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Newspaper Page Text2 THE COURIER. BY J. G. M’WHORTER. TERMS— This Paper is published every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY Afternoon, at $6 per an nntn, payablei n advance. COUNTRY PAPER—Published every FRID AY afternoon at $3 per annum,i n advance, or $4 at the expiration ol the year. t . , KT* No Subscriptions received for less time than six months. KT ADVERTISEMENTS, not exceeding a square will be inserted the first time at 75 cts. per square and 37 1-2 for each continuance. Advertisements of one square, published Weekly, at 7o cents for the first insertion, and 50 cents, or each con tinuance. , , „ Persons advertising b; the year will be charged 30 dollars including subscription and will be entitled to one. square in each paper. . When persons have standing advertisements of several squares, special contracts may be made. CT Nj deductions will be made in future from these charges , . All advertisements must have the number of insertions marked on them; otherwise they will be inserted nil lor. bid, and charged accordingly. .... II ERIFFS,CLERKS, and other public officers, wulhavo 25 per cent.deducted in their favor. 'lazy SAM.—The following will not be worth the less for being true: A Kentucky horse-driver, being in South Ca ulina with a drove, happened to take it to the neighborhood of General H ■ ■ ■, whose character for jockeying and man ceavring in trade is much more celebrated than his feats in arms. The Kentuckian, having perfect acquaintance with his char acter, went to see him to sell him some horses, or to run a race, as the fates and destinies might order and decree. He was one of your careless, uncon cerned, knockdown and drag-out-look" ing sort of fellows; who would assume just as much simplicity of countenance and address as circumstances might re quire. He had the appealance of being about twenty-two or three years of age; as usual, was dressed io blue mixed jeans to hide dirt, and wore a drab coloured hat for the same reason. •General,’ said he, ‘I am jist from old Kcntuck with some powerfoil nice horses, and may be you want some.—Daddy told me, if I come in your parts to call on - you, and ho reckoned may be you would buy a pair of matches, or help mo out in tradin: for he said you had a power of money, and understood tradin to a scribe. Here’s a letter from him,* hand ing one. ‘And besides I’ve as nice a pair of matches as you could shake a stick at, and as tight a nag for a quarter, daddy says as any in the parts, but he says I must run no races, caze mought lose, and we want all the money we can scrape for land. But I reckon he’d suit you to a fraction, caze you are a sportin character, mought win a powerful chance of money with him.’ While he was thus introducing himself and telling his business, the General opened the letter, which reads: “Dear General.— l take this opportu nity to wright to you by my Job, who is taken the first drove he ever drive, and I want you to roll a log a leetle for him, if so be it suits you. Job’s spry enough at home; but has’nt cut his eye-teeth yet, and if you will lend him a hand, i’ll due as much for any of your boys, if. you’ve got any whenever they come to these parts tradin or any thing else. So no more at present, but remain your affec tionate friend till death. PETER TOMPKINS.” The hero of horse-races, cotton-bags and sugar-hogsheads thought that he per ceived a neat speculation, and acted ac cordingly. Mr. Job Tompkins was re ceived with conrtesy; his man and boy entertained with the best in the larder, whilst the five and twenty horses were not neglected. It is true, that the Gen eral had not the slightest recollection of his friend and correspondent, Peter Tomkins. He might have once known him, or not. Il was the same thing.— Here was Job, a raw Kentuck stripling with twenty-five fine horses, as easily squeezed as a ripe melon. It was not in him to forbear. In the mean time, Mr. Job Tompkins made himself quite fiee and easy, and swaggered about the cosily furnished a partment as if he had been in a log cabin lie viewed the silver plate on the side, board with much astonishment, and a pair of silver-snuffers especially excited bis curiosity. ‘Lord! Ginoral, ar them thar candle snuffers made out of the pure stuff? I never seed any afore but ir’n ones, and mamy uses her shears. And all them are things on that big chist (the sideboard) is the ra’al Spanish casties? 1 heerd talk of this afore, but never seed it.— Now, if I was to tell this in our settle ment, may be they would’nt hop straddle me, and ride over me rough-shod, for a liar. But they said you’re a powei ful sight the richest man in the South States, aint you ?’ To all which the General returned suitable answers; and Mr. Job and he were hand and glove, for a successful! lodgement in his neighbor’s pocket with a view of clearing it out, a Herculean labor to be sure;—when Job heard in the next room the sound of music. Several Ken tucky reels were played, anon the sweet breathings of a melodious voice sung “Sweet—sweet home.” ’May I be d- ■...d,’ said Job, ‘if that don’t beat Bob Walker, and he’s a patch above common! But that aim none of vour music boxes, I know: it can’t be Is ill” My daughter is playing on the piano,’ said the General we will walk in the room and hear her.* Here were blandishments to strike Job dumb and entrance all his senses. “The man .who has no music in bis soul, “And is not moved with con cord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason,stratagems and spoils.’ Jobthought a man might love music and spoils also. He felt a liking for both.— Therefore he applied the music in his own way most rapturously Said Job, ‘may I never pull another trigger, if she’s not a priming above any thing I heeid talk about. Why she’s chartered! She’s a ra’al one, 1 assure you. Whv its enough to make a fellow swim that can’t; and if it was not for all these fine kiverlids over the track (U ,e and 1 had a partner to my mind, I’d go my drove to nothin or less, I can shake the sticks off of any boy you can produce: , , , T , The General now thought the Ken tuckian ripe enough.-To aid in which he hid been well plied with choice liquor, as he denominated the brandy and Ma deiar. ’ , The horses wore brought out, and ex amined and praised and cheapened, and faults found with all. They could agree upon nothing. ‘Well, where is you- quarter-horse? asked the General.—‘Oh, ho! 1 sort o’ thought what you were after,’ answered Job, ‘for you hardly looked at them thar matches,and these fine So you must be after the quarter nag. Jim, fetch out Lazy Sam,will you? Now, General, I’ll tell you, honor bright, he’s never been lickt in a quarter-spurt but once; by Joe Miller’s sorrel mate, which runs like a streak of lightning. She’s ara al sream er. Daddy swapt for him last fall after she tanned him out. If I knowed her I’d give vou her marks,so as you mought n’t be tuck in.—For I heerd Joe was bringing her to the South, to win his ex ponces. But here’s the horse any how, and I assure you he’s not slow.’ Now, be it remembered, that honest Job was not ignorant that General H was, at that time the owner of this identi cal mare, and for reasons best known to himself, he wished to make a race be tween her and Lazy Sam. The General examined Lazy Sam with the eye of a jocky. Pish! said he, very contemptuously, why this thing cannot run; it’s as flabsided as a sheep and as heavy-shouldered as a hog, and cat-hammed besides: I would not give a good mule for three.of it. Why did you not bring a lot of mules to mark" ei? I would have bought some at a fair price. Your horses do not suit me. —— Pray what do you ask for this thing, which you call a running nag? It may do to plough a season or two? Does it work?” Unlike the Job of ancient days, Job Thompkins suffered his anger to rise and master him. As least he made the Gen eral think so. To use his own words he corvorted—he screamed out. ‘Hello! mister, I wonder you are so mighty wise, considering you know so Why you make me feel all over in spots, to listen to you. I reckon may be you’ve got a quarter-nag your self: aint you?’ ‘1 have got a plough-nag here,’ said the General very cooly, ‘that I am sure can runaway from that thing of yours. ‘Thing!’ hallowed Job: ‘why you make me feel sort of wolfy, and I’ve a good mind to go my whole lot again any thing you can parade in the whole South. ‘I would not spoil a good mind then,’ quoth the General. I suppose you are afraid to run, asyour father has forbid it.’ ‘I dont care a solitary flint what daddy says when my Irish is up,’ exclaimed Job indignantly. ‘Bring on your nag, and let’s see it.’ The General gave the order; and as Job expected, the sorrel mare (once Joe Miller’s) was brought forward. While Job examined her, his adversa ry endeavored all be could to fret him, bv dispraising his horse: and Job ap peared to be worked up to fever heat. To cut shott the story, the drove was staked against twenty-five hundred dol.. lars in a check upon the C Bank and the company adjourned to the General’s track, to see the race. On the way, Job stopped short, and, facing the Gen eral, asked very earnestly, Now you’re sure this aint Joe Miller’s nag? My mind sort o* misgives me, caze, from wha; 1 have heerd, they sort o’ favor like. ‘D n your Joe Miller and his nag also,’ replied the General; the mare is mine, I tell you.’ This appeared to be satisfactory. 1 have given the General’s description of Job’s running horse—done to fret him. Lazy Sam was a well made pony of the Printer stock, but of a mild sleepy, slug gish disposition, until his metal was rais ed. He generally went with his eyes half-shut and his head drooj ing at an an. gle of forty five degrees. When the General viewed him he was in this con dition. The horses were in the General’s Sta ble, and the check for two thousand five hundred dollars was in the hands of a gen tleman present. The General had no doubt about keeping all Job’s fine horses and sending him home on his ten toes. — Job thought differently. Lazy Sam was led along by Job’s boy as sleepy as usual. The preliminaries were adjusted, and ri ders mounted. As Job threw Jim on Lazy Sam, he sprang all Lurs oft’ the ground; and his dull, sleepy look was changed into a wild, almost devilish ex. pression.—He looked like Job did when he 'corvorted? The General lost his usual tnahogony color and became pale; but said nothing. Lazy Sam won the race by thirty feet. Job was suddenly cool as a cucumber —and as he put the twenty five hundred dollar check in his greasy pocket book, which he did very deliberately, he look ed round cunningly. I sort o’think that’s first rate and a half,” said Job, ‘and a leetle past com mon. Whv, Gineral, Sam’s laid you as cold as a wedge.’ Turning round sudden ly to his rider, he said, ‘Jim, here’s five dollars—why if all goes in a man’s life time. And the General looks as if he’d been squeezed ihrough the leetle eend of nothin, or less.’ “Wbal is the future state?” said a cler gyman, to a sprightly little girl,—‘‘llli nois, sir,” ‘‘No, no,” said tire clergyman, “I uituii what is the lutmo condition of men and wumuD?” “Why replied the girl, hesitating—l suppose they mo to be married!” GOLD A, SILVER COINS. AN ACT concerning the Gold Coins ol the United States, and for other purpo ses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That (he gold coins of thq United Slates shall contain the following quantities of metal, that is to say, each eagle shall contain two hundred and thirty-two grains of pure g‘dd, and two hundred and fifty* eight grains of standard gold; each half eagle, one hunderd and sixteen grains of pure gold, and one hundred and twen ty-nine giains of standard gold; each quarter eagle shall contain fifty.eight grains of pure gold, and sixty-four and a halfgrains of standard gold; every such eagle shall be of the value of ten dollars; every such half eagle shall be of the val ue of five dollars; and every such quarter eagle shall boos the value of two dollars and fifty cents; And the said gold coins shall be received in all payments when of ful! weight, according to their said res pective values; and when of less than full weight, at less values, proportioned to their respective actual weights. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all standard gold or silver deposited for coinage after the thirty.first day of July next, shall be paid for in coin, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasu ry, within five days from the making of such deposite, deducting from the amount of said deposite of gold and silver one half of one percentum; Provided, That no deduction shall be made unless said advance be required by such depositor within forty days. Sec. 3. And bt itfurther enacted, That all sold coins of the United Slates, mint ed anterior to the thirty-first day of July next, shall be receivable in all payments at the rate of ninelj—lo»r and eight tenths of a cent per penny-weight. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,That the better to secure a conformity of the said erold coins to their respective stand ards as aforesaid, from every seperate mass of standard gold which shall be made into coins at the said mint, there shall be taken, set a part by the Treasur er and reserved in his custody, a certain number of pieces, not less than three; and that once in every year the pieces so set apart and reserved shall be assayed under the inspection of the officers, and at the time and in the manner now provided by law; and if it shall be found that the gold so decayed shall not be inferior to the said standard hereinbefore declared, more than one part in five hundred in weight, the officer or officers of the said mint whom it may concern shall be hell excusable; but if any ereatcr inferiority shall appear, it shall be certified to the President of the United Slates, and if he shall so decide, the said officer or officers shall be there after disqualified to hold their respective offices; Provided, That if, in making and delivery of coin at the mint in payment of a depouito, the weight thereof shall be found defective, the officer concerned shall be responsible to the owner, for the full weight, if claimed at the time of de livery. Sec. 5. And be it further enact cd,That this act shall be in force from and after the thirty-first day of July, iu lite year one thousand eight hundred and thirty* four- Passed the House of Representatives. Attest W. S. FRAN KLIN, CIk.Ho.Rep June 21, 1834. AN ACT regulating the value of certain foreign Gold Coins within the United States. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United S.'ates of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirty-first day of July next, the following gold coin shall pas* current as money within theUnitedStates, and berecivable in all payments,by weight for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say: the gold coins of Great Brilian, Portugal- and Brazil, of not less than twenty-two carats fine,at (he rate of ninety-four cents &eight tenths of a eent per penny-weight; the gold coins of France, nine tenths fine, at the rate of ninety-three cents and one tenth of a cent per pennyweight; and the gold coins of Spain, Mexico, and Colom, bia of the fineness of twenty carats, three grains and seven sixteenths of a grain, at the rate of eighty-nine cents and nine tenths of a cent per pennyweight. Sec. 2. And be it further enncfe(/,Tliat it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the afore said gold coins, made current by this act, to be had at the mint of the United States, at least onco in every year, and to make report of the result thereof to Congress. Passed the House of Representatives. June 21, 1834. (Signed) W. S. FRANKLI N, Clerk. AN ACT regulating the value of certain Foreign Silver Coins within the Uni ted Slates. Tic it enacted,by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uuited States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, the following silver coins shall be of the legal value, and shall pass current as money within the United States by tale, for tho payment of all debts and demands, at the rates of one hundred cents the dollar; that is to say; the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili, and Central America, of not less weight than four hundred and fifteen grains each; and those restamped in Bra zil of the like weight, of not fess fineness than ten ounces 15 pennyweights pure sil ver in tho troy pound of twelve ounces of standard silverjand the five franc pieces of France, when of not less fineness than teuounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard sil ver,and weighing not less than 384 grains each, al tho rates of ninety, three cents ouch. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,That itshali he tho duty of tho Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of tho aforesaid silver coins made current by this act, to bo had at the Mint of tho United States, at least once iu every year, and to make the report ol the result theieof to Con gress. Passed the House of Representatives. Attesi' W. S. FRANKLIN, [C/£. Ho. Rep. May 27th, 1834. THE SENATE. The mercenary Swiss, Noah, pro nounces a panegyric on the Senate. —He awards them “the highest praise, the greatest honor, the applause of the mil lions, and the approbation of every fiiend of liberty.” To cap the climax, he-says, “ They have saved the country.” This is ihp cant of the Oppostion.— The cabal which rules that body, has been compared to the Roman Senate, in the best days of the Republic. One ol the toasters of Powhatan has attempted to grace their deeds, by the declaration that ‘‘they have nobly taken their stand on the sacred confines ol the Constitu' lion.” It were extraordinary, indeed, if tho composition of tuis body should have de. served these lofty praises. The majority is composed of tho most discordant ele. ments —Nationals aud Nuilifiers —Hete there are two disappointed aspirants tor the Presidential Chair—and three, if not four ambitious candidates for the same el evated honor—banded together for the present, by their common hatred of the dominant party. 11 this body had truly obeyed the instructions, and reflected the sentiments of their States, (liey might now have claimed oar respect for what is intended to be the great federative feature of the Constitution. But Mr. Jefferson slates this objection, aiising in part from their long term of office; that ‘fin the General Government, the Hoose of Rep resentatives is mainly Republican; the Senate scarcely so at all, as not elected by the People directly, and so long se cured even against those who do elect them; the Executive more Republican than the Senate, from its shorter time, its election by the People, in practice,” <5’C. Yet, even Mr. J. himself could scarcely have conjectured, that there would arise a Senate, Ike tho present one, in which five members would have dared to retain their seats, and yet give their votes, in direct defiance of the in structions of their constiiueu's. Thus,in fact, the majority have been partly made up of men, who have actually and rudely transgressed the ‘‘sacred confines of the Constitution.” Who can wonder, then, that such a bo dy should have degenerated into a facti ous cabal—that its great Opposition lea ders should have, played the pait ofspou ters, and demagogues, and getters up of a public panic ? Who wonders at the ex traordinary declarations which have been uttered, and the abominable misrepresen tations which have been sent forth under the sanction of their authority? Who wonders at the support which they have extended to one of the most alarming In stitutions which ever threatened the C<>n stitution and the Liberties of the Peo ple? Yet this coalition Senate is n«»w to be held up by mercenary scribblers as the conservative branch, in con'radistinc tion to the Representatives of the People. And we are to be gravely told that 'They have saved the country?—Richmond In. quirer. ( THE REJECTION. The public is not yet aware of the in dignant feelings, which Mr- Stevenson’s rejection produced at Washington. One of the most distinguished opposition mem bers from South Carolina, did not hesi tate to declare, that it was all the work of a factious spirit, and that this outcry a bout Livingston’s Letter was calculated to cover their reckless proceedings, and their outrage upon Mr. Stevenson’s char acter. He declared, that Sievensen could not have acted honorably otherwise than as he did; that he had no reason to refuse to offer for Congiess, aud none to decline the chair; and that if he had done so, they would have abused him, and then said he had the offer of this very appoint ment in his eye. We have already given an anecdote about Mr. Moore, of Alabama, it is said also, that the day after the rejection, Mr. K ight, Senator of R. Island, was so much dissatisfied with the vote he had gi ven against Mr. Stevenson, that ho or dered the Secretary of tho Senate not to cjmthunicate so much ol the Executive Journal, as relates to Mr. Stevenson, to the President, as is customary, but to hold up that part of it. Mr. Knight wish ed the appointment re-considered — but he could not ultimately be induced to move if, although he declared that he. would vote for Mr. S., if it again came up. And Mr. Moore, of Alabama, made the same declaration. There was some mention made of a re-nomination —but Mr. Stevenson de., dated positively against it. He would not consent to pass under the sentence of men, who had commiltad such an outrage upon his feelings. No man was more busy than Mr. Clay, in organizing the opposition to the nomi nation. Early in the session, he as well as Mr. Calhoun, declined being put on any of the committees —but in the course of session, when Mr, Rives resigned his seat, he (Mr. C.) was put upon the Com mitee of Foreign Relations, in his place and thus had greater scope for his operations against Mr. Stevenson. —No one was more active than Mr. Clay in rallying his party, and electioneering on the occasion.—He pushed his objec tions to a degree of madness; for they reflected most strongly upon himself. He went so far as to denounce beforehand, the appointment, indirectly in one of his ‘speeches—and partly upon the ground of Mr. S.’s being a member of Congress. Ho was pleased to forget, that he him self, while he was Speaker of the IL of R. had contributed more than any other man, “to place the diadem on Mr. Ad ams’ head, end then immediately took office," the highest office in his gift, un der him —He himself seems to have for gotten his own now-fangled objections to the appointment of members of Con gress—for, after Mr. S.’s rejection, three members of Congress, Messrs, Forsyth, Leavitt, and Wilkins, were confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Clay was also indis creet enough to charge Mr. Stevenson with packing Committees —when he was reminded of what he himself had done in the execise of the duties of the Chair and what this very Senate have done, iu packing Committees to suit lheir own po.» lilical purposes. As one proof of which, let it be lecollected that the Committee of Einanco, to whom has been since com mitted the ridiculous office of investiga ting the transactions of the Administra tion on it—Mr. Wilkins—and that bis place in the Committtee was not filled up, when he was appointed Minister to R ussia. It adds much to the deep regret which th s outrage is calculated to inspire, that two of the members of Congiess from Viiginia most cordially co-operated with Mersrs. Clay and; Calhoun, in immola ting Mr. Stevenson upon the altar of their Party.—Mr. Leigh was one ol these gentlemen. —ls he bad stood by his Colleague; in sheltering an honorable man, and a Virginian, from the shafts of violent partizms, he might in some mea sure. have extenuated the various errors of his short Senatorial catreer. Bathe who declared his conviction of the un constitutionality of the Bank, and yet in timated that there were several alterna tives in which he might be induced to vote for a B ink, was not the man to refrain fiom taking off the head of Andrew Ste venson! Mr. Wm. S. Archer was the oUier member of Congiess from Virgin ia, who co-operated with the enemies of Mr. Stevenson. He even voted with Messrs. Adams and Burgess in withold ing from the late Speaker the vote of thanks. We take no pleasure in making these remarks; but, unquestionably, Mr. Archer was one’ of the last men who ought to have mingled himself in the question of Mr. Stevenson’s nomination. He had, himself, looked up to the same office; and being disappointed, he should have known how to have submitted with dignity, if not without resentment.—As he could not have got it himself, should have left it o others to he thwart, if they could, his more fortunate competitor. But all Mr. Archer’s political feelings seem now to have undergone a complete revolution. He has even fal len into the slang of the day, about nick names, and pleased to dub himself one of:he modern whigs. It seems, that he was invited to dine on the 4th with the enemies of the Administration in the First Congressional District of Pennsyl vania, at a table which was actually gra ced by the presence of Messrs. Webster, Robbins; Crockett, and Duff Green and among the Toasts which weie sent in by Messrs, Clay, Calhoun and others we find tho following; ‘‘By William S. Archer, of the House of Representatives. —The division of Po litical Parties, which Mr. Jefferson pro r nounced the most wholesome, that of TVAigand Tory— This day is appropri ate to the Declaration of the great Truth, and of choice between these Parties.” One word more, at this. time. It has been reported in conversation, and bold ly published by the press, that none were so rejoiced by Mr. Stevenson’s rejection as General Jackson himself: “This” (says the Globe) “is a sliere fabrication, no matter on what authority stated. It was invented for the idle pur pose of sowing jealousy in the bosom of one whom its author would effectually destroy. None so much regretted the rejection of Mr. Stevenson as the Presi dent and his personal friends; but they have found,and possibly may have expres sed, some consolation in the confident belief that it would often the eyes of Vir ginia to the character of those reckless men, who would wantonly degrade her most honored sons.” We are informed, that the President on two successive days waited upon Mr. Stevenson, and expressed for him the kindest feelings, and the greatest regret at his rejection. Gen. Jackson is not tho man to abandon a high and honorable man, in compliment to sac. lions politicians—and we suspect the time will yet come, when he himself will distinctly refute the bold assertions of his enemies iu relation to Mr. Stevenson. McDonald Clarke—kn- wn by t ie fam iliar sobriquet of the mad poet —has re* cently delivered inßoston and New York a course of lectures upon Love aud Mat rim my. The following extract furnish ed by the Now York Transcript, is said to be a favorable specimen of the Lee* turer’s manner:— ‘’ln the vast flower-field of human affec tion, the old bachelor is the very scare crow of happiness, he drives away the little birds of love, that come to steal the hemlock seeds of loneliness and dispair. Where is there a more pitiable object in the werld, than a man who has an aimia. ble woman interested in his welfare!— How dismal does his desolate room ap pear, when he comes home at night, wet and hungry, and finds a cold hearth—a barren table—and a lonely pillow, that looks like tho white urn of every earthly enjoyment! See the sickly old bachelor in tho afternoon of life, when his heart is sinking to itsj sundown/ Not a solitary star of memory gleams over the dusk of his opening grave—no weeping wife, to bond, like a blessing over his dying bed —no fond daughter, to draw his chilly hand into the soft pressure of hers, and warm his icy blood with the reviving fires of unfailing affection—no manly boy, to link his breaking name with the golden citain of honorable society, and bind his history in the vast volume of the woild. he is leaving forever. He has cat — and di link—and died!—and earth is glad she’s got rid of him; for lie has done lit tle else, but cram his soul into the cir cumference of a sixpence, and no human being, but his washer woman, will breathe a sigh at this funeral.” Whatever may be thought of the style, it cannot be denied that there is much truth in the pecediog paragtaph. Old bache lors—we grant there are exceptions— are generally speaking, a set of na.-ty, troublesome, petulent, rusty fellows, a bout whom nobody cares, or ought to care, except the washer woman above mentioned, whose reason for lamenting them sometimes is, that they slip out of the world without remembering to pay their bills. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1834. KT We are requested to state, (hat the Fair, on Beach Island, which commenced yesterday, will continue until 12 o’clock to night. COTTON. Prices are well maintained ; fair and good lots 12 a 12jJ—prime is scarcely to be had, and readily command 13. A few wagon loads are daily arriving, and reportas (he balance of the erop. The present season is unusually favora ble and a fair prospect of an abundant pro duct. Favorable accounts of crops reach us both in the public papers and private letters. The rains have been more abundant in the upper country than in this neighborhood, where there has been, until Wednesday, a drought of more than three weeks continuance. A month since, the cotton plant was smaller than it ought to have been in the middle of June. Good seasons have made it run up to nearly its ordinary standard, though such a process may not favor its productive ness. Corn still continue* to “go ahead,” and will fill the fanner’s crib with plenty, and his heart with gladness The early corn, which was at a critical period of its grow th, in this vi cinity, has been injured by the dry weather here; but,the prospect is still gladdening. Wheat and oats have had a very favorable period for lheir preservation, and are not only of a good quality, but the latter rather more abundant than we ever knew them. Last year, we incur red the strictures of s>me es our brethren Os the press, and many planters wrote us, that our reports of the *>tion crop, would seriously in jure their interests; but, although the drought, which succeeded the period of our last year’s report in August, mateiially changed the pros pect, we suspect the crop has I een found abun dant enough to keep price* at a fair rate for both the buyer a <1 producer. It seemed Io us, that then we were unluckily placed betneen two cross sue producer wished the impres sion made, tliat the cr< p was a short one, while, on the other hand, those, who intended to buy, desired it to be understood, that there would be much more made than usual. Interest in both war L.e source of tlnir report*. Il’c had no in terest but to tell the truth. We shall have a sim lar opportunity, next month, to ascertain the probable prospect of the cotton crep this year, • and shall report accordingly. It is our practice in every thing to “be sure we aie right”—then “go ahead.” At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Eagle ff Phaniz Hotel this morning, the f Hewing gentlemen were elected Trustees: R. H. MUSGROVE. MOSES ROFF, J. G. M’WHORTER, JOHN BONES, A. SIBLEY. At a Meeting of the Board of Trustees after* wards, J. G. McWhorter was chosen Chair man, and Thomas McGran, Secretary and T ea surer. < We regret, says the Journal, to learn that Mr Gilmer will not return to Cgorgia this Sim mer. He goes to Philadelphia for medical ad vice, and thence back as far as to Virginia, we' presume, to spend the ensuing recesS ■ with hit lelations, in the high healthy regions of that state. It is deemed imprudent and even dan gerous as we understand, for him to come fur ther south at this season in his present precari ous health. Steamboat Helen — Of the first trip of Mr’ Burden’s new boat, the Gazette, whose Editor was on b .ard, says: She le f t the Dry Dock on the east river, at half past 6, A. M., and passed the Battery at 15 minutes past 7. She went by Poughkeepsie in 5 hours from New York, and but for some damage to her machinery shortly after, would have reached Albany in less than 10 hours. Under the disadvantages of new and unused machinery, she arrived about 7 P. M., and reached Troy before dark, having on her passage received salutes of guns and huzzas at most of the landings on the Hudson. An Eastnrn paper, says, that any man that would cheat a printer (by borrowing his paper) will rob a hen roost, whip his grand mother, or steal an Irishman’s last pig. ML ANOTHER ALIAS. It seems that since Whigs have fallen off in the city of New York, they have obtained a new name. The Wio is turned into a Scratch The New York Democratic Chionicle suggests, as a reason for this change, that those who have ta ken it, “have been scratching for power—-AL WAYS- Scratching for the United Statesßank; scratching for the enemy in the late wanscrateb ing for office; scratching the People; and scratching one another when there was nothing else to scratch, until they are emphatically no. thing more nor lest than the SCRATCH par ty.” It is quite natural that a Punch party should end in a Scratch party. POST COACHES. Our friend Fuller invited us the other day to examine two p >st coaches which ho has lately received from the north, and with two more, soon expected, are intended for the line between Au gusta and Savannah. The two we have seen are completely finished.and a specimen of beau tiful and, at the same time, solid and substantial workmanship. In point of elegance they aro equal to any private carriage, and for the ease comfort of the passengers,we believe that they, will prove superior any to coaches which, have been hitherto employed. The coaches of Mr. Fuller were made in Troy, New York. — Consti tutionalist.