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IEZ7 0 Letters on business, must be post paid,
to entitle them to attention.
MANSION HOUSE.
.1 ACO 11 BAR It O \\ T ANARUS,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he
has opened a HOUSE in the business part of
Hroad Street for the accommodation of Travellers,
and has built new stables on his o.vn lot by the solici
tation of his customers.
March 21, _ 5 f
LAW,
THE subscribers having connected themselvesi
the practice of LAW, will attend all the
County Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and the
adjoining counties of Alabama. Office in Mclntosh
Row, immediately over Allen Ifc Young’s Store.
ALFRED IVERSON,
June 14. 19t f J.M.GTTF.RRY.
COLUMBUS HOTEL, 1840.
le subscriber respectfully informs Ins friends and
Ji_ the public generally, that lie still continues to
occupy the above establishment, where he promises
refreshment and comfort to the traveller and border.
His own personal attention will he given to his busi
ness, in which he hopes to give general satisfaction,
and share a liberal patronsce amongst his brother
chins. JESSE B. REEVES.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21, IS4O. 51 ts
CVUU I.WTMO Oil SOiH WATER.
f En .Hi subscribers are now prepared to fiirtii-h their
. customers ami the public with or
So la Water.
Their apparatus is constructed in such a manner,
in.l of *nch materials as to prevent the possibility ti
iiiy mMalic or delarioiis impregnations.
TAYLOR & WALKER,
Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad st. Columbus.
April 21. 10tf
FORT & HAMILTON,
attorneys and counsellors at law,
Lumpkin, Stewart county, Georgia-
WILLIAM A. FORT.
JOHN C. HAMILTON.
September 8,1840. 30tf
VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE
C CONTAINING Two Hundred Two and a Hal
/ Acres of Land,mixed with oak and pine. There
ire eighty acres cleared. Also, a comfortable dwel
ing, with all necessary out offices, a good gin house
sn.l packing screw, a peach and apple orchard. The
•atire under good fence. It is situated within 4 miles
?f Columbus, joining the plantation formerly owned
oy Thomas O. Evans, Esq. Persons wishing to pur
chase cannot find a more desirable location than the
jne offered for sale by the subscribers.
JOHN CODE,
Dee. 6. 44tf JOHN QUIN
THOMPSON’S UTERINE TRUSS.
An ejectual and radical cure for polapsus
uteri ,
THE subscribers have taken the agency for the
above valuable instrument, and have now on
hand and will constantly keep a variety of patterns,
which they will sell at Manufacturers’ prices. These
Trusses are superior (o any instrument ol the kind
■ever invented, and are now extensively employed by
sum of the most eminent practitioners in the United
States.
We annex the oertifirateofthe late Professor Eberle,
who used them with great success in his own practice.
4 Cincinnati 1 !, Ohio. May 11th, ISI9.
4 I hare carefully examined the Uterine Truss in
vented by Or. Thompson of this State, and I can con
fidently declare, ’hat it is unquestionably the most
perfect and useful instrument of the kind that has evei
been offered to the public. It differs essentially in
•construction from the Utero Abdeminal Supporter
constructed by Dr. Hull, and is in all respects a far
Uiperior instrument.’
The subscribers have also received the agency for
Dr. Chase’s Improved Surgical Truss, which is uni
versally admitted to be the most certain and lasting
?ure ever discovered for Hernia or Rupture.
TAYLOR & WAKER, Druggists,
Sign of the Golden Mortar, Broad-st.
Columbus. June 20, 1839. 26tf
WARE HOUSE
AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.
T IE unlersigncd would inform his friends and
the public generally, that he will continue the
above business at his Old Siand in Front street, oppo
site the new brick building of James 11. Shorter, Esq.
and that his personal attention will be exclusively devo
ted lo the same. By strict attention thereto, he hopes
to have a continuance ofthe liberal patronage hereto
fore bestowed upon him. Ho w ill as usual attend to
rite sale of Cotton, from wagons or in store ; and from
a -Tenoral acquaintance with the purchasers and true
nutation of the market, he believes he can generally
m ire than save the commission in the sale of cotton.
WM. P. YoNGE,
Columbus, Sept. 19, IS3S. 33y
He has in store for sale,
Liverpool and Blown Salt in sacks,
Chewing Tobacco and Scgars,
Champaigns Wine, in baskets and boxes,
Bagging and Bale Rope
LOOK AT THIS.
RUNAWAY from the subscribers, about the first
March last, a negro man by name Presley,
about forty years of age, somewhat grey hair, very
thin, or perhaps no hair on the top of the head, quite
black, eyes small and deeply sunk in the head, wide
between the teeth, I thread shoulders, and stoops, he is
rather intelligent, though unprepossessing in appear
ance, makes great profession of religion, and prays in
public every opportunity. He was in the neighborhood
of Greenville,'Meriwether county, some fif.een days
after leaving this place; where he left oil the 29th ult.
taking his wife with him, who belongs to Freeman
McClendon, living near Greenville; she is by the
oam? of Julia, twenty years of age, common size, a
bright copp r color, and verv likely. It is believed
t tat they were taken off by a white man, and probably
t avellin j west in a gig, as such nformalion reached
Mr. McSlendon.
A suitable reward will be given for the apprehen
>n of said negroes and thief who catriedthem away,
ul information given to either of the subscribers.
FREEMAN McCLENDOX,
JOHN C. MANGHAM.
V aril 16,1840. 9tf
DISSOLUTION.
THE copartnership heretofore existing under the
firm of Wilson & Cravcy is dissolved this day
by mutual consent of both.
3 SANFORD T. WILSON.
OWEN W. CRAVEY.
Giliion, Jttl/tJ, ISW 23 —ts
AM. HUGHES; Attorney at 1m w, Cuthberi
• Georgia.
Jan. 25. 1840. 51 ts
FACTORAGE
COnZMZSSION BUSINESS.
CHARLESTON,SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE subscribers continue their business at (beh
old stand, on Bayee & Cos. whirs, Charleston,
and are prepared to make liberal advances on Cotton
consigned to their care.
COLLINS & CLEVELAND.
Septembers, 1840. 29 2m
WAREHOUSE AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
THE undeisignedhavingassocia
.. ted themselves under the firm of Hall,
use k Cos. for the purpose of trans
acting a general Commission and
Warehouse business; would inform
their friends and the public, that they are now prepar
ed.to attend to any business entrusted to iheir charge.
Their Warehouse being constructed of Brick and
detached from all other buildings, may be considered
in all respects as entire Fire-proof. Planters will
therefore find it for their interest to store with them on
account ot the great saving in the premium of Insur
ance, and the additional safety to those who do not
insure.
They are prepared to advance liberally upon cotton
and other merchandize stored with them, and their
rates es storage and commissions, and all other char
ges will be as low as those charged by other houses in
the same lint- of business.
J. A. DEBLOIS,
11. T. HALL,
F. N. RUSE.
THEY HAVE NOW IN STORE FOR SALE,
600 bags prime Havana Coffee,
300 pieces best Kentucky Bagging,
150 coils best Kentucky Rope,
25 bales domestic Goods received direct from
the manufacturers.
August 29,1840. 2Stf
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
THE subsoriners have this day formed a connec
tion, under the firm of ROWLAND & BAR
STO W, for the purpose of transacting a GKKEIt*
AL,COMMISSION BUSINESS in SAVAN
NAH. Particular attention will be paid to receiving
and forwarding Produce and Merchandise. They
are not interested in any of the Transportation Lines,
and assure their friends, that, in all cases, such con
veyances shall be selected as to promote their inter
est. WILLIAM P. ROWLAND,
ELIAS B. BARSTOW.
Savannah.26th June. 1840.-Jm6t-22
TAVERN FOR SALE.
IF n it previously disposed of, will be sold on Tues
day, the loih day of Septembe next, by the sub
scriber, at public auction, that well known Tavern and
furniture, known as the TALBOTTON HOTEL.
This house is well est ablished and in good repair, with
all necessary outhouses convenient. Persons desiring
to purchase such property are requested to cdl and
examine the premises; terms \* ill be made liberal, and
indisputable titles given. B. WIIITHURST.
Talbotton. Ga., August 11. 1840. 96 - tds.
PHOENIX HOTEL,
Lumpkin , Steieart County , Georgia.
THE subscriber having taken the above house,
situated on the Nort h East corner of the court
house square, formerly occupied bv Mr. Beacham,
takes pleasure in informing his friends and the public
generally, that this new and commodious establish
ment is now completed, and in every way fitted up
for the accommodation of boarders and travellers ; the
subscriber will give his personal attention to the super
vision of the house, and no pains or expense will be
spared to render all comfortable who may favor hint
with a call.
N. B. His stables are excellent and will at all times
be bountifiilly supplied with provender, and attended
by a steady industrious and trusty ostler, who will at
ail times he-in his place and subject to the commands
of the visitor. GIDEON 11. CKOXfON.
Jati 25—51-ts
DISSOLUTION.
THE copartnership heretofore existing under firm
of Drs. CHIPLEY & SCHLEY, is this .day
dissolved by mutual consent. The books and accounts
are in the hands of Dr. Schley, who is authorized to
settle them. Persons indebted to the firm rre respect
fully requested to call as early as possible and settle.
W. S. CHIPLEY.
WM. K. SCHLEY.
July 23, 1640. 24 if
LAW NOTICE.
THE undersigned will attend tothe PRACTICE
OF LAW, in the name of JONES & KEN
NING, in most of the counties of this Circuit, and a
few of the adjoining counties of Alabama. Their
Office will be found near the Oglethorpe House.
SEABORN JONES,
HENRY L.BENNING.
Sept. 16,1 539. 33 ts
FOR SALE
THE tract of land, known as the Broken Arrow
Bend, on the Chattahoochee river, seven miles
below Columbus, on the Alabama side of the river,
containing fourteen hundred and forty-two acres, nine
hundred of which are equal, if not superior, to any land
on the river; with five hundred acres of cleared land
under good fence and in a high slate of cultivation;
the balance of the tract is thin oak and hickory, and
pine lands, w T ilh good water and healthy situations fur
residence, on which part is a good house for an over
seer and negro houses for fifty negroes. Peisons wish
ing to purchase a river plantation would do well to ex
amine it while the crop is growing.
JOHN CROWELL, Sen.
Fort Mitchell, August 12, 1840 26—ts
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
NOR lON & LANODON, Booksellers, Co
lumbus, Georgia, have just received, and offer
lor sale, on ihe most reasonable terms, a large and
general assortment of School, Classical, Law, Medi
cal,Theological, Historical and Miscellaneous Works,
Also, Blank Books, Paper, Ink, Quills, Paper Hang
ings, Borders, fine Cutlery, Fancy Articles, Music,
Musical Instruments, and Stationary of very de
sctiption. Teachers, School Committees and Literary
Institutions supplied at the lowest prices.
Columbus, Oct. 14.1840. 35 3t
A CARD.
THE subscriber offers his services tothe Mer
chants, Lawyers, Ac. of this City, as a general
accountant. Those whose business would not adord
to keep a permanent Book Keeper, have now ail op- j
portunitv of getting their Books and Accounts written ,
up and made out neatly and correcMy every inonlh, if
required, for a moderate conipt nsalion.
He will also attend to any other description of writ
tng or collecting, such as making out Deeds, Mort
gages. Cotton Bills, Invoices. &c. and respectfully
solicits parronage. H. G. DONOVAN.
Columbus, Oct. 14, 1840. 35 lin
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON’S
T IFE, by different authors, for sale bv
JLi NORTON & LANGDON.
October 7, 1840 34 St
TO COTTON PLANTERS.
rapIUE subscriber is now offering for sale r. quantity
_BL of valuable, land. Persons wishing to establish
cot on plantations in anew country, in the finest cotton
growing region of the South, would uo well to exam-|
me those lands. T hey iie mostly in the county of!
Macon, and valuable tracts immediately in the vicitu- j
ty of that beautiful and romantic region denominated i
the Cliunnenugga where the atmusphere is pure !
and elastic, and abounding with fresn bold fountains of j
cool fine water as can be found in any mountain region !
of the South. There arc also iii the neighborhood of
th’ se lands two or three well improved plantations for |
sa e—some believed to be as productive as anv in
Alabama, as ten bales of cotton to the hand have Oeen
made. \
Persons wishing to purchase apply to the subscriber,
at Vaiverdi P. O. Macon countv, ALbatna.
August 16. 27 3in. H. BLACKMON.
The Columbus Enquirer and Georgia Jeffersonian
will copy the above three months and forward their
accounts to the subscriber. H. B.
ccitxitzissxorr business.
APALACHICOLA FLORIDA.
THE subscribers having formed a connection for
the transaction of a general Commission Busi
ness at Apalachicola, under the firm of LOCKHART
& YOUNG, solicit a share of public patronac’,
HENRY
late of Warten co., Ga
WM. H. YOUNG,
formerly Twiggs co.,Ga.
REFERENCES:
Stewart & Fontaine. 1
Hill, Dawson & Cos. p Columbus, Ga.
Matthew Robinson. Esq.
Williard Boynton Esq. ) T , c .
W. A. Racson, Esq.’ \ Lumpkin, Ga.
Frederick Beall, I'sq.. Florence, Ga.
Allen & Glenn, GlcnnviUe, Ala.
L. C. Harrison. Esa., Irwuitou. Ala.
October 1, ls4o, 33 -it
‘ WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL.’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1840.
From the Globe.
A REGULATOR.
The Journal of Commerce, though Whig
gish, cannot, like other Whig journals, en
tiiely lake leave of common sense, when the
paramount interests of the merchants are at
slake. In their paper of Tuesday last, the
editors expose, in a very forcible way, the
folly of attempting to regtilale commercial
matters by means of a National Bank. We
quote pan of the article :
“It is now pretty generally acknowledged
that the administration of the United Slates
Bank lias been bad ; bad for the stockholders
and bad for the public. Mr. BiJdie, who
was once considered a great financier, is now
thought poorly of. He made a great figure
at one time. He said it was necessary to
make money scarce, and so it came to pass,
and merchants failed by hundreds under the
pressure. Anon a committee, composed of
our most respectable merchants, went res
pectfully to Mr. Biddle and requested that
money might be made plenty, and he said,
“ Let money be plenty”—and it was so. Mr.
Biddle made darkness or light at his pleasure.
If he jsaid a thousand merchants must be
ruined, it was done. If lie said slocks must
rise and the bulls make fortunes at the ex
pense of the hears, it was done. Every
merchant in the country who was largely em
barked in business, held his fortunes subject
to the pleasure of Mr. Biddle. It is a grave
question whether we shall put so terriffic ( a
power again in the hands of any man, wheth
er he be a wise man or a fool. Without a
National Bank, merchants regulate their af
fairs by the laws of trade and the indications
which lie on the surface of things. With a
National Bank, what they want chiefly to
know is, the character and habits and opi
nions of the man who bolds the controlling
money power in his hands. Is it worth while
for the merchants of these United States to
put themselves, for any advantages they
could posstb’y secure by it, into the hands of
any future Biddle ?”
From the Globe.
THE MONEY ARTICLES OF THE JOUR
NAL UF COMMERCE AND NEW YORK
HERALD.
A few days since we laid before our readers
an article from the Journal of Commerce on
the subject of prices and trade, which con
trasted most obviously with the statements of
Mr. Webster’s speech, which was published
in that paper. Today we give a ‘money ar
ticle’ Irom the New York Herald, which, in
the same way, utterly disproves other pre
tended facts assumed by Mr. Webster as
tne basis of his bank demonstration in the
same speecli.-
The money articles of these two Mew York
Papers are devoted to the true interests of
the great commercial emporium. They rely
on substantial merchants for much of their
permanent patronage, a.d, we doubt not, for
much of their sound information on matters
of trade and currency. Hence the truth and
sagacity which distinguishes the articles in
question, and the contrast with the mere pa
ragraphs of the same journals. This shows
most clearly that the mercantile class are not
willing longer to sacrifice commercial prosper
ity to the selfish objects of speculators and
politicians. Intelligent merchants know that
a stable standard of value is as essential to
safe business, as true arithmetic to iheir cal
culations. T hey know, moreover, that the
efforts of the Democratic Administration to
put down an unconstitutional national bulk
ing Government, were actuated (apart from
the political motive) by ihe desi e to relieve
business from fluctuations—from the expan
sions and contractions brought about by the
managers ol the great Bank, in pursuit of
speculations in irade and politics Confined to
their clique—that it was to rid the county of
the perpetually recurring epochs of disasters,
such as that of 1819, ’2O, ’25, and ’26, and
those which have been constantly repeated
every three years, like fits of the tertian ague
from 1832 to 1830. They know that, neither
General Jackson nor Mr. Van Buret) can
have had any other object than to secure the
general prosperity, which is to secure the as
cendency of their principles and their party
—that the majority supporting them are the
industrious and producing of ail classes, whose
interests are directly adverse to that of the
gamblers in currency, stocks, and trade.—
i’liey know that the Democratic Administra
tion, in discountenancing excessive issues of
paper money; in issuing the specie circular
to prevent it; in rejecting from the business
of the Government the depreciated paper of
suspended banks—has, while it defeated the
schemes of gambling speculators, maintained
a mooring for the honest commerce of all clas
ses; and in sustaining the credit and charac
ter of the Government at home and abroad,
has maintained the true credit system, from
which American enterprise and industry will
more surely prosper than it has ever done
here or in England on the fictitious and chang
ing credits of national taper institutions.
They know that the periodical disasters
which uniformly attended the vps and downs
of the great paper credit lending systems of
England and the United States, countenanc
ed by the National Government in each coun
try, have spread bankruptcies successively
throughout the commercial, manufacturing,
and agricultural classes—that speculation a
mong the merchants leads to extravagance
; among the consumers themselves; and that
when the crisis comes, the latter Sail to pay,
and that this failure is followed up by failures
until it reaches the banks whose excesses fur
nished the impulse to Ihe overtrading, and
necessarily leads to universal ruin and dis
tress. With a consciousness of these facts !
impressed by recent experience, the mercan
tile organs of New York, truly representing
iheir patrons, oppose the grand scheme of Mr.
Webster, which, for the benefit of such ruin
ed gamblers in politics and credit system as
himself, proposes a credit system founded tip
on a National Bank, which if to be founded
on the assumption of State debts, and then to
le guarantied by the appropriation of the
public domain for the payment of the annual
interest, and the whole to be held in their or
bit bv, and to circulate around, the credit sys
; tern of England, whose capitalists now own
State stocks, and the stocks of the great
Pennsylvania United States Bank, and others,
which are to be all formed into the substra
tum of the gigantic Bank contemplated by Mr.
Webster and his party. It is a good omen
to see the able articles of the Journal of Com
merce and Herald opposed to this overwhelm
ing scheme. It is a sign that American mer
chants know their true interest.
From the ATew York II rrtld.
MONEY MARKET.
Thursday, Oct. Ist.
Mr. Webster’s late speech, it! Wail street,
was almost altogether on the subject of
the currency, and may be considered, if
we take into view the conclave with which
he was closeted at the Astor House most of
the day previous, the outline of the future
movements of the new Administration. The
Suh-T reasurv plan is to he done away with,
aid a National Bank to he established in
which ihe Federal Government is to b in
terested, it would seem, from the following
passage:
‘The General Government, if it should ev
er uct upon this subject again, would look
particularly in reference to the matter of is
sues. A national institutution should have
no temptation to make money. A limit should
be put to the amount of dividends, and all
money made beyond th t limit should go into
Public Treasury, and not into script.’
The statements made by Mr. Webster, as
facts, in support of his arguments ia favor of
a National Bank, are in most instances total
ly at variance with the truth. He appears to
have stood still for the last five years, while
the commercial world has been convulsed,
and dear bought experience has proved the
fallacy of former dogmas. He commences
by stating that a specie currency is a fallacy
and a delusion. He then cites Engiand as
an example of great prosperity, owing to her
paper system. At this time Great Britain
with her starving inhabitants, her popular
commotions, and ruined merchants, with the
report of her parliamentary committees, as
cribing the distresses of the past four years
to the maladministration of .the banks, is ra
ther a lame witness to produce in favor of
the benefit of a National Bank. Mr. Web
ster then states, that in haid money countries,
as in Cuba, the revulsions in prices and rates
of produce are greater than in countries
where a paper currency exists. If Mr.
Webster will turn to the Herald of the Ist of
August, he vvili find an eloborate translation
of the Count de Viilaneuvn. an the tiade,
revenue, and resources of the is’and of Cuba,
that will exhibit undeniable proofs of the stea
dily increasing prosperity of tie island, and
presenting a strong contrast to the state of
those islands, as St. Thomas, Jamaica, and
others, where hanks have been established.
In describing the benefits to be derived
from a national paper money, Mr. W 7 ebster
makes the following singular statement:
‘Can I give you, gentlemen, a stronger
proof this truth ihan you know now 1o exist?
Here all the banks of this city pay in specie.
It >s a fact well known from here to Texas.
The banks of Philadelphia and the Bank of
the United States do not pay specie, and their
notes are at a discount here in Wall street,
of some three to five per cent. Ido not
know which it is—blit what is the slate of
things on the frontier? Why your currency
will not go at Arkansas or Missouri, and that
currency which is at a premium here in JYeio
York, is not there equal to that of the Bank of
ihe United States, and the latter is preferred
because there is an odor of nationality about
it, which clings to it, hangs around it, and
will he there in spile of all the wire drawn
theories that ever were set afloat.’
Now let us look at the following table of
facts:
Rates or Sfecxe, New York fund?, and United
Siates Bank bii ls at different points at
THE LA I EST DA I ES.
Spetie, iV. Y. Funds. U& B Funds.
Buffalo, par par 8 per ct dis.
Cincinnati, 3 per ct. pm. 6 per ct. pm. 2per ct pm.
Louisville, * “ 7 “ 21 “
St. Louis, 5 “ 5 “ 2 “
Nashviile, 8 “ “ 6 “
N.O leans, 4 “ 5 “ 2 “
Augusta, 6 “ 7 “ 4 “
Charleston, 1 “ 1 { “ 3 per ct dis
This table is no wire drawn theory, but a
list of actual market prices. In every case
the hills with the “odor of nationality” are S
to 5 per cent, more than those of New York
without any odor. They are also every
where at. I rom 3 to 5 per cent discount for
specie, and are in Philadelphia 1-2 per cent,
worse than those of other Philadelphia biffs.
In stating the causes of the speculations in
ISSS, 7 Mr. Webster lays great stress upon
the injunction of the Government to the pet
bank', to ioan on the Government deposites;
but lie lias entirely kept out of view the ef
fect of the distribution law, originating with
the Opposition, by which 823,000,000 was
divided among the States, and applied to
every mad speculation. The Loan Com
missioners of this city have repeatedly offer
ed the ptopertp they held in pledge for
money loaned, and cannot get a bid on it.
In commenting upon American credit a
broad, Mr. Webster teffs an anecdote of his
interviews with capitalists seeking to invest,
by which it appears he acted ihe part of a
statesman, and when symptoms of bad faith
were followed by bank suspensions, in a
time of profound peace, legalized by Slate
Governments, he attempted to calm the (ears
of alarmed capitalists, by showing them
Samuel B. Haggle’s famous “glorification”
report. This, we apprehend, was scarcely
an offset for the failure of the United States
Bank. The attempt of Philadelphia to pay
her interest in irreeeemable paper—the fail
ure of Mobile to pay its interest—the protest
of 8300,000 of the State of Georgia debt,
which laid in the Phoenix bank nearly a
year—the resolutions of Illinois repudiating
her debt—the late proceedings of her Fund
Commissioners to coerce a surrender ot the
contracts on the part of those with whom
she had bargained—the report of the Com
mittee of the Union Bank of Florida, de
claring the contracts for the stock of that
Territory null and void—the proclamation ot
Governor M'Nutt, cautioning the public not
to purchase the bonds of that State—the re
solutions of the State of Michigan, requiring
additional security for her stock sold to the
Morris canal on time, after that concern had
failed—the failure of the United States Bank
to pay its dividend in Europe—and numer
ous other events calculated to shake foreign
faith in our credit—each and ail of which
have grown directly out ot the ruins of Ihe
old rotten credit system.
In speaking of the $5,000,000, said by
Mr. Wright, to be required to carry on the
Government financial system, he strangely
perverts Mr. Wright’s meaning, which was
clearly enough expressed. He then states
as follows:
“Why, my friends, I have made the cal
culation that $5,000,000 is about one moiety
of the average amount of specie in all the
banks of this city.”
The following is a table of the quantity of
specie in the banks of this city at different
periods, from official reports:
Jan. 1833, 2,875.035 Jan. IS4O, 4,495.137
May. 1838, 6.570.732 Aug. 1840, 6 OCK ,000
Jan. 1839, 5U08.353
In May, IB3S, the banks resumed, and at
that time the smount of specie was the larg
est. We h ave thus touched upon a few of
the most obvious errors of the speech, which
was made to raise the hopes, and add to the,
desire to change, on the part of the merchants.
The whole outline appears like a vast sys
tem of speculation, calculated to produce a
greater revulsion than ever before. The
public must suffer anotiier severe lesson De
fore they are cured of the paper mania.
From the 2V. Y. Everting Pont.
THE LAWS OF TRADE.
Three months ago, the rate of exchange
between Mobile and this city was at ten per
cent., but has since been reduced to about
three per cent. This is actually less than the
rate o| exchange between this city and Phi
ladelphia, which is distant from us not. one
hundred miles, one tenth of the distance of
Mobile. The banks ol Pennsylvania are
compelled to resume the payment of specie
sometime in .January next, while the banks
of Alabama are allowed two years wherein
to resume. How do we account for this stale
of facts? Why, simply on the ground of the
natural laws of trade. The cruton crep is
now corning forward from the South, which
enables that portion of the union to liquidate
the balances of debt that it may have con
tracted with the North. In other words, the
nattral course of business is bringing ex
change to its proper position and bearing.
No such course of trade existing between
this city and Philadelphia, there can be no
similar improvement ofthe exchanges.
What a comment facts of this kind are
upon the arguments of those who support a
national bank, because of its supposed neces
sity to regulate exchanges. There is now no
bank, but business is beginning to go on as
smoothly as ever. Such reasons call to mind
an anecdote told, we believe, bv a late En
glish writer. It runs as follows: Once it was
customary in the canton of Berne to keep a
bear at the public expense, the people ha
ving been instructed that a hear was essen
tial to morals, manners and the prosperity of
the state. It was ihoughi of use in restrain
ing the curs who were apt to be troublesome,
and in frightening naughty children out of
their crying spells. It happened, however,
that the bear sickened and died so suddenly
that a successor was not forthcoming to fill
his place. While the community was hear
less, and great inconvenience ought, accord
ing to the general notions, to have been felt,
it was observed that the sun shone, and the
corn grew, order survived, and all things
prospered just as if the hear was alive and
gorging the substance of the people. Seeing
this, we are told, the people of Berne resolved
to keep no bears, as things went on as well
without as with such voracious creatures.
Now, had Berne been blessad with t-uch
advisers as M'. Webster and his school of
politicians, anew bear would have been pro
cured at all hazards, to correct the inconve
niences of living in independence of so use'll
an animal.
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
The reader will no doubt be struck with
the following extract of a speech delivered
by Mr. Bychanan, at Harrisburg, Pa.
“First—as to the right of suffrage. Il
has ever been a cardinal principle ofthe De
mocratic party to extend the right of suffrage,
and to abolisit every property qualification in
the elector. ‘All mankind are born equal;’
and every citizen, be he poor or he he licit,
is equally entitled to enjoy this inestimable
privilege. Who is ii that meets and repels
the foreign invader? It is the men of strong
arms and brave hearts, who have been inured
by toil to endure the fatigues and dangers of
war. And is it to be tolerated, that such
men, who have already risked their lives in
defence of their country, who are prepared
to risk them at any moment, should be denied
a vote, because they were poor? Until it
can be established that poor men love their
country less than the rich, and that they are
less willing to defend it in the day and hour
of danger, the political privileges of both the
rich and the poor ought to be equal. Besides,
wealth is constantly changing hands in this
country; and the rich man of to day often
becomes the poor man of to morrow. For
these reasons, universal suffrage and univer
sal education is the motto of tire Democratic
parly. They will march hand in hand to
gether, and nothing can arrest their glorious
career. How does Gen. Harrison stand upon
this question? Is he a Democrat in regard
to the right of suffrage? Is he in favor of
conferring it equally on the poor and ihe
rich ? Let his own recorded acts answer these
questions. He himself truly says that, when
appointed Governor of Indiana, he was in
vested with powers almost dictatorial. In
exercising the duties of tiiis high office, on
the 17th September, ISO 7, he approved a
territorial law restricting the right of suffrage
to the holders of a freehold in fifty acres of
land, in any county of the territory; ora less
quantity in the county where the voter resi-
tied, provided the less quantity, with the im
provements, were worth one hundred dollars.
H s friends have endeavored to shield him
from the consequences of this Anti Republi
can act, by contending that the old ordinance
of 1787, for the government of the Territory,
prohibited him from extending the right of
suffrage. How shallow this pretext is will
appear from the fact that the very act which
he approved did change this ancient ordi
dinance in an important particular. Under
it no man could vote who did not hold a
freehold in at least fifty acres of land; whilst
under Gen. Harrison’s law, any man might
vote if he held a freehold in only* a single
acre, provided, with the improvements, it
were worth one hundred dollars. On the 3d
March, 1811, Congress blotted out this foul
stain which disgraced the statute book of In
diana, and extended the of suffrage to
alt the citizens of that Territory who had
paid a county or a territmial tax. And yet,
Harrison is the friend of the poor man, whilst
he would deprive him of the right of choosing
the officers hy whom he must be governed.
If he be so, it must be on the aristocratic
principle that the people are their own worst
enemies, and that to allow poor men to vote
would be to place weapons in their hands, by
which they might destroy themselves.
“ But how stands Tyler in regard to the
right of suffrage? In this respect ‘Old Tip
and Tyler,’ as their friends delight to call
them, are a noble pair. In 1829 the people of
Virginia held a Convention, of which Mr.
Tvler was a member, for the purpose of
amending their Constitution. Previous to that
date, the right ol suffrage in Virginia had
been confined to freeholders, and is snii very
much restricted. On the 291 h December, in
that year, a proposition was made to extend
the right of suffrage, by conferring it on all
the citizens of that Commonwealth, who had
resided therein two years—had been enrolled
in the militia, if subject to military duty, and
had paid a State or county tax. On this
proposition, how did the candidate of ihe
Whig party for the Vice Presidency—that
party which now professes to be devoted to
the interests of the poor man—record his
vote? M.v answer is, in the negative. The
vote stood 47 to 47—and ,he proposition was
lost, because Tyler voted in the negative.
Had he voted in the affirmative, it would
i nave prevailed, and every citizen of Virginia,
I who had paid a State or county tax, and
had been enrolled in the militia, if subject
to military duty, would have been entitled
to vote. But this is not all in regard to Tyler.
He declared, in public debate, in that Con
vention, that whilst he was willing to entrust
the Governor with new powers, provided he
should continue to be chosen by the Legisla
ture, yet he would not confer one iota of
additional power upon that officer, if he were
to be elected by the people. This distrust of
the people has ever been a distinguishing fea
ture of the Whig party, at all times and
under every name which they may ha ,7 e as
sumed. Whenever, in the history of this
country, there has been a contest between
liberty and power —between the rights of the
many and the Irights of the few, that party
has always been arrayed on the side of pri
vilege and property. What think you, then,
! fellow citizens, of the devotion displayed hy
I Harrison and Tyler towards the poor men,
denying to them the ri*rht of suffrage? It
will require an ocean of hard cider and myri
ads of log cabin raisings to persuade them,
intelligent and respectable as they are, that
the gentlemen love the mechanics and labor
ing men of our country.”
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH, REJOICE.
“V ermont has gone against the Administra
tion by TEN THOUSAND majority. She
lias spoken with a loud voice against tire
principles that have governed Martin \ an
Buren, in his adniinistiation of the govern
ment—his opposition to a National Bank—
his opposition to the schemes of the Aboli
tionists—his opposition to a Tariff designed
to benefit one class at the expense of another
—his opposition to the principles of Conso
iidaiion—these have sealed his fate in Ver
mont —and Whiggery triumphant! Rejoice!
Rejoice !! W higs of ihe South, Rejoice! I!
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH, R EJuIOE!
The notorious Abolitionist Slade, of Ver-
mont is returned member of Congress by
your allies the Northern Whigs, by FOUR
THOUSAND majority. What a splendid
victory! Br.ng out the big gun!! Hurrah
for “Tip, Tvler, and*Tariff!! ”
m WIlIGs"OF THE SOUTH, REJOICE!
William Pitt Fessenden—member of an
Abolii ion Society—President of an Abolition
Society—an Abolitionist of the darkesl shade,
is elecied member of Congress from ihe Cum
berland Dislrict in Maine, over Albert
Smith, Southern Interests, and the Integrity
oi the Conslitutional Compact. Throw on
your hats—and make the welkin ring with
loud huzzas.
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH, REJOICE!
Your brethren in the Slate of New York
have re-nominated \\ illiam H. Seward, and
Luther Bradish, for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor. The former believes that an e
quality of ‘social condition’ should he extend
ed to all, black and white—the latter believes
there should he no ‘distinction of color.’
They are firm believers in that social mileni
urn when she black and the while shall lie
down together without molestation. Surely
this is a theme that should move vour Pres
tons, your Wises, your 0C?” Graveses,
your Stanleys to rejoice, with eloquence sub
lime! On, Stanley! On!—Anotner blast!—
the victory’s won !!
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH, RE.TOTCE!
Arthur Tappan and Hiram Ketchurn,
David Haggles and Aaron Clark, Horace
Dresser and Lewis Tappan, Josiah ilopptr
and William Johnston, Henry Nott and Rich
ard Jenkins, Prince Lovendge and Philip
Hone, Richard Augustus and Joseph Iloxie,
Lewis Bodine and Nathaniel B. Blunt, Ira
Phillips and David Graham, all, all rejoice at
ihe success your Northern allies have met
with in Vermont and Maine. Then come
on here, and extend the hand of Fellowship?
Grasp theirs with a fervor becoming the val
ue of a victory—if perchance should obtain
one—-over (he Democracy of the North !
Cry aloud, ‘The union of the Whigs lor the
sake of the Union I’ The sky darkens —re-
joice ! rejoice !
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH, REJOICE!
Your brethren here, black and white, are
sanguine of defeating Martin Van Borne.—
They do noi forget that on the 2d of June, J
1835, he 2a ve the casting vote for the ‘ln- 1
cendiary Publication Bill,’ which went to !
prevent the circulation of pamphlets and pa
pers designed to get up a revolt in the South
among the negroes—a revolt in which your
selves, your wives, your children, might have
met with bloody slaughter at ihe hands of
ihe ignorant, degraded, and infatuated ne
groes. For this your Northern allies have
placed his name on the ‘ro'J of infamy,’ and
they rejoice with fiendish satisfaction at the
probability of his defeat. Rejoice with them,
we say, il there be a common feeling in the
great ‘Union of Whigs.’ Whigs’of the
South rejoice!
WHIGS OF THE SOUTH, REJOICE!
While writing, our ears ring with the
sound of cannon ! Your Northern allies are
even now, this Wednesday afternoon, Sep
tember 23, 1840, mocking the artillery of
heaven in warm and heartfelt graiulation at
iheir success in Vermont and Maine. ‘Three
cheers for FESSENDEN’—‘three cheers for
Slade’—‘three cheers for Kent’—‘three
groans for Albert Smith’— ‘three groans for
Fairfield’—‘nine groans for Martin Van Bu
ren’— these cries at this nr-ment salute our
ears. Do you not hear the teport of the
ihuncfer-toned cannon—it reverberates,
hounds back as though it had already reach
ed your hills and val'eys. We anxiously
wait the response. Bring out your dogs of
war of the heaviest metal—charge them to
their very throats—apply the match—that
we may henr and feel that there is a most
perfect ‘‘union of \Y iiigs for the sake of the
UNION!!!” Rejoice, Whigs of the South
—rejoice! Your Northern allies expect it.
—Neiv York New Era.
From the Portland, Maine, Argus.
INFAMOUS!
The following cold-blooded paragraph is
from the Eastern Star, a violent federal sheet
lately established in Limerick, Maine:
Sarved him right. —Robert Bradford, an
old slave-holding farmer near Nashville, was
stabbed and insiantly killed, on the lGth inst.
by one of his slaves. He was preparing at
the time ‘o correct him for having left home,
without leave, the week before. The slave
made good his escape-” See the Eastern
S'ar, punted at Limerick, Sept. 25, 1840.
Pass it round, that the sober citizens of our
country may aee a specimen of the madness
of that party who are now seeking to over
throw the Government.
Pass it round, for the edification of the
Southern ailies of this Northern whig!
Pass it round, though as Americans we
blush to own that we have in our country a
party so vile as to support the miscreant who
will thus openly rejoice at the murder of a
fellow citizen.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE HOOE-CAKE TURNED.
Henrico, Sept. 19, JB4O.
I hope you will pardon me for troubling
you v, ith a communication of facts, that
came within my own knowledge. In the
spring of ihe year 1837, Mr. John M. Butts
had been from home some days. When he
returned, his servant Dick (who was his
head man) went to his master and charged
his overseer (a white man) with purloining a
bag of meal. On receiving this information
from his slave, he (Butts) discharged his
overseer from his employ. The overseer
being aggrieved that his reputation should
be brought in question by a negro, and wish
ing to establish his innocence, and being ig
norant ot the law in such case, applied to the
justice of the peace for a warrant, to bring
the said negro before himself or some other
justice", that the false charge might be inquir
ed into. The slave was accordingly appre
hended and carried before sad justice. 51r.
Batts also attended, to see what was to be
done with Ins slave. When the case was
ready for hearing, the slave was introduced
as a witness, to sate what he had said to his
master about the meal. He went on to sta*e
several things he had said derogatory to his
; overseer’s reputation, when a gentleman pre
| sent inquired of the justice whom he was
j trying: if he was trying the negro, he could
j not give evidence in his own case—if lie was
! trying the overseer, the negro’s testimony
was not admissible. The negro was then
directed to stand aside; and Mr. Bolls was
introduced as a witness. He went on to
state what his negro had told him, lor some
time, not stating any thing he knew himself
—only what the negro had stated to him;
when the same gentleman observed that Mr.
Ban’s testimony was no better (ban the ne
gro’s—that it was hearsay testimony, and
what he heard the negro say, and was not
legai evidence. Mr. Bolt’s testimony being
objected to by the gentleman, threwhim in”
to a violent passion, and he made several re
marks about the gentleman’s being a politi
cal enemy of his, or be would not have in
terfered. He then asked for a continuance of
the case; which was granted.
The above transaction was at the Yellow
Tavern in the county of Henrico, in the pre
sence ot a considerable number of gentlemen.
And it it is denied, can be proven by those
who were present.
•Now, sir, I have given you this plain state
ment of lacts, that you may see bow far Mr.
Bolts sanctions or approves of negro testi
mony—that you may contrast it with his
nuieh ado about negro testimony in Lieut.
Hooe’s case.
POSTSCITT.
September 28. —1 bad an interview with
the magistrate yesterday, about Mr. Bolt’s
negro witness. He said he well recollected
that Mr. Botts insisted on examining the ne
gro as a witness against his overseer, and
even plead, that lie ought to he allowed to da
so. And when the magistrate refused, Mr.
B. charged him will) being a political enemv
ot his. And Botts has spoken of the case to
several persons since, and complained of his
not being allowed to examine bis negro.
From the Globe.
EFFECTS OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT
OF THE ABOLITION EXCITEMENT.
While the British Wings are threatening
to carry their point by “hunting knives ” a
gainst the Democracy, which in the North
and South stands in the breach in defence of
our institutions, political and domestic, the
negroes have already commenced the work
ol violence, with scythes, and other mortal
instruments;
“A REVOLT AMONG THE NEGROES.— We
i learn from the Howard Free Press of Satur
day, that a most desperate afl'rav took place
j on Mr. Green’s plantation, in Anne Arundel
i county, on Friday, but which fortunately ter
j minuted without any serious injury to the
! parties concerned. Three or four of the ne
! groes employed by Mr. G. refused to obey
i <he orders ot the overseer, and threatened to
j murder Ins family, and he attempted to clias
tise them; but they resisted his attempts. He
| found >t necessary to summon a “posse cotni-
I tat us” and an officer was immediately sent
ior, who arrived in good season, but not be
fore the negroes had armed themselves with
scythes and clubs, ready to resist all attempts
to arrest them. ‘I lie officer together with
the overseer attacked them, but al'ter a des
perate effort, they were compelled to give up
the conflict. The negto who was armed
with a scythe made a pass at the head of
the officer, who barely escaped having his
head severed from his body, the weapon pass
ing immediately over it, the officer at this is
sue discharged a pistol at the man and lodg
ed the contents immediately under the left
shoulder, but with no serious effect. The
negro, who was a strong muscular man,
made another pass at the overseer and struck
him on the arm, the weapon, however, glanc
ing downwards, and only severed the flesh
from the hone. I lie officer anti overseer
then found it necessary 1o retreat and recruit
their force, they were, however, pursued by
the negroes, anc only made their escape by
the fleetness of their horses. The negroes,
with one exception, have since been arrested
and committed to jail. —Baltimore Sun.
• From the Globe.
THE CASE IS ALTERED WHEN TTIli
NORTHERN BULL HAS GORED THE
SOUTHERN OX.
The whole body oh Federalism has raised
an outcry against President Van Buren in the
South, because lie refused to set aside the
sentence oh a court martial, hounded on charg
es: established exclusively on the testimony of
white witnesses, rejecting the applicants to
interfere, on the pretext that black witnesses
had been examined on other charges. Now
wnat will the cavaliers say when they find
that their own Aummistration, consisting - of
their approved favorites, Adams, Clay, Bar
bour, and Southard; sanctioned (not mere
ly the removal oi a navy officer trom one sta
tion to another,as is the case of Lieut. IIooe,)
but a sentence cashiering him upon the testimony
oj a negro, sustaining the charge upon which
a conviction depended.
n We copy so much of the record as will
snow the nature ot the offence—and the de
cision ol the court, as confirmed by Mr. Ad
ams,no doubt, with the advice of Mr. South
ard, his Secretary of the Navy, at least, if not
with that of his whole Cabinet.
Not one word was uttered by the sensitive
partisans of Whiggery in the South, who are,
at this moment, and were then, in close hug,
\\ ;t!i the Adams, Clay, Barbour, and South
ard administration, against this proceeding.
I hey could see an American officer cashiered
upon black testimony then, although now they
v, ould condemn a President because lie would
not overthrow legal evidence sustaining a just
comic■ ion, on tne ground that evidence ques
tioned as illegal , was given as to other charges
though not sustained by the court upon it! !
It should never be forgotten, that when the
mends of the Administration sought, at the
last session of Congress, to pul down by law
the admission ol negro witnesses by court
mariials, Mr. Botts, together with the Abo
litionists and Federalists in Congress, voted
down the attempt; the state of business in the
I‘ouso being such as to enable a minority of
or.e-ihird to defeat the measures proposed by
the Democracy.
Extract from the proceedings of a Court Mar
tial held at Philadelphia on the Ist November,
] 827, for the trial <.J Midshipman l'arnifold
(dreen.
“David Trusty, a black man, servant of
Lieut. White, being duly sworn, according to
law, deposes and says:
‘"Question.' —Do you remember going one
night last winter into the mess room of the In
dependence, by orders of Lieut White! State
what occurred.
Auzuei . -Jne night Mr. White sent me
nto the room, to carry a letter for Mr. Green.
Mr. F. Green asked me who the letter was
for. 1 said it was for big Mr. Green. There
were two Mr. Greens on board. I had forgot
ten Ins first name at the time. lie told°ine
to hand it to him. I did so. The next thing
•was, he inquired what my name was. I told
him my name was David Trusty. He asked
me what Mr. White sent that letter for. I
! said I did not know what was in it. lie said,
. I guess your name is Mr. Black, and then I
j went out
| “On another time I was sent, by Mr. While
j to the mess-room to get Charles Green’s ham
) mock. I v. ’ at the door two or three
tmes. No i .* mu answered. I shoved the
j door open Togo in slr. Famifold Green was
standing partly aside of the door, there was a
in the room, so that I could see; I saw
j him making a blow* at me; I raised my arm,
and received ihe blow on my arm. It was
with a stick; the stick broke over my firm;
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