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OIITII EASTERN. BORDER TROUBLE, j
It was stated some days ago lint the State !
of Maine had despatched a land Agent to the
disputed territory for ?’ 1 pre\onl
ine depredation? vn the i.mber lands m thsU
region. The agent was gecompanied hy a ‘
Oijiiv ol armed in. n, for oij pui p.i-e ol Citr* ,
ryiug out effectually the order of the Slate in .
the “matter, but it appears by the following j
account that he has been captured by the j
trespassers. We greatly icar that serious <
trouble to the twocountneswillyetari.se from ,
this long continued and truly vexatious dis-j
pule:
Whig ari l Cornier Office. > • j
Banij.R, Ft:Saury 14. J j
Repress from the Aroostook. — Capture of
the land Agent of Maine. —Hasting Strick
land, Esq. the sheriff of this County, lias
passed through this city on his way to Au
gusta, having left the Aroostook River, yes
terday noon. During his short stop here, we j
learn, that the expedition reached the mouth ;
of the Little Madawaska, last Tuesday night!
and encamped there. Mr. Mclntire the j
Land Agent, with Gustavus Cushman, Esq.!
of this city, went down the River a few miles .
in company with Ebenezer Webster, Esq. j
ofOrono, and Mr. Pilsbury of this city, who
were engaged in clearing out the Aroostook
Falls and had nothing to do with the expe
dition, and put up at a Mr. Fitzherbert’s
about three miles this side of the line.
In the course of the night, an armed party
of about 50 men came over from the Tnbique
settlement and captured ail these persons and
took them over the line to the St. John Riv
er, whete it was understood they had about
300 men, under arms. In the course of the
night, the parly encamped at the mouth of
the Little Madawaska, were apprized of the
capture of Mr. Mclntire, and immediately de
spatched four men belonging to the Old
Town company, to reconnoitre, who were
also captured.
The Expedition having driven off all she
trespassers, had returned to the mouth of the
St. Croix. Near Beaver brook they found a
crew of thirteen trespasses who fired upon
them and fled. Mr. Strickland’s horse was
wounded, but not dangerously. The tres
passes were pursued and five of them taken
and six horses, which are expected here day
utter to-morrow.
Mr. Strickland says further, that the arms
which the men have at the Tornbique settle
ment belong to the Government of New
Brunswick, and that a military force teas on
the march from Fredrickton.
A large amount of timber was found cut
on the Aroostook river, f and the trspassers
who have been driven off, and are now in
arms at the mouth of the river, declare their
intention of returning as soon as our foice is
withdrawn.
From the N. Y. Daily Exprees, Feb. 22.
FROM THE MAINE FRONTIER.
From Houlton (Me.) we learn that the
Lieut. Governor of New Brunswick has is
sued -a Proclamation calling out a Military
Force ‘ to repel an invasion from Maine.’—
Things begin to look more serious on this
Frontier.
Governor Fairfield has sent a message to
llie Legislature recounting the circumstances
of the arrest of the Land Agent, and propo
sing to send a reinforcement of 300 men to the
Aroostook.
Gov. Fairfield’s Message differs in some of
the particulars from those which have reach
ed us from Bangor. He says that the Ires
passers, 300 in number, well armed and pre
pared /or resistance, retreated before the
Maine party, in consequence of finding that
the latter were armed with a field piece.—
The Land Agent advanced with bis military
forces to the mouth of the Little Madawaska,
which is about seven miles from the New
Brunswick line, where it (here encamped, as
the Governor says, on Monday night, having
dun ■ y captured a gang of twenty trespas
sers. He then proceeded on the same night,
with Mr. Cushman, his legal ad viser, six miles
:u , and there took lodgings in the face
f the enemy, at Mr. Ftizherbert’s,a mile and
a nan from the Province line.
The next we find of the military force is at
No. 10, on the Aroostook, at the mouth of
the St. Croix, fortified and anticipating an
attack. This place is not less titan flirty
miles in the rear, and the move must have
been made with a considerable degree of
expedition, as they were there left by the
Sheriff) at 1-2 o’clock on Wednesday. On
Thursday at 4 o’clock P. M. the Sheriff'ar
rived at Bangor a distance of 130 miles, his
track line lying mostly through an entirely
unsettled region. At 2 o’clock on Friday
morning he arrived at Augusta.
The force which went out under the com
mand of the Land Agent, was enlisted under
the following Resolved of the Maine Legisla
ture, adopted at the recent secret session.
Resolve relating to trespassers upon the
Public Lands:—
Resolved, That the Land Agent he and is
hereby authorized and required to employ
forthwith sufficient force to arrest, detain and
imprison all persons found trespassing on the
territory of ibis State, as bounded and estab
lished by the treaty of 1783, and that the
“Land Agent be and is hereby empowered to
dispose of all the teams, lumber and other
materials in the hands and possession of said
trespassers, in such way and manner as he
ntay deem necessary and expedient at the
time, by destroying the same or otherwise.—
And that the sum of ten thousand dollars be
and hereby is appropriated for the purpose of
carrying this Resolve into effect, and that the
Governor, with the advice of the Council, he
and is hereby authorized to draw his warrant
from time to time, lor such sums as mav be
required for the purposes aforesaid.
January 24, 1539. Approved :
JOHN FAIRFIELD.
From the Fredericton Royal Gazette Extra.
THE BRITISH PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Major general Sir John
Harvey, K. C. B. and K. C. 11. Lieutenant
Governorand Commander in Chief of the
Province of'New Brunswick, <§\\, isv..
JOHN HARVEY.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, I have received information that
n party of armed persons, to the number of j
tivo hundred, or more, have invaded a por
tion of this Province, under the jurisdiction
of Her Majesty’s Government, from the J
neighboring State of Maine, for the professed
object of exercising authority, and driving off
persons stated to be cutting Limber therein ;
and that divers other persons have without I
anv legal authority, taken np arms with the ■
intention of resisting such invasion and out- :
rage, and have broken open certain stores in
Woodstock, in which arms and ammunition!
belonging to her .Majesty were deposited,
and have taken the same away for that pur
pose,—l do hereby charge and command all
persons concerned in such illegal acts, forth
with to return the arms and ammunition, so
illegally taken, to their place of deposite,’ ns
the Government of the Province will take
care to adopt all necessary measures for re
sisting anv hostile invasion or outrage that
mav be attempted upon any part of her Maj
esty’s Territories or subjects.
And I do hereby charge and command all
Magistrates, Sheriffs, and other Officers, io
be vigilant, aiding and assisting in the appre
hension of ail persons so offending and to
bring them to justice. And in order to aid
and assist the Civil Power in fi at respect, if
necessary, I have ordered a sufficient Milita
ry Force to proceed forthwith to tiie pi ice
where these outrages are represented to
have been committed, as well to repel Fr
---eio-n invasion, ns to prevent the illegal ns
sumption of arms by Her Majesty’s subjects
in this Province.
And further, iu orJer to be prepared, if
necessity, to call in llie aid of ihe Constitu- 1
tional Miiitii lo;ee of the country, 1 do here
by charge and command the officers com
manding the first aml second battalions Hie
•mill hos tiit* county of Cat. ton. forthwith to
proceed as u,e law directs, to the drafting ol
a body of men, to consist of one fourth of the
strength of each of those Battalions, to be in
readiness for actual service, should occasion
require.
Given under nay band and seal at Frederic
ton, thepbirteenlh day of February, iu the
year ol our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and thirty nine, and iu the second
year of Her Majesty’s reign.
Bv ll.s Excellency’s command.
W.M. F. ODELL.
God save the Queen.
From ihs N. Y. Express, Feb. 23.
LATER FROM THE MAINE FRONTIER.
We have accounts from Bangor to Mon
| day evening. The troops were preparing to
i march to the frontier.
The Dexter R.fle Company of that cilv,
j one of the best independent corps of the
! state, on learning that volunteers were want-*
!ed, every man belonging to it came forward
i and offered his services.
From th>- Boston Daily Advcrtisr.
B a soon, Mu., Fub. 18, 1833.
The work of enlisting and drafting men
has been very busily pursued here 10-dav,
and with much success. Sheriff Strickland
has completed his complement as I under-
I stand, and the men have ail been sent for
j ward with ammunition and provisions. Trie
j prisoners taken by our men at the Aroostook,
land the four teams, have arrived during the
| day. b.
Three whole companies have been de
; (ached from the city, consisting of the Rifle
j corps, the Artillery, and Independent Vo
-1 iunteers. In addition to these about another
company has been firmed by draft from the
local infantry in the city. Great enthusiasm
prevails, not only in the city, but throughout
| the country. Large numbers have come in
voluntarily, but as yet none have arrived
under the military order. They will come
in probably to-morrow. Their place of ren
dezvous is at the Bangor House, from which
place they ate to march on Wednesday
morning.
Provisions are in great demand here and
bring a very high price. Business, in a great
measure, is at a stand, war being the
general theme of conversation and the all
absorbing subject of interest.
Your truly, P.
Five of the trespassers taken prisoners.—
The Aroostook expedition arrived at Bangor
on Monday noon.
On Monday Governor Fairfield communi
cated a second Message to the Legislature,
ol which tiie following is the concluding
part.
Since writing ihe foregoing, I have re
ceived a communication from the Lt. Go
vernor of the Province of New Brunswick, in
which he sets up an alledged agreement that
the British government shall have exclusive
jurisdiction and possession of the disputed
territory, until the question be settled, and
informs us that fie is instructed not to suffer
anv interference with the possession and ju
risdiction. He entreats us to withdraw the
Land Agent’s party, and adds that he has
directed a strong force of her Majesty’s
troops to be in readiness to support her Ma
jesty’s authorities and protect her Majesty’s
subjects in the disputed territory, in the event
of this request not being immediately com
plied with.
In regard to all this, I have only to say
that, for one, I see no reason to doubt the
entire correctness of the course we have thus
far pursued, and wilh the blessing of God, I
trust we shall persevere.
No such agreement as that alluded to bv
the Lt. Governor can be recognised bv us.
and it is an entire misapprehension, to say
the least of it, that such an agreement has
ever been made.
The letter having been written before Mr.
Mclntire readied Fredericton, no official
communication is made as to the course in
tended to be pursued in regard to him and
those arrested vvitli him. I learn, however,
indirectly that they are to he retained.
I am informed that the Land Agent’s par
ty have stationed themselves for the present
at termination of the Aroostook road. While
there, Mr. McLaughlin, the Provincial Land
Agent, presented himself and in the name of
her majesty, warned our party to disperse.
Mr. McLaughlin and his two assistants were
thereupon taken into custody, and the Land
Agent and one assistant sent to Bangor,
where they are now detained.
Copies of the Proclamation and letter of
the Lt. Governor of New Brunswick are
herewith communicated.
JOHN FAIRFIELD.
The following is the communication from
Sir John,Harvey to Governor Fairfield.
Government House, Fredericktojt, )
New Brunswick, Feb. 13, 1839. f
Sir—l have just heard, with the utmost
surprise and regret, that, without the courte
sy of any previous intimation whatever to
this government, an armed force from the
State of Maine has entered the territory, the
claim to which is in dispute betwixt Great
Britain and the United States, and which, it
j has been agreed betwixt the two govern
j inents, shall remain in the exclusive posses
sion and jurisdiction of England, until the
j claim be determined.
| It lias been my duty on more Ilian one oc
casion, to apprise the Executive govern
; ment ol Maine, that my instructions” do not
| permit me to suffer any interference with
tiiat possession and jurisdiction, until the
question ol right shall have been finally de
cided, in discussion betwixt the two Govern
ments.
j W ill) the knowledge of these instructions,
I thus explicitly made known, I cannot but
repeat tiie expressions of tlie deep regret
! which I feel, that instead of seeking thejr re
j cal or modification, through the Presidential
government, the state of Maine should thus
| have forced upon a subordinate officer, the
| alternation of either failing in his duty, by
{abstaining from the fulfilment of the com-
I mands of his Soverign, or, by acting up to
j them, placing the two countries in a stale of
! border collision, if not the two nations in im-
I mediate and active hostility.
Such, nevertheless, is the position in which
i I find myself placed by this overt acf on the
j part of the state of Maine, one from which I
i do not hesitate in entreating your Excellen-
Icv to relieve me, by ordering the immediate
| recall of a force, whose presence within the
! precincts of the territory as claimed by Eng
i land, it is contrary to my instructions to per
i mit, and it is proper that I should acquaint
your Excellency, that 1 have directed a strong
force of her Majesty’s troops to he in readi
ness to support her Majesty’s authority, and
to protect her Majesty’s subjects, in tiie dis
puted territory, in the event of this request
not being immediately complied with. W ith
regard to any other plea for these proceed
ings on the part of the state of Maine, con
netted with timber spoliations in that territo
ry. I have to inform your Excellency, that J
have given directions for a boom to be placed
across the mouth of the Aroostook, where
the seizing officer, protected by a sufficient
guard, will be able to prevent the passage of
I any timber into the St. Johns in the spring.
■ or to seize it and expose it to public sale, tor
| the benefit of the ‘disputed territory fund.’
Similar precautions will be adopted in re
gad to any timber c I upon the upper St.
, Johns, or the tributary streams falling into it.
j Awaiting anxiously vour Excellency's ie
j o,v to tins communication, I have the honor
I tA r>e Your Excellency’s
Mo&t ol) v l. hum!*!** serv’t,
1 ‘ J. HARVEY.
I lie Legislature, immediately on the re-1
ceipt of the Governor s message, passed re- ■
solutions requesting him to call tin the Gene
ral government lor aid to support the U'-tits
ol the state ol Maine ; that the honor and
tiie interests ol the state demand that a suf
ficient military lorce be stationed on the
Aroostook river to pievent depredations on
the public lands, and to preserve the timber
already cut, and to prevent its removal out
ot the state ; and appropriating SBOO,OOO to
enable tiie government to carry out the pur
poses ol the resolutions. The following mes
saoe was sent by Governor Everett to the
Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit to the two houses copies of se
veral documents received from his Excel
lency ihe Governor of Maine, on the IStli
and 19th inst. They relate to the trespasses
committed on the public lands of Maine and
Massachusetts, by hands of plunderers asso
ciated in large bodies, for the purpose ol car
rying on their operations without interrup
tion. The measures la Ken by Maine to
enable her land agent to put a stop to these
depredations, and the purpose of resisting
those measures hy military force announced
by the Lt. Governor of the Province of New
Brunswick, will appear from the papers com
municated. The course adopted and me
naced hy the local authorities of New Bruns
wick has led ihe Legislature of tiie Slate of
Maine to the adoption of vigorous measures
tor the protection of tiie public property, and
the defence of the agents employed iu re
moving the depredators.
Among ihe papers transmitted by Gov
h airfield, :s a copy of a resolve of the House
ot Representatives of Maine, of the 13ili inst.
requesting the aid of Massaclaisetls in the
measures adopted bv Maine relative to the
trespassers on the public lands. The opin
ions and feelings of Massachusetts on the
Great questions connected with the North
Eastern Boundary, have been so often set
lorth in the public aels of her Legislature and
Executive, that they do not need to be re
peated. The Land Agent of the Common
wealth has at all times efficiently co-operated
with the Land Agent of Maine in all the
measures for the protection of the property,
which fall within ihe ordinary duties of those
offices. I had the honor in my address to
the Legislature at the beginning of the sea
son, as on more than one former occasion of
(lie same kind, to call the attention of the two
Houses to the ruinous extent of the depreda
tions committed on the public lands in that
region. The rightful sovereignty and go
vernment of the territory belonging exclu
sively to Maine, Massachusetts has no juris
diction over it and possesses only an interest
in a moiety of the soil. For this reason no
further steps on our part, have been deemed
within the competence of Massachusetts, to
maintain her rights in the territory which
forms the subject of the controversy, so 1 >ng
protracted between tfie governments of the
United States and Great Britain. Should a
state of things unhappily arise in which tiie
government of the United States shall call
upon Massachusettes for her assistance in
asserting the rights too long and so injuri
ously withheld, I am persuaded that the call
will receive a prompt response from ihe Le
gislature and the people.
EDWARD EVERETT.
Council Chamber, Feb. 20, 1339.
Tallahassee, Feb. 23,1839.
Our citizens have for the last week been
kept in continual excitement, by ihe reports
of continued Indian murders. In addition to
the massacre of Mr. Pindarvis, his wife and
two children, which we noticed in our last, we
have to record the attack upon three wagons
on the Magnolia road, loaded with provis
ions tor Camp Wacissa, about nine miles
from that place, in which four more indi
viduals were added to the list of savage mas
sacre. A Mr. S. Guess, of Virginia, who
owned and was driving one of the wagons,
and Henry Swan, wife and child, from Mag
nolia, were killed, and Mr. Blackmore, anoth
er driver, was badly wounded in the shoul
der, hut escaped, and was found disabled in
the edge of a pond, thirly-six hours after the
attack. A negro, driving the foremost wa
gon, escaped unhurt.* The Indians accord
ing to Mr. Blackmore numbered from fifteen
to twenty.
On Monday last the Tallahassee Guards
had a brush with the Indians in the Waculla
hammock, in which Mr. Hague was killed.
One Indian was killed in the fight. The In
dians mostly left the hammock on Monday
night, and made their way across the St.
Marks river, where they attacked and burn-*
ed the wagons. Our citizens, with great*
promptness, repaired to the assistance of their
unfortunate neighbors—several companies
have been in pursuit but returned without
success.
Gen. Read is yet in pursuit with a party
of horse, and we learn the r gular troops
have returned and are now in the Magnolia
hammock, where it is believed ihe Indians,
to the number of 40 or 50, are congregated.
All these depredations and murders have’
been committed within ten miles of the capi
tol of the Territory, the regular troops in the
field being insufficient to guard the frontier,
and from present advices from Washington
no further measures have been adopted For
the defence and protection of our citizens.—
We believe, however, the Legislative Coun
cil will authorise the Governor to raise Iroops
for the defence of the frontier in the present
emergency, and until Congress shall adopt
some efficient measures to rlose the war.—
Sixty or seventy men have already reported
for duty, and will, to-day, join those already
in the field.— Floridian.
An Eruption of Vesuvius. —A letter pub
lished iu a late Erench paper, dated Naples,
January sth, says:
‘Early in the morning ot New Year’s day
we were awakened by a violent explosion like
the report of cannon, and soon discovered
that it was an eruption of Vesuvius. In half
an Lour afterwards a dense cloud of smoke
and ashes covered Naples, having the same
effect, from the electrical fluid issuing from it,
as generally precedes a summer storm. Ap
prehensions were entertained for the city;
but the wind changed and carried the cinders
towards the shore at Portlci. Tne eruption
ceased in the evening, but the detonations re
commenced on tiie 24, and continued through
out the day. The earth was constantly trem
ulous under our leet. In the evening Vesuvi
us was all on fire, and the lava flowed down
into the plain between Portici and Torre del
Greco, committing great ravages. On the
Sd, the mountain became more quiet, and in
the evening was not so much inflamed as on
the preceeding night but sent out continual
flashes, which is a phenomenon extremely
rare. Since yesterday it has been at rest. —
It’ the eruption had continued as it began, we
should have seen a renewal of what happen
ed in 1822, when, during three days, Naples
was covered with cinders, and candles had to
he lighted at mid day.’
FROM VERA CRUZ.
The United States sloop of war Levant.
Hiram Paulding, Esq. Commander, touched
at the Balize on Sunday last, on her way fioni
Vera Cruz (whence she sailed 14th instant)
to Pensacola. She brings about $40,000 spe
cie, which has been placed on board the tow
boat Tennessean, which vessel may be look
ed for to-dav.
We are indebted to the politeness ot an
off]-- r attached to the Levant, for a copy of
the * Cosmopolita,’ printed in the city of Mex
ico, of the 24 inst. but it contains little news
of importance. Tne federal party appears
to he triumphing throughout the principal
States of the Republic.
Gen. Avista, who was mad prisoner by j
the French at the time an attempt was made
to force them to quit the harbor of Ver.i |
Cruz, has been liberated, and was expected !
to arrive in tiie city oi Mexico about the sth
February. Geti. Santa Ana left Vera Cruz
on the I2th inst. Ibr the seat of government,
to enter upon the duties of President ad in- j
terim, while Bustamente, at the head of a !
strong lorce, marched against Tampico-—and
as our advices from that place represent Gen.
Uirea determined to cut bis way into the
thickest of the central party, we may soon
expect to have tidings of a bloody and prob
ably ihcisjre battle being fought somewhere
m the vicinity of San Louis Potosi.
The blockade of Vera Cruz was still vigo
rously enforced.
We likewise have an arrival from Meta-1
moras, but no news of interest. An Ameri
can sloop of war was off that place on the
12th inst.—supposed to-be tiie Warren.— JV.
O. Bulletin.
From the New Era.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF WAYS
AND MEANS. j
The Chairman of the Committee o! ‘ \\ ays
and means’ has draughted an able report on
the state of the Treasury, and tiie expenses
of the government ; and” presented it for the
j consideration of Congress. It exhibits a
comparative statement of the expenses ol the
| nation from the formation of the government
| to the present period, and the increase in ap
propriations for works of national improve
ment.
The report is clearly and perspicuously
drawn ; it inculcates in forcible language tiie
fundamental aim of republicanism—'econo
my in public expenses’—which is intimately
connected with the perpetuation of Demo
cratic principles, and in fact constitutes the
broad foundation upon which the glorious
principles rest. Mr. Pickens, of South Ca
rolina, in his eloquent speech delivered on
the presentation of this report, characterises
it ‘as a paper congenial to the spirit and gen
ius of our institutions, and purely Republican
in all its sentiments and propositions ; and
that iet anv party act upon its principles,
and they may always rely upon the open and
unqualified support of the North and the
South.’
For the purpose of affording the reader
j some idea of the enormous increase in the
administration of the Federal government,
since the days of the simple patriarchs of the
revolution, I have arranged the items enume
rated in this report, under the following ab
stract table:
Table of the comparative expenses of the U.
S. Government , at different periods since
its formation in 1789.
Fsot Office expenses. —ln 1790, the mails
were transported not more than the distance
of 100.000 miles.
Expenses of collecting the revenue. —The
annual expenses for collec'iug the revenue
lor tiie first ten years after 1789, were $293,-
000.
* Legislative expenses of the Federal Govern
ment. —Annual expenses for the first ten
years, $171,000.
Annual contingent ditto, SIO,OOO.
Executive Department. —Annual expenses
for the first ten years, $195,000.
Judiciary. —Annual expenses for the first
ten years, $61,000.
Expenses of the Courts of United States. —
$30,000.
t lndian Department. —Annual expenses for
the first ten years, $32,000.
Appropriations for r0ad5. —1791,52,000,-
000.
Appropriations for light houses. —Annually
for the first ten years, $32,000.
For fortifications —Annual expenses from
1789 to to ’9B, SIOB,OOO.
Pension Department. —Expenses for the
first, twenty-six years, $34,000.
Expenses for improvement of harbors and
rivers. —The first appropriation was made in
1802; prior to 1816, only $36,449 had been
expended.
Aggregate resources of U. S. Government
for 1839.—'528,900,000.
Post Office expenses. —ln 1835—34,580,202
miles.
Expenses of collecting th - revenue.—Ave
nue for tlie lasi ten years, $1,232,000.
For 1838—51,500,000.
Legislative expenses of the Federal Govern
ment. — For IS3S, S9S2 000.
Continued, $373,980.
Executive Department. —For 1833, $795,-
000.
Judiciary. — For 1833, $484,000.
jnffct ditto, $342,000.
expenses . —Estimate lor 1839,
§206.484.
‘lndian Department. —Appropriation for
1839, $844,960. This increase is owing to
annuities and stipulations under treaties with
Ihe Indians, entered into since 1789.
Appropriations for roads. —For 1838,
,$540,000.
Appropriations for light houses. —Forlß3S,
$663,873.
For fortifications. —Estimate for 1539,
$1,269,000.
Pension Department. —Aggregate for the
present year. $4,241,000.
Number of pensioners, 42,500.
Expenses for improvement of harbors. —
Grand aggregate, $12,302,500. Estimate
for completion, $4,650,842.
•Aggregate charges upon the Treasury. —
$32,76,857. Leaving a deficit of $3,976,-
857.
* Enormous sums have been expended by Congress
for public documents. Two contracts a.one cost the
nation $7Bl 023.
f The expenditures for Indian lands and wars have
amounted, within a few years past, *o $50.C00, I COO.
J A DEMOCRAT.
Business of the Custom House. —The fol
lowing aostract, for which we are indebted to
the Collector, shows a very large business
done last month :
Packages sent to the Appraiser’s store for
examination, in the month of January, in the
following years. It will be remembered that
1836 was the great year for importations:—
Year. Year. Year.
1836 1838 1839
No. packages. No. packages. No. packages.
5440 1844 7902 =
Showing an excess this year over last, of
605S packages, and over 1836, of 2462 pack
ages.
Duty Bonds taken in January of the fol
lowing years;—
1836 1838 1839
Bonds. Bonds. Bonds.
2483 783 2543
‘ THE WORK GOES BRAVELY uN.
Internal Improvement. —We are happv to
learn that there is already seventy-five miles
ol the Georgia Rail Road completed, and
that the cars are now running to Temperance,
within ten miles of Crawford, Taliaferro coun
ty. The passengers average from ninety to
one hundred per day, and the income is stated
to be-SIB,OOO per month. This on SBOO,OOO
paid in, would make a clear profit of 25 per
cent. This is cheering news, and sincerely
do we congratulate the peo; ie of that section
ol the country, on the grat lying fact. The
prosperity of any part ol Georgia, will be
I always to us, a source of pride and satisfac
tion ; and ah we desire, is to see every cor
ner ol the Slate exerting iiself lo win the
pr ze in the great race of Internal Improve
ment.
W lien the fact we have just announced is
coupled with the great expedition which our
own rail road is making, what will the croak
ers say, who do not love to see Fortune scat
tering her favors with a lavisli land?—Sa
vannah Georgian.
FROM MEXICO.
Great uncertainty yet prevails as to the ex -
relations between Mexico and France.
Reports have reached this through several
cliauueis, representing that the controversy
had been amicably adjusted. There are cir
cumstances which go very strongly to confirm
these statements. The return of” the Prince
ile Joinviile to Havana,and the announcement
ot Ids intention to proceed to France, are
facts that show that the war with Mexico
was over. 1 tie gallantry of the young Prince
would not sutler him to leave the scene of
conflict, while there was a chance of partici- j
|ating in the glory ot a military conquest of
Mexico. On the other hand, some doubts
are suggested by accounts recently received
Irom iampico. A gentleman who sailed
from that port on the 15th instant, states that
nothing was said about peace at Tampico,
although they had news from Vera Cruiz to
the 10th of February. The intelligence liorn
the interior was favorable to the arms and
progress of the Federal party., Gen. Urrea
had gone to San Louis De Potosi—Gen.
Mexia to Puspan, and Gen. Demos to Mel
amoras. Every where on the road the
people received them with open arms. It
was said the force under Urrea at San Louis
would be little short of 3000 men. The port
of Tampico was not blockaded by any ships
of war, nor was there any restriction upon
commerce with the interior.- Heavy gales
of wind were experiei ced in the Gulf between
the Ist and 12th of February, but no ship
wrecks were reported.— JV. O. Bulletin
Fruni ihu Richmond Enquirer.
Our relations with Great Britain clouded!
—Report of a special call of Congress. —The
conduct of the British authorities in New
Brunswick h is thrown the state of Blaine into
a violent ferment. A member of Congress
writes us, on the 24th, ‘We are anxious
about the state of our Northern frontier. The
whole binder is bent on a war with England;
and the recent events in Maine give lise to
the most serious apprehensions.’
A passenger, who arrived in the Northern
car. yesterday morning, states as a prevalent
report in Washington, that the Cabinet had
i been two days in Council, and that it was
said there would be a special call of Congress.
In fact, a letter which we received the day
before, mentioned the same circumstance —
and stated that Ihere were other circum
stances in our relations with Great Britain,
which were calculated to produce some unea
siness—that she had made a demand upon us
to deliver up certain persons who had com
| mitled crimes in Canada ; and it was said to
! he the President’s opinion that he could not,
under the Constitution and laws, comply with
this demand ; and that lie would probably,
at an early day, make it the subject of a spe
cial message to the present Congress, &,c.
Our correspondent adds, that if ‘ prudence
can overcome these difficulties, they will be
avoided.’
Death of the gifted L. K. L. —This lady
so long known to fame under tiie above ini
tial,, our readers, have aiteady been advised
is no more. She was talented, and deserv
edly a great favourite. Her ‘ lmprovisator e,’
will long carry down her name to an admi
ring posterity. Her death was owing to her
devotion to ttie husband of her choice, Mr.
McLean, an English Barrister whom she ac
companied to Sierra Leone—that charnel
house for Europeans—where he wen: t* oc
cupy a high judicial appointment. Hers was
a life of poetry, and her last hours were de
villed to those duties which endear a woman
to him she loves. Her death having been
attributed to an over dose of prussic acid, ta
ken as a medicine, the New York Evening
Star makes The following remarks.
Miss London. — Prussic Acid.-- In a litera
ry notice of the lamented Miss Landon in the
Philadelphia Gazette, written in the usual fe
licitous style of the editor when discoursing on
such themes, an expression of surprise is ex
pressed itint the Prussic Ac.d she is supposed
to have used for cramps in the stomach
should iiave been employed as a medicine. —
It has long been iti use as an autispasmodic,
but in greatly diluted doses; as one drop of
the pure acid placed on the tongue} or in the
eye causes instant death, which would make
it a far better drop lor executing criminals
than the hangman’s strangling gibbet. A
few years ago an eminent physician. Dr.
F ,of one of the Paiis Hospitals, left di
rections for one of his pupils to administer
Prussic acid to some seven patients who la v
in a row in one of the wards. It proved an
overdose. Before lie had administered to the
last, the first was dead, and so on with the
rest, the whole work being accomplished
in ten seconds, and nearly destioying the rep
utation of the doctor. But hospital patients
have none to plead their cause, and the affair
blew over.
‘Washington, Fob. 22.
Mr. Crittenden's Bill. —Mr. Calhoun made
one of his most cogent and condensed speech
es 10-dav, on the subject of the new attempt
to revive tire old Federal doctrines In the
utmost intensity. We never heard a more
philosophical, and at the same time, siates
manlike discussion of a subject. The history
of our institutions a: l the administration
which have given them an oblique and
wrong direction—the cause and conse
quences of all that had signalised our poli
tical career, were associated in their natural
order, and portrayed with the pencil of light.
The delineations and developements were
full and perfect, and was the work of but lit
tle more than an hour ! Such is the power
of Mr. Calhoun’s generalising and condens
ing mind. He stopped with stating an im
portant-proposition as marking the difference
between the government of England and that
of the United Slates, and when the ear ol
every auditor was awakened with an anxiety
to hear the topic discussed, the speaker con
eluded bv observing that the occasion was
not a fitting one for its elucidation. We be
lieve the regret for the restraint Mr. Calhoun
imposed on himself by a sense of what was
due to the question immediately before the
Senate, was as great as that felt ordinarily
when others wander from the subject and
become tedious. Mr. Calhoun’s great fault
is brevity.— Globe.
American Gallantry. —We are pleased to
see onr gallant Naval officers ever alive to
what is due the gentle sex, be they queen or
peasant. An officer of the U. S. ship of war
Cyane, writes to the Boston Post, that she.
was at Malta when the Dowager Queen of
Engiand arrived in the Hastings 74, and
that she was much pleased with the salute
given by the American vessel. He then re
lates the following:
Our Captain has had a very severe attack
of the unut, under which be is still labouring.
The queenVbarge passed us the other day,
her captain steering, when the English Com
mander rose, and inquired in behalf of the
queen for Capt. P’s. health —Capt. P. an
swered for himself, and holding up his crutch
es flourished them in the air. as the crew
cheered the queen from the yards. Her
majesty was pleased to bestow upon us some
of lier sweetest smiles.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Richard K Call, to be Governor of the
Territory of Florida, from the lGth of March
next ; (reappointed.)
Nathaniel S. Benton, to be attorney of the
United States for the Northern District of N.
York, from the 3d day of March next; (re
appointed.)
Samuel Hackleton, Register of the Land
Office at Galena, Illinois.
Jame Finley, Receiver of Public Moneys
at Wooster, Ohio, from the 2d of March
next, when his present commission will ex- j
pire.
SENTINEL & HERALD.
COLUMBUS, MARCH 7, 1539.
Cotton —Prime, 14 1-2 to 13.
THEATRE.
By reference to our advertising columns it
will he seen that Miss Davenport, whose his
trionic talents, tor one so'young, liave excited
the wonder and admiration ot thousands in
Europe, the Northern cities, and elsewhere,
will remain in our city for a lew days. We
antic-iparte a rare treat, and hope that none of
our plav-going Irieiids will miss the opportu
nity of witnessing the performances of the
infant prodigy. \ln many of our Southern
cities the audiences have detained her by
good humoredly threatening to stop the stages,
in others, we saw it stated as a fact, that the
flinty hearts of even the stage proprietors
melted, and they would not take a cent from
this child of genius for her fare. This beats
the fabled Orpheus.
When abroad we often hear strangers as
sert that they have never been able to define
the lines of distinction between ‘he parties of
the state of Georgia. The truth is, they are
something sui generis ; hut the assertion of
their supporting men unconnected with prin
ciple is without foundation, so far as the Un
ion party are concerned.
It is true that the names of our parties have
changed several times within our recollection,
but throughout these changes we have not
failed to preserve and keep in view the prin
ciples as laid down by the founders of our
party in the fi st days of our Republic. We
march now under the banner of Union and
State Rights. It is a glorious banner, and
long may it wave.
We believe in the Union of States, so long
as that Union can be preserved without in
fringing at all upon the rights of the indivi
dual states ; and these rights are those which
were not surrendered in the original compact
between the states, for we hold that the states
retained to themselves, individually, all the
powers of government which they did not
expressly yield in that compact. These we
believe to he the principles of the Union par
ty, which in our younger days was known as
the Clark party, in contradistinction to the
Crawford party. Before these we have
been told that there were Federal and Re
publican parties; hut these names, ns well as
the supporters of thtm, are of the things that
were. The Crawford party, too, is almost
forgotten—it was for years merged in that of
Troup. The Clark party retained its name
as long as bath of them. All remember the
memorable contests of eighteen hundred and
twenty-five. It was then that Greek met
Greek. The great question at that time was
as to the course our state should pursue in
reference to the old and new treaties. The
end of this contest was that the President of
the United States ingloriously yielded to the
vaunting of the'Governor of the State of
Georgia.
In the several contests between Gen. Jack
son and others,the Clark or Union parly have
been his uniform supporters, and they were
the advocates of all his measures of any im
portance, from the beginning to the end of
his administration. They are the friends of
the present administration ; the opponents of
Henry Clay, Gen. Harrison, a United Slates
Bank. They believe in the practicability as
well as the propriety of the Subtreasury sys
tem. Our watch word now is Union and the
Subtreasury, and with it we shall go on, con
quering and to conquer.
We have thus succinctly stated the posi
tion which we as a party occupy, that stran
gers may know where to find us as well as
our opponents; and if any of them should be
found advocating measures which we have,
and contrary to what they liave heretofore,
they are at liberty to do so ; but let our party
have, as it ought, the character of being now
what it always lias been, and which, we
have no doubt, it will continue to have, so
long as vva follow our great land-marks of
principle.
“ Git IM-VIS AGE D WAR.”
We publish to-day the most important
news we are able to collect relative to the
I troubles on the northeastern boundary. From
I present indications there is reason to fear a
| harassing border warfare, if not a collision
| with Great Britain, We hope, however, this
may not be the case. We cannot see the
! propriety of the Lieut. Governor of New
i Brunswick claiming jurisdiction of the dis
-1 puted territory until the question of right is
settled by negotiation, there having been an
agreement between the two national sover
eignties that matters should remain in statu
gMo'until a definite conclusion could he ar
rived at by the pending negotiations. This
claim of the ideut. Governor of New Bruns
wick cannot, however, justify the hasty move
ments of live Governor of Maine, as no doubt
the marauders are composed of the citizens
of each Government, and it would he to the
interest of both to act in conceit for their
expulsion. The militia of Maine have been
prompt to turn out in defence of what they
conceive to be their rights, and regard their
neighbors on the other side of the line with
no pacific temper. Matters look squally, but
we hope and believe that all will end well.
The following remarks on the subject are
from the National Intelligencer of the 25ih
ultimo:
“Fortunately, Congress is in session, and
it may he hoped that there is prudence and
wisdom enough in the two Houses to induce
them to enable the Executive to assist, not
in making war, but in keeping the peace be
tween the Slate ot Maine and Her Britlanic
Majesty’s Governor of New Brunswick.”
BANKS.
The mischiefs arising from the present mis
erable system of banking in this country are
apparent to every one. The friends of a
sound currency were lulled into confidence
by the recent general resumption of specie
payments, but they were soon startled by the
re suspension of the Branch of the State
Bank of Alabama at Mobile, and fast upon
this came the closing of the Western Bank of
Georgia ; and our city is now rife with reports
of the bursting of the Union Bank of Florida,
and its bills are at a very high discount.
We ha ve no desire to wage war upon!
| banking institutions generally, but we cannot
j help looking upon these occurrences with
pity and indignation.-—Pity, lor the poor
honest, industrious and unsuspecting man,
who perhaps lies down at night with all the
money lie has in tlie bills of some institution
he believes to be good, but wakes in the
morning and finds them more useless to him
than rags. —Indignation, that there should be
permitted to spring up among us hanks that
are evidently designed for mere shaving
shops; to enrich a few and impoverish a.
number; to inundate a community with pro
mises, which it is probable they never intend
ed, if they were even capable, to redeem.
The Virginia Senatorial Election. —VYe
understand, (says the Charleston Mercury of
Feb. 23,) from a gentleman who arrived here
on the 27th, in the Wilmington boat, that
this exciting question has been indefinitely
postponed. When the balloting closed, Mr.
Rives bad the highest vote of the three can
didates.
The following named gentlemen have been
appointed by the Inferior Court as School
Commissioners for Muscogee county:
Rev. THOS. GOLDING, *
Judge WELLBORN,
Col. FOSTER,
Col. CHAMBERS,
JOHN BE li I UNE, Esq.
For lite Sentinel and Herald,
REDUCTION.
Messrs. Editors —As one of the people,
I am opposed to a reduction of their Repre
sentatives, for several reasons: First, and
mainly, the larger the body the less chance
there will be for it to be corrupted, because
it will take harder work and more money to
do it ; besides I think a plan can be adopted
that will save the state as much or more mo
ney without curtailing the rights of the pen -
pie, and that is to alter the sessions of the
Legislature from annual to biennial. By this
plan half the amount of money will be saved
to the state, and not one iota of the people’s
interest will be sacrificed. Look hack to
your Legislatures for years, and what do you
find brought forward for the interest of the
people ? A church incorporated, sometimes
an academy, and then again a ferry autho
rised to lie kept across some river, or an act
to compensate petit jurors in some county or
other. The Legislature, a few years ago,
did appropriate funds to improve the roads
of the state for the benefit of the people.
But the corporation men soon found out
that scheme would not do—the money was
going out for the benefit of the people and
among the people, and it did not suit their
ideas of state policy, so the thing was all
knocked in the head.
We say, therefore, let the Legislature be
biennial, or let them go on to alter the consti
tution so as Jo exclude all hank officers , stock
holders of any kind, of any kind of corpora
tions whatever, from holding a seat in the
Legislature.
We desire once more to see"corruption ex
pelled from the country, and pure every day
honesty shining in its simple, clear garb.—
Shall we arrive at this by curtailing the pow
er of the people ? A CITIZEN.
Washington, 20i!i Feh. 1539.
Sir : For the information of those concern
ed, 1 request that a publication may be made
of the approved contracts for Cteek Indian
Reservations, which has been transmitted to
the Laud Office tor patenting —and also of
those to which no exception has been taken,
when a list of them shall be sent to the Land
Office for the same purpose.
A publication in one Washington City
newspaper will answer, and I hope you will
give an order to that effect.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
HOPKINS HOLSEY.
Hon.*J. R. Poinsett, Sec. of War.
War Department, Feb. 22J, 1539.
Sir : In compliance with ihe request con
tained in your letter of the 20th instant, i have
the honor to inform you that an order will he
given for publishing a list of the approved
contracts for Creek Indian Reservations, &c.
in one of the City newspapers.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. R. POINSETT.
Hon. Hopkins Horsey, House of Rep.
Washington, House of Ret.
Feb. 23J, 1839.
Messrs. Editors: As the foregoing corres
pondence embraces a subject of great inter
est lo many of our citizens, and particularly
those of Western Georgia, I transmit it with
a request for publication in your paper.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
HOPKINS HOLSEY.
COLUMBUS LYCEUM.
We are pleased to learn that a meeting of
gentlemen was lately held for the purpose of
making arrangements preliminary to a more
complete organization of the above institu
tion, under the late act of the General As
sembly.
At the meeting two committees were ap
pointed—one to prepare a constitution, and
another to select some gentleman publicly to
aedress the citizens, at some future meeting,
on the nature and objects of the association.
The latter committee have, vve are happy to
announce, succeeded in obtaining the Rever
j end Wm. D. Carnes, of the Episcopal Church,
to prepare the contemplated address. It wdl
be delivered at half past seven o’clock, on
the evening of the Bth inst. at the Metho
dist Church. The citizens generally, and
The friends of science in particular, are in
vited to attend.
W e can assure our friends that the names
of many concerned will le full evidence to the
community of the character and purposes of
t lie inst it u t ion.— Enquirer.
Our friend, Wm. P. Young, commission
merchant, has furnished us with the follow-.
| ing account of the receipts of Cotton in Co
s lumhus for the years 1338 and 1839, by
i which it will be seen that ihe deficit in the
present crop amounts to upwards of twenty
thousand hags. bales.
Receipts to the 23th Feb. 1339, 26,734
do * same date, 1838, 35,369
Old stock Ist Sept, previous, 5.200
Deficit, 13,835
Rec’d after 2Sth Feb. 1338, 7,250
If there should be received.dur
ing balance of this season,
(which belief present re
ceipts do not authorise,) 1,000
Will show a deficit of 6,250
Total deficit, 20.085
Stock in Ware Hous<£ 4,903
Columbus Enquirer.
Moms Multicaulis. —The Augusta Consti
tutionalist of yesterday, says—‘VYc under
stand that Mr. Robert Philip of this city, sold
last week, four Morns Mullicaulis Trees,
about five years cid, for one handled and fij
ty ddi.as. cash i J