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I' oh* in' Do -. J ■ i itu’tsman.
We have nrith r lime nor room to give a
Synovia of tne whole report, hut 11c cannot
refnt: from ; i.tinr the attention of the rea
der pjr.'oiiu ’ uw of its prominent
pom;.;. The loan to the New York Courier •
anti' Enquirer oi to'-' 975. and thecircunistan I
ccs under which it was made, is perhaps, one j
ot the most ami shameful transac- ■
tiotis of the Lind on record, it seems to jus- !
thy fully, and to the utmost ex tent, the charge
against the hank of subsidizing the press, j
The attempt to cover up the U msaction on- .
dor the pica that the loan was made by Mr.
Burrows to '.it. M ebb, is a most abortive ami j
rtiinsy apology. These notps for $15,000,1
signed by one of the partners and endorsed j
by'the other, payable in 1, 2,3,4, and 5;
years;-were,fitter remaining in Barrows’ pock
et nearly a year, disco inti and at the bank,With
out thd knowledge of tiie Direotois. When
the investigation was moved in Congress,
these notes, were withdrawn ns vvi i! ,is others
and the notes of oilier persons substituted lor j
them. We say, taking the whole transaction j
into view, that the Courier and Enquirer at;
tiie time of the first loan, changed its course j
relative to tiie bank,-end from an opponent
became an advocate for tlio renewal of the
churiei—that tiie notes had an unusual time
to run for bankable papei—that the sum was
unusually large, aid the. security, consider,
pig the amount not the the
withdrawal of the notes indicate conscious
guilt, the concerted absence of Burrows,
whose testimony was much desired bv the
committee, constitute a chain of circumstan
ces, winch products the irr sistible convic
tion of collusion between the parties, impli
cating the character of the President of the
bank, and the parties to the note. Argu
ment will not remove this impression from
the public mind.
Ihe next point to which wc particularly
"call the public attention, is the spirit of fa
voritism in making loans, and in dealing in
exchange. The minions: sums loaned to
’ nomas Biddle & Cos., amounting at times to
more than eleven hundred thousand dollars,
find never legs than four hundred thousand
dollars, was lining great injustice to the pub
lic; and the high price paid for the enor
mous sums of exchange, to this same Thorn
es Middle A:-Co., was detrimental to the in
terest of the hunk, inasmuch as a higher
price was.paid for it to this firm than it could
have been bought for elsewhere; and cer
tainly justifies the suspicion that Nicholas
Biddle, the President of the bank, had more
interest ip paying a high r premium for ex
change to Thomas Biddle & Cos., than a low
i> io for tliejjank. Phis transaction most as
suredly impugns his integrity or his inteib
pence, and tlie public will decide for them
s Ives which.
The people of P insylvania have been
made to believe that the bank capital employ
ed us Iti© Stale was of gr at service to them
—"they have been worked up to fed asor of
State prideon the subject—and the ciiiz ns
of Philadelphia have boon particularly sen
sitive on this point. But when they learn
that of the *>7,9 5.1, 079, die amount of cap
dal thus employed, more than $3,000,000
are loaned to twenty-acrcn persons, and that
8 >,-434,111, arc loaned to ninety nine indi
viduals, they will sci" that the pretence that
the bank operates for the public good, or
that it is a benefit to the State of Pennsyl
vania, is all a sham. They will distinctly
perceive that it is an engine worked for the
boo fit of a favored few at the cost of the
. oppressed many. Tut: citizens of Philadel
phia themselves must not only seo this, but
must have felt it.
T .Vo now com.: to the donations for roads.—
Tim bank, it seems, has given some $5030
for the purposes of internal improvement.
This is not only a direct violation of its char
ter, and a gross waste of tue money of the
stock holders, but a portion of it was given
under circumstances peculiarly olTeusive to
the public feeling. Immediately after Gen. j
Jackson had put his veto on the Marseille I
road bill, on the ground that that appropria-1
tion was unconstitutional, and which vetoj
met the decided approbation of at least three-!
fourths of the people of the Union, Mr-1
1 resident indule, as it to show his,contempt
fertile opinion of President Jackson, under-j
took as President of the bank, to patronize
internal improvements, and gave SISOO to
aid in building a road in Ohio. Three hun
dred dollars of this stun belonged to the Uni
ted States, and the residue to individual stqok
holders. It requires not only the authority
of Congress, but the sanction of the Presi
dent, to appropriate the public fun ! s for this
. ortany other purpose, but President Biddle,
apparently, in? lit only on rebuking President
Jackson for the: veto, givestho public funds
to promote ' intermd improvement, without
either law or right.
The next point of importance is, that .’Jr.
Biddle has in isbwn hands votes enough, bv
means of his proxies, to elect all the Direc
tor? . This may not bo, and we think is not,
in violation of the frtfer of'the charter, but
it is in violation of its spirit. No individual,
however, much be the stock ho owns, can
give over thirty votes'in his own right, am]
yet Mr. Biddle, by a palpable evasion ol the
spirit of this sdutary provision, which was
intended to prevent any single individual
from controlling the bank, lias, by his prox
ies, the entire control of the Corporation, for
the time Icing. The election of directors
and cv ry ,v.i depends upon his
* ill mid in-> votes. T printing, which,
from th-* ordinary annual cost of $l5O to*
♦sdsi), rose suddenly i;i I'Min to SB,7(W and,
in I *3l to $9,P'7, 'i'liis printing, we havo
no doubt, was fertile extra newspapers cn
tainlng .Mr. McDuffie'; celebrated report,
.Mr. Gallatin's essay, and othpr electioneer*
iirgtvwOjUpryin -/avor of tHe bank. Besn!;*"
the reprehension which this petty direct
mode of subsidizing the press merits, there
is mother view of the subject which calls
for^foi-it'd- egad’-s .i" ; tis the tt onio
! t:o.i ol the rigut to speiiu t,ne public money
j o print file d’ocu.nvnls of Cougr-ss. Gon
|yr>.ss ordered as on ,y of Mr. McDuffie’s
Mu.-pers pn. and ; iS tii, y, who are legal judges
riu the- case, tiiought riecessarx. The bank
j hi its superior wisdom, —superior in lire case
' t interna! improvement" to t,hat ol General
Jackson’s, and in the ccs.- ot printing to that
ot Congress— orders an hundred fold the
number printed which Congress thought
i enough, and wrong).illy appropriates the
j money of the U.iited States to pay tor this
illegal transaction, it is to In regretted that
the committee were not more minute on this
subject.
In regard to lawyers’ fees, tiie committee
have said just enough to excite, without sat
•dying, public curiosity. They do not give
us the amount paid, nor to whom paid, for
legal advice. They in. rely say that the sum
paid for attornies does not embrace the cx
pt nse of counsellors and solicitors. Wc saw
a while since, a statement from the bank by
which it appeared, that in Philadelphia alone",
lor tii lust twelve years, the bank hud paid
$72,090 for attornies’ foes. The public
uould like a statement allowing ali tiie fees
paid to lawyers by the bank, including attor
ui s, counsellors an i solicitors, and ernbrac*
ing the sums paid at all the branches, as well
as those in Philadelphia ; and particularly to
s.unv how many members of Congress, and
whom, are retained jrrofessionally as coun
sellors or solicitors or the hank, it would
be a valuable document.
Much lias been said about the payment of
the 3 per cents., and the friends of the bank
have awarded it credit for a disinterested
zeal for the public good, in prevailing on the
Government to postpone the payment of
the stock, from July to October; and to save
the Government harmless from loss of inter
est, it has generously agreed to pay one quar
ter’s interest from its own funds, rather than
distress the public by an early payment of
this stock. 'Plie coimnitLe seem hardly to
understand why the bank does this. On ex
amination, however, it will appear that this
act of the bank, is about as disinterested as
many others tor which it has been commend
ed. The Government money, with which
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this stock is to be paid, is deposited in the
United States Bank, or which the bank pays
no interest, but on which it discounts, and
draws interest at tiie rate, including discount
on drafts, of from oto 8 per cent, in the
arrangement it has made to postpone the
payment of this sum, by allowing to tin Gov
ernment the interest, it in effect, consents to
pay :i per cent, on the Government deposits,
and at the same time it ts from individuals,
to whom tiiesc deposits are loaned, from G to
8 per cent.
We now advert to tiie last point, to which
we particularly solicit the attention of the
read r; our space will not permit us to be
more c liberate, —it is the subject of checks.
Congress-saw (it, in granting the charter, to
require all the bills to he signed by tiie Pu s
ident and Cashier, doubtless for the purpose,
among other r. isons, to guard the public
against counterfeits, because people could
more easily become familiar with one than
with twenty signatures, and to prevent a re
dundant issue ol small notes, w hich arc more
often worn out and lost than large ones, and
thus become a tax upon the public, for ‘in:
hem fit oi tin: bank. The bank at three several >
times applied to Congress for an alteration ol
this clause and for permission to issue bills
signed by the pres.dents and cashiers of the
respective branches ; and they wvr as often
r. fused. They contrived the plan of checks
or drifts, as the bank calls them.—These I
chocks arc made in the exact similitude of
their bills—signed by the preside nts and i
cashiers of the various branches—made for
the purpose of circulating, and are circulated
as currency, to evade the before named pro
vision of their charter. Thus in violation
of the restrictions of their charter—in dc-fi-1
ance of the authority of Congress, the hank 1
lias put forth more than seven millions of dol
lars of this illegal arid spurious currency.—
Perhaps a more reckless disregard of law and
the constituted authorities of the country
could not lie found in searching our whole
history. On this subject, we will not now
enlarge—our limits warn us to close—hut
before, doing it, let us urge our readers to
peruse the r port carefully,—it is well worth
the time. There is enough in it to show
that the bank ought not to he renewed, and
that there ought to be a more careful and
thorough investigation into its affairs. Con
gress will do well to appoint a committee for
this purpose, to sit during the summer and
fall.
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Whoever is accustomed to road the pages
of Blackwood's Magazine, need not he told
that it is a staunch advocate for the princit
pies of Tory-isrn. A late arrival has brought
us the first number of a .Magazine published
side by side with the former, in (lie good city
of Edinburgh, which appears designed as an
antidote to Blackwood, and all other publica
tions levelled against the cause of the peo
ple. “Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine” is its
title, and the following is a specimen of its
principles. Speaking of the great change
which has taken place in pubiic sentiment in
respect to tin! rights of the people, and which
is still in progress,. the Editors remark :
i: The fir-t note, in the march of this
“‘change, was sounded at. Lexington, in
America, riiere the first volley of musketry
was tired at the bosoms of the colonists; t here
the first blood flowed in a contest which had
its origin in the assertions of a great principle
of public liberty—viz, that taxation without
representation is tyranny and opurossion
• •'<! which, after various turns of fortune, re.
coiri .it . ‘-mmiuht rvi in victory and huh
: p'-ridenc-. Foilyswd infatuation, almost in
credible in these tunes, when tyrants have
become hotter instructed in the means ol
repression, aided the cause of justice and lib
erty. The might seemed in enormous dis
proportion to the right;—lfut the right, never
theli ss, prevailed. America was emancipa
ted ; ami, happily for herself, she found a
Washington to consolidate, by popular in-
ViVAion*, planted on the broadest basis, that
j troedojn arid mdepe donee’-which .he'had so
gloriously conquf red lor his country. A hat
freeman’s heart does not warm at die ri *me
of that samt-likc hero and guardian of liberty?
Arid who can think,without proud exultation,
: ol the conquest achieved by tiie wisdom of
franklin and the virtue of Washington? But
these great men, and scarcely less amiable
associates, conquered not for (hems Ives a
loue. They, indeed, overthrew and falsified
fill pre-existmg theories of government, by
establishing a pure democracy in one of the
I largest as well as richest count ri s of the
| world, and by organizing it so as to enable it
ito resist every shock to which it migh be ex
j posed, and to extend itself on every side with*
i out materially endangering the principle of
central union and strength. But this, con
j re< ! by itsoli, was not, in our estimation,
their greatest achievement. They gave a
new impulse to the human mind throughout
the whole civilized world. They roused it
from the lethargy into which it had sunk
They forced men to think, to inquire, and to
discuss. Asserting right against might—
principle against authority and dictation,—
they rallied around them the sympathies of
generous spirits in ail countries. For the
first time there began to be a public opinion.
Popular at first as are all wars with the un
thinking multitude, the disastrous events of
the contest soon produced a powerful reaction
in tins country. Parliament resounded witli
denunciations uttered in strains of eloquence
worthy ot the best days of Greece and Koine.
In the fierce collision of parties, and the dis
cussion of passing topics, great principles
were evolved. Light glenmed from the vves
tern sky, and was reflected, in a concentrated
and dazzling radiance, by the great mirrors
of Parliament. The press, too, became ani
mated ; and obscurely conscious of its power,
began to minister to that new-born appetite
which was destined to grow by w hat it fed
, on. “ A change had already come over
tho spirit of the timeand afforded an
auspicious prognostication of progressive
expansion in time to come. America is,
therefore, to he considered as the fatherland
of liberty in these modern davs.”
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From the Southern Banner.
THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY.
IVe call the attention of our traders to an
article in our paper to-day, signed “A Survey
or.” It is written by a gentleman in whose
statements wo place the most implicit confi
dence, and whoso opportunities for obtaining
correct information on the subject of Ins
communication has been very great; having
been employed for some time as a surveyor
in the Cncrokee country.
FOR THE SOUTHERN BANNER.
Messrs. Editors —Having recently return
ed from the Cherokee nation, I feel it rnv S
duty to give such intelligence as may be of
interest to the public.
I learn; and from a native, that when the Dele- j
gatiou returns lrom Washington Citv, it is
contemplated that the principal part of the
Indians, would bold a meeting to agitate tin
propriety of yielding to the wishes of the
General Government; and he gives it also
as his opinion, that there will be a treaty ef
fected during the present summer. 1 ascer
tained while in the nation, that manv of the
persons w!io have opposed the views and in- ■
terosts of Georgia, have heretofore obtained
valuable reservations in Hall and H ib.-rsham,
ami sold them, and are now comfortably set
tled on the most desirable spots in the na
tion. I heard of one individual who has been
favoured with two reservations, one in South
Carolina, ami one in Georgia, and was more-1
over permitted to give in ana draw a valua
ble prize in one of Georgia’s Land Lotteries, j
This man is now living on a beautiful farm!
in the Cherokee country, wi!ling(no doubt) to'
take another reservation, or receive a com
fortable portion of the money tint may be
finally paid by the Government for the In
dian country. One thing, perhaps unknown
to many, 1 would mention. 1 have been in
formed and mv information proceeds from a
source that may be confidently relied on, tint
some individuals claiming the right to emi
urate, hav* been engaged in purchasing the
Indian’s improvom nts at a reduced price,
paid too, in merchandize at a high per cent,
and having them valued astheironn improve
ments, the Indians still suffered as before, to
remain on Georgia land.
These things ought not so to be. Toe
Government ought to ascertain at whose door
this s n lieth. And here, Messrs. Editors,
suffer me to ask, how would this sit upon the
e rofonr Northern enemies, who are cry
ing against Georgia, “onpression and cruel
ty?”
There appears to be no disposition on the
part of the Indians to interrupt the survey of
the country, which is now rapidly progress
ing, some of tiie surveyors are nearly half
done, others, have but just commenced. The
different periods at which they entered upon
the discharge of their duties, will postpone
the completion of the survey until some time
in August. A"SURVEYOR.
Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Cab
inet, from a citizen of Warren County, en
gaged in the surrey of the Cherokee Coun
try, dated,
“ Ciierokei? CorxTY, May Ist, 1832.
We arrived in our district on Saturday
evening, the 21st April, all in good health.
On Sunday we made a partial examination of
some ofthedistrict lines and tfie State Line—
and on Monday morning, stretched our chain
and traversed the State line and the lines di
dividing the 17th from the 9th and 16th di>*
tricts.
Our appearance, and ihe object of our • is
it excited among the Natives, curiosity, and
those Whites who have intermarried with the
Natives, feelings of hostility toward us, our
state government and its authority.
At the time of our arrival, the Natives
were prompted to believe that they would he
soon reinstated in all their former Law"! and
institutions, but e’er a week passes they are
struck with consternation and dismay—and
those white, men, who have hithetofore lived
in idler.: *s and dissipation, who are attached
jto the laws an-! re,; J.t ons of th C •ro • ?,
[whocannot r< mam n.itfcer any civil govern
in' nt, and who h.iv- fled their various com/-
fries, fo.-vade g, r laws,are almost in despera
tion, since tin |: tt>-r of the Pr. sident, to the
Secretary oi V> nr, as r. ai hid tin an, requir
ing that they shall In removed early in Juno.
I lies are tiie men which have been paid for
tin; improvements anil possessions by Gov
ernment, and iti troth, the real intruders
among the Goerokees. Nev r was General
Jackson more just and politic in his course
towards Georgia, than in this act. —It is the
very course which (in iv opinion.) will ef
fect a 'Treaty, for ail the Lands, in.id by the
Gherokees within the chartered limits of the
State ; because it will root out those men
who have held power and offices in the Gov
ernment, and the remaining portion of the
Natives will now he seen enrolling them
si Ives for emigration. The Natives are g n
erally very friendly, particularly those, wiio
are remote f cm w hiie men.
Tnis section of country is very mountain
ous, but abounds with the purest cbrystal
streams 1 ever saw: here you may slake your
innst almost any where, from some purlin
rill or tumbling cataract, which issues from
the mountains on all sides.
*• Il‘ -omes, lis- comes.
The busy licrald oi a noisy world.**
CASE OF SAMUEL HOUSTON.
Samuel Houston was brought to the bar of
the House of Representatives. He was al
lowed to read and to have spread on the jour
nal of the House, a paper protest ing against
the authority of the House, hut avowing his
submission to it, under tiie circumstances in
which he was placed. The Speaker then
pronounced the reprimand required by the
vote of the House, for the contempt of the
House and Breach of Privilege thereof,com
mitted by Gen. Houston, in tho followin'*
words:
Samuel Houston:
You have been charged with a violation of
the ftglns and privileges of the House cf
R invsentatives, in having offered personal
violence to one of the members, tor words
spoken in debate. In exercising the hiirfi
and delicate power of ascertaining and vindi
cating their own privileges, the House have
proceeded throughout this investigation, ami
in relation to your individual rights, with all
that deliberation and caution which ought to
characterize the dignified and moral justice
of such an assembly.
You have been heard in person in defence
—you have been abb* and eloquently defend
ed by eminent counsel, and every facility at
forded you to place your criun fully and fair
ly before the House, anil to urg ■ upon its
consideration matters of principle as well as
of fact, in explanation ?.nd justification of your
conduct.
Whatever the motives or causes may have
net n, which led to the act of viol* nee corn
milled by you, your conduct lets been pro ,
hounced, hv the solemn judgment of tli.
House, to lie a high breacli of their rights
and privileges, and to demand their marked
disapprobation and censure.
if, in fulfilling the order of the House, i
were called upon, as its presiding officer, o
reprimand an individual uneducated arid un
inform. <l, it might he exoectcd that 1 should
ndenvor, as far as 1 was able, to impress up
on Hi in the importance and propriety of se
dulnusly guarding from violation the rights
and privileges secured to the members of tins
Hoi"’ by our invaluable Constitution. But,
when addressing a citizen of your chariict. r
and intelligence, and one who has himself
been honored by the People with a seat in
this House, it cannot be necessary that 1
should add to the duty enjoined upon me, In
dwelling upon the character or consequences
of the offence with which you have been
charged and found guilty. Whatever has a
tendency to impair the freedom of debate in
this House—a freedom no lees sacred tiia :
the authority of the Constitution itself—or to
detract from the independence of the Repre
sentatives of the People, m the rightful dis
charge of their high functions, you are no
doubt sensible, must in the same proportion,
weaken and degrade not only the Legislator
of the nation itself, hut the character of our
free institutions.
Your own mind will suggest to you, no
doubt, more suitable reflections than any
thing which 1 can say could convey. To
those reflections 1 am prepared to trust; nee
doubting that, had you at the time considered
the act of violence which you have commit
ted, in the light iri which itiias been regard
ed by the House, you would have been spared
its disapprobation and censure, and I the du
ty of declaring to you the result of it.
I forbear to say more, than to pronounce
the judgment of the House, which is. that you
have been guilty of a high breach of its privi
leges, and that you he reprimanded therefor,
at its Bar by the Speaker, and in obedience
to the order of the House 1 do reprimand you
accordingly.
You will now' he conducted from the 8.. r
of the House, and discharged from the custo
dy of the Sergcant-at-Arms.
From the Boston Statesman.
GEORGIA AN!) THE MISSIONARIES.
One of the grounds assumed by the friends
of the Georgia Missionaries, and we believe
by the Supreme Court, is, that as these Mis
sionaries arc citizens of Veimont, and as the
Constitution of the United States guarantees
that ‘The citizens of each State shall be enti
tled to all privileges and immunities of citi
zens in the several States,’ the State of Geor
gia had no rightto prohibit their residence
hi thin b.-r bounds, ev. n if the Cherokee coun
try was a part of her t rritory over u hieh ii r
jurisdiction was lawfully extended, in no
State, n it even excepting Massachusi its, have
the Indians and Missionaries found warmer
advocates than tfi Connecticut, and vet both
in this Slate and in that, the negroes and In
dians are deprived of many rights. Not only
so, but even white men arc ordered oil, in
ConrTf ctinut, under the prescribed forms of
Jaw, whenever tlx selectmen chose to think,
them ii ;.srich ttuptliov.fihr*- -The follow-’
ing, which we quote from a Canada pap- r
will show how these things w- re manage.,
in the land of blue laws and blue lights.
‘/o Amos Jackson.'’
You are hereby required am! commanded
to depart from the town of Newhavun, and
reside no more therein; and in case'you tie
not depart upon receiving this warning, you
will he compelled to pay one dollar and sixty
'even cents per week for the time you shall
remain; and in case yon do not depart from
said town and do not pay said sum p. r week.
you will be ichipped on the nai. and bode, m
exceeding ten stripes for i Vry week you aim.''
continue in said town.
‘W ILLIAM MIX, S. M.
‘New Haven County, Jan. 4. 1825
•To the Sheriff'of New H teen Count]/, or ci
ther of the Constables of said County ,
Grketixg :
‘You are hereby commanded to serve tfv
within warning to Amos Jackson, and mak
return thereof to me.
‘ls M. JfLY, Justice of the Peace.’
Now is there any thing more unreasonabl
in iii Georgia law—a law rendered mv. ssa
r> by in ; particular situation, than in the sta
tute of Connecticut. The white settlers a
moug the Chcrokees were believed to exer
cise ad. lei nous influence among those sava
ges, and the Legist-ture order them to take
an oath to obey the laws of the State wit in
wtios limits they reside or quit th< territory
making disobedience punishable by im
prisonment in the penitentiary. Which is
worst, whipping or imprisonment
Air. Clay's Infantile Convention. —With
all proper respect for the young gentlemen
composing the Clay Convention lately assem
bled at Washington, (we ough to treat them
deferentially since many of them are our sen
iors in age; albeit, wc are not in extreme
vouili ourselves,) w f 6 are unable to read their
proceedings with any thing like gravity. We
cannot for the life of us get into the merits of
their case We cannot fathom their object.
We le g some intelligent lad of the number
to have compassion on ourcase, and tell us
, what they propose to profit by this display of
theirs. It certainly was not necessary, as a
means of placing Mr. Clay before the pubi c
as a candidate for the Presidency,for that had
ui eady been done in due form by a regular
convocation of the elder orethren in Israel.—
If they merely wanted to make speeches at
Gen. Jackson, they could have gathered boys
enough at home to hear them, without put
ting Pi to the expense of sending them .ill
the way to Washington, and keeping M i’s
mind in uneasiness lest some accident should
befal the tender darlings while so far from
home. However, it’s none of our affair exact
ly. It is an xceedingly childish freak, that’s
all. Mr. Clay visited them and made them
a speech, in which he tol l the youths w hat
lie would do when ho was President H
ric. .1 give himself little trouble on this score,’
he never will be President.
Camden Journal.
We understand by u passenger in the schr.
Ambuscade, troin Bt. John’?, East Florida,
that Col. Gadsden has made a treaty with the
Seminole Indians, by which they all agree o
move West of the Mississippi. The whole to
r move within three years, or earlier it prac
ticable.
Ad. l. gation of 'he Chiefs is lo go on to
examine toe country, and to make necessaiy
arrangements. Col. Gadsden was to proceed
lo Washington iinai. .liately. ..Charleston Con.
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For the Advertiser*
fi'oi'truil fLaitilmg.
Mr. 51ade.... 1 beg the privilege of calling
public attention through the medium of your in
teresting paper, to one of tiie most tasteful bran
ches of the fine arts. ..I allude to Painting in its
most accomplished sphere... that of expressing the
beauties of nature...in delineating & pourtraying
the glowing beauties of an animated countenance
It is, (to use the graphic description of Shaks
peare) “ holding the mirror up to nature,” pour
tray ing on canvass the beau ideal of the poet's
imagination. Our youthful artists, and those par
tic ulary who have claims to superiority, and a na
tural tasti-f Should meet with a liberal patronage*.
Believing Mr. .Sherwood, who is now in our
town, to he such a one, and having sufficient as
surance of his having devoted his time to the ac
complishment of success in the art, I would re
spectfully call the attention of all who may desire
to see their noble selves in glowing canvass.
MENANDER.
Por the Advertiser*
Internal fiitttroiemetti.
Brunswick , 5/A J/ y, 1832.
Mn. Slade; —Permit me to say, tiirotjjjh
tlie medium of vour paper, that tlie prepara
tory work of tile Hruuswick Rail Road, is
now fairly commenced and progressing ra
pidly, in proportion to the means and force at
this time employed.
1 now flatter myself, more than ever, with
the prospect of seeing the great principh,
for which ! have so long been cont. nding,
carried into practical and successful opera
tion within two years, so far as relates to this
port, namely ;— To open ail the most prumi
'tent and practical outlets to the ocean and
','ice the people of the. interior a. fair chnAce ;
which i conceive to be the only correct re
publican principle and policy, which can he
pursued, with any degree of certainty of suc
cess and profit.
It any portion of the population of Geor
gia, more than another, arc home down and
kept iii the back ground, for tiie want of a
bub' co-operative enterprise, in opening in s
elegant pori to their relief, it is that portion
most contiguous to those natural outlets —the
Oetnulgee—tie? Oco o and- t\> Abamah i
rivers, which by tin late, census, amount to
upwards of two hundred thousand souls.
The amount, which will ho extracted from
the’ labour of that portion of our fellow citi
zens of tlie past year, by way ot down freight,
commission, wharfage, insurance, other char
ges and damage, on one hundred cud twenty
'iTioiisand hales of Cotton, which vv ||
•'esc udeuth'- ntoresaid rivers (of the *' aSl;
of J 881) will amount to tins enornjnug
of $420,000, at $3 .50 p r bale ;,f w " 6 **
iii the expenses he. iiidcpendant of dnnat.'
nit! mending, from Macon and Mil!odo u iP
and t lelandi ,gs below, until the cotton "'.’
r.ves along side of the ships, winch must f"
employe ! It. transport it (by sea) f rQII , J,’
sea-imard, o Europe and the northern l c j ti(i J
which must he considered a fair caleuLt', ,7
and within omuls, as all sue . down freight’
charges, &c. are deducted from the price ')
' e action, when purchased from the planter
mlm . coi.ht of $420,000, may l )e
.eil 1 -r up freights, commissions, wharf,!'
l insurance, other charges, damage, &
gotxis, wares and merchandize of all l-JJ"
in r. turn, tm interna!consumption (by
of the present ireuiious roqto of inland ui
igation) from tire ships to Macon, Milled**
vilie, and the landings bt low— making a ft fr '
g.-tfmr, a burden Uoon the people'of the
;ifor, sa,d portion of the .State of, at l e J
$840,000 p. r annum. The opening of tl,*
port ot Brunswick, which can he done u
the completion of the Rail Road, for a L:.
*.>5,000 will not only relieve the people of
t te middle and western counties, of the hea.
vy burden of extra freights each way, C on -
missions, wharfage, insurance, othei chara c !
da -age, he. under which they now labour’
hut it will lead to lessening the freight d o , vt ’
ami up tiie Altamaha and its tributaries so
as !:urt,en ’ at ,east > oric half—
say g>4-.U,U00 per annum.
Tins as the great object of my advocacy
and f:erstveranee in thecause of Brunswick
‘t ,!i the cause of people, and for the prom 0
tion of the agriculture and commerce of the
State.
" hen we view this subject correctly j t
dors appear to me that the tarijf at homf, 0 (
x ta freights, (each way)commissions,wtiar
f ;ge, insurance, other charges, damage
under winch the people of (he middle and
w stern counties are now laboring, for want
of the port of Brunswick, is an hundred fold
more oppressive ami destructive of ihe fruits
of their labor than the tariff' of the United
Stale of 1828, and that is bat! onouuii we all
know. W. B. DAVIS.
COTTON ( ROP OF 1831—32. """
We arc indebted to a respectable and in
telligent merchant of this city, for the fol.ow.
ing Estimate of the Cotton Crop of 1831-32
in the U. States:
Actual receipt at N. Orleans
_ to Ist inst. 262,000
Estimated receipts from Ist
May to Ist October, from
letters of respectable mer- r *
chants, 85,000
347,000
Actual receipts at Mobile,
to Ist May, 119,003
To be received up to Ist of
October, 5,(100
124,030
Deduct this amount shipped
to N.Orle ms and embra
ced m exports from both
places, IG,OOO 108.030
Exports from the Gulf ot
Florida, to other places
than N. Orleans, 13,000
Total exports from the Gulf
of Mexico, 468,000
Exports from Savannah and
Charleston, lo Ist inst. 289,000
Mock in hotii places, 73,039
Do. in the interior of Geor
gia and S. Carolina, 43,000 404,000
Estimated exports from N.
Carolina & Virginia. 60,000
932,000
Allow for short estimation, 8,000
Total crop of the U. States, 940,000
Supposing the stork of old Cotton remain
ing our, in the ports ol New York, Boston,
dVc. on the Ist October last, to have been
40, 00 bales, and that it will be less by
20,009 hales bn the 21st October next, and,
admitting the stocks in Charleston, Savannah,
md Augusta, to be reduced to 10,000 bales
at the same period—it will leave 950,000
hales of American cotton to supply the wants
0f the present year.
The consumption of the U.
States will amount to, 210,000
Leaving for foreign exports, 730,000
France and the continent,
will need, it is said, 225,000
Leaving for the supply of
Great Britain 505,000
The present Stock in Augusta, 22,000 bales.
Augusta Chronicle.
FRESH BUTTER....SeveraI hundred pounds
Fresh Butter, just received and for sale by
JOHN L. MUSTIAN.^
Established Line. The Ship ine of New*
York Pnek'rts, having resumed their regular
trips. The day of sailing from this port, will be
every Monday during the balance of the season,af
ter tiie arrival of the Augu*t.a Sleani Packets;
and on this arrangement, passengers from the in
terior may rely with certainty.
The vessels composing the line are
Ship Emperor, J. H. Bennett, Master.
“ Pierian, 'l'. J. Leavitt “
“ Stalira, T. Wood “
“ Macon, D. L. Porter “
“ Queen Mali, J. Bailey
New Ship 1). Wood “
All first class New York built ships, having
excellent furnished accommodations for passen
gers, and commanded by men well known, and
of great experience in the trade.
HAi 1.. SHATTER k TUPPER, Agents.
Savannah', April 11,1-33. 1~~ l ~~ _
L LI. persons indebted either by note or a ( '*
J\ count to M. Felton & fin. are requested to
con * forward and settle up by the Ist .4 May,"
their Notes and Account-- will be placed in
hands of an officer for collection.
M. PE I.TFV.