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THE ROSE’S PETITION.
Ah beauteous maid, to pluck my stem forbear,
And let me reign the mistress of the grove.
Hon'tiaid to place me near that breast,more fair
Than ever yet hstS felt t. e- hand of love,
Where new t flourish, I can boast n fame,
But midst thy bosom, whowill mark the flow rl
There shall 1 vanquish’d hang the head with
shame,
And lose of pleasing all the envied power.
Though queen of all those fl.iwers that bloom a
round,
How small, alas! the sphere In which I shine.
Behold thosevalea my Kttle empire bound!
But to 1 a wondering universe.!® thine.
SPRING.
'Yhon com’st and with thee throng
The bright attendants of thy mild career—
The gentle breeae, the sunshine and the song
Os voices daur. * '
E’er yet the flowers are seen,
Or foliage mantles o’er the echoing groves, *
There’s inspiration in thy heavenly mieo
. At evening’s close—
When round us still anil deep
The power of darkness spreads hi* sable wings,
And high in heaven the stars their vigils keep
Those fairy things—
There comes a sound away
From the still quiet of the lake or stream,
Os voices mingling in communion gay
i Like a sweet dream.
Attract of a letter from 4 citizen of
the L, S. in Europe.
“At th'9 momant, ©very breath of new
tfiotn the U. S. is moat eagerly sought ass
ter. The present, critical position of our
dear country has excited the deepest in
terest from one end of Europe to ano her.
The different impressions produced on
the different pollitical parties of
the Old world are remarkable enough.—
The party who has been accustomed to
the consolidation of power in one family
—the party who ere so anxious to hush
up the slightest whisper of free, principles;
end in their desperate struggle against the
"fir igress of all liberal institutions,catch at
eyery thing that is calculated to bouy up
‘ their hopes— have been indulging their
diabolical joy over rhe "falling Republic."
The liberal party, on the contrary, who
have watched our onward progress in the
£reat -principles of free government,
-though they deeply regret the unfortu
nate state of things that prevails in our
country, still look with admiration on the
firm but temperate measnres, which the
President has pursued, and take pleasure
•an comparing his able .address on the ad
ministration of our affiira, with the weak,
yet pompous exposes, which the Sover
eigns of Europe are in the habit of pub.
dishing. I have had many occasions to
speak of xho liberal means which the A
ristocratic Party in this quarter have ad
opted to arrest the dissemination of free
principles. They have seen thsi our
government was a most striking example
of the Republican Constitution, and they
had hoped, that by lowering the U. States
In the scale of nations, they would effec
tually nip in the bud the sacred right of
man.—Nut content, then, with misrepre
senting action of our great political
machine, they have laid before the Peo
ple those works, whose sole object is to
slander our domestic habits and private
virtues. Look at the uumber of infamous
books on Americah customs, which have
issued from the English Press, and been
zealously reprinted on this side of the
Channel. Examine the character of
those, who encourage the authors.
£nd them Tories in the strongest sense
of the word. They really hope to gull
the Peeple Ay confounding the public
and private character of our couotrymeo
-*-and thus disguising the eyes of the pub
lic.
“Let us confess, however, that our
horizon is at this time not a little ever
cast* Theprcsenf consequences of South
Car<4|na opposition are not much to be
dreaded. It is the example , tha* may af
ford a dangerous precedent for a greater
number of States, placed io similar posi
tions, and adopting the heresy of Notifi
cation, hereafter. How long, think you,
can we calculate on the public tranquility,
when we know, that every State of the
24 may thus openly brave the Union and
threaten the whole edifice with dissolu
tion t Do, write me, what is your opin.
ion on the present crisis."
(The crisis has*past— aud it is hoped,
that the People may soon awaken to the
dangers which they have escaped—care
fully guarding against all such dangerous
remedies./or thefuture^
THE SLAVE TRADE.
A Glasgow paper gives an extract of a
letter lately written by Mr. McKeen of
that-citv, who has been making the tour
of the British and Foreign West Indies,
from which it appears that the slave pope.
I itiee of that Island has recently increased
with astonishing rapidity, owing to the
tr&fficin negroes carried on with the coast
of Africa. According to his statement,
the increase of the slave population by
importation in two years, Namely, 1828 A.
1829, amounted to 179,000, ”Au im
mense African slave trade,” he observes,
“is carried oo through the Island ot
Cuba with Africans. Ten, and oven
•twelve, African slaveships may be seen in
the harbour of St, Thomas together, ta
king their African cargoes, and frequently
awaiting the arrival of ships from Liver
pool and the Clyde with articles which
are necessary to complete them.
THE SEASON.
Plantation work, and vegitation gener
ally, it more backward this spring than us
ual.
The Wheat fcrops,-as far as we have
learnt, promising* If no
untoward accident happens, it is expected
enougbwheat will be made in Georgia this
year to supply the consumption. This is
as it should be. We see no reason for a
purely agricultural State imoorting its
bread stuffs. —From the Southern Planter.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
We tine'e stood Mr Turnbull as re-asser.
tillg this Speech the heresy of Nullification.
It is to be deposited in tho archives of S.
Catolina, for the benefit of his posterity
and for the imitation of other States. Is
Mr. T. serious/ Does he intend to sow
the seeds of destruction in the constitution
of his country! This Union already con
sists of twenty-four Sta'es. In the course
of a very few years, if Mr. Tv will suffer
it to last $o long, it will embrace thirty.
Are we to understand, then, that every
time a Sate is aggrieved, or thinks herself
so, by an obnoxionsact of the Federal
Government, each of these thirty States
is to rise up, and nullify the act! Can
this Union survive these repeated shocks?
these renewed contests? this eternal lia
bility to violence? this breaking up of all
political and social ties? How long be
fore we shall read in its ruins the monu
ment of our folly?
No, no; Virg’nia never did Chalk out
such a doctrine in *9B. Her course was
essentially different from that of South
Carolina. Let us compare their acts and
their consequences. Virginia appealed
to public opinion;South Carolina, to cun*
ning devices of the law, and then to mil
i ary force.—Virginia sepportedthe cause
of truth by one of the most invincible ar
guments that genius ever produced: South
Carolina puts fbrth an exposition, that
was only-worthy of the School of the So
phists.—Virginia argued—South. Caroli
na threatened.—Virginia was determined
to exhaust every amicable expedient, be
fore she even meditated the further means
of shaking off the must alarming encroach
ments:—South Carolina rushed to nullifi
cation, without exhausting those means
Virginia spoke of other means, besides
using the argument of the Report. She
appealed to Iter sister States for co-oper
ation—she spoke of a joint appeal to
Congress; of amendments to the Constitu
tion; of a Covention "for the same ob
ject*” South Carolina only appealed to
Congress, of herseffc She proposed no
active co-operation with her sister States.
She brought forward no
She scouted a special .Convention of the
aggrieved States. She did not propose a
general Convention, until she had passed
her ordinatico of Nullification.—Virginia
had greater wrongs to complain of than
South Carolina—yet she calmly proposed
a remedy in which all the injured States
might cordially and constitutionally unite
with her. South Carolina flew to a re
medy,as bad,ifliot worse titan the disease;
and thus detetred every other State from
uniting with her. Virginia oppressed
none of her own Citizens. South Caroli
na, in the very act of resisting the will
of the majority of the other Siates.groond
down tho ininyrii v of her own S ate to
dust and ashes. Virginia ran her Citizons
to no essence for volunteers, or military
array: South Carolina is yet to pay the
debt which dter Nnltifiers have incurred
Virginia did not light up the torch of dis
cord: South Carolina has carried it into
the boso nos all her families. Virginia
accomplished a civil Revolution, which
forms the brightest wreath in her chaplet.
South Carolina resorted to mili ary array
and marred the object which she profess
ed to attempt. The bill, which bas been
passed, is incomplete; incommensurate
wish our Jo»t pretensions, and must be a
mended. Virginia has expounded the
Consii'utiun upon its true principles.
South Carolina mystified every tiling
she has touched. Virginia saved the U
uion bv affirming the State Rights that
ara essential to it> existence. South Car
olina has put forth pretensions, which ere
calculated to shake the stability of the U
nion. Virginia has placed the Rights of
the States upon a foundation ijmt is not
to be shaken. South Carolina has con
tributed to bring an unjust odium upon
their cause. The Report of Virginia is
a noble Monument of the abilities of its
author. It wilt last as long as the Consti.
tution itself. The least that can be wished
for the •• Ordinahce of South Car
olina” is, that it may be forgotten. The
Author of the Report became the Presi
dent of the United States. Tho people
of the United States are yet to decide,
whether they will confido their destinies
to the author of the *'Exposition.”
NULLIFICATION GALLANTRY.
Some time since the Abbeville Nulli
fiflr published a curious story of_an old
maid who became so anxious for a hus
band, that she determined to-try the effi
cacy of prayer in effecting a restoration
of Heaven's best gift to its rightful own*
er, and no sooner was the prayer of faith
offered op than the root of the solemn
nw! overhead, teoohoo, wooAoo, mistaking
this for the response of the Good Spirit,
the comforted disconsolate replies “ any
one good lord !” This pretty old maid
and owl story was copied into the Edge
field Carolinian ? Now we would advise
tbi» unfortunate oiu maid, if occasion eve:
again calls forth a response from her bu
bouian oracle to mukeal least two excep
tions to the stock of husbands provided,
the Editors of the Abbeville Nuilifier and
Edgefield Carolinian. — Columbia Hive.
From the Fayetltille N. J}. Jourmal.
MR* VANBUREN.
Wo copy the following letter from this
gentleman, in reply to a committee on be
half of a meeting recently held in Wilming*
ton, by tire political friends of the Presi
dent and himself, identified as they both
are with the sacred cause of the Union,
and animated by a patriotic desire to per
petuate Us blessings. The comfbunica
tion of Mr. Van Buren is well timed, it
will be read with interest by every friend
of the Republic, it will be hailed by eve
ry true son of N. Carotin, as rendering a
just tribute to that stern public virtue and
republican plain dealing, which is the glo
ry of our State. What a conti ast does this
well expressed notice of our State present
to the heartless and disparaging compari
son of Col. Preston, of nullifying memo
ry. Tho contrast is not more striking in
the terms than the fad.
Fron the Peoples Press.
The committee,appointed to commuoir
cate to the President and Vice President
of the United States the proceedings of a
largo and respectable meeting of their
friend*, held in the Town Hail on the 12(h
ult, take great pteasuie io laying before
their fellow citizons the dignified and pat
riotic reply of the Hou. Martin Van Bo
ren:
Washington, April 2d, 1833.
Gentlemen:—l have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter, trans
mitting tho proceedings of a meeting, of a
portion ofthe Citizens of Wiimingtdh, and
beg leave to re.urn, through you, my sin
cere thanks for their kind congratulations,
and for the honor conferred upon me, in
tho expression of their confidence.
It is very possible, that my best efforts
to make a suitable return, for tho gener
ous support which was given to me, by my
Fellow Citizens of North Carolina, at a
very critical period of my public life, may
prove unavailing, but they may rest assur
ed, that there can be no ci cumstauces,
under which I can cease to entertain the
most grateful reuolloction of their kind
ness.
In the interest expressed by those who
composed tho meeting, on the all impor
tant subjects of tho incalculable value of
our happy union, the recept dangers by
which it has been menaced, and tho duty
of every good citizen to defend it in eve
ry extremity, whether «hat defence is made
tfecessary by foreigu violence or intestine
commotion,—they do 1 trust, but speak
sentiments of an over whelming majority
ol the American People. From no quar
ter, wore such sentiments more naturally
to be expected, than from North Caroli
na, and by no State could they, with more
pr opriety, be avuwed. The last but one
to enter the Union, there has been no per
iod in its history, in which she has stood
second to any, in efficient magnanimous
oxertion to sustain it. Recent events in
dicating her continued loyalty to the Con.,
stitu'ion and the Union, have bul revived
the recollection oflier former fidelity, and
raised her to her present well deserved,
and truly, enviable eminence in the esti
mat ion of her sister Slates.
Accept Gentlemen, my best thanks for
your agency in the matter, with the assur
ance of my respect, and believe me to be.
Your ob’t serv't and fiiend.
M. VAN BUREtt*
To. G. HOLMES &
I\ W. FANNING, ESQ’RS.
11 r
Cincinnati, April 26.
'Fife 0t Portsmouth.—We learn there
has been a very destructive Fire at Ports
mouth, tho particulars we have oot been
able to uscertaio; but are informed that
twelve large stores were burnt, with much
moveable property. Portsmouth is situa
ted on the Ohio at the mouth of Sciota,
where the great Ohio Canal euters the
river of tho same name. It is a flourish
ing towii.
In the case ex parte 'Tobias Watkins,
the opinion of the Circuit Court of the
District of Columbia was delivered by
Chief Justice Cranch on Saturday last,
quashing the three writs of execution
against the prisoner, over-ruling the me
lton of ihe Attorney for the United States
to commit him, and ordering him to be
discharged. We shall endeavor to ob
tain and lay before our readers u copy of
the Court, which is represented as being
very learned & elaborate.— National In
telligencer, 22 and inst.
We have received a loner from an offi
cer on board »he U. S. fiigate U. ’ Strtes,
dated at Mahon, Jao. 19, m which it is
staled, that alt ou board wore well. The
United States was to sail for the Archi
pelago the beginning of April. She had
touched at several ports in the Mediter
ranean, including Naples, Mestinua, Syra
cuse, Malta, Napoli aud Tunis; and the
utmost attention was paid to the officers at
each place, and no flag that floats com
mands as much respect as that of the U.
States.— W' York Gat.
West Point.-—We learn that Major
[Lieutenant Colonel] Ob Kusbby, of the
United States Engineer Corps, one of the
earliest and most distinguished tlcvta of
the military school at West Point, has
been appointed Superintendent of that in
stitution in the place of Colonel Thayer,
resigned. Colonel Thayer, notwithstand
ing his resignation, does not retire from
the set vice; but is to be employed at some
other station.—Errninf Post.
Why is a lawyer liken poker! He is
often at the bar.
From the Portland Daily Adv. end Patriot.
DINNER 10 MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
Extract of a letter from Down East.
It affords me much pleasure to be able
to send the first account of the civic hon
ors conferred on this illustrious chieftain,
who has been so instrumental in bringing
to a glorious and bloodless termina ion
the war of straddlebugs.
On the arrival of Major Downing at the
barrier of slabs and upturned roots which
forms the Eastern line of Harysokit and
and is now the suburbs of Downingvilfe,
he was met by a Committee the Chairman
of which, Squire Joshua Grant, addressed
the Major as follows:
"Major Downing ! Penetrated with tho
profoundest feelings of respect and grat
titude, your fellow citizens of Downing
ville and of the region round about, have
directed us to meet you et the threshold
of your native city,rendered, illustrious by
your deeds of arms, and in their name to
welcome and congratulate you on your
safe return after the perils, fatigues and
hairbreadth escapes encountered by you,
alone, and single handed,in meeting the
the whole chivalry of South Carolina, «ilh
Brigadier Ham'lton althetr head—sus
tarmng|t!ie honor of knighthood unsollied;
compelling the enemy to retreat beyond
the reach of his own voice; but bagging
him at all points and finally .causing him to
lick the dust and cry pecavi ;—Thus show
ing to all Europe, Asia, and a pretty con
siderable part of Africa, how much can
be done by one man when he is in earnest!
We therefore invite you in the name of
your fellow citizens in general, and your
military c'-patiots in particular, t» partake
of a public dinner now "baing cook'd,”
and in all probability, (unless the devil is
in the pot) will be ready in two hours from
jht» time.”
-To which Major Downing-was pleased
to make the following laconic and charac~
teristic reply:
" Gentlemen! No more palaver, but let
us prepare for action—some bitters—and
while (he punch is brewiog I will take a
julip, and then to diuner with what appe
tite me may.”
At one o’clock the company sat down
to a sumptuous repast prepared in Capl.
Zebulon Tripe’s best style. After the
cowcumbers were removed, the President
Gen. Flash-in-the-pan, rose and addres
sed the company in substance as follows :
"Fellow soldiers and fellow-citi/.eus : cit
izen soldiers and soldier citizens! one
and all please to fill a bumper to tho man
that’s filled the gallon pot of his country's
glory, and is ready to do it agin and agin
if so be his country's glory should agin be
dry: are you all filled/” "I rather guess
not!” said Lieutenant Spare-ribs—who
like somebody of old grew hungry on
what he fed on. The President not hear
ing or not heeding the Lieutenant’s reply,
pave—“ Our Guest—ls Trajan found a
Pliny, Major Downing shall notjack an
historian nor Brigadier Hamilton a bel
lows blower.”
9 cheers—music, “The Campbells are
coming.”
Major Downing arose amidst a thunder
of applause, and with that peculiar win
ning, modest, retiring manner, and sub
dued tone, said: “Mr. President and gen
tlemen ! little did I think when I left my
native hills to meet the wishes and the es
pectaliuns of the hero of three wars, (since
the war of nullification is ended) little did
I thiok that in ono short campaign of six
months such a rhange would be wrought
in the destinies of the world! When I left
you all was dark and dismal despondency.
The tariff, that terrible monster, was e
broad like a rearing lion, seeking whom
he might devour—all was going to wreck
and ruin. The sun never rose till noon
day, ihe moon hid her pale face behind a
nullification cloud which grew thicker Ac
thicker and thicker, until my arrival ai
Washington, when on the 10; hos De
cember, anno domini, 1832, Andrew
Jackson and myself issued a proclamation
which dispersed the cloud and produced
sis I might bo allowed so to say) a day of
political penticost. When Partitions and
Medes, Elamites and dwellers in Massa
chusetts, were all amazed, saying one to
another “what is (his we hear? our own
tongue wherein we wero born!” A truce
was sounded by squire Calhoun, and a
nine years armistice agreed to by aud be
tween the keepers of the nullies and the
keeper of ihe tariff, by which it is agreed
that the tariff is 10 go at large, having one
inch of his tail cut offevery-year for eight
years, and then the whole to bo clipped
close to the rump, provided riiey can hold
him to perform the operation. Thus you
see, fellow citizens, how all our diflirul.
ties are settled to 1 lie satisfaetion of eve
ry body, and the tariff is now as lame Ac
harmless as a puss cot—even bofure one
inch of his tail is curtailed." *'
The major concluded hia very anima
ted remarks by proposing most magnani
mously—the health of
Govennr General Hnyne,
Brigadier Governor Hamilton, nnd
"Ensign Frost!"
Wo to tho Yankee who has his sauce
out when such n frost comes on!
Song — u Twenty thousand volunteers, all
in a row."
Soveral other speeches nnd “volunteer"
toasts were uttered, but I have not time to
give them in regular order, but hope to
have them prepared nnd revised by the
authors, to send to you next mail.
One of the invited guests, being “a
stranger of distinction,"
“ Down East," April 10'h.
Brown Domestic Goods.
40 Bates 3-4, 7-8, and 4-4, Shirtings and
Sheetings. For sale, by
COLLINS A MANTON.
April 22 48 3t
50 QUARTER Cask Loring’s best sweet
.Malaga Wine,
20 Bhla. Pepermint Cordial,
15 Hhds. N. E. Sugar.
Tbia day landing, for sale by
Q. H. JBETCAI.F.
April 22 43
AUGUSTAs
1 1 as.—zaeg=-- M. ■■ T ■ IJ . .■ —
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1833
“ JuvEKis" it under consideration.
We received this morning most of the papers
to which we were entitled. Among them we no
lice New-York a»d Washington City papers of
the 6th and Bth of January. At our readers
have piobabty been otherwise informed of the
intelligence thejr bring, we have made no ex
tracts. .
The great Number 1052 ™ the Gold Lottery
has been drawn by a poor man in Greene Coun
ty. He bore, we understand, a cheerful heart
in poverty—we hope he will have nothing less
in his sudden elevation to such a fortune.
The Drawing of the Gold Lottery, will be fin
ished on To morrow or the neat day.
1052 was drawn on Friday last, as report says,
by Mr. John Alderson of Greene county—the
value of it is immense.
Morgan A. Heard, who iu June last made Aich
a desperate assault on Mr. Arnold of Tennessee,
at Washington City, and win# has since that pe
riod been confined in jail, has been discharged
on his own recognisance, he being deemed in
sane. He was not put upon his trial.
Broken lVind.— Bioken winded Horses, it has
been discovered, may be entirely cured by caut.
ing them to tlrink lime-water exclusively for a
few days.
We saw on Saturday a specimen of mock Gold
alias Brass filings, fused, which were intended,
no doubt, to increase the value ofthe staple pro
ductioirof some of our frontier Counties. There
was a box full of the article, weighing about
401bs. It was directed to a house in Milledge
ville. -ft reached this city in a Steam-Boast; but
in the act of puttiqg it into a wagon for further
transportation, the boa fell, split, and displayed
its precious contents to the vulgar gaae of the
passing multitude. A chemical test con
firmed what the unassisted eye could scarcely
detect
U e are requested from various quarters to no
tice the misunderstanding, which appears to ex
ist in relation to the terms of the Public Sale, ad
vertised in our columns, for Merchants. L Plant
ers Bank Bills. It is understood by the public,
that these Bills would be taken at par, without
any discount—at the amount on theif face. Bu t
this doe* not appear to be the understanding of
the other part y, who deduct 60 per cent, from
the amount of the Bills, or what is the same, ask
double price for their Groceries. We suggest
to those interested, an explanatory article on
this subject, as the present understanding oj
• acher misunderstanding involves much individ
ual trouble to the holders of these Bills in the
Country , who, at the present busy period of
planting, hurry off to thi> city io hopes of real
ising something near the amount of depreciated
currency, which they carry in their pockets
We rennrk on this subject, that all the proper
ty advertised, appears to be, not that of the
Bank, but of individuals, Directors of the Bank,
who pfooably consider themselves under no ob
ligation to take the Bills ofthe Bank at a higher
late then others. This, however, ought jo have
been explicitly stated in the Terms of Sale.
O* Since writing the above, wa are informed
that, in future, these Groceries will be disposed
of at the market price at Ftivate Sale, or nt
Public Auction.
The public ear has been-stunned with rumors
of farther difficulties with the Cherokee*—how
they will not treat—and will get back from Geor
gia their lands, and upset our Lotteries, and sue
us for the Gold we have stole from their territory,
be be. Besides the intended political bearing
of this moueeuvre, have our citizens who have
been successful in the late-Lotteries—the poorer
and more ignorant portion of our honest popula
tion, reflected bow much of this din is raised by
the speculators io the Lotteries t Look at the
men most active io Ibis matter. Are they not
those, who, every day, belie their tales, by more
deeply Interesting theraeaives io the permanence
ofthe State’s policy on this questions Ron
many of your draws, and how much of your
land, have they purchased for trifling sums since
their falsehoods have excited the fears and be
wildered the judgements of the ignorant T Fel
low-citizens, look to this matter and be not Seat
ed out of your property too, at well .1 your
good cense.
The Sfcam-boat John Morris, says the Mobile
Commercial Register of the 19« h tnst was put
chased yesterday by the Contractors for the con.
veyanco of the Malta between this City and New
Orleans. She left hero this motniog/or New-
Orleans, and will touch at Portersvitlo for the
mail aud passengers.
Most Remarkable. —Rhode Island hos gme for
Jackson nod Free TrodeJ Who would have
thought it T
Office of the Newport Mercury, Thursday af.
ternoon, April 13th:
STATE ELECTION.
Yesterday, the Election for Governor, Sena
.. 1 wc. took place through out the State
(rnTTsTS , ® ,urw * received from all the towns
’ 10, it appears that the Jackson and Anti
-1 • > so».r ticket for State Officers, has succeeded
xv * 9 or 4.000 votes—John B
aiicis, hrq. «f Warwick, is therefore elected
Governor.
The London rimes, states that Mr. Hackett
has been elected an honorary m*mher of !*■ e
Garrick Club, an honor never before conferred
on a foreigner. After drawing overwhelming
houses at Drury Lane, Mr. Hacked has made
an engagement at the Hay Market.
The veteran Commodore Bainbridge, Is now
in a very critical state of health. He arrived at
Philadelphia on the )sth inst. from New-York,io
the steam-boat Burlington, attended by bis Med -
ical friends. His eosplamt is Dropsy.
Explosion —We learn says tha Baltimore Pg/.
riot of the 20th inst. that the Bellooa Powder
Works, about seven miles from Baltimore, were
blown up yesterday at half past 2-o’clock. • Al
though the Works are nearly destroyed, We Are
gratified to learn that n® lives were I >st.
Natal.— The U. S. ship Natchez, Capt, Zant
ringer, is about to procco I to the Brazil station
from Norfolk. The Fairfield, Capt. McCauley,
has left Norfolk, for Ncw-York,and from thence
she is to proceed to (Be Pacific.
The ship Mount Vernoti, from Bostoo for Cal
cutta, has on board 800 bales of New-Orleans
Cotton.
Anew and com no Jious Hotel is about being
built In Baltimore (says the Patriot) on the lot
adjoining the Baltimore Exchange, of which the
rooms in the upper part of that extensive edifice
will form epert. The Hotel will front on W«*
ter-street. We observe that the workmen com
menced their labors this morning, say's the same
paper ofthe 22d. and learn that the enterprise
will be pushed on with vigor.
Choice Cotton—We have before us samples of
Gro. Chamber’s Cotton, which brought the ex
traordinary price of 12£c. It is selected, from
bis crop and in point of color, cleanliness, staple
and handling, (as it is termed by growers,) is
equal to any we remember to have seeen. The
price paid for this beautiful cotton should serve
as an encouragement to the planters to beitiw
dne attention on preparing their crops for mai
ket. Choice cottons like those will always com
mand buyers, at rates sufficiently above the mar
ket to repay aoy expense in its preparation.
Mobile Commcrciet Register. .
Commodore BAiitaaioox is in very bad health
and stiange to say, the disease under which ho
labors is Dropsy. We find the following poeti
cal tribute to his worth in a Boston Paper :
Lines occasioned by the departure of Com Bain *
bridge, frank the Naty Hard at Charleston.
By Schuylkill's broad and silver wave
The gallant Bainbridge seeks repose,
while the Spangled Banners wave,
The caunons thunder forth—'‘He goes."
He goes—ah ! yes, fr»*m those who love
’lo pay meet honors to the brave—
He goes—and oh !ye powers above,
Safe guide him home to Schuylkill’s wave,
The form that braved the proudest foe,
And sank th« Java ’peath the flood,
VVhen death hung quivering on each blow.
And every scupper sent forth blood ;
When Biitain’s Lion bowed her head
To Freedom’s-Eagle on the sea.
And Fame around his temples shed
The blase of immortality.
Say not—his spirit soon shall wing
Its eagle flight beyond the grave—
Rut o’er him health and comfort fling—
By Schuylkill’s broad and silver ware.
Judge Longstreet’s Address,
To the Graduates of the Medical Insti
tute of Georgia , on the 17 th inst ,
Genllemen:
The relation which you have hitherto
sustained to the Medical Institute of the
State of Georgia is now dissolved, and I
am about to present you the testimonial!)
of your qualification to practice in the
line of tint profession which hus been
your peculiar study, while members of
this institution.
Upon this occasion it is made my duly
to close the connexion between us with a
parting address. I could have wished
that the duty had devolved on one, more
Competent to improve it to your benefi',
and to the honor of our infant Seminary.
I enter upon the discharge of it,however,
with as much confidence,as an earnest de
sire for your prosperity, and an ardent
zeal for the success of the Institution,
when blended with « consciousness of my
own inability, can inspire—assured that
you will readily find in the novelty of my
situation an ample apology for the sterili
ty of my remarks.
In taking leave of you, gentlemen, I am
commissioned by the Faculty under whose
immediate charge you have been, to bear
public testimony to tho dignity of your
deportment, the assiduity of yuur studies
and the promptness and fidelity with
which you have discharged all the duties
enjoined upon you, while members of this
Institution. Os your fin.nl examination,
they Apeak in terms highly creditable u»
yon, and encouraging to themselves. In
all this, we {latter ourselves that we dis
cover, an earnest of your future useful
ness and elevation in the profession of
your selection. We need scarcely add,
that us you are the first fruits ofthe expe
riment which we are now'making to bring
the means of a liberal education in the
science of Medicine to the doors of our
own sons, wo shall sensibly feci a disap
pointment of the expectations which you
have awakened—and on tho other hand,
wc shall feel with equal sensibility, the
honor of their fulfilment.
In behalf of the Faculty, removed as I
am front all participation in their lubor*
and their honors, I think I may bo per.
milted to'assort that they have spared no
pains to furnish you with all the means of
improvementewhich lay withiu tho com
pass of their power. By a sacrifice of pri
vate interests seldom exhibited, anil moro
rarely equalled, they have given you tint
advantages of many of those artificial aids
in tho prosecution of your studies, for
which other Institutions of the kind are
exclusively indebted to Legislative munifi
cence, or widely extended public patron
age. Their industry in preparing them
selves for your instruction has been unre
mitted, and your own proficiency is the
highest compliment to their fidelity in im.
parting to you tho fruits of their labors.—
Still we have to regret that their means
ate not commeasurate with their zeal. Ii
is.howevqr, doe to the Legislature of your
State to remark in this place, that they
have eivcti the most encouraging assuran-
ces that the Institute will not be much
longer left to the unassisted support and
protection of its own officers. Nothing
but a train of adverse circumstances which
that Assembly could not control,prevent
ed the last Legislature from making
an appropriation in behalf of the Medical
College of Georgia, which would have
raised it at once to a dignified rank among
the rival institutions of the Country. Its
claims were zealously pressed upon the
attention of that Body, and with equi>L
pride and pleasure I bear testimony, that
from the Chief Magistrate down, they
were invariably received with the kindle
est feelings and the most flattering re
spect.
Gentlemen, the profession upon which
•you have embarked, is one which embra
ce! within its range some of the most de
lightful, instructing A interestiog branch
es of Science. It introduces you to all
the wonders of the human frame—its
complicated yet grand apd beautiful ma
chinery. It bids you trace the mutual re
lations and dependencies e! body and ijiU
