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By J. G. M’Whorter.
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Slock Gambling.— The fate of poor
Bartow might well be a warning to oth
ers, who, in the eager pursuit after wealth
are playing the same game which in its
issues caused his ruin. Doubtless when
he began the business of stock gambling,
he had not the remotest conception that he
should ever become its victim. He was
only going to turn his superior shrewd
ness and opportunities to some good ac
count, for the benefit of himself and friends
by doing what many respectable men in
Wall street and elsewhere had done before
him. The civil law had indeed condemn
ed it. But the civil la w was often arbitra
ry and severe. Here was the beginning
of sorrows; the first deviation from the
path of integrity and uprightness. Suc
cess, we may suppose, crowned his early J
endeavors, and comparing the facility of
thus acquiring wealth, with the slow pro
cess of earning it, his thoughts and mind
were engrossed with new schemes of cir
cumventing his fellows, and another and
another su cessful speculation spread its
gains before him. Alas! he had teasted the
medicated portion which at every draught
increases the thirst for more. He had en
tered the circumference of the vortex,
which, imperceptibly to himself, was
dragging him to destruction. Charmed
with the easy current on which he rode,
the clear blue sky that hung over him,
and the balmy air which he breathed, he
congratulated himself upon the bright
prospects which opened before him, when,
oh despair! he awakened to the reality
of his condition ; he heard the roaring and
saw the foaming of the waters, and him
self their victim. Yet who, without a
struggle, can close his eyes upon the light
of life, and plunge into the dark and un
fathomable abyss? Who but will make
an effort to escape, though it precipitate
his ruin? So did Bartow. His prosper
ity had forsaken hirn, and instead of a
massing wealth at the expense of others,
ha saw that what he had already accumu
lated was going—was gone—that he was
bankrupt—and that with the public an
noucement of this fact, he should lose al
so his credit his reputation, perhaps his
office, —and the Tempter whispered that
by availing himself of resources not his
own, all might be retrieved in a day—his
credit, his reputation, his office, his pride
of feeling, and that of his friends, might
be preserved, and his anticipations of
wealth realized,as if no misfortune hadbe
fallen him. Oh, ifnow the honesty of his
nature were impaired, surely he would
rise above and frown down this new temp
tation; but his conscience has been blunt
ed, and his integrity scatched by tamper
ing with forbiden objects—he yields—he
is ruined. Now his eyes are opened to
know good and evil. Now he sees his
amazing folly. He might have been res
pected, useful, and happy. He might
have gratified, to a reasonable extent, his
desire to be wealthy; and done it honestly.
But in an evil hour he “ made haste to be
rich,” without a scrupulous regard to the
means, and now the wo has come upon
him. Now he finds himself not only poor
but wretched: a criminal in the eye of the
law, of conscience, and of God. Soon
the truth will be known to the public, and
worst of all, to his numerous acquaintan
ces and friends. And perhaps even now
the secret has gone abroad. Perhaps the
avenger of justice is in close pursuit.
What shall he do? Whither shall he
flee? Another day’s delay may immure
him within the walls of a prison. In an
agony of feeling which pen cannot de
scribe, he sallies forth, counterfeiting
cheerfulness to facilitate his escape,and a
abandons home,friends, station, and coun
try', for a land of strangers. He goes, he
knows not whither. Could he leave
behind him a character worthy of es
teem, he could bear his exile without a
murmur. But he knows that while wan
dering a fugitive from justice, the nation
is astounded at his perverseness; that not
a friend dare vindicate his character; and
his highest hope is that his name may be
blotted out from thememory of his country
men. Meanwhilehe knows that large re
wards will be offered for his apprehension,
and that close upon his arrest must fol
low conviction and punishment. The
flag of his country, once his pride and
joy, now becomes a signal-of terror. He
dreads the face of a friend, he should
prove an enemy in disguise. But his worst
enemy is - himself. From his country
and the officers of justice he may escape;
but from himself he cannot. Remorse,
shame, and sorrow will be his bosom com
panions. They will accompany him
wherever he goes, and dwell with him
wherever he abides, So true it is that
the way of transgressors is hard.
The fall of this once respectable and in
fluential man, conveyes a lesson of warn
ing which should not be lightly passed o
ver. When an individual of desperate
character subjects himself to the penalty
of the laws, it excites little sympathy and
less surprise. But when a man like Bar
tow, from being respected and confided
in, becomes suddenly a criminal and an
outlaw, it is time for others, exposed to
imil'ar temptations, to consider the ground
*n which they stand. If treading in the
name steps .which led him to his pres-
ent condition, let them not to be too con
fident that the end of their journey will
not be the same. “Avoid the begining of
evil.” is the only safe rule of life, and, if
followed, will protect against all such dis
asters
i From the Philadelphia Gazette.
COMMERCIAL CREDIT.
/Esop was once sent to market by his
master, who had invited some company to
dinner with orders to buy the best things
he could find in it. He returned home
J with a basket of tongues, and upon being
reproved for his bad taste, in selecting
such a dinner for a company, insisted up
on it that he had literally obeyed his in
structions, for that tongues were the best
things in the world. By them it was that
truths were promulgated, and falsehoods
denounced. He might even have gone so
far as to have said, that some of the wisest
, lessons in his book of fables, had it been
then written, were pronounced by the
tongues of goats, sheep and other animals,
i His master in a rage told him to go back,
and purchase the worst things he could
. find in the market, and to his astonishment
l on JEsop’s return, he found that his bas
-1 ket was again loaded with tongues, which
1 he ins sted were the worst things in the
world, especially when employed in hy
pocrisy, flattery and deceit.
What JEsopsaid was true enough, and
there are many other things in the world
that are the best and at the same time the
worst imaginable things. Commercial
credit is among the number. When used
j in model ation it is a great moral power ca
pable of augmenting the wealth ofmdivid
uals and of nations, by transferring exis
ting capital to the hands by which it can
be productively employed, instead of let
ting it lie idle in the shape of merchandize
in store houses, or of grain in granaries,
or of coin in iron chests or the vaults of
banks. But when employed to excess, or j
in other words, when it is abused, it be-'
comes an engine of vast mischief, involv-j
ing not only individuals, but whole com-j
munities in distress. There is no greater
calamity can befall a young man in busi
ness than halving too much credit. Thou
sands can trace their ruin to this cause.
The allurements of speculation are so
powerful that few young men can with
stand them, and as all that glitters appears
to be gold to the inexperienced mind, the
idea of pay’ day never comes into their
view, when they sign their names to prom
issory’ notes, their ability to meet which de
pends entirely upon contingencies which
they cannot control.
Unfortunately in the American tempe
rament there is a universal proneness to
overtrading. Everybody wants to make
money too fast, and all seem to forget the
old adag<‘, “The more haste, the less
speed.” Young men wantto begin where
their fathers left off, and from commencing
at the wrong end,they find in their old age
perhaps, that the tables are turned upon
them, and thatthey end where their fathers
began. If this propensity could be check-1
ed, it would be of incalculable advantage
to the community. Insolvencies would I
be far less frequent, and a large portion of
the enduring misery which results there
from, both to creditors and debtors would
be prevented.
From the Fredericksburg Arena.
“ I believe, because it is impossible,"
was the motto of one of the school men.
If the sentiment be repudiated in moral.?,
it would seem to be acted on in physics,
in this'age of improvement. The scheme
which, in one month, is pronounced vis
ionary and impracticable, is seriously dis
cussed in the second, adopted in the third,
and executed in the fourth, Just as he
who lags behind the age, is bringing his
demonstration of the absurdity and imprac
ticability of a given enterprise, to a Q. E.
D., he is interrupted in the process by the
ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, and
other demonstrations of joy at the comple
tion of the work. Old Melas, the Octo
genarian Austrian General, who com
manded in Italy at the time of Bonaparte’s
first campaign, though defeated in success
ive battles by inferior forces, and his
whole army annihilated in sixty days,
was able to prove most conclusively that
the young Republican had violated every
established principle of military operations ,
—that his stratege was defective—that
towns were taken and battles won, contra-:
ry to all rule, and that he had defended .
himself with the strictest reference to the
precepts of the great masters of the art of
war. His demonstrations were said to be,;
like Bonaparte’s battalions, perfectly ir-j
resistible. And we have here and there ,
a Melas, in our day, who finds himself not I
less puzzled to account for the resistless j
Republican energy, manifested in the ac-I
complishincnt of works of improvement.!
On this subject, men’s minds are in a
ferment, and there is no telling where the
thing will end. Anticipations, which
might be deemed extravigant, will approx- j
imate nearer the truth, than the most care
ful speculations of a mind not warmed to
something like enthusiasm. We hear,
now and then, some croakers talking a
bout the certainty of reaction. We do not
believe it. On thecontrary, the work will
go on in an accelerated ratio. We will
not deny that individual injury may be
sustained, that one town may be checked
1 in its growth, and another prostra'ed—but
the great interest of the country will be
i promoted—and, some twenty years more
j of peace and union, and this land will ex
j hibit a scene of prosperity and improvc
’ ment, such as never gladdened the heart
of the patuot in its wildest reverie.
The gigantic project is broached in the
; West of connecting Cincinnati with Char- •
leston, S. C. Committees have been raised,
■ and already a vast amount of valuable in-'
formation obtained. The feasibility of the
scheme—at an expense not beyond the
means of the States throughout which the
road will pass* —is demonstrated, and we
may look for a speedy commencement of
the work.
A few months ago some one suggested
the idea of connecting Nashville and New
Orleans by a Rail Road of six hundred
miles. As there is a good, though circui
tous water communication between the
cities, the idea was first scouted. A char
ter, however, was obtained; books opened :
the stock taken ; and fifty miles of the
work are now under contract. This en
terprise has operated upon Virginia.
A meeting of the citizens of Lynchburg
was held last week, at which, among oth
ers, the following resolution was adopted ;
Resolved. That it is expedient and prop
to petition the next Legislature of Virgm
for the privilege of constructing a Rail
Road from the town of Lynchburg, by or
near Buford’s Gap. by New River, and
the town of Abingdon, to the Tennessee
line, in view of uniting at the most practi
cable point with a Rail Road coming from
the city of Nashville, with the privilege
of extending the same to the city of Rich
mond.
In the discussion of the infamous pro
ject of laws relating to the press in the
French Chamber of Deputies, the celebra
ted French poet De Lamartine, although
unused to mingle in politics, rose on the
side of liberty, and made a great impres
sion. Amidst the degredation brought
upon the French Nation through their
representatives by the passage of these
laws, there is satisfaction in finding the
brightest names of her present literature
on the side of freedom. M. de Lamartine
concluded with the utterance of the follow
ing impressive remark, the truth of.which
may be ere long fearfully demonstrated:
“For my own part, I took no share in
the Revolution of July. 1 saw it with
sorrow; but I acquiesced in it so soon as
I saw it fairly in possession of the affairs
of the country. Do not let us give it the
lie—do not let us forget, that, if the Peo
ple do sometimes pardon those who en
slave, they never pardon those who be
tray them.”
In the course of the debate prophecies
and threats from the leading members of
the Opposition were frequent and emphat
ic. M. Royer Bollard, the veteran mas
ter of several of the present Ministry, re
buked in the strongest language his old
pupils. He foretold that to erect the
Chamber of Peers into a permanent
Court for the trial of the journalists of
France, would be most certainly the des
truction of that chamber. “You mis
trust the jury, but the jury in general are
the electoral body Take care, lest in
return for your distrust in them, they
show distrust in you.”
M. Margin concluded a series of bitter
denunciations of the Ministry, with the fol
lowing anticipation :
“Ministers were urging the country to
a catastrophe, for the effect produced by
the attacks of the press would be terrible
in proportion to their moderation. Minis
ters might perhaps imagine that they
strengthen their power, but the opposition
in that Chamber fulfilled its duty by pro
claiming to them that they were violating
all the conditions oftheir existence.”
A work of Chateaubriand having been
cited bj r Ministers in support of the pro
posed laws, that distinguished individual
addressed them a letter through a daily
paper in which is the following powerful
passage, which, s.’.ys the London Examin
er, reminds one of a similar one in the
Areopagih.ca of Milton. The passage
here alluded to is the same which we had
occasion to quote from Milton a short time
since:
“ I spare you the reproaches which
are addressed to you by the whole wordl.
I do not ask you to account for your oaths;
1 shall simply state that you have not yet
attained the end of your task; that in the
perilous path in which you are engaged,
in the suit of all Governments which
have ruined themselves, you must advance
to the abyss; the censure is the only thing
effective against the liberty of the press; a
violent law may kill a man; the censure a
lone kills ideas, and it is ideas which ruin
your system. Prepare yourself to estab
lish the censure, and the day on which you
do establish it you will died
To the French Nation, such as it is now,
the destruction of the liberty of the Press
is the most oppressive burden that can be
imposed. It is at once the greatest of
deprivations and the greatest of insults.
We cannot believe that it can be borne a
twelvemonth. The conduct of the King
and his Ministers is truly astonishing. It
strikes us as an unsurpassed example of
infatuation. Like Charles X. and his ad
visers, Louis Phillippe and his Ministry
are sadly in want of discretion to temper
their courage, and of wisdom to guide
their ambition— Baltimore American.
The Mo ving Plant.— The following
interesting notice of the Moving Plant
appears in No. 122 of Mauud’s Botanic
Garden, a work replete with information
on such subjects:—“this plant was for
merly called Hedysarumgyrant; and'the
peculiar property of continual motion
which itsternate leaves possess, has inter
ested naturalists ever since it was noticed
by the young Linnaeus. In a letter to his
friend Mutis, he says, ‘I have raised a very
wonderful plant this year in my garden.
It is a new specis of Hedysarum from
Bengal. The plant has a spontaneous
motion in its foilage, which seems almost
voluntary. You arc aware that various
parts of the vegetable body, especially
those subservient to impregnation, can be
so stimulated by the touch as to exhibit
some kind of movement. You know also
the motions of some kinds of Mimosa and
Oxalis, as well as of the Dionaja musci
pula, arising from the touch of any ex
traneous body, or from the agitation of the
wind. But the plant in question is not
affected by either ofthese causes. Wheth
er in the open air or in a close room, it
spontaneously moves its leaflets, now one
way, now another, one, two, or more at a
time ; not all at once, nor all in one direc’
tion; and this takes place whether the air
be serene, cloudy or rainy. It has not
yet flowered, but I expect that event in
the course of the autumn. The plant re
quires great heat.’ Instances of incom
prehensible action like this can but awa
ken the attention of the most apathetic.
The irritability of some plants is better
known, especially that of mimosa pudica,
or humble plant, whose leaves shrink
from the touch, the culture of which may
be reccommended to the curious among
our young friends. Seeds are easily ob
tained, and an efficient hot-bed during
summer in which the plants should be
constantly kept, will sufficiently mature
them for the purpose of showing their sen
sitive peculiarities. This is a property
which advances the vegetable towards the
animal kingdom, just as instinct advances
the brute towards the human species.”
Little Rock, (A. T.) Sept 26.
Another Murder— Highway Robbery
—Apprehension and execution of the per
petrator. —By the last Gazette we discov
er an advertisement of Reward for
the apprehension of a person who is rep
resented to be a young man who it ap
pears murdered a respectable citizen of
Jackson county, on the 16th inst., on the
road leading from Memphis to this place.
It appears that this young man had fallen
in company with a Mr. George Robinson,
a highly respectable gentleman, who resi
ded in Jackson county —and as they were
travelling together he suspected him of
having a large sum of money, and he im
mediately shot him with a pistol,—took
what money he had, and laid his body be
hind a log, and then made his escape.
Since our information which we receiv
ed from the Gazette we have seen and
conversed with the Memphis mail rider
who arrived here on Wednesday last, and
we learn that the individual named in the
Gazette as being suspected of having com
mitted the murder, was a'young man by
the name ofJames C. Johnson, and who
we learn was apprehended on Saturday
last, about nine miles irom W. Strong’s
Esq. taken back to the place where he had
committed the murder, and was on Sun
day evening last, about two o’clock, taken
to a sapling and HUNG in the presence
of about 50 persons—and among the rest
our informant was present; and after he
had hung some time they cut him down
and buried him in a hole near where he
shot Mr. R. We are informed that Mr.
R’s. saddle, watch, and the money stolen,
was found in the possession of Johnson,
who confessed that he had committed the
murder.— The Times.
Dreadful Catastrophe.— We have ne
ver been called upon to record a more di
abolical act, than was perpetrated on Ford
Creek, on Saturday night, by some per
son or persens unknown. The house
of Mr. Smithes was forcibly entered, and
the inmates most inhumanly butchered,
several valuable articles stolen, and the
splendid dwelling of Mr. S. and the bodies
of thirteen murdered individuals entirely
consumed. Among them was Mr. S.
and wife, and five children,and six others,
whose names our informant could not
learn, as they were German emigrants,
and journeying to some of the upper dis
tricts. Suspicion rests upon a white man
who was seen dodging about the neigh
borhood for some days before, but has
not been seen since.
Most deeply do we deplore the loss of
Mr. S. and family. He was for a num
ber of years a member of the State Legis
lature, an intelligent and honest man, and
fora longtime a worthy member of the
Methodist church.
We understand that SIO,OOO reward is
offierred for the perpetrator of this horrid
act.— Aiken Ted.
[gTlr Very like a hoax.]
Brazil.— The following article has ap
peared in many of the papers :
“The public library at Rio Janeiro is
an edifice connected with the Emperor’s
Palace, and contains about 70,000 vol
umes, most of which are very ancient. It
contains a copy of the first printed edition
of the Bible, in parchment, impressed in
1471, by the wonderful mechanism of
John Faust, the inventor of printing.”
The locality of this library is erroneous
ly stated. It is not connected with the
Emperor’s Palace, but is situated back of
the Church of the Carmelites which fronts
on the Palace square, the usual point of
landing from the vessels in the harbor.
The residence of the Emperor is a few
miles out of town, but he has in the city a
palace, at which he holds his Court on ga
la days. This valuable library, which
we have seen, belonged to the King of
Portugal, and was brought with him from
that country, when the Court emigrated
to Brazil, in 1807.— Philadelphia Ga
zette.
Wood Paving.— The citizens of Cin
cinnati are about making an experiment
of paving with hemlock blocks, after the
Russian method, lately introduced into
New York. We may assure the Cincin
natians that, so far, our experiment works
exceedingly well. Though hundreds of
omnibuses, carts, coaches, &c. have been
wheeling over it for several weeks, the
surface is perfectly level, smooth, and solid
—in no degree worn as we can perceive.
The motion of the carriage over it is of a
novel and pleasanter kind than any one
can easily conce’ve who has not felt it.
Nojar—do dust—no noise.— New York
Star.
The Biter Bit.— Not many years since,
a country merchant—who was in the hab
it of visiting this city several times in the
course of the year, to purchase goods—
on his way stopped at a public house, not
a thousand miles from here, and being
out of health, called for a cup of tea and
some toast for which he was charged most
enormously. He payed the demand, but
determined to have satisfaction for the ex
tortion. He had at this time a teamster
in his employ, who was capable of eating
more than any other three men in the
State, and concluded that if he should dine
at the tavern at the common price, it would
about make the account even. Accord
ingly Jehu, being let into the secret, stop
ped at the tavern on his next trip, and bar
gained for a dinner, for which he was to
pay 25 cents. The usual quantity of food
was placed upon the table, but in a few’
minutes a call was made for more—this;
call was repeated until all the cooked
meat in the house was disposed of. Bon
iface then produced a wholecheese and a
large loaf of bread, and thinking it was
time to get rid of his customer, turned his
horses’ heads from the door, set them off
at a small trot, and communicated the fact
to his patron, who smelling a rat, received
the intelligence very coolly, took the
cheese in one hand and the loaf of braed
in the other, and comforted Boniface with
the assurance that he thought he could
catch’em.— Boston Post.
Census of Troy, N. Y. — The following
result is given in the Troy papers:
Our population on the first day of July
last was sixteen thousand nine hundred
and seventy one. The population of
Troy at the same date in in 1830, five
years since, was eleven thousand five
hundred and fifty-six. The statement
exhibits during the brief period of five
years the most astonishing increase of
five thousand four hundred and fifteen.
The ratio of increase since 1830 has been
at the rate of nearly 75 per cent.
The Mammoth Hog.— This enormous
animal which arrived in our city from
Norfolk, a few days since, died on Fri
day morning last. It was of Russian
breed, but was raised in Warren County,
Ohio. This animal was 9 feet 2 inches
in length, 3 feet 11 inches in heighth, and
measured around the body 8 feet 3 inches
weighed 1400 pounds, and 3 years 4
months old. We understand that the
Carcass was purchased by Dr. Strobel,
for 10 dollars, and that he intends mak.
ing a prepared Skeleton of the bones—
Mercury.
Duel.— The Providence Journal of
24th ult. says.—"We learn that a duel
was fought in Smithfield yesterday morn
ing, near scot’s pond, bj’ two officers of the
Navy; one a Lieutenant, and the other a
sailing master—w’ho arrived in the steam
boat the night before from New York.
Both were wounded, one severely, near
the groin, and the otherin the thigh. We
have not heard their names.”
Extract of a letter from a large and
respectable planter in Green County, Al
abama, dated 15th inst. to a friend in Co
lumbia:
“We had until lately very flattering
prospects of ou r crops, both of corn and cot
ton. We had a wet cold spring, which
made our cotton crops two or three weeks
later than usual. The summer particu
larly August and part of September, was
very wet, which made our cotton grow
too large, and too long in the season, so
that it was late in maturing the bolls, and
opening. We have now had a severe and
killing frost which has diminished our
prospects greatly. lam of opinion that
the crop in South Alabama will lessened
one thrid of its product. In North Ala
bama I am informed the planters will not
make half crops of cotton. Late in the
spring they had a severe frost which des
troyed the young cottton after it had come
up, so that they were compelled to plant
a second time. This occasioned them to
be late; and this early fall frost has cut ofT
their prospects to less than half crops. I
am convinced that this year’s crop, not
withstanding the great emigration to this
country, and the greater quantity of land
cultivated in cotton, will not equal last
year’s crop.”
All verbal accounts go to corroborate
the statement, that the crop of cotton in
the Gulph States will not be a full one.
The following parody on the King’s speech is
from the London Examiner of September thir
teenth and entitled:
COPY OF AN UNSPOKEN SPEECH.
My Luds and Gentlemen: I find, with
great satisfaction that you are all tired of
this protracted session and have wisely
agreed to let the public business lie over
until we meet again.
I have sent my brother Ernest to Kal
isch, partly to be out of the way, and part
ly to assure the foreign powers of my dis
position to maintain the harmony which
at present subsists between us. lam in
great hopes that the general peace will be
preserved, to say the truth, every body is
two poor to go to war just now and most
people find enough to do at home, without
employing themselves in things that dont
concern them.
The Spaniards are still cutting each
others throats as usual. You know that
I have taken up the cause of the Queen
of Spain, and by Gentlemen, we
must try to get out of it the best way we
can.
We have been trying to put down the
slave trade a long time, and I’m sure if we
hav’nt done it we have spent money e
nough about it.
I am pleased with the good behaviour
of my Irish subjects. lam sure I dont
wish to hang any of them if the vagabonds
would only be quiet.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
I am obliged to you for the readiness
with which you voted the supplies; and
the more so as I was—afraid at one time
you would have put us all on short com
mons.
You have been lucky in borrowing a
great deal of money at a very low rate.
Whether this arises from the quantity of
money in the country, or the number of
fools who dont know what to do with it, is
more than 1 know.
AUGUSTA,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4.
We learn from the Charleston papers that the
Br. barque Ann, Tait, from Greenock Struck
on theSouth breakers, during the N. E. gale on»
Saturday evening, and was so much injured as
to make it necessary to run her aground onFol
ly Island.
A letter dated Glascow, 28th Septembar, says:
“ The Cotton market has now become quite ru
inous, and going back every day.”
Another letter of Ist October, says: “ Our
Cotton market continues in the same inanimate l
state, and the Liverpool market is also quite l
dull.”
“ intelligence-from Washington was received
yesterday in Wall-street, says the New-York
Herald, of Wednesday, of a highly important
nature, relative to our relations with France.
One of our most distinguished capitalists ex
pressed himself in great doubt about the mutual
dispositions of the French and American cit
izens to continue in a friendly temper.
“ We understand that arrangements have all
ready been made to enter into extensive opera
tions in French staple articles as well as muni
tions of war.
“Gen. Jackson very recently gave several!
' ambiguous givings out’ during his conversa
tional moments to visiters, which look like
war at any hazard.
“ In adition to these indications, we hear that'
the Vice President very hastily left this city
yesterday morning for Washington, in conse
quence of pressing despatches received on Mon
day. There is to be a general assemblage of
the cabinent and all other confidential adveisers,
at Washington next week, to determine the
complexion of the next despatches to France, as
well as the next message to Congress, and also
to take position in relation to France that shall
be worthy of the Republic. We trust they will
instantly assume the Lion’s part. We are half
for war.”
There has been an extensive flood in the
Western part of New-York. The Albany
Journal of the 22d ult. says:—We learn from a
gentleman who arrived in the Telegraph this
morning, that the entire West is literally inunda
ted. The Genesee river and other streams, al
ready much swollen by previous and continued!
rains, overflowered on Wednesday, and contin
ued to rise on Thursday, w’hen our informant
left. Great damage had already been done, and
vastly more was apprehended. The bridge
over the Genesee river, two miles below Ro
chester, had been swept away; and although the
Rochester Democrat of Wednesday says other
wise, a gentleman who left there on Thursday
morning, says that the aqueduct was considered
in danger.
The Telegraph mails that arrived at 10
o’clock to-day, were 48 hours behind..
The Telegtaph way-bill of the 22d says:—
c This stage was detained 24 hours, by high
water at Genesee river.
The way-billof the 23d says;—“ The western,
country is all afloat. It is impossible to cross
the Genesee river.”
The Rochester Democrat states that three
inches of rain had fallen from Sunday night to
Wednesday 4 P. M. and it still continued.
The New-York Star, says there appearsto be
no doubt that Judge M’Lean will be appointed
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States.
We learn from the Knoxville Register, that
the Resolutions introduced in the Tennessee
Legislature, recommending Judge White for
the Presidency, passed the House of Represent
atives by a vote of sixty to twelve, on the 16th.
ult..
A new Post Office has been established at
Mount Washington, Washington county, Geo.—
William Cooper, Postmaster.
THE RACES.
Active preparations are being made in this
neighborhood for the races near this place in
January. Col. Towns and others have some
eight or ten in training at the La Fayette Course,,
and Messrs. Winter & Morrison have just re
ceived, from New York and New Jersey, a
stable, consisting of five very fine looking hor
ses, of favorite blood, and, we have no doubt,
will be able to make sport, if they should not
prove winners.
Mr. Winter has politely furnished us with
a list of his late arrival, which we subjoin :
Hickory John, a c. h., 4 years old, by John
Richards, dam by Hickory, (which was the
sire of Alice Grey’s and Robin Hood’s dams.)
Mary Cooper, a c. f., 3 years old, by Flying
Childers, (which was the full brother of Flirtil
ler,) dam, the celebrated mare, Lady Hunter,
which was by Duroc, the sire of Eclipse.
Sally Van Dyke, a g. f., 3 years old, by the
celebrated Henry, dam by Ogle’s Oscar.
Acacia, a c. f.. 2 years old, by Henry, dam the
imported Expedition, which was the sire of Me
doc’s dam.
Pennoyer, a b. c , 2 years old, by Henry, dam
the celebrated Ariel. This colt bids fair to be
the champion of the Southern Turf. Added to
his being descended from two of the most dis
tinguished nags on the continent, there runs in
his veins the blood of Sir Archy, Diomede, Mes
senger, Eclipse, and Duroc, and is one of the
highest formed colts that we ever saw. We do
not wish to detract from the merits of Hamilton
and Argyle, the two great champions of Geor
gia and South Carolina, but when Pennoyer
walks on the turf, they would not act foolishly
to walk off. He is too yonng to come into com
petition with them this campaign, but in the
next let those gentlemen look out for breakers.
By the bye, this colt is named after our old
friend, Capt. Pennoyer, of the steamboat Dol
phin ; and we hope that his beautiful name
sake may navigate the turf with his four feet
as successfully as the Captain has the Atlantic
with his three steamboats.
Mr. Headden, aj’oung artist, about eighteen
years es age, and raised in Georgia and South
Carolina, is now copying the fine painting of
Washington, in the City Hall ofthisplace. Mr.
Headden has not yet completed the work, but he
has progressed far enough to enable us to say
with confidence, that when it shall be comple
ted, it will be almost as perfect a likeness of the
original as a mirror reflection of it. —With both
pictures before us side by side, we could hard
ly discover the slightest shade of difference be
tween them. While viewing with admiration
the operation of our young countryman,