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’man was made to mourn.
■"* “ There's nothin* true but Heaven.’'
■*! In vara the mother’s eyes
Their wakeful vigils keep,
Her bosom pent with sighs,
cos, o’er her infant’s sleep
There alt her hope is laid
Dependent on a breath !
‘ ' And ah ! its beauties fade.
Its tiieek eyes close in death I
Jn vain the boy disports
All redolent of youth!
And life and glory courts
With frendship love and truth '
The years-ythe glory gained—
Mo heart feltjoys impart.
And friendship soon hath waned—
And.ivve and truth depart I
lu vain the sober’d man
In wealth or business tries
With frequent change of plan,
- To fill |l.is heart and eyes!
- • The wealth brings misery !
The bus’ness thorny proves— ..
The man no longer free,
A burden’d- pris’ner moves!
I
In vain the sire mty prize
The son—his pride—his heir !
And mark his promise rise
To manhood’s ripen’d fair.
• Jn folly's mazes lost
The Father’s hope—in shame
Exists, at fearful cost
A blot upon his name !
In vain the hoary head—
Its silver’d honors wear,
It tests upon its bed,
■ ’ No son or daughter near.
Life's every stage in sooth
Alike and in its turn !
But proves the fatal truth
That man was made to nmun !
Fromjhc Ballimire iftekly Messenger.
BAKED BEANS.
Oh! how iny heart sighs for my own native land,
Where potatoes and squashes and cucumbers
W-htre* heer And good welcome are always at
nand.
And custards andpumkin pics smoke ma row :
Where pudding the visage of hunger serenes,
And, what is far better, the pot of Baked Beans.
Let Maryland boast of her danties profuse,
Jbr large water-melons and cantelopes fine,
Her turtles and oysters and terrapin stews, .
And soft crabs high zested with brandy and wine ;
Ah neither my heart from my native land weans, j
\fhere smoke ou the table the pot of Baked
Beans.
The pot of Bak’d beans ! with what pleasure I
* saw it,
* Well season’d well pork’d by some rosy-faced
dame ;
And when from the glowing hot oven she’d draw
Well crisp’d and well brown’d to the table it
came,
<"> give me my country, the land of my teens,
Os the plump Indian pudding and pot of Baktd
Beans.
The pot of baked beans! ah ! the muse is too
■ T: frail, “
)-•« taste to descant or its virtues to tell!
But look at the sons of New England so hale,
<\ud her daughters so rosy—'twill teach thee,
full well
Like me it will teach thee to sigh for the means
<9f health andof rapture— the pot of Baked Beans
When the last session of Congress was
concluded, and ibe various questions
which had disturbed ihe Republic, were
disposed of in a manner satisfactory to all I
who felt a deep interest in the welfare of
their country, than in the struggles offac
: ’ion, we were disposed to drop the poli.
deal discussions in which wc had been,for
some time, engaged* The contest io which
South Carolina had entered against the o
ther members of the Union, was lamenta
ble in every light in which it could be re
garded. A victory over her, could have
presented no triumph,—and success on
her part, would have destroyed the integ
rity of the Union. We did not expect, nor
did we desire, that the politicians of that
State should acknowedge a defeat, and
when the ordinance was adopted declaring
;he law for the better collection of the rev
enue, null and void, we were perfectly
willing to pass it over without seiious
■rnmment.so strong, indeed, was our wish
that a discussion, which had excited so
ftiuch bitter feeling, arid which now could
he attended with no prar-’‘cab!e benefit,
>h<juld be dropt, that we haye refrained
■ from assailing the valedictory ordinance
yl trie Convention of South Carolina, or
from vindicating the act of Congress,
which called it forth. We, however, Had
ourselves compelled to abandon course
that which we had thought it our duty to
adhere to. The same reckiess views, and
- intemperatne language,which were called
forth in opposing the tariff, we now find
persisted in, with equal violence, since
that policy has been abandoned. The ex
cuse formerly offered was, that the evils
under which we labored, and the injustice
with which our rights were treated, de
manded a remedy;—and if that remedy
was a desperate one, it was rendered so
by the injuries that provoked it. But now
when every cause of complaint is removed,
we find the same vindictive feelings at
>vi>r!;7 and still striving to discover new
pretexts for diseputen. To (erm this the
aberation of high principle, would be to
pay an undeserved compliment to de
pravity.
That the language of our press echoes
the seiimems of tho people, is a frequent
remark, & how far this excuse may serve,
the editors of South Carolina, who st
keen up the clamour of faction, we wt
no! pretend to sav; but in this State such
apology cannot be offered. The people
of Alabama are attached to the govern
ment, its laws, and its administration. Nul
lification was a foreign plant, and found
with tis an uogenial soil. Every art was
employed by its friends to foster its.
growth, but their object proved unsuccess
ful. The personal influence and active
exertionsofa few individuals made for a
brief period some slight impression, but
even that is passing away, and would in a
short time be entirely obliterated, but that
those exertions are still persis ed in. It
is not easy to determine the motives by
editors are now actuated.
’They have surely too much conning to
anticipate that either power or popularity
will be the,reward of their labors. These
it isTi ue., are the game for which demag
ogues usually hunt, but in this instance, it
is very plain-that such game is not to bo
caught, and’that their chance of hitting is
not worth the powder theyare firing,. Dur
ing the heat of the ctrofest, and before the
bill for reducing tho tariff to fl revenue,
standard was passed, they avowed them
clves to be actuated by principle, hot. i£_
i any were then deluded by this declaration,
1 the course now persisted in by these edi
tors, shows that their principles are like
Harlequin’s shadow, which, whenbe pleas
es he folds tip and puts into his pocket.—
Put without indulging in further specula
tion, we will state what we believe to be
the simple explanation of the matter. A
bout six months ago, some half dozen new
papers were established at different places
in the South, and a few old papers bought
up. The old establishments were suffer
ed to retain their former titles, but the
new progeny by a coincidence which ar
gues common paternity were all christen,
cd the “Times.” We had the Virginia
Tinies, the Sooth Carolina Times, the
Georgia Times, and the Alabama Times.
Our “dear defuncl”enhghtoned this ci
ty for a short time with its political lucu
brations and warm dissertations on con
stitutional law, but the community lacked
taste andjudgment, and it departed. Some
of them, however, to shift our metaphor,
seem to be guided by pilots better qualifi
ed to weather the storm, are still afloat.—
Now that men of sense and talents as the
conductors of several of these journals
undoubtedly arc, should have sdcrifice
their.time, and hazarded their own mon
ey ift publishing nullifpng papers, we can
not for amoment believe. It is plain that
they must have been hired to execute the
job, and that their political speculations
arc all written to order. Who .bought
them, or who pays them, wo Cannot say,
but is is very clear that it is neither their
customers or subcribcrs. Now if this be
the case, and there is no reason whatever
fur doubting it, we ere driven to the con
clusion, that £wben entering into
the contract, tho repeal of the tariff last
winter was not anticipated, and that they
are consequently bound to continue prea
ching nullification, after the pretext which
led to its agitation ceased to exist.
A late number of Mr. Broek’s sketch
es of “Men iN Washington” presents the
follow-Mig birds-eye view of some of the
more prominent members of the New
York and Pennsylvania delegations in
Congress. The picture is net very flit
tering to state pride; but, with the true
republican doctrine of rotation in such
active operation in these states; it could
scarcely be otherwise. The mine of in
tellectual wealth would be little less than
inexhaustible, that could furnish anew',
every second year, thirty or forty men
of talents and of capacity to gain distinc
tion in the national councils. We du not
take upon ourselves to decide, which is
(be more valuable, the thing retained, or
the thing given up—but the’states which
so earnestly adhere to this principle es
roiation, must be content to forego a por
tion that influence in these councils,
which might be secured by a different
practice.
ME N IN WASHINGTON.
The states of New York and Pennsyl
vania, send here such hordes of Repre
sentatives and change them so often, that
it is difficult to (ell who is who, and what
is what. They come io inundations, like
Goths and Vandals. One wave spends
its force and retires; and then another
dashes on. There is among them but lit
tle talent for so numerous a Representa
tion—little influence except that of King
Numbers. Occasionally however,a mem
ber gets a firm footing, and is known.
Os such I will speak.
Mr Wright the new Senator from New
Yoik is a man of some ability, but can
never make a figure in the Senate. He
talks well enough, and manages prudently
enough, but the only influence he can
have in the United States Senate is that
of one vote. His manner of speaking is
cold, distinct, drawling, and very precise.
If some one would put pins into hire and
wake him up, and give him life and an
imation, he might be eloquent, and peo
ple would listen.
The most conspicuous, I do not say
the most able of the New York Delegation
in the House, are Cambreleng and Ver
plank of New York city, Angel, Beard
sley, Hoffman, Root and Taylor, the for
mer Speaker. Cambreleng has talking
talents,is fluent,industrious and ready. He
industry is uis chief talent. He would
be considered an ordinary man, if he were
fiom any other District but that of this
great city, or from any other state, where
there were many able men. Verplanck
Las taken an active part this session, as
Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means. , lie is a scholar, and a dis
tinguished writer ns well as politician,-He
speaks well with preparation, but rather
schobl'bny like, and sits down when he
lias nothing more to say, which is c« m
uiendable, when many talk for hours with
not a single idea, unless it is stolen. He
is a stout Dutch-built, amiable man, high
ly esteemed here for boniest z and probity
and independence. Angel is a so-so (A
a ma'n, Beardsley is gravity itself in de
bate,and balances his periods as if nations
fotnj* on their vibrations. Hoffman has a
good strong figure, an odd nose, and a
strong gruff yoice like a boatswain’s. H«
has inflonce with his party, is a leading
man, and really has abilities, lie talks
loud, —is a violent partisan,—and they
call him “Admiral Hoffman.’ Root has
a giant of a figure, and is a man of vigor
ous intellect not over much nor
very well denoted. lie is denominated
one of the old D-enroc'rats of other days,
but is now bordering- upon nullification.
Taylor talks how &;then'»n rtilesA-oiiders
which, are his hobby,and .upon little else,
h in admitted that he has Abilities. ’ He
has been long ia Congress,but the fepi
pest of Jdcksonism last fall sweptjjim 'rut
Collier has wit, pleasant talen's, and pays
smart things* Ward is a beau, iqk.es tare
of the laddies, reads good speeches, land
is a clever than. Tracy has good abiliiies
and is highly esteemed. Pitcher, I have
.afy.nrjieqrd speak, but.-is credited ww|>
influence and ability; Wafdwetl’speaks
passably and is a clever man.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Wilkins, as ?eoati>r, has taken a con
spicuous part this win'er, and has appear
ed much better this session than he did
the last. He is more versed .in rules and
orders, and blunders less. —An English
man-told me, that he resembles the Duke
of Wellington. This may be or not. Mr
W. I should think, was a belter lawyer
than legislator. lie takes a good view
of the subject, but is not clear,. He is
not yet at home in (he Senate. He is one
of those men who rise and fall iq public
estimation. To-day he is more than Mr
Wilkins, to morrow he is less than Mr,
Wilkins. In person he is slender; io
manners agreeable; in conversation pert
and interesting, and says a pretjy thing
now and then, if in a dance, or among
friends.
(Dallas has a fine head, a fine face, and
fine eyes.—The first impression he.makes
upon one is imposing, but it soon wears
away. He needs enthusiasm, life, viva
city. 1 think he has less ability than his
colleague, Wilkins. He does not stanh
so high as when he came here— and da
returns from Congress without winning
any new laurels.
Pennsylvania, with n few exceptions,
has such a let of Representative as neve
mortal man heard of. Yon might look
for them weeks with a spy-glass, and in
quire <?f any man you met,and none could
ever tell you who they were. But here
and there you hear an “aye” or “no.”
from some quarter or other of the House
and you perceive,'hat as there are names,
so there are men fastened io them.
Sutherland, Coulter Muhlenburg, Me
Kennan, Stewart, Watmouth, are among
the most conspicuous. Southerland is
one ol the best party managers in the
world. He is with, and against all men,
apd yet does, I believe, keep a good eye
to consistency, so far as his principles are
concerned. He is a thickly built, full
faced mao, fluent, ready, verbose at times
energetic, and rather an interesting talk
er. He has been a. d will be the. candi
date for the Speaker’s chair on whjch his
heart is fixed. Coulter has great reputa
tion for talents, and is probably the first
man in the Pensylvania delegation, so far
as native ability is concerned. He is a
friend of the President, bn; is yet half
gone over to the nullifiers. Muhlenberg
is a candidate for the U. S. Senate in tho
Pennsylvania Legislature. He has abili
ty and influence. McKennaa is a prodig
ious mao in size, and has a voice and
lungs proportioned to his bulk. Stewart
is in truth an able man, attentive to bu i
ness—of a mind well cultivated and troll,
stored with facts. He speaks often, offers
many new facts to the discussion, and if
he were less zealous, would do himself
and his cause more good. Watmougli
talks much and often. He is very popu
lar and is much esteemed. Banks is a
pleasant and well informed man. Bird
reads his speeches—not very well—Gil
more reads his—but worse still- Horn
votes, and is talked much of, but I never
could find him out nor the place whence
his ‘ayo’camo from. King is an agreoaabie
man in social life and is well informed
—1 never heaid him speak in public.’
There are others,but who can find a nee
dle in a hay-mow. B.
Fromthe St. Louis Republican, April9.
There is much reason to fear, that the
subjoined article, from the last Sangamon
Journal, does nut exaggerate the hostile
disposition of the Indians—Similar re
ports have reached us within a dav or
t wo.
THE IN DI ANS—Within a few days
the movements of the Indians on our
frontiers, have caused considerable a
larm. A letter dated Galena, 3lst ult.
says:—“ the best informed upon such
matters have very recently (within a few
days) become a little uneasy concerning
the movements of tho Indians. Their
>ways ate not a« ours “ any how,” but
there is no good reason why they should
exhibit their gregarious propensities at
this unusual season of the year.
We have also received a letter from
.Peoria, dated the 3d instant, which says:
I delay closing this letter to state,
that from intelligence entitled to credit,
just received in town, it appears the Ip
dian*. are again assuming a liostile atii
tude on tha frontiers, that they are, to
the number of five hundred, making de
monstrations on Rock river, near ibeir
old encampment, five miles above Dix
on’s .ferry. The people on the Galena
road, alarmed for the Safety of their fami
lies, are sending them into the settle
ments, for greater security.” The same
letter adds, under date of—“ 6 o’clock
P. M. Since writing the above, Mr.
Crane, the mail carrier, has lirrived from
Galena, and confirms the statements,
with some unimportant particulars.—
There can now bo no djubt of the
facts.” "
We cannot yet believe that we shall
have another Indian War; yet the let
ters containing the above information are
from such responsible sources that we
should be culpable were we to withhold
it from the public.
From the Richmond Compiler.
[THE DUCHESS OF BERRI.
O. P. Q. doub's whether the Duclh”!*
has told the truth about her marriage. He
says indeed* that “i. is generally under
stood and announced* in the fashionable
societies and saloons of Paris,” that her
Royal Highness is cncicntc-but not Mar
ried ! n The difficulty seems to be in as
certaining who the “ Little Cup\d" is.—
I f the Bridegroom be an ''ltalianprince,"
then how is that supposition to be recon
ciled to the fact that she quitted Italy in
Apiil last? Ts Nature woikin’g'a miracle
of an eleven months child in. her favor?
Some conjecture that her chcr ami was
a man by the name of Simon Deatz, who
was her constant companion in La Ven
dee, and who betrayed her to the French
I Government. Two years since he was
i in Boston—and he has written some ac
, count of himself to a gentleman in that
town. If he were connected with the
Duchess, it is suspected he has betrayed
her in a’fit of jealousy.
“The Gazette du Per igord of the 6th
of March, states, that five physicians were
in consultation on the 2d, upon the sub
jeefof iheL'ealth of the Duchess. They
were unanimously of opinion that there
was imminent danger in exposing the
Princess any longer to the atmosphere of
France. On the question ofher prospec
tive maternity, they refused to make ex
amination or give an opinion; but Madame
assured them that she was married and
pregnant, and requested them to say so,
in order to prevent collisions, which would
again be a most cruel torment to her.-
“Tell my friends, loo” she added, with
that warmth of expression for which she is
remarkable, “tell them that they may be
easy on my account and that they will
have no cause to blush at a marriage, all
the circumstances of which they will be
made acquainted with immediately on my
arrival in Italy,”
“The Constitutional says,” Os all the
inventions to which the Legiiimatists,in
their despair and confusion, have given
themselves up, the following is the most
recent. Jn the saloons of the noble in
habitants of the Fatibu'g St. Germain, it
is now circulated that the secret husband
of the Duchess of Berry is Louis XVII.
who, according to the most incontroverti
ble evidence, has survived.all the vicissi
tudes of his infancy. Consequently, the
Duchess is not only Regent, but actually
Queen of France,”
ft is said tha: the Duchess is in the for
ty-sixth year of her age!
Whai u satire upon the assumed sanc
tity of Kings and Princes! As <Shakspear
says, “The King is but a man, as I am;
(he violet smells to him as it doth to me;
all his senses but human conditions”
—nay, the}’ are frequently worse than the
average run of mortals—“ Weak and fool
ish humanity! (exclaims O. P. Q7) Alas!
alas! What inmtals wa are, and what fol
lies we perpetrate! L’Estrange has made
us laugh with him at the dog, of •» horn he
reported that ‘he would have fought for
his master in any other case; but (helove
of munon w s his weak side.’ The dog
was vanquished by the love of mutton,
and the Duchess of Berri has been con
quered bv her love for an Italian Prince!
She has forgotten her Sire—forgotten her
sotj-forgotien her da' ghter-forgotieo'Tteri
departed husband—forgotten the game
she was playing and the struggle in which
she was engaged—forgotten the respect
she owed to herself, to her family, and to
that Fiance which she professed to love
and to adore—and has yielded to the per
suasions of an Italian Prince—was to him
secretly ma:ried---.-and is now abouFto be
deliveted of another‘Dletfdonne’ in the
shape, I suppose, VI or Charles
XI.”
A Synonyme.— At the Liverpool quar
ter Sessions, the other day, an action of
trover was brought lor the recovery of a
cart of very little value, the delivery of
which to the plaintiff as the alleged pur
chaser, bad been refused by tho defend
ant, and it was quite certain that the trial
of the question would cost many times
iho worth of the article* In the course
of the proceeding the following dialogue
occurred. Counsel—Anu did ho deliver
It? Witness—No, indeed. He said the
plaintiff might go to heli for it, or he might
go to the devil for it; I don’t exactly re
collect which of the words he used. The
Recorder—But it meant, in point of fact,
that he might go to the law it, I sup
pose—(loud laughter.)— Macclesfield
Courier.
From she Salem Observer.
Yankee SALUTATton and Reply.
In a neighboring town, in our county
of Essex where the parish parson is rev
erenced as a “right down steady man”
the following salutation and reply is quite
common. ‘‘Good morning neighbor A
howd’ ye do to-day !” “Why, I’m much
at one. I thank you—how i 3 ’t with you?”
“Why I’m pietty much arter the old sort
—’tween three and one—bow's your wo
man this morning?” “Well, she’s pretty
much for her, consid’ring—how’s
yourn?” .
• So’s to be crawling, I thank you—good
morning.”
A case has been decided in New York
in favor of the New York Daily Sentinel
Hgainst Lee, Powell and wherein the
principle is confirmed thepersonsreceiviog
a newspaper, without odrering it discon
tinued, are liable in all cases for the pay
ment of the same.
REDUCTION.
We have consersed with many, Dele
gates and others, on the subject of Re
duction. From wlmt we can gather, a
plan, something like the following would
be acceptable to the people.
The Senate to consist of forty members
to be chosen for four yeats.—The Slate
to be laid off into ten Senate Districts,
each of which to elect four Senators—(one
in each district (o go out of office every
ybar.). The districts to be composed of
contiguous territory, and to contain as
near as may be an equal number of coun
ties and an equal number of inhabitants
(representative population,) in each dis
trict. Senators to be 30 years old.
2. The Home of Representatives to
consist of one member from each county,
and an additional member for every
6000 representative population. This
would reduce that body to 121.) The
Census to be taken every ten years by
the Slate, commencing in 1835. After
every census, whether made by the State
or United States, the Representatives to
the apportioned, and the Senate Districts
to be revised; and re-arranged if necessa"
i ry.— Macon Telegraph.
AUGUSTA.
j • FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1838.
(EF A Statement of the present condition of
' the Merchants and Planters’ Bank has been
1 made but was handed to us too late for puUlica
; tian To-day.
DZF IVe cannot announce Candidates for any
Office without authority. Anonymous requests
of that kind, must, therefore, be denied.
The Celebrated Indian Chief Buck Hawk.
was exhibited in Wall street, Louisville, Kent
one day last week. Five thousand jwople at
once, it is Said, crowded a sight of him.
Mr. Fan Buren — lt is stated in the Kentucky
Argus that the Vice President will visit the
West in the approaching glimmer.
Despatch— The Charleston Morning papers
are on the files of our Readirg Room by Break
fast time the succeeding day. When the Rail
Road is finished, it is expected we shall have the
morning papers on the evening of the same day.
The following Gentlemen ore ascertained to
be elected Representatives of Virginia, in the
next Congress: —Robert Craig. A. Stevenson,
Thomas Davcnpoit, J. J. Allen, Charles Fentvn
Mercer, Joseph W. Chinn, Edward Lucas. IVm.
S. Archer, John Y. Mason, Nath. H. Claiborne.
William F. Gordon, John M. Patton, John Kan
dolpb.
American Nmikeen.— A beautiful piece of
Nanketn, (says the Mobile Register,) manufac
tured in New Jersey from cotton grown on the
plantation of the Hon. John Forsyth, of Georgia
has been laid on out table by Messrs. Shepard
I &. Frisk, of this city- The cloth’textnre and gen
era! appeal ance, iesembles the best quality of
India Nankeens. The color is rather more dark,
being, as we understand, the natnral hue of the
cotton. The article is not yet in the shape that
enables us to speak more explicitly of its quali
ties.
The Mflfedgeville Journal, to be received this
evening, will contain the Reports of most of the
Banks of Georgia made to the Governor on the
Ist April. We are indebted to a friend for a
copy in advance of the mail, &. have time to-day
to publish only that of the Merchants Sf Planters
Bank. The Goveinor piefaces the Reports
thus: ,
Executive Department, Georgia
Milledgeville, 27 th April, 1833
Whereas the safety nnd best interests of ths
Citizens of the State that the true con-
Idition mid solvency of each Bank, or incorpo
rated company exercising banking privileges,
should be known to the community, so as to
guard the great body of the people from reeeiv
ing doubtful or depieclated paper. It is there
fore
Ordered, that the several Batik reports, which
have been made to this Department in conformi
ty with the provisions of the act of Legisla
ture, passed on the 24th. flay of December,
1832, entitled “an act more effectually to se
cure the solvency of all the Banking institutions
of this State’’ be published in the Federal
Union arid Georgia Journal of this place.
WILSON LUMPKIN.
By the Governor,
R. A. Greene, Secretary.
Merchants Planters Bank,
Augusta, 6th April 1833.
His Excellency W. Lumpkin.
Sir:—l huve the honor herewith to transmit
you a statement of the affairs of this institution
on the Ist. inst. made in pursuance of an act of
the last Legislature, and to be laid before it at its
next session. Accompanying the statement, is a
report of the Board of Directors, with sneb ex
planations, as in their opininion the act refered
te require.
In addition to their report, I beg lenve to call
your Excellency’s attention to one item in the
statement which if -suffered to pass without re
mark, might operate injuriously to the Institution
the specie in the vault on the Ist inst was only
$37, 958 05; an amount much less than is usually
held by the Bank at periods when the circulation
is greatly reduced.
To account for this, I need only inform your
Excellency, that heavy drafts for specie were
made on the Bank during the three weeks im
mediately precedingthe date of theretuin-these
unusual demands were not calculated on, because
at this season of the year, the calls arc generally,
for Northern funds, aad the specie thus with
drawn could not be replaced in time to be em
bracedin the returns., without calling on other
State Institutions to furnish it; to have done this,
would have increased the commercial distress of
our already suffering community, which we wers
particularly desirous of avoiding: believing it to
be the duty, of those who manage mocied Insti
tutions, to be most liberal in times of pressure,
even, if by so doing the risk to the Bank itself be
increased.
Arrangements have since been made, to supply
the specie required for the Bank.
I remain most respecfiilly, &c.
JOSEPH WHEELER.
President of the Merchants ff Planters Bank.
List ’of the Stockholders of the Merchants and
Planters Bank.
No. of Shares.
N K Bnder & Co. 10
-John VV Bridges, 495
Ann M Btidges, i
S E II
Engine Canie, ’ •
Philip Crane,
A Farrow,
Geo G Holcombe, 10
William Harper, . 20
John C Holcombe,
James J Holcombe,
C E A Holcombe, 15
N Holcombe, 25
John C Holcombe, Jr 10
Henry B Holcombe, 150
Horace S Pratt, 32
L G W Pratt, 1
J W Pratt, 1
Joseph Rivers, - 10
Edward Thomas, 495
S J Thomas 20
F L Thomas, 10
Edward E Thomas, 10
M J. Thomas. 10
Joseph Wheeler, 1023
3,000
Statement of the Funds of the Merchants and
Planters Bank, •DR.t
Ftock account—amount paid in "44,973
Bank Notei account—Amount of Notes of thia
Bank on hand, 176,490
Do. do. In circu'atiou, 39.3,499
Discount account and discount cn Ex-
change, 34,545 65
Amount due to other Banks, 3,574 31
Dividends unclaimed, g>o3 40
Individual dcpoolus, • '■ ;; • , 21,235 31
? tiSWa 70
CR.
Specie in the Vault,
Notes of other Banks,
Note* of this Bank,
Expense account, ■■ ~,40J 8/
Notes discounted running totnaturitj’, 300,375 G~
l>o. lying over unpaid, 17.42169
D °- in,Uit ’ _JZ12! 3 t8,«3 72
Exchange payable in Savannah anJ in >
the interior of Georgia, 178,572 70
Do. at he North, 101,300
Do. lying over unpaid, 5,975
‘ 285,647 70
Amount duo by other Banks, 17,475 62
Real and persona) estate, 4.96754
Duo by Bauk Agents, 1.3Jk'25
854,823 70
Tho Board went into consideration of tho responsibility
of the Notes snji Bills of Exchange, discounted and due the
Bank, when on examination it was decided as follows, viz.:
Os the notes discounted running to maturity, lying over
unpaid, and in »uit, they consider
Gobd. 305,123 72
Doubtful, 11,900 72
Bad, 1,345
Exchange running to~tnaturity and lying over unpaid,
Good. 183,347 70
Doubtful, 2,500
Extract from the Minutes, Ist April, 1833.
We certify the above statement of iho
funds of the Merchants Bank, is a true
copy from the Books; and the estimate
of good, bad and doubtful deb’3.—A'true
extiacls from the Minutes of the Board, as
determined on by them, this Ist day of
April, 1833.
JOSEPH WHEELER, Pres. M. P. B.
JNO. F. LLOYD, Cashier.
Sworn to Ueforjme. this fiibof Apiil 1833.
JOHN A. BARNES, Notary Public. v
The drawing of the Gold Lotterry,
which has enlivened the aitetiiton, and
been dispensing its favors among all clas
ses of our fellow-citizens for Jie last six
months,Atas as expected brought lo a close
yesterday. The niost valuable luls, or
those that were most generally the topic
of conversation, Nos 1052 and 1031, in
(he 12 disirict Ist section, were both
diawn within the last week-<-105? by Al
ford Allison of Greene c .onty, and 1031
by Lewis Hays of Henry country. The
latter No. lias, we understand, been pur*
chased for three thousand dollars.
Milledgeville Recorder- 1 inst.
The Philadelphia Intelligencer of tha
23d says:—The Rev. John M'Dowall,
D. D. was yesterday afternoon unani
mously elected Pasior of tho Cential
Presbyterian Church, now being erected
at the corner of Eighth ami Cherry
street.”
communicated.
“ De omnibus rebus el quibusdam alii.r."
I Mr. Editor:—Epidemics are the rage of the
I day, roaring linns that devour distressed mor
tals, body and soul. Epidemic is an equivocal
double-super-refined expression of very doubtful
signification at this marvellous age of innovation
and intellectual improvement. But I am no
metaphysical hail-splitter—l have a far differ
ent aim at present. Know then that 1 ain an af
flicted youth Euffering from the fashionable dis
order, which is chronic in the derivative senses
of that word, seeing that it has been known to
the world since Juvenal lived, aud Heaven
knows bow long befoie. Dryden after Juvenal
translates it (Oh ignoble thought !) n “ curse"
an “ endless itch,” and that dear old gentle
man, that gentle speetatorial moral teacher in a
sly and loose way, intimates tiiat Galen &. Hip*
pocrates have not mentioned the disease—that
the genius of lampoons, satires, pillories ano cat
calls have all been exhausted upon its inveterate
malignity, without success, & to sum up its.ven
omotts character, if it gets in the blood, “it is
the very Devil io cure." Now, from this lucid
compilation of symptoms authorities, can you
guess what it is? 1 reckon not—you will notfind its
name in the jaw-breaking realms ofmedical xci
er.ce.lt is not to be seen in the appalling catalogue
of murderous diseases that have been invented
by the prolific btainsof the Medical profession
from Dr. Esculapius down to Dr. Physic, as ar
pologies to cram our (ye Gorls and little fishes,
my heart sickens at the thought) refractory
threats, and revolting stomachs with nauseous
and untoothersome drugs. You give it up—you
divine wide of the truth ; I’ll tell you.—Don’t
start, Mr. Editor —I’ve g-ot the itch ! Yes, Sir,
the itch—not a cutaneous affection, but the “ in
sanabile cacoathes scribendi ’ — that azure phren
zy, that pleasing hope, that fond desire, that
lo tging after immortality” sometimes awakened
by the teuch of taste id- the s-jul of genius, that
mania of mind which causes me iu my vain in
spiration to feel, that
" ’Tis the divinity that stirs within me.”
I said, that I was a youth—l am more—a mod
est diffident youth, as tenderly sensitive under
the flagellations of public criticism, who presides
in Urrortm over the literary as well as the other
worlds of this earth, as Napoleon was.' StrMSge.
tremulous and mysterious qualms creep over
me, when I think of committing-thia first born,
offspring of my brain to a heartless inhospitable
world. At the bare contemplation of the first
“ gossipings of my bearded thoughts’’ in print-*
I tremble with
■ • < . übique
Luctus, übique paver.
But good Mr. Editor, need Ibe afraid > lan's--
public opinion a great bug beat at best 7 Are
not critics rascally, mean creatures, who eon
taminate the works of inspired minds, by reason
of their own filthiness 9 Are,they not Scotch
Reviewers to English bards 7 Pigmies to giants!
I would fain think so. I will think. so—l do
thjnh so. My courage mounts high witkwratb