About Georgia courier. (Augusta, Ga.) 1826-1837 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1834)
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CT Nj deductions will be made in future from these All advertisements must have the number of insertions marked on them; otherwise they will be inserted till lor. bid, and charged accordingly. 8 H ERIFFS, CLERKS, and other public officers, wul bat e 25 per cent, deducted in their favor. IN SENA TE. Wednesday, March 26, 1834. Mr. KING, of Georgia, presented a memorial fiotn about 400 citizens of Au gust:), asking a restoration of the deposi tes, and a recharter of the Bank of the U. Slates. Mr. K. said that as, from the proceed ings of yesterday, he found it was still on the presentation of memorials, to speak of the character of ihe mem orialists, and at the same time, to say something upon the subject of their com plaints—although ha disapproved the practice of discussing those memorials, and thought the compliments of respecta bility, 4*c- as mere formal ceremonies— yet, as the practice was continued, he could not consent that his fellow-citizons of Augusta, and their memorial, should suffer too mnch >n comparison with those from various other quarters and sections of the Union, by refusing to bestow upon them something like the accustomed at’ tention. He said, then, he could state that he was personally acquainted with a very large portion of the memorialists; and he thought that, to a limited extent, they embraced all classes, characters, trades, professions, and interests, in the community from which the memorial came. He said he also found that a ve ry respectable portion of the merchants and business men of the city had signed the memorial, and from his acquaintance with some of them, he thought their ex perience and general intelligence as mer chants, qualified them as wel| to judge of those measures of State policy which would likely improve or injure their res pective interests, as a like number of marchants taken promiscuously from any other city in the Union. Os the politics of the memorialis’s,how ever, he said he could not say so much. He was not extensively acquainted with the political opinions and feelings of his neighbors. He did not know whether they were generally friendly, or oppos ed to the present administration. But from the best information he could gain, the memorial was not originated, circula ted, signed, or sent here, with any very marked reference to party distinctions upon this point. He might perhaps, he said, make this exception. There was, he said, a very small, but at the same time a very respectable party in the ci ty of Augusta (known as the nullifying party) who, with a consistency with their former opinions upon the subject of the United States Bank, (which so far from censuring, he was much disposed to ad mire,) had generally, he believed, de clined to put their signatures to the pa per. There was one characteristic, howev er,he said, by which bethought the mem orial might be distinctly marked. So far as he was acquainted with the sentiments of the memorialists, they had been gen erally friendly to a United States Bank. They thought such an institution an use ful instrument in the commerce of the Country, and an efficient aid to the Govern ment in the administiation of its finances. The character and objects of (bo memo rial, he said, might in fact bo gathered from the language employed in it, which had been appropriately selected, and showed an evident intention iu the mem orialists to state nothing but the truth; but at the same time to state that in such away as to forward, as far as possible, the object they had in view. They spoke of “indications” of distress in the com mercial community; ot “evils which they witness,” and of the greater evils which they apprehend, <s’c. They no where pointedly sta’e, said Mr. K. that they are themselves suffering under any very ttn usual pecuniary embarrassment or pres sure in their money market. They could not so state, he said, as he apprehended such statement would have been contra ry io the fact. The very mail, he said, which brought the memorial, brought the prices current, by which it appeared that local stocks (always (he theimometer of the money market, as they were not in fluenced by any foreign competition) and in fact -all the various articles usually sta ted in the price current maintained their prices, and indicated that all those who had the worth of money could procure money on the usual and customary terms. He referred also, to the proceedings of the meeting, by which it was admitted, be believed, by the speakers on both sides, that the pressure had not then reached the city. If fur ther evidence were wanting, he said he could slate that he had seen two of the memorialists themselves, both highly res pectable merchants, who had stated to him that the present season had not been marked by any unusual distress among the merchants. And, said Mr. K. if Sen ators should still be incredulous, I hold in my band a letter from one of the com mittee who drafted tne memorial itself, a line from which, he supposed, would con clusively settle this point, ylmong other things the writer stales, “As yet, our mo ney t. ukc‘. is about as vou left it.” *r k. aid, he was thus particular in dwelling on these facts, not only to show the true character of the memorial and its object, but to sustain his colleague in a declaration he had made a few weeks past, that al that time the city of Augusta was suffering no unusual distress. The truth of this statement had been question ed by some honorable Senator, and par ticularly the honorable Senatorfrom Ken tucky had laughed at his colleague for this supposed mistake. The statement of his colleague, he said, was strictly true at the time it was made, and in fact so continued up tv the date of the last ac counts. But, said Mr. K. it is true the memo rialists, apprehend distress,and he thought with some reason, if be understood well the present state of affairs in that city.- This pressure, said Mr. K., has been al most periodical in the Southern cities for several years, and may always be expect ed to a certain extent, when the article of cotton opens at a price much beyond that which it afterwards maintained. It is known, said Mr. K., tnat Northern ex changes is principally furnished to South' ern merchants by the purchase and ship" ment of catton. They are the means by and through which the Southern mer. chants pay their Northern debts. And when the trade continues regular through out the season, the supply is generally equal to, and sometimes beyond the de’ mand, and the premium on Northern ex changes is often a trifle, and sometimes nothing. But, said he, the planters, as ter they have sold a portion of their crop at good prices,sell the remainder with ex treme reluctance at prices very far below what they have previously obtained.— Every man, he said, at all in the habit of attending to the operations of his own mind, would understand the policy by which the planter was governed in such a case. In fact, the planter was not only in clined, but enabled, during the present season, by a timely disposition of a large portion of his crop, at good prices, to hold on to the remainder, in expectatijn of an advance. Since the fall in the foreign market had produced a heavy de cline in the home market, sales had al most ceased in Augusta, and for the last sixty or seventy days, the p’anters had generally stored. The warehouses, he said, in Augusta, though numerous and spacious, were crowded to overflowing, very few preferring to sell at the current prices, but holding on with an obstinate confidence, hoping better might be ob tained. This policy, said Mr. K.,has cut off the most usual supply of Northern exchange, which had risen since about the Ist of January,from par to 2 per cent, premium, and even this rate being beyond the u«u al exchange—a further advance would probably produce a run upon the banks for specie, in the remittance of which the merchants (when remittances must go on as usual,)<ould find a better account than in the purchase of exchange at these high rates. If, for these reasons,said Mr. K., the merchants should commence drawing specie from the banks, the banks must stop their discounts, and reduce their debts, by calling upon their customers, and thus would commence the pres. sure. There was another cause,he said,which might add something to the demand for money iu the Southern cities; and which if he mistook not, had added to the ap prehensions of some practical men in the city of his residence. There were, he said, many Northern houses which had Southern connexions and business friends; and it will be recol lected, said Mr. K., that when making a few remarks before the Senate a few weeks since, I stated there was rather an unusual demand for capital in the nor thorn cities, without the usual facilities of supplying them. The money market has been easier at the South and he believed he had understood,(at least it was reason- that many southern houses had ex hausted their credit to raise remittances to aid their northern friends. This might, if the facts were so, add something to the usual demand for northern exchange, which together would make something more than an ordinary demand, which was met in consequence of the policy of the planters,by a very inadequate and in sufficient supply. Mr. K. said he hoped however, that this apprehended pressure might yet be averted by a change of poli cy by the planters, or such rise in their produce as would induce them to part with their property. I might bo disposed, said Mr. K. un der other circumstances,to say something in reference to the object of the memor ialists, in a more methodical manner than 1 have done heretofore, but the proposed measure of the recharter is more directly before the Senate by the introduction of a bill for that purpose; and I will there fore conclude by moving that the memo rial be read, printed, and referred to the Committee on Finance, hoping that the bill, when brought for ward for discussion, will have that deliberate attention to which the importance of the measure proposed so justly entitles it. Union Meeting—The meeting of the “Union and State Rights Association” yesterday was cheering to the patriot. All of the members, whose avocations per mitted, pressed to the Exchange, where tue hoary head, grown grey under the sky of this happy and united government, was seen uniting with the youth of the present age in vindicating the principles of that government from the misconstrue lions of benighted and ambitious politi cians. The gentlemen nominated by the Committee to sustain in our next Legis lature the principles on which the Asso ciation is based, having been called on to signify their acceptance of the nomin.i< tion, responded in addresses, breathing the sentiments of deep and soul stirring patriotism. They were frequently inter rupted by the applauses and cheers of the meeting. Citizens of Georgia, native and adopted, inspired by one voice and one mind, were there, —vowing on the altar of their country eternal enmity to those doctrines, which will, if not arrest ed, substi'uie anarchy and bloodshed for the peaceful arbitrament of the people of the Union, a people whose happiness is linked with the happiness of their fellow countrymen. With such principles and such men to support them, wo cheerfully rely on the patriotism of a people, en' lightened by the Final Arbiter of Nations and of men, to carry out and preserve forever unimpaired, Heaven’s choicest blessing—the Liberty and Independence of this wide spread and happy Republic, whose glory is based on the people’s weal.— Georgian. “THE BLOODY BILL!” “THE BLOODY BILL!” What has become of "the bloody billV' What sop has been thrown to the Cerbe rus of the South that has silenced his tongue in relation to that terrible usurpa tion? Is the interest of an unconitution al and corrupting Bank x of so much high er importance titan liberty, as to seal the mouth of Mr. Calhoun and his nullifying followers, in relation to "the bloody billV' The Southern People may now judge of the sincerity of these nullifiers. — Nothirg was to terrible a few months ago as “the bloody bill.” Now they hug to their bosoms the bloodly men who passed the bloody bill, and dare not agitate the question lest they should quarrel with their new allies and do injury to the cause of the Bank! . Great friends of State Rights, they are supporting the grossest usurpation upon those rights ever com mitted by the General Government! — Ultra republicans in profession, they do not hesitate to unite with ultra federalists in practice. Their State Rights consist in the destruction of individual rights, and the liberty they adore is the liberty to enslave their fellow Freemen. Globe. The Gold Mines.— The mining busi iness in this part of the g »ld Region, is again in successful operation—Many depo site mines which were considered as ex hausted are now yielding good profits to our enterprising miners. One of these mines in this neighbourhood, which was successfully operated on in 1830—and ’33, is now yielding 3 dwts. to the band per day. We were a short time since shewn a beautiful specimen of Saltpetre recently discoverd on lot No. 11-12-4 Auraria Recorder. A singular incident occurred in this town on Sunday last* It appears that some persons had been amusing them* selves by worrying an ox that had been confined in the Wagon Yard for the pur pose of being fattened, and had employ ed for this purpose an old ragged coat. — After he had become much incensed, an individual put on the coat and sallied into the yard when the Ox made at him, and followed him up a flight of stairs, into the second story. Here, missing the ob ject of his pursuit, he bolted through a window into the street, considerably in jured by his leap of about 15 feet. [Fayetteville Observer, April 1 Pressure of the times.—At tho sale of the Hands belonging to tho State, which took place in this city yesterday, seventeen negroes brought $9,185, aver aging within a fraction of five hundred and forty dollars, each. The highest price paid was $655. — Georgian. From the Journal of Commerce. “The measure of Value.” The least obvious, but most important purpose of money, is a measure of value : yet in most of the disputations on the subject, we rarely meet with any allusions to that im portant quality, or any application of its principle. The labors of men in the highest walks of science have been put in requisi tion to obtain fixed unalterable measures oflength, weight, and time; but a meas ure of value, which is far more impor taut than some of the above seems as yet to have received but little consideration; and although natural difficulties lie in the way of such an exact result as is obtained from others, still it is deserving of more consideration than it has yet received. Let us suppose a yard as the represen. talion of the measure of length, and com pare it with the measure of value, in or der that we may see the importance of tho latter. It is a definite thing, being a standerd by which all other lengths may be tested, and with it all variations of the same denomination of length in various countries can be compared, and the dif feience calculated. If the yard of France is longer than our own, by adding to the number the decimal of the difference we have at once thenumber of our own yards; or by subtracting the decimal from the price, we have the cost of our own yards. If in the same manner we had a fixed measure of valure, its use would be obvi ous and important. As yet, however, mankind have not discovered any basis upon which to predicate calculations which will give us a fixed standard, and as gold and silver are the only basis which in any degree furnish the quality desired,mankind have generally used them for this purpose,—universally before the valuable modern invention of paper mo ney and partially since; but in the appli cation and use of this valuable a great error has been committed in ne glecting to consider the quantity of our measures as its most important feature,and that all variation of its quantity is a varia tion of itsstandard; & hence a destruction of its most valuable quality Thus every addition o the quantity of our measures, and though we hereby increase the number of our yards, we do not increase the quan tity of our value. It is freely admitted that in the United States advantages have arisen from the free use of credit as cur. rency. but it is quite questionable whelk- er the evils have not exceeded the bene fits. The use of credit in every other form is entirely compatible with its disuse as currency, nor is the latter at all essen tia! to the most extended use of the for mer, while the use of the latier inevitably renders the former extra-hazardous. In the very able report of the Union Committee the evils of our present con dition are traced to their final cause, the too extended use of credit as currency,— while they denounce with the reprobation they deserve, the measures of the govern ment which fired the train; and they have stated the importance of limiting that use; and though on this subject the details and information which the Report embodies are of great value, yet in my view the mode of controlling this use of credit as currency which is obvious and would seem to obtrude itself upon the most cas. ual observer, has escaped their notice, or has not been considered and its impor tance observed. Gold and silver are, after, the basis of our currency; and paper by its constitu tion and laws, is so fixed io its relation to metal, that it will in spite of all our cries of want, follow its impulse. If by any cause, domestic or foreign, in the fo r mer by want of confidence, in the latter by a change of policy, a demand for metal occurs, our currency instantly feels its in fluence, and shrinks with a rapidity pro portioned to its expansion. The moment the demand ceases, the expansion again occurs to the detriment of all classes and the benefit of none. The remedy obvi ously then is so to chain the currency to metal by the action of positive law, that they shall expand and contract together; or in other words, that the issues of Banks shall bear a fixed relation to the meta' in their vaults. Let that relation be such as the wisdom of Government shall deter mine; but let it be left to the discretion of no man or combination of men, interested one day to increase and another to dimin ish it. The power to create currency is potent for good or evil, to a degree little imagined. It may be said that specie in vanlt is idle capital. Is it idle while its representation in a convenient and safe form is doing its duty, and though value less itself, is receiving the reward due on ly to its constituent? We cannot “eat our cake and keep it too,” but may cry like the child, for our voracity, when it is too late. But by diminishing our curren cy we diminish prices, and then labor would not be amply rewarded. It cer. tainly cmnot be necessary to prove that price is not value; the busines of life is the production and exchange of values, and while these are abundant, their price is a mere bagatelle. The change, if attempted, should be gradual, as all sudden changes of curren cy are deplorable; but its effect would be only happy, and influence perfect, while the remedy suggested, that of prohibiting the issues ofstnall notes,while they are des irable and proper,and tinderall circumstan* cesought to be adopted,would be only par tial and not reach the root of the evil. HARRY. CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS. The following remarks we copy from an Es say, published in the last No- of the Southern Agriculturist, on the ‘•Construction of Roads in the Southern States," by Joseph Eve, Esq., of Richmond county, Georgia. Their justness must have been apparent to almost every traveller, who has been in the habit of noticing such facts.* Clay and sand mixed in due propor tions, will from a concrete substance, not easily affected by the changes of drought or moisture, or heat, or cold, except in tense frost, not common in the Southern Slates. The substratum of our pine.bar rens is generally clay, either white or yellow or sometimes red—red ocre (ferru ginous earth.) The upper stratum is as of ten sand not a foot in thickness, which rests on a bed of clay. In making ditch es in low situations, or on throwing sand and clay on dams and causeways, every body may have observed what a firm solid surface is often accidentally produced. I say accidentally, for there were no pains taken,or even anidea that mixing the sand clay,in certain proportions, would cause them to combine, so firmly, that a road impervious to moisture, or the wheel . of carriages would be the consequence. Hence, often, we find a dam, or a cause way firm and hard at all seasons, and urr der all circumstances; and the heaviest carriages, with wheels properly construct ed, will make no impression on them, ex cept to make them still harder. Our narrow wheels,indeed, would injure even a Macadamized road. On the sides of hills, or if the road be made convex, the heaviest rains have no tendency to soften them. But.it will be said, that we occa sionally meet with such portions of roads that have been accidentally made. I ad r mit it; and I ask a question in my turn. Are not the materials of such portion of road or causeway, composed of sand and clay, by chance, in due proportions? The affiioity or elective attractions between water, clay, and sand, is very great, and the retentiveness of clay, is so great, that a certain degree of water cannot be ex. pelled from it without great heat. Sand is composed of fragments of irregular shapes and sizes, and when well mixed with clay, in such proportions, that the latter shall just fill the interstices of the .sand, the surfaces of it, rest on, and sup* pwt each other, and are kept united by the attraction of cohesion, as the particles of a stone are, and form an imperfect sand-stone, sometimes so hard, where it has remained undisturbed for a considera ble time, as to require the pick-axe to penetrate it. I have made bricks of clay and sand, so hard, by compressing them in a brick machine, that houses might be built of them, without baking them in a kiln; and the best bricks require a consid erable proportion of sand with the clay— hence, the cause of those, which come in contact with the fire, vitrifying. To ex explain the theory of cements made of lime and sand, will throw some light on the subject we are discussing. From not being generally understood, too much lime in proportion to the sand, is used. To make the strongest mortar, the coarsest sand is the best, and requires the least lime. The theory is as follows:—quick lime, that is, lime from which the carbon (the barbonre acid gas solidified) has been expelled by heat, is a pure alkaline earth and has so great an affinity for water, that it decomposes it, and solidifies the oxygen—and, hence, slacked-lime,though much water has been used, appears per fectly dry. If more water be added, and it is left undisturbed,it crystalizes. When quicklime is mixed with sand and water in proper quantities,the process of crystal ization commences, and by embracing & fixing themselves to the particles of sand, tie, I might almost say, rivet them togeth er; and as the crystals are infinitely small and of course weak, it follows, that the nearer the panicles of sand are brought into contact, by having as little as posi. bie interposed, so as merely to fill the interstices, but not to keep them from touching each other, the stronger will be lhe'eoment. Analogous to the above, in many particulars, is the mixture of clay and sand,that I have recommended for roads, but in this, there is no crystaliza. tion. The tenacity and adhesiveness of the clay, connects and binds together the particles of sand, as the crystaliza tion of the lime did in ihe foregoing in stance, and, as in that case, the sand be ing the stronger substance, it follows, that too large a proportion of clay must be avoided. If we had in all casses to ex periment with pure clay and pure sand or clay and sand of the same quality, a very few trials would be sufficient to as certain the proportions tqat would pos sess the greatest adhesiveness, and that would make the best road. But the fact is ihat though we soaieiimes meet with sand and clay tolerably pure, we much oftener find them combined with each oth er, in various proportions; indeed, very ofien, in the proper proportions, lo make the best road; and from this circumstance, we often find, that the throwing of dirt on the road in making ditches on each side, we make a good highway, sometimes e qual to a turnpike, without intending it— hence, also, the sand thrown out of a well io making it, will cause the yard for a con siderable distance round to be firm and hard for ever after. Agreeably to observations I have long made, we shall never be disappointed in finding the mateiials we want for our road, either within a foot, or a lew feet of the surface, or laterally, in a valley, or on a ridge, at no great distance. The materi als will cost nothing, and very little la* bour, in comparison with the value of the object, in bringing them together. One superiority the clay and sand mads will have over the Macadamized, is of no small moment, it will be made the better by using, and never wear out, and will require little or no repairs, after the ex periments are made, that in some instan ces, may be necessary, in propounding the materials in due comportionsjthe par(.s de tached by the wheels of carriages, or by horses’ hoofs, if ever any should be, would (be reunted again, and no loss of substance would ever be sustained, ex cept on the declivities of hills, or where the roads were made too convex, in such places, heavy rains might wash ihe clay from the sand. To prevent this, the roads should be made with no more convexity than would prevent (he middle from set tling into a hollow when it becomes con solidated; and on declivities an excess of clay should be used in the composition. I have seen hills naturally, where there was such a lusky hit, in their component ma terials, that neither wet or dry deteriorat ed; and every one has seen pans of level roads, as I have before observed, that from the same circumstance, required no reparation. The Savannah road, oppo site mv residence,for about two miles and a half, between Butler and Rocky creeks, is an instance, where the composition of the soil is naturally the lucky hit, I spoke of above. This portion of the road, is always good, though much used by wag gons, very heavily laden with produce of the country, merchandize, and fire-wood. There are no ruts, though, in many pla ces, the water remains on it in rainy weather. For the next three miles, to wards Augusta, there is an excess of clay, in the composition of the soil, and hence, in rainy weather,the roads are very slop’ py, and would be a very bad road, if much pains were not taken by the Commission ers of the Roads, to keep it in order.— Between Butler and Spirit Creek, about six miles, sand predominates therefore, in dry weather, the road is very heavy, but still much less so,than between Spirit creek and M’Been’s, wheie the sand is unmixed with clay. But in all these instances,clay or sand judiciously applied, as the case indi cated, would make the whole of this por tion) of ihe Savannah road equal to a torn pike. We insert the following notice for the adjustment of a personal difficulty which stose between General Blair and Mr. Pincney, growing out of a supposed re ference made by the latter to the party dissentions in Sonth Carolina. We un’ derstand that no call was made on Gen eral Blair by Mr. Pinckney, but that the latter having disclaimed the intentions which could alone have provoked the re marks of General Blair, they were of course considered by him as no longer applicable. Mr. Joues, of Georgia, addressed the House as follows: Mr. Speaker, I only desire to trouble the House for a few minutes. The unfortunate difficulty which occur:ed on this floor a few days past , between two gentlemen from South Carolina, has been settled, and I have been requested to make the following statement: “Thai Gen. Blair, upon being inform ed by his friends that Mr. Pinckney, in his remarks op Thursday, disclaimed any intention to hurt the feelings of any mem ber of the Union Party at home, or any of their friends here, and which wai not then first heard by General Blair, be(Gea Blair) has thought it alike due to himself and to Mr. Pinckney, that he should make an explanation to Mr. Pinckney of the contradiction which he made to him on the floor; that, in pursuance of this feeling and opinion, he has seen Mr. Pinckney and mutual explanations -have passed between those gentlemen, which have been entirely satisfactory to both parties; and their former friendly relations have been restored. And for the pur. pose of continuing those friendly feelings and understanding from Mr. Pinckney that he had no intention to produce any controversy with Gen. Blair, and also un derstanding that their colleagues are desi rous that the local politics of Carolina should not be unnecessarily introduced on this floor, Gen. Blair declines delivering a speech which he had prepared and de signed to deliver in answer to Mr.Pinck ney.” In addition I have only to remark, that as the occurrence took place in the House, it was the desire of those gentle men that the House should know that it had been adjusted—that their feelings are entirely relieved, and the adjustment of the difficulty has been amicable, satisfaC- 1 tory, and honorble. Meeting of the Union and State Rights Association, A< a large and respectable meeting es the Union and Slate Rights Asseciaiiea ofChatham County, held at the Ex change Long Room yesterday, at 12 M. The Honorable George Jones presided, assisted by William B. Bulloch, Esq. Ist Vice-President, and Joseph Cummieg, as Secretary. The President having sta ted the object of the meeting ou motion of Colonel William Harrison, it was Resolved, That a Committee of fifteen be appointed to nominate Candidates to represent the County of Chatham in the next General Assembly of the Stat* of Georgia. On motion of Dr. Arnold, it was Resolved, That the President appoiat that Commute, — Whereupon the Chair named a Com mittee. The Committee having retired, after a short absence returned and reported as follows: thro’ Cononel H-urison, their Chairman: The undersigned Committee appoint ed to nominate fit and proper persons to represent the County of Chatham, at the next General assembly of the Stale es Georgia, respectfully recommend the fel low ing Ticket: For the Senate, MATTHEW HALL McALLISTER. For the House of Representative», WILLIAM W. GORDON, Esq. JOHN MILLEN, Esq. GEORGE SIIICK, E*q. (Signed,; William Harrison, John Hsopt, Adam Cope, Frederick Deusler, A. J. C. Shaw, Rob’l W. Pooler. F. A. Tupper, J. Joseph Waver, Dr. S. Sheftali, David Bell, B. Bourquin, Y. S. Pickard, William Dunham, William Roche. B. Edw’d. Stiles, The nomination was received by the meeting with acclamation. On motion of Patrick Iloustoen, Esq., seconded by Chas. S. Henry, Esq. it was unanimously Resolved, That the nomination made by the Committee be accepted. The gentlemen nominated were called upon in order to signify their acceptance or otherwise of the nomination. They all accepted, and each prefaced his ae ceptance with remarks which were en thusiastically received. The meeting gave three cheers for the. nomination. On motion of Colonel Harrison, it was Resolved, That the thanks of the meet ing be returned to the President, Vice- President and Secretary; and that th* proceedings be published. On motion the meeting adjourned. GEORGE JONES, President, * WM. B. BULLOCH, Ist Vice-Presi dent. Joseph Cumming, Secretary. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1834. Since the morning of the fourth, we have had a remarkable change of temperature from mild to cold. It has been accompanied with rain and clouds—otherwise, vegetation and fruit must have been destroyed by severe frost We have had no weather so cold since February. On the morning of the fourth of April, 1829, the morning after the great fire, many of our read ers will remember that we had also a great frost. If the wind should lull and the sky become clear, we may look for something of the same kind to morrow. Peas are in blossom, straw berriee ripening, corn up, and vegetation generally toe forward for such a visitation. Mr. Bell, of New Hampshire, and Mr. Cham bers, of Maryland, were the absent Senators, when the vote was taken on Mr. Clay’s resolu tions. Mr. Webster’s Bank bill is to be called again on the 21st inst., instead of first Manday in May. Mr. Eatoic, late Secretary of ar < b>s been nominated to the’Senate, as Governor of Florida in place of Gov. Duval at the expiration of his appointment. A merchant”of this city left New York in one of the Steam Packets for Charleston, at the usu al hour of departure, 4 o’clock, P. M., on Sat-, urday, and was at home at 5, P, M., on ensuing Wednesday. Mr. Essekder played Richard M. Johnson in the play of Tecumseh, in Washington City, on the Ist inst., for the benefit of the memory of its author, Dr. Richord Emmons,—TecwnreA by Mr. Eaton.
