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J. W. & W. S- JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 7 1810 ~~
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AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 6.
Southern Ladies’ Book.
The appearance of the second or Febiuary
number of this new work on our table a few
days since, at first filled us with a glow of plea
sure, for we feared it had already been consign
ed to the tomb. Other claims upon our lime have
afforded us hut a glance at its pages, and we con
fess it was not unmingled with regret. Os the
merits of the different articles, which fill its pa
ges, we intend on this occasion to say but a
word, —they are as a whole clever, f But our
immediate object is to notice the typography, and
general execution of the work. Really but for
the name, we should say it had less the appear
ance of a Ladies Book, than any periodical which
we ha'e seen issue from an American press. The
“ tout ensemble” of the work in its typograpic il
execution, is not above the ordinanry newspapers
of the day, and nut equal to many, very ma
ny weekly sheets. The paper is very ordinary,
the type, if now, are badly'worked, the proof sheets
carelessly read, and as a whole it bespeaks a great
er want of mechanical attention and superiority,
than any work of the kind we ever saw.
We desire to he understood. Let no one ima
gine from these remarks, that we arc enemies to
the work, far from it; and we assure the Editors,
the success of no enterprise of the kind would
afford us more pleasure; and it is the interest we
feel in its success which prompts these remarks.
Let them not deceive themselves or be led astray
by those who arc ignorant of the public taste in
these matters. Il were better that a number
should be Kept back three months, than to issue
such an ’edition as the one on our table. Much
depends upon the appearance of a periodical as
well as the contents, and unless more attention is
~a i d to this department of the Ladies’ Book, we
predict its speedy dissolution, which we should
very much regret.
Circus.
We are requested by the preprictors to assure
the public that the seats, which broke down on
Saturday night, at the Circus, will be refitted and
strengthened by this evening, so as to secure
visiters against a similar accident in future.
The President has recognized J. A. Van
Couth as Vice Consul of the Netherlands, fo r
the port of Charleston.
Agrarianism.
The following odious sentiments are from Ihe
pen of Mr. Fisk, a prominent editor and office
holder in the Van Buren party of Virginia. We
ask the attention of our readers to them.
gjTho opposition to the Administration have re
peatedly charged the Administration parly with
I) endeavoring to inculcate these demoralising doc
j trines, and it has been stoutly denied. Although
we aic fully aware, that a largo portion of the
party would scout them as unworthy of a mo
ment’s consideration, it is not to be denied that
there are many among them, who are industri
ously and earnestly engaged in their dissemina
tion, and who would be pleased, no doubt, to sec
every member of society reduced to a common
level. This demoralizing feature is openly urged
in the following remarks. It is not to be satisfac
torily controverted, that such is and has been the
tendency of all the efforts of these men to array
tke poor against the rich. If, therefore, the more
intelligent and respectable portion of the party
desire to avoid such disastrous consequences to
the peace of society, it behooves them to discard
and opcnlv denounce the instigators of such a
libel upon our institutions, else they will subject
themselves to the charge of aiding and abetting
in this work of infamy and degradation.
“I hold it to he quite as impossible for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of Democracy, as it is
for him to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
ii .j have sworn, upon the altar of God, eternal
hostility to every form’ of paper money; I could
wish that these nefarious corporations had hut
one neck, that it might be chopped off at a sin
gle blow. I would strangle the whole brood of
poisonous vipers in their own folds—they should
perish by their own venom. In this “war upon
the currency,” I have enlisted during life.”
“A popular hurricane that would sweep our
army of Federal lawyers from the halls of Icgis-
lation—a political earthquake that would engulf
our thieving manufactories of paper money in
one huge pandemonium —would be the richest
blessing which could he bestowed upon thisothcr-
wise, happy land.”
“Onr banking corporations are in the field,
waging an open war with the government of our
choice; and how stands the case at this tremen
dous crisis 1 Arc you preparing to help onward
the wheels of this ponderous juggernaut,’which
is rolling over the people, covering them with its
pollution and crushing them to the earth.”
“Should we see one man owning an hundred
houses, and ninety-nine men without any houses
at alii To answer affirmatively, would he a
monstrous libel upon both the justice and bene
' volence of the Almighty.”
“And yet these upstart scions of a contempti
ble aristocracy dare to turn up their delicate noses
at the sunburnt faces of those who produce the
very bread they cat; they have the unblushing
presumption to speak contemptuously, of nature’s
noblemen, whose patent was derived from tho
Deity himself.”
“The only ‘useful knowledge’ that tbelunproduc
tive classes, the drones and idlers, wish to see dis-
seminated, is that which teaches working men
how to create wealth for the lazy men to enjoy.”
“He who does not labor, either with the hand
or the head, is a pauper ora robber.”
“Why is it that the sons of industry toil on
on from year to year for a hare subsistance, and
the nabob, who never toiled an hour in his life, is
clothed in purple and fares sumptuously every
day? Why is it that those who provide the feast,
arc compelled to stand and look on while the
drones gorge themselves to bursting?”
“The Banks of the District of Columbia re
fusing to pay their honest debts, and no notice is
taken of the fact in the House of Representatives,
although they have been in session more than
three months already. Either the banks of the j
District arc to be charged with roguery or j
insolvency ; they either can redeem their false
promises, or they cannot; if they can, and do not,
then their managers should share the criminal’s
doom.”
“In case of an invasion or insurrection, the
large property holders are seldom returned among
the list of killed or wounded —they are more
generally among the missing, when the tug
of war conics on.”
The Albany Journal of the 31st ull. soys:—
The bill to preserve the purity of Elections in the
Oily of New York, and to promote convenience
of legal voters, received the signature of the Gov- |
ernor and became a Law yesterday. Those pro- |
visions of the Law which sub-divide the City into j
small Election Districts, are applicable to the ap- :
preaching Charier Election, and go into imme- j
diate effect.
We learn that there is too much reason (says I
the New York Courier) to apprehend that the!
pilot boat Sea Gull, attached to the Exploring
Expedition, as tender to the U. S. sloop of war
Vincennes, has been lost, and that all on hoard
have perished, She has nut been heard of since
the month of Juno last. Then she left Orange,
Terra del Fuego—miles north of Capo Horn, in
company with the Flying Fish. A gale soon af
ter arose, and the latter succeded in beating off
the shore. This was the last seen of the Sea
Gull, Lieutenants Rkkd and Bacon, two prom
ising young officers, were on board. The Por
poise had been twice in search of her without
success.
The Lieut. Reed, alludciLto in the goregoing
paragraph, is the son of Judge R. R. Reeilffor
merly of this city, now Governor of Florida.—
Ed. Chronicle & Sentinel.
Treasury Notes.
Treasury Department,
April 1, 1840.
Amount of Treasury notes issued under the
provisions of the acts of Congress of the 12th.
October, 1837, 21st May, 1838, and 2d March,
1839. ' $19,567,086 22
Os this amount there has been
redeemed $18,144,530 58
Leaving the amount outstand
ing $1,422,555 64
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Working Men, lead and consider the facts set
forth in the following article. A distinguished
Administration Senator opcnlv advocates the
odious Sub-Treasury scheme, because it will re
duce your wages for the labor of your hands 1
Will you support an Administration, a part of
whoso avowed policy it is, to reduce you to the
condition of those foreign laborers, enumerated
below. Arc your wages too high, that you are
willing to assist the Administration in reducing
them 1 Look to this matter attentively. This
measure so often repudiated by the people is about
to he forced upon them; and it aims a blow direct
ly at your interest, already suffering greatly by
the universal hardness of the times. Read and
reflect upon the following facts :
POLITICS OF WORKING MEN.
A few days since we referred to Mr. Buchan
an’s argument, that the amount of money in the
country and the wages of labor must be reduced,
before we can enjoy permanent prosperity; and
that these blessings are to be brought about by
the Sub-Treasury scheme.—Wc showed the fol
lowing to be tho rates of wages in some of tho
countries to which Mr. Buchanan referred as pat
terns for the working men of America, viz :
France. —Wages of common laborers, seven
and n half pence per day, and find their own hou
ses.
Sweden —Men on farms daily wages from four
to eight pence pci day, and board them-elves.
Havana. —Laborers paid 8 pence per day and
board themselves.
Belgium. —The best, artizans and mechanics,
one shilling per day. Wages lower on the farms.
Germany. —Laborers from 2 to 7 pence per
day. without board.
Netherlands. —South Holland, laborers from
throe to four pence per day without board.
Italy. — Trieste, laborers twelve pence with
board. Tuscany, six pence per day without ei
ther board or lodgings
Saxony. —Tho wages for weavers and other
manufactures, about 10 cents per day.
Mr. Buchanan says that the sub-treasury
scheme will render money so scarce that the rates
of wages must fall, and therefore the manufactures
of the United Slates will he able to compete in
our markets with the manufactures of those coun
tries in which the laboring classes far as above sta
ted in the way of wages. We have entertained
the opinion that it would he better to pay n tariff
on the productions of foreigners sufficient to keep
them from our ports, than to reduce the wages of
the poor, who have difficulties enough to contend
with in the best tinaes.
F In order fully Urshow tho working men into
i whose hands this may fall, to what a miserable
. condition the Van Buren administration wish to
bring them to, as well in regard to food as wages,
we have compiled the following facts from au
, thcntic works upon the subject:
r France. —ln some of the districts, the food of
the poor consists in rye bread, a kind of soup
1 made of millet, cakes of Indian corn now and
t then some salt provisions and vegetables, hut
s rarely, if ever, butcher’s meat. In other districts,
wheaten bread, soup made with vegetables and a
I little grease or lard, twice a day, potatoes or oth
! er vegetables, but seldom butcher’s meat,
i Sweden. —The agriculturists in the Southern
provinces live on salt fish and potatoes; in the
northern, porridge and rye bread form their food.
Belgium. —The mechanics live exclusively on
* rye bread, potatoes and milk.
'■ The other hard money countries are similar to
I these. The laboring and operative classes are in
i a miserable condition. While a laborer in the
> United States can live on the fat of the land, and
indeed working side by side with his employer,
and eating at the same table, the laborer in those
countries of Europe which Mr. Buchanan thinks
are such excellent patterns, must subsist on but
one kind of diet and that of >the coarsest kinds.
In every other respect the working men of those
countries are equally degraded, compared with the
working men of the United States.—With ns a
man may rise by talent, industry and prudence,
from the lowest to tho highest s'alion in society
or the government, but in the European deposi
tions, he who happens to be born a peasant will
always remain so. T1 ere is no chance for pro
motion there.
Wc feel every confidence that Ihe working men
ot the country will resent as il deserves, the
insulting proposition of Mr. Buchanan; and if
the sub-treasury bill be passed, its repeal will be
j demanded and enforced by Ino people before a
| year. In a clay or two we will point out to our
readers one or two of its effects, iii;d also some of
the reasons which may induce Mr, Buchanan to
support it strongly.— Harrisburg Telegraph.
A Charitable Man and a rood Citizen
It is stated in the New York Courier that on
examination of the hooks of the late Samuel
Ward, it appears that his contributions for char
itable purposes, during the four last years of his
life, exceeded ten thousand dollars per annum.
From the Watertoven Register.
A Leaf of History.
j A SUB-TREASURY BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
It is a fact not generally known that the sub
i Treasury was once in full operation in New
I York, under tho Governors sent over by the Sov
ereigns of England. From tho “History of
j New York, from the first discovery to the year
I 1793, by Wm. Smith, A. M., with a conlimia
| lion to the year 1840,” we make the following
| extracts, which go to prove that our democratic
! President has not been searching among mon
archies for preccdcnls without some success ;
though ho very wisely confined his investigations
to tho eastern side of the Atlantic. Who will
say that “revolutions never move backwards?”
In the year 1691, under the administration of
Gov. Henry Slaughter, the General Assembly es
tablished a revenue, of which Ihe history speaks
thus:
“Among the principal acts enacted as this ses
sion. wc may mention that for the establishment
ol a revenue, which was drawn into precedent.
The sums raised by it were made payable into
the hands of the Receiver General, and issued by
the Governor’s warrant. By this means the
Governor became, for a season, independent of
the People, and hence we find frequent instances
of the Assembly's contending with him for the
payment of the debts to individuals, contracted
on the faith of the Government.”—Pago 126.
Gov. Slaughter was succeeded by Colonel
Benjamin Fletcher, a man of strong passions,
very active, and equally avaricious. In Septem
ber, 1692, the revenue established for the year
preceding was continued for five years longer.—
Governor Fletcher proved to be a sub-Treasurcr
of the first water, according to the history :
“At that day the Assembly had no treasure;
hut the amount of taxes went of course into the
hands of the Receiver General, who was ap
pointed by tic Crown ! Out of this fund mo
neys were issuable only by the Governor’s war
rant, from Mr. Blaithwait, who drew annually
five per cent, out of the revenue as Auditor Gen
eral, down to the meanest servant of the Public,
became dependant solely on tho Governor; and
hence we find the House, at tho close of every
session, humbly addressing his Excellency for
the trifling wages of their own clerk.— Page
142.
Gov. Fletcher was succeeded by Richard
Earl of Bcllamont, who, in his opening speech,
gave the Assembly his word of honor that he
would not steal the public money !
“I shall take care that there ho no misapplica
tion of the public money. I will pocket none of
it myself, nor shall there be any embezzlement
by others; but exact accounts shall be given you,
when, and as often as you shall require.”—Pago
155.
Fortunately for the People, Lord Bellamont
was a man of his word; but his successor, Lord
Cornbury, was so prone to practical sub-treasury
ism, that the Assembly refused to raise money to
be put in his hands, and addressed the Queen of
England,
“Complaining of the ill state of the revenue,
through the frauds which had formerly been com
mitted, the better to facilitate the important de
sign of having a treasurer dependant on the As
semhly.”—Pago 177.
Lord Cornbury was removed, and in June
1721, the Assembly, according to permission from
the Queen, elected a treasurer.
In 1741, Lieut. Gov. Clark, in his speech t
the Assembly, complained of the encroachment
of the Legislature upon his prerogatives. His
lamentation ran in this wise :
“Late Assemblies, having grown wanton by
prosperity, had abused the clemency of the
Crown, and had demanded the nomination of
their own treasurer this demand having been
granted, they bad further insisted on the particu
lar appointment of the salaries of the officers of
Government, and absolutely refused to raise any
revenue unless this demand was likewise grant
ed.”—Page 444.
The Assembly, in their address, in reply to the
Governor, said :
“That while the public moneys were at the dis
posal of the Governor and Council, they were
misapplied; and that the Assembly, to correct
the evil, directed such moneys as were raised for
the forces intended for the security of the colony
to pass through the hands of a person appointed,
by the Legislature ,- that Queen Anno had sanc
tioned that procedure, and allowed the Legisla
ture to appoint its own treasurer,” —Page 447.
From the Philadelphia North American.
Humbug.— This has been emphatically deno
minated the age of humbug, and who knows not
how to avail himself of the advantages arising
j from the use of it, will, wc fear, fare badly in his
passage through life. In all professions, and in
all trades, does it abound, and each draws upon
his neighbor in proportion to the measure of his
ability.* In nothing,however does it more pre
vail than in the mania for lecturing, which per
vades the community from Portland to New Or
leans. Every stalling lecturer that has impu
-1 dence and effrontery sufficient to face an audi
' encc, and retail to them the superficial informa
tion picked up in a few books, is at once a great
man, and the dignified title of Professor, which
once bore a significant meaning, is tacked to his
name. We have often wondered at the courage
which induces a crowded r.udicnco to endure the
hour’s infliction put upon them, to listen to that
which has been familiar to them for many years,
i pr should have been, and to lavish upon the au
-1 thor of all verbiage, praises due only to the wise
and learned who, occasmnally, kindly bestow up
-1 1 on the community a portion of that hoarded
1 knowledge which years of habitual study have
, 1 enabled them to acquire.
1 | The love of admiration which pervades in a
> greater or less degree the breast, of all, is one of
rnmmSmirnSUSSS^m^maSSiimi^amSmmm
the causes which may operate to induce the man
o! learning- and of science thus to impart his in
formation, hut how must an honest pride in his
own acquirements lie based, when he hears the
encomiums justly his due, lavished upon every ,
ignorant pretender. He finds Ihe community,
and the organs, of that community, unable to see
or unwilling to acknowledge his superiority, and
resolves in future to draw himself from their gaze,
and confine himself to the seclusion of his own
study. I’lie newspaper press of our country is
mainly answerable for the growth of the many
spurious representations we see flourishing around
us. Tho indiscriminate system of puffing,
which almost universally pervades it, has induced
much of the evil, and men who should never
have been known beyond the small circle of
their own firesides, arc bubbled into existence,
and strut their little hours upon the stage in all
the vanity ot literary coxcombs. Were the press
really and truly indipendant, and did its conduc
tors refuse to aid this vitiated taste, or rather in
flict the scourge where it was deserved, wc
•hould not Bee so many notices of peripatetic
“ professors” willing to enlighten their audiences
on any subject under the sum at from 25 cents to
one dollar a head per hour. There are many
other humbugs daily practised, but we must for
bear any further enumeration of them.
1 he Philadelphia Inquirer of Ist instant, says:
“No change of the least importance in our
money- market and Slock markets, although the
feeling continues to improve under the favorable
action ol the State Senate, Deep regret is ex
pressed at the failure of the Small Bill proposi
tion, but our letter informs us that another effort
will be made upon tho subject, and with some
prospect of success.
The Bill requiting the Banks of Pennsylvania
to resume specse payments on the 15th day of
January, passed the Senate of that Slate by a
vote of 17 yeas to 14 nays.
Fhe Price* Current. —The tale which is
told by the prices current in all parts of the coun
try, is having more effect upon the minds of
the people, than all the speeches which arc
spoken and editorials which are written on the
misdeeds of the present Administration. Look
to what part of the country you please, and yon
see nothing but depression in trade, and the utter
prostration of all the products ol the soil. The
language of Ihe prices current, is one momoton
ous sing-song of “this article is dull,” “that arti
cle is falling,” and the other article is “bearing a
nominal price.” And will not intelligent far
mers who this year will find their incomes cut
short one half, ask what has caused this diminu
tion of their means of livelihood? Will they not, of
necessity, look into the cause which has thrown
the country from a height of prosperity which was
without a parallel in the history of the world, into
an abyss of depression and prostration which the
most desponding neter dreamed of T Surely they
will, and the most superficial examination must
satisfy them that the mad experiments of the
Administration have browgbt these evil days upon
them —Petersburg Intelligencer.
Eloquent remarks— The Whig members
of the N. Y. Legislature Held a meeting in tho
Capitol on the 22d Feb. to celebrate the birth day
of Washington. The celebration was a noble
one. Many eloquent speeches were made. The
Hon. Gulian C. Verplanck offered a series of res
olutions, which he prefaced with a speech of sur
passing spirit and power. We regret that we
have room but for this brief and thrilling extract;
Mr. Speaker, I congratulate you and the repre
sentatives of the people here assembled on this
day on this occasion. From my heart do I con
gratulate you—l congratulate you all, because
this day so rich, so hallowed in its associations
with the past, is also now the herald and the sura
pledge of a glorious future. On this very day in
every part of our wide republic, crowds of honest
men and lorersof their country, have met upon
the same great business that calls us together. In
every pail of our rocky land, from the rocky hills
ofNew England tothe rich, fertile plains of Mich
igan and Illinois, from the crowded commercial
cities of our coast to the log cabin hamlets of the
far west, arises one and the same loud, firm, uni
ted shout for Harrison and Reform. It is
the voice of the brave, the honest and the free. Il
is a voice of a mighty multitude, as of Hie ocean
wave. It is a voice of power and of troth.
I congratulate you more especially, Mr. Presi
dent, and my brother representatives es the peo
ple, '.bat amongst those this day assembled, we
too, are met, to raise—not our own—buttbe rep
resentative voice of a majority of the electors of
New York, Here—in this hall of the people—do
we raise the voire of the Empire State, speaking
through those to whom sbehas confided her rights,
her interests and her sovereignty. It is a voice
rejecting the unworthy son of New York and
pledging her forty-two electoral votes to one whom
Virginia hails as her child, whom the West wel
comes an its hern and its benefactor, whom the
Union is proud to claim us the man of the na
tion.
The voice of New York has never been heard
in vain. It is
“ A voice oft heard
In worst extremes, anil on the perilous edge
Os battle where it raged; to the whole land
It’s sorest pledge of hope or safety.”
Yes, that old voice which was so often raised
during the war of the revolution—which was rai
sed during the worst extremes of tire war of 1812
summoning all without distinction of party tothe
common defence; that voice since heard in the
most perilous emergencies that have threatened
our Union—that voice never was, never will be,
never can be, raised in vain.
Yes, this is indeed a season of present gloom
and of fearful foreboding—darkness around and
“danger’s voice before.” Bat already, now at
this very hour, the darkness begins to breakaway
—the beams of light and truth already struggle
upwards through the gloom—the clouds redden,
with the approaching dawn of truth and of power.
Already the foul things of darkness, the night
birds of prey, are flitting beck toward* their bi
ding places. Yet a little while—yet a little, and
the whole firmament will glow with the ascending
rays of the sun of Constitutional Freedom.
The History of Unman Lite.
•T ROBERT M. CHARLTON.
How truly does the journey of a single Jay,
its changes and its hours, exhibit the history of
human life! We rise up in the glorious fresh
ness of a spring morning. The dews of night,
those sweet tears of nature, are hanging from
each bough and leaf, and reflecting the bright and
myriad, hues of the morning. Our hearts are
beating with hope, onr frames buoyant with
health. Wc see no cloud, we hear no storm;
and with our chosen and beloved companions
clustering around ns, we commence our journey.l
Slop by step, the scene becomes more lovely, hour
by hour our hopes become brighter. A few of
ourcompanions have dropped away,left—sudden
ly wc have entered upon a new country. The
dews of the morning are exhaled by tho fervor
ol the noon day sun ; the friends that stand with
us are disappearing. Some remain, hut their
looks arc cold and cslrayed ; others have become
weary, and have laid down to their rest; but new
hopes beckon us on. The scene is glorious and
brilliant, hut the beauty and fieshnessof morning
have faded, and for ever. But still our steps fail
not, our spirits droop not. Onward ami onward
we go; the horizon of happiness and fame re
cedes ns we advance to it: the shadows begin to
lengthen, and the chilly airs of evening are usurp
ing the fervor ol noon-day. Still we press on
ward ; the goal is not yet won, the haven not yet
reached.
M 1 h® bright orb of hope that had cheered us on
is sinking in the West; our limbs begin to grow
faint, our hearts to grow sad ; we turn to gaze
upon the scenes that wo passed but the shadows
of twilight have interposed their veil between us:
wc look around for the old and familiar faces, the
companions of oui travel, but wc gaze in vain to
find thorn: wc have out-stripped them all, in our
race after pleasure, and the phantom yet an*
caught, in a sterile and hospitable country, the
night-time of death, and heavy laden, wc lie
down to rest in the bed of the grave! Happy,
thrice happy, is he, who hath laid up treasures
for himself for the distant and unknown to mor
row,
“ Thoughts on Asses.” —ln the last num
ber ot Blackwood’s Magazine, is a dear bit of
gossip. Wc agree with the writer that donkeys
area most unjustly calumniated class 'of animals.
There are many interesting associations connec
ted with them, that should raise them in tho es
timation of every humane and thinking person.
It was an Ass, that his timely praying, saved the
throne of baken, King of Siam; an Ass, accor
ding to the Koran; is to sound the trumpet of the
resurrection; and it was on an Ass that the
Saviour rode into Jerusalem- Then think of
Honcho's Dapple,” to say nothing of Sterne’s
“ Dead Ass,” and Peter Bell’s sagacious living
one ! That author thus takes up his cudgels on
hrtuilf of the donkeys :
“Wo should like to know by what right
AGsop, and Gay, and all tho fable mongers, from
Jutbam upwards, have pitched upon one unhap
py animal, andwnado him a mock, and by a word,
a laughing st* for all succeeding generations
to crack their 1 fool born jests’ upon. Now, in a
goose, there really is something ridiculous;—his
very waddle is vain glorious; he stretches out his
head, and elevates his antipodes with all the pride
of a peacock ; bis hiss is most superlatively self
. complacent and contemptuous,—it is eloquent of
irrepressible misanthropy ; a child can see through
his pretensions to dignity ; his folly breaks out in
the very meaus-which he takes to hide it. But
an Ass ; pshaw! there is no deceit about an Ass;
—he stands before us even as nature made him,
homely, and honest: lie pretends not to beauty
which he does not possess; ha makes no osten
tatious display of his sagacity ; he is content to
slip through existence as peaceably and silently
as we willjjlct him; he wants hut little and he gels
il; he can leach as many lessons as the ant, and
ho finds, possibly, fewer disciples. Yes! the
world may sneer ns it likes, but an Ass is no
fool; we rather take him for a philosopher. How
many requisites for greatness dues he not possess?
Urge him, scold him, heat him, kick him—the
Man of Uz himself was not more enduring!
He looks at you all tho while, as mnch as to say,
I can’t help it, so you must go as long as you
please, though you must bo aware that this sort
of treatment isn’t by any means, gentlemanlike.’
Docs he feci it repugnant to the dictates of his
conscience to take some particular course T only
observe his unswerving strength of purpose.”
ExTRAOUD6N All Y MoDEL OF Man 111 AnATO
my.—l>r. Bedford, of this city, has just received
from Paris, one of the most extraordinary works,
developing tho anatomy and (diyaiolegy of mao—
and beautiful woman too—that ever has reached
this country. It is called "V Anatomic Ghstirjue
and is prepared by Dr. Auzoux, of Paris.
This curious piece of mechanism is a full length
representation of the human form, with all the
bones, sinews, nerves, ligaments, and every other
“part and parcel’’ of tho internal and external re
gions of the human system, colored and fashioned
exactly as they are in the living subject. Each
part can be taken apart—the whole frame, from
top to toe, can be dissected, without any of the
horrors or disagreeable effluvia which accompany
the real subjects. Yesterday we had an op
portunity of seeing n great portion of this piece of
mechanism taken apart, piece by piece, limb by
limb, ligament by ligament, till we discovered the
whole internal arrangement of the human body,
heart, longs,Ac., from the lirain tothe great toe.
In half an hour we acquired' a more correct and
comprehensive knowledge of the mysteries of
anatomy than could otherwise be accomplished ia
years of study,
Altogether, this model presents one of the most
chaste, beautifnli and classical modes of studying
auatomicalscicnce that has yet been discovered.—
Tho model was made in Pans for the Russian
government, but Dr. Bedford has, at great expense,
procured il for bis own use, and for the advan
cement of the science, in the study of which he
is an enthusiast. We trust that he will deliver a
course of lectures on the subject. They will be
invaluable.— N. Y. Morning tkrald, 28i/t ult.
Year or the Would-.— The first day of the
year 1840 of Christian Era, was the 251h0f the
month Thebct, in tho year of the world 5600,
according to the Jewish account, the commence
ment of the year 7348, according to the Constan
tinopulitau account—and beginning of the year
7332, according to the Alexandrian account.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, April 2.
Cleared. —litig Pandora, Sheppard, Baltimore.
Arrived. —Br ship Mozambique, Stephens, Liv
erpool; Br bark Asia, Hannah, Liverpool; Jit bark
Thistle, Hamilton, Liverpool.
Went tosea. —Brbark Sarah, Kenney,Liverpool;
brig New Hanover, Carty, Mobile; schr Goad In
tent, Preach, Philadelphia.
April 3.
Cleared. —Ship Morea, Wheedon, Liverpool.
Arrived. —Ship Trenton, Bennet, Boston.
Below. —Br ship Charles, llumberstoa, from
Liverpool.
Charlestoh, April 4.
Cleared —iSchrs Armer Patton, Thompson, New-
York; Black Hawk, Cults, Portsmouth, (N. H.)
Arrived yesterday. —Line ship Calhoun, O’Neill,
New-York; ship Cougaree, Doanc, Liverpool; brig
Sullivan, Brown, do.
Went to sea yesterday.— Ship Cabot, Sumner,
Mobile; sehrs Sobn Allync, Hawes, Matanzas Ma
ry, Griffith, do.
From this port. —C L brig Emily, Sheiwood, N.
y.; schrs Harriet, Kendrick, New-York; Reaper,
Baker, do.; Yatch Merlin, Heath, do.
1 In Ihe offing.— Ship Marathon, Brown, fm Havre.
“ w*- I Ml 'IT r- ml,
COMMERCIAL.
Lnlesl dates from Liverpool, March 2
Liilesl dates front Havre Feb. 26
.... Savannah. April 3.
* i ~. A^!l T l cd smr * the 271 h in »t 10062 bale*
Upland and 202 bales S I Cotton,and cleared at the
same time 120113 bales Upland and 253 balm S 1
Cotton i leaving a stock on hand, inclusive of all
on shipboard not cleared on the 3d Inst, of 51781
bales Upland and 2267 bales S 1 Cotton. For sever
al days after (he publication of our last report the
demand for Upland was very languid and occasion
al sales made under our quotations, but during the
last three da \ s the enquiry has been more general
and the market steadier, yet without any improve
ment in value. The sales are 5433 bales viz i 16
at Mi 22 at 5; 32 at 54; 52 at 54; 95 at 6j 83 at
rT 11 at 6ii 176 at 28 at 6 h 101 at 63j 22 at
102 ut 7; 111 at 7f; 311 at 122 at 7«; 5)8
at7 i 72 at U\ 441 at If, 291 7|j 1521 at 8; 421
•tSis 312 at 84; 301 atßj; 125 at 8i; 62 at B}.
Sea Island lias been in good demand—l he transac
tions amount to 460 bags, viz i 10 at 164; 17 at
17j 33 at ISs 27at 183; 54 at 19; 26 at 20; 161 at
2lj 132 at 22; and 133 Stained from 6 a 14-
Receipts of Cotton at the following places since
October Ist. 1839 1838
Georgia, April 3, 197342 167793
South Carolina, March 27, 208094 150935
Mobile, March 21, 289200 217505
New Orleans, March 21, 669316 386029
Florida, March 14, 67188 65525
Noith Carolina, March 7, 6061 7741
Virginia, February 10 11500 11500
1448701 997028
The following is a statement of the stock of cot
ton on hand at the respective places named.
Savannah, April 3,
South Carolina, March 27, 42468 49516
Mobile, March 21, 180773 68550
New Orleans, March 21 159219 136961
Virginia, February 10, 3100 3000
North Carolina, March 7, 3000 1500
Augusta & Hamburg, Mar. 1, 32861 25081
Macon, March 1, 23823 10690
Florida, March 14, 27864 17500
Philadelphia, March 21, 1340 1129
New York, March 18, 27000 80000
666406 420431
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Upl’ds. S. I.
Stock on hand, Ist Oct, 1323 118
Received! this week, 10062 202
do previously, 177220 6864
„ 188805 7184
Exported this week, 12993 253
do previously, 124031 4664 137,024 4917
Stock on hand, including all on ship
hoard not cleared on the 3rd hist 51781 2267
Rice.—The market for this article has under
gone no change since our last. The sales of the
week amount to 500 casks, at from $2 56 a 2 76
and a few casks at retail $2 J, '
Flour —Continues dull, and in limited demand.
Sales of 200 hbls Howard-street at $6 a 64; Canal
at S7J,
Corn. Sales of 1,500 bushels on ship-board, at
621 cents. 2,000 bushels Oats at 33 cts.
Groceries —ln Coffee, Sugar and Molasses, there
is a lair retail demand. Sales of N. O. Sugar at
soa6i; Havana Coffee at 11 a a 11* cts; N. O.
Molasses at 28cts; Havana do 22 a 24 cts.
Bacon. —Sales of 350 llaltimore Hams at 12 cts.
, 100 kegs and 20 hbls Laid at 10 all cts.
Salt. —Sales of 20,000 buehcls Liverpool at 20 a
22; 600 sacks al sl.
Exchange —On England, 10 a H per ct pretn;
drafts on New York, at sight, 6 per cent prem; 5
days sight, 0 j a 6f per cent prem.
Freights—To Liverpool, f a Id; New York, he,
to Boston, yc.
Macon, Apiil 2,
Cotton. —The receipts of Cotton in this city du
ring the present season, up to this time arc greater
than any former year—and no doubt would have
been considerably larger hut for the low state of
the rivet in the early part of the season, which
caused considerable to be sent to Savannah by
wagons.
Receipts to Ist April 1840 100,807 Stock 16,792
“ “ “ 1839 62,215 «• 6,874
“ “ “ 1838 92,896 “ 10,626
Sales are from 4 to 7 cents extremes —principal
sales from 7 to 7,
Charleston, April 4.
Cotton, —There has been rather a belter business
doing in Upland the past than the previous week.
Pi ices have been somewhat fluctuating—but the
general features of our market have undergone no
change since our last of the 28th ultimo. The
sales are 6287 bags at the following prices .—l4 at
5; 102 at si; 165 at 54; 277 at 6j; 280 at 6; 58 at
6j; 121 a* 6s; 102a164; 111 at6#; 41 at 6f; 351
al 7; 70 at 7|; 95 at 7s; 237 at 7J; 76 at 7 if; 350
at 7j; 47 at 7|j; 1097 at 8; 401 at 8*; 676 at 84;
310at84; 55 at 8§; 445 at 9; 134at9i, and sever
al fancy lots at 94 cents per lb. Dealers in Long
Cotton have taken about 381 hags Sea Island, as
follows:—28 at 21; 25 at 23; 37 at 26; 7 at 21;
and 264 at 25 upwards; and 32 bags Santee, at 19
and 21 cents per lb.
Hice. —We have no change to notice in this arti
cle. The sales have been to a fair extent, and at
the rates of last week. About 2053 tierces have
changed hands, at the following prices:—68 at 2#;
73 at 2 7-16; 702 at 2j; 313 at 2 9-16; 30 at 2 S;
220 at 2 11-16; 574 at
parrel would command $3 per 100.
Hough Rice.— About 3,000 bushels Rough Rice
have been sold at 72 cents per bushel.
Flour, —The demand continues confined to city
Bakers, who buy but for immediate use. We quote
superfine Virginia about 7; North Carolina, com
mon, tine and superfine 5 a Howard street a
8; and Richmond country 64 per bbl.
Bacon. —We have dropt our quotations for old,
as there is comparatively none in market. New is
held at about the fallowing quotations—Hams 12 a.
14; Shoulders 8 a 8j; and Sides 84 a 10 cts per lb.
Lard. —Baltimore new has been selling in small
lots during the week at 10 cents per lb.
Halt. —About 7586 sacks Liverpoolhave been re
ceived dur ng the week —a part of which baa
changed hands at 125, 130 and 135, We continue
to quote 1124 a 125 pci sack.
(traceries. —There has been comparative)' noth
ing doing in the leading articles in the grocery line.
The only transaction within our knowledge, is the
sale of about 90 boxes brown Sugar for a Northern
market, at prices ranking from 6 to 6j per lb.—
The receipts of the weeks are 367 bbls. Molasses
from New Orleans, and 42 hbds and 52 bbls Coffee
from Bt. Jago.
Exchange. —(Jut quotations es last week are
still the rales for Bterling Exchange, viz : 94 a 9j
per cent prem. (In France, 615a5f 20 per dollar.
Sight checks on New York 3 per cent prem ; bill*
having 30 and 60 days to run have been said at lj
a2; and 1 al4 percent prean.
Freights. —Our rates to Europe have declined.
To Liverpool, we quote | a> Id for Cotton, and to
Havre I j pci lb for cotton in squares bags. To
New York our rates of last week have been ob
tained. To Boston we quote ja 1c per lb for cot
ton and sl4 per tierce for Rice.
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
S. I, Upl’ds.
Stock on hand Ist Oat. 1973 2733
Received this week, 349 8823
do. previously, 12196 201617
14518 213173
Exported this week, 653 7739
*■ previously, 7755 166015
On ship board, 1102 1000
9410 174774
Stock on hand 5108 38399