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GEORGIA COURIER.
J. G. M’WHORTER.
A\D
HENRY MEALING,
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ernment, that such measures as may be
deemed proper, may be presented to the
consideration of the House. It is «t >11
known, fopwever, that regardless of the
sanctions of custom, and in violation of
parliamentary decorum, Mo Speaker
Stevenson, at the commencement of the
present fession, appointed on the leading
Piimmittopc a matorilr hostile tO til0 TL~
Carolina, T shall thiuk that «e arc travel
ling in the right path, ttbink such steps
ought lo be pursued in. Congress, as wm,
ti.» r»nrf pnrourape the raising of hemp
CONGRESS
.u the cud, encourage the raising
and wool. North Carolina is poor, as re
gards her navigation, but rich with hei in
ternal resources and advantages; with a
soil and climate friendly to the raising of
corn
co, ry
aoo] and hemp, a „
crate for hemp ; with her mines of gold,
copper, andiron, and many oilier things
FROM THE MERCHANTS TELEGRAPH.
■ Newspaper Philotogy.-The number &
fiagrancy of the gramamat.cal blunders
which wc every day meet .wiih, in hik
ing over the papers received by mail, sug
gested to us a day or two since, the idea
tf making a list of »h"?e which we should
detect that morning; and the following,
being about one third of the haivest o
blunders thus gathered, we present to o^r
readers, with a few accompanying docu
ments.
Ta'cnted.-^TWis word, used ns a parti
cipial adjective, is of-pejrpfitnal ucsSUeJi ce,
though it is not to be found in any Dic
tionary ; and those who employ it would
. J * a i; f 1 Imbr tltp itmin t3l*
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
APRIL 20.
CASE OF RICHARD H. WILDE.
On motion of Mr. P. P. Barbour, the
House resolved itself into a Committee of
the Whole, Mr. Condict in the Chair, on
i tbo bill frp.n Senate, entitled" A bill
, ryl and wheat, and all other grains, to authorise the cancelling of a bond there
wi’ih wool and hemp, although more mod- j„ meD tioned.” . ,
11 - • ' ,J 1 To this bill the following amendment
was moved by Mr Taylor, of New York.
•* Strike out all the bill except the en-
acting clsus^i and insert •
We copy the following article from the
Journal of a Revolutionary soldier—a
“ That for the purpose of refunding to
Richard H. Wilde, the amount he has
expended in the purchase of thirty-nine
Africans, parcel of the cargo of the Span
ish vessel called the Antelope, or Ramir-
er decreed to Cuesta, Manganel, and
Brothers, the sum of $11,700 be and the
j be shocked should they hear the non
' lent made use of as'a verb. Yet lffa/c*-
ted be a correct term, to talent must also
be correct ; for verbal or participial ad
jectives have no independent existence in
the language, unless in cases where the
verbs, of which they were originally a part
have grown into dissueiude. This is not
so with talented, which is a newly intro-
f duced expression^ J« ttttent, in any
mood or teuse, has never, to our knowl
edge been used at all. It must bo quite
as correct to introduce intellected, as a
qua! : :y.,„. word ; yet every one can per
ceive that this would be adding one more
to the numerous anomalies of the English
language, not lo be justified by the plea
of necessity, as there is very hale occa
sion fora term to express the signification
which either that or talented conveys.
Had have. This is another anomalous
expression frequently met with ; but he
would search in vain who should examiue
books on philology for such a term. “ If
they had have arrived in season,” is the
commencement of the sentence in the pa
per Where we noticed the error, and it
does not require a very deep knowledge
of svntax to show that the auxihaiy have
“ Xgclber eipreli.0. The pi,rase,
however is often uttered by men of learn
ing and general precision ; and we have
remarked it more than once in the speech
es of erudite members of Congress,^ ajid
Committees, a majority hostile t
commendations of the Executive—t us
prostituting (he dignity of his office to
nariv nurnoscs. The following iuciden- ,, .
ml remarks, made by Mr. Barbour, a few of great value, she may at some d y,
days since, on the discussion of the Tariff j in prosperity with the wealthiest Spates m
bifi contains a severe, but merited rebuke, the Union. From the above broken h
upon the ungenerous exercise of this pov- | you may discover my opinion of intern. 1
er by Mr. Stevenson.—Raleigh Register, j improvements.
“ Whilst, said Mr. B. I occupied the
Chair which you now do, it became my
duty, in the organization of the House,
amon
Manufactu
duty
and honestly to periorm u. * Federal - . .
to compose the Committee of a majority j ^ s(jj-ve to show what sentiments the j t | l0 Treasury , Pmcided, the said Ricli-
favoruble to, and a minority opposed to j natriots of l{u)Se days entertained concer- ! ar j ft. Wilde shall deliver to an Agent of
author-
thirty
tliere
to the
they thought right, to the consideration of • 1|fied for S(1C I, au office, an office ot
the House. Mr. B. said it would at once j , , r!ance to every individual in
occur to eveiy one who heard him, th.it j g ;at(js> t |, e p 0| . SOI , should be of dis-
there would be an impropriety in niquir- j ting||ig | ie j j, ru dence, and most unblem
ished iutegiilv; too honest to impose up
on others, and too penetrating to be im
posed upon ; thoroughly acquainted w'uh
tite laws and genius of the States he is to
govern; brave, but not passionate ; good
natured, hut not soft: aspiring at j ist es
teem ; despising vain glory ; witnout su- j mcil t f t »r
perstition ; without hypocrisy
t winch they have flat laid beforjs the House.
The bond itself contained a recital of the
decree, on which he was prepared to act.
Mr. Ward, of New York, moved to re
commit the bill to the Committee on the
Judiciaty, with the following instructions :
Strike out all the bill except the enact
ing clause, and insett .
“ That, for the purpose of refunding to
Richard H. Wilde, the amount he has ex
pended in the purchase of 39 Africans,
parcel of the cargo of the Spanish vessel
called “the Antelope,” or “Ramirez,"
decreed to Cuesta, Manzanal, and Bro
thers, the sum of $11,700, he and ilie
same’is. hereby, appropriated, to be paid '
„ut of anY moneys in the Treasuiy, not
AUGUSTA.
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1528.
The following gentlemen were yesterday elect
ed Dire, tors of the Merchants’ and Planters’
Batik in this City :—
JOS. WHEELER,
EDW. THOMAS.
BKNJ. H ALL,
J NO. C. HOT.COM EE.
iESSE AN5LF.Y,
A B WALKER,
J. W. BRIDGES,
WM. SIMS.
iug of the individual members what were
their opinions upon particular subjects;
all that the presiding officer could do,
was to select such members, from their ge
ographical situations, as might naturally
He supposed to he favorable to the iniei-
ests of those sections of country in which
they resided. Pursuing this course, Ik*
said, that, amongst others, he selected a
member from Rhode Island, which lie
considered, emphatically, the most manu
facturing portion of the Union. That
member, however, contrary to his ex
pectations, did not concur in the measures
which the oilier members of the commit
tee, favorable to manufactures, would
have reported ; and hence, he presumed,
die opinion had been taken up, that he
had designedly formed an anti-manufac
turing committee. Mr. B. said that he
would, upon the floor of this House, whose
organ he then was, appeal to the Chair
man .of that Committee, Mr. Baldwin,
and to all those gentlemen, now members
of this House who were then members,
and there were many to bear him wit
ness, that the statement which he now
made, was well understood, nay, was mat
ter of public notoriety here. H
Colony oi Liberia.”
The motion of Mr. Taylor led to a pro
tracted and warm debate, in which the
‘ ated:—P. P.
Cil-
in
rs.
was, in
deed, as he said violently opposed to the
tile"charges and able opinions ofJudg-| American system; but lie should indicate
Errors of this kind soon became that opposition by meeting it openly,
frankly, &• fearlessly. He thanked God,
. Errors of
deeply rooted, when fostered by the us
age of men who are locked up to as stan
dards ofaccuracy, for every one knows
that example is more powerful than pre
cept. . ~ ,
Was being.—This barbarous phrase
is fast growing into irradical uso even
among the most polite and best informed
Our accurate and critical friends of the
Statesman not long since observed, in a
report of Ware's trial, t “While tlm prison
er was being brought. into court. Now
this is absurd nonsense—as much as “ a
bunch a e,” which the aforesaid, accurate
Writer comends is pure'English. To
prove that the expression was ban£
brought is incorrect would require nn.fe
space than we can at present devote Jo
the subject ; but we are prepared to .do
so when, any one shall seriously maintain
its accuracy.
■ Rrought to /.—IIere .is a nautical
phrase that is improperly expressed ip
pine instances out of ten. The error is
orthographical: ond consists hi using, in-
stead of the preposition to, the adverb too.
The phrase should be brovgh to.; as the
ship is brought to—that is ; brought head
to the wind.
Under weigh.'—This is another nauti-
Cid expression, also generally mis pelt as
we have set it down. It should be ; un
derway ; meaning under motion; or hav
ing motion ; as, the ship is underway ;
that is she has progressive motion, slie is
advancing.
Whose.—This possessive particle,
since the spirit of cockneyism has under
taken to employ itself in ihe re-construc
tion of often met with in pla
ces formerly occupied by the unobtrusive
that or which. All grammarians, with
whose writings we have any acquaintance,
call whose a personal possessive pronoun,
that can be correctly used only in refer
ence to the name or representative of. a
person as its antecedent ; as Ac; whose ;
she, whose itoi it, whose. Yet we see it-
novv twenty times a day, in application to
things, which are never, even by proSopo-
peia, spoken of as having the attributes of
humanity. In the instance that we mark
ed, when we made our list of blunders,
it was thus introduced : “ The house
whose roof was on fiie,” <$*c. In poetry
the word is allowable as applied to inan
imate things, bui never in prose. It will
fee found incorrectly used in the note to
the poem of the l.ne Bishop Heber, which
we copy to-day—“ die shrub. In the
poem it would have been allowable ; in
the note it is absurd.
The double past time.— We have room
to mention but one mote error from our
list, ii j- rhe use of the double past time.
This error we have noticed very frcqtiem-
lyoflae. “ I in ended to have visited
him,” is au example of the sort we allude
to. “ I intended”—uot to have visited
-—the visiting wns not to have been ac
complished before the intenlien was torm-
ed—but •* I .intended to visit him,” is the
phrase, as it should be expressed.
The following letter, written by the late Presi
dent Adams, is taken from a volume lately pub
lishe .entitled “The Life of El3i:ii>gi£ Gefuu\”
bv James T Austin: —
•‘Paris, Feb. 29, 1780.
My Dear Friend—
This goes by the Marquis De La Fay
ette, whose military ardour cannot bt
extinguished nor abated by the pleasures
of Paris, nor the honours ot Versailles,
not the profits of a great fortune, nor by
the charms of a beautiful wife, nor the
comforts of very fine children, lie look
leave oftho Court in our American Uni
form, and with his Congressional Sword,
which is as fine a one as any in the world.
Yours, - JOHN ADAMS.
Mr. Gerry.
Long custom, rather than any Gonsti-
tu ionullaw, has assigned to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, the ap
pointment of all coiumiuees, and the ve
ry first act of his office, is the nomination
of tiicse important bodies. Previous to
the prescut session, it has been an invari
able rule, for the presiding officer to place
he was incapable of prostituting the dignity
of his own character; he was still more
incapable of prostituting tho power of a
high and responsible office to the attain
ment of any earthly object whatsoever.
Ho had felt, it to bo but an act of sheer
justice to himself to make this statement,
upon this floor, and in presence of those
who were co-temporary with the inci
dent; that this correction of an error in
public opinion, so injurious and unjust to
him, might be co-extensive with the cii-
culation of that opinion, and might carry
up mi its face the stamp of unquestionable
.authenticity."
* Gulden Opinions. The following are
extracts of a letter received by a member
of Congress from a respectable farmer,
among 4iis constituents, whose standing
gives weight to his opinions.”
“April 7th, 1828.
“ There is a considerable reaction in
North Carolina, particularly in the middle
and lower counties. Guilford, Randolph,
and Chatham, I think will give majorities
for the Administration. Davidson &e Row
an remain doubtful. I know as liule a-
bout Wake, as perhaps any other county
in the State. A great change may be
produced by proper information, well
distributed, amongst the aged and studi-
ousT
‘ We have lately discovered that our
country abounds in Gold, more particular
ly the county of Guilford. Our flint ridges
have gold dust more oi less. Some are
worth working, others are not; but it ap
pears that there is in every neighborhood
where tho.white and yellow flint abounds
gold dust. I have seen several grains of
gold found in Orange. There are at this
time, fifteen or twenty hands wot king in
the-lower edge of Guilford connty, at «
gold mine on the land of Moses Gibson.
An extensive copper mine is discovered
in Chatham comity, south ol Greenbo-
rough, iir Guilford. There is more la
bor done at gold mines, than on many
farms.
“ Our common farmers in the upper
counties are doing nothing, or, in other
words, they are starving. This is not a
wheat country, and if it was, the carriage
of flour would destroy itself. The bot
toms, on their rivers and cr°eks, arc only
good for corn and rye. My opinion is,
that this couutry was intended by the
God ol Nature, to bo a stock country ;
this part of Nurtn’‘Carolina could keep
pace with any State of the same size, in
raising sheep ; a bale of wool would bear
carriage. The Brushy Mountains in
Surry, Wilkes and Burke counties, would
furnish pasture for many thousand head
of sheep, and if our steady men of capital
would tiirn their attention to the estab
lishing of manufactories, instead of ma
king Uieir sons land or slave speculators,
&c. it would add much to the morality
and iadustry of our country, and stop the
tide oi emigration to the north and west.
I hope the next region of gold to be disco
vered by the North Carolinians, will be
the employment of many shepherds on
the Brushy Mountains and other places,
attending large flocks of sheep. I am not
entirely alone in this hope; We have a
few men io North Carolina that have hot
the same kind of eyes as ihe Governor of
Virginia. When 1 see bales of wool, as
on the most important committees, a ma- well as cotton, in thej markets of North
From the Philadelphia Aurora,
We have befoious the April number of
the American Medical Recorder. The
very honorable distinction which this work
has acquired in tho profession iur whose
use it is principally designed, renders it
unnecessary to say more than that a new,
number believed to be not unworthy its
predecessors, is offered to tho public.
We shall leave the -work for the present
after making a short extract. Every one
lias heard of the unfuitunate James II.id-
field, who fired a pistol at George HI.—
The following account of him, copied from
“ Archives Qenerales,’’'December, 1827,
will no doubt be interesting. Thmo is a
particular department in Bedlam allotted
to those maniacs who lnd escaped capital
punishment. The report states :
“ Otic* of those detained here"is Had-
fiuld, about sixty years of age, small, lean,
speaking with vivacity, remaiknble for the
mobility of his physiognomy, which nutty
scars received in battle render still more
singular, who ihi: ty years ago., at the the
atre, discharged a pistol at King George,
though the ball passed over bun. Is be
ing proved Unit Iladfiohi was in a state of
mental alienation,'though he had manifest
ed but few symptoms' of it, the jury tic-
quitted him, anil he was confined lor life,
lie is now in that part of Bedlam which
is occupied by persons of the same de
scription. His air is frank and his man
ners polite.
He has embellished his cell with a thou
sand objects, whose form and original dis
position denote him to bu a man who is
able and industrious, in inventing every
thing that can beguile the tediousness of
his captivity. He is quick and passion
ate, vet he is never disorderly, and he
tranquilly submits to everything. From
the time that he committed his crime to
the present, he has scarcely given any
sign of madness; but some years sincej
without any known cause, he suddenly 1 e-
came so furious, that his attendants were
obliged to bind and confine him. This
was, however, of a short continuance, and
was followed by the healthy condition in
which lie still remains.”
Death of Columbus.—With all die
fervour of his imagination, its fondest
dreams fell short of the reality. Ho died
in ignorance of the grand discovery. Un
til his list breath he entertained the idea
that he had merely opened a new way to
the old resorts of opulent commerce, and
had discovered some of the wild regions
of the east. He supposed Hispaniola to
be tiie ancient Ophir which had been vis*
ited by the ships of Solomon, and that Cu
ba and Terra Firma were but remote
parts of Asia. What visions of glory
would have broke upon his nitnd, could he
have-known that he had indeed discover
ed a new continent, equal to the whole of
the whole of the old woild in magnitude,
and separated by two vast-oceans from all
the earth hitherto known by civilized man.
And how would his magnanimous spirit
have-been consoled, amidst the affliction
ofageand the cares of penury, the neg
lect of a fickle public, and the injustice of
an ungrateful king, could he have antici
pated'the splendid empires which were
spread over ihe beautiful world he had
discovered ; and the nations, and tongues,
aud languages, which were to fill all its
lauds with his renown, and bless his name
to the latest posterity ?
Washington Irving's Life of Columbus
following gentlemen parttcip
Barbour, Wrigli’, of Ohio, Sprague, (
liter, Taylor, Dwight. Weems, and M
cer. The question was then taken on the
proposed amendment, and negatived :
ayes 39, iv>as 90.
Mr. P. P. Barbour offered an amend-
purpose of identify ing -the
bond referred to in the bill; which u ts
adopted.
Mr. Wright, of Ohio, moved to sti iko
out the enacting clause of the bill. inis
motion was negatived; ayes 49, noes 83.
The Committee then rose, and report
ed the bill with ait amendniencnt, in which
rite 11 use concurred.
Mr. Taylor renewed in the House, the
amendment which as above, he had, with
out success, proposed in die Committee
oftho Whole, and required the question
thereon to be taken by _*e.is and nays.
The question was then accordingly put,
and the amendment negatived by the fol
lowing vote :—Yeas 51 Nays 103.
The bill was then ordered u> a third
reading; ayes 87, noes 56.
April 28.
The bill from tho Senate, entitled “An
act to authorize the conceding of a cer
tain bond therein mentioned,” was read
the third lime as amended ; when
Mr. Wright, of Ohio, after expressing
in a few words, the interest that would
be felt in his section of the Union in a
bill of this character, ai d lus desire to
record his vote, in opposition to its pas
sage, demanded that the question bt* ta
ken by yeas and nays, and they weie or-
deied by the House.
Mr. Woodcock then took the floor, and
delivered his sentiments at large in oppo
sition to the bill, the practical effect of
which, he insisted, would be, to add 39
more to the number of the slaves iu the
United States. He resisted ihe argu
ment that the bill was loquired by motives
of benevolence. Ist, <>n the ground that,
if tho consequence would ho a benefit to
the persons concerned, it was not the
province of Congress to go hunting into
foreign countries, and hiring their slaves
into the United States to benefit their
condition, (and be considered the retain
ing of foreign slaves, who would other
wise go out of the country, as the same
thinn ;) 2d. because the laws of slavery in
Georgia were more severe and oppressive
• Iran even the laws of Cuba, whither they'
were going ; in confirmation of which po
sition, he referred to the law forbidding
slaves to be taught to read ; forbidding
them to m irrv without the assent of their
masters ; allowing them to be forcibly
separated from their wives and children ;
and refusing them the power of being e-
inancipated on the payment of their as
sessed value. He had all confidence iu
the humanity of the gentleman from Geor
gia, for whose benefit the bill provides ;
but he knew not into whose hands these
unfortunate beings might afterwards fall.
Mr. Fort briefly explained the reasons
from which he should vote against the
bill—having over set bis face agamst in
creasin'! the number of slaves within the
United States.
Mr. Bartlett wished to understand the
opinion,of >ho Chairman of the Commit
tee on the Judiciary, with regard to two
points, which lie held to be important :
1st, whether these Africans would be
slaves by law, supposing the pie.-ent bill
should not pass ? And 2d, whether there
was any immediate necessity for a deci
sion ? _
Mr. P. P. Barbour replied, that, in
his judgement, they would * be slaves by
the decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, whether the bill passed or
not. And as to the 2d point, it was true
the time for decision had been extended
by the Circuit Court of Georgia, but
there was some doubt as to the effect and
validity of that decree. The time first
limited was six months, and that time
would very shortly expire. He waived all
discussion, aud implored the House to
consume no more time, ' but decide
promptly by adopting or rejecting the bill.
Mr. Culpepper said a few words in favor
of the bill, which he considered as going
to prevent these people from being, torn
from the connexions they have formed
here, and being carried away iuto a still
worse slavery.
Mr. Sprague wished to see ihe original
decree of the Circuit Court of Geurgia,
that Ire might know its date, conditions,
and effect, as to declaring them slaves.—
He did not now understand whether the
failure of the Spanish"claimant to^embrace
the conditions of the decree would leave
those persons in servitude or not.
Mr. Barbour replied, that no papers
had been before the Judiciary Committee
At a meeting of the board in the afternoon,
out of any moneys in t ne l reasui v, not ; ^ Whee , er waJ elected p^^ient, aod j oho F.
otherwise appropriated to be expended j Cafhier
under the direction of the Secretary ofj 1
the Treasury ‘.provided. The said Rich- j ^ illdebted to Capt . Wray, of the Caro-
ard H. Wilde shall deliver to an Agent j ^ ^ Savaanah Republican ofthe6tb.
of the Colonization *-"CKty, j .operiy n '‘ j following Gentlemen were chosen diret-
thorized to receive I le same, t n* sat j { fthe R an |( 0 f the State of Georgia on the
or the survivors thereof, to be , . _
Africans, i . n t : 5th inst. in Savannan, on the part of the Stock-
bv s iid soc etv removed to the Colony; “ . _ ....... .
Uy s.iio soc t . , . , | holders:—John Stevens, w illiam Law, Thomas
U idted*' S tales'°shouhi fltey preferto .«■ j B«tler, J. A. VU.wril, Fred. Densler, William
side tn this country ; and that, in either , Taylor. The following are the directors on the
c le they shall be entitled to their free- partof the State, chosen by the last Legislature:
cast,^ y j — g_ Bullock, Geo. Schley, Mnrdecai My.
^°Mr. W. declared himself unable to yotej ers, A. Fannin. W. B. Bulloch was unant-
for the bill in its present form, but the in- j mouslj re-elected President.
structions would remove the difficulty he j
j Uj» We are authorized to announce Major
Mr. Sprague called for a division of, Wiiaiam Tiuplett,of WilkesCountj, n camii-
the question, &■ it was accordingly divid- ; ,j ate for a scat in the next Congress.
ed, and put first, on simply recommit- ,
ling it with the instructions proposed.— . Daniel H. Brailsford. of McIntosh Co,
negatived,
Both the propositions weie UI‘S'| |,UU , • is announced in the Savannah Georgian, as
and the question being put, on ti.e fh' 8 i Candidate to represent this state in the m-i*.
suite of the bill ns amended, if was decided j
by yeas and nays, as follows : j
Yeas, 92, Nays, 82.
So the bill was passed, and returned to
ihe Senate.
Still Later from England.
From the Charleston Courier.
The fast sailing ship Hamilton, Capt.
Bunker, arrived at New York on the 2bth
ult. in 31 days from Liverpool—having
left that port on the 26'h March, in com
pany with ihe line ship George Canning.
It does not appear, from the accounts
by ibis arrival, that Russia will commence
hostilities against the Porte, without the
sanction of ihe Allies, and in violation of
the treaty of the 6di July. But warlike
preparations on a largo scale, are in the
meantime going on iu both I ranee and
England.
The high handed measures of the Por
tuguese Regent, Don Miguel, are said to
have caused more stir in the British Na
val department, than the belief that the
Russian army had crossed the Prutb.
It is believed that Don Miguel avoid
ed touching the book, while swearing to
maintain the constitution.
The Liberal party in the French
Chamber of Deputies have, after a pro
tracted discussion, gained their point by
voting that the policy pursued by tho late
Ministry was a deplorable system. The
address to his Majesty was carried by a
majority of 198 to 164. So much lor
Villele’s Administration.
It is currently reported that the Duke
of Wellington has expressed himself
more favorably to the Catholic Claim.
In the House of Commons, March 24th,
it was stated by the Miuis'er, dial the go
vernment had no knowledge of an}' change
in the relationship between the Allied
Powers—nor of any deviation from ilic*
treaty of July, by either of the Powers.
Iu the House of Lords, on the 20th, in
answer to an inquiry respecting the state
of ihe war between Brazil and Buenos
Ayres, Lord Dudley stated that his hope
of effecting a reconciliation lias not quite
vanished—indeed they were strengthened
by the most recent advices. But lie could
not speak wiih certainty.
The Willesly, 74, sailed from Lisbon
on the 11th March, with a regiment of
British troops for Corfu.
Dispatches from Lisbon, to Match l6th
state that the place was in a great fer
ment. Don miguel had dissolved the
Poituguese Chambers The Queen, it
was said, bad seni to Spain for troops.—
The British commander had remonstrated
against the conduct of Don Miguel. Sev
eral nobles and public characters had left
the city to escape his cruelty. The pre-
scence of the British troops in Lisbon, and
the fleet in the Tagus, were believed to
be the only obstacles to the design of Don
Miugel of immediately declaring himself
King.
Mr. Huskisson announced on the 18th
that oil the 28th. of March, the President
of the Board of Trade, would submit to
the II ouseof Commons, a proposition re
lative to the present state of the laws, re
garding the importation ol Foreign Corn.
A like notice was given in the House of
Loros, by.the Duke of Wellington.
An Extraordinary Supplement to the
Journal of St: Petersburg of the 4th inst.
contains ihe. important fact oi r hostilities
having been lecutnmeuded between Rus
sia and Persia, in consequence of the lat
ter having refused to ratify the provision
of the treaty.
Thv Allgtmeine Zeitung, of the 15th
March, contains a summary of the defen
sive preparations making by Turkey.—
The Sultan is straining e very nerve to ac
celerate ihe means of defence.
The Governor of the bank of England
has announced that the dividend for the
half year ending 5th of April, would be
four per cent, interest and profits. The
present issues of the bank notes amount
to twenty millions and a half with about
600,000/. for the branches.
Sir Fredrick Lamb has -sent back tbe
50,000/. in dollars which was sent out by
Rothschild. The Regent expressed
much chagrin at this proceeding.
The leading merchants in London, en
gaged in the Portuguese trade had held a
meeting, and intended to petition govern
ment to send out a steamboat with orders
for some of the British troops to ictnain at
Lisbon for the protection of British pro
perty.
Congress.
The Thermometers f >r the last several daj s.
have indicated a temperature here, as hieh a»
deg. The hail storms which have swept thr. ugh
different sections of the country, have not, ns
usual, lessened the premature heat of the season
It is quite cool this morning.
The Committees of the Senate unit House of
Representatives, for fuinc on a day for the ail-
jonrntnent of Congress, have recommended the
26th instant.
The Committee on the iatr Assault in the Ca
pitol, have obtained leave to sit during the Ses
sion of the House, but have as vet made no re
port. We are inclined to think. they are about
to make a mountain out of a mote hill.
Since the nomination of General Macon* 1 ' to
the Senate, as commander-in-chief, in the pbir
of the late General Brovi n, a second hit! to abol
ish the office of Major-General has been intro-
duced in the House of Representatives by Mr.
Smyth of Virginia, from the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs. The Senate will therefore, proba
bly, not act on this nomination, till the fate c?
this hill is decided in the negative.
The Legislature of Mexico has granted a pen
sionto the Widow of Lieut. David H. Porter of
$180 per. month, and in case of tier death to hi?
children. It was expected, that the widow?,
children, and mothers of the stamen, who fci.
by his side, w ould be similarly noticed.
Two Bridges are building over the rivers nriir
Columbia, S C. One across the Saluda.2mitts
from the city to he completed in October; and
the other across Broad river, 3 mil s from Co
lninhia, to be finished in 18 months. There is
some energr iu the Capitalists of South Carolina.
The companv now building the bridge across the
Saluda, is the same, that built the elegant bridge
across the Congaree.
Many of the Neiv-York papers are exclaiming
against Auctions, both their use and abuse. In
Augusta, wc are disposed to ery out for them, :u
there is but one Auctioneer iu the whole city.—
Au act of the last Legislature limited the number
to four, and compelled each to give bond and se
curity to the amount of 30,000 dollars, for the
correct discharge of his duty. This requisition,
we presume, is the cause of the paucity of fh. ir
numbers, as immediately preceding the pas-age
of said act, there were sevpn or eight auctioneer
continually crying going, going, in different part«
of Broad-street. The New-Yorkers would conn
der the present .stele of the auction business hi re,
a great blessing, if we were to judge from some
of their papers ; hut wc are inclined to look upon
it as a gre it evil, as there is nobody to sell our
goods. The merchants say they cannot sc>l
them, and it would be a shame to impose on G
Abel! t( Co. the unmerciful task of selling at
auction all the goods to he disposed of in this city
However well we may intend the sheriff, we cxi-
not sincerely wish him much agency in relieving
the burden which will thus necessarily devoir*
on our only auction establishment.
It is th .ught, if there were forty auctioneers
heie, crying going, going, all day, that they
would not be sufficient to dispose of the bad debts.
which are repot ted to us as being superabun
dant.
Mas. Mojmer and Mrs. Brown both announce
their Benefits in to-day's paper, Mrs. Monier «
on Friday night, fci Mrs B's on Saturday Nothing
that we can say, can add to the favorable impres
sion, which these two ladies have already made
on the public feeling. As these two nights "i--
probaldy he the last uftbe season, a more favor*
hie opportunity could not be embraced to imprest
these “ talented” actresses, with such a gratefu*
sense of the ptblic favor as will ensure their re
turn to our city, on some future occasion.
It will be seen by the Bill that Mr. Keene wii*
appear on to-morrow night.
We mentioned in a former number, tb“*
Mr. Adams had come to the determination
of paying off FIVE MILLIONS of the
public debt on the first of July. Wltei
this amount shall have been discharge
it will make THIRTY-EIGHT MIL
LIONS that he has liquidated during W*
Administration. A better proof of t e
wisdom of his measures, of bis patriotic
devotion to the good of the country, cou
not be desired. We will ask would
be unjust to turn so good a servant on
office before the regular time ? Mo* 1 *),
suredly it would. We are now happ