About Georgia courier. (Augusta, Ga.) 1826-1837 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1834)
2 THE COURIER, By J. G. M’Whortcr. TERMS. This Paper is published every MONDAY, WEDNES DAY and FRIDAY afternoon, at (6 per annum, payable U advance. COUNTRY PAPER—Published every FRIDAY afier noor. at $3 per luiuum, in advance, or $1 .pt the exultation of the year. ' ' No Subscriptions received for less time than six months. ADVERTISEMENTS, not exceeding a square will be inserted the first time at 75cts.per square and 37} for each continuance. Advertisements of one square, published Weekly, a' “5 cents for the first insertion, aud 50ccnts, for each contin uance. Persons advertising by the year will be changed 30 dol lars including subscription aud will bo entitled to one square iu each paper. When persons have standing advertisement* es several squares, special contracts may be made. No deduction will be made in future from these charges- AH advertisements must have the number ot insertion* marked on them;otherwise they will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly* ~ _ SHERIFFS, CLERKS, ii>d other public officers, wil have 25 per cent deducted in their favor. Review of the Augusta Market. —— articles. $ cis. a $ cts. Cotton, prime, 16 i 16} fair to very good, 15 J , 15} inferior, 141 15 BAGGING, best hemp, 42 inch- es, yard 23 28 inferior to fair, “ 21 26 Cotton, “ 26 28 Sacking, “ 14 16 BALE ROPE, 8 11 OSNABURGS, yard 8 9 TWINE, American, 30 37 English, . “ I 30 37} SALT, bush. 40 50 ' SALTPETRE, . “ i 12 18 BACON, hams, lb. 12 12} sides, “ | 10) 12 shoulders, “ • 9{ 11 FISH, herrings, none box 75 dry cod, “ 400 425 MACKEREL, No. 1, bbl. 8 00 9 00 No. 2, “! 700 800 No. 3, scarce “ i 600 650 LARD, leaf, lb. 10 12 BUTLER, Goshen t scarce, “ 22 25 CHEESE, in casks or boxes, lb. 9 12} FLOUR, Canal, bbl. 650 750 Baltimore, “ i 650 750 MOLASSES, New Orleans, gal. 36 West India, “ i 25 30 COFFEE, inferior to fair, lb. 12) 13 good to prime, “ 13) 14} IRON, Swedes, assorted, lb. 4) 5 hoop, ... “ I 8 9 sheet, . “ 8 nail rods, “78 STEEL, American, ' lb.\ 8 9 E. Blistered, “, 16 20 German, “ ! 14 15 CASTINGS, northern, “ j 41 6 NAILS, cut, 4d to 20d “| 6} 7 wrought, “ 16 PLOUGH MOULDS, “56 SHOT, all sizes, bag 200 225 LEAD, pig and bar, lb. 7} 8 RAISINS, Muscatel, box 300 350 Bloom, “ 250 300 SUGARS, St Croix and Porto Rico, lb. 9} 12} ■ New Orleans, “ 7} 9} Havana, white, “ 11 12} Havana, brown, “ 10 10} Loaf and lump, " 14 18 SPIRITS, Cognac brandy, 4th proof, gal. 1 50 200 domestic, “ 35 75 peach brandy, “ 75 100 apple, “ 45 50 Holland gin, “ i 100 150 Jamaica rum, “ 100 150 N. E. rum, “ 40 50 whiskey in bbls. “ 40 42 do. do. hhds. “ 36 40 WINES, Madeira, “ 200 300 Teneriffe, L- P. “ 125 150 Malaga, < “ 56 70 TEAS, imperial and gunpow- 600 700 der, ; lb. 100 112 hyson, “ 75 100 PEPPER, black, “ 9 12 Pimento, “ 10 12 CANDLES, sperm, “ 35 37 Georgia made, “ 18 20 TALLOW, “ 11 12} BEESWAX, “ 16 18 HIDES, country, "79 POTATOES, bbl. 250 300 STONE LIME, east 300 400 RICE, lb. 400 500 SEGARS, Spanish, AT. 17 00 20 00 American, “ 300 TOBACCO, manufactured, lb 10 22 Cavendish, ‘ 25 35 GUN-POWDER, Dupont’s, " SOAP, yellow, “ 5*9 WELSH PLAINS, yard 40 65 LOWELS Negro Cloth, " 33 37 OIL, linseed, ‘ gal 100 1 12} Train, “ 45 50 best fall strained, “ 1 12 125 WHITE LEAD, best Amer}* can, keg. 3 37 CIDER, Newark, none, BEER, John Taylor’s new Cream Ale, bbl. 10 00 11 00 CORN, wagon sales, bushel 70 75 CORN MEAL, do. “ 75 87 COTTON.—During the past week our mar ket has been in an unsettled condition. Recent’ advices from Liverpool and Havre, giying ac counts of healthy markets abre-.d, have caused an advance of } cent on the prices of last week. We quote inferior 14} a 15; fair to very good 15} a 15} ; prime 16a 16} — prime real is scarce ly to 1* had at any price. FREIGHTS—duII: to Savannah $1 ; Char ton $1 25.—'River in good condition. Agard, Mrs. l. G. Larus. has removed to the next tenement, below Mr. R. Alien’s Hat Store, where she will still continue to give Lessons in Music, Drawing, and Painting, Terms made known at her residence. Oct. 17 ts 123 MUSIC MISSING. I" OST from the Theatre at the close of the JLj late Season, a music book containing the first Violin part of much valuable music, inclu ding that ot Macbeth, Hunter of the Alps, &c.; for which the finder, on returning it to This Of fice, will be warmly thanked. <j 138 DENTISTRY. THE Subscriber wishes to give notice to his friends, that.he will, after a short time, leave for the low country, ou his annual visits ; and desires those for whom he has commenced operations, to call immediately, and have them finished before he leaves. He would also say to those who are unac quainted with his operations, that he practices on scientific -principles;, and on as reasonable ,er ? l s a ? Dentists Os respectability in New York ana Philadelphia, and will warrant his opera tions to be equal in beauty,durability, and use, to any that can be procured in the United States. S. OSBORN, Surgeon Demist. ; 149 ts A-Card to the MRS. C. HOFFMAN, Broad street, three doors above J. K. Kilburn's RESPEC TFULLY informs the Ladies of Augusta and Hamburg, grateful for past s *' e has received and opened a new PATTERN BONNET, of latest fashion, with e w bestV jful figured Sil Its, Ribbons, Flowers and'Patterus in Dress Making. She hopes to be worthy the attention of the i Ladies, and to merit their call and patronage. I December 15 5t 149 A Summer Evening and night in Swe den. Evening now closed upon us, unaccom panied however with that dusk so pleasing 1 and grateful to the eye overpowered by the burning glare of the day. The con trast between a summer evening in Swe den and England is sufficiently striking. In the latter, the busy hum of the coun try gradually subsiding, the barking of the villege cur mingled with the noisy gambols of the children upon the green, are borne by the gale upon the listening stranger in the sweet notes of peace and harmony, till the grey vest of night spreads around and closes the scene. In the former the sun reluctantly qnits the horizon at eleven o’clock, his lingering rays even at midnight throw a streak of crimson across the heavens, and impart a fiery tinge to the landscape, a dead si lence reigns, and creation reposes in the absence of night. Even in the small hamlets thinly scattered thro’ the immense forests, at a very early hour of evening no traces of inhabitants appear.— The ploughman’s whistle, the lowing of the herds, and the deep tone of the evening curfew, so enchantingly described by our bard [Gray, in his exquisite and well known Elegy in a Country Church-yard,] are unheard; and not a sound strikes up on the ear, except perchance the distant tone of the lute, blown by some Swedish peasantboy to collect his wandering cows The whispering breeze, creeping thro’ the dark pine forest, sighs in melancholy accents sweet as the .ZEolian lyre, and fills the mind with the softest emotions; while the eye, darting between the tall straight trunks rising in quick succession conjures up amid the surrounding gloom the flitting forms of fancy. Thus for a short time, eve’s pensive hour glides si lently c.n undisturbed and unenjoyed by man, who wrapt in sleep thinks only of preparing himself for the toils of the coming day. /kt one o’clock the. animal creation returns to life, and the singing of various birds announces the approach of morn. A deep blush now spreads along the heavens, and shortly afterwards the fiery orb of the sun shoots aloft, and gilds the mingled landscape of mountain, lake and forest, while the rolling mists of night slowly retreat at his presence. Thus, du ring the fleeting months, of a northern summer, the sun of the higher latitudes keeps circling constantly round the hori zon, and darkness is unknown. To the unceasing day continued night however soon succeds; the extreme of heat is fol lowed by that of cold, and in the absence of the meridian sun, the moon, during 2 of her quarters, rises high in the heavens never setting; while the increasing bril liancy ofthejconstellations, and the darting fires of the Aurora Borealis, rushing through the firmament, light up the skies, and compensate the inhabitants of those frozen regions, for the loss of the day.— Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke's Eravels in Sweden. <£c. AMERICAN CITIES. Few things in relation to this country are more likely to excite the admiration of Europeans, than the rapid growth of cities; not of a capital simply, but of nu merous ones in the same State. Look at New York State. About thirty years ago, the place where Utica now stands was a forest; and the same may be said of the sites of Buffalo, Rochester, Lock port and other places within a much shorter period. Rochester has a popu lation upwards of 10,000, and appears destined to become an important city, as its commercial advantages are great. Look at Ohio. That State is altogeth er of recent formation; yet how many cities does it contain ! Cincinnati is re garded by the inhabitants as a second Philadelphia, it being buiU cm the same plan, that is, with streets intersecting each other at right angles;—a plan, con venient enough, but not tasteful, as it wants variety. Its population, there can be little doubt, is much greater than was that of Philadelphia at a similar period from its foundation, and its buildings are j more elegant Cleaveland, on Lake ! Erie, is rising into importance, and will probably, at no distant day, rival Roches ter. From a news paper published there —for towns and even villages have their political journals in this country —we learn that the formation of a Lyceum is in progress; a circumstance of auspicious appearance, as the west has been gener ally considered to be neglectful of mental culture. There is no reason to doubt that in the course of another twenty years, Ohio will exhibit as much talent and lite rary taste as other States long since set tled. How cheering is the prospect! Who can fail, in contemplating it, to be struck with admiration! Campbell, in his Pleasures of Hope, that poetical gem, thus adverts to the subject; and we offer no apology for citing good poetry, espe cially when it relates to our own country, “Come,bright improvement! on the car of time,' And rule the spacious world from clime to clime; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore. On Erie’s banks wher ■ igers steal along, And the dread Indian chants a dismalxsong, IV here human fiends on midnight errands walk. And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk; There shall the flocks on thymy pastures stray, And Shepherds dance at summer’s Queuing day; Each wandering genius of the lonely glen Shall start to view the glittering haunts of men, And silent watch, on woodland heights around The village curfew as it tolls profound.” Little it is probable, did Campbell imag ine, that his prediction would be fulfilled in the li tetime of the poet. Yet after what ; he has lived to witness, he might now ven ture on a still bolder one, by extending his views from lake Erie to the Rocky Moun- ’ tains, and beyond them to the shores of 1 the Pacific. The triumph of civilzation over savage life across the continent of ] America, is proceeding, like the s-m from • the east to the west, and will probably ex tend even across the Pacific, to those re-1 ] gions in Asia, where the Christian reli-1 t gion has yet to achieve a mighty revolu tion. The present generation may not live to witness it; but it is written in the book of fate— Ball. American. The Wing of a Bat. —-The wing of the Bat is very commonly spoken of as a wing of leather, and the idea attached to this term, undoubtedly is, that it is compo sed of a callous membrane, that it is an insensible piece of stuff” like the eather of a glove or of a lady’s shoe; but lothing can be further from the truth. If one were to select an organ of the nvst ex quisite delicacy and lesther, and sensi bility, it would be the bat’s wing; iris any' tbiug bnt leather, and is, perhaps, the most acute organ of touch that can be found, though it is-not easy to understand why it should be so. Spallanzaii, phi losopher as noted for his extreme cruelty as for his ingenuity and love of research, had observed that bats could fy with great certainty in rooms howev<r dark, without striking agaiust the wals. He found that when their eyes were covered they could fly with as much precision as before; and even when their eyes were put out, no alteration hii this ruspcit was ob served. When branches of tiees or th reads were suspended from the ceiling, they avoided them, nor did they even brush the threads as they flew past or be tween them; and even when the space be tween was too small to admit their expan ded wings, they contracted the latter so as to suit their demensions to’the breath of the passage. Spallanzni thought that the bat must possess a sixth sense. The organs of vison had been destroyed, and therefore itcould not be by sight that they avoided all obstacles. In many individ uals the ears were stopped, so that it could not be by hearing; in others the nostrils were stopped, so that it could not be by smelling; and taste is out of the question The following remarks from Cuvier are sufficiently demonstrative that it is by the acuteness of the sensation of touch in the wing, and not by any additional sense, that the plienomenoe is to be accounted for:—The bones of the metacarpus, and the phalanger of the four fingers which succeed the thumb, aie excessively elon aated. The membrane w’hich unites them presents an enormous surface to the air, the nerves which are distributed to it are minutely divided; they form a net work very remarkable for its fineness and the number of its anastomoses. It is probable, that in the action of sight, the air, when struck by its wing or very sen sible hand, impresses a sensation of heat cold, mobility and resistacce, on flat organ which indicates te the animal the exis tence or absence of obstacles vhich would interrupt its progress. In this 1 manner blind men may discover by their hands, and even by the skin of their faces, the proximity of a wall, door of a house, of side of a street, even without the assist ance of a touch, and merely ly sensation which the difference, in the resistance of tho air occasions.— Letters l<. a Young Naturialist. CONGRESS. IN SENATE. In pursuance of the resolution passed yesterday, the Senate proceeded o ballot for its Standing Committees, an! the bal lots resulted in the choice of the following gentlemen, to serve for the present ses sion. Foreign Relations— Mr. Clay - , Chair man; Messrs. King, of Georgia, klangum Sprague, Tallmadge. Committee on Finance— Mr. Webster, Chairman; Messrs. Wright, Tyler, Man gum, Ewing. Committee on Commerce- —Mr. Silsbee, Chairman; Messrs. King, of Alabama, Waggaman, Sprague, Wright. Committee on Manufactures — Mr. Frelinghuysen, Chairman; Mesirs. Mor ris, Knight, Prentiss, Tyler. Committee, on Agriculture— Mr.Brown Chairman; Messrs. Kent, Swift, Robinson Morris. Committee on Military— Mr. Benton, Chairman; Messrs. Tipton, Prestcn, King es Ala. Clayton. Committee on Militia— Mr. Rjbinson, Chairman; Messrs. Hendricks, U’Kean, Waggaman, Swift, Committee on Naval Affairs — Mr. Southerland, Chairman; Messrs. Robbins, Tallmadge, Bibb, Black. Committee on Public Landt— (The Committee on the Public Lands of the last session was continued for the present session, by an unanimous vote passed du ring the last week. The members con sist of Messrs. Poindexter, Ciairman; Moore, Prentiss, McKean, Biib, and Clay. Committee on Private Land Claims— Mr. Black, Chairman; Messrs. Kane, Naudain, Porter, Shepley. Committee on Indian Affairs — Mr. White Chairman; Messsrs. Tipton, Smith Swift, Frelinghuysen. Committee on Claims— Mr. Bell, Chairman; Messrs. Tipton, Naudain, Brown, Shepley. Committee on Judiciary— Mr. Clayton, Chairman; Messrs. Preston, Bell, Smith, Leigh. Committee on the Post Office aud Post Roads— The committee on the Post Of fice and Post Roads of the last session was continued for the present session, by a resolution passed unanimously, during the last week The members consist of Messrs. Grundy. Chairman; Ewing, Ro binson, Knight, Southard.) Committee on Pensions — Mr. Tomlin son, Chairman; Messrs. Tallmadge, Me- j Kean, Prentiss, Preston. Committee on Roads and Canals— Mr Hendricks Chairman; Messrs. Kent, Rob binson, Robbins, McKean. Committee on the District of Columbia Mr. Tyler, Chairman: Messrs. Kent,Bibb, j Southard, Tomlinson. Committee, on Revoliitionary Claims— \ Mr. Moore, Chairman; Messrs. Smith. ■ White, Leigh, Frelinghuysen. Cemmittee to Credit and Report the Contingent Expenses of the Senate— Mr. Knight, Chairman; Messrs. Tomlinson Morris. Committee on Engrossed Bills. —Mr. Shepley Chairman; Messrs. Robinson, Morris. Mr. Clay, gave notice that he would, on Monday next, ask leave to introduce a bill to appropriate, for a limited tiuae, the proceeds of the Public Lands among the States, and for other purposes. Mr Benton in pursuance of notice giv en, asked and obtained leave, anc intro duced a bill to graduate the price of the refuse lands of the United States; also, a bill to grant to the State of Missouri a certain quantity of land for the purpose of internal improvements; both of which were read and ordered to a second read ing. Mr. Benton gave notice that he. would, on Monday next, ask leave to introduce a joint resolution to amend the Constitution ot the United States in relation to the mode ofElecting the President and Vice President. AUGUSTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. THE RACES. FOURTH DAY —MILE HEATS — $'200. The race yesterday was decided in favor of Mr. Rowe’s grey colt, who beat Mr. Morrison’s bay mare Lady Burke, both heats. Time, first heat Im, 58}s.; second Im. 595. FIFTH DAY —FOUR MILE HEATS — $600 The following Horses were entered for this day’s purse of S6O0 —four mile heats. Mr. Rowe’s e. m. Brunette, 5 years old, by Phenomenon, dam by Drector, W. G. Haun’s b. h. Plato, 5 years old, by Sir William, dam Black Eyed Susan by Tiger. J. Crowell’s b. f. Lady Nashville, 4 years old by Stockholder, dam by Strap, John Phinizy’s c. f. 4 years old, by Jackson, dam by Kosciusco. This day’s race excited uncommon interest, and the course was crowded. The horses, most of them, were known to fame, and Plato seemed to be the decided favorite. Bets on him against the field were freely offered. They took their stations, in this order: Brunette fwst, Lady Nashville second, Paulina third, and Plato the outside. Plato, but a very short distance, kept his starting relation, but pressed up by Bru nette and ran nearly locked with her for two and a half miles, when from the horse’s sick ness his rider was obliged to pull him up, and he did not complete his third round. During the two and a half miles, Paulina lay close on their haunches, but Lady Nashville played be hind nearly a quarter of a mile, as if she had no interest in the heat. About the middle of the third mile, she began.-to fly, and came by the stand nearly abreast with her competitors. The 4th mile, therefore, was warmly contested by Lady Nashville and’Brunette, but the former took the heat abouttwolengths—Paulina finding that she could not take the heat, slacking her pace, was distanced, evidently by accident, hav ing intended just to drop within the distance stand.* Time Ist mile 2m. 075.; 2d, 2m. 045.; 3d, 2m. 145.; and 4th. 2m. 05s.; —whole time Ist heat Bm. 30s. 2d Heat terminated in favor again of Lady Nashville. Time first mile 2m. 245. 2d. 2m. 10s. 3d 2m. 3s. 4th. 2m. 16s. Whole time of 2d heat 8m 535. Each round was closely contes ted the rivals, the first 3 rounds, uniformly com ing by the Judge’s Stand abreast. * The distance, by a rule of the Club, is shor tened to 140 yards. In noticing the Time of running, this year, we omitted to state that the track is thirty-eight yards over a mile. This will help to explain the unusual bad running as to time, which has been remarkable this year. We understand says the Sentinel, that a line of Stages, to run three times a week between this city and Mobile, byway Louisville, and Hawkinsville, &c. will be put in operation in January next. The Governor has appointed FrancisH. Cone Esq. and Wm. W. Gordon, Esq. of Chatham, associate counsel with the Attorney General, in the prosecution of the information against the Merchants and Planters Bank. The Greenville Mountaineer says:—The Hon. W. R. Davls, we are sorry to learn, lies sick at Anderson Court House. We learn that Mr. Baxter has been elected Attorney General of Virginia. The vote was, for Baxter 81—Patton 77. — U. S. Telegraph. Theodore Lyman Jr. has been re-elected Mayor of the city of Boston. The venerable Simeon Dewitt, a soldier of the Revolution, and Surveyor General of the State of New York,;died at Ithaca, on the 3d. At the time of his death, he was nearly completing his 79th year. He caught a violent cold some time since while on his annual journey to his es tates in Tompkins county. Next Governor of Alabama.— The Hon. Cle ment C. Clay, is announced in the Flag of the Union of the 6th inst., as a candidate for the office of Governor of the State of Alabama, at I the next August election. The bill to repeal the act, authorising the Judges to meet annually in convention at Mil ledgeville passed the House of Representatives on the Bth inst.—as also the bill to amend the several laws in regard to the Court of Common Pleas of the City of Augusta. On the 11th, the same body passed resolutions, approving the conduct of the President relative to the re-char- ; ter of the U. S. Bank—yeas 106, nays 47. On the same day the bill was passed to extend the ; civil jurisdiction of certain Justices of the Peace, ; in the county of Richmond. The bill to amend an act to exempt from sale, j for debts contracted after a given time, certain I articles chiefly necessary for the subsistence of ' the debtor’s family. The House laid upon the table for the ba- ! lance of the session, the re-considered bill to I appropriate money to improve Flint River— ' yeas 74, nays 66. The House rejected the bill to appropriate money to improve the Ocmulgee river, below Macon; The following bills have passed the House : The bill to alter the times of holding the Su perior Courts in the Southern Circuit. The bill to regulate the commission of Tax Collectors and Receivers in this State. The bill to reduce the grant fees in the Land i Lottery of 1827. The House passed the bill to amend the seve ral acts in relation to the issuing of Summons and Garnishments, &c. Alabama Legislature.— The resolutions intro duced into the House by Mr. Richardson, invi ting the Hon. Gabriel Moore to resign his seat in the Senate of the United States, were under consideration by that body as late as the sth inst. having (then) occupied the House since the Ist inst. “Thus far,’’ says the Flag of the Union,." the discussion has been animated, and occasionally eloquent.” “The resolutions un der discussion,” continues that paper, “ will, no doubt, be altered by the House.” The Constitutionalist of yesterday morning publishes extracts of letters from planters to their factors in this city, corroborating the very general impression of a short crop in Georgia; and, we copy the following article from the Charleston Courier of the 17th inst., signed by a long list of Merchants and Planters in S. Ca rolina, whose representation is certified by the Governor of the State, and gentlemen from the principal cotton-growing districts to be “sub stantially true.” THE COTTON CROP. Messrs. Editors. — Accounts having gained currency through several mercantile journals, in different parts of the United States, setting forth that the present crop of cotton will be as large, if not larger than the crop of last year, we deem it of vast consequence that the public mind should be correctly informed on a subject of such paramount importance to every one of the community; and for this purpose, the sub scribers have met together, exchanged their views, and have come to the following conclu sions, namely : Ist. That the present crop of Uplands,through out this state, will fall short of last year, fully one third, and as far as we are informed, the deficiency will be about the same in each of our sister states North Carolina and Georgia. 2d. That in many sections of the state, the crop is already gathered from the fields, and in no part of it is'there asnmch to pick out as there wasatihe same period last year, although from the unfavorable fall, the cotton commenced to open much later this season than last. 3d. That of the present crop, already two thirds have changed hands, and that not over one-fourth will remain in the hand of the grow er, by the first of January next, the usual pro portion being one half. Very few of the plan ters have been holding back or storing, but on the contrary are bringing it to market as fast as it is gathered. About this period last year, there were 15,000 bales stored in this place. At this time we believe the quantity stored falls much short of 1000 bales, (one thousand.) 4th. The sales of Cotton Bagging and Bale Rope is so much diminished, as must convince every one of a great deficiency. sth. The above conclusions have been formed Horn a mass of testimony derived from planters, correspondents, travellers and our own personal observations,and we are unwilling that it should go abroad as the exclusive opinion of the mer chants ofthisplace only, but that it be substan tiated by gentlemen of the highest respectability from all sections of our state. Resolved, That the opinion of a few of the principal planters from the different sections of our state be obtained in regard to the extent of the present crop. Therefore, Resolved, That the same be published in each of the papers of this place, and that a copy be sent to the offices of the Charleston Mercury and Courier, with a request to give it an insertion. (Signed,) DAVID EWART, Chair’n. Extermintion of the National Debt.— Tbe late report of the Secretary ofthc Treasury anoun ces the important and gratifying fact, that tha whole of our national debt, which at one time (1816) amounted to more than $127,000,000, will be paid off on the first of January next. This immense sum has been paid off in the course of nineteen years, without the imposi tion of direct taxes, (except for a very short period.) Only nine years ago, our national debt was $81,000,000; in 1816, the interest alone a mounted to $7,157,550 42; in 1829, to almost $4,000,000. Since the beginning of that year, we have paid off, including interest, very near ly a hundred Millions of Dollars, over and abvoe our current expenses.—New York Transcript. In the Report of the Secretary of the Navy, there is an ardent appeal to the liberality of Congress, hi favor of our Nnval Commanders, thnt should not he passed by unnoticad. “I can add nothing to what has been frequently urge in favor of a peace estab lishment for our navy; but must be pre mitted to state, what has often before been stated, that the compensation of comman ders of our ships on foreign stations is al together inadequate to an honorable dis* charge of their duties. They are com pelled to incur expenses beyond the amount of their pay and rations, or de cline to receive and return civilities uni formly oflerred to them on such stations, and upon which our friendly relations with foreign nations, may, in some degree depend. “The course pursued by our officers, under such circumstances, has been such as national as well as professsional pride have dictated, and, of course, they fre quently return from their tours of service deep in deqt; one evil consequence of which is, that it adds to the inducement to. our officers, to prefer service on our : home stationsto service at sea- whereas the pecuniary consideration should al ways be in favor of the sea service.” In regard to the above paragraph the Editor of the Globe very properly re-' marks: I “The whole compensation to a com mander of a line of battle ship, on a fo reign station; is only 2230. Out of this he has to provide for the expenses of his family at home—his own personal ex penses, of every description, abroad— and to retiun those hospitalities, with which he is greeted in every foreign port. But, independent of this consideration, what a pittance is two thousand a year to a man who has devoted his zuhole life to reach tbe highest grade in the arduous and dangerous sea service of his country! What u reward for the blood shed in bat tle—for the struggle with every tempest that sweeps the ocean—with every mal lady which poisons the breeze within the tropics—and with all the rigors of the frozen arctic. Add to this, the daily and the nightly vigilance necessary to the saf- sty of his ship, and the responsibility es bridling into subordination the bold spi rits of a thousand men who stand around him on the sama deck.” PUBLIC LANDS. Mr. McKinley offered the following, which he wished printed and postponed for a week : Resolved, That the Committee on pub lic lands be instructed to bring in a bill to reduce the price of the public lands to seventy-five cents an acre; and all lands which have been offered for sale and re main unsold, for more than five years and less than ten years, to fifty cents an acre; and all lands which have been offered for sale, and remain unsold, for more than ten and less than fifteen years, to cents an acre ; and all lands which have been offered for sale and remain unsold, for more than fifteen and less than twenty years, to twelve and a half cents an acre j and all lands which have been offered for sale and remain unsold, for more than twenty and than twenty-five years, to six and one fourth cents an acre,and all lands which have been offered for sale and remain unsold for more than twenty five years, to become the property of the States in which they lie res pectively ; and all persons who res ide on the public lands, and shall have cultivated any portion thereof, for one or mors years, to have the right of pre-emption of one quarter section at the price above fixed upon the class to which it may belong in the foregoing scale of graduation. “Down east” observed a Southerner, to a Yankee, a cow a calf, and a calico frock, is said to be a girl’s portion—and that’s the place you came from.” '“Well,” replied the Yankee, “people have to be born paetty much where other folks say, baarin accidents. An’ your from that place, ant ye? where a potater patch, cracks in’t so wide, thaj the grass hopper! are picked up at the bottom by handfuls—all their necks broke trying to jnmpoxer—is a portion for the eldest son. My father teld me, continued the down eastor, “he was once riding by one of your great farm, observing the wretch edness of the land, he said, ’the feller that owns this must be plaguy poor:’ ‘not so poor you think for:’ answered a voice from the blackberry bushes! 'For I do’nt own but a third on’t—my farther gin away one third to a man to take tother!” It semas proper to remind our readers that, in the appointment of Committees in tne House oißepresentatives, no member is put upon a committee who has not at tended the House at each Session before the committees are ordered to be appoin ted. This will serve to explain htfw it happens that some of the Members, here tofore known as active business-mea, do not appear to have been placed on any of the committees. They had not attended at this session, up to the time ofthose com mittees being appointed.— N. Intelligen cer. Messrs. Editors.—ln looking at an article under the head of Lumpkinism in the columns of your neighbor of Oul-see ing memory, I was reminded of a tavern keeper I used to be acquainted with down cast, who likewise not being very gifted in the organs of vision, and thinking that his face might be known farther than his name, in a smilar manner had his portrait painted as large as life, with a bottle or two in each hand, on his sign. A Hib ernian who had just crossed the big pond, wishing for some refreshment, and who was not much acquainted with the quad rupeds of our country, but was profiting by the experience of a recent rencontre with the little animal that is not very re- ■ markable for the pleasantness of his odo riferus vials, after gazing earnestly at the sign for a few moments, “By shaint Paptrick,” said he, “and if ye’re the baste whats call’d the essence pedlar, damn me if I’ll be after patronizing ye again,” and walked on in quest of more inviting quarters. ANOTHER REVOLUTIONIST GOKE. DIED, at his lesidence, in Buncomb County, (N. C.) on the 10th ult. William Mills, aged eighty-eight years. He was born on the 10th Nov. 1746, on James River, Virginia, where he lived until the fall of ’67, when he emigrated to the western part of N. Carolina, and remained there until the commencement of the revolution when he nobly took up arms in defence of his country’s freedom. He fought bravely under his country’s banner, at the battle of Cowpens— was one of the number stationed at Ninety-Six, j and was wounded in the battle at King’s Moun tain. A few weeks previous to his death he re ceived an unlucky fall, which irritated his . wound, and soon terminated his earthly career. During this time, he suffered the most exerutia ting pain, but bore it with ehristian fortitude, and died in full assurance of a blessed inwnor ; tality beyond life's feeble span. Thus has wo»k ■ to death another of that glorious band of broth* ' ers,who so gallantly fought in defence of free dom’s suffering cause. When we take into eon- i sideration the numberless scenes of toil and suf j sering through which these men had to pass, in ' order to secure to us the inestimable blessings I of freedom, where can we find the sincere lover j of his country, in whose eye does not gather the • falling tear at the anouncement of the death of j one of that worthy band ? They are gradually sinking’ to rest, and soon they will all have ter minated their earthly career, leaving behind them precepts of fearless freemen. The sub ject of these remarks was a man to whom the poor might safely look for aid,and the oppressed, succour. He was the father of eight, and the grandfather of eighty nine children, which, to gether with his numerous friends and acquain tances are left to deplore their irretrievable loss rendered doubly so,by recollections of his worthy actions through life. He now sleeps beneath the silent clods of the valley—but his example and precepts remain as a guide to this rising generation, and point to the true road to honor and happiness; and in death showed to his friends around that he had not laboured in vain, but was about to receive the reward of his pilgrim age. “Let me die the death of the righteous,and let my last days be like his.” MOSES ROFF, Jr. Esq. will act as my Attorney during my absence from the State Oct 24 ts JESSE THOMPSON.
