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J - W - & VV - S JONES - AUfJUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING; MARCH 7,1840. , Ve«. IY.-No. 28
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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 6.
Farmers’ i.egistcr.
For the contents of the February No. of this
valuable Agricultural periodical, our readers ore
referred to another column.
Hungarian Singers.
By an advertisement in this day’s paper, it will
be seen that these Vocalists give Concerts on
Monday and Tuesduy Evenings next, at the Ma
sonic Hall. Os their extraordinary powers, which
have been so much lauded since (heir arrival in
this country, of course we cannot speak know
ingly, as we have never witnessed their exhibi
tion. We however feel assured that the lovers
of song may confidently rely upon a rare speci
men of Vocal Music, as surprising as it is capti
vating.
The Mails.
Scarcely a day p isses that we do not receive
a complaint from some quarter or other, of the
non arrival of our paper at its destination. And
not unfrequently we loose a subscriber because of
this neglect on the part of Post Masters.
We can assure our friends, the fault is not ours
that they do not get their papers regularly, for
they are regularly put up and placed in the office
in this city, after which we cannot possibly con
trol them. And we hope that no Post Master is
so insensible of the moral obligations of his oath,
as to detain or intentionally turn them from the
direct route.
We yesterday received a letter of which the
following is an extract. His paper is placed in
the office daily, before the departure of the mail
from the city.
Gbstiemex :—I am a subscriber for the Dai
ly Chronicle & Sentinel, but for the last three
weeks have not received it as often as the sub
scribers for the Tri-weekly paper. There is cer
tainly neglect some where, which, if continued,
will compel me, tho reluctantly 7 , to discontinue
my subscription.
Your obedient servant.
Portrait of Robert Y. liayne.
We perceive by an advertisement in the
Charleston Courier of yesterday, that subscrip'
tions are opened in that city, for taking an engra
ving, from a portrait, by I.ongacre, of this dis
tinguished patriot and son of Carolina.
The portrait by Longacrc was taken in 1830,
and is represented by the friends of Gen. H. as
the best likeness extant. The engraving will be
on a royal folio sheet, and delivered to subscribers
at two dollars.
JBostou and 'Wagner.
The last Spirit of the Times contains a chal
lenge from the owner of Bos’on to the owner of
Wagner, to run a match race, on the 271 h day
of October next, four mile heats, for $25,000 a
side, half forfeit, over any course, which Col.
Wade Hampton and a gentleman to be selected
by the owner of Wagner, shall designate as the
Southern Middle course, between N. Orleans
and Washington City.
From this.it would seem that the amateurs of
the turf may confidently anticipate a match be
tween these two celebrated horses, as the owner
of Wagner had in a previous number of the
“Spirit,” announced himseh ready to iiear from
Boston.
Our Condition mid the Causes.
The following graphic sketch of the gloom
which pervades all classes of business throughout
this vast republic, we extract from the late speech
delivered by Mr. Clay, in the Senate, on the Sub-
Treasury bill. VVc commend it most cordially
to the careful perusal ol our readers.
It is with no ulea-ure, but with profound re
gret, that I survey Hie present condition of our
countiy. I have rarely. 1 Inink never, known a
period of such uuiver-.d and intense distress.—
The General G tvermnent is in debt, and its exis
ting revenue is inadequate to meet its ordinary |
expenditure. The Stales are in debt, some of |
tl cm largely in debt, insomuch that they have
been compelled to resort to the ruinous expedient
of contracting new loans to meet the interest
upon prior loans; and the people arc surrounded
with difficulties, greatly embarrassed, and involv
ed in debt. Whilst this is, unfortunately, the
general state of the country, the means of extin
guishing this vast muss of debt are in constant
diminution. Properly is falling in value—all the
great staples of the country are declining in
price, and destined, I fear, to further decline.—
Tho ce.tain tendency of this very measure is to
reduce prices. The banks aie rapidly decreas
ing the amount of their circulation. About one
half of them, extending from New Jersey to the
extreme Southwest, have suspended specie pay
ments, presenting an image of a paralytic, one |
moiety of whose body is stricken with palsy.— (
The banks are without a head; and, instead of
union, concert and co-operation between them,
we behold jealousy, distrust and enmity. We
have no currency whatever possessing uniform
value throughout the whole country. I hat which
we have, const ling aim 'si entirely of llie issues
es banks is in a siu'e of the utmost disorder, tn
gu...iieh that a varies, in comparison with the
specie standard, from par to fifty per cent dis
count. Exchanges too, are in the greatest pos
sible confusion, not merely between distant parts
of the Union, hut between cities and places in
tho same neighborhood. That between our
great commercial marts of New York and Phil
adelphia, within five or six hours of each other,
vacillating between seven and ten per cent. The
products of our agricultural industry arc unable
to find their way to market from the want of
means in the hands of traders to uurchnse them,
or from the want of confidence m the stability of
things. Many of our manufactories stopped or
stopping, especially in the important branch of
woollens; and a vast accumulation of their fabrics
on h uid, owing to the destruction of confidence
and the wretched state of exchange between dif
ferent sections of the Union.
Such is the unexaggeroted picture of our pro
sent condition. And amidst the dark and dense
cloud that surrounds us, I perceive not one gleam
of light. It gives me nothing but pain to sketch
the picture. Butduty and truth requite that ex
isting diseases should bo fearlessly examined aiul
probed to the bnttooi. We shall otherwise'be
utterly incapable of conceiving or applying ap
propriate remedies. If the present unhappy llate
of our country hud been brought upon the pim
ple by their folly and extravagance, it ought to lie
borne with fortitude, and without complaint, and
without reproach. Hut it is my dtafibet ate judg
ment that it lias not been—that the people are
not to be blamed—and that the principal causes
of existing embarrassments ore not to be traced
to I hem. Sir, it is not my purpose to waste the
time or excite the feelings of members of the - Se
nate by dwelling long on what I suppose to he
those causes. My object is n better, a higher,
arid I hope a more acceptable one—to consider
the remedies proposed for the present exigency.
Still, I should not fulfil my whole duty if I did
not briefly say that, in my conscience. I believe
our pecuniary distresses have mainly sprung
from the refusal to re-charter the late Bank of the
United States; the removal of the uublic depo
sitee from that institution; the multiplication of
State Banks in consequence; and tho Treasury
stimulus given to them to extend their operations;
the bungling manner in which the law, deposit
ing the surplus treasure with the States, was ex
ecuted; the Treasury Circular; and last, perhaps
not least, the exercise of the power of the veto
on the bill for distributing, among the States, the
net proceeds of the sales of the public lands.
What, Mr. President, is needed, at die present
crisis, to restore the prosperity of the peoplcl A
sound local currency, mixed with a currency
possessing uniform value throughout the whole
country; a re-establishment of regular exchan
ges between different parts of the Union; and a
revival of general confidence. The people want,
in short, good government at Wasliington; the
abandonment of rasli and ruinous experiments;
the practice here of economy; and the pursuit of
the safe ligob of experience. Give us these,
and the growth of our population, the enterprise
of our people, and the abundance, variety and
richness of tho productions of our soil and of
our industry, with the blessing of Providence,
will ca ,- ry us triumphantly through all our com
plicated embarrassments. Deny these—perse
vere in a mal-administration of government—and
it is in vain that the bounties of Heaven are pro
fusely scattered around us.
There is one man—and I lament to say, from
the current of events and the progress of Execu
tive and party power—but one man. at present
in (he country, who can bring relief to it, and
bind up the bleeding wounds of the People. He,
of all me., in tile nation, ought to feel as a parent
should feel, most sensibly, the distresses and suf
ferings of his family. But, looking to his public
course and his official acts, I am constrained to
say that he surveys unconcerned the wide-spread
ruin and bankruptcy and wretchedness before
him, without emotion and without sympathy.
Whilst all the elements of destruction are at
work, and the storm is raging, the Chief Magis
trate, standing in the midst of his unprotected
fellow citizens, on the distinguished position of
honor and confidence to which their suffrages
have devoted him, deliberately wraps around him
sell the folds of his india-rubber cloak, and, lilt
ing his umbrella over ids head, tells them, dren
ched and shivering as they are under the beating
rain mid hail and snow fulling upon them, that
he means to take care of himself and the official
corps, and that they are in the habit of expecting
too much from Government, and must look out
for their own shekel, and security, and salvation!
* . » » » * *
Mr. President, for ten longyears we have been
warring against the alarming growth ofExecutive
power: but, although we have been occasionally
cheered, it has been constantly advancing and
never receding. You may talk as you please
about bank expansions. There has been no per
nicious expansions in this country like that of
Executive power: and, unlike the operations of
banks, this power never has any periods of con
traction. You may denounce as you please the
usurpations of Congress. There has been no
usurpation but that of the Executive, which has
been upon both of the powers of other co-ordinate
departments of this Government and upon the
Slates. There scarcely remains any power in
this Government but that of the President. He
suggests, originates, controls, checks every tiling.
The insatiable spirit of the Stuarts, for power and
prerogative, was brought upon our American
throne on the 4th of March 1829. It came un
der all the usual false and hypocritical pretences
and disguises of love of the People, desire of re
form, and diffidence of power. The Scotch dy
nasty still continues. We have had Charles the
First, and now have Charles the Second. But I
again thank God that our deliverance is not dis
tant; and that, on the 4tr. <>f March. 1841 a
g'eat and glorious revolution, without blood and
without convulsion, will be achieved.
From the Savannah Georgian.
From Florida.
We have advices to 20th ult. from the Camp
near the Gulf of Mexico, and South-East of the
Suwannee. Gen. Taylor on the 30th January
last wrote to Adj. Gen. Jones, at Washington,
that “an examination of the Wacasassa country
by four companies of the 2d Infantry, will im
mediately be commenced.” Their operations are
detailed by a correspondent, whose letter enables
us to stale, that the campaign ordered by Gen.
Taylor, in the Order No. B—which appears in
our columns, commenced on the 3d ult. and has
been steadily persevered in ; the troops encoun
tering every species of hardship without a mur
mur. The scouts are generally absent five days,
officers as well as men carrying their provisions
upon their backs.
Smith of the Cam)) and between the mouths of
the Suwannee and Wacasassa me country is very
low and marshy. The troops in many instances
have matched four miles, almost knee deep in
mud. They have frequently encamped, through
necessity, in the sail marsh, w .ich bo-ders the
Gulf of Mexico, and been obliged to use salt
water.
The duly assigned to the Battalion cannot be
completed before the end of March. The dogs
from St. Marks did not reach the Camp until
within a few days previous to our advices, and as
n yet no opportunity find been afforded of testing
r them upon fresh trails.
!■ I rev ions to their arrival the troops flushed
r . three different camps, taking from the enemy,
e who escaped into the swamps, large quantities of
*1 plunder, to wit: deer and other skins, bearskins,
1 clothes, garden seeds, adzes, axes, hatchets,
l - &c. vScc ; the latter articles having, it is believed,
d been carried off by them, while on some inarau
r ding expedition in Middle Florida.
I On the Blh ult. Company B. under the com
s inand of Capt. Smith, Company C. under Capt.
c Casi y, Company K. under Lieut. Alhurtis, and
Company L. under Lieut. Wcstcotf. atarledfrom
Camp Kingsbury, 10 miles from Fort Fanning
" °n the Suwannee river, on a scout of five days
0 down to the Oult, officers and men carrying their
a provisions on their backs; the Companies taking
b different directions. Tho same morning Lieut.
McKinstry started wit i an escort ofyp-n vol
*• nntccrs to make a reconnoisance of tliNdtam
e mock, east of the camp. Dr. MaxweM and CTkpt.
” Kings!uiiy accompanied Lieut. McK. They
e penetrated but a short distance into tho hapi
mocks, parly
e dians, anirrapMimTllieir packs, &c. tho game
not proving trutCgame. Towards evening Capt.
K. directed the volunteers to return to the camp
e they flushed in the morning, and conceal thom
s selves, hoping that the Indians would return for
1 their packs. While endeavoring to execute the
0 order, the Indians made their appearance on the
■ edge of the hammocks, yelling and inviting tho
3 volunteers to a tight, who being weak in numbers
, declined ami retreated to camp. They estimated
r the Indians to be thirty in number,
• The same day Lt. Westcottcame unexpected
-1 ly upon a camp of Indians near the Gulf. They
s fired npon him, but on his returning the fire, int
lf mediately retreated, leaving behind them all their
3 plunder, which was very considerable. The same
• day Capt. Smith also flushed a party and esptur
f cd their packs.
i Our correspondent believes that if the troops
! had had the dogs on these occasions, they would
- have captured the Indians.
The following officers arc attached to this
s command:—Major Loomis, Captains Kingsbury,
1 Smith and Casey ; Lieut. Allen, Top. Eng’s.;
3 Lieuts. Alhu.tis, McKinstry, Westcott and Ma
rion ; and Surgeon Maxwell,
t ,
1 Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
1 New York, Feb. 29, 1840.
From Rio Janeiro we have dates to January
, 14, with later dates from Montevideo. The
~ French blockade on the River Plate was not raised
> and the expected battle had not taken place near
. Montevideo. Flour was on the rise at Rio. The
I French Admiral, Dupotet, with his squadron,
reached Montevideo Dec. 22.
. Letters from England indicate that the British
| Government was concentrating a powerful naval
f force toward Canton. This preparation looks as
) if England intended to have a brush with tho
. Chinese.
Exchanges on England from the packets of
] Monday ranges from 107 Jto 108 j. There is
. no change of consequence in stocks. There is no
city news of importance. Flour is going down.
, Southern is held at $5 50 to $5 75. The de
. mand, however, is very limited.
t
1 A correspondent of the New York Courier &
, Enquirer, (the Spy in Washington.) in a letter
t of the 20th ult. has the following remarks;
“During the first week in January, I gave you
; a sketch of parties here. In rny letters on that
> subject I refered to the collisions which were likely
I to ensue among the loco focus, on the subject of
: the Vice Presidency. I slated that Mr. Polk from
. the then aspect of affairs, would present the
t strongest force in the field, as he was the choice
■ of General Jicksmi. You have probably seen
L the movement in Virginia on the subject. The
f party in that Stale go for Mr. Polk, and yet his
i prospects within the last four weeks have not ini
. proved. Tile friends of Col. R. M. Johnson
■ evince syniotoms of discontent at the pre-deter
■ initiation to set aside that gallant This
r fact, combined with the pertinacity of other aspi
t rants, has caused some fluttering in the loco fuco
I camp,
r “The fast gathering storm has produced a new
t movement on the political Chess Board. Toe
! Hon. the Secretary of War enters the arena ns
candidate for the Vice Piesidcncy. This is
i rather unexpected. A pamphlet has been written
; and in circulation among the faithful in Pennsyl
r vania. It is highly complimentary to Mr. Poin-
I sett, and if the hints which I have received, are
s well founded, it is written by a gentleman perfect
. ly competent to delineate the true character of
I' the Secretary. But why this secrecy in the dis
f tribution of the pamphlet! why confine its circu
• lation to a select few ?
: “ It is whispered here, in Court circles and a
i mong Courtiers, that thi pamphlet is a pulse fcel
i er. That there arc those in the tanks of the
t administration parly, who apprehend that they
i cannot unite on a candidate for the Vice Prcsi
i dency. and that it will he the better policy to let
; each State make its own selection for that office.
. In this view of the queston, the greater number
I of the candidates in the field, the more certain to
i effect the object.”
1 From the Baltimore American, lat in .
From Calcttta.— Tho ship Active, arrived
here last evening, in 106 days from Calcutta, via
St. Helena,and 34 days from the latter port, with
Saltpetre, Silks and Hides, to George Beatty
left Calcutta on the 15th of November, and Sand
| Heads on the 10th at noon.
While at St. Helena, learnt from the officers of
the ships Talbot and Aplhorp, American ships
both houno to New York, that the Chinese had
attacked an American frigate between Whompou
and Lintin, in the night,—laki n probably for an
English ship—when an action commenced he
| tween the junks and the | Americans, in which it
1 is supposed that 500 natives were killed. The
town of Wompoa was blockaded by the English
and Americans conjointly.
A Goon Illustiiation. —Mr. Smith, of In
diana, while discoursing, in the Senate, against
the everlasting theorizing of members, and their
pulifferenee to practical results, thus enforced his
wn views ;
Mr. S. said he was sick, heart-sick, of hearing
speeches—speeches, and no relief—no prospect
of relief to the People. The course of gentlemen
(Mr. S said) reminded him of one of the most
affecting incidents of his life. He was sent for to
' the sick bed of a valued friend, he found hisfriend
near his dissolution; his whole appearance indi
i cated speedy departure. Mr. (8. asked the atten
ding physician if there could be no remedy—if
there was no relief! The Doctor shook his
head, and rep ied. None, I fear; the ease is fe
ver; I have given him calo eel, dose alter dose,
from twenty to fifty grains, but it seems to have
no effect upon linn. But, Doctor, w,II not you
i try something else I No, sir ; the case is fever,
and the books say calomel is the remedy; wc
i must follow tbe books. But do you not sec tho
patient is dying! Your remedy is certainly not
the correct one, or you would not kill your pa
tients with it. His friend died, and Mr. S. had
the poor consolation of knowing that he had ta
ken calomel in doses prescribed by the books;but
all were not so well satisfied that it was tbe best
remedy for the disease as applied to that particu
lar patient, although it might have been judicious
in some eases. So, said Mr S. you have been
giving calomel, calomel, calomel, possibly as pro
scribed by some ol your books; but do you not
see your patient is dying. Do you not see voo
will ruin the country by your policy ! Will you
persist ?
Mississippi Bank*.— The Mississippi Bank-
Bill has passed the Legislature in its most obnox
ious lonn. —The original bill, as it passed the
House, was amended in the Senate, and sent
back to the House for concurrence. Tho House
d sagreed to the amendments—the Senate adher
ed; and the House adhered to its disagreement.
The Senate then resolved the House out of or
der, und the House refused to receive the mes
sage. Afterwards, the Senate reconsidered its
resolution declaring the House out of order, and
respectfully requested tho House to reconsider its
adherence to the disagreement that a conference
might lh- had. Tho House reconsidered and ap
pointed a committee of conference—-the Senate
another. Atlei two sittings, the conferees agreed
unanimously to the main principles of the bill, as
reported by the chairman of the committee on
hanks and the currency.—The report was agreed
to by both houses, and has been approved by the
Governor, and is now a law of the land.
The bill provides that the Banks, generally,
shall resume specie payments by the first day of
April next; and upon their failing s« to do, that
the Goveruoi shall issue his proclamation, declar
ing the charter of the Banks, so failing, forfeited.
The Union Bank is exempted from the provis
ions of the bill, it being deemed by the legisla
ture best that separate action be hud in regard to
it.— Mobile Chronicle..
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
Court of Nations.
The suggestion has oftimes been made by the
humane and enlightened, that there is a better
inode of settling tho disputes of nations than by
t-e sword. All must acknowledge the uncertain
and inadequate remedy afforded by an-appeal' to
arms. How often do nations go to war for the
reeo>ery of what has been unjustly taken, and
by the issue of the strife, lose what they contend
ed for, and a great deal' more to hoot. The cost
of war is enormous, and if the winner in. the
game has to pay his own expenses, the prize is
seldom worth the expense of its attainment.—
Hostilities commenced from motives ot retalia
tion, very generally end in the infliction of inju
ries tenfold greater than those sought to be ic
wenged. Os all remedies, however, it is tha
-worst for settling controverted claims. Tho is
sues of Iwttles can never be, except by chance,
the decisions of equity and justice. Our barba
rous ancestors are frequently ridiculed fur the
practice of judiciary duels, deciding civil suits by
wager ol battle. Have not the civilized rmlioffs
-of modern times laid themselves under a likerttn
putalion of weakness and folly, by appealing to
the God of battles for the trial of controversies,
under the vague apprehension or hope, that hea
ven would give the victory to the side which had,
the right? We are glad to see that notions
more correct and humane are beginning to gain
ground on this subject. Mankind have had their
■eyes opened to the havoc and insanity of war,
and one of the most encouraging signs of the
times is, the formation of associations to- puts
stop to this scourge of nations.
We noticed that not long since two petitions
were presented by Mr. Clay to the U. S. Senate
tho one front Massachusetts the other from Ptmn
sylvania, [waving that a movement, should he
made by tbe Government of the United (States,
with a view to-the establishment of a- Congress
of nations for the adjustment of international
questions and difficulties.—The petitions came
from soeiti cs formed to promote tills pacific and
great objec t. There is i inch force und plausibili
ty in she suggestion. The pan of establishing
a grand court where nations might iniplend t each
other, presents certainly a prospect of adjudica
ting up >n international controversies, m a niu\-
tier at once equitable, peaceable, and satisfactory'
to all parties. The Judges of so august a Tri
bunal would he exalted above all suspicion of
partiality und corruption.—Their adjudications
would carry with them the highest authority, as
well from the exa Red character of the court, us
from the power with which it would lie invested,
for the execution of its mandates. Should the
judgements of the. Tribunal he resisted by any re
fractorey nation, the whole world would rise up in
arms to enforce them. For every nation that
agrees to the establishment of the Tribunal, must
do so under the obligation of sustaining its de
cisions and carrying its executions into effect.
The more the scheme is contemplated, the more
eligible and feasible does it appear. The accom
plishment of the plan we are persuaded would
be attended with results the most salutary. That
it will soon be consumated ; and the petition pre
sented by Mr. Clny to the U. S. Senate, may be
hailed as the first movement towards the grand,
result—the harbinger of the day predicted by the
Prophet, when “swoids shall be beat into plough
shares, and spears into pruning-hooks—and 1 wars
shall cease to the end of the Earth.”
Reduction in the price op Passarf. to
E nr land. —The owners of the steamship Great
Western have reduced the price of passage to
$120; the steward’s fees arc fixed at $5. Here
tofore the price was $ 170, including the steward’s
fees.
The Scale Tuhninr.— Delaware county,
New York, has come out for Harrison and re
form. At the town elections on Tuesday, ihe I
Harrison men carried ten out of the eighteen, ■
towns by handsome majorities. This county
gave 2,023 majority for Van Burcn over Harri
son in 1836,
From the New England Farmer.
Great Wall of China.— Even when un
der one Emperor, China trembled at the Tartars
of the desert. About two hundred centuries be
fore the birth of Christ, Bhc-hwang-te (iho brook
burner,) constructed the great 4 wall, of China, to
prevent their incursions. The wall, which has
always been considered one of the world’s, won
ders, is 1500 miles in length, of great height and 1
thickness, furnished with fortresses and towers
innumerable, and is carried with singular skill
over mountains and rivers, as well as across the
plains and valleys. Lord Macartney exclairned
on seeing it that it w is certainly the most stupen
dous work of human hands, and he rationally
concluded that at the remote period of its build
ing China must have been a very powerful and
civilized empire. Dr. Johnson was accustomed '
to say, of it, that it would be an honor to any I
man lo say that bis grandfather had seen, the
t groat wall of China. Mr. Uarrow, who hhw, it j
• with Macartney, went into some amusing calcn- 1
bilions us to the quantity of the materials it con- i
tains. According to his account, all the materials !
t ot the dwelling houses of England and Scoll
land, sniqrosing them a that peiiod (at the end of
■ the last century) to amount to 1,800,000, and to
i average 2,000 cubic feet of brick work or mason
ry, would he barely equivalent to the hulk of the
walk, without taking in its fortresses or towers,
which ho calculated contained as much masonry
and brick w'ork as London did at that time. Stu
pendous us was the work. it failed in its object.
Pi n kui ks of tii k Nauru wot.—A gcntle
; man writing train St. Louis* thus speaks of the
pineries on the St. Croix and Chippewa rivers:
i “The country above us on the Upper Missis
sippi is chiefly inhabited by the fSioux and Chip
prwas—t ihes both powerful and numerous—
and in good weather one can have no more dc
ligbtlui jaunt than a sail or row trp live river, and
through the country occupied by the two last
mentioned tribes. Tire resources of this upper
country, (hough yet an Indian domain, are being
rapidly developed. It is here upon the Cbippc
i ' va nll< l St- Croix rivers, and the country watered
i *»y them, that the immense pine forests which in
extent and valuable quality of timber, ran be
i surpassed by none in the known world. Alrea
-1 dy there are many mills in operation and doing a
;• good business, and supplying the western and
northwestern towns with immense rafts of the fnt
-1 eat limbers. When we conceive how great is the
. demand for lumber of this nature in the rapidly
increasing west, and sec that all must he supplied
, from these, llie only pineries on. the western wa
s b*rs; none can doubt the ultimate increase and
richness of the country, were these its only re
sources; but besides this there are undoubted
evidences ol minerals daily developing themselves,
with a rich soil, and susceptible of high improve
ment.”
1 A Speech woßTiiu HEAUiixe. —The Quincy
(Illinois) Whig of the Ist February, contains
the following icport of a recent speech in the
Senate ot that State,.on. the bill for repealing in
ternal improvements
r “ Mr. Speaker, 1 rise Sir,not to make a speech
—speech making is not my trade ; but to tell the
friends ot repeal, that 1 am foment them, al
i though I hate railroads as bad as any man on this
, ycarlh, prehaps, ami I have a good reason to hate
■ them, yet I shall vote agin repealing them, he
| kasc all my constituents on this side of the river
hodashiously are for them, and a good ninny on
Iho other side too——it are a fact, Mr. Speaker,
I know very little about railtouds, but I guess I
know os much os somu other folks do. We have
had a railroad in Clinton for some years, across
the bottom tliero at Carlisle and one over Crook
ed Creek bottom, in Marion, and of all infernal
roads in creation, for roughness, they hangs the
beater, —gentlemen may laugh—but it’s no joke,
. —my constituents have lost, in the single item
of bieakage of eggs, sir, a-handsome fortune.—
. Scott who keeps tavern in. Carlisle, and a rale
tavern too, not one ol your Springfield greaseyes,
a right jam up chicken fixin taveriffcold me
i that no mortal man could tell the eggs tflkt had
. been broken, in bringing them to market, ikmss
i that infernal railroad, and Tully told me the sgkic
, tiling exactly about Crooked Creek railroad—
, some smashing of eggs. You know Huey, Mr.
li Speaker? I wish you could have beam Hu»*y
curse; tile time his carriage was jolted up into
eternal smash, crossing this same railroad.—
[Hero the Speaker, unable any longer to control
his risible faculties Laughingly observed, ‘ the
gentleman must, coniine himself to the question,
and to the rules of the Senate.] Well, sir, as I
was saying, he ciist and ho swore, and fairly
snorted agin, hut still, he’s Sir railroads. These
are my notions, Mr. Speaker, and I could not sit
here without belching it out; [ifere the orator
tinned his head and in mi audible voice addressed
a senator to his right—‘Uncle Peter, what’s the
name ot your wolf hill ? hut receiving no answer,
he then, straightening himself up, again address
ed the Speaker.]
As I am now up, Mr. Speaker, I will give you
my notions oa Uncle Peter’s wolf bill-[Here
the Speaker interrupted'him again, by reminding
him that the wolf questions was not before dje
Senate, and therefore Is merits could not he ins
cussed.] —You’re mistaken in. your munXMr.
, Speaker; I’m not a cussing character, ujt il if I
was, I should he very far from cussing Uncle
Peter’s wolf bill. No, sir; I want you and all
this here Senate to understand that lamnoJu
piter lscariot, in this or any other mutter. I’m
for that bill head and r ats, no mistake in shave
tail,—l go il, sir,on the loud.
Otic more thing, Mr. Sneaker, and I’m done,
the gentleman from Shamrock county—l don’t
think that’s the name exactly either—but the two
headed gentleman over there, said the other day—
(Here the Speaker assuming as much gravity as
possible, called the gen'h loan to order, and re
quested him to take his seat! After lookin; the
Speaker steadfastly in the eye for at h ast twenty
seconds, with a wince of askance, he said—Are
you in rale yoarncst, Mr. Speaker 1 if so he you
are, you’re into mo about a feet. I s’poso you
think, hut sir—look out—l warn you, sir, to keep
a skin’d eye for terrapin traps and moccasin
tracks, — I have righls, sir, as tin- two headed gen
tleman over theie, (pointing to the gentleman
from Hancock) said the other day, that shall not
he trodden-on nor treated with discorn—l’m
done, sir,—l would however, before I sot down,
say to my friend from Union, not to look so se
rious, when he tells his funny stories, in his
speech, but to give us u sort of a smile, as I do,
when he comes to the nuh, or laughing part, so
that we may know when to laugh too. 1 have
now go- all I was after, Mr. Speaker, and I will
conclude this speech.
Tiik Match Made.—The New Orleans Pica
yune says that the match race spoken of in that
paper o( the 315th ult. has been concluded, Maria
I Black, Altorf, Billy Townes and Ralph come to
gether on the 17th inst., at the Eclipse Course—
s 1,000 aside, half forfeit, the proprietor to give
i 1,000 to the winner. This will boa hard race,
and it isaiready occasioning astir among the lo
vers of fine racing in New Orleans.
Important suit. —The Second Municipality
of New Orleans has gained an important law-suit
by which its right is established to the haiturc in
front of the t -'otton Press < 'ompany, and claimed
by the latter. The battore at the present time is
supposed to be worth f 5,000,000.
married”
On Wednesday evening last, by tne Rev. Mr.
Suf.l, Mr. John Bridges to Miss Laura Dan
forth, both of this city.
Consignees per Smith Carolina Rail Rond.
Hamburg, March 5, 1840.
Rees & Real)- S Knccland -fe 8’on; Hudson & Tj
Snndfoid & I,; Unily (fe O- ('reddle <V P; T W
Harwell; T Dawson; C Brooks U Co; Russell &
Hutchinson; DNJudfion; G Winter; (J Murrell; J
G Winter; Haviland, Risley & Co; A Gumming; J |
, Carre; J W & W S Jones; G. Parrott; J F Benson. (
StvartworrtiZiug.
Know ye the land where defaulting and thieving.
Hy Swartwouts in olßce are done every day,
Where party men vie in the art of deceiving,
And then cap the climax by running away ?
Know ye the land of the vault and the key,
Where the vault is unclosed and money left free,
To be pilfered and spent through the vigilant care
Os collectors and agents, whom party put there ?
Where reform is a by-word, retrenchment a dream,
Corruption the practice and plunder the scheme ;
Where a Kitchen Cabal or a caucus in drill,
Lares proclaim in its own voice as a free people’s
will }
Know ye the land where Sub-Treasurers riot
Like an army of r.its when the cat is away,
Where the cash of the people is stolen in quiet,
And nothing is left but to whistle for pay I
’Tis the land of our Fathers, ’tis America’s soil,
Where Liheity’s price was blood, treasures and toil;
’Tis the land that was fiecd and by Washington
won,
Where deeds so disgraceful are openly done.
Let a People oppressed, arise in their might,
Avenge their own wrongs and contend for their
right:
Dispel the deep gloom overspreading the land,
With boldness of heart and vigor of hand.
A Female Sailor.
Extract of a letter from an officer of the Rob
ert Small, dated in that ship off the Capo of
Good Hope, the 20th October:
“A very singular case has iicen discovered on
board our ship; we have detected a young lady in
the person of a sailor, who came out with us
from the Thames in August last. Her name is
Mary Anne Arnold. Sho is the daughter of the
late Lieut. Arnold, 11. N., who served in that ca
pacity on hoard the Ganges and Prince Regent'
men of war. lleing a man of dissolute habits
lie lost his commission in consequence, after
which he resided with his wi.a at Sheerness,
where, by continuing his habits of dissipation,
ho and his family were reduced to great distress.
Mr. Arnold was admitted a pensioner in Green
wich Hospital, in which asy.um he died. After
her husband’s death, Mrs. Arnold lived at Sheer
ness, supporting herself and her children until
18115, when after great exertion in the harvest ',
field, she died, leaving her children totally unpro
vided for. The subject of the present ■statement
was ten years of age when her mother died.—
Partly hy laboring in the fields, and partly by go
ing on errands for person*, she supported herself,
and contributed to the sustenance of her little
sister, who was only eighteen months old, when
her mother died. Mary Anne next obtained per
manent employment in a rope factory at Sheer
ncsH, where she earned two and six ponce a week.
Going frequently among the shipping she (ound
that boys of her age who went lo sea earned more
money, were heller fed, and in every way in a
superior condition to iters. Upon this Mary
Anno determined to renounce petticoats and lo
become a sailor, borrowing an old jacket, trow
sers, and shirltroma boy ot her acquaintance, to
whom she said she was going to have a lark in
them, she look leave of the rope fields and the
owner ol the old clothes, without I lie ceremony
ot a tarewell, and uaueoudod in sluing employ
merit as a cabin boy in the Williams, a Sunder
land collier, then lying at bilteerness. Mary Anne
was kindly treated, and she continued to do the
miscellaneous hard work of a collier’s cabin hoy,
below and aloft, for two years, to the satisfaction
of no less than six captains, who commanded the
Williams during that period.
A seventh capluin came, and the man and hoy
did not like each other, so Mary Anne for ever
abandoned the coal-marine, and on the 22d of
October, 18118, entered cabin-boy at Shields, on <
hoard the brig Annie, bound (or London and
Quebec. She made several voyages in (his ves
sel. Unfortunately the Annie was wrecked off
blakeney in the last equinoctial gales; hut the
captain and crew had the luck to escape after en.
during great hardships. Returned to Shields,
Miss Arnold entered again us a cabin hoy in the
Choice, hound for London, with stores for the
Robert Small, East Indiamanv in which ship she
next succeeded in getting nn engagement. She
has well done her work as a strong and active
hoy in this ship. I b ive seen Miss Arnold a
mongst the first aloftlo reef the ntizen top-gallant
sail, during a heavy gale in the bay of Biscay*-
When wc crossed the Equator she underwent
the ceremony of tarring and shaving in its rough
est form. On the 20lh of September last, some
ol the crew expressed suspicions to Capt. Scott
that the hoy Arnold was a girl. The Captain
upon this ordered the surgeon to examine the ■
youngster. The surgeon did so. and declared
that he was a girl. Miss Arnold then ga’ethe
foregoing account of herself. The Captain, pas
sengers and crew, all praised and pitied her.—
She was at once prevailed upon to abdicate the
jacket and trowsers, and is now a pretty girl, J 5
years o( age. Ihe lady passengers have given
her lots of presents. Her hair is already getting
long, and I suppose sho will soon think of ring
lets. Captain Scott behaves in the kindest man
ner to her, and has promised that she shall re
ceive her pay just the same as it she were to con
tinue to do a young mariner’s duty during, the
whole passage out and home. Miss Arnold
though rather bashful, considering the short time
she has had to learn ladies’ ways, like other he
roes and heroines, capable of being drawn out.
1 frequently see her surrounded hy
listeners while she pitches it long yarn about the
dangers of the sea. Our heroine has two broth
ers older than herself. One is boatswain of the
Royal Adelaide, the other is carpenter on board i
the Britanna, stationed at Portsmouth. The lat
ter, <he says, knows that she had turned sailor,
and he approved of the metamorphosis when he
saw her in the occupation of cabin hoy on board
the Williams.
A Mathimoviai, Journal.:—A- gentleman
lately took the following meteorological journal
of his wife’s temper: Monday, rather cloudy ;
afternoon rainy. Tuesday, vaporish, brightened;
up a little at night. Wednesday, gloomy, ch tn
gcable, inclined to rain. Thursday, tempestuous,,
with loud peals of thunder. Friday, fair in tha
morning, variable in the afternoon, cloudy all
night. Saturday, a slid breeze in the morning,
hazy and foggy in the afternoon, and thunder
anil lighluingiiwr the remainuer of the day. Sun
day, no account. N. 8., out the whole day, and
did not return home till Monday, morning f
Aw Iwni*FfT*m.E ixo conclusive bull.—
As two Irish bricklayers were passing through
one of the squares at the west end, one of them,,
on seeing a hatchment, nskrd his companion—
“ What is that outside oflb.> house ; is it asign ?”
*• Yes,” answered his brother of the (towel, “ it is
a sign that somebody’s dead that lives there.”'
Gix. Jackson has been invited by the House
of Representatives of Ohio to visit Columbus at,
the expense of the State,