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J. W. fc W. S. JONES. AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1846. VOL. IX—NOb 103.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29. 1
“ This unfavorable view of the affairs of the i
Central Banlc, is in strict conformity with that
already promulgated by Gov. Crawford, and it
true, ought lo have shielded it from his rapa
cious hand, [Jut not so. It has not been many
months since, without authority of law, as we
think, he took from it a large portion of its
capital. The Bank yet held to meet its HaMli
ties, some $26*2,390 of the slocks of ihe Banks
of Augusta and of the State of Georgia, which
are of great value, but he has withdrawn it from
the Central Bank, and placed it in the Treasury,
where it remains out of the power of the Direc
tors, and wholly useless in meeting its outstand
ing liabilities. And for what purpose and what
end has this great sum been withdrawn from
the Central Bank, except it be to verify the pre
dictions contained in his celebrated “ Supple
mentary Report ?"
fn a lengthy article on the affairs ot the Cen
iral Bank in reply to the Southern Recorder,
(savs the Georgia Journal of the 26th instant,)
we find in the Federal Union of last week, Ihe
above extract. The grave charge made by the
pre-ent Editor against Gov. Crawford, that
“ -without authority of law" he took from the
Bank u a large portion of Us copit al,nmonnting to
§262 300, and placed it in the Treasury, where it
remains an! ol the power of the Directors, a,nd use
less in meeting Us ovif landing liabilities"— we
fee! bound to notice. A misrepresentation so
gross, whether ignorantly or designedly made,
coming from the Democratic organ in this
place, will no doubt be extensively read, and
it behooves the Whig press everywhere to
notice it as promptly as possible, so that the
antidote may check the effects of the poison. It
is for this reason, and that justice may be done
the Governor, that we presume to interfere with
the Recorder and Federal Union, in a contest
between the two, and not that we have any de
sire to snatch a laurel from the brow of the for
mer, or to thrust ourselves forward where we
have no business
The charge above made, is indeed a grave
one. Not only is it a grave one, but it is one
made by a prominent individual of his parly,
who, under peculiar circumstances, is tem
porarily editing the leading organ of hie
party. It is made too by a lawyer, con
side-red by many as one eminent in his pro
fession; and it is made by the identical indi
vidual who was employed to index the laws of
the last session, and who must have examined
those laws, ere lie could have discharged his
duty, fn addition to all this, the serious nature
of the charge must strike every individual at
once. Were Gov. Crawford gaily of such
conduct, deservedly would hr lose the confidence
of Ihe people. Such maladministration would
meet with common condemnation. The editor
must have been conscious of all this, when he
penned his article. it was a great responsibili
ty for him to assume, but he has assumed it,
and he must abide the verdict of a truth loving
people. Wc shall state the case, produce the
law under which the Governor acted, and close
for the defence,
“ Without authority o! law” Gov. Crawford
is charged with taking from the Central Bank
“ some $302,300, of the stocks of the Bank of
Augusta and of the State of Georgia”—and this
too for the purpose of putting it out of the power
of the Direcims of the Central Bank to use that
sum in meeting the outstanding liabilities.
In answer to the above, wc state, upon the
authority ot the record., that it is not true. The
stocks owned by the Slate in the Bank of Au
gusta, and the Bank of the Slate o! Georgia,
are set apart by law as a. Poor School Fund —and
hy taw it was directed to he delivered over to the
Treasurer of the Stale — which law, Gov. Craw
ford saw was promptly executed. In proof of our
position we refer the reader to the following ex
tract. It will be found on pages 43 and 44 of
the laws ol 1813, in the “ Act for Ike Education
of the poor •”
“ Sue. 3. And h- it further ordained, hy the oil
tho'ilv aforesaid, That for the purpose of aiding
in the EDUCATION OF THE POOR, as
hereinbefore provided, seventeen hundred and
fhirtv-three shares of the capital stock of the
Bank of the State of Georgia, eight hundred
and ninetv shares of the Bank of Augusta, and
all the available assetsof the Central Bankaller
the payment of its debts, be and the same are
hereby set apart and appropriated as a perma
nent education fund, the annua 1 income whereof
shall be distributed to the several counties of
this State, and paid tothe Justices of the Inferior
Courts thereof rateably. in proportion to the
number of poor children therein, as herein se?
forth AM) THE SC !HP FOR THE BANK
fi T ()t x K AFORESAID SHALL BE DE
LIVERED TO THE TREASURER OF
THE ST ATE. AND S A ID STOCK SHALL
HENCEFORTH BE UNDER HIS MAN
A GEM ENT AND CONTROL FOR THE
PURPOSES AFORESAID.”
Here is the law under which Gov. Crawford
acted! Here is the authority! Promptly did
Gov. Crawford see that this last pittance for the
poor was taken from the Central Bank, and
placed where their children could reap, and
hove already reaped, some benefit from it. But
the editor of the Federal Union, like the lenders
of his party generally,would have given it all to
the Central Bank! He indexed the laws, and
did not see ts is section, or ventures to make at
random a charge against Gov. Crawford, which,
if true, would have been violative of His Ex
cellency’s most solemn obligations.
Rut enough! The Editor of the Federal
Union is bound to retract the charge; though
whether he does so or not, let the people be
warned by this and efforts from other sources,
of the daring attempts made lo deceive them !
There is not an editor in the State, nor a leader
ot the Democratic party, but is well aware of the
great benefits which the people have derived
from Gov. Crawford’s administration. When,
iherelope, tfcey detect from it, they know it, and
do it wilfully; and when they assail him, they
know that they are malic if. ws\\persecuting one,
of whose ability and patriotism, every man in
Georgia should be proud. t
—JBjgQMMfciaa—!!■! 1111. l —■ BWB—» B—— —WMU—
Monroe Rail Road. —The Macon Tel graph
■ of the 26th inst. says:—We are gratified
in being able to state that the purchasers
of the road will take early steps for the
energetic prosecution of such repairs, and
the supply of such equipments as may |
be required to put the road in a condition
equal to that of any other in the State. We
learn from good authority that Mr. Tyler, who
has been for a number of years President of the I
Morris Canal Company, and who is the repre- i
sentative, and will be the agent here of the par
ties who have taken stock in this company in |
New-York, will be out in the early part of next |
month to superintend the work. Mr. Tyler’s !
distinguished reputation as a scientific and prac- !
tical engineer, as well as his high reputation as |
an energetic business man, together with the i
favorable auspices under which the new com- 1
pany will commence operations, give ample
assurances that the road will hereafter operate
beneficially upon the interests of the country
over which it passes as well as our own citi
zens.
The War—The Whigs.
The Charleston Courier of the 21st inst., after ;
expressing the opinion that war must ensue be.
tween this country and Mexico, proceeds with
the following well-timed remarks: “We had
sufficient experience during the progress of the
Florida war to learn that a temporising and
changeful policy is but a wasteful expenditure
of blood and treasure, while it perils the repu
tation of the country. The Mexican war once
begun, the most energetic and certain meas
ures should be adopted to bring it to a speedy i
and successful close. An army should be raised I
and the services of the most efficient officers |
called into requisition, to proceed at once to the
scene of action in sufficient force to conquet
any army that Mexico can possibly bring into
the field. A strong naval force should tie put
in immediate commission to act in concert with
tfie land troops, and within ninety days we have
little doubt that Mexico will sue for peace, as
ibe only means of preventing her territory from
becoming a depeudancy of these United States.”
These sentiments (says the Savannah Repub
lican') are right and proper — they are American
sentiments, worthy ot our ancient character and
patriotism. We arc happy to find that they are
confined to no parly—no class of our people.
The announcement made in -the annexed para
graph, from the Columbus Enquirer, we know
will meet with a hearty tesponse in Georgia;
and wo now predict that popular vengeance will
fail upon the political tricksters who propose to
give a party direction to the matter, for the pur
pose of making political capital for Mr. McAl
lister and his friends. The proposition lo get
up an “Annexation Jubilee” at this late hour,
on the eve of an important election, and when
the country may be in an actual state of war, is
as shallow as it is in bad taste. It will be con
strued into an attempt to drive the Whigs into a
position hostile to their country, w l, en that
country is in conflict with a foreign foe; and
will be scorned as a political trick by all true
patriots of both parties. It is pleasant, there
fore, to find the Whig presses alive to the im
portance of the proposed movement, and prompt
in defining their position. We adopt the senti
ments of the Enquirer, when it says :
“ Be it remembered that our motto, the motto
of the Whig party, is the echo of the sentiment
of our own gallant Tattnall, “a’vvays right if
possible, but always for our country, whether
right or wrong.” Without pretending to claim
for the Whig party, all the patriotism and pub
lic spirit of the country, we will say, they are ot
the blood ot the old Whigs ol the Revolution,
who achieved liberty for their children, and
came at the clarion call ol Henry Clay of Ken
tucky, to the rescue of the nation’s honor, in the
second war of independence.
“They have inherited, it is true, their fathers’
hatred of all national wrong and injustice; but
as the paramount sense of doty, obedience to
the voice of their country, when she summons
her sons to strife with their foes—we ask not,
wc care not whether the grandson of a Polk or
a descendant of Washington sits in the place of
authority, our country, our country, “with all
thy faults, we love thee still;” and when the
drum beats to arms, no matter whether it be to
seal the iniquitous “annexation” of a disputed
territory of a friend and neighbor, by the shed
ding of her blood, or to resent the insults of our
ancient and twice beaten enemy, the Whigs
will come with true American hearts and hands,
foremost to the fight.”
The Acquisition of Louisiana.— The Paris j
Correspondent of the National Intelligencer, I
Robert Walsh, Esq., notices in his last letter I he
fourth volume of Thiers’ History of the Consu
late and the Empire, just published. The fol
lowing passage is quoted trom it;
“When a renewal of the war with England
seemed no longer doubtful, ail the colonizing !
dreams of the First Consul vanished. His
resolution in respect lo Louisiana was instant
ly formed. I will not attempt to keep (said he
to one of his Ministers) a province which
would not be secure in our hands, which per
haps, would embroil me with the Americans,
or create a coolness on their side. On the
contrary, I will turn it lo account lo attach them
to me, to create a quarrel between them and the
English, and I will raise up lor England ene
mies who will one day revenge us, if we should
not be able to revenge ourselves. My resolu
tion is settled. As the Americans have no terri
tory to give me in exchange for Louisiana, I
will sell it to them for a sum that may pay the
expenses of an extraor finary armament against
Great Britian herself."
“Thus,” adds the historian, “did the Ameri
cans acquire from France that vast region
which has completed their sway over North
America, and rendered them masters of the
Gulf of Mexico for the present and all the
future. Thus, they owe their birth and great
ness as a nation to the long struggle of France
'against England; their independence, to the
first period of that struggle, their territorial ex
pansion to the second.”
Mr. Walsh suggests that we should ultimate
ly have achieved our independence and posses
sed ourselves of Louisiana wilhoi I French co
operation; yet adds, “but we should acknow
ledge the benefit ot earlier and more certain re
-1 suits.”
I Loss ok the Schooner Swallow. —The
i Picayune of the 23d inst. says:—Letters were
received in town yesterday by the U. S. Q,uar-
I termaster, Col. Hunt, from Aransas, via Pen
-1 sacola, announcing the loss of the schooner
j Swallow, Capt. Miner, on the I2ih inst. As
j she was going in, over the bar of Aransas, she
I struck, and on the following day was fast going
to pieces. Capt. Miner, with his crew, reach
l ed the land in safety, saving his papers, a part
of the clothing of the crew, and some of the
rigging. The Swallow cleared from this port
for the Bay of Aransas on the 7th instant,
having been chartered by the U. S. Government.
Her cargo consisted of GOO barrels of coais,
some stores, and clothing belonging to the 3d
! regiment of Infantry, of which latter only a
| portion was saved. The vessel herself is a
total loss.
Movement of Troops.— The Charleston
Courier of yesterday says ;—Company A., 3rd
Artillery, arrived at thisport yesterday morning
in the steamer Gladiator , from Smithville, N.
C., on their way to Aransas Bay, Texas, under
command of the following officers :
Capt. Geo. Taylor, Comd’g.
Asst. Surgeon A. F. Sluter, (U. S. A.)
' Ist. Lieut. William Gilham.
| 2d Lieut. G. W. Ayres.
We understand that the steamer Cincinnati,
Capt. Smith, has been chartered totaKe'the two
companies, A and 1, of the 3d Begt. Aitillery,
to Aransas Bay, Texas.
Fire in Wilmington. N. C.—The Chronicle
of Wednesday the 27'h inst. says:—Between
10 and II o’clock on Monday night, a blaze was
discovered among a pile of shavings in the car
penter’s shop of Messrs, Ferguson & Plaines,
on Wilkerson’s Alley, in the old ten-pin alley
(wooden) building. This building was soon
destroyed ; extending thence to the two story
brick house on Front-street occupied by A. V.
W. Hewlett as a dwelling, and the lower floor
by John M. Caz iux as a grocery, that wasshort
ly in ruins, with the exception ofthe outer walls.
A considerable pait of Mr. Hewlett’s fur
niture was also burnt. He and his family are
away. Crossing Wilkerson’s Alley, the flames
took hold ot the double brick tenement next
South, occupied in part by Joseph A. Sintas
as a Grocery, and of (he bake-house in the
rear, belonging to the same. The bake-house
was destroyed, and the wood part of the large
tenement from the second story up. Mr. Sin
las likewise lost much of his stock.
The aggregate loss by the lire will probably
amount to 7or SB,OOO. Insurance will cover
nearly or quite half ofthe loss. The fire com
panies did surprisingly well in arresting the
flames, for in several directions from the build
ings destroyed, standing in dose proximity to
them, are others of wood, easy to take fire. In
fact, three or four of them were on fire at one
time. There is scarcely a room lor doubt that
this lire had its origin in villanous incediarism.
Whilst the fire was in progress, Mr, Daniel
W. Wood fell from a ladder placed against the
s’de of one of the burning buildings, in conse
quence of the breaking of the ladder, and was
very much injured, though not dangerously we
understand.
A large scythe manufactory is nowin course
of e r ection at Dayton. Ohio. The building will
be 150 feet long, will contain eight trip ham
mers, and give employment to a large number
of hands. This is the first attempt at manu
facturing this article, to any considerable ex
tent, west of the mountains. There is a small
establishment in Miami county, which sup
plies the neighborhood in part, but its sales ex
tend no farther.
Snakes — The Fort Gaines (Ga.) “ Whig” of
the 23d inst. says:—A couple of lafllesnakes,
measuring between six and seven feet in length,
were killed recently in this vicinity. One was
taken, by a negro boy, with a forked slick, on
Thursday last, roped, and brought into town
alive. It measured 7 feet in length, and Hi
inches in circumference.
A very extensive rolling mill is to be erected
i
‘at Pittsburgh. The Gazette says that people
j abroad who heard such dismal accounts of the
ravages by the great fire, wonder where the rno
• ney comes from to build all these new mills. It
informs them that capital is created by labor,
and that Pittsburgh has plenty more which will
he invested in mills, factories and workshops
ere long. The manufacturing interest of Pitts
burg is in its infancy as to magnitude.
1 '
Democracy in Mississippi. — Some of the
candidates for the United States Senate in Mis
sissippi have resorted to the novel mode of ma
king stump speeches throughout the State. A.
G. McNutt, the great Repudiator, announces
appointments to address the people at no less
than sixty eisht places between the 27th of July
and the4lh of November I This discreditable
movement is in perfect keeping with the majo
rity of the political acts ol the Repudiators of
the Repudiating Stale,
One ot the most prosperous and profita
ble railroads in the United States is the Mine
Hill and Schm Ikill Rail Road. It ex
lends from Schuylkill Haven, on the Scuvlkil 1
River, to the Broad Mountain, a distance of 10
miles. It has three branches— one of which ex
tends up the West Branch of tlie Schuylkill ?
distance of 4* miles—another up Mudlev
Branch 3 miles, and another up Wolfe Creek
about 2 miles—making the total length ofthe
Load ai present 19J miles. Theoapital invest
ed in this work is within a fraction of $400,000.
Ihe dividends have exceeded 12 per cent, per
annum, and this too whilst the rails were being
replaced and other improvements making out
of the profits of the Company.— Bali. Anier.
Correspondence of the North American.
New York, Aug. 24 P. M.
The clay has passed without anything worthy
of remark, except the weather. This is the
fourth day in succession of an extreme sultry
heat. As much rain falls every night as can
be converted into vapor by the sun in the course
ofthe day. The mercury ranges over 90, and
the comfort of a vapor bath from 9 A. M. to 5
P. M.. at this temperature you can imagine.
In the absence ol Local news, I give you a
sketch of a row at Union Hall, Saratoga, on
the 22d. At tea time, Mr. Boykin, his cousin
Miss Ross, with her aunt, from Charleston,
South Carolina, were prevented from taking
i heir seats at table assigned them, by a ne
-ro _ servant, who said they were engaged.—
This however, was not the case, as the party
who had previously used them had left town
The negro refusing to give up the seals, the
“Chivalry” seized a chair, and made a running
attack on the negro. The ladies threw them
selves into the breach, and all ol coffee’s black
friends came to the rescue, when they seized
a knife from the table, made a few flour
ishes, concluding by drawing it across the
nose and check of one of the servants, who
retired spouting blood like a whale. By this
time, with the screams of ladies, many ot
whom tainted, and the clamor of gentlemen
to know the cause of the trouble, the di
ming room was in anything but a quiet stale.
The Southerner was given into custody, and
after much trouble got olfby paying 100 dollars
to the negro and 5 dollars to the Stite of New
York, all for the want ol a little Knowledge of
the world.
Anti Renteis are pick’d up in great numbers;
their arrests now are G7 in all. The Slate
government is moving efficiently in the mat
ter, and the Delhi rnui icrers will get justice
done them, and nothing less.
Prom Ike N. O. Picayune , of the 23d. nisi.
Naval ami Military Operations.
We learned yesterday morning, through the
attention of our correspondent at Pensacola, of
the arrival at that place on the 18th inst. of the
U. S. steamship Princeton, and of the steam
frigate Mississippi on the following day. On
the 20th, the sloop of war Falmouth arrived
there in company with another sloop of war,
supposed to be either the Saratoga or the St.
Mary’s. There are, therefore, now concentra
ted in that harbor, belonging to the American
Navy, two steam frigates, the Mississippi and
Princeton, the frigate Potomac, the sloops ol
war John Adams, Falmouth, and Saratoga or
St. Mary’s, and the brigs of war Some s and
Porpoise. (The French brigs Griffon and La
Mercure are lying in the same port.) On the
Western coast of Mexico, there arc, or shortly
will be, eight of our vessels of war, and this
(nrce will be increased by the vessels of the
East India squadron, now on their way home.
The Mexican Navy and Mexican privateers
will not want, therefore, for something upon
which to wreak their vengeance for fancied
wrongs.
The U. S. Gluaricr Master, stationed here,
has received a letter from the Bay of Aransas,
dated the 14th inst., supposed to have been con
veyed by the Falmouth to Pensacola. The let
ter also mentions a rumor which prevailed at
Aransas, that Mexico had declared war upon
this country. The presumption is, however,
that this rumor reached Aransas from this city,
and was founded upon the communications of
the Mexican Ministers to U>e Chamber ol
Denudes on thcSlsg ult. This presumption is
strengthened by a letter received here from an
officer under Gen. Tavlor, dated Corpus
Christi, the 15th instant. According to the
Courier, this letter states that our troops had
left St. Joseph’s Island and were encamped on
the main land—all in good health and fine
spirits—no enemy near—none expected. A
courier has been despatched to Matamoros and
icturned, who reports only 400 men at or near
that place.
This does not indicate that Gen. Taylor is in
any immediate danger, nor is there any thing
very warlike in the intelligence otherwise.—
The camp of General T. is very pleasantly
situated, and a fine breeze almost constantly
prevailed.
We copy from the Courier of last evening
an extract of a letter just received from an
officer of the U. S. Dragoons, which gives some
particulars ol the march of the seven compa
nies of 2d Dragoons from Fort Jesup into
Texas:
Nacogdoches, July 31, 1845,
The seven companies of Dragoons arrived
here 10-day, alter a very warm march of six
days from Fort Jesup.
We sha'l leave on (he Ist of August lor the
Trinity, and thence for the San Antonio, where
you shall again hear from me. The command
stool the march very well, and hope to do good
service when v e reach the disputed boundary.
A letter from Col. Todd, our Minister at the
Court of Russia, addressed to the Sec r etary of
the National Institute, describes a remarkable
case of an undecayed body which had come
under the writer’s notice;
St. Petersburg, | July,’ | 1845
My Dear Sir: There is a singular case ol an
undecayed body at Reval, an ancient German
town on the present Russian shore ofthe Baltic.
I visited the church in which it is preserved,
and where it is exhibited to strangers. It is the
body ot an old gentleman in a military dress
worn in the year 1710. The body is perfectly
dry; some of the teeth and white hairs are in a
perfect state. The skin is of a brown color,
and was represented, when first exposed to the
air, to be very elastic. If you strike the chest
or the belly, it gives a hollow sound. The
stockings are nearly decayed, but the bools are
entire, and the hair? ofthe wig are in a good
condition.
Some thirty years ago, when the church was
repaired, the coffin was found in a separate
room, under a great quantity of furniture and
old rubbish. When the coffin was opened, the
skin was of a lighter color than it is now. By
a paper found in the coffin, and bf the church
records, it was ascertained to be the body of a
General Duke de Croy, who was a Frenchman,
and entered the Russian service in the time of
Peter the Great, about the year IG9G, and was
employed in the war with Sweden, At the bat
tle of Narva, in which the Russians were de
feated, he shut himself up in tha fortress of
Narva, and capitulated. Alter his return from
Sweden, he resided as a private person in Reval,
and incurred heavy debts. At his death, in the
beginning of the IBrh century, his creditors did
not allow his friends to bury the body until his
heirs should pay his debts. The body remain
ed in the church unburied, and was kept in a
try room under ground and, it is supposed by
some, that the composition of the soil (which
i» chalk and limestone) preserved it from de- i,
cay; bull incline to the opinion, that the great
degree ol cold that is said to have prevailed at
the time ot his death, and the influence of the
oak wood of which the coffin was made, con
tributed to this rare result. It produced a
strange feeling on touching the hands and lace
ol a dead body buried 130 years ago, and that
appeared to resemble a petrification.
I am, with great respect, yours, truly.
C. S. TODD.
Francis Markoe, Jr. Esq.,
Corresponding Sec’ryol Nat. Institute,
Washington City.
The Foreign Journals received by the
Hibernia abound in comments on the annexa
tion of Texas. However va led in phraseology
the remarks of the English papers e,
there is, throughout all ot the n, says the Bal
timore American, a predominant tone of molli
fication at the ill success of Bi n ish interference
in that business. The Cour r Prancais re
marks that “ now the Texas q-i stion has been
resolved there still remains tha' of Oregon, and
we shall be much astonished, it adds, “if the
British Government does nut ;- ze ihe occasion
to be avenged for this late defem.” The Cour
ricr makes the French Ministiy an ally of the
United Stales Government in ihe work of an
nexation—which is rather a .* n prising intima
tion when put by the side of M. Guizot’s de
c.arations and the inovomeni of the French
envoy in Texas.
No doubt the French penp arc very well
pleased to see Great Britain lii! d in her efforts
so actively prosecuted to dc.v.it annexation;
nor can any devices ol any Ministry in France
prevail with the public mind o' France to in
duce a cordial co-operation with British
schemes of policy on either side of the Atlantic.
The commercial supremacy of England has
been held so long and has been swayed so airo
gantly, that no Power in Christendom has
sympathy with her projects of jgrandizement.
On the other hand it would gra ify the nations
who have endured her haughty domination, be
cause incapable of overthrow jug ji, t u se c her
humbled.
The Loudon Times lakes to itself what con
solation it can—under the circumstances.
“A century or two (it says) might possibly
have proved that Texas ought to have been an
independent empire. It may, possibly still turn
out that the singular mixture of government
and anarchv, of responsibility and irresponsi
bility, miscalled Federalism, is not the safest
political absorbent. The boasted vortex may
possibly not be found in the end the smoothest
current or the plainest sailing. The internal
dissensions ot the States, as well as their exter
nal aggressions, undoubtedly suggest the
thought, that an independent, and even a power
ful empire midway between Ihe States and
Mexico and the West Indies, might be the best
for all parties. Such may or may not be the
discoveries or the conclusions of a future age.
It is the pail ol wisdom, however, to provide
for the barest contingencies. Historians and
statesmen, and nations also, might some day
deplore that the humane and provident Powers
of Europe, so familiar as they are with the vir
tues of independence and Ihe'vices of dominion,
should have overlooked the weakness ot an
infant stale, and not made one effort to procure
it the leisure and liberty to choose its part,”
As to the establishment of an independent
empire between the States and Mexico and the
West Indies, we were of those vvhu'thought that
such an arrangement would have been best, if
the intermediate empire could have been really
independent. In due course of time probably it
would have been, if there had been forbearance
and a wise policy on our part. That new em
pire would have been republican; it would
have been peopled by the Anglo Saxon race, it
might have been a new starting point for the
onward progress office institutions and vigor
ous self-government in the direction of the
South-west. But cir cumstances have decreed
otherwise, and nothing remains but to acquiesce
in things as they are. The question of annexa
tion assumed the form of an issue between our
country and Great Britain, whose designs made
it quite apparent that, it she could have her
will, Texan independence would be nominal
only. It seemed inevitable that it we would be
come the guardians of Texas we must make
her a part of our own body politic.
It is important, however, to ascertain where
we are stop. California must doubtless follow
Texas, sooner or later. It lies between Texas
and the Pacific, and it will not do to allow a
foreign power to occupy there. A defenceless
trontier, open to invasion, would be something
more than a pretext, in that case. Shall we be
content with the Rio Grande and the Southern
line of California to the Pacific, as our bounda
ry on the South and South-west 7 VVc cannot
transcend that limit without running in the face
ol geographical affinities and facts—to say
nothing ofthe extermination of an existent pop
ulation dwelling beyond, with whom it will be
impossible that we could harmonize. These
speculations, however, belong to the future.
The opposition journals" in London taunt
the Ministry most unmercifully for their weak
ness and pusillanimity, as they term it, in al
lowing annexation to be consummated. “The
American papers add,” says the Morning
Chronicle, “that lie Oregon difference is set
tled, as well as that of Texas, and that this set
tlement consists iu our giving up the Columbia,
and the lenilory north of it to the 49th degree
of latitude. It would not at all surprise us.
Nothing that our foreign office could do in the
way of cession would surprise us. And we
are the more inclined to credit the disgraceful
intelligence, because of the peremptoiy bravado
in words with which Sir Robert Peel met Mr.
Polk’s assertion of his country’s right. For
your weak statesmen always affect the pendu
lum movement. They love to oscillate and
alternate—be humble to-day because they were
brave yesterday—to excite hopes one day, in
order to dash them the next—and make a bold
claim, in order to reap the full disgrace of
weakly abandoning it.”
The following passage from the Morning
Chronicle, which will conclude our quotations,
shows the tender point in which England is
touched by the addition ol Texas to the Ameri
can Republic: m
“The die is now cast, and we must resign
ourselves to the annexation of Texas and all its
consequences—to the extension of a rival and
a naval power round the shore of the Mexican
Gulf—to the approximation ol the power
to an immense region and coast on the Pacific
—to an incalculable impulse given to slavery
and slave-breeding, as well as, we firmly be
lieve, to slave-trading. Whilst we aac France
and her prohibitive tariff yearly advancing
ound the Mediterranean, and closing region
atler region mid port after pan to our coin- ,
ncrce; so in the New World we find the Uni- (
f ed Stales, whose prohibitive tariff' is of our (
creation, spread that tariff with its flag over <
shores the most open to our influence, the most
'avorable to our trade. If it was empty honor i
we lost, or the balance of power, or any of those |
superannuated (though to us good) motives,
which this age has obliterated, we should say t
1 aothing; but we are losing trad®, profits, pow-i<
er, shipping and substance, wanting alike the
skill to keep or the spirit to defend them.”
The Lexington (Kv ) Excitement.—The
excitement in Lexington has entirely subsided
alter the removal of the printing materials.—
The Louisville Ledger states that the illness
under which Cassius M. Clay is suffering, is
likely to terminate in his death.
The excitement in Lexington and vicinity, has
compelled the suspension of the “Christian In
telligencer,” a Methodist paper published in
Georgetown, Scott county, Ky, The editor of
the Intelligencer, though accused of Abolition
ism, pertinaciously disavowed such senti
ments.
CO lIIMERCIAL
New Orleans, August 23.
The weather has been clear throughout the week,
and the heat excessive, the thermometer frequently
ranging as high as 96 to 98 degrees. The health of the
city continues remarkably good, and we hear of no
cases of yellow fever.
The tiver is now about 12 feet below high-water mark,
and falling slowly
Cotton —Arrived since the 15th inst of Louisiana and
Mississippi 1708 bales, Mobile 11, Texas 10; together
1729 bales. Cleat cd in the same time for Havre 733,
New York 195; together 928 bales—making an addition
to stock of 801 bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of
all on ship board not cleared on the 22d instants stock
of 2851 bales.
The Colton market closed last week with an active
inquiry, but 'here was no stock to admit of any opera
tions of importance. On Tuesday the mail came
through with the accounts received per steamship
Great Britain at New York, which are from Havre to
the 23d and fiout Liverpool to 26th Jn,y. The opera
tions in our own market have had no reference to these
advices, so far as the Liverpool market is concsrned,
there being no vessel loading for that port, nor has
there been a bale of Cotton shipped in that direction
for near ,three weeks past, The demand appears to
have been almost entirely for France and the North,
and quite active in the early part of the week, but with
in the last day or two the inquiry has been less anima
ted, and the market appears to be tending in favor of
buyers, as the receipts are beginning to come in a little
more Ireely, and the scarcity of vessels makes it diffi
cult to effect shipments at an increase of cost. As re
gards prices wc still find a difficulty in arranging a
scale of quotations according to the strict classification
oi our usual table, and for the present we mnst content
ourselves with stating that the rates for old crop have
tanged from 6 (3)7 cents for ordinary to middling, and
lor new crop good middling to middling fair 7$ ® 8,
lair S$ (a) S{, good fair 9 (a) 9$ cents lb. The receipts
of new crop up to this time have been 1632balea against
1835 bales at same period last year, and the mamet
closes vviih about 1000 to 12C0 bales on sale of which a
part is old crop. The sales, amount for the week te
1000 bales.
STATEMENT OT COTTON.
Slock on hand Ist Sept., 1844, bales 12934
Arn'.-ed during the past week 1729
Arri ved previously 972228 973967
986891
Exported during the past week 928
Exported previously .983112 984049
Slock on hand and on ship-board, ba1e5........ ..2861
Cun parative Statement of the Receipts of cottonfrom the
Ic; Sept, in each year to dates, and also the Stocks on
hi id at t'ec following places at the dates annexed.
Rcc’d since Sept. 1. Stock on hand.
Places. 1814. 1843. 1845. 1844.
N. "rleans, Aug. 22..949025 845276 2861 13665
Mol ile, Aug. 19 515366 463307 90 2069
Sav nnah, Aug. 14...302979 241718 3560 2686
Cha ieston, Aug. 15..421607 300752 17102 14319
Floiida.Aug.il 187769 145249 851 2800
Vi rp I nia, Aug. 1 22151 13800 1900 2500
N. Carolina, July 26.. 12226 8567 13C0 750
New York, Aug. 12 39000 79600
Olh r Ports, Aug. 9 1495 6514
Total, bales 2411123 2018669 68149 123902
Total to dates in’43 2018669 123902
Inciuase this year... 392454 Decrease.,.ss7s3instock.
HJr— We have taken frem N Orleans the amounts
received from Mobile and Flcrida. Also, from Charles
ton (he receipts from Savannah—and from Mobile the
receipts from Florida.
S 'far, Louisiana —There has been some further im
provement in the demand during the past week, and
sale j have been effected to the extent of about 500 bfads,
pari for the West, but the principal portion for the city
trade. Among the transactions we notice 180 hbds at
6$ 00 6f, 140 at 6g, 26 at 6s, and 30 at 7 cents. The mar
ket is now rather better supplied, the improved rates
having brought forward some parcels that have not
been offering lately, and as they embrace some of ra
ther lower quality than has lecently been on sale our
figures accordingly taka a somewhat wider range, the
quotations being 5$ for common to7s for strictly prime,
in small lots.
AJolnssses— There has not been much doing in this ar
ticle during the past week, the stock being light, and
the transactions confined to limited parcels from the
Levee, at 25 (a) 27 cents gallon, according to quality,
condition of barrels, tec.
Bacon —The demand to supply the government troops
has caused a sudden advance in this article, and we
now quote for uncanvassed Hams 7|® 8 cents, can
vassed do andjextracured 8® 11, Sides 8$ (3) Bs, Should
ers, which are very scarce, 6* (d) 7 cents ssrlb.
B'leging and Bale Rape— The unusually heavy stocks
and the absence or any adequate demand, have had a
depressing influence upon prices, and we have to
notice some sales at somewhat less than our for
mer figures, which, however, we have frequently
remarked wet e little more than nominal. The princi
pal transactions have been 500 piece* hand loom at 10$
(a) lOf and 400 pieces good power loom at 11$ cents
cash, taken most for the Charleston market. The range
of prices for Bagging may now be quoted at 10$ fS) 11$,
with some extra bands at 11$ cents cash, or equal to
cash. Rope remains at 3s® 5 cents, extreme prices,
according to quality, terms, <fec., though the sales most
ly range at 4$ (a) 4J cents.
Whiskey —The Whiskey market has remained in a
dull state throughout the past week, and only limited
sales have been effected, at 19$ (a) 20 cents gallon for
rectified, ihe latter having been the prevailing rate
within the past few days tor lots of good proof, (7om
moii is scarce, and we know of little or none in firat
hands. It would probably command about 22 (a) 23 cts,
Iff gallon in limited parcels.
Exchange —The business in Exchange continues oh
a limited scale, and the rates about the same as before
quoted.
Freights— The only foreign engagement since our
Jast report is a ship for Havre at 1 cent for Cotton.—
There is Freight offering for Liverpool and Loudon, but
no vessel on the berth foi either port. The rates for
New Yolk have advanced. No vessel for Boston.
Savannah, August 27.
denied— Brig Pandaga, Towles, Boston; schr Sid
ney, Lane. Baltimore
Charleston. August 28.
Cleared —Barque J Patton. Jr., Philadelphia; schr
Heroine, Passapea, Philadelphia.
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WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BU
SINESS.
THE subscriber informs his friends
and the public, that he has leaned for a
term of years that well known and extensive
Fire Proof Warehouse and close stores, on the
east side of Mclntosh-street, occupied for the
last four years by Dye & Doughty, and which
are now in perfect order for the reception of cot
ton and other produce.
Thanktul to my friends and customers for their
patronage heretofore to the firm of Dye & Dough
ty, I now tender my services lor the storage and
sale of cotton and all other produce which may
be consigned to my care. Particular attention
will be given to flic purchase of bagging, gro
ceries, &c.,and to receiving and forwarding mer
chandize. My warehouse being located in the
central business part of the city, renders it con
venient for receiving cotton or oiher produce by
rail road, wagons and river. My cha ges will be
in conformity with the established rates of the
commission merchants of this city. Liberal ad
vances will be made on cotton or other produce
in store. M. M. DYE.
Augusta, Ga., August 29, 1845. 4tw
The Washington News, Helicon and Ad
vocate, Marietta; Whig and Banner, Athens;
Coosa River Journal, The Chatahoochee, and
Cassville Pioneer, will copy the above four times,
semi-monthly, and send bills to this office.
tTpaTRICK’S EVE, by Charles
Lever, complete—price 6 cents.
Zoe, or the History of Two Lives, by Geral
dine Endsor Jewbury— price 25 cents. Just re
ceived by je2 T. RICHARDS.