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lIpHRONICLK AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12.
The following is the result of an election held i
n Monday, for Intendant and Wardens of Ham-
W. H. Gkbf.ne, Intendant.
J. F. Benson, "'t
n J. W. HcAttn,
T. KtRSISHiS, ... ,
Jos. Woons, r
M. R. Smith, |
B. F. Gouinr, J
The New York Times of the sth says;—Bu' j
| eincss generally continues very languid. Os I
Cotton there are some sales making at a decline |
1 of about iof a cent per pound on last week’s j
rates. In Flour there is nothing of consequence
doing, and Wheat and Flour remain as before
noticed.
The brig Atalanta, at Philadelphia from Tam
pico, brings $112,000 in specie.
The General Agent of the American Coloniza*
tion Society acknowledges the receipt offivehun
hired dollars in aid of the cause, from a benevo
ent individual of Georgia.
U. S. Bank. —lt is rumored, says the New
;York Star, that the U. S. Bank is wilting to sur
render its charter and wind up business provided
the State of Pennsylvania will refund the bonus
of $2,900,000 paid. That is reasonable enough;
but, as the Stale is endeavoring to borrow Two
millions for indispcnsiblc puiposes, the : dca op
paying back two millions is rather a difficult pro
position.
Expenses or the Rebellion ix Upper
Canada. —From the documents laid before th®
Provincial Parliament, it appears that the expen
ses attending the trial and imprisonment of the
[ men taken at Prescott, were $9,200. The
House of Assembly has appropriated $160,000
for the indemnification of parties whose property
was destroyed during the rebellion.
In the General Assembly of the State of
Rhode Island, (says the National Intelligencer of
the 4th inst.) now in session, a set of Resolutions,
approving and applauding the Sub-Treasury
scheme, were introduced by some member of the
Administration party. On Wednesday last they
came up for consideration, and were indefinitely
postponed by 44 votes to lit, not more than half
of the friends of the Administration being willing
to lend them so much countenance as to let them
be entertained for a day longer.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New Youk, February 4.
The fact that Pennsylvania had dishonored her
faith, went to Europe in the packets yesterday.
The fact that the wrong is atoned for, will go out
in a transient ship to-day which may reach there
with the packets. The course of the Legislature
has been moat deplorable, and such a result would
be most disastrous, if unatoned for.
We are approaching a specie currency in this
State with (lie natural results, poverty, pecuniary
affliction, hunger, beggary ; a low price for labor,
ami no demand for it; low prices for the products
of tile fanner, and inability to raise money on
them. Many of our city banks have much more
specie in their vaults than they have circulation.
The report of the Safety Fund Bank Commis
sioners just published, shows a reduction of
about $20,000,000 in the circulation in about
ninety days. The eontrac ion by the country
batiks since June, 1839, is $6,465,000, and by
the city banks about $9,000,000. The circula
tion of our 22 city Safely Fund Banks, is $4,-
028,737, and the specie in their vaults is $4,-
495,137. Thus our city banks have more than
dollar for dollar in specie to redeem their circula
tion.
This report, I presume, will show to the advo
cates of a specie currency in Congress a satisfac
tory approach to that so-called desideratum. It
becomes my duty, however, as a chronicler, to say
that, while the very rich were never belter off,
the poor were seldom or never in so bad a condi
tion. Our Alms-house is overwhelmed. Beg
gars throng our streets. Some, in a Christian
city ! are in actual danger of starvatiuh. Me
chanics have little or nothing to do. Men of
small means have exhausted that means of sup
port. There is distress where there was abun
dance, if not affluence; and, while the city, as a
whole, lives in the most economical way, and cur
tails almost all extraneous expenditures, even
abandoning its cherished amusements, yet econo
my cannot save hundreds from want, if not of the
necessaries, yet of the accustomed comforts of
life. More of the specie currency will bring us a
lazzaroni ; for rowdies, and “ soap locks,” so
called, and Bult-enders live on force and theft at
fires, and by burglary, and, if the despotism of
a law comes to restrain them, they will but de
generate into a lazzaroni. Ay, we can be made
Chinese of, perhaps, and have Mandarin sub
treasurers. with rats and rats for ordinary food,
and rice alone for luxury ; but, if a Government
has any love for such a haid-money spectacle,
why not indulge its tastes at Pekin, or in Japan,
and why harrass our vigorous industry ?
Stocks to-day, under the encouragement of re- ■
cent movements in Pennsylvania, have advuttc- j
ed. United Slates Bank opened at 70 and closed
at 75.
Fsn at;a nr 5. ■
7h" Pennsylvania movements have imparted
n lac -=tock market. There is consider
,v a ■ vanity there now.- and ail stocks me on the •
rioe. D. o. Dank to-day want up to 77. The i
Locofocos here bemoan wofully over the Message j
of the Governor of Pennsylvania, end are very j
much shocked that the monster and its hundred
hearts should have “ bought him up, ns they
aver. The capacity of this monster, even dead
and deprived of its claws, surprises them yet.
Exchange on London is 109 to 108$ —which
is a rise perhaps caused by the demand to pay the
interest on the Pennsylvania loan. The river is
so obstructed with ice, also, that there arc but few
shipments.
The revenue in this city, in January, 1839,
was $1,300,000 ; it is $300,000 in this January,
This looks as if Treasury notes would be neces
sary, or something else.
This is the season for letting stores in the bu
siness parts of the city, and bills of “ to let” are
on a great many. Pearl-street is all to let. —
Hard money times are rapidly annihilating the
ordinary and even rational values fixed upon real
property.
Our Legislature is doing but little, and that
little of not much interest.
Fire.—About one o’clock, A. M., yesterday,
a fire broke out on the West side of East Bay
street, between Pinckney and Ha-ell streets, in a
small one story wooden building, owned by Mr.
George Kinloeh, anti occupied by a Mr. Warren
ton, as a shoe shop, which together with a two
and a half story Wooden House, on the South,
owned by Mr. Edward Harvey, and unoccupied,
and a small tenement on the North, also the pro
perty of Mr. Kiill tth, fell a prey to the destroying
element. A two and a half story wooden build
ing. South of Mr. Harvey’s, owned by J. M. Jan
drell, and occupied by Mr. Sweegan, as a groce
ry; and a small dwelling in the rear were blown
up; and the fire was thus arrested in that direction
The mansion of Mr. Kinloeh to the North was
almost miraculously saved. Composed of wood
and presenting a piazza to the flames, its South
ern side, (and even that portion of it protected by
the piazza) was several times on fire, and is now.
completely charred.— Chur la! on Courier of
yesterday.
The debt of the State of Alabama, according
to the State Treasurer’s repoit, is $15,400,000.
It is comprised in two classes of bonds, called
Inns' and short bonds. The latter are issued at
two, four, and six years, amount to $5,000,000,
and bear an annual interest of $300,000. The
other class of bonds amount to $10,406,000. fall
due at different periods between the year 1850
and 1886, and bears semi annual intercsfofs26o,.
500.
In the House of Representatives of Massachu
setts, a vote was taken upon appointing a Spe
cial Committee, with instructions to report a bill
repeal'ng the license taw of 1838, the great sub
ject of contest at the late election in that State.
The vote upon the order to appoint a committee
stood as follows: Yeas 285, nays 172.
Sr. Joseph, January 29.
Indians !— An express has just arrived (Tues
day morning,) front lola, with a letter from Mr.
J. L. Smallwood, merchant of that place, stating
that on Monday night the family of Mr. Uarlen,
about six miles from lola were all murdered arx)
premises burnt, by a parly of Indians supposed to
be about twenty in number. The citizens of that
neighborhood, were without arms or ammunition
and call for assistance. The Indians, will either
remain in the Apalachicola swamps or make for
the eastern arm of St. Andrew’s Bay. A compa
ny hence, under the command of Colonel Fitzpat
rick, has gone in pursuit of them.
Shipwreck. —The Charleston Courier of
yesterday says:—The brig Edwin, Fitzgerald,
from New Orleans for Savannah, with a cargo of
Sugar and Molasses, during t gale of wind from
N. £. struck on a shoal oil Jckyl Island, at 5 A.
M. on the sth inst. Her deck load was imme
diately started to lighten her—a very heavy sea
running, unshipped her rudder aqd started the
counter. She bilged in a short time with the
sea making a complete breach over her. The
officers and crew look to the boats and succeeded
in reaching Little Cumberland Island, through
the breakers. Capt. F. dispatched a boat to St.
Marys for assistance. The wind continuing to
blow, she went to pieces during the night of the
6lh inst. Vessel and cargo totally lost. The
above information was furnished by Capt. Free
land, who obtained it from the muster of the
steamer Florida.
From the New York Times.
Locofocoism—flow It Works.
Under this head wc have already given publi
city to some startling examples of the elf cts of
Mr. Van Buren’s policy upon the farming and
manufacturing interests, and from lime to lime
as new facts come to our knowledge we shall
publish them for the information of our readers,
believing that practical illustrations of the evils of
niisgovernmenl are the most effective means of
securing a consitutional remedy at I he next elec
tion.
In New Jersey —a slate doomed to groan be
neath the blasting effects of federal misrule with
out being permitted to have a fair hearing on the
floor of t longress—the distress in the manufac
turing districts is unprecedented. Twenty-four
manufacturing establishments at Paterson, we are
informed have entirely suspended their opera
tions, and the. men, women and children who
were lately employed in them, are entirely idle,
and very many of litem literally dependent upon
charity, for their very scanty allowance of daily
food.
“This,” the Poughkeepsie Journal truly re-'
marks in referring to the circum tancc “is but a
sample of (he stale of things among the Manu
facturers thro ighout this great country. A large
portion of litem have entirely suspended, while
most of the others are working but half or a
quarter of the time.
Is it a wonder that business generally is at a
stand, or that farmers produce is dull and fulling,
when so very large a portion of the labor of the
country is without employment'?
In Ohio the pressure of the times is no less se
verely felt, as the following letter which we re
publish flora the Newark Daily Advertiser, will
testify.
Chatham, Ohio, January 12th, 1840.
Times here are very much changed for the
worse. Monry is so scarce that it can hardly he
procured at any price. Wheat is down to fifty
cents. Corn twenty Jive, Pork $2.50 to $4,25. in
trade or trust few wII pay cish aI any pree. —
All kinds of busmens are brought to a si-aml till:
with •!».? most fearful mprehensioits for the lu
lure.
Can it be a matter of surprise that a comphce
revolution in public opinion liar talc it plate in
Ohio !
In Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Pennsyl
vania, the same causes are producing the same
AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1840.
effect. AH the people want is a knowledge ofthe
universality of the distress. The inhabitants ofa
particular section of country pressed to the earth
by disaster, are apt to suppose that they areworsc
off titan the inhabitants of any ether section—
that the distress is local, local causes ,- but let the
jieople only once feel and know that the suffer
ing is uniform and universal, and the remedy will
be universally applied. That knowledge it shall
be our care to disseminate, We shall lake pains
to obtain authentic information from ail quarters
on the subj'ert, and upon what we publish our
readers may rely.
From the Richmond Whig.
The following is an extract of a letter from a
member of Congress—one of the most sagacious
politicians in Virginia. Wc have never yet
known hit predictions of the popular sentiment
ot the State to prove untrue ; and from the Intel
ligenoc, which daily greets us from all quarters,
we are assured, that he will again prove a proph
et oftruth.
“Washington, Feb. 1.
It I am not grossly deceived, the signs of the
times indicate that General Harrison, will not
only be a very formidable but a successful com
petitor ol Mr. Van Buren lor the Presidency.—
1 be fact that he lias done so much service in the
field, and in the council, and held so many re
sponsible plac sos trust, without the slighteste
imputation upon his integrity, will recommend
him very strongly to the people, and carry many
of the purest and most patriotic ol our citizens to
his support. Your neighbor, Mr. Ritchie, may
flutter and flounder like a duck in a mud puddle.
He may talk of his ten thousand majority ; and
affect the most perfect confidence ; hut lam per
fectly satisfied Virginia is lost to Mr. Van Buren.
She cannot, consistently with her principles, sus
tain the latitudinous and tnonarchiul measures of
this Administration, and bind herself to the car of
Executive power forever. Mark my prediction,
Van Buren cannot get the electoral vote of Vir
ginia.’’
Locofocoism in Ohio. —The locofocos in
the Legislature of Ohio says the N. Y. Times, •
“swore most terribly” that they would cut up,
root and branch every "chartered monopoly” in
the State. A preamble and resolution passed
both houses, asserting the right of the Legislature
to alter, amend, or repeal any act of incorpora
tion. Phis, it is true, is the genuine locofoco
doctrine, and we did suppose it would be carried
out, but it is all swagger. The Cincinnati Ga
zette says;
These blusterers for bank reform, upon which
they rode into office, arc frightened at their own
shadow; they have seemed to act on the sub
ject, for the purpose of keeping up that system of
hutnhuggery, which runs through all the ramifi
cations ol the party ; and they have gone just as
far towards reforming our hanking institutions,
as they intend or dare go. The hunk stockhold
ers, hank directors, and hank borrowers of the
V an Buren party are perfectly willing that their
leaders should raise the hue an I cry, and thus
subserve party ends; but when the work is to he
done, the principle of interest—that peculiar sen
sitiveness that lies in the pocket—begins to cry
aloud, and entirely overcomes that love for the
dear people, and that overwhelming patriotism,
of which so much is said by, and so little seen, in
this straightforward and consistent democratic
pa'ty.
From the National Intelligencer.
The late Election of Printer to the House
ol Representatives.
Wc certainly hud no design or wish to recur to
this subject, and we do so now only in conse
quence of an article which we find in the Govern ■
met it paper of Friday night, in reference to the
choice of the firm by which that paper is pub
lished to he Printers to the House of Representa
tives,
Before proceeding to our main purpose in no
tieing that ariicle, wc take occasion to stale our
impression of what would have been the result of
the election of Printer, had every recognised
Member of the House been present, and been re
duced to the alternative of choosing between the
two leading candidates. Wc belie' e that in that
event the result would have been the same as it
was, but that the majority for the Executive can
didate would have been reduced to a number not
greater than that of the Republican members from
N ew J ehset, who have been unrighteously ex
cluded from participation in the proceedings of
the House of which they are constitutionally a
constituent part.
We believe, further, that if those Georgia Mem
bers, whose names the Globe has (ho indelicacy
to parade in its columns as having distinguished
themselves over their colleagues by giving their
votes to the Administration candidate for the
Printing, (with the other Georgia Members to
wltom it alludes,) bad voted with the majority of
their colleagues, and every recognised member of
the House had voted for one or the other of the
candidates, the result of the election would have
been different from what it was.
Wc tr.i t it will be distinctly understood that
wc make no complaint of the voles of those Mem
bers, or of any other Member, in that election, it
being a matter in which it would be unbecoming
in us either to praise or blame the conduct of any
one. We only stale what is our impression,
from the facts before us.
Nor should we have ever troubled our readers j
with any further allusion to the late vote of the
House, if the Editor of the Government paper
had not, in justification of the minority of the
Georgia representation (who, wc can very well
imagine, would willingly have dispensed with his
eulogy) in voting for him, wantonly and falsely
calumniated the National Intelligencer, for the
purpose of disparaging those gentleman from the
•South who did its publishers the honor by their !
votes to show a preference for them over the pub
lishers of the Gloltc.
The particular passage in the Globe’s article to
which wc here refer is as follows:
“In the present crisis, too, when Federalism
has allied itself with Abolitionism, to bring new
and stiff more dangerous elements into the strife,
to overthrow not only the political principles, hut
the domestic institutions of Georgia, and the
whole South, the Globe has Iteen found contend
ing aga nst the rival press, for which the majority j
of the (reorgia delegate n voted—a press which !
has not maintained the cause of any party in the
South at any time within the last ten years. In
the course which the minority of the delegation
have thought fit to take in choosing between the
Globe and the Intelligencer, wc should think they
could hardly fail to meet the approbation of all
parries in Georgia.”
Now, if there be one thing which more than
. another has ever distinguished the character of
In National Intelligencer, it is its steady umva- !
| vering conscientious support of the real rights of j
all >he Stales, ami of none more zealously than ,
loose peculiar rights of the South of which the
Executive organ has, in the passage which we
quote, the effrontery to represent it as an oppo-
i
nent. We challenge any member of the domi
nant party from Mr. Van lluren downwards, to
produce from the tiles 01 the National Intelligen
cer one line which ran show any disposition in
this press “to overthrow not only the political
principles, but the domestic institutions of Geor
gia, ami of the whole South,” or any thing that
can afford the least shadow of ground for such an
imputation.
There exists, in fact, no such “strife,” as is re
ferred to in this quotation. The assertion of its
existence is a more party trick, still more detes
table, however, than it is contemptible, because it
is a device of cunning knavery intended, by the
aid of honest pre udiee, to deceive and mislead.
Wo repeat the defiance, to the Editor of the
Globe, or any of his allies or confederates, old or
new, to produce one line from our pen to justify
the base imputation which he attempts to fasten
upon the majority of the Georgia Delegation
through the sides of the National Intelligencer.
We do not make this challenge or defiance on
our own account, the reader will well understand;
but we cannot pass by in silence this attempt to
injure honorable and high-minded men for no
other reason than that they have not chosen to
“ let the Administration elect their own officers,
including the Printer to the House.”
From the Madisonian. '
The Sim Tiikasurt.—“Our whole expe
rience, there, furnishes the strongest evidence that
the desired legislation of Congress is alone want
ing to insure in these operations the highest de
gree of security and facility. Such also appears
to have been the experience of other nations, from
results of inquiries made by the Secretary of the
Treasury in regard to the piaclice among them, I
am enabled to slate that, in twenty two out of
twenty seven foreign governments, from which
undoubted information has been obtained, the
public moneys arc kept in charge of public offi
cers.”—Message of the President, 1839.
Can the people of this country lie longer decei
ved in this matter? The President has nnhlush
ingly admitted that he has sought among the
monarchies of the old world, probably by his son
John, for a financial policy for this republic; and
he lolls us that he has ascertained that twenty-two
out oflwcnty-scven of these powers have adopted
his sub-treasury scheme—ami, to cap the climax,
he recommends and presses, as suitable to this re
public, a policy that, like the feudel system, is
found by the monarchies of the old world indis
pensible to their existence. They must have the
money within their own control; and, by keep
ing it by their officers, it is always ready to prop
the power ol the crown when assaulted by the
people. The truth is, Mr. Van Duron is wholly
destitute of republican feeling. He has been too
long in Europe—lie has been charmed by royal
ty—he must have his English carriage, his Eng
lish servants in livery—he must live in royal style
—and yet, strange to tell, he assumes the name
of u Democrat. Ho .may well say, “Oh, people
how I love yon—for I can play the King, while
you still think I am a democrat.”
"A system of credit, acted on with caution and
sound judgment, is not only wise and judicious,
hut indispensable to an enlightened business com
munity. The honesty, industry, and capacity of
a poor man is his only capital, and unless it gives
him credit where he is known, there is little
practical difference between the condition of the
honest and the dishonest, the capable and the ig
norant man. The station of men in society, on
the opposite principle, would be fixed by their
birth, and merit would be regarded as a bootless
qualification, This is not thedoctine of Mature,
or of our Declaration of Independence ami Amer
ican system of government.”
The above beautiful as well as just sentiment
we extract Irom Gov. Porter’s Message. Who
does not feel the tru'h of every sylla Ic which is
here uttered ! Credit is, emphatically, the hon- '
cst poor man’s capital; and they who assail
credit, and seek its overthrow, assail oue of the 1
strongest motives to virtue. Freemen of Michi
gan ! The men at present in power at Wash- 1
ington seek to uproot credit, and, by so doing, to I
place the honest poor man upon the same loot
ing with the worthless knave. Cun yqu give |
such men your support ? Or will you not rather
cast your voles for Harrison, who is himself poor, 1
and wl o can, therefore, sympathize with those 1
who are pour with him ?—Detroit Daily Adver
tiser. 1
From the Uallirnore American
Mr. Webster’s Plan in regard to Steam
Uoats.
The following is a summary of Mr. Webster’s
plan for preventing steamboat accidents and pun
ishing carelessness,
1. That the owners or masters of all steam
boats, or vessels propelled in whole or in part by .
steam, employed in the transportation of passen- (
sengers or of goods, wares or merchandise, or of
both, -hall be deemed to all intents and purposes
common carriers thereof, and shall be liable to all
the duties and responsibilities imposed upon such
common carriers by the common law. And
every restriction, limitation, or qualification shall
be considered utterly void.
2. That whenever any damage or injury shall
occur to any passenger, or to any goods, wares or
merchandise on board of any such steamboat or
other vessel, propelled in whole or in part by
steam, from fire or steam or collission with any
other vessel, the same shall be deemed full prima
facie evidence of negligence sufficient to charge
the proprietor or proprietors of such steamboat or
other vessel propelled by steam, and those in
their employment, with the full amount of such
loss, damage or injury until they shall show, be
yond any reasonable doubt, that no negligence
whatever bad occurred on their part.
3. That if any inspector or inspectors ap
pointed under the law to which this is a supple
ment, shall carelessly or negligently perform the
duties required of them by law, or shall make or
sign any certificate required by the same art,
knowing the same to contain any false statement,
he or they shall he deemed guilty of a high mis
demeanor. and shall, on conviction thereof, he
punished by fine not exceeding £SOO, and by im
prisonment nut exceeding 90 days, according to
the aggravation of the offence, and shall also be
liable in a civil action to all damages which shall
he occasioned thereby to any person or persons
whatever.
The select committee is instructed further to
enquire and report to the ISenate what judicial
decisions have been made under the co-existing
law. and especially whether it has been the effect
of any such decision to render the law inopera
tive in all parts of the country.
Mat* hew Vipond, the celebrated swimmer, died
recently at Liverpool, aged4B. In July 1827, Mr.
V. swam on I ic river Mersey trom the Koek Point
to Runco n. » distance 0!'23 miles, and exceeding |
tin former distance by 4 or 5 miles, in 5 hours and ,
a half—a feat probably unequalled and unap
proached by any swimmer, when all the circum
stances re taken into account, in ancient or mo
dern times.
I
‘•PrtKENS’TttsriNK or Chivalry !”—Now
Mat Pickens ami Calhoun have been promoted to
rite turn spit, ( sa y ß ,| le Philadelphia Herald and
s entinel.) we suppose we shall hear no more
a tout “the kitchen.” They have aprons on them
selves their heads shaved and bound in white
inushn turbans—ami are allowed to soak their
bread tn the pan !
John C. Calhoun, chief clerk.
F. W. Pickens, slew ard ofthe cellar.
PmntKit TO THE House.—So Blair is elec
ted printer to the House at last. His splendid
soiree has accomplished its purpose nearly. Mr.
Gales has given no parlies this season—of course
how could he expect to be printer ? Thereadicst
way to get the vote of a locofoco, is down his
throat in liberal currents of whiskey—the strong
er the liquor ,»nd the more of it, the surer is the
vote. N. B'. FT the U. 8. Bank wants to stop the
resumption biff in the Pennsylvania Senate, they
can buy as many locofocos ns they want, as cheap
us Blair did.— New York Herald.
Mobile and New Oiii.kans Railuoau.—
wc are glad to perceive by the New Orleans pa
pers that public attention in that city is being
culled to the little work which this company pro
poses, at the termination of their read. Its im
portance becomes of great magnitude, when con
sidered in connection with the mails beta ecu the
two cities; and wo trust the capitalists of that city,
to wltom it is of so much consequence, will f tr
nish some enterprising young man with the means,
by which he may not only be enabled to forwaid
a great public convenience, but also subserve his
personal interests.— Mobile Adv.
A LAtiriK ramilt—Mr. Thomas Nelson and
his worthy wife, of Lower Annamassee, Somerset
county, Maryland, are the living ancestors of near
ly, if not more than one hundred industrious and
Ihrivingdescendants; and what is more remarkable,
the whole of this prosperous progeny arc happily
settled within the sound of their sire's, gramlsire’s,
or great gnindsire’s voice. His voice, however, is
stentorian, and he is yet vigorous ami active in
mind and body, and has some twenty or more
captains in Iris family.
An Indian Doctoh.—During the time of the
assemblage of the delegates of various Indian
tribes at Washington recently, a circumstance
which went to prove that the course of treatment
pursued by the savage physicians, in certain ea
ses, if severe, was at least founded on philosophy.
Amongst owr most intelligent medical men it is
believed that if a stuuFtorn disease can he eradi
cated by the creating'of a more available one,
then a cure is certain.
The Hon. Air. , a Member of Congress,
was afflicted with an ulcer in one of his legs,
which hud baffled the skiff ofthe best physicians,
and annoyed him excessively. Hearing that
there was a skilful doctor amongst the Indian del
egation, lie determined to try him. The learned
Indian was therefore called in, and listened for
some lime to the patient’s account of the treat
ment he had received ; in reply to which ho only
shook his head and gave an expressive grunt, im
plying that no one had treated it rightly. He at
length informed Mr that ho did’nt care
what the complaint was. he could cure it, if Mr.
would do exactly ns he told him. The
patient consented, and was stretched upon the
floor in front of the fire, the ulcer laid bare, and
his hands tied down close to his body. The doc
tor then walked several limes around him, mut
tering what he considered magic words. After
this ceremony, his legs were bound tightly, and
again tire Indian proceeded with the incantation,
carrying in his right hand a shovel fuff of hunt
ing coals; ever and anon he passed zig zag over
the patient’s body. All nt once, and before Mr.
was aware o( his danger, ho threw the
burningcoals upon the sore, and with a fiendish
grin, danced wildly around his suffering victim.
Mr. shrieked, raved and swore, hut all to
no purpose; the fire gnawed away, and not un
til the coals had blackened was he relieved from
his bondage by the savage doctor. His first im
pttl-e when he got the use of his limbs, was to
kick rite doctor down stairs ; but a grunt of ap
probation from the Indian, arrested his attention,
and he sternly asked him why he had burnt him
in that cruel manner. The doctor replied in
substance in the following manner:
Your sore worried all your learned doctors;
it worried me too. I have made a common burn
of it; any body can cure a burn.”
It is almost needless to say that Mr
was a well man in the course of two weeks.—
Haiti more Clipper.
CAirxonNtA.—The Editor of the Arkansas
Star, at Little Rock, strongly urges the purchase
of Californio by our Government, and gives good
reasons for so doing as an act of policy and expe
diency. He says,
The rapidly rolling tide of western emigration,
by which the beautiful plains and fertile valleys
of the wesYare filling up with a free ami enlighten
ed population, warns the government of the U.
States of the importance of possessing itself of the
western frontier ofthe Pacific ocean, while it can
be obtained at small cost of purchase. If the op
portunity is much longer delayed, a firm foot hold
will he taken by European nations. Russia has
already extended her grasping arms to the fron
tiers of the north-west, and Great Britain has
given us much trouble, and probably will give
us more, on the northwest.
The Peninsula of Ca'afornia affords the best
harbors on the Pacific. The climate is delight
ful—the country inviting. The possession of
this valuable country by the Mexican govern
ment is almost nominal. There is no doubt that
it might be acquired for a small consideration.—
The Russian governmet have shown by a scries
of systematic efforts, a settled desire to extend
their possession southward. Mexico finds diffi
culty in paying her bonds for various loans from
individuals and companies in England. The
English Government is strongly pressed to re
ceive from Mexico, Califimia in liquidation of
those loans. The opportunity is now open for
us to acquire this country, rich in itself, happy in
its climate, and most valuable from its natural
position, by purchase at a moderate rate. Should
this opportunity he now neglected, Culnfornia
will fill into the hands of a foreign and a rival
government, from which if it should ever be ac
quired, it must|he at the cost of war, or of count
less treasure.
We shall take occasion in our next to resume
this interesting subject which we have now bare
ly introduced, and to exhibit with more particu
larity the great natural advantages enjoyed by
the peninsula of California.
Buenos Avrcs papers to the 12'.1i November
; have been received by the editors of the New Yc:k
Journal ofOmnmerec. An insuiroction had taken
place in one ot the Southern Provinces, hut the
rebels had been completely routed by tha Govern
ment troops.
Vol. IV.— No. 1 8r
OhIKKTAL SUFCHTITinX CfX THE MtIOIX of
fiu,—Uarma, a very religious prince, an j tbifd l
son ol an Indian king named Kosjusvo, is said so
have landed in the year 510 of the Christian ear
He employed all his thought and care to diffuse
throughout the country a knowledge of God and
religion; and being desirous to excite men by hi*
example, imposed on himself privations and mortis
■cations of every kind; living in the open air, amt
devoting the days and n gh(s to prayer and con
templation. After several years, however, being
worn out with fatigue, he fell asleep against his
will, and that he might faithfully observe bis oath,
which he thought he had violated, ho cut off bis
eye-lids and threw them on the ground. Naxr
day, having returned to the same spot, he foundk
them changed into a shrub, which the earth had
never before produced. Having eaten some oft
the leaves ol it, he found his spirits greatly ex- -
hilerated, and his former vigor restored. He re
commended this essence to his disciples and fol
io wots. Ihe reputation of tea increased, and aft
trr that lime it continued to Ire generally used.-
Knunpfer, in his “Aimenitotos Erotic*,” gives
the life with the portrait of this saint, so celebra- - .
ted in China and Japan, There is seen at the
feet of Darma a reed, which indicates that hehadi
traversed the seas and rivers.
From thr Augusta Mirror.-
Ncw-Miiglnml,
hand of my birth, I love thee f
Though far from thee 1 roam ;•
Still hums the star of memory
Above my boyhood’s home.
1 love thy streams and mountains,
1 love thy lulls and vales,
I love thy gushing fountains,
Thy woodlands, and thy gales,
I love thee, that my mother’s tomb.
Is ’neath thy green and flowery breast f
0, let the turf that shrouds the gloom,
Press lightly where her ashes rest..
There’s joy upon thy mountain floods,
In gladness leaping to the vale ;
Each leaf that quivers in thy woods,
Is fanned alone by freedom’3gale.
Thy bills arc bleak, thy rocks are rude,
And cold thy wintry snows •
Yet, o’er their distant solitude
The “ sun of glory” glows.
1 love thee for the stor cd name,
That clings around thy wave wash’d shores
Time cannot rob thee of thy fame,
’Tis thine till Time shall be no mure.
'Trs blazoned on lliyown green hills,
Firm roofed ’mid the lightning’s shock ;■ —
’Tissung by all thy gladden’d tills,
’Graved deep on Plymouth’s sacred rock.
Where canto the few, a gallant band—
Bearing the standard of the free —
To find within a distant land,,
A home—a shrine for liberty..
It was not gold that lured them,
’Twas not the breath of fame,
’Twas freedom’s soul that fired them, —
Oppression could not tame.
Then bowed the woods before them,
Then rose Religion’s fane; —
Bright freedom’s skiesshone o’er the n r
Beneath them smiled her plain.
Their fame is thine, proud land, and thine-
The soil where tread the free ;
Thy Plymouth’s rock, the pilgrim’s shrine—
Thy proudest page of history.
Augusta, Geo. J. E. U..
From Vie. Bangor Whig Courier.
The Arostonk war, while it line wreathed witli>
unfading laurels the brows of its sapient project
ors, lias also indirectly furnished occasion forr
calling into exercise the latent talent of several*
literary geniuses, whose productions may be read
by posterity, when even the sage wisdom of a
Fairfield, or the heroic bravery of a Strickland,,
shall, in the lapse of ages, have censed to - excite'-
its admiration.
I send you 11 specimen, which, I think, ought
to he preserved, not only for its intrinsic beauty
and merit, hut also to show the nature of many
of the communications and despatches, the tramK
mission of which furnished such constant em
ployment for the corps of videtles whose service*,
were required during the aforesaid war. It is an
extract from a poetical epistle from a languishing
young lady suffering the tortures of anxiety and
suspense fur the fate of her true lovyer, who was
at that time fighting the battles of his country,
and is as follows;
1 have my time a mourning spent,
That to the lloostick yon have went ;■
Hut hope whilst I am sick with greaf.
You’ll soon return to bring re leaf.
Hut oh 1 if it should be your fate.
To git a Dull it in your pate,
I think the pain th 11 should feel,
No other man on earth could heel.
The little peace of mourning crape,
Kxackly like a harte in shape,
This lock of hair my teers have wet.
I’ll send them both by the videt.
When on these lines you gently look,
Think from whose bead this lock was took f
This lock of hair was mine this morn,
But soon I trust it will he yourn.
COMMERCIAL,
l,a!cut dates front Liverpool, Dee. 25
Latest dales from Havre „... Dee. 19
New-York, February 5.
Cotton has been in fair demand during the last
three days, the lower qualities, however, declined
about ;}c per lb, whilst the Auer descriptions have
remained firm —the transactions embrace abotrt 3,-
000 bales, of which 1 150 were Upland, at 7$ a 9j ;
1200 New t cleans, at 7$ a 10$ ; 250 Florida,at 8 a
9s, rnd 100 bales Mobile at 8$ a 10$c per lb.
Flour, SfC. —The transactions since oar last hare
been extremely limited Western Canal may h*
quoted at $6 374 a $6 50; Ohio Canal, $6 37$ f
Ohio, via New Orleans, $0 12$ a J6'2o; and George
town at $6 50. Rye Flour and Indian Meal are
steady at our former quotations. In Wheat and
Rye very little has been done, and we do not alter
our rates. Corn is in demand at (>U a GBc per 68 lbs.
Coffee —The market still remains inactive, andi
very little alteration has taken place in rates. A
cargo of new crop Laguayra has been taken for ex
port. on terms winch have not transpired, but for
which 12 cents had been asked; 600 bags of Brazil
were sold at 9 a 11 cents; 350 St. Domingo 8$ a
Sjc; 100 old Government Java, at 13$. and 300
Sumatra, at 10$ cts per pound, on the usual credit.
Sugar —No sales of importance have been made
since our last review. 400 boxes brown Havana
were taken at 64 a7s cents; S'Odo of white.at loss
and 70 barrels of white Brazil at 8$ cts—2soo bags
of Slam were also sold on terms which have not
been made public.
The market is now bare of new :rop Molat|tf,
the recent importations con hting of 1310 bbd«— •
98 tierces of Havana and .11 at mzas having bean de
posed of at 22 a 23c., 4 months, and 200 bbl». Mew
Orleans at 27 a 27$ cts., 4 month*.
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