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THE MOTHER OF WASHING
TON.
The following lines were written by Mrs Sio •
ourney, in reference to the interesting ceretnm
nies-of Tuesday last at Fredericksburg :
FROM THS POLITICAL ARENA.
On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Mon
ument of Mrs. Washington.
Long hast thou slept unnoted ! Nature stole
In her soft ministry around tby bed.
And spread her vernal coverings, violet gemm'd,
And peat I'd with dews. She bade bright Sum
mer bring
Gifts of frankincense, with sweet song of birds,
And Autumn cast his yellow coronet
Down at tby feet—and stormy Winter sp«ak
Hoarsely of Man’s neglect.
But now we come
To AnShee homage,—Mother of our Chief!—
Fit homage—Such as bonoreth him who pays.
Methinks we see thee, ns in olden time,—-
Simple in garb—majestic apd serene—
Unaw’d by pomp and crcumstruce’ —L> truth
Inflexible—and with a Spartan zeal
Repressing Vice, and tanking Folly grave.
77«0m didst aqC deem it Woman’s part to waste
Life in inglorroMi sloth, to sport awhile
Amid the flowers,or on the Summer- wave.
Then fleet like the Ephemeron away,—
Building no temple In her children’s hearts,
Save to the vanity and pri te of life
Which she had worshipp’d
Os the might that cloth’d
The “Pater Patri®,"—of tire deeds that won
A nation's,liberty, and earth’s applause
Making Mount Vernon’s tomb a Mecca-haunt,
For patriot and for sage, while time shall last.
What past was thine, what thanks tothee are due,
Who ’raid bis elements es being wrought
With no uncertain aim—nursing the germs
Os godlike Virtu re in his infant mind,
Ft know not—H:<nen can tell,
Ri-w, noble pile!
And shew a race unborn who rests below,—
And say to Mothers, what a ln>ly charge
Is theirs, —with what« kingly power their love
Might rule the fountains of the new-born tniud—•
Warn them to wake at early dawn, and sow
Good seed before tbe world doth sow its tares,
Not in their toil decline,—that angel hands
May put the sickle in, and reap for God,
And gather to His earner.
Ye. who stand.
With thrilling breast, nod kindling cheek, this
morn,
Viewing the tribute that Virginia pays
To the blest Mot her of her glorious Chief,
Ye, whose last thought upon your nightly couch,
Whose first at waking, is your cradled son—
What t raugh no dazzling hope aspires to rear
A•• cood Washington—or leave your name
Wio ght out in marble with your country’s tears
Os leatblesxgratitude,— yet may ye raise
A monument above the Stars— .a »oul
Led by your teachings and your prayers to God
, L. H- S
SOMETHING marvellous.
We have been tuid he following story,
which savor# so much of the marvellous,
that we cannot believe it, and should not
publish, were not the source from which
we derived it entitled to high credit. Out
readers shall have it precisely 43 it came
to oor eats.
There is a gitl in Saybrook, about elev
ven ve «rs of age, who, from the many
specimens she has given, is thought tu
hav< been recently endowed with some
extraordinary gift of speech. At certain
irr igular times, when the impulse is upon
her, she breaks out into powerful, con
nected and finished exhortations
and discourses, generally on reli
gious topics. The first discourse which
she is known 10 have uttered, and the on
ly one uo’>u tha- subject, was on intem
perance. 1* is said to have been remark
able for the clearness, precision and ele
gance of its language, the cogency and el
cqunece of its thought and he impiessive
manner in which it was pronounced.—
Since that time, she has delivered her.
self of nothing 00 intemperance. Tbe
premonitory sympton of her impromptus,
is usualy a fit of stupor. As soon as she
come" out of that, she rises, closes her
eyes and pe-fectly abstracted from every
thing about her, commences by repeating
the hymn, which sometimes is oiiginal and
of a higher order of poetry. She then
gives out a text naming the chapter and
verse, and proceeds tn deliver a sermon
always for its logical and
connected sequences, and its rich and ap
pealing seirimen s, while its construction
is grammatical and its expressions elo
quent and pure. What especially aston
ishes the hearers, is ihe fact, that when
tbe inspiration has gone, she recollects
not a word of what she has been saying,
and if told the verse and chapter of hei
tex- and the number of her bymu she
JcR *ws nut h<»w or where to find them.—
Her parents reside in New Haven, and
Are poor, miserable, ignorant, and intem
perate people, and her education has been
«o much neglected, that she reads with
the greatest difficulty. What is more mar
vtdlous still, she discovers hat div an ordi
nary degree of intellectual capacity .except
when tbe spirit of the improvisators pos
sesses her. Several physicians have ex
amined her both when in and out of her
lunacies, and as yfet have found no marks
of disease or insanity During the delivery
of her speeches, she i» cool, collected and
fnihl and her pulse is always regular.
We think this case will matclatfie Cam
bells of S&tNtend, who on stated occasions.
are said to speak in strange and unknown
tongues, and by (heir foil wers are be -
lieved t<» ba inspired by die Holy Spirit
The lovers of strange and incredible
thing- will do well to visit this young
preacher, provided they attach «ny credit
to the above relation. — Hartford Review.
From Sillimans Journal for April.
WILD PIGEONS. .
The most remaikubie characteristics ot
these birds is their associating together,
both in the mirgrations and also during
tbe period of incubation, in snch prodig.
ious numbers es almost to surpass belief;
and which has no parallel among any oth
er of the feathered ttibes on the face of
the earth with which naturalists are ac
quainted.
These migrations appear to be un
dertaken lather in quest- of food, than
merely to avoid the cold of the cljjMau ;
since we find them linger ingin tile north
era regions ar mind -Hudson’s Bay, as late
• as December; and since dieir appearance
is so casual and irregular, sometimes not
visiting certain districts for several years
in any consideiable numbers, while at <»*
ther limes they are innumerable. I have
wime>sed these migrations in the Genesee
county—often in Pennsylvania, and also
in various pans of Virginia, with amaze
ment; but all that f had then seen of them
were mere straggling parties, when com
pated with the congregated millions which
1 have since beheld in our western forests,
in the States of Ohi<», Kentucky, and tho
Indiana territory. These fertile and ex
tensive regions abound with the nutricious
beech nut, which constitutes tho chief
food of the wild pigeon. Io seasons when
these outs are abundant, corresponding
multitudes of pigeons may be confidently
expected. It sometimes happens that,
having consumed the whole produce of
lhe beech trees in an extensive district,
they discover another at tbe distance of six
ty or eighty miles, to which ihey regular
ly repair every morning and return as
regularly in the course of lhe day, or in
lhe evening, to their place of general reu
devous. or as it is usually called, the roost
ing place. The roosttng places are always
in the woods, and someu.nes occupy alarge
extent offorest. When they have frequent
ed one these place# for some time, the ap
pearanceit exhibits is surprising. The ten
der gnss and underwood are destroyed,
the surface is strewed with large limbs of
trees broken down by lhe weight of the
buds clustering one above another; & <he
treesthemselves, for thousands id acres,
killedas completely as if girdled wi h a
axe. The marks of this desolation re
main formany years on the spot; and
numerous places could be pointed out
where, for several years after, scarce a
single vegetable made its appearance.
When these roosts ate first discovered,
ihe inhabitants from considerable distance
visit them in lhe night, with guns, clubs,
pots of sulphur, and various other engines
of distraction. Ina few hours, they fill
many sacks, and load their horses with
, (hem. By the Indians a pigeon roost or
breeding place is considered an important
source of national profit and dependence
for that season; arid all their active ingen
uity is exercised on the occasion. The
breeding place differs from the former in
its greater extent. In the western coun
tlies above mentioned, these are general
ly in beech woods, and often extend in
nearly a straight line across the country
for a great way. Not far from Shelbyville,
in the State of Kentucky, about five years
ago, there was one of these breeding
places, which stretched through the woods
in nearly a north and south direction; was
several miles in breadth, and was said to
be upwards of forty miles in extent. In
this tract almost every tree was furnished
with nests, whenever ihe branches would
accommodate them. . The P'geons made
their appearance there about the tenth of
' April, and left it altogether, with their
young, before the twenty-fifth of May.
soon as the young were fully grown,
and before they leh their nests, numer
ous parties of the inhabitants from all
pans of the adjacent country, came with
wagons, axes, beds, and cooking utensils,
many of them accompanied by the great
er part of their families, and encamped
for several days at this immense nursery.
Several of them informed me, that the
noise in the woods was so great as to ter
rify their horses, and it was difficult for
one person to hear another speak without
bawling in his ear. The ground was
strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs,
' and sq iab pigeons, which had been pre
■ cipitated from above, and on which herd®
' of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards,
and eagles were sailing about in great
numbers, & seizing the squabs from their
nests at pleasure ; while from twenty feet
upwards to the lops of the trees, the view
thtough the woods presented a perpetual
tumult of crowding and fluttering pigeons,
their wings roaring like thunder ; mingled
with the frequent crash of falling timber ;
for mow ihe axe-men were at work cutting
down those trees that seemed *to be most
crowded with nests, and contrived to fell
them in such a manner that in their de
scent they might bring down several oth
ers ; by which means the falling of one
large tree sometimes produced two hun
dred squabs, little inferior in size to the
1 old ones, and almost one mass of fat. On
some single trees upwards of one hundred
nests were found, each containing one
young, one only, a circumstance in the
history of this bird not generally known to
naturalists. It was dangerous to walk
1 under the flying and fluttering millions
from the frequent fall o f large branches
1 broken down by the weight of (he multi
tudes above, and which in their descent
often destroyed numbers of the birds them
selves.
I had left the public Mad to visit tbe
remains of the breeding place near Sbel
-1 byville, and was traversing the woods
with my gun, on my way la ,£*xanVor t*
1 when about one o'clock ibe pigeons, which
I had observed Hying tbe greater part of
the morning northerly, to return in
1 sucti immea jo Jae ver before
had witnessed. Cuming to an opening
by the side of a creek called the Benson, i
where I had a mure ttainteTt upted view,
I was astonished al their appearance.—
Ttiey were fljing with great steadiness
and rapidity, at a height beyond gun-shot,
in several strata deep, and so close togeth
er that could shot'ha've reached them, one
discharge could not have failed of bring
ing down several individuals. From right
to left, as far as tbe eye could reach, the
bteadth of this vast procession extended,
seeming every where equally crowded.—
Curious to determine how long this ap
pearance would cominue, I took out my
watch to note tbe time and sat down to'
observe them. It was (hen half past one.
I sat for more than an hour,but instead of
a diminution of this prodigious procession,
it seemed rather to increase both in num
bets and rapidity -j and anxioqsAo reach
TrankfqcU-beTore nigb*<-I rose and went
no. Abuin-fiwtr O*clock iu the afternoon
I crossed the Kentucky river, at the town
of Frankfort, at which time the living tor
rent above my head seemed as numerous
and extensive as ever."
From the Philadelphia Commercial Herald.
KENTUCKY HUAfOR.
We think we recognise a little of the
humor of our old friend Mallay, in the
following hit at tbe Nullifiers. We ex
tract it from his paper, printed in Fle
mingsburg, Kentucky.
“And pray good Mr. Printer, who is
this Nelly Fiers 'hat's kicking up such
a thundering helloo in South
she must be a rip-roarer—a real so inge
cat, I sorty reckon. My honey and thuo
derations! if she and tuy wife were only
to be together one week,l'd guess as how
they'd storm a fort or two—;ur my wife
has a tang that can run from the fust day
us Jiniwary to the last day of December,
without ever being greased—and I am
told as how this Nelly Fiers »int slow at
a short game—but if she tan hold cut
with my wife, she must have tbe wind us
a gray hound and the strength of a lion.
My wife says as how Sal Tattle told her
that Granny Hobble said, this Nelly Fi -
ers was going over to that are city of Wash
ington to ring old Hick'ry*s nose for him
—just as she would a yotsng heifer to
make her stand still while they milked
her; but if my wife was there, if there
would’ui be a real dog fight I wonder—
for Jack is a tarrapau and my wife’s a
real Jackson plan .p to die hub.
Nuw, i’ll tell you what,—l always was
Clay—but my wife, she kept such a ding
dongiog at me all lhe time, that she made
.me promise 10 vote for Jackson at the
last election, and I th >’t a« how I’d fool
her most tarnally,so 1 slip’i off and voted
for Clay, and come home and told Nan
cy that I’d went for Jackson——but what
d<» you think? Next day one of the
Squires come to my house, and while I
was our,told her I voted f>r Clay—and
s« by hokee tire house has been toe hot
for me ever since. Bit I’m told as how
(his Nelly Fiers has turned all C. inside
out, just as a b iy would lurn a meal bag
to shake i'; well; by jingo she must be a
screamer,raised in a niger quarter I know;
fed on sweet talais and gels her living by
cleaning hog noses for old Kentuckians,
Well, if ever I can get my eyes on Miss
Nelly, if I don’t squintinizu her mighty
prodigoiH close, fur I’vea sort a likin af
ter all great wimmen, and would like ’em
still better if my wife’s lung was not con
tinually ringing in my ears like an old
sheep bell—only ten thousand tidies more
quick and keen.
Well, after hog killing time is over I’d
advise Nolly to come over iuto .Id Ken
tuck and get soap enough to wash het
clothes and new kind of cotton sect/,eighty
of’em will weigh a pound—and I cart
throw one of'em into a squirrel’s eye, a
hundred yards every crack, out <»f niv
<dd Kentucky bar of Iron.—Hoop! foi
old Kentuck. I’m Kentuck up tu the bub
and two inches deeper.
By an article in a Liverpool paper, it
appears to be confidently expected, that
the charter of the East India Company
will not be renewed, but that the govern
mem thair of immense dominions will pass
into the hands ofthe British government. 11
this expec'ation should be realized, it will
change the circumstance of that nation,
in relation to this very important branch
of their affairs in>>st essentially and ma
terially. We have hardly expected that
this long established, and most powerful
company, would be annihilated at this
time. But should it prove to b. the fact,
it will be an occurrence of great interest
in the history of that country and govern
ment, and especially to the mercantile
portion of ihe nation. (V. Y. Dai. Adv.
Utility of Mesic,—Plato s;tys, ‘Bo
ifilv exercise is the sister of pure and sim
ple music;& as exercise imports health to
the body, so music imparts the power of
self-government to the soul.* In accor
dance with th:s sentiment, I am couviti -
ed that it has no small influence on school
discipline. I was stuck with the superior or
der&kindly aspect of the German schools
in comparison with our own, and ascrib
ed it not a little to the cultivation of mu
sic in them. Those who unbe in singing
with their fellows and their mister, will
be more disposed to be kind to the our,
and obedient to the other. In addition
to this, the study of music, from its very
nature, cultivates the habits of order, and
obedience, and union. All must follow
a precise rlue. All must act together, &,
mnvo in obedience to a leader; and the
habit required in one part of our pursuits
necessarily affects others.—Mr. Wood
bridge's Lecture.
A PERISHABLE CARGO.
The enterprise of the Yankees is pro
verbial.—Their ships visit every part of
the globe, and they are adding every day
to the great variety of articles of trade
with other nations. The ship Toscany
is now about sailing from B jsiod f«»r Cal
cotta, and has on board a cargo of Ice.
is compactly stowed in the lower hold,
surrounded with tan, which is well known
to be a non conductor of heat, bod great
care has been taken to exclude the exter
nal air—ls <his cargo should arrive there
safe, it would doubtless command in that
sultry climate an enormous price. But
we may venture to say that the idea of
transporting such a perishable commodity,
90 many thousands ot miles, in lhe course
i.f which the Equater must be twice tra
versed, would never enter into the hefd
of any other being than a Yankee.—
Lowell Journal.
PUBLIC MEETING.
Tn pursuance of puolic notice, .1 large
and respectable meeting of the citizens of
New-Orleans, took place at Hewlett’s
Coffee House, on Tuesday evening, 7th
instant, for the purpose of taking into con
sideration ihe Circular, lately addressed
to the Friends of the Union, by Messrs.
Drayton, Huger, and Pepoun, of Charles
ton, S. C. (already published in all the
papers of this city) on the subject of the
American Flag, and of aiding and carry
ing into effect its object.
On motion, Nathan Morse, Esq. was
called to the Chair; and W. H. Chase,
and H. B. Cenas, Esqs. were appointed
Secretaries.
The object of the Meeting having been
clearly and fully explained by the Chair
man,
On motion, it was That a
Committee of seven M embers be appoint
ed by the Chairman, to prepare a series
of Resolutions, expressive of the sense of
the meeting.
Whereopon the following Gentlemen
were nominated:
VV. L. ROBESON, JOHN NICHOLSON,
F. W. LEA, ALBERT HOA,
J. N DUNCAN, rtul
SAMUEL SPOTTS, SIMON CUCULLU;
Who having teiired for a short time,
returned and reported, through their
Chairman, the following Resolutions:
Resolved, That tbe Citizens of New-
Orleans hai* with pleasure the patriotic
exertions now making by a portion of our
fellow-cilizons of Cliarles'on to cherish
in the minds of the Ameiican people a
devotion to the emblem of our Union and
greatness, the ‘Star Spnngled Banner’ of
our country,which has so often waved in
triumpho’er freed un's foe%dbundei which
the oppressed of every nation and every
clime have found shelter and pio ection,
when driven by (he frowns of tyranny tu
seek our hospitable shores.
Resolved, That we will contribute by
every means in our power, to spread an
universal adoraiion for our beloved U
ion; and that so long as one dropuf Amer
ican blood flows in our veins, we will sup
port and opuuld, through good &, through
evil report, the Sacred Banner under
which our fathers fought, bled and (oiled,
to ensure our freedom aud independence
—that emblem of our power aud great
ness, whicn, even in a foreign land, over
awed an infuriated and licentious soldiery
in their career ot blood and violence.
lie sullied, That it is the duty of every
good citizen, and every lover of his coun
try, in the present state of party and sec*
tional feeling, to contribute his exertions
to promote Union and harmony among
all the twenty-four members of our great
and United Country, and devoted attach
ment to <>ur beloved National Flag, our
pride in peace and our protection in war.
Resolved, That in order to catty into
effect the object of this Meeting, the
Chairman appoint a Committee of twenty
four pet sons, who shall be authorised to
collect Subscriptions to aid the Committee
in Charleston to procure a National Paint
ing, representing the glorious tiiumph of
the American Flag at the storming of the
Ci'v of Mexico,
Resolved, That the said Committee be
authorized, after keeping the said sub
scription <*pen for the space < f ten days,
to forward the amount then collected, to
gether with a copv of the proceedings of
this Meeting, to William Drayton, Daniel
E. Huger, and Benjamin F. Pepoon, at
Ch.ides'on, South Carolina.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
Meeting be signed by the Chairman and
Secretaries and published in all the pa*
peis of this city.
The Resolutions having been read,
were, on motion, unanimously adouted,
having fiist been supported and advocated
by Bernard Marigny, Esq. in a forcible
and eloquent speech.
On motion, and in conformity with the
4th Resolution, the Chairman appointed
the following Gentlemen to compose a
Committee to piocure subscriptions.
William Christy, J tines R. Steiret,
F. W. Lea, D. Augustin,
Samuel Spotts, Joseph M’Nuil,
A. H. Wallace, G Pt eval,
Dennis Prieu r , B. Chew,
J. C. De St Romes, S. Herman,
Peter Laidlaw, F. Gaiennie,
W. G. Hewes, J. B. Perrault,
Fel xDe Armas, Captßosseao, US N
John L Lewis, C. F. Daunoy,
Simon Cucullu, B. Z. Canonge,
John H. Holland, Louts Allard.
On motion, Resolved, That the thanks
of thd Meeting be pieseuted to the Chair
man and Secretaries; and also to Mr.
Hewlet for the use of his room, and for
his kindness in making the necessary pie*
parations for the Meeting,
On motion, adjourned.
N. MORSE, Chairman.
W. H Chase, I o
H. B Cenas. / Secretaries,
A mighty conjuror has made his appearance
in New York and is astonishing the good society
of that city with his marvellous feats; the follow
ing is among them
“A cage, containing some half a dozen
small birds, alive and hopping, was ex
hibited to the spectators ; it was then pla
ced on a table, and fired at with a pistol
charged with fine shot—every bird fell
dead. A cooking apparatus was then ,
produced—a fire placed under it, and the
dead bird’ thrown into the seething oan ;
when they were as was believed sufficient
ly cooked, the cover was removed, and
behold, instead of a fricasee, and appar-
ently to the utter amazement of the edbk,
flew forth from the boiling mess, to differ
ent parts of the Saloon again alive and
full feathered, ihe flock of little birds. —
M. Snnbeits’s powers of ventriloquism,
and of assuming various characters, by a
change of features, are truly astonishing,
atrd add much to the entertainments of
his exhibition.
•: AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1833.
Considerable R tin Has fallen in this, neighbor
hood during the past week—and the Savannah
River is unusually high for this season of the
year—the water is wow over the lower Wharf,
and was rapidly rising when dur paper went to
press. Considerable injury to the promising
crops on the low grounds must be expected
from lhe prerent appearance of the weather.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Branch
Bank of (he State of Georgia in this city, yester
day, John Phinizy Esq. was chosen President.
It generally so happens, in this State of ours,
that warm weather brings with it some excite
ment, not merely physical The election taking
place in October leaves the summer months to
be used up, in making arrangements for it. And
as, at that season, many of our *our people'’ aie
travelling through the State, for -health, or a k
museinent, with plenty of leisure to disedss what
ever may be most interesting, and tn great need
of something to talk about, the coming election,
most happily, furnishes materials for them * and
any thing, that will given zest to that sulyect, is
most greedily snatched at Last year, we had
nullific tioo. in all its glory—the Athens Meet
ing the Lexington Meeting, the Augusta Meet
ing and fifty other meetings kept the State in
an uproar, and furnished all our stump orators
with speech limber, during the whole season
They acted as diaphoretics, and carried off, in
the shape of sweat, vast quantities of ill humors
from the body politic. Then byway of blister,
we bad the dallying, doubling, dastard toast of
of tbe orator of Lauiens Court House. Who
would have supposed, after such a course of de
pletion, in the political body (especially followed
by such a series of ablutions, as we have bad in
the natural body, from an unexampled succes
sion of high waters—-one of which is even now
upon us, while we write) who would have sup
posed, we say. that another course of the same
medicine was to be endured by “ our people,"
this very year t—And yet, lo ! and behold I four
months are yet to elapse before our election, and
the note of preparalt ui is already sounded
The pestle lias been heard to clink against .the
mortar, and the same diaphoretic is again “being
prepared." The Convention has ended, lo! tiy
umphe! (—wish it had never begun—Uqt let
that pass—) The Convention is over: Aud now,
we are to fall to, and quarrel like cats aud dogs
about ratification, till the day of trial comes.—
We have a Governor to elect, too—aut Crawford,
aut Lumpkin—(quere aut Casar, aut NIHIL )
If these two questions dou’t give our politicians
the necessary quantity of sweating, to relieve
tbe surcharged system of its bile aud venom, we
greatly mistake the signs of the times. Out
Editorial brethren are already sounding “ to the
onset.” The slumbers of the gr<y goose quill
are broken. The ink bottle is emptied. The
paper is scrawled over, by the ream. The j rio
ter's devils are made to tumble about the types,
and knock the bulls together till they are all as
black as imps: And worse than that, slander
wilt be let loose ; lies told by the bushel j char
acters Wangled ; and peradventure, some few
bullets fired at ten pace’s distance, before “ the
hurly burly’s doue.” And what is alt this for ?
To make a Governor, aud to ratify (or nullify,
as the case may be,) the doings of the Conven
tion aforesaid.
But, to be serious This last is
not a matter tor mere jesting. The freemen of
Georgia will be called on, when they vote next,
to speak, to speak, not merely fur themselves,
but for posterity—on an important change in
their fundamental law—not on a matter of or
dinary legislation, but One, that, when fixed, will |
probably, be fixed unalterably. Now, without
pretending, at this stage of the business, to dic
tate to others, or even to express an opinion on
a subject, which we consider of too vital mo
ment to speak hastily on, and which we hope to
treat mote advisedly at some future day ; we re
spectfully ask our feliow-citiZeus, to examine
this matter for themselves ; to lookinto the ope
ration of the proposed amendments, on the inter
ests of the Stale, without reference to party, or
party purposes—and, with a view to those inter
ests, permanent and all-impottant as they are,
to give a vote which they can justify lo theirown
consciences and to p sterity.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Bank of
the State of Georgia, held at Savainah on Mon
day last, the following gentlemen were elected
Directors of the Branches for the ensuing year.
For the Office at Avgusta.
Wm. H. Turpin. John Phiuizy,
Isaac 3. Tuttle Win. H Morgan,
Geo. M. Newton, A. P. Pillot,
Asaph Watetman, R. H. Musgrove,
Chas. J. Jenkins, Jacob Moise,
For the Office al Milledgeville.
Seaton Grantland. Zach Lamar,
Wm. Sandford, Wm. Rutherford,
Thomas Ragland, Chas J. Payne,
Thomas B Stubbs.
For the Office at Washington.
J. W. Robinson, Mark A. Lane,
Thomas Seinmes, D P. Millhouse,
A. L. Alexander, Lock Wemmes,
William L. Harris.
For the Office atEatonlon.
Irby Hudson, James M Dunn,
John C Mason, Henry Branham,
Wm. B. Flournoy, Josiah Flournoy,
Wade Hill.
For the Office at Macon.
Isaac G. Seymour, Ambrose Baber,
Geo W Persons, E. W. Wright,
Tarply Holt, Levi Eckley,
James Rea.
Mr. Duane of Philadelphia, the new Secretary
of the Treasury, is the sou of Col. Duane, for
merly Editor of the Aurora. He was originally
a Printer and woiked at the case 9 long time ;
he afterwards became a lawyer, & has at length
like Franklin, risen by the force of his own mer
it, to one of the first stations in Ute Confederacy.
William 3. Hatch has been elected Cashier
itie Commercial Bank, in Cincinnati, Ohto, tice
Augustus Moore, resigned.
It appears that an uncommon drought pre
vails in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and crops are
consequently suffering.
United States’ Bank Stock, to the amount of
160,000 dollars, was Sold at the New-York Ex
change Boaid on the 14th Inst, at 131 t0 *3 1 8
per cent above par.
Brigadier General Robert Patterson has been
elected Major General in Philadelphia, vice Gent
Ca'dwalader, resigned.
The Honorable John Gayle is announced as e
candidate for re-election to lhe office of Gover
nor of Alabama.
Heuiy L. Pinckney, Esq, late Editor of the'
Charleston Mercury, is announced as a candi
date to represent Charleston District in tbe next
Congress.. *
JOHN ADAMS.
Controversy appears no less the delight, than
thte forte of the Et-Presldent. Like Ishmael, “his
hand is against every man,'* though every.man’s
hand be not Against him. He has just published
in the Boston papers a third Letter to Mr. Ed
ward Livinostoh, on the subject of Masonry,
in which he say s ; “ I have yet more to say" to
you, sir, on this subject; nor shall Ibe discour
aged from continuing to Address you upon it by
your observance of a dignified silence !’’ Pity
but Mr. Adams* own sense of propriety could
teach him lhe “observance of a dignified si
lence !”
Horrible I— oa tbe 12th lust, a most diabolical
murder was committed in Morristown, Newt-
Jersey, on a Mr. Samuel Sayres, his Wife and a
colored serfant-wunian, who resided about half
a mile fr am the above village. The bodies of
Mr. & Mrs. Sayres, were found buried under a
heap of manure. Suspicion fell immediately on
a Swiss, who had been hired by Mr. Sayres, and
was fouud missing, but was pursued ai d arrest
ed. On his person were found clothing belong
ir g to tbe fatiiily, with a gold watch the proper
ty of Mr. Sayres' daughter, with S2O in silver
and S2OO in go'd coins. It is supposed that the
murders were perpetrated hy striking Mr. S. on
the head with a hatchet, while in the stable ex
amining the horses, and that Mrs. S. was des
patched in the same manner, she having gone to
look after her husband, being alarmed cl his
absence. The monster then proceeded to the
Ivouse and stabbed the colored woman in tha
ear with a sharp instrument, supposed a knife.
He then packed up such articles as he could
conveniently carry pff— repaired to the stable,
took one of the horses and made lhe best of bis
way towards New-York. Mr. Savins was fof
merly a respectable merchant in New-York and
associated in business with Mr. Hugh K. Toler.
He has left two interesting daughters, one oi
whom is now completing her education at a fe
male seminary in New-Haven, and the other is
on a visit to some friends in Connecticut. Ha l
they been a( home they would doubtless have
shared the fate of their parents.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND,
The Packet Ship, Monongahela, Capt. Bnowit
aniveil at Philadelphia, brings London and Li
verpool papers to the Bth of April, inclusive.—
They, however, contain little or no interest. The
Parliamentary proceedings are chiefly'.upon sub
jects < f a local nature.—The House of Com
mans adjourned on the 4lh to the ISth of April.
A skirmish hud taken place between the armies
of Don Miguel ahd Don Pedro,'in which the lat
ter gained some advantages, and the affairs of
both a: mies are said to be in a wretched state,
For latest dates from Liverpool, see Commercial
head.
FROM i 011 CORRESPONDENT.
New- York, May id”.
We anived here on yesterday at 3 o’clock—
-4 d *ys from Charleston precisely. The David
Brown proved herself a good sea boat. Though
we had no actual storm, yet the wind had blown
so long in one direction and blew so fresh while
i we were out, that the sea was in a terrible com
motion. She rides the waves with perfect ease,
and dissipated every fear as to her perfect safety,
We bad rather too many passengers—being
about 85. Although we were all very sea-.icß,
out passage was. on the whole, net a bad one.
COMMERCIAL.
Livkrp .01, Apiil 8.
COTTON.—The market has been very flat
throughout the weik, the demand from thetrade
continuing very limited; the 10-v qualities of
American Vary in price-, but the better des rrp
tious of both fully maintain our quotations.—
The sales of the week, including 11X0 bales of
American and 400 Bengal? taken for espoit,
amount to 9360 bags. Import. 47.608.
To day the sales comprise 200 Brazils, in Per
nanis at 9 58 I. Maranhams at B}d. to 9 1 Bd.
and Bahias at Bd. and about 2000 in American
descriptions from 6 7 Bd. to Bd,
The Ship Meridian, from Havre, arrived ai
New York, on the 10th iost. sailed on the 6th
April. The Commercial Advertiser says:
“Tire transactions in the Havre Cotton Mar
ket were extensive, the sales from the Ist to the
sth ult. being 7200 bales—Georgia al 93 a
Mobile 94 a 105 , and Louisiana, 97 a 116. St.
Domingo Coffee bad sold as high as 80f ; but
at ihe latest date the price quoted is 77} a 78}.
Io other articles no change is noted
barleston, May 10.
COTTON—Arrivedsince our last to yesterday
morning inclusive, 305 bales Sea-Island, and
1998 bales of Upland Cotton. Cleared, in the
same time, 564 bales Sea Island, and 3800 bales
of Upland Cotton. Ou .ship board, not cleared,
193 bales of Sea Island, and 3349 bales Upland
Colton. The sales have been 1773 bales of Up
lands, as follows: 150, 12 1346; 120, 12};
166,12*; 8,12 38; 84, 124; 361. 12; 163,
Ilf; 242, 11 58; 138, 11*; 65, 11} ; 169, 11;
93, 10}: and 26, at 10 cents. Sea-Islands, 27 a
40; Maines, 2*2; and Santees, 2) cents. The
market continues fair for the finer qualities of
Uplands, at advanced prices—other qwalitiesare
rather heavy. The slock in first hands is light.
We adopt the Liverpool classification, and quote
Uplands, ordinary to middling, 10} toll; fair,
HJ a 11}; good fair to good, Ilf to 13; prime,
12} x 12 J3-Ifltb cents.
SUGARS—There has been several sales of
fine middling and ordinary Sugars during the
week—in all about 250 hhds.; Gne Muscovadoe?
at about 9to 9}. middling, Bto 8}; and
or, at 7to 7}. Che stock is not large, and there
is some disposition io holders of the medium
qualities to bold in for higher rates.
COFFEE —Some fair parcels of Havana,
hare broach: 12|a 12} Ona 13}