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oln » q’iie Corporal has not yet contradicted that
)u This is the third time we have re
■Bd him of it. lie seems to be entirely lost to
I His -of shame.
the Democrats of Georgia to be beaten? —
eg mtmueslon Mercury of Saturday.
' Jffp, the self-styled Democrats arc most cssen
m fclly used up j there is scarcely a shadow of them
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® BSv From the Baltimore Patriot of the Bth.
K Maryland Election.
| an election was held throughout the
Ik I** for Members of the House of Delegates for
•Mh County, and also for seven Senators —one
from the city of Baltimore, and one from each of
- the counties of Alleghany, Washington, Baltimore,
Cecil, Queen Ann's and Worcester.
|J The majority foi Howard, for the Senate, (V. B.)
e i» 270.
ie T|e average majority for the Van Buren Dele
dMticket is 191 3-5.
" year the average Van Buren majority on
j «he Congiessional ticket was 400. And the aver
■ age Van Buren majority on the Delegate ticket was
; 423 1-5.
The total number of votes cast yesterday in the
city, was 14414.
Last year the total number of votes cast on the
Coiypressional election was 12826 —showing an in
crease at yesterday’s election of 1088 votes.
City of Annapolis.
fi The report by the steamboat Maryland, which
left between 2 and 8 P. M. yesterday, is, that all
the votes were cast except 8 or 9, and the Whig
candidate for the Legislature was considered to be
elected by about 20 voles.
T;; : |n Baltimore County, there is.a Whig gain in six
districts of over two hundred and fifty votes com
gaied with the election of 1838 for Governor.
Delaware Erect!
? .The Whigs of New Castle county, after having
f battled for twelve long years against Locofocoism,
.have the proud satisfaction of announcing to the
Whigs throughout the Union, that New Castle
county stands REDEEMED—REGENERATED,
AND DISENTHRALLED !I I Afler having poll
ed the largest vote ever given in the county.
At the Inspector’s election, which took place to
day, Oct. 6, the vote in the ten Hundreds stands as
follows;
- No. votes polled. L. F. mnj. Har. maj.
47S Brandywine Hundred 52
1022 Wilmington city 55
440 Christiana Hundred 48
331 New Castle Hundred G
«13 Mill Creek Hundred 34
19 Red Lion Hundred 21
250 Pencader 30
364 St. George’s 3S
409 Appoqnimink 17
260 White Clay Creek 30
99 232
99
Whig majority 133
Agregate vote, 4,186 —700 votes more than ever
before polled.
This is the first time, since the advent of Jack
sonism, that New Castle county has been carried
by the Whigs. At the last election the Locofocos
carried the county by 208 majority.
The result of this victory is a Whig member of
Congress, a unanimous Whig Legislature. 2 Whig
United States Senators!
The Metropolis of Tennessee has Spoken !
CITY ELECTION —HARRISON VICTORY.
The municipal election on Saturday turned, as
we apprehended, from the movements of our op
ponents, it would turn, upon National politics, and
the result is, the Whig ticket prevailed in EVERY
WARD in the city !
We have a WHIG MAYOR by the triumphant
majority of 198. We have 12 Whig Aldermen,
entire board,) by decided mnjoiities in all the
oMis, and we have superceded the old city Con
*hßß> (a Van Buren man,) by the election of M.
(Whig.) The sweep was thorough,
rtjMßth the single exception of the city Consta-
directly made on the Presidential question.
** ttj®?Y‘>rren County, in this State, has a popula
tion 4|jß 177 whites, —2606 males, and 2571 females;
and 4536 slaves.
Th®'(Philadelphia Inquirer of the Bth says: —
Stockrtrerc rather better yesterday. U. S. Bank
left off'ftt 65J ; Girard at 39|. We learn with
pleasuvt that the resumption movement is progres-
S * D S> * n a highly satisfactory manner. All the
banks in the city and county but three agree to as
sist thMJnited States Bank, and scarce a doubt cx
the successful eonsumation of this im
.jg^^^^^fceasure^j ir-sion glows stronger
general resumption of specie pay.
will take place on the part of all the banks
of Philadelphia, on the 15th of January ensuing.
Destructive Fire at Quebec. —The Quebec
1 Mercury of Thursday publishes an account of a
very destructive fire at that place, the amount of
damage by which is estimated at $120,000.
Maine Election. The Boston Atlas states
that at the adjourned and still continuing session
ol *hc legislature of Maine, the exact vote has been
ascertained in all the towns of the s'ate at the la'e
election, and Kent is Elected nv the People.
Council Proceedings.
Council Chamber, }
Thursday, 3 o’clock, P. M. Cct. 8, 1840. S
Council met pursuant to adjournment,
Present —The Hon. D. Hook,Mayor; Aldermen
Dunlap, Crump, Bones, Bishop, Miller, Harper,
Jackson and Flemming.
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
The Police Docket was then taken up, and the
following case was taken up and disposed of:
City vs. F. A. Duffle, violating Ist sec. General
Ord. Guilty, and fined SIOO.
Mr. Bones asked and obtained leave of absence.
The Mayor called the attention of the City
Council to the practice of retailers keeping open
and selling liquor after 9 o’clock on Sunday nights,
when it was determined that the Ordinance regu
lating retailers shall be strictly enforced.
The application of Jer. Morris .for a retail li
cense was granted.
The communication of W. Scinderscinc >vas re
ceived, and his resignation acceptc I, to take place
on the Ist of November next.
On the application of John H. Mann, Executor of
the Estate of VV. Tutt, two thousand live hundred
dollars was ordered to be paid on account of
Bridge timber delivered.
7 be following communication from the Board of
Health was read, received, and ordered to be pub
lished.
Tne Board of Health respectfully report that the
city continues free from epidemic or contagious
diseases. Whilst the surrounding country has
been severely scourged by fever our city has en
joyed almost uninterrupted health. During the
past month, which in our climate is usually the
most sickly, the deaths it the city have only
amounted to ten whites, of whom only two were
from fever, and ten blacks, seven of wftiom were
chiidrer. The past season has satisfactorily dem
onstrated the healthfulncss of Augusta, and leaves
no room for doubt but that by due care on the part
of the city authorities, this character will he sus
tained. '1 he Beard have had under consideration
the proper mode of disposing of the *• trash” of the
city, and have arrived at the conclusion that the
present method employed is decidedly the best of
any of those which have been suggested. The
Board deem it unnecessary to hold any more regu
lar meetings, and will this day adjourn to meet
hereafter only upon the call ol the Chairman.
On motion executions were ordered to be issued
on all taxes due and unpaid on the Ist of Novem
ber next.
On motion, it was ordered that all checks issued
in future be made subject to ihe claims of Council
against the person in whose favor the same is is
sued.
The following monthly returns were received
from the City officers, with the Collector and Treas
urer’s receipt for the amount annexed to their
names:
The Jailor, hallance cash account, $ 49 17
Clerk lower Market, fees and scales, 138 25
do. upper do. do. 5 60
Bridge Keeper, Tolls, 987 00
City Marshall, Fines, 325 00
Clerk Court Common Pleas, Fees,. 323 00
do. amount still due 92 00
Russel & Hutchinson, Auctioneer duties, 920
W. E. Jackson, do. do. 135 69
$144 89
The keeper of the Hospital reports 11 patients
remaining in that institution.
The following hills were severally read and or
dered to be paid.
M. Grady, on account, streets 31 25
S. H. Mann, do. do 109 50
do. do. bridge 72 00
do. do. incidental,.... 300
J. J. Cohen, do. streets, 36 00
L. G. Basford, do. do 65 63
A. Cunningham, do. do 39 00
P. H. Mantz. do. do 32 SS
C. McCoy, do. drains 115 00
N. Delaigle, do. pumps and wells, 31 50
N. Scindcrsine,? , , . ,
per B. Picquit,s hospital, 69 oO
J. Simpson, do. do. 10 50
H. Callin, do. do. 7 00
Mrs. Hargroves, do. City Hall, 500
L. Roll, do. do. 37 50
J. W. &T. S. Stoy, do. incidentals,.. 656
B. F. Chew, do. do. 16 75
Constitutionalist Office, do. 161 00
B. F. Chew, Jail 7 §7
The following accounts were referred.
W. Giendening, on account, streets. $l6B 00, to
the Street Committee.
P. 11. Mantz, on account, $36 00, to the Street
Committee.
The account of P. McMahon was ordered to he
laid on the table.
< ouncil adjourned to Saturday, 10th inst., at 3$
o’clock, P. M. S. H. OLIVER. Clerk.
Governor Porter and the Banks.—We learn
from the Philadelphia Sentinel that the Governor
of Pennsylvania ha# called on the Banks in that
State for their several proportions of the balance
of a loan authorized by the lastlegislature.no pro
posals having boen received by the Executive
within the time specified lor such proposals. The
amount to bo advanced to the Slate at this time is
$1,156,000.
A Sion in Kentucky.—The Louisville Journal
of Wednesday last says : “ Some of ihe Locofocos
circulated a story on Tuesday that there was a man
in the city who was prepared to risk $5,000 on
Van Huron’s re-election. A large number of
Whigs forthwith commenced hunting him with
candles and lanters, hut, up to last evening, the
hunt had proved ineffectual.”
“ No Changes.”
Since the changes from Van Burc-n to Harrison
began to come in by hundred', w« have discontin
ued noticing them a together. Os their common
ness au idea may be formed from the fact that last
’ week we laid by for future publicaiion a Card sign
ed by “ ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN” of the
voters of Washington county in this State, who
supported Van Buren In 1836, and now dcclaie
their intention to vote for Hairison, Tyler and Cor
win. and did not again think of it till day before
yesterday, when our eyes fell upon the following
actfount of “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY” in
the New-York Times of the 21st.
O-.c hundred and silly Van Harm men in the
county of Lewis have publicly “ dissolved the
Dolivkal relations which bound them” to the loco
foco party. Among the names of the seceders are
those of John W. Martin, First Judge of the County
j and Postmaster a' Martinsburgh,Gen.Geo. D. Rug
gles, a former Jackson member of the Assembly,
and many other leading clemociats. “So we go.”
Citicinnati Gazette.
Novel Rat-Trap. — A correspondent has sent
us the following account of a newly invented rat
trap, which has already been used with success.
Take a barrel and stretch a skin of parchment
over it with a string; cut it across and athwart,
nearly to the outside. Take some dripping, and
mix it with meal; smear it on the middle of Hie
parchment. The rats will smell it and treading
on the parchment it will give way, and they will
fall into the water in the hand. Put a plank for
them to creep up to the barrel’s brink outside, and
strew some oatmeal on it. You must not let the
water he 100 deep, hut set a hrick endways in it,
and the first rat that is caught will make a noise,
which will entice more, so that they will fight for
posse'sion of the hrick, and the noise will draw
others. Thus in one night the house may be clear
ed of rats, he they ever so many. Mice and other
vermin may be caught in a similar manner.
Another Gathering of Thousands !
NEW YORK STATE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION.
The Conservative Stale Convention (says the
Albany Evening Journal) at Auburn, closed a sc
ries of the most brilliant and cheering demon
strations of peculiar sentiment. Upwards of
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DELEGATES were
present.
The Delegates to the Convention assembled in
the large Bubtist Meeting House at ten o’clock.
Gen. James Tallmadgc, formerly a distinguished
member of Congress mid the Legislature, who
was elected Lt. Governor in 1824, in taking his
seat as temporary Chairman, made a brief but
most appropriate Address. Robert Haight, Esq.
of Rochester, mid Henry W. Wicks, Esq., of
New York, acted as temporary Secretaries.
Col. John Lorimer Graham of New York, re
ported the names of the officers of the Conven
tion, at the head of which was the venerable Gen.
Fierro Van Cortland, a Jeffersonian elector of
President and Vice-President in 1800, who was
conducted to Ihe Chair, and after returning his
acknowledgements for the honor conferred, took
his seal as the President of Ihe Convention.
At one o’clock the Procession formed in front
of the American and proceeded, with Music and
Banners, through a dense throng of People to
the Green in front of the Theological Seminary,
where a staging was erected for the officers of
the Convention and the speakers, in front of
which a large number of ladies were sealed.
“ The gathering of the States” was sung with
fine effect by Mr. Covert. Col. Graham then in
troduced the Hon. N. P. Tallmadgc to the people
who, after the acclamations ceased, congratula
ted his follow citizens upon the brigthened and
hrightningauspices of their cause, and then gave
way to our distinguished guest, that independent
Virginia Statesman, the Hon William C. Rives,
who was welcomed to the stand by as hearty
cheers as ever rent the air.
Mr. Hives spoke for three hours and forty min
utes. His speech was a clear, strong and power
ful exposition of the abuses and wrongs which
a.wicked Administration has inflicted upon the
Country and the People. Ho fully sustained
the high reputation which preceded him. Ho is
a hold and fearless champion of the Republican
principles of ihe Constitution—an eloquent and
•‘uncompromisingI’opponent 1 ’opponent of Van Unrenism,
Bentonism.and Calhouuism, in all the forms and
phrases they may assume. He regards the strug
gle as one of momentous interest—as one which
is either to terminate in Despotism, or to secure
to the People for another century the blessings of
Republicanism.
When Mr. Rives closed, Mr. Legare, the dis
tinguished Statesman, the ripe Scholar and de
voted Putriotfiom South Carolina, was loudly
called for, and though lale, he was induced to
come forward. His speech was one of intense
and thrilling interest.
When Mr. Legare closed, Edward Sanford’
Esq., rea 1 a series of strong resolutions and an
able address, which were adopted. Mr. Hoxie
then sung two patriotic songs, afler which the
Convention, at 9 o’clock P. M. adjourned. Ma
ny thousand people among whom were several
hundred ladies, listened with untiring inteicst,
for seven hours.
Tho people, still anxious to hear, repaired by
thousands to the American Hotel, in front of
which there was speaking, songs, music and fire
works, without the slightest abatement of inter
est, until nearly two o’clock in the morning!
The Convention was strong in numbers, in cn
thusiam, in confidence, and strong in its Demo
cratic character. The men who carried the Stale
for Andrew Jackson, and who carried it for Van
Buren, were there, prepared for the exertion of
renewed energies to put down an Administra
tion that lias “ run off the Republican track.”
This Convention numbered thousands who bus
taiueii Gen. Jackson and voted for Mr. Van Bu
ren 'They have been forced either to abandon
him or sacrifice their principles and consent to
the ruin of themselves and the country. Some
left the ranks of the Destructives, when, in his
Extraordinary Message to Congress, he virtual
ly told the People to take “ care of themselves.”
Others have dropped off) from time to time, as
oppression galled or corruption roused them, un
til their number is Legion.
Gen. IlAiiuisnN and the Farming Inter
est. — There has been so much wastefulness,
corruption, and had management in the National
Administration for the last four years, that the
PEOPLE have made up their minds to try a
man from among themselves, a PRACTICAL
AND PATRIOTIC FARMER. Hear what
Gcnetal Harrison said of the farming interest on
the floor of Congress 14 years ago :
“Tho policy of the country was, in his opin
ion, to lessen the expenses of agriculture, and to
remove, il possible, Ihe difficulties with which
the farmers of the country now have to struggle.
HE WAS a FARMER HIMSELF,and bespoke
of those difficulties as one who had experienced
them. HE WAS A FARMER ALONE, lie
did not own a hank share in the world, nor hud
a farthing invested in mercantile business; hut
DEPENDED ALONE ON 'THE CULTIVA
TION OF'THE EARTH FOR THE SUP
PORT OF A LARGE FAMILY, HE FELT
A KINDRED INTEREST IN THE WEL
FARE OF THE AGRICULTURAL CLASS.”
The following Portrait of Mr. Calhoun is
sketched by a master hand—who knows him
well, and a citizen of his own State. It is a pas
sage from an article in the October No. of the
New York Review on the Bankrupt Question,
by Mr. Legare of S. C.
Mr. Calhoun has pursued, though in a man
ner very characteristic of his intellectual habits;
substantially the same train of argument. 'This
Senator is a subtle disputant, quick of perccp
lion, ready in reply, bold in paradox, specious in
apidogy, intrepid to affirm, and skilled in all the
little artifices of verbal distinction. But he wants
some of t!ie most essential attributes of a deep
and philosophical thinker. llj s head is French,
for its love of preconceived system, and German,
fur its tendency to transcendental metaphysics; (
hut ho has neither the practical sense of the for
mer, nor the large, round about, eati.olic and
comprehensive views, and especially the vast and ,
diversified knowledge of th* hitter. His is f
very limited. He would have been a most for- j
midablc champion of a thesis, in the -
days of the “irrefragable” doctors, and might ,
have figured with Aquinas ijnd Scolus, or with |
Koscellinus and I’. Lombard But ho lives in |
on “age 100 into” by some live or six hundred ,
years. The plum rules ot inductive logic, the ,
discredit into which theoried a priori and verbal (
caviling have been brought »y such small wits us ,
Bacon and Galileo and Newton, are a great im
pediment to such a genius. He disdains all ref- J
erenee to fads—taut pis p/iur les fails, if they |
do not happen to square with las system. Ho
goes always for'some broad principle, and pur- ,
sues the “ high priori road.” These' prinei- t
])lns he, of course, assumes without any hesita- ,
lion, and he. runs them remotest
possible consequences with a most invincible con
tempt of experience and observation. The peti
lioprincipii is bis two-edged sword, and it never (
was wielded by a more ambidexterous artist.
Not only can he, like liudibras,
“ Distinguish and divide,
A hair ’twixt North ami Northeast side,
but his whole political life has been a demonstra
tion that ho is fully a match for that rcdoubtanle
polemic in the nimble tergiversation which made
the gift doubly precious.
Confute, change hands, and still confute.”
This sort of mind, which distinguishes the so
phist Irom the philosopher, is one of the most fa
miliar phenomena of an early stage of inlelleclu- *
ul dovelopement and progress. It belongs essen- I
tinlly to the infancy of science. Wo have nlln- 1
ded just now to the scholastic logic of the middle
ages. Exactly the same thing occurred in the 1
first attempts of the Greek mind to explain the
wenderr of nature and of man, by some one first 1
principle arbitrarily pitched upon, such as fire,
water, earth, oto. and maintained with verbal
subtleties, setting all fact and oven intelligence at
defiance.
Evkut thing for the Omen Holder* —
Nothing cor the People.— Mr. Van Buren in
one of his messages, intimated that the people
expected too much from the Government. Veri
ly it may bo said that if the people expect any
thing from this Administration, in the way of
relief from the evils which beset them, and us 1
calculated to further the interests, and better the
condidilion of the. great body of the community,
they “expect 100 much.”
But if the Government can do nothing (would
it were worse than nothing!) for the people, it
seems they cannot do enough for the office hold
ers. Those pels of the administration are fust
allowed a liberal salary, and then, if a disbursing
officer, allowed a commission on the payment of
their own salaries! If the people expect too
much, wo submit to their judgement whether this
is not doing a little "too much” for the office
holders 1 As a proof of w hat is here said, lake
the following from the New York Courier of
yesterday :—lt appeared on a recent trial in Bos
ton, that Mr. Collector Bancroft, of that port,
received a commission on the payment of his own
salary to himself. This paying a man for the
trouble of helping himself, is a very ingenious
mode of swelling the perquisites of a public offi
cer.—Baltimore Valriot.
Steam Boat Accident.
Fivk Persons Scalded. — The steamboat
Swiftsure burst one of her boilers yesterday after
noon at 2 o’clock, when about eight miles from
Albany, and scalded five persons belonging to tire
boat. The only particulars yet received arc con
tained in a letter from the captain, which says;—
“The swifture hurst her starboard boiler at 2
o’clock, and has scalded Mr. Havens, (engineer,)
Koherl Graves, George White, Daniel Hagamun,
and a new fireman, name not known, badly.
The cause of the accident is as yet unknown :
ns the Swifture had recently been furnished with
new hoilersof the strongest description, and works
but a moderate degree of pressure. It is conjec
tured to have resulted from some imperfection in
the starboard boiler. —New York Commercial
Advertiser of the (ith.
Renunciation.— Jonathan Allen, Esq. Post
Master at Pittsfield, Mass., has openly renounced
Van Burcnisin. Mr. Allen was a supporter of
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson ami Van Buren, hut
the notions of the latter have at last convinced
him that he is no longer entitled to the support
of the old Jeffersonians.— Boston Mercantile
Journal.
Doctor Lardner and Mrs. Heaviside have arrived
in New-York.
Col. Samuel Burche, the chief clerk of the
House of Rapfescntatives, at Washington—in
which office he has been for thirty six years—lias
been discharged by Hugh A. Garland,the Clerk
of the House. —Baltimore American,
Iron Trade. —An English paper states that
an advance of lOs per ton has been made on the
price of Iron by the btaffordshire and Welch
houses.—This alteration has been caused by the
sudden demand for rails for the railroads in Amer
ica. Orders for this species of manufactured iron
had during one week, had been given out to the
iron trade to the enormous amount of 35,000
tons; and it was anticipated,when this contract
should ho completed, that others would speedily
follow, though probably not to the present extent.
Df.maoooueb,—ln looting over Sparks’ Life of
Washington some lime since, we were forcibly
struck with the following correct portrait of the
Demagogue. The sketch is from the pencil of a
master of his art, and the character of the danger
ous individual described snould ho well shunned
by every true lover of bis country. —“Dema-
gogues,"says he,“are tbe natural fruits of republics
and the fabled Cpas could not be more destructive
to the soil from wnich it springs. En> inusot bis su
periors, panting for honors which he is conscious
he can never deserve—endowed with no high
er faculties than cunning and an impudent hardi
hood, reckless of consequences, and grovelling
alike in spirit and motive, the Demagogue seeks
j first to cajole the people, then to corrupt, and
last of all, to ruin and betray them. When he
has brought down the high to a level with him
sell, anil depressed the low till they arc pliant to
his will, his work is achieved. The treachery of
a Cataline or a B irgia may bo detected by a
fortunate accident, and crushed in its infancy; but
the Demagogue, under bis panoply of falsehood
and chicane, may gradually sap die foundations
of social order, and his country may he left no
other recompense for the ruin he has wrought
and the misery he has caused, than the poor con
solation of execrating his home.”— Red River
Whig. I
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From the Rational Intelligencer.
Case ot Cadet Drake.
Our paper of Saturday last, contained a state
ment of Mr. Senator Merrick, of Maryland,
and Mr. Stanly, a member of the House of
Representatives from the State of North Caroli
na, detailing the circumstances of their applica
tion to the Secretary of War for permission to
inspect the papers in the case of Cadet Drake.
The application was refused on the ground of a
rule, which Mr. Stanly gives conclusive proof
that tho Secretary of War had not considered
binding when the Editors of tho Gloho culled on
them to break it. It was only tho other day that
wo heard of the refusal by the Secretary of Slate
to corlily to the ollicial character of a judicial of
ficer, whose commission was recorded in his De
partment, and of his ultimately consenting only
on conditions which in one or more similar eases
he had not exacted.
The subjoined correspondence shows that a
sentence ol a court martial was reversed by a for
mer Secretary of War, mid that oneofthc giounds
of reversal was that the court hud admitted ne
gro testimony. It is remarkable that tbe Admin
istration has not yet produced a single case to prove
the alleged usage in military trials, in sluvohol
ding Slates, to receive negro testimony, and that
the uauage, so far as developed, is tho other way.
— Nat. Inf.
Washington, October 4, 1840.
Gentlemen: I send you the enclosed corres
pondence between General Eaton and myself, to
he used us you please.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. DOWNING.
Messrs. Gales & Seaton.
Washington, September‘2, 1810.
Dear Sir: In a conversation within you a
few days since you stated that you had disap
proved the decision of a court-martial in the ease
of Cadet Crittenden on two grounds—
1. That negro testimony could in no case bo
admitted.
2. That still less could it bo admitted at se
cond-hand or us hearsay.
I see by the letter of Mr. Poinsett, published
in llie Globa of Friday, 28th of August, that
there was a case of Mr. Drake, where the deci
sion of a court-martial was set aside, because the
Secretary of War, in his own language, declar
ed that hearsay evidence could not ho admitted.
In this tno case of which you spoke, and do you
remember the case of Mr. Drake!
Will you, my dear sir, he good enough to state
in writing the case, us you rememoer it, of which
wo were speaking, and the true grounds of your
decision ?
Your friend, C. DOWNING.
Gen. J. 11. Eaton.
Washington, September 2, 1840.
Dear Sir : 1 reply to you hastily. Tho case
to which you refer 1 well recollect; and the fol
lowing arc the circumstances:
Some person, Mr. Drake perhaps, was brought
before a court-martial at West Point, of which
Major Hitchcock was judge advocate. The re
cord showed that some free negro had been trea
ted ill; sensible of the practised error the negro
may have been hired to depart. He was absent
at the trial, when the court determined that his
statement, made at tho time, should ho received
as evidence; audit was received—tho purtv was
dismissed, and Mr. Crittenden’s son from Ken
tucky was also dismissed for contumacy, because
he would not reveal the confidential conversa
tions of his room-mate.
I reversed the decision of the court on the
ground, Ist, that negro testimony could not he
received, and more especially in the ease before
mo for consideration, where it was mere hearsay
testimony. Mr. Crittenden I also reinstated, be
cause 1 held bis conduct, in nut revealing the se
crets of bis associates at tbe college, highly com
mendable and proper, and su declared in my re
versal of the proceedings.
If you have any object for making of me this
inquiry I beg you to ask the Secretary of War
fora copy of my decision. He cun have no ob
jections to allied it, until am quite confident it
will sustain what I state to you.
Your friend, J. 11. EATON.
Negro Testimony uefork Courts-Mar
tial.—The following correspondence presents
tho testimony of General Call, on the subject
of the pretended usage in the military couits of
the United Slates to receive negro testimony :
Office of the Executive Committee of the Re
publican Committee of seventt/ six.
Washington, Oct. 5, 1840.
Dear Sir : It has been staled that you were,
several years ago, a member of u court-martial to
which the Judge Advocate offered a negro wit
ness; that you objected to the examination of the
witness; and that the court refused to permit him
to ho sworn.
1 am directed by the committee to ask you
whether or not the statement leforred to is correct;
to request that you would furnish us witli the
particulars of the case; and furlhe*, that you
would have the goodness to say whether or not,
in tlie course of your military life, you have
known of any trial before a eouit-martial, sitting
in a slavcholding State, in which negro testimo
ny was received against white men. If there he
such a case, was the witness objected to on the
trial by the accused, by a member of the court,
or by any body else f
1 am, sir, yours, very respectfully,
P. K. KENDALL, Chairman Ex. Com.
Gen. R. K. Call, Washington.
Washington, Oct. 5, 1840.
Dear Sir:—ln reply to your note of this mor
ning, I have to stale that, soon after the siege of
New Orleans, a court-martial was held in the city
of New Orleans of which Major H. D. Pier, of
the -I'llli Infantry, was President, and that a per
son of color was introduced as a witness, in be
half of one of the prisoners. To the best of
rny recollection and belief, the examination of
this witness was objected to by Major William
O. Butler, a member of the court, and now a
member of Congress from liie Stale of Kentucky. ;
The objection was sustained by the court, and |
the witness rejected. I remember no case, in the !
course of my military service*, which embraced |
many years of my life, in which any person of I
color was permitted to give evidence before a court j
martial, against any white man,officer or soldier,
in the service of the United -talcs.
I am sir, very respectfully, your obedient ser
vant. K. K. CALL,
Mr. P. U. Kendall, Chairman Ex. Cu/n. fjc-
More Defamations.—The Memphis (Tcnri.)
Enquirer says, “It was stated here last week by
a gentleman just from Arkansas, that Capt. Col
lins, the disbursing agent at Little Rock, had
proven a defaulter to a very large amount—ru
mor says $300,000 to $400,000.
Great Doings in Ohio—The Cincinnati j
papers of the 3d instant, give a splendid account
of a Harrison Convention at Cincinnati; the ac
count fills more than five columns. Old Tip and
1 Tyler were both there, and “all creation.”
Wao nku Heaths.— The famous horse Wug
nerwiis yesterday beaten by Mr. If. (May’s
year old lilly, Gamma, four mile heals over the
Nashville Course. Time 8-12—8-21. Track
remarkably heavy. Lost heal tun during o storm.
Flic knowing ones say Wagner was out of con
dition, The (illy is considered a race nag of
superior merit. She heal Mary Hum and others
four mile heats at Columbia last fall.— Nashville
Banner of the 3d.
Veoktaulk Silk and Vko eta tuts Wool.—
Two plants have lately attracted much attention
in the island of Martinique, on account of the tis
sues which may he fabricated from the fibres at
tached to their seeds.
The fust ot theso is Asclepias Minor, or vegeta
ble silk ol the West Indies. Wo have several
plants of the genus Asclepias, in the IT. Stales,
properly called silk-weed, perhaps this \eiy
species, though perhaps here at the north, it may
not produce fibres of the same length or fineness.
In Martinique it perfects its pods in four months,
and the plant itself lasts six years from the plan
ting. It has been curded and spun ; the throat!
is beautiful, us glossy and brilliant as silk, and us
strong as cotton. This remark is made of tho
plant in, its wild slate; but it has been cultivated
and both the staple of the plant and the quantity
o( its productions arc extremely improved by cul
tivation. It will grow, no doubt, in Louisiana.
The other plant is the Iloiobax minor, a shrub
growing to tho height of seven or eight feet. It
produces a large pod which contains a kind of
word, which the manufacturers of Lyons, to whoso
inspection it has been submitted, have declared
to be ns fine ns the wool of Thibet. It is easily
spun, and the thread is as strong as woolen yarn.
Fourteen months are necessary to bring the pods
to perfection. It will probably grow in Florida.
—JW Y. Eve. Post,
MARRIED.
On the Ist hist., by the flcv. James Davis Mr.
Benjamin Leicih of Coweta County to Miss Mary
Kiurc.Ni a Culberson of Troup County.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dales from Liverpool September 19
Latest dates from Havre September 10
Savannah, October 9.
Cotton. — Arrived since the Ist October, 995
bales Upland and ID bales Sea Island Cotton, and
cleared at the same time 385 bales Upland and 00
bales Sea Island Cotton ; leaving a slock on band
inclusive of all on shipboard not cleared on the Dili
instant of 2503 bales Upland, and 'II bales Sea
Island Cotton. Our Cotton Market, under the influ
ence of the recent adverse advices horn England,
has fallen j} a Ac. since our report of the Ist in t.
We may remark that the decline is principally no
ticed in qualities over fair, those helovv having suf
fered relatively less depression, the sto h of this
description being especially limited. The sales
since our last amount to 178 hales, viz : (i at 7j 9
at 7J-, 2 at 8; 10 at 8J; M7 at 9; 13 at UJj 23 at
10J. In Sea Island we have no sale, to report.
Rice. —The demand continues very limited, but
holders are linn at last week’s quotations, in con
sequence of the veiy limited stock on hand. Three
i cargoes of Rough, anived in the week, the qualify
of which is very prime. We quote a by
retail to store-keepers $3jJ.
Fluor. —Tlioie is a fair supply, and the demand
extremely limited, at quotations. Sales of 20U
bids. lloward-sUeet, at fli.j a 4,G^.
Corn. —One small cargo of about IGOO bu.-bcls
arrived in the week, sold at GO a Coe.
Groceries. —ln Codec, Sugar and .Molasses, w,<
have no particular change to notice, there is a
steady retail demand at ail prices within the range
of our quotations. Codec lie. a I J.jj St. Croix
Sugar from 10 a 1 le.j Porto Rico do. 9c. a !)■’; Mo
lasses 25c a 2G; New Orleans do. 37c. a 37.)
Hay. —Sales of 100 RunUles on the wharf at f>l.
Bacon. —The market wed supplied, and the de
mand moderate; sales, of Hums 13c.; Sides XOc.j
Shoulders BAc.
Spirits. — In Domestic Liquors small sales of
Whiskey 32c. a 33; Ruin 33 a 31; (.in 37 a GOe.
Fa-change. —on England 11 a 12 per ct. prein.
Drafts on New York at sight 4 a 5 per ct. prem.
Freight. —to Liverpool id. a Jd. dull; N. \orlt
75 cts. dull.
Charleston, Oct. 10.
Colton —At the opening of the maikel this week
a somewhat animated demand sprung up for every
desciiplion of Uplands ; this feeding was however
checked, and buyers kept hack, and the article has
now receded about a j cent decline. Holders liavo
been depending upon Northern manufacturers for
sales lattery, but even this source of consumption
has nearly ceased, the market remaining extreme
ly dull. The information dedved per Caledonia
steamer at lioston, lias not altered the aspect of
our market in any respect. We report sales I p
lands at about 1200 bags, including a small lot
extra quality at lUjctsi 13 at 7<J; 41 at
S; I I at 8.) ; Gat B.J; 25 at 8f ; 20 at 9; 48 at 9,1;
51 at !)g; 148 at 9' ; 1G at 9J ; 134 at 9|; 392 at
10; 40 at 10j; 15 at 10|; 4 at Wg ; and 13 at 10$
cents .|p lb. 47 bags stained Long Cotton, sold at
11 to 25 cts p lb.
Iticn —There is very little to record in this staple,
prices have been well maintained, although at tins
time, operations have dwindled to amount no iced
below—239 tierces sold at from $3 to 3;j p evvt.
Bough Bice —l4so bushels sold,at 83 cents r»
bushel.
Flour —350 barrels Baltimore sold at ssl to $G
p barrel.
Crain —2 cargoes Corn came to hand, amount
ing to 4500 bushels, and sold at prices not tian
spirtd ; ) 100 bushels Uats sold at 30 to 31 cents p
busncl.
Uay —3so bales was received and stored for
want of purchasers.
Groceries —Except retail operations, there has
not been any operations worthy of note.
Bacon —l lot Baltimore Mioulders in bands sold
at Bto 9 ets 49- lb. We quote Hams at 1U to 17 c ;
Sid slO to 10$, and Shoulders Bto 9 cts lb.
Lard —so kegs Baltimore sold at 13 ■ ts(> lb.
Salt —550 sacks Liverpool sold at J1 45 to
4g sack.
Domestic Spirits —l7s bids Baltimore Whiskey
sold at 32 to 33 cts 4g- gallon.
Exchange — On England, G£ ® 7 p cl premium ;
France, 5b 15c; a Os. 25c. New York and Boston,
bight Checks 1$; GO days I dis.; Richmond, 2 4>
cent discount.
Bank of ( harleston rales of Exchange, on the
North, —Now Voik, li p cent discount; Philadel
phia, I pet nist ount; Savannah, 5p ct dis omit;
Columbia, par; Camden. I p ct discount; Savan
nah Bank notes, 54V ct discount; Spanish Doub
loons, JIG.}; Mexican,
Freights —To Liverpool, 4 (it S i for round and
square bales; to Havre, 1 (it Ij ct lb; to New
Aork, for t ollon p balc,sl (ft IA, ; to Boston $1
p bale; for Rice to New \ ork, 50 (it 75c p tierce.
statement or cotton
S. Is I’d Upland.
Stock on band Ist Oct. 1840 G 34 2001
Received this week, 11 2000
“ Previously 00 1223
GIS 5284
1 Exported this week 92 2088
“ Previously 92 120 G
On shipboard 50 650
231 3014
Stuck on hand, 1340