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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST, I
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JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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The Vcna||Banctuary-
BY THE REV. JAMES GILBORNE LYONS, L. L. L*
Where in our churches is the place for the
poor ? I ask this question with shame and
sorrow. Where is the place pou the poor:
that here and there a poor person
has a seat; Where is it ? Is he invited to
sit with us “in a good place,” or do wo say to
him “stand thou there; or sit hero under my
footstool :”— Right Rev. Bishop Ices.
“ I WILL BRING YOUR SANCTUARIES UNTO DESOLATION.’
Lee ideas x\ V 1 .3 1.
1* trod the hallowed ground that bore
A Christian temple tall and proud;
When at each wide and lofty door
Went streaming in a gorgeous crowd ;
A welcome day bid all rejoice—
A fair and ancient festival.
And the glad organ’s mighty voice
Shook the strong roof and Gothic wall.
Full many a token mark’d.the fold,
Where rich an 1 high believers meet,
The sacred volume clasped in gold,
The costly robe, and drowsy scat: —
Priest, people, altar, chancel, choir,
Arch, column, window, porch and gate—
That ample sane from vault to spire
Look'd solemn all and calmly great.
But mark ! An old and weary man—
A stranger clad ‘ in raiment vile/’
With failing steps unci features wan,
Went tottering up the fair broad aisle ;
They cast him out —Oh faithless race !
On a rude bench —unseen— remote, —
Pound guilty, in that hour and place,
Of —a leanpwse and threadbare coat!
Yes ! and if He who sav’d the lost
Stood fainting on that haughty floor
Array’d in weeds of little cost,
Meek as He sought our world before ;
In spite of words which none might blame
And works of goodness freelj* done.
That sordid* post of wrong and shame
Would greet —Jehovah's only S>on.
Oh for a prophet’s tongue or pen
To warn the great in wealth and birth.
Who build their God a house, and then
Plant there —the meanest pomps of earth —
To brand that church which spurns the poor
From every vain and venal pew,
Where “cloth'd in purple” herd secure,
To kneel or sleep — the lordly few !
Give me the shed, low, bare and plain
Where love and humble truth abide,
Rather than earth’s most noble sane
l>etil’d by selfish pomp and pride:—
Give me the damp and desert sod
Wall’d in by dark old forest trees^.
Roof'd over by the skies of God,
But perish temples such as these.
[From the Washington Union, Nov. 19. J
The Lcxing-ton Platform ”
Wc commend to the attention of our read
ers the following powerful article from the pen
of “An Old Man.” It is a just and eloquent
protest against the whig policy as embodied
in Mr. Clay’s speech and resolutions.
It is not to be doubted that this demonstra
tion of Mr. Clay —anxiously as it has been
looked for by the whigs, and loudly as it has
been hailed by them in advance —has yet,
when fairly presented, been received with
coldness and sore disappointment. The whig
journals seem astonished to find how unpromising
and how unpopular their party creed appears even
in the ingenious and elaborate statement of Henry
Clay himself! They see at once that there is
nothing in the Lexington resolutions to rouse
the enthusiasm of the American people to their
support. That we have ourselves brought this
war upon us by our own act; that indemnity
is not to be looked for from Mexico for her
past outrages and robberies, and for the evils
and sacriliccs occasioned by the war which her
rulers have denounced against us, and waged
against us; that California, with its noble
ports and its broad valleys, now justly in our
possession, and won by the patriotic valor of
our armies, is to be given up in discomfiture
before the braggart threats of subjugated Mex
ico ; that the fertile region between the Nueces
and the Kio Grande, though “claimed by both
republics,” is to be regarded as rightfully be
longing to the “jurisdiction of Mexico,” and
“ inhabited by her citizens,” and so to be
wrenched from our Union by the “ fixation”
, of the “just and proper” limits of Texas;
that “no more territory !” is henceforth to be
the motto and the watchword of the Anglo-
Saxon race on this continent; and that the
Civilization of Popular Power, going forth un
der the sacred shield of our constitution, has
even now found is fated limit on which is in
scribed, “ Thus far shalt thou go and no farth
er !” —all this is the “ Lexington Platform” on
which the great Whig Party is now astonish
cd and dismayed to find itself standing for
solemn judgment before the American Peo
ple! These —just these and none other—are
the responses which whig partisanship now
proclaims to us from the blazing lines of Bue
na Vista, from the bloody defiles of Cerro
Gordo, and the dismantled ramparts of Cha
pultepec! This —just this—is the whig voice
to us from the captured Metropolis of the
Aztecs I It speaks to us of renunciation, of
retreat, of bitter and shameful discomfiture
—of indemnity sacrificed, of advantage flung
away—of glorious deeds done all in vain—of
victories teeming with grandest results when
wisely comprehended and valued, yet turned
to dead ashes in the grasp of a dwarfish “ op
position” policy which cannot rise to their
just and noble elevation ! And worst of all
—and most crushing to whig hope—this
gloomy voice resounds from the tripod of the
oracle at Ashland ! It is a bitter disappoint
ment. Corwin might rave. Webster might
equivocate and palter. But still there was
hope in the “Mill-boy of the Slashes!”—
“ Harry of the West,” when he last spoke,
longed “to slay a Mexican;” and when he
speaks again—such was the hope of his party
—it will be in words of power and of patriot
ism which the people can hear, if not with
enthusiasm, then at least with patience. Ho
has spoken —and in the tone of not a few of
the whig journals, that hope has turned to ill
concealed chagrin and dismay.
And yet —and this is the crowning calamity
—what one section of the universal whig par
ty can as whigs object to anything which as a
whig Mr. Clay has felt himself forced to say ■
What one political architect have the whigs in
all their ranks capable of improving the Lex
ington platform? The fatal issues in Mr.
Olay’s resolutions are issues which as a whig
he could neither escape nor alter. When he
mounted the rostrum to speak, he found him
self doomed beforehand by the whole policy
of his party to utter “ sayings hard and grat
ing’’ to the ears of a patriotic people. What i
he could soften, he has softened. What he .
could gloss over, he has glossed over ingcu- 1
iously. He has made a skilful effort to unite
the straggling sections of his party. But he ,
could not change the nature of things. It
was beyond his power —it is beyond any hu
man power —to make systematic opposition to
the cause of the country in war even appear to '
be either popular or patriotic. The whigs, j *
then, ought scarcely to blame Mr. Clay for the j 1
bad and ominous look of the creed in his : :
hands. The plain fact is, that as a party, they I ,
have no creed in relation to the war which can '
bear a plain and connected statement before the
country. One of their issues here, and an
other there, may do well enough. But it will j
not do at all to put all the whig issues into !
one and the same schedule. “Most potently” j
as the whigs may profess to “ believe” their
doctrines, they are not slow in perceiving that i
it is not “malice” only, but sheer discom
fiture, “ to have them so set down.”
Mr- Clay and the War
Like Mr. Clay, I am in the decline of life,
and hold no office in the government. Unlike
Mr. Clay, no visions of office flit before my
imagination. I expect none —hope for none
—want none.
I am am disappointed in the positions taken
by that gentleman in relation to the Mexican
war. I thought him patriotic; and when it
was announced that the “Farmer of Ashland”
—the “greatest living statesman of the age”
—was about to come from retirement and give
counsel to his countrymen, I did expect a dis- !
play of lofty patriotism as well as eloquence !
—something in rebuke of the spirit which sac- j
rifices country to party —something of which |
the true American, whig or democrat, might 1
be justly proud. Alas ! how different is the
result!
Let us consider how Mr. Clay proposes to
put an end to the war :
“ Mr. Clay said, he was opposed entirely to
annexing Mexican territory; one half of the
millions avc had already we did not want.”—
“Ho spoke of the absurdity of asking indemnify
for our losses of a people who had nothing to pay.”
“ Mr. Clay avowed himself strongly opposed
to the extension of slavery—deplored its exis
tence — but remarked it was an unavoidable
evil. He considered the refusal to accept new
territory as the best means of averting the diffi
culties that surrounded this important and delicate
subject.”
These passages are extracts from the ac
counts of Mr. Ciay’s speech given by his friends.
The resolutions offered by him declared that
“we anxiously hope that each nation may be
left in the undisturbed possession of its own
labors, language, cherished religion, and terri
tory ;” and that “ we have no desire for the dis
memberment of the republic of Mexico, hut only
the just and proper fixation of the lim its o f Texas.”
Now, what is to be the result of Mr. Clay’s
plan, if adopted ?
We are not to demand indemnify for our plun
dered citizens , because the robbers arc not able to
pay it.
We are not to take any of their hind, because
wc have more than enough already, and may quar
rel about it when tee yet it !
What then ? Nothing is left but to retreat
within our own limits, amidst the triumphant
shouts of the Mexicans, and the derision of the
civilized world! “Ah,” the Mexican chiefs
may well say, “ our perseverance has conquered
you ; we know how to ileal with you hereafter ; wc
will plunder and murder your citizens as we
list, and you will no t ask us for indemnity, be
cause we arc poor ; nor take any of our territory,
because you do not want it; and if, perchance,
having a favorable opportunity, we murder
your officers and attack your troops, and your
government blockade our ports, defeat our
armies, and take our capital, wc have only to
persevere until one of your statesmen rides into
the presidency upon an anti-war hobby, when
you will surrender all you have icon, and be glad
to forgive us for the robberies we have com
mitted.”
Mr. Clay virtually says “ wc are a brave na
tion, and can afford to let cowards butcher us
with impunity; we arc a rich nation, and can
afford to let rubbers size and retain our property
without indemu ity.”
Worse than in vain will bo the blood shed
at Palo Alto, Ilesaca de la Palma, Monterey,
Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerro Cordo, Contre
ras, Churubusco, and the city of Mexico, if
this policy shall prevail. The spirits of the
gallant dead will haunt the recreant statesmen
of this dishonored country, if they shall give
up the contest without a treaty securing in
demnity for the past. It would establish a
new Algiers upon our borders; it would en
courage continuel outrage, plunder,, and war ;
and, in the end, our country would be obliged
to fight over again the giorious battles of the
existing war, under more adverse circumstan
ces, again watering the fields and mountains |
of Mexico with much of our noblest blood.
I am as much opposed to the “ annexation
of Mexico” as Mr. Clay, and nwre the enemy
of slavery. As to territory, I want Upper
California for its ports, and the readiest ap- j
proachcs to it from Missouri by land. I know
that no black slave will over set his foot in
that region, whether prohibited or not ; and
that our people and their institutions will soon
set free the white slaves which there exist un
der the name of peons. But I throw behind
me all such questions, when the present honor and
future security of my country are at stake. “Sus- j
ficicnt to the day is the evil thereof.” If wc j
retreat from Mexico without indemnity, tee I
are a disgraced nation. Thenceforward -wc 1
may expect the “ kicks and cjiffs,” the pocket- j
pickings and stalls of every upstart power on I
earth. The whole world will ask, in wonder,
why we ever crossed the Kio Grande—wh} r
Mr. Clay sent his son to die at Buena Vista—
and why the old man himself felt as if he
would like to “ slay a Mexican?” It is wc,
and not our adversary, who will cry “ enough ”
wc, and not Mxico, will be the party whipped ;
her braggadocio generals and vain people will
justly claim the victory, and the world will
accord it to them. More insolent than ever,
perchance with a monarch at their head, sus
tained by European alliances, they will con
solidate their power, strengthen their defences,
replenish their stores, and then force us tc
fight over again all our glorious battles, and j
pour forth increased torrents of blood “to j
conquer a permanent peace.”
Away with all the factious and irrelevant ,
issues about slavery and all that, until the !
honor of our country be vindicated, and its future j
peace be secured on a Jinn basis. Then, if there j
bcroccasion, it will be soon enough to quarrel
among ourselves. If the American people
feel as I do, they will put down, WITH A
STRONG HAND, President-makers andean- I
didates for the Presidency, whig or democrat, j
in the north or in the south, who, for purposes
of self-aggrandizement, unworthy revenge, or
unholy ambition, would disgrace their coun
try, extinguish its glories, now so unrivalled,
exchange the admiration of the world for its
derision and contempt, and, in a dastardly re
treat from a contest almost ended, lay the
foundation for future outrages and wars with
out end. AN OLD MAN.
Commercial- |
The New Orleans Delta of 18th inst. says—
“ The news by the steamer Washington, which
was made public yesterday, proves rather less ;
disastrous than was feared, though the fall in 1
Cotton at Liverpool, since the sailing of the ' ,
Caledonia, is put down at fully <£d. The de- j
cliue in our market brought forward many (
buyers yesterday, which rendered prices some- 1
what steadier, and the sales ran up to nearly , r
10,000 bales. As near as wc could gather, the •
ml ingrates for middling to good middling were (
oi to s£e. per lb,” j *
Augusta, (Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 24.
Fire!
About eight o’clock last evening a lire broke
out in a small house on Reynold’s street, on
the lot of John Mann, It was occupied by a
negro woman, which was consumed.
Fire in Charleston—destruction of Cotton.
A slip from the Charleston Courier office
dated 23d inst., 10,* a. m. says—This morning
a little after 4 d’clock, a fire commenced in a
large ware-house on Exchange wharf, which
was totally destroyed, with its contents, con
sisting, it is believed, of some 1500 bales Cot
ton, 100 boxes Manufactured Tobacco, up
wards of 100 bags Coffee, and other articles
of merchandize.
It is difficult now to estimate the loss, but
it is believed to be from sixty to seventy thou
sand dollars. Most of the property was in
sured, as was also the building.
7 O
There is no doubt it was an incendiary act.
Theatre-
The entertainments at the Theatre the pre
sent week have been varied by the appearance
of the Lehmann Family, and Charles Whither,
the celebrated Hope Dancer. If any proof were
wanting of the complete success of the Troupe,
1 the boisterous applause, and shonts of laugh
ter, which nightly greet its members,would am
i ply afford it. The Statues and Living Pictures
I arc a study for the artist, and the grace and
activity of the dancing, the humor of the Pan
tomime and the daring feats of Whither on the
elastic cord leave nothing to be desired. —
The Bill this evening, to which we refer the
the reader, is particularly attractive.
At a meeting of a majority of the Judges of
the Superior Court at Milledgerille, on the
sth November, 1817, the following rule was
adopted:
Ordered , That Counsel shall propound in
writ ng the points of law on which they may
wish the instructions of the Court to the Jury,
before the Judge shall commence his charge.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMER ACADIA.
11 DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
We received by last evening’s mail, from our
correspondents the Charleston Courier and
Evening News, slips containing the latest tel
egraphic advices, brought by the Acadia,
which vessel sailed from Liverpool on the 4th
and arrived at Boston on the 20th inst.
Commercial and Financial. —The dismal
state of trade and money in this country, des
cribed in our advices per Caledonia, continued
to exist with unmitigated severity up to the
26th ult., when the Government, yielding at
last to the popular cry for succor, authorized
the Bank of England to depart from the Bank
act of 1814 —and to make advances on good
security on sums of not less than £2OO0 —at
interest after the rate per cent.
A striking reaction at once took place in the
funds. Public confidence appeared to have ac
quired a fresh impulse.
Produce became in better demand, and the
entire fabric of trade indicated returning
strength and vigor. The accomodation, how
ever, was found to be miserably disproportioned
to the necessities of the public, and the re
sult has been, within the last few days, that
trade has almost wholly relapsed into the same
state of torper and alarm.
From the Manufacturing Districts, parti
cularly, the advices are of a most unsatisfac
tory nature. —Many mills had ceased to work,
and numerous others were working on short
time, —merely open from motives of humani
ty to the workmen, and to preserve the ap
pearance of occupation.
It is there r orc perfectly clear that the pres
sure cannot be ameliorated, if the Bank docs
not extend its accomodations. Meanwhile it
is impossible to form any adequate idea of the
fearful ruin which must overwhelm every de
partment of trade.
Day after day, instead of dispelling, has but
deepened the shadow of approaching calamity*
which, though perfectly foreseen, cannot be
averted, save by the interposition of the Gov
ernment and the Bank.
Fresh failures, to .an enormous extent, have
taken place within the last fortnight, some of
! them the oldest establishments in the land,
and all affecting, in a greater or lesser degree,
! various houses who have still continued to
! maintain their credit.
I The funds, "which for some days following
the depurturc had fallen to a point of depres
sion beyond of any living man,
have considerably revived, though suffering
excessive fluctuations.
Monday is represented as having been a com
parative quiet day, the funds rising considera
bly. On Tuesday the fluctuations were very
rapid ; Consols opened at an advance of * per
cent —the quotations for money being 81 £ to
82 J, from which point they slowly rose to 82|.
Some speculative sales immediately took
place, when prices declined considerably. Yes
terday the feeling was easier in the money
market, and less unsteadiness was perceptible.
Consols for money were quoted at 811 to 821,
and 81J to 82| for account. Rank stock is
worth 185*. Foreign Stocks are merely nom
inal. Mexican Bonds have fallen to loj a 16J.
England and Ireland. — The English Par
liament will assemble on the 18th inst., for
the despatch of business. The Pope’s rescript
has been received, condemning the proposed
Roman Catholic Provincial Colleges for Ire
land. A feeling of universal sorrow and dis
appointment has boon caused by it.
The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have ad
dressed the Lord Lieutenant, on the certain
recurrence of the famine in the approaching
winter. He promises the Government will
interfere for the preservation of human life.
Switzerland. — 'I he affairs of Switzerland
are fast approaching a crisis. The belligcrant
forces arc in view of each other, and hostilities
appear to bo inevitable.
Spain. —A reconciliation has taken place
between the Queen of Spain and her husband.
The late Minister of Finance, Senor Salamanca,
is charged with a fradulent issue of bonds to
the extent of 100,000,000 reals.
AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, NOVEM BE R 24, 18 47.
ARTICLES. Per. Wholesale. j Duty.
BAGGING —Gunny, | 21 fa) 23 oq nr.ct.
Kentucky.. .... 17 fa) 19
BALE ROPE —Manilla...' ft, 16 (d) IK 05 nr. ct.
Kentucky.. .... 9Po) 16
BACON— Hams 9 'fd) 16 j
titles ( Jfw 16 (DO pr. ct.
{Shoulders 7**i) 8* )
BUTTER— Goshen, prime! ft> 23 (h) 25* 2Jpr. ct.
Country '....1 12 (a) 15 j
CANDLES —Spennacetti.l....! 34 fa) 37* 20 pr. ct.
R Georgia made .... | 13**£) 15 )
Northern ....I 17 fa) Is Jt-Jpr. ct. |
CHEESE —Northern • j 7**£ 16 30 pr. ct ‘
COFFEE —Cuba '....1 8 fa) 9 n
Rio i i B \fd) 9 i
Java 12.p0) 15 f‘ ,ee *
Eagyura 9 fat 16 ij
f Shirtings, brown, 3-4. i yd. ! 5 'a) t>*
j “ “ 7-8. ! i 7**l) 8
1 i “ “yd.wide ...J 17./a) 26
j Sheetings, brown, 54. ~.. 12 fa 15
u J “ bleached, 5-4 .... I IS f w 20
•« j Checks ; I 10 fa) 16
i ) lied Tick | 12 *£ 18
t j Osnaburgs Boz .... 1 16 fa) 11*
l Yarn (assorted) ft, j 17 fit 19
FISH —Mackerel, Mo. 1.. . bid. 13 fa) 14 U
l>o. No. 2... ; 9fa 9* I(20 pr ct. i
Do. N0.3....t....j 7* fa 8 >
FLOUR —New 0r1ean5...J....1 none. j
Canal 1....8 00 <d 8 56 >2opr. ct. ’
Georgia 4 56 kl 5 25 )
GRAIN —Corn bus. I 45 fa) 50 1
Oats I 37 fw 40 26 pr. ct.
GUNPOWDER — keg. 5 56 fa) 6 00
HIDES —Dry ® )on „ r rt i
Dry, salted 8 fa/ 9 1 r * • j
HA F—Easter. fd / nr rt
North River fa) j * )r " ‘
IRON— l*ig 100. fa) 39 pr. ct.
Swedes,assorted, ton. 4**£) 5* 30 pr. ct
Hoop 100. bird) 71 Inn .
Sheet 'ft, 8® 10 1 20 P r * ct -
Nail Rods 1.... 6 fti) 7
LEAD —Pig and liar 100. 6 id) 7 )
Sheet ! 6**i) 8 >2O pr. ct.
White Eead 7**i) 9 )
LIME— bblJl 50 Hd 2 50
MOLASSES —Cuba gal.. 28 da) 30 ,
N. Orleans.!:... 37**,) 40 jj 30 pr. ct- •
NAILS —Cut, 4d to 20d.. .j.... s*@ 5* (30 pr. ct.
EXPORTS OF COTTON TO FOREIGN AND COASTWISE PORTS, COMMENCING IST. SEPTEMBER, IB4G.
__________ »
“ BAVANNAIL CHARLEHTON~ 'MOBILKL N.7)RLHANB. NEW 7 YORK. OTHER PORTS. ; TOTAL.
WHITHER EX PORI ED. 11846. 1847. 1346. 1847-1 1846. j 1847. 1846. 1847.1 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847. 1846.
Liverpool 77 1.549, 4,700 17.110, j 9,‘>69 “ 41,713 14,602 15,981 j 8,732 1,909 ■ 801 “
Hull j
Glasgow and Greenock | 1,227 1,457 .:•••••••; * ?10l '
Cork and a Market ( ; 1,<36] 1,573 E3 -• ........ ........
Total to Great Britain L 549 “ 4,700 18,343 13,048 i 9,259 43,449 10,435 , 16,t?97| 8,905 1,909 . 801 91,200 44,449
Havre ..j 77777777 83299 11,710 , 1,420 " 23,005: 12,252 , 18,362) 10,300 , 1,020 77777777 77777777
Bordeaux I! ' 1 ! !{ • '
Marseilles I ~.| 3(12 11,498 i 1 >OO7
Nantes j 1 ' I j ....'! 610, | 400
Total to Franco || j 1 8,299 11,710 I 1,420) ij 24,281: 12,014 | 20,32*5 12,027 j 55,352 36,351
Amsterdam I ! ; I 1045| 32
Rotterdam , j ;• ; *
Antwerp..- 1 ' * I 2,102 I 150 3,735 j 1,C51 |
Hamburg I ' I ' 2,003 j
Bremen.. 1 .. '' ' 1 2,785 1,569
Barcelona * ........! i 305) 605 i ' :
I Havana, &c 1 j. !| ! 1,993) 4,952 1 304 82 !
Genoa, Triesta, &,c 1 ..I 384 1,720 1 1,854 1,723
Ghent, &c« I; •••••••• •••••*•• ••••••••
Other Ports. 140. 1 1,532: L 129 j 1
1 Total to other Foreign Ports.,.. |) 140| 384: 305, 005 j 7.347' 0,231) 10,827; 7,906 708 185 25,3^7j 15,371
1 New York <6919 15,659 9,179 23,583 LlB5 27283 10,591) 7,,788 i ,
Boston 655 2,070 2,567 3,390 3,615 ‘ 8,622! 3,725 j
I Providence 012 ! '
L Philadelphia 430 693. 1,707 3,066 1081 387 1,483 784 1
Baltimore 2801 2«i3 913 896 1 450 485' 414 : '
Other Ports ],503 4,025) 16 253 32| 2,830 ! 107;; ' ........ ........
Total Coastwise I 12,847 22,707 I t,382 8,000 ; 5,959 ! 21,184; 12,876 ; | )l | | 56, 4 3 73,935
Grand Total 1 — 1L390 27 467 Ip!
WICIIIIt ’ ““7
" Italy. —The affairs of Italy’ are not yet sa
tisfactorily adjusted. The Emperor of Austriaa
continues obstinate, but does not seem dis
* posed to take any aggressive steps.
The Hibernia arrived on the morning of the
: 28th, after a run of eleven and half days from
Boston.
The Duchess d’Orleans reached Havre on
the 26th; 19th, New York and Queen of the
West; 22d, Sarah Sands, Oxford, and Wash
ington Irving; 21th, 11. Clay’.
Sailed 22nd, Liberty; 26th Patrick Henry;
28th, Ambassador; 31st, St. Patrick and Web
ster.
The Sarah Sands will not sail till January.
Breadstuff’s generally’ have improved some
what in price, it will be seen comparing the
present prices with those current at the dc
departure of the Caledonia on the 19th of Oct.
Oct. 13. Nov. 4.
’ Canal Flour * 27s a— 29s a 29s 6d
Balt, and Philadelphia. .25s a 26s 23s a 29s
Sour 19s a 21s 21s a 23s
Corn Mea1....... ...... 14s a 14s 6d 14s a 15s 6d
Wheat, white, 8s a 8s 6d 7s 6 a 8s
Do. red, 6s a 7s6d6s6da 7s Gd
Indian C0rn,..30s a 33s 30s a 35s
[From the. New I ork Tribune oj Saturday .*
Flour and Wheat Market-
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4—12 M,—Best West
ern Canal Flour 29s to 29s 6d per bbl; Rich
mond and Alexandria 28s to 295; Philadelphia
and Baltimore 28s to 295; New Orleans and
Ohio 26s to 275; United States and Canada
sour 21s to 235; United States Wheat, white
and mixed, 7s Gd to 8s per 70 lbs; red 6s 6d to
7s 6d; Indian Corn 30s to 35s per quarter; In
‘ dian Meal lls to 15s 6d per bbl; Oats 2s 4d to
2s lOd per 45 lbs; Barley, per 60 lbs. 3s to 4s;
Peas, per 504 lbs. 30s to 40s.
Os all the branches of trade, that of Com
alone shows the slightest symptoms of anima
tion. Before the day of the departure of the
last steamer, and for two days subsequently,
the Liverpool market was more than usually
dull and declining, owing to the pressure of
heavy home arrivals, with a limited demand;
but a slight improvement in the money market
on the 26th imparted a bettter feeling, which
was greatly stimulated by the advices received
per Hibernia.
Since then prices have steadily advanced to
our present quotations, at which they’ con
tinue firm.
The demand for Indian Corn and ileal for
Ireland has been remarkably great. The ar
rivals of English Wheat in London last week
were upon a fair average scale; but the show
of samples was small yesterday. Selected
qualities of both red and white were in good
request, but in all other kinds the business :
was trilling.
It may be fairly presumed that as the sup- |
plies of foreign Grain and Flour will be limit- >
eel this Spring, prices will maintain a steady j
position.
Louisiana Election—Members of Con
gress-
The account is now closed, and the result
seems to be as follows :
Ist District —Emile La Sere, (D.)
2d “ Bannon Thibodeaux, (W.)
3d “ John 11. Harmonson, (D.)
4th “ Isaac Morse, (D.)
The Congressional delegation is therefore
unchanged. The Legislature is as follows ;
Vi, I).
Senate, 1,5 17
House, ~,.,51 47
60 64
Being a Whig majority of two on joint ballot.
Upon the coming Legislature will devolve the
duty of electing a United States Senator in
ARTICLES. Per. Wholesale. Duty.
OlLS —Sperm,W.Strainei. .... 130 fa) 137 free.
Fall strained 1 25 fd)
Summer do 1 Ui) te 1 h
Linseed Dbl. 87 }/a) 2Tpr. ct.
Tanners ! 55 id)
Lard 1 25 fd)
POTATOES. obi. 3 00 fa) 3 2d
PIPES ........L... ( WW « 00
PORTER do/.. 2 25 id) 3 50
PEPPER ft. j 16 id 12
PIMENTO ' 14**1)15
RAISINS —Malaga, biincb box. I 75 fa 3 ) .
Muscatel . * id) 250 J 4f) P r * ct.
RICE —Ordinary 100. 4 00 to) 4 25
Fair 4 37 *1) 4 50
Good and Prune 4 75 fa) 5 00
(■ French Brandies gal. 150 <a) 2 100 pr. ct.
ILcgcr Freres 2 75 fob 3
Holland Gin 1 25 in) J 50 100 pr. ct.
American Gin 1 40 fa 43 1
Jamaica Rum.... 1 50 fa 2 00 100 pr. ct.
i r- I N.E.Kum, lids. 4c brls 1 37 *i 40
ISi Whiskey,Phil. Sc Balt 33 fa 3s
j Do. New Orleans 30 *£33
Peach Brandy 75 fd 1 00.100 pr.ct.
SUGAR-VaiUu Muscovado ft, 7pd) 8* ['
P 11. & St. Cr. ix 9 toll
Havana, white 10 *£ll . j
New Orleans B*£ 9 f 3O P r ’ ct * |
Loaf. 11**1)12*
Lump 11 *£ 12
I SALT —Liverpool sack 1 G 2 fd) 1 75 i nn .
Loose. Ims.| 45 *rso |j 2° pr. Ct.
SOAP —American, yellow tb I sfa 6 30 pr. ct.
i SHOT —All sizes J62fa 1 7520 pr. ct.
SEGA US —Spanish A1 20 00*/)30 00 40 pr. ct.
American 8 *£l6 j
TALI.O W— American 10*1)11 40 pr. ct.
TOBACCO —Georgia ft, 4 *t)
Cavendish 15*616 U6O pr. ct.
TWINE— Bagging | 18 *i)2s I ( .
Seine 301*50 j| 30 pr. ct.
TEAS— Pouchong 50 (d)75 j *
Giuip’der Sc Imp 75 id) 1 00 !
Hyson j.... 75 *£>Bo f free
Young Hy50n........ 50 *£7s J
WlNES —Madeira gal. 2 06 *?) 2 25 30 pr. ct.
Claret, Mars’llcsJcaskj 25 *x)6o 46 pr. rt.
Do. Bordeaux do/. 3 00 fa 3 50 46 pr. rt.
Champagne 9 06 fd 15 00 46 pr. ct.
Malaga I 56 *i)62 *4O pr. ct.
7 i —j ' :
place of the Hon. llcnry r Johnson, whose term
expires on the 4th of March, 1849.
Cotton-
The Yidalla (La.) Intelligencer of the 13th
instant, says —“The long continued favorable
weather for gathering the cotton crop has re
ceived an interruption this week. But even
although the fine weather should be at an
end for the season, planters have done better
than they’ expected that they’ would do, six
weeks ago.
“We cannot agree with those, however, who,
flying from one to another extreme, now begin
to predict a crop equally large with that o f
any former year. Such predictions we have
heard, but when the parties making them have
been asked to figure out where the cotton is
to come from, they have been found lamenta
bly wanting in their calculations. The crops
will be large in this part of the cotton country,
but, when we hold in view that the Atlantic
cotton States and Tennessee and Arkansas
will not do better this than last year and that
all the increase in this over last year’s crop
must be made up in Mississippi and Louisiana,
it is not easy to rise above our estimate, 2,-
200,000 bales.”
Cheap Postage-
Wc learn from Washington (say’s the New
York Sun) that the Postmaster General will
recommend in his report, the introduction of a
uniform system of cheap postage throughout
the Union, similar to the Penny postage in
England. This will be completing the cheap
postage system so wisely conceived and admi
rably carried out by’ Cave Johnson. It will be
gratifying to the friends of the present system,
to learn that the deficiency in receipts this
year compared with the expenses of the de
partment, will be reduced to less than $40,000.
In 1845 the deficiency was SBOO,OOO, and in
1846 over $600,000. The receipts for the com
ing year will no doubt leave a large balance in
favor of the Department. This is a triumph
for the P. M. General and the country.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS.
BURKE SUPERIOR COURT.
November Term., 1347.
gj* Present —Hist Honor William W. fIoLT,
Judge,
We, the Grand Jury of Burke, county, sworn,
chosen and selected for November Term, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, beg leave to make the
following presentments:
Wc have made a minute examination of the
Jail, and deem its condition entirely unfit for the
uses to which Jails are usually applied, and there
fore present it as a nuisance to the county*, and
; would respectfully suggest that the Hon. Justices
j of the Interior Court would take into consideration
the propriety of repairing the Jail, or causing to be
i built a new one, as early’ as practicable.
We have examined the County Records, and
take pleasure in stating that wc find them kept in
; a neat and correct manner.
We beg leave to direct the attention of tile Hon
Justices of the Inferior Court to the condition of th ■
Roads, which, ixith few exceptions, wc find in a
bad condition, and recommend that the Road Laws
be rigidiy enforced.
We recommend to the Justices of the Peace a
more close attention to the duty of appointing Pat
rol parties and requiring the re turns of captains of
such parties.
We would respectfully request of our Senator
and Representatives to use their influence in hav
ing a law enacted, making it obligatory on the Tax
I Collector to furnish to the magistrates of each dis
trict in this county* a list of the defaulting tax-pay
ers, for the more effectually preventing illegal vo
ting. We are induced to make this request from
the fact that there were 948 votes polled at our
late election, and we find less than 800 tax-payers
recorded ; and we further request that the Clerk
of the Court forward our Senator and Representa
tives a copy of these presentiments.
Wc have examined the Books of the Treasurer,
and find that the whole amount received by Isaac
Mulkey (present Treasurer) from E. H. Carswell,
the former Treasurer, i* $994 12-JOO, and the
EXCHANGE.
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, “
Hank of Augusta,.... «
Branch State of Georgia, Augusta, *«
Bank of Brunswick, “
Georgia Rail Road, “
Mechanics’ Bank, “
Bank of St. Mary’s, . «
Bank of Milledgevillu, «
Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah, «■
|i Branches of ditto, “
Marine and Fire insurance Bank, Savannah, “
Branch of ditto, at Macon, “
Planters’ Bank, Savannah, “
Central Bank of Georgia, “■
Central R. R. and Banking Company, Savannah,.... 4t
Charleston Banks, “
Bank of Carwlen,. “
| Bank of Georgetown, “
ij Commercial, Columbia, u
j Merchants’, at Chcraw,..w. “
11 Bank of Hamburg, a
Alabama Notes, .. v.'.v ® dis*
{ Commercial Bunk of Macon, ......faded
NO SALE OR UNCERTAIN.
Merchants’ Bank of Macon. ♦
i j Bank of Darien and Branches.
| Bank of Columbus.
Chattahoochee Rail Road and Ranking Company.
Monroe Rad Road and Banking Company.
Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus.
! Exchange Bank, Brunswick.
Insurance Bank of Columbus, at Macon.
1 Phoenix Bank of Columbus.
CHECKS.
On New York, 4 prenr
Philadelphia, “
Boston, “
Charleston and Savannah, par.
Lexington, Kentucky, “
Nashville, Tennessee, “
STOCKS.
Georgia, 8 per cents no sales.
Georgia, G per cents 98 it 100
♦Not taken by our banks, but redeemable at the Plant
ers’Bank, Savannah at par.
I whole amount of the expenditures of the present
Treasurer is sl,4 w i3 making the balance
due the present Treasurer of the tax of 1846, $429
39^-100.
We avail ourselves of the opportunity which
now presents itself of tendering to his honor Judge
Holt thethanksof this body for the con rtesy with
which he has presided over this Court.
To the Attorney-General pro £tvn., we (enderour
thanks for his courteous attention to this i>ody.
We request that these presentments be publish
ed in the Augusta papers.
JEREMIAH INMAN, Foreman,
Edward Tabb, William J. Owens,
FeRDIN’D V.hURDKLL, J * MRS H. R«'YAL,
William Lasseter, Simeon Wallace,
Elisha Watk ins, j Robert A. Rowland,
Welliam J. J. Royal, Hughes Walton,
Amos G. Whitehead, Anderson Lambert,
George A. Palmer, Augustus G. Ward,
Lewis Wimberly, William Naswortht.
Nor. 24 «1—
(Eominerc t a I.
LATEST DATES FROM LIVERPOOL NOY, 4
LATEST DATES 'FROM HAVRE ...OCT. 0
Augusta Market, Nov. 24.
REMARKS.—Since our last we have had u frost suffi
cient to put an end to the growth of the Cotton plant,
and so far as Georgia and South Carolina are concerned
we are enabled, from the best authority before us, to
form something like an estimate of this year’ll crop. Not
withstanding more ground has been planted this year
than last, we feel satisfied, from all the information we
can gather, that the present crop will fall short of
last year’s. By our tables below it will be seen, that,
counting bales, the crop this year shows a falling
off of 10,349 bales as compared With the receipts last
year, but ax the falling off has been principally at the
Atlantic ports, where light bales are made, if we esti
mate it by pounds, the increase has been 4,407 bales.
Whether low prices has caused this sudden filling off in
receipts, or high prices in the early part of the season
stimulated shipments, time will reveal; for our own part
we are of opinion that tins year’s crop, notwithstanding
the extraordinary late fall, (and in any other season fa
vorable weather) that has been experienced, the crop of
this year will not come up to the calculations of many—
if it does, it must be made in Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas, for in tliis State and South Carolina, the long
continued spell of dry weather was anything but benefi
cial to the growing crop, and much Cotton that was cal
culated on turning out well, about the first October, has
withered on the stalk for the want of nourishment, and
disappointed the hopes of planters,
EXCESS OK UECEIPTS OVER LAST SEASON, AT
X, Orleans,. .58,457 bales, av’g 450 1b5.... 26,305,650 lb*
Mobile, 15,169 « “ 489 “ ... 7.437,541 “
Texas, 8151 « “ 450 “ ... 387,450 “
Florida, 660 '* H 415 “ ... 373,900
Total,.. ..75,147 34,104,541 lbs,
DECREASE AT
Charleston, . .53,832 bales, av’g 300 lbs.. .19,355,520 Ibc,
5avannah,....30,389 “ » 415 “ ~ 12,610,435 “
Virginia, 1,065 « •» 360 »» ... 383,400 «
N. Carolina,.. 210 “ “ 360 « ... 71,%0
Total 85,496 32,421,315
RECEIPTS OF COTTON.
From the let Sept., 1847, to latest dates received.
1817. 1816,
Savannah, Nov. 19 16,609..,,.. 46,998
Charleston, Nov. 20 32,621...,,. 86,453
Mobile, Nov. 17..... 29,218... ~. 14,049
New-Orleans, Nov. 17 .191,395,,,, ~132,938
Texas, Oct. 23 ~,,,,, 2,206,,.... 1,345
Florida, Oct. 30 3,102 2,44 S
Virginia, Nov. 1 550...... 1,615
North Carolina, Nov. 6 28 23^
Total 275,729 386,078
STOCK OF COTTON
Remaining on hand at the latest dates received.
Savannah, Nov. 19 9,904 26,107
Charleston, Nov. 20. 29,620...... 39,948
Mobile, Nov. 17 33,897. 14,707
New Orleans, Nov. 17..,, ,119,045 94,196
j Texas, Oct. 23 1,048...... 800
Florida, Oct, 30 1,395 1,333
Augusta & Hamburg, Nov. 1,.... 20,745...... 20,144
Macon, Nov. 1,..., 7,712.. ... 11,480
Virginia, Nov, 1 300,»,.,.
North Carolina, Nov. 6 80 1-*'
New York, Nov. 17 37,150 31,923
Philadelphia, Nov. 13........... 6,215...... 830
Total .260,901 241,943
COTTON.—In our last we stated that the highest
- rif coffered by purchasers was tsc. fer fair Colton, hi*