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•CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AVGUSTA.;
TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 18.
We ask the candid attention of every friend to
the permanence of our free institutions, to the ar
ticle which follows these remarks. We have of.
ten told our readers that the fearful spirit of Ja
cobinism was rapidly and stealthily undermining
our institutions, and that unless arrested in its
progress, we should end where all the free gov
ernments of the world have ended, first in anar
chy and finally-in despotism. Wc have often
warned them that the tendency of the doctrines,
principles and practices of the last and present ad
ministrations of the general government, was di
rectly to monocracy, and would ultimately uproot
the very foundations of civil society and prostrate
the last hope of liberty on earth. How fast our
predictions are fulfilling, may be ‘‘read even by
him who runs," in the conduct of the Ohio Legis
lature as depicted in the article below. When
before in the history of any Slate in this Union |
have candidates for high judicial offices been re
quired to give pledges before the election, to decide
political questions according to the will ofthc do
minant majority in the Legislature by which the
office is to be filler]? Even in England, there is no
example of the kind since (he days of Jeffries ?
What were the questions to be decided, is not
stated, nor ia it material, for the principle ia
rquady as bad, lie the questions what they
may. Our Legislatures arc all becoming
mobs, and they are humbling the judicial de
partments at their feet, by refusing to appoint
any but those who will become the subsers
•vient tools of their purposes. During the day
of the French Revolution, the Courts only regis
tered the edicts of the Assembly, and that body
itaelf re-echood the decisions of (he Jacobin club.
•We are rapidly approaching the same state of
things in the United States, Democracy run
mad bids defiance to public law and private right'
It is this spirit, engendered by Gen. Jackson and
made subservient to his will, to which Van Bu
ren now lavors and pays court, to sustain him in
power.
From the A<u> York Commercial Advertiier,
Repeal of Charters. —The Legislature of
Ohio have decided, by a solemn vote of both
Houses, that they have the right to repeal any act
of incorporation.
The preamble and resolution setting forth this
doctrine were adopted by the House on the 20th
of January.— American.
But this is by no means the deepest plunge which
the administration majority ofthe Ohio Legislature
have made into the whirlpool of jacobinism. There
ia, or was recently, a vacancy upon the bench of
the Supremo Court of that state. The appointing
power is vested in the before the ma
jority would proceed to the appointment, they ad
dress a aeries ofqucstions to the several candidates
for the station, demanding to know, in the event
ofthe appointment of cither,how they would de
cide certain pending causes. The applicants knew
full well, that unless they returned replies coin
cident with the views of“ the parly,” they would
have no chance of success. To their everlasting
disgrace, therefore, he it recorded, that every can
didate hut one gave the rquired pledge. That man
should be honored. “ Among the faithless faithful
only he.” According to the Ohio Stale Journal,
he repelled with indignation the idea of giving ex
tra-judicial opinions, and considering honesty,
integrity and disinterestedness in our legal tribu
nals above nil the honors and emoluments within
the gift of the Legislature,replied that he could not
answer the interrogatories without doing violence
to his own sense of honor'and moral obligation,
and to the spirit of the constitution. In sober
earnest we would inquire, to what will such things
lea 1? Are not these appalling strides toward the fi
nal consummation of anarchy greatly alarming?
Fine, the Now York reader endeavors to comfort
himself with tnc idea that it is only in Ohio—
and that Ohio lies a great way off. So it does: hut
the spirit of anarchy is the same every where; and
the doctrines now in the course of adoption in
Ohio, are but fruits springing from the princi
ples disseminated from Tammany Hall.
Congress.
The proceedings of this Irody still continue
devoid of interest. In the House, a debate ia
going on in relation to an appropriation for the
Cumberland Hoad. The Committee on printing,
of which Mr. Ulack is chairman, uro not yet
ready to report, and have obtained further time
to prepare their report.
We have received the Speeches of Messrs.
Alford and Colquitt, on the Abolition question,
and shall lay both of them before our readers at
aa early a day as possible.
Rkpkal of Charters. —The Legislature of
Ohio have decided, by a solemn vole of both
Houses, that they have the Right to Repeal any
Act of Incorporation. The preamble and resolu*
t'ton selling forth, this doctrine, were adopted by
(lie House on the Stub of January.
Tut e American Office, i
N. Orleans, Tuesday Feb. 11,9 A.M. 5
St. Louis Exchange Destroyed!—Fire
Raging 1
The St. Louis Exchange, with its magnificent
dome—cost 1,700,0tH), is, at the hour we write,
one muss of ruins. The fire broke out this mor
ning at 4i o'clock, in the fifth story, from the
sparks escaping through a cracked chimney.
The keeper of the Hotel had been shown this
flaw in the chimney, it is said, some days ago.
At 6 o’clock, it was seen that the fire was ra
ging between the slating and the plastering, and
that it could not Ire arrested.
The alarm was now general, and (he lodgers,
many of them, barely escaped with their clothes,
so rapid was the progress of the flumes.
About six, the great Ball Room fell in with a
tremendous crash.
At 8 o'clock, the lofty dome of the rotunda wa
on fire, the flames mounting to an immense
height.
While we write, the buildings on the opposite
side of 81. Louis street fronting the Exchange,
are beginning to burn.
Where the flames wdl be anested is hard to
gay.
The Citizens Bank in lb® rear of the Exchange,
it is hoped, will eacape, as it is fire proof ami
stands separate from all other walls.
The whole cost of the Exchange was $ 1,700,-
000, and it is under mortgage for $ 1,400,000.
The Improvement Bunk to which the building
belonged, Uos in circulation some $900,000 in
bills, and scarcely any specie on hand. The Or
leans Insurance Co. of this city, and the Phe-
• ~
oil, of London, have small nska. There may be
others, hut we cannot atop to ascertain.
The loss of this building will prove disastrous
in the extreme to the Ist Municipality. The ro
tunda was the most magnificent structure oi the
kind in the Union.
From the Savannah Georgian of Saturday.
(Latest from Europe—Direct.
By the ship Courtenay,Capt. Brown, from Li
verpool, we are furnished with dates to 30lh Dec.
being four days later than those previously recciv
ed via New York, per Patrick Henry. Capt.
Brown sailed on the evening of the Ist Jan., but
we regret to say, brought no papers.
For the Chronicle & Sentinel.
Mr. Editor :— ln your country paper of the
20th December Inst, you do great injustice to
some of the members of the Union party. I al
lude to your remarks upon (be election of Rail
road Commissioners, in which will lie found the
following sentence. “We presume there was no
good reason fur turning out Doctor Hamilton,
who is a highly intelligent man, unless it was to
make a majority of the Board of the right com
plexion of politics. As that had to he done, we
I knew of hut few Union men better qualified than
Mr. Liddell.”
Now the truth of the matter ia, that nearly all
the votes Major Hamilton received were Union
votes, and had you been personally at Milledge
villc, during the last session,you would have been
satisfied that there was more management than
party management, used in regard to the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad. How else do you
account for the fact that Major Crawford, a State
Rights man, received a large majority upon the
first ballot, when there were several candidates,
and the Union party had upwards of 30 majori
ty ? Do you think the Union party did it in a
spirit of liberality ? If so, they did not deserve
the hit yo.t gave them in the above paragraph.—
But the truth is, there were many influential men
in the Legislature, who, for their own reasons,
thought it necessary that the road should be
1 graded immediately to Ross's Landing.
Ons. Who Knows.
Correspondence es the North American.
New York, Feb. 11,3 P. M.
Very erroneous statements have been put forth
in some of our morning papers respecting the
affairs of the Manhattan Bank. The matter is
not very perfectly understood in the street, nor
perhaps in the hank, hut the statements which
foot up $1,200,0011, arc too large by at least one
half, The loss will not Ire such as to impair the
crcd'l of the bank, er even stop its dividends, or
even exhaust its surplus.
If the thing had happened in any other bank
it would have made little noise; but the Man
hattan is such an old-maidish super-prim affair,
that any little slip attracts every one's attention
The affair was talked of quite seriously yesterday,
but is laughed at again to-duy.
Stocks have not varied materially to-day.—
Manhattan, 90 hid. The sales of Cotton are 500
hales at steady prices. Hmall sales of common
Southern flour ats(i 25, Corn CO a G 3 c.SG lbs.
Exchange on Philadelphia Gj a G;j; Charleston
3s; New Orleans 4$ a 4J.
Correspond nee of the National Intelligencer.
New York, Feb. 12.
The Manhattan Bank business continue to cn"
gross attention. James G. King, of the firm of
Prime, Ward & King, it is staled, now holds the
proxies of the heirs of the Marquis of Caermar.
then, and if the Cashier docs not resign, or give
a better account than he is now giving of his
stewardship, they will be used, it is nut improba
ble, to compel him to resign. The newspaper
press now is taking strong ground against Banks
making loans on stocks, hut the practice of loan’
ing upon Treasury notes is equally detrimental*
The incidental propositions of the Government’
by the way, looking to a new issue of Treasury
notes, arc steadily watched in this business com
munity. The absurdity of denouncing credit
and such a resort to it, strikes many as an incon.
gruity. Again, such is the stale of business, and
so little is the hope of a healthy revival of trade
under the existing state of things, as connected
with the currency, that there is a general disposi
tion to hold the greatest merchant of the country
—that is, the administration of its Government—
to its professions in finance—its bona fide disuse
ol banks—its real hard money; the conviction
being general that, if the Administration is com
pelled to practice its professions upon itself, it will
!ho the first to change respecting thorn. Upon the
| presumption hero that the hard money times are
: at hand, property and labor are accoinmodoling
1 themselves to the Culm and the Chida standard,
i Real property is quite unsaleable. Investments
i in houses and lands will pay but a nominal inter
est. The rents of some stores have lallen one.
half, but it is more difficult now to raise the one
, half than the quadruple of it in times gone by.—
I Labor roams about the city in search of employ
aud in many cases it can be obtained at almost
I any price—the price of mere subsistence. If but
such an approach to a hard money currency brings
such a string of troubles, what arc wc to do when
the Cuba or Chinese elysium is reached !
Manhattan slock sold to-day at 94. Exchange
on England is 108 J and 109; on France, 5 26.
It seems to he concluded that the Liverpool
I steam ship did not leave at the time appointed,
and will not, therefore, leave till March,
The I’oat Master General and the Phil
adelphia Railroad.
I Wc learn from the Baltimore Post, (hat in re
ply to communication, addressed by the Baltimore
( and Philadelphia Railroad Company, totbo Post
Master General, that officer has made a proposi
tion to the Company which is likely to bring this
; matter to a satisfactory arrangement. The prop
osition ia in substance as follows:
1. That the Company transport the Southern
and Northern mails, and way mails, between
Philadelphia and Baltimore, under charge o;
1 agents ot the Post Office Department, to leave
Philadelphia at hours to be fixed by the Post
Master General.
2. The Company to transport a second daily
mail and way mails under charge of the conduc
tor, nine moths in the year, and as much longer
as the Company runs two trains of passenger
cars; this second mail to connect with the morn
ing mail from New York ; the hour* in other re
spects to be selectee by the Company.
3. The compensation for this service to be
S3OO a mile, about $30,000 per annum, with ad
ditional allowance for carrying the mails between
the Depots and Post Offices in the two cities;
the compensation not to be increased, in case the
Department should deem it advisable to pul the
western mail on this route.
Respecting the affair of the Manhattan Bank
the New York Commercial Advertiser of Monday
, afternoon, the 10th says—
I There is considerable excitement in Wall street
this morning upon this sbbject. It is understood
that on Saturday the President made oath that
certain largo loans, made upon securities not now
considered adequate, (though believed to be arn
. pic when the loans were made,) were nade with
out his knowledge.
There is, at all events, great dissatisfaction on
the part of the directors, which has increased by
■ j farther investigation.
, | The discount line of the bank, is about 2,200,-
! 000 dollars. Os this amount, some 1.108,000
1 : dollar* has been loaned upon stocks and oilier se
! curitics, as referred to above.
It is not supposed, however, that the loss of
the hank will exceed three hundred thousand dol
lars, and possibly not more than one hundred and
fifty thousand,
It is reported that the directors will insist upon
at least a partial change of officers.
Bridges over the Potomac.
The Long Bridge, we regret to say, after re
sisting the running ice for thirty hours, gave way
about 11 o’clock ou Monday night, with a tre
mendous crash, owing to the pressure of the
immense bodies of ice which floated down the
river. We arc also sorry to learn that about two
hundred yards of the bridge have been entirely
swept away, including the draw and the buildings
occupied by the bridge-keeper on the Virginia
side of the river. By this untoward occurrence,
travelling to and from the South will he seriously
impeded, and muoh inconvenience arise to the
citizens of this District especially.
We are also sorry to learn that (he Chain
Bridge above Georgetown, which was supposed
to he beyond the reach of injury, lias been con
siderably damaged, and that it will probably be
impassable for a short time.— Nat. Intel.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Nkw Brunswick. —We have before us the
St. John Gazette of January 30th, containing the
speech of Sir John Harvey at the opening of the
Parliament of New Brunswick, ft contains,
however, very little that can be interesting to
readers in this country.
The Lieutenant Governor informs the Parlia
ment that measures are in progres for a canal to
connect the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. Some of the frontier battalions of
militia have received a certain degree of training,
in view of possible future contingencies, and fora
portion of the militia force suitable uniform
clothing has been provided.
The only allusion to the boundary dispute is
that made in the following paragraph :
I will not conclude tins address without ex
pressing to you the confident expectation which
I entertain, that the result of the exploration of .
certain parts of the disputed territory which has
been made by commissioners appointed by her
Majesty for that purpose, will enable her Majes
ty’s Government to advance such propositions to
1 that ot the U.S., as the basis of the settlement of
the momentous question involved, as must lead
to its early, amicable and final adjustment. In
the mean lime I would express my hope that sen
timents of moderation and forbearance may pre
vail on either side.
A Sad Picture. —The N. York Signal says
—“ The prostration and despondency existing
among our mercantile community appears to be
wholly without parallel. Indeed, those only, who
arc brought in immediate contact with the com
mercial classes, can form an adequate idea of their
depressed condition. Business appears to be
f wholly paralyzed. Enterprise is torpid, and exer
, tion utterly cheeked. During (he last two or
three weeks heavy failures have taken place i
among persons who were believed to be secure |
against financial fluctuations and contingencies.
Some of our oldest and most firmly established
bouses liavc been swept to the ground. The dif
ficulty of making collections—the immense de
preciation of real estate securities—the ruinous
rules ot Exchange—and a combination of all
those causes, which lend to destroy commercial
prosperity,seem lohavc united to bring about the ‘
present disastrous statu of things.”
A case was tried last week in the District Court^ 1 !
of Philadelphia, which should operate as a cau
tion to anonymous letter writers. John Hays
brought a suit against Joseph Baker for a libel,
which libel consisted in an anonymous letter
written by the latter to a third person, charging
Hays with dishonest practices. The authorship
of the letter being made out, the jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff of $2496.
Naval Defence.— ln answer to a
of the Senate last year, calling for a report from
the President, on the military and naval defences
required for the country, the Navy Board report
that—
-1 In respect to steam vessels of war, looking
at our numerous and exposed harbors, and liabili
ty to attack by the same species of foice, not less
then forty armed steamers, of different sizes and
power, would be required.
The average cost of these is estimated at $335,-
000 each, making for the whole forty a gross sum
of thirteen anda half millions of dollars.
2ln respect to vessels ot war—the present force
fit for service, or worthy of repair, excluding a
ship of the line partially built at Sackett’s Har
bor, consists of 11 ships of the line, 1 razee, 14
frigates, 21 sloops and ti smaller vessels; and they
estimate, that to complete the force that they sup
pose could be manned upon the occurrence of
war. an addi ion would be required of 14 ships of
the line, 16 frigates, 11 sloops, and 24 smaller
vessels—over and above the steamers referred to
under the first head. The cost of building and
arming this additional force is estimated at $19.-
2G0,t)«0.
3 For the completion of the Navy Yards,
Docks, &c. a, the different stations, the sum of
$24,000,000 would be required, in addition to
which a new naval establishment, in the waters of
Narragansett Bay, is recommended as indispen
sable in time of war.
I
The motives which have operated on the
Chinese government in endeavoring to break up,
at all hazards, the Opium trade with that coun
try, arc made apparent by the annexed article,
copied from the New York Star:
Few persons have any idea of the nature and
extent of the opium trade in China. Os the hor
rible events of the drug more may be known.
He who begins taking opium habitually at twen
ty, must scarcely expect to live lunger than to the
age of thirty, or from that age to thirty-sii-; the
latter is the utmost age that, for the most part, is
attained. Tocquevtlle, in his “Travels in the
' Mores,” states that the class of opium ealeis
known under the name of Theriakis, alter some
years, accustom themselves to take doses of a
drachm each. Then comes on a frightful palid
ness of countenance; and the victim wastes
away in a kind of marasmus, that can be com
-1 pared to nothing but itself. Alopecia, and a to
tal loss of memory, with rickets, are the never-
tailing consequences of this deplorable habit.—
But no consideration—neither the certainty of
premature death, nor of the infirmities by which
it must be preceded—can correct a theriaki; he
answers madly to any one who would warn him
of his danger, that his happiness is inconceivable
when he has taken hisopium pill. If he lie ask
ed to define this supernatural happiness, he an
swers that it is impossible to account for it—that
pleasure cannot be defined. Always beside
themselves, the theriakis are incapable of work ;
they seem no more to belong to society. Towaid
the end of their career, they, however, experience
violent pain, and arc devoured by constant hun
ger; nor can their paregoric in any way relieve
their sufferings; become hideous to behold, de
prived of their teeth, their eyes sunk in their
heads, in a constant tremor, they cease to live
long before they cease to exist.
The dealers in opium are little aware of how
much harm they arc the ins’ruments of doing, by
carrying on this demoralizing and destructive
traffic; but the difference between the increase
of the Chinese people, before and after the intro
duction of opium ought to open their eyes, and
lead them to ask themselves whether they arc not
accountable for the diseases and deaths of all
those who have suffered by its introduction. It
is authentically stated, that the Chinese increased
at the rate of three per cent, per annum before
the commencement of the traffic, and at the rate
of one per cent, per annum since.
The efforts of the Chinese government during
the last ten years to arrest this inhuman traffic
have been of the most energetic and persevering
descriptions; hut their praiseworthy attempts
have lieen continually baffled by the ingenuity of
English and American dealers. The Emperor
appears now to he exasperated to the last degree
against the abettors of the trade. Never was a
weak and pusillanimous government more vio
lently roused then the Chinese authorities appear
to he on the subject of the illicit traffic in opium.
That the traffic is demoralizing, cruel, and anti
christain, there appears to be no doubt. A dis
tinguished missionary has told us that almost the
first word uttered by a native Chinese, when urg
ed to believe in Christ, is, “Why do Christians
bring us opium, and biing it directly in defiance
of our own laws 1”
Alas, for the g ory of England, should she
stoop to take sides with the venal hucksters and
pedlars, who are enraged at being cut olf from a
profitable though impious traffic by the temper
ance reform of the Pagan “brother of the sun
and uncle of the moon !”
New Atlantic Steam Ship.— The United
States, intended as a companion to the Liverpool,
the property of the Trans-atlantic Steam Ship
Company, is nearly ready for 'aunching. She
will, it is expected, take her place in the line to
New York, on the 29th of April.
Halifax Steamers. —Mr. Cunard’s line of
steam ships between Liverpool, Halifax,and Bos
ton, will commence plying in the month of May.
These steamers will keep up a communication,
once in a fortnight, between Europe and Ameri
ca.
The woollen factory of Pierce and Cook at Ro
chester was discovered to lie on fire on the 4th
instant, and narrowly escaped destruction. Da
re about S2OOO. Insured S6OO. __
**
A Wahnino.—A case of some
travellcts and steamboat proprietors, was recently
decided at Cincinnati. It seems that during the
last season, the steamboat “ Stephen McFar
land,” when on her passage from New Orleans
to Cincinnati, was run into by the steamboat
“ Danube,” by which, there was not only a to
tal loss of the McFarland, with her cargo, scc.,
hut the loss of a number of valuable lives,—
Captain Strader, the owner of the McFarland,
immediately instituted a suit against the owner
of the Danube, for the full value of the boat.—
The trial look place the week before last, in the
Superior Court of Cincinnati, his Honor Judge
Este, presiding. When, after a full investiga
tion of the case, the Jury brought in a verdict for
the plaintiff, of $23,000, and interest being the
full amount claimed by him.
The Cincinnati Gazcttee thus remarks upon
this case :
The property which has been destroyed, and
1 the lives that have been sacrificed by such •steam
' boat accidents' as that by which the McFarland
was lost, and similar ones, wilhin the past ten
years are quite beyond ready computation.—
Were the injured party always to act with the
decision of Captain Strader, there is no doubt
but that steamboat collissions would be much less
j frequent than they are. V reckless pilot or com
; mander docs not particularly dread the crack of
1 a pistol and the smell of a liitle gunpowder; but
touch his uockct smartly, or make it the fashion
iUo send to the Penitentiary all those who are
guilty of sporting with human life,
the effect will be found marvellous.
From the SI. Augustine Herald.
The Blood-Hounds.
Thinking it quite probable that the newspapers
would soon magnify the blood-hounds brought
from Cuba into creatures about the size of an el
ephant with teeth like a shark’s and jaws longer
than an alligator’s, I galloped over to Magnolia
yesterday and passed the day with the amiable
animals.
So various are these dogs in color, shape, size,
and age that at first sight they appear like an or
dinary pack harking about a planter’s dwelling,
but examination proves them quite another thing.
To describe a dog so as to be understood is diffi
cult. I must therefore convey a general idea by
requesting you to imagine a short-haired, black,
red, yellow, brindled, or spotted dog, or any color
that over bedecked the species, 24 inches high and
36 inches long (or thereabouts) with a head,
breast, fore-legs and shoulders like a light-made
mastiff, and snout somewhat elongated, ears erect
like a grey hound (mostly cropped where they
bend) and loins, croup haunches, and tail, like a
grey-hound, only thicker set. This combination
you may conceive produces an animal of great
nerve, strengthen*! agility, and such, to all ap
pearance, aie these blood-hounds.
They are 34 in number—s or 6 old dogs, well
trained—the remainder younger—some I should
think not a yeir old; one of these, a lady olood
hound, walked about the village with me as fa
miliarly and lovingly as a spaniel; but her kind
ness was inoperative upon the rest of her clan
for such a set of ferocious beasts 1 never before
saw. That modern Daub I, Van Amburgh, who
goes among the lions, would stand no chance
among them. When any living thing approach
es one of the older dogs, his eyes flash, he roars
I with rage, and twists like a serpent to escape
from his chain; the keepers have them under sub
jection. but have frequently to maintain quiet or
der by inflicting heavy blows with a cudgel, when
the dog lays down with an air which seems to say,
“I will be civil to accommodate you ,• but d ii
your stick,” for they neither wince or howl.
A few days since as an experiment, a negro
was sent a mile into the woods to climb a tree,
and in an hour afterwards a dog was put upon
the trail—he followed it direct through all the
windings of the bu-hes without faulting. The
only question is, will they follow the trail of an
Indian ] If they will they will he a great acquis
ition to the country, for us to fighting I am satis
fied they would grapple with any thing.—The
way two or three of them would rattle a dozen
Indians out ofa scrub, or a bay-gall would bo no
body s business. I can only aild that lam much
pleased with the blood hounds, and would like no
better fun than taking a hunt with them.
Four keepers have come with them from Cu
ba. The elder a very respectable sort of man, a s
* J « -J
1 believe a runaway negro hunter by profusion,
tint] be has such confidence in his dogs that he is
ready to lead their way against Indians, wherever
ordered—there is nothing of the flincher in his
appearance.
Great Ship Race.—The packet ship South
America, Capt. D. G. Bailey, sailed on the 3d
inst. for Liverpool, taking out an account of the
I doings of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in re
lation to compelling the Bunks of that stale to re
! sume specie payments. Immediately after the
S. A. had sailed, the Governor of Pennsylvania
issued his message, in favor of granting the Banks
further time. This important document was sent
out by the Philadelphia Bunks on the slh inst.,
in the crack ship Rochester, (’apt, Woodhouse,
with directions to Capt. VV. to engage extra hands
and to beat the S. A. if possible. We understand
that the suspended banks in Pniladelphia have
! contributed a fund of $ 1,000, to be divided amongst
| the crew of the Rochester if she arrives at Liver
pool first.— New York Morning Chronicle.
The Deer at the Falls.—We learn from
a correspondent at the Falls, that the Deer which
attracted so much attention the other day by his
voyage down the river on a cake of ice, was on
Saturday driven from his place of refuge, and
i forced to take the tremendous leap. He was
i frightened from the Island, on which he had rc
| mained so quietly for the last week, by some per
sons coming on the ice that had lodged on the
head of his island, and between that and Goat
Island. Seeing these unwelcome guests in>ad
• ing his quiet abode, he retreated to the farther
side of the island and leaped into the rapids. Af
ter swimming about twenty rods towards the
Canada shore, he tacked about and swam direct
ly for the precipice. He was instantly dashed
down the perpendicular height of one hundred
and sixty feet, yet came up to the surface of the
water alive. He made several attempts to swim
but in vain. Overcome by the plunge and chill
ed by tlte coldness of the water, he finally sub
mitted to the mercy of toe current. He is still
to be seen floating in an eddy at the foot of Goat
Island, —Buffalo Journal.
Railroad Iron.—li seems, from a report
made by the Treasury Department to tho House
of Kepiesentalives, that the amount of duties
remitted on iron imported for railroads and steam
boats, exceeds the very large sum of three mil
lions and a half of dollars. This, certainly,
gives some claim to the U. States to require that
railroads should transport the public mail upon
better terms than they transport freight or pas
sengers.
Prom the New Orleans Picayune.
“My Name is Haines.”
1 here are thousands of people in this country
who make use of the common expression “ Mu
name is Haines," when they arc about leaving
a place or party suddenly, yet few know from
whence (he expressson is derived. A more com
mon saying, or one in more general use, has ne
ver been got up. We hear it in Maine and in
Georgia, in Maryland and in Arkansas; it is in
the mouths of the old and the youug, the grave
and the gay—in short, “My name is Haines,”
enjoys a popularity weich no other slang or cant
phrase has ever attained. <• I’m o-p-h,” «I must
mizzle.” “ I must make myself scarce,” are fre
quently used, but the expression which heads (his
■ article leaves them all out of sight. Having said
. thus much of the reputation of the phrase, be it
* our next care to give its origin.
t Some thirty-five years since a gentleman named
. Haines was travelling on horseback in the vicini
, ‘y of Mr. Jefferson's residence in Virginia. Par
. ty spirit was running extremely high in those
, days. Mr. Jefferson was President, and Haines
r was a r “nk federalist, and, as a matter of course,
. a bitter opponent of the then existing admir.istra
. tion and its bead. He was not acquainted with
. Mr. Jefferson, and, accidently coming up with
. that gentleman, also travelling on horseback, his
r party zeal soon led him into a conversation upon
. the all-absorbing topic. In Ibe course of the con
versation Haines took particular pains lo abuse
i Mr. Jefferson, called him all sorts of hard names,
run down every measure of his administration!
| poked tne non-intercourse and embargo acts at
. him as most outrageous and ruinous, ridiculed his
gun boat system as preposterous and nonsensical,
opposed his purchase of Louisiana as a wild
scheme in short, took up every leading feature
of the politics ol the day, and descanted upon
them and their originator with the greatest bitter*
ness. Mr. Jefferson, all the while, said but litde.
1 here was no such thing as getting away from
Ills particular friend, and he did not exactly feel
at liberty to combat his arguments.
They finally arrived in front of Mr. Jefferson’s
i residence, Haines, ot course, notacquanted with
f the fact, Notwithstanding he had been vilified
and abused “like a pick-pocket,” to use au old
saying, Mr. Jefferson still, with true Virginia hos
pitality and politeness, invited his travelling com
panion to alight and partake of some refreshment.
Haines was about getting from his horse, when it
came into his head that he should ask his com
panion’s name.
“Jefferson,” said the Presinent, blandly.
“'1 he d—l ! What, Thomas Jefferson 1”
cs, sir, Thomas Jefferson.”
“President Thomas Jefferson I” continued the
astonished federalist.
“Pile same,” rejoined Mr. Jefferson.
, “Well, my name is Haines /” and pulling
spurs to his horse he was out of hearing instant
ly. ’Phis, we have been informed, was the origin
of the phrase.
Dreadful Explosion op a Ship. A letter
from Tunis, dated the 16th ult. contains thspar
| ticularsof the explosion on board the barge’Santi i
simo Ghristo, in the Goulette, alluded to in the
Malta letters of the 26th ult. Nothing could
equal the scene of desolation and horror offered by
La Goulette alter this disaster. There were 117
barrels of gunpowder in the vessel, and the com
’ mot * on was so strong that all the houses were sha
ken—not a pane ofglass left entire. The lustres
and crystals ol the Bey’s palace were broken, and
the Satuissimo Christo was blown to atoms, heads
frightfully disfigured, fragments ofhuman bodies,
pieces of flesh so mutilate,Miat.it was impossible
to discover to what part of the body they belonged;
arms, legs, and hands lay scattered here and there
; on the shore. A poor wretch with broken limbs
was the only victim who survived awhile the dis
aster ; and to questions addressed to him respec
ting its cause ho replied, in a faint and dying
voice—“We were all on deck, and tho boy had
just gone down into the cabin with a light when
suddenly I felt myself uplifted into the air, and
was shortly afterwards plunged into the water.”
He had scarcely finished these words when he
expired.
The Attorney General of the State of Michi
gan reports that there are forty-three Banks in the
State, against which proceeding have been insti
tuted to procure a dissolution of their corporate
rights, and that thirty-four of these owe the pub
lic an aggregate indebtedness of more than a mil
lion and a half of dollars.
Repartee.—The recent election of Mr. Hun
ter as Speaker of the House of Representatives,
being announced as the election ofa Sub-Treat
ury Whig, a friend of the Administration a;ked
what kind of whig a Sub-Treasury Whig could
be ! “I don’t know,” replied the person address
ed, “unless it is a Sub-Treasttry man who wont
steal? — Western Journal.
J
Mr. Richard Hildreth has sued us for Twenty
Thousand Dollar.’; damages for expressing our
belief that he is insane ! If suing a printer fur
>20,000 is not sufficient evidence that a man is
crazy, there is no use in having the Worcester
Hospital.— Boston Post,
India Cotton.—A Bombay paper of Oct.
16th, received at this office, says—“We under
stand that the Court of Directors have engaged
twelve Americans to proceed to this country for
the purpose of improving the cultivation and
cleaning of Colton, and that they may be shortly
expected to arrive at Bombay.— Jour, of Com.
Order ol Celebration of the Twenty-Se*
condos February, 1840,
The Committee appointed to make arrange
-1 ments for the celebration of Washington’s birth
day, have appointed Capt W. T. Gould, Mar.
shal of the day.
At 10 o’clock A. M., the procession will be
formed in front of the United States Hotel, and
proceed to the Presbyterian Church, under the
command of the Marshal of the day, when, after
divine service, Washington’s Farewell Address
will be read by the Uev. C. Sturges, and an Ora
tion will be delivered by Wm. R. McLaws, Esq
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Ist. Augusta Artillery Guards.
2nd. Clinch Riflemen.
3d. Major General and Staff.
4th. Brigadier General and Staff,
slh. Colonel of 10th Regiment and Staff and
Officers of the 10th Regiment.
6th. Officers of Army and Navy.
7th. Orator and Reader.
Bth. The Reverend Clergy.
9th. The City Authorities.
10th. Magistrates of the City and County.
11th. Fire Companies of the City.
12th. Mechanics’ Society.
13th. Medical Faculty and Students.
14th. Citizens.
The pews on the right and left of the centre isle>
will be reserved for the procession.
The Authorities of the City and County, the
Reverend Clerg'", the Members of the Fire De
partment, the Mechanics Society, and the citizens
generally, are respectfully invited to join the pro
cession, in the above order.
Salutes will be tired at sunrise and at noon, by
the Augusta Artillery Guards.
Committee of Council.
G. F. Parish,
Chas. B. Hitt,
Wm. E. Jackson.
Augusta Artillery. Clinch Riflemen.
John N. Raiford, Wm. M. Frazer.
O. E. Cashin, John A. Snvdf.r.
Daniel W. Dill. Wm. McLean.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dales from. Liverpool, Dec. 30
Latest dates from Havre Dee■ 19
Liverpool, December, 27.
Cctton —The demand from the trade has been
to a fair extent, and in the early part of the week
prices were linn, but since the arrival oi the British
Queen with accounts,fully confirming the previous
estimate of the crop, folders have olfored their
stocks more freely, and the market closed without
animation at last Friday’s quotations. Brazil,
Egyptian and Surat are heavy of sale ar.d previous
rates are barely supported. Exporters have taken
1000 American, and Speculators 000. Sales of
week ending 27tn Dec. 19,270 bales—6o Sea Island
at 20d a 22d ; 4920 Bowed, s,|d a 7|d ; 3740 Mo
bile, 6d a 7sd ; 6590 Orleans, 6d a 9d.
(Evening) Dec. 30.
The accounts by the British Queen, have induced
holders of Cotton to be more anxious sellers, and
prices are rather lower, and have a tendency to de
cline. Sales since Friday, the 27th Dec. arc 7000
bales.
New York, February 12
j Cotton —The transactions in Cotton for the last
three days have been to a fair extent, without any
material change in price. 750 bales of Upland, were
taken at 7$ a 9|; 600 bales New Orleans at 8 a
bile at 8J a 10 cents.
Coffee. —Sales being still confined to the wants
of the trade, operations are necessarily limited—
-700 hags Brazil were sold at 10 a 12 cents; 360 St.
Domingo at Si cts.; and 60 hags Laguiia at 11 cts.;
on the usual credit—at which rates holders are
firm.
Sugar. —The demand has been quite modern to
since our last —50 hhds only of New Orleans hav
ing been sold at 5 a ssc.; 100 hhds Porto Rico at 7;
50 hhds St; Croix at 9; and 250 boxes of brown
Havana at 6| a 7$ cts. Molases is dull at last
week’s prices.
p Flour. —The market still remains very dull, and
no sales of consequence have been made since our
last review. Western is held at $6,37$ a $6,50;
Georgetown and Howard street, $6,37$ a $6,50;
Alexandria and Richmond country $6,25.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, February 14.
Cleared —Br bark Mary, Godfrey, Liverpool; Bi
ting Ins, Dickson, do.
Arrived —Br ship Courtenay, Brown, Liverpool;
schr Emetine, Gates, New Orleans; steamboat
Hamburg, Wood, Augusta.
Went to sea —ship Stirling, Saunders, Liverpool;
brigs Clinton, Lyon, New York; Omar, Snow, Bos
ton; Planet, Knowlton, Portsmouth, N.C.
Charleston, Febmory 17.
Arrived on Saturday— C L brig Dimon, Mathews,
New York; schrs John Enders, Bell, Richmond; S
Rockwell, Walpole, St Augustine.
Arrived yesterday —Br barque Mary Muir, Payne,
Newcastle, (Eng.)
Cleared —Barques Sardius, Thatcher, Glasgow;
Verona, Bogardus, Amsterdam; brig George Henry,
Gould, Apalachicola; schrs Doris, Perry, ho; Man
darin, Burrows, Baltimore; Olcron, Hartho.m, Mo
bile.
Went to soa yesterday —Packet ship Chieora, Ro
gers, Liverpool; Fr barque Mexico, Beuscher, Ha
vre; brig Oceamis, Smith, Antwerp; Br brig Woo
hine, Shaw, Grenada; U L brig George, Hull, New
York.
Cff Doctor J. J. WILSON oilers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. Ho will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams,
aug 17 ts
&T W. G. NIMMO, General < ommission Mer
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the
onstilutionalist. nov 7
ti. HARRIS offers his services in the
practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt
attention if left at his drug store in Broad street, or
at his residence in Ellis street, below Washin"-
‘°n- nov 7°
C3* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sighT.
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
Ilov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND.
. Cj' E>r. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
late residence of Mr. A. M. Egcrton, second dooi
from the comer of Mclntosh and Reynold streets
nc v 29 jy ’
ZfT TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS
The Paintings at Mr. Rictiards’Drawing Academy,
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visi
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
2 o’clock until 9 o'clock p. m. At night the rooms
will be well lighted. dec 19