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eVurh nor nnnj water, drawn. Thou art the light of
;, in( . ov ,Vt I ,-mnot parr from thee;, let us, therefore, flee
„ n ,; t Hv father’ ? tents, even unto the wilderness as into a
€U <! ?h' mv lord, thy servant hath neither gold nor silver
h b ‘ a ‘„ ' t he charge. * Could we live like the raven or the
stork of the desert ? . , , c . . .
The objection had not struck Abimelech before; but he
r >al 1 not immediately convert his passion into money, and
hi, passion was too violent to admit delav. He seemed
pemleve 1 and spake not, till Zorah inquired in a careless
manner if his next, door neighbor was not the rich publican,
Ann i Ben Habra! ?
“ It is even so,” replied the R ibbi, still musing.
“ And he hath, I a;n told, coffers lilicd with shekels of
pur" silver.
“ It is said so.’
o And shekels of gold, and pots of double Maccabees,
and precious stones, pearls, and sardonyx, and carbuncles,
more costly than tiic jewels of the highpriest’s breast
plate!” ... ,
“ Hah !” exclaimed Abimelech, asif a sudden nty of hffht
and darted across his mind, “ speak on.”
“ Aaron Ben Rabiat is stricken in years, and nveth (tiotift
-irhes are to him as the dust of earth—there is a private
wiv bom thv house to his.”
“Ston, stop.,’ cried the agitated man, grasping the arm
of t :v tempter convulsively. A'/hat would st, thou ? Shall
I peril rnv soul in this" thing? Zorah! Zorah! Thy
words are as pleasant t.ir mine ear as the murmurs of fail
in' waters in the desert, but the bitterness of Marah, even
the bitterness of death is iti their taste;—nevertheless, in
til is also I will obey thee.”
“ Go about it, then, instantly,” said Zorah, rising: “ thou
kno vest the private passage into the old miser’s chamber.
Take this weapon—thou mayest need it—tnd when thou
Inst secured the treasure, return quickly hither, and all
things shall be ready for our flight.”
Abimelech, whose scruples had by this time entirely van-
isb^l. was no less eager than his impetuous mistress to ac
complish the deed; he ran with incredibifc speed through
to-> now silent streets, and quickly reached his own dwel
ling. Lighting a lamp, h- entered a private passage,
wbb'b in ti n *s of danger hal been contrived between the
two houses, and in a few moments found himscif in the
chamber of Rabiat. _ 1
Around him lav coffers file 1 with gold andsilvercoins, aim
e iskots charged with precious st ones that trembled with va-
r i« l but incessant lustre in the sickly beams of the lamp he
b >r \ He raised W jewl box to his eye, to examine it
imre close! ;, when slipping from his fingers, it fell to the
floor with a’loud crash,‘and the next moment the alarm-d
miser rim**- turn tire. .-seeing a stranger at
si:-b ai hour in the sanctuary ot the god of his idolatry,
ha utter'd a piercing scream, and throwing himself upon
f'i» robber, griopled him with almost sup - mu urn! str ’ngph.
Vainlv did Abimelech attempt to escape from the old man’s
grasp" or to still his screams; every moment increased his
d tiger; he heard the steps of persons ascending the stairs:
nm'au instant was to be lost; The dagger which Zorah
lit l given him was in his girlie; he drew it and plunged
it int > tV heart of the old man. A piercing shriek rung
though the chamber, and the unfortunate Aaron Ben La
bia' fell lifeless on the floor. Instead of providing for his
safety, the guilty Rabbi stood petrified with horror over the
quivering bodv of his victim, wnt filing tic life stream a.vel-
ing from his side in a bubbling tide.
When the p ersons attracted by the publican’s screams,
entered th n room, lie made no attempt to escape, but sur
rendered himself quietly into their hands. He was in
stantly hurried to prison, and amidst the revilings of
the crowd, was plunged into a dark noisome dungeon,
f i await the public ignominy of a trial on the following
day, in the sight of that people before whom he had set
himself up a; an examrdo of righteousness. Dashing him-
s >If on the earth, ho lay writhing in bi'ter agony, cursing
the hour of his birth and the fatal madness which had led
his step-, fr >m the paths of virtue: when suddenly a ray of
light illuminated his prison—he looked up it was Zorah.
Her eyes’ dark orb still shone with indiminished lustre;
but there was in the proud smile which curled her elevated
lip an expression of demoniac triumph, which chilled the
Rabbi’s blood. Hiding his face in his robe, he exclaim-
“ False tempter begone—I have done toy bidding—and
1»>! innocent blood is upon my hand?. I am broken and
trad lei under fa or. like a defiled thing. The cup of my
pride has been filled with gall. Depart therefore, I pray
the-, least in the bitterness of mv wrath I curse time
also.
“Rabbi Abimelech, it is said “the vain-glorious man
shall fall in the snare of his own heart.’ Tns time hath
com-, and thoucoitld’st not stand fast. ’
“Rtcar! art firm there?” shouted Abimelech, as he
recognized in the speaker the voice of tnc mendicant to
whom he had given alms at the Water Gate on the pre
vious evening. Burning with rage, he seized the prophet
of evil lav lit* throat; but the strength of the bid man far
exceeded his own, an l he flung him to the earth with a vio
lence that shook his very frame.—Starting up he beheld not
the old beggar of the A Voter Gate, nor the tempter Zorah.
He was alone, not in a dungeon of a prison, but in his lit
tle chamber, with a yellow harvest moon streaming through
the lattice. Several minutes elapsed be tore lie could con
vince himself that the horrors he had undergone were but
'‘It is a lesson from the Lori—I was proud of my own
strength, and when the trial came I w.u delivered to the
Evil One.”
Fro m that day forth the Rabbi Abimelech walked in the
path of humility. He had experienced the dangers of
s dt confidence, and he learned to pity rather than condemn
those who like himself had tallen in the struggle with Tnc
Tempter.
PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.
Of all diseases this is the most extraordinary, capri
cious, vet constant—partial, yet finally universal—slight in
so n- parts of its progress, overwhelming in others, pas
sing through nil climates, influenced by none—a winter en-
d--* nie in one land, a summer scourge in another—seizing
alike on every country and every species of population—
sometimes yielding to the most trivial remedy, sometimes
balling the most approved. Utterly defying all systematic
cure, it remains now, after half dozen years of its traverse
through the world, the same mysterious, resistless, perpet
ual moving calamity. A map of the cholera would enm-
g>relii ad almost everv region of the civilized world. But
the strange diversity of its course alone would make it me
morable. Beginning in Centra! India, pouring over the
range of the Himmaiayah, into the wild plains to the north
an l terrifying the hordes of Tartary. Then shaping its
course to the westward, anl destroying ail within that
course to the head of the Caspian. Turning thence more
directly on Europe, and failing on St. Petersburg, Moscow,
and the central provinces ot Russia, it paused tor a while
within the Russian Empire, as if to give time for AVestern
and Southern Europe to prepare. Then suddenly spread
ing along the Northern shores of Germany, and consuming
the squalid population of thc.r commercial cities, it came
unaccountably among ourselves.
Its visitation in England was remarkable for its mildness,
for its limitation to peculiar districts, and for its singularly
capricious seizure ot individuals. At Newcastle, while it
f..'l heavily on one third of the town, the other two districts
comparatively escaped. In London the seizures were
chiefly in the narrower parts of the city, and the suburbs
stretching along the river side. The only characteristic of
the disease yet distinctly ascertainable, is that it exists with
almost unfailing power, in the vicinity of great rivers.—
Beggary, sqnalidness, nakedness, and intoxication are all
in danger of attack. But damp and discomfort, in the
neighborhood of great rivers, appear to render its ravages
almost inevitable.
From the north of Germany, it divided into two branch
es, one taking its coflrse to England, and one sweeping to
the South—the central Provinces of Germany suffered hoa-
-Ily: nn:l Vieno" litsf - "umber iff its poorer popula
tion. From Vienna, again, returning to the North, and
crossing the Rhine, it entered France, passed through the
provinces with comparatively slight mortality, but fell up
on Paris with redoubled veno n. The mortality in that ca
pital, was unequalled—within a few weeks twenty thousand
died.
The disease then seemed to pause. It suddenly started
up in America, transferred none knew how. After ravag
ing the United States, it crossed the Lakes and the St. Law
rence ami spread terror through Canada, from Canada
it made its wav through the forests, and destroyed a portion
of the Indian population,—which might have seemed to de
fy ih? inflictions of Europe in their unfathomable solitudes.
Jjut the cholera was not to be escaped, and the mortality
was deeply felt among the thinned tribes of the vast coun
try stretching iu the rear of the United States. Thence
by a sud Ion spring, it fell upon Mexico, the Havanna. and
ihe Spanisn settlements south of the line, finally wandering
away into the deserts, until life went out, and disease could
play no more. It then crossed the Atlantic again, and threw
Europe into new alarm at a disease which seemciLlo be
marked for the perennial scourge of the earth. But its
visitation, as it passed along, was now slight until it reach
ed the confines oi Mahometanism.
There it swept all before it, asif kindled from some new
furnace of wrath; it devastated Egypt by thousands and
tens of thousands From Egypt it ascended to_Con«tanti-
n rple. There i: rivalled the plague. Multitudes perish
ed, It then partially returned to Russia and Germany.—
It is now raging in Italv. The east coast has been seized
within these few mo.iths, and Greece, the nearest shore lias
tremblingly adopted measures of precaution. Bosnia aud
tne wild country bordering on the north of her kingdom,
is already seized, and thousands-are perishing day by day.
AVhen the science and comiorts of civilized countries have
been so ineffectual, what resistance can be made by the
ignorance and wretchedness of barbarism. The disease
will take its way through the wilderness, and cease only
as it Hi J in South America, by its going beyond the confines
of man.
Li this sketch, which of course has merely -traced the
leading lines of its progress, we have a view of the most
extraordinary operation of hum in mortality within the his-
t »ry of our species. The great plagues which have visited
Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire, have all had
nearly a common character. All have fallen, with more or
less violence, upon the extremity of the continent, when it
touched upa,i the realms of Mahometanism, always the
original soil of the disease, and have thence gone regularly
on, covering the earth with corpses, -like the march of a
«1 'straying army. In the lesser plagues peculiar cities
were ravaged, as in tlie plague of London, and like the vio
lence of fever in a sick chamber, the disease of those seiz
ed within the limit, and beyond was harmless But the
chslera more resembles the floating of a cloud chargted
with elements of death—here scarcely shadowing the atmos-
phere, there turning it into utter darkness^-m one region
sweep’ng onward with an uncontrollable rapidity, in the_
next lingering till it. almo t ceased to move. Curried as if
by the chances of the wind, passing by kingdoms that lav
directly in its path, hurrying to others across mountains and
nlains, apparently omitting some whose poverty contained
every predisposition for disease, and fixing on others where
every human power was ready to repel its devastation, yet
finally smiting all.
It is not for us to Weigh the wisdom of Providence, nor
to announce its mysterious will. But if it had been that
will to awake the mind of nations to a peculiar sense of a
Supreme Being, at this time, or perhaps to prepare them
for some moral and physical trial speedily demanding all
their moral preparation, could at least the wisdom of
man conceive a more powerful teacher than the progress ol
this strange and powerful agent of mortality ? A lesson,
gradual, yet unremitting, individual yet national, slow yet
impressive, not destroying with one wild burst of ruin, but
sparing even in the midst of destruction, and giving its
teaching successively to every people of the civilized globe.
Can such things be, and be for nothing ? Or does the de
clared course of Providence entitle us to believe that they
are ? Or is there not a sudden, strange outburst of min
gled unbelief, profligacy, and rebellion in the world of our
day, sufficient to more than vindicate the Divine visitation .
Near Nottingham, Prince George county, \
January 26, 1837. )
S IR : I received yours of the 14th, making inquiry ref
porting the Maryland corn, which you understood I had
raised? I have the pleasure to say, that I have brought
this corn to a high state of perfection, by carefully selecting
the best seed in the field for a long course of years, having
especial reference to those stalks which produce the most
ears. AVh'tithe corn was husked, I then made a re-selec
tion, taking only that which appeared sound and fully ripe,
having a regard to the deepest and best color, as well as to
the size of tlie cob. In the spring, before shelling the
corn. I examined it again, and snlecting the best in all res-
p"--ts. In shelling the corn, 1 omitted to take the irregu
lar kernels at both the large and small ends. T. have care
fully foliowad this mode of selecting seed com tor fuil
twenty-two or twenty-three years, and still continue to do
so.
AVhen I first commenced, itwas with a common kind of
(**■ diertrvras'll *HC otTier in tills jrart ot the country.—
If any other person undertook the same experiment, l did
not hoar of it; I do not believe others ever exercised the
patience to bring the. experiment to the present state of per
fection. At first, I was troubled to find stalks with even
two good ears o.o them, perhaps one good ear and one
small one, or one go id ear a id “ a nubbin.” It was seve
ral years before I could discover much lienefit resulting
from my efforts? however, at length the quality and quan
tity began to improve, and the improvement was then \ei\
rapid. At present 1 do not pretend to lay up any seed with
out it comes from stalks which bear tour, five and six
ears. I have seen stalks hearing eight ears. One of my
neighbors informed me, that he had a single stalk witn ten
perfect cars on it, and that he intended to send the same to
the museum at Baltimore.
In addition to the number of ears, and, of course, the
great increase of the quantity unshelled, it may be mention
ed, that it yields much more than the common corn when
shelled. Some gentlemen, in whom I have tull confidence',
informed me they shelled a barrel (ten bushels ot ears)
of mv kind of corn, which measured a little more than six
bushels. The common kind of corn will measure about
five bushels on’y. I believe I raised double, or nearly,
to what I could with any other corn, I have ever seen. 1
generally plant the corn about the first of May, and place
the hills five font apart each way, and two staiks in a hill.
: can supply you with all the seed you may need, and I
suppose I have now in my corn house fitty and perhaps
more stalks, with the corn on them, as it grew in the field ;
and not less than four, and some with six or seven ears on
them. I will with pleasure send you some ol these
stalks, and also some seed corn, if I can get an opportuni
ty.
Earivlast spring, I let George Law, Esq., of Baltimore
eitv, have some of this seed corn : he sentit to his friend in
Illinois, with instructions how to manage it. A tow weeks
since he informed me that the increase was one hundred
and twenty bushels on a:i acre ; that there was no corn
in Illinois like it, and that it produced more fodder than any
other kind. I have supplied many friends with seed corn,
but some have planted with other corn, and will, I fear,
find it degenerate.
I have very latelv been inquired of, if this corn was no
later than other kinds ? It is rather earlier; certainly not
later. Corn planted in moist or wet soils, will not ripen so
quick a? that which is planted on a dry soil. In the for
mer, there will be found more dampness in the cob, al
though the kernel may appear equally ripe in both. In the
two last years, the wet seasons have injured much com that
was too early “ lofted” or housed
I believe I have answered most of your enquiries. 1
hope I have not exaggerated—I have no motive iu doing
so. \ raise but little corn to sell, as jiobaccoJsJiQJX -IUY
spring. I will, next summer, gather some stalks with the
corn, fiid ’er, ansi tassels, and all as they grow, and scud to
you, that you may judge for yourself of the superiority of
this over tho common kind of corn. Yours, Ac.
THOMAS N. BADEN.
Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents,
Washington City.
FOREIGN.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
New-York, March 22.
Yesterday arrived the packet ships .Vest minster, Capt.
Moore, from London, and the North America, Captain
Hoxie, from Liverpool, which placed us in possession of
London Journals to the 17th, and Liverpool to the 13th
ultimo.
The extracts we make relate principally t« the state *.f
the English money market, and English commerce. AV’ti
lament that we can find in them nothing of a satisfactory
character, and every thing to convince us, that the distress
pervading the mercantile community there and here, pro
ceeds entirely from the course pursued by the administra
tion of Gen. Jackson in relation to the currency. We have
the specie now, and our present situation is a delightful
commentary on the advantages it confers. Even the de
cline in the value of cotton in Liverpool, is evidently owing
to the deranged state of the money market in England.—
This will add largely indeed to individual prosperity and
national wealth!
Two motions have been made in the House of Commons
by radical members, the one to take from the bench of
Bishops the privilege of a seat in the upper House, and the
other to do away with the property qualification in voters.
They were both lost, but still there was a sufficient number
of votes in their favor, to excite serious alarm for the per
manency of British institutions; the two motions carried,
the whole fabric would full.
The Secretary for Foreign Affairs lias been interrogated
in the Commons on the subject of the capture of the Brit
ish vessel V ixen, by the Russians. In the first instance he
replied, that the matter had been submitted to the law offi
cers of the crown for their opinion, and subsequently he
sta'ed tiiat it would not he proper at present to make this
opinion known. We do not think, from present, appearan
ces, that it is probable any thing serious will ensue, parti
cularly as it is stated that Lord Durham, the British Am
bassador at Petersburg, remained on the best terms with
the Court there.
Though our dates from France are not later than those
received yesterday, we take occasion again to refer tn the
of St, ,l,at country. Mostproimneut in which,
appears the danger which still continues to threaten the life
of Louis Phillippe. Another plot to assassinate him, it is
said, has been discovered. lie is almost a prisoner in his
palace, and when he stir3 out it is nccessarv for his safety,
to observe the most jealous precautions. A garde rayalc
is spoken of. Another fact, indicative of the state of mo
ral feeling in Paris, is the astonishing increase in the num
ber of suicides.
It would seem that a second expedition against Constan
tine is at least delayed. Marshal Clauscl has been re
moved from his command on the coast of Africa, and that
station given to General Darnsmont.
Both in r ranee and England, the opposition to the pre
sent Ministers appears very active. M. Thiers is said to
be intriguingto supplant the present president of the Coun
cil. In England a dissolution of parliament is spoken of,
and the increasing strength of th ? conservative party is evi
dently viewed with alarm by their political opponents.
A general movement of the British Legion in the North
of Spain was about to take place. It was supposed that be
ing numerically stronger than the Cnrlists, besides having
an artillery served bv traops from the regular British army,
that General Evans could not fail to drive the Carlists be
fore him.
In otlier respects, we see no important change in the state
•f things fither in Spain or Portugal.
The Influenza, though apparently diminishing in Eng
land, still continues very prevalent in France and Germany.
London, February $7.
There lias been, altogether, a mora cheerful feeling in the
city to-day, though it would be too much to say that the
symptoms of distrust have wholly disappeared. It is at
least something gained in the general estimation that the
weekly meeting of the Bank Directors has passed over
without any now measure acting on the currency, and it may
be added, that they are even understood to have evinced a
disposition to risk something more in quarters where it was
shown that assistance wbuld bo usefully bestowed. Of
course the utmost strictness of investigation in all such
cases is made an absolute condition beforehand.
The more tranquil feeling in the money market seems
to be the chief reason that the English stock market has
displayed considerable activity throughout the day, with im
provements in some of the quotations; but it was attribut
ed also to the favorable character of the letters and ac
counts from New-York as to the stale of the money mar
ket and commercial affairs there. Some transactions in
consols were done at 90, but the priee slightly receded
from that quotation, and left off at 89$ and for the account
89$ to 90. Exchequer bills continued firm at 28s. to
29s. premium. Bank stock was quoted lower at 206$ to
207$.
The return of the issues of private and joint-stock banks
shows that the former have been stationary during the last
quarter, aud that the issues of the joint stock hanks hare
increased from £ 3,969,121 to £ 4,258,197.
By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 434$
per mark, which at the English mint price of £ 3 17s 10$
the oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13s. ,
and the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being
13, 7§, it follows that gold is 0,93 per cent, dearer at Ham
burg than in London. %
The price of gold at Paris is 11$ per raille. which at
the English Mint price of £ 3,17,10$ the oz. for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25,44$. and the exchange at par
on London at short being 25, 37$ it follows that gold is
0,28 percent, dearer in Paris than in London.
Liverpool, Feb. 18.
State of trade and the Money Markot in London.—If
the ministers wish to perform a most popular act, as well
as one exceedingly beneficial to the country, it is, at once
and without delav, to turn their grave and most, serious
consideration to the awful state of the commercial world
at the present moment, and to devise instant means, as far
as they have the power to afford such a relief as may di
minish the pressure which is now felt. Let them remem
ber—Bis dat qoi cito dat—the case is urgent—the reme
dy should be instant. In all our experience, we never recol
lect such a cloud to have rested on our Exchange, trade to
have received such a shock—commercial credit to have been
at so low an ebb.
The state of things is, indeed, truly frightful. As yet
the actual failures have been few—and it is the opinion
of experienced men, that the crisis would pass over with
out anv, or, at all events, many more following, if some
step could be devised to restore confidence. If govern
ment, through the Bank of England, can d» any thing to
effect so desirable an end, they will make for themselves
sure and fast friends from one extremity of the country to
the other. It would he one thing if mere adventurers were
to be sufferers by this sudden transition from unrestricted
to limited issues—but it is not so—men iff red wealth and
undoubted means are placed in jeopardy by what we may
call the nervous affection which has seized upon the com
mercial world, and pat an end to all credit. An extended
business cannot be called in and curtailed at a moment s
notice ;—but men of this description who can give unbound
ed security, ought to have such relief afforded lo them as
would enable them to struggle through the temporary dif
ficulties which oppress them. A paternal government
Should regard this its it* fir.-t duty. AVe trust the ministers
will turn their attention to the subject—and, as we said be
fore, without a moment’s delay. AY hat they do, let them
do quicklv. A practical benefit, such as this, is worth a
thousand theories.
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
The seizure of the British trading vessel “ Vixen,” in the
Black Sea,—off the coast of Circassia, for the violation of
a blockade by the Russian Government, threatens some
thing serious, and is now the chief topic of discussion in
the European Journals. Circassia is claimed as a Russian
Province. England denies the claim, and demands the
right of a free trade. The question involved is the serious
one—is the Black Sea a marc clausum, or an open sea ?—
Russia claims the sovereignty under the treaty of Adriano
pic.—with all ps extensive coasts.—including the mouth or
the Danube, the right to regulate steam navigation there.
—and these claims are yearly pushed, so that she now
threatens to take possession of the whole sea, and of the
Bosphorus, and thus while she i< invading Asia by laud, to
threaten the Mediterranean and all Europe by the sea!—
England and France of course are alarmed. The facts
seem to be these:
The treatv of Adrianoplc was coaluded between Russia
and Turkey in 1828, when the Circassians enjoyed a com
plete independence. • They had, however, consented to pay
occasional tributes to the Porte, partly as Mahometans,
and as such, subjects of the Sultan, and partly as a return
for the protection afforded them by their neighbors against
Russia.
At the above mentioned period, this latter power availed
itself of the forlorn state in which England had left Turkey,
to draw Circassia from the allegiance of tho Sultan, who,
unfairly, gave over to the conqueror privileges which he
had no right to alienate. Of course, the Circassians, whose
love of independence had induced them to seek the dearly
bought assistance of their comparatively powerful neigh
bors against the scourge of the north, could not thus tame
ly submit to he bought and sold like slaves. In their hearts
thov protested against the conduct ot Turkey and the pre
tensions of Russia. To rise in arms they were afraid,
while the Russian army was still encamped in the defiles
of the Balkan, but, as soon as fair chance offered itself of
attacking their oppressors with success, they hid them
defiance', and the Autocrat’s disciplined slaves were, on se
veral occasions, defeated by the free-born inhabitants of
the Caucasus.
What, then, did Russia do in the treaty of Adrianoplc ?
In the 4th article she wrested from the Ottoman Porte all
the coast of the Black Sea, from the mouth of the Kouban
to the St. Nicolas port, that is Vo sav, all the countries on the
western part of the Caucasus, which she had not before
been able to subdue. But the Ottoman I’orte had no right
. , — —i -• <r
and the Circassians laughed to scorn article 4 of the treaty
of Adrianoplc : it was therefore with regard to Europe that
Russia wished to establish a right for herself. In this way
Russia managed to suppress another of the States on the
coasts of the Black Sea. As tiiis same treaty of Adriano-
plt; secured for Russia the entrance to the Danube, and the
power of excluding Austria, the Black Sea and its coasts
were shared between her and Turkey, who has become sub
ject to Russia since the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi. By
the treaty of Adrianoplc the Black Sea has been made
a marc clausum, where Russia means to admit or
exc ude European ships, according to her good plea
sure.
The Journal de St. Petersburg, the Russian official organ,
contends that Turkey had a right to transfer Circassia, and
that Russia iu the blockade of the Circassian coast, is bur
exercising an undoubted right, even if Circassia was an in
dependent neighbor, a right which England and no otlier
country has a right to violate. The Russian organ is thus
willing to dodge the question of sovereignty, and to fall
back upon that of the right of blockade, which no power
can deny, as an abstract right, if the V ixen was seized in
the act of a violation. Bnt is the seizure of the Vixen put
on that ground ? Does not Russia claim the sovereignty of
the Black Sea? Does not Russia hold forth a right to
regulate the custom and the sauitor laws of the Circassian
coast ? If the Vixen was seized on any of these princi
ples, it involves in the seizure the treaties of Adrianoplc—
of Unkiar Skelessi—of the sovereignty of the Black Sea—
of the right of the world to navigate it—of England—of
France—of America—of every body—and, therefore, be
comes a question of momentous gravity.
AVe watch the progress of this controversy with strict at
tention, because it bids fair to lead to a rupture between
England and Russia. England is jealous of the advances
Russia is ever making in the East, and already trembles for
her Eastern possessions. Again, the conduct of the Rus
sian Emperor in Warsaw—bis cruelty to the Poles—the
many noble exiles he lias sent to Siberia, lias made a pro
found impression upon the sensibilities of the. English peo
ple, and in fact of the whole civilized world. It is true
that the United States are on the most amicable looting
with the Russian Emperor, who may be considered our
best friend in Europe—but we cannot forget, or he blind to
the cruelties inflicted upon unhappy Poland. If, then,
these two great powers, England and Russia, go to war,
we should look on with the liveliest anxiety—for it cannot
he disguised that such war would not be a contest about
the soveregnty of the Black Sea alone, hut a contest in
volving the most important principles of civil liberty. In
tact it would ho a struggle in the old world between free
principles on one sid", England and France leading the ar
ray, tuid despotism upon the other, Russia leading forth her
CoM.i.'.Wr, — 1 l—. ..... n Clans. Tlie r.ninest would
he frightful, for all the powers involved in it can bring into
action the most terrific of human agents—men, money,
and arms in profusion.—N. Y. Express.
POLITICAL.
The Devil, i t has been said, is the great prototype of the
perfection of intellect without virtue; aiul experience cer
tainly serves to shew that the mere cultivation of the intel
lectual faculties, without a proportionate care of moral in
struction, is attended with some hazard. To illustrate the
insufficiency of this exclusive attention to the intellectual
powers in the work of education, M. Guerrv, a ‘liberal’
writer of France, has prepared statistical n;aps of all the
8ti departments of France, from which it appears that
wherever the number of educated persons is the greatest,
there crime is most frequent, anti so vice versa, and that
without regard to any otlier cause.
Similar results are shown by certain inquiries in Great
Britain. And we have been surprised to learn from the re
turns of two great penitentiaries—the Coldhathfields House
of Correction, and the Glasgow Bridewell—that the edu
cated prisoners were to the uneducated, in the proportion,
taking an average of the two, of about seven to one. In
the first named prison, the average in 1835 was as follows:
Prisoners educated, .... g53
Prisoners uneducated, .... 104
In Glasgow Bridewell the case stood thus—
Educated prisoners, - .427
Uneducated do. - - - - - 52 .
The Chaplain of Coldbathfields sagely infers from these
facts, “that it is not the want of education, but the ab
sence of principle, which leads to crime.”
In addition to these statements, a writer in the Black
wood’s Magazine quotes some statistical tables, which
show that the increase of crime in Scotland, where educa
tion is altno9t universal, of late years, has been much more
rapid than that of population, and more rapid than in Eng
land. The more general fact is also shown, that from 1812
to 1832, crime over England aud Wales has just doubled;
while the population has only advanced during tlie same
period somewhat under a half.
These are important data. And taken together with all
the other teachings of experience, they lead to the infer
ence, that the real regeneration either of society or of its
political institutions, must begin with those measures which
reach the moral nature, and which can alone prepare men,
by successfully governing themselves, to take a useful part
in the direction of others. The subject is one of para
mount consequence in this country, and we design to give
some attention to it, though we find ourselves uuubie to
pursue it further to-day.—Alex. Gaz. A
FROM THE WASHINGTON REFORMER.
ADMINISTRATION ABUSES—THE PRESS.
We have spread before the public the report of Mr.
Wise on the subjects referred to one of the investigating
committees of the House of Representatives. The docu
ment is of considerable length, embracing many subjects,
and comprehending a variety of details. 1 his was essen
tial to the full elucidation of the matters given in charge to
the committee. Its great length may have prevented some
of our readers from perusing it witn that c.: refill attention
which its importance so well merits. If so, the task which
we now undertake will not .»■ without some public benefit.
We propose to condense the matters contained in the re
port, so as to present the points briefly and clearly to the
country. • This we shall do in three or four numbers—not
so much in detail as to fatigue, nor so brief as to do injus
tice to the reader.
We commence with the abuses of the Administration in
reference to the press. The most dangerous mode in which
tlie patronage of the Government can be employed, is in
subsidizing the press. So strong, so universal has been
the belief that the Government has been engaged in pur
chasing up the press, that die royalists could not, dared not
resist the call of the reformers for an inquiry into these
abuses. It was universally known that the Government
had established a press in this city, which has been sup
ported by its bounty, and on which thousands of dollars
have been profusely lavished. Tt was also known that
nearly one hundred editors had been rewarded by the Ex-
ective with offices, proportioned in their emoluments to the
amount of partizan services rendered. It was in the know
ledge, too, of every one, that at this time quite two hun
dred newspapers are subsisting principally on the patron
age of the Executive department.
This disciplined corps of mercenaries, dependent and
depraved, speaking as they are hid to speak, sustaining
every outrage on the constitution of their country, suppres
sing the truth, and propagating falsehood in every.corner
of the Union, exciting and agitating the public mind, in
flaming the popular feelings by the grossest fabrications
and the foulest calumnies; these wretched ministers of
Executive pleasure have brought our country to its present
degraded state of tyranny and corruption. To examine
fuffy into their connection with the Executive department,
became a solemn duty on the part of those who desired to
preserve the purity and independence of the press, and
through this means the constitution and liberties of the
countrv. The first subject, therefore, proposed to be en
quired into by Mr. Wise, was the connection of tlie Exec
utive department with the public press; and, as a necessa
ry preliminary step, he proposed the following resolution:
Resolved, That the heads of the several departments
be required to furnish this committee with a statement
showing the sums of money paid within the year ending on
the 1st of December last, by such Departments, respec
tively, their agents or deputies, to printers or editors ot
newspapers, specifying the names and residence of such
printers and editors, and also the names and places of pub
lication of the newspapers owned or published hv them,
and showing the services or consideration for which such
sums have been paid, giving each item as stated in the ac
counts of such printer or editor.
The reader will, at a glance, perceive that this resolu
tion is general in its terms, the object being to discover
what number of editors and newspapers were in the pay
of the Executive, the sums of money they received from
him, and the services which had been rendered to justify
the payment of the money. The facts—the facts—the
FACTS were all Mr. Wise wanted to gather—report to
the House, and through the House to the country at large.
The conclusions from these facts were of course to be left
to the people themselves. Without a knowledge of the
f*cts, it was utterly impossible for the people to decide
whether there was any corruption or not. And did the
rovalists aid in ascertaining these fads l No! they did
not. Oa the contrary, their votes show, beyond all contest
and contradiction, that their object, their sole object was
to keep the facts concealed. At the very first meeting after
the resolution was offered, Mr. Mann, of New-Y ork, one
of the most unscrupulous of the royalist party, moved an
amendment to the resolution, by which the “heads of De
partments’’’ were only required to furnish a statement of
moneys paid “without authority of law, if any,”
leaving it to them exclusively to determine that question
for themselves! If there were any moneys paid by them
which, in their opinion, was “wi.hont authority of
law," why then, and in that case, they must furnish a state
ment of the sums; otherwise they were to furnish no state
ment at all 1 This amendment was voted for by every roy
alist on the committee, and carried.
Does this look like an investigation? Does it show any
temper like it ? Why, this course of conduct is so gross
that a child of eight years of age would detect its charac
ter and its object. It is precisely the same as if a judge
were to order his sheriff to go to a man accused of murder
and tell him that if, in his opinion, he has been guilty of
murder, then he must come into court and he hanged—hut
if, in his opinion, he has not been guilty of murder, then he
mav go his wav in pence. If such a doctrine as this were
to obtain, courts of justice would be very useless tribunals,
and we presume there would be very few persons convicted
, of murder or anv other crime.
—^.... ,i step ocyona tins even.—
Not content with putting it in the power of the accused to
prevent all investigations whatsoever into their conduct,
they moved another amendment, so as to “make assurance
doubly sure, and take a bond of fate.” Fearing.it would
sjeem that some present incumbent might feci disposed to
lift liie veil Irani off the secret doings of his predecessor,
or that conscience or indiscretion might make disclosures
that would involve the character of the party, the same roy
alist member moved a further amendment, requiring the
heads of Departments to state “the reasons for making
such payments," that is, “payments without authority of
law, if any l !—Reasons forpaying away the public money
without authority of law !! Why, what did they want with
the “ reasons?" In the first place, no man in his senses
would suppose that the heads of Departments would r'ake
a voluntary disclosure of their own crimes and corruptions,
if such there were; hut if they should, we think it might
have been safely left to their own care* and eirciimspiection to
report their “reasons." No man does an unlawful act
without providing himself, before or after, with some “ rea
sons." AY’hat did the royalist members want with these
“ reasons ?" W hy, obviously that they might control
them in the committee, and make them sanctify the act,
no matter what that might have been. AVe defy any man
to state a different consideration. This was most manifest
ly their purpose. They went into the committee determin
ed that no investigations should he made which might, by
possibility, result unfavorably to the heads of Departments,
or the party. They were put there for this purpose by the
Speaker, for it never was before heard of in legislation,
that an individual calling for inquiries, or making accusa
tions, should be hampered by a hosiile committee. They
were put there to see that the frauds, abuses and corrup
tions of the Government should not be exposed to the pub
lic eye, and they performed their parts with the most cir
cumspect fidelity.
This course of the royalists, as tho rce ler will readily
perceive, closed the door to all investigation or inquiry into
the abuses practiced by the Administration, with a view to
corrupt and purchase up the public press. The facts
speak for themselves, and, in our estimation, prove beyond
all doubt or contradiction, that those abuses were known
to exi«t by the royalists themselves, and that they were
forced to adopt this course as the only means of cnnccalin
them from the people. They must have known that they
did exist, or they would uot have feared investigation.'
Their very fears convict, and ;’ieir own conduct stands the
strongest witness against them ; and ought not these facts
to arouse, to alarm the people of this country for the safety
of their institutions'? The public press has been at ail
times justly regarded as the palladium of the public liberty.
AVe now see it openly purchased up and placed under the
control of a corrupt Administration, and the doors of in
quiry slammed in the faces of the representatives of the
people!! Can this he longer borne ? Does not every free
man’s breast swell with indignation at corruption so gross,
and servility so" vile ? Do not these tilings call, in a voice
of thunder, for REFORM ? AVe put the question to the
country.
A letter which I saw yesterday, received by Express
Mail, would induce 111c to doubt the quiet of New-Orlcans,
as Mr. Slidell had moved to suspend a rule of the House,
in order that he might be permitted to offer a resolution, re
questing the Secretary of AVsr to station two Companies of
Dn/goous in the City of New-Orleans. W hence do you
think arises the necessity of this measure? Is it to prevent
the depredations of midnight robbers and assassins, or to
keep in check the vile schemes of the fanatics?
STATE SOVEREIGNTY,
MILLED6F.VILLE:
Tuesday, April 4, 1837.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE N. Y. COURIER &. ENQUIRER.
AVashington, March 16, 1837.
You can form no idea of the hub-bub your late develop
ments in relation to Air. Forsyth have occasioned in this
city. The President and his whole Cabinet were struck
aghast, when they found that a measure, which all were so
deeply interested in keeping profoundly secret, should have
been blown To the four winds of heaven. How you, of all
the world, could have received the information, has filled
them with wonder and astonishment—and while Blair
comes in for no small share of the blame, Forsyth feels it
must he latal to him. Biair is charged with carelessness,
and his household with faithlessness; hut having some
knowledge how these affairs leak out, I must acquit the
Globe editors, and their retainers, of any agency in the
matter. The fatal evidence was destroyed, and every one
in the office charged with the importance of silence, on so
momentous a subject, and religionsly do I believe they
kept their faith—nevertheless, all is known, and the
partied overwhelmed with chagrin and mortification.
During the Administration of Ja xson, the whole of the
democracy (being horn equal,) from ministers down to the
most petty eierks and messengers, were in the habit of re
ceiving the views of their great chief, and discussing the
peculiur merits of the same—and hence proud of the con
fidence bestowed, were liberal in their disclosures to the un
initiated. Although this has, in a great measure, ceased,
yet such people manage to hear much that they should not,
and have neither the prudence nor discretion to be silent.
It is the province of politicians to talk and boast, and this
is another reason why every thing in relation to what is go
ing on, is ferreted out by tlie horde of hungry letter writers
that infest this metropolis. I might mention, for instance,
Air. King ol Alabama, who took care to let ail the world
know, that the mission to Austria htld been offered to him,
hut that he could uot accept it—and others of the like
school, who made it an honor to refuse what had ne
ver been tendered. Kendall, feeling himself to be
the idol of the democracy, smiles on all that is going
on.
General Gaines is still in this city, apparently in line
health and spirits. Yesterday he gave a dinner to
some of his .military friends, at which were present several
ladies.
The engrossing subject of the day, both in the general inter
course of society and the newspapers, is the gloom and its
cause, which has so suddenly overcast the commercial and ag
ricultural prosperity of the world. The pressure on the mo
ney market in England, the curtailment to a great degree
of the usual money facilities afforded to the English mer
chant and manufacturer, necessarily produces a stagnation
of trade, and almost a suspension ol the active energies of
those who maintain it. The Bank of England is the com
mercial barometer of that country, by the operations of
which, we may usually judge of the rise or fall of commer
cial prosperity. The causes which influence the present
conduct of this institution, are not very easily ascertained.
AVe have in this day’s paper, given a variety of opinions in
regard to their measures. AY’hatever may be the real cause
of the contraction of tlie monied operations of this great
institution, we can hut hope that it will be but temporary,
and of brief duration.
AVe have transferred to our columns the latest intelli
gence from England, believing that we could not furnish the
reader, at present, with matter of more interest than the
details, though somewhat copious, of the English market.
AY’e subjoin Liverpool accounts to the 4th March, the
latest, received, and which we insert just as our paper is go
ing to press.
Nf.iv-A’ork, March 27, 1837. 12 o’clock, Al.
Two more English packets arc below—the Europe and
Montreal sailed on the 5th inst.
Cotton lias declined a shade in Liverpool. Money mar
ket remains almost the same. Great hopes are entertained
that the discounts on private exchanges will be more equal.
No probability ol relief from the Bank at present. Late
arrivals of 200,000/in specie from New-York have given a
temporary stimulus to affairs in Liverpool. From all this
you may see that matters have not much altered since last
arrivals, although there is some more prospect of better
times. The Bank of England is about to import specie
from the continent.
In the city every thing is ix statu quo. Stocks down.
No material changes in any thing.
1 ’oclock.—As'I close my letter, I hear that accounts to
the 4th of March arc received from Liverpool, and Lon
don March 2. They give accounts of a further decline of
the Cotton market. Gloomy.
Liverpool, Alareh 3.—Cotton.—The demand has again
relaxed, and the market consequently become flat, with un
steady prices, at $d under the general quotations of last
week. Speculators have taken 420 Egyptian, and export
ers 420 American, and 60 Bengals, 8000 hales of Ameri
can, 200 Egyptian, 400 Feraanis, and 200 Bahias, were
forwarded into the country last month unsold. One vessel
from Savannah, and one from New Orleans, have arrived,
but not yet reported. The import this week is 17,594
bays, and tho sales reach 17,250, viz : 90 Sea Island, 26, a
32d; 4260 Upland 7$ a 9$; 6870 New Orleans, 6£ a 9$;
1310 Alabama, &c. 6 a 9; 1970 Pernambuco 9$ a 11|;
430 Surat 4$ a 6|; 60 Bengal 4$d.
Liverpool, February 20.
There was a considerable improvement in the cotton
market to-day: a lively demand manifested itself; 3000
bales were sold at an advance of |d on the closing prices
of last week. Some large holders withdrew their cotton
from the market. The sales consist of 40 hales Maranham,
9$ a lOiJd; 30 Cears 9|d; 10 Surat Gd; and the balance
American at 8$ a lOd.
Marseilles, February 18.
The sales of Cotton this week amount to 1300 bales, hut
prices do not advance. 40 Louisiana have been taken at
f. 120 a f. 127 50. The remainder sold was Jumel, Alalta
and Levant.
Bordeaux, February 18.
Colton.—Havre has lost a little of her influence over the
prices of this article at this market. Our buyers have
shown a little more eagerness this week. 82 hales Louis
iana sold at f. 112 50; Bengal was most in demand; 276
sold at f. 67 50 a f. 68.
New-York, Alareh 25.
Cotton —The sales of the past week embrace 100 tn 150
bales: Uplands ordinary to middling 12$: “0 Alobiles 15c.;
1 londa, good tali' 14c.; 7.) at 14$ a 15 on time; and 100
to 120 New-Orleans, good fair at 14$ a 15 on time, making
a total of 437 hales.
These transactions are of themselves sufficient comment
on the state of our market, as they establish a decline on
the rates current at the close of last month of f 3 a $ 3$
per hale. Even at this reduction, shippers feel no confi
dence in operating, and the spinners confine their purcha
ses to their immediate wants. The stock meanwhile has
been accumulating and is now about 18,000 bales.
By the Utica we are in receipt of advices of the Havre
market for the weekending 22d Feb.; the sales were5232
hags, without further decline; and it is said a letter was receiv
ed from Liverpool, which states that on the 20th, 4000 bales
had been sold to the spinners at an improvement of 25c a
12$ per bale, aiul great eagerness is manifested by holders
to realize.
Augusta and Hamburg AIarket, March 30.—Cot
ton.—Since our last report we have no new feature to no
tice in our Cotton market, wliich still remains in the same
dull condition then noticed. All confidence in the article
appears to be destroyed, and buyers do not show aav dis
position to cuter the market at any price. Planters, on tlie
otlier hand, on whose account the cotton now in store is
mostly held, have not had time to hear of the late discoura
ging advices from Europe, and we remain ignorant as to the
course they may pursue, whether they will hold on or sell
out at present rates. To such of them as have read our
weekly remarks for the last two months, we would refer to
the advice we gave them when cotton was selling in this
city at 16 and 17 cents; had they then sold out, they would
have realized handsome profits: much better than we think
they will again have an opportunity of doing this season.
Our merchants, on the other hand, ought to feel deeply in
debted to the planters for not following our advice, for as
things have turned up, the burden is now off their shoulders,
and has fallen on those much more able to hear it. , The
sales this week from warehouses, as far as they have come
tn our knowledge, amount in all to one hundred and seventy-
four bales, which were disposed of as follows: 7 bales at
12 cents, 7 at 12-*, 4 at 12$, 117 at 13, 7 at 13j, 24 at 13$,
and 8 at 14 cents. From wagons the sales reach some 2 or
300 bales, at all prices, from 7 to 12$ cents. AVe quote as
extremes 7 a 14 cents.
f
v * %
the Indians in Pea river sYramp, jresterdav (Friday \
have had a conversation with several gentlemen, cit' 1
of this place who were in the engagement, and WJUi*
following particulars: Wellborn had been informed b- **
press a day or two previous, that a large body of Ini ' 1 '
were encamped somewhere in the swamp near
bridge, from which they issued to commit dcjrr^ • '
in that neighborhood. With that promptness th at
terizes all his movements, he started in pursnjf *?***
Thursday evening received a report from his KoJHi*
the encampment had been discovered immediateiv
the bank of Pea river, completely surrounded bv war"
that to get to it an almost impenetrable swamp had
traversed. He made his arrangements for an attacl? 0 ^
the next morning; he then being on the side opr,,^
Indians, divided his troops into bodies, assignin'; ^
command of one, of about one hundred men to Camp*
roll, ordering him to march up the river opposite c? 9 ’’
eampment, for the purpose of cutting off their retreat ^
driven out and forced to cross. AY'ellborn with the h
crossed below at the bridge, and marched up. J U3 ,
he reached the entrance into the swamp opposite the ^ ^
he heard firing, and thinking Harrel had engaged tho
rny, he rushed in, not d • lbting but that they v, p* 1 *"
driven to bis side ot the river. The difficulties tha- * ^
sed his progress were almost insurmountable- n,. ^'P* -
and lagoons, beyond a man’s depth, and no means of ^
ing but by swimming. But the ardor and determ; rT ° S ’'
of his meiCwere unconquerable. By wading.
running and jumping for half an hour, over and
mud, mire, and water, during whieh tima 20 or o-™’ 1 ’ 4
kets were rendered useless by being wet, thev ~ * ni *"
sight of the Indians in full . harge, yelling U4 ie ^ Cair ' f h
gers about pouncing upon tlieir prey. IHs ]j nc w . rnfui - v l ’ r
AVe are gratified to see the prompt measures of the coun
ties of the State in selecting delegates to the Governor’s
Convention. AVe hope by our next paper to he able to pre
sent a list of the delegates from most of the counties of the
State** AVe notice that Alessrs. Mansfield T-'Trance, Alar-
shall J. AA’ellborne, and Hines Holt, have been chosen by
Muscogee countv.
diately formed, and a well directed and incessant fir'
cd the savage enemy, and completely disappoint^'; "
hopes of an easy victory. For three hours the T j-
fought with a courage and desperation excelled > n '
that of the gallant fellows opposed to them, am] ,-i " 3 ''
to be determined “ to conquer or die.” Wellfcmj'T t*
he rould gain nothing by a standing fight, ordered i e™ 11 ’
which was made in the best manner possible t; ^
dians fled to the encampment to cam- off their
and there scattered in every direction, many swimmio ^
river. The fire of our troops after the Indian? en
ed retreating was very destructive. Twenty-thn^ Uf *
found dead from where they commenced runt ,/**
where they crossed the river, and many weis lUu
on the battle ground and others in crossing; ail( j •
well ascertained that from forty to fifty were killed *
The loss on the part of our friends was one killed i?
Janies AI. Holloway,) and Madison Grady, monaflv* ■
ed; Hartwell Ball, (sheriff of our county,) GeoreeG]?^
(of the firm of Fulton & Gleason of this place.)
Crowley, and it is thought two of the Georgia Yolutt
badly, though not dangerously wounded.
The Franklin Volunteers from your State were i n .
engagement, and nobly and bravely did they hear ti?
selves. They have won for themselves a reputation
may be envied by the victors of any field. Their deed,/
noble daring is the theme ot their associates in arm?. s .,.j
assure you it is no small commendation to say of therr. • .•
they were not behind the rest of the brave fellows. (r ? r
in the march, the swimming, or the charge. An incident
that occurred during the charge is worthy of note: !j( '
tlie Franklin A’olunteers was in hot pursuit of an Kan
who finding that he must fall into the hands of his purse,'
attempted to save himself by running in the midst of th*
women, two of whom seized the volunteer; hcusedeiorr
exertion to disengage himself from them, Imt thev made,
furious and deadly assault upon him with their knives,
in self-defence he drew his bowie, and in two fblowi liflej
them both. One woman was taken prisoner, who sav that
the number of warriors in the engagement was alwut 1C;
and about 60 women, who fought with as much despenua
and courage as the men.
This is certainly the most decisive blow that has !»#
struck since the commencement of hostilities, and \V ( H.
born lias been long seeking an opportunity to strike it—
All that skill and valor could accomplish, he has do»-
The limits of this communication arc too confined a
do ample justice to this indefatigable offirer. whuu,
thus stopped the murderous savage in his hitherto .t-
checked career of devastation and bloodshed, ami ir»
brave untiring volunteers under his command. Suffireii
to sav they were not appalled by dangers, nor slaved bj
difficulties, all obstacles vanished before their determined
spirits.
They stayed not for brake, they stopped notfursuw,
They swam the lagoons, where lord there was none.
Their leader had told them the thing must he done, and
it has been done, and well done, and could nnthaw'Mi
better done. The went into the field with from scwMjto
eightv effective men, (I forgot to mention before that tlmt
taclimeat under Harrell fled, after receiving one tire fan
the Indians, leaving, it is said, two dead upon tlie field,
against an enemv who had put more than that number t«
flight, and who fought under all the advantages white
cent victory naturally secures.—Eut men who had
come as many difficulties as they had to get to their ew.
were not to be defeated, they accomplished theuwt
they went for in a masterly manner.
Wellborn is still in pursuit of those who escaped.
there is no doubt but that he will soon rid us of tne hi
these disturbeis of our peace.
I’. Grddy is since dead.
[CF’ Sec Mr. Baden’s letter on improved corn planting.
AVe notice that great complaint is made in Now-York, in
relation to the defalcation of the Southern and Southwest
ern merchants, in meeting their payments, in that citv.
1 hey attribute much of the embarrassment in the commer
cial affairs of that place to this cause. If they have had just
cause of complaint on this head, for the last month or two,
we fear that the only consolation we can offer them, from
present appearances, is that they will have greatly more
cause to murmur for some time to come.
AVe feel much gratification he we'-er, amid the gioom
that at present overshadows so large a portion of our own
and other countries, to be able to congratulate the people
of Georgia on their position. AVe notice with peculiar plea
sure, that while several of our neighbouring States are hea
vily complained of for their defalcations, that ourown State
is excepted from the censure, and complimented on the
punctuality of her citizens, in their transactions abroad.—
AVe earnestly hope this may continue to be the case; and
that while others are suffering the penalties of their impru-
dencies, a id feeling the evils necessarily resulting at sc.ne
time or other, from the spirit of rash and reckless specula
tion, Georgia may continue to realize the wisdom of her
more rational course, in the maintenance of her credit, and
the continued though moderate flow of her prosperity.
We have just received by the Express Alail, from the
Office of the Columbus Sentinel, the subjoined interesting
accouut of a severe engagement with the Indians.. We
hasten to lay it before oar readers, to the exclusion of our
usual editoral matter. It is to be hoped that this- will ter
minate the long aud harrassing war that has devastated
our borders.
The account was received by a letter, addressed 1 by (Geo.
L. Barry, to the editors of the Columbus Sentinel, and is
sued as an extra by that office.
To the Editors of the Columbus Sentinel:
Irwin ton, Alareh 25, 1337.
Gentlemen : Information has just reached here of a glo
rious victory achieved by the persevering Wellborn
a portion of the brave volunteers Under his comi
NOIRAKY.
The English money market.—AVe have very rr;
antlv given place in our columns to the a r rmints reern
from England of the distress caused there, by the deracti
state of the money market. This distress, however, hai
last become so decided and extensive, that it would k
been in vain longer to attempt tn conceal it. Strang a
it may appear to some, this unfortunate 'ate of things—
unfortunate as well tn this countrv as to that—has dearly
been produced by the mad career of General Jackson’.) ad
ministration in regard to the currency. As wo stated un
Alonday, it is the fifty millions of gold and silver taken thro
his means from Europe, that has caused a sudden prustn-
tion of the general prosperity, at a time when every this
else, is tranquil and happy. It will have been pcrceiwi
that, in the account we published on Tuesday of the®!?
of the London Aloney AIarket on the 14th of last month, tia
passage occurs: “ The necessity for more vigorous En
sures, which is strongly urged for keeping up the font:
exchanges, in order to produce a return of bullion tn -
Bank, proves still more decidedly the objects on whirl *
attention of the Directors [of the Bank of England's
fixed; and a general prognostic now is, that some step®
furtherance of them will be taken in the course of they—
sent week.” AVhat steps these will he, we will not urn*
to guess; hut of one thing we may be sure, no steps that
produce a return of specie or bullion lo England, rang*
relief to the money market, until that return is effect*!-
One measure we see suggested, which, if I’arliaiff*
rould be induced to adopt, there can be no doubt would *
ford great, if not entire relief; and that is, to repeal the pro
hibition against the issue of credit currency under the amoo*
f £ 5. AVere this repealed, England would m> longer nffi
t.he large metallic currency she now must have. And ver
the same prohibition which exists in some of our State!
against tlie issue of notes under $5, also repealed, we could.
a3 we have before observed, part with the specie, whio
small notes would represent, without inconvenience. &
we have no hopes on this head: it is far more probable t®
British Legislature will, in consequence of the present pH*
sure, impose still more onerous and impolitic regulation? un
their joint stock banks. AVe here will do the same: (<* *
is becoming pretty general throughout the Union, to require
the banks to retain in their possession specie to the amouc-
of onc-third of their liabilities, and at last, in the plenum 0
of their wisdom, the legislators of the two greatest
mercial people in the world, will seek to obtain pos-e” 1 ’ 3
of more specie and bullion than the world contain?.
Injustice to the British joint Stuck Banks, it
he stated, that it is entirely owing to the impolitic en ®
ments existing i» England on the subject of their cun*^
that the present disastrous period has arrived there-
Bank of England! notes not been made a legal tender,
every joint stock Bank been liable to a demand tor ?p*' ^
in payment of tlie credit currency it issued—had ^^
clit currency nos been restricted by a prohibition <4 ^
notes, the first attempt ok our part, to obtain specie i ^
the regular course of trade, would have been fck ^
issuing a credit currency there, and would ha?e »
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extra"
them in time, that their issues must be regulated, n( *
the legitimate demands, of business, but to meet an
° . . .j t j. en ba^
ordinary emergency, and the contraction it wonto
been necessary to make, would have been but =*a
little felt.
As to our Banks here, they are only to blame, ter
permitted, for the sake of the custody of the P U ^’ C
the Government to impose restrictions on them, * .
1 , , .heir di? 1
ply a doubt of thei: ability or desire to conduct
ness prudently and honestly, and for having ^ ° ^ ga) e*,
selves- to.be made the instruments for carrying oat y ^
which, in their consequences, are spreads,,
and ruin throughout the whole country. -A- ^
4r Enquirer.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has uet
■ fevOBT O'
thatr 0 * 8 '
to memorialize the Lords of the Treasury ®
repeal of the duty on raw cotton imported into ^ ^
try, and also in favour of the reduction in the P‘ e
orbitant duty on tobacco. The duty on cotton >*
ted to amount to 2s. lid. per cwt. and the duty on
to 2s. 6d. per lb. It is proposed tjiat the duty^ ^ j«
shall be remitted altogether, and the duty on
to Is. per lb.