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AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19.
Cj*No mail North of Charleston last night.
Wo perceive that the Carolina papers are dis
cussing tbo nominations tor the office of Govern
or of that State at the next election. Sometime
since, the Charleston Mercury nominated the
Hon. J. P. Richardson, and subsequently Judge
Johnson and Col. Jas. H. Hammond have been
recommeaded by their friends. The whole ques
tion, it seems, is ultimately to be determined en
tirely by Mr. Calhoun’s preference; for the
friends of each of the nominees are endeavoring
to prove that the nomination of their favorite will
be more agreeable to that gentlemen, than that of
the other. It is really lamentable in a free
country, to see a whole State so completely sub
servient to the will of one man, as the people of
South Carolina are to Mr. Calhoun. We give a
sample below, in an extract fr.ua the communi"
cation of a writer in the Courier, who is a friend
of Col. Hammond, and opposes Judge Richard
son’s nomination. We particularly commend
the last paaagraph, in which the reader is inform
ed that if Mr. Calhoun Itus apjt&Ued Judge R.
to the office, the opposilihjjlo htjkwill no doubt
be elected, or words to that effect
“We do not desire to detract in any wise from
Mr. Calhoun’s influence in this State. That
gentleman has always been on terms of intimacy
and cordiality with Col. H.,and still continues so.
When Mr. R. was the enemy of Mr. Calhoun,
Col. H. was one of his staunchest filends. That
relation has continued unbroken, nay unshaken,
through all the political gusts that have blown
over our State. And we undertake, on our own
responsibility, to assure the Mercury, that no par
ty, having for its object the overthrow of Mr. Cal
houn, or the defeat of the Sub-Treasury scheme,
will receive the support of Col. Hammond or his
friends.
But we desire to be informed whether Mr.
Calhoun has really appointed Mr. Richardson to
the governorship. We hope the Mercury will
not let us remain in ignorance on this point. It
would add very much to the strength of Mr.
Richardson, if that fact was publicly proclaimed.”
The, Ladies’ Companion.
The February No. of this excellent periodical
came to hand by last night’s mail. It is embel
lished with a beautiful engraving of the poet
Burns, and his “Highland Mary.” Among the
contributors in this number, we And the names
of some of our best writers.
Charleston Races—First Day.
Col. Singleton’s br. f. Helen, 2 11
G-Edmondsion’s ch. f. Mary Elizabeth, I 2 2
Col. J,Richardson’s ch.i.Amythe Orphan, 3 3 3
The Greenville Mountaineer of the 14th insf.
•ays —Wo are informed by the Post Master at
Cowpens, Spartanburgh District, that the house
of Mrs. Elizabeth Lipscomb, was destroyed by
fire on the evening of the 25th ult., together
with all the furniture, and about SSOO in money.
The fire is supposed to have been accidentally
communicated to a bed, which was not discover
ed in time to extingush it.
Rents, &c.— The Boston Times says there
were never known so many houses “to let” as
there are now in that city. The New York Tat
tler says, that not less than one thousand fami
lies will relinquish house-keeping in that city in
the spring, unions rents fall from the present ex
orbitant prices. In Baltimore, (the Sun says,)
rents will be reduced very materially this season.
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From the New Orleans Bee, Feb. 12.
Calamitous Fire.
That magnificent structure, the St. Louis Ex
change—the pride and ornament of our city —
built less than two years ago, at a cost of nearly
a million of dollars, is now a smouldering heap
of ruins, with nothing remaining but the naked
and fractured walls, which have been deeply
scathed by the consuming element.
The fire occurred between the hours of three
and four o’clock, yesterday morning. It was first
discovered in a room in the fourth story in the
rear of the building. Its origin is supposed to
be accidental. Hopes were entertained from the
limited sphere of its influence, that it would be
speedily extinguished; but before the arrival
of the engines and hose companies, the flames
had made such progress as to render every effort
to subdue them unavailing. The fire extended
from room to room, both above and below, raging
with uninterrupted fury, and consuming every
thing in its course. Fur four or live hours, hu
man skill and exertion were impotent, and it was
only when the interior of the establishment had
been completely destroyed—when the gorgeous j
ball room, the elegant saloon, the tasteful and I
spacious rotunda, and the large and beautiful bar |
room were reduced to ashes—leaving scarcely |
further material for the destructive energy of the
flames, that they were successfully controlled.
The firemen displayed their usual prompitude,
zeal and intrepidity. We regret to add that one
of them had both his legs broken by the fall of a
heavy beam, while others were severely bruis
ed.
Very little ot the furnitue was saved, and the \
greater portion of that was much damaged by :
the fire and water. Most of the inmates of the !
establishment lost all their personal effects.
A painful rumor prevails, that a planter from 1
the coast, laboring under indisposition, was una
ble to leave his room and perished in the flames, j
We trust that this is but one of those exaggerat- I
ed reports so apt to spring up in the season of un
expected calamity.
The destruction of this splendid establishment
—involving, as it docs, the loss of at least six
hundred thousand dollars—is the most disastrous
conflagration which we have ever had to record
in New Orleans. It has thrown the community,
and especially the first municipality, into com
plete gloom and consternation. The St. Louis
Exchange was the pride and the boast of flic an
cient population of our city, and it is difficult to
conceive the sorrow into which this disaster has
plunged them. The loss is estimated at between
six hundred and eight hundred thousand dollars,
of which $250,000 only are covered by insurance.
Heavy as this calamity has fallen on our citi
zens, such is the powerful feeling existing on the
subject, that subscription lists for rebuilding the
Exchange were circulated yesterday even before
the (lames were extinguished. A very consider
able amount has already been subscribed. Lists
are opened at the Citizens’ Bank, at the Consoli
dated Association, and at Messrs. Royer and La
butat. The Improvement Bank has declared its
intention of immediately rebuilding the Ex
change, and in this praisewoi thy enterprise that
institution will not only be sustained by the com
munity, but will be aided by the liberal conduct
of the Consolidated Association and Citizens’
Dank, both of which have placed sums varying
from $50,000 to $150,000, at the disposal of the
Improvement Bank. The proffer of the Citizens’
Bank especially, has been most generous, inas
much as her directors have offered $150,000 to
the bank without interest. We have every rea
son to believe that many months will not elapse
before we shall have another Exchange erected
on the site of the one now in ruins.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
New York, Feb. 11.
The Manhattan Bank stock went off to-day at
92, a decline of 8 per cent upon the actual sales
of yesterday. Over a million of dollars, it is now
pretty well ascertained, has been loaned by the
Cashier, upon pretty poor security—to favorites
generally, to Government favorites particularly.
The Collector, Jesse Hoyt, has or had his sub-
Trcasury in the vaults of this bank, but I presume
there is no danger of a loss. The Cashier, Mr.
Robert While, is a brother of Campbell C. White,
the father of that famous gold bill that so pleases
the Senator from Missouri. Anon, I suppose, wo
shall have a report from the directors, but Mr.
W lute who holds the proxies of the heirs of the
Marquis of Cacnnarthen, can elect himself, and
keep himself, with those proxies, at will.
It may surprise some of theunuitiated that there
should be Locofoco banks in New York, but so it
is, and there is one other such bank here, power
ful in wealth—a pet bank now—with others of the
smaller kind. When Mr. Van Buron was here,
a bank dinner was given him by the officers of
such banks, and they were well convinced of the
insincerity of his hard money messages so far as
they were concerned. If a sub-Treasury was to
come, sub-Treasurcrs’ drafts and Treasury notes
were to come with it, upon which they could
traffic. If sub-Trcasury vaults were to be, these
vaults were to be in their banks—checks and oth
er paper devices representing the never-moving
hard money. There is no locofocoism in New
York but among “the rabble rout,” the Richmond
Enquirer so called. These banks and bank di
rectors I speak of are the head and body and soul
of the party. Such a blow up as we hear of now
in ttie Manhattan B ink but developes their modes
of operation. Over a quarter of a million Camp
bell P. White has in a single loan. The loudest
declaimcrs out of doors, against banks, thus make
the most use of them in. The immense tail of
locofocoism in such a city as this is thus wagged
by its body and head ; and if a man of intellect,
like Leggett, sets up in opposition, he is cut off in
some way or other, or, like Locke, he is trampled
down. New York politicians, of the Regency
school, are the most accomplished on earth.—
With all the suaviler in mndo of that model of
them in one branch of Congress, they have all
the elegance and all the forlitcr in rc of that oth
er of them in ttie other branch—while Mr. Van
Buren himself, be he in the saloon of a royal
court, or in the Republican forum, is the beau ideal
of all such a politician can be. We laugh to see
South Carolina bobbing in such a play !
A Harrison meeting was held in one of our
Wards last night, which gave indications that the
bone and muscle of the Whig party in the city
will do their full part towards his election to the
Presidency.
From the New Orleans Bee of the 12 th.
Texas.
The steam ship Columbia arrived yesterday
morning from Galveston in 40 hours. We have
received the Houston Morning Star up to the
7th instant and the Civilian Galveston Gazette
of the Bth, from which we copy the following
items of news.
Judge Lipscomb has been appointed secretary
of state.
The Cherokee land bill has been adopted. Al
so the act to incorporate the Trinity coal and mi
ning company; an act to increase the minmum
value of lands from fifty cents to one dollar per
acre, and to make the tax one dollar instead of
fifty cents on the hundred dollars, a new act to
suppress gambling and duelling, and the act to
establish a lighthouse on the East end of Galves
ton island.
Congress will probably adjourn during the
present week.
Tariff.— A bill modifying the present rate of
duties on imports, and reducing them to the uni
form advalorem tax of 15 per cent., has passed
both houses of congress. The present high du
ties on distilled spirits are not reduced or mate
rially varied. Another bill has been passed,
which abolishes the bonding system, and provides
for the storage of all goods introduced without
prompt payment in cash of the duties due on
them, and for their detention till such payment
be made.
The steamboat Emblem struck a snag and
went down in Buffalo Bayou, five miles this side
of Houston, on Wednesday. No lives were lost,
and we presume she had no cargo of consequence
as she was coming down. She will, it is thought
be raised without much difficulty.
The Columbia passed the Texian brig of war,
Colorado, Commoidore Moore, going into Galves
ton on the evening of the Blh instant.
The following gloomy picture of the present
condition of the business concerns of New York
is drawn in the Express. We would fain hope
that too dark a coloring had been given to it,
were it not that private letters confirm its correcp
ness :
Many of the hanks resemble in their business
appearance the dry good stores in Pearl street.
The officers, like the merchants, are there, but
they are without customers. The paper that is
offered, is now, a large portion of it, so weak, that
they find it difficult to select sufficient on which
to make their loans. Indeed, in the experience
of nearly forty years, through periods of embar
AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1840.
goes, wars, and various restrictions on commerce,
we have never seen less spirit and coin age among
merchants than at the present time. Those that
arc in debt find it next to impossible to realize
any thing. Those out ofdebt, and those are few
indeed, have no wish, nor is there any inducement
to make new arrangemente. Not only are the
mercantile branches of trade affected, but the me
chanical suffer in the same proportion. The me
chanics arc out of employ, and at a season of
great suffering too. No plans are on foot for
building; and some of our l est contractors have
had to give up. The capitalist who lives on his
money is also an equal sufferer, for his slocks
have depreciated and have fallen, in some instan
ces fifty per cent. Real estate has declined to a
point not known— rents, particularly stores, are
30 to 50 per cent down. This is a gloomy pic
ture, we know, but it is not more gloomy than
the fact justifies.
From the Baltimore American.
France and Algiers.
The recent accounts from the seat of war in
Africa show that the French are making way suc
cessfully against their semi-barbarous foes. It is
rather singular that during the whole course of
modern history, including a period of so many
years, no permanent conquests have ever been
made by European powers over the Mahometan
nations occupying the southern shores of the Me
diterranean. This is the more remarkable from
the fact that a vast extent of coast lay open and
bordering upon a sea which was continually tra
versed by the vessels of Christian nations, so that
means of access were always at hand. Nor have
causes of grievance hern wanting. To say noth
ing of the old grudge which gave such intense ar
dour to the crusades, and which was never extin
guished, the inhabitants of the Barbary countries
in later times were a notorious race of pirates, who
deemed it a most meritorious act to pillage every
Christian vessel that came in the way of their
corsairs, and to make slaves of the crew. This
practice was continued as n regular custom, ago
after age, and so far from resenting it in the way
that would seem most natural for high spirited
and powerful nations, that is by exterminating
the whole nest of marauding robbers, the matter
came to be looked upon as a thing of course; Eu
ropean captives reduced to slavery were redeemed
by heavy ransoms, and the right of the plunderer
thus to enslave the citizens of every country was
virtually adknowledged. In more recent days im
munity from this species of outrage was purcha
sed by the payment of an annualstipcnd— a sort
of black mail —and the Dcy of Algiers reckoned
aniong his tributaries some of the proudest »over
eigns of Europe.—lt was no longer ago than
1804 that the lordly ruffians of the red flag at
tempted to levy this exaction from their republican
contemporaries on this side of the water; it was
paid in lead and cast iron—a species of currency
sufficiently metalic, but not convertible to much
advantage. We may thank the Barbary gentry
for giving us an occasion to discover for ourselves
and to show to the world the first decided adap
tation of our taste for naval combats. It was in
the harbour of Tripoli that the heroic spirit of the
American republic, which afterwards confronted
the first maritime power of the world, first dis
played its true quality in tbfc soul of Decatur.
North Africa, now known under the name of
the Barbary States, was subject to the Roman
sway, and constituted a large province, including
various subordinate ones—Mauritania, Nuinidia,
Getulia, &c. It was to this region that Uato re
treated in the hope of preserving some remnant
of the commonwealth sacred to pristine freedom.
Upon the decline of the Roman power the coun
try was overrun by the Saracens, who not choos
ing to stop on the shores of the Mediterranean,
crossed over into Spain and even penetrated far
into Franco. The Christian nations of Europe
seemed to he content with expelling these intru
ders, and seldom carried war into Africa. The
conquests of the Spaniards under Ximcnes, the
great Cardinal, though prosecuted with much vi
gour for a time and apparently with every pros
pect of success, were soon suspended and finally
abandoned. The expedition of Charles the Fifth
accomplished no greater results. What Napo
leon’s schemes were, in connection with his E
gyptian campaign, it is difficult to say—grand and
comprehensive, no doubt, after the character of
his genius. But they were never carried out.
The designs of France at present seem to look
towards a permanent occupation. Europe is re
turning the visitation of the middle ages; and Bar
bary, long accustomed to attack, is now obliged
to stand upon the defensive. Some speculators
upon European politics say that the French King
has it in view to establish a kingdom in Africa for
one of his sons. It would bo very well for the
cause of civilization if he should succeed in doing
so. The vast resources of that fine country have
been lying unproductive for ages. Since the
days of Carthagenian greatness, when the galleys
of that maritime republic swept the Mediterranean
from one end to the other, and, if we may believe
old chroniclers, even ventured beyond the Pillars
of Hercules, or in modern phrase, the Straits of
Gibraltar, and boldly steered into the Atlantic
since that epoch no great commercial city has
risen on the Atlantic coast; while on the other
side of the midland sea, the Italian cities, particu
larly Venice, reached the highest points of mer
cantile splendor and magnificence.
The French occupation of Northern Africa
may be followed by important rosults in another
view—that is, in connection with the introduction
of civilization in other quarters of that vast conti
nent. The discovery of the Niger’s mouth, the
settlements which are going on upon the West
ern > t coast, together with the increasing trade
which several commercial nations, and Great Bri
tain especially, arc endeavoring to foster with the
rich districts of tne interior, may all conspire with
the movements at the North to bring about one
great result. The various advances of civiliza
tion, renewing and resuscitating long dormant
energies as it proceeds, starting from different
points, and stimulated by diverse motives, may at
some future lime meet and unite together in the
heart of Ethiopia.
Steenbehokn’s Assignment. —The Phila
delphia correspondent of the New York Herald,
says that Stecnbergen’s assignment has been
filed in the Recorder’s office in Philadelphia.
The Bank of the United States is a professed
creditor for $648,000. The Bank of Penn.
Township, $26,000. Two banks in Baltimore,
$200,000.
Loss or THE SHIP Stab— The ship Star, J,
Mallet, master, sailed from New York for New
Orleans, on the 16lh ultima, with an assorted car
go of liquors, dry goods, rice, paving stones, etc,
and got ashore off BlackCeasar’s Creek, on Car
rysford reef, an the 24th instant, at two o’clock,
A. M. The wind was light, anil the'disaster was
attributable only to the strength' of the current.
Every effort was immediately made to relieve the
ship, the passengers working with the crew to
lighten her, by throwing overboard the paving
stones, and by running out an anchor astern, with
the hawser to the capstan. The wind came off
the land, and every thing was thrown flat aback,
the ship being head on, and she had begun to move
astern, when the purchase parted, and it wits found
impossible to get her off without assistance. She
now began to thump very violently on the reef,
and in the course of the 27th bilged. A portion
of the cargo and passengers have already arrived
at this port, and the balance are expected daily
South Floridian Igtinst.
—This article constitutes an important
item in the internal trade of the State of N. York.
'1 he salt springs of Salina, apparently inexhausti
ble, yield annually large supplies of this indis
pensible commodity, which is carried Westward
by the canal, and hods a ready market in the in
terior. Within the year 1836 in the town of
Salina 2,804,718 bushels of salt were inspected,
being a larger quantity by 280,686 bushels than
was ever inspected there before in one year.
A Turkish Laiit.— A letter from Constan
tinople, quoted by the Nouvelliate Vandois, an
nounces a circumstance which, if true, evinces
an extraordinary innovation on the old habits of
the Mussulmans. It states that the young Sul
tan, yielding to the pressing request of his sister
Mihirmah, has granted her permission to proceed
to England, and bo present at the marriage of
Queen Victoria. She is, the writer says, to go to
London in the Moss rose steamer, accompanied
by Dr. Millingen, the English physician, and a nu
merous suite, and after the marriage, is to proceed
to Naples, and from thence to Switzerland, to
pass the summer, but is not to go to Paris, an ar
rangciqbnt which is said to have given great dis
satisfaction to M. de Ponlois. The same letter
informs us that the Sultan is about to issue a
hatti-scheriff, authorizing Turkish* Greek, Arme
nian, and Jewish women to wear the European
dress, and that the announcement has given great
delight to the fair sex, who will no longer be
compelled to hide llicir charms under the feredge
and the yarhemak.
Hindis.—A machine has lately been introdu
ced on the extensive works of James Hunt, Esq.,
of Rowdcn Hill, near Chippenham, for making
bricks, which has excited much curiosity. The
cylinders revolve about once a minute, making,
in the course of such a revolution, thirty-two
bricks.— Taunton (~ Ms.J Journal.
Safett op Steamboats. —As is the case al
ways after any very serious calamity by steam
boats has occurred, various suggestions are now
making through the newspapers for rendering
those vessels moro safe. Among the best we
have seen, and’one which appears entirely,feasi
ble, is a suggestion made by the correspondent of
the New London Gazette. The plan designs the
preventing of boots from.sinking under any cir
cumstances, whether by being burnt or by stri
king snags or rocks. It is proposed that in con
structing steamboats, and it might be added any.
other kind of vessel, copper cylinders, air tight,
hall be placed under the upper works of the boat
of sufficient capacity to sustain the vessel after
she had sunk to the deck. In lire bottom of the
boat there should be a water gate, with machine
ry to spon it in a moment, so that in cose of lire,
the boat could be filled to the deck. There would
therefore be but little to burn, and after the fire
should be extinguished, the “gate” could bo clo
sed, and the water pumped out. AH this could
he accomplished in a very few moments, uiul
though considerable damage would ensue, much
property would be saved, and better than all there
could scarcely be danger of loss of life. Indeed,
every boat in itself would be u life-boat.. Wo
think this plan entitled to deep consideration. No
possible objection to it strikes us at this time* and
as we live in an age of experiments, it would do
no harm to try this one. A single set of cylin
ders would wear as lung as a half dozen boats, so
that, in the long run, the expense of fitting them
would be very small.— Balt, Sun.
Snow in Vermont.— Extract of a letter
from Vermont in answer to a question of—How
is the Snow Market?
“The snow market with us is so well supplied
that nearly every individual has “gone into it”
rather deeper than he at first intended, notwith
standing that the stock is higher than at any
previous year. Many of our snow brokers, who
have very large depositee in private and public
Banks, would be very happy to have the daily
instalments which are accumulating, lir/uidaled,
and the balance credited to new account of 1841.
They think a strong rein should be applied, which,
would effectually control the late heavy im
ports.” *
“ What is the News?” —We are wearied,
wearied, wearied with this incessantly repeated
question. It is asked us certainly one hundred
inner.per diem, on an average. Such an inter
rogatory should never be put to an editor. It is
quite as much as he can do to write the news, not
speak it. Moreover, it is the most meaningless
as well as the most provoking of all queries.—
People that ask it, do not expect a reply ;; or if
they do, they must set a very indifferent value up
thc time of an editor. Time, lime, time is the
very jewel of our sonls—it is cruel, yes savage,
to deorive us of it by long reiterating double-still
ed common-places about nothing nt all.— Even.
Signal.
Climate of the Mediterranean—Beau
tiful Skies. —Lain in the summer season is
very uncommon in every part of this sea, and an
almost uninterrupted drought continues frotn< the
beginning of May until that of September. For
instance, rain fi ll but three times in 1833, once
in 1836, and five limes in 1838. But in winter
completely the reverse happens; rain then falling
very often, cither' in constant or interrupted
showers both during the day and night, but par
ticularly the latter. In the spring and autumn it
occurs frequently and at intervals, or day after
day, as in this country. As respects rain, there
fore at these seasons, there is nothing peculiai in
the climate. The mest remarkable phenomenon
accompanying the rains is the want of electricity,
or at least the exnibition of it; for neither during
showers nor constant ruins is it often seen, and
thunder and lightning are seldom witnessed.—
Thunder especially is uncommon. This, indeed,
is «o<very rare that, save at Smyrna and Alexan
dria, I never witnessed what may properly be
called a thunder storm; one attended with those
terrible peals, and vivid flashes of lightning,
which are so often met with in the United States.
Another peculiarity respecting electricity is, that
it is generally involved in cold and not in warm
weather: which is generally the reverse of what
occurs in this country.
Besides the peculiarities mentioned, there arc
others belonging to the climate; among the lat
ter are the rareness of snow and hail, of water
spouts and meteoric appearances. Os these tbs
only ones I have observed were shooting stars.—
The ignis faturus and aurora borealis in no part
of the sea did I ever witness ; and the absence of
.
the tormer may be ascribed with good reason to
the height of the adjacent land and the same
quantity of marshy ground. The mirage is
sometimes seen ; and I had once the pleasure of
beholding, about sunset, the shadow of a vessel
below the horizon, perfectly depicted on the
clouds, intervening between her and the vessel in
which I was sailing. But of all appearances the
most peculiar .we those of the clouds in warm
weather, and particularly in the afternoon. They
then become tinged with every color which most
gratifies the sight, and adorn the skies in the most
fantastic manner; red, orange,yellow, blua, and
albcolhrs, being mingled with the most exquisite
beauty. The skies, also, are made still moro
lovely by the clouds assuming n variety of forms,
as those of rocks, trees, men, beasts, and other
animals and inanimate objects. These beautiful
skies, however, arc lust in a great measure in
winter ; for they then lose their rich coloring, are
often obscured, dull, heavy, and diffused; and
become even 11-ss handsome than those of the
Atlantic.— Dr, Horner.
There is an esprit du corps about Maj.|Noah
that docs him much honor. In speaking of edi
tors, he observes:—
“Good'- fellows, as they generally are, and de
serving a better fate, they are like a flock of
sheep, whose noses are marked with red ochre,
led on by some bell wether, who feathers his own
nest, and is tho only one who can ‘look up’ and
siMifftha free air, because ho feels his oats, and
thinks he can lead the whole concern. • * •
It is dins that when victory perches upon our
banners, the meanest and least available, the un
known, and sometimes moat unsuited, make off
with nil tho spoils, leaving the editors, who are
said to bo ‘looking up,’ the merest crumb from tho
official table. Were editors more united, men
who obtain- high stations from their tabors and
exertions, would scarcely venture upon the expe
riment of ‘whistling them off, and letting down
the wind a prey to fortune.’ 1 go, hereafter,
against the election of any man who is not pledg
ed, among other acts of devotion to his country,
to be tr.e editor’s friend.”
Knowledoe of the Wohlu. —The great se
cret of a knowledge of the world consists in a sub
servicncy to the will of others, and the primary
motive of this is n mechanical and watchful per
ception of our own interest. It is not anartthat
requires a long course of study, the difficulty is
putting one’s self apprentice to it. It docs not
surely very laborious or profound inquiry
into the distinctions of truth and falsehood to be
able to assent to whatever one hears; nor any
great refinement of feeling to approve of whatev
er has custom, interest or power oa its side. The
only question is, who is willing to do so? Those
are slow' to wear the livery of the world who have
any independent resources of their own. It is
not that the philosopher or the man of genius
docs not see and know all this, that he is not con
stant and forcibly reminded of it by his own fail
ure or tho success of others, but he cannot stoop
to practice it. He has a different scale of excel
lence and mould of ambition, which have nothing
in common with current: maxims and time-serv
ing calculations. He cannot bring himself to give
up his best grounded convictions to a rich block
head, or his conscientious principles to a knave,
and in doing this consists the chief knowledge of
tLe world.
Funnt Point of Discussion. —We per
ceive by the correspondence of the Star, that a
new matter of discussion had arisen in England,
as to the manner, form and words by which tho
Queen of England is to be married. The ritual
of the church of England makes the wile promise
to “love and obkt/” the husband. Now Prince
Albert is to be one of tho Queen’s subjects, and
wo miss our estimate of the character of Victoria,
if her husband would not bo her subject any
how, queen or no queen. This matter has given
rise to quite serious and protracted discussions
among the quidnuncs; and- we do not see how
they.managed it. However, it is all settled be
fore this time; and all the ladies in America are
anxious to hear how.— N. Y. Dispatch,
The English, in their late conquest of Kcrnaul,
Indoostan, found immense treasures. Beside
£150,000 in specie, a letter says :
“We havealredy discovered 500 or 600 brass
guns and stores, which for quality and excellence,
almost beat the arsenal at Fort George, and the
treasure f alone amounts to nearly £ 1,000,000 ster
ling. There is powder enough in the fort to
blow the whole of India to the North Pole. The
military stores are sufficient to supply 100,000
men for two years. There are about 500 suits
of complete armor, beautiful things, and swords
(Damascus blades) worth 40 and £SO each. The
Rajah has a pair of pistols the butt, barrels, and
every other part, except the springs, are of solid
gold, with pure agates as substitutes for flints.”
German Punutuautx. —“ Remarking on
this subject to an English gentleman on board,
he told me the following anecdote in point:—
‘During a temporary residence,’ said he, ‘at Moy
encc, I made a.slight acquaintance with one of
the the inhabitants, of tho name of Klopp. Ho
had much of the honesty and conscientiousness
attributed to bis countrymen; and, though in
practice a plain straightforward, matter-of-fact
person, was nevertheless addicted, like Germans
in general,to abstruse studies. Subsequently, for
the sake of the baths, I shifted rny quarters to
Ems, and was one morning sitting at breakfast,
when a rapping at the door announced a visitor,
and in walked Herr Klopp. After the usual com
pliments, I enquired whether he had come to Bins
for pleasure merely, or on account of his health ■
• For neither,’ replied the honest German ; ‘my
errand is to you ; and I shall return home direct
ly I have paid off a little debt.’ I was not aware,
I told him, that we had any pecuniary transactions
whatever. ‘No,’ replied Herr Klopp, ‘not in
money ; but if you remember, on such a day
(giving me the day and date) we passed each oth
er on the Maycnce Bridge. I had recently been
reading Fichte, and my head was lull of specula
tions ; so that, though conscious of your bowing
to me, I omitted to return your salute. It is true
that I recollected mysclfin the cattle-market, and
indeed pulled off my bat, but that hardly satisfied
my conscience. Bo the end is, I have come to ac!
quit myself of the debt; and here it is ’
And, will you believe it, sir ? with all the gra
vity of a Prussian sonlry presenting arms, the
scrupulous German paid me up the salute in
arrear!’ ” — Hood’s Rhine.
From the Farmer's Register.
Machine for Huskino [oh Shucking]
and Shellino Corn,— lt is stated in the Ma
ryland papers that a machine has been introduc
ed for husking, or (as we Tuckahocssayj shuck
ing corn. A correspondent of the American
Farmer says that this machine “which has excit
ed much admiration on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland for two years past, was invented and
Vol. IV.—No. 21.
put in use by Mr. Hussey, the inventor of the
reaping; machine,”of which statements have been -
given in the Farmers’ Register. The same wri
ter says that many farmers there, with the former
machine, have shucked and shelled their com •
“at the rate of 40 bushels of shelled corn per
hour; and of 100 bushels per hour of corn pre
viously husked.” This, if correctly described,
must be a very curious as well as valuable ma
chine; and we are surprised that so little pro
gress has yet been made in extending informa
tion concerning, as well as the use of both thoee
machines of Mr. Hussey’s.
North Eastern Boundary. — The Phila
delphia Sentinel of the Bth inst says : “It was
rumoured at the Exchange last evening, on the
authority of a gentleman from Washington, that
Mr. Fox, the British Minister, had transmitted to
the Secretary of Slate, the ultimatum oflh*
British Government relative to the boundary,
question.”
The New York City Banks. —According
to an official statement, the loans of 22 New
York city banks, on the Ist of January, 1839,
amounted to $35,947,375. Same time this year,
$26,900,173. Decrease. $9,047,202. Specie in
January 1839, $6,008,353. This year, $4,496,-
137. Decrease, $513,216. Circulation in 1839,
$5,494,243. This year, $4,028,737. Decrease,
$1,465,506.
Lusus Natur* Extraordinary.— On Sun
day night last, Dr. Alanson S. James, of No. 74
West Broadway, succeeded in delivering a lady
of this city, of a very remarkable monster. It
consisted of a being of about the usual size of
infants at birth, but having added thereto an ex
tra pair of arms and a double face; the head ap
peared to have been originally two heads placed
back to back, but seemed to have so fused into
each other that the head was not much larger
than an ordinary one, but having a face on ei
ther side of it.
The arms hod a common attachment to the
trunk, one pair bending opposite the other, so.
that the elbows came in contact. There was
but one pair of legs, but they had no joint from
the hip to t m foot, but were tapering downward
to the bottom, where they terminated in dump
feet; but the most singular of all was, that this
monster did actually live several minutes after be
ing born, one mouth, however, performing the
whole act of respiration, the other mouth termi
nating early in a eul dc sac. The lineaments of
either face were perfect and well marked. The
mother of this curious monster is doing well.
The doctor has this specimen now in his posses
sion, and it has been seen by many physicians,
who pronounce it to be an unique specimen of
the kind. —New York Sun.
Iron Steamboat. —The iron steamer“Val-'-
ley Forge” has shown herself well adopted to the
navigation of the Western rivers by her capability
of withstanding snagt. In passing down the Mis
sissippi she struck a snag by which another boat
had I men sunk.—The iron steamer was not at all
injured.
It is stated that all the steamers that ply on
the Thames liclwecn London and Greenwich are
made of iron.
Fact. —Wo clip the tollowing from an ex
change paper, and without any comments pre
sent it to our readers:—“lf a dealer have any
articles o( which he wishes to make a quick re
turn, and consequently is willing to sell at a •
small profit, ho is sure to advertise them; but if
ho mean to make a large profit out of his custo
mers, he is generally rather sly about it. Ladies
and gentlemen who have their eye-teeth cut, ne
ver trade at a store whore they do not advertise.”
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From the Ladies Companion.
The Past.
BY SAMUEL WOODWORTH.
The Past! What is ft, but a faded dream -
Os promised joy ?—of bubbles on a stream.
Which flows unceasing to a shoreless sea.
The boundless ocean of eternity.
The Past! Where is it.' In the eternal mind,'
It still exists, to all the Future join’d
In one vast panorama! mortal eye
Sees but the Present, as it passes by.
The Past! Why is it that it leaves behind
So sad a legacy to all mankind?
Memory looks back with vain regrets and tears.
While lingering o’er the urn of wasted years.
The Past! flow is it that we don’t improve
From these instructive pictures as they move?
Precept—experience—how can man demur!
“He wise to-day—’fs madness to defer!”
Thus mourn the humble, with the grave in view,
1 bus teach the wise—and what they teach is true.
But hope—sweet hope—illusive hope,still smiles
Points to the Future, flatters and beguiles—
All trust her treacherous promises too far,
The bubble bursts—and we are what we are!
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, February 16.
Arrived —Brig Seaboard, Dennis, New Orleans;,
steamboat John Randolph,Lyon, Augusta.
Charleston, Feb. IS.
Arrived yesterday—Brig Lancet, Kruse, Matan
zas.
Cleared —Schrs Diadem, Derline, Grand Caillon,
(La); Abba Thula, Hopkins, Franklin, (do.)
From this port— Line ship Niagara, Smith, New.
York! C L brig Emily, Sherwood, do; brig D»niel,
Webster, Adams, Matanzas; sehr Curlew, Lis
comb, Baltimore.
At Quarantine —Ship Charleston, Kldridge from.
Boston.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscribr on the. Fan’s,
Bridge road, seventeen miles from this city,
a negro boy named JIM, dark complected; short,
and stout; when he left, he had on a blue satinet
round coat —no other marks recollected. Jim for-,
merl.v belonged to Capt. Thomas Randal of Horry
District, S. C., who was sending, him by me to his
son in Mississippi. The above rewaid will be-paid'
for bis delivery in Charleston jail, or twenty dol
lars reward for his safe lodgement in the jail of this,
city, and information given to either.
JOHN W. GOSS,
Hancock co., Habolacbitto, Miss,
feb 1 dltfcw2*
(T/’Tlie Charleston Courier will copy the above
andTorward their account to T. R.
A TAN YARD FOR SALE.
fjtHE proprietor wishing to decline business, of-.
A fers for sale his Tan Yard, m Biackville,
which is well located for an extensive business,
being in sight of the Charleston and Augusta Rail
Road, and commanding two of the linest markets
in the southern country, namely. Charleston and
Augusta. For health the situation is unsurpassed-
The Shoe business might be carried on in connec
tion with the tannery to great advantage. For
further particulars address
WM. H. THOMSON,
Blackwell, Barnwell district, S. C.
feb 10. \*6t