. For his services the Committee say “he
was to receive the commission therefor charged
by and allowed to Messrs. Baring, Brothers <St
Co., equal to about $28,000 per annum,” but
they add, “from the increase of money operations
arising from facilities afforded by the Agency, the
amount upon which commissions were charged
was greatly augmented, so that the sums paid
him for his ordinary services up to January, 1841,
amounted at nine per cent, exchange t 05178,044
47, and the expenses of the agency to $35,166
99.”
Well be it so. These $35,166 ‘.19 of expenses
for clerk hire, and rooms, <Src. during these three
years from January, 1838, to January, 1841,
would amount to $11,722 33 a year. Deduct
the salary of Mr. Jaudon just exhibited in high
relief SSOOO, and there remains $6722 23 for all
expenses of rontaud three clerk hire—and stamps 1
and postages and every sort pf miscellaneous ser
' ice, and really it docs not seem so very enormous ;
i But after all it did not give Mr, Jaudon any -
profit—so that all that he gained were these
$178,044 47, which for three years makes an I
annual allowance 0f559,348 12. The Messrs.
Baring, Brothers Sc Co. hud “about $28,000, but
as the rate of commission to both was the same,
1 if the increase of money operations had been as j
I great with Baring, Brothers Sc Co as with Mr. j
Jaudon, they would have received the $59,348 ;
, j 12—that is to say, you send Mr. Jaudon to Lon- ,
| don agreeing to give him what your former agent j
I received. If you do little business he gels little—
if much he gets much and when he is there you
of your own accord, without consulting him at (
all, make “an increase of money operations” and
then you complain of him because his commis
sions increase in proportion. But this is not all.
When the protest by Messrs. Hottinguer Sc
Co. hud nearly prostrated (be Bank he went to
the Continent, and saved it Ly negociating a loan
ar.d the question was whether this being a mat
ter entirely foreign to his agency wholly volun
tary, and of infinite service to the bank, he ought
not to receive the same commission which any
other person who did tho business —and no oth
er person could have done it us well as Mr. Jau
don—would have charged as a mutter of course.
The Board of Directors decided that he should
and that seems to remove all reproach from Mr.
Jaudon at least.
Like most prejudiced persons, moreover, tho
Committee look only on one side. They count
up with great care the sums which the agency
coßt— but they do nqt count up what it saved.
Now in one (ingle item the presence ofMr. Jau
don saved twice or three times all that has been
paid to him. He charged nothing for making
sales or paying dividends—but any other house
in addition to what was paid to Mr. Jaudon would
have charged as a matter of course a comrniss
‘P n of one per cent on all slocks, shares, and olh
liabilities sold by the Bank—and this commission
alone would have far exceeded all the commiss
ions and expenses of the agency. In these very
sales moreover the exertion of Mr. Jaudon must
have saved a large sum, as no house occupied
with its own allairs could be presumed to manage
it as well and a trifling difference of one or two t
per cent in the negociation of these large amounts t
would defray all his expenses and cognmissinns. i
And now we come tu what I consider the most i
disengenuous part of even this report.
1 beg you to understand that my defence of my i
friend Jaudon is nut indiscriminate. 1 do not i
profess to be blind to the errors of my friends. 1 I
am much more proud of esteeming thorn in spile I
ol their faults. Now 1 think he committed a |
great mistake in suffering himself to borrow to 1
much from the Bank. Officers of banks ought I
not to be borrowers at all—never large borrowers, i
But then there was in his case this apology for it. I
The Bank was bringing home and investing its i
means in stocks, and as these stock loans go ex- ]
effusively on the credit of the stock without much
regard to the personal responsibility, it was sup- I
posed nut tu be of much importance who were i
the real borrowers—tho slock itself being suffi
cient tu secure tho Bank. Accordingly my irn- j
pression is that when the Committee of Exchange i
went into these stock investments they were I
rather inclined than not to let these officers who I
had been laboring hard got some benefit if there i
was to beany from tho rise of stocks; and so it i
went on by degrees until the loans became too i
largo and the slocks declined in value. All this I
have since learned at second hand, rather than i
from any personal knowledge from the Commit
tees, for I was then occupied by tho general
movement of the concentration in Pennsylvania
and left to the Committee the details. It too ho
was mistaken in his estimate of slocks it was mi
error shared by so many that its verv universality
might extenuate it. Have not the shrewdest
men—the closest men been deceived about
stocks—is there any man in the country whoso
personal estate is worth half—nay one-third what
it was three years ago 1 When therefore I see
that the first item in Mr. Jaudon’saccount reads—
July I, 1837. For note payable
on demand previous loans of
1835 and ’36 included, $408,389 25
I think I see the cause of these loans and the
misfortunes growing out of the facilities of pro
curing loans at that period. It is easy now for
men—wise after the fact—to descant upon these
imprudences; but they wore safest who had no
means of committing them. But this Commit
tee of Investigation shall have the full benefit of
their discoveries. They say that “when he re
signed the situation of Cashier and was ap
pointed Foreign Agent he was in debt $408,389
25.” But in the Appendix the case is still
stronger against him—for after he went away,
some “ instalments on various stocks” and other
things brought up tho wholpof his account to the
sum of $510,068 66, —not exactly that balance
at any one time—hut that was the debit side of
the account up to January, 1840. That is a fact.
While actually so in debt there is paid to him by
this very Bank, for services and expenses $336,937
39. That also is a fact. Then again it is staled
that “ the first instance in which an officer paid
his debt to the Bank in other than money which
the Commiilee can find, was in March, 1838,
when Mr Samuel Jaudon (then in London as tho
agent of the Bank,) and two other persons, paid
a debt of $269,500,” in certain stocks, of which
Mr. Jaudon’s third was $86,500.
But this the Bank received voluntarily in Mr.
Jaudon’s absence, without his knowledge, and
only because he was connected with others with
whom the Bank was making settlements, and in
cluded him with them, fe’o states his brother, Mr.
A. G. Jaudon, in his loiter to the stockholders,
an J so the account of tho Committee itself shows.
Now here arc the facts—“ we have given,” says
the Committee, “ the simple facts without com
ment.” But nine times out of ten these simple
facts without comment are made to ted the great
est falsehoods. Facts are not truth—they are
only the materials of truth—and their value, nay,
their very meaning depends on the manner in
which they are presented. Forty-nine facts may
make a falsehood until the fiftieth fact makes
truth of tho whole, and quite as much deception
is produced by misplacing facts as by total fiction.
The case of Mr. Jaudon is a remarkable instance
of this, for here arc a parcel of statements called
facts and I suppose they are facts, but they are so
scattered and separated that the great truth which
they contain is studiously hidden, and while these
facts, as slated by the Committee are intended to
operate to the disadvantage of Mr. Jaudon—when
you pul these very facts in their proper places
they reflect great credit upon him. For instance—
You say, in page 49, that Mr. Jaudon’s
account was ut one time as high as $510,000
You say, in page 16, that it is now,
Dec. 1840, 117,000
•
You perceive then that he paid off 393,000
Ol this amount the only sum that
was paid in stocks was (at page 17) 86,000
Leaving what he actually paid in cash
the sum of ’ $307,000
But (in page 13) you complain that
he received for service the enormous
amount of 335,000
Well then his receipts exceeded I is
repayments only, 28,000
Do you not begin now to perceive that after
deducting for his expenses these $28,000, he has
paid to the Hunk every dollar he has received
from it. Vo you not see that he has been work
ing out his debt la the Bank by valuable set vi
ces—services which he performed at much less
cost than any foreign merchant could hare
j charged— and that erery dollar the Hunk husal
lowed him has gone to pay up this old debt.
j Uoos not every body sec that this gives an en
tirely new aspect to the whole question—for after
| all, what other debtor of the Bank has paid so
; much or so well during that lime, I doubt
I whether there is one single man who has paid in
any thing like the same proportion of his debt
$393,000 paid and the remaining $117,000 per
i b elly well secured and in a course of reduction,
j If he has been an imprudent borrower he has
| certainly been a prompt and large paver—and
he has nobly struggled to repair the conscquen
| ecs of his indiscretion in purchasing stocks which
i have since depreciated.
B this denunciation of him has been unjust in
itself—it seems little less than madness as re
j garde the Bank. He has long been the confi
dential agent of the Bank. His character is
identified with it, his talents necessary to it, and
yet in the midst ol its embarrassments, at the
very moment when he was most needed, it sends
to Europe a public denunciation of him, which
whatever rnischiel it may do to him recoils ten
fold on the Buirk.
The whole ease then of Mr. Jaudon seems to
be simply this. He owed a largo sum of money
to, the Bank employed him in a most important
service and gave him a liberal eompensation—alt
of which he returned to the Bank in payment of
his debt. His conduct in that respect seems to he
rather very uncommon than very atrocious.
With great respect, yours,
N. B1 DDL E.
Art Englishman who was at the Bunker Hill
Whig celebration, in September last, gives the
following account of the scene, in a letter to the
Liverpool Mercury.
The day after my arrval in Boston an event
occurred which I was happy to have the oppor
tunity of witnessing. Thu day appointed l.y lire
friends of General Harrison, the Whig candidate
for the Presidency, for a general convention of his
supporters ; and delegates came from all parts ol
the country. The town was crowded with strang
ers, of high and low degree—all was excitement
'•’he morning rose propitious; the sun was in full
splendor, the sky broad and clear, as only an
American sun can he. At nine o’clock in the
morning, the Common assumed a most anim.itid
appearance. Human beings singly or in gtou| s,
were spread over tho whole lUrliue. AI every
entrance company after company peered onward,
in marching order. About 1l t o’clock the pro
cession was formed, and began its movement to
Hunker’s Hill. It must have contained at least
thirty thousand lighting men. Kadi division had
its leaders, bands, banners, and devices—some of
the latter were odd enough. There was much,
both of the humor and seriousness of party, Thu
park was full, the streets were line d, the balconies
were brilliant with beautiful ladies, who waved
handkerchiefs until their little hands were wea
ried ; while the men below shouted huzzas until
throats were sure. I never witnessed so impres
sive a spectacle, so impressive an exhibition of
popular demonstration.
Meetings weto held in Iho evening in the dif
ferent public buildings of the town, and were ad
dressed by orators from all regions of the Union.
I went to hear tho great Webster, but, as be
presided, his speaking was limited to a few intro
ductory remarks. I was pleased, however, to sec
him, and to gaze upon his manly and massive
form. 1 have described thin gathering, not for its
outward show, not for its pageantry, not for the
addresses of its speakers, of which some were poor,
and many unjust—l have described it for the
pregnant and expressive phenomena which it pre
sents to every reflecting mind. Organized and
unorganized, the whole number of people out on
this occasion must have amounted to 100,000,
yet more perfect order could not have existed
in the tranquility of a drawing room. Must it
not have been that tire great mass were above
lire sordid wants of life, enlightened on the whole,
content with their institutions; or if dissatisfied,
confident of a remedy in their power; free from
the oppression that Jrivea men to madness, and
from tho poverty that deadens them to despair !
Where was that riot, that disorder, that turbu
lence which, it is said, are the necessary concom
itants of democratic government 1 JSot a limb
was hurt, not a child was bruised, not oven a la
dy's robe was soiled. Compare this with the
mobs ol monarchies. Compare it with any elec
tion mob in our country. Compare it with an
assemblage of Manchester working men, meeting
together under a vague instinct of common distress
and separating to find their distress as far as ever
from a remedy. What a contrast! And the
contrast is equal in its moral and physical as
pects. There you saw men with the erect stat
ure and strength of manhood, independent and
energetic, men whose very looks told you of good
feeding, and lire absence of tithes and corn laws;
told you that they came from homes fit for civil
ized beings. Our popular meetings are generally
composed of crowds squalid in attire and weaken
ed with want. Throughout the whole of that
day I did not observe one intoxicated man, but
from morning until night, I could see evidence
upon evidence ot liberty, education, industry and
virtue. In America the Government work for
the people, in England the people work for the
Government.
I shall here glance at one other scene, of which
you may perhaps tell your lauies. And first, I
must state a preliminary circumstance. Fifteen
years ago a monument was founded on Bunker’s
Hill, to commemorate tho heroes and heroic deeds
ol tho revolution. It was carried up half way
and so it has since remained. The ladies at last
have put their hands to work, and now, through
their exertions, the funds are raised for its com
pletion. They established a fair in a public
building called Quincy Hall, and thither came the
beautiful saleswomen of tho surrounding towns,
or sent the productions of their industry and taste,
1 he hall had a most interesting appearance, not
only from its ornaments and articles, but also
from the elegant beings.who presided at its tables.
I here you might have the nicest thing your heart
could covet, from the gentlest dealer: mild, how
ever, as she seems, she has the spiiit ofa heroine,
and you must first give your money for the mon
ument. You might Irom one purchase a watch
guard and receive with it the most wiuningamile,
and another, would hand you an ice or a custard
with the grace of a Hebe. Nay, you could have
a daily newspaper; and while buying it see the
lady at her printing press. It was an interesting
evidence of what enthusiasm can prompt and ac
complish, to see those delicate women lor whom
one would think the breeze o( heaven too rough,
toil from morning to night, and from Monday to
Saturday, with the constancy and effort of shop
women, all for a sentiment, a principle, a conse
crated memory. Daughters of the brave, they
revere the liberty which so many purchased with
their lives. When the last stone, is laid on the
monument of Bunker’s Hill, proudly may they
regard it, piously their children after them, and
should Bunker’s Hill again need heroes, they are
wosthy to be their mothers or their wives.
Length or Miles in oieferent Countries.
There is scarcely a greater variety in any thing
than la this kind of measure. Not only "those of
different countries dillbr, as the French from the
English, but those of the same coun'ry, vary in
the different provinces, and all commonly from
the standard.—Thus the common English mile
differs from the statute mile; and the French
hove three sort of leagues. Here follow the miles
several countries compared with the English, by
Dr. Halley.
The English statute mile consists es 5380 feet,
1760 yards, or 8 furlongs.
Ihe 1 urkish Italian, and old Koman lesser
mile is nearly one English,
The Arabian ancient and modern, is about I
and one-fourth English.
1 he Scotch and Irish miles is about 1 and one
half English.
The Indian is almost 3 English,
lire Dutch, Spanish and Polish is about 24
English.
The German is more than 4 English.
Swedish, Danish and Hungarian is about
o to ll English.
Ihe !■ tench common league is near 3 Eng
lish.
MAERIED,
On Thursday morning last, by tire Jlev. Mr.
Speer, Mr. John M. Clark, to Miss Sarah \nn
Elizabeth, daughter of N. K. Butler, all of'this
city. ,
Commercial.
ijtitcst dates from Liverpool, April 7
Ijitest dates from Havre, April 0
statement of Cotton in Augusta and
Hamburg Ist May, toil.
Augusta. Hamburg
Stuck on hand Ist Oct. 184" 2,762 9lfs
llce’d from JstOct to Ist Apri1.52,121 ;)2 blia
Do Ist April Ist May 0,0-11 d’o-ts
Total receipts and supply... .60,921 37 079
Exported since Ist Oct 50,725 31|96|
Stock on baud including allon-j
board Boats and Hail Itoad ~,
nut cleared 30th April 1841 J 1 >',-01 u,I2S
Stock in Augusta 10,201
Total stock to Augusta and Hamburg 15,721
Receipts since Ist Oct. 1840 68,162 36.111
Receipts in Augusta 68,162
Total receipts in Augusta and Hamburg 01,2~i
M acon, April 29.
Colton— I There has been an increased demand
for tlie \rticlc at a small advance, during the first
of the w.\ek, the receipts however have been small
and money exceedingly scarce. The late account
have produced a slight decline, and We to-day miote
extremes 8$ ® ll cents. 1
The river is in good boating order. Freights o
Sa.annah f 1 75.— Messenger,
Charleston, Mav I.
i'oiton. —But a moderate business has been done
in I'plain! since our last, as the operations do not
exceed 1 129 bales of all qualities. At the opening
of the market on Satuiday last.lnerc was a good at
tendance el dealers, and holders, throughout that
day, realized till I prices. Accounts, however, from
the other side, reached us on Monday, showing a
slight decline in the article, in the Liverpool mark
et, which not only produced a similar result here,
but a further reduction was asked, and as holders
would not submit, the transactions for several days
were confined eh.cfly to positive orders; but not
withstanding still later advices of an unfavorable
tendency were received on Thursday, per the (treat
Western at New York, prices have not cnly been
maintained, but il was the general belief yesterday
that the market recovered Hie decline experienced
in the early par to f the week. Wc continue former
([notations. The sales arc 52 at 9; 19 at uj. 30 »t~
91; 65 at 9iji 85 at 9J } 103 at 9J S 313 at 10; 298 at
101(609 at 10}; 154 at at 104; 135 at 10S;
485 at 104; 762 at II; 63 at II j, 125 at 111; 174
at 11 [|{ 20 at
at 12 cents per lb. About 51 bags Sea Island sold
at prices ranging from 45 to 55; and 48 stained do.
from 101 to 20 cents per tb.
We*.—The operations in this article have been
limited to 638 tierces, without any change on the
rates of the previous week. The following is the
resulti—lDS tierces at 2g ;20 at 2j; 127 at 2 El
-16; 221 al 2jS( 132 at 3; and 00 tiereds at *3l pci
too.
Flour. —There has been some inquiry for this
article during the week, solely however for city
consumption. Wont 200 bbls. Richmond,sold at
; 100 bbls. Fredericksburg, at 5 , a 6( and
Baltimore, at 6$ a pet bbl.
Bacon. —Sales have been made in this article at
aboii", cur quotations, which arc as follows: Hams,
8 J a 11; shoulders, 5 a 6 ; and Sides, 7 a 7$ cts. lb.
Lard —ln small lots continues to command our
quotations, 8 a 9 els. per lb.
Salt. —There is comparatively nothing doing in
this article.
Groceries. —There have been comparatively
noth ng doing in the leading articles of Groceries.
We have heard of no operations in either Sugar or
Molasses —and the sales of Octree have been con
fined to small lots Rio 10j a 11 j , and Cuba at prices
ranging from II lo 12 cents per lb.
Mtukerel.--M auction, about 100 half bbls. Nos.
and 2 Mackerel sold at the following pricer;—
No. 1 brought 7) and No. 2 6j per lb.
Domestic Liquors. —About 70 bbls. N. E. Rum
brought 26 ; and at auction, 100 bbls. New-Orleans
Whiskey sold at 20 and 21 cts. per gallon, princi
pally attire latter price.
Freights. —To Liverpool—cotton 7 ICths for
round and square bags. To Havre—l a I-j for
cotton. To the Northern ports of the United States
there is very little offering.
Exchange. —Bills on England, 7 a 7J per ct.
prom ; on France, sf. 25 a of. 30. Sight Drafts ou
New York, from their great scarcity, were negotia
ted yesterday at 1 a IJ per ct. prern.
statement of cotton.
1841. 1840.
S. I, Upl’d. .S'. I. Upl'd
Stork on hand, Oct. 1,
1840 752 3401 2168 3994
Rec’ I since April 23,.. 122 4363
“ previously,... 12250 158344
Total receipts, 13124 166108 16214 232195
Exp’d since April 16..305 7279
“ previously, 7296 141364
Total exports 7COI 148643 11874 194933
Onshipboardnotcl’d,..4l2 6265 836 17634
Deduct from total
receipts, 8013 153898 12709 212567
Remaining on band,
April 30 6111 12210 3505 1962S
( ourier.
OCJ’ The friends and acquaintances of John W,
and Emily Wilde, arc invited lo attend the funeral
of their son Loring Woart, from their residence on
Broad street to the Sand Hills, this afternoon at 4;
o’clock. may 3,
i i - .
ittrtvinc intelligence.
Charleston, May t.
Cleared.— Ship Edward, Levcnsaler, Antwerp;
U. L. brig Sullivan, Brown, N York; U. L. Mail
packet Hayne,Morris, Havana.
Went to Sea Yesterday.— Brig Arabian, Hawes,
Antwerp; Kr brig Victorine, Salvy, Bordeaux; I ,
L. brig Sullivan,Brown, N York.
Savan.naii.'A pr»l 30.
Departed. —Steamboat Lamar, CToker, Augusta.
MAIL ARRANGEMENT.
Northern Mail—Due, daily, al 44 p. M .( closes
at 8, r. 3i.
Columbia Mail—Due, daily, at p. >i.j closes
at 8. p. m.
Western Mail—Due, daily, at 11, p, m.; closes
at 4, p. u.
Savannah Mail—Due, daily, at 11, p. m.j closes
at 6, p. m.
Athens Mail —Due Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday, at 11, p. m.( closes Sunday,
Tuesday and Thursday at 4 p. in.
V\ AsiiiNOTON Mail—Due Saturday, Tuesday and
Thursday, at 11, p. in.; closes
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday,,
at 4, p. m.
Greenville (S. C.) Mail—Due Sunday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, at 8, p. m.; and
closes Sunday. Wednesday and.
Friday, at 6, p. si.
Cahnesville. Mail—Due Saturday, at 8, p, m.; ;
closes Sunday, at 4, p. si.
Appling Mail—Due Monday and Thursday, at 61,
p. si.; closes Monday and Fridayr
at 8, r. si.
Departure of the Atlantic Steamer*.
From Flngland. From New York.
Gieal Western. .April 3 .April2B
President April 19.,,, May 10
British Queen.,.May 10 lan t 10
Great Western..May 25 ji nnf . 19
President June 10 .Julyjlt)
British Queen.. .July 10 Aug. It)
Great Western. .July 14 ,\ug. 7
President Aug. 10 Sept. 10
Great Western. .Sept. 1 Sept. 25
British Queen... Sept HI Oct," 10
President Oct. 10 Nov. to
British Queen.. .Nov. 10 I> c . 10
From Liverpool. From Boston
Acadia. Mar. 19 April 1
Columbia April 4 ...May
Brittauuia ApiildO May 1
C/' Mr. A. Iverson contemplates spending a
great portion of the ensuing summer in the city
and will take pleasure in attending a small class in
Music, at the Sand Hills in the morning, and in the
ci'y in the evening. Applications left at C. A.
Platt & Co’s. Pieno Fort Ware House will receive
early attention. g ap 3 o t s
JO B PR INTI NG,
la all Us carious branches, neatly and expedilioushi
executed at the oJ)ice of the
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL,
Circulars, Dr.av REctprs,
CA.RUB, Rail-road do.
Bill Heads, Pamphlets,
Bills of Lading, Posters,
Handbills, Tickets
Labels, Policies,
CKE™’e, Wao ° B Receipts.
nr ’ BLANKS
Os every variety, and of superior quality to any
lieretoloie sold in this city, both as regards p.^r
nLn. i W’ l l Cll l execution " will be kept con
-lantly on band, or can be printed to Older at short
i— feb IS
( ' H'MlJ'if WIN E.—5 casks superior CLARET
ol Nt| Just received and fur sale by
_*? 29 W. E. JACKSON. Auctioneer.
j.an 29-w2ra lUTHBONE & BAKER.